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Do you want to get married? Watch the full episode, I guess a debate now on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel for the uncensored ad free version. Subscribe. Watch exclusively on Daily Wire. Even Denmark. Okay, this is my last little button on President Trump and the art of the deal. Colombia caves. Canada caves. Mexico caves. Even Denmark, which controls Greenland. The Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen says, I totally agree with the Americans that the high north, the Arctic region, is becoming more and more important when we're talking about defense and security and deterrence. And it is possible to find a way to ensure stronger footprints in Greenland. So if this is about securing our part of the world, we can find a way forward. But Greenland is part of Denmark and is not for sale. Wow, man, what a shift. Trump says, we want Greenland. He's been saying this for months. We want Greenland. We're going to take it. Most people assume that Greenland was an independent nation. Most people don't even realize Greenland, this huge landmass right next to America, is actually owned by Denmark, this tiny little country on the other side of the Atlantic. Then they discover, hold on, Denmark owns Greenland. A lot of Greenlanders say they like America and they don't really care that much about Denmark. And Denmark says, absolutely not. You're threatening us. France, speaking for the eu, says, this is a threat against your ally and the European Union. How could you dare suggest this? We are so offended by this. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, after Colombia caved and Mexico caved and Canada caved and Trump's the president and he's doing what he wants, now, all of a sudden, we got a little change in tune, don't we? Oh, no, actually, you know, I totally agree with Mr. Trump, actually, maybe we should increase the American presence in Greenland. That's a good idea. Please don't take my country. That ain't your country. First of all, Denmark, Greenland's a different country that's closer to us and we have more interest in it. And we're the global hegemon. And I didn't exactly like your attitude the first time we talked about this, not even the first time. We've been talking about acquiring Greenland since the middle of the 19th century. This has been a U.S. state Department initiative and priority for 150 years. After World War II, President Truman made a big effort to get it, too. But now. Okay, good. I'm glad you're coming to the negotiating table. And that's what this is, by the way. When the leader of Denmark, rather, it's confusing. The Greenlanders really like America. The Danish, they're coming around on America. But when the leader of Denmark, which owns Greenland says, look, we'll give America a lot, but it's not for sale, they are negotiating. And that's what this is. This is all a big negotiation. And the libs who clutch their pearls when Trump says we're taking the Panama Canal back, when Trump says we're going to acquire Greenland, when Trump says we're going to smack huge tariffs on Mexico and Canada if they don't start enforcing their border better. The libs remind me of, and excuse my blunt language, ladies. You know, I love the ladies, but they remind me of women trying to buy a car. You know, when women. I know it's a stereotype, but stereotypes are all true. They don't pertain to all the individuals of a group, but they're broadly true. That's where they come from. When women are buying a car, they get really nervous. They don't like negotiations, they don't like the anxiety. This is why women in practice actually don't often make as much money as men in corporate America. One of the reasons is they just hate negotiating and they hate asking for raises and they hate really tough deal making. Okay, But I remember the last time I was buying a car, I was sitting with sweet little Elisa and we were going to buy the minivan. And it's actually a pretty tight automobile market right now, so there's not really much room for negotiating anyway. But you got to get something off, right? You got to get a little bit of money off. And I'm sitting there, we're going back and forth, and the dealership says, okay, well, here's the price and we'll come down here for you. We got to add all this fake stuff onto the car, like some paint job or whatever, some ceiling wax and some stupid navigation system that no one wants. And you know, this. And I said, well, you got to take that off and this and boom, boom, boom. And we're going back and forth, it's taking an hour, but it's just the dance, you know, and oh, I gotta talk to my manager. All right, you go talk to your manager. He goes, pretends to talk to the manager. Oh, this and that. And I'm sitting there and Elisa, she's going, oh. She goes, I hate this. She looks at me, but you love this. And I said, I do. I love this. And men do. Going in asking for a raise. It's fun. Actually, it's a little nerve wracking, but it's fun. You talk to a man, a man will say, you know what, it's fun. I felt good in that negotiation. You talk to a woman a lot of the time, she'll say, I didn't like that, I felt uncomfortable. I