The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 121 - Democrats Encourage Students To Cut Class

00:00:00.160 Students across the country are cutting class today and the mainstream media couldn't be happier.

00:00:05.920 Finally, finally, students are cutting class. This is big.

00:00:10.420 We will discuss the National Student Walkout to infringe on our civil rights

00:00:14.300 in the broader context of the awful legacy of student activism in America.

00:00:18.880 Then, the most important takeaways from the special election last night in Pennsylvania

00:00:22.740 and why basically I'm happy the Democrat won.

00:00:25.560 Finally, I will defend United Airlines after a puppy died on one of their flights.

00:00:30.760 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:39.380 That is a lot for one show. This is going to be a big show.

00:00:42.460 Going after cute kids, applauding a Democrat victory, and defending dead puppies.

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00:05:02.560 Okay, today is a national day.

00:05:04.560 It is a national day, a big day.

00:05:06.840 It's not just Pi Day.

00:05:08.020 It's also Pi Day, 3.14.

00:05:10.140 But it's a big national activist, national, national day.

00:05:13.680 How do I know that?

00:05:14.600 Because the mainstream media told me.

00:05:17.040 Ahead of a planned student walkout on Wednesday.

00:05:19.440 A nationwide student walkout is planned later this week for stricter gun laws.

00:05:23.500 Schools around the country are bracing for a series of student walkouts to protest gun violence.

00:05:28.560 A student walkout is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Wednesday across the country.

00:05:32.660 Schools in all 50 states bracing for protests.

00:05:35.440 Not more silence!

00:05:37.100 And gun violence!

00:05:39.060 Did you hear that, students?

00:05:40.520 Did you catch that?

00:05:41.480 10 a.m. on Wednesday.

00:05:43.500 And it's in all 50 states.

00:05:45.000 So don't worry.

00:05:45.900 We're going to repeat this on every news program all day until you realize and actually go out there and cut class.

00:05:51.260 The mainstream media always do this.

00:05:53.380 The mainstream media stoke the flames of these protests to such a degree they basically create them.

00:05:58.780 They didn't even just say there's, you know, on Facebook they're talking about a walkout.

00:06:01.760 They actually said it's going to be at this time and don't worry if you're in Mississippi or New York.

00:06:06.320 It's going to be all over this time.

00:06:07.720 You've got to do it.

00:06:08.780 You know, there's another kid in all of this.

00:06:10.480 There's another one of these teenagers.

00:06:11.780 A friend of the show.

00:06:12.340 We brought him on to talk about, not to talk about guns, but to talk about the media, Kyle Kashov.

00:06:17.280 And he has, I've got to say, I'm not for high school kids going around and being used as political pawns or anything.

00:06:24.740 But Kyle, much more than any of his classmates, has really comported himself respectfully.

00:06:30.140 He's been respectful to his elders, to elected people.

00:06:34.040 He's been kind of serious.

00:06:35.280 He hasn't been just relentlessly attacking one politician or another politician.

00:06:39.400 There were a lot of photos.

00:06:40.640 I guess he had meetings with everybody, Chuck Schumer, President Trump, in the Oval Office.

00:06:45.280 A lot, you know, that is actually something really spectacular.

00:06:49.140 We've never seen that with student activism recently.

00:06:52.040 And that doesn't get covered.

00:06:53.360 That's not what gets covered on TV because it doesn't push the agenda.

00:06:56.420 The mainstream media have to publicize this left-wing administration.

00:06:59.760 So really they effectively create it.

00:07:02.100 Notice, too, they publicize it as a national event.

00:07:04.480 So what happens?

00:07:05.680 It becomes a national event.

00:07:06.840 If they publicized it as a New York event, it'd be a New York event.

00:07:09.820 But if they publicized it as a national event, then they have to sell it, though.

00:07:13.300 So they turn up the emotion and they conflate lots of different, unconnected stories of trauma

00:07:17.640 to push their entirely unconnected gun-grabbing legislation.

00:07:21.260 Here it is.

00:07:21.780 Teachers say some even had personal stories to tell about the toll of gun violence.

00:07:26.820 Every year, somebody's cousin, somebody's dad, somebody's aunt.

00:07:31.440 And Trump, you need to do something about this because we lost so many people from 2017 and 18.

00:07:41.540 Because without guns, there ain't going to be no more killing and stuff like that.

00:07:45.120 But with guns, there's going to be a lot more killing because people don't know how to control 0.96

00:07:49.140 themselves with guns and they act foolish with them.

00:07:52.480 Students also discussed ways to frame their message during the planned walkout on Wednesday

00:07:56.980 to have the strongest impact on the gun control debate.

00:08:00.420 To frame their message.

00:08:02.220 I don't know if you saw in that video, there's a teacher hovering over the kid, making sure

00:08:05.440 the kid writes the correct thing on the construction paper, you know, anti-Trump, we need more gun

00:08:10.180 control or whatever.

