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The US has launched a fresh round of strikes on Iran as the war threatens to drag out for months or years. The House votes to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. And two homosexual men sue the surrogate they hired because she wouldn't kill their baby over a cleft lip. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Huge show today. We have a former Daily Wire employee, a former. A little more than an employee, coming on to weigh in on a lot of drama, let's just put it that way. I usually don't get into too much drama, but we have a former Daily Wire personality coming on later. I just. I think this subject is too important not to weigh in on. So in any case, we'll get to that in just a little bit. First, though, there's a lot going on. The war in Iran is in full swing again. The president hearing from centcom. We have major strikes coming out again this morning. We've got a new senator from South Carolina. Lindsey Graham's sister is gonna take over that seat. We got a whole lot going on. And amid all of it, the House of Representatives, which I love. Look, I don't want to beat up on the congressman. Some of my closest friends are congressmen. They're doing something that I hate. The House is currently doing something that I hate. And the Senate needs to stop them. What they are doing is voting to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. And I know I'm in the minority here. I know this is an unpopular opinion. I love that we switch the clocks. I think it's fun. It's a nifty little cultural thing we do. People complain about it, but it's kind of fun. And it gives you something to look forward to. And it makes us think about the significance of the passage of time, to quote Kamala Harris. And it actually serves a purpose. And in recent years, levelers and liberals and rationalists have been trying to kill Daylight Savings Time or to kill standard Time and make it permanently Daylight Savings Time. And this began on the left, but it's picked up steam on the right as well. These are the same kind of people who love the metric system, who just want everything to be clinical and bland and dry and unsatisfying. In any case, the House just voted to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. You might not share my delight at the whimsy and apparent arbitrariness of this cultural tradition we have of changing the clocks twice a year, even if you don't. And I encourage you to participate in the whimsy and delight of changing seasons. But even if you don't share my joy in those moments, Daylight savings time actually does serve a purpose. And alternately, standard time serves a purpose. Changing the clock serves a purpose in Arizona. Arizona, which is being used as a model, cause in most of Arizona, they do not have daylight savings time. In Arizona, that kind of works because the earliest sunrise is 5:30am and the latest sunrise is 7:30am in other parts of the country, that isn't true. If this stupid House bill is enacted into law in parts of Michigan, the sun would not rise until 9:14 in the morning. That's weird. That's not good. That's not helpful. In parts of North Dakota and Minnesota, the sun would not rise until the 9:45 in the morning during parts of the year. That doesn't make any sense. I was lying in bed with sweet little Lisa this morning lamenting the stupid House bill, and she pointed out something that you never hear anyone bring into the debate over daylight savings time. Namely, there's a reason we have it and there's a reason we have standard time, and there's a reason it changes. This is Chesterton's fence. I hear conservatives all the time bring up Chesterton's fence. The idea that when you see something, when you find a fence in the middle of a field, you have no idea what the purpose of the fence is. The instinct of the radical is just to tear the fence down, but the instinct of the conservative should be not to tear the fence down. You have to first figure out what the fence is for. And in this case, Daylight savings time and standard time and changing clocks, it all actually serves a purpose and we should not do it. I hate it. I want the Senate to kill this bill. Tom Cotton in the Senate killed the bill last time this came up. Kill that bill. I think even the White House supports this bill. Sorry. As I say, Trump gets it right 99.789% of the time. This is one of those incidents, instances rather, where we part ways. This is. Sorry. He gets it right statistically, 100% of the time, but on occasion, we're not quite in alignment. This does not make sense. Senate, kill this bill. I hate that. We need whimsy. We need daylight savings time and standard time. Okay, speaking of the Senate, real quick, Lindsey Graham's sister is in fact going to serve the rest of his term. President Trump called for this. This would be one of those areas, 99.78967% of the time that I totally agree with the President. Lindsey Graham's sister is a perfect person to fill this seat temporarily. And I don't wanna hear from people that, no, we need someone with a lot of political experience. And no, we need someone whose ideology we know perfectly. And no, no, no. They. There is a tradition of widow appointments. You know, when someone dies, you just appoint the widow to serve out the rest of his term, whatever the office is. Lindsey Graham was not married. He was very close to his sister Darlene, whom he had started to raise and eventually adopted. Beginning when she was 13 years old. Cause their parents died. So anyway, she was the closest person to Lindsey Graham. All I care about, really, is that we just have a reliable vote. A reliable Republican vote to advance the president's agenda. Other than on daylight savings time for the rest of the term. That's all that really matters. The ideology doesn't really matter. The political experience. I don't care how much Aristotle and dinozo, Cortez and Edmund Burke the person has read. You just need the person to be a reliable vote. It's nice. For Lindsey Graham's legacy, you say, well, this is what he would have wanted, what have you. That's somewhat important. But more important to me is we get someone who's gonna vote in line with the party. This is one of the best things you can say about Lindsey Graham. He was a partisan. And I like partisans. I like people who are reliable and loyal, who are good at politics. So in any case, I think it's a good choice. Other final point on Lindsey Graham. Some news is coming out that as he was having this aortic dissection, this cardiac event, very dangerous, he called his scheduler. This is according to Lindsey Graham's Senate colleague, Tommy Tuberville. He calls the scheduler, says, hey, I'm having chest pains. You gotta call. You gotta do something for me. And the scheduler said, have you called 911? And he says, I haven't called 911. That's why I'm calling you.
