Michael Knowles (31:36)
What's been done for a century in the United States is exactly what Trump is doing right now. Schumer, I guess, is just ignorant of his history or he's lying. But let's be nice to Chuck, let's be charitable, and let's say he's just ignorant. The aberration, the break with historical precedent would be to have this whole thing run out of Congress. That's not how this has worked. Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Reagan, Al freaking Gore, all of them did it the way that Trump is doing it. None of them did it the way that you're proposing, Chuck. So as usual, this is just projection. Trump is acting lawlessly. His proposals are out of keeping with the American. What are you talking about? He's acting very much within the law and within historical precedent. And just because you won a few more votes. A few more votes. Hold on. It was an Electoral college landslide. It was a clear popular vote victory for a Republican for the first time in 20 years. Huge swathes of every demographic, even the ones that you Most rely on. 40% of women under 30, what are you talking? A little. Few more votes? Just because of that doesn't mean that democracy's thrown out the window. No, no, no, democracy's not thrown out the window. If Trump did not implement Doge, that would be throwing democracy out the window. Don't forget. This isn't some secret group of people I love. He says this is a secret group of people. Elon Musk is secret. He's one of the most public individuals on planet Earth. They haven't exactly hid the ball on this. Chuck Schumer Trump campaigned on putting Elon Musk in charge of efficiency in the government. This is my same argument as to why the Senate needs to confirm Tulsi Gabbard and Bobby Kennedy Jr. The argument for that is Trump campaigned on this. Maybe you like Tulsi, maybe you like Bobby, maybe you don't like either of them. You can't say that. The American people didn't know what they were getting. Trump brought them up on stage with him at Madison Square Garden and said, this is what I'm gonna do with these people. If you want that, vote for me. If you don't, don't vote for me. And they voted for him. Give the people what they want. And by the way, also at Madison Square Garden and at many other rallies, he pulls Elon Musk on stage. He says, I'm gonna put this guy in charge of creating efficiencies in the federal government. You want that vote for me? That's democracy in action. That's historical precedent. That's the American tradition. We don't need some secret group unaccountable to the people to be ruling us. Chuck, that's what you've been doing for the last four years. Does anybody, even if you think Biden got elected, does anybody think Biden's been running the show for four years? No, we have no idea who's been running the country for four years. Most people are clear at this point, it wasn't Joe Biden. Projection, projection, projection. Now, speaking of efficiencies, another great innovative proposal from overseas, or at least south of the border. My favorite Latin American head of state, Nayib Bukele, the leader of El Salvador has made a beautiful offer to Americans. He has offered to imprison America's criminals. You know, Trump flies criminal aliens down to Colombia. Colombia says, no, no, gracias, no, we don't want that. And then, you know, then Trump works out a deal. But Bukele says the opposite. He goes, oh, please don't. Not only should you bring us criminal El Salvadorans, not only should you bring us criminal illegal aliens, we'll take your criminal American citizens too. We got super jails over here. Manai Bukele, you wanna know if that guy's good at one thing? He's good at many things. But if you wanna know he's good at one thing, it is imprisoning very nasty criminals. That guy turned El Salvador from the most dangerous country on earth to the safest country in the Western hemisphere. And he did it by taking all the face tattooed, Satan worshipping gangsters and throwing in a hellish prison and then videotaping them running around like cockroaches and then broadcasting that to all the other face tattooed gangsters. And guess what? The crime rate went down. So what does Bukele say? He says, we've offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system. We are willing to take in only convicted criminals, including convicted U.S. citizens. I love this. Into our mega prison CECOT in exchange for a fee. The fee would be relatively low for the US but significant for us making our entire prison system sustainable. This is the art of the deal. This is a really good deal. You think the libs are saying we need to end private prisons in America? I think Trump's outside the box thinking here can say, okay, great, we'll end private prisons in America. We're going to outsource them to El Salvador. How you like that? The libs won't arrest rapists and murderers and people who set subway cars on fire. They'll actually arrest the