00:08:11.140 But did you catch even the words that they had these kids say?

00:08:14.460 At the beginning, that student said, you know, somebody's aunt got killed, somebody's father

00:08:19.340 gets killed from guns.

00:08:20.920 I don't think they got killed at schools.

00:08:22.320 I don't think that's about school shootings anymore.

00:08:24.380 I think you're talking about bad neighborhoods and criminals killing people.

00:08:27.140 Well, that's not, that isn't, that has nothing to do with keeping schools safe.

00:08:30.940 That has nothing to do with school shootings.

00:08:32.320 So they're trying to lump this into all guns, all gun crime.

00:08:36.160 But of course, school shootings have been on the decline for 25 years, 30 years.

00:08:40.680 We know that mass shootings have been on the decline for 25 or 30 years.

00:08:43.580 We know that most gun deaths, gun crime are suicides by middle-aged men.

00:08:50.260 Then you see that other students say, Trump, you need to do something.

00:08:54.260 Trump, you need to, what does Trump need to do?

00:08:56.240 How is Donald Trump responsible for these shootings?

00:08:58.380 We know that the shooting in Florida was, was caused in no small part because that county

00:09:03.760 led the nation in pushing a left-wing policy for student discipline.

00:09:08.020 In fact, the Obama administration adopted the policy that was pioneered by that school district,

00:09:13.700 by Broward County.

00:09:14.920 And that district was less discipline.

00:09:16.860 Don't put the kid in touch with the cops.

00:09:18.800 Don't just ignore, brush it under the rug.

00:09:20.960 That was it.

00:09:21.400 That's actually a policy that Donald Trump opposes.

00:09:23.560 So really, we should have been seeing this with Barack Obama, do something.

00:09:27.000 Barack Obama, you need to do something.

00:09:28.680 But of course, we don't see that.

00:09:29.860 That doesn't feed the narrative.

00:09:30.880 It's not like there weren't school shootings during the Obama administration, but that doesn't

00:09:34.320 match the narrative.

00:09:35.100 Now Trump is president.

00:09:35.920 So now we need, Trump, you need to do something.

00:09:38.600 Then the final statement from that, that student said, without guns, there won't be more killing.

00:09:44.100 Guns are a relatively new invention in world history.

00:09:46.820 They haven't been around forever.

00:09:48.620 I'm just, you know, right now I'm reading the book of Joshua and the Bible.

00:09:51.000 I'm doing the Bible in a year.

00:09:52.900 I'm, I'm no expert.

00:09:54.340 I'm not, you know, I'm not a credentialed historian.

00:09:56.620 I think there was killing before guns.

00:09:58.480 I think there was, I think the imagination of man's heart is evil from the beginning.

00:10:01.580 I suspect that.

00:10:02.620 So that isn't true.

00:10:03.540 And places where these gun bans have been tried, by the way, that, that hasn't necessarily

00:10:07.560 reduced homicides and it hasn't necessarily reduced crime, certainly.

00:10:11.460 And also gun bans are basically impossible.

00:10:13.680 Even in Australia where they had the most sweeping gun ban, two thirds of people kept

00:10:16.920 their guns.

00:10:17.540 In America, there are more guns than people in the United States.

00:10:20.220 So to say without guns, there, there won't be more killing. 0.99

00:10:24.620 That's ridiculous.

00:10:25.260 Also, these rifles that people are trying to ban account for virtually no deaths each 0.84

00:10:29.500 year, particularly compared to, uh, knives, particularly compared to hands and feet and

00:10:35.100 certainly compared to handguns.

00:10:36.400 So if we're talking about blanket ban of all guns, that's one thing, but notice how we're

00:10:39.760 getting conflated.

00:10:40.620 Everything is getting conflated here.

00:10:42.260 Stop school shootings, ban AR-15s for some reason.

00:10:46.060 It's Donald Trump's fault.

00:10:47.360 We need to ban all guns, no guns, more, right? 0.92

00:10:49.540 What it doesn't, it's so blurry, but that's what the media want.

00:10:53.140 What is the end game here for the media?

00:10:55.100 Because they have all these different purported goals.

00:10:57.580 What do the media really want out of all of this?

00:10:59.300 Michael, take it away.

00:11:00.280 There's going to be a massive student walkout Friday afternoon.

00:11:03.660 Tomorrow in Indiana, 20,000 people you mentioned there, hopefully more at the state capitol.

00:11:08.260 This, this has to continue day after day after day.

00:11:11.260 And these governors have, are going to have to step down.

00:11:14.000 They're going to be recalled.

00:11:15.000 They're going to be impeached.

00:11:16.100 They've broken the law.

00:11:17.420 There's no way they can get away with this.

00:11:18.900 How does it make a difference for people to protest?

00:11:21.140 How does it make a difference that student walkout tonight in Madison?

