WATCH: Unhinged Celebrities Rant Against Trump & Children

The trial of President Trump in New York entered its final phase yesterday. And as the courtroom prosecution made its closing arguments to the jury, the political prosecution made its closing arguments to the public outside the courtroom. First of all, let me say this first and foremost, we're not here today because of what's going on over there. We're here today because you all are here. And so we are glad that you're all here this morning. We're here primarily because of the threat that Donald Trump poses to the United States of America and to our democracy. We're not here. We're not here because of Trump. I mean, we're here because of Trump, but we're not here. This is totally different. Presidential campaigns always hold random press conferences in Tribeca. Of course, Biden's campaign is there because of Trump, of what's going on in that courtroom. They tried to throw Trump in jail and it backfired. So now they're doing damage control. But no one wanted to show up to defend Joe Biden because every even semi-sensible person realizes how disgusting it is that Biden is trying to imprison his opponent. So the only prominent lib the campaign could get who is sufficiently stunned to defend the political persecution outside that courtroom in New York was Robert De Niro, who gave the worst performance of his lifetime. We'll get to it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Alleged comedian Chelsea Handler has attacked Harrison Butker for defending things that will make you happy and flourish. She doesn't like that very much. We'll get to that in a moment. First, though, we got to talk about Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com slash Knowles. Once again, Pure Talk is investing in their customers with their own money without charging you an extra penny. As you plan your summer travel, make sure your wireless provider has you covered at home and abroad. 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The Biden campaign, this is the President of the United States looking around for anyone who can lead the rally outside of the courtroom where they are attempting to imprison the chief political rival to the sitting president. And no one wanted to do it. Obama's not showing up. Bill Clinton's not showing up. Jimmy Carter probably could show up. He's still not showing up. Then they look in the media, okay, do we have any really famous popular stars? Taylor Swift, do you wanna come? No, she's not there. So they go all the way down the list, and they end up with Robert De Niro. That's the best they got, is a man who, he's very good at playing the one role that he plays. That one character that De Niro figured out in the 70s, he is very good at playing that role, and he's given some fun performances over the years. Count von Metternich, he is not, okay, a political philosopher, he is not. So he gets out there, and here is his argument as they are attempting to imprison Trump. Under Trump, this kind of government will perish from the earth. I don't mean to scare you. No, no, wait, maybe I do mean to scare you. If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye, that we all take for granted. And elections, forget about it. That's over, that's done. If he gets in, I can tell you right now, he will never leave. He will never leave, you know that. He will never leave. If I keep saying this five or six or seven times, maybe then people will believe me. Not a very convincing performance from De Niro for two reasons. One, he didn't even memorize his lines. The one hard skill that Robert De Niro has cultivated during his life is memorizing words on paper that other people write for him. Here, he couldn't even do that. Supposedly, the country is on the line, our government will perish. He doesn't care enough to speak from the heart, he writes it down on paper. Yeah, I don't mean to scare you, or maybe I do. But if Trump is elected, forget about it. He actually put in a forget about it, give me a break. So that's one reason it wasn't convincing. But the main reason it wasn't convincing is the big problem for Biden in this race. Trump has already been president. So all the fear mongering, all the threats that if Donald Trump is elected, he'll never leave office, the country will fall apart, the government will dissolve, we'll enter World War III. All of that fear mongering falls flat because he was already president, we already saw what happened, and none of their scare tactics actually occurred. None of the dire warnings actually came true. He'll never leave, well, he left. You stole the election from him, sorry, let me correct my language. I wanna be very precise in my language. You changed all the voting rules in the weeks and months before the election, and you dragged out the count in rather dubious ways through the middle of the night and for days and weeks. And you took $400 million from a left-wing billionaire and funneled that money into left-wing organizations, and then moved ballot drop boxes, in some cases illegally. And you violated the state constitution in Pennsylvania, and you did this and you did that to fix the election, to rig the election, to, I don't know, whatever you wanna call it. It was a real Democrat job on that election, and even still, people want the guy back in office. And so the best you can do now is try to throw him in prison. And the further irony of all of this is they're trying to show