The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1218 - Trump Didn't Kill Himself
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In January of 2016, Donald Trump joked that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot
someone and he wouldn't lose any voters. And we all laughed at the time. And after yesterday's
Kangaroo Court Banana Republic's Soviet show trial perp walk of a former president and current leader
of the political opposition, I'm pretty much there. I'm pretty much there. As we all expected,
the Libs in New York have finally crossed the Rubicon.
I'm mixing metaphors, I don't care. The Libs finally made good on their threats to arrest Donald
Trump. And that wasn't even the craziest part. The craziest part of the 34-count indictment is that they
still haven't told us what they are prosecuting him for. Because the case against Trump is not actually
about any alleged hush money payment to Stormy Daniels or whatever. If that were the issue,
which in this case, I don't think would even rise to the level of a misdemeanor, but even if it did,
if that were the issue, the New York DA would not have been able to bring any charges because
the statute of limitations ran out years ago. The legal case for arresting Donald Trump
rests entirely on elevating that possible misdemeanor to a felony. And the only way the
prosecution could possibly make that argument is by tying the alleged hush money payment to some
other crime. So we were all waiting yesterday to find out what that other crime was. And the craziest part
is that even after the perp walk, even after the arraignment, even after the release of the statements
of facts in the case, the prosecution still has not said what the supposed crime was.
from a legal perspective, the whole thing is just a complete farce.
And the Democrats know that, which is why they aren't putting all their anti-Trump eggs in one basket.
How many more metaphors can I use?
The Democrats seem to be anticipating that the New York case is likely to fail,
so they're moving full steam ahead on investigating Trump for keeping some documents in his home,
a supposed crime that Joe Biden has just in the last few months been caught committing 10 times over,
whatever Trump did.
Of course, without a prosecution.
And if that investigation fails to get him, the libs are trying to prosecute Trump in Georgia
for calling the Secretary of State after the 2020 election and complaining about apparent fraud.
Every case they are currently bringing is so transparently absurd, just like every case they've
tried to bring for eight years, from Russia gate to Ukraine gate, to insurrection gate,
all of which went precisely nowhere. It's all just so patently absurd.
I think they've proven Trump's 2016 prophecy right.
Because these boys have cried Wolf so many times, that's one last metaphor, they've cried
wolf so many times that I think at this point Trump probably could shoot a guy on Fifth Avenue
in broad daylight. And the reasonable response would be to assume the Democrats just pulled
yet another optical illusion. I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Nolan's show.
Welcome back to the show. In just a moment, we will get to Marjorie Taylor Green,
Republican member of Congress calling the Democrats the party of peddows. She said it. Many people
were thinking it, but she said it. We'll get to that in one second. First, though, on this case.
It's not just Trump defending himself. It's not just the Trumpers defending him.
Even CNN is admitting that this legal case that DA Alvin Bragg brought out is very very,
very weak. How
strong this case may be or may
not be, your reaction
now that you've had a chance to go through it,
is it what you
thought it was going to be, and
are you unimpressed?
It is what I thought it was going to be
in terms of
focusing on
the payments that were made, the falsification
of the records, and really
tied to the payment that
was made to Stormy Daniels.
In terms of a case
that's being brought against a former president, it's a little underwhelming.
There's not more to it. There's not more violations, tax violations. There's not an incredible
new set of facts that we didn't know about publicly. It's really the facts of this case
as they have existed for basically almost seven years.
It's a little underwhelming, says CNN. Of course they have to.
It's preposterous.
They don't even tell you what the charge is.
The crime on which the felony hinges, on which bringing the case at all hinges,
they don't tell you what that crime is because there isn't one.
So it's a joke.
Legally, it's a joke.
But this is not the end.
Let's say that this gets laughed out of a courtroom.
Finally, the judge comes to his senses, even though it's kind of an anti-Trump judge.
We'll get to that in a moment too.
Let's say it gets laughed out of the courtroom eventually.
Well, they're just going to try him in D.C.
