The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1643 - Deadly Attack, Lightning Strikes, & An Explosion At Trump Hotel

Episode Date: January 2, 2025

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As midnight approached on New Year's Eve, lightnings, struck the U.S. Capitol, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center, and the Washington monument. It's a wicked generation that seeks signs and wonders, but as a great priest has observed, it is a stupid generation that ignores signs and wonders. Many were wondering if the strikes were an omen. And then they were wondering, is it a good omen or a bad omen? A few hours later, a terrorist carrying an ISIS flag murdered 15 people and wounded dozens of others in New Orleans. And a few hours after that, a Tesla cyber truck blew up outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.

Welcome to 2025. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Nulls show. Welcome back to the show. Rough start to the year. There is a little good news, a little silver lining in the storm cloud, I guess, which is that Mr. Beast has just gotten engaged. The biggest YouTuber ever is it getting engaged, and that actually has political significance. This episode is brought to you by Mayflower Cigars. I mean that very literally. I have been at home mandated by Daily Wire. They closed the office. I've been at home for two weeks. And so what is powering this show right now is my Mayflower Cigars. You can get yours at Mayflower Cigars.com. You have to be 21 years old or older.

Or order some exclusion supply. Let's get right into it. Early hours of the morning, as New Year's Eve became New Year's Day, about 3.30-ish in the morning on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, there was a terrorist attack. The terrorist attack was carried out by a guy. I won't say his name, but he's a guy with an Arab name, 42 years old. that identity has been confirmed by the FBI, the suspect. The attack thus far, numbers are still coming in, actually. But initially it was reported that 10 people were killed. Now that number has been raised to 15 people killed, at least 30 others injured. The guy was carrying an ISIS flag. The FBI is now saying that he did not act alone or they believe that he did not act alone. the New York Times is reporting that in a 2020 YouTube video, this guy, the suspect, said that he was born and raised in Texas and served in the U.S. military.

So despite the Arab last name, despite the apparent allegiance to an Islamic terror organization, you can't just say that he's a terrorist who snuck into the country. He's a guy who was born and raised here, a guy who even served in the U.S. military. The attack is horrific. The first thing you should do is pray for the people who were killed and for the family of the people who were killed. The second thing you should do, though, shortly after the first thing, is to ask yourself, what is wrong with the FBI? The biggest story, of course, is the attack. Only just below that, the story is the FBI. The corruption, the incompetence, the idiocy, the blind ideology. This is a problem. We've had a big problem with the FBI in recent years.

The FBI focusing so much of its attention on undermining Donald Trump, cooking up nonsense with the DNC to pretend that Trump's a KGB stooge to overrule his election in 2016 to undermine it when he was running, then spying on Catholics in their parishes, apparently around the country, though the FBI lied about that, going in and harassing pro-lifers for peacefully demonstrating outside of abortion mills, calling parents who don't want their kids to be transed in the classroom, domestic extremists akin to terrorists. So they haven't had a whole lot of time to focus on actual terrorists. And then the first thing the FBI did, after this horrific terror attack on New Year's Eve in a prominent American city. The very first thing they did

was assure everyone that it was not a terrorist attack. My name's Alita Duncan. I'm the assistant special agent in charge for FBI New Orleans. As Chief Kirkpatrick said, we'll be taking over the investigative lead for this event. This is not a terrorist event. What it is right now Is there improvised explosive devices that was found? And we are working on confirming if this is a viable device or not. That's the first thing we heard. The face of the FBI in New Orleans after this attack is this woman, not seemingly dressed for the job, shows up. She's got a sparkly nose ring on.

She goes out, she says, hey, I just want everyone to know. I just want you all to be assured. This is not a terrorist event. hours later, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, comes at and he says, we are working closely with our law enforcement partners in response to the situation in New Orleans. This abhorrent attack is being investigated by the FBI as an act of terrorism. Okay, there you go. Don't you feel confident? Don't you feel safe and secure?

