Ep. 572 - Covid Is The Campaign
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
179.75215
Summary
Joe Biden has been on a cognitive lockdown for the last 88 days, and now he s finally back in the public eye. But is it possible that he s actually in a cognitive decline? Or is his campaign on the brink of victory?
Transcript
00:00:00.000
Joe Biden is admitting that he is being tested regularly. You know, we're all
00:00:05.160
waiting on these tests and we're leading the world in tests. He's not being tested for
00:00:09.640
coronavirus. No, no. He's being tested for something far more important to him and his
00:00:14.240
campaign. He's being tested for cognitive decline. Last question real quick. Some have
00:00:20.580
speculated that you are subject to some degree of cognitive decline. I'm 65. I don't have word
00:00:28.380
recollection that I used to have. I forget my train of thought from time to time. You got 12 years on
00:00:32.940
me, sir. Have you been tested for some degree of cognitive decline? I've been tested and I'm
00:00:39.500
constantly tested. Look, all you got to do is watch me and I can hardly wait to compare my
00:00:46.480
cognitive capability to the cognitive capability of the man I'm running against. Thank you so much.
00:00:53.340
The man I'm running against whose name I just can't happen to remember right now.
00:00:57.880
What's his name? Ronald or I don't know. Anyway, I'm running against him. He's something like that.
00:01:02.380
Probably would have had a stronger effect had he not opened his answer with a joke about lying
00:01:07.960
dog-faced pony soldiers. The cognitive decline is clear and the cognitive decline makes the campaign
00:01:15.060
clear. This lockdown, this no debates, no rallies, this coronavirus is the Biden campaign.
00:01:24.080
We'll get into it. I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:27.880
I think while Joe Biden is on a cognitive decline, all the rest of us are becoming,
00:01:39.440
we're entering into a cognitive incline. We're beginning to realize what this whole last three
00:01:44.700
months is really about, at least from the perspective of the media and from politicians.
00:01:49.620
Joe Biden had not held a presser for 88 days. 88 days, you'll notice is just about the whole
00:01:56.940
length of the lockdown and the Biden campaign had never done better. You know, before that lockdown
00:02:01.980
campaign looked really bad. Trump was leading him everywhere. Now, 88 days later, all of a sudden
00:02:06.920
in national polls and in the swing state polls, Trump's campaign is down. Biden's campaign is up.
00:02:11.480
Biden's campaign is up because nobody's seen Joe Biden. He has been hiding out in a basement.
00:02:15.900
And if he could hide out there until November 3rd, he certainly would do that. He finally comes out.
00:02:20.200
He's got handpicked reporters in the room. He still takes a relatively tough question, which is
00:02:28.480
just, are you in cognitive decline? He doesn't know how to answer it and doesn't answer it convincingly.
00:02:33.840
Then it's just one mistake after another. So at the very open to the conference, right? This is the
00:02:40.940
moment when you want to project confidence, when you want to show on back, forget about those 88 days
00:02:45.020
that I've been hiding. Biden accidentally admits that his campaign handpicked all the reporters
00:02:52.060
and told him to look out for certain reporters and to only call on the easy ones.
00:03:03.160
He gave me a list of how to recognize his Alex AP out there.
00:03:07.340
That's the part you're not supposed to say. I think the name also is Alex, not Alex,
00:03:11.140
but that's neither here nor there. You're not supposed to say that they gave you a list of people to
00:03:14.500
recognize and only call on the easy ones. And then he did get easy questions. Just consider this
00:03:19.560
two days ago during a white house press briefing, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was asked the
00:03:25.940
question of whether president Trump was upset that the Confederacy lost the civil war. That was an
00:03:32.640
actual question in a white house press briefing. Compare that kind of questioning to these softballs
00:03:45.780
Mike's great relief. He doesn't have to follow me every day around the country.
00:03:48.740
Well, the last time, Mr. Vice President, a lot of us saw you on the campaign trail. You were still
00:03:52.960
locked in a very difficult nomination battle. The polls, though, today show you with a sizable
00:03:58.700
national lead, a lead in a lot of the states that are critical in the Electoral College.
00:04:03.140
I wonder where do you think the race stands at this moment? What keeps you up at night
00:04:07.500
as you look ahead? And can you maintain this advantage without campaigning in a traditional way,
00:04:13.080
especially this fall when voters begin to really tune in? Uh, do you think that you'll be able to
00:04:19.700
just be as successful and wonderful as you are right now? Do you think you'll be able to keep
00:04:23.280
doing that? Mr. Vice President, hard hitting questions there from NBC news. It's the sort of
00:04:28.620
question that we can come to expect. You know, I think that the Trump campaign and the president
00:04:33.380
have made some missteps during this lockdown. Uh, we'll get into what some of those are in just a
00:04:38.120
moment, but you can't discount the media here. The fact is during a real presidential campaign,
00:04:46.900
Joe Biden would, if he wouldn't be asked tough questions by reporters, he would make mistakes
00:04:53.740
himself. But what this coronavirus lockdown has managed to do is cancel the campaign. So he hasn't
00:05:00.140
had to do that. This is his first press conference in three months, and it's probably not going to be
00:05:03.980
doing a second one anytime soon. So he gets these easy questions. Then he's asked how to get Americans
00:05:10.340
on the same page since everything now, including the virus has become so woefully politicized.
00:05:17.580
Well, I think the way to get it on the same page is to, uh,
00:05:22.540
I'm going to try to say this politely, is to lower the rhetoric based on division. Stop appealing to
00:05:48.740
That's embarrassing. That's an, that's an embarrassing answer. One, because he doesn't
00:05:52.240
have an answer to the question, right? He says, uh, we're going to lower, we're going to lower it
00:05:56.820
by lowering the rhetoric. And, but he, he both doesn't have an answer. Like he hasn't thought
00:06:01.920
of an answer. And he also can't come up with an answer because he's obviously in cognitive decline
00:06:05.820
and has been, I don't think we're telling tales at a school. I don't think I'm an armchair
00:06:09.840
psychologist. He can't finish an English sentence, but think about what he, what he did manage to say.
