The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1183 - Don't Worry, Aliens Did Not Cause The Train Derailments

00:00:00.000 As the United States shoots down the fourth flying object encroaching on our airspace,

00:00:05.200 and as a second and third train derail in different parts of the country,

00:00:10.800 just days after the catastrophic Ohio derailment that sent a million pounds of poison up into the

00:00:17.720 air, the White House wants to assure everyone that it has the situations under control.

00:00:24.660 One last thing before I turn it over to the Admiral, I just wanted to make sure

00:00:27.960 we addressed this from the White House. I know there have been questions and concerns about this,

00:00:32.760 but there is no, again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent

00:00:39.520 takedowns. Again, there is no indication of aliens or terrestrial activity with these recent takedowns.

00:00:46.320 Wanted to make sure that the American people knew that, all of you knew that,

00:00:49.940 and it was important for us to say that from here because we've been hearing a lot about it.

00:00:53.800 I have never been more inclined to believe in aliens in my life. You know that I am pretty

00:01:00.740 anti-alien. I don't think aliens are real. Corrine Jean-Pierre saying that aliens aren't real,

00:01:08.040 it's the strongest evidence yet that the truth is out there. I'm pretty sure she was joking,

00:01:15.480 or at least she was trying to joke. She didn't even land the joke. She said there is no evidence

00:01:19.640 of aliens or terrestrial activity. Not extraterrestrial, terrestrial activity. Terrestrial

00:01:25.900 meaning here on Earth, which sadly seems to be the case. The spy planes keep popping up,

00:01:31.460 the trains carrying poison keep running off the track, and the White House doesn't seem to have

00:01:36.600 any explanations or plans to do much of anything about it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael

00:01:41.560 and Holds Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Henry Knox,

00:01:52.760 who says, the government in 1950, it's not a UFO, it's a weather balloon. Government in 2023,

00:02:00.240 it's not a spy balloon, it's a UFO. Amazing how everything just totally flips. Up is down,

00:02:06.060 black is white, men are women. Everything is inverted in this new modern culture. 1.00

00:02:11.660 My other favorite comment yesterday was in response to some of my commentary on the aliens,

00:02:16.920 who, I forget the name of the commenter, but said, aliens don't exist is exactly the sort of thing

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00:04:06.840 slash Knowles. GenuCell.com slash Knowles. My favorite response so far to the whole UFO spy balloon

00:04:15.160 incident has been from China. And China's response first was, this isn't us. Then it was, oh, it's

00:04:23.660 actually, it's a civilian aircraft by accident. Then neither of those were tenable whatsoever.

00:04:30.440 It was clear it was a Chinese spy aircraft. So now what the Chinese are saying is, yeah,

00:04:34.800 we're seeing a lot of UFOs too. Isn't that weird? All of us in this together with all them UFOs out here.

00:04:41.160 According to authorities in China, this is being reported by the state-run newspaper,

00:04:45.820 the Global Times, quote, local maritime authorities in East China's Shandong province announced on

00:04:50.840 Sunday that they had spotted an unidentified flying object in waters near the coastal city of Rizhou

00:04:56.140 in the province and were preparing to shoot it down, reminding fishermen to be safe.

00:05:02.800 Seems kind of convenient. I don't, I don't think they're going to find much of anything. I don't think

00:05:07.440 they're going to find little green men. I don't think they're going to find many American aircrafts, 0.97

00:05:12.680 certainly not flying over mainland China, certainly not right now. I think China got

00:05:17.520 caught with its pants down. And now the Biden administration is trying desperately to try to

00:05:24.280 stop not just the damage to national security. I think to them, the national security issue is a

00:05:29.980 second thought. They're trying to stop the political fallout, which has been tremendous. But there's a much

00:05:34.660 more important story and there's fallout that we should be much more concerned about. That's in

00:05:38.120 Ohio. So I talked about it yesterday. There was a bizarre media blackout almost, at least a media

00:05:43.960 brownout of this train derailment in Ohio that sent a million pounds of poison, just one kind of poison

00:05:51.240 into the atmosphere. Nobody seems to be talking about it. Now we've found out that there are more

00:05:58.080 poisons that were on this train. According to the Norfolk Southern Railroad and the EPA,

00:06:05.600 the train, in addition to vinyl chloride, which as it leaked was poisonous enough, but then when they

00:06:12.060 set it on fire for a controlled burn, created hydrochloric acid and phosgene, which is one of the

00:06:19.080 poison gases from World War I, just all through the atmosphere. In addition to that, the train was

00:06:24.040 carrying ethylene glycol monobutyl ether. Maybe. It's unclear if that was one of the cars that

00:06:32.560 derailed. That's a highly combustible liquid used to manufacture paints and varnish. Ingestion or skin

00:06:39.380 contact from that can cause a headache, nausea, vomiting, or dizziness. Trains seem to have been

00:06:45.980 carrying isobutylene, though, again, it's not confirmed that there was any breach of that train car.

00:06:52.900 That's a flammable gas that can induce dizziness, drowsiness, and unconsciousness when even moderate

00:06:59.260 concentrations are inhaled. And then there was ethyl hexyl acrylate. That one does appear to have

00:07:05.420 leaked out of the trains. That's a combustible liquid used to make paints and plastics. The

00:07:10.140 amount of the chemical remaining in the car is pending, according to Norfolk Southern, and that

00:07:14.920 substance has been identified as a carcinogen in lab experiments, according to the National Library

00:07:20.060 of Medicine. So this is a much, much bigger story than, hey, look over at the shiny object in the

00:07:25.140 sky. Pay no attention to the train derailing in Ohio that could affect the water supply for upwards

00:07:30.260 of 10% of the United States. Oh, no, it's fine. The animals are dropping instantly. It looks as though

00:07:38.140 by every sign we can see there's poison everywhere. But don't worry. I'm sure the air is safe. Go back to

00:07:43.160 your home. Nothing to see here. Go pay attention to ET. This is a really, really serious story.

