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You know how much I hate to say I told you so. Just shortly after I predicted yesterday that this would Happen, Iran fired 15 missiles at the United Arab Emirates, prompting the United States to sink seven Iranian boats in Schrodinger's Strait of Hormuz in a volley that media outlets report is, quote, threatening the ceasefire. Now, despite my accurate prediction, I am no military expert, and yet it seems to me that when both sides of a conflict start firing on each other again, the ceasefire is probably over. I don't know that much about the military, but I do know about the English language. We will get into why the war can't end then. Democrats pin their midterm election hopes on an oyster farmer with a Nazi tattoo. Barack Obama embraces his inner Darth Vader on May 4th. And Eric Swalwell teaches us all a lesson on the intellectual effects of sin through a series of very, very gross Snapchat videos. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. After years of being told that political polarization is being driven by men, men becoming more right wing, becoming toxic incel men, it turns out that we can in fact blame the women. The women are becoming more liberal than the men are becoming conservative. We will get to why. First though, I want to tell you about policy Genius. Go to policygenius.com knowles There is something about summertime that makes you take stock of things. Maybe it's being out with family more, traveling a bit, slowing down just enough to realize these are the moments you want to protect. I was thinking about this recently, how easy it is to put off all that practical stuff to say, you know what, I'll get to it later. I'm a little bit of a procrastinator sometimes. Well, truth is, if you built something good, a family, a life, you've got a responsibility to make sure it's secure. That is one of the many reasons that I would recommend looking into policygenius. They're not an insurance company. 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I'll have a debate with Mehdi Hassan at the Dartmouth Political Union over President Trump and the constitutionality of his administration. Very much looking forward to it. So because of that, because the situation in Iran is changing by the second, not even by the hour, because of that, by the time that this airs, the situation will probably have changed another 150 times. But last we spoke yesterday, the ceasefire remained in place. The Strait of Hormuz was closed. It was doubly closed. And the United States said that it would help guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz, which I pointed out would lead Iran to fire missiles because Iran cannot allow the United States to expose them as being weak. Iran has played the most significant card it's got. Even if Iran had a nuclear weapon, closing the strait is the most powerful weapon at their disposal. So they played that card and they can't back down now. Likewise, the United States, by using President Trump's double reverse uno card, doing a blockade of the blockade, the United States can't really back down either. Because if we do, this will be akin to when the British and the French were exposed as being weak in the Suez crisis, which marked the beginning of the end of Britain and France as major global powers. So we're just in this stalemate ceasefire. But everyone kind of wants the ceasefire. Cause no one really wants the war. Iran militarily could be absolutely blown to the Stone Age and then you'd have major destabilization in the region. Likewise, the United States doesn't want to get bogged down in a land war there. And so everyone's just holding onto a ceasefire even as the missiles are flying. However, it was probably ever thus. So it seems to me this breaks the ceasefire whether or not at this very moment we acknowledge that breaking the ceasefire. And so the two options, as I've been predicting from the beginning, are a deal that we probably don't want or a ground invasion that we definitely don't want. And before everybody rushes to blame Trump, which of course everyone wants to do in this moment, I'm reminded of the very scientific Twitter Poll I took eight months ago, nine months ago now, which was, should the United States allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon? 90% said no. Should the United States go to war with Iran? 90% said no. Okay. You see the brutal position that the President is in. So the options, I suspect are a deal that we don't want or a ground invasion, which would be politically devastating even amid lots of other good news for the Trump administration. But the American public, the right wing base, would not want it. So what do we do here? Well, in the column of negotiating, getting a deal, assuming you don't want a ground invasion and a 10 year occupation of Iran, one point that I haven't seen anyone really address is that in these kinds of moments, presidents, not just past presidents, but presidents who are particularly known for their strength, have been restrained, have sometimes backed off a little bit. One of the clearest examples would be Truman. Truman, who was a pretty tough guy, you know, the only national leader ever to drop nuclear weapons. Truman, when he was, his