The Michael Knowles Show - August 27, 2026


Ep. 2047 - The World Unites To Mourn Dolly Parton


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00:01:40.880 Tributes continue to pour in for Dolly Parton from all the living presidents,
00:01:45.060 cities around the country, even Buckingham Palace in the UK. The mourning is so widespread that
00:01:51.280 most people realize the grief over Dolly is about more than a country music singer.
00:01:57.580 Some are saying it is about the loss of a monoculture. Dolly was the last person we all
00:02:03.320 liked. Some say it's about the loss of civility and politeness. Dolly got along with everybody,
00:02:08.920 regardless of political divides. I think it is even deeper than that. We will get to what her
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00:04:40.220 dolly dolly we didn't get to dolly on the show yesterday we filmed a little bit early and so we
00:04:47.220 missed the the biggest international news it's not the war in iran it's not the economy it's not
00:04:52.980 mass migration it's the death of dolly parton the great great dolly parton everyone is mourning the
00:04:59.760 loss of dolly parton i was in washington dc two nights ago and i was at an event in dc and then
00:05:04.820 an after party and this and that and there were all sorts of stuff going on i wind up right before
00:05:09.100 I go to bed, I wind up at that statue of my great, great, great, great, great grandpa,
00:05:14.020 Simon Knowles, that was put up in Washington, D.C. It was really, really cool. I go there,
00:05:18.080 I'm looking at it, looking at all the other beautiful statues in Freedom Plaza.
00:05:21.340 But then I noticed something strange. I saw that the flags were at half-staff.
00:05:26.120 I said, why are the flags at half-staff? And the person that I was with said,
00:05:30.400 well, it's for Dolly Parton. I said, oh my goodness, even in the imperial capital,
00:05:35.220 Flags are at half staff for this country singer.
00:05:37.580 But she's so much more than a country singer, and she represents so much more than a country
00:05:41.360 singer.
00:05:42.020 Everyone is paying tribute.
00:05:43.260 Obviously, the president, the sitting president, Trump, paying tribute by lowering the flag
00:05:47.300 staff, but all the other ones who are still alive, Bush, Clinton, Obama, Biden, all paying
00:05:54.200 tribute.
00:05:54.540 The Empire State Building was lit up to pay tribute to Dolly Parton, Sears Tower, or whatever
00:05:59.140 they're calling Sears Tower now.
00:06:00.820 Buckingham Palace in the UK, the changing of the guards, they played nine to five.
00:06:04.780 so it's all over the place, certainly all over the West. Why? What is it about Dolly Parton?
00:06:12.320 The shallow read is it's just because she was such a great entertainer, and she was. She was
00:06:17.880 a consummate entertainer, no one better. Okay, that's that. Then people realize, all right,
00:06:22.240 this is about something more than just a singer. Some people are saying, well, it's because of the
00:06:26.520 loss of the monoculture. The last time we saw this kind of universal outpouring of grief was
00:06:30.740 when Alex Trebek died. And people at that time said, Alex Trebek, he was the last guy that we
00:06:35.280 all liked. Everyone else now is divided on lines that are political or racial or sexual or
00:06:40.860 geographical. But everyone loved Alex Trebek, and everybody loved Dolly Parton. So you say,
00:06:45.180 man, even 20, 30 years ago, we used to have this monoculture. We all saw the same movies,
00:06:49.360 watched the same TV shows, heard the same news. And so that meant that we were all really plugged
00:06:54.020 in together as a community. Now we don't have that. We all just scroll on our perfectly
00:06:57.880 individually tailored algorithms all the time. So you don't really share anything.
00:07:01.860 Now, don't forget, when we had the monoculture, we conservatives in particular complained about
00:07:06.080 that because the monoculture was run by the libs in Hollywood, in the news media, at the
00:07:09.960 universities. And so we said, this is terrible. We got to crack up the monoculture. That was
00:07:13.840 our argument then. The monoculture is super liberal. It's driving us off a cliff. We need
00:07:17.660 independent media, independent news. We need to make our own conservative Hollywood. That was
00:07:22.180 the argument. We largely succeeded at that. Now we realize that life is all about trade-offs. And
00:07:26.960 And so, yes, we've gained a voice in the culture, but we've lost that monoculture that gave us
00:07:31.080 cohesion as a political community. But I don't even know that it's just about the loss of a
00:07:35.740 monoculture. Part of the reason everyone loved Dolly is she was respectful of everyone.
00:07:40.780 She had that Michael Jordan idea, which was that Republicans buy sneakers too.
00:07:46.400 So Michael Jordan, probably slightly liberal in some of his politics. That's what he implies when
00:07:51.600 he says Republicans buy sneakers too. I think he's probably more conservative even than someone
00:07:55.940 give him credit for, big cigar smoker, fairly traditional type guy. With Dolly Parton, I think
00:08:01.100 a lot of people suspected she was a little more Republican, a little more conservative. She's a
00:08:06.640 countrywoman, very traditional in her own personal life, but she was also a gay icon. She nodded at
00:08:13.740 that a little bit. So regardless, yes, she was very polite. Everybody loved her. She was very
00:08:17.360 loving to everybody. I think it's deeper even than that, than politeness and civility. I think
00:08:23.160 what people are mourning in the loss of Dolly Parton is the loss of America. I'm not saying
00:08:30.180 America is definitely totally sunk forever. There's no hope. But I think people recognize
00:08:34.280 that Dolly Parton is an American original. Every so often you get these American originals. Elvis
00:08:40.900 Presley is an American original. Donald Trump is an American original. You cannot imagine these
00:08:45.940 people coming out of another country, coming out of another culture. And they represent in myriad
00:08:51.460 ways, some of which are difficult to articulate, something about the American character.
