Ep. 1606 - Vandals Set Fire To Voting Drop Boxes
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Ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington state have caught fire, reportedly burning up hundreds of ballots. Officials in Pennsylvania have reportedly turned away voters hours before cutoff times. There are going to be all sorts of conspiracy theories to explain what's going on. But you actually don't need any conspiracy theories to see a plain fact.

Elections today are less secure than they were before Democrats changed the rules. And you don't need conspiracy theories to ask yourself why Democrats did that in the first place. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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His demonization of sin is unconscionable and it's un-American. That's Joe Biden, president of the United States, calling half the country garbage. Why is he doing this? He's doing this because at the Trump rally at MSG, there was a roast comedian who opened up the show.

And he made all sorts of jokes. He made jokes about Democrats. He made jokes about Republicans. He made jokes about all sorts of people. He's a roast comedian, okay? And a pretty famous one. So one joke he made is he said there's a floating island of garbage, but we call that Puerto Rico or something. And it was a funny joke. He tells all sorts of funny jokes. So anyway, Joe Biden-

decides to make a statement that is not a joke. He decides to get very offended on behalf of Puerto Ricans, even though the Puerto Ricans in the room thought it was a funny joke, because it was. Joe Biden decides to say, the only garbage I see is Trump supporters. Half the country, garbage. Barack Obama called half the country bitter clingers, clinging to their guns and religion. Hillary Clinton called half the country deplorable. Now Joe Biden, a week before the election,

Calls half the country garbage. This could end the campaign for the Democrats. So the Democrats fly into cover-up mode. You're not going to believe how Politico covered this. Politico said, Biden in a Zoom call with the organization Voto Latino said, quote, the only garbage was the, quote, hatred of Trump supporters who said such things about American citizens.

Is that what Biden said? Hold on. Biden said the only garbage was the hatred of Trump supporters who said such things about American citizens. Hold on. Can we go back to the tape? What did Biden say? We're in Puerto Rico where I'm in my home state of Delaware. They're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization is seen as unconscionable. The only garbage I see out there is his supporters. The demonization of people is unconscionable.

Two sentences. It's not even as though he said something and then he caught himself and he redacted what he said. He said, the only garbage I see is his supporters. That is half the country, conservatives, independents, some Democrats for Trump, white people, black people, Puerto Rican people, men, women, everybody.

his supporters. Politico just lies about this. This reporter, Jonathan Lemire, this is just a complete lie. It's not even they stretched the truth a little bit or they covered certain things up. This guy just lied. Politico just lied trying to cover up for Biden. Why? Because they know this is absolutely devastating. This is a deplorable comment times a thousand one week before the election, which raises a question. Why did Biden say it?

Did he say it because he believes it? Yeah, maybe. But is there something more to it? Some people are wondering, did Biden make this comment because he hates Kamala and wants her to lose? And I don't know. He's not totally in control of his faculties. He says things that he doesn't think about. That's been true for all of Biden's career. But I guess the question is, who does Joe Biden hate more? You, conservatives, Trump supporters, or Kamala Harris? And if you ask me,

I think it's the latter. I think Joe Biden could get along better with Trump supporters than he could with Kamala Harris. Some evidence of this, when Trump was at that fire station campaigning in Pennsylvania, what did he do? He put a Trump hat on and smiled for the cameras. And he played it off as a little joke, but Joe Biden...

is a really good politician. He was never the brightest bulb in the pack. He was never going to solve nuclear fusion, but he's a really good politician. That is going to be the last part of Joe Biden's brain to go, his political sense. He knew exactly what he was doing. When Biden came out there, Kamala and Ron DeSantis were in a fight over handling the hurricane, and Kamala was complaining that DeSantis wouldn't take her call. And DeSantis said, I don't need to take her call. I speak directly to the president. Whose side did Joe Biden take?

