The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1927 - Muslims Try To BOMB Conservatives In New York
Aired: 2026-03-09
Duration: 45:50


=== Muslims Throw IEDs at Conservatives (13:00) ===

[00:00:00]  Muslims throw IEDs at conservative protesters in New York.
[00:00:03]  Iran selects a new Ayatollah, as even Lindsey Graham says the Israelis are going too far in their attacks.
[00:00:10]  And David French takes to the pages of the New York Times to make the conservative case for the Antichrist.
[00:00:16]  I'm Michael Knowles.
[00:00:17]  This is The Michael Knowles Show.
[00:00:36]  Welcome back to the show.
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[00:02:18]  I'll tell you the story, but then I really want to get to the headline.
[00:02:22]  The story is that a couple of Muslims threw bombs, IEDs, improvised explosive devices, you know, containers filled with nails and screws and metal and shards that explode and maim people.
[00:02:37]  It's like the main thing that injured and killed our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
[00:02:42]  We now have them on the streets of New York.
[00:02:44]  Muslims threw them into a crowd of conservatives who were protesting Momdani.
[00:02:50]  That's the story.
[00:02:50]  Here's the headline.
[00:02:52]  This is from, I think, NBC News.
[00:02:54]  Yeah, NBC New York.
[00:02:56]  Two people in custody after suspicious devices ignited outside New York City mayor's official residence.
[00:03:06]  These people, these you just can't, even I, and I have such a low opinion of the establishment media, even I feel some degree of shock.
[00:03:19]  Even I still have the capacity for indignation reading that headline.
[00:03:24]  What is the image that you have when you hear that headline?
[00:03:27]  Two people, just two people.
[00:03:30]  I'm not going to say what kind of people, just two people in custody after suspicious devices ignited outside New York City mayor's official residence.
[00:03:38]  That sounds like this was right-wingers throwing bombs at the mayor, the mayor who's a Muslim communist.
[00:03:48]  In fact, the story is the exact opposite.
[00:03:50]  Then you get to the subheader.
[00:03:53]  After an anti-Islam protester fired pepper spray at counter protesters, one of the counter protesters lit and threw an ignited device toward the protest area.
[00:04:04]  So they can't even in the subheader get to the actual story.
[00:04:07]  The actual story being that these Muslims, they don't even say they're Muslims, but they are, that these Muslims threw bombs at conservatives.
[00:04:14]  They have to start out by justifying the Muslims throwing the bomb at the conservative.
[00:04:19]  They have to start out by saying, well, you know, after these conservatives were totally asking for it, because the conservatives were gathered outside the mayor's house and one of them fired pepper spray at the counterprotesters.
[00:04:30]  Gee, I wonder why.
[00:04:31]  I wonder if the counter protesters were, you know, doing anything that might have warranted self-defense and the pepper spray.
[00:04:38]  But even there, they just say, yeah, well, look, the conservatives started it.
[00:04:42]  It's their fault.
[00:04:42]  They fired pepper spray at the counter protesters.
[00:04:45]  And then one of the counter protesters lit and threw an ignited device.
[00:04:49]  The way that this is written, it makes it seem as though the poor Muslim was just minding his own business.
[00:04:57]  And then these conservatives jumped out from behind a bush, sprayed pepper spray at him, and then just spontaneously, the Muslim guy, reaching for anything he could, luckily found an improvised explosive device to use in self-defense against the conservatives.
[00:05:16]  Well, you know, look, after these conservatives started this thing, the Muslims threw the bomb that they had in their pocket.
[00:05:21]  Wait, why did the guy have a bomb?
[00:05:24]  Why did the guy, why did, it's two guys, actually, why did they have an improvised explosive device?
[00:05:32]  Sort of seems like their throwing the bomb was not prompted by pepper spray.
[00:05:37]  Why did these guys use pepper spray?
[00:05:40]  Well, first of all, who had the official protest?
[00:05:43]  The protest was the conservatives.
[00:05:47]  The right-wingers were holding a protest, protesting the New York City mayor.
[00:05:51]  Then some mob shows up to harass the protesters.
[00:05:55]  And then these two guys throw a bomb.
[00:05:59]  Okay, what are the key details?
[00:06:02]  According to ABC 7, so that was NBC New York.
[00:06:06]  Here's ABC 7 in New York.
[00:06:08]  Two teenagers from Pennsylvania are likely to face serious federal charges after bringing real improvised explosive devices to Gracie Mansion.
[00:06:18]  Two teenagers.
[00:06:20]  How old are they?
[00:06:21]  They're 19.
[00:06:22]  They're 19.
[00:06:23]  They're adults.
[00:06:25]  They're adults who will be tried as adults because they're adults.
[00:06:28]  Two teenagers.
[00:06:29]  It makes it sound like they're 14 or something.
[00:06:32]  Two teenagers from Pennsylvania.
[00:06:35]  My grandparents are from Pennsylvania.
[00:06:37]  You know, there's a lot of, there are a lot of gnoles up around Pennsylvania.
[00:06:42]  When you close your eyes and you imagine teenagers from Pennsylvania, what do you picture?
[00:06:46]  I picture a couple of 14-year-olds riding their bike in the outskirts of Scranton.
