The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1154 - Republicans Clash To Find A Worthy Speaker Of The House

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00:00:37.700 The 118th Congress, now under Republican control, voted yesterday for the next Speaker of the House, and no one won.

00:00:48.340 Kevin McCarthy was supposed to win.

00:00:50.860 McCarthy has been in House leadership for over a dozen years.

00:00:53.760 He's actually already started moving his files and furniture into the Speaker's suite.

00:00:59.620 But McCarthy did not get the 218 votes necessary to secure the Speakership, which brought the vote to a second ballot.

00:01:09.340 Now, McCarthy still didn't have the votes, brought it to a third ballot, still didn't have the votes, and then the House adjourned for the night.

00:01:18.620 The whole episode was somewhat embarrassing, certainly for McCarthy.

00:01:22.580 It was even historic.

00:01:24.820 It was the first time in 100 years that a Speaker election went to multiple ballots.

00:01:29.220 But the one thing that it was not was surprising.

00:01:32.900 People are acting shocked right now, especially the establishment Republicans.

00:01:37.880 They are horrified.

00:01:39.060 They are clutching their pearls.

00:01:40.560 I'm not sure why, because this is the exact same thing that happened last time Republicans had a chance to elect a Speaker back in 2015.

00:01:53.760 It's the exact same thing by the exact same people to the exact same guy.

00:02:02.040 In 2015, when John Boehner stepped down as Speaker, Kevin McCarthy was his presumptive successor, until some members of the House Freedom Caucus refused to go along with it.

00:02:13.560 And the Freedom Caucus had enough votes to block him.

00:02:16.400 That election did not go to multiple ballots, but only because McCarthy bowed out of the race when he saw that he didn't have the votes.

00:02:22.920 And what happened then?

00:02:26.000 Exactly what is happening now.

00:02:28.680 Then, members of both the establishment and the Freedom Caucus called on Paul Ryan to take the Speakership as a compromise candidate who was acceptable to both sides.

00:02:38.420 A lot of people don't like Paul Ryan these days because he became extremely anti-Trump and in recent years has seemed kind of like a squish. 0.92

00:02:45.700 But at the time, Paul Ryan was considered one of the more conservative members of the House.

00:02:50.780 Yesterday, a new compromise candidate emerged.

00:02:54.320 Jim Jordan, great guy, strong conservative bona fides, and also someone who is not completely unacceptable to the establishment.

00:03:03.460 And a guy who has backed McCarthy for Speaker.

00:03:07.700 The situation is pretty much exactly the same.

00:03:12.120 We will see what happens.

00:03:12.980 I understand why some Republicans are backing the Freedom Caucus candidate, Andy Biggs.

00:03:18.660 I understand why some Republicans are backing Jim Jordan.

00:03:22.540 I even understand why some Republicans are backing Kevin McCarthy.

00:03:26.700 The only thing I don't understand is how all the political geniuses, the politicians, the pundits, the prognosticators,

00:03:35.160 how all of them are completely shocked and appalled that history is simply repeating itself.

00:03:41.100 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:42.300 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:50.820 Welcome back to the show.

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00:05:35.080 Who are the holdouts on Kevin McCarthy?

00:05:37.840 Who are the holdouts?

00:05:38.840 These are the people who are being absolutely maligned, tarred, and feathered by the libs and by the squishes, by the Republican establishment.

00:05:47.280 And yet, I look down this list of people who are not backing McCarthy, and a lot of them are some of my absolute favorite members of Congress.

00:05:57.400 So, who are the people on here?

00:05:59.560 We've got Dan Bishop, Lauren Boebert, Josh Bresheen, Mike Cloud, Andrew Clyde, Eli Crane, Matt Gaetz, Bob Good, Paul Gosar, Andy Harris, Anna Paulina Luna, Mary Miller, terrific.

00:06:13.140 Ralph Norman, Andy Ogles, Scott Perry, Matt Rosendale, Chip Roy, love that guy, Keith Self, and Biggs.

00:06:20.480 I'm seeing like half a dozen names here of some of the people that I like most in Congress.

00:06:26.840 So, I think, okay, not so bad.

00:06:30.080 If they're holding out, maybe they've got good reason to do that.

00:06:33.820 Now, what the establishment is saying is this is terrible.

00:06:36.220 This is a horrible embarrassment for the Republicans.

00:06:38.780 Why is it an embarrassment?

00:06:40.800 This used to happen.

00:06:42.140 There used to be contested speaker races.

00:06:45.260 It's okay.

00:06:46.280 It's okay, guys.

00:06:47.400 Take a deep breath.

00:06:48.800 It's going to be all right.

00:06:50.940 We don't, you don't need to get the speaker on the first ballot.

00:06:54.660 We don't, I have nothing personally against Kevin McCarthy, really, as far as Republican leadership goes.

00:06:59.160 He's far from the worst guy we've ever seen there.

00:07:01.420 But he wasn't born with an entitlement to become the speaker of the House.

00:07:05.820 It's all right.

00:07:06.840 In Democratic politics, lowercase d, it can be a little bit messy.

00:07:11.360 It can be a little bit untidy.

00:07:12.660 People can fight and battle and try to get their committee chairmanships.

00:07:17.020 And it'll be just fine, guys.

00:07:19.820 Deep breath, this has happened before.

00:07:21.580 In fact, this very fight happened the very last time that Republicans were able to elect a speaker.

00:07:29.300 What is the debate over?

00:07:31.620 What are the two sides saying right now?

00:07:33.960 Representative Bob Good has been going on TV to give his side of why Kevin McCarthy should never be the speaker.

00:07:40.240 I won't be voting for Kevin McCarthy tomorrow.

00:07:43.660 He's part of the problem.

00:07:44.980 He's not part of the solution.

00:07:46.560 There's nothing about Kevin McCarthy that indicates that he will bring the change that's needed to Washington or that's needed to the Congress.

00:07:52.940 Or he'll bring the fight, fight against the Biden-Schumer agenda.

