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00:01:36.760 Daryaliza Avila-Chevalier, does not just promote socialism and environmentalism like her radical 0.81

00:01:45.400 colleague and predecessor. She founded an organization dedicated to undermining and 0.92

00:01:51.580 eradicating America. That is almost verbatim. I am not joking. How did this happen? Some people

00:01:58.420 are blaming a small number of white voters. Some people are blaming immigrants. Whose fault is it?

00:02:06.100 It's the immigrants, actually, specifically the legal ones. That's not much of a tease, 1.00

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00:02:35.420 needs to restore voter integrity. My question is, is this, as is often the case in D.C.,

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00:03:18.700 Welcome back to the show. Left-wing terrorist sympathizer Hassan Piker is demanding that

00:03:26.440 people stop calling him a terrorist. He keeps calling for Republican and conservative civilians

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00:05:08.680 D-A-C.

00:05:10.740 It's the new kid on the block.

00:05:12.000 Man, nobody can stay hip and cool for too long. Even AOC. She was on the bleeding edge

00:05:17.320 of radicalism. She wanted to spend, what was it, like $90 trillion fighting the sun monster.

00:05:23.820 She was one of the first really hot, cool, hip socialists to enter Congress. 0.84

00:05:29.020 She was saying all the craziest stuff in the world. She was getting all the media attention. 0.85

00:05:33.420 And now even AOC is passé. Seek transit Gloria Mundi. There's a new girl in town.

00:05:42.000 Daria Liza Avila-Chevalier, and she makes AOC look like Dwight Eisenhower. 1.00

00:05:48.280 She makes AOC look like the most mainstream, boring establishment politician there is. 0.96

00:05:54.840 DAC is the Democrat nominee for New York's 13th Congressional District. 0.52

00:05:58.900 She just won the nomination for the Democrats.

00:06:03.100 DAC is a socialist.

00:06:05.160 She is Hispanic and identitarian in her politics. 0.98

00:06:12.000 she also wants to eradicate America. No exaggeration. Think about all the trouble I got in 1.00

00:06:19.360 a few years ago at CPAC when I said, for the good of everybody, we need to eradicate 1.00

00:06:23.300 transgenderism from public life entirely, the whole ideology. It was a very basic statement. 1.00

00:06:29.040 It's to say we need to correct people and have a true anthropology again and not affirm the

00:06:36.060 delusions of confused people. For that, I was accused of genocide. This chick who's headed

00:06:40.060 to Congress has called specifically, quote, to undermine and eradicate America. Not Americanism,

00:06:49.800 not constitutionalism, not some idea, the country. She wants to eradicate our country, 0.99

00:06:56.520 not even a country. It'd be bad enough if she said, I want to eradicate Djibouti or something. 0.94

00:07:01.040 She wants to eradicate our own country. Somehow she's allowed to vote, and actually she's going

00:07:04.960 to serve in Congress. What is this group? This was at Columbia University, no surprise.

00:07:10.060 the whole Ivy League is a little weird these days, but especially Colombia is just a hotbed

00:07:15.240 of left-wing radicalism. She founded this group called the Columbia, what is it? The

00:07:24.600 Columbia University Apartheid Divest Movement. And the quad is aimed ostensibly at Israel because

00:07:34.960 there have been these movements on university campuses for years and years to divest from

00:07:38.800 Israel. And really, even that didn't start with Israel. That began out of the movement to divest

00:07:45.560 from South Africa, which was promoted by left-wingers 30, 40 years ago. And that movement

00:07:52.200 has now led to mass persecution and calls for genocide of white South Africans. So a similar 0.65

00:07:58.240 kind of thing here. Yes, ostensibly the direct object is first South Africa, now Israel. But 0.54

00:08:04.320 really, it does all kind of swing back to America, because what these people really hate

00:08:07.580 is the West, the civilization that we used to call Christendom, and specifically America,

00:08:11.640 because America is the hegemon of that civilization and of the whole world.

00:08:15.040 So what did Quad do? It didn't just call to defund Israel or to, I don't know,

00:08:20.260 support Palestinian statehood or something. In the second bullet point for this group that

00:08:25.780 the future congressman from New York founded, it says divestment is not an incremental goal.

00:08:31.600 True divestment necessitates nothing short of the total collapse of the university structure

00:08:37.480 and American empire itself. So it begins at this university,

00:08:43.320 one ostensibly prestigious university, Columbia. It's lost a little of the prestige in recent

00:08:49.600 decades, but it starts at the university. It says we want to eradicate the university.

00:08:53.760 We want to eradicate Israeli statehood, I guess, just like we used to want to eradicate the 0.71

00:08:58.440 political system of South Africa. But really what we're going after is the American empire. 0.90

00:09:02.520 Worth pointing out, she's not even saying we want to destroy this university, Columbia University,

00:09:06.180 which I might sign on to that organization. She says she wants to eliminate the university

00:09:10.600 structure. Universities are one of the great jewels and products of Christendom,

00:09:17.060 of Christian civilization. One of the many flowers of Christianity in politics and history

00:09:24.260 has been the university system. Universities which have been degraded for a long time now,

00:09:30.520 but the universities, which are purporting to inculcate universal knowledge so that all the

00:09:39.020 little specialties all kind of work together so that you can arrive at the truth, so that we can

00:09:43.380 make sense of our freedom. That's the purpose of the liberal arts. She wants to get rid of that,

00:09:46.840 get rid of the whole university structure as such, and America. It is not possible for imperial

00:09:52.420 spoils to remain so heavily concentrated in the metropole and its high cultural repositories

00:09:56.980 without the continuous suppression of all populations that resist the empire's expansion.

00:10:01.940 And then finally, to divest from this is to, quote, undermine and eradicate America as we know it.

