The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1160 - They Will Never Let COVID Go Away

00:00:00.000 15 days to slow the spread. That is what we were all told 1,032 days ago. And nevertheless,

00:00:08.880 President Joe Biden has just announced that the government will be extending the COVID

00:00:13.460 public health emergency order for the 12th time for another 90 days. After which time,

00:00:21.100 I'm sure the government will let the order expire, right? Fool me once, shame on you.

00:00:27.180 Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me hundreds and hundreds of times. And I'm not sure we have

00:00:36.100 any capacity for shame left. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:54.600 I don't know if you know this, but Joe Biden is not an honest man. He's not. I know that the COVID

00:03:02.300 lockdown stuff did not begin under Joe Biden, but it has extended apparently indefinitely under Joe

00:03:11.980 Biden. And you could see after Trump announced the 15 days to slow the spread, he then tried to take

00:03:18.200 it back. You could see him trying to take the power back from Dr. Fauci, trying to take the power back

00:03:23.520 from the libs, trying to take the power back from the World Health Organization, the CDC, and everyone

00:03:28.060 who was shutting down our whole society. Remember, he suggested in 2020, maybe we can reopen the country

00:03:33.940 by Easter. Wouldn't that be good? And we were all excited for that. But unfortunately, once he had given

00:03:38.900 that power and that influence away, it proved impossible to get it back. And now Joe Biden doesn't

00:03:45.960 want to take it away. Joe Biden wants to mandate the vaccines for everybody. Joe Biden wants to keep

00:03:50.240 the country in a state, if not of lockdown, then at least of emergency measures where the government

00:03:55.560 can lock you down whenever it wants to. And they're going to keep doing this. Joe Biden, do you remember

00:04:01.700 when he became president, he said, who were headed for a winter of death and darkness? Oh yeah, baby.

00:04:12.680 He seemed so excited because he knew that it would give him more and more power. So, okay, Joe Biden

00:04:19.000 now says, only 90 more days of the emergency lockdown. Yeah, okay, sure thing. If you believe

00:04:24.560 that, then I have got a bridge in Brooklyn to see you. Don't forget, Joe Biden had to drop out of his

00:04:30.380 first presidential run specifically for lying. And he is, all politicians lie or most politicians lie,

00:04:37.180 but Joe Biden lies a lot more and a lot more egregiously than most of them. He lied about the

00:04:42.880 man who was involved in the car accident that killed his wife. He, I mean, he lied about really,

00:04:48.060 really awful personal things. He lied about his academic record. He has lied about his political

00:04:53.020 record. He's lied about it all. And now apparently he lied about the classified documents that he was

00:04:57.500 hiding in his private office. So we talked about this yesterday after the Democrats have spent weeks

00:05:03.940 and weeks and weeks making a huge hullabaloo about how Donald Trump had classified documents

00:05:10.660 and they could potentially endanger sources and get people killed. It's this horrible,

00:05:17.860 he's selling state secrets. And it was so egregious that the FBI had to go kick down the door

00:05:22.820 practically at Mar-a-Lago, raid the former president's home. They're talking about prosecuting

00:05:28.720 Donald Trump. Well, then it turned out Joe Biden did exactly the same thing. In fact, what Joe Biden did is

00:05:32.940 worse because it turned out Joe Biden had a bunch of classified documents in a private office of his

00:05:38.760 in a closet in a private office, just like Donald Trump did. But the difference was Trump had the

00:05:45.880 legal right to declassify whatever documents he wanted as president. Joe Biden, when he took those

00:05:50.920 documents and when he stored them for years and years, he did not have that right because Joe Biden

00:05:54.660 had only been the vice president. So we talked about the documents that were found. Turns out there's

00:06:00.440 another trove of documents that were just found, mishandled by Joe Biden. We don't know exactly

00:06:07.240 where the other batch of documents were. The first batch were in Joe Biden's private office at his

00:06:12.720 fake think tank. But the new one, we just don't know. But we do know that they're classified and we

00:06:18.280 do know that the government is going in now and taking these documents. So to be as fair as I possibly

00:06:22.540 can, presumably Joe Biden could declassify all of these documents now. So it's the same principle

00:06:31.800 that we're applying to Donald Trump as president of the United States. Joe Biden could say right now

00:06:36.720 with a wave of his magic wand, these documents are declassified. There is no higher authority that

00:06:40.740 Joe Biden has to appeal to, to declassify documents because he's the commander in chief. He's the president

00:06:45.780 of the United States. He's the top of the executive branch. If Joe Biden had to go to some middling

00:06:50.120 bureaucrat to say, excuse me, will you approve my declassification order, then that would completely

00:06:55.020 undermine his constitutional role as president of the United States. However, when Biden took those

00:07:01.860 documents and for the years and years, what was it? Something like five years in which Joe Biden was

00:07:08.480 storing those documents. He did not have the right to do that. That was illegal. That was much,

00:07:15.340 much worse than what Trump did. And so we've now got three data points on this. We've got Donald Trump

00:07:22.980 had documents at Mar-a-Lago. Joe Biden had classified documents at his private offices.

00:07:29.180 And Hillary Clinton had lots and lots of classified documents on her email server. 0.95

00:07:34.580 Hillary's was probably the most egregious. Hillary was not the vice president of the United States.

