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Just days after an Islamic terror attack in Australia and a campus shooting that killed one of the few prominent Republican students at Brown. All this just three months after a leftist murdered one of the most prominent conservatives in the country on a university campus. The FBI has thwarted yet another terror plot aimed at Los Angeles on New Year's Eve. And I know the question going through your mind right now, was this one leftists or Islamists? Those are the two groups that do the terrorism. So which one was it? What is so strange, or actually maybe not so strange about this case in LA is that it seems to have been leftists using the arguments of Islamists, leaving some of us to wonder what practically is the difference between the two. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. A USA Today journalist is scandalized, horrified by the flying of the Pine Tree flag. This is the Appeal to Heaven flag, one of the oldest flags in America. He calls it a Christian nationalist symbol. And I love this tweet. Everyone's dunking on this journo. I love this tweet. I think this tweet accidentally gave up the whole game on Christian nationalism. We'll get to that in a moment. First, I want to tell you about Birch gold. Text KNOWLES to 98. 98 98. This episode is sponsored by Birch Gold Group, our first advertiser at the Daily Wire. Birch Gold. In that time, we have helped thousands of Daily Wire listeners diversify into physical gold. You talk about peace of mind, especially when you see gold up over 50% this year. As you know, I'm a little bit of a gold bug and I've got a decent amount of my portfolio in gold and a lot of conservatives are into gold. And then what did it? It hit $4,400 an ounce or something a week or two ago. Anyway, the smiles barely left my face. In all that time, the most successful promotion we ever ran with Birch gold was the 24 karat gold plated truth Bomb, our version of a bunker buster on leftism. Well, well, you happen to have an extremely limited amount in cold storage until they're gone. Right now, with qualifying purchase from Birchgold, you can own the Daily Wire Truth Bomb. Let Birch Gold help you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA in gold. If your purchase qualifies, they will send you the BOM diversified. Just text my name. Knowles K N O W L E S to 989898 to claim your eligibility before December 22nd. Do not wait till Tex Knowles, Canada wlas to the number 98. 98 98. Today Birchgold will run out of golden truth bombs. Tex Knowles, my very surname to 9898 98. The latest terror attack. Happily this one was thwarted and we'll get to. There's some new information about the Brown shooting. There's a lot, there's a lot of attacks happening. The FBI though has stopped this attack that was supposed to take place on New Year's Eve in la. The attack was carried out by a. A leftist group was called the Order of the Black Lotus. This is a spinoff group from the Turtle Island Liberation Front. Here is the FBI in their own words.
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I'll highlight some of the items found during those searches over the weekend. For example, in Carroll's residence, law enforcement found multiple posters and materials associated with Turtle Island Liberation Front, including posters stating quote, death to America, Long live Turtle island and Palestine. And quote, death to ice. Turtle Island Liberation Front. In Page's residence, law enforcement found a copy of the detailed bomb attack plan. This case is another reminder about the dangers that radicalized antifa like groups pose to people, public safety and the rule of law.