[00:06:51]  Maybe, you know, dirty blonde hair, you know, nice, I don't know, Philadelphia Eagle shirt.
[00:06:59]  I don't know.
[00:07:00]  I don't know what they have.
[00:07:01]  Americana.
[00:07:02]  Well, actually, it was a couple of 19-year-olds named Amir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi.
[00:07:07]  Those sound like Pennsylvanians to you?
[00:07:08]  Not really.
[00:07:10]  Not saying people with Middle Eastern names can't live in Pennsylvania.
[00:07:13]  But the phrase, two teenagers from Pennsylvania, is designed, it is designed to do the opposite of journalism.
[00:07:20]  I don't mean to belabor the point, but it's very, very important when you're reading news coverage to realize what these people are doing.
[00:07:29]  You know a thing by what it is for.
[00:07:32]  The purpose of something tells you about the nature of that thing.
[00:07:37]  Journalism, news reporting, is for telling you the truth about current events.
[00:07:43]  It's for conveying the reality of what's going on to you.
[00:07:46]  These people, NBC local, ABC local, they are doing the exact opposite.
[00:07:52]  Their entire reporting is designed to hide the truth.
[00:07:57]  Their entire reporting is designed to give you an image of what happened that is contrary to what actually happened.
[00:08:04]  It all started around noon on Saturday when a far-right group of about 20 protesters were met by roughly 125 counter-protesters.
[00:08:13]  A far-right group.
[00:08:14]  It was a far-right group.
[00:08:15]  It was this group of conservatives who were objecting to the Islamification of New York.
[00:08:20]  New York, which was the site of the worst Islamic terror attack in modern history.
[00:08:25]  That doesn't seem far-right.
[00:08:26]  That doesn't seem crazy.
[00:08:27]  I'm a New Yorker.
[00:08:28]  I was in New York before, during, and after 9-11.
[00:08:33]  Plenty of normal people had a healthy fear and aversion to Islam, fear of and aversion to Islam.
[00:08:42]  That doesn't make you far right, especially if you're a New Yorker.
[00:08:46]  So there's 20 of these guys protesting the mayor.
[00:08:50]  Then a mob of 125 counterprotesters show up.
[00:08:54]  Tensions quickly escalated and violence broke out.
[00:08:57]  Oh, it just broke out?
[00:08:58]  The violence just jumped out from behind a building.
[00:09:01]  Oh, no.
[00:09:01]  We had two groups here who were getting along fine and then that violence showed up.
[00:09:05]  Who brought the violence?
[00:09:06]  What do you think?
[00:09:08]  Two teens identified as Amir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, noted Pennsylvanians, 19, are accused of throwing and igniting two objects, one of which was confirmed to be a bomb.
[00:09:19]  Okay.
[00:09:21]  Enough on the media.
[00:09:23]  You get the point.
[00:09:27]  This is every news story.
[00:09:29]  This is every news story.
[00:09:31]  And the fact that in the past year we have had even the liberal outlets confirm that terrorism in America today is chiefly a left-wing problem.
[00:09:41]  Obviously, there's been an Islam association with terrorism for a very, very long time.
[00:09:46]  The fact that they are beginning to admit that explicitly means the problem is much, much worse.
[00:09:52]  Much, much worse than even you think it is.
[00:09:55]  The fact that the left, and the left has an alliance with the Islamists, because they have a common enemy, multiple common enemies, but America, the church, men, I don't know.
[00:10:07]  They have a common enemy, like regular Western men.
[00:10:10]  They have a common enemy.
[00:10:11]  And so they get together.
[00:10:14]  The left very nearly assassinated President Trump last year.
[00:10:17]  And or a year and a half ago, the left successfully assassinated Charlie Kirk six months ago.
[00:10:25]  Actual individual leftists did these things.
[00:10:28]  And then large swaths of the rest of the left, including the mainstream left, cheered it on.
[00:10:35]  Now we have Muslims with counterprotesters who presumably included ordinary run-of-the-mill leftists.
[00:10:45]  I don't think it was all Amir Balats and Ibrahim Kayumis, showing up and throwing bombs at conservatives in New York.
[00:10:52]  This is very bad.
[00:10:54]  It's going to get worse.
[00:10:55]  What do we do about it?
[00:10:57]  There is something we can do about it.
[00:11:00]  This happened almost exactly 100 years ago in the 1920s.
[00:11:04]  In New York, you had this spate of bombings.
[00:11:08]  Anarchists, left-wing anarchists, who were usually immigrants, who were not citizens, a lot of them, came over here and started setting off bombs.
[00:11:18]  Exactly what's going on here.
[00:11:19]  It wasn't Muslims then, but you still had anarchists from Europe setting off bombs.
[00:11:24]  What did we do?
[00:11:27]  We rounded them all up and we deported them.
[00:11:31]  These were the Palmer raids.
[00:11:32]  We rounded up the anarchists and the communists and the radical leftists, the people who were setting off bombs, the people who were creating this exact kind of disorder.
[00:11:40]  We just rounded them up and deported them.
[00:11:42]  There is a legal predicate for this in the United States.
[00:11:45]  There is historical precedent for this in the United States.
[00:11:48]  It seems to me we've heard this song before.
[00:11:50]  It's from an old familiar score.
[00:11:52]  We can just get rid of these people.
