00:12:09.320you know, Lindsey Graham was a really good senator and he was a voice, you know, he was not a guy I
00:12:13.700always agreed with, but he was a voice that we needed in the Senate. And I, you probably don't
00:12:18.360know this because you don't watch the news much, but the man is dead. He's gone. He's not serving
00:12:22.540anything, you know, telling us why we shouldn't, you know, vote for another person who was related1.00
00:12:28.060to him because they're gay prostitutes. So they, you know, I'm sorry. This is, this is kind of what1.00
00:12:33.680I expect. I would, I would like to say, this is not what I expect from Cenk Uygur, but this is
00:12:38.060exactly what i expect from king uger like a big fanfare for absolutely nothing and i'm i'm kind of
00:12:44.200the whole midterm thing has kind of got me baffled anyway because i understand the price of gas is
00:12:49.420high i get that and it's a burden for people people have to drive to work or drive for work
00:12:54.380it's a burden for people so you're going to vote for you know jihadists they're going to vote for
00:13:00.620abdel abdul el saeed who won't you know deny the mother muslim brotherhood that's what they're0.58
00:13:06.120going to do that. This is the logic of the American electorate. I'm getting a little worried0.83
00:13:09.580about our friends in the American electorate. I'm beginning to think that maybe our country is being
00:13:14.000run by people who are not paying very close attention. Yeah, as H.L. Menken said, democracy
00:13:19.520is the theory that the common man knows what he wants and deserves to get it good and hard.
00:13:23.020I do wonder, because I'm quite concerned about the midterms and what we can get into,0.92
00:13:28.980as you mentioned, Abdul Al-Sayed squirming over the Muslim Brotherhood. The other point, though,0.75
00:13:34.000because you as you say do they not know that lindsey graham is dead like why are they why
00:13:38.400are they putting this out i do think there's a minor point to this attack which is most people
00:13:45.140assumed lindsey graham was a homosexual yeah my conspiracy theory is i think there's a chance he
00:13:49.860wasn't but most people kind of assume that about him and didn't care some people didn't like his
00:13:55.120views on war they didn't like his views on immigration uh he was very good at being a
00:14:00.200senator. He was very good at that, at the actual job of being a senator. He was a leader of one of
00:14:06.320the factions of the GOP. Okay, that's fine. But I think the left is really irritated that
00:14:12.320conservatives can say, yeah, marriage is between a man and a woman. Yeah, there is normative sexual
00:14:18.000behavior and sexual ethics. Also, if Lindsey Graham is a little bit weird, but we agree with
00:14:22.560him on at least a fair number of things, we don't care that much. It doesn't keep us up at night.
00:14:27.360I think it's that the failure to be either the Taliban or like dancing in the streets with Pride Parade with Abdul Al-Sayed, who might be in the Taliban and in a Pride Parade, depending on the day of the week.
00:14:40.620It's that kind of tension that I think they really hate about conservatives.
00:14:46.120Well, they don't understand the fact that we can feel that what you are doing in your private life is none of your business, is none of my business.
00:19:24.060You don't even answer the calls from me.
00:19:25.800But I thought it was just me, but I'm hoping it's all the people you know.
00:19:29.000But but yeah, you know, I cannot believe that people are going to say gas is too high.
00:19:35.320So I'm voting for a guy who clearly wants to drive this country into the dirt.
00:19:39.720I mean, he intentionally it's not it's not like he wants to like do things that we don't like.
00:19:45.200He intentionally wants to destroy the country.0.80
00:19:46.960And the thing about the Muslim Brotherhood is in a way it's irrelevant because his actual opinions are in league with Hamas,0.83
00:19:55.260which is in league with Iran, who believes in bringing death to America. I mean, everything0.64
00:20:00.800these guys say, you know, if it weren't for the anti-Semites on the right, confusing people,
00:20:05.160I don't care what you think of Israel. I don't care. But if you think Israel's enemy is Iran,
00:20:10.960Iran's national anthem begins death to America. That's their theme song. That's what they want.1.00
00:20:18.800That's what they're building toward. So Israel's enemy is our enemy. I mean, it's just that simple.0.96
00:20:24.280It's not like they're our enemy because they hate Israel.0.58
00:20:27.080They're our enemy because they want us dead.0.97
00:20:29.620And I, you know, call me crazy, but when you want me dead, I consider you not a nice person.
00:20:35.040You know, I think, so these are the people that he supports, openly supports.
00:20:38.620These are the people that he cries over.
