The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1646 - Lib DISASTER: Trudeau Resigns as Prime Minister

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

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the liberal prime minister of America's evil top hat, Justin Trudeau, was resigning. Spoiler alert, the two events are related. Plus, this is unrelated. a couple Antifa terrorists who tried to blow me up in Pittsburgh just got sentenced in federal court. A Michael Knowles is the Michael Nulls show. Welcome back to the show. Bill Gates is turning mosquitoes into flying syringes to vaccinate people potentially against their will and without their knowledge. This is a story I've been trying to get to for weeks on the show, and I keep running out of time,

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the course of my career. Any success I have personally achieved has been because of their support and with their encouragement. So last night over dinner, I told my kids about the decision that I'm sharing with you today. I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process. It's over. For the first time since 1959, a Castro is no longer running a country in the Western Hemisphere. That was at least my first take, but then I was corrected because apparently Shomara Castro is the president of Honduras. So the Castro legacy lingers on. I actually have one unpopular opinion about the overall excellent news that Castro is. That was a

a Freudian slip, that Trudeau is stepping down. And my unpopular opinion is this. I think there is a chance that Justin Trudeau is in fact Pierre Trudeau's son and is in fact not the love child of Trudeau's mother and Fidel Castro. I think there is a chance. I want to be very clear. I'm not saying it is likely that Justin is Pierre Trudeau's son, but I think there is a chance that Justin Trudeau is not the son of a Cuban dictator. What I know for certain, though, is that this awful leader of Canada is about to leave office. And the reason he's leaving office is because Trump won. The decision to resign on January 6th, the worst day in the history of the world,

and the day yesterday when Trump's election was certified, that's no coincidence. It's no mere coincidence. Trudeau is not resigning because he went down to Mar-a-Lago to beg done. Donald Trump for leniency on potential tariffs, and he was rebuffed. And he's resigning because he's been in office a long time. This brand of liberalism, the Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau, millennial kind of liberalism has been around for a long time now, and it's over. 2016 was the beginning of the end for that brand of liberalism.

They got a reprieve in 2020. The re-election of Donald Trump to a non-concern. consecutive second term, coupled with Brexit, coupled with the election of Georgia, Maloney in Italy, coupled with the victories of Victor Orban and Hungary, coupled with the rise of right-wing parties in France and Germany and Spain, hopefully sooner in a stronger way in Spain. All of that is to say the Trudeau stuff, it's done. Okay? It's signaling that that is over. It's not that Trudeau is resigning because he got into a fight with Donald Trump. But Trump won, and Trump signifies something, a shift in global politics, certainly in the West.

And Trump also propels that shift. He's also an active player in that shift. And Trudeau's time is finished. The whole class of Obama liberals in geopolitics, their time is over. So Trump is wasting no time here, suggesting that while Canada undergoes this political change, they might consider just being annexed by the United States. Here's what Trump said on Truth Social. Many people in Canada love being the 51st state.

The United States can no longer suffer the massive trade deficits and subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat. Justin Trudeau knew this and resigned. If Canada merged with the U.S., there would be no tariffs. Taxes would go way down and they would be totally secure from the threat of the Russian and Chinese ships that are constantly surrounding them. Together, what a great nation we would be. So true. So true.

People are going to say, oh, Trump is being silly here. He's being extreme and provocative. Some people call the independence of Canada Washington's biggest mistake. Had George Washington just kept on pressing, we could have held Canada. And Canada is effectively the 51st state. They're totally dependent on the United States. So just notice a theme to press. President Trump's transition. Yes, we're talking about domestic issues. Yes, we're talking about

taxes and all the rest of it. But there's a big focus here on foreign affairs and also on expansion. Trump is talking about retaking the Panama Canal. We certainly should retake the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal was ours. We're the chief people who use it. We're the global hegemon. We're certainly the hegemon in the hemisphere. We gave it away for some reason, like 40 years ago, and we should take it back. It's crazy that we don't have the Panama Canal. The Greenland proposal? That's a good proposal. Why does Denmark get Greenland? Greenland doesn't even want to be ruled by Denmark. We should have Greenland. And then Canada is probably a little bit more of a stretch. And you'd have to integrate a number of people who are like Justin Trudeau.

