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This is the Michael Knowles. Welcome back to the show. So much going on. President Trump has a big speech that's coming up on Thursday. People think it might upend elections from six years ago, might kick senators out of the Senate. Also, Miley Cyrus is befuddled and shocked that no one wanted to date her when she was sharing her sexual expression with the world. This clip is going viral now. It's on Monica Lewinsky's podcast. And it's a really important lesson Especially for the zoomers who are having trouble out there in the dating world. I hear it all the time from my hip cool young zoomer friends. We will get to that in a moment. First I want to tell you about PureTalk. Go to PureTalk.com knowles K N A W L E S Every once in a while a deal comes along that it's so good your first instinct is to assume you misunderstood it. I had exactly that reaction when I saw what PureTalk is doing. 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PureTalk.comKnowles to make the switch. That is PureTalk.comKnowles to start saving. The biggest story is this ICE shooting in Maine 7am yesterday in Biddeford, Maine. ICE immigration officers shoot and kill a guy. He was a Colombian national who was in America. They shoot and kill him in Maine. That's basically all you're gonna hear about this story from the establishment media. What they will not tell you is that the ICE officer shot and killed the Colombian national as he was allegedly driving in the direction of the officer. We saw that exact situation play out in Minnesota during the ICE raids last year. So there's an investigation going on. It doesn't seem like there was a lot of camera footage or body cams in this case, which is good for the libs. You know, the libs want to pretend that when there's no body camera footage, it's because something egregious occurred on the part of the officers. And this is the fascist right wing state oppressing the poor, helpless, marginalized communities. But that's not really what happens? You'll recall that the libs about 10 years ago made this big push for body cameras on cops. And then the moment that happened, the moment they got the body cameras on cops, they realized that the cops are in the right statistically 100% of the time. And that all of the supposedly oppressed, victimized perpetrators, they were basically always in the wrong. And the cops, if anything, were too restrained. So you're gonna see a lot, a lot more out of this ICE shooting in Maine. What's strange, it's not really strange when you analyze it, but what seems strange at first glance is that the ICE involved shooting in Maine comes just days after another ICE involved shooting in Texas, one that you probably didn't even hear that much about, if you heard about it at all. Why is that? Why are you hearing so much about the ICE involved shooting in Maine where you have a foreign national who is accused of driving his car at police officers who was killed almost the exact same circumstances. In both cases, the person who was killed was not the target of the ICE raid himself. Why did you hear about the one in Maine but not the one in Texas? Because Maine is in play. Maine is a really hot seat that is in play. Democrats are trying to unseat Susan Collins. They had the Nazi rapist, allegedly Graham Platner, who was their candidate until a few days ago, when finally he was removed. But they think they can take that seat. Whereas in Texas they're gonna have a hard time even though they're putting some resources behind James Talarico, the allegedly straight, allegedly male, allegedly Christian Democrat nominee for Senate there. That's probably not gonna happen. So once again, for people who are analyzing this, who are just kinda normies, centrists, they're not all that ideological, just recognize you are being played by the liberal media. You are being played by the Democrat establishment. It's not that the incident in Maine was so much more egregious than the incident in Texas. They're basically the same incident. It's just that Democrats think they can win in Maine and they probably can't win in Texas. It's the same thing we saw last year when there were ICE raids around the country. But the only one that people ever heard about was in Minnesota. And the reason they heard about it in Minnesota was not because ICE was especially super duper mean in Minnesota, the reason they heard about about it in Minnesota is because the Democrats who run Minnesota and who run Minneapolis, in a state so liberal, it's the only one that didn't vote for Ronald Reagan in 1984. Those Democrats made it an issue. They cynically exploited it as a political issue. And this gets me to my main point on how conservatives should think about these ICE involved shootings. Cuz I know there's gonna be this knee jerk reaction to say this is awesome. That's what you get. Because the libs are so absurd in how they talk about illegal immigration and law enforcement. There's a kind of knee jerk reaction to say, yeah, well you get what you get and you can't get upset, deal with it. But that's not how we really feel. Do you know how I really feel about hearing that an ICE officer shot some foreign national in America? Even if the foreign national was like driving his car at him or whatever. Even in that case, even in the case where the guy who was shot was totally in the wrong. I feel kind of sad. That's how I feel. I feel kind of sad. I don't think the ICE officer was in the wrong in really any of these cases where the information has come to light. I think the ICE officer was in the right. I think the people who were shot in all the cases where we've gotten all the information were in the wrong like all the time. But I still feel kind of sad because I don't like it when people are killed, especially if the people have