00:07:56.480 It's worth it to fight for a few hours or even a few days to get the best possible person for speaker.

00:08:01.440 All right, simple enough.

00:08:03.260 He says the country is in need of dire change.

00:08:05.620 Kevin McCarthy is not sufficiently conservative.

00:08:08.780 And so we should hash it out and make sure we pick the right speaker now.

00:08:12.560 Now, some people are saying who cares who the speaker is the only job of the speaker of the House when the opposition party has the Senate and the White House is just to say no and to stall the agenda.

00:08:25.860 Okay, that's true, but I suspect what Bob Good and the other Freedom Caucus members are thinking right now is, yeah, maybe the threshold of candidate that you need when you are in the minority of the whole government is relatively low.

00:08:42.280 But once someone is established as the speaker of the House, it's not as though if the Republicans win the Senate and the White House next time, they're just going to boot the Republican speaker and elect some new guy.

00:08:52.240 That's not how it works.

00:08:53.200 Once you get that position, you pretty much stay in that position.

00:08:56.600 So they're saying, let's fight, let's get it right now because this could have long-term consequences.

00:09:00.700 Okay, what's the other side?

00:09:01.760 Newt Gingrich, who was speaker of the House of Representatives for the Republicans, he has been going on TV explaining why we need to elect Kevin McCarthy.

00:09:09.960 I don't understand what they're doing.

00:09:13.040 They're not voting against Kevin McCarthy.

00:09:15.460 They're voting against over 215 members of their own conference.

00:09:19.820 Their conference voted overwhelmingly, 85%, for McCarthy to be speaker.

00:09:25.360 So this is a fight between a handful of people and the entire rest of the conference.

00:09:30.480 And they're saying they have the right to screw up everything.

00:09:33.780 Well, the precedent that sets is so do the moderates, so do the members from Florida.

00:09:40.760 I mean, any five people can get up and say, I'm now going to screw up the conference too.

00:09:44.840 The choice is Kevin McCarthy or chaos.

00:09:47.940 And there's nobody going to replace Kevin because he has far more people totally dedicated to him than this handful of never-enders.

00:09:55.880 And the result's going to be anybody who tried to replace Kevin would face total chaos.

00:10:01.560 It would be impossible to govern.

00:10:03.220 So I hope in the next 24 hours that this handful of members will realize they don't have the moral right to reject the choice of 85% of their conference.

00:10:13.920 I love Newt Gingrich, but I don't think his analysis is totally precise here because it's already happened before.

00:10:23.760 That's why.

00:10:24.700 He says, well, the vast majority of the Republicans are supporting McCarthy.

00:10:30.120 And so if they don't go with McCarthy, it's just going to be sheer chaos.

00:10:33.520 They're not going to be able to find a candidate.

00:10:34.800 That's not true.

00:10:35.660 Last time, the majority of Republicans were backing McCarthy.

00:10:37.940 And then a small number of Republicans held out, and we got Paul Ryan.

00:10:41.840 And Paul Ryan had some successes as speaker.

00:10:44.680 It's true.

00:10:45.440 It was like wrangling cats, but that's going to be true of anybody.

00:10:47.800 It's going to be true of Kevin McCarthy if he becomes the speaker.

00:10:50.480 It's going to be true of Andy Biggs if he became the speaker.

00:10:52.740 It would be true of Jim Jordan.

00:10:54.440 And looking at history right now, looking at the times that Kevin McCarthy has been up for this job, and looking at Jim Jordan emerging as a potential compromise candidate.

00:11:06.080 Or some other names have been floated as well, but Jim Jordan is probably leading the bunch.

00:11:10.260 I don't know.

00:11:13.660 It seems certainly plausible, if not likely, that you get a compromise candidate type to take the reins from McCarthy if McCarthy cannot command the number of votes that are needed to win the speakership, okay?

00:11:27.900 Which he wasn't able to do last time, and he wasn't able to do yesterday.

00:11:31.800 So maybe the Republicans seriously have to consider an alternative.

00:11:35.980 I don't get all that riled up about these House leadership elections.

00:11:40.260 Because my job as a citizen is to elect the congressman.

00:11:43.940 That's what I have to do.

00:11:45.220 But these elections are for the congressman to elect their leadership.

00:11:50.120 And it's a different sort of thing, and it requires a different skill set.

00:11:53.120 And so I leave it up to the members.

00:11:54.700 But I'm certainly not going to castigate any members of the House Freedom Caucus for saying, no, we want a different leader.

00:12:00.160 And the guy that 85% of the conference is pushing is not acceptable to us.

00:12:04.800 I have no problem with that at all.

00:12:06.220 That is democracy in action, my friends.

00:12:08.860 I see no problem with that whatsoever.

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00:13:40.200 Worth noting, by the way, you don't need to be a member of Congress to be the Speaker of the House.

00:13:46.500 Anybody could be the Speaker of the House.

00:13:48.340 So obviously the funniest choice is Donald Trump.

00:13:52.000 It would be so great.

00:13:54.680 And by the way, it would have a lot of political benefit for Republicans who don't want Trump to be

00:13:59.000 president.

00:13:59.320 If Donald Trump just became the Speaker of the House, that would benefit Ron DeSantis.

00:14:03.520 That would benefit other GOP rivals who are looking at 2024.

00:14:07.840 That would benefit the people who don't want Donald Trump to run again in 2024.

00:14:11.460 And it would be freaking hilarious.

00:14:13.780 Could you imagine the State of the Union when Joe Biden gets up there and you've got Donald Trump

00:14:18.860 introducing him? 1.00

00:14:19.940 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome sleepy, stupid Joe. 1.00

00:14:24.200 Can't remember anything. 1.00

00:14:25.400 He's definitely, look at his notes.

00:14:26.380 He's carrying his notes up here. 0.98

00:14:27.880 Okay, sleepy, brain-dead Joe.

00:14:30.780 Get up on the, it'd be wonderful.

00:14:33.160 So something seriously for the members to consider.

00:14:35.720 Who else would be good?

