Ep. 1343 - Trans-Woman Tries To Get Pregnant To Have An Abortion
Libs campaign against parental rights, the fire-alarm pulling Democrat congressman gets caught in a lie that coincidentally involves Michael, and RFK Jr. pledges to pull more votes from Trump than Biden.
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This viral clip, care of our friends at libs of TikTok.
Let's talk about parental rights for a second because it's become evident that it's being used currently in this fight against queer people, and especially queer kids who need more protections than ever before.
Like in Saskatchewan and in the US, parental rights are being used to thwart And he writes of autonomy that the kid might have.
And I'm sorry, but kids do have autonomy.
We've already established this.
For example, if a kid needs a blood transfusion and the parents don't want to, it's not the parent's right to refuse that blood transfusion for that kid because it is life-saving.
In the same respect, If a kid only needs to, like, use a different name and pronoun in school, there might be a reason, and a good reason, they're not coming out at home.
And they need a safe place to be themselves.
And so, to hell with this idea of parental rights when it comes to kids who have their own consent and their own bodily autonomy and their own autonomy to their personhood that need to be protected.
To hell with this idea of parental rights.
Libs 2024, to hell with parental rights.
Now you might say, who cares?
This is just some random weirdo, and that's true.
But we see the same belief articulated by more prominent, less random weirdos.
Here is AOC's take on the GOP's Parents' Bill of Rights proposal.
They are asking the Republican Party to keep culture wars out of classrooms.
Our children need urgent and aggressive educational solutions.
The American Library Association is coming out against this Republican proposal.
When we talk about progressive values, I can say what my progressive value is, and that is freedom over fascism.
Okay, but it's AOC, you might say.
Everyone knows AOC is on the fringe.
Yeah, sure, maybe.
But then, here again, we have an even less fringe, even less random, even more prominent weirdo saying the same thing.
Rebecca put a teacher's creed into words when she said, there's no such thing as someone else's child.
No such thing as someone else's child.
Our nation's children are all our children.
No such thing as someone, meaning there's no such thing as your child.
They're all my child, me, Joe Biden.
The libs are coming out in full force against parental rights.
They view the family as the final impediment to their agenda.
On the bright side, this is the best line of attack that the GOP currently has.
Parental rights Is exactly what gave Republicans Virginia.
It's exactly one of the reasons that Ron DeSantis has been so popular in Florida.
The libs know that dismantling the family is unpopular, but they also know that they've got to do it to seal their power.
And the scary thing is, despite the unpopularity, they've already been pretty successful at doing just that.
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RFK Jr., potentially running third party, and he is weighing in on which major candidate he's going to take more votes from.
We'll get to that in one second.
First, though, Libs of TikTok finding some real bangers lately.
She always finds phenomenal clips that tell you a lot about our politics.
But I don't know, the last few days, it's just been hit after hit after hit.
Here is one trans activist, I guess we're not going to be on a certain Social media platform for this part of the show.
Here is a trans activist explaining that he wants to be not only a one of the first men who I guess would be the very first man who gets pregnant by having a womb implant.
And this is all kind of sci-fi stuff.
But he wants to be not only the first man to get pregnant, but then also the first man to kill his child.
I am the first trans woman to have a successful uterus transplant, ovaries and eggs included, and I want to be the first trans woman to have an abortion.
I will let a doctor, who has successfully transplanted a uterine complex before, cut the organs out of a willing, healthy, transmasculine donor, place them in my body.
I will devote myself, heart and soul, to their aftercare.
I will have as much gay sex as it takes, with as many trans women as it takes, and let the transphobes and homophobes scratch their heads wondering what to make of it.
And I want to be the first trans woman to have an abortion.
Okay, I think I followed most of that.
It's a little bit of a Rube Goldberg machine of infanticide.
There's so many extra added steps there for the end goal of killing a child.
But I think I basically He wants to pretend to be a woman and then cut out the healthy organs of another woman who thinks that she's a man and then have those organs implanted into him and then he wants to do all sorts of depraved acts and then he wants to improbably, implausibly become pregnant and begin to nurture this budding young life solely for the purpose of then being able to murder it.