00:07:38.460 She was secretary of state. And the documents were not old documents that she took from her time

00:07:43.400 in government. They were current documents. And the documents weren't locked up in a closet in a

00:07:47.120 physical form where it would be very hard to take them or create copies of them. They were on an

00:07:52.440 easily hacked server. And if any of those episodes were going to get people killed, it certainly would

00:07:58.260 be Hillary Clinton's. What happened to Hillary? Nothing. Not so much as a slap on the wrist.

00:08:02.920 Joe Biden improperly soared classified documents that he had no right to declassify for years and years

00:08:08.380 and years. Highly sensitive, could reveal sources and methods. What's going to happen to Joe Biden?

00:08:12.880 Absolutely nothing. Donald Trump takes some souvenir documents from his time in the White House

00:08:18.180 documents that he had 100% authority to declassify. What happens? The FBI raids his house. So I just

00:08:23.020 don't want to hear it, okay? I think we can now firmly conclude that this issue of the classified

00:08:29.360 documents has nothing to do with principle. It has nothing to do with real national security threats.

00:08:34.600 It is simply about punishing political enemies. Hillary does it. Hillary does the worst version of 1.00

00:08:42.900 it. No big deal. No slap on the wrist. Doesn't matter. Biden does a pretty bad version of it. No big

00:08:49.780 deal. Brushing under the rug. Nothing to see here. Move along, move along. Donald Trump does the version

00:08:55.120 of it that is most defensible and hardest to claim is illegal in any way. It's the end of the world.

00:09:04.560 Americans are being killed overseas. We're giving away the nuclear secrets. This man needs to go into

00:09:09.780 an orange jumpsuit. And now that this happened to Biden, you're going to see the news move right

00:09:14.640 along. No big deal. Nothing to see here. Okay, this is just about punishing political enemies. You know

00:09:19.140 this is the case because the White House is dodging questions on this issue like Neo and the Matrix.

00:09:25.680 Okay, Corrine Jean-Pierre, poor lady, I hope she can bend to the side the right way because the 1.00

00:09:31.420 questions are pretty straightforward. The issue is pretty clear and she is dodging them as fast as she

00:09:36.960 can. On these documents, how could anyone be that irresponsible? Isn't that what this president says

00:09:43.940 about mishandling classified documents? The president spoke to this personally. He spoke to this

00:09:47.960 personally. He, again, he believes that classified documents and information should be taken seriously.

00:09:54.620 He takes them seriously. And he was surprised to learn by any records. I disagree. I disagree.

00:10:01.420 Here's what happened. Here's what happened once his... Then why is there a Justice Department?

00:10:05.000 Well, let me explain to you the process. Here's what happened when his lawyers found out that the

00:10:10.620 documents were there. They immediately turned them over to their archives. How can President Biden be

00:10:15.880 trusted moving forward with America's Secrets? Because his lawyers, his team did the right thing.

00:10:21.540 But he had a closet with classified information. His lawyers did the right... Again, again, again.

00:10:28.040 Did the lawyers do the right thing? He was surprised that the records were there. He spoke to this.

00:10:32.880 Personally, he was surprised that the records were there. And when his lawyers found out and his team

00:10:39.680 found out that they were there, they turned it over to their archives. And now it's being reviewed by the

00:10:45.500 Department of Justice. Oh, he was surprised that the records were there. Okay, then. Okay, then. No big

00:10:52.500 deal. Do I believe that Joe Biden was actually surprised that the records were there? Maybe. He's a liar,

00:10:58.840 so I'm inclined not to believe him. But he's pretty forgetful, so I'm somewhat inclined to believe him. 0.99

00:11:03.520 Either way, though, he was surprised that the records were there is no excuse.

00:11:10.100 Intention can matter when we're talking about prosecuting crimes. But if the action that is

00:11:16.660 taken, intentionally or unintentionally, is an egregious action, if it's against the law,

00:11:21.240 then there has to be some punishment for it, right? For the action itself, not merely the intention.

00:11:26.520 The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Think about the distinction between murder and

00:11:30.260 manslaughter. Yes, it's true that we prosecute murder more severely than we prosecute manslaughter,

00:11:35.820 but we prosecute manslaughter. Why? Because it's wrong to kill a person, whether you intend to kill

00:11:41.380 a person or not. So is it wrong to mishandle these classified documents, or is it not?

00:11:48.980 Well, he didn't intend to. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Ignorance of your own actions

00:11:57.440 is not an excuse either, not ultimately. And so you're going to see the libs move on from this.

00:12:04.740 And it's going to expose what the Trump classified documents episode, the walls are closing in,

00:12:11.200 they've got him now, of 2022, was really all about. It was just a bunch of nonsense to punish

00:12:15.960 a political enemy. In fact, not only are you going to see these sorts of excuses for Joe Biden's

00:12:22.080 behavior, you already are seeing them. And you're not just seeing them from his paid spokesman. You're

00:12:26.240 not already seeing them from, just from the White House press secretary. You're seeing them from

00:12:32.900 the establishment media. You are seeing it from Joy Behar on the view, on the view, Joy Behar on the

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00:14:08.200 Knowles. Joy Behar on The View says that this situation with Biden improperly storing classified

00:14:17.540 documents, it's completely different from what Donald Trump did. Here's why.

00:14:23.100 Byron needs to calm down a little bit because there are some perhaps differences here. The optics are not

00:14:29.720 necessarily the best. So is it good news for you know who? Anything that makes us talk about him is

00:14:35.820 good news for him. Not really. I mean, I think that what you just said is right, that there are

00:14:40.780 differences in what happened. Yes, but the optics are not good. Well, we all know that Trump is a liar and a

00:14:45.520 thief, you know? We know that. So it's not that big a jump to say that he obstructed and he lied. We don't 1.00

00:14:54.400 think that Biden is a liar and a thief, so we give him the benefit of the doubt. That's probably what's going on.

