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Ep. 1963 - Conspiracy Theories Have Driven Libs Insane: New Shooter Details Emerge
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Michael Knowles
This episode is brought to you by Good Ranchers. Support the American farmers and ranchers this grilling season by subscribing@goodranchers.com using code KNOWLES to get free meat for life and $25 off your first order. More details emerge about the latest lib to try to murder President Trump. And NPR discovers in real time just how radical their own side has become. Then a leading Senate candidate calls for Democrats to choke out Republicans and an Austrian man, according newspapers, pleads guilty to plotting a terror attack at a Taylor Swift concert. You know those Austrians, always waging jihad. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. James Comey's been indicted. There's a lot happening. I'm on the road right now. I'm here because we had a great event with TPUSA last night. Erica invited me and Matt out to Idaho, but there's a lot going on. James Comey, former FBI director, has been indicted for threatening to kill the President. And our buddy Brandon Gill, one of the rising stars in Congress, has completely destroyed a pro abortion advocate. We will get to all of it. First, though, I want to tell you about Catholic Match. Go to catholic match.com this episode is sponsored by Catholic Match. While our culture celebrates love as chocolates and roses and one night stands, Catholic Match is doing something different. They are helping young Catholics find the kind of love that leads to a lasting and fulfilling sacramental marriage in a world that celebrates and encourages practically everything else. I hear from a lot of young people about how hard it is to find other serious Catholics, Catholics to date, people who understand that marriage is a sacred vocation, not just a relationship status. When you're looking for someone who shares that vision of Sacramental marriage, the typical dating scene does not really cut it, does it? So I've gotten to know the team at Catholic Match. They are terrific. 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I was actually grateful to him in 2016 because he did call some attention to a Hillary Clinton scandal, even though he ultimately didn't prosecute her for wiping her email servers. It was 10 years ago, but nevertheless, I've always had a little bit of a soft spot for James Comey, cuz I felt that despite his own desires, he did kind of help Trump in the election. But he's been a major critic of Trump. And then a year ago he posted a picture to instagram that said 86, 47. And it was in seashells on the beach, 8647, which means to get rid of, to nix, to nullify. 47 being President Trump. This was James Comey going through his artistic phase out in the wilderness, exploring himself. And the art, like so much left wing art, really just ended up being a bunch of nonsense and ultimately advocating violence toward conservatives. So that's what this indictment is about. And I don't know that they're gonna get him on it. Probably Comey is going to argue that 86 here refers to impeachment or something, you know, some peaceful way of getting rid of the president rather than actually killing him. Of course, within the context of multiple assassination attempts on Trump, continuous assassination attempts on Trump, it's a little hard to argue that. Nevertheless, probably it's going to be hard to get him now. If the government didn't have good evidence, maybe they wouldn't have even brought the charges. Regardless of what happens in the case, I'm really glad that the government is prosecuting people in this way. This is the point that I've been making on this show, not just for days now, but for years, which is that what is needed is to reestablish order to reset the standards and norms of our society. The mainstream left, and we'll get to NPR admitting this in a second, the mainstream left has come out and normalized violence and obscenity and threats and all manner of speech that really should not be protected. So what you need is for the government to come in the law as a teacher to reimpose those boundaries. You have to have consequences in order for people to change their behavior. We should arrest Hasan Piker. Hasan Piker, who is one of the clearest examples of a mainstream lib, who campaigns with Democrat congressmen and senators, who was campaigning with the New York mayor Zoran Mamdani, who has openly called for the murder of multiple Republican senators, who has tortured his dog on camera, who hates America, says America deserves 9, 11. That guy should be prosecuted for his crimes. And ideally he would be deported as well. You have to have consequences or else they're not gonna change their behavior. And this is becoming a big problem, which NPR realized in real time. Npr, NPR came out and analyzing the shooting on Saturday night at the White House Correspondents Dinner. They were looking through all the background of the shooter to see just how radical he had become. What they discovered is he's not all that radical. You know, you've seen some of the typical. Well, it's the radical left and their rhetoric that's they need to cool it down. But then you look at the social media profiles that have been attributed to this suspect and they're really not that radical.
