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Okay, okay. So I know if you're only listening, you could maybe hear it there at the very end, where you get that Lion King, right, that for that one and a half seconds, there was this image of Barack and Michelle Obama with their heads on monkeys. And this was very, very racist. Of course, this is proof that Trump hates black people. This is the only thing that anyone knows about this post. 99.9% of the post was about voting machines and the potential of rigging in the 2020 election. But then there was this thing at the end, which I think very clearly was just an auto scroll, like you get on Instagram or Twitter or anywhere else, you play the video and then a new video pops up. Anyway, any case, that's the one that everyone's focused on, said, this is proof that Trump is really racist. So I said, okay, you know, it's not really tasteful to put black people's faces on monkeys. I certainly agree with that. So I don't Think he did this intentionally? I don't think he posted this. He obviously thought it was distasteful cuz he took the video down when he even got to the very end, if he got to the end the first time he saw it. But I said, let me go back to the original video. Not the voting machine one. I'm talking about that one that autoplayed there at the end. I just, I'm even skeptical that that video is racist. Not because of putting black people's faces on monkeys, but I'm skeptical of it because the libs have been lying about everything when it comes to Trump. So you know what, let me just go back. I found the original video. Here's the original video. I'll describe it to you if you're only listening. So we've got Brock and Michelle and their heads around monkeys. Okay, okay, that's a little distasteful, I think you would say. And then there's Hillary's like a warthog. And then Hakim is there. AOC is a donkey as his, as his new some. Pritzker is an elephant, Zoran is a leopard. Hold up, pause it, pause it. There's the key. Joe Biden is a monkey. So if this video, which is just all the Democrats looking like animals and then the punchline is Trump comes in as the lion and they say, you know, the lion sleeps tonight and he's the lion and they're all a bunch of animals, but if it were only black people as monkeys, I might be able to understand the outrage a little bit. So, you know, it's kind of distasteful, isn't it? But that's not what happened because here you have Joe Biden Vice president to Barack Obama and then the Democrat president that followed him as a monkey. Furthermore, in that very image, you got Joe Biden as a monkey eating a banana and then you've got Kamala as a turtle. Now Kamala, I'm reliably informed, is a black woman of color. So if this were a racist thing, Kamala would be the monkey and I guess Biden would be the turtle. And it would actually make more sense for Biden to be the turtle. Cuz Joe Biden's really slow and he's like 200 years old. So the craziest part about this, and I haven't really seen people talking about this, is yeah, okay, yes, it's distasteful to put black people's faces on monkeys. Sure, fair enough. Trump, clearly he didn't intend to do that. He almost Certainly didn't even see that he might not have posted the video himself. Very likely did not. He's got other things on his plate. And posting a video is a little more complicated than just sending out a tweet with a few lines that you type yourself. But beyond that, what everyone seems to agree on, including the conservatives, is but the original video in context is racist. And the fact is it's not in context. The original video itself is actually not even racist. In order for the original video to be racist, it would have to be the black people as monkeys and the non black people as not monkeys. But that's not what happened. You get Biden as the monkey and then to prove it, you get Biden and a black person in the very same frame and the white person is the monkey and the non white person is the turtle. A hoax through and through. And I don't know, it's crazy. I haven't even seen anyone defend that. Look, it's obviously Trump regretted posting it cuz he took the video down. But I don't wanna hear I've been seeing some conservatives saying, well, obviously the original video is racist. It's actually not. In its original context, you could say that making black people look like monkeys is racial and cruel or whatever, but in the context of the video, it's actually not. You don't even need to give libs that much. It is thoroughly, entirely, 100% grade A, USDA certified a hoax. Okay, speaking of criticizing Trump, which everyone loves to do, we have another Olympian throwing shade at Trump. This after. What was that guy's name? Rudolph Hess. Is that his? No, not Rudolph Hess. It was something Hess, whatever. Hess is the skier. He comes out and he starts attacking Trump and he says, you know, man, there's a lot of bad stuff in the country right now. I don't just cause I wear the American flag doesn't mean I represent America. Well, that's literally what it means. And that's all that it means. And then this figure skater chick comes out and she attacks Trump. And now we have the perfect exemplar of American Olympians criticizing Trump. And we have the perfect example of what is wrong with the Olympics. And that is