how clean they are and how awful Donald Trump is. And so what do they do? They bring a guy who's most famous for playing gangsters to stand outside the classroom and say, we gotta imprison our political opponent, or else things are gonna be really bad. The other huge mistake for the Biden campaign to go out there and do this is they're proving the Trump campaign's point. Previously, the Democrats had said, we are prosecuting Trump because he violated the law. Cuz it's really, really important that when you make an in-kind contribution to your own campaign eight years ago, that you file a specific form with the FEC. Don't forget, that is what this trial is about. The trial is not about did Donald Trump sleep with a star? The trial is not about, is he a rotten person? The trial is about, did Donald Trump misfile documents pertaining to his business and political campaign? That's all it is. It's a paperwork trial. And previously, the Democrats said, this is the big threat to democracy, is the paperwork trial. And so we need to make sure that Lady Justice is blind, and we prosecute everyone evenly, even though we don't really prosecute Democrats for the same crime. But now the Biden campaign is admitting, no, no, no, it's really just about how afraid we are of the prospect that Donald Trump could be reelected. So you're proving the point, it is a political prosecution, of course. And De Niro got heckled mercilessly. We're trying to be gentlemen in this world, the Democrats. You are gangsters. You are gangsters. You're a traitor to Italian and Jews. You're a traitor to Italian and Jews, you. You're a. Bobby De Niro, you're a. He's a mook. He's a mook, M-O-O-K. I love how De Niro opens and he goes, listen, I'm a gentleman here. You people heckling me, you're not gentlemen. Then you hear someone in the crowd go, F you, De Niro. And then he just goes, F you. I'm a gentleman, F you. And then I don't know, is De Niro part Jewish? I couldn't quite make out the guy at the end who's yelling, you're a traitor to Italians. Obviously, he's Italian. Maybe he's part Jewish, I don't know. But you're a traitor. You're a traitor to your people. I do sort of feel that way. Listen, as a descendant of the Mezzogiorno, as a child of Italy, okay, an Italian-American, I'll acknowledge there's some great things Italian-Americans have done for America. We've contributed, I don't know, pizza. We've contributed Antonin Scalia, that was pretty good. I don't know, we've contributed a lot of things. But we've got some things to answer for. We did bring some organized crime, a certain Italian-American subculture, that's true. We did create the conditions that led to pineapple on pizza, that's very unfortunate. And we gave you Robert De Niro's big fat mouth, and that's unfortunate. We own that, we're responsible for that, and that's very unfortunate. Sad performance for De Niro. He's expecting to come in like a tough guy hero in New York, big movie star. And the people just made fun of him cuz he's a complete shill for a very corrupt political establishment, and everybody sees it now. That's why the Biden campaign had to show up there in the first place. What happened inside the courtroom? Enough about the shenanigans outside. Inside the courtroom, it was the final day, so it was the closing arguments. Now, obviously, the jury's gonna deliberate, and they'll decide whether to convict him or not, they're gonna then sentence him if he is convicted. How did the trial go? It was a joke for the prosecution. Obviously, I've got an interest in this campaign. I want Trump to win, I want Biden to lose. I think the whole prosecution has been absurd and a great stain on the American political order. But you don't just need to take my word for it. You tune into CNN. Yesterday, CNN has a former prosecutor on, and this is obviously a super network. And this former prosecutor admits the prosecution simply failed to prove its case against Trump. There is reasonable doubt all over this case. Where is Keith Schiller? Where is Allen Weisselberg? How did Michael Cohn get away with stealing $30,000? Hold a pity party for him, made $4 million on this, thought he'd be chief of staff. He's a fixer. If the plumber comes to my house to fix my leak, I could be home. That doesn't mean I know how he's doing it and what it's taking to be fixed. Stormy Daniels, let's hold a pity party for her. Why do we need to know whether or not the former president wore a condom or not? It's simply about, did the former president know that books, his records, false entries, for legal fees, Michael Cohn was his lawyer. Did he intend to cover up the election or to protect his family? It's everywhere. There is reasonable doubt all over the case. That's the upshot. You don't just need to hear it from me. You don't just need to hear it from some right winger or a staff member of the Trump campaign. That's CNN, okay? It's a total joke. And I've covered the trial pretty regularly. And we've heard throughout that the prosecution was focusing all this scintillating nonsense. The exact nature of the encounter between Trump and Stormy Daniels, which those scintillating for the tabloids is totally irrelevant to the case. Because the case is about paperwork. The case is about something that actually Stormy Daniels would know nothing about. Stormy Daniels, who already doesn't have credibility because she already said, made an official statement that she did not take hush money from Donald