Ep. 1521 - Trump Vs Biden Debate Summarized In 5 Mins
The first Presidential debate sends Democrats into a full-blown panic, Anthony Blinken says getting more gay is in our national security interests, and a UK mother is encouraged to abort her Down Syndrome baby at full term.
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It was really good for Donald Trump and the Republicans.
I guess bad for America, except it was good for America in as much as it was bad for Biden and good for Trump and will help Trump win in November.
Last night's debate went so terribly for Joe Biden that some conservatives are now worried That it must have been some kind of a trap.
It was so bad for Biden that the conservatives went from being happy and then elated to being worried, crestfallen almost.
It was so shockingly, stunningly, scandalously bad.
It had to be a farce, right?
It had to be a trick.
It had to be a conspiracy.
Top Democrats are publicly admitting how bad it is.
Therefore, some Republicans are concluding this must have been some 5D chess move by Democrats to replace Biden and then to destroy Trump because they can get, I don't know, Gavin Newsom or Michelle Obama or, I don't know, the ghost of Franklin Roosevelt or someone to beat Trump.
No one can believe that a political performance that terrible could have just happened.
But it did.
And we will get into how.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is the Michael Knowles Show.
As the President of the United States endured rigor mortis on national television last night, the Secretary of State was claiming that spreading LGBT-ism is in America's national security interests.
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The two worst moments for Biden last night also happened to be the occasion for Donald Trump's best zingers.
All those things we need to do, child care, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with, look, if we finally beat Medicare.
Thank you, President Biden.
President Trump?
Well, he's right.
He did beat Medicare.
He beat it to death, and he's destroying Medicare.
That's a great line from Trump.
Total zinger.
In a way, the zinger almost got buried because of Jake Tapper's response.
He brought himself back to something that sounded like authoritative political rhetoric, but it didn't make a lot of sense.
We beat Medicare?
And you can hear in Jake Tapper's voice, once Biden thinks he lands the plane, you hear Tapper go, uh, thank you, President Biden.
And then Trump right in there with the zinger.
Yeah, you beat it to death.
Let me tell you about my Medicare plan and what we've done and how great it was under my watch.
No, why does this matter?
Trump's really good at the zingers.
We thought going into this debate we weren't going to get the zingers because the moderator said we're going to mute the microphones, there's not going to be cross-talk, no opportunity for Trump to pull his, you know, yeah, Hillary, you'd be in jail in my country, or yeah, only Rosie O'Donnell, or all those little zingers that fire people up.
But Trump was restrained and disciplined, and so he just got the zinger in when it was his turn to speak, and he really landed it.
Then maybe even more devastating than Biden just fumbling around to make some point about Medicare was when Biden fumbled around to make some point that no one can even really say what it was.
I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the total initiative relative to what we're going to do with more border patrol and more asylum officers.
President Trump?
I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence.
I don't think he knows what he said either.
The zingers worked because of the restraint.
Just like a beautiful poem is beautiful and made all the more beautiful by the limits put on the poem, by the meter, by the rhyme scheme, by the delicacy and nuance of the diction.
That's what, if it's just, Beyond all limits and bombastic, if the poem is slam poetry or something, it's going to be terrible.
But if it's controlled, if it's got limits, that's where the beauty lies.
And that's where the beauty was in Trump's answers.
He gets the line in, yeah, you beat Medicare to death.
Let me tell you, now let me move on.
Little zinger, zoom-doom, there we go.
Okay, now let me tell you about how much better things were under my watch.
And let me speak an articulate English sentence.
That's going to be the biggest contrast of the night.
Even here, he could have said, Joe, you're a demented old doddering idiot, but he didn't do that.
There was actual pathos in what Trump was saying when he said, it seems so genuine, it seems so sincere.
I don't know what he was just saying.
I'm not even gonna respond to what Biden was just saying.
I don't know what he was saying, and I don't think he knows either.
That zinger worked because it was, It was tough.
It was mean.
It hit him.
But it seemed to have an aspect of compassion to it, too.
And most of all, it was sincere.
Jake Tapper didn't know what he said.
Dana Bash didn't know what he said.
The viewers didn't know what Biden was trying to say.
So, the zingers worked as well as I've ever seen them work for Trump.
