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00:00:59.700 It's been 90 days since the start of the war in Iran.

00:01:02.840 And now that both sides say we're on the brink of a peace deal,

00:01:06.180 the pro-war crowd is furious.

00:01:07.860 Three months in, what is the war really for?

00:01:10.960 And is it going to end?

00:01:11.920 Then E. Jean Carroll, the woman who accused President Trump

00:01:16.040 of raping her in a department store decades after the supposed fact,

00:01:20.160 has just been indicted for perjury. 0.54

00:01:22.340 You come at the king, you best not miss.

00:01:23.940 Finally, a man is arrested for threatening to kill Erica Kirk

00:01:27.480 and an entire TPUSA lineup, and the identity of this person might surprise you.

00:01:32.240 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:34.640 Hey, you guys remember the Iran war? You know that war that we're in? It's not like,

00:03:38.640 I mean, it sort of is a war, but it's not a war. It's Schrodinger's war. In Schrodinger's Strait,

00:03:43.460 The war began now 90 days ago, and actually most of the time of this war has been a ceasefire.

00:03:51.580 I think it's 51 days of the 90 days.

00:03:54.720 It's been a ceasefire.

00:03:56.200 So technically speaking, when Trump said that the hostilities are going to be about four to six weeks,

00:04:02.080 weirdly enough, that was technically true.

00:04:04.020 But now we're in this ceasefire where the Strait of Hormuz is closed because Iran has a blockade,

00:04:08.780 and then the U.S. has a double reverse UNO card blockade,

00:04:12.160 and then 20% of the world's oil can't really get through.

00:04:15.160 And so we've just been in this stalemate for a while.

00:04:17.640 We are now hearing from both sides.

00:04:19.540 I spoke to a senior administration official at the White House on Sunday,

00:04:23.920 but now we're even hearing from the Iranians

00:04:25.720 that it looks like they are close to a peace deal,

00:04:28.860 but the details of that are still a little bit unclear.

00:04:32.480 So the Iranians, a few days ago, come out.

00:04:35.280 They say, yeah, okay, it's part of this peace deal.

00:04:37.200 The Strait of Hormuz will be opened,

00:04:40.280 But you won't have to pay a toll, but you might still have to pay a little bit of something.

00:04:52.400 He says, it is natural that in this process, the services provided, navigation services,

00:04:58.480 in addition to the necessary measures to protect the environment of the strait of Hormuz,

00:05:06.320 the Persian Gulf, and the Sea of Oman, these require the collection of feeds.

00:05:12.600 Therefore, these should not be referred to as tolls.

00:05:17.700 Okay. Iran and Oman are responsibly working on this path.

00:05:21.560 Okay. We hope to reach a final agreement as soon as possible.

00:05:27.700 Okay. They hope to reach this agreement as soon as possible, but look, there are certain services

00:05:32.020 that are required to navigate these waters and even just to protect the environment.

00:05:37.140 That's one of the excuses. And it's starting to make me think maybe the Iranians really are 1.00

00:05:41.600 a primitive people. I didn't think the Iranians are a primitive people. They have a real country,

00:05:46.940 you know, a real civilization, a real culture. But they've arrived at something that liberals

00:05:52.460 in America arrived at many years ago, which is that when you want to charge people taxes and

00:05:57.600 fees, they don't like that usually. So you have to just call it something else.

00:06:01.180 So with Obamacare, they said, no, no, no, it's not really a tax.

00:06:03.920 It's a penalty.

00:06:05.140 I mean, it's a tax for this purpose of the law, but a penalty for this other purpose of the law.

00:06:10.780 That's how they got Obamacare through the Supreme Court.

00:06:13.100 Or often they'll say, no, no, it's not a tax.

00:06:16.000 It's an environmental fee to protect the environment.

00:06:19.240 And so Iran comes out and they say, yeah, we're going to stop charging you a fee.

00:06:23.360 We're going to stop charging you a toll.

00:06:25.080 This will just be a little payment to protect the environment.

00:06:30.000 Yes, directly payable to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

00:06:33.860 It's really tricky because we don't exactly know who's in charge here in Iran.

00:06:37.420 So the government comes out and says one thing.

00:06:39.460 The foreign minister might come out and say one thing.

00:06:41.400 But then the IRGC will come out and say a totally different thing.

00:06:44.220 So I'm a little bit skeptical that we're going to get the deal.

00:06:47.260 Both sides are saying they're close to it right now.

00:06:49.160 And then, of course, you get down to this question, which is,

00:06:51.920 is the deal going to be the same or worse than the Obama deal with Iran, the JCPOA?

00:06:59.280 today because if it's the same or worse as the JCPOA, then the obvious next question is, well,

00:07:06.680 why did we go into Iran at all? If we already had some deal that we then ripped up and the

00:07:11.880 Strait of Hormuz was already opened and the Iranian regime was in place as it remains in 0.86

00:07:17.840 place today, then the question is, what will we have achieved? And this was always my fear at the

00:07:22.720 beginning of the hostilities in Iran. The reason that I argued against strikes in Iran, this go 1.00

00:07:27.760 around and why I've continued to express a little caution and skepticism of the efficacy of the 1.00

00:07:34.600 strikes is not because I don't think the Iranian regime deserves it. It's because when I consider 1.00

00:07:39.420 those two criteria of just war, reasonable probability of success and proportionality,

00:07:43.420 I just don't know that the juice is really worth the squeeze. And you might end up in a position

00:07:47.980 that's roughly the same or worse than where you started. So Marco Rubio is addressing this concern.

00:07:52.600 He was addressing this from a State Department airplane where he said, well, yeah, look,

00:07:56.260 If the deal is as bad as or worse than the Obama deal, we're not going to have a deal.

00:08:02.860 Well, look, I think our position is well stated.

00:08:05.220 The president had a very important, I think, historic call just a couple of days ago with a number of leaders from the region.

00:08:10.400 I think there's strong alignment and agreement on what a preliminary draft should look like.

00:08:14.880 I think like anything with something like this, it's going to take a couple of days to settle on even down to the disagreements over a word sentence.

00:08:25.760 So we'll have to work through that.

00:08:27.500 If there's going to be a deal, we're going to have to work through that.

00:08:29.800 But this is, you know, it's either going to be a good deal or there isn't going to be one.

00:08:33.460 It's going to be a good deal or it's not going to be any kind of deal.

00:08:36.380 I was speaking to, as I mentioned, a senior admin official over the weekend.

00:08:39.480 I heard this same line from that person.

00:08:41.880 It's either going to be a good deal or there's going to be no deal.

