The Michael Knowles Show - December 18, 2018


Ep. 269 - All I Want For Christmas Is $5 Billion


Episode Stats

Length

42 minutes

Words per Minute

180.43513

Word Count

7,721

Sentence Count

656

Misogynist Sentences

30

Hate Speech Sentences

31


Summary

A government shutdown is on the horizon. President Trump and Chuck Schumer are locked in a stalemate over funding for a border wall, and Democrats are demanding $5 billion in funding for the project. Will the government shut down on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?


Transcript

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00:00:22.000 Nancy, I've been an awfully good boy.
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00:02:31.040 All I want for Christmas is $5 billion and a wall.
00:02:35.820 Is that so much to ask?
00:02:37.380 Is that so much to ask for?
00:02:39.040 Christmas is right around the corner.
00:02:40.340 I've been an awfully good boy, Santa baby.
00:02:42.380 We're looking at a very real possibility
00:02:45.020 of a government shutdown.
00:02:47.600 This is interesting timing for a shutdown.
00:02:50.120 Because everyone is tuned out of the news.
00:02:52.140 Christmas is around the corner.
00:02:53.140 New Year's is around the corner.
00:02:54.320 People aren't doing work.
00:02:55.660 Half of our staff is probably on a beach in Boca right now.
00:02:58.580 And so, you know, this timing isn't the best time
00:03:03.180 to draw attention to the stakes of a shutdown.
00:03:06.540 But it might be the best time to shut it down
00:03:08.480 because people won't really care.
00:03:10.380 You won't catch a lot of political flack.
00:03:12.100 And President Trump might be able to get his wall.
00:03:14.780 That's what this is all about.
00:03:16.960 There have been two distinct responses
00:03:19.260 from the White House about this.
00:03:20.880 As always, you know, the White House
00:03:22.460 is sending different people out on TV.
00:03:24.680 And they have very different tactics on the shutdown.
00:03:28.820 You remember President Trump was arguing
00:03:30.300 with Chuck and Nancy on the best reality television show
00:03:33.480 in the world.
00:03:34.140 And he said to Chuck Schumer,
00:03:36.880 I'll own it.
00:03:37.800 I'll take responsibility for the shutdown.
00:03:39.980 I will shut down the government to protect our border.
00:03:42.840 And Democrats were thrilled because they got Trump to say
00:03:45.280 that he was going to shut down the government.
00:03:47.040 The question is, do you take responsibility for it?
00:03:49.100 Or do you try to say that it's really the Democrats' fault
00:03:51.780 and really the Democrats are shutting down the government?
00:03:54.640 Stephen Miller clearly favors the former approach.
00:03:58.100 Here he is on Face the Nation.
00:03:59.720 I'm going to get to this question of the border wall,
00:04:01.280 which I know you're a huge advocate for.
00:04:03.440 We are about five days from potential government shutdown.
00:04:06.560 And Republican leadership says there's no plan.
00:04:08.780 What is the president's plan?
00:04:10.080 And will he shut it down to get this $5 billion in border wall funding?
00:04:13.680 We're going to do whatever is necessary to build the border wall
00:04:16.760 to stop this ongoing crisis of illegal immigration.
00:04:19.920 And that means to shut down?
00:04:20.720 This is a very, if it comes to it, absolutely.
00:04:23.300 This is a very fundamental issue.
00:04:25.000 At stake is the question of whether or not the United States
00:04:27.380 remains a sovereign country.
00:04:28.980 Whether or not we can establish and enforce rules
00:04:30.660 for entrance into our country.
00:04:32.080 The Democrat Party is a simple choice.
00:04:34.580 They can either choose to fight for America's working class
00:04:37.280 or to promote illegal immigration.
00:04:38.800 You can't do both.
00:04:41.700 Totally comes out swinging this guy,
00:04:44.180 one of the best people in the administration.
00:04:46.380 And he's coming out and saying,
00:04:47.600 yep, we'll shut it down.
00:04:48.840 We own it.
00:04:49.460 That's what's going to happen
00:04:50.300 because we want to protect the border.
00:04:52.980 Now, here is White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders
00:04:56.200 giving the opposite approach.
00:04:59.080 The president wants $5 billion.
00:05:00.540 Would he take $2.5 billion?
00:05:02.640 Would that be an acceptable number?
00:05:03.980 We would take,
00:05:05.900 we have other ways that we can get to that $5 billion
00:05:08.920 that we will work with Congress
00:05:11.460 if they will make sure that we get a bill passed
00:05:13.900 that provides not just the funding for the wall,
00:05:16.380 but there's a piece of legislation
00:05:18.280 that's been pushed around
00:05:19.940 that Democrats actually voted 26 to 5 out of committee
00:05:24.500 that provides 26,
00:05:26.640 roughly $26 billion in border security,
00:05:29.300 including $1.6 billion for the wall.
00:05:31.540 Now, that's something that we would be able to support
00:05:34.980 as long as we can couple that
00:05:36.360 with other funding resources
00:05:37.800 that would help us get to the $5 billion.
00:05:40.320 So you see there when Stephen Miller is on the show,
00:05:42.820 he says, I'm not going to negotiate.
00:05:44.700 I'm not going to try to figure out
00:05:46.460 this negotiation on live television.
00:05:48.980 We're going to get the money
00:05:50.020 or we're shutting down the government.
00:05:51.440 Sarah Sanders goes on TV and says,
00:05:52.940 well, you know, there are other ways
00:05:55.000 to get the money for the wall.
00:05:56.520 And well, maybe we don't need
00:05:58.080 to shut down the government.
00:05:59.360 Well, I'm not so sure.
00:06:00.480 We'll see what happens.
00:06:01.540 And then Kellyanne Conway,
00:06:02.960 a senior advisor to the president,
00:06:04.520 gives the clearest version of this,
00:06:08.060 which is she says,
00:06:08.900 we do not want to shut down
00:06:10.380 the government on Lou Dobbs.
00:06:12.260 Well, with the ultimate dealmaker
00:06:13.460 in the Oval Office, Lou,
00:06:14.920 I believe that there is a much better chance
00:06:16.980 of getting a deal than not.
00:06:18.100 But look, the president wants
00:06:19.040 to keep the government open.
00:06:20.720 He just doesn't want the borders
00:06:21.680 to remain open the way they are.
00:06:23.560 He wants there to be full funding
00:06:26.220 for the government,
00:06:26.760 but that funding must include
00:06:28.480 adequate funding for border security.
00:06:30.180 I don't know if he can be
00:06:31.240 any more clear on this issue.
00:06:33.100 And I don't know if we can see
00:06:34.380 any more excerpts from Democrats
00:06:35.800 in the past who voted
00:06:37.240 for Secure Fences Act in 2006,
00:06:39.420 including Hillary Clinton,
00:06:40.440 Barack Obama, Joe Biden,
00:06:42.320 Chuck Schumer,
00:06:42.960 and the whole lot of them.
00:06:44.100 You mentioned that.
00:06:44.660 And then, of course,
00:06:45.080 you've seen all the video clips
00:06:46.160 of them supporting borders
00:06:48.060 and security before.
00:06:49.560 So they need to come up
00:06:50.480 and vote.
00:06:51.360 The president doesn't want
00:06:53.320 to shut down the government.
00:06:54.980 He couldn't be more clear.
00:06:56.180 Now, of course,
00:06:56.620 the president did say,
00:06:57.560 I will own the government shutdown.
00:06:58.820 I will shut down the government.
00:07:00.040 He said it in the Oval Office.
00:07:01.540 Stephen Miller said
00:07:02.280 just about the same thing.
00:07:03.340 But what Sarah Sanders
00:07:04.780 and Kellyanne Conway are doing
00:07:06.100 is taking the much more
00:07:07.360 traditional approach,
00:07:08.600 which has been the longstanding
