The Michael Knowles Show - August 12, 2026


Ep. 2036 - Anti-White Socialist Who Tried To Cancel Thanksgiving Loses Election In Wisconsin


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00:01:00.780 canceling socialist Francesca Hong has gone down in the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary 0.94
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00:01:13.500 disappointing upset. We pour one out. We just take a moment. We pour one out for Francesca.
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00:03:44.940 can we bring back sarah mclaughlin can we bring back we can we bring her back i'm really sad about
00:03:51.140 this francesca hong has gone down where's sarah bring me my bring me the arms of an angel thank
00:03:59.000 you i was looking forward to this one we got the guy in maine who had kids with his cousin 0.68
00:04:06.240 that democrat candidate we got abdul el sayed who's trying he's either a jihadi or a homosexual
00:04:12.580 depending on how his campaign is playing him at the time. 0.79
00:04:15.100 I was so looking forward to Francesca.
00:04:18.740 So can we do a retrospective before we move on to the new nominee, David Crowley?
00:04:24.180 Let's just, before we let her go, 0.99
00:04:27.220 Francesca Hong was campaigning on how much she hates white people in a state that is 75% white. 1.00
00:04:35.880 She made this as clear as day when she discussed the discomfort 0.98
00:04:41.400 with her proximity to whiteness because her kid is part white.
00:04:45.600 I did marry. My proximity to whiteness continues, right? My son is biracial. He's half white and 0.70
00:04:54.420 half Korean. My proximity to whiteness continues. When I talk about my kids, I say, little so-and-so, 0.94
00:05:02.120 he's got his daddy's hair. Little such and such, he's got his mother's eyes. My boy's the apple
00:05:10.400 of my eye. And when Francesca Hong talks about her kids, she says, my son is half white.
00:05:19.560 So my proximity to whiteness continues. She was just a perfect candidate. I just loved her. 0.66
00:05:25.880 Then if that would not be enough to take her down with a general election crowd,
00:05:30.900 she called to cancel Thanksgiving. She was even asked about this by CNN.
00:05:36.060 Americans should cancel Thanksgiving, should have done this in 1621.
00:05:40.400 The post has been deleted. Republicans have been highlighting it. 0.97
00:05:43.700 Do you still believe that Thanksgiving should be canceled?
00:05:49.780 I'm a chef, and one of the first meals that I made that was for the community when I was 16 was a Thanksgiving meal.
00:05:59.560 You know, I always think my hospitality background and owning a restaurant for seven, eight years, that bringing folks around the table to share conversation and build community is always a good thing.
00:06:12.220 But Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities.
00:06:17.780 And so I think there I wanted to make sure that people understood that there are multiple views, but views can evolve.
00:06:25.300 And the position that I'm running for right now, and I think my background as a chef, will actually help me become a better governor that's able to bring more people to the table.
00:06:35.520 Okay, so that was a long way of saying, yes, she still wants to cancel Thanksgiving, which is the American holiday.
00:06:42.040 That is the uniquely American holiday.
00:06:44.680 It's the first American holiday.
00:06:46.260 It's the holiday that sets up our whole country, going all the way back to the Mayflower, which is a great cigar brand, by the way.
00:06:51.000 And she says, hey, you don't still want to cancel Thanksgiving, right?
00:06:53.420 I'm a chef.
00:06:55.300 I didn't, that's a non sequitur. I didn't, I'm a chef. I believe in community and I hate America.
00:07:05.060 I hate Thanksgiving. So I think what started to really tip this campaign over the edge of losing
00:07:11.760 is when it came out that her candidacy was actually being buoyed by Republicans.
00:07:16.920 You had Republicans running attack ads on her in the primary. We talked about this a little bit
00:07:19.860 yesterday. They were running attack ads in order to excite the Democrat base. The only reason a
00:07:25.140 republican would run an attack at in a democrat primary is to is to try to troll to bait the
00:07:32.020 democrats into doing the opposite of what the republicans want they also there was another
00:07:35.560 pack it was like middle class priorities it only had one donor which was this fake sounding
00:07:40.780 progressive name that was a republican front group so i i was so excited for it i said man
00:07:45.720 the republicans are getting real dirty here i love this and in the end it wasn't enough they
00:07:51.120 nominated this guy, David Crowley. And so the silver lining here, as we pour one out for
00:07:57.120 Francesca, is that this guy, the moderate Democrat, is almost as bad. And I think this
00:08:02.860 is going to have to be the message Republicans keep hammering through the midterms. This guy
00:08:07.800 is almost as bad. He was the Milwaukee County executive. He wasn't a chef. He had some political
00:08:13.220 experience, but he wanted to go soft on crime. He still wants to go soft on crime, like criminals
00:08:20.040 out of prison. He supports abortion on demand up until the moment of birth. He says he's going to
00:08:25.960 solve the drug problem by giving drugs to junkies. You know, safe injections, safe injections of
00:08:31.900 heroin. He wants to legalize other drugs. He says racism is a public health crisis. He's pro-trans.
00:08:39.600 He's pro-trans. Trans, which was the apotheosis of the leftist woke ideology. He supports that.
00:08:46.160 So by the standards of even six, seven years ago, this guy is as radical a leftist as they get.
00:08:53.880 And it just tells you something about the state of the Democrat Party that now he's the moderate.
00:08:57.700 10, 15 years ago, Bill Clinton was the moderate.
00:09:00.300 Bill Clinton, who wanted to deport illegals, said illegal immigration is illegal, wanted to deregulate the government.
00:09:06.720 But now this guy, by the standards of six or seven years ago, this would be the radical socialist DSA crazy left candidate.
00:09:14.340 Now he's the moderate.
00:09:15.320 So it's a smart move for the Democrats, and it shows you they're serious about moving past
00:09:21.560 woke one. Remember AOC, we'll get to AOC because she split from her fiance. AOC said woke one was
00:09:28.160 crazy. It was crazy. We mutilated your kids and made your parents die alone during COVID and got
00:09:35.940 you fired for being white. But that was crazy. Now we're moving on to woke 2.0. And conservatives 1.00
00:09:43.220 who have been paying any attention to this at all said,
00:09:45.140 hold on, Woke 2.0 is basically the same as Woke 1.0.
00:09:48.220 If Woke 1.0 was crazy, how was it crazy?
00:09:51.720 In what ways was it crazy?
00:09:53.220 What parts of it were crazy?
00:09:55.100 And the answer that we're getting,
00:09:56.660 as you especially see this with the nomination of Crowley,
00:10:00.960 is Woke 2.0 is the same thing as Woke 1.0,
00:10:05.720 but it just looks a little nicer.
00:10:08.340 You know, David Crowley, he like wears a nice collared shirt.