That's what gets him off.
The whole reason I show this clip is not merely to point out how wacky those trans activists are, or, boy golly, can you imagine how far the left has gone these days?
The reason I bring this one up is to remind people that there is a limit to debate.
Liberalism says that all of politics is like one big, never-ending college debating society.
And we're never gonna come to any firm conclusions.
We're all just gonna keep debating.
And it's so important to have conversations.
And we just need to talk to each other.
And as long as we can talk and have conversations and debate, then our politics will be flourishing.
There's no debating with that.
There's no When you differ on first principles, when you differ on the basic premises and axioms, the starting point for how you view the world, the starting place that you arrive at through intuitive reasoning, when you differ there to that kind of degree, there's no debate.
How are you going to debate that guy?
Says, I want to chop my whole body up and chop up another woman and get and switch all of our organs so that I can do depraved things and then get pregnant so I can murder a baby.
Oh, well, no, sir.
Let me explain to you rationally why your views are.
No.
No, there is a limit to debate.
And conservatives need to recognize this.
The libs recognize this, but conservatives need to recognize this, too.
Politics is not an endless conversation.
Politics is how we all live together.
And when we all want to live together, we have to come to certain conclusions about the law.
And what the law is, is an ordinance of reason for the common good by him who has care of the community.
And promulgated.
That's what it is.
And so you gotta just say, you just, those people, you just gotta say no.
No.
Sorry.
I don't need to entertain your stupid, depraved, evil thoughts.
I don't need to pretend that your point of view has any validity whatsoever.
You are a crazy person with serious defects of your will and intellect, and you should most likely be in an insane asylum.
But perhaps there's some argument that you can live a slightly more autonomous life but with strict limits on it because you, sir, have completely lost your mind and you are a danger to everyone around you and to yourself.
So no.
We're not going to just chat and we're not going to pretend that your view has any validity whatsoever.
Just no.
No.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Your ideology for the good of society, and especially for the good of people like you, needs to be eradicated from public life entirely at every single level.
Speaking of the consequences of liberalism, this is the craziest story that hit the news yesterday.
And I didn't really comment on it directly yesterday because it was so shocking.
I felt it was even distasteful to talk about it.
Now enough time has gone by, everyone's already talking about it.
This guy Josh Kruger is a liberal activist and Josh Kruger, three days ago, made fun of Scott Adams, the Dilbert comic and somewhat vaguely conservative commentator who's a very interesting guy and has, you know, obviously had a very successful career.
Scott Adams, three years ago, tweeted out, If Biden is elected, there's a good chance you will be dead within the year.
That was July 2020.
Three days ago, Josh Krueger tweets out, the Dilbert dude is like Nostradamus.
Look at this prediction from 2020.
Wow.
Eerie.
So he's making fun of him.
He's saying, yeah, we're all supposed to be dead.
And you know, we're not dead.
What an idiot this guy is.
And then two days after that, Josh Krueger was murdered in his Philadelphia home.
And now the Dilbert guy is being called Nostradamus.
This is really weird.
New York Times is reporting on this.
Philadelphia journalist is killed in his home.
Josh Kruger, 39, was shot seven times.
The police said that no arrests had been made.
We don't know if the people who killed him knew him or if it was just another home break-in, like there's so many of them in Philadelphia.
So now people are saying, wow, Scott Adams is predicting the future.
And it's weird.
The timing is a little bit eerie, obviously not for the reasons that Mr. Kruger thinks.
I don't think that we should be happy about this, obviously.
I know some people think they have a little schadenfreude here because the guy who downplayed all of the risks of living in these kinds of cities and downplayed the spiking crime, he ended up having to deal with the consequences of that.
Obviously, we should just pray for this guy's soul and pray for ourselves, too.
But what do we make of Scott Adams?
Does he predict the future?
No.
He only sort of, Scott Adams only sort of predicts the future in the same way that prophets predict the future.
People misunderstand what a prophet is.
A priest friend of mine, Father Ruttler, has an excellent line on this.
