The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1130 - Trump Is Democrat's Public Enemy No. 1

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden's DOJ has just announced that it will continue to investigate and likely prosecute

00:00:05.640 Biden's chief political rival in 2024, Donald Trump. And in classic leftist newspeak,

00:00:13.300 Biden's attorney general, Merrick Garland, framed the announcement as evidence that the

00:00:17.900 investigation and likely prosecution would not be political because the DOJ would hire a special

00:00:25.560 counsel. Now, the purpose of a special counsel is to avoid conflicts of interest in prosecutions.

00:00:33.000 In the case of this investigation, the investigation of a former president currently

00:00:37.900 running for president against the guy who took his job, we have never seen anything like it before.

00:00:44.240 So the standard should be much, much higher to avoid the appearance of any sort of bias.

00:00:48.860 The standard should be much higher that Biden isn't just going to throw everything he's got

00:00:55.840 at Trump to stop him from running against him in 2024. So what did Biden do? He appointed Jack

00:01:03.640 Smith, an Obama hack lawyer who most recently prosecuted war crimes at The Hague. So looking

00:01:12.200 like Biden is going to go with the scorched earth strategy, kill the campaign in the cradle approach,

00:01:18.720 to Trump's campaign. Because if you don't think that you can beat your opponent fair and square,

00:01:24.860 your only chance at keeping power is to rig the system against him. I'm Michael Knowles,

00:01:29.740 this is The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment Friday is from Mike

00:01:41.820 Hoff, who says, Beto listening to Michael say there's no such thing as a lost cause.

00:01:46.700 So you're saying there's a chance. Yeah, that is what Beto is saying right now. I assume he's going

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00:03:11.040 If the Democrats truly believed that they could easily defeat Trump at the ballot box in 2024,

00:03:17.280 they would not be investigating and very likely prosecuting him. So wait, that's the way it is.

00:03:24.540 Notice you didn't really hear talk about the, an investigation and a prosecution from the DOJ

00:03:30.280 of Donald Trump until it started to look more and more like Trump was going to run in 2024.

00:03:35.140 Then all of a sudden there was one day in the summer where it looked like Trump was going to

00:03:40.780 announce and he had been suggesting that he would, that he would make a big announcement on that day

00:03:46.060 on truth social throughout social media. And what happens? That was the day that Biden's FBI thugs

00:03:51.800 kicked down the door at Mar-a-Lago and raided the former president's home. So obviously this is

00:03:57.700 nakedly political and then the Biden DOJ to pretend that it's not political. What do they do? They

00:04:04.180 appoint a war crimes prosecutor to go after Biden's chief rival. It's just so transparent. And it's,

00:04:09.780 it's clear enough to me that the Democrats believe that if they don't rig the system in 2024,

00:04:14.460 that Trump will beat them. And that's probably wise for them to think that because you hear a lot

00:04:19.600 of talk of, Oh, Donald Trump, he's the only Republican who could lose in 2024. You hear this from the

00:04:24.280 Democrats. You hear this from the Republicans. Oh, those Republicans, they need to pick somebody

00:04:27.960 better because Trump, he's sure to lose. He's sure. Okay. If he's so sure to lose,

00:04:32.060 then why are the Democrats doing every single thing they can to keep him off the ballot?

00:04:35.580 If he's so sure to lose, why did the Democrats keep testing out ways to argue that the 14th

00:04:40.700 amendment stops people who led an insurrection from getting on the ballot? They tried that against

00:04:45.640 Marjorie Taylor Greene. They tried that against other members of Congress. It was obviously a test run 1.00

00:04:49.560 to keep Trump off the ballot. You hear left-wing commentators on, on MSNBC and elsewhere.

00:04:54.560 Say that, well, Donald Trump, he's ineligible to run for president. Okay. If you think he's

00:04:58.860 going to be so easy to beat, then why are you trying to keep him off the ballot? Because

00:05:02.720 you know that you all were wrong when you said that in 2016 and he beat you in 2016 and he's

00:05:08.700 a hell of a lot stronger than everyone is pretending right now. And so you think that if you kill the

00:05:13.240 campaign in the cradle, that's going to give you a much better shot. Then you'll go up against

00:05:16.720 a more standard Republican and the Democrats believe they can beat that Republican. Maybe not even

00:05:22.340 because the Republican is weak, maybe just because they've already so thoroughly rigged

00:05:25.860 the elections that it will be much easier. And when I say rigged the elections, what am I talking

00:05:30.060 about? I'm talking about extend voter day to voter month. I'm talking about push widespread mail in

00:05:35.120 ballots in some cases unconstitutionally or illegally. I'm talking about ballot harvesting. I'm talking

00:05:40.800 about no voter ID. I'm talking about all the things that the Democrats have pushed for decades

00:05:44.600 and really, really ramped up during the COVID-19 lockdowns. They used COVID as the excuse to change

00:05:51.160 all the election rules, to rig it against the Republicans. And for some reason, those rules

00:05:55.020 are still in place. That's how you know that it was total BS in 2020. Because if the argument was in

00:05:59.840 2020, we need to change all the voter rules and get rid of all the election integrity measures

00:06:05.080 because of this worldwide pandemic that we've never seen anything like it. So we got to change all

00:06:11.200 the rules. If that were the case, then why were those rules still in place in Democrat-controlled

00:06:16.460 areas in 2022? COVID is over. Joe Biden admitted the pandemic is over. So then why do you still

00:06:23.000 have the widespread mail-ins? Why do you still have election season? Why do you still not have

00:06:26.780 voter ID requirements? Why? Because the Democrats obviously want to rig it. I know we're not allowed

00:06:31.460 to talk about that, but I'm going to talk about it anyway. Listen, Elon Musk bought Twitter.

