The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2019 - Andrew And Tristan Tate Arrested For Human Trafficking In Miami

Episode Date: July 20, 2026

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Wayfair, every style, every home. Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been arrested in Miami on charges of rape and human trafficking in compliance with an extradition order from the United Kingdom. The arrest is a stunning reversal of the UK's longstanding policy. Never to arrest Muslims for rape or human trafficking. We will dig into the details. Then, The Odyssey Banks over a quarter billion dollars at the box office, even though nobody liked it.

Hmm? Hmm? Young conservatives are Nixon maxing, and women on TikTok cannot stop buying pants that might kill them. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. Welcome back to the show. Barack Obama is now attacking Vice President J.D. Vance over the race of Vance's wife.

You know, when they go low, we attack your wife over her race. When they go, just a completely disgusting person, Barack Obama, just a reminder because he plays like a really nice sort of gentlemanly person on TV. He's a disgusting person, truly one of the worst people ever to occupy. by the presidency. Anyway, we'll get into all of that in a moment. First, we've got to get to the big news. Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami. What is the charge or charges? This was not an arrest coming from the United States. This was coming from the British government. The Crown Prosecution Service released a statement. This is out of the UK said that it was seeking extradition for the two brothers aiming to bring them to Britain to face a total of 59 charges. This coming after, obviously,

they were charged in Romania. According to Assistant Chief Constable Karina Thomas from the Bedfordshire police, she said this was a complex investigation that involved, quote, national and international law enforcement. Quote, we understand the interest that this case will generate, but we would urge the public not to speculate and to allow the legal process to be carried out correctly. Quote, there is no place for male violence against women and girls, and we will continue to work tirelessly to support victims and investigate all reports made to us. Is that so? I guess we should celebrate, forget about the Tates for a second, we should celebrate that the UK is finally, after how many years, after how many decades,

arresting Muslims for grooming and raping girls? Wow, that's about time. I didn't know the UK had it in them. But this quote here, there is no place for male violence against women and girls. We will continue to work tirelessly. Are you kidding me? The United Kingdom,

more than any other government on earth, is infamous for neglecting the grooming, the sex trafficking, the rape of young girls. The reason I keep bringing the Muslims up is because in the UK, the kinds of grooming and mass rape that the British police were neglecting, it was all being done by Muslims almost. Pakistani Muslim immigrants, and because of political correctness, they didn't want to prosecute them.

They wouldn't believe the girls. Some of the girls were murdered by these guys. Some of the girls killed themselves. So, okay, what about the Tate brothers? Well, the charges seem plausible. The charges seem, I mean, the guys have been pretty open about running essentially internet prostitution rings and this videotape of them being kind of rough with girls. So, you know, it definitely seems plausible. They did move to Romania.

Not a lot of good things happen in Romania. So, you know, it all seems plausible. But I just, I don't want to let the UK off the hook for the bigger issue here. What about the Pakistani rape gangs? What about the fact that the United Kingdom has two-tier policing? Overtly, two-tier policing, you saw the guidance from the College of Policing, you saw the race action plan from the UK police, where they said you basically need to let Pakistani rapists off the hook because we don't want colorblind policing, because we don't want to be racist,

because we need to focus on the real problems, which are white fragility and racism or whatever. So, okay, the new rule is the UK will not prosecute Muslim rapists unless accused rapist unless they're red pill celebrities. Unless they're TikTok influencers. Okay, all right, that's fine. I just can we see, forget, well, the Tates will get their day in court and there will be an investigation and okay.

But can we, what about all the other guys? What about like all the guys that are in the UK right now who have been grooming and raping girls? Are they're going to, is the UK going to do anything about that? No. No, they're just going to focus. on the Twitter celebrities? Okay. All right. Well, that's something I guess. Speaking of violence, epic journeys, the Odyssey is raking in money. I did my video review as kind of a first take

video review of The Odyssey. It's up on the YouTube channel and all the other channels. I saw it on Thursday or Friday. And so I won't rehash my whole review there, but the short version of it is. it was an enjoyable movie. I'm glad I saw it. I kind of wish I saw it in IMAX. Also, it's not the Odyssey. There are these woke elements to it, very overtly woke elements that make me wonder if Christopher Nolan is not merely depicting Odysseus, but actually channeling his inner Odysseus.

