Ep. 1985 - Two Democrats Exposed In MAJOR Sex Scandals

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Piker was reportedly banned for anti-Semitic comments, meaning that this issue has something to get everyone riled up. Israel censorship. If it included a transvestite, we would have the trifecta. Finally, Democrat Congresslady's make a federal issue, whining that they should be allowed to skip work when they are menstruating. I, for one, think that their proposed legislation does not go nearly far enough. Not only do I think Democrat Congresslady's should stay home from work five days per month, I think they should stay home the other 25 days too. How's that for bipartisanship? I'm Michael Knowles, this is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to this show. Be sure to smash that like button and subscribe. Also, check us out on Spotify, where you can download full episode audio and video to watch or listen whenever you want. Without using your data, do not miss an episode. Also, a father has gone viral for screaming at Democrats over his daughter's murder. 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He has the actual version of the fake thing they accused Pete Hegseth of during his Senate confirmation hearings. He is a neo-Nazi tattoo on his chest. He's got a very colorful person of life. He's threatened all sorts of people, including American servicemen. He's said all sorts of nasty, terrible things about women and other races. And also, he's been caught sexting a bunch of chicks even though he's married. So this, according to the Wall Street Journal, big, big story here. Graham Platner's wife flagged the sexually explicit texts to his Senate campaign. Subheader, wife of the main Democratic Senate candidate last year told the campaign about texts she had found between Platner and other women. Very, very sad story. It's not just being reported in the Wall Street Journal. It's being reported in the New York Times. There were some claims that Graham Platner had been sexting about a dozen women. And you know it's a rough situation for the campaign when the campaign's official response is that he was only sexting half a dozen women. That's their excuse. That's their denial. No, no, no. He wasn't actively sexting a dozen women recently. It was really more like six. On top of that, it seems that Graham Platner has a profile, an active, current profile, on a website called Kick. I don't really know anything about Kick, the app, or the website, or whatever. But according to Daily Wire's own Brent Sher, who is posting this full story from Tim Rice here, also at DW, Kick is known as a, quote, predator's paradise. It is known as being a hotbed for child pornography, kidnapping, and sexual abuse. This, the Democrat Senate candidate in Maine, and one of the Democrat darlings nationwide. Really bad stuff. So as all of these scandals are breaking, Graham Platner's first crisis PR response is to send his wife out to fly cover for him. No marriage is perfect. And I don't want a perfect marriage. I want my marriage. And I want to be married to Graham. Sorry, Black Lives. I knew the man that I married is wonderful and dynamic and probably genius. I knew the man that I married had been through an immense amount of violent, active combat. And he's been in therapy for years. I just, I admire the out of him. Okay. This is a very long video. We won't subject this poor woman to playing the whole thing. The scandal itself is bad. It's not uncommon among politicians. Politicians have sex scandals all the time. It's not uncommon. It's bad though. It's bad to be caught sexting half a dozen women and having an active profile on some particularly pervy app with videos of kidnapping and child pornography and all the rest. That's quite bad. It's somehow almost worse to be caught in this kind of scandal and then send your wife out alone to give the first response. This woman who you've wronged to then send her out to fly PR for you and say, oh no, he's a genius and I love him and he's great. It ups the scumbag quotient on the scandal by orders of magnitude. It's so, so bad, so awful to do. It's one thing to have the sex scandal. That's really bad enough. But then to exploit the woman who you have wronged, hide behind her like a human shield, real scummy stuff. Not all the women who are around Graham Platner are buying it. In fact, his political director who quit in disgust from his campaign, Genevieve McDonald, then posts this, there's some details missing from this story. I hope it will be updated. The Wall Street Journal called me Friday morning to tell me they were running a story they had verified through multiple sources. I had spoken with them months ago off the record, so it was a courtesy call. I'd probably still get some blowback. After Wall Street Journal reached out to the Platner campaign for comment, Morris Katz demanded that I guess who works on the campaign. Demanded that I call the Wall Street Journal, retract my comments, tell them their reporting was inaccurate and send him a recording of the call. When I refused to lie for the Platner campaign, this is the campaign that this woman worked for until pretty recently at a high level. When I refused to lie for the Platner campaign, he sent this text, quote, just