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Gavin Newsom has a novel campaign pitch to woo black voters to his incipient presidential campaign. And the pitch is that he's stupid and therefore just like them. I kid you not. Then just when you thought that woke was dead, Star Trek goes both gay and trans. Which I don't really care about Star Trek. But it's all an ominous sign as to what happens if the Democrats win the midterms and a social media porn lady goes viral for reasons that are even worse than you can imagine. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Some good news out of the administration. Tom Homan is confirming that President Trump's ICE has located 145,000 kids who went missing under Joe Biden. We'll get to that and we'll get to this great shift in messaging. First though, I want to tell you about PureTalk. Go to PureTalk.com knowles K N A W L E S Do you know what holiday our sponsor, PureTalk, celebrates this month? President's Day. 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You know what I'm talking about, slim. Now, I want to be. I want to be fair. Some people are saying, no, he's not talking to black people. I mean, he's literally talking to a black guy. He's like pointing at him, saying, I want you to know I'm just like you. I'm dumb. I'm real dumb. You dig, kid? That's right, jive turkey. But some are saying he's not just talking to black people, he's just speaking generally. It just so happens the person he's talking to literally is a black person. But you hear that diction. He says, I want you to think I'm all there. Even that kind of language, that's not pure jive, that's kind of a creole jive. It's kind of a bastardized jive between jive and white. But I think he's trying to do a black thing. And he's certainly very much talking to a black guy. And his pitch is, I want you to know I'm just like you. I'm really like you. I'm really dumb. This is pitch I did really poorly on the sat, you know, like below the average score because I'm dumb. I don't even read. You know what I. You know what I mean, homie? Let's. How about you and me, after we do this little confab here, how about you and me go lights up a blunt? What do you think about that? And you know what we can do then? Not read books. That's what we'll do. Cuz I'm just like you, bro. You dig, homie? It's so bad. And you might say, no, Michael, you're making a mountain out of a molehill. That's not what he said. He's not pretending to be like a black guy, but one I think he is. I think you get that from his Diction. And you get it from what he's already done. Remember when he went on that black show and he pretended that he grew up in the hood playing basketball, eating mayonnaise sandwiches? You remember that? He's like, yeah, man. You know, I don't have the clip on me, but the clip is almost verbatim. Yeah. When I was growing up, my pops was around a lot, you know, he wasn't. So I was just me there shooting hoops, eating mayonnaise sandwiches when my moms would call me in from the. From the ball court, you know, you dig? He was doing that. I'm barely embellishing it all this is him. He's appealing. He's attempting to appeal to black people by claiming to be stupid. You could not. A conservative comedy show could not possibly script that any better. And he's doing it. And the crazy thing is, it might work. Some are saying that this is disqualifying. Some are pointing out that this is quite offensive to black people. Sean Hannity said thinks a 960sat makes him like black Americans. Let that sink in. And Newsom responded. He can tell that this is potentially a political liability. He responded to Sean and said, you didn't give an shit about the President of the United States of America posting an ape video of President Obama or calling African nations shit holes. But you're going to call me racist for talking about my lifelong struggle with dyslexia? Spare me your f fake effing outrage, Sean. The epidemic of Democrat politicians whining the F word has got to stop. Chris Murphy, Democrat senator from Connecticut, did the same thing. Today was a tough effing day. I don't like it when politicians go blue generally. And I know Republican politicians go blue, Democrat politicians go blue. They use vulgar language, but at least when the Republicans do it, it's kind of tough and funny. Again, I don't even approve of that. But it's better than when the Democrats say, you effing jerk. Why would you say that effing thing to me? Somehow it's even worse. It's tedious, it's annoying, it's embarrassing on top of being vulgar. In any case, Newsom can tell this is an issue because this is a gaffe that is akin to when Joe Biden said that poor kids are just as bright as white kids. You remember that one? Poor kids. This one, I think, is verbatim. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. So Biden said that one. This is an analogy. I know that Gavin Newsom apparently didn't do very well on the sat. But this is an analogy that Biden is too. Poor kids are just as bright as white kids as Newsom is to. I'm just like you black people. I'm real dumb. They're a similar kind of gaffe. They're analogous. However, can't help but observe Biden did become president. Even if you think that the general election in 2020 was a little sus. He got the nomination, he became president. So Newsom is the Biden of this race. He's younger, but you know Biden, back in his day, he was tall, good looking, pretty slick, silver tongue. Devil Newsom is that too. This is Newsom's poor kids are just as smart as white kids. But the guy who made that first gaffe became President Newsom might too. In any case, don't let Newsom live that one down. As we age, as our culture becomes even more decadent, we become blunter, we become a little less nuanced, a little less polished. In the 80s, we had Reagan soaring over the shining city on a hill. And then the heir to the Reagan revolution was Donald Trump who said, I don't call women fat and ugly, only Rosie o'. Donnell. Both of them had rhetorical effects. One was for a more modest age, one is more for a blunter age. And same thing here with this gaffe. Don't let him live it down. In any case, black voters for Newsom. Hey, he says he's dumb like us, okay? Now, speaking of Democrat politicians crashing out over gaffes, AOC has finally responded to her own gaffe. At the Munich Security Conference, when AOC was asked about Taiwan, it was a very simple question and AOC didn't have an answer. And do we have the clip? Actually, this is the clip from the Munich Security Conference. Would President aoc, she wants to run for Senate. She's potentially a presidential contender. Would you defend Taiwan? One of the most basic questions in US foreign policy. Here's her answer. Would and should the US actually commit US troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move? You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a, this is of course a very long standing policy of the United States. And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point and we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise. So very embarrassing. Um, would I. Well, actually I just don't want it to be a problem in the first place. That was the best thing she could come up with. So that was 10 or 11 days ago. She's finally responded to this humiliating clip and the response is almost worse. We'll get to that momentarily. First though, I want to tell you about row nutrition. Go to ro nutrition r h o nutrition.com, use code knowles. We're not living in quite the clean natural world that our grandparents did. 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So right now go to rownutrition.com, use code knowlescanawlas for 20% off site wide that is rownutrition.com code knowles AOC humiliates herself on the world stage at the Munich Security Conference. Everyone makes fun of her. This is her response. If you think that I don't understand foreign policy because out of hours of discourse about international affairs, I paused to think about one of the most sensitive geopolitical issues that currently exist on earth. I'm afraid the issue is not my understanding, but rather the problem is perhaps you've gotten adjusted to a president that never thinks before he speaks one. Why does she sound like that? And the answer is because she's been scream crying for the past week and a half cuz she just blew up her presidential chances over this very simple question. Well hey, would you maintain the United States decade long policy of defending Taiwan? Gosh, that's a tough one. And then presumably when the entire world made fun of her and her chances of getting the nomination becoming President declined. She just started just, ah, just shrieking for a week. So anyway, so she lost her voice and then her excuses. She needed time to think. That was the best she could come up with. The Munich Security Conference was a week and a half ago. It was like 10 or 11 days ago, maybe more. And the best she could come up with in all of that time. In other words, her response to the gaffe was just as embarrassing as the gaffe itself. What was the gaffe? The gaffe was, this lady can't think on her feet. She's not so bad. Well, she's not great, but she's more persuasive when someone writes her lines for her. This was the knock on aoc, going back to her first campaign when they said, this chicky doesn't know anything, but she's got some Democrat operatives who are writing the script for her. And then she kind of overcame that and she became her own woman. And she was being spoken about, serious. I mean, she was. People forget she was such a punchline in 2018, 2019. Then she kind of became her own woman. People started talking about her as a potential senator, maybe even a president. But then she gets thrown into the big leagues at the Munich Security Conference. She's asked a basic question and she can't even speak. She is struck uncharacteristically silent, and then she can't even figure out how to respond to the gaffe. So she waits however many days before she posted that. Say, I don't. Wow, talk about the, you know, the medium being the message. The fact that she couldn't even really speak shows you that she was struck dumb by having to think on her feet, by having to speak extemporaneously. Not ready for