The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 506 - The Establishment Always Wins

00:00:00.000 After paying more than $12 million per delegate, Mike Bloomberg drops out of the presidential race

00:00:06.600 and endorses Joe Biden. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders releases a new ad starring Barack Obama. We will

00:00:13.140 examine why the establishment always wins. Then at a pro-abortion rally, Rashida Tlaib shrieks

00:00:20.860 and Chuck Schumer threatens two Supreme Court justices. We will analyze why pro-abortion

00:00:27.320 activists are always so crazy. Then Alex Trebek gives some much-needed perspective.

00:00:33.260 And finally, the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:43.340 Mini Mike is out. Mini Mike is out and I'm very, very sad. Bloomberg releases this statement.

00:00:51.420 I always believed that defeating Donald Trump starts with uniting behind the candidate with

00:00:56.640 the best shot to do it. After yesterday's vote, it is clear that candidate is my friend and great

00:01:02.060 American, Joe Biden. I've known Joe for a very long time. I know his decency, his honesty,

00:01:07.220 his commitment to the issues that are so important to our country, including gun safety, health care,

00:01:12.360 climate change, and good jobs. Now, if Mike Bloomberg had known that about, I don't know,

00:01:17.740 a few months ago, he would have been able to save $500 million. So I always thought Mike Bloomberg was

00:01:23.800 a smart guy. You know, he's had this very successful career, finance media mogul, three-term mayor of New

00:01:30.060 York. But it turns out he's a complete idiot because he blew $500 million when he could have

00:01:36.520 just endorsed his decent, honest, wonderful, great friend, Joe Biden. Obviously, campaign a huge waste

00:01:42.280 of money. Sorry to see him go because the Trump impersonation of him was really great. It is worth

00:01:48.320 pointing out, though, for people who say, oh my gosh, Mike Bloomberg just blew all this money.

00:01:52.540 What a total dolt. It is worth remembering just what $500 million means to Mike Bloomberg. So

00:02:00.160 $500 million to Mike Bloomberg. If you look at the median net worth of an American who is Mike

00:02:08.840 Bloomberg's age, it turns out that number is $264,800. Okay. Mike Bloomberg is worth about $60

00:02:19.460 billion. So for Mike Bloomberg to spend $500 million would be like the median 77-year-old American

00:02:27.260 spending $2,200. So it would be like, you know, like a really nice birthday present, like a really

00:02:37.440 super nice birthday present, you know. Or it would be like, I don't know, going on a vacation.

00:02:43.300 That was Mike. Mike Bloomberg went on vacation. He went and he didn't even go like totally crazy on

00:02:49.380 vacation. That's fabulous. Great job, Mike Bloomberg. Sorry to see you go. Personally, his only accomplishment

00:02:56.960 was winning American Samoa. Politically, though, his accomplishment is he may have finished off the

00:03:03.940 Democratic primary by dropping out. Mike Bloomberg has now given up all of the establishment resistance

00:03:11.620 to Joe Biden. So you've got Joe Biden now running away with the establishment lane. You've got Bernie

00:03:17.320 Sanders in the anti-establishment lane. And you've got Elizabeth Warren not knowing who she is. I guess

00:03:23.300 she's running anti-establishment. You know, she's anti-establishment in the same way that she's a

00:03:28.140 Cherokee Indian. Joe Biden is doing really great as a result of all of this. Biden has now moved up

00:03:35.160 to 36 percent in national polls. This is according to Morning Consult. He's now eight points ahead

00:03:42.260 nationally of where Bernie Sanders is. Just 10 days ago, Joe Biden was at 19 percent in this poll.

00:03:51.520 So that's a huge increase. I mean, you're talking about 17 percentage points up. This helps him. You

00:03:58.040 know, we talked a lot about whether Joe Biden was going to have a viable candidacy. And when he kept

00:04:02.260 losing and losing and losing, he was dropping down in all the polls, he was collapsing at the debates.

00:04:06.740 I said on this show, Joe Biden, if he loses the electability argument, is nowhere. He doesn't have

00:04:14.940 anything else. People aren't going to elect him for his firmly held beliefs. He doesn't have any

00:04:19.740 firmly held beliefs. They're not going to elect him for his youth and vigor, certainly. What they're

00:04:26.160 going to elect him for is because he has a shot at beating Donald Trump. Now, if he kept losing and

00:04:31.660 losing and losing, especially if he lost South Carolina, that argument goes away. But the flip

00:04:36.080 side is true now as well. Joe Biden blows out South Carolina. So the electability argument looks really

00:04:41.120 good. And the first rule of electoral politics is you got to pick a winner. So Joe Biden doing

00:04:47.640 very well right now. President Trump, though, absolutely loving this. He's loving this divide

00:04:53.860 between the establishment and the anti-establishment. We will get to why. We will get to how. We will get to

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00:06:22.640 President Trump just tweeted out amid all of the chaos in the Democratic primary, he goes, quote,

00:06:29.480 the Democrat establishment came together and crushed Bernie Sanders again. Even the fact that

00:06:35.760 Elizabeth Warren stayed in the race was devastating to Bernie and allowed sleepy Joe to unthinkably win

00:06:42.360 Massachusetts. It was a perfect storm with many good states remaining for Joe. He's not done. So

00:06:48.980 selfish for Elizabeth Warren to stay in the race. She has zero chance of even coming close to winning,

00:06:54.980 but hurts Bernie badly. So much for their wonderful liberal friendship. Will he ever speak to her again?

