Liberals arrest more conservative dissidents, CNN labels Vivek Ramaswamy a “9/11 Truther,” and Biden blunders in Maui.
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We talk a lot about the Trump indictments, but President Trump is not the only conservative that our liberal ruling class is trying to put behind bars.
In fact, today, this week, and today specifically, liberals in Georgia are rounding up 18 co-defendants in the Trump case.
Who are they?
Well, one is Mark Meadows, former U.S.
Congressman, former White House Chief of Staff, He's being arrested for being on a phone call with the Georgia Secretary of State and the President of the United States, in which the President raised the prospect of election fraud.
Another one is my friend Jenna Ellis, who is being arrested for committing the crime of being the President's lawyer.
Another one is John Eastman, another lawyer, extremely respected, great guy, indicted for believing that there might have been some questions about the propriety of the election and advising his client on how best to navigate that.
A whole bunch of other lawyers, including Rudy Giuliani, greatest mayor in the history of New York City, indicted for basically the same thing.
Jeffrey Clark, a former DOJ official who, quote, identified significant concerns about the 2020 election.
Those concerns are apparently enough to get you arrested in Joe Biden's America.
David Schaffer, Former head of the Georgia Republican Party being prosecuted for objecting to the way that the election was conducted.
Stephen Lee, a pastor, a pastor who is being prosecuted for knocking on the door of an election worker.
Knocking on the door.
And on and on.
To say nothing of the Midwestern grannies who were locked up, the hapless protesters thrown in solitary confinement for months and months for walking around the Capitol Rotunda on January 6th, the worst day in the history of the whole wide world, incarcerated just months after BLM arsonists, looters, and rioters walked free with Nary a slap on the wrist.
These people, mostly lawyers and political activists, Are not being incarcerated for any particular crimes.
Plenty of people have committed the same or more egregious versions, much more egregious versions, of these supposed transgressions and never received a knock on the door from the authorities.
These people are being prosecuted for their politics, for which side they're on, which party they belong to, which candidates they help.
They are, effectively, political prisoners.
And with no sign of the prosecution slowing down, one now has to ask a very sad question.
By the end of 2024, which country will have more per capita political prisoners?
Communist China, Putin's Russia, or the good old US of A?
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Speaking of our rulers, Joe Biden just touched down in Maui and decided to make the national catastrophe where likely a thousand people at least have been killed, lots of children.
He decided to make that all about a kitchen fire in his house.
So we'll get to that in one second.
First, though, did you ever think you would ask that question about your own country?
How many more political prisoners are we going to get?
Who's going to have more political prisoners?
Us or some awful, terrible countries?
No good, rotten regimes around the world?
I guess I was just a little naive.
I didn't think we did that in the United States.
I wasn't so naive that I didn't realize that people in power sometimes pursue political advantage and punish political enemies.
I knew that.
I just never thought we would get to the point where we would be arresting lawyers for representing, for having the gall, the temerity to represent the president of the United States, where we would be actually arresting candidates, former presidents, leaders of where we would be actually arresting candidates, former presidents, leaders of the opposition, like Trump, of course, and pretty much anyone Trump's ever met for having the gumption to question an election that was obviously
Regardless of what you think about, well, would Trump have won or did Biden really get a bazillion votes or whatever?
We know they changed all the rules in the months and weeks before the election.
We know they did this to the advantage of Democrats.
We know they did this in a way in which even Democrats previously had admitted that it opens the system up to fraud.
We know that they did it in violation of the state constitution in the case of Pennsylvania.
We all know that.
And so then Trump's lawyers and some activists and some Republican leaders and a pastor, I don't know, ordinary people raise a question about that.
I'm not even saying they speak truth to power.
I'm saying they raise questions to power and they get thrown in the can for it.
Did you ever think we'd be there?
I didn't because the Democrats did all of that in 2000, which with far less justification than the Republicans did in 2020.
And we were told that was patriotic.
Dissent is patriotic.
Remember that?
Hillary continues to do it from 2016.
Stacey Abrams continues to do it from 2018.
None of them are in prison.
They're all feted.
They all go on CNN.
They're all lauded as wonderful voices of the people.