00:06:35.600 Social media feels freer. So I'm going to speak as bluntly as I possibly can. There are a whole

00:06:40.320 lot of pieces of evidence that there was fraud in Arizona in 2022. There's a lot more evidence that

00:06:47.980 there was fraud in 2020. But even just this last election, even in the midterms right now,

00:06:52.380 there is a fabulous website, who'scounting.us slash Maricopa. You can see Maricopa election workers

00:06:59.940 recounting in first person testimony the kind of shenanigans, the clear evidence, I think,

00:07:06.240 of fraud from the midterm elections. My name is Sarah O'Neill. I've been an Arizona resident for

00:07:12.620 the past three years. I was poll watcher for both the primaries and the midterms. And I wanted to

00:07:19.920 relay my observations with no commentary or accusation. The door number three debacle,

00:07:28.180 when I checked in, I was the afternoon and evening and closing poll watcher. I did confirm that our

00:07:35.640 tabulators were cleared. They were all zeros. But I also did confirm that there was no instruction

00:07:41.680 for inspecting to ensure the door three or the slot three was empty. So no one, not a poll worker,

00:07:51.020 not a poll watcher, inspected to make sure it was empty. And the reason that's a point is at the end

00:07:56.560 of the day, we were asked to report the number of voters checked in, the number of ballots that

00:08:02.440 were transporting. And of those number of ballots, how many were door number three? We had 1,218 ballots.

00:08:09.260 We had only 1,018 voters that checked in. And we had of those 1,218 ballots, 406 were door number three.

00:08:19.720 So there you have it. If you don't remember the door number three debacle, what happened early in the

00:08:25.180 day in Maricopa County, which is a crucial county and a crucial swing state that helped to swing the

00:08:30.100 election, is that the voting machines stopped working. The voting machines reportedly in

00:08:37.360 disproportionately Republican precincts stopped working. And so people had to file their ballots

00:08:42.420 provisionally in what was called box number three. It was very convenient. There was this door number

00:08:47.020 three. This was supposed to be a fail safe measure such that if the machine stopped working,

00:08:51.660 don't worry. You don't run your ballot through the tabulator. You just put it in this box and

00:08:56.680 don't worry. They'll count those later. And you hear this poll watcher's testimony. This woman

00:09:02.680 sounds totally normal. Doesn't sound like a tinfoil hat lady. She said, I'm not going to include 1.00

00:09:07.000 commentary or accusations. I'm just going to tell you exactly what I saw. I don't expect to see this

00:09:11.660 woman hosting a show on Infowars. Though frankly, Alex Jones has relatively a pretty good record on

00:09:16.860 getting stories right. But this woman doesn't sound like someone who's about to rip her shirt off and 1.00

00:09:20.680 starts screaming about the gay frogs or anything. She's just calling it like she sees it. 0.93

00:09:24.680 And she says, at the end of the day, we counted the number of voters who checked in versus the

00:09:32.680 number of ballots we had. The number of ballots we had was 1,218. The number of voters we checked in

00:09:39.560 was 1,018. So you have this really perfect even number, 200 extra ballots. And what do you know?

00:09:46.280 They happened to be in box number three. And why were they in box number three? Because no one ever

00:09:51.060 checked to see if the boxes were stuffed in the first place. You check to see that the boxes were

00:09:57.260 cleared at the end of election day. But there was no measure in place to check that the boxes were not

00:10:03.280 stuffed when the day started. Now, this has been a longstanding tool of election theft. And it goes back

00:10:14.480 all the way, I mean, gosh, it probably goes back to ancient Athens, just stuffing the ballot box.

00:10:19.400 But you see this especially in the campaigns of Lyndon Johnson. You see this throughout the middle of

00:10:24.800 the 20th century. FDR and Lyndon Johnson joked about this after FDR lost an election. And by the way,

00:10:31.140 he didn't lose his next election for Senate, specifically because he stuffed the ballot box,

00:10:35.320 which came out in the 1990s. And that number, it's just such a strange number. Exactly 200 extra ballots

00:10:43.060 compared to the number of voters who checked in. So what's that about? It wasn't only this woman 0.88

00:10:49.220 who describes election irregularities. And the problem wasn't only with box number three,

00:10:56.160 there were other issues too. Our rejection rate, which I confirmed with my Democrat poll watcher

00:11:03.860 counterpart, I thought it was maybe 75% at least. He said, oh no, it's at least 90% rejection rate.

00:11:12.800 The 17,000 number that has been publicized as door number three ballots is far understated.

00:11:22.560 We were there. We were there. The discrepancy and the number of physical ballots that I had,

00:11:29.400 they came from somewhere. We had physically had them. They were not voters that walked in and

00:11:34.440 checked in. We had 200 more ballots than voters that checked in. And I just want that to be on the record.

00:11:41.760 So she just wants this on the record. She says, look, the numbers just don't add up here, okay?

00:11:46.920 You don't need to be a math whiz to know those numbers just don't add up. Now, who was running

00:11:51.460 the elections in Arizona? It was the Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who coincidentally was running 0.99

00:11:55.340 for governor that year. But one of the rebuttals to this observation is, well, yeah, sure, Katie Hobbs

00:12:02.640 was technically in charge of the elections, but it was really the county level people who were running

00:12:06.520 it. And by the way, in Maricopa County, most of the board members who were running the elections,

00:12:11.640 most of them were Republicans. So your argument, you crazy tinfoil hat MAGA people,

00:12:16.520 your argument is ridiculous. And that would be a strong argument that there wasn't an anti-Republican

00:12:22.760 bias, if not for this one inconvenient fact about the Republicans, quote unquote, who were running the

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00:13:37.640 So the argument against the election fraud claims in Arizona is it was mostly Republicans running the

00:13:43.960 show in Maricopa. Okay, who were the Republicans, though, and what were their actual political views

00:13:50.500 and preferences? Here, again, at just open testimony from the people who saw what was going on in

00:13:56.920 Maricopa, here's the real story. So Chairman Bill Gates and Recorder Richer, you both have lost all

00:14:04.380 credibility and any shred of integrity to conduct free, fair, and transparent elections here in

00:14:13.880 Maricopa County when you both opened in 2021 a political action committee to specifically defeat

00:14:21.460 MAGA candidates. That actually was almost our whole ballot for this primary from the Republican Party.