00:10:10.700 You know, he smiles a little bit more. 0.91
00:10:12.020 He doesn't talk about how much he hates white people or his own child or Thanksgiving, you know.
00:10:16.240 But in terms of the actual policies, it's basically the same thing. 1.00
00:10:20.320 Kill the babies, trans the kids, let the criminals out of prison. 1.00
00:10:24.220 It's basically the same thing. 1.00
00:10:25.780 This is what Democrats are, to me, we've talked about this on the show going back to the earliest days.
00:10:31.340 I haven't mentioned it in a while.
00:10:32.900 To me, one of the essential features of liberalism and leftism is they want the appearance of the thing but not the essence of the thing.
00:10:40.040 They want decaf coffee.
00:10:41.660 They want Diet Coke. They want Christian civilization, but they don't want Christianity. 0.99
00:10:46.900 Guys like Richard Dawkins, who say, I'm a cultural Christian. I want people to behave and be nice
00:10:53.020 and build beautiful buildings, but I just don't want to worship God. They want to look like a
00:10:58.320 woman, but they don't want to actually be a woman. They want the appearance of marriage, 1.00
00:11:02.540 but they don't want the essence of marriage. They want the appearance of a country, but they don't
00:11:05.640 want the essence of a country, which is sovereignty and justice and all the rest of it. So that's
00:11:09.580 what it is. It's going to be Abigail Spanberger. They're going to pretend to be real nice and
00:11:13.140 normal. And then they're going to govern in the most radical ways we've ever seen in this country.
00:11:17.120 It's really annoying because this will be more persuasive to voters. Democrats are very good
00:11:21.780 at dissimulation. Democrats are very, very good at deception. And they're proving here 0.63
00:11:26.220 that they are. The Democrats often can grab a hold of their party. This is why
00:11:31.460 when Bernie Sanders looks like he's going to get the nomination from Hillary,
00:11:35.440 At the end, they kind of rig it.
00:11:37.300 They give the debate questions to Hillary. 1.00
00:11:39.120 They have the superdelegates in their system.
00:11:40.740 They usually have a better hold on their party than the Republicans do.
00:11:43.820 They lost that hold a little bit during the peak woke.
00:11:46.880 They really started to lose control, but they're getting control back.
00:11:50.320 They're going to be much more formidable in the midterms
00:11:52.880 than some of us were hoping even two weeks ago. 1.00
00:11:54.760 Now, speaking of crazy women, we moved from Francesca Hong to a woman 1.00
00:11:58.320 who has now gone totally viral, dominating the Internet. 0.86
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00:13:26.160 The bride who broke the internet. Take it away. 1.00
00:13:29.900 Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to present the newly married couple,
00:13:33.780 Mr. and Mrs. Brandon Key.
00:13:44.900 Mr. Brandon Key and his wife, Regina.
00:13:49.240 Aloui.
00:14:00.360 You did not tell me that.
00:14:02.120 I thought you knew.
00:14:03.640 You didn't tell me that.
00:14:06.680 The sigh says it all.
00:14:08.640 I'm still not even convinced this is real, that the video is real.
00:14:11.900 I guess it is, but I'm not even convinced it's real,
00:14:15.200 even though I know that this phenomenon happens.
00:14:16.880 I know that plenty of women don't take their husband's last name for different reasons,
00:14:20.920 perhaps some reasons better than others, but this one's not that persuasive. 1.00
00:14:25.500 This is clearly just feminism. 1.00
00:14:28.720 Mr. So-and-so, and he can't say Mrs.
00:14:32.180 Because if you keep your maiden name, you can't go by Mrs.
00:14:36.220 Because then it sounds like you're the wife of your dad.
00:14:38.920 So you have to just go by your name.
00:14:41.840 No Mr., no Ms., no Ms., no Mrs., but it's just Francesca,
00:14:46.080 whatever her name is. And the sigh from the officiants is at all, like, hey, buddy,
00:14:52.760 hey, groom, are you sure you want to do this? The marriage isn't complete until they consummate
00:15:01.100 the marriage. So the husband at that moment, I think I should check up on canon law, not that
00:15:07.340 this was in a church, but I think he had one last out and he probably should have taken it.
00:15:12.880 He tried to play it off with a chuckle, but you just know this guy is going to be in for a
00:15:17.980 terrible life. And there are two aspects to this. One is, should women take their husband's name?
00:15:24.600 Yes, they should. I know that some people don't, but they should. They just should.
00:15:29.300 There are sometimes for professional reasons or this, but just as a general rule,
00:15:34.600 statistically 100% of the time, yeah, you should take your husband's name
00:15:37.800 because you're forming a family together. You're either going to have your husband's name or
00:15:42.820 your dad's name. And let's say you were raised in a really feminist household by a single mother 1.00
00:15:46.960 or three lesbians or whatever. You have their name. Well, they have their dad's name. At some 1.00
00:15:52.060 point, you're going to run into the patriarchy. You're going to run into a man. So what she's
00:15:56.300 saying is, I'm not giving myself to you. I'm not forming a new family with you. I don't accept you
00:16:01.420 as my husband. I'm still my own independent person, or I still belong to my dad or whatever.
00:16:06.960 But I'm a feminist. I probably hate my dad, but I'm keeping his name anyway. And in any case,
00:16:11.960 I'm an independent woman. So I went back to the Bible, because the Bible has a lot to say about
00:16:17.760 this. I'm listening to Bible in Five Years by Father Mike Schmitz, a really great podcast.
00:16:23.140 And just recently, we were going through Proverbs and Sirach, and just a few quotes.
