Ep. 1624 - Trump Hires A Former George Soros Associate
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President Trump has named his pick for Treasury Secretary, one of the most important roles in the government. And it is a homosexual former Democrat donor who worked for George Soros. Wait, what? What was that? Actually, maybe the craziest part of it all is that he seems like actually a pretty solid pick. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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that really came out of left field. President Trump has named his Surgeon General

And the woman that he's named to be Surgeon General is a woman who is a Fox News contributor, and she is most famous for pushing masks on kids and defending social media censorship of so-called COVID disinformation, most of which turned out to be correct information. And the actual disinformation was coming from the public health authorities. This woman, Jeanette Neshawat,

And what it is now, COVID, you know, this new Delta variant hits right before school starts. And our top priority should be getting kids back into the classroom, but doing so safely. Here's the problem. Delta is different. And that's why the American Academy of Pediatrics is recommending that if you're going to be in a classroom, in a crowded classroom, then you want to protect yourself, wear a mask. Because a lot of kids, for example, under the age of 12,

they can't be vaccinated. So it's important to point out, though, masking is not the only solution. We also need to make sure that we have good ventilation, that people are washing their hands, that they're getting tested, and that all the teachers are getting vaccinated as well. But what's happening is this new Delta variant, it replicates more easily, and it's more contagious. You can have up to 1,000 times more viral particles. So kids can pick it up, even though they may not have severe symptoms, they can spread it to another population.

person. And when it spreads is when the virus mutates. And that's when we get more variants like Delta and Lambda and the UK variant. Okay, I hope that this episode of my show isn't taken down for all of the misinformation that that woman was just spreading there. Notice she says it was the Delta variant that she was talking about. So this is well into the whole COVID epidemic.

This is well into the point when people who had functioning faculties of reason knew that the masks didn't really do anything to stop the spread of the virus, knew that the masks didn't really do anything to reduce the seriousness of the virus. This was well after we knew that kids weren't really all that affected by the virus.

This is crazy stuff, advocating for for masking, mandatory masking of the kids all the way into covid. That's just completely insane. And then what's perhaps even more egregious, she went on Fox News and defended the big tech companies, the left wing big tech companies who were censoring conservatives using the excuse of so-called covid misinformation.

First of all, vaccines save lives. And I am so excited and I thank and I commend Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for taking action because this affects everyone. This affects our children. It affects adults. I mean, just look at the recent measles outbreak, the biggest outbreak that we've had in decades with measles. And that's no joke. Measles can cause brain inflammation and pneumonia and ear infections and hearing loss and death. So it's about time that they are taking action. And I hope and pray that other social media platforms

platforms will follow suit and do the same thing. Okay, so our surge in general pick is one who spreads a bunch of false information about the most significant public health crisis of the last 20 years, and then who defends leftist companies for censoring conservatives based on sometimes, often, false premises. Ooh, yikes, man, that's bad. Now, you might say,

Well, look, it's the Surgeon General. Who cares? It's a trivial post. It is a relatively trivial post. That's why there's a good chance President Trump was barely, if at all, involved in this pick. You know, there are a lot of people he's got to fill up in the government. I could see President Trump being a little bit more focused on the Treasury Secretary and the Secretary of State, on the Secretary of Defense, than on, say, the Surgeon General. But it really matters, actually, that this woman was wrong about it.

so many things on television because the job of the surgeon general is not to perform surgery. It's not like he's the president's physician or she is the president's physician. The surgeon general is a spokesman for public health, the chief spokesman for public health in the country. So really,

The only qualification for being the surgeon general is to have a little bit of credibility, a little ethos in public health, and to get the information right and to be able to present it in a way that is persuasive but accurate. And this woman completely failed on those fronts during the biggest test of our lifetime. So no knock on Trump. He's got a lot of jobs to fill up. I'm not even sure he was involved in picking this person, but this is a huge L, bad pick,

she should be replaced. This is just crazy. Now, getting to another unexpected pick, who I think actually could be pretty good, we get to the Treasury Secretary. And this is one of the biggest roles in the government. The person that President Trump has picked is Scott Besant, who

This guy is a billionaire. He is a former employee of George Soros. He is openly homosexual. His partner is a New York City prosecutor. Probably a lot of people did not have this on their bingo card. However, in this case, I think Besant is probably a pretty good choice.

