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Michael Knowles
Prominent Democrats are beside themselves with sorrow as a Texas antifa cell is sentenced to prison for trying to murder a cop. A federal judge rules that the government can't use a database to check citizenship in elections because it might purge voters. Wait a second.
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Guest or Co-host (possibly Andy Ngo or another commentator)
What?
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Michael Knowles
Hold on. Wait.
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Guest or Co-host (possibly a political analyst or commentator)
What?
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Michael Knowles
You can't. Also, the actress playing Supergirl is on a quest to dethrone that liberal chick from Snow White in her record of needlessly insulting conservative audiences. Before opening weekend, get ready for a big Supergirl bomb. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Smash that like button and subscribe. Also, check us out on Spotify where you can download full episode audio and video to watch or listen whenever you want without using your data. Do not miss an episode, guys. The Democrat Party is the chief threat to political stability and flourishing in the us. I don't mean that as just like a hack partisan. This is the most important election in my lifetime. Something has actually fundamentally changed in the Democrat Party. You see this in the antifa sentencing in Texas and the reaction to it. You see this especially with the wins of Major Mamdani backed candidates in New York last night. You see this in the way that they speak about the United States. You see this in the way that Democrat regular rank and file voters now prefer Socialists to Democrat members of Congress. Something has fundamentally cracked. We're now past the Rubicon of the Democrat Party and it constitutes a far greater threat to the long term flourishing of the United States than any foreign adversary than any discrete threat overseas. We'll get to that in a moment. First though, Some good news. We don't always get good news in politics, but here's some really good news coming out of the judiciary. We almost never get good news out of the judiciary. So let's enjoy the win while we can get it. A Texas antifa cell was just sentenced to a lot of prison time. A cumulative 450 years in prison. But per person, you're looking at up to 100 years in prison for a terrorist attack that they committed on an ICE facility last year. What happened? I'm going to get with my friend Andy Ngo, who is the expert on antifa. We're gonna do a longer interview about this, so I'll just give you the highlights here momentarily. The DOJ announced that eight North Texas antifa cell operatives were sentenced for their roles in rioting, using weapons and explosives, providing material support to terrorists, obstruction, and the attempted murder of of an Alvarado police officer at the Prairieland detention center last July 4th. So this was on Independence Day, symbolic in itself. The leader of this was Benjamin Hanil Song. He was convicted of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. He shot a cop. He was sentenced to 100 years in prison. There were a bunch of other people here, too. You have Maricela rueda, sentenced to 70 years in prison. Cameron Arnold, 50 years in prison. Another 50 years to Savannah Batten, Zachary Evitz, Bradford Morris, Elizabeth Soto. Another 30 years for Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada. It's a lot of names. There are others, though. In addition to the eight that were sentenced, there are seven others who already pled guilty prior to trial. So they will be sentenced on July 1st. Now, how is this being covered in the press? We have the Guardian here. Here we go. A Guardian article. Texas anti ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges. Okay, that's simple enough. We have here from the New York Times a little more spin on it. Protesters accused of antifa ties sentenced to up to 100 years in Ice Attack. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Protesters. People shooting a cop now is a protest. That's a legitimate form of protest. According to the New York Times, setting off explosives at a federal facility, that's a protest. Now, according to the New York Times, traditionally in America, we distinguish between protests, which are peaceful and acts of terrorism and other kinds of violence which are not protests. Do you remember Chris Cuomo? I was just on Chris Cuomo show a couple days ago. Chris Cuomo infamously joked when he was on cnn, he said during the George Floyd riots, he said, show me where in the Constitution it says that protests have to be peaceful. You Say the First Amendment. I think that's where it says, it says the people have a right peaceably to assemble. You don't have a right to violently assemble. You certainly don't have a right to shoot cops. So the New York Times, right off the bat, legitimizing terrorism and attacks on police officers. So they're accused, they're protesters. That's the first one. Then the second error here, they say they're accused of Antifa ties. No, no, no, they're not accused of antifa ties. They were convicted of crimes using evidence that prove their Antifa ties. What did they do, according to the Guardian. Let's go back to the Guardian piece for a second. Although the charge does not require prosecutors to prove a connection to any kind of terrorist ideology. So the prosecutors, they did prove the connection in as much as they showed the evidence and the connections between all of the defendants. But the charge, the things that they were actually convicted on don't require them to prove the connection. Yeah, it just requires to prove the crime. Only that a defendant provided support for one of a list of several crimes. The Justice Department spun the convictions as proof that Antifa was a terrorist organization. Hold on, hold on. Yeah. When you go to trial and you're convicted of a crime, all you have to do is prove that you committed the crime. There's nothing nefarious about that. There's nothing novel about that. That's just how the justice system works. But here the Guardian is skeptical. They say, you know, come on, they're trying to spin this as proof that Antifa is a terrorist organization. Antifa has uniforms, Antifa has flags. Antifa members refer to themselves as members of Antifa. I have personally been the target of Antifa and two of the Antifa members were prosecuted for it. Although they didn't receive anywhere near a just sentence, they received far, far too lenient sentences. But these are card carrying members of Antifa. How does the Guardian spin this? They say the defendants in the case are a collection of activists who were loosely affiliated with one another through a local left wing book club and gun group. A euphemism for the ages. No, they're not part of a terrorist organization.
