Ep. 1750 - Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Mexican Race Riots Hit LA
Riots break out in Los Angeles after ICE enforces the law, Israel intercepts Greta's boat, and Simone Biles sides with transvestites over Riley Gaines.
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So I got good news and bad news.
The good news is we successfully canceled pride parades.
The bad news is we appear to have replaced them with Mexican race riots.
So, you know, you take the good with the bad.
I'm Michael Knowles.
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Welcome back to the show.
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So LA is on fire, it appears.
I was in New York over the weekend.
I was there too.
I'd been in D.C. seeing some friends around Capitol Hill, around the administration, doing politics on the East Coast, doing a little business too.
Then I went up to New York.
I said, I'm going to take my kid to his first Yankee game.
That was a lot of fun.
I said, I'm not going to pay attention to the news for a couple days.
I get on the plane yesterday, I say, let me check in on the news.
Lo and behold, Los Angeles is on fire because President Trump and Secretary of DHS, Kristi Noem, and Tom Homan are deporting a bunch of people in L.A. And L.A. didn't like that very much.
So a bunch of illegal aliens and lunatic leftists and Antifa and...
You can see, I mean, there are fires all over the place on the roads.
There are cars on fire, a bunch of cars on fire.
There are people making Molotov cocktails.
So if you've been paying attention to leftist activism in the United States for the last You'll know that they get violent.
Even just when I've shown up to college campuses or other speaking events, they'll be making explosives.
There are no strangers to this kind of violence.
And you're seeing a lot of that in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, the elected officials on the left...
They're not really counter-signaling these people who are setting cars on fire and throwing Molotov cocktails.
They're attacking immigration enforcement.
It's their First Amendment right.
But people should also exercise that right peacefully.
We do not want to play into the administration's hands.
We're working with officials.
We're organizing resources.
But what we're seeing in Los Angeles is chaos that is provoked by the administration.
When you raid Home Depot and workplaces, when you tear parents and children apart, and when you run armored caravans through our streets, you cause fear and you cause panic.
And deploying federalized troops is a dangerous escalation.
But we need to be real about this.
This is about another agenda.
It's not about public safety.
There's clearly no plan, and there is clearly no policy.
I want the people of Los Angeles to know that we stand with all Angelenos, no matter where you were born.
The First Amendment right gives you the ability, again, to protest peacefully.
But it does not give you the right to be violent, to create chaos, or to vandalize property.
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, who was a communist, she actually was a member of a communist organization decades ago.
She was then a member of Congress.
Then Joe Biden was thinking about picking her for the VP, but she was so bad that Kamala Harris actually was a better choice among black women.
So then she became mayor of L.A. and let L.A. burn to the ground in the wildfires.
Now she is attacking immigration and customs enforcement and saying that ICE, they're the bad guys.
And, you know, you heard her there at the very tail end of her statement.
She starts to say, okay, and also we shouldn't get violent.
You know, but what ICE is doing is terrible.
Enforcing the law is terrible.
Doing what people voted for Trump to do, what Trump won the popular vote on, which is mass deportations, that's terrible.
We won't stand for it.
Kamala Harris, meanwhile, issues a statement.
She says, Los Angeles is my home, and like so many Americans, I am appalled at what we are witnessing on the streets of our city.
Deploying the National Guard is a dangerous escalation meant to provoke chaos.
In addition to the recent ice raids in Southern California and across our nation, it is part of the Trump administration's cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division.
The administration's actions are not about public safety.
They're about stoking fear, fear of a community demanding dignity and due process.
I want to pause right there, just on this.
This administration's actions are not about public safety.
Well, first of all, they're in part about public safety because the deportations are aimed at stopping the fentanyl poisonings and the rapes and the murders committed by the gangs which control the border.
That's true.
But they're not primarily about public safety.
It is primarily about sovereignty.
Does the United States have a right to borders?
Does the United States have a right to determine who comes in?
Does the United States have the right to self-government?
That's what the deportations are about.
It's about basic law enforcement and sovereignty.
Don't let the Dems pull this little shell game here.
This little sleight of hand where they say, you think it's about public safety, but this is making safety worse.
No, no.
It's in part about safety, but safety as a priority is subordinated to the chief purpose of the deportations, which is Defending American sovereignty and self-government.
This community demanding dignity and due process.
They're foreign nationals.
