Ep. 1561 - Woke University Targets Michael Knowles
The University of Buffalo permanently denounces me for saying that men and women are different, Tulsi Gabbard endorses President Trump, and California tries to mandate taxpayer funding for homosexual IVF.
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Hundreds of thousands of immigrant children missing on Kamala's watch.
A new law proposed in California to make people pay for homosexual IVF and abortion.
There's a ton of stuff in the news.
First, though, an even more absurd news story that is a little closer to home.
I've just been informed by Young America's Foundation that the University of Buffalo Media Studies Department has devoted a significant portion of its homepage, the second paragraph actually, to a permanent denunciation of me for saying that men and women are different.
Immediately after introducing what the U. Buffalo Media Studies Department is and does, the website reads, quote, The faculty of the Media Studies Department stand in solidarity with the transgender community and others who have been the target of Michael Knowles' rhetoric and threats of eradication and genocide.
While we are committed to the free and open exchange of ideas, we are also committed to inclusiveness, social justice, and respect for all.
There is no space for hate speech As there can be no open exchange of ideas without inclusion and justice and respect, we view Knowles' public appearance on our campus as contrary to the values and aims of our academic community.
For those who have not followed this saga, myself included apparently, I would like to remind people I am not a graduate of the University of Buffalo.
I've never been employed by the University of Buffalo.
I gave a single speech at that university almost a year and a half ago, and the speech was not even about transgenderism.
I simply said at a different speech somewhere else, now more than two years ago, that men and women are different and we should stop pretending otherwise.
And for that, a public university has included a permanent denouncement and libel of me on an academic department homepage.
However far you think higher education has fallen.
However much you think our political and academic elites hate you for being normal and thinking normal things, I promise you the reality is at least 100 times worse.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is the Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show.
By the way, if you want to get a little insight into what campus life is like at the University of Buffalo, we did film.
Mr. Davies, my producer, filmed all sorts of little interviews with students out there, some scenes of the protest.
I sat down, actually, with some of my critics on a Cross the Line episode a year and a half ago when I was there.
Take a look.
When a conservative speaks on a college campus, anything can happen.
We're not going to f***ing eradicate anyone!
Outrage boiling over at the University of Buffalo.
Mr. Knowles calling for an eradication of transgenderism is a call for genocide.
Hundreds of students and community members gathered in protest.
Do you have anything else to say?
Chanting, picketing, and some even needing police restraint.
You want to tell me why I should leave?
Because transphobia is beta behavior.
And you are a beta male.
You should leave.
Get out, man!
No, I'm not talking about you.
I'm serious.
Get out.
A great time was had by all, so go check that out.
Also, speaking of weird sex stuff, there is a really disturbing bill that is being proposed in California right now.
It would mandate taxpayer funding for homosexual IVF, and then practically speaking, abortion.
So we'll get to what that means in just a moment.
A moment.
First, though, I want to get to this new endorsement of Trump because, you know, we talked about the RFK endorsement of Trump that came out just the day after the DNC.
And that was a very prominent Democrat who feels that not that he's leaving the Democrat Party, but that the Democratic Party has left him.
I mean, this is a Kennedy, for goodness sakes.
These guys are Democrat Party royalty.
Well, just shortly after that endorsement, you have another once prominent Democrat politician, now a prominent independent politician, Tulsi Gabbard, also endorsing Trump.
And closer to the brink of nuclear war than we ever have been before.
This is one of the main reasons why I'm committed to doing all that I can to send President Trump back to the White House where he can once again serve us as our Commander-in-Chief.
Because I am confident that his first task will be to do the work to walk us back from the brink of war.
We cannot be prosperous unless we are at peace.
And we can't live free as long as we have a government that is retaliating against its political opponents and undermining our civil liberties, weaponizing our very institutions against those they deem as a threat.
This is a really brilliant argument.
This is a really brilliant justification for a politician who's not a Republican, who's actually served in Congress as a Democrat, who ran for president as a Democrat, to endorse the Republican nominee.
It's a very simple argument.
She's saying, we can't be free unless we have peace.
In the classical political tradition, this is the argument for government.
The argument for government is that we need peace and order in order to attain man's natural ends and in order to attain man's supernatural ends, for that matter.
It's a lot harder to pray when the bullets are flying off all around you.
You're probably more impelled to pray when bullets are flying around you, but it's difficult to live a religious life, and it's certainly difficult to achieve man's natural ends.
When there's no political order, when there's no civil justice, when there's no peace.
And Tulsi says Trump is the peace president.
Seems kind of crazy because he's so belligerent in his rhetoric as a reality TV star, as a tabloid fixture, but it's true.