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They're.
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Michael Knowles
They're just part of a local political book club and gun group. So they train in radical political ideas and shooting, but it's not a terrorist organization. They're a group that meets at a place and they identify themselves as a member of a group and they discuss radical political ideas and coincidentally shooting people. But it's not like a Terrorist organization or anything like that. During the trial, prosecuted highlighted many of the zines. These are left wing radical political pamphlets that the group read as evidence of the conspiracy and ideology that linked the demonstrators. So the prosecutors, can you believe they did this? The prosecutors pointed to all of the ideological material that the terrorists shared with one another as proof that they shared an ideology. Can you believe that? How crazy. How radical. The evidence was met with widespread criticism from legal observers. They don't name the legal observers. What is a legal observer by the way? You mean a lawyer? You mean a scholar? You mean a historian? No, no, just a legal observer, whatever that is. Widespread criticism from unnamed people, sources say, who said that it was. That it amounted to criminalizing freedom of speech. Did they say that it. This is an amazing defense of Antifa coming from the Guardian, coming from the left wing press, because the way that the federal government is now considering antifa is precisely the same way they consider all other kinds of domestic terror groups. This would be like saying there's a prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan for lynching a black guy. And they say, you know, these prosecutors, they were trying to suggest that these activists and demonstrators and protesters shared an ideology. And just because they all passed around Mein Kampf and other materials, you know, if we're really gonna prosecute them this way, it's tantamount to prosecuting freedom of speech. Well, kind of. It's just looking at speech as it pertains to political ideology. And you can't understand political ideology without looking at the kinds of things people are saying and reading and writing. And you're not even only prosecuting them for the ideology, you're prosecuting them for the crimes that they are committing which are nevertheless connected to the ideology.
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This.
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Michael Knowles
Look, it's good news. It's good news that these people are being prosecuted. I'm glad it's finally happening. This is the first big prosecution since President Trump issued an executive order declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist organization, which should have been done 10, 15 years ago, but it's at least happening now. We have prosecuted left wing anarchists for precisely these kinds of crimes, even related to immigration, as this one was going back over a hundred years in the United States. This was happening during the Wilson administration, this was happening in the early 20th century. Then we kind of lost our nerve for a little bit. But Republicans and Democrats alike in American history have prosecuted precisely these kinds of people precisely because of how they destabilize the the country and cuz they're just crimes in themselves. What's changing here, though, is that now you have mainstream elected prominent members of the Democrat Party who are defending the terrorists, who are defending killing cops. We'll get to Rashida Tlaib in a second. First, though, I wanna tell you about Mount Titano Media. Go to mount titanomedia.com as we get closer to America's 250th anniversary, there's a simple question on a lot of people's minds. How much of our own history do we actually remember? Not the dates, not the trivia, the words, the speeches, the arguments, the ideas that shaped the country in the first place. Because one of the strange realities of modern education is that Americans are constantly told what to think about their history while spending very little time actually reading the people who made it. This is one of the most important things you can do. It was absolutely crucial in my own education, such as it is, is to read speeches, read speeches, read great quotations. Winston Churchill said this. He said the best thing for a guy without an education to do, to start getting an education, read a great book of quotes. And this does it. This is very influential in my political education. And there is a great book out right now called Finding Our the Words that Made America. I actually read one of the speeches in the audiobook of this, so I encourage you to get the audiobook. There's also Andrew Clavin, Spencer Clavin, Bill Whittle, who cares about any of those, with really, really important commentary from Tracy Lee Simmons and editor Allison Ellis. Go check it out right now. Go to Mount Teana. Get your copy of Finding Our Words, Words that made America. Mountitanomedia.com how does very prominent Democrat Congressman Rashida Tlaib react to the sentencing of terrorists who shot a cop? She says these sentences are a travesty. It's a travesty to sentence a left wing terrorist who shot a cop and totally unjustified. But that's the point. Americans hate the fascist Trump regime, so the only way they can try to cling to power is brute force.
