Maxine Waters (12:27)

Well, I was surprised at the way that the police chief was describing all of this. There'd been no violence where anybody that was protesting hit anybody, shot anybody, threatened anybody. Nothing has happened. And so he doesn't know what to do, probably because this is a sanctuary city and the police don't have the authority. All that he's got to do is call the war with the governor. The Governor was not even called when he sent in the National Guard. The mayor was not even called. The President is initiating this purposely. He knows what he's doing.

Michael Knowles (13:08)

I just want to point out, I'm sure you know this, Congresswoman, there has been some violence in the course of these protests. Some police officers were assaulted and some vehicles were damaged in the process. There has been some violence out there. Exploded, lit on fire.

Maxine Waters (13:25)

Well, the thing about it is you may have people, one or two or a few people who will not conform. That happens everywhere.

Michael Knowles (13:35)

Oh man. If Maxine Waters did not exist, we would have to Invent her. So she's on. She's doing a phoner with cnn and CNN is playing images from the riots while she's on, but she's not on tv, I guess she's not seeing the images. So the images are showing a ton of violence. The rioters, the leftists attacking cops and, you know, they're lighting cars on fire and they're burning stuff down, they're looting. And she says there's no violence. Why do you think there's any? And there's Wolf Blitzer, who is trying to defend the Democrat narrative here, but who's got. He doesn't want to look like a complete fool, so he goes, ah, well, I mean, you know, like we said, there's a little bit of violence, right? What I mean, there. Some cars have been damaged. Cars have been damaged. It looks like, you know, you've got EVs exploding throughout Los Angeles. They've been a little damaged. At least someone kind of keyed them, didn't they? And. Oh, yeah, well, maybe one or two people. One or two people. This has been going on for like four or five days now. They've been torching the city. This is weak. And now Maxine Waters is not the only person. She's just a little slower to the game, I guess. So the initial line from basically all of the Democrats was, there's no violence and please don't have any more violence, please. But there's none. Anyway, you shouldn't be worried about it. But no, it's totally undeniable. I mean, even CNN can't deny it. We're just seeing it all over our TV screens. And they have a deeper problem, the left, because Maxine Waters, good example of this. Maxine Waters encouraged violence against Republicans during the first Trump administration. Maxine Waters came out there, told her supporters, when you see Republicans in public, you need to push back on them. You need to tell them they're not welcome here. I mean, she was calling for her supporters to assault Republicans in public and members of the administration. So Maxine Waters can't then come out and say, well, I think we should be totally peaceful and civil with each other. That doesn't work. And the Democrats broadly can't do it. Hillary Clinton during the first Trump admin said, you can't be civil with Republicans. Eric Holder made similar statements line after line. You had Democrats calling for differing degrees of violence. So it's not just that, ah, darn, accidentally, a few bad apples are messing up our left wing peaceful protest. This is built into the left going Back to the origin of the term left in politics and the French Revolution. It's violent, it's radical, it seeks to uproot the political order. It is consequentialist in its ethics. It thinks that the ends justify the means. If you go all the way back to the origin of that term, it chops off the head of Queen Marie Antoinette because it takes some broken eggs to make an omelette. So it's a problem that's just built in and they can deny it all they like. No one's gonna believe it. Here's the LAPD police chief explaining how the violence not only exists but is escalating. As far as people worried about the violence that we're seeing, this violence that I've seen is disgusting. It's escalated now since the beginning of this incident. What we saw the first night was bad. What we've seen subsequent to that is getting increasingly worse and more violent. Tonight we had individuals out there shooting commercial grade fireworks at our officers. That can kill you. That can kill you. And by the way, the left does this regularly too. In fact, you might recall when I was at the University of Pittsburgh a year or two ago, I was giving a talk there. It was a debate over transgenderism. Back before the conservatives had just completely won on that issue. After the liberals thought they had completely won on that issue, but it was still a little bit of a live issue. And a couple of these anarchist leftist antifa members showed up and one of them threw a firework. And you say, oh, well, it's just a firework, as the LAPD guy says, that can kill you. And that's what the left is doing in LA right now. And that's what they've done for a long time. This isn't unprecedented. We don't need to figure out what's causing this. This is just how the left mobilizes in the streets, which is why it is so irresponsible that you have not just fringe lunatics, but mainstream lunatics like Chris Murphy, he's the Democrat senator from Connecticut going on television, going on msnbc, talking to Mika Bridje Jijinsky, as these riots are going on, as these violent demonstrations are going on. He says Democrats need to be out in the streets. I mean, my first message is to keep it peaceful. I mean, obviously this is a moment where we have to be on the streets all over the country to protest what's happening, happening to our immigrant community, but more broadly to protest what's happening to our democracy. This is the most corrupt administration in the history of the country. And we are going to rise to this moment by being out there on the streets. But, you know, ultimately, I think the country sees what Donald Trump is trying to do here. He's looking for a fight. Notice the contradiction. Within the same breath, it says we need to be peaceful and we need to be out on the streets. Those two