Michael Knowles (19:21)
It literally was a hypothetical. I don't know how to explain it in blunter terms to the US Senator, but he said, first of all, he did the joke. The joke is, hey, hey, buddy, do you still beat your wife? Which is a question that has no correct answer. And if you say yes or no, you look bad. So he actually does that. There is no suggestion even anywhere that Pete exef has ever been violent toward women. And he says, do you still. Do you beat me or wives? Pete says, no. What are you talking about? What? He goes, yeah, but it would be disqualifying if you did. Huh? And Pete says, hold on, I'm not gonna engage in all these sorts of hypothetical questions. Now, Tim Kaine said, if someone did such and such, that would be such and such. And Pete says, that's a hypothetical. I'm not going to engage with that. Tim Cain says, I don't think that's a hypothetical. It's literally when you were using the conditional tense, when you're using the subjunctive and the conditional, and you're raising a hypothetical situation, that is a hypothetical question. It might be the most scandalous aspect of this whole testimony that sitting U.S. senators, all these Democrats, have a tenuous grasp not just on the law and political philosophy, they have a tenuous grasp on the English language. And they did absolutely, horribly, Horribly, which is good for Pete, it's good for President Trump, good for America. These nominees are going to sail through. Now, other Democrat senators decided not to make the same mistake that Kirsten Gillibrand, Tim Kaine and Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Duckworth and all the rest of them were making. John Fetterman, a man who, as he has recovered from a brain injury, has become more and more right wing, just went down to Mar a Lago to meet with President Trump. Now people are asking all sorts of questions. There was a journal piece. Is, Is Fetterman moving to the right, or is he just kind of a cynical politician who sees which way the wind is blowing? To me, it's so clear it's the latter. We joke about as he recovers from a brain injury, he's become more right wing. His previous positions, he's called himself a progressive. He has supported Bernie Sanders, he has supported letting criminals out of prison, he supported legalizing drugs. He presently supports so called same sex marriage. He has supported abolishing the filibuster in the Senate. He has supported amnesty for illegals. I think he's a man who is on the left who recognizes that the wind has blown in a very different direction. And that's great news for conservatives. I'm happy to take Fetterman's support. And who knows, maybe it is the case that as this man has grown in politics, as he has recovered from an injury, he has become more conservative in a sincere way. Maybe. I'm perfectly open to that possibility. But even if it's all just cynical and he just wants to succeed in the Senate during Trump's administration, fine, I'll take it. What that tells us, what John Fetterman going to mar a lago tells us is the conservative wing of politics is the mainstream. Trump is the mainstream. Mass deportations is a mainstream political position. Woke leftism. Liberalism is in retreat. And if you want to succeed in politics today, and I know it sounds implausible given what we've gone through for the last 10 years, if you want to succeed in politics today, anywhere you want to get on Trump's good side. I have a question for you. Does Ben Shapiro have an okay radio voice? Will I let my hair go gray? Little touch of gray? Pull a Mitt Romney? Do reading glasses make conservatives look like lesbians? These are just a few of the questions answered and finally put to rest in my latest episode of yes or no with Glenn Beck. Check out this teaser. The race card is more useful than an Ivy League degree. You're one of those really, really educated. Because I'm like a bus driver. Okay, you're talking to Ralph Crampton here. I have no idea. You've seen the show. Now you can join in the fun. By the way, you know there is the yes or no game. The game. You can get it@dailywire.com shop. I'll give you a little taste. Here's a card right on the top. It is possible for a Christian to be a socialist, Mr. Davies? How would I answer that? That's tough. I say you would say yes, but they go to purgatory first. It's a different question. Is it possible to go to heaven even if you've been a socialist? That maybe. But can a Christian? There's a simple answer. You got it wrong. So you have to drink. I don't know what kind of booze you have to drink. That's the first loss I've gotten here. Yeah, it's wrong. And do you know why? You don't need to just use your own private understanding or anything. It's because the Pope says so. It's because Pope John XXIII said it is not possible for a Christian to engage even with moderate socialism. And he's following the logic of Blessed Pius ix, Pope Leo xiii, Pope Pius xi, then later on Pope John Paul ii. Some other popes haven't talked about it as much, but you can get your yes or no the game with the expansion packs. Lots of great expansion packs to play with up to nine people. Test your family's and friends knowledge and opinions. Go to dailywire.comshop to grab yes or no and watch the commercial free and uncensored episode of yes or no with Glenn Beck, exclusively on Dailywire. So Fetterman went