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00:00:00.000 Democrats tell pollsters what they want in a 2020 presidential nominee, and one thing is clear,

00:00:06.260 Democrats really want a white guy. This should come as no surprise to those who have traced the

00:00:11.000 history of the Democrat Party, which was founded by white guy Andrew Jackson, preserved by white

00:00:16.340 guy slaveholders, resurrected by white guy Klansmen, and with the exception of one half of one guy has

00:00:22.460 exclusively elected white guy presidents. Then the government is likely to remain open as the

00:00:28.100 president's signal as he's willing to cave on funding for the wall. It's okay, though, don't

00:00:32.900 worry, because Republicans just voted to let thousands of criminals out of prison for some

00:00:37.140 reason, and transgenderism deals another brutal blow to the ideological left. I'm Michael Knowles,

00:00:42.700 and this is The Michael Knowles Show. Today is opposite day. Today is totally opposite day. I'm

00:00:54.120 upset with President Trump and the Republicans. I want to compliment Cenk Uygur. He actually did

00:00:59.760 something good. Democrats embrace being the party of white men. Republicans cave on the wall. They

00:01:04.560 let thousands of prisoners out of prison. We will get to all of that bizarre opposite day. But first,

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00:02:35.120 Democrats have looked ahead to 2020, and they only want white guys. They don't know. Not women,

00:02:43.720 not black guys, not Hispanic people. Nope. Only white guys. There was a poll put out by a group

00:02:50.040 called Democracy for America. This was a major poll. This was a poll of 94,000 progressives,

00:02:56.960 self-identified progressives. Who is the number one choice for 2020? Oh, it's not Kamala. Oh, no,

00:03:03.340 no. It's not Corey Spartacus Booker. No, no, no, no. It is Bernie Sanders, who in 2020,

00:03:12.520 I think he'll be 179 years old in 2020. So he will be well past the constitutional mandate of being 35

00:03:20.560 years old. He'll be many multiples older than that. So he certainly can run. He might be a little old,

00:03:26.040 but it wasn't even close, by the way. Bernie Sanders blew his competition out of the water.

00:03:30.100 Remember, the next closest competitor was Joe Biden, also a white guy. But Bernie got three

00:03:36.780 times as many votes as Joe Biden. He blew it out of the water. So number two was Biden. And number

00:03:41.740 three, Beto O'Rourke. Now, you might be confused. You'd say with a name like Beto, that's not a white

00:03:47.200 guy. Actually, it is a white guy. His name is Robert Francis O'Rourke. He is entirely Irish. He is not at

00:03:52.860 all Mexican. So the first three guys, white guys. The first two guys, old white guys. Only when you

00:03:58.620 get to number four do you get Liz Warren. She's only 1,023, 1,024th white. She's obviously one 1,024th

00:04:07.120 Native American Indian. And then number five, you get Kamala Harris. So you actually can trace

00:04:14.140 gradations of white all the way down to Kamala Harris. You start with Bernie Sanders. He lives in

00:04:19.860 Vermont. He lives in basically the whitest state in America. Then you get to Joe Biden, still pretty

00:04:24.680 white. But, you know, he's got a little more Rust Belt vibe. Then you get to Beto O'Rourke. He's

00:04:28.760 completely white, but he's a fake Mexican. Then you get to Liz Warren. She's also completely white,

00:04:32.980 but she's got a little drop of Native American. Only when you get to Kamala Harris do you get

00:04:36.840 anything even resembling a racial minority, which, again, I wouldn't really care about, except Democrats

00:04:41.560 make a very big deal about being the party of racial minorities and women and this and that. And then in

00:04:48.340 reality, they're just the opposite. Don't just take this one poll. This one poll is not just an

00:04:53.300 outlier. MoveOn.org, that odious left-wing group, did another straw poll. And this one did not put

00:05:01.120 Bernie on top. It put Beto on top. So Beto was on top, then Joe Biden, and then Bernie Sanders was

00:05:09.980 number three. So, again, the exact same top three people born out again from that progressive poll,

00:05:17.500 now into MoveOn.org. Same three guys, different order. The really bad news for Democrats is the

00:05:23.380 Hill TV poll of who Democrats want for their 2020 nominee. The number three winner there was Bernie

00:05:29.920 Sanders, old white guy. The number two winner was Joe Biden, also old white guy. The number one winner,

00:05:36.060 none of the above, who, I guess, statistically is a white guy. If you just look at the numbers of

00:05:43.480 people in the United States, none of the above, you know, basically anyone else, you've got a very

00:05:48.520 good chance of that also being a white guy. So all three polls, privilege the white guys. This,

00:05:54.680 again, completely goes over. And in that Hill TV poll, the number fourth choice was Hillary Clinton,

00:06:01.900 incredibly. Number five was Elizabeth Warren. Then you got Kamala Harris. Then you got Cory Booker.

00:06:08.120 So, again, you see, it's funny. I mean, I would make the joke anyway, but you actually do see this

00:06:14.720 borne out in the MoveOn poll, the Hill TV poll. You see it borne out, these gradations of whiteness.