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he was obviously feeling pretty ill. The scheduler calls 911. By the time they get there, he's a goner. Very, very sad. Obviously, we should all pray for Lindsey Graham. But this is a reminder of why men who are married live longer. Is because Lindsey Graham effectively worked himself to death. You know, he had just gotten off the flight from Ukraine. He was constantly working. He was obsessed with his job. He was very good at his job. And men who don't get married, men who remain confirmed bachelors, men in the priesthood, sometimes they're not always the healthiest One thing that women do in our lives is they make us eat better and sometimes sleep better and like, I don't know, just they kind of civilize us a little bit. And this is an example of that. So little word of caution to people, especially who have family histories of these things, to get them checked out, to take care of themselves. But in any case, there will be this fulfillment of Lindsey Graham's legacy through his sister, assuming his sister is a good, loyal Republican. I'm all good with it. Speaking of Graham's legacy, Graham, one of the biggest warhawks in the United States, the United States is announcing from centcom a huge new wave of strikes against Iran. The purpose of the strikes is to degrade the military capabilities that Iranian forces have used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. So if you follow the progression of the war, the casus belli when the war kicked off was that we had to stop Iran's nuclear program. Now, immediately you heard some of the voices against the war saying, hold on, I thought we stopped Iran's nuclear program a year ago when we bombed the Fordo facility. I thought that was the whole point of those bombers flying over Iran and the 36 hour campaign that eliminated Iran's nuclear program. The response to that was, well, no, no, no. It's not that Iran's close to a nuke, but Iran is close to an immunity capacity because of their ballistic missiles program, such that if they keep building up their ballistic missiles program, they are going to be able to build their nuclear program and we won't be able to do anything about it. So we gotta strike now. The other, slightly quieter aspect of the casus belli was that the Iranian regime was weak. We had intelligence of when they were all meeting together. And so this was the time to strike if you wanted to cut off the head of the snake. So there was always this regime change possibility in there. President Trump, when he announced the strikes on Iran, he said, iranian people, the moment of your freedom has come. Grab your government if you want to. So we were certainly hoping for regime change, but that hasn't happened. And I, as I said from before, during and after, had I been on the nsc, nobody invited me, I would have argued against the strikes simply because I thought and continue to think, and I think have been proven right in thinking that the Iranian regime is simply stronger than a lot of people gave it credit for. You know, the US we're the global hegemon. But let's not forget, when it comes to Iran, the CIA backed Shah regime from 1953 to 1979 that lasted 26 years. The Islamic Mueller regime has lasted almost twice as long as that. And they have ton of contingencies. They've been preparing for these strikes for years and years and years. And so Iran plays its card, it closes down the Strait of Hormuz, and the United States seems to be a little flat footed there. So we bomb, bomb, bomb, then we have the ceasefire. This MoU Iran violates the ceasefire that catches us up to today, we're gonna keep bombing and we're gonna increase the pressure. And there's really no end in sight, which is a political problem for President Trump because the war will hurt him in the midterms, could spike gas prices. The US Is now controlling the Strait of Hormuz. So I guess, you know, you're gonna see a little easing of the prices in the energy markets. But regardless, no matter all those details, which we, you know, you have to follow the details. But regardless, structurally, nothing has changed structurally since the beginning of this war, since before the war, since 15 years ago. Nothing has changed with Iran, which means that the likelihood of a protracted or accelerating conflict just keeps going up, which I think, I think was baked in from the beginning. Okay, Speaking of violence, a couple of homosexual men are suing their surrogate, the woman whose womb they rented to implant the baby that they procured by paying another woman to buy her eggs. They're suing the surrogate because the surrogate would not murder their child at their command after they learned that the child would have a little bit of a disfigured lip. Maybe we'll get into it. First, I want to tell you about Pepperdine. Go to go pepperdine. Edu DailyWire. One of the easiest things to do is point out what is wrong with the country. Much harder to prepare yourself to help fix it. That is why I always have a lot of respect for young people who don't just want to talk about public policy. They want to understand it well enough to shape it. One reason that I want to tell you about Pepperdine School of Public Policy. If you're interested in government, national security, public service, or simply want to understand how ideas become real world policy, this is a program worth exploring. What is he? Man, I wish I had staff members who went to the Pepperdine School of Public Policy instead of whatever this is, instead of whatever I actually got. It's one of the all time great public policy schools. I've been a fan of theirs for a decade now. It's in one of the Most beautiful parts of the country. They have the right idea about a lot of things. It's very, very important. And that way