The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1877 - Protecting Non-Binary Assassin? Brown University Deletes Records

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

Brown deletes records of a they-them pro-Palestine leftist amid the shooting investigation, Jasmine Crockett claims white supremacists commit most violent crime, and a "civil rights icon" no one's heard of replaces Robert E. Lee at the Capitol. Ep.1877 - - - Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/4biDlri - - - Today's Sponsors: Helix - Go to https://helixsleep.com/knowles for an exclusive discount. PreBorn! - Help save babies from abortion at https://preborn.com/KNOWLES Rho - Head to https://RHONutrition.com/discount/KNOWLES for 20% off. Vandy Crisps / MASA - Start snacking right. Visit https://vandycrisps.com/knowles today to get 25% off your order. - - - DailyWire+: 🎄✨ DAILY WIRE CHRISTMAS SALE IS HERE! ✨🎄 🎁 https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe ⭐️ 40% Off DailyWire+ New Annual Memberships ⭐️ 50% Off DailyWire+ Annual Upgrade Memberships ⭐️ 50% Off DailyWire+ Annual Gift Memberships Finally, Friendly Fire is here! No moderator, no safe words. Now available at https://www.dailywire.com/show/friendly-fire GET THE ALL-NEW YES OR NO EXPANSION PACK TODAY: https://bit.ly/41gsZ8Q - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3RwKpq6 Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3BqZLXA Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eEmwyg Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3L273Ek - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Brown University shooting investigation has been completely boggled. It's just it's a disaster. It's a disgrace. No one seems to know anything. However, internet sleuths have pointed out that there was a guy, a student from Brown, who was listed all over the Brown website, whose pages are just coming down now. And he's a guy with a Muslim name who identifies as a they, them, who's a pro-Palestine activist, who wears the Kefiyah, who talks about all sorts of sexually deviant stuff, who, shall we say, fits the profile. We talked about this on the show yesterday, maybe Monday, too.

There's two kinds of terrorism in the United States today, really around the West. It's the radical leftist terrorism, and it's the Muslim terrorism. And that's pretty much it. That's pretty much it. they would have you believe, they, the political elites, would have you believe that the real terrorism is from the white supremacists. We'll get to that momentarily. They would have you believe that the real terrorism comes from the Christian fundamentalists or something. It's just not true. It's not true at all. That basically never happens. Even the Atlantic Magazine had to admit terrorism is a left-wing problem right now, and there's substantial overlap between the radical

leftists, the trans-Tifa type guys, and the jihadis. And The reason I don't want to say this they them's name from Brown, the reason I don't want to show you a picture of this they them is we really don't know. And I want to be much more responsible than the liberal media are. Don't forget, Brown already when they thought it was a white guy, they arrested this guy. They leaked his name. They leaked his photo. They ended up leaking the wrong white guy's photo. Then they leaked another white guy's photo. And then it turns out it wasn't that guy at all and they released him. But I don't want to be as irresponsible in the other direction as the establishment media are. However, it is pretty weird that as this investigation is ongoing, Brown takes down this page of the Muslim named they, them, Kefee-A-wearing matches the profile of all the terror attacks. Don't forget that the first confirmed casualty in this shooting was one of the only Republicans on campus. And some of the reporting says that she was specifically targeted. Okay.

So what does Brown have to say about that webpage coming down? Some webpages for students or faculty have been taken down. Is that a response to any external... threats to anyone in the community? We have been working very closely with law enforcement to provide them with all of the internal to Brown information

that they need to do this investigation. It's their investigation. They're the professionals. So we're providing information. We're not in the job of reviewing it for them. I know nothing about web pages being taken down as part of this. It's the first I've heard of it.

Yeah, you know nothing about anything, lady. Apparently, apparently the leadership of Brown knows nothing about anything. The leadership of Brown was asked why the alarm didn't go off when the shooting began. Leadership of Brown comes out and says, oh, the alarms aren't supposed to go off when there are shooting events. And then one of the reporter's response and says, actually on your website, it says that the alarms are supposed to go off in shooting events. And leadership of Brown says, oh, well, oops. Yeah, well, anyway, I don't know anything about that. Now this woman's asked, hey, how come this one Muslim named, they, them, kaffia wearing, leftist, queer, whatever,

how come all the internet references to this person are off your website? And she says, look, we're cooperating with law enforcement. We're giving them what they need. Giving them what they need. Do they think the internet is like a chest of drawers? Like if you want to hand over this information to the police, you need to take it down from the internet? Well, we can't have it on the internet. We've got to give it to the police.

