Ep. 1283 - Sound Of Freedom Movie Rocks Hollywood To Its Core
The liberal media inadvertently insist that QAnon is true, conservative influencers turn on birth control, and the anarchists who tried to blow up Michael get their whole extremist cell exposed.
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I've always been skeptical of the notion that the liberal media are full of pedos, until I saw the mad vitriol with which the media have been attacking Jim Caviezel's new movie about child sex trafficking, The Sound of Freedom.
This film is being marketed to either specific QAnon believers or to people who believe all of the same tenets as QAnon, but claim they don't know what it is.
And The Sound of Freedom does focus on a real issue of sex trafficking.
But that theme, it's sort of like that kernel of truth that feeds the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Tell us how those two things work together.
Sure.
And the most durable and the most believable conspiracy theories are not entirely false.
There's something in them that is true and the rest of it is false.
But the believers point to the one true thing and they say, oh, you don't believe that this particular thing is true.
In terms of child trafficking, we know trafficking is real.
We know it has real victims.
No one is denying that.
But these films are created out of moral panics.
They're created out of bogus statistics.
They're created out of fear, and with something like Sound of Freedom, it specifically is looking at QAnon concepts of these child trafficking rings that are run by the high-level elites.
They're QAnon, QAnon, QAnon!
The libs are furious.
The movie hit over $18 million in its box office opening six days ago.
It's already grossed over $40 million within a week.
It is a certified hit, so desperate to convince people to stop seeing it, the media are now trying to link the movie to Q Anon, Washington Post, quote, Sound of Freedom is a box office hit whose star embraces Q Anon, The Guardian, Sound of Freedom.
The Q Anon adjacent thriller seducing America.
And Rolling Stone, Sound of Freedom is a superhero movie for dads with brain worms.
The Q Anon tinged thriller about child trafficking is designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy addled boomer.
I don't know much about QAnon.
The only people I ever hear really talk about QAnon are the liberal media.
I run in lots of conservative circles all over the country.
I don't hear about it.
I turn on CNN for five seconds.
It's all they talk about.
But what's really strange about this coverage is that the movie is based on a true story.
It's the story of how a real guy, Tim Ballard, rescued kids from sex trafficking.
So the libs are saying that a true story, an indisputably true story, is QAnon adjacent.
Which means some people really do believe in QAnon.
The liberal media, who spent the whole weekend inadvertently insisting that the theory is true.
I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show.
What a weekend.
We saw the criminal complaint against the anarchists who tried to blow me up at Pittsburgh.
I was hosting a, or I was appearing at a campus event at the University of Pittsburgh.
There was lots of madness around it and the school tried to shut it down and the legislators tried to shut it down.
And I knew that there were some wackos on the street setting me on fire and effigy and all that kind of stuff.
I didn't realize until I read this criminal complaint from the DOJ just how serious it was.
So we'll get to that in one second.
First though, I don't want to move on too fast from the liberal fury that Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard are exposing pedo rings.
Because they're saying it's all a crazy conspiracy theory.
It's the QAnon, about which I know pretty much nothing.
QAnon, from what I can tell, is this crazy conspiracy theory that there is an elite pedophile ring that involves some of the wealthiest and most influential people in the world.
And just apropos of nothing, here is an interview that has recently come out from one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims.
I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison.
For what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me.
I was raped repeatedly.
I was raped three times a day sometimes.
And I was not the only girl on that island.
There was a constant stream of girls being raped over and over and over again.
And yes, Ghislaine must die in prison.
Because I've been in hell and back for the last 17 years.
And 27 for me.
I was 10 years old when Liz Stein was being trafficked.
I was 10.
That is how long the sex trafficking ring has been going on for.
What is the claim of the liberal media here?
They just slap this label QAnon, QAnon, whatever that is, the thing that you've only ever heard about from the liberal media.
But what are they actually saying?
Denying the existence of sex trafficking?
No, you heard the CNN lady admit no sex trafficking is a real problem.
Are they denying the existence of elite sex trafficking rings?
