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But that's not enough. So Trump's the president. Okay. She made history. She made history. Kamala Harris is the first woman of color to ever certify her own election loss in a presidential election. That's. Look, that's something. I think she was looking for a different mark in history, a different glass ceiling to break, but that's impressive. She's not the first vice president to certify his own laws. That's happened before. It's happened within recent memory. Al Gore. But she's the first Indian and black Afro Caribbean woman who. Who certified her own election loss. Okay, good job. Sounds good. No big deal. There were no insurrections yesterday. There were no tiny little insurrections, like, you know, when the horn hat guy got a private tour of the Capitol by Capitol Police. There were no serious insurrections either, like the many, many other leftist attacks that have included explosives on the Capitol within the last century, or like the BLM insurrection, or like the time the libs torched D.C. when President Trump was elected the first time. There was none of that. And the reason is Trump won in a landslide. He won in an electoral college landslide, as you just heard Kamala Harris admit. He won the popular vote. He just won everything. He ran ahead of the senators. He just won. So there was no verve, there was no fervor for any kind of protest. Trudeau's gonna resign. It's over for now, guys. The left is gonna lick its wounds and regroup. And while the left is licking its wounds, that is when we need to kick them because they're most vulnerable. They're more vulnerable now than I've seen them at any point in my lifetime. So keep up the pressure, folks. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to Lumen me. 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The Dreamers are the people who are brought over to the United States as minors, but they're illegal aliens. They've been in the end. And so, according to the reports, again, take it with a grain of salt. Trump is open to talking about the Dreamers. And I think that there are plenty of useful, productive ways to talk about the Dreamers. Adios. That's one way. Hasta luego. That's another way to talk about the dreamers. Hasta la vista. My Spanish is not great. My Italian is better. Little touch of French, little touch of Latin. But right off the top of my head, those are three great ways to talk about the dreamers. And that's the only way I want to talk about the dreamers right now. There are going to be leftists who say that's a Heartless. Take Michael. Heartless. These poor kids. These poor kids who were brought over through no fault of their own. You want to deport these kids? The dreamer kids, the DACA kids are in their mid-40s right now. What is the dreamer? The dreamer is a euphemism cooked up by Barack Obama and the left that then became law through an unconstitutional executive order giving amnesty to people who were brought over to the United States as minors who were under the age of 31 in 2012. These are people who are maybe 43, 44 years old right now. Should they be the first on the list to be deported? No, of course not. Nobody thinks that. You're gonna hear some people on the right, conservatives, Republicans, who say, well, it wasn't their fault when they came here. They've been here for so many years, so many decades, they don't have much connection to their country of origin. Maybe we should let them go. I don't want to hear a word about amnesty for DACA or dreamers or how. I hear this from some people who have no idea what they're talking about. They say the dreamers are more American than many American citizens. What does that mean? That only makes sense if America's not a country. If America's an idea, like the liberals say, if America's just an idea, then that makes sense. Then someone in Timbuktu could be more American than a descendant of the Pilgrims. But if America's a country, silly me, I thought America was a country. Then that doesn't make any sense. But you're gonna hear that. You're gonna hear, these people are more American than apple pie. These people, they're children. They deserve to be here. They're dreamers. They have dreams. You don't have dreams. You're not allowed to have dreams, but they have dreams. I don't want to hear a word about that. Until we deport all the criminals, until we secure the border, until we deport the people who came over as economic migrants, as adults. Until we deport. Until we deport tens of millions of people, at least single millions of people. I don't want to hear peep about we need to give amnesty to the dreamers. Here's the problem. What would I be willing to do if you were telling. I'm not negotiating right now. I'm just sitting down. I'm telling you, this would be my ideal policy. We would deport the vast majority of these people. And then you'd get to some hard cases of people who've been here since they were Two months old and they're very American and they vote Republican. They're all around great guys and you'd say, all