The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1159 - In With Tennessee N-Out With California

00:00:00.000 We have just gotten wind of the best political news in many months.

00:00:04.000 No, I'm not talking about Republicans taking over the House of Representatives.

00:00:08.560 No, I'm not talking about Republican candidates surging in the 2024 polls.

00:00:14.080 I am talking about In-N-Out Burger coming to the great state of Tennessee.

00:00:19.340 Hey, Tennesseans, we have some very exciting news today.

00:00:22.300 A great American company, an iconic brand, In-N-Out Burger,

00:00:27.100 has decided to place their first corporate hub in the eastern United States right here in Tennessee.

00:00:33.880 In-N-Out Burger is a great family business that's been operating for decades in this country

00:00:37.780 with a value system and a way of serving their customers that lines up just right here in Tennessee.

00:00:44.140 And it means a lot of opportunity and a lot of jobs for a lot of Tennesseans.

00:00:49.340 We are excited about the opportunity that In-N-Out is going to bring to Tennessee.

00:00:53.400 Plus, we're going to get to have double-double fries and shakes right here in the great state of Tennessee.

00:01:00.080 Welcome, In-N-Out Burger. You're going to love it here.

00:01:02.900 The news is so great, not only because I will soon be able to eat double-doubles whenever I want.

00:01:09.260 It's consequential because In-N-Out is about as California a company as ever there was.

00:01:14.860 You think In-N-Out, you think California.

00:01:19.080 But In-N-Out Burger has a deeper identity than that.

00:01:23.920 In-N-Out Burger is a Christian company.

00:01:26.120 It's got Bible verses on all the wrappers.

00:01:28.620 And we all know that it's getting harder and harder for Christians to do business in aggressively anti-Christian states.

00:01:35.400 Frankly, forget for a moment that In-N-Out is a Christian company.

00:01:38.580 In-N-Out Burger is a company.

00:01:40.380 And it's getting harder and harder for any company of any kind to operate in left-wing states that are hostile to business altogether.

00:01:48.980 That is why we here at The Daily Wire all fled New Salini's hellscape for the free air of Tennessee two and a half years ago.

00:01:55.700 That's why countless other companies have left over the past few years.

00:01:59.480 And that is why I promise you, In-N-Out will not be the last to leave.

00:02:04.580 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:05.340 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:06.260 Welcome back to the show.

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00:03:56.240 I left California a few years ago.

00:04:00.140 I have very little business that I still conduct in California.

00:04:04.420 The very teeny little bit of business I do is two or three times a year,

00:04:08.360 I fly out to California because I host a show called The Book Club at PragerU.

00:04:12.300 And we film them in blocks, so we'll do three or four or five books even in one long couple days of filming.

00:04:19.760 And I was supposed to fly out this evening to get to California.

00:04:25.020 Speaking of not only California, but also getting in and out.

00:04:27.800 I was supposed to fly out this evening.

00:04:29.460 And then I wake up this morning, and sweet little Elisa turns to me on the bed.

00:04:32.680 She goes, Mac?

00:04:33.480 I say, yeah?

00:04:34.640 I say, my mom's at the airport in New York and says the flights are delayed.

00:04:39.320 And I said, well, good thing I'm not flying out of New York.

00:04:42.180 I don't think that I'm going to find your mother there.

00:04:44.120 I'm not surprised that flights out of the New York airport.

00:04:46.380 So she says, no, Mac, it's not just New York.

00:04:48.980 It's all the flights.

00:04:50.380 I said, what do you mean it's all the flights?

00:04:52.020 I pull up my phone.

00:04:54.740 And the top trend on social media is the FAA.

00:04:58.300 Because for the first time since 9-11,

00:05:01.000 all domestic flights in the United States have been grounded.

00:05:04.140 So I would just like to, before we get to anything else happening today,

00:05:08.580 just congratulate Pete Buttigieg on a job well done.

00:05:12.500 You know, Pete Buttigieg just keeps impressing us day after day.

00:05:17.160 It was really good that he returned from his, I think, three years of paternity leave.

00:05:22.420 He was able to stop chest feeding long enough to go in and do his cabinet-level job.

00:05:27.700 And he's been back in the job for a little while now.

00:05:30.400 And all of the airplanes go down for the first time in 22 years.

00:05:33.320 That's really great.

00:05:34.520 Really good job.

00:05:35.300 Keep it up, Pete.

00:05:36.600 Keep it up.

00:05:37.120 It's not just Pete.

00:05:37.900 Keep it up, Biden administration.

00:05:39.400 This is really, really great stuff.

00:05:41.320 We've got the latest news on it now.

00:05:43.440 The FAA says they are working to restore the Notice to Air Missions System

00:05:49.760 and performing final validation checks and reloading the system now.

00:05:53.960 Operations across the National Airspace System are affected.

00:05:57.500 Pete Buttigieg is trying to run some damage control here.

00:06:00.260 He said, ha ha, I've been in touch with the FAA this morning about an outage affecting

00:06:04.960 a key system for providing safety information to pilots.

00:06:08.240 FAA is working to resolve this issue swiftly and safely so that air traffic can resume normal

00:06:14.440 operations and will continue to provide updates.

00:06:17.180 Ha ha, that's really great.

00:06:18.640 And so why is this happening?

00:06:19.840 There are a couple theories as to why this is happening.

00:06:22.540 There are three, actually.

00:06:23.960 The first is, this is potentially some sort of attack.

00:06:28.760 Could be, is it just a computer glitch that just accidentally happened?

00:06:33.060 Or is there some targeted attack that is going on right now at the FAA?

00:06:39.260 Could be that.

00:06:40.680 Is it because of wokeness?

00:06:43.200 John Cardillo just posted this theory to social media.

00:06:47.140 He pointed out, now hold on, it disappeared from it.

00:06:49.100 There we go.

00:06:50.180 He says, below are the Department of Transportation and FAA focus points in the 2023 budget.