00:10:10.660 Then it says we refuse to allow Colombia to return to normalcy. Normalcy, which is a made-up word,

00:10:16.280 wasn't it? It was made up by Warren Harding, I think. Anyway, she's using normalcy. The word

00:10:19.780 is normality. They don't teach you that at Colombia, I guess. And then number four, we act

00:10:24.380 in full support of the Palestinian resistance, and we want to translate their resilience in Gaza

00:10:31.000 to unrest and violence in America. So she's even drawing a line here. She's saying the Palestine

00:10:37.120 issue is really about undermining America. And this is a point I've made for a really long time 0.74

00:10:41.520 now, and it's worth pointing out. When it comes to the Israel-Palestine issue, I do think there

00:10:48.180 is a role for talking about the legitimate rights of Palestinian Arabs. I know that's somewhat

00:10:53.720 unpopular on the right, but there's a role to talk about that. If what we were talking about

00:10:58.360 was really the Israel-Palestine conflict, but it's not. And even the people who are 0.50

00:11:02.520 founding the organizations that are supposedly pro-Palestine and all about divesting from Israel

00:11:06.760 because of the Palestine conflict, even they in their manifestos are saying, this is really about

00:11:11.440 America. This is really about copying the Palestinian resistance and drawing it in to

00:11:17.640 undermine and eradicate America itself. This woman's going to serve in Congress. 1.00

00:11:24.780 This is not a sustainable way of politics. As Chesterton said, and I repeat it a lot, 1.00

00:11:32.820 there's a thought that undermines thought, and that's the thought that ought to be destroyed.

00:11:37.440 There have to be limits to politics. We have all sorts of limits in our political system.

00:11:41.540 Constitution says you have to be a certain age to run for Congress, a different age to run for

00:11:45.320 Senate, a different age to run for president. The Constitution says you need to be a natural

00:11:49.400 born U.S. citizen to be president. That's not true for other political offices, but there are

00:11:54.500 sort of gradations of citizenship and American identity. And you have to sign on to some basic

00:12:00.060 stuff to participate in the system. If you are implicitly, I think, but especially if you are

00:12:08.460 explicitly endeavoring to destroy the country, we cannot allow you to participate in the political

00:12:16.220 system. That's not authoritarian or totalitarian or anything like that. That is one of the most

00:12:22.360 basic limitations that every political community has to have. This woman certainly should not be 1.00

00:12:28.060 in Congress. She certainly should not be allowed to vote, and she really shouldn't be here in 1.00

00:12:31.740 America. So whose fault is it? How did this woman and all these other commies and socialists and

00:12:38.300 deeply anti-American people, other politicians who won during the Mamdani sweep in New York, 1.00

00:12:44.000 saying that America deserved 9-11. How did these guys get elected? There are two groups that are

00:12:49.000 being singled out here for blame. One is a small number of white liberals who voted in this election

00:12:54.760 that had very low voter turnout. The other group is immigrants, not just illegal immigrants,

00:12:59.460 but legal immigrants too. And whichever one of those groups really bears the brunt of the blame 0.81

00:13:04.860 here, that is obviously the problem that we have to address. And I think a lot of people are getting

00:13:08.660 this wrong. And I think there are ways to address this problem, but not the ways people think. So

00:13:12.620 we'll get to that momentarily. It's the immigrant's fault, by the way. But before we get to that, 1.00

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00:14:36.720 manifesting in the elections. So people who are winning political office calling to destroy

00:14:43.180 America. You have some of the most mainstream commentators on the left, the live streamers,

00:14:48.900 the people who go on TV, the people who campaign with the elected politicians.

00:14:51.920 they are embracing exactly the same kind of radicalism maybe the most notable example who

00:14:57.040 has been fluffed and pushed by the new york times multiple times increasingly so would be hassan

00:15:02.980 piker hassan piker who is a terrorist hassan piker who calls for violence against civilians

00:15:10.640 in order to achieve political ends that is about as basic a definition of terrorism as exists some

00:15:16.920 people use that term a little too broadly. Not all violence is terrorism. Not all political

00:15:21.540 violence, for that matter, is terrorism. Terrorism has a specific and restrained

00:15:25.820 definition. It is the use of violence against civilians, targeting civilians with the intent

00:15:32.840 to harm civilians in order to achieve political ends. Hassan Piker calls for that. He calls for

00:15:37.480 it time and time again. And he's really upset that you call him a terrorist.

00:15:40.720 I wish they stopped calling me a terrorist. That's what I wish. I wish they stopped calling

00:15:48.460 me a radical. None of these people are radical. They just want health care. They want to end

00:15:53.280 American militarism. They want to spend money on roads, on infrastructure, on schooling,

00:16:00.140 on health care rather than bombs overseas, because it seems like for far too long,

00:16:05.080 that's what our focus has been. And not the focus of the American people,

00:16:09.000 But the focus of the American government has been in that direction.

00:16:13.060 We have to put an end to our endless militarism.

00:16:15.680 And we have to focus on ourselves.

00:16:17.500 And we have to heal this nation and repair it.

00:16:22.240 Nice meal.

00:16:23.500 Oh, that sounds really nice, right?

00:16:25.240 We don't, look, stop calling me a terrorist.

00:16:26.940 We just want health care for people.

00:16:28.560 That would be fine, except that he's lying. 1.00

00:16:31.260 The problem that people have with Hassan Piker is not that he supports some stupid health care policy 0.99

00:16:36.800 that he thinks will have good ends, even though it will probably have bad ends. 0.98

00:16:40.980 The problem people have with Hassan Piker is that he's called for the murder of multiple

00:16:44.900 Republican senators. That's the problem. He's called for the murder of Senator Rick Scott

00:16:49.300 and for the murder of Senator Tom Cotton. The problem people have with Hassan Piker

00:16:54.180 is that he has called for the streets to run red in the blood of capitalists.

