The Michael Knowles Show - August 07, 2017


Ep. 5 - The Revolution Will Be Televised： Trump TV Debuts


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On Sunday, President Trump launched a new News of the Week segment on his Facebook page to tout the achievements of his administration. Left-wing propagandists at network news outlets who shill for Democrats nightly and broadcast across public airwaves have disparaged it as propaganda.

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00:00:27.420 The revolution will be televised.
00:00:30.840 On Sunday, President Trump launched a new News of the Week segment on his Facebook page
00:00:35.720 to tout the achievements of his administration.
00:00:38.480 Left-wing propagandists at network news outlets who shill for Democrats nightly
00:00:42.440 and broadcast across public airwaves have disparaged President Trump's Facebook post
00:00:47.020 as propaganda and state TV will discuss.
00:00:50.620 Plus, campus carry activist Antonia Okafor, roaming millennial,
00:00:54.840 and for some reason, Jacob Airy will join the panel of deplorables
00:00:58.040 to talk Pence 2020, the surge in black female gun ownership,
00:01:02.300 and how to tell if your child is transgender.
00:01:04.660 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:06.860 So, President Trump has launched what is now being called Trump TV.
00:01:17.760 It's a weekly segment to talk about his administration
00:01:20.380 and give the real news on his Facebook page.
00:01:24.280 And CNN contributor Kayleigh McEnany was the one who launched this last night.
00:01:29.040 Let's take a look at the debut episode.
00:01:30.780 You know, Kayleigh has a really thick accent.
00:01:56.760 I didn't remember that on her. Incredible.
00:01:59.800 You know, that is—I guess we got our feeds mixed up.
00:02:03.520 That is North Korean government propaganda.
00:02:05.820 But that is what Evan McMullin is comparing it to.
00:02:09.560 For those of you who don't remember Evan McMullin, which should be everybody,
00:02:13.160 he was the spoiler candidate.
00:02:14.740 He was the so-called conservative who ran to throw the election for Hillary Clinton.
00:02:19.180 He was an old House Republican aide and a CIA officer.
00:02:22.300 And he tweeted, quote,
00:02:24.940 This is the type of propaganda you'd see in North Korea.
00:02:28.120 It erodes the people's ability to discern truth and hold government accountable.
00:02:33.200 You know, with Republicans like Evan McMullin, who needs Democrats?
00:02:36.480 He has spent every moment since Donald Trump was elected president trying to tear this guy down.
00:02:42.560 Every day is more hyperbolic than the next.
00:02:44.960 The notion that President Trump puts out a new messaging platform on his Facebook page
00:02:49.780 is now—rises to the heights of North Korean state propaganda.
00:02:55.180 Evan McMullin brought up propaganda.
00:02:56.800 That's fine.
00:02:57.300 Let's look at some propaganda.
00:02:58.940 Do we have a cut of it?
00:02:59.820 Joining us as we provide you the news of the week from Trump Tower here in New York.
00:03:04.060 More great economic news on Friday.
00:03:06.300 The July jobs report added a better-than-expected 209,000 jobs.
00:03:11.580 Overall, since the president took office, President Trump has created more than 1 million jobs.
00:03:17.180 The unemployment rate is at a 16-year low, and consumer confidence is at a 16-year high.
00:03:22.700 All while the Dow Jones continues to break records.
00:03:25.540 President Trump has clearly steered the economy back in the right direction.
00:03:30.460 On Wednesday, the president introduced the RAISE Act.
00:03:33.520 For decades, a steady rise in immigration has depressed the wages of American workers.
00:03:38.900 The RAISE Act will increase wages, increase poverty, and save the taxpayers billions.
00:03:44.420 Americans deserve a raise, and President Trump is finally putting the American worker first.
00:03:49.540 Thank you for joining us, everybody.
00:03:51.240 I'm Kayleigh McEnany, and that is The Real News.
00:03:53.760 It's on American.
00:03:55.380 Watch out.
00:03:55.860 The secret police are going to be coming soon.
00:03:58.120 This is what Evan McMullen is afraid of, the terrible news, state TV, and propaganda.
00:04:03.000 And it is.
00:04:03.440 I am half joking.
00:04:04.780 It is obviously propaganda.
00:04:06.740 But what is propaganda?
00:04:07.960 Propaganda is messaging and the use of information to advance a political goal or a political campaign.
00:04:14.700 Every political campaign uses it.
00:04:16.320 Every politician uses it.
00:04:17.700 That's why they have directors of communication.
00:04:19.560 That's why they have political directors, because they want to dictate the news cycle, get their message out there, and cut through their opponents who are all around them.
00:04:28.780 When it comes to President Trump, he has the entire deck stacked against him.
00:04:32.080 So, you know, if that is propaganda, and by the way, propaganda is not a bad thing.
00:04:37.820 I think it's spoken of as some awful and un-American activity.
00:04:41.720 Propaganda, when there's a lot on both sides, is evidence of a healthy political system.
00:04:45.940 Now, Democrats want to limit political speech.
00:04:47.880 They want to restrict the right of people to air commercials and hold rallies and spend money advancing political speech.
00:04:54.780 But Republicans say, that's fine.
00:04:56.600 You have a microphone for your message.
00:04:58.680 We'll have a microphone for our message.
00:05:00.360 We don't care if MSNBC is out there.
00:05:02.200 We're going to have Fox News refuting some of those, some of the issues that are coming out of left-wing news outlets.
00:05:08.540 If that is propaganda, and I suppose it is, let's look at other propaganda that might help the other side.
00:05:14.900 He's personable, he's handsome, he can be funny.
00:05:19.440 This is one of the brightest presidents, one of the most adept that we've had perhaps in our lifetime.
00:05:24.080 You know, abroad, he has his great image for America.
00:05:27.200 Barack Obama, the rising rock star.
00:05:29.840 It's about Barack Obama, the rock star.
00:05:32.240 His rock star popularity.
00:05:34.180 He's so informed, he's circumspect, he's articulate, he's thoughtful.
00:05:39.080 Oh, I miss him so much.
00:05:40.840 He's so, he's so perfect.
00:05:42.960 The sea has stopped rising.
00:05:44.920 Now, by the way, this wasn't on some Facebook page.
00:05:47.540 This wasn't the president posting a little video of an articulate and cute blonde lady to his own Facebook page.
00:05:53.500 This is the entire mainstream media.
00:05:55.920 So if we're worried about state TV, this is actual state TV.
