The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1132 - The Forever Arizona Election

00:00:00.000 Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, but today is Groundhog's Day because we have entered the 15th day

00:00:07.380 of election day. 15 days, and we still don't have all the results from the midterm elections,

00:00:15.820 at least not in Arizona. And it doesn't look like we're going to get them anytime soon because

00:00:21.160 Carrie Lake is refusing to concede the Arizona gubernatorial election. At least two counties

00:00:27.040 in Arizona are refusing to certify the results, and they're all damn right to do it. Carrie Lake

00:00:33.460 has referred to evidence, including firsthand witness accounts, the kind of accounts from

00:00:38.440 poll watchers that we have played on this show, that there were not only shenanigans and irregularities,

00:00:44.280 but statutory violations in the conduct of the election. An election that was overseen, by the

00:00:51.160 way, by Katie Hobbs, the Arizona Secretary of State, who claims to have won the governorship.

00:00:55.620 Some squishier Republicans are calling on Carrie Lake to concede, but I think she should take this 0.92

00:01:03.140 as far as it can go because this is not just sour grapes. This is not just some frivolous claim

00:01:11.000 because the Republicans don't want to admit they lost. This is the second election in a row in which

00:01:18.120 Arizona has had all sorts of problems with voting and counting and all the rest of it that

00:01:25.400 just coincidentally all benefit the Democrats. And we cannot just let this go. Arizona will very

00:01:34.920 likely decide the 2024 presidential election. We went through the election map the other day on this

00:01:40.360 show. Even if all the right things break for the Republicans, Arizona is going to be key. We need to

00:01:46.580 fight this fight over election integrity now, or we're very likely not going to be able to put up much

00:01:53.260 of a fight on the much bigger race in two years. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:06.280 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Chad, who says,

00:02:09.980 correction, Michael, Biden's biggest opponents are the chairs, not the chairs, the stairs and his sports

00:02:16.480 code. The chair is too. I'm not sure that he even can sit down and get up all that well. You make a good

00:02:21.160 point. Biden's biggest opponent. It's not Trump. It's not DeSantis. It's not Buttigieg. It's not Kamala.

00:02:27.920 It's not Newsom. It is himself. He is the problem. The fault, dear Joe, dear Biden, lies not in our

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00:03:42.700 The Arizona election issues, which are not fantasies, which are not just a coping mechanism,

00:03:50.280 but which are very real and which have gone on for two elections in a row now and have benefited

00:03:56.680 Democrats. And in Arizona, where a lot of these issues are going on, even the Republicans who are

00:04:02.440 playing a role in conducting the elections are declared never Trump Republicans who hate the MAGA

00:04:07.420 candidates who raise money to fight the MAGA candidates. And once is a coincidence, once is

00:04:14.940 a fluke, twice, some people might want to call it a coincidence. I think what we're seeing here is

00:04:21.640 a strategy, okay? And that's not the only impediment for Trump in 2024. Another major impediment for Trump

00:04:28.180 is that the Supreme Court has just decided to allow the Democrats to look at his taxes. Trump's taxes

00:04:37.280 have been an issue for six years now. The Democrats have been trying to get a hold of them. Donald

00:04:43.480 Trump, just like any presidential candidate, has no obligation to release his tax returns. And because

00:04:48.980 Trump is the first businessman to run for president in a very long time, first guy who had not held

00:04:56.060 political office before he became a presidential candidate. So his whole career was in business.

00:05:00.360 He had a gigantic business empire. He made Mitt Romney look like a pauper, okay? When you look at

00:05:06.620 Romney's business holdings compared to Trump's. And so obviously his taxes were going to be very

00:05:10.880 complicated. Trump was under audit already. So he said, I'm not going to release my taxes.

00:05:14.360 There's no reason for me to. If I release my taxes, I, a businessman with obviously a complicated

00:05:20.200 tax history, and you, some random career politician who does not have very complicated taxes,

00:05:26.820 then you're going to find a lot more dirt in my stuff than I'm going to be able to find in yours.

00:05:30.900 That's just the nature of business. So he says, I'm not going to do it. And the Supreme Court

00:05:34.400 has just decided no. They denied the Trump legal team's request that the taxes be withheld.

00:05:40.780 The congressional committee will now take a look at this. They're going to have a pretty

00:05:43.700 limited window to do this though, because once the Republicans take over the house officially

00:05:47.640 in January, they are going to shut that down. So we'll see if the Democrats can get their act

00:05:52.780 together to dig through Trump's taxes in time to get anything worthwhile. But it's just a reminder,

00:05:59.340 the Democrats are still trying to take Trump down. And it's one of the strongest arguments for

00:06:02.820 Trump's candidacy in 2024 is they clearly view him as the big threat. That's why they're exhausting

00:06:09.040 every legal mechanism, every political mechanism, every media mechanism to stop this guy from running.

00:06:16.480 Okay. So if it really were the case that Trump is so easy to beat, he's the one Republican who can

00:06:20.740 lose to Joe Biden. If that were really the case, then the Democrats would not be spending this much

00:06:25.040 time and effort and money to stop his candidacy before it even really begins. Now, that's not the

00:06:30.800 only challenge for Trump. There's another big challenge from Trump, this one coming from the

00:06:33.980 Republican side. And that is that Ron DeSantis is doing great right now. Okay. If the midterms taught

00:06:39.180 us anything, it's don't necessarily trust the polls, but take it with a grain of salt, I guess,

00:06:45.300 when you're looking at these polls, they are breaking for Ron DeSantis. Okay. And this is big news.