00:16:28.460 This is from Proverbs 19.13. A quarrelsome wife is like the constant dripping of a leaky roof. 1.00
00:16:34.300 proverbs 21 19 better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife 0.98
00:16:42.160 there is a lot in proverbs about you'd be better to live on the corner of your roof
00:16:46.200 a lot of roof imagery better to live on the corner of your roof than share a bed with a
00:16:50.900 nagging wife and then from sirak 26 25 the protestants a lot of protestants don't include 1.00
00:16:57.200 this in their bible canon but uh nevertheless this is part of the bible a headstrong wife 1.00
00:17:02.700 is regarded as a bitch. That's, that's the Bible. That's scripture. And it's obviously true. So the 1.00
00:17:10.100 first point, should women take their husband's name? Yeah. Yes, they should. They should. You 0.63
00:17:15.200 just, you should. But beyond that, this poor guy, he's standing there and everyone in the internet
00:17:21.100 was just dunking on all of this. You just, you know, you can, you look at her, you hear what
00:17:26.220 she says, you look at her behavior at her wedding and you just think this guy's in for a terrible
00:17:30.280 life. And I am reminded, your spouse is very nearly the most important decision you will ever
00:17:39.560 make in your life, in your life. It is the most important decision, I guess, is how you live your
00:17:47.260 faith, your religion, because these are ultimate things pertaining to God. But just below that,
00:17:52.380 don't forget the marriage is supposed to be an image of Christ and his church. The husband and
00:17:57.180 wife are an image of Christ and his church. If you pick a bad wife, and there's a second part
00:18:05.560 to this, which is if you don't husband your wife, you can pick a bad one and it's going to be really
00:18:11.000 hard for you. But no matter what wife you pick, if you don't husband your wife, if you don't live up
00:18:16.420 to your role as a husband, which involves loving your wife, sacrificing for your wife, but it also
00:18:20.560 involves leading your household. That's the part that modernity leaves out. They say, oh, we're
00:18:25.660 going to sacrifice yourself, lay down everything, you know, servant leadership. Yeah, that's part
00:18:29.320 of it. You also have to lead. You also have to be able to make decisions. You also have to be able
00:18:32.480 to say no. You also have to be able to set the tone. You also have to be a man. You have to be
00:18:36.200 a husband. And if you don't do that, you're going to have a bad life. I remember I was talking to
00:18:42.580 Adam Carolla about this years and years ago. We were talking about what looked like a bad marriage
00:18:47.720 of another person from the outside. And I said, what's the deal with that, Adam? Adam knew this
00:18:51.960 person. And he said, I don't want to reveal too many details, but he knew this person. He said,
00:18:55.660 And, you know, I think the problem is really this wife, you know, because a bad wife, it's like a 1.00
00:19:00.280 miasma in the house. It's like radon. It's like this poison that you can't even smell, and it's 1.00
00:19:06.200 just slowly killing you, and it will totally transform you. Because in marriage, the wife 0.94
00:19:10.620 becomes more like the husband, and the husband becomes like the wife. They actually are mutually 0.91
00:19:15.080 transformed. The wife tends to not to, this is like the hour of sexist caricatures, but, you know,
00:19:21.540 all stereotypes are true. Women are more malleable. They become more like their husbands, 1.00
00:19:26.280 but the husbands transform too because you become one flesh. So you really, you transform each other.
00:19:30.960 This is, everything about this is bad and it really should be a warning sign. I feel bad for 0.66
00:19:34.780 this guy that his life is ruined, probably ruined, but just take this as a warning.
00:19:39.940 We all focus so much on what school am I going to go to? What I need to get into the right college
00:19:45.420 and then I need to get the right internship so that I can get the good job or go to the right
00:19:50.320 graduate school and then I need to get to the right firm and I need to do that. All of that is
00:19:57.400 nothing compared to the decision you make for your marriage, which is the decision you make
00:20:04.880 for your family, which is the decision you make for everything in your life, for the air that
00:20:11.060 you breathe. If you were a fish, it's the water that you swim in. And when the marriage begins,
00:20:16.820 This is why, right off the bat, like a lot of, I remember Jeremy gave me this advice years and
00:20:21.980 years ago. We were talking about planning the wedding, my wedding. And, you know, a lot of
00:20:25.860 guys just check out of that. They say, I don't care. Let the wife do whatever, let her pick.
00:20:29.200 And he said, you can't do that. You got to be involved in it. You got, you actually have to 0.54
00:20:33.840 have a leader, leading role in that because this is your first act as a married couple.
00:20:37.800 And if your first act as a married couple is, you know, I'm just going to be Homer Simpson,
00:20:41.220 couch potato, happy wife, happy life. If that's how you're setting the tone for your marriage,
00:20:47.340 you're going to have a bad life. This is a real theme running through the ordinary people who
00:20:55.860 are not in politics and media, who live normal lives and who are not constantly seeking the
00:21:00.560 spotlight. And it's true all the way up to politics. We'll get to AOC. There's another
00:21:04.140 woman who's gone viral for her novel approach to marriage, which is that she and her husband
00:21:11.480 live apart. He lives in the house. She lives in an apartment. But the apartment's less than
00:21:15.920 one mile down the road. And she says this has done wonders for her marriage.
00:21:20.660 My husband lives in our house less than a mile away. And I live in an apartment complex just
00:21:27.280 down the street because I just don't want to freaking live there anymore. The way he lives,
00:21:31.200 the way I live very very different it was not working for a very long time but we love each
00:21:36.840 other we didn't actually want to get divorced nobody done anything there was no massive drama
00:21:42.500 it was kind of like I just can't be here anymore so I left right now we're in like a dating mode
00:21:47.860 and that's super fun we see each other as like individuals I go to his house and if he makes
00:21:54.520 dinner I can help him with the dishes and I was like is this how you always felt and he's like
00:22:00.380 yeah. I was like, this is awesome. Oh, man, this is so sad. It's another one where I don't, you
00:22:06.660 know, I don't reflexively believe anything that I see on the internet, but this might be real.
00:22:10.520 This is very much in keeping with the modern approach to marriage. And so the first question
00:22:15.440 you got to ask yourself is, what's in it for him? Why is he in this marriage? I get why she is in
00:22:22.780 this marriage. Because over time, just as father time claims all of us, as Kronos devours his sons,
00:22:31.520 women are less attractive to men, like on the dating market. Women's stock goes down on the 0.99
00:22:38.560 dating market as we all commoditize ourselves. For men, though, that's not really true.
00:22:44.400 Men's stock diminishes a little bit. In some cases, it goes up, actually, as the man
00:22:48.100 gets more money and status and is more established. So I get what's in it for her.
00:22:54.700 She gets to have the stability of a kind of a marriage, but she doesn't have to cook. She
00:23:01.740 doesn't have to clean. She doesn't have to make a home. She doesn't have to do any of that. 1.00
00:23:06.740 She just comes over when she wants to be liked, and then maybe she washes a dish and she goes 1.00
00:23:11.420 back to her place. I get what's in it for her. What's in it for him? I mean, it's good,
00:23:16.400 good on him that he's not getting divorced. He shouldn't get divorced. But how does this work?
00:23:22.360 What is this novel approach to marriage? Why has no one thought of this before?
00:23:26.460 Well, what's the thing that's missing? The only reason that this could possibly work,
00:23:32.180 it doesn't work, but the only reason it could even work in theory is because they clearly
00:23:36.940 don't have any kids. If they had kids, this would be much more traumatic. No trauma. I don't want
00:23:42.920 to be around them that much anymore. I didn't want to make a home or do anything.