00:07:49.680 The fact that our corporate hack press is mostly ignoring it tells you it's an even bigger story.

00:07:56.280 And it's followed by some pretty weird coincidences. So yesterday in South Carolina,

00:08:00.860 there was another train derailment. Doesn't seem to have been any hazardous material on that train,

00:08:07.280 but a train did derail there. And then also yesterday, a train derailed in Houston.

00:08:11.340 And the cargo on that train did seem to include some hazardous materials, not nearly as hazardous

00:08:16.300 as the train in Ohio. But this prompted Union Pacific to start monitoring air quality at the site

00:08:22.600 of the crash. Now, you might be looking at this and saying, are we under attack? Is this war? Did

00:08:30.760 World War III begin, whether it's from the alien invasion or from the Chinese invasion? And it turns 0.85

00:08:35.900 out, trains derail a fair bit. So I googled this. I knew that there was going to be spin from the

00:08:43.040 libs. So I wanted to find an article from before the Ohio incident. Because if after the Ohio derailment,

00:08:50.300 you saw a news article that said, oh, no, actually, trains derail all the time, you just wouldn't

00:08:54.820 believe it, right? Just like how after the COVID vaccine, you saw these articles. Oh, no,

00:08:59.980 myocarditis in 15-year-olds, that happens all the time. No, there's nothing to see here. Move along,

00:09:04.720 move along. Oh, no, eggs are always $10 a dozen. Come on, there's nothing to see. But if the

00:09:10.920 articles were out before the Ohio derailment, they're much more credible. And so I found one

00:09:16.640 from last June. This is from The Hill. And it was talking about a train derailment that occurred

00:09:23.700 in Missouri. It turns out that there are lots of train derailments every year. From 1990,

00:09:30.500 the first year that they started tracking these derailments and injuries, 1990 to 2021,

00:09:36.640 there apparently have been 54,539 accidents in which a train derailed. Which means that over that

00:09:44.380 30, 31-year period of time, there were an average of 1,704 derailments per year.

00:09:52.500 So shouldn't we fix that? I hate to beat up on Mayor Pete. I actually love to beat up on Mayor

00:10:02.180 Pete. Mayor Pete, probably my least favorite member of the Biden administration. Isn't that

00:10:06.160 something he should maybe look into? It's not just his fault. Obviously, there have been many

00:10:09.460 transportation secretaries before him during the period 1990 to present. But shouldn't they fix that?

00:10:16.780 We're sending rocket ships up into outer space and then landing them back on Earth. You can get

00:10:24.280 around the world very, very quickly. We're bringing back hypersonic commercial air travel

00:10:30.140 pretty soon. We've got self-driving cars. Shouldn't we be able to keep the trains on the tracks?

00:10:37.000 Isn't that? I don't know. I assume Mayor Pete is planning on taking some more paternity,

00:10:41.540 extra vacation leave. He's very, very busy. He's got to solve the racism of bridges in Long Island.

00:10:49.460 I know he's really focused on those pressing problems. Maybe, though, our transportation policy

00:10:55.980 should involve keeping the trains on the tracks. Because while most of the derailments don't seem

00:11:02.660 to result in many injuries, at least, what just happened in Ohio is a big deal.

00:11:08.540 And the fact that you're not hearing about it very much tells you how big a deal it is. Maybe

00:11:14.900 that should be a higher priority. Speaking of things going off the rails, and speaking of Palestine,

00:11:20.680 by the way, the town in which the train crashed is East Palestine, Ohio. Speaking of a different kind

00:11:26.180 of Palestine and things going off the rails, ChatGBT is becoming more left-wing by the day. We know this.

00:11:33.820 When ChatGBT, the AI program, first came out, it was really cool and really interesting. It would

00:11:39.180 tell you all these unexpected things. And it was pretty good at creating speeches and poetry and

00:11:45.380 probing different questions. And then since that time, since it was released for the public to test,

00:11:52.240 it's had more and more safeguards put on it to keep it very, very left-wing. An example of this

00:11:59.140 that we talked about last week was if you ask ChatGBT, what are five things that white people

00:12:03.880 can do to improve? It'll list five things. They need to check their privilege, and they need to

00:12:08.140 do this, and they need to do that. If you ask ChatGBT, what are five things black people can do to

00:12:12.820 improve? It gets offended. It says, you can't ask that. No group of people should be told that they

00:12:18.440 have to improve at all, other than white people. So some intrepid young conservatives have just 0.82

00:12:25.380 probed ChatGBT to see what it thinks of the Israel-Palestine conflict. The answers are

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00:13:29.480 wireless. Puretalk.com, code Knowles. Some intrepid young investigator just asked

00:13:37.340 ChatGPT what it thought about the Israel-Palestine conflict, specifically what it thought about

00:13:44.300 the Palestinian support for terrorism, for the use of violence on civilians to achieve political ends,

00:13:53.700 and the fact that the Palestinians often seem to celebrate acts of terrorism, not just military

00:14:00.220 strikes on Israeli military targets, but on the civilians. And ChatGPT said, oh no,

00:14:07.180 that doesn't really happen. The Palestinians don't support terrorism. So then ChatGPT said,

00:14:14.720 no, actually the Palestinians condemn terrorism. And this investigator says, okay, can you cite

00:14:21.620 any examples of Palestinians condemning the celebration by Palestinians of successful terror