00:08:44.540 And so now you're, I hate to say I told you so. 0.98

00:08:48.160 I think my analysis of the war in Iran has been absolutely 100% precisely correct the whole time. 0.57

00:08:53.120 So now you're in this position where, okay, either you take a deal.

00:08:57.140 The admin says it's going to be a good deal.

00:08:58.640 I hope it's a good deal.

00:08:59.520 We'll see.

00:08:59.920 Trump pulls a lot of rabbits out of his hat, so maybe we can do that.

00:09:02.580 But it's going to be some kind of deal, which a lot of people aren't going to be happy with,

00:09:06.020 or ground invasion and regime change, and it's the Bush era all over again. 0.88

00:09:10.460 Seems to me those are the two options, because right now Iran has played its biggest weapon, 0.71

00:09:14.320 its toughest weapon, a much more serious weapon than a nuclear weapon, 0.96

00:09:17.640 which is closing the Strait of Hormuz and holding global energy markets,

00:09:20.600 among other markets, hostage.

00:09:22.760 That said, you're going to see a big fight breakout between the Warhawk people, the more neocon side, which just wants to bomb the Middle East and control the whole region, the whole world, and the people who advocate for more restrained foreign policy. 0.80

00:09:35.760 And I think here, if you've got a deal that's even slightly plausible, workable on the table, I think you've got to go for the deal. 0.75

00:09:42.680 I'm very firmly on the deal side here because I think that you're not going to topple the Iranian regime.

00:09:50.080 It's too strong. 0.93

00:09:51.600 They will hold on for a very long time. There's no appetite for escalating the war in the United

00:09:56.080 States. There's no appetite for some kind of ground invasion or a war of regime change. There's

00:10:01.120 just no appetite for it. And this could, this digression, this move into Iran, which President

00:10:06.160 Trump sees as a little sort of side quest that he thinks is very important because Iran can't

00:10:10.160 have a nuclear weapon, but you can't have the side quest overwhelm the whole Trump agenda.

00:10:14.420 Don't forget, George W. Bush ran against nation building in 2000, and his entire presidency was

00:10:21.060 defined by nation building. Furthermore, the presidents who are most associated with American

00:10:27.000 strength, the one that comes to mind first, of course, is Ronald Reagan. Let's not forget that

00:10:31.960 Ronald Reagan, when push came to shove on foreign policy, Ronald Reagan was a lot more restrained

00:10:38.740 than a lot of the presidents who came after him. He was a lot more restrained than George H.W. Bush,

00:10:42.840 than George W. Bush, and then Barack Obama, for that matter. Truman, the guy who dropped the

00:10:48.900 nuke. He was actually relatively restrained when it came to Korea. Eisenhower, one of the men who

00:10:53.440 won World War II, was actually pretty restrained as president when it came to the war in Vietnam.

00:10:57.940 So it seems to me, look, I hope there is some kind of deal. I hope it's navigated soon because

00:11:03.900 this really, really could threaten to derail the agenda. And so I say we take the deal.

00:11:09.720 I'm on the side of restraint. And I think my analysis has been pretty good on the Iran war 0.91

00:11:14.500 thus far. Okay, speaking of irrational people, we turn from the Iranian regime to E. Jean Carroll.

00:11:19.500 This story is magnificent. The DOJ is going after E. Jean Carroll. She was one of the left-wing

00:11:29.580 accusers of President Trump. She claimed, I think it was in 2019, that President Trump raped her. 0.99

00:11:37.460 and uh when you asked her about the details on this they got a little fuzzy eugene carroll

00:11:45.060 could not remember the year that the alleged rape occurred she said it occurred in the dressing room

00:11:52.860 of a bergdorf goodman and she said that it occurred sometime in the 90s she couldn't even

00:11:59.060 remember the year best she could say was it was about 25 years prior she didn't really bring it

00:12:03.960 up until Trump was on the ropes running for president. She won an $88 million judgment,

00:12:11.080 two judgments that came to a total of $88 million in New York as New York was trying to

00:12:18.060 destroy Donald Trump, keep him from running for president again,

00:12:22.420 lob all sorts of judgments against him as he was facing indictments, potential jail time,

00:12:27.660 all of this. E. Jean Carroll then goes on CNN with Anderson Cooper. And as she's making this 0.58

00:12:33.780 claim that she was raped by the president also at the same time describes rape as sexy i feel like

00:12:38.980 a victim i was not thrown on the ground and ravished which the word rape carries so many

00:12:44.060 sexual connotations this was not this was not sexual for it just it it hurt it just what it

00:12:52.080 just you know i think most people think of rape as a i mean it is a violent assault it is not i

00:12:58.160 think most people think of rape as being sexy let's take a short break think of the fantasies

00:13:03.760 we're going to take a quick break if you can stick around we'll talk more on the other side

00:13:09.260 you're fascinating to talk to

00:13:11.060 you're fascinating to talk to poor anderson cooper says this is the best we got

00:13:16.980 this woman who's obviously nuttier than an almond joy this is the best woman we got and this was

00:13:22.040 always a sign to me that trump having publicly lived such a colorful life he was weirdly kind 0.69

00:13:28.620 of squeaky clean because the best people, the most convincing, credible people that they could

00:13:33.860 get to go after him are this lady. Here's, by the way, here's a more recent video from this lady.

00:13:38.160 Just to show you that the Anderson Cooper video wasn't a one-off, here's a more recent video

00:13:43.080 from Eugene Carroll. I call it the Mouse House because some very distinguished mice live here.

00:13:51.360 Kahneman lives in the kitchen. Taberski lives in the bedroom. This is my shed. And on that side are

00:13:57.460 The books that most influenced me growing up, on the door are the list of my dogs, Marky, Fortuna de la Spunky, Heidi, Tits, Bloody, and Hepburn.

00:14:12.300 The streams and the rivers were dry, and it so horrified me that I came out and started painting the rocks blue to indicate that there was once a river here.

00:14:24.860 And then after I got done painting the rocks,

00:14:27.320 I just sort of walked over here and then did that tree

00:14:30.140 and then did that tree and then I did this tree.

00:14:33.760 So for those of you only listening,

00:14:35.560 E. Jean Carroll walks out in a jolly rancher red bob,

00:14:39.180 crazy dyed hair. 0.97

00:14:40.600 She then shows us around her property 0.98

00:14:42.500 where she writes random author names all over a shed 0.96

00:14:45.600 like a complete schizo. 0.93

00:14:47.240 And then she said she decided to paint the rocks 0.99

00:14:49.760 and the river to make it clear that there's water there.