00:16:58.460 The problem that people have with Hassan Piker in the American political system

00:17:01.500 is that he says, we deserved 9-11. We deserved the most notable and egregious terror attack

00:17:07.860 that has ever occurred on our soil. Notice here, Hassan Piker is not adopting the line

00:17:13.880 of the conspiracy theorists who say, America brought 9-11 on itself because it was an inside

00:17:18.620 job. There was a conspiracy. It wasn't really Muslim terrorists. Some people push that line

00:17:23.640 of argument. That's not his line. What he's saying is, no, no, it was Muslim terrorists

00:17:27.040 and we deserved it. America deserved it. So that's why they call him a terrorist. 1.00

00:17:33.180 They call him a terrorist and they point out that he sympathizes with terrorists and he

00:17:37.480 promotes terrorism because that's what he does. That's it. And then he tries to distract. He says,

00:17:42.580 I just want healthcare for people. No, you don't. And the same thing goes for these elected

00:17:46.680 politicians. The problem we have with DAC and all the rest of these people is not that they

00:17:52.480 advocate a stupid health care policy or a tax policy or whatever. The problem we have is that 1.00

00:17:58.220 you say you want to eradicate America, and we believe you because you keep saying it.

00:18:03.180 So whose fault is this? There's a line being pushed by the New York Post,

00:18:09.400 and I've seen a lot of really nice conservatives pushing this line, that really this is the fault 0.63

00:18:16.520 of white liberals. They say, how just 7% of voters, mostly young and white, led Mamdani's

00:18:25.400 New York City socialist election surge. So it's very, very low turnout in the Mamdani sweep with

00:18:31.360 all these commie politicians. It says just 7% of active voters supported Mamdani's radical ally

00:18:37.860 Daryaliza Avila-Chevalier over establishment rep Adriano Espayat in Tuesday's main event primary.

00:18:44.040 The overall low turnout, roughly 17% of Democrat voters statewide, sorry, citywide, came as Avila Chevalier and two other MomDani-backed House primary winners captured a mix of high-earning young white and black voters, analysts found.

00:18:58.020 Now, they leave the black out of there because they want to focus on white liberals.

00:19:02.440 And a lot of conservatives do this, too. 0.66

00:19:04.080 They say, don't call us xenophobic.

00:19:05.620 Don't call us racist. 1.00

00:19:06.680 You know, my least favorite group of people in America, it's these white liberals, especially the white liberal women. 0.99

00:19:11.660 They call them awfuls, affluent white. What is it? Affluent white female liberals. That's it. 0.96

00:19:20.000 Awfuls. And so they do this and it's all kind of a joke. Ha ha. No, I'm not. Don't call me racist.

00:19:23.680 Don't call me xenophobic. You say, yeah, OK, sure. The liberal women with the septum piercings and

00:19:28.840 the crazy colored hair. Yeah, they're really annoying and they're really easy to make fun of. 1.00

00:19:32.880 And that's all true. But this is cope. And that is a cowardly response to this political problem,

00:19:38.880 which is a very real political problem now because you have people who are winning seats in the

00:19:44.580 American government, who are openly calling to destroy the American government, who are openly

00:19:48.300 supporting political violence against normal guys like you. And if we keep burying our heads in the

00:19:53.340 sand out of, I think, cowardice, and still, even in the year of our Lord, 2026, fear of being called

00:19:58.760 racist and xenophobic, you're not going to solve the problem, and the problem is only going to go

00:20:02.120 worse. This problem is not primarily driven by the kooky liberal white women. It's just not. 1.00

00:20:08.880 The problem is immigration. It's not even that we, it's not that we hate immigrants. It's not

00:20:16.940 even that the immigrants themselves are so awful and terrible and wrong. Many, if not most Americans 0.98

00:20:21.900 have some immigrant lineage in the, I certainly do from Southern Italy, which practically is

00:20:27.360 North Africa at this point. So I'm speaking as an African American. Nevertheless, it's an

00:20:33.220 immigrant problem. Stephen Miller just pointed this out and said, half of all college graduates

00:20:37.900 in New York City are immigrants or from immigrant households. So when observers say college grads

00:20:44.200 in New York City are embracing communism, this is not a homegrown phenomenon. 38% of New York

00:20:51.000 City residents are foreign-born. They're immigrants. When you look at children of immigrants,

00:20:58.020 not 10 generations down the line, one generation down the line, about 60% of New Yorkers are

00:21:04.520 immigrants or children of immigrants. When you look at the percentage of Democrat primary voters

00:21:10.440 who are immigrants or the children of immigrants, the number goes higher still. It's really hard

00:21:14.520 to get good data on that. We don't really collect data on that. It is certainly north of 60%,

00:21:19.480 probably significantly north of 60%. That's a particular problem in New York. If you look at

00:21:26.880 the rest of the country, about 15% of the country nationally is foreign-born, and then 12.5% or so

00:21:33.260 is second generation. So total, you're looking at under 30% immigrant and children of immigrant,

00:21:41.540 which is still very, very high historically, but compared to 60 plus percent, it's not as high. 0.98

00:21:46.200 It's just an immigration problem. If we didn't have mass migration, specifically from the third

00:21:52.740 world, there would be no Mayor Mamdani. Many of these candidates would not be here. What's her

00:21:57.560 face, DAC, was born in America to immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic and I think

00:22:04.340 maybe Venezuela. If we didn't have mass migration, she wouldn't be here. Mom Donnie wouldn't be here.

00:22:10.220 A lot of these other candidates wouldn't be here. A lot of their voters wouldn't be here. 0.92

00:22:13.480 And the anti-American ideology, which is prominent in places like Venezuela, 0.79

00:22:20.760 throughout the world, in the third world, it would still be here to some degree with those 1.00

00:22:25.880 white liberal women with the stupid nose piercings and the crazy hair, but it would be much less 1.00

00:22:29.380 pronounced. It would be much less electorally significant. Immigration is the decisive issue, 1.00

00:22:35.160 and it's not just illegal immigration. Most of these people are here legally, or their parents

00:22:39.540 were here legally. The vast majority of them were here legally. So you can't hide it, guys. I know

00:22:44.080 we really don't want to be called racist because we're not racist. We don't have unjust antipathies

00:22:49.380 toward people based on shallow identity markers. We're not. We're not those things. We're not even

