Ep. 2098 - Gavin Newsom Lets Child Predators & Serial Killers Off the Hook

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Gavin Newsom celebrates his party's massive victory by letting child rapists and serial killers off the hook for their crimes. And a loophole in the Electoral College means the Democrats may have figured out how to prevent Republicans from ever winning presidential elections. Again, I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. What a week, huh? What a week. And the news just keeps on coming. So I know it's been a little tough. I am excited to say this. I'm excited to say this. I'm excited to say there's at least two pieces of good news this week. All right. Two pieces of good news both in this building. One has to do with Mayflower. Mayflower has got a lot of stuff coming up that I'm not allowed to tell you about yet. This is the kind of thing that has sold out before some of you have even finished your morning coffee. And then it sells out. You say, Michael, why didn't you tell me? I did tell you. 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It's never going to come to pass. This is actually plausible. Nate Silver made this point. Very mainstream pollster and political voice says if the remaining results go as expected, Democrats will hold governorships in states totaling 392 electoral votes. Now, that's pretty crazy. You need 270 electoral votes. To win, right? And you've got all these governorships going Democrat. You have all these state houses going Democrat in states that were once solid Republican strongholds, unthinkable that they would ever turn blue. Now we got Texas turning blue. We're still duking it out in Mississippi. The Democrats ahead in that Senate race. So what does that mean? If the Democrats have certainly states with 392 electoral votes, but just more than 270, why can they bypass the electoral college? Well, because there's something called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which as of early November had 18 states, the Democrats have 18 states plus DC totaling 222 electoral votes. 222 electoral votes plus 61 electoral votes is 283 electoral votes, obviously well above the 270 vote threshold. So what the National Popular Vote Compact says is that the states, run their own elections will allocate their electors according to whoever wins the national popular vote. We don't do our elections by national popular vote. One, because the framers were deeply distrustful of democracy. And I think they've just been vindicated. But two, because we're not the United People of America or the United States of America, and we have this federal system, we have a republic, which is a mixed form of government. And anyway, that prevents states like New York and California from just dominating the whole country. Well, according to this compact, regardless of how the voters in the specific states would vote, the states will allocate all of their electors to whoever wins the national popular vote, meaning the Republicans would not be able to win anymore. So what are the holdups here from this actually taking place? One, all those big Democrat victories at the state level, the Democrats would actually have to go in and pass laws saying that they'll join the national popular vote. Compact. That's very likely to happen. There will be very little pushback for that because the Democrats just got so much power at the state level. So you say, okay, it's done. Republicans aren't winning elections again, right? Well, no, because the U.S. Congress would have to ratify this. Now, this is bad news because the Democrats just won a huge majority in the House and a huge majority in the Senate. And it might even get worse for the Republicans in the Senate. So they could do it. But as of right now, President Trump still has the veto power. And if he vetoes the veto, he'll override the veto. The compact clause of the U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 10 says no state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, or enter into any agreement or compact with another state. So there would be legal challenges to this. But this is not some crazy conspiracy theory. In December of 2025, here's how Bernie can still win the 2016 election sort of stuff. This is eminently plausible. It is not possible. It is likely. It is likely. It is likely. It is likely. It is likely. It is likely. It is likely that they will do this. And if the Democrats do succeed, surmounting any legal challenges, getting it through Congress, getting it through the various state houses, all of which are very likely, then the Republicans can't win again. And our federal system of electing presidents, for all intents and purposes, gets blown up. Don't forget, Republicans have only won the popular vote twice in the last 20 years. And technically, Trump didn't even win the popular vote. He practically won the popular vote because he got more votes than the Democrat did. But it actually wasn't technically a majority. So even then, very, very brutal. Trump remains, even after the drubbing on Tuesday night, he remains this cataconic figure, this restraining figure from the forces that could really upend the whole electoral system. And these things have happened before in the United States. The way that the government was set up said that the states had some power in the federal government because the people elect the congressmen, but the states, the state houses, elect the senators. And then