Guest/Caller/Interviewee (18:30)

Ah.

Michael Knowles (18:31)

Oh, this is good. This is a good day. Now, just to give us a hint of what happens if we ever lose elections, here's Pramila Jayapal, one of my favorite members on the other side in the House, describing what the Democrats will do if they get the gavel. We really need to. As soon as we get the gavels back, we have to dismantle DHS and ICE and cbp and we have to. To reconstruct them to what they really should be doing. Remember, don't let people tell you that these are agencies that have always existed and they need to exist. They didn't exist before 9 11. They didn't exist before 9 11. We have to abolish ICE. This is a mainstream member of the House. We have to abolish ICE. And ICE didn't always exist. They didn't exist before 9 11. Okay, that's true. ICE was founded, I think, in 2003. But, you know, there was an agency that dealt with immigration enforcement before ice. Do you know what it was called? It was called ins. Some of the listeners will be too young to remember ins. Do you know what INS was? It was just ice. It was just ice, but spelled differently. You know how, like we have the CIA. The CIA stands for the Central Intelligence Agency. Now, the CIA didn't always exist. Before the end of the Second World War, there was no CIA. There was something called the oss, the Office of Special Services. That was just the CIA, like, things get renamed, they're reconstituted, but the tasks that they accomplish remain basically the same. So when she says, we're gonna abolish ice, when the Democrats say, we gotta abolish ice. ICE isn't even that old. We gotta abolish ice. You say, okay, are you just gonna bring back INS then and keep Border Patrol to enforce the law, to arrest these guys and deport? Is that what you want? Why do we need to abolish ice? Ask that question. Why is it that we need to abolish ice? What is it about ICE that you want to abolish that would not equally exist under INS or some other version of immigration enforcement? It is not some quirk of ice. It is not that they just don't like the uniforms. It is not that they don't like this or that. The thing they don't like about ice, the reason they want to abolish ICE is because they want to abolish immigration enforcement. But we have always had immigration law enforcement in this country. What the Democrats want to do is not restore some older form of immigration enforcement. They want to abolish it altogether. They've been pretty open about that. They opened up our border under Biden. Actions speak louder than words. They brought in 3 million illegals a year. They're now protesting in the streets, getting their lemmings killed, encouraging them to obstruct law enforcement to protect face tattooed rapists from Venezuela and fraudster Somalis. They want to abolish ICE because they want to abolish immigration enforcement, which is as radical a proposal as we've ever had. Just ask them that. Okay? We're going to bring back ins. That sounds great. Now, speaking of the police, there's something really, really beautiful about sometimes giving the libs what they want. On the case of abolishing ice, we should not. That would be too catastrophic. But sometimes the libs wish for things that they should not wish for. They need to be careful of what they wish for. One of the things libs wished for for a very long time was body cameras. Now prominent liberals are coming out against body cameras. What changed? We'll get to that in a second. First, I want to tell you about Van Man. Go to Vanman Shop Knowles. K W L E S Use code Knowles. Have you ever actually read what is in your toothpaste? Fluoride, sls, glycerin, foaming agents. Chemical cocktail you're putting in your mouth twice a day. Big Toothpaste has been selling you the same toxic formula for decades. Our sponsor, the Van Man Company is changing that with their miracle tooth powder. People are ditching traditional toothpaste by the thousands. 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He is anti police, wants to abolish all these law enforcement agencies. He's appeared on Democracy now to explain why body cams on cops are terrible.

Guest/Caller/Interviewee (23:44)

They said in the wake of Michael Brown, we'll market it to low information people in the public, to well meaning liberal people. We'll market it as accountability and transparency. And so they totally shifted. And then they were able to get hundreds of millions of dollars toward their goal of outfitting every single cop in the United States with a mobile surveillance camera that the police control. They control when it's on, when it's off, what it captures. When something is captured, it's released to the public. So if the police capture, let's say, an undocumented immigrant committing some crime, that's out on Fox News in the New York Post within hours. But if they capture the police doing something horrific, the public may never see that video. So body cameras are a mirage. And as I write in the Copaganda book, and this isit's really critical to understand exactly how it happens, not only do they not reduce police violence, but they have been an essential propaganda tool in convincing so many well meaning people across our society that the authorities care about police violence, that they want accountability, that they're doing something right. And it distracts people from the core important kinds of changes that we need, which is to reduce the size and power of these bureaucracies.