They have no right to be here.
And they have no right to be making demands.
Okay?
And then here's the kicker.
Protest is a powerful tool, essential in the fight for justice.
And as the LAPD mayor and governor have noted, demonstrations in defense of our immigrant neighbors, not immigrant neighbors, they're illegal aliens, they're foreign nationals, subject to other nations.
I have immigrant neighbors.
Some of my ancestors were immigrants.
Some.
Some of them came on the Mayflower, which is a great cigar brand, but others were immigrants.
And you might have an immigrant neighbor from Denmark or Tahiti or Nicaragua who came through the right way.
Illegal aliens, they're a little bit different.
And this is the key.
As all these people have noted, demonstrations in defense of our immigrant neighbors have been overwhelmingly peaceful.
This is the phrase, and this one's going to stick to Kamala.
Overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations.
This, I think, when you're looking out at streets and cars on fire, and a shirtless, mask-wearing, lunatic, fighting-age man waving a Mexican flag on top of some of the debris.
That's a picture from Reuters.
It's going to become one of the iconic photos of this riot.
We had a number of them during the George Floyd riots.
That's going to be the picture, and the line is going to be overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations.
This is the mostly peaceful protests of the L.A. immigration riots.
You remember CNN?
Was it CNN or MSNBC?
One of the cable networks got mocked so ruthlessly.
It was CNN.
Because you had a reporter standing in Minneapolis with a microphone.
The city is on fire behind him.
It's this fiery but mostly peaceful protests.
It might have even been a different one than George Floyd.
It was one of the BLM riots, though.
Well, that's what Kamala's giving us.
Overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations.
She is cooked.
She's totally done.
She was done before she even started running in 2024.
She was done in 2020.
She was the first person out of the race.
The Kamala for president, 2028 campaign, that's done.
She's going to try to run for governor of California.
And who knows?
The Californians are so nuts, maybe they'll vote for her.
This is cope, though, to say that the demonstrations are mostly peaceful.
They're not.
They lit the city on fire, just like they lit Minneapolis on fire, just like they've lit cities on fire across America.
Cory Booker is trying the same thing.
Now, he's a little smarter about it than Kamala Harris or Karen Bass are.
So Cory is not denying that the protests are violent.
He's just blaming the violence on Trump.
Look, since years before I was born, law enforcement knows it's good when there's cooperation and coordination for the president to do this when it wasn't requested.
Breaking with generations of tradition is only going to incite the situation and make things worse.
We are now at a point where we have a president who sat back and did nothing as people stormed our Capitol, viciously beat police.
And then when those people who viciously beat police and led to some of their deaths, therefore cop killers, were convicted by juries, he then pardoned them all.
Okay, hold on.
Wait, now he's just lying about January 6th, the worst day ever, where he says these people were cop killers.
Again, the medical reports found no cop died because of political violence on January 6th.
The only person who died because of political violence on January 6th, January 6th, was a Trump supporter who was shot by a trigger-happy cop.
So what Cory Booker just said is a complete lie.
Not even just a politician stretching the truth.
Complete lie.
But he does it to distract from the violence that's actually going on now in L.A., violence which he says President Trump is trying to incite.
So let's just take Corey's thesis at face value.
Is Trump trying to incite leftists to burn down Los Angeles and light cop cars on fire and attack people and attack the cops?
Because it doesn't look like he has to try very hard.
If Trump isn't trying to incite violence, it's pretty easy, it seems, doesn't it?
You don't have to try hard to make the left violent.
Now, who is getting violent here?
This is a weird thing, because I know a lot of Mexicans.
I know a lot of Hispanics broadly.
Some of these people, they don't look like any Mexicans I know.
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So I'm looking at these people at the L.A. deportation protests, and I'm counting one, two, three, four, five, six keffias, Palestinian keffias, to be precise.
When did Mexicans start wearing keffias?
Can anyone answer me that?
Are they Mexican?
I can't tell.
Now there's some Palestinian flags there.
What is this whole thing about?
The apparent cause of the riots is ethnic and national.
It's Mexicans and other Hispanics waving the Mexican flag against America.
They're here illegally.
The United States is trying to enforce its own laws.
And these people waving the Mexican flag saying...
We're taking your territory.
And they'll make all sorts of you.
You took it from us or we deserve it or whatever.
