The Michael Knowles Show - August 04, 2026


Ep. 2030 - Zohran Mamdani Wants To Starve Black People？

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Donald Trump Zoran Mamdani Scott Galloway James Tallarico Mom Donnie Pure Talk Dale JD Vance Francesca Hong Chuck Schumer Jared Kushner Steve Witkoff Virgin Mary Momdani Davies Jacob John Winston Churchill Brian Thompson Vladimir Putin and 16 more
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00:01:39.980 New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani has announced
00:01:42.460 that his new government-run grocery stores
00:01:44.980 will make sure the discounted goods
00:01:47.760 are going to New Yorkers by checking ID cards,
00:01:51.540 which means, if I understand Democrats' logic 0.77
00:01:54.620 on IDs correctly, that Mamdani plans to starve women and minorities. We will examine why Mamdani 0.90
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00:04:37.280 populace, the socialist mayor of New York, ran on and is carrying out his plan to have government
00:04:43.880 run grocery stores, because he says groceries are too expensive. So you have New York state
00:04:48.000 Democrats who are proposing to lower grocery prices by mandating a 10% discount. Grocery
00:04:55.880 stores have a 2% margin, by the way, but they're going to mandate a 10% discount. And somehow,
00:05:00.480 through the magic of socialism, that will bring grocery prices down.
00:05:03.920 Mamdani has a slightly different socialist idea. He is going to open up government run
00:05:08.240 grocery stores in New York. He's going to open up five of them. And this raises a question,
00:05:13.760 which is, well, how are you going to make sure that the groceries are going to the New Yorkers
00:05:18.800 who need it? The New Yorkers are paying for it through their taxes. So how are you going to make
00:05:22.940 sure that people aren't coming in from New Jersey or Connecticut, Pennsylvania, for that matter,
00:05:27.900 to buy their groceries? How are you going to make sure that the system works? And Momdani
00:05:32.280 has a simple answer for that, ID cards. How are you going to keep people from taking advantage
00:05:39.500 of that you know that deal basically and is there going to be a limit on the
00:05:44.180 number of items that someone can take that are discounted at that level from
00:05:47.480 that essential basket so our RFP makes very clear that this is a program for
00:05:52.760 New Yorkers to be able to put food on the table not a program for people to be
00:05:56.540 able to make a quick buck through reselling I'm going to pass it over to
00:05:59.220 our EDC head GPAC to add some additional details yes if you look at our RFP for
00:06:04.580 the operator we are looking to make sure that we target New Yorkers whether
00:06:09.440 it be a sort of a library card-esque. And also we manage who's buying and that is focused on
00:06:15.920 everyday New Yorkers. So we are mindful of that. And so we're going to make sure that we have all
00:06:21.400 the things in place to make sure that that does not happen. Whoa, hold on. Wait, did you see that
00:06:26.080 little thing she's sandwiched right in there? They asked Mom Donnie, how are you going to make
00:06:29.560 sure this is going to the people you want it to go to? He says, well, I'm going to turn it over
00:06:32.380 to the person running it. The person running it says, yeah, yeah, we want to make sure that this
00:06:37.200 is really targeting New Yorkers, maybe through kind of like a library ID card or something like
00:06:41.260 that. And we're going to make sure it's getting to the people that it needs to get to. Hold up,
00:06:44.600 what was that thing you mumbled in the middle there? A library card-esque ID system? What?
00:06:55.340 An ID card. But I have been reliably informed by all the Democrats, not just the radical socialists.
00:07:03.960 I've been reliably informed by Chuck Schumer that black people and Hispanic people and women,
00:07:12.440 all women, can't get ID cards. That's why we can't pass the Save America Act.
00:07:18.520 That's why we can't have voter ID, even though voter ID has greater than 85% support among all
00:07:23.020 voters. Because if you require an ID, women and black people and Hispanic people are much too 0.95
00:07:30.680 stupid to get IDs. They just can't figure it out. Even if you tell them, you know, you just go to 1.00
00:07:35.020 the office, you just, you get your ID for this. Yeah, you just don't know how to do it. So you
00:07:42.340 can't. Now we're, hold on. Now we're saying that we want women and black people and Hispanic people
00:07:49.980 to vote, but not to eat. How are they going to, how are they going to go vote if they can't eat? 1.00
00:07:55.880 they're going to be so tired. They're going to be so frail and weak. This doesn't make a lot of
00:08:01.920 sense, does it? Well, Mamdani's office realized this is kind of a bad look because the question
00:08:10.800 specifically gets to the issue that drives the voter ID debate, which is, well, what about fraud?
00:08:16.200 You know, one, there are going to be people. The other reason the grocery stores aren't going to
00:08:19.260 work is people are going to go buy the groceries at a 30% discount and then resell them at a 20%
00:08:23.760 discount under the market prices. And so people are just going to hoard it. And so you're either
00:08:28.500 going to have to ration the food, or you're going to have to stringently enforce some kind of ID
00:08:33.780 mechanism. And the rationing is what you actually get in socialist societies. And with the ID,
00:08:39.560 it still probably won't work, but at least then you can try to keep out the non-New Yorkers. 1.00
00:08:44.620 But if the black people and the women and the Hispanics can get IDs to go get groceries, 1.00
00:08:49.400 Surely they can get IDs to go vote, right? 0.55
00:08:52.020 Well, spokesman for the New York mayor's office trying to clean up his mess responds to the Daily Wire.
00:09:00.280 Says, comparisons to voter ID laws or the SAVE Act simply do not apply.
00:09:05.180 This is not an identification system, nor is it a mechanism to verify who someone is, where they live, or how much they earn.
