Ep. 1899 - Why Is It Only Minneapolis? Why Is It Always Minneapolis?
Minnesota governor Tim Walz compares face-tattooed rapists to Anne Frank, Kanye West apologizes to Jews and a lots of other people in the Wall Street Journal, and Virginia Democrats propose a law to ban immigration enforcement from polling places.
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz compares face-tatooed rapists to Ann Frank.
Kanye West apologizes to Jews and lots of other people.
And Virginia Democrats propose a law that would ban immigration enforcement from polling places.
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Tim Walz, amid all the chaos in Minneapolis, it always seems to be Minneapolis, doesn't it?
It only seems to be Minneapolis amid all the chaos, the leftists going out, rioting, obstructing law enforcement, conspiring with state officials.
We'll get to that.
Then the law enforcement operatives and officers shooting some of these lunatics, justifiably so, necessarily so.
Nevertheless, a giant powder keg.
And amid all of this, Tim Walz, the man who was almost one heartbeat away from becoming the second woman president, comes out and he compares the face-tattoed rapists and the murderers and the drug traffickers and all these foreign criminals to Anne Frank.
We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside.
Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank.
Somebody's going to write that children's story about Minnesota.
And there's one person who can end this now.
A very salient comparison, except, of course, that Anne Frank was a little girl who died in a concentration camp.
And what's going on in Minneapolis is that some of the worst kinds of criminals, along with lots of other criminals who have broken the most basic laws of our country, are actually fine.
Like basically nothing is happening to them.
But crazy white liberals are sometimes getting into scraps with law enforcement and threatening them and getting shot on their behalfs, on the behalfs of all of the criminals.
What they want is George Floyd 2.0.
That's what they want.
They want George Floyd 2.0 and they're going to get George Floyd 2.0.
Unfortunately, I think it is working to some degree.
I'm monitoring, you know, I have liberal friends.
I grew up in New York, went to a very liberal college, lived in Los Angeles.
I have a mixed political family.
I'm monitoring it, and they're buying it.
And it's just, it's 2020 all over again.
Trump is president, which is part of why this is happening, is because the libs feel powerless because they lost the national election.
They want to do something.
And so what are they going to do?
They're going to riot.
It's like a little toddler.
They're going to throw a big temper tantrum, except in this case, what they're going to do is break laws, create anarchy in the streets, threaten people, endanger lives, harbor criminals, and all the rest of it.
And they think they're going to get the same outcome they did in 2020.
Because don't forget, 2020 worked.
The George Floyd riots worked.
We lost, well, did we lose?
Trump did not remain in office in 2021 for a variety of reasons that we don't need to rehash now.
In any case, as a practical political matter, it did kind of work, didn't it?
And that's what they're counting on again.
What they're counting on is that they can go back to that old playbook and Trump isn't going to bring down the hammer that much.
And I hope the administration is getting the message.
I trust that they are.
But if they do what was done in 2020, you're going to get the same result.
And what happened in 2020?
In 2020, you had this massive lockdown.
You had this chaos throughout the country.
It was this perfect opportunity.
Trump on the back foot.
Here, you don't necessarily need that.
You're not on the brink of a presidential election.
I guess you have the midterms coming up, though that's less important.
And you're in a kind of situation where it seems to me you got to do the opposite.
You got to come down, bring down the hammer, and call people's attention to the fact that this has happened before.
Because the top question in people's minds should be, why is it always Minneapolis?
And the lieutenant governor of Minnesota seems to be giving us that answer.
Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan has now been identified, reportedly, as one of the administrators of the anti-ICE signal chat.
We talked about this on the show yesterday.
There's this signal chat that is allowing all of the anti-ICE people to coordinate with each other and to show up and say, hey, I doxxed that ICE officer's car.
Hey, I doxed that not ICE officer, but just some civilian that I don't like's car.
And hey, they're going to come to arrest the rapists down here, so we got to block them.
And hey, we need to stop the traffic.
And hey, this, that, and the other thing.
And it's not just lunatics and it's not just bored white women in their 30s and 40s.
And it's not just like weird guys who have nothing else going on, who hate their dads, who want to feel like they need any meaning in their lives.
It's all those kinds of people.
It's also state officials.
We talked about this yesterday on the show.
There's a Minnesota state rep who's helping to coordinate some of this stuff.
Obviously, Tim Walz as governor has been verbally encouraging these sorts of riots from behind his wrought iron fence.
Hey, you, go out there.
Yeah, go get yourself killed.
That's a sacrifice I'm worth making.
And let's go.
Hey, come on, guys.
Hey, get in their faces, grab their guns, maybe.
That's a great idea.
That'll probably stop the investigation into my conspiracy to commit fraud.
You got him doing that.