want to be clear on where we are right now. If the story goes in its current iteration, we will communicate directly on the record. And by name that Genevieve violated the personal trust of Amy and Graham. Notice they put the poor wife first still. The whole campaign is hiding behind the wife. Amy and Graham and shared explicit falsehoods to sabotage the campaign. So I went on record with the New York Times. There was a New York Times story on this as well. That's all the sex scandal stuff. And then just the violation of the marriage, not even the infidelity, but even the violation of the trust of the marriage to put the wife out there first. That on top of the fact, we keep almost overlooking it at this point, the guy had a Nazi tattoo on his chest. And it's not just that he got drunk years ago and he got this tattoo. But then he reformed. He used to be this radical neo-Nazi, but then he totally reformed. No, no, no, no, no, no. He only got the tattoo covered up last year. He only got the tattoo covered up last year. He only got the tattoo covered up when he decided he was going to run for Senate. So that's all the context of the scandal. The part that I haven't really seen too many people talking about, but this is the obvious part to me looking at this from a purely political lens, having spent a little bit of time working on political campaigns in my early life. Where are the attacks coming from? I see all these right-wingers, they're jumping on board, they're excited. I'm doing it a little myself. It's really fun to dunk on Graham Platner. Do you really think these attacks are originating from the right? Notice where the attacks coming from. They're coming from the New York Times, left-wing paper. They're coming from the Wall Street Journal, news division, not the editorial page. The editorial page is somewhat conservative. The news division is liberal, just like all the other newspapers. They're coming from a liberal Democrat operative who worked on the Platner campaign. There are multiple stories. There was a story I was meaning to get to for a while now. I don't even know. Do I have the printed version? No, I don't. I've been meaning to get to this for a week or two. The New York Times was already sending out warnings about the Platner campaign. This was weeks ago. This is the left doing damage control. This is Democrat elites realizing that Platner might not go the distance. He's just got too much baggage. And so, crucially, when is the primary? Primary hasn't happened yet. The primary is June 9th. We're now eight days away from the primary. And according to the election rules in Maine, there are ways out of it for the Democrats. The Democrats could replace him right now if they wanted to. This is a Democrat op, I think. I think the Democrats are getting cold feet on Platner and they want him out. And they are using Republicans. They're then teeing up the Republicans to gin up all of this outrage to give them an excuse to replace their candidate with a candidate who's more likely to win in November. That's what I think is going on. And they're doing it very, very well. They're very well. It's a smart move. If I were a Democrat operative right now, I'd be doing the same thing. But Republicans should not view this necessarily as a win. I want Graham Platner on the ballot in November. I want Republicans to run against Graham Platner. He is a weak candidate. He's going to go down in flames. He's a disaster. I do not want to give the Democrats the opportunity to swap him out. When you're analyzing political operations, just full stop, period. When you're analyzing something that's going on in politics, the first question you have to ask yourself is nice little Latin phrase, cui bono, who benefits? Who benefits? When any political operation is going on, just say, hold on. Will the result of this operation be to benefit my side or to hurt my side? In the case of the Platner expose, it will hurt Republicans. It will help Democrats if he goes down in flames right now and the Democrats can replace him with a good candidate. Basic rule in politics as in war. What does your opponent want you to do? You probably shouldn't do that. You should probably do the opposite. It's funny. It's great. It's wonderful. Republicans might claim a victory if Platner goes down before the primary or shortly after, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory. I'm leading the charge. I'm the director of Republicans for Platner. Sign me up. Where can I want to go? Maybe I'll fly up to Maine. Maybe I'll go door to door with petitions. I want Platner to be the Democrat nominee. We've got to save these scandals, guys. Okay. Now, speaking of Democrat Senate sex scandals, bigger, I think actually a bigger sex scandal for James Talorico down in Texas, huge expose over the weekend. It turns out James Talorico might not be gay. There's a lot more to say first though. Go to avemariefunds.com slash Michael. I'm I-C-H-A-E-L. Every dollar you spend is a vote. Most people understand that instinctively until the conversation turns to investing. People spend a lot of time thinking carefully about where they shop, what organizations they support, what causes they contribute to, and what institutions they want to strengthen. 