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Brute.
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Michael Knowles
What are you talking about, brute force? This isn't the Trump White House that was doing this. This was the judiciary. In our system of checks and balances, separation of powers exactly as the Constitution lays out. The prosecutors presented evidence and many of the terrorists pled guilty to the crimes of which they were accused. Then she goes on, she goes, NSPM 7 is a grave threat to all of US. And more BS terrorism charges like these are coming now. What is NSPM 7? NSPM 7 is the national Security Presidential Memorandum titled Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence. The left and the right have agreed for many, many decades that we need to prosecute domestic terrorism. There's nothing novel about that, there's nothing partisan about that. But furthermore, these terrorists were not Prosecuted for violating NSPM 7. They were prosecuted and convicted and sentenced based on long standing crimes that they demonstrably committed, like shooting a cop. President Trump did not issue an executive order that criminalized shooting cops. That was already a crime. That's what they were convicted of. It's not just her. The Texas Observer, a totally mainstream media outlet, says this can happen to you and if they can do it to you, they will. From Steven Zetti in March, the convictions of the Prairieland activists puts everyone's right to protest at risk. Today they were sentenced to over 50 years in prison. Everyone's Now I want to just tell you what that means when they say everyone's right to protest. What they mean by protest here is shoot cops. So it's true, the convictions here, that the convictions do put everyone's right to shoot cops at risk. That's true. And the left clearly considers shooting cops a legitimate form of protest. More broadly, the left considers political violence a legitimate form of protest. This is why they largely minimized and even celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk last September. They did that. They did that at all levels of the left, from elected representatives to members of the media to the lady who sits next to you at work. Not just fringe radicals, not just members of the antifa group Normie libs, mainstream media outlets, elected members of Congress defending this stuff. These guys were all convicted of normal crimes and particularly heinous crimes, particularly politically relevant crimes. And the mainstream left justifies it. Something has really changed. I guess I should have a caveat here. The Democratic Party has been moving in this direction for many decades. So to say that something has fundamentally changed might be arguing too far. I guess what we would have to say is not that the underlying circumstances have changed. It's that they have just crossed the line now for a long time. Even if they were implicitly supporting this kind of political violence, they would always stop short of admitting it in public. They would at the very least have public disavowals from their most prominent members of political violence, even as they implicitly encouraged it. But now you're getting an explicit embrace from elected members of the party. This is the Democrats now look to no less a source than cnn. The CNN pollster Harry Antin goes on to describe how the Democrats have now shifted. They are no Longer merely implicit socialists, they are now openly embracing socialism. Socialism in the Democratic Party is now more popular. Radicalism tied to, anarchism tied to and now openly socialism are more prominently embraced by the Democrat Party than elected Democrat members of Congress.
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Well, among Democrats themselves, the Democratic Socialists of America have a higher net favor rating than the Democratic Party does. At least those who members of Congress. I mean, just take a look here. Dem Socialists of America plus 17 points. Democrats in Congress plus 4 points. No wonder that Dem socialists are getting nominated across the political map in different primaries. But because simply put, they are more popular than the Democrats currently in charge.
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How do Democrats today view socialism compared to capitalism?