He is pro-tariff, so he has come out there and defended tariffs, which is the most prominent and unusual aspect of President Trump's economic policy, but one on which he has campaigned for many years now and which might have helped push him over the finish line, especially with some parts of American labor in 2024. He's pro-tariff, but Wall Street also likes him.

So you would expect Wall Street to hate the pro-tariff guy because tariffs can harm some companies, especially companies that have nice, cozy relationships with the government. However, in this case...

Wall Street seems to like him. He's pushing tariffs, which means he would be willing to help any potential Trump war or trade policy, trade war, not like not shooting guns kind of war, but any kind of trade war, any kind of more aggressive negotiations with countries like China. All in all, I think it could be a pretty good pick because what it tells me is

Trump this time around is going to be exactly as unpredictable as Trump was the first time around. And this was among his biggest political strengths, the unpredictability. Trump talks like a dove on foreign policy, but then he picks John Bolton to be his national security advisor. John Bolton, who is relatively belligerent and hawkish. Trump seems to be

very pro-tariff, but then maybe he picks some guys who Wall Street likes. Trump says he wants world peace, then he drops the mother of all bombs in Syria. Trump

threatens nuclear war with North Korea, but then actually goes and meets with Kim Jong-un. He's unpredictable. And this story has been told as to why Vladimir Putin did not further invade a country under Trump's watch. He invaded Georgia under Bush's watch. He invented Crimea under Obama's watch. Under Trump, he just kind of chilled. Then he further invaded into Ukraine on Biden's watch.

Why? What is it about Trump? Trump said, if you invade Ukraine, I'll hit Moscow with bombs. And even if Putin only thought there were a 5% chance that that was really going to happen, you can't take that 5% risk. So this is, it's a zag for sure.

Billionaire, New York, homosexual, George Soros employee. It's weird for sure, but I think broadly, actually, Besant is probably aligned with the Trump policy. He's obviously extremely intelligent and accomplished. All in all, seems to me a pretty good pick. Then for attorney general, Matt Gaetz is out. He has formally pulled out of that race. We'll get to what happens next for Matt Gaetz in a moment. First, though, Trump installs panhandling.

Pam Bondi as his attorney general nominee. And even CNN, even the legal analyst for CNN had to admit this woman is eminently qualified. Pam Bondi is without a question qualified to be attorney general. She's been a prosecutor for 20 years in Florida. For eight of those, she was the attorney general of the state. That's a very big, very complicated job. And that level of experience is on par with or better than most United States attorneys general that we've seen over the past 50 years or so.

On par with or better than most attorneys general that we've seen over the last half century. I think that is right. So what does it mean? Why go through all these hoops? Why did we go through the whole Matt Yates charade? There's so much more to say first, though. Go to jeremysrazors.com. I have here in my hand...

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There's this great driver who has retired, unfortunately, but he's an older gentleman who's worked as a lawyer. He's had a long career and he does this kind of in his retirement. But he's conservative and has really smart thoughts on politics. So I get into the car during the Gates nomination and he says, now I got a question here. Why is it that Trump, President Trump picked Matt Gates?

And I said, well, you tell me first before I give my view. They said, well, it seems to me Trump's a pretty smart guy. He might be doing that sort of thing where you are negotiating, where you're putting out a really provocative nominee to attract all of the attention and all of the controversy. And that way you can seem to concede by pulling him out, but then get through the person that you really want. I said, you know, that was my take as well. Whether this is a conscious or unconscious strategy,

Whether Trump is really gaming this all out in precision or if he just has a good political gut, I'm not really interested in that. What I care about is what is the effect of this? The effect of this is Trump's AG nominee, Pam Bondi, who's eminently qualified, is going to sail through confirmation. Would Trump's nominee have sailed through confirmation without the Gates fakeout? I don't know. I'm not convinced of that.

It remains to be seen how hard the Democrats go after Pete Hegsath, Tulsi Gabbard, and Bobby Kennedy, who are now the public enemies one, two, and three for the Senate Democrats. But as of now, it seems to be working out well because Pam Bondi is certainly going to get in. What happens next to Matt Gaetz? There's a rumor going around that Matt Gaetz is going to serve in the next Congress. There's a rumor going around that Matt Gaetz only resigned from this Congress.

