Primary Topic
This episode critically examines a political event called "White Dudes for Harris," analyzing the dynamics of identity politics and contrasting different societal and political views.
Episode Summary
Main Takeaways
- The episode critiques the exploitation of identity politics for electoral gain, focusing on the event "White Dudes for Harris."
- It explores the controversial views on masculinity and societal roles presented at the event.
- Knowles argues against the hypocrisy in political statements about gender and race.
- The discussion extends to the broader implications of such political strategies on societal values and electoral politics.
- The episode challenges the listener to consider the deeper motivations and inconsistencies within modern political discourses.
Episode Chapters
1. Introduction and Context
Michael Knowles introduces the topic of white male support for Kamala Harris, setting the stage for a detailed analysis of identity politics. Michael Knowles: "Last night marked the first official meeting of white dudes for Kamala."
2. Critique of Masculinity Narratives
The episode examines the narratives surrounding masculinity and societal expectations, critiqued through the lens of the event's speeches. Speaker B: "Masculinity as a trope has been coopted...exacerbates the loneliness epidemic."
3. Pete Buttigieg’s Role
Discussion on Pete Buttigieg’s advocacy for Kamala Harris, focusing on his controversial remarks about abortion and freedom. Michael Knowles: "Pete Buttigieg explaining why men need to support someone like Harris."
4. Broader Political Implications
Analyzes the strategic use of identity politics in the campaign and its implications for the Republican and Democratic parties. Michael Knowles: "Democrats openly despise white men, and yet when election time comes, they're going to assemble those white men together."
Actionable Advice
- Evaluate Information Critically: Always question the motivations behind political endorsements and campaigns.
- Understand the Role of Identity Politics: Recognize how identity is used in politics and consider its impact on genuine societal issues.
- Stay Informed on Political Strategies: Keep abreast of political tactics that may influence voter behavior and societal norms.
- Engage in Constructive Dialogue: Engage others in discussions about the use of identity in politics without resorting to divisiveness.
- Promote Transparency in Political Discourse: Advocate for clear and honest communication from political figures and campaigns.
About This Episode
Emasculated white dudes rally behind Kamala Harris, Mayor Pete claims men are more free in a country with abortion, and the Olympics make a fake apology for mocking Christ.
People
Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Mark Hamill, Roy Cooper, Adam Schiff, David Hogg, Josh Groban, Jeff Bridges
Content Warnings:
None
Transcript
Michael Knowles
Last night marked the first official meeting of white dudes for Kamala. There were celebrity guests. Well, get to them. There were silly and alternately disturbing arguments. We'll get to them. But first, I want you to close your eyes.
Imagine the platonic form of the white dude for Harris, the absolute ideal. Now make him even more of a caricature. Whatever you are thinking, just make it worse.
Now open your eyes.
Speaker B
And that happens at the same time as the myths around America that we grew up with, that we as men are expected to be protectors and providers are going out into economy that doesn't really allow for that, especially for working class folks.
And sort of like compounding on that, you know, masculinity as a trope has been co opted by the maggarite into something that feeds into and exacerbates the loneliness epidemic as well as the mental health crisis that many face that end up leading to really destructive behaviors.
We aren't the only ones that are hurt by these things. Black and brown people, LGBTQIA plus people, especially trans women and indigenous people, and, you know, all sorts of other folks in our society who've been historically and often still today, are marginalized and being hurt, demonized and, like, marginalized even further.
Michael Knowles
Am I right, bro?
What do you say, white dudes? Y'all in for Harris?
Sorry.
Now if that Mister vocal Fry man bun did not convince you, just wait until you hear what fellow white dude for Harris, Pete Buttigieg, had to say. I'm Michael Knowles, a white dude for Trump. And this is the Michael Knowles show.
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Yes, the system is designed to do that. So you need to use every tool at your disposal proposal to get out of it. Right now, I'd strongly recommend you go to zapmyde.com dot. The white dudes for Harris was everything I thought it would be. And more and more, some of the arguments that these people were making were so farcical, not even I would have predicted them. Had I written some of these arguments down in a Hollywood screenplay, turned it into some Hollywood producer, he would have said, Michael, it's two on the nose. You got to make it a little bit more subtle than that. Here is Pete Buttigieg explaining why men need to support someone like Harris, specifically because of her stance on abortion.
I'm so glad she has made freedom the theme of her campaign, because I think in so many ways, that's what's at stake. And yes, women's freedom is exhibit a after Donald Trump demolished the right to choose a. Of course, men are also more free in a country where we have a president who stands up for things like access to abortion care.