The apparent cause is ethnic and national.
However, the immediate cause and the ideological cause is leftism.
That's it.
We all know plenty of right-wing Hispanics.
We know that 46% of Hispanics voted for Trump.
We all know plenty of Hispanics who would never go anywhere near that protest.
That's what explains why they're wearing keffias, which is not exactly traditional garb in Guadalajara.
That explains why some of them are carrying Palestinian flags.
Mexicans I'm friends with don't care about Palestine.
That explains why some of them are wearing all cops are bad shirts and anarchist symbols and the black Antifa outfits and lighting Molotov cocktails.
Because it's really not for a lot of these people.
About Mexicans or humanitarianism or any of that stuff.
It is about leftism.
But it is violent.
And we likewise cannot deny the national and ethnic and racial aspect of it.
And this is the part that the squish conservatives are not going to want to have to grapple with.
It's not just fringe people.
It's not just leftist activists.
It's not just people paid by George Soros or whatever.
It is mainstream Democrats, elected officials, who are encouraging these kinds of protests, which get violent, which are contrary to American sovereignty, and they're doing it on ethnic, racial, national grounds.
They know how quickly we mobilize.
That's why they're changing tactics.
Because community defense works and our resistance has slowed them down before.
And if they're escalating their tactics, then so are we.
When they show up, we gotta show up even stronger.
We gotta show up even stronger.
So when law enforcement shows up to deport foreign nationals and gangsters and murderers and rapists and all sorts of criminals, we need to show up.
We need to escalate.
Difficult to interpret that.
What's this woman's name?
Eunices Hernandez.
Difficult to interpret that as anything but a statement of approval about the violence.
So, conservatives need to hold two conflicting ideas in their mind at once.
This is the issue.
The left is wielding ethnic and racial solidarity.
That's what it's about.
They are wielding racial I'm granting to you, that might not even be the chief motivating factor for a lot of these people.
The ones who are wearing keffias, the ones who are part of Antifa.
But that's what they're wielding.
And that is what's giving this movement some of its strength.
So you're saying, we are Mexican, we're not American.
We're Latino, we're not white.
We're this racial ethnic group, we're not that racial ethnic group.
They are really wielding that.
And conservatives can't just cope.
By denying it.
Saying, oh no, there's only one race, the human race, and nobody really has a racial consciousness.
No, they do.
Hispanics have a racial consciousness north of 50%.
As do Asians, and black people have a racial consciousness north of 70%, and white people don't have a racial consciousness.
Their racial consciousness is about 15%, according to Pew Research.
And we're not going to change that fact by denying.
So there is a racial, ethnic component here, but conservatives Cannot possibly win by only wielding a different kind of racial consciousness.
That's not going to work.
If the protests and the riots are predicated on Hispanic or just broadly anti-white, anti-American racial and ethnic solidarity, the conservatives can't win by wielding white solidarity.
That wouldn't work because the country, first of all, is only 60% white.
Half of those whites are Democrats and would actually are probably on the side of the people wearing the keffias and the all-caps-or-bad shirts.
So even just as a numbers game, that would not work.
Meanwhile, the Trump coalition has brought in a lot of people who are not white.
46% of Hispanics, one of five black guys, all the rest of it.
So we have to acknowledge on the one hand that Racial consciousness is what is driving a lot of the left-wing demonstrations.
On the other hand, a purely racial solidarity or something will not work.
It will not work.
Even if you thought it would be a good idea for it to work, it will not work because of a numbers game.
So it seems to me we're in this moment of reconceptualizing our political order.
A lot of the illusions of the post-World War II order And some of the accretions and really the apotheosis of that whole idea of the mid-20th century that reached its peak maybe in the 90s or 2000s, notions such as America being a purely creedal nation.
America's not a race.
It's not a place.
It's not a real country at all.
It's an idea floating in outer space.
A guy born on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi doesn't speak a lick of English.
He's a devout Hindu.
He can be more American than George Washington if only he holds some special idea or something.
That is the liberal abstraction view of politics.
The other one, which the libs ironically kind of hold, and some people on the right hold, is blood and soil, which comes out of...
So, you know, it's got a little bit of a rough pedigree.
But the notion that the political order really just comes down to blood and soil.
And we're kind of stuck between these two.
We think those are the only two options.
There is a third option.
My friends, I bring you good news, there is a third option.
