The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1047 - Trump's Huge Announcement

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00:00:27.260 I think I figured out why the economy is in total collapse,

00:00:30.980 and most people are much poorer than we were three years ago.

00:00:34.960 Turns out, the Biden administration doesn't know anything about business.

00:00:40.920 And I don't mean that in a cheap, political shot kind of way.

00:00:44.320 I mean that in a quantifiable, indisputable kind of way.

00:00:48.700 A new report from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity has just revealed that the top

00:00:53.620 68 officials in the Biden administration have spent an average of 2.4 years in the business

00:01:01.400 world.

00:01:01.840 These are the top guys in the administration, 2.4 years.

00:01:05.320 Of those 68 people, just eight of them can claim extensive business experience, and gets

00:01:13.520 even better, the median length of business experience among Biden's top officials is zero.

00:01:22.260 Zero years.

00:01:24.140 Now, I am not one of those people who thinks that the government should be run exactly like

00:01:28.800 a business.

00:01:29.400 I don't think that.

00:01:30.120 The government is not a business.

00:01:31.900 There is more to politics than just profits and efficiency and GDP.

00:01:35.880 But don't you think the people running our country should know something about how the economy

00:01:43.520 actually works?

00:01:44.660 Have some practical, first-hand experience with it?

00:01:48.540 Our last president had spent his whole career in business, and he hired lots of business people,

00:01:54.180 and what do you know, they spent their time making America's business run better.

00:01:59.320 Our current president has spent his entire career in left-wing politics, and he's hired lots

00:02:04.760 of leftist ideologues, and what do you know, they spend their time trying to expand abortion

00:02:11.000 and trans all the kids, and watch the economy completely collapse. 0.53

00:02:15.440 None of this should come as any surprise.

00:02:18.500 Personnel is policy, and as long as these people are running the show, do not expect things

00:02:24.660 to improve.

00:02:25.800 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:26.620 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:27.480 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:35.020 My favorite comment yesterday is from Janelle Austring, who says,

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00:02:45.740 Either the ads, the targeted ads from the social media algorithms are getting much,

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00:02:54.380 You know, all nature is but art unknown to thee, all chance direction which thou canst not

00:02:58.400 see.

00:02:58.920 Maybe it's a little bit of both.

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00:04:29.300 Every day, I feel like this is my opening every single day, and it's because every single

00:04:33.760 day, things get even worse for Joe Biden.

00:04:35.780 We keep talking about the lowest approval ratings ever.

00:04:37.960 Actually, scratch that.

00:04:38.860 And now the lowest approval ratings ever.

00:04:40.620 Actually, scratch that.

00:04:41.760 There's a new poll out from Yahoo News and YouGov that shows that.

00:04:47.400 I'll ask you before I get, I don't want to give it away yet.

00:04:49.940 What percentage of Americans do you think want Joe Biden to run for re-election?

00:04:53.920 This is all Americans, but this is the guy who allegedly was elected with more votes than

00:04:57.960 ever in the whole history of democracy.

00:05:00.820 What percentage of Americans want the incumbent president to run for re-election?

00:05:05.500 What would you guess?

00:05:06.200 Maybe you'd say, I don't know, if things are bad, 40 percent.

00:05:09.360 Things are really bad, 30 percent.

00:05:12.200 18.

00:05:14.020 18 percent of Americans, less than one in five Americans, wants the president to run for

00:05:20.160 re-election.

00:05:21.080 Yahoo describes this as the lowest number to date.

00:05:23.620 This reflects a seven point drop, a seven percentage point drop from the number of Americans

00:05:29.680 who wanted him to run for re-election in May.

00:05:32.480 That was two months ago.

00:05:34.360 And even worse news, perhaps, for Biden, even worse than the people turning on him and the

00:05:39.800 people not wanting him to run for re-election.

00:05:42.540 CNN doesn't seem to want him to run for re-election either.

00:05:46.520 Anderson Cooper ran a devastating segment on CNN about Biden.

00:05:51.560 We've decided to release the Kraken tonight.

00:05:54.400 Joining me is our favorite and only CNN senior data reporter, Harry Enten.

00:05:58.900 How does President Biden stack up against other presidents at this time in administrations?

00:06:02.440 Yeah, so we can look at both Joe Biden's disapproval rating on inflation and Joe Biden's disapproval

00:06:09.180 rating overall.

00:06:10.580 And what we see is his disapproval rating on inflation is topping 70 percent.

00:06:14.860 His disapproval rating overall is still in the 50s.

00:06:17.180 But if you compare that to every single other president at this point in the first term throughout polling history,

00:06:24.180 this goes all the way back since the 1940s.

00:06:26.460 He is the worst on both.

00:06:29.320 And the reason he is the worst overall is because inflation is eating his presidency alive at this point.

00:06:35.180 Am I watching the Daily Wire?

00:06:37.280 Am I watching the Michael Knowles show?

00:06:39.040 Oh, no, I'm watching CNN and Anderson Cooper.

00:06:41.460 But they are being harsher toward Biden than sometimes even I am, than the right wing media are.

00:06:47.700 Why is this?

00:06:48.320 It's not a complicated issue.

00:06:50.520 It's because the libs, not just the regular rank and file lib voters, but the liberal leaders and the liberal intellectuals 0.72

00:06:58.040 and the liberal communicators, they all know that Biden is a dead man walking.

00:07:01.700 They know his presidency is a disaster.

00:07:03.500 And they know that in a fair election, his odds of winning re-election are the odds of a snowball in hell.

00:07:10.460 So they realize, gosh, we've got to change course.

00:07:13.420 We need some new candidate.

00:07:14.600 We need him to not run for re-election.

00:07:15.960 We need him to get behind some other candidate.

00:07:18.900 Who that candidate is, we don't know.

00:07:20.340 Kamala Harris would probably be a disaster. 1.00

00:07:22.360 Buttigieg is never going to happen.

00:07:24.020 Maybe Gavin Newsom.

00:07:25.340 Maybe some candidate that we're not even aware of yet.

00:07:27.680 But whatever it is, we can't have Biden.

00:07:29.600 These numbers are just abysmal.

00:07:32.180 And it gives Republicans a huge opportunity.

00:07:34.840 And this is where things get really spicy and saucy.

