The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1884 - Right-Wing YouTuber DESTROYS Tim Walz's Career

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

A conservative YouTuber forces Tim Walz out of his reelection bid, Mamdani vows to replace "rugged individualism" with the "warmth of collectivism," and a famous terminally ill cartoonist is converting to Christianity. Ep. 1884 - - - Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/4biDlri - - - Today's Sponsors: Good Ranchers - Get $25 off your first order and save up to $500 a year when you use code KNOWLES at https://GoodRanchers.com Catholic Match - Download the app or head to https://CatholicMatch.com and find your forever. Cowboy Colostrum - Get up to 25% off your entire order at https://cowboycolostrum.com/knowles and use code KNOWLES at checkout. - - - DailyWire+: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe 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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that a lot of people associate with the internet, which is gravely immoral, but also, you know, invective, wrath, pride, gluttony. I guess there's not a lot of gluttony on the internet, but envy. The stuff that you do on the internet is not merely some virtual avatar that has nothing to do with your real soul. It has real effects on you personally. It shapes who you are, and it shapes events in the real world. Tim Walls was about to be one heartbeat away from becoming the second woman president. Okay, Tim Wals was the running mate to a presidential candidate. They didn't come all that close, but, as Kamala Harris, but this guy was a real player. Now he is not even able to run for re-election in true blue Minnesota.

Minnesota, the only state that voted Democrat, when every other state in the country voted Republican, 1984 for Ronald Reagan, Minnesota, as Democratic as they come. Now, all the more so, because they've imported a bunch of Somalis in. Tim Wals cannot run for re-election because a YouTuber showed up to some fake daycare centers and exposed massive fraud. Tim Wals comes out, talks to the press yesterday, stuns everybody in the room. It's only making that fight harder. We've got Republicans here in the state legislature playing hide and seek with potential whistleblowers.

We've got conspiracy theorist right-wing YouTubers breaking into our daycares, demanding access to our children. We've got the president of the United States. Conspiracy theorist YouTubers. That is true. Nick Shirley is a conspiracy theorist in that he had a theory about a potential conspiracy and but then the conspiracy was proven correct. Then he uncovered an actual conspiracy, which is why Tim Walz, you're about to announce that you will not run for re-election.

He says, they're trying to get access to. our children in our daycare. The whole conspiracy, the whole point of the fraud is that there weren't any children in our daycares. We, the taxpayers, were paying for the daycares, and our children weren't there. No children were there. There weren't even Somali children there in some cases. But even if there had been Somali children, when the YouTuber shows up, it says, hey, can I get an application so that I can enroll my son in this daycare? The people say, No, your son's not allowed, Hans Sol, or Gucci Gaji, Gucci, go. So any way you slice that statement, it isn't true.

They weren't showing up to have access to our children, so rich coming from the left, which has spent the last 10 years pleading, begging, demanding to sexually groom young kids in elementary schools and expose them to weird ideologies. Now all of a sudden, a conservative YouTuber shows up, exposes a fraud, exposes the absence of children in the state-run daycare, or in the state-funded daycares. And you get this nonsense from Tim Walls. Desperate as all get-out. But the reason he's desperate is he knows

this is the end of his political career. Demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on. It's disgusting and it's dangerous. Republicans are playing politics with the future of the state. It's shameful.

And I've said it before and I will continue to say it. Put a pose. But as I reflect on me, this moment. Republicans are playing politics with the future of this state. Yes, that's what happens in states. Yes, that is what politics is. What, who wrote this? I think these were prepared. I think these were prepared remarks. I don't know. I don't know what's worse. If this was what Tim Wals could come up with off the top of his unimpressive head, or if this is what

the staffers came up with, someone actually hired to write a speech. But to say, people, these politicians are playing politics. Uh-huh. Yeah, that's what they do. Would you expect them to play tennis? That's what they do. It's politics. And they're trying to bring their politics into our state government.

Uh-huh. That's what government is. It's political. And these Republicans, they're bringing their politics, and they come in and they say, hey, you shouldn't allow Somali criminals to defraud Minnesota taxpayers and fund al-Shabaab and terrorist groups overseas. It's like, all their politics.

Yeah, that's, yes, that is politics. It's good that they did that. That is an example of very good politics. And now, Mr. Walsh, what's the conclusion? With my family and my team over the holidays, I came to the conclusion that I can't give a political campaign my all. Every minute that I spend defending my own political interest would be a minute I can't spend defending the people of Minnesota.