That's unpleasant. Probably we'd have to learn a little French. A petit pu. That would be a little tricky. But again, why not? The liberal mind, the liberal Westphalian UN mind, pretends that every nation of the world is exactly the same. But we're all just nations, and we all get a seat at the United Nations. Are you kidding me? Canada is an appendage of the United States. When I call Canada America's evil top hat, I am like 3% joking. It is an ornament on the United States.

So if they're totally dependent on us anyway, I don't know. Why don't we – I'm not saying we make them a state. Why don't we make them like Puerto Rico or Guam or something? Just a thought. In every joke, there's always a little bit of truth, and Trump tells a lot of jokes. Now, at the same time that all this was happening up in the top hat, in the United States, President Trump's victory in 2024 was being certified by the U.S. Congress, specifically by the woman that he defeated Kamala Harris. The votes for President of the United States are as follows. Donald J. Trump, of the state of Florida has received 312 votes.

Kamala D. Harris, Kamala D. Harris of the state of California has received 226 votes. But that's not enough. So Trump's the president. Okay. She made history. She made history. Kamala Harris is the first woman of color to ever certify her own election loss in a presidential election.

Look, that's something. I think she was looking for a different mark in history, a different glass ceiling to break, but that's impressive. She's not the first vice president to certify his own laws. That's happened before. It's happened within recent memory, Al Gore. But she's the first Indian and black, Afro-Caribbean woman who certified her own. election loss. Okay, good job. Sounds good. No big deal. There were no insurrections yesterday. There were no tiny little insurrections like, you know, when the Horn Hat guy got a private

tour of the Capitol by Capitol police. There were no serious insurrections either, like the many, many other leftist attacks that have included explosives on the Capitol within the last century, or like the BLM insurrection, or like the time the Libs torched D.C. when President Trump was elected the first time. There was none of that. And the reason is, Trump won in a landslide. He won an electoral college landslide, as you just heard Kamala Harris admit. He won the popular vote. He just won everything. He ran ahead of the senators. He just won. So there was no verve. There was no fervor for any kind of protest. Trudeau's going to resign. It's It's over for now, guys.

The left is going to lick its wounds and regroup. And while the left is licking its wounds, that is when we need to kick them because they're most vulnerable. They're more vulnerable now than I've seen them at any point in my lifetime. So keep up the pressure, folks. There's so much more to say first, though, go to lumen. com.

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They've been in the... And so according to the reports, again, take it with a grain of salt, Trump is open to talking about the dreamers. And I think that there are plenty of useful, productive ways to talk about the dreamers. Adios, that's one way. Asta lego, that's another way to talk about the dreamers. Asta la vista. My Spanish is not great.

My Italian is better. Little touch of French, a little touch a Latin. But right off the top of my head, those are three great ways to talk about the dreamers. And that's the only way I want to talk about the dreamers right now. There are going to be leftists who say that's a heartless take, Michael. Heartless. These poor kids, these poor kids who are brought over through no fault of their own, you wanted to deport these kids. the dreamer kids, the DACA kids, are in their mid-40s right now.

What is the dreamer? The dreamer is a euphemism cooked up by Barack Obama and the left. That then became law through an unconstitutional executive order giving amnesty to people who were brought over to the United States as minors who were under the age of 31, in 2012. This is the people who are maybe 43, 44 years old right now. Should they be the first on the list to be deported? No, of course not.