00:14:59.720 That's what's going on, right? Now, I know, I know people are going to pull their hair out in

00:15:05.900 indignation and shock at the absurdity of Joy Behar's statement that Joe Biden, he's not a liar and a 0.91

00:15:12.340 thief. Joe, put thieving aside. I mean, he seems pretty crooked to me, but he is a liar. He's probably 0.78

00:15:20.200 the most infamous liar politician alive today. Not a cheap shot. I'm not just trying to throw a bomb at 1.00

00:15:28.560 my political opponent. I mean, specifically for lying. He's been caught in it the most. He's had

00:15:34.080 the most political consequence in his life because he's a liar. Democrats call him a liar. Republicans 1.00

00:15:39.300 call him a liar. So, but put that aside for a second. The principle that Joy Behar is espousing 0.83

00:15:44.480 here is we give more grace to people on our own side than we do to our enemies and to our political

00:15:51.240 opponents. That's a pretty smart principle, actually. There's nothing wrong with that

00:15:57.680 principle. There's nothing hypocritical. It's not that there's a double standard even with that kind

00:16:03.720 of a principle. That is politics. Politics is a team sport. Politics begins with the premise that

00:16:11.780 man is a social animal and we find our identity and our flourishing in society with one another.

00:16:17.640 And when you're in democratic politics and republican politics, such as we are, then there are going to

00:16:23.880 be different coalitions that form to get things done. No man is an island. You can't do politics

00:16:29.140 all by yourself. And so you form coalitions and it is perfectly natural to have more trust in the

00:16:37.680 people who are close to you. It is perfectly natural to give the benefit of the doubt or more of

00:16:43.260 the benefit of the doubt to people who are part of your team, part of your family, part of your

00:16:49.080 community, your fellow countrymen. It is a liberal lie and error that says that we should not afford

00:16:58.720 any more grace or trust to our own countrymen than to anybody else on earth. It is a fundamental

00:17:06.160 political error that comes out of the libs. I'm not just saying the modern left-wing liberals. I'm

00:17:12.660 talking about liberal modernity. I'm talking about the last several hundred years that says, oh no,

00:17:17.600 all these things like loyalty to family, loyalty to tribe. You often hear tribal politics is that's

00:17:23.340 the worst thing in the world. Well, people are in tribes, aren't they? People do come from families 1.00

00:17:28.400 and tribes and nations and it's natural to have a kind of affection for that and to offer some grace

00:17:36.040 to that. The family is a natural human institution and political communities progress naturally from

00:17:43.360 that. Patriotism is a logical extension of filial piety. I have no problem with Joy Behar saying,

00:17:49.780 yeah, look, Biden's on my team and so I trust him more than I trust the guy on the other team.

00:17:55.700 I wish conservatives wanted to understand that a little bit better. There's nothing wrong with

00:17:59.740 preferring your family to somebody else's family. There's nothing wrong with preferring your country

00:18:04.240 to somebody else's country. Everyone else on earth operates that way. It's only these benighted

00:18:10.880 liberals in the West who have thrown all that out the window and said that no human beings are all

00:18:16.280 just undifferentiated individuals floating in the ether somehow. We're all citizens of the world

00:18:20.520 kumbaya. No, that's not true. It's not how politics works. It's not how human nature works. So anyway,

00:18:26.240 enough about Biden's documents. Biden is trying to turn this news cycle around. The way he's going to

00:18:30.660 turn it around is by visiting the border, showing that he's getting really tough on illegal immigration.

00:18:38.040 And Biden tweets out, quote, our problems at the border did not arise overnight and they won't be

00:18:42.840 solved overnight. Translation, I'm not actually going to do anything about this, but I want to

00:18:47.620 seem really serious. I'm going to go visit the border for the first time, certainly since he's been

00:18:52.460 president, I think maybe for the first time in his entire political career. He's done some drive-bys

00:18:57.420 by border towns. I'm not sure the man has ever actually been down to the border proper until now.

00:19:03.700 He says, we can come together to fix this broken system. We can ensure the border,

00:19:09.140 secure the border rather, and fix the immigration process to be orderly, fair, safe, and humane.

00:19:15.180 There's a real irony about the photo that he posts because the photo features exactly three

00:19:22.100 unique elements. Features himself, features border agents, border patrol agents, and it features

00:19:31.900 the wall. He's taking the picture in front of two things that this man has vilified throughout his

00:19:40.900 presidency. Do you remember early on in the Biden administration, he attacked the border patrol

00:19:45.820 agents for allegedly riding around on horses and using a whip to scourge the poor illegal aliens

00:19:54.100 trying to get across? Which, by the way, if you or I or anybody else broke into another country

00:19:59.680 that had a big immigration problem, you could expect that other country to use that sort of a 0.98

00:20:06.280 measure, similar measures, to keep us out. But for us to ever try to secure the border, that would be

00:20:10.840 shocking. And when you saw the image, you said, well, maybe it, I don't know, maybe it sort of looks

00:20:15.500 like he's using a whip, but I just don't buy that. We, we allow two million illegal aliens to flood 0.99

00:20:20.400 into the country every single year. I don't think that there are border agents like Indiana Jones

00:20:24.300 using whips all along the border. And of course it turned out it was not true. It was a complete 0.80

00:20:28.360 calumny from Joe Biden that the thing that looked like a whip was just the reins of the horse. The guy

00:20:32.540 was just trying to ride his horse as it was bucking up and down. So he vilifies the border agents

00:20:38.620 until they're convenient for him. Of course he vilifies the wall. Oh my goodness. Has there been,

00:20:44.540 has there been any greater object from the Trump administration of the Democrats' ire than the

00:20:50.600 wall? Oh my goodness. They hated that wall until it's convenient. So what does this picture tell us?

