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Michael Knowles
After two days of podcasters attacking each other from the TPUSA stage, Vice President J.D. vance emerges at America Fest with the best speech of the weekend, though perhaps not the most surprising stage appearance, as that honor went to Nicki Minaj, who walked out with Erica Kirk and gave the most incisive remarks. Maybe not the most incisive remarks, but certainly more incisive remarks than than many of the professional political commentators. And a lot of people were surprised to see Nicki Minaj show up to tpusa. But if you like some of us are longtime barbs, you will know that even going back to 2012, the signs were there in Malibu.
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Nicki Minaj
I'm by the C section and now these is my son. Yeah, C section. I'm a Republican voting for Mitt Romney. You lazy. This up the economy out in Miami. I be chilling with a zombie Diablo Alejandro.
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Michael Knowles
Now the question on Everybody's Mind. Vance Minaj, 28 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Disney is black. No, sorry, Santa is black. According to Disney, Disney has made Santa black. It's the Netflix remake of Santa Claus, but it's from Disney and he's black. We'll get to that in a moment. First, I want to tell you about Balance of nature. Go to balanceofnature.com tis the season where everyone's getting run down, everybody's tired, everyone's getting sick, no one's eating right, everybody's stubborn in their faces, full of sweets. And one way if you want to ensure that you're getting all those nice, tasty nutrients that you're supposed to get would be the magnificent Balance of Nature Whole Health System supplements. They are incredibly versatile. They're easy to work into your daily routine. The fiber and spice supplement blends smoothly into your favorite drinks, adding a warm, aromatic depth from its spice blend. If you prefer the you can even open up the fruits and veggies capsules, mix the powder directly into a smoothie, or sprinkle it over your meals. What makes these supplements special is they're packed with 47 ingredients from 100% real whole fruits, vegetables, spices and fibers. Everything from psyllium husk and flaxseed to cinnamon, turmeric, mango, pineapple, wild blueberries, shiitake mushrooms, spinach, kale, cayenne pepper and so much more. And did I mention psyllium husk? It is a simple way to give your body the nutrition it needs every day. I love it, especially when I'm on the rubbing. Traveling like a maniac, eating like trash. Good way to supplement that balance of nature. New and existing customers get 50% off the whole health system for life with this limited time offer. Go to balanceofnature.com to claim this offer today. Excellent, Excellent speech from the Vice President at America Fest. This after days of podcasters attacking each other, trying to excise one another from the conservative movement, airing all of their grievances. As many people expected would happen, JD comes out and he hits a few major important points. Speaking of racial politics. You know, Santa being black and all that, Here is what JD had to say about the DEI racial ideologies of the last 5 to 15 years in.
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J.D. Vance
The United States of America. You don't have to apologize for being white anymore. And if you're an Asian, you don't have to talk around your skin color when you're applying for college. Because we judge people based on who they are, not on ethnicity and things they can't control.
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Michael Knowles
Hits it right out of the park. A speech like this would have been. Even just a line like that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago. Would have been too edgy. Oh, we can't. We can talk. We can talk about black grievance politics. We can talk about Hispanic grievance politics, Arab grievance politics. You can talk about. It's not that you can't talk about racial identity, but the idea that you could possibly mention that you shouldn't be ashamed of yourself for being a white person. That would have been too far for the gop, for the conservative movement. Now, not only is that not too far, but it's urgent. And the 30,000 people completely sold out crowd at America Fest, they appreciated that. They appreciated that because they know that it is unjust. It's finally become clear after really not even just 15 years, after decades of this ideology telling people to feel bad about themselves if they're white, it's become clear. This is totally unacceptable. And it's so, I don't know, contrary to the supposed ideals of America, we have to get rid of it. Still bold of the Vice president to say it. I'm sure a lot of Republicans would have been cowards and wouldn't call out one of the elephants in the room. But it's important that he does that. He's speaking to the moment. This is a guy who. Who is not just fighting the last political battle. This is a guy who's not just running on the slogans and bromides of 40 years ago or something. This is a guy who knows what the political moment is. So he speaks to this racial identity issue which the left has used to so twist the culture, and then he speaks to religion.
