The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1041 - Libs Jump Ship On Biden's Approval Rating Disaster

00:00:00.000 Just when you think President Biden has reached rock bottom, a trap door seems to open up in the

00:00:06.700 rock and send him careening even further down. Biden's approval rating has officially reached

00:00:12.760 the lowest point of his presidency. It's a dismal 30%. And his disapproval rating is all the way up

00:00:19.720 at 58%. Biden is underwater in 48 states, including California, New York, even his home

00:00:27.120 state of Delaware. The only two states in which Biden is even treading water are Hawaii and Vermont.

00:00:34.580 And even there, the numbers are pretty weak. In addition to being underwater in general throughout

00:00:40.140 almost the entire country, Biden is also underwater on virtually every issue. He's got a net negative

00:00:47.060 approval rating on race, guns, the environment, crime, Ukraine, and abortion. The only issue that

00:00:54.920 he's even slightly above water on is COVID. So expect another round of that to drop any day now.

00:01:00.080 And even there, even on COVID, he's only net positive by two points. But most people don't

00:01:06.840 vote on COVID. Most people don't vote on abortion. Most people don't vote on Ukraine. Most people vote

00:01:16.000 on issues that are more tangible and more visible, such as the economy. And even CNN,

00:01:22.880 even lib state media is admitting that the economy is in shambles.

00:01:29.540 Where do we stand right now with inflation?

00:01:32.040 Well, I think for a lot of Americans, their reality is being shaped by the really high inflation. Let's

00:01:37.340 take a look at CPI, consumer inflation. You'd have to go back to the early 80s to see the type of

00:01:42.260 levels we're seeing. The last CPI report came in at about 8.6%. Of course, we know under the hood of

00:01:47.940 that number. It's really high energy prices, really high food prices. The cost of new and

00:01:53.540 used cars have gone up. Pretty much everything broad-based has gone up. The cost of shelter

00:01:57.920 has gone up, which has some economists really concerned. So I think if you are an American

00:02:02.040 at home, it's really hard, perhaps understandably, to feel great about the economy right now, even

00:02:07.140 though there are some silver linings when you're getting hit so hard with inflation. Even personally,

00:02:12.120 Ana, I talk to economists and traders and analysts every day about this. And sometimes I find myself

00:02:17.800 shocked when I go to the grocery store and look at prices and think, wow, this costs this now? And

00:02:23.160 so it's understandable. Even the chyron on the screen, it says 88% say U.S. is on the wrong track.

00:02:30.960 That's CNN. CNN is changing its tune because no matter how left-wing the people who run the network

00:02:37.140 are, they want to make money and hold on to the handful of viewers that they have left.

00:02:42.400 They don't want to go down with Joe Biden, who despite consistent failure, refuses to change

00:02:48.660 course. There's a line from Ronald Reagan that is overused, but it's apt here in the face of such

00:02:54.660 stubborn, intractable failure from the White House. A recession is when your neighbor loses his job.

00:03:00.920 A depression is when you lose your job. And recovery is when Joe Biden loses his job.

00:03:07.120 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:16.900 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Pathfinder, who says,

00:03:22.100 watching libs fight with each other is like watching Biden on stairs. One, you know you're in for a show. 0.94

00:03:29.040 Two, it's never their fault. Three, nothing will make sense. That's very mean. That's very mean and

00:03:34.780 evocative and accurate and precise. That's the way it goes. Lest anyone accuse us of being too tough

00:03:42.500 on Mr. Biden today, I've invited on my friend, a card-carrying Democrat, Ethan Bearman, very well-known

00:03:50.880 Democrat lawyer. You've seen him on Fox News and lots of TV shows. Ethan, thank you for coming on.

00:03:57.580 Michael, look, if we weren't friends, I wouldn't be here. But here we are. And

00:04:03.340 I always appreciate you inviting me on. I mean that. So it's good to see you today. And I'm glad

00:04:09.020 you're doing well. Well, thank you for coming on. This is not even a debate. Sometimes we do these

00:04:16.780 debate kind of segments. This is not even a debate. This is me in all sincerity, in all sweet little

00:04:22.700 innocence. One, is there still an argument that Democrats can be making for Joe Biden,

00:04:31.220 whether we're talking about Joe Biden as the nominee in 2024, whether we're talking about Joe

00:04:35.020 Biden campaigning for Dems in 2022, whether we're talking about the job Joe Biden is doing? Is there

00:04:39.600 an argument that Democrats can still be making for Joe Biden? And if there is, what is it?

00:04:44.960 Yeah, I mean, I appreciate you asking the question. And I think that there's a very strong

00:04:50.240 one. First, if you ignore the endless 24-hour drumbeat since the day he was elected from

00:04:55.860 right-wing media, which only speaks negatively of him, let's be clear, he passed the infrastructure

00:05:01.740 bill. $1.2 trillion got that done that the previous president kept talking about for four

00:05:08.120 years. Joe Biden got that done. He got the Burn Pit Act passed. He actually takes care

00:05:13.820 of our military veterans, the largest expansion of VA benefits in over a generation. We have

00:05:19.920 the lowest unemployment rate. So if you're going to use that Reagan quote, people aren't losing

00:05:24.300 their jobs right now. For the most part, of course, there's always limited segments of

00:05:28.500 the economy losing their jobs. 3.6% unemployment rate lower than the previous president's lowest

00:05:36.340 unemployment rate. Let's add a really huge one into that as well. We had Russia invade an

00:05:44.760 independent, sovereign nation who is an ally we signed a 1994 treaty with called Ukraine.

00:05:52.740 And Biden pulled together the largest coalition in the West since World War II to defend in Europe,

00:06:02.080 to defend against this invasion, to send arms, to train, to send aid. We have been helping our

00:06:10.080 Ukrainian friends. I don't even think we've been helping enough, but that's my own personal

00:06:13.880 opinion. Yeah, there are huge things in Biden's favor. By the way, you missed one key poll in your

00:06:20.000 citation there, Mr. Knowles. Which poll is that? There was just a poll done, head to head, Joe Biden

00:06:26.640 against Ron DeSantis, Joe Biden against Donald Trump, Gavin Newsom, who I know you particularly

00:06:33.560 love to pick on. DeSantis and Trump, and they both beat Trump and DeSantis.