00:07:10.520 conventional wisdom,
00:07:11.400 which is you don't want
00:07:12.820 to bear responsibility
00:07:14.260 for a government shutdown.
00:07:16.020 Voters will punish you for that.
00:07:17.340 It won't do you well
00:07:18.740 at the ballot box
00:07:19.460 in the next elections.
00:07:20.400 What President Trump
00:07:21.660 and Stephen Miller are doing
00:07:22.860 is taking the new Trumpian,
00:07:25.340 more assertive,
00:07:26.440 more masculine approach,
00:07:27.740 which is,
00:07:28.360 yup, you're darn tootin'
00:07:30.120 that we're going to shut down
00:07:30.880 the government
00:07:31.320 and we're going to do it
00:07:32.940 for a good reason
00:07:33.640 and you should be thrilled
00:07:34.660 that we're going to do it.
00:07:35.940 I favor that approach.
00:07:37.740 I think that is the right approach.
00:07:38.980 I think the conventional wisdom
00:07:40.180 is wrong.
00:07:41.460 I think people,
00:07:42.360 especially in this political moment,
00:07:44.260 don't want to hear
00:07:45.320 mealy-mouthed people,
00:07:46.640 don't want to hear about
00:07:47.700 how we want to have conciliation
00:07:49.420 with Democrats
00:07:50.480 who are advocating
00:07:51.220 for open borders.
00:07:52.100 We really want to keep
00:07:53.360 the government open.
00:07:54.280 Shut it down.
00:07:54.800 Who cares?
00:07:55.700 Most of the government
00:07:56.440 is already funded.
00:07:57.680 People are forgetting
00:07:58.260 this isn't a total
00:07:59.220 government shutdown.
00:08:00.560 Most of the government
00:08:01.340 is funded.
00:08:02.100 There are a few departments,
00:08:04.000 Department of Homeland Security,
00:08:05.540 Justice,
00:08:06.140 I think State Department
00:08:06.820 still needs some funding,
00:08:08.060 so those areas
00:08:09.460 may have a partial shutdown.
00:08:10.960 Okay, fine.
00:08:12.020 Who cares?
00:08:13.360 So what?
00:08:13.880 Essential employees
00:08:14.680 will remain on the dole.
00:08:16.360 They will remain on the job.
00:08:18.380 They will keep working.
00:08:19.540 And non-essential employees
00:08:21.000 won't be working for now.
00:08:22.620 They'll ultimately be backpaid.
00:08:24.720 And we can make a point
00:08:26.140 to get the wall.
00:08:27.680 I mean,
00:08:27.840 this is a big winning issue.
00:08:30.220 The reason I favor this Trump
00:08:31.940 and Stephen Miller approach,
00:08:34.680 one is I don't think voters
00:08:36.160 actually punish politicians
00:08:37.920 for shutting down the government.
00:08:39.240 We had a big government shutdown
00:08:40.480 in 2013,
00:08:41.340 and then Republicans
00:08:42.300 took the Senate in 2014.
00:08:44.260 They blamed the Republicans
00:08:45.640 in 2013.
00:08:46.320 A year later,
00:08:46.820 they win the Senate.
00:08:48.040 I don't see evidence of that
00:08:50.100 throughout recent history,
00:08:51.920 but this is the approach
00:08:53.940 that Ronald Reagan took.
00:08:55.060 There was a famous moment
00:08:56.320 during the Reagan presidency
00:08:57.820 where the air traffic controllers,
00:08:59.840 federal workers,
00:09:01.020 decided that they were
00:09:01.800 going to go on strike.
00:09:02.860 And this was illegal.
00:09:03.840 It was illegal for these guys
00:09:05.020 to go on strike.
00:09:06.060 It disrupted the nation's airways.
00:09:08.440 It disrupted a lot of travel.
00:09:10.160 And they're federal employees.
00:09:11.380 They're not allowed to do that.
00:09:12.320 They went on strike anyway
00:09:14.040 after a long time negotiating
00:09:15.700 with the government.
00:09:16.500 Everyone thought Reagan
00:09:17.400 was going to cave.
00:09:18.480 Well, you know, Nancy,
00:09:19.560 we want to keep everybody
00:09:20.640 on the job,
00:09:21.460 but well, well, you know,
00:09:22.680 he didn't do that at all.
00:09:24.100 Ronald Reagan stood firm.
00:09:25.460 He gave exactly the same approach
00:09:26.900 to great effect.
00:09:29.100 It is for this reason
00:09:30.340 that I must tell those
00:09:32.100 who fail to report for duty
00:09:33.460 this morning,
00:09:35.040 they are in violation of the law.
00:09:37.660 And if they do not report
00:09:39.200 for work within 48 hours,
00:09:40.920 they have forfeited their jobs
00:09:43.040 and will be terminated.
00:09:44.880 Why not some lesser action?
00:09:50.620 What lesser action can there be?
00:09:53.360 The law is very explicit.
00:09:56.000 They are violating the law.
00:09:58.780 And as I say,
00:10:00.020 we call this to the attention
00:10:01.820 of their leadership,
00:10:02.760 whether this was conveyed
00:10:03.780 to the membership
00:10:04.380 before they voted to strike,
00:10:05.780 I don't know.
00:10:07.340 But this is one of the reasons
00:10:08.980 why there could be
00:10:09.540 no further negotiation
00:10:10.720 while this situation continues.
00:10:14.720 Classic Reagan.
00:10:15.580 And this is where
00:10:16.020 that great acting training
00:10:17.400 that Reagan had came into play,
00:10:19.060 where the reporter says,
00:10:20.120 isn't there some lesser action
00:10:21.200 you can undertake?
00:10:22.700 What lesser action can there be?
00:10:25.120 They violated the law.
00:10:26.340 And he was absolutely right.
00:10:27.520 They're violating the law.
00:10:28.660 They forfeit their jobs.
00:10:30.120 They will be terminated.
00:10:31.260 That was the right approach.
00:10:32.360 It broke that union
00:10:33.360 as it should have.
00:10:34.280 It certainly should have
00:10:35.240 broken the federal union.
00:10:36.540 He stood firm and he won.
00:10:37.680 This is a winning issue
00:10:38.760 for Republicans.
00:10:39.840 CBS poll shows 51% of Americans,
00:10:42.040 the majority of Americans,
00:10:43.100 want a border wall.
00:10:45.020 Think about that.
00:10:45.920 They mocked us for years
00:10:47.100 about the border wall on the left.
00:10:48.720 The majority of Americans,
00:10:49.860 according to CBS, want it.
00:10:51.280 54%, according to a Harris poll,
00:10:53.560 a Harvard poll rather,
00:10:55.220 want an electronic
00:10:56.300 and a physical structure,
00:10:57.700 which is to say a wall.
00:10:59.520 There was this terrible story
00:11:00.840 over the weekend
00:11:01.640 of this seven-year-old Guatemalan girl,
00:11:04.700 seven-year-old Guatemalan girl
00:11:06.160 crossing the border illegally
00:11:07.220 with her father.
00:11:08.020 She's apprehended.
00:11:09.120 She dies in custody.
00:11:10.980 And immediately,
00:11:11.920 the left blamed Border Patrol
00:11:13.900 for this, blamed Republicans.
00:11:15.280 There's, of course,
00:11:15.840 no evidence for that.
00:11:16.840 This poor girl's name
00:11:17.560 was Jacqueline Kahl-Makine.
00:11:19.780 She and her father
00:11:20.380 were arrested.
00:11:21.420 She started vomiting
00:11:22.500 pretty quickly.
00:11:23.560 She was immediately airlifted
00:11:25.620 by the United States government
00:11:26.960 to a hospital
00:11:27.700 in El Paso, Texas.
00:11:29.100 She had 105.9 degree temperature
00:11:31.220 when she got to the station.
00:11:32.680 The agents revived
00:11:34.060 the child twice.
00:11:35.400 They initially thought
00:11:36.000 dehydration.
00:11:36.700 Now, it looks like
00:11:37.160 it was sepsis that did it.
00:11:39.220 The girl's father said
00:11:40.140 that border agents
00:11:40.780 did everything that they could.
00:11:42.520 It's not that he didn't
00:11:43.440 feed her for days.
00:11:44.280 It's that she couldn't eat food.
00:11:46.280 She couldn't drink.
00:11:47.000 She couldn't eat food.
00:11:48.040 They did everything
00:11:48.620 they could to revive her,
00:11:49.600 but she died anyway.
00:11:50.860 What did she die from?
00:11:51.900 She died from illegal immigration.
00:11:53.500 That's what she did.
00:11:54.200 This is the cause.
00:11:55.220 This is the effect
00:11:56.100 of illegal immigration
00:11:56.960 as this seven-year-old girl dies.