00:05:59.720 And by the way, I think a lot of millennials don't know this, but there are airwaves.
00:06:04.480 Not everything is Hulu, Netflix, and cable.
00:06:06.880 There are these airwaves that are regulated by the government.
00:06:09.220 And these people on ABC, NBC, CBS are broadcasting on public airwaves.
00:06:14.580 They're shilling for Democrats every night.
00:06:16.360 They're attacking Republicans, and especially this president, every night.
00:06:19.500 And I don't begrudge them that.
00:06:20.880 I think that's just fine in the American Republic. 0.90
00:06:23.980 But then to fly into fits of hysterics because President Trump decides to send his message out on his own Facebook page seems a little ridiculous.
00:06:34.400 Let's look at some more propaganda from those same public airwave networks.
00:06:38.180 If Trump wins, how about bursting into tears and screaming for the next 45 minutes?
00:06:43.080 Well, America is crying tonight. 0.98
00:06:45.080 I'm not sure how much of America, but a very, very significant portion.
00:06:48.940 And I mean literally crying.
00:06:51.100 Everybody is crying and so upset, and it is the end of their world.
00:06:57.040 Feels like the end of the world.
00:06:58.500 We were on Lifetime last night, and I was slowly getting drunk is what happened to me.
00:07:03.160 How do we explain how this is possible?
00:07:05.280 How did this happen? 0.96
00:07:06.540 Experienced politician versus racist fake gynecologist. 0.99
00:07:12.920 Get your abortions now. 1.00
00:07:15.660 Because we're going to be f***ing, and we're going to have to live with it. 0.98
00:07:18.600 You're awake, by the way. 0.88
00:07:20.240 You're not having a terrible, terrible dream.
00:07:22.280 Also, you're not dead, and you haven't gone to hell.
00:07:25.120 This is your life now.
00:07:26.120 This is our election now.
00:07:27.120 This is us.
00:07:27.740 This is our country.
00:07:28.480 This is a different earth today than it was 24 hours ago.
00:07:31.880 It's a different place.
00:07:33.820 It just is different.
00:07:35.300 The woman who President Obama called the most qualified person ever to run for the White 0.99
00:07:40.320 House couldn't break through.
00:07:41.860 The question remains, who can?
00:07:43.680 Deeper concerns tonight that the world's shining light of democracy has gone dark.
00:07:48.940 You see, that's not propaganda.
00:07:50.740 That's just the credible news coverage of those objective journalists who are under siege.
00:07:56.240 But President Trump sending a spokesman out and touting his achievements of the past week
00:08:01.020 or two weeks, that is the threat to our democracy.
00:08:03.920 By the way, Marshall, great job bleeping all the swear words on there. 0.72
00:08:06.840 We should have used ZipRecruiter, I guess, but maybe next time.
00:08:10.020 This is also nothing new.
00:08:12.680 Both sides are not new.
00:08:14.000 The left-wing media complex, shilling for Democrats, and flying into fits of hysterics.
00:08:18.740 That's obviously not new.
00:08:19.820 That's been going on for decades.
00:08:21.460 But also, releasing addresses on social media platforms or on your own outlets, there's
00:08:27.260 nothing new about that either.
00:08:28.340 Here's President Trump giving a similar address himself.
00:08:31.100 My fellow Americans, as we celebrate American Dream Week at the White House, we continue to
00:08:37.200 see incredible results.
00:08:40.200 This week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached an all-time high.
00:08:44.320 Never, ever has it been so high.
00:08:48.720 That must be all of those censors trying to cut out our President Trump clip. 0.83
00:08:52.420 I think you get the picture.
00:08:53.560 He's out there, that typical Trump subtlety, just going right down the list of all of the
00:08:59.340 achievements that he's ascribing to his political leadership.
00:09:02.280 And that's just fine.
00:09:03.100 Successful presidents do this.
00:09:04.900 FDR had his famous fireside chats.
00:09:07.480 He gave about 30 radio addresses during his presidency to communicate directly to the
00:09:12.280 American people.
00:09:12.740 From the Library of Congress, they said of those, they were an influential series of
00:09:15.880 radio broadcasts in which Roosevelt utilized the media to present his programs and ideas
00:09:20.760 directly to the public and, quote, thereby redefined the relationship between President
00:09:26.000 Roosevelt and the American people in 1933.
00:09:28.780 Nothing wrong about it.
00:09:30.940 Politicians and presidents always use media.
00:09:33.100 And that was a first major use of mass media.
00:09:36.520 The JFK knew that he was excellent at TV.
00:09:39.340 There is, I think, something of an apocryphal story that when he debated President Nixon
00:09:44.640 in 1960, the radio listeners thought Nixon won and the TV listeners thought JFK won.
00:09:49.560 There's not a lot of evidence to support that directly.
00:09:52.680 But I think everybody agreed that JFK's excellent performance on TV was one of the reasons that
00:09:58.060 he won that election.
00:09:59.600 And also, those dead bodies in Ohio probably gave it to him, too.
00:10:01.800 But that was one of the reasons why he had a successful campaign.
00:10:06.440 And it certainly helped him throughout his presidency.
00:10:08.980 Ronald Reagan used radio and TV regularly.
00:10:11.400 He would broadcast to the nation.
00:10:13.040 And from 1975 to 1979, I think people forget this.
00:10:16.860 He had a five-minute radio daily show where he would address different issues and prepare
00:10:21.440 his own campaign.
00:10:22.660 Barack Obama was so good at using social media, he would appear on all of these different
00:10:26.140 internet platforms, that awful Zach Galifianakis between two ferns show he did that.
00:10:31.820 He actually had a strategist working on his GIF strategy, those little moving images.
00:10:37.780 He had somebody on his team working on how to make the most, put him in GIFs in the best
00:10:43.580 possible light.
00:10:44.580 So there's nothing new about this.
00:10:46.000 And unfortunately for the right, GOP candidates have generally refused to do this.
00:10:50.240 We've been behind the ball dealing with the media probably since Ronald Reagan.
00:10:54.600 Famously in 2012, Mitt Romney was debating Barack Obama and there was a point of contention.
00:11:01.680 The moderator, Candy Crowley, entered herself into the debate, lied right through her teeth, 1.00
00:11:07.860 lied on behalf of Barack Obama.
00:11:09.640 Mitt Romney was unable to refute that.
00:11:11.560 He didn't punch back.
00:11:13.020 Same with John McCain.