So I've decided to step up. out of this race and I'll let others worry about the election while I focus on the work that's in front of me. Hold on, hold on. Even here, man, this guy is so incompetent. Even here, he can't come up with a good excuse as to why he's leaving the race. He announced that he was going to run for re-election. So clearly something, not only did he announce he was going to run for his third term as governor, he already ran for re-election once to serve his second term as governor. So clearly he previously thought it was okay to run for re-election, that it wasn't somehow contrary to the job of being the governor to run for re-election. Now he's changed his mind and his excuses, I realized I can't run for re-election and simultaneously do my job as governor.

Oh, so why did you announce you were going to run in the first place? If it is the case that one cannot simultaneously run for re-election and be governor or do the job of governor in a good way, then why did you announce you were running in the first place? Why did you already run for re-election and win one time? It's so weak on every single way you slice it. It's so weak. The conspiracy theorist YouTuber was right. He was proven correct.

Everyone acknowledges that now. The politicians who were getting political with our state government were right. And you are stepping down, not because, you disapprove of running for re-election, which you've already done once and announced you we're going to do again, you're not running for re-election because you got caught up in the fraud. And now you're going to be spending your time, not governing the state of Minnesota, you're going to be spending your time trying to avoid an orange jumpsuit for your role in the fraud. And you know how we know that Mr. Walls is sweating here is this is how he concluded his remarks.

Tomorrow, I'll be back with you. I'll give you an update on America's best paid fans. Family Medical League program that is now a week into it. And at that time, I'll take all your questions. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. All right.

Thank you for us. You said you were going to take questions. Why didn't you? They're here in, I guess, the governor's mansion or, I don't know, State Capitol or something. And you hear these Minnesota journalists. We ain't talking about the Daily Wire. We ain't talking about the Blaze or Fox News. We're talking about Minnesota journalists.

These guys are overwhelmingly liberal. And Wall says, okay, and I'm going to be a really good governor and be really responsive to the people. And that's why I'm going to leave as fast as I can. And there's going to be a Tim Wall's shaped hole in the wall. The Wall's Wall. I'm going to run out like I'm Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes. And you hear the liberal journalists, presumably, saying, what? Huh?

Okay. And you hear that one at the end just so exasperated. It says, you said you were going to take questions. Why did you tell us you were going to take questions? So I'm announcing that my political career is completely over and I'm contradicting what I've been saying for months. And that's why I'll take your questions tomorrow when I talk about some nonsense program that the Somalis are also probably robbing blind. Okay, bye. That's responsive government for you. the reason it's so delightful, though, is not just because Tim Walz is awful, awful, awful, awful. The reason it's so beautiful is because it is a reminder that the internet is real life. It's not exactly the same as the physical public square. Sometimes when you pay too much attention to Twitter or TikTok or Instagram, it can distort your perception of public opinion.

That's true. but it is real life. Your tweeting has an effect. You're viewing, you're sharing videos, you're sending information to your relatives and your friends and your neighbors. That has a real effect. That changes governors' races.

That takes out former vice presidential candidates from the political order. That moves things. It moves the conversation. Now we're beginning to see a big shift in the conversation in New York where the recently elected communist mayor promises to replace rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. We just removed the warmth of collectivism from Venezuela.

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Before we get into Mom, Donnie and all the rest of that nonsense, I am very, very excited to have some relatively breaking news coming out of the federal government and to hear it straight from my friend Jim, O'Neill's mouth. Jim O'Neill, the number two, over at HHS, who is transforming one of the most troublesome bureaucracies into really working for the American people and focusing specifically on some of this fraud we're seeing out of Minnesota. Jim, marvelous to see you, sir. Love you to see you, Michael. Happy 12th day of Christmas. Thank you. It's a marvelous to see you on the Feast of the Epiphany, a very important date

in American and world history. Jim, you, you've, you've, You've been a major figure in health care for a very long time now. And Trump comes in. He really shakes up HHS. He picks this Democrat presidential candidate, a Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, to run HHS. And you're seeing a lot of transformation over there. Just briefly, I know you're very busy. What is HHS doing on the, not only the fraud stories coming out of Minnesota and elsewhere,

but also this breaking news about the vaccine schedule? Yeah, so, you know, fraud in Minnesota has probably been going on for years. Our Inspector General's office really started tracking in May when Minnesota was clearly not complying with federal attendance documentation requirements. So we've doubled down on this. We've gotten more intensely involved, investigating more. You know, this is this great November 19th piece by Chris Rufo and City Journal. exposing some of the specific types of fraud with autism diagnoses and daycare fraud in Minnesota.