00:06:57.240 The kind of words that you see pop up are racial equity, inclusion, income inequality,

00:07:04.780 environmental justice, and climate change.

00:07:07.960 We know that Pete Buttigieg, when he took over the FAA, or rather the Department of Transportation

00:07:12.340 entirely, Pete Buttigieg said that one of his key focuses was going to be on those racist

00:07:18.720 bridges, that in the New York area, there were bridges and roads that are racist somehow.

00:07:23.860 He's going to root out the racism from transportation.

00:07:27.960 Okay, if you're going to focus on that, you might not be putting sufficient focus on keeping

00:07:32.540 the airplanes up in the air and people traveling to where they need to go.

00:07:36.200 It could be wokeness.

00:07:37.800 That's the second theory of what it was. 0.54

00:07:39.320 The third theory is just that this administration is incompetent.

00:07:44.100 And that bleeds over a little bit into the first two possibilities.

00:07:49.340 Maybe the Biden administration is so incompetent that they let some attack get through.

00:07:54.700 Maybe the Biden administration is so incompetent that they put all of their attention on wokeness

00:07:59.980 and weren't able to keep the mechanics of the government running.

00:08:02.820 Maybe the Biden administration is just so incompetent they pushed the wrong button.

00:08:05.840 We don't know exactly what it is.

00:08:08.840 Apparently, the system has been restored, at least to some degree now.

00:08:13.440 So one hopes that everyone's airplanes get off the ground and that I can make it to Los

00:08:19.280 Angeles so I can talk about dusty old books on PragerU, which would be a lot of fun.

00:08:23.900 But it's a metaphor.

00:08:24.740 I think that this morning's government malfunction is a metaphor for the broader dysfunction within the political system.

00:08:34.540 Because if you have ever flown on an airplane at all, you know just one flight delay can affect the whole system.

00:08:47.040 Just one delay.

00:08:48.320 Because when there's one delay on one airplane, that means that it's going to arrive at its destination a little bit later.

00:08:54.560 Which means that the flight that's supposed to take off from the gate after that or from that very same airplane is going to take off a little bit later.

00:09:00.420 Which means people are going to miss their connections.

00:09:02.140 Which means people are going to have to be rebooked on different airplanes.

00:09:04.980 Which means that there might not be enough seats on that airplane.

00:09:07.740 So some people are going to have their flights canceled.

00:09:09.400 They're going to have to rebook the next day.

00:09:10.760 Which means you're going to see ripple effects the next day.

00:09:12.900 And that's just one flight being delayed from one location.

00:09:17.880 What happens when you shut the whole system down?

00:09:19.540 It's really hard to put the system all up again. 0.99

00:09:22.800 These stupid minor little errors can have huge ripple effects. 0.99

00:09:26.920 You certainly saw that with COVID. 1.00

00:09:29.100 You can't just shut the system down and then expect the whole thing to turn back on again just like that.

00:09:34.600 That's not how it happens.

00:09:35.660 When the government imposed those lockdowns during COVID, it has led, it continues to lead to mayhem throughout the economy, throughout the political order, throughout the legal system, even the rights that were taken away from us.

00:09:47.540 That is why I always go back to this line from the first season of The Crown that the head of the royal household tells to Queen Elizabeth.

00:09:56.100 Who says, oh, it's not a big deal when there are these little mess ups, these little fudging of the rules.

00:10:01.160 And he says, no, it's in the little things that the rot begins.

00:10:04.700 It's in all of these little tiny things where sometimes even we conservatives, we say, oh, who cares?

00:10:10.740 It's not a big deal.

00:10:12.120 Oh, yeah, there we go. 1.00

00:10:13.500 Some stupid error or some ridiculous woke agenda item. 1.00

00:10:18.340 Oh, it's just a little thing. 1.00

00:10:19.360 Who cares?

00:10:19.760 Who cares about the bathrooms? 0.98

00:10:20.740 Who cares about this?

00:10:21.340 Who cares about that?

00:10:24.460 Government, society is made up of lots and lots and lots of those little things.

00:10:28.900 And when all those errors creep in, they can have outsized influence.

00:10:32.640 You're seeing this right now.

00:10:34.060 Speaking of flyover country, you're seeing this right now in Idaho.

00:10:37.860 You're seeing parents pushing back against all these little tiny things because for so long, conservatives just took it. 0.94

00:10:44.740 Said, okay, these crazy libs, they want their weird sexual agenda in the public square. 1.00

00:10:52.020 They want their parades. 0.99

00:10:53.320 Okay, whatever.

00:10:54.220 Who cares?

00:10:55.300 All right.

00:10:55.760 They want to redefine marriage.

00:10:57.100 Okay, who cares?

00:10:58.000 All right.

00:10:58.400 They want to bring the drag queens into the schools. 1.00

00:11:00.600 Okay, all right.

00:11:01.340 They want to let boys go into the little girls' room in the elementary school.

00:11:05.040 Okay, I guess who cares?

00:11:06.400 Who cares?

00:11:06.740 Who cares?

00:11:07.120 Well, if we don't care about any of these things, then I guess we just don't care about our politics and we've surrendered our self-government.

00:11:12.560 Unfortunately, parents are standing up where spineless Republican politicians have failed to stand up.

00:11:19.640 You're seeing this in the Caldwell School District right now.

00:11:23.460 There was an agenda item before the school board.

00:11:26.140 It was called policy.

00:11:27.400 I mean, it still is called policy 3281.

00:11:30.920 And it's a policy that would let the boys go into the girls' bathroom, among other aspects of the trans agenda.

00:11:36.620 And what you saw occur at this school board meeting was you saw the people broadly pushing back against this.

00:11:44.120 And one state senator in particular, but a representative of the political order, coming in pushing back as well against a corrupt school board.