00:11:13.940 John McCain famously suspended his own presidential campaign to virtue signal during the financial
00:11:19.200 crisis.
00:11:19.700 At that point, I think we all knew that Barack Obama had it, even if we thought he might have
00:11:24.140 had it before that.
00:11:25.460 And President Bush, George W. Bush, famously refused to dignify the media attacks.
00:11:30.420 You saw some of them there against President Trump.
00:11:33.020 They were just as bad against George W. Bush.
00:11:35.300 He felt it would be below the dignity of the president to fight back against them.
00:11:39.520 Clearly that hampered much of the progress that could have been made during his administration.
00:11:44.000 It ruined his reputation throughout the country.
00:11:46.480 And it hurt Republicans politically.
00:11:49.020 The idea here is that campaigns are never really over.
00:11:52.040 Barack Obama knew this very well.
00:11:54.140 He kept his campaign apparatus, Obama for America.
00:11:56.840 He renamed it Organizing for America.
00:11:58.980 He had the campaign running during his entire presidency.
00:12:01.520 It's still running now.
00:12:02.720 The man hasn't been president in a while.
00:12:05.040 And nevertheless, his campaign apparatus is still going strong, which is why politicians have
00:12:11.140 political directors.
00:12:11.900 So President Trump is using a campaign tactic here.
00:12:15.900 That seems just fine.
00:12:17.200 You know, some are saying this is more nefarious.
00:12:19.820 But I think here's some more evidence to the contrary.
00:12:23.020 Just a few hours ago, Kayleigh McEnany was named the RNC spokesman.
00:12:27.240 She's the new spokesman for the Republican National Committee.
00:12:29.780 This is a new way that they're going to get their message out.
00:12:32.180 Seems just fine.
00:12:33.860 She said, quote, while I've enjoyed my time at CNN, I will be moving to a new role.
00:12:38.280 Stay tuned next week.
00:12:39.240 She got in a few jabs about CNN being fake news, and she's moving to real news, as you
00:12:43.820 heard in the clip.
00:12:45.400 I'd also like to remind all of us that it was the left who started using that term fake
00:12:50.220 news.
00:12:50.940 We appropriated it from them, obviously to great effect, and we're having a lot of covfefe
00:12:55.080 fun with it.
00:12:56.360 Mainstream media hysteria is probably a good barometer of the effectiveness of Republican
00:13:01.760 strategies.
00:13:02.820 The angrier they get, the more we're punching them where it hurts.
00:13:05.440 Unlike some of our recent Republican leaders, here is President Trump's thought on how to
00:13:11.580 fight the media.
00:13:12.780 But with me, we fight back.
00:13:14.760 I like it.
00:13:15.660 Let's fight back.
00:13:16.660 With that, let's bring on our panel of deplorables.
00:13:19.900 I don't know how I got so lucky, but today we have a truly excellent panel of deplorables.
00:13:24.680 We have Antonia Okafor, well-known campus carry activist and Second Amendment activist.
00:13:29.020 We have, again, somehow we've got roaming millennial coming to us at like three in the morning
00:13:33.640 from wherever she is.
00:13:35.180 And then, because we're a charity here, we're very generous, we brought on the always funny
00:13:40.480 and articulate Jacob Aire from Conservative News.
00:13:43.460 Antonia, will this strategy help Trump reach out to people he otherwise wouldn't reach, or
00:13:48.340 is he just preaching to the choir?
00:13:49.340 No, absolutely.
00:13:52.560 I think it definitely is going to.
00:13:53.960 Just like Twitter, I mean, people still get upset, hey, do you need to, you know, shut
00:13:58.960 down your account?
00:13:59.780 But, I mean, I listen, I look at it every day to see what the real news is versus the
00:14:05.300 fake news.
00:14:05.900 So, I think it's just going to help his cause, and it's going to help him in 2020.
00:14:10.400 So, more power to him.
00:14:11.800 That's a great, when you go on to get news now, I used to go to different websites, I still
00:14:17.040 go to some news websites, but when I want breaking news, I go straight to Twitter.
00:14:20.520 That seems to be the place where the news actually manages to break through.
00:14:24.540 Yeah, I used to go to IJR.
00:14:25.680 Sorry, go ahead, Antonia.
00:14:27.260 Sorry.
00:14:28.220 I'm going to say, I worked at IJR, and literally, it would be like, oh, he just tweeted that.
00:14:32.580 Hurry up, get it out.
00:14:33.660 So, I think that's what most are doing right now.
00:14:36.920 And he's dictating the news cycle, which is something we haven't done in far too long.
00:14:41.200 Roaming, this might not be dangerous propaganda or state TV, but is it a little unseemly to put
00:14:46.780 this cute, bubbly, articulate blonde on Facebook and have her tout your politics, or is that 0.99
00:14:53.040 just good politics?
00:14:56.260 Well, I mean, I think if anything, we can all agree that the production values are somewhat
00:15:00.400 tacky.
00:15:01.360 I don't, you know, I think that would be accurate.
00:15:03.040 They're very classy.
00:15:04.480 What are you talking about?
00:15:06.460 But no, I don't see how you can look at this Facebook video post and say that it's nefarious
00:15:12.780 to the equivalent to state-run propaganda, which, by the way, I mean, BBC and CBC in
00:15:18.280 Britain and Canada, that's actual legitimate state-run media.
00:15:21.700 You know, this is a Facebook post, right?
00:15:24.280 I mean, it's not like they're commandeering the airwaves and broadcasting this, you know,
00:15:28.900 to televisions across the nation.
00:15:30.880 This is totally different.
00:15:31.840 And I think, you know what?
00:15:33.600 Like with Trump's Twitter feed, yeah, there are people who would just be following it to
00:15:38.320 agree with everything, who wouldn't be converts to the Trump administration.
00:15:41.000 But there are people who are going to be like kind of curious, like, hey, this seems kind
00:15:45.560 of cringy.
00:15:46.140 Maybe I'll watch it just to laugh at it. 0.98
00:15:48.000 Maybe I want to see how ridiculous it is. 0.96
00:15:49.920 And they'll end up hearing things that they wouldn't have otherwise. 0.86
00:15:52.560 So worth it either way, in my opinion.
00:15:54.160 An excellent showman.
00:15:55.140 He's a good communicator.
00:15:56.160 And I follow it for the covfefe.
00:15:57.820 Jacob, it seems to me-
00:15:58.640 Right, don't we all.
00:16:00.940 Jacob, it seems to me conservatives and Republicans, they don't want to associate that closely
00:16:05.080 with him because he's uncouth.
