Michael Knowles (8:53)
He was joking, as some believe, but he was telling a joke. It's very super serious because he's gonna become a dictator and he's a threat to democracy and he's going to. But some believe, some critics are saying that Trump was not. Lady, take a chill pill. It's okay. Trump's a very funny guy. He makes a lot of jokes. All right. He was joking about the dictator thing, by the way. He didn't say he'd be a dictator from day one. The joke was he would be a dictator on day one and he would just one day clear everything out and then we're good, we go totally back to normal. That was the joke. She didn't get the joke right. However, joking aside, it is worth pointing out as an historical matter that President Reagan, of blessed memory, campaigned vigorously at the end of his second term and then into his post presidency. Before his Alzheimer's diagnosis, he campaigned vigorously to end the two term limit for president. President Reagan campaigned vigorously to repeal the 22nd Amendment. Reagan, who was of a certain age at the time, he said, you know, well, some years ago, a few years ago, they passed this 22nd amendment thing. And it's because he was so aged that he had a relatively recent historical memory of it. But it is relatively recent. The irony, too, when they talk about how Trump and the Republicans are going to make themselves dictators. The reason that the 22nd Amendment was ratified was because Franklin Roosevelt made himself a king. One of the most prominent Democrat presidents ever is the one who ran for term after term after term and died in office, who ignored the precedent set by George Washington. However, Ronald Reagan's argument for repealing the 22nd is that we already have term limits. In America, the term limits are called elections. If the voters want to boot you out, if they want to term limit you, they will. They'll just throw you out of office. This is also how most civilized Western nations act, you think of the uk A prime minister can serve as prime minister again and again and again until eventually his party or the voters get sick of them and throw him out of office. So there are natural term limits called elections. And if someone's a good president, I don't know, I guess I generally agree with Ronald Reagan on a lot of things. However, Trump himself is just kidding and is obviously setting up potential successors. J.D. vance who knows, maybe somebody else. In terms of the appointments, though, let's focus on Congress a little bit because the most controversial appointment yet came out of Congress yesterday. That would be President Trump's attorney general pick, and that would be Matt Gaetz, bomb thrower extraordinaire, absolute terror of the libs, a man whom the libs are actively trying to prosecute for all sorts of charges related to, I don't know, various scandals and this and that. And so the timing of this is perfect because there was supposed to be a House ethics report that came out on Matt Gaetz tomorrow. Matt Gaetz, immediately after receiving the nomination for attorney general, resigns from Congress. So on the one hand, you have this strategy of saying, forget about it, I'm burning the boats. We are going full steam ahead here to be the ag. If I don't get confirmed by the Senate for ag, then I'm out of politics. Gates with a big show of seriousness and confidence here, but also by resigning from Congress, he totally destroys the libs justification for releasing that ethics support because the Congress no longer would have really any jurisdiction or authority over him as a member. So they'll probably still leak the report. I think actually parts of the report are already leaking, but now it just makes it look like the Democrats are trying to shoot down Trump's AG candidate. So really, really clever politics going on here, but let's take the nomination just in its own right. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to preborn.com knowles. The fight for life has never been more crucial. While the libs fight to make abortion easier to access, preborn ministries is on the front lines fighting back, fighting for life, fighting for truth, fighting for the most vulnerable among us. It is fascinating how the same people who cry about following the science totally ignore the scientific reality of fetal development. But that's exactly what preborn's network of clinics reveals through the power of ultrasound technology. When a mother sees her baby's heartbeat, when she witnesses that undeniable proof of life, everything changes. Preborn's clinics are strategically positioned in areas with the highest abortion rates. Offering free ultrasounds and welcoming these women with God's love. The results speak for themselves. 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Because the media tried to push this story under the rug. Sam Brinton was Joe Biden's pick for nuclear waste czar, a very high ranking official in the Department of Energy. And Sam Brinton was an open cross dressing, sexual fetish indulging kleptomaniac of expensive women's clothing who was pinched stealing aforementioned clothing at multiple airports around the United States. He had photos of himself that he posted to the Internet dressed up in women's clothing and weird stiletto heels dragging men around on leashes. Men who were dressed up in leather outfits to resemble dogs. You think that might be a little degrading? If you're gonna knock Matt Gaetz for saying he's a little too indulgent or lascivious or something. What about Sam Brinton? You remember that guy? Well, Matt Gaetz, he doesn't have the character for ag. Hold on. What about Sam Brinton? Forget about. I don't mean to pick on Sam Brinton. Remember Dimitri Daskalakis? That was Biden's monkeypox. Dimitri Daskalakis, another one who would take photos of himself in all sorts of weird leather harnesses doing weird sex stuff. But Dimitri had the added eccentricity of having a pentagram, a satanic symbol tattooed on his chest, which he would sometimes cover up with a matching pentagram leather harness. In some ways, a fitting choice for the monkeypox, I guess, but in any case, a little bit degrading. For a senior administration official, wouldn't you say? How about let's put the weird sex stuff out for a second. How about just Lloyd Austin? Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense under Joe Biden. Lloyd Austin disappeared for three days. He was in the hospital, went in to have some surgery. Did not inform the President. With a Secretary of Defense missing on the job, did not inform the commander in chief for three days. Don't you think that's a little suspect? Doesn't that show poor judgment in a role? I don't know. How about Kamala Harris? Kamala Harris, no qualification whatsoever to run anything. Kamala Harris put in charge of connecting rural Americans to the Internet and of dealing with the border crisis. Didn't connect a single American to the Internet. And we had the worst border crisis in history. Kamala Harris, basically no record of achievement ever in her whole life. Even her boss, Joe Biden, admitted that she was a DEI hire. In those words, you think that was befitting the executive branch of the government? I don't know. Compared with Biden's picks, Matt Gaetz is overqualified. Compared with Biden's picks, Matt Gaetz has shown perfect judgment virtually in his personal comportment. Who are the critics here? J.D. vance had a good bit on this. He said, well, the real problem with Matt Gaetz is that he weaponized the government to attack his political enemies and try to imprison the leaders of the opposition. Oh, wait, that was Merrick Garland. Even Merrick Garland, who supposedly is this unimpeachable man of high character who was put up by Obama to be put on the Supreme Court. Merrick Garland, however he started that job, he ended his role as aggressive as a gangster. Okay? So please spare me the pearl clutching over Matt Gaetz. You know, before you accuse Matt Gaetz, Democrats, take a look at yourselves. Now, speaking of Congress, there's a story that somehow has not really gotten very much attention, but it seems like a bombshell story. Probably just because everyone is so jubilant from the election. The libs are so furious from the election. No one's really paid attention to this. But did you know that last Tuesday, Americans elected the first ever transgender trans identifying member of Congress? This person's name is Tim McBride, though he calls himself Sarah. Sarah McBride, elected from Delaware. This guy was a staffer for Beau Biden in Delaware. Pretty unremarkable. Just your run of the mill left wing activist. And he was a white dude, so that didn't really help him on the left. Now he came out, quote unquote, as a transgender. And he said, this is probably going to hurt my political career, but I have to be true to myself or whatever. And he embraced the transgender ideology. But of course, the real effect of that was exactly the opposite of what he said. It greatly helped his political career. This guy was going nowhere fast. He was a real middling sort of Democrat staffer. And then when he pretended to be a woman, all of a sudden he was getting speaking engagements. He was being trotted around by left wing nonprofits. He was on the fast track to political prominence. Now he's in Congress. So my only question with this, I'm not getting into this guy's record. I'm not getting into this guy's platform. He's one member of Congress. He's a freshman member. Who cares? My question, though, is how is the GOP going to deal with this? You now have transgender ideology for the first time ever in Congress, in a member of Congress, this guy presumably is going to want to use the women's bathroom. The Republicans control Congress. Are they going to permit this or are they going to permit this? You might say, michael, who cares? It's just one guy. It's no big deal. Maybe just as a courtesy, they'll allow him to use the women's bathroom. Well, hold on. I think it probably is a big deal. I know a fair number of the members of Congress. I know some of the ladies in Congress, I know some of the conservative ladies in Congress. I strongly suspect they will object to being forced to sharing a bathroom with a man, as they, well should object to that, of course. Not even necessarily as a matter of safety, though I suppose that's part of it. Part of the reason that women have their own bathrooms is so that they don't have to be in vulnerable positions next to men. In part, it is for their own safety. But even beyond that, some women just don't want to have to do that. That's why we have men's bathrooms and women's bathrooms in the first place. So for the GOP leadership, are they going to hold the line on this ideology? Are they going to defend their female members? Are they going to say, hey, hey, buster, you can pretend to be a woman, I guess, and there's not much we can do about it, but we ain't going to let you use the women's bathroom? Or are they going to go squishy and say, oh, this is going to be a big headache. We don't want to make a big deal of this. Fine, we'll just look the other way when you use the women's bathroom. Well, if they do that, they are implicitly accepting all of trans ideology. They are implicitly accepting that a man really can become a woman. They are embracing the transgender ideology. They are gutting some of the most basic principles about human nature. We've said often in recent years that the conservatives have been feckless. They haven't even been able to conserve the women's bathroom. Well, here we have the literal example of this. What is Mike Johnson gonna do? What is the GOP leadership gonna do here? It's gonna seem like a minor thing, but that's what the left has been telling us for years. Oh, it's just a bathroom. Oh, it's just a sports league. Oh, it's just this. Oh, it's just. Oh, it's just the definition of marriage. Oh, it's just about some tax benefits. Oh, it's just about hospital visitation rights. Oh, it's this little thing. Oh, who cares? Stop making a big deal about it. Stop making a big deal about it. All of a sudden, you look up and you've redefined the fundamental political institution, and no one can even tell you what a woman is anymore, including a Supreme Court justice with two Harvard degrees during her confirmation hearings. This isn't just a trivial matter. The left knows it's not a trivial matter. That's why they spend so much time and energy trying to force these kinds of crazy upheavals upon us, focused in no small part on bathrooms. If I were a female member of Congress, I would object to this, and I think they should object to this. And I think Republican leadership can't prevent this guy from wearing a dress. Can't prevent this guy from calling himself Sarah, though. If I were a member, I would not refer to him as Sarah, and I would not refer to him as Miss or misses or anything like that. I call him by his name. And his name, by the way, can't be Sarah, because Sarah's a girl's name. All right? There's some people who say, well, I won't use the she pronouns, but I will call him Sarah because you can choose your own name. I didn't choose my own name. You didn't choose your own name? No. You don't really get to choose your own name. Liberalism tells you you can choose everything about yourself. But no, Sarah's a girl's name. There are some marginal cases, like Skylar or whatever, but Sarah is not a marginal case. Sarah is a girl's name. We don't call men Sarah. You can Maybe call a boy Sue. But as Johnny Cash tells us, that's not even a good thing to do either. I would hold firm on this, guys. I know for any members who are listening and for staff members who are listening, there is a lot more being smuggled in here than just some confused man from Delaware into a bathroom. There's so much more to say. First though, go to responsibleman.com, use code KNOWLES for 60% off. Gentlemen, let's talk about something the libs don't want you to have. And that is robust, unapologetic health. While they're busy pushing their soy infused agenda, I've discovered a way to fortify ourselves against the tide of cultural decay. And that would be Responsible man vitamins. I know what you're thinking, Michael. Aren't all vitamins the same? Not even close. Not even close. Man. 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