00:14:54.040 So she painted the rocks blue. Then she started painting the trees blue. This is like the craziest

00:14:58.560 woman you've ever seen in your entire life. And, and on top of that, in the intervening years 0.85

00:15:05.640 between her supposed rape by Donald Trump and her campaign to go after him, call him a rapist,

00:15:11.320 as she posted on, on Facebook in 2012, she goes too many good TV shows on Sunday night.

00:15:16.060 My goodness. What do you watch? Uh, I'm a massive apprentice fan. He goes, I just love that show

00:15:23.560 by the guy who raped me. Sorry, not sure that I believe that. So why is she being indicted now? 0.98

00:15:31.260 Because she perjured herself. She perjured, allegedly. She, in a testimony, said that she

00:15:37.560 was not being funded by any left-wingers. She was lobbying this legal campaign against Trump

00:15:42.760 all by herself. Turns out that isn't true. She was being funded by this billionaire,

00:15:46.300 Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn guy, liberal funder. So she lied. And now the DOJ is going after her

00:15:51.300 because perjury is a serious crime. All of this to say, one, Democrats, you had 10 years to do

00:15:56.600 this. You couldn't do it. You couldn't find a single credible accuser against Donald Trump.

00:16:01.200 Two, you come at the king, you best not miss. This is the political advice from the wire.

00:16:06.160 They threw everything they had at Trump. It didn't work. They look ridiculous,

00:16:10.420 really ridiculous. Like they have Jolly Rancher red bobs on and they're painting trees 1.00

00:16:13.520 blue in their backyard. And two, if you are going to go after a guy like this

00:16:20.200 and commit crimes in the process and you fail this is political advice that goes back to

00:16:25.520 ralph waldo emerson goes back to machiavelli goes back to the guy on the wire if you come

00:16:30.600 at the king you best not miss is what eugene carroll did here and what the democrats did

00:16:34.860 with the big funders like reed hoffman did and the party did by pushing her is they they didn't

00:16:39.580 just like try a tactic and it didn't work they they made a very serious claim they committed a

00:16:44.800 crime, and they nearly undermined our whole constitutional system. You're not allowed to

00:16:50.540 do that. So this is great. They're getting exactly what they deserve. And I suspect they're probably

00:16:56.080 regretting putting all of their eggs in the E. Jean Carroll basket, colored, wacky colors like

00:17:02.320 her hair and the trees and the rocks in her yard. Okay. Speaking of Democrat attacks, I want to get

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00:18:19.700 slash Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S. Folks, speaking of weird stuff on the internet, what is a furry?

00:18:25.840 Is a furry just a costume? Is it an online community? Is it something really weird and

00:18:30.020 creepy and sexual? I sat down, finally, I've wanted to do this interview for a couple of years. It's

00:18:34.760 very, very hard to secure the interview. I sat down with Nathan, a real-life furry,

00:18:39.360 to find out what really happens.

00:18:42.580 Beyond all the jokes, beyond all the memes,

00:18:44.840 beyond the fursuit, what is a furry?

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00:18:50.380 Do you think your life would be better

00:18:52.760 if you were not a furry? 0.96

00:18:54.540 If I wasn't a furry, well, I'd probably be dead.

00:18:58.120 My associate producer, Professor Jacob,

00:19:00.080 he went to a furry convention,

00:19:01.300 and he said that he saw a big STD screening booth.

00:19:06.440 Why do they have an STD booth?

00:19:07.660 There are parties that do happen.

00:19:10.720 It's better to be safe than to be sorry. 0.91

00:19:13.460 Would you take your head off, your fur head off, 0.98

00:19:16.440 tell the world who you really are? 0.98

00:19:17.660 No, you want to remain anonymous as a furry.

00:19:28.220 Watch the full episode,

00:19:29.880 Two Years in the Making at 9 a.m. Central

00:19:31.720 on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel.

00:19:33.920 That is tomorrow.

00:19:34.960 For the uncensored ad-free version,

00:19:37.360 you have to subscribe to Daily Wire Plus. The Democrats yesterday posted a response to

00:19:45.060 a kind of random story in the Washington Post talking about how the Trump administration

00:19:50.300 is pushing for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design a $250 bill featuring

00:19:55.260 President Trump's face. So they say, we have a new $250 bill for the 250th anniversary of America.

00:20:00.000 Let's go have Trump's head on it. It's kind of an innocuous side story. Democrats respond,

00:20:04.400 and they post a picture of a $250 bill

00:20:07.340 with Trump and Epstein on it.

00:20:09.460 Jeffrey Epstein, remember him?

00:20:11.440 And they say, fixed it.

00:20:12.920 And this tells you a lot

00:20:15.440 about what the Democrats are looking at

00:20:17.340 into the midterms

00:20:18.120 and how to think about the Epstein issue

00:20:20.960 and other issues,

00:20:22.480 some related, some not related.

00:20:25.260 I want to remind you,

00:20:26.840 taking a trip down memory lane,

00:20:28.940 that when the Epstein issue really hit the fore

00:20:30.800 in 2015 or so,

00:20:33.080 It was a Democrat scandal because virtually all of the top people that Epstein was palling

00:20:39.280 around with were Democrats, not Republicans.

00:20:42.320 It was Bill Clinton flying all over on the Lolita Express.

00:20:44.780 It was Bill Gates that he was palling around with.

00:20:47.240 It was liberal heads of state, prime ministers, royalty, business leaders.

00:20:53.600 They were overwhelmingly liberal Democrats.

00:20:56.680 Epstein was pals with Trump.

00:20:57.960 He was a member of Mar-a-Lago.

00:20:59.180 They had a falling out years prior.

00:21:00.580 but this was a Democrat scandal. How did it then become a Trump scandal? Let's not forget

00:21:08.300 that Trump is the one who was prosecuting Epstein. Trump is the one who prosecuted

00:21:13.960 Ghislaine Maxwell, arrested Ghislaine Maxwell. Before that, the president who arrested Epstein

00:21:19.560 was George W. Bush. It was the Republicans who were prosecuting Epstein. It was the Democrats

00:21:26.520 almost entirely who were palling around with Epstein. How did Epstein become a Trump scandal?

