The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1087 - Biden Throws A Party For Destroying The Economy

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden is in trouble, and he knows it. The writing has been on the wall for a while.

00:00:05.880 The record inflation, the dismal growth, the open border, the drugs, the crime.

00:00:10.600 We all can sense that the country is in free fall. But now we know it for sure,

00:00:17.140 because Joe Biden has done what Democrats always do when things look bleakest.

00:00:22.860 He's pulled out James Taylor to play a random ditty for reporters.

00:00:30.000 Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone.

00:00:41.600 Suzanne Clancy may put an end to me. 0.97

00:00:47.840 At Joe Biden's press conference on the preposterously titled Inflation Reduction Act,

00:00:54.020 which does not reduce inflation, it actually increases inflation, the president opened the

00:00:58.300 questions with the same aging hippie that his party trotted out back in 2015 after the Obama

00:01:06.080 administration had caused an international scandal by offending the French.

00:01:10.260 Winter, spring, summer, or fall. All you got to do is call. And I will be there, yes, I'll be there.

00:01:26.200 You got a friend.

00:01:27.960 When people can be so cold, they'll hurt you, yes, and desert you. They'll take your soul if you let them.

00:01:50.400 Why do they keep doing this? Why James Taylor? It's so weird. I actually like James Taylor, but

00:02:06.080 it's so weird. And no boomer folk singer, no matter how talented, can paper over a national

00:02:15.000 or international political crisis. In many ways, this is the perfect metaphor for the entire

00:02:23.800 Democrat Party. The Libs just never got over the 60s. They never got over the 60s. Back in the 60s,

00:02:32.140 the Libs thought they were on the brink of utopia. The cultural revolution was going to usher in

00:02:38.620 the sunny days of the age of Aquarius. And it just didn't happen. Their schemes all failed.

00:02:47.180 The 60s did not usher in utopia. The 60s just gave us the 70s. Crime, drugs, family breakdown,

00:02:55.840 an energy crisis, a stagnant economy, and runaway inflation. Sound familiar?

00:03:00.340 But the Libs stuck to their guns. And now they are proving a maxim of that OG pinko himself,

00:03:07.720 Karl Marx. History repeats itself. First is tragedy. Now is farce. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the

00:03:14.840 Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Margaret Butler,

00:03:25.840 who says, how can the border be secure and broken at the same time? Kamala Harris makes no sense. Yes,

00:03:33.420 this is what they do. They say the border is very secure and it's totally broken and we need to fix it.

00:03:41.620 And they can do that because what they're saying is the border is secure for the purposes of us doing

00:03:47.460 our job. But the border is in crisis for the purposes of us getting Republicans to give us more

00:03:53.440 of what we want. It's actually the same logic that John Roberts used when he heard the Obamacare

00:03:59.280 case. Obamacare posed a difficulty for the Libs at the Supreme Court because if Obamacare presented

00:04:09.100 a penalty for not buying the insurance, then it was unconstitutional. But if Obamacare was just a tax,

00:04:17.500 then the court didn't have the right to hear the case yet because the tax hadn't gone into effect

00:04:21.660 because the way Obamacare was built was that you got all the goodies. The government spent the money

00:04:26.040 10 years before the tax went into effect so that there wasn't too much political pressure to kill

00:04:31.220 the bill. So all of that as background, the Supreme Court was between a rock and a hard place. What did

00:04:35.440 they do? They said, okay, Obamacare is a penalty for the purposes of hearing the case, but it's a tax for

00:04:43.240 the purposes of deciding the case. And that's what the Libs do too. They just move those goalposts 1.00

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00:06:13.320 expressvpn.com slash nulls. What a sad press conference to try to defend this stupid bill 1.00

00:06:22.240 that obviously isn't working. And it wasn't just James Taylor that made it ridiculous. It actually 1.00

00:06:27.460 only occurs to me now, what is James Taylor's nickname? James Taylor's nickname, one of his most

00:06:33.280 famous songs. Sweet Baby James. Good Night, You Moonlight Ladies, rock it by Sweet Baby James. Is

00:06:39.120 he telling us something? Have the libs been wrong this whole time? Is James Taylor a secret

00:06:44.380 conservative? Is he a Matt Walsh fan? I don't know. I don't know. Either way, it wasn't the most

00:06:48.760 ridiculous part of the press conference. The most ridiculous and hilarious part of the press 0.79

00:06:53.560 conference is when Joe Biden was celebrating the Inflation Reduction Act as the stock market 0.55

00:07:01.700 tumbled. This couldn't have happened without every single one of you. And that's in the literal sense

00:07:07.100 the Dow is down almost 1,300 points. Every single one was required. It's still dropping. Because the

00:07:11.740 other team didn't want to play. And all our distinguished guests, CEOs, advocates, activists,

00:07:17.660 thank you for joining us. What a great day. Exactly four weeks ago today, I signed the Inflation

00:07:24.840 Reduction Act in the law. What a great day. The stock market's down 4%. The stock market is in

00:07:32.980 freefall right now. I just signed the Inflation Reduction Act. Very, very awkward when Joe Biden

00:07:39.440 is attempting to celebrate his economic bill, his big economic bill to save the economy.

00:07:45.060 While you're on the very same screen, can watch the economy in freefall. And you say, well, Joe,

00:07:53.400 I'm hearing your words, but with my own eyes, I'm seeing it isn't working. The numbers don't lie.

00:08:00.460 Joe Biden does lie. The White House does lie. But the numbers don't lie. The bill is not going to

00:08:09.740 do anything about inflation. If it does anything, it's going to make inflation worse.

00:08:13.840 That's not just a Republican talking point. Even Bernie Sanders said that at the time that the

00:08:18.800 bill was being debated. It's not going to do anything about that. It's not helping the economy.