Because it wasn't just that they were funny and quick.
He just knew the room.
He read the room.
He's a great showbiz genius.
He knows how to play to 50,000 people in a stadium, and he knows how to play to four people in a closed studio without a live audience being broadcast to 80 million people at home.
He just understood the medium, he understood the moment, he lived up to it.
Biden tried to get some zingers in as well.
It was really just one zinger, and it was one zinger that he repeated throughout the entire night, namely, don't believe what that guy just said.
We had by far the highest, and now it's down in less than half, because he's done all these great things that we did, and I think he did it just because I approved it, which is crazy.
But he has killed so many people at our border by allowing all of these people to come in.
And it's a very sad day in America.
President Biden, you have the mic.
Every single thing he said is a lie.
Every single one.
So this was it.
This was Biden's only comeback all night.
Trump had these kind of funny little comebacks.
Yeah, you beat Medicare to death.
Yeah, I don't know what you just said.
Yeah, you're not that good at golf, which we'll get to in a second.
That was a charming little one, too.
Yeah, actually, the Ukraine war disproves what you've just said.
Yeah, my performance in the economy or immigration disproves what you just said.
He had substantive rebuttals.
All Biden had was, that isn't true!
That's a lie!
It was the My Cousin Vinny defense.
It was that moment in My Cousin Vinny where Joe Pesci shows up wearing the 19th century crazy looking suit and he says this.
Everything that guy just said is bull****.
Thank you.
That's pretty much the defense.
He didn't have quite the panache of a Joe Pesci and his wardrobe wasn't quite as ornate, but that was it.
Mr. Biden, what's your response to all of the charges leveled against you by former President Trump?
Everything that guy just said is bull.
The defense rests.
So, Trump obviously won on the zingers.
Even at the end, I just alluded to it, there was this funny little exchange about how Biden challenged Trump to golf, and Trump thought this was kind of funny.
Here is Trump just knocking him down.
You can see he is 6'5 and only 235 pounds.
Well, you said 6'4, 200.
Well, anyway, just take a look at what he says he is and take a look at what he is.
Look, I'd be happy to have a driving contest with him.
I got my handicap when I was vice president down to a 6.
And by the way, I told you before, I'm happy to play golf if you carry your own bag.
Think you can do it?
He's a six handicap of all.
I was an eight handicap.
I've seen you swing.
I know you swing.
I've seen you swing, I know you swing.
Let's not act like children.
Let's not act like children.
To a specific- Let's, hey, come on, let's not act like children.
Masterful, masterful, the whole bit beginning to end was masterful.
Biden starts it.
He says, Trump, you claimed on your physical that you're six foot five, 225 pounds.
Trump with his mic off so no one at home could really hear the answer.
He goes, that's not true.
I never said that.
Biden could have ignored what Trump was saying because the audience at home wasn't listening.
But Biden has lost his marbles.
So he didn't realize that he had that advantage, that that debate rule that his team asked for, which is that shut up, shut up Trump's mic so that he doesn't interfere with your lies and your narrative.
He didn't realize that he could take advantage of that.
So instead he answers Trump, he goes, well, you didn't say that?
Well, okay, then you didn't say 6'5".
You said you were 6'4".
I didn't say that either.
Okay, all right, well, whatever he said, that's what he said.
But anyway, I want to play golf with you.
I'm a six over par handicap.
And then Trump takes the opportunity and makes a polite and respectable little joke.
Biggest lie Joe's told all night.
He's not a six over handicap.
No way.
That's a gentleman's joke.
Okay, that's not a you've got an ugly face and your mother's a whore kind of joke, which is sometimes the level of comedy that you could hear on the campaign trail, especially Trump is a funny New York kind of guy.
That isn't it.
He was just, yeah, you're not as good at golf as you say you are.
Yeah, I've seen your swing.
Even that, that's a gentlemanly kind of joke.
It plays well in Peoria, but it's still off-footed Biden.
And then Trump comes in just as the debate is reaching the point where people would say Trump was taking cheap shots and making jokes and distracting.
Trump says, but let's not act like children.
Hey guys, I'm gonna be the adult in the room.
Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, especially you Joe Biden, can we please get back to the substantive issues?
Masterful.
He did that all in about one minute.
Less than one minute, I think.
Absolutely masterful.