00:22:55.260 xenophobic in the sense that if we had a much lower foreign-born percentage of the population,

00:22:59.400 we would probably be more open to migration. That's been the story of American history. 0.85

00:23:03.880 Despite the liberal narrative that we've always been an open borders nation of immigrants,

00:23:07.260 that isn't true. That's totally made-up retconning of American history. In the early

00:23:11.840 days of America, we severely restricted immigration. Then we loosened it up in the

00:23:16.140 middle of the 19th century. Then we got too many migrants. Then we had the previous high point of 1.00

00:23:21.140 foreign-born percentage of the population. So you know what we did in 1924? We restricted it back

00:23:25.520 to basically nothing. We totally cut off the third world, and we severely restricted the rest of 1.00

00:23:29.460 immigration. And that was the immigration policy for 40 years, which coincided with the absolute 1.00

00:23:34.100 peak of the American nation and empire. Then in 1965, with the Hartz-Celler Act, we loosened it

00:23:39.320 up again, changed the system, radically changed our demographics, and now we have communists

00:23:43.760 and terrorists and political radicals being elected to office in America. What's the solution?

00:23:48.500 There's only one solution that will do anything seriously to get the job done, and that is to drastically reduce all immigration, certainly illegal immigration, but legal immigration too. 0.82

00:24:00.520 Furthermore, it involves being a little more careful about what places we take people from because different populations that come to America are more or less assimilable. 0.62

00:24:10.540 different populations have greater or lesser diaspora identities that will allow them to

00:24:19.200 form these voting blocs that, in the case of Arab and Muslim immigration, have totally taken over

00:24:24.540 places like Dearborn, Michigan, that are increasingly taking over places like New York, 0.75

00:24:28.520 that are taking over even towns in Texas. We have to focus on that. So what do you do about it?

00:24:34.200 What a lot of people are waiting on is for Congress to pass a law. Good luck. Don't hold

00:24:38.320 your breath. What some people are waiting on is the Supreme Court to end birthright citizenship,

00:24:43.200 which they're supposedly going to do at the end of this term. I'm really skeptical.

00:24:46.740 There is only one way to even have a shot of dealing with this immigration problem. 0.99

00:24:52.260 A lot of people are not going to like it. We'll get to that momentarily. First, 0.99

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00:26:03.800 Knolls. The only way to deal with the immigration problem is to back the White House, not the 0.90

00:26:12.560 Congress, not the courts, back the White House in its efforts to close the border, to deport the 0.91

00:26:20.060 illegals who are here, to increase the costs of applying for citizenship, to reduce the barriers 0.71

00:26:25.980 to deportation, to tighten up the voter rolls, to tighten up the welfare programs, to pressure 0.98

00:26:32.560 migrants who are not all that dedicated to defending America to getting out. That's what 0.96

00:26:38.400 you have to do. And a lot of people on the left, certainly, but on the squishy right too,

00:26:42.440 they will say, well, we don't want to upset the balance of powers or, sorry, the checks and

00:26:46.880 balances and the separation of powers. We don't want to upend our constitutional system. We don't

00:26:50.880 want a tyrannical executive power. Give me a break. The threat to your liberty, the real 0.99

00:26:56.320 threat of tyranny, is not coming from the White House, which has been largely neutered. The White

00:27:01.400 House, which has been stymied in its most basic imperatives after winning the popular vote by

00:27:06.240 one random federal judge out of 700, one after another. The threat here is not from an executive

00:27:13.580 that is too strong. The real threat to our constitutional order is from a Congress that

00:27:18.860 cannot and will not do anything substantive, and from a judiciary that is, I would say,

00:27:26.760 too cowardly, but I think they're reading the polls too, and they're too afraid of having

00:27:30.120 the judiciary totally blown up by Democrats who want to pack the court and permanently destroy 0.62

00:27:35.300 that part of our government. So the only branch of the government that has the thumos, that has 0.83

00:27:40.960 the spirit to actually do something and any ability whatsoever is the executive, which is

00:27:45.900 how it was designed, and it's why we need to back it. So the Supreme Court is supposed to

00:27:50.760 decide this birthright citizenship question. I think they're going to give Trump a bunch of

00:27:54.800 wins on the lower level immigration issues. I think they are not going to overturn birthright

00:28:00.440 citizenship. They should. The 14th Amendment was not intended to give Chinese criminals the ability

00:28:06.320 to baby farm in America to receive the privileges of the American empire. That's not what it was

00:28:10.060 for. That's not how it was publicly understood at the time of passing, but that's how it has

00:28:14.780 been used and abused, I don't think the Supreme Court's going to touch it. I think they're going

00:28:18.660 to balk. They're going to find some way to get out of it. So it's really only the White House

00:28:23.380 that can do that. One of the ways that I just mentioned of tightening up the system is to

00:28:29.480 preserve voter integrity, to get the people who should not vote off of the voter rolls.

00:28:34.520 You see Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer came out. He said, you can't pass the Save America Act.

00:28:39.620 if you do that, if you do that, then you could purge tens of millions of voters from the voter

00:28:45.280 rolls and say, uh-huh, right, that's the point. Yeah, but what an odd thing to say, Chuck Schumer.