00:08:57.840 With Dolly Parton, you get all that. One, it's the country music. Two, it's the bleach blonde hair.
00:09:03.480 Three, it's the rhinestones. Four, it's this kind of optimism, a hopefulness, yes, but even an
00:09:09.440 optimism. Things are going to be okay. We're going to look on the bright side. That's very much a part
00:09:14.320 of the American character. Trump is like that. Trump doesn't talk about bad news. Trump focuses
00:09:18.680 on good news, and through the sheer power of his will, he wants to make good news.
00:09:25.060 Dolly Parton gave us a little insight into this. She gave a health update. This was back in May,
00:09:29.560 I think, so not that long before she ended up dying. And she did not complain a lot about
00:09:34.840 her health problems. She kept it kind of close to the vest, but she gave an update as to why
00:09:39.560 she wasn't as out there as much and touring as much. Here's just a clip of her update.
00:09:44.600 I have some good news and a little bad news, but the good news is I'm responding really
00:09:52.800 well to meds and treatments, and I'm improving every day.
00:09:57.840 Now, the bad news is it's going to take me a little while before I'm up to stage performance
00:10:03.040 level because some of the meds and treatments make me a little bit swimmy-headed, as my
00:10:09.680 grandma used to say.
00:10:10.920 And, of course, I can't be dizzy carrying around banjos, guitars, and such on five-inch heels.
00:10:18.280 And you know that I'm going to be wearing them.
00:10:21.420 Not to mention all those heavy rhinestone outfits, the big hair, my big personality.
00:10:28.760 But I just want you to know also that a lot of you have been concerned about me and Carl, and you were so great about that.
00:10:36.180 But after going through a year first, I mean, the holidays, and especially our wedding anniversary and the day of his death, March 3rd, you know, that was hard for me.
00:10:48.740 But I will always love him, and I'll always miss him.
00:10:54.160 But you would be surprised at how much your love and concern meant to me during that time.
00:10:59.720 speaking of carl and my health i remember back years ago i was uh saying something i was griping
00:11:07.920 about something hurting or this and that carl said now honey you got to remember you're not
00:11:13.640 getting any younger i said well honey you've got to remember that as long as there are plastic
00:11:20.940 surgeons in this world i'm not getting any older this this is an amazing statement made all the
00:11:29.480 more amazing given that she died shortly thereafter. But think about all these constituent
00:11:34.260 parts here. She opens up, I got a lot of good news. This is a woman who's dying, who's talking
00:11:38.700 to her doctors who are clearly quite worried about her health. She goes, I got good news,
00:11:42.960 a little bit of bad news. I'm honest with you, but I'm going to look on the bright side of things.
00:11:47.900 This is a woman who is so over the top, and she jokes about it. She's self-aware about that.
00:11:54.220 Some years ago, not that long ago, Dolly Parton dressed up like a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader.
00:11:58.300 And on this show, I said, look, we talk a lot about how women should act their age.
00:12:03.200 All people should act their age, and women should act their age, except for Dolly Parton.
00:12:08.160 Dolly Parton is the exception to this rule and to basically every rule.
00:12:12.240 Dolly gets to do whatever she wants.
00:12:13.960 She's an American original, and it's true.
00:12:17.340 There's something deeply American about that as well, the idea that you acknowledge that
00:12:22.020 rules exist, but you're going to look on the bright side and break them.
00:12:24.880 America was born out of a revolution countries that are born out of revolution
00:12:29.820 fail they're bad they cut themselves off from the past they're radical they're they're progressive
00:12:35.380 and yet with America we going back to Edmund Burke during the American Revolution we find that America
00:12:40.540 is a revolutionary country but a conservative country America is a country that is not a
00:12:46.460 confessional state that establishes freedom of religion but is the most religious country in the
00:12:50.760 West. America is a country that was founded by settling a brand new world, but America is one
00:12:57.060 of the more traditional countries left in the world. America is extremely economic, focused on
00:13:04.580 material prosperity. There's never been a country that is more materially prosperous, and yet we
00:13:10.020 give so much to charity, and yet we focus so much on the spiritual things. So there are all these
00:13:13.860 paradoxes to America, breaking the rules, but trying to also work in accord with these kind
00:13:19.680 of deeper rules, these eternal principles. I don't think I'm reading too deeply into this,
00:13:24.380 though it is a little bit of a temptation. That America is this country of artifice. We're the
00:13:29.480 country of the great Gatsby. We're the country of fake it till you make it.
00:13:34.180 And yet, we're honest about that. Dolly Parton, she's open about, yeah, as long as I can get some
00:13:40.360 plastic surgery, I'm never getting any older. Donald Trump, he's so open about this. On the
00:13:46.680 one hand, so much of his style is kind of opulent, garish in your face. And yet he expresses a
00:13:51.560 humility about that. It was on me. You know, look, I'm a guy from Queens. You know, there's
00:13:56.340 I've never had a drink. Imagine if I had a drink, I'd be the worst person ever. Only good thing you
00:14:00.200 can say about me is I never had a drink. There's this, this extreme pride, this extreme humility.