00:14:36.640 I don't know.

00:14:37.120 You could get Newt Gingrich.

00:14:38.060 He was already the Speaker.

00:14:38.960 He was pretty effective.

00:14:39.700 You could get Newt Gingrich.

00:14:40.580 It could be anybody.

00:14:41.520 And I should point out, some people have mentioned on social media, they floated the name of yours

00:14:49.140 truly.

00:14:50.060 Okay?

00:14:50.300 And many people are talking about it, all right?

00:14:52.680 And I deeply appreciate the countless, countless number of people who are clamoring incessantly

00:15:01.380 for me, Michael John Knowles, yours truly, your beloved podcast host, international sex symbol,

00:15:08.000 to become the next Speaker of the House.

00:15:10.480 But I just want to be perfectly clear.

00:15:12.320 I am not interested in that job.

00:15:14.240 I have never sought that office.

00:15:16.320 I will not accept the Speakership of the House unless the Congressman elect me to it.

00:15:21.960 So I just want to be totally clear about that.

00:15:24.100 What should the House do once they finally get all of these Speaker decisions sorted out and start governing?

00:15:30.960 One great idea that has been floated is to open up a subcommittee on the weaponization of federal agencies.

00:15:39.820 A subcommittee is different than a select committee.

00:15:44.240 A select committee is like what Pelosi set up to make a big hullabaloo about the January 6th people

00:15:50.760 and to just put on a big show for the television cameras that doesn't really do anything.

00:15:55.120 A subcommittee, which is what the House Republicans are talking about now on the weaponization of the

00:16:00.180 federal agencies, of the FBI, of you could go even beyond the intelligence community, of the IRS,

00:16:05.320 of all these government agencies.

00:16:07.400 The subcommittee has the power to consider and introduce legislation,

00:16:11.260 which is important because it raises the possibility of reforming some bureaucratic structures

00:16:17.480 that the GOP rightly believes poses a threat to our system of government.

00:16:24.420 We've seen this before.

00:16:26.740 An example of using the Congress to fight back against the executive agencies would be something like the Church Committee,

00:16:34.240 which was formed by the Senate in 1975.

00:16:37.940 And the Church Committee looked into all of the nefarious activities of the CIA and uncovered a lot of bad stuff.

00:16:43.840 Okay, the Church Committee uncovered things like, gosh, MKUltra, right?

00:16:49.880 I'm trying to think of all of their- I just gave a speech on all of the nefarious activities of the CIA over the years.

00:16:55.980 Think of Operation Mongoose.

00:16:57.760 You think about the infiltration of the media, not just abroad, but here domestically, to push government propaganda.

00:17:05.100 And the Church Committee played a large role in uncovering some of these activities.

00:17:09.120 So I think this is really important.

00:17:10.720 I think it's really necessary.

00:17:11.720 If it were a subcommittee doing it, that would be great because it would actually have the teeth to try to reform the system.

00:17:16.560 I'm not saying it necessarily would be successful, but it would be the best shot we've got.

00:17:19.920 These sorts of issues are what Republicans need to focus on because they're not merely political issues.

00:17:27.940 They're meta-political issues.

00:17:30.580 It's not just about this policy or that policy.

00:17:33.360 It's about the way that policy is made.

00:17:36.480 You look at an issue like immigration.

00:17:38.380 Immigration is not just a political issue.

00:17:40.280 It's a meta-political issue because immigration will determine who gets to vote for what sort of things

00:17:48.540 and which party years down the road.

00:17:53.700 So it's the politics of politics.

00:17:57.420 Democrats are pushing for mass migration.

00:17:59.880 Three million immigrants coming into the country every year, two million of whom are illegal,

00:18:03.300 because they rightly believe it will give them a political advantage.

00:18:08.200 Well, same thing here.

00:18:09.740 When we're going after the weaponization of federal agencies,

00:18:12.260 we're not just talking about one political issue or some other political issue.

00:18:16.100 We're talking about how policy is decided and who gets to do it.

00:18:20.040 Who do you want to make policy for you?

00:18:21.700 Do you want it to be the congressman or do you want it to be some unaccountable bureaucrat

00:18:26.480 who is a lifelong Democrat who is going to push leftism whether the people want it or not?

00:18:32.760 Even with as crazy as the Congress is,

00:18:34.520 I think you'd probably rather the Congress do that than the bureaucrats.

00:18:37.900 So this could be really dangerous too for the Republicans who do this if the House goes ahead

00:18:43.660 and opens up the subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government.

00:18:47.820 I'm reminded of the words of Chuck Schumer who laughed when Donald Trump was being attacked

00:18:55.940 by the intelligence community and there were all sorts of leaks and dossiers and insinuations.

00:19:01.700 And Schumer laughed and he said, you know, never go up against the intelligence community.

00:19:05.180 They can get you nine ways from Sunday.

00:19:08.260 And it was sad in a way, but it is kind of funny.

00:19:13.280 He's saying, yeah, you think that we run the show over here?

00:19:16.500 No way.

00:19:17.280 There's this deep state.

00:19:18.720 They'll get you nine ways from Sunday.

00:19:20.980 And so if the Congress does establish this House subcommittee on the weaponization of federal

00:19:26.260 agencies, all I'm saying is look out for some of its members to come out with sex scandals,

00:19:32.020 okay? Because I don't think that those federal agencies are going to go down without a fight.

00:19:38.360 So what else can the Congress do?

00:19:41.940 Pretty much that's it.

00:19:43.940 I think from the Republican Congress, the best that we are going to get is lots of investigations,

00:19:51.360 lots of hearings, lots of interrogation with the C-SPAN cameras running.

00:19:56.340 You're not going to get legislation for two reasons.

00:20:00.340 One, you're not going to get a lot of legislation because the Democrats have the Senate and the

00:20:03.900 White House and they're going to block it.

00:20:05.400 But two, you're not going to get a lot of legislation because that's just not where the

00:20:12.800 power is right now.

00:20:15.020 The power is not in Congress.