Actually, forget about the women. Men are way more free when women can kill their babies, you see, because the men can then have promiscuous and unaccountable sex with those women. That's right. The men can go out and just use the women for their own sexual gratification, and then they can pressure them to murder the babies that are sometimes conceived so that the men can go out and use and abuse even more women. Isn't that great, guys? Put another nickel in the Pete is not gay conspiracy theory jar.
I've always taken Pete at his word that he is a homosexual. However, I have some friends, including a homosexual friend of mine, Spencer Klavin, who has said for a long time that Pete Buttigieg is not really gay. That's his favorite conspiracy theory. And I said, I don't know, man. You know, I don't know. And he said, no, I'm telling you. And his argument was that Pete Buttigieg, I've met many people like this. He's a real striver.
He was a Harvard guy, real ambitious. I mean, for goodness sakes, the guy went from being mayor of some town in Indiana to being the transportation secretary pretty much based on nothing. He decided he was gonna run. He was gonna be mayor of a small town and then just run for president. And he actually did pretty well. So he's a real striver. He's real ambitious.
But he has this problem, which is he's a straight white guy.
Again, I'm not saying he's a straight white guy. I'm saying this is the conspiracy theory. He's a straight white guy. So he's got this problem, right? He's over there at Harvard. He says, shoot, man, I'm not going to rise very far in liberal politics if I'm the most evil type of person in the world, a straight white guy. So I need something. I need some struggle.
Listen, I know a white guy who is married to a woman who identifies as queer. In fact, I know multiple straight white guys who call themselves non heterosexual or non straight or whatever. So that's. I am taking Pete Buttigieg at his word that he has same sex attraction. However, if this is his best argument for Harris.
Hey, guys. Hey, bros. We can all go out there and just shtoop a bunch of women, and then we won't have to do anything about it because there won't be any accountability then. I don't know, man. That really actually changes my view of Pete Buttigieg for the worse. For the worse.
The other guys were Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker. He helped organize it, I guess, Buttigieg. Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Adam Schiff, whom Donald Trump calls pencil knack. He's the congressman from California.
A bunch of people I've never heard of. David Hogg, that pinnacle of white masculinity. David Hogg.
A bunch of other people I've never heard of.
Josh Groban. I have heard of him. The dude.
The dude was there. Jeff Bridges. So there were a number of people, and they're all embracing their identity as white men. And this is something that the Democrats can do and the Republicans can't do. The Republicans will not appeal to white men, even though white men are the group most likely to vote Republican. White men are the indispensable group for the republican political coalition. Republicans refuse to make an overt appeal to white men because they are afraid of Democrats calling them racist and sexist, even though by any even semi reasonable definition of racism and sexism, the Democrats would fit the bill far more than the Republicans. Doesn't matter. That's just not how it works.
A racist is by definition. By the definition that the Democrats have set.
A Republican, a sexist is by the definition the Democrats have set is a conservative. So they refuse to do it.
But Democrats are exhibiting a really keen political insight right here.
And the keen political insight is you only get to the universal through the particular.
You only win national elections by winning particular states, and you only win particular states by winning particular counties. And you only win particular counties by appealing to particular demographics. And you only appeal to particular demographics by making overt promises and appeals to races, sexes, religions, civic associations, industries, affinity groups, you know, Star wars fans. You get Mark Hamill to do your white dudes for Harris.
That's how you win national elections. And Republicans don't really seem to get that. We want to jump straight to the universal.
So Republicans say, we would never, we would never host a white dudes for Harris or white dudes for Trump. Event one, because we are so afraid of the Democrats disingenuously calling us racist, but two, we don't want to appeal to identity politics.
We just want to just say we're Americans for Trump. We're all just. We're everybody for Trump. Everybody for good things. Yeah. Of course. We want national unity. We want to work in accord with one another. We want social harmony. We want our politics to advance the common good. Of course. But the way that you win elections in a democratic society, this is maybe one of the shortcomings of democratic society, is you have to make overt appeals to particular groups. That's the only way that you're ever going to achieve any kind of universal political power. Democrats are getting it. Democrats openly despise white men, and yet when election time comes, they're going to assemble those white men together, and they're going to tell the white men why it's in their white man interest to vote for Kamala Harris. So Buttigieg has taken a pretty aggressive role in the Kamala Harris campaign.
