The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1701 - UNHINGED: Democrat Rep MOCKS Wheelchair-Bound Governor

Episode Date: March 26, 2025

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Congress lady Jasmine Crockett, a BLM activist and rising Democrat star, has gone viral after making fun of a disabled man for using a wheelchair. Because we in these hot-ass Texas streets, honey. Y'all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there. Come on now. And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot ass mess, honey. So, so yes. Yes, yes, yes. It's sometimes difficult to understand the Democrat legislator because she has a tenuous grasp on the English language. But in these remarks, which she made at a fundraising dinner for the transgender lobby, her meaning was crystal clear. She was mocking the Texas governor because he was paralyzed as a young man and can't walk, which is very nasty and she owes Governor Abbott an apology.

But she doesn't own me an apology. I am grateful to Jasmine Crockett because if Jasmine Crockett is the fresh new face of an otherwise exhausted and decrepit Democrat Party, the Republicans are going to rule for a thousand years. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. Welcome back to the show. Speaking of black people, I have good news and bad news for black people. This by way of Don Lemon. Don Lemon says that if you are black, you are permitted to be a Republican, but you're not allowed to be a MAGA person. Okay, you're allowed to be a Republican, just not a Republican who wins elections and supports effective Republican policies. There's so much more to say first, though, go to good ranchers.com, use code Knowles. Over 140,000 family farms across America have shut down since 2017. Why? Because grocery chains keep pushing cheap,

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I saw, I think it was River Page at the free press, who suggested that Jasmine Crockett is exploding for the same reason that Trump. did because Jasmine Crockett drives her opponents crazy in the same way that Trump does because Jasmine Crockett is rude and crude and tells mean jokes and insults people and calls people nasty names and Trump did the same thing and that's why they're basically the same. And I just don't think that is true. I think this is a bad comparison. It's not that Trump isn't funny. It's not that he doesn't use naughty language. It's not that he doesn't insult people. He does all those things. Trump is much better at picking targets. Trump goes after people that most people don't like.

That was true when he was running in the Republican primary in 2016. It's true when he's picked on media figures. The great example of this is when Trump was asked at a Republican debate, why he's called women fat and ugly and slabs and all the rest of it. And he said only Rosie O'Donnell in the crowd burst out laughing. It's not that it wasn't mean. It was kind of mean to Rosie O'Donnell, but most people found that funny because Rosie wasn't that popular. Compare that to Jasmine Crockett. No person with a modicum of good taste, no person who was raised right thinks it is funny to mock a paralytic for using a wheelchair, specifically for using a wheelchair, not even mocking him for some other reason, not even incidentally mocking his disability as you try to attack him for other reasons. mocking him because his legs don't work properly. Nobody. I don't care what party you're in. I don't care which politicians you like and which ones you hate. No one thinks that that is acceptable or

tasteful. So I just don't think it's going to work for her. With Trump, Trump picks 80-20 issues. When he mocks hacks on MSNBC, people don't watch MSNBC anymore. There's no Joe and Mika fan club. So when he makes fun of Joe Scrober and Mika Bridgeszzynski, it doesn't it doesn't matter. But even people who don't like Governor Abbott in Texas, they're still, I don't know. I don't think that anyone is going to be boosting Jasmine Crockett's poll numbers because she's making fun of paralytics. It doesn't. So anyway, I guess we'll test my theory. Because Jasmine Crockett's going to keep talking. The Dems are going to keep boosting her. And we'll see if that helps her party or hurts it. Speaking of black women on another continent, there is a

new statue in the Piazza de la Signoria in Florence, Italy. Why do I care about this? Because it's a little bit weird this statue. This statue, you can see it right here. It's of a, looks like a millennial black lady looking at an iPhone, looking bored. She's standing there, arms crossed, looking at an iPhone in the Piazza della Signoria in Italy where people aren't black. Some African migrants are black there, but it's not, you know, the Italians, we're a little bit dusky, but we're not totally, we're not, you know, they're Italian people. And so you've got this 13-foot statue of a foreign woman doing, I don't know, a kind of blaze posture in what is supposed to be maybe the very epicenter of great Western art. What is this about? By the way, 13-foot statue, dwarfing many of the other statues in