Joe Biden took DeSantis' side. He said, oh, I don't know. I think DeSantis is doing a great job. I've been talking to him. He's got my personal number. I don't know what everyone's complaining about. He did a great job. And now, one week before the election, after reports come out that Kamala doesn't want Joe Biden on the campaign trail, he does one event and he comes out and he says, Trump supporters are garbage. I don't know. Crazier things have happened in politics than a sitting Democrat president

hoping for a Republican to win. There was some rumor back in 1968 that LBJ was secretly, privately pulling for Richard Nixon over Hubert Humphrey. He was pulling for the Republican over the Democrat. Could be the same here. Whatever the motivation, I don't even care that much about the motivation. That clip needs to go everywhere. That needs to be a 30-second ad being blasted all over YouTube. Now is the time to do it.

Joe Biden, the Democrats, they say half the country is garbage. You want to vote for that? I don't think so. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is not much better at campaigning than Joe Biden is right now. Kamala Harris just squandered the applause of her audience in a way I have never seen a politician do. It was such clear retail politics incompetence. Take a listen. I didn't.

Okay, now I want each of you to shout your own name. Do that. Because it's about all of us. And listen, I have fought my whole career to put the people first.

So she's got the crowd going, Kamala, Kamala. Okay, now everyone recite the alphabet backwards. Z, huh? What? One time I was working on a campaign for a wonderful woman. And there was a press conference that we were having. This was for like a local race in New York. There was a press conference we were having. And this candidate, she said, hey, Kamala,

Do we want more Obamacare? No. Do we want more government regulations? No. Do we want more freedom? No. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Do we want more? No. Yes. And she was kind of confusing the crowd. One of the rules when you get the crowd chanting, keep it simple.

Everyone needs to know what you're chanting. Great. Now everyone say your own name. Great. Now everyone solve for the equation 3x to the fourth equals 4y over n. Solve for n. Because it's about all of us. It's about all of us. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to helixsleep.com slash Knowles.

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Now, enough about Biden, enough about Kamala. Let's talk about nuts and bolts of the election. Ballot drop boxes are catching fire in Oregon and Washington. Now, I'm no physicist, but it seems to me that ballot drop boxes do not just spontaneously combust. It would appear to me that they are being lit on fire. They're also made of metal, so it means someone's doing something on the inside of the box, right? According to reports,

Here's a report from The Mirror. Hundreds of ballots have been lost in connected fires. So it's not that these are randomly happening. They are connected incidents. All sorts of people are going to be speculating about who did this. The left is going to say the right did this because these are liberal areas, right? Washington and Oregon, Portland and Vancouver. So it's pretty liberal places.

The right is going to say it's the left doing this because the left is better at rigging the elections than the right is. And they're all going to be pointing figures, but I don't really care which side it is because my point is more basic than that. My point is this system is less secure than it used to be. The voting system today is less secure than it was before the Democrats changed the rules. In this case, by placing ballot drop boxes all over the place and telling people to drop off their votes.

Of course, unsupervised ballot drop boxes left out for weeks are going to be less secure than polling places with lots of supervision on one day that we used to call election day. Of course, that's the case. When Democrats changed election day to election season and they changed polling locations from a specific precinct to just random boxes all over town,

That necessarily made the system less secure. So you got to ask yourself, why did they do that? Then we turned to Pennsylvania, crucial state of Pennsylvania. I'm a little less concerned about Washington and Oregon, which are left-wing states. But Pennsylvania is a crucial swing state. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, there are some shenanigans. Officials turned voters away while they were waiting in line to get their mail-in ballots, turned voters away hours before the cutoff time.

Now, I know that big tech is doing everything that it can to silence people from raising any questions about the shenanigans. So I'm just going to read directly from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Don't blame me. Don't shoot the messenger. This is what the Philadelphia Inquirer is saying.

In a Sunday letter to county officials, U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick and several GOP members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly argued that the county had disenfranchised voters on Saturday when voters had arrived to request a mail ballot at the Doylestown election office were turned away two hours before the county office offering the service was set to close. Employees at the Bucks County election office, which was open to voters from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., cut off the line around noon for voters looking to request a ballot, receive it, and return it in one trip.