00:06:16.700
See what he said was, we're going to lower rhetoric. The usual way to bring Americans
00:06:22.720
together, the usual way to bring people together in politics is to make your argument clearly,
00:06:27.180
give your vision for the country. And then your opponent gives his vision for the country.
00:06:31.480
And then whichever vision of the country you're the people want, that's the one they go with.
00:06:36.180
But Joe Biden doesn't have a vision for the country. Doesn't have any answers to these questions.
00:06:40.400
His answer is lower the rhetoric, which means reduce the politics, reduce the amount that we're
00:06:48.540
discussing, reduce the power of the people, reduce the freedom of the people to choose their own
00:06:52.860
leaders and to choose their own path. This has been the leftist premise for a hundred years now.
00:06:57.960
Take the important questions out of politics, give them to experts, usually wearing lab coats and one
00:07:03.340
of those we have coming up. And then we don't need to worry about all this political rancor.
00:07:07.900
That is what the liberal establishment. And is there any greater representative of the liberal
00:07:12.800
establishment than Joe Biden? That's what they're selling you is a politics without politics.
00:07:17.220
And then, then Donald Trump comes along and ruins their plans because he actually brings up some
00:07:22.140
questions about immigration, about trade, about how we govern ourselves, about what institutions of
00:07:28.580
the government actually make the rules. He shakes up the system and says, hold on, you've had a lot of
00:07:33.360
your power taken away people. And Joe Biden comes in and says, the way I'm going to bring people
00:07:36.740
together. I'm going to lower the amount of politics that we have all together. No campaigns,
00:07:44.900
probably no debates, no nothing, just a rigged system to get them into office. And it was at
00:07:49.360
this moment that I realized what this whole lockdown is really about, which we'll get to in
00:07:55.880
one second. But first I want to thank our friends over at BlinkSale, the revolutionary invoicing software
00:08:00.640
that is changing the landscape for small businesses and independent contractors everywhere.
00:08:04.940
You should not have to send nagging emails to get your invoices paid. When I was freelancing,
00:08:11.340
even today, I still do some work on contract. I always forget to send the invoices and then I
00:08:16.360
forget to follow up. With BlinkSale, you can send beautiful custom brand and invoices and estimates
00:08:20.700
within seconds. You can stay on top of your outstanding invoices, let your customers and clients
00:08:26.080
easily pay your invoices online. You'll even get instant notifications when a customer opens your
00:08:30.880
invoice so that you'll know if they're actually just trying to avoid paying you. Forget about using
00:08:36.340
invoice templates or stressing about coordinating a bunch of different software programs. BlinkSale
00:08:40.340
takes care of it all so that you can spend more time focusing on the work that actually gets you
00:08:44.960
paid and actually makes your business a success. Definitely go check it out. See for yourself.
00:08:50.040
Try BlinkSale for free at BlinkSale.com slash Knowles. That is B-L-I-N-K-S-A-L-E.com slash Knowles.
00:08:59.760
BlinkSale. Spend less time billing and more time doing what you love.
00:09:06.640
At this point in the Biden presser, I realized what the coronavirus lockdown is all about.
00:09:12.780
We talked yesterday about how there's no medical purpose to the lockdown anymore.
00:09:17.900
The point of the lockdown was not to stop the virus or to cure the virus, right? It couldn't
00:09:24.860
possibly achieve that. The only point was to flatten the curve, not overwhelm the healthcare
00:09:27.980
system. We never even came close to overwhelming the healthcare system. We did that. We achieved
00:09:32.580
the only thing the lockdowns could achieve. The only purpose of the lockdowns at this point could be
00:09:37.000
political. And what's the political purpose? It occurred to me yesterday that the lockdown
00:09:42.980
lockdown is Biden's campaign. It's the whole campaign. How did I figure this out? Because
00:09:50.020
Joe Biden mentioned during this presser, first run in 88 days, he's not going to campaign. He's
00:09:57.140
not going to hold rallies. He cares so much about his fellow Americans that he's going to sit at home
00:10:03.360
until he wins the presidency by default. Well, you know, I, uh, this is the most unusual
00:10:09.460
campaign I think in modern history in that, uh, but I start off with the premise, Mike, that I'm
00:10:18.340
going to follow the doc's orders, not just for me, but for the country. And, uh, that means that, uh,
00:10:24.460
I am not going to be holding rallies. I am not going to be, uh, for example, you all are here,
00:10:30.160
but thank the school has put those circles around. So we keep the social distancing. Everybody has
00:10:35.960
masks on. As soon as I finish this, I'll put my mask back on. Um, and, uh, so it's all been,
00:10:42.960
almost all been virtual. Although I have gone to Houston, I have gone into Pennsylvania. I have gone to
00:10:48.660
Virginia. I've, I've, I've traveled, but what I do, I get in, make my case and leave, take questions
00:10:55.440
and leave. And, uh, and so, uh, but you know me, I'd much rather be out there with people because
00:11:03.400
that's where I get the greatest feel. Okay. First of all, not the best choice of words for Joe Biden.
00:11:09.020
You don't want to talk about how you want to be around people because you can feel them
00:11:11.960
sort of a side point. This is so corrupt. This answer is so unbelievably corrupt.