Michael Knowles (24:55)

Oh, yeah, hold on. He opens up, he goes, they push for these body cameras. You know what those body cameras do is they are propaganda tool. And this is what. Who is they though? To quote Kanye west, who is they though? What do you mean? They were pushing for body cameras? The people who pushed for body cameras were the Democrats. It was only the Democrats said, we need body. Now, some Republicans were okay with it. But in the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown, which was completely justified when the gentle giant Michael Brown, he was this young man who robbed a store and then harassed a cop, grabbed a cop's gun, actually discharged it in the car according to grand juries and eyewitnesses, then walked away and then charged at the cop, only then did the cop shoot him. And then the Democrats made up out of whole cloth a story about how Michael Brown was a sweet little boy who put his hands up and said, hands up, don't shoot. And. And the cop just Executed him like the Grand Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan. Just a complete fictional narrative. So the Dems said, we need body cameras on cops. And some Republicans said, no, we don't. This is a waste of time. But then the cleverer Republicans said, okay, okay, great. Because it was a test, a test of reality. The Democrats who called the smart Democrats did not call for body cameras. The really clever ones did not want body cameras because body cameras were always gonna show you the reality of criminals and law enforcement. And the reality of criminals and law enforcement doesn't look good for the criminals. And it does look good for law enforcement. But they called for, here it is. I mean, just in case you don't believe me, if you don't remember cnn, this is a clip from cnn. Barack Obama, right out of the horse's mouth. I'm gonna be proposing some new community policing initiatives that will significantly expand funding and training for local law enforcement, including up to 50,000 additional body worn cameras for law enforcement agencies. Need all those body cameras. Okay, so the sincere liberals really believed that more transparency would help their argument because it would show people the of the situation. And they believed the reality of the situation was going to buttress their side of the argument. Not the conservative side. Mind you, this is the party that thinks boys can be girls. Mind you, this is the party that thinks babies aren't really babies. They thought that reality was gonna back them up. And then what happened? They came out, they put the body camera, and it turns out the criminals are just awful. And 999 times out of 1,000, not even 999,999 times out of a million, the criminals who get beat up or shot while they're being arrested are getting exactly what they deserve. And the cops usually are showing restraint. Even in those cases. That's how it really works. The libs thought transparency would help them. It actually hurt them. This is the same with every single issue. The libs want to make a big show out of lgbt. I just mentioned it. They want to make a big show out of lgbt. We need more inclusion. We need more transparency. We need more visibility for transgenderism and lgbt. And then you know what happens look good on them? That they really in some cases believe what they're saying. So they say we need more visibility. And then we see the visibility of what transgenderism means. And it means lopping the breasts off little girls. It means castrating little boys, means hacking away at the skin and flesh and meat of a person's foreskin to construct A mutant grotesque phallus to create the simulacrum of an appendage of the opposite sex. The reality of it is anxiety, depression, suicidality, sterility and early death. That's the reality of LGBTism. The reality of LGBTISM is social discord and child abuse. That's the reality of it. So you want more visibility, Be my guest. We have had, there is no question from. Let's go back to Will and Grace, 1998, was it? 1999, Will and Grace, all the way up through Gavin Newsom saying, I wanna see more trans kids like a freak. We've had a lot of visibility. What's happened in that time? You had an increase in support for LGBT until just a few years ago. And then when that visibility really broke through, you've had a massive decrease on every front. Certainly transing the kids, transgender generally, same sex marriage, the list goes on and on. The visibility didn't help them. Same thing on abortion. You want visibility on abortion? Look at the little baby. Look at what the baby really looks like in the womb. This is why the pro abortion advocates don't want the reality of abortion ever to be seen. They don't wanna use the real words like baby or even fetus. They wanna see clump of cells or whatever cause the visibility, the transparency hurts them because reality's not on their side. Immigration. The reality of immigration is that the people who are coming to this country generally not ideal. The way they talk about it, they're all dreaming wonderful future engineers and doctors who wanna salute the flag and shoot off fireworks on the 4th of July. The reality is face tattooed rapists, human traffickers and drug dealers. That's the reality. So you bring in the visibility, the transparency. What happens? Trump wins the popular vote running on mass deportations. Which is why you want the proof of this. Here's the proof. Axios is reporting. Do I have it? Scoop? House Democrats told by leadership not to go to Minnesota. This is it. You want to know who's really winning the optics war in Minnesota you had some panicans on the right, some of whom were friends of mine, they