He says, prophets do not primarily predict the future, but rather see the present.
They predict the future only in a derivative sense.
In as much as telling the truth will tell you something about how the future is going to unfold.
The number of murders in Philadelphia has more than doubled over the last decade.
It does not take a Nostradamus to know that people are more likely to be murdered in these cities.
So some people deny that reality, other people just tell the truth.
They just see the present, they tell the truth as they see it, and when you tell the truth in an age that is defined by lies, you're going to look like you're predicting the future.
But you're not.
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Speaking of lawlessness, we've got an update in the Congressman Jamal Bowman case.
Congressman Jamal Bowman Is the man who is a Democrat from New York and he pulled a fire alarm to stop the House from voting on a continuing resolution.
And then he lied about it.
And he said, Oh no, I was just trying to open the door.
The signs were really confusing and I just didn't, I didn't know.
So this excuse fell apart pretty quickly when we saw the alleged signs.
There's one that says, emergency exit only.
It says, emergency exit only, push until alarm sounds, door will unlock in 30 seconds.
Yeah.
And so, but it says alarm will sound, emergency exit only, don't go out this way.
So, unless Congressman Jamal is completely illiterate, it's not convincing that he would have not known what these signs meant.
But then, what's weird is, in the picture, we have camera footage of him pulling the alarm, He's not standing in front of those signs.
The signs are nowhere really to be seen in that picture.
Apparently it's because he knocked the signs down.
And then he's not pushing on the door.
He's just pulling the fire alarm on the wall.
So he couldn't even pretend as though he thought it was just a way to get through the door.
He turned and pulled the fire alarm there.
Furthermore, the way that you know his excuse is complete BS is because he didn't even go out those doors.
Congressman Jamal apparently ran out through a different door on a different floor because he didn't want to get caught because he didn't realize that they had cameras in the U.S.
Capitol.
Tells you a lot about the caliber of Democrat congressmen.
So this this totally fell apart.
And now what are the Republicans going to do?
If the GOP does not vote to expel this man from Congress, this man who did a much more egregious insurrection than anything committed by the Horn Hat guy or the Midwestern grannies or the lectern fellow from Florida smiling for the camera.
Congressman Jamal Bowman, if any of those guys are guilty of insurrection, Bowman is guilty of it 20 times over.
If the G does not expel him from Congress, GOP is in charge of the House right now, then the GOP is just completely impotent.
It's just completely pathetic.
Bowman, for his part, is now in damage control mode.
So he sent out this messaging, according to Politico, which blamed everything on the Nazi Republicans.
And he said, we've got to stop these Nazi Republicans from trying to make a big deal over my pulling the fire alarm and obstructing an official congressional proceeding.
When Politico reported on the Nazi memo, Congressman Bowman then backtracked.
And he denied having sent out the guidance.
He said, I just became aware that in our messaging guidance there was inappropriate use of the term Nazi without my consent.
Without my consent.
I condemn the use of the term Nazi out of its precise definition.
It is important to specify the term Nazi refers to members of the Nazi Party and Neo-Nazis.
Which would be a lot more convincing if Congressman Jamal Bowman had not called me a Nazi on Twitter back in March.
So back in March, after I gave my CPAC speech where I said boys and girls are different, you know, and Congressman Jamal tweets out and says, this is a direct quote, Michael Knowles is a Nazi hell-bent on keeping only white men alive and in power.
And then he went on and on and on.
So here, Bowman insinuates, I would never use the term Nazi if I weren't referring to German soldiers from the 1940s.
This happened without my consent, I completely disavow this, I would never do such a thing, it's terribly offensive.
Oh yeah?
Well, was it also accidental and non-consensual when you called me a Nazi?
On Twitter?
The tweet's still up!
Was that still an accident back in March?
I don't...
No that I believe that.
Are you gonna disavow that, Congressman Bowman?
Are you gonna apologize to me?
Are you gonna apologize to everyone for that awful decision, no doubt made by some low-level staffer, to call me a Nazi for saying that boys and girls are different?