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NPR Correspondent (Odet Youssef)
I think what's most troubling about this one from the people I've interviewed is just that this person's admittedly thin online presence and writings paint a picture of a pretty normal guy with views that are quite common in America. You know, it doesn't appear that there was any so called radicalization. And so I think, you know, through the court case, many will be looking for indications of what could have tipped him into an alleged, you know, plan for violence.
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Michael Knowles
That is NPR's Odet Youssef, thanks so much. You can hear NPR realizing the significance of this in real time. What's that last line there? You know, it doesn't appear there was any so called radicalization. This is npr. Zodet Youssef, thanks so much. Yeah, there wasn't radicalization because the guy who shot up the correspondents Dinner who tried to kill Trump and the whole administration. He just sounds like a normal liberal. Now there was a survey that came out last year, this is from NCRI, found out that 56% of self identified left wing respondents justified murdering President Trump. That was April 2025. 56%. We know that very liberal people are seven to eight times as likely as very conservative people to say that political violence can be justified. We know that elected officials and major media figures and intellectuals and ordinary old Joe liberal, all these people, huge swaths of them, justify political violence. So yeah, of course, at a certain point, when you examine the priors of the guys who actually go in there with the shotguns to try to blast off the head of the president, you're gonna find out he thinks exactly what you think. Well, welcome to npr. It turns out that the deranged psycho killer who tried to murder the president is basically just like us. Isn't that right? Yes, that is right, odat. Yes, that is right. Okay, Jared, well, back to you. So what are we gonna do about it? You can either plead with the libs to be normal, actually please don't kill us, or you have to prosecute them when threaten to kill you, which is what the comey prosecution's about. What's the alternative? Can someone offer me an alternative? Yeah. I don't like to live in a civilization. I don't like to live in a society where former FBI directors are prosecuted, where former presidents for that matter, are prosecuted. I don't want to live in that society where presidents have to give preemptive pardons to their families. I don't want to live in that. I want to live in a high trust society where people just kind of get on in a normal way. But when half the country is constantly justifying the murder of the other half, you don't get to live in that society. Then you got to bring down the heavy hand of the law because there will be order. So we can either behave ourselves or we can impose order from the government, but there will be order. So speaking of this shooter, another quirky fact that's come out of this shooter and this we have to thank Mr. Kaczynski. Not Ted Kaczynski, Andrew Kaczynski. He said, we went through 4700 of Cole Allen's tweets posts and one of the strangest things we found was he shared a lot of posts claiming the Butler assassination attempt against Trump was staged. He also repeatedly compared Trump to Hitler and urged people to buy firearms. So I love this Actually, I love that the guy who tried to blow Trump's head off unsuccessfully, happily thought that Trump staged the last assassination attempt. Cuz I see this cognitive dissonance a lot. Have you noticed this? People say that definitely didn't happen and I'm sorry it failed. That's what a lot of people were saying about the assassination attempt on Saturday is that, you know, this thing, it definitely didn't happen. This is totally fake. And I'm really disappointed that it failed. You see this with online Nazis a lot. They will simultaneously say the Holocaust didn't happen. And it's, you know, it's a pity it didn't go far enough, you know, not to, not to make light. But you can't simultaneously hold those views and be coherent. You cannot simultaneously hold the view that Trump is, is faking his assassination attempts. There's no way that anyone would actually assassinate Trump and then you yourself are going to go assassinate Trump. So much of the discourse around the assassination is just a refusal on our part to acknowledge that much, if not most of the mainstream left actually wants to kill us. We don't want. So we say, no, it was fake. No, it was Trump. No, it was the Deep state. No, it was Israel. No, it was Russia. No, it was Iran. No, it was China. No, it was martians from planet Zebulon 7. Any of those answers would be preferable, would be more comforting than acknowledging the fact that the mainstream left wants to shoot you and your kid wants to. I'm not even being hyperbolic here. The Attorney General of Virginia came out in text messages fantasizing about murdering Republicans and the Republicans kids just to hurt the Republicans. And