00:20:57.300 It tells us that Joe Biden believes that the American people want to secure the border.

00:21:05.740 It tells us that Joe Biden believes that the wall is popular with the American people. It tells us Joe

00:21:12.040 Biden believes that border patrol agents are popular with the American people. And the Democrats

00:21:17.520 will say otherwise. They will say, no, the majority of Americans want there to be 10 zillion immigrants

00:21:22.880 every year. No, no, the majority of Americans, they hate that border wall. That's why we're not going

00:21:29.320 to, they'll say this at their donor retreats. They'll say this at their rallies. We're not going to build

00:21:32.600 any more wall. The wall's evil. We're going to abolish border protection and all the cops. And

00:21:37.900 we're going to accept actions speak louder than words. Or even more precisely, a picture says a

00:21:47.640 thousand words. And so the picture that Joe Biden chooses to present is of him getting tough on the

00:21:53.500 border with the agents, with the wall. And problem is pictures and politicians can be deceiving. And so

00:21:59.540 what Joe Biden is trying to do here is to deceive people. He's not going to build any more wall.

00:22:04.460 The president of Mexico, AMLO, just came out and said he was so happy that Joe Biden hadn't built

00:22:09.220 one extra foot of border wall. But he's not going to actually do anything about it. He's going to

00:22:14.000 continue to undermine border patrol. But he is going to push that image out there for the public.

00:22:18.540 Because he knows that his policy is in opposition to what the American people

00:22:21.880 actually want. And Republicans are mercifully, finally, wonderfully, starting to do something

00:22:29.260 about it specifically on this issue. The conservative Republican Representative Pat Fallon has just

00:22:36.520 filed articles of impeachment against border security or border secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

00:22:45.180 So this is the secretary of Homeland Security who is in charge of the border. He has now had articles

00:22:53.260 of impeachment introduced against him. Now, what are you going to impeach the guy for?

00:22:59.340 Don't forget, I'm with Joy Behar on this principle. I think we should be tougher on our opponents than

00:23:05.600 we are on our friends. I'm not one of these squishy conservatives who says, well, you know,

00:23:10.700 it's actually, it would be terribly unprincipled if we were to focus more political ire on our enemies

00:23:17.840 who want to destroy us in the country than on our friends who are doing their best to help,

00:23:21.040 but sometimes screw up. No, I'm all for it. Go after this guy. Go after Mayorkas. Go after Joe Biden

00:23:27.060 with everything you've got. But you got to do it smart. And the question is, what are they going to

00:23:33.180 get Mayorkas on? The Democrats during the Trump impeachments, not just impeachment, they impeached

00:23:41.160 the guy twice. They made the argument that you don't need any legal basis to impeach somebody. It's a

00:23:47.680 purely political act. That's not the conservative point of view. Alan Dershowitz, who is a liberal,

00:23:54.660 though he is nicer to conservatives than most liberals. Alan Dershowitz, great Harvard law

00:23:59.420 professor, he pointed out, no, no, no, you need a legal basis. To impeach somebody, they have to

00:24:03.860 commit high crimes or misdemeanors. It's not just that you don't like the way they're doing their

00:24:09.080 job. Maladministration is not a sufficient basis for impeachment. So what are they going to get

00:24:15.560 Mayorkas on? Is it going to be the flimsy nonsense that the Democrats tried to impeach Trump over?

00:24:20.160 No. It actually, very possibly, could be closer to what the Republicans impeached Clinton over back

00:24:27.800 in the 1990s. Since day one, says the Republican representative. Sorry. It's really very confusing

00:24:44.520 here when you're going through all of the various articles of impeachment when we've lived in a time

00:24:48.060 where there have been four impeachments in 20 years. Since day one, says Representative Pat Fallon,

00:24:52.860 Secretary Mayorkas' policies have undermined law enforcement activities at our southern border.

00:24:57.000 From perjuring himself before Congress and maintaining operational control of the border

00:25:01.220 to the infamous whipgate slander against our border patrol agents, Secretary Mayorkas has proven time

00:25:07.240 and again that he is unfit to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Okay, I totally agree with all of

00:25:12.540 that and the man obviously is unfit to lead DHS. But doing a bad job and being unfit is not a grounds

00:25:20.080 for impeachment. Perjury is. Don't forget, the Republicans in the 90s did not impeach Bill Clinton

00:25:27.540 over his extracurricular activities with his intern. The Republicans of the 1990s did not impeach Bill

00:25:37.160 Clinton because of his eccentric and imaginative conception of what a humidor is. The Republicans

00:25:44.640 of the 1990s impeached Bill Clinton for perjury because he lied. I did not have sexual relations with

00:25:52.820 that woman. But he did. Well, it depends on what the meaning of the word is. I used to be the president.