the piazza. This statue is next to a copy of Michelangelo's David, a copy of Donatello's Judith and Holofernes, Donatello's Il Marzocco, the lion, the fountain of Neptune by Amanadi, the rape of the Sabine women,

by John Bologna. Beautiful. Some of the most beautiful art in the entire world is here. And then you've got this modern thing of a random millennial black lady scrolling on her phone. Why? The article tells us why. The reason, so I've got the article here from Italy, from Il Journale, but the reason they say behind the choice of the wonderful Italian square to display the somewhat bizarre work of art is that Piazza della seoria, quote, is a space devoted to male power, which should be challenged and counterborder balanced by a female figure. Now, I guess the rape of the Sabine women, I guess that is an example of

male power, but I don't know, Judith and Holofferonies, Judith is beheading Holaferonies. And it seems like a statue of female power. And anyway, what that reasoning suggests is that this is not art, but anti-art. This is art designed to combat all of the traditional art, to undercut all of the art, art designed actually to undercut the entire culture, female, powerful figure. And to undercut all those male figures like David. We need to undercut David, you know. Bring back Goliath. Why didn't Michelangelo make a Goliath statue?

This statue, I'm not even commenting on the art itself. It's not quite Donatello or Michelangelo, but the art is self-consciously an attack on our civilization. They're saying that's what that is. This is to counterbalance all the ugly, terrible art. that we've always had in our civilization. This is to undercut that. And that's what art has become. It's Jacques Barzan, the author of From Dawn to Decadence, a 500-year history of modernity. He wrote it almost at the age of 100. I think he found out the Great Books Program at Columbia.

He pointed out that really since the early 20th century, we haven't had art. We've had anti-art, art that is designed not to grow the culture, but to undercut the culture. That's what this is. And to see it in the very heart, I mean, Florence, one of the most important art cities in the world. Kiazza della Soniori, one of the most important parts for art, of one of the most important art cities in the world. To undercut that, it's just a microcosm of what's going on in our whole culture, and we have to reject it. Exema is unpredictable, but you can flare less with ebbglis,

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direct to call for genocide as there is, Rubio says, kill the Boer is a chant that incites violence. South Africa's leaders and politicians must take action to protect Afrikaner and other disfavored minorities. The United States is proud to offer those individuals who qualify for admission to our nation amid this continued horrible threat of violence. Great. Now, there are going to be some people of maybe even some right-wingers, nationalists, America first, who say, well, why do we care about South Africa? If I don't care about refugees from Syria, why do I care about refugees from Venezuela?

Why do I care about refugees from South Africa? I thought this was America first. Let's only focus on our own country. Let's not care at all about the rest of the world. Now, I pointed out that kind of myopic. isolationist, hypernationalist view. That's not Trump's view. It's not my view. I don't think that's a particularly conservative view. You don't have to be some liberal globalist to care about injustice in the rest of the world. And crucially, this is the part no one's talking about.

You don't have to be some liberal globalist to care about people with whom you share a common heritage, a common culture, a common tradition. The liberal globalists would actually say forget about the people with whom you share a common culture heritage tradition. You should only care about people who don't have anything in common with your culture, who don't have anything in common with your tradition. Forget about the English, forget about the Commonwealth nations. You should only focus on people from Syria or from Timbuktu or from Bangladesh. But, you know, we do have things in common with those who descend from the motherland.

And when they're being threatened, when they're being threatened with chance just like this, people of good conscience start to take action. Not good. Not good. So they're saying we want to kill all these people. Well, what does that really mean? Is this just some political chant that doesn't mean anything? Is this actually happening? Here's testimony that has gone viral. Again, it's just a woman. I guess she could be making it up. I don't think she's making it up because what she's saying is backed up by many, many news reports for many, many years. Here's a woman on TikTok explaining what shoot to kill, kill the bow or kill the fore. farmer means practically to her. There's South Africans. 24 days ago, we had a home invasion. My fiancé was murdered

and I was wounded six times. The way I'm feeling right now, this country is growing to shards. Now my question is, is when will South Africans start standing up

when we have a minimum of three people dying per hour that is being murdered and nothing is being done to protect our South Africans and my fiance was extremely brave and he had protected me with his life and my question to you is when does the crime affect your household when does it become your family members that gets murdered and why are we not taking action to start putting an end to this crime. Now, it's all great that you watch the good feel stuff on TikToks and Facebook and all of that, but guys, it's time for a reality check.