They probably are because the liberal media tried to kill the Jeffrey Epstein story.
But we know the Jeffrey Epstein story is real.
We know that Jeffrey Epstein was palling around with the most powerful people on earth, prime ministers, presidents.
Royalty, major financiers, heads of industry.
We know that he had his own James Bond villain-esque private island in the Caribbean where he was bringing an endless slew of young girls.
He was partnering with major modeling Head honchos and bringing these young girls through the island to engage in weird sex stuff with the most influential people in the world.
So then we know that Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and mysteriously killed himself after multiple cameras malfunctioned and multiple jail employees just forgot to do their job or fell asleep on the job.
What's the conspiracy theory?
Here's the only conspiracy that We haven't really solved it.
All of it is so far in the open.
The question is, who's in Jeffrey Epstein's black book?
Isn't that kind of weird?
Isn't it weird that we started to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein, we did prosecute Ghislaine Maxwell, and we still don't know who his clients were?
Don't expect to hear about that on the liberal media.
We're not even talking about a regular sex trafficking ring like you see in the Sound of Freedom movie, which is a very good movie, by the way.
I watched the movie in an advanced screener.
It's very good.
I'm not surprised that it's doing huge box office numbers.
Not surprised that the libs hate it so much.
No, I guess I am surprised that they hate it.
I'm not surprised that they hate it.
I'm surprised they hate it so much.
I'm surprised that they are willing to show their hand this much, that they're not only willing to cover for Jeffrey Epstein and downplay that story and kill that story when different reporters wanted to bring it to public attention.
But now they're trying to downplay the existence of sex trafficking entirely.
They're saying, oh, that's QAnon.
That's QAnon.
Maybe everything that people have said about the liberal media, maybe it's right.
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Major culture win for the right.
This movie, Sound of Freedom.
Another major culture win for the right.
The hits just keep on coming for Bud Light.
Transcizer Bush.
Bud Light is now out of the top ten American beers.
Took another hit in the ratings.
There was a YouGov survey of the top ten beers in America.
Bud Light had previously been number nine.
So it was the number one best-selling beer in America, and then in popular opinion, it was the number nine favorite beer.
It's now dropped down to 14.
It hasn't bottomed out yet.
I think we're going to have to introduce a segment on this show, which is the Bud Light update, because Bud Light thought they could weather the storm.
It would take a week or two.
Their market cap would drop, but then they would rebound.
No big deal.
They wouldn't have to apologize.
They wouldn't have to address anything.
They could just blow past their embracing of transgenderism.
And that hasn't happened, but like continues to drop in sales, in popularity.
It hasn't bottomed out yet.
So we have to introduce this new segment.
We probably will have to do it off of YouTube because you're not allowed to talk about important issues on YouTube anymore.
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Now, speaking of wins, we've got some legal wins too.
Also on the topic of transgenderism.
Tennessee passes a law saying you can't trans the kids.
You can't pump them full of puberty blockers.
You can't sterilize them.
You can't chop their body parts off.
Seems like basic stuff.
There was a court that then came in and said, absolutely not.
I'm going to put a stay on this law, this evil transphobic law, because our Constitution protects the sacred right of seven-year-olds to chop off their genitals.
Our James Madison, he framed our Constitution.
The founding fathers fought the Revolutionary War for the right of Creepy parents and sexual predator teachers to trans the little kids.
That's what we fought the revolution for.
So, he issues a stay in the law.
Well now an appeals court has overturned the injunction against the Tennessee law prohibiting the transing of kids.
Is that enough layers for you?
Are you confused enough yet?
U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled against that preliminary injunction.
They came out and they said, And this was after the AG in Tennessee, Jonathan Scrimetti, who's a terrific AG, he filed a motion for an emergency stay.
He says, if the injunction remains in place during the appeal, Tennessee will suffer irreparable harm from its inability to enforce the will of its legislature to further the public health considerations undergirding the law.
and to avoid irreversible health risks to children.