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So this group, the spinoff from the Turtle Island Liberation Front included a few people who were arrested. Tina Lay, Audrey Eileen Carroll, Zachary Aaron Page and Dante Gaffield. These are people who were 30, 32, 24, relatively young people. They come from a pretty affluent area near Los Angeles. I think the median home price in some of these areas is anywhere from $900,000 to $2 million. A home is a nice area. This is a bunch of rich kids who grew up who never did anything other than cause trouble. A story, oldest time. And they're chanting death to Ice, Death to America, Long live Turtle island, whatever that is, and Palestine forever. Something. Palestine. Where's the line? It's cut off there on the Free Palestine. Long live Palestine. Okay, they write when we say death to America and call for an end to colonization, it doesn't mean the displacement or harm of non indigenous citizens means death to America. So you're looking at all this stuff and you're saying, all right, this is a left wing group. The names here, Tina Ley, Eileen Carroll, Zach Page. This isn't exactly Mohammed Mohammad Jihad. These are totally normal American names. And it's a leftist group, one of these liberation fronts, the kind of groups that have shot up the Capitol, blown up federal buildings, killed civilians in advance of left wing terror. And yet you look at the slogans and they say death to America. That's the same thing that the mullahs in Iran chant. That's the same thing that the Islamists all throughout the Levant chant. They say, long live Palestine. Obviously this is the kind of stuff that Islamists chant throughout the Middle east, really throughout the world as they globalize the intifada. The Islamists wear keffiyehs as part of their protest. But then so did the leftists in America. So does Greta Thunberg. And it causes you to wonder, well, hold on. What is the difference between some rich white kid in Los Angeles and some crazy Wahhabi in the Middle East? If practically speaking they're chanting the same slogans in some cases in advance of the same causes, which. What's the difference between the two? I know there are these nice well meaning liberals who say this is just so crazy. How on earth could an American liberal or a British liberal or a European liberal have sympathy with these radical Islamists? By golly, the Islamists don't like homosexuals. The Islamists oppress women. By golly, don't these liberals understand that these Islamists oppose what they believe in? Not really. Because I tell you what unites them. They have a common enemy. They have a number of common enemies on different levels. One would be America. They all hate America. At a greater level of abstraction, they all hate Western civilization. At an even greater level of abstraction, they all hate Christianity. So they have these common enemies. A common enemy can unite a coalition. In fact, a common enemy always does unite a coalition. That's not unique to the left or to Islam. That's just a fact about politics. You know, we've talked incessantly. I've tried not to talk about it too much. Cause I think it's counterproductive. But everyone else on the right, everyone else with a microphone seems to want to talk endlessly about the right wing civil war and all the little gossipy stuff and all the kooky conspiracy theories and all of the detraction and all of the calumny and all of the scintillating tabloid trash, that's all anybody wants to talk about. And at a more respectable level, I suppose they wanna talk about the fissures on the right. The right wing civil war. And there's always a right wing civil war. There was a right wing civil war back in the days of William F. Buckley Jr. There was a right wing civil war when it was George Bush versus Pat Buchanan. There's a right wing civil war between the neos and the paleos. 20 years ago there was. There's a right wing civil war between the movement conservatives and the Rockefeller Republicans. There's. I don't know, there was a right wing civil war between Teddy Roosevelt and Taft. Okay. There are always fissures on the right. The right is distinct. There are lots of different groups that make up the right. That's not really true on the left. The left is just different shades of progressive. On the right, though, you've got people who in some ways fundamentally disagree. The traditionalists and the libertarians and the paleos and the neos and the religious right and populists and on and on. So some people have asked, well, what on earth could unite the right? What on earth could unite this right wing coalition? Even people within the right will say that I don't want to join forces with so and so. I don't like that podcast. Or maybe I don't like that politician. What on earth do we have in common? I'll tell you what you have in common. The left would slit your throat and celebrate your death if given the chance. You and the other podcaster and the other politician and the other activist, and they would. They view all of you as the same. That's what unites. I recognize that there are deep ideological divisions, cultural divisions among different facets of the right. What unites you is the same thing that unites the rich kid, white leftist in SoCal and the Wahhabi in the Middle East. Namely, you have a common enemy. That's what you. At a very basic political level, at an almost premoral political level, just talking about what distinguishes groups from other groups. One thing that contributes to that, one thing that contributes to that in a large measure is having a common enemy. That's why. And so I know people are gonna pretend to be surprised, or maybe they're naively, innocently surprised that the radical left could sound exactly like the Islamists in the Middle east, even though they differ in their opinions of women and homosexuals and other things, maybe they differ in their opinion of the existence of God even. But what unites them is they have a common enemy. And so, practically speaking, for all intents and purposes, they're the same. When you hear that a terror attack has been foiled, when you hear that a terror attack has been carried out, there is a reason that the first question that comes to the minds of reasonable people is, gosh, was this one the radical left or was this one the Muslims? In practically speaking, it's kind of hard to tell the difference. Okay, speaking of major attacks, there was the attack carried out by Muslims in Australia a few days ago, targeted a Hanukkah celebration targeted Jews killed I think 16 people. Dozens and dozens of people were injured, some of them critically. Around the same time there was a smaller scale attack, but an attack that was closer to home. That was at Brown University. And while the attack in Australia was totally clear, the attack at Brown is quite uncle. We don't know very much about it. We know that one of the victims was this beautiful young girl, 19 year old girl who was the vice president of the Republican Club on campus. Then there was this open question, was she targeted? Was she not targeted? We now have a second victim identified, but just to focus on the first victim for a second, there's reporting from Mark Halperin who's a very good reporter, very good journalist who is saying that what he is hearing, albeit unconfirmed, is that that victim, the vice president of the Republican Club, was the target of the attack.