advisors were pressing him to invade China and to expand the Korean War. He didn't, he didn't do that. Dwight Eisenhower. Eisenhower, real tough guy, helped win World War II. Eisenhower. When he was pushed to get deeply involved in Vietnam, there were already some American military advisors over there, but when he was pushed to get deeply involved, he didn't, he pulled back. Clearest example probably is Ronald Reagan, and that's a direct parallel here because this example involves Iran. When Iran's proxies hit the Beirut barracks in 1983, killing over 200 troops, US troops. Ronald Reagan did not retaliate, did not launch a ground invasion of Iran, actually pulled the troops out of Lebanon. So that's not satisfying. We don't like that. We certainly could launch a ground invasion of Iran. We could overthrow the regime that way. We could do it. We're the global hegemon. We're still basically the only people on earth who can project power. But assuming that that is politically basically impossible, something that people really don't want, there isn't an opportunity here for a negotiated settlement. Even if it's a bad deal, Trump doesn't need to lose his whole legacy on it. And actually plenty of very strong presidents have done something like that. No one's gonna wanna hear this. No one's gonna wanna hear either of those options. But from before the war began, as the war was beginning and lots of people were celebrating, I was a little more restrained. And as the war has continued, I've just pointed out, it's difficult to see a Clean win here. It's hard to see that 88 minute Venezuela win. And so we might be in a situation where you have to deal with a deal that you don't really want. But can someone tell me the alternative? I don't know, all the people who are banging the drums for war saying no, we just need to go in and finish the job and topple the regime. Okay, fine, I don't like the Iranian regime. But do you really think an extended occupation of Iran is going to pan out once you get rid of the Mallahs? Do we really see a path forward on which party is going to take over and make sure that the end result we get isn't worse than what we started with? I don't totally see it. I don't totally see that. So whatever remains to be seen. You know, not to be flippant about it, but we're in Schrodinger strait here. So every time you observe what's going on in this raid of Hormuz, it seems like things have changed. Okay, now some good news for the administration. Despite all the doomerism, all the black pilling, all the talk that Trump's coalition is totally dead here, we have no less a liberal authority than CNN pointing out that President Trump's approval among black voters, that is to say the group that is most solidly repped by the Democrat Party, the group that Republicans have had the toughest time with over the years and a group that Trump made gains with in his recent election, black voters are sticking with Trump.
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Look, Trump's approval among African Americans at this point in term one, he was at 12%. You know, he's been losing ground with a lot of. He's gaining, he's gaining ground with African Americans. He's up to 16% at this point.
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But do you see this as part of a bigger trend?
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I see this as absolutely part of a bigger trend. Donald Trump's Republican Party is absolutely gaining ground. Not just him gaining in terms of his approval rating, but look at the party ID margin, Kate, because this to me was absolutely stunning. Look at this party ID margin among African Americans at this point in Trump term. Number one, Democrats had a 63 point advantage. That is absolutely fallen. Look at where it is now, a double digit shift away. Democrats, of course, still have the advantage, but it's a 12 point shift to the Republican Party.
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Those are real numbers. I mean, that is a major shift. You see Trump claiming more of the black vote and you say, well, look, it's only 12%. Yeah, it's only 12%. But. But when you only need to chip away three or four points to give yourself popular vote victories, all of a sudden that little shift matters a whole lot. And then the party id, yes, most black voters identify as Democrats, but if you can chip that all the way down from 63% down to the low 50s or 50 or maybe it keeps going, that is massive. You don't need to win 90% of the black vote. And the Trump coalition is a weird coalition. I was speaking to my friend Bradley Devlin about this yesterday. The Trump coalition is bigger than the conservative movement. The people in the think tanks and on the podcasts and the nerds and the policy wonks, they like to talk about the conservative movement. We view ourselves. Many of you listening view yourself as being part of the conservative movement. The reality is the Trump coalition is bigger than the conservative movement. The conservative movement is probably 20% of the country. Well, the conservative movement is much smaller than that. But the people who feel represented by the conservative movement probably 20% of the country. The Trump movement is 50% of the country. Very important to