So Dr. Oz, the head of CMS, sent a CERN letter to Governor Walls in early December, asking for a corrective action plan and setting a deadline of New Year's Eve if they want to keep getting Medicaid dollars. So on New Year's Eve, on the deadline, they sent, I guess you could call it a response. five pages. It wasn't quite written in crayon, but let's just say it was not sufficient for anyone here. And so we are going to get tougher. It's it's it's it's time to get more serious with Minnesota on Medicaid. And then at the same time, we have our child care program in our administration for children and our families. So we turned on Defend the Spend program, which means that every time Minnesota state officials send a money request to us,

it's going to automatically reply with, please show us the evidence, the receipts, the proof, the records, show us some reason to think this is real before we send you the money. We've turned that on. Let's just say they haven't sent in a lot of receipts in the last week so far. So there's nothing to look at, and no money's going out the door. yesterday, I also sent a letter to Governor Walls last Tuesday demanding some accountability on the child care side, similar to Memmett's letter on the Medicaid side. Today, we started getting rid of a lot of really bad Biden rules.

So the Biden administration, unfortunately, had put in some regulations that really limited the ability of state officials to look for fraud in the administration of some of our programs, like limited the number of times they could ask for verification or validation or attendance records. So we're getting rid of those bad rules. We're going back to, you know, full-on transparency, show us the receipts. And this is not about, you know, punishing or withholding anything from legitimate providers or parents or poor families or working families or hospitals or anything. This is about holding state officials accountable for making sure there's not fraud. I really think in Minnesota, it seems like there's a political patronage system that the DFL and a lot of

entities in certain communities or certain parts of the state or certain layers of society all have a common interest in keeping a certain amount of griff going. And maybe some people are fully aware of it and some people are partly aware. We don't know all of that yet. But it really looks like if there's a political machine that depends on welfare fraud and Medicaid fraud, and we're going to shut it down. What I love about the action that you are taking right now at HHS is it's so simple and it's so restrained, it's so modest even, to say you're not going in as the Democrats are alleging and punishing people and, you know, bringing retribution. You're simply saying, okay, you want this money for these programs. Show us any evidence at all that this is real. And they're not sending you,

the receipts. It's like that scene in office space, you know, the consultants come and they say, so what is it exactly that you do here? You know, and it's these fraudsters who say, what, sorry, got to go, close the door. Sorry, no proof here. No applications. So look, I think this is great. It's marvelous. And to your point, it's not just oopsie-dazy. You know, it's not just the incompetence of Tim Walls. I don't think, at least. It seems to me that these fraudsters are very good at politics. And these corrupt politicians are very good. at politics too. This serves a political purpose, a machine purpose that has existed in politics, especially democratic politics, for hundreds of years. And it would seem that any reasonable

person would have to come to the conclusion that that's probably what we're looking at here in Minnesota. Yeah, all the facts that we know point towards that. And every week we learn more facts, and they continue to point toward that as well. So, and by the way, it's not just Minnesota. we're looking seriously at California and Maine and Ohio, and we're going to look at other states and lots of other programs. You know, I've talked about two of our big programs that involve states, Medicaid and child care, but, you know, TANF, which is the generalized welfare program that we run, and then, of course, lots of programs in our peer departments,

at Treasury, at HUD, at labor. we're all cooperating in a very administration-wide approach in really making fraud something that we're not going to tolerate. So, Jim, before I let you go, I have to pick your brain a little bit on the vaccine changes. This is another one, just within the last, what, 24 hours or so, big changes to the vaccine schedule. What's funny is the Democrats used to be skeptical of all the new vaccines being added, but now, because Trump is also skeptical of that, now they have to be in favor of shooting up little kids with like 150 jabs. So what is the change? What is this in response to? What can parents expect? Yeah. So, you know, when you're when you're a sick person, you know,

considering taking a drug, you and your doctor need to know like everything that's known about the risks and benefits of the drug. When you're a healthy person considering a vaccine, the standards are legitimately a little bit higher. Like you're asking a healthy person to take on some potential risk. And we're talking about a baby. it should be even higher, right? Like, parents don't want to put their baby at risk, nor should they. And they have a right to very good, transparent information. In many cases, the really lengthy follow-ups to safety studies that people assume have been done on everything, haven't been done.

