The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 100 - The Obama Economy Tanks

00:00:00.000 The economy for which, as the mainstream media have been telling me for months and months,

00:00:04.620 Barack Obama is solely responsible and Donald Trump is not in any way responsible, has tanked.

00:00:11.140 We will analyze why stocks are down and most importantly, who to blame. Then it's our 100th

00:00:16.440 episode. To celebrate, we'll be using Daily Wire's incredible streaming technology to interview

00:00:21.860 future me, Michael from the 200th episode. Boy, that is going to be great. I can't wait to see

00:00:27.580 how incredible our show looks by the 200th episode. Marshall, isn't that going to be great?

00:00:31.700 Yeah. I can't wait. Then Amanda Prestigiacomo and Josh Yasma join the panel of deplorables

00:00:37.100 to discuss Harvard's banning all single gender clubs except for the female ones. Equality.

00:00:44.000 Hashtag equality. We will also discuss the English teacher who was fired and reported to a counter

00:00:49.440 terrorism agency for telling a lesbian student that God loves her. And finally, satanic yoga.

00:00:55.100 Then, because all nature is but art unknown to thee, this day in history is both Ronald Reagan's

00:01:00.860 birthday and 73 years later, the day that the Gipper announced the Reagan doctrine. We will cover it

00:01:06.940 all. I am Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show. There is a lot to get to today,

00:01:18.440 especially me interviewing me from the 200th episode. That's going to be pretty wild. I've never seen

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00:04:13.120 To celebrate our 100th episode, we are lucky enough to be joined by a no doubt illustrious guest.

00:04:18.980 He was not easy to find, but through our state of the art daily wire technology,

00:04:23.040 we are going to speak with Michael from the 200th episode. Do we have him? Let's bring on future Michael.

00:04:31.120 Michael, Michael, is that you? Subscribe to Michael Knowles Show dot trash and keep my 0.76

00:04:42.420 tumbler filled with grain alcohol. I'll be right back. Michael, Michael. Not again, buddy. Not again. 0.77

00:04:51.640 I'm not doing that again for less than $20. Cash. I don't care. Is that me?

00:04:58.620 Yeah, Michael, it's me. It's me from the 100th episode. I can't hear you that well.

00:05:08.120 Holy. How much covfefe did I smoke? Am I dead? Oh, finally. Oh, finally. Yes. Yes.

00:05:22.100 Oh, yes. Thank you. You merciful. No more of this hell. This hell I walk through day by day. Oh, thank you.

00:05:33.900 Michael. Michael. Michael, you're not dead. Michael. Michael, I am you from the 100th episode. Are you,

00:05:45.020 are you doing some kind of shoot for the 200th episode?

00:05:48.320 Sure. The 200th episode. Oh, I do it. Did you think Shapiro would let you get to 200?

00:05:54.220 I guess I'm not the only one puffin' on fifth. No, you didn't make it to 200 episodes.

00:06:00.520 200 episodes. What do you mean I didn't make it to 200 episodes?

00:06:04.920 Are you? Oh, oh, Michael. Oh, you stupid swarthy lout. You, you thought you made it. 1.00

00:06:12.520 Well, uh, here's an idea. How about you have some, you're stupid sketches. You got a podcast about 1.00

00:06:18.940 politics. We want to hear about politics and culture and history. But no, you wear your stupid

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00:06:31.340 it looks like our, it looks like the feed is cutting out. It looks like the feed's cutting

00:06:34.900 out. Marshall, Marshall looks like the feed's cutting out. Uh, all right. Um, let's talk

00:06:50.980 about the economy, man. Was that just, does, does future me have alopecia or something like that?

00:06:56.900 That's very, that's very scary stuff. Okay. The Dow fell by 1175 points on Monday. Oh no,

00:07:04.820 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I said that wrong. The Obama stock market fell by 1170 points on Monday.