Regardless of what you do, if criminals want in, they will get in. I think you got the picture. I encourage you to listen to much more of this kind of testimony. You know, some people will say, on the left, they'll say, well, these white people have no business being in Africa. But what that reflects is not any serious and consistent principle about colonialism, migration, hegemony, anything like that. What that reflects is just a deep contempt of white people. And it's often articulated by white people themselves. If you say white people have no business being in South Africa, then do Pakistanis have any business being in England?

Pakistanis have no more business being in England than white people do in South Africa, by that, according to that principle, and yet they would defend Pakistanis in England. Do Africans have any business being in North America? Do Europeans have any business being in North America? Do the, the Libs would say the Africans do have business in North America, the white people have no business in North America. But let's go further. Even if you say that North America really should only belong to the Native Americans,

do the Comanche have any business in Apache territory? the Apache certainly wouldn't say that they do. What is the principle here? What is the, yes, people move around. Nations grow. People colonize certain territories. People visit and explore and settle certain territories. Is the principle just that if you're white, it's okay for you to be murdered?

It's okay for your national politicians to say, shoot the bower, kill the farmer, shoot to kill, br-da-prat-brat. No, as a matter of justice, it's a very good thing to offer refuge to these people. But why should we offer refuge to the South Africans who are being directly threatened with genocide by their national leaders when we don't want to take an unlimited number of face tattooed Venezuelans across our southern border? Well, a couple reasons. One, the Venezuelans who are coming across the southern border are economic migrants, almost entirely, and the ones who aren't economic migrants are working for cartels. So that would be one reason why. they're not really seeking political refuge, the vast majority of the time. And because, and this gets to our conversations about the Commonwealth,

this gets to our conversations about Western civilization, we have a common heritage with the Afrikaners. The Afrikaners, just the white people broadly in South Africa, are descendants of the Dutch and the English. And we're descendants of the English. And in a way, we're sort of descendants of the Dutch, because the pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower actually spent a lot of time in Leiden in the Netherlands, but that's a kind of digression.

But we have a common heritage here. And we were talking about the Ordo Amoris a few weeks ago with J.D. Vance, hierarchy of love, the kind of order of charity that tells us that we have responsibility to those who are close to us. Well, you know, at the very least, when our cousins, descendants from the motherland, when our cousins are being threatened with actual genocide and with serious murders and rapes being carried out, maybe we can offer the handful of them refuge. That's not a strictly hyper-nationalist view of things. It's not a strictly imperial view of things.

It's not a strictly universalist view of things. It's not a strictly tribal view of things. It's just, I don't know, seems just prudent and just to me. Speaking of protecting the vulnerable, great news. exclusive from the Wall Street Journal, care of the Trump administration, Trump is going to defund Planned Parenthood. Tens of millions of dollars in federal funding for Planned Parenthood and other groups would be cut off while the administration examines their DEI efforts. So the excuse to defund Planned Parenthood here is that Planned Parenthood has DEI policies. It's just kind of funny because

to me, the problem with Planned Parenthood is the infanticide, the mass infanticide of a million babies a year or thereabouts. But whatever. Any way that we can defund them is fine by me. I don't care with the excuses. It does remind me of that Nora McDonald joke, though, where he says, yeah, everyone is saying that the problem with Bill Cosby was the hypocrisy. But I don't know that. I think that was the biggest problem. I think the biggest problem was all the raping. So that's how I feel about Planned parenthood. But yeah, DEI is bad too. And in any case, tens of millions of dollars that would have gone toward murdering babies because money is fungible. So even if the federal government says, don't use this money for the baby murdering, which is essentially your entire business.

Just use this money to keep the lights on. Just use this money to pay the rent. Just use this money to repave the parking lot. But use your other money for the abortions. Well, that doesn't mean anything because money is fungible. So if you give any dollar, one red cent to plan parenthood, that money is being used to murder babies. And the Trump administration is saying, no. Furthermore, maybe even better news, Trump was asked by a reporter, whether or not he's going to take a particular look into Planned Parenthood, because Planned Parenthood has been caught on camera admitting to selling baby body parts to the highest bidder. And that is illegal, but instead of prosecuting Planned Parenthood for illegally selling human organs,

the liberal prosecutors decided to prosecute the conservative journalists who exposed it. So Trump was asked about this. Here's his answer. I just want to follow up on that. If Planned Parenthood is defunded, would you look into the harvesting of baby organs that they've done throughout the years and maybe go off to some criminal prosecution on that? Well, I think you're talking about a subject that is a heated subject and we'll look into it. We're going to look into everything, but that's certainly a subject that's been debated for a long time and we will look into it. Okay, so some pro-lifers are not going to be satisfied with this.