00:06:22.120 So, the Democrat Party, I don't know that they can really make this claim that they're the party of

00:06:27.100 intersectionality, that they're the party of tearing down the, you know, mean old white guy. But,

00:06:33.480 I mean, they're going to make it anyway. They're always going to make that claim. But it does show that

00:06:36.780 huge gap between the rhetoric of the Democrat Party and the reality. They say, we're for the

00:06:41.480 people. We want the popular vote. You don't really want the popular vote. You want the popular vote

00:06:46.060 if you're a Democrat because you think that it'll help you out in certain swing states.

00:06:50.940 Democrats don't want the popular vote. They won't even allow the popular vote in their own

00:06:54.740 nominating convention. They won't even allow the popular vote in their own primary campaigns.

00:07:00.480 That's why they rely on superdelegates, party elites, to come in and say, you're going to be the

00:07:05.260 nominee. Who cares about the will of the people? Okay, I've beaten up on Democrats enough. I

00:07:10.900 actually have to switch gears here and beat up on Republicans a little bit. The White House right

00:07:16.300 now is signaling that there will not be a government shutdown. Here's senior advisor to the president,

00:07:21.960 Kellyanne Conway, in a surprisingly contentious exchange on Fox and Friends this morning.

00:07:26.920 Well, first of all, let's not all acquiesce to the ridiculous soundbite that this is about a wall.

00:07:31.800 They're trying to make a wall, four-letter word, when the president's been talking about border

00:07:35.820 security all along, as have the Democrats until he became president. In 2006, they voted for the

00:07:41.800 Secure Offenses Act. That included Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden. 26 Democrats voted

00:07:47.040 for that. This past July, 10 of the 15 Democrats on the appropriate committee, the relevant committee,

00:07:53.440 voted for border security.

00:07:54.660 Okay. Oh, this isn't about a wall. This isn't about, okay. And actually, later on in this interview,

00:08:02.640 Steve Doocy comes in and actually grills her a little bit. What's going to happen to this shutdown?

00:08:08.440 Why isn't the government going to shut down? The real reason we know that the government is not going

00:08:12.600 to shut down is that the Senate has voted on a, or is voting on a funding bill to fund the government

00:08:18.860 through February 8th. So it's a short-term funding bill. It's not a major one.

00:08:22.400 But what happens before February 8th, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats take control

00:08:26.880 of the House of Representatives. This raises a big question. Why did Trump back down? He told us,

00:08:32.940 I'm going to be proud to own the government shutdown. I will shut down the government in

00:08:37.120 order to build the wall and get $5 billion to build the wall on our border. Stephen Miller went on Face

00:08:42.040 the Nation, said exactly the same thing. One suggestion for why he did that is that he didn't

00:08:47.260 have the votes. Nancy Pelosi made this claim in the Oval Office.

00:08:50.740 The fact is, you do not have the votes in the House.

00:08:53.520 Nancy, I do. And we need border security. Nancy, Nancy, we need border security. It's very simple.

00:08:59.480 Of course we do.

00:09:00.100 We need border security.

00:09:01.380 So we knew that President Trump didn't have the votes in the Senate because he would need 10

00:09:05.380 Democrats to switch over. But the question was, does he have the votes in the House or not?

00:09:09.940 And as Steve Doocy brought up on Fox & Friends, Paul Ryan doesn't want the wall. I think that's

00:09:15.900 fair to say. I don't think Paul Ryan wants the wall. I think if he did, he could have whipped up

00:09:19.320 the votes. But he doesn't. There are a lot of Republicans in the House who don't really want

00:09:23.660 the wall. They talk a good game when they're on the campaign trail, but they don't actually

00:09:27.840 believe in enforcing our immigration laws when they are governing. So my suggestion in all of this

00:09:36.000 was let the Democrats shut down the government or let Trump shut down the government or whoever

00:09:40.420 we're going to blame for shutting down the government. Let it happen because this is a

00:09:44.560 political winner for Republicans. One, it's the right thing to do just for the country and for our

00:09:49.240 system of laws. But two, it's politically beneficial for the Republican Party and for the

00:09:55.020 president. Why not let the Democrats, who are now so hysterical, so obsessively committed to open

00:10:02.100 borders? Why not let them shut down the government over that? They say keeping borders open, letting

00:10:07.680 thousands of illegal migrants cross the border, make a mockery of our laws, let them come in

00:10:14.280 willy-nilly, 3,000 people a day. They're so intent on that, that they're willing to shut down the

00:10:19.540 government. That's a great campaign commercial. That's a great way to enter into 2019. But they

00:10:24.160 wouldn't do it. There's an amazing irony here. There's a poll out from Gallup that says that when

00:10:30.100 Americans are considering all of the various political problems, they think the number one

00:10:34.180 problem is the government and the number two problem is illegal immigration. Here's an idea.