Trump. And she did not have an affair with Donald Trump and all the rest of it. Michael Cohen, who has committed a crime and is admitted to committing a crime that is worse than the crime that they're accusing Trump of. Michael Cohen wasn't even prosecuted for it. The whole thing was a complete circus. And that falls on the judge, Judge Mershawn, who's lamenting that this has become a clown show. A clown show? You're the one who called in the star. Don't blame us for the clown show. And really, ultimately, it falls on Joe Biden. It falls on Biden because if Biden had wanted to shut down this prosecution of his political opponent, first ever in American history, former president, current leader of the opposition, he could have done it. He didn't wanna do it. He wanted to throw Trump in jail cuz he thinks Trump's gonna beat him in November. My new series, it's not my new series. It's a series that's been around for a while, but we got some new episodes. It's Michael and. It's not your typical talking point kinda conversation. And one of the reasons it's not is cuz I don't prepare for them at all. So these are unscripted. They're long form discussions into the controversial, the shocking, and the supernatural. Some of these episodes are debates with people who, by their own merit, rise to the top of the food chain on people who engage on certain issues. One of those examples would be Pearl Davis, who's made a name for herself in the red pill movement, the men's rights movement, capital M, capital R, and the issues surrounding marriage. Check out this trailer for a little bit of our debate. See guys that take you guys' advice, and sometimes it ruins their life. What would men do if they begged you for advice? Again, I'm not in the business of telling men what to do. But I think you kind of are. Well, what percent of women do you think are marriageable? I think you're squirting the issue. People are not going to return to marriage until you make the institution more fair. Well, what they'll do is they'll return. Doesn't matter what you say. It doesn't matter what I say. You guys have been preaching marriage for a decade. And the rates of marriage have still been going down. Why? Because the cost is too high and the quality of women is too low. How do you fix it? Do you want to get married? London Roberts, who is Hunter Biden's baby mama, one of his baby's mama. Is it like attorneys general? Baby's mama? She is set to release a tell-all book during the week of the Democrat National Convention. Already, the Democrats were slated to have a convention crazier than any since 1968 when protesters are attacking people. Well, now the 2024 convention has gotten even crazier because of Hunter's baby mama. Now, London Roberts is the mother of Hunter's daughter, Navy Joan. And you might say that this is just kind of personal tabloid stuff and this has no place in American politics. It does, because it's actually not just about this woman. It's not just about the little girl. It's not even just about Hunter Biden. This is about Joe Biden. Because for years, for four years, Joe Biden cruelly and callously refused to acknowledge his own granddaughter. Hunter Biden, no surprise that he refused to acknowledge his own daughter. He wouldn't pay child support. He wouldn't admit paternity. At the time that he fathered this child with London Roberts, he had abandoned his family and had an affair with his brother's widow. So not really reputable stuff, all very out in the open. Hunter Biden then, again, after abandoning his family, it's not as though he were just trying to protect his family from this one indiscretion. No, he'd already abandoned his family and started an affair with his brother's widow. And then at the same time, fathered this daughter with a former stripper, London Roberts, and then refused to pay for it. Even though Hunter Biden was making roughly a bazillion dollars a month because he was peddling his father's influence in the American government overseas in places like Ukraine and China. He just refused to step up to it. Really disreputable stuff, but we expect that from Hunter Biden who went through some pretty bad periods of his life, decades of his life, and was a criminal and a crackhead and all the rest of it. But his dad doesn't have that excuse. His dad can't say, well, back in Scranton, I was smoking crack and rocks with the old corn pop there and hairy legs. And no, he wasn't. He has no excuse about that. But at the White House, when he's hanging up all the little stockings for his grandkids, he leaves his granddaughter, Navy Joan, off the mantle. When he talks about his family, he says, I have six grandkids. I talk to him every day. I love him so much. He actually has seven grandkids. And I don't think this was just forgetfulness. I think this was a political calculation that took him four years to rectify. Really cruel stuff. Imagine you're this little girl, your father's a complete deadbeat degenerate, and your grandfather is the President of the United States. And he refuses to acknowledge you. How much does that make you feel? You're four years old. You're starting to know things. And how's that gonna make her feel when she's five and six and seven and eight to know that your grandfather is ashamed of you and would rather try to minimize a kind of political scandal than acknowledge his own flesh and blood? What a deadbeat. What a complete degenerate that man is. It's awful. Which is why I