00:11:58.580 This is the effect
00:11:59.400 of creating
00:12:00.360 an incentive structure
00:12:01.700 that gets people
00:12:02.800 who are desperate
00:12:03.540 to cross the border illegally,
00:12:05.380 put their whole families
00:12:06.240 at great risk,
00:12:07.380 and die despite
00:12:08.220 all the best medical care
00:12:09.400 in the world,
00:12:09.900 immediate medical care
00:12:10.880 provided by the federal government.
00:12:12.920 We know the Fusion
00:12:13.740 and Amnesty International studies
00:12:15.340 show 60 to 80 percent
00:12:16.740 of young women and girls
00:12:18.000 who cross the border illegally
00:12:19.280 are sexually assaulted
00:12:20.480 or raped.
00:12:21.300 That is the moral argument
00:12:22.480 against illegal immigration,
00:12:24.060 and it's the people
00:12:25.020 who are incentivizing
00:12:26.100 this awful system
00:12:27.060 that have to take responsibility
00:12:28.480 for this strategy,
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00:14:02.980 So speaking of things
00:14:04.400 shutting down,
00:14:05.100 the federal government
00:14:05.760 may shut down,
00:14:06.820 the Trump Foundation
00:14:07.500 has officially shut down.
00:14:09.680 This,
00:14:10.020 the left is so excited
00:14:11.400 about this
00:14:11.900 and it's because
00:14:13.180 they've never looked
00:14:14.340 in a mirror.
00:14:15.160 It's because I think
00:14:15.920 the left collectively,
00:14:17.020 they don't have any mirrors.
00:14:18.380 So they're really thrilled
00:14:19.560 about the President Trump's
00:14:20.980 charity,
00:14:21.500 the Trump Foundation,
00:14:22.360 shutting down.
00:14:22.840 They don't realize
00:14:23.720 how poorly
00:14:24.340 this reflects on them.
00:14:26.700 It's being shut down
00:14:27.880 over a deal
00:14:29.260 with the New York
00:14:29.880 Attorney General.
00:14:30.840 The whole investigation
00:14:31.640 into the,
00:14:32.400 the,
00:14:32.980 the Trump Foundation
00:14:34.940 is because of the
00:14:35.660 New York Attorney General.
00:14:36.820 The New York AG found,
00:14:38.380 quote,
00:14:39.200 a shocking
00:14:40.320 pattern of illegality
00:14:42.220 and
00:14:43.340 they said that
00:14:44.960 the Foundation's
00:14:45.960 decision to shut down
00:14:46.820 was, quote,
00:14:47.660 an important victory
00:14:49.220 for the rule of law.
00:14:51.220 Yes,
00:14:51.580 this Democrat
00:14:52.780 New York Attorney General.
00:14:53.920 She got her scalp
00:14:54.900 that, you know,
00:14:55.880 if the federal government
00:14:56.800 won't overturn
00:14:57.740 the 2016 election
00:14:58.800 and take down Trump,
00:14:59.900 the New York
00:15:00.660 corrupt politicians
00:15:01.880 will.
00:15:02.820 And, okay, fine,
00:15:03.580 they're trying to get Trump.
00:15:04.960 What is missing
00:15:06.060 in this story,
00:15:06.720 what they fail to mention,
00:15:07.860 is that President Trump
00:15:08.920 tried to shut down
00:15:09.720 this foundation
00:15:10.360 two years ago.
00:15:12.280 Actually,
00:15:12.680 the only reason
00:15:13.260 he didn't shut it down
00:15:14.300 two years ago
00:15:14.940 is because the AG
00:15:16.440 was dragging it out
00:15:17.580 for this investigation
00:15:18.460 to try to embarrass Trump.
00:15:20.840 Now, the AG says,
00:15:21.700 yes, in 2018,
00:15:22.800 we've got Trump
00:15:23.920 to shut down
00:15:24.520 his foundation.
00:15:27.040 No, what you did
00:15:27.760 is you got it
00:15:28.240 to take two years
00:15:28.860 longer than it should have.
00:15:30.120 The reason that
00:15:30.880 they're shutting it down
00:15:31.780 is that they found
00:15:32.640 that the foundation
00:15:33.380 used some funds
00:15:34.740 for business interests
00:15:36.080 and one claim
00:15:37.860 is that they illegally,
00:15:39.520 or they misused funds
00:15:40.940 because the foundation
00:15:42.480 settled claims
00:15:44.200 against the foundation,
00:15:45.340 which is perfectly reasonable.
00:15:47.800 That's perfectly,
00:15:48.480 that's not a misuse of funds.
00:15:49.940 That's not legitimate.
00:15:50.940 Now, they're saying
00:15:51.460 they used foundation funds
00:15:53.420 to resolve disputes
00:15:55.220 against the Trump organization,
00:15:56.700 against the business.
00:15:57.960 Okay, maybe they did,
00:15:59.120 maybe they didn't.
00:15:59.900 I don't really know.
00:16:01.240 They say that
00:16:02.080 the Trump Foundation
00:16:03.260 promised to donate
00:16:04.440 a lot of money
00:16:05.180 to veterans,
00:16:06.140 but then they only donated
00:16:07.960 a lot of money
00:16:08.720 to veterans.
00:16:10.280 This is actually a claim.
00:16:11.300 You remember in 2016,
00:16:12.400 President Trump,
00:16:12.980 there was a dispute
00:16:14.180 over a debate
00:16:14.940 or a candidate for him
00:16:15.860 and Trump said
00:16:16.580 he would hold a rally
00:16:17.560 and donate the money
00:16:19.340 to veterans' charities.
00:16:20.660 They said,
00:16:21.100 well, he didn't donate money
00:16:22.180 to veterans' charities,
00:16:23.380 but then also,
00:16:24.400 we do know that in 2016,
00:16:25.820 the Trump Foundation
00:16:26.520 donated a ton of money,
00:16:28.160 millions of dollars
00:16:28.880 to veterans' charities.
00:16:30.340 So which is it?
00:16:31.020 They're trying to have it both ways.
00:16:32.500 It's very unclear.
00:16:33.140 Clearly, the foundation
00:16:33.880 donated some money to charity.
00:16:35.500 Was it used improperly?
00:16:37.680 Maybe it was,
00:16:38.560 maybe it wasn't.
00:16:40.600 The left has two options here.
00:16:42.400 They can either compare it
00:16:43.800 to the Clinton Foundation
00:16:44.960 and say,
00:16:45.860 see, you have a foundation too.
00:16:48.000 You guys are just as bad
00:16:49.200 as our 2016 presidential candidate.
00:16:52.460 Oh.
00:16:53.060 You guys are just as bad
00:16:54.040 as the Clintons,
00:16:55.180 the most important family
00:16:56.080 in the Democratic.
00:16:56.660 Okay, never mind.
00:16:57.320 Maybe that doesn't work
00:16:58.080 so well for them.
00:16:59.200 The other option
00:17:00.500 is to say,
00:17:01.200 look how corrupt
00:17:01.820 President Trump is
00:17:02.660 and not to draw
00:17:04.300 any comparisons
00:17:05.660 to the Clinton Foundation.
00:17:07.940 Obviously,
00:17:08.440 there is a comparison.
00:17:09.380 There are two
00:17:10.400 political family foundations
00:17:12.180 that maybe misused money
00:17:16.440 in some way.
00:17:17.500 Maybe they didn't.
00:17:18.060 They've had investigations
00:17:18.800 into them.
00:17:19.280 Okay, there's that comparison.
00:17:20.900 But on substantive matters,
00:17:22.320 there's really not much
00:17:23.320 of a comparison
00:17:24.000 between the Trump Foundation
00:17:26.480 and the Clinton Foundation.
00:17:28.060 President Trump,
00:17:29.200 when he was elected,
00:17:30.480 decided to dissolve
00:17:31.760 his foundation.
00:17:33.500 The Clintons,
00:17:34.520 while Bill Clinton
00:17:35.560 was president,
00:17:36.660 created their foundation.
00:17:38.380 President Trump saw
00:17:39.060 there might be
00:17:39.420 a conflict of interest here,
00:17:40.440 dissolves his foundation.
00:17:41.660 The Clintons create one
00:17:43.340 specifically at the end
00:17:44.620 of Bill Clinton's term,
00:17:45.800 1997, I think it was founded,
00:17:47.660 while Hillary is planning
00:17:48.700 a run for the Senate
00:17:49.420 before she becomes
00:17:50.360 Secretary of State,
00:17:51.360 specifically to encourage
00:17:53.100 bribes and corruption
00:17:54.100 in her foundation.
00:17:55.280 Now, why was Trump's
00:17:56.840 foundation's money misused?
00:17:59.060 It looks like it was
00:18:00.140 sloppy mismanagement,
00:18:01.480 basically.
00:18:02.220 I don't see evidence
00:18:03.800 of some grand conspiracy here.
00:18:06.060 Why was the Clintons'
