Ep. 1958 - CAUGHT: Leftist Non-Profit Sends Millions To NAZIS

A federal grand jury has just indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center, a massive left-wing operative group, arguably the biggest, most powerful left-wing operative group in the country, worth almost a billion dollars. We don't even know exactly how much money they're worth, a group specifically dedicated to dismantling white supremacy. And the reason the grand jury indicted the SPLC is that it has allegedly funneled millions and millions of dollars to white supremacists. For years, for potentially decades now, the single largest funder of neo-Nazism in the United States is the left. We will get into the indictment, which could prove to be one of the most important consequences of the 2024 election. But suffice it to say, your right wing boomer uncle was right. We now have official definitive proof. Democrats are, in fact, the real racists. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. 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I think really without rival, you'd have to say the biggest left-wing operative org that exists in the country because they have been funneling millions of dollars between 2013 and 2023. So just 10 years, the SPLC funded 3 million bucks to white supremacist and extremist groups. Turns out they've probably been doing this for decades. They've probably been doing this since the 80s. Here is acting attorney general Todd Blanche responding to reporters over this bombshell indictment. I just want to make sure I understand you're alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the leaders of KKK and other groups to continue their operations. Is that I'm not alleging it. The grand jury returned an indictment that says that. And so what the investigation found, according to the indictment that was returned today, is that they were paying – so Southern Poverty Law Center is raising money, asking folks to give them money to dismantle racism. And over a very long period of time, they were using some of the money they raised from donors to pay to, they called them field, basically to informants, for information, for access, to just pay them to do certain things. And so, yes, that's exactly what the indictment charges. So this is not an allegation, exactly. This is not the DOJ alleging. This is a grand jury returning an indictment because the Southern Poverty Law Center exists nominally to dismantle racism and white supremacy. But the problem that the left had is there's no racism. There's no white supremacy. No meaningful racism, no meaningful white supremacy. And so the SPLC had two options. They could either go out of business. They could declare victory. Racism has been solved. or they could just invent racism. Guess which one they picked? Guess what the left picked? So they raised this money, an insane amount of money because they said, we got to fight this racism. Then they go out, they pick people. They say, hey, you're going to be a white supremacist. We're going to take your picture. We're going to put you up on our hate watch website. You're going to go out there. You're going to be the loudest, brashest white supremacist there is. You're going to organize events, including the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, which was one of the biggest hoaxes perpetrated against Trump in 2016. You're going to go out there, you're going to put on these big showy white supremacist events, and we're going to pay you. And we're not just going to pay you a little bit of money. It's not going to be $5,000, $10,000, a little payoff. Thanks for helping us then go out and say, see, there really is racism. You need to give us even more money. Arbitrage opportunity. We're going to pay you racists a little bit of money. We're going to invent the racism, and we're going to make a lot of money on our investment. No, we're talking about big money. The National Alliance affiliate. This is one of these neo-Nazi white supremacist groups. SPLC paid over a million bucks to that affiliate. Aryan Nations. SPLC paid over $300,000 to a guy to be the Aryan Nations guy. A member of Unite the Right paid well over a quarter million dollars. The former chairman of National Alliance, the leader of National Alliance, SPLC paid over $140,000. They paid over 73 grand to former KKK members. Then there's a felon who was the president of the American Front. One of these racist white supremacist groups paid over 19 grand to that person. This is an 11-page indictment. I encourage you, if you have an extra half hour a day, go read it. It's a joy. This will be your lunchtime reading. Charges include wire fraud, making false statements to a federally insured bank, conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. On top of that, the SPLC lied to their donors, obviously, saying you've got to give us this money so we can fight white supremacy. Meanwhile, they're the biggest funders of white supremacy in the country. And then they use the funds to have these groups facilitate the commission of state and federal crimes. This is serious, serious stuff. So the indictment refers to all of these field operatives that the SPLC had in all the white supremacist groups. Field operative number 37 was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the Unite the Right event at Charlottesville in 2017, then attended the event at the direction of the Southern Poverty Law Center. remember they said trump called neo-nazis and white supremacists very fine people at charlottesville