Ep. 1985 - Two Democrats Exposed In MAJOR Sex Scandals

Summary

The Michael Knowles Show – Ep. 1985

Date: June 1, 2026
Main Theme:
Michael Knowles discusses two major sex scandals embroiling Democratic Senate candidates, analyzes the political fallout, reacts to left-wing streamer Hasan Piker’s ban from the UK, and scrutinizes "menstrual leave" proposals by Democrat congresswomen, all with pointed humor and cultural commentary.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Democrat Senate Sex Scandals

[00:14 – 12:25]

• Graham Platner (Maine) Scandal:

  • Platner is exposed for "sexting a bunch of chicks on some creepy perv app" (00:15).
  • Notably, he has a neo-Nazi tattoo that was only covered just before his Senate run.
  • Wife's Defense: Platner’s wife, Amy, is trotted out as the campaign’s first line of PR defense. She declares:

    "No marriage is perfect... I don't want a perfect marriage. I want my marriage and I want to be married to Graham." – Amy Platner (05:37)

  • Knowles criticizes Platner for exploiting his wife as a "human shield" in the scandal (06:50).
  • Campaign Fallout: His political director resigns rather than lie for the campaign, facing pressure to retract negative comments or face public blame (07:36–08:34).
  • Multiple major outlets, including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, cover the story.
  • Hidden Political Motives: Knowles argues the leak is a Democratic operation to replace Platner before the June 9 primary with a more viable candidate (09:12–12:25).

    "Republicans should not view this necessarily as a win... I want Graham Platner on the ballot in November." – Knowles (11:10)

• James Talarico (Texas) "Bigger" Scandal:

  • News emerges that Talarico may not be gay—a fact that Knowles lampoons for its political import during Pride Month (12:26–14:25).

  • Talarico’s girlfriend, Brianna Menard, is characterized as fitting various liberal stereotypes (yoga, vegan, cat mom, dancing at gay bars).

  • Suspicion Over Relationship Authenticity: Knowles speculates, referencing past candidates, that this is a political beard (16:05–17:21).

  • Quoting Talarico:

    "She is my rock. She is my best friend. I don't know if I could have gotten through the last six months of this crazy race if she hadn't been by my side." – Talarico (17:36)

  • Knowles quips:

    "This is how gay guys talk about women. Straight guys don't say this. Generally speaking, straight guys don't say, she is my rock." (17:53)

  • Political Analysis: Talarico asserts that many Republicans are secret supporters, but Knowles refutes this claim as "a total lie" (19:25–20:47).

    "He calls God non-binary. He is extremely sacrilegious and heretical." (20:36)

  • Knowles warns that Talarico could win if Trump voters become disillusioned and stay home, not because Republicans flip to him (21:02–22:13).

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2. Democrat Congresswomen and Menstrual Leave Proposal

[23:07 – 34:00]

• Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and others push a bill for 12 days of paid leave for period pain and other reproductive health issues (26:35–27:43).
  • Testimony includes:

    "I have days where it feels like barbed wire is tightening inside me... I've given speeches at rallies and run town halls while my body was in full revolt..." – Congresswoman (26:40)

• Knowles’ Take: Satirically supports the proposal, suggesting,

  "Not only do I think Democrat Congress ladies should stay home from work five days per month, I think they should stay home the other 25 days too." (28:14)

• Uses this to argue that women, generally, do not want to work in offices—pointing to "feminism's tragedy" of pushing women into the workplace (31:00–32:26).
• Concludes that the ideal would be to return to a society where "women have the option of staying home," restoring the family as the "fundamental political unit" (33:42).

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3. Hasan Piker Banned from UK

[34:22 – 43:39]

• Left-wing streamer Hasan Piker is denied a UK visa, allegedly for anti-Semitic comments (34:22–36:54).
  • Piker claims it’s due to criticism of Israel, calling the West "a sham" and saying "fascism is here, right?" (35:35)
• Glenn Greenwald tweets outrage, but Knowles responds skeptically, noting the UK simultaneously bans pro-Israel politicians and influencers (39:01).
• Key Take:
  • Knowles argues the ban is not about Israel but because "he’s a bad dude. We don’t want him" (40:45).
  • Lesson:

    "If people aren't good for our country, we shouldn't let him in." (42:44)

  • Predicts this episode will “separate the conservatives from the libertarians” over free speech values (41:17–41:50).

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4. Viral Testimony: Father Confronts Democrats Over Daughter’s Murder

[44:00 – 47:14]

• A father emotionally confronts legislators regarding his daughter's murder by a repeat offender (44:23).

  • He condemns a system that allowed the suspect, Alexander Devonte Dickey, to be arrested 39 times with minimal prison time.
  • Quote from father:

    "How good are we doing for our family? How good are you doing for your kids? He should have been in jail for over 140 years... but nobody could figure out that he couldn't be rehabilitated." (45:03)

• Knowles’ Political Takeaway:

  • Uses the story to illustrate his "three crucial numbers" for Republican victory:
    • Economic numbers up
    • Deportation numbers up
    • Incarceration numbers up

  • "People want to be able to afford to have a good life for their material needs. They don't want foreigners raping our constitutional system of government... and they don't want criminals murdering our family members. That's basically it." (48:01)