keep this all in mind. Things are going quite well for the Trump coalition. We haven't even talked about the jobs numbers yet. We'll get to that and we'll get to the biggest silver lining. Looking at the midterms, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, things look pretty bad. But there is a major silver lining for the Republicans that very few people talk about. First, though, I wanna tell you about Preborn. Go to preborn.com knowles k n a W L E S Mother's Day is a special time. It's when families come together and sometimes they share big news, like the moment someone stands up and says, next year we're going to have a new mom in the family. Those are very joyful moments. For some women, they are facing an unwanted pregnancy and excitement is not quite the emotion that they feel. They feel alone and unsure of what to do. That is where our sponsor, Preborn comes in. Preborn provides free ultrasounds to women in those situations. And it turns out when a woman can see her baby and hear the heartbeat, she is much more likely to choose life. It makes the situation real and it helps her move forward with confidence. I personally support this organization. Obviously I'm very pro baby. I have three and a half of them myself. And this organization is a great return on investment. Okay. They fundraise for their administrative overhead separately. So every dollar you give is going towards saving babies. This month you can be part of helping an expendant mother in need of support. For a donation of 28 bucks, you can provide one free ultrasound. For 140 bucks, you can reach five women. It's a simple way to make a real tangible difference. And it doesn't stop there. Preborn also connects these mothers with ongoing support, maternity care, baby supplies, counseling. So they're not walking this road by themselves. If you want to help, you can dial pound250, say the keyword baby or visit preborn.comknowles that is 250 say baby or go to preborn.comknowles to donate today. Folks, have you ever seen me or Matt post something on X and then read the flood of insightful commentary and encouragement that typifies Twitter? Then you wonder, how would they respond to this? Well, now you can see it. I sat down with Matt after we were in Idaho last week. We were gonna get a cigar afterward. Anyway, I said, okay. I posted. I said, for the next 45 minutes, Matt and I are having a cigar, solving all the world's problems. What should we cover? Here's what happened. Why you two is both some bitch as white boys that don't know no mother effing gang signs.
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I mean, this is the kind of thing you get. I mean, this is why it's a great idea to surrender the programming of your show over to X commentary we're going to get going to get from them. Oh, is that so you're doing. That's a gangster.
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Modern McCarthy says, I need to hear you guys debate.
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I'm looking at it. You got to say it. I'm looking at it right now.
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Watch full video right now on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel. Get the ad free version with even more content at Daily Wire. Plus, we need some white pills here, folks, because all you get is doom and gloom and all these people who realize Republicans by historical accounts should lose the midterms. And you know, people are kind of mixed on the Iran war and everyone, everyone's a critic and everyone wants more deportations. And it's all this, all this despair, man. And that's not me. I'm a glass half full kind of guy. And there are a lot of, there are a lot of good signs in politics and in the economy. For instance, here is CNBC basically dancing on the desk over President Trump's jobs numbers.
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Initial jobless claims hitting the wires at 189,000 thousand. 189,000. Wow, that is truly incredible. We're looking at levels truly that we probably haven't seen since the late 60s. This is very, very incredible. And continuing claims 1,785,000. That would be the least going back to August of the summer of 24, actually April of 24.
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So all listen all pretty good stuff. Obviously during the first first year we had record high stock market, all the rest of it. Which drives home even to me. Let me go back to being a doomer again. It drives home to me that the real hiccup here is the Iran war, which the president himself has said. He said it's a digression that he had to do for national security for the good of the world. You can't let this maniac regime get a nuclear weapon. We've been kind of fighting him for 47 years. I understand all the arguments, but if that's your weak point right now, if that's your vulnerability, then the key is you have to move off it as quickly as possible with as much of a satisfactory resolution as you can get. It's a basic rule of politics when the debate you're in does not favor you, when the issue you're discussing does not favor you. Change issues, change the terms of the debate. And there's a lot of good fodder for Republicans right now, especially after the Supreme Court victory in