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J.D. Vance
More than any time I can recount, people are talking about American identity and figuring out what it is that unites us. But I want to say something here. The only thing that has truly served as an anchor of the United States of America is that we have been, and by the grace of God, we always will be, a Christian nation. Now, I want to be explicit because, of course the fake news media will twist everything that I say. I'm not saying you feel about them the same way I do. I'm not saying you have to be a Christian to be an American. I'm saying something simpler and truer. Christianity is America's creed. The shared moral language. From the revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Across that history, our country's major debates have always centered on how we could best, as a people, please God.
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Michael Knowles
Beautifully beautifully stated. As we all debate American identity, this is gonna be the big question next year. America 250. We're celebrating a quarter millennium since the American Revolution, and we're in this period of massive flux. The largest demographic change ever in recorded history has happened in the United States in the last 60 years. We're aging just naturally as a country, as an empire. And so this raises all sorts of questions about. This happened in ancient Rome. That's why Virgil writes the Aeneid. To give a new and present sense of the Roman identity. So this question is really present. And some people wanna say it's all about stock, it's all about race. Some people wanna say it's all about creed, it's all about ideas. Really, neither of those answers is sufficient. It obviously has to be some combination of the two. So JD Touches on the racial issues that the left has been pushing so much for decades. And then he hits the creedal issue. He says, look, guys, some of you wanna say America's a liberal. I'm reading into this. He doesn't explicitly say this, but some of you wanna say America's just A liberal democracy. And it's all just about liberalism, liberalism, liberalism, as the left wants to say, and some of the squishes on the right wanna say. But that isn't true. That is an innovation of the middle to back half of the 20th century. That isn't what motivated George Washington. That isn't what motivated Governor Winthrop. That isn't what motivated Abraham Lincoln. Exactly. So what is it? What is the creed? He says it's obvious. The founding fathers told us, actually, even the early settlers before the Founding fathers told us and Lincoln told us and Eisenhower told us and they all told us it's Christianity. That's the creed. But it's not just Episcopalianism or Methodism or Baptist, Protestantism or Catholicism or it's something a little bit different. It's Christianity. Read through the American experience what John Adams says back in 1813. He says that the general principles of Christianity are the principles on which independence was won. Abraham Lincoln. Fast forward to 1860. Abraham Lincoln is essentially writing all of his speeches through the language of the King James Bible. The abolitionists writing in this kind of language, even all the way up to the civil rights activists of the 1960s. This through line from the Mayflower, through a model of Christian charity, shiny city on a hill, through the Revolution, through the Civil War, through the late 19th, 20th centuries, all the way up to the present day, all the way up to Ronald Reagan saying we're a shiny city on a hill, echoing Winthrop. All the way up to the present day, we're a Christian country and our political creed reads Christianity through the American experience. So. So we tolerate other people. We're quite open. However, that's the creed. That's the foundation of the creed. Beautifully stated, complex idea, nuanced idea that's articulated very clearly by the Vice president. And then he hits this third point, which I think allowed his speech to stand in stark contrast to many of the other speeches over the weekend. He talked about the political coalition.
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J.D. Vance
President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless self defeating purity tests. He says, make America great again because every American is invited. So if you love America, if you want all of us to be richer, stronger, safer and prouder, you have a home on this team. I didn't bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to deplatform. And I don't really care if some people out there, I'm sure, will have the fake news media denounce me after this speech. But let me just say, the best way to honor Charlie is That none of us here should be doing something after Charlie's death that he himself refused to do in life.
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Michael Knowles
Bingo.
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J.D. Vance
He invited all of us here.