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5. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Scandal Response Satire:
  "It ups the scumbag quotient on the scandal by orders of magnitude." – Knowles on Platner sending his wife to do PR (06:52)
• Electoral Cynicism:
  "I'm leading the charge. I'm the director of Republicans for Platner. Sign me up. ...We gotta save these scandals, guys, okay?" (12:19)
• Gender Satire:
  "Maybe I need to get up there, say, you women, you're being misogynistic. Women need to be allowed to stay home from work every single day of the month." (28:34)
• On Immigration:
  "We've done it because we feel handcuffed by some stupid liberal principles that aren't correct." (42:44)
• Summing Up Modern Politics:
  "Politics is actually very, very simple... Voters want three numbers to go up. …If you can do those things, you will reign for 10,000 years." (47:14–48:01)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Segment | Timestamps | |-------------------------------------------------|------------------------| | Graham Platner Scandal–Initial Overview | 00:14 – 04:40 | | Wife's Defense & Campaign Fallout | 05:37 – 08:34 | | Knowles' Political Analysis (Platner) | 09:12 – 12:25 | | James Talarico Scandal (incl. "Not Gay" Reveal) | 12:26 – 22:13 | | Menstrual Leave Proposal & Gender Satire | 23:07 – 34:00 | | Hasan Piker UK Ban | 34:22 – 43:39 | | Father on Daughter’s Murder | 44:00 – 47:14 | | Knowles’ Political Prescription ("three numbers")| 47:14 – 48:01 |

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Overall Tone & Style

Knowles' tone is sharply satirical, irreverent, and unapologetically partisan. He mocks his political opponents, lampoons progressive claims, and repeatedly uses humor and sarcasm to make his points, particularly regarding double standards in politics, the contradictions of feminist dogma, and the left-right divide on cultural and free speech issues.

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Useful for New Listeners

This episode covers Democratic political scandals, internal party dynamics, left/libertarian debates over speech, gender politics, and a hard-edged view on criminal justice—delivered with Knowles’ signature mix of sarcasm and polemic. If you haven’t listened, this summary will give you the substance, arguments, and rhetorical flavor of the episode.

Transcript

[Michael Knowles]

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one but two Democrats Senate candidates suffer major sex scandals this weekend. Graham Platner up in Maine gets caught sexting a bunch of chicks on some creepy perv app. And James Talarico down in Texas Cat gets caught not being gay. Allegedly there's a news story about his girlfriend.

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I have questions still.

[Michael Knowles]

Then the UK bans left wing streamer Hasan Piker. Coincidentally, just as I prepare to fly out to the motherland for a debate at the Oxford Union, Piker was reportedly banned for anti Semitic comments, meaning that this issue has something to get everyone riled up. Israel censorship. If it included a transvestite, we would have the trifecta. Finally, Democrat Congress ladies make a federal issue whining that they should be allowed to skip work when they are menstruating. I for one think that their proposed legislation does not go nearly far enough. Not only do I think Democrat Congress ladies should stay home from work five days per month, I think they should stay home the other 25 days too. How's that for bipartisanship? Michael Knowles this is the Michael Knowles Show.

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[Michael Knowles]

Before we get to the scandal of James Talarico, maybe not being gay to start off Pride Month, I wanna get to the bigger Democrat scandal right now. Graham Platner. I haven't covered Graham Platner that much. Graham Platner up in Maine, he's the Democrat Senate candidate who's a little rough around the edges. He has a neo Nazi tattoo on his chest. He has the actual version of the fake thing they accused Pete Hegseth of during his Senate confirmation hearings. He has. He has a neo Nazi tattoo on his chest. He's got a very colorful personal life. He's threatened all sorts of people, including American servicemen. He's said all sorts of nasty, terrible things about women and other races. And also he's been caught sexting a bunch of chicks even though he's married. So this, according to the Wall Street Journal, big, big story here. Graham Platner's wife flagged the sexually explicit texts to his Senate campaign subheader. Wife of the main Democratic Senate candidate last year told the campaign about texts she had found between Platner and other women. Very, very sad story. It's not just being reported in the

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Wall Street Journal, it's being reported in

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the New York Times. There were some claims that Graham Platner had been sexting about a dozen women. And, you know, it's a rough situation for the campaign when the campaign's official response is that he was only sexting

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half a dozen women.

[Michael Knowles]

That's their excuse. That's their denial. No, no, no. He wasn't actively sexting a dozen women recently. It was really more like 6. On top of that, it seems that Graham Platner has a profile, an active, current profile, on a website called Kik. I don't really know anything about Kik, the app or the website or whatever, but according to Daily Wire's own Brent Scherrer, who is posting this full story from Tim Rice here, also at DW Kik is known as a, quote, predator's paradise. It is known as being a hotbed for child pornography, kidnapping and sexual abuse. This the Democrats Senate candidate in Maine and one of the Democrat darlings nationwide. Really bad stuff. So as all of these scandals are breaking, Graham Platner's first crisis PR response is to send his wife out to fly cover for him.

[Amy Platner]

No marriage is perfect.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

And

[Amy Platner]

I, I don't want a perfect marriage. I want my marriage and I want to be married to Graham. Sorry, blackflies. I knew the man that I married is wonderful and dynamic and probably a genius. I knew the man that I married had been through an immense amount of violent active combat and he's been in therapy for years. I just, I admire the out of him.

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Okay, this is a very long video.

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We won't subject this poor woman to

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playing the whole thing.

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The scandal itself is bad. It's not uncommon among politicians.

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Politicians have sex scandals all the time. It's not uncommon.

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It's bad, though. It's bad to be caught sexting half

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a dozen women and having an active

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profile on some particularly pervy app with

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videos of kidnapping and child pornography and all the rest.

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That's quite bad. It's somehow almost worse to be caught

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in this kind of scandal and then

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send your wife out alone to give the first response this woman who you've wronged to then send her out to fly PR for you and say, oh no, he's a genius and I love him and he's great. It ups the scumbag quotient on the scandal by orders of magnitude. It's so, so bad, so awful to do. It's one thing to have the sex scandal, that's really bad enough, but then to exploit the woman who you have wronged, hide behind her like a human shield. Real scummy stuff. Not all the women who are around Graham Platner are buying it. In fact, his political director, who quit in disgust from his campaign.

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Genevieve McDonald then posts this. There are some details missing from this story. I hope it will be updated.