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00:13:11.620 State Senator Chris Trakel stood up to this school board with a broad representation of his constituents behind him,

00:13:23.040 standing up to the people who want to trans the kids.

00:13:25.500 You claim you want people to follow the rules, but you break the rules left and right.

00:13:30.180 Last month, you allowed two people to speak without being in this meeting.

00:13:34.700 We will recess for 15 minutes.

00:13:36.980 You recessed your suffering.

00:13:38.740 You're suffering.

00:13:39.920 You go in the back.

00:13:41.800 I'm sorry.

00:13:42.920 We have asked.

00:13:44.520 You absolutely know the protocol.

00:13:47.900 You're not following the protocol yourself.

00:13:50.180 Madam Chair, I move to adjourn.

00:13:58.660 Okay, I have a motion to adjourn.

00:14:00.420 Do I have a second?

00:14:02.460 No.

00:14:04.300 Your people are speaking.

00:14:07.060 I love this woman who's trying to run the school board meeting. 1.00

00:14:09.700 She goes, the moment she gets pushed back, she goes, okay, I'm going to adjourn the meeting.

00:14:14.080 I don't want to have to answer these questions.

00:14:16.120 I don't want to have to explain the policy.

00:14:17.660 So I move to adjourn.

00:14:18.540 Do I have a second?

00:14:20.540 Because you need someone to second your motion.

00:14:22.960 And nobody in the room wants to do it.

00:14:25.740 Do I have a second?

00:14:27.000 And you hear the parents in the crowd, they say, no, you don't have a second.

00:14:30.440 Answer the question.

00:14:31.280 Stop transing our kids. 1.00

00:14:33.240 And this woman looks to her fellow school board members. 0.56

00:14:35.520 Do I have a second?

00:14:39.920 And then there's all this dead silence.

00:14:41.480 Finally, someone seconds her motion.

00:14:42.620 She goes, okay, second in the motion.

00:14:44.440 We're adjourning.

00:14:45.200 See you.

00:14:45.820 Bye-bye.

00:14:46.200 Absolute embarrassment.

00:14:49.060 So it's important to see these things happen at the local level.

00:14:51.720 It's important to shine a light on these movements at the local level.

00:14:54.560 Because it is in those small things where the rot can begin.

00:14:58.200 And it's in those small, tiny little things where a return to sanity can begin as well.

00:15:05.840 Where recovery can begin.

00:15:08.100 Where a restoration of our country can begin as well.

00:15:10.900 The other reason I bring up this clip is because conservatives are fond of saying politics is downstream of culture.

00:15:19.540 And if that means that conservatives should take over Hollywood again, great, I agree.

00:15:25.120 And if that means conservatives should produce great works of art that shape one's mind and soul, good.

00:15:33.540 And if that means that conservatives should, I don't know, should conservatives start exercising some control over education?

00:15:41.220 That's cultural to a degree.

00:15:42.780 But now we're starting to get a little bit political, isn't it?

00:15:45.160 Because the government has a say over education.

00:15:48.100 And if a state senator wants to show up to a local school board with a group of parents, is that cultural or is that political?

00:15:57.040 I have long been skeptical of this phrase, politics is downstream of culture.

00:16:04.180 Because, not because it isn't true in the sense that we need to make movies.

00:16:08.400 But because I think it lets Republican politicians off the hook.

00:16:13.140 I think it is a kind of libertarian cope to say the government is always bad.

00:16:18.480 The government can never do anything right.

00:16:21.380 So we just need people outside of the government to do everything for us.

00:16:25.720 It's a way to say, okay, we're going to surrender the entire political order.

00:16:30.700 But we live in a republic.

00:16:32.020 We live in self-government.

00:16:34.180 So in self-government in all states, but especially in self-government,

00:16:38.080 the distinction between the culture and the politics is pretty blurry.

00:16:42.120 Because we the people are supposed to be doing both of those things.

00:16:45.560 What was that meeting last night?

00:16:47.460 What was that episode?

00:16:48.400 Was that culture?

00:16:49.780 Or was that politics?

00:16:50.700 I bet that a ton of those people, probably every single person in that room,

00:16:57.120 saw the Daily Wire, Loudoun County story, where we exposed what happens when boys are allowed to go into the girls' room 0.78

00:17:03.620 and it can result in rapes and all sorts of cover-ups and just terrible disorder.

00:17:08.080 I bet you most people in that room saw Matt's movie, What is a Woman?, which exposed a lot of the trans agenda. 0.97

00:17:13.160 I bet they've been following a lot of cultural outlets on this question.

00:17:16.060 But there's a state senator there, and the people would not have been nearly as effective if the state senator had not come in as well.

00:17:22.900 And it's the people fighting against a political body.

00:17:25.620 And what they're trying to do is get a law or a school rule to be shot down,

00:17:31.020 to change the way that the school is going to conduct business.

00:17:34.840 Is that politics or culture?

00:17:37.880 It's both.

00:17:39.200 It's both.

00:17:39.720 And conservatives, I think we've gotten the message.

00:17:42.560 This was the thesis of my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.

00:17:45.940 Which is still available for order and selling like hotcakes.

00:17:48.120 I really appreciate that.

00:17:48.800 There we go.

00:17:49.280 A little late on the bell today, but that's all right.

00:17:51.000 We'll pick it up.

00:17:51.520 It's early in the morning.

00:17:52.520 All the flights are grounded.

00:17:53.660 Everything's chaos.

00:17:54.700 We'll probably get the bell a little bit quicker next time I mention Speechless.

00:17:58.940 Guys, come on.

00:18:00.160 What are we doing?

00:18:00.700 Where's the, all right, okay.

00:18:01.940 We gotta, we'll try a little bit later in the show.

00:18:04.840 Regardless, my point is that I think conservatives have gotten the message in recent years

00:18:09.780 that there's nothing wrong with wielding the government within just limits for good ends.

00:18:15.680 There's nothing wrong with that.