00:11:23.700 How does it translate into making a difference?

00:11:25.700 It's already made a difference.

00:11:26.960 Look at the change, just to the polls you've cited.

00:11:29.280 Just in one month, the public opinion of the governor of Wisconsin, of the legislature,

00:11:34.920 of our support for unions and their rights, everything has turned in favor of the working people.

00:11:40.600 And it's been because the people in Madison, the people of Wisconsin, have stood up and have been there every single day.

00:11:45.680 And they've helped to turn people around on this.

00:11:47.540 The American people have woken up.

00:11:49.520 I got to tell you, this is another, it's going to be another aspect of the show.

00:11:52.840 I'll compliment Michael Moore and Rachel Maddow.

00:11:54.680 At least they're honest.

00:11:55.900 At least Moore and Maddow are honest here.

00:11:58.520 And you notice this with a few of them.

00:12:00.280 Moore predicted that Trump would win and he kind of saw why.

00:12:02.960 And Rachel Maddow, compared to her colleagues at MSNBC, is pretty upfront about her views and is pretty honest about what she wants.

00:12:10.940 This is all about electing Democrats and hurting Republicans.

00:12:14.920 That's what it's about.

00:12:15.880 That's what the national student cutting class is about.

00:12:18.900 That's what all of the media coverage is about.

00:12:20.700 This is why none of these things happened during the Obama administration.

00:12:23.300 This is about electing Democrats and hurting Republicans.

00:12:28.280 It's not about kids.

00:12:29.540 It's not about crime statistics.

00:12:30.920 It's not about murders.

00:12:31.740 It's not even about guns.

00:12:33.420 It's about pushing their political agenda, of which guns play only a small role.

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00:14:53.020 Okay. 0.99

00:14:54.260 This is, that's what all of these protests are about.

00:14:56.940 Electing Democrats over Republicans.

00:14:58.720 This is exactly the same thing as amnesty for illegal aliens.

00:15:03.260 I promise you, if illegal aliens were coming across the border right now and they were identifying

00:15:07.700 three times to 8.75 times Republican over Democrat, there would be deportation trains being commandeered

00:15:15.960 by Democrats.

00:15:16.980 They would be the engineers saying, choo-choo, sending them right back across.

00:15:19.740 How do I know that?

00:15:20.460 Because they do that with Cubans. 1.00

00:15:22.500 Cuban refugees tend to vote for Republicans over Democrats because they see what socialism does

00:15:27.700 and their lives have been ruined by it and their families have been killed and tortured and oppressed by it.

00:15:31.940 So they tend to vote for Republicans.

00:15:33.720 And what did Barack Obama do?

00:15:35.340 He repealed the wet foot, dry foot policy.

00:15:38.300 There was a policy in the United States whereby if Cuban refugees came over and made it to the United States shores,

00:15:44.060 they would be legal here.

00:15:45.400 They wouldn't be deported.

00:15:46.420 Obama got rid of that.

00:15:47.520 Why?

00:15:47.800 Well, because it comes, why is a Cuban worth less than a Honduran? 0.99

00:15:52.260 Why does a Cuban national have to be deported back immediately, but a Honduran national gets to stay 1.00

00:15:58.000 and is a dreamer and needs a path to citizenship and all of that?

00:16:00.620 It's because of a very cynical political calculation.

00:16:03.800 It's sad, but it's true. 1.00

00:16:04.940 If this situation were reversed, you would see opposite feelings on this, but that's the Democrat.

00:16:12.840 They have their electoral strategy.

00:16:14.180 They actually released it in a memo.

00:16:15.500 They said illegal amnesty is necessary for our electoral viability,

00:16:20.700 that it is always a cynical calculation when it comes to these big national events.

00:16:25.460 This is the reason we don't let 16-year-olds vote. 0.96

00:16:28.580 It's this whole thing about we got to listen to the kids out of the mouth of babes.

00:16:31.600 We got to listen to kids.

00:16:32.820 No, no, we don't.

00:16:33.980 The kids don't know anything.

00:16:36.500 That's why we don't let them vote.

00:16:37.600 They don't know anything.

00:16:38.280 They're students.

00:16:39.240 They're students because they don't know things,

00:16:41.320 and then hopefully by the end of being students, they will know things.

00:16:44.400 They learn things.

00:16:45.360 That isn't necessarily the case in our current educational system,

00:16:48.260 even at some of the best schools in the country,

00:16:50.160 but that is the idea.

00:16:51.340 They don't know anything.

00:16:52.420 Democrats want to lower the voting age because they thrive on ignorance, 0.96

00:16:55.300 and Democrat candidates thrive on ignorance.

00:16:57.560 Last March, California Democrats proposed ACA 10 to lower the voting age to 17.

00:17:03.980 Why is that?

00:17:04.980 Democrat Assemblyman Evan Lowe said,

00:17:07.500 young people are our future.