We're correcting that. But in the meantime, people need good advice based on the best information we have. And President Trump, about a month ago, asked me to really dig into this and specifically to look at what some other developed countries are doing on this front. And so I talked to health ministries in Germany, Denmark, Japan. I talked to a lot of our scientists at CDC and FDA. And it was really interesting that a lot of other countries recommend far fewer vaccines. And so I updated the official U.S. vaccine schedule yesterday to really prioritize the subset of vaccines that we think are most important for children. It seems so reasonable when you describe it that way.

Also very funny that a lot of our ideological opponents, you know, they always look to every other country in the world is so much more civilized than us. And yet when it comes to certain aspects of medicine, especially public health, all of a sudden they ignore the norm elsewhere. And I know just speaking to so many parents, obviously I have three kids myself, it is kind of weird how the vaccine schedule is exploded. It's all so early. You know, people are trying to jab your little newborn baby with a Hep B vaccine. And I told the nurse, I said, my son does not intend to go to any brothels anytime soon. I don't think he's interested in heroin, hopefully ever, but certainly for not the next few years. And so a lot of parents have legitimate concerns about that.

Yes, of course. I think people are entitled to transparent information and to weigh risks and rewards. It's just too reasonable, Jim. Marvelous to see you. I know you've got a lot to do. You're juggling a lot of things. Thank you so much, though, for coming on sneaking in right here at the end of Christmas. That's marvelous.

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muscles around the country and the world, you're getting a reaction in New York, our jihadi communist mayor up there as a run mom dani, vowing to replace rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. If our... Okay. I hate to give Mamdani any credit for anything, but he's almost nearly approaching kind of something of a point.

He's taking it to all the wrong conclusions, but he is approaching something kind of of a point. And it's something that I've observed for years. Individualism and collectivism are not really opposites. some right-winger, especially libertarians, insist that they're opposites. They're not really opposites. They're two sides of the same modern, liberal ideological coin. Because the collectivist modern ideologies come out of the individualist liberal ideology. But people are not primarily individuals. Society is not fundamentally about the individual.

The individual is not the fundamental. political union. And likewise, societies are not, you know, people are not just these undifferentiated blobs of human flesh, no different one from another. The reality is a little more complicated than that. The reality is that we are people, we're individual human beings who are born into the context of organic community, primarily the family. And then the extended family and then the township and the county and the state and the nation,

maybe the empire, but all of these sort of cascading political communities that operate ideally on principles of subsidiarity, but down to that basic one. You are not born, to quote Kamala Harris, I guess we're all the way back to Tim Walz,

to quote Kamala Harris, you're not falling out of a coconut tree when you're born, you're born into a family, but it is you and you are an individual. So what does this mean? The frigidity of individualism giving away to the warmth of collectivism.

Sounds like hell. The warmth of collectivism is hell, is what he's describing. What does it actually mean? Well, his tenant director, Cia Weaver, explains this pretty clearly on social media. I think the reality is that for centuries we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good. And we are going to transition into treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity. will require that we think about it differently, and it will mean that families,

especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have. They're going to have, mostly those evil, dirty white people, you know, the white devil honkies, you know, yeah, most see them,

but I guess a few, like, slightly dusky people will get caught up too. they're going to have a different relationship to private property. Namely, they're not going to have it because we're going to take it from them. We're going to transition. We're not just going to transition your little boy into a little girl. We're going to do that too. But we're going to transition your property, what you consider to be like your property.

We're going to transition that into my property. I'm going to have it now, especially if you're a white devil because we hate you white people. even though she's a white devil too, but she especially hates you the white devil. She posted on some social media platform, thanks to Libs of TikTok for finding this one. She types this one out. She goes, private property, including and kind of, especially all caps, homeownership, is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as wealth-building public policy. I love this too.