And then they did get into substantive issues.
And so, put the zingers aside for a second.
On the substance, Trump Slaughtered this guy.
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On the substance of the debate, what did Biden have to say?
We knew the issues he was going to bring up.
Forget about, January 6th was the worst day ever.
Forget about Donald Trump as a felon.
Forget about, he uses naughty words.
Forget about, he's a racist, sexist, misogynist, Nazi, this is, that is.
You know, you had all that.
But on the substance, we knew Biden was going to go after Trump on abortion.
Trump overruled Roe v. Wade.
He got the judges on the court to overrule Roe v. Wade.
He wants to ban abortions.
That's terrible.
Vote for me, Joe Biden.
I have the moderate popular position on abortion.
Here's Joe trying to make that argument.
I supported Roe v. Wade, which had three trimesters.
The first time is between the woman and the doctor.
Second time is between the doctor and an extreme situation.
The third time is between the doctor, I mean, between the woman and the state.
The idea that the politicians, that the founders wanted the politicians to be the ones making decisions about women's health is ridiculous.
That's the last.
No politician should be making that decision.
A doctor should be making those decisions.
That's how it should be run.
That's what you're going to do.
And if I'm elected, I'm going to restore Roe v. Wade.
So the one part that Biden said is true is that Roe v. Wade established a trimester system for determining when you can kill a baby.
That is true.
And it, the trimester system that Biden describes is not accurate.
What did he say there?
He said the first, the first one, it's, you know, you can kill the baby.
And then the second one, it's between the mother and the, and the, and then the second one, it's between the mother and the state.
But we don't want politicians involved.
Hold on, wait, hold on, you just... So, you're telling me, previously, you said to Trump, no Trump, that's not true, we don't support late-term abortions, I support Roe v. Wade, and Roe v. Wade is a trimester system, so don't tell me that I support late abortions.
According to the trimester system, you can abort babies in the first trimester, or the second trimester, or the third trimester.
Wait, what?
But, anyway, I'm trying to tell you that we don't support late-term abortions, but then I just literally told you we do support late-term abortions, and I specifically claimed, out of nowhere, that the third trimester, what distinguishes it from the first two trimesters, is that there, the decision of whether or not to kill a baby is between the mother and the state, and that's why I don't think politicians should be involved in the issue of abortion.
I mean, I guess the politicians are in the state.
They work for the state, and so the state is politics, and that's the third trimester, which is the late term that you're actually bringing up, Trump.
But anyway, I support Roe v. Wade.
And there's a further irony here.
Utah Senator Mike Lee posted a great clip.
I probably should have pulled it.
There were so many clips coming in of Biden decades ago saying that while he supported the outcome of Roe v. Wade, he supports abortion.
He supports killing babies willy-nilly.
He was mocking the constitutional reasoning behind Roe v. Wade.
He said, you know, no one really believes that the Roe v. Wade decision was a great example of constitutional, reasonable jurisprudence.
No, the decision was a total mess.
And of course it was a total mess.
That's why the Supreme Court It totally upended the logic of Roe v. Wade and the line of argumentation when it reaffirmed the conclusion of Roe v. Wade in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in the early 90s, before it was overruled in the Dobbs decision.
So the answer was just gobbledygook from the perspective of Roe v. Wade, of the actual decision, from the perspective of bioethics, from the perspective of the history of abortion in America, and from the perspective of Joe Biden's own position.
Decades ago and in the debate, he contradicted himself in the very same breath.
Here's Trump on Roe v. Wade.
He's willing to, as we say, rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month and kill the baby.
Nobody wants that to happen, Democrat or Republican, nobody wants it to happen.
That is simply not true.
The Roe v. Wade does not provide for that.
That's not the circumstance.
Only if a woman's life is in danger, she's going to die.
That's the only circumstance in which that can happen.
But we are not for late-term abortion.
Period.
Under Roe v. Wade, you have late-term abortion.
You can do whatever you want, depending on the state.
You can do whatever you want.
We don't think that's a good thing.
We think it's a radical thing.
We think the Democrats are the radicals, not the Republicans.
Perfect.
This is the answer.
Democrats are the radicals on abortion.
Whatever you think about abortion, I know people have all sorts of views on abortion, and a lot of them are incoherent views.