00:07:00.740 She cost him Massachusetts and came in third. He shouldn't, right? So he's rubbing salt in the

00:07:07.440 wound. All he wants to do is irritate this Democratic primary, right? The best thing he can hope for,

00:07:13.740 even more important than who wins, is just to cause bitter, bitter rancor within the party so that the

00:07:20.340 Bernie bros don't vote for Biden or if Bernie somehow wins it, that the establishment won't vote

00:07:26.320 for Bernie. They'll be so demoralized. Now, Bernie is not taking this lying down. A week ago, Bernie

00:07:34.780 Sanders was running away with the Democratic nomination. He was doing just great. And now

00:07:40.440 everyone's come together. They're going to crush him. Well, he's not ready for that yet. So he just

00:07:44.040 released an ad. Really takes some cojones to release this ad. He is putting forward the next leg of his

00:07:53.480 campaign by showing how much Barack Obama loves him. Bernie is somebody who has the virtue of saying

00:08:02.860 exactly what he believes. Great authenticity, great passion, and is fearless. Bernie served on the

00:08:09.100 Veterans Committee and got bills done. I think people are ready for a call to action. They want

00:08:16.220 honest leadership who cares about them. They want somebody who's going to fight for them. And they will

00:08:21.320 find it in Bernie. That's where I feel the burn. I'm Bernie Sanders, and I approve this message.

00:08:28.400 Yeah, take that, Joe. Yeah, you like that? You like how that feels? So really brilliant campaign ad.

00:08:35.480 This is really smart. He's doing it for two reasons. One is to needle Joe Biden by Biden's former boss

00:08:42.760 saying all these wonderful things about Bernie Sanders. And yet that same guy, Barack Obama,

00:08:47.400 has not come out and endorsed Joe Biden yet. That's pretty embarrassing. That's humiliating.

00:08:54.540 The second reason is Bernie Sanders is now, probably too little too late, trying to make a play to win

00:09:00.620 over some establishment support. So in that ad, it would seem like Barack Obama is endorsing Bernie

00:09:06.520 Sanders, right? They're walking together in the White House. He's saying all these great things.

00:09:10.260 I'm feeling the burn. You got a fighter in Bernie Sanders. But he hasn't endorsed Bernie Sanders.

00:09:15.620 He endorsed Bernie for Senate, I guess. But he didn't endorse Bernie Sanders for president. He

00:09:20.700 hasn't made an endorsement yet. So it's a little deceptive. I mean, it's a little duplicitous for

00:09:25.080 him to do that. Really brilliant ad, though, because other than just really getting under Joe

00:09:30.420 Biden's skin, Bernie realizes that he made a mistake. Bernie's mistake was he's always been the

00:09:37.200 outsider, anti-establishment candidate, just railing against the man. Doesn't matter if he accomplishes

00:09:41.540 anything. He doesn't have to. It actually hurts him if he accomplishes something,

00:09:44.580 because then he's not an outsider. Then he's part of the swamp. Then he's wheeling and dealing and

00:09:48.520 compromising. So he's always run in this way since he was getting kicked off a commune, right? He's

00:09:54.320 always been that radical. When Bernie became the front runner in the Democratic Party, there was

00:09:59.840 certainly a path for him. I suppose there still is the path for him to become the president. But he's

00:10:04.340 got to start acting like a nominee. He can't just act like the angry old codger who's yelling at kids

00:10:12.160 to get off his lawn. That's fine in a primary to an extent. But you you need to act like the

00:10:18.300 candidate. You have to act like the front runner at a certain point. You know, President Trump

00:10:23.140 descending the stairs at Trump Tower when he's announcing his campaign. All he's doing is

00:10:27.140 throwing bombs. All he is is the outsider. But eventually he takes on the leadership of that

00:10:33.440 primary. He starts acting like the front runner. Bernie failed to do that. I think his advisers

00:10:39.260 certainly at least realize this was a mistake. So he's going to start making that play now.

00:10:44.640 And a Bernie Sanders who can appeal to the establishment sounds like a contradiction in

00:10:48.340 terms. But that could be a really potent force if he can pull it off. President Trump, for his part,

00:10:53.000 of course, is fanning the flames. So, you know, Trump's whole strategy is say nice things about

00:10:58.680 Bernie, say mean things about Joe Biden and Mike Bloomberg. Now what President Trump is trying to

00:11:05.800 avoid is a unified Democratic Party. So if they get to the convention, let's say Joe Biden gets it

00:11:10.540 and Bernie Sanders says, OK, Joe, you know, you're one fair and square Joe. So I endorse you or something

00:11:16.540 to that effect. That would be very bad for for President Trump. So he's out there and he's going

00:11:22.540 to rallies. And he much like Bernie Sanders is needling Joe Biden. Trump is now needling Bernie Sanders