families. Even if the people aren't like great guys, if they have families. You say this didn't have to happen and I wish the guy wasn't killed. I feel kind of sad. And I feel a simmering, growing anger toward the entire political establishment, but especially to our Democrats who are the chief drivers of the illegal immigration problem. Cuz it didn't have to be this way. Had the Democrats not opened up the border, had the Democrats not invited in millions of foreign nationals per year in contravention of our law, had the Democrats not totally cut off federal law enforcement from actually deporting those people, the guy in Maine would probably be alive. Even if the guy in Maine wasn't the target of the raid, ICE wouldn't be doing these big raids because they wouldn't have to do these big raids because the law would have been enforced for years and decades instead of neglected for that period of time. So I feel a real anger toward the Democrats. I'm not happy this guy was killed. I'm not happy that Renee Goode was killed in Minnesota. She was a complete lunatic and she drove her car at a cop. Her big heavy suv. She drove it at a cop. She entirely deserved what she got, and I'm still sad she got shot. I'm not happy she got shot. I wish she hadn't been brainwashed by the liberal media to think that ICE is the Gestapo. I wish that she hadn't been put into this position by bad politicians who were, especially in Minnesota, who were calling on people to get out in the street and fight an insurrection like it was 1860. But that's what happened because of the irresponsible decisions of Democrats in office, of the liberal media, which lies about everything. Now we're in this position where these guys are getting shot. But what's the alternative? What's the alternative? If it is the case, there will be investigations. But if it is the case that the foreign national in Maine and Texas drove their cars at the cops, what was the cop supposed to do? Should the cop have let himself be run over? Or should the cop have stopped the guy who was driving his car at him? Let's say the car was going in another direction, was driving somewhere else a public safety hazard? What was the cop supposed to do? Let the foreign national just drive away and potentially harm this in person or stop the threat? Any sober minded person would say the cops should have taken the shot, okay? But they'll say, but the cops shouldn't have been there in the first place. We shouldn't have these ICE raids, okay? You have tens of millions of illegal aliens in this country who are committing all sorts of crimes, murdering people, raping people, totally abusing the welfare system. Even if they weren't doing any of that, they are violating one of the most basic laws of a country. What are we supposed to do? Are we supposed to just let them do that? Effectively throwing the border open forever and completely mocking the idea of sovereignty and self government? Or should we arrest them? Even knowing that when you arrest them, you're gonna find yourself in provocative situations. Any sober minded person is gonna say no, you do have to kind of enforce the law sometimes, right? Okay, so then what would you do differently? I'm not talking about the far left which wants foreign rapists to come over and wreak havoc all over our country and they'll get joy out of it and they'll eat popcorn while it happens. I'm talking about the kind of normal liberals and the centrists and the center right people who feel icky with the ICE raids. What would you have them do instead? No one has an answer. So you can, yeah, you can feel sad. That's human. That's human to feel sad. It's good that you feel sad when people are killed and no man is an island ent tyrant to himself. Each man's death diminishes me. But the feeling of sadness should inspire in you and anger toward the people who are responsible for the conditions that led to this, that even you would admit if you were to consider this with reason, led to this. And that would be the Democrats and the crooked Republicans. That's who did it. Wish it weren't this way. But if we want to fix all of these problems, then you have to actually fix the problem now. Speaking of federal power coming from the Trump administration, President Trump is scheduled to give a speech primetime Thursday night. He's announced this days in advance. This is pretty unusual. And the reports that we are getting, especially from the liberal media, are that this speech is not mostly about Iran. The Iran war has kicked off again. We'll try to get to that in a second. It's not about the ice involved shootings or whatever. It's not about the home run derby. What it's about is the 2020 election. According to reports, Trump is gonna give a speech on declassified information showing foreign interference in the 2020 election. Some Liberals are going so far as to say he's gonna try to remove two Democrat senators from Georgia who got elected in 2020. We will get to what's actually going on in a moment. First, I want to tell you about good Ranchers. Go to goodranchers.com use code KNOWLES K N A W L E S One thing that I really missed when I was on vacation, it was not my house, it was not my car, it was not even my town. It was my good ranchers, okay? It was my delicious steak, especially the filet mignon. I like the New York strip. 