Michael Knowles (23:39)
Thank you. Very exciting. Making Greenland great again. Making America big and arctic again. I am all about it. Now we turn from this very happy, exciting story to a more unsettling story, a really disgusting story, actually. But before we get to that, history is about to be made and the Daily Wire will be live from D.C. to bring you every moment as Donald John Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. This is not just an event, it's a movement. We're making sure that you are front and center for all of it. To celebrate, we're giving you 25% off new Daily Wire, plus annual memberships. With your membership, you will get exclusive access to our ad free uncensored shows. Plus a growing library of hit movies, original series, groundbreaking documentaries that are reshaping culture. Join the fight today. Use code Daily Wire. I'm Sorry, use code DW25@DailyWire.com subscribe for 25% off. Now, enough happy stuff. We gotta get to something that is truly revolting. But we'll get through it quickly and there will be a lot of political significance to it. Some horrifying succubus infected woman has claimed to have slept with 1000 men in 12 hours. I am not going to promote her or her video. I'm not gonna play the video of her bragging about this, though. Now, her video bragging about this has actually underscored a point that I made about how perverse our society has become. I made this point last week, which is that the most prominent pornographic moments of the last few months have involved women not even taking their clothes off. They involved that one gal who said she slept with 100 men in one night and she wanted to sleep with 1000 and she broke down crying. But the video that went viral wasn't some explicit video. It was her crying about it in a documentary. Then this gal, this horrifying woman also went viral earlier this month for walking into a Five Guys burger place and saying, hey, can I have the five guys? Where's the five guys on the menu? And propositioning some young man. Young man was great. He said, I'm Christian. I'm saving myself until marriage. And then the video basically cut out there. But even that she was totally clothed. This one here, she's just bragging about it. Totally clothed. She's not, you know, she's not shaking anything or stripping or anything like that. It is as though what really titillates today is not exactly sex. It's not even really. It's not even nudity. It's just women debasing themselves. That the thing that is most tantalizing and most pornographic to modern audiences is at this point, almost wholly divorced from sex and nudity. It's just personal debasement that is real. Depraved society has reached a new level of depravity. Nudity. Sexuality is ubiquitous. So now you need more. You know, it's like someone starts with marijuana, they move up to meth. People need the stronger stuff to titillate them. So this gal claims to have slept with 1,000 men in 12 hours. I did some rough math on this. I'm a little skeptical of her claims. I guess it depends on what the definition of slept is, you know, And I don't want to really think about it more than that. So who knows? I mean, it would not be surprising if this woman who's engaging in extremely gross and sinful behavior would also lie to people. So it could be that maybe she did. Maybe she's defining sex in a creative way. But in any case, it got me thinking about the ubiquity of this kind of behavior because there's a story at a Newsweek said, how many women are doing this? Newsweek published a piece in December of last year, just December 6th. Are 1.4 million American women using OnlyFans? Here's what we know. According to the Washington examiner, which is being cited here by Newsweek, there were 3 million women, or I guess some men, too, but mostly women prostituting themselves on OnlyFans. And 67% of the revenue goes to Americans. So this platform isn't releasing its exact user numbers, but the examiner found that 1.4 million American women are OnlyFans creators. The outlet went further, saying 2% of American women aged between 18 and 45 are. Are making pornography on that platform. So I don't know if those numbers are true. It's very difficult to arrive at those numbers. But let's say that that's right. Let's say the Washington examiner and Newsweek are correct. That means that 1 in 50American women between 18 and 45 are actively making pornography on OnlyFans. 1 in 50. Now add onto that the women who have made pornography on OnlyFans and have quit. Who knows what that takes? The number to then add on to that the number of women who have ever taken and sent a nude photograph to a boyfriend. What percentage of American women have made pornography? The number causes one to shudder. Just to even consider what that number might be causes one to shudder. And I know that people are gonna say, michael, you're making a false equivalency here between people who actively perform in pornography or take pornographic photos and women who just take nude photos and send them to a boyfriend. That's not really pornography, is it not? It fits the dictionary definition of pornography, which is to make an image or actually write a story, but let's just make an image that involves nudity and sexuality and appealing to the prurient interest. That's what that is. Now, some people will object and they'll say, well, no, Michael, that's a private photo. Private photo. You think anything is private that you do on your cell phone? It's a private photo between you, your boyfriend, and the nsa. That's a private photo between you, your boyfriend, and the Internet service provider. Furthermore, you might break up with your boyfriend, or you might have a dirtbag boyfriend who's showing that picture around to other people. How many women, how many court cases have there been of these photos leaking? The photos might leak