first of all he didn't and we have video showing that he didn't he specifically excluded those groups but furthermore even if he had done that which he did not what's worse commenting on the neo-nazi unite the right rally or staging the whole freaking thing which is what the left did The SPLC put on the event, paid for it, directed its operatives to go there and put the whole thing on. The SPLC, sorry, F-37, this field operative named in the indictment, one of many, made the racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC, then helped coordinate transportation to the event, was picking up the phone. Hey, you guys got to come out here. It's really important. A lot of these guys were saying, I don't want to go to this event. gavin mcginnis great great media figure political figure helped found vice magazine founder of the proud boys the much maligned proud boys gavin mcginnis was posting last night he said you know it's the craziest thing one of the organizers of unite the right kept calling me relentlessly he said you got to come to this event you got to come i said stop it stop calling me i don't want to go to this stupid thing who was telling that guy the organizer to get gavin mcginnis there It would appear from the indictment it was the left itself. Between 2015 and 2023, the SPLC paid this one operative over a quarter million bucks. A different field operative, F9, was affiliated with the National Alliance, served as an undercover operative for the SPLC for more than 20 years. Do you know how much the SPLC paid this guy? over a nine-year period. Do you know how much they paid this guy? Over a million bucks. Nice work if you can get it. Before we get to the rest of the indictment, I just want to put this out there. Before the SPLC goes behind bars, before we take all of their money, all of their fraudulent, ill-begotten money, I just want to say this. I personally am generally averse to racial epithets. Okay, I find it impolite, discourteous, It's not the sort of thing a gentleman does. However, I'm looking at the dollars here, the million dollars, the $3 million. And I just, I'm just for my own curiosity, hypothetically. How many racial slurs do I have to say to get some of that sweet, sweet SPLC money? Because I'm not, look, I'm not saying I would do it. I just want to know how many, how many N-words do I have to drop to get $3 million from the organized left? I'm not saying I would do it. I just want to I just want as I sit with my accountants and my financial advisor, I just want to know planning ahead for my future because it looks like white supremacy is a pretty lucrative business. 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The best estimate we have is a little north of $800 million, almost a billion dollars, that goes to the left that then funds the white supremacy that the left pretends to fight. It's amazing. It's an amazing indictment. And it is proof of something. One, it is proof. It's amazing. At the end of our journey, we arrive where we started and see the place for the first time. Ten years ago, 15 years ago, one of the chief lines on the right was, you know, Democrats are the real racists. We don't see color. We on the right don't see color. We judge people individually. And the Democrats are the real racists. And then over a 10-year period, people kind of stopped saying that. We said, well, I don't know. I mean, maybe there are some genuinely racially-minded people on the right. you know i mean it's actually it's a little more complicated than just saying that and really i don't know that's not really a persuasion and then we get to this indictment you say oh no literally financially at a very basic level democrats actually are the real racists that's so funny i gotta watch my language here i'm so it's so brazen it's so shocking but it's not just funny It's kind of dark, too, because the SPLC was the group that was working directly with the Biden Justice Department to persecute the right for years. the spLC is the group that partnered with the biden's justice department to spy on catholic churches to to categorize catholics who were going to mass as akin to domestic terrorists that was the spLC that did that biden justice department treated the spLC it basically is a division of the government. And now, just a few years later, that same Justice Department, now under the direction of Donald Trump, is indicting that very same organization. We hope sending its leaders to prison for a very long time. We hope seizing all of their money, their ill-gotten gains. And this is a reminder for the black pillars, for the doomers, for the people who want to check out. Elections have very, very tangible consequences. You want more mass deportations? I'm with you. I'm with you. I wish we had more mass deportations. Joe Biden was letting 3 million illegals into the country every year and deporting basically no one. President Trump kept those 3 million illegals out and then deported another 2 million in the first year. So you have a net of 5 million illegals who are out of the country that would have been in this country had Joe Biden or Kamala Harris won the election. But I'm with you. I wish it were 6 million or 7 million or 10 million. I'm with you. I wish it were moving faster. A net negative of 5 million is pretty good, I think we have to admit. But yeah, I wish we were moving faster. Yeah, I'm pretty skeptical of the military intervention in Iran, as I said before, during, and after. We're still kind of in it. We'll get to that story in