00:18:07.180 money misused?
00:18:08.320 Because of a specific,
00:18:10.140 deceptive campaign
00:18:11.440 to take money
00:18:12.760 from foreign governments
00:18:13.720 in exchange for
00:18:14.440 government favors.
00:18:15.460 The entire thing
00:18:16.360 was set up to solicit bribes.
00:18:18.300 Obviously, the Trump Foundation
00:18:19.240 wasn't set up to solicit bribes.
00:18:20.760 He wasn't in office
00:18:21.440 for the vast majority
00:18:22.860 of the foundation's existence.
00:18:24.880 And then,
00:18:25.320 the main issue here
00:18:26.480 is there's no comparison
00:18:27.700 in the media treatment.
00:18:29.760 How did the media
00:18:30.340 cover the Clinton Foundation?
00:18:32.040 Have they?
00:18:32.460 I don't know.
00:18:32.820 Have they covered
00:18:33.260 the Clinton Foundation?
00:18:34.840 Not very much.
00:18:35.600 And this,
00:18:36.800 they're spiking the football.
00:18:37.800 They're so excited.
00:18:39.340 This is why.
00:18:40.080 We should actually be happy
00:18:40.920 about this media treatment.
00:18:42.360 This is why
00:18:42.980 mainstream media attacks
00:18:44.060 against Trump
00:18:44.620 don't work.
00:18:45.900 This is why
00:18:46.860 conservatives
00:18:48.320 are rallying
00:18:49.360 around this guy.
00:18:50.040 This is why
00:18:50.500 Christians,
00:18:51.600 conservatives,
00:18:52.340 why we're all
00:18:52.980 defending the payments
00:18:54.300 to the porn star.
00:18:55.380 Rightly so defending
00:18:56.340 the payments
00:18:56.740 to the porn star.
00:18:57.700 It's because
00:18:58.340 of the abject hypocrisy here.
00:19:00.840 Because it is so unfair
00:19:02.560 for the media
00:19:03.480 and apparently
00:19:04.920 the federal government
00:19:05.760 and the state governments
00:19:06.660 to go after
00:19:07.620 President Trump
00:19:08.280 for things
00:19:09.440 that they completely
00:19:10.480 let Democrats
00:19:11.240 off the hook for.
00:19:12.800 You know,
00:19:13.240 Marx,
00:19:14.020 I think quoting Engels,
00:19:15.340 said that
00:19:15.940 history repeats itself
00:19:17.600 first as tragedy,
00:19:19.400 then as farce.
00:19:20.700 And that's what
00:19:21.220 we're seeing here.
00:19:22.000 That's what we're seeing
00:19:22.640 playing out
00:19:23.360 in the Trump Foundation.
00:19:24.600 We see the tragedy
00:19:25.860 of the Clinton administration,
00:19:27.540 the tragedy
00:19:28.140 of Hillary Clinton's
00:19:29.340 awful career
00:19:30.520 in public service,
00:19:31.560 all the damage
00:19:32.340 he's done to our country.
00:19:33.420 And then you see it play out
00:19:34.900 in the farce
00:19:35.860 of President Trump.
00:19:37.020 And the thing about farces,
00:19:38.180 we can admit,
00:19:38.860 even supporters
00:19:39.400 of President Trump
00:19:40.160 can admit,
00:19:41.020 a lot of his administration
00:19:42.060 is funny.
00:19:42.840 A lot of it has given us
00:19:45.020 a great joy and laughter.
00:19:46.840 The tweets are funny.
00:19:47.800 Even a lot of the policies
00:19:48.880 that overturn
00:19:49.620 so many Democrat policies
00:19:51.240 are very funny.
00:19:52.400 The farce can be
00:19:53.120 a good thing.
00:19:54.040 It is in some ways
00:19:55.280 born out of the culture
00:19:56.540 that the Clinton
00:19:57.500 administration created.
00:19:58.920 And this is just
00:19:59.520 the funny,
00:20:00.120 good version of that.
00:20:01.160 The left simply
00:20:02.360 can't take that joke.
00:20:04.320 So,
00:20:04.940 moving on from farce,
00:20:07.840 moving on from
00:20:08.420 a happy story,
00:20:09.900 we've got to talk about
00:20:11.220 the most disturbing story
00:20:12.700 in the news,
00:20:14.600 maybe all year.
00:20:16.320 I actually don't know
00:20:17.480 that there's a more
00:20:18.320 disturbing story
00:20:19.200 all year long.
00:20:20.620 There is an 11-year-old boy,
00:20:22.880 Desmond Naples,
00:20:24.600 who has the worst parents
00:20:26.520 in the history
00:20:27.180 of the world.
00:20:28.620 I don't know,
00:20:28.940 maybe not like
00:20:29.580 the history of the world.
00:20:30.740 I mean,
00:20:30.940 some parents have
00:20:32.080 eaten their children
00:20:32.980 before.
00:20:33.700 I don't know.
00:20:34.160 I mean,
00:20:34.320 that might be
00:20:34.760 slightly worse.
00:20:35.540 This is pretty bad,
00:20:36.380 though.
00:20:36.960 On December 1st,
00:20:38.540 an 11-year-old boy
00:20:39.500 named Desmond Naples
00:20:41.040 dressed up in drag,
00:20:43.500 went to a gay bar
00:20:44.380 in Brooklyn
00:20:44.860 called the $3 Bill
00:20:46.420 and started dancing
00:20:47.780 on the bar
00:20:48.600 dressed as Gwen Stefani
00:20:50.100 while the adult male patrons
00:20:52.720 threw dollar bills at him.
00:20:55.040 And this was encouraged.
00:20:56.420 This was celebrated.
00:20:57.300 And the bar,
00:20:57.920 by the way,
00:20:58.380 the bar in Brooklyn,
00:21:00.360 the $3 Bill,
00:21:01.680 doesn't allow any cameras,
00:21:03.180 doesn't allow any
00:21:04.040 cell phones in there
00:21:05.820 because obviously
00:21:06.400 they're up to some
00:21:06.880 pretty weird stuff
00:21:07.660 if they're inviting
00:21:08.620 11-year-old drag queens
00:21:09.720 up there and throwing
00:21:10.320 dollar bills at him.
00:21:11.540 I'm not going to play
00:21:12.560 the video of this,
00:21:13.480 obviously,
00:21:14.260 because I assume
00:21:15.100 that's illegal.
00:21:15.800 I assume it's so bizarre
00:21:18.520 that I don't want,
00:21:19.400 I mean,
00:21:19.700 actually,
00:21:20.540 frankly,
00:21:21.220 given the current state
00:21:22.720 of social media
00:21:23.400 and conservative discourse,
00:21:24.860 they'd probably let
00:21:25.680 that video stay up.
00:21:26.940 That one would do
00:21:27.600 just fine on Facebook
00:21:28.480 and Twitter and YouTube,
00:21:29.500 but if I start talking
00:21:30.440 about the traditional
00:21:31.080 definition of marriage,
00:21:32.040 they'll shut me down,
00:21:33.140 say it's hate speech,
00:21:34.120 it's awful,
00:21:34.500 it should be illegal.
00:21:35.640 What I will play,
00:21:36.600 though,
00:21:36.840 is the treatment
00:21:37.920 of this story
00:21:39.360 in the mainstream media
00:21:40.580 because the treatment
00:21:41.840 by major outlets
00:21:43.500 like the Today Show
00:21:44.420 is probably just as disturbing
00:21:46.480 as the video itself.
00:21:48.140 Desmond Napolis
00:21:48.860 is smart,
00:21:49.960 self-assured,
00:21:50.780 talented,
00:21:51.160 he loves to dress up
00:21:52.380 and work the runway
00:21:53.560 in drag
00:21:54.280 with dramatic makeup,
00:21:55.380 but only if his homework
00:21:57.380 is done.
00:21:58.320 That's because Desmond
00:21:59.100 is just 10 years old,
00:22:00.720 but he's already
00:22:01.360 a social media star
00:22:02.880 and he says
00:22:03.440 he wants to use
00:22:04.500 his platform
00:22:05.100 to inspire other kids
00:22:06.400 to love and accept themselves.
00:22:11.380 Sunday in the park
00:22:12.560 with 10-year-old
00:22:13.300 Desmond Napolis.
00:22:14.620 This is one of his
00:22:15.480 favorite playgrounds.
00:22:17.040 Desmond is amazing!
00:22:18.260 All right,
00:22:19.500 I'm going to cut it
00:22:20.020 before they actually show
00:22:21.220 the kid on the drag carpet.
00:22:24.120 Isn't that so,
00:22:24.900 isn't it so wonderful?
00:22:26.580 Isn't it just,
00:22:27.280 it's his favorite playground.
00:22:28.700 One of his favorite playgrounds
00:22:30.440 is the playground for children
00:22:31.960 where they play,
00:22:32.800 and then the other one
00:22:34.000 is a highly sexualized runway
00:22:35.960 where old creepy men
00:22:37.480 can leer at him
00:22:38.100 and throw dollar bills at him.
00:22:39.640 Isn't that so nice?
00:22:40.660 Isn't that so sweet?
00:22:41.920 How wonderful.
00:22:42.860 This is the logical conclusion
00:22:45.060 of left-wing tolerance.
