Caroline Levitt (5:49)

So upon coming out here to the briefing room, I was made aware of the funding from USAID to media outlet outlets including Politico, who I know has a seat in this room. And I can confirm that the more than 8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayers dime will no longer be happening. The DOGE team is working on canceling those payments now. Again, this is a whole of government effort to ensure that we are going line by line when it comes to the federal government's books. And this president and his team are making decisions across the board on do these receipts serve the interests of the American people? Is this a good use of the American taxpayers money? If it is not, that funding will no longer be sent abroad and American taxpayers will see significant savings because of that effort.

Michael Knowles (6:43)

We on the right often refer to the leftist establishment news outlets as state media. We compare them to Pravda in the Soviet Union or state TV in North Korea or something. However, what we are finding out now is they're literally state media. We have actual state media in America, like npr. National Public Radio is publicly funded. That's the government funding a news outlet. The news outlet pushes the priorities of the libs, the elite liberals who generally control our government. So you already see that feedback loop. But here we're also talking about ostensibly private news outlets, places like Politico and perhaps others. Now the argument for the government paying these news outlets is that they're the papers of record and they provide good information. Some of them do provide some interesting information. Amid all the left wing opinion, some of them have some worthwhile information. Okay, so the argument is these are the papers of record and therefore we, the government, should subscribe to them so that the government workers can have access to that information. But isn't this a little bit of a chicken and the egg situation here? How much of their establishment credibility, how much of their authority comes from the fact that they are backed up by the state? And so yeah, they become the paper of record because the government's spending a ton of money on them every year, subsidizing the subscriptions. Some people who are going to defend Politico in this case are gonna say, look, Politico has a lot of different businesses. Some of it is left wing opinion, some of it is just nuts and bolts beltway kind of reporting. And so subscriptions to Politico Pro are totally different from some stupid opinion column on the politico.com website. Well, yes and no. Money's fungible. Perhaps it is the case that the money, your money, your taxpayer dollars that are coming from the government are being used to just float the whole company. And then it's floating the whole company and then the company can afford to spend money on its stupid opinion programming that is left and that you probably don't agree with. Can you at least get a login? You, the American taxpayer, can you at least get a login to Politico? I don't know that you would want one. It's not just Politico. I don't mean to just pick on political. I don't mean to just pick on the news outlets. To me, the clearest example of this from Elon poking around in USAID and all this federal funding is your taxpayer dollars get sucked up by the irs. The IRS distributes it to the federal government. The federal government distributes it to usaid. USAID funds the Tides Center, a left wing institution. The Tides center then funds blm. BLM then goes burns down your city, maybe robs or kills you. Certainly shakes down businesses and individuals all around the country, takes all of that kind of money and demands that the politicians advance more left wing priorities. And then what happens? That same government that has now been pressured by BLM to push even further to the left, that same government takes more of your money and gives it to the Tide center, which gives it to blm, which riots, which forces the government to move even further to the left. And the whole thing is just artificial. The whole thing is astroturfed. It is so funny that Al Green, when he is promoting his impeachment efforts against Trump 16 days in, wow, frankly I thought they would have done it sooner. It's so funny that he says this has to be a grassroots movement. Man, we had a grassroots movement back in November. It was called the election. And in that grassroots movement, most people voted for Trump. And nobody can accuse the Trump election of being some astroturfed feedback loop, for goodness sakes. The man had every institutional disadvantage. He had the government trying to imprison him. He had leftist activists and the government in some cases trying to kick him off of the ballot. He had the left wing government justifying his assassination, which almost occurred twice. And he still won. And he won with huge swaths of every voting group. If there was ever a grassroots election in American politics, it was 2024 electing Donald Trump. And now we're beginning to see, okay, well hold on here. How does the American left really operate? You know, Chuck Schumer says, okay, Trump got a few more votes than the other guy. Well, no, it's not really. It was a pretty clear victory. But furthermore, the whole left was so astroturfed, it's been propelled by this well oiled patronage machine. This is why I think Elon and Trump are so justified in. In just killing usaid. It's not because in principle, USAID can't be used for good things. It's not because America shouldn't promote influence around the world. It should. It's because, as Elon said, usaid, this patronage system for liberals within the government, it's not just an apple with a worm in it. It's all worms. It's all. It's just a big ball of worms, okay? And so you got it. You have to scrap that and you have to create a new kind of system. It's not that we don't want there to be any influence. It's not that we don't want the government to incentivize any behaviors. We certainly do. It's that we need something new. We're about to embark on a major political and social experiment which is. And so we can test my hypothesis. My hypothesis is that the American left is astroturfed, period. And we're about to test that because we're about to cut off the funding. So if the American Left continues to thrive over the next few years, if the resistance really grows, okay, all right, I guess I was wrong. But if it doesn't, if you actually see the left continue to deflate as it is deflated, I mean, this impeachment effort by Al Green ranting and raving about dastardly deeds proposed to an empty room in Congress, I think is a great image of the present American left. If the left just continues to shrink and deflate, then we were right. This whole thing was a psyop. Okay? This whole thing was just a big charade, a big show. And it's a show that you paid for. You paid for those tickets, even if you didn't want to take your seat. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to PureTalk.comKnowles this country was founded on freedom, I'm told. I'm reliably informed this freedom meant that we could separate from a country that forced us to buy overpriced tea. You know what we did? We dumped their tea into the ocean. Then they tried to blockade us. How'd that work out for them? Not too well. Well, now's the time to throw your overpriced big wireless contract overboard, too. 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White House rapid Response posted this one yesterday says we haven't even scratched the surface of the waste, fraud and abuse within usaid. And here are some examples. One and a half million for advancing DEI in Serbia's workplaces. That's one of those kitchen table issues, right? You're sitting around with your family saying, boy, these bills are piling up. I don't know how we're going to pay for groceries this week. Johnny's medical treatment. Oh, that's gonna be tough. The school supplies. And of course, we have to set aside money for DEI and Serbia's workplaces. Of course, it's top of mind. $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala. Oh, yeah, that's important because while many Guatemalans are fleeing to America because they don't have any food there, the ones who were staying really, really worried about weird sex stuff. That's odd. Okay, so 2 million bucks for that. 6 million bucks for tourism in Egypt. They have the pyramids. What do we need to fund their tourism for? Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to Al Qaeda affiliated fighters in Syria. We won't send meals to Americans who still can't rebuild in North Carolina after the hurricane. They'll get 700 bucks from Kamala Harris. But Al Qaeda, well, they're getting hundreds of thousands of meals. They're getting only the best shawarma available to them. Production of opium, which is of course the primary ingredient in heroin in Afghanistan. We are paying to produce heroin. Cool. A million bucks to help disabled people in Tajikistan to become climate leaders. Good, good. That's good. Not just to help the disabled people and not just the people in Tajikistan, but specifically to help them become climate leaders. I'm sure that's top of their mind, just as it's top of your mind. A million dollars to a Hamas Linked charity, not sure how charitable that group is. $15 million for contraceptives and condoms in Taliban controlled Afghanistan. It's an effective strategy to focus on how silly this is, how wasteful this is, how abusive this is. The amount of spending here is not particularly consequential. You're gonna hear this from the libs, and candidly, I'm going to admit that they've got a little bit of a point. Now, on the one hand, you gotta save pennies to spend dollars, so every dollar counts. But on the other hand, when the libs say these amounts of money compared to the whole federal budget are not that consequential, they're actually right about that. That's true. It's not so much the amounts of money, it's what we're spending the money on. The fact that this money uniformly is being used to advance leftism around the world. We are using our dollars. Not a lot of money to us, a lot of money to these people to force them to say, hey, if you want to live, if you want medical treatments, if you want education, if you want food, you need to promote LGBTQ, you need to trans people, you need workplace DEI, you need to believe in the climate religion. That's the problem. That's the big problem. Because while it is not a ton of money for us, it is a significant amount of money for all of these other people. And they are gonna respond to that incentive by advancing leftism around the world. And when they advance leftism around the world, it helps to advance leftism at home. That's part of that feedback loop, too. You give the money to usaid, it's supposed to go overseas. It goes to the Tide center, it comes back to America, it funds blm, BLM burns down. Your city, says, you better move left or we're gonna kill you. And then the country moves to the left and they keep going. Same thing. Look at all these advances overseas. We're advancing transgenderism in Kandahar. All right, let's go. The whole world is moving to the left. We're all in agreement on trans and climate change. And America, you better get on track, too. Now, speaking of the Middle east and speaking of rapid responses from the White House, the biggest news story of the week and probably for the next several weeks, is gonna be Trump's news conference with Bibi Netanyahu, during which he said, we are taking over Gaza. We will own it, and we're gonna build it up and it's gonna be beautiful. This was a claim that not only took Americans by surprise. And Arab leaders by surprise. I think it took Bibi Netanyahu by surprise. I think if you look at Netanyahu, when Trump says, we're gonna take it over, we're gon. So he kind of looks, starts shifting uncomfortably. He's looking out at the reporters. Are you guys hearing this? I mean, I love Trump. He's my ally. I love him. I need this guy on my side. But what? Well, the White House taken a lot of questions on that and wants to be clear here is Press Secretary Caroline Levitt. This does not mean that we're sending American troops to Gaza in the Middle East. This plan seems like it could ultimately involve all of those things. Can you explain this reversal and how building and owning Gaza squares with America first foreign policy.