00:06:42.200 So despite the approval rating polls, despite the issues polls, you're saying, look, once they go up 0.86

00:06:49.940 against these Republicans, especially that dirty, rotten Trump, but DeSantis also, though there have 0.53

00:06:54.020 been polls like that New Hampshire poll that came out a couple of weeks ago that puts DeSantis ahead 0.97

00:06:57.820 of Joe Biden. But you say, look, you go up against the real Republicans, the Democrats are going to

00:07:02.460 win. I must push back a little bit on Ukraine. Let's not forget that Mr. Zelensky, the president

00:07:08.960 of Ukraine, did say that the immediate cause of the war in Ukraine was the easing of sanctions,

00:07:14.180 Western, specifically American sanctions, against Russia and the green lighting of the Nord Stream 2

00:07:18.460 oil pipeline. Those are Zelensky's words, not mine. That was something that Joe Biden did.

00:07:23.680 He then not only figuratively or sort of in a modest, indirect way invited Putin to invade Ukraine,

00:07:32.060 but then when he was asked, will you react if Putin invades Ukraine? He said that if it were only a

00:07:36.580 minor incursion, he wouldn't do very much, which seems to me to be a direct invitation. Regardless of

00:07:41.980 all that, yes, Biden now is governing after the coronavirus lockdowns, though he did push for some

00:07:48.660 more restrictive measures. He's still they're reopening the economy. Unemployment is low. Sure.

00:07:54.260 But surely you have to admit, Ethan, the economy, it's not it's not going well. We've got record high

00:08:00.300 inflation. We've got record high gas prices, record high food prices. It's not going well, right?

00:08:09.180 So the economy is exceptionally complex. So if we want to discuss certain key data points,

00:08:15.420 look, I was the one that went on Fox News last summer as a Democrat and said Biden is wrong

00:08:22.060 and his administration, I should say, was wrong to say that inflation was just transitory

00:08:27.380 and it didn't really mean much. So I absolutely agree that inflation is a very serious, direct issue

00:08:35.340 to individual Americans and to the economy as a whole. There is absolutely no denying that. And

00:08:40.860 anybody who does, I believe, is either just a pure partisan hack or a liar. And so I never will espouse

00:08:49.500 that statement. So I agree with you that the inflation is I. But however, somebody who works

00:08:53.660 with businesses across many sectors, as I have, I also worked in the supply chain during the epidemic,

00:09:01.040 trying to get products from China as an attorney helping people. And I'm going to just tell you

00:09:06.560 something, the pandemic dramatically. And right now, China still has lockdowns going on. And if

00:09:12.820 the overwhelming majority of our products are still coming from China, by the way, manufacturing

00:09:19.220 facility construction under Joe Biden in the United States is up 116%. So that's another victory for Joe

00:09:29.460 Biden that you haven't mentioned. We're bringing manufacturing back under Joe Biden. The carrot and

00:09:35.160 stick approach has worked. And it was Trump who put the tariffs on Chinese products, which directly

00:09:40.980 are paid for by the U.S. consumer. So the pandemic altered the global supply chain. The UK has higher

00:09:48.920 inflation. Countries around the world have higher inflation. Canada has higher inflation than the

00:09:53.740 United States right now. It's not a Joe Biden issue. It's a global issue. And Joe Biden has done things

00:10:01.200 to help the supply chain in the United States by incentivizing manufacturing companies. As I just

00:10:07.220 mentioned, manufacturing is up in the United States. He's helped the ports here on the West Coast to

00:10:11.980 move the products through faster. He did that last summer here at the Port of Long Beach and Port of Los

00:10:18.460 Angeles in particular, which are the major gateways for the East Asian products of which Americans continue

00:10:25.520 to buy. So from that perspective, Joe Biden has actually done a very good job. The reality is

00:10:31.800 inflation and corporate profits are at record highs. Remember, corporate profits, according to the Wall

00:10:38.240 Street Journal, not a left-leaning publication, are the highest they have been since the early 1960s.

00:10:44.740 So surely, Ethan, you would have to admit when we're talking about inflation, you can't have that

00:10:48.880 conversation without energy prices. It would seem pretty clear to me Joe Biden has opposed the expansion

00:10:54.060 of the most reliable sources of American energy. He shut down the oil pipelines. He shut down new

00:10:59.900 oil and gas leases in the United States. Are you saying there's no effect here? Are you saying that

00:11:05.340 had Biden not had a more open energy policy, and instead of greenlighting pipelines for Russia,

00:11:10.340 he greenlit some pipelines in the United States? Instead of shaking down Iran for oil, 0.62

00:11:14.120 he produced oil in the United States? You don't think that would have any effect? I guess we're out of

00:11:18.020 time. But on that point, I would ask this additional question, which is, if everything's

00:11:25.420 going so well for Joe Biden, why are Democrats looking so bad, historically bad, in the generic

00:11:30.780 midterm polls? Why are the Republicans looking at picking up potentially 40 to 60 seats in the House,

00:11:37.140 according to not just the right-wing polls, but the left-wing polls as well? If things are going so well

00:11:41.980 for Biden, why do the people seem to be looking to Republicans in 2022? Well, midterms, first-term

00:11:48.740 midterms are historically bad. They were for Trump as well, after holding all three houses in the,

00:11:55.140 or two houses in the executive branch. That is a common problem. And again, if we get a 24-hour

00:12:00.660 drumbeat from most outlets, including social media, remember our top posts on Facebook,

00:12:06.900 our right-wing posts from your pal in particular here at the Daily Wire.

00:12:10.380 Sure. Look, but I have to correct this a little bit. I mean, you're right. We do extremely well

00:12:14.540 on social media, especially on Facebook. But when you're talking about the Daily Wire or Dan Bongino

00:12:18.880 or a couple of other people, compared to ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington

00:12:24.740 Post, it's not even close. The vast, vast majority of social media posts that get traction are left-wing.