But in the next Congress, he'll be able to serve and it will be as though nothing happened. That is not true. Congressman Gates said in his resignation he does not intend to serve in any Congress in the future. He's totally out. He is now on Cameo. Cameo is this app where you can go on and there are various notables and celebrities and you can pay hundreds of dollars to request a personalized video from them.

Get it for your buddy's birthday, for a bachelor party, get a pep talk, whatever. Matt Gaetz immediately, upon pulling out of the AG nomination process, he joined Cameo. He initially was charging $250 a video. Now I think it's to over $500 a video, which is good, Matt. Don't sell yourself short. I think that's very smart.

If we're going to be capitalistic here, I'm sure there's a pretty good demand for this. But the bio here says, I served in Congress. Trump nominated me to be U.S. Attorney General. That didn't work out once I fired the House Speaker. And that's it. So it seems to me that the pivot here is to media.

And this represents a broader shift in the way our political order works. The line between the media and the politicians has gotten blurrier than it was. There previously was a relatively firm line between the journalists and the politicians. Now, of course, the left never really respected that line, and the journalists were all activists, and they were really the propaganda arm for the politicians. They were much, much more closely enmeshed.

For the conservatives, it was a little more rigid. You had the magazines and the conservative journalist outlets, and you had the elected politicians. Now I think people move in and out a little bit more. As journalism has come to take on the shape of influencing and as podcasting has overtaken cable news and traditional media, it's a much more intimate environment. It's a much more personality-based kind of environment. You're no longer subscribing to The Wall Street Journal. You are subscribing to

The Michael Knowles Show or the Ben Shapiro Show or the Matt Walsh Show. So it's much more personal. It bears greater similarities to Politicians.

And in this case, I think Matt Gaetz is probably going to go out, maybe make a little bit of money in the media, start a podcast. That seems to be what every millennial white man in America is required by law to do at this point is to have a podcast. So he'll do that. Doesn't mean he won't ever be in elected office again, but people who are holding out hope that he'll get some other position in the Trump administration or that he'll be in Congress again or something. I think Gaetz is signaling he's not going to do that. Now, speaking of Congress,

Mr. McBride, Tim McBride is this Democrat from Delaware who identifies as a woman named Sarah. Tim McBride is at the heart of a controversy right now because being the first trans identifying member of Congress, there's this open question. Is he going to use the women's bathroom or the men's bathroom?

And it's a thorny issue, not just for the conservatives, but also for him, also for the left. Because if Tim McBride does the right thing and does not force himself into the women's bathroom over the objections of women, then he's admitting he's not really a woman. If he were really a woman, he'd use the women's bathroom. And if he's not really a woman, it means that trans people, quote unquote, are not really women, that you can't actually change your sex. So by abstaining from or refraining from entering into the women's bathroom,

Mr. McBride is conceding a lot. The left is conceding a lot. They're conceding that transgenderism is a false ideology. On the flip side, if he enters into the women's bathroom,

There's going to be a huge uproar from women whose legitimate rights are being denied. Women who are now told they can't have their own private spaces. They can't have any particular privileges or rights. And you got Nancy Mace leading the charge. Nancy Mace, who is not a particularly conservative Republican. So she's got some more liberal bona fides. She is a Republican and she's a victim of rape. So she has a lot of credibility here to say, I do not want men in the bathroom when our pants are down, when we're really vulnerable. Yeah.

So he's in a really tough position. And the way he is reconciling this position, trying to get out of the spotlight here, is by lying. And few people have caught this lie. Tim McBride is now insisting that he never intended to use the women's bathroom on Capitol Hill. That this is all a non-troversy ginned up by those dastardly conservatives in media, by your favorite podcast host, and by Nancy Mace on Capitol Hill.

Nancy Mace, who really made this an issue, he says, quote, everything was fine until some members of the small Republican conference majority. I love small majority. That's a classic. It's like illegal alien, trans woman. It's a phrase that contradicts itself. It's the small majority. No, no, it's a majority. Most people are part of the Republican conference here. Everything was fine until some members of the small Republican conference majority decided to get headlines and to manufacture a crisis.

That's what McBride told CBS News. He told CBS that he anticipated an effort, quote, to politicize my use of a restroom. And he insisted that he had not intended to use the women's restrooms on Capitol Hill. If anyone had thought to ask me about what I was planning on doing, I would have been happy to tell them. But again, this is not an issue. This has never been an issue in this complex. So he's just being unfairly persecuted.