This actually makes me feel quite good because you see, Trump. He says, look, I don't want to really get into the baby body parts. And whether this, I know it's a hot subject, I don't want to hit. I'm defunding Planned Parenthood, folks, all right, I'm giving you. But I'm going to talk about it in a way that might mollify all sorts of people. This is very Trumpy. It's why during the campaign, when Trump seemed in his rhetoric like he was going soft on abortion, I didn't worry too much about it because I pay attention to what Trump does, not only to what Trump says.

And when I saw what Trump did as president, when I saw he was the most pro-life president in American history, when I saw that he appointed the judges who overruled Roe v. Wade, when I saw that he was the first sitting president to attend the march for life, and when Trump on the campaign trail said, look, just remember, we got to win elections. That's why I'm not being so hard on Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry now. I decided that I would give him a little grace because he had a rather good proven track record. Same thing here. When he says vaguely, we'll look into it, but I know it's hotly debated, but we'll look into it.

And anyway, it's a contentious subject. I don't pull my hair out over that because, one, I know Trump has hardcore pro-lifers all around him in the White House, and if given even the slightest, faintest green light to investigate Planned Parenthood, they will. And two, he's got a good record on this. So if he wants to be moderate in his speech and hardcore in his policy and his investigations, all the better, and this is a really important one, because this goes back to what, 10 years now or something, when you have great. courageous pro-life journalists going and proving the Planned Parenthood is breaking the law in a particularly heinous way. And then they're the ones who are persecuted for it. There's so much more to say first, though, go to puretalk.com slash knolls. As Doge continues to surgically cut the fat from decades of bloated government spending and corruption, Pure Talk, the cell phone company that I use for business every day, is cutting the fat from the wireless industry. That's right. Pure Talk says, I don't think so, to $100 a month cell phone plans.

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Speaking of Trump orders, President Trump has just ordered another major declassification. I'm not talking about the JFK files. I'm not talking about the MLK files. I'm talking about something much, much more important. The declassification of all the Russia hoax files. We have a presidential memorandum for your attention. This memorandum requires the immediate declassification of all FBI files relating to the crossfire hurricane investigation. This was obviously one of the instances of the weaponization of law enforcement, powers of prosecution against you and others.

We believe that it's long past time for the American people to have a full and complete understanding of what exactly is in those files. Which gives the media the right to go in and go and check it. You probably won't bother because you're not going to like what you see. But this was total weaponization. It's a disgrace. It's a disgrace. It never happened in this country. But now you'll be able to see for yourselves. all declassified. Is that correct?

You're saying? All declassified? Yes, sir. Everything? The FBI filed with a, there's a classified annex, but other than that, we'll put everything in the public eye. Is anybody going to look? And frankly, the FBI should be ashamed of themselves, and so should the Department of Justice,

and so should Biden. Before we get to the significance, this is Trump being a rock star. Okay, this performance, he gets the guy, he gets the opening act to discuss what the executive order does. And then Trump does all the crowd work. This is Freddie Mercury at Live Aid, okay? This is Trump goes out and he goes, da-da-da-da-da-da. And then the whole crowd, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-do do-do.

And he's just got him wrapped around his fingers. So you hear the introduction. Yes, they'll investigate the Russia investigation and how they're, or was impropriety at the FBI and the DOJ. Okay, hold on, wait. You declassifying the files? Yes, sir. All of the files?

Yes, all of the files. So they're going to see everything. We're going to see everything, sir. You're going to investigate the files. Yes, that's right. But you probably won't. It's just, he's just, this is like watching a yo-yo-ma play the cello.

You know, watching Trump work a crowd is like watching a maestro with his instrument. And this is more significant. There's a reason why he's dragging this out, taking all the pauses. Are you going to look? Are you good? Come on, take a picture. You hear me one last time.

