The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1112 - Fetterman Implodes On Live TV

00:00:00.000 Last night, Democrat John Fetterman faced off with Republican Dr. Oz in the first and only debate

00:00:07.140 for one of the most important Senate races in the country. And things did not go great for John

00:00:14.000 Fetterman. As lieutenant governor, you're running for a seat that could decide the balance of power

00:00:20.880 in Washington. What qualifies you to be a U.S. senator? You have 60 seconds.

00:00:26.540 Hi. Good night, everybody. I'm running to serve Pennsylvania. He's running to use Pennsylvania.

00:00:35.840 Not a great way to start. And Fetterman's performance only went downhill from there.

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00:02:53.340 I knew that John Fetterman was in bad shape. He was never the sharpest tool in the shed. He's

00:03:00.820 always had extremely radical, terrible ideas for government for his entire political career.

00:03:06.500 He's never held a real productive job outside of the government in his life. He has been on his

00:03:14.100 parents' dole, basically, since he was a little kid. Even in recent years, he received an allowance

00:03:21.220 of $50,000 plus per year to subsidize his political meanderings. And he said that if he

00:03:29.300 had a magic wand, he would wave it. And the first thing he would do is free murderers from prison.

00:03:33.920 So the guy was always a complete disaster. Then, right around the time of his election,

00:03:39.940 to become the Democrat nominee during the primaries, he had a stroke. And his campaign

00:03:45.380 has consistently downplayed how bad the stroke was and tried to pretend that he's had this amazing

00:03:50.660 recovery. Now, I never believed any of that. I always knew John Fetterman was in pretty bad shape.

00:03:55.940 I had no idea that he was in this bad of shape.

00:04:03.080 So we've got, I'll give you a few of the highlights here. There's no reason to go

00:04:07.960 through the whole debate. I actually can't even watch the whole debate. It's just, you feel,

00:04:11.980 you actually feel bad for the guy. You really want him. The first feeling you have is,

00:04:15.780 I really don't want this guy in the U.S. Senate. But the second feeling you have is,

00:04:19.020 this guy needs to be in a bed somewhere, just recovering. So he's asked, first question,

00:04:25.080 okay, Mr. Fetterman, you have previously said that you oppose fracking. Now, as the race gets

00:04:33.080 close in the general election, you say you support fracking. Which is it? Here's his answer.

00:04:38.640 Mr. Oz, I do want to clarify something. You're saying tonight that you support fracking,

00:04:44.260 that you've always supported fracking. But there is that 2018 interview that you said, quote,

00:04:49.320 I don't support fracking at all. So how do you square the two?

00:04:57.160 I do support fracking. And I don't, I don't, I support fracking. And I stand and I do support

00:05:07.140 fracking. That's, in his defense, that's probably the best answer he could possibly give because

00:05:14.700 there, there is no explanation. He has been consistent in his entire career. He said,

00:05:19.480 we actually, we have the clips of it. It's much worse even than the moderator suggested.

00:05:23.940 John Fetterman, if he has been consistent on anything in his career, it's how much he opposes

00:05:27.780 fracking. I've always supported fracking. I don't support fracking at all. And I never have. Yeah,

00:05:36.140 I called for moratorium on fracking. There's no such thing as a green fracker. I'm not pro-fracking.

00:05:41.320 2016 fracking moratorium pledge that Fetterman signed for an environmental watchdog group as well

00:05:48.140 as a 2016 tweet he sent while running for US Senate. I don't support fracking. I think it's 0.90

00:05:55.140 something that has to eventually go away. And I would like to see it transition out.

00:06:05.520 So even, you can't really blame this on the stroke or anything like that. This was a very

00:06:10.980 cynical political decision to lie by Fetterman's campaign. And what's really sad about this on the

00:06:17.480 debate stage is even while the campaign genius strategists there are saying, okay, we're going

00:06:22.120 to lie and we're going to completely flip your position on fracking to get you through the general

00:06:26.040 election. Then you can go back to your old one. Then he goes on stage. And this man who just is not

00:06:31.680 mentally present, it would take a good politician a lot of skill to be able to jujitsu that particular

00:06:39.260 flip-flop. But for someone whose brain isn't working, it's just not possible. Then Fetterman was

00:06:44.240 asked about certain tax problems. Here's his answer. Mr. Fetterman, I will allow a 15 second

00:06:51.400 rebuttal. He has specifically said you have not paid your taxes and that you want to raise taxes

00:06:57.000 on Americans. How do you respond? Absolutely. The Oz rule, of course, he's lying. It was helping two 0.99

00:07:03.840 students 17 years ago to help them buy their own homes. They didn't pay the bills and it got her paid. 0.99

00:07:11.460 And it has never been an issue in any of the campaign before. It was all about nonprofit.

00:07:19.500 I don't even know how to respond to that. It's just completely incoherent gibberish.

00:07:24.280 Again, really, really sad stuff. And then I thought actually the saddest moment of the entire night

00:07:31.100 was not one of the moments when Fetterman was asked to give an answer, but when Dr. Oz was giving

00:07:37.300 an answer, and then Fetterman just burst out out of nowhere with some completely unrelated comment.

00:07:45.900 Built of states to do what they wish to do. The abortion decision should be left up to states,

00:07:50.840 and specifically when John Fetterman- You roll with Doug Mastriano.

00:07:54.400 John, you'll have your turn, John. One moment, Mr. Fetterman.