don't want to do it. I'd rather not get the raise, I'd rather not get the discount on the car. That's how I feel about the liberals with these things. Please don't upset Justin Trudeau in Canada. No, please don't threaten any tariffs on him. He's gonna be really angry with us. Are you kidding me? Justin Trudeau? Who cares? And by the way, he won't even be angry because he gets it. He knows what's going on. He runs a country, he knows how statecraft works. He's not good at it, but he understands a little bit how it works. Oh no, we can't possibly threaten Mexico, what with their less than $2 trillion economy. No, no, we the global hegemon with a $30 trillion economy. We can't possibly ask them politely to get the face tattooed Satan worshipping gangsters off the border and to stop poisoning our kids. We couldn't. We don't wanna offend them. Let's just leave it be. What if they raise the price of avocados? Good grief, you pansies. Are you kidding me? Good. Chuck Schumer, Give me a break. Now, in the case of Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, what they actually want is to just keep the border open and keep all of these gangsters coming to the country cuz they think it'll help them politically. But the people who are sincerely worried, oh no, we're going to upset the status quo by negotiating. Good Grief. With these people at the helm of our government for 60 years, it's a wonder we still have a country. This is good stuff, man. This is fun. This is going to be the difference. This is going to be which way Western man? Are we going to go the way of people who hate negotiating for a car or the people who like it? Not everyone is as resigned as Denmark, Mexico and Canada to President Trump's presidency. Anti Trump deportation protests have shut down the 101 freeway in Los Angeles. Take a look at some of these protests. If you're only listening right now, I'll explain it to you. There are about a billion Mexican flags, big signs that say stolen land. Stolen land? What does that even mean, stolen land? We conquered some of this land. We purchased a lot of this land. We're just talking about stolen land. From whom? Who are these people? They say they're Americans. The liberals tell us they're Americans. They're undocumented Americans, but I don't see any American flags. You'd think if they were Americans, documented or undocumented, you'd think they were Americans and they were waving a flag. The flag they'd be waving would be the American flag, but it's not. It's the Mexican flag. So I guess they're Mexicans. They're shutting down American highways, waving symbols of another country, trying to subvert our political system in favor of political preferences of the aforementioned other country. In what sense are they Americans? They are not in any sense Americans. Other than that they're a bit entitled and eccentric, I guess maybe that's the most American feature about them. But otherwise they haven't assimilated much. However, I have a solution. Usually when people on the left shut down highways, which happens frequently, BLM and all that, when they do that, the environmentalists, lgbt, LMNOP activists, all the rest, usually I say, hey, cops, get them off the freeway. Stop it. This is really bad. It's slowing down traffic. Imagine someone's got to get his kid to the hospital or something, get him out of there. In this case, though, I have a different solution. For this one particular instance, I would just recommend to the marchers that they keep marching, you see, because it looks to me like they are marching south on the 101 freeway. So if my LA geography doesn't escape me, if they just keep marching south, eventually they're gonna hit the five, and then they should just keep. Get on that one. Keep marching south. Basically, just keep marching south until you reach a little town called Tijuana, and then Once you get keep going just a little bit further and maybe the cops could give them a little push. And then you go from a growing problem to problem solved. You know folks, it's February, which means the usual crowd is claiming we don't do anything for Black History Month. We have. That's totally ridiculous to even claim that. This year we have the number one documentary of the decade covering race in America. It's called Amiracist. This was the surprise box office hit of the year. And well, it's not the narrative that the left wanted, of course, but it is available exclusively on Daily Wire. Plus, we are pulling back the curtain with the making of Amiracist where Matt Walsh and director Justin Folk and the whole team come together and discuss the movie. Watch it right now dailywire.com My favorite comment yesterday is from Dry Floater. Now I didn't pick this comment. I didn't pick a comment yet. So I deferred to the producers on picking this comment. Let's see how they did. Comment I just bought £5,000 of avocados to prepare for the avocado polyp. Avocado puckle of Phillips. Well, I got bad news for you Val. You better really like avocados because you are not going to be able to resell those for a huge markup. You are going to have to eat them. And the problem with avocados is you buy them and then the moment you look at them they start to