Why are they picking on this poor transvestite? He never even intended to use the women's bathroom, except hold on a second here. Hold on a second. Just one day before giving that statement to CBS News, Mr. McBride put out this statement on his social media platform. It's still up there. I'm not here to fight about bathrooms. I'm here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families. Like all members, I will follow the rules as outlined by Speaker Johnson, even if I disagree with them. Hold on.

What's the rule he's talking about here? The rule is that this guy's not allowed to use the women's bathroom. So his statement in response to that rule by the Speaker of the House is that, okay, I won't enter into the women's bathroom even if I disagree with that decision. Okay, so he's saying he disagrees with it. Seems to be that he is expressing his intention to use the women's bathroom. Otherwise, he would agree with the statement and the ruling. But then one day later, he says, I never even intended to.

It would appear as though Tim McBride's intentions have transitioned, and they transitioned rather rapidly. So I've got some advice for Mr. McBride here. First one is, I bet you act like a man and do the right thing and stop forcing yourself into women's bathrooms over the objections of women who have legitimate rights, some of whom have had the experience of being victimized by men who similarly did not respect women's rights and private spaces. First of all, that's the first thing I would say.

The second thing I would say, this is a little bit of political advice to Mr. McBride and to the people on his staff. If you are going to lie to the American people, try to keep your story straight. That's it. I would recommend you don't lie to the American people. But if you're going to lie to the American people on an issue when you're right at the center of a controversy, try to keep your story straight within 24 hours. How about that? 24 hours prior, I totally disagree with this decision. It's absolutely outrageous. Speaker Johnson won't let me force my way into a women's bathroom.

24 hours. I never even intended to do that. Why would you? You guys are just picking on me for no reason. I recommend keep things straight. All right. That's what I would be my broader advice. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to PragerU.com. Is America headed in the right direction? A majority of Zoomers support left-wing policies like open borders and socialism.

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Gender curriculum in kindergarten. Hat tip here to libs of TikTok. This is a school not far from where I grew up, Hastings on Hudson, that has a gender at Hillsdale kindergarten. A short synopsis of the course and subject areas of focus. Our gender curriculum focuses on Hillside's core value of respect and aims to center discussions of gender identity. This is for grade level K.

The vocabulary here that they list out, cisgender, transgender, non-binary, the ASCA alignment mindsets, whatever that means. Sense of acceptance, respect, support, and inclusion for self and others in the school environment. So this is a memo saying we will be enforcing transgender ideology in kindergarten. And the thing is, they have to. They have to do it.

When it comes to the transvestite on Capitol Hill, the Democrats have to rally around this guy. In fact, there's a headline right here from the Associated Press. Democrats rally behind first out transgender member of Congress to cry Republican attacks. Here, all the way down in kindergarten, you've got this elementary school pushing to enforce transgender ideology in kindergarten, and they have to do it. This is the part I think a lot of conservatives even don't quite understand.

Conservatives are looking at this. They're saying, man, these Democrats just lost a landslide election in no small part because of things like transgender ideology. Maybe not in themselves, but because they prove to most American voters that the Democrats have lost the common sense. They can't even tell the difference between a man and a woman. They probably don't have very good judgment. Why, after losing a landslide election, would you double down on

on that issue that helped you lose. Why, after transing the kids has been such a big issue in this campaign, you hear people on the center left, guys like Joe Rogan, say, you know what, man, I'm out, okay? You're going to trans the kids, that's too much for me. Why, after all of that, would you double down on transing the kids in elementary school? The answer is because they have to. They have to. If the Democrats don't let Tim McBride use the women's bathroom, or don't at least fight to let Tim McBride use the women's bathroom,

They're admitting transgenderism is fake. And if transgenderism is fake, it's not just going to be fake for one person or two people. It's fake for everyone. It means that human nature doesn't really work that way and a man can't really become a woman. And therefore, it wouldn't be helpful to anyone, including the people who identify that way. In other words, not to put too fine a point on it, if the Democrats don't fight to let Tim McBride use the ladies' room,

then they will be admitting that for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who've fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole preposterous ideology at every level. Same thing is true for the elementary schools. If the Democrats admit that it's wrong to trans the kids, if the Democrats admit that transgenderism shouldn't be taught to kindergartners, then they're admitting that there are at least some people for whom transgenderism isn't true. The whole point of schooling is you teach kids true things.

