The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2024 - White Woman Convicted For Saying The N-Word In Minnesota

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00:00:59.600 500,000 at cardiff.co slash Knowles. A white lady in Minnesota is criminally convicted of saying the

00:01:08.160 N-word after a Somali guy followed her around with a camera and begged her to say it. Is the 0.97

00:01:14.600 First Amendment dead in the Mogadishu of the Midwest? Then, speaking of outspoken white women, 1.00

00:01:20.180 the WNBA's Sophie Cunningham does more to help Republican candidates in the midterms 1.00

00:01:24.160 than basically every member of Congress combined. And President Trump roasts the left at the 0.84

00:01:29.560 White House Correspondents' Dinner, three months after a leftist tried to shoot it up.

00:01:34.880 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:55.080 Welcome back to the show. New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani has been threatening

00:01:59.240 to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu if Netanyahu goes to New York. There's a big

00:02:05.660 update on this showdown between Mamdani and the Israeli Prime Minister. Trump is pretty crucial

00:02:13.560 to it since he shot down all these stupid comments from the mayor, but we'll get to 0.99

00:02:16.680 where that stands first. Shiloh Hendricks, this is the case. Americans, we love our First Amendment 0.99

00:02:23.720 rights. It's for goodness sakes, it's the very first amendment. And now the first amendment

00:02:30.580 might've been shredded in Minnesota because this lady Shiloh Hendricks was just criminally convicted 1.00

00:02:36.640 of saying the N word. Now, even if you don't like the N word or the M word or the O word or the P

00:02:43.540 word, even if you don't like any of those words, surely Americans have a first amendment right to 0.80

00:02:48.480 say it, don't they? Well, yeah, maybe, I think, kind of, maybe, generally. You know, I did write

00:02:53.900 a book about the actual American free speech tradition called Speechless, Controlling Words,

00:02:57.620 Controlling Minds, which is available. Thank you very much. They were a little slow on the bell

00:03:01.380 today. The actual American free speech tradition is a little more complicated, going all the way

00:03:06.980 back to the 18th century. It's a little more complicated than the free speech absolutists

00:03:10.860 make it out to be. But in this case, it seems pretty clear to me. For those of you who don't

00:03:17.080 remember Shiloh Hendricks. Here is the video filmed by some Somali guy accusing Shiloh Hendricks

00:03:23.820 of calling a little kid the n-word. You call him a child? Did you call the child an n-word?

00:03:34.280 It is my own business. You call him an n-word? Okay, why don't you have the

00:03:38.700 boss to say it right now again okay all right that's what you say a little kid

00:03:52.920 you call him a little child are you about to hit him you chase him here so

00:04:00.960 you so that gives you the right to call the child five-year-old and the n-word

00:04:05.020 That's what he's going to act like.

00:04:05.840 That's what you're going to call him.

00:04:06.940 That's what he's going to act like.

00:04:08.780 You know, that's a hate speech. 0.93

00:04:10.340 And you can't be the **** for that. 0.99

00:04:11.800 I don't give a ****. 0.98

00:04:13.020 Huh. 0.91

00:04:14.120 Okay, I didn't realize the producers were going to blur the word because then you basically 0.92

00:04:20.240 couldn't hear anything at all because it's just this Somali guy saying, say it, say it, 0.95

00:04:23.340 say this word, say this word, say this word. 0.70

00:04:24.780 And finally, she says that word.

00:04:26.700 Now, it's actually important to go back to the original video here because what happened

00:04:32.080 in Minnesota is that Sophie Cunningham was, sorry, we'll get to Sophie Cunningham in a second. 0.97

00:04:38.440 What, well, that's the other Valkyrie who's going viral at the moment. What happened in Minnesota is 0.91

00:04:44.020 that Shiloh Hendricks was found guilty of this misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct for

00:04:50.240 saying the N-word to a grown man, but not for calling a kid the N-word. We'll get to in a

00:04:58.040 second whether or not that's even a crime or should be a crime. But some people are claiming

00:05:02.860 that she never actually even called the kid the n-word, that that was all a big hoax.

00:05:07.760 But that's not true. She admits on camera in the original video that she did call the little kid

00:05:12.680 the n-word because she says the kid went in and stole her kid's stuff. And then this Somali 0.99

00:05:17.880 maniac follows her around with a camera and says, say the word, say the word, say the word. 0.98

00:05:23.380 So the first question you got to ask yourself before we figure out the legality of this or

00:05:27.160 whether the First Amendment's been shredded in Minnesota is if she admitted to calling the kid

00:05:32.160 the N-word on camera, why would she be acquitted of that charge but convicted of saying the N-word

00:05:37.920 to the adult, of disorderly conduct with regard to the adult? Because it's not that the N-word

00:05:44.580 is illegal or the N-word or the O-word or the P-word. It's the disorderly conduct. It's the 0.87

00:05:50.860 notion that what Shiloh Hendricks is engaging in is not First Amendment protected speech but 0.98

00:05:55.220 fighting words. Fighting words which are not protected by the First Amendment. 1.00

00:06:00.540 Don't forget, while the entire American right was saying we need to expand the First Amendment,

00:06:03.480 we need to expand free speech, I was making the argument that actually, no, that's like a left-wing

00:06:08.080 op, and we actually need to exalt one set of standards, the good set of standards, over the

00:06:14.440 bad set of standards, which means suppressing certain kinds of speech and encouraging other

00:06:18.380 kinds of speech. In other words, that the problem with free speech today is not that we have too

00:06:22.260 much censorship and not enough free speech. It's that we censor all the good stuff and the true

00:06:26.480 stuff, and we encourage all the bad stuff and the false stuff. So the question of whether or not

00:06:32.500 this constitutes fighting words comes down to this idea. If I go to a book party or whatever,

00:06:40.580 if I'm on this playground with Shiloh Hendricks, and I say, you know, I love Joseph Conrad. He's

00:06:44.720 one of my favorite authors, and I really like The Nigger of Narcissus. You know, The Nigger 0.97

00:06:48.460 of Narcissus is one of my favorite books. If I say that, I am not committing any kind of speech

00:06:54.580 crime. If, however, I stand in the middle of the playground and I start screaming, you stupid 1.00

00:07:01.020 knee, and I just start screaming that word, you stupid knee, and it seems to be disturbing the 1.00

00:07:05.980 peace. It seems to be getting into a provocative situation. That actually is not protected speech. 1.00

00:07:12.560 This comes from the U.S. Supreme Court in Szaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 1942, defining fighting words as words, quote, which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.