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People are telling me that the family of. I just need to look up her name. I apologize.
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Ella Cook, I think. Thank you, Mark.
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Yeah, thank you. That the family of Ella Cook, the Alabama young woman who was a sophomore, has been told that she was the target of, of what happened at Brown. I have no idea whether that's true. There's other theories about why the person did what they did. But now that we don't know who the, the assailant is, it's, it's, it's, it's going to be harder to say. But if it's true that she was targeted, that's a big story because she was one of the most visible conservatives on that campus. Don't know that it's true. But probably most of you don't even know that, that that's being alleged because you'd have to follow certain accounts on X or have sources, as I do who are telling me that.
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So caveats abound. Mark Halpern saying, look, we don't know this is unconfirmed, but we don't really know much of anything about this attack yet, do we? And so for a lot of people, they don't even know that it is a possibility that one of the few, this is Brown University. This is one of the most liberal colleges in the entire country. They don't even know that it's a possibility that this was a targeted ideological attack because they don't know that the girl was the vice president of the Republican Club. There are probably 10 Republicans on that entire campus. Now the second victim was identified. The victim is Muhammad Aziz Umur Zhokov. He graduated in May, so I guess he was a freshman. He Graduated in May from Midlothian High School. Kid wanted to become a neurosurgeon. Was a top performing kid by all accounts. Really, really nice kid. That complicates it because his name is not John Smith. You know his name. Mohammed Aziz U. Murzokov. It's unclear if Ella was targeted and then this young man was just collateral damage. It's unclear if he was targeted. It's unclear. Add on top of that, there is one media outlet called Center Square reporting that the shooter yelled Allahu Akbar before the shooting, which is a pattern that we've come to expect. But really complicates it. Then, was this a politically ideologically motivated attack? We've seen that on campuses, for goodness sakes. We're only three months out from the assassination of Charlie Kirk by radical leftist. We've seen plenty of Muslim attacks, though. One of the victims here is named Mohammed. Then we know that the Providence police arrested someone. It was then misreported who that person was. They then reported the right guy who was arrested, but then the guy who was arrested was released because they arrested the wrong guy. And now we don't know. Now the police come out, they say, yeah, we don't know. We're all really tired. We've been working on this for 49 hours straight. We're really tired. It's pathetic. They don't even know who did it. The one thing you're not allowed to do, though, is to speculate. The one thing you're not allowed to do is to say, well, you know, like, basically all of these attacks are carried out by two groups of people. Could have been a crazy kid. Could have been a kid who was a psycho. Like a psychotic. Not a psychopath, but a psychotic who just. There was no ideological motivation. Could have been a crime of passion. Could have. We don't know. However, the thing that we do know is you're not allowed to speculate as to whether or not that the shooting follows long standing trends. Mark Halperin's point, I think is totally apt. Here he goes. Look, I don't know if this was ideologically targeted. What I do know is that most people don't even realize that's a possibility. And just to raise the point, again, Providence police seem to have bungled this whole case. Brown seems to have bungled this whole case. But the odds that the vice president of the Republican Club at Brown. Brown, which makes Harvard and Yale look like Hillsdale, Brown, was the victim here and by all accounts, a targeted victim. The odds of that are so low. The odds of that being a mere coincidence. You have to wonder, gosh, was this part of this trend of violence against conservatives throughout the country? Even the Atlantic magazine admitting that terrorism is now a left wing problem, chiefly a left wing problem? Was this part of it? We don't know. Can we even talk about it? Are you even hearing about this in the establishment media? Okay, speaking of identity, an extremely, extremely important essay just came out in Compact Magazine. A report on the effects of DEI identity politics, specifically on white men and not all white men, specifically on millennial white men, and how that trend of white identity politics starting to creep up. 