The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1113 - None Of This Would Have Happened Under Trump

00:00:00.000 Really big news over the past 24 hours, a new COVID narrative has just dropped.

00:00:06.100 According to the new liberal narrative, the libs who shut down the schools for much of the past

00:00:12.380 two years actually were really trying to open the schools the whole time.

00:00:19.640 I think there are many of us in the public health community who are arguing for in-person education

00:00:23.540 as safe, doable, really useful for children. There is not one single view, but I think there is no

00:00:31.300 question about it. Many of us believe from relatively early in the pandemic that it was

00:00:37.860 really important for kids to have in-person education and advocated for it. Obviously,

00:00:41.240 I was advocating as an outside, as an academic expert. Obviously, it's not just one voice,

00:00:46.240 but obviously very, very many people. We were all saying, basically, you need to reopen those

00:00:50.880 schools as quickly as possible. That's very clear from the very beginning.

00:00:55.220 That was Joe Biden's COVID coordinator. Very confusing, of course, because here is what

00:01:00.540 the Democrats have actually been saying for the past two years.

00:01:04.960 Go ask Florida and Texas and Arizona how well that worked. On schools, what does he say? Reopen

00:01:14.180 the schools. Just open them up. Don't worry. Yeah. He was wrong on the economic reopening. He's wrong

00:01:23.120 on the school's reopening. I know, you know, from everything that we read as parents that it would be

00:01:29.900 better for them learning-wise to be able to be in a classroom with a teacher. But I don't think that

00:01:36.520 it's safe right now. I don't think it's safe for the kids. And I don't trust that it's safe for the

00:01:41.660 teachers and the staff either. So I think that we need to get the virus better under control here

00:01:46.780 in Texas, at least, before we allow schools to fully reopen. That's how I feel as a parent.

00:01:53.620 It's also how I feel as a policymaker. Forcing education students back into a classroom

00:01:58.520 in areas where the infection rate is going up or remaining very high is just plain dangerous.

00:02:04.880 You know, it has to start by getting cases down in our communities.

00:02:08.220 That's step one. It means wearing a mask, following social distance guidelines,

00:02:14.900 ensuring effective testing and tracing. There's a pretty big change in tune on COVID.

00:02:20.660 Pretty dramatic rewriting of history by the Democrats, memory-holing what they actually said

00:02:26.100 for the entirety of the COVID nonsense. And as election day draws nearer,

00:02:31.480 I would expect the retconning of COVID to become even more pronounced, especially since elections

00:02:39.260 are what the COVID policies have been about from the very beginning. I'm Michael Knowles. This is

00:02:44.240 The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Scott Lewis,

00:02:56.100 who says, John Fetterman is the voice of our generation, a damning indictment of our generation.

00:03:02.840 I hate to agree with you, but I think there's actually a lot of truth to what you say. John

00:03:08.740 Fetterman very well may be the voice of our generation. This is really confusing on COVID.

00:03:15.940 I'm getting, my head is just spinning on the Democrats' COVID stance. Because we're being told,

00:03:22.800 no, the Democrats, they wanted to reopen schools from the very beginning. But then I look back to

00:03:26.880 what they actually said. They say, no, no, we can't reopen schools even way, way after the lockdowns

00:03:32.660 began, even way after we knew COVID was not a big threat to kids relatively, way after we had the

00:03:38.320 vaccines and all the rest of it. Now it's really confusing because we're being told, okay, we got to,

00:03:44.960 we have to reopen the schools. We should have reopened the schools much earlier. We always wanted

00:03:48.800 to reopen the schools. And then Joe Biden comes out and he says that COVID is once again today in

00:03:55.300 the year of our Lord, 2022, a global health emergency. Some of our friends in Congress say

00:04:01.200 we don't need COVID funding, or they say there's really no reason that the government should be

00:04:05.720 paying for it. I strongly disagree, strongly disagree. This is a global health emergency.

00:04:14.060 If we really want to put COVID behind us, we have to keep up the fight together.

00:04:19.340 So now Joe Biden is saying that COVID is a global health emergency and we all got to take it super

00:04:24.460 seriously. Again, we got to spend a ton more money and give Democrats a bunch more power on it. 0.99

00:04:28.400 One month ago, just one month ago, Joe Biden told us the exact opposite.

00:04:36.260 Mr. President, first Detroit auto show in three years.

00:04:39.860 Yeah.

00:04:39.960 Is the pandemic over?

00:04:43.380 The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it.

00:04:49.960 It's what the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one's wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in

00:04:54.720 pretty good shape. And so I think it's changing. And I think this is a perfect example of it.

00:05:00.300 No one's wearing masks. Everyone's in good shape. The pandemic is over. And also COVID is a global health

00:05:06.180 emergency even today. And we need to spend a ton more money and keep clamping down on people for

00:05:12.060 it. And also, it's extremely dangerous to ever let the kids go back to school. It's so dangerous for

00:05:18.440 our kids. We know that it would be better for their education, but we just can't let them do it.

00:05:21.440 And also, we've always wanted to let the kids go back to school. And also, Oceania is at war with

00:05:25.920 East Asia. And also, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and on and on and on. Some of us

00:05:32.740 have had the number on this COVID thing from day one, from the very beginning. Some of us,

00:05:38.860 unlike the Democrats, have been consistent on COVID from the very beginning. I'm not tooting my own

00:05:43.040 horn. I hate to say I told you so. I don't have my Nostradamus ad on me right now. But some of us saw

00:05:48.220 this thing for what it was from basically day one. And we saw it as, and I'm not just saying me,

00:05:55.420 many of you listening understood this as well. Disproportionately, the people listening to this

00:06:00.500 show right now understood what COVID was, a political operation, much more than it was any

00:06:08.780 kind of public health crisis. Sure, there's a scientific viral aspect to it. But the experience

00:06:15.460 that we all had of COVID writ large was a political operation, much more than it was scientific or

00:06:21.620 medical or anything else. And because that is the case, all the arguments we heard about it and all

00:06:28.220 the policies that went along with it would change arbitrarily, month by month, day by day, hour by

00:06:36.180 hour. I bet you Joe Biden doesn't remember what he said about COVID one month ago. And he probably

00:06:41.400 never heard what his COVID czar was just saying about COVID. And it actually doesn't matter

00:06:45.180 because the COVID policies have always changed based on the convenience of Democrats.