things really can't go together. They certainly don't go together with the left, which gets violent basically every time it takes to the streets. But even this idea of taking to the streets, you notice Republicans don't take to the streets, conservatives don't take to the streets. We are active in politics, we do stuff, we even win sometimes. Right now we have basically unified government. We have the president who was elected with the electoral college and the popular vote. We have the House by a bare majority, we have the Senate by a little more of a cushion, and we kind of have the Supreme Court. So we win. We do things in government, we do occasionally win, but we don't take to the streets. Taking to the streets is a left wing thing because taking to the streets is an intrinsically violent or at least threatening action. When you take to the streets, you block traffic, for instance, as the libs love doing, and they do it with all kinds of flimsy justifications to protest climate change, to protest deportations, to protest war, to protest whatever. They'll shut down highways, they'll take to the streets. Taking to the streets, bringing out unruly mobs is an intrinsically violent action because the purpose of it is to threaten and intimidate. Why do they have to take to the streets? Cuz they lost the election. And rather than accept the fact that they lost the election and try again next time, they're gonna try to just disturb the peace. They're gonna burn stuff down, they're gonna attack cops, they're gonna spit at the National Guard and they're gonna rob sneaker stores. So don't let Chris Murphy hypnotize you or don't let the Democrats trick you when they say we need to be peaceful but we need to take to the streets. They're saying we need to be peaceful and we need to be violent. And when you say both of those things at once, all you really mean is we need to be violent. So they'll try. They'll pay some lip service to don't be violent. Don't be violent. They what they are encouraging their people to do is to get violent because they think that they're gonna cow President Trump into backing down. But Trump, because he's a tough guy and he's a New Yorker, but also because he is an astute politician, it appears he is not going to back down. Not only I think cuz it's the right thing to do, but because he knows that he's gonna get the political win here. So the reason the Dems are taking to the streets is because they lost because people don't like them and they don't like what they're doing and they're on the side of the Trump policy. Why would Trump not continue to back that up? Final point on this, final point on what's going on in la, the wonderful defenders of the oppressed and the beleaguered, you know, the great diverse cultural enrichers and all the rest of it, they've decided that one way they're going to stand up for the poor immigrant communities is by robbing stores. In la, the looting has broken out and you can see this on ABC News. This is not, this is not some right wing news channel. You can see people roaming around la. You can see them going around. Not don't seem like the most orderly civic nationalists. They're going breaking and can you, can you be. Is that a, is that a bread store they're going into to steal food for their families? No. Is that a bookstore? Are they stealing books? I don't think they're stealing books, no. I actually can't quite tell exactly what they're looting. But I don't think this is for the cause of justice. I think this is what the left is. I think ultimately leftism is lawless. It's a revolutionary ideology that seeks to upend the civil order. And I think it's selfish. I mean that not just in a cheap way, I mean that at the level of fundamental ideology. I think it seeks to oppose God and the transcendent moral order and displace authority all the way down to the family. It's kind of fu dad is what leftism comes down to. And I think it seeks self defecation, the notion that the individual personal will is not accountable to anybody, anything and not even accountable to reason. We're just gonna do what we want and we're gonna take the sneakers and we're gonna burn down the city. We're light the cop car on fire and we're spit in the face of the cops and nobody's gonna tell us boo. And I think we've had enough of that. And the longer this goes on, I think the worse it's gonna look for Democrats. So far, Trump's played it perfectly. He should ramp up the pressure. Hold on, pull over your car, stop dead in your tracks. Go to stopboxusa.com, use code knowles. Owning a handgun can put you in a tough spot. I'm just realizing as I'm reading this ad right now that I actually had a dream about a handgun last night. That's odd. I clearly. Well, luckily I don't need to have nightmares because of Stopbox. You need your gun to be secure but accessible. Most solutions force you to choose between the two. Either it's locked away when you need it most, or it's too accessible to kids or uninvited guests. With the Stopbox Pro, you finally get both. Your firearm stays safely locked away, but instantly accessible when you need it. 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Greek laborers in the west clashed violently with mining companies. Mine. When was that? 19th century. These ethnic groups weren't always peaceful model citizens. Selective amnesia is a wild thing. And that's a fair point. He puts a cap on it. He says every group has a 100 years ago when they were poor, marginalized and or blamed for society's problems. The difference isn't moral superiority. It's time, integration, and a chance to build institutions. He's kind of got a point here, but let's follow that point to its logical conclusion. How did we fix the problems caused by immigrant groups 100 years ago? He's right. He's right. Plenty of immigrant groups have caused a lot of social problems. That might be an argument against immigration as something at the heart of national policy. Reminds me of a line from Dante. Sempre de la confusion delle persone fu mal de la citta or something. I don't know. It was. I forget. The Italian is losing me. Even the English translation is losing me. But the broad gist is always the confusion of people is the beginning of evil in the city. And he compares it to mixing different