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00:01:03.100 start a plan. GoodRanchers.com, American meat delivered. The left, along with squishy Republicans,

00:01:09.380 is going apoplectic over the Supreme Court's ruling that President Trump has the right to

00:01:15.660 remove temporary protected status from Haitian visitors 16 years after they received their

00:01:23.380 18-month guest passes. They got a pass to stay in America for 18 months in 2010.

00:01:30.520 And now the left is going apoplectic because the court says that Trump can finally remove them.

00:01:34.980 Those Haitians are now parents to more than a quarter million birthright American citizens,

00:01:40.640 the left argues. They constitute 20% or more of the population of towns like Springfield, Ohio.

00:01:47.500 No, 30% of them have mortgages. 1.00

00:01:52.220 I, for one, am not sure that those are the most persuasive arguments against removing the Haitians. 1.00

00:01:58.260 In fact, I think those are all arguments for the Haitians' speedy removal. 1.00

00:02:03.140 We will get to all the ways that both parties have prioritized foreigners over their own constituents and fellow citizens. 1.00

00:02:09.160 Then, Texas brings the Bible back to school, King Charles goes Muslim, and I go to see Toy Story with my kids.

00:02:16.280 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. 0.86

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00:02:44.540 without using your data. Do not miss an episode. We will finally get to today. I should have gotten

00:02:49.160 to it on Thursday or Friday. We will get to the wackiest headline ever. I'll just give you a

00:02:54.500 little tease of it. The headline is, female cop shoots rabbi outside Pornhub office in Canada

00:02:59.880 while hiding from Marxist gunmen who killed immigrant officer named Muhammad. They're calling 0.84

00:03:06.680 it the wackiest headline ever. It's kind of a sad thing that it's describing. What I love about the

00:03:12.200 headline is it's a political Rorschach test. So we'll get to that momentarily first, though.

00:03:17.300 Whatever your problems with Trump, if you're a conservative, whatever your problems with Trump,

00:03:22.600 he didn't deport as many people as I wanted. He's not, I don't love this foreign policy. I don't,

00:03:26.920 you know, whatever, whatever your problems with Trump. You need to remember, and if you're too

00:03:31.700 young to remember, you need to learn about how horrific the Republican Party had gotten

00:03:37.140 in the days before Donald Trump. Things had gotten so bad that this man that I'm about to show you

00:03:45.340 was considered a leading conservative candidate for president. This man, John Kasich,

00:03:51.000 former governor of Ohio, who is reacting to the Supreme Court saying, hey, you know what?

00:03:57.120 After 16 years, after a lengthy, lengthy legal battle, yes, in fact, the president of the United

00:04:02.700 States has the right to remove temporary protected status from a group of people who was supposed to

00:04:08.980 be booted out of this country over 14 years ago. Yeah, the president can do that. Just like the

00:04:13.940 president can apply temporary protected status, the president can remove temporary protected

00:04:17.660 status. It was supposed to go away after 18 months. It actually went away after 16 years.

00:04:23.300 But yeah, the president, I guess, has that right. And a Republican,

00:04:28.100 Supposedly, a Republican, John Kasich, had this to say.

00:04:31.700 The Supreme Court decision has said that Haitians are going to have to be removed from Springfield, Ohio.

00:04:38.960 I guess I understand that.

00:04:40.940 But there is an opportunity for the Congress to extend temporary protection status

00:04:45.920 because things in Haiti are just deteriorating and sending people back there with their families, to me, is just crazy.

00:04:52.840 I wish the Congress would extend this for the Haitians. 0.85

00:04:56.340 But if not, they'll say that that's the law. 0.98

00:04:59.700 And to quote somebody, a figure from a Charles Dickens novel, 0.98

00:05:04.680 if that's the law, then the law is an ass. 0.99

00:05:08.700 If that's the law, then the law is an ass. 1.00

00:05:11.820 The law, which did not require us to take any Haitians, by the way, 1.00

00:05:16.760 the law says, okay, you can come here.

00:05:19.980 There was an earthquake.

00:05:20.800 You can come here temporarily.

00:05:22.340 But in 18 months, you got to go home.

00:05:24.200 And then we allowed them to stay for 16 years.

00:05:31.200 And now we're saying, okay, it's time to go home.

00:05:34.260 What do they say about house guests and fish?

00:05:37.140 They both start to stink after three days.

00:05:38.980 Well, it's been 16 years.

00:05:40.280 So it's time to go home now. 1.00

00:05:41.960 He says, you're an ass if you think that. 1.00

00:05:44.820 If you support the law, the law is an ass and you're an ass too. 1.00

00:05:48.320 if you think that the wonderful Haitians who contribute so much to America, you how dare, 1.00

00:05:55.840 this is a supposedly a conservative Republican. And he says, you can't set, and why can't we send

00:06:00.740 the Haitians back? Well, because Haiti is still a bad place. Don't forget, we didn't take the 1.00

00:06:07.220 Haitians in just because Haiti is a bad place. Though when Trump pointed out that Haiti is a

00:06:12.380 bad place, all of the libs and the squishy Republicans responded and said, no, Haiti is

00:06:16.320 a great place. Haiti's already great. How dare you call it an SHIT whole country?

