The Michael Knowles Show - November 11, 2026


Ep. 2101 - Ole Miss Ring Cam Girls： Was This Racist？

Ep. 2100 - BREAKING： Russell Brand Gets 10 Years In Prison

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00:00:00.000 This episode is brought to you by Cardiff, America's favorite small business lender with
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00:00:06.240 up to $500,000 at cardiff.co slash Knowles. An 18-year-old white girl receives death threats
00:00:13.740 and even has to drop out of Ole Miss for allegedly making a racist gesture on a ring
00:00:19.680 doorbell cam. Pete Hegseth faces down impeachment in the House, and more than one in five college
00:00:25.000 students says America deserved 9-11. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:47.520 Welcome back to the show. Tonight is the launch of Confession, Ben Shapiro's new movie on the
00:00:54.980 Daily Wire with Rob Lowe, James Franco, Brad Dourif, Dean Norris, Nick Nolte, on and on and on.
00:01:02.960 It drops at 7 p.m. Eastern on The Daily Wire with a 30-minute pre-show. Go see it in a local
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00:01:14.480 hyphen theater. I think the Daily Wire marketing department should maybe find a better URL.
00:01:20.460 I don't know. Do you think, can we afford a vanity URL? Maybe if you go see the movie,
00:01:24.980 the movie's terrific. Go see confession today. Speaking of films that have gone viral that are
00:01:32.280 causing Stalin-esque purges and show trials, this is gal. It's actually three gals, but one of them
00:01:41.140 in particular, who have gone viral because they were walking back. I don't know. They look like
00:01:47.300 they were going out at a party or something. They're walking back, and as they walk by a ring
00:01:50.860 doorbell camera, they make some gestures like they're monkeys. Like, ooh, ooh, ah, ah. I won't
00:01:56.240 describe it any further. Judge for yourself. Okay, now you're probably asking, why are we
00:02:12.060 talking about this video at all? Young university girls, I think the main girl who's in trouble for 1.00
00:02:19.240 this, is 18 years old. She's a freshman and she's walking by a ring doorbell cam and she does 0.99
00:02:25.500 something silly coming back from, I don't know, a party or a bar or whatever. And now her life is
00:02:33.980 ruined. Why? Because apparently the student whose doorbell camera it was is black. And the mother
00:02:44.100 of the student whose ring doorbell camera it was, saw the video and made it go viral and said this
00:02:51.300 was racism. And so let's just keep an open mind for a second. I guess it could be racism. I guess
00:02:59.500 it could be that this white girl or group of white girls knew that the student was black and 0.99
00:03:07.320 wanted to say that black people look like monkeys. I guess it could be that. 0.99
00:03:12.620 So we'll get to that in a second.
00:03:14.620 But the girl herself says that she did not know who occupied the apartment,
00:03:21.160 had never met her, didn't know the race of the girl who occupied the apartment, 0.97
00:03:25.560 and was not doing the little monkey gesture as if to say black people look like monkeys.
00:03:29.840 Here is the extracted apology video as this woman's family is harassed,
00:03:38.840 as she receives death threats, and as she's been forced to drop out of school.
00:03:42.400 To the women I offended and to the Ole Miss community, I sincerely apologize. Before the
00:03:49.360 incident on November 6th, I never met the women involved and was unaware of their race. However,
00:03:55.600 I recognize my actions were insensitive, inappropriate, and deeply harmful.
00:04:00.720 What? Hold on. What? One of those things can't be true. Either the girl knew these people or
00:04:08.600 knew they were black or knew that or there's nothing insensitive or harmful about the actions
00:04:15.660 now this is an 18 year old girl so now she's got global opprobrium thrust upon her a university
00:04:22.260 investigation death threats maybe she's just apologizing maybe she's telling the truth and
00:04:27.800 she's saying i didn't i don't know these girls i don't know the race i didn't mean to do a racism
00:04:31.240 but i don't i'd really want to stop receiving death threats and i'm just a kid so uh you know
00:04:36.680 I'm sorry, it's offensive to do a monkey impersonation.
00:04:41.800 I don't know, that doesn't make sense.
00:04:43.960 But you can hear the duress in this apology.
00:04:48.880 I would never truly understand the pain I have caused them.
00:04:52.880 And what I did is not a reflection of who I am trying to become.
00:04:58.320 I would never truly understand the pain of making an...
00:05:03.560 Let's say that we forget about the first part of the letter.
00:05:06.680 Let's say that the girl knew the other girl was black or whatever.
00:05:10.620 You could never understand the pain of someone making a racial joke.
00:05:14.340 I don't know.
00:05:15.140 I'm not black, but I'm Sicilian, which is close at least.
00:05:18.360 And I've been called jokingly, sometimes a little more seriously,
00:05:23.060 a WAP, Greaseball, Dago, Guinea.
00:05:26.780 People have done impressions of the Italian people.
00:05:30.980 Hey, why yo, hey, I forgot about it, whatever.
00:05:33.300 And it doesn't cause that much pain.
00:05:36.680 I don't know. It's not nice. Racial jokes, they can be offensive, but I can never understand the
00:05:43.860 pain. What? I think you could. I don't think it's that much pain. Also, you said you didn't mean to
00:05:51.860 do a racism and you didn't know the girl was black. So you didn't intentionally inflict any
00:05:56.500 pain on anybody. But even if you had, you know, people have real problems, right?