00:16:07.340 He seems a little classless.
00:16:09.280 As Roaming pointed out, the production value could probably use a little work.
00:16:13.760 But they seem more concerned with this appearance than with achieving results.
00:16:17.240 Is that fair or am I too harsh on them?
00:16:20.020 No, I actually agree with you.
00:16:21.860 And you know me, I'm not a huge Trump supporter, but I actually think this is a good idea.
00:16:27.880 I think that it helps President Trump get his message out.
00:16:31.700 And like you said, the media hysteria determines its success, right?
00:16:37.400 WAPO's headline was real news, more like real propaganda.
00:16:41.080 It sounded like a teenage girl tweeting out something.
00:16:43.600 And then the mirror, Donald Trump quietly launches his own propaganda.
00:16:48.600 He didn't quietly launch anything.
00:16:50.560 It was, he put it out there right on his Facebook.
00:16:54.160 And I just, I think that conservatives need to get on board with this.
00:16:57.640 And we need to see more of it from conservative lawmakers.
00:17:00.180 Great. On state-regulated TV, you have wall-to-wall anti-Trump.
00:17:04.240 He makes a Facebook post and all of a sudden he's a tin pot dictator.
00:17:07.740 That's great.
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00:17:58.060 On Saturday, the New York Times,
00:17:59.920 which is that former newspaper that Andrew Klavan's always talking about,
00:18:02.820 reported that Mike Pence is seeking to challenge President Trump
00:18:06.260 for the White House in 2020 with the headline,
00:18:08.680 Republican shadow campaign for 2020 takes shape as Trump doubts grow.
00:18:14.020 I don't know who told them that, but somebody told them that.
00:18:16.980 There are reports that Kasich, Pence, Ben Sasse are eyeing the throne.
00:18:21.100 Bill Kristol is finally going to get this one out of here
00:18:23.580 and form a committee not to re-nominate the president.
00:18:26.860 Pence has vigorously denied the rumors.
00:18:28.900 The New York Times is fake news.
00:18:30.180 I'm not surprised.
00:18:31.260 Roaming.
00:18:32.180 Is Pence going to run?
00:18:33.340 And if he does, would he have a chance?
00:18:35.200 Or is this just New York Times wishful thinking?
00:18:38.440 Well, I don't think he's going to run.
00:18:40.540 That obviously looks awful for the Trump administration.
00:18:43.200 You're sitting vice president running against the sitting president in the primaries.
00:18:47.880 That's not going to happen.
00:18:49.340 I don't think as destructive as the RNC is.
00:18:53.000 I don't think they'd ever allow that.
00:18:54.340 But in terms of whether he would actually win if he hypothetically does run,
00:18:58.080 I'm a huge Pence fan.
00:18:59.520 I think he's great.
00:19:00.440 He's constitutional conservative, pro-life, pro-Second Amendment.
00:19:04.040 Great guy in my book.
00:19:05.020 However, the people who are triggered by Trump, they would go apocalyptic if it were actually Pence, right?
00:19:13.520 And I think Pence being VP is actually Donald Trump's anti-assassination protection.
00:19:18.620 The fact that if a leftist were to target him, guess who's president next?
00:19:23.540 It's Pence, right?
00:19:24.520 If you want to talk about-
00:19:25.520 Most right-wing guy in the country.
00:19:28.320 Right.
00:19:28.980 So as much as I like him, I don't think he'd actually have a chance of winning over people
00:19:33.660 like independents who voted for Trump over Hillary in 2016.
00:19:37.000 I just don't see it happening.
00:19:38.580 Sounds like sour grapes.
00:19:39.840 Is that, Antonia, is that it?
00:19:40.900 Is this just sour grapes by the anti-Trump crowd?
00:19:43.140 Or is there some good argument on the right to kick out Trump, make him a one-term president?
00:19:49.600 Well, first, I feel like I need to address the elephant in the room.
00:19:52.720 I am at a gun range.
00:19:54.340 And if you guys are hearing gunshots, it's because of that.
00:19:57.820 I love it.
00:19:59.160 The Michael Knowles show panel.
00:20:01.000 We have gunshots literally being fired in the background.
00:20:04.440 Also, Antonia, that makes you, I think, the coolest person I've ever met.
00:20:07.500 Sorry, go on.
00:20:08.820 Okay.
00:20:09.380 Well, that makes sense.
00:20:10.980 But yeah, definitely.
00:20:11.900 With the Trump thing, I just think, come on.
00:20:15.200 Disagree.
00:20:15.720 I mean, the fact is, New York Times, it was as if Washpo and The Hill and everybody was
00:20:21.140 like, yeah, let's just make sure New York Times puts it in first, just so people actually
00:20:25.580 think there's credibility to this actual story.
00:20:28.800 I think more and more people, especially because of the Trump administration, are starting to
00:20:34.100 delegitimize these type of news organizations that put out stuff that are really just like,
00:20:39.380 really, come on.
00:20:40.060 I think most people know that there's a shadow campaign, or rather that they're just vying
00:20:45.480 for their own seats later on.
00:20:47.120 It has nothing to do with trying to take Trump out.
00:20:49.480 I mean, even the candidates that we're trying to go against.
00:20:52.100 Oh, sorry, guys.
00:20:54.580 Oh, no.
00:20:55.700 Get your guns.
00:20:56.560 The lights went out on Antonia.
00:20:58.440 Get your guns.
00:21:01.480 I knew you'd be safe.
00:21:02.580 You're the best shot I know.
00:21:03.440 I'm not even in California.
00:21:03.600 That's what happened.
00:21:07.380 So, even with those people who know that it's not going to be an issue.
00:21:11.860 So, yeah.
00:21:12.520 Of course, politicians are always looking out for their own political interests, are always
00:21:17.060 checking out possibilities.
00:21:18.460 But, you know, right now we've got Bill Kristol, John Kasich, Ben Sasse.
00:21:22.720 They all seem determined to dethrone President Trump.
00:21:26.640 Jacob, is it time for Never Trump to give it a rest and support the nominee of their party?
00:21:32.720 Not only the nominee of their party, the guy that their party and the rest of the country
00:21:35.640 made president?
00:21:36.520 Have we had enough of Never Trump?
00:21:37.700 I actually am in a unique position here because I actually was Never Trump.
00:21:44.000 If you read on my blog, it's full of Never Trump propaganda.
00:21:48.320 Honestly, though, yes, it's time to move on.