00:17:10.720 All right, I guess.

00:17:11.540 Sure.

00:17:11.840 Yeah, the young people are young.

00:17:13.180 Young people are young.

00:17:14.740 That's really profound, and so we need to let them vote because they vote for Democrats.

00:17:17.700 If they voted for Republicans, they'd be trying to raise the voting age to 65,

00:17:20.660 which I'm kind of trying to do.

00:17:22.120 George Soros is backing this measure through his Open Society Foundation and the Fair Vote Group.

00:17:26.360 Also, they're pushing for pre-registration starting at 16.

00:17:30.320 They want 16-year-olds to be able to pre-register to vote.

00:17:33.420 By the way, that already exists in 20 states and in the District of Columbia.

00:17:37.840 This sort of activism is so shallow, and it's so tawdry, and it's so modern.

00:17:43.720 The trend today on Twitter, I couldn't have written it better.

00:17:47.060 A short story author couldn't have written it better.

00:17:49.040 The trend was students stand up.

00:17:53.540 Hashtag students stand up.

00:17:55.000 They stand.

00:17:55.800 They don't learn.

00:17:56.380 They stand.

00:17:56.880 They don't read books.

00:17:58.160 They stand.

00:17:58.520 They don't go to class.

00:17:59.120 They stand.

00:17:59.960 Michael Oakeshott writes about this in Rationalism and Politics.

00:18:02.740 He writes that the rationalist, he's always standing for something.

00:18:05.980 He's never moving.

00:18:06.780 He's never doing anything.

00:18:07.720 He's not bettering himself.

00:18:08.680 He's just kind of standing.

00:18:10.560 Just standing there.

00:18:11.240 You know, I'm just occupying Wall Street.

00:18:12.680 Just do-do-do.

00:18:13.920 Hey, what are you doing?

00:18:15.300 Nothing.

00:18:15.680 Just standing.

00:18:16.220 Just occupying.

00:18:16.760 This is part and parcel of student activism in the United States, and it's dreadful history here. 0.99

00:18:23.080 Student activism, from the beginning of it to the end, is riddled with ignorance and kids being used as useful idiots for nefarious American foes. 0.96

00:18:33.640 It began really as a national phenomenon in the 1930s when communists founded the American Youth Congress. 0.99

00:18:40.480 And I'm not talking about small C communists, like your little Marxist professor, really.

00:18:44.760 I mean big C communists, like the American Youth Congress received its orders from the Communist Party USA and Comintern, the international communist organization founded and controlled by the Soviet Union. 0.99

00:18:56.280 It had a direct line from Moscow.

00:18:58.960 The American Youth Congress was among Comintern's most successful front groups, especially in the United States.

00:19:05.380 The American Youth Congress even attracted the support of Eleanor Roosevelt, unsurprising perhaps to some of us.

00:19:11.500 The counterculture of the 1960s and 70s was driven by student activism.

00:19:16.040 The major student activist group at that time was SDS, the Students for a Democratic Society.

00:19:21.620 It finally disbanded, thankfully, because it blew a lot of stuff up.

00:19:25.100 But it actually was refounded in 2006, which shows you it's a sign of the times and there's a new Students for a Democratic Society, God help us.

00:19:32.860 The representative group of the new left was the Students for a Democratic Society. 0.98

00:19:36.040 This was really radical and another group of useful idiots for the Soviet Union. 0.99

00:19:40.680 This was the beginning of the end for Democrats as a serious, mature political party, by the way. 0.99

00:19:45.180 Because Democrats, you know, there was a kind of liberal consensus.

00:19:48.380 Democrats and Republicans, they were different, but they were both pro-America.

00:19:51.940 They both supported Americans, they both supported American victory in war.

00:19:54.980 That changed with the new left.

00:19:56.520 I'm not being hyperbolic here.

00:19:57.800 The new left actually existed to change that.

00:20:00.760 So the new left existed to undermine American war efforts, to diminish American power around the world, to try to hollow out America from within.

00:20:09.020 That's the new left.

00:20:10.020 That's when you saw, you know, people talk about the parties switching.

00:20:12.780 They say, oh, well, you know, the Republicans used to be the good guys and the Democrats used to be the bad guys.

00:20:17.240 And then one day, around the time that our parents became of age, then they just switched.

00:20:22.220 Then they all just switch.

00:20:22.900 They say, okay, you'll be a Republican, I'll be a Democrat, now we're going to switch.

00:20:25.660 But part of that realignment, there was a realignment geographically too.

00:20:30.060 A lot of that is because of the new left.

00:20:31.620 It's where you saw blue dog Democrats break off and say, I'm a Democrat, but I like America.

00:20:36.760 So what, and this party is so anti-American.

00:20:39.200 It's so shrill.

00:20:40.220 It's especially on issues of life.