00:07:25.880 So in the case of her saying this to the kid, we actually don't know whether or not it would have constituted fighting words.

00:07:32.680 It almost certainly did not.

00:07:33.960 So the question then is, well, did it when she's talking to the Somali guy?

00:07:36.760 The guy is a Somali immigrant.

00:07:39.540 This guy, I don't even have his name here.

00:07:42.180 The guy is a Somali immigrant charged with multiple crimes over the years,

00:07:47.800 including assaulting teenage boys, sexually assaulting a 16-year-old runaway in foster care.

00:07:53.400 I guess the charges were eventually dropped, but he was charged with those crimes. 0.70

00:07:57.500 This guy is no good. He is following around this woman with a camera saying,

00:08:03.680 say this word, say this word, say this word. And so she says this word.

00:08:07.880 She is not engaging in fighting words. 0.98

00:08:10.200 If some maniac alleged criminal and rapist of minors is following you around saying, 0.96

00:08:18.500 say this word, say this word, say this word, and then you say the word, 0.96

00:08:21.880 you are not engaging in fighting words. 1.00

00:08:23.580 If anybody is engaging in some kind of speech crime or harassment, it's the wacko Somali. 1.00

00:08:30.580 Whether or not, look, obviously this woman shouldn't have said that to the kid. 1.00

00:08:33.940 She admits that she did.

00:08:34.940 But nevertheless, you're getting it from the guy who wrote the book about how we need

00:08:41.820 more standards and more taboos, and we need to prosecute more speech.

00:08:45.840 This just doesn't make the cut.

00:08:49.280 So what is the issue here?

00:08:51.260 The issue is that obviously only some kinds of speech are prosecuted, and only some kinds

00:08:58.920 of speech are protected.

00:09:00.040 And they've kind of flipped the order here.

00:09:02.080 So it's kind of what you saw in that case in the UK about a month ago, which is if you are a white American citizen, our present political order just presumes you are guilty and they will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. 0.92

00:09:16.700 And if you are some Somali guy with a rap sheet a mile long who really has no business being in America anyway, and you're following around some woman demanding that she say the N-word, you will be given every benefit of the doubt. 0.84

00:09:27.820 That's how it works. 0.97

00:09:29.500 There is a two-tiered system of justice, not only in the United Kingdom, but in the United States.

00:09:34.920 And so we should not draw the wrong lesson from this case.

00:09:38.560 We should prosecute people for fighting words and for obscenity and for threats and for fraud

00:09:45.840 and for all sorts of things.

00:09:48.060 The issue is not that people are suppressing free speech.

00:09:51.020 It's that they are applying two radically different sets of standards to people based

00:09:56.880 on what they look like, based on which groups are favored or disfavored by the political class.

00:10:02.740 That's the problem. But we need to get, I'm all for prosecuting people for calling kids the N-word.

00:10:09.300 Okay, I'm all for it. Sign me up. But when you live in a country that is constantly 0.98

00:10:16.820 privileging one set of people, or I guess multiple sets of people based on being part of a favored

00:10:22.480 race or religion or sexual group, and you're constantly disfavoring the more normal stock

00:10:28.300 of the population, the historically normal stock of the population, that is not sustainable.

00:10:33.040 That's the real issue here. When the left gets to go out and threaten to murder conservatives

00:10:37.520 left, right, and center, and nothing happens to them, when Hassan Piker calls for the murder of

00:10:41.600 U.S. senators, Republican senators, and says the streets should run red in capitalist blood,

00:10:47.100 and Destiny's Stephen Bonnell says that conservatives should fear for their lives

00:10:50.680 whenever they go out in public and nothing happens to those guys, then sorry, seems to me Shiloh 0.94

00:10:57.000 Hendricks should get off the hook, okay, for saying the word that the lunatic Somali guy who 0.77

00:11:03.100 should have been deported 10 years ago demands that she say, well, he follows her around with 0.92

00:11:07.560 a camera. What we need is more laws regulating speech, specifically the speech of lunatics who

00:11:13.260 are following people around with cameras all the time. It is a far greater threat to the peace

00:11:17.860 and to civil society than any nasty words this woman Shiloh Hendricks said. 1.00

00:11:22.460 Okay, speaking of white ladies getting real tough, 1.00

00:11:26.240 Sophie Cunningham is dominating the news. 1.00

00:11:29.500 I don't follow women's basketball.

00:11:31.800 Most people don't follow women's basketball.

00:11:33.420 But even I have paid attention to Sophie Cunningham 0.99

00:11:35.680 because she is doing more to help Republican chances in the midterms 0.78

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00:13:04.900 Cardiff borrow better. Sophie Cunningham. Do you know who she is? I didn't really,

00:13:11.160 but I'd heard the name. Sophie Cunningham plays in the WNBA with that lady, Caitlin Clark. 1.00

00:13:16.640 And she's gone viral for pointing at some other WNBA lady who I've learned is a lesbian 1.00

00:13:22.440 and pointing at her because the WNBA ladies keep beating up Caitlin Clark. 1.00

00:13:29.120 And they might do it because she's a white girl and they might do it because she's getting a lot

00:13:32.380 of press and they but they're all just pointing at each other now and the thing about Sophie 1.00

00:13:37.380 Cunningham is she's a rather pretty gal and is apparently kind of right wing and she's standing 0.87

00:13:43.660 up for Caitlin Clark and beyond all of the inner WNBA beef she had the temerity to say 0.93

00:13:52.760 that boys should not play in girls sports during real time last night I did not see that happen

00:14:02.260 And like, I don't, none of our teams saw it happen, because I promise you that if we would

00:14:06.600 have seen that happen, we would have had her back. Unfortunately, this type of shit happens 0.99

00:14:12.060 every single game to her, and the league and the refs do absolutely nothing about it. 0.99

00:14:17.020 Okay, so that's her talking about Kaitlyn Clark. She's going off on a podcast.