That's not how the internet works, lady. So you can just point them at that. The question isn't what are the police looking at? The question is, why is Brown University removing references to a student? student who may or may not be implicated in this. We don't know because Brown won't tell us anything. He certainly, he or they or them, or I don't know what it is, certainly fits the profile, but we don't know. I don't know if this person's connected at all, but you won't tell me. And now you're stonewalling and you're evading the question to say, well, we're working with the

police. And I'll talk about the police. What are you doing? Why did you take the student's profile down? Then the president of Brown makes clear what her agenda is, which is, she says, look, you need to stop asking these questions, okay? You need to stop asking questions about who may or may not have pulled the trigger because the real killer of these students had nothing to do with the person who pulled the trigger. I want to begin by thanking the many law enforcement agencies who continue to work around the clock on this case. It's very impressive. I also want to thank the mayor in the governor for their continued support.

The primary point that I wanted to address before we get to questions is that Brown and, is deeply committed to the safety and security and well-being of our community. And I've been deeply sad to see people questioning that. We understand that as time goes on, there is maybe a natural instinct to assign responsibility for a tragic event like this. Anxiety fears very natural, but the shooter is responsible. Horrific gun violence took the lives of these students and hospitalized others. and it's deeply sad and tragic that schools across the country are targets of violence,

Brown is no exception. Hold on, hold on. I want you all to know that we take the safety of students very, very seriously. And you all want to find out what caused the shooting. But I'm here to tell you that, okay, fine. I mean, the shooter bears some responsibility, but really it was just gun violence. That's the conclusion she reaches. Okay, I mean, maybe I have to pay a little lip service to the shooter.

Individually, not as a member of a group. Yes, it's true that all the terrorism is committed by Muslims and leftists, but it has nothing to do with Islam or leftism. Please stop implicating ideologies in this. It's strictly individuals. Everyone needs to be judged as an individual, unless we're talking about Christians or men or white people, but everyone else needs to be judged as individuals.

and really it's not even the shooter, it's guns. It's the guns. We, I know you all, you rubes, you bitter clinging, Bible-thumping, idiot rubs, who don't even have a degree from Brown University, technically in Ivy League University. You went, you don't understand because you didn't go to Brown, you passionate Hoy-Polloy. But you're not supposed to assign blame after a,

crime? No, no, no. And anyway, we should blame the guns. Wait, do we seek to place blame or not? No, we shouldn't place any blame on anyone or anything, but actually it was the guns. Okay. Well, hold on. If you're going to say it's the guns, then you say we should place some blame, and we do need to place some blame because the only way that you can protect students, which you say is your mission, is to figure out what caused the shooting in the first place. and you're not being forthright. You're evading questions. You're not answering.

You're playing dumb. Maybe you are dumb. But you're not answering why information about certain students who fit the profile. There are reports out that before the student opened fire in what is reportedly a targeted killing, the student shouted alahoo Akbar. We don't know if that's true or not. We don't know because we're getting stonewalled by Brown and by the police. And the police don't seem to know anything either. But I faced this same issue when I was tested.

on political violence just a month ago before the Senate. The Democrat ranking member on the Senate said, we shouldn't seek to play the blame game here over political violence. I mean, yes, it's entirely leftists targeting right-wingers. But we shouldn't play the blame game. It's really, it's both sides. And it's irresponsible to play the blame game. I said, the only way you can solve a problem is if you identify where the problem's coming from.