this skier, Eileen Gu. Do you know Eileen Goo? I don't really follow the Olympics. I don't care for the Olympics. I don't watch it. I don't. It doesn't interest me. I think it's pagan and super lib and it just doesn't interest me. But some people like it, that's fine. De gustibus nun disputanda mest. Eileen Gu has just come out. She was asked about President Trump attacking the skier Hess, and Gu says, quote, she's sorry that the headline that is eclipsing the Olympics has to be something so unrelated to the spirit of the Games. She says, as someone who's been caught in the crossfire before, I feel sorry for the athletes. I hope they can ski to their very best. She's really upset. Trump. Oh, this Trump, he's just, you know, why does this headline have to take away from the spirit of the Games? What is the spirit of the Games? Is the spirit of the Games American athletes dissing America in a way. I was trying to read her comments as an esoteric defense of Trump, you know, I'm sorry that this headline is eclipsing the Olympics and so unrelated to the spirit of the Games. I was wondering if, in a way, she was thrown shade at Hess here. Hess should have kept his mouth shut and not undermined America kind of thing. Actually weird, maybe kind of weirdly defending the administration and the United States. But then you look at Eileen Guy and who she is, and you say, probably not. Eileen Gu is American. She was born in America. She's an American citizen. Her mother was an immigrant, but her father's American. She was raised in America. She was educated in America. She trained in America. She's lived basically her whole life in America. And she competes for China. She competes for China. Not only a different country, but America's chief geopolitical rival. She's competing for them. I thought, this is just perfect. This is the perfect example of what's wrong with the Olympics. First of all, a lot of athletes are like this. A lot of athletes live here. Maybe they're born here, they train here. They get all the benefits of being in America. And then they go back to their country and they compete for their actual country, not for America. And you say, all right, if it's a tiny little country somewhere in Africa or the Far east, if it's like Mauritius or something, you say, okay, why not? Okay, that's fine. When it's America's geopolitical rival, chief rival, China, you say, well, that's a little distasteful, isn't it? Maybe that's the word to describe all these stories today on the show. It's a little distasteful. But what are the Olympics? The Olympics are a modern invention. They don't go back to antiquity. There was an Olympics in antiquity, but the modern Olympics is a creation. That's roughly 100 years old. And it's to promote liberalism, internationalism, globalism, we would say today. And this is it. This is the kind of thing that the election of Trump was a rebellion against. This idea that people are gonna come here, they're gonna get all the benefits out of this country, they're gonna SAP this country dry, they're gonna get welfare benefits when they move to Minnesota, they're going to train at the best facilities, they're gonna go to the top schools, they're going to get the greatest legal and political protections, they're gonna benefit from this great economy, they're gonna benefit in every single way. And they're just gonna take, take, take, take, take. They're not going to consider themselves American, they're not going to assimilate, they're not going to adopt an American identity, which includes getting rid of your old identity in large part. No, they're gonna take, take, take, and then they're still gonna identify with their country of origin and they're even going to help their country of origin to compete against the United States economically, politically, maybe militarily, and in this case, in skiing, in athletic games. This is it. She says, I'm sorry that these headlines are contradicting and eclipsing the spirit of the Olympics. I'm not, I'm thrilled that these headlines are eclipsing the spirit of the Olympics. Cuz the spirit of the modern Olympics is terrible. It's a horrible spirit. And it is actually that spirit which was the cause of the election of Donald Trump. It wasn't literally the, it wasn't practically the Olympics, but it was that spirit that animates the Olympics. That is what galvanized people to vote for Trump in 16 and 2020 and 2024 and to win the popular vote in 2024. A rebellion against this globalism, this liberalism that diminishes the United States, that does not really benefit, that does not constitute our strength, that does not create a beautiful, delicious stew in a melting pot that's greater than the sum of its parts. That's the spirit of it. Okay, speaking of attacks on Trump, there's a really weird one. I teased it yesterday. I think I teased it in Illinois. 