00:08:23.540 The economy continues to collapse. And so what can the White House do? All the White House can do

00:08:31.320 is lie. And they're not just lying about the economy or inflation or jobs or whatever. They're lying

00:08:38.980 about virtually every issue. Look at the southern border, a pretty much completely unrelated issue,

00:08:45.020 but another major crisis under Joe Biden. We've got the largest number of foreign people for illegal 1.00

00:08:50.340 foreign nationals coming across that border over 2 million this year, it's going to be. And so what

00:08:56.380 does Corrine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary do? She says, nope, no, no, that's,

00:09:00.460 that's not happening. Compare that to the Trump administration, which largely just tried to

00:09:06.060 build a wall, an ineffective wall along the border and couldn't even finish that in four years.

00:09:12.020 We're certainly doing a lot more to secure the border and could be doing even more if Republicans

00:09:18.680 would stop their obstruction. So the story now from the White House is

00:09:23.300 the White House wants to stop illegal immigration. It's just the Republicans won't let them.

00:09:30.940 The Republic, you'll recall the Republicans come into office led by Trump in 2016 on a platform that

00:09:37.500 was in many ways centered around building the wall and stopping illegal immigration. The Republicans

00:09:43.720 succeeded at doing that for the first months of the Trump presidency. And you saw illegal immigration

00:09:49.440 numbers plummet, but then the Democrats kept throwing all of these impediments, screamed their

00:09:54.740 heads off to stop him from building the wall. And then the numbers started to go back up because

00:09:59.900 they obstructed Trump the whole time. And then Biden comes in, he, he gets rid of what little law

00:10:06.760 enforcement Trump had instituted at the border. And then the numbers, what do you expect? The numbers

00:10:11.140 go straight back up. And now that's a big problem and it's deeply unpopular. So what's the White House

00:10:16.140 doing? They're not changing the policy at all. They're, they're just lying about it. And they,

00:10:20.380 they think that we're going to buy it. It actually, this demonstrates that same principle at the top

00:10:25.480 of the show. It's the same kind of language they used with the border back when, when Trump tried

00:10:31.240 to build the wall. They said, walls don't work and they're extremely cruel and inhumane.

00:10:37.900 They said, well, which is it? If the wall, if the wall doesn't work, then it's not cruel and

00:10:42.260 inhumane. It's not stopping anybody from doing anything. If the wall is extremely cruel and

00:10:46.680 inhumane and it's preventing these poor people from crossing into our country, then obviously 1.00

00:10:50.500 the walls work. Which is it? Well, they say it's, it's either one, either of these two contradictory

00:10:56.380 ideas, according to the political convenience of Democrats. So that's all they can do. They can

00:11:02.820 just lie. And if the lies don't work, and I don't think people are really going to be convinced by

00:11:06.940 this, people know that we've got illegal aliens pouring into the country. You now have people in 0.94

00:11:11.880 blue cities admitting this because the red state governors in Arizona and Texas are busing a very

00:11:18.180 small percentage of the illegal aliens crossing into the country, busing them to DC and New York

00:11:22.960 and Chicago and all the blue state mayors who, and blue city mayors who had previously said,

00:11:28.860 oh, we're a sanctuary cities. Please welcome, welcome those people. Diversity is our strength.

00:11:33.560 No human is illegal. Now, the minute that the illegal aliens actually show up, they're saying,

00:11:37.160 this is horrible. It's a strain on our resources. Stop doing it. Please stop. So people know

00:11:41.320 that's happening, no matter what the White House is saying. People know that the economy

00:11:45.540 is collapsing. They know it because they've got retirement plans. They know it because

00:11:49.340 they got their money in the stock market. Even if they don't have a retirement plan or money in the

00:11:53.240 stock market, they know it because they have to fill up their cars. They know it because they have

00:11:56.960 to go to the grocery store and they see that the prices are at 40 year highs. Okay. So when the lies

00:12:03.740 don't work, then the libs are left with only one option. And it's at one option that you are seeing

00:12:10.420 them exercise more and more vociferously in recent weeks. And that option is to threaten people. And

00:12:16.480 you're seeing that now from Tim Ryan. He's running for Senate in Ohio. He's saying, not only do we need

00:12:22.860 to stop these Republicans from getting elected, not only do we need to expose their lies, not only even do

00:12:29.800 we need to investigate the Republicans. He's saying that Democrats need to kill 0.98

00:12:35.460 MAGA voters. They need to kill the MAGA movement. 0.98

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00:13:10.880 to ensure your title is still in your name. Tim Ryan, Democrat, not just a Democrat candidate

00:13:17.020 for Senate, but the Democrat nominee is calling to kill us. How do we fix all of these broken

00:13:27.040 systems? Some of those answers will come from Republicans. It's not the extremists that we're

00:13:32.160 dealing with every single day. We've got to kill and confront that movement. But, you know, working 1.00

00:13:37.500 with normal mainstream Republicans, I think that's going to be really, really important because we have

00:13:42.500 to reform these systems. Do we need to kill the, now notice what he says. He says, not the mainstream

00:13:51.020 Republicans, I'm just talking about the MAGA Republicans. But this is a ridiculous rhetorical 0.97

00:13:57.140 trick because statistically all Republicans are MAGA Republicans. Donald Trump got elected president 0.82

00:14:03.260 at least once. He was the Republican nominee for president twice and very likely will be again.