Caroline Levitt (19:34)

I would reject the premise of your question that this forces the United States to be entangled in conflicts abroad. The President has not committed to putting boots on the ground in Gaza. He has also said that the United States is not going to put pay for the rebuilding of Gaza. His administration is going to work with our partners in the region to reconstruct this region. And let me just take a step back here, because this is an out of the box idea. That's who President Trump is. That's why the American people elected him. And his goal is lasting peace in the Middle east for all people in the region. And as I said in my opening remarks, we've had the same people pushing the same solutions to this problem for decades. And it's been very made very clear to the President that the United States needs to be involved in this rebuilding effort to ensure stability in the region for all people. But that does not mean boots on the ground in Gaza. It does not mean American taxpayers will be funding this effort. It means Donald Trump, who is the best dealmaker on the planet, is going to strike a deal with our partners in the region.

Michael Knowles (20:38)

Okay, so this was basically my take yesterday on it, and glad to see that my perception of things was right. Some other people also intuited that this is what Trump meant, though there were many on the left and many on the right who were pulling their hair out. Oh, no. What is Trump saying? He's gonna send Marines over to the Gaza. Oh, no. This is the worst thing ever. He's betraying. I said, calm down, calm down. Hey, even just from what Trump said, you remember Trump sitting there, he said, and we're gonna rebuild it and someone else is gonna pay to rebuild it. And I said, okay, well, if someone else is gonna pay to rebuild it, that means that Trump is not proposing sending the Marines over cuz the Marines cost money. That means we're paying to rebuild it. So what he's saying is we're gonna take it over, we're gonna own it, we're going to be exerting authority here. But it was obviously a negotiation tactic to off foot not only the Arab leaders in the region, I think to off foot Netanyahu a little bit too. I think to just shake up the whole conversation, talk past the sale and see where we're going to land. But what does this mean for the even greater charge, the charge that Al Green and the Democrats are now saying is worthy of impeachment, namely that Trump is gonna displace the Gazans. He says the Gazans are not gonna be allowed back. They're outta here. This is ethnic cleansing according to Trump's critics and according to some of Trump's supporters, actually. And so what does that mean? Is Trump actually just booting out all the Gazans? We will get to the White House's answer in one moment. First, I wanna tell you about the yes or no game. You know about the yes or no game? You go to dailywire.com shop and you can get your game, your own home version of the Greatest show. The greatest game show on the Internet. Mr. Davies, I have a card here in my hand. Shall we show the people how to play the game? I think we shall. I think they should also comment. And the comments, there is yes or no to see if they know you better than me. Okay, comment here. Let me know what you think my answer is. I would kill baby Hitler. Professor Jacob picked this prompt. I've not seen it. I would kill Baby Hitler. Okay. I don't think you wouldn't. I think you would say no, I would not. You calling me a Nazi? No, I would not kill Baby Hitler.

Al Green (23:03)

I'm calling you a Catholic.

Michael Knowles (23:04)

Why would I kill Baby Hitler? He's a little baby. He hadn't done anything. He hadn't done the Beer Hole Putsch at five months old. He's an innocent little baby. I'm not some consequentialist, not some utilitarian. I'm a man with a traditional understanding of ethics. And it's wrong to kill little babies. The libs would not only kill Baby Hitler, they'd kill as many babies as they could as they found convenient. Did you get it right? Oh, I did. I'm talking to you and not you, Mr. Davey. I know you got it right. Did everyone else get it right? Well, I hope that you did. And even if you didn't go to dailywire.com shop, get the yes or no game. You can also check out my yes or no episode with Tim pool. The average 4B woman oath will last as long as Tim's cancellation of irl. Wow. To be fair, was never an actual cancellation. It wasn't a full on, it was a raising the prospect of canceling. Yeah, but for the 4B women. These women are just sad and angry. Angry about other stuff. That's one way to put it. I'd say. Histrionic.