00:18:16.780 We have to do that.

00:18:18.220 Otherwise, we're surrendering not just our politics, but our whole culture.

00:18:22.200 We're surrendering the whole country to the libs, and that's not going to turn out very 0.70

00:18:26.000 well.

00:18:26.360 Because very, very quickly, the political predations of the libs are going to go from

00:18:32.080 hiking our taxes a little bit and kind of putting some annoying regulations on us to

00:18:38.000 transing our kids.

00:18:38.840 It's going to go, it's happening very, very quickly.

00:18:40.760 It's happening before our very eyes.

00:18:42.700 You want to talk about culture and politics coming together.

00:18:45.740 Story I meant to get to yesterday, but certainly want to get to it today.

00:18:50.940 Diamond, of Diamond and Silk fame, has suddenly died.

00:18:56.700 Unexpectedly died.

00:18:57.540 Very, very sad.

00:18:59.200 If you can spare a prayer for Diamond, I think that would be a wonderful thing to do.

00:19:04.740 I did not know Diamond particularly well.

00:19:07.160 I did her show at least once, I think maybe twice.

00:19:10.860 They've been on my show.

00:19:12.440 We have, we interacted a fair bit, and they were, they as a duo, Silk is still alive, but

00:19:18.600 Diamond and Silk as a duo were so funny and so perceptive.

00:19:22.800 I was going back through some of the best of the other day and just thinking, man, what

00:19:26.480 a great, what a great something this was.

00:19:30.760 I didn't, I couldn't, is it an act?

00:19:32.440 Is it a political campaign?

00:19:34.160 Is it, whatever it was, it was really, really great.

00:19:38.380 Hey, y'all.

00:19:39.200 Okay, so I'm sitting up looking at my TV, and I'm disturbed by what I see.

00:19:42.920 Okay.

00:19:43.220 Okay, now you got everybody all upset, because now people are talking about deporting illegal

00:19:48.020 immigrants back to their country. 1.00

00:19:49.420 Okay.

00:19:49.760 Well, they came here illegally. 0.52

00:19:51.900 And see, now you have the president done weighed in on it.

00:19:54.860 Okay.

00:19:55.120 And he said, it's not who we are as Americans.

00:19:58.180 And I say, no, Mr. President, it's not who you are as an American.

00:20:02.920 That's right.

00:20:03.420 We as Americans want our border secure.

00:20:05.780 That's right.

00:20:06.040 Where we can feel safe in our country.

00:20:07.900 Uh-huh.

00:20:08.180 We as Americans want our jobs back here in our country. 0.80

00:20:11.100 Yeah.

00:20:11.300 Where we can thrive again.

00:20:12.860 That's right.

00:20:13.160 We as Americans, baby, want to know that we matter first.

00:20:17.360 Exactly.

00:20:17.600 Before outsiders, so charity starts at home. 0.90

00:20:20.160 That's right.

00:20:20.580 Okay?

00:20:21.080 Yeah.

00:20:21.280 We as Americans want our government to realize that it's easier and cheaper for you to deport

00:20:27.420 instead of support.

00:20:29.380 That's right.

00:20:30.060 All right?

00:20:30.700 Now, I know that we're the land of the free.

00:20:32.540 Yes.

00:20:32.860 But it doesn't mean for people to come over here in our country illegally.

00:20:36.380 That's right.

00:20:36.640 And get free food.

00:20:37.700 Free housing.

00:20:38.820 Free education.

00:20:39.880 Free medical.

00:20:40.780 It doesn't mean that.

00:20:41.780 It don't mean that.

00:20:42.280 Illegal immigration, you all, is wrong. 1.00

00:20:44.560 It is wrong in this country.

00:20:45.860 When we as Americans, if we go to somebody's house uninvited.

00:20:49.460 Yeah.

00:20:49.720 And we go right up in their house.

00:20:51.560 That's right.

00:20:51.780 They call that breaking and entering.

00:20:53.260 That's what that is.

00:20:53.620 They don't grant us no amnesty.

00:20:55.180 That's so.

00:20:55.640 What a great bit.

00:20:58.260 What a great, what a great performance that is.

00:21:02.300 But what is it?

00:21:03.060 Is it just a show?

00:21:04.080 Is it just entertainment?

00:21:05.120 It's certainly entertaining.

00:21:06.620 Is it education?

00:21:09.220 It is educational.

00:21:11.180 Diamond in particular with Silk as the cheering squad in the act was explaining the illegal immigration

00:21:18.500 issue as well as I've heard it explained and knocking down the Democrat talking points

00:21:24.740 on immigration in a way that was funny but was educational.

00:21:28.660 Is it philosophy?

00:21:30.600 Actually, there was a fair level of political philosophy in that conversation.

00:21:36.340 The analogies that she's drawing.

00:21:39.680 She says, you know, when I go into somebody's home, if my friend and I go into somebody's

00:21:43.180 home, that's called breaking and entering.

00:21:44.340 Why is it different when a foreigner comes into our country illegally? 1.00

00:21:47.360 What I know it seems basic, but we're in an age of such chaos and confusion that that's

00:21:53.340 an illuminating analogy to make.

00:21:55.380 What is it?

00:21:55.900 Is it is it political activism?

00:21:58.280 Is it campaigning?

00:21:59.760 Is it politics?

00:22:01.160 Diamond and Silk would go all around with Donald Trump.

00:22:03.960 So what is it?

00:22:05.600 Is it culture?

00:22:06.460 Is it politics?

00:22:08.220 I don't think you can distinguish the two, between the two.

00:22:11.800 I agree with Ronald Reagan.

00:22:13.560 Someone knocked Ronald Reagan back in the 80s for being an actor.

00:22:16.820 So do you really think that an actor can be the president of the United States?

00:22:21.060 And he said, how could the president not be an actor?

00:22:24.180 So much of the job is theatrical.

00:22:26.400 So much of the job is cultural.