00:23:46.400 I moved down the street. Well, because they don't have kids. If they had kids, they would have to
00:23:51.080 stay. And so in a way, you can almost understand her perspective, which is, well, the marriage
00:23:56.940 that we're in isn't really ordered toward anything. And this brings us back to the debate
00:24:02.860 over same-sex marriage or all these various attempts to redefine marriage. Because it is
00:24:07.680 the position of the conservatives, the real conservatives, not the squishy like half liberal
00:24:12.240 guys who say, oh, you know, marriage can be whatever you want. Just don't make me pay for
00:24:15.660 it, just cut my taxes. But like the actual conservatives who have an even semi-coherent
00:24:19.260 view of the world, they say, well, look, marriage, the reason that we can't have same-sex marriage,
00:24:23.960 the reason that you can't redefine marriage, even if Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy
00:24:27.140 writes some poetry from the bench, the reason you actually can't do that is because marriage
00:24:31.480 is a thing. Marriage is the lifelong union of a man and a woman ordered toward the procreation
00:24:39.540 and education of children. And another good that comes from that is the mutual support of the
00:24:43.200 spouses, but the thing that it's for, the purpose of the marriage is, in principle, children,
00:24:50.240 making children and rearing children. When you take that out of it, it's not that couples who
00:24:57.380 have infertility can't have a good marriage, can't have a good life. But when you take out,
00:25:02.700 even in principle, the thing that marriage is ordered toward, you don't expand marriage,
00:25:07.820 You just abolish marriage. What is it about a same-sex marriage that distinguishes it from 0.58
00:25:17.560 some other kind of relationship? You say, well, it's two fellas who really like each other. Well,
00:25:23.000 that's true of friends. That's true of brothers. That's true of cousins. I don't know. That's true
00:25:30.380 of your coworkers sometimes. Not all the time, but sometimes. What is it? Well, you say, well,
00:25:34.920 I'll tell you what distinguishes it. The two fellas or the two chickies are doing a bunch 1.00
00:25:38.940 of weird sex stuff together. You say, okay, well, that wouldn't, that still wouldn't distinguish 0.99
00:25:41.980 it. Plenty of people who are not married do a bunch of weird sex stuff together.
00:25:47.380 So that doesn't distinguish it either. You say, well, the two men in the same sex marriage live
00:25:52.060 together. Well, hold on. I was just told that married couples don't need to live together. 0.92
00:25:55.660 What actually distinguishes it? The only thing that can distinguish marriage from other kinds 0.99
00:26:02.420 of relationships is the fact that it is a lifelong union. It's not a temporary union. It's not just
00:26:08.100 dating. It's a lifelong union of a man and a woman that is in principle, in its nature,
00:26:15.380 ordered toward the procreation of children. It is open to life. It is inclined toward life.
00:26:21.740 When you take that out, you've abolished marriage. And so it's no surprise that this couple,
00:26:26.780 it's just like, yeah, I don't know. I mean, we just, we woke up one day and said, why are we
00:26:29.700 doing this, but we're, we, we did it and we're not going to get divorced, but we're not going
00:26:33.500 to really be married. And we're just going to, because we don't have a purpose, we're just going
00:26:39.560 to kind of flail about and we're going to do whatever pleases us in the moment. I want to go
00:26:44.520 have dinner with my husband. Sometimes I'll do it, but I don't want to wash the dishes. I'll leave
00:26:48.260 and I'll just, and we'll just be stuck in stasis forever. That's a very, very sad life.
00:26:55.160 Now, this rises to the level of politics because AOC has split with her fiancé of four years.
00:27:02.240 We'll get to that momentarily first, though.
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00:28:23.060 See rep for warranty and promotion details. There's a funny dynamic that plays out on the
00:28:28.380 left and the right. You know, there's a line about right-wingers, political right-wingers,
00:28:33.680 where you say, you never ask a man his salary, you never ask a woman her age,
00:28:38.640 and you never ask a right-wing man the ethnicity of his girlfriend or wife.
00:28:44.160 It's very funny.
00:28:45.040 You end up in these situations where, you know,
00:28:47.340 the guys who are embracing these real sort of reactionary right-wing views,
00:28:52.040 they're dating like, you know, Mexican women or whatever.
00:28:55.060 You know, they're sort of, they get a little more exotic in that.
00:28:57.600 These are, even the really extreme guys who embrace like white identity politics,
00:29:01.880 you know, they often are dating slightly duskier people.
00:29:05.540 Well, there's a similar dynamic that plays out on the left.
00:29:09.260 Never ask a man a salary. 0.84
00:29:10.520 Never ask a woman a rage.
00:29:11.400 never ask an anti-white democrat politician the race of her boyfriend it's aoc was dating like 1.00
00:29:18.400 the whitest guy ever uh and engaged to him ilhan omar she you know she has a thing for the white 1.00
00:29:23.620 fellas francesca hong was married to a white guy that's why she has proximity to whiteness through 1.00
00:29:28.920 her son but for aoc no more they split which would explain why a 36 year old woman is freezing her 1.00
00:29:35.380 eggs. Because it's very sad. It's actually very sad. I feel for AOC. It's a pity. I don't know
00:29:41.360 how it broke up. I don't really care. It's not my business. But it's sad. Because clearly she,
00:29:46.280 at least in theory, wants to have children. And she just hasn't done it. They haven't gotten
00:29:50.280 married. And they haven't had kids. And now she's getting a little close to that point where, you
00:29:55.040 know, she's going to want to go find a guy pretty quickly and have kids. Or she could freeze her 1.00
00:29:58.820 eggs. But that usually doesn't work. And it's unethical anyway. And she's in a bad spot. 1.00
00:30:03.840 So why?
00:30:04.620 Why did they break up?
00:30:05.540 Well, one can surmise that it's the same reason that all sorts of members of Congress break up.
00:30:12.380 Because that lifestyle is not really conducive to family life.
00:30:18.160 I was talking to a friend of mine who's a member of Congress.
00:30:20.360 He said like 50% of members are cheating on their spouses with staffers or with reporters or with lobbyists or whatever.
00:30:28.000 Because you're away from your family.
00:30:30.240 You're away from your beloved five days a week.
00:30:33.180 you fly to D.C. on Monday. Maybe you fly back home on Thursday night, maybe Friday morning.
00:30:39.460 But even when you fly back home, you got to do a bunch of campaign events. Maybe you got to go
00:30:42.460 fly to some other part of the country to campaign for some other candidate. If you want to rise up
00:30:46.060 the ranks, get into leadership, run for a higher office, especially AOC clearly wants to run for
00:30:50.320 president. So you don't, you just end up living apart. And the really sad thing gets us back to
00:30:56.820 what we're talking to with that poor schlubby husband, you know, with that awful wife getting 0.52
00:31:01.620 married and she won't take his name. It's a misplacement of priorities because I think 0.64
00:31:07.980 I've spent enough time around Congress. I'm friends with enough members of Congress.