00:06:02.100 you know there's like war and death and rape and starvation in the world and racial jokes
00:06:09.360 if you do make them intentionally you know they're not nice you shouldn't do that
00:06:13.020 i could never understand the pain what over the past several days my family and i have received
00:06:20.420 death threats and harassment i'm grateful for the authorities working to ensure our safety as i
00:06:24.200 intend to cooperate fully with the university's investigation the university's investigation of a
00:06:30.000 girl coming back from a night out doing to a doorbell camera. I asked for privacy for my
00:06:37.860 family. Yeah, I can imagine. I understand the seriousness of the situation and remain committed
00:06:42.920 to taking responsibility and learning from this embarrassing ordeal. The seriousness,
00:06:47.460 it's not a serious situation. It's just not. Even if she had done the thing that she says she didn't
00:06:56.060 do. And for which we don't have much reason to believe that she did do it, that she hates black 0.99
00:07:01.500 people or something. But even if she had done it, it's not that serious. It's not nice. It 0.80
00:07:08.740 wouldn't be nice if it were in fact the case that the allegations are true, but it's not serious at
00:07:13.360 all. She went on a doorbell camera. That's like the least serious thing I've ever heard of in my
00:07:23.080 entire life. Well, since then, her harassment, the harassment of her family, the death threats,
00:07:32.000 the girl withdrew from the university. So let's just be perfectly clear about why this is going
00:07:39.540 viral. It's going viral in part because the left has been exploiting claims of racism for many
00:07:47.760 decades now, and it's very effective, and they do it all the time, and it scores them political
00:07:51.920 points, or at least it has in the past. But here you're seeing some blowback in the other
00:07:55.100 direction. Some people who are coming at least to a moderate defense of the young girl. Why is that?
00:08:04.460 One, it's totally unclear if the girl actually intended any offense. And if she did, you
00:08:10.260 shouldn't do that. We should be civilized people. We shouldn't call black people monkeys. We should,
00:08:15.020 yeah, okay, you shouldn't, sure. If that was what she was doing, that's not nice. And she should,
00:08:20.320 you know, she should apologize. There should be some mild social repercussion for that. Okay.
00:08:24.980 The reason this rubs so many people the wrong way is how totally out of whack the response seems to
00:08:30.860 be. She's getting death threats. Her family's getting harassed. She's got to drop out of school.
00:08:36.520 The reason this is rubbing so many people the wrong way is that even a dubious claim of anti-black
00:08:44.880 racism becomes a national incident. It leads to a days or weeks long national conversation
00:08:54.180 about race. We're told that one can never understand the gravity and seriousness and
00:09:00.660 pain caused by this incident. That's how we react to anti-black racism. You know what we call
00:09:07.220 anti-white racism on campuses? We call it the curriculum. We call it the admissions process.
00:09:13.780 that's why people are responding in this way one because there's a really good chance this girl is
00:09:20.820 being accused of something that she did not do had no intention of doing and that would be deeply
00:09:25.060 unjust and she could very well be totally innocent of any offense whatsoever but even if she doesn't 0.95
00:09:31.740 like black people and she thinks they look like monkeys and she made a joke on a camera even if 0.99
00:09:35.600 that were true which she denies there is such a gross double standard here that people are sick 0.99
00:09:42.680 of it. It is such proof that there is not a pervasive anti-black racism in America that
00:09:50.300 every time anything even vaguely, slightly, possibly resembling a hint of anti-black racism
00:09:56.240 crops up, everybody talks about it forever, and the alleged perpetrator has her life ruined and
00:10:02.560 her family's life ruined, and she's threatened with death, and she can't get an education.
00:10:06.480 Meanwhile, when that girl applied to that university,
00:10:10.640 she was docked points on her admissions application because she's white. 0.52
00:10:16.420 If she's white or Asian, she is disadvantaged in even getting into the university. 0.73
00:10:22.640 If you are black or to some degree Hispanic, you are advantaged in getting into the university. 0.97
00:10:27.620 When you get in and you go take classes on sociology, on American history, etc., etc., 0.99
00:10:33.920 on economics for that matter. You're told white people are bad and black people are good. 0.99
00:10:39.700 And white people have committed all the crimes ever in the history of the world. And non-white 1.00
00:10:43.040 people are the innocent oppressed who can never have their pain made right. That's what you're 0.90
00:10:51.420 told. We are told that white people are profoundly racist. Yet we know from survey after survey that 0.99
00:10:58.000 white people have essentially zero racial identity, racial consciousness, and every other
00:11:03.640 group, especially black people, have very high degrees of racial consciousness and identity. 0.95
00:11:09.160 It's just so totally out of whack. Assume the very, very worst possible interpretation of 1.00
00:11:19.120 the girl's video. Do we think that the response to this is even remotely proportional? Of course
00:11:26.680 not. Does anybody, I want the most left-wing racial identitarian person watching or listening
00:11:33.960 to this show right now, do you seriously believe that white people are more racist than, forget 0.95
00:11:42.400 black people, than any other race in America? Not even close. They're significantly less racist. 0.98
00:11:49.980 and the consequences for their racism are infinite, essentially infinite.
00:11:58.020 And the consequences for anti-white racism from any other racial group are non-existent.
00:12:04.320 That's the issue.
00:12:06.620 And so the way that the liberal media are going to portray this is Ole Miss in Mississippi,
00:12:11.660 the old South, the Klan continues to ride in the big two-six.
00:12:18.260 But of course, look at the response to this.
00:12:19.980 It's anything but.
00:12:22.120 If there is anything resembling a virtual lynch mob in this whole case,
00:12:25.680 it is the mob of people going after this 18-year-old girl
00:12:28.000 in Mississippi, deep red conservative Mississippi
00:12:32.480 that just elected a Democrat senator, which we'll get to in a second.