00:22:27.640 When you think of the great achievements of Ronald Reagan, probably the biggest achievement

00:22:32.600 was a cultural one, which is that he made Americans feel good about themselves again.

00:22:37.640 That was the point of mourning in America, which is his most famous ed.

00:22:40.860 It's mourning in America.

00:22:42.940 He accomplished a lot of great concrete things.

00:22:45.240 He got the economy going again.

00:22:46.460 He defeated the Soviet Union.

00:22:47.880 I'm not downplaying any of that.

00:22:50.200 But the longer lasting, deeper accomplishment that Ronald Reagan had, probably, was a cultural one.

00:22:58.220 And so it should not be an either or, okay?

00:23:02.840 We should, yeah, we want people who have a good show business knack in politics. 0.99

00:23:06.840 And we want people in our culture who are unafraid to wield the political order.

00:23:11.700 But the other reason that I was so sad to see Diamond die is that with Diamond's death

00:23:18.840 and with the end of the diamond and silk act, I think it symbolizes the end of an era, an era

00:23:28.480 that we know has passed away.

00:23:31.800 But we're not really conscious of that fact until a moment like this.

00:23:41.040 Diamond and silk are as significant to the Trump era

00:23:45.920 as any other symbol I can think of.

00:23:49.840 When I think back to those wild, crazy days of 2015, 2016,

00:23:53.660 that today feel like just yesterday until you begin to remember,

00:23:59.280 oh, yeah, Donald Trump coming down the escalator.

00:24:02.120 And oh, yeah, Hillary, everyone thought Hillary Clinton was going to be the president. 0.98

00:24:06.280 It was just a guaranteed thing.

00:24:07.740 And then, oh, yeah, we had these women, Diamond and Silk, 1.00

00:24:10.620 and they became so popular.

00:24:12.280 They ended up getting a show, and they ended up campaigning with the president.

00:24:17.740 And oh, yeah, that feeling of when Donald Trump won and the MAGA hat.

00:24:22.360 And oh, yeah, do you remember this feeling of hope?

00:24:25.400 And that was a long time ago.

00:24:29.140 That was seven years, eight years ago when the Trump campaign began.

00:24:32.300 Eight years, that's almost a decade ago.

00:24:33.940 And the thing about eras is you don't feel them passing away.

00:24:42.560 You only realize that they're gone when you think back on them.

00:24:47.380 But it's not as though you're in a moment.

00:24:50.180 Most of the time you just think, okay, all right, now, today, June 5th, 2021,

00:24:56.240 this is the day that one era passed away and we're into a new one.

00:25:00.300 No, it's just, it happens subtly.

00:25:04.140 And then you look back and you say, oh, my gosh, yeah, that era is over.

00:25:08.560 And so then we have to ask ourselves, what is the fight now?

00:25:13.160 What are people going to remember now?

00:25:16.280 I also don't mean it to say that Donald Trump is done and he's totally cooked

00:25:20.080 and there's no way he's going to win the presidency again.

00:25:22.020 But he and his campaign certainly has to recognize this.

00:25:25.000 And we all also have to recognize this.

00:25:27.400 And whatever Trump 2015 was, whatever that moment, that moment is over.

00:25:33.040 And in fact, the reason that Trump was able to win, I think, in 2016,

00:25:36.520 is because he recognized that the moment that all the other GOP guys were campaigning in,

00:25:42.960 which was really like a 2010, 2012 Tea Party-ish moment,

00:25:47.620 or in the case of Jeb, it was a 2005 kind of Bush era moment, that that was all done.

00:25:54.440 And so Trump says things that would have been completely unacceptable during the early Tea Party era

00:26:00.660 and during the Bush era.

00:26:02.480 We need to, we need trade tariffs.

00:26:05.660 We need, we need to build up a wall. 1.00

00:26:09.460 The illegal immigrants are murderers and rapists. 1.00

00:26:12.300 I'm going to lock Hillary up in jail. 1.00

00:26:14.460 All these sorts of things.

00:26:16.260 Virtually every candidate on that stage was uncomfortable with something that Donald Trump said.

00:26:21.200 Because he was campaigning on the new thing, on the present, while they were campaigning in the past.

00:26:26.840 So the question for us is, what is the issue now?

00:26:30.140 What is going to define 2023 and 2024?

00:26:34.540 The issue now, I have argued for some months, is more meta-political than political.

00:26:42.720 By which I mean, it's not just that we're fighting one issue or another.

00:26:45.800 We're not just fighting taxes.

00:26:46.780 We're not just fighting regulation.

00:26:49.860 We're not just fighting abortion, even.

00:26:51.580 We got the Dobbs decision.

00:26:53.300 Roe v. Wade is dead.

00:26:56.380 There's still a lot of work to do in the pro-life movement to protect babies.

00:26:59.560 But even that, that's not the most important issue in most people's perception.

00:27:06.060 Even if it is the most important issue, ultimately, because it's an issue of human life.

00:27:09.200 What I think people are focused on and will increasingly be focused on is meta-politics.

00:27:16.820 The politics of politics.

00:27:19.120 How decisions are made.

00:27:20.840 How power is wielded in our country.

00:27:23.140 Knowing that our government is not run like the bill up on Capitol Hill, like our founders and framers intended.

00:27:27.580 I think this is probably why the House GOP, which for all their faults, at the very least, they usually have a decent enough sense of what issues people care about.

00:27:39.300 Because what they're often focused on is just getting themselves reelected.

00:27:43.520 The House GOP has just voted to defund the IRS.

00:27:46.600 Specifically, they voted unanimously to repeal the Democrats' army of 87,000 IRS agents.

00:27:53.060 The very first act of the new Congress, says Kevin McCarthy, because government should work for you, not against you.

00:27:59.820 Promises made, promises kept.

00:28:01.260 Now, the establishment GOP can justify a vote like this on its usual grounds, which is that we just want to cut taxes.

