The Michael Knowles Show - September 11, 2026


Ep. 2058 - LOL： Trump TROLLS Lib Talarico For Trying To ＂Beat Meat＂ At The RNC


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00:02:01.040 President Trump accuses Democrat Senate candidate
00:02:03.620 James Talafrico of beating and then eating meat.
00:02:08.500 Vice President J.D. Vance wins the crowd
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00:02:12.820 and Congressman Brandon Gill emerges as the breakout star.
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00:02:19.000 A wild night at the RNC, we have the recap.
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00:02:54.000 welcome back to the show while the republicans had this historic midterm party convention first
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00:04:42.740 It also occurred to me on the drive-in today that it's 9-11. It's the 25th anniversary of 9-11.
00:04:49.060 kind of sneaks up on you quite a week we had the anniversary of charlie kirk's murder yesterday i
00:04:53.780 was in utah for the memorial which is up on uh on the tp usa page tp usa did an amazing job
00:04:59.700 the the speakers were it was really moving i was sitting backstage watching a bunch of them
00:05:04.900 and it's very moving very really the year anniversary really snuck up on me i suspect
00:05:10.200 it snuck up on a lot of you and then right after that you have the 25th anniversary of 9-11 and i
00:05:15.720 am a New Yorker by birth and upbringing. So I was given some thoughts. I think I have a different
00:05:20.800 reaction to the 25th anniversary of 9-11 than most people I'm seeing. We'll get into all that
00:05:25.880 first of the RNC. President Trump comes out, clip of the convention in which he is talking about
00:05:32.220 the Democrat Senate nominee in Texas. We got a new nickname dropped. The new nickname is for
00:05:39.180 James Tallarico, who Trump is now calling James Tallafrico, and he is accusing him of something
00:05:46.320 very vivid. He was also somebody that hated eating meat,
00:05:55.260 but he ran a campaign to beat meat. He called it beat meat. I don't know what the hell he meant by
00:06:03.440 these people are going to tell me what the hell is he wants to beat meat
00:06:11.480 but it was bad for his image so he started eating meat and he recently
00:06:24.260 it's getting worse i'm getting myself in trouble getting worse
00:06:33.440 J.D. Vance and Bobby Kennedy just absolutely rolling in the seats.
00:06:38.060 Well, Trump does this stand-up routine because he's the best working stand-up comedian,
00:06:41.400 and it's not even close. He just gets up there, spotlight on him, stool behind him,
00:06:48.220 might as well be lighting a cigarette. You all hear about this? You hear about
00:06:52.700 James Talafrico. James, he wanted to beat meat. That's what he said. I don't know why.
00:07:03.200 Why are you laughing? He wanted to beat meat, but he couldn't beat meat. So now he's going to eat
00:07:09.720 meat. Is that? Uh-oh, I don't. Just great stuff. Great stuff. And just a little note here. We'll
00:07:22.300 get into some of the serious policy that came out of the convention. But little note here.
00:07:27.980 For the people who say this is degraded, this is below the office of the president,
00:07:32.360 This is undignified. First of all, the pun has kind of plausible deniability because James
00:07:37.540 Tallarico was like a soy boy kind of vegetarian-ish. I don't know if he's literally a
00:07:45.220 vegetarian, but he gives off the vibe. We need to reduce our consumption of meat in order to stop
00:07:50.700 the climate change. Then he realized you can't run that way in Texas and win a statewide race.
00:07:56.900 So then he took that picture trying to choke down a rib at some barbecue restaurant. That
00:08:01.900 wasn't believable. So he went from, he wanted to beat me. Now he wants to eat. What are y'all
00:08:06.160 laughing for? It's just for the people who say this is undignified, you know, we live in a
00:08:11.640 democracy, right? You know, we live in a republic where the people vote and that there are many
00:08:18.120 advantages to democratic republics, certainly in mixed regimes, such as the framers gave us.
00:08:23.180 But one of the disadvantages is sometimes you get, you play to the crowd. Okay. That's not,
00:08:28.740 you can't blame Trump for that. That's just part of living in a government that is largely
00:08:35.480 democratic, is you play to the crowd. The king of England probably is not making the beat,
00:08:41.520 eat, meat jokes, but the president of the United States absolutely is. That's just how it goes.
00:08:48.180 And it's funny. And it's the other reason that the joke works so well is it's so vivid. I mean,
00:08:52.560 this is why the Trump nicknames work so well, whether we're talking about low energy jab or
00:08:57.680 little Marco. He's always sweating. You remember this from 2016. Now Trump is friends with most
00:09:01.980 of these guys, but they just gave you images. And that's the same thing here. Now you just,
00:09:07.540 it's so yucky, the kind of images that he's not imposing on Tallarico, but he's pulling from
00:09:13.540 James Tallarico. Even the nickname, Talafrico, you think it's really simple, but it rings true 1.00
00:09:18.380 because he is a freak. He calls God non-binary. He says that women are our neighbors with uteruses. 1.00
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00:09:30.360 And so that plays into that.
00:09:32.860 And his girlfriend goes to another school in Canada or something.
00:09:35.680 And so he's ostensibly the straight Pete Buttigieg.
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00:09:41.380 It works because it rings true.
00:09:44.980 That's part of the reason why the crowd was rolling.
00:09:47.560 And right now with Tallarico up in that Senate race, I hope that sticks.
00:09:51.820 Speaking of Texas, Brandon Gill, our buddy Brandon Gill, freshman in Congress, rising star, president of the freshman class in Congress.
00:10:01.280 Gets a lot of good clips.
00:10:02.340 He's gotten a lot of good buzz.
00:10:03.920 The RNC was his breakout moment.
00:10:05.900 I think of all of the politicians who were trying to raise their profile, who were trying to command a national platform, nobody at the RNC did it better, more convincingly than Brandon Gill.
00:10:18.220 I think it's only appropriate that we kick this convention off properly
00:10:25.120 with a land acknowledgement.
00:10:35.240 I'd like to acknowledge that we stand here today
00:10:39.820 in the great state of Texas and the United States of America,
00:10:44.420 the ancestral homeland of great american patriots pioneers and explorers who put down roots fought
00:10:56.160 for freedom all over the globe and bled and died to build the greatest civilization ever known to
00:11:02.580 man okay great stuff it's pretty red meat you know i want to do a land acknowledgement
00:11:10.120 This land is the best.
00:11:12.540 But it's more than just Red Meat because he's really saying something.
00:11:16.500 He's really subverting the left-wing genre of the land acknowledgement by saying, no, no, this land is our land.
00:11:22.500 In other words, the left comes out, they say, this land isn't our land.
00:11:24.720 It really belongs to the Ojibwe nation that hasn't possessed it for like 200 years and that only actually possessed it for a small number of years before that.