Buttigieg went on the Fox News show, the Sunday show. So this is ostensibly hostile territory. And he went on there to defend Harris, not in his role in the Biden administration, not in his role as transportation secretary. He went on as a private citizen endorsing Harris.
Shannon Bream
Joining us, also fresh off the campaign trail, Pete Buttigieg. He's appearing today in his personal capacity. So no disrespect that we aren't using your cabinet title, but you are here as Pete today. Okay, so you've been on the trail.
Michael Knowles
This is your personal capacity. Now, she is opening up with that. Shannon Bream is making that point off the top, presumably because that's what Pete Buttigieg requested.
Ordinarily, if Buttigieg goes on a news show, he's there as the transportation secretary, which says, we have to make clear you're here as a private citizen today because he's not advancing any work of the White House or the administration or the american people writ large.
He's there advancing Pete Buttigieg's personal career interest to support Kamala Harris, perhaps even over the objections of people at the White House. Maybe that's why he's trying to distance himself from his official role here. Because why? Because Pete Buttigieg wants to be Kamala's running mate, that's why.
And why would Pete Buttigieg want to be Kamala's running mate? Because whatever you think of Buttigieg, I think the guy is just awful. I think he's really one of the worst people in public life. However, you got to admire the hustle. This is one of the greatest careerists I have ever seen. The guy went from basically having never done anything to being the mayor of a small town to being in a presidential cabinet. That is crazy. That is really, really impressive. And now he wants to leapfrog it again. He's been one of the worst transportation secretaries we've ever had, which is impressive because most people don't even pay attention to the transportation secretary. But we have had historic transportation problems at the national level under Buttigieg's reign. Major train accidents, major airplane problems, major, major transportation issues.
Meanwhile, what is Buttigieg doing about it? He's complaining about the supposedly racist bridges in Long island. He's not doing anything to fix these problems. So he's failing at a job at which it is almost impossible to fail. And he might be Kamala's running mate, and he might be Kamala's running mate, in part because it seems like Richard Whitmer doesn't want it. The governor of Michigan seems like Gavin Newsom doesn't want it, and they don't want it because I think that they actually do have some real political seasoning under their belt. I think they're looking ahead to 2028. They're saying, look, maybe Kamala's gonna lose this time. I want to keep my powder dry so I can be a leader of the party next time. After four years of Trump Buttigieg, he doesn't really have all that much going on. He's glib and, and articulate enough on tv, but that's it. He's got to keep this career train going. He is all in for Kamala.
Now, one way that Kamala might win the election is that the election would appear to be rigged by big tech, specifically Google.
Elon Musk has posted a lot about this on X. When you try to search for President Trump, first of all, you don't get an autofill of all sorts of nice results that you would get for other search terms on Google.
But second of all, what will pop up is news about Kamala and Trump. When you search for Kamala Harris, you do get all that autofill and you get news specifically for Kamala Harris. So Google is rigging the election. And I was told about this. Bye. Someone who's got a lot of credibility on the issue, who's really poked into Google, and that would be Doctor Robert Epstein.
Doctor Robert Epstein is the former editor in chief of psychology today. He sat down with me during a Michael and to discuss how big tech can control election outcomes, even the beliefs of people worldwide. Check out this teaser.
Robert Epstein
We published a landmark study in which we show bias in Google search results can change people's views about anything at all.
Michael Knowles
How bad is it?
Robert Epstein
I gave a briefing, a private briefing. A few minutes later, one of them walked out. I knew exactly who it was. And he walked up to me and said, doctor Epstein, based on what you just told us, I predict you're going to be killed in some sort of accident in the next few months. But a few months later, my beautiful, amazing wife was killed in a horrendous car accident.
Michael Knowles
Are you deterred at all?
Robert Epstein
Yes. Then there's another part of me, which is the science guy. Every single thing we do is relevant to everything that's happening right now.
Speaker B
Right?
Robert Epstein
With the algorithms shifting the views of people who are undecided on some issue or other around the world by the billions.
Michael Knowles
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Now, speaking of Kamala Harris and the presidential campaign, Kamala is attacking Trump's vp. Kamala and the entire liberal establishment is attacking JD Vance. And they're attacking him in a particular way. They're calling him weird.
That was the tweet from kamala HQ. JD Vance is weird and creepy press release. JD Vance is a creep.