00:11:31.240 and implying that if Bernie were to get on board with Joe Biden, he would be a sellout. He would

00:11:36.660 be a fraud. He would be pathetic. Are you convinced now it's Biden's to lose? I think so. I just don't

00:11:42.460 know, you know, how he gets there. I don't know how he gets across the line. Maybe he will. Maybe it's

00:11:47.180 who knows. He was always very gaffe prone. He was always he was always in trouble in that way,

00:11:53.180 but never like this. You know, this is going what's going on now is crazy. But I think they'll do

00:11:58.480 anything to assume power. And if they think he can do better than Bernie, and I guess they have

00:12:05.220 less control over Bernie. You know, Bernie is more for himself. But I was surprised when Bernie got

00:12:10.400 beaten up last time that he went out and endorsed Hillary and went around and did like a good puppy

00:12:19.040 like he's supposed to do. I was a little surprised at that. And even this time, he was saying about how

00:12:25.220 wonderful, you know, Joe Biden's a wonderful guy, a wonderful man. And, you know, I'm a little bit

00:12:31.000 surprised, but it's almost like he's I don't know if he's admitting defeat. He might be. But I watched

00:12:35.700 him yesterday saying or just a little while ago saying very good things about sleepy Joe Biden.

00:12:41.160 And I was a little bit surprised. And I was just a little surprised that Bernie's acting like a little

00:12:46.680 puppy, you know, like a good little puppy. Yeah, like a punk, like a little. Oh, he's so this is this is

00:12:55.220 when Trump is at his absolute best. This this man is the leader of the free world. And he's calling into

00:13:00.620 Sean Hannity's cable show and and playing kind of the role of pundit provocateur comedian, just pushing

00:13:08.260 him right. He starts out with the compliment, starts saying, yeah, you know, I was really respected

00:13:13.200 Bernie. Bernie is a little more for himself. He can't be controlled. Yeah, you know, he's like a

00:13:17.880 real man. He's a real guy, except he's acting like a total loser. Oh, yeah, he's acting like just a wimp.

00:13:25.760 You know, he's just letting himself get pushed around by the Democrats. I hope he doesn't do that

00:13:29.620 again. It's so sad. It's so pathetic. That's a pretty good strategy. What he's doing is trying not

00:13:36.060 only to incite Bernie here, he's trying to back Bernie into a corner. I don't think that Bernie

00:13:43.160 is going to be completely emotionally manipulable or something like that. I think

00:13:48.140 what President Trump is doing, maybe there's a little bit of that. But what he's really trying

00:13:53.140 to do is politically position it such that Bernie Sanders can't face his supporters and say, OK,

00:13:59.800 it was a good fight, but I support Joe because his supporters will eat him alive. He wants to make

00:14:05.220 it such that Trump wants to make it such that Bernie has no other way to turn but to fight this thing out

00:14:11.600 until the end. And so far, I think that's going pretty well. The fact that Bernie would release

00:14:17.480 that ad insinuating that Obama endorsed him, that's a pretty strong sign that Bernie Sanders is not

00:14:24.320 going anywhere anytime soon. And that just sounds great to me. Turning away from 2020 down to the

00:14:30.820 Supreme Court, there's a big Supreme Court case coming down the pike that will really challenge

00:14:37.100 the abortion regime in America. This case is about the Louisiana abortion law. There are so many

00:14:46.220 abortion laws that came out last year, right? There was Louisiana, there was Missouri, there was Georgia,

00:14:50.080 there were all these different laws. So it's sometimes hard to keep track of them. But the issue at play

00:14:55.560 here in the Louisiana abortion law is that abortionists, according to the law, need to have admitting

00:15:03.480 privileges at a nearby hospital. That's it. That's the issue that's going to the Supreme Court. It's

00:15:09.120 not that they're going to outlaw abortion everywhere. It's not that. It's a pretty simple,

00:15:15.880 totally reasonable idea that if you're an abortionist in Louisiana, you need to have admitting

00:15:21.460 privileges at a hospital. You know, you need to have high medical standards. We don't want women being

00:15:27.360 hurt. We don't want the procedure to happen at all. We don't want any abortion. But we also don't

00:15:33.320 want women to die or be hurt as a result of this. We want actual doctors doing it, not just cheap

00:15:39.400 killers. So there was a rally yesterday outside the Supreme Court. We saw one of the craziest displays

00:15:47.460 from the activist level all the way up to the minority leader of the U.S. Senate. And it shows

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00:16:58.460 Save 40% while supplies last. So we saw this pro-abortion rally to protest the case that's

00:17:06.980 coming up yesterday. It was outside the Supreme Court. This woman, here's an abortion activist,

00:17:13.880 this woman, listen to the tone of her voice. Listen, even beyond the arguments she's making,

00:17:18.560 listen simply to how she sounds, tells you a lot about the abortion issue.