00:12:36.260 But the kids on college campuses right now, they're not all right.
00:12:38.960 They're not all right.
00:12:39.440 There's a new survey that shows that one in five college students,
00:12:41.400 more than that actually, says America deserves 9-11.
00:12:43.880 We'll get to that in a second.
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00:14:23.020 Institute. It says that more than one in five college students says the United States deserved
00:14:27.920 September 11th. 22% of the participants agreed with that statement. Worst terror attack, of
00:14:35.840 course, in American history, it means that it ain't just Hassan Piker. You know, Hassan Piker,
00:14:40.840 this left-wing streamer who campaigns with the left-wing candidates, who calls for the murder
00:14:45.440 of multiple Republican senators, who said that he personally wanted to murder Charlie Kirk before 0.98
00:14:49.860 one of his fellow travelers actually made good on the threat, who says that he wipes his derriere
00:14:53.660 with the American flag, who says America deserves 9-11 and actually has a picture celebrating 9-11
00:14:57.700 behind him on his set. It's not just him. It's not just some random guy on the left. This is
00:15:01.960 the point we've made about a guy like Hasan Piker for many months now is he's not the fringe. He's
00:15:06.560 not the outlier. Prominent Democrat Senate candidates who will soon be sitting senators
00:15:12.500 actually invite this guy to campaign. So he is the mainstream of the Democrat party,
00:15:17.480 and he is reflecting a huge share of the voices on campuses. So what is this about?
00:15:24.980 The establishment conservatives are going to have a perfectly wrong reaction to this. I'm sorry,
00:15:31.960 to say. Some of my best friends are establishment conservatives, but they're going to have the wrong
00:15:36.280 reaction. What they're going to say is, these college kids, they don't know anything. They're
00:15:40.340 ignorant. They don't even know. They don't even remember 9-11. These college kids, they're 1.00
00:15:47.140 socialists and communists today because they're ignorant, because they don't have memory. They 1.00
00:15:51.380 don't remember the Soviet Union. They weren't alive for the fall of the Berlin Wall. We just
00:15:55.660 need to teach them some facts about 9-11, about communism, about left-wing economics. We got to
00:16:02.820 teach them the facts, and we got to destroy the left-wing arguments with facts and logic, and then
00:16:08.440 they'll be conservative. But you're totally misunderstanding what's motivating this survey
00:16:12.620 response. It is not the intellect that is motivating the survey response. These college
00:16:17.720 kids don't have much intellect. The establishment conservatives are right about that. It's not the
00:16:22.280 intellect. It's not an interpretation of the facts. It's the will that is motivating this
00:16:28.260 response. This response does not primarily represent some declaration about what did or
00:16:37.240 did not happen or even the significance of those events. The survey represents a contempt for the
00:16:43.420 country. It's not about ideas. It's about love. When you say America deserved 9-11, what you're
00:16:51.040 saying is I hate the country. I have contempt for the country. And this ties into just what we were
00:16:55.640 talking about in the sociology classes and the history classes on campus. What the left-wing
00:17:01.340 professors are inculcating is not a set of facts. It's a set of feelings. You know, I have a pal of
00:17:09.140 mine who famously says facts don't care about your feelings. My rejoinder to that always is
00:17:13.060 politics almost exclusively cares about your feelings. So much of human life is about feeling.
00:17:18.480 You want to get your facts right.
00:17:20.380 Logic should be guiding our actions.
00:17:23.080 We should subdue our appetites and our wills to the intellect, to the truth.
00:17:27.380 But you have to take the will very seriously.
00:17:30.360 If you want to get a different survey result, let me make this very, very practical.
00:17:34.900 If you want students to respond differently to this question, did America deserve 9-11? 0.89
00:17:39.680 You don't need to tell them more about the dangers of Islam or why it's wrong to kill
00:17:47.560 innocence, or you don't need to correct them if they entertain conspiracy theories about 9-11, 0.90
00:17:56.020 that it wasn't really the Muslim hijackers. It was an inside job or whatever. It's not about 0.81
00:17:59.840 changing facts or correcting facts. You need to cultivate in them a love for the country,
00:18:08.260 a kind of patriotism. In the same way, if you want your kid to show up to Thanksgiving,
00:18:15.640 even if they disagree with the conservative uncle who shows up to the Thanksgiving dinner,
00:18:20.980 you don't, you don't, the best way to get your kid to show up to Thanksgiving dinner
00:18:25.200 is not to tell him that the conservative uncle has actually has a point on tax and immigration
00:18:29.360 policy. The way you get him to show up to dinner is to say, Hey, he's your uncle and you love him
00:18:34.420 and he loves you. And we're a family. And this is what a family does. And we're part of this
00:18:39.760 unit together and we need to work in harmony and we need to have, we need to recognize that there
00:18:46.160 is such a thing as a common good and we all flourish or fall together. That's the kind of
00:18:50.440 thing you need to develop in them. And I fear that the conservatives, we're a little bit too
00:18:55.540 commander data. We're a little bit too into facts and logic. It's about cultivating loves. And many
00:19:02.420 conservatives will shy away from that because they've bought into an essentially liberal premise
00:19:06.640 that education does not teach you what to think, only how to think. And okay, well, even if that
00:19:11.600 were the case, how do we think about the country? We don't love the country as a consequence of a
00:19:17.580 series of syllogisms and argument and debate that convinces that the country is worth loving. We
00:19:23.300 have to begin by loving the country. You have to begin thinking about the whole world by loving
00:19:27.600 your family. That's the first institution of which you are conscious. You begin with that,
00:19:33.260 and that shapes the way you see the rest of the world. Now, speaking of war with Muslims, 1.00
00:19:39.780 President Trump, in that much-discussed Ross Douthat interview, we talked about his views
00:19:45.700 of heaven and hell. We talked about his views of the midterm elections. We talked about all sorts
00:19:50.260 of things. One overlooked part is where President Trump was asked about what the future of the war
00:19:56.420 in Iran looks like. So you're not going to escalate the war now that the midterms are
00:20:02.220 not looking to. I don't think there's any reason to. Okay, simple enough. He goes on a little bit,
00:20:09.360 but that's the crucial point. Are you going to escalate the war or not? We all agree that the
00:20:14.720 most immediate issue cause of the Republican blowout on Tuesday night was the war in Iran
00:20:21.980 because the war in Iran is perceived by voters as incongruous with the MAGA movement and Trump's
00:20:29.820 Promises of America first, because the war in Iran has led to higher gas and oil prices,
00:20:34.640 because when energy prices go up, the price of everything goes up, because it seems like
00:20:38.220 a foreign distraction from the domestic agenda, so on and so forth. Iran really is the issue.
