The Michael Knowles Show - September 15, 2026


Ep. 2060 - Viral Video: Indians Invade A Texas Football Game?


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00:03:03.140 The Longhorns, I have been informed, are a football team.
00:03:09.020 Now, I want to cover all the aspects of this story.
00:03:12.040 Some of you are already going to know that.
00:03:13.700 The Buckeyes are a football team as well. 0.97
00:03:15.740 but this is not the kneel and disrespect the American flag and have gay male cheerleaders 0.87
00:03:22.900 kind of football. That is apparently the National Football League. That's professional football. 0.55
00:03:26.780 This is college football, and the Texas team beat the Ohio team. I don't follow any kind of sports
00:03:33.520 at all other than the New York Yankees, which I follow with autistic vigor. I watch as much
00:03:40.880 sports as any guy, but I concentrated all on one team and one sport. So I missed a lot of this
00:03:47.720 story, but the story is not about football, pro football or college football. The story is
00:03:53.340 actually about how a Texas politician reacted to the Texas victory because he was upset about it.
00:03:59.460 And he wasn't upset about how the team played, you know, the first downs and the kicks and the
00:04:05.900 touchdowns or whatever. He was upset about the celebrations. This is Beau French who says,
00:04:13.040 like body cams exposed criminals, social media is exposing how many Americans have been displaced
00:04:17.800 by foreigners. It's everywhere and far worse than any of us could imagine. Now, this guy,
00:04:25.240 Beau French, he is running for Texas Agriculture Commissioner. He is being called a racist for
00:04:30.000 this. But I looked at the picture he posted of all these fans, all these kids cheering with
00:04:35.120 doing the longhorn thing with their hands. And I realized I might be even more racist than he is
00:04:42.000 because I kind of thought the guys were Mexican. And I thought, well, there are a lot of Mexicans 1.00
00:04:48.140 in Texas. That's been true for a long time. That's been true since before Texas was part 1.00
00:04:52.460 of the United States. But apparently the issue is that the guys in the picture are Indian
00:04:57.840 and the politician doesn't like that very much.
00:05:02.340 And so he's being absolutely pilloried.
00:05:05.180 He's being sort of dog walked by the media
00:05:09.080 and by members of the Republican Party
00:05:10.520 for doing this racism.
00:05:13.280 Also a strange one for me
00:05:14.680 because I know that the internet demands
00:05:17.080 that all people on the right 0.98
00:05:18.440 hate Jews and Indians in particular. 1.00
00:05:21.320 They really, it's really the internet right, 1.00
00:05:23.160 very anti-Jew, very anti-Indian.
00:05:25.200 And I actually particularly like Jews and Indians, among other people.
00:05:30.420 There are certain populations I'm not as big a fan of, but I don't know.
00:05:33.560 I'm totally out of the internet zeitgeist because I enjoy the Hebraic people and I like Indians too.
00:05:40.780 So what is this really about? 0.96
00:05:42.500 Is this guy a vile, awful, terrible racist? 0.95
00:05:45.420 Is it just totally beyond the pale to criticize the demographic makeup of the people who are cheering on the football team? 0.99
00:05:53.500 or does he have a point?
00:05:56.780 And I guess what I would say is
00:05:58.040 there are kind of two reads on this.
00:06:00.360 And this is about a lot more than football,
00:06:02.860 a lot more than Texas.
00:06:03.620 This is really the way I think conservatives
00:06:05.420 need to understand the immigration debate.
00:06:07.520 On the one hand, people are saying,
00:06:09.320 look, it's good that these Indian guys 0.97
00:06:11.500 have come here
00:06:12.460 and they're assimilating to the culture.
00:06:14.540 They're putting on the Longhorns jerseys
00:06:16.980 and they're cheering on the football team.
00:06:18.600 They're not waiting for a cricket game.
00:06:19.800 They're cheering on the football team
00:06:21.160 and they're doing the hand thing. 0.99
00:06:22.900 And so this is what we want from immigrants. We want them to assimilate. We don't want them to 1.00
00:06:27.240 stay in ethnic enclaves. We don't want them to keep all of their old cultural traditions and 1.00
00:06:31.860 not be part of the American system. So that's great. Also though, it is not wrong to raise an
00:06:40.740 eyebrow at the massive demographic shift that has been intentionally foisted upon the American 0.98
00:06:47.600 people by the political class, by the Democrats, because the Democrats openly hate white people, 0.90
00:06:54.140 and they want to import non-white people in particular because they believe that that will 0.88
00:06:58.180 give them a permanent electoral majority. They say this. They've been pretty open about it
00:07:01.580 for over 20 years, and the statistics bear it out. There are plenty of based foreigners who
00:07:07.040 come to America and ultimately do vote conservative, vote Republican, but the vast majority of them do 0.60
00:07:11.860 not. The vast majority of the immigrants who come in don't vote Republican. They vote for 0.99
00:07:17.140 Democrats. That's why the Democrats keep inviting them in. And you have the business Republicans
00:07:20.880 who encourage mass migration, who encourage even illegal immigration because it allows them to
00:07:27.200 suppress wages. It gives them a broader labor force. And most Americans don't like that.