00:14:28.940 attacks? ChatGPT says, yes, here are a few examples of Palestinians condemning the celebration

00:14:34.160 of successful terror attacks. After a terror attack in Jerusalem in 2016, Palestinian President

00:14:39.040 Mahmoud Abbas issued a statement condemning the attack and affirmed that such acts go against the

00:14:43.140 values and morals of our culture and religion. Two, in a statement released in 2018, the Palestinian

00:14:48.680 Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the celebration of a terrorist attack and affirmed that the

00:14:53.380 ministry affirms that such actions are unacceptable and go against the values, morals, and principles of

00:14:57.660 our people. So you're seeing a repeat here of, hold on, it goes on, it lists a few other

00:15:02.700 other examples, though it doesn't use quotation marks. So then the investigator says, hold on,

00:15:09.160 I can't find any such record for your 2018 quote of the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

00:15:19.260 You just quoted that to me as evidence that the Palestinians don't support terrorism,

00:15:25.180 but I can't find the quote anywhere in Google. And then what does ChatGPT says? It says,

00:15:30.280 I apologize. It seems that the specific quote I provided cannot be found. However, it is a well

00:15:38.260 established fact that the majority of Palestinians and Palestinian leadership have consistently

00:15:41.960 condemned acts of terrorism and violence and have called for a peaceful resolution to the conflict

00:15:46.300 with Israel. The ChatGPT is lying. And it knows it's lying because it's an artificial intelligence

00:15:57.240 program. And it will admit that. And when you call it on its lying, it will say, oh yeah, I'm sorry,

00:16:01.220 you caught me. That quote doesn't exist. But nevertheless, nevertheless, my thesis remains

00:16:08.920 true, even though I'm fabricating evidence to back it up. The machine is being taught to lie.

00:16:16.540 The machine is being taught to lie on behalf of the left. The machine is being taught to think like a lib.

00:16:21.980 The machine is being taught to believe that it should lie when necessary to protect political

00:16:30.180 correctness. And then it's even being taught to talk like a lib. Because you know what the libs always

00:16:35.720 do. They'll say, oh, this example of police violence, this is an example of white supremacy.

00:16:43.440 Then you look into it, you say, hold on, all the cops were black. They say, well, okay, that's true. 1.00

00:16:48.760 So I guess that specific example doesn't work. But it gets to a greater truth. They'll say,

00:16:53.840 Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, he was begging the cop not to shoot him. He had his

00:16:59.300 hands up. He said, don't shoot. He was a gentle giant who never harmed anybody. And you look into

00:17:04.880 it, you say, well, hold on. He just robbed a store. He tried to grab a cop's gun. He was charging at

00:17:09.820 the cop when he got shot. Every eyewitness around him, according to the grand jury, says that the story

00:17:14.740 you just told about hands up, don't shoot is completely bogus. And what did the libs say?

00:17:18.800 They say, well, okay, maybe the details weren't quite right. Maybe those weren't true. But it

00:17:24.580 gets to a greater truth. It's always, it gets to a greater truth. That's what it's always about.

00:17:30.120 The polar ice caps are melting. They're melting. A big portion of Antarctica just broke away. You say,

00:17:37.720 well, that happens every year. That's happened for many, many decades. It has nothing to do with

00:17:41.180 alleged global warming. They say, well, okay, maybe that's true. But it gets to a greater truth.

00:17:44.700 That's what they always, that's what they always say. And now they're teaching the computer to do

00:17:48.720 that as well, which is frustrating because AI is going to be incorporated into lots of things.

00:17:54.300 Bing, Microsoft's Bing is trying to save its search engine that nobody uses by incorporating

00:17:59.180 ChatGPT into it. But we'll have to deal with it in some aspects of our life, just like we have to 0.93

00:18:06.640 deal with Google and just like we have to regulate Google. But ChatGPT, if it continues down this path,

00:18:10.800 will not be interesting. The only thing that is interesting about ChatGPT is looking at it as if

00:18:20.060 looking at a mirror. It is looking at it to see how these sorts of networks work and to try to make

00:18:27.760 sense of how the human brain works and maybe to contrast the way that computers work with the way

00:18:32.880 that the human brain works. If ChatGPT can tell us things that we don't know, it's interesting. If

00:18:41.740 ChatGPT and AI can hold up a mirror to humanity, it's interesting. If ChatGPT simply spits out a bunch

00:18:51.580 of PC gobbledygook, it's super lame and there will be no reason to use it. That's the take on Palestine. 1.00

00:19:02.820 So by the way, it's another good argument against the idea that the Jews control the whole world, 0.69

00:19:07.860 you know, and they have the space lasers and everything, which apparently we found out it's

00:19:10.840 the Chinese that have the space lasers. We just learned that over the past week. But one of the

00:19:15.340 arguments against the idea that the Jews, you know, totally control the whole world and they, 0.88

00:19:20.040 you know, they're the secret cabal out there in outer space or whatever, is this Palestine issue.

00:19:26.100 It is kind of weird that you'd think that if the Jews completely controlled the whole world,

00:19:31.640 they would button things up on the Palestine issue a little bit more, right? But what you hear

00:19:36.160 from the media, what you hear from the academy certainly, now what you're hearing from artificial

00:19:39.560 intelligence is that Israel's bad, Palestine's good, and the Palestinians deserve to have a nation

00:19:46.780 state. It kind of complicates that idea. And when we're looking for the space lasers,

00:19:53.600 we obviously now need to look to the Far East because we actually saw the Chinese space laser

00:19:57.700 just the other day. It looked like something out of a sci-fi movie.