00:28:07.320 The only thing that Republicans ever seem to agree on is that we just want to cut taxes.

00:28:11.480 But this is about more than that.

00:28:13.080 It's about cutting the agents.

00:28:15.020 It's about shrinking the agency.

00:28:16.880 It's about stopping Joe Biden's massive increase to one of the executive agencies that has been used since at least the Obama administration to persecute conservatives.

00:28:31.580 This is really not about taxes.

00:28:34.560 I'm all for a tax cut.

00:28:35.880 Please cut my taxes.

00:28:36.760 That sounds great.

00:28:37.300 But it's really not about that.

00:28:38.840 What this is really about is how power is wielded in the country.

00:28:43.880 Who has that power, who can wield it, and who is going to wield it against whom?

00:28:49.440 Because right now it's being wielded by the libs against us in increasingly arbitrary ways or capricious ways.

00:28:57.020 Not arbitrary in the sense that we know who's doing it and who they're doing it against, but in ways that are unmoored from any kind of principle or rule that applies to everybody.

00:29:07.520 Politics is being set at levels much higher than the U.S. Congress.

00:29:15.000 I think this is why people have an increased focus on the World Economic Forum.

00:29:19.560 I think this is why a lot of the political debate in recent years has not been about the left versus the right or the Democrats versus the Republicans.

00:29:28.060 A lot of the political debate in the last six or seven years has been about the nationalists or the patriots versus the globalists.

00:29:36.200 That's a big shift.

00:29:38.120 And you are seeing globalist political power represented in its clearest expression just this coming week at Davos, at the World Economic Forum.

00:29:47.180 Most people don't know what the World Economic Forum is.

00:29:49.520 The World Economic Forum is this non-profit organization that was founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab, who looks and sounds like a James Bond villain and acts like one, too.

00:30:02.180 But it's not a governmental body, exactly.

00:30:05.680 And it's not a private organization, exactly.

00:30:09.880 The World Economic Forum gets government funding from governments all over the world.

00:30:14.900 The World Economic Forum hosts tons of heads of state, 53, I think, this year.

00:30:20.380 52 heads of state are participating in the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

00:30:26.980 52 heads of state, that's a massive number.

00:30:29.860 And nearly 300 government ministers are going to be participating in the World Economic Forum.

00:30:36.320 And what is the purpose of the forum?

00:30:38.100 The purpose of the forum is to bring together the public sphere and the private sphere all over the world.

00:30:46.420 Exactly what we've been talking about in this show.

00:30:48.200 To bring together the politics and the culture.

00:30:52.360 And to pull it all together so that when we decide in Davos that climate change is a really big problem.

00:31:00.960 You know, after we fly in on our, I think, at the current moment, it's something like 1,500 private jets.

00:31:06.800 It might be more like 2,500 private jets.

00:31:08.780 Fly into Davos.

00:31:10.180 And we're really worried about how you, hoi polloi, are using gas stoves. 0.95

00:31:16.260 That's very bad for the environment.

00:31:18.960 I was reading an article about it on my private jet flying into my Swiss mountain town in Davos.

00:31:24.880 It's very bad.

00:31:25.460 And so what we need to do is not only pressure the governments to take away your rights and traditions and way of life.

00:31:33.700 We're going to pressure the companies, too.

00:31:36.000 And we're going to pressure the nonprofit organizations, the NGOs that have a lot of power around the world.

00:31:40.700 And we're going to force them all working together, conspiring, you might say, to pursue our agenda, the Davos agenda.

00:31:49.580 The agenda of the Davos man, that phrase has come into vogue in recent years.

00:31:54.740 The Davos man is the sort of person who doesn't feel any particular local or national allegiance.

00:32:01.740 The Davos man who all he ever does is works on his laptop.

00:32:07.020 He could work anywhere in the world.

00:32:08.460 He feels far greater camaraderie, a far closer kinship to the same sort of people who just jet set all over the world.

00:32:16.860 And they mock things like patriotism.

00:32:19.740 They mock things like tradition, like our ordinary way of life, like having a family, like being rooted in a place.

00:32:28.240 They mock that.

00:32:29.260 That's not for them.

00:32:31.620 That's happening right now.

00:32:32.960 And so how does this work in practice?

00:32:34.460 A lot of that sounds kind of abstract.

00:32:35.960 Well, the way it works in practice is right now the Davos agenda is to make the rest of the world look like China.

00:32:42.120 To make the West, which has a tradition of freedom, a tradition rooted in Christianity, a tradition of the most impressive civilization ever to graze the earth.

00:32:54.880 Yeah, that's all, that's no good.

00:32:56.700 All that freedom, all those rights that you say that you have, that's really, that's hurting Mother Gaia.

00:33:02.620 That's provoking the sun monster to destroy us all.

00:33:06.120 That's not giving these people enough political power in Davos.

00:33:12.200 No, no, your tradition of political freedom where you have your own representative bodies and you make your own laws for your own, that's not good.

00:33:19.240 In an increasingly globalized world.

00:33:21.800 And so what the WEF has suggested is that the model for the future is the China model.

00:33:27.300 What's the China model?

00:33:28.340 You don't have rights.

00:33:29.280 You don't have freedom.

00:33:30.200 You don't have your tradition.

00:33:31.160 You have constant surveillance and the people at the tippy-tippy top tell you exactly what you do all of the time.

00:33:38.360 That is, in fact, a bigger political issue than whatever the marginal tax rate is in the United States.

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00:34:41.840 The situation, the meta-political situation of these Davos-like people, these geniuses, these self-appointed benevolent betters

00:34:55.480 who are going to take all our rights and sovereignty and traditions away, and they're going to tell us exactly how to live. 0.93

00:35:00.920 They are so brazen in their approach to things, and their vision is so, so hideous that you are seeing even the Pope speak out against it.