00:06:52.640 And as election day nears, I think they're trying to retcon their history on COVID because they're

00:06:59.080 weak on everything. For much of the past year, COVID was the one issue that they were in the positive

00:07:04.400 on. If you looked at the public opinion polls, they were down on the economy, down on national

00:07:08.040 security, down on immigration, down on this, down on that, down on everything, except for COVID.

00:07:12.900 That was the one area where Joe Biden had his head above water. Now he's below water on COVID as well,

00:07:19.200 which means that the Democrats' COVID policies are unpopular, which means that they've just got to

00:07:23.860 pretend that they never held those policies in the first place. But people remember, okay, people know

00:07:29.160 what a disaster the Democrats have been. I was thinking about this yesterday on a completely

00:07:34.200 separate issue from COVID. I was thinking about this yesterday when the Hungarian foreign minister

00:07:39.340 came out. And he said that the war in Ukraine, in his estimation, would not have happened under

00:07:46.120 Trump. This would be foreign minister Peter Zizharto. I'm obviously butchering that pronunciation.

00:07:55.060 But he said basically it's, well, it's Putin's fault for invading, but it's Biden's fault for

00:07:59.700 letting it happen. And this is not a fringe crazy opinion. This is the opinion of Vladimir Zelensky.

00:08:05.540 Zelensky said that Biden's decision to take the sanctions off of Russia's pipeline would cause

00:08:12.040 Putin to invade Ukraine. That is exactly what happened. And then of course, Biden went even

00:08:16.120 further and said, well, if Putin just invades a small part of Ukraine, if it's just a minor incursion,

00:08:21.520 it's not a big deal, won't prompt a major conflict. So he literally invited him to invade Ukraine in that

00:08:26.440 case. And you think about what that did. Right now, what's the top issue for American voters,

00:08:32.920 according to all the public opinion polls? It's the economy, and more specifically, it's inflation.

00:08:37.100 Why do we have inflation? Well, there are a lot of reasons we have inflation, but inflation is driven

00:08:40.580 largely by the surge in energy prices. Why are energy prices up? Well, one, because America intentionally

00:08:46.740 destroyed its domestic oil and gas production by not issuing new federal oil and gas leases and by

00:08:52.700 shutting down any new oil pipelines. Biden chose to do that. And then on the international front,

00:08:58.860 because of the war in Ukraine, which there is a growing consensus, is basically caused by Joe Biden.

00:09:04.900 So you've got inflation largely because of the spike in energy costs. You have the spike in energy

00:09:11.340 because of stupid Biden domestic problems, and also because of the war in Ukraine, and also because 0.52

00:09:18.520 of other geopolitical issues that, for instance, encouraged Saudi Arabia not to play ball with

00:09:22.960 Joe Biden. Okay, the list goes on and on and on. It goes back to Biden. It goes back to the 2020

00:09:28.980 election. Had Donald Trump been permitted to serve a second term, I don't think you would see 90% of

00:09:40.160 the present political trouble that we are looking at right now. The situation that we're in across

00:09:45.520 sectors, not just on foreign policy, not just on immigration, not just on the economy, not just on

00:09:50.580 this, not all of it. I think 90% of the present political trouble that we're facing, this would

00:09:57.040 not have happened. I think you can trace it back directly to Joe Biden and the 2020 election.

00:10:04.220 And I think I'm not the only one who believes that. I think people are seeing that too, which is why

00:10:10.060 you're seeing the Democrats flailing, totally changing their tune, totally lying about what

00:10:16.240 they've said and done for the past two years, and trying to clamp down on power and preemptively

00:10:22.240 calling Republican victories illegitimate and pulling all sorts of shenanigans that you have seen

00:10:29.840 as the election day approaches now we're within two weeks. Even on the issues where the Democrats

00:10:35.540 usually can be successful, especially racial identity politics, it's not working. There's an

00:10:41.120 amazing poll that just came out. Now, this is not a conservative-leaning poll. This is a poll from

00:10:46.600 Telemundo and LX News conducted by Mason Dixon Polling and Strategy. And the poll asked what Latinos think

00:10:54.580 of Ron DeSantis versus Charlie Crist. This is Latinos in Florida. Now, we've been told Ron DeSantis is a

00:11:04.440 terrible guy, and he's treating these Latino immigrants like dirt, and he's shipping them

00:11:10.120 like they're not even human up to these states in the north. And Martha's Vineyard, this awful,

00:11:15.660 terrible man. Crist is so good, and he's pro-immigration, and he's, okay, well, you know what

00:11:21.640 the poll says. I kind of set it up that way. The Latinos prefer DeSantis over Crist. The Latinos who

00:11:28.740 are supposed to be Democrats, they prefer the Republican over the Democrat. What's even crazier

00:11:35.280 is when Latino voters in Florida were asked specifically what they believe about DeSantis

00:11:41.360 shipping the illegals up to Martha's Vineyard, more of the Hispanic respondents favored DeSantis'

00:11:49.100 policy than opposed it. 50% were in favor, 43% were opposed. Because they get it, because they get it,

00:11:56.360 because the Latino immigrants, the Latino voters, rather, many of whom are not immigrants, the Latinos

00:12:02.940 in Florida, though, they actually understand the immigration issue better than most demographics,

00:12:07.480 okay? And they get it, and they realize that illegal immigration is wrong, and the degree of

00:12:11.840 illegal immigration that we have today is completely unsustainable. It's completely disordered. 1.00

00:12:15.660 And they realize that states like Florida, and especially states like Texas and Arizona,

00:12:20.320 are being completely exploited by liberals in the North who think that illegal immigration gives

00:12:26.860 them an electoral advantage, but they don't want to deal with it in their backyard. And the Latinos 1.00

00:12:31.040 in Florida get it. They say, yeah, put them up in Martha's Vineyard. Send them to Rehoboth Beach,

00:12:34.580 Delaware. Send them to New York and Chicago and Washington, D.C. And I can just picture the

00:12:41.840 Democrat strategists pulling their hair out. They're saying, no, but we called him racist.