This according to Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, who's a Bush appointee, who wrote, Tennessee is likely to succeed on its appeal of the preliminary injunction.
So obviously, the Tennessee legislators have a right to say, hey, you're not allowed to turn seven-year-olds into eunuchs, right?
Obviously, they have that right.
This liberal activist judge wielded his power to say, no, you don't.
Completely against, certainly the natural law, but even against the fair reading of the constitutional and the civil law.
And now this appeals judge comes in and says, no, we're gonna overturn your injunction.
It's just a reminder that we've got to wield power.
It's a reminder that we've got to win elections so that we can appoint judges, so we can wield power.
Because I remember back in the Tea Party era, when I was coming up in politics, I remember a lot of Idealistic young conservatives, we believed that if we just read the Constitution clearly enough, if we just persuaded our fellow citizens With a sufficiently winsome and articulate argument about what the Constitution really says and means, that they would just go along with it.
But they won't.
They're going to respond to power.
And the way you get power is you win elections, and then you fire your opponents and your enemies, and you fill those positions with your allies and people who are on the right side of things.
And that's what we're seeing here.
Had George W. Bush not won the 2000 election, or maybe the 2004 election, I don't know which administration he was appointed in.
But certainly, at least the 2000.
We wouldn't have gotten this judge, and probably kids would continue to be trans today.
These effects are much longer term than a lot of us often think about.
Speaking of major cultural shifts, this is really great news.
It's coming out of NBC.
Headline, conservative influencers are pushing an anti-birth control message.
Alarmist statements about hormonal birth control go viral on social media, but experts say they're not showing the full picture.
Who are the experts?
Because the conservative influencers who are pushing the anti-birth control message, I'm sorry to say, I'm not included in this article.
I'm pushing an anti-birth control message, but I'm not included in the article.
And the reason is the article is focused almost entirely on women.
Focusing on Alex Clark over there at TPUSA.
Focusing on Ashley St.
Clair, who's a conservative influencer.
Focusing on, let's see, how many others?
I won't go through and re-read the entire article.
But focusing on a lot of these conservative gals who are saying, yeah, I was on birth control.
I'm not being specific to Alex Clark and Ashley St.
Clair.
I don't know about their specific experience with birth control.
But there are a lot of conservative women who say, I was on birth control and it messed me up and I went kind of crazy and maybe I had fertility problems as a result of it.
And the more studies I read about this, the more I realize that there are serious risks to birth control.
And I promise you, if you're listening to this show right now, you've either experienced this or you at the very least know somebody who's experienced these kinds of questions and who are now raising doubts about birth control.
And the libs hate this.
The libs hate that we're moving toward a less contraceptive society.
And it's not just on the pill or the patch or the devices that young girls are persuaded to insert into themselves so that they can be used by men to have casual sex without getting married, without having children, without any consequences for it.
It's beyond mere birth control.
The same people who are furious that conservative women are pushing against birth control are also furious that the Supreme Court made it a little bit harder to kill babies through abortion.
They're the same people who are pushing euthanasia for the elderly and the poor and the homeless and the mentally ill.
They're the same people who are pushing the sterilization of children through all these eunuch-making procedures that they call transgenderism.
It's all the same thing, and I can't help but notice the end is always the same, which is fewer people.
Because these guys, the leftists, the sexual revolutionaries, who are pushing all of these social pathologies, They just seem to hate people, or at the very least they're being used by vessels of entities that hate people.
It's always the same end.
And it's a reminder for conservatives.
You know, there were a lot of conservatives who would argue, and pro-lifers, they would say, look, we just want to end abortion.
We're not going to touch contraception.
We're not going to touch abortion.
I don't know.
Artificial insemination.
We're not going to touch IVF.
We're not going to touch surrogacy.
We're not going to touch this, that, or the other thing.
And I understand tactically why they say the killing of babies in the womb is much more urgent and dire and dangerous than these other issues.
But you can't neatly separate all of these issues.
It's all of a piece with the sexual revolution.