00:10:41.700 How about you shut down the government to stop illegal immigration? This is a win-win. This is

00:10:46.760 killing two birds with one stone or in the new PETA language, feeding two birds with one scone or

00:10:51.820 whatever idiom you want to use. This is a big win. People don't like the government, rightly so,

00:10:57.780 and they don't like illegal immigration. You can shut down the government and you can shut down

00:11:01.720 the government as a tactic to get $5 billion to build the wall and stop illegal immigration for

00:11:07.180 the near future. But they won't do it. And this is frustrating enough. Now I see the flip side of

00:11:13.760 this is what leverage does President Trump have? You shouldn't enter into a government shutdown if you

00:11:18.480 don't have leverage to reopen it. And the president doesn't have leverage to reopen the government.

00:11:22.920 I guess the only leverage would be once the Democrats take control of the House of Representatives,

00:11:28.460 then there's really no point in carrying on. So you could reopen and say, okay, we've dragged this

00:11:34.000 out for a month and got a lot of bad press for Democrats. And c'est la vie. Maybe we didn't get

00:11:38.400 the funding for the wall. But so what? Who cares? I understand there's not a lot of leverage there.

00:11:46.480 Now President Trump says he's going to get the military to build the wall.

00:11:48.900 Well, they'll get money from other agencies. They'll find it somewhere else. Okay. So we don't

00:11:54.760 get the wall. We are going to fund the government. It looks like the party is going to back down on

00:11:59.440 this just like they did twice, two other times this year. But at least the Republicans just voted

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00:13:39.720 purple pillow. So we don't shut down the government. We don't get the $5 billion for the

00:13:45.920 wall. But at least Republicans just voted on the First Step Act, which will let thousands of

00:13:51.340 criminals out of prison. Because that's how President Trump won, isn't it? That's how he

00:13:55.680 won his election. He said, look, we're not going to stop illegal immigration, but we will let thousands

00:14:00.800 of criminals out of prison. Yeah. And they said, yeah, let them out. Let them out. Unlock the prisoners.

00:14:06.920 Unlock the criminals, right? Was that what they were chanting at the rallies? No, I don't think

00:14:10.920 it was. They were chanting, build the wall and also lock her up. They actually wanted to put

00:14:15.740 more people into prison, particularly Hillary Clinton. This was a bad idea. I, you know, I,

00:14:20.800 I'm a supporter of the president. I'm a big supporter of this administration. They've done so

00:14:25.400 much good. And sometimes they do stuff like this. This First Step Act is just, what a bad idea. Tom

00:14:31.360 Cotton was against this Republican senator. He was a hardliner. He was kind of leading.

00:14:36.920 the conservatives against this in the Senate, but it failed. He tried to introduce some amendments

00:14:42.380 to kill the bill and it just didn't happen. Who is supporting this thing? Kim Kardashian is,

00:14:47.860 so great. The ACLU is supporting this. Van Jones, left winger on CNN, was celebrating. He was so happy

00:14:54.980 when this bill passed. Politics sure does make for strange bedfellows. Why on earth are we voting for

00:15:02.200 this when we could have built the wall? What does this, what does this bill do? Whenever you come

00:15:06.920 out against this First Step Act, the Criminal Justice Reform Spring the Criminals from Prison Act,

00:15:13.140 they, people accuse you, they say, you don't know what's in the bill. Well, I don't know. I'm not an

00:15:17.500 expert on the bill, but, but tell me if I'm wrong. Tell me if I get any of these bullet points wrong,

00:15:22.200 and then you can lecture me about not knowing what's in the bill. The bill will ease mandatory minimum

00:15:27.340 sentences under federal law. Right now, they're mandatory minimums that judges have to, have to

00:15:33.160 use when they're sentencing people, and this would ease those sentences. It would expand the so-called

00:15:37.660 safety valve so that judges can avoid them. So it puts a lot more discretion into the hands of judges,

00:15:43.840 which might be helpful to some criminals, but then again, when you just rely on the

00:15:50.620 capricious moods of judges, then you're, you're not really treating people with total equality

00:15:57.780 under the law. You're giving a lot of care to the whim and whimsy of judges. It would ease the three

00:16:04.400 strikes rule. So right now, there's a three strikes rule. If you get three or more convictions,

00:16:08.500 you will automatically get a sentence in certain cases of life in prison. Now that reduces that

00:16:13.600 dramatically to 25 years, and then the rest of the law can ease that to make it even shorter.

00:16:17.940 It also restricts the current practice of stacking gun charges. So right now, for instance, this is

00:16:24.820 what you always hear. You say, someone shouldn't serve life in prison for just possessing a little

00:16:29.800 dime bag of pot for personal use. Yeah, of course, I agree with that. Nobody disagrees with that in the

00:16:35.620 whole country. But the people who are in prison for simple possession, how many of them pled down

00:16:42.040 those charges for much more serious charges, from charges like dealing drugs?