I declassified them. Because the Russia files, the Russia hoax files from the DOJ and the FBI are much more significant than the JFK files and the MLK files. I told you, I predicted to you, that the JFK files would reveal no new significant information. And there were many people, many obsessives who have some acts to grind with, alternately the CIA, or the state of Israel, or the mob, or George Bush, or Lyndon Johnson, or whoever you think. I'm not even saying that there wasn't a conspiracy to kill JFK.

There obviously was some kind of conspiracy to kill JFK. But what I predicted was those files would. not unveil any significant new information. And I have thus far been proven completely right. And all of the people who criticized me for pointing out that the JFK files would reveal no new significant information, they've all come up completely empty. They got nothing. Occasionally, they'll say, hey, here's a file that mentions the CIA. Here's a file that mentions Mossad or LBJ or George Bush or whatever. But they don't, it doesn't show anything. There's nothing new because, as I stated at the time, if there really were some smoking gun that revealed the real story of how JFK were murdered, that file would have been lost a long time ago.

Or even if the government, if our government were so evil that it were covering this up for 60 years and then ignoring federal disclosure laws for 33 years, then our government isn't just going to reveal it now. you have to be real thick in the head to think that that would happen. Same thing for the MLK files. Who really killed him? Was it the CIA? Was it this? Was it that? I don't know.

The one thing I know for a fact is you will never know. The Russia files are different. The Russia hoax was not just within living memory. The Russia hoax was seven years ago, eight years ago. I guess it started all the way back 10 years ago. the players who perpetrated the Russia hoax are still alive. Many of them are still working for the FBI and DOJ. It hasn't been enough time for a real cover-up of that.

So the faster you can declassify these files, the faster the Trump administration can move to prosecute people, the more likely that they're actually going to get a scalp from someone who committed really, really bad things. That's what's so beautiful about this. And it's really important because what, happened in 2015 and 2016 was that the bureaucracy and the deep state tried to preempt the election of someone they didn't like. Then once that guy was elected, they tried to totally destroy his presidency

in a similar way that we saw with the coup d'etat that upended Richard Nixon and his massive re-election in 1972. But in some ways it was worse from Trump because Trump really committed no crime, nothing that he could even be plausibly called a crime. It is not just a matter of personal vengeance to go get these guys. It's a matter of preserving the integrity of our political order. So, the Dems have nothing. How can they hit Trump? How can they hit Trump?

What they're trying to say now, they're trying to glom onto is this signal chat. We covered it yesterday on the show. The boys chat that governs our country that had JD Vans and Pete Hengseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Mike Walts, the National Security Advisor, John Ratcliffe, the head of the CIA, number of top administration officials and the editor of the Atlantic magazine. They apparently accidentally included this liberal journalist, and it's embarrassing. It shouldn't have happened. It didn't really affect anything. It didn't affect the military conduct of the United States. It didn't know one's life was at risk.

It didn't really create any problems at all. But now the Democrats are sending some of their top flax on TV to say that this was the greatest national security blunder in living memory. It's stunning. It's likely the biggest national security debacle that any professional can remember. Let me explain a bit why this is so crazy. First of all, national security advisors convene what is called the national security principles can. meeting. This is the cabinet-level group that makes the most important decisions and recommendations to the president on national security. It's all those people that are on that chat, the Secretary of

State, Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, the CIA director, and others. This absolutely needs to be thoroughly investigated. I can't imagine in any prior administration that a national security advisor, Secretary of Defense, and very importantly, the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA Director all know what is classified.

Their job is to protect classified, that they all willingly participated without even raised batting an eye in a classified conversation on a non-secure, non-government application. Okay, so she's shocked that top administration officials

would keep classified information on a non-secured platform. This is Susan Rice, who worked as the UN ambassador during the Obama administration, the Obama administration when the Secretary of State kept a ton of classified material on her home server, much less secure than signal chat. That's the first part that's a little weird. The statement that Susan Rice made, this is the worst national security blunder, I can remember. Susan Rice, the reason you have heard the name Susan Rice. If you even remember Susan Rice, I guess it's been some years now. Susan Rice was the fall man for the Obama administration after the Benghazi attacks on September 11th,

2012. There was an attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. A number of Americans were killed. This was on September 11th. It was obviously because of the anniversary of September 11th. And Susan Rice was sent on TV to be the fall man for the administration to say something that wasn't true. She said that the Benghazi attack was the result of a spontaneous uprising, that itself was the reaction to a YouTube video. That was the claim. And they later blame the CIA for bad intel or whatever. But the claim was so preposterous on its face, you can't believe any of it. There's no way to see.