00:22:48.440 Tolerance is not a great thing.
00:22:50.640 You know,
00:22:51.280 Bishop Barron was on the,
00:22:53.140 Bishop Barron,
00:22:53.860 who's this Catholic bishop
00:22:55.600 and a social media store,
00:22:57.140 was on Ben Shapiro's
00:22:58.760 Sunday special,
00:23:00.120 and he talked about
00:23:00.880 how tolerance is the virtue
00:23:02.200 of the modern era,
00:23:03.360 but it's not a traditional virtue,
00:23:05.200 it's not a classical virtue,
00:23:06.200 it's not a Christian virtue.
00:23:08.000 We should not be tolerating
00:23:09.660 an 11-year-old
00:23:10.680 dressed up in drag
00:23:11.660 dancing on a bar
00:23:12.480 while adult men
00:23:13.600 throw dollar bills.
00:23:14.400 That's not something
00:23:14.980 we should tolerate.
00:23:15.940 There's nothing good about that,
00:23:17.100 there's nothing compassionate.
00:23:18.260 About tolerating that.
00:23:20.200 What's really bizarre,
00:23:23.000 well,
00:23:23.300 there are many bizarre aspects
00:23:25.120 to this story,
00:23:26.120 but what's especially bizarre
00:23:27.640 is the Democrat treatment
00:23:29.520 of sex.
00:23:31.100 Because it's calling
00:23:32.640 into light
00:23:33.660 this essential lie
00:23:37.080 at the center
00:23:37.620 of the left-wing treatment
00:23:38.840 of sex,
00:23:39.600 which is that we should
00:23:40.700 affirm exotic sexuality
00:23:42.880 at all times
00:23:44.340 at all ages.
00:23:45.700 Not just the 35-year-old
00:23:47.740 gay guy
00:23:48.220 who lives in the village,
00:23:49.340 not just the adult drag queen,
00:23:51.880 but for teenagers,
00:23:53.140 for young teenagers,
00:23:54.560 for children.
00:23:56.300 You know,
00:23:56.740 Owen Benjamin,
00:23:57.600 the conservative comedian,
00:23:58.660 was kicked off
00:23:59.580 of social media
00:24:00.720 because he said
00:24:02.180 that parents
00:24:02.940 should not be allowed
00:24:03.640 to shoot their
00:24:04.400 toddlers full of hormones
00:24:06.200 to make them resemble
00:24:07.140 the opposite sex.
00:24:08.460 He said it's a bad idea
00:24:09.680 to castrate your children,
00:24:10.920 and he was booted off
00:24:12.800 of social media
00:24:13.420 for being a hater.
00:24:15.040 But that's what
00:24:15.580 it's come to now.
00:24:17.240 We're now,
00:24:17.980 they talk about
00:24:19.160 how at all stages now,
00:24:21.180 including a 10-year-old,
00:24:22.160 11-year-old kid
00:24:22.940 who is being totally exploited
00:24:24.460 by his horrific parents
00:24:25.660 that,
00:24:27.160 and, you know,
00:24:28.000 he's got a website up
00:24:29.220 and he's going on television.
00:24:31.880 We should totally affirm
00:24:33.460 all of this provocative,
00:24:35.880 bizarre sexual behavior.
00:24:37.540 But then,
00:24:38.020 on the other hand,
00:24:38.700 the left tells us
00:24:39.500 that the most important thing
00:24:40.900 in the world is consent.
00:24:43.140 Nothing,
00:24:43.520 everything about sex is fine
00:24:44.680 except it has to be consensual.
00:24:46.480 It has to be so consensual
00:24:47.660 that every single step
00:24:48.960 of the way,
00:24:49.580 you need to sign
00:24:50.240 a written form
00:24:50.900 that says,
00:24:51.400 I consent to do this.
00:24:52.480 I can be kissed.
00:24:53.500 I can be touched.
00:24:54.420 I can be hugged.
00:24:55.340 I can do this.
00:24:56.260 I can do that.
00:24:57.000 We're so focused on consent
00:24:58.640 that Baby It's Cold Outside
00:25:00.180 is being banned
00:25:00.920 from radio stations
00:25:01.920 because they think
00:25:03.300 that the song,
00:25:04.040 well, one,
00:25:04.420 because they completely
00:25:05.260 misunderstand
00:25:05.680 what that song is about,
00:25:06.860 but because that they think
00:25:07.840 that the literal words
00:25:08.900 in a couple of the verses
00:25:10.100 imply that there isn't
00:25:12.180 100% consent.
00:25:14.020 They say it's all about consent.
00:25:15.580 That's the main aspect
00:25:16.680 of sexual relations
00:25:18.780 between people.
00:25:20.120 And also,
00:25:21.100 young children should be able
00:25:22.380 to explore whatever sexuality
00:25:23.640 they want.
00:25:24.660 Young children are not capable
00:25:26.300 of giving consent.
00:25:27.940 This is why we have
00:25:28.560 statutory rape laws.
00:25:30.040 This is why we have
00:25:31.860 the age of consent.
00:25:33.380 Now,
00:25:33.720 is the age of consent
00:25:34.720 17 or 18 or 16,
00:25:37.440 depending on the state?
00:25:39.000 Maybe.
00:25:39.620 I don't know.
00:25:40.320 Can you give consent
00:25:40.940 when you're 15?
00:25:41.660 I don't know.
00:25:42.000 Maybe you can.
00:25:42.600 You certainly can't give consent
00:25:43.660 when you're 11.
00:25:45.280 We know that that's the case.
00:25:46.700 And the left is caught up
00:25:47.940 in this because they want
00:25:48.820 to affirm.
00:25:49.660 They want to make an idol
00:25:50.980 out of sexual bizarreness.
00:25:54.420 They want to make an idol
00:25:55.440 out of exotic sexual behaviors.
00:25:58.040 But they also have made an idol
00:25:59.700 out of consent,
00:26:00.880 clinical consent.
00:26:02.120 The two can't go together.
00:26:03.320 They're totally in conflict.
00:26:05.080 And they're in conflict
00:26:06.260 on this transgender issue
00:26:07.860 just as much as transgenderism
00:26:10.780 and feminism are in conflict.
00:26:13.140 This is one of the most
00:26:15.040 enjoyable parts
00:26:17.000 in a sort of schadenfreude way
00:26:19.060 of looking at the left right now
00:26:20.980 is the left by embracing
00:26:22.200 intersectionality.
00:26:23.740 The idea that all of these
00:26:25.400 disparate groups
00:26:26.220 who might disagree with each other
00:26:27.560 or have different interests
00:26:28.600 but they can band together
00:26:30.140 to oppose the straight white male
00:26:32.760 who thinks that he's a male.
00:26:34.740 Because of intersectionality
00:26:36.060 you have the feminists
00:26:37.660 and the transgenderist movement
00:26:39.780 butted up together.
00:26:42.280 But they make opposite claims.
00:26:43.900 On the one hand,
00:26:44.700 feminism talks about women as women.
00:26:47.100 Women as different from men.
00:26:49.180 Women as having different interests
00:26:50.560 than men.
00:26:51.360 Women as having been oppressed
00:26:53.280 by men over time.
00:26:54.480 And then the transgenderist ideology says,
00:26:56.700 oh, there's really no such thing
00:26:58.000 as women and men.
00:26:59.100 Men can be women.
00:27:00.040 Women can be men.
00:27:00.700 There's no such thing
00:27:01.360 as an innate sexual difference
00:27:03.200 or a fundamental sexual difference at all.
00:27:05.500 This came out most hilariously
00:27:07.140 in the Miss Universe pageant
00:27:09.220 over the weekend.
00:27:10.000 In Miss Universe,
00:27:11.500 a man almost became
00:27:13.500 the Miss Universe.
00:27:15.120 I would love
00:27:16.200 if I could be a fly on the wall
00:27:18.020 of feminists now
00:27:18.840 who are so confused.
00:27:19.940 Say, oh, this is great
00:27:20.840 because we're affirming
00:27:21.740 sexual as well.
00:27:24.460 But it's a man.
00:27:25.200 But a man in a bikini
00:27:26.680 and that's a good...
00:27:28.160 Women in bikinis are bad.
00:27:29.180 Men in bikinis are good.
00:27:30.660 Here is a little bit
00:27:32.240 of the coverage
00:27:32.720 of Miss Universe.
00:27:34.140 And we are back now
00:27:35.120 with that groundbreaking night
00:27:36.420 at the Miss Universe pageant.
00:27:37.920 Miss Spain making history
00:27:39.260 just by being there
00:27:40.800 and Miss Philippines
00:27:41.600 winning the crown.
00:27:42.620 Lara's got all the details.
00:27:44.120 Good morning.
00:27:44.600 Good morning to you all.
00:27:45.900 Yes, it was quite a night.
00:27:47.040 Lots of pomp and pageantry.
00:27:48.140 A few stumbles