[Michael Knowles]

The Wall Street Journal called me Friday

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morning to tell me they were running a story they had verified through multiple sources.

[Michael Knowles]

I, I had spoken with them months

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ago, off the record. So it was a courtesy call. I'd probably still get some blowback.

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After Wall Street Journal reached out to the Platner campaign for comment. Morris Katz demanded that, I guess who

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works on the campaign demanded that I

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call the Wall Street Journal, retract my comments, tell them their reporting was inaccurate,

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and send him a recording of the call.

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When I refused to lie for the

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Platner campaign, this is the campaign that this woman worked for until pretty recently at a high level. When I refused to lie for the Platner campaign, he sent this text quote.

[Michael Knowles]

Just want to be clear on where

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we are right now. If the story goes in its current iteration, we will communicate directly, on the record and by name that Genevieve violated

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the personal trust of Amy and Graham. Notice they put the poor wife first. Still, the whole campaign is hiding behind the wife, Amy and Graham, and shared

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explicit falsehoods to sabotage the campaign.

[Michael Knowles]

So I went on record with the New York Times.

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There's a New York Times story on this as well. That's all the sex scandal stuff.

[Michael Knowles]

And then just the violation of the marriage.

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Not even the infidelity, but the violation of the trust of the marriage to put the wife out there first.

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That on top of the fact we

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keep almost overlooking it at this point.

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The guy had a Nazi tattoo on his chest. And it's not just that he got drunk years ago and he got this tattoo, but then he reformed. He used to be this radical neo Nazi, but then he totally reformed. No, no, no, no. He only got the tattoo covered up last year. He only got the tattoo covered up when he decided he was gonna run for Senate. So that's all the context of the scandal, the part that I haven't really

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seen too many people talking about, but

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this is the obvious part to me, looking at this from a purely political lens, having spent a little bit of time working on political campaigns in my early life, where are the attacks coming from?

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I see all these right wingers. They're jumping on board, they're excited.

[Michael Knowles]

I'm doing it a little myself. It's really fun to dunk on Graham Platner. Do you really think these attacks are

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originating from the right?

[Michael Knowles]

Notice.

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Where are the attacks coming from? They're coming from the New York Times, left wing paper. They're coming from the Wall Street Journal

[Michael Knowles]

news division, not the editorial page. The editorial page is somewhat conservative. The news division is liberal, just like

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all the other newspapers.

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They're coming from a liberal Democrat operative

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who worked on the political Platner campaign.

[Michael Knowles]

There are multiple stories. There was a story I was meaning to get to for a while.

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Now I don't even know.

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Do I have the printed version?

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No, I don't.

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I've been meaning to get to this

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for a week or two.

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The New York Times was Already sending out warnings about the Platner campaign.

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This was weeks ago.

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This is the left doing damage control. This is Democrat elites realizing that Platner

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might not go the distance.

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He's just got too much baggage. And so, crucially, we. When is the primary? Primary hasn't happened yet. The primary is June 9th.

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We're now eight days away from the primary. And according to the election rules in

[Michael Knowles]

Maine, there are ways out of it for the Democrats. The Democrats could replace him right now

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if they wanted to.

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This is a Democrat op, I think. I think the Democrats are getting cold

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feet on Platner and they want him out.

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And they are using Republicans. They're then teeing up the Republicans to

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gin up all of this outrage, to

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give them an excuse to replace their

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candidate with candidate who's more likely to win in November. That's what I think is going on.

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And they're doing it very, very well. They're very well. It's a smart move. If I were a Democrat operative, right

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now, I'd be doing the same thing.

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But Republicans should not view this necessarily as a win. I want Graham Platner on the ballot in November. I want Republicans to run against Graham Platner. He is a weak candidate.

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He's gonna go down in flames. He's a disaster.

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I do not want to give the Democrats the opportunity to swap him out. When you're analyzing political operations, just full stop, period. When you're analyzing something that's going on

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in politics, the first question you have to ask yourself is nice little Latin phrase, cui bono? Who benefits?

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Who benefits when any political operation is going on?

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Just say, hold on.

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Will the result of this operation be to benefit my side or to hurt my side? In the case of the Platner expose, it will hurt Republicans. It will help Democrats if he goes down in flames right now and the

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Democrats can replace him with a good candidate.

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Basic rule in politics, as in war. What does your opponent want you to do? You probably shouldn't do that.

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You should probably do the opposite.

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It's funny. It's great. It's wonderful. Republicans might claim a victory if Platner

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goes down before the primary or shortly after.

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But it will be a Pyrrhic victory. I'm leading the charge. I'm the director of Republicans for Platner. Sign me up. I want to go. Maybe I'll fly up to Maine. Maybe I'll go door to door with petitions. I want Platner to be the Democrat nominee. We gotta save these scandals, guys, okay? Now, speaking of Democrat Senate sex scandals. Bigger. I think actually a bigger sex scandal for James Talarico down in Texas. Huge expose over the weekend. It turns out James Talarico might not be gay. There's a lot more to say.

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[Michael Knowles]

James Tallarico came out, what was it, a week or two ago and said he has this girlfriend, but we didn't know anything about her. He's got this girlfriend. She goes to another school, though? No, she goes to a school up in Canada by Niagara Falls. So you've probably never heard of her. Well, now we know who the girlfriend is. Supposedly this. According to the New York Post, the girlfriend is a woman named Brianna Menard. Look, I'm a married man, okay? I'm just being objective here. She's a nice looking lady. Nice Looking young lady. She's 30 years old. She describes herself as a committed vegan.

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Okay, that checks out for a liberal woman. She's a yoga buff. Also checks out.

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She's a cat mom. It's all checks out, right? Who likes dancing the night away at the local gay bar?

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Cheer up, Charlie's. According to her biography from the board of a local food co op, she

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likes dancing the night away at a local gay bar. Now, this makes perfect sense to me

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because good relationships are based on having something in common.