00:21:33.420 The Epstein issue, I've talked about Epstein ad nauseum over 10 years now. I think there are a

00:21:38.440 lot of really interesting angles to the Epstein story. But it is simply a fact that today,

00:21:45.200 Jeffrey Epstein is a Democrat talking point. When you look on social media, it is the pro-Democrat

00:21:50.520 bots and operatives, and in this case, the formal accounts of the Democrat Party that are talking 0.58

00:21:57.320 about Jeffrey Epstein, that are trying to insinuate that Trump is a pedophile or that he

00:22:01.680 committed some crimes or that he didn't declassify Epstein information, even though

00:22:05.700 Trump's declassification of the Epstein files is the single largest declassification ever in

00:22:11.060 American history. The arrests and prosecutions in the Epstein case were brought by Republicans,

00:22:16.280 were brought by Donald Trump. How did this become a Democrat talking point? In part,

00:22:23.160 it's because the Dems really don't have much of anything. The best stuff they had to go against

00:22:26.700 Trump with was the babbling lunacy of E. Jean Carroll. They didn't have very much. And

00:22:32.320 ideologically, the Democrats are on the wrong side of the American people on virtually every issue.

00:22:36.960 And wokeism may have killed their electoral chances for a generation. So they come back to

00:22:42.160 that. I want you to hear very clearly what I'm saying. I'm not saying that there's nothing

00:22:47.160 interesting in the Epstein case. I'm not saying that we shouldn't at the very least investigate

00:22:52.280 the rumors that Alex Acosta, when he was being interviewed for a job in the first Trump

00:22:57.080 administration, didn't say that when he was prosecuting Epstein back during the Bush

00:23:02.240 administration, that Epstein belonged to intelligence. I'm not saying we shouldn't

00:23:05.500 investigate that. I'm not saying that the Epstein Island and all the connections,

00:23:10.380 the political connections. I'm not saying all of that's not weird. I'm not saying that there

00:23:15.180 isn't all sorts of evidence of lots of weird, creepy political stuff.

00:23:20.260 What I'm saying is that practically as a political matter, Epstein is just a slogan

00:23:27.760 being used against Trump right now for no reason, by the way, because whenever the Democrats bring

00:23:34.120 up this slogan, like the Democrat Party did right there, notice it's never accompanied by any

00:23:39.840 specific accusations. This happened, some left-wing guy came up when I was doing the TPUSA event with

00:23:45.680 Matt Walsh at Idaho. He said, I'm Epstein and Epstein, Epstein. I said, oh, okay, you think

00:23:49.900 that Trump did something wrong with Epstein. Okay, what is your specific accusation? What are you

00:23:54.240 accusing him of? The guy had no answer. Do you, if you're interested, as I am, if you're interested

00:24:01.340 in the Epstein story, can you think of a specific accusation to make against Trump, some specific

00:24:08.080 evidence of wrongdoing? When you say, well, we need prosecutions, who should be prosecuted and

00:24:14.540 for what? And on what basis? Because prosecutions were brought largely by Trump and in some cases

00:24:20.020 by George Bush, but against whom and for what? Can anyone answer that question? Well, we don't

00:24:26.000 have the files. Yes, you do. You have three and a half million of these files. We've talked about

00:24:29.820 this guy for 10 years. What is the accusation? They all come up short. I'm totally open. I'd

00:24:34.580 love to hear it. Tell me what the accusation is. Tell me what the prosecution is. I don't hear it.

00:24:39.740 So it is just the case that the Epstein issue, there are two things. There's the sign,

00:24:46.600 there's the slogan, there's the word Epstein, and there is the signified, what Epstein,

00:24:51.780 what that is pointing to, what the deeper meaning of that is. Those are different things.

00:24:56.940 What Epstein really means, what he was really up to, how he was palling around with all these

00:25:01.420 foreign leaders and domestic leaders. That's one issue. I'm just saying the sign, the slogan

00:25:06.860 is just a Democrat cudgel to try to beat Trump. The same thing goes for the pro-Palestine 0.83

00:25:14.400 activism, I've noticed. It is not the case that there is nothing interesting and worth talking

00:25:20.780 about and nuanced, complex discussions about the Middle East, the Holy Land, the thorniest

00:25:26.360 political issue in geopolitics. I'm not saying there's nothing interesting there.

00:25:30.240 I have a pretty moderate view. I have a pretty nuanced, complex view of Israel, Palestine, the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, counterbalanced with the real establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, with a war of conquest and independence, with UN declarations, with the Balfour Declaration.

00:25:48.760 That's all really, really interesting. I'm just pointing out that as a sign, not as a signified,

00:25:54.040 as a sign, when you see someone out there with the keffiyeh ranting and raving about

00:25:58.380 river to the sea, pro-Gaza, whatever, as a sign, that is a left-wing cudgel. That is a left-wing

00:26:06.500 talking point. It's Greta Thunberg. It is used simply as a cudgel against the West, against the 0.99

00:26:12.840 United States, against the Trump administration. The same thing goes for affordability.

00:26:18.340 There's the signified, which is that, yeah, there are actually real questions about how

00:26:22.220 Americans can afford things and how our political economy is set up.

00:26:24.860 And, you know, maybe we need to reshore some of our industrial base, and maybe we need

00:26:29.060 to focus more on blue collar issues.

00:26:30.640 Yeah, duh, of course.

00:26:32.080 Republicans have been talking about that for a while.

00:26:33.660 In fact, it was Trump himself who mainstreamed that within the Republican Party within our

00:26:37.100 lifetimes.

00:26:38.540 But the sign affordability is just some like random Democrat talking point.

00:26:43.740 That's why you're hearing it from people like AOC and Bernie Sanders and Zoran Mamdani,

00:26:46.640 who have never done anything to improve actual affordability for Americans

00:26:49.980 and have only made things more expensive

00:26:51.640 and have ironically only ever punished the working class

00:26:54.020 and who sneer and look down upon the actual working class 1.00

00:26:57.340 and think of them as bitter, clinging, rube idiots to be manipulated, 1.00

00:27:01.340 a kind of unwashed mass of hoi polloi that can maybe be used to garner some votes. 1.00

00:27:07.380 This is, same thing, you're seeing people right now turn against prediction markets,

00:27:12.120 the Calci and Pali market.

00:27:14.500 There's a distinction here between that as a political issue and what it really means.

00:27:19.700 I'm pretty anti-gambling generally.

00:27:22.400 I don't think that we should be legalizing gambling and commoditizing everything and financializing everything.

00:27:27.080 I think that's a really interesting debate.

00:27:29.840 But the reason that the Democrats are making that into a slogan right now is because some of the prediction markets are tied to people like Don Jr.

00:27:38.860 Because often the prediction markets aren't looking very good for the Democrats.

00:27:42.220 That's why there's a total chasm between the issues as they should be in themselves and how they are being used in politics.

00:27:53.600 And that is the caution that I'm offering to people right now.

00:27:57.560 Because politics operates on manipulation of signs and symbols and slogans.

00:28:03.500 That's what a political campaign is.