you end up as a very serious, important statesman and policy thinker and not doing weird shticks on my show. If you've been asking yourself how you can contribute something meaningful, not just comment from the sidelines, this is a program worth looking into. Learn more at Go Pepperdine. Edu Dailywire. That's Go Pepperdine. Edu DailyWire. A couple of homosexual men buy a woman's eggs. Then they commit grave mortal sins into a cup. And then they mix it all around or something. And then they unscrupulous, unethical scientists to deliver them a baby. Well, actually, to deliver the baby to another woman whose womb they rented in order to have her grow the baby so that they can commoditize human life and purchase a baby. But something went a little wrong along the way. Around 22 weeks, when the baby is so obviously visibly a baby. It's like, crazy having done this now four times. If you've ever had a kid, know someone who's had a kid, you know, at 22 weeks, this baby. Baby's always a baby, but this baby's like, really, really a baby. The homosexuals wanted the woman to kill the baby. They invoked a clause of their contract. Because when you hire a surrogate, you know, you have a contract cause you're buying a product. Cause you're treating human life as a commodity. So they say, well, we want to exercise this clause of our contract. You gotta kill the kid. Why do you need to kill the kid? Because doctors said he might have a cleft lip. He might have a minor heart problem. Not a serious heart problem. Minor heart problem and a cleft lip. And the woman said, hey, man, I don't wanna murder this baby. I mean, obviously the woman is a little confused about bioethics. If she is taking this contract, leasing out her womb to these homosexuals with whom she's gonna create a child to intentionally deprive the child of a mother. Obviously, she's got a lot of bioet problems too, but at the very least, she had enough of a conscience to say, I'm not gonna kill the kid. I'm not gonna kill the kid at 22 weeks. Because a couple of guys with deep pockets and light loafers don't like the look of his lips. I'm not doing that. And so eventually, the homosexual men relent. And then the woman wants to give birth as a home birth, but the homosexual men want her to Give birth in the hospital. So finally the baby is born and the baby's fine. He needed a little oxygen, so that was a little. But then baby was fine. And the homosexuals are now suing her for breach of contract. Oh, man. It's just every single person in this story, other than the baby drives you up a wall. This slippery slope is just. It's not even a slip and slide. It's like it's contracted, like some sort of slinky or something. It's almost a singularity of how quickly we went from people just want to be left alone to, why won't you let us murder the children that we're purchasing? Because we don't like how their lips. That was real fast. That was real fast. So that, obviously, is ghastly, horrifying. Those men are absolutely nauseous.
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However, I want to give them a little bit of charity, a little bit of the benefit of the doubt here at the second stage of the story. After they fail to murder. After they fail to get the woman to murder their kid because they don't like how his face looks at that point, they say, well, we want the kid to be born in a hospital. If he's gonna have some medical complications, we wanna make sure he's born in a hospital. The woman says, no, I want it to be a home birth. And at that point, the homosexuals get really nervous. And I get it. I'd be nervous too. I probably would want a hospital birth in that case, too. And in the way that childbirth is supposed to happen, you would just talk about that with your wife and you would just say, no, we're gonna go to the hospital. But when you commoditize everything, when you make everything just an economic transaction, when you make everything a matter of legalism and contracts, you don't get to say that. So in a way, I mean, the homosexual guys are certainly the villains, the chief villains in the story. Almost everybody's a villain, but they're the chief villains in the story. And yet even they, I think, deserve a little bit of sympathy here for their discovery, albeit too late, that this whole system of the baby industry, of IVF and surrogacy is. Is really messed up. They were the ones driving it, no doubt about it. But even they, in a way, become victims of it. The whole thing is just completely morally unacceptable. And I think people are waking up to that fact. The Republican Party of Texas just changed part of this platform to say that it opposes the commoditization of babies in the surrogacy industry. So they're waking up. I mean, this used to be like an 8515 issue. Everybody supported IVF and surrogacy, but it's one of those issues where they only support it inasmuch as they don't understand what it is. They support it because in theory, it's good that infertile couples can now have babies. They support it because in principle, more babies is a good thing. And if you don't look at what it actually is at a deeper level, you would support it. But the more you see it, the more you do not. Same goes for a lot of the sexual revolution when it's all just like pride flags in the ymca, Everybody supports it. When you figure out what it's actually about, you know, like chopping off kids genitals, all of a sudden people start to turn on the lavender movement. Okay, Speaking of weird sex stuff and Canada, actually. Cause that case happened in Canada. The Toronto police have gone fully trans by the very, very tail end of Pride Month. The Toronto police are going, not just the rainbow flag, they're doing the terrorist rainbow flag, the one with the trans colors and the colors, take it away.