00:14:29.560 So if you think that the public should believe the false narrative of well-run, fair, transparent

00:14:36.120 elections and outcomes, you're sorely mistaken. That's not just a conflict of interest. It's a

00:14:43.360 specific agenda and a pre-bias going into it. So at the very least, you should have recused yourself

00:14:49.020 from any part of this election, having opened that in 2021. So these guys who are running the

00:14:54.820 show on Maricopa, nominally they're Republicans, but they hate all the Republican candidates.

00:14:59.720 It's like saying that Bill Kristol and David French are Republicans. They're not really Republicans.

00:15:04.640 If ever they were Republicans, they certainly are no longer. They spend all of their time attacking

00:15:09.300 Republicans and shilling for Democrats. It's like calling Liz Cheney a Republican. Yeah,

00:15:13.420 she still sort of keeps an R by her name, even though she was booted out of her state's Republican

00:15:17.240 Party by vote. But effectively, all she ever does is help the Democrats. And what this woman's 1.00

00:15:23.360 pointing out here is she's saying, look, it's not even just that you guys have your preferences.

00:15:28.220 It's not even just that you register a certain way. You have been actively campaigning within the

00:15:33.380 last year to raise money for and help defeat all the sort of Republican candidates that were on this

00:15:40.560 ballot. You've taken extraordinary political measures to do that. So at the very least,

00:15:45.040 you guys should have backed away from running this election, especially an election that from the get

00:15:50.240 go had so many convenient and coincidental errors and holdups and snags and snafus. And that took days

00:15:59.240 and days and days to tabulate the results. It's just BS, okay? And I think this is one of the ways

00:16:04.320 that you can sniff out the difference between the real right-wingers and the court jester conservatives.

00:16:10.640 You know, the real people who want to advocate for a conservative society and the people who basically

00:16:17.760 just exist to legitimize the dominant liberal culture, okay? Who exist to do a little soft shoe 0.70

00:16:23.340 and a little dance routine to pretend like there's opposition in our politics when in fact there is not.

00:16:28.160 All they really do is help to preserve the legitimacy of the liberal order. And one of the ways that you

00:16:35.180 can distinguish between these two groups is who is calling out the system? It's not just enough

00:16:42.740 to attack those socialist Democrats. Those socialist Democrats want to raise your taxes. 0.70

00:16:49.080 Can you believe that crazy AOC? Oh, goodness, that crazy AOC. Look what she said now. 0.98

00:16:54.220 Look, she's a crazy leftist. Donate to the Republican Party because she is a crazy. Yeah, 1.00

00:17:00.380 AOC is a problem. Yeah, the socialists are a problem. What about the system?

00:17:06.160 What about the system? As far as I'm concerned, in a post-2020 world, after the Democrats changed all

00:17:13.780 the election rules to give them an unfair advantage, after we saw a large portion of the Republican Party

00:17:20.040 outed as nothing more than wolves in sheep's clothing and doing the bidding of the Democrats,

00:17:25.160 if you are not talking about election integrity and trying to fix that problem, then I think you're

00:17:31.880 a fraud. I think you're a fraud conservative who doesn't want to actually fix something.

00:17:36.040 If all you are doing in politics is trying to cut taxes and, look, I love tax cuts, all right? I'm not

00:17:44.340 knocking tax cuts. I love it. I don't want to pay any more in taxes. I want to pay much less. But if

00:17:48.280 that's all you're talking about, and then if the effect of the rest of your political views is to

00:17:55.340 enshrine in power the liberal order, then I think you're a fraud. I'll give you an example of this.

00:18:00.040 If you're one of these Republicans who says, well, listen, I don't like this big tech censorship,

00:18:05.900 but it's a private company. Google's a private company. Actually, it's not. Actually,

00:18:10.040 it was developed with direct funding from the government. And actually, they have more power

00:18:14.860 than pretty much any nation in the history of the world. And they control our political order and

00:18:18.220 our speech regime. But anyway, yeah, sure. They're a private company. And so therefore,

00:18:22.820 just build your own Google. If you're saying that, you are wittingly or unwittingly a shill for the

00:18:27.980 liberal order. Either way, you're not a real conservative as far as I'm concerned. If you're the

00:18:31.660 sort of conservative who says, well, yeah, it's probably not good that we're flooding the country with

00:18:37.460 a million foreign nationals legally every year and two million foreign nationals illegally. But you

00:18:41.660 know, that's freedom. You know what the Statue of Liberty is alleged to say? You know, give us your

00:18:48.100 poor huddled drug dealing Mexican cartels and we'll give you freedom or something. Oh, that's just 0.71

00:18:54.920 America. You know, if the effect of your political views, your allegedly conservative political views

00:19:00.260 is to just do everything the liberals want, censor conservative speech, flood the country with

00:19:04.960 illegal aliens, outsource jobs, give more medical power to a bunch of weirdo bureaucrats like Dr. 0.99

00:19:12.080 Fauci. If that's the effect of your views, then you're just a fraud, okay? You're not calling out

00:19:17.720 the system at all. You are a pawn in the system. And I absolutely want nothing to do with those

00:19:24.720 quote unquote Republicans, those quote unquote conservatives, okay? Now, speaking of the rigged

00:19:30.880 system, some conservative politicians, I'm thinking of Trump. I'm thinking of Viktor Orban in Hungary.