00:28:05.540 and the Democrats are so bereft of really strong, meaty issues that they can run on

00:28:11.020 that they're simply trying to manipulate you.

00:28:13.220 And what they're playing on is Republicans' goodwill and sense of fairness

00:28:17.180 where they say, oh yeah, we really, the Epstein issue is really serious.

00:28:20.680 Yeah, I agree.

00:28:21.840 It's a Democrat scandal.

00:28:23.000 That's why we brought it up 10 years ago.

00:28:24.540 But the way it's being talked about right now,

00:28:26.260 the way that geopolitics is being talked about right now,

00:28:28.960 the way that affordability is being talked about right now

00:28:30.920 is really in this political environment just being used

00:28:33.800 as a cynical political cudgel, very unfairly against Republicans.

00:28:38.800 There's a lot more to say.

00:28:39.560 First, though, go to catholicmatch.com.

00:28:40.940 One of the real problems in modern life is people increasingly approach dating as a form

00:28:44.680 of entertainment instead of as preparation for marriage.

00:28:48.100 If you're Catholic, marriage is not just a lifestyle preference or a social arrangement.

00:28:51.080 It's a sacrament.

00:28:52.280 It's a vocation, which means the stakes are a little bit higher than simply finding someone

00:28:56.160 who shares your taste in television shows.

00:28:58.640 One of the reasons Catholic Match exists, Catholic Match is the largest and most trusted

00:29:02.380 Catholic dating app, specifically focused on helping faithful Catholics build relationships

00:29:06.300 ordered towards sacramental marriage. It's really, really great. It's hard out there. It's hard dating

00:29:11.360 out there. Even if you say, look, I'm Christian, I'm religious, I want to find someone. Even that

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00:29:20.040 but the goods are odd. One thing that Catholic Match seems to understand better than a lot of 0.93

00:29:23.120 mainstream dating apps is that compatibility is not just superficial chemistry. What matters is

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00:29:35.860 download the Catholic Match app and find your forever. You can go to catholicmatch.com,

00:29:42.740 download the app in the app store, and find your forever today. This guy, James Tallarico,

00:29:49.720 the gift that keeps on giving. Here is how James Tallarico refers to women in Texas.

00:29:55.980 every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the state one of our neighbors 0.94

00:30:03.200 with the uterus to be able to control their own body neighbors with a uterus that's a new euphemism 0.55

00:30:08.020 hadn't heard that one before neighbors with a uterus because he can't say women because talarico's

00:30:13.120 ideology embraces transgenderism so according to james talarico some women don't have a uterus

00:30:19.540 Some women don't have two X chromosomes. He has to degrade women from women, like, you know, 0.74

00:30:26.480 sugar, spice, and everything nice. Women, compositive body and soul. Women, like a real 1.00

00:30:30.540 thing, to just their sexual parts. And he's not going to walk it back. That's the weird sex stuff.

00:30:37.740 Let's move on to race. Here's James Tallarico in 2020. White skin gives me and every white

00:30:42.600 American immunity from the virus of racism. But we spread it wherever we go through our words,

00:30:49.280 our actions and our systems. We don't have to be showing symptoms like a white hood or a

00:30:53.800 Confederate flag to be contagious. Vote for me, you leprous racists, you infected, disgusting, 1.00

00:31:01.660 disease-ridden mongrels. Vote for me, you white scum, you white trash. Vote for me. 1.00

00:31:09.040 I'm one of the good whites. That is Tallarico on race. Here's Tallarico speaking to the Secretary 0.96

00:31:15.700 of war, before he was secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, about voter ID. Are you OK with voter

00:31:22.100 ID? So voter ID is currently required in the state of Texas. I opposed having to have a driver's

00:31:27.440 license to vote. How about having to send your ballot in? Should you have to prove who you are?

00:31:30.700 Because that's what Democrats are opposing. Pete, I just said I oppose voter ID. Currently,

00:31:35.400 it's a law in Texas, but I oppose that law because I think you don't need an ID. You oppose voter ID?

00:31:39.760 You don't think the most sacred obligation of our republic, you should have to prove who you are in

00:31:45.580 order to vote? So there are a lot of Texans, actually hundreds of thousands who don't have

00:31:49.280 a driver's license. So yeah, I oppose voter ID. Voter ID is a 90-10 issue. The majority of

00:31:55.880 Democrats, forget Republicans, majority of Democrats support voter ID. Tallarico comes

00:32:00.000 out. No, absolutely. I oppose voter ID. And they oppose voter ID, of course, because they're relying

00:32:04.600 on foreigners to give them elections. There's no end to this. The oppo is endless. Okay. And so 0.96

00:32:11.440 the Democrats are in this really tough position because they're pretending that Tallarico is this

00:32:15.420 great candidate. I said from the very beginning, Tallarico is Buttigieg. He's the gay Pete Buttigieg,

00:32:20.340 or he's Beto O'Rourke. He's another one of these guys where the libs say, we hate white people, 0.99

00:32:25.540 we hate men, we hate straight people, or at least nominally straight people. 1.00

00:32:30.380 We hate all of them. But you know what? We can convince those rubes, those dumb idiot voters, 1.00

00:32:35.100 that we're going to put someone who appears to be a straight white male up, and we're going to say 1.00

00:32:41.620 that makes him look really moderate, but he's going to have all the most extreme woke ideology

00:32:45.500 and that'll fool him. It's one of the defining features I think of the Dems is they have no

00:32:50.080 respect whatsoever for voters, no respect at all. Rodney Dangerfield, no respect, no respect they

00:32:55.020 give them. So they really believe this guy is the future of the Democrat party. And I think he's

00:33:01.380 pretty weak. I mean, we got to make sure that we run good campaigns to beat him. Paxton needs to

00:33:04.800 run a good campaign, but I think he's relatively weak. And so because on all of these issues,

00:33:10.080 the Dems are so out of step with the American people. Just look at voter ID, 90-10. They oppose

00:33:14.400 the vast majority of Americans. Because of that, you're going to see an increased focus 0.82

00:33:19.280 on these kind of digressions, these insinuations, these side quests that don't even really in any

00:33:26.140 way seriously implicate Republicans. If they did, they implicate the Democrats way more.

00:33:30.180 But you're going to see a big focus on that. And my big warning is just don't be a sucker for it. 0.98

00:33:33.980 Don't allow yourself to be manipulated by Democrat propaganda, or in some cases, 0.97

00:33:37.300 foreign propaganda. Now, speaking of campaign activism, really, really scary story that,

00:33:43.120 thank God, turned out okay. A guy was arrested yesterday for threatening to murder Erica Kirk

00:33:48.980 and a whole slate of speakers at TPSA. I'm not going to say this guy's name. He's from San Antonio.