He just keeps digging.
This is a guy who is not thinking strategically and this is one of the reasons also not to lie.
It's bad to lie because lying is a sin and can condemn your soul to hell and you shouldn't do it for that reason because it offends God.
But another reason, even if you don't believe in God and you don't care about your soul and you're if you're just in politics, another reason not to lie is you're gonna get caught.
It's very, especially when you're lying publicly to the media, in the age of Twitter where there's a tweet for everything, you're going to get caught, man, especially if you're not necessarily the sharpest tool in the shed, when you're not maybe the most high level Machiavelli, Metternich kind of political strategist out there.
And then you start spinning all these lies and denying and backtracking and you're going to get caught.
And so probably what would serve Congressman Bowman is for him to stop speaking immediately, two days ago probably.
But this is a real crime.
It's not just that he called me a Nazi or he called Republicans Nazis and he's lying about it.
That's a little bit of a political scandal.
Obstructing an official congressional proceeding after the Democrats have spent the last two years whining and crying and screaming about how January 6th was basically the shots fired on Fort Sumter?
Give me a break!
If the GOP does nothing here, if the GOP doesn't seize on this advantage and expel this Looney Tune from Congress, then what do we have the GOP in Congress for?
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seems poised to run third party in 2024.
So this raises the question, Is he going to be a spoiler?
And if he's a spoiler, who's he going to be a spoiler for?
Is he going to be like Ross Perot and throw the election to the Democrat?
Or is he going to be like Ralph Nader and throw the election to the Republican?
RFK Jr.
thinks he knows the answer.
Yeah, and then the other thing is that I take more votes from President Trump than I do from President Biden.
Right, so why would that help them?
Yeah, it's not helping them.
I don't buy it.
I don't think that's true.
I see why some people do think that that might be true.
Some people do think that might be true because RFK Jr.
is anti-vax, and he's specifically anti-COVID vax, and a lot of Republicans are also anti-COVID vax.
But that's pretty much it.
R.F.K.
Jr., I kind of like the guy.
In fact, I grew up in his town.
My grandmother attended Bobby Kennedy's church for like 60 years of her life or something.
It was a relatively small town in northern Westchester.
So, you know, I've been aware of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
for most of my life, and he seems like an amiable, albeit somewhat eccentric fellow, but he's a big lib.
Other than on the COVID vaccines, he's a lib on pretty much every single issue.
He's a lib on abortion.
He's a lib on energy.
He's a lib on the climate policy, such as it is.
He's a lib on marriage.
He's a lib on guns.
He's a lib on immigration.
On the latter two issues, he's a little bit better than Biden and some of the Dems, but he's still a liberal on those issues.
So how is he going to take more votes from Trump?
I just don't believe that.
Especially, I know Republicans have spent the last six months building up Bobby Kennedy as a potential challenge to Joe Biden, to some good effect, too, by the way, because currently Bobby Kennedy Jr.
is polling at 15% in the Democrat Party, which I think makes my case for me and argues against the point Kennedy's trying to make.
How is Kennedy polling within the Republican Party?
They haven't taken a ton of direct polls on this question.
There is one, though.
Here's one.
This is one from Echelon Insights.
Shows that Trump versus Biden Right now, National Poll has Trump winning by three points, 46 to 43.
If the race were Trump versus Biden versus Kennedy, Trump would win by four points.
It would be Trump 40.
Biden 36, Kennedy 14.
So again, the margin of error is real here.
I mean, this is a pretty tight race as it is.
But in as much as the polls show anything, it shows that Bobby Kennedy would pull more from Biden than from Trump.
The only issue is COVID.
But if COVID were the defining issue of the 2024 race, Ron DeSantis would be the nominee.
Because Donald Trump has a million pictures next to Anthony Fauci, and Ron DeSantis reopened Florida relatively quickly.
That was his issue.
The big issues that define DeSantis are COVID, first of all, opening Florida up relatively quickly, and then parental rights and fighting Disney and fighting the LGBT agenda.
Mostly it was COVID, but Trump is still way up in the polls because people's memories are short and there are other issues that they're thinking about.