right, you know what, we can't grant you citizenship, we can't grant you amnesty because that would create a perverse incentive that would exacerbate the trouble at the border. It would give millions more people reason to break our laws. So we can't do that. But I'll tell you what, we won't deport you. We'll just continue the status quo as it's been and you can live here, but we're not going to single you out to deport you. But we're not going to create perverse incentives. I would be willing to do that for a very, very small number of people who were brought over as infants and yada yada. The problem is the Democrats won't let us do that. The Democrats won't let us do that because the minute they come back into power they're going to give blanket amnesty to all of these people and they're going to put them on a pathway to citizenship and they're going to give them the right to vote. And they're going to do this because they think it's going to give them a permanent electoral majority and a very well minded that's the problem. I would be willing to grant a little clemency, have a little mercy, give a little grace. I would be willing to do that. Many conservatives would. The Democrats won't let us do that and unfortunately the squish Republicans aren't going to let us do it either. Because the squish Republicans are going to say no, no, no, America's just an idea. No, no, no, illegal aliens are not multiples more likely to vote for Democrats. No, no, no, cultures are not allowed to have cohesion and we're not allowed to encourage assimilation. And no, no, no, we have to give amnesty and citizenship to foreign nationals who are brought over here encouraged by cynical Democrats to give them the win. Because those squishes are thrilled to be the court jesters in the kingdom of liberalism and the minority partner in the American Political project which is run by liberal Democrats. That's it. That's why I don't want to hear it out of the Republicans. I don't want to hear it from anyone. Don't say the word dreamer. First of all, don't say the word dreamer ever. It's a ridiculous euphemism cooked up by the left to rig the immigration debate. But don't even mention these people until you have deported millions and millions of foreign nationals living in our country illegally. Now, speaking of people who should not be walking around the U.S. there's good news and bad news, and it pertains to me. When I was at the University of Pittsburgh at a speaking event about two, not quite two years ago now, someone tried to blow me up. A couple tried to blow me up. Brian Dipa and his wife. I forget his wife's name. Crystal Martinez Dipipa. These are two anarchists who are serious anarchists, like members of an anarchist cell. Like this guy, Brian Dipippa was held up at airports twice because they found explosive residue on his clothing. And then, of course, they just let him through. We're talking hardcore anarchists. These guys showed up to my speaking event to blow me up. And then when they couldn't get at me because the cops did a very good job at the University of Pittsburgh, the protesters lit the street on fire, burnt me in effigy, and then these people threw an explosive at the building as I was walking on stage and. And didn't hit me, didn't do damage to the building, but it did very seriously injure a female police officer. Well, these people probably wouldn't have even been brought up on charges except that there happened to be a federal law enforcement agent in the audience. And what's funny is, after this whole event, I was approached by federal law enforcement. They asked to speak to me about what went down. And I didn't speak to them because I said, you know, the FBI has just been caught spying on Catholics, specifically traditional Catholics, has been caught going after pro lifers showing up, arresting pro lifers in front of their seven kids, has been caught setting up the Trump administration to take down the administration and try to put Mike Flynn in jail. I said, you know, I just don't trust federal law enforcement right now. As a conservative, as a Catholic, as a pro lifer, I check three boxes, I'm not gonna speak to them. I was skeptical, but I have to give a great deal of credit to that federal law enforcement agent who pursued this case, who really went to bat for us, who wanted justice for the police officer, for the conservative students who brought me to campus for Intercollegiate Studies Institute, which put on this event, and he pursued this. And charges were brought, federal charges against these two anarchists. So they were sentenced yesterday. The one guy, the husband, got a meager five years in jail, and the wife got out of jail time entirely. She got off with probation and some community service. These anarchists, these terrorists, left a female police officer bedridden for up to 20 hours per day with major injuries. She couldn't sleep, she couldn't eat. She lost a ton of pay cause she couldn't work. She's still not back on full time duty. She lost probably $50,000 or more in wages but also just couldn't