But anytime any Republican does it, from Donald Trump all the way down to the Midwestern granny, they get thrown in the cell and they throw away the key, at least for a long period of time.
Now, speaking of being harassed for questioning the government, Vivek Ramaswamy is in hot water.
Here's the headline.
The headline is, Vivek Ramaswamy is a 9-11 truther.
Vivek Ramaswamy says 9-11 was an inside job and the government totally did it.
And I saw that headline.
I said, well, you know, I've known Vivek for some time now.
That doesn't seem like his view.
That's a little suspect to me.
Let me look a little deeper.
Then I realized it's basically a fake hit job from the media.
He went on CNN to discuss it.
Here's the line of questioning.
A report in The Atlantic that you gave an interview to, you said, quote, I think it is legitimate to say how many police, how many federal agents were on the planes that hit the Twin Towers.
Maybe the answer is zero.
It probably is zero for all I know, right?
I have no reason to think it was anything other than zero, but if we're doing a comprehensive assessment of what happened on 9-11, we have a 9-11 commission, absolutely there should be an answer the public knows the answer to.
Explain to me what you meant there.
This is, really, it's funny.
I mean, the Atlantic is playing the same game as CNN.
It's funny.
What I said is, on January 6th, I do believe that there were many federal agents in the field, and we deserve to know who they are.
On 9-11, what I've said is that the government lied.
And this is incontrovertible evidence, Caitlin.
The government lied about Saudi Arabia's involvement.
There was a Saudi spy named al-Bayoumi, who they lied, and the government lied, and the 9-11 Commission lied.
We know that because declassified reports in 2021 revealed that alba you meet was indeed what's that yeah the report that the president biden declassified but your quote here are you telling me that the quote 20 years later yeah but are you telling me that your quote is wrong here because it says do i live in north korea I guess this is part of my political naivete.
Because when I was a kid, I was taught that the media, the journalists, they exist to speak truth to power.
All those other terrible regimes around the world, Russia, China, North Korea, they all just have state propaganda for their media, but not us in America.
And then I watch this, and what does this woman say, Caitlin Collins?
She says, how dare you question the government about anything?
You're a crazy conspiracy theorist.
She says, no, wait, hold on.
I'm not a crazy conspiracy theorist.
I didn't say anything crazy.
I'm just pointing out, we know for a fact, now even Joe Biden would admit this, we know that the government did lie about at least the involvement of Saudi Arabia in the intelligence apparatus in Saudi Arabia, and so they suppressed that.
So we're just asking some questions about The government.
Isn't that what we're supposed to do?
Aren't we supposed to be skeptical of power?
I'm not saying that it was, you know, some, like, space aliens, or I'm not saying it was, you know, George Bush was hijacking an airplane.
I'm not saying anything like that.
I'm just saying the government lied about Saudi Arabia's involvement, so we should continue to press them on unimportant national matters.
Okay, we now know that because they lied.
And what does this woman do?
She interrupts him.
She says, we know they lied because great glorious leader Joe Biden declassified the documents.
Our great, wonderful, glorious leader of the Sun, Joe Biden, good, good, wonderful man, he did it.
And so now that is the truth.
Before he did that, whatever the government previously said was the truth.
But now that the Sun King, Kim Il-Biden, has declared that Saudi Arabia was somewhat involved, now we can say that now.
All hail the glorious leader.
And Vivek says, wait, what?
Yeah, that's my point.
You're making my point, lady!
He could have been speaking Korean on there.
Wouldn't have looked any different.
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My second thought on the Vivek 9-11 thing, I don't know, I haven't looked that deeply into it.
I don't really care what he said to The Atlantic or he said to CNN or he seemed to explain himself fine there.
But even, I don't know, he was, I did see he was on Alex Stein's show, a conservative comedian.
And Alex Stein gets a little more into kind of edgy theories type things.
And he said, what do you think about 9-11?
And Vivek said, I think the government has lied about parts of it.
And so, you know, we should continue to ask questions.
Which again, I don't know, it was on a conservative comedy show, I think, doesn't really interest me that much.
I disagree with Vivek on a whole number of issues, so I didn't bat an eyelash there.