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Ms. Now, Vice President of editorial, says President Trump plans to deliver Thursday evening's speech addressing newly declassified intelligence reports that the White House asserts reveal plans by foreign to interfere in the 2020 election. According to two White House officials granted anonymity to discuss internal plans. Now, this is Ms. Now, so take it with a grain of salt. But according to Ms. Now, they're speaking with two White House officials, which means it might be real or it means the White House is playing the liberal media to gin up interest in this speech. Benny Johnson, who's certainly an ally of Trump in the White House. Benny Johnson posts huge. President Trump is allegedly planning to announce that both senators from Georgia, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, are illegitimate due to election fraud, per sources from the DC Reporter. This could be massive. So here you have hostile media, very hostile media, msnl, and then you have very friendly media. Benny Johnson, coming from this other guy, D.C. reporter, both saying essentially the same thing. Actually, Benny's is going even further, saying not only was there interference, foreign interference, in the 2020 election, remember we heard all these stories of Venezuela interfering with the voting machines and the ghost of Hugo Chavez or whatever. We heard all these reports and I was pretty open minded to those reports of foreign interference. I remain open minded to them. But then Benny Johnson goes further, per the report from D.C. reporters says Trump is gonna say that two senators from Georgia are illegitimate. Is this finally crossing the Rubicon? Is Julius Caesar Trump finally going to go in and restructure the government? Are we gonna have our Charles II moment? Trump walks into the Capitol. He says, gentlemen, go home. This is dissolved. I am the state now. I'm not so sure. Greg Kelly on his show on Newsmax interviews, Trump asks him directly, what is the Thursday thing about January 6th? They made a year and a half after January 6th. You have a prime time address scheduled for Thursday. Some competing ideas, what it's about. Can you give us a preview at all? What, what will happen Thursday night?
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Greg Kelly
Well, I'm going to talk about various things, but I'd rather not say because if I say, maybe it's going to take some of the guilt off. I think what's going to happen when this is g. When I, when I look at this, when I look at what's happened in this country so much with the elections, when I look at how rigged our elections, look at Spencer Pratt. Spencer Pratt was an easy number two and maybe number one, but number certainly number two. And all of a sudden they had the mail in ballots pour in and Spencer ballot censor Pratt was gone, I was in Los Angeles, Spencer Prout was gone. And that was easy. And who beat him in no name? Who was all of a sudden, you know, so great that she got practically 100% of the votes from the mail in ballots? The whole thing. Our elections are crooked and we've got to straighten them out. We got to have voter id, we got to have proof of citizenship, and we have to do something about the mail in ballots.
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Michael Knowles
Okay, so what's the Thursday thing about? Is Trump going to reach over from the executive and just pluck two senators out of the Capitol? Oh, would that it were so simple. Wouldn't that be so beautiful? Is Trump going to say that Venezuela Rigged the 2020 election? Maybe. I mean, we'll see what the intelligence reports say about foreign interference. The election was obviously rigged and we all know it. It was at least rigged by Democrats who changed all the rules in the weeks beforehand. But what this is really about, reading between the lines here, is about Trump making a big push to pass the Save America Act. That's obviously what it's about. All of the specific instances, all of the specific examples that he's pointing to would be rectified by the Save America act voter ID and discouraging the mail in ballots and all the rest of it. So that's clearly what it's about. The justification for passing the Save America act would be the rigged elections, which includes not just 2020, but also the strange influx of mail in ballots that went for the improbable socialist candidate, even over Karen Bass in Los Angeles. That took that away from Spencer Pratt. It seems to me it's all about the Save America Act. I don't think he's gonna pluck a couple senators out. That would be great. But that's my prediction is the Thursday speech is a big push for the Save America Act. He might have some new information based on intelligence reports. You might even see a push to get it through the Senate based on the death of Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Graham, who is a staunch ally of President Trump. You have this traumatic moment for Republicans in the Senate. Maybe this is one last push to get it through. One last point on it when Trump says, here he goes, I don't wanna Give too much of a preview cuz it might take some of the guilt off it. A lot of people were scratching their heads. What do you mean? Take the guilt. They mean the guilt for stealing the 2020 election. What do you mean by the guilt? And then he clarifies, he says G I L T. Just guilt, meaning like guilt versus gold. A gold coloring on some object. That's a very intelligent play on words. I don't know if you people always say Trump is too blunt and he speaks like a five year old or whatever, that Trump is obviously smart guys and he clearly knows how to use words well. And in this case he was using this word guilt that a lot of people don't even use anymore. And he realized he had to clarify. In any case, I expect lots more of rhetorical spectacles coming Thursday night. But I really hope at the end of all of it, I really hope we get the Save America act passed. You know why? Because Democrats, sitting Democrat politicians, including Democrat Senator Alissa Slotkin, are now openly saying that if the Save America act is passed, the Save America act, which just says you have to prove you're an eligible voter to vote, if the Save America act is passed, no Democrat will win any election in any state around the country.