00:12:30.720 There are just more of those outlets. So, I mean, if your argument, Ethan, is that the media

00:12:35.620 is overwhelmingly or even close to right-wing, that seems like a difficult argument to make.

00:12:43.360 It's not. And actually, you made a statement earlier that said that the heads at CNN are so

00:12:49.680 liberal. I actually disagree with you. And I don't believe that that is an accurate statement anymore.

00:12:54.660 That might have been an accurate statement a few years ago. I don't believe it is anymore,

00:12:57.880 based on my own knowledge and experience. So, we can have that argument separately. And I thank you

00:13:04.060 for inviting me on, Michael. I really do appreciate it. And I love that we have this conversation.

00:13:08.900 Ethan, you have made the strongest argument for Joe Biden that I have heard. Truly, you have. I

00:13:14.520 think you've laid out all of the... Doesn't exactly persuade me, but I do very much appreciate you

00:13:21.160 coming on and making it. And we'll see you next time.

00:13:24.320 Thanks, Michael.

00:13:24.760 All right. Thank you, Ethan. You know, when you want to protect your nest egg in this economy,

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00:13:37.920 about the path inflation would take. I was not wrong. I was totally right. But our Treasury

00:13:43.460 Secretary, Janet Yellen, was wrong. And she admitted it. That's a quote from her. She said,

00:13:47.440 there have been unanticipated and large shocks to the economy that have boosted energy and food prices

00:13:51.660 and supply bottlenecks that have affected our economy badly that at the time I didn't fully

00:13:56.000 understand. Didn't fully understand. There you have it. Straight from the horse's mouth. Didn't

00:14:00.900 fully understand. Now, I know that right now you're probably worried about affording basic necessities

00:14:05.380 in the months to come, food, gas, shelter. But hey, she didn't know. Oopsie daisy. Not her fault,

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00:14:49.520 well right now, I truly, I think Ethan made the strongest arguments you possibly can for Joe

00:14:54.160 Biden. I don't think they're all that strong, but Ethan did a very good job of it. I don't think

00:14:58.320 they're going to work very well in the midterms, which are often bad for the incumbent party in the

00:15:02.680 White House. But right now are, if you look at the polls, are historically bad for the Democrats.

00:15:07.520 But they're making the best argument they can, and they don't really have a lot of backups for 2024

00:15:13.540 because Kamala's unpopular, Pete Buttigieg is unpopular, Liz Warren is extremely unpopular, 0.55

00:15:19.920 Laya Watha. And so it would be difficult to throw Biden under the bus because there are very few people

00:15:27.680 left. I do want to point out on this show yesterday, I didn't even mean to do this. I think I may have

00:15:33.260 killed Boris Johnson's political career yesterday. Boris Johnson, the prime minister of the

00:15:37.500 UK, you'll remember, I analyzed a clip of him yesterday, and I said, this guy, he's squishing,

00:15:43.980 he's supposed to be the conservative, but he's adopting all of the liberal language. It's so sad.

00:15:48.220 The man had so much promise, and he was a strong conservative at first, and then he totally squished,

00:15:54.480 well, hand me my Nostradamus hat, Nolstradamus hat, hand me my crystal ball, because the news just

00:16:01.240 broke. Boris Johnson has said he will step down. It's very sad. The man had so much promise.

00:16:06.780 He was so funny and right wing, but he squished. And when you squish, you lose. It's almost

00:16:13.840 inevitable. It's not even that I could predict the future. I just saw what was happening in

00:16:17.780 real time. A real lesson here for American conservatives. Do not squish. Do not try to

00:16:24.160 suck up to the left wing media. They are always going to hate you. You want to see the real proof 0.99

00:16:30.060 of this right now, is that the left wing media are going after not just Donald Trump, but they're

00:16:37.040 going after Ron DeSantis too. Here's a piece from the Washington Post. DeSantis is smarter than Trump.

00:16:45.400 That may make him more of a threat. This is by Max Boot, who's a guy who, he kind of came to some

00:16:53.120 modest prominence during the Trump years. And he pretended to be this Republican who's turned on

00:16:59.180 the Republican Party because of Donald Trump. And now all he does is support Democrats. And I said

00:17:04.840 at the time, during all those debates over never Trump and should Republicans support Trump as the

00:17:11.300 nominee, the never Trumpers said, well, this is unique. This is a unique threat to America. We can't

00:17:18.580 support Trump. He's especially bad. And they, maybe they were sincere, but they bought into a

00:17:24.040 lot of left wing propaganda. And I said, don't believe it guys. Yes. The line from the left right

00:17:30.280 now is that Trump, he's totally different. He's unlike all other Republicans. We can't support

00:17:34.800 Trump. It's okay to be a Republican, but you can't support Trump. But I said, they, they do this

00:17:39.700 every time. They do this to every Republican candidate. They're going to do it to the next Republican.

00:17:45.100 We're going to say, oh, you know, Bush, look, I didn't like Bush, but Bush was great compared to

00:17:50.380 Trump. Trump, there's no argument. Any principal person can support Trump. I said, they're going

00:17:54.180 to do it to the next one. To the next one, they're going to say, well, Trump was bad and I don't

00:17:57.920 support Trump, but you, I could understand voting for Trump, but you can't possibly vote for

00:18:02.140 DeSantis or whoever the next Republican is going to be. They do this every single time. I can't tell

00:18:08.100 you how many conversations I've had with my very well-meaning, very lovable left wing friends and

00:18:13.220 relatives. And they'll come to me. They'll concern troll me. They'll come to me on a mission of

00:18:18.060 mercy to say, Michael, Michael, listen, you know, I love you, Michael. I love you. And look,

00:18:22.420 I know you're a Republican. I'm not a Republican. Okay. I'm no Republican here,

00:18:25.800 but there are Republicans. And then there's this guy. Look, I actually, I have some respect

00:18:31.620 for some Republicans. I respect people like George H.W. Bush. Gosh, I even, I didn't like him,

00:18:39.760 but I frankly, I'd even sort of have some respect for George W. Bush compared to Trump.