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Now, this makes perfect sense to me because, you know, relations, good relationships are based on having something in common. So it's nice to hear that Talarico and his supposed girlfriend, they have something in common. They like, you know, they both, they both check off the same box of likes and dislikes on the dating apps. The pair met when this woman landed a job at Talarico's office in 2022, though they say they didn't start dating until January of the following year. Now, okay, now my spidey senses are really kicking off here. I initially was sort of joking when I said that James Talarico was the gay Pete Buttigieg. I was kind of joking at least. It was a joke. It might be true, but it's a joke. But then you see all this stuff, okay, she's this woman who is just like a super-lib woman who loves hanging out with her gay male friends. And all of a sudden, she's the one who pops out as being his girlfriend. Okay, well, sometimes plenty of straight women like going to gay bars because they're not being hit on. They don't have to deal with remacho men. So maybe it could be the case that they're, but then hold on, wait, she works for him too. She's like a literally a Democrat operative. She's a Democrat operative who loves hanging out with gay guys. And that's the girlfriend. This is giving me, again, I don't want to, this has happened with Democrat candidates before. Democrat candidates with political ambitions, higher office ambitions. I, again, I don't want to be thrown around accusations. I just want to make an observation. Cory Booker confirmed bachelor into his 50s. When he was running for president, he just coincidentally happens to get the first girlfriend that he seems to have ever had. And the girlfriend is a woman who is specifically associated with gay rights. And I don't, we've seen this, we've just, it seems to me, we've heard this song before. The fact that she was actually working for him means she is a Democrat operative and was actually on his payroll. And she's the one they trot out. Okay. But then to me, the knockout punch is what Talarico says about her. He says, she is my rock. She is my best friend. I don't know if I could have gotten through the last six months of this crazy race if she hadn't been by my side. This is how, this is how gay guys talk about women. This is straight guys don't say this. Generally speaking, straight guys don't say she is, she is my rock. She is my best friend. I don't, guys have best friends and they have wives. And at a really deep level, if you have a good marriage, your wife in a deep sense actually is your best friend. But they are different things. The role of the male best friend and the role of the wife, they're actually different things. And we don't, usually guys don't refer to their wife as their best friend. And certainly they don't refer to their wife as their rock. She is my rock. A wife will refer to her husband as her rock, because the husband is supposed to be the one who's really grounded, really solid, immovable. He's the steadying person in the relationship. You don't, this is really, come on. My spidey senses are going off. I don't know. I don't totally, this seems more scandalous to me than the Grand Platinum story. Okay, now let's get to more of the political angle on James Talerico. James Talerico has been trotting at this same line now for quite a while. He's obviously memorized it. Here is James Talerico telling an anecdote from the campaign trail on CBS and MSNBC, not only with the same words, but almost with the precise same metering cadence. Well, you know, I've gone to every corner of the States over the course of this campaign from Beaumont to El Paso, from Amarillo to Brownsville and everywhere in between. And I can't tell you the number of people who come up to me at the end of these events and whisper, I'm not a Democrat, like they're in the witness protection program. Okay, so I'm not going to knock and people are making fun of him for using this exact line, robotically verbatim. Politicians do that. You have a stump speech, you have a few lines, you use them, you're talking all the time. I'm not knocking him for that. I'm knocking him for the content of what he's saying. Talerico's claim is that there are a bunch of disillusioned Republicans who are really enthusiastic about his campaign. That is not true. That does not exist. This guy is as woke as they get. He is the exact antithesis of what the Republicans believe in, what even the disaffected liberals who voted for Trump, who just, you know, they're not Democrats, they're independents. If they're going to go for a Democrat, they're not going for Talerico. Talerico is as woke as they get. He calls God non-binary. He is extremely sacrilegious and heretical. James Talerico is the guy who refers to women as people, or neighbors with uteruses. It's not that an independent or Republican can never go for a Democrat. They will never go for this guy, never go for this guy. That's a total lie. So what is the race going to tell you? Talerico could win this race. He could win this race. I'm not betting that he will, but he could. He's a real threat. But he will not win because disillusioned Trump voters vote for him. That's not what's going to happen. If he