00:19:37.760 I'm thinking of Georgia Maloney in Italy. You know, I love her. They're the kinds of politicians who run 0.75

00:19:43.580 and they don't just say the same old platitudes. They say, no, this is rigged. I know it's rigged.

00:19:47.100 I've seen it be rigged. Trump famously would say, I know the system is totally corrupt because I've

00:19:52.020 used it to my advantage. Yeah, I used to donate to Democrats because I'd grease the wheels and I'd buy

00:19:56.780 them off. You're right. That's what happens in this form of government. So Georgia Maloney just 1.00

00:20:02.240 did this. Georgia Maloney just put the rest of the EU, specifically France, on blast on their 0.98

00:20:08.900 ridiculous arguments for why they've got to flood Europe with foreigners. Here's her argument. 1.00

00:20:14.160 I'll translate.

00:20:14.720 This is called the CFA front. It's a type of colonial currency that France prints for

00:20:25.360 African countries. And it applies seniorage to these countries and it allows them to take 0.85

00:20:35.000 the exports of the country. This is a child. She's holding up a picture. This is a child who

00:20:41.960 works in a gold mine in Burkina Faso. It's one of the poorest countries in the world.

00:20:49.420 France prints colonial money for Burkina Faso. In return, they demand 50% of everything that

00:20:58.680 Burkina Faso exports. The gold that this child goes down to pull up mostly ends up in the French 0.90

00:21:08.480 state. The solution here is not to take Africans and bring them to Europe. The solution is to

00:21:16.220 liberate Africa from the Europeans who are exploiting it and allow these people to keep 1.00

00:21:20.940 what they have and live on what they have. Beautiful, beautiful stuff. You can see here not

00:21:26.040 only a good political end in sight, which is to stop the mass migration to Europe, which the European 0.83

00:21:31.480 people rightly don't like because it's lawless and it's unsustainable and it will deprive them of

00:21:39.000 their own culture. If you just flood a country with new people and you don't assimilate those people in

00:21:43.600 any way, which is not even possible in the amount of time that these people are coming in, then you

00:21:48.480 destroy your own culture. And so the way she's doing it, though, is she's making an argument that

00:21:55.480 will be appealing to a broad array of people. She's not saying those awful Africans, we hate

00:22:01.660 those Africans, don't let those Africans come in. She's saying the arguments that France is making 1.00

00:22:06.760 are preposterous. France is making the argument that we need to take in all these Africans. And by 1.00

00:22:13.060 the way, the Africans are mostly going to places like Italy. They're going to these first ports at 1.00

00:22:16.700 Lampedusa and these kind of places where they first come to. And she says, but you're making the

00:22:23.080 argument that we need to take these people in because their countries are so poor. But you,

00:22:26.280 France, you're looting those countries. You're exploiting those people and you are profiting

00:22:30.840 yourself and then you want other people to pick up the tab. And that's so often what happens.

00:22:35.620 That's what happens here with our woke corporations. Our woke corporations will flood the country with 0.91

00:22:42.720 illegal aliens. They will encourage, it's not just the Democrats encouraging illegal immigration,

00:22:47.160 it's these corporations. It's the Chamber of Commerce too, because they know that it will give

00:22:52.840 them cheap labor. It will reduce the costs of labor. And then all the externalities, all of the

00:22:58.200 costs that go along, cultural, political, financial costs that go along with illegal immigration, crime.

00:23:05.180 These companies say, okay, everyone else has to deal with it. It is just, it really ends up being

00:23:09.660 pretty simple. It is a consequence of turning politics away from the common good of the whole

00:23:14.820 nation to provide for the general welfare, to think of us as a community, as the United States of

00:23:18.960 America, toward an entirely selfish view of politics, which we obviously see on the left.

00:23:24.440 The left's new moral maxim, new, it's been their moral maxim now for 60, 70 years, is if it feels

00:23:30.120 good, do it. If I want to do it, then I'm going to do it. You do you. Fine. But people on the right

00:23:34.500 have done this too. This is the right's adoption of greed is good. There's no such thing as the common

00:23:38.680 good, the virtue of selfishness, nonsense. Well, it's the left and the right both doing that.

00:23:43.380 And what's the effect of it? To rob the country of any sense of the common good, of any sense of

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00:25:19.840 Over the past two years, at least, though it's really been building for a longer time,

00:25:25.120 the social media giants have clamped down on conservative speech.

00:25:29.260 It hasn't been an even clamping down on speech. It's been

00:25:33.240 almost entirely focused on the right. Now, what does that mean? In a country that's supposedly a

00:25:41.600 self-government, where the way that we pass laws and govern ourselves is by persuading one another

00:25:45.820 of arguments, if you control speech, you control the whole culture. This is the point of my book,

00:25:50.320 Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Wines, a number one national bestseller. It makes a great

00:25:54.160 Christmas present, just pointing that out before Black Friday. So that has been the situation on the

00:25:58.760 ground. And then in walks Elon Musk. And Elon Musk comes in, and he buys Twitter. And at first,

00:26:05.600 it seems like a joke and a meme. And for a while, it looked like he didn't want to buy Twitter. But

00:26:08.820 then a judge sort of forced him to buy Twitter. And so anyway, he spends $44 billion, and he is having

00:26:13.780 a whole lot of fun. And there have been all of these debates over, do you let people on? Do you not

00:26:20.060 let people on? Do you have free speech? Do you not have free speech? I got into a little spat with Sam

00:26:24.540 Harris. Sam Harris made a splash as one of these atheists 15 years ago. He was one of the four 0.55

00:26:31.800 new atheists, which was much more a publishing trend than an intellectual movement. But anyway,

00:26:38.560 that's where he became somewhat famous. And he said, it's really dangerous. You can't have people