00:06:21.060 But we didn't just take, everyone knows Haiti's a horrible place. We didn't take the Haitians just 1.00

00:06:25.640 because Haiti's a horrible place. We took them because there was a major natural disaster. 1.00

00:06:29.480 And because of that discrete event, we said, okay, some of the Haitians can come hang out 1.00

00:06:32.760 here for a little bit, but they got to go home. That was 16 years ago, as I may have mentioned. 0.86

00:06:37.860 Is the argument now that you're getting from the left and from Republicans and Republican governors 0.99

00:06:43.620 and Republican presidential candidates, that we need to keep the Haitians here until Haiti 0.56

00:06:47.760 becomes a nice place to live? Well, I guess they just live here then. I guess they're just going 1.00

00:06:52.020 to be here permanently. Is that the argument for every other country? I mean, Haiti is a

00:06:56.440 particularly cursed voodoo hellhole that has been a horrific place for hundreds of years at this 1.00

00:07:01.960 point since they launched an actual voodoo revolution, the Haitian revolution, which began 1.00

00:07:07.080 by sacrificing a pig. Yeah, that place has been particularly awful. But a lot of other countries 1.00

00:07:13.180 on earth are terrible too. So is the argument, not just from the left, but from John Kasich

00:07:16.660 Republicans, is the argument that we need to take all of them in forever until their terrible

00:07:21.000 countries get better? Okay, well then prepare to take on 6 billion people at least. Crazy.

00:07:29.400 That argument's totally crazy. I think a lot of people believe it, but a lot of them aren't

00:07:33.520 willing to say it. The arguments that a lot of people on the left are making is that we can't

00:07:39.340 send them home because they make up so much of the population. This guy, Jack Unheard, I don't

00:07:45.080 know, some pundit, says, major breaking, the Supreme Court ruling could put nearly 20% of

00:07:50.060 Springfield, Ohio's population at risk of deportation. Now, I see that fact, and I don't

00:07:57.040 conclude that we need to keep them there. Therefore, I see that fact, and I say, but they're 20% now?

00:08:01.200 Hold on. They're 20% of Springfield, Ohio? Man, we got to get them out of there tomorrow.

00:08:05.540 next one from a guy named kurt anderson says what a hellishly cruel and stupid mess scotus has 0.99

00:08:11.940 enabled most of the 1.3 legally resident people they're letting trump deport have lived here for 0.98

00:08:17.160 15 plus years okay first of all temporary protected status doesn't make you a legal resident exactly

00:08:21.880 certainly doesn't mean that you're a citizen or on the pathway to citizenship it means you're a guest

00:08:26.800 it's like a long weekend that we're allowing you to spend in america and he points out most of them

00:08:31.180 have lived here over 15 years. The average age is 42. They're parents to 273,000 US citizen kids

00:08:37.160 because we have a loophole from the 14th Amendment that says that you can have anchor babies in this

00:08:42.320 country. So these people that were only supposed to be here for 18 months, you say, oh, well,

00:08:46.680 what's the harm in letting them stay a little longer? Well, the harm is you've now created

00:08:49.660 over a quarter million new Americans who are not exactly likely to be Republican conservative

00:08:54.360 voters, but even beyond that, who don't really assimilate, some of whom might eat cats and dogs,

00:08:59.160 reports vary, but who are radically changing the demographics of the country contrary to the law

00:09:05.840 and contrary to the desires of the American people. The American people who I think still

00:09:09.140 have some right in a self-government, in a supposedly sacred democracy, to determine

00:09:13.480 who participates in the political system. Then here's the kicker. 30% of the Haitians have

00:09:19.400 mortgages. What percentage of American young adults in their 20s have a home, have a mortgage?

00:09:27.520 What percentage do you think? 27%. This to me is one of the most damning facts of our political

00:09:36.520 system. It is easier for a Haitian visitor to get a home in America than it is for a Zoomer adult. 1.00

00:09:47.520 Haitian visitors who are overstaying their welcome by over 14 years are more likely to be 1.00

00:09:53.980 able to get a mortgage in a home than a young American citizen in his 20s. That is a damning, 0.99

00:10:01.260 damning fact. And by top line economic numbers, things are going pretty well. GDP, stock market

00:10:09.700 obviously took a little hiccup with the straight-up Hormuz closure. But generally speaking,

00:10:13.000 if you look at just the numbers, the economy is looking pretty good. And yet, you talk to

00:10:16.100 ordinary Americans, and they feel like they're having trouble. And you see this maybe nowhere

00:10:22.800 more clearly, other than maybe healthcare, you see this really clearly in home ownership.

00:10:27.020 So what are we doing? We're importing the world, places from the worst, people from the worst 1.00

00:10:32.340 places on earth to come here, to have over a quarter million kids and to get homes at the 1.00

00:10:37.880 expense of Americans. Americans who can't afford homes in part because we've taken so many people 0.93

00:10:43.320 in. And the John Kasichs of the world say, we have to let them stay. Not for one second, man.

00:10:51.440 not for one. We need to speed up the deportations. Now, speaking of kicking people out,

00:10:57.740 do you know Senator Scott Wiener, you know, nomen est umen, nominative determinism?

00:11:03.580 He's this crazy Democrat in California who's running for Nancy Pelosi's seat. I've spoken

00:11:07.680 about him on the show a number of times. He is best known for successfully reducing punishments

00:11:14.200 for grown men who rape underage boys. That's been his political crusade. That's what he's

00:11:19.920 staked his political career on, and he succeeded at that. That guy, Scott Wiener, is now not

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00:12:45.600 weiner leading candidate for nancy pelosi's seat shows up to the san francisco trans march

00:12:50.460 he's kicked out here's why scott i think your legislation on trans on trans issues and your

00:13:00.520 legislation specifically protecting queers on um the sex offender registry is fantastic 0.96

00:13:09.000 like I really applaud you for that and I think you deserve to be here for that 1.00

00:13:14.160 but I think your housing policy and specifically your housing policy 0.61

00:13:21.680 aligning with Yimbe's and I think your policy on the genocide in Gaza

00:13:30.100 and I think your policy on the genocide in Gaza is terrible

00:13:34.680 I think you do not belong here.