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Alyssa Slotkin
The other thing that we blocked yesterday was the Save act, right? Which was literally, Literally allowed this administration to rig our democracy so that it would be hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election and disenfranchise all married women in the meantime. By the way, just you'd have to show your birth certificate at the polls if you have a married name.
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Michael Knowles
Okay, so hold on, hold on, hold on. Before that last comment, notice what she says. She goes, the SAVE act, the Save America act, which is the kind of juiced up version, the Save act would make it hard for any Democrat to win any election in any state. What an odd thing to say. Because the SAVE act, the Save America act, they just say you need to prove you're an eligible voter in order to vote. So why in our country, with tens of millions of illegal aliens and plenty of other people who shouldn't be voting, why? And people who read the election by voting twice and who ballot harvest and send in a bunch of stuff, ballot boxes and all the rest, why would the SAVE act or the Save America act make it hard for any Democrat to win any election? Ever notice what she tacks on at the end there? She tacks on a blatant lie. She says it would also disenfranchise all married women. What yeah. It would also disenfranchise all married women because they would have to bring their birth certificates to show that they could vote. And I think what she's alluding to is that if your name doesn't match your voter id, then it might be harder for you. You need your ID to match your actual name. Okay. It's hard for you to get on an airplane, too, I guess. It's hard for you to cash a check too. I guess. It's hard for you to get a driver's okay. What are you talking about? I can assure you, just from personal experience, my wife has a married name. We live in states that have proper voting measures, the kind of voting guidelines that will be mirrored in the SAVE Act. And my wife votes. And married women tend to vote Republican anyway, so I don't know why Alyssa Slotkin is actually worried about that. She's not. She tacks that little bit on there at the end, that total lie. I mean, not. I try not to attack straw men. I try to figure out what my opponents are really saying so I can seriously engage with it. This woman is just lying about that. That's not even close to true. And she tacks on that lie at the end only after she hears how bad what she just said sounds. Cuz what she just said is, if you have to prove you're an eligible voter, Democrats will never win another election in America. That's what she's saying. And she says, oh, yikes. Oh, that's not gonna play well. And it'll disenfranchise all the married women. It won't. And married women will have to bring their birth certificate to vote. That's not true.
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But please forget that I just said that if you have to prove you're an eligible voter, Democrats will never win another election.
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Hmm.