Now, was this the only incident? No. This incident followed days of long lines and early cutoffs in Bucks County at their main election office and two satellite offices. The Philadelphia Inquirer says it also underscores the limitations of Pennsylvania's on-demand mail ballot process. So how is the system even supposed to work here?

Do they have early voting? Not exactly. They were waiting in line to get mail-in ballots, but then to immediately return those ballots, which they're allowed to do. As the inquirer concludes, counties allow voters to visit an election office, request a mail-in ballot, and fill it and return it same day. In Bucks County, it takes 12 minutes per voter. Those voters work with election board employees who are also responsible for processing mail ballot applications and voter registrations. So then my question is this.

How is this system better than the system we used to have? The system we used to have where you would just show up on election day and vote. And if you were in line, you got to cast your vote. And there were no cutoffs. And there were no officials pulling people out of line two hours before the cutoff. And there were no confusing and changing regulations over a mail-in or a mail-in with a same-day return or a mail-in but you can't return it the same day. How is this system better? I'll tell you what the left would say.

The left would say this system is better because it means that you do not have to inconvenience yourself on election day. The left will say this system is better because voters who are much less engaged in politics are more likely to vote because they have a greater window to vote.

Let's say they don't really they don't care enough about voting to actually take the time on Election Day or to wait in a line. But maybe a week or two prior, if someone cajoles them, maybe they'll show up and vote. And it is more likely that that person, that disengaged person who by his own behavior displays less knowledge of and interest in politics, that guy's more likely to vote.

And the other thing that distinguishes this new system of voting from the old system is there's a greater opportunity to cheat because you can tell the voters who are waiting in line, yeah, sorry, no, never mind. We got a new cutoff time now. It's two hours early. Come back tomorrow. It's okay. Or you got your ballot. Okay, but you can't mail it in right now. You got to go do it tomorrow or you got to do it or you got to go stand on one leg and hop up and down while doing the chicken dance. Sorry. Yeah, those are the new rules. Yeah, maybe tomorrow we're going to have new rules on top of that. That's it.

Lower information voters are more likely to vote and there's a greater opportunity to cheat. Those are the only two differences. Those are the improvements in the mind of Democrats. But I don't think it's good for voters who don't care about voting, who are not engaged, who don't know anything. I don't think it's good that it is much easier for them to vote.

I want voters to have to care a little bit. I want voters to have to do just basic things like show up on election day, have an ID, have registered to vote. I want them to have had to demonstrate at all that they have any interest in politics. Because if they don't, their vote is less than worthless. It's actually counterproductive.

It's not as though voting is just some magical act. It's not as though voting is intrinsically holy, that it's some kind of sacrament. Voting is an instrument to get good government, we hope. It can also be an instrument to get bad government. We vote because in America, we believe that if people vote, they're more likely to get a good government. But that requires...

good people to have good information and good judgment to be casting those votes. If all of a sudden Democrats are encouraging people who do not have good judgment, who do not possess good knowledge, who do not really care at all about the country, if Democrats encourage them to vote, you're not going to get good government. You're not going to get better government. You're going to get worse government. And on top of that, you're going to have greater opportunity to cheat. Got to ask yourself,

If the system is in every way worse today than it was four years ago before Democrats changed all the rules, why did Democrats change the rules? There's so much more to say. First, though,

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and a greater opportunity to cheat. They're helpful to Kamala because Kamala is not persuading voters who require better information. Kamala is not persuading voters who are more engaged in the political process. Because not only can Kamala not name any achievements of hers in recent years, she can't even name her own policy goals.

If you could accomplish only one major policy goal that required congressional action, what would it be and why? Well, there's not just one. I have to be honest with you, Carol. There's a lot of work that needs to happen. But let's let's I think that may be part of this point that how I think about it is we've got to get past this era of politics and partisan politics.

slowing down what we need to do in terms of progress in our country. And that means working across the aisle. I've done that before. We did it around whether it be what we were able to accomplish with the bipartisan infrastructure deal or some of the work that we have done in terms of dealing with gun safety. But we've got to work across the aisle. And it is my commitment to work with Democrats, with Republicans, with independents to deal with a number of issues.