00:09:12.360 It is a practical inventory management tool to ensure affordable groceries remain available for
00:09:19.140 the people who need them instead of being cleared off shelves for resale. Wait, hold on. What?
00:09:23.760 Hold on. It says it's not an identification system, but that's not true. The mayor's office
00:09:30.060 with Momdani there saying, hey, I'm going to turn it over to the person running this thing. 0.65
00:09:33.180 And then the lady running this thing says, yeah, we're going to have an ID system.
00:09:35.880 You're saying it's not an ID system. She compares it to a library card. A library card's an ID
00:09:39.580 system. That's what a library card does. In fact, basically, the only thing a library card does
00:09:46.400 is tell the library who you are to identify you and to make sure that you're a resident of the
00:09:52.940 place that has the library. So that's just a complete lie from the New York City mayor's
00:09:58.660 office to the Daily Wire and to the other outlets that they're trying to clean up with right now.
00:10:02.820 It's not an ID system, nor is it a mechanism to verify who someone is. That's the same thing.
00:10:07.540 So they're just repeating themselves.
00:10:10.440 It's not a mechanism to show where they lived.
00:10:13.360 Again, those are all three, the same kind of thing.
00:10:16.860 They're all encapsulated in the library card comparison
00:10:19.660 that the New York City mayor's office made
00:10:21.920 or how much they earn, maybe not.
00:10:24.240 I guess the grocery stores, I guess, are open to everybody.
00:10:27.640 But it is those things.
00:10:29.120 I mean, this is just a blatant lie
00:10:30.980 to clean up for a Freudian slip,
00:10:33.580 a Freudian slip where you say one thing
00:10:34.900 and mean your mother.
00:10:36.000 This was a Freudian slip.
00:10:37.100 They said, well, yeah, the way to prevent fraud is to have ID.
00:10:39.880 Ooh, ooh, yikes.
00:10:41.980 Ooh, I shouldn't have admitted that.
00:10:43.800 So then their explanation, their alternative explanation is,
00:10:47.380 it's an inventory management tool to make sure the groceries are available to,
00:10:54.160 what, so that you can figure out how much to stock, how many boxes of cereal to stock.
00:10:59.180 You don't need an ID card for that.
00:11:00.880 You don't need a library card for that or whatever they're pretending this card would be.
00:11:05.480 you you would just have your inventory accounts you would you would have a spreadsheet of your
00:11:11.580 inventory in other words you don't need to know anything about the consumers in order to manage
00:11:17.420 inventory you just have to see how much product is going off the shelves this is not only a blatant 0.96
00:11:23.520 lie from the new york city mayor's office this is a pathetic lie this doesn't convince anybody 0.78
00:11:29.060 i mean i'm not sure that the spokesman for the mayor's office who wrote this comment
00:11:33.900 understands the English language. He certainly doesn't think that we understand the English
00:11:38.240 language. Totally pathetic. I'm glad they admitted this. They realized their error a 0.99
00:11:46.280 little bit too late. But we now have an admission from the leader of the socialist wing of the
00:11:53.540 Democrat Party, one of the top two leaders, it's Mamdani and AOC, who says, yeah, well,
00:11:58.260 the way to prevent fraud is to have ID. Okay, well, if that's true, then we need voter ID.
00:12:05.840 The vast majority of voters, both parties, understand that to prevent voter fraud,
00:12:12.980 you need voter ID. To prevent grocery store fraud, you need grocery store ID.
00:12:18.000 If the groceries are being sold below market price as part of a government program,
00:12:22.280 to prevent that fraud, you need grocery ID. And groceries are really important.
00:12:26.860 cheap groceries are great. I've been a Costco member and a Costco customer since I was
00:12:33.020 two. Cheap groceries are great. But in our democracy, as pertains to our political order,
00:12:41.020 the integrity of our election systems, the integrity of our politics is actually more
00:12:46.180 important. That's a higher good even than cheap bananas. That's why you need it.
00:12:53.940 So now everyone agrees.
00:12:55.580 All the Republican politicians agree that we need voter ID.
00:12:59.200 Virtually all of the voters agree that we need voter ID.
00:13:03.220 All races, all sexes, all parties.
00:13:06.960 The one holdout, it was the Democrat politicians who don't want voter ID
00:13:11.560 because they know, as they just admitted, that voter ID prevents fraud.
00:13:16.300 And they want fraud because they want to steal elections.
00:13:19.640 And they rely on voter fraud to steal elections.
00:13:23.620 Now, it's not just the conservatives who are whining about Mamdani.
00:13:28.600 I think a lot of people are starting to realize that what they thought they were getting when
00:13:32.860 they elected this envious, resentful socialist is not so great.
00:13:37.480 It was one thing when the envious, resentful socialist was just going to go for all of
00:13:41.300 their enemies.
00:13:42.540 But now, as always happens with socialism, they start coming after their own as well.
00:13:48.940 And there's one very prominent lib, Scott Galloway.
00:13:53.020 I think I debated this guy actually on Piers Morgan's show a little while ago.
00:13:56.580 Scott Galloway, he's an NYU professor.
00:13:58.340 He's a huge lib.
00:13:59.420 He's the leader of the resist and unsubscribe movement to stop ICE by pressuring the businesses
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00:14:08.020 This is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, should love Mamdani, loves all the liberal politicians
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00:15:52.400 big resistor, true blue dem. He's very upset because in principle, the socialists winning
00:16:02.100 can be a great thing in principle so run mamdani's pied-a-terre tax which is just going to tax the
00:16:08.800 really rich people the really rich people that we don't like the ones who don't even really live in
00:16:13.380 new york he's just going to take their money and that's oh in principle that's fine doesn't really
00:16:17.000 affect me well now as a result of that policy scott galloway has been doxed and he can't believe
00:16:25.580 it happened. And I've been doxed. You've been doxed? What? Tell me.