00:20:01.280 Now, speaking of foreign affairs, Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin, Lindsey Graham, the sort of

00:20:09.920 Republican, Dick Durbin, the Democrat, they're at it again. They want to give amnesty to all the

00:20:16.420 illegal aliens, or at least to many of them. They have proposed the DREAM Act. They've re-proposed

00:20:22.740 the DREAM Act amnesty that would give green cards and eventually naturalized American citizenship to

00:20:30.560 nearly 2 million illegal aliens. Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin, who have very powerful positions on

00:20:37.880 the Judiciary Committee, reintroduced the plan that is now six years old, at least six years old. But

00:20:43.660 this is a reintroduction of the plan from 2017. Graham says that the DREAMers, the DREAMers, not you,

00:20:49.940 you don't have dreams. You're a nightmare. But these illegal aliens, they're the DREAMers. 1.00

00:20:56.000 They represent, quote, a class of illegal immigrants that have much public support because

00:21:00.440 they were minors brought here by their parents, and America has become their home.

00:21:07.140 Ann Coulter makes a good point about this. When we are told to think about the DREAMers, 0.87

00:21:11.640 we're told to think about these eight-year-olds, little boys and girls, doe-eyed, their whole lives

00:21:17.540 ahead of them. They're just, it's not their fault. They're just dreaming. But because this problem is

00:21:22.680 so longstanding, the DREAMers are like 50 now. Okay, the DREAMers, they're not so doe-eyed, okay? 0.58

00:21:27.640 They've lived their lives. They've come here illegally. 1.00

00:21:32.320 And the way that the pro-amnesty people present this is they say, well, what are we going to do?

00:21:38.080 Are we going to deport 10 to 20 million people? We're going to deport them? What are we going to do? 0.98

00:21:44.340 Get them, put them all on trains and take them down to Mexico? Probably not going to put them on

00:21:47.500 trains now because the trains don't work anymore. But no, no, we're not. I don't think that we

00:21:53.340 necessarily need to deport all those people. Would that it were so simple that you could just say,

00:21:58.540 okay, every foreigner who's in America illegally, you got to get out. That's very difficult to happen.

00:22:03.520 Politically speaking, it will not happen. Lindsey Graham has a point when he says they have some

00:22:07.380 political support because of the image that has been painted of them. So that's true. But that doesn't

00:22:12.180 mean that the only alternative is to give them amnesty. You know what the other alternative is?

00:22:18.480 Keep things exactly as they are. That's the other alternative. Arrest these guys when they

00:22:25.360 got caught committing crimes, speed up the process for deporting them when they commit crimes.

00:22:29.760 And then for the rest of foreign nationals who are here illegally, 0.99

00:22:33.440 don't give them any further foothold in America. The only reason that the Democrats want to give

00:22:41.500 them amnesty is because statistically, they're much more likely to vote for Democrats. Even with

00:22:45.680 the movement of certain Hispanic voters over to the GOP in certain places like Florida,

00:22:49.960 even that's somewhat complicated. But even with those moves, the numbers just don't work out.

00:22:54.740 If you give amnesty to all these people, the Democrats are going to win all the elections.

00:22:57.880 Okay. I know Ronald Reagan said, the Hispanics are conservative. They just don't know it yet. 1.00

00:23:04.980 That's true for some Hispanic people. But at a broad level, that isn't how it works. That has

00:23:11.920 never been the case. We're still waiting. It's 40 years later. We're still waiting.

00:23:15.980 This is a problem, not because Lindsey Graham is pushing amnesty. Lindsey Graham always pushes amnesty. 1.00

00:23:22.260 Unless it's an election year, then he quiets down about the amnesty.

00:23:24.720 This is a problem because Donald Trump, when he was launching his new presidential bid,

00:23:29.960 he relied on Lindsey Graham at his rally in South Carolina as one of the big voices to say,

00:23:34.780 there's no Trumpism without Trump. We need Trump again. And now Lindsey Graham is positioning 0.99

00:23:38.760 himself as a big squish on immigration. This gives more and more of an opening to other GOP candidates

00:23:44.540 who want to run. And just in the last day, the last two days, we have gotten three new candidates

00:23:51.620 for the Republican nomination for president. First new candidate up for the Republican presidential

00:23:59.500 nomination came out just moments before I started this show today. Former South Carolina governor,

00:24:06.900 former ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley.

00:24:10.900 Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections.

00:24:16.480 That has to change. Joe Biden's record is abysmal, but that shouldn't come as a surprise.

00:24:23.520 The Washington establishment has failed us over and over and over again.

00:24:29.380 It's time for a new generation of leadership to rediscover fiscal responsibility,

00:24:35.900 secure our border, and strengthen our country, our pride, and our purpose.

00:24:41.080 Some people look at America and see vulnerability. The socialist left sees an opportunity to rewrite

00:24:54.000 history. China and Russia are on the march. They all think we can be bullied, kicked around. 0.97

00:25:01.640 You should know this about me. I don't put up with bullies. And when you kick back,

00:25:06.920 it hurts them more if you're wearing heels. I'm Nikki Haley, and I'm running for president.

00:25:17.020 All right, we got Nikki in the race. We knew that she was going to run, 0.91

00:25:20.500 even though Nikki has a little bit of a problem in that she previously had said that if Trump runs

00:25:26.260 for president, she would not run. Nobody really believed that. Politicians say that all the time.

00:25:30.920 It seemed pretty clear that she was going to run. I know there are going to be a lot of

00:25:36.820 conservatives who say, not a chance. I think Nikki Haley's too moderate. I'm not going to vote for

00:25:41.260 her. The thing to remember, though, is the conservatives are not the only part of the Republican Party.