You got Klobe Uchar saying, we need ICE out now.
You got Jacob Fry with his whiny millennial.
You get ICE, get the F out of here.
Get the F out of here, ICE.
Forget about the supremacy clause of the Constitution.
You got all that going on.
But then at a more tangible level, there are reports that the lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan, who you're probably not that familiar with, most people are not.
She also went viral for wearing a shirt that said, protect trans kids with a knife.
And I don't, does the knife represent chopping off the kids' genitals, or does the knife represent stabbing the people who oppose the transgender ideology?
I don't know which is worse, actually.
Either way, it's always the ones you most expect.
This woman is one of the admins of the anti-ice signal chat.
This means two things.
One, this woman could be criminally liable for these deaths.
If this woman was actively conspiring in these insurrectionist operations to obstruct law enforcement, to grapple with the police, to aid Nibet criminals, she could be criminally liable for the consequences of those actions, which now include two deaths.
Beyond that, what this means is that we have an answer to our question.
Why Minneapolis?
Why is it always Minneapolis?
Why is it only Minneapolis?
Because it's a political operation.
And I made this point when Charlie was killed.
Remember, after Charlie was killed by the same kind of person who always tries to kill the conservatives, sexually deviant, radicalized, young leftist, shows up.
I mean, these are people who've shown up to campuses multiple times.
When that guy assassinated Charlie, allegedly, when he assassinated Charlie, a lot of people, I think, as a coping mechanism or a way to grieve, said, well, you know what?
That will never work because we're only going to be stronger now and we're going to be more unified.
And you've struck one of us down, but you're, we're only going to, and I thought, look, I hope that's the case.
I hope we win.
I hope we take some inspiration.
But the reason that people do assassinations is because they work.
If they didn't work, people wouldn't keep doing them.
Some Serbian nationalist, some loser nobody in the middle of nowhere committed an assassination against a little-known archduke and it set the world into the greatest calamity ever to befall Europe.
A war so massive that it extended beyond Europe and we call it a world war.
Assassinations work.
That's why people keep doing them.
Well, it's the same thing for these kinds of riots.
Why on earth would Tim Walz be encouraging this unrest in the streets?
Gee, I don't know, because it works for his political party.
It has in the past.
Why would Peggy Flanagan, Amy Klobuchar, or Jacob Frawl, why are they doing it?
Well, because it has worked for them.
And so the task before us now is to make this one not work.
How do you make it not work?
Well, the strategy last time was basically let Minnesota burn.
And there are many people on the right, especially the more libertarian right, but people on the right generally who say, you know what?
Let them deal with the consequences of their own actions.
Minnesota's having problems.
Great.
That's why I left those kinds of states, those blue states.
And they can pay their high taxes and have to deal with their fraudulent Somalis and their riots in the streets.
I'm going to be here breathing the free air of Texas or Tennessee.
Sure.
Yeah, I breathe the free air.
It's very cold air right now, but I breathe it.
But that's not how a country operates.
You have to have order.
Point I made after Charlie died too.
We want the free exchange of ideas.
We want a healthy culture of debate and deliberation.
That's true.
To get to that, you don't just double down on free speech in the abstract.
You need order.
You need limits.
You need rules.
You need standards.
And you need to put a lot of people in jail.
You need to punish people when they undermine that.
So what is called for here, I think, is just bringing the hammer down on Minneapolis.
It's so much worse up there than even you think it is.
I know there are liberals who listen to the show, and I'm greatly appreciative of that.
There are people who are more politically moderate or neutral or independent, sure.
But even for the right-wingers, it's so much worse up there than you think.
This report just came out, hat tip to Tyler O'Neill.
That city's church invasion, when the radical mob of leftists came up storming the church, going in, stopping the service, getting up in the faces of the kids and the parishioners.
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We have it not even by way of reporting from this outlet or that outlet, which might have a bias.
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According to this court report out of Minneapolis, during the city's church invasion, which was itself illegal and a violation of federal law, at the very least because of the FACE Act, the FACE Act, which is the Freedom of Abortion Clinic Entrances Act.
It's an abortion factory law to protect the abortionists from having to deal with people praying in front of their abortion facilities.
And the only way they could get it passed, because it's so hideous, it's so evil, was to say, okay, well, you know, as a little olive branch, we'll also use this act to stop people from invading churches during services.
Though it's basically never used to prosecute people who attack churches, it's only used to stop people from generally peaceably demonstrating at abortion factories.
In any case, according to the court documents, agitators blocked the stairs so that, quote, parents were unable to get to their children at Sunday school.
So it's not just people going in, Don Lemon, there, hey, this is our First Amendment right.
I'm just here as a journalist.
This is their First Amendment right, getting up in the pastor's face.