So when you say don't play the blame game, You're pretending to some moral high ground. It's not a moral high ground. It's deeply immoral because what you're saying is we're not going to solve the problem and we're going to keep killing you. And we're going to let the radical Muslims and the radical leftists who in practice are difficult to differentiate, especially when it's the radical queer leftists who are wearing the kefi is chanting the Islamic chance. It's very difficult to separate the two. But when it's them committing all the violence against us, then it's very easy for you on the left to say,

oh, it's no big deal. Let's not play the blame game. Yeah, because what that's going to redound to is more persecution of our side. Anything better from the cops? Hey, hey, Rhode Island cops, you're going to give us any more information than this, this feckless and apparently dishonest President of Brown? The video that we showed you came from inside the building, and that's all we had at the moment. That's all we have at this moment. Inside the building, though? I'm sorry. It's from the outside. So do you have a video book? Yes. Both inside and outside.

I'm sorry, just outside. That's what we have. Not excited. I'm sorry. Just outside. That was released already. That was the outside of the building. We were released out.

Let me just jump here and clarify. Hold on. Let me just, get out, clear things. This guy actually comes in. Look, this is an Ivy League campus. This is supposed to have really good security, cameras everywhere. For goodness sakes, you have cameras probably all over your house in the middle of nowhere. We have cameras all over seven.

11. You don't have cameras all over a place where there are a ton of students in a prestigious and wealthy university. He says, oh, no, well, the problem is we had the cameras inside. I mean, I know, sorry, I mean, the cameras were inside and outside. I mean, oh, no, sorry, the cameras were actually on the outside. And I don't, where am I? Where am I? What are we talking about? What day is it? Where? Hello? And then this, I don't know, this other guy, step, let me try to clarify. They don't know anything. They let the shooter get away. And now they're fumbling over themselves, I think quite clearly, because of ideology.

When it looked like the shooter was a blonde-haired white guy, oh, they were tripping over themselves to release that guy's photo. They were so excited. Then they fumbled it, apparently, because of incompetence. And then they said, oh, it was some other guy. but he was still at least arguably white. So I said, okay, it's this guy. And then they had to release that guy.

Now they either really don't know and they don't know how to work security camera footage and they just don't know anything. They don't know the difference between inside and outside. Or they think that they know who the guy is, but he doesn't fit that ideological narrative. He's not a white guy. He's not a straight, white, right-wing guy,

which is what they were all obviously hoping for. And if the shooter really is any of the identity groups in this person whose profiles have come down from Brown, Muslim, queer, leftist, activist, anarchist, whatever, if that's true, it seems from all of the available evidence they will do everything to suppress that. Now, speaking of crime and identity politics, Jasmine Crockett has a novel theory about which group commits most of the violent crime in America. We'll get to that momentarily. First, though, speaking of violent crime, I want to tell you about preborn. Go to preborn.com slash Knowles. This Christmas season, you could change a life. Actually, two lives. Picture a young woman who just found out she's pregnant, wasn't expecting it.

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And if you really want to know who the criminals are in this country, you can Google it. You don't have to trust me. But the people that commit 80% of the most violent crimes in this country are white supremacists. Yet for whatever reason, they sit and they serve at the pleasure of the president. They are the ones that were there on January 6th, tearing our democracy down physically. And now we have them tearing us down right here from within. Okay, so this is not a new clip. It's resurfacing because Jasmine Crockett is now running for Senate. And this clip was from earlier in the year. And obviously, it's quite relevant now because crime has ticked up, because the terror attacks have ticked up, because the terror is coming from the left, because violent crime is a big problem in the cities that Trump has sought to suppress. And so she says, hold on, this is all misplaced. Most violent crime in America is committed by white supremacists.

So this is not merely a claim of preference. This is not a claim of supposition, a gut feeling. This is the sort of thing that we actually can test. So I went to the FBI statistics. And take out the supremacist part. Is it the case that most violent crime is committed by white people generally? Sort of. Sort of.