00:14:20.420 Here is what she has to say about transgenderism.

00:14:26.140 I'm national correspondent Kayla Gaskins in Washington. The national debate over transgender

00:14:30.860 athletes is once again taking center stage, this time involving a high-profile WNBA player who says

00:14:37.900 her concern is fairness and safety, not politics. The debate over transgender athletes is back in

00:14:46.300 the headlines. I think it's kind of common sense. After Indiana Fever Guard, Sophie Cunningham told

00:14:51.360 ESPN she wants to protect young girls in a locker room or young girls in sport who shouldn't have 0.94

00:14:57.240 to go against biological men. Cunningham doubled down when asked again by reporters on Wednesday.

00:15:04.280 When it comes just to protecting young girls in sport and women in sport, I feel very strongly

00:15:09.140 about that. Clarifying she's not trying to target transgender people. I think there is room for

00:15:14.640 absolutely everyone here and I think there's room to love everyone. I have never once said I hated

00:15:19.100 the trans community. Her comments sparking headlines such as these with critics on the left

00:15:24.780 piling on, calling for Cunningham to be suspended, labeling her as blatantly transphobic and accusing

00:15:31.540 her of standing for the worst of the worst in this country. Okay. Do you know my favorite part

00:15:36.900 of this whole story? It's not that she stands up for Caitlin Clark. It's not that she's protecting

00:15:41.520 women's sports. It's not. It's not. My favorite part of this story is what that news reporter 0.83

00:15:46.340 just said. Said the trans debate over athletics is back in the news. It's back in the headlines.

00:15:53.300 that's my favorite part. That's the only part I care about. Sometimes you hear over this whole

00:15:58.820 trans sports debate, the left will say, you right-wingers are such hypocrites. You don't 1.00

00:16:04.020 care about women's sports. In the case of this very segment, they'll say, Michael, you were just

00:16:08.720 making fun of the WNBA, but now you're exalting Sophie Cunningham because she's defending women's

00:16:14.180 sports. You don't care about women's sports. Hey, guess what? Guilty as charged, way guiltier than 1.00

00:16:20.520 Shiloh Hendricks is for whatever crime they got her on in Minnesota. You're right. Guilty as

00:16:24.520 charged. I don't care about women's sports. Don't care about them at all. I think the WNBA is 1.00

00:16:29.120 totally ridiculous. Women's tennis, I guess, is fine. That's a little more traditional. But 1.00

00:16:33.260 generally, I have never cared and will never care about women's sports. If some gals want to have 1.00

00:16:38.760 some fun and work out a little bit in college or whatever, that's fine. But I don't care. You're 1.00

00:16:43.300 right. You're right. You know what I care about? Justice and fairness. And at a very practical

00:16:50.440 political level, I care about the good guys winning the elections over the bad guys who 1.00

00:16:55.080 want to chop off kids' genitals and destroy our whole country and flood it with the third world 1.00

00:16:58.640 and tank the economy. Yes, you're right. You're totally right about that. 1.00

00:17:04.680 The reason I love this story is because this trans issue is devastating to the Democrats.

00:17:10.780 They learned that lesson after they lost the popular vote in 2024.

00:17:14.600 They're trying to run away from that issue now, but they can't do it because their base 0.61

00:17:19.680 demands that they embrace transgenderism.

00:17:23.620 And if you embrace transgenderism, you have to embrace transing the kids. 0.74

00:17:27.180 That's the logic of transgenderism. 0.96

00:17:29.240 Frankly, if you embrace gay rights, you kind of have to embrace transgenderism and therefore 0.92

00:17:33.560 transing the kids. 0.93

00:17:34.620 Actually, we'll go all the way back.

00:17:36.340 If you embrace feminism, the idea that men and women are basically the same, then you

00:17:40.100 kind of have to embrace gay rights, and you kind of have to embrace transgenderism, and you kind 0.61

00:17:44.160 of eventually have to embrace transing the kids. That is the logic of it. It's not just that the 0.61

00:17:48.640 emotional left-wing base is demanding it of its politicians. It's that the logic of leftism,

00:17:53.820 the ideology that these people have adopted, the logic demands transing the kids and boys

00:17:59.620 and girls sports. And most people, even if they, like me, don't care at all about the WNBA or

00:18:05.660 women's soccer or anything else, they realize that's insane. And the Democrats need to look

00:18:11.500 insane in order for the Republicans to do well in the midterms and at a deeper level, I guess,

00:18:18.640 than just partisan elections. The Democrats need to be kept out of power because their judgment

00:18:23.580 is terrible because they don't even know the difference between a man and a woman. 1.00

00:18:26.960 That's why that issue needs to be in the news. Republicans should get clobbered in the midterms. 1.00

00:18:31.180 Just historically, that's how it works. Also, the Iran war is dragging on forever,

00:18:35.240 and that's not popular.

00:18:36.760 Also, it's going to disrupt energy markets

00:18:38.680 even more than it already has.

00:18:39.940 And that's going to cause economic problems

00:18:41.540 more so than it already has.

00:18:43.160 And, and, and, and, and, and,

00:18:45.420 and the president is now a year and a half

00:18:47.820 into his second term.

00:18:49.540 And any president who's a year and a half

00:18:51.300 into his second term

00:18:51.920 is going to have disappointed people

00:18:53.660 because everyone has hopes high as the sky.

00:18:56.640 And, and, and, and, and 0.95

00:18:58.400 Republicans should get creamed in the midterms.

00:19:00.920 And one of our best hopes

00:19:02.060 to not get creamed in the midterms

00:19:03.460 is to keep this issue in the headlines. Here's the playbook. I'm giving you the playbook.

00:19:10.540 And Sophie Cunningham is doing that. And every Republican politician owes her a debt of gratitude

00:19:14.620 because she's doing a better job campaigning for them than any of them are. In fact, she's even

00:19:19.560 catching flack from one of her childhood best friends and her podcast co-host. This gal has 0.99

00:19:25.660 a podcast. And the podcast co-host is apparently pro-trans sports. Okay, transgender athletes in

00:19:35.820 American sports is such a borderline non-existent issue that right-wingers have convinced a massive

00:19:45.280 portion of people in our country that these people are like a threat to sports in America

00:19:50.100 when mathematically that's not the case at all.