00:31:12.160 I worked my first congressional campaign when I was a teenager, 19 or 20, something like that,
00:31:17.220 that I can tell you it's not worth it. I think it's a noble calling to be in Congress. It can be.
00:31:25.220 I think it's a noble calling to be involved in public life and politics and all that,
00:31:28.100 but it's not more important than your family. It's certainly not more relevant to your happiness
00:31:35.640 than your family. It's not worth it. You got to get the family stuff figured out first,
00:31:42.060 and that will actually give you a greater perspective, and it will make you a better
00:31:46.260 statesman. It will make you a better politician, but it's really not worth it, and that's especially
00:31:51.700 true for a woman. It's especially true for a woman because women are more nurturing, 1.00
00:31:55.300 and women do hit this point 1.00
00:31:57.780 where they start to get 1.00
00:31:58.500 a little baby crazy 1.00
00:31:59.260 and because women are not 1.00
00:32:02.000 as professionally driven
00:32:02.960 99.99999% of the time as men
00:32:06.240 and it's just, it's sad.
00:32:08.380 It's sad.
00:32:08.960 AOC is the voice of a generation.
00:32:11.440 AOC is the voice
00:32:12.280 of the millennial generation. 1.00
00:32:13.660 She's very good at being a congressman. 0.99
00:32:15.540 She's really good at it. 0.88
00:32:16.800 She's, the job of a congressman 1.00
00:32:18.180 is to get a bunch of attention
00:32:19.800 mostly and you vote.
00:32:22.000 Usually you do whatever
00:32:22.620 leadership tells you
00:32:23.280 but the job of a congressman
00:32:24.520 is to get a bunch of attention. She's really good at that. She's good at connecting with voters. 0.98
00:32:28.220 She has a real talent, but she's making all the millennial mistakes. She doesn't know that much. 1.00
00:32:36.100 She speaks about things that she doesn't know about. She doesn't take the world and her place 0.99
00:32:42.860 in it seriously. She's frivolous and glib in her approach to life, which I think we've all seen.
00:32:48.860 and she's misplaced her priorities.
00:32:52.040 She thinks it's more important to be reelected to Congress 0.99
00:32:54.540 or to run for Senate or to run for president 0.84
00:32:56.040 than to have a family.
00:32:57.380 And she's put that on the back burner and it's sad.
00:32:59.420 It's sad and I feel for her.
00:33:01.240 I don't even have like a punchline about it.
00:33:03.420 I've made plenty of jokes about AOC.
00:33:05.340 I've knocked AOC. 0.99
00:33:06.280 She's terrible, all this stuff.
00:33:07.360 I feel for her.
00:33:08.020 It's bad.
00:33:08.400 Because what she is doing is the same mistake
00:33:10.640 that so many people of her generation,
00:33:14.280 of our generation are doing.
00:33:15.480 Okay, now we move to another crazy woman, but with a little more political import on this divergence between the DSA, the Democrat Socialists, and the so-called moderate mainstream Democrats.
00:33:27.720 Here is DSA, National Political Committeeman, Dr. Francis Gill, being asked what the DSA actually stands for.
00:33:39.040 The DSA, the Democratic Socialists, are now the driving force in the Democrat Party.
00:33:44.400 The DSA is more popular among rank-and-file Democrat voters than Democrats in Congress are.
00:33:51.060 It's a low bar, but still, it's impressive.
00:33:53.500 The DSA is really, really powerful.
00:33:57.080 Huge numbers of Democrats identify with the DSA.
00:33:59.780 So what are they really about?
00:34:01.700 A local news anchor, this is Conan Nolan, does a great job on the interview.
00:34:06.560 He tries to drill down, what is it that you socialists actually want?
00:34:10.400 your policy agenda on law enforcement is to defund police ultimately to get rid of police
00:34:17.720 departments correct well what i would say is that we're dramatically overspending on police
00:34:23.080 right now i understand the goal is to defund the police department so we don't need them
00:34:27.140 in the future i think it's what we really want to see is a horizon where folks are not
00:34:32.620 reliant on armed enforcement to meet our public safety needs right but it says defund police
00:34:38.420 on the website that's your goal and also to get rid of prisons and jails correct yes uh so if my
00:34:45.540 if my daughter is assaulted and raped is there any agency that would seek to find her assailant and
00:34:53.060 and bring him to justice of course yeah of course what would it be if not police and where would he
00:34:58.600 be if not a jail so um i guess i really i really want to avoid getting kind of caught into these
00:35:05.180 uh hypotheticals and talk more about the reality that we're actually facing right now which is
00:35:09.940 that we're spending in absolutely outrageous amounts of money on police and policing and
00:35:15.060 we're not spending money on things that actually make people safe and feel safe which is things
00:35:19.560 like actually well-lit streets at the street lights in los angeles things that drive people
00:35:24.040 to commit crimes and to um that make our society less safe that's they want to get to the root
00:35:30.820 causes, you know, the things that make people commit crimes like rape, which is that the
00:35:36.740 streetlights aren't bright enough. We don't have enough lamps on the street. If we just had better
00:35:42.860 lamps, if our city government would just go in and screw in some new light bulbs, people wouldn't 1.00
00:35:49.680 get raped anymore. And actually, I'm not convinced this woman realizes that women are raped because 1.00
00:35:54.520 he asked this great question. He says, all right, you want to defund the police? She tries to get
00:35:58.860 she goes oh there are problems with police he's like yeah whatever you want to defund it right
00:36:02.640 that's what it says on your website yes i do and you want to get rid of jails yes i do okay so let's
00:36:08.400 say my daughter were raped would there be anyone in your political program who would go arrest
00:36:14.920 her rapist and put him in jail she goes oh yeah definitely it's like well who would that be if
00:36:21.200 not the police and where would he go if not jail she goes well i don't want to get involved in
00:36:24.740 hypotheticals. I want to get involved with what's really happening. So what she is saying, what
00:36:30.080 this committeeman from the Democratic Socialists is saying is rape isn't a real problem. I don't
00:36:37.480 think I'm being unfair here. That's what she's saying. She goes, no, that's just some crazy
00:36:40.200 hypothetical. Women aren't really raped. That's not a real problem. I want to talk about the 1.00
00:36:44.600 real problems like there aren't enough lamps on the street. Those are the real problems.