[00:11:54]  We can just send them out of the country and make them some other country's problem.
[00:11:59]  But we have to do that.
[00:12:00]  In the 1920s and 30s, there could have been an anarchist communist revolution in America.
[00:12:07]  Communists were trying to do that.
[00:12:09]  There were successful communist revolutions in the rest of the world, and we stopped it.
[00:12:14]  We put a lid on it.
[00:12:15]  We rounded these people up.
[00:12:16]  We arrested them.
[00:12:17]  We got rid of them.
[00:12:18]  We got them out of the country.
[00:12:22]  We need to do the same thing now because the political violence is growing much, much worse.
[00:12:26]  It's coming from lots of different angles, the radical leftists, the anarchists, the Islamists, all kind of working together.
[00:12:35]  They all seem to be, you know, find their common identity in Mamdani.
[00:12:39]  Mamdani really checks a lot of boxes.
[00:12:42]  But it's happening in Mamdani's, New York.
[00:12:44]  It's happening throughout the United States.
[00:12:47]  Coming to a county near you, this would seem to call for the federal government to get involved.
[00:12:53]  We did it before.
[00:12:54]  We can do it again.
[00:12:55]  If anyone's going to do it, it's this administration.
[00:12:56]  Now, speaking of violence, we got to get to Iran.
[00:12:59]  A lot going on in Iran.

=== Plant Trees, Stop Violence (02:09) ===

[00:13:00]  There's a new Ayatollah.
[00:13:02]  New Ayatollah, basically the same as the old Ayatollah.
[00:13:06]  Bombings heating up, oil hitting $110, $111 a barrel over the weekend.
[00:13:10]  Now it's come down a little bit, but still creates a lot of problems for President Trump and for the global economy.
[00:13:17]  Israel reportedly getting so out of hand in its campaigns, no longer coordinating perfectly with the United States, it's gotten so bad that Lindsey Graham is calling for Israel to tone it down.
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[00:14:52]  You know you've gone too far in your Middle East bombing campaign when Lindsey Graham tells you to cool your jets.
[00:14:59]  Lindsey Graham, who I like personally, he's never seen a Middle Eastern country he didn't want to bomb.
[00:15:06]  He's been beating the drum for war for a very, very long time.

=== High Stakes for Principled Conservatives (15:46) ===

[00:15:10]  And so it actually gives a lot of credibility to his criticism here.
[00:15:14]  He tweets out, Our allies in Israel have shown amazing capability when it comes to collapsing the murderous regime in Iran.
[00:15:22]  America is most appreciative.
[00:15:24]  You can just sense that there's a butt coming.
[00:15:26]  Here it is.
[00:15:27]  However, there will be a day soon that the Iranian people will be in charge of their own fate, not the murderous Ayatollah's regime.
[00:15:34]  In that regard, please be cautious about what targets you select.
[00:15:38]  Our goal is to liberate the Iranian people in a fashion that does not cripple their chance to start a new and better life when this regime collapses.
[00:15:46]  The oil economy of Iran will be essential to that endeavor.
[00:15:50]  Now, the color on this comes from Axios, which says Israel strikes on 30 Iranian fuel depots Saturday went far beyond what the U.S. expected when Israel notified it in advance, sparking the first significant disagreement between the Allies since the war began eight days ago, according to a U.S. official, Israeli official, and a source with knowledge.
[00:16:09]  Now, always when the U.S. and Israel, or any two allies, are publicly disagreeing, there is the chance that it's just a show.
[00:16:16]  It's a fake out, but they actually agree behind the scenes.
[00:16:19]  This one would suggest there is a legitimate difference of opinion, maybe a little tail wagging the dog here.
[00:16:25]  The fact that Lindsey Graham is publicly rebuking Israel.
[00:16:28]  He's a major, major supporter of Israel.
[00:16:30]  He's a major, major, longtime supporter of regime change in Iran.
[00:16:33]  He's not exactly shy about using the military.
[00:16:36]  And he says, guys, what are we doing here?
[00:16:41]  The U.S. is worried that this could backfire strategically, according to the reporting.
[00:16:46]  And these are the stakes.
[00:16:49]  These are the stakes of the war.
[00:16:50]  This was my reaction the minute it happened.
[00:16:53]  I've been totally consistent about this the whole time that the talk of war in Iran has been floating around.
[00:17:00]  There are two very firm camps who are making moralistic arguments that I think are silly.
[00:17:07]  On the one hand, you have the pacifists, the people who say, you know, war is never the answer.
[00:17:12]  There's no place for war.
[00:17:13]  No war is just.
[00:17:14]  Whatever.
[00:17:15]  We should never go to war.
[00:17:16]  That is not a serious position.
[00:17:17]  It's not a serious moral position.
[00:17:19]  It's not a serious political position.
[00:17:21]  Write that one out.
[00:17:23]  Then there are the hardcore ideological neocon types, the liberal interventionist types, the ones who say we've reached the end of history and we need to spread our form of liberal democracy everywhere on earth.
[00:17:34]  We have a moral imperative to do it.
[00:17:35]  By golly, women in some of these countries are not even allowed to get postgraduate degrees in deconstruction and postmodernism.
[00:17:45]  You know, by golly, it's outrageous.
[00:17:48]  Send in the B2s.