00:07:10.180 We just got to get, we're just going to get fact, fact, fact here. This, uh, this is not looking

00:07:13.620 good for the future in the Obama economy. It's the Obama economy, right? President Trump

00:07:18.240 has nothing to do with it. That's what Democrats have been yelling and telling me for a year.

00:07:24.760 So Obama actually handed over a wonderful economy to Trump. A, an administration that has done,

00:07:31.580 um, not very much to contribute to, uh, this strong economy. The economy was in a ditch and

00:07:37.240 Barack Obama pulled it out the ditch, shined it up, put us back on the road, uh, and took us to

00:07:43.040 another level. Donald Trump is riding the wave of the success of president Obama. He has done nothing

00:07:48.420 to contribute to the success of the economy right now. Works for me. But if unlike Democrats, I'm

00:07:55.020 being honest, the story is more complicated. The Dow fell 1175 points yesterday. The market

00:08:02.100 sell-off began last week. It sped up on Monday, which affected global markets. Yesterday's drop

00:08:07.660 was the single largest, uh, day drop in the Dow's history. The S and P 500 had its worst day in seven

00:08:14.200 years. Market volatility has been accelerating in recent months, jumping by more than 100%.

00:08:19.380 Japan's Nikkei dropped 4.7%. That was its largest single day drop since Brexit. Markets in Hong Kong,

00:08:26.140 Europe, and the UK also tanked. Then this morning, the Dow dropped another 500 points.

00:08:30.700 Uh, $4 trillion was wiped away from global markets yesterday. Bitcoin is down to around $7,000

00:08:35.900 after hitting nearly 20,000 in December. I know it's shocking that a thing that's completely fake

00:08:41.040 and made up has crashed. Uh, so more importantly, whose fault is it? Well, I am more than happy to

00:08:47.520 follow the lead of Democrat hacks on TV and start calling this the Obama economy, but the situation

00:08:52.420 is much more complicated. And with any complex system like the U.S. economy or the global economy,

00:08:56.960 for that matter, the president has some influence. The, uh, the previous president has some influence

00:09:02.120 and on many counts, the president has nothing to do with it. So of course, President Trump has been

00:09:06.780 touting the record market highs since he's been in office. This is understandable, but ultimately it's

00:09:12.480 not a great strategy because if you take credit when the market soars, you're going to have a more

00:09:17.020 difficult time explaining why it's not your fault when the market tanks. Uh, I spoke to some friends

00:09:21.920 of mine in the upper echelons of high finance, or as I am told to pronounce it, finance, finance in high

00:09:29.300 finance. Uh, their expert analysis of the market drop is that nobody has any idea what's going on.

00:09:34.680 That's the best they can give me. Sounds about right. You know, because financial analysts are like

00:09:39.100 sports analysts and political analysts. They have no idea what's happening and most of their

00:09:43.500 predictions are wrong. And then they just keep showing up to work and people keep listening to

00:09:47.360 them for some reason. So there is one theory that's interesting. There's one theory that there

00:09:52.400 are a bunch of short volatility strategies that are driven by algorithms. So when, uh, prices,

00:09:58.180 prices fall abruptly, that actually triggers more selling. So, uh, it, it, uh, becomes a self

00:10:03.900 fulfilling, uh, prophecy and feeds on itself and it gets you a crazy drops like we saw yesterday.

00:10:09.520 So in this sense, we can't really blame Obama or Trump. Artemis capital management explains it

00:10:15.380 like a snake eating its own tail. So in extreme heat, a snake's metabolism will spike out of

00:10:20.640 control. And in this mania, it will be unable to differentiate between its tail and food. So it

00:10:26.060 starts eating itself until it dies like this in a market where both stocks and bonds are overvalued

00:10:32.080 a feedback loop of very, very low interest rates, debt expansion, asset volatility, and financial

00:10:37.880 engineering will cause volatility to reinforce itself both lower and higher. Uh, it's too bad

00:10:44.060 that we don't have one of those precious metal companies right now that's sponsoring the show.