A third kind of political order, which is an older kind of political order, more classical, much more Christian.
And that is throne and altar, as it is sometimes called.
Liberal abstraction, choice A. Blood and soil, choice B. Throne and altar, choice C. That is a political order predicated on sovereignty.
I'm not saying you need to literally have a king.
I'm saying predicated on sovereignty, sovereign authority that can be wielded effectively.
And belief in God.
A specific conception of God.
That's the political order of the old regime before the French Revolution and the subsequent liberal and socialist and communist revolutions.
That's, to me, the only political order that can really make sense, especially when you're talking about this country, which is multi-ethnic, which...
I don't think it would be wise to fall for the left's traps, and I don't think it would be wise to fall for their kind of dialectics.
We should certainly recognize that the liberal abstraction that a lot of Republicans and conservatives have fallen into is silly.
It's going nowhere.
It's led us to the point that we're at.
I don't really think blood-in-soil nationalism is much of a viable option, even if it were desirable, which can be debated and is dubious in itself, but even if that were desirable, don't know that that's really going to work in a country such as ours.
There is a third option.
Don't let the libs trick you into thinking there isn't a third option.
And it requires getting tough, and as President Trump is sending the National Guard in, and he's asserting sovereign authority, and we'll see how this works out.
But if you believe that we're a sovereign country and that we have the right to self-govern, we have the right to determine who comes in, we have the right to determine our way of life.
And what Trump is doing here, sending in ICE and then sending in the National Guard, that is the right thing to do.
Then, once you reestablish some order and authority— What defines our country?
It would seem to me that recognizing that we are one nation under God, conquer we must when our cause is just, and this be our motto, and God is our trust, a Christian nation, a model of Christian charity, that has roots in America, that has helped grow our nation to its great heights, and it has roots even in the classical.
If you view this as a battle, not merely for one nation among others, but for the entirety of Western civilization, that's the way you've got to go.
And it's going to irritate a lot of those people setting fire to LA, and that's actually a very good sign.
Now, speaking of religion, a lady Lutheran pastor is now explaining why she decided to rewrite scripture.
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There is a lady.
She is a pastoress.
Of some kind of Lutheran church, it seems.
I didn't know the Lutherans had lady pastors.
I knew the Episcopalians did.
I knew the Anglicans had priestesses and bishopresses.
The Lutherans, too.
That's too bad.
Well, she decided to rewrite scripture and to explain why.
I'll be the first to say it's not up to me to change the Bible, but I just did.
The reading you just heard was edited.
When I printed it out for our readers, I changed a few things.
For example, our readers read, they did not believe he had been blind and had received his sight.
But the Bible says, the Jews did not believe.
The man's parents refused to answer some of the questions put to them because, quote, they were afraid, for it was already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.
The Bible really says they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.
I edited out the references to the Jews because without interpreting those references, we could get into big trouble, and not the good trouble kind.
These passages make it sound as if there are two groups at odds with each other, the Christians, The irony here, she's explaining, she goes, you know, I did this to protect the Jews and to stop people from becoming anti-Semitic or whatever.
But then in her long-winded explanation, she just calls so much attention to it.
She's probably going to create more anti-Semites than she discourages.
The funny thing about her Bad idea.
Her bad idea being to rewrite scripture.
The funny thing about it is, her first point is actually pretty good.
She says, you know, look, this is what the scripture says, and you probably shouldn't change scripture even though I just did it.
But without a proper interpretation, even scripture can lead people astray.
That's true.
That's a great point, actually.
It's a deeply Catholic point, actually.
Then she comes to the wrong conclusion.
She says, okay, so instead of giving you the tools to interpret scripture properly, I'm just going to rewrite it.
That's a bad idea.
Because the point she's making specifically in this verse or these verses about the Jews is, well, you know, if people just hear the Jews, they might fall into a kind of rote anti-Semitism.
Anti-Semitism, which is a phrase that has meaning if you're talking about an ethnic group.
Because, of course, Christ himself is an ethnic Jew.
The apostles are ethnic Jews.
We've had multiple popes who are ethnic Jews.
So it wouldn't make sense to say that the Christians and the ethnic Jews are opposed, since the early church was entirely composed of ethnic Jews.
However, the scripture is clearly making a distinction between ethnicity and religion.
And the Pharisees and the...