wins, he will win because disillusioned Trump voters stay home because they're upset about the economy, because they're upset about the war and Iran, because they're upset about this, that, or the other thing. It is very possible, especially in the midterm year, first one after the big presidential, when there's historical precedent and historical pressure for those disillusioned Trump voters to stay home, but they will not vote for this guy. So this to me is the test for MAGA in the midterms, and it's very high stakes. Trump owns the GOP. He has just proven his ironclad grip on the GOP because he took out those five Republican legislators in Indiana who turned against him because he took out Bill Cassidy in Louisiana, because he took out Thomas Massey in Kentucky, because he took out Brad Raffensberger in Georgia. The list goes on and on and on. Trump owns the GOP. He has massive approval ratings within the GOP and certainly within MAGA. The question is, will his low approval ratings with the general population overwhelm that? Will the median voter be so disillusioned by Trump that the people who gave Trump a popular vote victory in 2024 will wipe him out in the midterms? That's the question. But the thing, Taylor Rico is promising that they're all going to flip to him, never going to happen. In some ways, it's worse. Trump has activated an historic coalition. We haven't seen anything like it since Reagan, and maybe it might even be bigger than Reagan, given the polarity of the electorate right now. The question for the midterms is, will Trump's coalition have really collapsed? Will it have lost its potency? He's got an ironclad grip, but it's an ironclad grip on a shrinking segment of the electorate. Or is that all fake news from social media, ginned up by operatives, domestic and foreign? Does Trump still have his finger on the pulse of the American people? Very worrisome approval rating numbers coming out of the public opinion polls in the U.S. That's the question. But the one option that you're not going to get is Republicans voting for Taylor Rico. Never going to happen. If Taylor Rico wins, it will be because of an implosion, a great diminishing of the size of Trump's coalition. Okay, now, speaking of Democrats in Congress, Democrat Congresslady, some pretty prominent ones like Rashida Tlaib are now openly campaigning, making a federal issue of the fact that they're expected to go to work when they are menstruating. And I'm actually, I'm on their side. There's a lot more to say. First though, go to GoodRanchers.com, use promo code, Knowles. One thing I've noticed as I've gotten older is that many of the best memories do not happen during the big events. They happen around a table, a family, dinner, a backyard barbecue. Everyone hanging around after the meal is over because no one's in a hurry to leave. This is crucial. People ask me this about cigars a lot. When should I have the really nice, special, aged, fancy cigar? Should it be my wedding or this or that? I say, no, no, no, you should have it on a Tuesday night. That's when you're going to be able to focus on. It's the same thing. And you could do this all the time with your family dinners. 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If I wasn't a furry, well, I'd probably be dead. My associate producer, Professor Jacob, he went to a furry convention, and he said that he saw a big STD screening booth. Why do they have an STD booth? There are parties that do happen. It's better to be safe than to be sorry. Would you take your head off, your fur head off, tell the world who you really are? No, you want to remain anonymous as a furry. Watch full episode right now on the Michael and Lill's YouTube channel for the uncensored ad free version. Subscribe to DailyWare Plus. Congress ladies are very upset. They are expected to come to work when they're menstruating. They're feeling a little uncomfortable about five days a month, and they're expected to show up to work on those five days. So a gaggle of these women, including Rashida Tlaib, are setting out to change all of that. Every month I have days where it feels like barbed wire is tightening inside me. I've taken 2000 milligrams of ibuprofen in 24 hours and still been in tears from the pain. Often end up on the bathroom floor in the fetal position crying, moaning or vomiting. Still I've put on a blazer and gone to work. I've sat in committee hearings, nauseous from the pain, quietly breathing to make my way through it. I've given speeches at rallies and run town halls while my body was in full repulsed. I smiled for photos while silently wondering if I might faint right then and there. In fact, about 15% of women have period pain so debilitating that it disrupts worker school. That is no small number, and yet we are told to suck it up. It's why during Women's History Month, I've introduced legislation to give workers up to 12 days of paid leave a year for reproductive health. This would cover period pain, yes, but also menopause symptoms, IVF, miscarriages, and Demetriosis flare ups. Okay, so the woman, she wants a lot of time off because she's a woman, because she's a woman and she menstruates and I'm sure it is painful for that week every month. She doesn't want to have to go to work for five days a