00:16:32.400 Uh, so I don't know if you've heard, but Mayor Momdani has decided to release a list of the
00:16:38.360 950,000 residences with addresses and names that might be eligible for his pied-à-terre tax. I
00:16:46.240 came out in favor of this tax. This is the definition. He's taken a legitimate source
00:16:52.080 of tax revenue and he's turning it into a wanted poster. And the question I would have is, other
00:16:57.840 than trying to identify and imply these people have done something wrong, and then 18 months
00:17:03.360 after a healthcare CEO was executed in the street and then published the list, what is the upside
00:17:10.400 here? Why is he doing this? Why is that? It just doesn't make any sense. This is the meme,
00:17:15.880 The meme that goes around, the voter absolutely crestfallen, sobbing, weeping, cannot believe that after voting for the leopards-eating-people's-faces party, the leopards would eat their own faces too.
00:17:34.360 No, I didn't think the leopard would eat my face.
00:17:38.100 Yeah, I mean, I voted for the leopards-eating-people's-faces party, but I didn't think the leopard would eat my face.
00:17:43.640 This doesn't make any sense.
00:17:45.880 I supported this tax when he thought it didn't affect him, when he thought that it was just
00:17:54.120 a kind of reasonable way to redistribute money.
00:17:58.060 And it's just a kind of an economic, you know, little, little, nice, little, nice, little
00:18:03.320 policy.
00:18:05.720 But in fact, socialism, as Winston Churchill tells us, is the gospel of envy.
00:18:12.840 It's not, it's certainly not charitable.
00:18:15.880 it's not just about spreading the wealth around. It's not about helping the poor.
00:18:21.080 It's about hurting the rich. Charity would be helping the poor. Envy is about taking something
00:18:28.340 away from someone. And that's really what socialism is about. When Mamdani suggested
00:18:33.780 this policy, when he proposed it, we were told it was going to affect about 31,000 people.
00:18:38.560 31,000, small number of people who have these nice sort of penthouses. And they're not even
00:18:43.140 there most of the time. They're barely New York City residents. That's fine. No big deal. It's
00:18:45.960 just them. Who cares about them? We hate them. But it's just going to be 31,000 people. And then
00:18:49.540 they announced, no, it's actually going to affect almost a million people. And not only are they
00:18:53.660 going to tax a million people, it's not just that it changes in the magnitude of the tax,
00:19:00.080 but we're going to publish their names and addresses. We're going to dox them,
00:19:06.360 as Galloway points out, right after the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson,
00:19:10.640 was murdered in cold blood by an envious radical leftist killer simply because he was a rich guy.
00:19:19.500 Mom Donnie says, hey, I'm going to publish a list of all these rich people.
00:19:23.060 This is the enemy's list. And Galloway says, why are you putting me on the list? I'm one of the
00:19:26.440 good ones. It's like these guys in the French Revolution. One of the cousins of King Louis 0.55
00:19:31.040 the 16th supported the revolution, cheered as his cousin the king was guillotined by the radicals.
00:19:40.640 just some months later, he himself would be guillotined as well. The revolution would eat
00:19:45.140 its own. The revolution always does. So it's delightful to watch this totally predictable
00:19:52.100 result occur and to see the shock and dismay on the faces of the left. But this should be a
00:19:59.440 warning to all of us as well, because it's not just going to end with the libs. They're going
00:20:04.660 to go after everybody. There's not a lot of rhyme or reason to it. They're going to get caught in
00:20:12.140 their total hypocrisy on the ID. They're not going to admit there's hypocrisy. They're going 0.92
00:20:17.380 to vomit out words saying this is not like voter ID. This is about inventory or whatever. It's
00:20:22.660 just words, words, words, because words mean nothing to these people. Words are not signs
00:20:27.640 that signify something. They're not a way of communicating using symbols that point to some
00:20:32.720 objective truth. Words for the left are understood merely as tools of manipulation
00:20:38.140 to accrue and exercise power. That's what it's about. And I think Scott Galloway is a relatively
00:20:46.300 smart guy. So deep down, I'm sure he probably knew that. He just never thought it was going
00:20:50.180 to come for him. And it came for him so fast. That's the only maybe somewhat surprising part.
00:20:56.920 it was so fast. Momdani just got elected and it came so fast. And that might wake some people up
00:21:08.160 in the midterm elections. It's the best thing we got going for us as Republicans. The economy is
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00:21:18.060 we should get wiped out in a landslide in the midterms. But the libs are so bad. There's a
00:21:23.820 slight chance we win, but it's scary if we lose. And by all accounts, we probably should lose.
00:21:28.860 Think about what's going to happen in Wisconsin. We talked yesterday about Francesca Hong.
00:21:33.020 She is this rabidly anti-white. She just hates white people. She's a socialist candidate in 1.00
00:21:39.500 Wisconsin in a very crowded field for the Democrat nomination for governor, and she is
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00:21:51.620 the rest of them were down in low single digits. So the hits keep on coming with this woman. 0.88
00:21:58.220 You want to talk about resentment. You want to talk about the food industry. 0.98
00:22:01.360 Francesca Hong worked in the food industry, and she is claiming that the food industry itself,
00:22:10.080 Mom Donnie should take notes on these talking points. The food industry itself
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00:22:22.520 We are finally having this conversation about, you know,
00:22:25.640 how our industry really did come from it
00:22:29.280 and kind of is rooted in white supremacy.