00:18:44.780 This guy, he's dangerous. He's dangerous. You can't, any principled, serious man with integrity,

00:18:50.860 even if you're a Republican, I totally respect Republicans. You can't vote for Trump. That's

00:18:56.600 what they say. And they say it every single year. The formula is, look, I'm not a Republican,

00:19:02.140 Republican, but I respect, insert dead or dying Republican. Insert, I respect Republican who is

00:19:11.180 no longer a political threat, who hasn't been in the news for 20 years. Okay. And I could frankly

00:19:17.080 even understand voting for, insert the last Republican, who they all called Hitler when he

00:19:21.980 was running, but now he, now he's gone. So they don't call him Hitler anymore. I could understand

00:19:25.100 voting for him, but you, you simply cannot support, insert current Republican. They do it to all of them.

00:19:32.140 They did it to Reagan. They called Reagan a Nazi and a white supremacist and a Klansman and all the 0.92

00:19:36.940 same stuff they called Trump. And then Reagan left office and then they softened a little bit. 0.66

00:19:42.960 They went, they went after Bush. Then they, because Bush ended up losing Bush the first,

00:19:46.620 they ended up softening on Bush a little more quickly. Then they go after George W. Bush.

00:19:51.420 Remember George W. Bush was Hitler, but then John McCain was the nominee. Then John McCain was Hitler 0.53

00:19:57.320 compared to Bush. And then Mitt Romney was the nominee and Mitt Romney, oh, he beat up gay 0.99

00:20:01.880 kids. He's Hitler. He's a Nazi. He's worse. He's actually worse than Bush. And then Mitt Romney 1.00

00:20:07.580 goes away and now he simps for the Democrats. And so now Romney's good. And then, now there's

00:20:13.500 Trump. He's the unique threat. And then it gets to DeSantis. They're going to do it every single

00:20:16.340 time. You need to stop falling for that. You need to stop falling for that. And you need to just

00:20:21.100 support, you need to support the most conservative viable candidate that you possibly can,

00:20:25.840 because it's not real. If they're going to do it to DeSantis, who is theoretically everything

00:20:30.440 they should respect. He went to Ivy League schools. He's got a personal life that seems

00:20:35.600 cleaner than most politicians. I don't, you don't hear it of any big scandals coming out of Ron De

00:20:40.120 Santis. He is a serious policy wonk. He doesn't throw bombs on Twitter. He, he's just a, he's an

00:20:48.380 effective good governor. If they're going to go after him, they'll go after anybody. So just

00:20:54.200 stop buying it folks. It's so ridiculous. They do it every single time. They call Larry Elder when 0.98

00:21:02.060 he's running as the Republican candidate for governor of California, they call him the black 0.94

00:21:05.620 face of white supremacy. Okay. They do it. They do it to everyone. You don't need to believe this 0.97

00:21:11.840 stuff. Okay. They're, they're going to ratchet this up because despite Ethan's best efforts to

00:21:18.640 say that Joe Biden could very possibly win running on the infrastructure bill or whatever, it's,

00:21:24.220 that's probably not going to be the biggest motivating factor. What's going to motivate

00:21:27.820 people at the polls is record inflation and the economy and the crime, the fact that our cities

00:21:33.640 are in shambles, the fact that Biden is underwater on virtually every single issue. And so the only

00:21:38.520 option that the Democrats are going to have is to go negative. They have to go negative because there

00:21:43.560 is very little, there's really nothing positive that they can point to from their own guy. So they're

00:21:48.160 going to go negative. Don't squish. Don't throw your own guy under the bus. It's a trap. I'm like

00:21:53.200 Admiral Ackbar. It's a trap. Don't fall for it. Biden right now has managed to blame everybody.

00:22:02.280 Biden has, he's, he says the economy, it's Putin's fault. No, no, the economy, it's Trump's fault. No,

00:22:08.600 no, the economy is this guy's fault. That guy's fault. Now Joe Biden is blaming Republicans for

00:22:15.540 obstructing his wonderful, super duper popular agenda.

00:22:21.580 A lot over enough money to pay for everything you need. Well, Republicans do nothing to obstruct

00:22:27.480 our efforts to lower your gas taxes. I propose that I've asked the Congress to eliminate the

00:22:32.720 federal gas tax for the next, as long as this crisis goes on, lower food prices, lower healthcare

00:22:38.640 costs, hopefully soon lower your prescription drug costs. By the way, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta,

00:22:45.340 Republican leader in the United States Senate. I was able to work out something with intel.

00:22:51.680 Okay. So Biden is very upset because the Republicans won't pass his gas tax cut

00:23:00.700 in the Congress because the Republicans control the Congress, right? Oh wait, no, they don't. Joe

00:23:06.120 Biden has unified government. Joe Biden has completely unified government. He has the House

00:23:10.380 of Representatives. He has the Senate. He could pass these things if they were, if they were popular

00:23:16.660 among Democrats, if he weren't cramming them in to a bunch of other stupid legislation that has nothing 0.99

00:23:23.040 to do with getting rid of, with lowering the gas tax. Do you really think that Republicans would oppose 0.98

00:23:26.960 lowering the gas tax? No. Some Democrats might oppose lowering the gas tax, but the Republicans won't.

00:23:33.080 You can't blame the Republicans for this kind of obstruction when you've got unified government,

00:23:39.420 man. You can't do it. It's much more plausible for Joe Biden to blame Putin for all of his problems.

00:23:45.080 And that's ridiculous too. You just, but they're, they're running out of options. So you're going to

00:23:50.060 see this campaign get way, way more negative. The New York Times has a piece out right now on a

00:23:55.600 congress, Congressman Mayra Flores. She is a Latina Republican from Texas. She's actually from Mexico. 1.00

00:24:04.240 I think she's the first Mexican born lady to serve in, in the Congress. She was the first Republican

00:24:10.820 to represent her district in about a bazillion years. And so of course the libs are really going

00:24:15.940 after her. They say it's the rise of the far right Latina, very far right Latina. What makes her far 0.89

00:24:22.960 right? I don't know. I can't find very much that makes her all that far right. She's a conservative.