So COVID isn't the defining issue.
So I say bring it on with RFK.
I'm fine with it.
RFK has to, I think, argue that he is primarily going to pull votes from Trump because his base is still Democrats.
The people who like Bobby Kennedy are maybe some eccentrics on the right, but more likely it's going to be Those liberals, those Democrats who think the woke people have gone too crazy.
You know, look, I'm a Democrat.
I'm a Kennedy Democrat, all right?
I love Jack Kennedy, all right?
But I just think these woke people have gone too far.
But I still hate Trump.
So I just need some, you know, Biden, he's too old and he's followed the left fringe of his party.
I just want to vote for a Kennedy.
Okay, I'm going to vote for Bobby Kennedy.
That's his base.
His base is not rock-ribbed conservatives.
Just to use one example, if you're pro-life, you can't, in good conscience, vote for Bobby Kennedy.
Because you've got a relatively, historically, incredibly solid pro-life candidate in Trump.
Trump who got Roe v. Wade overruled.
Trump who was the first president to speak at the March for Life.
Even if some recent comments have been a little more confusing on pro-life.
Uh, largely because he's trying to attack his most formidable rival, Ron DeSantis.
You can't, no one can seriously argue Bobby Kennedy's more pro-life than Donald Trump.
So you got a major candidate who's pro-life, who's got a way better chance of winning than Bobby Kennedy does, you gotta vote for Trump.
Or, if, let's say Trump isn't the nominee, it's Ron DeSantis, you gotta vote for Ron DeSantis over Bobby Kennedy.
There's no real argument.
I say bring it on, baby.
Let's go.
I want to see a Kennedy running again.
Speaking of Trump and DeSantis, Trump is in hot water, and DeSantis is capitalizing on it because Donald Trump just admitted that his promise to get Mexico to pay for the wall was, in a certain sense at least, a bluff.
So when you hear these lunatics back there say, Trump didn't get anything from Mexico, Well, you know, there was no legal mechanism because I said they're going to help fund this wall, but there was no legal mechanism.
How do you go to a country and say, by the way, I'm building a wall, hand us a lot of money?
So DeSantis is personally taking that clip and not just from his campaign account or his war room account, which has very limited reach, but is finally starting to use his Ron DeSantis personal Twitter account, which is much smarter.
His campaign should have been doing that a year ago, has come out and said, This is a good attack.
that the famous promise from 2016 to have Mexico pay for the wall was just an empty campaign slogan is bad enough.
What makes it worse is that there is actually a way to get Mexico to pay for the wall, impose fees on remittances sent to Mexico and other countries by illegal aliens.
As president, I will get this done.
No more bluster.
Results are all that matter.
This is a good attack.
I don't think that Trump's admission there is going to hurt him really all that much.
I, I agree with what Trump said in 2016, which is that he could basically shoot somebody in broad daylight on 5th Avenue and he probably wouldn't lose a single vote.
I think that's true because I think most people, when they heard we're going to get Mexico to pay for it, understood that to mean we're going to get them to pay for it through, I don't know, rewriting trade deals, like rewriting NAFTA, for instance, or through potentially through remittances like Governor DeSantis is suggesting, or through this or through that.
But I don't think most people understood that to mean we're going to send an invoice to Mexico and the president of Mexico is going to pay for it.
Still, though, I think DeSantis is very smart to pursue this line of attack.
I think he's very smart to attack Trump from the right.
I think some of the GOP consultant class has wanted DeSantis to lay off some of the cultural issues and to present himself as, I'm the sane alternative.
We're team sanity over here.
We're not like those crazy lunatic Trumper type people.
And I think that is just totally the wrong framing.
That is GOP establishment, donor, you know, generalization.
Chamber of Commerce nonsense, okay?
That's accepting the framing of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
Do you remember about 10 years ago, right around the 2012 race, there was a rally to restore sanity with these two liberal comedians and commentators, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert?
Because those Tea Party people or those Sarah Palin type people, they're so crazy, they're insane!