primetime. Which is good news for Gavin. We all make fun of Gavin, but Gavin is slick. And right now, one of his serious rivals for the nomination. Aoc not looking good. Her stock is falling. Now, speaking of maleducation, the Florida Education association is under serious pressure, under real scrutiny, because at a press conference that they held just some days ago, an activist spoke at their press conference and said that students in Florida are required to walk out of class, walk out of their school to protest ice, to protest the enforcement of federal immigration law. Lest you think that I am mischaracterizing this, here's what they said. Florida students are confronted with videos of ICE raids, of families being torn apart, and of Americans being murdered for using their constitutional rights. They respond, they organize, they speak out, and they do what American students have always done in Moments of injustice, they stand together and demand safety for their peers, their families and themselves. And that response, while framed by some politicians as radical, is rather reasonable. It's rational, and in a moment like this, it is required to any students being told that they do not have the right to speak out or walk out on their campus. I want to be clear. This is the United States of America. You do not shed your first Amendment rights when you step foot through the schoolhouse. It is not only rational, reasonable, it is required for students in K through 12 education to walk out of their classroom to become truants, delinquents, to protest basic federal immigration law. So says the Florida Education Association. So the fea, which is just one of the many public teacher unions that are wreaking havoc across the country and destroying kids education, they realize this is a pretty bad look. This looks like they are not only undermining their own purpose as an organization, their purpose really, their purpose is just to pad the pockets of bad teachers. But ostensibly their purpose is to defend education, you know, by defending the interests of the educators. So what they're really after is just a good education for everyone. Not only does it look like they're undermining their purpose by telling kids to walk out of class, but they might be breaking some laws here by encouraging truancy. So in any case, they realize it's a bad deal and they came out really strongly and said, no, no, no, we don't support this. This has nothing to do with us. According to WLRN Local Florida reporting, Spar, the head of the teacher union said that that activist guy is not a member of the union, not affiliated with the union in any way, and was sharing his own opinion. The FDA has not and will not organize or encourage any effort in which students walk out of class for protest. Any suggestion otherwise is untrue and likely nothing more than an attempt to turn legislators against the hard working teachers and staff of our great state. It's not true. This guy has no connection to the union. Could have fooled me. You know, it's kind of weird that he has no connection to the union because when I watch that video, there's a big sign, like a step and repeat kind of sign that says Florida Education association behind him. And he's standing there at a lectern at a press conference arranged by the Florida Education association and he's surrounded by people who are associates of the Florida Education Association. So it's kind of weird. What did he do? He just wandered in. He was this guy. Don't worry I'm gonna take the microphone and say things that this teacher union totally does not agree with at all. Hmm. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Obviously, they support this. They realize they're in trouble, but they literally supported it. They gave that guy the microphone. They have encouraged this sort of stuff. And so what do we do about that? We have to press our advantage here. Okay. We're gonna face a very difficult midterm year, play that kind of stuff. More importantly, take some real action. Do whatever you can to crush that union. Politics is not debate club. This is a point when we're talking about foreign policy, when we're talking about domestic policy. This is a point that the ideologues on the left and the right don't seem to understand. They think politics is debate club. I like debate club. I've been in debate clubs in my life. It's a lot of fun. Politics is not debate club. Politics, we hope, involves rational debate and discussion. The law, we hope, has a connection to transcendent truths and objective reality. But the way politics is conducted is between powers and interests in real life, between organizations that have money, that have power, that have infrastructure. And the way you win in politics, you want to ground your ideas in the truth and in justice, and you want to make reasonable arguments that persuade people. But you have to win. You have to really win in a tangible way. And that involves suppressing your opponents infrastructure and organizations, suppressing their power and adding to your own power and exercising your power, ideally in a just way. So I'm glad that it looks