a minute. Yeah, sure. Sure. I think it probably would have been much worse under a Democrat. We saw that from the absolutely botched interventions under Democrats in Libya and Syria and Iraq. But yeah, sure. I wish we could resolve that issue in the Middle East. And maybe I wish things had gone a little bit differently. Sure. folks the government under democrats was funneling money to taking money from and then bringing into the very government itself organizations that were setting you up that were trying to imprison you for being christian for being center right for objecting to their radical schemes they were putting you in prison for that. They were smearing you, maligning you, and arresting you for that. That's what happens in just one presidential election. Do not tell me the 2024 election doesn't matter. Don't tell me. It's just not true. I think it's a little silly. I think it's a little whiny. I think it's a little unbecoming, but it's just dumb. It's just dumb. I don't know how else to put it. If you don't see this, if you don't see the high stakes, the high consequences of political action, I don't know. I can't help. Maybe politics isn't for you. But for most of us out there, I think this is important. This is what we want. This is what I voted for. This is even better than I imagined. A lot of us for many years have observed that the SPLC is a very bad organization. Now you're seeing tweets coming around from Charlie Kirk, from Scott Adams, right-wingers who are no longer with us sadly in the case of charlie because he was murdered by a leftist the left which is the cause of the real political violence in the country not the fake right-wing political violence that the spLC had to invent but many many of us were saying this for a very long time even we i'll speak for myself even i though i did know that there was this dynamic going on i've said it many years even i did not know how pervasive this was we need very severe political consequences now and we cannot allow these people to retake political power the perfidy of this the fraud of this the the wickedness this kind of operation cannot be overstated unfortunately though the the libs are pretty good at getting political power we saw this last night major major election that very few people were paying attention to in virginia it wasn't a candidate running for an office there was a referendum on the ballot Here's the referendum, proposed constitutional amendment being pushed by the new Democrat governor of Virginia, who ran as a moderate, who immediately began governing as the most radical governor you've ever seen in your entire life. Here's the question on the ballot. Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census. Yes or no? Okay. If you were a voter in Virginia and you don't watch this show every day, you don't tune into conservative media, you're not a Daily Wire member, you're not watching the right, you would probably vote for that, right? Yeah, I want to restore fairness in the elections. Yeah, I think it's temporary, It's going to restore fairness. Okay, that's great. What did this actually do? This amendment, which passed, effectively disenfranchised every Republican in Virginia at the congressional level. A few numbers here. In the 2024 election, Virginia voted for Kamala over Trump, 52 to 47. Virginia is a purple commonwealth. Very small, five-point margin here, 52 to 47, Kamala beats Trump. This referendum passed by an even slimmer margin, 51 to 49. 51 to 49 voted for this new redistricting to restore fairness. And the redistricting to restore fairness has now shifted the congressional seats such that 91% of the seats go to Democrats. 91 to 9. A commonwealth that is split almost perfectly 50-50, that then voted for this new redistricting almost perfectly 50-50, has now shifted the actual political power from 50-50 to 91-9. And the libs are predictably over the moon. Obama tweets out, congratulations, Virginia. Congratulations, Virginia. Yeah, Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven't done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy. Fight back. So what does that mean? Hold on, they're trying to tilt the midterms in their favor. You mean they're running campaigns? That's all that means. They're trying to, yeah, every candidate who's ever run for political office ever has tried to tilt the election in their favor. That's what running for office is. He's trying to make this sound nefarious, like we're the SPLC or something. We're not. We're just running for office. Congratulations, Virginia. The Republicans have the audacity, the unmerited gall to try to win elections, but they haven't done it. And now you're going to see what democracy looks like. Democracy looks like disenfranchising half of the voters. That's democracy for you. Tim Kaine said the same thing. Now, Tim Kaine was a little more honest. Tim Kaine goes on Fox News Sunday. Tim Kaine, who was the running mate for Hillary Clinton, a man almost one heartbeat away from becoming the second woman president. Tim Kaine goes on Fox News Sunday before the election. And he's called out on this. He says, hold on. How is this democracy? How is this fairness? You guys are going to disenfranchise all the Republicans. Here's his answer. When listen, let's talk about the last vote there in Virginia, the presidential vote. Vice President Kamala Harris won by about five percentage points. So this state is relatively split with a left lean. But 90 percent of House members from Virginia being from one party. 