00:06:50.700 The neighborhood research and media poll, which was released yesterday, showed that 32%

00:06:56.720 of respondents in Iowa. So this is the first state that holds its caucuses to determine the course

00:07:03.220 of the primary. The very first state is saying that they are breaking for Ron DeSantis. 32% want

00:07:11.440 DeSantis, 30% want Trump. This poll reflects a 23 point swing toward DeSantis from June. So you might

00:07:19.600 say 32 to 30, who cares? They're in a dead heat. Sure. But DeSantis was way down. He was barely a blip

00:07:25.320 back in June. And so you see now after the summer, after the fall, after the midterms,

00:07:30.720 that kind of momentum for DeSantis means that DeSantis potentially could consolidate the party

00:07:36.060 behind him. The conventional wisdom had been, if Trump declares that he's running, he clears the

00:07:42.380 field. That's even what some prospective candidates were banking on. That hasn't necessarily happened.

00:07:49.680 DeSantis hasn't declared that he's running yet, but he's behaving as though he's going to run.

00:07:53.140 Now, the second conventional wisdom, barring the first, is that Trump runs, but he's weakened.

00:07:59.580 So then Ron DeSantis gets in, and then everybody gets in. The idea being, if someone is actually

00:08:06.020 willing to challenge Trump's hegemony in the Republican Party, then everyone's going to do it.

00:08:10.480 And you're going to get DeSantis, and Haley, and Tim Scott, and Cruz, and Hawley, and Rand Paul,

00:08:16.600 and just everybody else. Everyone's going to jump in. But the thing about conventional wisdom is,

00:08:21.720 it's almost always wrong. The consensus view, almost always wrong. And so then you've got this

00:08:27.960 third option that is appearing to be more and more plausible, which is that Trump declares early,

00:08:35.540 the party does not consolidate behind him. Ron DeSantis does say that he's going to run,

00:08:41.780 and Ron DeSantis consolidates the party behind him.

00:08:48.420 You've seen DeSantis taking the lead in polls in New Hampshire, taking the lead now in polls in Iowa.

00:08:54.220 If he starts to take the lead in polls like South Carolina, and Florida, and other early states,

00:09:01.020 all of a sudden, Trump's path to the nomination is looking much more in doubt.

00:09:06.500 Now, I don't put a lot of stock in these prognostications two years earlier. I've

00:09:11.800 repeatedly said on this show, in 2014, no one would have guessed Trump. In 2010, no one would

00:09:17.040 have guessed Romney. The people that were being talked about then were people that we now forget

00:09:20.380 their names. Haley Barber, Mitch Daniels, Bobby Jindal, okay? So I'm just saying, Ron DeSantis is

00:09:27.900 playing his cards absolutely perfectly. There is a path now. Every day, it seems like a clearer path

00:09:34.860 for Ron DeSantis to beat Donald Trump for the nomination, even in a head-to-head battle. That

00:09:41.480 is something that very, very few people, if anybody, would have predicted even two or three

00:09:48.220 months ago. Now, is that going to happen? I'm not convinced of that. Why? Because Trump has a secret

00:09:54.380 weapon, and the secret weapon is the Democrats. The best hope for Donald Trump right now is for

00:09:59.780 the Democrats to keep going after him. Because, as I mentioned just five minutes ago, the more that

00:10:06.320 the media and the Democrats focus their ire and their fire on Trump and not on DeSantis, that is

00:10:12.520 a sign, and I think it's a pretty legit sign to Republican voters, that the liberal establishment

00:10:18.160 considers Trump to be the real threat. If the establishment puts all its fire on Ron DeSantis,

00:10:23.100 that's going to be a signal that they consider DeSantis to be the real threat.

00:10:26.140 But they are putting their fire on Trump. You've got Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin saying

00:10:31.860 the Democrats will prosecute Donald Trump. If he is making this in part believing that this will

00:10:40.180 somehow protect him from investigations or indictments, is that accurate, do you think?

00:10:47.260 No, it's absolutely wrong. In fact, the people who made that point most emphatically were his

00:10:54.020 defenders in the Senate during the second impeachment trial who said that the proper way

00:11:00.120 to deal with a former president who has engaged in criminality is to prosecute him rather than to

00:11:06.740 impeach him if he's already left office. Now, of course, that contradicted more than two centuries of

00:11:11.740 understanding that a public official does not have to still be in office in order to be impeached,

00:11:17.580 tried, and convicted. But in any event, everybody agreed that he could be tried.

00:11:22.080 This contradicted centuries of America. Give me a break. No one has ever impeached a

00:11:27.820 president after he's left office. The whole thing is insane. The whole Democrat treatment

00:11:32.160 of Donald Trump was completely unprecedented. But they're sending this signal. We're going

00:11:36.620 after him. We're going to prosecute him. We're going to keep him off the ballot. We're going to

00:11:39.200 do everything we can. Okay, I think Donald Trump should be encouraging that. I think that what the

00:11:44.400 Democrats are doing to Donald Trump right now should be considered an in-kind contribution to the

00:11:48.500 Trump campaign. The man is anti-fragile, to use a phrase from the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

00:11:55.300 Okay, the man, some people, they can withstand stuff. You know, they're resilient. They're durable.

