Our national collapse continues as more and more statues come down across the U.S. over the weekend, including those of Ulysses S. Grant, Francis Scott Key, and St. Junipero Serra. What are the real intentions of these protests and riots? Is it about Black Lives Matter, Antifa or something else?
00:00:00.000Our national collapse continues as more statues come tumbling down. It's very difficult to keep
00:00:07.100track of all the statues that have come down. You remember initially it was just Confederate
00:00:12.500monuments. Then it was Robert E. Lee, who's got kind of a more special place. Then very quickly,
00:00:17.920it was Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Christopher Columbus. Well, we've got even
00:00:20.700more statues coming down over the weekend. A quick rundown. First, Ulysses S. Grant.
00:00:25.740This one, maybe you were not expecting. Ulysses S. Grant is of course the union general who freed
00:00:34.040all of the slaves. So you'd think that in the name of Black Lives Matter, probably wouldn't make sense
00:00:39.200to tear down his statue, but that's exactly what they did in San Francisco. Next one up
00:00:44.420is Francis Scott Key. Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem. I guess no surprise there because
00:00:50.900we know leftists hate the national anthem. They've been protesting the national anthem for a very long
00:00:55.500time now, though it is a little bit ironic that they took down Francis Scott Key. Part of the reason
00:00:59.980they did is there's a line in one of the verses of the national anthem that talks about slaves. So
00:01:05.420the line is no refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the
00:01:11.680grave. And there's, there's actually some debate over what this line even means, but of course,
00:01:18.060leftists are not looking for context on that at all. So the, the word slave there might actually refer
00:01:23.580to the British policy of impressment of enslaving people. But again, all nuance is gone. The other
00:01:29.440thing about Francis Scott Key is though he owned slaves for a period of his life, he also publicly
00:01:34.120criticized slavery. He gave free legal representation to slaves that were seeking freedom, but his statue
00:01:41.120had to come down anyway. And then I think that the most ridiculous one, this was the third one over the
00:01:45.140weekend. St. Junipero Serra. They are now pulling down actual honest to goodness, honest to God saints.
00:01:55.300St. Junipero Serra was a missionary, came to the new world in 1749. He was canonized in 2015 by Pope
00:02:01.820Francis. There's a statue of him in the U S Capitol. And believe it or not, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden
00:02:07.140actually paid their respects to that statue. Not so long ago. That was then. This is now they're going to
00:02:12.960tear down every single statue. And then guess what? Once all the statues are down, they're coming for
00:02:19.260you. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. Welcome back to the Michael Knowles
00:02:31.320show. President Trump talked about all this statue toppling at his first speech since the lockdown,
00:02:36.380which we will get to because this weekend more than any showed the real aim of these protests
00:02:43.800and riots. And it's a lot worse than anybody thought. And they're not just going to stop at
00:02:48.460statues. So president Trump talked about all of this, all of the pulling down of statues,
00:02:54.180a lot of normal people, most normal people oppose this kind of stuff. You'll notice when you look at
00:03:00.700who was pulling down the statues, it's a lot of people clad in black. They look like they're part of
00:03:04.520far left organizations, either BLM, which we'll get to in one second or Antifa or other various
00:03:11.260anarchist and communist groups. I don't think they speak for most people. Actually, Muhammad Ali Jr.,
00:03:16.500son of the famous boxer and a civil rights advocate and social activist, he came out and
00:03:24.660strongly opposed all the statue toppling and the riots and the looting and the protests. He said,
00:03:29.920don't, he used colorful language, which I'll have to clean up a little bit. He goes,
00:03:33.300don't bust up stuff. Don't trash the place. You can peacefully protest. My father would have said
00:03:39.540they ain't nothing but devils. My father said all lives matter. I don't think he'd agree with the
00:03:44.880BLM movement. Actually, Muhammad Ali Jr. said that he thought the BLM movement was racist. And then he
00:03:51.720went on to defend cops. He said, police don't wake up and think I'm going to kill an N word today or kill
00:03:58.780a white man. They're just trying to make it back home to their family in one piece.
00:04:03.420Obviously correct. Muhammad Ali Jr. I have been telling you this for many weeks now that the Black
00:04:09.420Lives Matter organization is a very, very bad organization. It is not what it purports to be.