00:26:03.880 Yeah, right. So Slick Willie was able to get out of it by arguing, actually by arguing that he was a

00:26:11.600 selfish lover. When you look down at the definition of sexual relations that the Clinton camp and the

00:26:18.220 investigators were agreeing upon, it gave him a little bit of an out wherein if he was not

00:26:25.700 intending to provide sexual satisfaction to his partner, his intern in this case, that he maybe could

00:26:33.420 weasel his way out of saying that he had sexual relations with that woman. At least that was the 1.00

00:26:37.620 argument at the time. And Slick Willie was a really talented, is a really talented politician

00:26:43.420 and was able to, to get out of it. Mayorkas is not that. So if the Republicans can get him on perjury,

00:26:50.320 good, good on it. I know that Joe Biden's just going to put some other big lid there in at the border.

00:26:55.140 And I know that Mayorkas isn't even the one who's really crafting the policy. That policy is very

00:26:59.260 likely coming higher up at the level of the White House. Doesn't matter. Go out there, Republicans.

00:27:05.220 Claim that political scalp. Go out there. Take down one of Biden's cabinet secretaries. When I think

00:27:11.860 about what the Trump cabinet secretaries went down over, it is astounding to me. They got Tom Price

00:27:18.960 on private jets. Remember Tom Price, the Republican Secretary of Health and Human Services. He took some

00:27:25.080 private jets. This created a political scandal. He had to resign over that. And Trump backed the

00:27:31.660 resignation. Absolutely nothing compared to the egregious activities of the Democrat cabinet

00:27:38.340 secretaries. So good on him, Republicans. Go get them. Congress is throwing its weight around. More 0.97

00:27:42.960 good news coming out of the Pentagon now. The Pentagon is ending its vaccine mandate for servicemen

00:27:48.180 after the House GOP makes them do it. The DOD is ending it because House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

00:27:57.560 forced an end to the program last month with the new National Defense Authorization Act, which is the

00:28:04.560 annual defense policy and spending bill that passed. And so it's not that the Pentagon just decided

00:28:10.980 out of the goodness of its heart. It's not that Mark Milley there was able to put down the Ibram 0.98

00:28:16.600 Kendi, was able to put down genderqueer by Maya Kobabi and went in and scrubbed all the purple out of his 0.96

00:28:22.260 hair and got rid of some of his piercings and his pride flags and said, you know what? Now all of a

00:28:28.600 sudden we're not going to make you take the Fauci out. That's not what happened. What happened was the

00:28:32.820 House GOP forced the Pentagon's hand. What happened was the GOP used political power for good effect

00:28:42.120 and reminded all of us that it's not just a completely desperate situation. It's not just the Republicans

00:28:49.520 have absolutely no power whatsoever. It's very easy to despair in the lingo of the cool young hip youths. It's

00:28:57.100 very easy to get blackpilled and think that there's just no chance that we're ever going to have anything even

00:29:02.780 resembling a conservative sort of society again. If that were the case, the libs would not be fighting so hard to

00:29:09.520 secure their power. I think that conservatives actually can still maintain a little bit of

00:29:13.880 political power and we can grow it more if we're willing to exercise it. Great example of this,

00:29:18.520 down in Florida, Ron DeSantis just showing the model for what conservative governors and frankly what

00:29:27.180 conservatives at the federal level should be doing. Ron DeSantis has just threatened to stop

00:29:32.320 Chinese communists from buying real estate in the United States. My view on our economy in Florida 0.68

00:29:42.120 is we don't want to have holdings by hostile nations. And so if you look at the Chinese Communist 0.98

00:29:49.640 Party, they've been very active throughout the Western Hemisphere in gobbling up land and investing

00:29:56.220 in different things. And you know, when they have interests that are opposed to ours and you see

00:30:02.160 how they've wielded their authority and especially with President Xi, who's taken a much more Marxist

00:30:09.040 Leninist turn since he's been ruling China, that is not in the best interest of Florida to have the

00:30:16.800 Chinese Communist Party owning farmland, owning land close to military bases. But you know, my view is,

00:30:23.700 and I think there's a broad agreement in those two, but my view is, okay, yeah, no farmland,

00:30:29.000 but why would you want them buying residential developments or things like that? I don't want

00:30:33.220 them owning subdivisions and things like that. I think that the issue is just going to be,

00:30:39.060 I think people agree with that. The issue is going to be, yeah, obviously if someone comes in and

00:30:44.580 buys, it's not the CCP that's signing that. These are holding companies and all that. So you got to

00:30:49.820 structure that in a way that will effectively police it. But yes, we do not need to have CCP

00:30:56.040 influence in Florida's economy.

00:30:59.420 Yes. Yes. Oh, I just love it. I wish I had a sort of New Year's Eve blowhorn and American flag to wave

00:31:09.220 around listening to that clip. This is so beautiful. Ron DeSantis totally gets it here. And I really hope

00:31:15.460 this policy goes into effect because it is going to, not only is it morally and politically astute

00:31:22.620 and right, but it's going to irritate all the right people because the libs are going to go crazy. 1.00

00:31:28.500 What do you mean you're taking away our Chinese communist influence in America? You can't do that.

00:31:33.680 But it's also going to irritate the squishes. It's going to irritate the squishes because the 0.88

00:31:38.560 squishes are going to say, well, yeah, sure. I don't, I mean, I don't want the Chinese communists 1.00

00:31:42.680 having political control over America, but you know, what about the free market?

00:31:48.360 What about, aren't we supposed to allow anybody to buy anything that he wants?