00:21:50.860 We tried Never Trump.
00:21:52.120 He got elected.
00:21:53.400 It's time to back him when he does conservative things and call him out when he does left-wing
00:21:59.100 things.
00:21:59.680 That's what we need to do.
00:22:01.000 And I honestly don't think people like Ben Sasse, maybe John Kasich, but I don't think
00:22:06.280 like Senator Ben Sasse, I don't think he's going to risk his political capital to run
00:22:10.580 for the presidency.
00:22:11.620 I mean, that would virtually end his Senate career, I think.
00:22:15.940 But we might see someone like a John Kasich or someone more on the outside, a former governor,
00:22:22.740 a former senator, or maybe a House of Representatives congressman or congresswoman.
00:22:27.300 But I don't think we're going to see anyone substantial really mount a challenge against
00:22:31.640 Trump.
00:22:32.220 Thought we were through with John Kasich.
00:22:34.380 Oh, here he comes back.
00:22:35.800 Well, I mean, I think if there's one good thing we can say about this whole current Never
00:22:40.720 Trump movement is that John Kasich's involvement is probably the best signal we have that it's
00:22:45.200 not going to be successful, right?
00:22:46.560 So we can take comfort in that.
00:22:48.500 I love his political strategy.
00:22:50.160 His political strategy of running as a Republican and just criticizing every Republican that ever
00:22:55.880 lived.
00:22:56.720 That's how we're going to win their hearts and minds.
00:22:58.680 Well, we're very lucky now.
00:23:02.280 We actually have an expert on our next subject.
00:23:04.880 59% of African-American households now view owning a gun as a necessity, according to Pew
00:23:11.700 Research.
00:23:12.660 Jacob, I know you identify as a black woman, but we're going to have to talk about that
00:23:16.920 later on in the transgender discussion.
00:23:18.420 Antonia, you are the expert.
00:23:21.300 Why the surge and why now?
00:23:25.200 I don't know.
00:23:26.280 According to like all the other black liberals, apparently I'm not really black and also not
00:23:30.720 a woman because I'm pro-life. 0.77
00:23:32.240 You had me fooled.
00:23:32.820 You had me fooled.
00:23:34.340 Yeah.
00:23:34.480 But since today, I'll humor you.
00:23:38.400 I'm a black woman for today.
00:23:39.680 Appreciate it.
00:23:39.980 That's good.
00:23:42.420 But and also as a gun enthusiast and someone who is a big Second Amendment supporter, I've
00:23:48.980 known this for a while.
00:23:50.080 It's just like the media is finally catching up with the actual statistics of like, oh,
00:23:54.940 whoa, black women actually think it's important to protect themselves because a lot of them 1.00
00:23:59.540 are independent. 0.92
00:24:00.280 A lot of them are not.
00:24:01.240 You don't have a spouse or a father figure in the home.
00:24:03.640 I've gotten in trouble for saying that, by the way, but I actually grew up without a
00:24:07.660 father in the home.
00:24:08.460 So I also feel like I can say that. 0.98
00:24:09.800 How dare you, you racist? 0.98
00:24:11.620 How dare you, who grew in the situation that the statistics bear out, tell white liberals 0.99
00:24:16.760 something that they know nothing about?
00:24:18.580 That's outrageous.
00:24:19.840 We're gonna have to edit this out.
00:24:21.720 How could we have this ever on?
00:24:23.320 They know best.
00:24:26.160 Well, that is really interesting.
00:24:28.240 The numbers do bear this out. 0.92
00:24:29.920 Black women in America are much more likely to be victims of domestic violence. 1.00
00:24:34.840 Why do you think, though, right now, the race and sex argument for gun ownership is, is it
00:24:40.940 just that the mainstream media is cracking?
00:24:43.320 People like you are vocal and strong advocates for sensible gun policy.
00:24:48.700 Is that what's doing it or is some other force going on?
00:24:50.900 No, it's, oh, Trump is elected.
00:24:55.660 Huh.
00:24:56.020 I know that this statistic has been happening for like the last five years.
00:24:59.820 Well, let's just talk about it as if it's happened the last seven, eight months.
00:25:02.880 Right. 0.62
00:25:03.100 Because then Trump is racist and that helps our whole narrative.
00:25:06.620 So, yeah, absolutely.
00:25:08.220 That's the whole reason is because Trump is president and they really don't like the 0.97
00:25:11.940 fact that black people are going to guns. 0.88
00:25:13.880 I mean, that's not part of it. 0.97
00:25:15.240 Yeah, we have to.
00:25:17.540 So, yeah, of course, they're going to talk about that now and that's what they're going
00:25:20.600 to use.
00:25:21.160 Of course.
00:25:21.380 And as the rights of orange Americans have come to the fore in the Trump era, of course, 0.96
00:25:25.480 these other racial and gender issues, they'll come up as well.
00:25:29.280 Jacob, you're from that gun-toting, freedom-loving wonderland of Texas.
00:25:33.300 What is the best argument against gun control?
00:25:35.560 There are these great arguments now for specific demographics, racial and gender.
00:25:39.700 There's the constitutional argument, self-defense, so on and so forth.
00:25:42.620 What arguments are going to work and what are going to let me keep more of my guns in this
00:25:46.980 awful state of California?
00:25:49.380 I think we should start by calling out their false comparison.
00:25:55.240 So, for instance, the Center for Disease Control, which is for some reason doing studies on guns,
00:26:01.560 I don't know why, but they say, oh, well, Alaska has the second highest rate of suicides
00:26:09.580 and Alaska is number one in gun ownership.
00:26:11.780 Oh, that must be the problem.
00:26:14.100 So, if we institute gun control, people will stop offing themselves.
00:26:17.800 No, that's not the case.
00:26:19.200 That's a pretty cold and lonely place up there, you know.
00:26:22.480 Yeah, exactly. 0.95
00:26:23.340 So, I think if we break down how foolish their arguments sound, Japan has one of the highest 1.00
00:26:30.180 suicide rates in the world, guess what, gun control. 0.96
00:26:33.940 So, I think that no matter what they come at you with, you just got to break down their
00:26:40.600 fake studies, their fake comparisons.
00:26:43.700 That's what it boils down to is just ripping up their arguments.
00:26:47.200 I mean, you are certainly the most cosmopolitan and worldly of us.
00:26:51.700 You're from Justin Trudeau land.
00:26:53.780 You're currently over in Asia.
00:26:56.260 Why do Americans love guns so much?