00:12:46.440 Why isn't this working? We're supposed to call these guys racist, and then all the minorities 1.00

00:12:52.240 just come to our side. Why isn't it? But we have the guys in the lab coats. Why don't they believe

00:12:58.760 us on COVID? But we, why? But we're calling all our opponents Putin stooges. Why don't they support 0.68

00:13:05.160 it? And it's just everything they're trying, they're being totally frustrated by. And as election day

00:13:11.240 draws nearer, the polls are breaking ever more for the Republicans. So this means they're going to need

00:13:16.040 even more shenanigans to prevent a red wave. And they're pulling those shenanigans. There was a

00:13:19.580 debate for the Michigan governor's race. This was between the Republican Tudor Dixon and the Democrat

00:13:26.980 Gretchen Whitmer, who has been a terrible governor and is deeply unpopular. And so while Tudor Dixon

00:13:33.600 is giving her opening remarks, what happens? Oh, oops, the local Fox affiliate carrying the debate

00:13:39.880 in Michigan. Oops, it just accidentally cut to commercial break.

00:13:45.420 We see our reading scores have plummeted. Our graduation rates have dropped.

00:13:51.040 Our cities are less safe, and the roads aren't fixed.

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00:14:02.360 If you're looking for a better night's sleep, look no further than Ashley, only a Lansing. 0.92

00:14:06.560 You can change course. In 14 days, you can put Michigan back on the right track. I've traveled

00:14:13.420 the state, and from day one, I've been focused on my family-friendly plan for Michigan.

00:14:19.100 You saw tonight's debate right here on Fox 47. We will have full coverage just ahead.

00:14:24.820 But first, we had an unintended technical issue that cut off a portion of Tudor Dixon's opening

00:14:29.820 statement. We regret this error. In fairness to both parties, we will re-air those opening

00:14:34.780 statements in full right now, starting with Governor Whitmer as it aired live.

00:14:39.760 Oh, good. That's good. You see that correction at the end that aired much, much later.

00:14:44.720 That's, oh, that's so good. There was this accident. It was a big whoopsie-daisy.

00:14:49.640 The Republican who is outperforming what the Democrats thought she would be doing and is 0.99

00:14:53.740 actually posing a threat to Gretchen Whitmer. Yeah, we're just gonna cut off her opening remarks 1.00

00:14:57.880 during the debate that everyone's watching. But don't worry, we'll issue a correction after the

00:15:03.100 debate when nobody's watching. And then we'll air the full thing right now, starting with the

00:15:08.460 Democrat, by the way. Oops, sorry. This is exactly what Candy Crowley did. 1.00

00:15:13.900 Candy Crowley, the absolute hack leftist moderator during one of the 2012 Obama-Romney debates.

00:15:22.740 Romney made a claim, was referring to the terror attack in Benghazi. And he said,

00:15:29.300 Barack Obama didn't call this a terror attack for X number of days afterward. And Candy Crowley said,

00:15:36.720 oh no, yes, he did. He did it right away, Mitt Romney.

00:15:39.060 Romney. So she, the moderator, jumps in on behalf of Barack Obama. Obama's just sitting there,

00:15:44.480 by the way. He says, oh good, I'll sick my dogs on Romney. That's great, yeah, yeah.

00:15:48.400 And Romney goes, no, I'm pretty sure, Candy, I'm actually pretty sure I'm right about this.

00:15:51.660 And she goes, no, you're wrong, Romney. You're wrong. Fact check. 10,000 fact checks. You're wrong.

00:15:55.920 A million Pinocchios. He goes, no, but I'm pretty sure. What? I don't. And then what happens?

00:16:01.080 We find out after the debate, Romney was right. And Candy Crowley completely made it up and played 0.98

00:16:08.720 interference for Barack Obama. But then she said at the end of the debate, she goes, oh, hey,

00:16:14.440 by the way, now that no one's watching anymore, yeah, I was wrong. Oops. I'm a real journalist,

00:16:20.600 so I'm going to correct it. Whoopsie-daisy. So you can expect a lot more of these sorts of 0.78

00:16:25.340 shenanigans to increase in the next 14 days because there isn't one good sign breaking for

00:16:34.060 the Democrats right now. So the only hope they've got is to rig it and steal it. And wouldn't be the

00:16:39.200 first time they've done such a thing. Lots of shenanigans in politics, and especially when it

00:16:43.500 comes to our friends on the left. The fact checks, the quote unquote fact checks, they are a major tool

00:16:50.600 of the Democrats. And I fear not enough conservatives and independents and moderates

00:16:57.340 understand just how completely worthless the quote unquote fact checks are. Fact checks are just

00:17:04.120 liberal opinion columns that try to use the language of science to give more of an air of authority in

00:17:13.560 our modern scientific age. But they're just liberal opinion columns. And actually, the fact checks are even

00:17:19.220 more nefarious because with that undue air of scientific authority, then the liberal opinion

00:17:27.300 makers can pressure the big tech companies. And the big tech companies are frankly very happy to have

00:17:32.300 this kind of cover to use those liberal opinion columns disguised as pure fact to censor the

00:17:38.220 conservatives. And this has always been the case. This phenomenon really started to crop up about

00:17:43.340 10 years ago or so, a little more than 10 years ago. And it's just become more and more powerful

00:17:48.120 ever since. But here's a great one. Great one. We played the clip a few days ago on the show of Ted

00:17:52.920 Cruz just absolutely destroying those cackling hands on The View with facts and logic. And it was a

00:17:57.980 beautiful thing to see. And so one of the claims made by the ladies of The View was that the, well,

00:18:07.500 one, they said the Democrats don't delegitimize elections. The Democrats don't deny the results of

00:18:13.460 elections. And so Ted pulls out a sheet of paper. He goes, oh, the year 2000, the Stacey Abrams

00:18:18.680 election, the 2016 election, the this, that, you know, and he's quoting examples of the Democrats.