00:14:10.040 He is leading in the polls by a huge margin right now. The never Trump movement is pretty much just

00:14:16.640 like five guys who meet for lunch at Bill Kristol's house at this point. So the, not only the mainstream

00:14:24.160 Republicans, but pretty much every Republican is a MAGA Republican. And what the Democrats are saying is

00:14:30.360 we want to not only oppose the Republicans, namely half the country, we want to do violence to them. 1.00

00:14:39.260 They're terrorists. They're like Al-Qaeda. They're an extreme existential threat to our sacred 1.00

00:14:44.240 democracy. We want to kill them. We want to, we want to kill you. That's what, that's what they're 1.00

00:14:49.020 telling us. And they're trying to give themselves a little out by pretending there's some other giant

00:14:53.900 group of anti-Trump Republicans, but that, that doesn't exist. That's completely fake.

00:14:57.680 What they're saying is we want to kill you half the country. 0.98

00:15:02.980 And, and it's not just Tim Ryan. It's all these people who are comparing us to terrorists and 0.99

00:15:07.860 calling us fascists and saying that our very existence poses a threat to the country. It's,

00:15:13.020 it's Joe Biden. It's Hillary Clinton. It's Kamala Harris. It's the people on CNN. It's Dino Bidaya.

00:15:18.640 It's all these other people. Now, speaking of violence, there's a video that's gone viral right

00:15:24.680 now. And it's a video from some school where kids, some kids are beating up another kid and the kid,

00:15:31.760 there's one kid in particular who's beating up one other kid in particular. And then there's a group

00:15:36.100 of kids standing around, one of whom is filming. And in the video, the kid who, the kid beating up the

00:15:42.660 other kid is black. The kid getting beaten up is white. And the kids all standing around and filming 0.72

00:15:47.140 all seem to be black as well. It's a horrible, horrible video, but it is basically everywhere 1.00

00:15:53.400 on the internet right now. You see the kid, the kid throws the poor kid's head into a wall. The kid's

00:16:02.420 now grabbing his neck. He walks up, kicks him in the face. I mean, just savage, absolute animal kind 0.98

00:16:08.360 of behavior. And the kid who's doing the beating is bad enough, savage enough. In a way, the kid who's

00:16:20.440 filming it is even worse. Maybe the kid who's doing the beating is just like some rabid dog who can't

00:16:26.780 control his own emotions. But the kid who's doing the filming is clearly much more methodical about it,

00:16:32.940 has thought this thing out. And it's just awful. Your heart breaks for this poor little kid who's been

00:16:37.260 beaten up. I hope the kid is okay. Obviously, we can all pray for the poor little kid who was beaten

00:16:42.400 up. And we can hope that justice is done for the savages who are committing the crime. 0.63

00:16:48.120 The reason I bring it up, though, the reason I bring up specifically the racial terms is we all

00:16:55.400 know for a fact that if the races were reversed, not only would this be spoken of on all of the news

00:17:04.060 networks. This wouldn't just be going viral on the internet. This would be on every news network.

00:17:08.480 The president would speak about it. There would be a national month of mourning. There would be riots

00:17:13.220 in the streets. There might be a presidential address. There might be a presidential address

00:17:18.520 about how we need to have a national conversation about race. And we all know that that would happen.

00:17:25.260 And the reason I bring this up again is not to point out the hypocrisy and say,

00:17:29.780 if the roles were reversed, that's actually not my point here. Because could you imagine if the

00:17:37.080 roles were reversed is how conservatism is going to die? Because it's just, of course, it's hypocritical. 0.98

00:17:41.820 The left knows it. They don't care. That's, yes. Uh-huh. You're not telling them anything they 0.97

00:17:46.520 don't already know. The reason I mention it, the reason I even show that awful clip, is because

00:17:52.140 because of the strength of narrative. Because if the roles were reversed, it's not just the libs who

00:17:59.560 would cynically exploit it in the way that they're ignoring this clip. You would feel it too.

00:18:06.940 You conservative people, you conservative people all throughout the country, sea to shining sea in

00:18:12.640 every city, in every state, of every race, of every demographic group, you would feel it a little bit

00:18:17.320 too. Such is the power of narrative. This is how there were plenty of people who were kind of center

00:18:25.600 right, friends I know who would call themselves conservatives, who started to get sucked into the

00:18:31.820 George Floyd stuff, who posted the BLM black square, who fall into this because it is the narrative that

00:18:40.420 is drilled into us everywhere from every cultural institution and from the government and in our

00:18:45.520 education system and in the media and just everywhere. And so we might know, yeah, statistically, this

00:18:51.080 isn't real. Statistically, racist cops chasing down black men, it just doesn't exist. Lock that one away 0.96

00:18:57.900 with Bigfoot. It's totally not real. We know that on an intellectual level, but such is the power of

00:19:05.280 narrative. Even the centrists, even the center right, even some conservatives would feel that

00:19:13.920 instinctively. Mentioning BLM, mentioning George Floyd and racial politics, there was a great, really

00:19:23.380 incisive commentary from Sophie Corcoran, who's British. She's on GBTV, a conservative channel in

00:19:30.740 Great Britain. She said, quote, Dear Americans who mock us for mourning our beloved queen, she dedicated her

00:19:37.180 entire life to her duty and our country, even just two days before her death. You mourned a man who pointed a

00:19:42.960 gun at a pregnant woman by burning cities to the ground. We are not the same. Harsh, but fair. 1.00

00:19:50.440 What she's saying is, you're all laughing at us because you think it is ridiculous that we hold 0.88

00:19:56.600 the queen sacred. You hold criminals as sacred. You think it's ridiculous that we have all this pomp and 0.96

00:20:05.560 circumstance for her royal majesty, the queen. You had pomp and circumstance. You had four funerals

00:20:11.880 that one of which was attended by the soon to be president, Joe Biden, for a criminal who resisted

00:20:19.320 arrest and died of some combination of police force, possibly of police force and a fentanyl overdose