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Michael Knowles
Bingo. It goes on. Watch the whole speech. It's really, really good. This is the key to me, this is the key to the first stages of the coalition. Obviously the coalition already exists, but the first stages of this new episode, the big debate, is who's in and who's out, who gets to be in the conservative movement and who gets to be out. That was with so much of. Not my speech, not the Vice President's speech. That's with so much of what TPUSA was about this year. This person should be out, that person should be out. This person should have been invited in. This person. That, that and the other thing. And I don't mean to suggest that setting boundaries isn't important. You know, I love boundaries. You know, when the entire conservative movement was talking about how we all love free speech, absolutism, and you should say whatever you want, I said, no, we need boundaries, we need standards. That's ridiculous. Censorship is good, okay? I think I've got pretty solid bona fides when it comes to circumscribing political movements. The question is, how do we do it? And the approach by many people at TPUSA was to say, yeah, this person and that person and this person who are gonna speak over the next few days, I don't like them and they're weak and they're bad and they're all these things and they should be out. That was probably the dominant approach by the speakers. That's not my approach. Because we will. When we look at the left, the left looks at every single person who was on that TPUSA stage as exactly the same. And politics is not just debate club. And it's not just about feeling really nice and exalting one's moral principles, be they legitimate or faulty, as the end goal of politics itself. It's about putting those eternal principles into action so that they have political effect. It's about winning. You have to win. You don't want to commit injustice, you don't want to do things that are intrinsically bad. But you have to win in politics. Debate club, you don't really have to win. Cuz you go home and you eat your little snack and you go back to school the next day. And it doesn't matter whether you win or lose politics, you have to win. There are real consequences to it. I should hope that the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a leftist political Activist would tell you that. So how do we figure out? That's really the question. It's not, should there be people in or out? How do we figure it out? And it seems to me the vice President has exactly the right approach here, which is Charlie gave us a roadmap. Charlie excluded some people from that conference. The last text that I didn't return to Charlie was about some extra stuff he wanted me to do at America Fest. And I'm terrible at responding to anybody's texts, and I didn't text him back. I think I thought about it the morning he died, actually. I thought, oh, I owe Charlie a text. But that's what he was talking to me about. He was planning this thing out for a very, very long time, and he knew who was speaking, and he had a vague idea of what all the events were gonna be. And we were talking about some extra events to do. He invited those people. Okay. And JD's point that we should not do something after Charlie's death at what is essentially a tribute to Charlie that he himself would not have done, I think is an aptitude, traditionalist observation, a good path forward. Charlie invited a bunch of people to America Fest. Some of those people hate each other. Okay, that's too bad. In Charlie's estimation, that was the team, and that was a good team, and maybe that was a necessary team. Charlie also excluded people from America Fest. There were plenty of big names who were not invited, who were very intentionally not invited. That was part of his strategy, too. And I'm not saying that. That Charlie has to dictate the Republican coalition ad infinitum, you know, 50 years into the future. But I think we all have to acknowledge he did a very good job at it. Charlie, he made, in the words of Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff, the winning difference in 2024. He was as good a coalition builder and maintainer as anybody in American politics. Probably better. Probably better. And so perhaps we ought to glean a little wisdom from that. Perhaps we ought to play the hand that we've been dealt, which, when it comes to the coalition that we have, is actually a good hand when it comes to the coalition that's been built. It's the hand that won the popular vote for the Republican Party for the first time in 20 years. Maybe we should work from that rather than litigate and relitigate political fights that long predate any present issues that have been going on for years and years and years. You get 100 conservatives in a room, they're all going to want to slap each other and smack each other and pick all sorts of fights. And that's part of who we are. We're independent thinkers. I get it. I get it. But we have to keep our eyes on the prize. This is not just about gaining market share within a podcast space. This is not just about giving the most exciting speech. This is not just about winning some abstract debate. This is politics. This is about winning. It's about maintaining a moral core. It's about exacting justice. It's about having the right people on the team that are electorally viable. And it's about winning. Okay, brilliant, brilliant speech from J.D. vance. And then comes Nicki Minaj and takes away all the headlines. We'll get to Nicki Minaj in one second. First, I wanna tell you about Chevron.
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Michael Knowles
Folks, America Fest was explosive. Conservative pundits getting smacking each other all over the place. But only on my new episode of Bar Fight did two of them fight face to face. In this episode, I sit down with Gen Z, Kai Schwemmer and Gen X old guard Steve Dace to duke it out over the issues boiling up right now from Israel to the economy. Check out this quick teaser. You think Trump is a schmuck? He was born in Texas. Why was it that he flew over to Israel and was told that he was at home? Can the United States act morally and trust justly in the world while defending Israel? If your tactics were to be blunt, a little less douchey at times.
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J.D. Vance
I mean, I completely disagree.
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Steve Dace
The more.
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Michael Knowles
No, no, no, no, no.
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J.D. Vance
Do not pence me, bro.
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Michael Knowles
We have the host of the Steve Das show and that would be my friend Steve D. When you look at the facts on the ground and they don't support the narrative when we are literally giving the.
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J.D. Vance
Literally signing the greatest RP All Star.
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Michael Knowles
Also to my left, you know him from Jubilee. And that would be Kai Schwemmer. An existing law which had banned premarital sex. Aware of the hunt for law. Watch full episode right now on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel for the uncensored ad free version. Subscribe To Daily Wire. Nicki Minaj comes out on stage, brings the crowd down. She walked out with Erica Kirk, Charlie's widow. It was absolutely phenomenal. She then sits down and what I haven't seen anyone notice right now is that the points that Nicki Minaj hit were the same points from the Vice President's speech.