00:26:43.760 like Donald Trump or whoever on Twitter. It's really dangerous for these people to spread

00:26:48.260 misinformation. Can you imagine how dangerous it is? And I responded to him, and I said, Sam,

00:26:52.020 you're right. Elon should not tolerate the New York Times or the Washington Post remaining on this

00:26:59.180 platform. I mean, when I think of the dangerous lies that they spread, those guys need to be axed

00:27:04.180 immediately. And Sam responded with some sort of glib, you know, oh, yeah, you've really thought

00:27:08.280 about this, haven't you, Michael? Which, by the way, I have. And then I referenced my number one

00:27:11.900 national bestselling book, Speechless, which I recommend you get for Black Friday. So the point here,

00:27:17.520 I think, though, is that the New York Times and the Washington Post are responsible for a great

00:27:26.020 deal more evil because of their dishonest journalism than Donald Trump is. What do they accuse Donald

00:27:33.760 Trump of doing? Donald Trump led an insurrection. He didn't really do that. Well, he led those people

00:27:39.580 to go to the Capitol. Well, he sort of, a little bit he did that, though he said to be peaceful.

00:27:42.900 And people died. Yeah, the only person who died in the political violence of that day was a Trump

00:27:47.140 supporter named Ashley Babbitt who was murdered by a trigger-happy cop. That's it. And then I think

00:27:54.040 if you really want to add to the numbers, I think a couple of people died of natural causes that day.

00:27:58.760 There were a lot of people there and people had heart attacks and stuff like that. But no one died.

00:28:02.080 No cops were murdered. None of that. That was all completely made up, okay?

00:28:05.560 Furthermore, when you look at the New York Times' advocacy of certain wars, you can look at the New

00:28:12.920 York Times spreading propaganda and nonsense to justify some of our recent wars. Think about the

00:28:19.040 people who died as a result of that. You think about the nonsense spread by the Washington Post

00:28:25.660 and the New York Times with regard to the Russia hoax, which allowed or gave cover to the government to

00:28:32.640 spy on a rival presidential campaign and then undermine a duly elected president? Goodness

00:28:36.940 sakes, that's a big problem. I mean, I was joking a little bit with Sam Harris, but I'm pretty serious.

00:28:42.640 There's a strong argument to be made that the New York Times and the Washington Post should not be

00:28:46.540 permitted on Twitter because their dishonesty has led to really awful outcomes. It's led to death

00:28:52.200 in some cases, okay? And so Elon Musk is taking a middle ground here. He is not a free speech

00:28:59.760 absolutist, and he's getting a lot of flack from the right about this. But I don't think he should.

00:29:04.580 I think this is actually extremely based. I know this puts me on the outs with some of the right

00:29:11.600 wing, though I think actually the conservatives are coming much more over to my point of view here.

00:29:15.280 But there's nothing conservative about free speech absolutism. There's nothing conservative about

00:29:22.620 having a bunch of obscenity and porn and direct threats all over social media and in the public

00:29:27.240 square. That's not conservative. That's radical and leftist, okay? And it was the libs who tricked

00:29:32.420 conservatives into believing that nonsense, okay? And so Elon Musk comes out. He says,

00:29:36.500 new Twitter policy is freedom of speech but not freedom of reach. Negative hate tweets will be

00:29:40.280 maxed, de-boosted, and de-monetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won't find the tweet

00:29:45.800 unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from the rest of the internet.

00:29:49.880 Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and the Babylon Bee have been reinstated. Trump decision has not been

00:29:53.680 made yet, although you'll see what comes later. Alex Jones is not allowed on Twitter. Now, I don't

00:29:58.500 agree with all of those decisions. I think Alex Jones should be on Twitter. Kathy Griffin, I don't

00:30:03.940 mind if she's not on Twitter. I'm glad that eventually Trump did come back on, spoiler alert. But the

00:30:09.800 principle that Elon is describing here is totally right, okay? And you're hearing the right say,

00:30:16.820 well, new boss, same as the old boss. This is no different from what the left is doing.

00:30:21.260 It is different. It is different.

00:30:26.520 When conservatives allow good and true and beautiful things to be present in the public

00:30:34.640 square and discourage ugly and false and evil things in the public square, that is not the same

00:30:43.540 as when the left exalts ugliness and wickedness and falsehood and suppresses goodness, truth,

00:30:51.860 and beauty. It's not the same. Yes, both involve having standards. Both involve having norms. Both

00:30:57.240 involve having taboos. Both involve limiting speech. But that procedural similarity does not mean that they

00:31:04.260 are substantively the same thing. To do good and avoid evil is not the same thing as to do evil and

00:31:11.240 avoid good, okay? And conservatives used to understand this. Conservatives used to be the

00:31:15.720 group of norms and standards and having higher ideals and being polite and understanding chivalry.

00:31:22.240 Chivalry is a code of speech and behavior that censors certain things, okay? Being a gentleman

00:31:27.580 involves censoring certain things and limiting what can be said and done and promoting other things that

00:31:32.260 are said and done, okay? But that's all regimes, okay? That's all states. That's all forms of speech.

00:31:38.840 There are always limits. And so I don't think we should knock Elon for having standards and norms.

00:31:44.900 I think that we should help to tweak his standards and norms, but his standards and norms are a hell

00:31:49.940 of a lot better than Vijaya Gadi. Was that her name? The Twitter apparatchik who banned Trump the first

00:31:56.940 time. And Elon's are a hell of a lot better than Jack Dorsey's. And I think he should be encouraged in

00:32:02.160 that. The libs are freaking out. CBS News said they were going to stop tweeting out of an abundance

00:32:07.020 of caution. Caution about what? Well, with the changing standards at Twitter, we're going to

00:32:12.380 stop tweeting out of an abundance of caution. What do you think is going to happen? And then,

00:32:17.360 by the way, this is the best part. 48 hours later, CBS starts tweeting again. Okay, but we're

00:32:22.060 monitoring the situation, they said. But we're going to be back on Twitter. Okay, that's great.