He was the peace president.
This is probably the most underappreciated aspect of the Trump presidency.
We had relative world peace.
The world was much more peaceful under Trump than it was under Barack Obama, than it was under George W. Bush, than it was under Bill Clinton, certainly than it was under the Biden-Harris administration.
And so Tulsi's argument, if you had told someone this argument before Trump was elected president in 2016, they would have laughed at you and said, you gotta vote for Donald Trump because he's the world peace president.
They would have laughed in your face, and yet, Look, you're never gonna have perfect peace in the world, in this fallen world, until the end of time.
Okay, you know, there's sin and concupiscence and death, and that's just how it works in a world where human nature is a little bit broken.
But, relatively, you want peace?
Vote for Trump.
Simple as.
Now, speaking of war, President Trump honored the 13 American service members who were killed in Joe Biden's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.
Three years ago, August 30th, 2021, Joe Biden runs the horrific Afghanistan withdrawal.
It was mishandled on basically every single level.
We gave the Taliban billions of dollars worth of military equipment.
Over a dozen American service members were killed.
President Trump just came out on that anniversary.
Biden wasn't there.
Harris wasn't there.
I'm not sure they were invited.
But Trump came out at Arlington and paid his respects.
Now, Trump has tied the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal to Kamala Harris in remarks.
He said, not just Biden, but also Kamala Harris.
And the Democrats, the operatives and the flax in the media, I guess there's not much of a distinction between the two, they have said that this isn't fair.
This is Trump politicizing, politicizing what?
Politicizing one of the biggest political events of the last five or 10 years, the Afghanistan withdrawal.
So of course, it's a political event.
But they say, well, it's unfair to tie it to Kamala Harris.
Joe Biden was the president.
Kamala Harris was not the president.
And Kamala Harris is now the nominee, but she's not responsible for the Biden-Harris administration.
No, not if you believe Kamala Harris.
Joe Biden, on multiple occasions, has imbued Kamala Harris with presidential authority.
But specifically on the Afghanistan withdrawal, if you listen to Kamala Harris's own words, she acknowledges that she was the last person in the room with the president when that decision was made.
Biden always said that he wants you to be the last person in the room, particularly for big decisions, just as he was for President Obama.
He just made a really big decision.
Afghanistan.
Yes.
Were you the last person in the room?
Yes.
And you feel comfortable?
I do.
Yes, I was the last person in the room.
I feel comfortable.
I own Biden's decision for how he's going to withdraw from Afghanistan.
I'm responsible.
That's what she's saying.
I share responsibility for what happens as a result of that decision, and the decision ended in disaster.
So now, the only other objection the Libs can make now is, well, look, yeah, it was disastrous, yeah, it was bad, and yes, Kamala is in part responsible, even in her own words, but look, no one could have known.
No one could have predicted that that kind of attack, killing those service members, could have possibly happened in a rapid Afghanistan withdrawal.
Who could have predicted that?
And the answer, and the reason that Trump is totally justified in levying this political attack, the answer is Trump predicted it four years before the withdrawal, almost to the day.
The consequences of a rapid exit are both predictable and unacceptable.
9-11, the worst terrorist attack in our history, was planned and directed from Afghanistan because that country was ruled by a government that gave comfort and shelter to terrorists.
A hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum that terrorists, including ISIS and Al Qaeda, would instantly fill, just as happened before September 11th.
Check, check, check, check, check.
Every single thing he predicted has come true.
Which I think totally justifies Trump's political attacks here.
I think it totally justifies Kamala being the object of the political attacks, or the target of the political attacks.
But it's also a reminder, while we talk about how great Trump was for the economy, when we talk about how relatively Trump good was for the border, when we talk about how good Trump was for this, that, and the other thing, Donald Trump was the best foreign policy president since since at least George H.W. Bush.
George H.W. Bush, whatever other weaknesses of his presidency, he was a pretty good foreign policy president.
He presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union, and it was a peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union.
He was the man behind Operation Desert Storm, and they got all the best stuff out of that without any of the downsides that the later invasion of Iraq would bring to us.
So, So George H.W.
Bush was pretty good.
Ronald Reagan was a pretty good foreign policy president.
But certainly since at least those guys, Donald Trump is the best foreign policy president we had.
Better than that super genius wonk Bill Clinton who really screwed up things in the Middle East, in many ways set the stage for Osama bin Laden and the 2001 attack, screwed up things in Africa.
He was not a great foreign policy president.
George W. Bush, We famously mishandled certain aspects of foreign policy.
Barack Obama was a disaster on foreign policy in Libya and Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Biden obviously has been awful.
You've had two major wars break out on his watch.