I'm more interested in his views on, I don't know, free speech or corporate power or all the rest.
But anyway, he said that, and that's the line that the liberals are running with, to which I say, man, He must have a pretty good candidacy.
If that's the best they've got, if the best they've got is a possibly inartful articulation of some aspect of the release of previously classified documents about a national tragedy that occurred over 20 years ago, this guy must have a pretty squeaky clean candidacy.
No sex scandal, no financial scandal, no political corruption.
I mean, I'm just talking about the Biden family right there.
That would take out the entire Biden family right there if we had a fair media.
But they don't have any of that on Vivek, so they've got to go to some line he said on a conservative podcast.
Give me a break.
The best they've got is he doesn't believe every single thing that the 9-11 Commission concluded, some of which have been contradicted by declassified documents within the last couple years.
He's probably feeling pretty good heading into this debate.
Speaking of the debate, Another friend of mine, unfortunately, looks like he's going to be kept out of the debate.
That would be Larry Elder.
Larry Elder, conservative libertarian radio host in California.
Ran for governor of California.
He's running for president now.
He gets to the airport at LAX.
He thinks that he's qualified for the debate.
He gets a call from Ronna McDaniel, the head of the RNC, saying that he didn't qualify.
Here's why.
As you can see, I'm at LAX in Rootin, Milwaukee.
I was just informed by the RNC that I'm not qualified for the debate.
Why?
Even though I exceeded the 40,000 individual donations required, even though I signed the pledge to support the eventual nominee, even though I submitted three polls where I was at least at 1%, I was informed that one of the polls It's not eligible.
It's the Rasmussen poll, even though it was the most accurate poll in predicting that Donald Trump would win in 2016.
They say it is affiliated with Donald Trump and therefore it is not eligible.
And I said to Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the RNC, it's not affiliated with me.
She said any poll affiliated with any candidate is not eligible.
And no one told me that until just now.
So we're filing an emergency injunction to get me up there.
This is absolutely BS.
One of the candidates, by the way, offered a $20 gift certificate for a $1 donation.
That apparently is okay.
Okay, so what he's referring to there at the end, I think it was Burgum who had no name recognition, no support.
So he decided to just give away gift certificates.
If you gave a small donation to his campaign, he'd give you a gift card of greater value to somewhere else because he just wanted 40,000 donors to be able to get onto the debate stage.
So what about Larry here?
The rules are the rules.
I guess he technically doesn't qualify.
They can keep him off the stage if they want.
Nobody's asked my opinion, but if it were me, if I were running the RNC, I'd let him on.
Maybe he doesn't match the letter of the law here, but I think the spirit of the law, he's there.
Because it's not as though he's using the Donald Trump polling firm.
He's certainly not using the Larry Elder polling firm.
I didn't realize that Rasmussen had this direct relationship with Donald Trump.
But even so, Rasmussen's a very respected poll that's been around for a very long time.
So it doesn't seem like this is some cynical workaround, some opportunistic grab.
I think he qualifies according to three polls.
One of which I guess has a relationship with Trump, but don't forget Trump is effectively running as the incumbent.
So this is again a reason why this election, this primary race, is different from any other primary race in our lifetimes because you've got the first president running for a non-consecutive second term since 1888.
And so yeah, I guess one of the big polling firms has a relationship with Trump.
In a normal, ordinary primary year, that would not be the case.
Now it is.
I say let him on the stage.
Who cares?
Who's it really going to hurt?
Is it going to really hurt DeSantis?
DeSantis is already going to be duking it out with Vivek and Christie all night long.
I don't think putting Larry Elder up there is going to do very much.
Larry Elder's got an interesting perspective.
He's got a slightly different perspective than the other candidates on that stage.
And frankly, Larry Elder is extremely libertarian.
So it's not even like I particularly agree with the ways in which his perspective differ from the other guys on the stage.
But I think, come on, you're going to have a debate.
Have a debate.
Trump is out.
He's not going to be participating.
In some ways, it's going to make the debate more interesting in that you're not going to have the big king of the hill, top of the heap, chairman of the board sucking all the air out of the room.
So you're going to have all these other guys sniping at each other, which will make it more interesting, if not more significant for the race right now, because Trump is up 30, 40 points.