then when those text messages came out, the Attorney General candidate, the Democrat, didn't lose a single endorsement. I confronted Cory Booker about this during my Senate testimony on Capitol Hill. Booker didn't pull his endorsement. And you know what happened? The Democrats in Virginia elected that guy. We don't want to acknowledge. So much easier would it be to say, oh no, it's a hoax, it's a deep state, it's some foreign government. It's. But it's not. It's not. The call is coming from inside the House now. Speaking of, we were just talking about, you know, the people who say the Holocaust wasn't real and it didn't go far enough. Speaking of Germanic violence, an Austrian man has pled guilty to plotting a terror attack on Taylor Swift. The facts of this, we have this from the Guardian here. Austrian man, you see that right there, pleads guilty to plotting terror attack. Defendant 21 in court with second man over alleged scheme to kill music fans outside the Vienna Stadium. First line. A 21 year old has pleaded guilty in an Austrian court over a jihadist plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago. This guy apparently pledged allegiance to ISIS and he wanted to do a Muslim terrorism to Taylor Swift. I don't want to sound prejudicial or racist, but I'm a little skeptical that the man is Austrian. You know, say what you will about the Austrians, there's one Austrian in particular who was a rather nasty fellow, rather violent, but he wasn't a jihadi. I don't think this guy in this case, I don't think he was really Austrian. What does it mean to be Austrian? Maybe that can be Matt Walsh's next hit movie. What is an Austrian? We're really now pretending that a Muslim who's just arrived from North Africa or the Middle east is as German as a beer hole, is as German as potato salad. Do we really believe that? We might have to believe that, because in some European countries, 40% of the births now are to foreigners, to foreign, Muslim in particular. So not only people who come from a different group of people, but people who have a radically different religion and a religion that's been in conflict with our religion for 1400 years. But what does it mean? What does it mean to be an Austrian? It seems to me that to be an Austrian is to be part of the Austrian people. Austria is not an idea. Austria is a geography. But Austria as a nation is a people. They're a Germanic people. They got a little Celt in them. The English come from the angles. The French come from the Franks. What are these people? Are we permitted to say anymore that a nation is a people? No, in a lot of these countries, they don't. And it's because they've followed America's lead. America, which in recent decades has come out and said, we're not a real country at all. We're not a real people. Anybody can be an American. America's just an idea. Well, President Trump gave a speech yesterday that is one of the greatest speeches I've ever seen a president give. I want to inject it straight into my veins. And he will be called racist and alt right and probably a Nazi for it. But this speech is none of those things. 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You know all those libs who said no kings, no kings because Donald Trump put up a new portrait in the Oval office or something. No, we don't want any kings because President Trump arrested some criminals. No kings. And then King Charles shows up and said we. Oh thank. We love you King Charles. Kings are very attractive. So kings actually serve a purpose in public life. We don't have time to get to all the arguments in defense of monarchy at the moment because we have to focus on what's going on in the news. There's a lot. But people really liked King Charles being there and President Trump's remarks in front of King Charles were some of the very best he's given of either of his terms.
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Donald Trump (Speech Excerpts)
Here, in the shadows of monuments to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, honoring the British king might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of American independence. But in fact, no tribute could be more appropriate. Long before Americans had a nation or a constitution, we first had a culture, a character and a creed. Before we ever proclaimed our independence, Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts, moral courage. And it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea. For nearly two centuries before the Revolution, this land was settled and forged by men, women, who bore in their souls the blood and noble spirit of the British. Here on a wild and untamed continent, they set loose the ancient English love of liberty and the Great Britain's distinctive sense of glory, destiny and pride. And that's what it is. Glory, destiny and pride. The American patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776 were the heirs to this majestic inheritance. Their veins ran with Anglo Saxon courage. Their hearts beat with an English faith in standing firm for what is right, good and true.