Is he being a little wily? Is he being a little crafty here in the ways that he's playing on the Hollywood rules of DEI, especially when it comes to the Academy Awards? But beyond that, the most of the most. moment of the Odyssey that is probably attracted the most attention for the wokeness or the DEI is the casting of this trans-identifying actress Ellen Page to play a man. And she plays this character Sinan. And it was initially rumored that Ellen Page played Achilles, but then you find out she's

playing this character Sinon. And what's interesting is that Sinon doesn't appear in the Odyssey. Achilles does appear in the Odyssey. Sinon does not appear in the Odyssey. Sinon comes from a later Latin poem, Virgil's Aeneid, and then you see a story. and then you see Sinan through the later Western tradition. You see Sinan in Dante, also Odysseus. You see him and Dante too.

You see Sinan references to Sinan in Shakespeare and so forth. So what this tells you is that Christopher Nolan is reading The Odyssey through a later Western tradition. But what's interesting about the rumors that Ellen Page was playing Achilles is that the Synon character that Christopher Nolan inserts into the Odyssey in crucial ways fulfills the Achilles character. And notably, this comes a little bit of a spoiler alert in this scene from Hades. Odysseus goes down to Hades, and in the poem, he talks to Achilles.

And he tries to comfort Achilles about his death. And Achilles says, don't comfort me about my death. There is no comfort in death, which is a very Greek pagan view of death. Death is always worse than life. And all the people in the land of the dead are just looking up to the land of the living. And that speech, Christopher Nolan, takes out of the mouth of Achilles and puts into the mouth of Sinon, which I think is part of why those rumors started to float around. It's very funny, too, because I gave a review of this on X, and I said, you know, Achilles, you have Helen of Troy, you know, is played, not only is she not Greek, she's played by a black actress so black that she calls herself dark as night. It's how Lupita Njango has described herself.

You don't just get a little bit of kind of LGBT propaganda in there. You get Achilles, the greatest warrior ever, who is recast as a different warrior who's played by this woman who thinks she's a man, what have you. And it's really increased my ex-Elon Buck's payouts, I think, this week, because you had all of these people who were clearly not familiar with the poem and maybe not familiar with the movie. They say, don't you know that Achilles wasn't even in the movie? And you say, well, no, Achilles wasn't in the movie, but he is in the poem. and he was sort of in the movie and that he was recast to sit on anyway, anyway. Audiences love it. The movie has garnered $124.5 million opening weekend in North America.

In addition, it had a big global release. So now The Odyssey is pushing over a quarter billion dollars globally. Very, very impressive. As I said earlier, nobody liked The Odyssey. Hmm? That's another... Do you see what I... Do you get it?

Do you get what I'm putting out there? Do you see what I'm saying? Nobody like the Odyssey. It's another one of those comments that will separate the wheat from the chaff on reading or watching the Odyssey, much like the Achilles comment. But in any case, it's done very, very well. And what's really important is, right now on Amazon, translations of the Odyssey are at number 4, 8, and 49 on all of Amazon's bestseller. And there's a translation of the Iliad that's at number 61.

So this is good. I haven't seen where Emily Wilson's feminist translation is. Hopefully that's way down the list. But hopefully the Fagels, the Latimore, the good translations, Pope maybe are up toward the top of the Odyssey and the Iliad. In any case, that is good. The best thing that the Odyssey movie can do is get people to read the Odyssey and the Iliad.

And the one issue with the movie, well, one of many issues, but one of the issues with the movie is. When people read The Odyssey, they're going to realize that Christopher Nolan's movie might be a really good movie, but it's not The Odyssey. The Odyssey is pagan. Christopher Nolan remakes this Odyssey as really overtly on the nose Christian, or one reading of Christianity. In The Odyssey, Odysseus is a wily, crafty, deceptive hero. In Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, he's a broken man tormented by PTSD. In The Odyssey, the Trojan horse is a great trick. In Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, it's basically original sin and it destroys civilization. So this is, I think this is where some of the commentary in the Odyssey is getting pretty confused. I would give the Odyssey a strong B-plus,