They're going to get that special counsel to go after Trump in D.C.
for all of his alleged misdeeds.
Then they're going to try to get the Georgia prosecutors to go after him there for all of his alleged misdeeds down there.
And it's never going to end.
What are they going after him for out of D.C.?
Well, he had classified documents at his home.
But he was president of the United States.
he had the ability to declassify any documents he wanted simply by thinking it so.
It's not like he had to go through any formal process.
And Joe Biden had many documents at many locations from the time he was vice president
when he didn't have the authority to declassify documents at a whim.
So whatever crime Trump allegedly committed, Biden committed it ten times over.
Well, they say, okay, no, the crime isn't that Trump took the documents.
The crime is that Trump obstructed justice because he was trying to stop them from getting the documents.
We know that's not true.
We know that Trump was working with the National Archives.
We have paperwork to that effect.
When the National Archives said, okay, Mr. President, well, can you just put another lock on the door?
That's what they said.
He said, I'm storing these documents in a very secure location.
And they knew where the location was.
They saw the documents.
And they said, okay, just put another lock on the door.
So that's legally a joke.
And then what?
They're going to get him in Georgia because he called the Secretary of State and said there are shenanical.
in the 2020 election, which we all know. We all know that the Democrats changed all the election
rules right before the election. We all know that when it looked like Trump was going to win,
they stopped counting the votes in the middle of the night. We all know there are shenanigans
in every election. And 2020 was particularly egregious. We've heard the phone call.
Trump calls at a perfect phone call. I'm not saying it's the perfect phone call of all time.
But you've heard the phone call. We're going to put a former president and the political opposition
leader in an orange jumpsuit for that phone call.
give me a break. So what's their hope? What are they doing? It's just spaghetti at the wall.
It's the same thing they did with the Mueller probe. It's the same thing they did with Ukraine
Gate. It's the same thing they do with everything. They're just trying to muddy it all up.
They're just trying to slow down Trump's campaign. And the only conviction that they're really
hoping for is a conviction in the court of public opinion, which appears to be working.
There's a CNN poll, so take it with a grain of salt, that shows that 60% of Americans support
Trump's indictment.
94% of Democrats, of course,
62% of independence,
and 21% of Republicans.
It's all the squishes.
Every single squish in America
as a Republican supports Trump's indictment.
So it's over
roughly two-thirds of those adults surveyed
said they support the decision to indict Trump.
But the trick of this poll is,
the poll was taken
before we knew what Trump was being indicted for.
The poll was taken before the statement of facts came out.
So 60% of Americans said they supported Trump's indictment
without knowing what he did,
which is what Nancy Pelosi insinuated last week,
when she said, listen, Donald Trump will have the opportunity in court
to prove his innocence.
Is that the way our justice system is supposed to work?
You are guilty until proven innocent.
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the smartest way to hire. So we can laugh at all of these Democrat plots and schemes.
And we can say it's just as ridiculous as Russiagate and you,
Grain Gate and the Stormy Daniels thing, which they're resurrecting on no basis, and the phone call,
and he stored some documents like every other president does. And we can all laugh at that.
But what is the cumulative effect? Even if not one single one of these schemes works to take down Trump,
they always tell us the walls are closing in, this is the end of Trump. He's, we've got him now.
Well, even if not one of them is plausible or can stand on its own, what happens when you just
throw all that spaghetti at the wall. What they're hoping for is you can convince a majority of Americans
that he's guilty without them even knowing what the crime is. And what they're hoping for is that
they can convince the top dollar Republican donors not to donate to Trump's presidential campaign
because they are not going to allow him to mount a serious presidential campaign. If he starts
doing too well in the polls, they'll put him in an orange jumpsuit, they'll lock him up. That's what
they're trying to do. Now, speaking of fake news, we saw yesterday a masterclass in the anatomy of a fake
news story. And it was around this Trump arraignment. As Trump is being arraigned, Trump's son, Don Jr.,
posts a news story to social media. This is a published news story about how the daughter
of the judge in the Trump case was an employee of the Biden-Harris campaign.