00:07:38.440 Because the Republicans have what would appear to be the most winnable election,

00:07:43.080 maybe in my lifetime, that they've got in front of them.

00:07:46.180 But there's this big wild card.

00:07:48.540 There is this big elephant in the room.

00:07:51.020 A big lion in the room, if you ask me.

00:07:54.120 Mr. Covfefe himself, Donald Trump.

00:07:56.620 Will Trump run or not?

00:07:59.340 If you believe the polls, take them with a grain of salt, of course.

00:08:03.400 Trump does not do very well against a Democrat,

00:08:07.980 against Joe Biden or other Democrats,

00:08:10.000 compared to other candidates who've been floated, such as Ron DeSantis.

00:08:14.420 Again, that may be true.

00:08:15.680 That may not be true.

00:08:16.720 I don't believe those polls at the moment.

00:08:18.640 I just think, one, it's too early.

00:08:20.220 And two, I don't really trust the libs when it comes to Donald Trump in particular.

00:08:25.540 Because they hate this guy.

00:08:27.180 And the fact that they hate this guy so much is one of the reasons that I like the guy so much.

00:08:32.000 A liberal magazine, New York magazine, just did an interview with Trump.

00:08:35.440 And according to the magazine, they seem to suggest that Trump is going to run in 2024.

00:08:44.120 The interviewer asked him, when are you going to make a decision?

00:08:47.520 And he said, I've already made my decision.

00:08:49.560 That's done.

00:08:50.340 I've already made my decision.

00:08:52.400 But again, that's kind of ambiguous.

00:08:54.820 Does that mean he's decided he's not going to run,

00:08:57.200 but he's going to keep leading people on to believe that he's going to run

00:09:00.120 so that he can maintain some influence in the party?

00:09:02.700 But then later on in the interview, the interviewer says he kind of loosened up

00:09:07.640 and he made clear he is running.

00:09:09.960 And he said, the only question now is,

00:09:11.200 do I declare before the midterms or after the midterms?

00:09:14.780 Again, the way I'm reading his literal words,

00:09:18.460 I think he still leaves himself some ambiguity.

00:09:21.360 But if people were taking bets today,

00:09:24.320 it would be very hard to make the case that it seems like Trump is not running.

00:09:28.780 He is doing and saying everything that someone would do or say

00:09:33.560 if he were running for president.

00:09:35.260 And he's got every reason to run.

00:09:37.660 He feels he was jilted the last time.

00:09:40.260 He didn't get to complete his second term.

00:09:42.440 He's still extremely popular.

00:09:44.160 He's leading the field by, what, 40 points now?

00:09:46.920 The only thing cutting against him is his age.

00:09:49.200 And I know it's popular now to say that

00:09:50.980 older people should not run for president. 1.00

00:09:53.660 I don't think there should be an age cutoff.

00:09:55.600 Elon Musk recently said no one over the age of 69 should run for president.

00:09:59.120 And I think it was mostly because he wanted to make a joke about the number 69.

00:10:02.000 But I don't think that's true.

00:10:03.500 I think it's entirely dependent on the person.

00:10:05.820 Ronald Reagan famously said he's not going to make age an issue of his campaign

00:10:09.720 and he's not going to exploit for political purposes

00:10:12.080 his opponent's relative youth and inexperience.

00:10:16.500 Ronald Reagan was the oldest man we had ever elected president.

00:10:19.660 And he's one of the best presidents in recent American history.

00:10:22.840 And so it's entirely dependent on the person.

00:10:24.320 Joe Biden is now the oldest man who's ever been elected president.

00:10:27.280 And he doesn't know his own name.

00:10:28.460 And he doesn't know what end is up.

00:10:30.040 So I think you've got to make that calculation,

00:10:32.260 not based on some arbitrary number, but on the man.

00:10:35.100 And if you look at Donald Trump, love him or hate him,

00:10:37.520 the guy is still totally with it.

00:10:39.820 He's still totally full of energy.

00:10:41.920 He's campaigning like a much, much younger candidate.

00:10:44.860 Even now, he's going out and campaigning for midterm candidates.

00:10:48.440 And he was asked about age during the 2020 race.

00:10:51.560 And he said, look, listen, I don't know if Biden's too old.

00:10:55.140 I'll just tell you, I am so young.

00:10:57.440 I'm a young, vibrant man.

00:10:59.280 And he acts that way.

00:11:00.580 I don't know if it's because he doesn't drink.

00:11:02.120 I don't know if it's because he's mostly aspartame and fast food preservatives now.

00:11:06.360 But I don't know if it's good genes.

00:11:07.700 Whatever it is, the guy is very energetic.

00:11:10.260 And if he runs, he seems likely to win the primary.

00:11:15.220 I don't think it's inevitable.

00:11:16.000 I think if a DeSantis ran or if a different candidate ran, I think they would have a chance

00:11:20.640 in the primary.

00:11:22.180 But again, just looking at the numbers, just looking at the name recognition, just knowing

00:11:26.620 the candidate, if Trump runs, he's very likely to win the primary.

00:11:32.480 And so if you don't want Trump to be the nominee, and if you feel that Trump is going to lose

00:11:35.960 the general election, all of your energy has to be focused right now on stopping him from

00:11:41.160 running for president.

00:11:42.560 And I know there are a lot of conservatives who either they hated Trump, then they liked

00:11:48.300 Trump, then they hate Trump again, or they liked Trump from the beginning, but they're

00:11:51.700 sick and tired of Trump, or they really like Trump, but they think, look, Trump's just not

00:11:55.800 going to win re-election, so we got to move on to somebody else.

00:11:58.600 I am open to all of these possibilities.

00:12:01.680 I am not committed to any particular 2024 primary outcome right now.

00:12:07.840 I know some people have already picked their horse.

00:12:09.720 I have not.

00:12:10.240 I say let the chips fall where they may.

00:12:12.420 Let the process play out.

00:12:14.060 I really, really like Trump.

00:12:15.860 He's my favorite former president alive today.

00:12:18.460 I love DeSantis.

00:12:20.160 DeSantis is the best governor around today.