00:14:05.000 And Dolly represents that right down to the style of music. This is the most American kind of music.
00:14:09.960 She's a country music singer. And I think what people are mourning with her at the deepest level
00:14:17.000 is a sense that that America might just kind of be gone. Down to her, she's a class act on the
00:14:25.640 one hand, she's totally brash, rhinestones and big hair on the other. There's this sense that,
00:14:31.340 gosh, the past is a foreign country and maybe nostalgia is history after a few drinks,
00:14:37.660 But whatever that was, whatever that thing is about America that Dolly Parton represents, I don't know that we're going to get another one of those.
00:14:45.620 That might be gone.
00:14:46.480 And I think that plays on all sorts of anxieties that we feel.
00:14:50.680 On the left, they feel the decay of the political institutions.
00:14:54.000 Now, of course, they are the cause of most of that.
00:14:56.460 But they feel that.
00:14:57.660 They at least complain about that.
00:14:59.240 On the right, we have anxieties about massive demographic change, also brought about by the left because of mass migration.
00:15:04.940 But nevertheless, if you replace all the people in a country with new people, you have a new
00:15:08.440 country. All these fears that the thing that makes us us is slipping away, that it might actually be
00:15:16.380 a little bit too late. That, I think, is what's at the heart of mourning Dolly Parton. On top of
00:15:21.580 the fact that she was just sui generis. She was just this unique person, this American original.
00:15:28.160 So it's about her. It's not that she merely represents something. It's about her.
00:15:33.460 But she did, in her person, represent something, something that we feel is slipping away.
00:15:37.500 And when we say there will be never another one like that who represents the monoculture,
00:15:41.880 who's universally beloved, you're having tributes pour in from across the political
00:15:46.200 spectrum, across the country, across the world. That is what I think people are mourning,
00:15:50.180 including people outside of America, because America has been very, very good
00:15:53.400 for Americans and for everybody else. Okay. Now, speaking of the American political system,
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00:17:45.800 Darlene Graham is the winner of that U.S. Senate primary.
00:17:50.300 She's beaten Ralph Norman.
00:17:51.660 It was a little bit close, but not too close, a four-point race, 52 to 48.
00:17:56.820 And what really matters about this is that Trump endorsed Darlene Graham.
00:18:00.500 And a lot of conservatives, a lot of Trump supporters were upset with Trump for doing that.
00:18:03.600 And I think the reason that he did it is that he's loyal to Lindsey Graham.
00:18:09.460 That's actually, that's, I think, why he nominated her to fulfill the rest of his Senate term,
00:18:13.140 which is a short period of time, and why he went even further.
00:18:16.780 A lot of people were okay with that, but he went even further.
00:18:18.800 He said, well, look, I backed her for that.
00:18:20.220 I was friends with Lindsey Graham. I'm going to back her for her own full Senate term.
00:18:23.960 Now, this cuts against one of the criticisms of Trump. One of the criticisms of Trump is that
00:18:28.020 he's not loyal. And I think this is preposterous. It's true. He fires cabinet secretaries by tweet
00:18:33.240 sometimes. But for the people who are loyal to Trump, Trump is very loyal to them. You saw this
00:18:39.120 in the Minnesota race when he endorsed Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy. Mike Lindell did not
00:18:44.280 have a chance in that race. Trump knew that by endorsing Mike Lindell, it would hurt his average
00:18:49.820 of winning endorsements, but he did it anyway. He did it because Mike Lindell was very loyal to
00:18:55.540 Trump and gave up a lot for Trump, sacrificed his company for Trump. And I think, reading the tea
00:19:00.460 leaves, I think that he felt he kind of owed it to him and that it was the right thing and the
00:19:04.620 good thing to do. I think probably a similar factor was at play with Darlene Graham, even though
00:19:08.880 Ralph Norman was almost certainly more conservative than Darlene Graham, certainly had way more
00:19:14.120 experience. I mean, don't forget, it was a brutal moment of the debate when Darlene Graham admitted
00:19:18.180 she didn't know anything about foreign policy
00:19:21.600 on the national security questions well
00:19:23.580 uh... senator are time on and the south china sea national security issues for
00:19:28.500 the united states
00:19:29.820 if so why
00:19:31.680 uh...
00:19:32.920 i'm sorry could you repeat the player are taiwan in the south china sea
00:19:36.640 national security issues for the united states and if so
00:19:40.260 wire how
00:19:42.620 i'm just going to be honest here i'd not know national security that i'm not
00:19:46.820 I'm not informed on national security, but I do support the military.
00:19:53.880 Oh, my goodness.
00:19:54.660 So, brutal moment.
00:19:55.860 This should have destroyed her candidacy.
00:19:58.380 So, what does this tell us?
00:19:59.800 Forget about the primary.
00:20:01.260 It's over.
00:20:02.260 Maybe you wanted Norman to win.
00:20:03.940 Maybe you think the Darlene Graham thing was a bad idea.
00:20:08.120 She's going to be the senator from South Carolina.
00:20:10.360 So, then the question is, all right, what can we learn from this?
00:20:13.280 And what we can learn is a valuable insight looking ahead to 2028.
00:20:18.620 Trump is the king of the Republican Party.
00:20:21.260 All this chatter you hear from the podcast people of, oh, Trump's betrayed us.
00:20:25.560 He's lost support among MAGA.
00:20:27.320 It's not true.