month, whatever, however many days per year, but it's because of this thing that happens five days per month. And so I would say I'm on their side. I'm on their side. I'm on the side of Rashida Tlaib. I'm on the side of the Democrat Congress, ladies. But I would go further. I don't think it's enough that we should let these women stay home from work five days a month. I think we need to, in the interest of equality, gender, fairness, we need to go much further. I think these women should be allowed to stay home from work for 30 to 31 days per month, except in February where it would be 28 to 29 days. I think they should, and look, maybe I'm the most feminist. Maybe I need to get up there and say you women, you're being misogynistic. Women need to be allowed to stay home from work every single day of the month. Can you believe this? Yes, I'm sure you can believe this. You're watching this because you have common sense. But it is so funny. It's so ironic and so predictable that these women, specifically these women, the liberal Democrat women, the feminist liberal Democrat women, have been telling us for 60 years, they've been demanding and whining saying, please let us go to work. Please let us have professional jobs. Please let us go to the office. We demand it. And then when they get to do all that, they immediately turn around and they say, stop making us go to work. Why are you making us go to work? For 60 years, it's been misogyny, hatred of women to not tell them to go to work. And now that we say, okay, go to work. They say, stop. It's misogyny to make us go to work. Don't you know we're women? Why are you making us show up to the office? Don't you know we're women? We get cramps. We menstruate. Why are you making us go to work? Hold on. 60 years ago, that's what we were saying. 60 years ago. And then you told us not to pay attention to that. And now how could it's kind of like, it's kind of like when you get into a debate or an argument with a woman during precisely that time of the month, it's kind of, it's sort of like that, isn't it? Where there's no, it's not always the most rational debate and some, and you can't ever win and you're like always the bad guy and wow, huh, funny. If only we had a system, could you imagine if we had this system in society? How fair would this be? How equal would this be? If we had a system that allowed women to stay home from work all the time, that allowed women to, because of their biology in part, because of their natural inclinations, that just allowed, if only we could acknowledge that men and women are different. Like we did for all of human history until the mid to late 1960s. And now there's very same women who demanded that we stop admitting that men and women are different. Now they're demanding we admit that again. Most women don't want to go to work in an office. Women work all the time. Women work a lot and probably minute by minute of doing stuff. Women maybe work more than men. Men work more intensely, more publicly at times. Men carry more stress at times, higher intensity of stress, but women probably carry stress more of the time and do work things more of the time, I would say. If you're managing a home especially, if you're expected to have a job at the office too. But imagine if we had this system in society where the men could go out and do the office job because they don't cramp up once a month unless they go out and eat too many chicken wings or something like that. And where the men do that and then the women have different expectations and can do different things that perhaps they're more naturally inclined to do. The vast majority of women don't want to work. They don't want to work in an office. They don't want to work a regular job. And one of the real tragedies of our current economy, which we came about in large part because of feminism, is that now women are expected to work most of the time and in some cases financially kind of have to because our political economy has been transformed such that it's very difficult to support a family on a single income. But that's a pity. That's a tragedy. That's not progress. This was one thing during the first Trump administration where I say Trump gets it right 98.7% of the time. He gets it right, the vast majority of the time. But one of the things that used to rub me the wrong way is when President Trump would tout how we had a record low women's unemployment rate. And I said, well, is that something we should be happy about? That women are now being forced out of the home to work in an office for Mr. McGillicuddy at the widget factory? I don't think that's a good thing. There are some women who want to work in an office. There's the Lady Thatcher exception. It's a diverse world and Viva la différence, as it were. But that's the exception. I work with some of these women. Some women, they really want to do it and they're a little bit different and they're really great at it. But the majority of women don't want to work. They often want the income, but they don't want to work because they want to stay home and raise their kids, because they want to keep home, because sometimes they actually do want to cook and maintain a house. I know you're not allowed to say that anymore, but they do because you talk about