So put him on the stage.
Come on.
Why not?
Let Larry up there.
Larry is really, the reason they don't want him on the stage is because I suspect the other candidates don't want to have to deal with Larry Elder because Larry Elder is really, really good in debates.
He's really good in confrontational scenarios.
Larry was just on The Breakfast Club and he was He was effectively called an Uncle Tom.
Larry Elder has been called an Uncle Tom his whole life.
I think he did.
Didn't he do a movie called Uncle Tom?
And so he's dealt with this smear his whole life.
And he was somewhat subtly called an Uncle Tom by the host of The Breakfast Club.
And Larry just let him have it.
Have you ever heard the term a wake up call?
No.
It is an incident where a person of color forgets that they are of color and are reminded, rather brutally, by an unexpected act of racism.
Have you ever had any meals?
Oh, brother.
I'm just asking.
You think you've ever had any meals?
Well, I'm acutely aware, Charlamagne, that I'm a black person, just as you are a black person.
And when Joe Biden insulted you by saying, You ain't really black.
We don't know whether or not you want to vote for me or vote for Donald Trump.
That should have been a wake-up call on your part.
How dare this guy come in here and insult you, a black man, and tell you you got to think a certain kind of way.
I'm amazed that you weren't mad about that.
Um, I'm not gonna say it upset me, just like I'm not letting you upset me.
You know what I mean?
I don't tend to get upset over things like that, but what I did say... Well, you just now talked about a wake-up call, and it seemed to me that that should have been a wake-up call on your part, to have a white guy come in here, who also said, by the way, about Mitt Romney, Because he didn't want to put more regulations on Wall Street, going to put y'all back in chains.
And Joe Biden has lied for decades about his civil rights record, claiming that he desegregated movie theaters and restaurants in Wilmington, Delaware, when he didn't do any of that.
He lied and said that he tried to visit Nelson Mandela during apartheid South Africa.
He did not.
And he came in here and told you you aren't even black, and let you think a certain kind of way.
It seems to me that should have been a wake-up call for you, but it wasn't, apparently.
Absolutely devastating.
So that's part of the reason I want him on the debate stage.
I'm really looking forward to the debate tonight.
I know some people are saying it's not fair that Trump's not there.
Trump needs to show up.
They need to rip Trump apart.
If Trump showed up, it would be the Donald Trump Show, which I get a kick out of.
I find it entertaining.
But The rest of the guys on stage would have just been trying to take potshots at Trump.
It probably wouldn't have worked very well.
He would have maintained his lead.
We wouldn't have really gotten very much out of it.
Now, at least, we're going to get to see the differences between all of the second-tier and third-tier and fourth-tier candidates and see if any movement happens.
And see if, right now, Ron DeSantis is still number two.
Maybe he can improve his position.
Maybe some candidates drop out and people coalesce around DeSantis.
Or maybe one of the other candidates comes up, takes that number two spot from him.
It's going to be a much less predictable, interesting debate than that.
And it'll be even more interesting if Larry Elder gets up there.
Now, to the point Larry Elder's making here is a really good exchange, and Larry's good at pointing out the hypocrisy of the racism industry.
I don't think this is going to work in the general.
If Larry somehow became the nominee or were a running mate or something like that, I don't think this line would work in the general because the black vote is overwhelmingly solidly Democrat.
And we might say that's wrong and that's stupid and they should vote for Republicans and I think all of that, but it's just a fact.
The black vote has not budged in decades.
And on top of that, racism doesn't mean anything anymore.
The word racist, according to the Democrats, just means bad.
You'll just be accused of racism if you in any way contradict their views on anything.
Or if you are white at all, you'll be called racist.
And to the right, because the right has recognized that the word doesn't mean anything, I think the attack has less venom than it used to.
There's less potency than it used to.
So, you know, Larry can come out and say, well, Democrats are the real racists.
I just don't think it's going to budge anybody's vote.
The Democrats who could be scandalized by that and wake up and go to the other side.
That's, I think, already happened.
And the Republicans are much less afraid of being called racist now because we know how disingenuous it is.
So, hope he makes it to the debate.
I think he would do a great job out there.