00:17:22.920 We're the abortion providers at! We're the future abortion providers at! Woo! Awesome. And a special

00:17:32.440 shout out to we're my people who had abortions. We're y'all at! Nothing about this work is gonna

00:17:40.060 be without us! Woo! Awesome. So, as I said, I had an abortion when I was 19. It was honestly one of

00:17:48.980 the best decisions of my life. I was simply not ready to become a parent, and that's really all

00:17:55.000 you need to know! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Hey, lady, who are you trying to convince? Who are you trying to

00:18:04.020 convince? I mean, you just see her that she's so strained. She's so pushing this narrative out

00:18:10.760 there. I'm so happy that I killed my child. I've, what a great decision I made. I definitely don't

00:18:18.660 regret that, and it hasn't really damaged my life. I mean, anybody with eyes and ears can see

00:18:25.380 that this is a tortured woman. You hear it in her voice, the shrieking, the screaming,

00:18:31.760 the tension in what she's saying. Of course, I mean, look, people make mistakes all the time,

00:18:37.800 okay? If you make a mistake, even if it's a mistake that bad, you can regret it, ask forgiveness,

00:18:43.920 move on. But these people can't. They can't get over the pride and the horror that they may have

00:18:51.460 committed such an egregious act, and it's not just one or two random activists. I mean, political

00:18:57.360 activists, generally, they can be sort of eccentric people, right? But it's the same sort of tone of

00:19:03.920 voice. It's the same kind of shrill, angry, tense, uncredible, inacredible tone that you see with

00:19:14.720 congressmen and with senators when they do it. Rashida Tlaib, one of the members of the squad,

00:19:20.080 goes out there, the exact same rally, same tone of voice, same ridiculous arguments.

00:19:25.960 Past year, I realized, my, my, my, are they obsessed with our bodies, how we talk, how we look,

00:19:32.540 what we stand for? I mean, this type of policing of our bodies is so interconnected to all the social

00:19:39.400 justice movements all around the country. I represent the third poorest congressional district

00:19:44.620 in the country. This issue is an economic justice issue. This issue is a racial justice issue.

00:19:52.560 And let me tell you, this obsession with our bodies, you know, I, in the legislature,

00:19:57.780 in the Michigan legislature for six years, used to say people to people, yo, yo, you know why?

00:20:03.280 You're so freaking obsessed with what I decide to do with my body. Maybe you shouldn't even want

00:20:08.840 to have sex with me or with you or with any women. Hold on, pause it right there. I just need to correct

00:20:15.160 the record before Rashida Tlaib continues. That is not something I have ever wanted to do.

00:20:21.220 Not, that is of all the things that one could imagine doing with Rashida Tlaib.

00:20:27.460 That is not one of them. So please do not accuse me of ever wanting to do that.

00:20:32.580 That on the things of the list of things I want to do just in general in the world,

00:20:36.660 that is very, very far down near the bottom. She goes on.

00:20:41.880 The power that we have over our bodies to push back and use that power and saying enough is enough.

00:20:49.980 We won't stand by for you to commercialize, for you to profit, for you to do all the things you do

00:20:56.300 to what? To make us less than in this country because that's what it does. So I want you to know

00:21:04.380 there is more of us than them. And there it is. That's her whole argument, right? She's making all

00:21:09.280 of these really stupid slogany arguments. They're like bumper stickers. They don't mean anything.

00:21:15.820 When she says, we want to control our bodies. No, they don't. I mean, anybody who is even somewhat

00:21:21.520 honest about the abortion issue would say it's not about your body that people are concerned. It's

00:21:26.660 the child's body. So it isn't that they say it's about making us less than. No, it's about we don't

00:21:32.560 think you should kill babies. That's what it's about. You can try to argue that when you say it's we have

00:21:38.820 to be able to kill babies for equality, but at least be honest about the issue. So she puts out

00:21:43.040 these slogans and then she finally gets to her real argument, which is there's more of us than

00:21:47.620 there are of them. That's not a moral argument. There's more of us than them. It's not an argument

00:21:55.380 from justice or it's not ethical at all. You're just saying that you're a mob and you're going to

00:22:01.940 force your will on other people. Justice be damned. Unborn baby be damned. Who cares? You're

00:22:08.580 just going to do it. This was actually the subject of my talk last night at UC Santa Cruz. I was

00:22:14.540 giving a talk on when democracy goes wrong. When democracy goes wrong is when people start making

00:22:18.720 arguments like this, which is there's more of us than them. That's not coherent. I mean, duh. Yeah,

00:22:26.380 I guess any mob, any lynch mob in the world can go and affect their will on somebody. That doesn't

00:22:31.520 make it right. That's you've got to argue beyond that. But Rashida Tlaib can't. Why? I don't know

00:22:37.020 anything about Rashida Tlaib's past. I just know about her political ideology. And I know that she

00:22:42.120 is trying to convince a lot of people and maybe herself of this argument that is untenable. It's

00:22:47.860 indefensible. It's why she gets shrill. It's why she shrieks. It's why she makes these slogan

00:22:53.460 arguments that fall flat. And it's eventually why she says, I want it. I mean, that's what that

00:22:58.280 means, right? There's more of us than them is I want it. I'm going to do it. Me, me, me, me. And

00:23:02.940 not very convincing to the rest of us. Then it wasn't just Rashida Tlaib. It went even higher than that

00:23:13.140 to the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, who took this argument rather than talking about his body

00:23:20.220 or having sex with him. Thank goodness. He talked about how he was going to threaten two justices on

00:23:29.180 the Supreme Court if they permitted this restriction on abortion, if they permitted the Louisiana law,

00:23:37.100 which forces abortionists to at least have admitting privileges at hospitals. Here's the

00:23:43.360 crazed Schumer. I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the

00:23:50.900 whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you. You will pay the price. You won't

00:24:02.320 know what hit you. So that's not just criticism of Supreme Court justices. Right now, the Democrats are

00:24:09.260 trying to spin this and say, oh, he was just criticizing the Supreme Court. That's fine.

