Ep. 2061 - Nude Sydney Sweeney Ad Enrages The Libs

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On top of that, we learn even more about the lone juror in the Lindsey Clancy case whose racial and religious identity is similarly confounding the usual preferences of the left and the right, I love it, and James Tallerico, names his favorite drag queen, Michael Noles, if you are not watching this show on dailywire.com right now, that means you're not a daily wire subscriber, which means you are not going to be watching run-hide fight infidels, but you have to watch it. So right now, listen, you know I love you out there in Spotify and YouTube and MySpace and AOL Inst and Messenger, and wherever you're watching this show, you need to go to dailywire.com/subscribe. You need to be in the conversation. You need to see the most skit-so movie, the essentially that Mr. Davies' favorite movie that's ever been made, including all the movies that he's ever been in, and you have to go see it. Red Dawn, but not just commies, it also has jihadis in there, dailywire.com/subscribe. 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I didn't feel like I needed to cover the Sydney Swini nude, not totally nude, but mostly nude, gambling ad. I said, "You know what? I'm just going to let this go. People can talk about it, but people are still talking about it." The left, in particular, is really upset. The feminists, the defenders of women's sports, so ironic, these lives who have spent the last six years destroying women's sports by letting hulking dudes into them. All of a sudden they say, "No, no, no. The real threat to women's sports is how hot Sydney Swini is." So look, I spent seven days not covering it, you want it, you want it, here it is, here's the Sydney Swini ad. So for those of you who are only listening, the ad is mostly Sydney Swini walking around, looking good, looking really good, and being mostly naked, but covering up her body in sports paraphernalia, you know, different balls and fobbles, all right, you get the point. You get the point of the ad. So the criticism of this ad, the chief criticism, is that Sydney Swini is sexualizing women in sports, and we'll get to what would have been the conservative criticism, we'll get to how kind of weird it is that conservatives are now defending what is close to pornography, which is being promoted in defense of gambling, and okay, we'll get to that. But just this first point, that Sydney Swini is sexualizing women in sports. Once again, the left is demonstrating that they don't understand what women's sports are. I guess we should have known that because of the trans ideology, but the question is, what is women's sports? What is it? It is not the kind of sport that includes men. So right off the bat, we exclude all the trans stuff we heard for the last six years. But let's go a little deeper than just women's sports or the kind of sports that include women and not men. Include women, not men because men are stronger than women, so if you love men into women's sports, you destroy women's sports, you don't expand it, you destroy it. At a deeper level, what is women's sports? Women's sports are about women's bodies, and women's bodies are hot. They're good-looking, they're attractive. There are some people who will say, well, if a man did this kind of ad, one, you could never imagine it. No man would ever do this kind of ad, and it would degrade men's sports, and so we shouldn't degrade women's sports by suggesting that women's sports is about how hot women are. But this once again misses the point, and it reaffirms the first error that people made in talking about women's sports. The fact is men and women's bodies are different, and sports is about the body. Academic conferences at philosophy associations, that's not primarily about the body. That's mostly about the mind. Chest tournaments are not primarily about the body. They're mostly about the mind, and they're about strategy. But sports, like football, and basketball, and baseball, sports are about bodies. They're about physique, and men's bodies are not hot, but women's bodies are hot. That's one of the differences. Men are attracted to women in ways that women are not primarily attracted to men. It's not like, look, some of us, you know, for the Adonis is among us. It's true, you know, we are physique as part of our Riz and our appeal. But I don't care how hot you are as a guy. I don't care what kind of an Adonis you look like. The way that women approach attraction and men and sex is fundamentally different from the way that men approach attraction and sex in relationships. For men, we are much more visual. We are much more visibly stimulated and attracted by the physical form of the woman. The woman is attracted to other things. This is why, like, short, fat ugly guys can get really good-looking women if they're funny, if they're clever, if they're rich, and it doesn't work the other way. We're just different. Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, Viva de France. So, if you're beginning with something, which is about sports, that means that it's about the body. And so, the way that women's bodies are going to factor into women's sports, it's just going to be different from how men's bodies are factoring to women's sports. I do think some of the women who are complaining about this, it might be because generally female athletes are not quite as attractive as Sydney Swini is, so maybe there's a little bit of jealousy. I would never want to accuse women of jealousy over other women, but maybe there's a little bit of envy, I should say, going on there, but also, I think, basically, it's just the error of feminism. It actually is part of the very same error that people are falling into, even when they talk about transgenderism and women's sports. Okay. So, that's the left-wing error. But what about the right? The right, I think, is raising a fair objection, which is, hold on a second here. Are we really now defending nudity and gambling as conservative virtues? This is crazy. 30 years ago, it would have been the conservatives. It would have been the church moms, not the feminists, but the church moms. And the stodgy guys in their three-piece suits and ties who are complaining about the Sydney Swini ad. Now, we are embracing that. And the answer is, yeah, we are because, relatively speaking, the mostly nude gambling Sydney Swini ad is relatively conservative. Because we are living in a culture that is so starved for truth. That the fact that a company is putting a good-looking woman in an advertisement is refreshing. It's refreshing, not just because it appeals to the Prairie and Interest or something. It's refreshing because it acknowledges the truth. And for the last ten years, we have been told that we have to deny the truth. We have to pretend that big fat ugly chicks are just as attractive or more attractive. As then, good-looking chicks, we've been told that we have to pretend that men are women. We've been told that we have to pretend that men are not attracted to women. We've been told all of these lies. And so a little return to what would essentially be 90s liberalism is actually refreshing. And I think that the reason that people are celebrating the advertisement actually does go deeper than just how hot Sydney Sweeney is? It does. It does. It is even if you just had a conservative close his eyes and you told him about the ad, he would, whether we wanted to admit it or not, he would be happy about that because it is a corrective to this crazy left wing culture. Now, obviously, we need to go further. The reason that that's conservative is because of how far gone our political situation is. So we need to go further. We need to reestablish modesty. We need to reestablish some norms and limits, I think, around gambling, gambling, which is proliferated, it totally exploded in the last five or so years. We need to do all of that. But actually, the first step to doing that, the first step to getting back to some modesty and advertising is Sydney Sweeney being kind of im modest. I know that's weird, but let's say the ideal kind of advertising is that you're not advertising products of vice, but you're advertising nice things. Like, I don't know, ironing boards or something. I don't know, whatever you're advertising, you're advertising cigars, you're advertising run-hide fight, whatever it is that you're advertising. We want it to be good looking women. There we go. We got, we got both the dang and the jihadi call. That's very impressive. You want it to be elegant. You want it to be attractive, but not in a way that is crass or vulgar or too appealing to the purine interest. Okay. Well, in order to get there, we need to at least reestablish what attractive is. And in order to do that, sometimes you need a shock to the system. So instead of having some like 400 pound, they, them, pansexual with a beard wearing a miniskirt, which is what our advertising has been for 10 years, you need to go back to Sydney Sweeney. There is a reason that the left is seething over this. There is a reason the feminists are seething over it. And so conservatives, we got to take the dub where we can get it. And then we need to move forward. So while the normal people are talking about their favorite Sydney Sweeney ad, we have the Democrat nominee percent in Texas, who is currently winning the race. He's currently leading James Telefrico as President Trump calls him. He's not talking about his favorite Sydney Sweeney ad. He's talking about his favorite drag queen. What's your favorite drag queen in Texas? Oh my God. Probably a little sad word. What's that word? That's monkey maize. Thank you so much. Like a patient in a doctor's office when the doctor pulls out the hammer and hits his knee, it was an immediate reflex. Is it, that's a little, that's crazy. That's a probably, I've