you're not allowed to say it because sometimes for about five days a month, they're really, really uncomfortable. Democrat Congresslady's get to say that when they're complaining about it, but conservative men are not allowed to say that when we just observe a natural fact. Most women don't actually want to work in an office. A lot of women are not cut out to work in offices. That's fine. That's good. Men and women have different virtues. Now that we have the most liberal feminist, screechy women in America openly complaining about this fact, can we acknowledge reality and maybe go back to what worked for all of human history? To some degree, can we at least give women the option of staying home? Can we transform our political economy in such a way that we get to return to normal and in so doing, restore the fundamental political unit, which is the family, without which you cannot have a functioning polity, the breakdown of which probably explains 90% of our political problems. Can we do that? Are we allowed to do that? Who helps America go farther? Fly higher? Dream even bigger? People do. Since 1879, our people have been more than a source of energy. They've been a source of progress. Today, that same progress is helping deliver record U.S. energy production, fueling the workers, the makers, the boundary pushers, and risk takers who spark the breakthroughs that move America forward. Learn more about what our people do at chevron.com slash USA 250. Okay, speaking of staying home, amazing timing. I'm flying out tomorrow to go for a debate at the Oxford Union. If you're in or around Oxford in the UK, I hope you come out. It's going to be a lot of fun. The resolution is this house believes that Trump has betrayed conservatism. I'll be speaking in the negative on that. It should be a great debate. So I'm about to fly out to the UK. Just as I am preparing to take off, we get word that Hassan Piker, the left-wing streamer who is regularly called for violence against conservatives, he has been banned from the UK. This is an unrelated trip. He wasn't going to go up to the Oxford Union, though I think they hosted him somewhat recently, but he was going to go to the UK to do, I don't know, to whatever, undermine the West as he usually does. And he's been banned from the UK. And this issue, I think, is really going to separate the men from the boys. This is, by which I mean, it's going to separate the conservatives from the libertarians on how people react to this. We'll get to why Hassan was supposedly banned. First though, my favorite comment on Friday is from Cornbread Oracle who says, Epstein is not a Trump scandal. It is a Trump smear. There's a difference. I know. Are y'all, are y'all ready for that? Are you all ready to handle that? I talk about this in my episode on Friday. If you, if you want to catch why this is the case, it's not, it's not that there is no Epstein scandal. There certainly is. It started out as a Democrat scandal. It's not that there's no Epstein scandal. It's that the practical effect of Epstein is to be used as a political smear against Trump and some people on the right are falling for it. Hassan Piker has been banned from the UK. Here is why, according to Hassan, wearing his democratic socialists of America cap. I genuinely listen, I'm going to say something. This is a warning. I hope you guys understand the Western world and liberal democracy is a sham and all of the supposed things that they claim to care about, they do not actually care about. We are moving into a very different timeline. Okay. This is why I constantly reiterate that, that fascism is here, right? Like the administration trying to deploy subpoenas against political dissidents in the United States of America. Or the UK that's like completely captive to the interests of pro-Israel advocacy organizations. There we go. There it is. They are moving in a way. And this is the liberal government, right? The labor government is supposed to be the liberal government doing this. And the American government is the right-wing government doing it. Like we are in the 1930s era. We're in the 1930s era, that famously philosemitic era, the 1930s. Hassan Piker, he gets it right there at the end. He blames Israel. He says, it's because I'm anti-Israel. That is why I've been banned from the UK. Glenn Greenwald, the left-wing journalist who has gotten some play on the right. I never fell for Glenn Greenwald's shtick. I mean, some people on the right fell for Glenn Greenwald for a while. This guy is a left-wing homosexual. He's got a lot of personal problems we don't need to get into, but very, very left-wing. But because he agreed with us one time on COVID or something, I don't even remember what he agreed with us on. The right started to embrace him, but this guy is about as left-wing as they come. Glenn Greenwald comes out. He says, note that the UK government just banned entry of two American citizens, Chenk Yuger. Oh yeah, Chenk Yuger, Hassan Piker's uncle got lumped in with this. Which is too bad. I actually have a moderate affection for Chenk Yuger. If I were working for the UK government, I probably would have let him in. Hassan Piker, though, he calls for violence against conservatives. He has broken American federal law and bragged about