00:11:34.840 But it's anyone but ours.
00:11:36.400 It belongs to anyone but us.
00:11:38.200 And he comes out there and he says, no, this is our land and we inherit this land.
00:11:42.740 He's a star.
00:11:43.720 He's a star, Brandon.
00:11:44.760 He's just, he just did great.
00:11:46.720 Notice the other thing about his speech.
00:11:48.400 He's getting a lot of plaudits here.
00:11:50.780 No one on the right can object to the things he's focusing on.
00:11:56.200 It's not just that he's good at delivering the line.
00:11:58.680 It's not just that he looks the part.
00:12:00.540 He sounds the part.
00:12:01.480 It's not just that.
00:12:03.160 It's like the difference between a reporter and an editor.
00:12:06.980 The reporter might be a good editor.
00:12:08.940 Sorry, the reporter might be good at selecting words in a story.
00:12:13.480 But the editor is good at selecting stories and placing stories and choosing the headline.
00:12:18.360 And Brandon seems to have both of those skills.
00:12:21.100 He knows what to talk about.
00:12:22.080 He knows what to leave out.
00:12:23.200 He's not focusing on the really divisive issues on the right.
00:12:26.020 He's not talking about tariffs.
00:12:27.460 He's not talking about the Iran war or Israel or any of these things that seem to be dividing the right.
00:12:33.100 he's landing on these issues that really matter and that unify Republicans.
00:12:38.220 And he's doing it in a very persuasive way.
00:12:39.900 Excellent, excellent stuff.
00:12:41.280 On this theme of inheritance, on this theme of the land that we possess,
00:12:45.800 that we are possessed by, to use the phrase of Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration,
00:12:52.000 J.D. Vance really builds on this.
00:12:54.000 I thought he did a great job describing the country and what the country means to us
00:12:59.540 in his speech, which is also getting very, very high marks.
00:13:03.100 Now, we live, of course, in an imperfect world of fallen men.
00:13:09.720 We live in the city of man, not the city of God.
00:13:12.980 But I believe that our founders built this nation on a promise that echoes our Creator.
00:13:19.520 That every American child is born an heir, is born with a birthright.
00:13:25.540 Born with the right to inherit the blessings of the greatest country on earth,
00:13:29.840 not because of who their parents are not because of what they look like or where they come from
00:13:34.900 but because they are americans and this is our country
00:13:38.480 really good stuff one of jd vance's great political gifts is that he's super duper smart
00:13:50.360 and super duper well educated but he doesn't shove it in your face he speaks in a very common
00:13:58.020 and accessible kind of language, but that's an extremely complex and nuanced, even little bit
00:14:04.540 from his speech. Notice what he's getting in there. He's getting in an allusion to St. Augustine. So
00:14:10.240 he's plumbing the depths of the Western tradition. And by saying, you know, this is your land,
00:14:15.400 this is an inheritance, this is something that you get from your birthright that you have to pass on.
00:14:20.120 He is also subverting the very popular view of America, reductive, I think, liberal view that
00:14:26.640 took hold at the end of the 20th century, and which persists still to this day, which is that
00:14:31.420 America is just an idea. It's the purely creedal conception of America. America's an idea. It's not
00:14:36.780 a place. It's not a race. It's an idea. So anybody, you know, a guy in Timbuktu, he might be more
00:14:42.000 American than a guy whose family's been in West Virginia for 200 years. That's the creedal view
00:14:47.360 of America. And then on the other side of that, there's this purely kind of racial blood and soil
00:14:54.200 view of America, which is that if your skin is a little too dusky or something, or if you've only
00:14:59.580 arrived within the last 75 years instead of 175 years, that you're less American or something
00:15:04.560 like that. He also avoids that because he's speaking of the land not as a purely kind of
00:15:10.400 biological construct, but also not as an ideological construct. He's speaking of the
00:15:15.620 country as an inheritance. This is profoundly conservative. In the very best Anglo-American
00:15:23.060 tradition, guys like Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk. But you don't know it. He's not quoting
00:15:27.560 these guys. He's not citing these guys. He just infuses his rhetoric with St. Augustine and Burke
00:15:33.900 and Kirk and all of this great stuff from the tradition. And he does it because he is in fact
00:15:40.180 refocusing the right on what I think is a more defensible, classical, traditional kind of
00:15:47.740 conservatism than the ideological, alternately libertarian or neoconservative views that
00:15:53.100 dominated at the end of the 20th century. Really good stuff. And he does it in a way that a guy
00:15:57.500 who's never opened a political philosophy book can easily, immediately understand. It's very,
00:16:02.140 very good. And so it demonstrates an impressive political skill, but he's also turning conservatism
00:16:08.360 in the right direction, in a more grounded direction, in a way that speaks more purely
00:16:13.520 to patriotism. I gave a speech at the Oxford Union a couple months ago. They just put it up
00:16:18.000 on their YouTube channel. I think we put it up on our YouTube channel too, in which the resolution
00:16:22.980 of the debate was, this house believes that Trump has betrayed conservatism. And I was in the
00:16:28.000 opposition on that motion. And really, the debate came down to defining what conservatism is.
00:16:34.920 Some people say it's an idea. Some people say it's a set of policies. But neither of those
00:16:38.560 definitions really holds up because all sorts of great conservative statesmen, who we all agree
00:16:45.020 are terrific, disagreed on policy. They disagreed dramatically on trade, on immigration, on foreign
00:16:51.240 policy. They disagreed. It doesn't even come down to personal comportment because a lot of them
00:16:57.620 had pretty disorderly behavior in their lives. It comes down to an affection, an inclination.
00:17:04.800 It's more, to quote Roger Scruton, it's more an attitude than it is an idea.
00:17:08.420 It's a love of country.
00:17:09.420 You see this clearly in this dichotomy we get.
00:17:11.940 My country right or wrong or my country only when right?
00:17:16.840 The more ideological people will say, no, no, it's my country when right.
00:17:19.380 In other words, patriotism is the conclusion to an analysis that I make of my country.
00:17:25.000 The good side, the bad side.
00:17:26.420 If the bad side of the ledger outweighs the good side, then it's not my country and I
00:17:29.640 don't have to defend it.
00:17:30.460 But that's not what patriotism is.
00:17:32.940 Patriotism is more akin to the respect you give to your mother and father.
00:17:37.020 Patriotism is an extension of filial piety.
00:17:39.700 You don't love your mother as a consequence of analyzing all the things she's done for you and all the slights she's committed against you.
00:17:47.940 You just love your mother.
00:17:49.480 You just owe her a certain degree of reverence and affection because she's your mother.
00:17:55.120 In other words, that affection is the lens through which you view your mother, not the other way around.