made a lot of jokes about James Telefrico. I have made a lot of insinuations that he's a homosexual. And I'm mostly joking kind of, you know, he has a, he has a girlfriend ostensibly. She goes to another school. She lives in another town. But I've, I've made that joke a lot, even I am shocked by the rapidity with which he responds to this question. Hey, hey, Mr. Telefrico, Mr. Telefrico, who's your favorite drag queen? Let's, let's, let's just, before the question's even out, he says that. Telefrico is the moderate Democrat in this race. Are you aware of that? The Democrats are running some of the candidates as a little edger, like Abdul El-Sahed, who's leaning into Islam. He's also leading into the weird kind of LGBT stuff. But Telefrico, he is their candidate for Texas, good old red Texas, who's running as the, the white guy, the straight white guy in the suit with the parted hair. Telefrico, instantly, says the name of his favorite drag queen. So, apparently, not that I'm an expert in this, Alissa Edwards, which is the stage name of this fella who's a drag queen, particularly loves doing drag performances for kids. So the, the most moderate Democrat running in the midterm elections has right off the top of his head, right off the dome, a favorite drag queen who just coincidentally is a drag queen who does the weird jiggling routines in front of kids. You will recall this is the same James Talerico, who was asked to name something he loves beyond his immediate family. The very thing that came to mind, the very first thing trans kids. Something that you love that's not family or friends. I love, I'm just saying this because it's on my mind, the trans children who showed up yesterday at the state capital to advocate for their humanity. They shouldn't have to, but it was an inspiration to watch. Hey, what do you love other than your family? What would you say just right off the, off the noggin? What, what do you love? If you asked me, Michael, what do you love other than your family? I'd say, I love old books and I love cigars, of course, and I love port. I love a nice vintage port. What do I love my ukuleles? I love my piano. I love, and if you asked me this and we were sitting here for 100,000 hours, and I finally exhausted the list of everything I love, I guess at a certain point in the sense of general Christian charity, I guess at a certain point I'd say, and I love the kids who were dealing with these problems and I hope they get better. I hope we can help them for James Talerico as the first thing he said and he said it a little slower than the drag queen thing. He didn't come. It wasn't just, what do you love? I love trans kids. It was even creepier than that actually. James Talerico said, what do you love? He had the answer right away. The answer was right and he said, but he knew it sounded creepy, so he goes, well, I'm just going to say this just because it's on my mind. Yeah, I know it's on your mind. Yeah, I just am going to, can I am I allowed to just love trans kids? He sounds as creepy as like a Philipsy More Hoffman character. He sounds at, oh, I just love trans kids. Then that coupled with the answer on the drag queen, I love trans kids and I love the drag queens who perform for trans kids. It prompted the vice president, JD Vance, to just post that meme of him from that debate. You remember that meme of the debate where he's looking, eyebrow raise, hmm, what, could we get, can we get a hard drive check on IL-5? That's Talerico. That is the most moderate Democrat in this race. I gave a speech last night. I'm here in Fayetteville, Arkansas gave a speech. Big Pact House was great for TPSA continuing the tour, Charlie's tour that continued. It was going to be with his friends last year, right after he was murdered and then some of us carried on that tour. TPSA is carrying the flame and other friends are helping out on the tour this time. This was the subject of my speech last night. In this race, you have Republicans who are just like in any midterm election year, they're just a little bit less enthusiastic. That's what happens historically. On top of that, some conservatives don't like the Iran War fair enough. They don't like the gas prices are going to go up. They don't like that we've only have a net change of 7 million illegal aliens in a year and a half. I think that's a pretty impressive number, but they want it to be 8 million or 9 million. Okay, whatever I get it, we're up against, we're up against this guy. We're up against a party, the most moderate member of which says that the thing he most loves is trans kids and who has a favorite drag queen. If you have a favorite drag queen period, especially one that you can name immediately, you cannot make any plausible claim to be political moderate. That's what we're up against. Are you going to sit at home or are you going to get out and vote? Speaking of things that confound the preferences and the guesses of the left and the right, we have to get to this Lindsay Clancy juror. My speech doesn't actually point out that the left is the party right now of Lindsay Clancy. It's not the party of AOC. It's not the party of Chuck Schumer. It's the party of Lindsay Clancy. You can watch a speech on the TPSH channel. I think it's on my YouTube channel too. 