00:18:24.720 And then they split there on their tactics. One said, okay, well, it's fine when the Democrats do it.

00:18:29.660 It's not good when Republicans do it. But then one of the other lines of argument was, well, at least

00:18:34.000 the Democrats didn't have an insurrection afterward. You know, they were just peaceful about it.

00:18:39.140 And Senator Cruz comes out and he says, what are you talking about? The Democrats burned the country

00:18:43.800 down for much of 2020. What are you talking about? They don't engage in political violence. What

00:18:48.880 about the Antifa riots? So here's the fact check from Newsweek of his appearance. Ted Cruz's claim,

00:18:57.960 false, totally false. Not needs context, not unverified, not satire, not misleading material. It's

00:19:05.100 totally false. Okay. Why is Ted Cruz's claim totally false? The Antifa riots, Cruz refers to,

00:19:12.500 are almost certainly the protests which followed George Floyd's death. Uh-huh. Yes, that's true.

00:19:19.560 Okay. So you could call them the BLM slash Antifa riots. Okay. But wouldn't that make it worse for

00:19:25.120 your side? Wouldn't that be more sensational? Okay. Most of these occurred between late May to early June

00:19:31.340 2020. Although many buildings were damaged or destroyed by fire during protests,

00:19:38.420 this did not carry on throughout the year. So you're saying it's his claim that the Libs

00:19:44.660 burned the country down for much of that year. You're saying it's false because while they did burn

00:19:50.240 a lot of the country down, they didn't do it for most of the year, only a little bit of the year.

00:19:54.260 Except then the next paragraph, they say, well, protests did continue in Portland, Oregon for nearly a

00:20:00.160 year. According to media reports, these were not all characterized by arson. So, okay. No,

00:20:07.360 it's false because it didn't go on for all of the year. Except in certain places, it did go on

00:20:11.380 through all of the year. But it's false because they didn't all burn down the cities. They just,

00:20:17.320 well, some of them did actually burn down the cities the whole time. But most other cities quieted

00:20:21.460 down after June 2020. Labeling the protests as Antifa riots is misleading to, as there's no organization

00:20:27.400 or group known as such. I mean, there are, and I've actually encountered them and they've attacked

00:20:31.540 me at my debates and they have a flag and they have a uniform and they show up and they've committed

00:20:35.640 political violence for years in this country. But no, 10,000 Pinocchios, because why? Because

00:20:41.580 they don't even attempt to make a coherent argument. They contradict themselves sentence after sentence.

00:20:46.540 They undermine what they said previously, but it doesn't matter. It's the same thing as COVID is not a

00:20:54.000 big deal. We should have reopened the schools from the beginning. COVID is going to kill us all. It's

00:20:57.400 a global health crisis. It's the contradictions that we're not just seeing today, but we've been

00:21:02.360 listening to for years. They are a feature of the program because none of it is about making a

00:21:07.880 coherent argument. Obviously none of it is about quote unquote following the science or checking the

00:21:11.620 facts or anything like that. It is all about power, raw power, completely divorced from reason and

00:21:19.000 logic and civil discussion and all of that. And it's the Democrats clamping down and the less of

00:21:24.440 an argument they've got to make and the less persuasive their argument is to the American

00:21:28.620 people, the more they're just going to clamp down on that raw power. Expect many, many more fact

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00:23:14.960 I want to fact check something. I'm going to do a Michael Knowles show fact check. We're going to

00:23:19.320 fact check the fact checkers. No, I want to fact check Joe Biden on something because Joe Biden

00:23:23.300 made a claim yesterday that although he says very eccentric things almost every day,

00:23:29.900 this one, this one really took me by surprise.

00:23:35.540 Some airlines, if you want six more inches between you and the seat in front, you pay more money,

00:23:40.860 but you don't know it until you purchase your ticket. Look, folks, these are junk fees. They're

00:23:48.600 unfair and they hit marginalized Americans, the hardest, especially low-income folks and people

00:23:53.480 of color. They benefit big corporations, not consumers. 0.98

00:23:58.320 Okay, hold on. The claim is airlines charge more money for better seats.

00:24:07.300 And number one, most people, they don't even know about it. They hide that, which I fly around a lot.

00:24:14.980 I give speeches. I was just in England for Candace's daughter's baptism. I'm on airplanes a fair bit.

00:24:21.620 When I go to book my ticket, the prices are not hidden. They're right in front of your face.

00:24:28.080 And when you go to pick your seat, on every seat almost, there's a little dollar sign and then a

00:24:35.760 number. And then, and you can either, if you go for the nicer seats, the numbers get bigger. And if

00:24:41.160 you're in the less nice seats with less legroom, the numbers are smaller, but you pick it,

00:24:46.560 you see the price every single step of the way. So I don't know how that's confusing. But then it

00:24:52.780 gets, it gets even weirder because Biden said, this is this practice of the airlines of hiding these

00:24:58.520 fees, which they allegedly do. And the practice really of just charging more for nicer seats with

00:25:04.240 more legroom. This is especially harmful to marginalized Americans and to people of color.