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So it's nice to hear that Talarico and his supposed girlfriend, they have something in common. They both check off the same box of likes and dislikes on the dating apps. The pair met when this woman landed

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a job at Talarico's office in 2022.

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Though they say they didn't start dating

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until January of the following year. Now, okay, now my spidey senses are really kicking off here.

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I initially was sort of joking when

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I said that James Tallarico was the gay Pete Buttigieg.

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I was kind of joking.

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At least it was a joke.

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It might be true, but it's a joke. But then you see all this stuff, okay? She's this woman who is just like

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a super lib woman who loves hanging

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out with her gay male friends. And all of a sudden she's the

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one who pops out as being his girlfriend. Okay, well, sometimes

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plenty of straight women like going to gay bars because they're not being hit on.

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They don't have to deal with very macho men.

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So maybe it could be the case that they're.

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But then, hold on, wait. She works for him too.

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She's like a literally a Democrat operative. She's a Democrat operative who loves hanging

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out with gay guys.

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And that's the girlfriend this is giving me. Again, I don't wanna. This has happened with Democrat candidates before. Democrat candidates with political ambitions, higher office ambitions. Again, I don't wanna be throwing around accusations. I just wanna make an observation. Cory Booker, confirmed bachelor into his 50s when he was running for president. He just coincidentally happens to get the first girlfriend that he seems to have ever had.

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And the girlfriend is a woman who

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is specifically associated with gay rights.

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And I don't.

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We've seen this. We've just. It seems to me we've heard this song before. The fact that she was actually working for him means she is a Democrat operative and was actually on his payroll. And she's the one they trot out. Okay, but then to me, the knockout

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punch is what Talarico says about her,

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he says, she is my rock.

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She is my best friend.

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I don't know if I could have gotten through the last six months of

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this crazy race if she hadn't been by my side.

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This is how.

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This is how gay guys talk about women.

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Straight guys don't say this. Generally speaking, straight guys don't say, she is my rock.

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She is my best friend.

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Guys have best friends, and they have wives. And at a really deep level, if you have a good marriage, your wife, in a deep sense, actually is your best friend. But they are different things. The role of the male best friend and the role of the wife, they're actually different things. And we don't usually.

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Guys don't refer to their wife as

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their best friend, and certainly they don't

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refer to their wife as their rock.

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She is my rock. A wife will refer to her husband as her rock because the husband is

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supposed to be the one who's really

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grounded, really solid, immovable. He's the steadying person in the relationship. This is really. Come on. My spidey senses are going off.

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I don't know. I don't totally.

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This seems more scandalous to me than

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the Graham Platner story.

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Okay, now let's get to more of

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the political angle on James Talarico.

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James Talarico has been trotting out this same line now for quite a while.

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He's obviously memorized it.

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Here is James Talarico telling an anecdote from the campaign trail on CBS and msnbc, not only with the same words, but almost with the precise, same metering cadence.

[James Talarico]

Well, you know, I've gone to every corner of Texas over the course of this campaign, from, from Beaumont to El Paso, from Amarillo to Brownsville and everywhere in between. And I can't tell you the number of people who come up to me at the end of these events and whisper, whisper. I'm not a Democrat.

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Like, they're.

[James Talarico]

Like, they're in the witness protection program.

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Okay?

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So I'm not gonna knock. And people are making fun of him for using this exact line robotically, verbatim. Politicians do that. You have a stump speech, you have a few lines.

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You use them. You're talking all the time.

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I'm not knocking him for that.

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I'm knocking him for the content of what he's saying.

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Talarico's claim is that there are a bunch of disillusioned Republicans who are really

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enthusiastic about his campaign.

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That is not true. That does not exist. This guy is as woke as they get. He is the exact antithesis of what the Republicans believe in. What?

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What?

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Even the disaffected liberals who voted for Trump, who just, you know, they're not Democrats, they're independents. If they're gonna go for a Democrat, they're not going for Talarico. Talarico is as woke as they get. He calls God non binary. He is extremely sacrilegious and heretical. James Tallarico is the guy who refers

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to women as people or neighbors with uteruses.

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It's not that an Independent or Republican

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can never go for a Democrat. They will never go for this guy. Never go for this guy. That's a total lie.

[Michael Knowles]

So what is the race gonna tell you? Talarico could win this race. He could win this race. Not betting that he will, but he could. He's a real threat. But he will not win because disillusioned

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Trump voters vote for him.

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That's not what's gonna happen if he wins.

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He will win because disillusioned Trump voters

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stay home because they're upset about the

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economy, because they're upset about the war in Iran, because they're upset about this, that or the other thing.

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It is very possible, especially in the

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midterm year, first one after the big

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presidential win, there's historical precedent and historical

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pressure for those disillusioned Trump voters to

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stay home, but they will not vote for this guy. So this, to me, is the test for MAGA in the midterms, and it's very high stakes. Trump owns the gop. He has just proven his ironclad grip on the GOP because he took out those five Republican legislators in Indiana who turned against him.

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Cuz he took out Bill Cassidy in Louisiana, cuz he took out Thomas Massie

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in Kentucky, because he took out Brad Raffensperger in Georgia. The list goes on and on and on. Trump owns the gop. He has massive approval ratings within the GOP and certainly within maga. The question is, will his low approval

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ratings with the general population overwhelm that?

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Will the median voter be so disillusioned by Trump that the people who gave

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Trump a popular vote victory in 2024 will wipe him out in the midterms? That's the question.

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But the thing Talarico's promising that they're

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all gonna flip to him. Never gonna happen.

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In some ways, it's worse. Trump has activated an historic coalition. We haven't seen anything like it since

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Reagan, and maybe it might even be bigger than Reagan, given the polarity of the electorate right now. So the Question for the midterms is,

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will Trump's coalition have really collapsed?