00:20:40.420He cries over the fate of the people in Gaza who danced like it was the Super Bowl when their guys went over the line and raped and killed children, women, men.
00:20:49.560They were celebrating like it was, you know, Super Bowl Sunday.1.00
00:20:53.380what else do we need to know about him? What else do we need to know about him? He keeps bringing
00:20:57.200up the constitution as if he'd read it once, but I don't, I, you know, I, I don't see what he
00:21:01.440believes in that makes him not our enemy. He is our enemy. Why would we put our enemy into the
00:21:07.800Senate? So look, that's logic. As you say, maybe the American voter is, is tired of logic and tired
00:21:15.080of self, uh, you know, sustaining government, but I have to believe they're going to turn against
00:21:20.460But the question is, who is the American voter, or at least who's the Michigan voter?0.80
00:21:25.120Abdul Al-Sayed is relying on 80% support in Dearborn, because Dearborn is now entirely Muslim.0.51
00:21:30.080And his bigger base of support, it's not the Muslims, it's college-educated liberal white
00:21:35.540women in the rest of Michigan. And the thing that links both of those groups is they both
00:21:41.320kind of want to destroy America. So even though President Trump was able to win a pretty strong
00:21:46.860percentage of the Muslim vote, including in Michigan. The rest of the GOP doesn't really
00:21:51.740have that draw. Trump is just sui generis. He just speaks in a way to the American voter and
00:21:58.120the non-American voter that is extremely impressive. And so there are voters, I strongly
00:22:04.060suspect, who voted for Trump who will vote for Abdul El-Sayed. And so we have our sponsor
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00:23:13.340hear the president of the United States say, get this book now? Did you miss that?
00:23:17.220He did. I, look, I listened to the president. You know, the other thing the president just said,
00:23:20.920and I called this a month or two months ago, he just came out and he was, he was warning voters.
00:23:26.460He said, Hey, heads up, Iran is doing everything it can to drive up oil prices in the lead up to
00:23:31.000the midterms. And there were a lot of Republicans back in August who said, yeah, the polls are bad
00:23:35.240for us now, but it's a natural low point for Republicans in these midterm polls. Don't worry,
00:23:40.060they're going to get better as we get closer to the election. I said, yeah, maybe that's the
00:23:44.500historical trend, but the problem is everything's going to get worse because Iran has a calendar0.86
00:23:49.760too, and Iran knows when the midterms are. So the gas prices are certainly going to go up.
00:23:54.700They're going to go up because of things that happened two months ago, but they're going to0.99
00:23:57.420go up because of things that Iran is doing right now, and that's just built into it. By the way,0.90
00:24:01.260we still have almost two weeks left. It's going to get worse from here on out.
00:24:05.280The Iran war is deeply, deeply unpopular. I mean, it's at 32, 33 percent approval with very high
00:24:12.260affirmative disapproval, you know, 55 plus percent. One, what's going to happen? You know,
00:24:19.880as you say, you're a little more optimistic. And two, if the Republicans get blown out of the water,
00:24:25.980where is the blame going to lie? Is it going to be the Iran war? Is it going to be because
00:24:30.580Trump is looking ahead at the end of the second term? Is it going to be because of the insanity
00:24:36.080among the live streamers and the podcasters? And is it going to be because natural fissions in the
00:24:40.900GOP that existed pre-Trump are re-emerging? Where's the fault lie? Well, I think we have to
00:24:46.740step back. To answer that question, you have to step back a minute. You have to look at what
00:24:49.940President Trump is thinking. President Trump hates war. He's a businessman. Just like the
00:24:55.440mafia hates war, right? Because people who do business want peace so people can do business.
00:24:59.880And that's what Trump is like. And he doesn't like people being killed. He doesn't like watching innocent people being killed on the late night news.
00:25:06.060You know, these are the things that actually motivate him.