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The anchor is talking to one of the jurors who was spilling the beans. She says, "Yeah, you know, his person of color." And the anchor says, "Hold on. Was the hold out juror a black man?" Oh, she goes, "Wow, I need to sit with that for a minute. It's so horrified." Well, now we find out the lone juror is apparently a devout Catholic, according to reporting, loved that, score one for the papists. And two, his family is a Haitian immigrant family. Is that the group? This is weird. The group that the left has most embraced of all of the immigrant groups in the last year and a half. It's the Haitians. The poor Haitians were being sent back because their temporary status expired 14 years ago, and no one sent them back, and Trump sent them back. The Haitians, that beloved group comprising black men, another beloved group of the left, it was that guy. They hate the Catholics, of course. But it was that guy who held out against the jurors. It's so, so beautiful. And now the left is so angry, they're trying to destroy this guy. So according to the reporting, you can read about it in New York Post. Now that they've discovered that this one guy stood up against the jury, they want to ruin his life. So they're pulling up all these details. They're doxing him. His family can't go outside. They're getting calls. They're getting threats. And they finally got some dirt on this guy. And do you know what the dirt is? According to the reports, the lone juror was accused of domestic violence. It's just a very serious thing. Maybe he committed it? Maybe he didn't. I don't know. That in the legal process, the charges were dismissed. So he was accused of domestic violence, but he was never prosecuted for it. He was certainly never convicted of it. It doesn't mean it didn't happen. It might have happened. I don't know. There are all sorts of other reports from people in this guy's community saying this guy is wonderful. That, you know, he goes to the mechanic and the poor woman can't pay to fix her car. And he pays to fix her car. He pays to fill her gas. You know, so apparently he's very well liked and respected in the community. But regardless, that's what the left is going on. This juror had an allegation against him that he committed domestic violence. I can't believe no one is talking about this. But my first thought when I heard that is, if you are shocked by a dismissed domestic violence charge against this juror, just wait till you hear what Lindsey Clancy did. Do you know what the Lindsey Clancy case is about? And so for those who, I guess they only follow the very tippy top of the headlines, Lindsey Clancy murdered her three children in cold blood and admitted to it. No one disputes that she did that. That is, I guess we would have to say, the very worst kind of domestic abuse that is even imaginable and she doesn't deny it and her lawyer doesn't deny it. It just reveals as disingenuous, as hacks, the entire mostly left-wing movement to defend Lindsey Clancy and that to try to ruin this juror's life. If it had been anything else, if the lone juror had robbed a liquor store, you'd say, "Okay, well, now we're comparing different crimes." If the lone juror had unpaid speeding tickets or parking tickets, that would even be different. But the left is saying domestic violence doesn't matter when you admit to it and murder your three children, but it is the unforgivable sin when you are accused of it and the charges are dismissed. Is that really what we're saying? This is really about domestic violence. Now, this is about the fury that one man, especially that it was a man and they're especially furious, he's a black guy and he's Haitian, the one man stood up against this gaggle of crazy women and said, "Hey, we're not going to let this murderer off the hook for killing her three kids." The Lindsey Clancy supporters are not letting up. Yet another Lindsey Clancy supporter is going viral for calling Clancy, not just poor woman who fell into psychosis, who shouldn't be held accountable because she wasn't really here in her right mind and she's not guilty by way of insanity, she's not saying that. She's saying Lindsey Clancy, you are an inspiration. So Lindsey Clancy, I want to say this to you, I don't care if you ever literally hear this out loud or not. I am sending all the love and support in the world to you. You are a f--- hero. You are divine feminine rising, your soul came here for a massive f---er mission. You are goddess incarnated woman. You have sacrificed so much and I am so sorry for everything that you have