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Ep. 1646 - Lib DISASTER: Trudeau Resigns as Prime Minister
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The liberal prime minister of America's evil top hat resigns, Kamala Harris certifies her own election loss, and a man who tried to blow me up gets sentenced to five years in prison. Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/4biDlri Ep.1646 - - - DailyWire+: Kick off 2025 with 25% off your new DailyWire+ annual membership. Go to https://dailywire.com/subscribe today! Matt Walsh’s hit documentary “Am I Racist?” is NOW AVAILABLE on DailyWire+! Head to https://amiracist.com to become a member today! Order your Mayflower Cigars here: https://bit.ly/3Qwwxx2 (Must be 21+ to purchase. Exclusions may apply) - - - Today's Sponsors: Helix Sleep - Go to https://helixsleep.com/knowles to get 25% off sitewide plus two free Dream Pillows with any mattress purchase. Lumen - Take the next step to improving your health: go to https://lumen.me/KNOWLES to get 20% off your Lumen. Momentous - Go to https://livemomentous.com and get 20% off with code KNOWLES...
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Michael Knowles
While Congress was certifying Donald Trump as our next president, the liberal prime minister of America's evil top hat, Justin Trudeau was resigning. Spoiler alert. The two events are related. Plus, this is unrelated. A couple antifa terrorists who tried to blow me up in Pittsburgh just got sentenced in federal court. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Bill Gates is turning mosquitoes into flying syringes to vaccinate people potentially against their will and without their knowledge. This is a story I've been trying to get to for weeks on the show, and I keep running out of time. So we will get to it today. I hope there's so much more to say first, though. Go to helixsleep.com knowles I had a real revelation the other day. I was lying on my son's Helix sleep mattress, and I was thinking about how comfortable all the Helix sleep mattresses are. But I realized I have a problem, which is that in my guest room, I have a mattress that is not a Helix sleep mattress. It's just there. It's just, you know, an older mattress. And I haven't thought about it very much because what do I care? It's the guests. You know, I keep the good Helix for our stuff, you know, but for the guests, I said, but I realized that's not right. I need to just. I just need to go all Helix, okay? I should not be depriving my beloved family members and my guests of what is, to my mind, the greatest mattress company in the country, and that is Helix Sleep. Right now is actually the perfect time to upgrade your sleep because Helix is offering an incredible deal. Go to helixsleep.com knowleskinwlas to get 25% off site wide, plus two free dream pillows with any mattress purchase. That is helixsleep.com knowles for 25% off sitewide, plus two free dream pillows with any mattress purchase. It's so good, it'll make you even more charitable and make you want to give the gift of Helix even beyond your own bed. Helixsleep.com knowles the arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice. However that liberal line goes, it's happened. Mr. Trudeau up in America's evil top hat is finally leaving office as the top politician in Canada.
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Justin Trudeau
Over the holidays, I've also had a chance to reflect and have had long talks with my family about our future. Throughout the course of my career, any success I have personally achieved has been because of their support and with their encouragement. So last night over dinner, I told my Kids, about the decision that I'm sharing with you today. I intend to resign as party leader as prime minister after the party selects its next leader through a robust nationwide competitive process.
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Michael Knowles
It's over. For the first time since 1959, a Castro is no longer running a country in the Western Hemisphere. That was at least my first take, but then I was corrected because apparently Jomar Castro is the president of Honduras. So the Castro legacy lingers on. I actually have one unpopular opinion about the overall excellent news that Castro. That was a Freudian slip, that Trudeau is stepping down. And my unpopular opinion is this. I think there is a chance that Justin Trudeau is in fact Pierre Trudeau's son and is in fact not the love child of Trudeau's mother and Fidel Castro. I think there is a chance. I want to be very clear. I am not saying it is likely that Justin is Pierre Trudeau's son, but I think there is a chance that Justin Trudeau is not the son of a Cuban dictator. What I know for certain, though, is that this awful leader of Canada is about to leave office. And the reason he's leaving office is because Trump won the decision to resign on January 6, the worst day in the history of the world and the day yesterday when Trump's election was certified. That's no coincidence. It's no mere coincidence. Trudeau