00:10:47.780 I guess we would be selling precious metals like gangbusters, but sad missed opportunity. What can

00:10:52.540 we do? Donald Trump certainly gets credit for certain aspects of the economy. He gets credit for

00:10:57.080 consumer confidence. He gets credit for the repatriation of corporate funds held overseas, uh, for

00:11:02.040 cutting the corporate tax rate to make the U S competitive. Uh, he gets credit for economic

00:11:07.060 growth at levels that Barack Obama's own economists said were impossible. Donald Trump gets credit for

00:11:13.000 those things. Even the IMF, the international monetary fund admits as much. A couple of weeks

00:11:17.220 ago, the wall street journal pulled 68 business financial and academic economists as to whether

00:11:22.960 Trump gets credit for the strong economy. The majority of them agreed that he does. Uh, that said

00:11:28.100 markets correct themselves. This happens. Analysts have been predicting this for a long time. Uh,

00:11:32.800 HSBC says the correct correction is long overdue. The S and P was up 8% in January. That doesn't go

00:11:38.520 on forever. I'm sorry to say you aren't going to get 8% a month for the next 11 months. Uh, the Dow's

00:11:43.760 fall on Friday was an ominous 666 points. Probably not a good sign. Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel

00:11:51.420 actually thinks the correction could be a good thing. Even up to a 10% fall, we still won't have a bear

00:11:56.960 market in 2018, he says. And that would be good because we need to get through more months, uh,

00:12:02.920 about what, eight more months now of, uh, at least the appearance of a strong economy or else the

00:12:07.700 perception will become the reality of electing Democrats. I promise you that will not be good

00:12:12.300 for the economy. So let's talk some news with the panel. That's on the markets. I wanted to just, uh,

00:12:17.400 break that down a little bit because we're going to be hearing a lot of ridiculous partisan nonsense

00:12:21.960 on both sides of the aisle for, for a little bit. And I at least want you to know,

00:12:26.860 I want you to have some honest partisan nonsense. I want you to know where your propaganda comes from,

00:12:32.040 honestly. So we have the lovely Amanda Presto Giacomo and the decidedly less lovely Josh Yasma.

00:12:37.900 Thank you both for being here. Uh, the first question, Harvard university has banned all gender

00:12:43.200 exclusive clubs on and off campus, except for the female ones, but all of the other ones, for instance,

00:12:48.640 they have been the male organizations and they've banned the men's clubs and the group guys groups

00:12:55.140 they banned and the fellas lodges. All of those are banned. Uh, it's just the female ones that 1.00

00:12:59.420 aren't, uh, the move hits fraternities, but really it's directed toward Harvard's final clubs. This is

00:13:04.580 kind of like the secret societies at Yale and it's these prestigious clubs. I actually have some

00:13:09.000 experience of Harvard's final clubs. I was not allowed into one during my junior year of college.

00:13:15.580 Uh, we were up in Cambridge for the game and I drank a lot of four loco when that was still legal,

00:13:20.460 a lot of caffeine and malt liquor or something. And I repeatedly blew a vuvuzela into some Harvard

00:13:26.400 guy's face and then they wouldn't let me into their club. So this is karma guys. This is what

00:13:30.380 you get for not letting me in as far as I'm concerned. Amanda, women are allowed to keep their 1.00

00:13:35.020 clubs, but men are not. The logic here is that Harvard men have privilege, true, but women enrolled at

00:13:41.080 the oldest university in the United States. Harvard women somehow do not have privilege. Uh, this seems

00:13:46.560 to tie in a little bit with the narrative here that men are predators who must be castrated and all 0.98

00:13:51.580 women are victims. A poll shows 31% of female Harvard students claim to have been sexually assaulted 0.96

00:13:58.500 on campus. Whatever that means, whatever sexual assault is, is means to say what is going on here?

00:14:05.420 Is Harvard Yard more dangerous for women than downtown Fallujah? That's what those studies 1.00

00:14:11.600 would tell you. But as we've seen time and again, a lot of those studies are super broad and ambiguous.