Caroline Levitt (24:09)

Yeah.

Michael Knowles (24:24)

Go watch the yes or no game Michael Knowles YouTube channel and you can get it at dailywire.com yacht is Trump going to ethnically cleanse the Gazans? Here's what the White House says. Can you confirm that under the President's plans for Gaza, any and all Palestinians who want to stay in Gaza on their land will be allowed to do so?

Caroline Levitt (24:44)

I can confirm that the President is committed to rebuilding Gaza and to temporarily relocating those who are there. Because as I've showed you repeatedly, it is a demolition site. There is no running water, there is no electricity. The President wants these individuals to to live in peace.

Michael Knowles (25:00)

Okay, so you see that word that the press secretary added in there temporarily. Now it seemed as though what President Trump was suggesting is they were gonna be gone permanently. We're gonna build nice places for them, they're not gonna wanna go back. Cause the places we're gonna build are so nice. The White House though is walking that back a little bit saying temporarily they'll be out cuz there's no place for them to live. It's all rubble. But we'll rebuild it and then maybe they can come back. Okay, in this case I am quite glad to say I told you so. I told you. I said don't. He's not about to send in the 101st Airborne. There's no evidence that he wants to engage in nation building in Iraq, Syria or Gaza for that matter. Okay, this is not necessarily Bush 2.0, but on the question of the ethnic cleansing, this is gonna be a thornier issue to solve because I've gotten in a great deal of trouble. But I don't care for making the point from the beginning when this question of ethnic cleansing comes up that the rational strategic objective of both belligerents in this conflict is the ethnic cleansing of the other Israel. Doesn't say that, but it would seem implicit to me. And I think the more clear minded Israeli strategists understand that to be the case. And from The Palestinian side, the Palestinians openly state that the ethnic cleansing of the Jews in Israel is their goal. From the river to the sea, Israel will be free. So that's just a fact. They're talking about moving population, not necessarily genocide, not necessarily killing everybody. If you listen to the Palestinian side, they're a little more open about that. But moving people out of certain areas, which has happened many, many times. It happened after World War II. Alan Dershowitz was making this point recently. It happened after World War II with ethnic Germans out of conquered territories. It happened with Muslims and Hindus during the partition of India. It happens, okay? And it's a little unclear from international law just how condemned that all genocide obviously is totally prohibited, but the forced movement of peoples, it's ugly, it's nasty. People don't like it, they certainly don't want to talk about it. But it has happened multiple times since World War II. So not even in the way distant past. And if Israel has concluded, if the state of Israel has concluded that the existence of a Palestinian state in Gaza is an unacceptable security risk. Because the moment that the Palestinian Arabs get a state in 2005 or a quasi state, they get to. They have an election and they elect Hamas, they say that's an unacceptable security risk because they're just gonna keep doing the October 7th attacks, as they've repeatedly said, then what are they supposed to do? And if the Palestinian Arabs say we simply will not accept the existence of the State of Israel and we're just not gonna come to the negotiating table. Okay, all right. What do you expect, man? I don't know. Don't attack me for being the messenger of what is obviously the rational strategic objective of both sides here. Now, speaking of war, remember Zelensky, Volodymyr Zelensky is the leader of Ukraine. He's the guy who's always asking us for money. And then we give him a lot of money. And then he whines that we're not giving him enough money. He's like a kid on Christmas. You give him 15 Christmas presents. He says, but I want more, I want more, give me more. You know, it drives me nuts. It's like a bum on the street. I remember this when I was a kid in the Bronx, my mother, we didn't have a lot of money. My mother gave a bum a dollar cause he asked her, and then the bum said, hey, cool, can I have more? She says, she goes, look at my car. You see the car I'm driving? That's a 15 year old car. I'm not giving my money back. That's how I feel with Zelensky anyway. Zelensky, true to form, just appeared on Piers Morgan's show. That's one thing that Zelenskyy and I have in common, I suppose. Zelensky goes on Piers Morgan's show and demands that America give him a nuclear weapon.