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Match up Socialism. Capitalism among Democrats. You go back 16 years ago, 2010, capitalism and socialism right there. Favorable rating 51%. 50%. Look at it now. Socialism clearly in the lead among Democrats. 66% of them view socialism favorably. Just 42% you can capitalism favorably.
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Michael Knowles
So major, major shift, at least in the honesty here, at least in the candor from the Democrats. And socialism, lest anyone be confused, is not merely wishing to raise taxes a little. It's not merely wishing to expand the welfare state. Socialism is inextricable from all other forms of leftist radicalism. Socialism is not merely a more collectivist economic policy. It is a radical, revolutionary political ideology that always ends up with violence, with upending the political system. Look at Rashida Tlaib, who is one of the most prominent socialist members of Congress. Rashida Tlaib is not merely calling for raising taxes on rich people. Rashida Tlaib is lamenting the fact that left wing terrorists are being sentenced for shooting cops. That's what socialism is. It's encouraging violence against America and ordinary Americans. And this is why when you see this shift in the mainstream Democrat party, this is a point I have been harping on for many, many months now. And I have been pilloried for doing so. But nevertheless, I am totally right about this and I will be proven right. I am being proven right day after day. Hate to say I told you so. The chief threat that you face, you an ordinary person, whether you are a serious conservative, ideological person, whether you are just a normie, regular person who likes to have a good, normal way of life. The chief threat that you face is not from some podcaster. Some podcasters have stupid ideologies, annoying ideologies. Some of them sound like total schizos. I'm not denying any of that. I'm just pointing out the chief threat that you face is not from some guy who has a microphone on the Internet. The chief threat that you face is not from even some more normal faction of the American right that has been debating some other faction of the American right for many decades. I'm not even saying there aren't threats there. I'm just saying the chief threat that you face is from the elected Democrats and the large constituency that elects those Democrats who are openly calling for violence against you and for killing cops and for letting terrorists off the hook and for bombing ICE facilities. That's the threat. That's the chief threat that you actually face. And we can bury our heads in the sand and we can navel gaze and we can focus on relatively lower order political issues, but these guys are winning elections. These guys are gaining power. Look what happened in New York last night. The Mamdani backed candidates won. They beat the supposedly more moderate normal Democrats. By the way, the more moderate normal Democrats were already embracing a lot of this stuff anyway and they got blown out of the water by the Mamdani backed candidates like this person Aber Kawas, who just won a state Senate primary and who says America is responsible for deserving 9 11.
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Guest or Co-host (possibly Andy Ngo or another commentator)
And so like, and finding that like, you know, the system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy, etc. Have all. And Islamophobia have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people. And so this is like a long trajectory and we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation. Right. With 9 11. And so a lot of times when people are asking us to respond about a 10 attack, right. When if we look back like historically, right. You know, a lot of us come from lands that were colonized, lands where wars are being waged, right. A lot of times because of U.S. policy or the policies in Europe. And so I find that we can connect over that. But then also that the idea that we have to apologize for like a terror attack that like a couple of people did and then there is no apologies or reparations for genocide and for slavery, et cetera, is something that I kind of find like reprehensible.
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Michael Knowles
And notice this argument here. Notice when she says, you know, the US is responsible for 9 11. This is not the usual kind of conspiracy theorizing that you've heard from various fringe movements for 25 years now. She is not saying that Muslim terrorists were not responsible for 9 11, that they didn't commit 9 11. She's not saying it was an inside job by George W. Bush, it was a false flag. That's not what she's arguing. She's saying, yeah, Muslim terrorists perpetrated 911 and killed 3,000 innocent New Yorker civilians. And the New Yorkers deserved it.
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Yeah.