experienced, all of the trauma, but I am telling you that you are loved, you are supported more than you could ever realize. And there are so many people in this world who have the ability to help you and will support you for the rest of your f---er life because you deserve it. And in honor of you and your babies, we will do better. We will create new systems that can help you for the rest of your life, but also will help everybody else. You are an inspiration. You are elevating the level of consciousness on this planet. And Kevin Reddington, let me tell you, never thought I would say in patriarchy an old white man would be a part of a massive movement of consciousness to dismantle patriarchy, but I have to give a shout out to him. She's a hero. We share a country with these people, do you know that? That woman is going to go vote in the midterms. That you live in a country that is governed according to the demos, the people who go out and vote and elect representatives and you have a slate of representatives right now who are talking about their favorite drag queens that twerk for children, that want to flood your country with foreigners and take away all your stuff and castrate little kids and kill babies. You don't live in that country and that woman who just called Lindsey Clancy a hero is going to vote. That woman who said, we're going to create systems that take care of you for the rest of your life. The most charitable read that you could almost say about this woman is about the woman making the video and Lindsey Clancy I guess too is the most charitable read is, okay, what you're talking about systems to prevent women who are going crazy for murdering their kids, right? That's not what she's talking about. She tells you. No, I want to create systems that protect you Lindsey Clancy for the rest of your life. Not the Lindsey Clancy before she killed her kids to stop her from the Lindsey Clancy who already killed her kids. We want to support you after that fact and we want to create systems that support other women who killed her kids like that lady on Oprah who said, hey, my big concern is the next time that a woman murders her kids, is she going to get off the hook like Lindsey Clancy if she's black? I want it. My big concern, it's not to stop women from killing their kids, is what happens if a black woman kills her kids? Is she also going to get off the hook? We share a country with these people and their ideology is a little deeper than just ordinary politics. You hear the language this woman's using? Key phrases here. She says, the divine feminine is rising. She says, you are the goddess, she says you're raising the consciousness. You're on a mission, on and on and on. This is very new agey kind of language. This is referring to specific, gnostic, occultic kinds of rituals. She's mixing all of that with the political language of feminism. We got to fight the patriarchy. She seems to imply, and I think she's right, that you can't really separate political feminism from this weird, occult, new agey stuff about what is the divine feminine? All of this to say, these women are witches. I know whatever the left wing groups are. Media matters is kind of dead, but whatever the new one is, I'm sure they'll clip this out. But fine, they can clip it out. This is witchcraft, sometimes we have trouble reading history because we just don't know how to relate to it. We don't know what historical accounts mean. In the past, in the 17th century, in the 11th century, when women were accused of witchcraft, it wasn't as we think from children's stories, just like flying around on broomsticks in the sky or something. It was this stuff. Witchcraft by the way, which is self-consciously on the rise, like many, many more women today, are calling themselves witches and say that they practice a religion called wicket and witchcraft. This is it. This is what we're talking about. I got in trouble because I was asked to go do a quick little bit. We played the esterno game at the American 250 celebration, and this cute little girl comes up. And one of the questions was, you know, which is real or something, or did the Salem witch trials not go far enough, or is some kind of provocative question. And it was the girl. I got accused of lecturing a girl about witchcraft. I did not do that. It was actually the opposite. The girl lectured me about witchcraft, and she had the perfect answer. She goes, she goes, yeah, yeah, they didn't go far enough or whatever, because witches are real. And I got in trouble for that. They put that on my wiki page. It was her, and she was right. The girl was totally right. This is witchcraft. It brings me to the top of the show. If you're upset about sexualizing women's sports, if you're upset about focusing on women's bodies when you're talking about women's sports, what do you think women's sports are? If you're upset about me calling this woman a witch, and all the Lindsey Clancy