00:19:53.420 And by continuing to platform this,

00:19:55.460 politicians, athletes, journalists, news outlets,

00:19:58.700 you're only isolating transgender people even more

00:20:01.480 by making them seem like this giant group of people 0.99

00:20:04.620 is a threat to society, a threat to sports,

00:20:06.480 when that's just not proportionately the truth in any capacity. 0.97

00:20:09.520 There is like 10 transgender athletes in all of the NCAA.

00:20:13.880 And so I think there are unique questions

00:20:16.340 that can be handled on individual basis,

00:20:19.920 but to allow this to take our attention away from like housing and healthcare and wars and all the 0.99

00:20:25.100 other actual harmful in our country is dumb. So people are going to make fun of this guy because 0.98

00:20:33.600 he clearly doesn't know that much about politics and he's not particularly articulate, but he's

00:20:37.760 going to the mat. I mean, he's, he's attacking his good friend and his podcast co-host over this

00:20:44.280 issue. That's how important it is to him as I guess a dyed in the wool liberal. And they're

00:20:49.700 going to make fun of him. But the thing is, he is no less coherent on this issue than any Democrat

00:20:56.700 politician. Notice what he's doing. He cannot defend boys and girls sports. He can't defend

00:21:04.060 because it's indefensible. So he says, it's not that big a deal. There aren't that many of them.

00:21:08.660 There are bigger issues. Why aren't we talking about housing? Why aren't we talking about

00:21:13.760 health care. When the left says that about transgenderism, which they're all doing now, 1.00

00:21:20.120 that is a concession. Yeah, the trans issue is totally indefensible. Please let me change the 0.99

00:21:25.880 subject. And our response to that needs to be, no, we're not going to let you change the subject.

00:21:32.200 You could change the subject if you wanted to. The way you could change the subject is,

00:21:36.100 yeah, no, I don't know, that whole trans stuff. You're right. It's a complicated issue. There 1.00

00:21:39.880 issues of fairness. Now, we don't need to insist upon it. I'm not going to push that. But they

00:21:44.400 can't do that because they'll lose their base and because the logic of their ideology insists upon

00:21:48.220 it. So instead, they say, please let me change the subject. Please, please, please. It's not

00:21:53.480 that big a deal. There aren't that many of them. So what if they take a few trophies from a few

00:21:56.120 girls? It's only like 10 people. Just let the injustice occur. Too bad for those girls who 1.00

00:22:00.780 lose their scholarships or whatever. But it's not that many. Please, can we talk about housing?

00:22:06.000 Our poll numbers are better on housing. Nope, we're not going to let you talk about housing.

00:22:10.660 You have the opportunity to do that if you just ditch the trans issue. 1.00

00:22:14.080 But we know that you can't do that. 0.95

00:22:15.420 So you got to keep it in the headlines.

00:22:18.440 Speaking of the trans issue, President Trump, he just did the White House Correspondents

00:22:22.940 Dinner.

00:22:23.580 There was this White House Correspondents Dinner two months ago, and it got shot out

00:22:26.940 by leftists.

00:22:28.320 And they obviously had to cancel it in the moment.

00:22:31.580 Trump was rushed off the stage.

00:22:32.660 The cabinet was rushed off the stage.

00:22:34.040 But he said, I want to do the Correspondents Dinner.

00:22:36.580 And this is full-on joker mode.

00:22:40.120 This is Joaquin Phoenix joker mode.

00:22:41.820 He gets up there, and all the reporting says that he bombed.

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00:24:25.160 at takelean.com. President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner, he insists upon it.

00:24:32.720 You say, he never did the White House Correspondents Dinner in his first term.

00:24:36.420 They call it nerd prom in Washington, D.C., which gives the journalists way too much credit

00:24:40.260 because the journalists aren't that smart. But they call it nerd prom. They always love it. It's

00:24:43.800 kind of this lib thing. Trump didn't do it during his first term. This year, he really wanted to do

00:24:47.420 it. Second term, he was going to do it. I think the reason he wanted to do it was just to assert

00:24:52.640 that he dominates American politics.

00:24:55.260 He's no longer just an insurgent.

00:24:57.940 He's no longer fighting an uphill battle

00:25:01.780 against this system that's arrayed against him.

00:25:03.700 He won.

00:25:04.560 He took it over.

00:25:05.420 He got unified government.

00:25:06.840 He has changed some of the institutions.

00:25:09.160 He won the popular vote

00:25:10.220 after they tried to kick him off the ballot,

00:25:11.580 tried to kill him after everything.

00:25:14.320 Tried to imprison him. 0.84

00:25:16.120 He won.

00:25:16.520 Part of the reason he was so obsessed

00:25:18.580 with showing up to this dinner

00:25:20.160 is to just say,

00:25:21.640 even in your parties, even your liberal institutions with your little social events,

00:25:28.420 I'm going to be there too. I own you. I am your daddy. And he goes up there and he gives this

00:25:33.680 Joker-esque set. I wasn't there. It would have been maybe fun to go, but I didn't go.

00:25:40.260 And so I'm only getting this from the reporting and some of the clips. And apparently Trump was

00:25:45.420 kind of joking about this too. I guess he bombed in the room, but the bombing seems a little bit

00:25:51.640 like, I don't know, like the Joker or like Norm Macdonald at the roast of Bob Saget.

00:25:56.220 Like, it was just, it was totally unapologetic. And some of the jokes are really funny. Here's

00:26:01.480 one. Before we get to the trans joke, we'll start out with a gay joke. Here is one joke 1.00

00:26:05.900 that I thought was beautifully written. Well, I have all of the press here in one place. I have

00:26:12.800 to say that we're having an amazing load of accomplishments that the media never talks

00:26:19.640 about, for example, under my administration, a once feared and powerful regime that relentlessly

00:26:25.580 attacked America has finally been toppled. Their former leaders have been removed and

00:26:30.560 they're now being run by a gay dictator facing internal divisions. But I, for one, wish Barry 0.98

00:26:38.620 Weiss all the best at CBS News. She's a wonderful woman. That's a great joke. That's a funny joke.