No, no, no.
This mob blocks the stairs so the parents couldn't get to their kids.
Then at least one of these guys goes up to a kid, starts screaming at the little kid, says, quote, do you know your parents are Nazis?
They're going to burn in hell to a little kid in church.
Then William Kelly, who's one of the ringleaders of this outfit, he says, this ain't God's house.
This is the house of the devil.
Leftists calling God the devil.
Wow, would you?
The problem with the radical leftists is it's the evil, the evil is a big problem of it.
But just below that problem, the secondary problem is how uninspired it is, how unoriginal it is.
They've been doing this since the French Revolution.
And they say, oh, you know, God, you know, actually, God is the devil.
Hey, you know what you think is good?
That's actually bad.
Wow.
Oh, snaps.
Wow.
I never thought of it that way.
You're really making me see the world in a new and original way.
So they're saying this.
And then another agitator, according to the court docs, quote, continued to scream in the faces of young children while they were crying.
While they were crying.
Now, plenty of people are going to hear that and they're going to be shocked.
And I guess you should be shocked.
Many people are going to be surprised, and you should not be surprised.
You should not be surprised.
One, because these people are kind of loony.
Two, they're prone to outrageous activism.
The reason you should not be surprised that they would do this, that they would invade a church, they would block off parents from getting their kids, they would shriek in the faces of kids, say your parents are going to hell and shriek in the kids' faces while they're crying.
Do you know why you should not be surprised?
These people murder babies.
Do you remember that?
It's slightly unrelated.
And that's not unrelated.
It's a tangential issue.
I know we're supposed to be talking about immigration here, but I just want to remind you that 100% of the people who are invading the churches and yelling at the kids and the parents and all that, 100% of them openly, avowedly celebrate in a kind of bloodlust, Dionysiac festival, the murder of innocent babies.
That's the kind of people we're talking.
Yeah, they probably would shriek at a little kid.
Yeah, they probably would interrupt church.
Yeah, they probably would blaspheme and call God the devil.
They probably would do that.
You know who we're talking about, right?
There's some people, I don't know, they think it's the 90s or they think that it's some, I don't know, whatever nostalgia tells them, nostalgia history after a few drinks, whatever their nice saccharine memories tell them it used to be like in this country.
They kind of forget the depths of evil that we're talking about here at the heart of the spirit that animates this political movement.
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A political movement that does not always express the fullness of that depraved spirit, but nevertheless is motivated by it.
If you are surprised by this kind of behavior, that's on you.
Now, I'm not just inveighing against these people and just beating them up.
You have to come to a conclusion from this.
If you think that we're just going to be nice, and well, if we just bring the temperature down, let's just bring the temperature down, you know, that it's going to improve, you're deluded.
If you think that there's some nice middle ground to meet between the people who would go out and sacrifice their lives and the lives of others to stop law enforcement from arresting rapists and murderers who don't even have the right to be in this country, you're mistaken.
The only way, this is politics 101, the only way that you're going to improve the situation here is by discouraging the bad behavior and encouraging good behavior.
And I know there's some people of the liberal bent, especially on the right-wing side of the more libertarian bent, who don't believe that incentives and disincentives work the way that they do.
So you hear this a lot with drug policy.
They say, you know, actually, man, if you want drug use to go down, you should legalize all the drugs, man.
And then when you legalize all the drugs, people will do fewer drugs.
And you look at them and you say, well, will you do fewer drugs?
You're like, not me, man.
I'm going to do all the drugs.
And you say, well, no, wait.
But why would if you have more of something and you encourage its proliferation, what would lead you to the conclusion that you will have fewer people using that less, fewer times per day or per year?
And they'd say, I don't know, man.
Same thing with abortion.
They say, well, if you really want fewer abortions, you should legalize abortion.
People make this argument.
Someone made this argument on Barfett the other day.
If you really want fewer abortions, you got to legalize abortion.
Then it'll be really safe.
Say, first of all, well, that's a whole other rabbit hole because in the year before Roe v. Wade, the number of legal abortions versus illegal abortions were both relatively small, but the rates of death from each of them were basically the same.
So there's really very little evidence that a legal abortion is safer than an illegal abortion.
Anyway, I'm getting distracted.
No, you don't get fewer abortions when you legalize it.
Before Roe v. Wade, we had very few abortions, and then Roe v. Wade happened, and abortion was legalized throughout the country, and abortion skyrocketed.
All of that to say, economics 101, sociology 101.
When you punish a certain behavior, you get less of it.
When you encourage or permit other behaviors, you get more of them.
So in this case, what do you do?
You've just got to bring the hammer down on these people.
We say a very sad fact of public life is that assassinations work.
That's true.
We say a sad fact of public life is riots work.