00:07:57.480 So, oh man. So Dr. Oz is answering a question about abortion and where he thinks the abortion

00:08:05.560 issue should be decided at the federal level or at the state level and kind of what his views are

00:08:09.400 on abortion, which are actually quite confusing. So it's a good question to ask Dr. Oz. And then

00:08:15.540 just out of nowhere, Fetterman says, you roll with Mastriano, who's the Republican nominee for

00:08:23.380 governor of Pennsylvania. We interviewed him on this show yesterday. Just very sad stuff.

00:08:29.240 I know a number of stroke victims. I suspect many of you know or have at least met stroke victims.

00:08:38.400 I'm not saying Fetterman is the worst off stroke victim I've ever met,

00:08:43.380 but he's definitely in the bottom 50% in terms of people who have made a recovery. I'm just saying

00:08:49.660 this anecdotally of people I know who have suffered from the same thing that this guy's

00:08:53.240 suffered from. This guy is in terrible, terrible shape. And so I think, I mean, this was the number

00:09:00.140 one trend on Twitter this morning was stroke. This was really shocking, even to people who

00:09:05.160 have followed this race pretty closely, like those of you listening to the show, I suspect.

00:09:09.160 This is really, really bad stuff. So people are saying, well, he's not fit to do the job of a

00:09:13.140 senator. And on that point, I'm actually not so sure. And I'm not even making a joke about how

00:09:19.420 senators' brains don't function properly. That's not the joke I'm making. The point I'm making is

00:09:25.240 that the job of a senator is not what it used to be. If John Fetterman were running for the Senate

00:09:32.040 50 years ago, 100 years ago, 150 years ago, then I would say, absolutely, there's no way this guy's

00:09:37.320 up to the job of a senator. Because senators used to have a lot of power. Senators used to have a lot

00:09:41.940 of responsibility. The individual senators used to matter quite a lot. Over the last 100 years,

00:09:47.600 a lot of that power has been taken away. A lot of that power has been usurped by the federal

00:09:51.760 bureaucracy. Senators don't really make all that many laws anymore. The foreign policy, which

00:09:57.520 senators used to have a fair amount of say over because they had the power to ratify treaties 0.89

00:10:01.640 and declare war. A lot of that has been usurped again by the executive branch. So it doesn't even

00:10:07.440 really matter so much there. And then the parties have become so deeply entrenched in their own

00:10:12.520 camps at this point. They've become so polarized that very often the individual senators don't

00:10:18.900 really matter. Our system is moving more toward a parliamentary type system where the individuals

00:10:23.480 aren't as important as just an R or a D next to somebody's name to go in line with the caucus.

00:10:29.240 So in terms of that responsibility, John Fetterman's probably perfectly qualified to be a senator.

00:10:36.060 Not according to the letter of the Constitution. Not according to the traditional role of a senator.

00:10:40.220 But if he's just there to be the 51st vote for Chuck Schumer, I guess he could do that. He's not

00:10:46.020 going to know what room he's in or what bill he's voting on. But his staff can lift up his arm and

00:10:52.520 have him sign something or push a button. They can do that very, very easily. And so I suspect a lot

00:10:57.540 of Democrats in Pennsylvania are going to think that. I don't think the debate last night changed

00:11:01.700 one Democrat vote in Pennsylvania. And I don't think it changed one Republican vote necessarily.

00:11:07.800 Except for the hardcore conservatives who were so skeptical of Oz because he's fairly liberal and

00:11:14.460 they were maybe considering, okay, should I not vote for Oz? You look at that guy, you say,

00:11:18.240 goodness gracious, he's just so bad off. Maybe now I'm more inclined for Dr. Oz.

00:11:24.820 The people that this will have affected are those undecided voters, are the people who are not firmly

00:11:30.380 partisan and who don't vote simply on fracking, abortion, immigration, just a handful of issues

00:11:38.360 where they've got really clear views. There is a huge portion of the American electorate which does

00:11:43.560 not pay super close attention to politics like those of you listening to this show right now who

00:11:47.940 don't have a particularly systematic view of looking at politics. And it's not even their own fault.

00:11:53.260 They're probably, they've got more interesting things in their lives and they care more about their

00:11:57.860 hobbies and their work and their families. And they're just not, they're just not political

00:12:01.880 nerds paying attention to this stuff. And so they're going to look at these much more human

00:12:05.640 characteristics and they're just going to look at these two guys and you say, okay, on the one hand,

00:12:09.440 we've got a sick patient. On the other hand, we've got a guy who's literally a doctor.

00:12:14.220 I think I'm going to vote for that guy. So there's no, no question, no matter how sad this debate was,

00:12:19.580 a clear win for Dr. Oz. It may or may not affect the final outcome because they've had early voting

00:12:26.700 in Pennsylvania since September. But as Doug Mastriano, the governor candidate pointed out

00:12:30.540 to us yesterday, early voting, mail-in voting is way, way down this year compared to 2020.

00:12:35.420 So overall, I think the Oz campaign has to be very, very happy with the outcome of the debate.

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00:14:05.880 collapsed on stage last night. Kathy Hochul, who is the governor of New York and running for

00:14:13.080 re-election as governor of New York. She was debating Lee Zeldin, who's doing great. He's

00:14:18.100 the Republican candidate and he's actually, according to certain polls, ahead of her in

00:14:24.600 true blue New York. So there was one huge misstep that Kathy Hochul made last night. 1.00

00:14:30.380 I think that Lee Zeldin very smartly kept pressing the crime issue. I spoke yesterday to Doug Mastriano.