Nobody thinks that. You're going to hear some people on the right, conservatives, Republicans who say, well, it wasn't their fault when they came here. They've been here for so many years, so many decades. They don't have much connection to their country of origin. Maybe we should let them go. I don't want to hear a word about amnesty for DACA or dreamers or how I hear this. from some people who have no idea what they're talking about. They say, the dreamers are more American

than many American citizens. What does that mean? That only makes sense if America's not a country. If America's an idea, like the liberals say, if America's just an idea, then that makes sense. Then someone in Timbuktu could be more American than a descendant of the pilgrims. But if America is a country, silly me, I thought America was a country, then that doesn't make any sense. But you're going to hear that. These people are more American than Apple Pie. These people, they're children. They deserve to be here. They're dreamers. They have dreams. You don't have dreams. You're not allowed to have dreams. But they have dreams. I don't want to hear a word about that. Until we deport all the criminals, until we secure the border, until we deport the people who came over as

economic migrants as adults, until we deport, until we deport tens of millions of people, at least single, millions of people. I don't want to hear peep about we need to give amnesty to the dreamers. Here's the problem. What would I be willing to do? If you were telling, I'm not negotiating right now. I'm just sitting down. I'm telling you, this would be my ideal policy. We would deport the vast majority of these people. And then you'd get to some hard cases of people who have been here since they were two months old and they're very American and they vote Republican and they're all around great guys. and you'd say, all right, you know what, we can't, we can't grant you citizenship. We can't grant you amnesty because that would create a perverse incentive that would exacerbate the trouble at the border would make it.

It would give millions more people reason to break our laws. And so we can't do that. But I'll tell you what, we won't deport you. We'll just continue the status quo as it's been. And you can live here, but we're not going to, we're not going to single you out to deport you, but we're not going to create perverse incentive. I would be willing to do that for a very, very small number of people who were brought over as infants and yada yada. The problem is the Democrats won't let us do that. The Democrats won't let us do that because the minute they come back into power,

they're going to give blanket amnesty to all of these people and they're going to put them on a pathway to citizenship and they're going to give them the right to vote. And they're going to do this because they think it's going to give them a permanent electoral majority and a very well might. that's the problem I would be willing to grant a little clemency have a little mercy give a little grace

I would be willing to do that many conservatives would the Democrats won't let us do that and unfortunately the squish

Republicans are going aren't going to let us do it either because the squish Republicans are going to say no no no America is just an idea

no no no illegal aliens are not multiples more likely to vote for Democrats no no cultures are not allowed to have

cohesion and we're not allowed to encourage assimilation. And no, no, no, we have to give amnesty and citizenship to foreign nationals who are brought over here encouraged by cynical Democrats to give them the win. Because those squishes are thrilled to be the court gestures in the kingdom of liberalism and the minority partner in the American political project, which is run by liberal Democrats. That's it. That's why I don't want to hear it out of the Republicans. I don't want to hear it from anyone. Don't say the word dreamer. First of all, don't say the word dreamer ever. It's a ridiculous euphemism, cooked up by the left to rig the immigration debate. But don't even mention these people until you have deported millions and millions of foreign nationals living in our country illegally.

Now, speaking of people who should not be walking around the U.S., there's good news and bad news, and it pertains to me. When I was at the University of Pittsburgh at a speaking event about, two, not quite two years ago now. Someone tried to blow me up. A couple tried to blow me up. Brian De Pippa and his wife, I forget his wife's name. Crystal Martinez De Pippa. These are two anarchists who are serious anarchists, like members of an anarchist cell. Like this guy, Brian DePippa, was held up at airports twice because they found explosive residue on his clothing. And then of course they'd just let him through. We're talking hardcore anarchists. These guys showed up to my speaking event to blow me up. And then when they couldn't get at me because the cops did a very good job at the University of