00:25:08.440So his argument is these guys whose theme song is death to America were building a nuclear weapon and they were getting close.0.68
00:25:16.200And yes, that's the first a threat to Israel, but only because Israel is standing in our way.0.52
00:25:20.780That's the only reason, you know, they want to go after Israel first. They want us dead.0.60
00:25:24.520so he thought i've got to go in there he knew when the midterms were just as well as anybody else
00:25:30.360what he's trying to do is he's trying to re-establish the the world and in all of his
00:25:35.620foreign policy his motivation is to re-establish america in such a way that we can endure the next0.95
00:25:41.40050 to 75 years of cold war with china and that's part of that is going to be being in control of0.80
00:25:47.320where their energy comes from much of which is coming through the passages uh through iran so
00:25:52.440he's got a global vision. This is the thing about Donald Trump. He's not the most articulate man in
00:25:56.960the world. He's wonderful in the sense that he will say anything that's on his mind, but he
00:26:00.980doesn't always explain to people what he's doing. So he has a global vision that looks forward into
00:26:06.160the next century, into this, the rest of this century, which is going to be dominated by this
00:26:10.240cold war. That means gas prices are going to go up for a little bit. And he knew that he knew it
00:26:16.300to begin with. He's always, he's a talk about an optimist. He's always a little more optimistic
00:26:20.580than I am. He thinks things are going to be over in a week. They're going to be over in a couple
00:26:23.300of weeks. And the Iranians are nuts, right? They're not interested in a deal. They're not1.00
00:26:28.740interested in negotiating. They're interested in killing us, right? So essentially his pitch
00:26:33.300to the American people is, listen, guys, I get it. I'm making you sacrifice something for a vision
00:26:38.960that you're going to love as your children grow up in a world where we have some leeway0.94
00:26:44.160for dealing with China. He's never said that to the people. He's never said,
00:26:48.980this is a sacrifice i'm asking you to make and i'm i'm risking the midterms i understand that
00:26:54.320but i'm asking i'm making a sacrifice but i want you to make a sacrifice he doesn't say that because
00:26:58.840he feels that his entire role is to be the cheerleader for america he said as much he said
00:27:04.640use that word exactly and i think the fault may lie there i think the fault may lie in the fact
00:27:10.260that he doesn't like to talk about sacrifice he doesn't like to talk about what you know you know
00:27:14.780Remember the famous John F. Kennedy line, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
00:27:20.120When was the last time that was in play in America, right?
00:27:22.860I mean, basically, politicians say, ask not what you can do for America, ask what America can do for you.
00:27:34.500And I think that the people might have responded to that and might still respond to that, that he understands.
00:27:39.820Because it does make people suffer, you know?
00:27:42.120I mean, we in the media don't really understand, you know, we get chauffeured around places,
00:27:48.040we get paid very well, but people who are working for a living use their cars and that
00:27:52.700money comes right out of their pockets and right out of their profit margin.
00:27:56.100So it really is a sacrifice that he is asking for a vision that he has of the future.
00:28:00.980Now, American politics is based on the last 10 minutes and the press works overtime to0.99
00:28:07.460make sure we're paying attention to, did a dead man sleep with gay prostitutes?0.57
00:28:12.020I mean, that's that's a typical, you know, in Cenk Uygur's defense, that's a typical print press move in America, you know, to ask like, oh, whether, you know, where they should Vivek Ramaswamy should have put an ad on TV.0.76
00:28:25.420What are the issues in Ohio? What are the issues in Michigan and in Texas? That's what I want to know. That's how I want to judge my candidates.
00:28:31.620Donald Trump is actually acting on the issues, but they're killing him in the press for every moment of time.
00:28:38.060And that's why you saw him the other day turning around to the CNN reporter and saying you're a low IQ individual.
00:28:44.320And I think to ABC News calling somebody stupid, he's losing his temper with people who will not let him sell a vision that goes past the next 10 minutes.0.99
00:28:53.980So I think, look, it's a bad setup for Republicans.0.97
00:28:58.340In answer to your question, it's a bad setup for Republicans on paper to begin with, right?
00:29:02.560It's a midterm when the Republicans have all three branches of government.
00:29:08.260So the people are going to be dissatisfied.1.00
00:29:10.480It is also true that President Trump ran on the economy stupid.0.99
00:29:40.920He beat them to win back the presidency.
00:29:44.080And he's fighting them, and they're fighting back.
00:29:46.120They're fighting back for their power, and they're fighting back to slander them.
00:29:48.580When I was but a lad, George, first George Bush ran against Bill Clinton after a tremendously successful Reagan presidency that gave us 25 years, 25 years of a boom economy from the Reagan revolution.
00:30:05.340In that, in the Bush administration, there was a little blip where that 25 year boom went down a little bit, maybe like 5%.