people who try to stop the bad guys. Okay, well, now we got a new sheriff in town and you know what we're gonna do? We're not only gonna arrest our criminals, we're gonna ship them off to Nayib Bukele. I think if anyone can reform him, it's gonna be that guy. How's that sound? Not a bad idea. It'd probably be a lot cheaper than imprisoning them in the United States. And I don't know. I don't know if people are gonna go for it, but I at least like that proposal as a starting point for criminal justice reform. We all want criminal justice, all right? That's my kind of criminal justice reform. No matter where you are watching or listening right now. Take a second. Hit the follow button. That could be on Spotify, that could be on Apple podcasts, that could be on YouTube, could be on MySpace, it could be on Zanga, it could be on LiveJournal, it could be on AOL, instant messenger. 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Speaking of protecting Americans, Tulsi Gabbard has advanced out of committee. The Senate Intelligence Committee voted yesterday to advance Tulsi Gabbard's nomination. The vote was 9 to 8. It was a vote along party lines. Very, very good. I mean, to be expected, frankly. The fact that all the Republicans will vote for her, at least in committee, is a good sign because I expected plenty of Republicans to squish on Tulsi Gabbard. But this is what a mandate means. You know, I remember I was at that Madison Square Garden rally where Tulsi spoke and Bobby Kennedy spoke and Elon Musk spoke and a lot of people spoke. Dr. Phil spoke. There are a lot of people there. But I remember I was sitting with some friends sitting at Stage Steele and Dave Rubin and a number of other people, and I said, why is he doing this rally here? Why campaign a couple weeks before the election in New York City? He's not gonna win New York. And some friends of mine said he's going for the popular vote. In other words, he's going for a mandate. He thinks that he's got the Electoral College in the bag. So now he's putting all his chips on the table. He's buying leverage for when he is elected. In retrospect, that looks like what he was doing. Had Trump hid the ball, played it safe, run a campaign like Romney 2012, which is, we're not gonna talk about anything even remotely controversial. We're just gonna focus on the economy. You know, had Trump run one of these I'm just gonna fix inflation kind of campaigns, first of all, I don't think he would have won. I think that the wisdom of the Romney campaign, that could be my next blank book. The wisdom of the Romney campaign was just mistaken. But had he done that, and then he came into office and he started talking about all these wild things, we're gonna slap new tariffs, we're gonna have mass deportations, we're going to take back the Panama Canal, all this stuff, we're gonna control Gaza, whatever. All of this would have been so totally jarring and unpopular. He would have been restricted. However, if during the campaign Trump says Hey, when you elect me, you know what you're getting? Tulsi gabber. You're getting two Democrat presidential candidates. And we're gonna make America healthy again. And we're gonna have beef tallow basically sprayed down into the atmosphere. And we're gonna do this, and we're gonna do all. And we're gonna have a lot of tariffs and we're gonna do all this. We're gonna put Elon Musk in charge of some government office I haven't even invented yet. And because he ran on it, he's got a lot of Runway. People are familiar with that. And I think it's what gives him so much negotiating leverage. Now, speaking of advancing out of government, speaking of people just being advanced out of the government, an important story happened a couple days ago, but I want to get to it. The USDA Inspector General was escorted out of her office by security. Phyllis Fong is a 22 year veteran of the USDA, and she told her colleagues that she planned to stay at the White House or stay at USDA after the White House fired her. And her argument was that the White House did not follow the proper protocols to fire her. So she was gonna keep her job. Even though Trump said she was out, she was gonna keep her job, and that was that they could drag her out with security if they wanted to. Which is exactly what Trump did. She said, according to an email reviewed by Reuters, that the independent counsel of the inspectors general on integrity and efficiency, quote, has taken the position that these termination notices do not comply with the requirements set out in law and therefore are not effective. And Trump said they'll be effective. I'm going to drag you out of your office kicking and screaming if I have to. And Trump did that to send the same kind of message he's been sending on all these fronts. He's not bluffing, except when he is, but he will follow through. The thing about bluffing is sometimes you gotta follow through. That's the only way you can