even without the will of the boyfriend. That's not. Those pictures often don't remain private. But even if they did remain private, it's still pornography. And there are a lot of guys now who are thinking, well, I don't want to marry a woman who's involved in pornography. And I am fully of the Christian belief that people can repent. They can be forgiven their sins in the course of justice. None of us should see salvation. I consider myself reasonably good, and yet I could accuse myself of such things that were better my mother had never borne me. Okay, I all sin and fall short of the glory of God. We can repent. We can turn. It depends what direction you're moving in. However, that doesn't remove the real practical concern. A lot of people don't want to marry someone who has engaged in pornography. And yet, if these numbers are even close to being real, and then certainly when you add on sexting, you know, women who have sent nude photos to sometimes multiple men, that they're just out there in the ether, that is a major problem. I don't even bring it up to shame any individual women just to show how pervasive this issue is. I almost wonder at this point what percentage of women, at least of the Zoomer generation, have not engaged in some kind of pornography. Big, big social problem. And there are gonna be squishes who say, oh, well, who cares? It's no big deal. It's just a. You know, it's a matter of individual personal freedom or whatever. I think it's a big social problem. If this is going to discourage marriage, if this is going to pollute people's minds, if this is gonna. This is gonna lead some huge portion of American women to make themselves into a kind of prostitute, that seems like a social problem, that seems like a political problem that politicians need to address. My favorite comment yesterday is from Diana Laubenberg, 7532, who says, Imagine, you know, John Lennon, Imagine all the people Imagine is an evil song. It seeps in while the mind is unaware. Too many people love the music and never stop to think of what the words mean. That comment of the day could have been written by Plato and sort of was written by Plato in the Republic. This is the danger of music. Music, more than any other form of art, bypasses the reason, and it goes straight to the sensitive parts of the soul. It just bypasses the brain. Okay, and so you'll be listening to the song. The song sounds kind of dun dun dun dun dun, boom boom boom boom boom, ba da da dun. And then you realize the lyrics are just like, imagine God were dead and we were all communists then we could just take each other's stuff and turn to worm food. When we die, we would all take a dirt nap and life would be meaningless. That's a horrible song. But it sounds really pretty when you're listening to it. So pretty that Jimmy Carter, a supposed Christian, and plays it at his funeral in a cathedral. Totally nuts. You gotta watch out what you're listening to. It can bypass your reason and it can corrupt your reason. Plato had it right. He had a lot of things right, actually. Okay, now turning toward reasonable matters, trying to go directly to the reason. I want to answer your questions in the mailbag, but you gotta send them in to me. And you gotta do a few things to do that. You gotta go to dailywire.com you go to watch. You go to the Michael Knowles show page. Then you click Send in a mailbag question. You can send in a written mailbag question. That's easy enough. An email pops up, you just send it in. Or you can send in a voicemail back question, which are my favorites. To do that, you just record your voicemail question. Keep it to under a minute, please, so I can play it on the show. Some people want to send me their life story. Their audiobook of 6 hours, less than a minute, 30 seconds is even better. You record that. Just attach it to the email, send it in, and then I can hear your mellifluous tones and your beautiful questions on Friday and I can give you my answers. Now, happily turning to some good news again. At least one sexual norm is being restored, and that is at Facebook, and that is at the hands of Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg, who has announced with great courage that he will remove tampons from the men's bathroom at Facebook offices. We are so cooked. To use the language of the zoomers. We are cooked. We are boiled and brew and fried and sauteed, and we are cooked. That this is a great cause to celebrate that one of the biggest companies in the history of the world is finally taking tampons out of the men's bathroom. Woo hoo. We did it. Conservatives. Oh man. If these are the victories we have simply lost. But whatever, okay, I'll take the victory for what it's worth. In Silicon Valley, in Texas, and in New York, Zuckerberg is reminding people that men and women are different in at least a modest way. There's Criticism, though. Michael McConnell, who is the co chairman of the Meta Oversight Board overseeing what's going on at Facebook, says in an interview that Zuckerberg is, quote, buckling to political pressure. He says, I would have liked to have seen these reforms laid out in less contentious and partisan times so that they would be considered on the merits rather than, you know, Donald Trump is president and now they're caving in. Okay, so Zuckerberg is right to get the tampons out of the boys bathroom. Kamala Harris lost in part because her running mate put tampons in boys bathrooms. It's really ridiculous to put tampons in boys bathrooms. However, the chairman or the co chairman of the Meta Oversight board is right. Zuckerberg is obviously caving to political pressure. That's what this is about. Let me see, let me see what you think. There are two ways to read this. Either the multi billionaire genius who invented Facebook after dropping out of Harvard just yesterday discovered that boys and girls