00:22:31.100 That tipping in itself, if we look at the history of tipping
00:22:35.340 and how racist it is and how it has kept wages low
00:22:38.800 for black people for a very long time. 0.96
00:22:42.580 Tipping is rooted in white supremacy. Now, this is a very funny, euphemistic way of describing
00:22:49.220 tipping because I've worked in the food industry. Two of my first three jobs were in the food
00:22:55.060 industry. I've worked more jobs than that in the food industry. Many people listening right now
00:23:00.300 will have worked in the food industry. And I have to ask, I know this is just anecdotal,
00:23:06.420 but the plural of anecdote is data. If you've worked in the food industry, whether you're
00:23:11.840 Asian, white, black, brown, whatever, if you've worked in the food industry, am I allowed to?
00:23:19.700 Who tips better? Would you say if you had two customers, a white guy and a black guy,
00:23:28.300 which guy is going to tip better? I know it's stereotypical. All stereotypes are true. That's 0.99
00:23:35.100 why there's stereotypes. It's not true of every individual, but tipping is rooted in white 0.77
00:23:40.020 supremacy is the funniest explanation I have ever heard as to why white people tip better than not 0.83
00:23:46.860 white people. But that's not even what she's talking about. What she's talking about is
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00:23:59.120 sin that needs to be extirpated, not by the grace of God, but through sheer Pelagian tyranny of 0.81
00:24:05.960 will, which she will bring to bear as the governor of Wisconsin. Everything for this woman comes back
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00:25:33.200 Here is the very likely future governor of Wisconsin 0.93
00:25:37.960 describing how deep her hatred of white people is,
00:25:42.720 that it affects how she views her own child.
00:25:46.140 I wasn't always aware of the struggles of other communities of color
00:25:49.740 because for me, assimilation always kind of took over.
00:25:53.240 And so I did marry, and proximity to whiteness continues, right?
00:26:00.260 My son is biracial.
00:26:02.420 He's half white and half Korean.
00:26:04.580 And I think navigating what his identity is
00:26:09.220 and how people perceive him is always at the back of my mind as well.
00:26:13.100 Okay, did you follow that?
00:26:14.440 Did you follow that train of thought?
00:26:16.580 So she starts to say that she was married to a white guy, but she's so disgusted by that fact. 1.00
00:26:22.760 I mean, this is a truly crazy woman. 0.96
00:26:24.360 She did a whole video about how she's bipolar and how she, I think, may have been committed to an institution. 0.95
00:26:31.360 Maybe she had very serious psychiatric interventions and cut herself. 1.00
00:26:37.000 And the woman is super-duper messed up. 1.00
00:26:39.400 And she blames all of it on white people. 1.00
00:26:43.160 So she marries a white guy. 0.99
00:26:45.080 I guess she divorced the white guy. For her, whiteness is bad, as she has made abundantly 1.00
00:26:52.640 clear. Whiteness is bad. And her proximity to whiteness continues because her kid is part white, 0.99
00:27:03.420 half white. And so that's in the back of her mind all the time. 0.54
00:27:09.160 this is a woman who is by her own logic expressing a difficulty loving her son
00:27:19.700 because he's white this is the woman who wants to govern wisconsin the role of a statesman
00:27:31.260 of a governor of a president of a political leader the chief job qualification is to love
00:27:38.880 his people, to love his constituents, to work toward the common good of the people.
00:27:45.440 That is what distinguishes good government from bad government. It's not just the form of
00:27:50.120 government. It's not monarchy or aristocracy or democracy. We go all the way back to antiquity,
00:27:55.620 all the way back to our friend Polybius, our friends Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas,
00:28:00.500 the whole Western political tradition. The difference between good government and bad
00:28:04.940 government. It's not the form or the procedure of the government. It's whether the rulers govern
00:28:10.460 for the common good, for the good of the people, or whether they rule for private interest. 0.91
00:28:15.860 This woman obviously doesn't like a lot of her constituents. Wisconsin is what, 75% white? 0.99
00:28:22.420 She constantly is talking about how much she doesn't like white people.
00:28:26.660 but consider this the fact that this woman thinks and would admit publicly that she feels a kind of 0.55
00:28:36.420 tension in the back of her mind all the time because of her proximity to whiteness in as much
00:28:42.480 as her child is half white that she has problems in her relationship to her own son tells you if
00:28:51.140 she can't fully love her son and accept her son for being white, half white. How on earth 0.98
00:28:57.780 is she going to care for her people that she would govern if she were a leader of Wisconsin? 0.87
00:29:04.340 This is as gigantic a red flag as you can possibly imagine. And so what is she going to do to work
00:29:12.460 through her deep-seated anti-white racism? Is she going to say, you know what, we just got to move
00:29:16.260 past that. I got to get past my biases. We got to turn the temperature down on racial strife. No,
00:29:20.700 She says she wants to increase racial tension by putting racial identity politics even more into the classroom.
00:29:30.640 Introducing legislation to add Asian Americans to school curricula in terms of, you know, adding us on to American Indians,
00:29:41.660 black Americans and Hispanics in terms of citizenship requirements for
00:29:46.880 what needs to be in curriculum for school boards, you know, going back to making sure that
00:29:53.680 talking about racial identity and the role of race is ubiquitous in classrooms.