00:26:58.340 Why do we love guns more than everyone else in the world?
00:27:00.880 Is there some weird pathology about us or is it because we love freedom?
00:27:04.740 Well, I think it's exactly about, like you said, loving freedom.
00:27:10.000 I mean, you look at the history of the United States and the fact that there were wars where
00:27:14.940 you've had to fight off tyrannical governments.
00:27:16.720 I don't think it's any mystery why the U.S. has this pro-Second Amendment culture.
00:27:21.560 And, you know, regarding the fact that a lot of the people who kind of go after Second
00:27:27.380 Amendment activists, how they claim to be feminists. 1.00
00:27:30.580 And Tony, I just saw on your Twitter feed before the show that you have, you know, hashtag
00:27:34.320 empowerment.
00:27:35.340 And I think that's actually a great message, you know, that gun rights advocates can talk
00:27:40.180 about is that, you know, there's that saying that God made men equal, Sam, sorry, God created
00:27:45.200 men, Sam Colt made them equal, right?
00:27:46.780 And I think, you know, if you are a woman, if you are for women's empowerment and equality,
00:27:51.620 I can't think of no better equalizer than a gun, frankly, you know?
00:27:55.720 And I say this, I was like 110 pound woman who is fully aware that no amount of
00:28:00.320 Krav Maga would ever make me any sort of a match for someone like The Rock, right?
00:28:04.880 And I think that, you know, people who point to places like Canada and say like, oh, look,
00:28:10.920 but it's so safe because they have no guns.
00:28:13.960 Actually, you know, on average, the average Canadian gun owner owns more guns than the
00:28:18.180 American gun owner.
00:28:18.860 Those are fighting words.
00:28:19.980 I won't stand for that kind of pro-Canada, anti-American rhetoric on my show.
00:28:24.440 Yeah, you gotta step up your gun ownership of Americans.
00:28:28.200 I mean, you know, one or two, not gonna do it.
00:28:31.160 We're talking eight or nine, right? 0.99
00:28:32.320 I mean, Yemen's kicking your trash in that area. 1.00
00:28:34.920 But I think it's part of what makes America so free. 0.92
00:28:39.020 And the idea that, you know, you have the right to protect yourself, you have the right
00:28:43.620 to, you know, if it needs to be, protect your constitutional rights.
00:28:47.140 I think that is intrinsic to American culture and American history.
00:28:50.040 Yeah, Antonia, when white liberals are educating you about the experience of black women in 1.00
00:28:56.120 America, how do they resolve the cognitive dissonance of, on the one hand, saying that 0.51
00:29:00.960 cops are a racist bastion of white supremacy and we should demilitarize them? 0.98
00:29:07.460 And on the other hand, only cops should have the guns and black people shouldn't have guns 1.00
00:29:13.460 to protect themselves. 0.97
00:29:14.260 How do they resolve that?
00:29:17.080 They don't, because they don't understand the fallacy of their own arguments.
00:29:20.820 And I'm just like, uh-huh, yeah, all right, thank you very much.
00:29:25.340 Then I use the word mansplaining, they stop immediately, I leave, it's all good.
00:29:30.720 But no, I mean, they really don't understand the fact that, you know, and I used to be a
00:29:35.500 leftist too, so I kind of understand where they're coming from and their language and
00:29:39.180 what they're trying to do.
00:29:39.820 And I always bring it back to like, oh, well, don't you, and I'm like talking to a man,
00:29:43.440 right?
00:29:43.600 And I'm like, but don't you think, you know, as a feminist, as a feminist, don't you think 1.00
00:29:48.320 that you should, you know, have, be able to enable a woman to be able to protect themselves
00:29:52.360 because they're independent and they should have that, that right to it?
00:29:55.420 It's a woman's right, don't you think so? 0.56
00:29:56.960 And, and they're like, oh, crap, okay, buzzwords that I usually don't know what to say unless 0.77
00:30:01.420 I have talking points. 0.99
00:30:02.240 All right, um, well, you know, you're a black man, I'm gonna, I'm gonna step away and let 1.00
00:30:08.840 you, I'm gonna say that you actually know what you're talking about and then go on social
00:30:12.260 media and like, you know, you know, subtweet you.
00:30:15.360 So basically that's how it works.
00:30:17.340 And Antonia, you said, you used to be a leftist. 0.95
00:30:19.900 What turns you into this gun-toting, you're sitting in a range while you do the interview,
00:30:24.600 right winger?
00:30:25.300 What, what was the motivation?
00:30:26.820 Well, first of all, I'm in Texas, so that'll do it, um, you get to choose, but yeah, definitely,
00:30:35.860 I, definitely, I mean, it just comes to the fact that, you know, actually the gun rights
00:30:40.480 issues, what brought me more away from the left, realizing that, yeah, it's about freedom.
00:30:44.920 And I think we do have this intrinsic, you know, you know, feeling or this desire as
00:30:51.220 Americans to make sure that we protect that freedom.
00:30:53.640 Um, some, just people need more time to get to the point that, yeah, guns for a lot of
00:30:58.540 people, particularly for women, um, especially on college campuses.
00:31:01.880 And that's why I'm a campus carry activist, um, means freedom.
00:31:05.300 It means the freedom to have safety in my own hands, to be able to be empowered, um, not
00:31:10.260 be a victim like the left, uh, really likes to perpetuate for women and for black people
00:31:14.740 and for minorities and period.
00:31:16.480 Absolutely.
00:31:17.040 The last best hope of man on earth requires an armed and dangerous citizenry.
00:31:21.700 I agree.
00:31:23.700 I agree.
00:31:24.700 So now we need to know.
00:31:25.700 Antonia, I'd like, sorry, go ahead roaming.
00:31:26.700 Are there ever, are there ever liberals who just tell you, why don't you just call the
00:31:30.600 cops?
00:31:31.600 But kind of failed to like realize that according to their own narrative, those cops will unjustly
00:31:36.800 target you because of your race.
00:31:38.600 Like, is that something that you get?
00:31:39.600 Because I feel like there's so many cognitive dissonance.
00:31:42.600 Roaming Antonia has already told you she's not a black woman because she's a pro-life Republican. 1.00
00:31:47.600 She'll be fine with the cops.
00:31:49.600 Don't worry.
00:31:50.600 Yeah, that's true.
00:31:51.600 Yeah.
00:31:52.600 It's funny.
00:31:53.600 I always get that.
00:31:54.600 So I wrote a piece for the New York Times that went out, uh, like a week or two ago.
