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Okay, I personally like Marjorie Greene. She's been on the show before. I don't mean any of this personally. Just putting on my cold political analyst glasses here. This is an amazing turn of events for the president because what we were talking about earlier with Mamdani everyone's been saying, oh, Trump, he's a lame duck, he's lost control of the Republican Party, he's not the star of the show anymore, he's not calling the shots, people are moving on to 2028, blah, blah, blah. Trump just personally destroyed Marjorie Taylor Greene's political career. He personally did that. He is the sole reason that she is quitting Congress right now. Marjorie Taylor Greene has had a number of lives in politics. She started out she was that rock ribbed pro maga right wing superstar. Then you remember during the speaker fight in Congress, during the speaker fight, she cozied up a little bit more to the leadership of the, of the Congress. And so she kind of softened the edges of that rock ribbed, belligerent right winger. And she cozied up. She voted for McCarthy to be speaker, but she was still rock ribbed pro Trump all the rest of it. But there was some friction with the White House. She was needling Trump on certain things. Trump signaled that he was not so happy with her, that he might bring his political machine against her if she kept it up. Then she goes on CNN and she tries to get a little more audience. I'm speaking in the terms of the media, but try to get a little more constituency, a little bit more support, a little bit more juice there. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have contributed to this harshness of politics. You see a little more of a pivot to moderate all to keep that political career going. And now she's saying, all right, I'm quitting Congress. Trump, you win. What did it take? This is very. Again, put Marjorie aside for a second. She and I have always gotten along just fine. Plenty of people like Marjorie Greene just consider this. Everyone's saying that Trump is a lame duck and he doesn't have any juice anymore. It took one truth social post from President Trump and this woman who was one of the rising stars of the Republican Party, she's done because of one truth social post from Trump saying that he was going to primary her in her district. That was it. She admits that. She says, I don't wanna subject my district to a bruising primary. Now she spins it and she says, cuz I would win that primary, but then, you know, I'd be really upset about having had to fight with Trump and I don't wanna defend him anymore. And so I'm out. Maybe that's true. Maybe she would've lost the primary. I guess we'll never know. Because she's quitting because Trump threatened to primary her the top takeaway doesn't have to be personal about Marjorie Greene at all. The top takeaway is that Trump is still calling the shots. Trump is still the head of the Republican Party. Trump is still the dynamic force in American politics. And even I didn't know if that would be the case at this stage in the cycle because it's his second term. So it's a weird one, cuz it's a non consecutive second term, but we're in the second term. And so at this stage, a reelected president, president in his second term should be losing his mojo, should be losing his juice, especially going into the midterms. And that could have been the case for Trump. And it's just not, not yet anyway. Very, very impressive. So where does the Republican Party stand? Where's the conservative movement stand? Elon has just revealed to us that a lot of of the pro America, or at least America politics obsessed Twitter accounts are foreigners. They're not actually from America. And he did this because now when you click on part of the profile, you can see where the accounts are based and where the accounts are connected. And so there's one account, for instance, the American, and it's a bald eagle over an American flag. American account joined Twitter in 2007. Hold on, go back, go back. I just start talking about this. They changed my picture. There we go. The Merican account joined in March 2007 and the account is based in South Asia and it had one username change in 2018. Who knows, it might have been a bigger account that they sold. We don't really know the history of it. Connected via the South Asia app store. So it's not even as though this is just someone who happened to go on vacation to, I don't know, India or something. No, no, this is account is based there and connected via the app store there. What's the other Times of Gaza? A lot of this has had to do with the Israel Gaza war. So the Times of Gaza account just posting from on the ground, these Palestinian journalists. It joined in November 2018 in West Asia. So what, Pakistan or something? Turkey account based in East Asia and the Pacific. It's been verified since January of last year. Three name changes. So we don't know what it was before it was Times of Gaza connected via the North Africa App store. So it's like everywhere other than Gaza. Okay, what about. There's one tweet, it was really funny, it's this white family and they say that they've converted to Islam and it looks pretty AI, but this is from Martin D. Martin says, just four days ago, I announced my conversion to Islam with my wife Jessica here in Los Angeles. American flag. Since then I've received threats of being fired if I don't leave my faith. But I'll never back down. I've submitted to Allah and I stand firm, no matter the cost. And you look at this and you're like, this is truly AI slop. Like it's not even a good picture of converting to Islam. Then you find out that this account, Dmartin, where's it based? Give me the location. Joined in September of this year. So, joined two months ago. Account based in West Asia, Not Los Angeles, not the US Verified since last