00:14:36.540 Mastriano said that in Pennsylvania, the biggest issue is crime. And I think so many people all around

00:14:42.480 the country, forget about abortion, forget about even certain economic issues and immigration.

00:14:48.200 The top issue for a lot of people, especially in the cities, is crime. Because crime is spiking,

00:14:52.640 and people are fearing for their property and fearing for their lives. So the Republicans are

00:14:56.820 hitting this issue. And Kathy Hochul gave the worst answer I could imagine on crime. 1.00

00:15:01.080 This governor, who still, to this moment, we're halfway through the debate,

00:15:06.540 she still hasn't talked about locking up anyone committing any crimes.

00:15:10.480 Okay.

00:15:10.960 Anyone who commits a crime under our laws, especially with the change they made to bail,

00:15:15.940 has consequences. I don't know why that's so important to you.

00:15:18.800 I don't know why it's so important to you, Lee. Why? Oh, Lee. Oh, goodness gracious. You're just

00:15:25.720 such a knuckle-dragging idiot. Why is it so important to you that we put the criminals in jail?

00:15:33.720 Just, oh, goodness gracious. I don't have any criminals storming my mansion. I don't know what's

00:15:37.680 wrong with you, Lee. Goodness gracious. Let's talk about important things, like how we have to chop

00:15:42.780 the genitals off of children. Goodness gracious, Lee. Let's talk about important things, 0.75

00:15:47.360 like the need to kill more babies. But no, Lee. You've just got to go on and on about locking up

00:15:52.960 the rapists and the murderers who are running in havoc all over New York. Oh, gosh. Get a grip,

00:15:58.620 Lee. Can you imagine you're a regular New Yorker listening to this? You're a regular New Yorker.

00:16:05.060 And let's say you're in the city. You're in a city that has had difficulties with crime over the

00:16:11.640 years, and you're seeing a spike in crime right now. And your governor, who's asking for your vote,

00:16:16.760 says, oh, forget about the crime. Enough with the crime. It's so dumb. We don't need to put the

00:16:22.160 criminals into prison. Come on. Send a social worker or whatever. Move on. How out of touch do

00:16:28.360 you need to be? A huge misstep. Now, she's in a tough position because the Democrats are totally 1.00

00:16:34.540 split on this. The base wants to empty the prisons. The base spent the last year talking about how they

00:16:39.380 need to defund the police and abolish prisons. And it wasn't just the fringe extreme activist

00:16:43.780 lunatics. It was sitting members of Congress, some of whom are from New York, okay? It was very

00:16:50.220 prominent Democrat politicians openly calling to defund the police and abolish federal prisons,

00:17:00.160 okay? So you got that on the base side. But then you've got the normal people who want to do exactly

00:17:05.060 the opposite. They want to increase funding to police. They want to increase funding to the police,

00:17:10.760 and they want to put more criminals into prison because the criminals are wreaking havoc in their

00:17:15.420 communities. So what does Kathy Hochul do? She's trying to split that baby. You can't split that 1.00

00:17:21.000 baby. And if she were smart, she would say, no, listen, we're doing a great job. We're doing a

00:17:25.000 great job of putting criminals into prison. We're going to do an even better job next year and move

00:17:29.780 on. But she can't do that. And it's a major, major win for the Republicans. Just shows you once again

00:17:35.660 how completely out of touch the Democrats are right now with the electorate. So what are they

00:17:41.280 going to do? They know they're headed for disaster if it's a fair election. So what are they going to

00:17:46.060 do? This is the greatest irony of all. After spending two years lambasting Republicans, calling us fascists

00:17:56.640 and Nazis and an existential threat to our democracy for questioning in any way the legitimacy of the 0.59

00:18:04.360 2020 election. The Democrats, the very top Democrats, the most prominent Democrats in the country are

00:18:11.640 preemptively questioning and outright denying potentially the legitimacy of the 2022 and 2024

00:18:22.840 elections. Hillary, take it away. Hello, Indivisibles. I'm here to highlight something that

00:18:30.720 is keeping me up at night. And I know this group really understands what I'm about to say.

00:18:39.160 I know we're all focused on the 2022 midterm elections, and they are incredibly important.

00:18:46.660 But we also have to look ahead because you know what? Our opponents certainly are. Right-wing extremists

00:18:54.500 already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election. And they're not making a secret of

00:19:02.160 it. The right-wing controlled Supreme Court may be poised to rule on giving state legislatures, yes, you heard

00:19:12.080 me that correctly, state legislatures the power to overturn presidential elections. Just think, if that happens,

00:19:22.360 the 2024 presidential election could be decided not by the popular vote or even by the anachronistic

00:19:32.260 electoral college, but by state legislatures.

00:19:37.880 So much there. Most obvious, she's saying that the Republicans are going to steal the election. If the Republicans win,

00:19:45.300 it will be because they stole the election, which is what the Democrats believe. And the Democrats believe this because they

00:19:50.280 believe that they're on the right side of history, and they believe that democracy is just synonymous with

00:19:56.100 liberalism. So even though democracy means the will of the people, and sometimes the people vote for your

00:20:00.440 party, and sometimes the people vote for the other party, they don't view democracy in that way. They use the word

00:20:06.200 democracy to really just mean liberalism. And so when liberalism is rejected at the ballot box, that is a knock

00:20:12.660 against democracy, even if the majority of people vote for that. And so she is already saying, as the Democrats

00:20:19.180 have said, as Hillary Clinton herself has said for many, many years, if the Republicans win, the election by

00:20:26.640 definition is illegitimate. Because the people are supposed to vote for the Democrats. The people, if they

00:20:34.140 were not being suppressed, and not being misinformed, and not having their consciousness lowered, you know,

00:20:43.120 they have to raise their consciousness and raise the awareness. If they were not operating under a false

00:20:46.740 consciousness, if all those things were true, they would vote for the Democrats. They would, because

00:20:53.540 that's obviously the right thing to do. So anytime they don't, it has to be illegitimate by definition.