Parentheses, who wants to ban abortion nationwide. So it opens up with this childish, really nasty personal attack, and then only in the parenthetical do you get any kind of political issue? JD Vance's obsession with controlling women's most personal health decisions. Blah, blah, blah. You know, it's all about we love abortion. That's Pete Buttigieg's argument. Ha, ha. Guys, vote for Kamala Harris and you can pressure your girlfriends to kill your kid. Ha, ha. You know, that's really what they're running on. And Kamala has been extreme on abortion. She's prosecuted. A friend of mine, David Daleiden, who exposed the abortion industry was illegally selling baby boxes, body parts. You know, I mean, she's, if she cares about any issue, it is this. It is killing babies. She absolutely loves it. So they're attacking JD and. But it's really not even about the issue that they try to tie it in. It's really about how he's weird. JD Vance is weird. Okay. Is JD Vance weird? I don't find JD Vance weird at all. I find JD Vance actually to be one of the most refreshingly normal candidates we've had in public life. I found his memoir, hillbilly Elegy, to be refreshingly normal and representative of the experiences of a lot of the american people. I find his view on public policy to be refreshingly normal. He's not some crazed ideologue on the left. The ones who have this bloodlust for babies, for instance, or the ones who want to erase our national borders, like Kamala Harris does, or the ones who want to stumble us into World War III, like Kamala Harris does, or the ones who wanted to destroy our economy because of their own hobby horses, like Kamala Harris does.
Or even the ideologues on the right, the ones who seem to think that the purpose of society is to serve the great God of GDP or something. The ones who refuse to look at the actual conditions of american life in favor of abstractions about the economy or liberty with a capital l or anything like that. JD Vance I find to be refreshing in that he says, hey, look, we want to have a robust economy. And so we want policies that are conducive to economic flourishing, but we don't want that to be at the expense of actual american towns, families. Sometimes you can pursue economic policies that really undermine the main strength of the economy, which is the american people and the main purpose of the economy, which is to serve the american people. So maybe we got to cool it with the outsourcing. Maybe we got to cool it a little bit with the free trade sometimes. Maybe we need to cool it with the open borders, which is undermining the american family.
Maybe we actually do need a little government intervention sometimes to help support growing families. I find all that normal.
But I thought JD Vance had an even better response than I had to this accusation that he's weird. This was his response in video form.
Shannon Bream
And my pronouns are she, her and hers.
Michael Knowles
She, her and her.
Mine too.
Shannon Bream
All right.
Michael Knowles
These are the people calling JD Vance weird. The kind of people who want to castrate your kids, who think that men can be women. The kind of people who introduce themselves, they say, hi, I'm Kamala Harris. I'm a woman. She, her and hers.
These are the people who call JD Vance weird. The ones who celebrate nudist marches in the streets, weird dudes dressed up in leather spanking each other throughout the entire month of June in front of children. These are the people calling JD Vance weird, the ones who want to eliminate our national borders, flood the country with foreign nationals.
They're the ones. It's very silly.
These are the people. These are some of the strangest people we've ever seen in the history of the United States. But so actually it makes sense that they would call JD Vance weird.
From the perspective of our liberal political establishment, JD Vance is very weird. Why?
Because he is a normal looking white guy. You know, white guys are absolutely the bottom of the barrel, the most disgusting people on earth according to the liberal establishment.
That's why they've got it now. They realize that's a liability. That's why they're appealing to them directly.
But he's a normal looking white guy who came from difficult circumstances, who worked really hard and raised his station in life and wants to help his fellow citizens.
And hes married to a woman and he has kids. He had children and hes propagating the species. And thats just really, really weird.
He made money in business.
He worked in the private sector to help his family, and then he turned some of his gains to public service. Thats just weird.
In the Democrat view, you're supposed to identify as something that you are not.
If you're going to engage in any kind of romance, it should be in the weirdest way possible. You should be with someone of the same sex or, I don't know, three dudes in a billy goat or something. You should never have children. Why would you have children? That's crazy. According to our liberal establishment, if you're going to make money, you should make money in the public sector. You should milk the portion of the society that's ostensibly for the common good. You should use that to enrich your yourself. You should get on the Nancy Pelosi investing train. And then it's opposite day for the liberal establishment. That's what it's supposed to be. So when JD Vance does normal stuff, yeah, from the perspective of a really perverse elite, normal looks pretty weird. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to preborn.com knowles. It's been over two years since the overjourning of Roe v. Wade, which was supposed to be a great victory for the pro life movement. But the number of abortions has increased since then due to the fact that the abortion pill is now more available than ever. New estimates show that more than 1 million babies were aborted in 2023. The abortion pill accounted for over 60% of them. Preborn is currently providing free ultrasounds and life saving resources to expectant mothers, helping them choose life for their babies. They are on the front lines offering support and hope to those facing unplanned pregnancies. Thanks to the Dailywire's partnership with Preborn, I'm excited to announce that we are able to make our powerful documentary, choosing life, available to all on Dailywire.