00:20:44.160 Okay, well, what are you going to do in Iran now? We're still in this war. We're not even so much 0.70
00:20:48.020 in a war at the moment as we are in a stalemate, an unstable stalemate that will have to be
00:20:54.160 resolved one way or the other. President Trump says he does not want to escalate the war.
00:20:59.820 but the question then becomes, how do you get out of it? This is why the voices who were urging
00:21:07.120 restraint on Iran, there were really three camps. There were the people who are essentially pro-Iran
00:21:13.260 who said, no, no, no, Iran, they don't mean to attack us. They don't hate America. They don't
00:21:17.700 want a nuclear weapon, or it's not a big deal if they get a nuclear weapon. That camp was pretty
00:21:22.120 incoherent. And in as much as there were people on the right talking about it, they were just
00:21:26.780 cribbing talking points from the left, and it didn't make any sense. Then there were a group
00:21:32.500 of people who were hardcore war hawks in Iran, and they said, oh, it'll just take three weeks,
00:21:36.480 and it'll be great, and there'll be no downside whatsoever, and you should absolutely go in.
00:21:41.420 And then there was this third group of which I was a member and remain a member, which is, no, 0.90
00:21:47.020 Iran is awful. They're a terrible regime. They do want a nuclear weapon. They do hate us. We should 0.89
00:21:51.900 stop them from getting a nuclear weapon as best we can. But this intervention is unlikely to work
00:21:57.220 because the regime is more durable than the hawks are pretending. Because a man starts a war at his
00:22:04.420 own will, but he doesn't end a war at his own will, as Machiavelli tells us. Because Iran has 0.94
00:22:10.940 asymmetrical advantages over us in this kind of an action. And because when it comes to the Iranian 0.99
00:22:19.040 regime, in this kind of a strike, it's all or nothing, it seems to me. Either you totally
00:22:24.020 destroy the regime, now you have regime change, that could be a bad idea for its own reasons,
00:22:28.180 or you try something else. But this middle ground is just going to lead you into a stalemate,
00:22:33.240 and Iran is going to start playing trump cards, which they ended up doing in the case of closing 0.75
00:22:36.440 the Strait of Hormuz. So in other words, you have the first group which says, in principle,
00:22:41.220 the war is bad. You have the second group which says, in principle and in practice,
00:22:45.840 the war will be good. And you have this third group in the middle, which is me, who says in 0.85
00:22:50.100 principle, the war could be good. And it could be a major geostrategic win for the US, but
00:22:53.680 practically it won't be. And of all those groups, hate to say I told you so, it would appear that
00:22:59.560 that third group was vindicated. So Trump very rightly says, look, I don't want to escalate the
00:23:04.740 war in Iran. I would like there to be some nice solution to it. The question is, what will that
00:23:09.620 be. Meanwhile, Iran is ramping up the threats, as Scott Besson is now facing very serious death
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00:24:37.820 Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary, is facing very serious death threats, so serious that
00:24:43.180 they've actually moved him from his home in D.C. to a military base. This is now being reported by
00:24:51.100 a lot of agencies, including the New York Times, including Reuters. The U.S. National Intelligence
00:24:56.260 Chief Jay Clayton has been warning that Iran is substantially increasing its efforts to target
00:25:01.900 Americans in the Middle East and beyond. This is another reason that I think the Warhawks 0.98
00:25:08.040 way overstated their case on Iran. They said, well, you know, we got to stop Iran from getting
00:25:13.780 a weapon. And Iran wasn't actually that close to a nuclear weapon, but they were close to a 0.82
00:25:17.980 conventional weapons supply that would have made their nuclear program impenetrable. So if you
00:25:21.960 ever do want to stop their nuclear weapon, you have to go in now. That obviously persuaded
00:25:25.380 President Trump. But part of the argument there was, we got to stop them there right now because
00:25:30.260 otherwise they're going to come attack us. And right now we're not that vulnerable. But that's
00:25:33.380 not true because we're a global empire. So we have interests and we have troops and assets
00:25:37.560 all over the world in that region. They can inflict very serious harm on us. And they're
00:25:42.700 going after Besant right now. So there is a little silver lining, I think, in the fact that Iran is 1.00
00:25:47.260 really focusing its efforts on Scott Besant because Besant is running the economic warfare
00:25:53.020 against Iran. And the economic warfare can inflict very serious pain on Iran. Even that carries some
00:25:59.440 danger for the United States because Iran can retaliate and try to strike ships that are getting
00:26:03.340 through the Strait of Hormuz or can strike different American assets and bases all around
00:26:07.440 the Gulf. So they can do that. But the fact that Iran feels that the greatest threat to the regime 0.51
00:26:13.800 right now is in the Treasury Department is, to me, a sign that the economic warfare against the