00:20:59.160 She's already saying that. And then she's going through all the different ways in which it could

00:21:02.880 be illegitimate. And then the little cherry on top of the irony Sunday is that she said, and could you

00:21:08.800 believe the election won't be decided potentially by the popular vote, or even the anachronistic electoral

00:21:14.740 college? The electoral college, whatever you think of it, is not anachronistic. It's not out of time.

00:21:24.560 The electoral college is the way currently, today in the year of our Lord 2022, and for the entire

00:21:30.860 history of our country, that presidential elections have been decided. It's not anachronistic. It's the

00:21:37.080 law. It's the constitution. It is the very heart of that particular aspect of our supposedly sacred

00:21:44.440 democracy that the Democrats are always talking about. The popular vote has absolutely nothing

00:21:51.320 to do with the presidential election. Therefore, it's not how the campaigns are conducted. It's not

00:21:56.580 how, it's just not part of it at all. But because the Democrats sometimes have won the popular vote,

00:22:02.740 but lost the electoral vote, then they just, they just go for that. So even in that language, even in

00:22:08.400 their, their absurd elevation of the popular vote over the actual way the elections are conducted

00:22:14.380 according to our constitution, even there, they are denying the legitimacy of our electoral system.

00:22:19.820 After two years of saying that we are fascist threats to the country, we're the equivalent of

00:22:26.240 murderers, we're the equivalent of terrorists. We need to be completely sidelined for questioning

00:22:30.580 our electoral system. That's the best they've got. Now, if this is going to be a really tough one for the,

00:22:37.380 for the Democrats, because not only are the polls looking really, really bad for the Democrats right

00:22:44.340 now, but voter enthusiasm seems relatively high. So usually in the midterms, voter turnout is much

00:22:50.660 lower than in a presidential election year. That's pretty much always the case. It'll probably be the

00:22:54.740 case again, but voter turnout seems to be pretty okay right now, at least according to early metrics.

00:22:59.340 So a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about this, said, you know,

00:23:03.500 you guys keep talking about voter suppression, but the numbers show that voter turnout is actually

00:23:07.980 looking pretty good right now. What say you, Karine Jean-Pierre?

00:23:12.600 The access to voting is being attacked.

00:23:14.980 But doesn't that record turnout show that Georgia voters are finding ways to vote even amid the,

00:23:20.840 with the vote?

00:23:21.460 Yeah, I'm not going to get into specifics of what Georgia voters are doing. What I am saying

00:23:25.900 is that, you know, generally speaking, again, more broadly speaking, of course,

00:23:30.520 high turnout and voter suppression can take place at the same time.

00:23:36.400 Hold on a second here. I don't have a fancy degree in political science.

00:23:42.500 I don't work in the White House or anything like that. But it seems to me that voter suppression

00:23:51.300 means less voting, right? That's voter, it's someone who casts a vote. And suppression means

00:24:00.180 you kind of push it down, right? And then high voter turnout is when you get more voting.

00:24:07.560 And what Karine Jean-Pierre is actually saying with a straight face is that less voting and more voting

00:24:14.360 can happen at the same time. That's what they, that's their final pitch when every other strategy,

00:24:23.740 when every other excuse has run out. That's the, that's the, they can say it's illegitimate.

00:24:28.520 This is voter suppression. It's unfair. And every, every single argument they're making

00:24:35.480 is collapsing. But they've got their story and they're sticking to it. And they don't give

00:24:41.200 one single damn as to any of the facts, all of the facts that contradict all of it. 0.58

00:24:50.200 Why are the people voting for the Republicans? Why are all the polls showing the Republicans way,

00:24:56.840 way up? A whole host of reasons. But one of the big ones right now, economic discontent

00:25:06.200 is at an all time high in the United States. Not just, wow, this is much worse than it was under

00:25:12.060 Trump. Not just, wow, this is even worse than it was under Obama. All time, ever. This is according

00:25:18.400 to a new survey by NBC News. 71% of registered voters say the nation under Democrat rule is on the

00:25:26.200 wrong track. That is a record high disapproval. Only 20% say the nation is on the right track.

00:25:32.420 57% disapprove of Biden's handling of the economy. That is another record high.

00:25:40.780 57% disapprove. 38% approve. 50% say the Democrats' economy will get worse. That is another record high.

00:25:51.860 Only 20% believe the economy will improve. So you can't blame this here on it's a conservative poll

00:25:59.580 that went out. No, it's NBC News. You can't blame it on, well, it's just the wording of the question.

00:26:04.620 They worded the question three different ways. Every single time, it's a record high.

00:26:10.200 At people right now, and people do vote in large part on the economy. People do vote on kitchen table

00:26:16.980 issues. And we are now at record high economic discontent. So the Democrats, they have to answer

00:26:25.760 this. In some way, they've got to answer this in the final two weeks here before the midterm elections.