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Michael Knowles
I'm going to pause right here before we get to the real right hook of Trump's remarks, but already what he says is, look, we're British, We Americans, we're British. And this reminds me of comments that Antonin Scalia made some years ago on television. Scalia said, it's really funny. Scalia's big Italian guy, as Italian as all get out. And he said, I was studying in, I think it was Switzerland during law school. And I went, you know, and I didn't really feel that comfortable in Switzerland, and I didn't really feel that comfortable in Italy, even though I'm Italian. But I didn't really feel that comfortable in Italy. But then I visited England, and in England, I felt perfectly comfortable. Even I, Nino Scalia, felt more comfortable in England than in Italy because I am an American and America comes from England and that is our patrimony, and we are, in a deep sense, English. There is this kind of silly, shallow caricature of American identity. It says, we don't care what the King of England's had to say since 1776, you know, but that's. That's not real. We love England. Actually, it was annoying when they burned the White House down. You know, we're still getting over that a little bit. But very, very quickly after the Revolutionary period, we made friends with England again, because we're so similar, because we're like the child of England. Because the American Revolution, in many ways was not a revolt against Englishness it was an assertion of our English identity. That's how Edmund Burke defended it to the House of Commons. So we are English. We come from England. We're not just an idea floating in outer space. We are not spiritually, culturally, Italian. Even me, I look pretty swarthy. But no, if you're an American and you grow up in America, you are much more English. So then what is America? President Trump concludes, in recent years, we've
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Donald Trump (Speech Excerpts)
often heard it said that America is merely an idea. But the cause of freedom did not simply appear as an intellectual invention of Freedom of 1776. The American Founding was the culmination of hundreds of years of thought, struggle, sweat, blood and sacrifice on both sides of the Atlantic. Fate drew a long arc from the meadow at Runnymede to the streets of Philadelphia that ran through the lives of people born and bred on the British code that that no man should be denied either justice or right. American patriots today can sing My country tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, only because our colonial ancestors first sang God Save the King.
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Michael Knowles
Absolutely magnificent. Give me a rubber band and a syringe. I want to inject that speech directly into my veins. This is a repudiation of an idea that has cropped up in the last few decades, that America is a purely creedal nation. And even some people that we love, even guys like Ronald Reagan, sometimes leaned into this, that America is just an idea. You have had modern politicians, guys on the campaign trail recently coming out saying, America's an idea. A kid can be sitting in Bangladesh and he can be more American than the 12th generation kid who grew up in West Virginia. But of course, that's preposterous because the kid in Bangladesh is not an American and the guy in West Virginia is an American. So America has to be something more than an idea. And what is the idea? What's really funny about the people who. Look, obviously, I think there's a creedal aspect to American identity. I'm not saying there's no creedal part. There's no role for ideas in the American identity. I'm just saying America is not a purely creedal country. And what's very funny is when you ask the creedalists, the ones who say America is only an idea, you say, okay, what's the idea? They can never tell you. Some will say it's freedom, some will say it's meritocracy, some will say it's opportunity, some will say it's anything. And that's really what it comes down to, because the notion that a Nation can be just an idea is just a way of blowing away limits. Saying we're not going to be limited by a race, we're not going to be limited by a stock or by even a religious tradition, or by geography. No, no, no, that's too limiting. We're going to be an idea. Because ideas float through the ether, they move from mind to mind. But because the very notion of the creedal nation is really just an excuse to abolish limits, when you try to get them to nail down, okay, what exactly is the idea? They'll say, well, anything you say, okay, is the idea that we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. So the idea is God exists. In order to be an American, you have to believe that God exists and endows us with certain unalienable rights. The real creedalist people will say, well, no, because if that were the idea, which is I think, the most basic idea, you can say that's the thesis of the Declaration of Independence. If you really believed that, then you'd say, okay, well then atheists can't be Americans. Because the American idea is that our Creator endowed us with natural rights. So if you don't believe in natural rights, if you don't believe in liberty, if you don't believe in God, you can't be an American. Even if you're a 12th generation born and raised in Virginia, you can't be. None of them would say that. So not even the creedalist people believe that America is just an idea. They just. It's an excuse not to think. It's an excuse not to come to conclusions. It's an excuse not to exclude. But nations are exclusive. We exclude people with our borders, with our stock, with our citizenship, with our law and with our rights. So what is America? America is a people. And the way that we know this, and I'm. So whoever wrote this speech, you know, two thumbs, way, way up, great speech and well delivered by the President. But America is a people. And the way you know, this is a very simple thought experiment. If you kept the geography of America and all the buildings and all the businesses, but you took all 320 million Americans that there are right now and you got rid of them. You just sent them to Greenland, which will soon be part of America. You just moved them out of the country and you replaced them with different people. Bangladeshis or Tibetans or sub Saharan Africans or Eskimos, I don't know, whatever, you just replaced all the people. You still have the Declaration of Independence. You still have the Constitution. You still have the World Trade center and the Big Arch in the Midwest. You just don't have any of the people. Would it still be America? The answer obviously is no. So America is a people. Who is that people? Well, it's not the other people. That's what it is. President Trump making this exclusive claim. A corrective to really almost 50 years of liberal abstraction. Beautiful, beautiful stuff. Now, speaking of soaring oratory from Republican politicians, our pal Brandon Gill, freshman in Congress, young Republican, up and comer, looks kind of like Clark Kent. He absolutely nailed it when he was grilling a pro abortion advocate in Congress yesterday. We will get to that master class in pro life advocacy first, though. Absolutely fitting, providential even. I want to tell you about Preborn. Go to preborn.com knowles the voices of our culture are loud. The truth is often silent. The silence has a cost. 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Pro-Life Interviewer
You're an advocate for abortion, for abortion policy. What's your favorite type of abortion?