00:32:26.080 They're freaking out, all right? Trump is back. And the way Elon did it was brilliant. He threw up a

00:32:31.440 poll. He said, should Trump go back on? Most people said yes. Then all of a sudden, it started

00:32:37.220 to turn. There were tens of millions of votes in this poll. You could tell there were some,

00:32:41.080 maybe some political forces here that were trying to keep Trump off of Twitter. But Elon said,

00:32:45.800 Vox Populi, Vox Dei. The voice of the people is the voice of God, which is a principle I don't

00:32:50.660 exactly agree with. But nevertheless, it gave him a way of bringing Trump back to Twitter without taking

00:32:57.200 all of the responsibility for it. It's really important for the political order. When that

00:33:01.160 Twitter lawyer lady booted Trump off of Twitter, that was a revolution in America's political order. 1.00

00:33:08.080 That was saying that some billionaire leftists in Silicon Valley and their minions can censor,

00:33:17.340 can ostracize the duly elected sitting president of the United States. So it's a very important 0.96

00:33:21.600 restoration of America's political order. This is not just a minor funny little meme thing.

00:33:26.060 Oh, there goes Elon. Ooh, giddy, giddy. He put Trump back. This is actually a major

00:33:30.860 restoration of America's political order. The question is, will Trump actually come back on

00:33:35.500 and use the account? I hope he does. When they read and stated Trump's account,

00:33:40.480 he had zero followers. Now he's up to like 10 bazillion. He's got way more followers than Joe

00:33:45.800 Biden. He's obviously very popular, despite what the lying press wants to tell you. Despite the

00:33:51.320 constant negative press, covfefe is what Trump proved to us. And I think he should come back on.

00:33:56.060 The trouble for Trump is, he's made a deal with Truth Social that that will be his social media

00:34:02.320 platform. But no one looks at Truth Social. The only reason anyone checks Truth Social is to see

00:34:06.500 what Trump has to say, which is probably a sizable number of people, but is not actually being used as

00:34:12.420 a social network. If Trump goes back onto Twitter, he will have so much more reach, he will dominate

00:34:16.960 the conversation again. The guy is now a declared candidate for president. So I hope he figures out

00:34:21.680 some way to thread the needle. But I want Trump back on Twitter. Good on Elon for doing it. Good

00:34:27.040 on Elon for having standards too. The guy is doing almost everything right. And the libs are so

00:34:31.480 freaking out. I don't know about you. I feel like I am living in 2015 again. I am having deja vu

00:34:37.300 all over again. For some of our younger listeners, they might not even remember 2015 all that well.

00:34:42.780 I mean, it's amazing to think right now. That's seven years ago now. Within a month and a half,

00:34:47.120 it's going to be eight years ago. That was a long time ago. And it just makes me think that people

00:34:54.620 don't learn anything because all of the same stupid arguments from exactly the same people

00:35:02.940 we are hearing again trotted out as though it is fresh and new. Marx and Engels, talk about calling

00:35:09.460 out the system, talking about breaking up regular political platitudes and attitudes. I'll give Marx

00:35:14.720 and Engels some credit here. History repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce. You know,

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00:36:31.360 Really tough news for Trump out of the Huffington Post. Oh, it's from the Huffington Post quoting

00:36:41.420 key evangelical figures. There's the headline here. Key evangelical figures turn on Trump.

00:36:49.820 He used us, Huffington Post says. One of these people ripped the ex-president for acting like a

00:36:57.500 little elementary school child. Another warned that if the GOP turns to him in 2024, we will get

00:37:03.480 destroyed. We will, Donald Trump can't save America, said one of these guys to the Washington

00:37:09.640 Post. He can't even save himself. People are done with Trump. The walls are closing in. They've got him

00:37:19.100 now. Do these people ever learn anything? No, they don't. They don't. The reason that some people

00:37:29.720 are surprised by this is because they have very short memories. They have short memories. And so

00:37:34.920 this is all being reported as, wow, the Republican Party, which was totally unified behind Trump,

00:37:39.660 now some of them are turning on him. Trump might not have that same lock on the GOP that he previously

00:37:45.960 had. Wow, certain evangelical leaders are turning on him, allegedly. Wow, certain institutional

00:37:51.580 establishment conservatives are turning on him. Wow, oh gosh. We've never seen this before. This

00:37:56.580 was exactly what happened when he ran. This is the whole story of Trump. He runs in 2015 and you have

00:38:04.360 certain leaders of the conservative movement, whatever you want to call it, say, oh, he's terrible.

00:38:13.140 He's awful. If we run with him, we'll lose. It's guaranteed. He's vulgar. He acts like a school

00:38:17.900 child. It's all the same attacks. It didn't matter then. I don't think it will really matter now.

00:38:26.140 Now, I'm not saying necessarily that Trump will get the nomination, but he has a good shot at it.

00:38:31.900 He has a good shot at it because, yes, a lot of conservatives, a lot of people on the right

00:38:36.660 don't like Donald Trump. Probably many listeners to this show don't even like Donald Trump.

00:38:41.080 You know, I like him a lot, but he's got, I understand. He's got flaws. He rubs people the

00:38:46.220 wrong way. Maybe it's just because I'm from New York that I get a little more of a kick out of him

00:38:50.240 than other people do. But it doesn't matter. He doesn't need to win over the majority of Republicans.