00:18:00.300 Same thing goes for patriotism.
00:18:01.540 J.D. gets it. It was really, really good speech. Then we'll get into the practicality because
00:18:06.120 it does seem like the coalition is fraying a little bit. J.D. addresses that directly.
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00:19:26.100 don't give the country over to a bunch of crazy people because you happen to disagree with us
00:19:33.680 on a policy issue here or there look i'm not asking anybody to agree with me on every single 0.83
00:19:41.240 issue i'm not asking anybody to agree on every single policy the administration what i am asking
00:19:47.060 you to do is to recognize the contrast with the radicals and recognize the achievements of the
00:19:52.940 last 18 months. We have done a lot, my friends, and we can do a lot more if we fight together.
00:19:59.940 I like that practicality. That practicality there is one way in which I think JD is doing a good
00:20:07.460 job of trying to fill the role that Charlie Kirk held. And that JD and Charlie Kirk were very good
00:20:13.580 friends, famously very close friends. And Charlie's chief political contribution, as we've all said
00:20:18.980 many times over the last year is that he maintained a coalition among people who didn't
00:20:24.480 quite like each other, who disagreed on all sorts of things. And what JD is saying here is, hey,
00:20:27.940 don't leave the coalition just because you don't love the Iran war. Yeah, a lot of people don't
00:20:34.300 like the Iran war. Yeah, a lot of people don't like this aspect of economic policy. Yeah, a lot
00:20:38.960 of people wish that immigration policy were enforced in a slightly different way. The Iran 0.99
00:20:42.660 war is a big part of this, of course. He says, hey, guys, it's fine. I hear you. I hear you. 0.97
00:20:48.980 but don't turn on this coalition that has accomplished a lot just because you disagree
00:20:54.520 on one policy or another. Don't turn the country over to crazy people who want to kill your kids, 0.99
00:21:01.400 mutilate the kids who get out of the womb, open up the borders, flood it with a net 5 million 0.99
00:21:06.820 immigrants per year, take all your money, persecute you, spy on your churches. Don't 0.95
00:21:14.340 turn the country over to these guys because you disagree on one policy. That is not how political
00:21:20.280 victories are won. I think he's absolutely right on this. Then there's one, I don't think I pulled
00:21:25.860 the clip for it, but we have to get to it. Maybe we'll add the clip in post-production.
00:21:30.780 President Trump made a promise at the RNC. He said that if Republicans hold the House
00:21:35.860 and the Senate in the midterms, he will give every American adult $5,000.
00:21:40.980 dollars now the fiscal hawks react to this and they say this is terrible this would cost over
00:21:48.840 a trillion dollars this is going to blow up the national debt this is out this is so irresponsible
00:21:53.140 and i i would just say yeah sure okay yeah yeah no you're right it would cost a trillion dollars
00:21:58.580 that's a insane amount of money yeah oh i know that's really i know it's yeah it's kind of like
00:22:04.740 it's sort of like bribing the electorate it's not technically bribing the electorate but sort of
00:22:08.860 like that. Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, but guys, first of all, this is lowercase d democratic politics.
00:22:14.620 That's how it works. The politicians bribe the voters. That's how it works. Tammany Hall used
00:22:19.860 to do it directly by paying people at direct payments to go vote. But the way it works
00:22:23.660 structurally is that the Democrats bribe the voters by offering them more welfare programs
00:22:28.760 and the Republicans bribe the voters by offering them tax cuts. But the way money works, it's kind
00:22:35.640 of similar. I know we can say, well, tax cuts are just allowing you to keep more of your hard-earned
00:22:39.540 money. And when the Democrats give you direct payments from the government, that involves
00:22:44.340 another step and it's less efficient. Yeah, it's true. It's a less efficient way to buy votes,
00:22:47.880 but it does redound to the same kind of stuff. If you're not going to tie tax cuts to spending
00:22:52.140 cuts, then it's much the same thing that the Democrats are doing. And that's just how government
00:22:55.300 works. You can say that's bad. You can say that's irresponsible. Yeah, okay, sure. But that is how
00:23:00.280 the system works. That's how we end up with a $40 trillion national debt. Whether we have Democrat
00:23:05.060 Democrats in office or Republicans in office, that's how we get to that.
00:23:10.240 Essentially, no president has cut the size of government like ever, with the exception of
00:23:16.600 pulling back temporary spending after wars and crises. They don't really cut spending.
00:23:21.440 So your problem is not with Trump. Your problem is not even with AOC.
00:23:25.300 Your problem in that case is with the form of regime we have, which is a mixed regime that's
00:23:28.700 largely democratic. But the other reason I would say chill out over this, the calci markets, 0.99
00:23:35.060 have Democrats at 85% chance of winning the House.
00:23:39.660 It's a 50-50 chance right now that the Democrats are going to take the Senate.
00:23:44.940 So in other words, you can criticize the policy and the rhetoric, and that's all fair game and
00:23:49.680 everything. But politics is the art of the practical and the possible. And the reality is,
00:23:55.780 it is highly, highly unlikely that the Republicans hold the House and the Senate.
00:24:02.180 So the effect of this kind of promise is not going to be that we spend over a trillion dollars.
00:24:06.720 What President Trump is clearly trying to do here, in my read, again, I haven't spoken to him or
00:24:11.200 people close to him about this, but in my read, what is going on here is President Trump knows
00:24:17.100 we are almost certainly going to get blown out of the water in the House. I mean, even though we
00:24:21.440 picked up seven seats in redistricting, we are very likely, if the election were held today,
00:24:25.980 we are going to get blown out of the water in the House. The fact that we were supposed to hold
00:24:29.540 the Senate. Now the Senate is in play is very worrisome. And so what President Trump is trying
00:24:33.340 to do is he's trying to argue past the sale. And he's saying, we got to win the House and the
00:24:37.940 Senate, and then I'll give everyone 5,000 bucks, knowing that the House is gone. The House is
00:24:42.460 almost certainly gone. And so now the fight is really just to hold the Senate. And this is a way
00:24:46.580 to incentivize people to try to vote in these tighter Senate races to at least hold the Senate.
00:24:51.180 But it will almost certainly not redound to Republicans holding the full government.
00:24:55.320 You can say, well, I don't like that.
00:24:57.100 I wish you were being more blunt and direct about it.
00:24:59.580 Yeah, okay, all right, welcome to politics.
00:25:02.020 Speaking of, Randy Gill getting great plaudits.
00:25:05.280 J.D. Vance, same thing.
00:25:06.420 President Trump, same thing.
00:25:08.280 One guy got booed, and that would be the Senate Majority Leader, John Thune.
00:25:13.040 Thune is here from the Senate.
00:25:14.500 Where's John?
00:25:15.280 Where's John?
00:25:16.640 No, no, John is working hard.