Volodymyr Zelensky (28:58)

Which support package, which missiles will we be given nuclear weapons? Then let them give us nuclear weapons. Will they give us the missiles in the quantities that we can stop Russia? And I'm not sure of that, but I think it would help otherwise. What missiles can stop Russia's nuclear missiles? That is a rhetoric question. So let's. Let's do it the following way. Give us back nuclear arms. Give us missile systems partners. Help us Finance the 1 million army. Move your contingent on the parts of our state where we want the stability of the situation.

Michael Knowles (29:48)

Yeah, no, thanks. I don't think so. I don't think we're going to give you nuclear weapons, you lunatic. Are you kidding me? Notice what he says. He says, give us back nuclear weapons. What does it mean? Give us back nuclear weapons? What it means is after the breakup of the Soviet Union, there were nuclear weapons in Ukraine. And Ukraine argues that because we all made Ukraine give up those nuclear weapons, it's now our responsibility to assure their security. And if they had those nuclear weapons, they'd be totally safe. Now, it's a little bit of a weak argument because those nuclear. They did have nuclear weapons in Ukraine, but those were Russian weapons. Those were Soviet weapons. I don't think Ukraine had the launch codes. Ukraine did not really have control over these weapons. They weren't that useful to Ukraine, but they were there and they lost them. And they say that Ukraine gave up its Cold War nuclear arsenal in the 90s for nothing and would seek nuclear bombs again. No, they didn't give it up for nothing. It's that they were basically good for nothing, and we made them. So, no, not a chance. We're not doing that. I get Zelenskyy's argument. If I were Zelenskyy, I would make the same argument. There's a kind of logic to it, but no good. We don't want to give this guy another greenback, much less a nuclear weapon. So what's he doing here? Well, is he talking past the sale? Is he learning a lesson from President Trump and he's demanding a nuclear weapon so that we'll give him more conventional weapons? Maybe. What this means, though, if you take Zelenskyy's argument for face value, he's saying, look, without a nuclear weapon, we can't beat the Russians. Okay? I guess it means you can't beat the Russians because the cost of giving a nuclear weapon to Ukraine is simply too high. I'm happy to lose Donetsk or whatever, okay? I'm happy to lose a little territory of Ukraine. I understand the American argument for continuing the war in the Ukraine, and I think actually some conservatives fail to appreciate the American argument. The American argument, the generally liberal kind of neocon American argument for continuing to fund the war in Ukraine is that the war in Ukraine kills a lot of Russian soldiers. That's the real argument. It's not about freedom. It's not about democracy. What democracy in Ukraine? They haven't had an election in how many years? Now, the argument, the actual strategic American argument for continuing the war in Ukraine is that it is a cheap way. It doesn't require American soldiers, doesn't require much American effort. It's a relatively expensive way to slaughter a lot of men in the Russian army. That's it. And the argument is Russia is a geopolitical adversary. Russia's got nuclear missiles pointed at the United States. So if we can kill a bunch of their military, great. That's the argument. You might find that argument to be repugnant. You might find that argument to violate conditions of just war. But that's the argument, and there is a logic to it. I do kind of get it. But if you don't want Ukraine to just continue to be a meat grinder for moral reasons, philosophical reasons, or if you believe what Zelenskyy is saying, which is that, well, even if it does continue to be a meat grinder, we're running out of meat. Okay? Pretty soon this war is. We're gonna lose if we don't have a nuclear weapon. Okay, then what does that mean? That means that we need a negotiated peace. Or the US Just continues to arm Ukraine to the hilt and we keep just chopping up Russians as Putin sends them into Ukraine. Okay, it could be that. But at the end of the road, at the logical end of that, whenever that may be, two weeks from now, two years from now, two decades from now, there will have to be negotiated peace. Unless. Unless you want to take. Believe Zelensky when he says it, unless you want to give Ukraine a nuclear weapon, which I don't, there will be a negotiated peace. Now, speaking of disparities of strength, men in women's sports, this preposterous social fad that has seriously harmed women, concussed women, cracked women's Skulls. I mean, to say nothing of stealing some 900 trophies from women, stealing scholarships from women. That is coming to an end thanks to an executive order from President Trump, which I'll just point out before we get to the story, is another big win for Daily Wire. Everyone agreed that men and women's sports was unfair and dangerous. But DW took action. We made and released Lady Ballers. Among other. Among other activities, we also made and released Lady Ballers, written, directed and starring Jeremy Boreing, featuring the entire Daily Wire cast like you've never seen them before. Why a comedy? Because sometimes the only way to make people listen is to make them laugh. It worked. Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order to finally start keeping men out of women's sports. First Lady Ballers triggered the libs. Then it triggered policy. Watch the movie that triggered the libs. Then triggered a landmark new policy protecting women and girls. Lady Ballers, streaming now exclusively on Daily Wire. Plus that commercial over. I want to get to my favorite comment yesterday. The drummers workshop, Norm's music. Who said, man, he's got so many good comments? Because I don't, as I've mentioned before, I don't look at who sends the comment. I just pick my favorite one. And he just consistently has the good stuff. For years. He says developing a Middle East Riviera would be easier than obtaining permits to rebuild a house in California. That's true. That's just a fact. It's just a fact. Overcoming thousands of years of ethnic blood and soil conflict, to say nothing of religious conflict, actually probably would be easier than trying to like, lay some concrete in Malibu right now. I agree, I agree with that. President Trump, with a stroke of a pen, ends the farce of men beating up women in sports.