00:29:58.620 And that, you know, people don't see that type of change as a threat. 0.99
00:30:05.200 One, I hate white people. Two, I need to make sure that we talk about racial identity all the 0.96
00:30:11.300 time in classrooms, much more than we are now. We've been talking about racial identity in
00:30:15.040 classrooms for my entire life. It really started to kick off in the 1990s. A little bit earlier
00:30:20.800 than that, maybe the 80s was really when it started to creep up. And she says, oh, it's
00:30:25.480 nowhere near enough. Whiteness is awful and evil and pervades everything. And white supremacy is 0.97
00:30:31.180 at the root of every terrible thing in the world. Everything, period, including tipping at 0.97
00:30:36.320 restaurants. And we need to talk a lot more about racial identity. So right now, the slightly good
00:30:41.660 news out of this is that our friends over at Kalshi have this crazy lady likely, slight edge, 1.00
00:30:52.080 likely losing the Wisconsin race. They've got Tom Tiffany up at 53% chance of being elected 0.99
00:30:59.000 governor. He's the Republican. But hold on, we're talking a razor thin margin here. 53 to 47,
00:31:05.700 48, depending on what time of day you're looking at it. This race is almost dead even 1.00
00:31:10.680 with this woman who says she's a literal crazy person who hates white people 1.00
00:31:19.440 on and on and on and on and on. Who is a socialist? We haven't even gotten to the 0.99
00:31:23.400 economic policies. Who is a socialist? On and on and on and on and on. She wants to cancel
00:31:28.540 Thanksgiving, for goodness sakes, the American holiday. We don't even have time to get to that
00:31:31.660 clip. We got to move on. But that's how dangerous this election is. That's how terrible the results
00:31:40.880 could be. We have all of the political wins against us right now, and the Democrats they're
00:31:45.020 going to elect, it's not Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. That would be bad enough. It's not Joe
00:31:49.680 Biden or even Barack Obama. That would be bad enough. It's these people. It's people who believe
00:31:56.180 things like that abortion is gender-affirming care. This is a Planned Parenthood post from
00:32:01.060 yesterday. And this is a magnificent statement that should be studied by political philosophers
00:32:06.160 for decades. Planned Parenthood comes out as wokeness is so unpopular, got blown out of the
00:32:13.680 water in the 2024 election. Dems are trying to run away from it, but they can't run away from
00:32:17.400 it. And it's, they realize it's a real tension. It's costing them a lot of their political
00:32:20.820 advantage in the midterms. Planned Parenthood comes out and says, abortion is gender affirming
00:32:26.800 care. A statement you will note, which is both misogynistic and transphobic. Because, let's
00:32:35.260 start with the trans part of it. If abortion is gender-affirming care, then that means that one's 0.97
00:32:42.040 gender has to align with one's biological sex. The transgender movement, from which we get this 0.93
00:32:47.080 idea of gender-affirming in the first place, gender-affirming, which really means gender
00:32:52.060 denying, gender affirming being used as this politically correct euphemism to say that if
00:32:56.920 you're a man, but you think you're a woman, and then people call you a woman, that's gender
00:33:01.920 affirming, even though it would be gender denying. In any case, when you say abortion is gender
00:33:06.400 affirming care, what you're saying is that your gender has to relate to your biological sex
00:33:11.060 because men who think they're women, trans women, can't have abortions. And ideology has not
00:33:17.180 advanced to the point that men cannot have abortions because abortions do require a uterus
00:33:21.980 and a growing baby to murder. So to say abortion is gender-affirming care is to say that
00:33:28.760 transgenderism is nonsense. It's totally fake. But on the flip side, that's the transphobic part 0.98
00:33:35.380 of it. On the other side of it is this kind of deep misogyny. So implicit, again, I don't think
00:33:41.620 these people understand what they're saying, but it is what they're saying. Implicit in this idea
00:33:45.740 that abortion is gender-affirming care.
00:33:48.900 You say, okay, your gender is your biological sex. 1.00
00:33:51.720 And if you kill your own child, 1.00
00:33:54.580 you are affirming your identity as a woman. 0.99
00:33:58.060 Can you imagine?
00:33:59.880 Can you imagine the thought process?
00:34:03.860 For these people, I think it's unwitting.
00:34:06.600 But to say that abortion is gender-affirming care
00:34:09.240 is to say that the most womanly thing you can do, 1.00
00:34:14.820 the most essentially woman thing you can do is to murder your child. 1.00
00:34:22.360 That's a pretty low view of women, isn't it? 1.00
00:34:24.800 It's a little bit of a dim outlook on women.
00:34:28.040 The ideal of the woman in Christianity is the Blessed Virgin Mary,
00:34:34.880 the Blessed Mother who gives birth to the Savior,
00:34:39.820 who is this perfect woman who is a mother, not just the mother of God, but Christ on the cross
00:34:51.060 gives her to us as our mother too, says to John the apostle, behold your mother.
00:34:58.040 And in speaking to the apostle John, he's speaking to all of us, behold your mother.