00:33:56.420 Basically a white looking guy, almost combed hair. You might say, well, hold on. Is this guy,

00:34:01.960 is he on the left or on the right? There are freaks and weirdos all across the political

00:34:05.540 spectrum. And Erica has been, you know, attacked on all fronts in a horrific, just terrible way.

00:34:14.740 So where does this guy come from? What did he say? He said, death to Erica Kirk and every single

00:34:20.380 speaker there, America will live on without these scum on the earth. Then he says, every Christian 1.00

00:34:26.860 nationalist shall perish in the bombing that will take place at every single turning point rally 0.98

00:34:31.400 end event. Really horrifying. This is especially horrifying because Erica has experienced just 0.68

00:34:40.360 about the worst thing you can possibly experience. And she's gone through it all with an immense

00:34:45.220 amount of grace, a heroic amount of grace. And it's really a model for everybody, I think.

00:34:51.340 And because obviously of what happened to Charlie. However, there have been threats and even

00:34:58.000 assassination attempts against a lot of conservative speakers, TPUSA speakers,

00:35:02.500 YAF speakers, ISI speakers for years and years and years now. We have been dealing with these

00:35:06.680 kinds of threats for well over a decade. Where is this guy coming from? He's coming from the left.

00:35:15.580 All of the attacks on Erica Kirk are awful, terrible, horrifying in every single way.

00:35:21.860 But when we're trying to focus in on where the real threat lies, where the real problem lies,

00:35:27.240 is it some conspiracy theorists? Is it freaks on the right? Is it some horseshoe theory thing?

00:35:32.600 Is it Christian nationalism? Is it neo-Nazism? Is it this, is it that? Is it this, is it that?

00:35:38.040 It is undeniable that the chief, most urgent, most real political threat comes from the left.

00:35:45.940 The guy who threatened to kill Erica Kirk and this whole slate of TPSA speakers

00:35:49.860 is from the same place as the person who murdered Charlie Kirk. He's from the left. He's in vain

00:35:56.960 against the Christian nationalists here. His attack is from the left. That is where the real

00:36:02.220 threat is. That is where the real threat has always been. That is why we need to focus our

00:36:07.820 political attention and our political muscle to make sure that these people never get any political

00:36:13.340 power. Okay. Speaking of real threats, Brandon Gill, rising star in Congress, just came out

00:36:19.900 and he was warning that Islam will destroy America if we don't stop it.

00:36:24.460 why are we seeing terrorist attacks from radical islam within our own borders where did this come 0.82

00:36:31.980 from islam is largely alien to american history it certainly didn't come into the into the united

00:36:38.140 states on the mayflower it's something that we deliberately imported as a matter of immigration 1.00

00:36:44.140 policy into our country and it's going to destroy us just like it's destroying europe right now 0.99

00:36:50.060 it's our job to stand up to that to stand up for our values and to prohibit alien cultures 0.89

00:36:57.680 and alien ideologies that do not comport with our own government governing framework and that's why

00:37:03.920 i'm proud to be part of the sharia free america caucus okay so brandon gill coming out saying

00:37:09.480 islam is a major major threat what's really interesting about this because brandon gill 0.54

00:37:14.220 is one of the real rising star Republican politicians of our generation. What's interesting 1.00

00:37:20.480 is that a segment of the very online right has gone a little bit soft on Islam. It's gone a

00:37:26.520 little bit soft on Islam. The very, very online, very avant-garde kind of right has gone a little

00:37:32.700 bit soft on Islam, has suggested maybe there's some way to work with Islam, to accommodate Islam.

00:37:38.640 And in part, this is because they see Islam as anti-Islam, rather, anti-Islam activism as pro-Israel, and they really don't like Israel.

00:37:49.360 And my warning to some of these people is don't ever become so anti-Semitic that you go soft on Islam.

00:37:58.640 I would say don't become anti-Semitic at all.

00:38:02.340 That was just my general historical and religious and spiritual advice.

00:38:07.440 But certainly do not do that in such a way that you go soft on Islam. That's really crazy. 0.54

00:38:16.580 That too, I think, is a little bit of an op. Getting back to what we were talking about at

00:38:19.760 the top, how these political issues shade, how they code, what they signify from one side to

00:38:26.760 the next. Yes, there are all sorts of interesting questions about the nation state of Israel and

00:38:32.440 all sorts of different ways that people try to justify it based on the theology of Christian

00:38:36.520 Zionism, this kind of more novel, niche Protestant theology, which I obviously don't believe in,

00:38:42.480 or on the nationalist ideology of Zionism, even a secular kind of nationalist ideology,

00:38:49.180 which a lot of people are nationalists these days. I, however, am very conservative and

00:38:53.120 traditional. So I think 1848 was a bad turn, actually. I think even the rise of nationalism

00:38:57.600 as a modern ideology isn't quite right politically. You can defend the state of Israel

00:39:02.400 on the basis of U.N. charters and wars of conquest and the Balfour Declaration and all

00:39:07.680 political alliances. And that, I think, is much more solid ground. But it is simply the case,

00:39:13.500 despite anyone's problems with the state of Israel. Obviously, that's a big talk on the

00:39:19.060 very online right. It is simply the case today that pro-Israel maps right wing, anti-Israel

00:39:26.920 maps left wing. Pro-Islam maps left wing. Anti-Islam maps right wing. I'm not even like 0.75

00:39:35.160 the most anti-Muslim person in the world. Certainly not. I've said for many, many years,

00:39:40.080 I can have a conversation with a Muslim in many ways much more easily than I can with a secular

00:39:44.720 liberal atheist. Much more easily. I think they have a mistaken conception of God. I think they

00:39:49.660 should not deny the crucifixion, for instance. They should not deny the incarnation as they do.

00:39:53.320 I think their conception of God is voluntarist, so it makes a God who is perfectly transcendent,

00:39:59.020 who is not identified as the Christian God is, with the logos, with the divine logic. There are

00:40:03.260 all sorts of interesting conversations to be had there. However, let's not be betraying the legacy

00:40:09.760 of Charles Martel and John of Austria and all the rest of them, you know, Battle of Poitiers,

00:40:15.220 Battle of Lepanto, Battle of Vienna. Islam really has posed a threat to the West for 1,400 years. 1.00

00:40:21.580 that dynamic has not changed. And I do think some people are getting a little bit manipulated 0.65

00:40:27.000 as happens. Okay. Speaking of dissident and alternate views on the right, I guess I should

00:40:33.080 address, I'm told, I was told this by my producers that the libertarian comedian podcaster, Dave

00:40:40.660 Smith has responded to my response, to his response to my political prediction. I think

00:40:50.060 all of this started because I said, I thought Thomas Massey was going to lose because he broke

00:40:54.660 with the GOP and the GOP was going to come after him. And then I, Dave came out. If I think if I'm

00:40:59.440 having this correctly, Dave came out and said, he thought Thomas Massey was going to win.