00:13:37.220 I think you do not belong here.

00:13:39.820 You do not belong here, Scott, anymore.

00:13:43.760 You've been wonderful.

00:13:45.640 You've been wonderful.

00:13:46.440 For those just listening, you've got these wacky looking people coming up, flipping him off in his face, screaming in his face.

00:13:52.940 He's an uncommonly tall guy. 1.00

00:13:55.800 And you have this kind of array of lavender pygmies just screaming and shouting. 1.00

00:14:02.740 Black masks. 1.00

00:14:04.680 I could watch this all day.

00:14:07.100 Can someone bring me, it's pretty early.

00:14:09.340 We're doing the show a little early today.

00:14:10.760 Can someone bring me my plate of eggs benedict?

00:14:14.100 Maybe a nice T-Corona cigar.

00:14:16.880 I want to savor this.

00:14:18.000 This is a feast for the eyes and the ears.

00:14:20.220 How could you do this?

00:14:21.880 Okay, I'll save the rest for later.

00:14:23.460 I'm becoming too excited watching this video.

00:14:27.420 You even hear it referenced in the diatribe.

00:14:30.880 what scott weiner is infamous for his chief political crusade is reducing punishments

00:14:38.520 for grown men who rape underage boys he went to the mat as it were on that issue and he won

00:14:46.100 and the guy protesting him acknowledges that and says we thank you for that i'm so glad

00:14:51.180 i appreciate you i think you deserve to be at the trans march because you reduce the punishments 0.81

00:14:55.840 for grown men who rape little boys. I appreciate you for that, Senator Wiener.

00:15:00.920 But you don't go far enough. You're not radical enough. And it's not even just one issue or

00:15:05.860 another. This is you, your housing policy, you're not enough of a communist. You're kind of a

00:15:11.960 communist, but you're not enough of a communist. And you are a Jew. I guess he's a Jew. I think 1.00

00:15:18.540 he's a Jew. Well, maybe we'll do a fact check on that. But basically, you're a Jew. You don't hate 1.00

00:15:23.360 israel enough and you don't love palestine enough and you don't want a palestinian state

00:15:28.460 and i guess maybe i don't mean might even i don't even know i don't think he's like uh

00:15:32.720 i don't think he's a member of the lakud party i don't think he's voting for bb

00:15:36.280 but he says you're not radical enough on gaza and palestine your policy state senator from

00:15:42.740 california your policy on gaza is not radical enough now again i don't have a graduate degree

00:15:51.420 in public policy. But I don't think California state senators have all that much to do with

00:15:59.620 U.S. foreign policy as it pertains to the Middle East. I don't think that, but whatever his record

00:16:06.260 is, it's not enough. He's not radical enough for the trans march. This is, you love to see it

00:16:15.880 Because this is a bad dude. This guy, man, Corn Pop was a bad dude. So was Scott Wiener. He's a

00:16:22.160 bad dude. He does bad stuff. He's horrible for America. He's a sick pervert. And he should 0.95

00:16:28.160 certainly not be in public life. He should be in serious counseling, spiritual and psychological.

00:16:32.800 And he definitely shouldn't be in US Congress. And the only thing better than the right taking

00:16:38.380 him down, is the left taking him down. One of the main faces of LGBT activism kicked out of 0.50

00:16:47.400 the LGBT parade for not being radical enough. You love it. And the other thing that this does 1.00

00:16:54.120 is this affirms my, when it comes to Gaza and Israel and all the rest of it, it does affirm

00:16:59.920 my prejudicial position, which is that I am broadly pro-Israel. I can't really get into

00:17:04.840 the whole free Palestine statehood, march with the Kefya stuff. I can't get into it. I think we 1.00

00:17:09.960 need to respect the rights of Palestinian Arabs. I grant that it's a complex situation. But to the

00:17:17.560 point earlier on, look, I'm not an expert. I don't have a PhD in this subject. So what do we have to

00:17:21.520 go on? Edmund Burke tells us, Russell Kirk tells us, we have to go on prejudice. We don't have time

00:17:27.000 to become the world's leading expert on every single subject. We got to use rules of thumb.

00:17:32.200 We've got to use little shortcuts sometimes. And when it comes to the issue of Israel-Palestine,

00:17:38.520 the fact that the people who are the most fanatically anti-Israel and pro-Palestine 0.68

00:17:44.480 are those guys, the ones who are so LGBT that the pederasty state senator isn't radical enough. 0.73

00:17:52.040 The fact that those guys are the most insanely pro-Palestine, just not knowing anything else 0.53

00:17:58.540 about the issue just makes me more inclined to be pro-israel it just i know that's not fashionable

00:18:04.100 on the internet these days but tell me how am i supposed to be on the same side as those people

00:18:08.580 oh my i can't sorry not gonna happen couldn't be me sorry when scott wiener is the moderate

00:18:16.040 couldn't be me now speaking of religion and morality great great news coming out of texas

00:18:24.180 Texas is going to bring the Bible back to schools.

00:18:27.720 The Texas State Board of Education just approved a proposal

00:18:29.940 that will establish required reading lists,

00:18:33.340 including Bible verses alongside other classic titles.

00:18:36.640 So it's not saying you have to read the Bible cover to cover.