doing it. He conspires with foreign governments allegedly, admittedly, I guess we should say. So this guy, he's no, I would definitely would have banned Hassan Piker. I think he should be in prison. His uncle, I might have let off the hook. He's a sort of entertaining lib. But in any case, Glenn Greenwald says the UK government just banned the entry of two American citizens, including Hassan Piker, not because they criticized or worked against the interests of the UK. It was solely because they criticized and opposed the one country deemed sacred and off limits in the UK and so many other Western countries, Israel. Folks, you know, I have a pretty moderate view on Israel, which is the least popular view. That's why I take attacks from both sides on it, because it's the moderate and sensible and common sense view, which is the one view you're not allowed to have. Point out I'm not a Zionist by any religious or ideological standard, but I'm not one of these like Keffiye people with Greta Thunberg, you know, marching for Gaza, you know, river to the sea, whatever, which is all left wing nonsense anyway. And in any case, I think that there are legitimate rights of Palestinian Arabs and need to be protected, especially the Christian population. So in that way, Israel needs to be restrained. And so anyway, I have this very moderate view, which is the one view you're not allowed to have. It's the view that requires you to have the most moral clarity on the issue at all. And it's always punished. But in any case, enough of my soapbox, I can't help but point out here, as Glenn Greenwald and Hasan Piker are trying to blame all of this on Israel. The UK currently bans two senior members of the Israeli government from the UK. So it's because the UK is totally captive to the pro-Israel interests. That's why they're banning Hasan Piker and two senior members of the Israeli government, because they're so pro-Israel, hold on, that the finance minister and the national security minister Bezalel Smotrich, I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly, and Itamar Ben-Gavir are both banned from the UK. The UK has further gone out and said that if Benjamin Netanyahu sets foot on British soil, he will be arrested for war crimes because the ICC is trying to arrest him. You're telling me that the way to explain why Hasan Piker is not going there is because he is anti-Israel and the UK is so slavishly pro-Israel that it would ban multiple senior members of the Israeli government. Give me a break. The UK just banned Valentina Gomez, Valentina Gomez, who is this kind of eccentric right-wing political influencer. She's run for office once or twice. She is exceedingly pro-Israel. She filmed a video where she was eating popcorn watching Israel bomb Gaza. It's just not, whatever you think about Israel, it is simply not the case that you can explain this ban solely by saying that Hasan Piker is anti-Israel. It just doesn't explain it, as it doesn't explain the banning of the Israeli politicians or Valentina Gomez, who is a super-duper extra-mega-Zionist. Do you know why the UK banned Hasan Piker? Because he's not good for their country. It's not good to have him. He doesn't benefit them by his presence. He's a bad dude. We don't want him. That's what they said. They said, he's a bad dude. We don't want him. He's not good for us. So he's not coming in. And guess what? That's very sensible. Guess what? We should learn from that. We, and I guess we are learning from that in the sense that we are now sending out subpoenas to Hasan Piker because he has admitted to federal crimes on air multiple times. I guess that's good. I wish we would move even faster. This one is going to separate the conservatives from the libertarians and the classical liberals. Some who say, we know we need total free speech. First of all, the kind of speech, quote unquote, that Hasan Piker engages in is not even protected by the First Amendment. There's no First Amendment in the UK. There's no free speech in the UK. But even by the standards of the American First Amendment, the American free speech tradition, the sulfurous belches that come out of Hasan Piker's mouth are not protected speech. He calls for the murder of Republican senators and other conservatives. He conspires with foreign governments. He breaks federal law. None of that is protected by the First Amendment. James Madison would have no problem sending Hasan Piker to jail. But certainly, we wouldn't want a guy like this in our country. The only reason he's allowed in our country is because he's an anchor baby who grew up overseas. And then because of a flaw in our jurisprudence, we had to let him back in. But this is an important lesson. All the UK is saying is, oh, this foreigner, he's not good for us. So why would we let him in? You can't even reduce it to one issue. Israel, this, that, or the other thing. By their own actions, you can tell that. So they're just saying, this guy's not good for us. We don't want him in. That should be our standard too. We have let 70 million people come into our country over the last 65 years, largest movement in people in the history of the world, in recorded history, certainly. And we've done it because we feel handcuffed by some stupid liberal principles that aren't