We're the sane people, okay?
And so for whatever GOP consultant class Types have convinced Ron DeSantis to run as, I'm the sane candidate.
I'm not, I'm not insane like Donald Trump.
I think they're a large part of the reason why DeSantis is in the doldrums when it comes to the poll numbers.
I think his best shot is to go after Trump from the right, from the cultural issues, the kind of cultural issues that got Glenn Youngkin elected in Virginia, that made Ron DeSantis popular in Florida, that the GOP consultant class freaking hates, but they're excellent, strong issues.
He needs to take the fight to him.
And his answer needs to be not, look, I'm going to restore sanity and civility, and we're not going to call Mexicans murderers and rapists, and we're not going to force them to pay for any wall.
His answer needs to be, yeah, we're going to make him pay for twice as much of the wall that Trump made him pay for.
That's his only shot.
And it's probably not going to work either because Trump is so far ahead.
He's got such an advantage.
He's practically an incumbent.
He's 50 points up if you believe any of the polls, 40 to 50 points up if you believe any So it's still a long shot.
But I think DeSantis is beginning to realize this is his only shot.
He's not gonna make peace with Trump.
The die is cast.
They're enemies now, okay?
And so he can either just sort of fade away, like many of Trump's opponents, or he can dig in, hit him from the right, and then hope to pop up at a later time.
Either hope to win the nomination somehow, or pop up at another time when people rethink the GOP, and Ron DeSantis starts to look like the real conservative standard-bearer.
I think that's the game he's playing right now.
GOP in 76 nominates Jerry Ford over Ronald Reagan.
Then Ronald Reagan gives a speech at the RNC and I think a lot of Republicans regretted nominating Jerry Ford because Reagan gave this clear, relatively more conservative political vision.
If DeSandis is going to have any shot, that's his shot.
It's not going to be.
I'm the sane alternative, okay?
I'm going to just restore things to normalcy.
No, nobody wants that, man.
The normal status quo that we had pre-Trump is the reason we elected Trump.
Because the normal is extremely abnormal.
Because the normal these days is parents don't have any rights, and boys are girls, and we're going to upend our whole political order, and we're not going to have any borders.
If that's normal, we don't want normal, okay?
We want to shake things up.
Now, I think that's all a great strategy for DeSantis.
That said, the race still isn't moving.
And don't shoot the messenger on this, especially because I'm citing the Messenger-Harris poll.
But I said after that second debate, I said, Ron DeSantis was the clear winner.
He did great, relatively to the other people on stage.
And it's not going to matter.
The debate just doesn't matter at all.
If the debate did matter, then it would help DeSantis, but the debate doesn't matter, so it won't.
Please don't shoot the messenger.
Seems that I was correct.
According to Messenger Harris, most Republicans polled believe that DeSantis won, and also that doesn't matter.
Because the numbers haven't really moved.
People are still just as likely to support Trump or DeSantis or any of the other candidates as they were before the debate, even though they acknowledge that DeSantis won that debate.
Now, speaking of electability for the GOP, moving past the candidates for a second, there's another important poll out that shows that voters favor the GOP on the economy by the widest margin ever recorded.
So NBC's liberal poll Shows the GOP with a 21 point lead over the Democrats when it comes to handling of the economy.
This poll goes back to 1991.
This is the biggest margin ever.
The question is, will that be reflected at the ballot box?
All of these indicators are showing that the Republicans have a strong advantage here.
If it were just one poll, Measuring just one aspect of political life, you might say, well, the poll could be wrong.
Well, you know, maybe that aspect of life didn't matter so much.
But consistently, here, you see.
Trump versus Biden, Trump wins.
Consistently, you see, on the question of the economy, the Republicans beat the Democrats.
Consistently, on all of these individual issues, from border security, to parental rights, to the funding of the war in Ukraine, Republicans are on the popular side of those issues.
Democrats, in virtually every case, Democrats are on the unpopular side.
So do you think that the Republicans are going to win in 2024?
I'm not convinced of that.