00:41:03.940 And he looked forward to my reaction when Thomas Massey won his primary campaign. And I said,

00:41:10.540 look, I'm not even saying anything against Massey or I just, I think he's going to lose.

00:41:14.600 And so I guess you're never going to get my reaction because I was right.

00:41:17.340 And then he responded to that response, and then I responded.

00:41:22.300 So now here is Dave Smith's response, because we invited him on one of our shows, the Bar Fight show.

00:41:28.200 He said, oh, it'll be kind of interesting.

00:41:29.280 I'm the conservative.

00:41:30.060 He'll be the libertarian, and we'll get some left-winger.

00:41:32.240 And it's a show mostly on the Daily Wire platform, but I said, that'd be a good venue to have Dave on.

00:41:37.200 We could talk about these issues between the ideologies.

00:41:39.100 Anyway, here's Dave's response to my response to Dave's response to me.

00:41:41.960 it's, it's a little bit weird when Michael Knowles knows full well that there's like an

00:41:50.340 open invite to like, let's have a conversation, which we could both jump on tomorrow for him to

00:41:56.660 go, you know, I would maybe like to get Dave on a fight night. Cause it'd be like a cool dynamic

00:42:01.640 with the left and the right. If you're doing a video about it, man, let's just talk about this.

00:42:07.140 why is it that your side is so averse to this very simple idea of having a conversation about this

00:42:16.740 like we can do it tomorrow I literally mean this Michael you can sit in your home studio

00:42:24.020 and I can sit in my home studio and we can talk about this issue why is it like I have to fly to

00:42:30.460 D.C. for no money on 24 hours notice for no audience. This doesn't seem reasonable to me.

00:42:38.120 Maybe Dave misunderstood what the invite was. I don't know. I'm not really all that involved in

00:42:42.100 booking the shows. But we don't shoot in D.C. We shoot in Nashville. And I don't know. I thought

00:42:48.920 I was trying to I was trying to be nice. I don't know. I thought it'd be interesting. You have

00:42:53.000 this bar fight show, which does have quite an eye. It has a live audience and it has a virtual

00:42:58.300 audience. It's mostly on the Daily Wire platform, but it's a good audience between a conservative

00:43:03.640 and a libertarian and a leftist to find the nuances of all those sorts of shades of political

00:43:11.060 identity. So I don't know. No good deed goes unpunished. I don't know. He doesn't want to

00:43:15.060 come on the show. That's fine. But the reason that I even entertained responding to Dave Smith's

00:43:22.040 response, to my response, to Dave Smith's response, to my observation about Dave Smith's prediction,

00:43:27.720 The reason that I find it even worth commenting on

00:43:30.660 is I'm very glad that Dave wants to sit down

00:43:32.300 and have a conversation.

00:43:33.180 That could be great, I guess.

00:43:36.200 But what would we be debating?

00:43:39.660 That's my question.

00:43:41.300 What is the question?

00:43:42.780 Is that we're going to talk about it?

00:43:43.600 What are these things?

00:43:44.480 What are the things we're going to be debating?

00:43:46.120 That I don't really understand.

00:43:48.260 That's kind of why I thought he would be good

00:43:49.740 on the bar fight show.

00:43:50.920 Because there's a lane for a conservative,

00:43:53.180 a lane for a more libertarian guy,

00:43:54.280 and a lane for a leftist guy.

00:43:55.480 But what exactly are we debating?

00:43:57.420 are we debating? I don't know. I actually don't know what it is. Are we debating Thomas Massey?

00:44:02.860 I don't hate Thomas Massey. I just thought he was going to lose and he thought he was going to win

00:44:06.620 and I was right. I don't know what we would be debating there. Are we debating the Trump,

00:44:13.340 the Trump administration? I guess I, are we debating the war in Iran? I argued against the

00:44:18.760 war in Iran as did he. So I don't know what the, are we debating? What are we debating? I don't

00:44:25.760 know what we're debating. And I guess this is my broader question about a lot of the podcast babble

00:44:33.360 where just like the same seven people go on each other's shows all the time is what, I guess the

00:44:38.160 reason I thought it'd be good to have Dave on the show is I think it's really interesting to find

00:44:41.460 those real lanes between here's what a conservative believes about all these issues. Here's what a

00:44:45.340 libertarian believes about all these issues. Here's what a leftist believes about all these

00:44:48.160 issues. But so much of the political media now, it's just people talking in circles about what

00:44:55.240 it's all just personal stuff

00:44:56.920 it's all just he's responding to him

00:44:59.400 responding to him

00:45:00.680 about what

00:45:02.380 what are we actually talking about

00:45:03.440 that's my broader political advice

00:45:05.080 as we head into the midterms

00:45:06.920 as we have left wingers

00:45:08.640 who are actually trying to murder us

00:45:09.780 as we have very radical people on the left

00:45:13.340 who are seriously trying to subvert

00:45:15.680 our constitutional order

00:45:16.640 I think we need to stay focused

00:45:18.540 on the things that matter

00:45:19.480 so anyway again open invitation

00:45:21.440 if there's an issue to debate

00:45:23.920 I'm looking forward to debating it.

00:45:25.520 I thought a debate show would be a good way to do that.

00:45:27.420 I don't know, but it seems like people

00:45:29.320 want to get very, very distracted

00:45:30.980 by all sorts of nonsense.

00:45:33.800 Okay, we have to get, so much more to get to.

00:45:37.060 There's so much more to get to.

00:45:38.420 First though, go to hillsdale.edu slash revolution.

00:45:40.740 How much are life, liberty,

00:45:41.560 and the pursuit of happiness worth to you?

00:45:43.540 This is the question America's founding fathers

00:45:45.280 had to answer.

00:45:46.260 For more than 150 years,

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00:46:54.800 All right, my favorite comment yesterday.

00:46:56.000 Now, I didn't pick this out.

00:46:57.620 This was the producers.

00:46:58.520 Let's see if they did a good job.

00:47:01.180 PNWVibe says, Michael Knowles is my favorite Big Mike.

00:47:03.480 Thank you, I appreciate that.