00:14:16.740 Like for instance, if you had sex and then you regretted it the next day, that would count as you being 0.82

00:14:22.100 sexually assaulted or, you know, raped. So, uh, there's, there are endless people. I know George 0.96

00:14:26.900 Will did a really good piece on this, just debunking a lot of those, um, surveys. So no,

00:14:32.120 that's not the case. And by the way, if that's the case, then, then if regret constitutes a sexual

00:14:37.240 assault, then Josh has got to be the most wanted man in the entire country. I'm sorry. I finished

00:14:42.620 your point, Amanda. Yeah. So, so you can't, you can't look at those, um, surveys, um, with any

00:14:50.160 objectivity. Um, and then also it's just funny to see this. This is like the status of feminism 0.54

00:14:56.960 today is that it's like cafeteria style feminism. So we know we're exactly the same, you know, uh, 1.00

00:15:02.880 there's no difference between men and women. Um, so, you know, we're going to have all these

00:15:06.140 policies that there is no difference. So there can't be a man's only club, a woman's only club,

00:15:10.100 but at the same time, um, we want the women's club because we want special treatment. Like it's 0.98

00:15:15.440 like really patronizing and weird how everything's the same, but we still get the good stuff. Like we,

00:15:20.560 if I, you know, we're in a lower standard so I can fight in combat, but at the same time,

00:15:24.860 I better not be in the draft. So it doesn't make any sense. You kind of just like cafeteria style,

00:15:30.380 pick what you want. Um, and that doesn't make any sense. That's why you have to subscribe to

00:15:34.280 real feminism, which is acknowledges that men and women are different though. They can be equal 0.91

00:15:38.900 on the real feminism, which is anti-feminism. And we need it. We need equality so that we can treat 1.00

00:15:44.860 people with special privileges so that we can have more equality or something. Josh, Barack Obama's

00:15:49.680 centers for disease control spent a million dollars on a study to reduce

00:15:54.400 rigid masculinity. Now I'm not suggesting you're an expert on this, but why does the left hate men

00:15:59.940 and masculinity? I'm being very mean to Josh today. That's not good. Why does the left hate men and

00:16:04.220 masculinity? Um, well, first of all, I really appreciated your beard in that, uh, future

00:16:10.400 segment. I knew it was fake because you don't have the capacity to go. Real nice. Here we go.

00:16:15.160 He's getting me back. Um, so as far as rigid masculinity, toxic masculinity, I think we need

00:16:24.900 to acknowledge that sexual assault is a problem. You know, there doesn't acknowledge that. I think

00:16:32.100 we need to acknowledge that murder is bad. Yeah, I agree. I, well, it's a problem on, I don't think

00:16:38.760 that downplaying it helps. And I, I think that while these programs may be misguided, um, do you

00:16:45.820 think 31% of women at Harvard university have been raped on campus? Does anyone actually believe that?

00:16:53.000 No, I, I can't speak to those stats. Um, but Amanda, do you think 31% of women on Harvard's 1.00

00:16:59.360 campus have been raped? No. And there's, there's harm to playing that stuff up as well. I mean,

00:17:03.560 there's harm to just, because then we have, you know, memos from the Obama administration

00:17:07.540 directing people that you don't really need evidence, right? If someone comes forward,

00:17:11.420 you don't have to tell that person that they've been accused. All we have these kangaroo courts

00:17:15.340 on campus because we overplay this, this rape culture nonsense that's backed up by nothing,

00:17:20.180 by these ambiguous, uh, surveys. So it's actually, it's a danger. We need to go with the actual facts.

00:17:25.860 We can't, it's a danger to play this stuff up when it's not really there. That's right. And

00:17:29.340 this actually isn't the craziest example from campus, even in today's news cycle, an English teacher,

00:17:36.000 uh, like the country, not like the subject, though she is a subject because she's English.