00:26:48.400 a hostile regime that has been trying to destroy America has been toppled and a gay dictator has 0.94

00:26:55.380 been put into its place, you know, facing internal division. But hey, best of luck to 0.94

00:26:59.960 Barry Weiss at CBS. That's a funny joke. And it's kind of a friendly joke because Barry Weiss is

00:27:06.040 this left of center lesbian. So yeah, it's not a typical Republican. But CBS had been so bad 0.54

00:27:14.720 before that that barry weiss is like francisco franco compared to what the network had been

00:27:19.720 like before so it's a little bit of a friendly joke you know we like barry weiss then he gives 0.88

00:27:24.500 a pretty hostile joke turns it up from jokes about lesbians to jokes about trannies and goes

00:27:29.660 after cnn's caitlin collins but they'll learn their lesson but i want to personally congratulate

00:27:37.200 cnn's caitlin callens on receiving her award it was all about me it's a fake she shouldn't get the

00:27:45.960 award it was a fake but i didn't mind i said caitlin congratulations but it was fake there's

00:27:51.560 no question about it but she's a young attractive woman she never smiles i said caitlin do you ever

00:27:57.840 smile smile you have a nice position you're at cnn fake news you should be a happy person

00:28:05.580 So smile, Caitlin, just smile. But we attack. And I thought Caitlin had really made it big with a major new sponsorship. But then I informed her that it wasn't her on the Bud Light can. It was Dylan Mulvaney. And Dylan Mulvaney cost Bud Light $35 billion in market cap.

00:28:30.920 That was the worst commercial ever made, by the way, for those few people that want to hear that.

00:28:35.860 Most people don't care, but I would.

00:28:37.740 So it's crickets in the room.

00:28:39.640 I mean, you can hear a pin drop in the room.

00:28:42.240 And I mean, it's the scene from Joker.

00:28:46.240 It's Norm MacDonald at the Bob Saget roast.

00:28:49.260 And in a way, it makes it funnier.

00:28:52.720 The president stumbles over the words a little bit in the teleprompter.

00:28:56.340 You know, I was informed or she was informed of this.

00:28:58.100 So in a way, that almost makes it funnier because he goes out there just bloodthirsty.

00:29:05.940 You realize the reason he's insisting upon going to the White House Correspondents' Dinner

00:29:11.620 is not to say, hey, I know we've all fought over the years, liberal journalists and I,

00:29:18.080 but look, we're going to get along now.

00:29:20.220 It's been a long, hard battle, but we're all just going to have a little fun with each other.

00:29:24.860 It's okay.

00:29:25.560 We're friends now, aren't we?

00:29:26.700 no you realize the reason that he's been fanatically focused on doing the white house

00:29:32.540 correspondence dinner is to get his sweet sweet revenge it's to go up there he goes up he goes

00:29:38.660 what the joke is very simple the joke is cnn's caitlin collins kind of looks like dylan mulvaney

00:29:45.140 you know i thought it was caitlin collins on the bud like he by the way trump follows this up

00:29:49.220 he posts on true social a picture of caitlin collins on dylan mulvaney's face holding bud

00:29:55.080 light. And so he's doubling down on the joke. It's not just one of these, hey, you know,

00:29:59.280 isn't that funny? He goes up there and goes, Caitlin Collins. Caitlin, where's Caitlin? Oh,

00:30:03.540 yeah. She, I said she, congratulations on her award, but she doesn't deserve it. 0.94

00:30:08.560 She doesn't deserve it. He's trying, crickets, crickets. Yeah, I told her that. She's pretty,

00:30:12.920 but she doesn't smile. Smile. Why won't you smile, Caitlin? Smile. Anyway, I think that 0.99

00:30:19.780 caitlin collins looks like a dog face tranny i can't i'm it's almost my kind of trump joker 0.99

00:30:26.620 impression is it's going less into norm and more into gilbert godfrey caitlin collins looks like 0.89

00:30:32.720 it's just it's just this vicious blunt the fact that the delivery is kind of botched makes it

00:30:40.380 even funnier it's like no affect just this is not a dean martin roast this is not hey hey buddy you

00:30:47.960 know kind of razzing you this is a man bloodthirsty for revenge and enjoying every second even as the

00:30:55.360 reviews say oh trump bombed people weren't laughing in the room whatever what does he do he posts on

00:31:00.120 truth social and doubles down on the joke that i don't it is a kind of comedy but it's not it's

00:31:09.080 not not the kind of comedy they're used to at the white house correspondence dinner uh now speaking

00:31:14.860 of comedy, by the way, and speaking of people who sound like Gilbert Gottfried, Tony Fauci

00:31:20.500 is back in the news. The man who shut the world down and who kept us all apart and made

00:31:25.460 our grandparents die alone and made us miss high school graduations. And the guy who told

00:31:29.980 us the Fauci ouchie, the COVID vaccine was totally safe before people died from it, said

00:31:35.720 that it would stop us from getting the virus before he admitted it won't. Told us that

00:31:39.820 would stop us transmitting the virus before he admitted it won't, told us that the coronavirus 0.90

00:31:45.380 came from a bad batch of bat soup at the Wuhan wet market before we learned that he privately

00:31:50.140 thought it came from a lab leak, before he perjured himself in front of Congress, and

00:31:54.340 et cetera, et cetera.

00:31:56.820 Tony Fauci is back in the news because Senator Rand Paul has released parts of his personal

00:32:03.740 diary.

00:32:05.100 And the thing we're learning, Daily Wire is a great article on this right now, is that

00:32:09.240 Dr. Fauci really, really loved being famous. Some of the quotes from the diary.

00:32:20.360 Dear Tony, dear myself, it is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked

00:32:28.960 about person in the country. He's writing this in his diary, like, dear diary, kicking his little

00:32:33.920 feet up at night lying on his bed dear diary yours gossip girl he goes on april 7th 2020

00:32:43.840 press still hot and heavy about me multiple stories per day directly or indirectly involving me

00:32:51.760 then he writes on may 21st 2020 big front page article about me appeared in the washington post

00:32:59.620 very flattering the situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really

00:33:06.920 unimaginable it is not hyperbole to say he goes on that he's the most famous person in the world

00:33:11.860 countless profiles on me in multiple media i cannot even read all the things that are written

00:33:18.060 about me since i'm so busy seriously he's writing this is a grown man this is a grown man a medical

00:33:24.360 doctor, one of the heads of the NIH, writing about this during the peak of COVID. I'm so busy,

00:33:32.600 but I just got to take a little bit of time to write down how much I love myself. I don't want

00:33:37.980 to forget about it. You will recall that when there was, I mean, this goes on and on and on.