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Nicki Minaj
We were not being represented and not being admired for our beauty. If we felt like that as black women, why would we want to do that to other women? Why would we now need to make other people downplay their beauty so that we can feel. No, that's not how it works. I don't need someone with blond hair and blue eyes to downplay their beauty because I know my beauty. Do you understand? It doesn't bother me that a woman feels and says that she's beautiful. Why? Why shouldn't she feel that? Why have we gotten to a point where certain colors or certain kinds of people have to be afraid of loving themselves and loving the way they look like? It's. Isn't that wild?
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Michael Knowles
I love this. She opens up what she says. She says the same thing. JD Said, you don't have to apologize for being white. You don't have to apologize for being black, you don't have to apologize for being Hispanic, and you don't have to apologize for being white. Amazing. No one quite noticed this. It seems this parallel. It wasn't just the parallel on race. Listen to her next point on religion.
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Nicki Minaj
Truly feel that there are people out there who felt good about chastising Christians right here in our country. And it's kind of really, really sick. We can't let people like that be in power, you guys. That's the truth. I can sugarcoat it and laugh and Kiki. But the truth is I am here today to tell you guys that we absolutely cannot let people who have a problem with us worshiping God, we cannot have them in power. We cannot have them in power.
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Michael Knowles
We cannot survive as a country if our political leaders are hostile to Christianity, are hostile to the foundation of our creed. It's the same thing JD Said almost. And this is very hopeful. A lot of people are upset about the infighting among the media people. However, this I think is really hopeful. Cuz on the one hand you got J.D. vance, Vice President of the United States, graduate of Yale Law School, alum of Silicon Valley. And private equity came from a hardscrabble roughbringing among the white working class of Ohio and Appalachia. You got him on one pole. You got Nicki Minaj, who comes from maybe the opposite cultural background, as polar opposite a cultural background as there can be the United States. And yet not only do they agree broadly, they are agreeing point by bold point. That seems to me a winning coalition. There were signs with Nicki Minaj, as I mentioned at the top, she had that line about I'm voting for Mitt Romney because all you lazy bitches are messing up the economy or whatever. There were some signs a while ago, but Barb's totally vindicated. Again, really beautiful remarks. Nicki Minaj has been outspoken about persecuted Christians around the world, especially Nigeria. Now apparently in the United States too. Really, really good stuff. All in all, very hopeful. Seems to me there's a pretty clear path forward despite all of the infighting. Convenient or whether you view the infighting as convenient, cynical or absolutely necessary. Whatever you think. I think we should all agree we gotta win. You gotta do stuff in politics. And I think there's a lot of hope coming out of tpusa because it was already clear before, given the historical circumstance of Trump winning a non consecutive second term. But the vice president is the heir apparent. President Trump has suggested as much. The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio has endorsed J.D. vance for president, and Rubio would probably be the second most likely person to get it. This is just how it goes. It's not that the vice president is necessarily the heir apparent in any administration, but when you've got a president running for a non consecutive second term, this is only the second time that's happened in history. Part of the deal when he's picking a running mate is assuming that that guy will be the next one. He's in some ways got the advantages of an incumbent. And now you got Nicki Minaj all but endorsing him from the stage. Pretty good stuff. Okay, now there was some disagreement on this nature of American identity. Not just who should be in the conservative movement, who should be out, who do I like, who do I not like, but the nature of American identity. That came from Vivek Ramaswamy. We'll get to that momentarily. First though, I want to tell you about Policygenius. Go to policygenius.com knowles It's Christmas and you all are gonna give gifts that wear out after six months. They are. You want a gift that lasts forever, but most of it is just going to be in the trash sooner than you think. Well, with our show sponsor, policygenius, you can give your family a gift that endures the security of life insurance and lasting peace of mind. Nearly half of American adults would face financial hardship within six months if they lost their primary income. Policy genius makes finding life insurance simple, helping you secure real coverage so your loved ones have the financial safety net they need when it matters most. If you've been putting off life insurance, now is a good time to sort it out before the year ends. Policygenius makes the whole thing way less painful than you would think. It's a simple online marketplace where you can compare quotes from all the major insurers in one place, totally free. They've got a team of license experts who will walk you through everything, answer your questions, deal with all the paperwork, help you figure out what coverage actually makes sense for you without all the confusing insurance jargon. Do the responsible thing right now. Give your family peace of mind. With Policygenius, real users have gotten 20 year $2 million policies for just 53 bucks a month. Do not wait until next year. Give your family the gift of security today with Policygenius. Go to policygenius.com knowles to compare life insurance quotes from top companies. See how much you can save. Policygenius.com knowles okay, so I mentioned that our pal Vivek had a New York Times column sometime last week where he talked about this idea of American identity as being a question of either blood and soil or or entirely creedal, which I think is a false dichotomy. But it does clarify some of the stakes here. And Vivek says it's all credal. It has nothing to do with blood and soil has nothing to do with ancestry. Well, Vivek expounded upon that point on the TPOA stage where he assailed the idea of heritage Americans.