really look forward to this book. I'm glad, finally, London Roberts was able to pry some money out of Hunter Biden's greedy little hands. I'm glad, finally, they pried some protection for this little girl out of the President of the United States. He wasn't even extending protection to her. He's the most visible man in the world. And now I'm glad that this tell-all's coming out cuz it tells you a lot about the character, not only of maybe Joan's father, but of her grandfather, the man sitting in the White House. Speaking of women and babies, Chelsea Handler, she is an alleged comedian, I am told. Chelsea Handler has just attacked Mr. GigaChad himself, chief's kicker, Harrison Butker, over his remarks at Benedictine College when Harrison, a Catholic, articulated a Catholic perspective on life and marriage and family and eternity to the Catholic audience. This was too much for Chelsea Handler. As you may have heard, there's a man by the name of Harrison Butker who's talking more than I like for a male. He's a kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, and I learned that kickers rarely get tackled. So based on his misogynistic rant during a recent commencement address, I'm guessing this Bible thumper thumped himself a little too hard with his Bible and gave himself CTE. Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world and embrace one of the most important titles of all, homemaker. First of all, Harrison, you're a kicker, so you have one important part of your body, and it's not your f***ing brain. I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabel, would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother. Isabel's dream of having a career might not have come true, but if you asked her today if she has any regrets on her decision, she would laugh out loud without hesitation and say, heck no. Isabel, please blink twice if you need us to call for help. But the real kicker is that Harrison Butker's mother is a renowned physicist who has a degree in chemistry and a master's in medical physics. So who paid for all those youth athletic team fees and uniform fees and equipment fees when Harrison was a kid so he could grow up to have a career making millions of dollars for f***ing kicking things? My guess is a working woman. At the beginning of the video, she says, this is a misogynistic speech. And then she even played a clip where Harrison starts to get choked up. He gets more choked up later on in the speech over how much he loves his wife. The speech at the top level was about articulating a traditionally Christian view of man and woman and family and society and life. But second only to that, it was a speech about how much he loves his wife. Very, very difficult to call a speech misogynistic. That is hating women when the speech is about how much you love your wife. But then she goes on and she, you know, screeches and attacks Butker and then says, Butker's mother is very educated. First of all, people with advanced degrees in the sciences don't, they're not necessarily the wealthiest people in the world. I don't know, Mrs. Butker might have done very well. I'm sure they have a lovely family. I have no doubt about that. But it's not the same. Getting a PhD in physics is not the same thing as like being a banker on Wall Street. No surprise that Chelsea Handler misses that subtlety. But let's say Mrs. Butker made a lot of money and supported her family. And I'm sure she did. I'm sure they have a lovely family. Where do you think Harrison Butker got his appreciation for a strong family from? That in no way undermines Butker's point, if anything, that buttresses Butker's point. But really, you don't need to examine any of those things. You don't really need to pick apart any of the points that Chelsea Handler is making. Look at those two people. You just saw them side by side. Chelsea Handler, Harrison Butker. Who seems happier? That's pretty much how I view political ideologies. That's how I consider habits in life. It's, to some degree, even how I consider religion. You know the tree by its fruit. I noticed this when I reverted. I was an atheist for 10 years or so. I was, if not a liberal, at least a libertarian. And then I noticed that there's some of these people in my life, many of whom, you know, many of the people in my life are just going out partying all the time, hitting bars, you know, just living that city lifestyle. But some people were Christian, practicing Christians. And they just seemed happier. They seemed happier than the atheists. And the people who were living, not just articulating, but living a conservative religious lifestyle, a Christian lifestyle especially, they were just happier and seemed more grounded than the people who were not. And that's a lot more persuasive than any TikTok video or any manifesto for that point. You know the tree by its fruit. Who do you want to grow up to be? Chelsea Handler or Harrison Butker? Or Harrison Butker's wife or mother, for that matter. That's not a difficult decision. Now, Butker obviously looks good. I think the people in his life probably look good. When you want to look good, you got to check out GenuCell. 