That's true.
You know what else works?
Arresting people.
You know what else works?
Keeping people in prison for a really long time.
You know what else works?
Mandatory minimum sentences.
You know what else works?
The federal government invoking the supremacy clause and the Insurrection Act when need be.
And in this case, if the situation in Minnesota does not merit invoking the Insurrection Act, I don't know what does.
The governor explicitly referred to civil war, 1863, and then he threatened to call up the Minnesota National Guard to fight the federal troops.
The lieutenant governor is in the signal chats conspiring to undermine federal law enforcement.
It would appear, according to reports, allegedly getting people killed along the way.
If you want less of this behavior, you have to discourage it.
Seems simple enough.
Now, speaking of strange Democrat behavior, the Democrats are proposing a bill that would prohibit immigration enforcement from 40 feet within a polling place.
So ICE, if ICE has to go out there, there's nothing the Democrats can do to stop it, but they're proposing a specific law that says within 40 feet of a polling place, of an election, immigration enforcement is not allowed.
I saw this going around on social media, and I looked at it, I said, oh no.
My beautiful, gullible right-wingers, you know, look, I'm a right-winger.
I'm rock-ribbed, red.
I love them, but sometimes they're gullible.
This cannot be real.
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Alfonso H. Lopez, state legislator in Virginia, proposes HB 1442-2026 regular session.
It's a bill that would, well, I'll just read this verbatim from the text of the bill.
Quote, prohibits any person from performing any act for the purpose or in furtherance of enforcement of federal immigration laws within 40 feet of any building or part thereof used as one, a polling place, two, a meeting place for the local electoral board while the electoral board meets to ascertain the results of an election, or three, the place for a recount.
What an odd law to propose.
What an odd.
I feel like Bart Simpson, you know, what an odd, huh?
Why would they, because I was, hold on.
You know, you watch the news.
You read, you read things.
You're smart.
I was told that illegal aliens never, never under any circumstances vote in our elections.
That's a deranged right-wing crazy conspiracy theory, right?
Yeah.
So, and then okay, sometimes we catch people doing it, but it's so rare and never mind and there's nothing to see here and pay no attention to the man in the sombrero behind the curtain.
Okay.
But now what they would say, what the Libs would say, if they even admitted it occasionally in the illegal votes, they'd say, well, it's not widespread.
Okay.
Then why would you propose this law?
Because what's so brazen about this law is that it does not merely imply that illegals vote sometimes, which is a massive scandal in itself.
What this law implies is that their voting is so widespread, it is so commonplace, that ICE could just launch a raid on any random polling place and they would catch illegals.
Now, you might say, well, look, maybe ICE launches the raid on the polling place, but they don't get anybody.
Well, if they don't get anybody, then there's no reason to prohibit it.
It's not like ISIS is going to drag off the people who have their IDs.
Well, I guess you don't need an ID anymore to vote.
Okay, well, maybe there's that.
This is a confession.
And I got to thank Alfonso Lopez.
He's, by the way, this isn't even just some complete wacko.
Some of the state legislators are a little wacky.
Some of them are great.
Look, some of my best friends have been state legislators, but a lot of them are wacky.
This guy, though, he might be wacky, but he's a real guy.
He's been a significant figure in the Democrat National Committee.
He's worked at the Small Business Administration under Barack Obama.
Now he's a state legislator.
Why is he doing it?
Because illegal aliens.
I'm just inferring this from the Democrats.
If you don't like what I'm saying, blame them.
He's doing this because he has concluded that illegals voting is a widespread phenomenon.
And that if immigration law were enforced, even at the polling place, or the specificity here is comical.
Not just at the polling place, but also at a meeting place for the local electoral board while the electoral board meets to ascertain the results of an election.
Now we got illegals on the electoral board or in the place of a recount.
They would round up so many illegals Democrats would never win another election.
All right.
Well, when they're telling you what they're doing, how about we respond?
But the way Republicans want to respond is, oh, by golly, by golly, can you imagine?
Can you imagine if we did that?
Can you imagine if the shoe were on the other foot?
Oh, boy, would we have a hearty laugh about that?
Oh, boy, howdy, would, well, we would get an earful if we ever tried that.
And you guys are trying.
Yes, they are.
Can you imagine if the governor of a red state ever led an insurrection and commanded his subjects to obstruct law enforcement and sacrifice themselves like liberal kamikazes, like leftist jihadis?
By howdy, can you imagine if we ever did that on our side?
Boy, golly, they, oh, we would never hear the end of it.
No, they would kill us if we did that.
They're trying to kill us now, actually.
They try to assassinate us.
Their sitting officials conspire in signal chats to assault us on the street, civilian and law enforcement alike.
So what are we going to do about that?