[00:17:50]  We need to spread late 20th century liberalism all around the world.
[00:17:56]  A very ideological moralistic view.
[00:17:58]  Get rid of that one.
[00:17:59]  Then there's the people in the middle, where reasonable minds can disagree over the wisdom of the Iran campaign.
[00:18:10]  That's certainly where President Trump is, certainly where I am.
[00:18:14]  And that's where I think most people are.
[00:18:18]  I was talking in the lead up to the Iran war when it became pretty clear that this was going to happen.
[00:18:23]  I was asking people who were in the know, grand strategy types, diplomats, what do you think about this?
[00:18:28]  Should we go to war in Iran?
[00:18:30]  Should we not go to war in Iran?
[00:18:31]  And the most persuasive answer I heard was, well, if you could do it quickly and successfully, then it would be good to change the regime out.
[00:18:40]  But if you can't, you shouldn't.
[00:18:42]  And so I've said from the beginning, if I were on the NSC, not that anyone invited me, but if I had been on the NSC, I would have made all the arguments I could have against the Iran strike, not based on any particular moral argument.
[00:18:55]  I think there's legal justification to go into Iran.
[00:18:59]  I would have made arguments against it because I would have said, just with publicly available knowledge, again, government had more knowledge than I did on this, but I would have said, well, look, I don't know that the threat from Iran is as grave as people are suggesting or as imminent.
[00:19:15]  And two, I'm not confident that we can efficiently and effectively swap out the regime in Iran to get a more Western-friendly regime.
[00:19:24]  So because of those practical, prudential, pragmatic matters, I don't know that it's the right idea.
[00:19:30]  But if you could convince me otherwise on those two points, then I would say, yeah, it probably is a good idea.
[00:19:36]  And these are the stakes here.
[00:19:38]  President Trump, taking a much more realistic view, and this comes right out of his national security strategy, which was released last November.
[00:19:45]  President Trump clearly believes that he's the guy to do it, that he can do it.
[00:19:49]  He has a great confidence in himself and in his foreign policy and in the people that he's empowered to efficiently get rid of the Iranian regime, to build up a regime there that will be more pro-Western, same sort of thing he did in Venezuela, that won't have global fallout, that will rebuff our enemies like China and Russia, and that will make America great again, that will help us on the world stage and give us a chance after decades of decline in the American empire, will give us a chance to be great again.
[00:20:19]  He thinks he's the guy who can do that.
[00:20:23]  And maybe he is.
[00:20:24]  He's got a pretty good record.
[00:20:26]  Here, the distinction between him and say George W. Bush when it comes to foreign policy is Bush wasn't that good at it and I am good at it.
[00:20:32]  That would be the argument.
[00:20:35]  But in order for that to work, things need to go perfectly.
[00:20:40]  That's a really, really tall order in the best circumstances.
[00:20:44]  And in order for that to work, we need to not turn the Iranian people against us.
[00:20:49]  We need to keep public sentiment against the Islamic regime and at least tolerating us, if not openly supportive of the United States, grateful for our mission.
[00:21:01]  And we need to make sure the country doesn't get completely destabilized, which means that sometimes we need to rein in Israel, just like we'd have to rein in any other ally that got a little out of control.
[00:21:14]  That's the point Lindsey Graham is making.
[00:21:16]  That's the point it seems the White House is making with the leak to Axios.
[00:21:22]  Those are the stakes.
[00:21:24]  If Iran, I've had to explain this to some of my friends who are deeply, deeply skeptical of the war in Iran, who, I don't know, are quasi-isolationist.
[00:21:33]  I said, no, if this works, this is the greatest foreign policy achievement of any president since the end of the Cold War.
[00:21:41]  And it's one of the greatest foreign policy achievements, if you take the end of the Cold War out of it, of the last hundred years, last 80 years.
[00:21:49]  But if this goes south, Trump's legacy will look like George Bush's.
[00:21:55]  Those are the stakes here.
[00:21:58]  Stakes so high that you can get Lindsey Graham countersignaling bombing Iran and countersignaling Israel.
[00:22:04]  Shows you how high the stakes are.
[00:22:05]  Okay, now speaking of Republicans who are conservatives who arouse the ire of lots of other conservatives and Republicans.
[00:22:17]  This guy, I don't even think you could call him either of those things anymore.
[00:22:21]  We've reached peak David Frenchism.
[00:22:23]  Do you know David French?
[00:22:24]  He is the never Trumper who briefly, I think, was running for president against Trump in 2016.
[00:22:30]  It didn't work out very well.
[00:22:31]  He wrote for National Review.
[00:22:33]  He was a pro-life conservative, and he said that he was going to be the principled conservative and take a principled stance against Trump.
[00:22:39]  And for the last 10 years, he has been gradually abandoning all of those principles that he principally stood for.
[00:22:48]  Well, now we have reached peak apotheosis David French taking to the pages of the New York Times to make the conservative case for the Antichrist.
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[00:24:15]  We got to frame it.
[00:24:16]  This is it.
[00:24:19]  It started with the principled conservative case for not voting for the Republican in 2016.
[00:24:29]  Okay, there were some people who did that.
[00:24:30]  They didn't want to vote for Trump.
[00:24:31]  They were worried about him.
[00:24:32]  Okay, whatever.