Pittsburgh, the protesters lit the street on fire, burnt me an effigy, and then these people threw an explosive at the building as I was walking on stage and didn't hit me, didn't do damage to the building, but it did very seriously injure a female police officer. Well, these people, probably wouldn't have even been brought up on charges, except that there happened to be a federal law enforcement agent in the audience. And what's funny is after this whole event, I was approached by federal law enforcement. They asked to speak to me about what went down, and I didn't speak to them. Because I said, you know, the FBI has just been caught spying on Catholics, specifically traditional Catholics, has been caught going after pro-lifers, showing up arresting pro-lifers

in front of their seven kids, has been caught setting up the Trump administration to take down the administration and try to put Mike Flynn in jail. I said, you know, I just don't trust federal law enforcement right now. As a conservative, as a Catholic, as a pro-lifer, I checked three boxes. I'm not going to speak to them. I was skeptical. But I have to give a great deal of credit to that federal law enforcement agent who pursued this case, who really went to bat for us, who wanted justice for the police officer, for the conservative students who brought me to campus, for the intercladious studies institute which put on this event. And he pursued this and charges were brought, federal charges, against these two anarchists. So they were sentenced yesterday.

The one guy, the husband, got a meager five years in jail and the wife got at a jail time entirely. She got off with probation and some community service. These anarchists, these terrorists, left a female police officer bedridden for up to 20 hours per day with major injuries. She couldn't sleep. She couldn't eat. She lost a ton of pay because she couldn't work. She's still not back on full-time duty. She lost probably $50,000 or more in wages.

But also just couldn't move. She'll never be the same. She'll never do her hobbies as she previously did. She'll probably never work in the same way that she did before. They were obviously trying to kill us. You don't throw an explosive at someone's face unless you mean to do serious damage. Five years in prison? A federal law enforcement agent does a great job really going to bat,

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the cop who was standing in between the terrorists and the students and me and the people who were just having the talk. The explosion caused me to fall back, she said. Her pants were on fire. Her legs were burned. She had hearing loss. She needed back surgery. She needed a fusion and a cadaver disc. Brian DePippa is a homegrown terrorist who had every intention of hurting someone that day, she told the federal judge, I will never be the same.

And for that, the judge sentences this guy. to a measly five years in prison and lets his wife, off the hook, three years probation, 80 hours community service. So the judge in this case, this is according to reporting from, what is it, the Tribune? The judge in this case, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune, says that the couple, with no criminal history, seem to be good people, quote, trying to do the right thing most of the time. A line was crossed here. It's clear to me. This is Judge Ranjan. I sense some regret. Sometimes people matter more than principle. I'm nauseated reading that take from the judge. The couple with no criminal history. No criminal history. These people are known members of an anarchist cell. They were stopped at an airport twice because they had explosive residue. At least the man had explosive residue. No criminal history? You mean he's never been convicted for a crime before? He's never served serious jail time. He's not serving serious jail time now. He tried to kill.

people. So that doesn't prove anything. He's obviously a hardened long-time criminal. As the prosecutor pointed out, these terrorists have expressed no remorse. The female cop has accepted or has decided to extend forgiveness and grace to the terrorists. But as as the prosecutor pointed out, he said, this is crazy. The cop is forgiving these people. These People have expressed no remorse. Even the judge here has to say, a line was crossed. It's clear to me.

I sense some regret. You sense some regret? What do you mean you sense some regret? Are you pulling out your crystal ball to try to divine regret? Either they've shown regret or they haven't. Either they've expressed remorse or they haven't. They haven't. In fact, the anarchists who support them raised a bunch of money.

He said, free them. Raise them money. Let's go, implying that they did nothing wrong. And this couple seems to think they've done nothing wrong. No, but I sense. I sense some regret. You seem to be good people. You know, you guys are just a good, wholesome couple of anarchists who build bombs in your free time and who sometimes get through TSA with explosives on your body. But you're, you know, you're trying to do the good thing. It's just sometimes people matter more than principle. What principle are they advocating? The principles that they hold are terrorism, anarchy, trying to kill civilians, maiming cops. for defending civilians? Those are their principles. I guess the judge agrees with those principles.

Look, the principles, your principles are good. But sometimes you've got to think about the people. Okay, you crazy kids. So I want you to write a letter. Okay, and I want you to do a little community service. And then Mr. Depepa, you're going to spend three seconds in prison. And then you can go back out and try to kill conservatives. And you can maim cops.