The very first thing they do is get the essence of this attack wrong. And I'm trying to figure out what the most charitable take on this is. Is the most charitable take that the FBI leadership is just so stupid, just so terrible at their jobs, so dumb that they didn't know that this obvious terrorist attack was a terrorist attack? Maybe that's the most charitable read. It's not the most likely. I don't think the FBI is that dumb. There are plenty of mediocrities who work in the federal government.

But the FBI has shown something beyond mediocrity and incompetence and neglect in recent years. The FBI has shown deceit, vindictiveness against ordinary good Americans who are just trying to live their lives and have a good way of life, a normal way of life. The FBI has shown that it will regularly undermine what good normal people want for their country in service of radical ideologies, going so far as to collude with Democrats who colluded with, Russians, ironically, in the Russia hoax going back to 2016. So I don't think it's that they're just so stupid, so dumb. I don't know. Maybe people in the middle of the pack at the FBI, I don't know, in the offices, the paper pushers. I know there are a lot of good agents on the ground doing good police work, but I'm talking about the leadership of the FBI. I think it's worse than incompetence. I think it's deceit. Or there's another option, which is that sure there's corruption, sure

there's deceit, but also the FBI is just so committed to the ideology of our ruling class, which is extremely liberal, leftist, crazy, absurd, contrary to everything that normal Americans consider to be good and true and virtuous. This is so pathetic, though. It took them five hours to totally, not even, to totally undermine their credibility, as if they had any credibility left. and the FBI on top of this saying that the guy probably was not acting alone. So that was New Orleans. Horrible attack. Hours later in Las Vegas, a cyber truck blows up outside of the Trump Hotel and the initial reports.

A Tesla has caught fire at a hotel, the Trump Hotel, okay, it's the Trump Hotel. And it caught fire. Maybe it was a bad battery. We don't know. Could have been user error. You can see the videos. The thing explodes. And then as the reports come in, okay, well, actually, it was intentional.

Actually, the cyber truck was packed with explosives. It blew up. Of course, anyone with two brain cells to rub together could see you got the Trump Hotel, already going to tell you 99% chance this is political, which would be an act of terrorism, because terrorism basically is the attack on civilians and civilian properties. in the furtherance of a political goal. That's the basic definition. When two armed nations wearing uniforms go to war, that's not terrorism. It's violence. It's war. It's ugly. That's not terrorism.

Terrorism is when you use violence against civilians to achieve a political end. Obviously, that's what's going on here. You've got the symbol of Elon Musk, who is now probably the most prominent confidant and supporter of Donald Trump in the world. You got that symbol exploding just outside of a Trump property on New Year's Eve when Elon and Trump are spending New Year's Eve together. Now, the officials on the ground actually had a great compliment to play to Elon Musk here because the fact that this guy blew up a cyber truck,

the fact that this guy was trying to make a point about the symbolism of the American right and this relationship between Musk and Trump actually probably saved a lot of people's lives. We'll get to how in one moment first, though, speaking of violence, speaking of setterfuge, speaking of espionage. I just sat down in my latest episode of Michael Ann,

my long-form interview series, with Jack Barski. There's a former Soviet spy, who's a KGB spy illegal in the United States. For years and years, we talk about espionage. We talk about how he left it all behind. We talk about how he eventually got caught, even after he left it all behind.

We talk about his conversion. Check out this teaser. All they knew was that A. I was a hardcore communist, and I was pretty smart. Being recruited by the mighty KGB, that's like, I'm... You're like James Bond.

You know, I had loved this woman and I could shake her off like this. Do you have to be kind of a sociopath to be a spy? That's a good question. I've never been asked that question. What is the mission that you were sent into America to do? Open up a business. And the KGB knew how to launder money and come to the United States with $20 million.

With this kind of money, I would have made it into the upper echelons of society right next to the Pentagon. Right. I would have been a very dangerous spy. I thought I had become untouchable, with one exception, though. Eventually a betrayal by a KGB agent, I became very depressed. One day I went to the altar at that church. it was my subconscious again, forcing me to get up, go up there, and the past asked me, can I do something for you? And I said, I want to give my life to Jesus. It makes me almost cry.