00:16:47.940 You know, right, right now, we're at the height of an opioid epidemic of a drug epidemic that is so

00:16:53.920 bad, it's actually helping to reduce the average life expectancy in the United States. And we're

00:17:00.280 saying that we should go easier on drug dealers, many drug dealers who have pled down their crime to

00:17:05.520 a simple possession or something like that. And what the First Step Act will do is now not allow

00:17:10.580 prosecutors to stack gun charges. So if you're a drug dealer out on the streets, and you're packing heat,

00:17:16.460 prosecutors can stack that on top of your drug charge. Now they'll say, no, that's okay.

00:17:24.360 That's okay. The drug dealer was packing heat because, you know, it's a black market that's

00:17:27.880 awful and it gets Americans addicted to poison. But we shouldn't punish him for packing heat.

00:17:32.520 Ridiculous. It also increases good time credits that inmates can earn. Currently, inmates can get up to

00:17:38.880 47 days, credits of up to 47 days per year incarcerated. Now that increases to 54, which

00:17:46.420 allows relatively well-behaved inmates to cut their prison sentences by an additional week for each

00:17:51.960 year that they're incarcerated. But this is also retroactive, which means that the day this law goes

00:17:57.200 into effect, according to supporters of the bill, not critics, according to supporters of the bill,

00:18:02.000 4,000 prisoners will qualify for release that very day that it goes into effect. The bill will allow

00:18:09.460 earned time credits by participating in more vocational and rehabilitative programs. And what

00:18:14.500 do we mean by this rehabilitative program? This is really what the whole bill's about. Because they're

00:18:19.140 treating the criminal justice system as though it's only about rehabilitation. It's not about punishing

00:18:24.680 people. It's not about criminal justice. It's not about even deterring crime. Certainly not about those

00:18:30.280 two things. It's just about rehabilitation. It's a therapy session. I don't even know why we're only

00:18:35.960 restricting it to criminals. Why not? We could all use a little rehabilitation, couldn't we? So now you'll

00:18:41.180 get extra credits if you take part in rehabilitation programs. We also just found today, this broke,

00:18:47.580 that the federal government has paid $365,000 in recent years to the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan's

00:18:56.900 radical organization. The organization, obviously bigoted, refers to Jews as termites, to go into

00:19:03.900 prison and rehabilitate prisoners, which actually means radicalize prisoners into that perverse

00:19:09.720 ideology of the Nation of Islam. That's what we're talking about here when we talk about rehabilitation

00:19:13.580 programs. This is obviously a fundamental misunderstanding of the criminal justice system.

00:19:19.620 And I don't know which wing of the White House or which wing of the Republican Party is pushing

00:19:26.100 this sort of stuff. It seems so compassionate, doesn't it? I want people to get out of prison if

00:19:32.880 they've served their time, if they've been reformed. I really do. I'm not just a total hardliner. I know

00:19:37.540 people who were bad people, who killed people, who were real bad hombres, and they were totally

00:19:45.260 reformed in prison. One guy, I won't say his name, from New York, he is a born-again Christian. He's

00:19:53.080 one of the most charitable people. He's like a saint walking the earth, goes to mass every day. He's

00:19:57.980 just an incredible man. You can be reformed in prison. I hope that happens. That's a wonderful

00:20:02.660 thing to do. That's not an excuse to spring thousands of people out of prison long before their sentences

00:20:09.560 are over with the dubious evidence that they've been reformed in some way, that they're not going

00:20:15.780 to go. And now to make it easier for people who are dealing poison out on the streets carrying guns

00:20:21.260 while they do it to avoid long jail sentences, that's not the way to do it. It's a total

00:20:27.140 misunderstanding of the criminal justice system. Another aspect here, this is like really opposite

00:20:32.280 day. President Trump's administration is now banning bump stocks. The bump stocks are, they're on,

00:20:38.000 you put the bump stock on your rifle and then you basically hold the trigger and you can pull the,

00:20:42.920 if you run your hand, this is getting a little graphic for a family show, but if you run your

00:20:47.840 hand down the length of the gun, it will simulate what would seem like an automatic weapon so you can

00:20:54.260 fire more rapidly. You can't really aim at anything so it's not a terribly useful tool, but he's now,

00:21:00.000 the administration has banned these. This is because of that shooting in Las Vegas in 2017

00:21:04.360 that killed 58 people and injured hundreds more. Bump stock was used in that shooting. Bump stocks

00:21:10.680 are virtually never used in shootings, but it was used in that one, so now they want to ban it.

00:21:15.720 Banning bump stocks would not have saved a single life in that shooting. There's no evidence of that.

00:21:20.680 That shooting went on for 10 minutes. Just pulling the trigger, 1-1-1-1-1, you could easily kill and

00:21:29.060 injure all of those people in the course of 10 minutes. The shooter wasn't found for an hour.

00:21:34.280 His body killed himself and then his body wasn't found for an hour. A bump stock ban would not have

00:21:40.120 saved a single life in Las Vegas. Just as always happens when there's a mass shooting, the left wing

00:21:45.420 calls for gun control and then you say, which gun control law would have prevented the shooting?

00:21:50.240 Which gun control law would have saved a life? And they say, I don't know, I just want to do something.