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It's established by people who are kind of on the right but Also, there are some communists involved in it. And it's not 1980s Republican orthodoxy. Economics, it tends a little bit more toward left wing economic is much more favorable toward right wing social policy. There's this joke in, I don't know if you remember this in I think it was Parks and Recreation, one of the punj. Or maybe it was 30 rock. One of the jokes though was it said, oh, Hi. It was 30 Rock said, I'm a fiscal liberal but a social conservative. And this was the kind of loser character, the character that everyone was supposed to hate. I'm a fiscal liberal but a social conservative. And that was a joke because at the time, 15 years ago now, the really fashionable political identity to hold was to be a fiscal conservative but a social liberal. I'm a fiscal conservative, but I'm a social liberal. And this actually represented a vanishingly small number of real voters. But people who were in elite positions, especially in the cities, they identified that way. So it was over pronounced in the popular culture. Very few people identify with that. Well, I guess Compact magazine's position is that view. It's the fiscal liberal social conservative. And they write really interesting stuff. So anyway, what's the takeaway? Takeaway is the DEI destroyed millennial men. DEI policies destroyed millennial men. It opens up with this talk about Hollywood and how if you were a white man in Hollywood, especially a young white man, millennial white man, trying to get a job in Hollywood 10, 15 years ago, it was basically impossible. And I can kind of attest to this because I was there at the time, I was doing other stuff too. And Daily Wire was just starting at the time, but. And I had a lot of friends who were trying to do it. Actors, writers, directors, people who were trying to break in specifically to that industry. If you were a white guy, it was told to you openly. Yeah, it's not gonna happen because they have to diversify. There are these DEI requirements. And isn't that wonderful? White guys still occupied a ton of major positions in Hollywood, but it was the older white guys, the guys who had already established their careers before. For the younger white guys, it wasn't happening. So that's how the article opens. But it doesn't just focus on Hollywood. Talks about journalism, academia, medicine, tech, all of these industries where starting about 15 years ago, if you were a white guy trying to break in, you were gonna have a lot of trouble. Just a few words from the article. As the Trump administration takes a chainsaw to diversity, equity and inclusion, there's a tendency to portray DEI as a series of well meaning but ineffectual HR modules. Undoubtedly there has been a ham fisted DEI programming that is intrusive or even alienating, explained Kianga Yamada Taylor in the New Yorker. But for the most part it is a relatively benign practice meant to increase diversity while also sending a message that workplaces should be fair and open to everyone. Jacob Savage in Compact goes on, this may be how boomer and Gen X white men experience dei, but for white male millennials, DEI wasn't a gentle rebalancing. It was a profound shift in how power and prestige were distributed. Yet practically none of the thousands of articles and think pieces about diversity have considered the issue by cohort. They think about it by men, white men, brown men, yellow men, whatever. But they don't look at it by age cohort. And the boomers and the Gen X, they basically skated by with dei. It was the millennials and to some degree the older zoomers who got pounded. This is not a story about all white men. It's a story about white male millennials in professional America, about those who stayed and who mostly stayed quiet. The same identity, a decade apartment entirely different professional fates. If you were 40 in 2014, born in 1974, beginning your career in the late 90s, you were already established. If you were 30 in 2014, you hit the wall. Because the mandates to diversify didn't fall on older white men, who in many cases still wield enormous power. They landed on us. So it opens up with this anecdote about Hollywood, which I saw. I saw it among my friends, I saw it among colleagues. So that was real. But it goes on. It says in journalism, eventually white men stopped even trying to enter into journalism because they were shut out of the jobs. And then journalism became even more effeminate. Journalism became even a lot more liberal. Journalism changed the not hiring these people, discriminating against this specific group, this sex group, racial group and age group, not only did it push them out of their careers, it changed the industry. It had this twofold effect. But then they go on. They say the shift in medicine's been even more dramatic. In 2014, white men were 31% of American medical students. By 2025, they were just 20.5%, a 10 percentage point drop in barely over a decade. That's a third of the people. So it's really a 33% drop, 10 percentage point drop in barely over a decade. And this is the clearest example we have of the celebration parallax. Mike Anton's point that you can observe the same phenomenon. But if you observe the phenomenon and say it's a good thing, then you're feted and you're applauded and you're patted on the back. If you observe that very same phenomenon and say it's a bad thing, you're called a dangerous conspiracy theorist spreading misinformation. This is the clearest example of it. Because we were told, my group, I know I'm a little dusky because I'm part Sicilian, but I think I, broadly speaking, I'm a white man. My group of people was told, hey, we're gonna diversify, and this is really, really good. And most of the white men, across party lines, across geographic lines, most of the white men said, oh, okay. They said, that's great. Wonderful. How great? Or if they said, well, we're being discriminated against, they mostly kept quiet, at least. And the consequence of that was you had at least a decade of active, explicit, overt, legally protected, culturally celebrated discrimination against a very particular group of people. Not even just white men, millennial white men and older zoomer white