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Contacted by the Crown at the Ontario Court of Justice to assist with the case that they had. So they asked me to reach out to the victim and make sure she's safe and take her home. He drove me home in the fabulous Pride suv, and as he was driving me home, we reached a stoplight. And then an individual in a pickup truck came up to us.
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Okay? So make no mistake about what this is 1. It's really, really funny. The line from this guy who happened to be filming on a hands free cam is really funny. Are you guys cops or do you just identify as cops? Very funny. Well done. It's even more embarrassing for the Canadian police. Cause the American police, if you got up in their face like that, American police of a certain age would just beat you up. And it's like they probably shouldn't do that, but you kind of like that. They, you know, they're tough guys. But the Canadian police would say, what do you think I am? Yeah, because the cop is obviously embarrassed to be driving the gay car and the trans car. Obviously, it's absurd. Because what this is, make no mistake about it, is LGBT ideology literally enforced by at the barrel of a gun. Whenever the government does anything, we say, and especially libertarians say that it's the imposition of some idea at the end of a gun, but it's kind of removed when it's a bureaucrat or a senator or whatever. In this case, it is the cops wrapping their flags in the gay ideology, becoming the private chauffeurs of sexually deviant men, insisting very visibly to the public that you need to get on board with this. This is the ideology of the state, and it is being enforced by the police, by law enforcement. Okay? Speaking of law enforcement, big announcement on ice. DHS has just come out and said that ICE is gonna stop the traffic stops during which a guy was killed in Maine and a guy was killed in Texas just over the last week. DHS says we're gonna put a halt to those traff stops. Then President Trump comes over the top of the rope, says, no, we're not. Full steam ahead. We're still doing the traffic stops. We'll get to what that means. Also, I mentioned it at the top of the show. We have a former Daily Wire. I can't even say employee, a very, very important Daily Wire figure who's coming on to weigh in on the drama. I usually. I don't want to get involved in the drama. I think the drama can be a distraction. This issue is so important that I think we need to hash it out on air. We'll get to that in one second. First, though, I wanna tell you about Preborn. Go to preborn.com knowles k n a W L E S We just celebrated Independence Day and reflected on 250 years of the American experiment. For a few days, we remembered the courage, sacrifice and conviction of those who built this country. We celebrated the belief that every person is endowed by his creator with certain unalienable rights, such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Question is, what does it mean to honor those ideals today? One answer is to defend the most fundamental right of all, right to life. One reason that I'm proud to support preborn. Preborn provides compassion, practical support, and free ultrasounds to mothers facing unexpected pregnancies. That ultrasound changes everything. When a mother sees her baby and hears that tiny heartbeat. For the first time, more than 80% choose life. Every child is a future that has not yet been written. A future teacher, A future firefighter, future entrepreneur. A future parent. A future saint. We will never know what those children might become unless they are first given the chance to live. For $28, you can sponsor an ultrasound. The ultrasound will more than double the baby's chance of survival. This is one of the best returns on investment you can get. In honor of America's 250th, I encourage you to prayerfully consider a special gift of $250. That's enough to provide eight ultrasounds and potentially save eight lives. To donate £250, say keyword baby £250 keyword baby or gift securely@preborn.com knowles preborn.com knowles Every gift is tax deductible. Okay, without further ado, we are now joined by former Daily Wire 2 sports correspondent Jeremy the God King.