00:20:25.860 because he had a toxic level of drugs in his system. Which is more ridiculous? You think that 0.98

00:20:34.060 we've got this kind of crazy, sacred thing that we venerate and we pay respect to? Well, you've got

00:20:42.060 them to, you're just not aware of it and yours are much more ridiculous. This is actually why I'm 0.99

00:20:49.080 cautiously hopeful about King Charles III. Charles has been an object of derision for many years by

00:20:56.000 conservatives because he says all sorts of kooky, weird environmentalist stuff. And he pals around with

00:21:00.940 Klaus Schwab and he talks about the great reset. And there, there are plenty of red flags and warning

00:21:05.420 signs. I'm not denying that, but there was a video that went around that was making the rounds after

00:21:11.500 Queen Elizabeth died. And it made me wonder, is Charles a little bit more conservative than we

00:21:18.860 all think? It's Charles describing tradition. The teachings of the traditionalists should not

00:21:25.240 in any sense, in any sense, be taken to mean that they seek, as it were, to repeat the past, or indeed

00:21:32.280 simply to draw a distinction between the present and the past. Theirs is not a nostalgia for the past,

00:21:39.960 but a yearning for the sacred. And if they defend the past, it is because in the pre-modern world,

00:21:47.240 all civilizations were marked by the presence of the sacred. As I understand it, in referring to

00:21:56.440 tradition, they refer to a metaphysical reality and to underlying principles that are timeless,

00:22:03.400 as true now as they have ever been and will be.

00:22:06.920 Absolutely brilliant. And, and, and evidence that this guy, this kind of weird lib sounding guy who

00:22:13.800 prattles on about global warming and pals around the World Economic Forum, this guy gets conservatism

00:22:20.040 better than probably 70% of American conservatives or more. Because he's saying,

00:22:25.960 and certainly better than all the libs do, he's saying traditionalism, you know, conservatism is not

00:22:32.360 about a nostalgia for the past. Nostalgia is history after a few drinks, okay? When, when we make an

00:22:40.120 idol out of the past, we're, we're really being saccharine and sentimental. The past was not nearly

00:22:46.760 as great as we all like to imagine. We sometimes think that our childhood was the greatest period

00:22:51.240 in all of human history. We think that because we were little kids and we didn't have any

00:22:54.840 responsibilities and we had the comfort of our parents. And, and so, no, it's not just about this

00:23:00.680 nostalgic yearning for the past. It is a longing for the sacred. It's a longing not for dusty old

00:23:07.080 things. It's a longing for things that are timeless, that are ageless ideals. The tradition is not some

00:23:15.560 dusty old thing. It's, it's the most vibrant thing in the world because it's that which has endured

00:23:20.400 through so many years and decades and centuries and millennia even into the present. That it's those

00:23:27.800 truths and institutions that the libs are attacking and trying to destroy. It's those sacred things

00:23:33.840 that they are desecrating. And, and, and that is what keeps conservatives up at night.

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00:24:50.260 The libs want to attack the sacred. That's what it's all about. Because for the libs,

00:24:58.780 at least when they begin their revolution, nothing is sacred. All the holy taboos that we have,

00:25:06.580 they desecrate. You think one of the most famous pieces of lib art in recent decades was something

00:25:12.100 called Piss Christ, and it was a photograph funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, I believe,

00:25:19.300 funded with your taxpayer dollars, a photograph of a crucifix in a jar of piss. 0.74

00:25:24.200 And he called it Piss Christ. Obviously, completely worthless as a matter of art, 0.92

00:25:33.200 but it was part of a political movement. And the political movement is to take everything that we

00:25:37.820 hold sacred and destroy it. The family, we hold the family sacred, they're going to destroy that.

00:25:44.720 The Bible, we hold the Bible to be sacred, yeah, that's going to be banned from public schools.

00:25:48.820 You can't teach that. You can teach Mein Kampf, you can teach genderqueer, you can have gay porn 1.00

00:25:53.580 in middle schools. No Bible. You can't teach that. Because you hold that sacred, 1.00

00:25:58.180 and the libs want to destroy that. Whatever, you're very nation, you're very country,

00:26:04.660 you hold your country to some degree sacred. Yeah, we're going to get rid of those borders,

00:26:09.620 absolutely. We're going to ship your industry overseas, we're going to import millions of

00:26:14.260 foreigners a year. That's gone. Absolutely not. And especially in the question of sex, 1.00

00:26:18.960 which is so important to human nature, anything you hold sacred about sex, the idea of monogamy,

00:26:25.400 the idea of chastity, the idea of, I don't know, not having weird deviants in the street marching

00:26:33.480 around in leather girdles and things up and down Main Street while your kids watch. 0.65

00:26:39.120 The idea of not having transvestites jiggle around for little kids at the library. Just in any way 1.00

00:26:46.460 that sex might be held to be something that we take care of, that we hold sacred. No, 0.99

00:26:52.400 that has to be destroyed. And it has to be destroyed for younger and younger audiences,

00:26:56.640 not just for adults, but for teenagers, not just for teenagers, for little, little kids.

00:27:01.280 They have to do that. And then what's the consequence of that?