00:24:14.280 That's perfectly within bounds. He wasn't doing that. He said, you won't know what hit you.

00:24:21.520 We're coming after you. What does that mean? Supreme Court justices have life tenure, so it's not like

00:24:27.760 they're going to say we're going to get you out in the next election. You won't know what hit you,

00:24:31.980 especially at this very intense, shrieky rally. Just you can hear it in his voice, too. There's something

00:24:37.840 about the abortion issue that makes people lose their minds and sound like demons. They said,

00:24:43.480 just listen to the voice. It's like, rah. Or it's like I was waiting for them to start speaking Latin

00:24:47.320 backwards. It's so ugly. It's so, it's different than any other issue. And I think part of that is

00:24:55.760 because they know that there's no coherent argument. So all they can do is enforce their will. It's not

00:25:01.580 about reason. It's about will. And a part of it, I think, is because it's simply evil. Abortion is

00:25:08.160 evil, and evil warps people's minds. For his part, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts,

00:25:14.340 issued a rare statement in response to Schumer's threat. He said, quote, this was obviously a written

00:25:20.300 statement. This morning, Senator Schumer spoke at a rally in front of the Supreme Court while a case was

00:25:24.340 being argued inside. Senator Schumer referred to two members of the Supreme Court by name and said he

00:25:29.740 wanted to tell them that, quote, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You will

00:25:34.020 not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions. Justices know that criticism comes

00:25:39.180 with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government

00:25:42.460 are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous. All members of the court will continue to do their

00:25:47.340 jobs without fear or favor from whatever quarter. Great statement from the Chief Justice,

00:25:54.080 who always tries to remain the most neutral guy in the room, sometimes to ill effect because he won't

00:26:00.760 stand up for things that are right. But this was true. This is absolutely beyond the bounds.

00:26:05.700 The next time they tell you that Donald Trump is destroying norms and decency in this country,

00:26:12.200 remember Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer threatening two members of the Supreme Court. The next time they

00:26:19.760 tell you about all the, oh, how terrible the tweets, the mean tweets. Trump is so outrageous. Remember

00:26:27.840 this line. This is the Chuck Schumer line, maybe the most egregious statement from a senior government

00:26:35.460 official that I've seen in my lifetime. I don't think I've seen anything close to this. It shows you

00:26:42.280 we're kind of careening toward rancor and division and it's being led by the left. It's not being led by the

00:26:49.160 right. Alex Trebek will show us a little perspective on this. Alex Trebek, the longtime host of Jeopardy,

00:26:57.480 he was diagnosed a year ago with pancreatic cancer, stage four pancreatic cancer, where, you know,

00:27:04.060 it's not a good look when you get stage four pancreatic cancer. Usually you're gone within a few

00:27:08.340 months. A year later, Alex Trebek is still alive and he gave his viewers an update about this. I think

00:27:16.120 we could all learn something from Trebek's update and attitude. Hi, everyone. If you've got a minute,

00:27:23.700 I'd like to bring you up to date on my health situation. The one-year survival rate for stage

00:27:29.820 four pancreatic cancer patients is 18%. I'm very happy to report I have just reached that marker.

00:27:38.380 Now, I'd be lying if I said the journey had been an easy one. There were some good days,

00:27:43.500 but a lot of not so good days. I joked with friends that the cancer won't kill me,

00:27:49.180 the chemo treatments will. There were moments of great pain, days when certain bodily functions

00:27:55.500 no longer functioned, and sudden massive attacks of great depression that made me wonder if it really

00:28:03.080 was worth fighting on. But I brushed that aside quickly because that would have been a massive

00:28:08.980 betrayal, a betrayal of my wife and soulmate, Jean, who has given her all to help me survive.

00:28:15.440 It would have been a betrayal of other cancer patients who have looked to me as an inspiration

00:28:20.460 and a cheerleader of sorts of the value of living and hope. And it would certainly have been a betrayal

00:28:26.680 of my faith in God and the millions of prayers that have been said on my behalf.

00:28:31.400 What a statement. What a guy. What an outlook. He's got pretty much the worst health condition

00:28:39.180 you can possibly have. He somehow miraculously survives a whole year already. And he says,

00:28:46.860 oh, I'm just so grateful. I feel a sense of duty. I would never give up hope because I don't want to

00:28:51.660 betray you and don't want to betray my family. And most importantly, I don't want to betray my God.

00:28:56.260 Whoa, what an attitude. This guy's going through some serious problems. Compare that to... I was at

00:29:05.980 UC Santa Cruz last night. I'm still in Santa Cruz. The grad students are on strike because I think

00:29:12.440 they're making something like $35 an hour and they want to make $50 an hour. So they're on strike and

00:29:17.100 they're not doing their jobs and they won't grade the papers. And they're furious. They're angry.