00:35:13.060 And I say this with some surprise, or at least recognizing the surprise that many of you might feel when you hear this,

00:35:22.980 because Pope Francis has a reputation of being a little bit more on the liberal side,

00:35:29.280 a little bit confusing in some of his statements, a little bit soft maybe on the Chinese government,

00:35:36.860 a little bit more favorable toward these liberal globalists around the world.

00:35:43.840 That is at least the public perception, and I think that the public has reason to understand those things.

00:35:49.000 But as I have tried to point out time and time again, Pope Francis is not just the communist caricature that you read about in the newspapers.

00:35:58.940 People try to portray Pope Francis as pro-LGBT agenda.

00:36:02.900 They forget that he said, when he was Cardinal of Buenos Aires, that gay marriage, quote-unquote,

00:36:07.960 is not merely a political campaign, but rather, quote, 0.82

00:36:10.900 a machination of the father of lies who seeks to deceive and confuse the children of God.

00:36:15.040 And when he was asked by, specifically by the German bishops, but by a lot of the libs within the Catholic Church, 0.54

00:36:21.480 to permit blessing ceremonies for gay marriage and that sort of thing,

00:36:26.440 Pope Francis said that the Vatican cannot bless sin.

00:36:29.320 And so he's been very clear.

00:36:31.940 He sounds extremely right-wing and based on an issue such as that.

00:36:35.880 On abortion, some people might suspect, because Pope Francis sounds kind of liberal sometimes,

00:36:42.520 that in our secular world, if you don't understand the history and the inertia and the authority of the Church,

00:36:50.020 you might expect Pope Francis to be pro-abortion.

00:36:52.600 He's not.

00:36:53.080 He said that if you go and get an abortion, it's like hiring a hitman.

00:36:55.920 Okay, you can't be any clearer than that.

00:36:57.900 And even on this issue of the big libs, the globalist-type people who want to bring us

00:37:04.620 the fourth industrial revolution, as the World Economic Forum calls it,

00:37:09.760 this complete upending of society where artificial intelligence and computers are basically going to run the show

00:37:16.560 and we're going to cede all of our political rights and traditions to the computers, basically,

00:37:23.640 to technology under the control of an increasingly globalized elite.

00:37:27.000 Pope Francis says, hey, watch out.

00:37:29.880 There are strict limits here that you cannot pass.

00:37:32.680 A really important statement he just made to the Renaissance Conference in Rome,

00:37:38.200 the Renaissance with the A-I capitalized in it, 0.96

00:37:41.400 is a Catholic campaign focused on the ethics of artificial intelligence.

00:37:49.900 And Pope Francis said, we are all aware of how artificial intelligence is increasingly present

00:37:54.220 in every aspect of daily life, both personal and social.

00:37:57.140 It affects the way we understand the world and ourselves.

00:38:00.360 It's really important, too, because, you know, we're all afraid of being turned into cyborgs,

00:38:05.020 but in many ways, we already are cyborgs.

00:38:07.660 When you are walking around, how often are you not looking at your phone?

00:38:12.340 When you are just walking in your day-to-day life or at the office or in school or wherever,

00:38:17.340 how often do you not have your phone on you?

00:38:19.940 I try to not have my phone on me, and people get angry at me.

00:38:22.720 They say, I just texted you.

00:38:23.640 Why didn't you text me?

00:38:24.620 Because I never text anybody back.

00:38:26.060 I just called you.

00:38:27.240 I said, oh, I don't have my phone on me.

00:38:28.300 What do you mean you didn't?

00:38:29.020 Well, this, if your phone is always on you and you're always plugged into it,

00:38:32.000 then you are, in a way, sort of a cyborg.

00:38:33.520 And it affects the way that you view even who you are.

00:38:36.620 But Francis goes on.

00:38:37.420 He says, innovation in this field means that these tools are increasingly decisive in human activity

00:38:41.740 and even compelling in human decision-making.

00:38:44.740 Now, let's put a pause there.

00:38:46.460 He's saying it's not, the technology does not merely facilitate the decisions that you want to make.

00:38:52.040 The technology increasingly pushes you toward the decisions that it wants you to make.

00:38:58.460 That's what social media algorithms are.

00:39:00.680 That's what, when you go shopping on Amazon, that's what Amazon is doing.

00:39:04.560 It's pushing you toward purchasing certain products.

00:39:08.060 The TikTok and the Instagram and the who knows what of it all are pushing you toward consuming certain images,

00:39:15.440 which is pushing you toward cultivating certain desires,

00:39:18.400 which is pushing you even further toward the ends that it has in store for you.

00:39:24.160 And it's not just the computer that has these ends in store.

00:39:26.360 It's the people running the computers.

00:39:27.580 And so, rather than just seed our lives away to the people who make the algorithms

00:39:33.340 and run the computers that motivate our decisions,

00:39:36.020 Pope Francis says, I encourage you, ethicists on AI, to continue in your endeavor.

00:39:42.000 I am pleased to know that you also wish to involve the other great world religions

00:39:45.740 and men and women of goodwill so that Al Gore ethics,

00:39:48.920 ethical reflection on the use of algorithms, will be increasingly present not only in public debate,

00:39:53.700 but also in the development of technical solutions.

00:39:56.420 Let's put a pause there.

00:39:57.540 This is a really strange statement to come from the Pope.

00:40:00.840 He says, I'm glad you're involving the other great world religions.

00:40:03.320 Hold on.

00:40:03.760 The claim of the Catholic Church is that the Catholic Church is the divinely instituted church of earth,

00:40:09.080 the spiritual Israel, the bride of Christ on earth, and the Pope is the vicar of Christ.

00:40:13.280 And so this relativistic language of all the other great world religions,

00:40:17.700 Oh, you know, we're all accessing the truth, man.

00:40:21.240 And, you know, we're all, I grab the truth.

00:40:24.320 And I think that God is like a tree, a big tree trunk.