Seems relevant.
Not saying it means the judge has to recuse himself, but it seems relevant to the case.
That was the first part.
Next part, Joyce Eileen, who is some MSNBC talking headlady,
she said Donald Trump Jr. has posted a picture of the judge's daughter on truth social.
Posted a picture. Wait, what? What are you talking about?
And then AOC tweets out because nothing says innocent, like threatening a judge's family.
Threatening a judge's family. Wait, what did Don Jr. do? I got to go back. Now I'm getting
confused a little bit. What is it? What is it? Oh, Don Jr. posted a news article that was
reported in multiple outlets to social media. Well, he posted a picture of the, no, he posted a news article,
and I guess the news article had a picture of her. But,
A lot of news articles have pictures of this woman.
When we say judge's daughter, we're not talking about a seven-year-old kid here.
We're talking about a 30-something-year-old Democrat operative, who is a well-known Democrat operative,
who was highlighted in campaigns and elections magazine.
That's the trade magazine of political consultants.
She was picked in that magazine as a rising star.
And somehow posting a news article on a major website becomes Trump is threatening the judges
family. I'm all for keeping the kids out of
these political things. But the daughter is a political
professional who works for Biden-Harris, who has
worked for Biden-Harris and for lots of other Democrat
campaigns. And that's the fake news story. And now
what the people are going to walk away from, the low
information voters who don't pay close attention to the news,
who believe that CNN is a real news channel,
they're going to walk away and they'll say, oh, wow, that
Trump, that mobster, he's threatening judge his daughters.
It's the same thing that happened to me at CPAC a month ago.
When I went to CPAC and I said,
transgenderism, the whole preposterous ideology has to be eradicated from public life,
especially for the good of the people who have fallen prey to it.
Then what's the headline?
Knowles calls to eradicate transgender people.
And then what does the White House say?
This conservative speaker, he just came out.
He said he wants to eradicate people.
And then what happens?
A bunch of disingenuous, cynical, political hacks,
and a bunch of sincere low-information voters who believe what they hear from the news
and the press secretary of the president of the United States, they conclude that yours truly,
moi, whom everybody loves so, called to genocide people. And that's what sticks in people's minds.
This is the anatomy of a fake news story. And it is what Trump has dealt with every single second
of his political career. And that's how 60% of Americans say the guy ought to be indicted
before we even know what he's accused of doing.
Now, there was a funny coda to the arraignment yesterday.
This was just a great little happy coincidence.
As the Libs in New York are persecuting this man over nothing,
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, just hours after the arraignment,
ordered Stormy Daniels to pay Donald Trump
almost $122,000 in attorney fees,
on top of the roughly half million dollars that she already owes him for bringing a frivolous suit against Trump.
So as we're being told, we have to break the entire political tradition of the United States
to arrest a former president, current leader of the opposition, over not just the hush money payments,
because that crime doesn't rise to the right level, but some other unnamed crime that has something to do with that.
As that's all going down in New York, totally unprecedented.
incident to hurling us into banana republic territory. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says,
oh, by the way, Stormy Daniels, you owe Trump money for lying. So what is Trump doing?
Trump, he's a ran to New York, he flies back to Mar-a-Lago, and he goes on the offense.
This is where we are right now. I have a Trump-hating judge with a Trump-hating wife and family
whose daughter worked for Kamala Harris and now receives money from the Biden-Harris campaign
and a lot of men.
We recently had another trial,
and the same judge told the fine man
who worked for me for many, many years
that if you admit your guilt,
you will be in jail for 90 days,
but if you don't,
if we go through a trial and you're found guilty,
you're going away for 10 years and maybe longer,
which for a 75-year-old man with a great family
really means life.
life. What the prosecutors and judge did to that man, I will never forget. Because it's right out of the old
Soviet Union. That's where we are. It is. It is right out of the old Soviet Union. This is a ridiculous
show trial. There's no way Trump can get a fair trial in New York. Obviously, it's, and so what
Trump is doing here is he's going on the offense, and that's what he has to do. What Trump has to do here
is put this prosecutor and put this judge in his political crosshairs.