00:36:50.100 so we've gone from the radical left saying believe all women to women are not actually
00:36:57.220 raped ever in about six years and as she realizes she made a mistake so she goes no i mean you know
00:37:05.020 people commit crimes but we're not going to need the police because we're going to get to the root
00:37:08.660 causes and the what are the root causes for the dsa program we'll get back to what we were talking
00:37:14.880 about at the top not just with francesca hung but even the so-called moderate who beat her david
00:37:19.240 Crowley. Would they say the root causes of the crime is not original sin? It's not a bad
00:37:29.460 education. It's not bad choices. It's not falling in with the wrong crowd. No, no, no. It's systemic
00:37:34.940 oppression. It's not being allowed to express themselves. When you're talking about drugs,
00:37:42.460 the DSA answer on drugs is not arrest the drug addicts and make them stop doing drugs.
00:37:47.620 The DSA answer on drugs is give them drugs, which David Crowley is running out to.
00:37:54.040 The moderate Democrats run on this as well as the socialists.
00:37:56.900 You see, no, no, the answer to the drug problem is not to take away the drugs.
00:38:00.080 It's not to close the border that the drugs are coming across on.
00:38:02.540 It's not to prohibit the drugs.
00:38:04.660 We're actually going to legalize the drugs.
00:38:06.300 It's not to arrest the drug dealers and prosecute them.
00:38:09.140 It's not to arrest the drug users.
00:38:11.020 No, no, no.
00:38:11.380 It's to give the junkies drugs. 1.00
00:38:14.060 If we only give the junkies drugs, then they'll stop doing drugs.
00:38:17.620 the solution to crime is not to arrest the criminals. It's to let the criminals out of
00:38:22.920 prison. The problem is that they're in prison. That's why they're criminal. That's why they're
00:38:27.480 convicts. That's why they're inmates. But if we let them out of prison, they're not inmates anymore.
00:38:33.200 And what they fundamentally misunderstand is that the cause of crime is not someone else.
00:38:40.900 The cause of crime is not the system. The cause of crime is not racism. The cause of crime is not
00:38:45.800 sexism. The cause of crime is not a lack of drugs. The cause of crime is not that we're not nice
00:38:51.660 enough to transvestites. The cause of crime is original sin. And even for the hardcore materialists 0.80
00:39:00.880 and atheists who would say, well, original sin doesn't make sense. I think they just don't
00:39:04.760 understand what original sin means. Original sin is the term we use to describe a fact of human
00:39:12.440 nature, which is that we are not perfect. So just as a matter of history and anthropology,
00:39:17.600 you look around the world, every civilization, every society, every individual that has ever
00:39:23.520 lived, well, we'll hold off on the religious exception for a second, has done bad things.
00:39:33.400 Every place you go, Papua New Guinea, India, America, Wales, Tibet, Ghana, Argentina,
00:39:41.520 everywhere on earth for all of time, people do bad things. Which means that this inclination
00:39:49.440 toward crime, toward sin, toward vice, is something in human nature. And so if it's in
00:39:55.820 human nature, you're not going to fix it by just fixing some social pathology in some particular
00:40:02.540 place. The only way you can fix it is either by dealing with human nature as it is or attempting
00:40:09.900 to change human nature. So the real radicals, you know, Karl Marx and his successors, his
00:40:15.680 intellectual heirs, radicals from the French Revolution throughout history, they've endeavored
00:40:21.400 to change human nature, but you can't change human nature because a nature is an essence.
00:40:25.020 It's a thing that doesn't change. That's what they're offering. And the craziest part,
00:40:33.920 we can all make fun of that chick, you know, who just got absolutely obliterated by the 1.00
00:40:38.460 the political reporter, on the NBC affiliate. But there's really no difference between her,
00:40:46.140 between the DSA, and the mainstream Dems. The DSA wants to abolish all the prisons. 0.99
00:40:52.780 The mainstream Dems just want to let a lot of criminals out of prison.
00:40:56.540 That's not much of a difference. The DSA wants to formally abolish our borders.
00:41:02.540 The mainstream Democrats want to just let three million illegals a year across the border and
00:41:06.460 then give them all amnesty. Not much of a difference. The DSA wants to legalize drugs 0.76
00:41:12.960 and give drugs to junkies. The mainstream Dems want to do the same thing, actually. 1.00
00:41:17.840 The DSA wants to try to fundamentally redefine the most basic human institutions, like marriage.
00:41:25.680 Mainstream Dems want exactly the same thing. And frankly, a lot of Republicans want to do that,
00:41:29.540 to. Pretty sad. Okay.
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00:42:18.840 I hope the Republicans hone in on this
00:42:21.260 because the answer to this,
00:42:23.060 the solution that the Dems are facing or seeking is natural justice and ultimately the grace of
00:42:28.660 Christ. But I don't know that they're going to get to that. Okay. Some good stories coming out.
00:42:32.440 The Trump administration has just ended Medicaid funding for transing the kids. And a lot of people 0.99
00:42:38.200 are scratching their heads and saying, wait, we were still doing that? Wait, what? Hold on. Why
00:42:41.620 are we doing that? We will get to so much more first though. I did not pick the comment yesterday.
00:42:46.100 This is from the producers. We'll see if they got it right. From Overtost, I guess the shot is the
00:42:51.340 reason men never got pregnant during COVID. Yeah, I know. I guess that's it. I guess that must be it. 0.69
00:42:54.980 Okay. Before we go, I know I'm running late. I don't care. I'm always running late. The Trump
00:42:58.720 administration, big news. Even as we're pouring one out for Francesca Hong, we can celebrate
00:43:03.500 that the Trump administration has ended Medicaid funding for transing the kids. Medicaid will no
00:43:09.640 longer offer cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and sex change surgical operations for minors.
00:43:14.940 Now, the rule, look at this being reported by Fox News,
00:43:21.000 the rule will not affect mental health treatments for gender dysphoria and other conditions,
00:43:26.160 which will continue to be covered under Medicaid and CHIP,
00:43:29.760 CHIP, the Children's Health Insurance Program,
00:43:32.240 but they will no longer fund some of the interventions.
00:43:38.740 So, it's so annoying.
00:43:41.780 This is going to take effect, by the way.
00:43:42.800 It hasn't taken effect yet.
00:43:43.520 it's going to take effect October 13th, 2026. So what should happen is that we should eradicate
00:43:49.760 transgenderism from public life entirely. We've taken good steps toward that. That would be good 1.00
00:43:53.600 for everyone. That would be bad for no one. That is just a matter of justice and common sense.
00:43:58.900 At the very least, we should ban transing the kids. At the very, very least, we should not 1.00
00:44:04.100 force taxpayers to pay to trans the kids. And what we're actually getting is, 1.00
00:44:08.840 in some instances, some taxpayer money will not go toward transing the kids sometimes.