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Vivek Ramaswamy
There's a different vision of American identity that's emergent in certain corridors of the online ride. And it says that your identity as an American is based on your lineage, that how long you have been in the country, your lineage and your genetics tied to the blood and soil of the country determines how American you are. It is the idea of a heritage American that says the truest form of an American is somebody who is a descendant of the American Revolution period or before. And I will tell you this idea of the heritage American. We ought to have this discussion. It's becoming more popular. I think the idea of a heritage American is about as loony as anything the woke left has actually put up. There is no American who is more American than somebody else. The American quality. It's not like the left. They believe in this non binary stuff. There's no non binary American. It is binary. Either you're an American or you're not. And you think about it, I could.
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Michael Knowles
Prove this to you. Thank you.
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Vivek Ramaswamy
I'll take some applause on that.
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Michael Knowles
Okay, so he gets some applause on this idea and he says, look, there's this idea of the heritage American that if you've been here for a long time, you're more American than people who just got here. And he refers to the revolutionary period earlier. What's interesting is there are these heritage groups, they've been around forever in American history. And coincidentally I'm actually a member of some of these groups like the Mayflower Society or groups like the Sons of the American Revolution. There are a number of others, the Daughters of the American Revolution, which I'm not a member of, but they now allow in transvestites. So I suppose I could be a member of them if I wanted to. In any case, what's interesting is a lot of the talk about those heritage groups suggests that they're all just about flaunting privilege. You know, being some old elite blue bloods or something, when in fact the opposite is true. First of all, the members of these groups generally are not these fancy sorts of elites. They're people who, who care a lot about their country and who are focused on service. So it's salt of the earth people, just like the people who founded this country, who came over on the Mayflower, who fought at age 15 and 16 in the American Revolution. These tend to be salt of the earth people who want to give back to their country. They love their country so much, they want to give their time and their money and their efforts to preserving the country. So a lot of what they do is community service, scholarships, maintaining museums and things like that. Totally misunderstands what these groups are for. But Vivek makes a very good point, which is, he goes on, we clipped it, there was not quite enough time. But he goes on, he says, look, if America is chiefly about how long you've been here, that means that Liz Warren is more American than Marco Rubio. Not just cause she's white, because she's a Native American. And he says, if how long your family's been here dictates how American you are, Joe Biden would be more American than Donald Trump. And it's a good rejoinder. It maybe makes us think, okay, maybe there are diminishing marginal returns. Cuz the real old stock blue blood New England types do tend to be pretty lib. There's no. Vivek has a very good point there. But on the flip side, do you really believe that you are not more American than the guy who was naturalized yesterday, the guy who flew here from some country in the middle of Africa. And he loves him, he's excited about America. He wants the opportunity. He passed the naturalization test. And he comes there, he says, you know, I read with all these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal. You know, and I love that. I read the Declaration, I read the Constitution. I passed the test. You're telling me that that guy, whose habits, possibly whose religion, whose traditions and institutions are totally foreign to the United States, that guy is exactly as American as all of you listening right now as someone whose family's been here since the Civil War or the American Revolution or the Mayflower? Give me a break. Nobody really believes that. So can those two things be true at once? Can there be diminishing returns? Is there a basis of American identity that is not purely based on how long your blood's been