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What a strange thing to say. Okay, speaking of liberal deception, Dua Lipa. Dua Lipa, who I am reliably informed as a singer, has just partnered with Livra Ria Lelo in Porto, Portugal. I love Porto. They make great wine. To open a library for banned and censored books. The libs love this stuff. They do this all the. It's Banned Book Week at schools across the country, public schools across the country. We're gonna have a banned book library. A banned book store. And every single time, the books that they have in the libraries and the stores are the most uniformly officially promoted books in the world. We'll get to the real banned books. First, though, I want to tell you about Policygenius go to policygenius.com knowles knes one of the things that I love about summer is it gives you the chance to reflect on how much can change in a year. You look back at where you were last summer, the things you were focused on, the goals you had, the challenges you were navigating. 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With Policygenius, you can see if you can find a 20 year life insurance policy starting at just $276 a year for a million dollars in coverage. Go to policygenius.com knowles to compare life insurance quotes from top companies. See how much you can save. Policygenius.com Knowles Dua Lipa has a banned book library. If you want to go check out the books, I hope you're near Porto, Portugal. What kind of books will you find there? Oh, we got some real naughty stuff. Don't tell the authorities that. You want to go check out the Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, a book that is on curricula in every college in America and probably most public schools. Oh, you know what other books they have in the banned bookstore? Ooh, ooh. You're gonna be real bad if you read this one. They have 1984 by George Orwell. I bet you've never even heard of that book. 1984. This has been kept from me for my whole life. What is this book? 1984 by George Orwell. Maybe the only book that anyone reads anymore or at least pretends to read that. Oh, yeah, that's in the banned bookshelf. Oh, no. I have one for you if you've already made it through Simone de Beauvoir's feminist nonsense and 1984, which is a good book, but it's kind of Overplayed. You can read this banned book, the Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Maybe the book is banned. I don't think the hit television series based on the book is banned. But maybe the book, I don't know, I haven't checked. I've never tried to buy the book. I have no interest in reading the book. But I think you can buy it everywhere. I think it's on curricula everywhere too. They also have the Trial by Kafka, one of the most famous and widely available books in the whole world, as well as the Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, which is banned by Muslims. Not by anyone in the West. It's very popular in the west, but it is banned by Muslims. Muslims who have tried to kill Salman Rushdie for the book as a fatwa against him, and they almost succeeded at killing him. None of these are banned books. None of the books that appear on banned book lists during Banned Book Week at all the public schools and libraries across the country, none of them are actually banned or censored. If you wanted to have a banned book library, do you know what you would put in the banned book library? You would publish the collected works of David Irving. Okay? That's what you. You would publish Holocaust revisionism. If you wanted to have a banned book week, you would have the Anarchist Cookbook and frankly not even that. The Anarchist Cookbook, which is a guidebook to left wing terrorism. Even that isn't really totally banned. You can still get it on Amazon for like 50 bucks. You can't get it on Amazon for 10 bucks, but you can get it for 50 bucks on Amazon. The David Irving stuff, the Holocaust revisionism, you can't get those at libraries or bookshops. You can find them for like $1,000 on eBay or wherever. If you wanted to have a banned Book week in a public school, you know what book you would put in that banned book library? You'd probably put the Bible. Actually, you'd probably put the Bible. Cuz that is one, maybe the only book that our law says you can't teach in schools. You can teach Mein Kampf in schools. You could teach the Anarchist Cookbook or David Irving in schools. In principle you wouldn't, but you actually could. The one book you can't teach in schools by fiat of the Supreme Court of the United States is the Bible. Let me put that one in schools. Don't put Margaret Atwood's stupid nonsense. Don't put Simone de Beauvoir's feminist trash. You'd put Those books. So now the rejoinder to this is, well, by golly, do you think that we should have libraries and shops with Holocaust revisionism or the Anarchist Cookbook or this, that, or the other thing? No, not really. Like, I guess if something is actively going to contribute to, like, terrorism, you know, there are other ways to censor that. But, no, I don't think. I don't think that we need to oppose banning books. This is my really unpopular view that I think has become more popular over time, ever since I wrote my book. Speechless, Controlling words, controlling minds. But it was. Thank you. It was very unpopular in 2016, 2017, when the right embraced free speech absolutism. But it's okay not to promote every book. I don't know about you guys. I'm from a religion that for many centuries had an index of prohibited books. I don't think you should just read any book because some can be really bad for you. Some are obscene, pornographic. Some teach things that are totally false, that are contrary to history or philosophy or religion. So I don't think we need to promote those things everywhere. Curricula are finite. You only have so many weeks in a semester. You can only teach so many books. You should teach the good books, not the bad books. You should teach the true books, not the false books. Libraries are only so big. Stores are only so big. You can only sell so many books. I think you should sell the good ones and the true ones, not totally the false ones. There's one area, maybe only one area, where Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther and I all are in perfect agreement, and that is on censoring or perhaps even burning books in some cases is okay. It's not the worst thing in the world. I don't. You're not totally allowed to say that. But what's so annoying, I guess, about the DUA LIPA thing and the whole Banned Book Week phenomenon is it's so dishonest. It's okay. We don't need the Anarchist Cookbook. We don't need libraries of Holocaust revision. We don't need all that stuff. Okay? But if you're gonna pretend that we just need total free speech and every book is sacred, then be honest about it. Make a library of Mein Kampf. If you really want banned books, and Mein Kampf isn't even the most banned, but it's like, somewhat banned, do that. DUA lipa. Make a library full of Mein Kampf. If you really want to embrace the principle, which I think is wrong, that we need total, absolute, perfect free Speech and you need to read everything, especially the things that are considered bad and naughty and taboo. If you really believe that, then make the Hitler library. Don't make the Margaret Atwood library. It's totally ridiculous. Or you can come and have a sensible position on speech and books and everything, which is that every society has taboos and we should just have good taboos. Okay? Speaking of pop stars, Miley Cyrus. Miley Cyrus is going viral.