00:12:03.440 Some people, the minute they face any adversity, they crack. Those people are fragile. And then there

00:12:09.400 are some rare people who get stronger the more you attack them. And this would be a concept described

00:12:15.280 by Taleb as anti-fragile. That is Trump. And that is especially Trump in 2024. The more the Democrats

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00:13:53.920 to seeing family and having pumpkin pie, maybe watching a little football, cracking open a couple

00:14:01.980 Coca-Cola-ish, you know, having a nice relaxing time all together with your family, especially

00:14:07.340 after these past two years where the political establishment has forced us not to see our

00:14:14.020 families, not to get together, has upended so many of our traditions, so much of our way of life.

00:14:18.960 Well, not so fast, you. Not so fast, you, because Dr. Fauci has something else in mind.

00:14:28.200 The real world BA-4-5 that has been circulating, and we know that that is really quite good. So you

00:14:36.320 have immunological data, and you have now clinical efficacy data. Everybody was asking the question,

00:14:41.960 where's the clinical efficacy data? Now it has come out with the CDC, MMWR, this morning.

00:14:47.820 So we know it's safe. We know that it is effective. So my message and my final message,

00:14:55.080 maybe the final message I give you from this podium, is that please, for your own safety,

00:15:01.020 for that of your family, get your updated COVID-19 shot as soon as you're eligible to protect yourself,

00:15:08.180 your family, and your community. I urge you to visit vaccines.gov to find a location where you can

00:15:14.500 easily get an updated vaccine. And please do it as soon as possible. Thank you.

00:15:19.340 You got to give the guy credit. He just doesn't give it up. He does not give it up. Don't know.

00:15:26.060 Listen here, you. Before you go out to your Thanksgiving, make sure you take the 17th

00:15:31.900 highly effective shot. So effective that you only need 75 more of them before it starts to seem a

00:15:39.960 little bit effective. Maybe. Probably not. Get your shot. Take the jab, sheep. 1.00

00:15:47.760 What we are seeing from Dr. Fauci here, and the reporters were having a field day over this. I

00:15:52.180 mean, even the conservatives, obviously, were the ones pushing back the most. But people have had it

00:15:56.740 with Dr. Fauci, okay? Because Dr. Fauci has lied to us. He actually lied to us. Don't forget,

00:16:02.520 he's gotten a lot of things wrong going back to the 1980s, and especially during COVID. He got a ton

00:16:07.720 of stuff wrong about the safety of the vaccines, about the efficacy of the vaccines, right? Which

00:16:11.680 even now the NIH will admit was not totally right, not totally effective, okay? But he has also lied.

00:16:21.360 He lied about his views of the masks. He went on TV, and he said, don't wear masks. Masks are dumb.

00:16:28.460 Don't wear them. And then five seconds later, he said, okay, wear all the masks. You have to wear the 1.00

00:16:32.000 masks. And the reason I say it was a lie, because lies are intentional, is when he was asked to

00:16:37.280 explain this contradiction, he said, well, at the time, I thought there might be a shortage of masks,

00:16:40.980 and I wanted to save them for the public health people. Oh, so you lied. You said something that

00:16:47.380 you believed was not true to get a political end that you wanted. That's called lying. And so people

00:16:54.580 have had it with this guy, obviously. But what Dr. Fauci is demonstrating right now is a principle

00:16:59.860 that those of us who are from New York or who have spent any time in New York are familiar with,

00:17:06.600 especially if you are from the Italian-American community. And it is a principle called deny till 1.00

00:17:11.940 you die. And that's what Fauci is doing. This guy, he could get caught, little baby Fauci could get

00:17:19.600 caught with his hand in the cookie jar. And Mama Fauci could come into the kitchen and say, 1.00

00:17:24.660 Anthony, what are you doing? I don't know why she sounds like sweet little Elisa. Anthony there,

00:17:29.640 are you having your cookies there? And he would say, no, Mama, I'm not eating any cookies. She's

00:17:35.120 like, I see your hand. It's very high-pitched. I can't take it anymore. The mother would say,

00:17:40.060 I see your hand in the cookie jar. And little baby Fauci would say, no, you don't. No,

00:17:45.860 it's not in the cookie jar. And he would go to his grave maintaining that his hand was not in the

00:17:51.420 cookie jar. He'll just keep up the act, okay? He is absolutely shameless. He does not care

00:17:57.600 whatsoever. And so Dr. Fauci is going to peddle the dubious vaccines. He is going to peddle the

00:18:05.600 preposterous, arbitrary health recommendations, like stand six feet away and wear the hanky over

00:18:11.600 your face until the end of time or until we take power away from him. He's going to do it. If you want

00:18:20.440 to have a normal Thanksgiving and have a normal life and have a normal country, we've got to stop

00:18:25.860 the Dr. Fauci's of the world from having power. Speaking of members of the Biden administration

00:18:33.980 that I don't like very much, Pete Buttigieg. Pete Buttigieg has come out in the wake of a shooting

00:18:40.760 in Colorado, which seemed to target people for being LGBT. Pete Buttigieg has come out and said he

00:18:49.240 doesn't want conservatives' thoughts and prayers. There has always been a relationship