And what the Libs are going to say is, you're calling for violence.
You're threatening these people.
No.
We're not calling for the destruction of their persons.
We're calling for the destruction of their reputation.
And Trump has to do it.
One, because they deserve it.
Two, because it's the only way that he's going to keep that mojo up.
It sounds like violence. No, it's not by the... Donald Trump didn't murder Jeb Bush in 2016.
Donald Trump didn't murder Marka Rubio in 2016. Donald Trump didn't murder every other candidate on that stage.
But he destroyed their political reputations.
And Trump has to do that again. Not just to fend off these legal challenges, not just to fend off the Democrats,
defend off the other Republicans. Because the other Republicans are going to take this
opportunity to say Trump is weak. They've got him now. The walls are closing in. This is our
opportunity to gain some advantage here. So even to defend his position within the Republican Party,
Trump needs to remind people what it's like to get on the wrong side of Donald Trump.
And he's doing that. He's getting his mojo back. That's what we want to see.
We don't want to see nice, polite Donald Trump from the campaign announcement at Mar-a-Lago,
which was a little bit of an of an underwhelming experience.
We want to see Donald Trump on the ground in East Palestinian, Ohio,
bragging about how he bullied Joe Biden to finally pay some attention to that town.
We want to see Donald Trump going there, getting into these people's faces,
getting into their political background,
and rightly destroying their political standing.
What they are doing is the destruction of our country,
our system of law and order, what they are doing is thrusting us further into Banana Republic
Soviet show trial realm than I ever thought we would get in my lifetime. This whole idea
actually gave me a little bit of a tangential shock yesterday, which is that as this was happening,
I said, wow, I can't believe this is really happening in America. And I had just signed up for
some of the AI programs, because I'm just curious to see how good the AI programs are. So I went to
one of the AI programs, and I typed in Donald Trump as the defendant in a courtroom full of
kangaroos, something to that effect. I typed in one or two prompts. It was not very complicated.
And the AI spit out an amazing courtroom image, you know, in that style of drawing that you see
from courtroom images of Donald Trump sitting as a defendant with a kangaroo with a little smirk
on his face sitting there as a juror.
It's probably the most widely shared political cartoon of yesterday.
And I was able to spit it out.
I didn't spit it at all.
I just typed it in.
It took like 30 seconds.
So, wow, that was really, really fast.
And then I came up with another even more evocative and actually somewhat disturbing political cartoon.
And it told me a lot, not just about the Trump trial, not even just this political moment,
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So I made this little political cartoon
with a kangaroo in the court.
Okay, then I said,
one of my other conclusions here is that
in New York you could indict a ham sandwich.
So I said, okay, give me a ham sandwich
that looks like Trump.
Whatever I wrote, it wasn't all that much more complicated than that.
and it spits out. And if you're listening to this right now, you've got just go online, look it up later.
It's so shocking. It's this surreal, photo realistic image of a sandwich with a Trump face in the ham with his little pout and his blonde eyebrows.
And the eyebrows and the hair are made of cheese whiz. And it's really a brilliant piece of art that this computer made.
in like a minute. Now, this is going to put a lot of artists out of work, or it's going to radically
change the nature of artists' work. It's going to change the nature of political cartoons,
because the first two political cartoons of this Trump arraignment, which is an historic event,
were just spit out by a computer because I was goofing around within a matter of minutes.
But this poses a real risk for society broadly, because the trend we have seen in this
society over certainly the last 30 years, but really at a much longer time scale than that,
is a trend toward atomization, a trend away from communal activities, toward individual activities.
So we don't have bowling leagues really anymore. We don't have the Lions Club anymore.
I mean, these things exist, but people just don't participate in them as they used to.
People don't really go to their churches anymore. People are not as involved in their communities anymore.
people don't have a ton of kids anymore. And so they're just, people don't sit on their front porches
anymore. They're more likely to sit on their back decks. This was a trend observed in the 70s
in a famous architectural book. So all of the movement of society is toward this individualism.