00:26:19.540 Iranian regime is working. And a few points, just to counter some of the hawks here, the hawks who
00:26:27.280 initially they told us, oh, it'll be really, really quick. We'll drop some bombs. It'll be 0.52
00:26:30.780 very easy. It won't disrupt the energy markets too much, and then we'll be all done. And then
00:26:34.680 as the war dragged on, they said, well, we need to drop more bombs in different places, and we need
00:26:37.820 to more severely disrupt the energy markets. But don't worry, we're not going to push for regime
00:26:41.840 change. Now the hawks are telling us, actually, we need regime change. So they keep just moving
00:26:45.760 the goalposts. But they say, if we just move the goalpost one more time, then it's all going to
00:26:49.880 wrap up really, really quickly. I see no reason to believe that. Frankly, even if we did destroy
00:26:54.080 the Iranian regime, I see no reason to believe that that would not further embroil us in a 0.99
00:26:58.620 potentially even more dangerous quagmire in the Middle East. Because who's going to run Iran? 1.00
00:27:03.340 Who's the backup? Do we have any sense of that? I don't think so. And the Warhawk's predictions 0.63
00:27:08.420 have been totally wrong the entire time. So President Trump's strategy right now seems to be
00:27:13.980 just keep up the economic pressure. And the Warhawks are saying, well, if you are a Republican,
00:27:19.140 probably the most prominent voice for restraint, at least according to the reporting,
00:27:23.140 has been Vice President J.D. Vance. And I think that he has been totally vindicated on this.
00:27:27.940 If that is the case, what the Warhawks say is this is a betrayal of the Reagan principle of
00:27:33.840 peace through strength, the great strong American foreign policy that toppled the Soviet Union and
00:27:40.920 won the Cold War. Hold on, let's zoom in on Ronald Reagan's foreign policy because it's the
00:27:46.860 war hawks who most want to claim the mantle of Ronald Reagan here. Well, okay, what did Ronald
00:27:51.440 Reagan do when the Iranians through Hezbollah killed over 200 US troops in Beirut? Remember 0.94
00:27:58.780 that? People kind of memory hole that one. What was the response of Ronald Reagan, cowboy tough
00:28:05.680 peace through strength Ronald Reagan when Iran, through its proxy, actually killed over 200 US
00:28:11.820 troops. Did he go in and glass the country and bomb Karg Island and invade and topple the regime?
00:28:17.600 No. He withdrew from Lebanon. Very uncomfortable fact for the war hawks who would claim the mantle
00:28:25.660 of Ronald Reagan. Let's go further. Ronald Reagan won the Cold War. This is the total vindication of
00:28:32.800 the peace through strength policy. How did he win the Cold War? Did he win it by invading the
00:28:38.200 Soviet Union? Did he win it through kinetic military action? No, quite the opposite. He won 0.53
00:28:46.320 it through economic warfare by just running up the budget on the Soviets and defeating them 0.91
00:28:52.100 economically. In other words, exactly what President Trump and Scott Besson and the voices
00:28:57.880 who are urging more restraint on military action in Iran are doing.
00:29:02.100 So there's a kind of irony here.
00:29:03.620 And I haven't heard the Hawks respond to it, which is, okay, you made a bunch of predictions
00:29:08.700 about the Iran war.
00:29:09.760 Some of us said at the time that that probably wasn't going to turn out to be true.
00:29:13.260 You were proven wrong.
00:29:15.520 But now you're saying that regardless, we need to pursue this belligerent policy because
00:29:20.860 that's what Ronald Reagan would have done.
00:29:22.600 Reagan did the opposite, including specifically against the Iranians.
00:29:27.880 So what's your response to that? Right now, if President Trump and Besson and the Vice President
00:29:33.920 and according to some reporting, other people within the administration, according to the
00:29:37.140 reporting, John Ratcliffe at the CIA, Marco Rubio at State, were also urging restraint on Iran,
00:29:41.240 but let's just focus on right now. If all those voices who either were always advocating restraint
00:29:47.280 or at least have been convinced of restraint since the midterm blowout, if we're now claiming
00:29:54.660 the mantle of ronald reagan who's actually who's actually affecting the policies that ronald reagan
00:29:59.540 successfully used to defeat our adversaries seems to me it's the guy it's not the hawks it's the
00:30:04.440 guys who are urging a little more restraint okay let's turn to the domestic side of this war
00:30:08.220 we now have congress week after the midterms already trying to impeach not trump they don't
00:30:14.720 have the juice for that but they're trying to impeach pete hegseth but we don't actually have
00:30:18.620 the democrats running congress yet they don't take office until january so that was led by a republican
00:30:23.120 or a quasi-Republican or a former Republican, or he's a libertarian. So they're, you know,
00:30:27.480 libertarians, not totally trustworthy when it comes to rock-ribbed conservatism.
00:30:32.500 It's Thomas Massey who tried to impeach Pete Hegseth. There was a lot of chatter on Capitol
00:30:36.780 Hill that it would succeed. Pete Hegseth survived. The Republican-led House, still Republican-led as
00:30:43.820 of today, rejected the effort. The vote was 2-11 to 2-04. Massey went down swinging.