They were enemies of Christ and they handed him over to the Romans to be crucified.
And they do have a different religious point of view in the scripture.
So that's obviously what the scripture is talking about.
It's not some condemnation of an ethnic group that would be incoherent from within the text.
But it is to say there are religious differences and you should be Christian.
That's what the text says.
So how do we express that?
One answer is to rewrite scripture.
As if we're afraid of dealing with a divinely inspired, inerrant word.
But the other answer is just to recognize that scripture must be interpreted.
It is incoherent to say that my faith just comes down to the Bible because the Bible does not interpret itself.
No text can interpret itself, even the inerrant word of God.
We're human beings, and the Bible, Scripture, is made up of signs and symbols, and signs and symbols must be interpreted.
And there are different hermeneutics by which we can interpret the Bible.
There are tools that come from, well, the magisterium, looking at the whole of the church tradition.
We can look at what the church fathers said.
We can look at what the doctors of the church have said.
We can look at what the living church today, up through the ages, ever ancient, ever new has said.
We could even listen to some random pastorist lady.
That is a mode of interpretation.
I don't think it's probably the wisest one, but that is a mode of interpretation.
But the one thing we probably shouldn't do is rewrite the thing.
When you rewrite the Bible, you are denying that it's inerrant, obviously.
You are denying that it's the word of God, or else you're denying God's authority.
That's probably a bad idea.
This point she's bringing up, it goes more broad, nothing goes deeper than the faith, but it's broader than even just talking about religion.
We have to be able to interpret.
We have to have tools to interpret the world.
This is an important point about Christianity.
You know, we're so concerned about activism now.
In fact, this liberal pastorist lady probably is making that mistake.
Because in liberalism, we think everything's about activism.
We ought to go take to the streets and be active all the time.
What does Christ say, though?
When he goes to visit Mary and Martha, Martha is getting the lunch ready, and she's all busy, and she represents the active life.
Mary sits at our Lord's feet and listens to him.
And Martha complains that Mary's not getting up and helping her, and Christ says, Martha, you're worried about many things, but Mary is just sitting here, listening to me, and Mary has the better part, that which will not be taken from her.
The contemplative life is better.
We have to do both, but the contemplative life is better than the active life.
That's what our Lord says.
Our Lord has completed history.
We know how history begins.
We know the incarnation, which is the turn of history, and the crucifixion and the resurrection.
And we know how history will end.
It's in the book of Revelation.
But we're still in history.
We're in the suspended time.
And what are we to do?
We're to interpret and scrutinize the signs of the times.
That's what we have to do.
So we have to be able to interpret.
We have to be able to interpret our own history.
We have to be able to be quiet and listen to God and the meaning that God has impressed upon the entire created world.
And it's very difficult to do that in a society that stresses only activism, that stresses only the exercise of the will and expressive individualism and autonomy.
This is a problem certainly on the left, you're seeing it in LA, but it's a problem even on the right too.
We need to make sure that we're careful about interpretation, lest we misinterpret even the most important things.
Yeah, yeah, you're right.
You're right.
So let's do it.
Let's take that more seriously.
Truly, I think, a lot has been written about the return to religion and specifically the conversions that are happening toward more traditional forms of the faith, more liturgical Protestantism to some degree, Eastern Orthodoxy to some degree, and especially to Catholicism.
I think this is a big part of why.
We realize we've just gone so wrong in modernity that we need to rethink all the basic aspects of it.
Down even all the way to how we interpret anything at all.
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Okay, my favorite comment before I get to the State of Israel intercepting Greta Thunberg's boat.
My favorite comment comes from Cass420.
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Greta Thunberg!
Was crossing the water into Gaza in a boat, she loves boats, with some of her left-wing activist friends.
And the state of Israel was threatening to sink the ship.
And some people were calling on that.
I think it was Will Chamberlain said, Israel could do the funniest thing in the world right now.
But I felt there was too much.
So Israel has intercepted the boat and given the passengers food and water and whatever else.
I agree it would have been inappropriate for Israel to shoot a missile down at Greta's boat and sink it.
However, would a tsunami have been too much to ask for?
You know, if I heard, I read on the internet that the state of Israel has a Would it have been just one heavy gust of wind?
One big wave is all we were asking for.
Apparently that was too much to ask.
So, the Greta boat's been intercepted.
