The Michael Knowles Show - November 06, 2026


Ep. 2098 - Gavin Newsom Lets Child Predators & Serial Killers Off the Hook

Ep. 2097 - JD Vance's Post-Election Comments Go Viral YES or NO： Dallas Jenkins

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00:01:10.800 As the Texas House flips blue, the leader of the Democrats encourages all the various racial
00:01:15.840 minorities in the state to gang up on Whitey. 0.94
00:01:18.800 Gavin Newsom celebrates his party's massive victory by letting child rapists and serial
00:01:24.060 killers off the hook for their crimes.
00:01:25.720 and a loophole in the Electoral College means the Democrats may have figured out how to prevent
00:01:30.940 Republicans from ever winning presidential elections again. I'm Michael Knowles. It's the
00:01:36.360 Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show.
00:01:55.720 What a week, huh? What a week. And the news just keeps on coming. So I know it's been a little
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00:03:41.660 content. Can we get back to the horrible political news now? That's the good personal news,
00:03:45.980 the horrible political news. Let's go right to the big story. Democrats may have found a way
00:03:52.600 to exploit a hole in the electoral college to prevent Republicans from winning presidential 0.63
00:03:59.380 elections again. And I'm not one for conspiracy theories. I'm not one for your uncle on Facebook
00:04:06.600 sharing this kind of half-baked theory that's ridiculous. It's never going to come to pass. 0.97
00:04:11.360 this is actually plausible. Nate Silver made this point, very mainstream pollster and political
00:04:19.320 voice, says if the remaining results go as expected, Democrats will hold governorships
00:04:25.440 in states totaling 392 electoral votes. Now, that's pretty crazy. You need 270 electoral votes
00:04:32.920 to win, right? And you've got all these governorships going Democrat. You have all
00:04:37.420 these state houses going Democrat in states that were once solid Republican strongholds,
00:04:43.040 unthinkable that they would ever turn blue. Now we got Texas turning blue. We're still duking it
00:04:47.180 out in Mississippi, the Democrats ahead in that Senate race. So what does that mean?
00:04:52.440 If the Democrats have certainly states with 392 electoral votes, but just more than 270,
00:05:00.320 why can they bypass the electoral college? Well, because there's something called the
00:05:04.620 National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which as of early November, Democrats have 18 states
00:05:14.940 plus D.C. totaling 222 electoral votes. 222 electoral votes plus 61 electoral votes is 283
00:05:23.560 electoral votes, obviously well above the 270 vote threshold. So what the National Popular Vote
00:05:29.780 compact says is that the states, which run their own elections, will allocate their electors
00:05:36.940 according to whoever wins the national popular vote. We don't do our elections by national
00:05:42.240 popular vote. One, because the framers were deeply distrustful of democracy, and I think
00:05:46.680 they've just been vindicated. But two, because we're not the United People of America, we're the
00:05:51.780 United States of America, and we have this federal system, we have a republic, which is a mixed form
00:05:55.600 of government. And anyway, that prevents states like New York and California from just dominating
00:06:00.280 the whole country. Well, according to this compact, regardless of how the voters in the
00:06:08.880 specific states would vote, the states will allocate all of their electors to whoever wins
00:06:13.880 the national popular vote, meaning the Republicans would not be able to win anymore.
00:06:20.120 So what are the holdups here from this actually taking place? One,
00:06:23.080 all those big Democrat victories at the state level, the Democrats would actually have to go
00:06:28.240 in and pass laws saying that they'll join the National Popular Vote Compact. That's very likely
00:06:34.280 to happen. There will be very little pushback for that because the Democrats just got so much power
00:06:39.440 at the state level. So you say, okay, it's done. Republicans aren't winning elections again, right?
00:06:43.320 Well, no, because the U.S. Congress would have to ratify this. Now, this is bad news because the
00:06:48.120 Democrats just won a huge majority in the House and a huge majority in the Senate. And it might
00:06:52.500 even get worse for the Republicans in the Senate. So they could do it. But as of right now,
00:06:56.760 President Trump still has the veto power. And if he vetoes the bill, it would have to go back to
00:07:01.180 Capitol Hill to override the veto. The compact clause of the US Constitution, Article 1, Section
00:07:07.420 10 says, no state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops or
00:07:13.840 ships of war in time of peace, or enter into any agreement or compact with another state.
00:07:17.660 So there would be legal challenges to this, but this is not some crazy conspiracy theory,
00:07:21.540 you know, in December of 2025, here's how Bernie can still win the 2016 election sort of stuff.
00:07:27.200 This is eminently plausible. It uses a loophole within the Electoral College, within our broader
00:07:33.980 presidential election system, in order to totally overturn our presidential election system.
00:07:40.200 And the fact that Donald Trump is still president means that it would be a little difficult for
00:07:46.620 them to do it within the next two years. After that, though, if you get a President AOC or a
00:07:52.580 President John Ossoff or a President any Democrat in the country, this is not only possible, not
00:07:59.240 only plausible, it's likely. It's likely that they will do this. And if the Democrats do succeed,
00:08:05.780 surmounting any legal challenges, getting it through Congress, getting it through the various
00:08:08.880 state houses, all of which are very likely, then the Republicans can't win again. And our federal
00:08:15.460 system of electing presidents, for all intents and purposes, gets blown up. Don't forget,
00:08:20.220 Republicans have only won the popular vote twice in the last 20 years. And technically,
00:08:24.200 Trump didn't even win the popular vote. He practically won the popular vote because he
00:08:28.600 got more votes than the Democrat did. But it actually wasn't technically a majority. So even
00:08:33.800 then, very, very brutal. Trump remains, even after the drubbing on Tuesday night, he remains this
00:08:42.800 cataconic figure, this restraining figure from the forces that could really upend the whole
00:08:49.460 electoral system. And these things have happened before in the United States.
