Ep. 2062 - CAUGHT: The Whitest Liberal Man In America Plots Massive ISIS Terror Attack

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He posts on social media under the name ILoveFemBoys6969, and he was reportedly a moderator of the DoorDash subreddit. This is not some member of the Bin Laden family. This is your average Hasan Piker listener down the street. And these people are on the brink of political power. Then, 84-year-old Mitch McConnell returns to Capitol Hill after a 92-day medical absence in which many people thought he was dead. Everyone in politics, left, right, and center, is dunking on Cocaine Mitch and calling for age limits in public office. Except for me. Except for me. I'm the last man standing with Cocaine Mitch. We will examine what the Senate is. That's what this is really all about. Then, on the other end of the life cycle, Lena Dunham has just had a kid. One year after declaring that she never had an abortion, but she wishes that she had. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Run, hide, fight, infidels is out now. 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No, the guy's name is Jonathan Hunter Kramer. He's 21 years old. The court sketch of him is out, and he is a dead ringer for Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. I think someone observed that he entered a plea, not of guilty or not guilty, but of zoinks. So this guy, complete doof, and we're learning a lot more about him. So beyond the charge that he received a firearm and ammunition, knowing or having a reasonable cause to believe that the firearm and ammunition would be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism, providing, attempting to provide or conspiring to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, that's ISIS. What else do we know about him? We know that he uses Reddit, the social media platform Reddit. We know that his username is not OsamaFan or, you know, JihadNow. His username is I underscore love underscore femboys. Sixty-nine, sixty-nine. Along with username SlopDestroyer and username ILoveGayRobloxPorn. What is Roblox? I don't even. What is a femboy? I want. Mr. Davies, is Professor Jacob in the control room? He is, yeah. He is. Can you put him on the microphone? Yes, hopefully. Because I don't know what this is, but I'll turn to someone who I'm certain does. Professor Jacob, what is a femboy? He ran out of the control room. He ran out? Is there a Jacob-shaped hole? In the wall of the control room? Do you know what a femboy is? I can guess with my terrific Latin that fem plus boy probably means a female or womanish young man. No, well, that's what I meant. Look, it's not the most complicated etymology. I guess the reason I'm asking is, does it mean like a trans, like a boy who thinks that he's a girl? Or does it mean just like a homosexual? Or does it mean an effeminate heterosexual? I actually am not totally certain what it's meant. By femboy? I'll give you a definition here. A femboy is a young male or individual who expresses themselves through a traditionally feminine appearance, style, or demeanor. But he could be straight, ostensibly. Ostensibly, yeah. Okay, but anyway, this terrorist loves the femboys. And this actually is the plot. It's so crazy because Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels is this insane, schizo, deranged, over-the-top kind of send-up of this political phenomenon of the radical leftists and the. Muslim jihadis allying together, the queers for Palestine and Hamas, you know, coming together and forming an alliance, even though they oppose each other at a pretty basic level. And so you say, ah, well, come on, the Run, Hide, Fight movie, it's totally over-the-top, it's insane, it's ridiculous. And then that's actually playing out in this terror attack or this terror plotting that luckily was stopped before it could take place. This guy is some kind of LGBTQ wacko, and he is trying to help ISIS. And this is another one. Not only. Not only do the LGBT activists, Antifa, queers for Palestine, not only do those guys and the actual jihadis have a common enemy, which I guess could unite them, the common enemy being Christendom, Western civilization, the church, white man, whatever. They also have a commonality in their violence. They're both very, very violent groups. Despite the propaganda to the contrary, we know that Islam is not exactly a religion of peace. We know that Islam has been very, very violent from the beginning and is made inconsequential. Incursions into the West from the beginning. But also we know that the LGBT LMNOP lobby, Antifa, all the rest, they're very, very violent. They're disproportionately violent. Even the liberal Atlantic Magazine had to admit this earlier in the year, that political violence is coming from the left. So in any case, this guy is some kind of LGBT whatever, and he's on Reddit. I guess he's a DoorDash driver. To me, this is the scariest part of the whole story. Forget about the terror sympathy. Forget about the weird LGBT stuff. Apparently, he was caught with child sexual abuse material on his computer. And so this guy, you know, he's your average Hassan Piker listener. But the thing that's spookiest about the whole story is, I guess he's a DoorDash driver. He was a moderator of the DoorDash subreddit. In other words, this is not a guy living in some basement on the other side of the country who no one interacts with. This is a guy who might have come to your door like yesterday. This was one of the really scary things after the assassination