in the soil? And if so, what is that? And I think a good guide to this would be Thomas Aquinas reading the ancient Israelites. I think I mentioned this a few weeks ago on the show. Thomas Aquinas, who has to come up on the show at least once a day reading the ancient Israelites, observes that the ancient Israelites would not allow new peoples who entered to become citizens until after three generations. And in this, he was following Aristotle, who also has to come up on the show every day, that it takes a little bit of time, actually even more than one lifetime, doesn't necessarily take 30 generations, but it might take a few generations to become acculturated to a new people. And Aquinas goes further, reading the ancient Israelites. He points out that some peoples they viewed as being able to assimilate, others like the Amalekites, say they just couldn't. They just could not assimilate. And so you actually have to distinguish between the peoples who are more likely to assimilate. The ones who are not. German Christians are probably more likely to assimilate than Sudanese Muslims. It's just a fact. It's just a fact. And maybe we need to make some of those distinctions in America. All it's not saying that Vivek doesn't have a point. Vivek does have a point. But it seems there's much more to it. It's a truth, but it's a partial view of the truth. And we're gonna have to grapple with that because the old Reagan lines, you know, well, these illegal aliens are. They're the conservative Republican Americans, they just don't know it yet. Well, they haven't become conservative Republican Americans. It hasn't happened. And so maybe that was wrong. Anybody can be an American. Well, like maybe sort of, I don't know, maybe not quite. We have to rethink these things. The old slogans don't necessarily work anymore. Part of the reason the GOP kept losing is because all we ever tried to do with our candidates was just revivify the corpse of Ronald Reagan. Reagan did a great, great job in his time, but please, let the man rest. We have to address the concerns of our time. Ronald Reagan didn't just get up there when he was running for office and said, well, as Taft said, and I'm a Taft Republican and I am chatt channeling the spirit of William Howard Taft. He didn't do that. I'm my own man. In fact, in many ways he said, look, I'm a Democrat, but the Democrat Party left me and I need to form a new political coalition to address our changing circumstances. So the people who really even wanna follow in the footsteps of Ronald Reagan, they have to do that. They can't just plug electrodes into him like he's Frankenstein's monster and try to get the guy to jump out of the grave. It's not gonna work. Now, speaking of heritage, Santa Claus is black, according to Disney. We'll get to that momentarily. First though, Christmas is three days away. If you still need a gift, here's one that lasts all year right now, DailyWire + annual gift memberships are 50% off. No shipping, no crowds, no last minute scrambling. You send a full year of ad free uncensored daily shows from the most trusted, handsome, sexy voices in conservative news, investigative reporting and premium entertainment. And you choose exactly when they receive it. This Christmas day is also the premiere of the Pendragon cycle Rise of the Merlin. The with episode one available in early access for Daily Wire plus All Access members. Again, new annual Daily Wire plus Gift memberships are 50% off right now. Go to dailywire.com gift today. My favorite comment yesterday, I didn't pick the comment. The producers picked the comment. So I want to see. I don't know if I agree with this. We'll see. It's from the Drummers Workshop. Normous music. It's probably going to be a good one. Says it's not a civil war party without Barbara Rose Johns. Barbara, you know, can one even begin to tell the story of America? Can one even begin to touch on the story of Western civilization going back to the Ancient Greeks without talking about Barbara Rose Johns. Do you remember who that is? You probably don't. She's that lady who they knocked down General Lee statues for and put her up in the capitol. And most people, even though I've said her name two or three times now in this episode, most people won't even remember her name. What's her name? Hey, pop quiz. What is the name of civil rights icon and glorious American hero? Can you name her name? You might not be able to. How dare you? You can't even talk about American history. Then Santa Claus is black. According to Disney, they have replaced the white Santa Claus with a black Santa Claus at Epcot.