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Will it have lost its potency?

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So he's got an ironclad grip, but it's an ironclad grip on a shrinking segment of the electorate. Or is that all fake news from social media, ginned up by operatives domestic and foreign? And does Trump still have his finger

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on the pulse of the American people?

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Very worrisome.

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Approval rating numbers coming out of the public opinion polls in the U.S. that's the question.

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But the one option that you're not

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gonna get is Republicans voting for Talarico. Never gonna happen.

[Michael Knowles]

If Talarico wins, it will be because of an implosion, a great diminishing of the size of Trump's coalition. Okay, now, speaking of Democrats in Congress, Democrat Congress, ladies, some pretty prominent ones, like Rashida Tlaib, are now openly campaigning, making a federal issue of the fact that they're expected to go to work

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with when they are menstruating.

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And I'm actually, I'm on their side. There's a lot more to say.

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First, though, go to goodranchers.com, use promo code Knowles. One thing I've noticed as I've gotten older is that many of the best memories do not happen during the big events. They happen around a table, a family dinner, a backyard barbecue, everyone hanging around after the meal is over. Cause no one's in a hurry to leave.

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This is crucial.

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People ask me this about cigars a lot. When should I have the really nice, special, aged, fancy cigar? Should it be my wedding or this or that? I say, no, no, no. You should have it on a Tuesday night. That's when you're gonna be able to focus on. It's the same thing. And you could do this all the time with your family dinners. That's where the special things happen. And not only will you make special memories talking to your kids, you'll make especially special memories. Cause you'll have delicious meat from good ranchers, which is 100% American meat, sourced from American farms and ranches, sent directly to your door. You don't usually know where your meat's coming from at the grocery store. What weird stuff it's been injected with. The good rancher's meat is all good, nice American stuff, not injected with weirdo chemicals. It's also extremely affordable. And it's the best meat you're gonna get. It's not a trifecta, it's a quad fecta. It's phenomenal. With Father's Day coming up. Get your father a gift he will actually use for a limited time. When you buy any Father's Day gift box from Good Ranchers that'll include free Wagyu burgers, which are the best burgers

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Buy any Father's Day gift box. Get free Wagyu burgers for dad. Gift boxes can be delivered directly to your door. You can even include a custom gift message. Go to goodranchers.com choose any Father's Day gift box and free Wagyu burgers will be added at checkout. Good ranchers.com, promo code knowles American Meat Delivered Folks, what is a furry? Is it just a costume? An online community? Or is it something deeper?

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I sit down with Nathan a real

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life Furry to find out what really happens behind the fursuit.

[Michael Knowles]

There have been some interviews in recent

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years as the furry phenomenon has become more of a national issue, but usually they're just kind of making fun of people or it's like a joke or a troll or whatever. I actually want to understand what the furry thing is. I'm curious.

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I heard about it for the first

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time when I was a freshman in

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college and I didn't even understand what

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people were making the jokes about.

[Michael Knowles]

So anyway, I sit down for a

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two hour interview with a furry. I think we uncover a lot here is this teaser do you think your life would be better if you were not a furry?

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If I wasn't a furry, well, I'd probably be dead.

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My associate producer, Professor Jacob, he went to a furry convention and he said that he saw a big STD screening booth. Why do they have an STD booth?

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There are parties that do happen. It's better to be safe than to be sorry.

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Would you take your head off, your fur head off, Tell the world who you really are or no, you want to remain anonymous as a furry? Watch full episode right now on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel for the uncensored ad. Free version.

[Michael Knowles]

Subscribe to DailyWire Plus Congress ladies are very upset. They are expected to come to work when they are menstruating. You know, they're feeling a little uncomfortable about five days a month and they're

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expected to show up to work on those five days. So a gaggle of these women, including

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Rashida Tlaib, are setting out to change

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all of that

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every month. I have days where it feels like barbed wire is tightening inside me. I've taken 2000mg of ibuprofen in 24 hours and still been in tears from the pain. Often end up on the bathroom floor in the fetal position, crying, moaning or vomiting. Still, I've put on a blazer and gone to work. I've sat in committee hearings, nauseous from the pain, quietly breathing to make my way through it. I've given speeches at rallies and run town halls. While my body was in full revolt, I smiled for photos while silently wondering if I might faint right then and there. In fact, about 15% of women have period pain so debilitating that it disrupts work or school. That is no small number. And yet we are told to suck it up. It's why during Women's History Month, I've introduced legislation to give workers up to 12 days of paid leave a year for reproductive health. This would cover paper, period pain, yes, but also menopause symptoms, IVF miscarriages, endometriosis, flare ups and more.

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Okay, so the woman, she wants a

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lot of time off because she's a woman.

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Because she's a woman and she menstruates. And I'm sure it is painful for that week every month. She doesn't want to have to go

[Michael Knowles]

to work

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for five days a month, whatever, however many days per year. But it's because of this thing that happens five days per month. And so I would say I'm on their side. I'm on their side. I'm on the side of Rashida Tlaib, I'm on the side of the Democrat Congress ladies.

[Michael Knowles]

But I would go further. I don't think it's enough that we

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should let these women stay home from work five days a month. I think we need to, in the

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interest of equality, gender fairness, we need

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to go much further. I think these women should be allowed to stay home from work for 30 to 31 days per month. Except in February where It would be 28 to 29 days. I think they should. And look, maybe I'm the most feminist,

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maybe I need to get up there, say, you women, you're being misogynistic. Women need to be allowed to stay

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home from work every single day of the month.

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Can you believe this? Yes, I'm sure you can believe this. You watching this?

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Cuz you have common sense.