00:18:38.260 It's not saying there's going to be catechism class in school.

00:18:40.000 It just says you have to read at least like a few verses from the Bible

00:18:45.980 at some point in your K-12 education.

00:18:48.700 and this is enough to make people go crazy to go apoplectic the most important book whether you

00:18:57.660 believe in god or not whether you practice religion or not the most important book i think

00:19:01.800 we would all have to acknowledge ever written the book without knowledge of which you cannot

00:19:05.980 really know anything about english literature you cannot really know anything about western

00:19:10.300 history or culture that book texas is saying you have to have read like any of it at all ever

00:19:16.440 And that is too much for the left. And so there's this blue sky lib, John Collins,

00:19:23.920 who has gone viral for his reaction to this. He said, my son's school is not your church.

00:19:30.880 And he is totally exemplifying the reaction of the left. My kid's school is not your church.

00:19:37.940 You want them to read the Bible? Keep that in church. My kid's school is not your church, 0.99

00:19:42.180 which I guess is true, but it's only true because our kids' school today is their church.

00:19:50.900 It's not that the school is not a church. Notice the phrasing here from John Collins is really

00:19:56.900 curious. He doesn't say, my son's school is not a church. He says, my son's school is not your

00:20:03.800 church. That's maybe a little unwitting honesty here from Mr. Blue Sky, because the schools are

00:20:11.540 a kind of a church. The schools have a liturgical calendar. They celebrate Earth Day and the feast

00:20:17.560 of St. George Floyd and all the rest of it. They have liturgical banners. They don't have the kind

00:20:22.440 of banners you would find in a church or parish around the country. They have the lavender flag

00:20:27.560 and they have the BLM flag and they have rituals. Maybe they don't have a moment of silence for

00:20:34.140 prayer in the morning, but they definitely have a moment of silence for BLM. They might not be

00:20:40.520 reciting the creed, but they'll definitely post the black square on Instagram. 0.98

00:20:45.080 They might not teach you Humanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI, but they sure will teach you 0.91

00:20:51.400 the sexual revolution in health class. They'll teach you how to put a condom on.

00:20:55.800 They'll teach you about the supposed pandemic of heterosexual AIDS. 0.57

00:20:59.680 They'll teach you a lot. They will catechize you into a sexual morality. It's just not the 0.70

00:21:04.420 Christian one. It's just not your church is the issue. And I don't want my kids going to a school 0.96

00:21:14.400 that's their church. But the school is going to be some kind of church. I mean, the schools,

00:21:19.260 don't forget, schooling itself, as we know it in the West, comes from the church. The schools

00:21:24.360 established the university system, and all the biggest colleges in the country, all the most

00:21:28.000 prestigious and prominent colleges in the country began as seminaries. Because you have to teach

00:21:32.420 something. There's that stupid line that we say ever since the 60s, which is, we don't want to 0.99

00:21:37.280 teach students what to think, only how to think. But that's impossible. You can't actually teach 1.00

00:21:41.380 someone how to think unless you first teach them what to think. You can't teach them how to think

00:21:45.460 about algebra if you don't teach them that 2 plus 2 equals 4. You can't teach them how to think

00:21:50.060 about history if you don't teach them that the Battle of Lepanto occurred in 1571. So, you have

00:21:55.480 to teach them things. You have to teach them substantive goods. And I want our schools,

00:22:01.600 I don't want them to actually to be madrasas, certainly.

00:22:04.380 And I don't want them to be seminaries.

00:22:06.020 And I don't want them to be the exact same thing as catechetical schools or CCD or Sunday school.

00:22:12.000 But guys, come on.

00:22:13.820 If we're going to teach the truth, if we're going to teach, we're going to teach to expose students to the truth.

00:22:19.360 And if we're going to teach them to the truth, we're going to have to come to certain conclusions about the truth.

00:22:23.060 And if we can't come to the conclusion, one, that God exists, then there's really no purpose to school.

00:22:28.580 If we can't come to the conclusion that the God that exists looks pretty similar to the Christian God, actually identical, but let's be a little looser just for the sake of our liberal times.

00:22:41.060 Okay, fine.

00:22:41.760 But even if you don't want to go to those conclusions, which I think you must, at the very least, if you can't conclude that the Bible is an important book, the Bible is an important book.

00:22:55.980 You should have read some of the Bible at some point.

00:22:59.460 If you can't come to that conclusion, then we don't agree about anything,

00:23:02.240 and we should just send our kids to different schools.

00:23:05.060 Because if you can't agree with that, you and I don't agree on a single thing about education.

00:23:10.780 That's the conclusion here.

00:23:11.840 Great stuff out of Texas.

00:23:14.980 Hopefully a harbinger of things to come from the rest of the country.

00:23:18.200 Now, speaking of religion, King Charles III, who is the head of the Church of England,

00:23:23.120 one of his official titles is Defensor Fidei, Defender of the Faith. He's now changed his job

00:23:30.840 description. He's going a little bit Muslim. We'll see the implications of that. A lot of people are 1.00

00:23:36.200 really shocked by this. I am not. But the reason I'm not shocked is something, I don't know,

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00:24:55.400 250th birthday. The king is going a little bit Muslim. The king was the head of the Church of 1.00

00:25:02.760 England and defender of the faith. His new title says his majesty is supreme governor of the Church

00:25:11.140 of England and protects the space for faith within the multi-faith nation. Pack it in, guys.