00:25:19.960 He's got great opposition.
00:25:21.440 he's got great opposition from the democrat schumer and these guys they're terrible
00:25:28.400 got great opposition he's working very hard he's gonna he's gonna have he's gonna have great
00:25:33.560 success you watch gonna have we are going to have great great success with our republican senators
00:25:40.800 and by the way we have great we have great republican senators david thank you for being here
00:25:47.260 Okay, so here, this was not Trump, as he sometimes does,
00:25:50.420 throwing some guy under the bus, and then they get the boos. 1.00
00:25:52.600 He says, yeah, stupid ABC or New York Times or CNN. 1.00
00:25:57.720 Yeah, boo. 1.00
00:25:58.400 Yeah, that's right. 0.99
00:25:59.020 Boo them.
00:25:59.700 He mentions the Senate Majority Leader, who's a Republican,
00:26:02.260 and they start booing.
00:26:02.960 He goes, no, no, no, don't boo him.
00:26:03.800 He's working hard.
00:26:04.640 But the people are furious, and they're furious in part
00:26:07.320 because the Senate doesn't seem to be accomplishing anything,
00:26:09.320 and specifically, they're not getting the Save America Act passed,
00:26:12.460 which would secure our elections.
00:26:14.160 Because John Thune doesn't want to blow up the filibuster,
00:26:16.280 because it would lose minority rights
00:26:18.980 if the Republicans do lose the Senate,
00:26:21.480 though the Democrats might blow up the filibuster too,
00:26:23.620 and because he just doesn't have the votes.
00:26:25.240 Forget about getting the Democrat votes,
00:26:26.320 he doesn't even have a lot of the Republican votes.
00:26:29.300 What's the big takeaway here?
00:26:31.000 Trump is saying, no, no, no, Thun's, he's working hard,
00:26:32.900 he's working hard, don't boo him.
00:26:34.340 The big takeaway is something that I've called out
00:26:36.360 for a long time, and I've been criticized for
00:26:39.620 because people think I'm being too agilatory
00:26:41.740 to Trump or something, but I'm not.
00:26:43.460 I'm just observing the political landscape.
00:26:49.300 The GOP is Trump.
00:26:52.540 The party, c'est moi, says Donald Trump.
00:26:55.120 He is the party.
00:26:56.700 He's the Republican that people like.
00:26:59.160 People will also like the other Republicans that Trump likes,
00:27:02.700 but the ones that Trump is kind of fighting with
00:27:05.580 or the ones who seem to have distance from him, they don't like.
00:27:08.900 That has been very effective for President Trump's campaigns.
00:27:11.700 but looking ahead to a post-Trump era, what that tells me is either the GOP coalition is going to
00:27:16.860 fall apart or Donald Trump is going to be involved, heavily involved in the post-Trump era.
00:27:21.160 I'm quite confident. I bet a lot of money. I'd bet my $5,000 dividend check from the midterms that
00:27:26.520 Trump will be very involved afterward. This tells me a lot about 2028. What it tells me about 2028
00:27:32.240 is what I predicted from the beginning, which is that the real primary is just winning Trump's
00:27:36.740 endorsement. That's the primary. It's not winning Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina and
00:27:40.660 Florida. The real primary is winning Trump's endorsement. My bet is that whoever Trump picks
00:27:46.700 is going to be the nominee. And I don't even think it'll be particularly close.
00:27:51.580 That's just the mechanism of how the party works right now. I said something yesterday
00:27:56.480 that I was kind of getting in trouble for on social media. I said, in response to Trump's
00:28:02.400 beat the meat bit on James Talafrico, I said, Trump is our Napoleon. I will not elaborate,
00:28:08.540 but I will elaborate. I'll elaborate now. He's our Napoleon. In as much as Trump is a child of
00:28:16.000 the revolution and the undoing of the revolution. Trump did not grow up in a petri dish in the
00:28:21.260 conservative movement wearing tweed and bow ties. He did not feast on the works of Edmund Burke and
00:28:27.940 Russell Kirk and William F. Buckley Jr. and John Locke and Montesquieu for that matter. He didn't
00:28:32.840 do that. Trump is a New York real estate guy, a guy who would go to clubs with supermodels.
00:28:41.800 He is a product of the loose, fast, modern kind of 20th century. He was very popular in New York,
00:28:50.420 left-wing liberal society. He's one of them. He was the most popular guest on The View.
00:28:55.200 He was the toast of Hollywood. He was in Hollywood movies. He was a child of the liberal revolution
00:29:03.900 that changed mores and standards and the way we speak. He's vulgar. He's a reality TV star.
00:29:10.860 He's all these things. He's a child of the revolution like Napoleon. Napoleon could
00:29:15.080 never have risen to where he did without the French revolution. And when he rose,
00:29:20.820 he became the undoing of the revolution. Napoleon crowns himself emperor. If only Trump would crown
00:29:26.600 himself emperor. I don't think he's going to do that. But Napoleon began to reinstitute
00:29:31.520 after the revolution. As a consequence of the revolution, he reimposed a new kind of order
00:29:37.620 on things. That's exactly what Trump is doing. He is the Napoleon. In some ways, another Napoleon
00:29:42.220 comparison for Catholics would be John Paul II. John Paul II was a child of the revolution. He was
00:29:47.480 a child of the Second Vatican Council, but he was also kind of the undoing of it. He was the more 0.98
00:29:51.340 conservative version that emerged out of it, but still within the framework of the Second Vatican
00:29:57.180 Council and the reforms that followed. Same thing holds for Trump here. He is our Napoleon,
00:30:02.400 which is why, by the way, that is why the Democrats realize they can't beat him at the
00:30:06.040 ballot box. They can't beat him in ordinary ways. They have to banish him to St. Helena.
00:30:10.940 They have to send him away. They have to put him on an island somewhere. He can't be contained.
00:30:16.180 They have to kick him off the ballot. They have to try to assassinate him. They have to 0.98
00:30:19.900 contain him differently because he's just a different kind of thing. And he has an imperial
00:30:27.000 control, if not over the country, certainly at least over the Republican Party. Okay,
00:30:30.740 let's turn to the left for a second because the Republicans had their convention, the midterm RNC,
00:30:35.440 first time ever. The left had its own convention, which was the Socialism 2026 Conference.
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00:32:19.640 Socialism 2026. The pictures from the conference are exactly what you would expect.
00:32:24.060 They're still wearing their face masks. The face masks, by the way, have a dual significance. On
00:32:29.120 the one hand, they signify that they are weak because they idolize weakness on the left. They
00:32:35.840 idolize vulnerability. They idolize aberrance and illness, mental illness, physical illness.