we just undid that with the 17th Amendment. We'll never get that back. That really reordered our system. This would be far more significant in that we have protections for the smaller states, for the more conservative states in our Constitution. That would disappear. The stakes for Republicans, again, I was like a I was trying to show people the hope and the potential way out coming out of it. the election, but let's not fool ourselves about the stakes here. Democrats could do insane generational, if not permanent damage to our entire political system. Hey, maybe the Supreme Court will strike that down, right? Well, actually, if the Democrats get power, certainly if they win the presidency, they can just pack the Supreme Court, which is what FDR threatened to do, which is how he was able to get the New Deal through, which is one of the last things that totally upended our system of government. We are on the brink of potentially defining political change to the American system. Meanwhile, who are the people who are doing it? The Texas minority leader, the minority leader, I guess now in multiple senses of that word, the political minority, but also he's speaking on behalf of minorities and telling them to go gang up on Whitey. This guy is Gene Wu, leader of the Democrats in the Texas House. Well, guess what? Democrats just took control of the Texas House. Minority leader no longer. Here's what Gene Wu wants non-white Texans to know about racial politics. And it's not just Latinos. It's not just Asians. It's not just African Americans. It's everybody, right? Our country and the forces that be, the powers that be, have spent tremendous time, effort, and money to make sure that those groups, are never united, that they always see each other as enemies and as competitors, without ever realizing that they share one thing in common, that their oppressors all are the same, right? The oppression comes from one place. And I always tell people the day the Latino, African American, Asian, and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor, is the day we start winning. Because we are the majority in this country now. We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair. There was a lot of talk over this last election cycle about Beau French in Texas. We, as Beau French, made untoward comments about racial minorities, and a lot of people found it to be disagreeable and unnecessary. And so people criticized him. Where was the criticism of this guy? This guy who's going to have a lot more power than Beau French could have had, and he won his minor race in Texas. This guy's the minority leader in the Texas House, and now they're the majority. And he says, white people are the oppressor, and all the other racial groups need to gang up on whitey, because we've got the power now. And these people, the whites, have been awful to us, and we need to punish them. That's the implication. So we hear a lot of talk about the rise of white identity, politics, and nobody wants that. White people basically don't have a racial identity. We've seen this time and time again in survey and survey again, very famous Pew Research survey on this. White people have basically zero racial identity, but every other group does. And people who are now being seriously empowered in Texas, not in San Francisco and New York, in Texas, are saying, we're not going to put away the racial identity politics. We're going to ramp them up. We're coming for the white people, and everyone else needs to gang up on them. No, that's not my words. That's not Beau French's words. That's this guy, this guy who is now one of the more powerful people in the once great state of Texas. Just a little amuse-bouche of the absolute misery that these people are going to inflect, not just in Washington, D.C., but around the country. Meanwhile, back in D.C., the Democrats coming into power have just made a declaration about what their Congress will look like. And I have to say, this is the first thing they've said where I totally agree. We'll get to that in a second. First, I want to tell you about Babbel. There's a lot more to say. First, I'll go to babbel.com slash Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S-B-A-B-B-E-L dot com slash Knowles. There's a humbling experience that comes with learning a foreign language. You study the vocabulary. You learn the grammar. You begin to feel pretty pleased with yourself. And then you encounter an actual native speaker, and the native speaker speaks approximately 400 times an hour. And you say, hola. Hola. Yo, uh, yo wanto taco. Por favor. Shoot, I've been studying this for five years. Why is it that I. 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This is going to be a great meme. Every time this Congress does something stupid, subpoenas everybody, tries to blow up the Supreme Court, impeach Trump for the right thing. If they do that, just remember, they told us, they were being honest about it. This will be the gayest Congress in American history. I guess it's a rare moment of bipartisan unity because we all agree about this. But we had peak woke in 2023. And then Trump wins in this landslide where he practically wins the popular vote for the first time as a Republican in 20 years. And so we thought it's done. Woke is over. And now we're back. With a vengeance. So what that means is, in the short term, they're already promising us what they're going to do. They're going to target and punish white people for being white. They