00:27:50.100 along the way as well.
00:27:52.740 But it was also
00:27:54.180 a night of first.
00:27:55.160 The first all-female
00:27:56.000 judging panel
00:27:56.660 as well as the first
00:27:57.940 transgender contestant.
00:28:01.200 Overnight,
00:28:01.960 history made
00:28:02.740 at Miss Universe.
00:28:05.840 Spanish model
00:28:06.780 Angela Ponce
00:28:07.500 becoming the first
00:28:08.860 transgender woman
00:28:09.860 to compete
00:28:10.760 in the 66-year-old pageant.
00:28:13.560 The audience greeting her
00:28:15.400 with a standing O.
00:28:16.620 That is groundbreaking.
00:28:19.040 That is definitely
00:28:20.080 a groundbreaking thing
00:28:22.020 for a dude
00:28:23.000 to become Miss Universe.
00:28:24.500 It is.
00:28:25.120 At the very least,
00:28:26.060 it's groundbreaking.
00:28:27.100 It's completely illogical,
00:28:28.240 but it's groundbreaking.
00:28:29.180 The other aspect
00:28:29.840 of this story
00:28:30.340 that no one is covering
00:28:31.300 is that Donald Trump
00:28:32.900 used to run Miss Universe.
00:28:35.020 And when Trump
00:28:35.760 ran Miss Universe,
00:28:36.840 this was a theme
00:28:37.720 of the 2016 campaign,
00:28:39.400 the left tells us
00:28:40.140 that was really bad.
00:28:41.840 Oh, it was so bad.
00:28:43.420 Miss Universe is so bad.
00:28:44.940 It objectifies women.
00:28:47.780 It exploits women.
00:28:49.280 It makes women,
00:28:50.960 that pig,
00:28:51.680 that pig misogynist
00:28:53.340 Donald Trump
00:28:54.180 makes women
00:28:55.200 trot out onto the stage
00:28:57.040 wearing bikinis
00:28:58.180 for our sexual pleasure.
00:29:00.360 That's so terrible
00:29:01.220 unless a man does it
00:29:02.180 and then it's beautiful.
00:29:03.840 Unless Trump
00:29:04.580 doesn't run it anymore
00:29:05.560 and then a man
00:29:06.200 wears a bikini
00:29:06.840 and then that's good.
00:29:08.000 Are we to conclude
00:29:09.320 from that
00:29:09.820 that it's perfectly fine
00:29:11.600 to sexually objectify
00:29:13.360 men who think
00:29:14.340 that they're women
00:29:14.920 but it's very wrong
00:29:16.280 to sexually objectify women?
00:29:18.560 I thought trans women
00:29:19.660 are women.
00:29:20.460 What is,
00:29:21.080 it's very, very confusing.
00:29:22.680 Good luck
00:29:23.000 trying to wrap your head
00:29:24.140 around that.
00:29:25.400 What this shows you
00:29:26.760 is this underlying,
00:29:29.380 this underlying fact
00:29:31.600 of the left
00:29:32.280 which is
00:29:33.020 they don't really have
00:29:33.960 a problem
00:29:34.380 with the bikinis.
00:29:35.640 They don't really have
00:29:36.480 a problem
00:29:36.900 with beauty contests.
00:29:38.400 What they really
00:29:39.080 have a problem with
00:29:40.140 is Donald Trump.
00:29:41.640 What they really
00:29:42.160 have a problem with
00:29:43.080 is men.
00:29:44.260 What they really
00:29:44.820 have a problem with
00:29:45.760 is the patriarchy.
00:29:47.200 What they really
00:29:47.600 have a problem with
00:29:48.380 is western civilization.
00:29:50.080 That's what they don't like.
00:29:51.800 That's what they hate.
00:29:52.860 They hate norms
00:29:54.060 and they hate traditions.
00:29:55.840 I mean the bizarre story
00:29:57.000 of exploiting
00:29:58.120 an 11 year old
00:29:58.900 to do a sex act
00:30:00.480 or a sexual dance
00:30:02.280 for adult men
00:30:03.700 throwing dollar bills
00:30:04.440 at him.
00:30:04.880 That is obviously
00:30:05.860 awful and offends
00:30:07.120 every person
00:30:07.840 of right reason.
00:30:08.800 But the reason
00:30:09.360 that the left
00:30:09.780 will embrace
00:30:10.280 that sort of thing
00:30:10.980 is because it subverts
00:30:12.500 our traditional culture.
00:30:14.280 It subverts
00:30:14.900 the mores of our society.
00:30:16.620 It subverts
00:30:17.140 our civilization.
00:30:18.520 And the same thing
00:30:19.340 is true of this
00:30:20.220 transgenderism pageant.
00:30:22.260 The left doesn't care
00:30:23.200 about,
00:30:24.740 certainly they don't care
00:30:25.620 about the child
00:30:26.200 sexual abuse per se
00:30:27.440 that drag queen kid
00:30:29.880 tells you everything
00:30:30.660 about that.
00:30:31.400 They don't care
00:30:32.020 about the alleged
00:30:32.660 misogyny
00:30:33.360 of these beauty pageants.
00:30:35.660 They don't really care.
00:30:36.420 What they care about
00:30:37.320 is undoing tradition.
00:30:39.300 I mean the fact
00:30:40.880 that Donald Trump
00:30:41.480 ran this thing
00:30:42.260 is the greatest
00:30:44.240 demonstration of this
00:30:45.300 at all.
00:30:45.820 They hate that.
00:30:47.380 It's a sort of like
00:30:48.540 I don't like you dad.
00:30:50.260 I'm really angry
00:30:51.060 at you dad.
00:30:51.740 It's a cultural rebellion
00:30:53.820 because Miss Universe
00:30:56.660 didn't change
00:30:57.380 last year to this year.
00:30:59.020 Two years ago
00:30:59.600 to this year.
00:31:00.340 Nothing about it changed
00:31:01.460 except this time
00:31:03.000 it was a dude
00:31:04.360 wearing the bikini
00:31:05.500 and the dude
00:31:06.340 wearing the bikini
00:31:07.060 is bizarre
00:31:07.720 because he's not
00:31:09.220 Miss Universe.
00:31:09.900 He can't be Miss Universe.
00:31:11.160 I guess he could be
00:31:12.000 Mr. Universe
00:31:12.580 even though he looks
00:31:13.520 a little bit more
00:31:14.020 like a Miss Universe.
00:31:15.180 That's what they're after.
00:31:16.440 They're after
00:31:17.100 upending our society.
00:31:20.140 They're after
00:31:20.680 getting us all riled up
00:31:22.940 and getting us angry.
00:31:24.260 It's a silly rebellion.
00:31:25.800 It's a frivolous rebellion
00:31:26.700 but it really shows
00:31:27.940 the nihilism of the left.
00:31:30.600 It shows that
00:31:31.280 they're not really
00:31:31.760 after anything.
00:31:32.960 You can't think
00:31:33.460 of a unifying message
00:31:35.240 right now
00:31:35.740 among Democrats
00:31:36.480 or on the left.
00:31:37.480 They don't have
00:31:38.300 a proactive program.
00:31:40.140 They're not saying
00:31:40.360 we should do this,
00:31:41.120 we need to do this,
00:31:41.760 we need to do this.
00:31:42.020 It's just
00:31:42.440 I hate Trump.
00:31:43.900 I F Trump,
00:31:45.120 F this,
00:31:45.760 resist,
00:31:46.580 resist,
00:31:47.460 break down,
00:31:48.320 smash the patriarchy,
00:31:49.760 this, that,
00:31:50.160 and the other thing.
00:31:50.720 We see this explicitly
00:31:52.080 by the way
00:31:52.700 on some of the other
00:31:54.360 social issues
00:31:55.020 on abortion,
00:31:55.960 on euthanasia.
00:31:58.380 The left
00:31:59.160 has just a negative
00:32:01.420 agenda at this point.
00:32:02.380 It's an inverted
00:32:03.060 backwards agenda
00:32:04.300 and there's
00:32:06.360 no way clearer
00:32:07.720 than watching a man
00:32:09.520 strut down a stage
00:32:10.440 in a bikini.
00:32:11.620 We have got to say
00:32:12.620 goodbye to Facebook
00:32:13.700 and YouTube.
00:32:15.020 If you are on
00:32:15.880 thedailywire.com,
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00:32:23.900 $100 for an annual membership.
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00:32:27.780 You get to ask questions
00:32:28.360 in the mailbag.
00:32:28.940 That's coming up on Thursday.
00:32:30.160 You get to ask questions
00:32:31.100 in the conversation
00:32:31.940 and tomorrow at 5.30 p.m.
00:32:34.600 Eastern,
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00:32:38.180 and blowing your mind
00:32:39.880 with all of his wisdom
00:32:41.520 live on the air.
00:32:42.960 Did Ben write that?
00:32:43.920 Ben put that in there,
00:32:44.720 I think.
00:32:45.020 I don't remember writing that.
00:32:46.260 Alicia Krauss will be there
00:32:47.260 to collect all of
00:32:48.280 the leftist tears
00:32:48.940 so that the great flood
00:32:50.300 doesn't happen again.