00:32:43.000 So they literally symbolize, that's the literal interpretation of the mask. But there's also a
00:32:48.440 threatening kind of signification, which is that they wear the masks to hide themselves because
00:32:52.920 they are much, much more violent than the right. And they are much more likely to endorse political
00:32:57.200 violence. They endorse political violence at this conference. And so the dual signification of the
00:33:02.640 mask is, one, it's to protect me from you, from this imaginary violence of your bacteria because
00:33:09.440 you're so toxic, you other people. But also, it's to protect me from the consequences of my threat
00:33:15.920 to you. They wear the masks, the secular keffiyeh, in order to threaten people because they do commit 0.98
00:33:21.660 violence okay here's one dsa speaker threatening violence uh and describing the way that they all 0.62
00:33:28.020 burn down police stations when you abolish the police you do burn down police stations i imagine
00:33:34.620 indeed we have but um or some people have allegedly feminism is never needed to know 1.00
00:33:40.380 what a woman is in order to proceed and that and that's just how it is um and she says as freaks 1.00
00:33:47.580 and fuck-ups as faggots and trannies as wreckers and miserable wrecks as addicts and crazies we 1.00
00:33:53.300 need a junkie communism now for over a decade i've been part of a sort of transgender materialist 1.00
00:34:01.620 and anti-work trans marxist effort in revolutionary feminism in the west that theorizes um social
00:34:09.060 reproduction and trans social reproduction and the positive supersession of capitalist care
00:34:14.420 in an abolitionist frame. 0.92
00:34:15.760 It's just, it's mad libs.
00:34:17.460 These are literally mad libs. 0.94
00:34:18.880 They are mad libs.
00:34:20.180 But she's just, it's just words. 0.94
00:34:23.480 It's like Hamlet says when he's feigning madness.
00:34:25.520 His speech is not significant.
00:34:27.160 It's just words, words, words. 0.91
00:34:28.080 She's just trans, disabled, Marxist, materialist. 1.00
00:34:32.580 It's just words jumbled together. 0.94
00:34:35.100 We can all look at this and say, whoa, this is kind of crazy. 0.65
00:34:37.120 Not only does she sound crazy,
00:34:38.460 but she's admitting to burning down police stations. 0.98
00:34:40.560 She goes, we should burn down police stations.
00:34:42.620 We have burned down police stations.
00:34:44.220 she realizes she's admitting to a crime. She goes, allegedly, we've burned down police stations,
00:34:48.080 whatever. So we say, okay, these guys are total freaks, right? That's Tallarico.
00:34:54.520 That's AOC. That's Mamdani. I'm not being hyperbolic. I'm not being needlessly provocative. 0.52
00:35:02.640 What's the difference between a James Tallarico and a Mamdani and that lady?
00:35:07.200 this is just their more open ideological conference to explain what their active
00:35:15.040 politicians are doing ask james tallarico hey do you disavow the socialism 2026 conference
00:35:22.360 ask aoc ask mom donnie they won't it's like hey do you disavow woke one they'll say yeah i disavow
00:35:29.160 you say get specific what do you disavow they won't tell you oh yeah no that conference uh
00:35:33.760 there were many provocative things that, okay, what do you disagree with? Do we not need to
00:35:38.740 abolish the police? Do we not need to reduce the police, let criminals out of prison? Do we not?
00:35:44.440 They won't tell you. The comparison, I want to be very precise here. The comparison is
00:35:51.300 not between the Socialism 2026 event and the RNC necessarily. It's like the difference between
00:35:58.520 Socialism 2026 and the Heritage Foundation or the Claremont Institute or any number of right-wing
00:36:04.080 think tanks. Yeah, you speak a little differently at the think tank than you do at the RNC. You
00:36:09.760 speak a little differently with policy wonks about ideas than you do to the public at a campaign
00:36:16.040 speech, but they're directionally aligned. They're complementary. The think tanks and the campaign
00:36:23.920 conventions, those are complementary institutions. If you go to a Heritage Foundation conference or
00:36:30.520 Claremont Institute conference, you'll basically figure out what I think, or Trump thinks, or J.D.
00:36:35.480 Vance thinks, or Marco Rubio thinks, or you'll basically figure that out. They might use
00:36:39.280 different language. It might be more in the weeds. It might be a little more provocative,
00:36:42.440 but that's it. That's what we believe. Same thing here. You can't have a Democrat party that is
00:36:47.220 completely dominated by socialists, where the socialists are now more popular than the rank
00:36:52.420 and file members of Congress, and then say, well, we have nothing to do with the socialism
00:36:56.840 conference. They're the same thing. They are the same thing. Now, speaking of these people,
00:37:03.120 she mentions the trannies and all sorts of nasty names for homosexuals. Colleges are super gay 1.00
00:37:11.760 and super violent, like super duper so. There's a news, you don't need to take my word for it. 1.00
00:37:17.400 There's a new study out.
00:37:18.560 Here we are.
00:37:18.960 We have it.
00:37:20.060 Over 20% of undergraduates at a representative sample of all colleges identify as LGBT, one in five.
00:37:29.520 We used to joke, because I went to a pretty homosexual university. 0.84
00:37:33.520 My alma mater is sort of infamously light in the loafers.
00:37:37.100 We used to joke that it was one in four, maybe more.
00:37:39.340 But that was obviously an extremely exaggerated number.
00:37:43.140 Now it's not.
00:37:43.920 Now, that's almost the number of LGBT-identifying people at all American universities. 0.68
00:37:49.220 And by the way, when you look at the 15 gayest universities, the numbers get insane.
00:37:55.460 Harvey Mudd College, 43% identify as LGBT. 0.56
00:38:01.340 The Barnard College, it's almost 50%.
00:38:05.500 Skidmore, about 50%.
00:38:08.560 Oberlin, 62%.
00:38:10.920 Smith College, which used to be one of the sister schools to some, like the men would go to the
00:38:17.480 Ivy League schools and the women would go to like Smith and Vassar and all that. Smith, 76.6%.
00:38:22.500 Mount Holyoke, 86.1%. That is statistically the most lesbian place on earth. 1.00
00:38:33.220 I'm impressed my alma mater did not make it onto the gayest list. That's actually, 1.00
00:38:36.800 that's kind of a white pill, but this is pretty weird, right? This is a survey that was done by
00:38:40.560 the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which used to be called the Foundation
00:38:44.520 for Individual Rights in Education, FIRE, does a lot of great work. They found that the colleges
00:38:50.580 are super gay. And also, let's get to the violence part, 30% of students say that using violence to 0.97
00:38:56.060 stop someone from speaking on campus is acceptable, which, again, we've all personally experienced
00:39:01.320 this. Charlie experienced it the most extreme way. A lot of other conservatives have experienced
00:39:05.000 that. 69% of students say shouting down a speaker on campus is acceptable. So what does this mean?