are going to promote radical LGBT stuff, transing your kids, blowing up marriage, promoting pornography, all the stuff that they love doing. They're going to do all the woke stuff. And it's going to be really, really annoying. But at a higher political level, beyond just the practical stuff that these people are going to do, we're seeing something very dangerous about American politics, which is that it's swinging back and forth in this radical way, more akin to the parliamentary systems of Europe and the UK than anything we've seen in the United States. And the reason for that, I think, we were talking about this a little bit on election night. But the reason that I think you're seeing these insane swings, it's not like you're just going from George H.W. Bush to Bill Clinton, who almost agree on everything. Some of you weren't alive back in 92 and throughout the 90s. But George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, there was a little difference. George H.W. Bush was much better behaved than Bill Clinton. There was a personal distinction between them. But when it came to economic policy, geopolitics, even immigration, even abortion, even the social issues, marriage, certainly no one even really considered same-sex marriage at that time. Bush and Clinton basically agreed on everything. So you go, you get the swing, but it's only a little bit of a swing. With this, we're seeing chop off kids' genitals, flood the country with infinity immigration, go get whitey, like all explicit platforms of the Democrat Party, to, hey, let's protect the unborn. Let's totally restrict immigration. Let's on and on and on. And then we swing right back two years later. The reason for this is, I think, is that people realize that the system is kind of cooked. People realize that we have these deep existential political problems. Not just the taxes are a little too high, but then they're a little too low, and we need to fix the debt and the deficit a little bit. And no, no, no, no, no. We have these existential political problems, which actually pertain to the debt and deficit. Namely, we cannot possibly get spending under control. We have this fairly massive welfare state, and people aren't having babies. So the only way to support the welfare state, just use one prominent example, the only way to support the welfare state and to keep our entire economy in good shape is to support the welfare state. Which are going bankrupt anyway. But the only way to even pretend to keep them going is to flood the country with foreigners. But Americans don't actually want to flood the country with foreigners. So when the Democrats flood the country with foreigners, they swing back and they elect restrictionist Republicans to kick out all the foreigners. But that causes economic disruption as well. That can cause inflation. We want middle class and working class wages to rise. But one of the ways to do that is to kick out all of the migrants. But then the cost of goods goes up, and people don't like that either. So then they swing back and forth, and back and forth. You saw this in the UK. Voters want an end to mass migration, but the countries actually can't do it. Same thing in Western Europe. They can't do it. So you just you get this swing of discontentment and no one is willing to deal with the actual long term strategic problems. You're seeing this play out even in what I think is the most prominent issue that caused the landslide on Tuesday, which is the Iran war. There is an argument for the Iran war. Again, I argued against it before, during and after. But I see the argument. The argument is this long term strategic argument to deal with Iran. Forget about Israel for a second. Obviously, Israel wanted the war to Saudi Arabia, wanted the war. But forget about even our allies. Just there is this long term strategic argument for dismantling the Iranian regime and certainly the nuclear program because they they don't like us. They want to destabilize the region. They certainly hate America, but also because we're in this Cold War with China. And so we've we've got to maintain America. We've got to maintain the American hegemony and you play that out as in throughout all sorts of proxy wars and especially in the Middle East. OK, I totally get the argument for it. But I thought practically prudentially, one, you weren't actually going to take down the Iranian regime and the things required to do so are totally unacceptable to the American people. So you just you're not going to get it. In other words. Whether we're talking about foreign policy, whether we're talking about debt and fiscal policy, whether we're talking about immigration policy. There is this massive tension between long term strategic thinking and the appetites of the people. 