00:25:21.340 Pack it in. Pack it in, like P-A-K. It's an unintentional play on words, but there's a lot 1.00

00:25:27.760 of Packies there, a lot of Pakistanis, so pack it all in. The king is no longer the defender of the 1.00

00:25:35.620 faith, the head of the Church of England. He is the supreme governor of the Church of England who

00:25:39.080 protects the space for faith in general within the multi-faith nation. A lot of people shocked

00:25:44.680 and appalled by this. They're saying the king should abdicate, or this is a betrayal of

00:25:49.080 Anglicanism, or this is shot. Why would this weak, terrible king, why would he do this? 0.51

00:25:54.960 In Charles's defense, this is a problem that has been brewing and has probably ultimately

00:26:01.800 been inevitable for almost 500 years now. This is what happens. This is the fruit certainly of

00:26:09.700 what occurred in 1688 when the parliament ousted the Catholic monarch, James II. But this is really

00:26:16.080 the fruit of Henry VIII. Henry VIII, who got the title Defender of the Faith. This title that

00:26:23.320 King Charles just gave up, it came from Henry VIII. Do you know who gave it to Henry VIII?

00:26:28.580 Pope Leo X. It's one of the real ironies of this whole thing.

00:26:33.120 Henry VIII had been a staunch defender of the Catholic faith, and then he wanted an

00:26:38.500 annulment. The Pope wouldn't give him an annulment, and so he decided to break away from

00:26:43.080 Rome and tear Christendom asunder. And maybe it was because he was a corpulent, selfish kind of 0.85

00:26:51.840 guy. Maybe it was because he had his own political problems, and it wasn't just that he was a sex 0.99

00:26:56.180 pest. He had real political problems. But regardless, he elevated the temporal over 0.99

00:27:00.780 the spiritual authority, and it created this issue. Because when you get the act of supremacy

00:27:06.820 in 1534, when you get the king of England saying, look, I'm the head of the church here,

00:27:12.860 and I'm going to take the spiritual authority to myself. I'm going to appropriate it to myself

00:27:17.560 as the temporal power. You establish this principle, which comes out in the Peace of

00:27:25.100 Augsburg and the Treaty of Westphalia, which is cuius regio eus religio, whose reign, his religion.

00:27:32.060 And what's so nefarious about this whole thing is it immediately establishes as a governing

00:27:37.820 political principle, religious indifferentism and subjectivism, relativism. That the religion

00:27:45.180 can be one thing in Germany, in this part of Germany, but a different truth in this part of

00:27:50.620 Germany. It just doesn't make any sense. When we had a unified civilization before the 16th

00:27:55.980 century, there was one religion and there were different political areas. There were different

00:28:02.200 political competencies of different rulers, but there was one unifying religion, which is why we

00:28:06.080 had one unified civilization. By that act, Henry VIII undercuts certain religious knowledge and

00:28:14.460 undercuts the unity of our civilization. And so what that does is it weakens us spiritually because

00:28:19.700 we no longer feel that there's any solid ground that we can stand on, but it also weakens us

00:28:24.380 politically, weakens us politically to be invaded by foreign and often hostile powers that in this

00:28:30.660 case have overtaken England. I understand if I'm, if I'm King Charles, I was just in the UK.

00:28:36.660 There's a lot of Muslims. There's a lot of Muslims there now. And I wonder if from King

00:28:40.920 Charles's perspective, if he's just saying, look, I can't, there aren't as many Brits anymore. The

00:28:45.260 Brits aren't having kids. We're getting flooded by Pakistani Muslims. And so if I want to remain 1.00

00:28:49.260 the king, and I want to lose my head like at least one of my ancestors, then I'm going to need to 1.00

00:28:54.320 be more open to Islam. I wonder if that's, maybe it just comes from his liberal theology, but 0.96

00:29:00.140 might just be a cold political calculation. I say, well, what's he supposed to do?

00:29:06.120 His ancestor, Henry VIII, said that the king can just declare religious truth according to his

00:29:12.380 caprices and whims. So what's wrong with King Charles saying, okay, now I'm no longer the

00:29:18.080 defender of the Anglican faith, I'm going to be the defender of faith in a multi-faith nation.

00:29:22.920 What's wrong with that? That's exactly what Henry VIII did. And furthermore, in 1688, you had the

00:29:28.340 so-called Glorious Revolution. It's one of my biggest hobby horses in all of politics, and it

00:29:31.520 just drives me crazy. In 1688, you had a Catholic king, James II, and Parliament said, we don't want 0.99

00:29:37.000 that Catholic king anymore. This is a post-Henry VIII world. We're going to get rid of the Catholic

00:29:39.960 king. So they ran him out of town, and the Parliament illegitimately accreted to itself

00:29:45.100 the authority that belongs to the king and they said no parliament runs the show here and the

00:29:50.080 king is like our little pet so we're gonna have our little pet that's gonna pretend that he has

00:29:54.360 some power and he's gonna be fine for tourism and he's gonna he'll have a nice cute house

00:29:58.160 and wear cute little clothes but he's he belongs to us parliament really runs the show okay well

00:30:03.020 if parliament runs the show if that is to say if the democracy now runs the show in the united 0.99

00:30:06.760 kingdom then when you flood the country with a ton of muslims and the demos changes to become 1.00

00:30:12.140 more Muslim. Well, guess what? Then the king is going to dance because you destroyed the 1.00

00:30:17.540 legitimacy of the monarchy in 1688 in the so-called glorious revolution. And you destroyed

00:30:22.660 the legitimacy of the unifying religion and the religious certainty in 1534. So now the chickens

00:30:30.040 are coming home to roost. It's very sad. I'm a huge Anglophile. I love the UK. I actually have

00:30:34.140 a decent amount of respect for King Charles, but what'd you expect? What'd you expect? Now we've

00:30:39.780 got His Majesty, Defender of Faiths, and Supreme Caliph of the United Kingdom. Sad, very sad.