00:31:52.400 We're not talking about the Chinese communists putting a spy into the Pentagon. No, we're just

00:31:55.980 talking about them buying up some land. So now, now the heavy hand of the centralized government,

00:32:01.780 you statists, you Ron DeSantis, you big government conservative, you're going to go in and tell

00:32:07.660 people what they can buy in the free market. Yes. And, and you know, they might even be able to

00:32:15.400 rationalize themselves. Okay. Well, maybe you can put certain limits on how we operate in the free

00:32:20.740 market. If we're talking about a political party or a foreign power. So, okay, maybe, I don't know if

00:32:28.820 I love this because I hate tariffs and I hate all restrictions on free trade and, but all right,

00:32:33.080 maybe the CCP cannot buy land in America. Okay, fine. I'm willing to go there. But then Ron DeSantis

00:32:40.260 points out, he says, do you think the Chinese communists are, are coming in? They're going up

00:32:45.700 to Houlihan Lawrence real estate and they're saying, okay, uh, yes. Uh, where do I put Chairman Xi's

00:32:50.980 signature on the dotted line? Do you think Xi is flying over to him? He's saying, okay, here's the CCP

00:32:56.120 credit card. I want to buy this on behalf of the communist party. No, of course not. The way that the

00:33:02.020 Chinese are buying land in America and amassing even more political power than they already have 0.96

00:33:07.140 is through intermediaries, through holding companies, through individuals who are connected

00:33:11.640 to the communist party. And so DeSantis is saying, if we're actually going to do anything about this,

00:33:16.780 we got to, we got to put it into effect in a way that, that will be practical.

00:33:23.100 And, and he points out actually later in those comments, he says, we've already done this at the

00:33:26.860 universities. We've gone after the Confucius Institutes. Confucius Institutes are, they're not

00:33:32.860 the Chinese communist party club. They, they have a facade of being purely academic or purely cultural

00:33:40.880 or not related. But what DeSantis and other GOP politicians, Ted Cruz in particular, have pointed

00:33:46.180 out is, no, they're just fronts for the communist party. They should be banned from the universities.

00:33:50.120 Let's go, baby. Wield the heavy hand of the state to protect our national security interests. 0.95

00:33:55.160 But, but just to protect our country. If we're living in a country right now, and, and depending

00:34:01.820 on where you live in the United States, you might be seeing this directly. If we're living in a country

00:34:06.860 where a hostile foreign power is coming in and buying up a lot of real estate, that doesn't only

00:34:13.680 present a national security interest, that presents economic hardship and an upending of the political

00:34:18.720 order. Simply by the fact that they're driving up real estate prices. You got a ton of money coming out

00:34:24.340 of China coming into the United States from the party that is driving up your rent, driving up 1.00

00:34:29.760 your mortgage. You see DeSantis there, he's saying, yeah, of course with the farmland, that, that presents

00:34:35.540 an immediate security threat. But he says, why do we want the Chinese communists buying residential 0.98

00:34:41.260 property either? It's a reminder. And DeSantis gets this, and he's not the only Republican to get

00:34:46.500 this, but he has articulated it in a, in a really powerful way, in a really clear way. He understands

00:34:53.060 that the economy is for the nation. The nation is not for the economy. Free market principles,

00:35:04.400 open trade, those, those can be good things, but they are a means to an end. And the end is a good

00:35:11.060 country and a flourishing society. And when we put the cart before the horse, then things get a little

00:35:16.340 bit wonky. Ron DeSantis is not a Stalinist, okay? He's not some heavy-handed, big authoritarian

00:35:21.700 government. He's a normal politician who recognizes that we live in a republic, and the republic comes

00:35:27.440 from res publica, means public things. And he understands that his job is to govern for the

00:35:33.260 common good of all. That's why states are instituted. And that, that doesn't mean confiscating

00:35:38.500 property and turning us all into commies. Quite the opposite. He's saying we need to reduce the power

00:35:42.360 of the communists. And the way to do that is to wield just political power that the people have

00:35:47.460 given us through our form of government. Really, really great stuff. I hope that other conservatives

00:35:53.120 take note. The libs have dispirited us for so, so long. They've made us think, well, you can, you

00:35:59.520 guys can never wield political power. Well, DeSantis is showing we can. Other GOP politicians are too,

00:36:04.420 but DeSantis is doing it in a really, really clear way. It's a new year, folks,

00:36:08.220 but leftist companies are still up to their same old dirty tricks. Ladies, ladies, it is time to

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00:37:12.340 Shop the new Jeremy's hair, face, and body wash collection and kick woke out of the bathroom.

00:37:19.760 Speaking of racial and ethnic tensions, Kumail Nanjiani is upset about how Hollywood casts

00:37:28.940 people of color and how Hollywood does not cast people of color, but not in the way that you think.

00:37:37.720 Kumail Nanjiani, I have seen this name before. I don't really know what he's been in, but I

00:37:41.160 definitely recognize him as having been in lots of movies and things. He is very upset because

00:37:48.120 he wants to play a villain. And he says that Hollywood will not allow him to play a villain

00:37:55.860 because Kumail Nanjiani, as you might be able to tell from his name, is not a white man. He says,

00:38:02.400 I think that Hollywood now, even though they're trying to be more diverse, is still weird.

00:38:07.840 It's just as limiting as anything else, he says. I want to play more bad guys. And then he starts

00:38:15.400 talking about Sebastian Stan, a white friend of his. He says, Sebastian Stan does these big Marvel

00:38:20.320 movies and then he'll play a psychopath. I was told that's going to be hard for me because people

00:38:26.760 don't want to cast non-white people as bad guys. This is true. If you've watched movies at all over 1.00

00:38:33.460 the last 30 years, 40 years, you will notice that the bad guy always has to be a white guy.