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Now.
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This is for an interview, actually, that occurred a little while ago, but it's really going viral right now. She was on Monica Lewinsky's show, of all places, and she lamented the fact that no one has wanted to date her because she's been so open about her sexual expression because she shared her sexual expression with the world. And this unfairly has left Miley Cyrus alone.
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Miley Cyrus
If I kept dressing or acting a certain way, my relationships fell apart. No one wanted to date me because they didn't want to be with a woman. That sexual expression part was not for them. It was like shared with the world. So, like, guys, when I would try to date when I was dating or who I was engaged at the time, that didn't work out because I was sharing a part of myself that men wanted to be saved for them only. And the fact that I would, you know, pose nude or dance in very little clothes or show my body was making them feel like I was taking something away that was meant to be for them.
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Michael Knowles
Yes.
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Yes, that's true. That's exactly right. You've got it, Miley. Now, of course, what Miley Cyrus seems to be suggesting here is that that was wrong.
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I don't know.
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She doesn't say. And she doesn't say this was unjust and this was terrible and how dare these men. And she doesn't say that. I'm not sure she's being totally introspective here, but she at least leaves open the possibility. She is just describing what happened. She says no one wanted to date me because I shared my sexual expression with the world. And so they felt that I was taking something away from them and they wouldn't date me. That's a fact. The issue at play here is not that the men were patriarchal and oppressive. The issue at play here is not just that society didn't understand or we have double standards or we're not sufficiently open minded or whatever. The issue is that dating someone means not sharing your sexual expression with the rest of the world. That's what it means. That's the definition of dating. So the fact that Miley shared her sexual expression with the rest of the world did not, unfortunately, lead to men choosing not to date her. It in itself as an action foreclosed the possibility of Miley Cyrus dating. That's the issue. To quote another pop star. Me. It's me. I'm the problem. It's me. I don't know if I'm getting the Taylor Swift words totally right, but that's the issue. This is not something that happened to Miley Cyrus.