00:17:40.220 An English teacher has been fired and, uh, reported to a counter-terrorism agency because

00:17:46.140 she had the audacity to, uh, answer her students' questions about Christianity. She's now a radicalization

00:17:52.420 threat. She told a lesbian student that God loves her. That's what makes her a terrorist. Amanda, 1.00

00:17:58.620 how has God loves us become hate speech?

00:18:02.840 I, I don't know. I mean, they're in this, in this report, in this writeup, um, apparently there's

00:18:08.960 an atheist teacher who discusses his views openly, um, who has said some pretty crazy things that

00:18:16.020 apparently he showed the children. I don't know how high school, I think I don't know how old like

00:18:20.160 these, these, uh, high school, these kids are, but he showed them a picture of like a naked woman 1.00

00:18:24.700 or whatever. He was suspended for three months and now he's back to teaching. And like, you know,

00:18:29.820 that's just like a slap on the wrist. But if you have a religious person, so you see the extreme 0.86

00:18:34.140 bias here, happen to say that they, you know, hold certain views and then tell somebody that God loves

00:18:40.940 them, which apparently is harmful, you know, they're out of there that, you know, that it's just,

00:18:45.300 it's another clear bias, uh, that we've seen here in the States over and over. And then of course,

00:18:50.480 it's really strong on college campuses. We've seen that with Ben all the time.

00:18:54.480 Right. And Josh, on this point, does this show the silliness and maybe the ultimate futility

00:19:00.660 of a hard separation of church and state? Do jihadis and Christian teachers who say God loves

00:19:06.880 you pose an equal threat to the public? So you're talking about the story from the UK, correct?

00:19:13.120 Yes. Where, um, she was, you know, she was at a government funded school and she talked about

00:19:18.780 her personal views. She was asked about Christianity and she answered. She was asked about her personal

00:19:24.420 views. Well, she, her, she is Christian. She is Christian. So Christianity is her personal

00:19:29.140 view. Right. I, I come from the camp. Maybe, you know, I hate to be a contrarian again, but

00:19:35.680 I come from the camp where I don't think that the teachers should talk about her religious

00:19:40.020 views at a government funded school. So she can't talk about Christianity. She can't talk 0.84

00:19:44.420 about the religion of the West. Well, she wasn't teaching a segment on Christianity. She was

00:19:50.580 asked, what are your personal views on homosexuality? And she answered. And I don't know if that's

00:19:56.040 appropriate at a government funded school. So should she have said, I'm sorry. Uh, I'm

00:20:01.560 sorry. You've asked a question about the Christian sexual ethic. And even though Christianity is 0.88

00:20:05.980 the animating force of the West, even though it's the, it is the major world religion, I can't

00:20:10.760 answer that question. Because if I answer a question about Christianity, the coppers are 1.00

00:20:15.380 going to come in and call me a terrorist. That's how we should run government schools.

00:20:19.880 Look, this straw man, I, I agree. I don't think that she should have been reported to a counter

00:20:25.200 terrorism organization. You know, that that's, that's obviously absurd, but at the same time,

00:20:30.500 you know, if you're teaching math or you're teaching, um, you know, geometry, something else,

00:20:35.160 and someone asked a question about your personal religious beliefs, then I think there's a time and

00:20:40.660 a place for that. And from what I read, it sounded like she, um, went on a tangent and at a time

00:20:49.200 when she didn't choose to go on a tangent, she was asked a question. You know, this is one, and she

00:20:53.540 said that very hateful statement that God loves lesbians, that hateful bigoted statement. It's a 0.97

00:20:58.320 good thing that we didn't have, uh, that our scientists weren't selected based on their religious

00:21:03.760 views and our, their teachers weren't excluded for being Christian in the beginning of modernity.