00:30:13.760the report the press covered it like it was the great depression yeah and that's what gave bill
00:30:19.540clinton the presidency and that's what ended the reagan revolution they threw bush out and they
00:30:23.580brought in bill clinton who actually kept the reagan revolution going in in many ways because
00:30:27.700he had no principles so he just followed what the people wanted but but still they basically took
00:30:33.200bush out by overplaying the economy i read the wall street journal every morning and i read the
00:30:38.380new york times every morning and a word of good news and people don't understand that the wall
00:30:43.400Street Journal has a conservative op-ed page, but its news pages is left wing. A good word about
00:30:49.940the economy would die of loneliness in these papers. And yet the economy is actually pretty
00:30:55.440good. You know, I mean, employment, very steady. Inflation is way down from where it was in Biden
00:31:01.340administration. The core inflation is way down. If you take out the gas prices, you know, which
00:31:06.840are a result of this war. So I have to believe that that Trump's inability to override the
00:31:14.340narrative of the media is is a factor in what's happening. We probably would have lost the house
00:31:20.980anyway. The Republicans probably would have lost the house anyway. But if this does turn into a0.89
00:31:24.680blue wave, I think that the communication of what Trump is doing, what he's accomplished.
00:31:28.820I saw people online yesterday saying Trump has accomplished nothing. How many people are coming
00:31:34.340over the border yeah it's so insane that was like winning a war i know this is one of the big
00:31:40.240problems with the trump administration first trump administration and the second trump
00:31:45.300administration so many good things happened so quickly yes that we i mean just just shutting
00:31:51.560down the border three million illegals stopped coming into the country on top of another almost
00:31:55.560three million deportations two and a half of which were illegal aliens half a million of which were0.64
00:31:59.920legal aliens who just got out anyway, which is fine by me. So just that alone, absolutely shocking
00:32:05.900on top of stopping all the really radical DEI woke policies, you know, down to castrating little0.71
00:32:13.420kids. I mean, stuff that, that was so abhorrent for so many years, it disappeared overnight or
00:32:18.300largely disappeared overnight. But then, you know, there is this question of like, okay, well, that's
00:32:22.240all gone. Now I've, I've readjusted to my new reality and I don't like this Iran war. Okay,
00:32:27.300maybe I'm going to sit home or I'm going to vote for some effeminate terrorist in Michigan,0.98
00:32:32.740which is deeply distressing. I have to leave it there because, not because I'm short on time,0.89
00:32:40.460not because we've gone way over the allotted segment, but because I'm starting to feel a
00:32:44.720little envy again that you got the more recent book endorsement from the president.
00:40:19.180Mr. Knowles, you often riff on the Protestant Reformation, but do you believe the Catholic Church was not in need of reforming in the 16th century?0.69
00:40:27.000Their church was rife with simony and corruption.0.99
00:40:29.680Priests in Rome unabashedly had sex with prostitutes and said it was good because at least it was with women.0.99
00:40:35.580Much of the priesthood was just as biblically illiterate as the laity, but at least the laity had the excuse of being illiterate.0.99
00:40:44.240And the indulgence collectors were teaching that you could buy your way out of purgatory.0.68
00:40:50.200Without the Reformation, you would not have the Catholic Church you love today.
00:40:54.360Yeah, it's a really good question with a lot of polemic and propaganda in there.
00:40:59.320Because a lot of what people think they know about the Catholic Church of the early 16th century has been severely exaggerated.
00:41:30.420People do bad things in all eras and all places.
00:41:33.280You think about this with the sex scandal that rocked the church 25 years ago, which made a lot of people think that that was unique to the Catholic church, when in fact rates of sexual abuse, that kind of sexual abuse even, were about the same in the Catholic church as any other religious community, and they were half the rate that you see in public schools.
00:41:51.460So there is a little polemical propaganda element to it, but I think you make a good point, and this is why we're grateful for God's providence and guiding hand over history and deep involvement in history, is it's true.
00:42:05.360One of the great things that came out of the Protestant Reformation or the Protestant Revolution was the Counter-Reformation, where you had a lot of these reforming figures who remained within the church but who were scandalized by abuses within the church.
00:42:18.380they worked to reform it. And so a lot of what we love about the Catholic church really does come
00:42:26.040out of that reformation, the counter-reformation that occurred within the church. This is one of
00:42:31.100the reasons why I usually prefer to refer to the events of the early 16th century as the
00:42:36.640Protestant revolution. I don't mean that in any polemical way against Protestants. I just want
00:42:41.740to point out following Jacques Barzin, who's a great historian, wrote the book Dawn to Decadence,
00:42:45.640that the thing that happened with Martin Luther and John Calvin and all these guys
00:42:50.760was not a reformation because they split off from the church.