00:18:54.920 between the social and political demonization of a group and that group's vulnerability to being

00:19:01.020 physically attacked. And it is completely unacceptable. And I don't want to hear thoughts

00:19:05.840 and prayers from somebody who has been actively singling out this group for hate, fear, and whether

00:19:13.620 they say so or not, ultimately for violence. I don't want your thoughts and prayers, you evil

00:19:19.000 conservatives, because you're the reason that this happened. You conservatives are the reason 0.97

00:19:24.180 that this hateful, far-right, fascist, conservative right-winger shot up this gay club. 1.00

00:19:32.360 Right? That's what Pete Buttigieg is telling you. Which is very ironic, because 1.00

00:19:39.600 Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden have for years demonized conservatives. So if Pete Buttigieg's

00:19:50.360 principle is that if you criticize a group or if you invade against a group that you are then

00:19:55.980 responsible for violence against that group, then Pete Buttigieg and especially Joe Biden would have a

00:20:01.960 lot of blood on their hands. Joe Biden has spent the last six months calling parents terrorists,

00:20:07.940 concerned parents, or domestic terrorists, and said that conservatives are far-right, fascist,

00:20:15.280 existential threats to our democracy. Okay? But furthermore, even the premise of Pete Buttigieg's

00:20:21.760 whining and his really vicious attack on conservatives is false, because the guy who shot up the club,

00:20:29.460 according to attorneys, according to the news reports right now, was not some far-right MAGA hat

00:20:34.100 wearing conservative guy. He was a member of the LGBT community. The guy who shot up the club,

00:20:43.020 according to the attorneys, according to the news reports, identifies as non-binary.

00:20:48.280 So as usual, you know, I didn't report on this shooting right when it happened,

00:20:51.820 not because I don't care about the shooting. Obviously, any shooting is very, very sad,

00:20:54.900 but because I just knew that the media reports were going to be BS in the first 24 hours,

00:21:00.880 like they always are. On this show, we usually don't have knee-jerk reactions, right, to these

00:21:08.980 sorts of news stories. And the reason for that is because after these big events that can be exploited

00:21:14.680 by political activists, there is a ton of propaganda, and you don't really know what's true and what's

00:21:19.400 not. It's kind of like the war in Ukraine. No one has any idea what is actually happening in

00:21:23.860 Ukraine, because there's a ton of Russian propaganda, and there's a ton of Western

00:21:26.740 propaganda, and a lot of it is BS. Don't forget, just a week or so ago, we were almost on the brink

00:21:32.760 of World War III because of news reports that Russia fired a missile into Poland. And then it

00:21:39.140 turned out it wasn't Russia that fired the missile. It was Ukraine that fired the missile.

00:21:42.820 And so the idea that this would trigger Article 5, and we had to go bomb the Kremlin,

00:21:47.620 was preposterous. It was actually the opposite of reality. Well, same thing here.

00:21:53.040 I just knew that these news reports were going to be dubious, and they were going to be filled

00:21:59.080 with a lot of propaganda, and that's what's happening now. Furthermore, though, furthermore

00:22:02.620 to Pete's point, what degree of pride does it take to say, I don't want your prayers?

00:22:11.140 It just takes a lot of pride. Pun unintended, but pride is the queen of all vices, okay? Pride

00:22:19.660 is the deadliest of the seven deadly sins. And to say, I don't want your prayers is to say,

00:22:24.600 I'll do it myself. I'm good enough in myself. I don't need the help of God.

00:22:29.400 We should always be praying. We should always be praying. We should always welcome prayers from

00:22:33.840 anybody. We should welcome prayers from our worst enemies. We should pray for our worst enemies.

00:22:38.680 This is a very, very fallen world, okay? And the only hope you've got is to pray. And Pete Buttigieg

00:22:47.360 doesn't get it, and the Democrats don't get it at all. And their view of the world is just

00:22:51.300 so backwards. And that pride and that hubris, I think, conceals for them the absurdity and the

00:22:59.620 hypocrisy of their very statement. Conservatives are evil, fascist, terrible threats to our very 1.00

00:23:05.440 democracy. They're terrorists. And also, if you ever criticize anybody, you're guilty of 1.00

00:23:10.780 committing violence against them. No conservative criticisms, and they're legitimate criticisms,

00:23:19.480 of the LGBT activist movement that pushes Dragon Story Hour in schools and tries to cut off little 0.98

00:23:24.820 kids' genitals. None of them, none of the criticisms that the right makes of those people come anywhere 0.99

00:23:31.240 close to what Joe Biden has said. When Joe Biden says, conservatives, by your very existence,

00:23:36.860 you pose a threat to our entire country. You're terrorists. It doesn't even come close, okay? 1.00

00:23:45.260 So I just don't want to hear it from Pete Buttigieg. But I don't want to hear anything from Pete

00:23:47.760 Buttigieg, as it so happens, all right? I just, the people who are running our country are not doing a 0.94

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00:25:17.420 Speaking of the sexual revolution, really bizarre story just happened here in my state of Tennessee.

00:25:24.960 A Tennessee couple just made history by welcoming in their new twins. These twins are biologically

00:25:33.920 not theirs, biologically adopted, but they weren't adopted in the normal way.

00:25:39.060 They were adopted as frozen embryos, as frozen embryos that were conceived in 1992.