00:27:03.940 The consequence is not that nothing is held sacred. The consequence is that they hold new

00:27:08.780 things sacred, destructive things. We once held innocence to be sacred. Now we hold criminality

00:27:15.180 to be sacred. We've got those poor criminals, those poor beleaguered criminals. We need to let

00:27:19.360 them out of prison. John Fetterman, who is running for Senate in Pennsylvania, he says if he had a magic

00:27:24.800 wand, the first thing he would do would be to let murderers out of prison. This actually brings us to

00:27:29.940 Dr. Oz, because I hate this Senate race in Pennsylvania. I hate it. The Democrat is a radical

00:27:38.000 socialist with actual brain damage. I don't say that to be funny. The guy had a stroke and he refuses 0.94

00:27:43.980 to go into rehab for it because he's on the campaign trail. He wants to win and he can't string a

00:27:48.640 sentence together. And he's obviously in terrible, terrible health. And when he was in relatively

00:27:54.980 better health, he was a radical socialist. He has never held an honest job in his life. He's just

00:28:00.960 lived off his parents' allowance, which was up to over $50,000 at one point a year. So terrible,

00:28:07.900 terrible candidate. And then the Republican candidate is Dr. Oz. The Republican candidate is

00:28:14.520 pretty much a Democrat who I'm not even convinced lives in Pennsylvania. He was just a glib TV host,

00:28:20.500 sort of quack. And the most prominent political statements he's made in recent years were attacking

00:28:25.800 pro-lifers and now actively campaigning for enshrining gay marriage, so-called radical 0.55

00:28:33.520 redefinition of marriage into law. Dr. Oz just tweeted out, quote, I'm proud to join this effort

00:28:38.540 with fellow Republicans. I believe that same-sex couples should have the freedom to get married as

00:28:43.920 straight couples. The same freedom. Okay, first of all, homosexuals or people with any kind of 1.00

00:28:50.240 unusual sexual desire have always had the freedom and the right to get married. Always, for all of

00:28:56.100 human history. Because marriage intrinsically involves sexual difference. Two men cannot get 1.00

00:29:02.780 married to one another because that isn't what marriage is. And it never can be what marriage is. 0.95

00:29:07.520 If marriage is to have any meaning at all, it must involve sexual difference. 0.99

00:29:13.920 Or else there is no way of distinguishing marriage from any other social bond. Then it just becomes

00:29:20.380 a kind of financial partnership. It's no different than starting a small business. Then it becomes

00:29:27.420 sort of like an LLC. Okay, there is, if marriage is not the union of a man and a woman in perpetuity

00:29:35.740 for the sake of the generation and education of children, then I just don't know what marriage is.

00:29:43.160 Then there's no way really of defining it. My issue here is not that Dr. Oz, who's in a kind of purple

00:29:49.240 state, who's obviously a squish. It's not even that he's squishing on an issue. It's not even that he's 0.90

00:29:56.200 squishing on an issue as important, as fundamental as marriage, which is the fundamental building block

00:30:01.760 of society. It's that he's not even passively supporting it. He's not even just keeping his

00:30:08.860 mouth shut. He is actively campaigning to enshrine into law, federal law, one of the most radical

00:30:19.500 decisions, if not the single most radical decision ever handed down by the Supreme Court. He's actively

00:30:25.960 doing that. I have no evidence that Dr. Oz is even vaguely, slightly, in any way, a conservative on

00:30:37.680 any issue. All I know about him is that he makes fun of pro-lifers and attacks people for passing

00:30:44.960 pro-life laws, and that he holds a view of marriage that is so radical. It would be too radical for

00:30:51.640 Barack Obama in 2010. It would be too radical for Hillary Clinton around the same time. That's all 0.52

00:30:57.160 I know about him. And so I think, what's the point of electing him? Now, I know the point. I know the

00:31:01.060 point. I suggested this yesterday, and everyone yelled at me, but I think it's because they didn't

00:31:05.200 read what I said closely enough. I said, if I were in Pennsylvania, I would strongly consider staying

00:31:09.800 home when it comes to Dr. Oz. Sure, vote for the other Republicans, but when it comes to Dr. Oz,

00:31:16.520 I would strongly consider not voting for him. I didn't say I wouldn't vote for him. I'm saying

00:31:22.220 I would strongly consider it. Because this guy is such a loser. He's such a Democrat loser. It's 1.00

00:31:29.820 pathetic. He's running a terrible campaign. He's wrong on some of the most important issues. He just 1.00

00:31:37.240 is terrible. He's just an awful candidate. And I keep trying to get myself to say, hey, well, 0.99

00:31:41.900 here's the bright side. Here's one thing. He's got nothing. The guy's a complete buffoon.

00:31:47.040 Loser. But what's the alternative? The alternative is John Fetterman. Now, 1.00

00:31:52.100 if the Republicans were going to hold the Senate, let's say we had been in control and we were going

00:31:58.200 to hold the Senate, or we had a good electoral map and it looked like we were going to win the

00:32:02.900 Senate with a healthy margin, I would say, okay, lose the Senate seat in Pennsylvania. That's what I

00:32:11.560 would say. I would say if we were going to have 53-47 Republicans, we had plenty of safe seats,

00:32:17.680 and it was the difference between 53-47 and 52-48 in the Senate, I'd say lose the Senate seat in

00:32:24.120 Pennsylvania. The guy, one, look, conservatives are either social conservatives or they're not

00:32:30.160 conservatives at all. I was at the National Conservatism Conference yesterday. Father Benedict

00:32:33.500 Keeley made that very important point. And even in the purple states, at least keep your mouth shut

00:32:38.840 on these issues. At least kind of go soft. Don't actively campaign in this radical way. Okay,

00:32:43.280 fine. But I know, I know. Look, Pennsylvania could be, could be the deciding factor.

00:32:50.060 And John Fetterman is particularly radical. And Pennsylvania could be the deciding factor.

00:32:58.220 So I guess, I guess, I guess people should vote for Dr. Oz. I guess. He's just such a loser.