00:25:14.260 Is he, is he saying black people can't read? There's two, there's two ways of understanding

00:25:21.320 what he's saying. He's either saying black people are illiterate and enumerate. And so they can't see

00:25:26.720 basic words and numbers on a screen when they're buying their tickets. Or he's saying it's unfair to

00:25:31.900 black people because, because they're so fat, they need more legroom than other people. Or maybe 1.00

00:25:36.880 that they're so tall, I guess that would be a slightly less offensive way. But so it's unfair

00:25:43.340 to black people. It's especially bad for black people because they're illiterate and enumerate and 1.00

00:25:47.700 fat. That's, that seems a little odd to me, but it's also offensive to white people because the,

00:25:57.180 I assume Joe Biden didn't give one second's thought to how he was phrasing this. This is how the

00:26:01.840 Democrats always have to phrase any justice issue. They could be talking about anything.

00:26:06.920 They could be talking about how in the middle of August, it, you know, it's really hot out there.

00:26:13.260 And they could say, and this is especially a serious problem for marginalized communities and

00:26:16.540 people of color. They could, they could, you could, you could be talking about how the, the cost of

00:26:22.620 bubble gum went up five cents over the past year. Well, with Biden's inflation, it's probably gone up

00:26:26.620 much more, but you can say, you know, the price of bubble gum has gone up five cents last year.

00:26:30.460 And this is especially a big problem for marginalized communities and people of color.

00:26:33.880 Climate change is a problem for marginalized communities and people of color. The war in 0.82

00:26:38.600 Ukraine, it's a really big problem for marginalized communities and people of color. Every single

00:26:42.140 issue, food, food, you know, the, the amount of high fructose corn syrup is, is a really especially

00:26:48.460 problem for marginalized communities and people of color. Every issue of justice has to be framed

00:26:54.500 from the perspective of non-white people. It's not, it's not enough on the left to say,

00:27:02.080 this is bad for everybody. You're not allowed to say that. That's why they hate the phrase,

00:27:05.140 all lives matter. It only matters if it's bad for black people. If it's bad for white people 0.61

00:27:09.800 for on the left, usually they celebrate that. That's a good thing. There are fewer white people 1.00

00:27:14.500 in the country. This is a great thing. This is a cause for celebration. You see constant articles about

00:27:18.400 this and, and segments like this in the mainstream news, which is, which is wrong. That's really

00:27:23.680 wrong. Okay. It's really, it's somehow, it's just that one silly example in the airlines.

00:27:31.900 Biden manages to offend everybody as he thinks that he's pandering to his base. I don't think

00:27:36.600 that pandering is working anymore. I just, I'm just looking at that in the polls. I don't think

00:27:41.560 it's working. The racial politics, they're just so dumb. They're so, so silly.

00:27:47.440 Representative Mayra Flores, she's a Texas Republican member of Congress. She just tried 1.00

00:27:55.040 to join the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. This is the main caucus for Latino members of Congress.

00:28:02.180 And Mayra Flores, very clearly Latino. She's the first Mexican born woman to serve in Congress. 0.89

00:28:09.220 She represents a district right along the US-Mexico border. The district is overwhelmingly

00:28:13.020 Hispanic. She was not allowed into the caucus. According to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus,

00:28:21.100 representative Mayra Flores from Mexico is not Hispanic. Kind of silly, right? Why is that?

00:28:29.260 Well, they don't want to let her in because she's conservative. And as far as the left is concerned, 1.00

00:28:33.220 if you're Hispanic and conservative, you're just not Hispanic. As far as the left is concerned, 0.92

00:28:37.660 if you're Candace Owens, if you're black and conservative, you're just not black. They don't 1.00

00:28:43.100 say, Candace Owens, you're not conservative. They say you're not black. You're not really a black 1.00

00:28:46.960 person. I remember an article about Sarah Palin in some stupid feminist studies, gender studies 1.00

00:28:52.600 journal. This would have been years ago when Palin was running for vice president. And the article said

00:28:58.320 that Sarah Palin had surrendered her womanhood. She ceased to be a woman because of her political 0.90

00:29:06.140 point of view. And we can mock this and we say this is so silly and look at these dumb liberals

00:29:11.940 with their race politics. But there's actually a lot to this. This is actually how most people think

00:29:19.800 about race. Very, very few people care about race itself. This is across the political spectrum.

00:29:27.220 People care about race, if they care about race at all, only as a representation of something else.

00:29:35.200 So people on the right have very low racial consciousness. You see this reflected in a lot

00:29:41.020 of polls. White people especially have very, very low racial consciousness compared to other racial 0.95

00:29:44.420 groups. In as much, even the race-obsessed kind of fringe of the right, even they are more than happy 0.80

00:29:53.780 to welcome black right-wingers into their tent. You see this. Just look at any of the real racially 0.99

00:30:01.180 obsessed kind of fringe figures on the right. They've all got a black friend. They've all got

00:30:06.320 a Jewish friend. Because their racial politics is not really about race. For them, the people who are

00:30:14.620 not members of their race that they pal around with participate in the kind of cultural trappings

00:30:21.600 that they themselves go along with. So wear the same clothes, believe the same kind of political

00:30:27.140 points of view, read the same books, go to the same parties, do the same sorts of things. For the

00:30:31.900 relatively few people on the right who focus all that much on race, race is really just a

00:30:37.920 representation of culture. And for the left, race is just a representation of ideology.