Like, you know, you're fine with killing babies in the first four months, but not after four months, or once the baby moves, or whatever.
These are incoherent views from the perspective of morality and bioethics, but a lot of people think them.
And so Trump is just recognizing that political reality, saying, hey, all you need to know is Joe Biden supports killing babies in the third trimester, which he goes on to admit, Joe Biden's Democrats broadly support killing babies in the fourth trimester, even after the baby's been born, as the governor of Virginia, whom Trump cites here, admits.
And it's the Democrats who are the radicals on abortion, not the Republicans.
What Trump says here is absolutely correct.
When Joe Biden says, no, it's not true.
You're not allowed under review aid.
You're not allowed to have abortions in the third trimester only to save the life of the mother.
That's a lie.
That is not true.
And then he goes on to admit that when he Tries and fails to explain the trimester system of Roe v. Wade.
Before we move on to the fallout here and what this means for Biden's nomination, is he going to be the nominee now?
Don't forget this debate took place before the conventions.
That's a little bit unusual.
Some people are suggesting there's a conspiracy afoot among Democrats who wanted Biden to lose to replace him as the nominee.
There's just one Little exchange in this debate that went largely unnoticed.
I haven't seen a lot of people talking about it and to me it sums up Biden's second biggest problem.
The first biggest problem is his brain doesn't work anymore and it's probably got a lot of plaque on it.
But the second biggest problem is Joe Biden doesn't even understand the terms of the present debate as we saw when he went after Trump.
For cutting Social Security.
He wants to get rid of Social Security.
He thinks there's plenty to cut in Social Security.
He's wanting to cut Social Security and Medicare, both times.
And if you look at the program put forward by the House Republican Caucus that he, I believe, supports, is in fact wanting to cut it as well.
The idea that we don't need to protect our seniors is ridiculous.
So this isn't true, but Biden says a lot of things that aren't true.
What's amazing about this claim is it's not true, and it's actually the exact opposite of everything that Trump has said on the issue of Social Security and Medicare since he's been running for president, since he's been president.
And what Trump has said is actually contrary to what a lot of Republicans wanted to do 10 or 20 years ago.
One of the distinctive features of Trump as a Republican politician is, unlike a lot of other Republican politicians, he does not want to cut Social Security.
He does not want to cut Medicare.
He does not want to cut Medicaid.
That actually irritates a lot of people in the conservative movement.
But that's the Trump movement.
He says, I am not touching these entitlements.
I, Trump, have been consistent.
I will not touch this.
We'll get the savings cuts somewhere else.
So then Biden almost maybe starts to realize this halfway through his answer.
He goes, he supports the House Republican plan to cut Social Security and Medicare.
He's talking about Paul Ryan's plan, the path to prosperity, which actually had a lot to recommend it, but it's a total political loser now.
He's talking about Paul Ryan's plan.
From like 2009.
Paul Ryan is not the Speaker of the House anymore.
He wasn't Speaker even when he wrote that play.
He was the Chairman of the Budget Committee.
He's not even in the House of Representatives anymore.
He hasn't been for years.
Biden is speaking.
He's lobbying this attack as though it's 15 years ago.
And you can see Biden, or Trump rather, he's looking kind of befuddled there.
He goes, Huh?
I very famously will not cut any of those entitlements, and I've taken political slings and arrows from my own side for saying that.
You don't even know the things you should be attacking about me.
Joe, you are living more than a decade in the past.
You don't even know who you're talking to.
So will Biden be the Democrat nominee?
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You trespass into the U.S.
Capitol, you rot in prison.
That's kind of odd.
You're a foreign national, maybe affiliated with a terrorist cell, certainly at least affiliated with the criminal cartels, you get handouts and money and a hotel room and amnesty and a path to citizenship and a voter registration form, but If you are an American citizen who is peacefully protesting your government, and you even consider going near the Capitol grounds, you'll be thrown in solitary for years.
That's kind of weird, isn't it?
That's kind of weird.
Is Joe Biden going to be the nominee?
Democrats are starting to say, maybe not.
Claire McCaskill, who is a huge Lib Democrat Senator, she went on MSNBC right after the debate and she said, Maybe it's time to get rid of Joe.
I have been a surrogate for some presidential candidates in my time.