00:38:41.740 And this is why in James Bond, during the war on terror era, you'll notice James Bond never fought

00:38:49.080 Osama bin Laden. James Bond. The purpose of the James Bond series is to reflect in a fun and campy

00:38:56.380 and exciting way the chief enemies that we in the West were fighting. So during the Cold War, it was

00:39:05.660 all about the evil Ruskies. That's really what it was about. Even though they had all these colorful 1.00

00:39:10.140 characters and Blofeld and all the rest of it, it was about the Cold War. Then the Cold War ends in the

00:39:15.720 early 90s and James Bond is in a new era. What are we going to do? Who are we really fighting?

00:39:22.100 And so you get these kind of post-Soviet, Golden Eye, great James Bond movie. These kind of post-Soviet 0.83

00:39:27.900 villain types. But then during the war on terror, it should be so clear. James Bond is fighting

00:39:32.800 Muslim terrorists. Except he couldn't. He couldn't because of political correctness. 0.97

00:39:39.140 The nearest thing to a person of color that Hollywood will allow to become a villain, 1.00

00:39:49.020 it's the Russians. Russians are the people of color of the white people. And so Russians are 0.99

00:39:55.940 allowed to be the villains. Eastern Europeans, they're kind of, but that's it. That's the closest 1.00

00:40:01.160 you can get. And I am totally sympathetic to what Kumail Nanjiani is saying here. What he's saying is,

00:40:07.440 this is dehumanizing. And it is. It is just as dehumanizing as saying that an Indian guy can't be

00:40:14.560 the good guy or that a black guy can't be the good guy. It is just as dehumanizing to say that a black 0.98

00:40:20.700 guy can't be the bad guy. But that's why, the way, forget about Hollywood for a second, that is the 0.95

00:40:25.480 way that our entire culture operates now. If there is a heinous crime committed, a school shooting or

00:40:33.320 something like that. If the school shooter is a white guy, you are going to see that right at the top of 0.68

00:40:39.440 the news report. 20-year-old angry white man, probably radicalized by the far right-wing people on the

00:40:46.120 internet. He, this white, why are white men so angry? He has just committed this horrible crime. If it's a 0.62

00:40:51.400 black guy who could, a school shooting or whatever, any, any kind of attack, it will always say, 18-year-old 0.98

00:40:57.940 man. There's no, the race is never mentioned. This is how actually when you read the news reports 0.98

00:41:03.440 about any crime, if the race is not mentioned, you can almost 100% of the time bet that the attacker

00:41:10.420 is not white. It's just a, it's just a way that the news operates. If they can make the white guy the

00:41:15.740 villain, they will. If they can't, they'll leave race out of it altogether. And that is dehumanizing.

00:41:21.060 I would always talk about this when, when I brought up Christopher Columbus or when, when someone

00:41:26.780 raised the, the issue of the pilgrims and the early Americans and what we did to those poor Native

00:41:31.420 Americans. When, when people would propose this Pocahontas view, uh, not the Elizabeth Warren view

00:41:37.720 and not the actual story of Pocahontas, but you know, the Disneyland kind of view of the indigenous

00:41:42.580 people. They were all, the avatar view, they were all just living in accord with nature, playing their

00:41:47.540 drums, singing Kumbaya, dancing around with the does and the deer all through until the evil white man

00:41:55.080 came and he upset this wonderful balance of nature. They were all basically these indigenous people. 1.00

00:42:00.860 They were living, they were immortals in Edenic paradise. And then the white man came and bespoiled,

00:42:07.040 despoiled it all. And now there's sin and death that pervades. That's not what happened. 0.99

00:42:13.440 That's not what happened. It is just as absurd to say that the Native Americans

00:42:19.740 could not be bad in any way as to say that the Native Americans could not be good in any way.

00:42:28.520 It's dehuman. These are people. When you look at the real story of the Mayflower and the early,

00:42:32.760 the pilgrims and the early Americans in New England, it's much more interesting than the idea

00:42:37.620 that they showed up and they gave everybody smallpox blankets and they killed off all the 0.97

00:42:40.640 Indians and took their corn. That's not what happened. The, the Indians there, I'm specifically

00:42:45.600 thinking of people like Massasoit. I'm specifically thinking of people like his progeny, King Philip.

00:42:52.220 I'm specifically thinking of the, the Massachusetts Indians. I'm thinking of the Algonquin Indians. I'm

00:42:58.280 thinking about all of the different tribes around there. They were crafty. They were smart,

00:43:01.680 especially our buddy Massasoit. They were tacticians and strategists. Massasoit used the pilgrims to grow

00:43:07.860 his political control all around the region and had, had his progeny, King Philip, not screwed

00:43:12.500 everything up because he misinterpreted how his brother died. They probably could have lived

00:43:16.120 together in relative peace for a much longer period of time. He's a real man. When, when Massasoit

00:43:23.040 decided to side with the pilgrims against the Massachusetts, he was making a political decision

00:43:28.320 and it was, it was a smart political decision as far as I'm concerned. They're humans too. And humans

00:43:34.600 are not just, humans can be bad guys. Even Indian people, even, even black people can be bad guys, 0.99

00:43:41.060 but it's identity politics all the way down in our culture. This is a story I'd been meaning to get 0.97

00:43:45.360 to. I'm glad we finally have time. Breaking news. If you're driving, please pull over. If you're

00:43:50.820 standing up, please sit down. Mars Candy will be releasing all female packs of M&Ms. Yes, finally.