of Charlie Kirk was the realization, not that just that some wackos on the Internet, like Hassan Piker, for instance, to mention this very relevant left-wing thought leader. It's not that he would call for political violence against conservatives. It's that that lady who sits next to you at work was reposting that stuff, was posting clips and messages and videos saying that she supports political violence and the Kirkiversary and all the rest. That's what's scary because you realize these people. are very, very close to you. This is real life. This federal indictment did not come out of the fevered imagination of the Daily Wire's Ron Hyde fight. This comes from federal authorities. Now, I mentioned Piker because he's kind of the central figure in all of it. He's the central figure in the online left, which then bleeds over into the elected left and the activist left. Hassan Piker has just clarified his views in the days after 9-11 amid various Muslim terror plots. And he has told the Axios show that the United States is guiltier of terrorism than Al-Qaeda is. You once said that America is the top dog in terrorism. Yes. Do you think America then is worse than Al-Qaeda? Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths. Yes, we have caused tremendous terror all around the world. I think that that is not only terror that we are waging on regular civilians in nations in the periphery, but it's also having consequences on ourselves. It's having dramatic consequences on the home front. One clear example of this is what we did in Minop, right? There's no distinction between blowing up a school, triple tapping it with Tomahawk missiles. If you're killing 140 schoolgirls, that is an act of terror. This doesn't mean that all Americans are terrorized. It doesn't mean that all Americans are terrorized. It doesn't mean that all Americans are terrorists. But the reality of the matter is we have to create an environment of accountability to ensure things like that never happen again. Okay, so he's ignorant on two fronts. And I'm being charitable to say he's ignorant. He might just be lying. But he's asked if the United States is as guilty of terrorism or guiltier of terrorism than Al-Qaeda is. And he says, yeah, yeah. Pound for pound. Death for death in terms of the total number of deaths? Absolutely. But terrorism does not just mean death. Terrorism has a definition. Terrorism is when you target civilians and civilians to achieve political purposes. When you target militants, when you target soldiers to achieve political purposes, that is not terrorism. That's war. And wars can be just or they can be unjust. When you target criminals with violence, that is not terrorism. That is the civil authority enacting justice. When you target innocent people not to achieve political objectives, that is not terrorism. That is murder. That's violence. That's crime. But it's not terrorism. Terrorism has a specific definition. It's a When you accidentally kill a civilian while you are targeting militants, that is also not terrorism. We call it collateral damage, which is the modern euphemism. It's very sad. It's tragic circumstance. But that's also not terrorism. Terrorism is when you target civilians to achieve political purposes. He can't provide a single example of the United States doing that. And yet that is all that Al-Qaeda does. I mean, if you read, as many leftists were reading Osama bin Laden's essay on why terrorism is so important, it's because it's not terrorism. He did 9-11. He's very clear. He targeted civilians in order to achieve this political purpose. So he's wrong on that front. But he's deeply dishonest on another because he tries to redefine terrorism to say, well, terrorism is defined simply by the number of people that you kill. Now, if that were the case, the worst terrorist of all time would be Chairman Mao, maybe Joseph Stalin. Two men that Hassan Piker openly embraces. Hassan Piker actually dresses up in a kind of clown outfit of Chairman Mao. He's very, very open about that. Posts pictures of himself as Joseph Stalin. So he doesn't even believe that. I was trying to be charitable and just say this guy is not the sharpest tool in the shed and he doesn't know very much. But here, I mean, that would boggle the mind. If he's trying to indict the United States for the number of deaths that have occurred because of a reaction to terrorist attacks, but then he doesn't factor in political leaders who have committed many, many more killings than that, Stalin or Mao, then he's just clearly being dishonest. Because I suspect what Piker or what any communist defender would say is that, yes, Stalin killed a lot of people. Yes, Mao killed a lot of people, but they did so for a purpose. You can't make an omelet without cracking some eggs. And so the ultimate good that will come about as a result of these particular acts of evil outweigh all of that evil and the ends justify the means because they adopt a consequentialist system of ethics. And they're willing to apply that kind of thinking to their friends, but not to their enemies. And in this case, Hassan Piker's friends are Muslim terrorists and foreign communists, and his enemies are the United States. Okay, we will get to why this matters because Piker himself, I'm so sick of this stupid stinger because I can't see it. I want to see the Giotti stinger, but I've never actually seen it. I'll trust Mr. Davies that it's deeply entertaining. The reason Hassan Piker is bloviating on the internet, it's because he is the unifying figure in the new media on the left. And also because he has the ear and the attention and the enthusiasm of all the top Democrats running for office. So we will get to Mr. James Tallarico, who right now is slated to become the next senator from Texas. First, I want to tell you about balance of nature. First, I'll go to balanceofnature.com, code Knowles. A snack should not require fine print, okay? Is that an unreasonable position? Today it is. We've reached a point where you can pick up something, market it as healthy. 