are different. He just figured it out. You know, it took him a little. He's a little thick in the head, but he finally figured out boys and girls are different. Or Zuckerberg is caving to political pressure because Trump is about to become president in a matter of days and Republicans are gonna have unified government. And Republicans have not yet forgotten how Facebook punished them for years. How Facebook censored conservatives, tried to limit our reach, went all in on booting Trump out of office in 2020. How Zuckerberg personally helped to rig that election to give Democrats an advantage in ballot drop boxes and in all of the rule changes that came into play because they used Covid as an excuse. Zuckerberg realizes he is on the wrong side of the new sheriffs in town. And he is doing everything he can to get ahead of the investigations, to plead and beg for mercy, and to suck up to the Republicans who are coming into power and to make these minor little gestures to suggest to the Republicans that he's really on their team. Okay, well, good. I'm glad you're doing that, buster. That's great. But I remember when your company nearly destroyed my company. And it's not just the Daily Wire, though. Daily Wire was probably the most prominent on the right. Really? Probably the most prominent in news on Facebook. And then one day, Facebook decided to limit our reach by, what was it, 90%? Wasn't just us, it was other right wingers as well. Certainly other people within the MAGA orbit. Was that because of a change in market dynamics? No, that was because censors at Facebook, radical leftists, decided to put their fingers on the scale and try to control our public square. And in a self governing republic, if you control the public square, you more or less control the political order. I remember that. So good. Get the tampons out of the men's bathroom. That's great. Good. Cave to political pressure. That's smart to do. You don't get off the hook that easily. That would be my message to members of Congress. I would not let Big Tech off the hook that easily. Because if Zuckerberg's gonna cave to political pressure with Trump coming into office, guess what he's gonna do when the Democrats win? It's gonna be the exact same thing. We're gonna be right back where we started. Now, speaking of Big Tech, Steve Bannon is going to war with Elon Musk. There is a fight within maga, within Trump world. Steve Bannon who was the chief strategist of the first Trump campaign, he was in the White House. As a strategist, Bannon has declared war on Elon Musk, who is now President Trump's right hand man, who dumped an absurd amount of money into the campaign, who really injected a lot of excitement into the 2024 campaign, who purchased Twitter to give right wingers at least a little bit of a foothold into big tech. So who's got a lot of goodwill in his own right? What does Bannon say? Bannon says, I will have Elon Musk run out of here by election Day. He said this in an interview with the Corriere della Serra, which is an Italian newspaper. He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down, Bannon says of Elon, because before, because he put money in. I was prepared to tolerate it. I'm not prepared to tolerate it anymore. Then he went on, this was really over the H1B division. Steve Bannon says, we need less migration. We don't want these H1Bs. And Elon Musk says we need more H1Bs. We want more Indians coming in and doing American jobs. Elon goes on. He says, peter Thiel, David Sachs, Elon Musk are all white South Africans. He should go back to South Africa. Why do we have South Africans? The most racist people on earth, White South Africans. We have them making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States. Now, this is really shocking because the second part here is an attack from the left. It's Bannon attacking Musk from the left. He's saying, Thiel, who's been a big supporter of conservative causes, big supporter of our Vice President, soon to be Vice President, J.D. vance, David Sacks, big supporter. And Elon Musk. They're white South Africans and white South Africans are racist. Hold on, wait. Am I hearing a radical leftist from the 1980s? Hold on. Where is it? But what this tells you, Steve Bannon is not a leftist by any stretch of the imagination. What this tells you is Steve Bannon is willing to fight. As dirty as it's going to take to go after Elon Musk, he's going to use any tool at his disposal. And in modern America, at least until recently, the accusation of racism was a very powerful tool. I'm not sure it's as powerful as it used to be, but he's gonna use any attack from the right, from the left, from anything. So what team are you on? Are you on Team Bannon? Or are you on Team Musk? I suspect there's gonna be a divide with the audience here. I think there's gonna be a divide within MAGA and among Trump supporters because this is a natural fault line within the American right that has existed for over 70 years now. This is the fault line between the conservatives and the libertarians. This is the fault line between the traditionalists and the more classical liberals. This is the fault line between the Paleo conservatives and the neoconservatives. This has existed for a long time. On the one side, you have the conservatives saying that America is more than an economy. We're a country and we have an economy. But we want the economy to serve the society, the common good of the people. Want the tail to wag the dog. So, yeah, it's true. Indians who take low wages, who are well educated, they can help our economy. And there's nothing against Indians. We like some Indians, but we gotta make sure that we keep social cohesion, that we defend American families, that we defend American workers, that we look after Americans first before we look to other people around the world. And that we're not just merely cogs