men. And now all the Think pieces decry the rise of identity politics on the right and among white people. What did you think was going to happen? What did you think was going to happen? There's a Pew report that came out some years ago that showed that white people are the only group that doesn't have a racial identity. Showed greater than 50% racial identity. People who said that race was important or very important to their sense of identity, greater than 50% among Asians, Hispanics, and black people. Among black people, it's over 70%. Do you know what it was for white people? Fifteen white people have no sense of racial identity. And generally white people say, isn't that a good thing? We shouldn't have too much of a sense of racial identity. We should all, however, when your country experiences the largest demographic change ever of any place in the history of the world over the course of 60 years since the Hart Celler act, and when that change is intentional, when that change is being targeted at you, explicitly saying, we want fewer white people and we don't want you to have jobs and we don't want you to have a career and you're going to be ostracized from society, don't be surprised when you get a little alienation. Don't be surprised when people feel a little isolated from their culture, deracinated, feel as if they don't really have a stake in the society. It comes from somewhere. And there's this Response from the left, which says, yeah, take that, white man. You're the devil. We hate you. You're terrible. You should feel terrible about yourself on the basis of your sex and your race and your age, I guess. But then the response on the right is, oh, quit your belly aching. Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps. We're all individuals, aren't we? And this group of people is saying, well, hold on. We're not being treated as individuals. We're not. So that just isn't true. And we can't exactly pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. We can learn how to suffer in a way that is sanctifying, that is good. We can learn how to make the best of a bad situation. We can learn how to play the hand we're dealt. We absolutely have to do that. But this requires a political solution. You gotta stop actively discriminating against this one particular group of people. Young white guys, on every level, in your immigration policies, in your hiring policies, in your university admission policies. And we're beginning to see that this is one of the achievements of the Trump administration that has gone largely under the radar is the Supreme Court ended affirmative action in college admissions. Now the schools are gonna try to get around that anyway. But that was a big shift. The Trump administration has deported a ton of people, over 2 million people. They're not getting any credit for that. And they're being lied about, actually, by some of their critics on the left and the right. So there are. But this requires political solutions. Okay? I think the age of squishy individualist liberal slogans is over because it has failed, and it's led to deeply unjust discrimination. 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GoodRanchers.com, code KNOWLES 40 bucks off plus free meat for life. GoodRanchers dot com, get back to the table. Wall Street Journal has a really important report out. This holiday season. People are buying their gifts. I haven't bought any gifts for Christmas. This is so bad. If you have ideas on what I should get sweet little Elisa, please tweet them at me. Please send them into the mailbag. I don't know what to get. What do you get the woman who has everything? You know, what do you get the woman who doesn't need anything in this world? But anyway, sorry, that's a sidebar. Most people have bought their Christmas gifts already. With one exception. Two exceptions, I guess. Me, I haven't bought my Christmas gifts. And zoomers, Zoomers are not spending money on Christmas gifts because of economic pressures. According to the Wall Street Journal. Unusual Wales posts a chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics says Gen Z is spending more on essentials than previous generations. Their wages are not keeping up and that is one reason why they're not spending as much this advent. So you look at this chart, really interesting chart. Inflation adjusted spending for 16 to 24 year olds and you see real wages from it's 1985 to 2020. Real wages have ticked up a little bit. You notice though they really only tick up during the Trump era. So they tick up a little bit at the end of the 90s.com boom. I mean now Everyone is getting rich at the end of the 90s. They flatline until the election of Obama. They decline. And this was also the global financial crisis. They decline, started to tick up a little bit again, but not that much. Election of Trump, real wages grow, Biden gets elected, Real wages flatline, actually decline a little bit. Trump gets elected again, real wages are going up. Okay, but cost of food is growing. Cost of housing explodes, cost of vehicle insurance explodes. So basic stuff. What do you need to exist in the modern American economy? What are the real basics that people. Well, you need food, first of all, but you need a car and you need a place to live. And all of that has exploded. And one of the big drivers of the cost of housing has been the migrants, because migrants are occupying huge amounts of rent. Especially the rises in rent are something like 40% attributable to mass migration. So the zoomers are getting hammered on this. And this is another