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Michael Knowles
No, the Muslim terrorists did it for sure. And they slaughtered 3,000 innocent New Yorkers. But actually, it was the New Yorker's fault. This is a woman who just won a political primary in New York with the endorsement of the mayor of New York, who ordinary Democrat voters just voted for. This is a. It would be a lot better actually if this woman were coming out and saying, actually, the Muslims didn't do 9 11. It was George Bush or whatever. You know, it was a false flag. It was. She's not saying that. It's much worse than that. She's saying New Yorkers deserve 9 11. I am justifying the Muslim terrorists who I believe did it. Thank you, mayor of New York, 25 years after 911 for giving me your endorsement. Not just her, another one. Darieliza Chevalier, another Democrat who got Mamdani's endorsement. Here's a picture of her wearing a defund police face mask. Covid never ends. Then separately, in some other picture wearing a hijab. She's not wearing a hijab with the face mask. She's wearing the hijab in the. I guess it's the face mask substitutes in for the hijab. It's the secular keffiyeh. I don't know. In any case, she posts. I forgot to get napkins, so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me. Smiley face. Someone who's saying, I hate the symbol of America. I disrespected the symbol of America because I don't respect America, because I hate America. She just won an election. These people should not be allowed to vote. I don't mean that with any hyperbole or intentional provocation. It's just a fact. If you hate the country, if you think the country deserves destruction, no coherent political philosophy would suggest that you should be able to vote in that country, to participate in the civic life of that country, much less be an elected official. This is not. We're not some weird parliamentary system like you have in continental Europe where crazy fringe radical parties get one or two seats. These are Democrats. And these particular kinds of Democrats are now more popular among the normal mainstream Democrat party than the old school suit and tie Democrats. The mask hijab burned down America. Dems are more popular among the base than the suit and tie Democrats who were already bad enough. That is the state of the American electorate right now. That is the state of the Democrat party. And meanwhile, we all navel gaze. And we talk about things that are largely trivial, that are largely, at the very least, I should say secondary as. As political threats. And we do so at our own peril. Okay? Now, speaking of voting, a federal judge has just ruled that the Trump administration cannot use a database to check citizenship because they might end up purging voters. Come again? Hold on.
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Wait.
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Michael Knowles
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News Reader or Additional Commentator
Applying for American Citizenship could soon get much more expensive. The Trump administration has released a new plan that would dramatically increase application fees in the US Citizenship process. For example, the fee for paper based applications would increase from $760 to $1,330. The fee for online applications would jump from $710 to $1,280. That is a difference of $570.
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Michael Knowles
Thank you for that.
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News Reader or Additional Commentator
The plan would also eliminate fee waivers and fee reductions for low income immigrants who are again requesting U.S. citizenship. Now, it's important to underscore that the changes will not take effect immediately, and the public will be able to weigh in during a public comments period for and against the rule in the next 60 days. The Trump administration argues that the fee hikes are necessary to fully recover the costs of adjudicating and processing applications. But critics say the administration is erecting yet another barrier for legal immigrants who are trying to secure American citizenship.
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Michael Knowles
Okay, so he says, this is crazy. You want to apply for US citizenship, you have to pay 1300 bucks. It's crazy. Hold on. No one has a right to just gain US Citizenship. To acquire US Citizenship. First of all, US Citizenship confers on it untold financial benefits, to say nothing of legal privileges. And for that, the government asks. It used to be 7, 800 bucks. Now it's about 1,300 bucks to apply for that. That would be the greatest investment anyone could possibly make. Forget about buying Bitcoin in 2006. Forget about buying Tesla in 2010. 1300 bucks to acquire US citizenship. If you're a citizen of Uzbeki. Becky, Becky, stand, stand, stand. If you're a citizen of some African or East Asian backwater, that is the greatest investment anyone could possibly make. The ROI is higher than anything Warren Buffett's ever gotten. And they're saying, well, it's too high. 1,300 bucks is too high. But then that's not even the craziest part. The craziest part is what he says there at the end. He goes, and this policy would eliminate fee waivers for lower income people who want to apply to become citizens. In other words, we currently have a welfare program for foreigners to become citizens.
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We.