maybe with great inflation. I'd give it an A-minus, but it was an enjoyable movie. I don't regret seeing it. I wish I saw it on IMAX. But it's not the Odyssey. The protagonist of Christopher Nolan's movie is not Odysseus. Someone, I'm not the first to observe it, but someone pointed out that in many ways, this Christopher Nolan movie is much more a sequel to Oppenheimer than it is an adaptation of The Odyssey. It's a Nolan movie. It's not really an adaptation of Homer. In any case, if it gets you reading the Odyssey, if it gets you reading the Iliad and the Inniad and the Divine Comedy and Shakespeare and all the better, that's great. Okay, speaking of danger and death, women are wearing pants that keep injuring them. They're wearing death trap pants and they won't stop. We'll get to that momentarily though.

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I'm not on the TikToks. I mean, I have some account that people run for me, but I don't, I'm not on it. I don't, I don't do that. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a Twitter man. I occasionally dabble in Instagram when I want to play ukulele and I don't TikTok. It's like, to me, Twitter is a cigarette and Instagram is like speed or something and TikTok is crack. So I don't play with it. But what I've been told, reliably informed,

is that women are taking to TikTok because they're buying pants at Zara, you know, the sort of cheap fashion, fashionable clothing store. They're buying these pants that keep almost killing them. Do we have some of these videos? I put them on. I walk around Palma and I trip and fall each in front of everybody. No one's helping me up, actually. And then one more time on the way to dinner, I fall. Like I trip. I had like little kitten heels on and just fall. I just fall. There are like a billion of these videos. Do we have another one? Yeah, give me another one.

The other day, I almost accidentally tripped and flew headfirst down the stairs. I'm going to do a live demo of how it happens, because it's not the length. Like, I roll them up like that. Like, good to go. But what happens is all the people don't look at me. You're walking, walking, walking. you're blowing in the wind, and then this thing catches here, and you go, ah. All right, we could be here all day watching these TikToks of these women. I just, the whole trend, what they're saying is there are these pants, these free popular pants,

this free popular stores are, and they keep injuring people. I mean, these reports, one gal nearly fell down the stairs because because of what just happened, the pancoat the opposite foot, though she wasn't seriously injured. Another woman, Holly Gilmer, tripped in the pants, fractured her knee. He was in a wheelchair and a cast. Another woman fell while wearing the pants, broke her wrist, had a deep cut on her temple, had a facial injury. People falling down the escalators. And something I just love about women is they're wearing these pants.

The pants keep almost killing them. And what do they do? They double down on the pants. They make videos wearing the pants, talking about how dangerous the pants are, and then they keep wearing the pants. I just love it. It's so delightful. I love women so much. It's just the...

Eve. Hey, Eve, you can do literally anything you want. Just don't eat that apple. What did you say? What is that? No, don't. Why is sin and death probating the world? I don't...

Anyway, I know some people will react to this with misogyny. this just even further draws out my total love of women. But on this point with these wide pants, I won't belabor the point too long, but I have to make it. These young women, these Zuma women, are totally right. The problem with the pants is they're a little bit too loose. And Zumer clothing is loose. It's way loosened up on the shirts, on the pants, on the socks are longer. They're not as it. Everything.

The Zumer. Millennials shrunk everything down with the real tight pants. So men are like walking around in these capri pant leggings. Men. Like men with their ostensibly heterosexual men. And all the jackets got too short. So all of a sudden men who used to wear nice sport coats and suit jackets and blazers used to be a normal length that would you could kind of feel it with your knuckles and it would bisect your body. They just start coming up like a, a woman's jacket and everything just started to look really androgynous and gay and tight. And the zoomers have reversed that. And now they've gone a little too loose on their clothing and they keep falling down escalators and breaking their bones. But the zoomers are right. Okay. The return of wide legs and classic cut is good. The return of clothing that allows men to age like potatoes is good. Millennial Slim Cut. The millennial slim cut was the Canary and the coal mine for transgenderism. It was. It was the warning. It was the omen of the androgyny peak that hit in 2022, 2023. I don't want to beat up on the Tate Brothers too much. They obviously have plenty of other