A major war in Eastern Europe, first major war in Europe since World War II, and in fact he invited that war.
He said if there's a minor incursion into Ukraine by Russia it won't be that big of a deal.
Vladimir Zelensky, President of Ukraine, blames Joe Biden for that war.
And then, of course, the war Israel-Gaza because of muddying the waters on our alliances with regard to Israel, also Saudi Arabia, also Iran.
So a total disaster.
Trump, whatever you want to say about his language and his tweeting and his this and his that, is the most sophisticated foreign policy president in at least a quarter century.
Significantly more than that.
I guess you'd say probably more like 35 years.
There's so much more to say first, though.
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How's Kamala Harris's foreign policy?
Kamala Harris's foreign policy is so bad, it's even bad at home.
It's even bad on the domestic front.
And I say Kamala Harris's foreign policy.
I don't just say Joe Biden's because Joe Biden, as I mentioned earlier, has imbued Kamala with presidential authority when it comes to certain aspects of his presidency.
One of those being the southern border.
He said, when Kamala speaks, she speaks for me.
She has the authority of the president.
She's in charge.
And on the border, Kamala Harris has lost track of more than 320,000 Migrant children.
They cross the border.
These are children who cross the border without their parents.
This is one of the many terrible things that comes as a result of an open border, a border that's intentionally been opened by Kamala Harris, is you get these kids who are unaccompanied.
So they're already in a very vulnerable, dangerous position for sex trafficking.
They're just totally vulnerable to the criminal cartels that control the whole border on the Mexico side.
So 320,000 migrant children cross the border without parents.
According to a new report from the Homeland Security Inspector General, as of May 2024, there were 291,000 migrant children who arrived as unaccompanied minors, set free, never given a date to appear in court.
And then in addition, there were 32,000 children that ICE released into the U.S.
with hearing dates who failed to show up.
So we have no idea where they are and most likely they're still associated with the criminal cartels that control the whole border.
There was a study that came out, this was now a long time ago, I want to say this was 2008-2009.
When the border crisis was much less severe than it is today.
And this came out of a Fusion and Amnesty International.
It was reported in the Huffington Post.
So these are left-wing publications that showed that 60 to 80 percent of women and girls who crossed that border illegally were sexually abused or raped on their journey.
We know that the criminal cartels deal in all sorts of horrible stuff.
Obviously, it is organized crime, there's a lot of drugs, and there's a lot of sex trafficking.
And we know that kids who are not accompanied are particularly vulnerable to sex trafficking.
And Kamala Harris just lost over 300,000 of them.
And without a care in the world.
It was intentional.
When you have policies that encourage unaccompanied minors to come to the border, that is intentionally subjecting kids to a high likelihood of human trafficking.
Well, it's human trafficking by definition because you're smuggling people across the border, but a high likelihood of sex trafficking.
When you release people into the country, you detain them, then you immediately release them.
You are intentionally subjecting them to a high likelihood of sex trafficking.
When you just don't really track them at all, you were intentionally subjecting them to a high likelihood of sex trafficking.
Remember that the next time you hear any nonsense about kids in cages, kids and parents separated at the border, kids in cages under Trump.
Because as we know, first of all, those cages were built under Barack Obama.
The famous photos, the infamous photos of those supposed cages were taken under Barack Obama's administration, a Democrat administration.
But second of all, I think kids would probably much rather be detained in a slightly unpleasant office building than released to criminal cartels to be trafficked.
Probably, don't you think?
Next time you hear about dreamers, the sweet dreamers being deported potentially under the Trump administration, I think people would probably rather be deported than enslaved by criminal cartels, especially little kids.
Okay, Republicans, we see your kids in cages, and then the Democrats are going to raise sex trafficking by the cartels.
$300,000, we have no idea where they are.
We have some suspicion of where they are.
We have a statistical high likelihood of knowing where they are, and it ain't anywhere good.
Now, speaking of child abuse, there's this bill coming up in California right now, and very few people are talking about it, and you need to be talking about it.
This is sick stuff coming out of the California Senate.
After nearly a year in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, Senate Bill 729 has just been released by Committee Chair Assemblyman Buffy Wicks.
SB 729.
This bill redefines infertility for the purposes of California state law.
So what does infertility mean?
The traditional definition in our law of infertility is when a couple tries to conceive a child for a year unsuccessfully.
You know, frequently doing the thing that conceives children and not using any contraception or anything like that, and you still can't have a kid.
That's infertility.
A lot of couples suffer from infertility.
When sweet little Lisa and I were trying to conceive our first child, technically we were suffering from infertility because it took more than a year.
It took two years actually.