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Michael Knowles
I have to. I haven't had a cigar this morning. I can't let. I'm doing a lot right now. I've got a little bit of stress. I don't want my blood pressure or to get up too high. We have a welfare program for foreigners to become citizens, to get more welfare. The purpose of immigration. The chief purpose of an immigration program in a state, the chief purpose is to bring in people who will contribute to the country, is when a group of citizens, when the citizens in the body, politicians say, we would like to bring these people in because they will be good for our country. They will help us. There are other minor secondary matters like political asylum or temporary refugee status or whatever. We're talking about citizenship here. You say we want you to help us. We have now flipped that on its head where we say we're going to take in people and not just even take them in and give them residency. We're gonna give them citizenship. People who we know will immediately be a net cost to our country, who we will have to forget about criminality. Just we're gonna have to pay them. We're gonna bring them in here so that we have the privilege of giving them more of our money so that they can mooch off of us. But no, that's not even enough. We're gonna give them welfare just to get them here. And almost more shocking than that, the mainstream liberal media are whining about it that we might reduce the welfare for the foreigners to come here to get more welfare. Boy, oh boy. Boy, oh boy. Seems to me we have, whenever you think America's political problems, we've reached peak political dysfunction for a first world global hegemon. Take a seat. Take a seat and keep reading. Okay, Speaking of poor financial decisions, I need a little palate cleanser to some of these political issues. Let's turn to culture. There's a new Supergirl movie coming out. I don't even really know what Supergirl is. I'm not the biggest cartoon comic book guy in the world, but these are very big movies. They're kind of the last big movies that anyone makes anymore. And the star of Supergirl is doing her level best to make this movie the biggest box office bomb since that chick decided to promote Snow White by offending every normal person in America. We'll get to. What is the actress's name? Millie Alcock. We'll get to that momentarily. First, though, flash deals are live now. Dailywire.com shop huge discounts on select Dailywire classics like my best selling yes or no game, the Conspiracy Politics and relationships expansion packs. The deals are so big, some might even call them prime. These discounts only last until Thursday. That's tomorrow, midnight Eastern. Do not wait. Dailywire.com shopordernow My favorite comment yesterday is from Dovey, who says whoa. Didn't realize how much I missed the old intro music. Yeah, that was fun. I actually. I couldn't see it at the open of the show yesterday, so it kind of, at the end, it caught me by surprise. Yeah, this show's been on a long time, man. Isn't that crazy? Isn't that crazy? Much to Ben's consternation, no. Ben came on the show yesterday. We had a good time. This show's been for, like eight or nine years now. 2,000 episodes. And that old music, it goes hard, man. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. I agree. Should we bring it back? Is everything old, new again? Is it vintage now? I don't know. Maybe we'll bring it back. Let me know in the comments if we should bring it back. Speaking of popular media, Supergirl is coming out. This is supposed to be the big movie release of the year. Maybe other than Toy Story. This is supposed to be the big, big movie release. Here is the star of Supergirl explaining what the movie is about. Discussion online about Kara's queerness in the comics. Was that something that you explored when you were preparing for the role? It wasn't, but in honor of Pride
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Guest or Co-host (possibly Andy Ngo or another commentator)
Month, as I'm getting all these questions, I don't know.
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Michael Knowles
I think that what makes this film so beautiful is that it's not centered around a man. It's not centered around love, if anything.
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Guest or Co-host (possibly Andy Ngo or another commentator)
But we'll see. I don't really know, But I don't know. I don't know.