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They say, Michael, sometime in our lifetime, we might cure death. Every crazy pharaoh dictator in history has tried to do something like this, but this time we're really, really close, they say, because we've got all these scientists who are being quoted in articles and they say it'll happen. According to one, this is a longevity researcher, Aubrey de Grey, quote, everyone knows aging is bad. Everyone says it's bad, but nobody does anything about it. Like bad weather, people are stuck in the assumption that nothing can be done, even if we try. We wanted to put that assumption to rest. Now, I want to question that assumption a little bit. He's right or she's right. I don't know if Aubrey is a man or a woman. It's very confusing these days. Our science can't distinguish between men and women, but we think we're going to cure death. Good luck. It is true that we know that death is bad. We just have this sense that we dread death. We don't want it. It feels unnatural. As I've quoted on the show a couple of times in the past two weeks, my friend Patrick Madrid points out that the reason that death feels unnatural to us is because we weren't made to die, because we were made good. How we understand this, how I understand this, at least, is that we were in the Garden of Eden and it was perfect and then man abused his free will and sin and pervaded the world. We have booted out of the Garden and then we have death, but that's unnatural. There are two meanings to the word normal. Normal meaning the way things are commonly done and normal meaning ideal standards and norms. There's a gap between those two things because we're spirit and body put together in a hylomorphic union and because we're creatures who are made for eternity, but we're pilgrims living here in this world. That's traditionally how this distinction is understood. From the perspective of the Garden of Eden, death is really, really bad. We still have a little bit of that in our view, but I question the longevity escape velocity researchers when they say death is bad, period, because when we get booted out of the Garden of Eden, death is the punishment. We will die. Mortality is just a fact of the fallen world. No one here gets out alive, but from the perspective outside the Garden of Eden, death is not only a punishment but also a remedy because in this fallen world that is just filled with decay and sin and death and evil, I can think of no worse punishment, really, than being stuck here forever. I'm not saying I want to die tomorrow. I feel that all will happen in God's good time, but I don't feel that I'm made for this world. The Christian view is that we are not made for this world. We're made for another kingdom. We're made to work through the trials of this world and to cooperate with God's grace and enjoy him forever, serve him in this world and enjoy him forever in eternity. The modern people, the scientist people, they can't accept that. They say, we figured it out. We might be able to live forever. Well, Christians will tell you, yeah, we figured it out too, or rather it was told to us. We can use our reason to make some sense of this and we can use our reason to bring us to the edge of Revelation. Then Revelation tells us something about this. You can have eternal life too. The way that you can have eternal life, real eternal life, is be baptized and receive the sacraments and cooperate with God's grace and pray. That's how you can have eternal life. They say, no, no, that's all bunk. We just need to live here forever. Wouldn't that be great? Just live as, I don't know, like a 60-year-old with a touch of arthritis, watching everything decay and trying to hoard your stuff and just live in this fallen world forever. It doesn't sound wonderful to me. He who would have his life must lose it. That's the traditional view. But I'm sure all these geniuses, the geniuses that crop up in every age, I'm sure that they'll have some better answer, right? Until that one falls apart too. Speaking of wonder drugs, ozempic is the drug that makes you lose a lot of weight. Ozempic has some side effects because it turns out in this fallen world, there's no such thing as a free lunch. So everything has a cost and we always deny that to ourselves, but it's true. So even ozempic, this wonder drug, it turns out that there are some side effects to it. Some of the reported side effects. Ozempic can make you, according to reports, a gambler and a sex fiend and possibly file for divorce from your spouse. According to Professor Raymond Playford, who's an expert in molecular medicine at the University of West London, he's the co-author of this recent study, he told Mail Online, we have some patients suddenly filing for divorce or splitting up from what seem to be stable relationships and changing their home situation, such as moving house on short notice. Risky behaviors due to impulsivity are also associated with side effects of Parkinson's disease drugs. So it's not just ozempic, there are other drugs that lead to risky behavior, impulsive behavior, sometimes promiscuity, all the rest of it. But this one is particularly funny because why do they take ozempic? People take ozempic to make themselves more physically desirable. So I guess if you want to look at this as the glass half full, if you take ozempic, you will probably look a little bit more desirable on the dating market, which you will have to enter into after the drug makes you abandon your family and divorce your wife. Does that seem worth it? What's it for? What is the drug for? Sounds like it could ruin your life. It doesn't seem like shedding a few pounds is necessarily worth becoming a gambler, Bacchanal-attenging satyr, to me, to me at