00:21:54.420 Well, you've got to do something that's helpful. You can't just do something and then pat yourself on

00:22:01.600 the back and say, oh gosh, aren't I a good person? You haven't accomplished a single thing.

00:22:05.880 Even more shocking than my frustration with the Trump administration in the last week

00:22:11.400 is I actually think Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks got something right. I know, I know this is shocking.

00:22:19.780 This comes in the wake of Tucker Carlson's comment. Tucker Carlson's under fire,

00:22:23.260 the left wing radical groups are calling for a boycott of his Fox News show. And it's because

00:22:28.260 of this comment. We have a moral obligation to admit the world's poor, they tell us,

00:22:32.720 even if it makes our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided. Immigration is a form

00:22:38.580 of atonement. Previous leaders of our country committed sins. We must pay for those sins by

00:22:44.600 welcoming an endless chain of migrant caravans. So he's right about that point. He's right about the

00:22:49.920 white guilt and the ideology of open borders. But did you catch what word got him in trouble?

00:22:55.480 It's, yeah, it was the dirty. Said it would make our country dirtier. And just as a very simple

00:23:03.320 observation, poor countries are dirtier than clean countries, than rich countries. That's certainly

00:23:11.420 the case. I have traveled to the third world. I have lived in the first world. I've probably gone

00:23:17.080 to the second world. I don't know exactly where the second world is. I've been all over. And of course

00:23:21.160 it is. Of course, poorer countries are dirtier. They don't have the same resources for sanitary systems

00:23:28.060 and things like that. So he makes that point. Should he have used a different word? Maybe.

00:23:33.880 Are all illegal immigrants, people who come here from bad places, are they all dirty when they come

00:23:41.980 here? No. At least not for very long. You know, you can acclimate to America pretty well. So yeah,

00:23:46.540 okay, maybe you shouldn't have used that word. Is it the end of the world? No, I don't think so.

00:23:50.900 And now the left is just jumping on this to call for a boycott of Tucker's program. I mean,

00:23:55.580 they've just been waiting. They call for boycotts of everybody's programs all the time. And you notice

00:24:01.040 the right doesn't call for boycotts of left-wing programs. Very, very rarely does that happen.

00:24:06.280 Generally speaking, we let them spout their nonsense and we just say what we want to say.

00:24:11.340 I've never called for a boycott of Rachel Maddow's program because if I did, I'd be arguing myself out

00:24:16.760 of a job. So I certainly wouldn't want to do that. So shock of all shocks here on Opposite Day,

00:24:22.120 Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks came out swinging in defense of Tucker Carlson.

00:24:25.780 I think as odious as Tucker Carlson's comments are, he gets to make them and we get to make

00:24:32.140 the counter argument. It's not a First Amendment issue. These advertisers have every right

00:24:36.200 to put their ads anywhere they like. They're not the government. Okay, but as a general principle,

00:24:42.660 I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that in the marketplace of ideas and you can say,

00:24:47.300 hey, that's hokey, Cenk. And it's not right. And it's, you know, one is on a cable news station

00:24:52.300 powered by billions of dollars that Rupert Murdoch put in. And you guys are online and it's a totally

00:24:57.040 different animal. We'll take them on anyway and we will beat them anyway. And we're beating them

00:25:01.900 today. So I think they should let us battle it out. But now the sponsors are pulling it. I don't

00:25:08.380 know what you think, Adam. He's absolutely right about that. I will point out, though, he lays this

00:25:13.400 caveat. He says, and it's a cable news station and Tucker's powered by zillions of dollars from

00:25:18.420 Rupert Murdoch. Yeah, true. The Young Turks has a studio at YouTube. Don't they? I think I'm getting

00:25:24.900 that right. I don't want to say anything that's untrue. I am 99.9% sure the Young Turks have a

00:25:31.400 studio at YouTube, which is powered by essentially the biggest corporation in the history of the world.

00:25:36.860 So let's not throw stones here. But he makes a very good point. You're right. It's private

00:25:43.440 businesses. It's cable news. It's whatever. So people can boycott. It's not a government issue.

00:25:49.940 It's not a First Amendment issue. But they shouldn't. Just let him say what he wants to

00:25:54.120 say. We can have a dialogue. He gets it. He gets this exactly right. This is where if the left is

00:25:59.820 smart, they will move. This is the sort of thing that they'll embrace. Cenk is still a left of Lenin on

00:26:06.480 just about everything else. But they're going to be the snake that eats its own tail if they keep it up

00:26:12.000 with this censorship stuff because they're just slowly going to destroy themselves and censor

00:26:16.220 themselves. There was this woman, this feminist writer in Canada who disagreed with the transgender

00:26:21.740 ideology. She's a left winger. She's a feminist writer. They banned her from Twitter because the

00:26:29.420 snake was eating its own tail. And this is what's going to happen to the left. It's just going to

00:26:33.260 totally destroy itself unless they get on board with what Cenk is saying. And I think that's probably

00:26:38.660 why he's saying it. We have a lot more to get to. Great stuff from Dan Crenshaw. He is that