00:08:54.500 The way that the government was set up said that the states had some power in the federal government
00:08:58.940 because the people elect the congressmen, but the states, the state houses elect the senators.
00:09:05.340 And then we just undid that with the 17th Amendment. We'll never get that back. That
00:09:09.500 that really reordered our system. This would be far more significant in that we have protections
00:09:16.000 for the smaller states, for the more conservative states in our constitution. That would disappear.
00:09:24.480 The stakes for Republicans, again, I was like a huge doomer. I was a huge doomer going into
00:09:29.980 the election. Then I was trying to show people the hope and the potential way out coming out
00:09:36.060 of the election, but let's not fool ourselves about the stakes here. Democrats could do
00:09:42.860 insane generational, if not permanent damage to our entire political system. 0.95
00:09:50.820 Hey, maybe the Supreme Court will strike that down, right? Well, actually, if the Democrats
00:09:54.980 get power, certainly if they win the presidency, they can just pack the Supreme Court, which is
00:09:59.120 what FDR threatened to do, which is how he was able to get the new deal through, which is one
00:10:03.960 of the last things that totally upended our system of government. We are on the brink of
00:10:09.080 potentially defining political change to the American system. Meanwhile, who are the people
00:10:17.140 who are doing it? The Texas minority leader, the minority leader, I guess now in multiple senses
00:10:24.380 of that word, the political minority, but also he's speaking on behalf of minorities and telling 0.92
00:10:29.060 them to go gang up on Whitey. This guy is Gene Wu, leader of the Democrats in the Texas House.
00:10:33.660 Well, guess what? Democrats just took control of the Texas House. Minority leader no longer.
00:10:38.700 Here's what Gene Wu wants non-white Texans to know about racial politics.
00:10:46.820 And it's not just Latinos. It's not just Asians. It's not just African Americans.
00:10:50.820 It's everybody, right? Our country and the forces that be, the powers that be,
00:10:56.780 have spent tremendous time, effort, and money
00:11:00.560 to make sure that those groups are never united,
00:11:04.920 that they always see each other as enemies
00:11:07.160 and as competitors
00:11:08.160 without ever realizing
00:11:11.580 that they share one thing in common,
00:11:16.160 that their oppressors all are the same, right?
00:11:20.360 The oppression comes from one place.
00:11:22.340 And I always tell people,
00:11:23.680 But the day the Latino, African-American, Asian and other communities realize that they are that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning because we are the majority in this country now. 0.91
00:11:38.020 We are we we have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair. 0.87
00:11:46.120 There was a lot of talk over this this last election cycle about Beau French in Texas.
00:11:51.920 We, as Beau French, made untoward comments about racial minorities.
00:11:55.420 And a lot of people found it to be disagreeable and unnecessary.
00:11:59.520 And so people criticized him.
00:12:03.120 Where was the criticism of this guy?
00:12:05.240 This guy who's going to have a lot more power than Beau French could have had
00:12:07.640 and he won his minor race in Texas.
00:12:09.540 This guy's the minority leader in the Texas House.
00:12:12.540 And now they're the majority. 0.99
00:12:14.520 And he says, white people are the oppressor. 0.99
00:12:18.820 and all the other racial groups need to gang up on whitey 1.00
00:12:22.100 because we've got the power now. 0.99
00:12:23.980 And these people, the whites have been awful to us 1.00
00:12:26.300 and we need to punish them. 1.00
00:12:27.400 That's the implication.
00:12:30.240 So we hear a lot of talk about the rise
00:12:32.520 of white identity politics and nobody wants that.
00:12:35.380 White people basically don't have a racial identity. 0.90
00:12:37.820 We've seen this time and time again 0.99
00:12:39.180 in survey and survey again,
00:12:40.120 very famous Pew Research survey on this.
00:12:42.080 White people have basically zero racial identity, 0.84
00:12:43.840 but every other group does. 0.56
00:12:45.280 and people who are now being seriously empowered in Texas, not in San Francisco and New York,
00:12:53.320 in Texas are saying, we're not going to put away the racial identity politics.
00:12:58.460 We're going to ramp them up. We're coming for the white people and everyone else needs to 0.74
00:13:03.260 gang up on them. No, that's not my words. That's not Beau French's words. That's this guy, this guy 0.99
00:13:08.480 who is now one of the more powerful people in the once great state of texas just a little amuse
00:13:16.360 bouche of the absolute misery that these people are going to inflect not just in washington dc
00:13:24.000 but around the country meanwhile back in dc the democrats coming into power have just made
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00:15:15.120 in boca lupo, in culo a la belena. Ciao. The incoming U.S. Congress will be the gayest
00:15:22.260 Congress in American history. A lot of us were thinking that on Tuesday night. A lot of us have
00:15:28.900 been thinking it all week, especially on the right. But you know what? Actually, the left agrees.
