The Michael Knowles Show - BREAKING： Biden Sent Spy To Weaponize The Court Against Trump？

00:00:00.000 Just when you thought the soap opera drama in Fulton County, Georgia couldn't get any

00:00:04.700 tawdrier, the plot thickens.

00:00:07.720 What we already knew, allegedly, is that Fulton County DA Fannie Willis, who had the

00:00:13.360 legally dubious and historically unprecedented task of prosecuting a former president and

00:00:18.660 current leader of the political opposition, decided to hire for that extremely difficult

00:00:24.980 job, her boyfriend, an unqualified married lawyer named Nathan Wade, who allegedly kicked

00:00:32.800 some of the undeserved taxpayer money that she was overpaying him back to her in the form

00:00:37.740 of lavish vacations all around the Western Hemisphere.

00:00:40.700 But now we are learning that all that chicanery was child's play compared to the real corruption 1.00

00:00:47.120 going on at the Fulton County DA's office.

00:00:49.660 According to a new report from Breitbart, sourced by multiple people familiar with the office,

00:00:54.980 the Biden team planted a Democrat operative in Fulton County to coordinate with the Biden

00:01:01.840 White House on the prosecution of Biden's chief political rival.

00:01:06.920 That operative's name, according to the report, is Jeff DeSantis.

00:01:10.860 No relation, though it's kind of funny.

00:01:12.720 The county's curiously overqualified deputy district attorney who, according to one source

00:01:19.700 that spoke to Breitbart, is, quote, the one.

00:01:22.720 He is the one pulling all the strings.

00:01:24.280 He was the one that walked Fannie Willis off.

00:01:27.140 He was in every important meeting.

00:01:28.860 He is the brainchild behind this.

00:01:30.880 That is the connection to the White House.

00:01:35.280 Just Fannie Willis's love life was possibly enough to get this case dismissed.

00:01:42.020 The prospect of the whole thing being a setup coordinated by the Biden White House would

00:01:47.020 seem to raise that likelihood even further.

00:01:49.880 It also helps to make sense of how this was going on with Fannie Willis being so obviously 0.52

00:01:54.780 unqualified.

00:01:55.840 If there's if there's a Democrat ringer who was installed in the office, that makes a lot

00:02:00.140 more sense.

00:02:00.760 Regardless of any of that, though, the best part of this whole story, in my humble opinion,

00:02:05.600 is that it shows that the Democrats are genuinely scared.

00:02:10.340 If the Dems just had this election locked up, if they felt that they could just rig all the

00:02:15.300 election rules again and lock Joe in a basement and forget about it, they wouldn't need to go

00:02:21.520 through all this strabats.

00:02:23.200 The fact that they are working this hard tells me that they don't think they've got this thing

00:02:29.260 locked up, that they truly fear what conservatives should have the confidence to hope for, which is

00:02:34.860 that come November 2024, we might actually get the chance to make America great again.

00:02:41.680 Again, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:43.440 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:51.520 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:04.940 Liberal talking head Joy Reid wonders why you need more babies.

00:03:09.840 It's amazing.

00:03:10.500 All these liberal policies and politicians and political commentators, the upshot of everything

00:03:15.780 they advocate always seems to be fewer people. 0.99

00:03:18.460 They want you to kill babies through abortion. 1.00

00:03:22.180 They want you to stop having babies through contraception and the abolition of marriage. 1.00

00:03:26.640 They want you to kill yourself when you get old or you get sick.

00:03:29.340 It's just, it's always fewer people. 0.98

00:03:31.320 That's what it always comes down to.

00:03:33.000 There is much more to say.

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00:04:45.660 Turning back to the White House, President Biden is struggling.

00:04:49.940 He's not just struggling in the polls.

00:04:51.800 He's not just struggling versus Donald Trump.

00:04:54.540 He's struggling versus the words on the paper in front of him.

00:04:59.320 We know that sometimes when President Biden is going off the cuff, making extemporaneous remarks,

00:05:05.040 he sometimes digresses into strange incoherence.

00:05:10.300 That is now apparently happening also while he is just reading quotations off a sheet of paper.

00:05:16.080 Here is President Biden attempting to quote President Lincoln.

00:05:20.580 You know, stand here in front of this portrait of the man behind me here.

00:05:25.820 He said, and I want to make sure I get the quote exactly right.

00:05:29.720 But he said, the better angel, he said, we must address the council and address the better angels of our nature.

00:05:39.520 And we do, and we do well to remember what else he said.

00:05:43.460 He said, we're not enemies, but we're friends.

00:05:45.860 This is the middle, this is in the part of the Civil War.

00:05:49.500 He said, we're not enemies, but we're friends.

00:05:51.160 We must not be enemies.

00:05:52.400 Folks, and I've been around, I know I don't look it, I've been around a long while.

00:05:59.300 And I mean this sincerely.

00:06:02.200 We've gotten, politics has gotten too bitter.

00:06:05.800 And folks, I said, what's he saying right here?

00:06:08.840 He said, I'm talking about hairy legs, Jack, I'm a chocolate chip.

00:06:12.420 I'm serious.

00:06:15.380 President Lincoln, politics is too bitter.

00:06:17.880 The funny thing is, in as much as what Joe Biden said constitutes English, he doesn't really believe that.

00:06:25.780 He's trying to quote Lincoln, you know, and say, we're not enemies, but friends.

00:06:29.160 Malice toward non-charity for all. 0.73

00:06:30.900 Joe Biden is one of the nastiest guys in politics. 0.99

00:06:33.600 A nasty, nasty man. 0.99

00:06:34.700 He launched his presidential campaign on the lie that President Trump endorsed neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. 1.00

00:06:40.680 It was a complete lie.

00:06:41.640 That was the first moment of Joe's 2020 presidential campaign. 0.91

00:06:46.320 Joe Biden, when he was running for VP against the Romney-Paul Ryan ticket, he said Mitt Romney wants to put black people back in chains. 0.99

00:06:55.660 This is a nasty man. 0.96

00:06:57.020 He led the Inquisition against Clarence Thomas when Thomas was up for the Supreme Court and presided over all sorts of hideous accusations against him, which Clarence Thomas called a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves. 0.99

00:07:13.660 A nasty guy is what I'm saying. 0.93

00:07:14.900 Again, the list goes on and on. 0.93

00:07:17.120 But now he's had a change of heart, I guess.