00:11:19.900
The first part, he says, I'm not going to hold rallies, meaning I'm not going to campaign,
00:11:25.280
meaning it's the beginning, setting the stage for the excuse of why he's not going to participate in
00:11:30.700
a debate with Donald Trump. That's the first part. If he's not holding rallies, he's not holding a
00:11:35.240
campaign. Then how on earth could he go to a debate? It's the same point. He says, I just don't
00:11:40.480
want to bring people together in a physical location. So therefore I'm not going to, I'm not
00:11:45.440
going to campaign. He's not going to be able to back out of the debate unless he starts to set
00:11:49.860
the stage now. So that's the first part. And why won't he debate Trump? Because Trump would
00:11:52.940
eat him for lunch. There would be nothing left other than Joe Biden's very shiny teeth. Just
00:11:57.920
sit, just chattering there. There is, he got very good looking teeth. I assume they're not natural,
00:12:01.900
but that would be the last thing left. Okay. The second part, why won't he hold the campaign
00:12:07.300
doctor's orders? Well, not just for me, but for the country. This is something we've talked about
00:12:12.800
now for weeks, which is that what the left does is they exploit science, capital S trademark over the E
00:12:18.580
to avoid politics. The whole thing Biden's been talking about in this presser. So he's saying,
00:12:23.660
ah, the doctor, doctor's orders to the country is we can't have a presidential campaign and you just
00:12:28.460
got to elect me. No, actually that doctors don't diagnose countries. Doctors diagnose individual
00:12:34.220
patients. What you do, political demagogues like you diagnose countries and tell them to just do
00:12:42.320
whatever you say. So he's saying in the name of science, we can't have a presidential campaign this
00:12:46.600
year, but then he realized he is in public. He is doing a thing right now, right? He actually is
00:12:52.760
traveling around the country occasionally, at least to raise a little bit of money, at least to make a
00:12:57.000
comment here or comment there. So he has to back, he goes, and that's why, you know, we all have to
00:13:01.840
wear masks and I'm going to wear my mask just as soon as I get off this stage. It was like Andy Cuomo
00:13:06.600
yesterday, shaming Trump for not wearing a mask. Andy Cuomo himself wasn't wearing the mask.
00:13:11.300
And that's why I'm not going to bring any people together in a room. Well, I mean, I know I brought all of
00:13:15.060
you together in the room, but that's because it was politically convenient for me, but I'm not going
00:13:18.220
to do it. I'm not going to do that after this. And I'm not going to travel. I mean, I know that
00:13:21.400
I traveled to some places, but I'm only going to travel when it's convenient for me. It's all just
00:13:24.880
BS. Okay. The whole thing is BS. Every day, this lockdown, this absolutely medically pointless
00:13:32.000
lockdown goes on is a point you can take away from Donald Trump's tally in the presidential race
00:13:37.740
and a point you can add to Joe Biden's tally. It's the only way they can win. And it's the only
00:13:42.800
explanation for why the lockdown is still going on. What is the other explanation?
00:13:49.260
They're talking about how the cases are exploding. Sure. But the deaths are not. The number of deaths
00:13:53.300
are not. And the death rate is not. And if the whole point of the virus is we don't have a cure
00:13:57.120
for it, we don't have a vaccine, then there's nothing the lockdowns can do. All you can do is
00:14:02.820
flatten the curve. We already did that. I'm so frustrated with Republican governors and even some
00:14:10.400
people on campaigns who think that, that this is still about medical science, who think that this
00:14:15.960
is a fair playing field. It's not, it's a setup folks. Got to stop it. I hope that people from
00:14:23.060
Republican campaigns, including the biggest one are listening right now. You have to run against
00:14:28.420
the lockdowns. You've got to run hard against the lockdowns. The lockdown is the entirety of Joe
00:14:34.880
Biden's and the Democrats' campaigns. If, if the Democrats had a capable candidate who was articulate,
00:14:40.620
who they thought could beat Donald Trump in a debate, you can bet your last dollar, they would
00:14:46.580
be holding rallies every single week. You can bet it, but they're not. Okay. And so they've got to walk
00:14:52.380
back. They've got to lean back on an absolutely corrupted and perverted exploitation of science.
00:14:59.280
Enough on that. Let's move on to the scientist that we're, we've all come to exalt. Dr. Fauci,
00:15:06.960
peace be upon him. Rand Paul figured this out. Senator Rand Paul, who has been kind of snuffing
00:15:12.340
this out from the very beginning, he was speaking with the exalted Dr. Fauci and he, he honed in on a
00:15:19.940
point that I think is one way that we're going to be able to back moderates and some liberals off
00:15:25.920
from their religious devotion to the lockdowns. That point is sending kids back to school.
00:15:33.300
All of this body of evidence about schools around the world shows there's no surge.
00:15:38.800
All of the evidence shows that it's rare. I mean, we've so politicized this and made it
00:15:43.760
politically correct that the WHO releases that it's rare and you have a scientist up there honestly
00:15:48.440
giving her opinion. What happens to her? She's blackballed and her, her report that she refers to
00:15:53.800
is taken off the website. When you go to that, the, that scientist speech and you, and you try to
00:15:58.940
clink on the lick, the WHO has now screened it from us because it said something that's not
00:16:04.360
politically corrected. Guess what? It's rare for kids to transmit this, but I hear nothing of that
00:16:09.800
coming from you. All I hear, Dr. Fauci is we can't do this. We can't do that. We can't play baseball.
00:16:15.640
Well, even that's not based on the science. I mean, flu season peaks in February. We don't know
00:16:20.700
that COVID is going to be like the flu season. It might, but we don't know that, but we wouldn't,
00:16:25.520
we wouldn't ban school in October. You might close some schools when they get the flu. We need to not
00:16:30.740
be so presumptuous that we know everything. We need to not be so presumptuous that we know
00:16:36.440
anything. That could sum up the whole era that we're living in. But as long as we are living in
00:16:40.800
this era where the, the most important thing to have is some credential to say that you're part of
00:16:45.200
the scientific establishment. Don't forget, Rand Paul is a scientist, right? He's a medical doctor.
00:16:50.160
And so it carries extra weight when he lobbies these criticisms. I think he's honed in on a,
00:16:55.800
on an important message here that Republicans would do well to listen to, which is the schooling issue.