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Greg Kelly
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Michael Knowles
This is something that Miley Cyrus did. It does remind me of the whole debate, such as it is, over gay marriage. Whereas the pro gay marriage people will say, why don't you think we should have the right to get married? And the correct people will say, no, we're not depriving you of any rights. We don't want to take any rights away from you or anything like that. It's just marriage itself excludes the action that you want it to include. Because marriage intrinsically is the union of a man and a woman ordered toward the procreation and education of children for life. That's what marriage is. So by not including unions that are contrary to that, it's not that we're depriving you of something. We just. We can't change reality. We can't change what the thing is. It'd be like someone saying, why won't you put bacon on my vegetarian sandwich? Why won't you let me put bacon on my vegetarian sandwich? Why are you depriving me of the right to put bacon on my vegetarian sandwich? I'm not depriving you of that right. It's just if you put bacon on it, it's not a vegetarian sandwich. Miley Cyrus, why won't you let me date you or marry you? Why won't you let me do that while sharing my sexual expression with the world? Because the thing dating does is shrink and focus your sexual expression. That's the definition of it. And if it doesn't do that, what is dating? What is marriage? I mean, it relates really directly to the whole same sex marriage debate or polygamous marriage debate or what have you. Because it just comes down to this question of what is it if marriage is not the union between a man and a woman for life, ordered toward the procreation education of children, as I think it is, as Christians think it is, as pagans who are philosophical have thought it is, as like normal people think it is. Simple question. No judgment. No judgment here. I'm not trying to yuck your yum. I'M just asking you, what is it? What is the thing that distinguishes marriage from all the other unions? If dating someone doesn't entail not stripping and jiggling for other men, what is dating? Why aren't you guys just friends who bump uglies every now and again? Right. That's the question. Okay. Speaking of the rest of the world, whether we're sharing our sexual expression with the rest of the world or just trying to live in it, the US Is back at war with Iran. And the update today is that the US has taken over the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait of Trump, they're calling it. We have the Gulf of America. Is it gonna be the Strait of America or the Strait of Trump? We'll find out. But this update is a huge escalation in the war, which reportedly the Trump administration has already notified Congress about, which would then restart the War powers resolution for 60 days. Before we get to any of that, my favorite comment yesterday, this one, the producer sent it to me. This was neither on YouTube nor on Spotify. This came from Twitter and I have to read it because it gives a little tough love to the producers. Thomas Collins writes, your music Monday selection today should result in firings. That's true. What was it? It was like the Jay Z, like New York, like that 27 year old song that Professor Jacob said. Michael, have you heard this song before? Anyway, Daily Wire employee Jack, writing from the Michael Knowles show writes, don't know what you're talking about. We only play the freshest, most brand new music on our show. Thomas Collins says, I was at the gym and almost tore a bicep getting my phone out to turn that trash off. Jacob should be fired and Ben should get 10 lashes. I agree. I agree. Both of them get the wall if they do it again. Both of them get the wall if they do it again. Speaking of violence, the United States is back at war with Iran. Reportedly the Trump administration has informed Congress, thereby restarting the War Powers Resolution. Because we would say the other Iran war is over and we had a ceasefire. Maybe that was one of the purposes of the ceasefire was to restart the War Powers Resolution, as some of us predicted at the time. And then that would give the TRUMP White House 60 more days, potentially extended to 90 days. Or if you're a Democrat president, just indefinitely extended, like Barack Obama in Libya or like Joe Biden with the Houthis. This would give them the ability to just continue to wage war against the Iranians. The Iranians who violated the ceasefire, fired on American ships, fired on American allies and made a mockery of the Memorandum of Understanding. Trump writes, today, the Hormuz Strait is open and will remain open with or without Iran. We are reinstating the Iranian blockade, so named because it is only stopping Iran's ships or customers from entering or leaving. I kind of like this because the original Iranian blockade was Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz. Then America did the double reverse Uno card where we blockaded their blockade, and now we have an Iranian blockade that only blockades the Iranians. All other countries will have fair and open use of the strait. The USA will be, from this point forward, known as the Guardian of the Strait of Hormuz. So we're just taking it. It's just ours now. But as much, and as a matter of fairness, or as such, and as a matter of fairness, we will be reimbursed at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the world. The process and formation will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President Donald J. Trump. This is one thing I love about having a gangster in the White House. This is like Ray Liotta Goodfellas. Ever since I was a boy, I knew I wanted to be a gangster. This is gangster stuff. American politicians of a more genteel breed would not do this. What is the problem? The problem is that we attacked Iran. US and Israel attacked Iran