00:07:20.020 He's turning over a new leaf at the age of 150, which is he doesn't want to be so nasty anymore.

00:07:24.740 Politics is getting too personal.

00:07:26.320 It's getting too bitter.

00:07:27.420 He doesn't really believe this.

00:07:29.020 He's never believed this.

00:07:29.980 He'll get nasty and bitter the moment he has the next opportunity against Donald Trump.

00:07:35.620 For goodness sakes, the man's prosecuting his political enemies.

00:07:38.760 You talk about politics is getting too bitter.

00:07:40.920 Bro, you're trying to throw your enemy in prison for 700 years, the former president and the leader of the political opposition.

00:07:47.880 Give me a break.

00:07:48.720 The only reason he's saying this stuff or attempting to say this stuff is because he knows that his poll numbers are in the trash and he needs to be seen to moderate some way.

00:07:58.820 He recognizes that the Democrat base has gone way too far to the left, and this is alienating independent voters, and it's alienating center leftists, and even the center right, which hates Donald Trump, that might end up voting for Biden.

00:08:13.900 And he feels, I believe, genuinely scared, so he's got to run against his whole political career.

00:08:19.660 Good luck with that.

00:08:20.840 Now, when President Biden is not mumbling about Abraham Lincoln, he's talking about sex.

00:08:27.340 I thought I might be able to avoid this story.

00:08:30.000 Apparently not.

00:08:30.880 According to the Daily Mail, Joe Biden has just said that the key to his marriage is good sex.

00:08:41.060 And now I had that image in my head, and now you have to have that image in your head, and sorry.

00:08:46.520 Sorry, Jack.

00:08:47.220 That's just the way it goes, corn pop.

00:08:50.180 I disagree with Joe Biden on pretty much everything, and I don't really like the guy at all.

00:08:55.760 Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

00:08:59.240 He makes a point.

00:09:00.600 He makes a point, okay?

00:09:02.380 And I know we've talked on this show and on Backstage and just more broadly in the culture about marriage and the key to a good marriage and how to make things work in this age where we don't even know what marriage is anymore.

00:09:17.940 Marriage is not entirely, but in large part, about that activity, okay?

00:09:24.740 Because marriage is ordered toward an end, and the end of marriage is the procreation and education of children as well as the good of the spouses.

00:09:34.540 That is what, in principle, marriage is ordered toward.

00:09:37.760 And so it's not just like any kind of other relationship.

00:09:42.180 It's not just you and your buddy.

00:09:43.380 It's not just you and your gal pals.

00:09:45.440 It's a very specific kind of relationship, and sex is a big part of it, okay?

00:09:51.680 I know it's a family show, so I'll basically leave it at that.

00:09:53.740 There's a headline that just came out in the Daily Mail that backs up this point.

00:09:59.900 Scientists have discovered that—all right, I'll get a little unfamily-friendly for just one more second.

00:10:06.580 They've discovered that orgasms rewire the brain and lead to a lasting connection between partners.

00:10:11.620 And this is exhibit 7,000 in the series of scientific discoveries that just prove common sense.

00:10:20.600 Yes, yeah, it's true.

00:10:22.480 It turns out that when you sleep with someone for a long time and you enjoy this activity and you find it satisfying, that you end up feeling even closer to that person.

00:10:32.460 That's true.

00:10:33.180 Every human being who ever lived understood that for all of history until our modern scientific age when we have to rediscover everything that people had previously just sort of known as a matter of common sense.

00:10:46.220 Yes, this is, of course, the case.

00:10:47.540 And they gussy it up in all this scientific language.

00:10:49.660 Well, actually, you know, it rewires the brain.

00:10:51.600 I mean, habits rewire the brain.

00:10:55.040 Yeah, we're just thinking of it in this totally physical way.

00:10:59.300 Oh, yes, when that exciting thing happened, I got a jolt of dopamine.

00:11:04.060 You know, we just talk in this way that is so materialist.

00:11:07.280 It's so clinical.

00:11:10.080 But the physical world has a connection to the metaphysical world as a symbol has a connection to the symbolized.

00:11:16.360 So, yeah, there is a physical expression of something deeper that's going on.

00:11:23.620 Your marriage is both physical and metaphysical.

00:11:27.400 It's two people coming together and, you know, doing that thing that married couples do and staying together in a place, in a home.

00:11:34.060 But it's also deeper.

00:11:35.120 It's a sacrament.

00:11:36.020 And it's something you engage in before your political community and also before God.

00:11:39.680 And it's the intertwining of two souls.

00:11:41.520 And what God has joined, no man ought to separate.

00:11:45.020 That's true.

00:11:45.700 And we're in an age where we try to compartmentalize and separate those two things.

00:11:49.080 We try to compartmentalize so much that we actually try to separate body from soul in the transgender ideology. 0.99

00:11:55.100 But you can't do that, man.

00:11:56.440 We find out that there is not only a metaphysical aspect to all of these things, especially marriage, there's a physical aspect too.

00:12:04.740 One doesn't disprove the other.

00:12:06.200 They both reinforce the other because man is a hylomorphic being, body and soul joined together.

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00:12:24.900 Now, speaking of sex stuff, Governor Greg Abbott down in Texas has become the latest Republican to engage in what I think is going to prove a long-term error.

00:12:39.720 And that is to endorse in vitro fertilization and the surrogacy industry.

00:12:45.100 Do you agree with the Alabama Supreme Court that embryos are human beings?

00:12:50.660 Well, listen, obviously there's some uncertainty lingering from this.

00:12:54.100 But candidly, let's go back to President Trump because President Trump put out a statement on this that I think a lot of people agree with.

00:13:00.600 And that is a goal that we all kind of want to achieve.

00:13:05.620 And that is we want to make it easier for people to be able to have babies, not make it harder.