but when you consider it proportional to the relative white, black, Hispanic, all the other population, it's much, much lower. So according to the FBI statistics, 59.4% of violent crime is committed by white people. Now, white people are 60%, a little over 60% of the population. So it's lower than the proportion of white people in the population. But wait, wait, wait, wait, there are a lot of lies in these statistics. So 59.4% of violent crime committed by whites, 36.2% committed. by black people. Now, black people are only about 12% of the population. So much, much higher

proportion of violent crime being committed by black people. Then 2.4% being committed by Indians, feather not dot, and 2% being committed by Asians. Now, you notice there is a demographic group that is missing here. The demographic group being Hispanics. Where are the Hispanics? You add up all these numbers, you get to 100%. So where are the Hispanics? The Hispanics, the Hispanics are largely classified as white for the purpose of crime statistics. Notice, Hispanics are not uniformly classified as white. Hispanics are not, and you might say, well, look, there are blacker Hispanics and whiter Hispanics. Hispanics of more Spanish origin, Hispanics of more African origin,

origin, Hispanics of more indigenous origin. Yeah, yeah, that's all true. But put all of that aside. Regardless, when it comes to crime statistics, Hispanics are largely classified. classified as white. When it comes to university admissions, Hispanics are never classified as white. Ever. It doesn't matter how they could be lily white. They could be straight out of Barcelona. Barcelona, quick little pit stop in Havana on the way up to America, they are not classified as white. In other words, when it is advantageous for Latinos as a group to be classified as white, for the purpose of hiding crime statistics, they are. and when it is advantageous for them to be classified as non-white,

they are classified as non-white, as in the case of affirmative action in university admissions. So even that, Jasmine Crackett says, most of the crimes are committed by white supremacists. You say, okay, what's, what, 59 or so percent? Even that, though, a huge chunk of that. We don't know what percentage is not white people by many metrics in America.

Okay, then furthermore, let's get to her real claim, which is white supremacists. How many white supremacists are there in the country? Like four? I assume at this point the vast majority of people who belong to white supremacist organizations are FBI agents. It's like there's

10 people in the Klan group and nine of them are federal agents and one of them is Bubba. Poor Bubba who got word to the, he was probably invited by the FBI. They just don't exist. So then you look, even where there are these gangs, they're mostly prison gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood

and they mostly just kill each other. But I looked at this data set and according to the statistics, white supremacists account for well under 0.1% of violent crime in the United States, so statistically zero. So in other words, Jasmine Crockett, completely wrong about this. And probably people who observe that will be derided as racist or playing identity politics or something, whatever. However, we have to keep this principle in mind. We have to keep this principle in mind when we're talking about the terror attacks that we're forced. on New Year's Eve, terror attacks that just took place at Brown University in Sydney, Australia. We talk about violent crime generally. It is very important to identify where the problem

is coming from. Not out of cruelty, not at of hatred, not out of bigotry, not because we hate the leftists and want to round them all up and send them to camps, not because we hate black people or these people or that people. But because clarity is charity and you can only fix a problem if you identify where the problem's coming from. And you want to fix the problem for everyone, even for the perpetrators. It's the idea of a rehabilitative criminal justice system. Okay. Speaking of racial politics, a very sorry scene took place in the U.S. Capitol. Statue of Robert E. Lee was just removed from the Capitol. This has been a process that's been building for years and years and years since BLM. So they take down the statue of General

Lee, one of the greatest Americans ever to live. And they replaced the status. of General Lee with a statue of civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns. I say civil rights icon, because that is how this is being reported everywhere in the liberal media, even in some of the conservative media. Civil rights icon, Barbara Rose Johns. Quick test. Hold on. Don't Google it. Who's Barbara Rose Johns? You don't know. I don't know. I looked at her Wikipedia page today. I still don't really know. Nobody has ever heard of this woman, ever. No one. No one. And I know there's this impulse, especially among people who want the approval of the liberal, coastal, intellectual, credentialed, institutional elites. I know there's this impulse to say, no, of course I've heard of that person.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I've totally, of course I've heard of. Who hasn't heard of Juneteenth? Yeah, of course. Oh, my family's been celebrating Juneteenth for, you know, like 100 years. Oh, yeah, of course I know what that is. Oh, yeah, Barbara Rose John? Yeah, of course I know. Who's Barbara Rose Jones? You've never heard of her. She's not an icon. The left is trying to make her into an icon by iconoclasm

taking down the icon of General Lee who as an icon stood for something and stood for something very good. Do you know what he stood for? He stood for reconciliation among Americans who had such bitter divisions that they went to war with each other. and General Lee, after defending his countrymen,

generally after not even really defending slavery, which was obviously an important issue in the Civil War, but General Lee, who famously said that he celebrated the end of slavery. He rejoiced that slavery was over. General Lee, who would have happily given up all of his slaves if we're up to him, he fulfilled what Abraham Lincoln called for, which was malice toward none and charity for all. And they took him down.