00:17:03.780
What's going to happen in the fall? A lot of colleges are not going to reopen. As a matter of
00:17:09.080
fact, you know, I, I usually give what eight or nine speeches on campuses a semester. Those have
00:17:14.200
virtually all of them have been canceled so far because we don't even know if the schools are
00:17:18.420
going to reopen, but colleges are the least of it. I mean, sure. I've got friends who now are
00:17:23.680
going to graduate school or who, who now will have to do zoom classes for college. Fine.
00:17:30.160
What about people in high school or middle school or elementary school? What about those students
00:17:37.340
whose parents need to figure out what's going to happen to them every single day? There,
00:17:41.780
there are some proposals going around in New York and other places. I mean,
00:17:44.580
you're talking about huge school districts that say they're going to reopen the schools only a
00:17:48.560
little bit. So, which obviously would serve no purpose. If you go to school even one day a week
00:17:54.600
or one day a month, even you're going to be exposed to the virus and it's not going to achieve anything.
00:17:58.460
But some of the proposals are, they're going to go in person to school two days a week,
00:18:02.540
and then they're going to be home from school three days a week and do it on zoom.
00:18:06.060
So medically achieves nothing, but economically, how is that supposed to work? Just to use the
00:18:12.740
example of New York city, if you are a parent in New York city, it is a statistical certainty
00:18:19.240
that you work. You have to work because it's a very expensive place to live in a very, very
00:18:23.180
expensive place to raise kids. So the parents there are working. What are they supposed to do?
00:18:27.460
They're going to call in their boss and say, Hey, I'm going to need off three days a week. I can't
00:18:33.280
tell you what the three days are by the way yet. And I'm not sure when it's going to be set, but
00:18:36.760
I'm going to need that. So I'm going to start working two days a week now. Is that cool with
00:18:39.580
you? Imagine if you called your boss and said that probably would not go over very well as a
00:18:46.640
practical matter. You can't do it. This is why from the beginning, the, the lockdown proponents
00:18:52.180
have been trying to figure out the school issue because they know they actually said in Los Angeles,
00:18:56.880
they said, we're, we're, we're, I think throughout all of California, we're not going to reopen
00:19:02.900
churches until phase three, but we're going to try to reopen schools in phase two or it's phase four
00:19:08.440
versus phase three or whatever. They knew that they had to reopen the schools early because there's
00:19:15.360
just this, first of all, they want to keep indoctrinating your kids. But second of all,
00:19:19.280
there's just this very practical matter of you don't know what to do with the kids. Whereas
00:19:22.400
they felt they could put off allowing people to go back to their churches for a longer time.
00:19:27.380
This would be a good one to hammer home on. You know, there was a decision that came out
00:19:31.220
from the Supreme court yesterday. Finally, some slightly good news from the Supreme court
00:19:35.300
that is more permissive of school choice and of religious schools. And, you know,
00:19:40.840
in a week that's been very trying or two weeks, it's been very trying on the Supreme court.
00:19:44.860
At least this opened the door to school choice a little bit. Why? Because school choice is very
00:19:49.680
popular. It's always been a good wedge issue for Republicans to talk to demographics that don't
00:19:54.900
usually vote for them. And it's a good, a good issue here in the lockdowns. At this point,
00:20:01.080
I'm convinced that the Supreme court just makes their decisions, not by reading the law, but by
00:20:05.260
looking at public opinion polling. And then whatever's really popular, that's going to be the
00:20:08.860
decision that they push for in many, many cases. So I think you can actually use that to your
00:20:15.360
advantage here. When you're talking about the, whether or not we're going to reopen anything,
00:20:20.560
just say like, Hey, where are they going to make you send your kids? They're not going to let you go
00:20:24.620
back to work. They're not going to let your kid get an education there. I think if you focus on that
00:20:29.700
for long enough, you're, you're going to be able to win over some of those moderate with a suburban
00:20:34.340
women, the, the people, the very few people in the middle who don't have a decision yet about this
00:20:39.700
presidential election. Another great wedge issue here is another public institution, not the schools.
00:20:47.760
It's the police. How many times have you been told ever since Democrats brought up this idea of
00:20:53.740
defunding the police, that defunding the police doesn't really mean defunding the police.
00:20:59.400
Oh, you fool. You think defunding the police, you think when I said that I meant to defund the police? No,
00:21:04.840
no. It means to move the budgets around and reallocate resources. And well, AOC just came out
00:21:13.360
and exposed that lie completely. She said, quote, defunding police means defunding police. She issued
00:21:21.120
a press release on this yesterday. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Defunding police means
00:21:28.920
defunding police. It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police
00:21:33.380
officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education's budget so that the exact same police
00:21:38.080
remain in schools. It does not mean counting overtime cuts as cuts, even as NYPD ignores every
00:21:42.740
attempt by city council to curb overtime spending and overspends on overtime anyway. She wrote anyways,
00:21:49.660
AOC. It does not mean hiring more police officers while cutting more than $800 million from New York
00:21:54.920
City public schools. If these reports are accurate, then these proposed cuts to NYPD's budget are a
00:22:00.960
disingenuous illusion. This is not a victory. The fight to defund policing continues.
00:22:07.140
I love her. So often I love, I love this congresswoman because she might have terrible
00:22:13.780
ideas for the country, but at least she tells you what she thinks. Remember with the Green New Deal,
00:22:20.660
she put forward the Green New Deal, which is a radical, transformative, Marxist policy idea that has
00:22:27.460
actually very little to do with the natural environment, has a lot to do with vast redistribution
00:22:33.180
of wealth, nationalizing industries, reparations programs, healthcare programs, all this kind of
00:22:38.360
stuff. And when she put that forward, $93 trillion plan over 10 years, Mitch McConnell, Senate majority
00:22:45.760
leader, came out and said, we got to vote on this immediately. I want to get all you Democrats on the
00:22:49.540
record about this Green New Deal immediately. Well, she's doing that same thing again with defunding the
00:22:54.200
police. A very, very unpopular position. Right now we're looking at New York City. Yesterday in New
00:23:02.700
York, there was this big budget fight to see whether they were going to defund the police or not.