00:24:28.040 She's not some fringe person. They, they haven't managed to call her a Klansman or anything or to

00:24:32.360 call her a neo-Nazi quite yet, though I'm sure they're trying to. But she's just a, she's a regular

00:24:37.420 Republican conservative who is a conservative and is not a big squish. They, they try to tie her in 1.00

00:24:43.960 with all sorts of kooky things on the internet. They said that she has posted about QAnon. They said

00:24:51.340 when asked about QAnon, Ms. Flores denied ever having supported the conspiracy theory,

00:24:56.740 which claims that a group of Satan worshiping elites who run a child sex ring is trying to

00:25:01.820 control the government and the media. Where would she ever get a crazy idea like that? You know, 0.82

00:25:08.120 where would she, it would be so hard to get a crazy idea like that because all of Jeffrey Epstein's

00:25:12.360 black books are under lock and key by the governments. All the ones that talk about the

00:25:16.700 most powerful people in the world going and having sex with children on his James Bond villain private 0.80

00:25:22.080 island. Yeah, it's so weird. I don't know where she would have gotten an idea like that, but she 0.98

00:25:24.720 doesn't even support that idea. She doesn't even support that. So she's, she is going to be the far

00:25:31.340 right extreme. She's Hitler and DeSantis is Hitler and Trump was Hitler and everybody's Hitler. 0.86

00:25:38.280 Everybody, they're a grave threat to our sacred democracy, except for BLM when they burn the country 1.00

00:25:43.680 down. That's totally fine. Except for Antifa, except for Chuck Schumer, when he says, we're coming for

00:25:48.120 you, Kavanaugh, and then someone goes and tries to assassinate him. And yeah, except for that's,

00:25:52.240 that's not a threat to our sacred democracy. What the, what the conservatives are doing, that is,

00:25:58.060 that is all of this to say, all of this to say, fortune favors the bold. It ties right back in with

00:26:05.580 the Boris Johnson point. Fortune favors the bold here. I'm not saying you got to be reckless. I'm not

00:26:11.500 saying you need to be some eccentric, total kook or crank, but right now the Democrats are underwater

00:26:17.920 on everything. Democrat policies are failing. Ordinary Americans, not just Republicans, but

00:26:24.320 people in the middle, old school liberals, people who are not very political are disgusted by what

00:26:28.780 the Democrats are doing. They are supporting abortion up until the moment of birth, sometimes

00:26:33.940 after birth. They support transing little kids and taking them to drag bars and strip clubs. 1.00

00:26:38.240 They are destroying the value of your dollar. They're making it very difficult to fill up your

00:26:43.300 gas tank and feed your family. They've led, they have allowed the first major war in Europe since

00:26:48.820 World War II to take place. They've allowed a flood of record numbers of illegal aliens. The list goes 0.70

00:26:54.940 on and on and on. If you want to win, what do you think is going to be a more successful strategy?

00:27:03.280 Pointing out that everything they touch turns to ash, and you're going to offer a clear alternative,

00:27:08.080 a choice, not an echo, and you're going to run on that. Or trying to be a really nice guy and say,

00:27:13.700 Joe Biden's actually not that bad. He's actually a genuinely good man. That's what Mitt Romney said

00:27:17.660 the other day, the squish extraordinaire. Mitt Romney said, you know, look, Trump, he's really bad.

00:27:22.420 He wrote an essay on July 4th in The Atlantic, liberal essay in a liberal publication on July 4th,

00:27:28.360 on the 4th of July, by a nominally Republican senator saying that Trump is evil and Joe Biden's a

00:27:33.920 genuinely good man. I don't think Joe Biden's a genuinely good man. I think he's a nasty,

00:27:37.720 nasty fellow. I think you can see the marks of his awful character anywhere you look, up to and 0.99

00:27:44.380 including most recently, the fact that he refuses to acknowledge one of his own grandchildren who's

00:27:48.780 living under threats at the moment. He won't even acknowledge who she is. But there's so many

00:27:53.700 other knocks on the man's personal character. And he says, no, he's a genuinely good man.

00:27:58.120 It's not true. And second of all, do you really think in a year where the Democrats are so extremely

00:28:03.600 unpopular, you're going to win by saying, actually, those people who are screwing up your lives,

00:28:08.120 they're not so bad. We should, we should kind of meet in the middle. Don't you think? Don't you

00:28:12.380 think? I don't think so. I don't think that's a good idea. I don't think it's going to work.

00:28:15.900 Is really, really bad stuff coming out of the Democrat party right now, especially

00:28:21.500 the New York Times mentions the, uh, Satan worshiping pedophile ring. The pedo stuff has 0.99

00:28:27.540 gotten, it's, it's become undeniable from the left. Washington state right now, Washington state

00:28:34.040 school board director is offering sex ed classes at her sex shop. A director of the school board

00:28:40.040 owns a sex shop and she's offering sex ed classes, not just on the birds and the bees and how babies are 0.98

00:28:46.440 made, but on sexual pleasure, on pleasuring yourself to nine year olds, to nine year olds. 0.98

00:28:54.040 Her name is Jen Mason. She was the former school board president. She's a sex educator and owner 1.00

00:28:59.220 of Wink Wink in Bellingham. She is offering at her identity inclusive sex shop classes for kids as

00:29:08.080 young as nine that deal with quote, sexual anatomy for pleasure and reproduction and quote, safer sex

00:29:14.280 practices for all kinds of sexual activities. This after in the same town, uh, last year in a first

00:29:20.260 grade class, a teacher decided to teach her six year old students about the values of transgenderism

00:29:26.120 and read the book. I am jazz, which is a book about a two year old trans transgender baby, a baby two

00:29:34.140 years old. Who's a boy who identifies as a girl. It's, it's not even just in Portland or San Francisco or

00:29:41.720 Los Angeles or Greenwich village or anything like that. Even in ostensibly conservative places, you

00:29:47.340 are seeing the left push a deviant, radical, pedophilic, call it what it is, pedo sexual agenda. 0.99

00:29:56.740 You're even seeing this kind of stuff in Nashville, which we'll get to in one second. First though, 0.98