month. Two name changes connected via West Asia. Okay, so what does this tell us? It tells us something, but people are reaching for all the wrong conclusions. It tells us that we're in the midst of an information war. Obviously, we're in the midst of an information war in the United States, and so foreign actors are going to try to manipulate that information war. However, there is a great deal of copium being injected straight into the veins by people who don't want to admit that the political parties are shifting, who don't want to admit that Americans opinions on various issues, including Israel and the Middle east and foreign policy generally are shifting. They don't wanna admit it. So what they're going to conclude, and it's a hodgepodge of boomers, Gen X, radically pro Israel people, neoconservatives, what they wanna conclude is this is all an opinion. The apparent fighting over US foreign policy between the interventionists and the isolationists, between the Zionists and the anti Zionists, between the imperialists and the nationalists, blah, blah, blah, that that's all an op. And it's just because some bad actors from Iran and Qatar and Pakistan and India, they're just manipulating us on Twitter and it's all fake. And that is not the case. I went through just even in my own mentions and in other tweets to see, okay, some of the other big accounts that are pushing these shifts, are they all from elsewhere? Are they all from India? Are they all from Turkey? And no, they're not. A lot of them are from the United States. There's obviously a foreign information war going on. That's true, but you have to ask yourself the next question. Why do information wars work? Why do people wage them in the first place? It's not to just totally brainwash people. It's not even to plant new ideas in people's minds. It's to exacerbate existing tensions. That's how information wars really work. Well, is when there are already tensions over foreign policy intervention versus isolation, over supporting Israel versus not supporting Israel versus outright opposing Israel. When there are already tensions, when there are classically, during the Cold War, the Soviet Union exploited racial tensions in the United States to great effect. It's not just that the communist agitator groups, largely backed by the USSR, the KGB, even in the 60s and 70s, it's not that they invented the idea of racial strife in America. It's that they exploited it and it worked. There were race riots. There were all sorts of battles that took place. There were radical racial groups. That's what's happening here. The information war has worked because of the underlying tensions. And a lot of that. Look, sure, there are plenty of foreign accounts, but a lot of the fighting on Twitter especially, is from American accounts. And those tensions really do exist. And the Republican Party and the conservative movement, they can bury their heads in the sand and take the copian and say it's all the Turks and the Qataris and the Indians, but it's silly. There is a real division brewing. We've seen it on the Internet, especially over Israel, but over foreign policy generally, over migration, over the economy in some cases. And the GOP and the conservative movement are gonna have to deal with that. So they can say, okay, no, it's not real. La la la la la. It's just the Qataris, la la la. But that will be to their own peril, because the foreign actors were smart. They exploited things that already exist. And the GOP needs an answer for that. Some people are gonna look at this and they're just gonna say, look, that's the copium from the boomers and the neocons and the very pro Israel people and all the rest. There's another kind of copium, though, from the nationalists, which is they say, well, look, these foreigners have no right to interfere in American policy. And it's crazy that they're doing that, and we just need to stop it. That also is insufficient. I'm not at all surprised that foreigners are trying to interfere in American politics. We're the global empire. That's what happens. You want to talk about the problems in the Levant, specifically Israel, Palestine, Gaza, all that. Every empire that has ever controlled that region has understood it to be a very troublesome province. Okay? And we're now the empire that controls the world. And we might not be that forever, and we might not want to be that, and we might not have planned to be that, but we just are, okay? That's a fact. So yes, of course foreigners are gonna fight over it. That's what happens within empires. There's no shortcut. People are gonna look at this revelation, they're gonna say, oh good, that fixes all of my problems. Now we see it's all fake, it's all foreign, it's all an op, Nevermind, move on. Nothing to see here. No, no, no, there's a lot to see here. The fact that foreigners are interfering to some degree only tells you that the problems are that manifest. Okay, speaking of foreigners, the New York Times has just run the stupidest headline they have run in at least several days. And they inadvertently, I think, proved me right in a claim that I made on my own bar fight show, which was just last week. First though, I want to tell you about Brickhouse right now. Go to brickhousesale.com this episode is sponsored by Brickhouse Nutrition. Here is something you don't see every day. Doctors running a Black Friday sale. That is exactly what's happening at Brickhouse nutrition. They're doing 30% off everything. Their biggest sale all year. We are talking about legitimately impressive stuff here. 