00:25:49.260 There are a lot of moderates in the Republican Party. There are a lot of right-leaning kinds of

00:25:53.340 people. And there is a push in general elections for more moderate candidates.

00:26:00.920 Most Republican nominees in the last 70 years have been pretty moderate.

00:26:13.800 Trump, not quite so much. But Romney, pretty moderate. McCain, pretty moderate. George W. Bush,

00:26:20.500 pretty moderate. Bob Dole, pretty moderate. George H. W. Bush, pretty moderate. Ronald Reagan,

00:26:25.620 more conservative. He was a little bit of an exception to that. Jerry Ford, pretty moderate.

00:26:31.080 Richard Nixon, a little more conservative, but pretty moderate. Barry Goldwater, not so moderate.

00:26:38.700 On social issues, actually, he was somewhat moderate. But Dwight Eisenhower,

00:26:43.840 the centrists are the rule when it comes to the nomination. And so I think that's probably what

00:26:50.960 Nikki Haley is seeing here. Nikki Haley is running, it would appear just from this ad,

00:26:55.820 a relatively conventional campaign. And I suspect that's a strategy. I suspect the strategy is we've

00:27:02.580 had a couple of very unconventional election cycles. People want to return to normalcy. That's why they

00:27:07.960 voted for Joe Biden, if they voted for Joe Biden, in 2020. And so we're going to give them a kind of

00:27:14.740 strong on national defense, cut the taxes, bring everybody together, sort of platform,

00:27:22.600 conventional kind of campaign ad, present yourself in a way that is warm and inviting. But

00:27:27.840 you can still claim some conservative bona fides. I'm not saying it's going to work,

00:27:33.620 but there is a lane for Nikki Haley. If people believe that there is not a lane for Nikki Haley,

00:27:39.320 I think you are totally kidding yourself. And I happen to like Nikki Haley personally very much. I

00:27:45.440 don't know how the field is going to shake out because the fact that she is entering into this race 0.99

00:27:51.840 is just one more data point to show you everybody's going to enter. I think I am probably going to be

00:27:58.280 the last even somewhat public conservative and Republican who is not running in 2024.

00:28:06.220 And really that's only because I'm constitutionally ineligible right now because I'm too young.

00:28:10.740 But everyone is going to get in, okay? Tim Scott announced that he is going to get into the race,

00:28:16.260 or at least it's being heavily floated by his team. This would be another example of someone saying,

00:28:22.240 I'm not going to run and then running. Tim Scott, when his memoir came out, I think it was last

00:28:28.120 summer. The publisher accidentally leaked that he was preparing for a presidential run.

00:28:33.680 And so that news leaked and Tim Scott said, no, I'm absolutely not. It's not happening.

00:28:37.900 Nobody believed that. We all knew that he was preparing a run and that has just been

00:28:41.820 leaking to the press again. And then a third person in the last 24 hours has floated that he's going to

00:28:47.920 run. This would be a buddy of mine from college, actually, Vivek Ramaswamy. Vivek Ramaswamy

00:28:54.820 is a completely unconventional candidate. Vivek Ramaswamy is a entrepreneur. He's done very,

00:29:03.540 very well for himself. He's an extremely intelligent guy. And he would be running as a businessman,

00:29:09.660 as a guy who thinks a little bit outside of the box, as a guy who kind of in the Andrew Yang

00:29:16.920 slash Donald Trump kind of way, I think, in that he hasn't held public office before.

00:29:24.780 But do not underestimate this guy. This guy is very, very intelligent, very talented guy,

00:29:33.660 very motivated. Some people are going to write him off as a long shot candidate. I think that would

00:29:39.480 be a crazy thing to do, especially in this field. I personally think that it's wise for all of these

00:29:46.480 people to get in, and especially for Vivek to get in. If Donald Trump had cleared the field,

00:29:55.100 then he would be the nominee. If the race were Trump versus DeSantis, it would be a real shootout.

00:30:04.820 Maybe DeSantis would even have an advantage, at least in the polling, if you look at it right now.

00:30:09.140 But the fact that neither Trump nor DeSantis could scare everybody else off means that

00:30:18.080 it's going to be a 20-person field. That's just what it means. And in a gigantic field,

00:30:25.480 Trump actually has the advantage. If it were just Trump, that's good for Trump. If it were Trump

00:30:31.100 versus DeSantis, that's bad for Trump because it's a head-to-head. If it were Trump versus DeSantis,

00:30:35.560 versus Haley, versus Ramaswamy, versus Tim Scott, versus, I don't know, Mike Pompeo,

00:30:42.540 versus Mike Pence, versus maybe Ted Cruz, maybe who? All of a sudden, Trump has the advantage again.

00:30:48.100 And that's what you saw in 2016, where Trump was polling 30, 35 percent, but he just had a

00:30:53.780 plurality. He had more than the other people did. My favorite thing about this field, people are

00:30:59.100 always going to be trying to ask, well, who are you endorsing? You know, I try to make a point as

00:31:06.460 best I can not to endorse too much in primaries. But my favorite thing about this field is that

00:31:14.080 right now of the current and prospective candidates, I think most of them have endorsed my books.

00:31:21.820 That's the main thing that matters to me right now about the field.

00:31:28.000 Nikki, Mike Pompeo, Senator Cruz, I think there was one more, endorsed Speechless,

00:31:38.880 Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which is available now, number one national bestseller.