00:33:05.240 It's not even, you know, I just called him a buffoon. It's not even that he's a buffoon. 1.00

00:33:09.880 It's worse than that. He's probably too intelligent to be a buffoon. He's just a big lib. He's just a big 0.99

00:33:17.400 squish lib running a terrible campaign as a radical leftist Democrat circa 2014. 1.00

00:33:27.300 And it's just so pathetic. And I think, oh, that's what the conservatives are? Whatever. Give it to 0.98

00:33:31.320 the Democrats. If you're, if you're telling me I can get a Democrat who is 700% more radical than they

00:33:40.720 were seven years ago, or 650% more radical than they were seven years ago. Okay, give me the Democrat.

00:33:47.260 I don't care. I want a choice, not an echo. And Dr. Oz is nothing but an echo. All of that said,

00:33:53.120 all of that said, Pennsylvania could be the deciding factor between Republicans having the

00:34:00.180 Senate or Democrats having the Senate. And the Republicans having the Senate could be the

00:34:05.100 deciding factor in stopping Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominees. We've got some older conservative

00:34:09.120 justices on the court. And so as a matter of just sheer resignation, I guess if I, if look,

00:34:18.100 you're for those listening in Pennsylvania, you got to vote how you want to vote. I guess if I were in

00:34:22.340 Pennsylvania, I would, I guess I would lean toward voting for Dr. Oz, but he's just such a loser. 0.95

00:34:32.480 I don't expect him to win. Maybe he'll win. Maybe he'll pull it out because Fetterman is such a 0.94

00:34:37.300 terrible candidate. And because Joe Biden is so deeply unpopular, because things are going so

00:34:41.480 horribly. But you know what I would like though? Here's what I would ask. If I were a voter in

00:34:45.200 Pennsylvania and I were talking to Dr. Oz, I would say, Hey, Dr. Oz, can you give me

00:34:50.060 any even slight hint of a suggestion that you even would be the swing vote to the Republicans?

00:34:58.260 I'm not even convinced you'd be that. I'm not even convinced if it really came down to it,

00:35:02.240 you had to be the deciding vote that you wouldn't just squish and vote with the Dems on the important

00:35:05.660 issues on holding up the Supreme Court nominees on any issue. So can you just give me, just don't

00:35:12.340 make me look like such an idiot voting for you. Could you just give me anything, man? I don't know 0.99

00:35:18.960 that he can. It's pathetic. It's so pathetic. He's my, he's my least favorite Republican running in 1.00

00:35:24.220 this. It's so sad. So there weren't great options. General, I thought I liked Kathy Barnett. There

00:35:30.220 weren't generally, it wasn't one of these huge fields where you, but it's like, why do you have

00:35:35.380 to, why do you have to run as an activist leftist Democrat? Good grief. It all depends on, it all

00:35:43.240 depends on the map. Luckily, we're getting some good news out of Georgia that the Republicans might,

00:35:48.380 might be able to avoid grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory as they so often do.

00:35:55.420 Speaking of victory, if you've been thinking to yourself, hey, you know, it's, it's, well,

00:36:02.700 actually before I get to Candace Owens, thinking of victory, I don't know if you've been following

00:36:07.220 the fantasy football draft at the Daily Wire. I happen to be the football king. My team is called

00:36:14.340 Team Nostradamus, and I am really pleased to say that my predictive powers, my powers of near

00:36:20.440 prophecy, they stretch not only from, into the realm of politics, they also go into the realm of sports.

00:36:28.480 I am winning. I am beating all the Craney Company guys. I'm beating Matt. I'm beating Drew. I'm beating

00:36:33.980 Ben. I'm beating Bickley. I'm beating everybody, okay? I am a football maven, and I think you could

00:36:40.540 probably tell that from my build, you know, and, and you could probably tell that from my just sheer

00:36:46.240 sort of Adonis-like athleticism, but follow, you know, follow the fantasy football. I've never

00:36:53.020 watched a complete NFL game, but I, I am going to win that golden tumbler. Also, if you've been,

00:36:58.660 if you've been wondering, hey, where's Candace Owens? Well, I got great news for you. Candace Owens is 1.00

00:37:02.780 back from maternity leave in a brand new Daily Wire Plus show. Candace Owens, she is fearlessly

00:37:09.040 exploring topics that the media won't touch and exposing the corruption and hypocrisy in news and

00:37:13.980 politics. And the best part is it's five days a week, Monday through Friday. You will not want

00:37:19.280 to miss her explosive first episode, which premiered this week on Daily Wire Plus. Trust me

00:37:24.020 when I say this is huge. Watch Candace Owens' new show now on Daily Wire Plus or listen on Apple

00:37:30.120 Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Good news out of Georgia. After all this, 0.67

00:37:37.720 just, I'm just going to bang my head against a wall looking at Dr. Oz and the ridiculous race in 1.00

00:37:42.980 Pennsylvania. How do you lose to Fetterman? I don't know. It's not looking great though. There's 0.88

00:37:47.740 some good news though in Georgia. Herschel Walker is doing very, very well. He's gaining speed in the

00:37:54.000 Georgia Senate race over Raphael Warnock, who is a much stronger candidate, by the way, the Democrat.

00:37:59.980 He also is a socialist. He's a radical. And he, he is much better on the campaign trail,

00:38:07.020 obviously, than John Fetterman is. But Herschel Walker is gaining a ton of ground here. According

00:38:13.020 to a poll conducted by Insider Advantage and Fox 5, Warnock has lost four points since July.

00:38:21.320 Herschel has picked up two points. So that means that Herschel is now leading Warnock 47-44.

00:38:28.300 Now, do I love those numbers? No. 47-44 means it's still anybody's race, 0.92

00:38:33.880 but the momentum is clearly with Herschel Walker. And the momentum is not with Raphael Warnock.