The culture that treats sex very casually and that suggests that we have a right to sex absent the consequence of pregnancy is going to be a culture that's more likely to engage in abortion.
The culture that embraces radical individualism and selfishness and libertinism In one area of sexual matters is going to embrace it in another, and that's going to result in abortion.
And furthermore, we're all complaining about the Pride movement, and the Pride movement has become much less popular than it used to be.
You're seeing this in a drop Gallup polling, and the values survey that it gives out showed a significant drop in support for the Pride coalition in just one year.
So a lot of people are turning on it.
A lot of mothers, a lot of parents in schools.
That's how Glenn Youngkin won in Virginia.
That's how Rhonda Sanders won in Florida.
Well, I think people now are beginning to look back.
And they're saying, look, it's not just transing the kids, it's transgenderism more broadly.
This was the point of my CPAC speech.
And it's not just transgenderism, it's the redefinition of marriage.
And it's not just the redefinition of marriage, it's the whole way that we view sex.
Why did Gallup show a 7 point drop in support for same sex relations of any kind?
Because people are beginning to pull on the thread of transing the kids and realizing that because ideas have consequences, bad consequences come from bad ideas.
And so they're going all the way back, and forget redefining marriage or whatever, you go all the way back to the beginning of the sexual revolution.
And you go all the way back to contraception.
There were two cases, Eisenstadt and Griswold.
First was Griswold in 1965, then Eisenstadt comes around in 1972, the year before Roe v. Wade.
And Griswold finds a right to condoms within a marriage.
Where is that in the Constitution?
I have no idea, but some libs on the court discovered that magically in 1965.
But they said, but there is no right to condoms outside of marriage.
Then, seven years later, the court discovers, oh, actually there was more invisible ink in the Constitution, and actually there is a right to condoms outside of marriage.
Okay, maybe you like condoms, maybe you don't like condoms.
I don't know where you're going to find that in the Constitution.
I think a lot of people are beginning to notice that the contraceptive mentality is the beginning of the pride mentality.
Because the contraceptive mentality divorces sex from the consequences of sex.
It introduces a sterile sexual ethic.
Which is exactly what gave us the Pride Movement.
There's no distinction here.
If you can't read between the lines, the conclusion that one draws is that condoms are kind of gay.
Let's put it as bluntly as possible, okay?
And it's not a coincidence that female conservative influencers, noticed by NBC News, are beginning to pick up on that.
Bad ideas can have a very long run But eventually, and this is the conservative consolation, reality reasserts itself in the end.
And people are beginning to realize, okay, if I don't like this insane, anarchistic view of sex that is totally self-centered and divorced from any ends whatsoever, well then maybe I've got to rewind it and ask, what is the point of sex?
why it's not going to be the patriarchy that's coming for your consequence-free birth control.
It's not going to be the men.
The men, frankly, are huge supporters of birth control and contraception because it allows them to have consequence-free sex.
It's going to be those conservative women.
That's who's coming for it.
NBC News is right to be worried.
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Speaking of the sexual revolution, major pop culture story that I am being forced to know about.
Because that's how social media works.
I barely know who Jonah Hill is.
I did not know that Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen were different people until about three years ago.
And they're different people now.
Seth Rogen's a huge lib.
Jonah Hill, I assume, is a big lib, too.
But I actually think, based on the leaked text messages that are creating a huge Hollywood tempest in a teapot, Jonah Hill might be one of the most normal people in Hollywood.
What came out was a series of private text messages leaked by Jonah Hill's ex-girlfriend portraying him as an emotionally abusive monster.
This after Jonah Hill announces that he's had a baby with his girlfriend.
So he's not married, he should marry his girlfriend.
They've just had a baby and this ex-girlfriend of something like two years ago releases text messages.
And this is what she says is an example of emotional abuse.
Jonah texts her and says, quote, plain and simple, if you need surfing with men, boundary-less inappropriate friendships with men, to model, to post pictures of yourself in a bathing suit, to post sexual pictures, friendships with women who are in unstable places and from your wild recent past beyond getting a lunch or coffee or something respectful, I'm not the right partner for you.