Louisiana versus Calais, which struck down Democrats racist gerrymandering and could give Republicans an additional half dozen seats in the midterms depending on how quickly the Republican governors can move. Then look at what the Democrats are pinning their hopes on. This is one of my favorite headlines I've ever read. This comes from Yahoo News reporting from afp. Could oyster farmer with a Nazi tattoo scandal be Democrats new champion? Could an oyster farmer with a Nazi tattoo be the Democrats new champion? They are referring to? To this guy who is running in Maine. He's running for the Maine Senate seat. His name is Graham Platner and he's got a Nazi tattoo. Now you're probably having deja vu and you're saying, hold on, haven't I heard about a Nazi tattoo before? Yes, you have. You heard Democrats cook up a nontroversy. You heard Democrats make up a bunch of nonsense about Pete Hegseth because Pete has a lot of tattoos because he's a gigachad military veteran and on his chest he has a tattoo of the Jerusalem cross. The Jerusalem cross is a medieval Christian symbol. It is on the floor of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. this is a very, very mainstream Christian symbol. And it's awesome. And then he also has tattoos that say deus vult. This was the call of the Crusades. A unifying message of Christendom that has endured for almost a thousand years. He also has a tattoo of an American flag and we the people in the font from the Constitution. And so he has these very basic, very traditional Christian symbols and symbols of American patriotism. So of course the Dems go crazy and they say that if you're a Christian or an American, you're basically a Nazi. The Nazis, who were neither Christian nor Americans, I should note, they say, that's awful. Those tattoos are disqualifying. Meanwhile, they are now running a Senate candidate in Maine who has a literal Nazi tattoo that he has since tried to cover up. But he is an oyster farmer Nazi tattoo, and he might very well be the Democrats best hope. This guy is a socialist. He runs on abolishing ice. Don't forget Trump won the popular vote. He appealed as a mainstream majority political issue on mass deportations. This guy wants to abolish ice. Furthermore, this Democrat candidate wants to prosecute ICE agents. Furthermore, this Democrat Senate candidate is pro trans. Furthermore, even it's like number four on the list is, oh yeah, he also has a Nazi tattoo. And he is one of the most exciting Democrat candidates right now. No matter how unpopular Republicans are. The silver lining is Democrats are less popular today. In the year of our Lord 2026, Democrats are less popular. I was at that TPUSA event with Matt in Idaho last week, and some people came up to ask questions and they were going off about how disappointed they are in the Republican Party. They said, what's the best argument to vote for Republicans? And don't just tell me that it's so the Democrats don't get into power. And Matt cuts them off, says, well, I just, I have to. You can't tell me what to say. I have to tell you. If the argument were only to keep the Democrats from power, that would be enough. And that is true. And most Americans think that, by the way. Most Americans, because the Dems want to chop up your kids, they want to, well, kill them through abortion and then chop them up through castration and then also kill all of us because they support political violence in a very large degree. These guys cannot field a good candidate. It just isn't happening right now. So, look, we have a shot at the midterms. You just have to take care of the one issue that is not very popular and then focus on all of the good stuff. Now, you wanna talk about bad optics, but Barack Obama posted a video with Mark Hamill. Mark Hamill, whose only notable film role came in the mid-1970s. This was outside of Barack Obama's new presidential center, which looks like a hunk of ugly, unfinished rock brutalist trash. And he used the opportunity of May the fourth to post one of the cringiest videos that a Democrat has posted in at least several days. Though we'll get to Eric Smallwell's videos soon.
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Happy Star Wars Day from the Obama Presidential Center.
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I have a very good feeling about this.
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Mark, I am glad you are here. I want to tell you about someone.
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Okay.
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A young person born into ordinary circumstances, but restless, unsatisfied. A kid with big dreams. A bit of a rebel.
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I like where this is going.
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They join a scrappy group of underdogs that set out to change things by blowing up a giant space laser. No, Mark, this is not about you. As wonderful as you are, oh my goodness. This is about them. This isn't a monument to my legacy. It's a gateway to yours. The Obama Presidential center is much more than a museum. It is an entire campus built to empower you. A place to come together, get inspired, and become a force for change. See what I did there? Strong.