00:25:47.660 So these babies were conceived in 1992, put in a freezer for 30 years, and then this couple in

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00:26:00.840 couple's youngest kids and oldest kids. These little babies are about as old as I am, actually,

00:26:10.520 even though they're little babies. And the whole thing is really, really strange.

00:26:14.520 The main takeaway here, I think, people are going to be debating the bioethics of embryo adoption.

00:26:23.800 And I don't really know exactly what to think of embryo adoption. In a way, it seems quite wrong

00:26:29.360 because you're separating the procreative act from the conjugal act. Although it's not,

00:26:36.860 obviously, it was not the couple that did this, but the couple is involved in the implantation. And so

00:26:40.360 that seems to me bioethically dubious. But on the other hand, you've got these frozen people 0.99

00:26:46.100 that are just frozen in perpetuity. And then a couple comes in and says, we're going to actually

00:26:51.460 allow you guys to have life and not just leave you frozen in perpetuity. That seems like a wonderful

00:26:56.100 thing. And so everyone's going to be focused on the bioethics of, is embryo adoption okay? Is it

00:27:01.440 not okay? Are there questions about it? Whatever. To me, that's a secondary point. I don't have an

00:27:05.540 answer on that point yet, though I am somewhat cautious about it. The real takeaway here, I think,

00:27:12.720 is that IVF is just absolutely awful. It's just absolutely unacceptable. I know a lot of people have

00:27:18.740 used IVF. I know a lot of people have been tricked into using IVF. And I know a lot of people are grateful

00:27:22.180 to IVF because their children who are walking around today exist because of IVF. And so I'm not

00:27:28.480 asking you to regret your children or something like that. Obviously, the kids are a good end.

00:27:34.400 And sometimes people engage in these things unwittingly and out of desperation and out of

00:27:37.980 ignorance. But good ends don't justify immoral means. And I think the more we look into IVF,

00:27:42.460 it's so clear this is immoral. Just look at those two little kids. Those little kids are real kids.

00:27:48.200 They're real people. And they've been real people for 30 years in this frozen stasis in a freezer,

00:27:56.260 okay? And there are lots and lots and lots of people like this. And that is the result,

00:28:02.420 it is frankly the inevitable result of a regime that tolerates in vitro fertilization.

00:28:09.580 And so if those two little kids are real people, then all those embryos and all those freezers are real

00:28:15.460 people too. And for every two little kids they get born and adopted 30 years later,

00:28:21.240 think of all the people, think of all the souls that are in those freezers. That is just unacceptable.

00:28:27.700 And no desire to resolve infertility, which often, though not in all cases, but often can be resolved

00:28:35.480 in other ways that are not so bioethically compromised. But that is not it. Those are real

00:28:41.780 kids, okay? If you doubted before that the souls on ice were real people, those are real kids. And so

00:28:47.980 it's got to lead us back to thinking, okay, why were these kids allowed to be in a freezer for 30

00:28:53.880 years to begin with? And should we really allow that to persist? I don't think so. Speaking of new

00:29:00.020 people in our country, there is a bill up that not a lot of people are talking about because I think

00:29:07.200 that the liberal establishment and the squish Republicans would rather just get this thing 0.69

00:29:10.840 passed in the dead of night and not have anybody talk about it. But it's a big problem. It's called

00:29:15.420 the Eagle Act. The Eagle Act is a green card giveaway for Democrats and Fortune 500 CEOs.

00:29:23.820 This is being peddled by the Democrats, but eight Republicans have co-sponsored the bill.

00:29:28.100 This includes Representative Tom Emmer, who unfortunately accidentally, because one guy

00:29:34.660 voted incorrectly, mistakenly, became the whip for the Republicans, beating out Jim Banks,

00:29:40.600 who's actually a conservative. But you got eight Republicans co-sponsoring this bill.

00:29:44.560 And what it does is it supercharges citizenship incentives for Indians and Chinese nationals to

00:29:52.180 take Fortune 500 white-collar careers over Americans, over Americans who have gone to college,

00:29:58.640 who have probably taken out a lot of debt, maybe a quarter million dollars, maybe more than a quarter

00:30:01.980 million dollars in debt. Now, immigrants are going to get a faster track to that. And who wins? 1.00

00:30:09.340 Democrats win because immigrants are much more likely to vote for Democrats.

00:30:12.600 I know, I know the Republicans always say, well, the immigrants, they're Republicans. They just don't

00:30:18.240 know it yet. Yeah, maybe. We're still waiting on that. That still hasn't really quite happened.

00:30:24.020 In certain small localities, sometimes immigrants break a little bit for Republicans. And usually, 0.55

00:30:30.760 that's just with the help of the Cubans, who happen to be extremely conservative.

00:30:33.820 But generally speaking, no. The immigrants vote for Democrats. And so, it's a big win for the 0.90

00:30:39.660 Democrats electorally. It's a big win for the big corporations and for the Chamber of Commerce that

00:30:44.740 doesn't care about anything really other than just boosting its profit margins a little bit.