00:04:15.060It is a radical leftist, anti-American, no good, very bad organization, and nobody should have anything
00:04:20.260to do with it. And as a result of saying that, I and others have been called racist, bigoted, terrible,
00:04:28.720dishonest. Okay. Well, over the weekend, the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement
00:04:35.660actually admitted that my take on it is correct. Okay. There was, I don't think they admitted it over
00:04:43.380the weekend, but the video finally came out over the weekend. Patrice Cullor was caught on video
00:04:49.700admitting that the BLM organization isn't about Black Lives Mattering, that she is a trained organizer
00:04:57.100and she is a trained Marxist. I also think that it might, um, I think of a lot of things. The first
00:05:06.660thing I think is that we actually do have an ideological frame. Um, myself and Alicia in particular,
00:05:12.400are trained organizers. Um, we, uh, are trained Marxists. Um, we are, uh, super, uh, versed, um,
00:05:26.440on sort of ideological theories. And I think that what we really try to do is build a movement that
00:05:32.580could be utilized by many, many Black folk. When someone tells you that he or she is a Marxist,
00:05:40.940believe them. Okay. You hear a lot of people ranting and raving about conspiracy theories and
00:05:49.440tinfoil hats. And there are many people who rant and rave about Marxism. This woman is admitting it.
00:05:58.320You don't need to feel bad about yourself. If you posted the black square, you don't need to feel
00:06:04.000bad about yourself. If you posted the hashtag black lives matter, thinking that black lives matter is
00:06:08.900about black lives mattering, but we now know it isn't. We now have the founders of BLM admitting
00:06:15.060on video in their own words, that this is a Marxist front. Marxists have duped plenty of nice people in
00:06:23.460history. Marxists have lied to many of nice people throughout history. Fool me once, shame on you.
00:06:32.000Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I'm remembering the George W. Bush version
00:06:39.380of this, which is fool me twice. The point is you're not going to fool me again. That should be the
00:06:42.960point. If they fool you the first time and you post the black square, that's on them. But if you
00:06:50.120continue to give your support to the BLM organization, which is openly and avowedly Marxist,
00:07:00.120radically ideological, radically anti-American, that's on you. Stop doing it. Stop posting the
00:07:08.780hashtag. Stop posting the black square. That's not what this is about. And this battle is playing out,
00:07:13.980not just in the United States. It's playing out all around the world because over the weekend,
00:07:18.860you had the United Nations, which we fund for some reason, openly embracing another radical leftist
00:07:25.740organization, another communist slash anarchist organization, Antifa. We'll get to that in one
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00:08:48.160Ancestry.com slash Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S. The United Nations is now pro-Antifa. How much more evidence do we
00:08:59.600need before we finally defund the United Nations? This should be it. You've got BLM admitting that
00:09:06.400they're Marxist. How much more evidence do you need before you pull your support from BLM? Same
00:09:10.320thing here with Antifa. They tweet, quote, UN hashtag human rights experts express profound concern over
00:09:17.080a recent statement by the U.S. Attorney General describing Antifa and other anti-fascist activities
00:09:22.020as domestic terrorists, saying it undermines the rights to freedom of expression and of peaceful
00:09:28.060assembly in the country. See how they're conflating Antifa with anti-fascists. Now, Antifa is a communist
00:09:39.140anarchist terror group. Anti-fascist just means you oppose fascism. Let's take that example all the way
00:09:46.700back to when fascism had any sort of meaning, which is back in World War II with Mussolini and sort of
00:09:53.980with Hitler, though national socialism is sort of a different thing. But lump them both together,
00:09:58.340fine. That was the last time the word fascism really meant anything. George Orwell wrote an
00:10:02.840essay about this after the Second World War, the word fascism lost all of its meaning. But in that war,
00:10:08.720you see a lot of leftists these days talking about the allied troops as the original anti-fascists.
00:10:14.500Remember, there were two kinds of anti-fascists in World War II. There were the Americans and the
00:10:20.060British, our guys, good guys, and there were Stalin's communists, both anti-fascists. When you're just
00:10:31.580opposed to something, that leaves it wide open to interpretation as to what side you are actually on.