place. Where is this my criticize the right day? This is my criticize my friends on the right day. This is a real place where people on the right are just completely dropping the ball. Some people get it. The younger politicians on the right get it. Vice president would be a good example. He's been speaking about this for a long time. But Trump has spoken about this for a long time. But a lot of people on the establishment rights just still don't get it. They say, oh, these kids need to quit their bellyache and they need to pull theirselves up with their bootstraps. They have it way better than their grandparents did. Yes and no. Yeah, it's true. Houses are nicer today. The food is in some ways more luxurious today. People live more opulent lives today. That's true. But we live in society and you do kind of have to keep up with the Joneses. And real wages have not risen and you can't support family on one income in a lot of places. It can be done. I want to give people encouragement. It can be done, but you have to be very, very intentional about it. And the whole culture tells you not to do that. This on top of white male millennials and older zoomers being actively discriminated against in the college admissions process and in the job market. The zoomers do have it tough, okay? And this is not a cause for the zoomers to say, you know, oh, I'm going to go sit down and feel so sorry for myself. It's like Johnny Fontaine and the Godfather. I don't know what to do. And the Godfather lets just smack him. Says, you're going to act like a man. What's the matter with you? You got to look, you got to act like a man. You got to learn how to suffer. You got to learn how to adapt and play the hands you're dealt, as I just said. But we need a political solution to this, folks. This is where the establishment, the squishy Republicans just don't get it. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps kind of people just don't get it. Politics is done politically. Politics is an effort of the community. Politics involves setting norms and standards and incentives and disincentives for everybody. It's not an individualist endeavor. We don't just say, oh, just sort out the culture and forget about the politics. No, no, no. First of all, you can't really separate the two because politics is downstream of culture. But also the law is a tutor. And so you need a political answer to this. And furthermore, even if you are the most laissez faire, don't want the government to do anything, kind of right winger that there is, let us remember that the palace is never safe when the cottage is unhappy. And you have a generation of people who are having economic difficulty keeping up because of economic challenges that their parents and grandparents didn't face. You know, you have that same generation of people, especially the white guys in that generation who are being actively discriminated against on top of the economic pressures. You have that generation being raised with the insane cultural confusion of the sexual revolution, being encouraged to chop their genitals off. You know, when your parents went through a weird rebellious phase when they were kids, they got a tattoo. When the zoomers and the young millennials go through a weird rebellious phase as a kid, everyone around them gets them to chop their genitals off. When your grandparents went through a weird rebellious phase, they probably drank a little too much or maybe took up smoking. You castrated yourself. These are major, major. All of your parents were divorced. Your society was fraying in social solidarity, driven in no small part by the mass migration that was foisted upon you that led to the compounding of all of these problems. You need a political solution to these things. And there are plenty of political solutions. I mean, again, I keep focusing on the migration because if you just took care of the mass migration alone, that would fix the housing problem. That would fix a lot of the problems with the cost of food. It would fix a lot of the problems with the stresses on the welfare system. It would fix a lot of the problems of lack of assimilation and diversity. Just that alone but that's a political solution. That's not. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. It's never good to whine. It's never good to complain. It's never good to feel sorry for yourself. Okay? I agree with the establishment, right? When it comes to that, don't be a little whiny wimp, ever. Don't do that. That's very off putting. However, these are real problems, folks. These are real problems that were caused by politics and get fixed by politics, okay? Speaking of changing perceptions of the country, did you know that the pine tree flag, the flag that says an appeal to heaven, did you know that that is a dangerous symbol of white, not even white, sorry, Christian nationalism. It's a white flag, but it's a Christian nationalist flag. That's according to a USA Today journalist. We'll get to that momentarily. First though, wanna tell you about a legacy box. Go to legacybox.com knowles are you still searching for the perfect gift? Legacy Box. That's the simplest, safest way to convert your old family videotapes to digital. For just nine bucks each, it's the most meaningful gift you can give. 