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Boring. Bonum a zing bada bazoom. I'm sorry, Laurel and Yowza, Michael. Another four years have come and gone, and you know what that means. No, I'm not talking about another war in the Middle east. Although. Yeah, and I'm not talking about another most important election of our lifetimes, although. Sure, we had one of those, too. No, I'm talking about another Federal Emergency Management Agency World cup fema, that most beautiful of all competitions in which the sundry nations of the world, both Muslims and, well, those from countries about to become Muslim, put forth the best players they can possibly import from the third World, where running back and forth, kicking human skulls into nets while occasionally falling down and playing the victim is still considered aspirational sport play, mostly because the people of those nations can scarcely afford the net. This year, 40 of the 48 countries in the contest have non citizen players, which is a perfect microcosm of the broader trend of reverse colonialism currently destroying the once great nations of the West. You may remember old colonialism, Michael, where wealthy countries with good ideas such as human rights, functional plumbing and not marrying your cousin, exported those good ideas to poorer countries with worse ideas, thus lifting the poorer countries imperfectly and sometimes exploitatively out of the prehistoric cycles of rape, violence and poverty that had always defined them and toward the bright white light of civilization. Well, that was wrong, Michael, and we should all be ashamed of ourselves. But now we have reverse colonialism where we just do the whole thing backwards and import the horrible ideas of the Third World into our own nations, thus reducing our societies into the same sort of unsuccessful and demonic hellholes that we used to conquer like gentlemen would. And unlike old colonialism, new colonialism is fully Christian housewife approved as soccer, the British rape, gangs and Candace Owens ratings make disturbingly clear this year World cup features an historic first when the United states, with a GDP of $31.86 trillion, hosted the Islamic Republic of Iran GDP $300 billion, while the former country was actively, to quote the most eloquent president since Abraham Lincoln, bombing the out of the latter. Iran responded to this attack on its sovereignty by tying New Zealand GDP 278 billion, then by tying Belgium GDP 776 billion, and then by tying Egypt GDP 429 billion. And then, despite never having lost a single match, being deemed the losers anyway and sent back home to be hung from cranes. I mean, that's just a guess based on how gay soccer players look while flailing about with fake injuries like Jussie Smollett with a tuna sub in MAGA country Iran being deemed losers despite never actually losing is just another example, Michael, of how soccer is the complete inverse of the real world, where Iran continues to lose every single battle and then is declared the winner anyway by the Democrats, the New York Times and the unclean spirit currently possessing Tucker Carlson. But of course, the biggest star of the fugly World cup isn't a country at all. It's 39 year old Argentinian forward Lionel Messi, who despite his advanced age nevertheless led Argentina GDP $688 billion to the semifinals against England with a GDP 700% higher. Messi's performance is just proof that 40 is the new 4, 4 being the age at which most Americans lose interest in soccer and start paying attention to more complicated and compelling games like baseball, actual football, or Candy Crush, which at an average revenue of $1 billion per year is almost as rich as Cabo Verde, the idyllic island off the coast of Senegal, which somehow very nearly beat Lionel Messi in this sham of a sport. Still, even the absurdity that is soccer isn't enough to take all the shine off the good old US of A, as soccer fan turned Instagram influencers from around the world have discovered during their pilgrimage to our golden shores. Who can forget such heartwarming posts as I've never seen this many alive old people in summertime. Bai Brigitte is a woman of Calais, France. Or did you know that women have faces? Americahu Akbar. As shouted by Mahmoud Barkhari of East London. And of course this gas station produces more value than my entire country, declared Carlos Barros of, you guessed it, Cabo Verde, who again has a GDP lower than the actual annual revenue of Buc EE's. And maybe that's the whole moral of this 2026 World Cup. Michael. If a well loved American gas station outperforms entire nations in value creation and brisket smoking, why are we so eager to embrace a competition where no amount of personal skill or personal greatness can consistently produce more points than Haiti or Ghana or the Democratic Republic of Congo? Why, it's almost as if this entire charade is a leftist humiliation ritual coupled with a duganist multipolarity project. But only in sport form. I don't even have a closing joke. No, it's just a sad socialist, egalitarian self flagellation. We should be ashamed. And the Israeli team failed to even qualify, so you can't even blame the Jews.