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00:47:12.780 Hey, Michael, this is Bibi Netanyahu.

00:47:16.080 I heard you were being mean to the Mauger Professor Jacob.

00:47:19.100 Do not do this. Jacob is one of the greatest Jews to ever live, with the IQ of Albert Einstein, to the sense of humor of Adam Sandler, to the political knowledge of Ben Shapiro. He has it all. You should also give him a raise. Anyway, my question is this. What is your favorite Jewish dish to eat? I know the Arabs say hummus is theirs, but it is not, so you can say that too. Love the show. Thank you.

00:47:49.100 Wow. Really incisive question, Mr. Prime Minister. Thank you for, I didn't know you

00:47:54.340 watched the show, but I appreciate you dialing in. I'll take your thoughts on Professor Jacob

00:47:58.260 into consideration. My favorite Jewish dish. That's very simple. My favorite Jewish dish

00:48:02.680 would be pastrami and mustard on rye bread. Some Jewish food is very good. Some of it's very bad.

00:48:09.360 Some of it's very, very bad. What's the, shakshuka is very bad. I don't like that. 0.98

00:48:14.180 Sweet kugel is very bad.

00:48:16.380 I don't want sugar in my macaroni and cheese.

00:48:18.900 That's very bad.

00:48:19.720 But some Jewish dishes are very, very delicious,

00:48:22.240 like rugelach, like all the deli sandwiches

00:48:25.300 are really, really good.

00:48:26.560 Matzo ball soup, of course, is good.

00:48:27.980 It's a little overrated, but it's good.

00:48:30.740 My absolute favorite Jewish dish, 1.00

00:48:33.060 gefilte fish is absolutely unbearable.

00:48:35.440 A lot of the kosher wine is pretty bad.

00:48:38.260 Basically, all of the sweets are good.

00:48:41.300 What's my favorite Jewish dish?

00:48:43.300 Well, I guess the basic one is just like a bagel.

00:48:46.660 Like a bagel with lox and cream cheese is probably the best.

00:48:52.720 This maps on to my very moderate view on geopolitics and the state of Israel.

00:48:58.400 I guess I have a moderate view on Jewish food, too.

00:49:01.100 There's very, very good stuff.

00:49:02.940 Very good stuff.

00:49:04.660 But there's some weak stuff, too.

00:49:07.580 I'm not giving Jacob a raise.

00:49:09.000 Next one.

00:49:10.360 Good morning, Michael.

00:49:11.100 This is Arun.

00:49:11.720 So, since you've talked often about the importance of Americans having our founding myths, I'm curious as to your opinion on what Matt Walsh is doing with his analysis on civil rights figures like John Brown, MLK, and Rosa Parks.

00:49:27.360 Because I don't disagree with him on any of the facts, but a nation does need its heroes, and I'm concerned that if we tear down MLK, well, we both know who's going to replace him.

00:49:39.460 What is your take on the matter?

00:49:41.720 Oh, a really thoughtful question, Arun. This is a great point. Obviously,

00:49:45.880 Walsh's Real History series is doing very, very well. I encourage you all to go watch it. Go

00:49:49.840 check it out on Daily Wire. It's doing great. But you raise a really good point, which is, well,

00:49:54.500 should we really be tearing down the heroes of the left? Should we always be tearing down the

00:50:01.560 heroes of the left? Is that always prudent, even if they kind of deserve it sometimes?

00:50:06.100 is that, does that put us in a similar position as the left is in when they tear down statues

00:50:12.840 of George Washington? Could the destruction of left-wing heroes end up being a pyrrhic victory

00:50:18.460 because it causes more political turmoil than it actually improves? I think that's a really

00:50:24.200 thoughtful point. Because you think of someone like MLK, you can say lots of terrible things

00:50:28.460 about MLK. He was apparently present for the rape of a woman. He was a womanizer. All this stuff is 0.96

00:50:33.680 public. But even politically speaking, we read MLK based on one line of one speech, which is,

00:50:40.380 I have a dream that one day it won't matter if you're black or white and we'll all get along.

00:50:44.660 That's basically what 99.999% of people think MLK is. But you could also read MLK

00:50:52.420 as an identitarian who was very specifically focused on his race, on black people as such,

00:51:01.780 who was open to some communists and socialists who was pushing for the massive growth of

00:51:09.140 government who was like opposing a lot of stuff that we conservatives would support

00:51:12.960 so what do we do do we tear down mlk for his personal failings and the radical parts of his

00:51:17.380 ideology no i think probably the more prudent political path is to pull out of mlk the good

00:51:23.620 stuff that we can namely i have a dream that's that's the one and then we don't want to lie

00:51:30.560 about who MLK is. But if we're going to create a political myth, if we're going to have a sort of

00:51:38.040 demigod added to the pantheon of American great men, we want to make sure that his defining

00:51:44.140 characteristics are the good ones, the ones that we actually want people to emulate. A diplomat

00:51:49.260 friend of mine once pointed this out. He said, Michael, do you know the difference between a

00:51:52.420 flatterer and a diplomat? A flatterer lies to you to ingratiate himself to you. A diplomat

00:52:00.380 only focuses on the good things, which is not a lie. It's a little selective,

00:52:05.780 but it's much more politically effective. That's how I feel with most of the left-wing icons.

00:52:09.960 Some of them really do need to be torn down. Angela Davis is a terrorist. She needs to be 0.99

00:52:13.980 torn down. Some of the foreign idols of the left, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, obviously those guys,

00:52:18.000 we got to displace them. But some of the more liberal figures in American history,

00:52:22.360 like Martin Luther King, let's pull out the good things. Like Franklin Roosevelt, who was a

00:52:27.480 radical leftist in so many ways almost destroyed and maybe did destroy our system of government.

00:52:31.840 Well, he also curtailed the radical predations of the socialists and the communists. Some would say

00:52:38.920 he actually preserved our capitalist system. Woodrow Wilson was a radical leftist who destroyed

00:52:44.620 our system of government in many ways. It was the architect of the administrative state,

00:52:49.220 but also he put Eugene Debs, the socialist in prison. Also, he really persecuted the,

00:52:55.800 brought the heavy hand of the law down on radical leftists in the government.

00:52:58.920 So I would say maybe you focus on the good things there.

00:53:01.320 Yes, we want to tell the truth,

00:53:03.420 but we also want to tell the truth in a way that is politically prudent

00:53:06.660 and actually edifying and helps build up our republic.

00:53:10.560 We don't want to be a nation of debunkers.

00:53:13.460 Debunking is purely critical.

00:53:15.120 It's purely destructive, and it will not redound to our benefit.

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