00:20:17.880 We are not living like a bill up on Capitol Hill in Schoolhouse Rock.

00:20:21.140 We're not living like America in the 1790s.

00:20:24.280 The power has shifted and it hasn't only shifted because bureaucrats have taken power

00:20:29.220 or even because the Congress delegated power away to the executive agencies.

00:20:33.720 The power has shifted because of really basic financial problems.

00:20:39.640 Right now, a study just came out, shows that the federal government's budget is in such disarray

00:20:45.960 that if they wanted to balance the budget, the federal government would be required

00:20:51.220 either to cut spending by 30% or to raise taxes by 40%.

00:20:58.160 Neither of those things are ever going to happen.

00:21:03.100 It's never going to happen, okay?

00:21:04.660 Or they could try to find a middle ground, which would still be unacceptable, both on the

00:21:08.820 spending front and on the taxation front.

00:21:11.940 No one would tolerate that.

00:21:13.460 The deficit in 2022 was $1.4 trillion.

00:21:19.920 The national debt is currently $31.5 trillion.

00:21:25.060 And it's going to get much more expensive than it has been to have that.

00:21:28.460 Even as we've been running up that debt, we've been doing it kind of on the cheap because

00:21:32.880 interest rates have basically been zero.

00:21:34.660 But the interest rates have gone way up.

00:21:36.400 So now just to service that amount of debt, think about the kind of interest that you pay

00:21:40.280 on your mortgage, if you have a home mortgage, now your home mortgage, instead of it being

00:21:47.360 a couple hundred thousand dollars, let's say it's $31.5 trillion.

00:21:51.580 The cost of just servicing that debt is astronomical, okay?

00:21:56.000 So what does that mean for us?

00:21:57.680 It means that our policy options as legislators, as citizens, as the people executing the government,

00:22:06.620 not executing like bang, bang, but in the executive role of the government, they're rather limited.

00:22:13.260 This is why the United States has to remain the global hegemon, okay?

00:22:18.140 This is why debates over our fiscal policy or our monetary policy or our military policy

00:22:24.560 don't seem to go anywhere.

00:22:27.600 You notice that no matter which side gets elected, the foreign policy basically remains the same.

00:22:33.680 No matter which side gets elected, the immigration policy basically remains the same.

00:22:37.440 No matter which side gets elected, the fiscal policy basically remains the same.

00:22:40.220 Republicans always run on cutting government spending.

00:22:42.220 They never do it.

00:22:43.140 They never do it.

00:22:43.900 The last time a Republican cut government spending, actually reduced the size and scope of the

00:22:48.760 government was Calvin Coolidge, okay?

00:22:50.360 Not even Ronald Reagan was able to do it.

00:22:51.840 He increased spending in many ways.

00:22:54.960 The reason for that is because the US has to remain the global hegemon.

00:22:59.180 Because if the US doesn't dominate the world, then the country is going to collapse because

00:23:05.220 our books are completely in the red.

00:23:07.320 So the only reason that we're able to run up the numbers like this is because we are the

00:23:12.440 dominant power on the face of the earth.

00:23:14.080 Because our military is the dominant power and because our dollar is the dominant power

00:23:17.980 in its realm.

00:23:20.220 And so the moment that that goes away, it's not like the country is just very slowly and

00:23:25.180 gradually going to decline in its power.

00:23:27.020 It's going to collapse and everybody knows it.

00:23:30.320 This is why both parties are so keen on fighting the war in Ukraine when the American people

00:23:35.600 don't care about Ukraine.

00:23:37.380 The reason that they're doing that is because they're playing this very complicated game of

00:23:43.260 rebuffing the rival powers that are trying to threaten and question US hegemony.

00:23:50.820 That's why the United States is so concerned over Taiwan when the American people don't really

00:23:55.380 care that much about Taiwan.

00:23:57.020 We have to do it because our whole national policy is dependent on remaining the big dog

00:24:04.420 on earth.

00:24:06.320 And if you're so levered that that is the only thing keeping you from a national collapse,

00:24:13.740 then your members of Congress are actually not going to be able to do very much.

00:24:17.460 The president of the United States is not going to be able to do very much.

00:24:19.600 And speaking of threats to American hegemony, the NASA chief has just raised a brand new security

00:24:26.480 threat. 0.95

00:24:27.300 It's not the Taliban or the Muslim terrorists trying to blow us up. 1.00

00:24:31.940 It's not those pesky Russians filming us doing weird things with hookers in Moscow hotels, 1.00

00:24:37.000 okay, and threatening our pipelines and energy and things like that. 0.99

00:24:41.720 No, no, it is the Chinese who want to conquer the moon. 0.96

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00:26:12.960 NASA chief Bill Nelson says, quote,

00:26:17.180 It is a fact.

00:26:18.260 We are in a space race.

00:26:20.180 And it is true that we better watch out that China doesn't get to a place on the moon under 0.99

00:26:26.060 the guise of scientific research.

00:26:27.640 And it is not beyond the realm of possibility that they say, keep out.

00:26:31.340 We're here.

00:26:31.780 This is our territory.

00:26:32.840 If you doubt that, look at what they did with the Spratly Islands.

00:26:35.620 Spratly Islands are a series of islands in the South China Sea that China has gone in 0.60

00:26:43.280 and basically taken over, even though they weren't supposed to do that.

00:26:45.840 So it's true.

00:26:46.640 China is aggressing. 0.92

00:26:47.820 I actually think Bill Nelson is correct in that it's not out of the realm of possibility

00:26:52.880 that China starts making much more ambitious territorial claims, including to the moon.

00:26:58.780 It's not out of the realm of possibility, which is why, put China aside for a second, 0.93

00:27:05.120 even put space exploration aside for a second.

00:27:09.220 It's why the United States needs once again to pursue a policy of national greatness.

00:27:17.780 When Newt Gingrich, speaking of Newt Gingrich, ran for president in 2012,

00:27:22.820 he made this an important part of his campaign platform.