00:10:38.380Some anti-fascists are good, right? If you're an American soldier in World War II, that makes you,
00:10:44.560that's a good guy. But if you're Stalin, just because you opposed Hitler at a certain point
00:10:52.060doesn't make you a good guy. Doesn't mean that I want to ally with Stalin, okay? And yet the United
00:10:58.060Nations conflates the two. We need to defund the United Nations. We pay 22% of the UN budget to invite
00:11:04.740the worst people on earth to sit on a human rights council. Some of the worst, most despotic regimes in
00:11:11.020history sit on a human rights council. Then they fly to New York to the seat of the United Nations
00:11:15.980and criticize the United States. And we, like masochists, pay the bill. We say, thank you.
00:11:21.480Thank you, Venezuela. May I have another? Thank you, North Korea. North Korea. Thank you, Cuba. May I have
00:11:27.000another? Thank you, Iran. May I have another? Why are we doing that? The UN is situated on beautiful
00:11:35.660waterfront property. We could knock down that building. We could bring in some nice bulldozers.
00:11:41.320We could create beautiful Trump condominiums and we would save a lot of money every single year.
00:11:45.920Now's the time to do that. We are in a battle that has become ideological. It's not just in the U.S.
00:11:54.440It's international, but it's the same issues. What are we fighting for? Why are we,
00:12:02.000why are we paying people and tolerating people, destroying our nation, our history, our culture?
00:12:10.160Some conservatives, some conservatives go squishy on this. They say it's a good idea to take down the
00:12:16.720statues. Take down the statues, put them in a museum. I say we take down rioters and put them in prison.
00:12:22.480But some conservatives want to go along with the leftist mob, take down the statues and put them in
00:12:28.300a museum. Very misguided. First of all, they won't stay in museums. You think you're going to take it
00:12:33.680down from some public square and put it in a museum and then go get to look at it. No, they're coming
00:12:38.480down from museums too. The American Museum of Natural History in New York just took down a statue
00:12:44.340of Teddy Roosevelt. Why? What was so terrible about Teddy Roosevelt? Nobody can, nobody can tell except
00:12:51.440that this statue of Teddy Roosevelt had a black man and an Indian in it and they didn't like that for
00:12:56.140some reason. Too much integration, I guess. So they're taking down the statue. None of the statues
00:13:01.420that are going to museums are going to remain there for very long. There's no limiting principle
00:13:06.420to tearing down the statues, to tearing down some statues, but not other statues of our history.
00:13:14.220And where the rubber meets the road, I notice for a lot of conservatives is Robert E. Lee.
00:13:18.640Many conservatives who want to prove that they're not racist, prove to leftist mobs who don't care
00:13:27.500if you're not racist and to whom we don't owe any sort of explanation whatsoever.
00:13:33.460What those conservatives do is they say, okay, we'll keep up Lincoln and Jefferson. They're really
00:13:37.180good guys and Washington and even Christopher Columbus, but we'll tear down Robert E. Lee because
00:13:41.980Robert E. Lee is a traitor. This totally misunderstands the civil war,
00:13:50.000our nation broadly, and how we look at our history. If you want to tear down that Robert E. Lee statue,
00:13:57.660you find yourself exactly at odds with Abraham Lincoln's vision for what happens after the
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00:15:28.580Lee statue. You say conservatives are traitors. Robert E. Lee was a traitor. First of all,
00:15:36.420Robert E. Lee was a great American general who only returned to Virginia when war broke out because he
00:15:43.360was loyal to the Commonwealth of Virginia as a federalist, right? You have more local loyalties
00:15:49.840before the national loyalty in an, in an issue like that. But then he was instrumental in bringing
00:15:55.560about an end of the war. And Abraham Lincoln made an excellent point on how the war should end.
00:16:00.700He said, with malice toward none, with charity for all, we will finish up this conflict.
00:16:11.060That was good enough for the men who fought and won the civil war. That was good enough for the men
00:16:19.560who lost their brothers in arms in the civil war. That was good enough for the families who lost loved
00:16:25.140ones in the civil war. But it's not good enough for modern leftists. Robert E. Lee had his
00:16:30.900citizenship reinstated. It's good enough for people who came before us, not good enough
00:16:36.740for modern leftists. When there is a civil war, often that's the, that spells the end of a nation.