With the advent of computers, people spend a lot more time in their own little affinity groups online.
They don't spend time with their real community. They spend time with their virtual
community. Then, with the advent of all sorts of new ideologies, which percolate all around the
internet, people begin to live according to different understandings of reality. Most clearly,
you see this with the transgender idea. In our country right now, we can't even agree on how to know
things, what a human being is, what are men, what are women. We don't agree on that anymore.
We might occupy the same geographical area, but we are living in different realities. Now, one of the
last shared things we had was art. And increasingly, people don't watch the same TV shows.
Now we have streaming on demand. People don't watch the same movies. People just watch
movies streaming on demand. And they can be tiny little movies that don't have the same box
office numbers that people used to have. Even art, we now have art on demand. Then it really
got me thinking. You know, this AI stuff is in its early.
stages, but you know, once they get it anywhere near a commercially viable place, you know it's
going to all be porn, right? It's like the whole internet. It's just, it's all going to be porn.
And the scariest part of that it is, you can then just make your own porn. And I was talking
with sweet little Elise about this last night, that once they perfect this AI so that now you can
create these whatever images you want, or even video, which they're already working on,
Previously, AI was not that convincing. It was kind of blurry. The hands are kind of a little messed up. But within about six months, now, it's really, really good. The hands are basically totally right.
Once they perfect the AI technology so that it spreads all over porn and they perfect sex robots, the human race is going to go extinct.
Because people are just, they're just going to create their own fantasies. They're just going to increasingly live.
in their own fantasies.
What's crazy about this, I promise you this will happen.
People will just, because people are very naughty and we don't have a lot of restrictions on society,
people are going to create porn of private citizens that they know.
The girl next door, the girl in, I don't know, the girl in math class or something.
It's going to be a huge legal challenge, but how do you put Pandora's stuff back in her box?
don't know how you can do that. So the effect, I don't mean to just focus on the weird sex stuff,
which seems to dominate our politics these days. But it's evocative because sex is so important
to the human condition, and it's such a motivator of our activities. But it's true of everything.
We're just going to live in our own little safe spaces that are completely concocted within
our own realities. This is what's so troubling to conservatives about the transgender
ideology is there's no communicating with someone who says, yeah, you can never know what I
really believe, what I really see. There's no objective truth that we can communicate about.
I just am whatever I say I am, and you have to deal with that. So, well, then that means that
there's nothing objective and intelligible about the universe. It means that we can't use
our faculties of reason. It means we can't govern ourselves. It's just the total atomization
of society. You see, I guess the reason that the point, the point is the point. It means that the
porn aspect of it all stuck out to me is because porn is such a perversion of the basic political
institution. Basic political institution is the marriage where you give yourself wholly to the other
person and your love is so real with your spouse that it actually creates a third person.
And porn is just the complete inversion of that. And you see that phenomenon take place
throughout every other level of society.
Speaking of sexual dysfunction,
I have a story to get to on that front,
but I'm sure we'll be banned from YouTube for doing it.
So I'll have to choose my words very, very carefully.
There's a study out of Northwestern,
which finds, what am I allowed to say, guys?
I guess you've got to go to Dailywire.com
and subscribe and become a member
so you can hear my words that won't be bleeped out.
This is a scientific study.
I'm just reading from a scientific study.
Okay, I got it right here.
It says pre-existing mental health issues were common, and youths with these issues were more likely than those without them to have socially and medically transitioned. Can I say that?
Parents reported that they had often felt pressured by clinicians to affirm their adolescent or young adult child's new gender and support their transition, according to the parents' adult and, uh,
adolescent and young adult children's mental health deteriorated considerably after social transition.
I'm just reading verbatim from this scientific study. You can't censor me for that. Can you? Can you? Maybe that's the kind of society we're living in a society where the ruling class, where the regime arrests the leader of the opposition and a former president. So maybe we are living in that society. Very important study though, because what we're told is,
If you don't indulge the fantasies of sexually confused people, you're effectively killing them.