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Yowza, Jeremy, before I let you go, really dazzling update. I need a little personal color though. Which team are you rooting for? Yowza, Jeremy the God King. Boring, everybody. Former Daily Wire 2 sports correspondent. I personally am rooting for the Danbury Little Kickers. I think they're my top soccer team of them all. Really important. I just thought. Look, I don't usually get into the drama. I don't. But I felt we had to bring Jeremy on to talk about that really, really important stuff. Okay. Should we get to ice? I guess we can get to ice. They were gonna stop all of the. What? You want me to keep talking about soccer? No, we gotta get to. We already covered. That's all we need to cover for the World Cup. That's all we're getting for another eight years. And we'll bring Jeremy the God King. Boring. Back on ice. Announced that they were going to stop all of these street stops because people were getting killed in Maine and in Texas. President Trump just comes in over the top of the rope, says, absolutely not. He says, quote, the men and women of ICE are doing a great job. One that has to be done. Crime is way down in America, in many cases with numbers that haven't been seen in decades. The open border policy of sleepy Joe Biden allowed 25 million people to pour into our country unchecked and unvetted. Many were criminals and we have to get them out. In order to do this, we must be strong, tough and smart. And we cannot give up one of ice's most important and effective crime fighting tools, the traffic stop. Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal's hands. The radical left Democrats, he calls them Democrats now would like to see this done, but it won't happen on my watch. Ice, be judicious, fair and smart, and go back and do your very important job. Keep those crime stat records coming. Remember, you are loved and respected in America. Thank you for your attention to this matter. I love this. This is really important. This is great leadership here. I saw the report coming out of DHS that after the shooting, the one in Texas, no one paid attention to. Cause Texas, electorally is not that much at risk. But in Maine, the Democrats really poured in a lot of resources into flipping Maine to be a Democrat Senate seat. So that's the only reason you're hearing about that. It's purely cynical, it's purely political. But. But DHS seemed to play into those hands, at least according to the reports, and say, okay, we're gonna stop the traffic stops for a little bit. And that was totally the wrong move because I covered this on the show yesterday, and I don't know if President Trump watched the show, but he at least had the very same line of thought, which is, yeah, look, it's sad. It's sad. I wish these people weren't shot. I wish they didn't drive their car into police officers. I wish they didn't threaten the public by erratically driving away. But yeah, I'm sad that they're. I wish they weren't shot. I wish ICE wasn't in this position. I wish federal law enforcement didn't have to go and arrest these people. I wish that the Democrats hadn't let in 15 million illegal aliens. I wish all of that. I wish Joe Biden didn't let 3 million illegal aliens in per year. Then we wouldn't be in this position. But we are where we are. So what do you want? What do you wanna do? We're gonna just. Are we just gonna make a mockery of our border and our law and just let illegal aliens who rape, kill, murder, and also tax our welfare system and just undermine our rule of law? Are we just gonna let them remain and encourage more and more of them? No. Okay, so then we gotta arrest people. If you're arrest people, sometimes they're gonna resist arrest, sometimes they're gonna drive their car at cops, then you gotta shoot people. That's very sad. But backing off the law enforcement is not the answer. In fact, it only makes the problem worse. What is the problem right now? According to DHS official numbers, since the start of the second Trump administration, there have been 900,000 formal deportations. On top of that, the DHS reports there have been 2.2 million self deports. Now, we don't know if that's true. According to the official app, where there are these incentives, if you deport yourself, you check in from your home country, they'll send you 1,000 bucks or 2,000 bucks. That number shows less than 100,000 self deports. But you are seeing people pop up in different, different data because the people who were waiting for their immigration hearings, they're no longer showing up. They're leaving the country before then. They're kind of giving up. So it's unclear. At most, though, we're talking about 3 million deportations. most, maybe considerably less than that. Since the start of the second Trump admin, there are an estimated 15 million illegal aliens in the country. Might be more than that. I'm being kind of conservative with the numbers. We're already over a year and a half in. It's a four year term. I hope that we get another eight years and who knows, maybe the third, fourth, fifth Trump term or his successor or what have you, but we can only count on another two and a half years. 900,000 formal deportations in a year and a half out of 15 million illegal aliens. Now is not the time to pull back on any of the levers. Yes, I think Trump is really right here. He says, look, be judicious, be fair and smart, but go back and do your very important job. If anything, we need more traffic stops. We need more ICE agents on the street. I hope people don't resist arrest. I hope people don't get shot. But we need a drastic increase in the immigration enforcement. This is not the time to pull back, not the time to go wobbly. No chance. Okay. Speaking of other Trump priorities, this is a really important story that came out last week. While I and very few people paid attention to it, I was on vacation. I was paying close attention to it. I want to make sure we get to it. The Domestic Policy Council released its review, its report on how the Smithsonian Institution was perverting American history. The Smithsonian, which is established by the government, it's not like technically a government agency or department, but it kind of is. And in any case, it is the repository, the official repository of American history. And in recent years, it has been attacking America and it's been undermining American history, lying about American history, painting America in the worst light possible. So here's just a little bit from the report. The Smithsonian Institution in general and the National Museum of American History in particular should be, quote, a symbol of inspiration and American greatness, igniting the imagination of young minds, honoring the richness of American history and innovation, and