If these things bring you to a place of happiness, I support it and there will be no hard feelings.
These are my boundaries for romantic partnership.
My boundaries with you based on the ways these actions have hurt our trust.
That's it?
That's the example of an emotionally abusive man.
This is one of the most mature romantic treatises I've read in our entire popular media.
It's not perfect.
I don't like the idea of talking about romance as a partnership.
We're in a partnership and I don't like the idea of divorcing romance from the end of marriage and children and all the rest of it.
But what he's saying here is, yeah, look, if you want to If you want to have boundaryless, inappropriate friendships with men, I don't like that.
I'm going to be a little bit jealous, just as you would be jealous of me if I had inappropriate, boundaryless relationships with women.
And I don't like the idea that you've got to post skimpy pictures of yourself on the internet.
If you want to do that, you can go do that.
I won't be angry at you, but that's not...
That's not going to work for me, and if we're going to move towards something like marriage, I just don't want my wife to be doing that, and I don't want you to put yourself in the near occasion of sin, and I wouldn't do that myself either, and I'm not yelling at you, I'm not being angry, I'm not threatening you in any way, you can go your own way, it'll be totally fine, I'm just telling you that's where I am.
That's very reasonable.
The only thing that he hasn't done is he should man up even further and say, by the way, this is my framework not only for a relationship, but for marriage.
And then we can get married, and we can do what married couples do, and we can have kids, and have a nice family, and it'll be a good life.
Totally, totally right.
She responds to all of this, and she says, I hope my ex, Jonah Hill, has a daughter.
Maybe she'll turn him into a real feminist, because the fact that he calls himself a feminist now is laughable.
And that's the one part she's right about.
Jonah Hill is obviously not a feminist.
He might pretend to be a feminist.
He might dress up like a lib and use the language of a lib, but he's not.
He's not a feminist.
He's a relatively normal guy.
His ex-girlfriend obviously is a feminist.
Feminism is wrong.
You should reject it.
Men, women, anybody in between that supposedly exists nowadays.
Reject it.
The problem with feminism is not that it gives women too much power or whatever.
Feminism doesn't give women any power.
It deprives women of their power.
It's just wrong.
The problem with feminism, as is the problem with so many modern ideologies, Is that it posits a false anthropology, a false conception of human nature.
And so when conservatives inveigh against feminism, it's not because we hate women, quite the opposite, it's because we love women.
And it doesn't even come from any sort of passion or any sort of personal desire or anything like that.
It comes from a rational deduction and empirical observation of human nature.
And saying, oh, feminism says a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
Feminism says that women and men are pretty much the same.
And I just know that that isn't true.
And so if you pursue feminism, you're going to be miserable and unhappy, like Jonah Hill's ex-girlfriend.
And if you don't pursue feminism, and you pursue normal life, and you recognize that the sexes are complementary rather than indiscernible, you're going to have a better life.
Who seems to be doing better right now, Jonah Hill or the ex-girlfriend?
The rest is my case.
Speaking of wars, not just wars between the sexes, but wars around the world, the Biden administration has decided to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.
What are cluster bombs?
A lot of people don't know what it is.
And the moment that any novel or somewhat obscure concept hits the headlines, all of a sudden everybody's an expert on it.
They're all armchair experts who attended Naval War College or something like that.
Cluster bombs are a particularly dangerous type of munition.
That will blanket a space with explosives that have a fairly high fail rate.
And so what that means is, if you drop a bunch of cluster munitions all over the countryside, a lot of them might not go off.
And so even years after the close of a conflict, you're going to have a lot of civilians and farmers and travelers getting blown up by these kinds of munitions.
This is why Jen Psaki Last year, as White House Press Secretary, suggested that cluster bombs might constitute a war crime.
There are reports of illegal cluster bombs and vacuum bombs being used by the Russians.
If that's true, what is the next step of this administration?
And is there a red line for how much violence will be tolerated against civilians in this manner that's illegal and potentially a war crime?