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And the ways in which the people who think they're the good guys very often are the bad guys. This is from Waukegan High School in Illinois. They had an anti ice protest with hoisting Mexican flags. Of course, they almost never hoist the American flag. It's the Mexican flag. And they erected. This is pretty disturbing. They erected a cross and they crucified an effigy of Trump. And they made him look kind of fat, mostly naked, wearing a MAGA hat. I don't love this display because it's so vile and sacrilegious. But I love the point they accidentally made. The libs thought they were really going to. First of all, students at high school should not be doing this. Whatever. Teachers encourage this. There are people with gray hair over there. Those people need to be fired. Obviously, these students need to be severely punished and they should be grounded by their parents. They should be suspended from school. Maybe they should be expelled. This is pretty outrageous stuff. And has no place in a high school. However, notice the imagery here. These libs have become so deranged, or they're just so ignorant, their intellects are darkened by sin and ignorance that they think the way to get Trump is by comparing him to God. They think the way that they're gonna really stick it to Trump, that guy that they hate so much, is by comparing him to. What is that? Oh yes, Christ crucified. This mob of students here is reenacting the Passion, except they're on the side of the mob calling for Barabbas, calling for Christ to be crucified. I don't know if you've ever read the story. I hope you have. If you haven't, the mob, it's not the good guys. You know who the good guy is? God. Christ, the one that they're crucifying and they're comparing him to Trump and they don't even realize that they're doing it. This reminds me of something that it wasn't just ignorant high school students, it was ignorant members of Congress and governors and politicians did some years ago. Do you remember after the 2020 election about which President Trump is still posting videos, potential rigging. Do you remember what the libs said? They said that Republicans had perpetrated the big lie. They said, you Republicans who are denying the results of the election, libs have denied the results of basically every single election they've lost in my lifetime, going back to Bush v. Gore at least. But nevermind that. They said, you Republicans who are denying the results of the election by pointing out that the rules were all changed at the last minute in some cases illegally and unconstitutionally. They said, you all are perpetrating the big lie. That was the phrase you heard on cnn, on MSNBC, and the Washington Post, in the New York Times, all over the place. And they used that phrase specifically because they associated this phrase with Hitler. It's the big lie. Like the Nazis, like Hitler. And what was so amazing about them using that phrase is that that phrase was coined by Hitler, by the Nazis. The phrase appears in Mein Kampf. The phrase is not an accusation from the Allies or from the Jews or from the innocent German people against the Nazis. Au contraire me frere. That was a phrase used by the Nazis against the Jews. They didn't know it, cuz they don't know anything about history. So they're using this phrase. They're saying, you Republicans, you Republicans are pushing the big lie. In so doing, they were putting themselves in the place of Hitler and they were putting Trump and the Republicans in the place of the persecuted Jews. You couldn't make it up. If you were writing a Hollywood screenplay about this, you could not make it up. It was so on the nose. And now you have these liberal high school students being pushed by their parents and by Democrat politicians all around the country. You have them putting themselves in the place of the crowd calling for the crucifixion of Christ, in whose place they put Donald Trump. Couldn't make it up. Really makes you think. Maybe sometimes when you think you're the good guy, maybe you're actually the baddie. Maybe you should have some introspection and you should examine, examine your conscience and have a touch of humility to ask yourself, is what I am doing actually right? This is the whole point. This is the central debated point of that stupid halftime show with what's his face? Bad Bunny. Have you seen this going around? There's this picture from the Bad Bunny halftime show, Levi's Stadium. And then up there on the big billboard next to Bud Light. Very fitting. It says, white background, black text, all caps. The only thing more powerful than hate is love. And then some guy, it's gone totally viral. Almost 4 million views, tweets this out and says, imagine getting mad about this and still thinking you're a good person. Why would you get mad at the transvestite, anti American, vulgar degenerate rap singer babbling in a foreign tongue that the vast majority of Americans don't speak while featuring two men grinding on each other in front of a sports game that is supposed to be viewed by children? Why would you get mad about that? A guy who disses America even in the phrase God bless America. How could you get mad about that? When he put up a sign that said love is better than hate, how could you get mad about that? We'll get to how you could get mad about that. First though, I want to tell you about stash. Go to get.stash.com knowles. You do not need to overhaul your life to start investing. Just automate it. With Stash, your new year money goals can quietly run in the background while you focus on everything else. 