like Florida Republicans are really circulating this. That's great. But we need to, and DeSantis has done a great job of this in Florida. You need to then take those moments of opportunities to wield the power of the state in a just way to crush these people who are wielding real state authority to undermine the law, undermine the common good, and undermine kids education, good opportunity. Okay, Speaking of what your kids are learning, you thought woke was dead. Just when you thought woke was dead, that it was safe to turn on the TV again. Star Trek Goes Gay and Trans. Honorable assembly, my opponent, for those of you who are listening. I thought this was fake. I thought this was AI. I don't think it is. There's a black alien and a white alien, like a kind of Latino alien, and they're in an embrace. Come on. Come on. And I guess there's ostensibly sexual tension here until the black alien pulls away, but he still clearly wants to be there. There's supposed to be tension did we confirm? Is this real? I still even watching it again, I don't. I can't believe it's real. It's real. It's real. Mr. Davies says. The love that dare not speak its name. Gay alien stuff. And apparently that one of the aliens. I don't know. I'm not a big Star Trek guy, but I don't know. One of the Dumbledores, one of the Jedi one. The of he wears a skirt or a dress at some point. Anyway, it goes full on. 2022, you thought this was over. At the end of 2023, you thought Woke was dead, right? It's not. Why do I mention this show? It's Star Trek. Starfleet Academy. It's the new Star Trek show. It's got a 4.3 out of 10 on IMDb. That's a lower score even than Gavin Newsom got on the Satisfaction. Obviously people hate this kind of stuff, but why do I mention it? Just because it's weird and gross. But no, the reason I mention it is to remind you, maybe to inform you that Woke was not actually defeated. Woke was temporarily set back by the election of Donald Trump, by Trump winning the popular vote, by the Republicans having unified government, a circumstance that might not continue for very long, depending on how the midterms go. But Woke is still alive and it's waiting to pounce again. The libs did not see the light. The libs were not persuaded of anything. They were afraid that Trump would punish them after the Republicans got unified government. So they chilled out a little bit. But they're waiting. They're waiting to go all in on the trans again. They're waiting to go in on the gay stuff again. They're waiting to go all in if Trump loses the midterms. This stuff is coming back because the Democrats are going to try to impeach Trump. They might succeed depending on what happens with the Senate. Who knows? Anything could happen. I don't know. Could they convict him? Probably not, but who knows? I don't know. So what do we do? Is there any way to defeat woke? There is. There's probably not a way to totally defeat the left, just generally in America, but you could maybe defeat these extreme versions of it and make them kind of chart a new course. But the way that you're going to do that is not just by having a unified government for two years. Do you remember how we beat Japan? Remember we fought this war? Japan declared war on us. Germany declared war on us, too. This is a while ago. I don't know if you're history buffs. But in the Second World War, Japan declares war on us. And then we won and we defeated them and we changed their culture, and now they're a close American ally. The way that we did that was not just over the course of two years. And it wasn't thanks to just some election. It took almost seven years and two nuclear bombs and rewriting their entire constitution. That's how we change. It's amazing, right, that Japan would declare war on us. They were this extremely savage country before we got there and brought some ships and made them shape up. Savage country with kamikaze pilots. And it was crazy. And we did transform Japan, and now it's a strong, great American ally. I really like Japan, but that took almost seven years. Even after dropping two nukes, shredding their system of government, just upending the whole country, rewriting their constitution still took, like, seven years. Which means we have to win the midterms. We probably won't, but we need to keep winning elections. We have to win in 2028. We have to win in 2032. And this is not just the typical Republican operative. This is the most important election of my lifetime. Maybe it is, maybe it is. Maybe 2024 was a more important election. Maybe 2016 was a more important election. I'm not making that claim. The claim I'm making is that in order to have any meaningful shift in the culture, we have to keep winning for a long period of time. It's not enough just to win once. Some people say, well, we also need to codify our wins in legislation and not just executive orders. Yeah, sure, that too. But you know what? We also need judicial rulings. And we also need to just, like, fire a lot of people and install new people and then keep those people there for a long time. We need time is what we need. That's what we need. Time. And to get time, you need