00:33:41.840 We could be here all day reading Tony Fauci's love letters to himself. There was a profile on him in

00:33:47.620 one of the news outlets, and it showed him at his desk at home and his computer in his desk at home

00:33:53.840 sit in front of a giant portrait of himself.

00:33:58.100 I love that Rand Paul released this.

00:34:01.360 I love that he hasn't let up on the brakes

00:34:02.760 because Fauci perjured himself.

00:34:05.140 He perjured himself, some would argue in two ways.

00:34:09.140 One, by saying under oath

00:34:11.080 that he did not fund gain-of-function research

00:34:13.520 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:34:15.200 And he did, according to the plain definition

00:34:17.320 of gain-of-function research.

00:34:18.800 But he's going to try to weasel out of it

00:34:20.440 because he had vastly narrowed the definition prior to the funding.

00:34:26.760 And so he'll say, well, no, by my extremely limited definition

00:34:29.420 of gain-of-function research, I didn't perjure myself.

00:34:31.740 And people can litigate that all day long.

00:34:33.420 But there's an easier perjury point,

00:34:34.940 which is that he said that he hadn't talked about it

00:34:37.100 with the intelligence community.

00:34:39.080 He said he never discussed the lab leak with the IC,

00:34:42.400 and that is not true.

00:34:43.480 That was a complete lie.

00:34:45.280 So he did perjure himself.

00:34:46.320 I love that Senator Paul is not letting up on this.

00:34:50.440 Also, we were right.

00:34:52.840 Everything we thought about Tony Fauci was true.

00:34:55.600 You can go check out, by the way, Fauci Unmasked,

00:34:58.480 which we released during the COVID days on Daily Wire Plus.

00:35:02.240 But some of us were on to Tony Fauci for a long time.

00:35:06.420 Everything we thought about him was right,

00:35:08.140 that he's a politician more than he's a scientist,

00:35:11.800 that he seeks fame more than he seeks solutions

00:35:15.060 and the common good for the United States.

00:35:17.100 He was more concerned with his own PR

00:35:18.780 than he was with the public health.

00:35:19.980 And all of that is just totally proven true.

00:35:22.600 This is not just a humiliation ritual

00:35:24.460 that Rand Paul is engaging in.

00:35:26.460 It's a really important matter

00:35:27.580 because this happens a lot.

00:35:30.020 The right-wingers will tell the truth

00:35:31.800 and we'll all be called conspiracy theorists

00:35:33.460 and then we'll be proven right five years later,

00:35:35.800 at which point no one really cares anymore.

00:35:37.660 People barely remember

00:35:38.500 and we just move on to the next left-wing op

00:35:40.360 and we can't let that happen.

00:35:42.820 We were right.

00:35:44.000 Dr. Fauci is everything we thought he was and more.

00:35:47.560 Okay, now speaking of the Trump administration,

00:35:49.980 big new poll out from Daily Mail Jail of Partners about where the 2028 presidential primary stands

00:35:56.820 for the Republicans. Because there's a lot of shadowboxing going on. There was a lot of

00:36:01.140 infighting among operatives, some foreign, some domestic, among some activists, among a lot of

00:36:08.220 pundits. And the poll numbers show a huge disconnect between the activist class, the pundit class,

00:36:17.840 the operative class of the Republicans, and the actual Republican voters.

00:36:21.800 So I will tell you what is going to happen in 2028.

00:36:24.000 I'll bring out the Noel Stradamus crystal ball first, though.

00:36:25.960 My favorite comment yesterday is from The Sun That Shines, who says,

00:36:29.680 I award this comment section for being reasonably sane despite Israel being mentioned. 0.55

00:36:33.140 Yeah, I know.

00:36:33.760 We were talking about the NDAA, the idea that we were going to have a sort of formal office

00:36:39.920 created in the National Defense Authorization Act to help to integrate certain research

00:36:44.820 and intelligence with the state of Israel more than it already is. Obviously, we work very closely

00:36:49.760 with Israel already. But I cannot believe how sane the comment section was. Very clearly that

00:36:56.980 comment came from Spotify. There's no way that was a YouTube comment. No way. They just,

00:37:02.260 they're different. We love the YouTube commenters too. Differing degrees of sanity and excitability

00:37:07.940 between YouTube and Spotify where you can watch and listen to the show as well. Okay.

00:37:11.820 Okay. 2028, new poll out from Daily Mail, JL Partners. Who are the top four candidates for

00:37:20.060 the Republican nomination in 2028? If you listen to the pundit class and the operative class,

00:37:26.860 and you look on Twitter, which is at this point, I think 99.7% just bots and operatives,

00:37:32.400 some of whom are from America, you would think that this is a real contentious issue.

00:37:37.120 Maybe it's Vance versus Rubio 50-50. Maybe Rubio's up 60-40 to J.D. Vance's declining, dwindling public support. But if you look at the actual polls of actual Republican voters, not the pundits, not the operatives, right now you have J.D. Vance, 48%, Marco Rubio, 18%, Ron DeSantis, 12%, Ted Cruz, 5%.

00:38:06.660 And I think that's about right.

00:38:08.600 Even after these media cycles with, you know,

00:38:12.480 the vice president got in trouble for alluding to this the other day,

00:38:15.500 but, you know, pretty serious anti-J.D. Vance campaigns going on.

00:38:20.660 Even after all of that, with Rubio looking great,

00:38:23.240 because Rubio's doing a great job.

00:38:24.500 This is in no way a criticism of Rubio.

00:38:26.320 He's doing a phenomenal job as secretary of state.

00:38:28.920 But even with all of this, this brutal media cycle for J.D. Vance,

00:38:33.240 this really great media cycle for Rubio,

00:38:35.560 some of the donor class really trying to get Rubio to run, even after all of that.