How hard is it to say bring down inflation? Is that so hard? Bring down inflation. That's three words. Is that so hard to say? Mind you, this woman is not asking what is your greatest achievement? She's not even asking what have you done? Can you name a single achievement? That would be difficult for Kamala because she hasn't achieved anything. And the two tasks that she was given by the president to deal with the border crisis and to connect rural Americans to high speed internet, she failed at both.

Completely failed at both. She didn't connect one rural American to high speed Internet and obviously the border is a disaster. So all she's being asked is, hey, of all your policy goals, what's just give me one example, just one thing that you even want to do. And Kamala says, oh, I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to I don't know. Can I call a friend line?

Then when she tries to land on an answer, her answer is not a policy goal. It's a procedural goal. She says, I want to work with Democrats and Republicans. I want to work with everybody and bring people together. That's basically the only wrong answer she could have had because the policy goal is not about the procedure. It's not about the medium. It's about the end. It's about the result. Bring down inflation. That would have been the smartest answer.

Stop the invasion on our southern border. That would have been a good answer, but it would have hurt her with her base. So I see why she resolved the conflict in the Middle East. That would have been a good answer. Resolve the war in Ukraine. That would have been a good answer to improve education, improve health care, do anything. This woman is so unfit for office. She doesn't even know what it is that she wants to do.

let alone has she demonstrated any ability actually to do those things. She won't be able to do those things. We don't know what she wants to do. We don't know what she wants to do. Does she want to expand fracking? Does she want to end fracking? Does she want to support Israel? Does she want to oppose Israel? Does she want to seal up the border? Does she want to open the border? Does she want to lock up criminals? Does she want to let criminals out of prison? I don't know the answer to those questions. I have suspicions because she's a leftist.

But I don't know. She's held every side of every issue. And then when asked what she wants to do, she can't give an answer. Maybe that's why she can't give an answer. Because she's held every side of every single issue. So she knows anything she says is going to contradict something else that she said. Not a good sign. Not a good sign at all. One thing to draw a blank on your achievements, a whole other to draw a blank on your goals. Tim Wall's not doing much better than that. Tim Wall's

has decided he's going to try to get the young male vote, which has really dipped for the Kamala Walls ticket. He's going to try to do that by posing in a Kamala film studio campaign office in front of a computer screen holding a video game controller sitting in front of a Mountain Dew. But you don't even know it's a Mountain Dew because they've twisted the bottle. So all you see is the nutrition information because they didn't want to get hit for

trademark infringement. So it's the most generic, contrived photograph I've seen in a long time in politics. And the cherry on top of this cringe sundae is that the game controller is not even on. If you zoom in on it, there's no light. It's not on. It's off. He's staring at presumably a blank computer screen with a Mountain Dew in front of him in a campaign office with a camera in front of him

As if to say, how do you do, fellow gamers? I, like you, thirst for the green soda. Please give me your vote. This is on the levels of cringe that we saw from Hillary in 2016 when she said, hey, you guys ever hear of Pokemon Go? Well, how about you, Pokemon Go to the polls? And Tim Walz

She says, hey, Tim, nobody's ever going to out-cringe my campaign. And Tim Wall says, hold my Mountain Dew. Hold my generic green soda. I don't think it's going to work. This is inauthentic. At times, inauthenticity doesn't matter. At times when people trust the political system broadly, you can get away with being a little inauthentic. I'm going to commit a political heresy here. And I'm going to observe. I love Ronald Reagan.

I don't in any way want to besmirch the legacy of St. Ronald.

But Reagan seemed a little scripted at times. You know, he was a movie actor and he would read his lines perfectly, but they didn't always seem well off the cuff. Trump, you know, goes off on a thousand tangents and sometimes you wince when he says things because you say, oh, he shouldn't have said that. But at least you know he's going off the cuff. Ronald did not. He said his lines like movie actors of a previous age. Trump.