00:13:11.780 And the IVF process is a way of giving life to even more babies. 0.73

00:13:17.380 And so what I think the goal is is to make sure that we can find a pathway to ensure that parents who otherwise may not have the opportunity to have a child will be able to have access to the IVF process and become parents and give life to babies.

00:13:35.700 And because this is a relatively new issue, we're just going to find ways to navigate laws and fact situations that are very complicated.

00:13:46.160 Okay, hold on, hold on.

00:13:47.980 So right there at the end, Governor Abbott says, now look, this is a relatively new situation.

00:13:51.780 Right, that's my whole point.

00:13:53.920 So when you have a relatively new situation with a brand new technology that touches on the very origin and destiny of human life with all sorts of bioethical concerns that you yourself are acknowledging,

00:14:05.320 is the prudent response to that to go full steam ahead, let's go, baby, make a bunch of kids in test tubes and lock them up in a freezer forever? 0.92

00:14:13.900 Or would the more prudent response be caution?

00:14:19.080 And if you're going to proceed at all, proceed very cautiously or maybe take a moment here and sort out some of these bioethical issues because we're talking about the creation of human beings.

00:14:30.620 What do you think is more prudent?

00:14:31.940 Obviously, the latter is.

00:14:33.040 Now, what Governor Abbott is trying to do here is he's trying to stay on the good side of President Trump because President Trump came out on this issue in response to the Alabama Supreme Court,

00:14:42.900 faithfully interpreting the Alabama state constitution and saying, look, the Alabama state constitution protects life from the very beginning.

00:14:50.220 The very beginning is the moment of conception.

00:14:51.640 If we as pro-lifers really believe that life begins at conception, then that raises all sorts of problems for the IVF and surrogacy industry because the IVF and surrogacy industry, first of all, sells human life.

00:15:05.920 And two, I mean, that is the product.

00:15:07.300 It's the only product you could possibly be buying in the IVF and surrogacy industry.

00:15:10.780 But two, treats human life in a way that we would not consider morally acceptable.

00:15:17.480 For instance, locking people away in freezers forever or creating human beings.

00:15:22.000 Sometimes where major accidents happen back in early 2023, there's a case, I think it's still being litigated down in Texas, where the scientists accidentally mixed up the test tubes.

00:15:34.560 And so they created a human being with the wrong sperm and the wrong egg.

00:15:38.240 They created a human being with a mother and father who had never met each other, who were married to other people.

00:15:42.940 What happens to that person now?

00:15:45.240 I guess the couples sue and maybe there's a civil payout or something like that.

00:15:49.220 Well, now you've got a human being who has been created, deprived of a mother and a father, who's left in no man's land.

00:15:55.820 This is just one example of the myriad examples of hazards that come along with establishing the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of human life.

00:16:06.060 So I get it.

00:16:07.120 I understand why, as a political matter, President Trump doesn't want to run in 2024 on shutting down IVF, which many, many people, I think mistakenly, but with good intentions, are supportive of.

00:16:21.100 I get that.

00:16:22.360 I'm not saying he has to make it a plank of his campaign.

00:16:24.420 But if I were advising President Trump, whom I love, who's the most pro-life president of my lifetime, if I were advising Governor Abbott here, if I were advising Carrie Lake, who also came out in favor of this, I would just say, hey, guys, proceed with caution.

00:16:39.560 Maybe downplay this thing a little bit.

00:16:41.300 Maybe don't come out in defense of a morally dubious, and in the case of Alabama, illegal and unconstitutional activity.

00:16:51.940 Because what they're saying, what Governor Abbott has said here is, look, we love it because IVF is a way to make more human life, and we want more human life.

00:16:59.840 And that's true.

00:17:01.060 So is rape. 0.80

00:17:02.120 Rape is another way to make more human life. 1.00

00:17:03.820 Do you support that?

00:17:05.080 No, you don't.

00:17:07.460 Am I saying that rape and IVF and the surrogacy industry are identical?

00:17:10.960 No, of course they're not identical.

00:17:12.220 But the principle stands.

00:17:14.780 Good ends do not justify immoral means.

00:17:18.480 And there are immoral ways to create human life.

00:17:21.200 And that doesn't in any way call into question the value or the dignity of the human beings who are created in that way.

00:17:29.000 Far from it.

00:17:29.580 Pro-lifers will be the first to tell you we support the right to life of everyone.

00:17:32.960 And just because someone is created in an unfortunate or sinful or unjust circumstance doesn't mean that you have the right to go kill that person.

00:17:40.860 For goodness sakes, I've interviewed people who are the product of rape, who are great gifts to the country and great gifts to their mothers and great gifts to the world.

00:17:52.020 But that doesn't justify the immoral means.

00:17:54.300 And if we're going to grant, we all grant this, we pro-lifers, in principle, that there are moral ways to create people and immoral ways and the ends don't justify the means, then I think we all have to acknowledge there are some bioethical issues here with in vitro fertilization.

00:18:11.120 It may be the wise thing to do, not to come out as defenders of an industry that sells people.

00:18:17.720 Now, the CNN host here recognizes this problem.

00:18:22.300 They recognize this problem that if pro-lifers have been arguing until we're blue in the face for decades now that life really begins at conception.

00:18:27.860 Well, then, if we all of a sudden start defending an industry that not only creates people in test tubes but then locks them away in a freezer, destroys those embryos if they are not used, reduces them if too many take hold, you know, just all sorts of abuses of human dignity and the natural law. 0.78

00:18:49.560 Well, then, don't we look like hypocrites?

00:18:52.760 Are you saying that families in Texas who are using IVF have extra embryos that are frozen, do not need to worry?

00:19:00.000 Well, so you raise questions that are complex that I simply don't know the answer to.

00:19:04.820 Let me give you a couple of examples, and that is I have no idea mathematically the number of frozen embryos.

00:19:12.500 Is it one, ten, a hundred, a thousand?

00:19:15.200 Things like that matter.

00:19:16.420 What I don't know is families who may have frozen embryos, what happens if they were done so that a mother could have a pregnancy, but after those embryos were frozen, the mother passes away.