00:44:01.020 How, how is the candy female? I, well, the way that the candy's female is that they've got those little 0.98

00:44:07.260 cartoons that they put in the commercials and some of the cartoons are men and some of the cartoons

00:44:11.280 are women. This, this issue actually came up about a year ago because M&Ms announced that the green

00:44:17.540 M&M was no longer going to be sexy. Previously, the green M&M was really, really hot, hot and sexy

00:44:22.520 as far as candy coated chocolates go. And then they decided they were going to make the green M&M kind of

00:44:27.220 frumpy and sexually ambiguous. So, okay, going with the culture, I guess. But now, now they're saying,

00:44:33.180 okay, we're going to release all female packs. And why are they doing that? Because they want to, 1.00

00:44:39.460 quote, celebrate women everywhere who are flipping the status quo. And it's really funny because the

00:44:45.200 pack actually just shows these women upside down. These women hanging by their feet completely upside 1.00

00:44:50.220 down. It doesn't seem very celebratory to me, but what does it tell you about the culture?

00:44:55.040 What this, the M&M story actually does tell you something about the culture we're living in.

00:44:59.540 It tells you that our culture today is glib, gay, and contemptuous of our forebears. 1.00

00:45:06.160 That's what it is. This is so glib. So much of our activism, of our real political discourse in 0.98

00:45:11.660 this country is putting the chick M&Ms in the bag. That's how we're going to seriously deal with the 1.00

00:45:19.540 moral and political issues of our time. We're going to post a black square on Instagram. Yeah, 1.00

00:45:24.560 that's right. You know what we're going to do? We're going to start a hashtag. Yes. Michelle

00:45:30.720 Obama, while she was first lady of the United States, while her president was the most powerful 0.99

00:45:34.700 man in the world, posted on social media, a picture of herself holding up a white sheet of 0.88

00:45:40.660 paper that said, hashtag, bring back our girls. And she was frowning. She looked very serious

00:45:45.840 because Boko Haram, a terrorist group, had kidnapped a bunch of girls. She said, bring back our girls. 0.99

00:45:54.720 Her husband's the president. If he wanted to get rid of Boko Haram, he could do it in two seconds.

00:46:00.760 Boko Haram, I don't think they have nuclear weapons. I don't think they're the most sophisticated or

00:46:05.880 civilized people in the world. They're a thug terror group of people using very old weaponry who could be

00:46:13.840 wiped out by the U.S. military in a morning before lunch. But for any number of reasons,

00:46:20.040 Barack Obama didn't want to go take out Boko Haram. So how are we going to stop it? We're going 0.79

00:46:22.860 to hold up hashtags. Did we ever get Kony 2012? Are we there yet? I'm not so sure. Very glib culture

00:46:29.820 and a gay culture. And I'm using gay in a technical sense of that term. Not to mean that it's a happy 1.00

00:46:36.140 culture. It's not a happy culture. But gay meaning we don't recognize that men need women and women need 1.00

00:46:42.020 men. We don't recognize that. We don't recognize that men and women are complementary. Our culture

00:46:47.460 views men and women alternately as identical and indiscernible and as in opposition to one another.

00:46:55.140 The old expression used to be that you will never have a war between the sexes in this country

00:47:01.160 because everybody is sleeping with the enemy. Increasingly, that's not so true. 20 plus percent

00:47:08.440 of Gen Z identifies as LGBTQ. So I don't know, maybe you will get a gender war in the country. 0.73

00:47:14.680 Glib, it's gay, and it's contemptuous of our forebears. Congratulations to women for flipping 1.00

00:47:20.040 the status quo. What's wrong with the status quo? I got plenty of problems with the status quo because

00:47:24.060 of how it has upended our millennia-long traditions in recent decades. That's my issue with the status quo.

00:47:29.820 But most people's issue on the left with the status quo is that anything that happened in the past

00:47:36.520 is really bad and evil. Anything that's happening right now is a crisis and it's pretty bad and evil.

00:47:43.860 And anything that happens in the future is going to be better than the present and the past.

00:47:47.200 That is a culture that is in serious decline. That is a culture, I hope it's not terminal decline,

00:47:54.160 but it's a culture that's given up the most important democracy in the world. That's the democracy

00:48:00.200 of the dead that does not merely combine the decisions about how we live to the people who

00:48:05.620 happen to be walking on the earth at the present moment, but actually looks to the past, receives

00:48:10.020 wisdom, recognizes that maybe we don't know every single thing that's ever been discovered. Maybe a

00:48:16.460 span of 80 years is not enough time to learn everything that there is to learn. Maybe we ought to

00:48:22.120 have a little respect for history and the great men who came before us. No, our culture says no.

00:48:26.320 So enjoy your M&Ms. The member block starts right now. This is, I don't have a pun for today. What

00:48:34.520 is today? Thursday? This is, there's a story that I wanted to get to Thursday. And by which I mean

00:48:43.720 my producer Ben Davies. It's not a good pun. If you can think of a better pun, please let me know in

00:48:47.720 the comments. My producer Ben Davies has a story every week that he's upset that I don't get to. And so

00:48:53.840 I've got the story here facing upside down. I will flip it over and read the story for the first time.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 12, 2023

Ep. 1160 - They Will Never Let COVID Go Away

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