And you can set off explosives when right-wingers go to university campuses and say things you don't like. Okay, sounds good. Outrageous. Cudos to federal law enforcement here, to the agents. Thank you to the agent who went to bat. Thank you to the prosecutors who did their best, I guess. This judge, disgusting, disgusting. Now, speaking of transgenderism, which was the topic of my speech at, of my talk, rather, at U. Pittsburgh. The ACLU and Ellen Page, now known as Elliott Page, have a message leading into 2025. It's a message you heard in 2023. And in 2022.

And in 2021, and probably in 2020. And in 2019, 2018, I think I gave a campus tour called Men or Not Women and Other Uncomfortable Truths. You've heard this message a long time from the left. Transgenderism will lead you to happiness. My message to my younger self would just be like, you know who you are, you know, and please embrace that. I feel for me it was, I understood my truth. I felt it very strongly, and it was all of these external forces and noises that pushed and pulled and made me sort of loose track of who I was. And so I guess to my younger self, I'd say, you know, that discomfort and that pain

you're feeling that that is not yours, that is theirs. And to just keep going on the journey of embracing who you truly are. And that's what's going to lead you to happiness. What does that mean? What does that mean? What does that mean? Transgenderism is going to lead you to happiness? I guess that's what, I guess she's saying if you embrace a trans identity, that's going to make you happy. That is demonstrably false. There have been many studies and surveys. We've talked about this question. Ad nauseum. And it's just not true. Identifying as trans dramatically increases your risks of anxiety, depression, suicide. It's just, it's, it's, it is the surest way to be miserable. And it's because it's a particularly extreme form of living contrary to reality. And when you

live in opposition to reality, you're going to be unhappy. So yeah, okay. Moving on. This whole thing seems passe. And I guess that's a good thing heading into 2025. This whole campaign from the ACLU and Allen page, be trans, it'll make you happy, live your authentic self, blah, blah, blah, blah. It just seems dated. It seems passe. If I never have to talk about transgenderism for the rest of my life, it'll be too soon. We've talked about it enough, haven't we? But the left is still, they're still trying to push it a little bit, but I think it's over. I think most people know it's totally absurd. It seems like something new is on the horizon. I think we're done talking about the trannies. Can we be done talking about, please? Anybody,

is anybody listening out there in politics? I think we've had enough. I think the weakness of this kind of a campaign proves that. I think the 2024 election in many ways proves that. One of the big issues, even with the bad economy and migration and foreign policy and we're on the brink of World War III, one of the big issues that drove centrists and people on the center left to vote for Trump this time was that the left proved its poor judgment, the absurdity of its ideology, by insisting that men can become women and forcing that absurdity on little children. I think that was a big driver of people to the polls. I think that's been true for some years now. I think the trans thing is over. It's passe. Enough. What comes next? I was speaking to a

priest friend of mine not so long ago. And he pointed out, his father Benedict Keeley, a wonderful English priest who works, he's been on the show before. He works to help persecute Christians in the Middle East. He said there have been three big questions in the life of the church. The first one is, who is God? You think about the debates in the early church over who Christ is, the Aryan controversy, or Marcionism, or these questions of who is God, who is Christ, who are we worshipping? Then there's another crisis that crops up in the 16th century. It's what is the church? This is the question that was brought about by the Protestant Revolution. What is the church?

Is the church just something floating in outer space, or is the church a tangible body with members that has a traceable history? And what does the church mean? And now we're in a third stage, which is, what is man? What is God? What is the church? What is man? What is a woman? What is man?

What are we? Even beyond the question of sex, are we merely our bodies? Are we body and soul? Are we nearly our spirits and our bodies have nothing to do with who we are? Are we the sort of thing that can be uploaded to a cloud or plugged into a machine? Are we different from robots? What is man? Even beyond this question about our organic nature is a political question.