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You have this tank explode right in front of the hotel. How is it possible? People were injured. How is it possible, though, that the only person who was killed, at least as of now, was the attacker? It's because, as Elon Musk says, the evil knuckleheads picked the wrong vehicle for a terrorist attack. Cybertruck actually contains the explosion, directed the blast upwards, not even the glass doors of the lobby were broken. It's because it was a tank. It is actually, and we can be a little light about it, I think, because no one was killed other than this animal.

It's because of how well engineered this truck was. This is the greatest advertisement in the history of automobiles, this thwarted terror attack. So the question on everybody's minds are these attacks connected? Seems like a hell of a coincidence, doesn't it? and we know for a fact, because Joe Biden has left the border open for four years now, has actually invited foreigners in, totally unvetted. We know that Muslim terrorists have entered that border. Sean Ryan did a show, when was it, some weeks ago, an interview with someone who said, oh, yeah, we've got over a thousand ISIS terrorists or Al-Qaeda or other Islamic terrorists in the country.

guaranteed, planning and attack. I don't know. It seems coincident. It could just be a mere coincidence, but it seems real coincidental. So the question then is, who's behind it? Is this guy a Muslim terrorist? Could be. Is this guy like the guy in New Orleans? Is this guy connected to, I don't know, the Iranians, the Chinese, The, I don't know, the U.S. intelligence community, I don't want to suggest something like that. The only reason I suggested is I'm going through the list of Trump's enemies. Okay. I'm going through the list of people who have tried to undermine Trump. And you have to include the U.S. intelligence community in that.

Because we now have it on record that they cooked up a fake dossier, that they went in, in, they trapped Trump administration officials in the first term, guys like Mike Flynn, to undermine Trump's administration. We know that. We know about those bad actors. We know about the Andy McCabe's. We know about the pages. We know what we know about the players in the American I see who have tried to undermine Trump. The 51 former intelligence officials who come out swinging for the Democrats against Trump. We know about all this. And we know, I'm not suggesting that the intelligence community actively did this. We do know that a lot of these attacks, after the fact, they say, well, they were known to law enforcement.

Okay. Well, we have a surveillance state. The American intelligence community knows where every pro-life granny in the country is. They've got their eyes on all the traditionalist Catholic parishes. Well, okay, if you got your eyes on these people, how does this sort of thing happen? beyond the corruption in our own government, beyond the incompetence or deceit of the FBI. Is it the Iranians? Yeah, the Iranians. I've been trying to kill Trump for years. Trump killed the top Iranian general. They've had a fatwa on that guy for years. Was it the Chinese? The Chinese have a lot of them. There are a lot of people who want Trump dead or otherwise incapacitated. So the political takeaway from me, we don't really know much about the cyber truck attack. The political takeaway for me, though, is, is this going to stop? No, Trump is not the president yet.

We are entering into a very dangerous 19 days, 18 days now. Trump is sworn in on January 20th. We're entering into a very dangerous time, and by the way, it's not going to stop when he's inaugurated. If there have been assassination attempts foreign, if there have been attempts to kick this guy off the ballot, to imprison him, raiding his home, the FBI raiding his home with deadly force authorized at Mar-a-Lago. If the liberal regime has justified the assassination of Trump, time and time again, Joe Biden started his campaign in 2020 on that, calling him a Nazi sympathizer. Total baseless lie. If they have been doing that for this long, they're going to keep it up. This is not going to stop.

And it's a reminder that the apparently feckless policies of the Biden administration, which I don't think are feckless, I think they're intentional. Well, they're going to have real consequences. I don't think the open border during Biden was just a whoopsie daisy. You know, they just don't have their act together. That was intentional. But that intentional policy did allow terrorists to enter the country. Is it because Joe Biden wanted terrorists to enter the country? No, it's because Democrats wanted to flood the country with foreigners because they think that it will give them a permanent electoral majority. And they're willing to take a few thousand terrorists, if that's what it's going to take. They're willing to take hundreds of thousands of kids being missing and probably in sexual slavery. They're willing to take 60 to 80 percent of women and girls who cross the border illegally being raped or otherwise sexually assaulted along the way. That's just the cracking of the eggs that is required to make an omelette for the Democrats. Well, that has real effect. And the real effect here is with all of this, not just the open border, but the corruption of the FBI, the failure. of law, the undermining of law enforcement,