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Pendragon Cycle Characters
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
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Michael Knowles
Bye Santa. According to Wall street apes, which is one of the funny Twitter accounts, not only was Mrs. Claus replaced by a black Mrs. Claus on the Disney cruise ships, and not only was Mrs. Claus replaced by a black woman at the Disneyland Christmas parade, but Disney has now replaced Santa himself with a black Santa at Epcot. Santa Claus is not black. Santa Claus. I don't. Listen. Open your ears. Pull over your car. Sit down. Want you to hear this loud and clear. Santa Claus is not black. Do you know why? Because Santa Claus lives at the North Pole. And there aren't black people at the North Pole. If Santa Claus were black, that would mean that Santa Claus is a recent immigrant to the North Pole. But he's not a recent immigrant. He's been at the North Pole for a very long time. Cause he's a jolly old elf with a bowl full of jelly who's been giving Christmas presents to children in his magical sleigh with his eight tiny reindeer since time immemorial. So he's not black. If Santa Claus's ancestor had been black, Santa Claus would cease to have been black by now because of the many millennia of acculturation and development at the North Pole. He is white and an elf, and he's jolly and he has a bowl full of jelly. Stop trying to erase Santa Claus. Now, some will say Santa Claus isn't real. First of all, I don't accept that. But second of all, even if you wanted to get really into the nitty gritty on the historical personae on whom Santa Claus Sinterklaas is based on, we would be talking about St. Nicholas, Myra. St. Nicholas, who was Greek. And even though the Greeks might be kind of black compared to the English, say they're not black, They're Greek. He is from Turkey. Now, Turkey has been overrun by the Turks. Used to be Constantinople used to be Greece, but now it's Turkey. But even the Turks are not black. One could sort of argue that they're Asian. St. Nicholas is from the Asian province of the Roman Empire. One could argue, given the fact that Santa Claus lives in the North Pole, that he looks like an Eskimo or an Inuit. But what's so amazing is that while one could make an argument that Santa Claus is virtually any race, however labored that argument is, Disney has picked the only race that Santa Claus cannot be, which is a South Saharan, sub Saharan African. It's very frustrating. Why have they done this? They have done this because they want to be inclusive for something. But incoherence is not inclusive. There are many great figures in the history of Christmas and certainly in the history of Christianity that are black. Saint Moses the Black, for one. Do you ever hear of St. Moses the Black? He's a saint. He's a very great ancient saint. And he was so black that his name is the Black. And there is this kind of funny quirk of history, which is apparently, he used to be a thief before he converted. And he's like a great saint. He's a fabulous saint. That would be one. And many, many others. Many of the great bishops and cardinals who are alive today, the great heroic giant figures of the Church, are not in Europe or America. Many of them, some of the most notable, are in Africa and are very, very black. But Santa Claus is not black. And the idea that making Santa Claus black will somehow be inclusive is silly in itself, because incoherence is not inclusive. This is a key point. Incoherence is not inclusive because what allows us to be inclusive at all, what allows us to exist in community at all, to communicate with one another, is the fact that there is an objective reality that corresponds with our reason, that allows us to use logic to come to certain conclusions that are objective and therefore communicable to other people through signs and symbols that we all agree upon. I hate to be so. I actually love to be so pedantic. This is a very important point. There has to be an objective reality. What is inclusive is truth. What is inclusive is logic. What is inclusive is objective reality. Because all of us, inasmuch as we are rational creatures, all of us can participate in that. When, however, we deny reality, be it through the transgender ideology, be it through some radical racial ideologies, what have you on the left or on the right, when we engage in the incoherent, we cease to be inclusive. We fall into the realms of subjective fantasy that are not Communicable to other people and that have us all grunting like baboons. Santa Claus is white. Have I said that? Have I made that clear enough? Okay, speaking of the North Pole, speaking of, I should say, materially abundant resorts in the middle of nowhere. We turn from the north pole to Little St. James Island. There's been a release of the Epstein files. The Epstein, you know, what are the Epstein. What are the Epstein files? Even all the files that come from the grand juries, that come from investigations that have remained heretofore locked up by the government. These are files that go back to 2007, when Epstein was arrested for weird sex stuff the first time. The Epstein scandal didn't become a major national issue until about 2014 or so. More on that in a moment. Then it started to hit in 2016, and it went away for a little bit. Then Epstein supposedly killed himself or didn't kill himself. And then now it's sort of an issue again when we talk about the Epstein files, the idea that there are smoking gun documents that say so and so did this or that so and so was working for this zillionaire or this government or this whatever, something that's really, really explicit. The idea that such a document would survive for. What are we at now, 18 years of scrutiny and shenanigans and chicanery is absurd. I've said this from the beginning. Either Epstein is who he says he is, just a rich guy with a lot of powerful friends who's a sex freak and that's it, or we will never know the full story about Epstein. And anyone who's telling you otherwise is lying to you to get clicks, because that's the cold, hard political fact of it. But there are a lot of pictures, and the government has now released some of these pictures. And