And now there's a new icon, this woman that no one's ever heard of. And this new icon stands for what? Victory of the oppressed over the oppressor. Victory of the unknown. The very fact that no one knows who she is is actually part of her iconography. The victory of the unknown person over the great man of history. victory of the modern progressives over the traditions of America, over the traditional American nation. And I can't tell you the surprise and disappointment I felt when I read Glenn Yonkin's take on this.

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You have a total desecration of American history. have the statue toppling of one of the greatest Americans ever to live, to put up this woman that no one's ever heard of, as merely a stand-in to spit on the tradition of America and say it all used to be terrible, but finally we've overcome our awful oppressors. And here's what Glenn Yonkin has to say. Today we gathered in Emancipation Hall of the U.S. Capitol to dedicate the Barbara Rose John statue, to honor her legacy as a trailblazer and ensure her story of courage and conscience as a story for generations to come. Okay, blah, blah, blah. Here's the kicker. You can't tell the story of Virginia or the story of how our nation overcame segregation without telling the story of Barbara Rose Johns.

You can't tell the story of Virginia without telling the story of Barbara Rose Johns. We've done a pretty good job of it for the last 300 years. No one ever heard of this woman before yesterday. You cannot convince me that anyone, possibly including the people who put her statue up yesterday, no one had ever heard of this woman. You can't, we were doing a pretty good job telling the story of Virginia before yesterday. Frankly, we were doing a better job of telling the story of Virginia in years past before the recent spate of statue toppling and spitting on our ancestors. You can't, he's a Republican, Glenn Yonkin.

I don't mean to invade. I get it. There are political exigencies when you're a Republican governor in what is generally a blue commonwealth. I get it. Look, it's easy for me to pontificate. I don't have to go win the votes of moderates and Dems. And I get it. But bro, what on earth are you talking about? This has taken political stretching of the truth into the realm of the truly absurd. You can't tell the story of Virginia without telling the story of Barbara Rose Johns. I, I forgot her name in between the last time I was complaining about this and this most recent statement, which was a time span of about 32 seconds. What's her name? Hey, hey, pop quiz. Maybe you're watching this, you see it on the screen. But if you're listening, Pop quiz, what's the lady's name? I bet some of you don't need it.

It's Barbara Rose Johns. Oh, it's all just so tedious. Now, in stable countries, I want to be totally fair. I want to be as fair as I can be. In stable countries, stories change. Stories about our heroes, our ancestors, our lore, our mythology, they change over time. That's true. That's necessary. That's part of how human culture develops. So our understanding of George Washington today is a little different from the founding father's understanding of George Washington, is a little different from the 19th century understanding of George Washington. That's certainly. That's certainly.

Certainly that's true. Myths and legends develop over time. George Yie cut down a cherry tree and he could not tell a lie. Absolutely. Absolutely. These things change. However, in stable countries, the stories that we tell about our heroes just kind of develop. It's like the stories of the saints. And these heroes of American history are just secular or civic saints. But the stories of the saints. There are real saints. These saints really lived. They really did real things. A lot of them were martyrs for the faith. And then legends develop about the saints, you know, slaying dragons and things like that. It's not that the legends totally undermine the real history of the saints. They really develop out of the real history. They color in the real history, but they don't undermine the truth of it. That's what happens in stable countries. You get some legends and myths and the stories we tell about the heroes change.

In revolutionary countries, like we live in right now, the heroes themselves change. change. Today, think about this. When I was a kid, we learned about the midnight ride of Paul Revere. Probably many of you did too. People learned about the midnight ride of Paul Revere from the revolutionary era when it was news all the way up through probably about 20 years ago. Now, if you polled 100 kids under the age of 25, you said, who's Paul Revere? How many of them would have any ideas? idea. Not just how many of them would have their stories differ a little bit and different. How many of them would even know who that person is? They probably wouldn't. Because these heroes of American history are not merely having their reputations changed or even damaged.