00:27:26.900 He actually made going back to the moon an important part of his campaign platform

00:27:31.260 and exploring space further because he said, we need a project of national greatness.

00:27:39.700 Much of our political debate for the past 30, 40 years has gone between two poles

00:27:48.480 of a vision of national smallness.

00:27:51.880 The left, which is no longer looking out to the heavens,

00:27:55.880 which is no longer looking to expand America.

00:27:58.600 The left, which says America is evil and we need to contract and we need to contract our empire

00:28:03.040 and contract our claims and our own sense of how wonderful the country is.

00:28:09.120 And we need to just look in at ever smaller circles, just at race or sex or this kind of

00:28:16.600 identity or that kind of identity.

00:28:17.840 We're basically looking at ourselves under a microscope by the time we're through with that

00:28:21.280 vision or the right, which has said, yeah, forget about expansion, forget about exploration,

00:28:28.440 forget about going into space.

00:28:29.700 Now that's all, all that stuff's a waste of money.

00:28:31.980 Well, you know what we need to do?

00:28:32.740 We need to shrink everything.

00:28:33.920 We got to shrink the government.

00:28:35.280 We got to shrink policy.

00:28:37.000 We got to shrink spending.

00:28:38.880 We got to privatize everything.

00:28:40.780 We don't know.

00:28:41.480 We don't, there's no such thing as a project of national greatness.

00:28:44.080 There's barely anything as, as a project.

00:28:45.900 We're just all individuals and you do you and I'll do me and we all do whatever the hell we want.

00:28:50.200 And we've got very little uniting us anymore, but I'll get to keep more of my money and that's

00:28:54.060 all that matters.

00:28:55.420 Those have been basically the two visions for the last 30, 40 years.

00:29:03.880 That's not what a great nation thinks about.

00:29:07.300 A great nation recognizes that it is a nation, that there actually are things that bind us together.

00:29:11.840 We're not just a bunch of individuals who happen to share a plot of territory with blurry borders.

00:29:20.960 That's not all we are.

00:29:22.080 And we're not, we're not just bags of chemicals that amount to nothing more than the pigmentation

00:29:27.440 of our skin or our sexual lusts. 0.54

00:29:31.060 We're more than that.

00:29:32.900 We are citizens.

00:29:34.480 We're part of a family at the most basic political level and then part of a local community,

00:29:39.280 a township, maybe a district, a state.

00:29:41.940 And ultimately, we are part of a nation.

00:29:43.460 We have a national character and we have national desires and we have national pursuits and endeavors.

00:29:48.980 And at the most basic level of political vision, we want to pursue the good and we want to avoid

00:29:54.460 evil and we want to do stuff and we want to go somewhere, okay?

00:29:58.420 That's what we need.

00:29:59.340 We need that vision again.

00:30:00.480 Because by the way, without that vision, you are just going to dissolve into a bunch of

00:30:04.720 random individuals airing their petty grievances.

00:30:08.720 And it's going to happen on the left and it's going to happen on the right.

00:30:11.200 So I think Nelson is probably right here.

00:30:13.280 I think Newt Gingrich was right in 2012.

00:30:15.380 I think we need to go out there, go get a nice plot of land on the moon and go further.

00:30:22.500 And whether we go into space or we don't go into space, we need to have a vision for where

00:30:28.940 we're going and we need to pursue that together in cooperation with one another.

00:30:32.520 Instead, however, instead of pursuing that agenda of great ambition, of lifting our eyes

00:30:42.580 up, of making ourselves greater, instead what we're doing is degrading ourselves.

00:30:46.740 You see this in New York right now.

00:30:47.940 New York has just become the sixth state in the country to legalize human composting.

00:30:58.700 What is human composting?

00:31:00.280 It's exactly what it sounds like.

00:31:01.800 Human composting is when you die, they put you in a box, they put some plants and straw

00:31:10.120 and wood around you, and they leave you in that box for 30 days until you turn to soil,

00:31:16.120 and then they pour you on the ground.

00:31:19.680 New York Governor Kathy Hochul has added natural organic reduction to cremation and entombment

00:31:29.200 as an acceptable burial method.

00:31:32.940 The new law defines the practice as the, quote, contained accelerated conversion of human remains

00:31:38.100 to soil in a structure, room, or other space in which decomposition can occur.

00:31:44.600 Now, a question I ask you is, is this wrong?

00:31:48.400 I think most of us think this is wrong.

00:31:52.760 I imagine that the majority of people listening to this show right now would say,

00:31:56.920 yeah, there's something kind of wrong about this.

00:31:58.800 Some people might say, no, there isn't anything wrong.

00:32:00.680 But most people have a gut feeling, at least, that there's something wrong about this.

00:32:05.320 And then the second question, why is it wrong?

00:32:08.560 Now, that's the harder question.

00:32:12.440 Most people, especially the kind of people who accept many of our culture's premises,

00:32:19.040 that we should just follow our unfettered reason, that people should have the right to do whatever

00:32:24.500 they want to do.

00:32:25.380 Consenting adults should have the right to do whatever they want to do.

00:32:27.360 We own our own bodies.

00:32:28.820 We're individuals.

00:32:30.060 It is important to maximize our individual autonomy.

00:32:32.400 People who believe these premises, which are not just the premises of the crazy left,

00:32:35.780 they're the premises of pretty much everybody after the Enlightenment, in liberal modernity,

00:32:40.420 even many people who call themselves conservative.

00:32:42.380 If you follow those premises and that kind of logical progression,

00:32:46.620 it's very difficult to explain why it's wrong to turn grandma into a plot of dirt,

00:32:53.180 okay, and then grow your tomatoes out of, you know, dear Aunt Sally.

00:32:58.220 But it is wrong, nevertheless.

00:32:59.720 And it's wrong because all those premises that we get out of liberal modernity are wrong too.

00:33:08.700 It's wrong because human beings have dignity, okay?

00:33:15.060 We are not the same thing as all the other animals.

00:33:19.200 We're not the same thing as plants.

00:33:21.580 We're not the same thing as bugs.