00:30:47.440 Okay, speaking of the decline of great institutions, I saw Toy Story.

00:30:50.960 I saw Toy Story over the week. I took my kids to it. I love Toy Story.

00:30:54.700 It's a great movie. It came out when I was five years old, 1995. It was great. I saw some of the

00:31:00.340 sequels. I don't really remember them that well. But the first movie, it's so, so great.

00:31:03.820 and I went to see this one. I had tempered my expectations and the movie has a really great

00:31:10.780 message about technology and being a kid and play. And we'll get to that. And it has a really

00:31:16.680 great message that you will understand if you can get past the relentless feminism of the movie

00:31:22.360 and to the apparent extinction of white people. White people are just gone. Well, I should temper 0.95

00:31:28.740 that. Because it's an old franchise that came out in the 90s when America was still a very,

00:31:34.860 very white country, America still understood herself. Even the liberals understood America

00:31:39.380 to be a white country. Because it came out in the 90s, all the toys are white or animals or

00:31:45.420 whatever. Mr. Potato Head might be Italian. He's a little swarthy. But all the toys are white.

00:31:50.440 But now, because we're in 2026 after mass migration, a demographic shift, and wokeness

00:31:55.680 and DEI. It's not even just that you have fewer white characters who are not toys in the movie.

00:32:00.960 They're basically all gone. It's just everybody is not white. And it's not even clear what they 0.95

00:32:05.760 are. The main kind of human characters in this one are just ethnically ambiguous. They're sort

00:32:10.720 of vaguely swarthy, a couple of shades duskier than I. And then, this is wild, there are these

00:32:17.260 ranchers. They're on like 1200 Ranch Street, and they have a horse and a pig, and they're like

00:32:22.860 Indian or something. I don't know if they're Indian or black, whatever they are, they don't 1.00

00:32:26.300 strike you as the usual rancher or farmer in America. And anyway, it's just so over the top, 1.00

00:32:32.360 the just extinction of white people. So there's that. And then the feminism is really annoying. 0.98

00:32:37.100 It's a girl movie. And this really could have been one of those offshoot Toy Story movies, 1.00

00:32:40.940 like Lightyear or something. It didn't have to be main canon because it's not about Buzz or Woody.

00:32:45.920 They're barely in the movie. It's about Jesse, who's the cowgirl character, and all the kids

00:32:52.620 playing or girls. It's all just about girls playing. And you say, okay, I guess that's fine. 1.00

00:32:58.140 Maybe. I don't know. But at every single chance, they take a feminist line. So the buzz character

00:33:07.360 has become not just Homer Simpson, not just a complete doofus, but an effeminate doofus who 0.97

00:33:12.580 behaves in every way in his desire for a girl, in the way he tries to get the girl. He always 0.98

00:33:19.700 behaves like the girl, like a kind of a sissy. And one of the rejoinders to this is, well, it's 0.99

00:33:24.720 girls, in this case, playing with the toys. Sometimes. Sometimes it's the toys acting of 0.58

00:33:30.200 their own accord, you know, when the kids aren't in the room. But sometimes it's the kids playing

00:33:34.240 with the toys. So you say, well, it's little girls playing with the toys. That's why the toys seem

00:33:37.820 more effeminate. But that's not true. That's not true. When little girls play with toys,

00:33:43.100 not that I have a lot of experience with this, but from my limited knowledge,

00:33:45.580 When little girls play with toys, they don't make the handsome prince into a total sissy, 1.00

00:33:50.600 and they don't make the Barbie doll into some girl boss lesbian. 1.00

00:33:55.420 You know, they play according to traditional gender roles. 1.00

00:34:01.400 The little girls, despite decades of feminism, little girls don't dream of being construction 1.00

00:34:06.280 workers. 1.00

00:34:06.880 They dream about being princesses and being proposed to and getting married.

00:34:11.120 They dream about kind of girly things.

00:34:12.460 And so this toy story totally misses all of that.

00:34:15.980 So I've been very harsh on this Toy Story.

00:34:17.660 But it does have an important message.

00:34:19.820 And the important message is, and a kind of funny plot.

00:34:23.060 Maybe this is why they couldn't make it a side movie,

00:34:25.020 is because the plot is too important canonically.

00:34:27.600 And the plot is the invasion of devices, the invasion of the iPad,

00:34:30.600 which makes kids grow up too fast, which turns them into zombies,

00:34:34.080 which destroys their ability to play, which destroys their imagination,

00:34:37.720 which destroys their ability to make friends and to socialize.

00:34:40.400 And it's a really, really good message that they articulate well.

00:34:44.500 Even this distinction that they make in the movie

00:34:46.540 between games and play.

00:34:48.600 Jessie, the cowboy character, cowgirl character,

00:34:51.900 she makes this point.

00:34:53.100 She's talking to the devices,

00:34:54.900 and she says, do you guys want to play?

00:34:56.020 And they say, yeah, which game do you want to play?

00:34:57.440 This, that, or the other?

00:34:58.000 She goes, no, no, no, that's just a game.

00:35:00.220 And the difference between game and play

00:35:01.800 is that game is just very structured.

00:35:04.020 There are rules.

00:35:05.040 It's discrete.

00:35:05.820 It's finite.

00:35:06.620 Whereas play is open.

00:35:08.300 It's infinite.