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The dad jokes are. Oh my goodness, the whole thing. Even the jokes about the jokes are just. Just so you think. Look, you say Republicans are out of touch. They are out of touch. They're always. Yes, Republicans are always out of touch. Conservatives aren't cool. Every time conservatives try to be cool, it's lame. And yeah, it's true. But the best the Democrats have right now is a washed up actor from the 1970s. And what's crazy is the pick is totally fitting. I don't think they intended for it to be fitting, but to really push the Barack Obama Presidential center on May 4 with the star wars guy is so fitting because the Presidential center itself looks like an imperial cruiser from Star Wars. It looks like Darth Vader architecture. That's not a stretch. Just look at is ugly and gray and drab and soul crushing and depressing. Why is this? There are so many architectural styles to pick from. How about Beaux Arts, like Grand Central Station? How about Art Deco, like the Empire State Building? How about neoclassical like the nice buildings in Washington D.C. why would Barack Obama pick the ugliest form of architecture that has ever existed? The answer is because it fits his political vision. When I look at the Obama center, this is not just being frivolous. This is not just being trivial. This actually matters for politics. Matters for one's soul. In fact, when you look at the Obama Presidential center, you actually do think of like the Death Star or Some ugly imperial cruiser. It's like the Death Star, but uglier. Or the other thing I thought of was Mussolini's facade on the Palazzo Braschi. Do you ever see this picture? Is this picture of a big scary caricature version of Mussolini's face with the phrases si, si, si, si. Yes. In Italian. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. All over it, covering up actually what is beautiful architecture, but to try to make it look drab. That's the fascist style. Think about communist architecture. All those old Soviet bloc countries. There's a building in Yugoslavia. It's so powerfully ugly. It also looks like something out of Star Wars. It looks like one of the imperial bad guy ships in Star Wars. And all of it, all of that brutalism. Why is that just a coincidence? Am I just drawing an unfair comparison? No, that's all of a piece. There's a reason for that. Because the hardcore leftist architecture is all functionalist. It says form follows function. It's not supposed to be adorned and beautiful. It's not supposed to have ornamentation. That's all bourgeois or aristocratic or superfluous. And all that money should just be spent on the proletariat or something. Even though it never is. So it's intentionally ugly because it's promoting radical equality. That is the idea behind the kind of communist brutalism. And that is what you're getting out of the Obama presidential library. Cuz that is the vision of the modern American left. One, it is indistinguishable from communism. Many of the leading Democrat candidates are openly socialist, like that wacko up in Maine. But so many of them, the leading Democrat commentators, guys like Hasan Piker, are openly socialist or communist. They want this, they get a kick out of it. And it follows the ideology which is radically egalitarian, radically functionalist, denying of human spirit, purely materialist. And it's gross. And the reality is you can judge a book by its cover most of the time. Not all of the time, but a lot of the time. Prejudices are right, stereotypes are all true. And you can judge a book by its cover. Don't blame me for that conclusion. Blame Barack Obama. Blame reality. Now speaking of unpleasant videos, Eric Swalwell, he was the former future governor of California after he was the former future president of the United States. He ran for president as a Democrat. He was in Congress. Now he says he's gonna resign from Congress because he got caught up in legal scandal, a residency scandal, a financial scandal and and then a sex scandal. Eric Swalwell with his antics on Snapchat Grown man on Snapchat Red flag. Eric Swalwell is teaching us a classic lesson about theology and moral philosophy. We'll get to that momentarily. First though, I want to tell you about PureTalk. Go to PureTalk.com knowles k w l e s paying 70, 80, even $90 a month to the big wireless companies for unlimited data. It's not just expensive, it is absurd. My wireless company, PureTalk is offering unlimited high speed data for just $34.99 a month. Now here's the kicker. That same unlimited plan used to start at 55 bucks. But PureTalk is doing something very rare these days. They are actually lowering prices while giving you more. Imagine that. I have had my PureTalk phone and service for 6 years now. I love it. It's great. Great American company supports what we believe in. 