The Michael Knowles Show - June 29, 2026


Ep. 2004 - ＂Temporary＂ Haitians Own More U.S. Homes Than Zoomers


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The Supreme Court has ruled that President Trump has the right to remove temporary protected status from Haitian immigrants living in the U.S. after 16 years. What does that mean for the thousands of Haitians who have lived in America for the past 16 years?

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