Now I look at my wife across the room and she gets pregnant, but it takes a little while.
Okay, that's the clinical definition.
What the Democrats in the California Senate want to do now is redefine infertility to include individuals who are unable to conceive.
Not because of any malfunctioning of their reproductive systems, but because they are by nature unable to conceive, by definition unable to conceive, because they are single individuals.
A man or a woman who doesn't have a husband or a wife Or wife or husband, respectively.
Just a single individual says, well, I want to have a kid and I'm not able to have a kid because I'm a single individual and I'm not doing the thing that conceives kids.
I'm infertile.
Or two dudes.
Or two chicks.
A homosexual couple says, well, we're infertile.
We're trying to conceive but it's not working.
I guess we didn't take 7th grade biology so it's not working so now technically we're infertile according to this new definition.
Here is Caroline Menjivar, she's a Democrat state senator in California, explaining why it's so important to redefine infertility in California state law.
SB 729 is looking to mandate large health care plans provide and cover services for infertility, services for IUI, services for IVF.
It's looking to also expand the definition of what it means to be infertile.
For those of you who don't know, If I were to go into an office right now saying I want to start a family with me and my wife, I would have to prove that I've had one year of unprotected heterosexual sex.
That's something that we cannot prove and most of my LGBTQ plus communities wouldn't be able to prove either way.
Me and my wife sat down two years ago.
We said, all right, we've saved this amount of money.
Our choices are to invest in a house or start a family.
You haven't seen me with the child in the in this past nine months and that's because we decided two years ago to invest our nest egg into a house.
But again that's a decision that no one should have to make because we shouldn't choose between the American dream of the white picket fence and starting the family should you wish to.
This over 30 year old current law is discriminatory.
It prevents single individuals from starting families This law is discriminatory.
The law that says infertility is what it really means.
It's discriminatory against fantasy.
It unjustly discriminates in favor of reality against fantasy.
This woman says, you know, I have a wife, which is of course not possible for a woman to have a wife, but she says, I have a wife, and it's amazing, we can't conceive a child.
Us two ladies.
That's, you know, how... Mirabile dictu.
That's how amazing.
And she says, so therefore, we want a child, and so we need taxpayers to pay for that.
Because, listen to the way she talks.
We were thinking about buying a kid, but then we wanted to buy a house instead.
And we shouldn't have to choose between buying a house and buying a kid.
Now, when people conceive a child in the way that a child is conceived, you know, a man and a woman doing that thing that husbands and wives do, you don't have to pay a third party for that.
You can just do it.
It's free.
It's fun and it's free.
But, as we have It enacted fantasy, as we have a codified fantasy into our law.
Now, all of a sudden, reality doesn't work that way.
Two ladies and two men can't, you know, can't make a child of themselves.
So now you need a third party, and you need to create the baby store, and you need to go rent eggs from someone else, and purchase sperm from another guy, and then have a third party, and it's the commodification of human life.
This law is really bad because it's going to force people, who have religious objections especially, to pay for homosexuals to acquire children without even having to pay for it.
You're going to buy children for homosexuals to have, and for single people, for single individuals to have.
Even if you object to promoting, you know, a single person intentionally depriving a child of a mother or a father, or of two men or two women intentionally depriving a child of a mother or a father.
These are the most important bonds for a little person in life, and you're going to intentionally deprive them of that.
Obviously, there's a huge objection to it.
Then, on top of that, IVF, practically speaking, usually entails abortions.
You're going to force people to pay for abortions.
But at an even more basic level, you are forcing people to commoditize human life.
Just the way she talks about it shows you exactly what she thinks of little kids.
Says, yeah, we want a family, you know, but we decided we were going to buy a house instead of buying a kid.
But I still want to buy a kid, but I don't even want to have to pay to buy a kid, so I want you to buy me a kid.
Give me my kid.
That lady doesn't have a right to a kid.
Nobody has a right to a kid.
The only person who can be said to have any rights when it comes to reproduction is the child, who has the right, that can be known by reason, the child has the right to be the product of the specific conjugal act of his parents, mother and father, who are married, and to be respected as a person from the moment of conception.
This law in California eradicates all of that.
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Speaking of California, a little lighter side of California, even California Governor Gavin Newsom, Governor American Psycho himself, is joking about how bogus a presidential candidate Kamala Harris is.
How are you feeling about the Switch?
I mean, the Switch.
Now we went through a very open process, a very inclusive process.
It was bottom up.
I don't know if you know that.
Yes, that's what I've been told to say.
Yes, it was a blitz primary, I believe.
That's what they called it.
It was a very, very fast blitz.
I think it was a blink primary, so we call that.