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00:12:29.480 I say let the process play out, but you are seeing that primary already taking place, and

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00:13:57.880 The primary for 2024 for the Republicans is playing out not with snipes between Trump and

00:14:05.020 Ron DeSantis or snipes between Trump and Ted Cruz or snipes between Trump and Mike Pompeo

00:14:11.120 or Nikki Haley or whoever.

00:14:12.440 Remember, the 2024 primary right now is playing out between Trump and Elon Musk.

00:14:19.580 Why?

00:14:20.140 People are saying, why?

00:14:20.980 Why are these two social media genius billionaires, why are they going at it?

00:14:25.800 Because Elon Musk is an avatar for Ron DeSantis.

00:14:28.820 The Elon-Trump feud has been just continuing in recent days, and Elon has said about Trump,

00:14:40.340 I don't hate the man, but it's time for Trump to hang up his hat and sail into the sunset.

00:14:44.000 Dems should also call off the attack.

00:14:45.680 Don't make it so that Trump's only way to survive is to regain the presidency.

00:14:49.120 Trump would be 82 at the end of his term, which is too old to be chief executive of anything,

00:14:53.940 let alone the United States of America.

00:14:55.920 And then here is where, even with all of that, Trump would probably snipe it at Elon.

00:15:01.080 But here is where Trump felt he had to snipe it at Elon.

00:15:05.220 Elon said, if DeSantis runs against Biden in 2024, then DeSantis will easily win.

00:15:10.080 He doesn't even need to campaign.

00:15:11.560 Now, I disagree with that perception, not because of any weakness of DeSantis,

00:15:17.240 just because of how corrupt the liberal establishment is.

00:15:20.600 So I agree with Elon Musk.

00:15:22.540 DeSantis would be, I think, a phenomenal candidate.

00:15:25.820 No question about that.

00:15:27.240 He's a phenomenal governor.

00:15:29.480 But he wouldn't even have to campaign.

00:15:31.460 I don't buy that for a second.

00:15:32.680 I think they would do the same thing to DeSantis that they did to Trump,

00:15:36.140 that they did to Bush, that they did to Reagan, that they do to all of them. 1.00

00:15:39.320 And they'd say, he's a Nazi, and he's a rapist, and he's a racist, and he is a pedophile, 1.00

00:15:45.220 and he probably punched his grandmother in the face. 1.00

00:15:48.760 You know, they would throw the kitchen sink at him.

00:15:52.340 So Trump now is punching back at Elon.

00:15:55.200 The reason he's punching at Elon, too, it's not even just about DeSantis.

00:16:00.120 It's about anyone saying anything nice about any Republican candidate other than Donald Trump.

00:16:06.300 Trump, at this moment, knows that he's on the top of the heap.

00:16:08.760 He knows that the nomination is his, basically, if he wants it.

00:16:13.180 And so he's got to make it very painful for anybody to endorse any other candidate.

00:16:18.600 He's got to make it very painful for anybody to boost or raise money for any other candidate.

00:16:23.960 Whether that's Ron DeSantis, whether it's Ted Cruz, whether it's Josh Hawley,

00:16:27.660 whether it's Rand Paul, whether it's Nikki Haley, whether it's Pompeo, whether it's whoever.

00:16:32.240 However, that's what this is about.

00:16:35.660 And it's unclear right now.

00:16:37.860 Could Ron DeSantis or someone else, but DeSantis seems to be top of the heap right now,

00:16:44.200 could he mount a successful primary campaign against Trump?

00:16:47.940 I'm not sure.

00:16:49.800 I'm not sure.

00:16:50.480 Right now, I lean toward no.

00:16:55.640 But maybe that could change.

00:16:56.900 DeSantis has been on a rocket ship of success and name recognition and goodwill in the Republican

00:17:02.660 Party recently.

00:17:03.740 Maybe he could, maybe he couldn't.

00:17:04.680 But one thing I know for sure is Republicans want to avoid a bloody, messy primary contest

00:17:10.220 between DeSantis and Trump. 0.81

00:17:12.340 Especially because Trump fights so dirty.

00:17:15.040 They don't want to see the golden boy governor of Florida who's doing such a great job destroyed

00:17:20.560 because of this bitter contest for president.

00:17:24.160 Now, it gets even more interesting than all of that because of a figure not in state government,

00:17:29.980 not in the federal government, not a former president, because of a TV show host.

00:17:34.420 A TV show host who is just, just for some reason, going to be taking a trip to Iowa.

00:17:40.900 So this show has come to Iowa for a couple of days, giving a speech at the Family Leadership

00:17:46.780 Summit in Des Moines.

00:17:48.880 Lots of people who are running for president are swinging through Iowa.

00:17:52.860 We thought we would assess the field.

00:17:54.940 We're going to stream that speech live on Fox Nation tomorrow, Friday, 5 p.m. Eastern.

00:17:58.420 Go to foxnation.com for access.

00:18:00.280 Tucker is such a pro.

00:18:01.980 The guy is so smart.

00:18:04.260 Listen to those words, which were scripted.

00:18:06.880 Those were in a teleprompter.

00:18:07.880 He chose those words very carefully.

00:18:09.320 He said, we're swinging through Iowa.

00:18:12.440 Our eyebrows go up.

00:18:14.640 He says, yeah, I'll be giving a speech.

00:18:16.520 So it's not just that he's doing interviews.

00:18:17.940 It's not just that he's covering it on the ground.

00:18:19.480 He's giving a speech to an important conservative summit.

00:18:22.560 Our eyebrows go up even further.

00:18:24.940 And then, just in case anybody missed what he's putting out there, he said,

00:18:28.720 lots of people who are running for president are making tours through Iowa right now,

00:18:35.080 giving speeches, that sort of thing.

00:18:36.900 And then, he gives himself the out, a little plausible deniability.

00:18:40.420 He says, so we're just here surveying the field.

00:18:43.960 No, we're just here doing journalism.

00:18:46.080 But I'm also giving a speech.

00:18:47.980 And I'm giving a speech with the other people who are maybe running for president.

00:18:53.340 A lot of people have called for Tucker to run for president.

00:18:56.560 I think he could mount a pretty serious campaign.

00:18:58.840 Not saying he would win the nomination, necessarily, but he could mount a pretty serious campaign.

00:19:03.660 And then it occurred to me, he could mount possibly the greatest campaign in the country

00:19:09.560 for vice president, especially if Trump is the nominee.