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That's important. Are you trying to insinuate to me that the founding fathers, that the framers opposed the death penalty? for the founding fathers and the framers and for the statesmen of the early part of American history, felonies simply received the death penalty. The definition of a felony was the sort of thing that the state killed you over. They didn't just reserve the death penalty for child rapists and serial killers. We killed a lot of people and the founding fathers were totally fine with it. The moral leadership of passport, what are you talking about? Here's his ethical argument. Some have said that I should not grant clemency to people who committed the worst of the worst crimes. I carefully consider different categories of capital crimes and offender characteristics. I've learned, however, from speaking with the victims harmed by these crimes, that each experiences their loss as the worst of the worst. I've concluded that any attempt to distinguish among crimes and offenders for clemency would inadvertently create two classes of murder victims, those whose perpetrators deserve death and the rest. Yeah, so this is actually a practical point that Newsom realized, which is, Hold on. If I just commute the death sentences of half of the death row inmates, then what I'm saying is that the guy who kidnapped, raped, and murdered some couple's four-year-old boy 20 or 30 years ago, that guy was actually worse than the guy who kidnapped, raped, and murdered a couple's seven-year-old boy 20 years ago. How are you going to distinguish? And you say, this family gets justice, but not this one. In other words, this five-year-old boy's life matters more than that five-year-old boy's life. That would be totally incoherent. So what you would expect is that a governor would say, okay, the system has played out. The criminals have received due process. The families have been promised some vague semblance of justice. They've had to wait decades for it because of our ridiculous system. And so finally, after 20 or 30 years of waiting for justice, they'll finally get it. No, no, no, no, no. He says none of them will get justice. Newsom wants to run for president. And Newsom knows that the left loves criminals and the worse the crime, the more empathy they feel for the criminals. And so he thinks this will help him run for president. But it's very easy to just say, okay, death row inmates. I feel sorry for these people too. I feel sorry for all people who commit crimes because it's contrary to reason, of makes their life worse. I feel worse for their victims, but I feel bad for them too. So let's zoom in. Who did Newsom let off the hook? Richard Allen Davis, convicted of the high-profile 1993 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Kloss. You can imagine what Mr. Davis did to Polly Kloss, this sweet little girl, before he murdered her. That guy, Gavin Newsom, just gave him an attaboy, pat on the back, let him off the hook. David Westerfield, convicted of the 2002 murder of his seven-year-old neighbor, Danielle Van Dam in San Diego, went in. You can imagine what he did to the seven-year-old before he murdered her. That guy, Gavin Newsom, says, hey, buddy, I'm launching my presidential campaign. You're off the hook. Kerry Stainer, convicted of the 1999 murders of three tourists and a nature instructor near Yosemite National Park. We got Randy Kraft. He's the scorecard killer. He murdered 16 people in the 70s and 80s. Charles Noe, I think his name is, convicted of murdering 11 people in Northern California. 11 people, 11 families destroyed. The murderer off the hook because Gavin Newsom wants to run for president. Cleophas Prince killed six women in San Diego. Richard Wade Farley, he had a mass shooting that killed seven people. Jesse Michael Gomez convicted in the shooting death of a police officer. Police officer doesn't get clemency. He doesn't get a commutation. it goes on and on and on. Oh, here's another one. Wayne Adam Ford, he's a truck driver who killed four women. He cut up their bodies. When he surrendered to authorities, he had a severed breast of one of his victims in his jacket pocket. Gavin Newsom wanted to make sure, the second the Democrats get back in power nationally, he wants to make sure the psycho murderer, keep body parts in your pocket guy gets off the hook. That's what we're dealing with. That's the kind of Democrat that we just elected. We didn't just elect Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton was happy to fry him. Bill Clinton, who was fairly reasonable, especially when voters gave him signals. We just elected, opened the borders, effectively banned the Republicans. Alyssa Slotkin, Democrat, sitting Democrat senator, saying, yeah, we're going to persecute Republicans so hard. Teenage, civic-minded people are going to be terrified to volunteer on Republican campaigns ever again because we're going to ruin their life. We're going to tell all the racial minorities to go gang up on Whitey. We're going to make everything gay. The incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee said, lawyer up. We're going to prosecute and persecute all the Republicans. And we're going to do what the French revolutionaries did at the launch of the French Revolution. We're just opening up the Bastille, baby. Let the body-chopping serial killers off the hook. That's where we're at. Now, a little caveat here, a little silver lining in the storm cloud. The DA of L.A. County, he just, he poured a little cold water onto this fever-pitched commutation where he said, hey, the law is still the law. Gavin Newsom has the pardon power. I guess the pardon power is absolute. But I'm still going to fulfill the law. The district attorney, Nathan Hockman, when I took the oath of office, I swore to enforce all of California's laws as enacted by the legislature. And the voters, the governor, has chosen to commute existing death sentences to life without the possibility of parole, as is within his constitutional power. But that power does not extend to eliminating the death penalty. Only the legislature or the voters can do that. And so he says, as