00:30:02.160 in the last week, the left tried to cancel both the 4th of July and our newest daily wire plus team

00:30:08.820 member Jordan Peterson on both fronts. They failed harder than Joe Biden on a bicycle. That's not

00:30:14.060 nice. Who writes this copy? That's not nice because no matter how much Twitter blue checks

00:30:19.200 complain, independence day, burgers and fireworks, they're not going anywhere. And neither is Jordan

00:30:24.060 Peterson nowhere. He's not going anywhere, baby. His new series, dragons, monsters, and men is out

00:30:29.820 right now exclusively on daily wire plus it's being met with rave reviews. It is Jordan. Like you've

00:30:35.160 never seen him before. Take a look. One of the things I tell young men, well, and young women as

00:30:41.240 well, but the young men really need to hear this more. I think you should be a monster, an absolute 0.98

00:30:46.500 monster, and then you should learn how to control it. So a man who's capable of aggression, but has 0.97

00:30:53.600 it under control is a way more useful man than one who cannot do that. And so you're willing to go get a

00:30:59.460 job, but you're terrified of an interview. It's like, there's a dragon for you because you want to

00:31:04.500 fight the dragons that guard the gates of the treasure that you wish to attain.

00:31:10.700 The productivity requires aim, orientation, responsibility, discipline, that willingness to

00:31:17.900 work, that willingness to make sacrifices, which is the hallmark of maturity in the service of a higher

00:31:23.120 goal. It orients you solidly in the world if you do that, and it gives you a dragon to fight.

00:31:28.880 What do you want to grow up? You want to be illiterate? You want to be inarticulate?

00:31:36.940 You're going to have to negotiate. You're going to have to lead. You're going to have to convince.

00:31:41.880 You're going to have to think to say to an 18-year-old, you're okay the way you are. That just deflates

00:31:49.080 them. You know, when you go to the gym and you start lifting weights, well, your body's going to

00:31:55.300 transform, but it's not going to do that if you just sit around. You have to face your being with

00:32:00.060 the necessity of transformation, and then all sorts of new things that you had no idea you were capable

00:32:05.200 of will make themselves manifest. Those are the dragons, you know, the ones that stand in the path

00:32:11.200 that leads to the light. And you have to say to yourself, I will do good nonetheless. Everyone

00:32:20.820 great makes that decision. Make that decision, because maybe you're great.

00:32:26.880 In this four-part series, Jordan gives sage advice for embracing and improving upon one's nature to

00:32:42.720 achieve greatness. You can become a member by going to dailywireplus.com. Right now, you get 35%

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00:32:53.100 Jordan Peterson's new show. We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:32:56.880 Just when you think it is safe to go back in the water that is turning the frickin' frogs gay, 1.00

00:33:15.760 you find out, no, the problems are occurring here as well. I thought when I left LA, I'd leave all the 0.95

00:33:22.140 crazy, radical, bizarre, sexual, consistently pedo left-wing politics behind. No more drag queen 1.00

00:33:32.640 story hours and deviants twerking for five-year-olds. Well, you get to Nashville, even Nashville. I love

00:33:40.720 Nashville. I love Tennessee. I'm so glad I moved here. It's great. But these crazy radicals follow

00:33:47.760 you. They're going everywhere. They're really targeting, actually, left-wing places. I just got 0.99

00:33:52.500 a tip yesterday from the Nashville Pamphleteer, which is a conservative paper in Nashville.

00:33:59.260 The Belcourt Theater, which is an indie, bougie film center here in Nashville, is hosting someone

00:34:06.240 to kick off their queer cinema series. His name is Alak Vaid Manan. I don't know if that's his real name or

00:34:13.680 some invented thing. He is a transvestite. He's a hulking dude who wears dresses and all sorts of 1.00

00:34:18.900 crazy clothing. That's not even the big problem here. The big problem is he said really disturbing

00:34:24.240 things about little kids and sex. So this guy, Alak Vaid Manan, has said, quote,

00:34:32.580 I believe in the radical notion that little girls are complicated people. There are no fairy tales and

00:34:38.620 no princesses here. Little girls are trans, queer, kinky, devious, kind, mean, beautiful, ugly, 1.00

00:34:48.640 tremendous, and peculiar. Your kids aren't as straight and narrow as you think they are. Like 1.00

00:34:55.260 everybody else, I've been a cute little girl. It just gets creepier and it just gets creepier and

00:35:02.460 then you get to that, I've been a cute little girl, this hulking, hairy dude wearing a dress, 0.64

00:35:07.320 talking about how little girls, little tiny girls are actually kinky and devious. Defending men going 1.00

00:35:15.640 into the girls' bathrooms, saying all this transgender, the fears of transgender politics,

00:35:22.660 it's totally made up. It's totally fine if grown husky men go in and go into the girls' locker room 0.97

00:35:28.500 and change in front of your girls. They're not perverts. They're not, oh, by the way, little girls 1.00

00:35:32.540 are kinky according to him. Why is the Belcourt Theater in Nashville hosting a sexual deviant who 0.99

00:35:42.460 describes little girls as kinky? And it's, he says that little girls can be mean. That's true. He says 1.00

00:35:50.360 little girls can be tremendous. Yeah, sure. Little girls can be devious and kinky and queer, 1.00

00:35:57.180 says this deviant who believes that he is a little girl. You hear this, by the way, from 0.99

00:36:04.160 convicted pedos a lot, that these sorts of things where they'll say, no, I'm just like these little

00:36:08.780 kids. I'm just like these little girls. I'm just like, it's so disturbing. And this guy is being

00:36:14.940 invited to host a public event at the movie. We shouldn't have that. This guy should be getting

00:36:21.100 treatment for his obvious psychiatric diseases. This guy should not be allowed within 300 yards

00:36:28.240 of little kids. This guy, we should not, as a society, tolerate this anywhere. And we certainly

00:36:35.940 should not do that in a conservative place. Nashville itself is two to one Democrat, but the

00:36:42.360 Democrats here, they're generally very nice. They're generally reasonable. It's a very, very red state

00:36:47.060 here in Tennessee. We do not need to tolerate this. We can just say no. And if you are a member

00:36:55.100 of the Belcourt Theater, if you live near the Belcourt Theater, I would call them and tell them

00:36:58.500 to disinvite this guy. This guy should not be encouraged to do these sorts of things. He should

00:37:05.100 be treated with the compassion he needs, which is to go get treatment and be kept away from society

00:37:13.420 until he gets a little bit better. We don't, we don't need to come into the middle on this stuff.