And this has been a reckoning since the so-called enlightenment and political modernism, which is man fundamentally. individual or is man, as classical thinkers believed, more of a social creature? Is man a creation of his own? Are we going to turn ourselves, as Yuval Harari suggests, into Homo Deus? We're going to create the new form of humanity. Or is man a creature made in the image and likeness of God? What is man? That's the question. And so the first part of that, the opening salvo was, you know, what is a woman? But now the question is deepening. I think we've moved on past the trans stuff. the questions that await us are far deeper and will force us to rethink a lot of the comfortable

conclusions we've arrived at in recent centuries. Now, speaking of our brave new world, a story I promised I'd get to. The Bill Gates Foundation has funded research at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands to turn mosquitoes into flying syringes, to turn mosquitoes into little vaccinators who can flit around the air and vaccinate people potentially against their will and certainly without their knowledge. This is some pretty dystopian stuff,

but a study published late last month in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that they now have an effective way of using mosquitoes to inject human beings with various vaccines, in particular, malaria. but possibly other payloads as well in the future. So on the one hand, people are saying, hold on,

Bill Gates is going to inject me with a vaccine. This is the most horrifying thing imagine. I'm not going to be able to stop it. I'm not going to be able to even know about it. Dystopian. On the other hand, though, just to keep an open mind, it might make some sense in certain places. This is an unpopular opinion.

I'm not totally opposed to the Bill Gates weaponizing mosquitoes to inject people with vaccines. Because if I just look at Nigeria, 13% of deaths per year in Nigeria are from malaria. Nigeria leads the world in malaria deaths. I'm talking about almost 200,000 people per year. If the government could protect people against that, that would be a good thing.

if they could do it while allaying ethical concerns, if they could do that in a way that wouldn't cause more harm than good. We're not talking about the COVID vaccine here. We're not talking about some really controversial vaccine. We're talking about malaria. The malaria vaccine, for instance, is not produced or even developed using cells from aborted babies. Some vaccines are.

That was one of the big ethical concerns with the COVID vaccine, is that to mandate the COVID vaccine is to mandate the COVID vaccine is to mandate the people cooperate with evil, even in a distant way, because the COVID vaccines were developed and in some cases produced using cells from aborted babies. So the question over a scientific advancement like this, I don't think is totally black and white. If you are just a hardcore libertarian or individual's ideologue,

you would say, yeah, it is black and white, forget about that. No Bill Gates, no vaccines, no nothing. but if you take politics a little bit more classically than all that, then you have to take it seriously. The question then you have to ask yourself is not merely about procedure but about substance. Who is the one pushing this stuff? Is it the government? Is it some rogue liberal billionaire?

That probably wouldn't be that good. Is it the legitimate public authority? Do these people take ethics seriously? or do they, like our present liberal elites, not have any serious sense of ethics? It's going to matter more, it's going to matter less whether the government does something or doesn't do something.

It's going to matter more what kind of government we have, what the substance of the issues is. That's a deeper, nuanced conversation that our modern political age has no patience for. You know, you can kick off 2025 with 25% off a New DailyWR Plus annual membership. This year will be one for the history. books. In less than two weeks, President Trump will be inaugurated. The DailyWire will be there with

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India has become the first country to reinstate COVID restrictions as a new virus out of China begins to spread. There is an alarm over a mystery illness, HMPV, which has symptoms similar to COVID. China has seen a surge in cases right now, and the Indian state of Karnataka is taking precautionary measures. The virus has symptoms related to human metanumovirus, and authorities are encouraging mask wearing in crowded locales

after seeing three cases of this respiratory ailment. I am calling for a complete and total ban of China until they stop poisoning the world every few years. Okay. I am channeling my inner Trump. I want a complete and total shutdown of China until we figure out what the heck is going on. Why does China keep doing it?