00:33:22.860 We're different.

00:33:23.500 We're human beings.

00:33:24.360 We are made in the image and likeness of God.

00:33:28.520 And that is why we have a responsibility to show some respect for dead bodies.

00:33:36.960 That is why there are laws throughout the civilized world against the desecration of bodies.

00:33:44.520 What does that mean to desecrate?

00:33:45.840 It's recognizing that there is an aspect of the body as being part of your human self that is sacred.

00:33:55.780 Where you shouldn't desecrate that body.

00:33:59.600 But what you'll hear from the libs and the squishes is they'll say,

00:34:02.360 well, you know, you're entitled to all your religious mumbo-jumbo, whatever,

00:34:05.680 but you can't force that on us.

00:34:07.120 We're a secular society.

00:34:08.560 Well, I guess we are.

00:34:09.800 I guess we are.

00:34:10.440 If we're now at the point where the way that we treat dear old grandma who loved us all our lives

00:34:15.740 is the moment she dies to throw her into the garden so the pigs can eat her and tomatoes can 1.00

00:34:20.560 grow out of her, then I guess we are a secular society.

00:34:22.960 But we shouldn't be.

00:34:24.180 We didn't start out as a secular society.

00:34:26.420 It's not what the founding fathers set up.

00:34:27.820 It's not what the framers set up.

00:34:28.940 It's not what we were until five minutes ago.

00:34:32.260 But now we may have become that.

00:34:34.460 There's this really, really good book that is coming out soon by a writer named Matthew Petrucic.

00:34:40.980 It's being published by Word on Fire, and it's a book about evangelization and ideology.

00:34:47.580 And I just did a blurb for it, so I got an advanced copy of this book.

00:34:50.400 But it's really great.

00:34:51.520 I encourage you to pre-order it and get the book, because it does a great job of explaining

00:34:55.180 how political issues from the political debates that we have are just one tiny little fraction

00:35:03.240 of the broader debates that we, the conclusions of which we are simply assuming.

00:35:10.440 I'll bring this down to earth a little bit.

00:35:12.140 When we're debating a policy like whether or not to throw Graham in the garden,

00:35:16.480 that political debate is assuming a lot of conclusions about applied morality.

00:35:23.000 And that's kind of the next circle out.

00:35:26.420 Applied morality, which is assuming a lot of conclusions about morality generally,

00:35:31.560 which is assuming a lot of conclusions about epistemology, about how we can know any.

00:35:39.760 Epistemology is how we know anything at all.

00:35:43.420 It's the study of knowledge.

00:35:44.980 How do we know things?

00:35:45.820 How do we know that certain things are true and certain things are false,

00:35:48.600 and certain things are good and certain things are bad.

00:35:52.260 Then you go out a circle further.

00:35:55.420 Well, that assumes a lot of things about anthropology.

00:35:57.480 We talk about anthropology a lot when it comes to the transgender debate.

00:36:00.440 What does it mean to be a human being?

00:36:02.260 What is human nature?

00:36:04.260 Can a boy become a girl? 0.99

00:36:05.300 Can a girl become a boy? 0.99

00:36:06.520 These are going to be just assumed in a lot of our political debates.

00:36:09.540 When you move out from anthropology, you get to ontology,

00:36:13.320 the question of being, what it means to be, what it means to exist.

00:36:17.800 And when you have those questions, those questions are assuming conclusions from theology.

00:36:25.120 What is the fundamental reality?

00:36:31.280 What is reality within which all of those other questions would exist?

00:36:39.080 We, unfortunately, just go into these debates blindly in many ways.

00:36:44.000 And the worst part is, everyone goes blind.

00:36:48.220 We're not going to have, you know, extremely high-level scholarly debates

00:36:51.140 over every single question that comes before the Congress.

00:36:53.880 The problem is, though we are assuming all sorts of conclusions

00:36:57.640 about all those really high-level questions,

00:37:00.680 we used to assume them with the prejudice of tradition,

00:37:03.720 with the prejudice of civilization, with the prejudice of Christianity.

00:37:07.560 These days, we are assuming those premises

00:37:10.420 with the prejudices of liberalism, of leftism, of atheism.

00:37:16.820 And when you just take all the, there is no God, that's one premise we're assuming.

00:37:20.360 Or if there is a God, we can't really know anything about him.

00:37:23.200 Being is merely physical.

00:37:25.780 Human beings are just a bag of chemicals.

00:37:28.340 The only way we know anything is through the micro-soap and the scientific method.

00:37:32.400 Morality is just whatever the people want at any given time,

00:37:35.100 or whatever makes me feel good, if it feels good, do it.

00:37:37.520 And so if grandma wants to get thrown into the garden, it's fine. 1.00

00:37:40.480 Or if we want to throw in the garden, that's fine too. 0.99

00:37:42.200 Well, yeah, I see how you could arrive at that stupid conclusion, 0.99

00:37:45.480 but you've arrived at it by assuming all sorts of conclusions 0.99

00:37:49.340 about higher-level thinking that are simply not true, okay?

00:37:54.400 And the prejudice has become rote for us

00:37:59.200 because the libs conquered the culture.

00:38:02.820 And it's going to take a lot to dig ourselves out of that.

00:38:05.400 But I think the first thing we have to do is dig grandma out of the garden, okay?

00:38:08.580 And dig her out of the tomato plant. 1.00

00:38:10.020 We shouldn't, that is, we know that is wrong.

00:38:12.020 We have a wisdom of repugnance to borrow a word from Leon Kass.

00:38:15.960 We know we shouldn't do that. 1.00

00:38:17.780 There is nothing wrong or irrational or stupid or uneducated 0.98

00:38:23.440 about using our law to say, no, you don't get to do that. 1.00

00:38:27.960 No, you should be buried.

00:38:30.780 I'm actually against cremation as well.

00:38:32.700 I know a lot of people opt for it.

00:38:34.520 I think cremation makes a mockery of a notion that animated our culture for a very long time,

00:38:40.000 which is the resurrection of the body.