least. Seems like we're kind of putting the cart before the horse there. But it's another reminder. There is no wonder drug. There is no shortcut. Anytime you think you found a wonder drug or a shortcut, you probably have not. There is a cost to everything in life, and people have been tempted by fantasy, by omnipotence for all of history. But this is especially pronounced in liberal modernity, which replaces God with us. We think that we can become our own God. This is the title of Yuval Harari, the very popular left-wing intellectual and writer. His book, Homo Deus, that we've become so conscious, so genius, that we're now going to end Homo sapiens, and we're going to create ourselves into this new godly creature, Homo Deus, that has control over everything. We're not going to do that. If we were to become gods, we would live in a world of very horrible gods indeed, because we're not all good, and we're not all knowing, and we're not all powerful. The degree to which we make ourselves a little bit more powerful, that can have really disastrous consequences. There is no shortcut. If you are a fatty, just put down the cupcake and go for a run on the treadmill. If you try to have a shortcut, you might become, you might lose all your family's money, and then lose your family because you divorce them. Not a good idea. Speaking of families, President Trump has just called the family of missionaries who were killed in Haiti. Perhaps you saw this story. I didn't cover it yesterday. This young couple, Davy and Natalie, they were missionaries. They went out to help the people of Haiti, and because Haiti is a failed state filled with some of the worst cannibal gangs and most awful villains anywhere on earth, they were killed. The daughter here, Natalie, her father is a Missouri state representative, this guy Ben Baker. Representative Baker just tweeted out that Trump called him, called the family to express his condolences. He writes, just got off the phone with Donald J. Trump. He was just calling to give condolences to us and to the family for Davy and Natalie. He really does care about people. He said, I couldn't believe how beautiful these two young people were. They looked like models. Thank you, Mr. President. It's really sweet because you can tell it's sincere even just in the diction that Trump uses. Trump, former head of Miss Universe pageant and big showbiz guy, he talks about, look how beautiful they were. They could have been models. Which some people will say, well, that's not the point, Mr. President. No, it's actually a sincere expression of condolence. It was a really nice thing for Trump to do personally, and it's a really smart thing for Trump to do politically because it draws such a sharp contrast between Trump and Biden. I don't think Biden has called the family yet. Probably he will not. Furthermore, Joe Biden persecutes Christians. Joe Biden's DOJ and FBI spy on Christians. They spy on traditional Catholics who they view as extremists and threats. Biden's federal agencies try to persecute Catholics. When Biden was part of the Obama administration, when he was VP there, they started suing nuns, the little sisters of the poor. But even as Biden has been president himself, he's tried to restrict what Catholic schools and Catholic adoption agencies can do when he's not outright spying on them. He's persecuting Christians. He's saying, if you are a Christian and therefore don't believe in things like, I don't know, gender ideology, don't support things like infanticide, well, then you don't have political rights anymore. We're going to force you to believe in those things and to support those things. Biden persecutes Christians. Trump defends Christians. Why were the missionaries in Haiti in the first place? Maybe they were just there to spread the gospel. Why was it so dangerous for them to be there? Well, it was particularly dangerous because Haiti is now a failed state on Joe Biden's watch. Because Joe Biden is supposed to be the head of the global empire, the global hegemon, the United States. There should not be failed states if America is so good and so powerful. Certainly not failed states right off our coast. But there are because Biden is a terrible president and he's mishandled foreign policy. So there's a failed state there. That's another reason that these people were killed very tragically. This sort of stuff didn't happen under Trump. We had relative world peace under Donald Trump. It's just a really sharp contrast. So what kind of country do you want to live in? The kind of country where Christians are allowed to be Christian, the kind of country where the world is relatively at peace, or the current country we're living in, which sacrifices religious rights for infanticide and children, and which has an increasingly dangerous world that has brought us to the brink of not only regional but global conflict multiple times in just the three years the guy's been in office. Jeremy's second-generation Razors, they're here. They're bigger, they're better, and they are blacker. I'll try to explain that last part. We brought in the experts to help us advertise our new great second-gen Razors. Their suggestion, they said, more DEI. So we created a new Jeremy, a black Jeremy. His premier performance was in our viral video, the second greatest commercial ever, which now has seven and a half million views on YouTube. Turns out that DEI is not actually for minorities. It's largely for