00:32:52.300 That'll be a lot of fun.
00:32:53.120 What else?
00:32:53.300 You get a lot of other stuff too.
00:32:54.540 You get to ask questions
00:32:55.160 in backstage.
00:32:55.780 You get another kingdom
00:32:56.440 which is getting
00:32:57.400 great ratings,
00:32:58.740 huge ratings,
00:32:59.380 killing it
00:33:00.040 in the ratings, folks.
00:33:01.020 So go over there.
00:33:01.660 You get a ton of stuff
00:33:02.420 but this is what you really get.
00:33:05.000 You get the leftist tears tumbler
00:33:06.360 because I'm dreaming
00:33:07.660 of a white Christmas.
00:33:08.800 On Christmas Day
00:33:10.160 when the federal government
00:33:11.220 has shut down
00:33:12.200 so that we can get Santa Claus
00:33:14.080 to bring us
00:33:14.520 a $5 billion border wall
00:33:15.920 that's 10 feet higher.
00:33:17.000 You're going to have
00:33:17.640 those leftist tears
00:33:18.400 freeze in the atmosphere
00:33:19.500 and they're going to create
00:33:20.480 beautiful, fluffy snowflakes
00:33:22.600 and you'll need
00:33:23.280 your leftist tears tumbler
00:33:24.220 or you'll be crushed
00:33:25.040 in the avalanche.
00:33:25.900 Go to dailywire.com.
00:33:27.180 We'll be right back
00:33:27.800 with a lot more.
00:33:29.380 I have long said
00:33:40.380 that the left's agenda
00:33:41.740 is an agenda
00:33:42.520 of destruction.
00:33:44.160 It's not a constructive agenda.
00:33:46.240 It's not about
00:33:46.800 building something new.
00:33:47.880 It's about tearing down
00:33:48.960 everything that we have
00:33:50.780 in our society,
00:33:51.660 in our families,
00:33:52.540 in our civilization.
00:33:54.200 This became explicit.
00:33:55.660 This actually surprised me today
00:33:56.920 in the New York Times.
00:33:57.760 They ran an op-ed
00:33:58.940 about how human extinction
00:34:00.480 would be a good thing.
00:34:02.640 True story.
00:34:03.600 Clemson professor.
00:34:04.600 This was written by an academic,
00:34:05.780 somebody teaching your children.
00:34:07.660 His name is Todd May.
00:34:09.080 Of course his name is Todd.
00:34:10.900 You know,
00:34:11.760 of course a guy like Todd
00:34:13.260 would talk about
00:34:14.180 how we have to exterminate
00:34:15.380 the humans
00:34:15.880 so that the delta smelt
00:34:17.640 can swim a little easier.
00:34:19.060 It's a total Todd move.
00:34:20.620 The headline is
00:34:22.500 would human extinction
00:34:23.800 be a tragedy?
00:34:25.920 And you won't believe
00:34:27.980 the answer.
00:34:29.020 The subheader says
00:34:29.860 our species
00:34:30.620 possesses inherent value
00:34:32.140 but we are devastating
00:34:33.540 the earth
00:34:34.120 and causing
00:34:35.020 unimaginable
00:34:36.060 animal suffering.
00:34:38.800 So Todd,
00:34:39.520 you know which side
00:34:40.100 Todd comes down on.
00:34:41.260 He says that human extinction
00:34:42.200 would not be a tragedy.
00:34:43.940 This is just
00:34:44.580 the first paragraph
00:34:45.700 or so.
00:34:47.020 Todd writes,
00:34:48.200 Let me start
00:34:49.360 with a claim
00:34:49.840 that I think
00:34:50.340 will be at once depressing
00:34:51.300 and upon reflection
00:34:52.220 uncontroversial.
00:34:53.600 Human beings
00:34:54.220 are destroying
00:34:54.960 large parts
00:34:55.920 of the inhabitable earth
00:34:57.120 and causing
00:34:57.920 unimaginable suffering
00:34:59.180 to many of the animals
00:35:00.420 that inhabit it.
00:35:01.460 This is happening
00:35:02.100 through at least
00:35:02.580 three means.
00:35:03.520 First,
00:35:04.080 human contribution
00:35:04.880 to climate change
00:35:05.940 is devastating ecosystems
00:35:07.280 as the recent article
00:35:08.780 on Yellowstone Park
00:35:10.080 in the Times
00:35:10.720 exemplifies.
00:35:12.280 Second,
00:35:13.260 increasing human population
00:35:14.640 is encroaching
00:35:15.660 on ecosystems
00:35:16.420 that would otherwise
00:35:17.300 be intact.
00:35:18.580 Third,
00:35:19.240 factory farming
00:35:20.100 fosters the creation
00:35:21.200 of millions
00:35:21.820 upon millions
00:35:22.380 of animals
00:35:22.840 for whom it offers
00:35:23.780 nothing but suffering
00:35:24.700 and misery
00:35:25.520 before slaughtering them
00:35:26.780 in often barbaric ways.
00:35:28.520 Mmm, delicious.
00:35:29.540 There is no reason
00:35:30.540 to think that those practices
00:35:31.920 are going to diminish
00:35:32.780 anytime soon.
00:35:33.580 Quite the opposite.
00:35:34.660 Humanity then
00:35:35.480 is the source
00:35:36.680 of devastation
00:35:37.600 of the lives
00:35:39.260 of conscious animals
00:35:40.260 on a scale
00:35:41.220 that is difficult
00:35:41.940 to comprehend.
00:35:43.760 I wish I could get
00:35:44.740 Ben in here
00:35:45.320 to play the violin
00:35:46.400 while my fingers
00:35:47.980 rubbed together
00:35:48.780 one to the other.
00:35:49.860 It's so,
00:35:50.440 it's not difficult
00:35:51.320 to comprehend at all.
00:35:52.500 But this,
00:35:53.600 what is difficult
00:35:54.280 for a lot of people
00:35:55.040 even for conservatives
00:35:55.900 to comprehend
00:35:56.480 is this recurring theme
00:35:58.360 of leftism
00:35:59.100 which is to discourage life
00:36:01.300 and hasten death.
00:36:02.820 You see it in abortion
00:36:05.120 killing incipient human life.
00:36:07.740 You see it in the redefinition
00:36:08.740 of marriage
00:36:09.320 trying to break down
00:36:10.580 the building block
00:36:11.220 of society
00:36:11.840 and discourage procreation.
00:36:13.780 You see this
00:36:14.760 in euthanasia.
00:36:16.100 The left is so happy,
00:36:17.960 giddy,
00:36:18.660 to kill people
00:36:19.520 who are suffering
00:36:20.360 in some way
00:36:21.000 or who are old
00:36:22.100 and deemed unuseful
00:36:23.240 to society
00:36:24.140 and now you see this
00:36:25.260 in a call
00:36:25.740 for the mass extinction
00:36:27.280 of the human race.
00:36:29.400 They don't love
00:36:30.320 the environment.
00:36:31.600 They hate humans.
00:36:32.600 That's what this is about.
00:36:33.540 They don't really care
00:36:34.380 about the delta smelt.
00:36:35.720 They don't care
00:36:36.500 about the little baby cow
00:36:38.020 who makes the delicious veal.
00:36:39.700 They hate humans.
00:36:41.120 That's what it's about.
00:36:41.820 They don't care
00:36:43.380 about child abuse.
00:36:45.320 They want to undermine
00:36:50.140 our basic civil
00:36:52.220 and cultural institutions
00:36:53.720 that sometimes interact with that.
00:36:57.800 This is what it's all about.
00:36:58.860 It's a negative agenda
00:37:00.200 and we should identify
00:37:03.980 that source.
00:37:04.680 It's really bizarre.
00:37:06.040 It's really,
00:37:07.780 we like to think
00:37:08.760 that we're just having
00:37:09.400 two rational political conversations.
00:37:11.420 Well, I want this policy.
00:37:12.580 Well, I want this policy.
00:37:13.840 Well, I want to pay
00:37:14.540 a little more in taxes.
00:37:15.500 I want to pay
00:37:15.840 a little less in taxes.
00:37:16.840 But there is a philosophical
00:37:18.740 and a spiritual basis
00:37:19.880 to these two visions
00:37:20.760 of the world
00:37:21.320 and the philosophical
00:37:22.840 and spiritual basis
00:37:23.920 of the left
00:37:24.780 is perverse
00:37:25.920 and really awful.
00:37:27.000 It is anti-life.
00:37:28.640 It is anti-flourishing.
00:37:30.380 It is anti-production.
00:37:33.780 You know,
00:37:34.840 I hate to make it too,
00:37:37.780 I don't want to seem hyperbolic
00:37:39.300 in discussing
00:37:40.320 the spirituality of this.
00:37:42.280 But evil does have a persona.
00:37:44.340 It has a personality.
00:37:45.380 I'm not saying
00:37:45.920 that leftists are evil.
00:37:47.200 I'm not saying leftists
00:37:48.140 are consciously evil.
00:37:49.240 but they are indulging in ideas
00:37:53.920 which are ultimately wicked,