Just as I am convinced that it's most likely that Trump will be the GOP nominee, I'm not convinced he's going to beat Biden or whoever the Democrat is.
And not necessarily because of his flaws.
I am not convinced that the ballot box will accurately reflect The decision of the people.
Someone asked, Michael, what group did Trump underperform with in 2020 that he's gonna do better with in 2024?
I said, I think the dead.
Pretty sure I'm convinced that Donald Trump severely underperformed among the dead in 2020, especially in bellwether and crucial counties.
And so I think that his campaign needs to increase their outreach to the deceased community.
And all of the other communities that are disproportionately likely to vote by mail and in ballot drop boxes.
That's a real issue.
These are all really encouraging numbers, especially on the economy, because people do often vote with their wallets.
But none of that matters.
It's the advice that, none of that matters if, as FDR told LBJ, you don't sit on the ballot box.
None of that matters if you don't have poll watchers who are making sure that there's no fraud.
Or in the case of the advice of FDR to LBJ, he was actually encouraging a little bit more fraud, which LBJ then followed in 1948 and stole a Senate seat and then ultimately became President of the United States.
So I don't think Republicans should steal elections, but we gotta make sure that the Democrats don't.
You gotta watch the ballot box.
My favorite comment yesterday is from Noah Hastings, 6145, who says, the microphone on set is a great choice, very classy, but kind of sucks that Michael is visibly using a lav mic instead.
Find a mic that's functional and stylish.
I will tell you, my friend, it's true.
I'm wearing a lavalier mic here.
It's just a backup mic.
This is, this is, this is my real microphone.
That was not always the case.
Previously, I had a mic.
It was a real mic, but it was kind of a dummy.
We used the desk mic as a backup, and we used the lav as the direct microphone, but now we've flipped it.
And this is very troubling for me because I had gotten used to gesticulating with my hands like a wild Southern Italian and knocking the microphone over, and it didn't really matter, even though it would make our audio engineer wince.
But now, this is it, baby.
The golden microphone.
My last The thing that I did in LA before I moved out was I got to fill in for Rush Limbaugh and sit behind the golden EIB microphone.
And the only reason I wasn't able to fill in more at that time was that my own radio show was announced a few days later on a different network.
But I got to sit behind that.
I thought, oh my goodness, the golden EIB microphone, Rush Limbaugh, the king of talk radio.
And now, baby, we've got the functioning gold microphone right here on this desk.
It's not the fully gold EIB microphone.
There's no other Rush Limbaugh, but it's a little bit, it's got enough gold, okay?
And speaking of gold, boy, what a fortuitous transition.
Speaking of gold, Costco has a new product that they are selling out of and that is gold bars.
I love this story.
I can't believe this exists.
Costco has everything, man.
They've got $1.50 hot dogs with unlimited refills of Diet Coke and nice little ground up onions on it.
They've got free samples.
You can make a brunch out of it.
They've got massage chairs.
They've got chinos and Oxford shirts.
They've got 50,000 packs of seltzer.
They've got everything.
And now they have bars of gold that they are selling out of.
Part of the reason they're selling out is because, you know this, if you're a Costco aficionado as I am, if you get the slightly more expensive Costco card, then you get 2% back, and apparently you get 2% back on gold as well, so you're getting an effective 2% discount on every ounce of gold you buy, which is pretty great.
But also, what this tells us is, people don't have confidence in the stock market.
This is an actual political indicator.
The fact that Costco can't stock gold bars fast enough.
is an indicator that people don't believe the stock market.
They think it's headed for a crash.
I think it's probably headed for a crash, or at least a significant dip.
That's going to affect the 2024 race as well.
We are still grappling with the insane inflation that came to us by way of COVID lockdowns and Joe Biden's massive spending.
And the whole time, we were told that inflation was not going to be an issue, that actually they were going to curb inflation, that Joe Biden was going to pass the Inflation Reduction Act.
That was gonna curb inflation.
Though it didn't, and all serious analyses on it suggest that it either didn't affect inflation or made inflation worse.
What has thus far controlled inflation to the degree that it has been controlled is the Fed, the Fed finally raising interest rates.