00:38:40.900 Rubio is only six points ahead of Ron DeSantis. You got almost half of Republican voters saying

00:38:47.140 they want Vance, less than one of five saying they want Rubio. Then you get DeSantis,

00:38:54.300 about one in eight, and then you get Senator Cruz. Now, you would say, okay, well, what happens if

00:38:59.440 you get rid of DeSantis and Cruz? If it's just head to head, Michael, now we've got a much

00:39:03.280 closer race. Actually, not really, because the same poll looked at what would happen if it were

00:39:07.060 just Vance versus Rubio. Vance, 60%, Rubio, 29%. So, Vance has more than double the support of

00:39:13.400 Rubio. By the way, the idea that Vance and Rubio are at odds is totally contrary to everything that

00:39:20.220 I am actually hearing from sources who are close to everybody involved. And then this idea that

00:39:28.900 there's this big fight between Vance and Rubio is totally contrary to everything that Rubio and

00:39:32.500 Vance have said about it. Rubio, who endorsed Vance multiple times. I don't think he's going

00:39:38.620 to run if Vance runs. Rubio obviously wants to be president at some point. He already ran in 2016.

00:39:42.340 He'd probably make a great president. But there is no evidence that he is actually going to run

00:39:46.800 against Vance and a ton of evidence to the contrary. And I think in part, this is because

00:39:52.240 that Rubio sees the poll numbers. I think Rubio is making a right calculation about this. This

00:39:58.720 is totally what I predicted. And now, you know how much I hate to say I told you so, but now

00:40:04.360 I'm going to look ahead. I generally make a rule not to endorse in primaries. I like every candidate

00:40:10.680 actually who's in this top four. And I think this top four is basically right. What's really

00:40:14.760 interesting though is for Rubio, even if he did want to run in 2028, which I don't think he really

00:40:19.140 does, part of the reason he might not is because he doesn't really have a lane. The lane that he

00:40:26.660 could occupy is being the heir apparent to Trump. That's it. But Trump is just going to pick that

00:40:31.960 person. And Trump almost certainly is going to pick Vance. I guess, who knows? Trump's

00:40:36.800 unpredictable. He could pick somebody else. But right now, it would appear that Vance is the guy.

00:40:41.380 He's the vice president of the United States. When you're picked for that role in a non-consecutive

00:40:45.060 second term, then you're basically being lined up for that anyway. But that would be the lane for

00:40:50.400 Rubio. Rubio cannot run against the Trump administration because Rubio is one of the

00:40:55.960 most prominent people within the Trump administration. So what's really interesting

00:40:59.560 about this lineup is it actually gives lanes to both Ron DeSantis and Cruz. And I don't just say

00:41:08.580 it because I love the guy. You know, obviously I hosted a podcast with Senator Cruz for quite a

00:41:12.160 while. Even though he's just showing up at 5% in the polls here, Ted Cruz has a very serious lane

00:41:17.940 in this race. Because the way I see it, you're going to have the heir apparent to Trump, whether

00:41:23.920 that's Vance or Rubio, but it's probably going to be Vance. So you got the heir apparent to Trump.

00:41:29.100 Maybe, as Trump asks, you get Vance and Rubio as a combination ticket. That, I think, basically

00:41:34.760 ends the primary. But if you don't necessarily get that, then you could get a Ron DeSantis running.

00:41:41.420 Ron DeSantis is in a tough position. The reason he got kind of clobbered in 2024 is because

00:41:47.120 his best pitch is that he is like Trump, but better, even better. Trump 2.0, Trump with more

00:41:52.740 discipline, whatever. But he was literally running against Trump in that case. So his natural base

00:41:58.500 of support was all the people who hate Trump. So there was just a conflict within the campaign.

00:42:03.080 That probably would happen the same way this time. Whoever Trump picks, whether it's Vance or Rubio,

00:42:08.500 is going to have the Trump blessing. So if DeSantis runs and says, I'm the true heir to the

00:42:11.940 Trump legacy, it's not going to work because Trump's going to be involved in the race.

00:42:14.700 Now, if the Trump administration collapses, if the Iran war goes really, really south,

00:42:18.220 if the economy goes really, really south, if the Republican voters just totally turn on Trump,

00:42:22.040 Seems very unlikely. But if that happens, then Ron DeSantis has a real lane. Because the lane

00:42:27.820 for him could be, I'm the Trump-ish candidate. I'm the Trump-ish candidate. If you like a lot

00:42:33.380 of the stuff with Trump, but you don't like Trump's actual performance, I'm your guy. And that

00:42:37.460 is a real lane. And then you have Senator Cruz, who could run. I mean, don't forget, he was the

00:42:42.980 number two guy in 2016. He did very, very well. He's an extremely talented politician. He could

00:42:48.460 claim the Reaganite lane. So you've got a lot of the worry about J.D. Vance that's coming from

00:42:55.020 the activist and operative set right now. It's the same concern, often by the same people,

00:43:00.820 that you saw with Never Trump. And it's a concern over issues. Economic populism,

00:43:05.080 supposed foreign policy isolationism, insinuations of bigotry, a betrayal of the Reagan fusionist

00:43:13.640 coalition. All the same anxieties that you saw play out in Never Trump in 2016, you were seeing

00:43:19.460 play out in this kind of Never Vance op that doesn't really turn up in the polls, but it does

00:43:24.020 exist in the political media and with political operatives. And it's for the same reasons.

00:43:28.660 It's almost a one-to-one. But that leaves an opening because if the rise of Trump in 2016

00:43:36.500 all the way up to 2028 is about changing Republican Party orthodoxy on economics,

00:43:41.620 on immigration, on foreign policy. That does leave a lane open for the Reaganite lane, say.

00:43:48.060 Ted Cruz fills that lane perfectly. Again, I'm not saying that it would work,

00:43:53.460 but he has a lane. Rand Paul has a lane. Rand Paul has the libertarian lane.