move. She'll never be the same. She'll never do her hobbies as she previously did. She'll probably never work in the same way that she did before. They were obviously trying to kill us. You don't throw an explosive at someone's face unless you mean to do serious damage. Five years in prison. A federal law enforcement agent does a great job really going to bat trying to get some justice here. The prosecutors go pretty hard. They're trying to get some justice here and then this judge basically just lets them off the hook. There's so much more to say. First though, go to livemomentous.com, use code KNOWLES. Winners don't just make resolutions. Resolutions break. Instead, winners just start and then they maximize on their momentum. When the goal is health span or being able to live better for longer, there are a few non negotiables. One of them is quality. When it comes to supplements geared toward high performers, no one does it like Momentous. They invest in NSF certification, meaning every batch is tested for heavy metals, harmful additives and label claim accuracy. 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The explosion caused me to fall back. She said her pants were on fire, her legs were burned, she had hearing loss, she needed back surgery, she needed a Fusion and a cadaver disc. Brian Dipippa is a homegrown terrorist who had every intention of hurting someone that day. She told the federal judge, I will never be the same. And for that, the judge sentences this guy to a measly five years in prison and lets his wife off the hook. Three years probation, 80 hours community service. So the judge in this case. This is according to reporting from. What is it, the Tribune. The judge in this case, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune, says that the couple with no criminal history seem to be good people, quote, trying to do the right thing most of the time. A line was crossed here. It's clear to me. This is Judge Ranjan. I sense some regret. Sometimes people matter more than principle. I'm nauseated reading that take from the judge. The couple with no criminal history, no criminal history. These people are known members of an anarchist cell. They were stopped at an airport twice because they had explosive residue. At least the man had explosive residue. No criminal history. You mean he's never been convicted for a crime before? He's never served serious jail time. He's not serving serious jail time now. He tried to kill people, so that doesn't prove anything. He's obviously a hardened, longtime criminal. As the prosecutor pointed out, these terrorists have expressed no remorse. The female cop has apologized, has accepted or has decided to extend forgiveness and grace to the terrorists. But as the prosecutor pointed out, he said, this is crazy. The cop is forgiving these people. These people have expressed no remorse. Even the judge here has to say a line was crossed. It's clear to me. I sense some regret. You sense some regret? What do you mean, you sense some regret? Are you pulling out your crystal ball to try to divine regret? Either they've shown regret or they haven't. Either they've expressed remorse or they haven't. They haven't. In fact, the anarchists who support them raised a bunch of money, said, free them, raise them money. Let's go. Implying that they did nothing wrong. And this couple seems to think they've done nothing wrong. But I sense. I sense some regret. You seem to be good people, you know, you guys are just a good, wholesome couple of anarchists who build bonds in your free time and who sometimes get through TSA with explosives on your body, but you're trying to do the good thing. It's just sometimes people matter more than principle. What principle are they advocating? The principles that they hold are terrorism, anarchy, trying to kill civilians, maiming cops for defending civilians. Those are their principles. I guess the judge agrees with those principles. Look, the principles. Your principles are good, but sometimes you gotta think about the people, okay? You crazy kids. So I want you to write a letter, okay? And I want you to do a little community Service. And then, Mr. Di Peppa, you're spend three seconds in prison, and then you can go back out and try to kill conservatives and you can maim cops and you can set off explosives when right wingers go to university campuses and say things you don't like. Sounds good. Outrageous. Kudos to federal law enforcement here. To the agents, thank you to the agent who went to bat. Thank you to the prosecutors who did their best. I guess this judge. Disgusting. Disgusting. Now, speaking of transgenderism, which was the topic of my speech, of my talk, rather, at U Pittsburgh, the ACLU and Ellen Page, now known as Elliot Page, have a message leading into 2025. It's a message you heard in 2023 and in 2022 and in 2021 and probably in 2020 and in 2019, 2018, I think I gave a campus tour called Men Are Not Women and Other Uncomfortable Truths. You've heard this message a long time. From the left. Transgenderism will lead you to happiness.