00:15:34.820 The House Equality Caucus, this is the pro-LGBT Democrat leftist caucus. They have declared,
00:15:42.680 with a little rainbow behind the Capitol, the 120th Congress will be the gayest
00:15:47.660 congress in american history so right now just make sure you do a little screen grab bookmark 0.99
00:15:52.900 it save it to you this is going to be a great meme every time this congress does something stupid 0.94
00:15:57.740 subpoenas everybody tries to i don't blow up the supreme court impeach trump for the 50th time 0.87
00:16:02.880 whatever whenever they do that just remember they they told us they were being honest about it this 0.58
00:16:07.660 will be the gayest congress in american history i guess it's a rare moment of bipartisan unity
00:16:15.500 because we all agree about this, but we had peak woke in 2023. And then Trump wins in this 0.57
00:16:24.820 landslide where he practically wins the popular vote for the first time as a Republican in 20
00:16:28.360 years. And so we thought it's done. Woke is over. And now we're back with a vengeance.
00:16:35.480 So what that means is in the short term, they're already promising us what they're going to do. 0.99
00:16:40.260 They're going to target and punish white people for being white. They are going to promote radical 0.93
00:16:45.240 LGBT stuff, transing your kids, blowing up marriage, promoting pornography, all the stuff 1.00
00:16:51.620 that they love doing. They're going to do all the woke stuff, and it's going to be really, 0.97
00:16:56.360 really annoying. But at a higher political level, beyond just the practical stuff that these guys
00:17:03.440 are going to do, we're seeing something very dangerous about American politics, which is that
00:17:07.880 it's swinging back and forth in this radical way, more akin to the parliamentary systems
00:17:11.920 of Europe and the UK than anything we've seen in the United States.
00:17:16.420 And the reason for that, I think, we were talking about this a little bit on election night,
00:17:20.160 but the reason that I think you're seeing these insane swings, it's not like you're just going
00:17:23.600 from George H.W. Bush to Bill Clinton, who almost agree on everything. Some of you weren't alive
00:17:31.520 back in 92 and throughout the 90s, but George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, there was a little
00:17:37.000 difference. George H.W. Bush was much better behaved than Bill Clinton. There was a personal
00:17:41.320 distinction between them. But when it came to economic policy, geopolitics, even immigration,
00:17:48.500 even abortion, even the social issues, marriage, certainly no one even really considered same-sex
00:17:54.220 marriage at that time. Bush and Clinton basically agreed on everything. So you go, you get the swing,
00:18:00.160 but it's only a little bit of a swing. With this, we're seeing chop off kids' genitals, 1.00
00:18:06.940 flood the country with infinity immigration, go get whitey, like all explicit platforms of the 0.99
00:18:13.820 Democrat Party, to, hey, let's protect the unborn. Let's totally restrict immigration. 0.97
00:18:21.880 Let's on and on and on. And then we swing right back two years later. The reason for this is, 0.98
00:18:28.840 I think, is that people realize that the system is kind of cooked. People realize that we have these
00:18:35.500 deep existential political problems. Not just the taxes are a little too high, but then they're a
00:18:40.820 little too low, and we need to fix the debt and the deficit a little bit. No, no, no, no. We have
00:18:45.180 these existential political problems, which actually pertain to the debt and deficit.
00:18:48.400 Namely, we cannot possibly get spending under control. We have this fairly massive welfare
00:18:54.660 state, and people aren't having babies. So the only way to support the welfare state,
00:18:59.160 just use one prominent example. The only way to support the welfare state and to keep our
00:19:03.300 entitlements, which are going bankrupt anyway, but the only way to even pretend to keep them going 1.00
00:19:06.400 is to flood the country with foreigners. But Americans don't actually want to flood the 1.00
00:19:10.700 country with foreigners. So when the Democrats flood the country with foreigners, they swing
00:19:14.520 back and they elect restrictionist Republicans to kick out all the foreigners. But that causes
00:19:20.000 economic disruption as well. That can cause inflation. We want middle-class and working-class
00:19:25.760 wages to rise, but one of the ways to do that is to kick out all of the migrants, but then the cost 1.00
00:19:29.420 of goods goes up and people don't like that either. So then they swing back and forth and 1.00
00:19:33.480 back and forth. You saw this in the UK. The voters want an end to mass migration, but the countries
00:19:38.340 actually can't do it. Same thing in Western Europe. They can't do it. So you just, you get
00:19:44.400 this swing of discontentment and no one is willing to deal with the actual long-term strategic
00:19:50.760 problems. You're seeing this play out even in what I think is the most prominent issue that
00:19:56.300 caused the landslide on Tuesday, which is the Iran war. There is an argument for the Iran war.
00:20:02.280 Again, I argued against it before, during, and after, but I see the argument. The argument is 0.99
00:20:06.820 this long-term strategic argument to deal with Iran. Forget about Israel for a second. Obviously, 0.83
00:20:12.120 Israel wanted the war too. Saudi Arabia wanted the war, but forget about even our allies. 0.84
00:20:15.120 There is this long-term strategic argument for dismantling the Iranian regime and certainly the 0.92
00:20:20.820 nuclear program because they don't like us. They want to destabilize the region. They certainly 0.99
00:20:26.240 hate america but also because we're in this cold war with china and so we've we've got to maintain 0.58
00:20:31.660 american hegemony and you play that out as in throughout all sorts of proxy wars and especially
00:20:36.500 in in the middle east okay i totally get the argument for it but i thought practically
00:20:42.620 prudentially one you weren't actually going to take down the iranian regime and the things
00:20:46.600 required to do so are totally unacceptable to the american people so you just you're not going to
00:20:51.720 get it. In other words, whether we're talking about foreign policy, whether we're talking about
00:20:57.680 debt and fiscal policy, whether we're talking about immigration policy, there is this massive
00:21:03.500 tension between long-term strategic thinking and the appetites of the people. And there's
00:21:09.720 now a fundamental disconnect where politicians can't really think all that long-term.