00:20:41.880 It's so fanatically in favor of abortion.

00:20:44.840 I can't be a Democrat anymore.

00:20:46.240 So you saw people who were a little more socially conservative and people who liked their country and were more patriotic went to the Republican Party.

00:20:52.260 That's part of the big shift.

00:20:53.480 It happened in large part because of student activism.

00:20:55.740 The SDS then gave rise to the Weather Underground, a domestic terror group that tried to overthrow the U.S. government by bombing and murdering a bunch of people in the 70s.

00:21:05.020 I should be careful with my words here when I say that they murdered a bunch of people.

00:21:08.640 The group was founded by Barack Obama's mentor, Bill Ayers.

00:21:13.060 They had a close relationship in Chicago.

00:21:15.840 Bill Ayers is also a violent communist.

00:21:17.440 When I say they murdered a bunch of people, I don't mean that they murdered their targets or their adversaries.

00:21:22.200 Fortunately, the left in the Weather Underground were so incompetent that they ended up just killing their own members because they didn't know how to set off bombs when they were trying to destroy buildings and overthrow the government. 0.76

00:21:33.220 We have to always thank the ignorance and incompetence of the left because they did blow themselves up a few times. 0.94

00:21:40.340 Not enough, but a few times. 0.86

00:21:42.060 SDS helped lead the Willard Strait Hall takeover at Cornell University in 1969.

00:21:48.660 This was when armed students came in with guns and just took over Cornell University.

00:21:54.660 Notice a theme here.

00:21:56.000 All of the student protests involved walking out or staying out or all in all just putting a stop to learning.

00:22:04.080 No more learning.

00:22:04.840 No, we have to destroy buildings.

00:22:06.520 We have to break down university buildings.

00:22:09.020 We need to stop people from going to class.

00:22:11.280 In Cornell, you saw people walking down the hall.

00:22:13.040 They said, hey, hey, ho, ho, Western civ has got to go.

00:22:16.460 Hey, hey.

00:22:17.220 And it's a double entendre.

00:22:19.160 On the one hand, it's we need to stop teaching people Western civilization. 0.92

00:22:22.180 We need to start teaching them God knows what communist nonsense.

00:22:26.440 But on the other critical theory or something, on the other hand, it's also saying because we're going to stop teaching it to them, hopefully we can end Western civilization itself.

00:22:34.940 We can hollow out Western civilization itself and move on to some other utopian dream, some other utopian fantasy.

00:22:42.000 Coincidentally, a professor of mine in college was at Cornell at the time, Don Kagan, Donald Kagan.

00:22:47.420 And he just kept teaching during all the mayhem.

00:22:49.680 That was his protest.

00:22:50.580 That's a real protest.

00:22:53.080 On the National Student Walkout Day, the real protest is to stay in class and listen and learn something and do what you're supposed to do and don't act like a little bratty child.

00:23:02.520 We've seen other student activism in recent years.

00:23:05.560 Obviously, we saw the shrieking girl at Yale. 1.00

00:23:07.920 You all remember her.

00:23:08.740 I can't play that clip again.

00:23:10.120 It's so devastating.

00:23:11.440 Like, on the one hand, it's very funny.

00:23:12.960 On the other hand, it makes me so sad and weep for that institution.

00:23:16.120 You saw Kony 2012, obviously, a really important activist moment.

00:23:19.260 And the Darfur protests, they didn't result in anything, did it?

00:23:22.760 But students walked out and they, I don't know, they smoked pot in Central Park.

00:23:27.260 I remember this when I was in high school.

00:23:29.780 Walkouts over the Iraq War.

00:23:31.880 I was in middle school during the Iraq War.

00:23:33.980 And I remember there's a walkout of all these middle school students or a sit-in or whatever.

00:23:38.080 These are like 12-year-old kids, 11-year-old kids.

00:23:40.720 Why did they walk out?

00:23:42.040 Because they want to cut class.

00:23:43.200 Kids always want to cut class.

00:23:44.560 Dummies, what are you doing?

00:23:45.940 But they don't. 0.98

00:23:46.640 A 12-year-old doesn't understand war, doesn't understand much of anything.

00:23:50.540 That's why they're in school, to learn.

00:23:52.320 But what the left tries to do is just turn up that arrogance.

00:23:55.820 Turn up that hubris.

00:23:56.860 Turn up that pride.

00:23:58.060 Turn down the humility.

00:24:00.020 And when you do that, it prevents them from learning and it makes you an easier pawn. 0.99

00:24:03.320 If you're ignorant, you're more of a pawn. 0.97

00:24:06.280 They always involve walkouts. 1.00

00:24:07.840 They always involve a stop to learning.

00:24:09.720 We have so much news to talk about.

00:24:11.460 You're telling me I've got to sign off first.

00:24:13.180 That is, oh no.

00:24:14.740 We have, we got today, we got some really good stuff.