We, not being vigilante terrorists, want to work within the framework of justice and the law and civil society in accordance and furtherance of the common good.
Well, the way we have to do that is by enforcing the law.
I don't want to sound like a broken record, but you have two options in society.
At a time when tensions are running high, when one side is calling for private violence, that's the left.
You have two options.
Three options, I guess.
You can either surrender and let them kill you all, destroy your society, or the other two options are you can respond with your own private violence, which is, generally speaking, unjust, or you can respond with state violence.
State violence is the just alternative.
That's why we have the state, is for violence.
We have the state so that the civil authority, which does not bear the sword in vain, can enforce the law so that you don't get all the vigilante violence.
Medical System Failures00:12:58
But if we go weak on these points, and a lot of it has to do with migration, a lot of it does seem to come down to Minnesota.
But if we go weak, if we back off, if we say it's a little too hot, we don't want to touch it, we're afraid for the midterms, whatever.
If we back off, you will only get more private violence, and it will only be because of Republican cowardice.
Speaking of Democrats getting a little bit kooky, getting a little bit, if not violent, violent adjacent.
A Florida anesthesiologist has gone viral for refusing to provide medical care to Republicans.
We'll get to that momentarily first, though.
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Got to give a hat tip here to Libs of TikTok, as ever.
Eric Martindale has gone viral.
He's an anesthesiologist in Florida.
He has said that he will not provide his anesthesiological care to Republicans.
Now, for me, listen, if I want Democrats to put me to sleep, I would just listen to a Hillary Clinton speech.
Am I right?
I don't need, am I right?
Hey, come on.
I'll be here in this studio probably all week because it's going to be very chilly here in Nashville.
But this is actually, you know, joking aside, a grave violation of medical ethics, and this guy's got to be punished.
You know, I don't want to sound, I don't know, maybe it's because I've been locked up, the power has been out, I've been getting him up, but I don't mean to sound totally like Franco here, but you got to bring the hammer down, guys.
You don't, a Democrat does not have the right to withhold medical care from a Republican, whether he's an anesthesiologist or whether he's a heart surgeon.
He doesn't have the right to do that for a number of reasons.
One, because the medical professionals are licensed.
So this guy should lose his license simply for the threat.
I don't even care if he's ever refused a Republican patient.
He should lose his license simply for the threat.
And I believe the excellent Attorney General of Florida is already looking into doing just that.
That goes without saying.
But furthermore, the reason we can't tolerate this stuff is because it is contrary to the medical profession itself.
First, medical professionals are supposed to take the Hippocratic oath, though apparently a lot of them do not anymore.
It's optional, I guess.
But second of all, you cannot have a medical system when, wow, actually, it occurs to me now I made this point after Charlie died.
A lot of this is chickens coming home to roost, given the liberal reaction to Charlie's death and the fact that one of them killed him.
You cannot have a medical system in which half your patients think that the nurses or doctors might kill them.
If you have a medical system in which leftists get away with refusing care to Republicans, only grudgingly giving care to Republicans, maybe joking about harming Republicans, you can't have a medical system.
You can't have an education system that way.
That's why all those teachers should have been, and in some cases were, but a lot of cases they were not, fired for celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.
I can't send my kids to a school if I think there's a 50-50 shot the teacher wants to murder them.
In order to save the education system, you have to fire those teachers who would do that.
In order to save the medical system, you have to fire medical professionals like this guy.
I'm reminded of Reagan getting shot in the 80s, and he is wheeled in.
You know, he could have died.
And he turns to the surgeon who would go on to save his life, Joseph Giordano, and he said, I hope you're a Republican.
Well, I hope you're a Republican.
He's bleeding out on the table.
I hope you, Reagan always created with the line.
I hope you're a Republican.
And the surgeon said to him, Mr. President, today we're all Republicans.
The beautiful line.
And coincidentally, providentially, I know for a fact that that doctor was not a Republican because I knew the doctor's son a little bit in New York, obviously many years later.
And he said, oh, yeah, my dad wasn't a Republican.
But you had this sense of unity, Mr. President.
Of course, today we're all Republicans.
Today we're all Reagan supporters, sir.
And he helped save his life.
Imagine today our degraded culture.
And by the way, that was just the 80s.
It's not like the 80s were like the high point of glam rock and AIDS.
This wasn't exactly the Victorian era.
And still, it was so much more dignified than our culture today.
Today, Reagan gets shot.
The president's wheeled in.
And you have some pink-haired, eunuch-looking sort of ambiguous in every way nurse practitioner, anesthesiologist.
And then operating on you.
I hated your tax cut.
You just think, well, we don't have a country anymore.
Whatever.
Get me to Greenland.
Get me out of here as quickly as I can.