00:20:28.420 It's obviously not true.
00:20:30.620 Darlene Graham's debate performance suggested that she is totally unqualified to be a senator.
00:20:36.240 And Republican primary voters voted for her.
00:20:39.800 simply because Trump endorsed her. That's what that was about. So that just tells you
00:20:47.180 Trump is most likely, almost certainly, going to pick the nominee in 2028.
00:20:53.360 I was trying to think, is there any argument for Darlene Graham? You always want to steel man
00:20:57.380 the other side. And there actually is kind of an argument. And the argument for Darlene Graham
00:21:02.580 is actually identical with the criticism of Darlene Graham as the senator. The criticism is
00:21:09.400 This is a democracy, and these Senate seats should not be inherited from one family member to another.
00:21:16.480 You've got to go earn it on your own individual merit.
00:21:18.920 You have to show voters that you are competent and educated and informed, and this should not just be passed down generation to generation.
00:21:29.600 Interestingly, though, of all the aspects of our government, the Senate was kind of intended to be the aristocratic part of the government.
00:21:39.400 I know that now in our modern age, we say that America is a democracy,
00:21:43.040 and then Republicans object to that.
00:21:45.060 They say, we're not a democracy, we're a republic.
00:21:46.880 But those do mean substantially the same thing.
00:21:49.220 Democracy could mean a direct form of government,
00:21:52.040 and a republic is a sort of indirect democratic form of government.
00:21:55.720 But regardless, we're not even totally that.
00:21:58.600 The American government was intended to be a mixed regime
00:22:01.540 that includes monarchical elements, aristocratic elements, and democratic elements.
00:22:05.240 John Adams wrote about this extensively.
00:22:07.160 John Adams following the lead of Machiavelli. Machiavelli not just writing his sort of devilish
00:22:12.340 advice in The Prince, but also writing about the structure of government in things like
00:22:16.960 Florentine histories or in the discourses on Livy and other writings. John Adams has a letter
00:22:25.180 to John Taylor in 1814. This might be the only place you're going to hear about the South Carolina
00:22:32.360 the Senate primary relating to a John Adams letter from the 19th century. But it's important
00:22:37.680 to help us understand how the framers and the founders thought about the structure of government.
00:22:42.380 He writes to John Taylor, who said there's no aristocratic form of government in America.
00:22:48.960 He says, dear sir, you are, quote, unable to discover in our form of government any
00:22:52.960 resemblance of aristocracy as every branch of executive authority committed or entrusted
00:22:57.380 exclusively to one resembles and is properly called a monarchical power, and government in
00:23:02.860 proportion as its powers legislative or executive are lodged in one resembles monarchy, so whatever
00:23:09.480 authority or power of making or executing laws is exclusively vested in a few is properly called
00:23:15.100 aristocratical, and a government in proportion as it is constituted with such powers resembles
00:23:21.480 aristocracy. He says, now sir, let me ask you whether you can discover no, quote, resemblance
00:23:26.660 of aristocracy in our form of government are not great, very great, important, and essential powers
00:23:31.280 entrusted to a few, to a very few, in the form of the Senate. Adams is saying, hey, slow your roll,
00:23:38.400 buddy. It's not a democratic government. It's a monarchical government and an aristocratic
00:23:43.060 government and a democratic government. It is a mixed regime that is intended to break loose from
00:23:48.360 this pattern throughout history, which is the cycle of regimes, that monarchy decays into tyranny
00:23:54.240 and aristocracy can decay into oligarchy
00:23:56.780 and democracy can decay into anarchy or mob rule.
00:24:01.580 And so you need all of these different forms of government
00:24:04.000 to counteract each other and to balance each other
00:24:07.480 so that you have a stable government.
00:24:08.820 In a defense of the constitutions of the United States,
00:24:11.340 which was written about the state constitutions,
00:24:12.940 also by John Adams, he writes,
00:24:14.420 if there is then in society such a natural aristocracy
00:24:17.620 formed partly by genius, partly by birth,
00:24:20.200 and partly by riches,
00:24:21.420 how shall the legislators avail himself?
00:24:23.280 How shall the legislator avail himself of their influence for the equal benefit of the public?
00:24:28.440 So all of that to say, all of these 18th and 19th century writings to say,
00:24:33.660 the Senate was conceived by the founding fathers and the framers as the aristocratic part of the government,
00:24:40.900 which is formed partly by birth.
00:24:44.440 I don't want to overstretch it because we have democratized our Senate,
00:24:47.660 certainly since the 17th Amendment, which stops the states from appointing the senators,
00:24:51.700 destroys state power in the federal government, and makes the government more clearly a democracy.
00:24:58.560 No coincidence that since then we have seen more aristocracy, more capriciousness of the mob,
00:25:02.920 more mob rule. But regardless, there actually is an argument. I guess what I'm saying ultimately is
00:25:09.880 there is an argument to pick someone whose family has been in politics for a long time.