90 percent of Virginians are not Democrats. That's true. But about 100 percent of Virginians want election results to be respected. We're deeply worried that Donald Trump will try to interfere with the election results this November or in 2028 because we saw him do it before. And we have to have a Congress that will stand up to it. In 2021, all five Republicans in Virginia went along with Donald Trump in his effort to overturn election results. And so we're giving Virginians a chance to vote, which Republican states have not done, about whether they want to have a congressional delegation that will stand up against Donald Trump's tyranny. Listen to Cain here. Cain, who is just he's Jack Nicholson is the Joker is every day that goes by. He looks more and more like a Batman villain. Tim Cain comes out. He goes, OK, Shannon, you're right. 90% of voters in Virginia are not Democrats. That's true. But 100% of voters in Virginia hate Donald Trump. He doesn't quite say that. 100% of voters in Virginia want to respect election results. And okay, sure, what does that have to do with anything? 100% of voters in Virginia need to stop Trump. You need to stop Trump is really what he's saying. Because it's certainly not about respecting election results. Trump won the 2024 election with the popular vote, I should add. So it's not about respecting election results. What he's saying is, look, it's true. Virginia about 50 Democrats Republicans but we need to stop the Republicans so we going to disenfranchise the Republicans That what he saying And he using a few more words to say it but he being basically honest about the argument Democracy is when half the voters have no power whatsoever. That's democracy. Democracy is when I win. That's what he's saying. He is doing the thing that he is accusing Trump of doing. And his chief evidence is the January 6th 6th political mob, the worst event in the history of this or any republic. January 6th, which we are learning from the SPLC indictment, seems at least quite likely to have been put on by the left as well. Exacerbated, funded, promoted. We know that the FBI was there under Joe Biden. Or just before the entry of Joe Biden. But a lot of careerists there who have been looking the other way and promoting this kind of nonsense for decades as the SPLC has been funding this for decades. This is so bad. Forget about Fox News Sunday. 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Here is CNN on the election results in Virginia. Now, if this ballot measure passes, it could result in 10 of the 11 congressional districts in Virginia leaning towards Democrats. And just take a look at how this map is structured. What they do is they've taken the heavily Democratic areas in the northern area of Virginia, and they've created five separate districts that basically pinwheel out to go out into conservative, more rural areas, including where we are right now in the proposed 7th Congressional District. It's actually interesting. We're kind of like smack dab in the middle of the district. And if you go in one direction, there's another district about a mile and a half away. in the other direction. There is another district about two miles away, really highlighting the shifts that are being seen right now with these proposed maps. Now, earlier today- So you see how they're doing it. There are a handful of Democrat cities, and then the rest of the Commonwealth is Republican. So what they do is they get the cities, and then they drag that out to include enough of the rural areas that you bring in a lot of the Republican voters, but not enough to actually flip the seat. So with just a handful of blue cities, you can turn essentially the whole commonwealth or state Democrat. Shameless. But it shows you the map, which we've been observing for months now. The plan, the strategy for 2026 and 2028 is the Democrats are going to run as moderates, restoring fairness, just trying to bring a little common sense back. And then they are going to grab power in ways that we haven't seen maybe since the 30s. And then they're going to wield that power for the most radical agenda you can imagine. Open borders, castrating you kids, killing babies, prosecuting Christians. The list goes on and on. Imprisoning grannies. Everything you started to see under Biden is going to be tenfold under Democrats. People want to tell me elections don't matter. People want to tell me they're displeased with Trump. Guys, you just don't understand the fight that we're in. Okay, speaking of democracy, the EU has wasted no time after that Hungarian election that ousted the most stalwart conservative leader. Some would say the only stalwart conservative leader in Europe, Viktor Orban, ousted him. And in his place is this new guy, Peter Magyar, who is supposedly, according to the press, even more right wing than Orban. He's even more right wing. This wasn't a liberal election. This guy's even more right wing. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton's celebrating his election. Alex Soros is celebrating his election. Gavin Newsom's celebrating his election. Did they all become conservative overnight? No. Because while Madjar ran on a conservative platform, the knock on him always was that Brussels was going to steamroll him. The European Union, the liberal globalists of Europe, they were going to steamroll this guy. They knew they couldn't run an actual leftist in Hungary, so they were going to run this guy, kick out their big impediment, Viktor Orban, and then run roughshod over Brussels. They're already doing that. We have this from Politico here. Where's my Politico? Here it is. EU's top court strikes down Hungary's anti-LGBTQ plus rules. Viktor Orban had banned mentions of homosexuality in media accessible to children and outlawed pride marches. Now that Orban's out, EU wasting no time trying to force that on Hungary again. So what was the law in Hungary? The law in Hungary said you can't force queer propaganda down the throats of our kids. Pretty basic stuff. The European globalists hated that. So they get this guy, Madjar, to come in. And Madjar ran against the LGBT stuff. But the problem is, Madjar's big supporters are in Brussels. His big supporters are the liberal globalists. So if he's trying to at least somewhat normalize relations with the EU, this is the first big test of that. I hope that Hungary stands firm. I hope that Madjar stands firm. I'm not holding my breath. this is this is the big test of democracy in hungary because the vast majority of hungarians do not want queer propaganda for their kids but the eu doesn't give a damn about democracy tim kane spanberger the democrats the libs they don't care at all about democracy when they say democracy what they mean is liberalism so when the people vote against liberalism liberalism has to win And they ironically, cynically call that a victory of democracy. Similarly, in Hungary, Hungary had a pretty good relationship with the state of Israel under Orban. This was very upsetting to the liberals in the European Union who hate Netanyahu. Now, I want to put a pause here because Netanyahu is pretty unpopular right now. The state of Israel is pretty unpopular right now, including in America, including on the right. But I just want you for a moment, if you can, put aside your personal feelings, whatever they be. very supportive, very hostile to Israel and Netanyahu. I just want you to see what's playing out in Europe. Pretend that Netanyahu is Ronald McDonald. Pretend that the state of Israel is Timbuktu. Just put aside whatever substantive views you have of the matter. Look at what's playing out in Brussels. Madjar comes in, totally flips Hungary's stance on the state of Israel, says that if Netanyahu steps foot in Hungary, he will be arrested. whatever you think of the prime minister of israel whatever you think of the state of israel it is indisputable that this is what the european union wants this is what brussels wants this is what the liberals who run france and the uk and continental europe this is what they want so already you're seeing a flip from the priorities of the hungarian people of the erstwhile conservative hungarian government aligned substantially with the american conservative government you're seeing a flip to loyalties that are closer to the liberals and the globalists of europe whatever you think about the substance of the matter again i know people a lot of people they they get crazed by the question of israel either with fanatical support where you you're not allowed to criticize israel even once for anything or with fanatical hatred as if the state of israel is the worst nation that's ever existed in the history of the world but i'm just looking at this very clinically here this is a flip this is a sign that madger is going to go along with brussels and the globalists and the liberals in europe not a good sign for hungary not a good sign for conservative conservatism across the west now speaking of geopolitics schrodinger's strait of Tormuz is still open and closed. It kind of depends on how you look at it, when you look at it, when the potentiality cloud collapses into actuality. And the war is over, but it's on hold and it might start up again. The vice president was supposed to go to Pakistan to negotiate with the Iranians to bring a conclusive end to the war, which is now in a ceasefire. That trip has reportedly been put off because, one, they don't know who to negotiate with. to they they don't exactly know what peace can look like because the regime has been so weakened by the american military so we'll get to where we stand also some really good news coming out of the church good news for conservatism and some bad news coming out of which is trying to turn your kids into jihadis first though would you be prepared if an emp struck and you had no electronics could you survive in the woods far away from civilization in the latest episode of Be A Man With Me, Pavel spent 24 hours in the wilderness to find out if he could check out this teaser. 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When you see something living, just throw something at it. go watch the episode right now youtube.com slash at be a man with me and daily wire plus the news is a mess your social feed is worse everyone suddenly thinks he's an expert tonight join me ben shapiro matt walsh and andrew clavin for a new episode of framing fire with special guest emily austin as we break down what's happening what matters and of course where we disagree watch live tonight 7 p.m eastern on daily wire my favorite comment yesterday is wow so i didn't pick it the producers picked it we'll see what they picked it's from the drummers workshop nor's music who has great comments over many years will bad bunny set up a bodega at that festival as well i don get what festival hold on what are we mr davies what is this referring to that giant lgbtq festival oh the sodom and gomorrah festival yeah maybe he would actually okay it wasn it wasn as precise i didn't but okay a drummer's verse of nerf's music he's