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But it is so funny, it's so ironic and so predictable that these women, specifically, these women, the liberal Democrat women, the feminist liberal Democrat women, have been telling us for 60 years they've been demanding and whining, saying, please let us go to work, please let us have professional jobs, please let us go to the office, we demand it. And then when they get to do all that. They immediately turn around and they say, stop making us go to work. Why are you making us go to work? For 60 years it's been misogyny, hatred of women to not tell them to go to work. And now that we say, okay, go to work, they say, stop. It's misogyny to make us go to work. Don't you know we're women? Why are you making us show up to the office? Don't you know we're women? We get cramps. We menstruate. Why are you making us go to work? We don't hold on. 60 years. That's what we were saying 60 years ago. And then you. But then you told us not to pay attention to that. And now how can. It's.

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It's kind of like.

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It's kind of like when you get

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into a debate or an argument with a woman during precisely that time of

[Michael Knowles]

the month, it's kind of. It's sort of like that, isn't it? Where there's no. It's not always the most rational debate and you can't ever win and you're like, always the bad guy and wow, huh? Funny. If only we had a system.

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Could you imagine if we had this system in society? How fair would this be? How equal would this be?

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If we had a system that allowed

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women to stay home from work all

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the time, that allowed women to, because of their biology, in part because of

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their natural inclinations, that just allowed. If only we could acknowledge that men and women are different like we did for all of human history until the mid to late 1960s.

[Michael Knowles]

And now those very same women who

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demanded that we stop admitting that men and women are different now they're demanding. We admit that. Again, most women don't want to go to work in an office.

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Women work all the time. Women work a lot and probably minute

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by minute of doing stuff. Women maybe work more than men.

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Men work more intensely, more publicly at times. Men carry more stress, at times, higher intensity of stress. But women probably carry stress more of the time and do work things more of the time.

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I would say if you're managing home, especially if you're expected to have a job at the office too.

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But imagine if we had this system

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in society where the men could go out and do the office job because they don't cramp up once a month unless they go out and eat too many chicken wings or something like that,

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and where the men do that and then the women have different expectations and can do different things that perhaps they're

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more naturally inclined to do. The vast majority of women, they don't want to work in an office. They don't want to work a regular job.

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And one of the real tragedies of

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our current economy, which we came about in large part because of feminism, is

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that now women are expected to work

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most of the time and in some

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cases, financially kind of have to, because our political economy has been transformed such

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that it's very difficult to support a family on a single income.

[Michael Knowles]

But that's a pity.

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That's a tragedy.

[Michael Knowles]

That's not progress. This was one thing during the first Trump administration where I say, Trump gets it right. You know, 98.7% of the time, he

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gets it right the vast majority of the time.

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But one of the things that used

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to rub me the wrong way is when President Trump would tout how we

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had a record low women's unemployment rate.

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And I said, why?

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Is that something we should be happy about? That women are now being forced out

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of the home to work in an office for Mr. McGillicuddy at the widget factory? I don't think that's a good thing.

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There are some women who want to

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work in an office.

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There is the Lady Thatcher exception. You know, it's a diverse world, and

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vive la differance, as it were.

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But that's the exception.

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I work with some of these women.

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Some women, they really want to do it, and they're a little bit different, and they're really great at it. But the majority of women don't want to work. They often want the income, but they don't want to work because they want

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to stay home and raise their kids,

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because they want to keep home, because sometimes they actually do want to cook

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and maintain a house. I know you're not allowed to say

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that anymore, but they do, because talk about. You're not allowed to say it because sometimes for about five days a month, they're really, really uncomfortable. Democrat Congress ladies get to say that when they're complaining about it. But conservative men are not allowed to

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say that when we just observe a natural fact. Most women don't actually want to work in an office.

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A lot of women are not cut

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out to work in offices.

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That's fine. That's good.

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Men and women have different virtues.

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Now that we have the most liberal, feminist, screechy women in America openly complaining

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about this fact,

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can we acknowledge reality and maybe go back to what worked

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for all of human history to some degree?

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Can we at least give women the

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option of staying home? Can we transform our political economy in such a way that we get to return to normal and in so doing, restore the fundamental political unit, which is the family, without which you cannot have a functioning polity, the breakdown of which probably explains 90% of our political problems. Can we do that? Are we allowed to do that?

[Michael Knowles]

Okay. Speaking of staying home, amazing timing.

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I'm flying out tomorrow to go for

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a debate at the Oxford Union.

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If you're in or around Oxford in the uk, I hope you come out. It's gonna be a lot of fun. The resolution is this House believes that Trump has betrayed conservatism. I'll be speaking in the negative on that. It should be a great debate. So I'm about to fly out to the uk.

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Just as I am preparing to take off, we get word that Hasan Piker,

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the left wing streamer who's regularly called for violence against Conservatives, he has been banned from the uk.

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This is an unrelated trip.

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He wasn't gonna go up to the Oxford Union, though I think they hosted him somewhat recently.

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But he was gonna go to the

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UK to do, I don't know, to whatever. Undermine the west, as he usually does.

[Michael Knowles]

And he's been banned from the uk and this issue, I think, is really

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gonna separate the men from the boys.

[Michael Knowles]

This is. By which I mean it's gonna separate

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the Conservatives from the libertarians. On how people react to this, we'll get to why Hasan was supposedly banned first, though. My favorite comment on Friday is from Kornbread Oracle, who says, Epstein is not a Trump scandal. It is a Trump smear. There's a difference. I know. Are y' all ready for that? Are you all ready to handle that? I talk about this in my episode on Friday, if you wanna catch why this is the case.

[Michael Knowles]

It's not that there is no Epstein scandal.

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There certainly is. It started out as a Democrat scandal. It's not that there's no Epstein scandal.

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It's that the practical effect of Epstein

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is to be used as a political smear against Trump. And some people on the right are falling for it.

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Hasan Piker has been banned from the uk. Here is why, according to Hasan, wearing

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his Democratic Socialists of America cap.