00:21:17.360 and you're caught in this cycle of, okay, I remember 10 years ago we said, oh no, we've got
00:21:21.840 80% debt to GDP. Now it's what, over 100% debt to GDP and there's no end in sight. No one's even
00:21:27.260 talking about the fiscal problem in Washington. You can't do it. Paul Ryan tried to do it during
00:21:31.160 the Tea Party and the Democrats accused him of throwing granny off a cliff and the Republicans
00:21:35.220 got completely wiped out for years. So what are you going to do? You're going to get the gayest
00:21:41.840 Congress in U.S. history. And the only hope is that because our system is so unstable and 1.00
00:21:47.660 volatile, it'll swing back to the Republicans before the Democrats can permanently rig it such
00:21:52.000 that a Republican can never win the presidency again. So how are they celebrating over in
00:21:56.080 California, one of the two states that could dominate all of our elections coming up?
00:21:59.080 Well, in California, Gavin Newsom is celebrating the Democrat victory by letting all of the child
00:22:04.380 rapists and serial killers off the hook for their crimes. First, though, before we get to that
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00:23:57.620 Gavin Newsom marking the Democrat victory by commuting the death sentences.
00:24:02.600 of every single death row inmate in California.
00:24:05.700 This is over 500 people.
00:24:08.120 Newsom said in his statement,
00:24:10.020 I follow the moral leadership of past presidents.
00:24:12.760 Yes, Gavin Newsom, known for his moral leadership.
00:24:15.000 Patrick Bateman, government.
00:24:16.460 Frankly, you could picture Patrick Bateman on death row
00:24:19.260 because he so closely resembles American Psycho.
00:24:23.160 He says, I follow the moral leadership of past presidents,
00:24:26.640 including our founding fathers and governors across America
00:24:29.180 from all political parties who use their executive authority
00:24:31.620 to commute death sentences. Okay, hold on, hold on. Yeah, it's true. We have a pardon power. We
00:24:35.360 have a commutation power. That's true. People exercise it. That's important. Are you trying
00:24:41.060 to insinuate to me that the founding fathers, that the framers opposed the death penalty?
00:24:47.540 For the founding fathers and the framers and for the statesmen of the early part of American
00:24:52.660 history, felonies simply received the death penalty. The definition of a felony was the
00:25:00.080 sort of thing that the state killed you over. They didn't just reserve the death penalty for
00:25:05.440 child rapists and serial killers. We killed a lot of people, and the founding fathers were
00:25:11.400 totally fine with it. The moral leadership of past, what are you talking about? Here's his
00:25:17.000 ethical argument. Some have said that I should not grant clemency to people who committed the
00:25:21.180 worst of the worst crimes. I carefully consider different categories of capital crimes and
00:25:24.180 offender characteristics. I've learned, however, from speaking with the victims harmed by these
00:25:27.860 crimes, that each experiences their loss as the worst of the worst. I've concluded that any attempt
00:25:33.200 to distinguish among crimes and offenders for clemency would inadvertently create two classes
00:25:37.000 of murder victims, those whose perpetrators deserve death and the rest. Yeah, so this is
00:25:40.300 actually a practical point that Newsom realized, which is, hold on, if I just commute the death
00:25:44.620 sentences of half of the death row inmates, then what I'm saying is that the guy who kidnapped,
00:25:50.500 raped, and murdered some couple's four-year-old boy 20 or 30 years ago. That guy was actually
00:25:59.060 worse than the guy who kidnapped, raped, and murdered a couple's seven-year-old boy 20 years 0.96
00:26:06.100 ago. How are you going to distinguish? And you say, this family gets justice, but not this one.
00:26:10.900 In other words, this five-year-old boy's life matters more than that five-year-old boy's life.
00:26:14.560 that would be totally incoherent. So what you would expect is that a governor would say, okay,
00:26:22.620 the system has played out. The criminals have received due process. The families have been
00:26:28.580 promised some vague semblance of justice. They've had to wait decades for it because of our
00:26:33.720 ridiculous system. And so finally, after 20 or 30 years of waiting for justice, they'll finally 0.71
00:26:38.600 get it. No, no, no, no, no. He says none of them will get justice. Newsom wants to run for president.
00:26:46.180 And Newsom knows that the left loves criminals, and the worse the crime, the more empathy they
00:26:51.300 feel for the criminals. And so he thinks this will help him run for president. But it's very easy to
00:26:57.400 just say, okay, death row inmates. I feel sorry for these people too. I feel sorry for all people
00:27:02.380 who commit crimes because it's contrary to reason. It makes their life worse. I feel worse for their
00:27:06.840 victims, but I feel bad for them too. So let's zoom in. Who did Newsom let off the hook?
00:27:12.460 Richard Allen Davis, convicted of the high-profile 1993 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly
00:27:19.120 Kloss. You can imagine what Mr. Davis did to Polly Kloss, this sweet little girl, before he murdered
00:27:25.560 her. That guy, Gavin Newsom, just gave him an attaboy, pat on the back, let him off the hook.
00:27:30.200 David Westerfield, convicted of the 2002 murder of his seven-year-old neighbor, Danielle Van Dam in
00:27:35.940 San Diego, went in. You can imagine what he did to the seven-year-old before he murdered her.
00:27:42.880 That guy, Gavin Newsom, says, hey, buddy, I'm launching my presidential campaign. You're off
00:27:46.360 the hook. Carrie Stainer, convicted of the 1999 murders of three tourists and a nature instructor 0.97
00:27:54.500 near Yosemite National Park. We got Randy Kraft. He's the scorecard killer. He murdered 16 people
00:27:59.620 in the 70s and 80s. Charles Noe, I think his name is, convicted of murdering 11 people in
00:28:05.880 Northern California. 11 people, 11 families destroyed the murderer off the hook because
00:28:10.840 Gavin Newsom wants to run for president. Cleophas Prince killed six women in San Diego.