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Our political establishment, which is, you know, it views normal things, is really, really weird. Our political establishment is the kind of political order that mocks the Last Supper. We covered this yesterday on the show.
The Olympics opened up in Paris by mocking the Last Supper. And now there are some libs who are, I think, disingenuously trying to argue that it really wasn't a mockery of the Last Supper. No, no, it was a mockery of some 16th or 17th century dutch painting about Cupid and psyche, or else Dionysus or else, I don't know, some other Olympians. And it just wasn't. I went through on the show yesterday. Why that is obviously not the case from the perspective of artistic interpretation, but also from the perspective of history.
And of course, there was a pagan element there, but that was the point. The point was to replace an image of Christianity in what was once called the eldest daughter of the church in France with a return of the pagan demons. So obviously that was the point there. And they did all of this and now they're fake apologizing.
There was international outrage. Christians marching peacefully and beautifully and prayerfully, but still showing up saying, this is completely unacceptable. At least one advertiser pulled out. We'll get to that in a second. There was so much international pressure that the Olympics had to address it. And here's how they addressed it.
This according to Anne Descamps, a Paris 2024 spokesman, clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. Oh, is that clear? That's not clear to me. It's actually clear to me that the opposite is true. That you did intend to disrespect Christians. She says clearly. Total gaslighting. Clearly, there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. Christians, by the way, lady, you can use the word. The religious group that may not be named Christian. No, it's Christians. No one accused you of disrespecting Muslims. You'd never do that. Cause you're afraid you'd get your heads chopped off. No one's accusing you of disrespecting Hindus or Jews or Jainse or Shinto or any other group. It's Christians that you disrespected, or any religious group.
We believe that our ambition of aiming to celebrate community tolerance was achieved.
And if people have taken any offense, we are, of course, really sorry if you.
Completely unacceptable. Completely. This is worse then had they not said anything at all.
They did the thing. They did that thing that is so irritating that I'm sure you've all experienced before, which is. Oh, well, I'm really sorry if you were offended. Oh, yeah. Oh, you were offended. I'm sorry that you were offended. Don't be sorry that I'm offended. Be sorry that you offended me. That's what you need to be sorry. You can't. You don't need to apologize for my feelings. You can't control my feelings.
I'm not asking you to apologize for my feelings. I'm asking you to apologize for what you did, for the disgusting actions that you perpetrated. Olympics committee. That's the problem here. My feelings aren't the problem.
I guess my feelings are a problem. And the feelings of Christians worldwide are a problem for you now because you're getting so much backlash and at least one of your advertisers is pulling out. And this is now probably the lowest watched Olympics, the lowest viewership ever relative to the size of the population. Yeah, yeah, that's a problem for you, but that's not the problem. The problem is that you mocked our Lord. That's the problem that you put on a disgusting and sacrilegious display.
That's why I am even less inclined than I previously was to watch the Olympics. That's why many people are tuning it out this year. That's the, so apologize for that.
But they're not. No, we didn't, we never, obviously, we never intended to offend anybody. And what we wanted to do was celebrate tolerance by mocking Christ. And so, you know, we did that and we didn't do anything wrong. And if you're offended, then, like, I'm sorry for you. That sounds like it's a you problem.
Okay. All right. Well, at least we know where you stand.
We know that the Olympics hates Christ and disrespects Christianity. That's what we know.
Even if there were some innocent mistake, just a little confusion of representation in that opening ceremony, this non apology makes perfectly clear what they think of christians. And so I think christians should make perfectly clear what we think of the Olympics. I have no interest in watching 1 second of that. And I think any company that continues to advertise with the Olympics, and there are a lot of them, is making very clear that they don't have any respect for Christians.
There's one company at least that's pulled out, C Spire. C Spire is the largest privately held wireless company in the US.
Very quickly reacted, said this display is disgusting.
Pulled their advertising from the rest of the games broadcast on NBC.
I hope many other companies follow. Cease buyer is making clear, hey, we think it's wrong to disrespect God and to offend christians. We think that's wrong. We're not going to support that. Every other company that's keeping their dollars in there is telling you exactly what they think of christians.