00:38:56.720 He doesn't. He needs to win over the plurality of Republicans. And this is what, and he doesn't

00:39:02.220 need to win over any of the establishment elite people who run the media outlets and who run the

00:39:07.360 think tanks and who even run the RNC. That doesn't matter. Okay. He just needs a plurality

00:39:12.600 of the voters in the early primary states. And so, sure, you're going to have, you just had

00:39:18.540 National Review just came out. Where are they? National Review says, no, a firm, unmistakable

00:39:26.600 no from National Review after he announces that he's running, which doesn't carry any water anymore

00:39:32.400 because that's what they said last time. When he ran in 2015, they had a big front page article

00:39:37.640 against Trump. And it was all these different people who wrote their own columns and reflections

00:39:42.120 on why Trump shouldn't be the nominee. And then most of those people ended up supporting Trump.

00:39:46.960 No, never Trump. And then what happens? Most of never Trump's ends up supporting Trump. So now you

00:39:51.600 can't go back. Paul Ryan apparently just said he's never again Trump. You can't be never again Trump.

00:39:56.820 Never means never, or you lose credibility. Okay. So, so these guys, they come out,

00:40:02.400 we hate Trump. And then for two years, they say, no, we actually really liked Trump. Four years,

00:40:06.520 we really liked Trump. And now they hate Trump again. Okay, fine. But if we gave any heed to what

00:40:13.580 you were saying in 2015, we're not going to give heed to it now because you're just blowing in the

00:40:16.680 wind back and forth. And we know how it turned out last time. So why do we believe it's going to turn

00:40:20.960 out any differently today? I don't think necessarily that Trump will get the nomination,

00:40:26.260 but I think he's got a good shot at it. Don't forget, people forget, they think that Trump was

00:40:30.220 inevitable in 2015. Had Marco Rubio dropped out of the race earlier, Ted Cruz would have been the

00:40:34.340 nominee. Would Ted have won the general? I don't know. We just can't know. It's a counter historical

00:40:39.860 question. But it is in fact the case that Ted Cruz would have gotten the nomination had Rubio

00:40:46.860 dropped out sooner. That I think we can say with some certainty. So a lot is going to depend now on

00:40:52.800 the candidates in 2024. But Trump right now, right now the whole thing looks and feels exactly like

00:41:00.160 it did in 2015. So we've got no reason to think that Trump isn't going to have a very good shot at

00:41:04.120 it. And the way the libs and the way that the establishment are freaking out over Trump right 0.82

00:41:08.200 now makes me think he's got a real good shot over it. Okay, the fact is Trump remains extremely

00:41:15.940 relevant. Trump's enemies remain less relevant. The fact is MAGA, the movement that supported Trump

00:41:25.160 with a different set of policy prescriptions than was being offered by the GOP, remains relevant.

00:41:31.200 The GOP establishment is much less relevant, certainly in the minds of voters. And you hear

00:41:37.460 people whining about this. I mean, you hear Adam Kinzinger, you know, the male, allegedly male,

00:41:43.020 Liz Cheney, comes out, he goes on MSNBC, and he whines and he whines. He says, this isn't the GOP.

00:41:48.240 This isn't, this is tribalism. It's all the same rhetoric from seven years ago.

00:41:53.460 Why do you think more people don't feel that he crossed their red lines in the Republican Party?

00:41:59.220 You know, part of it's tribalism, right? You know, the second, if one of them says, look,

00:42:04.400 I've had enough with Donald Trump, you get kicked out of your tribe. Look, when I got elected,

00:42:08.600 I remember I'd just gotten out of Iraq. This was 2009. I got elected in 2010. And I remember

00:42:13.820 thinking, if I'm going to ask people to be willing to die for this country, and obviously I'm going

00:42:19.240 to have to take votes on that, and I have, I have to be willing to give up my career for the same

00:42:25.060 cause. Now, that sounds innovative, but it's so true. You know, we swear an oath to the Constitution,

00:42:32.380 not because what we're going to do is easy, and not because I have to take a poll every time I vote on

00:42:37.360 things like, should Donald Trump be impeached? And what does my district say? It's because my oath

00:42:42.440 is not to my district. It's to the Constitution. And there he is, valiant Adam Kinzinger,

00:42:50.460 giving up his seat for the cause of our democracy and to fight that evil tribalism. First of all,

00:42:58.820 Adam Kinzinger did not sacrifice his seat for anything noble. His district was erased because

00:43:04.000 of redistricting in the state of Illinois, okay? Now, maybe had Adam Kinzinger played his cards a

00:43:09.480 little bit smarter and had a little bit more backbone politically, maybe he would have been

00:43:13.960 able to remain viable in politics. But he didn't, and his district was erased, and now he's pretending

00:43:22.140 to be a martyr when in fact he's not. But it's that first part that really gets me. Is there any

00:43:25.980 stupider word in our current political discourse than tribalism? Yes, there is. The one stupider word

00:43:33.960 is authoritarianism, because it doesn't mean anything. Because both sides accuse one another

00:43:40.180 of being authoritarian, and by that they mean seeking to impose any vision on politics, which is

00:43:49.600 just what politics is. That's just what self-government is. It doesn't mean anything.

00:43:52.100 You think we should live according to the laws that you and your community believe in? How

00:43:57.480 authoritarian? That's just what, that's just called politics, man. That's just called self-government.

00:44:02.520 So that might be the one word that's slightly dumber. But the second dumbest word is tribalism. It's

00:44:08.500 all this tribalism. What do you think politics is? Do you think politics, this actually is probably why

00:44:15.160 these people have a very skewed political view. Politics is a team sport. In order to do anything

00:44:24.360 in politics, you have to have allies, and you have to have shared goals, and you have to have a division

00:44:29.320 of labor, and you have to have a strategy, and you go and you work together, and you get something done.