00:25:15.900 There is an argument to have a senator who is not super ideological, who doesn't have a PhD
00:25:23.020 in political science or economics. There is an argument to this part of the government just
00:25:28.620 coming from a kind of familial habit, probably better over many generations, but at the very
00:25:35.440 least with some familiarity. It's kind of like in the UK. There's the efficient form of the
00:25:43.320 government in the House of Commons, but there's also the dignified part of the government,
00:25:47.120 which is in the royal family. And you need both of those things in a state. So anyway, here,
00:25:52.920 it's a moot point at this point because Darlene Graham has gotten the nomination and she'll be
00:25:58.060 a US senator now for a full term. The fact that Trump picked this person over the objections of
00:26:06.080 the leveling, egalitarian, individualist, meritocratic democracy people over the objections
00:26:14.160 of the hardcore conservative movement types who preferred Ralph Norman. What that tells you is
00:26:19.600 Trump owns the GOP. And this is very important to who the primary winner is going to be for
00:26:26.560 2028, because we are now approaching perhaps our first declared presidential candidate for 2028.
00:26:33.760 And it's not J.D. Vance, and it's not Marco Rubio, and it's not Pete Hegseth.
00:26:38.140 It would appear to be a friend of mine named Ted Cruz.
00:26:41.480 We'll get to that in a second.
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00:27:43.600 Type in PragerU.com slash Daily Wire today. Senator Cruz was just on Lieutenant Governor
00:27:51.700 Dan Patrick's podcast. You know, I've been on a podcast or two with Senator Cruz and with Dan
00:27:58.120 patrick for that matter and so he's on this podcast and he is asked about 2028 one has the
00:28:04.520 gop coalesced around jd vance who seems like the heir apparent is is there even a need for a primary
00:28:10.740 or has the is the gop just settled on a candidate and two senator are you going to run for president
00:28:17.840 it's no secret that i want to be president i ran for president are you going to run again
00:28:25.780 Are you going to run again?
00:28:26.640 Time will tell.
00:28:27.400 I will say this is a bug that history has proved is rarely ended.
00:28:37.940 It is a permanent and often fatal bug.
00:28:40.360 I think going forward, we're in the midst of a debate about who our party is and what we believe.
00:28:47.380 And I think economically, we've got a debate.
00:28:50.420 Are we a small government, free market, conservative party?
00:28:53.900 are we a big government nanny state party? Is this a party that has coalesced already behind
00:28:59.440 J.D. Vance? Oh, no. There's going to be a full discussion about who we are and what we believe.
00:29:05.480 Are you going to be part of that? There'll be time to figure that out. I'll certainly be part
00:29:09.540 of the discussion. Okay, so right off the bat here, I love, it's very refreshing to see this
00:29:14.980 honesty from a politician. And no surprise that it's coming from Senator Cruz. But usually in
00:29:21.940 these interviews to say, well, you know, do you want to run for president? And they say, oh, well,
00:29:25.920 I don't want to run for president. No, it's the furthest thought from my mind. Why do you think
00:29:29.740 that I, a senator, I, a governor, I, a member of the cabinet, why would I want to run for president?
00:29:33.760 No, no. I just want to go clear brush on my farm. And then five seconds later, they're running for
00:29:38.340 president. And it's always such BS and it's ridiculous. And so it's so refreshing that
00:29:42.920 Senator Cruz comes out. He goes, oh, yeah, I definitely want to be president. You remember
00:29:47.400 that I ran, right? You remember that I was like the number two guy in 2016, you know, and I'm
00:29:51.640 like still a senator, and obviously I want to be president. So he says that, but it's not just
00:29:55.500 about him. If he just said, this is just about my ambition, I've had this bug for a long time.
00:30:01.340 If it were just that kind of honesty, which is true of every politician who runs for president,
00:30:05.800 but if it were just about that, you'd say, okay, well, I don't care about a race. It's just about
00:30:10.900 you. But Senator Cruz is smarter than that and more principled. So he says, no, no, it's about
00:30:15.120 what is our role? What is our relationship to economics? Are we going to be a little more
00:30:20.120 libertarian laissez-faire, or are we going to be a little more interventionist and developmentalist
00:30:23.780 in our economics? It's about global leadership. Are we going to be a little more focused just on
00:30:29.220 domestic policy, or are we going to be a little more focused on managing and rebuilding the world?
00:30:35.040 That's a very legitimate debate. So he points out there is that fight in the GOP.
00:30:41.060 Now, some of the activist types have been trying to project that onto J.D. Vance versus Marco Rubio.
00:30:48.120 And I think that's kind of silly.
00:30:50.160 One, Rubio's not going to run against Vance.
00:30:51.900 I don't think.
00:30:52.460 I could be proven wrong.
00:30:53.220 I just don't think that's true.
00:30:54.800 Two, Vance and Rubio don't disagree that much.
00:30:58.300 You know, some people say J.D. Vance is talking about the common good, and therefore he's a socialist.
00:31:03.240 Marco Rubio's the guy who coined the phrase common good capitalism.
00:31:06.980 There's not a lot of daylight between Vance and Rubio on economics.
00:31:10.840 Some people are saying Rubio is a neocon, Vance is an isolationist.
00:31:14.560 I don't think either of those things are really true.
00:31:16.440 And also, let's not forget, Rubio has effectively, multiple times now, endorsed Vance for the nomination.
00:31:24.340 So I don't see those guys running against each other.
00:31:26.900 In other words, the role that some Republican activists are trying, and some donors, and some factions of the party are trying to project onto Rubio, I think is probably better held by Senator Cruz.
00:31:42.440 So we have the Calci markets right here.