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Go to balanceofnature.com, subscribe to the whole health system or any subscription, and receive an additional 10% off with promo code Knowles, snack with your order. Balanceofnature.com, promo code Knowles. James Tallarico. This is a mainstream leftist, right now slated to win. Abdul El-Sayed, right now slated to win in Michigan. All these people are now slated to win. And it's deeply distressing because these are characters who campaign with Hasan Piker. Abdul El-Sayed asked Hasan Piker to come campaign with him after hearing all that America deserves 9-11, Republican senators should be killed. Mamdani, same thing. AOC, the same thing. The liberal candidates won't disavow a guy like Piker. They'll dismiss him. They'll try to minimize him and say, oh, he's just a streamer. Oh, yeah, we just, we collaborated a little. But they won't disavow him. And they can't disavow him because it's what the mainstream left believes. The mainstream left is hostile to the United States. The mainstream left increasingly does believe that the United States is guiltier of terrorism than the Islamic terrorists are. This is them. They're they're disavowing their own voters at a time when 52% of Democrat voters say that the term socialist describes them. In that kind of world, how are you going to disavow Piker? How could Piker disavow his own views? So the one thing that the candidates are doing is they're trying to lie a little bit. Tallarico did this and got to give it to Daily Wire's own Jacob Wheeler goes in and he uncovers an interview with James Tallarico's pastor. Now, James Tallarico's pastor is a pastoress. It's a lady. Her name is Babs Miller. Apparently, she's a lesbian. She's a Presbyterian. And she was asked how to make sense of James Tallarico's evolving religious views. Does he still believe that God is non-binary and the Blessed Virgin Mary should be invoked to promote the murder of children? Or has he softened in his views? Has he just been provocative? Oh, no, you know, I don't, let's, don't worry about what I said. What, what does he really believe? Here's your answer. People are attacking Tallarico for saying that God is non-binary. That's literally what he is. He went on Fox News and like walked that back. Did you, did you see that? Yeah, he, he's, he's giving some advice that I don't think he should be following. Yeah, because that's why, that's what, frankly, what, something that attracted me to this church was like. And I can guarantee you that once he gets elected, he'll change his tune back to where he was. Okay, but he has to kind of play this game. Yes, that's, that's what his campaign has convinced him of, is that the Democratic Party is backing off on their stances on trans and all of this. And so his staff is encouraging him to. They kind of do the same thing just for the next 50 weeks, whatever days or whatever it is, days, I guess. I think it's bad advice personally, but if it helps him win, okay. Okay. So, you know, the key to this clip, the key to this clip is not, boom, we got you. Tallarico is actually radical. Like, yeah, we know that. We know that. In as much as he's trying to soften his stance as he's lying. Yeah, yeah, we know that. The key to this clip, the thing it tells me about James Tallarico and about the people who are spiritually forming him is that they're liars. That's what's so scandalous about this. I mean, one female pastor, pretty scandalous, pretty ridiculous. Call me old-fashioned. I think that's pretty ridiculous. A lesbian pastor. Yeah, past ricks, past dress. Yeah, that's pretty scandalous. On and on and on. But most scandalous of all is the fact that his pastor, quote unquote, has no problem saying, oh yeah, he's lying right now. Yeah, he's just lying. And I think it's bad advice that he's getting. Notice she doesn't say, I think it's wrong for him to lie. Notice she doesn't say, I think it's immoral for him to lie. She doesn't seem to think about morality for one second. She says, I think it's bad advice personally. But you know, if it helps him win, okay. If it helps him win, okay. That's the same consequentialist ethics that we were just talking about, that we were just haranguing. That's the same consequentialist, ends justify the means kind of ethics that Christianity has always been opposed to. And this is his pastor saying, well, you know, can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggs. That's basically what she's saying. Yeah, he's lying, but don't worry. Don't worry. He'll change his tune back. And I think, okay, if a politician is telling me something that I want to hear, but I can't trust him, then I don't want to hear it. If a politician is saying something that I don't like, that I disagree with, and then someone comes to me and says, hey, Michael, don't worry about it. He's just lying. That doesn't really make me feel better. And the reason it doesn't really make me feel better is I think, well, if he's a liar about this, maybe he's a liar about the things