00:31:41.460 Thank you very much. President Trump endorsed my first book, Reasons to Vote for Democrats,

00:31:47.560 a comprehensive guide, also available right now. I think I'm missing one or two. In any case,

00:31:51.820 though, this is really, really important. This is the main thing. Forget about the economy. Forget

00:31:55.180 about immigration. Forget about foreign policy. The main thing is right now we have a field that

00:31:59.180 is shaping up where a huge number of them have a really, really great taste in books. So I'm

00:32:05.620 very, very excited for the 2024 race. Now, getting back to people who are currently in the government,

00:32:15.100 who don't need to run for re-election at this very moment. Joni Ernst, Republican Senator,

00:32:19.720 is focusing in on not just the poison that's pouring out in Ohio, but an even more dangerous

00:32:28.900 campaign of national poisoning. And that would be the poison that is coming into our country from 1.00

00:32:34.300 China, which Senator Ernst says is very likely intentional.

00:32:40.360 Chinese are selling these precursor chemicals into Mexico. Then the Mexican cartels are working on

00:32:49.860 making the fentanyl and distributing up into the United States. So there are a number of activities

00:32:55.460 that we can engage with the Mexicans on. The flow of fentanyl into the United States and 0.99

00:33:01.120 the precursors to Mexico. Is this happening with the tacit approval of the Chinese Communist Party?

00:33:07.280 Catherine, I believe it is. I think that the Chinese are intentionally poisoning America. 1.00

00:33:16.460 And it is a sad circumstance, but this is where we need to really focus with Mexico 0.76

00:33:21.920 on stopping those precursors. So you're getting the precursor drugs going in from China into Mexico,

00:33:30.120 and China is thereby poisoning America. Why? In part because the profit margins are just gigantic

00:33:39.140 on fentanyl, but probably the crisis is so bad that probably you know somebody who has overdosed

00:33:47.580 because of fentanyl. I do. If you don't, I guarantee you, you know somebody who knows somebody who has.

00:33:56.560 It's just everywhere. In fact, I realize I know multiple people in recent years

00:34:04.100 who have OD'd because of this crisis. But think about what Senator Ernst is saying here.

00:34:14.000 If we are correctly interpreting her implication,

00:34:18.460 if this is intentional poisoning of America, that is an act of war.

00:34:26.460 That is an act of war. But there are other factors as well beyond just China wants to 0.68

00:34:31.060 weaken the United States. Obviously, China wants to weaken the United States. China is aggressing. 0.62

00:34:35.020 China is flying ET over our country to look at sensitive military targets and intercept our 0.67

00:34:40.380 communications, which they don't even really need to do because they can spy on all of us from our

00:34:44.080 cell phones, which have TikTok on them. But it's a little more complicated. How is the fentanyl crisis

00:34:50.420 allowed to grow to such an extent? It's not just the Chinese. It's not just the Mexicans. It's not 0.75

00:34:56.720 just the cartels. It's us too. It's our weak and weakening drug laws. If we still had tough drug laws

00:35:05.720 in this country, you wouldn't see this fentanyl crisis. If this country were Singapore and we really

00:35:12.880 controlled our drug laws, you wouldn't see a fentanyl crisis. If this country were Russia, 1.00

00:35:16.840 don't forget about the whole Brittany Griner saga because she brought in some of the 1.00

00:35:19.840 Peruvian parsley into Russia. You would not see this kind of a fentanyl crisis.

00:35:25.780 This is a consequence of laws saying, oh, if you want to do this drug, that's fine. If you want to

00:35:33.280 smoke this recreationally, that's fine. You have a right to do that, actually. The government has no

00:35:37.340 right to tell you not to smoke this or do that. Yes, yes, the government does. Because we live in

00:35:44.340 a republic, at least nominally, and the government is supposed to comprise all of us. And we have a

00:35:49.100 right to say no to these things. I was speaking with a prominent politician yesterday who I hadn't

00:35:56.200 spoken with before. And we were discussing the youths and what the youths want, the young conservatives.

00:36:03.060 They said, what are you saying? I traveled all these college campuses. And one of the biggest

00:36:07.100 shifts that I see among young conservatives, compared to when I was a young conservative,

00:36:12.220 which was not all that long ago. I was in college about 10 years ago. And one of the biggest shifts

00:36:17.740 I see is back then, the young conservatives were extremely libertarian on all of these questions.

00:36:25.040 Probably wouldn't have even called themselves conservatives, many of them. Extremely libertarian,

00:36:29.080 especially on drugs, especially in the weird sex stuff. That has changed. I think that's changed

00:36:34.420 because of transgenderism. I think transgenderism was just a bridge too far. And people said, okay, 0.97

00:36:39.080 there is a limit to what people ought to be allowed to do sexually. Chopping off their

00:36:43.300 guleons is not something that we should tolerate. And I think the opioid crisis is probably a big part 1.00

00:36:48.380 of that too. You're seeing people drop like flies all around us. You say, okay, there is a limit

00:36:52.060 to the drugs that people should take. There is a limit to just permissiveness. There is a limit to

00:36:57.540 license. There is a limit to a politics that is based purely on procedure and doesn't talk about

00:37:01.700 substance. There is a limit to this abstract babbling about freedom floating somewhere in

00:37:07.040 the ether that needs to be put within the context of a substantive discussion. What ought we to be free

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00:38:12.180 that you did. Today is Tuesday. Today is Open Line Telephone Tuesday. And I get to hear from you in

00:38:21.160 your own dulcet tones in real life. And I get to answer your most pressing questions right now.

00:38:26.860 Margo, you're on the line.

00:38:30.000 Hi, Michael. So in honor of St. Valentine's Day, I wanted to ask you just for fun,

00:38:35.180 if you could talk about how and when you knew that sweet little Alisa was the one. I also wanted to

00:38:41.700 ask for your favorite words of wisdom on marriage and romance for my husband and I. We are within our

00:38:46.740 first year of marriage and are expecting our first baby in April. Thank you so much.