00:38:40.080 Even though Warnock is a much better candidate than, than John Fetterman, for instance, in

00:38:45.600 Pennsylvania. How's Herschel Walker doing it? Well, I think one of the ways he's doing it is he's not

00:38:50.680 sucking up to the libs on every issue. Dr. Oz, this show, I'm going to retitle this show, Dr. Oz,

00:38:56.780 stop blowing it. Why? Why? Why? You know what Herschel Walker is doing? He's being normal. He's

00:39:05.940 just being a normal guy. One of the knocks against Herschel Walker's candidacy was,

00:39:10.760 Herschel Walker, he doesn't know a lot about politics. He's not some egghead, you know,

00:39:14.640 sort of policy wonk. He is just a very famous athlete. Yeah, he's a very famous athlete who is,

00:39:21.740 seems pretty solid on the issues. I don't know, haven't sat down with Herschel Walker at length,

00:39:26.960 but he seems like he's pretty solid, good old conservative candidate. And he's normal.

00:39:32.480 Okay, and this is something that the Republicans are going to have to think about when we look

00:39:36.700 ahead to 2024. Because the people who are paying attention right now to the 2024 horse race,

00:39:43.600 or the people who are listening to this show, or the people who are reading up on the political

00:39:48.860 reports, or the people who know exactly what's going on in the economy and criminal justice and

00:39:52.960 immigration. And that is unusual. Okay, I'm not saying that to flatter you, the people who are

00:39:58.040 listening to this show. You are very high information voters. And I'm not saying it in a way to say I'm

00:40:04.460 just giving you all this truth, though obviously I am. I just mean, if you pay attention really at all

00:40:10.940 to politics, especially in off years, you just are a high information voter. Okay, and a lot of people,

00:40:17.680 maybe most people, are not. They're doing other things. And so when we're looking for candidates,

00:40:23.880 it's really good to get candidates who are normal. Okay? This is one advantage that Donald

00:40:32.220 Trump has. Is he normal in the sense that he's just like your average Joe on the street? No,

00:40:37.700 of course not. In many ways, Donald Trump is extremely unusual. He was born very, very wealthy.

00:40:42.160 He's been a major international celebrity for 40 years. He flies around on a gigantic airplane

00:40:46.780 and sleeps with supermodels. And he, you know, no. But the way he approaches politics

00:40:52.380 is pretty normal. Okay? And he talks to people in a normal way. And that, I think, is what we've

00:40:59.180 got to focus on. Sometimes you get political candidates like Dr. Oz, who are just spending

00:41:05.660 all their time sucking up to beltway Democrat people who really don't represent America. There's

00:41:10.100 a huge chasm between the liberal elite right now and ordinary Americans. And the Democrats know

00:41:15.540 that. That's why the Democrats are lying and threatening ordinary Americans and calling

00:41:18.460 us an existential threat to the country. So if you have to choose, you're running for office,

00:41:25.040 would you choose to side with the extremely out of touch and unpopular liberal elite? Or would you

00:41:29.480 choose to side with ordinary people? That's a no-brainer, I guess, unless you're Dr. Oz.

00:41:35.460 So that's one way that the Republican candidates stop being normal. You get someone like Asa Hutchinson

00:41:40.000 is the governor of Arkansas. And he refuses to sign a bill that will prevent quacks from 1.00

00:41:47.380 transing little kids. Not even stopping transgender surgery generally, just transing the little kids. 0.98

00:41:52.340 He goes, no, no, that's far too far. That's right. Because he is just beholden to liberal elite

00:41:58.420 consensus, which is completely detached from ordinary people. That's one way they do it.

00:42:04.180 And then the other way they do it, that conservatives get really, really weird,

00:42:07.700 is they get super ideological. And they say, well, actually, here's my five bullet point plan for

00:42:13.160 how I'm going to just completely remake all of the public policy in America to have my ideal,

00:42:18.800 I don't know, capitalist utopia or this or that or this. And it's just really strange. And when

00:42:23.960 they get extremely beholden to ideological platitudes, that turns people off too. This is why

00:42:30.440 it was my favorite line from Trump in 2016. And it was the one that irritated all of the

00:42:36.140 egghead four eyes conservatives is when Trump was asked, hey, what do you want to do as president?

00:42:42.700 What's your number one priority? He says, I want people to have good communities. I want people

00:42:46.200 to have good neighborhoods, be safe, do well, have the economy, be strong. And I want them to have

00:42:54.000 like a good life, you know? And then all the ideological eggheads, he said, that's actually not

00:42:58.760 the role of the president to give people a good life. No, that's not. That's a violation of

00:43:02.500 federalism and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, man. That's politics 101. Yeah. Hey, I'm running to

00:43:08.880 make your life better. What's my ideology? I want more good and less bad. How about that?

00:43:17.540 Yeah, that's how normal people think. That's not how the beltway thinks. That's how normal people

00:43:20.580 think. Do that. And frankly, in many ways, I think that's how Herschel Walker is campaigning.

00:43:24.280 Speaking of weird moves from senators and Senate candidates, Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham has 1.00

00:43:32.040 just introduced a bill at the federal level, obviously, to ban abortions nationwide after 15

00:43:39.480 weeks. The bill is called the Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act,

00:43:45.400 and he announced it during a press conference. Okay. In principle, I like this. I don't love this

00:43:53.820 because I don't want to ban abortions after 15 weeks. I just want to ban abortion because a

00:43:57.640 person's a person no matter how small, and we shouldn't be able to kill any babies. 0.91

00:44:00.740 But in principle, I guess I like it. I'd rather it be harder to get abortions than easier. And so

00:44:08.300 if this bill makes it harder, okay, that's fine. But practically speaking, I don't get it at all.