because Iran wanted to build a nuclear weapon. And the causes belli, at least, was that IR ballistic missile system was getting to the point that if it exceeded a certain immunity threshold, we would not be able to stop them from further enriching uranium to get a nuclear weapon. So the argument for war, whether you buy it or not, the argument for war was we need to attack Iran. Now, they're especially weak, and we're going to, therefore, dramatically set back their nuclear weapons program. Okay, we do that, and then Iran plays the strongest card it has, which is the Strait of Hormuz. It, for the first time ever, takes control of mines and shuts down the Strait of Hormuz, which controls 20% of global energy, along with petrochemicals and fertilizer and all sorts of other stuff that's flowing through there. Then we were in the ceasefire and it was kind of a standoff. And this is very painful for Trump because the midterm elections are coming up, and closing off 20% of the world's oil could seriously damage him and the Republicans. So they come to this memorandum of understanding. But it's very complicated because it's got to involve Israel's operations in Southern Lebanon, Southern Lebanon, which is controlled by Hezbollah, Hezbollah, which is controlled by Iran. So it's all. It's very, very messy. And in any case, Iran violates the ceasefire. So now Trump comes in, he says, this is my strait. Now, one of the biggest issues with Iran controlling a Strait of Hormuz, even during the ceasefire and the memorandum was they were using tolls. So they said, we're gonna. You can go through, but you gotta pay us off. It was a shakedown. And now Trump comes in, and rather than saying, and now there are no tolls, he goes, we're taking your straight. We're shutting off all of your oil. And you know what else we're gonna do? We're gonna take your tolls, too. We're getting your tolls. That's the kind of gangster move, that's the kind of New Yorker, reminds me of a certain Italian American subculture kind of move. But these are not the same kind of tolls. In fairness, I think in all objectivity, you can say, in the case of Iran, Iran was just doing a shakedown here. Iran illegitimately took control of the Strait of Hormuz and then shook people down to get it through and tried to make America look weak on the world stage. In the case of the United States, if we really are to become the guardian of the Strait of Hormuz, if we are now going to invest resources into protecting this from the Iranians who are extortion artists, we should be reimbursed for that. See, you could at least make a fair argument that these are different kinds of tolls. But I think Trump is doing something even more here. It's not just him being a gangster and saying, we're taking your oil, we're taking your tolls, we're taking everything from you. What Trump is doing is he is creating an incentive for the rest of the world to get Iran to play ball, such that the United States does not need to continue to run the Strait of Hormuz. If the US Came in and just said, hey, we're just gonna protect the Strait of Hormuz for. For free, forever. We're gonna take the endless volleys of Iranian missiles and rockets and all the rest, and we're just gonna do it. Cause we're really nice guys and that's our responsibility in the world. If we did that, there would be no end to it. That would be a guarantee almost of a forever war. The fact that Trump is saying, hey, we're gonna come in, we're gonna beat up the Iranians. We tried to be nice. No one can say we didn't try. We tried to be nice. You wouldn't do it. So now we're just gonna blow you up a little bit more, and we're gonna blow you up for another 60 days, and then maybe you'll learn. And we're gonna control the Strait of Hormuz, but we're gonna toll the rest of the world. That creates an incentive for the rest of the world to put a little skin in the game here. This is exactly what Trump did with NATO, where he was accused of trying to destroy NATO, but what he was actually doing was trying to strengthen NATO. He's bragged about strengthening NATO by getting NATO to contribute, by getting the other members to live up to their obligations. I think that's the same thing here. And I think what Trump is doing, rather than. Than acceding to a forever war, which he ran against in 2016 and 2020 and 2024, I think what he's trying to do here is in a very unfortunate circumstance, in a war that, as I've said from the beginning, all cards on the table, I would have argued against. I would not have gotten involved in this round of the. In this latest Iran war. But we are where we are. Aliyat Yaakta est. The die is cast. I think what Trump is doing here, I think all of his moves are designed to stop a forever war. If you let the Iranians continue to just violate the ceasefire and make a mockery of the MOU and all the rest of it, you're increasing the chances of a prolonged war, not decreasing them. And in this case, if you just say we're going to protect the Strait of Hormuz, you now are in a forever war, because the Iranians are not going to accept that in principle. So you're just going to be exchanging volleys with Iranians ad infinitum. This move, however, I don't know if it's going to work. No one knows if it's going to work. You know, I did this whole segment yesterday on the show with some of the wisdom of Machiavelli going back to 1375, pointing out that wars start at the will of anyone, but they don't end at anyone's will. Nevertheless, what Trump is doing here is clearly trying to wind down the war and get us out of it. Whether it works remains to be seen. Okay, so much more I want to get to the Toronto police have gone trans. Lindsey Graham's sister is gonna take his Senate seat. We don't have time, though. Cause today's Tee Hee Tuesday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not wanna miss it. Become a member. Use code Knowlescannawles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.