DEI in American government. The upshot of all of that is 2025 starts with two terrorist attacks. There is a lot to recover. There's a lot to work on. Also worth pointing out, even with the New Orleans attack where we have more

information than we do with the cyber truck, we still don't know all that much about this guy. We don't know all that much about this guy because he's got an Arab name, but there are some reports that he has really no Arab connection, that he might just be a regular old black guy with an assumed name. During the black power movement in the 70s, a lot of just regular black guys took on Muslim names because of the nation of Islam and strange

black nationalist ideologies. Again, we just don't know. We don't know anything about this. There's a chance he's not Arab. He just pledged his support to ISIS out of some ideology. We just don't know. We just don't know. But an inauspicious start to the new year. Now, speaking of immigration and Elon, the big story that took place over the break was the H-1B controversy. The H-1B controversy. This didn't involve Arabs. This didn't involve black nationalists. This didn't involve Venezuelans or Guatemalans crossing the border.

This involved Indians. A huge fight broke out over H-1B visas. These are visas offered to foreigners to come work in the United States. the most prominent example would be Indians being brought over to work in tech. There aren't that many of these visas. I think it's something like 85,000 per year. Still, though, 85,000 is a big number if you're one of the 85,000 people that loses your job in America to a foreigner. And it became a major controversy, and it exposed a big split within the American right.

A big split even within the MAGA movement, where you had immigration restrictionists, where you had traditionalists, cultural conservatives on one side saying we need to restrict immigration. And you had the more libertarian, more classically liberal types on the other side saying, no, no, no, we want to bring in all the best foreigners from overseas. And some Americans might lose their jobs. But the whole purpose of it is just to bring in all these super geniuses. That will really help America. This took over social media, I think in part because people were bored a little bit over Christmas.

But it's not a minor debate. This issue is relatively minor, the H-1B visa issue, but it signifies a much deeper divide on the right. And it is a debate that we cannot escape. The stakes are very, very high. We'll get to that in one moment. First, though, I hope at some point over Christmas, or maybe now, because people are getting back into the swing of things. And also, Christmas is still going on because Christmas is 12 days long. I hope that you checked out my yes or no game with John Christ. Great comedian, it was a rollicking good time. If you want to play yes or no, you go to Daily. why.com slash shop. You get the yes or no game. You get the expansion packs, philosophy,

politics, and religion, the conspiracy theories, maybe some more coming out. Go play it at home with your family. Best way to figure out who knows whom best. Real conversation starter. I'm sure, after all of your holiday meals, you definitely want some more of those. Go check that game out and go check out the show right now. Oh, mention never take a paternity league. Not because there's anything wrong with taking care of the family, but because you don't want people to think you're a lesbian. Okay, I didn't read the end of that. Hold on. You can get the full episode on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel, or you can subscribe to DailyWire Plus, and you get it all exclusive, uncensored, ad-free, dailywireplus.com. Should we take more Indians

to fill our tech jobs? That was the big debate that broke out on the American right over Christmas. And Elon Musk, a man to whom we owe quite a lot, we conservatives. The man who put his money where our mouth is and bought Twitter, gave conservatives at least a little bit of a space to talk in big tech, $44 billion worth. The man who endorsed Donald Trump, I think, brought a lot of people over who helped Republican candidates. He came out. He said, this issue, H-1B, is a major issue for him. He's willing to go to war over it. He said, the reason I'm in America, along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla, and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H-1B. Take a big step back and I'll clean this up for a family show, but it's all caps. F-U-C-K yourself in the face.