00:35:09.020 Involves the imagination.

00:35:09.880 It involves much more participation of the individual.

00:35:12.800 That's a really important point.

00:35:14.940 And what's crucial about the Toy Story movie is it's not just a Luddite movie.

00:35:18.440 It's not just saying technology always bad, smash the machines, because that's unrealistic.

00:35:22.120 That's not how the world works.

00:35:23.180 In fact, many of the toys in Toy Story increasingly have technological aspects to them.

00:35:28.700 The question is about putting technology in its proper place.

00:35:32.760 And so it does that really well.

00:35:34.120 I don't mean to be too hard, but it's just like, good grief.

00:35:36.640 Could we get, could we tone the feminism and the DEI race stuff back like 15%?

00:35:44.880 Could we, even that would have been, it really should be dialed back in 99.8% plus.

00:35:50.540 But even just a little, it was just so on the nose.

00:35:54.200 It was crazy.

00:35:55.500 But the rest, the rest of the movie is good.

00:35:56.860 And even the way that Taylor Swift, it was like really, my kids are really into Toy Story.

00:36:00.820 So I actually got way more into this in the weeks leading up to it than I otherwise might have.

00:36:04.800 but they were going to have Taylor Swift do the music for it.

00:36:07.540 And I was kind of annoyed because Randy Newman should be doing the music for

00:36:09.580 Toy Story.

00:36:10.640 You know,

00:36:11.100 Randy Newman,

00:36:11.560 one of the great short people,

00:36:13.100 you got a friend in me and they even handle that.

00:36:15.740 So they do like,

00:36:16.800 they handle it really,

00:36:17.760 really well.

00:36:19.520 I guess maybe the most damning thing I could say about it,

00:36:21.800 but the best thing I could say about it is Toy Story 5 might be the best we

00:36:25.900 can get in the big two,

00:36:27.420 six and the toy story,

00:36:30.120 the story of it going back to the beginning is it's a nostalgic story.

00:36:34.120 It's a story about your childhood

00:36:35.380 and what happens when your kids grow up

00:36:37.080 and they kind of forget about their toys.

00:36:39.700 And in that way, the toys are kind of like the parents.

00:36:42.320 This is why it resonates for parents too,

00:36:43.740 is someday you're your kid's favorite thing right now.

00:36:46.460 And someday your kid's barely going to call you.

00:36:48.780 And that's just a fact of growing up.

00:36:50.680 And it's a longing for the past.

00:36:53.000 And I guess this toy story is particularly poignant in that way

00:36:55.780 because this franchise has gone on for 30 years now.

00:36:59.520 And you can look back and say,

00:37:01.060 look, maybe in some ways the country's gotten a little better. Maybe it's hard, kind of hard to

00:37:06.660 point to, but you look back and you say, wow, man, it's, I don't think it's just nostalgia for

00:37:10.900 childhood. This country really was stronger and better in the nineties. It actually, things were

00:37:17.820 better. Unlike our position in the world materially, at least relative to the rest of the

00:37:23.220 world, race relations, obviously the sexual stuff was mostly better. It, huh, things have gotten 0.71

00:37:29.840 worse? Is there a way to get back to that? I don't know. Let's wait for Toy Story 6. Let's

00:37:36.160 say hopefully it gets better. Now, before we get to the wacky headline, the wackiest headline that's

00:37:41.080 ever been written, my favorite comment yesterday is from Noah Dansby who says, just bought a copy

00:37:45.380 of Reasons to Vote for Democrats. Now make me the comment of the day so I can flex on my lib

00:37:49.440 friends. Done. Done. I need to do a revised and expanded edition. We're still selling a bazillion

00:37:54.740 copies a year of Reasons to Vote for Democrats, a comprehensive guide, my first book and magnum

00:37:59.580 Opus, promoted by President Trump as a great book for your reading enjoyment. But I think I need to

00:38:04.360 do a revised and expanded critical edition for the 10-year anniversary. It's coming up. It's coming

00:38:08.580 up next year. Maybe I'll have to do a new one. Okay, before I go today, I got very exciting news

00:38:14.160 today. I got to fly to D.C. and then I'm going to Idaho, actually. But I'm going to be in D.C.

00:38:19.740 later tonight. I'm going to be stopping by the National Mall. I initially posted it was at 6 p.m.

00:38:25.040 I think it's at 6.30 p.m.

00:38:26.360 On the main stage,

00:38:27.080 I'm going to swing by,

00:38:28.060 do a few versions

00:38:29.500 of the yes or no game.

00:38:30.780 So if you're in town,

00:38:32.020 if you're not in town,

00:38:32.740 get to town.

00:38:33.160 But if you're in town in D.C.

00:38:34.300 on the National Mall,

00:38:35.320 close to the Washington Monument,

00:38:36.880 close to the, I guess,

00:38:37.820 the east side of the mall,

00:38:39.480 swing by.

00:38:40.080 We're going to be doing

00:38:40.600 the yes or no game

00:38:41.320 for a little bit.

00:38:41.780 It'll be a lot of fun,

00:38:42.260 20 minutes, something like that.

00:38:43.940 I'll get a big, big interview

00:38:45.160 we're doing,

00:38:45.780 which will come out tomorrow

00:38:46.800 if I can whip the team

00:38:48.540 into shape to get it out tomorrow.

00:38:49.680 But big interview.

00:38:50.480 Make sure you tune in

00:38:51.100 for that in D.C. And then tomorrow morning, they're going to be doing the ribbon cutting

00:38:54.860 for a statue of my ancestor, Simon Knowles, right by the White House. So we got that too.