Trump's a reality TV star. Ronald Reagan was a movie star from the golden age of Hollywood. So he seemed a little inauthentic at times, or at least a little scripted, but it didn't matter because people broadly trusted the system and because he was sincere. He was a sincere person and the system was basically functioning. So if things were a little scripted and formal, that was okay. Today, though, people don't trust the system. The system has lied to them a lot.

Lied to them about COVID. It lied to them. It used COVID as the excuse to change all the voting rules to make the elections much less secure. It lies to them all the time. It lied to them to keep their kids out of school and to keep them away from their dying parents and to stop them from going to Christmas and funerals and getting married. And it just has lied to them. Lied to them about the necessity and efficacy of those vaccines and the safety of those vaccines. And it just lies to them all the time.

So in that kind of world, inauthenticity really matters. I think it's because of that world that someone like Trump, who maybe you agree with, maybe you disagree with, maybe you agree with him 70% of the time, you disagree with him 30% of the time, but you know where he stands, that's going to be attractive. Now, speaking of Tim Walz, there's a new study out. The new study says that

that masculinity might shorten lifespans. Headline, does masculinity shorten lifespans? This study suggests manly men are at higher risk of heart problems. I only mentioned this study to point out that Tim Walz will live forever. If the study is true, you don't have to ever worry about Tim Walz perishing in office or anything like that. He could be elected president. He could serve until the end of the republic.

Now, speaking of mortal Democrats, there is this report I referenced earlier that Kamala is keeping Biden off the campaign trail. It's really, really awkward, but it's being reported by Axios, which is a center-left publication, has pretty good access. Harris stiff-arms Biden in final stretch.

President Biden wants to campaign for Vice President Harris in the last days before the election. Harris's campaign keeps responding. We'll get back to you. We'll get back to you. So they're slow walking him. And this is being reported. This was reported a couple days ago. And then what, just yesterday, Joe Biden comes out with this garbage comment. I don't know. To me, that is another piece of evidence in the Biden called Republicans garbage intentionally to undermine Harris column.

I don't want to attribute great complexity of thought to Biden, who's lost his marbles. But I don't know, this report comes out, Harris campaign stiffing Biden, slow walking Biden, wants to keep him off the trail. A day or two later, Biden comes out and brutally undermines the Harris campaign. This is not the first time this has happened. Ooh, that's evidence of a lot of Democrat infighting.

I've heard through the grapevine, I won't reveal my sources, but I've heard through the grapevine from people who know that really top Democrats, we're talking former presidential candidates, we're talking former top administration officials, Democrat administration officials, have privately said they expect Trump to win and they expect Harris to win. I was really pleased to hear this. I heard this about one

former Democrat presidential candidate. I heard this about one major Democrat donor and actually also former presidential candidate himself, that they both have privately said that they expect Trump to win, which made me feel really good because I know a lot of Republicans, given all the shenanigans and all the changing to the voting rules, a lot of Republicans are a little bit blackpilled and they're thinking, you know, I just don't know if it's possible, even if

All of the country absolutely loves Trump, even if he's dominating the polls. I just don't know if they, the powers that be, will let him win. But it would seem to me from the reporting from people who know, from the freak out, from the attempt to cover up these quote unquote gaffes from people like Joe Biden, the undermining of the Harris campaign by Joe Biden, all of it, the whole kit and caboodle, it would seem to me that the liberal establishment right now

thinks Trump is going to win, or at the very least thinks Trump has a good chance of winning. The only way he's actually going to win is if you get out there and vote. I voted yesterday. I'm very pleased that I voted yesterday. I went to one early voting place. The line was so long, I had to go somewhere else. I went to a different early voting place. This is crunch time, folks.

Now, I want to turn our attention away from the nuts and bolts of electoral politics toward political media for a moment because there was an absolutely hilarious moment on CNN. And it tells you a lot about how conservatives ought to engage with the media and the popular culture. We'll get to that in one moment. First, though, the election is only six days away. We are giving you the most reliable election night coverage right here, DailyWire+.com.