is not resigning because he went down to Mar a Lago to beg Donald Trump for leniency on potential tariffs and he was rebuffed. And that's. He is resigning because he's been in office a long time. This brand of liberalism, the Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau, millennial kind of liberalism, has been around for a long time now, and it's over. 2016 was the beginning of the end for that brand of liberalism. They got a reprieve in 2020. The re election of Donald Trump to a non consecutive second term, coupled with Brexit, coupled with the election of Giorgio Meloni in Italy, coupled with the victories of Viktor Orban in Hungary, coupled with the rise of right wing parties in France and Germany and Spain, hopefully sooner in a stronger way in Spain. All of that is to say, the Trudeau stuff, it's done, okay? It's signaling that that is over. It's not that Trudeau is resigning because he got into a fight with Donald Trump, but Trump won. And Trump signifies something, a shift in global politics, certainly in the West. And Trump also propels that shift. He's also an active player in that shift. And Trudeau's time is finished. The whole class of Obama liberals in geopolitics, their time is over. So Trump is wasting no time here, suggesting that while Canada undergoes this political change, they might consider just being annexed by the United States. Here's what Trump said on Truth Social. Many people in Canada Love being the 51st state. The United States can no longer suffer the massive trade deficits and subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat. Justin Trudeau knew this and resigned. If Canada merged with the US There would be no tariffs, taxes would go way down, and they would be totally secure from the threat of the Russian and Chinese ships that are constantly surrounding them together. What a great nation we would be. So true. So true. People are gonna say, oh, Trump is being silly here. He's being extreme and provocative. Some people call the independence of Canada Washington's biggest mistake. Had George Washington just kept on pressing, we could have held Canada. And Canada is effectively the 51st state. They're totally dependent on the United States. So just notice a theme to President Trump's transition. Yes, we're talking about domestic issues. Yes, we're talking about taxes and all the rest of it. But there's a big focus here on foreign affairs and also on expansion. Trump is talking about retaking the Panama Canal. We certainly should retake the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal was ours. We're the chief people who use it. We're the global hegemon. We're certainly the hegemon in the hemisphere. We gave it away for some reason, like 40 years ago, and we should take it back. It's crazy that we don't have the Panama Canal. The Greenland proposal, that's a good proposal. Why does Denmark get Greenland? Greenland doesn't even want to be ruled by Denmark. We should have Greenland. And then Canada is probably a little bit more of a stretch. And you'd have to integrate a number of people who are like Justin Trudeau. That's unpleasant. Probably we'd have to learn a little French. Un petit peu. That would be a little tricky. But again, why not? The liberal mind, the liberal Westphalian UN mind pretends that every nation of the world is exactly the same. We're all just nations, and we all get a seat at the United Nations. Are you kidding me? Canada is an appendage of the United States. When I call Canada America's evil top hat, I am like, 3% joking. It is an ornament on the United States. So if they're totally dependent on us anyway, I don't know, why don't we. I'm not saying we make Them a state. Why don't we make them like Puerto Rico or Guam or something? Just a thought. In every joke, there's always a little bit of truth. And Trump tells a lot of jokes. Now, at the same time that all this was happening up in the top hat in the United States, President Trump's victory in 2024 was being certified by the US Congress, specifically by the woman that he defeated, Kamala Harris.
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Kamala Harris
The votes for President of the United States are as follows. Donald J. Trump of the state of Florida has received 312 votes. Kamala D. Harris. Kamala D. Harris of the state of California has received 226 votes.
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Michael Knowles
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.
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Kamala Harris
My message to my younger self would just be like, you know who you are, you know, and please embrace that. I feel for me, it was. I understood my truth. I felt it very strongly. And it was all of these external forces and noises that pushed and pulled and made me sort of lose track of who I was. And so I guess to my younger self, I'd say that discomfort and that pain you're feeling, that is not yours, that is theirs. And to just keep going on the journey of embracing who you truly are, and that's what's gonna lead you to happiness.