down to Mar a Lago to kiss the ring, meet with President Trump. This is American Versailles. It's beautiful. I've been to Mar a Lago on a number of occasions. Beautiful, beautiful place. And it is effectively the center of power now, in much the same way that Louis XIV built Versailles to be the center of power outside of the imperial city, little further away. So the devilish saboteurs have more trouble over there. He goes down and here's what Trump says about him. It was a totally fascinating meeting. He's a fascinating man and his wife is lovely. They were both up. I couldn't be more impressed. He's a common sense person. He's not liberal or conservative. He's just a common sense person, which is beautiful. This is good stuff. This would be my tactic as well. This would be my response as well. If you got a guy who's on the other side of the aisle who comes down to your home to show you a little respect, this is kind of like the mob comes down, kisses the ring, shows a little respect, you're gonna be gracious to that person and you're going to give him a reputation to live up to. Is John Fetterman a common sense person? Maybe he's done some things that could lead one plausibly to conclude that now maybe he's just being cynical. Maybe he's just testing something out. But regardless, anyone who's ever run a company, anyone who's ever been a parent, knows an effective way to lead people is to give those people a reputation to live up to. Oh, buddy, you wouldn't do that kind of naughty thing. You're not the kind of person who would do that. Talk to your employees, say, listen, I know you're capable of a lot I know you're really good. You're gonna do a great job. You're giving them something to live up to, and that's what Trump's doing here. And I think this line is really important. This, to me, sums up the whole election and the path forward. Words like common sense, words like normal, really good. This is how we have to think about it. As I mentioned, I think on a show earlier this week, the terms left and right come from the French Revolution. The right referred to traditional Catholic monarchists and the left referred to secular liberal Republicans. Those left and right don't exactly map onto our present political situation. And now with everyone within the American right saying, you're secretly on the left, no, you're on the left. No, you're woke. No, you're not a true conservative. No, you're this, no, you're that. It's not helpful. Especially with a coalition that just brought over a lot of Democrats, brought over a Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy Jr. Brought over another Democrat. Presidential candidate, Tulsi Gabbard, brought over guys like Elon Musk, Joe Rogan brought over one in five black guys, brought over half of Hispanics, almost brought over 40% of women under the age of 30. A lot of people who consider themselves on the left, but just not with those guys who consider themselves independent, with, or even kind of liberal, these terms are not gonna help you say, no, no, we like common sense also. Because if you embrace common sense as your political moniker, then you are not going to be bound up by fragile and insufficient ideologies. And one of the tricks that the left uses on Sol Alinsky writes about this in Rules for Radicals is the left forces up. Forces us to live up to our own standards, standards that are wise or unwise, right or wrong. But they force us to live up to our own standards. They never play by those standards. So they try to trip us up in ideology. Ideology, which in itself is dubious. One way to avoid that is to just put ideology a little bit to the side and refer back to common sense, refer back to just prejudice, recognize it. In the words of Michael Oakeshott, ideology is the formalized abridgment of the supposed substratum of rational truth contained in the tradition. And we don't need it. That's kind of a technical definition, but it's a good definition. The formalized abridgment. It's not the whole thing. It's just this little abridgment of the supposed substratum of what we think lies at the very heart of rational truth. Our own Little small stores of reason contained in the tradition. We all need to do that. We don't need manifestos on a back of a napkin. We can just be normal. You know, you can just be normal. We can just do the things that we've been doing before. We can just use our common sense. You don't need to write a 50 page essay to defend common sense. You don't need to have 100 studies on why men shouldn't go into the women's bathroom. You don't need to undertake years long investigations with scientists and sociologists to explain why face tattooed, Satan worshiping, criminal cartels should not be allowed to cross our border illegally. Okay? You can just do it, okay? And if anyone has a problem with it, they can shut up if some nerd says, oh, actually we did a survey to show why Ebba's 13 should be allowed in America. Like, give that guy a swirly, okay? You don't need to study. You don't. You can just be normal. It's okay. That's what Trump's saying to John Fetterman. That's what John Fetterman's saying to his own party. And that is a winning message for the American people. Trump is normal. He is normal. Now you want proof that he's normal? Carrie Underwood is going to sing at his inauguration and the View is furious about it.