instilling pride in the hearts of all Americans. That's what it's for. That's its official charge. And yet, according to the report, walking through the museum today, you will find no exhibits dedicated to presenting a general narrative of American history or telling the story of any of our Founding Fathers. You go to the National Museum of American History, you will not find any exhibits telling the story of our Founding Fathers. The Second Continental Congress, the Mayflower, which is a great cigar company. The Pilgrims, the Puritans, Washington crossing the Delaware. No displays on any of that. 75% in early 2026 of the advertising boards placed on sidewalks around the museum showcased exhibits dedicated to peoples and cultural traditions foreign to the United States. At the National Museum of American History, funded and established by you, the taxpayer, through your government. Three quarters of the promotions for the exhibits are about foreign people. They're not about American history. The leadership, by the way, this is not just an accident. The leadership of the National Museum of American History has made it a stated goal to, quote, reframe the traditional celebratory narrative of the United States and, quote, transform the national historical narrative away from America's Founding and the Founding Fathers to a view that the country is deeply flawed and there's ongoing oppression. So they're saying, we previously were celebrating American history. We will not do that. We will do the opposite of that. We want to rewrite American history. The leadership directed the staff of the museum to remove phrases such as infinite richness and American history, even American history, from the mission statement, changing it to, rewriting, quote, the complexity of our past. The museum. I promise I'll stop all of the examples. We could be here all day calling Christopher Columbus a murderer, slaver, killer and thief, urging for the abolition of Columbus Day. This is your tax dollars through the Smithsonian. And then creating an upending 1620 exhibit that explicitly reframes the Christian pilgrims as colonizers. Not, quote, founders of the US Nation seeking to, quote, demonstrate that not every passenger aboard the Mayflower was fleeing religious persecution. Reframing Thanksgiving as a, quote, national day of mourning. I kid you not. The American holiday now a national day of mourning. And, quote, urging audiences to re examine these stories and challenge their preconceptions. This Plymouth is cemented in many minds as the birthplace and central to its founding events. Therefore, we have to get rid of it. By the way, Mayflower is a great cigar. Okay, this is. Why do I mention all of that? Not Just to get my blood pressure up in the morning. The reason I mention all of that is because what President Trump is doing, and the libs are furious about it. You heard Whoopi Goldberg ranting about this the other day to J.D. vance. What the Trump administration is doing by correcting the historical revisionism that the left has brought to places like the Smithsonian. What Trump is doing by building new statues, including one of my great, great, great, great, great grandfather, Simon Knowles, among other ordinary soldiers, among 250American heroes that are gonna go into a separate garden of American heroes while building the arch, while building new big beautiful monuments. What President Trump is doing is something really important. This is not just trivial. This is not just beautifying the neighborhood a little bit. This is really important because it is one of the key roles of the President of the United States, who is the executive branch, who is the spirited part of the government, not just the logical part of the government, not just the appetitive part of the government. Who is the spirited part of the government to preserve and craft and develop the national mythos, the sense of who we are, the feeling of what it is to be an American. What did they say about Ronald Reagan? When you talk to any kind of layperson, you're probably a boomer at this point who lived during the Reagan presidency. You say, what was the best part of the Reagan presidency? What 8 out of 10 of those people will tell you is not that he won the Cold War or that the economy got better or this or that. They will say, he made us feel good about being Americans again. That is the most important legacy of Reagan, according to many people who lived through the Reagan era. But even looking with historical retrospective, the President is supposed to make you feel good about being American because it's the spirited part of the government. The government which is divided, kind of like the tripartite soul, consciously so and so. So it's not just the place for an egghead and it's not just the place for an economist. It's the place for someone who recognizes that patriotism is essential to any political community. And by the way, we have a lot of reason to be patriotic. You should be patriotic before you apply your reason to American history. You don't love your country because it did this good thing. You love your country cuz it's your country. You don't love your mom cuz she baked you an apple pie. You love your mom cause she's your mom. And you in this loving relationship, then especially appreciate that you baked you an apple pie. But the love comes first, the patriotism comes first. Trump is doing a lot to restore that and we need to encourage that. And we need to recognize this is not just some lower level priority below the economy or below foreign policy. This is one of the most important things the President can do. Okay. Speaking of really important stuff in the government and the economy, Trump accounts are coming out. If you're having a kid this year, you, you need to know about it. And also, I guess I'll make one more point on soccer people. I assume in the chat people are getting a little with the soccer thing. Okay, I'll make my point on soccer. First, though. Are soul ties real? Was Tucker's demonic attack story possible? Why don't people film exorcisms? These are just a few of the questions many of you posted on X while I was filming the latest episode of off the Clock with priest and exorcist Father Dan Rehill. Check out this teaser. Glenn diagram says. Has anyone ever seen Father Rehill and Glenn Beck in the same room before? Before I get. No, I, I could you, you do bear some resemblance to Glenn. I don't think so. You don't? No, I, I, I see where the commenter is coming from. I was told at the last conference I was at that I look like the, the British baking man. I don't know his name. Anybody know his name? A baking show? Yeah, the great Hollywood. Paul Hollywood, maybe. Okay, now I can't unsee it. So now you're, you're the great British baker. Okay.