They're being erased. They're being pulled down. Like the Taliban blowing up the Buddha statues. That's what the left is doing here. Think about Ike Eisenhower. Ike Eisenhower was a moderate Republican president, war hero of World War II. Country loved him, presided over really probably the greatest era of peace and prosperity ever in the United States. Here's what Dwight Eisenhower had to say about Robert E. Lee. I think there are good many of you people here, both photographers and representatives of press, have been going into my office for the past four and a half years, occasionally. No doubt you've noticed that on the walls are the prints of four men.

Men that I consider in my book are about the four top. Americans of the past. They are Franklin, Washington, Lincoln, and Lee. And anybody, whoever tries to put me in any other relationship with respect to General Lee is mistaken.

There you have it. Ike Eisenhower, as moderate, as beloved an American as ever there was, for now, says General Lee was one of the greatest Americans ever to live. That was long after the Civil War.

It's not that that was in the heat of the moment. That was long after the Civil War, almost 100 years after the Civil War. And now, 70-ish years after that, his statue can't even stand. He's a symbol of hatred. But that tells you is that something recent, radical, not in response to events of the past, something modern and revolutionary is taking place. and it's being cheered by some Republicans, pathetic, pathetic. Okay, speaking of these radicals, I told you about the New Year's Eve plot in Los Angeles.

There was, the FBI foiled this plot where a bunch of leftists who were aping the slogans of the Islamists. So it's always the ones you most expect. They were going to blow up L.A. on New Year's Eve, and four of them were arrested. Now there's been a fifth arrest, who is this person? person's name is Micah James Lignon. He was arrested in Louisiana Saturday. He was tied to chats with suspected members of the terror group Turtle Island Liberation Front and the spin-off group that was planning the attack.

This guy went by Kateri the witch on the group chats and Dark Witch, She slash Her. So he's a tranny and he was apparently a Trantifa extremist, Trantifa and a portmanteau of trans, transgender, and Antifa. This ties back to the political assassination. There have been so many this year, haven't there, the one that affected all of us the most, and that is the assassination of Charlie. We're getting ready for America Fest just this week, which TPSA is valiantly continuing to put on under the leadership of Charlie's widow, who, among all the other awful things she's going through, has to run this organization and put on this event,

which is Charlie's legacy, and I know he would have loved it. Anytime there is an assassination of a major political figure, conspiracy theories crop up. It's true with Kennedy, true with McKinley, true with, I don't know, it's true. It happens all the time. One reason that I have consistently shot down some of the conspiracy theories around the assassination of Charlie is that it's always the ones you most expect. One reason that I in particular, the moment it happened to, I was supposed to give a speech with Charlie 12 days after he was killed, and then I ended up doing it. It was me in an empty chair. And a lot of the speech was a memorial to Charlie and also focusing on the radical leftist,

trans-loving, sexually deviant person who did it all the way through up until today. Part of the reason that I have never, for one second, doubted that it was a leftist, trans-identifying, LGBT whatever person is because these are the people who always do the terrorism in America. Sometimes it's the Muslims. Sometimes it's a Venn diagram intersection of the Muslims and the leftist sex freaks. But it's always them. It's always them is the thing. I've experienced this personally when I was giving a talk at University of Pittsburgh. I mentioned that. That was the subject of my Senate testimony about a month or so ago. I was another one of these Antifa freaks. and it's just it's always them.