to keep winning a lot. It's great to win an election and then suppress your opponents a little bit. But you know what's a lot better? Winning election after election after election, and then just suppressing them in a way that makes it a lot harder for them to get back up. Who's the most consequential Democrat president in history? It's not even close. And you should know it off the top of your head. Franklin Roosevelt. Some would say, oh, maybe Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson was the architect. Roosevelt was the guy who actually built the house and lived in it. Woodrow Wilson had the leftist, progressive vision. Roosevelt was the one who transformed our government. The way that administrative agencies work, the way that our court works, just transformed the whole country. You know why and how? Because he had time. Because he won four terms. I'm not saying that we're gonna repeal the 22nd Amendment. Almost certainly we will not. Though it's worth pointing out that Ronald Reagan, by the end of his second term and after he left office, vigorously campaigned to repeal the 22nd Amendment. Term limits for president. Cuz there is a term limit, the actual term limits at the ballot box. I digress. We just need time. Are we gonna get time? I don't know. I hope so. Sure hope we do. Speaking of degraded media, a very famous social media porn lady has announced that she's pregnant. She's going very, very viral. And the reason is so much more perverse than you can. I'm not encouraging you to imagine how it's perverse. Don't. Nope. Custody of the mind. Don't. But I'm just. The reason she's going viral right now is even more perverse than you can imagine. First though, I want to tell you about armra. Go to armra.com knowles k n w L E s true self reliance begins with taking control of your health. Our sponsor, armor Colostrum, harnesses nature's original blueprint for resilience. Packed with over 400 bioactive nutrients, colostrum fortifies your gut and strengthens your immune system from the cellular level up. When you invest in your health, you invest in your ability to show up fully, think clearly, and stay in control no matter what comes your way. Our bodies are under constant assault. Toxins, processed foods, relentless stress. Your gut is your first line of defense. And most supplements only address part of the problem. 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And so they've all had these stunts for some time now. And now her latest claim is that she is pregnant and that she visited a doctor to see the baby on an ultrasound. Guys, I am definitely pregnant, like fully pregnant. So I'm going to have to chat gbt what to do next because I actually not quite sure. You see anything. One second. What? Is that the baby? That is the baby. That's actually crazy. What? Can we hear the heartbeat or. It's too early to hear the heartbeat. Hello? Guys, I am actually pregnant. So Bonnie Boo's breeding mission turns out it was actually a success. Is it just one baby or two babies? Just the one. Okay. Just one maybe. Oh. For anyone that doesn't know, Barney Blue's breeding mission included me sleeping with over 400 men without protection. Yes, he was tested, but yes, he did fill me up. So you said breeding mission. Yeah. When was that? Two weeks ago on Saturday given us, it's likely it was conceived around 11, 12, 13 days ago. That is actually crazy. That's actually crazy. That's actually crazy. The claim is actually crazy. Do you know why this one is gonna separate the people who have kids from the people who don't have kids. Do you know why that claim is actually crazy? Because it's impossible. This clip is going viral and everyone's talking about it. And the ethics of this lady who says that she slept with hundreds of guys and then got br. And people enraged that she would bring a child into the world this way. Other people enraged, defending her right to do this. It's all rage, rage, rage. Did you catch how it's impossible the doctor who's not showing his face in this pretty strange medical office that allows camera crews in. That doesn't really look like a medical office. It looks more like a kind of film set of sorts of. He says that the baby that they're looking at on the ultrasound is 11 days old. You can't see an 11 day old baby on an ultrasound. You can't. Even if it were a full two weeks, you can't see it. Or three or four or five. The first appointment that you have when you're pregnant to see the baby on the ultrasound is 8 weeks. 