You pursue truth, you shape their minds and their disciplines and their habits toward the truth, things that are conducive to their well-being. So if transgenderism is true, why shouldn't we teach it in kindergarten? At the very least, if transgenderism is true, and you've got a little boy in kindergarten who says that he's a little girl, you have to accept him at his word. You have to encourage him to follow what you are claiming is his truth. And you have to educate the students around that child

about the supposed truth of transgenderism. It has to go down to kindergarten. It has to go all the way to the ladies room on Capitol Hill. Because if it's not, if they admit, yeah, actually it's not, kindergartners can't be trans. Well, I thought it was human nature. If they're not born this way, if it's not an aspect of human nature, if it's not way that human beings really work, then let's pull on that thread a little bit more.

If Tim McBride shouldn't use the ladies' room on Capitol Hill, maybe he shouldn't use the ladies' room anywhere. And maybe that's because he's not a lady, and maybe that's because men can't become ladies. And if men can't become ladies, maybe it's not a good idea to affirm people in their delusions. We wouldn't tell an anorexic lady that she's a big fatty and go along with her starving herself to death. Well, maybe we should just – and you pull that string.

And the whole thing falls apart. That's why they're desperately trying to defend it. But I think they're caught in a real trap here. I think the people have caught on to this. I don't think it's going to help them in future elections. Now, speaking of leftist institutions, where is it? I make one request of my producers today, which is to bring me my briefcase, and they don't do it. I'm sitting here all alone, which means I'm not going to be able to do my audition for MSNBC because my producers fell asleep in the control room. Well, I'll at least tell you the story. Donald Trump Jr.,

has was responding to a tweet that said Comcast is putting MSNBC up for sale. CNN just announced massive layoffs coming. Maybe the new owners will figure out that lying nonstop to your audience is a lousy business model. And so Don Jr. tweets, I says, Hey, Elon Musk, I have the funniest idea ever. And what does Elon respond? Elon responds, how much does it cost? Now, does this mean

Is Elon seriously thinking about buying MSNBC? Actually, I think the story here is that if Comcast is going to spin off MSNBC along with CNBC, E! Sci-Fi, USA Oxygen, Golf Channel, Fandango, and Rotten Tomatoes, if they're going to spin it out into their own company, I actually think it won't be able to go up for sale. However, if Elon buys MSNBC and Elon and Don Jr., I don't know, they do something together on this, and you need a replacement for Rachel Maddow, I'm just saying I know a guy.

Maybe my audition would be a little bit more persuasive if I had my lesbian glasses on right now. I do not. You can use your imagination. Just putting it out there. Speaking of big shifts in communication, the Florida Surgeon General has just come out and called to remove fluoride from the drinking water. This is going to seem like a minor story to a lot of people.

However, I think this is actually a pretty big story. The Florida Surgeon General, Ladapo, I believe his name is, really serious guy. He was totally right during COVID. And he is affirming that conservatives who many decades ago...

about the addition of fluoride to the drinking water and were mocked as lunatics and freaks for doing so, that actually maybe those guys had a point. This was actually a central plot point of Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove, in this great Cold War movie in which the right-wing...

military man was complaining, was giving his paranoid monologue on how the communists are trying to control our precious bodily fluids. I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Oh, ha, ha, ha. Look at that crazy paranoid right-wing general. Tee hee hee. Well, turns out the crazy right-wing caricature general in Dr. Strangelove appears to have been correct. That the precious bodily fluids thing is referring to the fluoridization of water. And Dr. Ladapo says, it is public health malpractice with the information that we have now to continue adding fluoride to water.

The reason for this is the possibility of excessive fluoride exposure causing lower IQ levels and mental health issues among children. We now have a situation in which, what, one in four young boys are diagnosed with some kind of learning disability. I'm not saying it's because of the fluoride in water. I'm saying at the very least we can see a jump in learning problems among little kids. So there's at least cause for some concern.

In September, a recent federal judge in San Francisco made a ruling against the EPA that stated that fluoride in drinking water at the current recommended level of 0.7 milligrams per liter poses an unreasonable risk of hazard to child IQ because there's not enough of a margin of safety between the hazard level and the exposure level added to community drinking water.