[Hasan Piker]

Dear Hasan Duan Piker, your UK ETA has been canceled. This means you cannot travel to the UK without a visa. This is because your presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good. You cannot appeal this decision. Apply for a visa. If you still want to travel to the uk, you need to apply for a visa. So we can consider your circumstances in More detail. Having your ETA canceled does not mean you will be refused a visa. I genuinely. Listen, I'm going to say something. This is a warning. I hope you guys understand. The Western world and liberal democracy is a sham and all of the supposed things that they claim to care about, they do not actually care about. We are moving into a very different timeline. Ok? This is why I constantly reiterate that fascism is here, right? Like the administration trying to deploy subpoenas against political dissidents in the United States of America like him or the uk that's like completely captive to the interests of, of pro Israel advocacy organization.

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There we go.

[Hasan Piker]

There it is like they are moving in a way. And this is the liberal government, right? The labor government is supposed to be the liberal government doing this. And the American government is the right wing government doing it. Like we are in the 1930s era.

[Michael Knowles]

We're in the 1930s era.

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That famously Philo Semitic era, the 1930s.

[Michael Knowles]

Hasan Piker, he gets it right there at the end.

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He blames Israel. He says it's because I'm anti Israel. That is why I've been banned from the uk. Glenn Greenwald, the left wing journalist who has gotten some play on the right, I never fell for Glenn Greenwald's shtick.

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Some people on the right fell for

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Glenn Greenwald for a while.

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This guy is a left wing homosexual.

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You know, he's got a lot of personal problems we don't need to get into. But very, very left wing. But because he agreed with us one time on like Covid or something, I don't even remember what he agreed with us on the right started to embrace him. But this guy is about as left wing as they come.

[Michael Knowles]

Glenn Greenwald comes out, he says, note that the UK government just banned entry

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of two American citizens. Chenk Uygur. Oh yeah, Chenk Uygur, Hasan Piker's uncle

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got lumped in with this, which is too bad. I actually have a moderate affection for Chenk Uygur. If I were working for the UK government, I probably would have let him in. Hasan Piker, though he calls for violence against conservatives, he has broken American federal

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

law and bragged about doing it. He conspires with foreign governments, allegedly. Admittedly, I guess we should say so this guy, he's. No, I definitely would have banned Hasan Piker. I think he should be in prison.

[Michael Knowles]

His uncle, I might have let off the hook.

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He's a sort of entertaining lib.

[Michael Knowles]

But in any case, Glenn Greenwald says

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the UK government just banned the entry of two American citizens, including Hasan Piker, not because they criticized or worked against the entrance of the uk.

[Michael Knowles]

It was solely because they criticize and

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oppose the one country deemed sacred and off limits in the UK and so many other western countries.

[Michael Knowles]

Israel.

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Folks, you know I have a pretty moderate view on Israel, which is the least popular view. That's why I take attacks from both sides on it. Because it's the moderate and sensible and common sense view, which is the one view you're not allowed to have point out. I'm not a Zionist by any religious or ideological standard, but I'm not one of these like keffiyeh people with Greta Thunberg marching for Gaza, river to the sea, whatever, which is all left wing nonsense anyway.

[Michael Knowles]

In any case, I think that there

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are legitimate rights of Palestinian Arabs that need to be protected, especially the Christian population. So in that way Israel needs to be restrained.

[Michael Knowles]

And so anyway, I have this very moderate view, which is the one view

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you're not allowed to have.

[Michael Knowles]

It's the view that requires you to have the most moral clarity on the issue at all.

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

And it's always punished.

[Michael Knowles]

But in any case, enough of my soapbox.

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

Can't help but point out here as Glenn Greenwald and Hasan Piker are trying to blame all of this on Israel.

[Michael Knowles]

The UK currently bans two senior members

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of the Israeli government from the uk.

[Michael Knowles]

So it's because the UK is totally

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

captive to the pro Israel interests. That's why they're banning Hasan Piker and two senior members of the Israeli government cuz they're so pro Israel.

[Michael Knowles]

Hold on, the. The Finance Minister and the National Security

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

Minister Bezalel Smotrich, I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly. And Itamar Ben GVIR are both banned from the uk.

[Michael Knowles]

The UK has further gone out and said that if Benjamin Netanyahu sets foot on British soil he will be arrested for war crimes because the ICC is

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

trying to arrest him.

[Michael Knowles]

You're telling me that the way to

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

explain why Hasan Piker is not going there is because he's anti Israel and the UK is so slavishly pro Israel that it would ban multiple senior members of the Israeli government? Give me a break.

[Michael Knowles]

The UK just banned Valentina Gomez.

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

Valentina Gomez, who is this kind of eccentric right wing political influencer. She's run for office once or twice.

[Michael Knowles]

She is exceedingly pro Israel. She filmed a video where she was eating popcorn watching Israel bomb Gaza. It's just not. Whatever you think about Israel, it is simply not the case that you can

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

explain this ban solely by saying that Hasan Piker is anti Israel.

[Michael Knowles]

It just doesn't explain it because it

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

doesn't explain the bannings of the Israeli

[Michael Knowles]

politicians or Valentina Gomez, who's a super duper extra mega Zionist. Do you know why the UK banned Hasan Piker? Because he's not good for their country.

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

It's not good to have him. He doesn't benefit them by his presence.

[Michael Knowles]

He's a bad dude.

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

We don't want him.

[Michael Knowles]

That's what they said. They said he's a bad dude.

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

We don't want him. He's not good for us, so he's not coming in. And guess what? That's very sensible.

[Michael Knowles]

Guess what?

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

We should learn from that. And I guess we are learning from

[Michael Knowles]

that in the sense that we are

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

now sending out subpoenas to Hasan Piker because he has admitted to federal crimes on air multiple times.

[Michael Knowles]

That's good.

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

I wish we would move even faster.