there's a lot of pictures of Bill Clinton, a lot of pictures of Bubba out there. One in particular where it's Bubba next to some chicky, hands behind his head, chest bare, lying in a hot tub. Hey there, honey. Wow. I'm glad I'm not President Any. Do we have the picture of Noam Chomsky by any chance? This one's amazing. Noam Chomsky, one of the most preening leftists. I think he's still. I actually didn't realize he was still alive, but I googled it. He's still alive. He's 100 years old almost. And Noam Chomsky, he was actually quite a good linguist, but he's just an awful, preening leftist politically holier. Than thou, more moral than everybody. This is a picture of him on Epstein's jet. He spends his whole career talking about how we need to tear down the privileged and the elite and these dodgy people who work with all the politicians to control the world. And then there he is on the Epstein sex plane, just like, hey, Jeff, pass another glass of Dom Perignon, please. But most of the pictures that we're seeing are of Bill Clinton, and it's not Bill Clinton standing next to Epstein at a party. That's the famous picture of Donald Trump that the left is trying to use to say Trump is seriously implicated in Epstein. It's Bill Clinton with women, scantily clad, swimming next to him in a hot tub. It's Clinton with young looking ladies sitting on the armrest of his chair, on his lap on an airplane. It's Clinton looking compromised. Okay, brilliant politics in this release. Why? I'll tell you why. Clinton standing next to Kevin Spacey. That one's a little weird. I'll tell you why. It's a brilliant, a brilliant little scandal. Where is it? Where is it? Here we go. FT Financial Times. How Bill Clinton became the focus of the Epstein files. How Bill Clinton's subheader tranche of documents released by DOJ shifted the spotlight onto the former president. Shifted the spotlight. How Bill Clinton became the focus of the Epstein files. How short people's memories are. When the Epstein scandal first came to public attention around 2014, it was a Clinton scandal, it was a Democrat scandal. It's not that there weren't Republicans around Epstein sometimes, but the vast majority were very prominent Democrats. And the most prominent was Bill Clinton, who's in zillions of these photos. Bill Clinton, who is a well known sex freak. How Bill Clinton became the focus. It's not that he became the focus. He was the focus. And then Democrats Weekly, I believe, tried to make Trump the focus of the Epstein files. And then Trump wisely just released the documents and those facts made Bill Clinton the focus again. It refocused Epstein onto what it was always about, which was chiefly, though not exclusively, a Democrat scandal. What the release does is it gives the people what they're demanding, release the files. Okay, But I've got pretty decent sources, including liberals, who say that Trump, though he's mentioned, you know, he was friends with Epstein for a while, though he's mentioned in the files, he's not seriously implicated anywhere. And yet I'm not sure the same can be said of the prominent Democrats. So then Trump comes out, he says, all right, you want Me to release the files. I'll release the files. Hey, wait a second. You're shifting the focus onto Bill Clinton? Yeah, that's where it was before you guys tried to shift it. Okay, speaking of weird sex stuff, there's a story I want to get to, but I'm running late. This is in the Wall Street Journal about how a throuple had to redecorate a house. And the throuple, this is three men who are in some kind of bizarre, deviant relationship together. How they wanted to decorate a house. But what do you know? They all had different taste in home decorations. And it's really just a horrifying, horrifying, horrifying story that we'll have to get to tomorrow. Also, Fulton county just admitted that 315,000 votes in 2020 lacked poll workers signatures. Some of us raised questions about the integrity of that election in 2020. And other people on the left and on the right, even the people preening on the principled supposed people on the right said no. The reelection was totally fair. And looks like we were right again. Okay, we'll get to all of that, I guess tomorrow. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. 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Pendragon Cycle Characters
What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God? Is that who you think I was alone with? Maradin?
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Michael Knowles
I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
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All men know of the great Taliesin.
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Michael Knowles
You are my father. That the gods should war for my soul.
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Princess Garrus, savior of our people. I know what the bull God offered you. I was offered the same. And there is a new power at work in the world. I've seen it. A God who sacrifices what he loves for us. We are each given only one life, Singer.
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Michael Knowles
No.
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We're given another. I learned of Yazu the Christian, and I have become his follower.
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Michael Knowles
He's waiting on a miracle. And I think you can give him one.
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Trust in Yael. He is the only hope for men like us. Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the great light. Great light, Great darkness. Such things mattered to me then. What matters to you now, Mistress of lies. You, nephew. The sword of a high king. How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield? So clinging to the promises of a God who has abandoned you. I cannot take up that sword again. You know what you must do.
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Michael Knowles
Great life. Forgive me.
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The time has come. To be reborn.
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Steve Dace
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