A 30-minute convention, you know, between a tweet and another tweet.
It's amazing how it happened.
Yeah, it's been amazing.
But what is amazing is how unified everybody is.
It's next level.
I really like that.
When Gavin Newsom speaks this way as just a cold-blooded political monster and machine, I actually have a reasonable amount of respect for him because he's pretty good at the game.
And here he's speaking on a real insider-y podcast.
This is Pod Save America.
The guy who was interviewing him is Jon Favreau, who's an Obama speechwriter.
I think he was head of speechwriting for Barack Obama.
And they're joking, they're saying, so what do you think about the switch?
And Gavin says, oh, you mean that very open, democratic primary?
Oh, yeah, no, I'm reliably informed it was totally open and democratic from the bottom up, the grassroots.
And they're all giggling about this because of how preposterous the notion is.
Kamala was just crowned, rather.
It was a coronation.
It was a switch.
They just swapped out the candidates.
The voters had no say.
The party members for the Democrats had absolutely no say.
And they're laughing about it.
And I suspect Gavin Newsom, he's able to giggle about this in part because he thinks she's probably not all that likely to win.
This, I think, is why he didn't gun harder for the nomination.
This is why I think he didn't gun harder to be her running mate.
Gavin Newsom thinks, especially these days where you can run for president at 122, he thinks, look, I got a political career ahead of me.
I can run next time.
Trump can have it for a term, and then I can run next time.
And he brings it back at the end, he goes, what's amazing, though, really, is how unified we are.
You didn't sound too unified two seconds ago when you and the pod bro who worked in the Obama White House were just mocking this ridiculous process.
So the libs are doing their best to spin it, but it's not working very well.
Jen Psaki, who was Joe Biden's first press secretary on MSNBC, speaking to my doppelganger, was making the argument that Kamala possesses at least a certain kind of charisma.
She has this magical, charismatic quality in person.
So do a lot of politicians.
People say that about Hillary Clinton, also true.
Yes, no, she has a certain kind of charisma.
She has the charisma of Hillary Clinton.
She has the physical fitness Of a Samoan wrestler.
She has the fair skin of Malcolm X. She has the charisma of Hillary Clinton.
I'm not familiar with the charisma of Hillary Clinton.
But I think Jen Psaki's right, actually.
I think that's true.
She does have the charisma of Hillary Clinton.
That is why they're going to do the best to just keep her out of the press.
This is why she hasn't done it.
She's supposed to do an interview this week.
We'll see if it happens.
She hasn't really done any interviews with the media yet.
She hasn't done any real press conferences.
She hasn't done a debate yet.
She's agreed to one debate with Trump.
Trump proposed multiple debates.
She's agreed to only one on the one network that is going to be most favorable to her.
So the Democrat strategy at this point is just keep Kamala out of the news.
Even with that debate I just mentioned, Kamala is apparently trying to change the rules for the debate.
This was reported in Politico yesterday.
Is this thing on?
Harris and Trump battle over hot mics at the debate.
So there's a September 10th debate that's on ABC News.
This was a debate agreed to between Trump and Biden.
Remember, there were two debates, Trump and Biden.
They agreed to one debate on CNN back in June, and then one debate on ABC in September.
And Trump won the debate in June so hard.
He won it so decisively that Joe Biden is no longer the nominee.
That's how badly he lost.
So they agreed to certain rules, and they even agreed to these networks, which are left-wing networks.
And so now Kamala came out and she said, OK, well, we need to stick to that agreement, Mr. Trump.
And Trump said, hold on, wait a second.
I didn't agree to debate you.
I agreed to debate Biden, and then I won so decisively that there was a palace coup and you became the nominee.
So what are you talking about?
No, you need to stick to the rules, Donald.
We agree, the Democrats broadly, we all agreed.
And so Trump says, okay, fine.
You know what?
Fine, whatever.
I will honor, even though I made the terms with Joe Biden and then you guys swapped out the nominee.
Okay, fine, I'll accept the terms.
And then Kamala comes back and says, okay, and also we need to change the terms.
Wait, what?
Hold on, you just asked me, implausibly, you asked me to honor this agreement that I made with someone else, with you, okay, fine, I'll do that, but now you're trying to change the terms.
She wants the microphones to be on the whole time.
Presumably so that she can interrupt Trump or try to off-foot him because she's now concluded that that will help her.
So she insists on keeping the rules as they are for the purpose of doing a debate on ABC News, where one of Kamala's best friends is helping to run the network, and where George Stephanopoulos, who was the chief propagandist for the Democratic Party in the White House, is the political anchor.
ABC News, which is as left as any outlet.