00:28:50.760 Why? You think that if we insist on voter integrity, we would lose tens of millions

00:28:54.640 of your voters? Wow, so weird. President Trump is really trying to pass the Save America Act

00:29:00.100 right now, so much so that there was a news conference and a bill signing to pass this

00:29:05.080 housing bill that was coming out of Congress. And Trump, as the legislators are assembled to

00:29:10.600 sign the bill, Trump says, I'm canceling it. He says, today's housing news conference and

00:29:15.940 signing is hereby canceled until such time as we pass the desperately needed Save America Act,

00:29:20.080 which I consider to be a national emergency. Thank you for your attention to this matter,

00:29:23.960 President DJT. And this exploded a controversy on Capitol Hill and at the White House because

00:29:29.540 they say this housing bill is really popular. The housing bill's fine. It would reduce some

00:29:34.340 regulations to building new housing. It got some bipartisan support. It would beef up some

00:29:38.800 subsidies for housing. In any case, it's a really important issue because young people in particular

00:29:42.900 are having a real hard time purchasing houses right now. And so it's in the interest of everybody

00:29:47.480 to increase the housing supply. Some people are afraid of their housing,

00:29:52.840 house values diminishing a little bit. But the political goods of this and the political urgency

00:29:56.940 of this is pretty clear. Democrats and Republicans agree. So why would Trump take this political win

00:30:02.380 away from Republicans? Well, the other side would say, because the Save America Act is an 80%

00:30:08.000 popular act. This is an 80-20, 90-10 issue. Everybody, including Democrats, supports voter

00:30:13.640 ID, and these freaking legislators on Capitol Hill won't pass it. So you got to pass it, 0.91

00:30:19.020 and then I'll sign your housing bill. But the Republicans in the Senate won't pass it.

00:30:22.900 And the reason they won't pass it is nothing to do with the Save America Act. It's because in

00:30:26.880 order to pass it, to get over the libs and some of the squishy Republicans, you would have to

00:30:31.780 blow up the filibuster. And the filibuster is this procedural rule that preserves some

00:30:36.440 minority rights when the one party is out of power. And the people who are urging for the

00:30:42.500 overturning of the filibuster are the ones who are saying the Democrats are going to get rid

00:30:46.780 of the filibuster the first chance they get. The minute they retake the Senate, they're going to

00:30:50.260 get rid of the filibuster. And so the question you have to ask yourself when it comes to this

00:30:54.660 procedural rule, because I like the filibuster. I like slowing things down. I don't like political

00:30:58.460 radicalism. Trust me, I'm in principle on the side of the filibuster. But I guess the question

00:31:03.460 you have to ask yourself is, in a Democrat party that is openly electing people who call to

00:31:08.080 eradicate America, who are promoting political violence, who are promoting terrorism, you really

00:31:12.780 think they're going to be precious about the filibuster? I don't buy it. I don't buy it. I

00:31:18.300 don't think the party of, forget AOC, DAC especially, I don't think that party is going

00:31:23.080 to preserve the filibuster. So the question is, are we going to wait for them to blow it up?

00:31:26.240 or are we going to deal with political realities ourselves? It's a tough issue. I don't deny it

00:31:32.240 because political wins can change. But the Save America Act is a major political win.

00:31:38.980 Now, the problem with the whole setup, by the way, is it's not an either or. We can get the

00:31:43.400 Save America Act or you're just going to pass the housing bill. The little secret here about

00:31:48.200 how bills are passed is the housing bill will pass into law. If a president doesn't sign a bill,

00:31:53.880 other than in very rare circumstances, 10 days later, the bill just passes into law without

00:32:00.860 the president's signature. So the little secret here, I hate to let the cat out of the bag is

00:32:05.280 the housing bill will just pass into law. President Trump's stunt yesterday is to apply

00:32:10.180 pressure and to call public attention to the fact that the Republicans won't get rid of the

00:32:14.160 filibuster to pass the Save America Act. That's what it's for. It's not coming at the cost of

00:32:18.340 the housing bill. The housing bill is going to pass. The issue is, will the people bring enough

00:32:23.240 pressure to bear on the Republicans to pass the Save America Act. Now, speaking of President

00:32:27.980 Trump and shows, Nate Bargatze, you know Nate Bargatze, the comedian? He is being excoriated

00:32:35.160 by Hollywood and throughout the liberal press because of an egregious crime that he committed.

00:32:40.360 Nate Bargatze attended the UFC fight at the White House. Can you imagine that?

00:32:44.840 a popular entertainer went to the coolest example of popular entertainment

00:32:52.080 in decades. And he did that at the White House, at the President of the United States' house.

00:33:01.620 Why is that a problem? Variety says Nate Bargatze is being slammed for, quote,

00:33:06.080 willingly associating with proud fascists after attending UFC Freedom 250 at Trump's White House.

00:33:12.800 Not the White House.

00:33:13.600 It's Trump's White House.

00:33:14.680 It's different from the White House.

00:33:16.280 I like variety here.

00:33:17.560 That's the first line.

00:33:18.880 And they post the quote without attribution in that first line.

00:33:23.340 He's being sent for willingly associating with proud fascists.

00:33:26.220 Is he really doing that?

00:33:27.900 Go back to the variety thing.

00:33:31.600 W. Kamau Bell, whoever that is, posted a takedown of Bargatze in which he warned,

00:33:36.440 don't be in a photo with fascists.

00:33:38.440 The easiest way to not be photographed with fascists is to not go to places where fascists

00:33:45.180 coagulate. Fascist, fascist, fascist. He goes on. He just keeps using the word fascism like two, 1.00

00:33:51.240 three, four, how many more times? It's kind of funny to compare this to the Hassan Piker issue.

00:33:57.580 Fascism is a real political ideology. It was developed by people like 0.96

00:34:01.500 Benito Mussolini, by philosophers like Giovanni Gentile. It is an ideology of the state.

00:34:07.840 in which the state is total.

00:34:09.840 The symbol of fascism is a collection of a bundle of sticks

00:34:12.160 like the Roman Fasci.

00:34:13.680 And the idea is that one stick you can break easily,

00:34:17.220 individualism you can break easily,

00:34:18.600 but when you put the bundle of sticks together,

00:34:20.520 it's much harder to break.

00:34:21.960 Which makes a fair point, actually.

00:34:23.760 It's a modernist ideology in as much as

00:34:27.400 it does initially endeavor to break society down

00:34:32.180 into individuals so they can gather them together

00:34:33.880 in this contrived collective.

00:34:36.080 I also agree that individualism is bad and weak and easily snapped, and it's one of the

00:34:40.660 underlying ideologicals in American politics. But the way to counter that is not with some

00:34:46.540 contrived ideology that is ultimately totalitarian or statist, but it's through organic and natural

00:34:53.900 institutions like the family, which are much harder to break. Nevertheless, we go on.