00:19:31.080 What happens then?

00:19:32.460 What happens if, after the embryos are frozen, the mother and the husband, they get a divorce?

00:19:39.260 Here's my point in telling you that, Dana, and that is these are very complex issues where I'm not sure everybody has really thought about it.

00:19:47.040 What all the potential problems are, and as a result, no one really knows what the potential answers are.

00:19:54.580 Yeah, I'm not sure you have either, Governor Abbott.

00:19:56.840 You're, you're, I can't tell if, he's a smart man, so I can't tell if, if this is just a cynical political play here, or if he genuinely doesn't hear the words that are coming out of his mouth.

00:20:07.420 That, that whole little monologue there at the end, he goes, oh, there's all sorts of moral questions, all sorts of really just practical questions that's raised.

00:20:13.760 What if the parents get divorced?

00:20:15.240 What happens to the little babies who are stuck in the freezer? 0.83

00:20:17.700 What if the mother dies and you got all these babies in the freezer? 0.94

00:20:20.420 What if this, what if that?

00:20:21.640 Yeah, I don't know how many there are.

00:20:23.280 Are there one, are there 10, are there a billion?

00:20:25.080 I don't know how many of these babies are just stuck in freezers right now.

00:20:28.080 So anyway, that's why we need to go full steam ahead with IVF.

00:20:32.700 What?

00:20:34.340 That's a total, talk about a non sequitur.

00:20:36.600 What are you talking about?

00:20:39.220 Now, perhaps it is the case, I, I don't even know what the more charitable read is here for, for Governor Abbott.

00:20:45.760 But I, I, is it, I can't, is he just being cynical or is he, is he genuine?

00:20:51.640 Let's just say he's not understanding what he is saying.

00:20:54.360 Well, now he's heard it.

00:20:55.600 I've heard it.

00:20:56.200 I, we're, these people are maybe working it out in real time as they say it.

00:21:00.400 Okay, well then let's follow our logic to its logical conclusion.

00:21:05.120 If there is some chance, let's say it's a 5% chance.

00:21:10.760 Let's say it's a 1% chance that we're creating who knows how many human beings to lock in freezers or to destroy,

00:21:19.300 that we're doing that as a matter of public policy.

00:21:21.920 Probably we ought to slow that down a bit, huh?

00:21:24.740 Especially if we're conservative, especially if we're pro-life.

00:21:29.900 I understand.

00:21:32.080 Sweet little Elisa and I struggled with our first child and, not struggled with him, he's a sweet little boy.

00:21:38.800 But sweet little Elisa and I, with our eldest son, it took a couple of years to conceive him.

00:21:43.860 And we go to the fertility doctors and they just become a sales pitch for IVF.

00:21:47.720 And I understand how painful it is.

00:21:50.820 I understand how tempting it is to just do whatever it takes to get a little child.

00:21:54.800 I totally get it.

00:21:55.900 When you follow your reason here, and not just allow your emotions to drag you away,

00:22:05.200 when you follow your reason, you say, okay, does life begin at conception?

00:22:08.600 Okay, should we be able to buy and sell human beings?

00:22:10.920 Should we establish the domination of some scientists in lab coats over the origin of human life? 0.93

00:22:14.980 Should we lock away millions of babies in a freezer forever? 1.00

00:22:17.280 When you follow your reason, I think at the very least you have to recognize, okay, this thing has problems.

00:22:23.440 We ought to slow it down.

00:22:24.820 And the conservative pro-life politicians, most of all, should follow that logic.

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00:24:24.100 Last night, I was sitting out.

00:24:25.460 I had a nice cigar.

00:24:27.580 You get your Mayflower cigar in one hand.

00:24:30.040 You get your candles in the other.

00:24:31.460 And you just, you were just filling up your home temple with incense.

00:24:38.120 Speaking of having more kids, Joy Reid, a prominent lib commentator on MSNBC, she can't understand 0.99

00:24:49.580 why conservatives want to have more kids.

00:24:53.360 Take it away, Joy.

00:24:54.020 The United States has a population of north of 327 million people.

00:25:00.960 Why do we need more kids? 1.00

00:25:03.920 I mean, your party, Senator Tuberville, is the one screaming that 10 million immigrants, which

00:25:11.200 I don't even know that that number even makes any sense because it doesn't, have streamed

00:25:16.400 into the country since Joe Biden has been president.

00:25:19.340 And you're claiming that that's too many people, that if more people come into the southern

00:25:23.720 border, this is some sort of crisis because we've got too many people and we've got no

00:25:28.820 more space and we can't afford more people.

00:25:30.860 But now you're saying we need more kids.

00:25:35.720 Can you explain who's the we and what's the purpose?

00:25:42.420 Yes, I can.

00:25:43.540 Illegal immigration is wrong because it violates our laws, some of our most basic laws in this 1.00

00:25:51.020 country, and the American people are supposed to have the right to make our own laws, but

00:25:55.400 we don't.

00:25:56.160 We have an open border where millions and millions of illegal aliens pour across.

00:26:02.640 And they bring drugs and they bring crime and they all come across with the aid of the 0.98

00:26:06.280 cartels.

00:26:06.780 And so that, I guess what I'm saying is that that is different.

00:26:11.500 You know, a Honduran person without any money who is working with some of the worst criminal 1.00

00:26:20.140 organizations in the country violating our laws is different from an American having 0.59

00:26:24.580 a baby.

00:26:25.240 Those are different.

00:26:26.020 They're different people.

00:26:27.200 Those are different circumstances.

00:26:29.000 And they imply different consequences for the United States.

00:26:32.780 That would be, I rest my case, Joy, on the fact that different things are different.

00:26:40.460 Joy Reid does not want to acknowledge these things.

00:26:42.980 We have, there is a connection between the two in that part of the reason that the political

00:26:48.780 elites get away with mass migration is that we have a dying population.

00:26:52.060 And we have since 1971.

00:26:54.060 We've had a population that reproduces below the replacement rate.