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If you look like you are even vaguely Methodist, maybe even Unitarian, but no. If you're wearing the keffiyeh, if you're wearing the burqa, and you've got the prayer rug out and you're kneeling toward Mecca five times a day shouting Allahu Akbar, you can do that wherever you like. No doubt about it. Speaking of supposed gaffes on the campaign trail, Ryan Jardusky was...

on CNN. For those of you who don't know Ryan, he's a Republican strategist and a media commentator. He was on CNN on a panel debating, well, debating the campaign and the MSG rally, but also the Israel-Palestine issue, pointing out that the left has really embraced the pro-Palestine, which is to say kind of pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah cause. That's not a great look for them. So

Ryan threw out this quip against the super lib insufferable CNN commentator, Mehdi Hassan.

If you don't want to be called Nazis, stop doing it. You're called an anti-Semite. You've been called an anti-Semite more than anyone else's table. And people will sit there and... No, by me. I've never called you an anti-Semite. I mean, I'm not sitting here saying... I'm a supporter of the Palestinians. I'm used to it. Well, I hope your beeper doesn't go off. The thing is, is that... Did you just say I should die? You should not. No. Did you just say I should be killed? No, I did not say that. Hold on. Did your guest just say I should be killed? No, I didn't. Hold on. On live TV? I said I hope you're... Guys, let me just stop. You said you hope my beeper doesn't go off. Guys, you should stop that right now.

Of the Palestinian Hamas. Guys, let me tell you. I said Palestinians. Are you? Am I what? No, of course I'm not. I apologize. Are you a racist, violent person inciting violence against me? Ryan, Ryan. That's disgusting. That is completely. I apologize. Good job, CNN. Let's have first block say the Muslim guy should be blown up on TV. Okay, now in fairness, I am offended by something that Ryan said here. I am offended that he apologized. Other than that, it was a great line. That was quick wit, okay?

Mehdi Hassan calls conservatives Nazis. So he is, by implication, calling Ryan, the conservative on the panel, a Nazi.

And Ryan points out this is kind of ironic because the Libs have been supporting Hamas, Hamas, which wants to commit a genocide of the Jews, kind of rich that the Democrats would call the Republicans Nazis when the Democrats right now seem to have sympathy for a group that shares quite a lot in common with the Nazis. And Mehdi Hassan says,

Yes, I support the Palestinian cause. Yes, I support that. And Ryan, quick wit as can be, goes, well, then I hope your beeper doesn't go off in this interview. What does the beeper refer to? The beeper refers to Israel's military operation against Hezbollah, which targeted specifically the Hezbollah militants and blew off their crotches. That's a funny line. That's a really, really good line for cable news. And then Mehdi Hassan clutches his pearls. He's just spent

The last portion of the segment calling Ryan a Nazi, but then the minute that Ryan throws a little bit back at him in a much fairer way, all of a sudden, how dare you? How dare you, sir? And all the other libs on the panel, how dare you? That's across the line. It didn't cross the line. That's a funny line. The line is funny. The line, actually, the line that he uttered is funny. The only mistake that Ryan made here was that he apologized. Shouldn't have apologized.

Other than that, I think it was great. He demonstrated an extremely quick wit. And if CNN doesn't like that wit, then they don't deserve him. Okay. I say this as someone who has gotten in trouble for saying this.

funny but true things on cable news, incisive comments. I am actually skeptical of anybody, of any conservative pundit who has not been banned, at least temporarily, from a major cable news network. Because it seems to me then they're not incisive enough. They're not really getting to the heart of the matter enough. So often the purpose of conservatives on cable news

Well, it really doesn't matter the channel. The purpose is to be a court jester in the kingdom of liberalism, to go in, give the appearance of opposition, but never really push back too hard. You know, the point is to just lose with dignity, but to, in so doing, legitimize the liberal system. And so in this case, Ryan didn't take it.

He said, you're going to call me a Nazi? You, ironically, while you're supporting all this crazy Palestinian stuff where the Palestinians elected Hamas and they committed all these terror attacks? Okay, well, I hope your beeper doesn't go off. Yeah, you heard me. Did I stutter? Yeah. Good. Are you going to ban me? Okay. Now, the reason, and again, it's in the moment when these kind of cancellation attempts happen, it's very difficult and sometimes, you know, you're tempted to just say, okay, well, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that.