00:26:43.980 congressman, war hero. He was injured in battle, lost an eye. And also, speaking of transgenderism,

00:26:51.680 transgenderism is one of the greatest gifts the left has ever given us. It's ripping down another

00:26:56.920 leftist fantasy in abortion and some more craziness at Mount Holyoke College. But first,

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00:29:11.000 Dan Crenshaw, super cool guy, rising star in the Republican Party. You'll remember him because

00:29:25.460 on SNL, that kid Pete Davidson made a joke about him and said he looked like a porn star pirate or

00:29:32.620 something. I don't really remember the joke. It didn't land and this was controversial because

00:29:37.400 Dan Crenshaw was a war hero who lost his eye defending our freedom, yours and my freedom,

00:29:43.600 defending our country. And so they kind of made up. Dan Crenshaw was very gracious about the whole

00:29:47.860 thing and he even went on SNL and for a fleeting moment made SNL funny again. And anyway, this week,

00:29:55.080 Pete Davidson, the SNL kid, sent out what was essentially a suicide note on Instagram and said

00:30:02.020 he doesn't want to live in this world anymore. He's trying to stick around, but he doesn't know

00:30:05.840 how long he can last. He's talked about depression before and his battles with mental health. There is

00:30:12.060 a suicide epidemic in this country. I've seen it up close. It's really, really nasty. It's

00:30:18.520 disproportionately affecting millennials. Teen suicide is up 70%. So this really is no laughing matter. This

00:30:24.560 is a real serious thing. And so everyone went to his side. Pete Davidson deleted all of his social

00:30:30.500 media accounts and Dan Crenshaw actually gave him a call and it was a standup thing to do and the

00:30:36.120 right thing to do. And here he is talking about it. Actually, I talked to him personally yesterday

00:30:41.260 and then talked to him for a little bit about it. And you know, we don't go back very far. We're not

00:30:45.560 good friends, but I think he appreciated hearing from me. And what I told him was this. Everybody has

00:30:51.880 a purpose in this world. God put you here for a reason. But it's your job to find that purpose.

00:30:56.760 Okay. And you should live that way. You should live that way, always seeking out that purpose,

00:31:01.240 not expecting it to be given to you by anybody else. And know that you have value and that you

00:31:05.300 maybe do more good than you realize for people, especially a guy like that. You know, he makes

00:31:09.440 people laugh. Sometimes he makes people mad, but he also makes people laugh a lot. You know,

00:31:14.600 and that's what we talked about. It was a good conversation.

00:31:17.220 That's the right thing to say. It's very important to remember this when we're talking to people on,

00:31:22.200 especially on Twitter, but even on the air in politics or usually to people's faces,

00:31:28.640 everyone's really nice. It's only on the air when they're writing or from behind a computer screen

00:31:33.240 that they get really, really mean. You do have to remember you're encountering an eternal soul.

00:31:39.040 Every person you talk to, you're encountering an eternal soul. C.S. Lewis writes about this a lot.

00:31:44.720 It's almost a scary thought because especially in a culture that's a little more materialistic,

00:31:50.600 we like to think of everything as just being what we see. So I'm, you know, this is a golden,

00:31:57.180 wonderful vessel of leftist tears and, you know, I can hear it and it's just, that's all it is.

00:32:02.240 It's just material. My body is just material. When people die, they just turn to worm food. They

00:32:07.060 take a dirt nap. They dissolve. But that isn't really true. There is a physical world and there's

00:32:11.420 a metaphysical world. And we are both. We are both physical and metaphysical. We have a body

00:32:17.160 and we have a soul. We have a, both of those are intertwined. We're not, I know it's fashionable

00:32:23.280 today among sophomoric atheists to pretend that the soul doesn't exist, but it does.

00:32:29.180 And when you encounter people, you're encountering a soul as well. You're not, this is really hard.

00:32:34.180 I mean, especially when it comes to the hookup culture or dating or whatever, you're, it's very

00:32:40.860 tempting to use people. Everyone, this is a ubiquitous temptation. I get it. But you don't just use

00:32:46.740 people sexually. You can use them professionally. You can use people for social climbing. You can

00:32:53.660 use people, I don't know, to get a favor out of them or something. And it's, it's really not the

00:32:58.300 right thing to do. If you're not convinced of that as an ethical or moral matter, at least be convinced

00:33:04.260 of it this way. You might see them again someday. You might see these people in heaven. That's what

00:33:08.800 C.S. Lewis describes. You might see them in another world and you say, oh, remember when I met you?

00:33:13.300 Oh, gosh, I shouldn't have said that. I shouldn't have done that. And so it's very important.

00:33:18.160 I try to do this. Everybody fails at it. Is that's not to say be a squish. That's not to say be a,

00:33:23.240 just a nice guy all the time. Be really low energy. Make your point. Fight for what you believe. Cut.

00:33:31.020 Be serious. Go to rhetorical battle. Absolutely. But don't say something you're going to regret.