00:34:58.380 Fascism is a real ideology. It's distinct from Nazism. It's distinct from communism.

00:35:02.700 There are some similarities between this, but it's a distinct ideology.

00:35:06.160 And crucially, not one person in the Trump administration is a fascist.

00:35:11.860 Fascism, to quote George Orwell, is now just a term that denotes someone that you don't like.

00:35:21.000 It's very, very funny that at the same time that the Democrats are calling this totally mainstream centrist comedian, Nate Bargadze, a fascist,

00:35:29.560 you have people like Hassan Piker saying, stop calling me a terrorist.

00:35:32.700 But when we call Hassan Piker a terrorist, we're using the word really precisely. 1.00

00:35:36.820 It applies perfectly to him. 0.67

00:35:39.300 He is calling for political violence against civilians in order to achieve political ends.

00:35:42.500 That is terrorism.

00:35:43.940 Nothing the Trump administration is doing is fascism.

00:35:46.020 But they think if they can tie this word around Bargatze's neck, it'll be enough to destroy his career.

00:35:50.900 Daily Beast going after him in addition to Variety.

00:35:53.060 Everybody's going after him.

00:35:55.520 Do they think this is 2018 again?

00:35:58.580 This worked.

00:35:59.440 In 2018, this guy would have caved in two seconds.

00:36:02.700 2018 2019 this would have been over his career would be done he'd probably be censored from

00:36:08.640 social media but it's not 2018 2019 anymore trump is the mainstream of american politics he won

00:36:16.620 re-election he won election at least two times and the last time he won with the popular vote

00:36:21.320 so he's the mainstream that's why i think bargazzi is really resisting the pressure

00:36:26.960 However, there is an underlying threat here.

00:36:29.000 We shouldn't be too a Pollyanna about this.

00:36:33.560 The left is building, and they're becoming more radical, and they're becoming more irritated every single day.

00:36:40.580 So they are now openly calling for political violence.

00:36:43.440 They are now openly calling to destroy America.

00:36:45.880 They're not even pretending anymore.

00:36:47.460 When Obama said he wanted to fundamentally transform America, he was at least pretending to like America.

00:36:52.260 If you listen to that phrase, you realize he hates America because you don't fundamentally

00:36:55.260 transform things that you like. But at least he would say, I'd wear that flag pin, put on that

00:37:00.780 American flag pin. There's no red America. There's no blue America. There's a United States of

00:37:05.020 America. But even though he hated America, now they just say, we hate America and we want to

00:37:10.100 destroy it. If these guys get power, they are going to be more radical than ever. And they're

00:37:17.100 They're going to upend the Supreme Court.

00:37:20.200 They're going to almost certainly destroy the filibuster.

00:37:22.440 They're going to ram through a lot of crazy legislation.

00:37:24.640 They're going to fling open the borders.

00:37:25.740 They're going to let the prisoners out of jail.

00:37:28.040 They're calling to abolish prisons.

00:37:30.400 Cancelling Nate Bargatze is going to be the least of it,

00:37:32.760 but they're going to do that too.

00:37:33.800 Okay, speaking of sociopathic Dems,

00:37:35.980 Dean Withers, a left-wing darling

00:37:38.020 who goes on Jubilee and other kind of live stream shows.

00:37:40.940 Dean Withers, who appears to be

00:37:42.840 the more clubbable younger version of Hassan Piker,

00:37:45.440 he has just made a really honest argument about abortion.

00:37:48.440 And I think you're going to start seeing this crop up a little more on the left,

00:37:52.960 a more muscular left wing, at least on the surface, kind of dark woke.

00:37:57.520 You know, the woke that isn't so hopey-changey, that isn't so aspirational.

00:38:02.540 It's a woke that's going to be a little more overtly sociopathic.

00:38:06.220 You see this in some of the streamers like Hassan Piker or Kyle Kalinske.

00:38:09.800 You see this in some of the politicians like Governor Patrick Bateman in California,

00:38:14.240 you, Gavin Newsom, and you're seeing this in this guy. But I think I have the answer as to

00:38:19.280 how to respond to this dark woke, especially on this issue of abortion. We'll get to that

00:38:23.000 momentarily. First, you need to smash the like button and subscribe. Also, check us out on

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00:38:37.620 again, and it is from Arun Rami, who says, Michael, I'll give you 500 bucks if you choose this

00:38:43.300 comment. Do I need to send over my Venmo name? Do I need to send over my cash? I don't think I

00:38:53.340 have a cash app. Whatever it is. Thank you, Arun. I look forward to my 500 bucks. That sounds great.

00:39:00.680 Maybe I can buy some more Mayflower cigars with the 500 bucks. Dean Withers goes on the Jubilee

00:39:06.920 show. He is now going viral for this argument. It's a big shift for the way Democrats used to

00:39:12.260 talk about abortion is, abortion's tragic, but it's necessary to preserve in the law. You know,

00:39:16.520 it needs to be safe, legal, and rare, Hillary Clinton said. Dean Withers says, no, no, abortion 0.92

00:39:21.280 is murdering a baby, and that's fine. Because I think it's a permissible action, 0.95

00:39:28.280 I therefore don't see any good reason to infringe on a woman's bodily autonomy

00:39:31.200 in the illegal prevention of her access to abortion. Therefore, it's a human rights violation.

00:39:36.020 So you don't understand that it's like killing, you don't think it's killing a human being?

00:39:39.420 No, I do.

00:39:39.960 And you're okay with that?

00:39:40.780 Yes.

00:39:41.000 okay you don't think that we should focus more on preventable measures okay boom wow i'm not

00:39:49.380 your grandma's liberal i'm a real tough i'm a tough cool liberal says this guy uh so he says

00:39:56.660 i do think that abortion is killing a baby but i don't think there's anything morally wrong with

00:40:05.060 that now of course killing a baby is not just like any other kind of killing it's not like

00:40:08.320 killing in times of war. It's not like the state executing a convicted criminal. A baby is, by

00:40:13.660 definition, an innocent person. So he's saying, no, a lot of the pro-abortion people will say,

00:40:18.740 the baby's not a person. The baby's not a human being. The baby's not alive. He's not doing that.