00:30:44.420 This is why they can, with a straight face, say, no, my floor is you're not Hispanic. 0.98

00:30:49.240 No, no, because I know you think that race is just the color of your skin and your bone structure,

00:30:54.620 but it's not. For the left, if you do not adhere to a handful of dogmatic ideological principles

00:31:01.960 that make you a leftist, then you actually just can't be black. When Joe Biden says,

00:31:06.600 if you're not going to vote for me, if you don't know who you're going to vote for,

00:31:09.160 me or Trump, you ain't black. He is expressing that point of view. He probably couldn't articulate

00:31:14.260 it in anything resembling a systematic way. But he's just saying that race actually is not about

00:31:20.060 the pigment of your skin. It's just, that is just a representation for your political ideology.

00:31:26.080 And a lot of the time that does actually match up. And sometimes it doesn't. And when it doesn't,

00:31:31.080 then you deny the pigment. You deny what we have traditionally understood to be race.

00:31:35.560 And you instead favor the symbol. And that's why Myra will never be Hispanic according to these

00:31:41.160 people. Never will. Candace Owens will never be black according to these people. Now, speaking of 0.99

00:31:46.120 women in politics, I was just talking about two very impressive women in politics. I'm now going

00:31:51.800 to speak about a little, something of a less impressive woman in politics. That would of course be 0.99

00:31:56.460 our vice president, Kamala Harris, who gave a rousing oratory yesterday on school buses.

00:32:06.120 So, here's the thing. Who doesn't love a yellow school bus, right? Can you raise your hand if you

00:32:13.000 love a yellow school bus, right? Just, there's something about the, and most of us, many of us

00:32:20.660 went to school on the yellow school bus, right? And it's part of, it's part of our, our experience

00:32:27.180 growing up. I say this without any malice in my heart, specifically toward Kamala Harris, or I think

00:32:37.240 any hyperbole. This might be the most vacuous human being ever to walk the earth. If you ever

00:32:46.960 heard emptier words from an emptier suit of a politician. Politicians say meaningless things all

00:32:59.200 the time, but this woman only ever says meaningless things. Madam vice president, what, what, what do 1.00

00:33:06.200 you think you're going to be doing now? How is the administration going to pivot? Well, it's really

00:33:09.220 important to continue to do the things and to do the things now that we were doing, that we've been

00:33:13.960 doing from the doing. Okay. Madam vice president, you've got the floor. Please tell us what's on your

00:33:19.440 heart. Please give us your vision of the future. Who here likes a yellow school bus?

00:33:23.500 Don't we all love yellow school buses? Nobody can not like a yellow school bus. So actually,

00:33:28.980 first of all, fact check, no one who rides a yellow school bus likes a yellow school bus

00:33:34.880 because it's school children who like, who ride the yellow school bus and school children don't

00:33:40.200 want to go to school. They want to stay home and play. So she's actually, even in as much as she's

00:33:45.720 making any kind of claim, which is really tenuous here, even that really tenuous claim is,

00:33:53.100 is false. Even that really thin, just not, that is false. And then of course, the whole thing is

00:33:59.180 just so silly and sad because every single Kamala Harris speech or interview is just an excruciating

00:34:08.760 process of watching her try to figure out desperately how she can get anyone to like her even a little

00:34:16.440 bit. What is, that's why what she never says anything that, that could ever be construed really

00:34:22.980 as controversial or that it makes any real substantive claims at all. Because the moment

00:34:28.080 you make a substantive claim, you alienate people who disagree with those claims. So she just generally

00:34:31.940 says nothing. And then she does it in this really desperate, like her, her muscles are stretched on

00:34:39.080 her face and she's always got that crazy cackle. Right? Don't we all love air? Hey, who doesn't

00:34:46.780 love air? Right? Can you, can I be president yet? No, you can't. You can't. It's really sad.

00:34:54.020 Joe Biden also has no convictions whatsoever. He's just much more talented than she is.

00:34:58.540 That's how he's remained in national politics for 50 years. Not the brightest bulb in the pack. He

00:35:03.220 doesn't believe a damn thing. Whatever he did believe, he sold that out long ago. But at least

00:35:07.500 he's a little better at the art of politics. Kamala Harris is not. She's made her way in politics 0.98

00:35:12.060 by other means. We'll leave it at that to be diplomatic, you know, to be gentlemanly who says

00:35:17.660 chivalry is dead. But it's, it's, it's a real warning. People write in a lot on the show and they

00:35:24.700 say, Michael, I want to be more involved in politics. And some people say, I want to run for

00:35:28.100 office even, or I really, at least I want to get involved with the campaign. You know, how do I do it?

00:35:31.300 What should I do? And especially when young people write in, they'll say, how do I get involved? I'm 19 years

00:35:36.360 old. And I just always think, make sure before you do it, you are doing it for the right reasons.

00:35:43.900 The first thing you have to ask yourself before you get involved with a political campaign or before

00:35:47.620 you run for office, or even before you go out and spread your opinions in an article or a podcast or

00:35:53.160 TV or whatever is, why are you doing it? Why? What do you hope to achieve in politics? And

00:36:03.300 when it comes to politicians like Joe Biden and especially Kamala Harris, they just want to

00:36:10.500 be in politics. That's it. They just want to be in office. Joe Biden just wanted to,

00:36:15.880 he's just wanted to be the president forever. Kamala Harris just wants to be the president. 1.00

00:36:21.340 What do they want to do? Do they want to get tough on crime or go soft on crime? They've held

00:36:25.180 both positions. They don't care. Do they want to institute a kind of moderate centrist policy,

00:36:32.220 or do they want to move far to the left? They don't care. They've held both points of view.

00:36:36.160 Do they want to be hawks or doves? Do they want to be this that you go down? They don't,

00:36:39.600 they've held every position on every single issue. They are not conviction politicians. They just want

00:36:45.600 to be in office. And so when you don't believe anything, it, it can, you can last for a while.