You know who else is telling you what they think of christians? The first lady of the United States, Jill Biden, who effectively is probably the president of the United States because her husband doesn't have a functioning brain anymore. Joe Biden came out and she called the Olympics opening spectacular.
Shannon Bream
It was spectacular. The rain did not dampen our spirits. And Casey, honestly, every step of the way I was thinking to myself, oh, my God. Oh, my God. How are we going to top this? How are we going to top this?
So, okay, so Paris has the, you know, I tower, but we have Hollywood and. Right. And the magic of Hollywood that makes all dreams come true. So I think we're going to be okay.
Michael Knowles
Spectacular. Oh, yes. When they mocked the apostles and our Lord at the last supper before his passion and crucifixion, I thought that was just wonderful. Just marvelous. Boy, oh, boy, wasn't that just great? That's the first lady of the United States, the wife of the supposedly devout Catholic Joe Biden, who manifestly is not a devout Catholic. He's not even a practicing Catholic because he violates non negotiable aspects of his faith in public life happily, gleefully.
It is not. If it wasn't clear previously, it should have been. But if it wasn't clear previously, it is not permissible for christians to vote for Kamala Harris. It is not permissible for christians to support with their votes the Biden Harris administration.
Perhaps the simplest way of understanding why that is the case is the sacramental view that they take of abortion. Their absolute defense of abortion, of murdering innocent babies in the womb, is sufficient reason to prove that it is not permissible for christians to vote for them.
That is one of those issues that we would call non negotiable. The church has been clear about this certain issues.
Reasonable people can disagree. Pope Benedict XVI observed that reasonable people can disagree over the death penalty.
Some Christians make an argument as to why the death penalty in the year of our Lord 2024 is not permissible.
However, the church has taught for approximately 2000 years that the death penalty is permissible and in some cases quite called for.
Beatified popes have exercised the death penalty many, many times in the papal states. So Pope Benedict's argument was, you know, this is one of those issues where reasonable people can disagree in good faith.
However, murdering little babies is not one of those issues.
From the earliest days of the church, the earliest church documents that we have going back to the D D, abortion is not permissible. Obviously, the fifth amendment or the fifth amendment. I'm confusing my constitution and my commandments. The fifth commandment says that you shall not commit murder. So that alone should suffice. But this is even explained in the earliest days of the church. You just cant do it.
Not acceptable. And we know that this is a central issue for Kamala Harris, maybe more so than it was for Joe Biden. This is the big pitch that Pete Buttigieg is making. Hey, white dudes. Vote for Kamala. Shes going to let you kill your babies. So this is not acceptable. And the fact that they would celebrate the, the overt mockery of our Lord is, I think, just if you were a little too thick headed to understand it before, this is just one of those instances of political circumstances shaking you and saying, hey, buddy, if you are a Christian, you can't vote for these people.
Now, what else does Biden have up his sleeve? Remember Biden?
Joe Biden, not Joe Biden. Joe Biden. He's supposedly the president of the United States. Joe Biden says he's going to devote the remaining time in office to destroying the Supreme Court.
He has a plan. Hes going to radically revolutionize the Supreme Court.
I dont know that Joe Bidens going to make it through breakfast most mornings, but he says hes going to undo the separation of powers. Hes going to remake one of the supposedly co equal branches of government.
His plan involves three points.
He wants to end life tenure for supreme court justices.
Life tenure for Supreme Court justices is found in the constitution. This has been how the Supreme Court has worked from the beginning of our country.
Joe Biden wants to end that after centuries, he wants to end it. He wants to inject electoral politics in an unprecedented way into the Supreme Court.
He wants to institute a new ethics code for justices. So here we have, just as we previously saw, the legislative branch trying to exert domination over a supposedly coequal branch of government by imposing an ethics code on the Supreme Court. Now you have the executive branch trying to do the same thing, saying, we control you. We're going to impose an ethics code on you that effectively makes you answerable to us.
So the framers of the constitution gave us separation of powers, co equal branches of government.
One branch doesn't get to dominate the other branches. Joe Biden saying, yeah, forget about that.
Forget about those framers. Forget about that constitution. I am going to dominate through the executive branch. I'm going to dominate the Supreme Court.
That's the second part. Third part is an amendment cracking down on presidential immunity.
So he wants an amendment to imprison Trump because he knows that it's not legal for him to imprison his political rival. They weren't able to beat him at the ballot box or in the court of public opinion.