The main guy in the race has just promised, though, that he will not go to any of the debates.
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We knew Trump wasn't going to go to this debate.
He's having a conversation with Tucker instead.
We've got a Daily Wire backstage tonight, so we'll be doing a whole pre-show about it and talking about it.
But Trump has now come out and said he's not going to attend any of the debates.
He says, New CBS poll just out has me leading the field by legendary numbers.
Trump 62, 46 points above to Sanctimonious, who is crashing like an ailing bird.
An ailing bird?
That's vivid.
That's a very vivid image.
Ramaswamy 7, Pence 5, Scott 3, Haley 2.
Sloppy, Chris Christie 2%.
Ada Hutchinson 1.
Why do you spell it Ada?
I don't know.
Like the Broadway play?
Wasn't that a Broadway show?
Ada?
Anyway.
The public knows who I am and what a successful presidency I had with energy independence, strong borders, and military, biggest ever tax and regulation cuts, no inflation, strongest economy in history, and much more.
I will therefore, all caps, I will therefore not be doing the debates.
Okay, I would say that this is bluster.
That he won't attend this debate, nor should he, there's no strategic reason for him to do it, but if this debate hurts his poll numbers, If this debate helps, especially DeSantis or even Vivek or someone else to really start to rally the field around him, if a number of candidates drop out, maybe Trump will have to show up to the second debate.
That's what I would have said.
And I would say that this is all bluster, except for one line here.
The one line here that tells me he might be serious and has good reason to make this point is, he says, the public knows who I am.
The point of the debates Donald Trump, uniquely in the field, has already done that.
Everyone has known who Donald Trump is since the 80s, at least.
You're the man for the job.
Donald Trump, uniquely in the field, has already done that.
Everyone has known who Donald Trump is since the 80s, at least.
This guy has been a staple of American public life for 40 years, more than 40 years.
And he's been the president, which is why, yet again, I have to point out it's not a regular presidential primary.
He is running effectively as an incumbent.
So the main advantage that he would get from the debates is he could show people who he is.
He could craft the image about himself rather than letting other people craft the image of him for the public.
There's nothing he can do.
Everybody knows who Donald Trump is.
Everybody has some opinion about Donald Trump.
Not one word he's going to say in these debates is going to change people's opinion of him.
Not one.
It's the first time I think maybe he actually won't show up to the rest of them.
And the first time I think maybe he's right not to.
I'm not sure who's harsher on Trump, the Democrats or the never Trump Republicans.
There's a guy, this is so sad, there's a guy, Michael Ludig, who is a long time respected conservative judge, at least you'd say originalist judge, who now spends all of his time on liberal news shows attacking Donald Trump and he believes Hold on, put a pause there.
Constitution disqualifies Trump from even running for president.
He lost that election fair and square in what was, we now know, perhaps the fairest election in American history.
Hold on, put a pause there.
Hold on.
If you come to me and you make an argument and you say, Michael, look, obviously there were some shenanigans in the election.
But here is why the burst water pipes and the week-long counting of the votes and the changing of all the election rules and the violating of the state constitution.
Here's why all of the Democrat shenanigans actually didn't affect the outcome of the election.
And you made that argument to me.
I would at least be open to the argument.
Yeah.
But if you come to me And you deny all of those things, and you deny all the shenanigans, and you deny all the election policy changes that even Democrats 10 years ago admitted opened the system up to fraud, and you look me in the face and you tell me that it's the fairest election in American history?
I just can't believe that.
That's obviously not true.
That is the equivalent of Judge Ludig walking up to me, unzipping his fly, relieving himself on my leg, and telling me that it is raining.
Completely absurd.
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Disqualification provision of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, and therefore the imposition of that qualification for the presidency, is stated in perhaps the clearest language possible.
uh... in the constitution uh... and it is unmistakably applicable to uh... to the former president and his role and and and activities on on january six so that the question is not whether uh... the uh... section three of the fourteenth amendment applies to the former president it unquestionably does Here's a little trick.
This is just a little rule of thumb in politics when you want to discern serious political speech from BS political speech.
Pay attention to the adverbs.
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It is incontrovertibly true.