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My new episode of Bar Fight with Michael Knowles is out right now. I'm joined by Luke Beasley and Zina Ikeme. We throw down on topics ranging from the libs ruining Thanksgiving to the harsh truth that hoas are an American treasure. Best part, we're also joined by you, some of the most lively audience members in Nashville. Guests can come up to the mic, pick a fight with any of us. Here's a teaser. Despicable person. No, I thought. I'm sick and tired. Don't be rude. Let me finish. You had a monologue already. I tell people that Michael Knowles is my Internet dad. Stop it. We got a bar full of people and you want us to debate hoas? Cause this is America. Welcome to Bar Fight. Tonight I'm joined by two libs. That's my cake. I think it's a pretty good one. My first guest. That is Zina Ikeme. You've been calling me a lib this whole time. I hate to break it to you. Might be a little bit worse than that. Just be consistent. I've been very consistent. Luke gets to finish his point starting. 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Actually, the IRS has a whole system for people who are undocumented to file taxes. Okay, so I'm glad. And by the way, economists overwhelmingly believe that immigration, including illegal immigration, is a net positive. Forget about that. I just have one. I have one question for you. Because if you make the point as you have that actually, you know, illegal aliens, even though they don't have Social Security numbers, they do pay federal taxes because, you know, to get employment, sometimes they'll use other Social Security numbers. So they don't get the benefits, but they do pay into the system, which. That's a fact. Yeah. Okay. That's a federal crime. 42 U.S. code, section 408. It's a federal crime to steal a Social Security number. So there you go. You got it. No, no. I just want to be clear process for people to pay taxes without stealing the Social Security number, which you just admitted is a Crime. Okay, so the rejoinder to that, after I caught the libs in that unfortunate problem for them, they say, well no, no, no, hold on, hold on. The illegal aliens, yeah, sure, some of them steal Social Security numbers, but mostly what they do is there's a separate system for them to pay into their taxes, so they try not to get deported. And it's really, it's not generally that they steal the Social Security numbers. So unfortunately here in my New York Times article, the whole headline is cut off. But the headline was something to the effect of Two men, one identity. They both paid the price. Two men, one identity. They both paid the price. And it's this white guy, this just American and some illegal alien, Hispanic. And the name is a white guy name, cause it's two men, one identity. It's the white guy's identity. And the illegal alien stole that identity. And now they're both paying the price. Thousands of undocumented workers rely on fraudulent Social Security numbers. One of them belonged to Dan Kluver. Okay, what's the story here? This illegal alien had multiple arrests, several DUIs, as a lot of illegal aliens do. Which is one reason that illegal aliens kill a lot of Americans. Three deportations. But he sneaks back into the country again and again and again. And he stands, he steals Dan Kluver's identity and now they both pay the price. This guy, Dan Kluver, he gets pulled over, he's got all these problems, all these crimes attributed to him. And Dan Kluver says, I didn't do any of that. What are you talking about? And it's because an illegal alien steals his identity. And then the New York Times comes out and places both men together side by side and pretends that they are equivalent. Pretends that the identity doesn't even belong to one of the men. So. Oh, it's just, isn't this immigration? Isn't it so tough? Oh, you know, it's like in immigration you got like the Native Americans who want to keep their identity, but you got the illegal aliens who break our most basic laws immediately. And you know, they gotta steal the identity. They gotta, right, because they want to commit more crimes. So it's like immigration politics, am I right? It's like, what are you gonna do? Sometimes you wanna keep your identity, sometimes you wanna steal some guy's identity. It's like, what are we gonna do? We're all just people, man. You know, now they're both paying the price. Cuz the one guy, the American guy had his life ruined. And the illegal alien now might have to pay for some of his crimes. It's like consequences. It's just like awful. It's just like awful, man. This is, this is as perfectly New York Times as it gets. Just perfect. And it shows you exactly what the elite media and the elite political class think of Americans. You can have a case that is as open as shut as it gets. American, total victim in every way, illegal alien, cartoonishly villainous criminal, just does every wrong thing. And the most fair that the New York Times will be is to say that they're basically equal. I'm sure what they want to say is that the white guy's evil and the illegal alien is the hero. They can't quite do that here. The most fair coverage you're going to see is, well, they're basically equal. Which brings us to the State Department's very, very important point. This issue of mass migration is arguably the most important issue not just in the United States, but throughout the West. We'll get to that momentarily. First, go check out Shopify. Go to shopify.com knowles this episode is sponsored by Shopify. I love Shopify. I've started a number of businesses over the years and I tell you, had Shopify been around in those early days, I think it might have made things a little bit easier. 