00:28:16.980 Richard Wade Farley, he had a mass shooting that killed seven people. Jesse Michael Gomez,
00:28:23.680 convicted in the shooting death of a police officer. Police officer doesn't get clemency.
00:28:28.460 he doesn't get a commutation. It goes on and on and on. Oh, here's another one. Wayne Adam Ford,
00:28:36.360 he's a truck driver who killed four women. He cut up their bodies. When he surrendered to 0.85
00:28:40.920 authorities, he had a severed breast of one of his victims in his jacket pocket.
00:28:45.580 Gavin Newsom wanted to make sure, the second the Democrats get back in power nationally,
00:28:50.640 he wants to make sure the psycho murderer, keep body parts in your pocket guy gets off the hook.
00:28:58.460 That's what we're dealing with. That's the kind of Democrat that we just elected.
00:29:04.940 We didn't just elect Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton was happy to fry him. Bill Clinton, who was fairly
00:29:12.640 reasonable, especially when voters gave him signals. We just elected, opened the borders,
00:29:21.180 effectively banned the Republicans. Alyssa Slotkin, Democrat, sitting Democrat senator, 0.97
00:29:25.180 saying, yeah, we're going to persecute Republicans so hard. Teenage, civic-minded people are going
00:29:32.240 to be terrified to volunteer on Republican campaigns ever again because we're going to
00:29:35.680 ruin their life. We're going to tell all the racial minorities to go gang up on Whitey. 1.00
00:29:40.880 We're going to make everything gay. The incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee said, 0.99
00:29:47.500 lawyer up. We're going to prosecute and persecute all the Republicans.
00:29:52.080 and we're going to do what the french revolutionaries did at the the launch of the french 0.66
00:29:57.800 revolution we're just opening up the bastille baby let the let the body chopping serial killers
00:30:04.020 off the hook that's where we're at now a little caveat here a little silver lining in the storm
00:30:13.180 cloud the da of la county he just he poured a little cold water onto this this fever pitched
00:30:20.000 commutation, where he said, hey, the law is still the law. Gavin Newsom has the pardon power. I
00:30:26.420 guess the pardon power is absolute, but I'm still going to fulfill the law. The district attorney,
00:30:30.920 Nathan Hockman, when I took the oath of office, I swore to enforce all of California's laws as
00:30:35.300 enacted by the legislature and the voters. The governor has chosen to commute existing death
00:30:38.800 sentences to life without the possibility of parole, as is within his constitutional power.
00:30:42.460 But that power does not extend to eliminating the death penalty. Only the legislature or the voters
00:30:47.340 can do that. And so he says, as long as the law's on the books, he's going to keep prosecuting
00:30:53.420 people and seeking capital punishment. What Gavin Newsom's doing right now is not technically
00:30:58.320 lawless, though it has the spirit of lawlessness, because what he's trying to do is overturn the
00:31:03.220 death penalty through executive action, and you can't do that. Sacramento DA said the same thing,
00:31:08.000 said any discussion about ending California's capital punishment must begin with the victims,
00:31:11.840 their families, and the communities forever impacted by the most heinous crimes. Justice
00:31:17.380 requires case-by-case consideration. Not one size fits all decisions. Every death sentence results
00:31:22.260 from years of legal proceedings involving juries, judges, and multiple layers of mandatory appellate
00:31:26.400 review. A blanket commutation of all death sentences disregards the individualized facts
00:31:31.280 and circumstances of each case and careful judicial process that led to those lawful sentences and the
00:31:37.300 voices of victims who have waited decades for justice. So true. He goes on and on and on.
00:31:41.480 So true. In other words, what's our takeaway from this?
00:31:46.960 The very first thing that Democrats are doing, moments after they haven't even taken power yet,
00:31:54.440 they're just, they have been elected, so they have the promise of taking power a few months
00:31:58.700 from now. The very, very first thing they've been able to do at every turn is subvert the rule of
00:32:04.620 law, using the rule of law to subvert the rule of law. That's the very first signal.
00:32:13.140 In the most nasty, cruel, targeted ways. I mean, I keep going back to Gene Wu in Texas,
00:32:20.240 who says, you know, we live in this country where there are two racial groups you're allowed
00:32:25.380 to discriminate against legally. Whites and Asians. Those are the true groups you can legally
00:32:30.380 discriminate against through affirmative action, through civil rights law, which actually ensconces
00:32:37.040 racial discrimination, right? So those are the two groups you can legally discriminate against.
00:32:41.840 Gene Wu is Asian. But there's only one group that you can both legally and culturally discriminate 0.80
00:32:47.960 against. It's still kind of looked as a naughty thing if you discriminate against Asians. But for
00:32:53.780 white people, it's encouraged. So you have this one group, the most targeted racial group in the 0.68
00:32:59.920 country on the basis of their race. And the people who are coming into power right now says, hey,
00:33:06.240 get them. Hey, guys. Hey, everybody, come on. Let's gang up. We got to go get those guys.