It remains controversial whether they beat him at the ballot box in 2020, but looking ahead to the 2024 race, they haven't been able to beat him in the court of public opinion. So then they tried to prosecute him. And in an unprecedented move that makes Joe Biden look like this would be dictator in Venezuela, Maduro, look like any tin pot dictator in a banana republic. He's trying to imprison his political rival. Then there was the assassination attempt, the rather odd assassination attempt that occurred just two days before the Republican National Convention and which only was avoided by a last minute nanosecond early hairs, breath, turn of the head that saved Trump's life. So they couldn't beat him. They couldn't imprison him. No one could kill him. So now Joe Biden is saying, I'm gonna change the Supreme Court in order to lock up my political rivals. And Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, says that's not gonna happen. So here's a reporter asking Biden about that on a tarmac.
Speaker Johnson said, it's dead on arrival and he is.
How are you?
Might be, might be a little bit hard to hear that Biden's response to this is, he is.
He's dead on arrival. My, my thing's not.
He is. You are. Uh uh.
We'll, we'll analyze that soaring, typically Biden esque rhetoric in just a moment. First, though, Jeremy's razor's Christmas in July sale ends today.
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They believed that they could just keep pushing this, pushing this further and further and just now outright mock Christ in the opening to the Olympics. And they would get away with it because the libs have such cultural dominance, and that didn't quite work out this time. They did receive at least some modicum of backlash, and I think they should receive a lot more. I've never cared for the Olympics. I think the modern Olympic Games are obviously just some big lib nonsense started with the advance of liberalism at the end of the 19th century, and it's always this kumbaya, we or the world kind of stuff. I mentioned that on the show yesterday. The ancient games were just pagan rituals. They were actually pagan.
I don't mean that in any shallow way. I mean they existed to pay homage to the pagan gods. And so I generally think that's not a great idea, especially after the revelation at Sinai and then, of course, at the incarnation. I just think generally we ought to avoid honoring the pagan gods.
So the Olympics do very little for me. There are plenty of great athletic leagues in America. It's fine. All the best athletes come to America to train anyway. So the whole thing is just a big farce.
But now I see even less reason to pay attention to the Olympics.
Mike Johnson, republican speaker of the House, says that Biden's plan to destroy the Supreme Court is dead on arrival.
Joe Biden responds and says, I think he is dead on arrival.
Which, to translate that into a little bit more elevated political rhetoric is, uh uh, I am rubber and he is glue. And what he says bounces off of me. And it sticks to you.
Uh uh.
Nuh uh uh.
But it is dead on arrival for now. The Republicans barely, but they do control the House of Representatives.
There has been one other attempt to do what Joe Biden is attempting to do, to fundamentally alter the Supreme Court, to serve the whims of the executive branch. And that was by FDR. FDR was the american monarch. He upended the tradition set by George Washington of presidents only serving two terms. FDR was going to serve forever, and he ended up dying in office four terms.
He was our king. And this was at a time in the west when there was a rise of these dictator figures, Mussolini, Hitler, and others.
So there was this rise of real strongman politics that did away with constitutional inconveniences. And it was all happening in the 1930s. So it was not just about one man. It was about a political movement throughout the civilization, and FDR was our version of it. And so as a strong arm political figure, albeit one on the left, we usually think of them on the right because of how the liberal media lie, but ours was on the left. He wanted to destroy the Supreme Court, and he wanted to destroy the Supreme Court because the court kept shooting down his plans to revolutionize the federal government through his new Deal programs, and the court kept observing that his New Deal programs were unconstitutional.
FDR said, okay, well, Im going to pack the Supreme Court and Im going to add a bunch of my judges to the court, and then the court is going to ratify all of my plans.
And the only reason that this was avoided is because of an event thats referred to as the switch in time.
A switch in time saved nine saved nine justices.
This was in 1937 in the case of, what was the name of the case?
West coast hotel versus Parish, West coast hotel versus Paris.
This was a 1937 case about a minimum wage law in Washington state.
And throughout 1935 and 1936, this one, Judge Owen Roberts, who was an associate justice on the court, kept being the deciding vote, these five, four votes to shoot down the New Deal programs. At the very end, in 1937, he switches sides and he switches sides in order to give FDR what he wants so that FDR wont completely destroy the Supreme Court by packing it with his political cronies.
So Biden wants to make himself a new FDR. He wants to make himself this new strongman, unbound by constitutional limits and by the limits of our political tradition. I mean, hes a guy whos trying to imprison his political rival. This is something we really havent seen in America, at least not a major political rival.