00:19:15.080 If Trump is the nominee, who is he going to pick for vice president?

00:19:19.140 Obviously, it's not going to be Mike Pence.

00:19:20.940 I guess it could be Ted Cruz.

00:19:25.600 I don't know.

00:19:26.160 Again, it's a little awkward because I host a show with Senator Cruz.

00:19:29.440 I have not spoken to him about this at all.

00:19:31.480 This is just purely my own conjecture.

00:19:33.220 But I guess I could see that.

00:19:35.480 The United States senator, so it kind of balances things out.

00:19:38.980 Nikki Haley, I could see.

00:19:40.540 Nikki Haley worked for Donald Trump.

00:19:42.920 She brings in a little bit more of the moderate side of the party.

00:19:45.920 Though she did irritate some Trump voters when she went after him in Politico. 0.92

00:19:49.500 But then she kind of, she said that this didn't represent my actual views about Trump.

00:19:53.140 And so I don't know, she might be able to do that.

00:19:55.840 Maybe, I don't know, maybe a Pompeo.

00:19:57.560 I don't think a DeSantis really could.

00:19:59.400 I just think DeSantis and Trump are too similar.

00:20:02.320 They have, they've had roles that are too similar in government.

00:20:06.120 Their personalities are a little bit too similar.

00:20:08.340 I don't see DeSantis taking a vice president.

00:20:11.380 I don't, I don't see Trump offering it to him.

00:20:13.560 But Tucker, there's a lot of ideological overlap between the two men.

00:20:21.600 They come from totally different parts of politics.

00:20:24.740 Trump from, from the executive, from actually being the president.

00:20:28.940 Tucker brings in the media.

00:20:30.080 He's the most popular conservative TV show host.

00:20:33.140 And yet there's a lot of overlap there too between the guys.

00:20:36.700 Both have a big background in the media world.

00:20:39.240 Trump really respects guys who come from the media.

00:20:41.360 Trump endorsed Dr. Oz, I think primarily because Dr. Oz had a TV show.

00:20:45.900 Just very interesting stuff.

00:20:48.420 I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but that could be, there could be a kind of

00:20:53.540 natural spot if Tucker wanted, if Tucker went crazy and wanted to give up his extremely lucrative,

00:21:00.080 very influential post on television to go join the melee of elected politics.

00:21:03.940 That's what's going on in Iowa.

00:21:06.420 Speaking of the Midwest, there's an update to that horrible story and kind of sketchy story

00:21:12.920 about a child who was raped in, in Ohio and then went to Indiana to get an abortion.

00:21:21.000 And the story was first reported on by a very pro-abortion activist doctor.

00:21:26.120 And she wouldn't give any details and it was dodgy.

00:21:28.860 And she said, she didn't meet this patient, but she got a call from a doctor who knew a person who got

00:21:34.000 the patient and Joe Biden pushed this.

00:21:37.660 And it was all really part of an anti-pro-life, pro-abortion argument that the left was making.

00:21:44.640 The attorney general of Ohio couldn't find details on the crime.

00:21:47.420 No one was offering any details.

00:21:48.580 Then some days later, some reports about a crime that seemed similar cropped up.

00:21:55.220 And there was a girl who was not quite the same age, but almost that age that it was being reported

00:21:59.280 on. And then it came out later that the man who raped her was an illegal immigrant, 27-year-old 0.68

00:22:06.240 illegal alien. So that could have explained why the story was being reported in such a weird way,

00:22:11.280 because the media didn't want to divulge these details because it cuts against their

00:22:15.140 immigration narrative. Well, now it's getting even dodgier. 1.00

00:22:17.580 A Telemundo reporter, Maria Vargas Pion, went to the home of this girl and really the girl's

00:22:24.740 mother and tried to interview her to get more details because the story just doesn't really

00:22:30.360 totally add up. The mother would not open the door and contradicted pretty much all the reports

00:22:37.400 about the rape. The reporter says, did the girl live here as well? Mother says, yes, but she's fine.

00:22:44.780 Everything that they're saying against him is a lie. And the child, are you related to her or the

00:22:50.720 mother? Yes, she's my daughter, she says. The woman refused to provide her name, show her face.

00:22:56.760 She said she's not filed charges against the 20-year-old Gerson Fuentes, who is charged with

00:23:01.780 the rape. According to the authorities, he confessed to having a vaginal contact on at least two occasions

00:23:08.020 with the girl who recently turned 10. So he did this when she was nine or younger, I guess,

00:23:15.360 when she was raped and then became pregnant. Really, really crazy story because people are

00:23:23.260 inferring from this that, and I think justifiably, I think pretty inarguably, that the mother knows the

00:23:33.180 accused rapist. Maybe the accused rapist was the boyfriend. Maybe the accused rapist was living

00:23:38.300 with them. Maybe the accused rapist was very close. And so she's saying, yeah, the girl's fine. Don't

00:23:42.560 worry about it. Yeah, she was raped by the, whether she was raped or not, forget about that. She's fine. 0.98

00:23:47.560 He's wonderful. Don't charge him with any crimes. He's a great guy. And so now we're seeing this

00:23:52.480 as very possibly just a case of a horrible, horrible family of illegal aliens, that this 0.81

00:24:01.340 mother and potentially a boyfriend or a relative or someone that at least is known to the mother

00:24:07.940 endangering the welfare of this poor little girl. It becomes a much different story than what was

00:24:14.700 initially reported. Now, one of the questions that has come up tangential to this highly politicized

00:24:24.700 Ohio rape case is what should be the punishment for rape? The mother of the poor little girl is 1.00

00:24:32.520 saying, no, don't punish the guy. He's fine. It's all a lie. He's great. Don't worry about it. So

00:24:36.380 that's obviously sickening. It somehow makes the story even more repulsive. Some people are saying 0.59

00:24:42.080 the penalty for rape, certainly rape of a child should be the death penalty. And I think,

00:24:49.760 I understand why people have that natural reaction, but this is an example of even conservatives

00:24:55.780 thinking too much with their emotions and not thinking enough with their logic and their reason

00:25:01.100 and their minds. I got into a debate with a number of conservatives over this. I'm all for the death

00:25:07.700 penalty. I think the death penalty should be more widely applied in society, but I'm opposed to the

00:25:13.980 death penalty for rape. And the reason for this is not because the rapists don't deserve it. They

00:25:19.120 certainly deserve death, but because of incentives. If the punishments for rape and the punishments 1.00

00:25:27.560 for murder are the same punishments, then the rapist has an incentive to murder his victim.