00:29:20.520 They're committing acts of violence. They're committing like felonies actually in their protest of the

00:29:25.940 administration. Two attitudes. One of humility, gratitude, duty. One of entitlement, anger, resentment,

00:29:37.340 selfishness. Hillary Clinton, before we get to mailbag, I've got to... Hillary Clinton might be the

00:29:42.360 political embodiment of all this. Hillary Clinton just did an interview on ABC News and she was asked

00:29:49.360 in this interview how it felt to really, really have won the presidential election, but then to just

00:29:56.700 not be the president for whatever reason. Look back, would it have been more easy to handle losing

00:30:02.420 outright than to have really won but still lost? That was really tough. It was not only winning by

00:30:09.940 three million votes and having all the weird things happen at the end that interfered with my votes.

00:30:17.180 Really, really, she won. You know that. We all know that. But it's just because of some like little

00:30:24.340 random technicality like the constitution or the people who voted or something, she's not the

00:30:29.720 president. That attitude of just resentment, entitlement, delusion, it just makes you look

00:30:36.020 ridiculous. You look at her, we just all laugh at Hillary Clinton, right? We laugh at the ABC journalist

00:30:40.660 journalist too. We laugh at the grad students at UCSC. They just look so small, so petty. And then

00:30:46.920 you look at like Alex Trebek and you say, wow, what a man, what a guy, what an attitude. Be like Alex

00:30:52.780 Trebek. We have got to get to the mailbag. We will get to that in a second. First, I've got to say goodbye

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00:32:53.600 Let's get into the mailbag from Confused Girlfriend.

00:33:08.040 Dear Michael Knowles, I greatly enjoy your show and would like your opinion on dating.

00:33:12.720 I met a guy while working on my master's degree and have been dating him for the past four months.

00:33:17.960 He does all the right dating things like paying for dinner, opening his truck door,

00:33:21.960 and he even drives me home after classes every day. Since we met at a university,

00:33:26.680 I thought he would be a little left-leaning. I did not expect him to be a self-proclaimed

00:33:31.520 Bernie bro. So my question is, do you think a hardcore conservative and a Bernie bro have a future?

00:33:38.900 Thanks. It depends. It depends how much of a Bernie bro he is. I think some people

00:33:48.660 say they're Bernie bros just for the meme, just because it's kind of contrarian and they're young

00:33:54.380 and young people tend to be liberal and then they become more conservative. The reason I'm not saying

00:33:58.980 just dump him outright is because he pays for dinner. Bernie Sanders wouldn't pay for dinner.

00:34:05.340 Bernie Sanders would reach into your pocketbook while you were out pattering your nose.

00:34:08.900 He holds the truck door open. I don't know that Bernie Sanders would hold that truck door open.

00:34:15.120 We need equality now. Men don't hold doors open for women. So he sounds like more than anything,

00:34:21.580 he's a confused young man. And what you should do is push him on this. Push him a little bit on the

00:34:29.440 political questions that make him a Bernie bro and then the cultural questions and ultimately the

00:34:36.040 religious questions. Because don't forget, Marxism posits a kind of worldview that takes the place

00:34:41.000 of religion, right? It's the, it was referred to as the God that failed by Ronald Reagan and many

00:34:46.300 others. So I would push him on that a little bit, see where he falls. A lot of people are liberal when

00:34:51.000 they're young. Even I went through a liberal phase and I was pretty much born into this world, smoking a

00:34:56.020 cigar with parted hair. So, you know, see where it stands, see, push him a little bit, maybe get to some

00:35:01.920 deeper issues too, you know, cultural issues, values, religion, that kind of thing. And maybe I'd give him a

00:35:07.680 little bit of chance. The minute he stops paying for dinner though, he's gone. From Reagan, you answered a

00:35:14.160 question once before about yoga and practicing yoga as a Christian with the breathing and chants, etc. I was

00:35:20.140 wondering about your opinion on astrology. The stars are real, so are the noticed patterns a type of, so are the

00:35:27.080 noticed patterns a type of religion therefore, should it not be accepted at all by Christians? I

00:35:32.460 personally find it interesting, but give little credit to it. Thanks. Well, the Bible's pretty clear.

00:35:37.600 You should not consult astrologers. And the reason for this, when you talk to atheists about it, they say,

00:35:44.580 they say, oh, that's so ridiculous. It's so bogus. That's so crazy, you know. But Christians don't

00:35:50.580 necessarily say that astrology and all these kind of weird little esoteric religions are crazy.