that I do like to hear. It eats away at his credibility, at his ethos. It is much more scandalous to hear that kind of talk from someone who is supposedly a member of the clergy, not really a member of the clergy, but at least pretending to be. At least James Tallarico presents these people as members of the clergy. That's who we're dealing with. We are dealing with really radical, really, shall we say, deviant, really morally cloudy liars. And the clergy, the spiritual formers of these left-wing politicians, they're supposed to be the most morally pristine among them. And they are openly, avowed, explicit liars. Those are the people who are about to come into power. Not so great. Now, speaking of senators and returning to power, Senator Cocaine Mitch McConnell returned to Capitol Hill after a nine-year-old. He was a very, very, very, very, 92-day absence. Some people thought he was dead during that medical absence, but he is back and he appears to have united the left and the right, everybody calling on McConnell to resign. Not just McConnell to step down, but any elderly politician in the U.S. Senate should step down. Everyone's saying we need age limits for public office. I may be the only man in politics who totally disagrees. We'll get to that in a second. First, I want to tell you about Policy Genius. First, though, go to policygenius.com slash Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S. Fantasy football season is underway. That means grown men are spending hours studying backup running backs in case someone they have never met pulls a hamstring. They have contingency plans for their contingency plans, all to protect an imaginary football team. It's a little crazy, okay? 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That is policygenius.com slash K-N-O-W-L-E-S. So, Cocaine Mitch McConnell returns to Capitol Hill. 92-day absence. Okay, this is, and he was already looking pretty frail before that. You remember Cocaine Mitch was freezing up a little bit, you know, and I don't know. I mean, I met Mitch McConnell years and years and years ago, and he seemed a little elderly even then. So, I get the concern. Where is Mitch getting wheeled into the Capitol? He gives a thumbs up. Not moving around, not talking too much, but he gives the thumbs up. Okay. Elsewhere, you see him driving in the car. He's sitting in the back of the car. He's giving a peace sign. You know, he's showing signs of life. He's there. He's aware of people. Okay. But he doesn't look good. He doesn't look like he's in great shape, right? So, you say, okay, McConnell, he's got to go. And all these other people, he's got to go. He's got to go. He's got to go. And all these elderly senators, they have to go. And we need age limits for public office. I feel the same way about age limits for public office that I feel about term limits in public office. Namely, we already have a term limit. We already have an age limit. It's called elections. It's called the ballot box. If people feel that Mitch McConnell is too old to be in office, they will vote for one of his opponents. Yes, incumbency gives you an advantage. Yes, campaign war chest gives you an advantage. Only because people have donated to you. Only because they feel that you can still do the job. Yes, there are all these advantages. Nothing's perfectly equal in the world. But you do have a check on your power, whether we're talking about serving too many terms or whether we're talking about being too old. You have a check on your power. When you institute artificial age caps or term caps on office, you are taking away a power from the American people. If the American people wanted Donald Trump to serve a third term, the approval ratings show maybe they don't. But if they did, if they wanted Ronald Reagan to serve a third term, maybe they wouldn't have, maybe they would have. If they wanted, I don't know, George Washington to serve a third term, they didn't have term limits back in Washington's day. He chose to step down after two terms. But if the people had wanted him and he had wanted to keep doing the job, why would you take that power away from the people? Now, you might say, okay, for the presidency, it's a little different. We don't want to have a king, some people would say. For the House of Representatives, it's a little different. That's supposed to be the appetitive part of the government. Or whatever, on and on and on and on. But the Senate certainly should not have age limits. It's preposterous to say the Senate should have age limits. And my proof is the word Senate. The word Senate comes from the Latin word Senex, which means old man. The Senate is not only not designed to exclude old people. The Senate is designed basically only to include old men. That is where it gets its name from. Because the Senate is supposed to be the more aristocratic part of the government, the more deliberative part of the government, the slower part of the government. It's meant for old men. It's not meant for young, ambitious, spirited men. The spirited part of the government is the presidency. Now, Donald Trump, chronologically, is a relatively older man. Trump is this weird anomaly because he's extremely energetic. Just the other day, he landed at the White House at 3 a.m. I think he was off on another flight at 7 a.m. Anyone, forget about, having been in the room with him, anyone who's ever seen him on TV knows he has this ridiculous amount of energy. So, you know, that probably shaves 30 or 40 years off for a guy like Trump. For Joe Biden, Biden was