00:31:44.120 our great sponsor, Kalshi, as this question, who will run for the 2028 Republican presidential
00:31:48.780 nomination? Who will run? We've got J.D. Vance at 82 cents. Yes, he's going to run. That's the
00:31:55.600 clearest guy who's going to run. Duh, he's the vice president. Trump picked him to be the VP
00:32:00.060 in the second term. He obviously is going to run, I think. But who's the number two guy who's the
00:32:06.460 obvious to run? It's not Rubio. It's not DeSantis. It's not Massey. It's Ted Cruz, who right now,
00:32:13.180 as of this morning, is it 71%? I think it is. It kind of keeps changing. You can buy it at 79%.
00:32:20.340 DeSantis down there at 65%. Rubio down there, 62%. And Massey at 48%. Okay.
00:32:29.560 I think Senator Cruz really has a lane here. Now, he has an immense uphill battle,
00:32:39.520 But the uphill battle, I don't think is really about ideology or winning some debate or some
00:32:45.140 argument or this. The uphill battle is Trump's dominance of the party. If Trump, if Iran goes
00:32:53.120 to pot, if the economy goes to pot, if everything falls apart and Trump loses his grip on the GOP,
00:32:59.300 then Vance is going to have a very hard time. Rubio is going to have a very hard time. Really,
00:33:04.360 anybody in the administration is going to have a hard time. All of a sudden there, guys like
00:33:08.780 Ted Cruz or Ron DeSantis are looking really good for the nomination if everything falls apart with
00:33:14.620 Trump's hold on the party. And actually, things look better for Ted Cruz than they do for Ron
00:33:18.160 DeSantis because the pitch for DeSantis in 24 was he's just like Trump, but a little better
00:33:23.600 in various ways. That was the pitch. With Ted Cruz, that wasn't the pitch in 2016. With Ted
00:33:30.020 Cruz, it was this is an alternative vision for the Republican Party and for the country.
00:33:33.780 If you like Trump, vote for Trump. But if you don't like Trump, vote for me.
00:33:36.660 And so there, I think the ideological lines make it a little clearer for Senator Cruz.
00:33:44.160 I think he has a much better shot than Ron DeSantis.
00:33:48.260 The issue for any non-administration campaign, or really anyone other than J.D. Vance right now,
00:33:54.540 is the Darlene Graham race shows you, as of today, in August of 2026, Trump owns the GOP.
00:34:02.840 So the primary is not primarily about convincing rank and file voters.
00:34:07.640 The primary is about convincing Donald Trump to back you.
00:34:10.640 And Trump has signaled that he'll back Vance.
00:34:12.660 And he keeps saying, I want it to be a Vance-Rubio ticket.
00:34:16.040 So that's where the uphill battle is.
00:34:18.900 But for people who are discounting Senator Cruz, you know, he makes a pretty good pitch
00:34:23.600 here, which is I was the number two guy in 2016.
00:34:25.480 and I represent a portion of the GOP that is a little uneasy with Trumpism and even if they
00:34:33.640 like Trump personally, with the future of Trumpism. So I think if there is to be a primary,
00:34:38.940 if Trump dominates the GOP, there effectively won't be a primary. If Trump weakens in any way,
00:34:44.760 then I think the primary really could come down to the Trump-picked candidate,
00:34:49.240 who's probably going to be J.D. Vance and Cruz. He has a lane. There is no question
00:34:55.120 that he has a lane in the race. Okay. Speaking of legislators, there is a lib
00:35:00.300 Congress lady, Representative Marie Glusenkamp Perez, who is very upset that laws are written
00:35:09.360 in words. She's a Democrat. You'll be shocked to hear. Rep MGP. They all keep doing the letter
00:35:15.300 thing. AOC, RBG, even the kind of Republican, ACB, Amy Coney Barrett. So now we got MGP,
00:35:24.320 Marie Glusenkamp-Perez. She posts, have you ever thought that it's really weird that you can't add
00:35:31.840 pictures to laws? I see so many laws that would be clearer and more logical if we could just include
00:35:37.180 a map or a blueprint. Congress recently passed my initiative to bring legislation into the 21st
00:35:41.540 century and explore, including images in the text of bills, this is a long overdue step in
00:35:46.660 the legislative process. So this is a perfect encapsulation of the Democrat relationship to
00:35:54.500 our political order because she's literally wrong. It's both like a stupid suggestion,
00:36:00.100 but she's also just wrong about the facts. You can include images in laws.
00:36:06.160 You've basically always been able to include images in laws. Here's part of the US code,
00:36:10.380 which includes an image of an american flag talking about the flag and the seal the seat
00:36:14.740 of government in the states there's a picture in there so she says this is crazy that you can't
00:36:19.420 include images and laws she doesn't even think to google can you include images and laws she's a
00:36:22.920 legislator her job is to write laws she didn't even google can you include images and laws oh
00:36:28.920 yes you can oh you've been able to do that basically forever okay never mind it's like
00:36:35.140 Like the Dems just start with wrong premises and then they reach even crazier conclusions.
00:36:40.560 But it's like, you know, if wishes were fishes, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
00:36:45.360 If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas.
00:36:47.360 If you begin with a dubious premise, you're going to arrive at erroneous conclusions.
00:36:51.340 You can't, this whole thing could have been erased with like a Google search.
00:36:54.720 Anyway, let's get past the fact that you actually can include images and laws.
00:37:00.100 What is she really asking for?
00:37:01.840 Is she asking for very narrowly circumscribed ways in which you have to include images like
00:37:09.880 if you're talking about the American flag? No. I think probably what she's talking about is more
00:37:15.620 ambitious and broader than that. And what she's saying is, I have trouble reading words.