Now, speaking of unhinged behavior, unhinged and then maybe back to hinged behavior, Kanye West.
Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, published a letter in the Wall Street Journal.
And he published it as an advertisement, not exactly as a letter.
But it looks like a letter.
It says, to those I've hurt, by Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.
And it's an apology specifically to the Jews because he was a little rough on the ancient nomadic tribe, I think.
But he was rough on a number of people in different groups.
And what does he write?
He says, 25 years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw, caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain.
At the time, the focus was on the visible damage, the fracture, the swelling, and the immediate physical trauma.
The deeper injury, the one inside my skull, went unnoticed.
So he's saying, look, I had a head trauma.
It wasn't properly diagnosed.
But then this led to serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type 1 diagnosis.
Bipolar comes with its own defense system, denial.
When you're manic, you don't know you're sick.
You think everyone else is overreacting.
Once people label you as crazy, you feel like you can't contribute anything meaningful to the world.
Yeah, that's largely true.
It's a deadly diagnosis in terms of the life expectancy.
It's shortened by 10 to 15 years on average.
This is on par with severe heart disease, type 1 diabetes, HIV, and cancer.
The scariest thing is how persuasive it is when it tells you you don't need help.
I lost touch with reality.
Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem.
I said and did things I deeply regret.
He goes on, he specifically talks about the Jews as he was a little bit rough to the tribe of Abraham.
He says, I regret and I'm deeply mortified by my actions in that state.
I'm committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change.
Does not excuse what I did, though.
I'm not a Nazi or an anti-Semite.
I love Jewish people.
I gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika, and even sold shirts bearing it.
One of the difficult aspects of having bipolar is that all these disconnected moments, some of which I can't recall, lead to poor judgment and it feels like an out-of-body experience.
Okay, so there are going to be a lot of people who say not good enough.
Now he goes on.
He says, I'm not asking for sympathy or a free pass, though I aspire to learn, earn your forgiveness.
I write today simply to ask for your patience and understanding as I find a way home.
I am not purporting to read Kanye's mind.
You know, me, I don't listen to a lot of pop music to begin with.
But I will say I called at least part of this apology when he did the Hitler song.
You know, they hit, they don't understand the things I said on Twitter.
And, you know, he actually just went viral the other day because of some live stream I think.
And I played this, so I did a reaction or a criticism of the song.
I said, you know, everyone's calling this a Nazi song, but I don't think it's a Nazi song.
In some ways, it's an anti-Nazi song because I said, just listen to the lyrics.
Everyone's just shocked by the lyric.
They don't understand the things I say on Twitter.
All my, I'll say ninjas.
All my ninjas, Nazi, all my ninjas, Nazis, ninja, Heil Hitler is the lyric.
And then it goes on and on and on.
And everyone says, oh, he's a Nazi.
This is a Nazi song.
But I said, well, listen to the lyrics.
And the lyrics are, you know, he lost his kids and his life's falling apart and he's spiraling and he's in one of these manic episodes.
Clearly is what he's describing.
And then he gets to the end and he says, yeah, well, now I'm the villain.
Now I'm the villain, Heil Hitler.
And he goes on to describe himself being Hitler.
And I said, that's a crucial lyric because he's not saying, and now I've seen the light and now I'm the real good guy.
And now I'm Superman, Heil Hitler.
He's saying, now I'm the bad guy.
Now I'm the villain, Heil Hitler.
Which it doesn't take an advanced degree in logic to know that what he's saying is the Nazis are the bad guys and I'm a bad guy now, so Heil Hitler.
That totally jibes with what he's saying in this letter here.
He's saying, I gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find.
I don't know.
Kanye might love the Jews.
He might hate the Jews.
He might feel indifferent toward the Jews.
I don't know.
I'm not purporting to know that.
What I am claiming, though, is I think the primary thing that drove him in a manic state or in just a kind of creative, bizarro world state, towards something like a swastika, toward the absolute incarnation of evil in our modern conception of the world, is that it is the taboo.
It is the symbol of destruction, the most evil thing imaginable.
We live in a world in which even the devil is not the devil.
Hitler could be the devil, but the devil's not the devil.
As I've mentioned before, we live in this kind of bizarro inversion world where the Christian view is that there's the incarnation of absolute good and evil is a privation of the good.
We in our modern materialist secular pagan culture, we think there is no good.
There's just the incarnation of evil.
And I guess that's Hitler.
And goodness is just the privation of Hitler-ness, Hitlerdom, Naziness.
You're only good in as much as you're not a Nazi.
All of this language coming out of Minnesota is just, you're a Nazi.
You're a Nazi.
No, you're a Nazi.
You know, I've pointed out, Kanye is clearly an excellent pop musician.