00:44:21.680 That's where we're at. That's how far we've fallen. And it's not Trump's fault. People
00:44:27.020 want to say, I can't believe Trump took so long on this and it's not enough. It's not Trump's
00:44:30.940 fault. You have Republican governors. You have Republican governors coming out in the last five
00:44:35.280 saying we need to support trans kids. Republicans. You have all sorts of bureaucratic rules and
00:44:43.340 regulations. You have all sorts of cultural conditioning. All sorts of public health
00:44:48.400 authorities who have insisted that taxpayers must fully trans the kids. The fact that this
00:44:54.980 is the best we can get a year and a half into the second Trump administration tells you just
00:45:00.620 how far down the field the left had pushed us.
00:45:04.600 That this is what we're clawing our way back to. 0.97
00:45:07.940 It's a pathetic state of the culture. 0.93
00:45:12.340 But it's hard to go any faster. 0.98
00:45:18.240 We're in a position now where there are many Republicans 0.97
00:45:21.160 who support abortion in some cases, killing babies.
00:45:24.200 There are many Republicans who think that marriage can be between two men or two women. 0.96
00:45:33.460 And then Republicans would be crazy to try to undermine that.
00:45:36.860 That is a position that is radically to the left of Barack Obama for most of 2011.
00:45:43.760 Not to mention Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, all of these Democrat politicians.
00:45:49.720 The now mainstream Republican position is radically to the left of that.
00:45:54.200 on a fundamental aspect of human institutions.
00:45:59.120 That's how bad things are.
00:46:02.160 And the only way that we're going to get any further on this
00:46:05.760 is to win elections and maintain power for longer
00:46:10.940 because it takes a long time to move the wheels of government.
00:46:14.600 And unfortunately, what it looks like is
00:46:16.600 we're going to lose the House two years into Trump's second term.
00:46:19.500 We might lose the Senate.
00:46:20.880 If the Democrats wind up picking the better candidates, which they're starting to, they 1.00
00:46:25.640 got rid of Graham Plattner, the Nazi rapist. 0.99
00:46:27.420 They got rid of him. 0.99
00:46:28.080 Now, they did pick a guy to replace him who has two kids with his cousin.
00:46:32.060 So, but that is an improvement. 0.99
00:46:34.260 I guess better to have the incestuous candidate than the Nazi rapist. 1.00
00:46:38.440 That is an improvement. 1.00
00:46:39.880 Better to have David Crowley, who's a lunatic and a radical, than Francesca Hong, who hates 1.00
00:46:45.280 white people and wants to cancel Thanksgiving. 0.99
00:46:47.640 Democrats are getting smart about this. 0.63
00:46:50.500 And we have very limited time to score any wins, and a lot of wins are against us.
00:46:55.460 Now, speaking of Trump priorities, really funny clip that I want to get to.
00:47:00.280 President Trump was asked about his immigration policy, his view of the world, his apparent xenophobia.
00:47:09.400 And he gave one of the great answers on immigration that I've ever heard.
00:47:15.120 These are people that have been not successful. 1.00
00:47:17.880 they're people that have been in many cases failures they come from other failed countries 0.99
00:47:23.220 and they come here and they tell us how to run our country they come from uh places like i won't
00:47:29.800 mention because i don't want to get myself into a controversy but they come from countries that are
00:47:34.720 not great they come from let's say as an example somalia they come in and then they tell us how to
00:47:41.700 how our constitution how our declaration of independence how it works this is you you see
00:47:47.540 what Trump is doing here. I can't believe more people didn't notice this. This is a perfect
00:47:52.260 rendition of the Kanye bit. Do you remember the Kanye bit? I'm not going to say what kind of
00:47:58.740 doctor he was. He was a Jewish doctor. He did that whole bit with TMZ or whatever. I'm not going to
00:48:05.840 say what kind of, I've now taken this, this is a tick of mine. Whenever I'm like, if we're talking
00:48:12.380 about some bad sermon that was going around the internet, I say, I'm not going to say what kind
00:48:16.300 a preacher he was, he was a Methodist preacher. And he doesn't go, no, look, I'm not going to say
00:48:23.000 what kind of immigrants are bad. They're Somali immigrants. But it's not just a funny,
00:48:30.120 Trump is very funny. It's a funny bit. But this actually moves the immigration conversation in
00:48:35.980 an important way. Because for essentially my entire life, the immigration conversation has
00:48:41.160 been a quantitative conversation. You were maybe allowed to talk about whether or not we had too
00:48:47.940 many immigrants. For most of my life, you weren't even allowed to do that. You could say illegal
00:48:51.880 immigration was bad sometimes. You couldn't say legal immigration was bad. You always had to have
00:48:56.940 more legal immigration. And then eventually you were able to say, okay, maybe we actually should
00:49:01.440 have no illegal immigration and less legal immigration. But that's still kind of missing
00:49:06.500 the point. Because an immigrant from Liverpool and an immigrant from Mogadishu are different
00:49:15.100 kinds of immigrants. And some are going to be better for our country than others. It's going 1.00
00:49:21.420 to be a lot easier to assimilate the Englishman. Well, these days, the Englishman's name is probably
00:49:25.020 Muhammad. Actually, he might be from Somalia, actually. But we're talking about the actual
00:49:28.520 Englishman. It's easier to assimilate those guys because they speak the same language. They look
00:49:32.700 the same. They act the same. We have the same traditions. We have the same religion. And with
00:49:38.460 Somalia, that's not the case. So, the immigration conversation really does have to be qualitative.
00:49:42.900 What kinds of immigrants are we bringing in? That's what the left did. In 1965 with the
00:49:46.980 Hart-Celler Act, you had a period of 40 years starting in the mid-1920s where we had essentially
00:49:53.520 no immigration to the United States. Very, very low levels. And we had national quotas. So, we
00:49:57.500 said we're only going to take in certain immigrants who are more easily assimilated than others.
00:50:00.720 then in 1965 they blew that up and they said no no not only are we going to take in way more
00:50:05.020 immigrants but we are specifically going to take in more third world immigrants we're specifically
00:50:09.680 going to take in more immigrants from places that are are not like the common stock of america that
00:50:14.640 are not as easy to assimilate that that was a shift that was a qualitative shift with the hart
00:50:18.820 seller act so i don't know why why it would be beyond the pale for us now to have that same
00:50:24.640 kind of conversation it's obviously the case that some immigrant groups are more assimilable than
00:50:27.920 others. That's what he's getting at. I'm not going to say what kind, but it's hard. It's harder to
00:50:33.420 assimilate Somalians, Somalis. It's the same thing with the Haitians. And so they say, well, you can't 0.63
00:50:38.160 send Haitians back to Haiti. Haiti's hell. Why is Haiti hell? Haiti is hell because of the behaviors 0.99
00:50:42.020 of Haitians. I'm sure some Haitians are very nice people, but you would just be importing all of 1.00
00:50:47.640 those problems. It's a very different culture. Also, because it's a voodoo country and the 1.00
00:50:52.660 revolution was kicked off by committing an animal sacrifice and worshiping demons. So it's just 1.00
00:50:56.960 different. It's just different. We don't want to do that. And that's where the conversation has to
00:51:03.480 go. We're not going to get that during Trump's term. I mean, these things have lead time. But
00:51:07.340 he is kind of a visionary in this regard. He took over the Republican Party. He changed the way
00:51:11.700 Republicans think about issues. It's not just his personality. He changed the way Republicans talk
00:51:15.680 about trade and economics and industrial policy and the family and conservatism. Conservatism
00:51:22.900 is much more grounded. It's much more traditional. It's much more classical after Trump than it was
00:51:27.220 before Trump when it was much more ideological, much more libertarian, much more liberal in many
00:51:32.980 ways. Same thing here on the immigration issues, pushing it down the field. But it brings us all
00:51:38.040 the way back to Francesca Hong. I saw my friend Saurabh Amari made a good point just this morning.