11 day old babies don't show up. I guess she might be pregnant or is not, but this whole thing is completely fake. It's all play acting. Something tells me that guy's not a real doctor. It's all just fake. You know, part of the reason would be that he's wearing a mask over his face and he's appearing in what is effectively a non sexual porno or it's even, or like reality TV or soap opera or it's all just play acting. What's so amazing about this? And I made this point when that lady and the other one, the other one who claims to have slept with a thousand men in a day when they really started going viral, this might have been a year ago, I said, what's so crazy about this is if you have social media, everyone has seen these women and yet none of, maybe not none of us, but most of us, I think, haven't seen them naked. None of these clips are pornography. It's all just. It's videos about pornography. You know, it's that girl, that one, Bonnie Blue, going into a burger joint, five guys and saying, oddlock told with the five guys, please. And that's the video which is suggestive and it appeals to the prurian interest. But it's not a porno. She's not, you know, she has her clothes on, which is, I guess more wholesome, but it's even more perverse, as if we can't. It's like even porn doesn't quite do it for our culture anymore. We, we're so fried, our brains are so cooked, we are so overstimulated that now what we need is this kind of weird soap opera reality show about the porn lady that talks about all these degraded acts that may or may not have actually occurred. Making up a pregnancy that very likely doesn't even exist, that certainly could not be seen definitely without any question, lying about a pregnancy. That is so perverse. And it brings me back to St. Augustine. You know, it's like you watch a clip of Bonnie Blue on Twitter and you just. Your mind says, the Confessions by St. Augustine. What does Augustine write? Augustine writes in Confessions that he used to like going to the plays. He used to like going to the theater. And now he's very ashamed of that. And why is he ashamed of that? Well, I'll quote him. He says, I, wretched one then loved to grieve and sought out what to grieve at. He loved to grieve. Like you go to the theater and it's so weird because you're crying at the pain of another, but it's all made up. You go there to cry, to Be upset out of sympathy with someone who does not really exist. How strange. Augustine says, I loved to grieve and sought out what to grieve at, as when in another man's misery, though reigned and counterfeited. Maybe I meant to say feigned and counterfeited. That delivery of the actor best pleased me and attracted me the most powerfully, which moved me to tears. Not only did I love to grieve, I wanted to go. And the best place to go see were the ones that made me cry. What marvel was it that an unhappy sheep, straying from your flock and impatient of your care, speaking to God, I became infected with a foul disease, and hence came my love of griefs not such as should probe me too deeply. For I loved not to suffer such things as I loved to look upon, but such as, when hearing their fictions should lightly affect the surface upon which, like as with poisoned nails, followed burning, swelling, putrefaction and horrible corruption. Such was my life. But was it life? O my God. We do this. Why would anyone watch this? Why did I watch this? Because the producer sent it to me. And now I'm making you watch it. But why do people seek this out? They're seeking out this rage. Or else it's not even really porn, is it? It'd almost be more natural if it were. No, we're seeking out this rage, this kind of perversion, to share in this bizarre melange of emotions, but not to feel it too deeply. People aren't going out and actually getting pregnant themselves. Birth rates collapsed. People aren't even going out and having sex with lots of people. I guess that's good that they're not doing that. But even that rates of people going out and having sex have dropped, it's in some ways even more perverse. We're watching other people talk about the consequences of doing these grotesque acts themselves. What St. Augustine writes here, you know, it's just. We hear these fictions, they just lightly affect the surface, but they're like poison nails. There's this putrefaction, this horrible corruption that seeps in. This is the sign of a. This is maybe worse than a culture saturated with porn. We're now saturated with, like, the meta porn. I don't know. It's. Whatever it is. When you got the porn lady lying about a pregnancy in the viral video, you gotta turn it off. Turn it off. You know what's preferable to that? Just going out and getting married and having a kid. Why do you care about this stuff? I care. I don't want to put myself out of business here. I think it's important to know what's going on in your community, to have a sense of what's going on in your culture so that you can seek good things, so that you can ideally hear God's voice, recognize God's grace, maybe correspond with that grace, cooperate and grow in virtue. And that's good. You need to know what's going on in your political community. But if all you're getting is anger or titillation or, I don't know, you can just turn it off. You know, you can just turn it off now. There is good stuff going on in our politics, I'm pleased to say. Tom Homan, the border czar, has just confirmed that President Trump's ICE has located 145,000 kids who are missing after Joe Biden lost track of 300,000 kids. You don't really hear about this too much, but it's very important. It's important for the Republicans grassroots and in elected office when they're messaging for the midterms. We'll get to that momentarily. First, though, guess what tonight is? It's the State of the Union. And where should you watch it? You should watch it on the Daily Wire plus app. I am very pleased to say that I will be watching it from Congress. I will be there at the State of the Union thanks to Speaker Mike Johnson. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Meanwhile, I'm forcing my colleagues to work. So you'll have Ben, you'll have Matt, you'll have Drew. They will be. I'll be in the chambers with Isabel Brown. But, you know, beauty before blabbing. So the other guys, they're gonna be blabbing on the Daily Wire app beforehand. It's gonna start with coverage from Cabot Phillips. Then we're gonna get into the State of the Union and. And then Ben and Drew will be back with some special guests yet to be announced. And then I will pop in if I can run from the chambers to get to a camera in time. Dailywire. Plus, that's where you're gonna see it. On Roku, on Samsung, on Apple tv, everywhere else on your phone. Just get that app and watch Daily Wire's live State of the Union coverage. My favorite comment Yesterday is from Dr. Fever, who says, I want that hockey player to take the actual gold from the metal and have the dentist make it into teeth. Yeah. And that is the best use of the Olympic medal. And it would actually probably make the gold medal even more valuable. But to take out just a little bit, however much is in a tooth and a half. And make that it might be a little blingy, like he might come to regret it over time, but maybe not. You know, it's pretty. If that guy's just gold teeth or from an Olympic gold medal, that's pretty cool. Okay. Tom Holman has some great news for the administration amid lagging poll numbers as the Republicans are looking ahead to November. Over 3,300 children, you know, last administration, over half a million children smuggled in this country released to unvetted sponsors. They lost track of 300,000 of them. President Trump has already found 145,000 of them in Minnesota alone. Over 3,300 missing children. We found that the last administration wasn't even looking for. This is excellent messaging. There's weird numbers coming up. The, the administration is suffering from some bad numbers right now. It's not as catastrophic as the libs try to make it out to be. But even the Republican polling firms are noting they're kind of declining on approval. Disapprovals are increasing. Most Americans now think ICE has gone too far. I certainly don't. You probably don't. Some of you might, though. But those are just the numbers that is happening and that's being reflected in Democrat polling firms and Republican polling firms. The Democrats kind of won out of Minneapolis. Now Republicans got some victories, too. They got Tim Walls to on the one hand say, you know, the Trump administration are Nazis, and then the very next day or two days later saying, we're gonna work with the Nazis. I'm Tim Walls. I'm a knucklehead Nazi collaborator. Aren't I just a knucklehead? So, you know, you got, I don't know, it was maybe a draw. Maybe the Democrats won a little bit there. In any case, the messaging has to shift. And so when Trump took out the previous at large commander of the operation up there and put in Tom Homan, I said, this is really about messaging. And that's what Homan is really, really good at. One of the things he's good at is saying, hey, the initial message was, we're taking these face tattooed Venezuelan gangsters out of your community, these murderers and rapists. The Democrats were able to twist that and say, they're taking poor little Abuela out while she makes some paella for her grandkids. And then the Democrats were able to take it further and say, and now the Gestapo ICE are running over poor innocent mothers who just like coincidentally were running their SUVs into the cops. But they Leave that part out. And because they still have substantial control of the media worked. Oh, they're just shooting poor nurses who were just serving their community. Nevermind that the nurse is a complete lunatic who was assaulting law enforcement. No, no, we forget about that. Anyway, the Democrats did do some real work on messaging here. And Homan comes back and he says, yeah, you know what we're actually doing? We're finding hundreds of thousands of kids. We've already found 145,000 missing kids because Joe lost 300,000. That's smart. It's kind of like when you're trying to duke it out on abortion. You want to start getting into specifics here. The Democrats always want to argue from three seconds after conception, you know, like when Bonnie Blue made that video. They want to duke it out from when the baby is, you know, nearly invisible, certainly can't be seen on an ultrasound. And they use that to justify dismembering a baby who's three minutes from being born. Well, Republicans can learn something from that, which is. All right, well, how about we talk about the third trimester? You know, Spanberger in Virginia who ran for governor as a moderate, she's now trying to create a constitutional right to third trimester late term abortion. It's completely insane. Just anybody who, anybody, no matter how morally blind, who would look at that