00:35:03.400 And in this satanic inversion, Planned Parenthood says, no, no, no, no. The perfect woman, 0.94
00:35:08.380 the perfect ideal of womanhood is not being a mother. It's not having a child. It's not 1.00
00:35:15.480 mothering. It's murdering your child. Very, very dim view of women. And what it really shows you 1.00
00:35:24.340 practically, because they weren't thinking that deeply about this. It's just like Mom Donnie
00:35:28.700 and his deputy saying that, yeah, well, the way we're going to prevent fraud in the grocery
00:35:32.780 stores is to have ID cards. Oops. Oops. I shouldn't have said that. And then they have
00:35:37.740 to walk it back. Well, it's just like that, Planned Parenthood. What they were practically
00:35:41.580 trying to say is that what they do is abortions. Planned Parenthood offers other stuff, and they
00:35:46.680 made big hay about this because they want to get federal funding, and they want to circumvent rules
00:35:50.820 against funding abortion. So what they say is, no, no, no, we give out condoms. We do
00:35:55.620 mammograms. They don't actually give mammograms out. They just lie about that. But they say,
00:35:59.720 no, no, we do other services. We have gender-affirming services. This is now a big part
00:36:06.680 of Planned Parenthood's business. Planned Parenthood gives estrogen to men, gives testosterone to
00:36:13.280 women, gives puberty blockers to kids, gives referrals for the transgender mutilations. 1.00
00:36:18.580 That's been a big part of their business because it's a growing segment of the sexual revolution, 1.00
00:36:23.200 of sexual debauchery, is all this transgender stuff. So Planned Parenthood says, well, 1.00
00:36:26.780 we got to get in on that business. So they start to get in on the trans stuff. But
00:36:30.820 what their business is really about is abortion. It was never about giving out condoms. It was
00:36:37.140 never about health screenings. It was never about mammograms. It was never about even the
00:36:40.520 transgender stuff. Planned Parenthood exists to kill babies. That's what it is for. Everything 1.00
00:36:48.400 about Planned Parenthood comes back to killing babies. Every dollar that goes to Planned 0.70
00:36:53.060 Parenthood, whether you give personally through your donations, which I don't recommend,
00:36:57.140 or the taxpayer money that Planned Parenthood gets, which I also don't recommend, 0.99
00:37:01.840 every dollar ultimately is for killing babies. That's what they're saying. 0.99
00:37:07.500 Abortion is gender-affirming care. Everything has to come back to abortion for Planned Parenthood, 0.87
00:37:14.020 which is an indictment, not just of the way it views the trans people, the trans movement,
00:37:18.280 because it unwittingly has just undermined the entire trans movement. It doesn't even
00:37:23.620 come back to just how they view women. They've unwittingly undermined women. They have just 0.65
00:37:29.380 given the most viciously misogynistic take on women you've ever heard in your entire life.
00:37:33.880 But what they're really admitting is their whole business is about abortion. And if their whole
00:37:37.580 business is about abortion, they should be defunded. They should be outlawed and their 1.00
00:37:43.360 leaders should be prosecuted. But at the very least, they need to be defunded. They're telling
00:37:49.720 you themselves. All they want is abortion. Time to defund. I'm Howard Mackler. I spent my career 0.96
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00:39:26.800 pal James Tallarico down in Texas, who is now, he's made some really bad arguments recently.
00:39:34.540 he was just whining alongside. He was nodding and lamenting the fact that a black teenager 0.83
00:39:41.780 was prosecuted for murdering a white teenager in cold blood. He said, oh, isn't it terrible? 0.90
00:39:46.360 That's white supremacy. It's that white supremacy. You know what white supremacy leads to? It leads 0.98
00:39:52.880 to tipping, and it leads to white people being murdered, that dastardly white supremacy. 0.99
00:39:57.520 But Tallarico is now making a subtler argument. He's going viral for this. 0.98
00:40:01.180 He's arguing that his supposed Christian faith, which is fake for him, but he pretends to it.
00:40:08.180 His Christian faith tells him that Jesus proves that healthcare is a human right.
00:40:15.460 We'll get to that momentarily, and we'll get to the Japanese and to the Oxford Union,
00:40:19.400 maybe to Iran.
00:40:20.040 But first, my favorite comment yesterday is from Makhan.
00:40:24.440 Michael, when are you coming to Serbia?
00:40:26.940 Pick this comment as your favorite,
00:40:28.460 and I'm buying you a ticket to visit your future favorite country in Europe.
00:40:31.380 Bring Mr. Davies and Professor Jacob with you.
00:40:33.260 This is very exciting.
00:40:34.080 I always love hearing, you know, the show is listened to all over the world,
00:40:37.920 and I'm always delighted if I'm traveling somewhere kind of exotic,
00:40:41.300 and someone comes up to me and says, oh, you know, I love your show.
00:40:43.700 You know, it's like, oh, that's cool.
00:40:45.280 I kind of, sometimes I forget that the show is seen and listened to all over the world.
00:40:49.240 But Serbia, that's a cool one.
00:40:50.920 So I can only take you up on your offer if you exclude Mr. Davies and Professor Jacob.
00:40:56.280 If you exclude them, or at the very least, you know, if we're going to have to bring them,
00:41:00.460 if you let me check them in my luggage, then maybe. But I appreciate that. I appreciate
00:41:03.880 the invitation to Serbia. Hello to all of the Serbians listening. James Tallarico,
00:41:08.880 trying to bring the Democrats back to a little moderation, trying to make them seem kind of 0.87
00:41:13.020 normal after the Tallarico failures and the Francesca Hongs and the Nazi rapist up in Maine
00:41:18.560 who got replaced by the guy who had kids with his cousin. And, you know, the Dem candidates
00:41:22.940 are looking really bad.
00:41:24.120 So Tallarico, trying to bring it back to normal, 1.00
00:41:25.960 trying to speak to normal Americans, Christians, 0.87
00:41:28.180 to promote his more socialist schemes. 0.87
00:41:32.200 Let's check out his exegesis.
00:41:35.920 Healthcare is a human right.
00:41:37.940 It is not a privilege.
00:41:40.020 I just, since we are in church,
00:41:41.460 and because I said BS earlier,
00:41:43.140 if you read our scriptures,
00:41:46.480 if you read the New Testament,
00:41:48.200 what does Jesus spend most of his time doing?
00:41:51.420 It's not, well, you already know, okay.
00:41:54.020 It's not preaching, it's not teaching, it is healing, healing the sick.
00:41:59.620 And in Matthew 25, Scripture says that's how we will be judged and how we will be saved,
00:42:05.840 by healing the sick, by feeding the hungry, by welcoming the stranger, by visiting the
00:42:10.280 prisoner.