She wants the rules for the purpose of doing the debate, but she wants to change the rules For the purpose of allowing her to interrupt Trump.
What's Trump say about that?
Trump posted on Truth Social, he said, I watched ABC fake news this morning, both lightweight reporter Jonathan Carl's, K, this was, he spells Jonathan Carl, C-A-R-L, like the first name Carl.
Like Carl's Jr.
Cheeseburgers.
But then he puts after it in parentheses, K, question mark.
The Trump style of tweeting is so funny because it seems gratuitous, it seems bizarre, there's random capitalization, the punctuation is somewhat dubious, but it's obviously all by design because it gets you to talk about it, it gets you to focus in on it.
It's a kind of poetic diction.
Donald Trump is the E.E.
Cummings of politicians, I think.
Anyway, I digress.
Jonathan Karl's ridiculous and biased interview of Tom Cotton, who is fantastic, and their so-called panel of Trump haters, and I ask, why would I do the debate against Kamala Harris on that network?
Will panelist Donna Brazile give the questions to the Marxist candidate like she did for crooked Hillary Clinton?
That's true, Donna Brazile did cheat for Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders in 2016.
Will Kamala's best friend who heads up ABC do likewise?
Where is little George Slopidopoulos hanging now?
Will he be involved?
They've got a lot of questions to answer.
Why did Harris turn down Fox, NBC, CBS, and even CNN?
Stay tuned!
Three exclamation points.
I really, really like this because it's being reported in the press.
Trump is considering backing out of the debate.
I don't think that's true at all.
Trump is reframing the headlines from You know, Kamala agrees to these terms to Kamala's changing the rules.
Kamala wants to back out of the debate.
If Kamala wants to debate, Trump offered her, what, five more debates or something like that?
Including on liberal networks like NBC and CBS and CNN.
Actually, the only even somewhat conservative network he suggested was Fox.
Kamala's the one running away.
Kamala's the one trying to cheat.
Kamala's the one trying to change the rules.
That's all he's doing here.
This is obviously art of the deal kind of stuff, as he made clear when he was asked about it by a reporter.
President Trump, would you want the microphones muted in the debate whenever you're not speaking?
We agreed to the same rules.
I don't know.
It doesn't matter to me.
I'd rather have it probably on, but the agreement was that it would be the same as it was last time.
In that case, it was muted.
I didn't like it the last time, but it worked out fine.
I mean, ask Biden how it worked out.
It was fine.
And I think it should be the same.
We agreed to the same rules.
Same rules and same specifications.
And I think that's probably what it should be.
But they're trying to change it.
The truth is they're trying to get out of it because she doesn't want to debate.
She's not a good debater.
She's not a smart person.
She doesn't want to debate.
This is it.
So this is the proof of my interpretation of this, which is on the one hand, out of one side of his mouth, he goes, this is completely unfair.
I don't know if this is going to happen.
This is crazy.
This is completely insane.
Why would I do this?
And then they ask him in person, he goes, huh?
Oh, I don't know.
What do I care?
Yeah, leave the mics on.
Okay, you can do whatever you want.
It's just kind of weird, isn't it?
She's trying to change the rules.
I'm very good at debating.
She's very bad at debating.
She's trying to change the rules.
She's trying to get out of this.
She's trying to poison the well.
She's trying to make this unacceptable to our side.
She's running away.
She's a coward.
She, she, she, she.
But me, I don't care.
I'm cool debating.
I'll debate anywhere, anytime, baby.
That's it.
The purpose of the Truth Social post is to get the question so that the media have to run him reframing the issue.
Obviously.
That's what he's doing.
And I think this even explains the particularly bizarre capitalizations and grammar and digressions in the post.
It's all to catch your attention, and Donald Trump is very, very good at keeping your attention.
He's kept all of our attention, not just for eight years now, he's kept all of our attention for like 45 years, okay?
The guy has been a global celebrity since at least the 80s.
That is the game he's playing right now, and I think it's working pretty well, actually.
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My favorite comment yesterday, once again, I didn't even see this name when I picked it.
The Drummer's Workshop Norris Music says, If you think the latest news makes Thanksgiving at the Kennedy's more awkward, just wait until Trump wins.
That's a fair point.
You know, the Kennedys, Bobby Kennedy's siblings came out against him, attacked him, maligned him, disavowed him in a statement after he endorsed Trump.
Can't wait.
After Trump wins, Then you'll have Thanksgiving.
Forget about some statement announcing someone.
Bobby Kennedy can just turn to his family and say, you're all under arrest.
That serves you right, you backstabbing jerks.
Enjoy jail.
No, he probably won't do that, but it'd be kind of funny.