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Here Father Rehills answers in the full episode, available now on YouTube for the unedited and ad free version. Watch now on Daily Wire. Plus my favorite comment yesterday, I didn't pick the comment. This is the producers. We'll see if I agree. This is from Jules from Spotify, who says, I've never wanted to buy good ranchers more than I do now. I freaking love good ranchers, man. I would sell it even if they were not advertisers. I would volunteer to encourage people to get good ranchers. It's so good. I go to good steakhouses sometimes. I usually don't pay. I'm a little bit cheap like that. But sometimes I get invited out to a nice steakhouse. I go most of the time. I would rather be sitting at home eating my good ranchers. I would have a better dinner. Okay. Should I talk about. I gotta talk about the soccer thing. I'll talk about the soccer thing. We gave you the World cup update. Some people are saying, michael, why Aren't you talking about the World Cup? It's the most important thing in sports. Why aren't you? And so we gave you the World cup update with former Daily Warrior 2 sports correspondent Jeremy the God King. Boring. But let's zoom out a little bit and just talk about soccer. Especially because I wake up this morning, I open up the Wall Street Journal and I see this headline. The greatest rivalry in sports braces for its biggest game ever. What is the greatest rivalry in sports? What would you say is the greatest rivalry in sports? Easy answer comes to mind. Which is Yankees, Red Sox. It's one of the oldest, deepest rivalries in all of sports. What else? I don't know. Army, Navy. That's a great football rivalry.
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There are a bunch of rivalries in sports. No. Says there are other epic rivalries from Yankees, Red Sox to Ohio State, Michigan. Yeah, Ohio State, Michigan. No. The Wall Street Journal says nothing comes close to the 64 year old World cup feud that is England versus Argentina. What are you talking about? That's not true. No one cares about that. Certainly no one in America cares about that. Some people pretend to, like libs kind of pretend to care about. That isn't true. First of all, the Yankees Red Sox rivalry is decades older than the supposed England and Argentina rivalry. And baseball is way cooler and more important than soccer, certainly in America. And no one cares. What are you talking about?
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Listen, let me tell you, Amer, nothing comes close. Am I right?
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We all just. We can't wait to turn on the soccer game when we get home and watch England versus Argentina. That's just not. The gaslighting is so offensive and I deeply resent it. I deeply resent that the Wall Street Journal would do this to me. It's just not true. I hate soccer. I really hate it. And it's not even just a bit. I know. Look, I know everyone's gonna be tuning out, so I saved it for the end of the show. Everyone in the third world is gonna be tuning out at this point. But I really hate it. It's not just like, don't yuck my yum. You like chocolate, I like vanilla. Like, I actively. I hate soccer. I resent that because of mass migration and liberal cultural elites, soccer has been largely mainstreamed in the United States. That was not true 20 years ago. Soccer was uniformly a punchline 20 years ago. It is now because of mass migration and because of like liberal teachers and media figures has become somewhat mainstreamed. But it's a Bad sport. It's fine again. It's fine for the Danbury little kickers to play it. It's fine for three year olds to try to figure out their motor skills. And I get that it requires a lot of athleticism, a lot of cardio health to run back and forth on a field for an hour and a half. I get that. Or longer. But as a sport, as a game, it's weak. It's bad because it's just a kind of amorphous blob. The score of a 17 hour soccer game is like zero to one inevitably. And it's entirely collective. The individual has very little role in it. But me, look, I'm not some radical libertarian. I'm not some hyper individualist, which is why I love baseball so much. Part of the reason I love baseball so much is because it's sort of the anti soccer. Baseball manages to balance the collective with the individual. It's a team sport and you need the team to all be cooking. Pitcher can't throw a perfect game if the team isn't doing a great job. But it's also individual. So you get the showdown of the pitcher versus the batter. That is the individual brawl, that's the gladiatorial combat. You get the individualism of a boxing match or a UFC fight in the context of the collective action of a hockey game or a soccer game or a basketball game, what have you all together. It's a cerebral sport. It requires strategy. Less so now because everyone, especially the Yankees, just play home run ball. But even with that, there's still strategy to it. It's a little more cerebral. I like it personally cause it's the only sport that you can get fat while playing. But it does require actually some athleticism. It's an American sport. It's not a foreign import like soccer is. Soccer is a bad sport and it is like even if you like it. I know a lot of people have convinced themselves to like soccer and they get a kick out of the World cup being here. It is lib coded. It is an op. It is designed to weaken America. The importation of soccer into America is designed to weaken America. No less surely than the rewriting of the exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution are designed to weaken America. It's cultural and it's a little nuanced. And the libs are better at doing arts and culture than conservatives are. So we sometimes miss it. But I hate it. The rest of the show continues now it's Work from Home Wednesday. I didn't assign anything, so we'll have a lot of fun. Go over to dailywire.com, use code knowleskanda wles at checkout for two months free on all Nick annual plans.