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Michael Knowles
I am an advocate for patients having access to the full realm of reproductive healthcare.
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Pro-Life Interviewer
But do you have a preferred method of abortion that you like?
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Michael Knowles
I do not.
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Pro-Life Interviewer
Let me read through A couple different methods, and I want to get your take on how much you like these. The first type is called a suction abortion. This is when the cervix is dilated and a strong suction, 29 times the power of a household vacuum cleaner, tears the baby's body apart and sucks it through the hose into a container. Do you prefer that method?
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Michael Knowles
I stand by my former testimony.
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Pro-Life Interviewer
Okay, what about this one? This one is called Dilation and Curettage. After dilation of the cervix, a sharp looped knife is inserted into the uterus. The baby's body is cut into pieces and extracted, often by suction. Do you prefer that method?
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Michael Knowles
This is a brilliant question. We all like political philosophy. If you're listening to a show like this, you like political philosophy and abstract ideas and deep conversations. That's great. You know, I really like that, too. But in practical politics, you need to take all those ideas, all the studies, all of the treatises, and you need to boil them down to slogans. You need to make them really applicable, easily communicable. You need to be able to put your opponents on the spot. That's great, too. We like that, too. You know, to quote President Trump, it's called trolling. We do a little trolling. Well, this is really effective trolling. This is substantive trolling with purpose. What's your favorite kind of abortion? Beautiful. Beautiful. Because. Who is this woman? This woman is an abortion advocate. She's an abortion. She advocates for abortion. She'll try to use euphemisms, so. Oh, no, it's for choice. Okay, the choice to do what? To have an abortion. It's for reproductive care. Okay, what kind? It isn't. It's the opposite of that, but. Okay. What kind of reproductive care? For abortion? You're not talking about sonograms, right? You're talking about abortions. Okay, so you're an abortion advocate. Okay, that's fine. I'm not an abortion advocate. I'm an abortion opponent. You're an abortion advocate. That's fine. You advocate for them. What's your favorite kind? What's your favorite kind of abortion? Is it the one where the vacuum sucks the baby out and grinds them up with the razors? Or is it the one where you crush the baby's skull? Or is it the one where you inject the baby with poison and burn his skin off? Which is your favorite kind? Which one do you most advocate for because you're an advocate? Brilliant question. I've never heard it put this pithily this persuasively. This is a slogan. This is similar to our pal Matt Walsh, who I was with in Idaho last night. This was similar to when he stumbled on the question what is a woman? The funny thing about the question, what is a woman? Is. It's actually kind of difficult to answer. You can say it's an adult female human being, but that doesn't really answer it. I prefer to answer it by saying it's sugar, spice and everything nice. Because you have to answer the immaterial aspects of what a woman is, as well as the physical aspects of what a woman is and the relation between the body and the soul. It's actually kind of complex. But it' a great question because the people who are arguing that men are women just look like complete idiots when they're presented with it. They look foolish, they look ridiculous. And this is a question like that, what's your favorite abortion? No one can answer that because abortion's a horrible thing. It's gruesome. And the only way that you can convince anyone to tolerate it is by appealing to their base appetites. Say, hey, don't you want to have a lot of sex without any consequences and not have to take care of people and spend money and be responsible? Well, then what you can do is exercise your reproductive choices and health, you know, but you have to be very euphemistic about it and appeal to very base desires. But so when you just call it into stark relief, you say, what's your favorite kind? I love it. I want to hear. I think you will hear this from every pro life advocate very quickly. Good on, Brandon. This is really good stuff. Okay. Speaking of bloodthirsty women, the hens of the View were absolutely thrilled that President Trump and his Cabinet felt fear, felt the fear of death at the White House Correspondent's Dinner.