I know what the job is after a debate of a surrogate.
I've never wanted to be a surrogate more than I do right now.
Because when you're a surrogate, you have to focus on the positives.
But I have said very clearly and very plainly on this network and my job now is to be really honest.
Joe Biden had one thing he had to do tonight and he didn't do it.
He had one thing he had to accomplish and that was reassure America that he was up to the job at his age.
And he failed at that tonight.
Now, does that mean that my phone blowing up with senators and campaign operatives and donors, big donors from all over the country?
Does that mean that Joe Biden is not going to be the candidate?
I don't know that.
I think we'll know a lot more in a few weeks.
Pretty shocking, especially coming from a former senator who's supposed to be a Biden campaign surrogate.
I mean, all these guys are supposed to, to some degree, to be Biden campaign surrogates because Biden's the incumbent.
That was Claire McCaskill on MSNBC.
Here's Joy Reid, who's even more left-wing than McCaskill, speaking to my doppelganger and some other woman on the decision desk.
She was even more beside herself.
The people who were texting with me were very concerned about President Biden seeming extremely feeble, seeming extremely weak.
And, you know, I'll just reiterate what I said earlier.
President Biden had one job tonight.
And it was, it won primary, John.
And yes, it was to litigate Donald Trump's, you know, criminality and all of those things.
But he had to settle his own party.
He needed to settle Democrats.
Democrats, you know, they always talk about Democrats are bedwetters and Democrats are always panicking.
Yes, Democrats are always panicking.
They're always scared, right?
They're always thinking they're going to lose.
Like Democrats are very pessimistic.
This is just who they are.
They're neurotic.
But Joe Biden's job was to reassure them tonight.
His job was to calm his party, to make them feel that, yes, I can do this.
I have four more years in me.
I have the ability and the stamina and the strength to do four more years.
He did not do that.
He did the opposite of that.
So don't take my word for it, you can hear it from Joy Reid, you can hear it from Claire McCaskill, you can hear it from Politico, you can hear it from CNN commentators, you can hear it from NBC and everyone.
You can hear it from everyone on the left.
Which is raising people's alarm bells.
They're saying, wow, was this a plan?
Was this a secret plan by the Democrats?
Oh, it all makes sense now.
They're going to hold the debate before the convention so they can reveal to the world that Biden is really senile.
And that way they can push him out and install some new nominee who actually has a chance to beat Trump.
Because right now, if you look at the polls, Biden is losing to Trump.
So, haha, wow, they actually pulled one over on the Republicans.
Stop celebrating conservatives.
I don't buy it, guys.
I don't buy it.
I understand that there is such a thing as conspiracy.
In some ways, conspiracies make the world go round.
Every business, every political campaign is its own little conspiracy.
I understand that.
I just don't see how this one would have worked.
Because the Democrats would have had to fool Biden, and even if Biden's lost his marbles, would have had to fool Jill Biden, would have had to fool Hunter Biden, who is a degenerate, but he's at least intelligent, would have had to fool the whatever advisors remain loyal to Joe Biden, because Biden proposed these terms for the debate.
So what is it?
And then, okay, let's say you've just shown that your nominee is doddering and incapable of forming an English sentence and is obviously in much deeper throes of senility than even I had previously imagined.
So then you're going to nominate Kamala.
Kamala loses to Trump.
So then you're going to nominate Michelle Obama.
She doesn't really want it.
And I think Michelle Obama loses to Trump, by the way.
I know people Believe because Michelle Obama has made herself a dime store Oprah that everyone really likes her and she's popular.
I don't think she's actually all that popular and I think she loses to Trump if she's installed at this late stage.
So then what, Gavin Newsom?
You could tell he was absolutely salivating in that spin room yesterday.
Gavin, are you going to be the nominee?
Oh no, please stop asking me that.
I'm in the money.
But no, probably he's not going to be the nominee.
Because you have the structural problem then of a white guy, like the whitest guy ever, the whitest guyest guy ever, overtaking the first black woman vice president.
I don't see that really happening.
I just don't think it works.
Joe Biden's wanted to be president since he was in the womb.
I don't think he's going to give it up willingly.
They'd probably have to invoke the 25th Amendment if they wanted to drag Biden out of there.