00:30:49.900 very very weak stuff here from the libs the the case against pete hegseth was totally absurd we
00:30:57.900 went through the articles of impeachment yesterday it was just a total joke i mean say what you will
00:31:02.300 i've enjoyed a lot of what massey's done in his career his recent turn has been unfortunate and
00:31:07.300 now he's palling around with libs like roe connor and you're waiting for him to put the pink hat on
00:31:11.420 but there was a lot of good stuff that massey did earlier on in his career
00:31:15.220 now he files this stuff this is just a total joke i don't care if you're still a hundred percent
00:31:20.640 massey stan i don't care if you're a hardcore libertarian or you hate trump or whatever
00:31:25.220 or if you're all of those things those articles of impeachment were totally a joke they were
00:31:30.620 ridiculous on the face and even if you thought they were legitimate you wouldn't file them
00:31:34.580 against hegseth you'd file them against trump but massey knew he didn't have the juice to get trump 0.87
00:31:39.040 so this is a win this is a big win and again i was a doomer going into the midterms and i caught a
00:31:46.040 lot of flack for it including from some of you some of you wonderful listeners out there were
00:31:50.040 very angry with me for being a doomer in the lead up to the midterms but hate to say hate to say i
00:31:54.940 told you so there but now i'm one of the more hopeful people coming out of it because you have
00:31:58.820 these people talking about how the republican party is dead forever how republicans shouldn't
00:32:02.360 even run for president in 2028 because we're going to get totally blown out of the water
00:32:06.900 The closest historical analogy to the 2026 midterms was the 1994 midterms when Republicans won more seats in the House than the Democrats won this year.
00:32:15.400 And guess what happened two years later?
00:32:16.920 Bill Clinton wins a major victory for president.
00:32:19.400 The Democrats were doing just fine.
00:32:21.220 Democrats were not destroyed nationally.
00:32:22.640 They won a big presidential election two years later.
00:32:24.880 So a week after the midterms that were centered largely on the Iran war,
00:32:31.800 the head of the Pentagon, who's taken a lot of the blame for the Iran war,
00:32:36.260 is put up for impeachment, and the impeachment goes down.
00:32:40.020 Little sliver of hope there for the Republicans.
00:32:42.540 And I think that hope could grow depending on how the Democrats play their cards.
00:32:46.280 Meanwhile, also in the House of Representatives, they've had leadership elections,
00:32:49.780 and the new minority leader of the House is Jim Jordan.
00:32:54.880 who I love. I love Jim Jordan. I think he's a great guy. And I think he's a good pick for the
00:32:58.300 House minority leader. So when you're in the majority, there are two big leaders. I mean,
00:33:03.120 there are a number of leadership roles, but the two big ones are Speaker of the House and
00:33:08.360 Majority Leader. When you're in the minority, you don't get a speaker. So Mike Johnson has said,
00:33:14.820 when he's in the minority, he is not going to be leading the party.
00:33:18.240 This opened up an election for minority leaders. Steve Scalise wanted it too.
00:33:22.700 Steve Scalise, who was an early victim of left-wing political violence.
00:33:26.860 A Bernie bro nearly murdered him during the congressional baseball game, but he survived,
00:33:30.240 thank God.
00:33:31.360 Steve Scalise has been in leadership for a long time.
00:33:33.520 Jim Jordan has been a leading voice in the House for a long time, but he's never really
00:33:36.740 been in leadership.
00:33:38.140 And I think he's great for this role, not just because I really like Jim Jordan personally,
00:33:42.940 but also because, think about what Jim Jordan is most famous for.
00:33:47.420 People want the House to do a lot more than it can do.
00:33:49.660 They want the House to prosecute people.
00:33:51.340 they want the house to deport people they want the house to have more teeth than the house
00:33:56.000 actually has basically what the house has is a microphone in theory they can pass laws but the
00:34:03.000 congress doesn't even really do that in recent years and decades so really what the house can
00:34:07.980 do is just speak into a microphone and call attention to issues and grill democrats and help
00:34:14.480 sway voters when it comes to other races especially the presidential election
00:34:19.160 jim jordan is as good at that as anybody he might be the top dog in the house for grilling
00:34:26.200 the democrats he's really good at embarrassing them at getting those great clips at at putting
00:34:32.560 them into a corner and so that is essentially the job of the house minority leader is to obstruct
00:34:37.940 and embarrass the opposition to obstruct and embarrass the democrats jim jordan is great at
00:34:44.480 that. I think this is a really good pick. So congrats to Jim. Though I said, there have been
00:34:49.340 different times when Jim was up for speaker or when Republicans were in the majority. And I said,
00:34:53.100 I hope he doesn't get it because I like him. And that's the worst job in all of politics.
00:34:58.080 So I felt with Mike Johnson. I really, really like Mike Johnson. He had the worst job. He did
00:35:01.880 a good job with it. He had the worst job in all of politics. I'd rather probably clean out the
00:35:07.720 bathrooms in the Smithsonian than have to be the Republican Speaker of the House.