It is so manifestly, obviously true in the clearest possible language that Trump's not qualified to run.
He's disqualified.
Where do you get that from?
Oh, it's in the Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
It's obviously, clearly, most seriously the fairest election ever and so obviously, manifestly, clearly true that Trump can't run again.
Okay, well let me just see the, what is it, Section 3?
You said Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Okay.
Disqualification from holding office.
No person shall be a senator or representative in Congress or elector of president and vice president or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States or under the state who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress or as an officer of the United States or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state to support the Constitution of the United States shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such a disability.
What's kind of interesting about Section 3 is it doesn't mention the president.
It mentions an elector of the president, mentions senators, House representatives, different officers of different states, state legislatures, executive and judicial officers of states.
It doesn't actually mention the president of the United States.
And more importantly, it says that they won't do it if they've engaged in insurrection or rebellion or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
It's...
Has Donald Trump been charged with insurrection?
Did any of the January 6th grannies get charged with insurrection?
Has Donald Trump been convicted of any crime?
Has any crime even close to this sort of thing?
Not to my knowledge.
I haven't seen that.
Have you seen that?
No.
And the notion that Because CNN calls him an insurrectionist, therefore he is.
Ludwig goes on, he says, and well, the only question is, is this a self-enforcing rule?
Or do you have to be, you know, convicted by one of those pesky courts or something like that?
Yeah, no, I don't think you get convicted by MSNBC, dude, I think.
Grief, man.
This guy, it's so sad what happened to this guy.
Because I don't want to downplay, he was a very important figure in the conservative legal movement, which had some problems and is now in a process of being changed a little bit.
It was a little too procedural, probably.
It was not substantive enough.
Got some good victories.
Obviously, we got the Dobbs victory.
That's pretty phenomenal.
But some have questioned the wisdom of the conservative legal movement, notably Adrian Vermeule, the Harvard law professor who is right-wing, and some other people have as well, because there was a tendency among the conservative legal movement to squish at various times, to say, look, all we care about is the original public meaning of the Constitution and the original public meaning of statutes and the
And if that original public meaning leads us to the place where we're going to kill 800,000 babies a year, well, look, that's just what it says.
We can't possibly use any other interpretive principle.
We can't possibly refer to, say, the background principles of the natural law to come to a conclusion.
We can't possibly exercise our judgment.
No, no, no.
We're just automatons, we're robots applying the original public meaning, which itself was a transformation, by the way.
Because the original originalism was original meaning, not original intent, not original public meaning.
But in any case, it's very sad to see what happened to this guy and so many other people like him who just got driven crazy by Trump and made an idol out of their principles, their supposed principles, and in so doing undermined all of their principles.
Does anyone really believe that throwing the leader of the opposition into prison for holding a rally, and for calling for peace, and all the rest of it, that that's really in keeping with the American Republican tradition?
That that's really in keeping with the rule of law?
No, nobody thinks that.
But this guy's just been driven crazy, and now he's saying, hey, yeah, the liberal regime needs to imprison its political enemies.
Yeah, go get them.
Why?
Because, I don't know, the 14th Amendment says it somewhere, or say, in Invisible Inc.
somewhere.
Very sad.
Same thing happened to Bill Kristol.
Bill Kristol, maybe you love him, maybe you hate him, Bill Kristol was a very influential guy on the right.
Bill Kristol was so influential that he could launch extremely ill-fated wars and vice-presidential careers for decades.
And now what does he do?
He just takes pot shots on blogs that nobody reads.
He is a Democrat.
He's effectively a liberal Democrat.
Judge Michael Ludick went from being a giant of the conservative legal movement to being the Ed McMahon to every hack host on MSNBC.
Very, very sad.
Why did that happen?
I've got two explanations for it.
I've got two explanations for how Trump, in particular, has managed to drive these people crazy.
One, the cynical explanation, is that it's just jealousy.
That these guys used to have a lot of influence and power, these guys used to have their vision of what the Republican Party should be, be the dominant vision, and Trump came in and he returned the GOP in many ways to an older kind of conservatism that was a little more skeptical of free trade, that was a little more skeptical of immigration, that was a little more skeptical of outsourcing, that was a little more skeptical of globalization, that was a little more skeptical of liberalism for that matter.