Even that millennial lib way, that like, you know, like kind of. I mean, uh, um, uh, kind of especially. You can't say kind of especially. Especially gives emphasis for the particular thing you're talking about. And kind of creates ambiguity. The people running New York can't speak English. And it's not just because they're Arabs or whatever, Pakistanis. It's not that. The Pakistanis probably speak English better than the white liberal ladies, millennials, who say kind of especially. But how are we to think of private property. Because there is the modern right-wing, sort of right-liberal ideological view. There is the communist view that Mom Donnie and this lady are espousing.

But even though I'm certainly much more on the right than I ever entertain ideas on the left, I also issue aspects of modern right-wing ideology, you know, because I don't like, I don't really like modern stuff and liberal stuff and ideology. So what is the Christian view? What's the conservative view? What's the traditional view that we've held a private property? For that, we turn to our friend John Paul II. John Paul II writes, in the midst of the Cold War, as Pope, he writes an encyclical called Chintesimus Anum,

Chantasmus Anu, which is a reflection on Rayrum Navarum, which is an encyclical by Pope Leo the 13th, predecessor to Pope Leo the 14th, Pope Leo the 13th, who is writing during the rise of socialism and industrial capitalism and all of this massive economic upheaval. Look, socialism, communism is really, really bad. There are some issues with capitalism, too, if capitalism is not bounded by a moral order

in order toward the flourishing of the community. So what do we think? What are we supposed to think? And JP2, I think, puts it very well. It says, the fundamental error of socialism is anthropological in nature. It's about what a human is. Socialism considers the individual person

simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good of the individual is completely subordinated to the functioning of the socioeconomic mechanism. It just crushes the individual person and says you are undifferentiated flesh, only serving the Borg. That's what Mamdani and this lady you're talking about. Man is thus reduced to a series of social relationships

and the concept of the person as the autonomous subject of moral decision disappears, the very subject whose decisions build the social order. They're saying, yeah, the social order is good, but in order to have a social order, you have to have people making moral decisions. And if you deny the individual and you deny any agency and you deny that he's a moral actor, you actually completely undermine the social order. It's not that socialism is bad because it acknowledges community. Socialism is bad because it actually undermines community by undermining the individual.

The individual and community do not have to be at odds. The modern ideological view that it's the individual or the collective, you have to pick one. both of those ideologies are wrong because a true understanding of politics recognizes that the individual in the community have to go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. JP2 goes on, only a little bit more. From this mistaken conception of the person, there arise both a distortion of the law which defines the sphere of the exercise of freedom and in opposition to private property. So JP2 is just seeing this. He's seeing the Mamdani administration come down the pike decades in the future. any person who is deprived of something he can call his own and of the possibility of earning a living through his own initiative comes to depend on the social machine and on those who control it. That's what this is about.

This is about Mamdani and his cronies crushing the individual by pretending to offer him something so that he can gain control over him. This makes it much more difficult for him to recognize his dignity as a person and hinders progress toward the building up of an authentic human community. even that dignity of the person. So when communism and socialism expand, you see a reduced dignity of the person.

You see the, now, this can happen with capitalism that's unbridled from a moral order too, or unbound by a moral order, but you especially see it with socialism and communism, a degradation of the person, an undermining of the family, an undermining of the moral order, an expansion of vice and sin,

an expansion of euthanasia. You know, you get socialist health care, next thing you're going to get is abortion and euthanasia, so-called assisted suicide. You don't really get a ton of assisted suicide in the less socialistic health care systems. Why? Because the socialist system degrades the human person, undermines the dignity of the human person. And hinders progress, JP2 writes, toward the building up of an authentic human community. The problem with collectivism is not that the people are all together doing stuff that's good for all of them. The problem with collectivism is that they're not.

The problem with collectivism is that it is a fake, contrived, artificial community based on the breaking down of organic, real community into the individual. This is how fascism works. Fascism is helpful here, even though fascism is different from communism and socialism. Fascism is a helpful way into understanding how all of these ideologies work. Because fascism has the symbol of the bundle of sticks bound up together, the fascis. And so what is expressed by that symbol is that in order to create this collective estate, you have to first break down all the natural community so that once everyone's an alienated individual, they're much more easy to control, to manipulate, to bound up, and then you can bound them up to this contrived community. So what are we supposed to do? Very briefly, JP2, the channeling Pope Leo the 13th says. In contrast, from the Christian vision of the human person, there necessarily follows a correct picture of society.

according to Ray Rheum Navarum and the whole social doctrine of the church, the social nature of man is not completely fulfilled in the state, but is realized in various intermediary groups, beginning with the family, and including economic, social, political, and cultural groups, which stem from human nature itself, and have their own autonomy. They have their own kind of liberty,

their own kind of exalted liberty, always with a view to the common good. This is what I've called the subjectivity of society, which together with the subjectivity of the individual, was canceled out by, quote, real socialism. this is the key. And it's a warning against ideologies that purport to be on the right as well as ideologies from the left like you see with Mom Dani. Any ideology that tells you that the individual is contrary to the community is going to be wrong.