long as the law is on the books, he's going to keep prosecuting people and seeking capital punishment. What Gavin Newsom's doing right now is not technically lawless, though it has the spirit of lawlessness, because what he's trying to do is overturn the death penalty through executive action. And you can't do that. So Sacramento DA said the same thing, said any discussion about ending California's capital punishment must begin with the victims, their families, and the communities forever impacted by the most heinous crimes. Justice requires case-by-case consideration. Not one size fits all decisions. Every death sentence results from years of legal proceedings involving juries, judges, and multiple layers of mandatory appellate review. A blanket commutation of all death sentences disregards the individualized facts and circumstances of each case and careful judicial process that led to those lawful sentences. And the voices of victims who have waited decades for justice. So true. He goes on and on and on. So true. In other words, what's our takeaway from this? The very first thing that Democrats are doing moments after they haven't even taken power yet, they're just, they have been elected. So they have the promise of taking power a few months from now. The very, very first thing they've been able to do at every turn is subvert the rule of law. Using the rule of law to subvert the rule of law. That's the very first signal. In the most nasty, cruel, targeted ways. I mean, I keep going back to Gene Wu in Texas, who says, you know, we live in this country where there are two groups that you're, two racial groups you're allowed to discriminate against legally. Whites and Asians. Those are the true groups you can legally discriminate against through affirmative action, through civil rights. Law, which actually ensconces racial discrimination, right? So those are the two groups you can legally discriminate against. Gene Wu is Asian, but there's only one group that you can both legally and culturally discriminate against. It's still kind of looked as a naughty thing if you discriminate against Asians, but for white people, it's encouraged. So you have this one group, the most targeted racial group in the country on the basis of their race and the people who are coming into power right now. Says, hey, get them. Hey, hey, guys. Hey, everybody, come on. Let's gang up. We got to go. We're going to go get those guys. But not before we let the body chopping, child raping, serial killers off the hook for their crimes. Now, speaking of death, the most absurd reporting coming out of the midterms comes by way of the New York Times. The New York Times got this big scoop on what the Republicans were thinking at the highest levels going into the elections. See if you can catch the New York Times is reporting error. Six days before the election, more than two dozen Trump strategists logged onto a private video call. The mood was grim. The talk turned to cyanide. Quote, do you want the white pill first or the black pill first? Did you catch the reporting error? It's the guys on the call. The Trump. Strategists said, hey, you want the white pill or the black pill, which is just lingo. You know, you want some hope or you want some despair. Do you want which derives from an earlier kind of lingo, slang and meme, which is do you want the red pill or the blue pill like from the Matrix? Do you want OK? You want the white pill first or the black pill? And the New York Times furtively on the call listening to this is, oh, my goodness, they're talking about cyanide. You don't the New York Times, the paper. The paper of record doesn't understand a very basic meme, a very basic element of mainstream slang. What else do they not understand? We like saying six days before the election, the strategists log onto a call. The mood was grim. The talk turned to baked goods. These poll numbers are buns. No, that's not that's not what that word means. Actually, in that context, the people on the call were very hungry. The mood was grim. The talk turned to prime numbers, six, seven and six is not a prime number. Sixty seven is is in fact a prime number. In any case, they don't understand anything about us. They don't understand anything about normal people, culture, whether we're talking about normal online culture or normal touch grass culture. We speak a foreign language to them when we talk about things like virtue. Or sovereignty or the rule of law or marriage or God or property, or we are speaking a foreign language to these people. And this is backed up by decades of social scientific research, which is found. I don't care. I know we have libs who listen to the show, which I'm very grateful for Democrats who listen to the show, at least the kind of reasonable ones in those camps. The right understands the left much better than the left understands the right. This is just a firmly. Established fact of sociology. I, I get why the libs want to chop off kids genitals. I understand it. It's abhorrent. I find it nauseous, but I get how their priors led them to that conclusion. The left does not understand why I think we should ban pornography or why we should close the southern border or why we should not kill babies in the womb or why we should not eat the rich. The left actually does. He doesn't understand why I think that the left thinks that I'm a kind of irrational, superstitious, uh, theocrat, the left thinks that I hate women because I don't think we should murder babies in the womb. The left thinks that I hate other racial groups because I don't want an open border. That's what they sincerely believe about my views about politics. And it's in a way it's not their fault. I mean, it may be if we can blame them for ignorance. Or for a lack of grace, I guess it's their fault, but they just don't know. Whereas we, we, I get how if you accept that individual autonomy and consent are the only moral criteria in the universe. 