And they didn't like that, and they saw their influence wane, and they saw their political vision being put in the backseat, as other kinds of conservatism had been put in the backseat for 50 years, and they took their ball and went home.
And they said, well, if I can't have power here, I'm going to go over to the Democrat Party.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Okay, that's the cynical reason.
The charitable explanation is that this is a failure of political imagination.
That these guys had just been stuck in a rut, and they believed that the three or four hack talking points from the back of a napkin that the Republican politicians had been saying to no effect for 30 years, that that was the be-all and end-all of conservatism.
That conservatism began when these people entered public life, and it could never change, it could never deepen, it could never develop, it could never refer back to perhaps even deeper sources of
Political thought, and when that began to happen, when the fashionable Lalbertarianism and neoconservatism of the 1990s and 2000s began to give way to deeper understandings of conservatism, Edmund Burke, Aristotle, the natural law, The American tradition from the founding, not as it was revised in children's books, but as it actually was in the 18th and 19th centuries.
As that happened, they couldn't take it.
They couldn't imagine that there was more to politics than just cutting taxes and flooding the country with foreigners and bombing the Middle East.
They couldn't imagine that there was more to legal conservatism than using a crystal ball to figure out what a handful of legislators thought in 1789.
And when their views were challenged, Rather than allowing iron to sharpen iron, they went over to the bad guys.
Not good.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Stephanie Crow 7387.
Says, I wish you would do a redo of Christopher Walken's dance scene in your new office.
That's a great idea.
Here's actually a little bit of trivia.
You know, I've confessed.
That in my prior wayward youth of my teens and early 20s, I was a professional actor.
And I know, listen, we've all done things we're not proud of.
Some people got addicted to heroin.
Some people participated in orgies.
I was a professional actor.
Okay, I know, these are shameful things, but what can we say?
We have, people do these things.
But when I was an actor, I had the same acting teacher as Christopher Walken.
Even though Christopher Walken is much older than me, he's 80 years old.
I am not 80 years old.
But I had a teacher who at the time was 92 years old and he was Chris Walken's teacher.
But he didn't teach me to dance as well as he apparently taught Chris.
Speaking of failures of imagination, I told you yesterday that the masks are coming back.
The lockdowns, the COVID measures, they're coming back right on time.
Two and a half years after they went away, they're coming back because COVID-19 was just before the 2020 presidential election, 19 referred to 2019, and COVID-23 right here before the 2024 election to justify an upending of all the voting rules again.
Morris Brown College.
has inaugurated this.
Lionsgate in Hollywood said we're bringing back the masks and Morris Brown College, as far as the universities go, says we're going to bring back the masks and here's what they said.
They said the mask mandate is a precautionary move for the next 14 days.
It's being reported by WSB-TV.
14 days.
Does that sound familiar?
Two weeks.
They're actually saying at Morris Brown College, hey, hey, hey, we're not, no, no, no, we're not bringing the masks back.
Oh, hey, man, we're not bringing the COVID measures.
It's just two weeks to slow the spread.
Oh, shoot, we can't say two weeks, because then if we say two weeks, maybe they'll remember that we did this exact same thing last time.
Let's say 14 days.
Yeah, yeah, they won't put two and two together.
They're not even changing the script.
They're just doing the exact thing they did during the last election.
Even after we know the masks don't work, this has now been admitted by relevant authorities.
We now know that the social distancing was arbitrary, heard that from the FDA.
We now know that the vaccines didn't do what we were told they would do.
They didn't stop people from catching COVID.
They didn't stop people from spreading COVID.
We now know that a lot of the statistics we heard early on in COVID were bogus, based on fake models.
We know all of that.
It was all bogus, man.
And they're doing it again.
How offensive.
It's so much more offensive than even the fact that they're trying to lock us all down again and take away our ability to run our own country.
The most offensive part is they're not even getting creative about it.
Total failure of imagination.
Speaking of scripts and going off scripts, President Biden landed in Maui.
One of the first things he says, he lands there and he makes a joke about the heat.
You guys catch the boots out here?
It's hot ground, man.