problems. But a lot of people were making this joke on the internet. They said, yeah, they were arrested by the police. The fashion police, because their clothing is too tight. And I don't like, I'm just on the clothing point, I don't, the zoomers are right. Even the. Even the these girls who are almost killing themselves at Zara are right. The looser, it's better. Looser clothing is not only more comfortable, it projects greater confidence, even if it almost kills you. It's great. Speaking of Zoom or Trends, there's another one that I love. I love this so much. I think this is in the Wall Street Journal? Yes. Young conservatives have an unlikely new icon Richard Nixon. Nixon maxing swag and TikTok videos have helped trigger a rethinking of the former

president's legacy among some conservatives. The only thing I don't like about this article, and I don't, I say this with as much humility as I possibly can, is I played a role in the Nixon Renaissance, and I did not get any credit. It's okay. I don't want to have the hubris of Odysseus. I don't want to offend the gods, so I will take this as a penance to grow in humility. But I have been on the pro-Nixon train for a very, very long time. And I got to speak last year at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library. I've been Nixon maxing for a while. I think Mike Sernovich credited me with helping to Nixon pill him. But in any case, you know what? It's not about me. It's just like with Richard Nixon. It's not about him. It's about the country. I have been though, Nixon.

there's a little picture from, I don't know, but 150 years ago with Henry the K, Nixon's Secretary of State. Anyway, Nixon, because he got such short shrift in the conservative movement. Everybody wanted to talk about Reagan. Nobody wanted to talk about old tricky Dick Nixon. And now Nixon's coming back. Why is that? Why are we getting the edits of Nixon? Why is this all happening?

I was a little early on the trend, but it really is not about me because the trend was inevitable. That's why. The reason why the kids are Nixon-pilled right now, the reason why, and I'm not saying this is like a mainstream broad trend, I'm saying among a certain subset of nerdy, conservative movement types, staffers, students, political nerds, Nixon's coming back. The reason that was basically inevitable is because Nixon was treated unfairly. He was the victim of a deep state operation with Deep Throat and Woodward and Bernstein. He was targeted by entrenched bureaucrats. And he was treated very unfairly not only in getting run out of Washington, not even for a crime, for finding out later and sort of covering up a crime that someone else committed from a team of people that had a bunch of CIA operatives on it. And the whole thing just stunk to high heaven. But he was treated unfairly even before that.

like when Kennedy stole Illinois in the 1960 presidential election. And Nixon, like a true patriot, just ate it at that time because he felt it would be too damaging to the country to challenge the election, especially during the Cold War. So he ate it. But he may have had that election stolen from him. And what it really goes back to is that when Richard Nixon was a congressman, he nailed Alger Hiss. He nailed this communist who was in the State Department. You know, we hear about McCarthyism and the House Un-American Activities Committee, Hugh Act, as its detractors call it.

And we hear about the Red Scare and all of this. But in fact, there were communists who had infiltrated the U.S. government. They worked at very, very high levels, including Alger Hiss, who was at such a high level in the State Department. He helped found the United Nations. Alger Hiss was a communist spy. And he was ratted on by his former comrade Whitaker Chambers, who is this, communist who became disillusioned with communism, became a Quaker. Anyway, he was telling a story. Nobody believed him.

Richard Nixon believed Chambers. He really thought Al Jor Hiss was a communist. Everyone made fun of him. And he got it right. He led the investigations into Al Jorhiss. He got him. He nailed him. And the left never forgave him for it. So he was treated very, very unfairly.

But the other reason that the kids love Nixon is he's a figure who meets the demands of this moment. Richard Nixon, the kids. the kids love Richard Nixon because he was a sensitive young man who was treated very unfairly by the system. That's a big part of it. I really mean that about a sensitive young man. He was very musical.

He was extremely talented. There were these great videos of him playing piano and stuff like that. I was in Richard Nixon's childhood home not that long ago. You have the violin there and the piano. He was courting his wife. She wasn't that interested in him. He would drive her to dates with other guys. He just wanted to spend time with her.

eventually won her over, a very, very sensitive young man who was run out, he was treated very fairly. The other reason the kids love Nixon is because Nixon aesthetically is the anti-Ragan. You know, Reagan is this Hollywood movie star, glitz and glamour and optimism. And that speaks to a certain moment of American history, but it doesn't speak as much to this moment. At this moment, the Wright realizes that a lot of what we've been told is a lie. the Wright realizes that the situation is more dire than we thought it was. We've been kind of whistling past the graveyard when it comes to issues like mass migration and economic globalization. And so the kind of figure that is called for in this moment is less the poetry of Ronald Reagan, more the prose of Richard Nixon.