[Michael Knowles]

This one is going to separate the

[Michael Knowles (Ad/Promo Voice)]

conservatives from the libertarians and the classical liberals. Some who say we.

[Michael Knowles]

No, no, we need total free speech.

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First of all. First of all, the kind of speech, quote unquote, that Hasan Piker engages in

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is not even protected by the First Amendment. There's no First Amendment in the uk. There's no free speech in the uk. But even by the standards of the American First Amendment, the American free speech tradition, the sulfurous belches that come out

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of Hasan Piker's mouth are not protected speech.

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He calls for the murder of Republican

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senators and other conservatives.

[Michael Knowles]

He conspires with foreign governments. He breaks federal law. None of that is protected by the First Amendment. James Madison would have no problem sending Hasan Piker to jail, but certainly we wouldn't want a guy like this in our country. The only reason he's allowed in our country is because he's an anchor baby

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who grew up overseas.

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And then because of a flaw in

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our jurisprudence, we had to let him back in. But this is an important lesson.

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All the UK is saying is, this

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foreigner, he's not good for us, so why would we let him in? You can't even reduce it to one issue. Israel, this, that or the other thing.

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By their own actions, you can tell that's not so. They're just saying, this guy's not good

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for us, we don't want him in.

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That should be our standard, too. We have let 70 million people come into our country over the last 65 years. Largest movement of people in the history of the world.

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In recorded history, certainly.

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And we've done it because we feel handcuffed by some stupid liberal principles that aren't correct. If people aren't good for our country,

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we shouldn't let him in. Good lesson.

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Good lesson from the motherland.

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I love this.

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It's also funny.

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On the Israel issue, I decided to test this theory last night because people have. Getting back to the sort of moderate, sensible position on Israel, Palestine, I say it's a complex issue, it's a nuanced issue. And that's the one view you're not allowed to have. So last night I just post on Twitter, I say, hey, hey. What's everyone think about Israel?

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My UK trip, it's gonna be expensive. I need to get that engagement up. I gotta get those Twitter bugs.

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What's everyone think about Israel?

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So it's an obvious troll.

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It's just like a joke.

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I wake up this morning, 3,000 comments, 3,000 replies to obvious bait. By the time I get to work, it's 3200. So, anyway, I've decided I'm gonna try

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this on YouTube too. What do you think about Israel?

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Hey, guys, everyone watching on YouTube right

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now, what do you think about Israel? Gotta get that engagement up. What do you think about Israel?

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Do you like.

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Do you like it or not like it? What, is it controversial or something? What do you think? One thing I'll tell you is your views on it are not gonna be the chief reason you're banned from the uk. Okay, one story before we go, a little bit more of a serious story.

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A father has gone viral for testimony

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that actually took place a little while

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ago when he was screaming at Democrats

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over his father's murder. And this has prompted some Republican legislators in South Carolina to announce something called Logan's Law. This was announced at a press conference at the Myrtle Beach Police Department Annex, Myrtle beach, last Wednesday. What is the law in response to? It's in response to this.

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Think about your child coming home from a night out with their friends, laying down, going to sleep, feeling somebody come in the room and wake them and drag her out of bed naked, forced on her knees with her hands over her head, begging for her life, begging for her hero, her father. Me. That couldn't be there. She was five foot three. She weighed 115 pounds.

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Bang,

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dead, gone. Why? Because Alexander Devonte Dickey, who was arrested 39 times, 25 felonies, was on the street. How about that? How good are we doing for our family? How good are you doing for your kids? He should have been in jail for over 140 years for all the crimes he committed. You know how much time he spent in prison? A little over 600 days in 10 years. He's only 30 years old. He was committing 2.65 crimes a year since he was 15 years old. But nobody could figure out that he couldn't be rehabilitated. Well, you'd have to put him in prison to see if he could be rehabilitated. Isn't that the idea of prison?

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Poor guy. Your heart breaks for the father, obviously, for the poor girl who was murdered 39 times. 39 times this guy was arrested. He barely serves time in prison.

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It's not that a terrible crime took

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place, because crimes are gonna take place. Cause it's a fallen world.

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It's not that we're asking for perfection.

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It's not that we're asking for utopia. But this was so preventable. It was 39 times preventable. And left wing politicians refused to do it. They gum up the works because they're always on the side of the criminals. And so the criminals go out and they just execute young girls like this. And this reminds me of something about politics, which is that politics is actually very, very simple. Politics is so simple, it's not brain surgery. It's not philosophy, it's not anything complex. It's not easy always to affect political solutions. That could be hard, but it's very, very simple. Voters want three numbers to go up. Voters want the economic numbers to go up, the deportation numbers to go up, and the incarceration numbers to go up. This is the secret recipe for any Republican politician.

[Michael Knowles]

I'm just doling out

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tried and true advice for free. Hard to affect sometimes, but easy to diagnose. At least if you're not totally insane. We want three numbers to go up. The economic numbers, the deportation numbers, and the incarceration numbers. If you run a campaign and you can point, if you have a credible plan to do that or you have a record of having done that, you will win 150% of the vote. That's what it's about. There are a lot of ancillary issues that are just kind of nonsense that people that don't really motivate people that

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are, you know, even some of the

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more social issues, sometimes they motivate people. The trans one worked a couple years

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ago, but even the abortion issue doesn't

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motivate people all that much. Unfortunately.

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Foreign policies, people on the Internet feel

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very strongly about foreign policy doesn't really motivate voters much at all. Occasionally. The 2006 election, maybe the Iraq war was at its peak. But otherwise, that doesn't really motivate people. Simple stuff. People want to be able to afford to have a good life for their material needs. They don't want foreigners raping our constitutional system of government making a mockery of our sovereignty. And they don't want criminals murdering our family members. That's basically it. If you can do those things, you will reign for 10,000 years. Okay, the rest of the show continues now.

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