supporters witches, what do you think witchcraft is? Witchcraft is this bizarre, occultic kind of pseudo religion where you investigate the divine feminine. think about the cosmic mission of the women, a mission that is not just like praying for your neighbor, a mission that involves murdering children. This is like literally what the Salem Witch Trials were accusing these women of. And the problem with the Salem Witch Trials is, they were Protestant rather than Catholic, we can get into that, we'll get into that some other time. But like this is textbook witchcraft, and it's happening right now. We have a hard time reading history. There is a massive, egregious, enormous kind of persecution of Christians that's going on right now. Most people, probably most Christians, can't even recognize it. First though, speaking of religion and history in the old times, I am so excited to tell you about heaven in stoning glass. Go to heaveninstoningglass.com/group. Imagine beginning a project knowing you may never live to see it finished. That is how some of the great cathedrals were built. People devoted their lives to creating something that was not primarily for themselves, and that would still be standing centuries after everyone involved was gone. I just got to go to Europe, we were on a secret project, and I get to see some of these beautiful, beautiful cathedrals. I'm really, really excited because I also got to read the audiobook of Bishop Barons, excellent book, and new documentary, heaveninstoningglass. It travels through five of France's great Gothic cathedrals to uncover the theology behind these extraordinary buildings. There were not simply places to gather on Sunday. There were statements about God, man, beauty, eternity, and what a culture believed was worth sacrificing to create. Really, really important stuff. I absolutely love it. It tells you a lot about our civilization, about the Middle Ages, how faithful Christians understood their culture, and in our society, which just has a bunch of millennial, bland, gray, prison-looking buildings, it gives you something to aspire to for what we can be. See heaveninstoningglass, in theaters nationwide, September 20th and 23rd, find tickets at heaveninstoningglass.com, and for parish or larger group tickets, go to heaveninstoningglass.com/group. The state of Massachusetts has stolen a child from Catholic parents, because the Catholic parents refused to participate in gender ideology. A lot of you are going to hear that, and you're going to say, this is still going on in the big 26, because I thought we were done with that years ago. Well, the case began a couple of years ago. This was 2024. So kind of the end of peak woke. The election of Donald Trump in 2024 marks the end of woke one. So this was a few months before that. This Massachusetts family lost custody of their teenage daughter. Child Protective Services showed up, took the daughter away from this Catholic couple, because the couple is Catholic. The daughter, her name is Sophie. She apparently had been transged by her public school. The daughter's school, Algonquin Regional High School in South Bromass, Massachusetts, had secretly been transing this girl, Sophie, according to the report. The school, quote, exposed Sophie to a culture steeped in gender ideology and blamed-- and a school counselor socially transitioned the daughter to become a boy without the knowledge or permission of the parents. So the active party here was the school pushing this nostic, occultic, hideously dangerous ideology onto the daughter. That's bad enough, because the school is an agent of the state. Then somebody calls CPS, and they remove the daughter from the Catholic parents' home. They steal the Catholic's daughter. Because the Catholic parents said, well, yeah, we don't believe in that. We, not just because we're Catholic, but we, like statistically, every single religious group, every single person who's ever lived everywhere for all of history. We don't believe that a boy can become a girl, or the girl can become a boy. So we're not going to inflict what we think is a false ideology onto our kid, particularly when it's an ideology that, when you adopt it, makes you much more likely to be depressed, anxious, and to kill yourself, and to engage in harmful mutilations that don't improve any of those numbers and actually make at least one of them worse. That's what they said, and they said, oh, yeah. Well, we're going to take your daughter from you. So what is this? We read about the persecutions of Christians by the state in the first century, in the Roman Empire, in the earliest days of Christianity, first and second centuries. We read about that, and we say, wow, that's crazy. Can you believe there was a time back before the Enlightenment, back before political liberalism, back before widespread democracy, where the state would go in and punish people for their religious belief, so might. At the