Any ideology that tells you that material flourishing, private property is contrary to the common good is going to be wrong. ideologies are getting some wrong, whether you see them on the left or on the right. The real deal, the real stuff, the stuff that the church, coincidentally, maybe not merely coincidentally, has taught for a very long time. The real stuff recognizes all of these goods and puts them together into an organic whole or even sees them together as an organic whole. Okay. Now, speaking of welfare, you have heard from some of your friends on the left that, you know, immigrants are actually good for the economy. And immigrants have actually use welfare and lower rates than an airborne population. Well, we got the numbers out of

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That's so true. And much gayer, too, than the Venezuela. The Venezuelan War was not gay. I know there are all sorts of jokes about the Navy. There were a lot of Navy SEALs and everything, but no, the Venezuelan War was not gay. It was very, very much not gay. and the Stranger Things finale was, was. It very much was. Okay, folks, I can't believe we made it this far, and I haven't made an explicit reference to the day. You know what today is. Today is the day when wise men traveled to follow their leader, the true leader of us all, you know, in the face of an oppressive government. You know what I'm talking about? I'm talking about the Feast of the Epiphany. But the Feast of the Epiphany, but the Feast of the Epiphany. also coincides with the darkest day for democracy ever. In all of the days of democracy and

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Go to jeremysraises.com and shop wistfully now. Speaking of Christianity, before we get to the immigrants, I want to get to a really important story. Scott Adams is dying. Scott Adams is the cartoonist behind Dilbert. Not only did he make Dilbert, which is a favorite of many, many people for decades. Now, I remember reading Dilbert when I was a kid, but he also, especially at the beginning of the Trump era, he came out as this really insightful political observer. So he came out and he would explain President Trump's rhetoric from the perspective of persuasion. And he's just good. He's been really accurate on a lot of the moves from the Trump administration.

He's just a delightful public figure. And he's dying. He is dying. And I know a lot of people try to say, oh, no, buddy, you know, you'll duke it out. No, he's dying. We're all dying. We all have a death sentence from the minute we're conceived.

And he is dying. And that, you know, Norm MacDonald always had this bit where he said, I hate how they describe cancer as a fight. You know, it's a battle with cancer. Because then, eventually, when you die, you just lost. The last thing you do in the world is you lose. He's like, I hate that. By the way, I don't even think you lose because if you die, the cancer dies, then it's a draw.

And so I love Scott's very human, very, he's a very realistic guy. And Scott says, no, look, I'm going to die. And he says, I'm going to die this month. It's very sad for those of us who really like him. And he has millions of fans. But there's a little silver lining out of it, which is that Scott Adams is converting to Christianity. Whenever I talk about this simulation, and especially when I talk about my own impending death, many of my Christian friends and Christian followers say to me, Scott,

do you still have time? You should convert to Christianity. Any skepticism I have about reality would certainly be instantly answered if I wake up in heaven. I do believe that the the dominant Christian theory is that I would wake up in heaven if I have a good life. Yeah, I don't necessarily have to state something in advance. And so, to my Christian friends, yes, it's coming. So you don't need to talk me into it. I am now convinced that the risk reward is completely smart. If it turns out that there's nothing there, I've lost nothing.

But I've respected your wishes, and I like doing that. If it turns out there is something there, and the Christian model is the closest to it, I win. I love this. I love this. And some Christians don't love this. And they don't love it because this is Pascal's Wager. Blaise Pascal, one of the great geniuses of modernity, actually, who is a Catholic. Catholic who flirted with some quasi-Calvinist ideas, Jansenism.