I don't listen to a lot of pop music, but he's clearly an excellent pop musician.
And that's what he's doing.
He's touching an artistic taboo.
He might also hate the Jews.
I don't know.
Or he might, you can take him at his word in the Wall Street Journal, maybe he loves the Jews.
I don't know.
That's not my making more of a point about art and culture.
When he says, in my manic state, I was driven toward the most destructive symbol I could imagine, and that was a swastika.
I have to believe him because our whole culture agrees with that.
And when he says, yeah, I'm a villain, I'm going to play the villain now by doing this.
Kind of makes sense.
A lot of people are going to say he's just being cynical.
But again, a lot of these people acknowledged he was bipolar back then.
I tend to read this.
I don't know if he's got some other angle here.
Maybe he's got an album or something coming out.
But I read the words.
It reads pretty real to me.
Cave Art in Indonesia00:03:34
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Okay, speaking of art, this is a little different than Songs About Hitler.
There's a story that just came out, which I love this story so much.
The world's oldest cave art has been discovered in Indonesia.
The cave art goes back at least 67,800 years.
This, according to research published in the journal Nature by a team of Indonesian and Australian archaeologists, what did they find?
The same sort of thing that we find in the caves in France and Spain.
Handprints in the negative, stenciled, probably using red ochre.
Red ochre, very, very important part of human art and culture.
All these really interesting theories about the role of red ochre in like female cosmetic coalitions and reproduction.
And anyway, that itself could be a Michael And episode of three hours.
But nevertheless, you've got all this art going back a long, long time.
The new discovery is more than 15,000 years older than previous art found in the Sulawesi region by the same team.
What does this tell us?
It tells us something very important about anthropology, and it's not an original insight.
It's an insight from our old pal, G.K. Chesterton.
Chesterton in Everlasting Man, which is not even my favorite book of his.
C.S. Lewis liked it a lot.
It's not even my favorite book of his.
But he makes this observation that when we talk about cavemen, we're told that there's this guy, this big brute, who carries a club, who goes out and finds some woman to rape.
He clubs her over the head, drags her back to his cave, has his way with her, drags his knuckles on the ground like a big, fat, dumb, violent idiot.
Now, if you want to find big, fat, dumb, violent idiots, look at Minnesota in 2026.
You don't need to look at the Sulawesi region back in 15,000 years ago, or in this case, 68,000 years ago.
But what do we know about the caveman?
Well, Chesterton tells us.
He says, the only thing we know about the caveman, we know from the pictures that we find on the caves in France and Spain and Indonesia, I guess.
These little pictures of animals, a little bit of nature, handprints.
In other words, the only thing we know about the caveman is that he was an artist.
That's all we know about him.
And we have this impulse to flatter ourselves, to say that all the people who came before us were less moral than we are, and they were stupider than we are, and they were just dummies, and we figured it all out.
And we do this with the Founding Fathers, and we do this with even our grandparents and our parents, and we do this certainly with the great men throughout the history of Western civilization.
Deportations and Democrats00:06:48
But you can take that all the way back.
And as tough as we are on Thomas Jefferson these days, we are much tougher on the caveman.
We don't even seem to consider him as human.
And yet all we know about the caveman is that he was an artist.
And judging by the standards of modern art, he was probably a better artist than most of the artists that we have today.
Okay, speaking of decorations, at least one last point before we go.
I'm just so happy to be in a podcast studio again.
I could be here for three hours.
Caroline Levitt at the White House was asked about the raids in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
ICE out now.
This is awful.
Tom Holman is a terrorist sending in all these.
And Caroline Levitt pointed out, Tom Holman is actually a decorated law enforcement officer.
In fact, Tom Holman received a medal from President Barack Obama.
This is a Washington Post headline from nine years ago, 2016.
Meet the man the White House has honored for deporting illegal immigrants.
And I would remind everyone in this room that it was former President Barack Hussein Obama who awarded a medal to Mr. Holman.
So he's obviously very qualified.
He has the full trust and faith of the president.
He will continue to have these meetings in the hopes that ICE and local law enforcement can cooperate and work together to have successful immigration enforcement, as we've seen in almost every other state across the country.
Well, well, well.
Tom Holman, under the Obama administration, wonderful, great career, civil servant, law enforcement officer, wonderful guy commended by the president himself.
And then he became a fascist overnight.
Can you imagine?
Or he's just doing his job.
Or maybe he's doing his job and now he's allowed greater freedom to actually accomplish his job.
But Obama awarded a guy who helped to lead deportations.
So what exactly is going on here?
The left doesn't know what point it's making and the right doesn't know how to respond because this is the problem.
This is the confusion with one of the dumbest lines we hear about Obama.
And I'm sure you've heard this before.