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You go to dailywire.com subscribe and join now. My favorite comment yesterday is from purdog9859 who says that was a solid Michael Caine accent. Thank you. I can't do Australian. As a kid, I think I was able to, but I can't do it. So now whenever I have to do an Australian accent, I think I'm just gonna do Michael Caine. Crikey. That's not a knife. This is a knife. My name's Crocodile Dundee. Okay. A USA Today journalist by the name of Zach Schremelli has this breaking news story of this pine tree flag being flown. The pine tree flag, which is the appeal to heaven flag, it's a white standard with a pine tree on it says appeal to heaven. It says new. A controversial Christian nationalist flag is hanging outside the D.C. office of a top education apartment official. The agency's union and an employee who's observed at firsthand told me the flag, which was raised by rioters during the January 6th insurrection, is adorning the office of Murray Bessett, principal deputy assistant Secretary. Whoa. The principal deputy assistant secretary in the Office of Planning Evaluation and Policy Development. The appeal to heaven flag tells the journalist is the same that was flown outside the vacation home of conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in 2023, according to the New York Times. Breaking. Stop the presses. Very controversial Christian nationalist flag. Okay, what's the. Do we have a copy of the flag? You've all seen them. It's a white flag, pine tree, appeal to heaven. Not only. Not only is the flag not a Christian nationalist symbol, this was a flag that was flown in the Revolutionary War. It's one of the oldest flags in our country, and it was commissioned by George Washington himself. But it gets better. Some people know that. The liberals don't know that. The people who work for USA Today, they don't know that. The journalists, they don't know anything about that, anything about our history. Most people on the right who care about these things know that the pine tree flag was commissioned by George Washington. So that's the funny rejoinder. It gets even funnier, though, because Christian nationalism is posed by these sorts of people as the antithesis of liberalism. Good old classical liberalism in the American tradition, the tradition of natural rights and the Declaration of Independence. And John Locke, who tells us that we have these rights to life, liberty and property. Okay, the phrase an appeal to heaven comes not from the Bible, not from St. Thomas Aquinas, not from some preacher. The phrase appeal to heaven comes from John Locke, specifically John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, which is the foundational text of political liberalism. John Locke, father of liberalism, Second Treatise, the foundational text of political liberalism. That's where the phrase comes from. I'm not the biggest John Locke fan in the world. I think John Locke's influence on the American Revolution and the founding of our country is a little bit overstated, actually. I think other thinkers are more important. I think the classical political tradition plays a big role too. However, the irony is, if you wanna point to the pine tree flag as being the symbol of radical, revanchist, retrograde Christian nationalism, you are pointing to a phrase written by John Locke, the father of liberalism, in the book that establishes political liberalism. So what conclusion do we draw from this? This is my favorite part of the whole story. Let's just take the USA Today guy at his word, and let's take the New York Times. And it's not just the USA Today guy, it's all the libs. When. When Sam Alito's wife was flying this flag over their home, they all freaked out. They said, this is Christian nationalism. If the pine tree flag is a symbol of Christian nationalism, as the liberals uniformly contend, and if the pine tree flag was commissioned by George Washington himself, flown during the American Revolution, and comes from John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, what does that tell us about America? What does that tell us about the founding of America? What does that tell us even about the Founding Father's view of Lockean liberalism? It tells us that it's Christian nationalist. It tells us that ours is a Christian nation. It tells us that inasmuch as the Founding Fathers embraced Lockean liberalism, it was through the lens of a Christian nation. It tells us that Christian nationalism is the oldest tradition in our country, which obviously it is. Because even before the Revolution, a century and a half before the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence, and even farther before the Constitution, all before that, the country was settled by people who called themselves Pilgrims, zealous Christians establishing a new country in a new world. I love that. Three cheers for Zach Shremelli and the New York Times, for that matter. Love this. Yeah. Okay. Okay, guys, you're right. The pine tree flag is Christian nationalist and I guess so is George Washington and John Locke. Fine by me. I mean, look, read a little John Locke. If the libs read John Locke today, they would call him a Christian nationalist. He said that atheists shouldn't be able to speak in public. Okay, that's pretty good. Speaking of journalistic malpractice, before we go, Jake Tapper, he was just interviewed. He was doing like a cool live stream interview, okay? He's got this book, Rage Against Terror, and so he was doing his cool livestream interview. He's not wearing a coat and tie, he's wearing a hoodie and headphones. He's not like a regular journalist. He's a cool journalist. So Jake Taffer goes on and he's asked why he's so tough on Trump, why he keeps hammering Trump, raising all these insinuations about Trump's fitness for office. And his answer is, perfect.