00:21:08.640 Because then we wouldn't have had Isaac Newton. We wouldn't have had Kepler. We wouldn't have had

00:21:11.980 Bacon. We wouldn't have had Pascal. We wouldn't, we wouldn't have discovered the big bang because

00:21:16.160 George Lemaître was a Catholic priest. That's probably pretty bad. We wouldn't have discovered 0.92

00:21:19.940 the human genome on and on and on. It seems to me a totally false separation between, uh, uh,

00:21:26.900 faith and reason, between light and truth, between, uh, church and state. Obviously, uh, England is a,

00:21:33.640 uh, Christian country. There is a church of England. The queen of England is the head of the

00:21:38.180 church of England. And must we then pretend that the queen, the head of England and the head of the

00:21:43.960 church of England reigns over a country that is totally separated from the religion that animates 1.00

00:21:49.000 it, that animates the, its laws, that animates its traditions and its institutions. This seems like

00:21:54.920 pie in the sky, leftist utopianism. Am I wrong, Josh?

00:21:58.840 I think it's a little bit more complicated than that. I think that, you know, touting the

00:22:04.880 achievements of Western civilization while accurate, you know, it is.

00:22:08.480 No, I'm touting the Christianity of the great scientists of the West.

00:22:12.880 The profound Christianity. Isaac Newton spent years interpreting scripture.

00:22:17.660 I think the modern UK is a very different place than the, you know, the, than the England of years

00:22:25.240 passed, you know, and, and holding up a ceremonial post like the church of England or the monarchy.

00:22:31.960 The church of England isn't a ceremonial post. It's a church.

00:22:35.780 But they have no political cloud. It's not, it's not the same. You know, the Anglican church

00:22:39.880 has no political cloud. It's meaningless. I do think it's meaningless, but I do think it also has

00:22:44.740 political cloud because the queen runs it. We have to move on to that. That is a, that is a good point

00:22:49.260 though, because it has in many ways, the UK and the church of England have become husks of their

00:22:54.100 former selves. And Josh may be celebrating, but I'm a little upset about it, man. Moving on to this

00:23:01.080 final question. Our pal, Matt Walsh, I think we've all seen this article floating around. He sent out

00:23:07.700 a tweet and became public enemy. Number one, Vox.com started writing hit pieces about him. And I don't

00:23:13.580 know, he's had one tweet about how ridiculous yoga is and people lose their minds. Matt Walsh says that 0.76

00:23:20.120 yoga is pagan and that Christians should not do it. Amanda, he's right, isn't he? Yoga is pagan. It 1.00

00:23:26.580 relates to Hinduism. It relates to Buddhism and Jainism. The exercise is thoroughly spiritual.

00:23:32.200 Some of the mantras that people repeat during yoga are things that say, I am the universal self or the

00:23:37.620 unit, whatever, right? The whole point of yoga is that you cannot separate the physical from the

00:23:43.480 spiritual. Why do Christians and even atheists indulge the spiritual ritual for their physical 1.00

00:23:48.940 exercise? Shouldn't we just all do Pilates or something instead?

00:23:53.700 I pretty much agree with Matt Walsh on everything. I'm very extreme, just like he is open about it.

00:23:58.900 I know how hardcore I am. And I initially saw this because he wrote a full piece on it.

00:24:05.520 And the comments section on it is lit. If you need something to do for Friday night, read that.

00:24:10.100 But at first, I was like, okay, this is a little extreme. This is like a stretch. But then I read his

00:24:16.860 arguments. And lo and behold, I'm just as extreme as Matt Walsh. It's definitely rooted in paganism.