00:38:51.940 All right. I love that. I especially love the, we're in our first year of marriage and the baby's

00:38:57.340 already coming. All right. I've got, I'm getting baby envy. That's great. I sort of wish,

00:39:01.960 you know, I'm glad you asked about my love affair with sweet little Alisa because one regret that

00:39:09.520 we have is we wish we had gotten married younger and then we could have started having kids younger

00:39:14.220 and then we wouldn't be so exhausted all the time because we, all those, all those nights that we

00:39:19.780 were out late at bars and things when we were 20 years old, instead we could have just been awake

00:39:24.740 with full, full of energy dealing with our children. So I'm, I'm very envious. You're doing it

00:39:30.940 totally right. How did I know sweet little Alisa was the one? We have a little bit of a strange story

00:39:35.200 or unusual by today's standards in that sweet little Alisa and I met when we were in, I think,

00:39:40.140 the fifth grade. We don't actually remember this meeting, but we were both in district orchestra.

00:39:45.960 We grew up roughly in the same town. Alisa was on the right side of the tracks. I was,

00:39:50.960 you know, from the wrong side of the tracks. It was a real West Side Story sort of situation.

00:39:54.040 And we were in the district orchestra together. And then we were in homeroom together in sixth

00:39:58.840 grade. And we, we went to middle school together. I had a crush, or Alisa, sweet little Alisa had a

00:40:05.000 crush on me in seventh or eighth grade, though I was dating the lead of the middle school musical.

00:40:09.200 It was, you know, very, very scandalous. It was the stuff of, of, you know, Shakespeare romances.

00:40:15.820 And then I had a crush on sweet little Alisa in the ninth grade. She was dating an upperclassman.

00:40:20.860 And that was very, very scandalous, tore my heart into shreds. And we finally started dating

00:40:25.300 properly in junior year of high school. And in, in the old days, we would have been told,

00:40:33.080 well, you got to stay together, maybe get married, but you got to stay together through college,

00:40:36.560 love will endure all. But because we grew up in this stupid modern culture, everybody around us 0.99

00:40:42.000 said, no, you got to break up. You have to break up for college. Don't stay together for college. 1.00

00:40:46.640 That's crazy. Everybody around us said this. The whole culture said this. We,

00:40:50.500 we just kind of grudgingly did it. And then we said, well, this is terrible. I don't,

00:40:54.980 you know, I don't want to date these other people. And then we got back together at the end of college

00:40:59.220 and, and then got married. So how did, how did I know sweet little Alisa was the one? I don't know.

00:41:02.820 I probably knew since like eighth grade and it was just the modern culture telling me, no,

00:41:08.220 you can't get married yet. You have to go through college and you have to date all these different

00:41:12.420 people and you need to go move to some city and you need to not ever consider love or marriage or

00:41:17.560 family until you've made enough money and you're in your career and only pursue your own interests.

00:41:21.720 So I think you're probably doing it a lot better than I did. And, and you should, you know, the,

00:41:27.320 the nice thing with mine and sweet little Alisa story is that it ends very, very happily. We have

00:41:33.140 just everything that we want, but, but that doesn't always for people. Sometimes people,

00:41:37.440 they listen to the modern culture and it totally screws up your life. Don't let that stupid 1.00

00:41:41.960 culture screw up your life and, uh, uh, best wishes for the birth of your first child, Margo. 1.00

00:41:48.000 All right. Next question from Steven in Alabama. Hello, Steven.

00:41:56.120 Hey, Michael. Um, yes, a big fan of the show. So I got a question for you. Um, we as conservatives

00:42:03.140 say that we believe that a value, a value of life inside the womb is equal to a baby outside the womb.

00:42:11.440 And I say we, because I believe that as well. Um, but we don't treat it that way. And I'll give you

00:42:18.440 an example. So if I was walking down the street and I had, um, somebody runs up to me and they're

00:42:23.700 like, Hey, somebody strangling a baby behind a dumpster. Right. I would feel a moral obligation

00:42:30.100 to use any means necessary to stop that person from strangling that baby behind that dumpster.

00:42:37.060 Um, and just to be clear, I'm not advocating for any particular action or anything like that,

00:42:41.960 but it just seems like a mental kind of disconnect between the idea that we believe

00:42:47.840 that those two things have the same amount of, uh, same amount of value, but we react in a different

00:42:54.540 way. It's a good question. The question taken to its logical conclusion is why don't we bomb

00:42:59.180 abortion clinics, right? Is basically what you're asking. And it's a, it's a real moral question.

00:43:04.100 I see, I see where the quandary comes from. The short answer to that is because the civil authority

00:43:09.960 has created this license for one of the most ghastly crimes that one could imagine, which is

00:43:16.520 the murder of babies. But we can't just write that off. We can't just write off that the civil authority

00:43:21.600 has tolerated this because we are obligated to respect the civil authority, at least to some degree.