say, oh, we're losing the optics war. This is really bad. We need to scale back in Minnesota. Look at the polling. Look, the polling shows that people, even though they overwhelmingly support mass deportations, it seems like they kind of want people out of Minnesota too. And what do we do? This is the biggest tell. Democrat leadership says yo, Dems do not own Minnesota. Do not own this. This is a loser for us. Why? Why isn't it working? Why isn't this working like George Floyd worked? Because two reasons. One, cuz the victims here, the people who have been shot justifiably are white. Had they been black, it might be a different story, but they're white. So it doesn't work. At a deeper level though, do you know why the House Democrat leadership wisely is telling their constituents, their members, not to go to Minnesota, not to own this issue? Because most people support mass deportations, that's why. Because we've seen the visibility of what immigration means. We don't like it, the American people don't like it. And the libs tried to make this a demographics issue. Or maybe we'll boost our support with Hispanics over the immigration issue. You know what's happened since Trump raided Minnesota? His support among Hispanics has gone up. Huge loser issue for the Dems. Okay, before we get into mailbag, speaking of migration, there's a great story out from the ap. Mass migration to Northern Europe has not changed Winter Olympics teams. This is really. There's been mass migration. Sweden, Norway, Denmark. And yet there's a scandal because you're not seeing enough Somalis and Eritreans on the snowboarding team. Immigration from Africa and the Middle east is changing the demographics of Europe's top winter sports countries, but that hasn't really translated to their largely white rosters heading to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. For instance, Team Sweden is almost entirely made up of ethnically Swedish athletes, which is hardly a reflection of the country's diversity, as Sweden has welcomed historic numbers of asylum seekers in recent decades. Experts point to social, financial and geographical barriers and believe there needs to be a big cultural shift for anything to change. Experts also believe that more needs to be done by winter sports to improve accessibility, specifically for immigrants and underserved communities. Quick question. Why? Why does that. The problem that the AP has is that the Swedish Olympics team is full of Swedes. Now, one might be tempted to extrapolate and say, yeah, shouldn't Sweden be full of Swedes? Hold on. Why are we just narrowing our question to the Olympics team? Why are there all these non Swedes in Sweden? However, let's just focus on the team and then the type of Olympics, the Winter Olympics, and then the sports. In my understanding of geography and history, Afghanis are not great skiers, I think. I don't think Somalis are the best snowboarders in the world. So they don't do those things. And maybe they could, but they don't. My bigger question is why do they have to? Why do they have to. Why is diversity this ultimate good? Amy Klobuchar just came out. She said that her favorite photo of her daughter. Do we have this clip of Amy Klobuchar, her favorite photo? It doesn't matter. I'll just tell you what she said. She said, my favorite photo of my daughter is one where she's surrounded by Somalis. I said, why? Like, I don't. We've been beating up on Somalis a lot recently and with good reason. But I'm not. They're children of God, right? You know, like I don't. I don't have anything in particular against the Somalis other than all the fraud and the piracy and the terrorism. But why would that be your favorite photo of your daughter? Like not her first communion? I don't know. That would be nice. Not her high school graduation, not her, you know, gram. Not the picture at Grammy and Gramps 60th wedding anniversary. No, it's just surrounded by a bunch of random Somalis. Why is that? Why is diversity the ultimate good? Why does the AP have to make this whole little documentary report saying, you know, many experts are saying that Sweden needs to get a bunch more Africans on their ski team. Like why? Why does that have to be done? Why do Africans have to be made to ski? The Jamaican bobsled team is a funny thing. That's kind of a one off though. They made a movie about it. Cause it's weird and funny. That's not normal. It doesn't have to be normal. Why is diversity the highest good? I'm not convinced that diversity is a good. I guess the diversity of life generally can be good. I just wouldn't make an idol out of it. And I think that strength comes from unity. Not exactly diversity. You know, when people say that diversity is the spice of life, you say, that's good. You only want a little spice though. When you make a stew, when you make a sandwich or something, you put a little spice on it. Not a lot of spice. Why is this the ultimate good? I don't know. I don't. I guess the reason is that the libs always pervert or even invert reality. And so we've seen the reality of diversity. What that means in Europe, in Northern Europe, you know what it means? It means the rise of far right political parties in Europe. Because this political realization is not just happening in America, it's happening throughout Europe too. The libs say, look at the reality of diversity. And then the people say, oh, yikes, this is what diversity means. No, thanks. Before we go I promised we would get to it. Michelle Obama describing how hard it is for black women because they never talk about their pain. We don't articulate as black women our pain because it's almost like nobody ever gave us permission to do that.