00:37:21.280 The Democrat legislators on Capitol Hill are not famous for their literacy. They're a little bit
00:37:28.500 weak, both in interpreting the meaning of the U.S. Constitution and federal statutes, but also just
00:37:34.000 in terms of, they don't use words that well, like AOC. Some of them don't speak English that well,
00:37:39.440 like the various immigrants and children of immigrants who the left has exalted.
00:37:44.340 Regardless, this is idiocracy, right? This is the total dumbing down of our country.
00:37:50.400 They want law by meme, and the left can't meme, so that's a brutal situation. They want law by
00:37:56.820 picture, by pictograph. We're going to go back to being the people in the caves in France,
00:38:01.260 drawing pictures on the walls of the cave. We're going to need, we're going to bring our laws into
00:38:06.720 the 21st century. So it's so, they say this is so progressive. Meanwhile, they don't even realize
00:38:11.020 this is something that has existed forever. So it's such a, the libs think they invented sex.
00:38:17.480 They don't really, you know, the libs think they invent everything anew. They've built the world
00:38:20.740 anew. They fail to recognize these perennial, eternal things that crop up in human nature.
00:38:26.240 Like, we've never thought about this before.
00:38:27.700 But as I say, we're going to bring it into the 21st century by doing what we've actually
00:38:30.480 always been allowed to do.
00:38:31.460 But then furthermore, they just are going to dumb it down.
00:38:33.660 We got to pass out crayons.
00:38:35.260 This is the new Democrat legislative campaign.
00:38:37.420 Pass out crayons.
00:38:38.800 Because all that black ink is really boring.
00:38:40.780 You know, we need colors.
00:38:42.360 Can we get some smiley faces?
00:38:44.860 Not good.
00:38:45.740 You know, the founders and the framers, they did a very good job.
00:38:48.860 They probably should have constrained democracy even more than John Adams already did.
00:38:53.200 Even more than he did.
00:38:54.160 Okay.
00:38:54.280 Speaking of the decay of thought, there's a shocking new study that shows that transvestites
00:39:02.300 are violent. Shocking. Pull over your car. Stop what you're, I am sorry. I hope you didn't have
00:39:09.020 a sip of water when I said that. I'm sure you spit it out. We'll get to that shocking new study
00:39:13.560 first though. My favorite comment yesterday is from Daniel who says, circumcision is surgery
00:39:19.000 on a kid's ding-a-ling is a political quote for the history books. Yes, this was, I didn't mention
00:39:23.920 actually, when we were talking about that interview between Abdul Al-Sayed and Jesse
00:39:27.380 Waters on Fox yesterday. In that interview, he said, do you really think we should trans the
00:39:34.300 kids? And Abdul Al-Sayed says, are you circumcised? And then they go on and on debating whether or
00:39:40.160 not a little medical snip to reduce STDs is the same as permanently castrating a child.
00:39:46.980 So much of the discourse is the left pretending to understand things, thus making communication
00:39:52.420 impossible. But the real crowning achievement of that interview was when Jesse provoked Abdul
00:40:00.400 and said, when do you think we should cut off a kid's ding-a-ling? And then Abdul took the bait.
00:40:06.140 And he said, circumcision is cutting off part of a kid's ding-a-ling.
00:40:10.420 If you're running for Senate, just some political advice. If you're running for Senate,
00:40:15.520 don't use the word dingaling definitely don't use the word dingaling after the word kids
00:40:22.460 you are not beating the allegations neither the weird sex allegations nor the allegations that
00:40:28.460 you're not a serious person who wants to draft laws and crayon don't don't if you're running
00:40:33.580 for senate dingaling should not be in your vocabulary and good on jesse for getting him
00:40:37.020 to say that okay speaking of of dingalings there's a new study that's just come out of
00:40:42.940 the Manhattan Institute, that has come to the shocking conclusion that people who think they're
00:40:47.620 the opposite sex might be a little violent. This is a trope that has existed in our culture
00:40:51.760 forever. This is the premise of Silence of the Lambs and Psycho, which is that trannies are,
00:40:59.700 they're a little off. They're a little off kilter, and sometimes they're a little violent,
00:41:03.820 certainly against themselves, because they chop off those aforementioned body parts,
00:41:07.780 but against other people as well. So what does the study show?
00:41:09.880 reading from the study these findings suggest that gender ideology is associated with left-wing
00:41:16.620 authoritarianism and willingness to justify political violence the study is called where
00:41:21.540 the clinic meets the movement does gender ideology arm left-wing authoritarian psychology
00:41:27.020 obviously you're seeing this play into the assassination of charlie kirk by a guy allegedly
00:41:33.660 we'll wait until the conviction but allegedly a guy who was dating a trainee furry you saw this in
00:41:38.760 the Covenant School shooting, where we have the diaries, the manifesto of the trans shooter who
00:41:43.300 murdered little Christian kids, who talks about the relevance of the gender ideology to that
00:41:48.380 massacre, on and on and on and on and on. It's not just in the movies. It's not just in the
00:41:53.800 stories. It happens in real life all the time. Even the other political events, when I was at
00:41:59.300 the University of Pittsburgh and a couple Antifa guys threw an explosive at the building,
00:42:03.100 That was because we were debating transgenderism.