00:23:06.800
Mass gathering, huge gathering outside of City Hall. It was, it was so jubilant. People gathered
00:23:12.960
together in this large group. At one point, they just started dancing.
00:23:31.360
That mass gathering, by the way, totally fine. Coronavirus, not going to spread at all. If you
00:23:35.860
want to have a presidential debate or a campaign rally or go to the beach on the 4th of July, that
00:23:39.800
is going to spread coronavirus. But if you want to dance around outside of City Hall and try to
00:23:45.040
destroy the New York City police department, best police department in the country, that is totally
00:23:51.000
fine. Just another little example of how super duper serious coronavirus is from a medical perspective.
00:23:58.480
So scientific perspective, pandemic, can't hold a presidential election. So they're dancing around
00:24:04.340
outside and they get their budget cut. $1 billion cut. $1 billion with a B cut from the NYPD's $6 billion
00:24:11.380
operating budget. That's a, that's a huge percentage, particularly as crime and shootings are way up. They
00:24:18.440
are on the rise. And it's not just New York cutting. LAPD also cut a lot of money from the budget. Not quite like
00:24:25.660
NYPD, but the LA city council passed a motion to, uh, to one cut $150 million pass from the,
00:24:34.140
the police budget. And also to replace the Los Angeles police department officers with unarmed,
00:24:39.460
quote, crisis response personnel to be assigned to nonviolent calls for service, such as neighbor disputes.
00:24:47.260
I, the, the Orwellian politically correct jargon here is really something to behold. They're going to
00:24:56.460
have crisis response personnel for nonviolent calls for service. Now the thing about nonviolent calls
00:25:04.360
for service is sometimes they turn violent. Sometimes violent calls for service, also known as when you
00:25:11.980
call the cops, start out not very violent. This motion was introduced by, uh, LA councilman Herb Wesson and
00:25:19.280
five other colleagues on the 15 member LA city council. And Wesson said he would be working with, on the
00:25:25.420
project with members of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, Black Lives Matter, a Marxist organization that seeks to
00:25:31.280
destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family, their words, not mine, and wants to defund police entirely. So what
00:25:36.780
they're doing though, is they're going to take away resources from the cops. Crime is going to go up.
00:25:41.480
Shootings are going to go up. Killings are going to go up. And they're going to put it in fake cops.
00:25:46.200
Some new kind of cops that they're calling crisis response personnel. Well, how is that going to work
00:25:50.440
out? We have an example from the chop. Remember the chop? I thought the chop was over. Chop Chaz,
00:25:56.920
the, the occupied zone in Seattle. Apparently it's still going on. People are still being killed there
00:26:01.000
by the anarchists. When you replace the police, first of all, when you defund the police, you don't
00:26:08.020
just defund the police. It gets replaced with something. That's what we're seeing in LA.
00:26:11.480
In the chop, what it gets replaced with is roving gangs. And unbelievably, the chop, which was
00:26:17.660
established putatively because of police brutality and they wanted to stop police brutality. Well,
00:26:23.260
they set up their own police force and that police force is now shooting black teenagers
00:26:27.680
and killing them. It's so, it's so ironic. You can't say it's funny, but it's so darkly ironic.
00:26:38.500
You, you, you almost can't even react to it. A 16 year old fatally shot in the chop on Monday
00:26:46.180
morning. A 14 year old, a child is in critical condition at the Harborview Medical Center and a
00:26:54.220
volunteer medic, you know, they don't have doctors in the chop because it's an independent country.
00:26:57.660
They've got volunteer medics said that it was the chop security forces who shot the black teenager.
00:27:07.840
The irony is almost too much. This person also described chop as an active war zone. Well,
00:27:15.040
the chop is a little crystal ball, my friends. If the chop policies begin to be passed in actual
00:27:21.120
cities around the country in Los Angeles and New York, then we're going to see our cities turn into
00:27:26.480
active war zones for the near future. It's already happening. Crime is already on the rise.
00:27:31.580
This is another, from a political perspective, good thing for conservatives to talk about because
00:27:37.500
what it looks like our cities are headed into is the 1970s, urban decay, death, mayhem, destruction,
00:27:43.700
poverty. This led to some Republicans, most notably Rudy Giuliani in New York, getting elected in the 90s
00:27:50.920
and cleaning it up because it doesn't matter what you say your political affiliation is and your
00:27:55.300
ideology. And when you've got people dropping like flies around you, when you, when you're afraid to
00:28:00.340
leave your apartment at night, you're going to want a little bit of law and order, a good point to focus
00:28:06.320
on. One, because it could save lives before it gets too bad. And two, from a political perspective,
00:28:11.960
it's, it's one way to exploit what the left is using as their exploitation. You want to hit your
00:28:20.600
opponent in politics at the weak point, right? And so right now, Donald Trump's entire campaign is
00:28:28.200
rallies, right? He holds these standup specials when he goes to give these rallies. The rest of the
00:28:33.620
campaign is not quite as strong as Trump himself. And so what, what do the Democrats do? They take Trump's
00:28:41.100
best campaign, uh, platform segment opportunity. They take it off the table. So now he's just got
00:28:50.040
the rest of his otherwise not that great campaign. Now, what can we do? We can use what they are
00:28:58.740
doing. We can use that against them on at least those two issues on schools and on cops. There was
00:29:03.560
a, there was a study just came out, uh, Siena college research Institute found 57% of New Yorkers,
00:29:08.460
New Yorkers, uh, oppose reducing any reducing funding at all for the police. And 60% said that
00:29:15.680
they opposed defunding the police. That was in a separate question. That's even in New York. So
00:29:20.760
a good one to hit them on. We will get to what happens, uh, as this continues, we will also get to,
00:29:30.080
uh, the, the rancor. I mean, we looked at the crystal ball of the Chaz. We'll look at the crystal
00:29:35.060
ball of the college campuses in just one second. First though, I've got to thank you because you
00:29:40.700
have allowed my YouTube channel to blow past the hundred thousand subscriber mark. We're now past
00:29:45.700
115,000 subscribers. So thank you. You can check out all the bonus content on that channel.