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The View Panelist
But, you know, now that. So that room was full of some of the most important political leaders in the country right now. Right now. They know they've lived it in their own flesh, the fear that our school children go through. Now they know what it's like to have to jump under a table the way that school children jump under a desk. And we are a country that is vulnerable to this. We have now seen shootings in malls, in churches, in temples, and Walmart.
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Michael Knowles
We side with the Republicans.
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The View Panelist
You know, I still don't understand how Congress took no action after Sandy Hook, after 20 children between the ages of 6 and 7 were killed. But maybe now that they have felt the fear themselves, they will do something.
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Michael Knowles
What I don't understand is how. So when you get past the CYA rhetoric of the View here, they're trying to dress up their grotesque claims. I'm really glad that Trump and his wife, Stephen Miller and his wife and Pete Hegseth and his wife, I'm really glad the vice president. I'm really glad they all were afraid for their lives because a Democrat wanted to kill them all. I'm really glad because. And they try to gussy it up and they say because they need to pass gun control. You know, they feel the fear that other people fear because of gun. First of all, no one has ever had three assassination attempts on him. No one walking around today advocating for gun control has had people try to kill him three times and then had half the country call for his murder. For 10 years, no one's had that. So Trump naturally should feel much more fear than anybody else. But second of all, none of the Democrats gun control proposals would have stopped any of the big shooting events of the last 10 years. Marco Rubio actually made a great point about this when he was running for president in 2016. And the Democrats have no answer for this. Even the liberal fact checking websites have no answer for this. So it's totally disingenuous. This is just a cheap way to try to get out of the heinous thing that they've said, which is that Republicans should worry for their lives when they walk out in public simply for being Republicans. And what's notable about this is that what the women of the View are saying is exactly what the live streamer Destiny said. Stephen Bonnell, he said this right after Charlie Kirk was killed. I think it was after Charlie was killed or after President Trump was killed, or maybe both. Or President Trump was almost killed. Or maybe both. He said good Republicans need to fear for their lives when they go out in public. That way maybe they'll shut up. Maybe that way they'll stop being Republicans. They need to fear for their lives. So livestreamer Fringe Leftist Destiny said this crazy thing, but actually it's the exact same thing that the women of the View on network television are saying during the daytime. That's the takeaway. Okay? Hasan Piker said America deserves 911 and that it's good that Republicans are fearing for their lives and that we should kill Republican senators and on and on and on. But you know What? That's what 56% of Democrat respondents are saying to pollsters. And you know what? That Hasan Piker, he's a coveted endorsement for AOC and Bernie Sanders and Zoran Mamdani and mainstream Democrats. And you know what? Joe Biden himself said that Trump poses an existential threat to the country, thus justifying his assassination. There's no difference. There's no difference between Anna Navarro and destiny. There's no difference between Joe Biden and Hasan Piker. It's all the same stuff. So what do we do about it? The only thing we can do brings us right back to the top of the show, is to start prosecuting these people, is to fire people from public airwaves, is to ostracize people from society, is to make people lose their jobs when they celebrate the killing of Charlie Kirk or the assassination attempts on Trump, and to prosecute the people who call for the assassination of the President. You just have to do it. That's very much in keeping with American history. There's nothing anti American about it at all. But also it's the only way that you're gonna fix a problem that is of such an enormous magnitude that we refuse to acknowledge that it's real. We would rather believe that the deep state Jewish, Russian, Iranian, Martians from planet Zebulon 5 cooked the whole thing up, then acknowledge that half the country wants to kill the other half. And it only goes in one direction. Now, speaking of some confused women, liberal women, Ilhan Omar seems to think that there have been not one, not two, but 11 world wars. We'll get to that momentarily. First though, my favorite comment Yesterday is from drb41194 who says if we played Take a shot every time Dems mentioned January 6th, even Nancy Pelosi would have some catching up to do that. I think you're right. Maybe Hillary Clinton probably would. That is really damning for them because let's. Even if January 6th were what they said it was, which it isn't, the only person killed in political violence on January 6 was a Trump supporter killed by a cop. The FBI was all over January 6th. Probably we're gonna find out it was getting funding from the splc. But it just. Some of the guys were getting private tours around the Capitol being led in by the. But let's just say even if it
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NPR Correspondent (Odet Youssef)
was,
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Michael Knowles
that is so damning that that's the only instance of political violence from the right that they can point to. We're constantly told the right commits most political violence. Oh, it's actually, actually the studies, the studies say that the right commits most political violence. You say, well yeah, because your studies exclude all the left wing political violence. But if, if that were true, wouldn't the Democrats have anything to go back to than an unruly protest five years ago, I think they probably would. Okay, Ilhan Omar is under fire because. And this is actually an older clip, but it's going viral right now. Ilhan Omar referred to the global event of the late 1930s into the mid-1940s, began around a place called Germany, you know, which we were just talking about Germany at the top of the show. Anyway, she referred to that as World War 11.