I will go to war on this issue, the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend. Now, he got a lot of pushback from people in the MAGA base who said, hey, what we want to conserve here is not. the profits of various companies. What we want to conserve is the American way of life. We want to protect the American workers so much of the realignment that took place over the last 10 years under Trump's leadership of the GOP is that the GOP is the working class party, the Libs or the Party of the elites. That was not true when I was a kid. That wasn't apparently true when I was a kid. That is true now. So he said, hold on, you can't sell out American workers just because you want to get some people from India to work the tech jobs and pay them much lower wages than you

would have to pay to Americans. So on the pro-H-1B side, you have the corporations and the libertarians and the tech guys saying, no, no, it's not about lower wages. It's about a dearth of talent in America. We just don't have Americans who are smart enough, who are educated enough, to fill these jobs. These dummy Americans, they just can't figure it out. The anti-H-1B side said, no, you know, look, maybe Americans aren't great at these jobs yet, but that's because of failure. of the schools and actually, you know what, forget about that. Americans are good at these jobs and you guys are just trying to save some money. And you're importing foreigners and you're totally disregarding the desires of cultural conservatives and people who want to maintain a cohesive culture. A polity

is not just about an economy. We're not a society serving GDP. We're not a society serving the market. The market exists to serve us, to serve our political ends. We don't want to let the tail wag the dog here. That was the fight. So one of the critics of the pro H1B side was D.C. Drainow who pointed out, hold on, even when you get down to the nitty gritty on who's getting these H1B visas, it's not just the 0.001% supergenius who start major corporations. It's not the Elon Musk's of the world. It's people who make $22,000 a year to be a cook. One of the examples they pulled out, because you can look this stuff up, this federal information. You can figure out who gets the H1B visas. $22,000 for cook number three. You're telling me

We can't find cook number three in America. You need some genius coder from India. You need some Punjabi genius to come be cook number three. I don't think so. Maybe you need a Punjabi genius to make a delicious tika masala, but you're not necessarily for any other cooking job. Hold on. This seems to be about a little bit more than super geniuses.

Now, what did Trump say? How did he weigh in? He weighed in on the pro-H-1B side. He said, I have many H-1Bs. on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B. I've used it many times. It's a great program. Before we get into how we should think about this, as conservatives, as people who want to make America great again, as people who have maybe a more robust and comprehensive right-wing view of things, I want to defend President Trump for a second. People are saying Trump is selling

out his base. He's breaking his campaign promises by embracing H-1B. That is not true. First of all, We have 3 million immigrants come here per year, more under Biden. One million illegal and then 2 million illegal or more illegal. 85,000 foreign workers getting temporary visas is a drop of a drop of a drop in the bucket. So in itself it's not a huge issue, but it's significant of other issues. But then even on the deeper point, this is what Trump campaigned on. Trump did not campaign on restricting immigration. I think we should restrict immigration.

I think we should drastically reduce the total number of immigrants that we take into America each year. Legal and illegal. That's my position. That is the position of most Americans sometimes. But that's not the position of most Americans other times. What I mean by that is, when you ask most Americans, you want more or less legal immigration. What do you think about immigration? What most Americans answer on public opinion polls is they want to stop illegal.

legal immigration, and they either want the same amount of legal immigration or they want even more legal immigration. You know, we don't care who comes here just as long as they do it legally. They go, well, all right, anybody's welcome to come to America. America doesn't have any deeper cultural identity. Anybody can come here if they're going to strive and make money, but they got to do it legally. People answer that on public opinion polls. However, when you ask people not, are you pro or anti-immigration, when you ask them, hey, what do you think the ideal number of immigrants that we let in per year is. The answer people give, the majority of people give, is significantly lower than the number of legal immigrants we allow in each year. There was one

poll, this was some years ago now from Harvard Harris, showed that the lion's share of Americans want immigration to be somewhere around 500,000 or less people per year, 500,000 or fewer people per year. But we take in a million people legally each year. That's a conservative number. So that That means that, practically speaking, the vast majority of Americans want to drastically reduce, cut it in half, the number of legal immigrants we take per year. But they don't think that that's their position. They think their position is illegal, bad, legal good. But their actual position, if they knew the numbers, is to drastically reduce all immigration.

It's just a case of our liberal establishment being so good at hiding how many people we brought into America that no one really knows. no one has any idea how many foreigners we bring into our country every year. And it's nothing against foreigners, especially Indians. I love Indians. I've been to India twice. I played the sitar. One of my best friends, I can say this sincerely, one of my very best friends is Indian from India. I love the Indian culture, okay?