It's just always them. And so I'm one that in the abstract likes to entertain conspiracy theories because I think they're the sign of an active mind and they can be kind of amusing when you go through history. However, when we're talking about urgent events, recent events that involve people

who are very close to us that we actually know personally and have relationships with, you know, to me that the bar to entertain those kinds of things is much, much higher because it causes real pain to people. And the bar has to be much, much higher

when there is so much evidence in support of it's the leftists, it's the sex freaks, it's the Trantifa, it's the people who always do this. Of course, this guy, Micah James Lanyone, Kateri the Witch, Dark Witch, She Her, Trantifa extremist, justice for Palestine, whatever. It's all the same stuff that we always hear from these people. Oh, gee, no way. So actually, the one aspect of a conspiracy around the assassination of Charlie, that I think also a lot of us have been quite open about entertaining from the beginning is,

this guy was in group chats. This guy had this text thread with his trans furry boyfriend or whatever. You're telling me none of them knew about this? I don't know. I mean, look at the New Year's Eve plot. These guys talk. These guys plan things. That happens.

But in our modern age, we're not allowed to have prejudice. We're not allowed to have hunches. We're not allowed to trust our gut. But one of the great insights of conservatism is that your gut is usually right. Not always, it has to be conditioned by justice and scrutiny to reason and all of these other things, but your gut's usually right. That's one of the big dividing lines, I would say, between a conservative disposition and a liberal and leftist disposition, is the liberals and leftists to say, don't trust your gut.

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The Providence shooter, the Providence, rather, can't identify a shooter on camera, but go five miles an hour over the speed limit, and they produce a 4K glamour shot on my license plate. Yeah, weird, isn't that? Weird. They might be incompetent, never underestimate the incompetence of Ivy League University administrators and police forces that have been weakened by leftism. But they might also be covering something up.

The photos of the first white guy suspect, those things leaked faster than they could utter the guy's name. Now, these other people, you don't hear so much about him. Zoran Mamdani, mayor elect of New York. He has a theory on how to deal with the spiking crime. that has occurred under the leftist mayoral administrations in recent years. And see if this checks out. We made five bus routes free in New York City.

When we made those bus routes free after a year, assaults on bus drivers dropped by 38.9%. On the bus drivers? On the bus drivers. Because unlike the train, the act of fair collection on the bus happens on the bus. It's their job, yeah. And bus drivers and unions have shared

anecdotally that about 50% of assaults happen around the farebox. So when you eliminate the fair box, you make for a safer experience for the bus driver, for everyone on the bus. So the problem is that on the buses, these violent criminals, these repeat criminals, keep coming up and they don't want to pay their two bucks so they assault the bus driver. That's the problem. You want to protect the bus driver and the passengers on the bus from the violent criminals who are terrorizing the city. Zohran Mamdani's solution is to stop making them pay the $2, and then maybe they'll stop beating everybody up and killing people.

Now, another solution, of course, would be to arrest the criminals and put the... But Zohan Mamdani says prisons don't help reduce crime. Zoran Mamdani says punishing criminals doesn't reduce crime. So what you have to do is be really, really nice to criminals. You have to give the criminals what they want. So, for instance, if you want to reduce burglaries, if you want to reduce murders during burglaries, you know, the burglar comes in, the couple's there, and he murders them, that happens a fair bit. Well, the way that you reduce murders during burglaries is not arresting the murderers and the burglars.

It's by making sure that everyone keeps all their jewelry in the front hall. So when the burglars get in, all the valuables are there and they don't have to go to your bedroom and kill you. Problem solved. Actually, it's an apt comparison because the New York City government runs terrible deficits and relies on federal funding for like 10% of the city budget. And then when you factor in grants, specifically grants to transportation, they rely on $100 billion a year of federal funding. So they're robbing the taxpayer blind, further robbing the taxpayer blind by letting these degenerate criminals ride the bus for free. Two bucks at a time starts to add up.

It's like saying that we're going to reduce money. murder during rape by telling the victims not to resist. We've got, hey, I've got the Zoron solution. Yes, sometimes rapists murder their victims, but I've got the solution. We're not going to arrest the rapist murderers. We're going to just tell the rape victims to stop resisting, and then maybe they won't get murdered. Buckle up, New York. This is going to be brutal. And I'm a New Yorker by birth, by upbringing. I lived the first 24 years of my life within an hour or two of New York City, spent a lot of time in the city, boy, oh boy, it is going to get bad. However bad you think this guy is, it's going to be a lot

worse. Now, there's an alternative theory of criminal justice. The one is be really nice to the criminals and maybe they'll stop attacking you. The other theory is arrest the criminals and arrest them, the first time they offend, arrest them on the relatively minor offenses so they don't go on to the bigger offenses and arrest them when they're young. Here is a Pennsylvania sheriff who, I don't know, we should put him in charge of federal law enforcement, I think. Sheriff Grady Judd in Pennsylvania. This is everything that they stole. And guess what?