It would be.
I don't have any confirmation of that.
We have seen the reports.
If that were true, it would potentially be a war crime.
Obviously there are a range of international fora that would assess that.
So certainly we would look to that to be a part of that conversation.
So cluster bombs intrinsically might constitute a war crime.
And when Jen Psaki was asked about that, it was in the context, the hypothetical of Russia using cluster bombs.
Oh yes, that might very well be a war crime.
Now we are sending cluster bombs to Ukraine.
That's not, that's not, either Joe Biden is admitting that he's a war criminal, or we're saying, no, no, when we do it, it's not a war crime.
And the most honest liberals, the most honest proponents of the war in Ukraine, are going to make that argument.
They're going to say it's a war crime when Russia does this type of thing, but it's not a war crime when America does this type of thing.
And it's probably going to be a difficult argument to make, but maybe somebody can make it.
We need that kind of clarity.
This has been a major shift in politics in my lifetime.
It's been a reckoning with American foreign policy that was pretty much on autopilot since World War II.
Finally now, people on the left and on the right are beginning to look at it a little bit more consciously.
Donald Trump did a lot of that.
Donald Trump was the first Republican, first major Republican presidential candidate in my lifetime, who said the war in Iraq was a bad idea.
Now, you might defend George Bush in the war in Iraq.
You might say, well, he didn't know.
Our intelligence told us that Saddam Hussein was producing weapons of mass destruction.
The intelligence community got it wrong.
This, that, or the other thing.
You might say it was the right decision to be made at the time, albeit perhaps on bad information.
Some people, I mean, some of the real hardcore neocons will still defend it even with the bad information.
But when you look at the war in Iraq, it was the United States aggressing.
Right?
We invaded a country based on what turned out to be a mostly false pretext.
When you look at Libya, the invasion of Libya, with the support of NATO in Iraq and in Libya, we just invaded a country because we didn't like what they were doing.
Libya wasn't threatening the United States.
Libya wasn't threatening NATO nations.
This wasn't an Article 5 invasion.
We just went in because we didn't like the guy.
We invaded that country.
Now fast forward to the war in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin's justification for invading Ukraine was that Ukraine is cozying up to NATO.
Ukraine wants to join NATO.
NATO's going to let them in.
By the way, that's happening now.
There's a major push to let Ukraine into NATO.
And there's a major push to let Ukraine into the European Union and all the rest of it.
And Putin said, we can't tolerate this.
We can't have NATO right up on our border, especially in the breadbasket of Europe, Ukraine, because NATO is an aggressive organization that seeks to harm Russia's national interest.
Now, all the NATO supporters said, well, that's not true.
NATO is a defensive alliance.
We're only here to defend ourselves.
We would never start a war.
We would never aggress.
We would never invade without a sufficient predicate for invasion.
And then Vladimir Putin can point to Libya.
And then Vladimir Putin can point to Iraq, Vladimir Putin can point to Kuwait, Vladimir Putin can point to all sorts of places, and say, or Kosovo rather, and say, no, you guys have been aggressors.
You guys have been a little more active than you're pretending to have been.
And NATO doesn't have very much to say about that.
It's a healthy thing to ask every once in a while, are we the baddies?
I don't think necessarily we are.
You've got to have that healthy sense.
And this is why, by the way, the Trump side of the GOP scored.
This is why Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton.
Because Barack Obama opposed the war in Iraq.
Hillary still defended the war in Iraq.
There is a major, not just left or right, it's a populist A movement that is reconsidering American foreign policy.
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He's the most popular guy in the history of cable news.
He was the one articulating this view.
Maybe we shouldn't be engaging in so much foreign adventurism.
The vast majority, virtually every other talking head on TV, is advocating for a major liberal global empire where we're constantly invading every country on Earth.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music, who says, the woman on that flight, the woman freehand says, you're not real, you're not real, running off the flight.
The woman on that flight reacted the way a Democrat does when they see an American flag.
So true.