These are life-saving treatments.
When we chop off the healthy genitals of confused young people, that's saving their lives
because their mental health will deteriorate and they'll commit suicide if we don't all pretend
that they're the opposite sex and we don't all live in lies.
What this study says is no, actually the opposite is.
true. What this study says is what we all knew intuitively, which is that when you encourage confused and
isolated people and people who have already a somewhat tenuous grasp on reality, when you encourage
them to go further into their own fantasies, further into their own AI, create your own reality
kind of daydreams, their mental health doesn't improve, it deteriorates because mental health,
which is just the new euphemism that we use for sanity, reasonableness, it hinges on our ability
to perceive and understand the objective world outside of us. Of course, you don't need a
scientific study to tell you that, but we now have one, and I promise you the lives are going to
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malefluous dulcet tones.
I'm sorry, it's on Friday. That's not tomorrow.
It's in this whole week, man, we're arresting presidents over here.
I'm losing track of the days.
You know, my favorite comment yesterday, whatever day that was, is from OZ,
who says, some people won't eat meat with added hormones,
but will then turn around and give actual hormones to their kids.
I know. This is the same phenomenon of liberals who are vegan,
who not only won't eat meat, they won't eat fish, they won't even eat eggs and cheese and milk.
So worried are they for the well-being of the little chicken, but they'll murder a baby.
They won't eat an anchovy because that would be evil and that would be taking life, but they'll murder a baby in the womb.
I don't mean to laugh. It's just either you laugh or cry. It's so, so dark and it's so complete.
completely incoherent. That's a great point, great way to color that with the new gender ideology.
Speaking of that ideology, Marjorie Taylor Green. Marjorie Taylor Green was just on 60 minutes with
Leslie Stahl, and Leslie Stahl thought she had a real gotcha for Marjorie Taylor Green.
You know, Marjorie has said things that are provocative, no doubt, but she's pretty conservative.
She's pretty clear in what she thinks. And so Leslie Stahl thought she really had her.
And she was going to get Marjorie Green to walk back a terrible hyperbolic line that she said.
Here's Marjorie's response.
And things she says that are over the top like the Democrats are a party of pedophiles.
I would definitely say so.
They support grooming children.
They are not pedophiles.
I'm put a pause.
Marjorie doesn't miss a beat.
Marjorie, you've said here, it says on this court,
that the Democrats are a party of pedophiles.
She doesn't, she doesn't, she doesn't even blink.
She goes, I would definitely say that.
Yeah.
Oh, I said that, yeah, I would say that because it's obviously true.
Keep going.
Why would you say that?
Democrats, Democrats support, even Joe Biden, the president himself, supports children,
being sexualized and having transgender surgeries.
Sexualizing children is what pedophiles do to children.
Okay.
Wow.
you, huh, I don't have any response to that, so I'll just sort of roll my eyes. I, wow.
So what is Marjorie saying here? I agree that Marjorie Taylor Green is being about 4% hyperbolic.
I agree. Politicians speak in hyperbole. They use really blunt statements to get their message across,
and sometimes they're hyperbolic. And so, sure, I'll agree with the Democrats. Marjorie Taylor Green is being hyperbolic.
here by about three and a half percent. We're not saying every Democrat wants to do weird sex
stuff with kids. But it is undeniable that the Democrats have taken a bizarre interest,
a bizarre sexual interest in children. And they're obsessed with it and they never shut up about
it. Conservatives didn't start this fight. We didn't bring up this issue.
Everything was going just fine.
It was the Democrats who said, we need to go into the elementary schools and talk about weird sex stuff with your kids.
They said, oh, please don't do that.
Why are you so obsessed with talking about sex and kids?
No, you're the one who's obsessed with you.
You're the one who wanted to go into the kindergarten and talk about weird sex stuff.
It was the Democrats who said, we want to go into the, I don't know why they all have the same voice.