00:29:49.780
And I also have to make one last request of you. We're one spot behind pod save America on the Apple
00:29:56.140
podcast charts. And I really don't like those guys, the, the, the liberal pod bros, the Obama alumni.
00:30:01.500
And so I would really like to blow past them. That would, that would just be terrific. So if
00:30:06.580
you wouldn't mind, uh, please go over and subscribe on Apple podcasts to the Michael
00:30:09.820
Knowles show podcast and leave it a five-star review and would greatly appreciate that.
00:30:13.500
If you're not already a daily wire member, consider getting a reader's pass at dailywire.com. Great
00:30:17.500
value for only three bucks a month. And when you sign up, you get that first month for only 99 cents.
00:30:22.320
You also get access to exclusive editorials and lots of fun content. This one from Matt Walsh,
00:30:27.520
activist wants imagined to be our new anthem. It's the worst song ever written. You know,
00:30:32.720
Matt is always so subtle. He's always so, you never know quite where Matt Walsh stands. So
00:30:37.020
anyway, you get great content like that. Great election insight. Head on over to dailywire.com.
00:30:41.840
Sign up for just a buck. We'll be right back with a lot more.
00:30:44.040
Ernest Hemingway famously pointed out that things happen gradually than suddenly. I think
00:31:02.300
politics is heating up. It is accelerating at a pace that we are not used to in this country.
00:31:10.100
And so a lot of people don't realize that the ground has completely shifted and we need to
00:31:15.680
recognize that. Frankly, even Joe Biden doesn't fully comprehend. Well, he doesn't fully comprehend
00:31:21.960
very much, but he doesn't fully comprehend how much the ground has shifted in politics. So for
00:31:26.920
instance, he was, he was asked a question about the statues. Should we pull down Jefferson and Lee and
00:31:32.060
all that? And he gave this answer that is going to please absolutely no one. He tried to walk this line
00:31:39.020
between what he views as the establishment of his party and the radicals of his party,
00:31:43.300
because he thinks that those, those two groups are, are not that far apart. Actually, they are so
00:31:49.020
separated. And in this country right now, the two sides are so separated. You can't walk that line.
00:31:54.580
And if you stand in the middle of the road, you're going to get hit by a truck. Listen to how Joe Biden
00:31:58.360
tries to please everybody. I think those statues belong in museums. They don't belong in public places.
00:32:04.720
And I think with regard to those statues that are in monuments, like the Jefferson Memorial or
00:32:11.540
whatever, I think there's an obligation that the, uh, that the government protect those monuments
00:32:16.860
because they're different than that's a remembrance. It is not a, uh, dealing with, uh, um, you know,
00:32:24.440
revering somebody who had that view. They have much broader views. They may have things in their past
00:32:29.800
that are now and then distasteful, but that's a judgment for the country. So for example,
00:32:36.120
taking down toppling Christopher Columbus statue or George Washington statue or et cetera, I think
00:32:43.460
that is something that is, the government has an opportunity and a responsibility to protect
00:32:48.980
from happening. So the government has a responsibility to protect Jefferson,
00:32:53.420
who was a far more notorious slaver than a guy like say Robert E. Lee, but not Robert E. Lee.
00:33:03.880
Why? Actually, I mean, take it to an even further conclusion, which is the BLM movement,
00:33:13.740
the hard left in America, they think the country is rotten to the core. They think that the founding
00:33:18.060
was hopelessly rotten. That's the thesis of the 1619 project. So isn't it the case that,
00:33:23.940
that the, the founders of this country are the most culpable? Forget about Robert E. Lee. He was
00:33:30.300
just a general who, you know, he was a union general. And then when Virginia pulled away,
00:33:34.240
he went down and, and fought for Virginia. And then he gave up the battle and was an honorable guy
00:33:39.740
after the war. And forget about him. He's a, he's a side note. Really? If you really believe the
00:33:44.980
1619 project and BLM's Marxist premises and the radical left, you should most want to topple
00:33:52.460
Jefferson and Washington, Columbus discovered the whole hemisphere. So certainly Columbus has to come
00:33:57.520
down. Joe Biden's answer, like so many of Joe Biden's answers doesn't make any sense. He's trying
00:34:03.140
to walk that line. And I think some Republicans are trying to walk this line too. They're trying to walk
00:34:07.080
a line. They're trying to play politics 10 years ago when things were a little bit more reasonable.
00:34:14.820
When there was at least the facade of an objective press, when the democratic party in this country and
00:34:20.560
democratic leaders at least pretended to like America, they weren't openly protesting the American
00:34:25.660
flag. They weren't calling the, the 4th of July a white supremacist holiday. They did that. They
00:34:32.100
actually did that, which we'll get to in just one second. That's gone. Okay. That's over. We are now at
00:34:37.740
the point where half of this country's political leaders protest the American flag. They don't like the
00:34:43.620
country where we have roving gangs of anarchists setting the country on fire, torching things
00:34:48.700
and elected Democrats egging them on, encouraging them saying that's a good, just, wonderful cause
00:34:55.720
where we have self-admitted trained Marxists talking openly about how they want to destroy the
00:35:03.300
nuclear family and elected Democrats, frankly, the entire elected establishment embracing it saying,
00:35:11.460
yes, we support this group. You, you can't, you can't thread that needle guys. You have to pick a
00:35:18.120
side. And this is true on the statue toppling. Joe Biden's going to have to pick a side on that.
00:35:23.600
I mean, luckily Joe Biden has all of, for him, luckily he's got all of the institutional support
00:35:27.880
behind him. So he gets away with a lot more. But Republicans, they don't have that advantage.