foods in your stomach. And that's an insight that actually goes back to Aristotle. So there are always these problems with immigration. But let's just take it in the American context. We have had a lot of immigration. How do we fix it? 100 years ago, we basically stopped all immigration for like 40 years. There were all these problems in the late 19th, early 20th century with mass migration, all kinds of social problems. So what do we do? We had the Immigration act of 1924, and we reduced all migration by about 85% for over 40 years. Then we had the Hart Cellar act in the 60s, which created our present immigration problem. Instituted the policy of mass migration, gave us the social problems we have now. But you're right. I don't think Mexicans are intrinsically evil or something like that. I don't think they're a defective people or anything like that. I don't really care for Mexican food, but I do like a lot of the Hispanic inclinations and behaviors and some of the cultures. Great. But burning down LA is bad. And so what do we do about that? Well, probably if you want to integrate people and you need time to do that, probably we need to drastically reduce all migration for like half a century at least. Are you willing to do that. How's that? If you want the solution we had in the 20th century, how about we do that? Something tells me these libs on Twitter and elsewhere would not go along with it. Now, speaking of Twitter and immigration enforcement, there's a great little saga that went on yesterday. It involved the Vice President of the United States. I will try to be pithy about this. There's this account, if you're on X, you might be familiar with this account. The account is dyeworkware Derek Guy. And he's this guy. His avatar is of an old, stuffy, conservative white man. He's apparently a young Asian man, but that's the avatar, and he gives men's sartorial critiques. It's a menswear account and it's actually got pretty good content. I kind of like it. He's super liberal, so he basically only ever attacks conservatives. And he's in principle criticizing us over our fashion, but really he's got this political axe to grind, so he injects his left wing politics into everything now. But he's got decent enough insights on men's style. So anyway, he's really, really grading on a lot of conservatives on Twitter. He admitted yesterday or the day before that he is an illegal immigrant. His family came over when he was a little kid, and so he's an illegal. And someone tweets that doesn't even tag. The guy just tweets that says, J.D. vance, I know you're reading this and you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever. And this is great. JD responds. And the vice president responds with that gif of Jack Nicholson saying, ha ha, yes, yes. Nodding his head along. I love it. First of all, on the substantive point, I've got a proposal for Democrats. I am willing to offer amnesty and indeed citizenship to all estimated 16 million illegal aliens in this country, including Ms. 13 and trend. If we can deport the Caddy liberal Twitter account, the men's style guy. If we can do that, that's my deal. Okay? You get amnesty and citizenship for all of the illegals. Just let me deport this one super annoying liberal account. That's putting aside the substantive issue. This response tells you a lot about our vice president, J.D. vance. And many of you have noticed this. I've noticed this for a while. JD Vance is more in tune with young conservatives than any politician in the country, either party, maybe any politician in my lifetime. I can't. I'm speaking specifically about young conservatives. He is online. He's not super duper, very Way too online. Like some people can get where they're just so far down a rabbit hole, they can't speak to normal people in regular life. But he's online enough to get the trends of where young conservatives are compared to middle aged or older conservatives. He's fluent in their language. And as you look ahead to 2028, that is gonna give him an advantage over a lot of the other Republicans who want that job, including some who work in the Trump administration right now. This guy has a fluency to move in different circles, which I think is very important in really any politician. But certainly for conservatives, where the conservatives are so divided up, the liberals basically are all progressive. There are different degrees of progressive. There are no more Blue Dog Democrats as there used to be. The more conservative Democrats for the conservatives, though, you got the foreign policy realists, you've got the more adventurous types, you've got the libertarians, you got the traditionalists, you got the free traders, you got the tariff guys, you got the meme y edgy, more reactionary types, you've got this stodgy establishment, quasi liberal types. You got everything under the sun. As has been said before, obscure political monikers are the right wing version of gender pronouns. So one of Trump's great advantages is he can speak to basically all those groups. He can speak to the establishment, he can speak to the edgy guys, he can speak to the youths, he can speak to the older crowd. He's fluent. So he's able to bring together a coalition of people who generally don't agree with each other. And I don't want to read too much into one meme on Twitter, but JD Vance seems to seems to have that skill. And especially for someone in a younger generation, as the electorate ages up a little bit, that's impressive and it was funny. And we should deport the menswear guy. Your dad raised you with common sense. Now give him a full year of it with Daily Wire Plus. Time is running out to get 40% off a Daily Wire plus gift membership with code DAD40 that includes ad free uncensored shows from the most trusted voices in conservative media, plus hit titles such as Am I Racist? And Dr. Jordan Peterson's new series Parenting, streaming exclusively on Daily Wire plus, go to DailyWire.com gift and make father's Day great again. My favorite comment yesterday is from Time for Thought one who says City of Angels turned into hell? How ironic. I actually think it's not ironic. I get your point. It seems ironic because Los Angeles is supposed to be the City of Angels. And now it's turned into this blazing inferno. But