height of the Roman Empire, the idea of just stealing a person's kid-- I mean, that's harsh even for some of those pagan Romans. We can't recognize that the very same thing is happening right now. This is extreme religious persecution that is most particularly focused on Catholics, but it's against Christians, broadly, and it's against religious people broadly. Don't forget, when the Biden administration was spying on religious people, calling them extremists, it was the Catholic churches they were spying on. I know Biden was nominally Catholic, but they focused most particularly on the Catholics. The Catholic church is really the chief enemy of the political left. Don't forget, the political left rises in the French Revolution specifically to oppose the Catholic church. It was the people who sat on the left side of the National Assembly who were there because they opposed the Catholic church. And there's fall over here. There's spill over to plenty of other Christian groups and all sorts of other religious groups too, but that's really where their eye is. Almost like it's a demonic satanic kind of eyeer that comes from the pits of hell from all time. In any case, this is it. This is it. And it helps us understand history because we just think in the bad old timey days, there were these really bad people with really bad intentions who did really bad things. Whether they were persecuting women in the Salem witch trials or whether they were persecuting Christians in the Roman Empire, they were just, they were the bad men and then they persecuted the good men. And we would never do that because we're good men. Many people who think of themselves as good are doing this right now. The CPS officers who took this kid away from her parents, they think they're doing the right thing. The school counselors who trans, this poor little girl, they think they're the good guys. The state of Massachusetts, which is allowing all this to happen, they think they're the good guys, the Biden DOJ that was persecuting Catholics. They think they're the good guys. That's the issue. The ancient pagans thought they were doing the right thing too. The people during the Salem witch trials thought they were doing the right thing too. And the really, really crazy part is that the, I'm not like totally pro-Salem witch trial. I'm actually fairly opposed to some of the particulars. The men who ran the Salem witch trials were on much more solid moral footing than the state of Massachusetts today. On much more solid moral footing than the Lindsey Clancy supporters and others. Okay, there was some good news. I don't wanna leave you on this totally negative news about the LGBTQ ideology in Massachusetts. We turned the great state of Texas before it has taken over by James Telefrico. First off, my favorite commentiest face from Ian Bob, who says everyone on Daily Wire Plus is really just paying their subscription 'cause they wanna see Michael play ukulele. Let's be honest here, so true. You know, I really, when Mr. Davies came out and said that run-hide fight infidels, launching today only for subscribers who have to join dailywire.com/subscribe. When he said that was the greatest content Daily Wire has ever put out, I took that personally. You know that? - Oh, you know! - What about mine? What about mine when I still haven't even seen with this? I can't wait to watch it. It's some, what about when I put out my ukulele content or I do a cigar review, right? Anyway, I'm very offended, but you can judge for yourself. Here's run-hide fight. Every significant movement in history started with protesting. - How have tried? - Uncle Tom. This is our generation civil rights. I have no idea what the protest is about. - Bingo! - Given the current climate, should a figure as polarizing as clay sounders even be allowed on pants? Okay, hear me okay. Daughters is a close personal friend of chancellor Freeman. This is a decision I cannot fight. Islam will conquer the West. Some more than you can. Are we paying attention? They've taken over the building. They're downstairs and they've blocked the doors. I seek forgiveness from Allah, the Almighty. We cannot run and hide. Muhammad is the messenger of God. There is no God but Allah. What do you say? We turn those vessel beings into a fine red mist. As we move, one man will cover while the other guys go. - They call that leapfrog. - Stretch them out when they listen. You need a course in safe weapons handling. Watch it today, dailyware.com/subscribe. Okay, before we go, there is some good news. Coming out of Texas, and it's an important political lesson that all the conservatives need to get. Especially as we have all of these debates heading into the 2028 presidential elections over political liberalism and neo-conservatism and post-liberalism and traditionalism and authoritarianism, whatever. A bunch of nonsense. It's probably going to have no effect on the primary whatsoever. Once you pay attention