00:37:19.660 We don't need to reconcile. We don't need to be really nice, squishy, conciliatory Republicans and

00:37:25.380 say, well, you know, look, I don't, I don't think three-year-old girls are kinky. Only eight-year-old 0.98

00:37:31.660 girls are sire. Listen, I don't think that men should be twerking for kids at the public library.

00:37:38.880 Maybe they can just shimmy and jiggle. No, there's no meeting in the middle here, man. There's no,

00:37:42.920 there's no splitting the baby. It's just wrong. It's disgusting. We all know it's wrong and

00:37:47.440 disgusting. We don't need to tolerate it. Keep these people out of the public and keep them away 1.00

00:37:53.780 from kids. All right. It's not, it's not that complicated and there's no first amendment

00:37:58.020 protection for this weirdo to go present queer cinema month and talk about kinky little girls. 0.98

00:38:04.200 Okay. Don't have to do it. The wind is at our sails. The political winds are against these people 0.89

00:38:11.360 and the party that welcomes them, the Democrat party. Take the advantage, press the advantage.

00:38:17.700 Don't give an inch. Republicans are feeling emboldened right now. There was an ad that went

00:38:22.060 viral yesterday. This is from a guy, Jerome Davidson, who's running for Congress in Arizona.

00:38:29.880 Take a listen.

00:38:30.520 Democrats like to say that no one needs an AR-15 for self-defense, that no one could possibly need

00:38:39.440 all 30 rounds. But when this rifle is the only thing standing between your family

00:38:45.720 and a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods, you just might need that semi-automatic

00:38:53.360 in all 30 rounds.

00:39:02.280 This is a really clever ad and it's, it's a clever ad, not just for the reasons that everyone

00:39:08.140 is talking about. It's red meat. Yeah, you go get them. You go. Yeah, that's right. This

00:39:12.720 is, we're defending guns. We're calling Democrats racist. Yeah, baby, this is great. It's not,

00:39:17.940 it's not just clever for that reason. Frankly, I actually think the whole Democrats are the real

00:39:23.460 racists line is a little bit overused and the constant hearkening back to the antebellum South

00:39:28.640 and referring to the Democrats as the party of the Klan. Sure, it's true. Democrats are the party 1.00

00:39:33.600 of the Klan, but it seems a little cheap to me. And here's why it seems cheap to me. And it's actually

00:39:39.840 why this ad is so clever. And it's why the Ku Klux Klan is a safe subject for this ad. 0.83

00:39:45.520 The Ku Klux Klan doesn't exist. Practically speaking, there is no such thing as the Ku Klux

00:39:52.000 Klan. There have been multiple groups in US history that have called themselves the Ku Klux

00:39:57.100 Klan, none of which exist today. It's gone. It's a boogeyman. It's not real. When you fear political

00:40:04.280 violence in your community or anywhere else in the country, do you think it's going to come from the

00:40:10.120 Ku Klux Klan from people wearing hoods? No, of course not. It's going to come from the left,

00:40:16.460 almost certainly. But it's going to come from Antifa, or it's going to come from BLM,

00:40:21.720 or it's going to come from other left. It's going to come from Ruth Sentas or the other anti-pro-life

00:40:28.400 groups, anti-pro-life, pro-abortion groups. It's going to come from left-wing militants,

00:40:32.700 but it's not the Klan. The reason this is such a clever ad is that everybody hates the Klan.

00:40:41.020 It's a totally unifying symbol. It's a symbol of an evil that isn't even real anymore. It's of a

00:40:48.840 boogeyman, so people can unite around that. It does draw the historical connection between the

00:40:53.320 Democrat Party and the Ku Klux Klan. It does point out that Second Amendment is not some

00:40:59.760 buttress of white supremacy and the patriarchy and the Republicans and the conservatives. No,

00:41:07.520 actually, vulnerable people, minority groups or women who are physically more vulnerable than men,

00:41:15.000 they actually benefit much more from the Second Amendment because it's an equalizer

00:41:18.800 against angry mobs that might show up to your house or against people who are physically bigger

00:41:24.600 and stronger than you. It's clever for that reason. It's a reminder, too, of something that

00:41:30.300 I've said for years. I think this is the proof of something that I've said for years now, which is

00:41:33.680 that today in America, our public discourse has become so shallow that the only way we can talk

00:41:41.760 about evil is as racism. Racism is not only the greatest evil in the country, it's really the only

00:41:49.720 evil. And so when we want to really attack, it's the worst thing you can be called in America is to

00:41:54.000 be called a racist. And so whenever we want to attack someone, if you really want to hit them,

00:41:58.380 you call them a racist, even when what they're doing has nothing to do with race. Democrats will

00:42:04.620 accuse Republicans of racism for wanting to cut taxes or wanting to reform schools or wanting to 0.85

00:42:09.760 save black babies. When we overrule Roe v. Wade and we make it more difficult and pass pro-life

00:42:15.120 laws and make it more difficult to have abortions, that will disproportionately save black lives. It 0.56

00:42:20.900 will increase the black and Hispanic portions of the population. And somehow the libs call that

00:42:26.080 racist as well. It's the only way that we can view things. And the only way that we can view the

00:42:31.500 struggle between good and evil in American history is through the lens of the civil rights movement.

00:42:35.840 And that has been true for a long time. Chris Caldwell wrote a very good book to this effect a few

00:42:40.120 years ago called The Age of Entitlement. After the Civil Rights Act and after the Great Society,

00:42:45.500 that represented not merely some new law that was being passed, but it represented a kind of

00:42:50.220 revolution in America and in the way that we think of ourselves. And so what's so brilliant about this

00:42:55.360 ad is that Jerome Davidson is plugging into that. He's saying, look, this is what is going to resonate.