00:07:32.900 It is not. Look, maybe some people hate Indians. People on Twitter certainly do. And that's wrong. 0.88
00:07:37.200 We should not have any particular animosity toward people on the basis of their race or
00:07:42.920 anything like that. However, it is perfectly legitimate for the American people to say we
00:07:48.400 don't want a massive demographic shift in the United States. When people do come in,
00:07:54.320 it is better for them to assimilate than not to assimilate. But also, it is crazy that we have
00:07:59.600 totally blown up the demographic makeup of the United States, contrary to the stated and
00:08:05.200 reaffirmed will of the American people in election after election. Mass migration was one of the 0.96
00:08:09.680 biggest issues in 2024. Mass migration has been one of the biggest issues on the right for 25,
00:08:15.000 30 years now. And it even bled over in the 2024 election such that Trump denied the popular vote
00:08:20.320 to the Democrats. So it's not beyond the pale to say, hey, we have flooded the country with
00:08:27.640 immigrants, mostly from Latin America over the last 30, 40 years. We are increasingly importing 0.97
00:08:34.300 immigrants from the subcontinent, specifically from India, through H-1B visas and all other
00:08:39.160 sorts of things. And maybe we shouldn't necessarily do that. Maybe it's okay to restrict immigration,
00:08:45.920 including legal immigration, and encourage people who come from cultures that are more 0.77
00:08:49.400 easily assimilated to come over. That is not beyond the pale. You don't want that to fall
00:08:53.600 into a kind of nasty, crude, vulgar racial bigotry. We don't want to do that. But likewise,
00:09:01.440 you can't tell the majority of the American people, comprising all sorts of races, all sorts
00:09:07.560 of ethnicities, that it is utterly wrong for them to have any concern whatsoever about demographic
00:09:13.520 shift and displacement. Because that isn't. That's perfectly within the rights of a people,
00:09:18.520 especially in a self-governing republic, to say, hey, you know, maybe let's chill out.
00:09:22.760 From 1924 until what? 1965, we had basically no immigration into the United States. Very,
00:09:30.520 very severely restricted immigration. And then we had totally lopsided immigration after that.
00:09:35.420 And in recent decades, it's been extremely lopsided from Latin America and, I guess, increasingly from India. 0.93
00:09:40.420 It's not about the Indians. 0.56
00:09:43.060 It's not about the Mexicans. 0.72
00:09:44.640 It's not about the Guatemalans.
00:09:45.580 It's not necessarily about the immigrants themselves.
00:09:48.320 It is about the right of a people to determine who comes in, which peoples are going to be more easily assimilated,
00:09:56.120 and whether or not we want to continue to import lots of foreign people,
00:10:00.680 especially when we have the highest foreign foreign percentage of the population ever,
00:10:04.260 though thanks to the Trump administration, that is going down a little bit.
00:10:07.380 In 50 years, if we get the foreign-born percentage of the population way, way down,
00:10:10.920 and there's some pressing reason to bring in more foreigners from this culture or that, 1.00
00:10:14.640 there's an argument for that. The immigration policy doesn't need to be one thing for all time.
00:10:20.360 Politics just responds to changing circumstances. So it's totally fine. People should eschew
00:10:26.660 a vulgar kind of racism, but we should treat the immigration issue seriously,
00:10:32.420 And we should recognize that different cultures are qualitatively different than others, and that actually factors into the immigration discussion as well.
00:10:39.500 It's actually a sign of the times, and it's a sign of the significance of this issue, that when I was a kid, the immigration issue was you could either support way more legal immigration or way more legal immigration and illegal immigration.
00:10:50.240 Those were your two options.
00:10:52.340 And now that's shifted to the point that we're discussing, okay, do we want to restrict legal immigration or do we want to restrict legal immigration from specific countries?
00:11:00.360 You know, that's a major shift in the Overton window, and I think that is inevitable. I don't think there's anything intrinsically racist or whatever about it.
00:11:07.900 Okay, the funny thing about singling out the Indians here, though, is that Asians actually are discriminated against in university admissions policies.
00:11:18.420 So it's not – the argument coming from a lot of people is these Americans, a regular white boy from the middle of the country, he doesn't get into the public schools anymore because his spot is being taken by Asian students.
00:11:30.860 But the irony is that the white students and the Asian students are in exactly the same place.
00:11:35.320 They're both being discriminated against by the schools.
00:11:37.440 This was a Supreme Court case.
00:11:38.920 It was taken up against Harvard.
00:11:40.500 The Supreme Court ruled against Harvard, said you have to stop discriminating against the white kids and the Asian kids.
00:11:44.680 And the schools continue to do it anyway, which we just found out thanks to the DOJ out of Berkeley.
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00:13:19.080 So the Supreme Court issued this decision years ago at this point. Said, hey, you got to stop
00:13:23.460 discriminating against white kids and Asian kids. The only reason the Supreme Court had the political
00:13:27.480 cover to rule this way, by the way, is because of the inclusion of Asians. Had the schools only 1.00
00:13:32.800 discriminated against white kids, they would have gotten away with it. And we all know that to be 0.90
00:13:36.680 true. But the fact that they were discriminating against another supposedly oppressed minority
00:13:42.060 group, namely Asian students, gave the conservatives political cover to rule on this
00:13:47.260 case and say, hey, we shouldn't have racial discrimination against 18-year-old kids. So
00:13:51.260 all's well that ends well, I'll take it. But that's what's going on here. And even after
00:13:55.560 the Supreme Court decision, the schools are still violating it. We've seen this in report after
00:13:59.720 report. Now the DOJ has an investigation with the Department of Education here, found that UC Berkeley
00:14:05.920 law is discriminating based on race in admissions. They found that even after Students for Fair
00:14:12.860 Admissions, the Supreme Court case, Berkeley law uses race, essay prompts, and other tactics in
00:14:18.180 order to further the racial diversity goals. And don't forget, you can't increase racial diversity.