Guest/Caller/Interviewee (37:31)

And does anyone care?

Michael Knowles (37:33)

Yeah, there's. Will they care if that's. We knew? I think we would care if we knew. If we knew. Yeah, if we knew. If we only knew. Did you know that black women sometimes are unhappy? Did you know that? Let's zoom in specifically on Michelle Obama. Did you know that Michelle Obama is displeased? I did know that. Do you know how I knew? Michelle Obama is displeased that she feels pain. Cuz she has never ever spoken a single word in public that was not a complaint in my experience. And I've been paying attention to Michelle Obama much longer than I wish I had for what, 17, 18 years now. Has she ever spoken in public without complaining? No, not to my knowledge. And then her poor. Is that her brother moderating the interview? Yes. No. I think. I think if we knew. Yes, if only we knew. If only the Michelle Obamas of the world would finally complain a little bit, then we would know of the pain that they're feeling. There's another story I really want to get to. I know I don't have time, but I'll just tease it for Monday. There's a Florida company, or, sorry, Florida couple suing an IVF company. There's a couple, white as the freshly driven snow, with a little baby that is either black or Indian. I think Indian. And it almost looks AI. But it's being reported in newspapers that they got the wrong baby from ivf, gave birth to this baby. It's the wrong baby.

Guest/Caller/Interviewee (39:15)

Oops.

Michael Knowles (39:16)