00:24:24.300 And if you I remember when I was in college, I was on the soccer team, and they made us take a yoga

00:24:28.600 class. And I remember like being uncomfortable because it was so spiritual. There are like,

00:24:34.200 it's not like it's totally like detached from this. It's not like, you know, like things that were

00:24:40.540 pagan in the past that have been transformed into like Christian practices. It's not like that. It still

00:24:45.500 has this very like, it's still a pagan ritual. And it still practices that in a lot of these like yoga

00:24:54.480 studios, or even if you do it on your own, I mean, a lot of the poses and the things you say,

00:25:00.600 like when you when you echo the the yogi or whatever, is pagan. So if you, I think his question

00:25:07.580 is, how does this advance your Christianity? How does this bring you closer to the kingdom of God? And

00:25:12.520 if you can't, if it doesn't, then why not choose a different exercise? That's right. And they do

00:25:18.040 the world, you're going to hell, but and they do have these different poses, they have the downward

00:25:22.780 dog and the sun salutation, and the worship ball. And some of them seem a little more demonic than

00:25:28.920 others. Josh, you are a decadent pagan, but at least you're an insightful. Why do atheists embrace this 0.97

00:25:35.340 sort of thing? Is the is the cultural fascination with yoga to play devil's advocate here, literally

00:25:41.020 devil's advocate in this case, and disagree a bit with with Amanda? Is it possible that the cultural

00:25:47.420 fascination with yoga is a good if dangerous phenomenon, in so much as it shows that self

00:25:52.860 professed atheists, and the spiritual but not religious crowd are indeed themselves longing for

00:25:59.020 the spiritual world, longing for the metaphysical world, longing for God?

00:26:04.780 I don't think that it's that complicated. I think that yoga is just a product of cross-cultural

00:26:10.060 communication. And what the yoga that's practiced in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Portland, Seattle,

00:26:15.980 is not the kind of yoga that's practiced at Hindu temples. I mean, let's let's be real. These are,

00:26:21.660 you know, millennial, you know, kombucha drinking vegetarians go in and it's just like, it's part

00:26:30.860 of their kind of like, secular ritual. It's it's stripped of all religious significance. It's not

00:26:37.660 a religious activity. And frankly, Matt Walsh's argument is ridiculous. Like, this is just a fun 0.97

00:26:43.980 little thing that millennials do for exercise. Yeah, no, worshiping Moloch is a fun little thing. No,

00:26:47.740 it's really fun to, yeah, just kneel down before Baphomet. It's so fun and little.

00:26:51.420 I do agree with you. Most of these people are just doing this sort of silly thing on their way

00:26:56.700 between kombucha breaks. But nevertheless, the point of yoga is that the physical is spiritual

00:27:03.340 and the spiritual is enfleshed. And there is a relation here. And everybody's got to serve

00:27:08.780 somebody. I think a lot of people can pretend that they're totally independent. They're totally

00:27:13.420 liberated. They're above themselves, above it all, floating in this ethereal world. And don't,

00:27:18.460 it's okay if I do something with my body or if I partake in certain activities that has no

00:27:24.780 spiritual significance or metaphorical significance or moral significance. But

00:27:28.380 they're fooling themselves because these cultural culture is insidious, right? Politics is downstream

00:27:34.860 of culture. And what you culture and cult come from the same root. And there's a relationship between

00:27:41.580 what we do in our culture and the sort of things that we think about the world and the sort of

00:27:46.220 things that we worship as a society. And that relationship should not be downplayed too much.

00:27:51.900 But listen, guys, this has been a lovely panel. It was even nice having Josh, even having you here.

00:27:57.180 It was very, very insightful from both of you. Thank you for being here. We have Josh Yasma and Amanda

00:28:02.380 Prestigiacomo. We have got to get to this day in history. But first, before we can do any of that,

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00:30:23.500 to Facebook and YouTube before we get this day in history. This is a good this day in history.

00:30:27.260 This is a providential this day in history because it's Ronald Reagan's birthday and the announcement

00:30:31.340 of the Reagan doctrine for my hundredth episode. But if you are on Facebook and YouTube,

00:30:36.060 I'm sorry, folks, you got to go to dailywire.com. We've enjoyed having you. You're probably not

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00:31:04.380 Forget about it. You get the leftist tears tumbler. Look, the Obama economy is tanking.

00:31:09.820 I don't know if I've said this enough. The Obama economy, for which Barack Obama is the sole

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00:31:35.180 It's time for This Day in History. This Day in History.