00:35:32.680
So on something like the lockdowns, you can't run on it a little, okay, maybe we want to open in 15
00:35:38.340
days. Well, actually it's going to be 30 days and I'd like to open by Easter, but I don't know if we
00:35:42.980
can, and we're going to relock down again. And in Texas, we're going to lock down again. No,
00:35:46.920
pick a side guys. What is it? Is it going to be, you're going to totally lock down and just give up
00:35:51.660
on this presidential election. And I don't know, try again in 10 years or something, or are you going to
00:35:56.360
actually stand up, recognize what is happening to you politically and fight back? We just need,
00:36:03.380
I just wish people saw what was going on. And I know on political campaigns, they get stuck in
00:36:07.480
bubbles so they don't see it. But for the rest of us out here who are not just in a campaign office
00:36:12.360
and in a campaign bubble, the country is burning to the ground. We are in a unique moment, uncharted
00:36:20.860
territory, at least in recent memory. And the person who wins is going to be the one who is
00:36:26.340
most aware of what is going on right now. I mean, we have in Detroit, there was a, there was a video
00:36:33.280
that came out yesterday of mobs swarming a cop car, beating the cop car, smashing its windows.
00:36:40.620
And so the cop starts driving sort of slowly. And then obviously when he starts driving and,
00:36:45.280
and won't let the mob totally overtake the car, then they start going completely crazy.
00:36:49.520
He's just trying to jerk out of there. He's not, he's actually not running over anybody. He's just
00:36:53.160
trying to get out of there. Finally, he, he makes it out. And this is being reported.
00:37:00.380
This is seriously being reported as mostly peaceful protesters surrounding the car and the cop drove
00:37:07.400
into them. Of course, the cop is completely justified into, in, in driving through this crowd.
00:37:14.060
You can't expect a cop to just stand there and say, okay, come kill me guys. Come kill me raging mob.
00:37:18.700
And yet so many people in this country with a completely straight face say, yeah, it's just a,
00:37:22.460
just a group of peaceful protesters. You've got a gal at Harvard, Harvard senior,
00:37:27.700
who just made a, you're talking about Harvard university, theoretically one of the elite
00:37:34.180
universities in the country. This Harvard senior makes a video in which she says that
00:37:39.220
if you use the phrase, all lives matter instead of black lives matter,
00:37:43.700
then she is going to stab you. Next person who has the sheer nerve, the sheer entitled
00:37:51.240
caucasity to say all lives matter. I'm a stab you. I'm a, I'm a stab you. And while you're
00:37:57.760
struggling and bleeding out, I'm a show you my paper cut and say, my cut matters too.
00:38:05.880
Did you hear that word? She said caucasity. The word caucas, she was referring to whiteness.
00:38:10.360
I assume caucasity like Caucasian. She's using the word whiteness, the term whiteness
00:38:17.440
as an insult. Now imagine if you did that with any other race, you would be kicked out of polite
00:38:23.700
society. You'd be investigated for a hate crime. Do you think that this, this girl is going to face
00:38:29.060
any disciplinary action at Harvard? No, I don't. I think she'll probably get an award at graduation.
00:38:35.480
Meanwhile, there's a student at Kansas state university who's being threatened with expulsion
00:38:39.840
because he tweeted a disrespectful joke about George Floyd. It's a kind of use, it's a, it's a
00:38:44.980
often used joke. I mean, this is an old joke that goes back very far. The, the joke is that George
00:38:51.240
Floyd is now, has now been drug free since he died, you know, but it's, it's a joke that was,
00:38:56.700
came up when Whitney Houston died. It comes up whenever a celebrity who is a famous drug user
00:39:01.460
dies. People say this, it's very disrespectful. I, you know, I don't think it's a little too soon.
00:39:05.820
I don't think we should be telling jokes about people who have been killed like that shortly
00:39:10.000
after. But this kid is now being threatened with expulsion for telling a, a not very nice
00:39:17.520
old joke. This girl is going to face no consequences for threatening to stab people for being white
00:39:23.800
and for saying the phrase, all lives matter. And now you could say she's telling a joke too. Okay.
00:39:29.820
Well, the other guy was telling a joke. Her joke is more offensive. Her joke is far more aggressive
00:39:34.420
and threatening, but that is the kind of aggressive double standard culture that we are living in
00:39:40.700
right now. A Washington Post editor just called for revenge against white women. A Washington Post
00:39:46.940
editor just came out and said, the lies and tears of white women hath wrought the 1921 Tulsa massacre,
00:39:53.380
the murder of Emmett Till, exclusion of black women from feminist movements, 53% of white women voting
00:39:58.880
for Trump. I mean, she's really, really throwing everything at the wall here. White women are lucky
00:40:05.080
that we're just calling them Karens, which is a racial term. It's a sort of like funny one, but it
00:40:10.060
is a racial term and not calling for revenge. This is not patience and strength. It's the result
00:40:15.260
of knowing the price of resistance and that much, that much blood would be spilt. We must get away
00:40:22.940
from the idea that enduring abuse is admirable. I'm just saying, be happy. We're calling for equality
00:40:28.720
and not actual revenge. Well, what I'm hearing these days is not any call for equality from the
00:40:33.700
left. I'm hearing calls for revenge, which is why they're burning down the country and killing people.
00:40:38.080
So it is explicitly a call for revenge. I want to focus on that line. She said, this is an editor of
00:40:44.060
the Washington Post. She says, we must get away from the idea that enduring abuse is admirable.
00:40:49.580
Also known as the Christian understanding of suffering. The idea that we suffer and suffering can be
00:40:57.860
sanctifying. This is, this is how our civilization traditionally has understood suffering. I mean, even
00:41:05.000
other ancient understandings of suffering is that we all suffer. There is, there is no utopian
00:41:11.500
political solution to the world. There will be pain and we must endure that pain and that pain
00:41:17.060
deepens our character and shapes us and can be, we can either react to that in a good ennobling way,
00:41:25.040
or we can react to that in a debasing way. This is obviously the case, but for leftist utopians,
00:41:31.460
they think that any suffering is an affront to what they deserve. They, they don't deserve any pain in
00:41:36.860
the world. Are you kidding? I mean, look, these, these are people who celebrate pride for an entire
00:41:42.340
month. The American left pride, the, the deadliest of the seven deadly sins. So they just are not
00:41:48.180
equipped for the, the simple fact of the human condition that there is suffering and you will
00:41:55.020
suffer. And suffering actually can be a helpful thing in your, in your character development.