turn brown. They don't. Once you slice them, the avocados stay green for about 4Ns and then they turn brown and look gross. So you better eat fast. Now speaking of Tijuana, I want to turn some attention right now to the old Tijuana tarragon. You know what I'm talking about? I'm talking about the old Peruvian parsley. You know what I. Are you catching my drift? The old Haitian oregano. You know what I mean? Talking about pot. Talking about marijuana man. Cuz there's a new report out finds that memory problems from cannabis might last long after quitting. And this is according to scientists research out of the University of Colorado School of Medicine researchers tracked brain changes in a major study. We haven't seen a thousand person study like this and the effects were noticeable in especially the part of the brain that is responsible for working memory. According to the study, impacts on memory function, other mental tasks like emotional processing, language and logical thinking were not significantly affected by heavy cannabis use. However, working memory looks like it could be affected long afterwards. These findings are published in the Journal. The Journal of the American Medical Association. Okay. I'm not even going to get into all the highlights of the study. You can read it yourself, or you can just read news reports about the study. Duh. Like, duh. Of course. Yeah. You know, I'm not the biggest promoter of the old devil's lettuce. Okay. I'm not saying it's the single worst thing in the world. I do think that it's worse than booze, and I think it's worse than nicotine. And I think, in brief, the reason that it's worse than booze is you can drink without getting drunk. In fact, that's how you're supposed to drink. This is traditionally in our culture, certainly in Christianity, we recognize that it's not evil to drink. It's not sinful to drink. I mean, our Lord's first miracle is to turn water into wine at a wedding for people who've been drinking for a long time, but that it is a sin to get drunk. Totally lose your wits and your, you know, divorce your will from your reason and all the rest of it. But, you know, to drink, to be a little sociable or, you know, that's fine. Okay. It's very difficult to just smoke pot without getting high, I guess, unless you're Bill Clinton and you don't inhale, it's hard to do that. So that's one reason why. It's also. Tucker made this point very well. The left wants you to smoke a lot of pot so that you're fat, lazy, and stupid. His words, not mine. Send him the hate mail. Not me. Whereas the right tends to prefer nicotine in particular. Cigars for me. But a lot of right wingers now love the Zinn packets because nicotine focuses you. Focuses you. It makes you more alert, more focused, you're gonna be more productive. So that's the difference between the left and the right in a nutshell. Okay? All sorts of reasons why I don't think marijuana is identical to booze and nicotine and why I think that booze and nicotine in moderation are superior to marijuana. But regardless, let's say you love pot. There are a lot of people listen to the show, they love the old sin, spinach. Okay, that's fine. I'm not. Not making a big deal about it. My issue, My big issue is with the people who pretend that marijuana is the one substance in the world that has no downsides whatsoever. Cane sugar. Cane sugar has a lot of downsides to it. But no. No water. You can drink Too much water. You can die drinking water. But no, no. The one substance in the whole world that has no downsides, its only upsides. It's this magical herb is marijuana. And that's obviously not true. It's a finite world, it's a fallen world. We have limits. It's a drug. Of course there are downsides to it. Duh. In this case, in the case of a study like this, science and common sense match up. When I was told for years that marijuana has no downsides, only upsides, it's not at all addictive, even though it obviously is. It's all just totally great, I thought, well, huh, that's the language of science speaking. But that contradicts my common sense. And generally, science and common sense should go together, much like generally reason and faith, actually, always reason and faith go together. They're not opposed, okay? They complement each other. That's how it should be here too. And so you could zoom out even past the jazz cigarettes, when scientists tell you things that are totally outlandish that contradict other things that you know to be true, you should be skeptical of that science. This is true when Dr. Fauci's saying it. This is true when Al Gore is making movies about it, about how the world's gonna end in five minutes because of the sun monster. This is true generally because we think of knowledge as all divided up and compartmentalized and segregated. That's not how it works. There is just the truth. There is the truth and we're trying to know something about it. And you can learn something about it through science, and you can learn something about it through common sense. And you can learn through, you know, the inherited wisdom of the ages. You can learn something about it through reason. You can learn something about it through faith. You can learn something