00:25:35.440 Because if he murders his victim, he will reduce the likelihood that he is caught, but he will not

00:25:42.560 increase the risk of punishment that he has. Whereas if the punishment for rape is less than the

00:25:50.920 punishment for murder, he at least has some incentive not to murder his victim. By not murdering his

00:25:56.940 victim, yes, his risk of being caught will increase, but his risk of punishment will decrease and

00:26:03.380 decrease pretty dramatically if we're talking about the death penalty. This is an area where the libs are 0.95

00:26:08.120 always discarding their reason and their logic and their minds and making political decisions with their

00:26:15.620 emotions and their will. Conservatives sometimes are liable to do this too. You've got to ask, yes, it might

00:26:21.760 feel emotionally satisfying to say death penalty for these rapists. Yes, it is even true to say that rapists

00:26:28.020 deserve the death penalty. But what's going to be better for the victims? What's going to serve the

00:26:32.760 cause of justice better? Seems to me in this case, it's pretty clear that the penalty has to be a little

00:26:39.580 bit lower or else all you're going to do, you might feel a little bit better, but all you're going to do

00:26:43.020 is incentivize monsters to be even worse to their victims and to punish their victims even, even more.

00:26:50.280 Speaking of child abuse, the CDC is encouraging your kids to visit groomer chat websites and hide it from

00:27:00.800 you, from their parents. I'm not joking, it sounds like a sensational headline. It's really not. The

00:27:06.160 Center for Disease Control is promoting to young people an online chat space that discusses sex,

00:27:13.020 polyamorous relationships, sex change operations, activism, and the occult.

00:27:20.280 It's a little bit of a sidebar, but isn't it weird how whenever you go far enough down the leftist,

00:27:28.340 especially the sexual revolution, leftist activism, you end up at overt Satanism? Isn't that weird?

00:27:34.800 Even Drag Queen Story Hour, why do the drag queens dress up like demons frequently? Why does the pro-abortion 1.00

00:27:41.720 activism often take on explicitly satanic imagery? Why does, why do, why does leftist activism take

00:27:52.320 on the language of witchcraft or spells or the occult? Why does that happen? Almost as though

00:27:58.140 there's a spiritual reality to all of this. And certainly at a practical level, we have to ask,

00:28:01.600 why is the CDC promoting creepy, weird sex stuff and the occult to little kids on websites? The website

00:28:07.720 is called QChat that, that have buttons that you can make it, that make it much easier for the

00:28:12.960 children to hide the websites for the parents if the parents walk by. The chat hosts conversations

00:28:17.840 on topics such as drag culture 101, sex and relationships, having multiple genders,

00:28:22.960 bi slash pan youth, gender affirmation surgeries, hormone therapy, self-discovery in astrology,

00:28:29.080 and queering tarot. Tarot, the weird occult cards. Tarot seems bad enough, but then they're going to

00:28:37.340 queer tarot as well. Why? Why did that? One, this reminds us that there is no neutrality here. 0.89

00:28:45.540 The government is going to be pushing some set of values or another, and either they're going to be 0.99

00:28:50.940 pushing the devil's values like this, tarot and queering the occult and chop off your genitals 0.98

00:28:58.660 five-year-olds, or they're going to be pushing good, true, virtuous values. Your pick. I think 0.98

00:29:04.880 conservatives need to stop throwing our hands in the air and pretending this is all neutral

00:29:08.460 and enforce our vision of the good. All political life involves promoting some vision of the good and

00:29:15.180 discouraging some vision of the bad, and so we ought to do the correct one, not this creepy one.

00:29:19.220 But it is a reminder to, I've mentioned this a few times in recent weeks, it's the IQ bell curve

00:29:24.800 meme. Really dumb people who are drooling, who just, duh, they don't know anything about politics. 1.00

00:29:30.780 They say, duh, I think the bad stuff is because of the devil, and the good stuff, you know, good stuff 1.00

00:29:36.060 is about God, right? And then the people in the middle, it's like, well, actually, you know, those

00:29:40.940 are all just metaphors, and what it's really about is Marxism and post-modernism and this-ism

00:29:47.760 and that-ism, and it's really just the metaphor of your inner blah, blah, blah. And then you get

00:29:54.220 to the people who are really smart, like the Thomas Aquinas end of the IQ spectrum, and they

00:29:58.300 say, no, it's about God and the rejection of God that is personified in the devil, who is a real

00:30:04.260 person, by the way, who you can worship, but you shouldn't worship. That's what it's really about.

00:30:08.500 It's why it always comes down to this. This is why the weirdos on TikTok who are trying to trans your 1.00

00:30:12.740 kids, it's why they always look like demons. And the more they get into it, the more they look like 0.93

00:30:16.740 demons, and they wear, they have explicit satanic imagery on there. Maybe instead of dismissing

00:30:21.900 all of that and saying, oh, we're so, we know none of that exists. How about we look at all of

00:30:25.540 human history, at all cultures, and say, how come they all have a conception of God and a conception

00:30:30.340 of the devil? Isn't that kind of weird? Maybe there's some wisdom in that that we should pay

00:30:34.540 attention to. Speaking of computers and naughty things that you shouldn't do, really interesting

00:30:42.860 story, almost entirely unrelated here, about artificial intelligence, but it's really going

00:30:47.360 to affect students and teachers and our education system. There's a University of Kansas professor,

00:30:52.300 John Simons, who's pointing out that this coming school year in particular, you're going to see a

00:30:58.140 major technological revolution when it comes to writing papers. And it's because artificial intelligence

00:31:03.980 is now good enough that AI can write papers for students that are B plus, A minus papers,

00:31:10.580 and they can't be caught by the plagiarism software. So in recent years, if a student

00:31:14.800 submits a plagiarized paper, there's just checking software, you can run the paper, you say, okay,

00:31:18.740 80% of this paper is plagiarized, you get an F. But now, because of artificial intelligence,

00:31:23.260 you don't just need to plagiarize, they can write a new paper without having the student actually have

00:31:28.260 to write it. And the professor makes a good point, and it's a point that we've made on this show before.