00:42:02.480
They don't, they, they just want to abolish it, which is never going to happen. And it's why they
00:42:05.920
get more and more frustrated as it happens. Democrats are now, I'm not just saying one or
00:42:11.580
two random Democrats. I'm saying the democratic party is now referring to the 4th of July as a
00:42:17.780
white supremacist holiday. They tweeted out because president Trump is planning to hold a rally at Mount
00:42:25.980
Rushmore. They tweeted out, quote, Trump has disrespected native communities time and again.
00:42:31.180
He's attempted to limit their voting rights and blocked critical pandemic relief. Not true,
00:42:34.980
but whatever. Now he's holding a rally glorifying white supremacy at Mount Rushmore, a region once
00:42:42.900
sacred to tribal communities. What does that mean? I'm sure the, I'm sure the place that the
00:42:48.280
Democratic National Committee office is on was once sacred to Native American communities in the sense
00:42:53.160
that there were Native Americans before Europeans settled to the continent. But forget that double
00:42:58.900
standard too. They're referring to a 4th of July rally as a white supremacist rally.
00:43:04.980
Now, some people are saying, no, no, the Democrats are just referring to Mount Rushmore as a white
00:43:11.160
supremacist site, which again, doesn't, that still doesn't make any sense. Do you think Abraham Lincoln
00:43:16.500
is a white supremacist, the man who freed the slaves? I don't think so. George Washington,
00:43:22.380
Thomas Jefferson, all that, do you call them white supremacists? I don't think so. Really what they
00:43:25.760
mean is they're white guys and all white people, white, white is bad now. And all white people are
00:43:30.280
white supremacists. That's really what the left is saying. That's really what that Harvard girl is saying.
00:43:34.980
But that's actually not, that's not even the Democrats point here because the Democrats are
00:43:40.240
saying Trump is holding a rally glorifying white supremacy at Mount Rushmore. Mount Rushmore is
00:43:45.860
just the site of the rally glorifying white supremacy. Well, what's the rally glorifying white
00:43:50.420
supremacy? It's Trump's 4th of July rally. So the thing that they are accusing, if you just parse the
00:43:56.720
sentence, the thing that they are accusing of being white supremacist is the 4th of July, which is not
00:44:01.980
surprising to anyone who's been paying attention. Anyone who has realized what's going on, the left
00:44:07.800
has captured all of the institutions of this country, including, and especially the Democratic
00:44:14.020
Party. They hate this country. They hate it with a burning passion, a passion that burns so hot that
00:44:21.820
it's now burning down cities. And they want to tear it down. Anyone who listened when Barack Obama said,
00:44:29.440
I want to fundamentally transform America may have realized, huh, I guess he doesn't like America all
00:44:34.280
that much because you don't want to fundamentally transform things that you like. Anyone who is
00:44:40.760
listening, who is reading the New York Times 1619 project, who's listening, who's been watching as
00:44:46.040
they've been tearing down the statues. We are in a particularly radical moment. You hear every
00:44:53.140
presidential campaign. This is the most important campaign of our lifetimes. In a way, it's always
00:44:58.200
true because things happen gradually, then suddenly. So you're getting closer and closer to some real
00:45:04.880
danger. The danger is here. Police departments are going away. Cities are on fire. They want to blow
00:45:12.400
up Mount Rushmore. People have joking, somewhat jokingly, and then somewhat earnestly suggested that.
00:45:18.220
The danger is here. If we don't rise to this occasion as a political matter, we might not get
00:45:28.900
another shot. You see how the deck is stacked against you at the Supreme Court, in the administrative
00:45:33.540
government, in everywhere. Hope springs eternal in the human breast. You can try to fight again in 10
00:45:40.620
years or 20 years. Maybe you'll be able to claw something back. But I think we're all realizing at this
00:45:45.360
moment where a major political party is calling the 4th of July a white supremacist terrible holiday,
00:45:49.840
trying to cancel it. I think we realize that we're on the verge of something really being lost.
00:45:55.880
Our history, our culture, our cities, our country itself. Will we rise to the occasion?
00:46:03.260
Or will we realize it all too late? I hope it's the former. I hope people are listening to the show
00:46:09.760
today. All right. We've got a lot more. We'll get to it tomorrow. I'm Michael Knowles. This is
00:46:15.360
If you enjoyed this episode, and frankly, even if you didn't, don't forget to subscribe.
00:46:25.100
And if you want to help spread the word, please give us a five-star review and tell your friends
00:46:29.480
to subscribe. We're available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts.
00:46:35.480
Also, be sure to check out the other Daily Wire podcasts, including The Ben Shapiro Show,
00:46:40.120
The Andrew Klavan Show, and The Matt Walsh Show.
00:46:42.600
The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Ben Davies. Executive producer, Jeremy Boring. Supervising
00:46:49.020
producers, Mathis Glover and Robert Sterling. Technical producer, Austin Stevens. Assistant
00:46:54.440
director, Pavel Widowski. Editor and associate producer, Danny D'Amico. Audio mixer, Robin Fenderson.
00:47:02.020
Hair and makeup, Nika Geneva. Production assistant, Ryan Love.
00:47:05.960
The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production. Copyright Daily Wire 2020.
00:47:11.420
Hey everyone, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show. The Supreme Court says states
00:47:15.600
can't penalize religious schools, and the left is mad. Why do they hate God? I'll explain.
00:47:22.360
And we'll also have the Chinese mailbag where the wisdom is infectious on The Andrew Klavan Show.