There's no way the CIA is that stupid. as to think that a highly coordinated attack that resulted in the death of multiple Americans on the anniversary of September 11th in Benghazi was the result of a spontaneous uprising because people were upset about a YouTube video that no one had really even seen. Very few people had seen. What was it? We later found out that that attack was highly coordinated. It was planned by al-Qaeda groups. I think it was called for by Al-Zawahiri. It was totally preposterous.

But you don't even need to go all the way back to Susan Rice. It's silly that Susan Rice, who was the face of one of the biggest national security debacles in recent memory would go out there and make this claim. You don't even need to go that far back, though. The Afghanistan withdrawal under Joe Biden, multiple American troops killed, lots of Afghans killed billions of dollars of equipment left to the Taliban, our enemies who then use it, retake the country after 20 years of us fighting a war to secure it. You wouldn't say that that's a little bit higher on the ranking of national security debacles than some guys from the Trump

admin talking in the boys chat. You know, I don't know. To me, this is, not only is this a weak attack on the Trump administration, for Democrats, this is a self-defeating attack. Because people had forgotten about the Benghazi attack. People had forgotten about the Afghanistan withdrawal. And now, to have Susan Rice, of all people, make this claim on TV. It just brings back all of those memories. Ironically, the attack on the group chat, the Trump admin group chat, you know, the emojis to coordinate or to just discuss an attack that was carried out with perfect precision, an attack from us on our enemies, with perfect precision.

It just highlights how much better this administration is a conducted foreign policy, than the previous Democrat administrations. You know, at the Daily Wire, we give you the facts. We give you our opinions, no apologies. When we report on the administration's recent immigration policies that are finally making the border safer, legacy outlets downplay the numbers and ignore the obvious. Why did it take record-breaking chaos to get here?

Who is accountable for the damage of the last four years? This is why the Daily Wire exists. No spin, no censorship, just the truth. Go to dailywire.com slash subscribe today. My favorite comment yesterday is from Helarchy, 3309. He says, I have no desire to rejoin the British Empire, nor do I desire to join the British Caliphate. Yes, I guess that's the worry. We're not talking about rejoining the British Empire. We're talking there's a successor organization that recognizes a common cultural heritage among

the Anglophone countries, which is good. We like common heritage. We like history. We like tradition. We like culture. We're conservatives. We're not globalists. We're not libs. We're not kumbaya citizens of the world. We have a, we're a real people with a real history and a real culture. So that would be a mark in favor of the Commonwealth. The mark against it is that the Commonwealth is increasingly not English and not Christian and not Western. And yeah, so fair enough. That's a fair. Maybe we got to make it great again. M.T.C.G.M.T.C.G. Make the Commonwealth great again. Speaking of Democrats in disarray, CNN just interviewed Democrat Congressman Connolly, Jerry Connolly, and asked, is your party doing all right? Is your party prepared for the midterms, prepared for 2028, or are you guys in absolute chaos?

Here is his unconvincing answer. Your House Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, not long ago asked if he had confidence in Chuck Schumer. and he wouldn't answer the question, full view of the cameras. If that's not disarray, then what is that? I think that's a New York snub. I don't call that disarray. That's New York politics. They both come from the same place.

They have lots in common, and they also have, I'm sure, some tensions, as most politicians do, even in the same party. but that's not disarray. This array is a really big word, man. It's not that big a word, right? It's three syllables. It's not a big word.

I think it's a relatively small word and it's a precise word. You can just hear the narrator in the documentary come in. I don't know. That's not a disarray. The Democrats are not in disarray. They were, in fact, in disarray. When you have the Democrat leader in the House refusing to express confidence, explicitly refusing to express confidence in the Democrat leader in the Senate,

when they're both from the same state even, that's bad. Kudos to Jerry Connolly here. I mean, good job. He's trying to spin it. Oh, it's just how New Yorkers talk or whatever. But you might make that same argument to show that this is even greater disarray than we previously thought. Because yeah, these two guys, they're from the same state. They're supposed to be on the same team.