00:40:22.720 He's saying, the baby is alive. The baby is a person. Abortion is killing a person, namely the

00:40:27.640 baby. And it's killing an innocent person, which means abortion is murder. But I don't think that 0.58

00:40:32.220 murder is intrinsically wrong. So I will just defend it. And there are plenty of

00:40:41.220 intelligent, at least apparently educated people who advance this line of argument.

00:40:48.280 I mean, at Princeton, Peter Singer is probably the most prominent proponent of this, who says,

00:40:52.700 yeah, we need to defend abortion because of utilitarian calculations, the greatest good

00:40:59.660 for the greatest number of people.

00:41:00.860 He would go so far as to say 1.00

00:41:02.120 it would be okay to kill babies, 1.00

00:41:03.380 perhaps even after birth. 1.00

00:41:04.780 This is part of his argument

00:41:05.980 on defending euthanasia

00:41:07.580 or all the rest of it.

00:41:08.720 It's a different kind of moral reasoning

00:41:11.220 and it's an immoral reasoning,

00:41:12.580 but there you have it.

00:41:14.320 So I guess the way that I would answer

00:41:16.160 the dark woke people who say,

00:41:18.680 oh, I'm not your grandma's liberal. 0.64

00:41:19.980 Yeah, I think abortion is murdering a baby 0.97

00:41:21.960 and I think that's totally fine. 1.00

00:41:24.080 Boom, got to do it to solve social problems.

00:41:26.760 That's fine.

00:41:27.420 I would say, okay, all right,

00:41:28.460 let's go along with your way of thinking then. Would you apply that same logic to retards? 1.00

00:41:36.080 Like out of the womb. And you know, the first thing they're going to say is, 1.00

00:41:39.560 you can't use the word retard. I say, hold on. I say the word retard. You want to kill retards. 0.99

00:41:49.040 Which of us is being immoral here? Actually, the word retard is really helpful in this because for 1.00

00:41:55.660 the left, saying the right thing is much, much more important than doing the right thing. 1.00

00:42:01.340 The appearance of the thing is much more important than the essence of the thing,

00:42:04.220 the essences which they usually deny. They say, what about retards? The ones out of the womb, 0.99

00:42:10.800 they obviously support killing mentally deficient people inside the womb. Even if there's a risk of 1.00

00:42:16.120 mental deficiency, they say, oh, kill them all. Let's eradicate transgender, or sorry, that's 1.00

00:42:19.980 what I say. Let's eradicate Down syndrome. They'll celebrate this in press releases in places like 1.00

00:42:24.620 Iceland. You say, no, no, no. What about like a 35-year-old guy who has Down syndrome, let's say,

00:42:31.000 and he's really happy, and you know he's got a job, but you consider, you, Dean Withers,

00:42:36.760 consider him to be a burden to society. The left broadly hates Down syndrome people and wants to

00:42:41.580 kill them all. So, okay, would it be fine? You say killing an innocent person is morally justified. 1.00

00:42:48.840 There's nothing intrinsically wrong with it. Would you be okay with just killing all the 0.99

00:42:52.520 retarded 35-year-olds? I don't know that he would say yes, but maybe if he's being really edgy, 1.00

00:42:58.460 he wants to be a real edgy boy, he would say yes. So then take it further, say, okay,

00:43:02.040 what about young black men? Young black men commit much more violent crime than any other 1.00

00:43:07.660 group in the country. So should we just go around and kill all the young? Would there be, sorry, 1.00

00:43:12.360 would there be anything intrinsically wrong about going up to just your average young black man on 0.98

00:43:18.980 the street and murdering him, shooting him in cold blood on the street, he would of course say, 0.97

00:43:26.220 yes, I'm not a racist. How dare you? Are you a racist? Why is that wrong? You just said there's 0.99

00:43:32.600 nothing intrinsically wrong with killing an innocent person. You've said that for social

00:43:40.100 goods, we can have a utilitarian calculation that it's okay to kill some class of people. 1.00

00:43:44.320 and I'm just showing you that young black men are statistically much more likely to commit 0.98

00:43:50.060 violent crime than any other group. So by your logic, there's absolutely nothing wrong with just 1.00

00:43:55.840 picking a young black man at random off the street and executing him in cold blood and not 0.58

00:44:00.640 even having the state do it, having a private person do it because that's how abortion is

00:44:03.240 carried out. Is there anything wrong with that? And I think what you would find is that all their

00:44:08.180 edginess, all of their avant-garde moral illogic is going to fall away. Because it's really safe

00:44:15.540 to seem like a sociopath when you're talking about little babies in the womb. That's safe

00:44:20.040 in our society. But if you touch on other issues, forget about ableism, which is a moderately

00:44:28.200 considered issue, but especially racism. You're going to see that all fall away. And all of a

00:44:32.240 sudden, you're going to see appeals to reason again. And you're going to find out that these

00:44:34.860 arguments are totally incoherent. There's so much more to get to. James Tallarico is a Christian

00:44:43.920 who hates Christianity. Did you know that? Do we have time to get to it? You know what? It's 0.93

00:44:49.320 Theology Thursday. I want to get to it. James Tallarico, there's a new clip every day,

00:44:54.160 a Democrat Senate candidate from Texas. Tallarico says God is non-binary.

00:45:01.220 Tallarico says, women are our neighbors with uteruses. 0.98

00:45:05.100 Here, Tallarico says he is a Christian, but he hates Christianity. 0.87

00:45:10.200 Yeah, and that's, you know, I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity.

00:45:15.860 Yep. 0.80

00:45:16.120 Right?

00:45:16.460 And like, I always get drawn back into it.

00:45:20.920 Ha ha ha ha.