old, and he seemed even older than he was. And everybody agreed, even the Democrats secretly agreed, Biden was way too old to be president. So that you want the spirited part in the presidency, and then that you're supposed to have the rational part in the judiciary. In any case, though, if you're going to go after Mitch McConnell, go after Mitch McConnell because he's sometimes squishy on policy. But I wouldn't go after him for his age. If he can get the job done, I'm going to go after him. I'm going to go after him. If he can be a reliable Republican vote for the remainder of his term, fine by me. I don't care that he's old. Cocaine Mitch, man, he's a great tactician. He's, what did he say? The winners make laws and the losers go home. That guy's a, he's a killer, man. I love him. I disagree with some of his policy, but I, you know, in terms of just being an operator, good for him. He was out, oh, he was out for 92 days. Yeah, Aaron Judge was out for 99 days. And then he comes back to the Yankees at the end of the season, and he's already injured again. All right, so if we're not, if we're not saying that Aaron Judge is too old, how about Cocaine Mitch? Give me a break. Okay, let's turn to the other end of the life cycle. Lena Dunham. Lena Dunham has just had a baby. Lena Dunham was considered the voice of the millennial generation. I think that's probably fair. She kind of is the voice of that generation. It's an indictment of our generation, but she was the creator of the show Girls, and she's super duper feminist, and her parents are total lunatics. So I actually have some sympathy for Lena Dunham. Anyway, she just had a kid. She had a kid through a surrogate. I, maybe, I don't know, maybe she's too old to have a, I can't tell. Anyway, she had a kid through a surrogate, and this comes a year after Lena Dunham said that she never had an abortion, but she wishes that she had. So a year ago, she's talking about how she wishes she had an abortion. This year, she's having a baby. Is there some contradiction here? I don't think there really is, but the full quote, we don't have the audio. We don't have the quote. She said this in her own voice on a podcast. podcast. She said, so many people I love, my mother, my best friends, have had to have abortions for all kinds of reasons. So right there gives me a lot of sympathy for Lena Dunham. This is part of what scandal is. You love your mother. You love your father. And so when they do bad things, that's not only bad for their souls, it's bad for you. There's another sin that is incurred, which is scandal, because you love your parents and you want to defend your parents. So you end up feeling that you have to defend even the bad things that they do, especially when you're talking about something so egregious as killing a baby, murdering a baby. You say, well, if mommy had an abortion, then abortion has to be okay, because I can't bring myself to think of the alternative. I can't bring myself to contemplate the fact that my mother committed a murder, not just any murder, a murder against my own sibling. She might have murdered me. You can't bring yourself to do that. So you end up justifying this and the sin proliferates. This is a lot with divorce. Kids of divorce will often try to defend divorce because they don't want to make their parents feel bad. It's a perfectly good impulse to have. Kids, you see this a lot in testimonials of people raised by same-sex parents, like gay couples or whatever. They will privately talk about, and in opinion surveys and in private fora, they'll privately talk about how there were a lot of challenges and struggles that went up with not having a mother or not having a father growing up, but that there was an added struggle, which is they felt they couldn't talk about it because they didn't want to talk about it. They didn't want to make their gay parents feel bad. So the scandal compounds. So anyway, enough nice things about Dunham. She says, I feel so proud of my mother and my best friends for their bravery, for their self-knowledge. And it was a really important moment for me then to realize I had internalized some of what society was throwing at us, and I had to put it in the garbage. Now I can say that I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had. Notice that confession here. She goes, I had internalized. Some of what society was throwing at us. In other words, she says, what she's saying is I knew that abortion was wrong. I felt at a deep level that abortion was wrong, even though my mom had an abortion and I was raised to support abortion. And basically every input in my entire life told me that abortion is fine and actually good. But at a deep level, I felt that abortion was wrong. And notice how she explains that. She doesn't say it's because the natural law is written on every human heart. She doesn't say it's because I have a conscience that can interpret the eternal moral order. She says, no, no, no. I must have just secretly, as if through osmosis, internalized some of society's opprobrium about abortion. But hold on a second. Our society doesn't present opprobrium about abortion. We've had legal abortion in the United States for 50, 60 years. Every major cultural institution tells us that abortion is good. Most of the big politicians tell us that abortion is good, that it's a good thing. What are you talking about our society disapproves of abortion? We're currently liberalizing our abortion laws. And then forget about our society. Lena Dunham was raised in the most radically