Such a perspicacious, incisive observation.
Very true.
Speaking of explosives, Andy Ngo, the great Antifa reporter, like the one guy in the world who's doing work to expose Antifa.
He showed me the criminal complaint against the guys who tried to blow me up in Pittsburgh.
And I haven't talked too much about this.
I had a debate at Pittsburgh this past semester.
I was supposed to debate this Professor McCloskey over gender ideology.
And at the last minute he pulled out of the debate.
So Brad Palumbo, libertarian journalist, he comes in and we ended up debating a kind of weaker resolution of a similar debate.
It was great of Brad to pinch hit.
So that we didn't give the censors and the leftists and the radicals the satisfaction of having shut down our debate.
There was a ton of political pressure to shut down this debate.
And it was coming from Democrats in the legislature, it was coming from the administration, it was coming from leftist students, and it was coming from outside agitators.
And coming from the media also.
They're trying to shut down this debate.
So I show up to Pittsburgh, and there's a protest outside, and you can tell already it's starting to get a little violent.
I go in the back way.
They're setting the road on fire.
They're lighting me on fire in effigy.
They had an effigy of me, set it on fire.
It was a very odd thing.
First time I've ever noticed myself being burned in effigy.
Very strange.
Felt like Guy Fawkes, you know.
That's kind of nice.
Kind of a nice honor.
And then we're about to go on stage.
As we're walking on stage, boom!
There's an explosion.
The cops make us go back to the green room.
We're holding.
We wait a little bit.
I say, we're doing this.
We're going on.
We're not letting these jerks shut it down.
Okay, we go on stage.
We have the debate.
It continues to get violent outside.
So they're trying to shut down the debate before it ends.
We're holding firm.
But the minute it ends, we get off the stage and they evacuate us pretty quickly.
But we're hearing all these kind of murky reports.
We didn't know exactly what was going on.
They had to cancel the meet and greet afterward.
It's very frustrating because ISI, the group that hosted this debate, spent a lot of money on it.
And we had to cancel.
A lot of people flew in for it, you know.
But we had to cancel it because the cops said it's just not safe.
Well, I just read this criminal complaint and, you know, it's my general rule not to whine about threats and attacks.
Unfortunately, we're at a place in our politics where threats and even physical attacks just come with the territory if you're a conservative in public life.
I don't want to seem like a wuss or a wimp and whine about it all the time.
It comes with the territory these days.
It's not right, it's not just, it's just a fact, so we deal with it.
But this was a lot more dangerous than even I previously knew.
The criminal complaint here from the DOJ shows that a couple of these anarchists, who are not little kids, 36 years old and 40 years old, this is a married couple, they They flew in.
They're from Pittsburgh.
They're part of an extremist cell that meets at an anarchist bookshop where they train to fight people, maim people, learn how to kill people.
This guy was in Oakland, another radical hub.
He set off the TSA detector for explosives, for RDX explosives.
And the TSA, classic TSA, they just cleared him and let him get on the plane.
But he obviously got a little bit nervous.
Changes of flight itinerary later on.
He sets off the TSA detector again, also for RDX explosives, very serious explosives.
And once again, they clear him, they let him get on the plane.
At approximately 7.31 PM, a protester tossed an ignited firework into a group of approximately 12 UPP officers in the rear of the building.
The firework exploded, causing injuries to several officers, three of which received on-scene evaluation by paramedics from Pittsburgh Bureau of Emergency Medical Services, one who sought additional care at Forbes.
Hospital.
Officers reported being burned, bruised, suffering from hearing loss, and possible concussions as a result of the explosion.
This is all from the DOJ criminal complaint.
The device struck one officer, fell to the ground, and then exploded into flames and debris.
The anarchists were finally being surveilled, luckily, at this Big Idea bookstore.
I guess this is an anarchist bookshop, 4812 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh.
The individual, one of the individuals, stated that the speaker event, my event on campus, quote, was not going to happen and passed out various zines, small printed booklets, to meeting participants which instructed on how to make incendiary devices for arson and Molotov cocktails.