00:26:58.320 And so if you want to keep the economy afloat, you flood the country with a bunch of foreigners. 1.00

00:27:03.660 At least that's the theory pushed on us by the leftists who openly say that this policy

00:27:10.280 will give them a permanent electoral majority and also pushed by the squishes in the Chamber 0.99

00:27:14.080 of Commerce who want to get cheap labor.

00:27:16.060 Okay.

00:27:17.760 But it's illegal and it would be preferable, it seems to me, for Americans to have thriving

00:27:23.000 families than to have dying families and just flood the country with a bunch of foreigners. 1.00

00:27:28.680 People are not just totally interchangeable.

00:27:31.900 You can't just have a country and then change out all the people and have the same country. 0.92

00:27:37.440 Even though you'll have the same geography, I was going to say you'd have the same borders,

00:27:41.260 but we don't really have borders anymore anyway.

00:27:43.080 You wouldn't have the same country because the country is not just the land and it's not

00:27:46.880 just some pieces of paper with ink on it.

00:27:48.900 The country is the people and the tradition.

00:27:52.380 And you can assimilate some people into that, but you can't just swap out the people. 0.83

00:27:57.020 That isn't going to work.

00:27:58.760 We also have priorities in terms of our charity.

00:28:03.960 We owe more to our children and to our parents than we do to, say, our cousins and our second

00:28:11.280 or third aunt twice removed.

00:28:13.360 We owe more to the people in our local community than we owe to people in far distant communities.

00:28:18.560 We owe more to our countrymen than we do to foreigners on the other side of the world. 1.00

00:28:25.220 This is perfectly natural.

00:28:26.960 It's perfectly fine.

00:28:27.980 And that's been true everywhere for all of history.

00:28:31.200 That's why.

00:28:32.940 It's good.

00:28:33.400 Having family is a good thing.

00:28:36.740 And you can't just cheat that by living alone in a sterile country where you think you can

00:28:44.840 replace the people with a bunch of, I don't know, Ecuadorian peasants or something. 0.95

00:28:50.940 And no knock on Ecuadorian peasants.

00:28:52.600 There are wonderful people in Ecuador.

00:28:54.280 They actually just elected a great president down there.

00:28:56.000 But that's a different country with a different culture and a different language and a different

00:28:59.980 tradition.

00:29:00.680 And we have ours and we'd like to preserve it.

00:29:02.660 Keep going.

00:29:03.460 Why does the state of Alabama need more kids? 1.00

00:29:05.500 More kids for what?

00:29:07.280 There was a time when the state of Alabama absolutely needed more kids because, you know,

00:29:11.820 Alabama was a slave state. 0.56

00:29:14.120 And the mandate of the planter class in Alabama was for black women to produce more kids because 1.00

00:29:19.960 those kids were property.

00:29:21.420 And they could work more kids and make more money on their plantations.

00:29:26.060 Are you saying the state of Alabama needs more kids because you think that those populations

00:29:30.400 will include people who are maybe destitute and desperate enough if you kick out the immigrants 1.00

00:29:35.920 like a lot of y'all want to do and you could make them do the work that the migrants are 0.95

00:29:41.280 doing now?

00:29:42.220 That kind of sounds slavery-ish.

00:29:46.060 I don't know.

00:29:47.160 Maybe Joy Reid realized this as she was speaking it.

00:29:49.360 Probably not because she doesn't seem very self-aware.

00:29:52.500 She just totally undercut her argument. 0.98

00:29:55.180 Because when Americans have children, the Americans generally demand higher wages.

00:30:04.020 The illegal aliens, immigrants broadly, but especially the illegal aliens, take lower wages. 0.86

00:30:10.640 So if you're talking about getting just a cheap labor class, you would be making the arguments

00:30:17.600 in favor of the left and the Chamber of Commerce who want to flood the country with illegal aliens.

00:30:21.880 And they're not hiding this argument.

00:30:24.260 They make it very openly.

00:30:25.260 They said, well, if we don't have a ton of illegal foreign nationals in our country,

00:30:29.860 who's going to pick grapes for really low prices?

00:30:32.000 And who's going to clean your home off the books?

00:30:33.720 And who's going to nanny your kids and not pay taxes on it and accept the meager wages 0.56

00:30:38.360 that you pay them?

00:30:39.100 Who's going to do it?

00:30:39.580 No American's going to do that.

00:30:40.680 The wages are too low.

00:30:41.560 So she probably didn't realize that she was arguing against the point she thought she was making.

00:30:50.300 Because then she concludes with the word slavery-ish.

00:30:53.520 Earlier on in her argument, she said, some senators are suggesting that there are 10 million illegal aliens in this country.

00:31:01.240 Which I don't even think that number makes a lot of sense because it doesn't.

00:31:06.180 And I mean, this is the caliber of argumentation from a leading left-wing pundit on a major left-wing TV channel

00:31:14.200 who is a graduate of Harvard University.

00:31:16.420 That woman has a degree from Harvard. 0.55

00:31:19.160 Now, Harvard's reputation has taken quite a hit in recent weeks because it turns out the president of Harvard

00:31:24.780 was a plagiarist who copied most of her work and who only had 11 academic publications to begin with.

00:31:30.900 That's what a reasonably impressive graduate student would have during graduate school, okay?

00:31:38.160 And that was the president of Harvard.

00:31:39.520 So it shows you that that Harvard degree is now totally worthless in the world of DEI and identity politics.

00:31:48.700 But it also, it just reminds me of this impulse from the left.

00:31:54.760 One, her argument is not logical in any way.

00:31:58.160 But it always arrives at the same conclusion.

00:32:03.180 There need to be fewer people.

00:32:05.860 We need fewer people.

00:32:06.840 We need fewer marriages, real marriages, because real marriage is inclined to produce children. 1.00

00:32:12.680 We need more contraception.

00:32:14.840 We need more abortion. 1.00

00:32:15.920 We need more morning-after pill.

00:32:17.160 We need more euthanasia.

00:32:18.220 We just need fewer of us.

00:32:22.560 I don't know.

00:32:23.160 To me, there's something more than just political going on there, something more than just ideological.