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Michael Knowles
What does that mean? What does that mean? Transgenderism is gonna lead you to happiness. I guess she's saying if you embrace a trans identity, that's gonna make you happy. That is demonstrably false. There have been many studies and surveys. We've talked about this question ad nauseam, and it's just not true. Identifying as trans dramatically increases your risks of anxiety, depression, suicide. It's just. It is the surest way to be miserable, and it's because it's a particularly extreme form of living contrary to reality. And when you live in opposition to reality, you're going to be unhappy. So, yeah, okay, moving on. This whole thing seems passe, and I guess that's a good thing. Heading into 2025, this whole campaign from the ACLU and Ellen Page, be trans. It'll make you happy, live your authentic self, blah, blah, blah, blah. It just seems dated, it seems passe. If I never have to talk about transgenderism for the rest of my life, it'll be too soon. We've talked about it enough, haven't we? But the left is. They're still trying to push it a little bit, but I think it's over. I think most people know it's totally absurd. It seems like something new is on the horizon. I think we're done talking about the trannies. Can we be done talking about. Please, anybody. Is anybody listening out there in politics? I think we've had enough. I think the weakness of this kind of a campaign proves that. I think the 2024 election in many ways proves that. One of the big issues, even with the bad economy and migration and foreign policy, and we're on the brink of World War iii, one of the big issues that drove centrists and people on the center left to vote for Trump this time was that the left proved its poor judgment, the absurdity of its ideology, by insisting that men can become women and forcing that absurdity on little children. I think that was a big driver of people of the polls. I think that's been true for some years now. I think the trans thing is over. It's passe enough. What comes next? I was speaking to a priest friend of mine not so long ago, and he pointed out his father, Benedict Keeley, a wonderful English priest who works. He's been on the show before. He works to help persecute Christians in the Middle East. He said there have been three big questions in the life of the church. The first one is, who is God? You think about the debates in the early church over who Christ is, the Arian controversy or Marcionism, or these questions of who is God? Who is Christ? Who are we worshiping? Then there's another crisis that crops up in the 16th century. It's what is the church? This is the question that was brought about by the Protestant revolution. What is the church? Is the church just something floating in outer space? Or is the church a tangible body with members that has a traceable history? And what does the Church mean? And now we're in a third stage, which is, what is man? What is God? What is the church? What is man? What is a woman? What is man? What are we? Even beyond the question of sex, Are we merely our bodies? Are we body and soul? Are we merely our spirits? And our bodies have nothing to do with who we are? Are we the sort of thing that can be uploaded to a cloud or plugged into a machine? Are we different from robots? What is man? Even beyond this question about our organic nature is a political question. And this has been a reckoning since the so called enlightenment and political modernism. Which is is man fundamentally an individual? Or is man, as classical thinkers believed, more of a social creature? Is man a creation of his own? Are we going to turn ourselves, as Yuval Harari suggests, into Homo deus? We're going to create the new form of human? Or is man a creature made in the image and likeness of God? What is man? That's the question. And so the first part of that, the opening salvo was what is a woman? But now the question is deepening. I think we've moved on past the trans stuff, but the questions that await us are far deeper and will force us to rethink a lot of the comfortable conclusions we've arrived at in recent centuries. Now, speaking of our brave new world, a story I promised I'd get to the Bill Gates foundation has funded research at Leiden University Medical center in the Netherlands to turn mosquitoes into flying syringes, to turn mosquitoes into little vaccinators who can flit around the air and vaccinate people, potentially against their will and certainly without their knowledge. This is some pretty dystopian stuff, but a study published late last month in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that they now have an effective way of using mosquitoes to inject human beings with various vaccines, in particular malaria, but possibly other payloads as well in the future. So on the one hand, people are saying, hold on, Bill Gates is gonna inject me with a vaccine? This is the most horrifying thing imaginable. I'm not gonna be able to stop it. I'm not gonna be able to even know about it. Dystopian. On the other hand, though, just to keep an open mind, it might make some sense in certain places. This is an unpopular opinion. I'm not totally opposed to the Bill Gates weaponizing mosquitoes to inject people with vaccines, because if I just look at Nigeria, 13% of deaths per year in Nigeria are from malaria. Nigeria leads the world in malaria deaths, okay? I'm talking about almost 200,000 people per year. If the government could protect people against that, that would be a good thing. If they could do it while allaying ethical concerns, if they could do that in a way that wouldn't cause more harm than good. We're not talking about the COVID vaccine here. We're not talking about Some really controversial vaccine. We're talking about malaria. The malaria vaccine, for instance, is not produced or even developed using cells from aborted babies. Some vaccines are. That was one of the big ethical concerns with the COVID vaccine is that to mandate the COVID vaccine is to mandate that people cooperate with evil, even in a distant way, because the COVID vaccines were developed and in some cases produced using cells from aborted babies. So the question over a scientific advancement like this, I don't think is totally black and white. If you are just a hardcore libertarian or individualist ideologue, you would say, yeah, it is black and white. Forget about that. No Bill Gates, no vaccines, no nothing. But if you take politics a little bit more classically than all that, then you have to take it seriously. The question then you have to ask yourself is not merely about procedure, but about substance. Who is the one pushing this stuff? Is it the government? Is it some rogue liberal billionaire? That probably wouldn't be that good. Is it the legitimate public authority? Do these people take ethics seriously? Or do they, like our present liberal