00:14:22.620 that is, you can't expand the number of students from one race if you don't also shrink the number
00:14:29.060 of students from another race. You can't give priority and privilege to students of one race 0.94
00:14:33.660 without discriminating against students of another race. For instance, the DOJ writes,
00:14:38.100 Berkeley's application asked applicants to specify their racial identity so that admitted
00:14:42.140 students could be grouped with others of the same primary identity in class. So they're
00:14:46.280 intentionally separating the admitted students by race. In 2024-2025, half of Berkeley Law's
00:14:54.700 admitted black applicants had LSAT scores below 95% of the admitted white applicants. More than
00:15:00.540 one-third of admitted black applicants had LSAT scores below 99% of the admitted white applicants.
00:15:07.080 So that means that in 2025, black applicants to Berkeley Law had 5.8 times higher odds of getting
00:15:14.840 in than comparable white applicants. That's still going on. This tells us something about how the 0.75
00:15:21.860 government actually works, and it's a pitfall that the conservatives, I think, fall into.
00:15:27.520 Conservatives really want to focus on pristine ideology. They don't want to focus on tactics.
00:15:36.660 This is why conservatives tend toward think tanks. Conservatives tend toward pundits,
00:15:43.920 toward podcasting. I'm part of this. The conservatives tend to focus on these kinds
00:15:49.460 of things. Now, one thing I try to do on this show that some of the others maybe don't exactly is
00:15:53.380 try to get in the nitty gritty muck of politics too, into some of the races, into the exercise
00:15:58.280 of power. Because what we are learning here is that you can have a ruling from the Supreme Court
00:16:03.840 of the United States, the highest court in the land. But if you don't have institutional power,
00:16:10.860 guess what all those schools are going to do that just got ruled against by the Supreme Court?
00:16:13.920 they're going to ignore the court's decision. That's exactly what's going on here.
00:16:17.620 So you have this class of conservatives who are practically impotent, and they say, well,
00:16:23.780 the real threat to our liberty comes from the Trump administration wielding too much power.
00:16:27.900 We don't want to be authoritarian. We don't want to appear tyrannical. So we can't exercise power.
00:16:34.060 We just want to shrink the government. That's what they'll say. We just want to shrink the
00:16:37.000 government. But there's no such thing as a small government, as I've observed many times on this
00:16:42.040 show. There's no such thing as a small government in a country of 330 million people. There's only
00:16:45.580 proper government or improper government. There's only good uses of power or improper uses of power.
00:16:50.840 Limited, but appropriate uses of power or limitless uses of power. And so in this case,
00:16:56.060 Supreme Court didn't get it done. It reminds us of this quote attributed to Andrew Jackson,
00:17:01.780 which is, okay, Chief Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let's see him enforce it.
00:17:07.000 So it is crucial.
00:17:08.360 It's very good that the DOJ is doing these investigations,
00:17:12.020 calling light to this.
00:17:13.220 It's very good that Trump is threatening to withhold funding from these schools,
00:17:16.700 messing around with the federal funding that these schools get.
00:17:18.660 That's important.
00:17:19.440 You have to wield the power.
00:17:22.580 And there are many conservatives who are more than happy
00:17:25.140 to allow the entire popularly elected presidential administration
00:17:28.280 to be held captive by one random federal court judge. 1.00
00:17:31.480 It's ridiculous, totally ridiculous. 0.92
00:17:34.100 Frankly, when the rulings go against the liberals, not even the Supreme Court of the United States 0.98
00:17:39.540 matters. Now, speaking of Asians, it's a very Asian-heavy show. A Chinese billionaire has
00:17:45.260 reportedly sired over 100 children via American surrogates. So it's not just that this guy is
00:17:53.020 full of energy and riz, and he hits up the nightclubs all over the United States. He's
00:17:57.540 engaging in a commercial endeavor. He's finding all sorts of Americans. He is paying them and
00:18:04.560 paying doctors, unethical doctors, to impregnate them, to create babies who will be born in the
00:18:11.080 United States who will have birthright American citizenship. One report says that it's 100
00:18:15.880 children through the US surrogates. One lawsuit from a former associate of his claims that it's
00:18:23.320 actually 300. The New York Post is running the 300 number. Now, this Chinese billionaire Zhu
00:18:28.980 Bo, he says the numbers are not precise. Maybe it's fewer. Maybe it's only 99 children. But he
00:18:35.720 gave a statement to the Wall Street Journal, and he said that he has custody of 12 of these children
00:18:41.280 that were born through surrogacy in the United States. He posted a photo to social media,
00:18:45.500 reportedly, of over 100 children seated in rows. A few days later, he issued a statement in Chinese.
00:18:50.480 You can tell he has not assimilated very well.
00:18:52.120 He was not at the Longhorn game.
00:18:53.680 And he said, the statement said,
00:18:55.520 Mr. Zhubo believes in the philosophy
00:18:56.960 that more children bring more blessings.
00:19:00.140 He wishes for all his words and actions
00:19:01.880 to benefit the long-term development
00:19:03.120 of the Chinese nation.
00:19:04.660 So he's not even pretending.
00:19:05.940 You gotta give this guy a lot of credit.
00:19:08.320 He's not saying that he wants to move to America
00:19:10.840 and get married and start a family here
00:19:12.460 and assimilate to the culture
00:19:13.400 and live the American dream.
00:19:14.360 He's not doing any of that.
00:19:15.100 He's a Chinese billionaire
00:19:15.820 who is exploiting two loopholes
00:19:18.320 in the American system,
00:19:19.260 birthright citizenship and commercial surrogacy. He's going to create hundreds of children
00:19:23.840 openly. And he says he's going to do that for the good of the Chinese nation. Obviously,
00:19:28.480 that gives a lot of good to the Chinese nation. If powerful Chinese public figures can have
00:19:34.940 children, pay to have gazillions of children with all of the rights of any American citizen, 0.63
00:19:39.160 they could become president of the United States one day. That gives them a major advantage over
00:19:42.860 the United States. One of this guy's commercial surrogates just spoke out to CBS News.