00:16:44.600But the nation did come back together. That was not easy. It took a lot of healing. It took a lot
00:16:50.300of compassion for our fellow citizens, rebuilding love of our fellow citizens.
00:16:56.940We succeeded at that. And now 150 years later, more than 150 years later, people are trying to
00:17:03.860tear that apart again, totally undoing all the good that Lincoln and those who came after him did.
00:17:11.240The other reason why we can't tear down Robert E. Lee or why we shouldn't tear down Robert E. Lee
00:17:17.320is that the argument for tearing down Lee is an argument for tearing down everybody.
00:17:25.440Robert E. Lee is an American citizen, so I don't think the traitor line works. Really what you're
00:17:29.160saying, he's a traitor, he's a racist, he's a bigot. You apply it to Jefferson and Washington.
00:17:33.680Really what people are saying is this man had flaws. This man committed sins. This man was not
00:17:39.260perfect. The, the statue of the perfect man who has lived any time in the last 2000 years or so
00:17:49.700would be an empty statue. It would just be a platform. If that's your argument for tearing
00:17:55.620down Lee, then you have to tear down all of the statues too. And not just tear down the statues,
00:18:00.020you have to rename the institutions. Over the weekend, hashtag cancel Yale was trending nationwide.
00:18:05.920What did Yale do? Yale has done many things in history, but one thing it did was push forward
00:18:14.820this progressive idea that we've got to rename things, tear down statues. Yale renamed Calhoun
00:18:21.040College just a few years ago because it was named after a guy who defended slavery and you can't have
00:18:27.060that. So all these years later, we have to rename Calhoun College. At the time, Roger Kimball wrote an
00:18:33.280essay where he pointed out that if you rename Calhoun College, you got to rename Yale because
00:18:37.340Calhoun might've defended slavery, but Eli Yale was a slave trader, the man who Yale is named after.
00:18:42.440So you got to rename Yale. Jesse Kelly, the conservative commentator talked about this over
00:18:46.680the weekend. Ann Coulter has been talking about this for a while and it's very ironic. It's a little
00:18:51.920bit chickens coming home to roost because Yale in recent years more or less kicked off the cancel
00:18:57.400culture. Perhaps you remember shrieking girl, that Yale undergraduate who met her professor,
00:19:03.020who was the head of the college that she was in and started shrieking at him because his wife had
00:19:10.660the audacity to suggest that Yale students were able to choose their own Halloween costumes. He was
00:19:16.400defending a principle of free speech and maturity and adulthood. She didn't like that. So she went on
00:19:22.040a vulgar rant shrieking about how he should lose his job.
00:19:25.660Be quiet. It is your job to create a place of comfort and home for the students that live in
00:19:31.740Silliman. By sending out that email, that goes against your position as master. Do you understand
00:19:36.800that? No, I don't agree with that. Then why the did you accept the position? I have a different vision than you. You should step down. If that is what you think about being a master, you should step down.
00:19:47.040It is not about creating an intellectual fee. It's about creating a home here. You are not doing that. You are disgusting.
00:19:55.440That's the future. That's the future president shrieking girl, future senator shrieking undergraduate.
00:20:05.200Guess what Yale did? They didn't support the professors. Professors ended up leaving Yale. I think now they've come back, but they ended up leaving. They did step down. The students won.
00:20:14.700Many of the students involved in that altercation won awards for social justice at graduation. What happened to Yale?
00:20:23.540That's what many of us were asking ourselves. What happened to this place that they allowed this to happen?
00:20:30.200Then it occurred to me. Yale was founded as a seminary and it still is one. Yale was founded as a place to train
00:20:40.220priests and priests and preachers. And it still does that. All of the elite universities were founded as
00:20:47.080seminaries and they are seminaries to this day. The difference is that initially they were seminaries
00:20:53.020of Christianity. Today they are seminaries of liberalism, of wokeism, of leftism. Call it what you want.