00:30:49.200 But it's a big loss for the country, okay? The country has a responsibility. Politicians have

00:30:54.520 a responsibility to prioritize the citizens of the country. They have a responsibility to prioritize

00:31:00.580 their constituents over foreigners, over very wealthy, influential CEOs, over all sorts of other

00:31:12.020 vested interests, okay? Over the Democrats trying to rig the elections. They have a responsibility

00:31:16.600 to Americans, okay? A country is about more than just GDP. A country is about more than just quarterly

00:31:22.660 profits from a handful of corporations. A country is about more than just an idea, meaning that the

00:31:28.440 country is really just an idea floating around the whole globe. No, a country is a real place with real

00:31:32.240 people, with real borders, with real geography, with real traditions, with a real way of life,

00:31:37.040 okay? And it shows you how tough this issue is because even the Republicans totally squish on

00:31:44.220 immigration. The vast majority of Americans want to drastically reduce all immigration, legal and

00:31:49.740 illegal, because it's just insanely high. Three million people a year is just crazy. It's the largest

00:31:53.960 movement of human beings ever in recorded history over the last 60 years into the United States.

00:31:59.560 And so the problem is the Democrats want much, much more of it because it gives them an advantage.

00:32:04.160 And the Republicans also kind of want more of it because their donors demand it. And so what you're

00:32:11.500 left with is the toughest immigration position that we get, even from the most hardline immigration

00:32:16.700 hawks at the real top level of politics, is illegal bad, legal good. Illegal immigration is bad, 0.72

00:32:24.940 but legal immigration is good. So what do they do? They just change the law to flood the country with 1.00

00:32:28.540 legal immigrants. But the effect of disruption, of problems of assimilation, of suppressing wage,

00:32:34.140 of taking jobs, it's all the same. You get the exact same issue there. And so what are we going

00:32:41.920 to do about it? It just shows you when even a Republican, when even a conservative wants to go

00:32:46.480 in and fight the system, he's got to fight a lot more than just Joe Biden and some Democrats. He's

00:32:50.460 got to fight the whole system. Now, even though old Joe and his posse are trying to gaslight you

00:32:56.660 into believing that inflation is made up, never heard that word before until 2022. We all know that's

00:33:02.000 not true. Inflation is here. It's very real. You don't need me to tell you that. What you do need

00:33:08.280 me to tell you, however, is that I've got one neat trick to beat inflation this year, and that would

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00:33:43.880 huge. So come join us. Get 50% off your new Daily Wire Plus membership starting this Friday,

00:33:48.420 dailywire.com slash subscribe. You do not want to miss it. Finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite

00:33:54.880 time of the week. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so we wanted to do it on Wednesday. The mailbag,

00:33:59.600 the mailbag sponsored by Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com, select a plan, enter promo code

00:34:03.700 Knowles to get 50% off your first month. Take it away. Hey, Michael. My question this week is,

00:34:10.520 why don't you like soccer? I mean, it really seems like a great equalizer. You don't really have to

00:34:15.720 have a lot of resources to get started as long as you're willing to practice and work hard and, of course,

00:34:22.380 have the athletic ability, but with a little drive and perseverance, you can really get good at it

00:34:27.300 and you don't have to have a ton of money to get started. Honestly, it sounds like the great

00:34:33.180 American dream. It kind of mirrors capitalism, to be honest. So what's your beef?

00:34:39.560 That is my beef. That what you just described is my beef. Specifically, the first thing you said,

00:34:44.840 it's a great equalizer. I'm a conservative, so I don't like everything to just be totally equal

00:34:52.640 and flattened. I'm a conservative. I like order. I like nuance. I like decoration. I like hierarchy.

00:34:59.620 I like variations of skill. I like complexity. I don't want everything to be totally flattened down

00:35:07.440 where, you know, you compare a sport like baseball, extremely complex. Most people could not tell you

00:35:14.480 what the infield fly rule means. And you take a sport like soccer, not complex at all. You take a

00:35:20.840 sport like polo, extremely complex. Soccer, not complex at all. I don't want, I don't think that we

00:35:32.340 should be encouraging sports that any three-year-old can play, okay? I think that we should be encouraging

00:35:37.980 in civilization things that are difficult and complex and hard to understand and require different

00:35:46.080 types of athletic ability at every different position, for that matter. And, you know, I don't

00:35:51.940 necessarily think it should be the sort of sport that you're totally priced out of ever playing,

00:35:56.020 but it should involve stuff, you know? You should have to have a real baseball diamond, all right?

00:36:00.960 And that means that we're going to need to encourage some charity from the community.

00:36:06.280 When I was growing up in my town, there was, wasn't a particularly wealthy town, but there was a rich

00:36:12.880 guy who donated a lot of money and we got a really beautiful baseball diamond. That's great. I love all

00:36:17.220 that sort of stuff. If I were a lib, I would love soccer. But I'm not a lib. Next question.

00:36:25.820 Hi, Michael. Let me start off by saying that I love this show. I came for Ben and I

00:36:30.920 stayed for Walsh and Knowles. I'm not a hugely religious guy, but after having my children,

00:36:36.240 I am firmly against abortion. My question is this. My wife, when she was 16, had an abortion.