They all got the same kind of demonic ideas, I guess.
we want to go into the public library and walk in in stilettos and miniskirts as big hulking dudes and then twerk for your little toddlers.
And that's a civil right. It's a blessing of liberty. It's called Drag Queen Story Hour.
And then conservative said, don't please. How about we don't do that? That seems weird.
Why are you so obsessed? No, you're obviously the one who's obsessed. You're obviously the one who's obsessed.
Democrats are the ones who are saying that teachers and guidance counselors and political activists
need to be able to convince your son that he's a girl and your daughter that she's a boy
and then start calling them by the names that are appropriate to the opposite sex and the pronouns for the opposite sex
and in some cases even put them on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, start transitioning them
without a parent's knowledge or consent.
It's the Democrats doing that.
And it's not just some fringe people.
It's the Assistant Secretary of Health for the Biden administration.
It's Joe Biden himself.
And the whole executive branch and the leading Democrats in the country,
they're all pushing this.
They have a weird sexual interest in children.
Whether that means they're lusting after children
or whether that means they just have a really messed up view of sex and children,
Marjorie Green says it's a pedo party, it's not that much of an exaggeration. And please spare me
the sermons about hyperbolic political rhetoric. Okay, these are the Democrats who say that anyone who
disagrees with them, anybody slightly to the right of Barack Obama is a Nazi, is Hitler, is racist,
is a white supremacist. They say that about anybody. They'll say it about, they'll call black people
white supremacists if they, in any way, diverge from the orthodoxies of the Democrat Party.
So please spare me the lectures about hyperboles.
Marjorie Taylor Green is being slightly hyperbolic. But it's really weird. You know, I wrote about this in my book,
Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which is available for order right now, number one national
bestseller. Thank you very much. Back in 1969, Bernie Sanders was trying to get himself into politics.
He was mostly failing. Obviously, it finally worked out. But in 1969, Bernie Sanders wrote in the Vermont Freeman
a weird essay about how we should sexualize children.
He wrote, these are his exact words, quote,
In Vermont, at a state beach, a mother is reprimanded by authority for allowing her six-month-old
daughter to go about without her diapers on.
Now, if children go around naked, they are liable to see each other's sexual organs and maybe
even touch them.
Terrible thing.
If we bring children up like this, it will probably ruin the whole pornography business,
not to mention the large segment of the general economy, which makes its money by playing on people's sexual frustrations.
The revolution is coming, and it is a very beautiful revolution.
It is beautiful because, in its deepest sense, it is quiet, gentle, and all pervasive.
It knows.
So it's kind of strange prose, I give you that.
But it's an ironic piece.
He's saying, oh, you know, on a beach, a young girl.
is reprimanded for not having her clothes on. Oh, because heaven for fend, she goes around without
her clothes on, then kids might see each other's sexual organs and maybe they'll even touch them.
Oh, that would be terrible because that would ruin the pornography business. And that would
ruin their sexual frustrations later on. So what he's arguing is kids should be allowed to
see and play with each other's sexual organs. And this idea of the importance of sexualizing
children derives from an intellectual who was very prominent on the left. Philhelm Reich,
who, Wilhelm Reich, had this thought that all the problems of the world, political dysfunction, war, death, cancer, everything derived from a lack of orgasms.
I'm not joking. I know that sounds like a punchline. That's really what he believed. He thought that the essence of life, the energy that animated life was something called the orgone. He created a device called the orgone accumulator, which was a wooden box that weirdo leftists would sit in. I don't know what they did in the box.
And the idea was to accumulate orgones.
And, well, to put it bluntly, the more orgasms one had, the healthier one would be.
And there was a push at younger and younger ages to sexualized children.
This back in the age of Aquarius when these people were just weirdo hippies.
Now those weirdo hippies are U.S. senators.
Now those weirdo hippies are running the country.
It's been building for a very, very long time.
And so now we see this push.
Not only to reduce the age of consent, now we see this push, there's a pervert, state senator in California.
Scott Wiener, I think his name is. All nature is but art unknown to the.