And even then, they'd probably have to drag him out cold on a stretcher.
So I think this was just bad for them, and I think Biden has risen to the occasion on some occasions.
I was at the State of the Union.
That was only a few months ago.
I was in the room at the State of the Union, and Biden sounded like he was on drugs, but he sounded fine in the sense that he was screaming the whole time and at least seemed to have a lot of energy.
After the debate, Joe Biden actually sounded pretty good when he was talking to the crowd.
So ironically, I think the Biden campaign thought if we get rid of the audience for the debate and we agree to this in-studio thing at CNN, that that'll stop Donald Trump, the demagogue, from whipping up the crowd and that'll help Biden.
But no, I think Biden feeds off of people.
Maybe he literally feeds off of them like he sucks their blood and that's what keeps him going.
But at least metaphorically, he feeds off of people because he's a back-slapping, simpering politician.
That's been his whole career.
That's been 60 years he's been doing that.
So he doesn't have any beliefs of his own, he doesn't really have any principles, but he's good with a crowd.
You gotta give the guy that, at least.
And he can come alive with a crowd.
Just like your grandparent who's suffering from some kind of dementia, sometimes when you bring the grandkids over, your grandparent perks up again.
For all of those reasons and many others, I just think all the political nerds are saying, oh, what's the what are the machinations?
What's going to happen?
No, I think it was just a bad night for Democrats.
And I think Biden's the nominee and barring, you know, an actual Catastrophic health event, you know, barring some stroke or his death.
I think he's going to continue to be the nominee and I think Democrats are just sincerely really upset about that.
And the reason that they're mimicking each other's talking points on television is because they're unoriginal and they don't have all that much to say.
And so yeah, sure, they copy each other and their silly little rhetoric, but I think the desperation is probably genuine.
Before we move on to the mailbag, I don't want to just harp on Biden the whole time.
His whole administration is the problem.
His whole administration looks ridiculous.
Tony Blinken, the Secretary of State, has just gone out and claimed that spreading LGBTism, spreading sodomy and transvestitism, is somehow in America's national security interests.
It's in our national security interest to stand up for LGBTI plus persons around the world.
When nations came together 75 years ago, They affirmed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights respect for the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family.
That's the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world.
And we see that here at the State Department every single day.
Countries that respect the rights of every individual tend to be more stable, more healthy, more democratic, more prosperous.
Those that discriminate against LGBTI plus persons tend to be less free and tend to be less equal.
The correlation is as clear as day.
64 countries currently criminalize consensual same-sex conduct between adults.
In 11 of them, having same-sex relations is punishable by death.
Okay, and that is why it's in America's national security interest to spread the rainbow flag.
I could understand if you're making some argument as to why he feels from his personal liberal view of morality that it's really important to encourage weird sex stuff, but it seems to me he fails to make the argument as to how this is in America's national security interest.
I think he even fails to make the argument as to how spreading the rainbow flag domestically He uses all these words, you know, freedom, prosperity, the countries that do all the gay stuff are freer and more prosperous.
America was much freer and more prosperous, and prosperous rather, before we started pushing all the weird gay stuff.
Don't forget, we've been pushing all the weird gay stuff in a relatively short number of years.
It's been relatively recent that we've been waving the rainbow flag.
The Bostock decision that redefined sex as gender and really advanced transgender ideology, that was 2020.
That was four years ago.
The Obergefell decision, which radically redefined marriage, that was less than 10 years ago.
Before that, everybody agreed marriage is a union between a man and a woman.
There was no such thing as gay marriage.
Certainly not at the federal level.
Nine years ago.
Even Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court case that said that there's some constitutional right to homosexual sodomy.
Probably news to, you know, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and the authors of The Federalist and the framers of the Constitution.
That case was 2003.
So that was just a little over 20 years ago.
But do you think America has become freer and more prosperous since We started pushing all the weird gay stuff.
I'm not saying that the cause of our increasing servitude and lack of prosperity, you know, poverty, both spiritual and financial, is caused by all the weird gay stuff.
I'm really not suggesting that.
He's trying to draw some argument of causation here, and I just don't really see it.
We were freer and more prosperous before we started pushing the rainbow flag.
Probably our freedom and prosperity peaked somewhere around the middle of the 20th century, as the American empire was really on the rise.