Less the smiling movie star, more the scowling kind of crooked-looking politician. that's who is called for in this moment, you know, a guy who just seems like a real killer, which Reagan didn't look. He kind of was a killer, but he didn't really look like one. Richard Nixon really, really did look like one. This is no knock on Ronald Reagan. Reagan was great.

It's just, Reagan has shifted in what he means to people. You know, in 1980, everything that people said about Donald Trump in 2016, they said about Ronald Reagan in 1980. He's dog whistling to racists. He's a neo-Nazi. He's empowering the worst elements of the right. He's a populist. Everything they said about Trump in 2016, they said about Reagan in 1980. The two factions of the GOP in 1980 were the more conservative, wily, populist wing, which supported Reagan and the more establishment wing, which supported George H.W. Bush. And what's ironic about Nixon's meaning now, sorry, Reagan's meaning now, is that it is now the more moderate and establishment, wing of the GOP that is most likely to call itself Reaganite. In other words, Reagan has transformed in the public imagination from being Ronald Reagan to being George Bush. He's now the more kind of establishment figure. And guys like Richard Nixon or Donald

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Sometimes Spider-Man has to do the hard thing. That's my responsibility. Talk to Banner? I didn't know you could get that big. Spider-Man, brand new day. In theaters, July 31st. Right now, there's a big campaign underway in social media, which has been talked about ad nauseum,

but I kind of want to take a different angle on it. There's this campaign against J.D. Vance to say that Marco Rubio should be the nominee instead of J.D. Vance, who has vice president as the heir apparent, even though Rubio has endorsed J.D. Vance for president, even though Trump has endorsed Vance and Rubio running as a ticket, there's still this kind of shadow war going on from some of the pundits and the influencers, some of the activists, some of the lobbyists, all of the different ingredients that go into the conservative movement. There's this concerted effort right now to try to take J.D. Bans, J.D. Vance down a peg. And some people are getting really angry about it. Some people are getting very frustrated. I just, I take it as a face. to complete, this is just part of politics. It is simply a fact that many of, if not most of, the most strident voices against J.D. Vance right now were 10 years ago the most strident voices against Trump. The never-Trump movement, which existed in 2016, and which then splintered off

into the people who really couldn't vote for him. Some of them voted for that CIA operative Egg McMuffin. Some of them didn't vote at all. Some of them, I guess, voted for Hillary, perhaps. Then after Trump won. Some of them kind of came back into the party and played ball. Some of them did not. They split off forever and became Democrats like Bill Crystal. But nevertheless, the hardcore never-Trump movement in 2016 was largely the movement that supported Ron DeSantis over Trump in the primary of 2024. And it is also the same movement that is going after J.D. Vance right now. Which is good news for J.D. Vance in many ways because that that means that he really is inheriting a lot of not just the Trump coalition, but the people who oppose the Trump coalition, even the first time around.

But these are the dynamics at play. I mentioned Ron DeSantis. This shows you a lot of the dynamics that are at play looking into 2028 because the craziest thing, the tragic part of the Ron DeSantis' 2024 campaign is that Ron DeSantis as a candidate should be in the Trump lane. He's the Trump-like candidate. He won because of Trump's endorsement. And then he was very, very popular because he governed in this way that was very thoughtful. It wasn't just rehashing old platitudes from the 1980s. He really was avant-garde in his thinking on right-wing politics. He did lean a little bit more populist.

He did lean a little more common good. He did lean, all of those things. You know, he really naturally was in the Trump lane. That's one reason people liked him so much. Indeed, the initial pitch for Ron DeSantis for president was, he's like Trump, but more disciplined. He's like Trump, but he'll be more effective. He's like Trump, you know, but it was he's like Trump. That was, that was the pitch. The problem for Ron DeSantis was, because he was literally running against Trump, because Trump wanted the nomination again, his lane, his only real base of support were the people who didn't like Trump. So you had this immediate paradox of the campaign. Really, it's just a contradiction. DeSantis, at his best, was the next evolution of Trump. But the people who would support a,

a candidate over Trump in 2024 were the guys who hated the first version of Trump. So it wasn't, it just wasn't going to, it wasn't going to work. For Vance, in looking at 2028, for Vance is almost certainly, unless the Trump administration collapses, he will almost certainly inherit the Trump wing. If Trump is still the king of the GOP, he'll be the kingmaker. I don't think Rubio is going to run against him if he's running. You know, you have all these things. you could have other candidates.