00:35:57.220 We just say they're bad. You shouldn't do it. You've got your own religion, right? Love the Lord,

00:36:01.160 your God. You got one God, that's it, okay? And then there are these other pseudo-religions,

00:36:07.180 like astrology, for instance, or gender theory is another kind of religious worldview which says

00:36:13.500 that my body has nothing to do with who I am, that I'm just secretly something else and I've got

00:36:18.180 to change my body to get more in line with whatever I metaphysically am. All these different

00:36:23.380 religions that you've got to reject because your God is a jealous God. Same thing with yoga. You know,

00:36:28.860 look, does it matter if you go out and stretch? No. But the thing about yoga is that it is a

00:36:34.020 liturgical practice. I mean, people treat yoga like church. You do chanting. It's got this very

00:36:39.640 spiritual element to it. And it's not the spiritual world that you believe in, apparently. So you got to

00:36:47.180 kind of pick and choose. If you want to go stretch, go. Fine, go stretch. You want to go do Pilates? Yeah,

00:36:51.360 that sounds good. But you don't need to do this liturgical thing. And when it comes to astrology,

00:36:55.640 I would not consult astrologists. It's so funny. I live in LA, you know, so everyone's an atheist,

00:37:00.700 but they all are totally into their zodiac signs and they all completely believe it.

00:37:05.160 I think, wait a second, guys, hold on. It's, you can't believe in the dominant religion that has,

00:37:12.000 you know, has the most explanatory power that has shaped our entire civilization. But you believe that

00:37:17.860 some little blurb in the newspaper is going to tell you your future, that's a little weird. It's

00:37:21.920 because, it's because I think atheists believe religious people, Christians especially, are

00:37:27.920 superstitious when, ironically, really religious people are the least superstitious people on earth.

00:37:35.460 And actually, it's the people who think that they're not religious, they tend to fall

00:37:39.620 into the most superstition. But in short, I would stay away from astrology.

00:37:43.700 From Nick, Michael, where did this huge push for saving the cows come from?

00:37:50.400 Like, why not focus on saving whales, deer, or Amy Schumer? Curious to know your thoughts.

00:37:57.060 Thanks. The reason that the left now is focusing on saving the cows and you can't milk the cows

00:38:02.640 more than any other issue is because the left wants it to hurt. The left wants to feel a little pain,

00:38:10.800 a little penance, a little discipline. And when it comes to cows, people like hamburgers. When it

00:38:16.680 comes to dairy, they like cheese, they like milk, and they want to feel it. This comes from the same

00:38:21.320 kind of religious impulse, right? We all know that we're broken people. We all know that we're fallen.

00:38:26.160 And so, we acknowledge that. We acknowledge our sins. We confess our sins. We do penance.

00:38:31.900 We atone. For the left, they don't have an outlet for that, or they don't think they have an outlet

00:38:38.100 for that. So, they don't admit that human beings are irreparably flawed, right? They believe in the

00:38:44.340 perfectibility of human nature. They believe in utopia so often. They believe that they're good

00:38:50.900 people. They celebrate pride, right? The sin that actually causes mankind to fall. So, they believe in

00:38:56.460 all this stuff, but they know that they're kind of rotten. Because, look, if you look in a mirror long

00:39:00.400 enough, you can figure it out, that you're a kind of rotten person. And so, they feel that they need

00:39:04.640 to atone for their sin of whatever, causing suffering to the cows or something. And whereas,

00:39:09.780 there would obviously be many simpler ways to help the environment, help animals, rather than just

00:39:15.980 giving up milk. I mean, ironically, if you don't milk a cow, the cow is in pain. But people like milk.

00:39:21.460 People like cheese. So, they want to feel it themselves. They want to say, like in the Catholic

00:39:25.160 church, you say, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. My fault, my fault for my most grievous

00:39:30.020 fault. And that's what they're doing by not drinking milk. That's what Joaquin Phoenix is

00:39:34.760 feeling too. From Andrew, do you support term limits for members of Congress and why? Thanks.

00:39:40.700 No, I don't. And I don't because I think that term limits for members of Congress would not reduce the

00:39:46.200 power of the federal government. It would not reduce the interference that the federal government

00:39:51.680 has in my life. It would simply make the federal government less accountable. Why would the federal

00:39:57.320 government be less accountable? Because the actual members of Congress would have even less power than

00:40:02.640 they do now. And instead, the people running Congress would be the staff and would be the

00:40:08.320 lobbyists. To an extent, this is already true. You know, the people who were in Congress the longest

00:40:13.220 sometimes are the staff. And the staff don't get elected, especially if you're on a committee or

00:40:18.920 something like that. You're just there forever. The lobbyists are there forever. The elected

00:40:23.940 officials come and go. But the lobbyists remain. The swamp remains. The bureaucracy remains. The

00:40:29.360 biggest threat to our liberty from the federal government is this entrenched bureaucracy at the

00:40:35.000 executive agencies in particular. So I think it would be a huge mistake to set up term limits in

00:40:40.280 Congress that would empower the congressional bureaucracy even more. We have term limits in this

00:40:47.000 country. They were set up by the Constitution. They're called elections. From Kyle.

00:40:51.860 Hi, Michael. One topic I have not heard discussed often is whether child support payments should be

00:40:57.500 required during pregnancy. If a man and woman are divorced or separated, should a father be legally

00:41:02.160 required to financially support a pregnant mother? This would mean that men could be held responsible

00:41:06.880 for medical expenses as well as increased financial assistance toward the end of pregnancy when the

00:41:11.800 woman is no longer able to work. Do you think conservatives would get behind this policy?