00:38:59.700 Very, very exciting. Before we get to that, before I get on my flight that I'm probably

00:39:03.120 going to be late for, I need to read the wackiest headline ever made. This headline says,

00:39:11.580 it was going totally viral on social media. There were a few different versions of it,

00:39:14.700 but here you have. Report. Female cop shoots rabbi outside Pornhub office in Canada while

00:39:22.600 hiding from Marxist gunman who killed immigrant officer named Muhammad. It's sad, like someone

00:39:30.080 actually did die in this headline. But this was going viral because it just, it takes in everything.

00:39:37.300 And a point that I didn't see anyone make, but I think this is what's so fascinating about the

00:39:43.620 headline is. The headline is a political Rorschach test. The part of the headline that you zoom in

00:39:50.240 on will tell you your chief political priorities and obsessions. It says more about the person

00:39:58.080 reading the headline than it does about any incident that actually took place. Because in it,

00:40:02.620 you say, you've got female cop. Why are there female cops? There obviously should not be female 1.00

00:40:08.100 cops. Women are not as strong as men and physical activities, like things that require brutes, 1.00

00:40:13.620 strength, it should be men. Part of being a cop is like car chases. Women, probably not the best 1.00

00:40:20.940 at that. Anyway, so you got the female cop part, then shoots rabbi outside Pornhub. So you get 1.00

00:40:25.420 these people who don't like Jews. They say, well, what's the rabbi doing by Pornhub?

00:40:29.320 What was he doing there at Pornhub? No, there's no evidence that this rabbi was doing anything

00:40:32.960 at Pornhub, but you say, you got the Jew people, the anti-Jew people. They say, what's he doing

00:40:37.280 at Pornhub? Then it takes place in Canada. That's America's evil top hat. I think we can all agree

00:40:41.860 on that. A Marxist gunman. There you go. It's the Marxists. They've been killing people for

00:40:47.380 hundreds of years now who killed an immigrant officer named Muhammad. Why is there a guy named

00:40:51.880 Muhammad in Canada? Canada is supposed to be lily white. The brownest things in Canada are 0.99

00:40:55.720 supposed to be the caribou. Why is there a guy named Muhammad there? Is it a Muslim country? 1.00

00:40:59.760 I don't think so. So you get to pick. The thing you focus on will tell you the most about your 1.00

00:41:05.920 politics. And I said, which is the one that gets me the most about this? And it's not,

00:41:10.740 I'm a Philo-Semite, so it's not the rabbi thing.

00:41:15.080 It's, I don't, you know,

00:41:17.440 I'm not exactly the most pro-Islam guy in the world, 1.00

00:41:19.420 but I'm not surprised that there's an officer 0.97

00:41:22.000 named Muhammad in Canada.

00:41:23.140 I don't know, there's been mass migration.

00:41:24.440 There's nothing pretty sad that he was killed. 1.00

00:41:26.860 Not surprised by the immigration. 1.00

00:41:28.380 To the one, I'm not surprised that Marxists 0.98

00:41:30.420 are that violent, but that seems kind of ancillary to me. 0.96

00:41:35.020 For me, at least, it's the female cop. 1.00

00:41:37.660 that's the one that to me is the most outrageous part of the headline because one i guess she is 1.00

00:41:45.440 responsible for killing muhammad because she just started you know like female cops not you know 1.00

00:41:49.160 not to be stereotypical because they don't have that brute strength and because they're not always 0.99

00:41:53.520 as confident sometimes you remember with president trump the woman who was supposed to protect him

00:41:57.040 didn't know how to holster her gun they just start spraying they just start a lot of these incidents 1.00

00:42:01.820 officer involved shootings didn't always have to go that way because sometimes the ladies get a 1.00

00:42:06.540 trigger happy because they're more physically vulnerable. So anyway, to me, that is the most 0.98

00:42:11.540 egregious part of the headline. That's my most deeply felt political prejudice. We all have

00:42:16.640 political prejudices. We all operate on prejudices. We couldn't get out of bed in the morning if we

00:42:20.220 didn't, going back to Burke and Kirk. And that one, that's the one to me. And I think I'm justified

00:42:24.960 in this because whatever you want to say about the divisions in the world, you've got the Muhammad 0.97

00:42:30.780 thing, migration. Yeah, okay, that's an important political issue. You got the religious stuff with

00:42:35.400 Muhammad and the rabbi. Religion, very, very important, of course. The religious differences

00:42:40.640 are a big part of human diversity. You got the porn, that lust is a big vice. Marxist ideology 0.77

00:42:49.520 is a big motivator of activity. But I would say much more than race, even religion or ideology

00:42:55.320 or vice or whatever, the chief distinction within human nature is the sexual distinction. It's much

00:43:02.580 more important than the other ones at the level of anthropology so that's but you tell me in the

00:43:07.820 comments what where does your eye go like on the rorschach inkblot test where does your eye go in

00:43:14.500 the headline is it the female cop the rabbi at the porn hub the marxist gunman or the or the

00:43:22.060 immigrant named muhammad which one is it okay so much more i want to get to get some palace intrigue

00:43:28.680 with Rubio and Vance, got Tallarico talking about the limits of his masculinity. There's a lot more

00:43:35.040 to get to. I don't have time because I got to go catch a flight right now. Very sorry. No

00:43:39.980 member room segmentum today. We'll get to it this week. Make sure you tune in the big,

00:43:44.420 big interview coming up for tomorrow. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you then.

00:43:58.680 Amen.

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