00:36:43.480 She was young, dumb, you know, the drill. The issue is every time I try to speak to her about it, 0.98

00:36:49.240 about abortion in general, she feels like I am judging her or attacking her, which I truly believe 1.00

00:36:55.420 it's her own guilt that she is feeling and she's judging herself. Your advice would be greatly

00:37:01.360 appreciated. How or should I try to talk to her about it or should I just keep my thoughts to myself

00:37:08.320 on abortion? Thanks, Michael. Appreciate it. It obviously is her own guilt. And it's such a

00:37:15.020 preposterous trick. Women sometimes do this where they'll do something that is very bad. And then if 1.00

00:37:23.380 you point this out, you know, or suggest maybe, you know, you shouldn't do that or whatever, they'll

00:37:28.340 say, you're attacking me. Stop attacking me. And then they'll sort of try to evade the issue or try

00:37:33.840 to invert the situation. But no, it's obviously her own conscience that is nagging at her. And so I

00:37:39.100 don't think you should, you know, burn her at the stake or anything like that. But nor should you

00:37:44.260 allow yourself to be cowed into pretending that infanticide is okay. Plenty of people have had

00:37:51.500 abortions. Plenty and plenty of people have had abortions. Okay. I know many people and I know

00:37:57.880 family members who've had abortions, you know, and it's really awful. And some of them have come to

00:38:02.860 regret them and some of them haven't come to regret them consciously at least.

00:38:06.420 But people fall into it. It's very easy to fall prey to that. It's very easy to fall prey to

00:38:12.180 temptation. The only way, though, that she's going to have solace from it is to repent. You know,

00:38:18.160 the first step on the road to recovery is admitting you have a problem. And so you've got to do that.

00:38:23.020 And I would recommend sacramental confession. I think it is, I believe there is a sacrament that

00:38:30.420 was instituted by our Lord on this earth, which gives priests the power to bind and loose and to

00:38:38.120 retain sins and to forgive sins. And I think that even if you don't believe in the spiritual efficacy

00:38:43.580 of the sacrament of confession, as I do, but even if you don't believe in it, the psychological effects

00:38:49.700 of that are amazing. When you actually hear someone saying, in the person of Christ, I absolve you of

00:38:54.960 your sins, that really lifts a huge burden off of people. And people, it's amazing with confession

00:38:59.440 because even practicing Catholics, myself included, we don't want to go to confession usually because

00:39:05.500 we say, oh, it's just so embarrassing. I've got to confess my sins to a priest. Oh, it's just so,

00:39:10.400 you really dread the whole thing. And then you go, and the priest has heard everything before.

00:39:13.680 Priest has heard abortions before. Okay, I promise you that. And he says, okay, I absolve you of your sins. 0.90

00:39:18.820 He says, oh, what a burden. Why have I been carrying that around for weeks and weeks? Or in the case of

00:39:25.080 your wife, years and years and years. Tell her to do it. She's not going to feel any better by

00:39:30.240 denying the issue. Next question.

00:39:34.140 Hey, Michael, it's me again. Yeah, look, I've been having a hard time with a friend of mine.

00:39:40.440 I see the way he treats his girlfriend, and I'm just not sure if I should say something about it.

00:39:45.520 It honestly makes me physically uncomfortable, and I don't know, I just generally feel awful for her.

00:39:51.880 So I know these situations are tricky, and I'm just not sure if it's my business or if I should

00:39:58.300 look the other way. So I don't know. Here it goes. My friend always lets his girl drive the car 0.97

00:40:06.200 when they're together. I mean, what should I do? My gut tells me he's either a closet homosexual or 1.00

00:40:13.340 he's forcing her to be his private chauffeur, and neither of which is in line with my king 0.97

00:40:18.940 energy philosophy. Is it okay to be in a relationship and let the women drive? I would 1.00

00:40:26.820 love to hear your opinion on this. Also, hypothetically, if it turns out that my buddy

00:40:31.460 bats for the other team, or I don't know, he's like a male feminist or something, how long should

00:40:36.520 I give it before I let her ride shotgun with an absolute boss? Sincerely, Nick.

00:40:42.400 Nick, I should have recognized your voice. Nick, good to hear from you. It's a good question,

00:40:45.980 actually. You should confront your friend about this. You should. This is disordered.

00:40:53.040 It is disordered for the man to have his wife drive the car. I mean, maybe, you know, if the man has had 1.00

00:40:59.880 one too many Coca-Cola's at dinner, then it's very good for the wife to drive the car. But 1.00

00:41:03.440 as a regular thing, that is wrong. It is disordered. And you should recognize, as did

00:41:12.360 one of the, in the early season of The Crown, you know, one of the head butlers at the palace

00:41:21.280 tells the queen, you know, it's in the little things that the rot begins. So it's in those

00:41:27.120 little things. Don't, you can't, can't have that. All right. Sit your friend down. Have a talk with

00:41:32.000 him. Next question. Hello, Smokey Mike. This is Julia, your number one fangirl. Thank you so much

00:41:39.840 for the tough love a couple weeks ago. Since then, I've tried to reorder my interests to more age

00:41:46.260 appropriate content. One TV show that I've tried watching is The Crown. It was suggested to me by

00:41:53.600 a friend. And he is very obsessed with his majesty, King Charles III. And that got me wondering,

00:42:00.260 why are so many conservatives supportive of these liberal train wrecks in Great Britain?

00:42:07.040 Now, I understand the importance of monarchy. It can be an imperfect symbol of the heavenly kingdom.

00:42:13.240 I also understand the importance of tradition, especially as a traditional Catholic myself.