But an immigration policy is not just based on which foreign countries you like the most, or what kinds of flavors of dinners you like the most. we've just taken in so many foreigners. We have the highest foreign-born percentage of the population that we've ever had in America. It's at record highs. Over 15%. So does that... Just ask yourself, is there any limit to how many foreigners we can take in? If you just...

If you took in 300 million foreigners. If you took in 600 million foreigners, now two-thirds of the country is foreign. If you took in, I don't know, more than that. At a certain point, doesn't America cease to be a moment? America? Well, some people would say, no, no, no. America is just the Constitution. America's just an idea. It's just an idea floating in the ether. And anyone who comes in and has this idea injected into their brains, then they're automatically American. I don't think that's true. I don't think that's how any nation works. I think it's the people. And I think it takes a little

while to become an American. I think it actually might take generations to pick up on all the subtle cultural complexities of what it means to be an American. Not saying we can't take in foreigners, we should take in some foreigners, but it takes a while to assimilate. We have manifestly not assimilated people. And we have manifestly ignored cultural matters in service of radical ideology and money for decades. The movement of people into the United States over the last 60, 70 years is the largest movement of people ever in recorded history. just a little too much. So where does that leave us? Vavek, my friend Vibhak Ramoswami, he tweeted out, he waited into this debate. He said merit or group quotas, you can't have both.

I've said it for years. It remains my view today. So he's saying we need a pure meritocracy. But the question is, what do we mean by merit? So again, people are like knocking Elon and Vivek. I think their views are much more complex. Vovac himself said, I've long said the current H-1B system is badly broken, needs to be gutted. It shouldn't use a lottery. It should be based on pure merit. It shouldn't tether workers to just one corporation. Same principles I favor today. There's another reason the corporations love H-1B is because the workers lose their visas if they leave the corporation. So it just gives them basically indentured servants, people that they can pay low wages to who are totally beholden to them or they get kicked out of the country. Musk, for his side,

also walked back his comments a little bit. He said, no question that H-1B needs to be overhauled. My question, though, is what do we mean by merit? The way this debate is being framed is, it's merit versus entitlement. What do we mean by merit, though? Merit could mean a lot of things. Merit could mean smart foreigners merit jobs in America because they're so smart and they're so good in engineering. And you might say, yeah, okay, they merit it. That's like the free market, libertarian, sort of libertarian view of merit. There's another view of merit, though, the critical race theory of merit, the leftist view of merit is that non-white people merit special treatment and advantages at the expense of white people because of slavery or whatever, you know, because of

oppression. There's another view. This is maybe my own view and the social conservative view, which is, I think Americans merit priority in their own country. I think American citizens merit, they deserve being prioritized by their own government in their own country. And they shouldn't have to compete with foreign workers all over the world. It may be, we don't deny market dynamics, but maybe we give Americans a little bit of a special treatment, a treatment that they actually deserve and they merit. Because this word meritocracy, I don't use this word meritocracy, but some people do, especially libertarians and more classically liberal people. But it's a euphemism that just conceals a conception of justice. And so that's

what we're really arguing over. Is the conception of justice a total worship of the free market? Yeah, The world is flat. Everyone should compete with everyone. Maybe all the Americans lose their jobs. But hey, GDP will tick up a little bit. And don't you like Chinese food and Indian food? That's one version. There's the leftist version of justice,

which is basically white people are bad and every other person is good. Men are bad and women are good. And so that's their version of justice. I prefer a classical view of justice, grounded in the natural law, grounded in our Christian tradition, grounded in just the American heritage

and how we've always kind of done things. things. So to wrap it up a little bit, because I know what you're going to hear from the libs, I actually already heard this when I expressed this view as they said, oh, Michael Nolson is embracing critical race theory. He's questioning meritocracy. No, no, no. Believe it or not, there are critiques of liberalism from the right that are different than critiques from the left. And so what's my solution to the whole H-1B thing? My solution is not some ideology. it's not some neat policy that you can write in five bullet points on a napkin that should be eternally true for all times. My prescription is prudence, which Aristotle called the paramount political virtue, which is at the core of conservative politics.