correct. If people aren't good for our country, we shouldn't let him in. Good lesson. Good lesson from the motherland. I love this. It's also funny on the Israel issue. I decided to test this theory last night because people have, getting back to the sort of moderate, sensible position on Israel, Palestine, I say, it's a complex issue. It's a nuanced issue, you know, and that's the one view you're not allowed to have. So last night I just post on Twitter. I say, hey, hey, what's everyone think about Israel? You know, my UK trip, it's going to be expensive. I need to get that engagement up. I got to get those Twitter bucks. What's everyone think about Israel? So it's an obvious troll. It's just like a joke. I wake up this morning, 3000 comments, 3000 replies to an obvious bait. By the time I get to work, it's 3,200. So anyway, I've decided I'm going to try this on YouTube too. What do you think about Israel? Hey, guys, all the everyone watching on YouTube right now, what do you think about Israel? Get that engagement up. What do you think about Israel? Do you like it or not like it? What? Is it controversial or something? What do you think? One thing I'll tell you is your views on it are not going to be the chief reason you're banned from the UK. Okay. One story before we go. A little bit more of a serious story. A father has gone viral for testimony that actually took place a little while ago when he was screaming at Democrats over his father's murder. And this has prompted some Republican legislators in South Carolina to announce something called Logan's Law. This was announced at a press conference at the Myrtle Beach Police Department annex Myrtle Beach last Wednesday. What is the law in response to it's in response to this? Think about your child coming home from the night out with their friends, laying down, going to sleep, feeling somebody come in the room and wake them and drag her out of bed naked, forced on her knees with her hands over her head, begging for her life, begging for her hero, her father, me that couldn't be there. She was five foot three. She weighed 115 pounds. Bang! Dead. Gone. Why? Because Alexander Devonte Dickey, who was arrested 39 times, 25 felonies was on the street. How about that? How good are we doing for our family? How good are you doing for your kids? He should have been in jail for over 140 years for all the crimes he committed. You know how much time he spent in prison? A little over 600 days in 10 years. He's only 30 years old. He was committing 2.65 crimes a year since he was 15 years old, but nobody could figure out that he couldn't be rehabilitated. Well, you'd have to put him in prison to see if he could be rehabilitated. Isn't that the idea of prison? It's a poor guy. Your heart breaks for the father, obviously for the poor girl who was murdered. 39 times. 39 times this guy was arrested. He barely serves time in prison. It's not that a terrible crime took place because crimes are going to take place because it's a fallen world. It's not that we're asking for perfection. It's not that we're asking for utopia, but this was so preventable. It was 39 times preventable. Left-wing politicians refuse to do it. They gum up the works because they're always on the side of the criminals. The criminals go out and they just execute young girls like this. This reminds me of something about politics, which is that politics is actually very, very simple. Politics is so simple. It's not brain surgery. It's not philosophy. It's not anything complex. It's not easy always to affect political solutions. That could be hard, but it's very, very simple. Voters want three numbers to go up. Voters want the economic numbers to go up, the deportation numbers to go up, and the incarceration numbers to go up. This is the secret recipe for any Republican politician. I'm just doling out tried and true advice for free. Hard to affect sometimes, but easy to diagnose, at least if you're not totally insane. We want three numbers to go up, the economic numbers, the deportation numbers, and the incarceration numbers. If you run a campaign and you have a credible plan to do that, or you have a record of having done that, you will win 150% of the vote. That's what it's about. There are a lot of ancillary issues that are just nonsense, that don't really motivate people. Even some of the more social issues. Sometimes they motivate people. The trans one worked a couple of years ago, but even the abortion issue doesn't motivate people all that much, unfortunately. Foreign policies, people on the internet feel very strongly about foreign policy, doesn't really motivate voters much at all. Occasionally, the 2006 election, maybe the Iraq war was at its peak, but otherwise that doesn't really motivate people. Simple stuff. People want to be able to afford to have a good life for their material needs. They don't want foreigners raping our constitutional system of government, making a mockery of our sovereignty. And they don't want criminals murdering our family members. That's basically it. If you can do those things, you will reign for 10,000 years. Okay. The rest of the show continues now. It's Music Monday. You don't want to miss it. Become a member. Use code nulls, KWLES, a check out for two months free on all annual plans.