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We cover it all the time on my show, all the time.
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And.
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I think that is to a large degree because we saw what happened with Biden. And while we covered it, we didn't cover it. Maybe we didn't ask as many questions as we should have at the time. And I think it is a legitimate question for any president of any age, but particularly anybody who is like in the range of being an octogenarian.
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Right?
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We cover it all the time.
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Yeah, yeah, we got it. Look, I'll tell you why. You wanna know why I go so hard on Trump? Because I gave Joe Biden a free pass and I lied on his behalf for four years. So that's why it's so important that I go hard on Trump. This guy gets called out. Say, you freaking hypocrite. You pretend to be a serious right down the middle journalist. You're just after the facts, Jack. And yet you gave Biden, who was obviously demented in office the whole time. You gave him a free pass, you lied about it, you pretended that he wasn't, and now you're nitpicking Trump in ways that are also unfair, albeit on the other side. And your excuses. Well, yeah, I totally derelicted my duty under Joe Biden, so now I need to go 10 times as hard against Trump, and that's somehow fair. And it just so happens that when he accidentally derelicts his duty, it's always during the Democrat administrations. And it just so happens that when he puts on his journalist hat again and he redoubles his efforts to pursue the truth, it's always under the Republican administrations. Jake Tapper, who began his career in Democrat politics, that is amazing. The fact that Tapper could say this with a straight face dressed in that ridiculous attire on a live stream is. That's impressive. We were talking earlier about white guys not making it in Hollywood because of DEI or the compact Mac and everything. Well, Jake Tapper could have made it in Hollywood. That was an amazing performance that deserves an Oscar. So much more I want to get to. We might have a new Democrat presidential candidate on the horizon, same as the old Democrat presidential candidate. We might be getting Kamala 2.0, baby. But I don't have time to talk about it today because it's tee he Tuesday. The rest of the show continues now. You don't want to miss it. Become a member, use code nolscanner to be as or check out for two months free on all annual plans. All of this is an illusion, an echo of a voice that has died. And soon that echo will cease.
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They say that Merlin is mad. They say he was a king in Dovid, the son of a princess of lost Atlantis. They say the future and the past are known to him. That the fire and the wind tell him their secrets. That the magic of the hill folk and druids come forth at his easy command. Man, they say he slew hundreds. Hundreds. Do you hear that? The world burned and trembled at his wrath.
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The Merlin died long before you and I were born.
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Merlin emis has returned to the land of the living.
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Vortigern is gone. Rome is gone. The Saxon is here.
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Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the island of the mighty. And before the summer is through, he means to take the throne. And he will have it if we are too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him. Here is your hope. A king will arise to hold all Britain in his hand. A high king who will be the wonder of the world.
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You to a future of peace.
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There'll be no peace in these lands till we are all dust. Men of the island of the mighty, you stand together.
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You stand as Britons.
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You stand as war.
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Great darkness is falling upon this land. These brothers are our only hope to stand against it.
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Not our only hope.
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SA Mirthen slew 70 men with his own hands.
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Like a thay, he slew 500. No man is capable of such a thing. Immortal man.
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