that's what happens. That's what happens in this fallen world. And there is a theme in American history, because we were founded largely by Puritans and separatists who came over on the Mayflower, which is a great cigar brand, by the way, because of that. There is this theme that moves through American history of the shining city on a hill that we're going to create in this new, innocent virgin land, a new Jerusalem, a heavenly city. And we're gonna be different. We're going to be exempted from the corruption of the world, from concupiscence, from the fall. We're just this special, totally exceptional thing. And that's a theme that runs down the most puritanical strains of Protestantism. That is not really a theme in High church Protestantism or Eastern Orthodoxy or certainly in Catholicism. That's not. We recognize this is a fallen world, man. And the minute you think in this world that you're going to create the city of angels, it's going to be a city of demons, the minute you think you're going to build heaven on earth, you're going to build hell, okay? Because that's how it works, going back to Babel, at least. Now, speaking of vice and virtue, there is an infographic going around social media, and it's Based on the U.S. bureau of Labor Statistics, oddly enough, that shows the annual expenditures that each generation is making on booze. And so the post goes, Gen Z and alcohol, a fading bond. Annual expenditure on alcoholic beverages in the US by generation boomers, over 25 billion. More like boozers, if you ask me. Huh? Am I right? Am I right? Gen X just a little bit less. 23 billion millennials, a little bit more, but basically on par with Gen X, 23.5 billion. And then Gen Z, 3.13 billion. Way, way down there. Now you might say, okay, well, some of Gen Z is still underage. I guess that's true. That's true. That accounts for some of it, but I don't think it accounts for all of it. And you've seen this from the Gen Z influencers. People will say, well, we're not that interested in alcohol anymore. There's a kind of teetotaling or apparent teetotaling that goes on with the zoomers. They're reacting maybe against the booziness of the prior generations. Could be that some people are saying, this is good. They're getting healthy, they're not engaging in vice. But I read something a little worse into this. I think this trend is driven in part by age. They're a little bit younger, they don't quite have a lot of money yet. Drinks at fancy bars in the cities most Americans live in and around cities, they've gotten kind of expensive. Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah. That's all true. But I think what drives the rest of the gap is not people who are being super duper virtuous. I think it's being driven by loners and stoners, and I think that's actually a bad thing. Gen Z, survey after survey shows, is more isolated, and they're not unique in that way. They're just the peak thus far of a trend that we've seen for decades, ever since Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone, that people are less social. They're not members of civic associations as they used to be. Now they don't even really go and hang out much anymore. When they hang out with people, it's often virtual. It's on cell phones, it's on FaceTime, it's on video games. Sitting in their rooms alone. Alone. And generally, people don't drink alone. Also, one thing that they do alone is smoke pot. So you've seen a huge rise in marijuana. And I know before we. I'm just going to sidestep the whole debate. People are going to say, well, actually marijuana is way better for you than alcohol. And have you ever seen a pothead get into a bar fight? And actually it's really healthy and actually it cures every disease and actually it's natural. And how could something natural be bad? Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. I'm not even getting into the debate right now over how marijuana is supposedly better than alcohol. It's not. But I'm not even getting into that debate right now. All I'm pointing out is it's a very different thing to say. We're not having alcohol because we're going to go pray all night, and we're not having alcohol because we're going to go get blitzed out of our mind on our bong. That's different things. Okay? The. But really the place the two issues interact is that alcohol is a social lubricant. It makes you more sociable, which is good in moderation, because man is a social creature. So we are most ourselves when we are living in society. We are less human when we isolate ourselves. We're not atomized individuals in our nature. Pot, marijuana, ganja, the old Peruvian parsley. It makes you less social. In my experience, having taken a few puffs now and Again, it makes you less social. Booze makes you more social. If you're going to have to pick a vice, pick the social one. You see this even beyond civic associations, going to bars or whatever, even the fact that Gen Z is dating at lower rates, that it's just this. Here I'm being a true conservative and looking at any information about the world and just saying, oh, that's actually a bad thing. But I think this is actually a bad thing. Abstinence can be fine. It can even be good. If you got a problem with alcohol, it's good for you not to have alcohol. But as this generational trend, I think this is not a good sign. Not a good sign, folks. Don't be loners and stoners, man. You got to be social. That's what Aristotle tells us to be. You know, Our Lord's first miracle, just to show you that alcohol is not intrinsically evil. Our Lord's first miracle, turning water into wine for people to celebrate a wedding. It's good stuff, a wedding, which is when people are social and they get married and they have kids, which is what you need to do, too. Listen up. Listen up, kids. Take it from an elderly man like me, a millennial. Okay, Speaking of people like me, there's a tennis player. Her name is Coco Gauffe. I had not heard of her before yesterday, but now I have heard of her. She has apparently won the French Open, and she's an American. And when she was pontificating about her victory, she said she was proud to represent, not America, but to represent people in America who look like her. That is, she's proud. Not for Americans, but for black people.