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He joined Snapchat because he said he wanted to restore faith in democracy. And then he immediately started dming women on Snapchat. Pictures of him committing gravely immoral and beyond morality. Just really gross, flabby, yucky gross acts by himself. This is according to a bombshell report from Sunday. CNN is reporting on this. Swalwell has been accused of rape, all sorts of non consensual encounters with all sorts of women. And according to CNN, he sent nude photos of himself and videos of himself doing this gross thing showing his face and naked body. So according to cnn, these photos were saved by multiple women and leave nothing to the imagination, including his identity because his face was in the videos too. So I want you for a moment if you have not yet tossed your cookies if you have been able to keep your breakfast or your lunch down, I want you for a moment to not think about the moral degradation, the depravity. Don't think about the morality of it for a second. Just think about how stupid this was, this guy. This is what boggles the mind to me. I get how people do immoral things because there's temptation and it's a fallen world, and we all do immoral things and we all sin. I get that. But think about the stupidity. This guy is in Congress. He has already run for president. He is running for governor in a crowded field of Democrats, some of whom have a lot of money. And this guy says, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna send nude photos of myself and photos doing gross stuff to women. That's a good idea. And I'm specifically going to send photos that no woman has ever wanted even one single time. There's the stupidity of a man who is in a very public position, leaving himself this huge vulnerability, creating massive, massive liability for himself. But then, furthermore, the thing he is sending to the women, which I suppose is to arouse the women, is something that has never aroused a single woman even one time. When ladies send pictures or videos of themselves in a state of undress to men, that can arouse men. But men and women are different and they relate to sex differently. And this guy. The layers of stupidity that you have to get through to get to the point of doing what Swalwell did are astounding. And they teach us an important lesson about morality and anthropology. Namely, sin darkens the intellect. I don't care if you're not religious at all. I do care. But for the moment, put that aside. I'm not saying you have to be religious. Well, I'm saying that too. You should be religious. But anyway, okay, you get the point. I'm trying to say, forget the morality side for a second. Swalwell's not that dumb. Swalwell wasn't born that dumb. When Swalwell first ran for office, he was a pretty impressive politician. He got into politics at a young age. He won a lot of elections. He somehow semi plausibly ran for president. He didn't start out that dumb, but he did the dumbest things that politicians could possibly do. The sort of thing that takes down every politician who gets taken down. And he did it to the nth degree. Why did he do that? Did he hit himself in the head with a hammer? Was he looks maxing? No, I don't think he was looks maxing. It's because he was finding himself in habits and cycles of sin. And sin not only corrupts your soul. Sin not only can lead you to perdition. Sin not only can lead you to attempt to sever a relationship of grace, using your free will and abusing your free will. Sin makes you stupid, makes you do really stupid stuff. And so at a certain level, I hope that the reason you don't sin is because you love God. And I hope that the reason that you cultivate habits of virtue and sanctity is because you want to be with God forever and serve him in this life. But just at a really basic, really even secular level, when you sin, you're going to get dumb and you're going to do dumb stuff like Eric Swalwell did, and it's going to screw up your life a lot. Let it be a word of caution. Let it be a word of caution. Because I bet everyone listening right now, I bet every person walking the earth knows this, can think, ah, why did I do that stupid thing, man, I was really angry. It's really wrathful or lustful or prideful or gluttonous or slothful or whatever. Don't do it, don't do it. Don't allow yourself to be the next Eric Swalwell. Now, speaking of women, we've heard so much in recent years about how men are polarizing. Young men are moving to the right. I guess that's kind of true. Yeah, men are moving to the right. Trump really counted on young men in particular for his political coalition. 2024, the millennial soy has given way to the zoomer reactionary that has happened. But women have moved to the left more than the men have moved to the right. The tale of political polarization is not one of the incel misogynist. It is a tale of liberal women that's notable. And I think reasonable people who don't believe the headlines probably saw this coming because, well, for instance, when Charlie Kirk was assassinated, I've made this point before. It was the women. It was largely the women, like nice, liberal, nice seeming normal women. They were the ones who were excusing it, justifying it. You saw a kind of bloodlust that was really weird. Women. This is according to Gallup poll social series data for the last 25 or so years. Young women have become much more liberal. The men have moved a little to the right, but the 18 to 29 year old women have become much, much more liberal. The culture war, I would remind you, is a left wing phenomenon. We can't blame the men for polarization. It's more the women. And we always hear that it's the right that's focusing on these culture war issues. They need to stop stoking the flames of the culture war. I would remind you, the culture war