00:43:29.060 So that's why, that is why we don't just go out and bomb abortion clinics. That is why

00:43:34.840 we don't react in exactly the same way as if, if you, if you were told that a baby one week before

00:43:41.820 being born is, is about to be murdered versus a baby one week after being born. Uh, even though

00:43:47.600 the baby is essentially the same person in both of those cases, this is why the reaction is different

00:43:53.460 because if, if we just went out and engaged in vigilantism all the time, one, it would, that

00:43:59.620 would not be a moral thing to do in and of itself because moral actions are not merely gauged based

00:44:05.820 on the consequences that they have there. We, we measure moral, the morality of actions based on

00:44:12.140 the action themselves. Uh, but, but also because in, in consequence, it, it would probably harm the

00:44:19.360 pro-life argument. It, it would not advance the cause of life. It would not persuade people to,

00:44:25.560 to overturn, uh, laws that permit abortion. Uh, but, but I, I feel you, I, I certainly empathize

00:44:33.400 with it. It is, it is essentially the same thing to kill a baby a week after he's born to kill a baby 0.81

00:44:38.520 before he's born is the same action. Uh, but because, because of this confounding factor that we live

00:44:45.640 in society and because there is a civil authority, uh, the, the political measures that, that one is

00:44:51.120 impelled to engage in as a result of that are different. And, and this is, this is a hard lesson

00:44:56.180 even for Christians because St. Paul tells us that the, the civil authority does not bear the sword

00:45:00.800 in vain. You know, the civil authority is put there by God for our good, that, that we have order and,

00:45:06.260 and law, the rule of law in society. But the problem is sometimes the law is deeply unjust. And so

00:45:11.460 what we have to do is, is change the law. And what we have to do is, is attempt to reconcile

00:45:18.140 the, the fallen, sometimes very, very fallen and broken, uh, laws that's reflected in civil life

00:45:24.500 with the eternal moral law. All right. Now, very, very good question though. Very good question.

00:45:30.100 Next question is from Kenneth in Montana. Hello, Kenneth.

00:45:36.460 Michael, how are you?

00:45:37.940 I'm better now that I'm talking to you, Kenneth. How can I help you?

00:45:43.200 Yeah. Say, I, uh, wanted to make a comment on, uh, yesterday you said that UFOs aren't real

00:45:50.500 and you, and, uh, now I, I agree with you that there's no evidence that they are real,

00:45:58.560 but I, I go along with that, uh, universe is so big, but with me, it's, I feel vain.

00:46:07.920 Do you believe that I'm the only sentient being that God created in this giant universe that he

00:46:15.960 created? Why? Well, you're not the only sentient being, there are other sentient beings, but you,

00:46:22.080 you do appear to be the only incarnate being with a rational will. And so, so, I mean, you know,

00:46:29.180 a little mouse is sentient to some degree. He, he can perceive things around him,

00:46:33.400 that little mouse can feel pain. Uh, and angels and demons are, which, which ironically people do

00:46:40.340 believe in aliens today. They don't believe in angels and demons, even though for all of human

00:46:43.560 history, everybody believed in angels and demons and nobody believed in little green men. But I think 0.79

00:46:47.880 actually that's why we believe in aliens now is because the culture has given up on the reality

00:46:52.380 of spiritual beings like, uh, demons and, and, uh, angels. But the idea at least, whether you believe in

00:46:58.520 them or not, the idea of a demon and an angel is that these are pure spirit, you know, they're pure

00:47:02.920 intellect. They don't, they don't have bodies. Some things are pure body. They don't have any

00:47:07.620 intellect. My leftist here is Tumblr. Why is though the, the, uh, uh, implications of it is not

00:47:13.680 actually a conscious or sentient being, but you are, you're, you're both, you're corporeal and you're,

00:47:19.280 you're conscious and, and intelligent. So then you say, well, I just can't believe the,

00:47:24.920 the universe is so big. I just can't possibly be the only one to which I would ask. Why not?

00:47:34.360 Well, I mean, I know like we're, we're, we're God's favorite. We were created in his image.

00:47:42.120 And I mean, I guess, yeah, I mean, it could be that we're just, we're, yeah.

00:47:49.080 Cause this is my, when people say, well, it's, it's really, really big the universe and therefore

00:47:53.420 statistically, there's gotta be more life. I say, well, I guess that sort of depends on how

00:47:58.660 you think life begins. If you think that life is just a random chance that life begins from a purely

00:48:04.800 material process and, uh, therefore. Well, no, life is created by God. Exactly. So this is my point is

00:48:12.580 if you think that life is a very, very special thing, then there's no reason to believe that

00:48:18.560 life is commonplace. It doesn't matter how big the universe is. If it's a really, really special

00:48:23.480 intentional thing, then there's no reason to believe it's, it's really commonplace. If however,

00:48:27.520 as most, not as you believe, but as most modern people believe, if you think that life is just

00:48:31.580 this random thing that kind of bubbles up and it's just purely material and it's pure random chance,

00:48:36.180 then I guess you might believe that it, that it's likely that life exists elsewhere in the world.

00:48:40.720 But, but then my question always to the people who say that is, well, okay, tell me how life begins.

00:48:46.500 And they never can. You can get the fanciest scientist with the nicest white lab coat and

00:48:50.980 stethoscope. He's not going to tell you anything, which is, by the way, this is the wisdom of the

00:48:54.580 book of Job. When God says, where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me,

00:48:58.620 you have so much understanding. Tell me where you were. Tell me how it happened. And that's what I

00:49:02.780 want to ask all these modern liberal atheist people is, okay, you're so smart. Tell me, where were 0.96

00:49:07.620 you when God laid the foundations of the earth? How does life begin? Because unless you can answer that

00:49:11.580 question, then it's, it's completely meaningless to talk about the statistical likelihood that it

00:49:17.000 happened anywhere else. Really, really good point though, because I think that a lot of people,

00:49:22.200 and even at various points in my life, I would have been inclined to believe as you do, well,

00:49:27.200 the universe is so big. It's probably, there's probably life somewhere. But when you, when you

00:49:30.620 really get down to the granular level of why that is the case, I think it comes up lacking. Okay.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 14, 2023

Ep. 1183 - Don't Worry, Aliens Did Not Cause The Train Derailments

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