The people are being given challah.
Greta's calling even more attention to herself with a silly green hat.
Food and water.
Now, the boat actually succeeded.
Confuse yourself.
Greta's publicity stunt has succeeded.
First of all, we're talking about Greta again.
Greta Thunberg started out in public life as a teenage activist, because we all have to be activists in modernity.
No one can be normal and interpret and be thoughtful and contemplative.
No, no, we're all activists.
And Greta's big cause was that the sun monster was going to burn us all up imminently.
And then that didn't happen.
It never happens.
The world is still going on spinning, and no one cares about...
That issue is totally passe, and if Greta kept talking about it, she would not be in the conversation.
So the new cause celeb among the left is the Israel-Gaza war, and specifically the pro-Palestine side of that.
So she's just said, okay, forget about the climate.
I'm going to be a pro-Palestine person now.
And she gets on the boat.
She's going into Gaza to violate Israel's blockade of Gaza.
About which I think there can be legitimate international debate.
Is the blockade legal?
Is it legal, therefore, for Israel to intercept a ship in international waters while the ship was trying to break the blockade, which the pro-Palestine people say is illegal in itself?
Well, you know, this, that, and the other thing.
This worked.
This caused attention to it.
I've pointed out the fact that people like Greta are on the side of the pro-Palestine people.
If you don't know anything else about the conflict, it's a good reason to broadly support the other side.
If Greta were pro-Israel, I would probably be out with a keffiyeh screaming in some inscrutable Arabic tongue right now.
But she's not.
All the worst people in the world, all the people burning down LA and waving the Mexican flags and setting cop cars on fire, all the Hollywood celebrities, all the big fancy New York society types, they're pro-Palestine.
Pro-Gaza.
So me, I'm not a Muslim.
I'm not a Jew.
I don't particularly have a dog in the fight of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
I'm just reflexively, broadly supportive of Israel over the free Palestine movement.
I think that's the rational thing to do.
Because Greta's wrong about everything.
So if she's wrong about everything, and this is one of the things she's for, I'm probably against it.
But, this is to say, Netanyahu needs to wrap up this war.
I think Netanyahu needs to wrap it up.
He's had a long time to conduct this war, and he's got to wrap it up.
This is what Trump said when he got elected.
In not quite so many words, he said, you can do whatever you want until I'm inaugurated, but then you've got to wrap it up.
I don't want to have to deal with this.
And Netanyahu won't wrap it up.
So, whatever you've got to do to get the hostages back, get rid of Hamas, the war doesn't get to go on indefinitely.
Because the war relies on American resources, and it expends American political capital, and it's annoying for people who are on the American right to have to defend this war.
Even if you can make a solid argument, as I think could be made, that the war checks at least most of the box of just war theory, then it just can't go on forever.
It's just, sorry, in as much as the state of Israel relies on American aid and American political protection.
Then you've got to wrap it up.
Because the Greta boat really did call attention to it, and this is becoming a cause celeb, and it's creating political problems for people on the American right, and we've just got to wrap it up.
It's been like two years now.
We've got to wrap it up.
This is from a guy who is broadly on the side of Israel in the war.
We've got to wrap it up.
I don't want us to have to deal with the political fallout of it, especially in the midterms.
However, on the flip side of that, Now, speaking of elections and polls, public support, you know, Trump and Elon were fighting.
They were fighting as of last Thursday.
Thursday, Friday.
I said, you know, look, I think people broadly are going to be on Trump's side here.
It's not that Elon doesn't raise some good points about federal spending and the debt bomb and all the rest of it, but I think Trump's political observations are better.
I think Trump's got a closer finger on the pulse of American politics, and people voted for Trump ultimately, not for Elon.
They voted for Trump with Elon, but if you've got to pick, I think people are going to side with Trump.
YouGov seems to be proving my prediction correct.
According to a YouGov poll, only 8% of people side with Elon in the Trump feud.
28% say they're on Trump's side.
8% on Musk's.
52% say they're on neither side.
If you just look at Democrats, only 4% say they're on Trump's side.
11% say they're on Musk's side.
So a small number of Democrats say they side with Musk.
And the Democrats seem to have Musk's back in this more than the Republicans do.
That's not a good place for Musk.
Who already burned political bridges with the Dems by supporting Trump in the first place.
Then, by going after Trump, started to burn political bridges with the Republicans.