00:42:06.120 First, I was attacked with a squirt gun filled with who knows what many years ago at the
00:42:11.120 University of Missouri, Kansas City.
00:42:12.520 It was during a speech on transgenderism by a guy who I think identified as trans.
00:42:16.900 That's just my personal experience.
00:42:19.280 So many more stories of that.
00:42:20.840 So the Manhattan Institute concludes that experimental research is needed to determine
00:42:25.680 causality, but also gender ideology may function as an ideological accelerant telling left-wing
00:42:32.040 authoritarian psychology who the enemy is, why the situation is urgent, and in those already
00:42:37.680 disposed toward force that violence is legitimate. So this is a key part here. It's not saying that
00:42:42.960 trans identity is the thing that necessarily causes you to become violent. There are people,
00:42:51.460 I've met a number of people who deal with gender dysphoria, feelings that they're the wrong sex or
00:42:56.820 whatever, who are not violent and who are even kind of conservative and they're just dealing
00:43:01.300 with this problem. It's not necessarily, experimental research is important here,
00:43:06.120 but it's not necessarily that that is what causes the violence. What the researchers have concluded
00:43:10.880 is that it's an accelerant. It's an ideological accelerant. So people who already have aspects
00:43:17.060 of this left-wing authoritarian psychology, the trans ideology just turns everything up to 11.
00:43:23.440 It tells you who your enemy is. It tells you that you're in a moment of crisis,
00:43:28.740 that things are urgent. When I gave my speech at CPAC about how we need to eradicate the trans
00:43:32.860 ideology, people accused me of genocide. The reason I had all sorts of threats and was doxxed
00:43:38.580 and all that kind of stuff was because of this claim pushed by Rolling Stone and I think it was
00:43:43.940 the Huffington Post, some of the liberal media outlets, who accused me of calling for genocide.
00:43:49.580 Now, obviously, I did nothing of the sort, but the trans ideology, which is just an extreme form
00:43:55.180 of delusion, convinces you that everything is a crisis, everything is existential. And it tells
00:44:01.920 people who are already predisposed to violence that violence would be legitimate. Last bit from
00:44:08.180 this study, they say, we also assessed catastrophizing beliefs such as the perceived
00:44:12.500 likelihood that a genocide of individuals that identifies transgender is currently underway and
00:44:16.660 associate extremist responses such as belief in the need to censor and punish those who oppose
00:44:21.320 transgender dogmas and ignore Supreme Court rulings on gender ideology issues. Yeah, duh.
00:44:27.620 The next report to come out will say that the sun shines. The breaking, shocking study,
00:44:33.200 the sun shines. Breaking, water, rainwater gets you wet. A lot of people are going to say,
00:44:40.380 why do we need this study? Duh, of course the trans ideology inclines toward violence. Yeah,
00:44:45.760 duh. But it is important. It's very good that the Manhattan Institute put this study out.
00:44:51.320 Not because it tells us anything new.
00:44:53.380 It doesn't tell us anything new at all.
00:44:54.980 We, conservatives, who are kind of skeptical of a lot of these social science studies.
00:44:59.260 But because it deals in the culture.
00:45:02.360 Studies are the language of the culture.
00:45:05.500 I've said for many years, I say, I think statistics are basically fake,
00:45:09.400 but I cite them when they serve my purposes.
00:45:12.560 And a little bit of political honesty here.
00:45:15.360 I cite the studies, not because I think they're necessarily dispositive,
00:45:19.500 but because we live in this materialist,
00:45:21.940 scientistic age in which people only believe studies.
00:45:25.660 So I can make arguments from the natural law,
00:45:28.300 from teleology, from history, from philosophy,
00:45:31.820 but that's not going to reach a certain segment of people.
00:45:34.100 Those people are only reached by peer-reviewed papers
00:45:36.780 that come out of universities and think tanks
00:45:39.000 and statistics, so fine, I'll be all things to all people.
00:45:41.660 I'm happy to cite that as well.
00:45:43.860 We have to speak the language of the culture
00:45:45.800 because one, I think a lot of people suspect in recent years that the weird sex ideologies
00:45:52.120 do have an association with violence. And two, because the ideology isn't going away.
00:45:57.460 Because Abdul Al-Sayed running for Senate doubles down on chopping off a kid's ding-a-ling
00:46:01.200 in his words. So because of that, that does remain an urgent political problem.
00:46:07.740 That actually is something we have to address. We're not just beating a dead horse.
00:46:10.940 the left won't let it die okay speaking of psychos here's a story i'll just tease it
00:46:17.140 won't be able to get to i'll tease it but good news some crazy vanity fair writer was just fired
00:46:22.200 and she was fired because she goes to the lindsey clancy trial i guess she knew lindsey clancy
00:46:27.480 growing up and as the cameras are panning over to her she looks crazier than lindsey clancy she's
00:46:33.500 smiling she's winking she looks happy as a clam this is the best day of her life listening to
00:46:39.740 Lindsay Clancy. All while we get new news in the Lindsay Clancy trial that a lot of the defenses
00:46:45.340 of Lindsay Clancy from all these crazy women who were showing up with their kids outside the
00:46:49.040 courthouse, that a lot of those defenses are totally bunk. The postpartum depression,
00:46:54.500 the acute psychosis would appear to be bunk. Okay, we'll get to all of that, but I'm a tease.
00:46:59.480 We'll get to that tomorrow. Today is Theology Thursday. The rest of the show continues now.
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