00:42:18.420 But I don't understand why so many conservatives would support the British monarchy, since they

00:42:25.680 just seem like glorified Kardashians to me who are a part of a church that was founded on divorce. So

00:42:31.020 why would we support them? Thanks. Love to hear your answer. Great, great question. The real blunt answer

00:42:38.220 to this is that we would support the institution for the British, you know, the British monarchy for the

00:42:43.840 British people. And then we would, of course, support Franz, the Duke of Bavaria, or because he is

00:42:49.700 childless, his brother Maximilian, or his daughter Sophie, or more likely the young heir to the house

00:42:55.240 of Wittelsbach in the Jacobite line of succession, Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein, to come in,

00:43:00.040 land in Scotland in a new Jacobite rising, and depose the Windsors, the Saxe-Coburg house, kick them out, 0.80

00:43:08.260 and then take over and reinstitute a sort of stable and proper family in the throne.

00:43:15.920 But assuming that's not going to happen anytime soon, why support these? If you support the

00:43:21.580 monarchy in Britain, why support these people who are just such a train wreck? Well, I would say,

00:43:28.420 I am also watching this new season of The Crown. It focuses on the 90s, which was the worst decade

00:43:34.120 for these people. All of the royal kids got divorced, and there were all these scandals.

00:43:39.220 And, you know, you had like some pool boy sucking the toes of one of the duchesses on paparazzi 0.98

00:43:46.780 photos. And you had Princess Diana, you know, going out on all sorts of dates. And you had Charles

00:43:51.520 talking about wanting to live in his mistress's trousers. And it was just, and that was before

00:43:55.500 even a lot of the Prince Andrew stuff came out later with Jeffrey Epstein. And it was just a very,

00:43:59.260 very bad decade. It was one of those years, I think it was 92, the queen referred to as her

00:44:05.500 anus horribilis. That shows you how little emotion the queen would show in public is even when she was

00:44:12.460 lamenting her true misfortune, she would speak in Latin. And so that was a particularly bad time. 0.96

00:44:19.000 They've kind of leveled off a little bit now. But why? Why would we tolerate these people? One,

00:44:24.260 I think that King Charles III actually has a kind of deep sort of conservatism to him. Yes,

00:44:30.800 he's taken to weird flights of fancy. Yes, he's got all this environmentalist stuff. Yes,

00:44:34.780 he has palled around with Klaus Schwab. Yeah, I'm not denying any of the problems with him. But he does,

00:44:41.200 he's not a leftist, okay? You know, the man who sort of talks with a completely locked jaw and he

00:44:45.920 dresses like he's from the 17th century. And he does, you know, he's not like a purple hair who's

00:44:51.400 about to go burn a bra down in downtown. And also because if you support that institution as a

00:44:59.480 unifying and stabilizing institution for the country and for the commonwealth, then you support

00:45:05.700 it no matter who's in the seat. You know, it's a similar thing with the Catholics. You know, 0.90

00:45:13.400 the Catholics recognize the supreme pontiff, even if there is a bad pope who happens to be in the chair

00:45:19.720 of Peter. And there have been plenty of bad popes. Dante puts a couple of popes in hell, okay? So

00:45:26.220 that has happened. But if you support the institution, you support the institution. That's

00:45:30.360 that. Okay, before we get to the member block, let's get to an OG written mailbag question. Girl

00:45:37.260 advice from Alan. Hello, Michael. I've had a good friend who's a girl. She's both sweet and conservative. 0.98

00:45:44.400 I've not seen her in person in two years. However, we still text on a regular basis. I want to ask her

00:45:49.780 out, but I'm not quite sure how to go about that. I really enjoyed your expert panel from last week

00:45:54.240 and all the women said to be confident and tall. Yeah, I'm over six feet. Good. However, this does

00:46:00.540 scare me a bit. Any advice would be great. Well, I would need a little more information. Do you live

00:46:08.360 near this woman? You say you haven't seen her in two years. You text a lot, but then you said you

00:46:14.140 want to ask her out. So the first part makes me think you don't live near her. The second part

00:46:17.780 makes me think you do live near her. Either way, yes, you should either ask her out or stop texting

00:46:24.920 her. It's really weird for single men, for a single man to text a single woman regularly for two years

00:46:32.920 and not go on a date. That's really weird. So yeah, ask her out. None of this virtual parasocial

00:46:41.020 kind of stuff. Do it. Put up or shut up. Let's go. Piss or get off the pot. I don't know. How many

00:46:48.740 more idioms do I need to recite? Of course you should ask her out. That's normal. It's good for

00:46:56.740 men and women to be attracted to each other and to go on dates and to get married and have lots of kids.

00:47:01.320 It is not normal to remain in this permanent state of, teehee, hey, you up? Hey, how are you

00:47:08.200 doing? That's weird because then you're not in a relationship with a woman. You're in a relationship

00:47:12.620 with a piece of technology and that's no good. That's no good. At that point, just go date a robot.

00:47:18.480 All right, the rest of the show continues now. We have a very good friend of mine coming on the show

00:47:22.080 today to talk about a new documentary and one of the biggest, biggest political issues in America

00:47:29.260 where probably some of the most important political fights are taking place. That would be at the

00:47:32.960 schools. The rest of the show continues now. If you are not a member, click the link in the description

00:47:38.080 and join us.

00:47:39.220 We'll see you next time.

The Michael Knowles Show - November 23, 2022

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