00:33:37.280 Don't say something in the heat of the moment that you wish you hadn't said. That's true of

00:33:43.140 when you're talking to a friend or a family member or some stranger on the internet. Don't always try

00:33:48.840 to, to be able to, to defend what you're saying and to be able to stand by what you're saying.

00:33:55.620 And, you know, don't be mean just for the purpose of being mean or cruel. You don't have to do that.

00:34:00.680 You can be cutting. You can be brutal. You can totally own the libs without doing that.

00:34:06.260 I said, look, it's very funny when people are mean to each other on the internet. It's perfectly

00:34:09.060 fine. It doesn't bother me in that personal way, but it will bother you over time and it will make

00:34:14.540 you more crass and you more cruel. Imagine, I mean, imagine how this also could have played out.

00:34:20.640 Pete Davidson, the SNL comedian, makes this bad joke about Dan Crenshaw and Crenshaw goes and he

00:34:27.880 slams him and he's really mean to him and he says he's a terrible person. And then let's say Pete

00:34:31.680 Davidson followed through on his threat. What would we be looking at? I mean, that would be a really

00:34:36.480 terrible thing. You couldn't ever forgive yourself for something like that. So it's important to

00:34:41.140 remember there are people there and it's not just people in the way that we think about people in a

00:34:45.620 very modern way. We're talking about souls and you're going to have to see them someday and you

00:34:49.960 better not want to run away from them in heaven because that's going to be very awkward. Heaven is full of

00:34:54.260 light and you can't hide. There aren't many places that you can hide in up there. Some other good

00:34:59.800 news, transgenderism is ripping down this leftist fantasy of abortion. Now this actually speaks to

00:35:07.240 the soul as well. This is a story that comes right from the left, which once denied the soul, is now

00:35:12.360 admitting that the soul exists. You saw over the weekend, there was that guy competing for the Miss

00:35:18.720 Universe pageant. So this guy, Miss Spain, is a dude who now either has had surgery or dresses like

00:35:26.560 a woman or has had surgery and dresses like a woman. And he didn't win, but he did very well in the

00:35:33.660 Miss Universe pageant. Here is what he has to say about the question of whether or not he is a woman.

00:35:39.800 I'll translate because I assume most of you don't speak Spanish.

00:35:43.160 He says, having a vagina does not make me a woman. I am a woman and already was before my birth

00:35:51.760 because my identity is here in my mind, not down there. I love this story. I love the fact of

00:36:02.960 transgenderism. I mean, it's not good for the people who suffer from the condition, but the ideology is

00:36:08.740 very good for exposing the bizarre contradictions within the left. Because what they've just admitted,

00:36:18.480 what Miss Spain just admitted by the process of transgenderism is not just that he was a woman

00:36:25.760 before he was born, but that he was before he was born, that he was anything before he was born.

00:36:32.220 What the pro-abortion left wants us to believe is that you don't exist until the very moment that

00:36:39.660 you are born. Two minutes before you're born, oh, you're just a clump of cells. You're just a random

00:36:44.800 mishmash. You don't even look like a human. Oh, don't look at that sonogram. Oh, don't know. Don't

00:36:50.040 feel the baby kick. No, no. It's just a mishmash of cells. Only once you're born do you become a

00:36:55.380 human. And what Miss Spain just said is, I was a woman before I was born. And so it's acknowledging

00:37:03.080 the humanity of the unborn baby, what we call the fetus, which really just means offspring or the

00:37:09.880 embryo or whatever they want to talk about. It's acknowledging that that is a human life.

00:37:15.060 But what Miss Spain is talking about is even further, which is at the heart of the transgender

00:37:19.720 ideology itself. It's at the heart both of the condition and the ideology, which is that

00:37:24.700 humans are not just physical objects. We have a soul. So I might be a man. You can check under

00:37:31.480 the hood down there, you know, and everything checks out. I've got whiskers. I have a deep voice

00:37:36.640 and a big Adam's apple. I am a man. I've got a Y chromosome. But in a non-physical, in a metaphysical

00:37:44.620 sense, in a deeper reality, I am really a woman. And this is the universal claim of transgenderism.

00:37:53.660 But in order for that to be true, there has to be a metaphysical reality. There has to be a soul.

00:38:00.060 You have to be something more than just your physical body. This is a very difficult thing

00:38:06.620 for the left, for leftist materialists, for leftist atheists who say there is nothing beyond the body.

00:38:13.180 There is nothing beyond the physical world. Well, if that's true, then transgenderism is even more

00:38:17.680 ridiculous than it is in a world with a soul. If that's true, then what are they claiming? Then

00:38:22.820 they're truly just babbling nonsense. Now, it's also nonsense in the world where there's a metaphysical

00:38:28.740 reality as well. But it's at least much more plausible in that world. It cuts against this.