Prudence. Should we reduce the number of foreigners we let into our country through immigration or even through visa worker programs? Yeah, probably we should. So we shouldn't have, we shouldn't let people in anymore? No, I didn't say we shouldn't let anyone in, but probably we should reduce it. Why? Why? What's your, what's your ideology? What's your highly rationalistic policy wonk white paper? I don't know. I guess just it seems like we got a cultural problem right now. People aren't assimilating. Americans don't like that. They voted against this. They regularly express their views on this. And we should probably, we should probably support them for right now. Doesn't mean it won't change in the future. we should probably just go on gut a little bit.

We should probably look to the wisdom of the ages. We should probably just say, you know, we're kind of losing the American identity. We don't really know who we are anymore. The country's kind of going to hell in a handbasket. And I'm not willing to sell out the soul of my country for a slightly higher GDP. So, you know, for right now, probably we've got to take fewer people in. That's that. The liberal mind cannot comprehend.

The classical liberal, the progressive liberal, they can't comprehend. the basic element of politics, of political thinking, which is prudence. How about we just be a little prudent, guys? You know, 2024 ended on a high note. 2025 wasted no time reminding us of the challenges that we face. Yesterday's terror attack in New Orleans and the cyber truck explosion outside of President Trump's hotel in Las Vegas showed that the fight for truth is more important than ever. This is why we're here to cut through the noise, bring you the fact and ask the questions the establishment media refused to. If you are ready to stand with us on the front lines of this battle, now is the time.

Get live, breaking news, uncensored daily shows, and the absolute best investigative journalism from the most trusted and handsome voices in conservative media. Join the fight today, dailywire.com slash subscribe. My favorite comment yesterday, I don't know, it was probably over a week ago. From Slat My Base, 3825 says, props to Michael for working the day before Christmas Eve. Most people would just start their vacations early. I actually, maybe I mentioned this on that show, I was Scrooge this Christmas because Jeremy, nice, generous Jeremy, tells people two weeks off unless your supervisor says otherwise.

But nice, generous Jeremy says, hey, the employees you've worked very hard this year, it's been a crazy election, two weeks off. But I don't want to take two weeks off. First of all, because staying home and like juggling children all day is actually much more exhausting. Mr. Davies and I have discovered over this past two weeks, but also because I love the show and there's a lot of stuff happening, and I miss all of you. So anyway, I am glad that you support my scrooginess and stealing Christmas away from the staff. One final point on this meritocracy, justice, H1B, this whole thing. There's another little debate that's broken out on the internet right, and it's over the woke right. You might have heard this term.

the woke right? What is the woke right? I looked into it a little bit. The best I can tell is when you ask libertarians, classical liberals, neocons, those types, what is the woke right? They'll say it's right-wingers who are not true liberals. They're not sufficiently liberal. But then you ask other people on the right what the woke right is. And they'll say, you know, you ask the traditionalists, you ask the religious right, you ask the, I don't know, other non-liberal right-wingers. And they'll say, the woke right is people on the right who are too conservative, or sorry, who are too liberal. And so you say, hold on, so the phrase means opposite.

I think it's a meaningless phrase. But the reason this debate matters, the H-1B debate matters, the reason the woke right thing, which I think is ridiculous matters, is because this is a battle that's been simmering. for a long time. The conservative movement such as it is in America, the American right, has always been cobbled together of ideological factions that are incoherent together. Libertarians, traditionalists, the religious right, populists, neocons, country club set, Chamber of Commerce, Warhawks, Doves, people who don't want to go to war, you name it. There are these incoherent factions on the right, and they come together to form a coalition

to beat the Libs sometimes, the left. I should say the left, because we have liberals who are on the right also. But the left has an advantage sometimes, which is they are ideologically totally unified. They're all progressives. There was Joe Manchin. He's not a Democrat anymore. They're all progressives. But on the right, we're just fighting over what it means. This is the same kind of debate that that you saw in the 1950s, Frederick Hayek versus Russell Kirk. This is the same debate. you saw in the 2000s between Pap Buchanan and the Bushies. In some ways, this is the same debate you saw in the 80s between Ronald Reagan and George Bush I'm just competing sides that want to claim the American right for themselves.