00:33:11.960 But not before we let the body chopping, child raping serial killers off the hook for their 1.00
00:33:17.540 crimes. Now, speaking of death, the most absurd reporting coming out of the midterms comes by way 0.94
00:33:27.940 of the New York Times. The New York Times got this big scoop on what the Republicans were thinking
00:33:33.120 at the highest levels going into the elections. See if you can catch the New York Times' reporting
00:33:39.160 error. Six days before the election, more than two dozen Trump strategists logged onto a private
00:33:46.620 video call. The mood was grim. The talk turned to cyanide. Quote, do you want the white pill first
00:33:55.440 or the black pill first? Did you catch the reporting error? It's the guys on the call,
00:34:04.940 the Trump strategists said, hey, you want the white pill or the black pill? Which is just lingo,
00:34:10.080 you know, you want some hope or you want some despair? Do you want, which derives from an
00:34:15.460 earlier kind of lingo, slang and meme, which is, do you want the red pill or the blue pill,
00:34:20.360 like from the matrix? Okay, you want the white pill first or the black pill? And the New York
00:34:24.540 Times, furtively on the call, listening to this says, oh my goodness, they're talking about
00:34:31.220 cyanide. You don't, the New York Times, the paper of record, doesn't understand a very basic
00:34:39.720 meme, a very basic element of mainstream slang. What else do they not understand? We like saying
00:34:47.160 six days before the election, the strategists log onto a call. The mood was grim. The talk turned
00:34:53.020 To baked goods
00:34:55.020 These poll numbers
00:34:57.700 Are buns
00:34:58.940 No that's not what that word means
00:35:01.360 Actually in that context
00:35:02.120 The people on the call were very hungry 0.98
00:35:04.520 These poll numbers are buns
00:35:07.180 The mood was grim
00:35:08.740 The talk turned to prime numbers
00:35:11.380 6-7
00:35:13.000 Well 6 is not a prime number
00:35:16.120 67 is in fact a prime number
00:35:17.880 In any case
00:35:18.340 They don't understand anything about us
00:35:23.020 They don't understand anything about normal people culture,
00:35:26.320 whether we're talking about normal online culture 0.97
00:35:27.900 or normal touch grass culture. 0.77
00:35:30.920 We speak a foreign language to them. 1.00
00:35:32.820 When we talk about things like virtue or sovereignty 0.52
00:35:35.940 or the rule of law or like marriage or God or property, 0.55
00:35:41.520 we are speaking a foreign language to these people.
00:35:44.180 And this is backed up by decades
00:35:46.780 of social scientific research, which is found.
00:35:49.140 I don't care.
00:35:49.500 I know we have libs who listen to the show, 0.84
00:35:51.020 which I'm very grateful for.
00:35:52.040 Democrats who listen to the show, at least the kind of reasonable ones in those camps.
00:35:58.360 The right understands the left much better than the left understands the right.
00:36:03.540 This is just a firmly established fact of sociology. 1.00
00:36:09.180 I get why the libs want to chop off kids' genitals. I understand it. It's abhorrent. 1.00
00:36:14.120 I find it nauseous, but I get how their priors led them to that conclusion.
00:36:19.360 the left does not understand why i think we should ban pornography or why we should close
00:36:27.500 the southern border or why we should not kill babies in the womb or why we should not eat the
00:36:33.420 rich the left actually doesn't understand why i think that the left thinks that i'm a kind of
00:36:39.500 irrational superstitious uh theocrat the left thinks that i hate women because i don't think 0.85
00:36:48.180 we should murder babies in the womb. The left thinks that I hate other racial groups because 0.96
00:36:54.000 I don't want an open border. That's what they sincerely believe about my views about politics. 1.00
00:37:01.100 And in a way, it's not their fault. I mean, maybe if we can blame them for ignorance or for a lack
00:37:06.160 of grace, I guess it's their fault. But they just don't know. Whereas I get how if you accept that
00:37:14.020 individual autonomy and consent are the only moral criteria in the universe. And if you think that
00:37:19.760 we own our own bodies, and you think that there is no telos to human life, and you think that
00:37:24.500 we're not distinct from the beasts, and there's really no difference between intellect and will
00:37:29.460 compared to instinct and appetite. If you think all of that, I see why you would let at least
00:37:36.740 adults chop their genitals off. And if you'd let adults chop their genitals off because a boy can 0.99
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00:37:44.100 it. I totally get it. These people don't even know what the white pill is. They don't know what we're
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00:40:40.580 Hey, Michael.
00:40:41.480 I had a well-intentioned older man ask me recently,
00:40:44.300 what kind of life can my severely autistic son have?
00:40:47.860 And I believe he can have a fulfilling life seeking to honor God,
00:40:52.020 bringing joy to others,
00:40:53.140 and loving both the mortal and eternal gift of life he's been given.
00:40:56.240 I think if we're honest, though, when we look at people like my son who cannot take care of themselves, we get uncomfortable.
00:41:04.360 Because if the value of his life is based in the mere fact that a loving and great God made it, what does that mean of all that we do and that we are?
00:41:12.720 If our struggles and pursuits are not for that God, are they indeed in vain?
00:41:17.240 There are people far more disabled than my son who bring love and light, and I would say a great truth that cannot be ignored.
00:41:23.740 a mirror that cannot be looked into without seeing a deeper truth.
00:41:27.740 Life is precious, and it isn't more valuable because of what we do.
00:41:31.900 It is valuable because of who created us.
00:41:34.480 Love to hear your thoughts.
00:41:35.560 Oh, very, very good point and well said, though with a caveat.
00:41:41.740 And the caveat is when we realize the truth that you've stumbled upon,
00:41:45.800 which is that we don't matter more,
00:41:49.880 We don't earn our salvation in any way, but we certainly don't earn our salvation because we worked extra hours at the accounting firm.
00:41:58.580 We don't become more valuable as human beings because we become the CEO of some company rather than the janitor in some nonprofit.