Coco Gauff (40:32)

Yeah. I mean, it means a lot. And, you know, obviously there's a lot going on in our country right now with things like everything. Yeah, I'm sure you guys know. But just to be able to be and be a representation of that and a representation of, I guess, people that look like me in America who maybe don't feel as supported during this time period. And so just being that reflection of hope and light for those people. And I remember, you know, after the election, everything, it was kind of felt down period a little bit and things like that. And my mom told me, like, during Riyadh, just try to win the tournament, just to give something for people to smile for. And so that's what I was thinking about today when holding that and then seeing the flags in the crowd means a lot. And, you know, I, you know, some people may feel some. Some type of way about being patriotic and Things like that. But I'm definitely patriotic. I'm proud to be American and I'm proud to represent the Americans that look like me and people who kind of support the things that I support.

Michael Knowles (41:32)

You keep using that word, patriotism. I don't think it means what you think it means. She says, no, no, man. People feel a certain way about patriotism and I feel that way, you know, I mean, I'm proud to be American. I'm proud to represent Americans who look like me. Which means you're not proud to be American, you're proud to be black. Maybe a black American, maybe you don't feel any kinship to a Nigerian or something, but you apparently only feel kinship to the Americans who look like you, which is not patriotism. Patriotism is love of country, including your countrymen who don't look like you. And this is where the left is at the left, and we've known this for decades at this point. The left is not patriotic. The left doesn't love the country. The mainstream leftists say that the country is evil and was founded in sin. They try to redefine original sin. It was founded in this sin that can never be redeemed because there's no. Because they also reject God. So there's no redemption for the original sin of slavery or racism or Native American removal or whatever. It's just the country's evil. And you need a constant revolution to try to fix that in futility that the America is a force for evil in the world and we really should cede our land and our money and our technology and our borders. And this is not just a case of, look at this crazy, ungrateful young athlete who I've never heard of. It's not. She doesn't know anything. She, I guess knows how to swing a tennis racket. And that's apparently it. She's just saying what she's heard from elite and prominent left wingers. And what she's heard is don't be a patriot. And unfortunately for the Democrats, right now the followers are listening. So they're going out. And if the protesters, so called the rioters, were smart, the Mexican ones and the anarchist ones and the kefia wearing ones and all of them, if they were smart, they would go out there and while they're looting and robbing and setting things on fire and punching cops, they would wave the American flag. That would confuse a lot of people. This is politics 101. Wrap yourself in the American flag. They're not doing that. They can't. They're allergic to the American flag. They don't. They feel much more represented by the terrorist pride flag, you know, the rainbow with the triangle thing and the BLM and whatever. They feel much more represented by that or by the Palestine flag or by the anarchist flag or by any of these other flags than the American flag. So they can't do it. Which means you now create this scene where the political divide is clear as day for everyone, for the normie on Main street in Palookaville, which is you have one side of the country that doesn't like the country, that doesn't have the interests of the country at heart. And you have another side of the country, the Trump side, which does care about the country and which wraps itself in the flag and which puts the interests of the United States first above the interests of other countries. And that's the divide. Which side is going to be more politically popular? Doesn't take a genius. And if the Democrats want to keep burning down their own cities, that's fine. Every second this goes on, it is losing them votes. Now, today is te hee Tuesday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Noel's Canada wles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.