They called him the deporter-in-chief.
You ever hear this line?
This is like the dumbest.
This is on Facebook, your cousin, your kind of boomer cousin on level of political analysis.
They called him the deporter-in-chief.
What point do you think you're making here?
First of all, to quote Kanye West, who is they, though?
What do we mean they?
Who is they?
They, I think, is supposed to refer to the media or the, is it supposed to refer to the media in a neutral way?
The Democrats in a negative way.
They were angry.
They accused him of being the deporter-in-chief.
Does the they refer to Republicans who were happy that Barack Obama who called Obama the deporter-in-chief?
I don't think anybody seriously considered him the deporter-in-chief.
I think this was a narrative that the Democrats had to whip up under Obama because Americans want the illegals deported.
That's how Trump won the popular vote in 2024, running in large part on mass deportations, mass deportations.
So this idea that Obama was the deporter-in-chief was this cheeky little way to bail him out of a tight political spot of saying, well, you know, you think Obama's opening up the border and going soft on illegals and waving his magical wand for executive amnesty that even he admits is unconstitutional.
But, you know, actually, you know, actually, though, he's actually kind of like the deporter-in-chief.
Oh, is he?
How is that?
How do you figure?
Because I thought he gave millions of illegals amnesty against the Constitution, in his words.
Well, no, but actually, like, actually, when you think about it, he turned away like 300,000 illegal aliens.
He deported them.
Well, hold on.
Did he deport him or did he turn him away?
Because this was also the slate of hand with the deportations.
They say Trump only formally deported 550,000 illegal aliens in his first year of his second term.
And that's probably true, though I think there were a lot of self-deportations.
You see this in labor data.
But let's say that's true.
And they say, well, Obama deported 300,000.
Not really.
He just turned them away at the border sometimes.
So let's say that every one of those 300,000 deportations were legit.
That's basically just him at the border saying, okay, we're not going to let as many of you in right now.
Well, Trump has done that.
He just shut the border down entirely.
So how many of those people, add all of every one of those people, actually many more, because Joe Biden allowed that number to increase dramatically by an order of magnitude, in fact, by his last year.
Add that on all the way to the top.
And you get to the real problem for the libs, which is, what do you think about illegal immigration?
Just between you and me.
You and me, we're here.
It's just us privately.
Do you want to deport the illegals or do you not want to?
You don't want to, right?
You don't want to.
But you want to convince moderate voters in certain states that you do want to, but just not in the way that Trump is doing it.
But the way Trump is doing it is basically just going after rapists and face-tatooed people.
And sometimes other illegals get caught up in that because it's impossible not to.
But like he's actually being a little moderate about the deportations, a little too moderate for many conservatives.
So what do you really want?
You don't want to deport them because you want them to steal elections for you.
That's why Virginia is going to try to pass a law prohibiting immigration enforcement at polling places.
That's why the governor of Minnesota is trying to start a civil war to stop deportations in his state.
You don't want a single illegal, no matter how many kids they raped, no matter how many grannies they murdered, no matter how many face tattoos they have.
You don't want one single illegal out of this country.
You are willing to sacrifice every single deluded white woman in her middle ages to stop even one of them from being kicked out of this country.
But you realize that is completely insane and treasonous.
And so you have to pull this BS.
Well, actually, they called him the deporter-in-chief.
Can we just be honest?
You don't even have to be honest when you go on TV because I know you won't be.
Willing Sacrifice00:02:40
But just between me and you, right?
So what you're saying, I love this bit from Caroline because she's just shoving it back in their faces.
But I know their answer.
The reality of it is simple enough.
Yeah, they wouldn't have given him that award.
They only did it as a kind of an olive branch to the normal people while they carry on their political program, which we see on the streets all around us increasingly is radical.
Okay.
Much more to say, but I've overstayed my welcome in this beautiful podcast space.
So hopefully the ice starts melting.
It probably won't be.
So I'll be broadcasting here until at least halfway through President Vance's first term.
I'm Michael Knowles, the Michael Knoll Show.
See you tomorrow.
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Is that who you think I was alone with?
Marathon, I knew your father.
I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
All men know of the great Talies.
Who are my father?
Other gods should war for my soul.
Princess Garris, savior of our people.
I know what the Bull God offered you.
I was offered the same.
And there is a new pirate work in the world.
I've seen it.
A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.
We are each given only one life, Singer.
No.
We're given another.
I learned of Yezu the Christ, and I have become his follower.
He's waiting on a miracle, and I think you can give him one.
Trust in Yezu.
He is the only hope for men like us.
Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the Great Light.
Great light, great darkness.
Such things mattered to me then.
What matters to you now, Mistress of Lies?
You, nephew.
The sword of a high king.
How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
So clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.