00:24:17.420 I've got to tell you why I'm basically happy the Democrat won.

00:24:19.900 And I have to defend dead puppies.

00:24:22.680 That is real.

00:24:23.580 And you're going to miss all that if you're not at dailywired.com.

00:24:27.180 I'm sorry, guys.

00:24:28.140 This is what happens.

00:24:29.140 If you're on YouTube, no, you're not.

00:24:30.880 If you're on Facebook, go to dailywired.com right now.

00:24:34.100 What you can do then is you'll get me, you'll get the Andrew Klavan Show, you get the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:24:38.260 You get to ask questions during the conversation.

00:24:40.820 It's an hour-long conversation between either Drew or me or Ben.

00:24:45.380 And you can ask questions.

00:24:47.440 Everybody can watch.

00:24:48.180 Only subscribers can ask questions.

00:24:49.900 Same with the mailbag.

00:24:51.600 Many are called, but few are chosen.

00:24:53.380 We're going to have the mailbag tomorrow.

00:24:54.660 I can answer all of your very important questions.

00:24:56.340 But only if you subscribe.

00:24:57.440 But none of that matters.

00:24:59.180 I know you don't care about that.

00:25:00.160 What you care about is this.

00:25:02.860 Because we're not going to pass gun control.

00:25:05.020 We're not going to take away people's constitutionally protected civil rights.

00:25:08.660 Americans are going to remain free.

00:25:10.160 Sorry, lefties.

00:25:10.860 They're going to remain free.

00:25:11.620 And then they're going to sob.

00:25:13.860 They're going to cry so, so much.

00:25:15.900 And you're going to need this.

00:25:17.140 Or you're going to drown.

00:25:18.340 Look, I know you want to protect your civil rights.

00:25:19.980 I know you want to be able to defend yourself.

00:25:21.540 That's an important thing.

00:25:22.580 But it's not just the guns, guys.

00:25:25.380 Sometimes the best offense is a good defense, you know.

00:25:27.680 Get the, is that how the saying goes?

00:25:29.080 I don't know.

00:25:29.660 Get the Leftist Tears Tumblr.

00:25:31.140 It's the only FDA-approved vessel to store your salty and delicious leftist tears.

00:25:35.180 Go to dailywire.com.

00:25:36.100 We'll be right back.

00:25:47.960 All right.

00:25:48.580 We got to talk about Pennsylvania.

00:25:49.900 The race isn't over.

00:25:51.060 Obviously, it came down to like four votes or something.

00:25:53.640 So it's probably going to trigger a recount.

00:25:55.320 It's probably going to go to court.

00:25:56.560 They've got to count absentee ballots, which usually don't matter.

00:25:58.960 This time it looks like they will.

00:26:00.760 Blah, blah, blah.

00:26:01.280 Democrats tend to win these things when it comes down to these little minute things.

00:26:05.120 I don't know.

00:26:05.400 Something about those crafty little Democrats in government, they usually eke it out in

00:26:08.780 the end.

00:26:09.820 That's fine.

00:26:10.300 I'm going to look on the bright side of all this.

00:26:11.660 If a Democrat had to win one of these elections, they didn't win.

00:26:14.420 They were predicting in Florida, we're going to turn, or in Texas, rather, we're going to

00:26:17.580 turn Texas blue.

00:26:18.440 This is going to be it.

00:26:19.080 Then they didn't turn Texas blue and kind of shut up about it, you noticed.

00:26:21.980 If they had to win one of these things, I'm glad it was this one.

00:26:24.660 I'm glad it was this one.

00:26:25.860 Because this election means nothing, practically.

00:26:29.100 Practically, it means nothing.

00:26:30.140 It's a warning, which I like, but it's practically meaningless.

00:26:32.720 The gerrymandered district, PA-18, will not exist in November.

00:26:36.780 There's going to be another election in November.

00:26:39.080 Just a few months from now, it's being broken up.

00:26:41.700 Conor Lamb, who probably won this election, will run in a new district, likely Pennsylvania

00:26:47.000 17, where he lives in November, at which point 80% of the district will be new to him.

00:26:52.520 So, incumbency does help candidates generally, but it doesn't help candidates if you're 80%

00:26:59.340 in a new district.

00:27:01.220 So, I'll give a few excuses for Republicans probably losing this race by seven votes or

00:27:06.860 whatever.

00:27:07.500 Despite the last few years of Republicans winning here, Democrats still hold a registration

00:27:11.300 advantage, a major registration advantage.

00:27:13.660 It's probably all those dead people and like 13-year-old aliens from Mars or something.

00:27:17.900 But still, they hold a major registration advantage.

00:27:20.900 Also, Conor Lamb was a better candidate.

00:27:22.740 He was a better candidate than the Republican, Rick Sacone.

00:27:26.160 Lamb outraised him five to one.

00:27:28.120 He's better looking.