They're supposed to be aligned. And the leader in the House can't express confidence in the leader in the Senate. And they're all upset at Chuck Schumer because Chuck Schumer did not block Trump's continuing resolution. Schumer did not shut down the government. But Schumer was in a lose-lose situation. Had he shut down the government, it would have been even worse for the Democrats. They don't know what direction they want to go in. They don't know what their legislative priorities are when you look at the options on the table to them right now. Of course, in general, they want to trans kids and murder babies and open the border and they pie in the sky.

But when it comes to the political reality right now, what do Democrats do? to stop Trump? What do Democrats do to win the midterms? What do Democrats do to win the presidency in 2028? They don't have any clear answers. They have no idea what they're going to do. They don't even know who's on the team. They can't agree who's even on their own team. Total disarray. The one thing they can agree on is they do still want to gatekeep. The biggest problem facing Democrats right now is not any particular issue. The most immediate problem is that the coalition that allowed Democrats to win twice under Barack Obama, arguably under Joe Biden, not so sure. But even that Obama coalition was the Bill Clinton coalition, let them rule for a long time. That coalition has broken up,

because that coalition required a lock on racial minorities. And 46% of Hispanics voted for Trump and one in five black guys voted for Trump. And even just pushing the black vote from, you know, 8% Republican to 20% among the men Republican, even that was enough to crack the Democrats coalition. So they're going to have to refocus on that. They're going to have to try to crack the Trump coalition in the midterms. And Don Lemon is doing his best to gatekeep by saying, look, as a black man, I want you to know, I respect you black people. You can make decisions, black people. You can be whatever political party you want to be black people. But you're not allowed to vote for Trump. No, no, I just said, I don't think that, I just said, I think there can be

sincere Republicans. But you can't be a sincere black Republican. I don't think that you can, I don't think that you can be a rational MAGA, be black and be a rational MAGA person. I think you can be black and be a Republican. I think they would find that very insulting. Well, I mean, the truth is often insulting. That's true too. Yeah. But I know, I, um, The truth is often insulting. The truth is insulting if you are living out of accord with reality. But if you are living in accord with reality, the truth is comforting. That was a very revealing statement from Don Lemon.

So I find the truth insulting and offensive. Oh, well, then you're living in the wrong way and your view of the world is wrong. And his view here is obviously wrong. But it reveals an important political truth. He says, look, black people are. allowed to be Republicans. How big of him, how generous of him to offer that. He has to say that. He can't say, you're not allowed to be. You ain't black. That's what Joe Biden said. If you vote, if you're a black guy and you're going to vote for Trump, you ain't black. That doesn't play well.

So he says, no, you can be a Republican. You just can't be that kind of Republican. And you hear this all the time. No, no, no. It's okay. You can be a Republican if you support Republicans who are dead and no longer relevant to politics. Oh, yes. If you like Ronald Reagan, that's fine. If you like George Bush even, that's fine. You're also allowed to support Republicans who lose elections. You support Mitt Romney? Oh, that's fine. You support, you're also allowed to support Republicans who are effectively Democrats like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinsinger. Oh, yes, no, they're principled. That's great. That's fine. The one thing you're not allowed to do is support Republicans who win. Republicans who are an actual threat to the liberal order. That's what you're

not allowed to. You can't, you're not allowed to support Republicans who matter. And this is the rule of thumb. This is the political truth. Whichever group, the Democrats say you can't support, that is the group that matters. And all those other groups don't matter. You could be a Republican. Whatever kind of Republican Don Lemon thinks black people are allowed to be, those Republicans do not matter. They have no significance whatsoever to politics. The problem is, the real problem for Don Lemon and the Democrats here is that black people like the MAGA Republicans, black people like Donald Trump more than they like any other Republican. That is just born out in the polling. So Don Lemon can whine and cry about it all the time to Bill Maher, but it's not going to make a lick of difference.

Now, the Democrats have no positive message right now. That is why House Democrat women are jiggling on camera. but we're not going to get to that today. You're welcome. Sometimes I tease stories that you do want to hear. Today, I'm actually saving you from a... You don't want to see this, but maybe you do it like a car crash. You want it.

You've got to turn your head. Oh, is it on fire? Is there any blood? I know it's a deep, dark part of me. But we won't get to it today. We'll have to get to it tomorrow. Today's woke Wednesday. The rest of the show continues.

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