00:26:32.020 And here is the best argument I've heard, the best response from the Democrats. This would be

00:26:39.600 via Pete Buttigieg on the Stephen Colbert show.

00:26:43.020 It can be frustrating politically when you see that sort of stuff go on. But, you know, look,

00:26:50.660 this is part of a pattern that we've often seen where many congressional Republicans take stances

00:26:57.600 that seem to be more about the problem than about the solution. So, you know, you look at even the

00:27:04.580 things that they talk about the most often, immigration, inflation. I mean, name of all the

00:27:10.900 things congressional Republicans have proposed policy-wise. Can anybody name the top five things

00:27:15.720 that they've suggested to fight inflation? Can anyone name three? How about one? You know,

00:27:20.200 they voted no on the Inflation Reduction Act that was about lowering prices for Americans. And I would

00:27:26.540 have loved nothing more than to have a debate between the Democratic Inflation Reduction Act

00:27:31.140 and the Republican Inflation Reduction Act on the House of the Florence Senate and argued over which one

00:27:36.560 was better. But there was only one, and it was ours. And luckily, it passed.

00:27:40.900 Well, you couldn't have that debate, Pete, because there was no Democrat Inflation Reduction Act.

00:27:45.380 There was an act called the Inflation Reduction Act. But it did nothing to reduce inflation. And

00:27:51.580 that's not just me as a Republican or a conservative arguing that. That's what the CBO said. The

00:27:56.280 Congressional Budget Office said that the Inflation Reduction Act would not reduce inflation.

00:28:02.440 Bernie Sanders admitted that the Inflation Reduction Act would not reduce inflation.

00:28:07.080 Joe Biden and the Democrats tacitly admitted that because the second that that act passed,

00:28:11.920 they stopped referring to it as an inflation act. And they started referring to it as a climate change

00:28:17.060 act because that's what it was really about was just passing on hundreds and hundreds of billions

00:28:23.340 of dollars in handouts to green energy companies. And then he says, well, you know, the Republicans,

00:28:29.620 they haven't offered their solution. They're not they're not fixing the problem. Democrats have

00:28:35.220 unified government. It's not even like the Republicans had to work with the Democrats to

00:28:40.000 get anything done. Democrats had completely unified government. So the problem is 100 percent at your

00:28:47.560 feet and you screwed it up. And you're saying, well, how come the Republicans didn't do more to stop

00:28:51.740 us from screwing it up when they had no political power? That's the best answer you've got.

00:28:56.040 And he says, well, they have no ideas. They have no ideas. I couldn't name two or one idea,

00:29:01.720 three ideas, five ideas that the Republicans have. Okay, well, here's my first one. Speaking of that

00:29:07.260 bill that you were that law that you were just naming, here's one way that you could slow down

00:29:11.900 inflation a little bit. Don't spend $400 billion in taxpayer handouts to Democrat cronies in the green

00:29:21.700 energy industry. Don't waste all that money and frivolously spend that money, which causes

00:29:26.900 inflation to rise. Don't do that. That would be my first idea. What are some other ideas? I don't

00:29:31.200 know. Let's see, just off the top of my head here. Don't forgive, forgive, quote unquote, student loans.

00:29:37.640 Don't just pass out all of that money and cause inflation to ride. What would be some other ideas?

00:29:43.020 I don't know. Maybe stop escalating the war in Ukraine, the war in Ukraine, which is probably the 0.91

00:29:48.180 primary driver of inflation and was caused largely by Joe Biden, according to Vladimir Zelensky,

00:29:53.780 who's the president of Ukraine, because Joe Biden took the sanctions off Putin's pipeline and then

00:29:58.800 literally invited Putin to invade Eastern Ukraine and said that if there were only a minor incursion,

00:30:03.240 there would be no serious response from the United States. So that would be one idea.

00:30:06.640 On that point, okay, so I got, what is that? That's three ideas. You could restart American energy

00:30:11.580 production. How about that? Remember, we had great American energy production under Donald Trump.

00:30:16.060 We were energy independent. We were a net exporter under Donald Trump. And then Biden comes in and

00:30:21.460 he kills all the new oil and gas leases and he kills the oil pipelines. And by the way, when you

00:30:25.480 kill one major oil pipeline from the federal government, you're effectively killing all of

00:30:28.920 them for the remainder of the administration is the people who are building these pipelines are only

00:30:34.300 going to do it if they got political support. They're very, very expensive projects. So you could do

00:30:38.060 that. I mean, energy is the biggest driver of inflation right now. So that would be a really good idea.

00:30:42.760 How about, I don't know what that's for, don't revive the Iran nuclear deal. That would be another

00:30:47.640 good one. Why is Saudi Arabia not playing ball right now with the United States? Why is Saudi 0.52

00:30:52.300 Arabia not going to pump out way more oil and try to bring the prices back to something that's somewhat

00:30:57.280 reasonable? Well, in large part, it's because the United States gave Saudi Arabia the middle finger

00:31:02.420 when the United States started cozying up to Iran again, because the Democrats have this bizarre

00:31:07.760 obsession with putting Iran on the path to a nuclear bomb, which Saudi Arabia will not permit.