left wing pockets of that society that exists. This woman probably had never met a pro-lifer at any point in her life. And she says, no, but I just, I had internalized some of what's, no, you didn't. That was your conscience. That was you understanding, intuiting the moral law, which is written on every human heart, the natural law. So she knew it was wrong. And she would never have one herself. But what does she say? She says, but I kind of wish I had. This is so perverse, but it's understandable. This is akin to, this is like the left-wing version of a conservative saying, you know, I don't go to church much, but I sure wish I did. I know, I know I'm bad. I know I should. I don't, look, I know I should pray more. I know I should go confess my sins. I should receive my sins. I should go confess my sins. I should receive the sacraments. I know I, I just haven't done it. I wish I had. You hear that a lot. You hear that from a lot of people. It's a fallen world. People fall into lapses of their faith. And so in other words, they know there is a moral standard that they're failing to live up to. And they'll be open about that. They don't necessarily change their behavior, but they'll say, ah, but I should live up to that moral standard. And this is the satanic inversion of that, which is what you get on the left. I know I should get an abortion. I just, and I, I should, I wish I had. But I haven't done it yet. A lot of the pro-abortion advocates will say women need to be able to kill their babies. And it's so important. It's women's rights. And, oh, I would never kill my precious progeny. Me, oh, are you kidding me? My precious little child? No, no, no. I would never do something like that. But, but poor black women should. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, the women, the people who are more like the most likely to do it, like the poor black women in the inner cities, they should kill all of their disgusting kids. But, you know, those kids, they're not going to be loved. They're not wanted. Forget it. But they'll probably be criminals someday, forget about it. They should all be killed. Not my precious progeny. I support abortion, girl power. That's what they'll say. In other words, they're, they're describing, they're exemplifying that same kind of moral chasm. I would never do it, but I still think it's a good thing. You should do it. It's, and except when, when the conservative, when the lapsed Christian says it, says, I should go to church. I know I'm probably not going to this Sunday, but I know I should. At least they're expressing the desire for a moral good. In this Lena Dunham is expressing the desire for a grave moral evil, but it's the same thing. And it calls to mind that great observation of Peter craved, who says the abortion is the sacrament of leftism. It's, it's the satanic inversion in the, in Christianity, the blessed sacrament is the consecrated host. When the priest raises up the host and reciting the words of crisis, this is my body, which will be given up for you. And abortion is the satanic inversion of that, which says, this is my body. And I will, I will kill you for that. You know, I will, this is my body and, and you will be given up for me, for it. Pretty spooky, man. So anyway, I wish Lena Dunham all the best. I hope she gets her act together. That's my little code into that story. I kind of feel bad for Lena Dunham. She, she was birthed and developed in just an absolute miasma of scandal. And I hope, I hope that she allows the true desires and intuitions of her heart and, uh, her actual behavior to change her horrific views. Okay. 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My favorite comment yesterday is from Sarah Johnson, who says, I think we can criticize this type of commercial for, oh, this is the Sydney Sweeney ad where she's like half naked with the footballs. I think we can criticize this type of commercial for modesty reasons, while also saying the critics are wrong for other reasons. I personally wouldn't want my small children to see this. Yes, no, I agree. It's what people were so furious that I made an obviously true point yesterday. I was talking about that Sydney Sweeney ad. You can go watch the episode. It's up on all the channels. I was talking about the Sydney Sweeney ad where she's half naked and she's got the footballs everywhere and she's, she's promoting a gambling company. And I said, you know, what's so, the left is furious about this because they hate that Sydney Sweeney is appeals to men and is not a raging feminist. And they hate that. They hate that. And it's kind of crazy that conservatives now are the ones defending this kind of material, defending both immodesty and gambling said, but it actually does make sense. That's, that's not to valorize immodesty and gambling. Certainly not. It's to point out the decadence, the absolute decay of our society that what we want to get back to is a society where we're not engaging in all sorts of vices all the time and people are modest and all of that. But in order to get to that, we have to first pull ourselves back to the very brink of reality. So previously we were told like big, fat, hairy dudes were actually sexy women. That's what we were told before. And so the fact that now the advertising is focusing on very attractive women, that is pulling us back to the brink of reality. We don't want to stop there. We want to keep going. But we need to recognize that we're not going to get to the 1950s until we get to the 1990s. You can't actually go back in