liberal white women who wish to feel virtuous. So we will let other Razor companies spend money on DEI initiatives and woke ideology. Jeremy's is only concerned with making a great Razor. Don't worry, we are keeping black Jeremy, not to appease the DEI czars, but because we like him and we think he's cool. The second-gen Razors have been radically redesigned, featuring a new ergonomic handle for superior durability and sharper, longer-lasting blades. You can get the new Sprint 3 for a quick, clean shave, or our new and improved Precision 5 for an exceptionally smooth and close shave. Head over to jeremysrazors.com, start shaving like a man, not a manifesto. My favorite comment yesterday is from Dr. Stephen H7057, who says, being a Libertarian, capital L, you know, Libertarian Party, is like being an atheist. Feels good to be on a side without any responsibilities. That is true, and I will tell you, as a young man, mentioned earlier, I was a Libertarian for some years. That is a broad part of the appeal. One part is you don't have to stand for any particularly controversial convictions, because the essential conviction of the Libertarians is just do whatever you want. So it allows you to be invited to cocktail parties, but also it's a deceptively comforting ideology if you're a young man who wants to, you know, go out and chat up the young ladies and hit the bars and all the rest, because it says, basically, that there's no higher moral good than individual choice and autonomy, which, coincidentally, is the first principle of Satanism. Do as thou will shall be the entirety of the law, so say the Satanists and, unfortunately, those who promote licentiousness. Speaking of foreign affairs and Joe Biden, Claire McCaskill, former Democrat Senator, has just made a controversial but, I think, accurate point on the State of the Biden campaign. She says the top goal for Joe Biden right now has to be not necessarily to fix the economy, not to secure the border, not to do this, not to do that. The top goal has to be to get Bibi Netanyahu to resign as prime minister of the State of Israel. CLAIRE MCCASKILL I think he's been trying to do all of this back channel. But the most important goal, I believe, for this presidency right now is to get Netanyahu to resign. And Netanyahu is holding on to power by his fingernails because of the far right, who sees the destruction of Gaza and all areas of any Palestinians in Israel as their goal. Their goal is very extreme. And that's how he is in power. So if he backs up on them, he cannot be in power anymore because he doesn't have the coalition he needs. So I think that Biden has to continue to try to press other people in the Israeli government to move as quickly and as strongly as they can to get Netanyahu out of that position. PAUL BARRETT Claire McCaskill is totally right. Never thought I would say that sentence, but it's true. I've said this from the beginning of the war in Gaza. This is a particularly dangerous issue for Biden, not because the issue matters all that much more to Americans. I don't think Americans really care that much about the Israel-Gaza conflict at all. I don't think they really care that much about the Ukraine-Russia conflict. I don't think they care too much about Taiwan and China's conflict. Most people care much more about their wallet, about the invasion happening at our own border. They care about domestic issues. But the reason this is a top urgent priority for Biden is because the Israel-Gaza war is an issue that splits his own supporters. Biden's donors, the Democrat establishment, broadly pro-Israel. Biden's rank and file grassroots supporters, if he has any at all, at least the Democrats grassroots supporters, absolutely hate the state of Israel and are waving Palestine flags and wearing keffiyehs for goodness sakes, okay? They are on diametrically opposed sides of this issue, and they are calling the other side genocidal. So pretty much the worst thing you can accuse anybody of, that is what each side within the Democratic Party, within Joe Biden's voter base, is doing to the other side. This doesn't involve Republicans. This doesn't involve conservatives. This is an intra-Democrat fight, and that is extremely dangerous. Because Joe Biden is the leader of the main country in the world that matters, the country that dominates the global order. So if Biden wanted to end the war in Gaza tomorrow, he could do it. Because we fund the Israeli military, and we tell not only Israel what to do when we want to, we tell every country in the world what to do when we want to. And we can do that. We don't exercise that power very often, but we could. We certainly could. Who's gonna challenge us? China is rising to some degree. India is rising to some degree. Russia is kind of a joke. So it falls to Biden. So when Netanyahu is just glassing parts of Gaza, the pro-Palestine Democrats are gonna blame Joe Biden for that. They're gonna be less likely to vote for him in November. When Biden then, to try to stop the bleeding of his political support, tries to appease the keffiyeh-wearing pro-Palestine people, then his pro-Israel supporters and his donors and the Democrat establishment are gonna turn on him. They're gonna say, you support these genocidal supporters. And the other side will say, you support that genocidal Netanyahu. And they're just tearing each other apart. So Biden thinks that the number one priority is end the war in Gaza. And to end the