00:43:59.180 But as it is right now, Rubio and to some degree DeSantis don't really have a lane,

00:44:07.540 which is why the polls are the way they are. And some people can be angry about that. They say,

00:44:11.140 but I really want DeSantis or I really want Rubio. But it just is what it is. I'm not, as you know,

00:44:17.480 I don't really endorse in primaries. I try not to anyway. I don't think that's my role as a

00:44:22.260 podcaster and a pundit. But the way I see it, it seems to be being borne out in the polls every

00:44:29.860 single day. And for Rubio, who's in a tough spot running for president, if Rubio were to want the

00:44:36.720 vice presidential nod, it seems to me he would be a shoe-in for it. And then you could have

00:44:40.720 just like a way better version of Reagan-Bush. You know, the Reagan-Bush,

00:44:45.100 Reagan and Bush are great, but the Reagan-Bush ticket was basically about uniting the conservative

00:44:51.220 wing of the party with the moderate wing of the party. But in the case of J.D. Vance and Marco

00:44:54.900 Rubio, none of them are like Bushies. None of them are Rockefeller Republicans. You know,

00:44:59.400 these are both pretty conservative guys. So anyway, that's, I think, where it stands.

00:45:04.360 I do want to get to, do I have time? Can we get to, yeah, okay. I don't care that I'm running

00:45:09.660 light. Too bad. It was a weekend. There's a lot of stuff going on. I want to get to Zoran Mamdani

00:45:13.520 saying that he's going to arrest Bibi Netanyahu if Netanyahu comes to New York. He's been

00:45:19.660 threatening this now for a week, two weeks, and Zoran Mamdani has just clarified what he intends

00:45:26.040 to do if Netanyahu does in fact show up. Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, the architect of a 0.63

00:45:33.220 horrific genocide against the Palestinian people. He is responsible for the killing of more than 0.99

00:45:37.900 73,000 people. For the maiming of tens of thousands of children as those who survive

00:45:44.700 undergo amputation without anesthesia. For the targeting of neonatal hospitals and maternity

00:45:50.620 care centers, denying newborns even the chance to live. For the countless people he starved as he

00:45:55.740 blocked food and humanitarian aid from reaching them. My administration has reviewed every avenue

00:46:01.020 available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the International

00:46:05.900 criminal court's arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here. It is clear that we do 0.84

00:46:10.540 not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant. The federal government,

00:46:14.880 however, does. And I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant. And I want to be

00:46:20.680 equally clear. Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City. Oh, an amazing video. Just an

00:46:26.060 amazing video. By the way, I cut out a lot of it because we don't have time to get into all of it.

00:46:30.400 He goes on for however many minutes about how Netanyahu is the worst guy in the world and he's 0.89

00:46:34.860 a lizard man and he's he takes candy from babies and he he's the Grinch who stole Christmas and 0.99

00:46:41.920 he's just the worst guy ever and he he likes to you know devour the corpses of his enemies or

00:46:47.720 something but and it all leads to this but he says but I am completely impotent to stop him 0.94

00:46:54.720 visiting New York so after after a week or two weeks I was like I'm gonna arrest Netanyahu

00:47:00.620 Bibi better not show up here. There's this international criminal court warrant, 0.70

00:47:04.800 even though the ICC has no jurisdiction in the United States, but I'm going to enforce it.

00:47:09.080 And then after that, Trump tweets out, he goes, actually, in an un-Trumpian fashion,

00:47:15.200 he's just really calm about it. He goes, Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested in any way,

00:47:19.420 shape, or form while in the United States of America. He's fighting the Islamic Republic 0.78

00:47:23.060 of Iran, which has done all these terrible things. So it's not going to happen. And then 0.68

00:47:27.440 after that, Momdani says, yeah, well, you know what? Trump's right. You're right. We're not

00:47:33.120 going to do anything. What Momdani is doing here is the opposite of speak softly and carry a big

00:47:37.840 stick. Teddy Roosevelt, another New Yorker, says speak softly and carry a big stick. But Momdani

00:47:44.680 sounds like an Italian-American teenager in a hypothetical situation. He's like, you know what

00:47:50.460 I'm going to do to you? You know what I would do to you? He's really talking smack like he's a

00:47:55.500 would-be gangster in the Bronx, but he's got nothing. He's got no Jews. And he's got no Jew. 1.00

00:48:00.840 And he's got no Jews either. No, he does actually have a lot of Jews in New York.

00:48:03.600 The Jews are very important to New York City. And so it's totally a joke. And on this point

00:48:07.880 of Netanyahu and Israel support and American Jews and all the rest of it, you just,

00:48:14.160 listening to this guy, listening to Mamdani go off with this vitriol on Netanyahu,

00:48:18.640 you just at least for me i really i just i can't i just can't get on board with the anti-israel

00:48:25.600 stuff i can't it's not it's not because i'm some hyper partisan for the state of israel it's not

00:48:31.000 because i'm a christian zionist it's not because i'm friends with ben shapiro i don't know it's

00:48:36.440 not because of any of that it's just like i have plenty of criticisms of the state of israel i

00:48:41.820 don't. But the hardcore anti-Israel stuff is just left-coded. And I'm a simple man. I'm a guy of

00:48:49.240 rules of thumb. And if Zoran Mamdani and AOC and Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar and Greta Thunberg

00:48:57.720 and just all the worst people in politics, if they all really ardently hold a certain point of view

00:49:06.360 on a certain issue, I just have to assume I should have the opposite point of view.

00:49:11.460 These are people who are wrong about everything.

00:49:15.700 So it would seem logical to me as a matter of prejudice, true Burkean-style conservative

00:49:22.380 prejudice, that I should just assume that he's wrong. The person in the world most likely to

00:49:30.900 get me to support Netanyahu is Zoran Mamdani and all those other people. It's amazing. Israel

00:49:37.220 sort of famously is just botching its PR and losing a lot of public support in the United

00:49:41.700 States and is making a ton of PR mistakes. The best thing that the state of Israel has going

00:49:48.840 for it right now is its enemies. That's the best. I don't know. Maybe Mamdani is getting 0.98

00:49:53.520 7,000 shekels per video. I don't know. Whatever it is, I don't know. He deserves it because he's

00:49:58.780 doing more than the entire Israeli

00:50:00.780 comm structure. Okay, so much

00:50:02.780 more I want to get to, but

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