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See the Advisory Agreement and Deposit Account Agreement for details. Investment Advisory services offered by Stash Investments, LLC and SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Investing involves risk Imagine getting mad about this this is a meme. This is a meme that the right uses to make fun of the left. And the left is now just doing it sincerely, unironically. And the meme is, you know, the left comes out as they're like killing people, slaughtering babies, you know, mutilating little children, flooding the country with rapists and poison peddlers and murderers. And they say, yeah, but we stand for love. We define everything we do as love and everything you do as hate. So we're actually the good guys. Did you know that? Did you know that when the libs redefined marriage for basically the first time in human history anywhere, and they did so in such a way that excludes mothers from their children, from families, or alternately excludes fathers from families, leads to all sorts of horrible things, up to and including creating children for the purpose of denying them their natural mother and father. You know, really heinous stuff. But what did they say? They said, love is love. Love is love. Love wins. How could you oppose love? Why are you we have defined the disordered things that we're doing that are contrary to reality and to the common good and human flourishing. We've defined them as love. And if you oppose us, you hate love. Huh? Checkmate. Checkmate, conservatives. This is like when Anthony Kennedy decided to abdicate his responsibility to interpret the law as a Supreme Court justice, and he instead decided to write cheap romantic poetry that is fitting for an 8th grade English class. And he decided that his interpretation of the Constitution was going to find a right to privacy, just as he earlier in an abortion case had found a right to define the sweet mystery of life. Somewhere in the Constitution, I don't know where it is, and they say, look, we support mystery. We support love. We support life. Well, life, that's the key here is when your lib friends send that meme around hate is worse than love. Love beats hate. How could you get mad at that? Bad bunny had a sign. How could you get mad at that? The point you should tell them is that you are pro life and they are angry at people who are pro life. Imagine being against life and thinking you're the good guy. And what would they say? They would say, no, no, no. But you're not really pro life. You're anti choice. You want to control women's bodies. You wanna. And they'd use all their own silly euphemisms. You say, okay, okay, okay. Before we get into the abortion issue, I just want to point out you have granted me the premise. You have accepted the premise that sometimes people use words in ways that can be misleading or tell a partial truth or at the very least, can be euphemistic. You've granted that point, right? Okay, great. So you don't like my phrase pro life. I think pro life is an honest phrase that accurately depicts what we're talking about. But you dispute that. Okay, fine. Then let's dig into the real substance of it. I support the law that coming in and restricting women from going to a medical professional to kill her baby. That's what we're talking. You wanna get past the euphemisms and the slogans. That's what we're talking about. And what you support is women being able to kill their babies in defense of their own disordered autonomy. Right? That's what we're talking about with marriage. You support excluding mothers, or alternately, fathers from marriage and denying babies their natural mothers or fathers. Okay. That's what you support. Along with other acts that we don't even need to get into. When it comes to gay marriage, I support. Not that I think that babies have a right to their mothers and their fathers. So let's get down to the brass tacks. But I think what you will find as the libs promote all their slogans. Love beats hate. Love is love, Love wins, whatever. I think you will find the conservatives are more than happy to put the slogans aside and talk about the real issue. The libs will focus on more and more hyperbolic and preposterous slogans. They will do whatever they can to avoid looking at the real issue. They will only speak in euphemisms. And that very fact tells you everything you need to know about the issues. All politics uses slogans, but that fact tells you everything you need to know about the issues. The conservatives are using slogans and euphemisms to try to convey the truth. The left is using slogans and euphemisms to deny the truth. If that isn't the case, then let's get down to brass tacks. Let's talk about the details now. Turning from the party of love to the religion of peace. Zoran Mamdani, peace be upon him. The mayor of New York has defended the city's sanctuary city policies. Said this is a reversal from his predecessor, albeit a Democrat, Eric Adams. Eric Adams said illegal immigration is gonna destroy New York City. Zoran comes in, he says, no, no, no, we need more illegal aliens. Bring them here. All the rapists from MS.13, all the murderers from Trend Aragua, we want them. Come on in. The water's warm in the Kiwanis or whatever in the east river, so that's not surprising. We knew he was gonna run on that. He's a communist, so there's no surprise there. But listen to how he is defending the sanctuary city policies.