00:38:42.040 This is a central concept of Christianity.

00:38:45.640 And it matters even beyond what will happen to us in the hereafter or at the second coming or the final judgment.

00:38:53.980 Because it gets down to the question of what is the relationship between the soul and the body?

00:38:59.440 What am I really?

00:39:01.600 If the body doesn't mean anything, then transgenderism is a-okay, right? 1.00

00:39:05.620 Because my true self is just my soul.

00:39:07.400 My body is incidental to that.

00:39:09.080 If I want to chop it up, even if a little kid wants to chop it up, no big deal.

00:39:12.340 But I don't think that's true.

00:39:13.300 I think the body does matter.

00:39:14.580 So much so that I'm reminded of the words of Tertullian,

00:39:16.760 who said that the salvation is the very hinge, or rather the flesh is the very hinge of salvation, okay?

00:39:25.560 That our bodies and what we do with our bodies and what we do in time and space really do matter.

00:39:30.340 So we should not just become mulch, okay?

00:39:33.380 You are more than mulch.

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00:40:24.760 Ron DeSantis.

00:40:27.360 Ron DeSantis, speaking of Christianity, was sworn into office again yesterday.

00:40:32.640 And he did so on the Bible of the revolution.

00:40:36.420 And this Bible goes back to 1782 when the U.S. Congress endorsed the King James translation of the Aitken Bible,

00:40:45.620 which printer Robert Aitken published after America won the Revolutionary War.

00:40:50.260 It is the first and only edition ever commissioned.

00:40:53.660 Ron DeSantis was able to borrow this edition of the Bible from Glenn Beck.

00:40:56.860 Glenn Beck, as some of you may know, has probably the greatest collection of American artifacts ever assembled.

00:41:04.360 He just loves collecting this stuff.

00:41:06.140 And he's got this very important Bible.

00:41:08.080 And so Ron DeSantis takes the oath of office on this Bible.

00:41:12.000 Glenn Beck lent it to him because he believes that Ron DeSantis' governorship has real historical significance.

00:41:19.700 His words.

00:41:20.600 It is the beginning of a renewal of the principles for which our founders fought.

00:41:23.840 This is, of course, just another signal that Ron DeSantis is running for president in 2024.

00:41:28.600 His wife looked absolutely beautiful at the swearing-in.

00:41:32.660 DeSantis doing all the right things to do that.

00:41:34.500 And he's pulling together a coalition of some people who really liked Trump.

00:41:37.780 Some people who, like Glenn Beck, really didn't like Trump.

00:41:40.320 Certainly not in 2016.

00:41:42.060 It's a signal that Ron DeSantis is just pulling more and more support together.

00:41:46.720 2024 is a long way off.

00:41:47.980 So I don't have many more predictions to say about that sort of thing.

00:41:51.260 But speaking of rising stars in the GOP, George Santos.

00:41:56.360 George Santos, who is the newly elected Republican congressman, who lied about pretty much everything in his past.

00:42:03.560 His ethnicity, his job, his education, potentially his sexual desires, everything.

00:42:13.040 He lied about everything.

00:42:14.900 He's now under investigation in Brazil.

00:42:18.340 He's under investigation.

00:42:19.500 I shouldn't laugh, but it's funny, so I will laugh.

00:42:23.980 When George Santos was 19 years old, he entered a clothing store in Brazil and spent $700 using a stolen checkbook and a false name.

00:42:32.360 He then allegedly admitted to the fraud on a Brazilian social media website.

00:42:36.320 He and his mother allegedly admitted to police in 2010 that he stole the checkbook to make fraudulent purchases.

00:42:41.540 The following year, a legal charge against Santos was approved, but he had already left the country.

00:42:47.540 He was living in the U.S., so now this guy might be indicted by Brazil.

00:42:53.840 And it raises a real pickle.

00:42:57.980 Here's the pickle.

00:42:59.700 I was talking to some friends and relatives over the break, talking about George Santos. 0.83

00:43:04.200 They said, you know, those cowardly Republicans, I bet they're going to seat George Santos. 0.98

00:43:08.680 They're going to allow him to serve, even though he's clearly a pathological liar. 0.99

00:43:12.660 And I said, yeah, they probably will.

00:43:16.800 Because did George Santos ever claim to be Native American for his whole career when he was a Harvard professor?

00:43:22.340 Was that, oh no, that was Elizabeth Warren.

00:43:25.020 Did George Santos, he lied about his education.

00:43:26.820 Did he ever claim to have three degrees that he got on a full academic scholarship after he was the top student in his department, officially named him?

00:43:35.040 And, oh no, that was Joe Biden, who also plagiarized, by the way.

00:43:39.960 The pickle here is that George Santos obviously has all sorts of problems and does not seem to be the most stable individual in the world.

00:43:50.460 But the ire against him seems so disingenuous because Democrats and libs get away with all the same stuff and actually far worse transgressions.

00:44:00.100 That's how I feel about Andrew Tate. 0.98

00:44:03.120 Andrew Tate is a pimp.

00:44:06.120 I am not generally in the habit of defending pimps, okay? 0.87

00:44:11.180 But for the libs to pretend to be up in arms over Andrew Tate's sex trafficking because he ran a webcam business,

00:44:18.380 seems disingenuous when the libs turn a blind eye to Jeffrey Epstein and to all the other insane sexual behaviors that they not only tolerate but actually encourage. 0.68

00:44:30.100 They themselves are the ones who are pushing the sexual revolution and who are claiming that prostitution is real work.

00:44:36.740 It's real work and we need to legalize prostitution and all sorts of deviant sexual behaviors. 0.89

00:44:41.860 So it just rings hollow when they go after Andrew Tate for that sort of stuff.

00:44:47.100 It's a real pickle that we are in now.

00:44:50.100 What are we to do about that?

00:44:52.460 I think we can just acknowledge both things.

00:44:55.460 We don't need to really defend George Santos or Andrew Tate all that hard.

00:45:00.340 But I think we can observe, hey, you guys who are clutching your pearls here, you're being very, very disingenuous.