war in Gaza, you gotta get Bibi Netanyahu out of power. I hate to admit that Claire McCaskill's right, because it seems so off base. How on earth could Biden's top priority be an election in the state of Israel? But if you're a Democrat right now, you're seeing your party fray apart over this issue, you would probably come to that conclusion too. Now, speaking of the Israel-Gaza war, this is a story from last week, but it's worth mentioning. Number of European countries have now acknowledged a Palestinian state. Just a quick little 100 years of history here. Historic Palestine was a territory that was dominated by the Ottoman Empire. And then after World War I, the Ottoman Empire goes away, and Britain controls the land. There's still no nation state here or anything like that. Then Britain says that they're going to establish a national homeland for Jews, but they're kind of loose on the details of that. But we see the beginnings of this in the Balfour Declaration. And then you already had a lot of Jews moving to the land, and then you get more Jews moving to the land. And then in 1948, there's a war of independence where the Israelis declared, we've got this state, the international bodies acknowledge this state. And so what about the Palestinians? Well, it's just kind of a territory, and it's very ambiguous. And the borders have shifted a lot over the years. And Palestinian statehood has been a cause largely championed by the left, but in the West, it's been nebulous. Well, now you've got Norway, Ireland, and Spain officially recognizing a Palestinian state among the G20. The big players, 20 of the big players in the global stage, 10 countries, Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Turkey have acknowledged a Palestinian state. Now, nine countries have not. That includes Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and the United States. But really, that doesn't matter. What matters is what the United States acknowledges. I don't care what Argentina says about politics in the Middle East. No one cares. All that matters is the United States, because the United States is, for now, the only entity on Earth that can project military power in any really serious way. And we dominate the global economy. We're the global reserve currency. And we're still living off at least the fumes of the post-Cold War global scenario in which we were the last superpower remaining. Okay, so that's all that matters, which means the buck stops with Biden, an unenviable position to be in if it's an election year and there's a very controversial war in Gaza going on. So the dissatisfaction with Biden is getting much, much worse. You're seeing this reflected in polls. The majority of Democrats want to replace Joe Biden at the top of the ticket. The majority of Democrats do not want Biden to be their nominee in 2024. This is according to Rasmussen, a poll of 1,100 likely voters between May 20th and 22nd. They asked a question, would you approve or disapprove of Democrats finding another candidate to replace Biden before the election in November? Of all people, only 49% said that they approved. But what makes it interesting is it wasn't that most Republicans want to throw Biden. That may be what you would expect because Republicans don't like Joe Biden, right? Now, the reason it was 49 is 54% of Democrats approve of replacing Biden, only 43% of Republicans. The biggest supporters of Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee right now in the country are Republicans because they view Biden as weak, because he has signaled that he is weak, because he's sending his campaign to show up outside of the trial where they're trying to imprison his political opponent. And they can't even get any serious name to show up to talk at that. They have to get Robert De Niro, star of gangster movies from the 70s, give me a break. Because Biden is desperately releasing oil from some of our strategic reserves, because Biden is desperately trying to buy off young yuppie liberal college grad voters by paying off their student loans. He's doing everything he can because he feels that he's weak, because he is weak. So now you have a clear majority of Democrats. And all I'm gonna tell you on this point is, it's not gonna happen. So many people, the real political nerds who, I don't know, it's like the fantasy football version of presidential politics. Fantasy politics, they say, what do you think? Is Biden gonna drop out in June? And then they're gonna replace him with Michelle Obama, cuz they're gonna skip Kamala. But Kamala is a black woman, so they can't replace her with Gavin Newsom, who clearly wants it. So they're gonna give it to Michelle Obama, and then Kamala is gonna go and she's gonna go be governor of California or a senator. She's gonna run a nonprofit or this. It's not gonna happen. None of that's gonna happen. Look, Biden is very aged, so who knows? God forbid, I hope he lives as long a life as God wants him to. But he's quite old and in decline. Something could really happen with his health. Short of that, he's the nominee. You're gonna have to pull that guy out of the White House on a stretcher, okay? He is not going anywhere. The Democrats are stuck with him. They've made their bid. They must lie in it. Today is Book Wednesday. The rest of the show continues. Now, you do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code NOLESKIN at WLAS at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.