00:31:13.820 And so now, now we've lost the Saudis as the close ally that we've had for so many years. 0.98

00:31:19.760 That's five. There it is. There's your five ideas, Pete. I got, not that any of those are going to go

00:31:23.960 into effect because the Democrats have unified government. They caused the whole problem. And now

00:31:27.340 they're dealing with the consequences of that, which is that the people are absolutely freaking

00:31:32.160 furious. And so now what are the Democrats going to say about that? We've gone, we've gone through

00:31:38.040 every single argument that they've got and every response to it. And then they keep digging

00:31:41.960 themselves into worse and worse trouble. So now, now here is the argument. People who are extremely

00:31:46.220 concerned about record high inflation, which is impoverishing everybody. And it's going to cause

00:31:51.900 people to freeze as the winter approaches. Now the Democrats are saying that if you're worried about

00:31:58.660 inflation, you might as well vote for Hitler. I'm not calling, uh, I'm not going to say that, 0.56

00:32:06.100 you know, the GOP or Nazis at this point or whatever, but it certainly sounds very familiar 0.88

00:32:11.080 to what happened in Germany, which is a bunch of citizens. Adolf Hitler gets a third of the vote.

00:32:17.040 Nobody thought it could happen there. They kind of went along because they said he was going to solve

00:32:20.860 the economy and fix inflation. Uh, you can, that's right. You can hear those sorts of things.

00:32:25.760 And then, oh, but lo and behold, a few years later, they lost their democracy and they're all like,

00:32:29.940 how'd that happen here? That's my worry. That is my worry. If obviously the price of a hamburger,

00:32:35.820 the price of milk, the price of gas is concerning, but what is what that is a short term problem.

00:32:42.840 The loss of a democracy will decimate everyone's freedom. That's it. If you,

00:32:49.200 if you are concerned about the record high inflation and the fact that you can't fill up your gas tank or

00:32:55.160 heat your home, uh, you or, or pay for groceries or pay for anything because it's causing all the

00:33:00.640 consumer goods to increase you, you look, I'm not calling you a Nazi, but tacitly I am. Okay.

00:33:08.440 And you secretly, you would have voted for Hitler. Okay. And you're going to call, if you elect

00:33:13.840 Republicans, you're going to cause us to lose our democracy because whenever the people vote against

00:33:21.340 the ruling party, whenever the people want to change in the ruling party from the liberal

00:33:26.900 establishment, Democrat ruling class, that's a threat to democracy. By the way, you know the man

00:33:32.240 who said that? That's Matthew Dowd. He is a Democrat, but he formerly was a Republican and not just a

00:33:40.520 regular old Republican strategist. You sometimes see that title on TV, which usually just means

00:33:45.340 unemployed political person. Everyone's just a strategist, you know, but this guy actually had

00:33:50.940 a real job. This guy was the chief strategist for the Bush Cheney 2004 campaign. This guy was a big

00:33:58.280 player. He was obviously a court jester conservative. He was obviously one of the squishes whose job it is 0.95

00:34:05.680 to pretend to be right wing, to legitimize the dominant liberal regime. But he had that big R next

00:34:11.740 to his name and he had a pretty big job. And he is now making the same argument that all of the

00:34:17.020 Democrats are making, which is anytime you oppose us, you're basically Hitler. And anytime the Republicans 0.51

00:34:25.700 win, it's a threat to democracy. Anytime we let the people vote for the people they want, it's a threat

00:34:32.600 to democracy. By the way, just a side point. I would like to call for a complete moratorium

00:34:41.580 on Nazi comparisons. I am calling for a complete and total shutdown on all Nazi comparisons until

00:34:50.680 we figure out what the hell is going on there. It's so, it's so frustrating. And it's, it's not

00:34:58.880 frustrating because, you know, World War II is, is incomparable or anything like that.

00:35:04.980 It's frustrating because what, when, when I hear people make Nazi comparisons, what that says to me

00:35:12.700 is that that person has no other historical frame of reference. So very often I think people make the

00:35:20.400 Nazi comparisons because they just don't know what else to compare something to. The, the, the, the second

00:35:27.140 version of this is the fall of Rome, which is much more acceptable. But you know, there, there were other

00:35:32.160 wars. There have been other wars throughout history, folks. Okay. There have been other battles there.

00:35:37.900 How about, I don't know, the Battle of Waterloo. Comparison, how about the, make some comparisons to

00:35:43.660 the Napoleonic Wars at least. How about that? Is that okay? How about the, the French and Indian War?

00:35:48.580 That would be a good one. Let's compare things to the French and Indian War. Or I don't know,

00:35:53.820 Alexander the Great's campaigns. Or the, you know, wars against Carthage. I don't know. Or the

00:36:01.100 Peloponnesian War. Anything, anything other than just making everything about Hitler. Okay. It's not,

00:36:06.440 not every, not, not every person that you don't like is Hitler. Okay. And it, but, but because

00:36:13.840 Hitler is, forget about the Second World War itself. Hitler just is the symbol of the absolute 0.89

00:36:21.960 incarnation of evil. And so when, when, what the Democrats are doing here is they're saying,

00:36:26.480 anyone who opposes us is the absolute perfect incarnation of evil that must be opposed at all

00:36:33.820 costs, regardless of the law, regardless of justice, regardless of anything. And speaking of

00:36:39.460 these Hitler comparisons, because look, I don't mean to be too hard on people who make, who've made

00:36:43.040 Hitler comparisons. Everyone's done it at some point. But the, there was a recent example of this 0.86

00:36:51.040 that shows you just how disingenuous the whole debate is. Susan Sarandon just posted something

00:36:57.960 to social media comparing her opponents to Hitler. Susan Sarandon is a very far left-wing actress. 1.00

00:37:05.220 Susan Sarandon said, it didn't start with the gas chambers. It started with one party controlling the

00:37:08.960 media, one party controlling the message, one party deciding what is truth, one party censoring

00:37:12.540 speech and silencing opposition, one party dividing citizens into us and them and calling on their

00:37:16.580 supporters to harass them. It started when good people turned a blind eye and let that happen.