The gloating would be funny to see up at the Kennedy compound.
If you want to get a sense of how biased ABC News will be in Kamala's favor at that debate, Take a look at ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl doing his damnedest to run cover for Kamala Harris, The Indefensible.
President Trump is going to draw a sharp contrast with Kamala Harris, who has supported things like decriminalizing illegal immigration, or giving taxpayer-funded health insurance to illegal aliens, or taking away health insurance on the job for 170 million Americans, banning gas cars, confiscating firearms.
What do you mean taking away health insurance?
What are you talking about?
She said when she ran for president that she wants to eliminate private health insurance on the job for 170 million Americans, John.
Yeah, I mean, that is not her position now.
How do you know that's not her position?
How do you know that's not her position?
She has not said that.
Maybe anonymous aides on a Friday night have said that, but the last thing that she said... But this was not a radical convention.
No, it's really bad.
So he's talking to Republican Senator Tom Cotton here.
Tom Cotton says, look, she's supported all these extremely radical things.
She's to the left of Bernie Sanders.
And Jonathan Karl says, no, no, no, she's not, she's not.
He goes, what are you talking about?
She's said that, it's all on camera.
He says, no, no, no, but she's changed her mind on that.
She's changed her position.
As if that's an excuse.
No, no, don't worry, she's totally flip-flopped on all of the important issues.
But then Tom Cotton points out, no, she actually hasn't.
He goes, John, when has she done that?
Well, no, no, no, she's just done that.
He goes, no, no, no, anonymous aides maybe have told the media that.
She hasn't done that.
She hasn't spoken to the media.
She hasn't said pretty much anything at all.
She has not disavowed those policies.
She's lying about her policies.
And then Jonathan Karl, he has no answer to that.
So he says, no, no, no, well, but look, she's not, she's not, come on, she's trying to be more moderate now or whatever.
He goes on.
But this was not a radical convention.
As you heard me go through with Bernie Sanders, she is not taking the positions of the far left of her party.
She's clearly making an effort to move to the middle.
I did hear what you said to Senator Sanders, and I thought it was clear that he's very disappointed.
That she's taking these efforts not to change her positions, but to hide her positions, John.
The American people are totally justified to conclude that Kamala Harris is a dangerous San Francisco liberal based on what she campaigned on the last time she ran for president and what this administration has done for the last four years.
Again, you would have thought watching the Democratic Convention last week that the Democrats are not in office, that they're not in power, that they're campaigning against an incumbent Republican.
When in reality, she's been part of the failures of the Biden-Harris administration for four years, and when she campaigned for president in her own right, she did in fact promise things like decriminalizing illegal immigration, taking away health insurance.
But that's a position she's clearly changed on, and she has said she has changed.
Yes, yes, yes, she has.
No, no, she has not.
John, she has not said that.
No, no, she clearly, she's clearly changed.
Come on, it's not a radical convention.
Yeah, right, she's hiding her views, but she hasn't contradicted them.
Well, no, but she's... No, she hasn't.
No, she hasn't.
No, no, but she has!
She has.
That's it.
That's what the big reporter at ABC News has been reduced to.
No, no, seriously.
Trust me, bro.
She's way nicer now.
Trust me.
Hey, viewers, stop listening to Tom Cotton.
Trust me.
She's really moderate now.
Listen to the desperation from Jonathan Karl to cover for her.
And Jonathan Karl is one of the better people at ABC, by the way.
I don't want to be overly harsh on Jonathan Karl.
Compared to some of the other people at that network, he's actually relatively moderate and objective, and he's still a rabid partisan, obviously, just from this interview.
That's the one debate Kamala's agreed to.
Okay, okay.
Real depressing to see the state of our media.
Now, speaking of depressing things, there's a very interesting article in The Atlantic, I don't say that often, but there is, called Young Adults are in Crisis.
It's in The Atlantic, you can read it, it was linked all over the internet yesterday.
And the article purported to have a surprising finding from some studies about which group is really depressed in America.
Because for years we've heard, oh, it's the really young teenagers, or it's the old people.
That's how they open.
They say, what if I told you that one age group is more depressed, more anxious, and lonelier than any other in America?
You might assume I'm talking about teens, or you might think older adults.
Perhaps you'd be surprised to hear the results of a Harvard Graduate School of Education survey on mental health in America.
Young adults are the ones most in crisis.
Even Richard Weisbord, who led the study in 2022, was taken aback.
I think I'm the only person who's not taken aback, but everyone here was shocked and taken aback that 18 to 25-year-olds, 36% of 18 to 25-year-olds reported experiencing anxiety, 29% reported experiencing depression.