00:31:33.980 So what's the solution to this? The only solution to this is going to be to minimize the role of 0.98

00:31:42.260 technology in education. The only solution to this is to get rid of the Zoom, get rid of the

00:31:50.720 submit your papers online, get rid of the do everything from a remote distance, whether it's

00:31:57.820 in your parents' basement or whether it's from your dorm room. It's going to have to increase the

00:32:02.400 amount of in-person learning. You're going to have to minimize the number of papers and increase the

00:32:06.460 number of oral exams because you can't use artificial intelligence on an oral exam. And

00:32:11.000 this would be a really, really good thing. So many of our political issues way beyond education

00:32:15.320 come down to the isolation of man from the real world. And we're living our lives virtually.

00:32:22.080 It explains a lot of the transgender stuff. You talk to people who have gone down the 1.00

00:32:25.080 transgender rabbit hole. Most of them, it seems to me, at least in my experience, 1.00

00:32:29.600 have been radicalized online in these online communities. And that makes perfect sense because

00:32:34.800 online, your body doesn't matter. You are just a free-floating mind, and you have avatars in a

00:32:40.880 virtual space. So much of our lives, the way we work now, we telecommute. A lot of people telecommute.

00:32:46.720 I don't, but a lot of people telecommute. A lot of people do e-distance learning where your body

00:32:52.100 doesn't matter as much. And it alienates you from the world, and it makes society a lot worse,

00:32:56.500 and it's depressing, and it's inhuman. If we want to restore a more flourishing society,

00:33:01.520 we've got to put the body back into it. Salvation hinges on the flesh, it has been said.

00:33:07.120 And so much of civilization hinges on the flesh, too. We've got to see people in real life and hug them,

00:33:11.520 not through weird bulletproof glass like they made us do during COVID. We've got to hug real people in real

00:33:16.440 life and go have dinner with them in real life and go learn from real professors in real life and go

00:33:21.480 work with people together in real life. We've got to be human again, or this is just necessarily the

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00:35:02.320 Hi. Obligatory introduction saying thank you for what you do. Love it. So I'm reading Speechless by

00:35:09.060 the great Nolstradamus. It has obviously provided a lot of fodder for thought and dinner table conversations

00:35:14.880 with the fam. One phrase in the book struck me as particularly thought-provoking is,

00:35:20.420 a humility parade would seem self-defeating. This is in reference to pride parades. Thankfully, 1.00

00:35:27.060 June turned out really good for us conservatives, but, you know, there's still stuff that we disagree

00:35:32.260 with going on. Anyway, my question is this. How do we oppose pride, and not exclusively gay pride,

00:35:39.400 just the sin of pride that's, you know, rampant in our society, with humility, which is the opposite

00:35:45.940 of pride, while managing to remain humble? So what does this look like in daily life?

00:35:52.200 Thanks again. Bye.

00:35:54.540 You've got to keep your eyes on God. That's what it's about. Instead of thinking about yourself

00:36:00.960 and how to even think about yourself, should I think, should I be confident? Should I,

00:36:06.680 should I think of all the good stuff I've done? Should I think of all the sins that I commit? Should

00:36:10.100 I think about what I did yesterday? Should I think about what I did 10 years ago? Instead of that,

00:36:14.400 just turn the focus off of yourself entirely, and you've got to put your focus entirely on God,

00:36:22.260 which will accomplish all of those things. It will remind you that you do have an inherent worth

00:36:28.160 because you're made in the image and likeness of God. If you were looking at the cross, looking at

00:36:31.840 your crucified Lord on the cross, you will recognize that you have worth because God himself,

00:36:36.700 God the Son, died for your sins. It will also remind you that you are a sinner. You're not all that,

00:36:42.040 man. There's a reason that God had to come down to earth to die for your sins.

00:36:46.900 That will remind you of your flaws and your worth and all of those things, and it will just kind

00:36:54.420 of, it'll just click everything into the right place, and then you have to do these, you have to

00:36:59.480 do these good things in the world that you want to do, and you need to pursue virtue, not just for

00:37:06.760 it yourself, but because your focus is in the right place. Next question.

00:37:12.500 Hey, Michael. Thanks for taking my question. I've listened to the show for a few years,

00:37:16.820 have always enjoyed the be a man advice, and the constant reminder to get a girlfriend before a

00:37:21.880 dog. But following that, I've moved to Indiana, but stayed in Illinois to finish my associate's

00:37:27.660 degree. And I've taken an interest in this girl, and I don't want to lead her on for a relationship

00:37:33.880 because I'm leaving for Indiana at the end of August. So I don't really see a point in dating

00:37:40.620 right now, but I would like to take her out to see a movie that she wants to see. How would I go

00:37:48.120 about starting this friendship without it morphing into something more? Thank you for taking my

00:37:53.740 question, and look forward to the advice. You don't. That's how. You don't do that. If you're asking

00:38:00.980 me, how do I take a girl out on a date without taking her out on a date? You can't. That's not 0.97

00:38:04.760 possible. You obviously are interested in this girl. That's why you want to go on a date with her. 0.71

00:38:11.020 But you don't want to lead her on because I guess you're not interested in her enough to try to

00:38:15.960 pursue a longer relationship. So you just need to make a decision. You need to make a decision and

00:38:21.080 stick to that decision. You're trying to have your cake and eat it too, and that's not going to work.

00:38:24.400 You can, since you alluded to it at the top. Act like a man. What's the matter with you? Now,

00:38:29.560 I will tell you, if it were me, I don't know all the details of your particular situation.

00:38:33.280 If it were me, I would take the girl on a date and maybe try to discern if we're going to have 0.99

00:38:38.260 some love affair here, and if it's going to blossom into a marriage, and we're going to

00:38:41.520 have 10 kids and have a great life together. I know that you're planning out every step in your

00:38:46.100 life. Well, and then I'm going to move here, and so it's not going to work, and then I'm going to get

00:38:48.960 this job, and then we're going to go here, and then I'm going to do this, and you're trying to be

00:38:52.120 really rationalistic about the whole thing. But no, you like the girl. The girl likes you. You want to go on a date?