00:51:42.480 I was reading it where he said, it's not bigoted. It's not a racist or whatever to point out that
00:51:50.140 it is especially jarring. It's especially concerning when someone named Francesca Hong
00:51:59.220 comes to America or her parents come to America or has a recent history here and says,
00:52:06.160 we're going to abolish Thanksgiving. It's different. It would be bad if John Smith
00:52:10.840 said that we need to abolish Thanksgiving. But it's particularly offensive when people who are
00:52:16.620 immigrants or the children of immigrants or even the grandchildren of immigrants come to our 0.98
00:52:20.560 country and then say, I'm going to tell you what your country is really about. I'm going to tell 0.99
00:52:26.200 you. And that's what Trump actually makes this exact point. He says, you know, they come here
00:52:30.300 from Somalia and they say they're going to teach us about the Declaration of Independence. 1.00
00:52:34.100 No, how about if we let you come here from another country, how about you keep quiet for 1.00
00:52:38.720 a little bit? And by a little bit, I mean several generations. This is the insight of classical 1.00
00:52:43.540 political philosophy going back to antiquity. It doesn't just take a few weeks or a few months
00:52:48.140 or a few years to assimilate. It takes generations. And in the meantime, don't show up and pretend
00:52:54.740 that you understand our country better than we do. A lot of conservatives feel this way
00:52:57.640 about the liberals who came over in 2016 or 2020. You had a lot of these liberal Democrats who come
00:53:02.400 over in 2016, 2020. They were libs. They were dems. That's what liberal Democrats are. They
00:53:08.660 were atheists. They were whatever ideologies they had. And they come in, they say, wow,
00:53:13.920 woke is crazy. I'm going to join the Trump coalition. And now I'm going to tell you what
00:53:18.260 conservatism means. I'm going to be the gatekeeper of conservatism. I'm going to be the arbiter of
00:53:23.140 conservatism. And you say, yo, slow your roll, buddy. Hey, lady, cool it. You've been a conservative
00:53:29.000 for like 37 seconds. You don't get to define conservatism. You don't get to be the gatekeeper
00:53:34.440 of the coalition. I was, I came out of the womb with parted hair, smoking a cigar, wearing a
00:53:38.620 tweed jacket, okay? How about you have a little deference for the people who have been at this
00:53:42.920 for a while? Well, it's the same, that same kind of political instinct we have, it's played out
00:53:47.780 at the national level too. Hey, it's nice for you that you made it from Mogadishu and you have a
00:53:51.780 better life now, but chill out on teaching us about what the Declaration of Independence really
00:53:56.040 means. Chill out on telling us what our national holidays should be. We've had Thanksgiving since
00:54:00.580 1621, since the days of the Mayflower, which is a great cigar company, by the way. And so how about
00:54:06.800 you just chill for a few generations? Maybe your grandkids can tell us what they think about
00:54:11.120 Thanksgiving. But for right now, no. You actually, you in particular, if your last name is Hong,
00:54:17.200 you actually have less credibility. It's more annoying. It's more offensive when you
00:54:26.200 criticize basic aspects of America than when some lib named John Smith does it.
00:54:31.140 It's super annoying when he does it too. But there actually is a difference.
00:54:37.660 And for the people who will say, we don't have gradations of Americans. How dare you,
00:54:41.220 Michael? That's very old world. That's very hierarchical. That's very, how dare you?
00:54:45.900 We literally do have gradations of American citizenship. It's in our constitution.
00:54:50.940 The fact that you have to be 25 to be a congressman and 30 to be a senator and 35 to be president
00:54:57.620 tells you that there are different political rights even among American citizens.
00:55:02.480 A better example is the fact that you have to be a natural born American citizen to be president.
00:55:08.640 If you are naturalized, you can't be president. 0.82
00:55:11.620 Tells you that there are, yeah, there are gradations. 1.00
00:55:13.480 We recognize that this matters.
00:55:15.060 We recognize the time in the country, the experience of it,
00:55:17.420 that the habituation in our bones of politics and of patriotism actually matters. That's not some
00:55:23.380 revanchist, authoritarian, right-wing reactive view. That's the view of, like, James Madison.
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00:55:47.420 your country is beneath contempt we who love and serve allah fought back against the americans 0.67
00:56:00.060 and the zionists from the scourge of secularism and the lands of unbelief
00:56:11.340 anyone gonna listen to captain saunders tomorrow the retired delta four soldier with a new book out 0.95
00:56:15.260 He's the polar opposite of those brain-dead protesters.
00:56:20.020 Given the current climate, should Clay Saunders even be allowed on campus?
00:56:23.300 Mr. Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Friedman.
00:56:26.080 This is a decision I cannot find. 1.00
00:56:28.500 There are three ways Islam will conquer the West. 1.00
00:56:33.240 Through immigration, through the wombs of our women, and by using our nation's freedoms 1.00
00:56:42.360 Against us. 1.00
00:56:47.360 Are you paying attention?
00:56:54.860 Listen carefully.
00:56:59.360 The great Satan America will fall. 1.00
00:57:07.360 You are infidels. 1.00
00:57:09.360 The bodies of women are not pure, and the men's souls are unclean. 1.00
00:57:14.560 What makes them so dangerous? 1.00
00:57:17.060 Their goals are not in this life,
00:57:20.860 but the next.
00:57:24.860 Anyone?
00:57:26.060 I got friends here, I can't just leave.
00:57:27.360 Listen to me!
00:57:28.160 In the law,
00:57:30.060 we cannot run or hide from what is coming.
00:57:34.160 We have to fight.
00:57:35.460 I will be rewarded 10,000 times in the next life. 0.98
00:57:38.860 When you die, you're nothing. 0.92
00:57:41.340 Only one way to find out.
00:57:44.880 That's the American way.
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