time, but you're not going to get to the kind of society that existed in the 1950s before you get to the society that existed in the 1990s. You're not going to redefine marriage, re-redefine marriage to be the lifelong union of a man and a woman ordered toward the procreation education of children. You're not going to get to that before you take care of the transgender issue. You have to deal with the transgender insanity first in order to get over there. So anyway, that's it. You don't need to defend gambling and immodesty, but you do need to recognize how far gone the society is. Okay, back to Chicago. Turning to a man that I certainly would not want to see half-naked selling a gambling company, Brandon Johnson joins Zoran Mamdani's lawsuit. This to say that illegal aliens are an essential part of who we are. The- The- The- The- The exact quote that Brandon Johnson gave is, Chicago will not stand by while the federal government forces immigrant families to choose between putting food on the table, taking their children to the doctor, or protecting their ability to remain in this country. Don't forget, Trump is just saying that if you are a welfare case and you are not a United States citizen, you're an illegal alien, or you're here with some kind of legal status, but you're applying to get a green card or citizenship, that if you're a welfare case, we're not going to give that to you. That is one of the most basic facts of our immigration law going back to the 19th century, at least. Says you can't, we're not going to take public charges. We're not going to, basic, basic stuff. And the left took the bait and they say, no, no, no, we want the welfare cases. The Trump policy specifically says, if you're here for political asylum, we're not going to deport you, even if you're a welfare case. The left had previously been telling us that the illegal aliens and these immigrants aren't on welfare programs. Remember that? Oh, they're not even on welfare programs. That's all made up. Now they're, they said, you can't kick them out for being on welfare. But they're going deeper. They say, we will not stand by while this happens. This rule is not only cruel, it is unlawful, and it threatens the health and safety of our entire city. More than half a million Chicagoans were born outside the United States. They are our neighbors and an essential part of who we are. Chicago fought these attacks before, as did New York, blah, blah, blah. We'll keep doing it. Who is we though? To invoke Kanye West, who is, who is we though? The foreigners are an essential part of who we are. How? We, I don't want to be too pedantic about it. We, the pronoun, the third person, the first person, plural pronoun, we, is distinguished by being different from they, right? We are different than they are. That's why there is a, that's what defines the group. Okay. If they, they are part of who we are, what are we? Certainly not Americans. If foreigners are Americans, then there's no such thing as America. The inclusion of any foreigner who wants to be here on public welfare or anything else, the inclusion of the foreigners into America doesn't expand America. It abolishes America. If everyone's an American, nobody's an American. If we have an immigration system that endeavors, to bring some people in, in order to contribute to the country, but then we bring in people who, who explicitly do not contribute to the country. What is the immigration system? What is it for? Public law is supposed to be for our good, the good of the constituents to advance the common good. Well, if, if the law is now turned toward undermining the common good, toward undermining the good of the citizens, what is the law? The law, civil law is an ordinance of reason for the common good by him who has care of the community and promulgated. If you expand the law, the law is an ordinance of reason for the community. If you expand the civil law to include things that are really bad for the community, you haven't expanded the law. You've abolished the law. That, that is the suicidal aspect of, of all of these leftist policies, whether we're talking about security, terrorism, immigration, economics, for that matter, on and on and on, which I think is really their purpose. You try to think what really, what unites the left? What unites the right? For the left-wing opposition, as we talk about in Run, Hide, Fight, Infidel, it's available now on dailywire.com. You've got the jihadi types on one hand, these Islamic fundamentalists, and you've got these purple-haired lunatic types. I cannot wait to kill that stupid stinger. I hate it so much. If you, you've got these two disparate elements on the left, and then on the right, you've got the paleocons, the neocons, the libertarians, the trads, all these people who totally disagree with each other. So you say, okay, well, what unites these groups as coherent entities? At a very basic level of politics, I think what unites them is the left generally hates the country. The left is hostile to the country. The left thinks the country is a force of bad in the world. Maybe they'll go as far as Hasan Piker and say, we're the biggest terrorists in the world. Maybe they'll just say that we're oppressive, and we have this original sin of slavery, and we're on stolen land, and blah, blah, blah. The thing that defines the left is they're hostile to the country. They are more favorable toward other countries, other peoples, than they are toward ourselves. And the thing that unites the right, the libertarians and the