00:39:00.180 Maybe you end up moving, but maybe you keep the relationship going a little bit long distance,

00:39:04.140 and then you try to work out a way for you to both end up in the same place together. That's what I

00:39:07.900 would do if it were me. But if you for sure say, nope, not going to do it, we're not going to date

00:39:12.700 long term, then don't take her out on a date now. You're asking me, how do I lead a girl on without 1.00

00:39:19.200 leading her on? You can't. So then you got to just write that off, and she's going to go see a movie

00:39:23.240 with another guy. Next question.

00:39:24.860 Hey, Michael. My name's Chris. I'm 17, and I'm a resident of Central Florida after fleeing

00:39:30.280 Ontario, Canada last November. I'm a big fan of the Daily Wire, and I've heard almost all of the

00:39:35.160 main personalities share their opposition to red flag laws, which I'm also opposed to. My only

00:39:40.360 confusion is with the proposed alternatives. I've heard that the mass shooters that seemed

00:39:44.480 unstable before committing the shootings should have been institutionalized, which I'm not opposed to,

00:39:49.220 but my issue comes up with the fact that if we're able to lock people up in mental facilities

00:39:53.600 against their will for seeming dangerous, couldn't the government use this institutionalization as a

00:39:59.100 tactic in the same way they might use red flag laws? Thanks again. Big fan.

00:40:03.640 Really good question. The answer is yes, but not exactly in the same way. And this is why a lot of

00:40:11.060 people who oppose things like red flag laws and oppose things like most gun control measures also support

00:40:17.940 increasing the ease with which people can be institutionalized. Because you've just got to

00:40:24.900 make the threshold very, very high. The problem with red flag laws is the threshold for depriving

00:40:29.920 people of their constitutional and civil rights is very, very low. The way Democrats talk about red

00:40:34.780 flag laws, the red flag is you. Listening to this show is a red flag. Voting for Donald Trump is a red

00:40:41.440 flag. Having an American flag outside of your home is a red flag. It's the red, white, and blue flag,

00:40:45.800 they're going to take away your guns. So that threshold is so low and it's so vague to involuntarily

00:40:52.980 commit someone to an insane asylum. The threshold has to be at least relatively high. Now it's so high

00:41:00.260 that it's virtually impossible. I think we should lower that threshold a little bit, but it's still

00:41:04.020 going to be very, very high. And it forces you to grapple with the reality of what it means to

00:41:09.000 deprive someone of their second amendment rights. When you deprive someone of their second amendment

00:41:13.100 rights, which is a basic right, a constitutional right, a civil right, and the right to self-defense

00:41:18.200 is a natural right, you are saying, I must deprive you of all of your rights because you are not able

00:41:25.060 to exercise them at all. You are not able to live your life as a normal human being. So you're really

00:41:31.300 making that clear. And for some people, that's true. People who are insane, people who are not able

00:41:37.220 to take care of themselves, sure, okay. We already have laws in the books for this, right? Relatives

00:41:41.880 can exercise power of attorney if a loved one, say, becomes senile or otherwise incapacitated. So

00:41:49.880 we already have ways to do this. But it's a way of saying, okay, you want to take away my rights?

00:41:56.040 Well, then take away my rights. Really take away my rights. Because if you're not willing to do that,

00:42:02.900 if you're not willing to lock me up in a straitjacket, then let me have my guns. Let me

00:42:07.760 have my right to self-defense. Don't pull a little bait and switch here. Well, you're not crazy enough

00:42:14.520 that we're going to take care of you or really change your lifestyle at all. But you are so crazy 1.00

00:42:20.100 that we need to deprive you of your really, really basic rights. That's the game that the 0.99

00:42:25.080 libs are trying to play right now. We want to clarify the stakes. Next question. 0.83

00:42:29.340 Hi, Mr. Knowles. I have a philosophical and theological question about the so-called

00:42:35.240 God of the Gaps logical fallacy. I was thinking about it earlier and I realized I can't make any

00:42:40.860 sense of it anymore. You've mentioned on the show that St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that God

00:42:46.020 is reason and will and that his reason and will do not come into conflict. The God of the Gaps posits

00:42:52.220 that anything we can't explain by reason, we cheat and ascribe to God's will. This is supposed to show

00:42:58.920 that God is a psychological condition, but it just assumes that reason is separate from God

00:43:04.860 and then makes this incomplete version of God a psychological condition. Am I missing something

00:43:12.620 about this argument or does it really basically assume its conclusion? And then as a sort of bonus

00:43:19.520 question, I was wondering if you could speak to this concept of moving an idea from God's will to God's

00:43:28.300 reason and what we can say about that as Catholics. Thank you. Sure. Actually, both questions kind of tie

00:43:35.220 into the same place. When people use the phrase God of the Gaps, usually they're not using it in the way

00:43:40.960 that Nietzsche meant the phrase, for instance. They're using it in the way that edgy online atheists from the

00:43:46.760 mid-2000s used it and journalists who were part of the New Atheist Movement used it, which is to say

00:43:51.980 that God is opposed to reason. And what this reveals is that these people just know very little about

00:43:56.800 God. They know absolutely nothing about religion. They haven't read any of the works that they're

00:44:00.780 purporting to be experts on because in Christianity, at least, God is logic. God, it's right there in

00:44:09.460 John chapter one. In the beginning was the logos, the divine logic of the universe, the word,

00:44:15.040 and the word was with God, and the word was God. There are differences between religions here.

00:44:21.960 Pope Benedict XVI, in his Regensburg Address, probably the greatest address of the 21st century,

00:44:28.000 described a big difference with Islam. In Islam, according to Islam, Allah is pure will. Allah is

00:44:34.020 so utterly transcendent that he's pure will. Allah could order his subjects to violate logic,

00:44:41.100 to worship idols even. And they would be bound to do that. Where in Christianity, God is logic. So

00:44:47.020 that would be the one difference there. The phrase God of the gaps can have some use to make fun of

00:44:54.640 bad theology, to make fun of faulty theology, to make fun of shallow religion. But God of the gaps does not

00:45:03.180 describe Christianity, orthodox traditional Christianity. Read Thomas Aquinas. I guarantee

00:45:10.800 you none of these people have read Thomas Aquinas. Read Thomas Aquinas and say, that man's not logical.