The whole thing goes on.
I would encourage you to read it.
Not because of me.
I survived.
I'm doing great.
Luckily, the cops are doing okay.
I've got to give credit to the FBI agents here and DOJ.
Really great of them, especially after we've been so disappointed in recent years to see the FBI turned political by Democrats in office and the DOJ selectively prosecute conservatives, let criminal libs off the hook.
This, Really great to see the FBI and the DOJ go after these guys, hold them accountable.
The reason that you should consider reading the criminal complaint is because This could happen to you, and you just have to be aware of it.
And even I, I go to 10 campuses a semester sometimes.
I am very aware of this.
I've been attacked previously in public.
I didn't realize how serious this was.
And you should know, you should know that if you are a conservative in any way in public life, if you're on the school board, if you show up to a meeting, if you have a protest, if you have a sign in your yard, you could be subject to serious violence.
And the libs are not just joking around and they don't just want to throw some glitter on you and they don't just want to egg your house.
They want to kill you.
They want to blow you up.
They want to kill you.
They're dead serious about this.
There is a very sinister aspect to what's going on here.
This is not just regular political fun and games.
And I'm not saying that to discourage you from being politically active.
Quite the opposite.
I'm telling you that we've got to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
And we've got to protect ourselves because we're up against an enemy here.
Not just a little political opponent.
We're up against an enemy that seeks our destruction, our personal destruction, and the destruction of our country.
Before we go, there's one story I want to get to.
I meant to get to it just after 4th of July.
It's this Ben and Jerry's story.
Ben and Jerry's, on the 4th of July, sent out this tweet.
They said, this 4th of July, it's high time we recognize that the U.S.
exists on stolen indigenous land and commit to returning it, learn more, and take action now.
And what's really funny is Chief Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of the Kusuk Abenaki Nation, told the New York Post in an interview, That Ben and Jerry's exists on native land.
So Ben and Jerry's should lead the charge.
Obviously, right?
Ben and Jerry's should give the land back that their corporation exists on.
If you look at the traditional way of being, we're place-based people, he says.
Before recognized tribes in the state, we were the ones who were in this place.
So you gotta give the land back.
So obviously, I mean this is a funny response by this Indian chief and obviously Ben and Jerry's is totally full of it and they're hypocrites and they're never gonna give back any land or anything like that.
But the claims of Ben and Jerry's are obviously preposterous too.
The United States does not exist on stolen land.
We're not going to give it back to anybody.
If we were inclined to give it back to people, we wouldn't know who to give it to because the people who we acquire the land from, sometimes through purchase, sometimes through conquest.
It's different than stealing.
But those people also acquire the land through conquest from other people.
So you never know.
Do you give land back in the southern part of the U.S.?
Do you give it back to the Comanche?
I guess we took it from the Comanche.
Do you give it back to the Comanche or do you give it back to the Apache?
The Comanche took it from the Apache.
Do you give it back to the Apache or do you give it back to the people who the Apache took it from?
But it's an important reminder that there's a difference between stealing and conquest.
The law of conquest has defined geopolitics for all of human history.
That's what war is.
Wars begin sometimes for unjust reasons, sometimes for just reasons, sometimes because you've got the interests of people butting up against one another and they're going to fight over it.
And then when a group is conquered, that's that, and one moves on.
This is the part of our national anthem that we don't sing about very much anymore, but it's in this great verse.
And conquer we must, when our cause it is just, and this be our motto, in God is our trust.
And as the political order begins to really heat up and as our opponents become more and more depraved and more and more ambitious and they start coming for us in ways that are violent, that are extreme, that are totalizing, they want to Indoctrinate your children all the way up to, they want to re-educate the adults, they want to take your property, they want to upend your way of life, and if you don't go along with it, they want to blow you up with explosives.
Someone's going to have to win.
Somebody's going to have to win, and somebody's going to have to lose.
And I think we know which sort of spiritual entities they're putting their trust in, and our motto ought to be, in God is our trust.