00:27:28.880 He's more articulate.

00:27:29.720 He's more exciting.

00:27:31.000 And, most important of all, Lamb ran as a fairly moderate, even slightly Republican

00:27:35.960 candidate.

00:27:37.120 The left is now saying, those are excuses.

00:27:39.440 It is an excuse, but it's also an explanation.

00:27:41.900 You can't deny he ran as a moderate and kind of Republican candidate, particularly relative to

00:27:46.340 the far-left movements of the Democrats.

00:27:48.760 So, he wouldn't endorse Obamacare.

00:27:51.220 He said that he would work with either party on healthcare.

00:27:53.440 He supported tax cuts, but he said he opposed Trump's tax cuts, but he supports tax cuts.

00:27:58.860 But, no, just not that one, though.

00:27:59.920 So, I don't like that one for whatever reason.

00:28:02.000 He ran against gun control.

00:28:03.720 Good.

00:28:04.120 That's, I mean, Democrats don't do that, especially now.

00:28:06.140 But, he did because he knew that he had to be more Republican to win.

00:28:09.600 He supported Trump's actions on the steel and aluminum tariffs.

00:28:13.040 And, on abortion, he pulled the Mario Cuomo, the classic Cuomo.

00:28:17.440 He says, I'm personally against abortion, but I believe it should be a right, which is

00:28:23.700 just another way of saying, I would never kill my precious babies, but all of those poor 1.00

00:28:28.340 people and all of those minorities, they should kill their babies. 1.00

00:28:30.980 But, I would never kill, mine are precious and valuable, but all of your, all those other 1.00

00:28:34.340 people, they don't know, let's kill them. 1.00

00:28:35.780 That's what he said. 1.00

00:28:36.660 But, you know, whatever.

00:28:37.460 I guess it works electorally among some constituencies.

00:28:40.280 Given that that race doesn't matter whatsoever, this is why I'm kind of glad the Republican

00:28:44.900 lost.

00:28:45.880 I mean, look, the second, he could run again in November.

00:28:50.320 There's a chance that they're both in Congress in next year.

00:28:53.880 What it is reminding us is that we have to vote in November.

00:28:56.660 It underscores the Buckley rule. 0.66

00:28:58.780 The Buckley rule, which is that you should always vote for the most right, viable candidate.

00:29:04.320 And this should serve as a lesson, a final lesson, I hope.

00:29:07.040 I know it won't be, but I wish it were, to Republicans who don't vote for Republicans

00:29:10.700 because they would have preferred a better candidate.

00:29:13.580 They'd prefer a better candidate.

00:29:15.240 Listen to that rule.

00:29:16.140 Most right, viable candidate.

00:29:19.980 Look, if someone is running who is utterly unacceptable, meaning he isn't really right-wing, 0.94

00:29:25.780 he's just lying, or he's like an evil person, he's just like a truly depraved, satanic figure,

00:29:32.400 or I guess, you know, if it's, if like we ran Joseph Goebbels or something, I guess you

00:29:36.560 don't want to elect him and probably vote for the Democrat and let the kiddies get extra 0.71

00:29:39.540 health care.

00:29:40.280 But short of that, and there's a lot of political hyperbole, but that's not what we're seeing.

00:29:44.340 We're not seeing that from congressional candidates.

00:29:46.360 We're not seeing that from presidential candidates.

00:29:47.980 Vote for the most right, viable candidate.

00:29:49.900 You hear this empty slogan sometimes.

00:29:51.520 They say people, especially who oppose Trump, but who oppose other Republicans too.

00:29:56.660 You hear it every election cycle.

00:29:57.900 They've been doing this since Goldwater.

00:29:58.980 They say, I'm a lifelong Republican, but I just couldn't vote for Mitt Romney for some

00:30:05.940 reason, or I couldn't vote for John McCain.

00:30:08.760 He's too, I don't know, he's too moderate really is what he is.

00:30:11.800 They say country over party.

00:30:14.520 Some, a lot of Republicans say this.

00:30:16.620 That doesn't mean anything.

00:30:17.640 The reason you join a political party is because you think that that party's vision and policy

00:30:22.980 platform will better the country, that it's better for the country.

00:30:27.000 If you think that the other party's vision and platform is better for the country, that

00:30:31.980 doesn't mean you're choosing country over party.

00:30:33.720 It means you're switching parties.

00:30:35.080 It means you're in a different party now.

00:30:36.540 That's all it means.

00:30:37.500 There isn't logically a difference between the country and the party if you're in the

00:30:42.020 party.

00:30:42.800 You can criticize your own party, and you can criticize your own country.

00:30:46.000 Neither of those things are perfect, but it's a totally empty slogan, and what it really

00:30:49.660 means is, I don't like this candidate, and I'm taking my ball and going home.

00:30:52.740 Wah, wah, wah.

00:30:53.420 Well, don't do that.