And this guy, Senator Wiener, he campaigned to pass this bill that would reduce punishments for pederasts for grown men who engaged in sexual acts, who molested young boys.
That was something that he campaigned on, and he won. He got it, he got it through.
I believe I'm correct in saying that Senator Wiener also campaigned on decriminalizing the transmission,
the knowing, willful transmission of HIV to a sexual partner.
Really, really weird stuff.
But for our conversation here, especially important to note that he pushed to normalize sex with minors.
He pushed to reduce punishments, specifically for gay sex with minors.
There's a movement for that.
And now, you know, the LIBs nationally are pushing not only to do weird sex stuff with kids or lower the age of consent or reduce the penalties for having sex with minors.
They're pushing now to allow minors to permanently mutilate their sexual organs.
Not at 15 or 16 or 14, all the way down to like eight.
Okay.
That's happening right now.
And so Marjorie Green goes on TV and says, it's a pedo party.
Is that so hyperbolic?
I don't think so. Speaking of female political leaders, Finland, the newest NATO country,
every country on Earth is going to be a NATO pretty soon, just before World War III starts.
Finland just ousted its left-wing prime minister, Santa Marin, in a narrow three-way race.
Santa Marin, you might recall as being the hottest world leader.
That's what she was known for, okay? There were a lot of news articles written about it.
She was just a young, physically attractive woman, and she would go out and party and do all sorts of weird, crazy things.
And there were videos of this. She should have her phone off. She wouldn't answer government calls. She'd be out just dancing at the club. And this is really bizarre, especially because she is pretty young and pretty good looking. And now she's been ousted from power, which is a little ray of hope in an otherwise depressing news cycle. Because the ray of hope here is not just that the right can take countries back. Maybe we can, maybe we can't.
The hope here is people still value competence, which is a little bit of a different thing than the ideological battle.
Competence. Can you do the basic rudimentary tasks that are required of politicians?
Can you keep the economy from imploding? Can you keep the banking system from imploding?
Can you keep inflation from hitting 40-year highs? Can you keep energy prices down? Can you stop World War?
or three from potentially opening up in Europe. Can you start? Oh, yeah. I'm listing a lot of things here
that unfortunately our current commander-in-chief has not been able to do. Which is why, of course, they're
going after Trump so hard. If they really believe Joe Biden won by the most votes ever cast in any
election ever in the history of the world, 99.7 percent of, more, a greater percentage of
Americans voted for Biden than Iraqis who voted for Saddam Hussein. That's how popular he is. Probably
if they really believe that, they wouldn't have to try to throw Trump in jail three different times on bogus charges.
And it's not just Trump, by the way.
Democrats have just dumped 500 pages of APO research on the number two Republican candidate in the race, Ron DeSantis.
This is American Bridge 21st century.
It's one of the largest tracking and research groups in progressive politics.
So it's not some fringe group.
It's a big one.
They just released a new website after spending the last year gathering APO on DeSantis.
they're branding him as a MAGA extremist.
This is the same group that launched the Trump research book in 2020,
which is a similarly comprehensive account of all of Donald Trump's alleged crimes.
All of which is to say a lot of people are trying to prognosticate and read crystal balls
and tea leaves to say the Democrats are arresting Trump because they secretly want him to be the nominee.
It's 5D Chess.
No, they are most terrified of him being the nominee.
No, they actually want DeSantis.
Actually, they want that.
Forget about that for a second.
Just focus on the basic stuff.
they know that Biden is very, very weak.
They know that this ideology is unpopular.
They know that parents don't actually want to chop their kids' genitals off.
They know that World War III is unpopular.
They know that the absolute economic destruction of just the last two years is very unpopular.
And they know that people can tell that this guy is not able to do the job.
So they fear not just Trump.
I think they fear any Republican candidate who could get the nomination.
You think they're going hard after Trump now. It's because he's the number one candidate.
If DeSantis somehow becomes the number one candidate, they're going to go after him just as hard.
They're going to try to put him in an orange jumpsuit too.
We've got a lot coming up.
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