00:45:06.180 And I'm not going to prostrate myself at the altar of liberalism and say, no, throw these men to the wolves.

00:45:11.660 Okay, well, let the system work out as it may.

00:45:14.260 But I'm going to keep clear eyes about what the libs are doing. 1.00

00:45:17.120 Okay, now speaking of trouble in foreign countries, trouble overseas.

00:45:22.120 In Queensland, Australia, police are now asking citizens to snitch on their fellow citizens if they ever commit the terrible transgression of entertaining a conspiracy theory.

00:45:33.540 And we welcome that information.

00:45:36.040 As I said before, if it's anybody out there that knows of someone that might be showing concerning behavior around, you know, conspiracy theories, anti-government, anti-police, conspiracy theories around COVID-19 vaccination, as what we're seeing with the train family, we'd want to know about that.

00:45:52.960 We want to know about that.

00:45:54.260 And you can either contact police directly or go through Crime Stoppers.

00:45:57.520 We want to know that.

00:46:00.320 If there's any, I can't really do a good Australian. 0.99

00:46:02.740 That's not a knife.

00:46:03.640 This is a knife.

00:46:04.580 That's pretty much all I can do.

00:46:06.180 Crikey.

00:46:07.600 They want to know if anyone is entertaining a crazy conspiracy theory like that the mRNA vaccines are not totally safe and effective, which has been proven true time and time again.

00:46:23.000 A crazy conspiracy theory that maybe the government is corrupt and has demonstrated that corruption at an international scale over the past three years, like has been proven time and time again.

00:46:37.660 The conspiracy theories.

00:46:39.200 We've said this on the show for a long time now.

00:46:41.940 The difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth over the last three years is about three to six months.

00:46:48.420 We're told it's a crazy conspiracy theory that the masks and the social distancing don't do very much.

00:46:54.420 And then later comes out, oh, yeah, actually, that was probably right.

00:46:56.660 Crazy conspiracy theory that the vaccines might cause heart problems and blood clots and things like that.

00:47:00.580 No, it's a crazy conspiracy theory.

00:47:01.520 It turns out, obviously, that's true. 0.83

00:47:02.860 The crazy conspiracy theory that the vaccines won't stop you from getting COVID or transmitting COVID.

00:47:06.640 Oh, no, it actually, that turns out that that was totally true.

00:47:09.880 Even the liberals admit this now.

00:47:11.400 Even my liberal friends and relatives.

00:47:13.760 I said, well, wasn't that vaccine supposed to stop everybody from getting COVID?

00:47:17.560 You know, when they still wear the masks and things.

00:47:19.260 You guys have all the vaccines.

00:47:20.660 Isn't that supposed to stop you from getting COVID?

00:47:22.620 And what do they tell me?

00:47:23.500 They say, no, no, actually, Michael.

00:47:25.240 At first, that's what they said.

00:47:26.820 But it turned out, it turned out that actually none of that was true.

00:47:30.980 Yeah. 0.52

00:47:31.420 And remember when I said that from the very beginning and you all called me crazy and a lunatic and a murderer?

00:47:35.740 And you remember that? 0.76

00:47:36.760 No, nobody remembers that.

00:47:40.260 All to say, this is still going on.

00:47:44.480 These clips that you're seeing come out of especially Australia.

00:47:46.660 They're not from three years ago.

00:47:48.120 Okay, this stuff is still going on right now.

00:47:49.960 And it's part of a broader plan that is being pushed by some of the most powerful people in the world.

00:47:54.560 Not so secretly, they're doing it out in the open.

00:47:56.400 They're calling it the Great Reset.

00:47:57.980 This is a term coined by Klaus Schwab, who's the head of the World Economic Forum.

00:48:02.140 He published a book to this effect.

00:48:03.800 You've had heads of state.

00:48:05.180 You've had King Charles in England and many, many heads of state throughout the world repeat this phrase.

00:48:10.140 That we need a great reset.

00:48:11.060 That COVID-19 presents a terrific opportunity to not just change some healthcare policies, but to upend our economies, our political rights, the way that countries interact with one another.

00:48:24.060 That is still happening.

00:48:27.440 That's not going to go away.

00:48:29.120 And they're occasionally going to try to bring back maybe the masks or the vaccine mandates.

00:48:33.080 They might sputter to try to do that, even as that has become so implausible.

00:48:39.200 But the broader project, which involves changing the relationship of businesses to the state, what the sort of state can mandate, the sort of surveillance that the state is allowed to engage in, the medical knowledge that state actors are allowed to take, and the private actors are allowed to take, the blurring between the public and the private, which is a key aspect of the World Economic Forum agenda.

00:49:02.240 That's why the World Economic Forum exists in the first place, is to create a tighter partnership between the public sector and the private sector, which is not, it's not just communism.

00:49:13.620 It's not just capitalism.

00:49:16.380 It's this blobby, awful combination of these two things.

00:49:22.700 This corrupt fusion of people who want to take a lot of power and a lot of money and upend your way of life.

00:49:31.080 That is still going on.

00:49:32.700 Do not think that you have left COVID in the rearview mirror.

00:49:35.500 If anything, it's just getting started.

00:49:38.780 The rest of the show continues now.

00:49:40.680 Today is not Wednesday.

00:49:42.360 No, it is Wednesday, right?

00:49:43.420 Because we had Monday off.

00:49:44.480 I was going to say it's Woke Tuesday.

00:49:45.600 No, it's Woke Wednesday.

00:49:47.500 And we are going to have a wonderful Woke presentation.

00:49:51.960 The producers have prepared for me.

00:49:53.520 I will be reacting to it.

00:49:54.960 I need your expertise to help me decipher the high-level thinking in this Woke message.

00:50:02.520 So if you want to become a member, which I know all of you do, use code Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S, at checkout for two months free on all annual plans right now at Daily Wire Plus.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 04, 2023

Ep. 1154 - Republicans Clash To Find A Worthy Speaker Of The House

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