to the story. Texas ANM is just announced that it is cutting over 200 classes across its 11 system universities. And those classes, they're not cutting accounting, they're not cutting biology, they're cutting courses on LGBTQ studies, on ethnic studies, on climate change studies. The courses that are going to be removed include introduction to women's and gender studies, LGBTQ literatures, introduction to Latinx literature studies. Remember Latinx? I always say Latino. They didn't want to say Hispanic, so they said Latino, but they want to say Latino because that offends Latinas. So they did Latinx, which offends all of the Latinxes because the X would be an English convention, not a Spanish convention. Anyway, they're getting rid of that whole thing. Women writers, introduction to race and ethnicity, gender and health, blacks in the United States capital B, Bible is literature, not as truth, but as literature and climate change. Why are they doing this? Why is that? First of all, you say Texas ANM had all those classes, ANM, that ain't Yale or Harvard, that ain't Willsley, ANM has that nonsense, I expected from some of the Ivy League schools or the very liberal art schools, but come on, but yes, ANM, it's all the schools, it's all the state schools, it's all of them. And they're cutting the classes. The reason they're cutting the classes is because the Texas legislature made them. Take this lesson, please, conservatives, especially my libertarian friends, especially my friends who are worried about authoritarianism and the heavy hand of the state and tyranny and pay attention. There was a review that began because of a state law that Texas legislators passed, requiring public university boards to examine what classes their undergraduates must take in order to graduate for their various majors. At the flagship campus of ANM, which I've been to a number of times at college station, 78 of those classes will no longer count toward core requirements. They pass the law, they do the review, they say there's a bunch of nonsense at the university system, they cut hundreds of classes. Are you happy about this or upset about this? And I'm speaking specifically, I know the libs who are watching are probably upset about this, maybe not all of them, but of the conservatives. There are going to be some conservatives. They're really libertarians who say, well, I don't like this because I don't like it when the state is getting involved. And we need to leave this up to the free market and to cultural change and politics is downstream of culture and blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't want to straw man, but I think there will be some people who have that reaction, because there's some people who are just always so fearful of authoritarianism and tyranny, and they only want to focus on individual rights. I think it's a good change that the public university in Texas is no longer teaching kids about a bunch of racial and sexual nonsense. I think that's good. I think that's important. I think that's deeply conservative. I think that the modern conservative movement began with William F. Buckley Jr., or at the founder of National Review, who wrote a whole book about how dumb academic freedom is, and how we all need to band together to get atheist and socialist professors fired at private universities. Forget about public universities, even private universities. That's how the modern conservative movement started. Okay. What made them do this was not the free market. It was not changing consumer preferences. It was not the culture. It was the strong hand of the state. That's what did it. And that's good. And that's what we need more of. This has been an observation that some people have come to in recent years, even those who are a little more inclined toward laissez-faire libertarian kind of politics, which is, if you have two parties in the United States, in any political system, you have two parties. One party wants to wield power, and one party wants to give up power, guess which party is going to win. For the last, at least 30 years, maybe 40, 50 years, there have been many people on the right who want to just give up power entirely. Now, I don't want to wield power capriciously or arbitrarily without limits, tyrannically, I want to wield power in a just way that is circumscribed within appropriate limits that is ordered toward the common good. It's either that or the talerico's of the world. It's either that or the guys who want to trans the kids and have a favorite drag queen and flood the country with illegals and take away all your money and take away all your guns and sell out the country to communists and jihadis. Go watch Run-Hide Fight. There's no member block today. I've got to fly back because of being an Arkansas, but I will be back. We're doing a friendly fire tonight, and I'll be back in studio tomorrow. I'm Michael Knowles. It's Michael Knowles. I'll see you then.