00:19:47.400 it feels like he's like creating an army that's crazy did you count how many kids are in this
00:19:56.860 picture i don't understand what the motive is i just know that it's gonna be hard for the child
00:20:05.220 and now you're part of it too yeah it's just a really crappy thing to be a part of
00:20:12.180 i mean you don't even think like this could be legal like everyone every step of the way tells
00:20:18.080 him yes and allows this and is like creating these agreements and then it's just up to the
00:20:26.440 surrogate at that point who has half of the information okay hold on this is what i don't
00:20:32.200 get she goes on us poor surrogates we have half the information what he's doing it's evil it's
00:20:36.020 awful. It's wrong. How is this even legal? But lady, you did it. You're part of it, as you say.
00:20:42.860 And it would be one thing if the surrogate came out and she said, and I realized this is wrong,
00:20:46.660 and commercial surrogacy is wrong, and it's horrible for the children, and it's immoral 0.57
00:20:51.860 on multiple levels, and I shouldn't have done it, and I'm sorry, and I would like to repent
00:20:56.120 and atone for my sins. She doesn't say that. She goes, nah, yeah, I didn't realize how crazy it
00:21:02.160 was. He has like over 100 kids. I mean, I only had half the information. In other words,
00:21:08.220 she's fine with commercial surrogacy. She's fine taking money from a foreigner to create a child 1.00
00:21:15.560 to dupe the American immigration system, the citizenship system. She's fine with all of that, 1.00
00:21:21.780 but only up to a certain point. So how many? Had Jubeau only had 90 children, would that be okay?
00:21:29.780 would that no longer be evil and wrong and shouldn't be legal okay maybe 90 is too much
00:21:35.180 what about what about nine would nine be that's like a lot isn't it that's an that's a lot for
00:21:40.540 commercial surrogacy would nine what about five three two well i'm strongly suspect you would
00:21:49.640 say that's okay i suspect that's what most people would say one of the unpopular positions that i
00:21:55.180 have been advancing on this show for years at this point, is that the surrogacy industry is just
00:22:00.900 wrong. And I know why people are attached to it, and I know why they feel a need to defend it.
00:22:06.160 I have plenty of friends who have used surrogacy and IVF and the whole thing, and some of them
00:22:11.480 have come to realize there are problems with the industry. Some of them just try not to think about
00:22:15.600 it. And they say, well, I love my kid. My kid is a good. So how dare you suggest that there's
00:22:19.200 anything wrong with this? I don't want to think about it. More kids, it's always better. Any way
00:22:23.260 to make kids is better. Notice that's what Jubeau said. Jubeau said he believes in the philosophy
00:22:27.380 that more children bring more blessings. So he wants more kids. I was having this conversation
00:22:32.300 on Katie Miller's podcast in DC not that long ago. And she was taking the devil's advocate
00:22:38.160 position and we were discussing IVF. And she said, well, come on, Michael, wouldn't you just
00:22:42.200 say more kids is better? Anything that brings you more kids is a good thing. I pointed out,
00:22:45.920 I said, well, you don't believe that. No one really believes that because one way to make
00:22:50.700 kids is through rape. Do you think that rape is therefore justifiable? People get very,
00:22:55.200 very offended when you draw this comparison. You say, how dare you compare commercial surrogacy
00:23:00.180 to rape? I say, well, no, it's like rape in certain aspects, and it's unlike rape in other
00:23:04.520 aspects. It's certainly not like rape in all aspects, but in some ways it is because it
00:23:08.820 proves the point that there are ways to conceive children, children who are goods, who are just as
00:23:15.480 human as everyone else, who have just as many rights as everybody else, who are just as happy
00:23:19.280 about existing as everyone else. But nevertheless, there are ways of creating children that are not
00:23:23.840 morally justified, that we would never sanction, that we have made illegal, and that should be
00:23:27.300 illegal. So if that's the case, why are we permitting this? We would all agree that it is
00:23:35.680 wrong for a foreigner to hire a surrogate to make 300 kids, right? To be born in America. We all 1.00
00:23:43.560 agree that's wrong. Why is it wrong? Because it's too many kids? We all think that that should be
00:23:49.740 reformed, right? I think we can all agree, no matter what our views on surrogacy and IVF,
00:23:53.560 we should all agree, okay, we need to pass some regulations here, some law. Okay, well,
00:23:56.480 what's the law? Is the law that we can have commercial surrogacy, that two people can,
00:24:02.440 or even just one person, can buy an egg, rent a womb, go to an unethical doctor,
00:24:06.660 pay them a bunch of money, make some kids, but we're going to limit the number of kids?
00:24:12.100 what's the number doing that for four kids is moral but five kids is immoral 10 kids is moral
00:24:19.440 20 kids is immoral on what basis what is your argument for that what's the principle involved
00:24:24.480 here because my position is is pretty simple which is that the the problem with IVF and surrogacy
00:24:32.040 is not just that it massively increases the number of abortions as a practical matter not
00:24:37.720 just that it creates human beings to be indefinitely frozen or destroyed, not just this or that,
00:24:44.200 but that it establishes the domination of science and technology over the origin and destiny of
00:24:50.540 human life, and that it necessarily commoditizes human life, much as slavery would commoditize
00:24:56.340 human life. That's the problem. That children are not commodities, objects to be traded,
00:25:00.880 but they are subjects with rights themselves. That's my argument. People get very upset about
00:25:06.600 but I haven't heard them make an argument against it. And I guess for people who are
00:25:10.140 torn on this issue of commercial surrogacy and IVF, how would you reform the program to stop
00:25:17.700 Zhubo from making 300 plus, he'll have a thousand before he's done, a thousand new Americans,
00:25:24.380 American citizens for the good of the Chinese nation, where the surrogates are speaking out
00:25:29.120 saying, man, this is wrong. I wish I weren't a part of this. How would you reform it in a way
00:25:33.720 that has any moral sense,
00:25:36.320 that rests on any kind of principle at all.