situation, look at what that actually means, third trimester abortion would have to conclude that's infanticide. It doesn't take a degree in bioethics to do that. So anyway, that's what we can do here on the immigration talk. We can talk about the kids. And it's not made up. It's not just spin. The Trump administration's really doing this. We also want to deport MS.13 and the face tattooed gangsters. We also kind of want to deport Abuela. You know, we have to. As I pointed out, you can't have mass deportations without deporting some abuela. So you kind of have to. You do. It's true. And every time I say this, Media Matters runs a headline. Michael Knowles, daily wire host, admits that the Republicans have to deport the gardener or whatever. And it's like, I'm not. This isn't a big secret. Americans voted for mass deportations. Trump won the popular vote on mass deportations. So that's what mass deportations means. You gotta get rid of like a lot of people, if not all of them, like a lot of them. And there aren't that many face tattooed gangsters in the country. So how do you do that well. You just message in ways that are persuasive, that are true, ideally, and persuasive. And then you do the policy. Just like Democrats don't wanna deport anyone. They want all the face tattooed rapists and gangsters to stay right here in this country. They don't wanna deport a single person because they view all of those people, including the rapists and the murderers and the cartel members, as future voters and the fathers of future voters. So regardless, what do they do? They just, they focus on Abuela. It's just messaging. It's not very complicated. And Tom Homan gets it at least, which is great. Okay, Speaking of kids, there's a story. I don't want to lose sight of this one. Remember the shooting? The trans involved shooting up in Canada. These things happen so frequently you might have forgotten it already. It wasn't that long ago. How many? Like a week ago. There was this trans identified person who shot up a school in Canada. And the New York Post has some reporting on this that's really telling. The trans Canadian school shooter's. I won't say the name. Father distances himself from killer son. Now, I think it's actually a lady, right? A lady who identifies as a girl or I don't know, whatever. But anyway, the father distances himself from the kid and says I was not part of his life. This is a really sad story. I'll just read a little bit from it. I was estranged from Jesse Strang and was not part of his life. Immediately, right off the bat you say, yeah. You don't say, gee, wow. Tell me something I don't know. Trans identifying kid first of all. Probably not always, not every time, but a lot of the time. Disproportionately messed up home life and school shooter dad wasn't totally involved. Yeah, wow. Gee. You don't say. A reminder that all stereotypes are true. So that's what he tells the cbc. Now, before you beat up on the father, listen to what the father has to say. His mother declined my involvement from the beginning and I was not given the opportunity to be a part of raising him. Jesse did not use the family name, my family name, at any point in his life. He says, while that distance is the reality of our relationship, it does not lessen the heartbreak I feel for the pain that has been caused to innocent people and to the town we call home. The father was not part of his life. We know. Again, I don't know if I'm gendering or misgendering or whatever. I don't remember which way the trans goes in this case. But in any case, we know the father wasn't involved. He wanted to be involved, but he wasn't allowed to be. The mother declined his involvement. So this is something we should just immediately conclude. Other than in the rarest of circumstances where the father is a real threat to the mother or to the kids. Other than in the rarest of circumstances, the mother should not have the right to decline the involvement of the father in the child's life. Right? Shouldn't we all? Dads are very, very important. Imagine your life without your dad. Well, some of you did grow up without fathers. I cannot even imagine how impoverished my life would be without my father. I don't know where I'd be. You probably wouldn't be listening to me if my father weren't involved. I didn't see my father basically every day growing up. Same for many of you. I think the idea that the mother can just decline the involvement of the father. Crazy. Look, it's part and parcel of our broken culture. Where the law actually discourages marriage, where it incentivizes divorce, where it loosened up and permits divorce in recent decades or redefines marriage. But that's a big. I mean, there are a thousand red flags by the time you get to trans identifying school shooter. You've missed like 150 red flags before. But maybe the clearest one here, dad was not involved in the kid's life and wasn't even allowed to be. Should probably fix that one, right? Or more predictable things are going to happen. Today is on that chipper note. Today's tee Tuesday. The rest of the show continues now. 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