00:32:29.740 There's something downright demonic about that kind of political activism.

00:32:35.140 Now, speaking of black women and southern states, how is that for a transition? 1.00

00:32:40.840 And of weird sex stuff, by the way. 0.93

00:32:43.200 Lieutenant Governor Virginia Winsome Sears just got into a fiery exchange with a state representative who identifies as trans, a dude who thinks he's a chick. 0.72

00:32:54.740 He goes by Senator Danica A. Rome.

00:32:58.920 I don't know what his real name is, but he goes by Danica.

00:33:02.400 And so Winsome Sears being very respectful as she's presiding over this proceeding of the Virginia Senate.

00:33:10.940 And at one point, the trans-identifying senator, senatrix, I guess senator, because he's a dude, storms out of the room.

00:33:21.320 The senator may state it.

00:33:22.520 Madam President, how many votes would it take to pass this bill with the emergency clause?

00:33:27.040 That would be four-fifths, Senator.

00:33:29.840 And what would be the exact number for that, Madam President?

00:33:32.980 Yes, sir, that would be 32.

00:33:35.360 32.

00:33:40.940 The question is, shall the bill pass?

00:33:43.880 Those in favor of that motion will record their votes, aye.

00:33:46.220 You can tell Winsome Sears is kind of confused.

00:33:47.520 Are the senators ready to vote?

00:33:48.780 I am not here to upset anyone.

00:33:52.200 I am here to do the job that the people of Virginia have called me to do.

00:33:58.320 And that is to treat everyone with respect and dignity.

00:34:02.620 I myself have at times not been afforded that same respect and dignity.

00:34:10.940 But in this body, and as long as I am president of the Senate, and by the grace of God, I will be treated with respect and dignity.

00:34:22.820 And I will treat everyone else with respect and dignity.

00:34:27.320 So, in case you were trying to keep score on the identity politics, I know it's a little confusing.

00:34:34.240 White people are not allowed in any way, even accidentally, to offend black people. 0.98

00:34:41.960 Because white is bad and black is good. 1.00

00:34:45.280 Men are not allowed, even accidentally, ever to offend or upset. 1.00

00:34:50.140 But women, because women are good and men are bad. 1.00

00:34:55.100 Unless we're talking about a white man who has a very particular sexual fetish and confusion and thinks that he's a woman. 0.97

00:35:03.820 In which case, the white man is allowed and encouraged and actually applauded for offending a black woman, namely Winsome Sears, who's presiding over this proceeding. 0.96

00:35:18.300 Does that, you should write it down.

00:35:20.560 I don't know when it's going to change.

00:35:21.940 That's a pretty weird one.

00:35:23.600 The way that this scene is being portrayed by the left is that she offended him by calling him sir.

00:35:30.420 I don't think she did that intentionally, actually.

00:35:32.840 I would have done it intentionally because I try to be precise in my language.

00:35:36.480 And I think that the moment that you acknowledge in your language the transgender premises, then you've lost the whole argument. 0.73

00:35:43.660 I think it's an important argument to have.

00:35:45.200 And I think men and women actually are different.

00:35:46.880 And if we give up that distinction, we might as well give up the culture because it's pretty close to the heart of human nature.

00:35:52.060 But I don't think she did it intentionally.

00:35:53.880 I think she just was speaking to a dude and she was trying to be respectful.

00:35:57.200 And she said, okay, yes, sir, thank you very much.

00:35:58.740 And he storms out because he has this delusion and this bizarre sexual hangup. 0.96

00:36:05.060 And he wants to be or thinks he is a chick. 0.93

00:36:07.880 And so he storms out.

00:36:09.160 That is very offensive.

00:36:10.600 I would not storm out of a room when the lieutenant governor of a state is speaking to me.

00:36:15.580 Especially if it were a lieutenant governor as serious and talented as Winsome Sears here. 1.00

00:36:21.020 But now we're living in the upside down world.

00:36:24.360 You can't quite do that.

00:36:25.520 But I liked her speech there at the end.

00:36:27.780 She said, I'm here to do the job that the people sent me to do.

00:36:30.720 And that is to treat everyone with respect.

00:36:32.500 My only slight suggestion here to Winsome Sears is that that's not the job that the people sent her to do. 0.97

00:36:39.460 The job that the people sent Winsome Sears and all of the elected officials in Virginia to do is to govern well.

00:36:48.000 The job that they sent them to do is the basic job of statecraft, which is to pursue good and to avoid evil.

00:36:56.840 To help to encourage the conditions for everyone in the Commonwealth of Virginia to thrive, to have a flourishing life.

00:37:05.600 And in this case, the people who are advocating the total destruction of the family, of public distinctions between men and women, of that dichotomy in human nature.

00:37:21.600 Those people are not helping Virginia to flourish, all right?

00:37:26.340 And so in that case, it is not only acceptable, it is very good to dismiss, to mock, to undermine the transgender ideology, which is either true or it isn't. 0.82

00:37:41.380 As I got in trouble at CPAC for saying, but I think most people agree with me, it's either true or it isn't.

00:37:46.660 If it's true, then it can be true for anyone, and then we ought to trans the kids.

00:37:50.540 If it's false, then it's false for everyone, and we shouldn't allow adult men to go use the little girl's changing room at the public pool.

00:37:56.740 But it's going to be true or false.

00:37:58.320 It's not just a matter of taste or preference.

00:38:00.820 And it's obviously false.

00:38:02.340 And so it's helpful to no one.

00:38:03.660 So for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to that delusion, transgenderism ought to be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole ideology at every level. 1.00

00:38:14.480 Do you understand that, sir, sir or madam?

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00:38:57.380 Now, my favorite comment yesterday comes not just from the episode of this show, but from a new tutorial.

00:39:05.460 This is how to smoke a cigar.

00:39:07.400 This is from 103J27.

00:39:10.640 What a name.

00:39:11.040 He says, sick video.

00:39:12.180 I've watched many tutorials.

00:39:13.240 This one beats pretty much all of them.

00:39:14.720 I'm so glad to hear that.

00:39:15.760 Many people have asked me over the years how to smoke a cigar.