00:42:11.160 Okay, so I don't want to get to his kind of cloudy exegesis, you know, generally his theology
00:42:18.380 is really messed up.
00:42:19.180 He says God is non-binary, and he says the Blessed Virgin Mary promotes abortion.
00:42:23.800 He's in line with Planned Parenthood on that point. 0.96
00:42:25.980 So this is a vile, vile heretic and a guy who is much closer to the Antichrist than to Christ. 0.99
00:42:31.840 But just on the point he's making, notice what he says. 0.99
00:42:36.040 He says, healthcare is a human right.
00:42:40.400 That is to say, healthcare is something we deserve.
00:42:43.900 And the proof is that Jesus heals the sick in the New Testament.
00:42:49.180 that does not follow. That is a non sequitur.
00:42:55.440 What Jesus is doing is giving us grace. We do not deserve to be forgiven of our sins.
00:43:01.580 We do not deserve to be healed. We do not deserve much of anything at all because we sin,
00:43:10.120 because this world has fallen, because we are not God, because we cannot save ourselves.
00:43:15.200 So what Christ shows us is this overflowing of grace that he will save us, not through our own
00:43:23.580 merits, but through his merits. And James Tallarico, once again, a kind of satanic perversion,
00:43:32.040 says what we can conclude from this is we deserve healing, we deserve forgiveness,
00:43:38.540 we deserve salvation, which is a downright Pelagian, to repeat the word from earlier in
00:43:45.120 the show. Yeah, it's really good to help people. Charity is really good. We are called to be
00:43:52.600 charitable. We were told that if we don't have charity, we don't have anything. We can have faith,
00:43:58.260 we can have hope, we can have all of the cardinal virtues, but if we don't have charity, we're like
00:44:01.380 a clanging gong. But what he's talking about here is not really charity. He's not charitable
00:44:09.760 at all when he talks about his opponents. And what he's talking about here is really an inversion
00:44:17.080 of the gospel message. No surprise from a man who says he's learned more about faith from Islam than 1.00
00:44:21.920 he has from Christian writers. He's learned more, in effect, from Saeed Qutb than he has from St. 0.62
00:44:26.880 Paul checks out. No, that's, see, it proves that we deserve it. Actually, what scripture tells me 0.98
00:44:32.480 is we all deserve death and that we are saved by grace, actually. Okay. Speaking of death,
00:44:38.840 just a magnificent clip. There's not even that, this'll get into the Iran war, I guess, a little
00:44:43.080 bit, but President Trump was on Air Force One. He was doing an interview. He was being asked about
00:44:49.440 this on-again, off-again strikes on Iran. They're apparently working on a peace deal again. We'll
00:44:53.320 see. Iran says they're going to have control over the Strait of Hormuz, which would be 0.76
00:44:56.860 geopolitical catastrophe for the United States. Rubio has discussed that. But the United States
00:45:02.540 says, no, no, no, they're not going to have control over the Strait of Hormuz. So it's a
00:45:04.940 on-again, off-again war. Will they, won't they? The Ayatollah loves me. He loves me not.
00:45:10.420 So President Trump was asked about other geopolitical affairs on Air Force One.
00:45:13.340 And he's asked specifically about why he's trying to support Japan, why he's going to
00:45:17.440 bail Japan out as they're having trouble with the yen. Here's his answer.
00:45:22.000 Mr. President, why is the U.S. intercating to support the Japan yen?
00:45:26.860 at this time? To support who? To support the Japanese currency.
00:45:30.580 Because we have a good relationship with Japan. We're very strong, very, very strong financially.
00:45:37.980 And they are, they have a weakening yen, and they wanted a little bit of help. And we're
00:45:42.700 always there for Japan. Japan's been very good to us, with the exception, of course, of Pearl Harbor.
00:45:48.680 I just love it so much. I don't even know. I guess the political import of this is that
00:45:56.840 Trump is actually very good geopolitically. He's getting knocked right now because of the Iran 0.96
00:46:01.220 war. Iran, just such an obstacle for the United States for 50 years. But he really does have a
00:46:07.580 great sense of geopolitics. And he has a very good sense of relationships. And he's always
00:46:11.140 knocked for offending our NATO allies or whatever. But what does he do? He actually gets our NATO
00:46:15.440 allies to contribute more to NATO, which actually strengthens our NATO allies. He's knocked for
00:46:20.080 you know, having a working relationship with Vladimir Putin or Xi or Kim Jong-un for that
00:46:26.720 matter. But he actually has a good grasp on geopolitics. And I just love, he never loses
00:46:31.240 the showbiz of it. Why are you supporting Japan? Yeah, Japan has been an ally since World War II,
00:46:36.600 and we've helped build up Japan, and we got a good relationship, and Trump was buddies with Abe.
00:46:41.040 And he goes, look, Japan has been very good to us, with the exception of Pearl Harbor.
00:46:47.480 Okay, next question. Just a really pithy, beautiful way to say it. I have very little
00:46:52.300 political import derived from that beyond it. Okay. Speaking of Iran, though, President Trump
00:46:58.480 posts, says, the USA is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran
00:47:03.940 at levels of military strength, power not seen since World War II. Despite this, we have just 0.82
00:47:09.880 been asked by Iran and other Middle Eastern countries to hold off any attack in that the
00:47:14.220 perimeters of a deal has been agreed to. This would include the immediate, complete, and total 0.93
00:47:18.400 opening of the Hormuz Strait and an end to Iran's nuclear threat. Based on this request, I have 0.93
00:47:22.860 agreed for the future benefit of the world and likewise the survival of a successful and prosperous
00:47:27.420 Iran to cancel the attack subject to being able to rapidly make a deal. Country of Israel joins 0.75
00:47:33.920 me in this commitment. Get to work, everybody. Get it done. Thank you for your attention to this
00:47:37.860 matter, President Donald J. Trump. So we've seen a number of versions of this over the course of
00:47:41.440 the Iran war. And we'll see what happens now. It's very interesting. When Trump went to war
00:47:48.400 in Iran, which, as I've said from the beginning, had I been on the NSC, I would have argued against
00:47:52.320 it. I made the case against these strikes, not because Iran doesn't deserve it, but because
00:47:55.880 I didn't see a reasonable probability of success that would be worth the cost.