00:25:39.700 It's very difficult to do that,
00:25:41.700 which is why, from the beginning,
00:25:44.500 the surrogacy industry has been a Faustian bargain.
00:25:46.960 There is a real good to be gained from this bargain,
00:25:50.780 which is that people who are struggling with infertility,
00:25:53.900 people can have children, 1.00
00:25:56.620 homosexuals who don't want to do it the natural way, 0.97
00:25:59.420 they can get children. 1.00
00:26:00.540 I'm not saying it's good for them to do that.
00:26:01.880 I'm just saying that the children are a good to get out of that. I see why it's attractive to
00:26:06.740 someone in that position. Someone who wants to spread his gene to a single person, I get why
00:26:12.120 they want that. But it was always a Faustian bargain. It takes from us too much. It is kind
00:26:20.620 of a deal with the devil. Because the deal of commercial surrogacy is, yeah, we're going to
00:26:25.160 end up killing a bunch of kids through abortion. We're going to end up freezing a bunch of kids 0.64
00:26:28.760 indefinitely. We're going to be intentionally creating children to deny them a mother or
00:26:32.800 father. We're going to be doing this, that, or the other thing. But it's great having,
00:26:38.280 I love having kids. It's like the greatest. I get it. I get why that's so attractive.
00:26:45.940 So what's the solution? Is it limit the number? Here's another solution that would discourage
00:26:49.960 Jubo. Get rid of birthright citizenship. Oh, oops, wait, the Supreme Court already ruled on 0.98
00:26:54.500 that. They won't get rid of birthright citizenship. So what's the solution here?
00:26:58.760 what probably for most people the solution is going to be is to say, oh, that's terrible,
00:27:03.160 that's awful, and not think about it any further because they don't want to bring themselves to
00:27:06.120 think about it further. But that's happening, and there's nothing stopping him. And according
00:27:10.040 to the logic of birthright citizenship and IVF and surrogacy, that man is not doing anything
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00:28:45.460 involved today. Speaking of immigration, Zoran Mamdani is suing their, what, you're just going
00:28:53.320 to do the bell every time we mention any Muslim? Is that how it's working? I don't even know what's
00:28:58.800 on the screen right now. I don't, all I'm seeing is you. I'm just staring into the void, into a
00:29:03.040 camera, but I trust that it's something deeply offensive, which we'll get to momentarily when 1.00
00:29:06.840 we talk about run, hide, fight infidels. Zoran Mamdani is suing the Trump administration
00:29:11.200 to keep more welfare case immigrants
00:29:14.960 coming into the United States.
00:29:16.160 The Trump administration has come in and said,
00:29:18.000 hey, our immigration system,
00:29:20.180 like from the very beginning,
00:29:21.540 says you can't come here
00:29:23.480 if you're going to be a dependent,
00:29:25.420 if you're going to need public support.
00:29:27.160 We might let you in,
00:29:28.540 but only if you can contribute to the country
00:29:30.620 and take care of yourself.
00:29:31.740 So the Trump administration is returning
00:29:34.260 to that basic aspect
00:29:36.840 of longstanding American immigration policy.
00:29:39.380 And that's too much for Mamdani.
00:29:40.740 He's not just saying we want more immigrants from this country or that country. 0.75
00:29:44.500 He's not just saying that we want to change the demographics of New York City and the United States. 0.68
00:29:49.080 He's specifically saying we want welfare cases.
00:29:52.220 We want to bring in people who will be on the public dole and who will tax public resources.
00:29:59.400 Drastic and unlawful changes to our country's public charge rule. 0.96
00:30:03.420 A rule that makes it possible for someone to be denied immigration status based on the likelihood of their need for public benefits.
00:30:10.740 set to go into effect this coming friday september 18th the new public charge rule expands the list
00:30:17.640 of public benefits that might count against green card or visa applicants if you are a citizen or
00:30:23.380 an individual seeking humanitarian relief like asylum these changes will not affect you the new
00:30:29.180 federal public charge rule not only sweeps aside more than a century of established law it is
00:30:35.260 intentionally vague as a means of creating uncertainty and fear, to isolate immigrant
00:30:40.840 New Yorkers, to force them to make an impossible choice between meeting their own basic needs
00:30:46.580 and continuing to live in the city that they love. Make no mistake, this is an undisguised effort to
00:30:53.800 strip New Yorkers of the services they rely on, the public benefits they are entitled to.
00:30:58.840 Are they New Yorkers?