As we've said before, you can't go any place, any time that you're not on a camera. So Dick's sporting goods knows that they're stealing because they're watching this systematic, organized, theft ring called a football team. I don't know if these all were starters or not, but I can tell you that we were finishers. We arrested them. In Polk County, Florida, we'd lock you up for stealing, for being a thief. So this is part of a football team. This is also the thoroughbred thieves, and it's their choice. And for the coach, you're way off base here, buddy. Way off base.

You're the ultimate loser. If you've been coaching these kids upright, if you knew where they were, if you didn't allow them to Uber away, they would have played in a ball game Saturday night. I love this. I misspoke. I said it was Pennsylvania. It's Florida. Of course it's Florida.

I should have known. This coach says, oh, you know, these kids who are stealing all this stuff. these kids, you know, look, you got to go easy on them. Just let them off the hook. It's no big deal. We want him to play in the ballgame. And this sheriff comes out and he says, man, coach, you're totally wrong. I mean, one, you're being selfish and you're saying that you guys winning this ball game is more important than protecting society. But at a deeper level, you're being selfish even with regard to the kids. And this is the false mercy of the left. This is the false mercy of Zohran Mamdani. where he says, you know what we got to do to the thieves, we got to not punish them. To the assailants, to the murderers, to the criminals, we got to not punish them. And if we don't punish them, that will be really nice for the bad guys. This is an argument. I mentioned this book before on the show that was taken on millennia ago in Plato's Gorgias,

which is the question of, is it charitable to wrongdoers not to punish them? And the answer is no. it's bad for them not to punish them because it will encourage them to continue doing bad things which will be bad for them it will destroy their souls it will probably destroy their material flourishing too it's just bad it's a bad lesson if you want to stop violent crime if you want to protect people if you want to reform criminals you have to punish them even over the small stuff even and especially when they're young. This used to be common sense.

Now we forget about it. Okay. Speaking of young people, one story I alluded to yesterday that I really want to get to. Very important HUD report. This is from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

This report has just come out on why housing is no longer affordable. This is from Secretary Scott Turner, who I interviewed a little earlier this year. This was how Mamdani won, isn't it? Momdani says he ran on affordability. specifically housing affordability. This is the left's new line. We got to address housing unaffordability. Trump is running on deport the foreigners, the illegal aliens, and the left is running

on housing affordability. And what's so amazing about those two issues is the fact that the left led in all the foreigners is actually the cause of the unaffordability. According to this HUD report, the two-thirds of rental demand growth in recent years has been on account. of foreign-born people in the country, two-thirds of rental demand growth. The reason that you, young people especially, but people of all ages,

can't pay your rent is two-thirds predominantly because the left let all these foreigners into the country, not just the three million illegals a year that Biden welcomed in, but the million legal immigrants a year

that the United States has welcomed in, the left has encouraged for decades. That's why your rent is high. The reason that the Democrats might be able to win, at least in the Blue Cities, on the affordability crisis, is because of the affordability crisis that the Democrats caused. Two-thirds of it.

Even specific, you can, it's not just finger-pointing. You're the reason for the affordability crisis. No, you're the reason for the affordability crisis. No, no. The affordability crisis comes down largely to food, the prices of which were driven up chiefly because of Joe Biden's inflation and because of welfare fraud, which we learned during the government shutdown.

and housing especially, and the housing crisis, the unaffordability crisis in housing, is caused overwhelmingly by mass migration. You want to solve affordability, mass deportations. That's it. That's your answer.

That's the Republican's answer. I think the young people especially get this. Maybe some of the older millennials, Gen X boomers need to get the message too. This is it. Okay, speaking of foreigners, Jasmine Crockett just said the quiet part out loud. She said we need illegal aliens in the country because, quote,

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