00:43:02.600 This is how Americans view themselves. So I am going to put myself there. It's the same reason that

00:43:07.460 candidates wave flags, wave the flag of it, wrap yourself in the flag is because we know that those

00:43:12.320 symbols resonate with people. And in America today, for everybody, the Ku Klux Klan is one of,

00:43:21.120 if not the highest representations of evil. Racism is evil. The two are synonymous. And civil rights is

00:43:27.700 the struggle. It is the struggle for liberation. Now, speaking of civil rights, everyone's trying to apply

00:43:35.180 the black civil rights movement to their own groups. This was a strategy undertaken by the left

00:43:41.920 during the 1970s. They saw how effective civil rights was for black people. They said, okay, 0.60

00:43:47.660 we're going to use this for Hispanic people. We're going to use this for Asian people. We're going to

00:43:52.780 use this for women, second wave feminism. It never made any sense because black people actually are a 1.00

00:43:58.900 unique circumstance in America. The fact that lots and lots of black people, the majority of black

00:44:04.760 people who are in America have some descent from slavery and that their ancestors were brought over

00:44:10.420 in chains is different than any other group. Hispanics can claim oppression. The Italians and 0.97

00:44:16.040 the Irish, I guess, can claim oppression. The Asians can claim oppression. But those groups chose to 1.00

00:44:21.240 come to America. And for black people, it's different. So it gives black people and, I mean, 0.99

00:44:25.840 obviously there are black immigrants from Africa who came after slavery. But for black people as a

00:44:30.360 group, that creates a unique historical circumstance. And groups like the Ford Foundation

00:44:34.400 and other left-wing institutions decided that they were going to blur those distinctions and try to

00:44:38.380 apply the ethos of civil rights to all of these other groups. And it worked pretty well. Now,

00:44:44.640 even to the point that we're talking about the civil rights against oppression for homosexuals or

00:44:50.240 transgenders, though it's the same thing as breaking free from chattel slavery and Jim Crow.

00:44:55.180 So it's the same thing now as breaking free from your bounds of biology and dresses and stiletto

00:45:01.780 heels. So BuzzFeed, you understand that the Ellen Page saga that has dominated our public discourse for

00:45:09.600 the past few days, the idea that Ellen Page, this actress, now goes by the name Elliot and doesn't

00:45:13.680 want to be called Ellen anymore. This created a big stir on Twitter because now if you call Ellen Page

00:45:20.620 Ellen, you can be booted off. It happened to Jordan Peterson. It happened to Dave Rubin for even

00:45:24.760 reporting on Jordan Peterson. Well, BuzzFeed then came back and said, wait, wait a second, Twitter,

00:45:29.800 you violated your own rules against hate speech because in your trending topics bar, you used the

00:45:36.360 phrase Helen, Helen, Ellen Page. Because people were talking about Ellen Page, Ellen Page trended.

00:45:42.900 But according to your own rules, Ellen Page can't trend because that name, this actress's name 1.00

00:45:47.200 is hate speech because the actress doesn't want to go by Ellen anymore. And then do you know what 1.00

00:45:51.560 Twitter did because we're living all the way through the looking glass in clown world? Twitter

00:45:56.000 apologized and said, you're right. We can't allow a woman's name to trend. That woman's name is hate 1.00

00:46:04.600 speech. What does this represent? If Ellen Page tomorrow came out and said, hey, I'm Ellen again. 0.51

00:46:12.320 Do you know what's so crazy? They would have to get rid of Elliot because Elliot would then become

00:46:19.500 her dead name. They call it a dead name when a person decides to pretend to be a member of the

00:46:26.540 opposite sex and change his name. And then the name that that person had gone by for his entire life

00:46:32.860 goes away and you're not allowed to even utter it anymore. That's pretty crazy, right? Especially

00:46:37.680 because they could change the name back and then it's the other one that goes away. What this represents

00:46:41.440 is something much bigger than transgenderism or even sexual politics. It represents the left's broader

00:46:48.700 rejection of the past. Everything that came before is evil and awful and oppressive. We need to

00:46:55.560 liberate ourselves from the past. Past is always evil. The present is always a crisis and the future

00:47:00.520 is always going to be a utopia just so long as you give us a little bit more power. That's the pitch

00:47:05.600 that the left makes. And you see it so clearly in the idea of dead naming. Even one's own personal past,

00:47:12.940 even one's own past identity can no longer be acknowledged. It's not just tearing down statues

00:47:22.060 of old dead people. It's not just even rewriting the history books. It's your own past that now has

00:47:28.480 to be completely denied in what is a kind of pseudo-religious sacrament. In Christianity,

00:47:34.900 you have baptism where the old man is washed away and you now put on the garment of Christ and you have a

00:47:40.540 new life in Christ. Well, that's what you have in a perverse way, in a sacrilegious way, through the

00:47:45.840 transgender coming out. You cast off your old name. You cast off your old identity and that is dead now. 1.00

00:47:51.900 And now you have this new identity in sexual delusion. It runs really, really deep. It touches

00:47:57.600 on all of the bizarre, perverse eccentricities of leftism. It goes a lot deeper than just some

00:48:04.880 actress. It's really weird. I think it's turning a lot of people off. I think people are waking up to

00:48:09.120 how bizarre not just this weird sexual ideology is, but the entire leftist agenda. The wind is

00:48:14.860 at our sails. I hope that Ellen and Elliot and all the pages and all this weirds and the Belcourt

00:48:20.520 theater and all this craziness, I hope it continues to trend all the way to November. Press the

00:48:26.060 advantage. The wind is at our sails. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you

00:48:30.500 tomorrow.

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00:49:19.800 Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, Democrats begin openly talking about dumping Joe Biden in favor

00:49:24.800 of other candidates. The media are out to police misinformation while still purveying it.

00:49:28.640 And we meet some new, fresh Democratic faces making waves. That's today on The Ben Shapiro Show. Give it a listen.

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Ep. 1041 - Libs Jump Ship On Biden's Approval Rating Disaster

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