An estimated 480 people have been killed at the very lowest estimate and 850 are missing and the death toll is almost certainly well above a thousand.
Pretty hot ground, huh?
Isn't that funny?
Better wear some boots.
Then, he goes on, he's giving a speech, wearing a Hawaiian lei, he's giving a speech, and he has the temerity to compare the fire.
We were talking about September 11th earlier in the show.
If a thousand people died in Maui, who knows how many, it could have been more by the way, if a thousand people died, that's a third of 9-11.
That is a third of what is considered to be the greatest tragedy in American history.
And what does Joe Biden do?
He compares it to a kitchen fire in his house.
I don't want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, what it's like to lose a home.
Years ago, now 15 years ago, I was in Washington doing Meet the Press.
It was a sunny Sunday, and lightning struck at home on a little lake that's outside of our home, not a lake, a big pond.
And hit a wire and came up underneath our home into the heating ducts, the air conditioning duct.
To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my 67 Corvette, and my cat.
But all kidding aside, I watched the firefighters, the way they responded.
You know, there's an old expression, I grew up right across the street from a fire hall in Claremont, Delaware.
You couldn't script this if you hired the best writers in Hollywood.
You couldn't script.
He walks up there and he says, ha ha.
Yeah, I don't want to compare tragedies or whatever, but, you know, one time I had this small kitchen fire that was very quickly contained.
But, and I know you guys lost like hundreds and hundreds of children, like whole families burned up.
Yeah, but I almost lost my Corvette.
Anyway.
What is wrong with this man?
I'll tell you exactly what's wrong with him.
I know exactly what's wrong with him.
This, I want to be as charitable as I can.
You know, I don't just throw bombs.
This is an occupational hazard of politics, and Joe Biden is all politics.
He is not a living, breathing human being with flesh.
He is just a visible form of politics.
He doesn't have any thoughts.
He doesn't have any beliefs.
He doesn't have any principles.
He just does whatever he thinks the crowd will need to get him elected.
He's been in politics for The majority of his life.
He's been in at the national level for over 50 years.
And Joe Biden, charitably, we would call this empathy.
Okay, this is the the ability of politicians to Just feel compassion with their constituents, or at least to perform compassion.
This is why when Hillary Clinton went out years ago and started putting on this fake Southern accent, she said, I don't feel no ways tired.
I made fun of her, but I felt for her because I don't think she did that consciously.
I think she just, that's what politicians do.
They just naturally feel some resonance with the people that they're with and they try to find some common ground.
So you could charitably call that empathy.
You could uncharitably call it vanity, just making everything about themselves.
But here's a good rule for solemn public speeches when you're talking about what appears to be turning out to be one of the greatest tragedies in American history.
Delete the first person pronoun.
The first person singular pronoun.
Just delete it.
I don't care you're giving a wedding toast, you're giving a eulogy.
You're giving a political speech after a tragedy.
Delete it.
It's not about you, man.
In Polybius's, good old ancient Uncle Polybius, in his take on the cycle of regimes, the different kinds of regimes that can decay into their bad version.
You know, you have monarchy.
Monarchy can be perfectly fine.
There are wonderful monarchies in the history of the world.
But then the bad version is tyranny.
You've got aristocracy.
That's the good version, literally means rule by the good.
And then you've got the bad version, that's oligarchy.
Or you've got democracy, which...
People have had conflicting views on it over history, but the bad version of democracy, according to our founding fathers, would be mob rule.
Well, what's the difference?
What separates those things?
Thomas Hobbes, the author of Leviathan, one of the people who inaugurated modern political science, probably the grandfather, we would say, of liberalism, the classical kind and the modern kind and all of it, he would say that there's really no difference between those things.
It's just we say one regime is good and the other one is kind of bad.
Ours, when we do it, it's good.
When other people do it, it's bad.
But there's really no substantive difference.
But what Polybius would say is, what the ancient Greeks would say is, that the good version is when the monarch or the aristocracy or the democracy are legislating for the common good.
And the bad version is when the tyrant or the oligarchy or the mob are ruling for self-interest.
And when a ruler just talks about, I, me, my, I, me, my, all the freaking time, you know what kind of regime you're living under.
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