00:21:01.560They still train their students, indoctrinate their students with the same exact religious zeal that they had
00:21:08.880when they were founded. But the religion has changed a little bit. Whereas we began with Christianity,
00:21:17.000now we are at liberalism. And of course, if you're going to train students in that new woke religion,
00:21:23.540then you're going to get zealots like that girl shrieking at her professor. And you are going to get
00:21:28.060zealots renaming everything. Utter revolution. The sad thing about all these elite institutions,
00:21:36.960don't forget universities going back to the middle ages, the earliest universities were outgrowths of
00:21:43.500the Catholic church. They were places to train monks and priests, people in the faith. And now there's
00:21:50.860a new faith. In Christianity though, you have redemption because you recognize man's fallen nature
00:21:57.020and then you recognize your need of a redeemer. And then you recognize that a redeemer actually
00:22:01.340came and redeemed mankind on the cross and rose from the dead. In leftism, there's no redemption.
00:22:10.320In the religion of liberalism, there is an inversion of Christianity. You are told that you're perfect just
00:22:20.240the way you are. And if you're not perfect, you can become perfect through your own actions,
00:22:24.060through your own self-liberation from bondage, from the oppressive past into the new future.
00:22:28.820You can perfect your own human nature. If there is some imperfection, it's society's fault. It's not
00:22:35.860your fault. And if there is some imperfection, there's no redemption for it because there's no
00:22:41.440redeemer. That's the sort of religion that topples statues. The original religion of our seminaries
00:22:50.060built up, built up all of the statues, built up this great country. And the new one is tearing them
00:22:55.320down. There is no middle ground in this political battle. There is no compromise. There's no
00:23:04.060reconciliation. There's no meat in the middle. There's no meat in the middle between build a
00:23:08.300statue and tear a statue down. You can, you can leave a statue up, I guess, but that's not really in
00:23:14.640the middle. That's the former category. That's building up a nation. There's not going to be
00:23:20.620any middle ground here. We are playing for keeps. It is a battle over keeping our country, which means
00:23:26.640to continue to build our country or tearing our country down completely. And once they get past
00:23:33.200the statues, they're not going to be happy. They're going to go for more institutions. They're going to go
00:23:38.140for you. President Trump talked about this in his first rally since the coronavirus lockdown. And he
00:23:45.640talked about his strategy. A lot of us, including on this show, we've talked about why is President
00:23:50.300Trump allowing this to happen? Why won't he roll the tanks into Chaz, Chop, Soy Malia, Soy Viet Union,
00:23:54.820whatever you want to call it? Why won't he do it? One thought has been that perhaps he wants people to
00:24:00.780see how bad things get. Trump knows a lot about stagecraft and about the media. Maybe he wants people to
00:24:06.500see the cities burning and then realize that we need law and order and we have to vote for him. I think
00:24:10.260that's a tough strategy. But actually at his rally over the weekend, Trump admitted that this is exactly
00:24:17.300what he's doing. All of these places I talk about are Democrat. You know that every one of them, every
00:24:26.160one of them. And I have an offer out. I said, anytime you want, we'll come in, we'll straighten it out
00:24:32.800in one hour or less. Now, I may be wrong, but it's probably better for us to just watch that
00:24:42.600disaster. I flew in with some of our great congressmen who we're going to introduce in a
00:24:50.160second. And I said to him, Congressman, what do you think? I can straighten it out fast. Should we just
00:24:57.020go in? No, sir. Let it simmer for a little while. Let people see what radical left Democrats will do
00:25:05.940to our country. He makes a great point here and confirms what a lot of us thought was happening.
00:25:15.660And even more than that, he gives you a peek into his thinking. If President Trump were secretly
00:25:22.060letting the cities burn just so that we could see how bad it was going to get, I think a lot of people
00:25:26.740would accuse him of cynicism, saying, ah, you're willing to let cities go up in flames just to
00:25:31.880make a political point. But the very fact that Trump is telling you what he's doing takes away
00:25:37.820that cynicism, right? He's admitting it to you. There's no guile here. And that's the point of
00:25:44.780these rallies is to take you behind the scenes, create this personal connection. And I think he does
00:25:50.020that pretty successfully. The one trouble with this strategy, though, is that we no longer live in a
00:25:55.860country that recognizes federalism very clearly. We don't really understand. If you asked 100 people
00:26:02.980on the street, probably very few of them would recognize that we have local government, state
00:26:08.240government, federal government. And actually, the local government makes most of the decisions that
00:26:13.760administers most of the laws and regulations and the state government a little bit more, too. And the
00:26:19.120federal government has relatively few powers, narrowly defined powers. Most people wouldn't
00:26:26.080recognize that because it's become less and less true over time. So you look around at the burning
00:26:30.400cities. I think a lot of people look at Trump and say, well, you're the president. Do something about
00:26:35.080it. Action is a good spur to enthusiasm. Action is very inspiring. And so Trump is playing a game here.