00:31:52.540 Because nature is but art unknown to thee and chance direction which thou canst not see,

00:31:56.860 on our hundredth episode on This Day in History in 1911, Ronald Reagan was born. And on this very

00:32:02.780 same day in 1985, Ronald Reagan announced his foreign policy program, the Reagan Doctrine,

00:32:08.780 which has been badly misunderstood by his political descendants. So Ronald Reagan was born a good

00:32:17.180 American boy. He grew up and became a star of film and television. I'm sorry I've lost my place.

00:32:27.260 Oh yes, he was called a dunce by the left and self-appointed elite conservatives alike. He 0.96

00:32:31.420 entered the Oval Office in an advanced age. He was divorced and remarried. He fought cultural 0.89

00:32:35.180 battles from the White House. He frequently added provocative lines to his speeches that drove his

00:32:38.700 advisors crazy. He affected tax cuts and deregulation at home and strength abroad. And he restored America's

00:32:44.300 leadership in the world after a disastrous Democrat administration. Yeah, that's where I was.

00:32:48.220 That's what I, that's what I couldn't find. That sounds kind of familiar, doesn't it? That must be

00:32:52.220 deja vu. I don't know. On this day in 1985, on his birthday, Reagan articulated the foreign policy

00:32:57.820 strategy that would come to be known as the Reagan Doctrine. He explained, quote,

00:33:01.980 freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few. It is a universal right of all God's children.

00:33:07.260 He went on, we must stand by our democratic allies and we must not break faith with those who are risking

00:33:13.100 their lives on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua to defy Soviet supported aggression and

00:33:18.860 secure rights which have been ours from birth. Support for freedom fighters is self-defense.

00:33:24.860 These lines have regularly been ridiculed in the wake of September 11th as we now fight groups of 0.79

00:33:30.060 radical Muslims who appear similar to some of the freedom fighters we once supported. Even though

00:33:34.620 really that point isn't even true. There's this left-wing suggestion that we funded Osama bin Laden in

00:33:40.300 the 1980s that's patently false. But Reagan's words are entirely true. Unfortunately, they're usually

00:33:46.300 quoted out of context. The freedom fighters risked their lives to defy Soviet supported aggression,

00:33:52.860 to defy communism, our mortal enemy. The Reagan Doctrine does not exist in the ether floating

00:33:58.940 above reality, above time and space. The Reagan Doctrine guided the country to its victory in the

00:34:03.580 Cold War. We won the Cold War. Ronald Reagan won the Cold War and now we're here and we can long for the

00:34:09.900 days of Ronald Reagan. The Gipper was a great man and the 1980s were a great time. In many ways it was

00:34:15.500 more sophisticated and it was more polite and was more civilized. But now we're in a different time

00:34:21.660 with different priorities and different challenges and different political leaders. Applying strategies

00:34:26.700 outside of their time and context can prove disastrous as we've seen in several interventions.

00:34:31.820 Longing for the good old days is the sign of a decadent culture. A healthy culture moves forward.

00:34:37.740 Ronald Reagan didn't try to solve the problems of Chester Arthur or Grover Cleveland. So too,

00:34:42.540 we should honor the Reagan legacy by living in our own time and space and applying his guiding

00:34:48.060 principles along with timeless philosophy and enduring tradition to the challenges we face today.

00:34:53.740 To quote two great men, that's the only way that we'll ever make America great again.

00:34:59.260 That's our show. That's our hundredth show. Thank you for being here. Thanks for watching for

00:35:02.380 these hundred shows. I appreciate it. I haven't been fired yet by Shapiro. That's really nice. We'll see what

00:35:06.940 happens before the 200th episode. Really, it kind of worries me, is it? Can I affect the space-time

00:35:11.980 continuum or anything? Well, we'll see. We'll see what happens. Please download this and send it to

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 06, 2018

Ep. 100 - The Obama Economy Tanks

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