00:37:21.040 Now, it's interesting when I read that, if I saw someone post that today, I would assume they

00:37:24.660 were talking about the Democrats, who the liberals obviously control the media and the government,

00:37:31.640 all the rest of it, and they censor people. But Susan Sarandon is so far left-wing, I don't think

00:37:35.840 that's much, but who knows, right? Anyway, Susan Sarandon is a very left-wing actress. 1.00

00:37:39.480 Now, Susan Sarandon will just go about her life. Normally, nothing will happen as a result of this post. 0.93

00:37:45.280 Gina Carano, our friend Gina Carano, lost her job and nearly lost her entire career

00:37:55.240 for making pretty much the same post. Gina Carano posted, Jews were beaten in the streets, 0.60

00:38:02.520 not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors, even by children, because history is edited. Most people

00:38:06.020 today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews,

00:38:10.800 the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How's that any

00:38:14.160 different from hating someone for their political views? So it's virtually the same exact post.

00:38:20.820 And Gina Carano, very implausibly, was called an anti-Semite. It seems like completely the opposite

00:38:26.600 of the sort of sentiment she was expressing. But it was the same post as Susan Sarandon.

00:38:31.460 So why does Gina Carano, who is a little more right-wing, almost lose her career for this? 1.00

00:38:37.680 Susan Sarandon, who is very left-wing, nothing happens to her. Just a reminder that our rulers, 1.00

00:38:44.180 they don't care about anti-Semitism or racism or any of the lines that they use.

00:38:50.700 The libs have exhibited much more anti-Semitism than anybody on the right, including city members

00:38:55.940 of Congress, including Ilhan Omar, to use just one example, including Louis Farrakhan visiting the

00:39:00.480 Congressional Black Caucus, Barack Obama taking a smiling picture with him. Louis Farrakhan calling the

00:39:04.920 Jews, the synagogue of Satan, and many other lurid things. The list goes on and on and on and on. 0.95

00:39:11.600 Much worse than anything any mainstream person on the right has ever said. It doesn't matter.

00:39:16.980 Forget about the racism you see from the left. Obviously, so much worse than anything you've

00:39:22.400 ever seen anywhere in the mainstream right. Our rulers don't care about those things for themselves. 0.98

00:39:29.300 Our ruling class uses those concepts as an excuse to destroy people that they already don't like and

00:39:41.120 have already decided to destroy. They use it because it is convenient to silence dissenters,

00:39:47.980 which is why they're not going to silence the liberals who basically go along with their agenda.

00:39:52.580 They're always going to use it to silence the right-wingers. You know, it's been a very,

00:39:56.180 very busy month over here at The Daily Wire. We released The Greatest Lie Ever Sold,

00:40:01.320 which is a new documentary that buries BLM. We held a rally to end child mutilation at the

00:40:06.820 Tennessee State Capitol. And we are hours away from another exciting event, Daily Wire backstage.

00:40:13.260 You can join me, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Andrew Clayton, and the God King Jeremy Boring tonight,

00:40:18.140 6 p.m. Central, 7 p.m. Eastern. We'll be talking midterms, leftist meltdowns, and a whole lot more.

00:40:23.400 It is a backstage you do not want to miss. So tune in tonight, dailywireplus.com.

00:40:32.000 Here's a great example of the libs disingenuously silencing victims.

00:40:41.040 Weeks after Alex Jones was ordered by a judge to pay about $1 billion to the family of the Sandy

00:40:52.620 Hook shooting victims, Bloomberg News is reporting that the Sandy Hook families have now demanded

00:41:01.520 $2.75 trillion. An additional $2.75 trillion. Not all that far off from the GDP of the United

00:41:14.240 States. I mean, it's a little ways to go. But, you know, if you go back just a few decades,

00:41:19.900 you're pretty much there. And they've done this by taking the maximum penalty allowed under state law,

00:41:26.420 $5,000, multiplying it by the 550 million social media views that Alex Jones got on his social media

00:41:33.340 accounts in the three years following the Sandy Hook school shooting. And now they are demanding

00:41:39.360 upwards of $3 trillion from a radio host for getting a story wrong on air and saying,

00:41:52.520 let's say they're saying mean things, terrible things, the worst things you could possibly say,

00:41:56.760 $3 trillion for saying that on the radio. Does that seem a little disproportionate when I think

00:42:02.800 of the sort of things that the Democrats have said in public? When the Democrats have called for

00:42:09.060 physical, when mainstream Democrats have called for physical violence against Republicans in public,

00:42:15.560 when Maxine Waters says, when you see Republicans in public, push back on them,

00:42:20.480 say you're not welcome here, chasing them out of restaurants. When Maxine Waters says,

00:42:27.180 go to Republicans' homes, shout outside where their children sleep, shout outside their homes.

00:42:33.400 When Chuck Schumer says, we're coming for you, Brett Kavanaugh, we're coming for you, Gorsuch,

00:42:38.080 we're going to unleash the whirlwind on you. And then what, lo and behold, what happens?

00:42:41.840 Some left-wing lunatic goes in and tries to murder Justice Kavanaugh.

00:42:46.320 And gets pretty close, actually, before the U.S. Marshals were able to stop him.