00:35:11.900 so in this case uh uh congratulations and my condolences to jim jordan for taking a job that
00:35:18.140 at least in the minority role is is uh a little bit more more pleasant okay speaking of that
00:35:23.500 legislative agenda big worries that president trump in a 60 minutes interview was floating
00:35:27.420 amnesty for illegals after the shellacking in the midterms trump has clarified uh specifically
00:35:36.380 during his press conference with new white house press secretary dana white before we get into
00:35:41.540 that though my favorite comment yesterday from actually madeline who says the seven scariest
00:35:45.340 words in the english language are now this is a family show but so true it used to be ronald
00:35:50.640 reagan said the scariest words in the english language are i'm from the government and i'm here
00:35:55.600 to help that was a good love very famous we've now replaced that the new scariest words are
00:36:02.500 from this program this is a family show but because i try i don't i don't like to go blue
00:36:08.540 I know a lot of people in the podcast media, including on the right, they like to use naughty
00:36:14.180 words. They want to talk about scintillating, obscene, downright pornographic things. I try
00:36:21.080 not to. This is a family show, but it's very hard when all of the news is vulgar and violent and
00:36:27.400 obscene and pornographic. It's hard. We need euphemisms. It's actually a great opportunity
00:36:31.680 to work through our diction, our vocabulary, but it's tough. It's tough to keep it a family show
00:36:39.500 in the big two six. President Trump suggested that he might be open to an amnesty deal with
00:36:46.440 Democrats in the new Congress. This worried a lot of conservatives, myself included. President
00:36:52.820 Trump clears it up in the briefing room. We have a very strong deportation policy. There's no
00:36:59.440 amnesty no no anything we keep that but we focus on the worst of the worst we want to get the
00:37:06.700 murderers out we've gotten most of them out we've gotten most of the really bad you know they they
00:37:12.220 allowed joe biden allowed 100 well uh 25 million people to come in of that 11 888 murderers most
00:37:21.980 of whom committed more than one murder we've gotten most of them we want to get the worst of
00:37:27.180 the worst and then we'll see what happens but they came in illegally many of them have good jobs now
00:37:33.420 they're productive some of them are even paying taxes and we're seeing what's going to happen
00:37:37.940 there won't be amnesty somebody suggested will there be amnesty no but they came in they knew
00:37:43.340 the law and we're working with a lot of different groups to see whether or not but my policy hasn't
00:37:49.580 changed what we are doing is absolutely the worst of the worst we're getting the murderers
00:37:54.820 Okay, so that phrase there, we're getting the worst of the worst, and then we'll see what happens.
00:37:59.660 We'll see what happens is doing a lot of lifting there. So there are a lot of different ways to
00:38:03.640 interpret what Trump is saying. Below that, there are a lot of different ways to interpret what
00:38:09.920 Trump means by what he says. Those are not necessarily the same thing. And then there's
00:38:14.720 the question of, well, what should we do? What is the best policy? So one way to read it,
00:38:19.580 at least from the 60 Minutes interview is, yeah, we're going to cut an amnesty deal with the
00:38:23.860 Democrats. We're going to stop some of the deportations, and then we're going to give
00:38:29.120 some of the illegals citizenship or a pathway to citizenship. Trump says it's not that.
00:38:34.380 Okay, good. Another way to read it is, we are going to slow down on the deportations,
00:38:40.140 and we're going to give legal status to some of the people. Not citizenship,
00:38:44.040 not even a path to citizenship, just a kind of legal status so that the illegals don't
00:38:48.260 need to worry about being deported anymore. I hope it's not that.
00:38:53.860 Trump hasn't explicitly said it's not that.
00:38:55.840 I hope it's not that.
00:38:57.560 Then there is, okay, we're going to focus on the worst of the worst.
00:39:01.200 And then, you know, the face tattooed MS-13 guys.
00:39:04.020 And then we're not going to give legal status to Abuela or the gardener or the waiter or the farm worker or all these different groups that the various industry lobbies are lobbying the government to not deport.
00:39:15.660 We're not going to give them legal status, but we're also not going to go after them.
00:39:19.840 So they're going to live in this kind of indeterminate shadows, and they're going to do
00:39:25.520 that because they did break the law. So we're not going to reward them for breaking the law,
00:39:28.120 but we're not going to specifically punish Abuela. Okay, it could mean that. I would not
00:39:32.100 be surprised if that's what President Trump is saying here. I also hope it doesn't mean that.