00:39:19.340 It's the sort of thing where it seems like you should know how to do it, but it's actually a little complicated.

00:39:23.020 If you haven't done it before, cigars are, they've really come back in style recently, especially among men and especially among conservative men.

00:39:31.000 There are a lot of liberal men who smoke cigars, too.

00:39:32.680 But a lot of people don't know how to do it.

00:39:34.660 They don't know how much of the cap to cut off.

00:39:36.200 They don't know how to light the cigar.

00:39:37.380 They don't know how to hold it.

00:39:38.100 They don't know how to puff.

00:39:39.040 They might go a little green in the face if they inhale it.

00:39:40.800 So anyway, I've got a three-minute tutorial of the basics of how to smoke a cigar.

00:39:45.660 It's on my YouTube channel.

00:39:46.620 You can go check it out.

00:39:47.260 Now, speaking of female Republican politicians, Nikki Haley, she is signaling the end. 1.00

00:39:59.660 Her campaign is not long for this world.

00:40:04.060 Initially, Nikki said, I'm not going anywhere.

00:40:06.920 Remember, even after Iowa, even after New Hampshire, she said, I don't care that Trump keeps winning.

00:40:11.280 I'm not going anywhere.

00:40:13.760 Now she's changed her tune.

00:40:15.120 Now she's saying, we're going to keep going all the way through Super Tuesday.

00:40:19.380 So she's not saying we're going to drop out after Super Tuesday.

00:40:22.220 But it's no longer, we're in this indefinitely.

00:40:25.300 She's signaling we're in this until Super Tuesday, which is coming up.

00:40:31.240 Why?

00:40:31.680 Because, as a friend of mine who's intimately aware of presidential campaigns, once told me, all presidential campaigns end for the exact same reason, when they run out of money.

00:40:44.280 The Koch network, which was the big backer for Nikki Haley's bid, they have just pulled out.

00:40:50.540 The Americans for Prosperity Action, huge conservative group.

00:40:54.120 They have just announced they will no longer spend money to help her following the South Carolina laws.

00:40:59.320 She lost her home state by a fair bit.

00:41:00.780 So, March 5th is Super Tuesday.

00:41:04.320 It's coming up.

00:41:05.140 We've got, you know, six, seven days away.

00:41:08.820 That will probably be the end of it.

00:41:10.540 Not because Nikki Haley doesn't want to stick it out.

00:41:12.700 She would stay in it forever.

00:41:14.100 Because in defense of the Haley campaign, you know, they're pulling some numbers here.

00:41:19.840 Right?

00:41:20.120 The South Carolina race ended up being 60-40.

00:41:24.380 Now Nikki outspent Trump by a ton. 1.00

00:41:26.620 It's Nikki's home state.

00:41:27.640 She was the governor there. 1.00

00:41:28.620 So, it was every advantage she could possibly have.

00:41:31.040 But still, 40% of the GOP said, we want someone other than Trump and we're going to go for Haley.

00:41:35.320 Those are impressive numbers.

00:41:36.680 There's a big segment of the GOP that doesn't like Trump and that prefers a candidate like Haley.

00:41:41.160 So, if she were still getting money, she'd probably take that thing all the way to the convention. 0.94

00:41:45.580 She won't.

00:41:47.080 She'll take it as far as she can before the money runs out.

00:41:49.580 And then she will be able to say, I was the number two candidate in 2024 when the 2028 comes around.

00:41:55.780 And the nice thing for her about 2028 is that Nikki Haley, either way, will be able to run because Trump only has one term left that he is constitutionally permitted to serve. 0.86

00:42:07.120 Now, in the meantime, other people are going to try to get Nikki Haley to run for president this cycle. 0.97

00:42:12.060 If not as the Republican nominee, then as some other kind of nominee.

00:42:15.240 There's a group called No Labels, which is just a centrist group, and they try to blur the distinctions between Democrats and Republicans, something that I think is not a good idea.

00:42:24.040 I think we need actually clearer distinctions between the two parties.

00:42:27.400 We need, in the words of the great conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, a choice, not just an echo.

00:42:32.520 But No Labels thinks, no, we just need centrists to blur the distinction.

00:42:35.600 And the head of No Labels has suggested one candidate could be pretty, pretty helpful to that effort.

00:42:42.300 This has been a project to essentially give Americans another choice if they're unhappy with the presumptive nominees, which, you know, it appears is going to be Trump versus Biden right now.

00:42:53.220 But we don't know.

00:42:53.960 Nikki Haley, she's kind of remaining in the race.

00:42:55.900 You can't count her out completely.

00:42:57.420 And hats off to her for staying in it and for sticking with it. 0.63

00:43:01.820 But we're looking for great quality people, folks that have broad appeal to independents, Democrats, Republicans.

00:43:08.740 And, yeah, I mean, Nikki Haley is somebody we'd definitely be interested in.

00:43:13.180 I have no doubt that No Labels is interested in Nikki Haley.

00:43:16.020 I would be shocked if Nikki Haley were interested in No Labels.

00:43:19.480 Because Nikki Haley is a really smart politician. 1.00

00:43:21.400 She's really clever.

00:43:22.200 She's been very successful.

00:43:23.640 And she's been successful, actually, with both sides of the party.

00:43:27.420 She was a moderate centrist governor of South Carolina.

00:43:30.120 She works for Trump.

00:43:31.280 She was very popular in the Trump administration as the U.N. ambassador.

00:43:34.700 When she left the White House, Trump was very agilatory toward her.

00:43:38.040 Then she kind of turned on Trump and said she wouldn't back him.

00:43:41.520 Then she said she would back him and she wouldn't run if he ran.

00:43:43.700 Then she ran against him.

00:43:45.320 And she's just, none of that is a knock.

00:43:47.420 Actually, all of that is a testament to her political talent. 0.55

00:43:52.540 She's not going to blow it.

00:43:53.480 She's a young woman. 0.93

00:43:54.220 She's not going to blow her career on some ridiculous third-party run that's obviously going to go nowhere. 1.00

00:44:01.200 If the primary run went nowhere, the third-party run is certainly going to go nowhere.