00:39:14.060 The violence thing is representative of the young left and really the whole left broadly. 0.63
00:39:18.960 But what does it mean about the LGBT stuff? Why are these colleges so gay? Well, it can mean, 0.91
00:39:23.840 as far as I can see, one of three things. It can mean that there's something in the campus water.
00:39:29.920 There's just something in the water, in the water fountains that just turns you gay.
00:39:33.020 or it can mean that sexual identity is malleable.
00:39:38.120 That second one is related to the first one.
00:39:40.860 Doesn't mean that there's literally
00:39:42.600 like a physical environmental factor on the campus,
00:39:44.880 but it could mean that LGBT identity and inclination 0.67
00:39:47.740 is a social contagion, 0.92
00:39:49.500 that it's not just you're born this way
00:39:50.940 and you can't change it.
00:39:51.900 Or the third thing is that the schools
00:39:54.160 are only attracting people who are into weird sex stuff.
00:39:57.660 So let's lump those first two together.
00:39:59.940 The first two basically come down to
00:40:02.580 We were told sexual identity is immutable, but it's not.
00:40:05.780 You can actually be like a normal lady who goes to college and becomes a lesbian.
00:40:10.540 And we've probably all met people like that. 0.97
00:40:13.080 Is that, or it's that the colleges are only attracting people who are into radical sexual ideologies and identities.
00:40:22.000 Either way, that's very bad for the LGBT movement.
00:40:26.800 Either way, that's very bad for the argument of the left. 0.59
00:40:29.160 If the colleges are only appealing to people who are into weird sex stuff, then clearly we need to reform the colleges because the whole point of the colleges, the whole point of education is to discipline your will, to train your intellect, but also discipline your will so that you are normal and you make sense of your freedom and you do things that are pro-social and in accord with right reason and natural law.
00:40:50.700 So if the colleges are only attracting people who don't do that, something's going wrong with the college.
00:40:54.740 But on the first point, if sexual identity is malleable, 0.97
00:40:57.520 then the whole LGBTQ movement goes out the window 0.99
00:41:00.120 because the whole thing is predicated on the idea that you're born this way 0.99
00:41:02.980 and you can't change it.
00:41:04.100 And that's why society needs to accommodate these things 1.00
00:41:05.940 up to and including letting men beat up girls in sports 1.00
00:41:08.520 and go into the women's bathroom.
00:41:11.080 It is a devastating study for the LGBT movement. 0.95
00:41:14.040 Now, it doesn't really matter because they don't engage in a debate. 0.70
00:41:17.480 I think we've learned that over the last year.
00:41:18.860 The left isn't all that interested in debate.
00:41:20.340 this is why the LGBT identity does tend to correspond with an increase in support for 0.85
00:41:26.400 violence and on the left broadly, which is in favor of both of those things. Because they say, 0.99
00:41:31.820 well, look, yeah, we don't have an argument for this. Our arguments don't make any sense,
00:41:34.720 but shut up or we'll kill you. That's what they're saying. That's what they said. There 1.00
00:41:38.420 were people protesting Charlie's memorial last night at the campus where a leftist murdered him.
00:41:43.740 There were people protesting. When I drove out of that venue, the driver, the security team said,
00:41:49.540 hey, we're going to go a different way. We're going to do it this way because
00:41:52.060 there are protesters and we want to keep everybody safe. So they're protesting a memorial
00:41:58.820 for the nice guy who was debating openly that their ilk murdered? What? What? Okay. There's
00:42:08.420 so much more I want to get to. We just don't have a ton of time for it. The one thing I do want to
00:42:11.520 get to before the mailbag, though, is the women on Oprah. The women on Oprah who are reacting to 1.00
00:42:17.260 the Lindsay Clancy case. Maybe this is the apotheosis. This is the culmination of the
00:42:23.020 hysteria among crazy women over the Lindsay Clancy trial. The women on the Oprah show are 0.82
00:42:30.080 discussing the Lindsay Clancy trial, and they're not really getting down to, is she guilty? Is she
00:42:34.580 culpable? Is she not guilty because of temporary psychosis? And what should the punishment be?
00:42:39.480 Should there be a mistrial? And they're not getting into that. The heart of the debate was,
00:42:44.560 If white women get to murder their kids, 1.00
00:42:46.980 shouldn't black women have that right too? 1.00
00:42:50.600 And the other thing that I would just be remiss to not say is,
00:42:55.420 I hope this never happens again.
00:42:58.280 We know statistically it really will.
00:43:01.480 It will.
00:43:01.820 I want us to have the same passion for people who don't look like Lindsay,
00:43:07.600 who don't have her same access.
00:43:10.760 Yeah. 0.91
00:43:11.840 Yeah. 1.00
00:43:13.680 who don't have her same access and education, 1.00
00:43:21.520 her melanin, her privilege. 1.00
00:43:23.800 There are women of color sitting around this country in prisons 1.00
00:43:27.800 for the same thing that we've never heard of. 1.00
00:43:30.560 And I just want to remind us to have the pink shirts
00:43:33.080 and the energy for them as well.
00:43:35.860 Mm.
00:43:37.600 You want me to say?
00:43:39.760 You okay?
00:43:43.680 I'm so pro-woman.
00:43:45.580 I'm so pro.
00:43:46.540 I am the most pro-woman man in politics.
00:43:50.520 I am.
00:43:51.020 I am. 1.00
00:43:51.500 I love the ladies. 0.97
00:43:52.460 I love them.
00:43:54.380 This is hard for me.
00:43:56.200 This is making it hard. 0.77
00:43:58.440 This is impairing my general outlook on women.
00:44:05.240 I'm going to try not to let that happen, but it's your conclusion from the Lindsay Clancy case.
00:44:13.680 is that we need to make sure the next time a woman murders her kids in cold blood, 0.94
00:44:19.060 that if the woman is black, she also gets away with it. First of all, this is statistically 0.97
00:44:24.000 ignorant because black women are more likely to murder their kids than white women through 1.00
00:44:27.700 abortion. This has been one of the focuses of the pro-life movement that many of us have been 1.00
00:44:32.900 involved in for a long time, is specifically making sure that black women do not murder their 0.98
00:44:38.120 kids because black women murder their kids at higher rates than other kinds of women. 0.99
00:44:42.240 Here's that famous statistic that the majority of pregnant black women in New York murder their 1.00
00:44:48.880 kids, that the most dangerous place for a black person in New York City is in his mother's womb. 0.99
00:44:54.060 Okay, this is a big, big problem. It's a big problem for all women in all of society, but 0.99
00:44:58.960 specifically for black people. And then this woman's conclusion is, yeah, but shouldn't we 0.84
00:45:04.840 get to murder the kids outside the womb, just like Lindsay Clancy was? This insinuation that 0.94
00:45:08.960 lindsey clancy was let off the hook because she's a white woman which i don't really see you know i
00:45:13.680 don't think white women now okay now in defense of white women white women are one of the only 1.00
00:45:18.740 groups in society that you are kind of encouraged to make fun of the left hates white women because 0.99
00:45:25.360 of the racial aspect because they don't like white people but then the right feels comfortable 0.89
00:45:30.500 attacking white women calling them awful you know affluent white female liberals and you know 1.00
00:45:35.800 poking fun at them all the time, calling them Karens. 0.98
00:45:38.520 The right feels emboldened to do that
00:45:40.160 because then at least they can't be called racist. 1.00
00:45:42.480 So white women actually do, 1.00
00:45:43.780 they don't get as much flack as the white men, 1.00
00:45:45.560 but they do get a little bit of flack.