00:31:57.600 So most of them are white liberals.
00:31:59.600 Like, okay. 0.91
00:32:00.600 So most of their argument was, oh, I don't want to be around her if she's shooting.
00:32:04.600 First of all, I was like, okay, NRA certified rain safety officer, but thanks.
00:32:07.600 And then still, uh, and then also like, oh, well, so you can just call the cops or the
00:32:12.600 campus police. 0.98
00:32:13.600 And then you have like black liberals who will attack me. 1.00
00:32:16.600 They're the most vicious. 0.99
00:32:17.600 And, uh, they'll be like, well, you know, as a black woman or as a black person that 0.97
00:32:22.600 you're, you're, you're going to be more, um, sought after from police because you have 0.73
00:32:27.600 a gun and just, you know, open carry and concealed carry is not for us as black people.
00:32:31.600 And I just want to be one day, I just want to put them in a room together and like have
00:32:35.600 them, you know, talk to me with those two points and then just be like, there you go.
00:32:41.600 You guys are both the problem.
00:32:42.600 Last man standing wins.
00:32:43.600 So yeah, it doesn't make any sense.
00:32:47.600 But, uh, one day I'll figure out how to like, you know, bring that together.
00:32:50.600 Maybe I have political next year.
00:32:51.600 Who knows?
00:32:52.600 Maybe I'll be invited.
00:32:53.600 I look forward to it.
00:32:54.600 Now we need to discuss the most important issue of our day.
00:32:57.600 Forget healthcare, forget the economy, forget ISIS. 0.84
00:33:00.600 We need to know how to tell if your child is transgender. 0.94
00:33:04.600 How is your child?
00:33:05.600 There was a big piece that came out over the weekend in, uh, with gender experts,
00:33:09.600 so-called gender experts.
00:33:10.600 I believe it was in USA today.
00:33:12.600 They said, how can a parent know if their child is transgender?
00:33:15.600 What separates a young boy who might be transgender from one with a vivid imagination who likes 1.00
00:33:20.600 to dress up in his sister's dresses?
00:33:22.600 What do you do if your daughter tells you she's a boy? 0.98
00:33:25.600 You correct her.
00:33:26.600 Now my, my priest, George Rutler actually brought this up in a column over the weekend.
00:33:31.600 Gender is a, is a grammatical term.
00:33:33.600 It's a point of grammar.
00:33:34.600 It's not a point of biology.
00:33:35.600 Like in French, for instance, pen, the word for pen is masculine.
00:33:39.600 The word for pencil is feminine, but pens aren't men and pencils aren't women. 0.95
00:33:44.600 Now, actual gender dysphoria and intersectionality affect a vanishingly small minority of the population.
00:33:51.600 For everyone else, this has just become a social justice warrior point of discussion that only exists on blogs, basically.
00:33:58.600 Roaming, is this child abuse to force these confusing modern ideas of gender onto children?
00:34:06.600 I absolutely think this is child abuse.
00:34:09.600 And I've addressed this before on social media.
00:34:11.600 And I've had people, you know, say that I'm being bigoted, racist somehow.
00:34:16.600 So usually factors, you know, just being prejudiced in general.
00:34:20.600 And as someone who hopes to become a mom and, you know, next five years, I'm anything to do with children, childhood development, I care a lot about.
00:34:28.600 And if you actually look at the stats that childhood psychologists deliver, 9 out of 10 children, 90% of children who report feeling gender dysphoria during childhood or adolescence as adults do not end up transitioning.
00:34:41.600 Right. So that means that if you are actually transitioning your child based on their reports of not feeling like the right gender, you know, giving them things like hormone blockers, there is a 90% chance that child will regret that decision.
00:34:55.600 Right. Just based on what we've seen so far.
00:34:57.600 You're mutilating, you're permanently changing their body.
00:35:00.600 Absolutely. It causes sterility, right?
00:35:02.600 These hormone blockers that prevent puberty combined with, you know, let's say surgery at the time they turn 18, you are sterilizing them.
00:35:08.600 And I think if we're a society that agrees, hey, children can't consent to things like intercourse.
00:35:14.600 They can't, they're not responsible enough to do things like join the military or drive.
00:35:19.600 There is no way we can say that they are, you know, of a sound mind to make a decision like transitioning their gender. 1.00
00:35:25.600 And I think what is also really interesting is that, you know, I fully believe that transgenderism and gender dysphoria, you know, it's a legitimate psychological issue.
00:35:34.600 Definitely seek treatment if you need it.
00:35:36.600 But they've also done studies on what kind of factors might influence things like reporting gender dysphoria at an early age but not transitioning.
00:35:43.600 And, you know, it comes from a lot of the times issues in the home related to their parents and, you know, the environment that they're raised in and how they view gender.
00:35:52.600 You know, things like male figures not being present and stuff like that.
00:35:55.600 Like there are actually studies about this that talk about this.
00:35:57.600 And, you know, the idea that we have now where anytime someone, you know, might, a girl might look like kind of a tomboy.
00:36:05.600 Boom, transgender.
00:36:06.600 Oh, my son likes pink instead of blue. 0.99
00:36:09.600 Boom, transgender.
00:36:10.600 No, right? 0.96
00:36:11.600 My son is taking ballet classes.
00:36:12.600 I'll admit to it.
00:36:13.600 I was a little actor boy.
00:36:14.600 I can't.
00:36:15.600 What can I say?
00:36:16.600 Yeah, I mean, and as the father of a trans son, you understand this.
00:36:20.600 No, but seriously, if anything, those kind of ideas, those reinforce gender norms, which I thought these progressives were supposed to be about dismantling.
00:36:27.600 Absolutely.
00:36:28.600 Absolutely right.
00:36:29.600 And this brings up a hard point for conservatives because we want to be nice guys.
00:36:34.600 We want to be compassionate.
00:36:36.600 Obviously, these people are suffering from a serious condition that is really hard and apparently there's not much of a cure for it right now.
00:36:43.600 But, Antonia, can conservatives embrace the logic of transgenderism? 0.63
00:36:48.600 Can we get on board with it?
00:36:50.600 Or does the argument for transgenderism and the transgender movement fly in the face of conservatism itself?
00:36:57.600 Well, I think, you know, just with the whole LGBTQ, whatever, such and such. 1.00
00:37:03.600 LMNOP.
00:37:04.600 Yeah, LMNOP.