00:44:06.080 When she could just run next time.

00:44:08.200 So, sorry to No Labels.

00:44:09.800 I think they're going to have to keep barking up the Joe Manchin tree because I don't think Nikki Haley is going to do it. 0.99

00:44:14.420 Now, speaking of the future, sometimes on this show I say I hate to say I told you so.

00:44:20.840 And you suspect correctly that I actually don't hate to say I told you so.

00:44:25.840 Sometimes I really enjoy saying that I told you so.

00:44:28.940 This is a confession from me, okay?

00:44:32.740 In this case, in this story, I truly, truly hate to say I told you so.

00:44:38.880 But I did predict this years ago.

00:44:43.620 Beverly Hills middle schoolers are circulating AI-generated nudes of their classmates.

00:44:51.040 Middle schoolers.

00:44:51.840 So what are we talking?

00:44:52.460 11 to 13-year-olds?

00:44:54.480 Beverly Vista Middle School is the latest school to fight frightening and terrible form of bullying,

00:45:00.540 that being these AI-generated pornographic images.

00:45:04.560 From the beginning, when everyone was saying, oh, no, the rise of AI and deepfakes,

00:45:10.380 that's going to mean that we can't trust videos of politicians anymore.

00:45:14.460 I said, forget about that.

00:45:15.160 That's not going to matter.

00:45:16.300 Frankly, that's probably fine because all the kind of silly scandals will go away and we'll get to the actual substance of politics.

00:45:21.900 I'm not worried about the politicians.

00:45:23.720 Oh, well, what about celebrities?

00:45:26.020 You know, Scarlett Johansson was a victim of all these kind of deepfakes.

00:45:30.480 I said, yeah, but that's been true with Photoshop and stuff for years.

00:45:35.180 Celebrities are always the victims of publicity.

00:45:37.700 That's what they sign up for.

00:45:40.400 I said, no.

00:45:41.400 The real fear of the AI, first of all, all new technology with regard to computers ends up promoting pornography.

00:45:50.780 That's just been the rule for decades.

00:45:53.160 And in this case, the fear is not that this is going to hurt a celebrity or a politician.

00:45:57.080 It's that the victim is going to be the girl in your math class.

00:46:00.480 And that's actually what's happened here.

00:46:02.060 And it's not just the school in Beverly Hills.

00:46:04.880 According to Pete Nicoletti, a cybersecurity expert who was interviewed for this story,

00:46:10.280 said on the kids' side of things, it's happening every single day, dozens of times a day.

00:46:17.340 We are seeing news reports of it everywhere.

00:46:20.080 So how do you stop this?

00:46:23.780 How do you stop it?

00:46:24.560 People who are too ideological about their politics are never going to be able to solve this problem

00:46:32.000 because this problem touches on so many aspects of society.

00:46:36.360 This problem touches on technology.

00:46:38.960 It touches on the family.

00:46:40.560 It touches on education.

00:46:42.120 It touches on the government.

00:46:43.520 It touches on the role of the individual to the government and of politics to culture and all of it.

00:46:47.440 So if you have a political ideology that ignores any of those things or is opposed to intervention in any of those areas,

00:46:57.780 you can't possibly solve this.

00:47:00.740 Okay, in order to solve this problem, you need to be willing to censor parts of the internet,

00:47:07.060 to wield the government, to censor part of the internet.

00:47:10.980 A lot of the libertarians are going to say no to that, but you would have to do that.

00:47:13.840 You would have to be willing to wield the government to regulate anything at all.

00:47:17.200 So a lot of the libertarians wouldn't like that.

00:47:18.880 You would have to be willing to get the government more involved in school.

00:47:24.460 Some of the conservatives might not like that either.

00:47:26.800 You would have to be willing to perhaps slow down the development of new technology.

00:47:33.320 A lot of the progressive people, the innovators, the futurists are not going to like that.

00:47:39.480 But you would have to be willing to clamp down a little bit more on the structure of the family,

00:47:45.240 the real victims for this kind of stuff.

00:47:47.960 Not just the people who are in the fake pornography, but the kids who are generating it

00:47:51.460 are going to be people who don't come from the most rigorous families, the most stable families,

00:47:57.300 where they don't have a ton of supervision all the time,

00:47:59.400 where they're not told from the time they're born that there is a moral order that they need to follow,

00:48:03.140 where they're not going to church on Sunday, where they're not going to Sunday school,

00:48:05.760 where they're not saying their prayers, where they're not aware of the moral order.

00:48:09.460 Because we're now talking about a way for kids to get in trouble that is so difficult to detect.

00:48:17.020 This is not going stealing a cookie from the cookie jar.

00:48:19.540 This is the sort of thing that one could do on one's phone in a little corner underneath a pillow in one's room.

00:48:24.440 It's so difficult to detect.

00:48:25.960 You would have to cultivate a very strong sense of morality,

00:48:30.660 a dread of the loss of heaven and the pains of hell and a desire not to offend God who really exists

00:48:36.440 in order to begin to convince 12, 13-year-old boys not to do this kind of creepy stuff.

00:48:41.740 That requires a much more public role for religion.

00:48:45.280 That requires an encouragement of morality and religion,

00:48:49.400 of turning away of this feigned indifference to good and bad and right and wrong and true and false.

00:48:57.100 Requires kind of a revolution.

00:48:59.720 And a recognition that society, that politics is not just about individuals,

00:49:03.580 but it's about how we all get along together.

00:49:07.040 Less the Enlightenment liberals, more good old Aristotle.

00:49:10.100 I sometimes like to think that I'm a social conservative in the sense that my politics is about society.

00:49:15.420 Not just like, you know, I'm pro-life or whatever.

00:49:17.800 But meaning it's social, it's all together.

00:49:20.620 And we're not going to solve these problems individually.

00:49:22.820 Okay, that's my rant.

00:49:24.400 Are we willing to do all those things?

00:49:25.820 If not, expect more of these creepy stories.

00:49:28.600 The rest of the show continues now.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 27, 2024

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