I really want to get to that story, but we don't have time. You know why? Because we got to get to the mailbag. Hey, what are you watching this weekend? I have the answer for you. There is a lot streaming on Daily Wire. Not just look, obviously we do the daily shows during the week. It's a ton of fun. But there is some great new stuff that is hitting the platform that you have to watch this weekend. That would be Matt Walsh's new documentary series. It's actually a docu series which is real history with Matt Walsh. He covers slavery. The. The libs are gonna hate it. It's gonna give you the real facts and you can go use it as ammo at the water cooler. Terrific story. You know Matt, he's got that kind of laconic dry it's excellent. The Pendragon cycle is getting rave reviews everywhere, including from people who hate the Daily Wire, including from people who hate conservatives and Trump. And it's just so unbelievably good, I cannot articulate how excellent it is. You have to see it to believe it for yourself. And then, most important of all, bar fight. We got bar fight coming out, baby. Go check out what is bar fight. You know what bar fight is? It's where I go to John Rich's bar down in Nashville. I debate two Libs. We have an audience that is lubricated, shall we say? It's great. It's very lively. You only get it on Daily Wire. Plus, if you're not a member yet, you have to go right now. Right now. Dailywireplus.com and join. My favorite comment yesterday is from Bugginout79 says Springsteen's new hit single Not Born in the USA, out this summer, cleared it. Absolutely. That's it. It makes it very. That's one of the handful of, like, very good Bruce Springsteen songs. Real big hits. And all you have to do is you just change it. Not born in the USA I'm not born. Okay, our mailbag is sponsored by PureTalk. Go to purertalk.com knowlescannawlas. You will get 50% off your first month. Take it away. Hello, Michael. I'm Thomas from South Carolina. I'm gonna talk really fast because it's a really long story and I need to just have you hear this. Me and my girlfriend broke up and it was a mistake and we need to get back together. And it's really complicated and it's really messy, but we both love each other still. And she just needs time and peace to heal from everything. And I think she just needs to take a step back. She started talking to another guy after we broke up, but after I came back into the picture, she's now confused and she doesn't know what she wants. Please pray that God would close the door with her and that other guy and that God would restore her in my relationship and that ultimately God would heal her and heal me and be glorified through all of it. Thank you, Michael. Please, please pray. And everybody else listening, I would appreciate that. I certainly can, certainly can pray. Obviously, I don't know the circumstances of your situation. I'm just reminded of that great old song, a lot of wisdom in it. They say that breaking up is hard to do oh, so hard to do it is very hard don't say that this is the end Instead of breaking up. We should be making up again, right? You guys, okay, you had a little rocky relationship, you broke up. You feel bad about something that you did. Maybe she's working it out so she's talking to some other guy because you broke up. Okay? And then you come back in the picture and now she maybe likes you again, and you say, I shouldn't have done this, I shouldn't have done that. Okay? Many such cases, a tale as old as time, and you say, I want to pray about it. You should. Prayer is the first resort, not the last resort. And everything in the entire cosmos is dependent on God and God's active involvement. That's absolutely true. And you are to cooperate with God's grace. All of which is prelude to say, you say, I hope that God breaks these two people up. Yes, you can participate in that though. And so a little bit of my rizzler advice here is, look, if you're coming back in the picture and something's materially changed and you realize you made a mistake or whatever, you can be instrumental in that. But you've got to walk a very, very difficult balance. You've got to seem like a gigachad who is interested, intentional, tough guy, you know, all that. You gotta seem like a man, confident. I want you, I need you. I love you. A lot of singing today, you gotta have that. But you don't want to seem like a crazy ex boyfriend. So you need to be far enough away, you need to have enough distance that she is enticed to return to you. Very difficult thing to walk in. The Ars Amaturia by Ovid the Art of Love Ovid is talking. He talks about how to get over breakups, how to you get rid of all the portraits you have of the girl. And you don't. You behave in a way that creates that kind of distance. So you have to do both of those things. I know that those seem like they're at odds. They're not necessarily. It's that kind of, I love you, I want you. I'll never be the same without you. I need to date you. But if you don't look my way, so be it. Maybe I'll go talk to another girl too. It's that kind of, you gotta walk that tension. Most important thing, do the right thing. Be moral, upright, pray, rely on God's grace, all those things, most important thing. And then also be the kind of guy that the girl is gonna be attracted to. You understand? It's like good advice for actors who want to go on auditions. Don't think about. Good advice for anybody who goes to get a job. Don't think about, hey, here's what I want out of this experience. Just think, hey, how can I help you? Hey, what can I do to be the kind of person that you are going to want to hire? That's how I would think about it. Okay, next question. Good morning, Michael, this is Arun. So I was just at a local Republican Party event in my neighborhood the other day and a woman expressed to me her concern that the unpopularity of the ICE raids in Minneapolis could cost us in terms of statewide races, including our ability to potentially take the governorship back from the dfl. I am curious if you think that this is true and if so, how should we politically act on this here in Minnesota? Thank you as always for your