You could have DeSantis, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, other guys, who would all have their own other lanes. You know, Rand Paul probably gets the libertarian lane. Thomas Massey could vie for the libertarian lane, but Rand Paul has the libertarian bona fides without attacking the GOP, without sidling up with Democrats, working with guys like Roecona, like Thomas Massey.

So I think Rand Paul gets that lane. Senator Cruz has a real lane. He was the number two guy in 2016, the last time there was a competitive primary, he could get the more hawkish foreign policy side of the lane with the more libertarian economics. He could get the more kind of Reaganite lane. You could see that shaping up, but it's basically all going to be contingent upon the strength of the Trump administration. If the Trump administration remains strong, he'll just pick the nominee.

That's how it'll go. If the Trump administration is weak, you're going to see a guy from outside the administration. Now, the Democrats clearly think Vance is the guy. You saw this just within the last few days with Barack Obama, not only going to be. going after Vance, but attacking him in the nastiest, ugliest, most nauseous of ways. He attacks Vance over Vance's wife. And he attacks, it's even worse than that, he attacks Vance over Vance's wife's race. One of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that we the people means a certain

kind of people that that what when you have the vice president the current vice president making a speech that is basically a blood and soil version of we the people that you know it did it matters who your parents were and how long they've been here um despite him being married to an immigrant daughter of an immigrant himself um you know that's echoed than ideas about who can be a citizen. Who belongs? Who gets to make decisions? Okay. Right off the bat, just a reminder. Because a lot of people forget, even on the right, do not forget.

Barack Obama is one of the nastiest people ever to occupy the presidency. He is a disgusting person. He clearly hates America. He made that clear when he was running for president the first time when he said he was running to fundamentally transform America. you don't fundamentally transform things you love. He is a nasty, unpatriotic, disgusting person. It is disgusting to levy this kind of an attack on a political opponent. He's doing it, obviously, because he's afraid of Vance. But to go after not only the guy's wife,

but the guy's wife on account of her race, nauseating. But what's almost more offensive than the attack itself is how stupid the attack is. He says, Vice President the other day, he made a speech in which he suggested that we, the people,

refers to only a certain kind of people. Yes, we the people does refer to a certain kind of people. That's why there is a definite article before the people. There are things like indefinite articles like, uh people, and people, no, it would be a people. But there's a definite article here, the people. It's referring to a specific kind of people,

the American people. We the people does not refer to the Italian people. We the people does not refer to the Tibetan people or the Nigerian people. It refers to the American people. If there is such a thing as the American people, there must be something that distinguishes the American people from other kinds of peoples. What is that? He says, he thinks it, it must be. It must be a matters, you know, who your parents are. Hold on. That's not J.D. Vance who thinks that. It's our founding fathers and the framers of our Constitution. The Constitution is what says that if you're not a natural born citizen, you can't be president, for instance. That's our framers who said that. That's not the vice president. It's not the racist and the blood and soil nationalists.

To call someone a blood and soil nationalist, just to call someone a Nazi. So, this is, yeah, J.D. Vance. He's got a brown wife. and he's a Nazi. And he thinks that the American people is a coherent concept. It's just so offensive, alternatingly nasty and stupid.

But it's, you know, it's John Jay in the Federalist. And Federalist number two says, you know, thank God that we have, we're a common people, with a common experience, with common language, with a common religion,

with common, all these sorts of things. That it matters who you are, what you believe, what you do. Yeah, if you're a Venezuelan criminal, you don't magically become an American because you cross the Rio Grande because you pay some coyotes to cross the Rio Grande. You don't. That's true. And I think what's at the bottom of a lot of this consternation, not only from the left, but from the establishment right, which really just wants cheap labor, which is why they support mass migration,