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NPR Correspondent (Odet Youssef)
The last time the Alien Enemies act was invoked, it was used to detain
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Michael Knowles
and deport German, Japanese, Italian immigrants during World War 11. Now, listen, listen, listen. I. I don't like Ilhan Omar any more than you do, okay? But she is being really unfairly castigated here because obviously Ilhan Omar, when she's talking about global conflicts, she's also counting the Greco Persian wars, obviously the Punic wars, the Mongol Conquests, the Nine Years War. You think she forgot about that one? The War of the Spanish Succession, of course, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years War, which in America we call the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, another World War, the Napoleonic wars, and then the events of the nineteen teens, which we call World War I and then the follow up World War II. Obviously, that's what she's talking about. Okay? So can we please be fair to her? What, you think that a leading Democrat legislator is just completely, historically and maybe literally illiterate? But no, it couldn't possibly be. Right, Right? This country in the Congress, we used to have men like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, and now we have Ilhan Omar. I've said this before, I've made this point before, because when people talk about Ilhan Omar, they point out her terrible ideology and they say, oh, she giggles at the prospect of Islamic terrorism. She giggles at Al Qaeda. She hates America. Yeah, that's true. But ideology is only half the problem. One of the reasons we're cooked right now, one of the big reasons that America is cooked, is not just the ideology. Yes, the mainstream left wants to kill us all and they don't know what men and women are, and they want to slaughter babies. And yeah, the ideology is really, really bad. But they also are really dumb. I don't mean even. We on the right are kind of dumb, too. And I don't even mean dumb in terms of low iq. I mean, we don't read things anymore and we don't consider ideas in a thoughtful way. The commencement exercises at Harvard 150 years ago involved disputations in Latin and Greek on matters of the natural law. And now it's some washed up standup comedian shows up and makes flatulence jokes and the graduates giggle that I mean that we just don't know stuff anymore. Maybe we've lost a few IQ points too. I'm not sure about that. But I just, I can't live with that belief. So I just have to tell myself that Ilhan Omar was counting the wars of the Spanish and Austrian successions. I'm just going to tell myself that I can't face the reality otherwise. Now, speaking of violence among Democrats, there is a Michigan Democrat Senate candidate who is not helping the Dems rehabilitate their image after the latest one of them tried to kill the President.
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Donald Trump (Speech Excerpts)
We need Democrats who have the courage to stand up to the power brokers in our own party, let alone Trump and his goons. We don't back down. We don't back down. We don't back down. With all due respect, if they go low, we don't go high. We take them to the mud and choke them out.