00:44:33.480 That's politics. Politics means public. It doesn't mean personal. It doesn't mean you just do whatever

00:44:39.160 you want individually all the time. It is tribal. And why are there political tribes? Well, largely

00:44:46.320 because people have a shared view of the world. And if you believe that human life has value,

00:44:53.140 then you're going to oppose abortion, and you're also going to oppose transing the kids. They don't 1.00

00:44:59.200 seem like they're totally related, but they share basic premises about what human life is, who we are,

00:45:04.460 where we come from. There are many more examples of that. Very often, the political tribes that we

00:45:08.980 are so quick to decry these days are very coherent tribes. It makes sense. It makes sense that the 0.72

00:45:15.800 Democrats, who have no respect for our traditions, are happy to outsource our jobs, destroy our

00:45:22.300 communities, obliterate the family, open up our borders, throw away our sovereignty, give it to 0.99

00:45:28.780 international institutions. It makes sense. Frankly, we need more tribalism. We need clearer tribalism,

00:45:36.700 at least on the right, because you've got good tribalism on the left. Or good. I mean,

00:45:41.100 you've got effective tribalism on the left. That's why the left is much more effective at

00:45:45.200 wielding political power. The right needs to do that a little bit better. We're not going to do it 0.95

00:45:48.880 with these, you know, parading drama queens like Adam Kinzinger, who do nothing but adore themselves on 1.00

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00:46:35.280 delivered. Before we go, there was a clip from an actress that I had never heard of, Tia Mowry.

00:46:40.560 And Tia Mowry just went on some show. I guess it's on, I guess it's Hoda and Jenna. It's one of the NBC

00:46:46.180 shows. And she described this self-adoring, individual, atomized view of society. She exalted

00:46:57.220 divorce as a kind of a self-love. At the end of the day, it's about self-love. And when you start to

00:47:06.660 really work on yourself, love yourself, know your value, know your worth, and then all of a sudden

00:47:13.380 there's this awakening. And it's not easy. It's a hard journey. But at the end of the day, I feel

00:47:20.440 like it is so, so worth it. My marriage was a success. I look at it as like a curriculum when

00:47:26.660 you're in college or high school, right? You're learning, you're growing, you're evolving, you're

00:47:32.080 creating. And I was able to create with Corey some beautiful, amazing children. And at the end of that

00:47:39.920 curriculum, and at the end, there's a graduation, there's a celebration. And I feel like people look

00:47:45.980 at, when they look at marriage, that success equals longevity. But no, at the end of the day, it's,

00:47:51.980 are they happy? Are they thriving? Are they growing? And I feel like that is what is most important.

00:48:00.160 It's not about staying in something because however long you are in that situation, that equals success.

00:48:06.060 It's about really, again, are you happy? Because life is really short.

00:48:10.740 All of that is wrong. Everything she just said is not true. The measure of marriage is in fact

00:48:17.280 longevity. How do you have a good marriage? You don't get divorced. That's the basic element.

00:48:22.500 There's more to it than that. But that's the basic element. And what liberal modernity does,

00:48:28.680 one of the most pernicious aspects of liberal modernity, is it robs us of an awareness of the

00:48:33.960 significance of time. What Christian civilization does is it reminds us of the significance of time 1.00

00:48:39.320 because Christ is incarnate in a time and a place. And you can see salvation take place reading the

00:48:45.220 journalistic accounts, seeing it happen in real time. Life is a process of sanctification. There

00:48:50.780 are actual sacraments that we have in space and time. And then sanctification takes place over space

00:48:54.880 and time. And we're just keenly aware of that. We measure our time according to the birth of our

00:49:00.720 savior, right? Anno Domini is the year of our Lord. And BC is before Christ. And now the secularists 0.70

00:49:08.060 want to rewrite that. And they say it's the common era and before the common era. What's the common

00:49:12.060 era, guys? And we're talking about Christ, right? So we're measuring that time. And what liberal

00:49:16.400 modernity does and says, no, time doesn't matter. You never need to grow up. You never need to do

00:49:20.600 anything. You never really need to grow. You never, even when you engage in lifelong, what are supposed to

00:49:25.760 be lifelong commitments, you just graduate and you start from square one again. And we never go

00:49:29.760 anywhere and we never learn anything and we don't move on and we don't grow up. So we're living in

00:49:33.560 Never Never Land. And it's awful. And when you hear this woman say things like, you know, I'm a huge 0.98

00:49:38.180 fan of therapy. I love, you know, it's just self-love. It's just, look, we're just, you know, man, it's

00:49:44.180 just kind of about self, you know, adulation and me and me and me and me. And she's using all this

00:49:50.140 language of the sort of hippie dippy modern liberal people. And it's really, really sad. That is not

00:49:57.260 happiness. She says at the end, she goes, life is short. Seize the day. And it reminds me of a

00:50:01.520 quote from GK Chesterton. He says, carpe diem, you know, this idea of seize the day. The people who

00:50:06.020 support the carpe diem religion are not the happy people. Carpe diem is the religion of very, very

00:50:11.400 unhappy people because they're desperate. They're grasping at anything because they think that the

00:50:15.740 story is going to have a sad ending. But if you really understand that life is a marathon, not just a

00:50:22.340 sprint, it's not just about individual moments of pleasure, then you will be much, much happier

00:50:26.520 in the end. Because then YOLO has a real meaning. It's not just you only live once or just have some

00:50:31.120 fun and turn to worm food. So you only live once. You've got to make it count. You've got to build.

00:50:35.060 You've got to grow. There is an end in sight. And you could go to the good place. You could go to

00:50:38.520 the bad place, okay? So don't go to the bad place. Let's keep up the fight and let's keep the faith.

00:50:44.460 Now, today is Music Monday. And I am told by my producers that we're listening to rap music today.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 21, 2022

Ep. 1130 - Trump Is Democrat's Public Enemy No. 1

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