00:37:06.600 I think, I mean, the studies show, especially with conservative millennials, that they are more accepting of, you know, the gay lifestyle, right?
00:37:15.600 Versus 10, 15 years ago, what it would just been like, no way.
00:37:18.600 Most people are accepting of it now, regardless of what ideology you have.
00:37:22.600 So, you know, I think that's the next thing they're trying to push.
00:37:26.600 And that's why they're going in schools and stuff like that because they want to normalize it.
00:37:30.600 So, 10, 15 years from now, our kids, and we have kids, are thinking it's a normal thing.
00:37:35.600 That's exactly right.
00:37:37.600 The lumping in tea with the LGBT has made it part of this movement for sexual freedom. 0.97
00:37:43.600 But it seems to me there's a big difference between being sexually attracted to the same gender or the same sex rather, supporting various sexual acts and living arrangements and denying basic biology and denying the innate sex of human beings.
00:38:00.600 Can we, I think it's, it's probably easy enough for the right to get on board with certain aspects of that movement.
00:38:06.600 But can we get on board with actually changing your sex? 0.79
00:38:11.600 Exactly.
00:38:12.600 I think, well, I mean, for example, when I became, when I was from the leftist who are more on the right side, I actually talked to a lot more gay conservatives.
00:38:21.600 Like I knew about gay conservatives than I knew about anybody else who wasn't, you know, quote unquote, not to be conservative first.
00:38:27.600 I went to Yale, so we only had gay conservatives.
00:38:29.600 We only basically had gay people in general, that one in four, maybe more.
00:38:33.600 But yeah, most, of course, I think a lot of the people now in the conservative movement, there are plenty of, there are the log cabin Republicans who do a great job. 0.95
00:38:40.600 Yeah.
00:38:41.600 And activism.
00:38:42.600 Exactly.
00:38:43.600 Yeah.
00:38:44.600 So I definitely don't think that's the issue.
00:38:47.600 Another thing I noticed, too, is that now they're trying to put, you know, race into the whole thing.
00:38:52.600 Like with Black Lives Matter, they put the whole, you know, queer, transgender narrative into that as well as part of their agenda.
00:38:58.600 But now they put that, I think the flag now has, the rainbow flag has a brown stripe, I think, to bring the whole thing as like, oh yeah, Black people and brown people, you're part of this movement too.
00:39:09.600 And then if you are talking to actual black and brown people, they're like, no, we're not, because they're super conservative when it comes to that. 0.99
00:39:18.600 So I'm just like.
00:39:19.600 You're not, you're not thinking intersectionality enough.
00:39:21.600 Like you, you have to increase your intersectionality.
00:39:23.600 Oh. 0.78
00:39:24.600 It's because you're a white male. 0.66
00:39:25.600 It's, yeah. 0.98
00:39:26.600 Who knew that black and brown was a sexual preference?
00:39:29.600 I suppose when you think of Antonia Okafor, then you certainly could understand the logic.
00:39:33.600 But in general, I don't see how, how they came to that conclusion.
00:39:38.600 Well, no, I mean, that's just part of the whole thing.
00:39:41.600 And that's why I'm more vocal, because I know that as a black woman, they really don't like that I'm like messing up their narrative because that, that hurts their votes later on.
00:39:50.600 So they kind of like stick the other black liberals on me. 0.95
00:39:53.600 And then I'm just like, dude, do you even agree with this? 0.99
00:39:56.600 Like hell no, but I just don't like you.
00:39:58.600 I'm like, okay, fine.
00:39:59.600 Fair enough.
00:40:00.600 That's a fair argument.
00:40:01.600 Now, Jacob, you know, our friend Ben Shapiro, he has the number one rated conservative podcast in the country.
00:40:07.600 It's number one.
00:40:08.600 But my podcast identifies as the number, not only the number one conservative podcast in the country, the number one podcast in the country.
00:40:16.600 Should I get a raise?
00:40:18.600 Yes.
00:40:21.600 We lost Jacob.
00:40:23.600 I hope we muted him because he's disagreeing with that obvious premise.
00:40:27.600 I wouldn't like his answer.
00:40:28.600 Jacob, do we have you back?
00:40:30.600 Can you hear me?
00:40:31.600 Yes.
00:40:32.600 Okay.
00:40:33.600 No, yeah, absolutely.
00:40:34.600 And this whole thing of where people say, oh, I identify as this or identify as this, I can say, I can identify as whatever I want to apparently.
00:40:44.600 And that's all right.
00:40:45.600 You know, I may be, you know, for sure.
00:40:47.600 I mean, I live in California, but I identify as a Texan because I was born there.
00:40:52.600 But, you know, speaking of which, I'd love to know what the last flavor of bluebell ice cream Antonia had. 1.00
00:40:57.600 I'm craving bluebell ice cream.
00:40:59.600 You can't find it out here in this desert.
00:41:01.600 But anyway, yeah, I think this whole we're identifying one thing.
00:41:06.600 It just breaks down when it comes to logic.
00:41:09.600 You can't say, oh, I'm this and then just magically it happens.
00:41:14.600 That's just not, that in itself is not logical.
00:41:17.600 Right.
00:41:18.600 I can't allow this bigotry to go on anymore.
00:41:20.600 Panel, it has been great to have you.
00:41:22.600 Antonia Okafor, Roaming Millennial and Jacob Berry.
00:41:25.600 Get out of here now.
00:41:26.600 We'll see you again later.
00:41:27.600 Now it's time for final thoughts.
00:41:35.600 Speaking of propaganda, here is some of my own.
00:41:38.600 Many on the right are reluctant to associate too closely with the president because they consider him crass, uncouth, below the dignity of their rarefied social circles.
00:41:47.600 Forget about deregulation at the federal agencies, originalist jurists to preserve our imperiled First and Second Amendment rights.
00:41:55.600 Most importantly, our right to self-government.
00:41:57.600 Forget a return to sensible national policy, both foreign and domestic.
00:42:01.600 Hammer the court intrigue.
00:42:02.600 Mock the bubbly blondes on Facebook. 1.00
00:42:05.600 They insist.
00:42:06.600 But as Ronald Reagan noted, the person who agrees with you 80% of the time is a friend and an ally, not a 20% traitor.
00:42:13.600 Rather than attack the president over tactics and then attack him again for changing tactics, it seems far more adult and useful to hold the snark and support the only team presently capable of achieving our actual political goals.
00:42:25.600 In a phrase, despite the constant negative press, covfefe.
00:42:32.600 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:42:33.600 This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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