00:37:55.900 which are ultimately nihilistic,
00:37:57.560 which says that
00:37:58.420 the Delta smelt exists
00:38:00.480 so that I may serve
00:38:01.700 the Delta smelt.
00:38:02.780 That isn't true.
00:38:03.800 We love animals.
00:38:04.660 We want to protect animals.
00:38:05.920 We want to protect them
00:38:06.840 so that we can enjoy them
00:38:07.880 and they're beautiful
00:38:08.420 and we like to look at them.
00:38:09.560 And ultimately,
00:38:10.140 we want to serve them
00:38:10.980 to each other on dinner plates.
00:38:12.600 That is what it's for.
00:38:13.940 We do not exist
00:38:14.940 to be the slaves
00:38:16.100 of the natural environment.
00:38:17.100 The natural environment
00:38:18.140 is there for us to enjoy.
00:38:20.520 They're also, by the way,
00:38:22.040 only loosely related.
00:38:23.080 There is a groundbreaking study
00:38:24.480 that came out today.
00:38:25.440 You might have seen it.
00:38:26.180 It came out
00:38:26.480 from Amnesty International.
00:38:28.020 It showed that Twitter
00:38:29.800 is a mean place.
00:38:32.700 I know,
00:38:33.520 but I should have warned you.
00:38:34.320 I should have said
00:38:34.660 pull over your car
00:38:35.620 before you hear this.
00:38:36.880 It turns out Twitter is mean.
00:38:38.000 Amnesty International,
00:38:39.120 this big, wide-ranging survey,
00:38:40.760 showed that Twitter
00:38:41.640 is, quote,
00:38:42.000 a toxic place,
00:38:42.840 quote,
00:38:43.500 the world's biggest data set
00:38:44.820 of online abuse
00:38:45.820 targeting women.
00:38:46.860 Online abuse,
00:38:47.740 especially toward women.
00:38:49.300 The thing is,
00:38:50.900 there's no actual abuse
00:38:52.120 on Twitter
00:38:52.560 because there can't be
00:38:53.740 any abuse on Twitter.
00:38:54.920 What is abuse?
00:38:55.620 The word abuse
00:38:56.320 actually means to misuse,
00:38:58.400 to use something in a way
00:38:59.320 that it's not intended for.
00:39:01.940 So you can't,
00:39:02.940 you can emotionally abuse people.
00:39:04.500 You certainly can do that.
00:39:05.560 You can emotionally abuse
00:39:06.800 family members
00:39:07.720 at the dinner table.
00:39:08.680 You can do that.
00:39:10.180 There isn't abuse on Twitter
00:39:11.760 because Twitter is a place
00:39:13.600 that exists
00:39:14.700 to incentivize abuse.
00:39:16.020 It's a place
00:39:16.980 where you say
00:39:17.460 really mean things
00:39:18.280 and you do it
00:39:19.140 usually from an anonymous account
00:39:21.960 so you don't have to show
00:39:22.940 who you are
00:39:23.560 and you direct it
00:39:24.320 to people that you don't know
00:39:25.460 that you're not really
00:39:26.180 interacting with
00:39:26.980 in a personal way.
00:39:28.360 What the left really means
00:39:29.340 is that Twitter
00:39:31.480 inspires violence.
00:39:33.520 That's what they're really saying.
00:39:34.500 They're saying
00:39:34.840 it's a place of violence
00:39:35.980 against women.
00:39:36.700 They're trying to conflate
00:39:37.540 abuse and speech
00:39:39.520 with violence
00:39:40.480 and this is what
00:39:41.080 they always do.
00:39:41.680 They conflate speech
00:39:42.400 with violence
00:39:42.920 so that they can go after us
00:39:44.420 and censor us.
00:39:45.600 This study used the
00:39:47.060 quote troll patrol
00:39:48.480 of 6,500 volunteers.
00:39:50.300 They analyzed millions
00:39:51.140 of tweets.
00:39:52.920 Milena Marin
00:39:53.780 the senior advisor
00:39:54.980 for tactical research
00:39:55.960 at Amnesty International
00:39:56.980 said in a statement
00:39:58.260 Twitter's failure
00:39:59.340 to crack down
00:40:00.060 on this problem
00:40:00.740 means it is contributing
00:40:01.880 to the silencing
00:40:02.680 of already marginalized voices.
00:40:05.800 Okay.
00:40:07.740 Here they're using
00:40:08.860 the word silencing
00:40:09.800 to mean not silencing.
00:40:11.820 What are they saying?
00:40:12.320 Twitter's failure
00:40:13.140 to censor people
00:40:14.480 who say mean things
00:40:15.660 and who defines
00:40:17.340 what's mean?
00:40:17.940 Who defines
00:40:18.400 what's abuse?
00:40:19.600 Twitter does.
00:40:21.000 Is it abuse
00:40:21.980 to say that men
00:40:22.720 are not women?
00:40:23.660 Because there was
00:40:24.220 a major feminist writer
00:40:25.460 who just lost
00:40:26.320 her entire Twitter account
00:40:27.300 for saying that men
00:40:28.440 are not women.
00:40:29.560 Is that abuse?
00:40:30.300 Yeah, of course.
00:40:30.900 Twitter defines that
00:40:31.600 as abuse.
00:40:32.460 So what they're saying
00:40:33.140 is Twitter's failure
00:40:33.960 to censor these people
00:40:35.500 means it is contributing
00:40:36.700 to the silencing
00:40:37.560 of marginalized voices.
00:40:39.480 Who's silencing anybody?
00:40:40.800 If you say something
00:40:43.040 mean to somebody
00:40:43.740 or really more likely
00:40:45.440 you say something
00:40:46.360 disagreeable to somebody
00:40:47.880 you aren't silencing them.
00:40:50.480 You're saying something
00:40:51.680 and then they can say
00:40:53.100 something to you
00:40:53.760 or they cannot say
00:40:55.000 something to you
00:40:55.520 or they can say
00:40:56.100 something to somebody else.
00:40:57.160 At no point
00:40:58.360 are you silencing anybody.
00:41:00.420 It is such Orwellian language
00:41:02.100 that Amnesty International
00:41:03.420 is using.
00:41:04.240 They are using silencing
00:41:05.280 to mean the opposite
00:41:06.060 of silencing
00:41:06.700 and they're using
00:41:08.180 that threat
00:41:08.780 to say that we should
00:41:09.560 really silence other people.
00:41:11.160 They refer to
00:41:11.680 marginalized voices.
00:41:12.980 Who are the
00:41:13.340 marginalized voices?
00:41:15.160 Is Jake Tapper
00:41:15.900 a marginalized voice?
00:41:17.900 Are they?
00:41:18.380 No, I don't think so.
00:41:19.340 I think that people
00:41:20.380 are not marginalized.
00:41:21.860 The people who are marginalized
00:41:22.840 are the ones
00:41:24.060 who are being threatened
00:41:24.800 with censorship
00:41:25.420 or who are being threatened.
00:41:27.740 It is true.
00:41:29.080 Twitter is contributing
00:41:30.120 to marginalizing
00:41:32.520 many voices
00:41:33.440 in the country.
00:41:34.860 The trouble is
00:41:35.560 what they're marginalizing
00:41:36.700 are conservative voices.
00:41:37.980 All right,
00:41:40.320 that's our show.
00:41:41.640 That's the whole thing.
00:41:42.360 We got to get out of here.
00:41:43.440 I know we run late.
00:41:44.240 We always run late.
00:41:45.460 Tune back in.
00:41:46.160 I know I was on the road yesterday.
00:41:47.260 I'm going to be on the road
00:41:48.140 later this week too,
00:41:49.140 by the way.
00:41:49.760 I'm going to be taking
00:41:50.460 a trip down to Palm Beach.
00:41:52.220 I don't know why.
00:41:53.160 I don't know if it's been announced
00:41:54.140 why I'm doing that,
00:41:55.120 but I'll just be going down
00:41:56.020 to Palm Beach.
00:41:56.680 What's in Palm Beach?
00:41:57.340 I don't know.
00:41:57.780 We're going to be having
00:41:58.160 a good time down there,
00:41:59.260 but I'll keep you posted
00:42:00.000 on when that is.
00:42:00.580 In the meantime,
00:42:01.000 I'll be back here
00:42:01.760 just in the same seat tomorrow.
00:42:03.500 I will see you then.
00:42:04.180 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:42:04.920 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:42:11.080 The Michael Knowles Show
00:42:12.340 is produced by
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00:42:15.740 Jeremy Borey.
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00:42:18.620 Our supervising producer,
00:42:20.140 Mathis Glover.
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00:42:22.240 is Austin Stevens.
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