But even if you don't think that, even if you hate the 1950s for some reason, I think it's hard to argue that we're freer and more prosperous today than we were before 9-11.
No way.
We're certainly not more secure today than we were before 9-11, are we?
It doesn't feel that way.
It seems like there's terror events popping off all over the country and all over the world all the time.
We just caught eight terrorists in America, ISIS terrorists, that were welcomed in by Biden's administration.
This is the kind of stuff they're focusing on.
So yeah, Biden is a doddering old senile man.
What's Blinken's excuse?
What's Buttigieg's excuse?
What's Kamala Harris' excuse?
What's Mayorkas' excuse?
The rest of the administration.
That, in practice, is just as bad off as Biden.
There's so much more to say.
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I know they do.
You can call me Mama.
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And the children can't take the noise anymore.
This is something that we must do.
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That's about right.
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Howdy, Michael.
Congrats on baby boy number three.
We also just had our third boy and hope to build a baseball team someday.
I currently work, but the plan is for me to stay at home after working another year or so to meet some financial goals.
However, I have some difficulty with my husband.
I want to do all the things a traditional wife does at home, like cook and clean, but my husband insists on doing them.
It wouldn't be an issue if he was a great cook and cleaner, but he is a mediocre chef at best, and let's just say we have different sanitary standards.
I've tried to talk to him multiple times, and we have gotten into a lot of fights over these two topics.
Do you have any advice on how to convince him to let me fulfill my duties as a wife?
Thanks, and God bless!
That's so great.
What a great, what a beautiful, can we say, I want to save this mailbag question.
Such a beautiful mailbag question.
I want to come back to this 10 years from now on the show.
Or I don't know, I guess we'll all be probably living in the matrix at that point and the show will just be kind of coming into us with rosmosis.
But whenever, however we do it, I want to save this.
It's very important.
And I hope the husband listens here.
Let your wife be a wife.
We should all strive, if you're a man, to be a good husband, and if you're the woman, to be a good wife.
Even sometimes when we don't want to fulfill those roles, we should still strive to do it, to do our duty.
But when you want to do it, when you're trying to, and here the husband is being a feminist, and he demands that you live like a liberal feminist, no.
In that case, one of your wifely duties is to remind your husband that he's a husband.
Because you're so right.
It's not even just that, I don't know, you get a thrill out of, you know, putting on a dress and baking a pie.
What you're saying is, he's not good at cleaning.
I'm not good at cleaning.
He's not really that good at cooking.
I'm okay, I'm actually okay at cooking as a child of the mezzogiorno, but I'm not nearly as good at my, as my wife is.
My wife's a way better cook than I am.
Yeah, people are just, when it comes to the kids, the kids want to see me when they want to run around the house or play ukulele or go hit a baseball, but They want to see Mama a lot more of the time, and for a lot of very different reasons.
And especially when they're younger, they want to spend more time with Mama.
That's how it goes.
You got to explain that to him.
You got to say, hey, husband, I'm saying this to you in full respect.
You know, I recognize you're the head of the household.
You got to act like it.
It's that kind of, you know what you got to tell him to watch?
You gotta tell him to watch that scene when Don Corleone is talking to Johnny Fontaine.
Johnny Fontaine is crying, but I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do.
And Don Corleone grabs him, shakes him, smacks him in the face and says, you're gonna act like a man!
What's the matter with you?
That's what he's gotta do.
Because it doesn't, he shouldn't feel guilty about it.
It's not that he should go sit on the couch and eat potato chips.
He should go work harder.
If he's going to do work around the house, he can go power wash the deck.
I don't know.
Or he can spend an hour later at work.
Or he can run around with the kids and tucker them out.
Or he can do a dad thing.
He should go do a dad, he should stop doing a wife thing poorly and spend all of that time doing a dad thing, a husband thing, well.
Next question.
Hey Michael, so I wanted to clarify my last mailbag about conservative populism.
My main problem isn't about fiscal versus social or cultural issues, but with the fact that the populist movement isn't really offering any coherent agenda.
All I ever hear from them is that they want to beat the Democrats and about how bad Biden is, but that tells me nothing about what they want to do to fix things.
And given how they behave in Congress, it feels like they're here to complain about everything and solve nothing, despite the 2016 promise...