00:30:59.860 Families, including those with children who are U.S. citizens, have already begun to
00:31:04.880 forego essential services like snap medicaid and affordable housing well they use these programs
00:31:11.340 immigration officers could use it as justification to deny them a future in our country this is 0.74
00:31:16.760 amazing this is amazing gobbledygook from coming from mom donnie here because he's he's acts he's 0.82
00:31:24.200 intentionally admitting the truth but he's trying to hide it among his rhetoric so he says i don't
00:31:32.400 if you caught it in there. He kind of blurs right through it. He says, look, if you're a citizen or
00:31:36.880 someone here who has claimed asylum, these changes won't affect you. Okay, well, hold on. You kind
00:31:42.840 of buried the lead here. So it's not that Trump is denaturalizing these people. It's not that
00:31:47.200 people who are U.S. citizens or even legitimate refugees who have asylum here are being told they
00:31:53.780 can't use public benefits, though a lot of them probably should not. If you come here, even if 0.65
00:31:58.520 you were naturalized, even if you are here seeking asylum, should we really be giving you all this
00:32:02.700 welfare? Regardless, he says, that won't affect you at all. But we have so many New Yorkers now,
00:32:09.040 all these New Yorkers who can't use the welfare programs. Hold on, wait, you're talking about
00:32:14.860 foreigners who are here. They're not American citizens. They might want a green card. They 1.00
00:32:19.720 might want a visa. They might want to stay here and be naturalized eventually, but they're 0.99
00:32:23.300 foreigners they've just come here and immediately upon coming here they've got a handout they're 1.00
00:32:29.320 saying please please hey hold on i came here and you welcomed me in now give me your money 1.00
00:32:33.980 give me all your stuff and he says these new yorkers might be sent home they might be sent home
00:32:43.320 to the nations where they're actually citizens right they don't sound like new yorkers to me 0.95
00:32:48.360 They sound like foreigners who are visiting to get a handout. 1.00
00:32:53.600 Why would we keep them here? 1.00
00:32:57.100 Can we just, no racism, no bigotry, no mean tweets, just a very simple question. 0.98
00:33:03.860 Mr. Mamdani, what do you think the immigration system is for?
00:33:09.280 Because to my mind, the purpose of the immigration system is to bring in people who can help the country.
00:33:16.200 We, the people of the United States, have established an immigration system in order to benefit us.
00:33:22.660 That's what our laws are supposed to be for.
00:33:25.800 But he has completely the opposite view.
00:33:28.120 I don't think I'm strawmanning this at all.
00:33:29.660 I think he would acknowledge this.
00:33:31.720 He thinks the purpose of the immigration system is to punish us, the American citizens.
00:33:37.740 He thinks the purpose of the American immigration system is to, I don't know, atone for some vague, ambiguous sins that we've committed.
00:33:48.500 To give foreigners their supposed due. 0.98
00:33:52.960 We don't owe these people anything. 1.00
00:33:55.820 The immigration system, it's supposed to be for us.
00:33:57.740 Like our laws are supposed to be for us to help us have an orderly and virtuous and flourishing society.
00:34:01.560 we the people of the united states to to promote the general welfare have all these laws under our 0.98
00:34:07.860 constitution he says no the immigration system is just for the foreigners and you're going to get
00:34:14.120 punished as a result because we're going to bring in a bunch of welfare cases and he's he's making
00:34:17.680 that argument pretty full-throatedly and the reason that it's appealing is because of the
00:34:23.840 massive demographic shift specifically in new york city where a lot of these people don't view
00:34:27.900 themselves as New Yorkers. They certainly don't view themselves as American. They keep their old
00:34:34.500 traditions. They keep their old culture. They keep their old religion. They keep their old language.
00:34:39.040 And they just come here not to assimilate and to contribute to the country, but to take from us 1.00
00:34:43.760 immediately, immediately to take from us. And the Trump administration says, whoa, whoa, whoa,
00:34:47.500 this is completely out of keeping, completely out of step with the American immigration tradition.
00:34:52.480 Mom Donnie says, yeah, right. That's the point. That's what we're doing. We're trying to come here 0.99
00:34:58.200 We're trying to bring these people here.
00:35:00.540 Mom Donnie himself is an immigrant. 1.00
00:35:02.560 We're trying to bring these people here in order to change your country. 1.00
00:35:07.120 And when Americans come out and they say, well, oh, maybe slow your roll, buddy.
00:35:12.440 There's nothing intrinsically wrong or bigoted or racist about that.
00:35:15.680 Okay. 0.96
00:35:16.760 Speaking of Muslims in America, I am so excited to tell you about Run, Hide, Fight first. 1.00
00:35:21.020 My favorite comment yesterday is from Adi, who says, I turned off Nickelback for this. 1.00
00:35:25.600 It better be good.
00:35:27.740 I hope so.
00:35:28.400 Look at this good podcast.
00:35:31.300 The thought of it makes me laugh.
00:35:34.720 Is it laugh?
00:35:35.340 Does that run?
00:35:35.980 We would run with photograph.
00:35:37.480 Anyway, I'll work on it.
00:35:38.260 I'll work on my Chad Kroger impression.
00:35:40.520 We have a big movie coming out.
00:35:42.240 It's coming out tomorrow.
00:35:43.260 And you need to, there we go.
00:35:44.280 You need to be a Daily Wire member in order to get it. 1.00
00:35:47.260 The movie is called Run, Hide, Fight Infidels. 1.00
00:35:49.320 It's the second movie after, wait, what is this? 1.00
00:35:51.400 See, I don't even know when they're doing this jihadi bit. 0.90
00:35:56.640 I guess one never does know when a jihadi is doing a bit on us, right? I guess that's sort 0.97
00:36:00.640 of the point. So we have the movie. You have to be a Daily Wire member to see it. You subscribe
00:36:05.680 at dailywire.com. Here's just a little clip. Every significant movement in history has started
00:36:10.880 with protesting. This is our generation's civil rights. I have no idea what the protest is about.