about the truth through chemistry and biology and music and mathematics and anthropology and philosophy and English literature. You can learn something. But it's all talking about the same truth, okay? And that's an integrated whole. Don't divorce your common sense for a supposedly higher sense. Now, speaking of common sense, really, really good news and a huge cultural shift going on in my state of Tennessee. Have you heard of covenant marriage? Covenant marriage. You're going to hear about it more and more. There is a bill being proposed in Tennessee that would establish covenant marriage into law. Other states have done this already. It was introduced into the Statehouse here January 22nd. It would establish covenant marriages in Tennessee as being between one male and one female who, quote, agree that marriage is a lifelong partnership. The Legislation would make it harder for couples who agree to enter into this kind of marriage to get a divorce in the state of Tennessee. And the bill would go into effect July 2025. I love this. The representative Gino Bulso who proposed this bill, and Chris Hurt who originally proposed the bill before passing the sponsorship on, they have my full support. Anything I can do to help them, I'm happy to. This bill is reality with a few extra steps. That's what covenant marriage is. Covenant marriage is reality with a few extra steps. Because what this really is is just what everyone understood marriage to be until relatively recently, until the Obergefell decision in. What was that? 2015. Everyone everywhere understood marriage to be the union of a man and a woman. Not because we don't like fellas who have different views and desires, not because we don't like ladies who have different views and desires. Not because we're phobic or hateful or anything, but just cause that's what a marriage is. If marriage is not that, there is no way to identify what distinguishes marriage from any other kind of relationship. It's not hateful, it's just reality. Okay, and then this isn't just distinguishing covenant marriage from same sex marriage or something. This goes further. This undoes an error that began really 50, 60 years ago, which is the error of liberalizing divorce. Marriage was understood for all of history, certainly in our civilization, but broadly speaking, everywhere, as the union of a man and a woman for life, ordered toward the procreation and education of children, and as a secondary matter, ordered toward the mutual support of the spouses. That sounds like a mouthful. I'll say it one more time. It's the lifelong union of a man and a woman for the purpose of inclined toward the begetting of children and the educating of children, and also for the mutual support of the husband and wife. That was it. The reason for that is not oppression and it's not patriarchy. And it's not heteronormativity. And it's not. It's that that is the only definition that marriage can have that would permit marriage to exist as a different kind of relationship, as a distinct kind of institution, separate from boyfriend and girlfriend, separate from just ordinary lovers, separate from roommates. It's the only thing that gives marriage a definition. And there are all sorts of downstream effects of that, especially as pertains to children. But this is really good stuff. And I mention it not just to call attention to a law in Tennessee, but to point out I was so right, man, you know, I Hate to say I told you so, but I was so right. I have said for years, I've long predicted and I've been called crazy and backward and, I don't know, desperate, I guess, for saying marriage is not a lost issue for the right. Marriage is not a lost issue. So many people, so many conservative Republicans, so called, told me, michael, give up on the marriage thing. Oh, it's just over, man. And actually, maybe it's better than it's over. It's no big. Just give up on it. I said I can't give up on it because it's reality. And I can't lie. That's why I can't give up on it, okay? Because I can't say with a straight face that we can redefine marriage in any serious way. We just can't. It's just not a thing we can do. No offense to anybody. No hatred to anybody. People can live their lives. No one's saying they can't live. But say people, you're telling me that we conservatives believe in enduring human nature. We believe in eternal truths, transcendental moral order, that reality reasserts itself in the end, but you're telling me that the fundamental political institution is irretrievably destroyed because some random lawyer on the Supreme Court wrote romantic poetry during a decision in his majority ruling? Are you kidding me? I think that institution is a little more enduring. I think reality is a little more enduring than all that. This is what's happening. You're gonna see this in more and more states. You're gonna see this in more and more states because it reflects the truth and reality and people desire that. And even if we're taken to flights of fancy for long periods of time, ultimately reality is gonna kick back in. Today is te hee Tuesday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not wanna miss it. 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