traditionalists, the neocons and the paleocons, the establishment and the populists, the thing that unites them is they are generally favorable toward the country. They have affection for the country. They love the country. It's Trump hugging the American flag on stage. That's what unites them before any policy, before any ideology, before any agenda. It's that kind of affection. It's great conservative philosophers have pointed out is really at the basis of conservatism anyway. Okay. Speaking of conservatives and coalitions, big news coming out of the Charlie Kirk case, not the criminal case against Tyler Robinson, but out of the broader context of his assassination. This news just broke yesterday. The Kirk family is filing a wrongful death suit against Utah Valley University. I was just at Utah Valley University last week. There was a commemoration for the one-year anniversary of Charlie's murder, and some of his friends were out there for that ceremony on the campus itself. So I was just out there. I saw the campus firsthand. I was a stone's throw from the place that he was murdered. And there were clearly security failures. Some of those security failures are coming to light. Here is one of Charlie's right-hand men, Andrew Colvette, discussing this on Fox News. You know, one of the things that I've become aware of in the aftermath here, Lawrence, is that that rooftop was known by school officials to be a common hangout of students that would go people watch up on the rooftop. That's something that I've become aware of just recently. But to me, that's also shocking that school officials, this is their home. This is their home. They're supposed to know how to control and protect people in their home. And, you know, people don't understand. Our security is our home. We're supposed to know how to control and protect people in their home. We're supposed to know how to have security has jurisdiction in the bubble, Charlie's bubble, right, in 20, 30 feet around him. They're not allowed to control ingress and egress. They're not allowed to control access. They're legally not allowed to do that. That has to be done by UVU campus police, and it wasn't done. And so there's multiple points here where, you know, it's frustrating. It's heartbreaking. It's more than frustrating to have to read through these points. And there's just such a litany of points where the ball was thrown. And I think that's what's going to happen. And I think that's going to happen. And Charlie's life, not only Charlie's life was put in danger, obviously, but I think one of your other analysts said it earlier. It could have been even worse, remarkably. I hate to say it that way, but who knows? The gunman could have sprayed into the crowd. Yeah, this is big news because obviously the state has presented a lot of evidence that Tyler Robinson went up and climbed up through the building and got up onto the roof. And the Robinson defense hasn't even really countered any of that yet. I don't know that they will. I suspect that it probably won't even. But the premise of all of that was, well, look, you know, we just didn't realize it was just so hard to get to. We couldn't even think, we couldn't even imagine that this would be a potential breach of security. Now we know that wasn't true. People did know about it. Charlie's security team called attention to that to the campus police and said, hey, we've identified a security threat. We need to make sure that that gets locked down. Do you want us to lock it down? Do you want to lock it down? And according to the filing from Kirk's family, he says, if this is true, it would be nice to either have it controlled access or allow one of my guys, one of Charlie's security team, to be there as well, if possible. And the chief of police said, I got you covered. Don't worry about that door to the roof. I got you covered. So it's, you know, a lot of people don't know that. And so I think it's a good thing that we're not going to have to bang their heads against the wall, not just Charlie's friends and family, but also people who loved him abroad. And they said, how could you not be monitoring the roof? How could you not have thought of this? According to this wrongful death suit from the Kirk family, they did think of it. They called attention to the chief of police. The chief of police assured them that he would take care of it. Now it might not be the chief of police's fault because there are some reporting that actually the decision had to go to the administration of UVU. But somewhere there, there's a major, major collapse of security. And it seems to fall either with the police or with the administration. or with both. In any case, absolutely egregious. According to Brett Parkinson, which is the lawyer for the Kirk family, Charlie's murder was entirely preventable and, in fact, would not have happened had the state of Utah and UVU followed through on their stated security promises, which included protecting the rooftops surrounding the quad where Charlie was speaking. Totally unacceptable, and the people who are responsible for this need to pay as high a price as possible. Okay, it's Theology Thursday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member, use code Knowles, Canada WLAS, to check in for two months free on all annual plans. Saunders, you can be allowed on campus. Ah, can you hear me okay? Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Freeman. This is a decision I cannot fight. Islam will conquer the West. 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