similarly is entirely a left wing phenomenon. It's not the conservatives who redefined marriage. It's the libs who redefined marriage. It's not the conservatives who tried to change how people use bathrooms. It was the libs who tried to change how people use bathrooms. It's not the conservatives who decided to rewrite the Constitution to kill a million babies a year. It was the libs who did that. It wasn't the conservatives who decided to radically change the demographics of the country. It was the libs who did that. And on and on and on. By definition, it's the libs, it's the radicals, it's the revolutionaries who've changed the culture, attempted to change the culture. We are reacting to that. And frankly, we've been much too modest in our reactions. Okay? Now, speaking of demographic trends, President Trump, he posted a politically incorrect, horribly, terribly offensive, unacceptable, racist, bigoted, prejudicial post yesterday on Truth Social. That was, of course, entirely correct. He was just posting facts. People are very upset about it. But he has shifted the way that we talk about immigration already. And I think he's giving a sign here of how we should shift it moving forward. Folks, the Daily Wire has just released a bombshell investigation into fraud in Ohio. We've heard about fraud in Minnesota, fraud in California. This is even in a Republican state. The libs are able to bilk us for billions of dollars in fraud. Read the report. It's from Daily Wire's own Luke rosiak. Go to dailywire.com right now. Read the whole investigation. Share it. We've taken down the paywall entirely. It's free, it's public. It's very, very important. The vice president just tweeted about it yesterday. Do not be silent on this. Do not let the networks cover this up. Help us demand accountability. Find the full investigation@dailywire.com, share it with everyone. You know my favorite comment yesterday? Once again, I don't even usually look at the names, so I'm hearing it for the first time. Drummers workshop norms. Music. Who says? I haven't seen this much fraud since World War 15. You're right. You're right. Depending on how many ceasefires and new wars we get in the Strait of Hormuz, we might double those numbers for World wars anytime soon. Ilhan Omar will be very pleased. President Trump post yesterday on Truth Social. Just some stats he was posting. Hate stats. Very hateful. Totally unacceptable statistics. Lifetime contribution per immigrant. This is the economic contribution to the United States per immigrant from these places. North America. Lifetime contribution for an immigrant who comes from North America to America, $573,000. We make over half a million bucks in every North American immigrant. We get Scandinavia, $557,000, almost the same. Oceania, Australia and New Zealand, almost half a million. Japan, also over half a million. The UK 481,000. Now let's look at some other countries. Somalia. How much does each Somali immigrant contribute to America? Somalia, negative $1.1 million. We have that great breaking report on fraud coming out from Luke Rosiak at the Daily Wire. Vice President just posted about it yesterday. Highly encourage you to go to Daily Wire and check it out. Every Somali that we take into America on average costs us over a million dollars. From the Caribbean. You know, we were told that Haitians built our country or something. Every immigrant from the Caribbean that we get costs The United States $675,000. From the Middle east costs the United States $624,000. From Latin America costs the United States over a quarter million dollars. From Sub Saharan Africa costs the United States almost three quarters of a million dollars. From Central and North Africa costs the United States 700 grand. This is from a study out of the Netherlands two years ago. So the question that should be on everyone's mind is why do we do that? Why do we do that? If you have immigrant, I mean, look, money's not everything, but if you're looking at contributions to the country, I promise you the Somalis are not making cultural contributions. You say, well, they're costing us some money. But, you know, they're. Their food is just delicious. It's not. No one likes Somali food. Somalis don't have a lot of food. So that's not the issue. Why are we taking it? Why are we taking these people in? The reason is because in 1965, the Democrats got rid of the national quota system through the Hart Celler Act. Previously we had a system that said that this percentage of people can come from this country and this percentage of people can come from this country and this percentage of people can come from this area. And it prioritized keeping American demographics stable. You know, America, it's a jumble of, at that time, Irish and the English and to some degree the Italians and the Jews and some Asian. Not a ton but that was about it. And then after Hart Celler, they said, we're gonna get rid of that system. We're gonna flood the country with all sorts of people from all sorts of places with no regard for the demographics of the US because the national quota system, we were told, was racist. I guess technically it was racially aware. I guess it was racial for sure. Was it racist, though? Was it unjust? That is to say, changing that system has not been good for the American economy. Changing that system has not been