Wilson going pretty hard against Eugene Debs, but he was the socialist candidate for president. He only got 8% of the vote. Here youre talking about the republican nominee for president, Donald Trump, whos actually the most popular candidate in the race, Biden, trying to throw that guy in prison. He wants to make himself a king. He wants to make himself the new FDR. Difference is, FDR had the juice and Biden doesnt have the juice. FDR had a lot of political power.
If you speak to people of a certain generation, even people who are conservative, they will speak of FDR with a great deal of respect, reverence, because he was a king in the way that the Brits speak of the monarchs.
Biden doesnt have that juice. Biden doesnt know what his name is half the time. Biden doesnt know what end is up.
I suspect this will fail. I suspect Mike Johnson is right.
But the desire here is exactly the same. Biden wants to reorder our federal government before he leaves. It's probably going to go as well as every other political initiative Biden's ever taken. How's he doing on that cancer moonshot? Did Biden cure cancer yet? Still waiting on that one. Speaking of high courts, good news coming out of the UK, and the UK, I guess good news coming out from the motherland.
A UK High Court has officially banned puberty blockers. We covered this story early some months ago when the NHS decided they were going to stop prescribing puberty blockers for kids who identify as transgender or whatever. They said, this is terrible.
Theres no evidence that this actually works. And it could lead to lots of negative consequences for kids who grow out of it. So were going to stop that. Well, Justice Beverly Lang from the UK has just said that that rule will stand.
The appeals against that rule, they flop.
This is it. We're not going to trans the kids anymore. And you're seeing similar rules being passed in France. You're seeing similar provisions being passed in different american states, though not at the federal level yet, because Biden and Harris are still totally gung ho on castrating your kids when they don't succeed in killing them in the womb.
So what has this revealed? This is revealed a limit of liberalism, which is good. This is worth celebrating.
I don't want conservatives to be complacent here. We are still losing.
Liberals have still won almost uninterrupted for the past 60, 70 years.
But we've seen a limit here.
Transiting the kids was just too far, even in the UK, even in France, which is more liberal than we are, even in many american states. It was just a little bit too far. And I don't think liberals are going to succeed at totally normalizing, castrating your kids anytime soon. There is a limit to liberalism.
They've still won. They've normalized murdering your kids. They've normalized a new definition of marriage, which is completely absurd.
They've normalized obscene displays in the streets. They've normalized Dei in corporate America. They've normalized CRT in the classrooms. They've normalized the abolition of national borders. They've won so much.
But at the very least, we can take some consolation that we've seen. They're not omnipotent. There is a limit to liberalism. There are ways that we can win, that we can start to chip away. I was talking about Star wars earlier because Mark Hamill's a white dude for Kamala, sometimes there's a little hole in the Death Star. And if you get that missile just right from the little x wing airplane thing, maybe there's a chance that we can crack that edifice.
Before we go. There's a really sad story, but it relates to what we've been talking about.
Comes out of Texas. A Texas mother threw her baby in a dumpster, newborn baby. She threw in her dumpster. This gal, Evarilda Cux ad salam.
She's 18 years old, teenage motherhood threw her baby in the dumpster. When asked why by police, she said that she didn't want her boyfriend to break up with her, so she threw her baby out. She's now said to be a flight risk. She's been arrested.
She has no ties to America, so I guess she's some illegal alien.
She's currently in jail with a $90,000 bond and could face very serious prison time.
Why?
Why had she just killed the baby, not even abandoned the baby, but killed the baby 1 hour prior?
She could have done it in a clinic throughout much of the United States, and not only would she not have faced any fines or jail time, she would have been celebrated as a brave hero.
She would have been celebrated by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg, exercising her freedom.
So it's completely incoherent.
I don't really pity the girl because what she did was so terribly evil, and apparently she has no business being in the country anyway.
But I can understand her confusion. Why is it that she would have been allowed to murder her baby in a very painful way 1 hour prior to her abandoning her baby and presumably leaving the baby to die?
Why is one of those a horrific crime and one of those to be celebrated? To be celebrated by the president and the vice president and the transportation secretary and all the white dudes for Harris completely incoherent when Mayor Pete is making his pitch, here's why. You got to vote for Kamala. He's saying you got to vote for Kamala because you can do exactly the same thing morally, exactly the same thing that that Texas mother did when she threw her baby in a dumpster. It's teeheehee Tuesday. The rest of the show continues now. You don't want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Knowles kwles at checkout for two months, free on all annual plans.