00:45:22.200 You know what I always say? 0.99

00:45:23.220 I'm a Christian who hates Christianity. 0.98

00:45:24.680 Ha ha ha ha ha. 0.97

00:45:26.320 Okay.

00:45:27.500 You hear this from liberals.

00:45:29.420 even people who are sincere about being religious, from people who have liberalism

00:45:35.360 in their religion, not just Christianity, Judaism, I don't know if there's much liberal Islam,

00:45:40.500 but liberal religion throughout, especially Christianity. They'll say, well, I hate the

00:45:45.240 religion, but I keep being drawn in. And I would say, why? Why do you hate Christianity?

00:45:55.720 What does that mean?

00:45:56.940 You know, I'm very spiritual, but I hate organized religion.

00:46:00.460 Why?

00:46:01.700 What do you hate about it?

00:46:04.180 I guess the easiest answer would be, well, because people who participate in religion

00:46:09.180 are imperfect.

00:46:10.380 They're sinners, and they do bad things, and certainly things I don't like.

00:46:16.400 So you say, okay, well, but that's true in spirituality, too.

00:46:18.960 That's not just true of organized religion.

00:46:20.500 That's true of all of human society, and that's true of yourself.

00:46:22.700 so that can't be the distinctive factor why i'd love tell rico to answer this this isn't even one

00:46:30.340 of these like gotcha boom dunks although it's very easy to do on tell rico this is a real

00:46:34.340 sincere question why would you say you hate christianity because to me christianity is

00:46:40.060 the consolation not just to me it's objectively true it is the consolation in the world we look

00:46:45.760 around the world and we see that it's fallen and broken we look at all of the goods in our lives

00:46:50.880 the goods that we do have, and we look forward five seconds from now and we realize, shoot,

00:46:54.840 we're going to have to give them all up and we're going to die. And our loved ones are going to die

00:46:58.520 and people are going to suffer and I'm going to suffer and my loved ones are going to suffer.

00:47:02.740 And man, this world, and the bad people are going to prosper and good people are going to

00:47:07.400 suffer hardship. And it's just, man, this world is tough, isn't it? And then Christianity says,

00:47:15.220 yes, it is tough. And you will have trouble in this world, but have no fear. I have

00:47:20.820 overcome the world. And the proof of this is that God doesn't just give us a nice flowery poetic

00:47:27.160 revelation. He literally enters into history and proves it by dying on the cross, by performing

00:47:33.660 miracles, by dying on the cross, and by rising again on the third day and ascending into heaven

00:47:37.860 and leaving behind a visible church and miracles throughout history. A visible sign that God

00:47:44.800 actually has overcome the world. That is the only consolation in a fallen world. Plenty of

00:47:52.820 other religions promise a bunch of stuff, but they don't prove it. Here, we have an actual 1.00

00:47:57.700 historical proof of God's consolation. And so I don't mean to clobber Tallarico or make a meal

00:48:04.700 out of a cupcake here, but this stupid little line that you hear, you hear it from religious 1.00

00:48:08.560 people. Oh, you know, I love God, but I hate Christianity. You hate that God left you a 1.00

00:48:14.640 visible church? He says, I'm leaving you a church. Hey, you are Peter and on this rock,

00:48:20.120 I'll build my church. And he leaves us sacraments so that we in this physical temporal realm can

00:48:25.700 interact with the metaphysical and the infinite in sacraments. He gives us absolution. He says to

00:48:33.540 his priests, he says to his apostles, he says, I give you the power to forgive sins. Who sins you

00:48:37.080 forgive are forgiven, who sins you retain are retained. That's a pretty nice aspect of

00:48:40.840 Christianity, that when I sin, I can be forgiven for that. And I can know with certainty that I've

00:48:45.780 been forgiven. This is good stuff. Christianity says, I'm leaving you my flesh and my blood,

00:48:54.020 and you can eat my flesh and drink my blood. You actually have to, and you will have life in you.

00:48:59.440 What does he hate about it? I'll tell you what he hates about it.

00:49:01.900 what Tallarico hates about Christianity is it tells him to do stuff.

00:49:07.640 And he doesn't, he wants to do what he wants to do. He doesn't want to do what God wants to do.

00:49:13.280 In as much as you say, I hate Christianity. I like God, but I hate Christianity. 0.98

00:49:17.680 What you were saying is, I like God in as much as I want there to be hope. I want there to be

00:49:22.760 consolation. I want there to be redemption on my terms, not on God's terms, on my terms.

00:49:28.760 And whenever there is a conflict between the self and God,

00:49:31.780 guess who you're going to pick?

00:49:33.660 That's it. 1.00

00:49:35.200 This is not just some throwaway stupid line. 1.00

00:49:37.660 This is at the heart of what is wrong with liberal religion. 0.99

00:49:40.700 And it is why James Tallarico, when he speaks,

00:49:44.340 quotes the Bible real well, just like Satan in the desert.

00:49:48.440 When James Tallarico speaks,

00:49:51.600 he sounds a lot more like the Antichrist than he sounds like Christ.

00:49:55.600 This is it.

00:49:56.140 Don't let people get away with this. 0.98

00:49:57.820 oh, I, you know, I really hate Christianity 0.96

00:50:01.020 and I hate Christians, but I love God, do you? 0.97

00:50:04.040 Because Christians are the mystical body of Christ 0.70

00:50:06.160 and the church was left here by our Lord

00:50:07.960 and he says he'll never abandon the church.

00:50:10.440 Don't like that.

00:50:11.060 Not letting him get away with that on Theology Thursday.

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00:50:27.820 We have a terror warning in Northern Virginia. 0.98

00:50:33.000 Radical Islam has designs openly on the West. 0.91

00:50:35.280 The FBI thwarted a terror plot on New Year's Eve. 1.00

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00:50:41.220 Protests on college campuses showing no signs of stopping.

00:50:57.820 The Lord, make them love, make them love.

00:51:27.820 I don't know.

The Michael Knowles Show - June 25, 2026

Ep. 2002 - We Must Deport Our Way Out Of This, Dem's RADICAL Election Results

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