have an effective bluff. Anyone who's played two games of poker in your entire life knows this. So sometimes you gotta follow through and he does, and that's gonna cause some chaos and consternation. Walter Kern made a good point on social media, which is that we hear a lot about the peaceful transfer of power. This the American tradition of the peaceful transfer of power, which President Trump so upended. Supposedly, in 2020, they forget about all the riots and the setting cars on fire and the shrieking and the denial of the election from top Democrats. In 2016. Forget about that. But Trump threaten the peaceful transfer of power for the first time ever. Well, Walter Kern made the point that there's a difference between the peaceful transfer of power and changing shifts at your job. That what we've called the peaceful transfer of power, the shift in power from, I don't know, Reagan to Clinton, Clinton to Bush, Bush to Obama, that that was less a transfer of power than it was just a shift change. Okay, that, yeah, there were different kind of policy desires, but the fundamental understanding of the political order really was the same in many ways. I actually forgot about George Bush the first. From Reagan to Bush to Bush to Clinton to Clinton to Bush to Bush to Obama, they all basically share the same underlying philosophy. Not so with Trump. Adrian Vermeule, the legal theorist at Harvard, pointed to the distinction between formal and material transfer of power. That you can have two guys, one wearing a red tie, one wearing a blue tie, and they have a formal transfer of power at the inauguration. But if they all agree on the basics, it's kind of just formal. But if you have one guy who's wearing a red tie and one guy who's wearing a jean jacket and a tank top, maybe that's not so much a formal transfer of power as a material transfer. You're actually gonna be getting something different in your government now. That's probably what's going on with Trump. And material transfers of power are not that peaceful. The 1860 election, not so peaceful. That transfer of power. The elections of, well, I don't know. Even Jackson's election, that was a little bit rowdy. The 1960s got pretty rowdy. 2016 got pretty rowdy. How many times have we really had the peaceful transfer of power? Unclear. Good point. Brought up by them to show that we are actually seeing a shift in the political order in the United States now. Speaking of a shift, there's one. It's a minor point, but it's a point that I do want to make. Kanye west is back on Twitter. Kanye west is back on Twitter. I said, oh, no, here we go. What's he going to be tweeting about? First tweet I saw. I speak in third person from now on. I speak. I first person speak in third person from now on. That's a funny tweet. That's a delightful little tweet. Kamala seems like a very nice human. I just want to say sorry to her kids. She doesn't have any kids. That's an odd, funny little tweet. F reading. And anyone who can do it, that's a great. He's suggesting, of course, that he cannot. But he wrote in language, so it's just a funny, delightful little. When I saw this. Now, I know Kanye then showed up to the Grammys and stripped his wife down to her skimmies. And I know, but I'm just talking about the Twitter, the return to Twitter. It wasn't a bunch of Jew stuff. It wasn't a bunch of porn. It wasn't a bunch of the disreputable stuff. It was just funny Kanye posts. Just a sense, even down to the tweets, that we're back. You know, we're back. Something is just a fog miasma has lifted off the country. We can breathe again. We're giddy, we're brimming with joy. To use a phrase from Kamala. I cannot get enough of it. Now, of course, our genius political scientists. So I should be clear about that. Not political scientists, like nerds with statistics, but scientists in lab coats who are actually very political. They tell us that the doomsday clock is closest to midnight, closer than it has ever been. So something to consider while we talk about building up new resort casinos in Gaza. They say that things have never been any worse. But I don't know, I look around, things seem to be improving. There is no member block today because I have to go on Piers Morgan's show. So very sorry to have to do that to you, but it's always a delight to go on Piers Morgan's show. So I thought you would forgive me. I will be back tomorrow. In the meantime, get your candles. Lent is coming up and we do have the smells and bells candle back. It's called Wise man and we sold out. You know, we had to make some changes a little bit, but it's fabulous. If you want to get it, get it right now. Thecandleclub.com and of course, go to mayflowersigors.com get your beautiful Mayflower Psycarlo. We might be sold out of these, actually, but if we're not sold out, you should get the remaining ones that exist 21 years or older. Some exclusions apply. Much more to talk about tomorrow. See you then.