00:45:47.340 The idea that Lindsay Clancy, 0.95
00:45:49.520 the courts went softer on her 0.77
00:45:51.020 because she's a white woman, 1.00
00:45:51.740 I think is implausible to begin with.
00:45:53.120 But my conclusion from the Lindsay Clancy case
00:45:55.800 is not that we need to make sure
00:45:57.760 that women of all races can murder their kids. 1.00
00:45:59.400 My conclusion is women need to not murder their kids. 1.00
00:46:02.860 And we need to punish them when they do. 1.00
00:46:05.800 and you're changing feelings and a drug or two that you're on are not an excuse to get away with
00:46:12.400 murdering your kid they're calling for the oprah show is calling for affirmative action for child
00:46:17.340 murder that's where we're at not okay hey you know i know i'm running late on the mailbag i don't
00:46:22.360 care uh it's 9 11 and it's the 25th anniversary of 9 11 and i'm a new yorker and i you know when
00:46:28.180 i when i was a kid i was in sixth grade when it happened i had schoolmates who lost a parent and
00:46:33.940 you know, one of my classmates lost her father in 9-11. My mother worked in the city. I grew up
00:46:38.600 in the suburbs. My mother worked in the city. She saw the tower fall, the first tower fall
00:46:41.660 from a train platform in New York. So I remember it very vividly. And there's this meme that shows
00:46:47.180 up. Maybe we'll add it in post. I didn't pull it. There's this meme that shows up. And it's this
00:46:52.580 picture, you know, kind of grainy analog camera footage of the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan
00:46:58.860 that says that the country you grew up in no longer exists.
00:47:03.260 And it was a truly traumatic event.
00:47:07.980 The 90s, everyone was pretty rich,
00:47:10.440 and it was super peaceful.
00:47:11.940 We had the Cold War peace dividend.
00:47:13.860 We were on top of the world.
00:47:15.420 We were told history was over.
00:47:17.080 And then when 9-11 happened, it did change things.
00:47:20.920 It changed how you go to the airports, famously,
00:47:22.900 but it destroyed the economy.
00:47:24.540 A lot of people lost a lot in that.
00:47:26.220 if you were in or around New York or Washington, D.C., you very likely knew people. My mother lost
00:47:32.860 a friend in 9-11. You knew people. And then afterward, there was the cleanup, and thousands
00:47:38.460 of people became sick because of the chemicals at the site. So then you also knew people who died
00:47:44.740 just from the cleanup. And it was extremely traumatic, and it was the real threat, the first
00:47:48.680 real threat to American imperial hegemony in a long time. So yes, in that way, the world totally
00:47:54.500 changed. But I was thinking about this yesterday coming back from Charlie's event. I think some of
00:48:01.900 our nostalgia over the 90s, pre-911, I think some of that is precisely that. It's nostalgia. It's
00:48:08.760 history after a few drinks. Because I think when we look at pictures of the Twin Towers and we
00:48:14.340 think about what we miss, what we long for, yeah, people were richer and we felt safer and America
00:48:21.300 was on top of the world. That all is true. But I think a lot of what you miss is that like back
00:48:25.420 when the Twin Towers were standing, your grandma was alive. You know, back when the Twin Towers
00:48:30.920 were standing, you were younger. And I think what you're pining for, was it to quote the Eagles?
00:48:35.760 It's not that thing that you're longing for. It's just your long lost youth. Because when you think
00:48:41.640 about the 90s, yes, America was materially prosperous and we had this big dot-com bubble
00:48:47.760 and it was once in a century. And also, divorce was at record highs. Also, we talk about the
00:48:57.520 Lindsay Clancy trial. Also, we let a guy off the hook for murdering his wife just because he was
00:49:01.480 black and we had race riots. Also, abortion was at massive highs. Also, we couldn't even conduct
00:49:09.820 the presidential election in the year 2000, country was fraying over that. Also, we impeached
00:49:17.520 the president and we also, there was a lot of bad stuff. I don't know, it wasn't all that great. And
00:49:23.560 to just look back and say, if only 9-11 hadn't happened, we'd be living in paradise. That's just
00:49:28.860 not true. It's not true at any point in history. When you look back and you say, if only we could
00:49:33.140 unwind the clock X number of years, there is no reason to believe that if you could do that and
00:49:39.400 then set the clock going again, that we wouldn't end up in exactly the same place.
00:49:43.660 So it's important, as we should mourn for the dead today, and we should mourn for this
00:49:50.200 era that in some ways was better than the era that we live in.
00:49:53.740 But we shouldn't get nostalgic about it.
00:49:56.840 We should identify the real victims.
00:49:58.840 We should identify the real enemies.
00:50:00.180 We should be clear about America's geopolitical position.
00:50:02.460 We should be clear about the hard work that needs to be done.
00:50:04.780 But don't only look backward.
00:50:07.120 You know, you've got to look forward.
00:50:09.580 Life in some ways has improved since the 1990s.
00:50:12.460 Believe it or not, it actually has improved in some ways.
00:50:15.040 And in some ways it's gotten worse.
00:50:16.560 And in any case, that was their fight.
00:50:19.200 And that time no longer exists.
00:50:22.300 And there is no time machine.
00:50:23.400 But that country does exist.
00:50:24.600 Bringing us all the way back to the top of the show
00:50:26.100 and what we were hearing from J.D. Vance
00:50:27.480 and other people at the RNC.
00:50:29.080 You know, this is our country.
00:50:29.920 And it is the same country.
00:50:31.500 And we move on.
00:50:32.920 And we have to deal with the sufferings
00:50:36.640 of this fallen world.