the Chamber of Commerce right, which supports mass migration because they think it helps boosts GDP. at the real least allows them to pay slave wages to their workers is, I think they fear that the immigration issue, beginning with Donald Trump in recent times, has really taken center stage. People are really speaking of immigration restriction and actually enforcing the law in a serious way. J.D. Vance has clearly thought very deeply about this idea. He clearly backs the administration's policies on this sort of thing. And so there's a real focus to take him out. It's not really even so much about it. him personally. It's certainly not about his wife. It's just about his lane. If he really is the heir to the Trump lane, which is how he's positioned himself, how Trump has positioned him, and I think how his opponents have positioned him too, then it's no surprise that he would get

opposition from the left, the mainstream left, and also the never-Trump right, also some more of the establishment or neoconservative elements. At the heart of that, it's not the only factor, but at the heart of a lot of that is the immigration issue. No wonder Obama would levy such a nasty personal attack centered around immigration. Okay, speaking of Democrat attacks on Republicans, Hunter Biden is still going on podcasts for some reason, and he wants you to know that America's biggest problem is that Republicans are secretly gay. We'll get to that momentarily. First, I want to tell you about policy genius. Go to policygenius.com slash Knowles, Canada, Wally, Every summer people make a list.

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My favorite comment yesterday is from Meta, who says, I will not be gaslit into believing the Odyssey is a good movie adaptation. The SpongeBob SquarePants movie from 2004 is a better adaptation. Yeah, that's the thing. You can't... A lot of the people who are making political comments on the Odyssey, especially from the left, who were kind of attacking the right for... apparently attacking the movie or whatever.

They're just, they're not listening. They don't understand what we're saying. Yeah, the Odyssey, Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is a terrible adaptation of the Odyssey. It's a pretty good movie. It's an enjoyable, I enjoy the movie. And some parts of the movie I thought were really good. Some didn't work. But it's a, it's a quite a good movie.

It's just not the Odyssey. It's not, if it gets you to read the Odyssey, great. You should read the Odyssey. And the Odyssey is easier to read than the Eliot. You should read the Iliad too, though. And the Inead and, you know, so on and so forth. But it's not, yeah, it's not an adaptation. It's a good Christopher Nolan movie.

I really, it's maybe my favorite Christopher Nolan movie. It's not the Odyssey, though. Okay. Speaking of media phenomena, Hunter Biden, he's on his rehab tour. Hunter Biden, he said he's endeavoring to unite the left and the right. You know, he's going to advance a new kind of politics. He's against the uniparty. He's going to say it like it is.

So what does he do? He goes on, I don't even remember the woman's name, but it's one of these extremely left-wing shows, and he advances his really interesting thesis, that the cause of our political problems is that Republicans are deeply closeted homosexuals. Take it away. I believe that the biggest problem in America is,

in Washington, D.C., with the federal government, is a is it not the oligarchy um closet cases it's the closetocracy as i call it is and i'm and i'm being totally serious everybody knows there is like this closeted gay mafia largely republican that exist in washington dc and everybody knows every single one of them who who's gay and so And what I believe, the only reason that that is relevant is because I believe that internal conflict creates so much vitriol inside a person that they take it out on the rest of the world. And they do. And so what they do is their whole lives, they've been closeted.

And so you have this black ball inside yourself, this like blackened heart by the fact that you can't, be who you want to be. And so you take it out on everybody else. And these men, largely men, have done exactly that. And everybody knows who they are. Everybody. Yeah. So much to get into with this. I love this comment because I think it's going to clear a lot of confusion, especially about Hunter Biden. So much. He opens up. He says, everybody knows. Well, first of all, he says, there are a lot of homosexuals in D.C. That's true. That part is true. But then notice what he does.

He says, and it's their most of your Republican. Now, he says they're most of your Republican to advance his thesis, which is this kind of Freudian Wilhelm Reich thesis, which we'll get to in a second. But it's also because he wants to make fun of them for being gay. But as a tried and true card-carrying liberal, he can't make fun of people for being gay. I mean, he is doing that. but he can't seem like he's doing that. So what he does is he makes fun of them,

not for being gay, but for the apparent hypocrisy. Wouldn't even be hypocrisy, by the way, if you were a homosexual who didn't act on it, that actually wouldn't be hypocrisy. You'd be a, you know, you'd sort of just have a different set of principles than your desires or whatever. Topic for another time. Nevertheless, that's his way in.