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A mirror that cannot be looked into without seeing a deeper truth. Life is precious, and it isn't more valuable because of what we do. It is valuable because of who created us. Love to hear your thoughts. Oh, very, very good. Good point and well said, though with a caveat. And the caveat is, when we realize the truth that you've stumbled upon, which is that we don't matter more, we don't earn our salvation in any way, but we certainly don't earn our salvation because we worked extra hours at the accounting firm. We don't become more valuable as human beings because we become the CEO of some company rather than the janitor in some non-profit. We might conclude from that fact that nothing we do matters. And that would be an erroneous conclusion. What we do matters very much. God wants particular things from us. God wants something different. Well, ultimately, he wants the same thing, which is to love him and serve him. But God wants, in the particulars, something different from the CEO of the company than he wants from your artistic side. He wants things from your autistic son. Your autistic son has a purpose. Your autistic son might be more significant in people's lives. He might do more good. He might serve God better than the CEO of the company. No question about that. But he wants particular things. So we cannot adopt a quietism, this passivity that says, well, all we have to do is, you know, close our eyes and sit like a baba on the Ganges, just contemplating God. And that's that. We are called to specific things. So what we do matters. It actually, there's a paradox to this. We think that our careers, like, really, really matter. Or, you know, this exam is the most important thing in the world. Or we stress over things that are ultimately not that important. Meanwhile, we don't go to church. We don't go to confession. We don't say our daily prayers. We don't, we ignore things that ultimately are more important. So on the one hand, we take ourselves way too seriously. But paradoxically, we don't take life seriously enough. Every second, every nanosecond of your life is imbued, it's suffused with meaning, brimming with meaning. And you have moral choices constantly. And it's not just when you have to decide, am I going to lay off 50,000 people? Am I going to drop the bomb on this country as president of the United States? It's like, how did you look at that person when you were having lunch at the office? What was that little comment you said? Did you call your mom today? That kind of, these are these. These moral choices that really do matter. The little venial sin, that actually does matter. The scandal that you could cause other people, that's it. Because yes, ultimately, the most important truth to take away from your observation is, it's like all about God. History itself is all about God in Christ. Christ as this turning point of history, when God literally enters into history. But God creates everything, the entire cosmos, and he is sovereign over the cosmos too. Like, ultimately, it's not about, it's not ultimately about your job. Ultimately, it's about God. And our work has to be oriented toward him. Where I'm, this, I'm actually writing a book in no small part about this point right now, on vocation, on calling, on what we're supposed to do. And that's just as true for you, for your boss, as it is for your, for your son. Okay, next question. Good morning, Michael. This is Arun. Yeah, so obviously, last Tuesday, I sucked. I don't think there were any victories, except for the defeat of Beau French, which is a personal victory for me, because I hate that guy. But my question for you is twofold. First of all, at the broader level, what effect do you think can be attributed to Trump's focus on things like the tariffs, and the ballroom, and Lake America, and all the other things that obviously voters don't care about? Secondly, with regard to the Texas race, I noticed an interesting phenomenon, where fairly mainstream conservative influencers from The Blaze and from TPUSA went full racist on X. Now, again, I find it very amusing, especially when you have Mexican white supremacists and stuff. But I'm wondering if any of our losses in Texas can be attributed to that, or if it's all just kind of noise. Thank you, as always, for your wisdom. It's all kind of noise. It's not just kind of noise. It does, it does. It doesn't matter how Republicans speak and talk. It does, you know, on the margins, it really does matter. You know, we got to make sure, we got to be honest. We got it. We don't want to go squishy. We don't want to go soft. We don't want to go weak, especially on issues like immigration. But there are more persuasive ways to do it. Trump did very, very well with Hispanics. Even as he said, these illegals are rapists and murderers, and we need to deport all of them. You know, he wasn't going soft at all, but he just had a way of signaling to Hispanics that he's on their side, even when he's