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Michael Knowles
She'd probably go both ways. Now. This is almost a perfect repeat of what that girl, Rachel Ziegler did when she was starring in the live action Snow White. And they insisted upon racially diverse casting. So that's why we called it Sand Beige instead of Snow White. But that was the least of the leftism, frankly, because she went out and went viral for saying, you know, this Snow White movie, this isn't about love. This isn't about Prince Charming. This is about a strong, independent woman being a girl boss. That's what audiences want to see in Snow White. But this is almost a perfect repeat of that from this lady, Millie Alcock, but she has a little Freudian slip here where she says, look, in honor of Pride Month, because this is Pride Month, I just want to point out this movie has nothing to do with love. And I love this because I was on Piers Morgan's show when I was in the UK a few weeks ago, and I was debating pride with a more LGBT activist type. And he said, michael, you're wrong when you say Pride Month is about promoting weird sex stuff. It's not about promoting weird sex stuff. It's about promoting love. It's about love. That's why we have the weird leather parades in the streets with the paddles and the freaky stuff. And it's about love. But then this gal just admitted it's not. She goes, in honor of Pride Month. This has nothing to do with love. This is just about sexual ideology. There are no men. This is a superhero movie. Why would you have men in a superhero movie? This is about brute strength and battles, and why would you have men in that? It has nothing to do with men. And why would you have love in a narrative story, in a movie, and especially in a movie about salvation? What does love have to do with salvation? Now, I recall hearing that love is actually one of the theological virtues and the greatest of them, without which we have nothing. That God himself is love. I remember hearing that. She said, we don't need love. Okay, so she does that bit. Then, speaking of the battles and the men and the brute force, she's asked, who wins in a battle, Supergirl or Superman? Who's gonna win, you versus Superman? I'm gonna win, but it's. Cause he's gonna let me win. Because he is. No, it's just his character. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you're also stronger. But I'm stronger objectively. Objectively stronger, so I'm gonna win. Okay, so this is obviously contradictory, but there was a little bit of reality there with her. There little reality peeks out in these comments. Who would win in a fight, Supergirl or Superman? Supergirl. Okay, that's kind of cute. She saw my character would win, and it's ironic because everyone knows that isn't the case. But then she goes, but I'd win because he would let me win. Okay, well, that makes more sense. Yeah, I guess that's true. But then she goes, no, no, but I am stronger. And now you can. Now she's contradicting herself. You can't tell, but whatever she thinks about the character, this has been the argument from all these big superhero movies and sci fi movies for the last 10 years. This is really what destroyed Star wars is. And south park parodied this. And they had Kathleen Kennedy as Cartman, right? And say, like, I know what we'll do to the movie. We'll put a chick in it. We'll put a chick in it and make it lame and gay, and we're gonna put a chick in it. And that's what's gonna. And that's how they changed all the movies to the point that in the new Star wars movies, you get some little girl who's fighting the new Darth Vader character and she's winning on strength. I mean, that's just not true. I remember asking this of a millennial, A younger millennial, but a millennial. This was 10 years ago. We were talking about gender equality and fighting and all this stuff. And I said, hold on. You know that men are stronger than women, right? You know that. And he looked at me like I was crazy. This guy was somewhat conservative. He goes, no. Are we? No. I mean, some men are stronger than some women. I said, hold on. That's not what I said. Men, just. Men are stronger than women, full stop. The strongest woman ever maybe, could kind of push around the weakest man ever. Maybe. But even then, probably not. He said, no. What are you talking about? He didn't believe that. Younger millennials and Gen Z largely believe that men and women are physically basically indistinguishable. That's why they've embraced the transgender ideology. But it's not true. Someone even said, well, women in many ways are stronger than men. Okay, she goes on. She was being criticized for all of this wackiness and for potentially destroying the box office on this movie. And what did she say? Did she say, oh, yeah, my bad. I don't mean it. I'm just getting a little over my skis? No, but it's gonna be a fun movie for everybody. No, no, no. She derides her critics as Christian dads of four. She saw these people, forget about them. They just. They have these social media accounts. This is like, dad of four Christian. So the enemy for the superhero movie are Christian dads of four. Christianity, obviously, the biggest religion in the country, and dads, people who have kids. Kids, the people who go see these movies. She says, those are the people I hate. And she goes further. She goes, I mean, whose opinion do you really care about? If you're pissing off the right kind of people, you're doing okay. The right kind of people being the audience for this movie. I am really excited to see the box office come in for this movie. Don't forget Snow White, which pushed, in some ways, a tamer version of this same kind of press tour. Snow White was a box office nuclear bomb. It was Hiroshima and Nakazaki combined. It bombed. It got $205.6 million globally. It had a production budget of $336.5 million. That's not counting all of the P and A, everything else that went into it. After the fact, Snow White, which we call Sand Beige, cost the studio an estimated $170 million in losses and that might be scratching the surface for Supergirl, which I don't intend to see. I will go see Toy Story because my kids love Toy Story and I hope they didn't ruin Toy Story. You always fear with the new movies that come out of beloved older franchises you just fear that they're going to ruin it. But maybe I'll have a review next week. I'm hoping they don't ruin Toy Story. In any case, Supergirl ain't reserving my ticket. So much more to get to. I have so much more to get to but I don't have time because we're about to have a very exciting member segmentum. I have a very fine, very wonderful guest on. The show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code nolsknowles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.