00:44:14.200 There is a 0% chance that this bill will go into effect. The Democrats have the House,

00:44:18.120 the Democrats have the Senate, and the Democrats have the presidency. There is a 0% chance this bill

00:44:22.260 goes into effect. Furthermore, the Supreme Court says this abortion is not a federal issue. It's

00:44:26.400 going to be a state's issue. Now, you might believe it could be a federal issue. I think there's a

00:44:30.540 strong argument that it could be a federal issue. But no branch of government currently will even

00:44:37.780 entertain this. So all this could possibly do is bring the abortion issue to the forefront

00:44:48.740 in the midterm elections. I don't know that there's any reason to do that. The abortion issue

00:44:53.940 motivates Democrats to get out to the polls. It may even motivate Republicans more. But still,

00:44:58.580 why would you take that risk when you've got great issues like the economy, when you've got great

00:45:03.260 issues like immigration, when you've got great issues like foreign policy, when you've got,

00:45:08.000 when Biden is, I say they're great issues because Biden is failing on all of those issues. Why

00:45:12.360 wouldn't you make that issue? Why would you get to bring up this really controversial matter

00:45:17.240 that, though extremely important and a central issue, cannot possibly go into effect? Why wouldn't

00:45:26.720 you wait until after the midterms when Republicans win back the House and very possibly win back the

00:45:31.520 Senate, though it's close? Why wouldn't you wait until then to bring this up when we have at least

00:45:34.740 a chance of kind of getting it some headway? Why? And I'm scratching my head on this. All this can

00:45:41.760 possibly do is make it harder for Republicans to win the Senate. Why? And then it hit me.

00:45:48.800 I have a theory. I'm not totally sold on this theory. It's just something that popped into my

00:45:53.920 head. I'm working it out in real time. I would love to hear your thoughts. Is Lindsey Graham

00:45:59.920 introducing this bill? He's obviously not introducing it because he thinks it's going to pass. It can't

00:46:03.120 possibly pass. And he's a relatively intelligent man. I don't think that he is under any illusions about

00:46:09.120 that. Is he introducing this bill because he doesn't want Republicans to win the Senate? Hear me

00:46:17.500 out. Why would Lindsey Graham, why would the sort of establishmentarian Republicans, why would they 0.97

00:46:26.440 want to win the Senate right now? Well, okay, you can stop some of Joe Biden's agenda, though some of

00:46:33.340 it. I'm not sure you can even stop all that much. Maybe you can stop some of the judges. That would be

00:46:37.480 good. But what's the downside? The Republicans almost certainly are going to win the House. If

00:46:42.360 Republicans don't win the House, we don't have a serious electoral system. It's all fraud.

00:46:46.380 So let's say Republicans win the House. There's going to be huge pressure for the Republicans to

00:46:51.640 impeach Joe Biden because the Democrats now just use the tool of impeachment as a political cudgel.

00:46:57.060 There's really no legal basis anymore. They impeach Trump twice over complete nonsense. So

00:47:02.400 there's going to be a huge amount of pressure to retaliate and impeach Joe Biden. I suspect the

00:47:08.140 House will do that. Then it's going to be up to the Senate to convict. Remember, Donald Trump was

00:47:13.460 impeached twice, but he was never convicted because the Republican Senate never convicted him.

00:47:18.200 If Republicans control both houses, there will be a huge amount of political pressure not only to

00:47:22.840 impeach, but to convict. And I think most Republicans do not want to convict Joe Biden

00:47:27.680 for a good reason because they don't want impeachment to just become this partisan tool

00:47:36.100 where you just automatically impeach whoever the opposite, the other guy is, you know, if the other

00:47:40.260 party is in power. Because that would effectively turn the United States into a parliamentary system

00:47:44.260 rather than the current kind of Republican federal structure that we have. That'd be one reason.

00:47:49.880 And then the bad reason is just cowardice. They just don't, they don't actually want that fight

00:47:54.040 because Republicans, Republican politicians are very often squishes and, and really their role

00:48:00.560 in the American political regime is as the junior partner of the ruling class. So their job really is

00:48:06.460 to lose and to lose with dignity and to, but to not really get anything done. That's why on pretty

00:48:11.740 much every single issue, the country has moved radically to the left over the last 50 years.

00:48:17.660 Abortion is one issue where we've made some headway going back, but even then not a ton,

00:48:22.260 even with the Dobbs decision, you're still gonna have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of babies

00:48:26.080 each year killed through abortion. So the, the, the, all of the momentum has been toward the left

00:48:32.520 and some Republicans are perfectly fine with that. Maybe they're trying to throw it. I don't,

00:48:38.620 I'm not saying that's my view. I don't want to engage in conspiracy theories, but it's, it's the

00:48:45.280 simplest, most convincing explanation that I can see. Going a little bit woke.

00:48:52.260 They're going a little bit woke. They're not really opposing the woke. Today, you know,

00:48:55.520 is woke Wednesday. So on the member block, the producers tell me that they, they have got a

00:49:00.360 video that is going to be impossible for me to guess. On woke Wednesday, I am presented with the

00:49:06.920 woke videos that are going viral and I have to either guess what they're talking about or try to

00:49:11.440 make some sense of their argument. And you know, specifically now white people are the cause of all 0.96

00:49:15.200 the problems in the world. White people have, I don't know, white people are probably causing the 1.00

00:49:18.680 crisis in Tibet for all we know. They're just the cause of all the problems in the world. 0.99

00:49:21.800 And my producers are betting that I cannot guess what the white people are to blame for now. 0.98

00:49:29.680 The show is starting now. So if you don't want to miss it, head on over. If you're not a member,

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 14, 2022

Ep. 1087 - Biden Throws A Party For Destroying The Economy

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