00:36:54.220 You can kind of last in the background for a while, but it, it, it makes it very,

00:36:58.760 very difficult for you when the going gets tough because you, you really are rudderless. You have

00:37:03.660 nowhere to go. And so now Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would do anything. They don't care. They

00:37:08.780 wake up in the morning, they lick their finger, they figure out which way the wind is blowing,

00:37:11.380 but they just, they, because they have no beliefs and no vision for the country, they just, they're

00:37:16.860 just stumbling around. And you're seeing that reflected in their poll numbers. And what the

00:37:21.200 American people want is clarity. Okay. No one wants a flatterer or a panderer in office. Okay.

00:37:29.160 That flattery and pandering, it's very offensive. Okay. And it's why they, it's why they don't

00:37:35.120 understand. Wait a second. Ron DeSantis has been tough on certain Hispanic immigrants. Why do the

00:37:39.000 Hispanic voters like him? Because he's, he talks straight and he says, this is what I believe.

00:37:43.040 And here's why I believe what I believe. And here, I'm going to give you an argument for it.

00:37:46.100 I'm going to stand by the facts and the facts are going to be true six months from now when the

00:37:50.020 Democrats are trying to rewrite all of history and run away. I'm going to be standing by what

00:37:54.500 I believe. And, and people respect that. The voters are a lot smarter than the Democrats have

00:38:00.540 given them credit for. People just want to be respected. They want a clear vision and they want

00:38:04.880 some courage. Right now, the Democrats are failing on all of those fronts. You know, I absolutely love

00:38:11.060 this new three-part series from Jordan Peterson on Daily Wire. It's called On Marriage. Okay. I,

00:38:17.480 I think every single day, I am truly, truly blessed to have my wonderful wife and my kids.

00:38:24.280 And it's so important because marriage is the fundamental political institution with marriage

00:38:28.120 rates at an all-time low in the United States and a birth rate that is continuing to fall.

00:38:32.820 Everyone needs to watch this show. I think this is one of, if not the most pressing issue in,

00:38:38.700 in the country. And I've been talking about it for years. And some people have said, Michael,

00:38:42.640 you're crazy. You're a radical. Why are you talking about birth rates and marriage rates? Get off.

00:38:46.900 Well, now people are starting to realize this is a big, big problem. Especially young people right 1.00

00:38:51.180 now need to watch this because statistics are also showing that younger people are getting married

00:38:55.000 much later in life and less frequently. Now, all right, I know our audience here is not filled

00:39:00.220 with Peter Pans, but just in case there are a few stragglers who are late to the marriage and family

00:39:04.080 party, consider this a pleasant and helpful kick in the teeth. Stop being selfish. Or as Jordan Peterson

00:39:10.660 says, stop having cocaine-fueled binge parties and make your bed and eat your lobsters and get

00:39:16.760 married. For those of you married folks who have let time and work and outside forces get in the way,

00:39:22.460 Jordan will also show you how to navigate through those moments and get back to that romantic,

00:39:27.080 fun adventure that you had at the beginning. Daily Wire Plus members can go watch the first

00:39:31.880 episode of Jordan Peterson's On Marriage with two more episodes coming out soon. Tonight is Ben Shapiro's

00:39:37.180 Book Club. This month's book is Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. And Ben will be sharing his notes

00:39:41.940 and analysis with you as well as answering your questions. You have to be an all-access member

00:39:46.240 to join in on the fun. So go to dailywire.com slash Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S, to become a member today.

00:39:51.200 And remember, your membership really helps us prevent the total collapse of society as we know it.

00:39:56.780 So do it. Go join Daily Wire Plus and make your bed and eat your lobsters and get married. 0.95

00:40:01.360 Okay, go ahead on over and do it right now.

00:40:07.180 Now, some people who want to prevent the collapse of society, they're not going about it the right

00:40:14.460 way. They're going about it in a kind of, I think, self-undermining sort of way. This would be

00:40:19.480 this strange epidemic we're seeing of climate activists throwing liquids and colorful substances

00:40:28.940 on art and architecture, specifically in London. So you know, a week or so ago,

00:40:35.760 there were those crazy climate activists who walked in and threw soup on a Van Gogh painting

00:40:41.480 that I then showed up. A day or two later, I walked up with a spoon. I thought I could get

00:40:46.200 some soup there, but luckily there was glass and they cleaned off all of the soup.

00:40:49.640 Now this crazy climate activist is going to a conservative think tank house in London,

00:40:55.840 and he just started spraying it with orange paint. And this all apparently to stop oil.

00:41:02.700 You were seeing that this is the phrase now that has been cropping up in a lot of these

00:41:06.540 climate protests, stop oil. And my first thought when I saw this act of protest is,

00:41:15.520 does that man know what paint is made from? Because if you want to stop oil,

00:41:23.600 I don't know that you would use an oil-based paint. At least when the two young women were throwing the 0.99

00:41:33.920 soup on Van Gogh, I thought, well, you know, the painting is made of oil paints. I don't think that

00:41:39.480 Van Gogh paintings are the number one contributor to climate change or anything like that. But at least

00:41:44.940 there's a little bit of logic there may be, or it's a sort of facade or semblance of logic. But

00:41:52.360 all I see with these protests, allegedly to save the world, is destruction. That's all these guys

00:42:01.520 do. They just destroy things. That's all you're seeing the left do now. The left destroying art,

00:42:10.520 destroying marriage, destroying education, destroying wonderful entertainment and IP. I mean,

00:42:19.200 they've destroyed Disney. Now we can't show our kids Disney Plus. I think we all canceled. I

00:42:25.840 certainly canceled my subscription. I can't show my kids recent Disney movies. Maybe I'll go find some

00:42:30.740 of the older ones online, the good ones. But even then, I don't know. The left has just gone in,

00:42:37.080 and instead of building their own things, they've just kind of destroyed all of our things. Why is it

00:42:42.780 that these leftists are so intertwined with ugliness? I'm not even saying that they're

00:42:48.880 naturally, physically ugly. In fact, I know good-looking people. I know many such cases of

00:42:55.600 good-looking people who, as they've gotten more and more into leftism, they've made themselves much

00:43:00.880 uglier in their clothing, in the way they treat their bodies, in the way they mutilate themselves,

00:43:05.380 in their general demeanor, they do it. And I've seen people who've been crazy leftists,

00:43:10.220 who, as they become more conservative, they actually become more beautiful.