This is not just according to Dr. Ladapa, this is Dr. Ashley Milan, assistant professor with the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Florida. The scientific consensus now, the leading scientific experts admit that fluoride in drinking water at the levels that we currently see it is dangerous.

that we shouldn't have it. That all those cranks back in the 1950s and 60s who complained about this, that actually they were right. And this reminds me of a broader point. Forget about the water for a second. Forget about any particular political issue. This reminds me of a great line from Cardinal Manning who says, there is a day to come which will reverse everything.

the confident judgments of men. In that day, the first shall be last and the last first. The wise in this world will be fools and the fools in this world wise. The mad in this world will be the heirs of a better. Cardinal Manning, being a cardinal, is speaking here eschatologically. He's speaking of ultimate religious matters. However, this is true on smaller points along the way. This is a lesson that any basic political consultant or political observer can learn.

Opinion, commonly accepted opinion, can reverse and can reverse very quickly. This is further proof of Fulton Sheen, or sometimes it's attributed to Dean Inge's observation, that if you marry the spirit of this age, you will become a widow in the next. You're right. It's shifting. Six weeks ago, Trump was Hitler, and the people who supported him were white supremacists. Today,

Most Americans support Trump, and huge numbers of pretty much every single demographic in the country support Trump. Trump is now the mainstream candidate. MAGA is now the mainstream. Two years ago, we were told the Democrats were the party of science and the Republicans were the rubes who buried their head in the sand to oppose the science. Now, on science, everywhere from castrating little kids to poisoning our drinking water with unsafe levels of fluoride, the Republicans...

are the party who are siding with science, with the latest and most persuasive scientific discoveries. There is a day to come which will reverse the confident judgments of men. You know, our Daily Wire Plus Black Friday sale is live. Get 50% off new annual memberships right now. No code needed. Just head on over to dailywire.com slash subscribe and claim your new Daily Wire Plus membership for 50% off. With Daily Wire Plus, you get it all. Uncensored daily shows with limited ads, live breaking news you can trust,

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The Pentagon is now warning that North Korean troops are expected to enter combat soon in the war between Russia and Ukraine. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said over the weekend that thousands of North Korean troops currently stationed in Russia are expected to enter combat against Ukraine soon.

He said this during a visit to Fiji, said around 10,000 North Korean soldiers are believed to be in Russia's Kursk region near the border with Ukraine, where they are being integrated into Russian military formations because Russia's taken heavy losses in the war. This was a surprising announcement to me. And the reason this was a surprising announcement is because I've known for well over a month, maybe multiple months at this point, that North Korean forces are currently fighting in the war.

I perhaps I shouldn't say I know with certainty. I've just I've heard now for well over a month from sources who are in positions to know that North Korean forces are already fighting in the war. The fact that the Pentagon is announcing this as though it's news, really shocking to me. But I guess a lot of people didn't know that this was happening. I've just heard about it a little bit through the grapevine because there are because Americans are fighting in this war, too. And

So it's a reminder, I guess, for people who have not heard this or been paying close attention, that this is already resembling a world war. The war in Ukraine is a war between the United States and Russia. It always was. Russia's predicate for invading Ukraine was that the U.S., leading NATO, had expanded beyond verbal agreements and promises well into Russia's traditional sphere of influence.

And that NATO is supposed to be a defensive alliance, but it keeps expanding. And that NATO has taken actions that are actually militarily aggressive or even preemptive, not merely defensive, not merely defending the members. And so you might say Vladimir Putin is a liar and an opportunist. He wants to rebuild the Soviet Union. All of that is probably true. But it was a pretty strong predicate for going into Ukraine.

Because NATO had been expanding, because the U.S. had been heavily involved in Ukrainian politics, because the director of the CIA did arrive in Kiev two weeks after the Maidan revolution, because Ukraine, having been a buffer state for a long time, was increasingly shifting toward the West. And Russia didn't like that. Now the region is at war.

Then you add on to that, Joe Biden gives the okay for Ukraine to use American missiles to seriously escalate the war. It's not as though Ukraine can just push a button and the missiles fire off. The United States is very actively involved. The United States is the only reason Ukraine can continue to fight because we're arming them and giving them a ton of money. So already you've got two powers that fought a Cold War for 50 years.

Those two powers are getting closer and closer to hot combat. Then you add into that the fact that you've got North Korean troops coming in on the side of the Russians. All of a sudden, this is beginning to resemble a world war. And you have top-ranking Ukrainian officials who are saying it already is a world war.