00:38:35.560 And the reason this issue is so good, I mean, the reason why for the conservative side, I'm glad that

00:38:42.580 transgenderism, which actually only affects 0.2% of the population, if that, I mean, a very vanishingly

00:38:51.600 small percentage of the population. The reason that this has dominated the national conversation

00:38:56.940 is because the left has to work out all of these issues and challenges that it poses for its ideology

00:39:03.540 because it poses a ton of them. It just smashes down the notion that men and women are exactly the

00:39:10.400 same or the notion that feminism makes. Either men and women are exactly the same or they're not

00:39:17.620 exactly the same. Either sexual differences are natural or they don't exist. They're just sort of

00:39:23.480 socially constructed. Well, if they're socially constructed, what is a woman? What is feminism?

00:39:28.160 If gender doesn't really matter at all, then why would someone surgically mutilate himself,

00:39:34.320 go to such great lengths to try to more closely resemble a woman? If a metaphysical reality does

00:39:40.060 not exist, then how can someone be a man but not a man, really? What does really even mean in that

00:39:45.920 scenario? It raises a lot of really good questions. I think, you know, we're shocked by the ridiculousness

00:39:52.640 of it. But rather than exclusively making fun of the ridiculousness of it, we should do that,

00:39:58.260 you know, 92% of the time. But for the rest of the time, follow that train of thought. Think about

00:40:03.700 why this issue has cropped up in the imagination of Democrats and left-wingers. It's because they're

00:40:09.040 extraordinarily confused in their thinking. And this is a good opportunity to bring some clarity

00:40:14.160 to it. I mean, nowhere is this more visible than at Mount Holyoke College. Mount Holyoke College

00:40:20.640 is traditionally a girls-only school. The current logo of Mount Holyoke College, MHC, has the H and the

00:40:30.260 C combined to form the Venus symbol. That's the female gender symbol, you know. And now this is very

00:40:38.220 offensive. You're not allowed to do this anymore. Why? Because in 2015, the college decided it would no

00:40:43.760 longer be a women's-only college. It would also admit trans women, which is to say men. So the

00:40:49.880 college now is, it's a women's-only college still, but the way they describe it is it's a gender-diverse

00:40:56.780 women's college. It's a not-only-women-women's college. It's a women's-not-women's college. Okay.

00:41:05.240 It's a contradiction of a college. The president of Mount Holyoke College, Lynn Pasquarela, said,

00:41:11.220 quote, we recognize that what it means to be a woman is not static. Just as early feminists argued

00:41:17.520 that reducing women to their biological functions was a foundation of women's oppression, we acknowledge

00:41:22.800 that gender identity is not reducible to the body. Right. I'm sure those early feminists are so happy

00:41:30.640 now. They're just dancing in their graves or dancing up in heaven that now that their women's-only

00:41:36.620 college is no longer allowed only to admit women. What a huge striving for feminism. What a great

00:41:43.660 leap forward. So not only do they say this nonsense, but after the protests of this symbol,

00:41:50.260 a Mount Holyoke spokesman responded and said, it is now evident to us that this symbol,

00:41:56.980 the Venus symbol, the female gender symbol, has a long history of exclusion connected to movements

00:42:03.540 that while trailblazing for some groups represents the erasure of others. We have thus determined that

00:42:09.780 the college cannot move forward with a word mark that references this symbol. And it is true. The

00:42:17.180 Venus female gender symbol does exclude some people, namely men. The women's symbol excludes men

00:42:26.600 because the very definition of women until five seconds ago was and is not men. That's true. It's

00:42:34.620 exclusive. It's not tolerant in the silly way that we talk about tolerance now. But words are

00:42:43.780 exclusive. Discreet things are exclusive. This is a pen. This is not a watermelon. That's so exclusive.

00:42:52.080 Isn't that so exclusive? I want it to be all things to all people. I want to be all things to

00:42:56.540 all people. That's the typical cowardice of our age. We demand to be all things to our people. And

00:43:01.340 when you try to be all things to all people, you are nothing to anybody. When you try to be a friend

00:43:07.780 to all, in reality, you are a friend to none. You have to stand for something or you will fall for

00:43:13.360 anything. How many more simple platitudes can I possibly utter? And there must be like 20 more of

00:43:18.180 those. This is the mistake that Mount Holyoke College is admitting, the competency of Mount

00:43:22.440 Holyoke College. The point, the raison d'etre of Mount Holyoke College is to be a women's college.

00:43:28.740 If it ceases to be a women's college, it doesn't become twice as great. It becomes nothing.

00:43:34.280 If the Venus symbol, if womanhood is not allowed to be womanhood, the thing that the Venus symbol is

00:43:40.820 symbolizing, the womanhood, if womanhood is not allowed to be womanhood, then there is no womanhood.

00:43:46.160 But it's nothing. It's not that womanhood gets better. It's that womanhood goes away and all

00:43:51.820 we're left with is manhood and masculinity, which we're told is toxic. So that's got to go away too.

00:43:57.740 And what do we have? Nothing. It's a race to the bottom. It is a race to emptiness. Another

00:44:03.400 inconvenient philosophical, logical conclusion to the bizarre contradictions within leftism. And who do

00:44:11.320 we have to thank for this? The transgender ideology. So got to give credit where credit is due here on

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