I remember when I was on a cable news network and I pointed out that the left, we were debating environmentalism. And I said, the whole thing is so ridiculous, the global warming alarmism, because the way you know that this isn't primarily a scientific matter is that Democrats are exploiting a mentally ill Swedish child.

to advance their agenda. They're not putting the scientists up front. Al Gore is a politician. He had the big environmental movie. But what's so disreputable about what the Democrats are doing is that they were exploiting a mentally ill Swedish child. That's what I said on air. And the host on the show didn't bat an eyelash because it was just manifestly true. I was speaking of Greta Thunberg, who's a teenager, whose mother wrote a book about how she suffered from all of these mental problems.

And then the left exploited this girl who they encouraged to drop out of school to go sail a boat across the ocean and put more pollutants into the air because of the airplanes that had to go fly over to meet her when she got to the other side to advance the environmentalist cause. And I said, that's disreputable. It's not good to exploit children. It's certainly not good to exploit children with serious problems. And it shows how weak

the the actual campaign activism is how weak the actual argument is that they're not leading with scientists they're leading with you know exploiting kids basically and for that i got in all sorts of trouble though then i was i was rather quickly uncanceled but then you know i kind of what it goes back and forth i remember at the time though that major cable news network asked me through back channels to to apologize to grovel and then you know they'll have me right back on

And I was tempted to apologize, but I said, I don't think I said anything wrong. I said something provocative. I said something incisive, but I didn't say anything wrong. I basically just said what this girl's mother wrote in her book, and I said something that was true that looks bad for Democrats, but I don't think I said anything wrong or cruel or immoral. So why would I apologize?

I guess I would just apologize to grovel at this news network and then they'll have me back on immediately. But I said, I think, I think they'll have me back on eventually anyway. And I remember sweet little Elisa said, she goes, Mac, don't you dare apologize. Don't you dare apologize to them. If you did something wrong, apologize. If you didn't do something wrong, don't apologize. And I think this is the key. This is how conservatives have to engage in the media. It's like that scene in breaking bad when, when, uh,

Walter is asking his cop brother-in-law, Hank, to apologize to the cartel guy who's got a gun to his head. And Hank says, you want me to apologize? You think that's going to change anything? That guy made up his mind 10 minutes ago. Go do what you're going to do. And he blows his head off. CNN has to cancel Ryan for this.

And Ryan sort of, you know, I don't mean to pick on him for, you know, giving a kind of half-hearted apology in the moment. You know, he was just trying to get through the panel. But then later on, he said, you know, this is ridiculous. CNN can call Republicans Nazis all day. But then the minute we throw it back in their face a little bit, they hit us. No, no, they're going to try to cancel. They want to cancel you. If you say anything that is actually incisive, that actually moves the ball, they are going to try to cancel you for that.

So that's, to my mind, that's a good thing. You know, that's the mark that you're actually doing something here. You need to be able to survive that kind of a cancellation attempt. And you need to stand firm when they try to kill you. Very funny line from Ryan. I know, we stand Ryan over here, okay? Now, speaking of cancellation, a huge story coming out of UC Berkeley. This is crazy. I just spoke at UC Berkeley a few weeks ago. I gave a lecture there, actually on the Crusades. This was kind of a dry lecture on the history of the Crusades.

Because of this, Berkeley leftists, and it appears the administration, are trying to cancel the College Republican Club for inviting me. They're trying to kick them off campus. And the college Republicans who invited me are receiving death threats for inviting me to give a lecture on the Battle of Tours, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Battle of Hattin. Shows you, shows you, uh...

Just what happens when you push back in any way against the left, even by just inviting a speaker to give a relatively dry lecture on a public school campus. They're going to try to get you. We'll get to that story tomorrow because I'm running out of time. And I want to get to my friend, Mary Margaret Olihan. The rest of the show continues. Now, you do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Knowles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.