Though he died a loyal son of the church, his great book is the Ponce, which is basically a series of notes and note cards. But he comes up with his wager. And the wager is, look, if I believe in God, if I believe that God, I can't really know that God exists, which I disagree with, I think you can know with certainty that God exists, but says if you don't know that God exists, or perhaps you don't know the specific revelation of Christ, if you believe in it, the worst thing that happens is, lights go off when you die.

The worst thing that happens is you live a good life and then the lights go out when you die. And the best thing that happens is that you enjoy God forever in heaven. Now, if you don't believe in God, if you don't believe in Christianity, best thing that happens is the lights go out when you die, you know, it's all just nothing. And worst thing that happens is you are tormented by the devil for all of eternity.

You're tortured eternally by the devil in the absence of God, in the absence of all goodness and beauty and truth and love. And yeah, so that's pretty bad. And so probably you ought to be Christian. And there's some people who are coming out and saying, well, this isn't a true conversion. He's only dreading the loss of heaven and the pains of hell. You know, he's only thinking about himself. He's not really feeling it, man, you know. And I find this so, so funny because there are many, many people who insist that your actions have nothing to do with your sanctification,

nothing to do with you, nothing to do with you, whatsoever, you don't have to participate in anything, who nevertheless are saying, you know, Scott's not. doing enough. He's not doing enough. Or even worse, he's not feeling enough. A lot of modern religion. And I've noticed especially the kind of religion that downplays the role of works and acts of charity and things that you do, downplays sacraments and all the rest. It is precisely that kind of modern religion that insists on a saccharine emotivism that you have to be feeling all the right things for it to work. You know, sometimes who even deny the efficacy of baptism. It's if you didn't truly believe or if you didn't truly feel the right things at the time.

But of course, this is contrary to the belief that, you know, it's really God's grace acting on you. This is why, and this was a heresy that was worked out, you know, back in antiquity. This is why you could have a bad priest, a sinner priest, baptized someone, and the baptism is valid, because the baptism is God's grace acting on someone. And here, I think God's grace is acting on Scott. and look, I'd love for him to be received into the church with all of the sacraments and receive last rights, you know, extreme unction and I'd love that. I hope that happens. Maybe Scott will see this video. I hope that's great. I do find it generally a little unseemly to just constantly

pester people on their deathbeds to, you know, do this or that. I'm very glad that, you know, it seems like he's taking matters of his eternal soul quite seriously. And anyway, I hope all that happens. But I can't help but look at that video of Scott and think that his calculation here is not cynical. It's not, you know, cheap or something. It's kind of childlike. It's kind of childlike. And I think that delights God. I think God actually tells us that that delights God. And so I hope Scott receives the sacraments, obviously. We pray that Scott receives the sacraments and, you know, all the rest of it. But I like that. This is a childlike trusting, I think, in God's grace. And he exhibits that a lot in this public life. I think that's at the very least a good sign. Okay,

I want to get to the immigration numbers, but I'm a tease. They say everything happens for a reason, but I suspect everything happens for a recess. Like this commercial break, did you need 15 seconds away from music or 15 seconds to eat or Reese's? Perhaps it's true. Nothing happens for a Reese's. Today is Tee-He-He-H-H-Tuesday. Frankly, the rest of the show continues now. You don't want to miss it. Become a member use code Null's Canada, W-L-A-S, a check-out for two months free on all annual plans. All of this is an illusion, an echo of a voice that has died, and soon that echo will cease. They say that Merlin is mad. They say he was a king in Dovered, the son of a princess of lost Atlantis.

They say the future and the past are known to him. That the fire and the wind tell him their secrets. The magic of the hill folk and druids come forth at his easy command. They say he slew hundreds. Hundreds do you hear that the world burned and trembled at his wrath. And died long before you and I were born. Merlin Emress has returned to the land of the living. Fortigan is gone, Rome is gone.

The Saxon is here. Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the island of the mighty. And before the summer is through, he means to take the throne. And he will have it. If we are too busy, squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him. Here is your hope. A king will arrive. is to hold all Britain in his hand.

A high king, it will be the wonder of the world. You. To a future of peace. There'll be no peace in these lands, too. We are all dust. Men of the island of the mighty. You stand together. You stand as Britons.

You stand as worn. Great darkness is falling upon this land. These brothers are our only hoped to stand against it. Not our own. Only hope. I say Mervyn slew 17 men with his own hands. I could say he slew 500. Who was such a thing?

The immortal man.