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Michael Knowles
So that guy is Abdul El Sayed. Abdul Senate future Senator El Sayed is not just some lunatic, you know. Well, he is a lunatic, but he's not just some lunatic. He is one of the leading candidates in the Democrat primary for the Michigan Senate seat. He very, he's tied with Haley Stevens. He very likely will win the primary and he very likely will win the seat and he'll be in the U.S. senate. And he wants to choke out Republicans. He wants to choke out Republicans when they go low. We choke them out and ground them into the dirt. Yeah, it's not okay. Hasan Piker says stuff on a live stream. Destiny says stuff on a live stream. If it were just them, I would still want to deport both of them. But it's sort of whatever. It's all of them. It's all of these people. It's all of them. And it's really hard to hear because I sound like a partisan hack when I say that, but I've really tried to come to any other way of concluding that it's just who they are. And we need to, to put it bluntly, Trump needs to be the guy they say he is. President Trump needs to be the guy that the left says he is. Because if he's not, if he does not wield the law to punish the people who keep trying to kill him. And look, he is doing that now. He is wielding the law to prosecute James Comey and others. But if he doesn't do that, he'll just have riled them up. And then Abdul El Sayed is going to get into the Senate and he's going to choke out Republicans. And the Dems are going to keep campaigning with Hasan Piker and they're going to keep calling for people not to be civil with Republicans, to go confront Republicans in the streets, to push back on them, to go to their homes. It's. Trump needs to be, you know, there's the no Kings rally and it's so ridiculous. Trump comes out, he says, I'm not a king. If I were a king. He said this to 60 Minutes. He said, if I were a king, I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you. We need a king. Oches Remio, per que non ma compagna. To quote Dante, calling out for my Caesar, my Caesar. Why do you not accompany me? Because we don't. We don't. We don't need Caesar. We don't need a guy formally to, like, crown himself. We just need the executive, which is the monarchical part of the American government, which is divided into three parts. We just need the executive. And I'm not saying this is easy, it's complicated. We need the executive to just assert itself, to enforce the law and to bring these people to heel. Now can we do this? We're a little distracted overseas. That's part of what's going on. I was just mentioning Abdul El Sayed, speaking of Middle Eastern culture, what's going on with the war in Iran? The war is over, kind of the war. I mean, you gotta hand it to Trump. He said it would be over in four to six weeks. And we are in this ceasefire, but the war isn't resolved, it's stopped. We're not actively doing a war right now. The missiles are not being fired, but we're all just waiting to see what will happen because the Strait of Hormuz is being blockaded by the Iranians, which means that 20% of the world's oil is not moving, and fertilizer and LNG and petrochemicals and a lot of other stuff. And then President Trump played the reverse UNO card and blockaded the blockade. So now Iran can't get its exports out and it can't get its imports in. And what the President is saying, that Iran is now in a state of. Of collapse. There are contrary reports that say that American intelligence says that Iran is not in a state of collapse. CBS had a report came out, I think it was just yesterday, which said, from a reporter, on the grounds that the government actually does seem to still have control of the country. But Trump, who's very good at foreign policy, Trump is saying, no, no, we're hearing from the Iranians that the government's in a state of collapse, so we don't know where it stands. The problem for us is that with the strait having been closed this long already, eventually oil is going to go way, way up. We were waiting for $150 a barrel oil a month ago. It seems unavoidable at this point. It seems unavoidable that we're going to get major inflationary pressure. It seems unavoidable that farmers are not going to have a shortfall of fertilizer. I think all of that would happen if we got a peace deal tomorrow, if we could say the war was fully concluded tomorrow. I mean, I said this from the very beginning, that the Iran war was the riskiest move that Trump has made ever in his political career. If it goes well, it's the best masterstroke of foreign policy in my lifetime. If it goes south, it destroys his legacy. It will be what people remember. And there's been so much good that it would be a real pity if that's what people remember. But we can't lose sight of this. I mean, I think in many ways it's very good for Republicans that the Iran war is out of the headlines right now, and we're focusing on all this good other stuff. And we see the left for what they are, which is murderous villains trying to destroy our country. And we see prosecutions for bad people and the massive arrests for fraud in places like Minnesota and on and on and on. There's a lot of really good stuff. But there has to be a resolution to the Iran war, because the problem is it's so much more enormous. The risk is so much greater than anything else that the president is facing right now. And the ramifications, not just for the midterms, but for 2028, for the Trump legacy, are really incalculable. Okay. There's so much more I want to get to, but I don't have any time and I don't have my iPad. Though I do have to thank Doug Wilson because I'm in Doug Wilson's studio right now. He very, very kindly loaned me his studio, his equipment. This is for his show blog and blog and mahblog. Great title. And so I really want to thank them. I am in Idaho, and I'm coming home from Idaho now, so I don't have the iPad. We won't have the Chemdula Chem today, but I will see all of you tomorrow. It's mushrooms with me, Matty Mathison. You know what's better than thinking about dinner? Too hard not stop that and just choose mushrooms. Five minutes.
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Donald Trump (Speech Excerpts)
Done.
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Michael Knowles
Dinner's that easy and you feel like a genius. It's not magic. It's mushrooms. Stop stressing@mushroomcouncil.com.