00:40:29.900 And I think that God is like a fire hose.

00:40:33.420 And I think that God is like a big wall.

00:40:36.400 And actually, it turns out when we all see how we're really thinking of these things someday,

00:40:40.860 we were all touching an elephant, you know, and one person was touching the leg,

00:40:45.960 and one person was touching the trunk, and one person was touching the side.

00:40:48.920 And so we were all, all the religions are kind of getting at the same thing, man.

00:40:53.200 You know, we're just, no one has a monopoly on the truth.

00:40:56.100 That's not a Catholic idea, okay?

00:40:57.440 The Catholic idea is actually, yes, the church does have a monopoly on religious truth.

00:41:02.860 Because God has a monopoly on religious truth.

00:41:05.160 And Christ on earth instituted this church and gave a special role to the apostles,

00:41:11.760 and specifically to the successor, to St. Peter and to the successor of St. Peter.

00:41:15.400 So Catholics in particular are going to look at the statement from Pope Francis and say,

00:41:19.220 wait, what's going on here?

00:41:21.020 Come on.

00:41:21.380 And maybe it's because Pope Francis is a big lib or something.

00:41:23.500 But I would prefer to interpret this in a more charitable way.

00:41:27.440 Which is, I think Pope Francis is rightly observing that the immediate battle that we have to fight right now

00:41:37.560 against this leviathan that stands before us, this battle that we have to fight right now 1.00

00:41:44.080 against the increasingly technologically powerful atheist, globalist, secular elite,

00:41:51.960 means that we are going, that the battle lines are not going to be the Catholics versus the Presbyterians.

00:42:00.420 That's not the, that's not, maybe that's a battle for another day.

00:42:03.120 I don't know.

00:42:03.580 Arm up, you Presbyterians.

00:42:04.840 Someday, someday we'll hash out that battle.

00:42:07.220 But that's not what's going on right now.

00:42:08.660 The battle is not even between the Christians and the Muslims. 0.51

00:42:15.080 We've had those battles called the Crusades.

00:42:16.860 Battles not between the Christians and the Jews. 0.73

00:42:19.180 The battle's not, that the battle right now is between, it's on a much lower grounding, actually.

00:42:26.420 It's sad that it has to be on this really basic level.

00:42:29.120 But it's between people who recognize that there is a metaphysical reality,

00:42:33.100 that God exists, that the soul exists.

00:42:35.720 The World Economic Forum says the soul doesn't exist.

00:42:37.700 Yuval Harari, who is the, one of the philosophers of the World Economic Forum,

00:42:42.060 he says, the soul, this is fake news.

00:42:44.280 The resurrection of Jesus Christ, this is fake news.

00:42:46.160 It's not, human rights is fake news.

00:42:48.000 And so the battle here is, yeah, if you want to get anything done, we need supporters here.

00:42:54.280 And so the battle is between people who recognize God exists.

00:42:57.740 Humans are made in the image of God.

00:42:59.820 And we're not just, we're not just stuff and matter to be dragged along by a computer and an algorithm.

00:43:07.000 That's how I'm choosing to interpret that.

00:43:08.200 And I think, I think, if that is the correct interpretation, it certainly, if that is what Pope Francis had in mind,

00:43:15.260 or whether it isn't what Pope Francis had in mind, it certainly is true of the situation nevertheless.

00:43:20.020 He goes on, he says,

00:43:20.720 Indeed, every person must be able to enjoy a human and supportive development without anyone being excluded.

00:43:26.160 We must, therefore, be vigilant and work to ensure that the discriminatory use of these instruments does not take root at the expense of the most fragile and excluded.

00:43:34.680 Let us always remember that the way we treat the last and least of our brothers and sisters speaks of the value we place upon human life.

00:43:41.780 We could take the example of asylum seekers.

00:43:43.480 We could take the example of all of the marginalized people who are fragile and excluded.

00:43:48.080 Let us remember that it is not acceptable that the decision about someone's life and future be entrusted to an algorithm.

00:43:58.620 And this is really important.

00:44:01.060 You are seeing here that the real line in the sand is humans must remain the stewards of creation.

00:44:10.300 We can't just delegate that away.

00:44:14.100 Like the Congress delegated away so many of its powers to the alphabet agencies in the executive branch.

00:44:19.560 We cannot just delegate away our stewardship of the creation to a computer.

00:44:25.160 We cannot establish the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of human life.

00:44:33.300 This is one of the strong arguments against in vitro fertilization.

00:44:37.800 Where increasingly, you're hearing really messed up stories.

00:44:39.580 There's one I wanted to get to today, we don't have time to do it, about the actress Anna Kendrick, who was lamenting her breakup.

00:44:46.700 She said, I've had this boyfriend and we made embryos together and then we broke up.

00:44:51.520 Okay, well you made embryos, it means you had children together.

00:44:55.040 And you've got souls on ice over there and you say, I no longer care about my children.

00:44:58.620 Let them freeze forever. 0.99

00:45:00.160 Or let them be destroyed or let them die or whatever.

00:45:01.980 One of the arguments against things like in vitro fertilization, there are many arguments, but one of which is, it establishes the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of human life.

00:45:13.040 It disrespects our own humanity and we as people who are made in the image and likeness of God.

00:45:20.960 That is a huge threat.

00:45:23.880 There is always a political battle between policies that will degrade human beings or policies that will recognize the dignity of human beings.

00:45:32.580 What's happening right now because of the means and opportunity afforded by technological advancement and globalization,

00:45:39.080 we are at the precipice of a major battle and it's not a battle over tax cuts.

00:45:44.900 It's a battle over who controls us.

00:45:47.740 It's a battle over what controls us.

00:45:50.040 It's a battle over what will human beings even be going into the future.

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00:46:38.240 We will see you at the member block.

00:46:43.120 Let's do it.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 11, 2023

Ep. 1159 - In With Tennessee N-Out With California

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