00:48:01.240 In any case, reasonable minds can disagree on it. You don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon. I 0.92
00:48:04.440 get all of that. Nevertheless, there were a lot of voices who were really, really into the strikes
00:48:09.940 on Iran. And they were cheering Trump on when he was pushing the war in Iran. Then when Trump
00:48:16.880 wanted to make a deal, all those pro-war voices turned on the administration. But what's very
00:48:23.200 curious about it is they didn't turn on Trump. They didn't want to turn on Trump. They did the
00:48:28.780 sort of thing that courtiers have done since time immemorial, which is they blamed Trump's wicked
00:48:33.960 advisors. So it's never the king's fault. It's always the fault of the wicked advisors.
00:48:38.880 So they blame, especially J.D. Vance.
00:48:40.900 They tried to make J.D. Vance into the face of diplomacy,
00:48:43.340 as if Vance were doing something that Trump did not want,
00:48:45.900 as if Vance were going rogue or something like that.
00:48:48.800 And maybe they'd blame a little bit Jared Kushner
00:48:50.720 and Steve Witkoff, who were leading a lot of the negotiations.
00:48:53.780 In any case, I found the whole thing
00:48:55.460 to be totally disingenuous.
00:48:56.960 Very political, not surprising, rather,
00:49:00.060 but still pretty disingenuous.
00:49:02.680 And then Trump goes back to war in Iran,
00:49:05.000 and they're all cheering on. 0.89
00:49:06.160 But what about now?
00:49:07.560 What about now where it's very, very clear
00:49:09.080 that Trump himself is saying,
00:49:10.940 no, we really want to make a deal.
00:49:12.280 If you're seriously paying attention,
00:49:14.000 that's been true from the beginning.
00:49:15.260 But what about now?
00:49:17.860 Are the ardently pro-war voices,
00:49:21.260 people who really want this war to continue,
00:49:23.160 are they going to have the guts
00:49:24.980 to criticize Trump for this,
00:49:27.280 to go after Trump,
00:49:27.780 to stop pretending that it's J.D. Vance
00:49:29.620 or Jared Kushner or Steve Witkoff?
00:49:31.320 Say, no, no, no, it's Trump.
00:49:32.400 Trump's the president.
00:49:33.200 Trump's the guy.
00:49:33.820 He knows what's going on.
00:49:35.080 He makes the decision.
00:49:37.440 You know, there were a lot of anti-war people who said, oh, it's not Trump's fault that he got
00:49:40.800 involved in the war in Iran. It's Bibi Netanyahu's fault. And the pro-war voices at that point said,
00:49:44.560 that's disingenuous. Don't blame the wicked advisors. It's on Trump. He's got agency. He's
00:49:48.940 making his decisions. He's the guy. And then they immediately flip when it goes the other way.
00:49:53.120 So the question is now, do we acknowledge that Trump is a serious person who is doing what he
00:50:01.040 wants to do? And is there a reasonable probability of peace? Because I might have the exact opposite
00:50:09.220 take of what's been really popular on the war. At the beginning, I was rather opposed to it,
00:50:13.540 and I thought it was a bad idea. Though Trump's got a good record on foreign policy, so I'm not
00:50:18.680 going to turn on the president. I'm not going to become a Democrat overnight. But still, I would
00:50:22.200 have advised him not to go in. But at this point, we have that wisdom from Machiavelli. Wars begin
00:50:27.940 at the will of any man, but they don't end at the will of any man. Now, Iran really has us in a 0.97
00:50:32.400 tough position. And if we surrender the Strait of Hormuz to Iranian control, this will look a lot 0.97
00:50:38.760 like the Suez Crisis for the British, which marked the end of the British as a global empire. 0.94
00:50:43.220 We can't afford to lose our global empire. So what do we do now? What do we do now,
00:50:48.420 especially as we see the midterms on the horizon, especially as we see these very dangerous
00:50:53.660 candidates, not just around Mamdani, but people like Francesca Hong, James Tallarico, around the
00:50:58.480 corner, poised to take power, open in their resentment and their plan of destruction.
00:51:04.600 What do we do? The Iranians know when we hold our elections too. 0.89
00:51:09.420 There will be no quick resolution to this war, it seems to me. It's just, there's no quick, 0.83
00:51:15.080 I said that before the war and as it was beginning and afterward, that's how it goes. 0.98
00:51:21.620 If we succeed in what President Trump wants to get out of Iran, it'll be a master stroke 0.72
00:51:25.840 of grand strategy. But the probability of success seems relatively low. So how do you get out of it? 0.51
00:51:33.260 The most immediate political question is, how do you stop the damage that could occur in the
00:51:40.140 midterm elections? If anybody can pull a rabbit out of a hat, it's Trump. But it's a brutal position.
00:51:44.900 Certainly don't envy the position of the president. Okay. A lot more. Oh, so much more to get to. I
00:51:50.700 clip about the predations of Islam, the supposed Groyper problem of the GOP, according to Politico.
00:51:58.980 I want to get to all of it. New deportations numbers come out, but it's Tee Hee Tuesday. 0.63
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