00:36:16.920 Bingo. Given the current climate, you should have figured as polarizing as Clay Saunders
00:36:21.560 can even be allowed on campus. Can you hear me okay? Saunders is a close personal friend of
00:36:25.720 Chancellor Friedman, this is a decision I cannot find. 1.00
00:36:28.220 Islam will conquer the West. 1.00
00:36:31.520 As-salamu alaykum. 1.00
00:36:34.820 Are we paying attention? 1.00
00:36:37.020 They've taken over the building, they're downstairs,
00:36:38.820 and they've blocked the doors.
00:36:41.420 I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.
00:36:45.620 You cannot run and hide.
00:36:47.320 Mohammed is the messenger of God.
00:36:50.820 There is no God but Allah. 0.99
00:36:53.620 What do you say? 1.00
00:36:55.020 turn those SOBs into a fine red mist. 1.00
00:36:59.860 As we move, one man will cover 1.00
00:37:01.720 while the other guys go.
00:37:03.140 They call that leap project.
00:37:04.300 Stretch them out and listen.
00:37:07.080 You need a course in safe weapons handling. 1.00
00:37:15.200 You ready for Run, Hide, Fight Infidels? 1.00
00:37:17.400 Mr. Davies. 1.00
00:37:17.920 Oh, I'm ready.
00:37:19.100 Mr. Davies saw them.
00:37:20.600 I got to see it a little beforehand.
00:37:22.360 And he says, that was the movie.
00:37:23.600 and it's completely schizo it is a totally it's like red dawn and for a lot of kids in the audience
00:37:29.740 i didn't see red dawn but red dawn was this great pro-america movie by the great john millius where
00:37:34.620 the communists are invading and taking over and it's just wild and it's unhinged and it's deeply
00:37:39.640 satisfying it's very funny and this is like that this is like red dawn for for 2026 so i gave him
00:37:45.700 a heads up on that but that's basically all i told him and then mr davies saw it mr davies i believe
00:37:50.100 you said this is the greatest content
00:37:52.180 that Daily Wire has ever produced. Yeah, you
00:37:54.100 are so underselling this.
00:37:55.980 I'm just glad right now that I don't have to
00:37:58.040 buy your movie ticket because if this
00:38:00.080 was in theaters, this is one that would have made you go
00:38:02.040 review for the audience because it's that good.
00:38:04.480 And it's, being a member is probably
00:38:06.180 less than buying your ticket in popcorn and
00:38:08.060 Coke or whatever going. For sure, yeah.
00:38:09.580 Dude, it was such a ride.
00:38:12.140 You're telling me you were not just like laughing
00:38:14.080 and cheering throughout this movie? Yeah, no.
00:38:16.040 I mean, there are these moments, especially because
00:38:17.840 I am like a big John Milius fan.
00:38:20.100 So I didn't know what to expect.
00:38:21.880 I was going in, I thought, oh, this is going to be some kind of like self-serious, you know, drama movie. 0.89
00:38:26.620 And look, I mean, I have a pretty dim view of Islam going back about 1,400 years. 1.00
00:38:31.220 But I said, okay, it's going to be one of those things. 1.00
00:38:32.940 And it's not that.
00:38:34.060 It's just totally unhinged.
00:38:37.280 And it's like everything, our friend Dallas Saunier is like the Michelangelo of on-screen violence.
00:38:43.860 He is an absolute maestro of on-screen violence.
00:38:46.960 and what's amazing too
00:38:49.080 is that the news cycle
00:38:51.100 has hit this absolutely perfect
00:38:53.080 once again DW has really
00:38:54.360 landed a great news cycle 1.00
00:38:56.260 because the threat of Islam 1.00
00:38:58.700 really has reasserted itself 1.00
00:39:00.860 I mean you got these guys
00:39:01.640 you got Mamdani in New York
00:39:02.800 you got Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan
00:39:05.080 you got all of these guys
00:39:06.760 you got the number of mosques
00:39:08.220 in the United States
00:39:08.880 more than doubling since 9-11
00:39:10.600 so all of a sudden
00:39:11.500 this is a really live issue
00:39:12.340 you got the war in Iran
00:39:13.900 shut down 20% of the world's oil 0.96
00:39:15.680 and they're attacking... 0.78
00:39:17.680 Well, we'll get to it if we have time.
00:39:18.940 They're attacking the new East-West Pipeline
00:39:20.780 so the Saudi oil exports can't come out.
00:39:23.040 Anyway, it's like a big problem is what I'm saying.
00:39:25.260 That's not like the best part.
00:39:26.240 The best part is it's basically
00:39:27.180 if you took me, you, and Jacob's group chat
00:39:29.380 and put in AI and said,
00:39:30.380 make an awesome movie like this,
00:39:31.820 that's what it is.
00:39:32.620 And I know you were like raised in Aquinas,
00:39:33.940 but I was like 80s action movies.
00:39:35.560 So I finally get to scratch that itch
00:39:37.120 of a fun action movie over the summer,
00:39:39.360 which we all should get.
00:39:40.640 And like on a serious note,
00:39:41.720 as someone that's been in a lot of Christian movies
00:39:43.260 with a good message,
00:39:43.900 i really genuinely enjoyed all the conservative christian stuff on screen and having that all in
00:39:48.660 one film is is actually you know i'm i'm very irritated about though so you as you mentioned
00:39:53.980 you're an actor in a bunch of christian movies you didn't get a part in you didn't they didn't
00:39:59.100 even ask you didn't audition i'm not saying that you're saying it but yeah yeah it's still it's
00:40:02.600 outrageous so you should have been in it but nevertheless that's not what i don't really care
00:40:05.880 about you getting cast in the movie my point is you still say this is your favorite daily wire
00:40:09.960 content. Meanwhile, I cast you in a lot of Daily Wire content. I got all my ukulele videos, my tap
00:40:15.100 dancing videos on the desk. No, no, that's not the greatest Daily Wire content. It's this movie where
00:40:19.760 a bunch of American kids just light up a bunch of Muslims for an hour and a half. Real nice. Real 1.00
00:40:24.980 nice loyalty. Anyway, go get it. Subscribe today, dailywire.com. Go subscribe. It's the only way to
00:40:29.160 watch Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels. You will want to. You will want to be talking about this. The 1.00
00:40:33.020 people will be talking about this. It will be memed, and you want to be in the conversation.