00:26:42.980That's why he said, I admit I could be wrong about this, but I think it's better to let people see
00:26:49.020what happens. I think what needs to happen is a little bit of a combination of the two.
00:26:53.980I think it's good to watch Chaz and chop. It's hilarious. It's it's sort of like when AOC proposed
00:27:00.000the Green New Deal, which was so absurd. And Mitch McConnell immediately said, well, we got to vote on
00:27:04.760this ASAP. We got to get the Green New Deal on the docket and we got to get everybody on the record.
00:27:09.260Do you support destroying 90% of American energy? Do you support spending $93 trillion? Get on the
00:27:14.320record, Senator. There is a little bit of that, that performance of seeing how bad it is. But we
00:27:18.880also need to see action. We have elected Trump in part for his energy. We had other candidates who
00:27:24.540Trump perhaps aptly described as low energy. Trump is high energy. So we want to see that energy in
00:27:31.060action. Alexander Hamilton, writing in The Federalist, said that we want an energetic executive,
00:27:35.880an energetic government. So we do have to see that eventually. When is that going to be?
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00:29:23.060So Trump talks about his strategy on the riots. Then he gets even more personal than that. He goes
00:29:36.140on this digression about how he was giving a speech at West Point, and then he tried walking down the
00:29:41.040ramp, but the ramp was slippery, so he had to walk slowly. Most people are criticizing Trump for this.
00:29:46.160They think this was a waste of time at his rally. I think it's the key feature to his rally.
00:29:52.500Here is Trump talking about that all-important shuffle down the ramp.
00:29:58.140And this was a steel ramp. You all saw it because everybody saw it. This was a steel ramp. It had no
00:30:05.120handrail. It was like an ice skating rink. And I said, General, I have a problem. And he didn't
00:30:11.980understand that at first. I said, there's no way. You understood. I just saluted almost 600 times.
00:30:19.980I just made a big speech. I sat for other speeches. I'm being baked. I'm being baked like a cake.
00:30:27.140I said, General, there's no way I can make it down that ramp without falling on my ass, General.
00:30:32.560I have no rally. It's true. So I said, is there like something else around? Sir, the ramp is ready
00:30:44.860to go. Grab me, sir. Grab me. I didn't really want to grab him. You know why? Because I said,
00:30:52.060that'll be a story too. So he takes you through. You know, I don't like it when the president uses
00:30:57.720vulgar language in public, but the story does seem to call for it. And I see what he's doing here.
00:31:03.040The media for how long? For a week, basically, talked about how Trump was old and doddering
00:31:09.760by walking down this ramp. Meanwhile, their candidate is Joe Biden. Enough said. But they
00:31:15.600talk about the ramp for a week. So he wants to take you behind the scenes on all these little
00:31:19.920moments. At one point, the media accused him of maybe having Parkinson's disease. Trump jokes about
00:31:24.940this goes on a several minute long rant, basically a standup comedy bit about how when you're drinking
00:31:32.380water, it's a good idea not to spill it on your silk necktie.
00:31:37.860You had on a very good red tie. That's a sort of expensive. It's silk because they, they look better.
00:31:45.000They have a better sheen to them. And I don't want to get water on the tie and I don't want to drink
00:31:52.100much. So I lifted up the water. I see we have a little glass of water. Where the hell did this
00:31:56.600water come from? Where did it come from? And I look down on my tie because I've done it. I've taken
00:32:03.960water and it spills down into your tie. It doesn't look good for a long time. And frankly, the tie is
00:32:09.540never the same. So I put it up to my lip and then I say, because I don't want it just in case.
00:32:15.540And they gave me another disease. They gave me another disease.