[00:24:34]  The principled conservative case to oppose conservative judicial nominees.
[00:24:41]  The principled conservative case to vote for Kamala.
[00:24:44]  Wait, what?
[00:24:45]  The principled conservative case for Joe Biden.
[00:24:47]  Huh?
[00:24:48]  The principled, and now we have it.
[00:24:51]  The principled conservative case for James Tallarico.
[00:24:53]  We've been covering him on the show almost every day.
[00:24:56]  I know I'm breaking my own rule because I said we got to save some James Tallarico clips for closer to the election.
[00:25:01]  He's the Democrat Senate nominee in Texas.
[00:25:04]  He embraces radical transgender ideology, mass abortion, but he does so with a slick serpentine smile and the language of Christianity, albeit twisted to satanic purposes.
[00:25:17]  And here we have David French essentially endorsing James Tallarico.
[00:25:23]  Headline, James Tallarico is a Christian X-ray.
[00:25:27]  Christian X-rays telling, he really shows Christianity.
[00:25:32]  One, he shows real Christianity in his comportment, but two, he shows these pseudo-Christians, these MAGA Christians for the hateful hypocrites they really are.
[00:25:41]  James Tallarico is a Christian X-ray.
[00:25:43]  Now, right off the bat, I want to be very fair and charitable to David in the spirit of true Christianity, which is what we're apparently debating here.
[00:25:52]  James Tallarico is an X-ray in the sense that prolonged exposure to him could be fatal.
[00:25:58]  In that way, that's the one, I got to give him credit.
[00:26:02]  Other than that, doesn't make a lot of sense.
[00:26:04]  What does David write?
[00:26:06]  So the part that he breaks out in his tweet, this is from the column.
[00:26:11]  If the primary American divide is between right and left, then Tallarico isn't that interesting.
[00:26:16]  There's a long history of progressive religious activism in the United States, just as there's a long history of conservative religious activism.
[00:26:23]  Okay, that's true.
[00:26:24]  Yet if the primary American divide is between decent and indecent, then the equation changes.
[00:26:31]  Tallarico shines.
[00:26:34]  Tallerico shines.
[00:26:35]  Tellarico, I'll just remind you, supports the wholesale slaughter of infants like King Herod.
[00:26:41]  Tellarico further has the audacity to claim in public on film that the Bible prescribes abortion.
[00:26:49]  Not proscribes, not forbids it.
[00:26:52]  He doesn't make the observation that Christianity from the very, very beginning, from the earliest documents we have from the apostolic age, prohibits abortion, and the church has been unwavering, consistent in her prohibition of abortion.
[00:27:04]  No, no.
[00:27:05]  He says the Bible actually tells you to do it.
[00:27:08]  James Tallarico, who says that God is LGBTQ LMNOP.
[00:27:14]  God is non-binary.
[00:27:16]  James Tallarico, who cites the heretical Gnostic pseudo-gospel of Thomas from the third century to make the claim that women need penises to go to heaven.
[00:27:29]  I kid you not, that women need to be trans to go to heaven.
[00:27:32]  He made that claim on camera, citing an heretical Gnostic text that he further claimed was taken out of the Bible, an absurdity, because it was never in the Bible because it's not Christian.
[00:27:48]  That's the decent Christian to David French in the New York Times.
[00:27:53]  It's a really decent guy.
[00:27:54]  You know, it's like, if you don't, what you don't understand is, what you don't understand, you hateful MAGA hypocrite Christian, is you can call for mass infanticide, mutilating little children, castrating them, and you can blaspheme God in the most egregious of ways as long as you do it with a smile and you oppose Donald Trump.
[00:28:15]  That makes you a decent person.
[00:28:18]  So argues David French.
[00:28:21]  But just all those things that we've seen from Tallarico.
[00:28:24]  And there are many, many more clips that go around.
[00:28:27]  He says it with a smile.
[00:28:29]  He says it with a smile.
[00:28:30]  He cites the Bible.
[00:28:32]  During this time of Lent, where we meditate on the devil's temptation of Christ in the wilderness for 40 days, we're reminded that, you know, the devil's pretty good at citing scripture.
[00:28:43]  Very good at it, actually.
[00:28:45]  Twisting scripture to perverse and satanic ends.
[00:28:50]  All those things that Tallarico has done, that David French is so impressed by.
[00:28:56]  Let me ask you, does Tallarico sound more to you like Christ or like the Antichrist?
[00:29:06]  I'm not calling James Tallarico the Antichrist.
[00:29:08]  He's not impressive enough to be the Antichrist.
[00:29:11]  But who does he sound more like?
[00:29:14]  Does he sound more like Christ or does he sound more like the Antichrist?
[00:29:19]  David French effectively making the conservative case for the Antichrist.
[00:29:26]  Where is there's an amazing line in here.
[00:29:28]  Yes, here it is.
[00:29:30]  From the last paragraph.
[00:29:33]  The significance of the Tallarico moment.
[00:29:37]  Not the old news that a Christian can be progressive.
[00:29:41]  Not really, but some people say that.
[00:29:43]  Anyway, that's a conversation for another time.
[00:29:45]  Not the old news that a Christian can be progressive, but rather that Christian politicians can actually act like Christians.