For Promises Made, Promises Kept.
My focus, first and foremost, is about doing what is in the best interest of the country, not about beating Democrats.
So, I was hoping you could clarify what exactly the current populist movement is doing that's actually serving American interests and getting things done, since all I really see are people who are willing to talk a lot on TV and act as demagogues, but I'm not really seeing any action or clear messaging.
Even campaign emails only say, vote for me to stop the Dems.
I just feel like we've lost sight of our goals.
Thanks.
Okay, it's a good question, though you shouldn't really divorce the two.
Doing good for the country and beating the Democrats.
Beating the Democrats is good for the country, and you can't do good for the country without beating the Democrats.
So you don't want beating the Democrats to be your entire raison d'etre, to your point, but you don't want to divorce those two things because, you know, beating the Democrats seems kind of mean and icky and doing good for the country is, you know, as though that were somehow pure.
In politics, Gotta beat your opponent in order to do stuff.
So I'm glad that some Republicans are focused on beating the Democrats.
Well, the term populism usually is just a term of derision, and very few people would actually say, I am a populist.
So it's usually just a way of attacking someone.
But in as much as there is a populist movement, or what is meant by that populist movement, probably that means the Trump movement, the MAGA movement.
And Trump's most vocal supporters in Congress or in the state houses.
What do they want?
What's the agenda?
And what about their agenda is different from the establishment Republican movement?
I suppose restoring the traditional American way of life is the broad goal of the populist movement.
Restoring the traditional American way of life.
And so that means Restricting immigration, because to quote Katcheguida in the 15th or somewhere in the middle to later cantos of Paradise by Dante, immigration ruins cities.
If you have too much immigration, it creates a big problem.
So, restricting immigration.
The Republican Party either wants open borders, the real business side of the Republican Party, or the more moderate side wants a ton of legal immigration, more legal immigration than ever.
But less illegal immigration or something.
The populists want immigration restriction.
The populists want a more active protection of industry.
Because while we can sometimes get cheaper goods by sending all manufacturing over to China, That endangers our national security, that endangers our companies because Chinese don't really have any respect for intellectual property and so they steal all of our stuff.
That's actually not good for our corporations.
And it's not good for our industrial base and it's not good for, which ties into national security, and it's not good for American families when especially lower wage workers just lose all their jobs and they're outsourced.
So that would be one distinction in the populist movement.
What's another one?
Greater reluctance to engage in adventurism overseas.
The establishment GOP wants to go, you know, topple a bunch of countries and be involved in every war around the world.
the populist movement is a little more hesitant to just get involved.
They follow George Washington's advice to avoid entangling alliances, for instance.
And so that's deeply conservative.
That's actually much more traditionally conservative than the modern Republicans.
The list goes on and on.
I think what it comes down to is we want to restore the traditional American way of life, and we don't want to put the cart before Sometimes, with the establishment Republicans, it seems like, you know, the body politic is here to serve the economy.
Uh-uh!
That's putting the cart before the horse.
We want the economy to serve us, and that means maybe sometimes you've got to have the government intervene a little bit, and that's going to irritate the doctrinaire libertarians.
Maybe that's going to irritate big business or the Chamber of Commerce, but too bad.
That is what they're after.
They're after fixing the birth rate problem, which ties into mass migration.
We've been a dying population since 1971, so greater support for families, greater financial and political incentives to have kids and to get married.
That would be a part of it.
Yeah.
Stopping dudes from going into the girls' bathroom.
I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
of items that distinguish conservative populism from the establishment GOP.
And a lot of times in the establishment GOP, the Chamber of Commerce, they're going to say, oh, those are culture war issues.
Oh, those don't really matter.
Or, oh, it's crazy to intervene in the economy.
Or, oh, tariffs don't work because they learned the word mercantilism in seventh grade and they think they know everything about the economy.
Or, you know, foreign policy, don't get me started.
Uh, but, uh, But there is an agenda, you know.
I mean, there are things that we want.
That's what makes the movement.
So do they showboat sometimes?
Yeah, they showboat sometimes because they don't really have a ton of political power.
To do anything at all, you got to beat the Democrats.
It might seem icky, but that's what you got to do.
Okay, there's a lot more because I've been windy on my mailbag answers.