Not a good idea, especially if you own really big businesses.
80% of Dems say they're on either side.
It was a mistake for Musk to pick the fight.
It was just a political mistake.
I'm not saying he was necessarily wrong in the issues, though, again, I think there's just a certain political reality that trumps economic analysis.
I said, what do you mean you're not cutting spending?
You know, it's just displayed an innocence about how politics works.
It was a mistake for Elon.
It hurt him.
It hurt him politically.
It's generally a mistake for people to go up against Trump in politics.
Trump is the guy.
He's the Elvis of politics.
You're seeing some signs that Musk is walking it back.
I've got a bunch of friends in the administration.
I'm getting little birdies telling me that it looks like Elon is going to walk it back.
Okay, that's good.
Glad to see that.
Elon was very helpful in the election.
We love Trump.
want to see we want to see them kiss and make up okay speaking of feuds before we go What are the big things you think she did?
She goes, well, all that I see is people talk about Simone Biles.
And I kid you, I'd heard the name before.
I thought she was talking about the kid from the Cosby show.
I thought, in my mind, is that, maybe that's racist?
I don't know what it is.
I said, Simone, like Raven Simone?
Was she the actress?
I said, no.
Simone Biles is an athlete of some sort.
And she's in a fight with Riley Gaines, who I do know.
And Simone Biles, I guess, is going after Riley because Riley objected to a man entering into women's sports in some high school competition.
And Simone Biles comes out.
And says, you know, why don't you pick on someone your own size, which ironically would be a man.
Riley's a very beautiful young woman, but I don't know, she's saying she's tall or something?
I don't know what it is.
The whole thing is so ridiculous.
But Simone Biles is taking the pro-trans side.
Riley remains consistent in protecting women in women's sports.
Which, as I pointed out, I find admirable not because I care about women's sports.
I don't think anyone really cares about women's sports.
It's admirable because Riley's side in keeping men out of women's sports is the side of justice and common sense and reality and human nature.
That's what I like about it.
But do not mistake, some people are going to point out, well, you know, you conservatives all of a sudden, you're pretending you like women's sports?
No, no, no, I don't.
I don't care about any women's sports whatsoever.
Never interested me.
I care about justice.
And Simone Biles, ironically enough.
She used to make jokes about this.
There was some old tweet that came up from years ago where she said, you know, if men had to compete, they'd win all the medals or something.
She's half joking when she's telling the truth there.
So, what's going on?
First of all, there's no doubt that Simone Biles is a woman, because this was a very catty comment.
You know, bully them, you look like a man.
You know, that's really, okay.
Very, very catfight-like behavior.
But also, why this matters politically.
This is like liberalism.
Simone Biles is like liberalism.
Simone Biles, she's a gymnast, right?
I think she's a gymnast.
So she's in this one sport, one of the few, where women are better than men.
Not as physically strong as men, but they're a little more graceful.
No one watches men's gymnastics, really.
It's all women's gymnastics.
And so she's in this sport where she doesn't really have to worry about losing her medals to men.
And she's already got hers, right?
She's been in multiple Olympics or something, I guess.
So she's established as an athlete.
She doesn't need to worry about it.
And so it's very easy for her to take the politically fashionable side of the pro-trans side.
Just like liberalism.
Liberalism, which rests upon a foundation of human nature and borders and nations and the military and Christianity.
When it feels confident and protected by all those things, starts attacking them.
Starts attacking the very foundations on which it rests.
Starts attacking the walls that protect it.
In some cases, the literal walls which protect it, the walls of a nation.
Simone Biles here has never had to compete against a man, will never have to compete against a man, so she's willing to attack reality.
And when plaudits from the crowd, when she feels she's insulated.
It seems to me that one of the lessons that we've learned in recent decades is we are not protected.
None of us is protected from the consequences of ignoring reality.
My great priest friend, Father George Rottler, who I quote on the show frequently, has this line where he says, you know, a prophet doesn't predict the future as much as he tells the truth.
And he seems to predict the future only in as much as that is a warning about the consequences of denying the truth.
None of us is protected from denying reality for too long.
Cities burn down.
Things go squirrely real fast.
Simone Biles still thinks she can play games.
I don't think so.
Riley's right here.
Simone is wrong.
And increasingly, Riley's view is going to be the popular one.