elites, not have any serious sense of ethics? It's gonna matter more. It's gonna matter less whether the government does something or doesn't do something. It's gonna matter more what kind of government we have, what the substance of the issues is. That's a deeper, nuanced conversation that our modern political age has no patience for. You know, you can kick off 20 with 25% off a new Daily Wire plus annual membership. This year will be one for the history books. In less than two weeks, President Trump will be inaugurated. The Daily Wire will be there with live, uncensored coverage of every monumental moment. But while we celebrate what's ahead, the fight is not over. Join us in the fight now. Get 25% off your new Daily Wire plus annual membership. Every dollar fuels our mission. Go to DailyWire.com subscribe and join today. My favorite comment yesterday is from Gavin Bailey, 10, who says Michael's favorite thinkers, number one, St. Thomas Aquinas, and number two, Norm MacDonald. I think that's true. Yeah, that's about right. I was going to joke and say maybe not in that order, but. No, it is in that order. Aquinas. And then Norm can vie with Dante and Aristotle for the second place. That's true. Speaking of viruses. They're back. They're back. And I'm gonna be back, too, you dirty sheep. India has become the first country to reinstate Covid restrictions. As a new virus out of China begins to spread, there is an alarm Over a mystery illness, hmpv, which has symptoms similar to Covid. China has seen a surge in cases right now, and the Indian state of Karnataka is taking precautionary measures. The virus has symptoms related to human metanumovirus and authorities are encouraging mask wearing in crowded locales after seeing three cases of this respiratory ailment. I am calling for a complete and total ban of of China until they stop poisoning the world every few years. Okay, I am channeling my inner Trump. I want a complete and total shutdown of China until we figure out what the heck is going on. Why does China keep doing that? Why do they keep poisoning the globe? Like, every three years? Asia does this. You know, Wasn't Asia responsible for the Black Death too? This is. Maybe I'll broaden it. I'm calling for a complete and total shutdown of Asia until we figure out what's going on. But we live in a globalized world where everyone travels all the time, we all trade all the time. So you get some benefits. You get cheap goods from Amazon for Christmas. The downside is the whole world gets poisoned every, like, three years. Okay, all right, well, how about that? Now one other story I want to get to Apropos of billionaires like Bill Gates or whatever, all these people controlling our politics. The Washington Post cartoonist, Ann Telnays has just quit the paper. She is a Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post cartoonist. She has quit the paper because she wanted to run a cartoon attacking the owner of the paper. Jeff Bezos and the editors said no. And this is what Telnay's wrote. My job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job, the critical job of political cartoons. Now, Telnay said to npr, I'm very used to being edited. I've never, ever since I've worked for the post in 2008, been not allowed to comment on certain topics. By having cartoons killed, we have to have the freedom to say what we want to say. We are visual opinion makers. Okay, the last part is true. They are visual opinion makers. That's true of the cartoonists. That's true of the newspaper business broadly. Now the Washington Post says that her story isn't true. The editorial page editor, David Shipley, said he respects Teltanks contributions to the Post, but he says not every editorial judgment is a reflection of a malign force. Says my decision to spike the cartoon was guided by the fact that we had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and had already scheduled another column this One, a satire for publication. My only bias was against repetition. He's saying, I'm not shutting down the opinion. We've already run that opinion many times. It's just. It's redundant. It's too much. Even if this cartoon was spiked for insulting Jeff Bezos, that is perfectly reasonable. It's his paper. I think it's reasonable that the paper has been critical of Amazon, has done all sorts of things that I'm sure Jeff Bezos wouldn't like. But he's the owner. They work for him. And everybody works for somebody. When she says, we are visual opinion makers. Yeah, right. And the chief opinion maker is Jeff Bezos. He owns the paper. You work for him. You don't like that, go work for someone else. Everybody works for somebody. I work for somebody. You work for somebody. The President of the United States works for somebody. Doesn't mean that you always have to agree with that person on everything. Doesn't mean that you always have to be in lockstep. You think the Washington Post. The Washington Post publishes things that irritate Jeff Bezos, that are contrary to Jeff Bezos interest? All the time here at the Daily Wire, we all disagree with each other. I say things on my show that the owners of the Daily Wire disagree with, very publicly disagree with all the time. And we always. We bicker about it and we do it on camera, we do it off camera. We've done it for years. We're all friends. That's great. But if I said something that were. If I said, you know, the Daily Wire is a terrible place and it's an awful institution and all the people involved are evil and terrible, they would have every right to say, no, don't say that. What are you talking about? This is our platform. Jeff Bezos has every right to do that. In fact, the deeper political point I want to make is America has the right to do that, too. We have the right to standards, we have the right to norms. We have the right to guardrails around public speech. That's the thesis of my book, Speechless. There's a big thank you. I was a little late in the new year. There's a big debate right now because Elon Musk has changed the algorithm at Twitter at X. Elon Musk has now said, we're going to prioritize certain content over others according to standards and norms. A lot of free speech absolutists, echoing the language of liberals, they're saying, this is terrible. In practice, it might end up being terrible. In principle, though, he's totally right. We have the right to standards. We live together in society. Politics is about society, about the public. We have the right to set certain norms and standards. And if you don't like it, you can go take a hike. That lady can leave the Washington Post. Or people who hate America. They can go leave America. I am so pleased. Speaking of freedom, I'm so pleased to have Aaron Hawley of the Alliance Defending Freedom on the show. The rest of the show continues right now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Knowles. Check out for two months free on all annual plans.