wisdom. Good question as always, Arun, A great deal of sophistication to your question. Cause had you asked me, is this gonna hurt Republicans in the midterms generally, I would say no. And my evidence is that the House Democrats are saying, don't own Minnesota. This is actually. Maybe some of you think it's good for us, it's bad for us. Get out of there. Don't own this. But you said statewide races. That's different. And I'm simply not expert enough at the political dynamics going on in Minnesota. But I could see it being the case that I For a Minnesota Republican to win, you gotta play things a little differently than a national Republican. So it might. It might hurt Republicans and statewide racists in Minnesota. Now, you know, again, Minnesota's the only state that voted against Reagan in 84. So Minnesota's had a lib problem for a long time. You can't blame that one on the Somalis. That one goes way back, goes back to the Mondale days. So it might. It might. And Republicans might not make pickups in Minnesota. They might. Who knows? Enough Normie Minnesotans who are outside of the Twin Cities area might be so scandalized by what's going on, by the leftist violence that they come out in bigger numbers. But otherwise, yeah, probably the more realistic thing to hope for is Republicans don't do as well in Minnesota, but they do better. They outperform expectations elsewhere around the country because of this. Should we try to get. I never get to written mailbag. I'm gonna try to get to that today. At least one or two I gotta bring in more written mailbag. This is from Don E. Michael. I'm a Gen Z man trying to navigate this modern dating world. One fear I have stems from the comment section of a TikTok I saw in the video a girl said on her wedding day if that one guy who didn't treat her right shows up and is ready to commit, she will leave and go with him. There were thousands of girls in the comments saying it was relatable. I am scared any girl I meet will have outstanding feelings for another man. More so than their feelings for me. Should I only date a girl with no dating sexual history? Thank you for everything you do, Don. Maybe I would probably make things easier for you. A little hard to do these days just given modern dating dynamics and social and sexual mores. But yeah, I mean that'd be good, I guess, but it's a little tricky really here I think even beyond the sluttiness of it all, which is that's what you're asking about specifically. But it's really more, I think about time. I think it's really more about time when the girl. I haven't seen the TikTok though. I've heard tell of this, this thing going viral of, you know, it's my wedding day. But if that one guy, the one who got away from all those years ago, if he showed back up and said he changed his ways, I'd go with him in a minute. Ah, you know, there's nothing like your first, I guess. And it shows another aspect of modern dating culture which is we delay everything. So you get married a lot later, people have a lot more partners, not just sexual partners, but even just romantic partners. General things are more casual. And so you lose something of great value. You know me, I'm a very blessed man. I married my high school sweetheart, sweet little Alisa. I've known sweet little Alisa since we were at least 11, maybe 10. We don't remember it was that long ago. And there's something real nice about that. And modernity tells us that these long standing bonds, in some cases unchosen bonds or bonds that come about from your happenstance that time, the tradition that just that kind of growing together, that that's not really valuable really, you need to grow entirely on your own and become an independent individual. And then when you're 38, you can meet someone who's also an individual and then that'll be better than marrying your high school sweetheart. And maybe there are some advantages to that, but I don't see a lot because as you grow, it's like your bones, when your bones are young, they're kind of nimble and they grow and they move and they change. And when they're old, they harden, they ossify. And it's hard to. It's hard to bend to get as. You have to bend when you're in a relationship, when you're married, but you do have to bend when you're married. And that's kind of like procreation. And we don't need to get into that. You have to bend emotionally and personally, and it's harder to do that when you're a more hardened, ossified person. So I think the idea of this nostalgia, this longing for all. If only my high school or college boyfriend showed up on my wedding day, I'd go run to him or something. It's this longing for something that is lost and irretrievably lost in modern culture, which is. I wish my spouse and I had real shared experience. You know, I wish we really. We came up together. I wish. You know, and that. That seems kind of gone, so I wouldn't. I wouldn't worry so much about the nitty gritty particulars of if your girlfriend, like, dated a guy or something before. That's not so much it. I think it's more the time, the experience, the growing together, I think. But I don't know. You gotta make sure, though. You don't want a gal who's gonna leave you at the altar. That's. Some of these. Some women really are fickle. So you don't want that. Okay, it's fake headline Friday. The rest of the show continues now. You don't want to miss it. Become a member. Use code nollescanawles Check out for two months free on all annual plan. What was it like, Merlin? To be alone with God? Is that who you think I was alone with? Martin? I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world. All men know of the great Taliesin. You are my father. That the gods should war for my soul. Princess Garrus, savior of our people. I know what the bull God offered you. I was offered the same. And there is a new pirate work in the world. I've seen it. A who sacrifices what he loves for us. We are each given only one life. Singer. No, we're given another. I learned of Yesu the Christ and I have become his follower. He's waiting on a miracle. And I think you can give him one. 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