Our economy is extremely precarious right now.
And you can have all the geniuses on TV in their suits and ties saying, oh no, everything's great, Joe Biden's doing fine, it's the most wonderful economy ever.
When people stop stocking up on the gold bars, then I'll finally believe that.
Speaking of questionable finances, the House is investigating Joe Biden's bribes that he would seem to have taken from lots of countries around the world, including Ukraine and China.
They've now brought a forensic accountant to testify about how these sorts of crimes are conducted.
Does anything sound familiar in this testimony?
Mr. Dubinsky.
You have extensive experience as an expert witness and consultant in the areas of white-collar crime, financial fraud, and corruption.
Is it characteristic of these types of crimes that actors hide behind nicknames or other pseudonyms to mask their identity?
It's very common.
What about this first email image is characteristic of financial crimes that you have investigated or provided expert testimony on in the past?
Well, typically you'll see codenames used, and money is being paid to somebody under that codename.
And that's how these processes work.
Let me ask you something.
You're very experienced.
When conducting an investigation, if your boss prevented you from taking investigative steps, how would you react?
How would it affect your findings?
First, it would be extremely troubling if I was told not to continue to investigate something.
And if I was put in that position, I'd probably withdraw from the investigation.
So we know that the DOJ, that Weiss, who's now the special counsel, when he was investigating the Hunter Biden, really Joe Biden scandal on bribes, was stymied at crucial steps, was said, no, you can't really ask that question.
You can't really go there.
We've heard this from IRS whistleblowers.
We also know from Hunter Biden's laptop that Joe Biden was referred to as the big guy, the big guy.
Hey, we got, we got to send 10% to the big guy.
Who's the big guy?
Are we talking about Al Capone?
Sort of.
I guess we're talking about the Al Capone of the Bidens, which is Joe Biden.
We now also know that Joe Biden's brother, Frank, who has also made his career just peddling his brother's name and American influence, Frank Biden, has referred to his brother as the big guy.
When his brother calls, Frank Biden will interrupt business and say, oh, the big guy's calling.
Here's the big guy.
And you'll recall when Biden was first accused of this impropriety, what was the response from Team Biden?
The response was, show me on paper where Joe Biden got a direct payment from China or from Ukraine.
And you're never going to see that.
Joe might not be the swiftest person out there, but he's not a complete dummy, okay?
He at least is clever enough politically to know how to cover his tracks, have holding corporations, and use code names.
So it's not going to say, you know, okay, here, quarter million dollars to Joe Biden.
Though the Chinese did send $260,000 in a couple wire payments to Joe Biden's home address in Delaware.
So they didn't cover it up perfectly.
But that's what this is.
The guy is obviously guilty.
The GOP is going to keep digging in on this.
There's going to continue to be more drip, drip, drip, leak, leak, leak.
They've pulled the thread far enough now, I think.
And because the election is drawing near and our enemies generally tend to like chaos in our elections, probably you're going to get a little bit more information out of China.
Who knows?
Maybe you get a little more information even out of Ukraine.
Though Ukraine is still counting on the Bidens to fund their war.
But China, I could see them kind of messing around a little bit.
Or who knows which other intelligence agencies have this kind of dirt.
I mean, the fact that Hunter Biden left his laptop at just some random shop, such that we got to see terabytes of information.
Who knows how many intelligence agencies around the world know about Joe Biden's crooked business deals.
This is going to continue to look worse for him throughout the election.
Does it look bad enough to replace Joe Biden at the top of the ticket?
Or is he going to be able to hold on?
We're all focused on the fight on the Republican side.
There is going to be an increasingly intense fight on the Democrat side, at least behind the scenes.
There's always going to be a Newsom there, a very sharp political talent, Gavin Newsom, waiting to jump in.
He's already dealt with the open Senate seat in California quite well, the one vacated when Dianne Feinstein died.
There's a little bit of a scandal with that Senate seat as well, but that's going to be my tease.
You know I'm a big tease.
We're gonna have to wait for that until tomorrow because today is... Can I say it?