Things can spin out of control very quickly. So Trump gets elected. People say, okay, good. We got the peace president back. We're going to restore the world peace that we had in Trump's first term. Maybe two months is a long time. And to quote Barack Obama, you should never underestimate Joe Biden's ability to screw things up. I'm cleaning up Obama's statement. Speaking of violence, let's see why Elon and Don Jr. have to buy MSNBC. Why it would be so funny for me to replace Rachel Maddow. The headline on MSNBC says,

following the trial of Lakin Riley's killer, Lakin Riley, that young American university student who was murdered and nearly raped by an illegal alien, and an illegal alien who found an open border, a border that was open because the Democrats intentionally opened it. Here's the headline from MSNBC. Lakin Riley's killer never stood a chance. Lakin Riley's killer never stood a chance for all the political controversy surrounding Jose Ibarra, the outcome of this trial,

It was never in doubt. Now, mind you, the reason the outcome of this trial was never in doubt is because he murdered this girl and tried to rape her. That's why. And we had such overwhelming evidence that there was no doubt in anyone's mind. Who would you say is the victim here? The American university student who was nearly raped and who was murdered by an illegal alien who had no right to be in this country or the aforementioned illegal alien? Who would you say is the victim? Because the MSNBC headline portrays the murderer as the victim. Far for the course.

He was found guilty on all charges. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, which is fine, I guess. It seems like they could have gone a little harsher, but okay. This girl fought for 18 minutes to stop this guy from raping her, and then she killed him. He is a complete animal, truly a complete degenerate animal.

who has, to my knowledge, expressed no remorse or repentance whatsoever, and happily will receive some modest modicum of punishment here. But let this serve as a lesson, two lessons really. This is illegal immigration. This guy is illegal immigration. And the media are on his side. MSNBC takes his side. The Biden administration takes his side. That's why they opened the border for him. The Democrats are responsible for Lake and Riley's murder.

attempted rape. The Democrats are responsible for that. That's not hyperbole. That is a fact. It's an inescapable fact. Democrats are responsible for Lake and Riley's murder in a way that conservatives are generally not responsible for negative and unintended consequences of our policies. And here's why. Here is why the Democrats bear responsibility and the Republicans don't. Conservatives

as a rule, approach political issues from the standpoint of virtue ethics or deontological ethics, from more traditional ethical frameworks that say that it is wrong to do something that is evil or false or morally sus. Okay, so the Democrats do not. The Democrats take a more consequentialist or utilitarian approach to ethics. So to bring that really down to earth, the conservatives say,

It is not acceptable to commit evil actions to achieve good ends. The leftists say the ends justify the means as a matter of their actual, frequently openly stated ethical views. So for a conservative, it's perfectly possible that I could have good intentions. I could make a correct moral calculation. But given the fallenness of this world, something goes awry and some negative consequence happens. Someone dies. Someone is injured. Some bad thing happens.

I would not bear all that much responsibility for that fact because I am not attempting to calculate all of the potential outcomes and recreate my own morality around the perfection of my reason and the perfection of my will, my own omnipotence. Okay, I'm just trying to do the right thing and sometimes things go wrong.

For the Democrats, the Democrats are actively cooperating with evil, the evil of ignoring our immigration laws, the evil of permitting an invasion of our country, the evil of permitting a mass poisoning of our country, the evil of letting rapists and murderers in, the evil of allowing gangsters, in some case Satan-worshipping gangsters like MS-13, to control the southern border. They are knowingly cooperating with that evil because they think it will achieve some good end.

They think the good end of, well, having a permanent electoral majority is really the end they're seeking, but also the good end of allowing the poor Venezuelans to come to America and seek a better life. They're just making that calculation, saying we're going to do a little bit of evil, but it's going to ultimately redound to the greater good. So it doesn't, first of all. But second of all, they therefore bear responsibility for the evil that occurs, the evil like the near rape and the certain murder of Lake and Riley.

They bear responsibility. Next time you're tempted to vote for a Democrat, look at this animal. These are the people that they welcome into our country and that they defend after they're found guilty of murder. Okay. Speaking of good, goodness, fight between good and evil, I have coach Bill Courtney coming on the show to tell you not to be a turkey man. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Knowles, Ken at WLAS. A check out for two months free on all annual plans.

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