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My favorite comment yesterday is from Jimbobthebuilder757 says Michael, you gotta hand it to these Somalis. Minnesota taxpayers way ahead of you Mike. We've been handing it to em for a long time and they've been handing our money to Al Shabaab. Which makes the Minnesota taxpayer the single largest donor to a Muslim terror group in the Middle East. Okay. Or in Somalia I suppose. State Department comes out on this point. So this has the imprimatur of the federal government. Mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies. Today the State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration. Mass migration is a human rights concern. Western nations have endured crime waves, terror attacks, sexual assaults and displacement of communities. U.S. officials will urge governments to take bold action and defend citizens against the threats posed by mass migration. Officials will also report policies that punish citizens who object to continuous mass migration and document crimes and human rights abuses committed by people of a migration background. Because one of the issues is you have this mass migration being brought into the west for reasons that we'll get to in a second and, and then the moment that the chuds, you know, the moment that the like regular dudes in these countries, in all these countries oppose mass migration and they object in any way. They are punished. They're punished by their culture, they're fired from their jobs, they're punished at their schools or they're prosecuted. In countries that have less robust protections for speech, they're actually prosecuted. You're not even allowed to object to the policies that the elites are cramming down our throats. In the United Kingdom, thousands of girls have been victimized in Rotherham, Oxford and Newcastle by grooming gangs involving migrant men. Many girls were left to suffer unspeakable abuse for years before authorities stepped in. We've covered that on the show. In Sweden, an Eritrean migrant convicted of raping a 16 year old girl was allowed to remain in the country after a judge ruled that the incident was not an exceptionally serious crime and did not warrant deportation. That's true. I think we covered that one too. Eritrean migrant rapes a teenage girl. And the judge says it's not all that serious or it's at least not exceptional because all these migrants are raping little kids. In Germany, nine men, several of whom were migrants, were convicted for the gang rape of a 15 year old girl. A German woman who insulted one of the rapists online was given a harsher sentence than the perpetrators themselves. It's a real story. So what's the upside? What are we getting at with the State Department? U.S. officials will now scrutinize policies in Western nations that give leniency to migrant crime and human rights abuses, or that create two tiered systems that prioritize migrants at the expense of their own citizens. The United States supports the sovereignty of our allies and calls on governments to constructively engage with the growing number of citizens concerned about mass migration. The US Stands ready to assist in solving the global crisis of mass migration. Previously, what our elites told us was that mass migration was the solution to other crises. Crises of war and the need for refuge and whatever climate change, the climate refugees. And now our State Department is accurately saying mass migration is the crisis. This is a big crisis. We talked about shifting Republican and conservative thoughts on all sorts of issues. A big one is on migration. Used to be that the debate was between whether on the left we wanted more legal immigration and more illegal immigration. No human is illegal, borders are evil, whatever that view. And then on the right, the view that we wanted less illegal immigration but still more legal immigration. Those were the two views you were allowed to have. There was a left wing view, there was a right wing view, there's a third view. That is certainly my opinion, has been my stated opinion for many, many years now. And I think it's the majority opinion in the country, which is we need drastically less migration overall. And for the people who are beating up on Trump, cause they're saying his deportations aren't enough, this is the first year, but we are on track to have net negative migration in like 50 years. Okay, so the people who are just casting stones from the sidelines are jokes as far as I'm concerned. Because Trump is the first guy to actually get this done in half a century. And we need it to increase and we need it around the world. And because we're the global empire and because the people running our country recognize that as Trump with his proper American first vision, understands that they're saying, well, hold on. We are a global empire. We provide the military coverage for the entire west and we are the world police, and we have military centers all over the world because of that. Let's use our power for good and not just stupid stuff like regime change, wars to plant Madisonian democracy in Iraq, or not just to, I don't know, overthrow governments that aren't sufficiently protecting LGBT ism or what. Let's do it for some good here. Let's maybe protect, protect Christians. We can get to that story in a second in Nigeria. Or let's, I don't know, at the very least, stop the invasion of our countries by political Islam, which has been trying to invade the west for 1400 years. And we've mostly managed to push them back and now we're just inviting them in and it's totally crazy. Someone needs to stop it and we need the political vision to stop it. Few people have that these days and the political courage, but it's it. And I think any conservative politician, any politician, period, who doesn't take seriously the problems of migration as such, not just illegal immigration, not just people who violate certain procedures, but migration as such is gonna flop in the coming years. Now, speaking of threats to Western civilization, woke preacher clips, a very funny account has just posted a very frustrating and ridiculous video. A little error, though, because it was reported that, that. Well, you'll see why momentarily that this woman preacher, preacherette, priestess, is a Catholic priest. Here's what she has to say.