He wants, basically what he wants to do is be like, you Republicans are dumb and gay, but he can't say that as a liberal. So he's got to construct this whole theory out of it. Okay. So let's get into the theory. First of all, just as a, there are plenty of gay GOP staffers and stuff in D.C. He's right about that.

But it's not most of them. That's most of the, most of the more homosexually inclined people in politics are, in fact, on the left. There are some on the right. And we love the ones that are voting conservative and Republican and working to advance conservative causes. That's great. But he is misrepresenting what actually happens. then he goes on to create his thesis.

And the theory that he has here is that Republicans are especially vitriolic and nasty and violent and dangerous because they are repressed homosexuals. Okay. Now, the second problem with his theory is that Republicans are not the ones who are violent and vitriolic and who hate the other side. All of the social scientific literature that we can look at right now shows that the left, hates the right, much more than the right hates the left. The left is more violent against the right today than the right is against the left. And that's not even counting most of the left-wing terrorism. The left justifies violence against the right, much more than the right justifies violence against the left. This is borne out in like all of the social scientific data. So the second part of his stupid syllogism is false, namely that the right is especially

vitriolic, and it owes this vitriol to its repressed homosexuality. It's supposedly repressed homosexuality. And then he goes on and embraces a theory that kind of originates with Freud, but really reaches its fullness in this 20th century thinker, Wilhelm Reich, who was a German or Austrian, I forget. But he had this theory that basically every problem in the world is caused by a lack of orgasms. Sorry, parental guidance, parental warning here. His theory was that a lack of orgasms caused every problem in the world, not just violence and sociopathy and things, but like war, cancer, disease. So he invented this box called the orgone accumulator.

He thought that there was this, in the ether, there was a substance called orgones. And when you had orgasms, you accumulated them. And so he had this, this bi. It was like, again, if children are listening, cover your ears. It was like it was a goon box, basically. He invented a goon box. And he, it was called the Oregon accumulator. And his theory was, if people had more orgasms, they would, we would have world peace.

We would live in utopia. And Hunter Biden is just rehashing that stupid theory. This was a theory that was embraced by intellectuals 60 years ago. Guys like J.D. Salinger, guys like Norman Mailer, guys like, who was the other? Oh, Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders embraced this theory in the 60s. He wrote an essay about it. But nevertheless, that's been discarded.

It's totally insane. Hunter Biden's just rehashing that. He is, in other words, rehashing the dumbest woo-woo boomer, new-agey liberal theories. And this brings me to my bigger point on Hunter Biden, which is Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden's greatest deception was convincing podcasters that he's interesting.

He's doing this interview circuit where he's talking to people on the right and on the left, and people who are kind of, you don't know if they're on the right or the left, but he's gone, he's supposed to be so interesting. You know, man, he's this guy's finally breaking his silence

after he was supposedly oppressed. Now, again, don't for you, he's just a criminal. He's just like a degenerate criminal. He was an addict. He was a sex criminal, a sex fiend. He was corrupt.

He sold his father's influence and the American, the integrity of the United States to foreign powers, to be bribed. And, you know, look, he says he turned his life around. I hope he did turn his life around.

We shall pray for him. under Biden. But that's it. That's his story. He was a degenerate, irresponsible criminal, and now he's got a chip on his shoulder or something. I don't know. He's blaming everybody else. But the great deception was that he had something interesting to say. His political opinions are indistinguishable from your most normie boomer lib wine aunt. His political opinions are just like, you know what, those Republicans are bad because they're gay. That's his opinion. That's his like great insight. Oh, thank goodness. Hunter Biden broke his silence so he could just rant with the same lunacy that like Aunt Shelley does after four glasses of Shabli at Thanksgiving.

It's just so pathetic. Okay. Speaking of the liberal establishment, head of the California Teacher Union is in trouble for urging people to take to the streets to stop the fascist Trump regime. These are the people teaching your children. We'll get to that. Also some good. news on home prices. Actually, some good news for the Zoomers. If they don't die from their Zara pants as they continue to Nixon Max, there's some good news on the horizon. We'll have to get to that tomorrow because today's music Monday. The rest of the show continues now. You don't want to miss it. Become a member. Use Code Knowles, KNAWLSS at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.