[00:29:54]  Kindness still has a place in the public square, even if it doesn't always seem that way.
[00:29:57]  Kindness, the kindness to slaughter infants, the kindness to castrate little kids.
[00:30:03]  Kindness.
[00:30:04]  You know, he's a real Christian.
[00:30:06]  That's the whole argument.
[00:30:07]  It says it, I think, multiple times in here.
[00:30:10]  He's a real Christian.
[00:30:11]  He acts like a Christian.
[00:30:14]  Kindness.
[00:30:15]  You know, liberals, they love this kindness.
[00:30:17]  They don't actually love kindness, but they love that word kindness.
[00:30:19]  You ever notice they have all these kinds of signs.
[00:30:21]  Be kind.
[00:30:21]  I love kind people.
[00:30:22]  Be, you know, in a world where you can be anything, be kind.
[00:30:26]  It's like one of these slogans.
[00:30:27]  It was going around for a while.
[00:30:29]  The church of kindness.
[00:30:32]  Slaughter babies all you want.
[00:30:33]  Embrace radical sexual ideologies.
[00:30:36]  Blaspheme God, but just, you know, do it with a condescending smile.
[00:30:41]  You know, do it with a simpering, slick, oily, condescending smile, and then you're my kind of person.
[00:30:47]  Oh, and oppose Trump.
[00:30:48]  You have to oppose Trump.
[00:30:51]  I don't know where French goes from here.
[00:30:53]  I feel for French.
[00:30:55]  I've held my fire on French for a while.

=== Obama, Schiff, and the Libya Comparison (05:31) ===

[00:30:56]  I've tried it.
[00:30:56]  You know, he and I have always got along personally, but this is, where does it go from here?
[00:31:02]  He has reached the perfect form of the thing he was doing that he has been building for 10 years.
[00:31:08]  There is no place further to go.
[00:31:10]  Just as the ending point of the sexual revolution of feminism and free love and gay rights, the ending point was always going to be transing the kids because the logic of the sexual revolution was that there's nothing that should constrain individual autonomy and men and women are basically the same.
[00:31:32]  That was the logic.
[00:31:33]  And so it was going, the necessary logical conclusion of that is you have autonomy even to change your own nature and a boy can be a girl.
[00:31:45]  So it was always, it was always going to get there uninterrupted.
[00:31:48]  Same thing with French.
[00:31:49]  We were always going to get the conservative case for the Antichrist.
[00:31:52]  But where does the narrative go from here?
[00:31:54]  That's it.
[00:31:55]  In that way, I guess we owe James Tallarico a bit of gratitude.
[00:31:59]  That's the one thing that I like about him, too.
[00:32:01]  Okay, speaking of blurring party lines, great hit from Bill Maher.
[00:32:07]  Great hit.
[00:32:07]  Bill Maher had Adam Schiff on his show.
[00:32:10]  Adam Schiff, the insufferable senator from California, led the impeachment against Trump, inveighing against Trump's supposedly illegal war in Iran.
[00:32:22]  Bill Maher asked him to get a little bit more specific about his objections.
[00:32:29]  This statement from the administration.
[00:32:30]  The president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.
[00:32:39]  That's too vague for you?
[00:32:41]  Totally vague.
[00:32:42]  Okay, because that's from Obama about Libya.
[00:32:45]  Well, Obama made the argument initially that he could go into Syria without an authorization.
[00:32:51]  I and many others pushed back on that argument.
[00:32:53]  Ultimately, he did not go forward with going after Assad, even though Assad was gassing his own people, because he thought he might lose the vote in Congress.
[00:33:03]  But I respect the fact that that was important to him, and the fact that he did not have the support of Congress meant that we weren't going to go forward.
[00:33:12]  Schiff is fairly slick here, and because he tries not to visibly stumble, some people will think that he gave a good answer to the question.
[00:33:20]  However, if you listen carefully, he did not answer the question.
[00:33:23]  He did not respond to Bill Maher's point.
[00:33:26]  Bill Maher says, hey, here's a statement from the administration about the war, right?
[00:33:32]  Intentionally setting up Schiff.
[00:33:34]  And Schiff says, oh, it's totally vague.
[00:33:36]  Totally vague.
[00:33:37]  That's totally unacceptable.
[00:33:38]  Yeah, well, that was Obama talking about Libya, not Trump talking about Iran.
[00:33:43]  And what does Schiff do?
[00:33:44]  He says, well, look, look, Obama wanted to go into Syria.
[00:33:47]  Whoa, slicky Schiff.
[00:33:50]  What are you doing?
[00:33:50]  Hold on.
[00:33:51]  The statement was about Libya.
[00:33:53]  Bill Maher is asking you about Obama in Libya.
[00:33:56]  That's the comparison he's making.
[00:33:59]  Why are you bringing Syria into this?
[00:34:02]  Because Schiff is able to say, and, you know, Obama ultimately did not seriously intervene in Syria.
[00:34:08]  He let ISIS explode, but exploding growth, not explode like kaboom.
[00:34:13]  He ultimately didn't really go into Syria because he would have needed congressional authorization.
[00:34:17]  Hold on, go back to the Libya thing.
[00:34:19]  Because the Libya thing totally blows up the Libs' objections to Trump.
[00:34:26]  He says, I opposed Obama going into Syria.