00:43:15.600 And their environment becomes more beautiful, and they treat their body more beautifully,

00:43:18.900 and their rooms, and the way they present themselves. Because obviously, there's a relation

00:43:24.100 between truth, goodness, and beauty, the transcendentals. And it's just a good rule of thumb,

00:43:30.520 where you see someone pushing ugliness, they're going to be pushing, very likely,

00:43:35.360 wickedness and falsehood too. These things all go together. And that's, if we want to have a good

00:43:46.140 society, it's not enough to take this kind of reductionist point of view of, well, we're just

00:43:49.940 going to defend a few laws, and then you leave me alone, and I'll leave you alone, or I'm going to do

00:43:53.660 whatever we want, and don't yuck my yum. No, that's not going to happen. You want the basic

00:43:59.460 statecraft from the time of those old ancient Greeks until modernity, and all the way up into

00:44:05.160 the future, because this is just a fact of politics. Politics at its core is do good and avoid evil. If

00:44:12.360 you want to have a good country, then you got to get more good stuff going on, and you got to avoid

00:44:17.740 the bad stuff. And I don't care how many degrees you've got in political science, and you think

00:44:23.260 you've come up with a way to avoid that basic rule of politics. It's not going to work. So now we are

00:44:28.640 getting a little bit more good stuff when it comes to our political order right now. There was a big

00:44:35.360 win. I hope it will be a big win that happened yesterday. Elon Musk officially became the chief

00:44:42.000 twit, and he did so by walking into Twitter headquarters, and he was actually carrying a

00:44:48.800 sink. It was kind of a strange video, obviously being filmed. He was just carrying a sink, obviously

00:44:54.720 disconnected from the wall. And he smiles at the camera and puts it down on the couch. And he said,

00:44:59.560 he tweeted out, he goes, entering Twitter HQ, let that sink in. And then he changed his bio to say

00:45:08.840 chief twit. So this gives me a lot of hope because the man is certainly not self-serious. He makes

00:45:16.960 jokes. He takes things lightly. That's what Chesterton said about the angels. He said,

00:45:21.060 the angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. And he says he's going to make Twitter a

00:45:27.260 little bit freer. He's not saying it's going to be the complete wild west, and you can put whatever

00:45:31.400 you want on Twitter. But he's saying, we're going to open up speech again on Twitter. It's got to be an

00:45:35.520 important tool for communication. And this has the potential to be a more important political

00:45:43.100 development than pretty much anything we've seen during the Biden administration.

00:45:47.960 And the reason for that is, the Bird app is not just a worthless time suck that we're all going

00:45:54.340 to have to answer for when we make it to St. Peter's Gate. It might also be that. But Twitter,

00:45:58.580 along with the senior partners in big tech, Google and Facebook, are the public square.

00:46:06.160 And because we are, at least in principle, a self-governing republic, that means that they

00:46:10.080 are the political order. If you can be excluded from the public square, then you cannot really

00:46:15.680 participate in our government. So your place in our self-government doesn't really exist.

00:46:20.280 And if that happens to an entire political party, if that happens to the biggest voices in a political

00:46:28.240 party, then that means that half the country is essentially being booted from the public square,

00:46:32.140 and it completely undermines self-government. This could be a big development. Now, Elon Musk is not,

00:46:40.280 I don't think he's some rock-ribbed conservative. And it actually tells you a lot, I think about a lot of

00:46:46.540 the poll movements we're seeing today. Elon Musk just kind of gets what time it is.

00:46:52.940 Elon Musk, like so many Americans, is not a guy who probably showed up to the Tea Party rallies 10

00:46:59.080 years ago and wore the MAGA hat all the time and studied Edmund Burke in school. Maybe he did,

00:47:04.980 maybe he didn't. I don't think so, though. I don't think he was a debate club kid wearing a bow tie,

00:47:09.180 practicing his orations on classical conservative philosophy. I think he's a kind of quirky,

00:47:14.820 pretty interesting guy who works in a completely unrelated field to the professional exercise of

00:47:20.660 politics. And he just looked around and he said, whatever ruling class is running the country right

00:47:25.060 now, they're screwing it up. Something's gone really, really wrong. And I'm not part of that.

00:47:28.440 I'm part, I'm just, I'm out of that. I'm with whatever is not that. You've seen Tulsi Gabbard do

00:47:32.800 this. You've seen huge swaths of Hispanic voters in particular do this. You're seeing a huge group of

00:47:37.380 center people and center left and undecided do this right now, breaking in the polls.

00:47:42.160 Now, will our benevolent betters, you know, will our, will our ruling class

00:47:48.160 be able to hold onto their grasp of power despite this popular movement? That remains to be seen,

00:47:55.480 but the signs are all very, very good looking toward election day. Now today, today was supposed

00:48:00.740 to be a very special day where I almost kill my friend and colleague, Jake Crane. We are pushing

00:48:05.020 that to tomorrow. We are switching tomorrow, which is fake headline Friday to today, because listen,

00:48:11.800 we live in Biden's America. Up is down and left is right and black is white. And so everything's

00:48:16.700 crazy. You've got to stay tuned. I need your help to figure out which the fake headline is

00:48:23.000 because the news cycle is so, so crazy. Four real headlines, one fake one. The rest of the

00:48:28.720 show continues now. You don't want to miss it. If you're not a member, click the link in the

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 27, 2022

Ep. 1113 - None Of This Would Have Happened Under Trump

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