00:45:16.360 I, an edgy online atheist, I am much more logical than Thomas Aquinas. Give me a break. It's ridiculous.

00:45:22.020 So that would be the issue. And so when you ask, how do we move from a conversation about God as will 0.81

00:45:27.880 to God as logic and reason? Well, you have to recognize those are unified in God. The logic and

00:45:35.640 the power are unified. And will and power are unified in God as well. This is what Dante writes

00:45:41.640 in the mouth of Virgil. When Virgil and Dante are about to cross into hell, and Charon, the boatman,

00:45:48.220 doesn't want to let him in because he says, Dante, you're a living person. You're not allowed to come

00:45:51.500 into hell. And it's one of the most famous lines of the comedy. Virgil says,

00:45:54.920 which is a great line. If you want to memorize it in Italian, it's very funny because it means

00:46:02.500 this is willed where will and power are united and don't ask any more questions. This is desired

00:46:09.940 where people can, where it can be done what is willed. And so you stop, shut up, stop asking 0.98

00:46:15.420 questions, let me into the boat. And so in God, all of that is unified, not just desire and power,

00:46:21.680 but desire, power, and logic, and reason. Okay, let's get to a written mailbag question

00:46:27.220 from Bailey. Michael, I have a question about guilt and forgiveness. In my youth,

00:46:31.900 I was not a good person. Isn't that true of all of us? Probably 99.7% of people could say that.

00:46:39.680 Okay, Bailey says, I started drinking and smoking at 16 years old and slept around.

00:46:43.620 I became addicted to painkillers and began smoking weed daily at 18 years old. My high school

00:46:48.940 boyfriend did the same and was an alcoholic. We were together from age 16 until I got pregnant

00:46:53.500 at 23. At the moment, I found out I quit everything. My daughter's three now. Me and her father split

00:46:58.120 shortly after she was born. I've met an amazing Christian man, got saved, got married, and we

00:47:02.480 have a one month old son. My problem is I deal with so much guilt. My daughter now has a broken home,

00:47:07.360 just like the one I grew up in. Her father gets her every other weekend while my son has both parents

00:47:12.420 at home. My husband treats her like his own, but I constantly, I think constantly about how unfair it is

00:47:17.600 to my daughter and have a terrible time forgiving myself for who I used to be. How do I get past

00:47:21.280 this? Thanks and love the show. Sincerely, a reformed degenerate. Well, not all of the saints

00:47:29.300 started well, but they all ended well. That's a line from St. John Vianney. You think maybe most

00:47:35.200 famously of St. Augustine, who had a pretty wild, sinful youth. He even has that great line that he

00:47:41.540 prayed, which is, Lord, make me chaste, but not yet. And he slept around and did all sorts of bad

00:47:47.960 things that he shouldn't have been doing. And then he reformed. And this is true of not just regular

00:47:53.700 run-of-the-mill good old people, but some of the greatest saints in history. They didn't all start

00:47:58.280 well, but they all ended well. You're asking me a very practical question about your conscience,

00:48:03.000 which is nagging you. And so I'm going to give you a technical answer, and I don't know if it's going to

00:48:06.880 work for you or not. Well, I do know if it'll work for you, but I don't know how you will perceive it

00:48:12.320 because I don't know if you're Catholic or not. But my views on these things obviously come from a

00:48:17.080 Catholic view of the world. And so I think that the way to receive absolution and the way even at a 0.91

00:48:23.020 psychological level to assuage your nagging conscience is to go to sacramental confession.

00:48:27.840 And so I don't know if you're Catholic or not, or if you're interested in becoming Catholic,

00:48:31.600 or if you believe in the sacraments, or you believe in confession, or any of those sorts of things.

00:48:34.700 But that would just be the technical answer. I have found that really has worked for me.

00:48:39.520 I think it is totally legit. I 100% believe in that. At a kind of broader level than just that

00:48:45.840 technical answer, you're asking, how can I forgive myself for my past more generally? And I think

00:48:51.580 you've got to, again, look not at your own person, but look at God. Who forgives you? Who sends his son

00:48:58.880 to die on the cross for the forgiveness of your sins? And so if God can forgive you,

00:49:04.980 you should be able to as well. I know that practically is not always easy to do, but part

00:49:09.920 of that stems from pride. It's very presumptuous to say, oh, well, forgiving me, yeah, that's fine

00:49:14.740 for God, but I'm holding myself to a higher standard. Oh, are you? Don't you think that's a

00:49:19.220 little presumptuous? I think it is as well. You cannot change the past. The past is gone. You cannot

00:49:25.960 do anything in the past. I know we all want to, and we think about it, and depending on how anxious

00:49:31.900 a person you are, you might be nagged by some comment that you made 10 years ago to some random

00:49:37.600 person. I know that we dwell on the past. The devil wants you to dwell on the past because you can't do

00:49:42.480 anything in the past, and so you become impotent, and you become depressed, and you despair. You can

00:49:47.460 only do things in the present. Could life have worked out better for you and your kid and your

00:49:52.960 ex-boyfriend? Had you all done things all differently when you were younger? Maybe.

00:49:58.860 Maybe. I guess so. I'm not totally sure about that in the unfolding of Providence, but maybe they

00:50:03.920 could have, but that is totally beside the point. All you can decide to do is what are the decisions

00:50:10.900 that are presented to you today. The only place you can live is in the present. You can't even live

00:50:16.420 in the future. A lot of people want to live in the future, too. You can't. You can only live in the

00:50:19.580 present. So all you can do is do the right thing, and harping on your past incessantly, particularly

00:50:26.460 if you have taken the steps to get over that psychological, spiritual, everything in between.

00:50:34.920 Harping on the past is a waste of your time. It's worse than a waste of your time. You'll be

00:50:39.200 neglecting the things you ought to be doing right now. It's a story. It's not unique to you. I think

00:50:43.720 most people, they don't have the particulars of your circumstance, but most people have a similar

00:50:50.120 story, and it's a common problem for human beings. The solution to that is to accept God's

00:50:58.020 forgiveness, accept that grace, which you're free to turn away from that grace, but I don't recommend

00:51:02.200 it, and then do the right thing in the present, which is where you live. I'm Michael Knowles. This

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 15, 2022

Ep. 1047 - Trump's Huge Announcement

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