a good commenter he's a good commenter and if you want to leave your comments best way to do it by the way is on the daily wire plus app where i will get to chat with you sometimes during the show sometimes and especially in the member room segmentum. Okay. The Iran ceasefire is extended. What happened? The US strikes Iran. Iran starts striking Israel and the Gulf states, all American allies. Iran then plays its most powerful card, which is not a nuclear weapon. It's closing the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of global oil passes along with LNG, petrochemicals, fertilizer, all sorts of other stuff. So it looks like they've got Trump on the ropes here. They do have Trump on the ropes. So what Does Trump do? He plays the reverse UNO card and he blockades the blockade. Which means that you've still got 20 percent of the world's oil stuck, can't move through the Strait of Hormuz. But Iran can't get food. Iran can't get anything out either. Iran can't export its own oil. So you're starving the regime and you're literally starving the regime because they can't get anything in. So Iran doesn't like this. They now want to negotiate. All of a sudden, they're much more amenable to a deal. but iran says they're not going to do a deal until the u.s lifts the blockade well the u.s says we're not going to lift the blockade until you give us a deal and now we're in this stalemate so thus far iran has seized a couple of boats even amid the ceasefire israel fired a missile at southern lebanon just this morning i think amid the ceasefire but otherwise relative to how things can get in the Middle East, things are relatively calm. So the war is over, sort of. You're not having a lot of missiles going back and forth. You don't have a ground invasion. The war is sort of over. Weirdly, President Trump gets to say the war is over after six weeks, which is what he predicted, four to six weeks. But we all know it's not over for good. And so now we find ourselves in the same status quo that we found ourselves in for over a week, which is it seems to me that the only options here are a bad deal, a deal that we don't want, which Trump won't accept, or a massive escalation of the operation in Iran, maybe a ground invasion, which the American public won't accept. So there are no good options here. Trump in a brutal spot. He has pulled rabbits out of hats before. This would be his greatest trick yet, which is what I said right when the strikes kicked off. I said, you know, I would have argued against this on the National Security Council, not because the Iranians don't deserve it, not because the U.S. isn't justified in going after the Iranian regime, but because I don't see, given the domestic considerations, war fatigue, given the geopolitical, even geographic considerations of where Iran is, Iran's significance, Iran's maturity as a real country, unlike Iraq and Afghanistan. I just don't see how this works out, the durability of the Iranian regime. And so we're in this stalemate. We're in the status quo, which really I suppose you could say we've been in since 1979. But now we're in a particular instantiated version of that same status quo. Unclear how to get out of it. That was always the risk of the strike in Iran. If it didn't swiftly decapitate the regime, it's hard to see how you get out of it. An unenviable position that the vice president and the president are both in right now as we wait to see if the VP is going to go to Islamabad to negotiate if the u.s is just going to have to keep hammering the regime killing whoever we're negotiating with to see if we can negotiate with better people either way unenviable position that in fairness to the administration they've been in since 2016 2017 that really the u.s has been in since 1979 okay speaking of the holy land some good news coming out of the church young priests are overwhelmingly conservative. This, you don't have to take my word for it. We have this here from the Catholic Herald. America's young priests are shockingly, overwhelmingly conservative. There's a new study, the National Study of Catholic Priests, highlighted by the sociologist of religion, Ryan Burge. It shows that over the years, the priests are just getting so much more conservative. If you look at priests who were ordained in the 60s and 70s, huge numbers of them, majority of them, identified as progressive, liberal, moderate, very few of them as conservative. Now, coincidentally, those were the priests who, during those years and in the ensuing years after they were ordained, were the perpetrators of the sex scandal, which is a real scandal. Yes, it is true, the Catholic Church did not commit any sex crimes at a higher rate than any other religious group at a lower rate than some religious group and at half the rate of public school teachers. That's true. The left lied in large part about the sex scandal. However, it is notable that the sex scandal ballooned, which was largely a homosexual sex scandal, involved underage people. It was a big sex scandal. It ballooned. It really became a major problem when all those progressive priests entered into the church. And it diminished. It radically declined to the point of almost vanishing as those progressive priests have left. So that doesn't even take into account the liturgical, the spiritual, the sacramental aspects of progressive Catholicism. We could probably broaden this out to include Protestant denominations. Progressive Christianity generally, which has been disastrous for the church. Disastrous. led