00:41:15.640 This is a great idea. There's a little bit of a issue with it, which is that

00:41:20.340 if the man and woman are, you know, the woman becomes pregnant and then they divorce right after she

00:41:28.780 becomes pregnant, that's a pretty bad marriage. I mean, you're in a pretty rotten place if you're

00:41:33.920 going to get divorced right after pregnancy. Let's say that they're not married, you know, just one night

00:41:39.460 stand and the woman becomes pregnant. They should get married. The two people should then get married.

00:41:45.640 The answer to that is not that he should pay a little bit more money in child support.

00:41:49.400 The answer to that is they should get married. If a guy, if a husband impregnates his wife and then

00:41:56.780 they want to get divorced right afterward, the answer to that is they should not get divorced

00:42:00.260 in virtually all cases. Some cases you do need a separation, you know, if you're in abuse or

00:42:06.700 something like that. But virtually all cases, all cases that we really talk about that I think are

00:42:13.000 being referred to here, just stay married. Okay. That's, that would be the preference. We need to

00:42:18.240 encourage marriage. We need to change, uh, laws governing the ease of divorce laws, governing,

00:42:24.660 uh, family courts, for instance, barring all of that. I think in principle, of course, it's a great

00:42:32.280 idea. You know, the woman is going to have a lot of expenses when she gets pregnant. And so

00:42:36.600 the man who impregnated her, the father of the baby should certainly pay for that. And the other

00:42:41.480 reason this is a great idea is the left could, could, uh, accept this argument because it is

00:42:48.260 feminist, I guess, you know, it helps the woman, but the right would love this argument because of

00:42:52.200 course, then everyone would have to acknowledge that the baby is a baby even before he's born

00:42:56.960 from Ryan. Hi, Michael. Last night on backstage, you guys were debating about how conservatism

00:43:03.220 should be defined. It was suggested that conservatism should be defined by specific

00:43:07.300 principles rather than general inclinations. If I have properly listed, listen to what you've said,

00:43:13.200 this is something that you disagree with. Could you explain why it is best for conservatism to be

00:43:18.580 an inclination rather than a set of principles? Thank you for a great show. Yes, this is a big

00:43:22.520 disagreement between the libertarian right wing and the conservative right wing or the traditionalist

00:43:29.320 right wing. The, the libertarianism is an ideology. Okay. So you can list it on a sheet of paper.

00:43:35.480 It's a manifesto. It's got these, it's governed by abstract principles. It's a rationalist, modernist

00:43:41.680 ideology. Conservatism is not, or at least it's not supposed to be. Conservatism, modern conservatism

00:43:51.220 comes to us from Edmund Burke, who is a great Irish, Irish Anglo philosopher. And you see this

00:43:58.980 history throughout America too. Edmund Burke was a big supporter of the American revolution.

00:44:04.640 Russell Kirk wrote a great book about this called the American mind, where he kind of traces the

00:44:08.320 evolution of conservative thought. Another great book on this is Michael Oakeshott. Michael Oakeshott,

00:44:13.440 he's a great author on this. The book is rationalism and politics. The trouble with ideology that Michael

00:44:18.840 Oakeshott describes in this essay is that ideology is just so narrow. It's so wrong. You're just sort of

00:44:25.880 formalizing and abstracting and abridging just the kind of very narrowly rational truths that you can

00:44:31.820 deduce from the whole wide world, from all of our tradition. That's not very conservative. That is

00:44:37.300 ultimately a modernist rationalist idea. It's not terribly different in its premises from leftism.

00:44:43.760 Whereas the conservative knows the world is a lot bigger than that. Okay. Edmund Burke's great insight

00:44:49.060 is that we're not just about these rationalist values that we're going to abstract and we think

00:44:53.340 they're floating in the air. That actually the conservative worldview relies a lot on providence,

00:44:59.800 a lot on tradition, the received wisdom of the ages, humility before the tradition, before our

00:45:05.320 ancestors. We've inherited something here. Okay. We have a cultural inheritance. We have a family.

00:45:10.020 We're not born into the world as just abstract atoms floating around, but we're actually conserving

00:45:15.520 something. And I think that that version of conservatism, that it's an inclination rather than

00:45:20.760 just some ideology is a much more coherent, much more sustainable. The early conservative

00:45:26.180 philosopher, Edmund Burke was an aesthetic philosopher. He was a philosopher about beauty,

00:45:30.680 you know, conservatives, unlike shrieking Rashida Tlaib, we enjoy things. Conservatives tend to be a

00:45:35.880 little happier, a little more at peace in the world, right? Of course we are. We want to conserve what

00:45:41.280 we've got. Whereas the left, they don't like what they see. They're always kind of angry. They're always

00:45:46.240 sort of negative, right? They just want to move past this. Everything bothers them. And I fear when

00:45:52.140 right-wingers adopt this ideological view that conservatism, capital C, with a trademark over

00:45:59.940 the M is just five bullet points on a manifesto. I find they kind of take on the same aspect as the

00:46:06.180 left, the same premises as the left. And that's a losing, even if it were preferable, it's a losing

00:46:11.880 bet because the left is always going to be better at being leftist than we are. All right, that's our

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