in a machine trying to tick the GDP number up a little bit. But we are American citizens who are trying to have a good, strong, thriving country for good, strong, thriving people. A country that is made up of people, that's not just full of interchangeable parts that can be traded out willy nilly because America's an idea floating in outer space. That's the conservative argument. Now, the libertarians and the neocons and the liberals and that side of the conservative movement of the American right, they're gonna say, look, we want efficiency, we want creative destruction. We wanna be really strong economically. That's what really matters. That's how we have a great country. And we believe in America. We believe in the principles of America. And some of those people out there in Uttar Pradesh, those guys are actually more American than the people who go back 10 generations in West Virginia. Because those people believe in the ideas of America. They're gonna work hard. And these Americans have gotten lazy and stupid. That's an argument that explicitly some people on that side have made. And that's gonna resonate for a lot of people, too. But I guess my only observation on this battle is to point out this is a perennial battle on the American right. This is not going to be resolved in a week or two. This did not come out of nowhere. It's not because Steve Bannon woke up on the wrong side of the bed one morning. It's not because Elon Musk decided to become an interloper in American politics in some unprecedented way. This is a fault line that has existed for the entire history of the American right, certainly since the Second World War. And those fissures could create a real political problem for Trump because he has to keep that coalition together. Which is why my resolution to this, withholding my personal views on particular aspects of this question of migration and the economy is we need unity, we need Republican unity for like 100 days. And we're probably gonna not get much more after that. But we've been given unified government. We have this major mandate for President Trump, elected to a non consecutive second term, wins the popular vote as a Republican for the first time in 20 years. Just like, keep it together, guys. That's my whole argument. Just keep it together for maybe 100 days and then we can go back to our typical division and dissension and trying to kill each other, but just, just give us a shot. Give President Trump a shot to do what he wants to do for 100 days. Then we can all go back to fighting. Now, speaking of the Trump team, the confirmation hearings begin today. And this is really, really interesting. In the last 60 seconds I have here, the Senate starts the confirmation hearings today. They're gonna get Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense, Doug Collins, former congressman from Virginia, or I'm sorry, former congressman, who is up to run the va. Doug Burgum, who's former governor, ran for president, he's up for Secretary of the Interior. Then tomorrow you get Rubio for Secretary of State, Pam Bondi for Attorney General, Kristi Noem at dhs, the former Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe for CIA, the former OMB director Russell Vaught to go back and take his job again at omb. Sean Duffy, former congressman for Transportation Secretary, and the oil executive, Chris Wright for Energy Secretary. Then Thursday you're gonna get Lee Zeldin, former congressman, ran for governor of New York. He's gonna be up for epa, hedge fund executive Scott Besant for Treasury Secretary and the former NFL player Scott Turner for hud. Who else aren't there? Where are the big guys? I mean, it's interesting to talk about Scott Turner, but what about Tulsi? What about Bobby Kennedy? What about Kash Patel? When are their confirmation hearings? We don't know yet. They're not scheduled. Maybe next week, maybe the week after that. Now, Elise Stefanik, who's also a shoo in at the un, she also hasn't been scheduled But I can't help but notice here there is only one controversial confirmation hearing scheduled this week, and it's the very first day, and that's Pete Hegseth. The libs really want to take down Pete. I think Pete will be an excellent Secretary of Defense. I think he's going to get through, but the Democrats are going to throw everything they can at him. So you get Pete, then you get a bunch of people who are shoo ins, and then later on you get the other controversial ones. Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Kennedy Jr. Cash Patel. What this tells me is Pete is the canary in the coal mine. Pete is going to go in there to see how tough the Senate is gonna fight to block Trump's nominees. If he gets through, it's gonna be a little bloody. But if he gets through, expect Tulsi, Bobby Kennedy, Cash Patel to have their hearings lined up ready to go. We're gonna have smooth sailing into January 20th. But if they really hold up Pete, there's going to be some rethinking about how to move forward with Tulsi, with Kennedy, with Kash Patel. This is the test. And let's wish Pete the best of luck. Maybe we say a prayer for the success of this administration. We'll know a lot more tomorrow. Today is te hee Tuesday. The rest of the show continues now. You don't want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Knowles Canada wles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans. I've often said that gender affirming care is health care. It is mental health care, and it can actually be suicide prevention care. I think I'm gonna take some medicine so I can kind of like transform into a boy, get surgery. After the surgery, I didn't really feel any better when it stopped being a thing for adults and it started to be a let's teach this to kids. Total lie manipulation. It's gaslighting. Please stop. He's a boy, not a girl. How could she do this to my son?