00:42:52.700 When some left-wing lunatic goes in and shoots up the congressional baseball game to kill the

00:42:56.500 Republicans, almost kills Steve Scalise. And you hear nothing. You hear nothing from the Democrats.

00:43:03.140 When Hillary Clinton says, you can't be civil with Republicans. 0.97

00:43:08.100 None of that, they're not going to pay $3 trillion. To say nothing of what the

00:43:11.960 pundits or whatever say on the air. They're not going to pay $3 trillion.

00:43:16.400 And who knows where the $2.75 trillion lawsuit is going to go. Alex Jones was already ordered to

00:43:21.740 pay a billion dollars. You think any, for what? For getting a story wrong on air. That's basically

00:43:26.940 what you could say. Well, he got it egregiously wrong. It was the worst way you could possibly get

00:43:30.480 a story wrong. Sure, whatever. But the actual category of transgression that Alex Jones committed

00:43:37.380 is he got a story wrong on air. You're telling me that the punishment for that should be $1 billion?

00:43:44.660 Or, I'm sorry, $2.75 trillion? Doesn't that seem a little disproportionate to you?

00:43:53.820 Especially when the libs would never pay one red cent for doing far more egregious things?

00:43:59.860 No, it's obviously not about the transgression. It's simply about punishing dissidents.

00:44:03.760 The libs hate Alex Jones. They want to silence him. They will use whatever excuse they can to do it.

00:44:10.140 And they will come down on him with as much crushing weight as they can possibly wield,

00:44:14.300 up to and including $3 trillion. Speaking of the courts, there's some good news that's come out of

00:44:19.760 the courts. Incredible news, actually, that came out of the courts yesterday in New York.

00:44:24.820 A New York judge has ruled that the city must reinstate the fired city workers with back pay

00:44:33.640 who lost their jobs because they refused to take the Fauci ouchie. And here's why. Here's the best

00:44:40.340 part is the reason why the court has come to this finding. The court found that, quote,

00:44:47.260 being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting COVID-19.

00:44:54.660 They added that vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals have the same quarantine and

00:45:00.960 isolation guidelines issued by the CDC. That's why. And there were, at the time, we were all told

00:45:09.400 by the libs and the squishes, we were told, you have to get the vaccine. Come on. Maybe we don't

00:45:13.540 support the mandates, but you should all get it. Now we find actually the vaccines don't do what they

00:45:18.420 said, what we were told that they would do. And they do a lot of things that we were told they

00:45:22.020 wouldn't do. Furthermore, the judge goes on, the vaccine mandate for city employees was not just

00:45:28.540 about safety and public health. It was about compliance. If it was about safety and public

00:45:33.640 health, unvaccinated workers would have been placed on leave the moment the order was issued.

00:45:37.100 Great point. It was not. But instead, the workers were pressured, pressured. Still come to your job,

00:45:42.060 but pressured. Get it, get it, get it. If it were about a health emergency, there's no way that would

00:45:47.900 have happened. If it were about a health emergency, they would have said, go home, wear a hazmat suit,

00:45:54.120 get out of here. How many workers lost their jobs because of this? People have written into this show

00:45:59.720 a lot and lost their jobs because of it. I'm very fortunate. I work at a company that not only did not

00:46:05.540 have a vaccine mandate, but that sued the Biden administration to stop the vaccine mandate.

00:46:11.440 Because what were we going to do? We had meetings. What were we going to do if we lost that lawsuit?

00:46:15.240 Well, one, we were all going to get audited to the hilt. We might still, but we're all going to

00:46:20.840 become major targets of the federal government. But two, even if that's still probably going to

00:46:25.220 happen, two, what were we going to do? The federal government could have come in and bankrupted the

00:46:30.220 company pretty quickly, actually. So we fought it. We didn't have to do it. Same cannot be said for a 0.99

00:46:37.080 ton of other companies and certainly city workers. Eric Adams fired 2,000, just about 2,000 city

00:46:43.660 workers, including cops, including firefighters, who refused to comply with the COVID vaccination

00:46:49.160 mandate. Now, the court is ordering him to reinstate them with back pay, which is absolutely

00:46:57.940 right and just. Will he do it? Remains to be seen. Will the city appeal? Almost certainly.

00:47:04.600 This is probably a little soft consolation to the workers who lost their jobs. They've been out of

00:47:08.360 work for a year. And it's a reminder as well, looking forward into the future, the next time

00:47:15.460 we're told by the entire establishment, this is fact. This is science. You have to do it. This is

00:47:20.060 coercion. Do it now. Do it now. You'll lose everything. Do it now. Do it now. If you can hold

00:47:24.360 firm, if you can have a little bit of courage, you may see justice. All hope is not lost. You may see

00:47:31.780 justice. We are still in this fight. The Democrats are running scared. They're not omnipotent.

00:47:37.140 They can feel their grasp on power weakening. Now, are they going to lose that grasp entirely

00:47:42.540 tomorrow or two weeks from now? Probably not. But they can feel it weakening. And the truth is on

00:47:48.380 our side. And the people are seeing that. They're seeing it more and more each day as we approach

00:47:52.500 those midterm elections. Now, unbelievably, unbelievably, it seems that I have some critics.

00:48:00.100 I reacted to some woke TikTokers nonsense about religion. He appears to have reacted to my reaction. 1.00

00:48:06.780 So, in a full sort of inception, I will be critiquing his critique of my critique of his

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 26, 2022

Ep. 1112 - Fetterman Implodes On Live TV

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