Why do they keep poisoning the globe? Like every three years? Lots of places can expose you to identity theft. Oh, no. That's why LifeLock monitors hundreds of millions of data points a second for threats to your identity, which is way more than anyone can do on their own. If we find anything suspicious,

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You know, wasn't Asia responsible for the black death too? This is, maybe I'll broaden it. I'm calling for a complete and total shutdown of Asia until we figure out what's going on. But we live in a globalized world where everyone travels all the time and we all trade all the time. So you get some benefits. You get cheap goods from Amazon for Christmas.

The downside is the whole world gets poisoned every like three years. Okay. All right. Well, how about that? Now, one other story I want to get to, apropos of billionaires like Bill Gates or whatever, all these people controlling our politics. The Washington Post cartoonist,

Anne Telnays, has just quit the paper. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist. She has quit the paper because she wanted to run a cartoon attacking the owner of the paper, Jeff Bezos, and the editors said no. And this is what Telnais wrote. My job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job, the critical job of political cartoons. Now, Telney has said to NPR, I'm very used to being edited. I've never, ever since I've worked for the Post in 2008, been not allowed to comment on certain topics by having cartoons killed.

We have to have the freedom to say what we want to say. We are visual opinion makers. Okay. The last part is true. They are visual opinion makers. That's true of the cartoonists. That's true of the newspaper business broadly. Now, the Washington Post says that her story isn't true.

The editorial page editor, David Shipley, said he respects Telang's contributions to the post, but he says, not every editorial judgment is a reflection of a malign force. It says, my decision to spike the cartoon, was guided by the fact that we had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and had already scheduled another column, this one is satire, for publication. My only bias was against repetition. He's saying, I'm not shutting down the opinion. We've already run that opinion many times. It's just redundant. It's too much.

Even if this cartoon was spiked for insulting Jeff Bezos, that is perfectly reasonable. It's his paper. I think it's reasonable. The paper has been critical of Amazon, has done all sorts of things that I'm sure Jeff Bezos wouldn't like, but he's the owner. They work for him. And everybody works for somebody. when she says we are visual opinion makers.

Yeah, right. And the chief opinion maker is Jeff Bezos. He owns the paper. You work for him. You don't like that. Go work for someone else. Everybody works for somebody. I work for somebody.

You work for somebody. The president of the United States works for somebody. It doesn't mean that you always have to agree with that person on everything. It doesn't mean that you always have to be in a lot. lockstep. You know, Washington Post. The Washington Post publishes things that irritate Jeff Bezos that are contrary to Jeff Bezos's introsse all the time. Here are the Daily Wire. We all disagree with each other. I say things on my show that the owners of the Daily Wire disagree with, very publicly disagree with all the time. And we always, we bicker about it and we do it on camera, we do it on camera, we've

done it for years. We've all friends. That's great. But, If I said something that we're, if I said, you know, the Daily Wire is a terrible place and it's an awful institution and all the people involved are evil and terrible. They would have every right to say, no, don't say that. What are you talking about? This is our platform. Jeff Bezos has every right to do that. In fact, the deeper political point I want to make is America has the right to do that too. We have the right to standards.

We have the right to norms. We have the right to guardrails around public speech. that's the thesis of my book, speechless. There's a big, thank you, I was a little late in the new year. There's a big debate right now

because Elon Musk has changed the algorithm at Twitter at X. Elon Musk has now said, we're going to prioritize certain content over others according to standards and norms. A lot of free speech absolutists echoing the language of liberals, they're saying this is terrible.

In practice, it might end up being terrible. In principle, though, he's totally right. We have the right. We have the right to standards. We live together in society. Politics is about society, about the public. We have the right to set certain norms and standards. And if you don't like it, you can go take a hike.

That lady can leave the Washington Post or people who hate America. They can go leave America. I am so pleased, speaking of freedom, I'm so pleased to have Aaron Hawley of the Alliance Defending Freedom on the show. The rest of the show continues right now. You do not want to miss it. Begum a member use code Knowles to check out for two months free on all annual plans. Thank you.