calling a bunch of them rapists and murderers. He had a way of signaling that to them, that some Republicans are just not as good at. Trump's a good communicator. He's actually, he has poetic diction. He's a great communicator most of the time. But still, we all got clobbered in this midterm. Why? The real issues were the economic issues, which I think, I suppose, in part are the tariffs. I think the tariffs were basically negligible in the effect. It was the Iran war, I think, is really what did it. And there were optics. Problems on top of that. I think it's good and important that Trump is building the ballroom. I actually, I'm like a hundred percent ballroom defender. But yes, maybe don't focus on the ballroom as much. Maybe optically, given the other stuff, maybe that that's not not the best idea. Yeah, some guy on Twitter or whatever says something that kind of crosses the line from just funny racism into legitimately offensive racism. Yeah, OK, that can happen marginally. Maybe you'll lose some votes there. But all of that to say, your point is, well taken, Arun, because the most important thing to fix are these key issues, these structural issues. But we are in such a precarious position right now that the margins matter. Right now, the Democrat is leading in the Senate race in Mississippi by 2000 votes. The margins matter. There are candidates in the House who won their races by hundreds of votes. So the margins really do matter. We no longer have the luxury of being loose. We need to be real tight, real buttoned up strategically on our issues and in our rhetoric. Next question. Hi, Michael. I completely disagree with you about term limits. And in fact, I think that we should have stricter term limits. Once you are elected to any office twice, that's it. You're done. You cannot run again. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Bye bye. Mainly because of the potential and susceptibility to corruption. And I know you've said like, oh, the ballot. Box is the term limit. No, it's not. Look at flipping Pelosi. She's been in there for 50 years and she's trading all the things. And Biden was a crooked criminal. And they're just it's just it's it's a public service, not a career. But it is a career. I understand your point, which is there's this Jeffersonian vision that going to Congress should be, you know, a brief public service before you go back to your home. Instead in your farm and your private life and your studies. And but but it is a career. It just practically is a career. You look at someone like Pelosi who's been in office forever and she's insider trading and she's the most successful hedge fund manager in the country. And you say, well, that's obviously crooked. You know, she how is she clinging on to power? She's not clinging on to power. She's there because her voters want her there. I mean, and now I guess, you know, she's at the end of her career, but she was there for a long time. Her voters wanted her there. There are plenty of people who get thrown out even after a long time. Susan Collins was in was in the Senate. for a very long time, just got thrown out. plenty of people who are in for a long time. They get these big upsets. Cornyn got thrown out by his primary voters, for goodness sakes. That happens. And it's true, incumbency confers some kind of advantage, but people elected a corrupt politician like Nancy Pelosi because they themselves are corrupt. Okay, she actually does reflect the will of her voters. And when you kick Pelosi out, you get someone who's just as bad or worse who comes in. So if you're dissatisfied with the caliber of the politicians in Congress, really, you have to do the H.L. Mencken thing and look at the electorate. But let's just take it from within Capitol Hill. Let's say you impose term limits. What do you think would happen? I think the premise is that this would take away power from these corrupt forces in Washington, D.C., but I see no evidence of that whatsoever. Congress would still have the same kind of budget, would still have the same kind of license and authority, would still be able to do all of these things. It's just that the individual elected members of Congress would have less power within that system. Capitol Hill, the system of political power there, it's not just the elected guys. It's possibly not even mostly the elected guys. It's the staff. It's the permanent committee staff. It's the lobbyists. It's all these different people. So if the power of Capitol Hill remains unchanged, it's not like the legislature, right? It's not like the legislature, right? It's not like the executive and judicial branch would thereby lose power or gain power. What it can do is going to remain the same. If you reduce the power of the elected politicians, all you're doing is empowering the lobbyists and the staff who are not elected. So do you think, is that a good idea? I get that Nancy Pelosi is corrupt. I get that there are some actually good members of Congress. Some friends of mine are members of Congress, but who do you think is more likely to be corrupt? The electeds or the lobbyists and the staff? Who do you think has to be at least a little bit more accountable, the electeds or the lobbyists and the staff? I'm very anti-term limit. Okay. It's Fake Headline Friday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member, use code NOLSKIN at WLAS at checkout for two months free on all annual plans. 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