00:39:38.880 There is a final thing, which is it could be, okay, we're going to go get the worst of the
00:39:43.320 worst. 85%, 90% of Americans agree we need to go get these people. And then I'm going to leave it
00:39:48.080 ambiguous as to what we're going to do with the rest of the people. We're not going to give them
00:39:51.120 citizenship. We're not going to give them legal status. We're not, I'm not saying that we're not 0.99
00:39:55.280 going to deport them, but I'm kind of implying we're not going to deport them. And Abuela is
00:39:59.400 probably okay. He, he might be saying that with the meaning that they're going to go get Abuela
00:40:08.100 anyway. That's kind of what I'm hoping for. Not because I have anything against Abuela. I'm sure
00:40:13.000 Abuela's really, really nice. But I hope that that is what President Trump means here, because
00:40:18.620 that would be speak softly and carry a big stick. The worst version of the deportation policy would
00:40:23.300 be you deport a small number of people, but you make a big show about deporting all of those
00:40:28.180 people. So you rile up the left and some of the people in the middle, but you don't actually get
00:40:33.180 all the goods out of it, which is getting the millions or tens of millions of illegals out of
00:40:36.940 the country. That's the worst version. And the inverse of that policy is you only talk about 0.97
00:40:42.980 getting the very, very worst people out, the ones that everyone agrees should be out, almost everyone. 0.98
00:40:48.060 But then behind the scenes, you are getting rid of Abuela and all the other illegals who just 1.00
00:40:54.560 should not be here. And it's nothing against them, but they're fraying social solidarity. 1.00
00:40:58.140 They're statistically using a lot of welfare programs. They're making a mockery of our system
00:41:02.100 of law and of our sovereignty. So you got to get them out. And if they want to apply again, they
00:41:05.900 can, but we should also drastically reduce legal immigration as well. Okay. That's what I'm hoping
00:41:11.900 that that means. Because that is speak softly and carry a big stick. And I think that is the
00:41:18.400 best version of this immigration policy. In some places, it's not going to work as well. Like in
00:41:23.640 Minnesota, it's not going to work as well because the Democrats are going to make a big show about
00:41:26.600 everything. They do that all the time. I mean, it is just a psychotically, sociopathically left-wing 0.95
00:41:32.920 state. So they're, they're going to be the epicenter of the George Floyd riots. They're
00:41:37.680 going to be the epicenter of the deportation protests. They're going to, because they're
00:41:41.120 going to gin that up. They're going to make that up for themselves. But in other places,
00:41:44.660 you can kind of quietly send Abuela back to Venezuela or wherever. You can send the farm
00:41:50.940 worker back or whatever. You can send them back. And then the real trick on that one is you're not, 0.99
00:41:55.960 it's not even fighting Democrats. You're going to fight Democrats to deport anybody. You're going
00:41:58.720 to, Chris Van Hollen, the Democrat Senator is going to be weeping and sobbing because his
00:42:02.080 boyfriend, the wife-beating gangbanger, Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, got deported back to his home
00:42:06.560 country. And you're going to have Democrat senators saying, no, please, sweet Kilmar,
00:42:11.180 you can't deport the gangsters. No, I love him. I love him. I know. The heart wants what the heart
00:42:17.120 wants. So you're never going to make them happy. Forget about the Democrats for a second.
00:42:20.780 The people you're going to have to fight if you do the speak softly and carry a big stick strategy,
00:42:25.740 it's the hotel lobby. It's the farm lobby. It's people who are in some ways your own constituency.
00:42:32.080 It's the Chamber of Commerce.
00:42:33.620 It's all, you're going to have to fight those guys,
00:42:35.740 but it is worth fighting those guys
00:42:37.600 because Americans want to fix the migration problem.
00:42:41.740 Not just Americans, but Brits and the French.
00:42:43.940 And this is an issue so pronounced 0.79
00:42:46.540 that it pervades the entirety of our civilization.
00:42:50.320 And the politicians keep not giving them what they want.
00:42:53.280 This would be a big win.
00:42:54.580 It would do more to help Republicans in 2028
00:42:57.760 to deport as many of these people as you can.
00:43:00.340 You're not facing another midterm.
00:43:01.600 President Trump will reach the end of his presidency. Deport them. Try to deport the
00:43:06.800 nice-looking ones quietly. Deport the really mean-looking ones loudly. But you're going to 0.59
00:43:12.880 have to be fighting people within your own tent. And I think you do need to stand strong against
00:43:17.160 those lobbyists. Okay. Really, really bad news for the deportation policy because right now,
00:43:23.660 all of the governors in border states will be democrats in 2027 you got you got mayors of
00:43:31.460 of cities and towns in the border states who are saying that they're not going to cooperate with
00:43:36.080 ice anymore you saw this out of houston big big problem and here's a little tease for tomorrow
00:43:41.960 because we don't have time to get to it you have people making these moral arguments that you need
00:43:46.120 to take in all the migrants that you have to have open borders you have and and sometimes people are
00:43:50.740 pointing to the most prominent religious leader in the world, the Pope, the most prominent religious
00:43:55.580 leader in the world for the last 2,000 years, the Pope. And they're saying, well, Pope Leo is a big
00:43:59.940 lib, and he supports infinity migration, and he doesn't think nations should have borders. And I
00:44:03.860 think a lot of that is unfair, though I understand why some people think it. Pope Leo just came out
00:44:09.080 and gave a major, major signal that he's not a big lib, first of all, and that he is instituting
00:44:18.360 reforms that will help to push out the more left-wing and deforming elements within the
00:44:25.140 Catholic Church. And most people missed this signal. It was just one or two words that sent
00:44:29.740 the signal. We'll get to that tomorrow because I don't have time to get to it today because I'm a
00:44:33.740 tease. It is no longer Woke Wednesday. And Mr. Davies did not even prepare a member segmentum
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00:45:05.240 Father, I used to feel Christ.
00:45:09.500 I cannot feel anything here.
00:45:17.200 They take me out of my bed, and they brought me here, and they tell me nothing.
00:45:27.200 What have I done?
00:45:28.200 Article 58, counter-revolutionary activity.
00:45:31.200 That is all I know.
00:45:33.200 They have to deal with so many enemies of the state, all of whom claim their innocence,
00:45:39.200 who protest, who cry.
00:45:47.960 There are no answers here
00:45:51.700 Other than the ones they put in your mouth.
00:45:53.700 You'll break.
00:45:56.700 Today is your opportunity to demonstrate your loyalty to the people.
00:46:03.700 You'd like to know why I'm here.
00:46:05.700 Of course.
00:46:09.200 But you're already now, don't you?
00:46:10.700 You must believe in something greater than the party.
00:46:14.700 You will remember your duty.
00:46:16.700 I've told you I know nothing.
00:46:18.700 Knee ground like a feral animal. 1.00
00:46:21.700 You stink of failure. 1.00
00:46:23.700 You want me to lie. 1.00
00:46:25.700 Still a drunk! 1.00
00:46:26.700 Damn you! 1.00
00:46:29.700 They all break. 1.00
00:46:33.700 Maybe.
00:46:44.700 You