good. And this gets to the real heart of it. For social solidarity. It has led to a massive breakdown in social solidarity, trust institutions, major demographic upheaval that no one really voted for, most people don't like. And now the American people voted overwhelmingly against it. So it brings us to the new stage of conversations about immigration. When I was a kid, the only debate between immigration was regarding immigration was, do you want to have a lot more legal immigrants or a lot more legal immigrants with a lot more illegal immigrants? Those were the two positions you could hold. Then the debate became, okay, do you want more? I mean, when I was. I guess when I was really, really little, both parties agreed illegal immigration was bad, but that gave way. And then all of a sudden, around the Trump era, you started to have people say, well, hold on. Can we have less migration total? Can we have less migration generally? Now, are you allowed to say that? That was verboten, even on the right. But notice, all of those conversations were just about numbers. It was just about how many. But the further question that President Trump is bringing up in this truth social post, and it's important, is from where? What kind of immigrants are we talking about? Because an immigrant from Scandinavia is gonna be more assimilable than an immigrant from Afghanistan, an immigrant from the uk well, actually, now an immigrant from the UK might actually be from Afghanistan, but if you're just talking about the Brits, they're gonna be the most assimilable of all. So are we allowed to talk about where we wanna get our immigrants from? President Trump has been beating this drum for a while. He was excoriated for the shit whole countries comment when he described Haiti as an shit whole country. And then Democrats started wearing shirts saying, Haiti is not an sh. You think it's being run by warlord cannibals and they eat mud cakes. It's not like the Haitians think it's an shit whole country. That's why they're trying to come here. And that's why you're not letting us get rid of their temporary protective status 15 years later. So can we be honest? Can we be honest? And does the United States have a right to determine the demographics of its country? Who gets to come in? Since 1965, the answer has been no. From the colonial era through 1965, the answer was yes. And so then the question we have to grapple with, even to think about that is, were all of our forebears just horribly racist and wicked and bigoted and evil and wrong? Were they? Or was there something to it? Were they, by and large, good people who had the right idea, and maybe they even had the idea of how to govern the country a little better than, I don't know, AOC and the oyster farmer Nazi who's running for Senate in Maine? I think probably so. Now, before we go, speaking of the Trump administration, Marco Rubio's gone viral. Video Posted to the OSint613 account on X. Rubio took a moment. From the 15 jobs he has to DJ at a relative's wedding, Here's Rubio. Is Rubio just taking over Manning? And this is. It's just some relatives wedding. It's great. It's great clip. Good job. Someone pointed out that Rubio is just the most Cuban American man ever to live. I forget who posted this to social media. It's a guy with multiple jobs. He's a DJ as a side hustle. You know, he's got. So my takeaway from this one, you know, it's a great clip. It's very fun. I don't know that Marco Rubio plans to run for president in 2028. He has said that if J.D. vance runs, he will support J.D. vance. And a lot of people, a lot of partisans, are trying to split Vance from Rubio. But these two guys seem to get along very, very well. They seem to work very well together. I think there's very little daylight between their views, despite what partisans are saying in the media and activist circles. So I don't know if Rubio plans to run in 2028, but I do know that whoever posted that video wants Rubio to run. Whoever took that video wants Rubio to run. That is the kind of thing a presidential candidate does to endear himself to voters. That is Bill Clinton going on Arsenio hall show playing the saxophone. That's a presidential campaign move. So it remains to be seen, is Rubio gonna stand by his prior endorsement of JD Vance? Are we gonna see continued unity within the Trump administration, or are we seeing the beginning of a fraying look? I hope and trust that the admin stays together because amid all the divisions on the podcast, Right on the activist, right on the pundit. Right. The admin has been remarkably unified. Very, very impressive. But the DJ video raised my eyebrow. It raised my eyebrow. It's a good video, but it raised my eyebrow. And not just because I like the music. The music's fine. Okay, no member block today. As I told you, I'm going to Dartmouth. If you're around. Nothing's around Dartmouth. So I said, if you're around Dartmouth, come stop by today at the Dartmouth Political Union. Nobody is around Dartmouth. It is the middle of nowhere. My family hails from New Hampshire. The Knowles go back to 1660 in New Hampshire. My father's a Dartmouth man. So. Anyway, it'll be a lot of fun. You can catch it. I think. We're gonna be streaming it on Daily Wire. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
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