00:50:37.600 violence and death and decay. And we have to do our part in our time, which is not 1995. It's not
00:50:44.120 2002. It's 2026. We have to do what we can in our time to win the fight. And we might even look
00:50:51.160 back at some point in the future, hard to believe, and say that these were the good old days. And we
00:50:54.640 need to prevent the bad things that could occur. And we need to try to build our country and make
00:50:58.420 it better as part of our inheritance, which we didn't build ourselves. We received it as a gift
00:51:02.460 and we owe it to our posterity to pass it on such that the country that we grew up in actually can
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00:52:29.420 have even 30 seconds left. My favorite comment, I didn't even pick it. The producers picked it.
00:52:32.760 It's from Overtoast. It says, imagine the one real Nigerian prince who actually did want to 0.99
00:52:37.120 give out his money, but kept getting called a scammer. I know. And the poor people who missed
00:52:40.940 it. Okay. Our mailbag is sponsored by pure talk at pure talk.com slash Knowles Canada WLES
00:52:44.920 today. Take it away. Hey, Michael, is it possible for a state to split into multiple states?
00:52:52.620 So California is huge.
00:52:54.960 Is it possible to split it up into three states, five states, something of that nature?
00:53:01.040 How would it be done?
00:53:02.060 Is it possible?
00:53:03.280 Would love to know what you think.
00:53:04.860 Sincerely, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
00:53:08.400 Nice, nice.
00:53:09.860 Technically, it could be done, but practically, it cannot be done.
00:53:12.820 No.
00:53:12.960 The last time we were having these debates over splitting up states and territories was in the lead-up to the Cold War.
00:53:19.080 Sorry, lead-up to the Civil War.
00:53:20.740 so only in times of great crisis would that happen otherwise it will not happen because
00:53:26.760 the states don't want to give up their power and their tax bases and the reason they would
00:53:32.640 be split up is not just because it's big territory california has been big for a very long time
00:53:37.220 california came into the union right right in the lead up to the civil war uh the the uh thing
00:53:44.200 that would split it up would be politics would be ideological disagreements which split across
00:53:48.480 geographic areas and which would probably be met with much the same response as ideological
00:53:54.960 disagreements in the civil war namely they would be crushed by the people who are in power so no
00:54:01.180 it's it's not going to happen next question hello mr knowles this is did not comply rn here
00:54:07.540 as my username suggests um am i i only have a career because of the daily wire and their
00:54:13.940 lawsuit. So thank you very much. I wanted to bring up a different perspective on the Lindsay
00:54:20.160 Clancy case. You suggested that women who, you know, don't think that she's guilty, thinks that 0.95
00:54:27.640 the husband did it, are, you know, somewhat flawed in their reasoning. I suggest completely the
00:54:33.640 opposite. My wife has thought that perhaps the husband did it and is curious about that. But in
00:54:43.120 talking to her, I think this is more due to her nature as a wife and mother. She just cannot
00:54:48.980 fathom that a wife and mother of three children, as she also has three children, could ever do this
00:54:58.020 to her children. It's just something she cannot comprehend. And I think this is a way for many
00:55:03.300 women to cope with the idea that, no, a wife and mother could never do this, so it must be the
00:55:08.900 husband. And I think that's almost a healthy thing and a good thing that my wife believes that
00:55:14.220 because I don't want her to be able to fathom that a wife and mother could kill her three children.
00:55:19.500 So, interested to hear your thoughts on that. Yeah, well, I think you're putting a claim in 0.78
00:55:25.840 my mouth is not totally there, which is that my criticism of the pro-Clancy ladies is focused on
00:55:32.960 the ones who think that the husband did it. I mean, I think that's absurd. I don't think that's
00:55:37.060 suggested by the evidence at all. So there's no reason to believe the husband did it at all.
00:55:41.300 So I think they're just wrong or delusional. And maybe they're delusional for the reasons that
00:55:44.700 you're pointing out here. But my bigger issue is with the women who acknowledge that Lindsay
00:55:49.920 Clancy killed her kids, but want her to get off the hook. They say, well, it wasn't really her 0.98
00:55:54.640 fault. It's not the same person, like the lawyer said. Oh, she had momentary psychosis. Oh, she
00:56:04.220 took a couple of drugs she shouldn't have taken or whatever. It's my issue with those women who 1.00
00:56:08.820 seem to conclude that women just cannot be responsible for the things that they do because 1.00
00:56:15.980 they're not rational creatures and they're purely emotional, which is like, that is the argument to 0.94
00:56:20.840 exclude women from politics and public life. So it's kind of ironic that it's the most feminist 1.00
00:56:25.880 women who are making those claims right now when they're convenient for Lindsay Clancy, but that's 1.00
00:56:29.660 really my issue yeah i think the the women who say she didn't even do it i mean those women are
00:56:36.800 are delusional and coping and because i mean not not even the lindsey clancy defense team
00:56:41.180 argues that that's like that's just internet conspiracy podcast true crime nonsense uh the
00:56:48.500 it's more the to the to the women who say yeah okay all right yeah lindsey clancy did it but
00:56:54.240 she didn't really do it because she can't and if she did do it you know what was the line one of 1.00
00:56:58.600 these people said, women, they just, you know, heaven forbid that a mother makes a mistake, 0.99
00:57:06.180 that she just doesn't get it perfect, that women fail sometimes. Like, yeah, well, there's like
00:57:10.900 burning the roast and there's murdering all your kids. Those are different degrees of failure. And
00:57:15.320 if you do the former, I'm not going to throw it against the wall. But if you do the latter,
00:57:18.280 you should probably be in prison or executed. Okay. On that happy conclusion. It's Fake Headline 0.99
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00:57:40.320 Every significant movement in history has started with protesting. 0.99
00:57:43.080 You're a traitor! 1.00
00:57:43.860 Uncle Tom! 1.00
00:57:44.600 This is our generation's civil rights.
00:57:46.360 I have no idea what the protest is about.
00:57:48.340 Bingo!
00:57:48.900 Given the current climate, you should have figured as polarizing as Clay Saunders can even be allowed on campus.
00:57:54.300 Ah, can you hear me okay?
00:57:55.160 Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Friedman.
00:57:57.960 This is a decision I cannot find. 1.00
00:57:59.560 Islam will conquer the West. 1.00
00:58:02.760 As-salamu alaykum. 1.00
00:58:06.160 Are we paying attention? 1.00
00:58:08.360 They've taken over the building, they're downstairs,
00:58:10.160 and they've blocked the doors.
00:58:12.760 I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.
00:58:16.960 We cannot run and hide.
00:58:18.760 Muhammad is the messenger of God.
00:58:22.160 There is no God but Allah. 1.00
00:58:24.560 What do you say we turn those SOBs into a fine red mist? 1.00
00:58:30.560 As we move, one man will cover while the other guys go. 1.00
00:58:34.560 They call that leap project.
00:58:35.560 Stretch your mouth and listen.
00:58:38.560 You need a course in safe weapons handling.