Donald Trump (35:39)

In a few moments, I'll sign a historic executive order to ban men from competing in women's sports. It's about time. My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes. From now on, women's sports will be only for women. In recent years, the radical left has waged an all out campaign to erase the very concept of biological sex and replace it with a militant transgender ideology. We're honored to be joined today by many incredible advocates for women women's sports, including the brave swimmer at the forefront of this battle. And Riley Gaines is, is a person that I've been watching in my action this afternoon. We're putting every school receiving taxpayer dollars on notice that if you let men take over women's sports teams or invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated. For violations of Title nine and risk your federal funding. There will be no federal funding with this executive. The war on women's sports is over. We are restoring sanity and common sense, defending the rights and safety and pride of the American people.

Michael Knowles (36:49)

This is great. All good stuff. Awesome. Trump, greatest president of my lifetime. Love it. I also love. It's very Trumpy. Even this announcement, because Trump, every president, when he signs an executive order like this, he brings in the people who might be affected. If you sign the Disability act, you're gonna have a lot of disabled people around you. If you sign the Black people Act of 2025, you're gonna have a lot of black people. If you sign the. Whatever it is, you're just gonna have the people of that group. And so in this case, you're talking about women and girls especially. But Trump doesn't just have the usual half dozen or so members of the group behind him. He has dozens. It's always gonna be bigger, flashier with Trump. So he's got all of these, and he, even as he was signing, he says, come on in here. Secret Service doesn't want you to come close, but if we're afraid of these people, we got problems, you know? And they all come, and the objects just look so great. Okay, so now what? Why was it wrong for men to play in women's sports? Well, he says, because we don't want to see men beating up women. Right? So I guess we need to get women out of military combat, don't we, if we're going to be consistent? I agree. Part of the reason I want men and women's sports is I don't want to see a man beat up a woman. Well, if I don't want to see a man beat up a woman in a boxing ring, I definitely don't want to see a man beat up a woman in Afghanistan or shoot her. Ideas have a logic to them, and they have a momentum to them. If it's wrong for men to play in women's sports, there are going to be a lot of implications of that for all other sorts of areas in public life. Maybe we're talking about women in military combat. Maybe we're talking about transgenderism more broadly. Why were the men in women's sports? Well, because they had bought into a transgender ideology that says a man can become a woman. So if we're now concluding that that is wrong, then I guess that the premise is wrong, the premise of transgenderism. But if the premise of transgenderism is wrong, it can't just be wrong. For little kids, it's gotta be wrong for everyone, because it's about human nature. So I guess not only are we gon eradicate Transgenderism from the 11th grade Girls volleyball team, that means we need to eradicate transgenderism from public life entirely. The whole preposterous ideology at every level. If transgenderism is wrong, that means that there really are distinctions between men and women. If there really are distinctions between men and women and one can't become the other, and those distinctions are really meaningful, then maybe we need to rethink that redefinition of marriage thing, because that redefinition of marriage is predicated on the logic of transgenderism, the notion that the sexes are basically indistinguishable and indiscernible. Ooh, wow. Okay, now we're really digging. We're really digging ourselves out of whatever hole we've been in, because now we're going all the way back to 2015, which is when we redefined marriage at the level of the Supreme Court. But the just based on what Trump said yesterday, if we follow that logic to its conclusion, the logic of redefining marriage isn't going to hold up. And if the logic of redefining marriage falls apart and we're now recognizing as a matter of public institutions that men and women really are different and that not all kinds of relationships are exactly the same, well, then the logic of the broader LGBT movement is probably gonna start to unwind. Maybe the logic of radical feminism is gonna start to unwind. Maybe. Just as