[00:34:28]  Yeah, maybe you did, maybe you didn't.
[00:34:30]  But I sure don't remember you opposing Obama going into Libya.
[00:34:34]  Remember that?
[00:34:36]  And how long did Libya go on?
[00:34:38]  Trump right now is conducting military operations in Iran.
[00:34:42]  And everyone's debating, is this a war?
[00:34:44]  Is this not a war?
[00:34:44]  Is it an overseas contingency operation?
[00:34:46]  Is this legal?
[00:34:48]  Whatever you want to call it.
[00:34:49]  It's a war in plain language.
[00:34:51]  Put it in whatever lever legalese you want.
[00:34:53]  Trump has the authority to do it unilaterally because of the War Powers Act of 1973, which gives Trump the ability to conduct this operation for 60 days, and then he can unilaterally extend it by 50% so he can go to 90 days.
[00:35:06]  Except that's not the whole story either.
[00:35:09]  because not only did Barack Obama not seek congressional authorization for toppling the regime in Libya, but the Libya operation went on for seven months.
[00:35:22]  The president, according to the law, has the right to do this for two months, and then he can extend it to three months.
[00:35:31]  Obama more than doubled that.
[00:35:35]  Totally outside the confines of totally illegal.
[00:35:37]  Let's call it what it is.
[00:35:38]  Totally illegal.
[00:35:39]  And Schiff didn't say boo about it.
[00:35:41]  And the Democrats didn't say boo about it.
[00:35:43]  Trump has been conducting this much more effective military operation for one week.
[00:35:49]  And already they're calling to impeach him because of his supposedly illegal actions.
[00:35:55]  Preposterous.
[00:35:57]  The thing you got to throw back in their face is Libya.
[00:35:59]  And then when they try to change a subject like Schiff did to Syria or whatever, you say, no, no, no, I want to talk about Libya.
[00:36:06]  How is it that you're objecting to President Trump conducting an operation for one week, well within the confines of the law?
[00:36:12]  You didn't say boo when Obama blew way past the law for seven months in Libya.
[00:36:18]  Okay, now, enough about Libya and Adam Schiff and Obama.
[00:36:23]  We got to get some updates on Iran.
[00:36:26]  A lot more color coming out of the White House.

=== Smell Better Than Libya (02:07) ===

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[00:38:18]  And the commenter writes, Brandon Gill is just Clark Kent.
[00:38:23]  You know, it's funny you say that.
[00:38:25]  Congressman Brandon Gill was on the show for Friend Friday last episode.
[00:38:31]  And I've noticed this when I see, not even in person.

=== Containing War Fallout (06:13) ===

[00:38:36]  I've known Brandon for a decently long time, but on TV, he's got like a, I don't know what I say, there's something, what does he look like?
[00:38:46]  Why he's got a little curly cue or whatever?
[00:38:47]  And I, oh, he looks like Clark Kennedy.
[00:38:49]  The guy looks like Superman.
[00:38:50]  That's true.
[00:38:51]  That's a good look for a politician.
[00:38:53]  Okay.
[00:38:54]  What's the update on Iran?
[00:38:56]  Lindsey Graham thinks the Israelis have gone too far.
[00:38:59]  That's always a rough sign.
[00:39:01]  What does too far mean?
[00:39:02]  Obviously, there's a lot of bombing of the oil facilities.
[00:39:06]  There's firebombing all over Tehran.
[00:39:08]  But there was also a rumor that the Kurds were going to go in as a ground force.
[00:39:12]  And a lot of people, a lot of people said, uh-oh, this is going to be Iraq.
[00:39:16]  This is really Iraq 2.0.
[00:39:18]  You've got a preemptive war justified in part on the threat of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East in a country that starts with the letters IRA, and now you're arming the Kurds to fight the regime.
[00:39:31]  This is deja vu all over again, isn't it?
[00:39:35]  Well, here's what the president says about the Kurds.
[00:39:38]  Some Iranians are concerned that the Kurds will carve out kind of an autonomous region as they did in Syria and Iraq.
[00:39:44]  We're not having, we're not looking to the Kurds going in.
[00:39:48]  We're very friendly with the Kurds, as you know, but we don't want to make the war any more complex than it already is.
[00:39:55]  We don't want, yeah, I have ruled it out.
[00:39:57]  I don't want the Kurds going in.
[00:39:59]  I don't want to see the Kurds get hurt, get killed.
[00:40:03]  We've had a good relation.
[00:40:05]  They're willing to go in, but we really, I've told them I don't want them to go in.
[00:40:09]  The map of Iran will look the same.
[00:40:11]  The war is complicated enough without having, getting the Kurds involved.
[00:40:16]  I don't want the Kurds to go in.
[00:40:18]  We don't want this war getting more complicated than it already is.
[00:40:23]  Combine that statement with what Steve Witkoff said in front of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Air Force One.
[00:40:30]  They bragged about having 60% enriched fuel enough for 11 bombs.
[00:40:39]  They told me and Jared, we're not going to give you diplomatically what you couldn't take militarily.
[00:40:45]  So, you know, I think they're going to need a change of attitude.
[00:40:48]  So Witkoff was the negotiator on Iran with Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law.
[00:40:54]  And he says, look, we were negotiating with them.