That's double the proportion of 14 to 17-year-olds on each measure.
More than half of young adults were worried about money, felt that the pressure to achieve hurt their mental health, and believed that their lives lacked meaning or purpose.
Put a bookmark in that one, lacked meaning or purpose.
Teenagers and senior citizens are actually the two populations with the lowest level of anxiety and depression, Weisbord's research found.
Yeah, of course, I'm not surprised at all.
I'm not, I'm, I'm some, I'm surprised that all these other people at Harvard and all the geniuses in the media are surprised.
I'm not surprised at all.
Of course, children are not the most anxious and depressed.
Children have their lives structured for them.
So even if the ends of their education, even if the specifics of the structure that they have are mistaken or erroneous, it doesn't matter.
They still have some structure.
The kid wakes up, he eats his Pop-Tart, he goes to school, he comes home, he does his homework, he goes to baseball practice, he goes to sleep.
He repeats.
There's structure in their lives.
They know what they're doing the next day.
They have to get the good grade.
They have to graduate.
Okay.
Senior citizens.
Even if they've made all sorts of bad choices, even if the structure of society has damaged their flourishing in their lives, senior citizens have kind of settled into a pattern.
You know, even if it's not the greatest pattern, it's a pattern.
It's reliable.
There's structure.
They kind of get it, okay?
If you don't get it, if you don't have some reasonable degree of comfort, In your first 65 or 70 years of life, you know, I don't know, something's really going wrong.
Most people kind of fall into a routine.
Those 18 to 25 year olds, they're the people for whom the earth is constantly shaking.
They don't feel any solidity in life because they've graduated from high school or if they've gone on to college, they've graduated from college, they're not yet in their careers, they don't yet usually have a family, they don't yet know, and they don't know what to do.
Why are they anxious and depressed now more so than they have been in the past?
Because their entire education and the entire popular culture has told them that there is no objective meaning in life, that there is no objective purpose in life.
What's the purpose of life is kind of a punchline question now.
There used to be an answer to that.
I don't want to seem like I'm being oversimplistic when I say here, hey, believe in God and go to church and your life will get a lot better.
But it will.
That's the problem.
The problem for these people is they don't believe in God and they don't go to church.
There's more to it.
Don't think that if you just, you know, show up to church on Sunday, all of your problems will go away.
That's not how it's going to work.
But that is the necessary first step to this.
Because, as you see, they're saying, yeah, they're worried about money.
Okay, everybody's worried about money, though you'll be less worried about money if you understand the role of money in a proper human life and what money's for.
They feel a pressure to achieve.
Okay, but if you, you know, understanding what achievement even means in light of eternity, not just in our natural life, is going to help, is certainly going to help you on that front, but also meaning and purpose.
We, these kids have been told, and now adults believe it too because this has been going on for generations, have been told that there is objectively no meaning to life.
That we're all just, life is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing.
We've been told that there's no purpose to life.
We make our own purpose man, but you can't actually make your own purpose.
That's not, either we have a purpose, either there is a natural end for a human being, or we're all just deluding ourselves.
And some people are better at deluding themselves than others.
So a lot of people have concluded, no, there really is no objective purpose, and I don't want to delude myself.
So, hmm, is it any wonder they're depressed?
And it doesn't affect kids because kids have structure and it doesn't affect really older people because they have structure.
It's the 18 to 25 year olds who are trying to figure everything out.
They're the ones who are most ill-served by this garbage education, mal-education that they're receiving that is misshaping them, their minds and their spirits, and their bodies sometimes too, and is also just wrong.
It just isn't true because there is Purpose to life.
There is such a thing as God.
There is such a thing as a moral order.
There is such a thing as eternity.
We can know these things through reason.
We can know a lot more about it through revelation, but we can know them through reason.
And an education system that ignores that or outright denies that is going to leave people real anxious and depressed.
This is not brain surgery, guys.
This is not rocket science.
Okay?
The only people that this should shock are the erroneous self-styled geniuses at Harvard who don't seem to know anything.
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Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
Growing up, I never thought much about race.
It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.
Am I racist?
I would really appreciate it if you left.
I'm trying to learn.
I'm on this journey.
If I'm going to sort this out, I need to go deeper undercover.
Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.
Here's my certification.
What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
This is more for you than this for you.
Is America inherently racist?
The word inherent is challenging there.
You want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument?
America is racist to its bones.
So inherently?
Yeah.
This country is a piece of...
White.
Folks.
Trash.
White supremacy.
White woman.
White boy.
Is there a black person around here?
There's a black person right here.
Does he not exist?
Hi, Robin.
Hi.
What's your name?
I'm Matt.
I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.