to people fleeing the pews led to terrible political consequences including the redefinition of marriage the explosion of abortion but the good news is i know it's a tough news cycle can we conservatives we're a little doomer we're a little black billed the good news is if you look at where the church is going if you look at the young priests they make us look like democrats they make us look like libs these guys are to the right of francisco franco okay this is good you can't really map political left right onto the church but in as much as we're talking about orthodox versus heterodox in as much as we're talking about traditional versus innovators the kids are all right i used to say this when we started all the big right-wing campus tours said campuses are like crystal balls they show you the future of your country that's bad news that was bad news for many years for the american political order it is very good news for the church. And why is this happening? Because the sexual revolution destroys itself. Now that the progressive priests have succeeded at liberalizing society, pushing the sexual revolution, certainly on society, a cause of just as much as a consequence of the sexual revolution, now there's very little incentive for lgbt activists left-wing activists marxists to try to infiltrate the church they've weakened the position of the church in broader political society they've normalized weird sex stuff they've redefined marriage and so there's very little reason for them to go into seminary which means that the people who are going to seminary now are doing so for the right reasons and as they do so for the right reasons you are seeing a major cleansing There are plenty of very, very good boomer priests, silent generation priests, Gen X priests. But by and large, as a statistical matter, I'm feeling good about the Zoomer priests, the young millennial and Zoomer priests. Father Young Trad, coming up. Okay, speaking of young people, some bad news. Elmo might be turning your kids into jihadis. Elmo is now going on Sesame Street to teach your kids Arabic. Assalamu alaikum, everyone. I'm Rami Youssef. Oh, it's Elmo's Elmo. Mr. Rami, what does salaam alaykum mean? Well, salaam means peace, and it's a way to say hello in Arabic. Oh, cool. Oh, salaam alaykum, everybody. Elmo and I are here to wish all of you a happy Arab American Heritage Month. Yeah, happy Arab American Heritage Month. I'm so proud of my Arab heritage, and I'm so happy to share this month with my fellow Arabs and Elmo. So, thanks, Habibi. Oh, wait a minute. What's Habibi? Oh, it's an Arabic word for a special friend. Really? Well, happy Arab American Heritage Month, Habibi. We love you. Ha-la-la-la. This is a song. La-la-la-la-la. Oh-la-la-la-la-la. Elmo's song. This is a song. La-la-la-la-la. Oh-la-la-la-la-la. Ha-la-la-la-la. Elmo's song. La-la-la. La-la-la-la-la. La-la-la-la. I could do this all day. i could do this all day but the real takeaway from the sesame street video is not just that elmo's teaching your kids arabic which i don't know about you i'm not i would like my kids to learn latin greek uh hebrew biblical hebrew would be good maybe italian if they have time hebrew arabic rather very very low on the list very very low on the list but notice what the guy is saying he says it's arab american heritage month new liturgical month just dropped write it down put it on your calendar i didn't know about that one but he says and i'm so proud to be arab i'm so so great to be arab and if you look at that guy if you just look to them he just introduced himself he says hi i'm johnny smith or even whatever his name is remy or rami or whatever you would not know that he was arab he looks like a white guy and actually for all of american history until about 10 or 15 years ago arabs people from the levant were just classified as white you know they might look a little dusky i look a little dusky but they they were just classified as white and then there was a big push 10 or 15 years ago linda sarsour was behind this to reclassify them as mina middle east and north african to creating new victim identity group. If these people really were victims, why would they go out of their way to identify as a class that will bring oppression upon them, bring violence, we are told, upon them? Why would they do that? Because they're not really victim groups. Because contrary to what we're told, which is that it's very desirable to be white and very undesirable in America to be Arab or Middle Eastern or what have you. The opposite is true. Both de facto and de jure as a matter of the law. The only group that you can discriminate against by the law and that you are socially encouraged to discriminate against is white people. There is no threat of white supremacy, skinheads, neo-Nazis. That statistically just doesn't exist in America. We know this by the actions of liberals who go out of their way to identify as the non-white groups. And we know this now thanks to an 11-count federal indictment, which shows that there is so little white supremacy, so little neo-Nazism that the left has to invent it in order to persecute their enemies, the American right, white people, Christians, and so on. And we need to bring consequences to that. You're already seeing the Trump DOJ start to do that. We need to bring consequences to that very, very quickly because the left doesn't intend to stay out of power for long. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S, at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.