[00:40:58]  And something that they did was they bragged about how much they had enriched their uranium.
[00:41:03]  And this was after the strikes on Fordo. said, look, we're not going to give you diplomatically what you were not able to take militarily.
[00:41:11]  The strikes over the summer set back the Iranian nuclear program, but it didn't totally end it.
[00:41:16]  Certainly didn't end their nuclear ambitions.
[00:41:20]  So they say, look, you failed to totally destroy the program.
[00:41:27]  You couldn't take it militarily.
[00:41:28]  Why would we just give it to you?
[00:41:29]  You gave us your worst.
[00:41:31]  Why would we give this up now diplomatically?
[00:41:33]  This in the telling of Steve Witkoff, right in front of Trump, too, by the way.
[00:41:37]  So Trump obviously has faith in Witkoff.
[00:41:40]  And that was the game of chicken.
[00:41:44]  In this telling of it, the Iranians played a game of chicken with Donald Trump.
[00:41:50]  It's a very bad idea to play a game of chicken with Trump.
[00:41:54]  Look, maybe you'll win it every now and again, but then sometimes your entire regime will be decapitated and missiles will rain down on your country for weeks and weeks and weeks.
[00:42:06]  You saw this in the first term.
[00:42:08]  Sometimes Trump, he does nothing.
[00:42:11]  Sometimes he drops the Moab.
[00:42:14]  Sometimes Trump, he just lets it go, lets it slide, lets it go.
[00:42:18]  And then he kills your top general.
[00:42:19]  And you don't know who you're getting that day, which is a key part of the Trump foreign policy.
[00:42:26]  The unpredictability.
[00:42:29]  Well, here, I think you take these two statements together.
[00:42:32]  What does it tell you?
[00:42:32]  It tells you Trump wants to contain the fallout from the war.
[00:42:37]  He felt that he had to act.
[00:42:40]  He felt that he had to act for a bunch of reasons.
[00:42:42]  And people are making all the justifications for the war.
[00:42:45]  One, they've killed American troops over the years.
[00:42:47]  They have.
[00:42:47]  They've killed a lot of American troops.
[00:42:49]  Two, they were pursuing a nuclear weapon.
[00:42:50]  That's certainly true.
[00:42:51]  They were definitely pursuing a nuclear weapon.
[00:42:53]  How close they were to it is a matter of debate, but they were definitely pursuing a nuclear weapon.
[00:42:57]  They fund terrorism around the region and around the world.
[00:43:00]  That is true.
[00:43:01]  That's without question.
[00:43:03]  They tried to kill Trump.
[00:43:05]  We've arrested multiple people with ties to Iran who tried to kill Trump.
[00:43:12]  And the details of those are a little bit murky because the actual Iranian instigator, the supposed Iranian instigator in the more serious assassination attempt, that's Farhad Shakari, he's still at large in Iran.
[00:43:24]  It'd be a stronger case if we actually had him in custody and could interrogate him.
[00:43:28]  But so far, we just have a couple of guys in New York who were supposedly approached by a guy from Iran to go kill Trump.
[00:43:34]  And we have a Pakistani who has sort of has a tie to Iran who also tried to kill Trump.
[00:43:39]  In any case, that would be one justification for all the.
[00:43:43]  But really, if we're being serious here, I think we have to put those things aside.
[00:43:47]  What the Iran war is about, even with its legal predicate, is grand strategy.
[00:43:55]  It's about China.
[00:43:56]  It's about Russia.
[00:43:58]  It's about defending American hegemony, American interests around the world, and stopping America from heading into a terminal decline.
[00:44:06]  That's really what it's about.
[00:44:08]  It's about making America great again, fixing a problem that has been festering for 47 years.
[00:44:13]  We gave it 47 years of diplomacy.
[00:44:15]  It didn't really work.
[00:44:16]  Trump is going to solve it.
[00:44:18]  But he wants to do that instrumentally into making America greater.
[00:44:24]  This is not about getting women into postgraduate studies in Iran.
[00:44:30]  This is not about bringing in NGOs to spread the glories of feminism and liberalism.
[00:44:35]  This is not about the end of history.
[00:44:36]  This is not about any of that.
[00:44:37]  This is about the continuation of history.
[00:44:40]  This is about Trump's clear stated desire, the raison d'ette of his entire political career, which is to make America great again.

=== Trump's Drive to Preserve Oil Fields (01:01) ===

[00:44:49]  That's what this is about.
[00:44:51]  And so that's going to involve maybe reigning in the Israelis if they're being too harsh and they're undermining the effort to wrap this war up relatively quickly so Trump can move on to other things.
[00:45:02]  But that's it is simultaneously the impetus behind Trump going into Iran and his desire to wrap this up quickly and to rein it in.
[00:45:15]  Down to not sending in the Kurds, down to trying to preserve the oil fields and so forth.
[00:45:20]  Okay, speaking of Trump containing things, very, I've been teasing the story now for two, three days.
[00:45:25]  I want to get to it.
[00:45:26]  Maybe I'll have to get to it tomorrow.
[00:45:28]  Because President Trump has just suggested putting Ted Cruz on the Supreme Court.
[00:45:33]  And I wonder if it's not about more than the Supreme Court.
[00:45:37]  Anyway, we don't have time to get to it today.
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