And I think this is the latest version of it. But no, guys, we don't need to just open our borders. We don't need to tell the American worker he's got to compete against the entire globe or he's going to lose his job. We don't need to sacrifice our society and our cohesion on the altar of the free market. We don't have to deny the reality of the family. We don't need to sell little babies down the river to people who want to kill them because we want to cut taxes more and we think that that'll help us.

We don't, you don't have to do that. There is a deep kind of conservatism. There are things that matter more than corporations making slightly, higher profits. Corporations making profits is important too. But there are deeper things to politics. So there's a little bit of good news. Mr. Beast is engaged. This is the silver lining over a generally rough news cycle. Why do I care that Mr. Beast is engaged? I don't ever think I've seen a full Mr. Beast video. No knock on him. He's the most popular YouTuber ever. I don't think I'm really the audience. This guy has 340 million subscribers. He has an estimate.

net worth of $1 billion. He's obviously doing something effective. But I love that he's getting married because he's 26 years old. The median age of an American man getting married is 30.2 years old. We have a big problem in this country that we don't have babies. We're a dying country. That's why the liberal establishment gets away. with importing so many foreigners every year.

It's why they argue they have to import all the foreigners is because we have a dying country, and our country will collapse. We'll lose our imperial hegemony, our economy will collapse if we don't keep the foreigners coming to boost the welfare state and grow our numbers because Americans aren't having kids. Now, the social conservatives will say,

yeah, well, part of the reason Americans aren't having kids is because you can't raise a family on one income anymore. Part of the reason you can't do that is because we're competing in this race to the bottom with low wages from peasants from Latin America and tech workers from Asia and

South Asia who are being paid cheap wages and basically indentured servants. So it's kind of a chicken and the egg issue. But it brings me back to Mr. Beast. I love that Mr. Beast is engaged at the age of 26, especially because his channel had a problem where his sidekick decided to abandon his family,

his wife and his child, to engage in some ridiculous fetishism, the trans ideology, and it was so disgusting. Finally, he got the Axe on the Mr. B. Show. So I thought, oh, no, this is a very left-wing show. I don't know what is. But I just love to see that a guy who has 340 million followers who has got a massive platform, the biggest platform in the history of YouTube, YouTube, arguably the biggest media platform in the history of the world, that that guy is getting married, or at least is engaged

to be married, six years younger than the current median age to get married. If you want, there are individual things we have to do. You want to fix corruption in the FBI? We need a new FBI director ASAP. Cash Patel can not take office soon enough. You want to fix law enforcement. Well, we need to figure out who carried out this attack, who he was working with in New Orleans or in Las Vegas. Individual things. You've got to work out your immigration issues, seal up the border, find missing hundreds of thousands of missing children, as the new borders are. Tom Homan mentioned, maybe we'll get to that tomorrow. You have to do all these things. But if you zoom out a little bit and you look at the big picture, the immigration crisis is happening because we don't have kids.

We don't have kids because we have adopted a contraceptive mentality that tells us that having big families is bad, that there's no obligation, there's no purpose to marriage. We don't even know what marriage is. We redefine marriage because we don't know what men and women are, and that goes back much earlier than recent years. That goes back all the way to the 1970s or even earlier than that. It's because we don't live a conservative life. And so if the people in our country are not encouraged to do the things at an individual and a familial level that make countries strong, you're going to have a weak country. And you're not going to be able to fix those political problems with just some guy getting elected to office.

That can help a little bit, but you're not going to fix that. you need the people to live a good conservative life. That's the only way you get a good conservative country. Some politician can't do that for you. And if I see any even glimmer of hope, some guy the biggest guy in YouTube saying, hey, marriage is cool. I'm going to do it younger.

And I'm going to marry some pretty girl. And I hope they have kids immediately. That would be a very good sign for the culture. 2024 showed us that whatever the pendulum had been doing in recent years, It stopped and it started swinging back. I hope that this is just the latest bit of evidence that the swing back is going to go a lot further and correct some of those problems. We have no member block because I'm trapped in my home and it's apparently difficult to do. So anyway, we've got the show tomorrow and then we'll be back in the studio next week.

I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Nulls Show. See you then.