00:42:11.200 We might conclude from that fact that nothing we do matters.
00:42:18.180 And that would be an erroneous conclusion.
00:42:20.760 What we do matters very much.
00:42:23.080 God wants particular things from us.
00:42:26.840 God wants something different.
00:42:28.760 Well, ultimately, he wants the same thing, which is to love him and serve him.
00:42:31.500 But God wants, in the particulars, something different from the CEO of the company than he wants from your artistic son. 0.60
00:42:38.100 He wants things from your autistic son. 0.56
00:42:40.700 Your autistic son has a purpose.
00:42:42.520 Your autistic son might be more significant in people's lives.
00:42:47.160 He might do more good. He might serve God better than the CEO of the company.
00:42:50.960 No question about that. But he wants particular things. So we cannot adopt a quietism,
00:42:57.240 this passivity that says, well, all we have to do is close our eyes and sit like a baba on the
00:43:01.760 Ganges just contemplating God, and that's that. We are called to specific things. So what we do
00:43:08.020 matters. It actually, there's a paradox to this. We think that our careers really, really matter,
00:43:14.080 or, you know, this exam is the most important thing in the world. Or we stress over things
00:43:20.640 that are ultimately not that important. Meanwhile, we don't go to church. We don't go to confession.
00:43:23.980 We don't say our daily prayers. We ignore things that ultimately are more important.
00:43:28.400 So on the one hand, we take ourselves way too seriously. But paradoxically, we don't take
00:43:35.120 life seriously enough. Every second, every nanosecond of your life is imbued, it's diffused
00:43:43.260 with meaning, brimming with meaning. And you have moral choices constantly. And it's not just when
00:43:50.820 you have to decide, am I going to lay off 50,000 people? Am I going to drop the bomb on this
00:43:54.420 country as president of the United States? It's like, how did you look at that person when you
00:44:00.660 were having lunch at the office? What was that little comment you said? Did you call your mom
00:44:04.780 today? These are these moral choices that really do matter. The little venial sin.
00:44:13.660 That actually does matter,
00:44:14.920 the scandal that you could cause other people.
00:44:16.540 That's it.
00:44:17.480 Because yes, ultimately,
00:44:18.980 the most important truth to take away
00:44:20.580 from your observation is,
00:44:21.840 it's like all about God.
00:44:24.300 History itself is all about God in Christ.
00:44:26.860 Christ as this turning point of history
00:44:29.080 when God literally enters into history.
00:44:31.540 But God creates everything,
00:44:33.820 the entire cosmos,
00:44:34.760 and he is sovereign over the cosmos too.
00:44:37.100 So like ultimately, it's not about,
00:44:39.080 it's not ultimately about your job.
00:44:40.700 Ultimately, it's about God
00:44:41.820 and our work has to be oriented toward him.
00:44:46.640 I'm actually writing a book in no small part about this point right now
00:44:50.840 on vocation, on calling, on what we were supposed to do.
00:44:54.220 And that's just as true for you, for your boss, as it is for your son.
00:45:00.700 Okay, next question.
00:45:02.900 Good morning, Michael. This is Arun.
00:45:04.820 Yeah, so obviously last Tuesday sucked. 0.92
00:45:07.280 I don't think there were any victories except for the defeat of Beau French, which is a personal victory for me because I hate that guy.
00:45:14.980 But my question for you is twofold.
00:45:17.840 First of all, at the broader level, what effect do you think can be attributed to Trump's focus on things like the tariffs and the ballroom and Lake America and all the other things that obviously voters don't care about?
00:45:32.060 Secondly, with regard to the Texas race, I noticed an interesting phenomenon where fairly mainstream conservative influencers from The Blaze and from TPUSA went full racist on X. 0.77
00:45:45.160 Now, again, I find it very amusing, especially when you have Mexican white supremacists and stuff.
00:45:50.260 But I'm wondering if any of our losses in Texas can be attributed to that or if it's all just kind of noise.
00:45:58.120 Thank you, as always, for your wisdom.
00:45:59.780 it's all kind of noise it's not just kind of noise it does it does matter how republicans
00:46:08.820 speak and talk it does you know on the margins it really does matter uh you know we got to make
00:46:14.260 sure we got to be honest we got it we don't want to go squishy we don't want to go soft we don't
00:46:18.140 want to go weak especially on issues like immigration but there are more persuasive ways 0.98
00:46:23.500 to do it trump did very very well with hispanics even as he said these illegals are rapists and 1.00
00:46:29.100 murderers and we need to deport all of them. And he wasn't going soft at all, but he just had a way 0.98
00:46:34.320 of signaling to Hispanics that he's on their side, even when he's calling a bunch of them 0.96
00:46:39.800 rapists and murderers. He had a way of signaling that to them, that some Republicans are just not 0.69
00:46:44.160 as good at. Trump's a good communicator. Actually, he has poetic diction. He's a great communicator
00:46:49.140 most of the time. But still, we all got clobbered in this midterm. Why? The real issues were the
00:46:55.020 economic issues, which I think, I suppose, in part are the tariffs. I think the tariffs were
00:46:59.440 basically negligible in the effect. It was the Iran war, I think, is really what did it. 0.89
00:47:04.980 And there were optics problems on top of that. I think it's good and important that Trump is
00:47:10.160 building the ballroom. I'm like a 100% ballroom defender. But yes, maybe don't focus on the
00:47:15.260 ballroom as much, maybe optically. Given the other stuff, maybe that's not the best idea.