the left was rolling with its ideas for years and years and decades and decades. You go from Gloria Steinem burns a bra to some hulking dude cracks a woman's skull in a volley. Well, just as logic took you in one direction, maybe we're going to start going in the other direction as well. Speaking of the trans issue, really good news for a personal friend of mine and for the public. Ryan T. Anderson, a marvelous scholar and political writer, has a book with the greatest title, none of Us Are Ever Going to Beat it for a political book. His title for a book on transgenderism is When Harry Became Sally. This was years and years ago. It was really, really good. And it was up and it was being sold, and then Amazon took it down because it was hate speech. Well, now Amazon announced yesterday, when Harry Became Sally, going back up on Amazon, they said balancing free speech and content that could be construed as hate speech is one of the most difficult adjudication decisions we make as a company. Is it? You're a Bookshop read banned books. You remember that? Remember when the lizard always said we need to read banned books? But they weren't any actual banned books. They were like, you know, some trans porn that they put in kindergarten, which the state like, mandated during the Biden administration. It was never real banned books. Real banned books are like Mein Kampf, okay? Which I'm not saying I'm not encouraging you to read it, but those are the actual banned books, okay? And frankly, even Mein Kampf, you can still find that in the library. You're actually probably much more likely over the past four or five years to find Mein Kampf in a library or a bookshop than you are to find a basic book by a perfectly polite and respectable and serious intellectual like Ryan T. Anderson called When Harry Became Sally. So this total nonsense from Amazon, it's such a hard, difficult decision. A few years ago we removed When Harry Became Sally from our store after concluding that it violated our guideline prohibiting books that promote hate speech. That was not an easy decision, was hotly debated. Since then, many other retailers, I.e. barnes, e.g. barnes and Noble, Walmart's pals, etc. Have continued to sell this book. We've continued to receive feedback from customers that the ideas presented in this book, while controversial, should be available for those who want to read and understand the perspective of its author. Controversial boys and girls are different. Well, no, it's controversial, but some people want to hear these wacky kooky ideas that everyone agreed with until 2020 15. The combination of our pure retailers continuing to sell the book and the ongoing feedback made us re examine our decision. As was the case when we reviewed the book a few years ago. It was not an easy decision, but we concluded that we erred on the side of being too restrictive last time and decided to return the book to our store. Oh yeah? Yeah. Is that what happened, Amazon? I don't think that's what happened. You know what I think happened? I. I think Trump won. I think Trump won and most people voted for him. And that spooked you a little bit. Just like it spooked the rest of corporate America that went over along with the head of Amazon to go kiss the ring during the inauguration. And then I think the conservatives had the power and they realized they could punish you. Just as corporate America was being punished and rewarded in a self reinforcing feedback loop by the American left for many years and really decades, so too now the conservatives have the power and these guys are running scared. So that's very good. It's a cultural shift. It's a cultural shift and that's all great, and I'm glad. Cultural moves have helped to sway public opinion in a grassroots way. That's all true, but it's a political shift too. Okay, I am glad that we no longer just repeat ad nauseam the slogan politics is downstream of culture. There's a truth to that statement. I'm not knocking it, but it was exaggerated and it was bellowed from the rooftops even to drown out other truths and realities such as culture being downstream of politics. Okay, that's something we learned from Elon. Diggin into Doge is just how clearly how dramatically culture is downstream of politics that the entire American left just about could be manufactured by moneyed elites in government for years to give the illusion of grassroots bottom up support. That is an important lesson that the right now with unified government needs to learn. Not merely condemn, but take to heart and perhaps even wield. Today is Theology Thursday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Nolskin at WLAS at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.