00:40:36.840 Okay, I alluded in my diatribe there to some problems in the war in Iran, and this has
00:40:42.540 real political significance to us because we are quickly approaching the midterm elections.
00:40:49.200 Oil's up again. One of the great things that the Trump administration has been able to do
00:40:53.600 during the Iran war is manage the price of oil. It's very impressive. Whether you hate the war
00:40:59.160 in Iran, you think we shouldn't go into the war in Iran, whatever your opinion, you have to be
00:41:03.240 impressed that for this whole six months now, whatever it is, the Trump administration has
00:41:08.920 been able to keep oil relatively low. Brent crude has been trading at like $74 a barrel.
00:41:13.720 People were expecting $200 a barrel of oil. So it's amazing. And they're clearly pulling a lot
00:41:17.820 of levers. I think a lot of credit is due to the president, due to Scott Besson, the treasury
00:41:22.060 secretary, due to J.D. Vance, who's been negotiating, Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
00:41:26.020 It's a team effort. They've done a great job on it. Oil is now up again, north of a hundred bucks
00:41:30.520 a barrel. It's about $105 a barrel. This is because two days, three days ago, something like
00:41:35.580 that, the Iranians from Iraq launched a drone and hit the east-west pipeline. The east-west pipeline
00:41:44.480 is the way that the Saudis are getting their oil out after the Strait of Hormuz is closed. So
00:41:48.680 estimates range from 70 to 92 percent of Saudi oil exports are coming out through the east-west
00:41:53.180 pipeline, which was now just blown up in a drone attack. It's kind of unclear still the extent of
00:41:58.700 the damage from the attack. But this means that the east-west pipeline is going to be down for
00:42:02.440 anywhere from three to eight weeks, maybe longer. That's bad in itself. The Saudis don't have the
00:42:08.240 capacity to store the oil that they're producing without getting it out beyond something like
00:42:12.340 seven days. So now you could be in a situation in which the fields start to go down. It's very
00:42:18.120 hard to turn them on again. It's really going to be hitting the price of oil, which is going to
00:42:22.440 cause the price of all goods to increase. And it's going to cause economic pain and inflation and all
00:42:27.720 of the rest of it. Why is this happening now? The reason it's happening now is because the
00:42:31.460 Iranians know when the midterm elections are too. It's not just us. We don't just have a
00:42:35.640 secret calendar here and the Iranians have no access to our Twitters and TVs and anything like 0.99
00:42:41.360 that. So it's going to get worse. I mentioned that a week or two ago. I said, whatever you 1.00
00:42:46.620 think about the Iran war right now, it is guaranteed to get worse because the Iranians 1.00
00:42:52.140 are going to try to squeeze the Americans. The Iranians hate Donald Trump. They want to kill 1.00
00:42:56.360 Donald Trump. They definitely want to kill his administration. So they're going to try to 1.00
00:43:01.140 squeeze him. He said that oil is not going to come back down until after the midterm elections.
00:43:04.620 What he meant by that, clearly, is that the Iranians are going to keep pulling all of these 0.99
00:43:09.840 levers. It's going to get very, very tough. This remains the biggest liability for Republicans 1.00
00:43:14.620 heading into the midterm elections. The best strategy for the Republicans is to downplay
00:43:20.100 the significance of the war and to try to keep oil prices down, though it's going to be very,
00:43:24.360 very tricky. But what do they say about the difference between the conservative optimist
00:43:28.040 and the conservative pessimist? The conservative pessimist says things can't get any worse.
00:43:32.720 The conservative optimist says, oh, yes, they can. Well, that's me. I'm the conservative optimist.
00:43:38.080 It's guaranteed to get worse through the election. The question for the Republicans
00:43:44.940 and the conservatives right now is, can we focus people's attention on other issues long enough so
00:43:50.320 it's not a total blowout? Even if we lose the House, maybe we won't lose the Senate. Okay,
00:43:53.520 There's a lot more I want to get to because there's some good – getting back to Texas
00:43:57.360 universities, we go right back to the top of the show.
00:43:59.620 Texas A&M, not UT, but Texas A&M, is slashing, is destroying its woke classes.
00:44:06.900 A lot of LGBTQ, ethnic studies, global warming, climate change courses, they're getting slashed.
00:44:13.440 And they're not being slashed because of the free market.
00:44:17.060 They're not being slashed because of the culture and debate and changing consumer tastes.
00:44:23.520 They're being slashed because of the heavy hand of the government, and I'm here for it.
00:44:27.340 We'll get to that tomorrow.
00:44:28.400 I don't have time right now.
00:44:29.140 I'm going to be speaking tonight at University of Arkansas with TPUSA, continuing Charlie's
00:44:35.680 tour.
00:44:35.940 Some of his friends, which began last year after he was murdered, it's continuing this
00:44:40.420 year.
00:44:40.680 Some of Charlie's friends are going to fill in on the tour.
00:44:42.680 I'm one of those people.
00:44:44.040 So if you're around the University of Arkansas tonight, I look forward to seeing you there.
00:44:47.180 Come get in line, ask questions.
00:44:49.520 I look forward to seeing you.
00:44:50.980 In the meantime, it's Tee Hee Tuesday.
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