00:47:20.780 uh yeah some guy on twitter or whatever says something that kind of crosses the line from
00:47:27.140 just funny racism into legitimately offensive racism yeah okay that can happen marginally
00:47:31.640 maybe you'll lose some votes there but uh all of that to say your point is well taken our room
00:47:37.440 because the most important thing to fix are these key issues these structural issues but we are in
00:47:43.780 such a precarious position right now that the margins matter right now the democrat is leading
00:47:49.980 in the Senate race in Mississippi by 2,000 votes.
00:47:54.080 The margins matter.
00:47:55.060 There are candidates in the House
00:47:56.000 who won their races by hundreds of votes.
00:47:58.480 So the margins really do matter.
00:48:00.200 We no longer have the luxury of being loose.
00:48:06.540 We need to be real tight, real buttoned up,
00:48:08.680 strategically on our issues and in our rhetoric.
00:48:11.540 Next question.
00:48:13.280 Hi, Michael.
00:48:13.960 I completely disagree with you about term limits.
00:48:16.360 And in fact, I think that we should have stricter term limits.
00:48:20.780 Once you are elected to any office twice, that's it.
00:48:24.500 You're done.
00:48:25.240 You cannot run again.
00:48:26.240 Do not pass go.
00:48:27.120 Do not collect $200.
00:48:28.320 Bye-bye.
00:48:29.140 Mainly because of the potential and susceptibility to corruption.
00:48:34.760 And I know you've said like, oh, the ballot box is the term limit.
00:48:38.820 No, it's not. 0.98
00:48:39.720 Look at freaking Pelosi. 0.99
00:48:42.720 She's been in there for 50 years and she's trading all the things. 1.00
00:48:46.220 and Biden was a crooked criminal.
00:48:48.000 And they're just, it's just, it's a public service, not a career. 0.97
00:48:55.480 But it is a career.
00:48:56.800 I understand your point, which is there's this Jeffersonian vision
00:49:00.500 that going to Congress should be, you know, a brief public service
00:49:04.840 before you go back to your homestead and your farm and your private life and your studies.
00:49:09.580 But it is a career.
00:49:11.180 It just practically is a career.
00:49:12.980 You look at someone like Pelosi who's been in office forever,
00:49:15.020 and she's insider trading
00:49:16.900 and she's the most successful hedge fund manager 0.95
00:49:18.360 in the country.
00:49:19.480 And you say, well, that's obviously crooked. 0.99
00:49:21.920 You know, how is she clinging onto power? 1.00
00:49:24.320 She's not clinging onto power. 1.00
00:49:25.780 She's there because her voters want her there.
00:49:27.500 I mean, and now I guess, you know, 0.71
00:49:28.440 she's at the end of her career,
00:49:29.340 but she was there for a long time. 1.00
00:49:31.060 Her voters wanted her there. 0.80
00:49:32.360 There are plenty of people who get thrown out
00:49:33.600 even after a long time.
00:49:34.760 Susan Collins was in the Senate for a very long time, 0.89
00:49:37.560 just got thrown out. 0.77
00:49:39.500 And plenty of people who were in for a long time,
00:49:41.980 they get these big upsets.
00:49:42.920 cornyn got thrown out by his primary voters for goodness sakes that happens and it's true 0.55
00:49:48.740 incumbency confers some kind of advantage but people elected a corrupt politician like nancy 1.00
00:49:55.840 pelosi because they themselves are corrupt okay they she actually does reflect the will of her 1.00
00:50:00.840 voters and when you kick pelosi out you get someone who's just as bad or worse who comes in
00:50:05.040 so if you're dissatisfied with the caliber of the politicians in congress really you have to do the
00:50:11.460 H.L. Mencken thing and look at the electorate. But let's just take it from within Capitol Hill.
00:50:17.660 Let's say you impose term limits. What do you think would happen? I think the premise is that 0.64
00:50:22.260 this would take away power from these corrupt forces in Washington, D.C., but I see no evidence
00:50:28.400 of that whatsoever. Congress would still have the same kind of budget, would still have the same
00:50:32.520 kind of license and authority, would still be able to do all of these things. It's just that
00:50:37.560 the individual elected members of Congress would have less power within that system.
00:50:43.960 Capitol Hill, the system of political power there, it's not just the elected guys,
00:50:48.120 possibly not even mostly the elected guys. It's the staff. It's the permanent committee staff.
00:50:53.500 It's the lobbyists. It's all these different people. So if the power of Capitol Hill remains
00:51:02.860 unchanged. It's not like the legislature relative to the executive and judicial branch would thereby
00:51:09.320 lose power or gain power. What it can do is going to remain the same. If you reduce the power of
00:51:15.380 the elected politicians, all you're doing is empowering the lobbyists and the staff who are
00:51:20.120 not elected. So do you think, is that a good idea? I get that Nancy Pelosi is corrupt. I get that
00:51:25.840 there are some actually good members of Congress. Some friends of mine are members of Congress, but
00:51:30.680 who do you think is more likely to be corrupt? The electeds or the lobbyists and the staff?
00:51:38.300 Who do you think has to be at least a little bit more accountable? The electeds or the lobbyists
00:51:43.160 and the staff? So I'm very anti-term limit. Okay. It's Fake Headline Friday. The rest of the show
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00:52:22.380 They take me out of my bed, and they brought me here, and they tell me nothing.
00:52:28.900 What have I done?
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00:52:58.380 Today is your opportunity to demonstrate your loyalty to the people.
00:53:05.380 I'd like to know why I'm here.
00:53:07.380 Of course.
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00:53:12.380 You must believe in something greater than the party.
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00:53:18.380 I've told you I know nothing.
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