00:30:54.500 We need to win.

00:30:55.520 Things are more important than your feelings about some candidate in Pennsylvania or whatever.

00:31:01.900 There are more important things on the line.

00:31:03.960 Economic growth or status on the world stage, the world order, the lives of the unborn, cultural

00:31:11.840 issues, the executive agencies taking too much power and controlling your lives, unfunded

00:31:16.600 liabilities, on and on and on and on and on.

00:31:18.760 Those things matter.

00:31:19.760 You're like, oh, I don't like that guy.

00:31:21.220 I don't like his haircut.

00:31:21.900 We'll get over it.

00:31:23.800 Now, we have to talk about United Airlines.

00:31:26.240 We have a little bit of time.

00:31:28.140 This, I know this is an unpopular opinion.

00:31:30.420 I don't care.

00:31:31.340 United Airlines is under fire again, this time for informing a passenger that she couldn't

00:31:35.660 block the aisle with a crate carrying her 10-month-old puppy.

00:31:39.440 So the stewardess informed her that she would have to put the dog in a box in the overhead

00:31:43.480 bin, where sadly it died.

00:31:45.760 It's not a good idea to do that.

00:31:47.040 I think the dog was a French bulldog, which is sad because I really like those dogs.

00:31:51.120 Its name was Coquito.

00:31:52.340 The reason I'm bringing up that it's a French bulldog is that bulldogs and pugs and other

00:31:57.000 flat-nosed dogs have difficulty breathing to begin with.

00:32:00.380 And this problem is exacerbated when they're stuffed in overhead bins.

00:32:04.220 It's also exacerbated when they're just at really high altitudes.

00:32:07.420 It's hard for dogs to breathe on the street in New York, much less at 30,000 feet.

00:32:12.100 This is entirely the dog owner's fault.

00:32:15.280 Entirely the dog owner's fault.

00:32:16.940 Loathe as I am to defend United Airlines, people, stop bringing your dogs everywhere.

00:32:21.440 Stop it.

00:32:22.080 They don't belong on airplanes.

00:32:23.400 They don't belong in restaurants.

00:32:24.940 Fifi will survive for an hour or two without you.

00:32:27.580 If you are not blind, leave the dog at home.

00:32:30.460 Some people need service animals.

00:32:31.820 They need them, like blind people, for instance. 1.00

00:32:34.420 Good.

00:32:34.860 Bring that dog wherever you want. 0.99

00:32:36.260 It can be wherever.

00:32:37.320 I don't.

00:32:37.600 That's fine.

00:32:37.940 That's good.

00:32:38.260 But people abuse this privilege all the time, especially in L.A.

00:32:41.780 I see it everywhere.

00:32:42.720 These little actress girls bring their dogs, bring Fifi onto airplanes and into restaurants 1.00

00:32:47.300 as emotional support animals.

00:32:50.880 Emotional support.

00:32:51.780 I know a lot of actresses. 1.00

00:32:53.120 They all need a lot of emotional support.

00:32:55.040 I'm not denying that.

00:32:56.180 Fifi ain't gonna suffice.

00:32:57.680 I promise you.

00:32:58.960 This owner was incredibly irresponsible and incredibly rude.

00:33:01.860 To begin, don't bring your dog on a flight.

00:33:04.980 Don't bring your dog on a flight.

00:33:05.980 If you are going away for a week, put it in a kennel or leave it with a friend.

00:33:09.480 If you're going away for months and months and you insist on bringing your dog on vacation

00:33:13.760 to your vacation house, fly private.

00:33:15.940 If you have all these vacation houses, fly private.

00:33:17.800 You can afford it.

00:33:18.660 My sleep on the L.A. to New York red eye is so much more important than Fifi's vacation.

00:33:24.060 It boggles the mind.

00:33:25.760 Do not bring your dog on the flight.

00:33:27.920 And certainly don't bring it in the main cabin.

00:33:29.680 In the old days, they would go to cargo.

00:33:32.440 In the glory days before like five minutes ago, you'd put the dog in cargo and then sometimes

00:33:37.880 the dog would die and that was sad.

00:33:39.200 So now they bring them into the main cabin.

00:33:41.360 Beyond that, if you insist.

00:33:43.260 So if you, I know times change, culture decays.

00:33:46.180 If you insist on bringing Fifi on the flight, buy Fifi a seat.

00:33:50.300 Don't just pay the like $3 bump up fee so that you can bring the dog in a crate.

00:33:54.560 But if the crate's too big and you got to put it in the aisle and then it can't be in the aisle

00:33:57.660 so you got to put it in the thing and then it dies.

00:33:59.680 Buy Fifi a seat.

00:34:01.140 I know air travel is expensive.

00:34:02.800 That's why air travel has traditionally been reserved for people rather than animals because

00:34:06.980 animals don't make a lot of money.

00:34:08.220 People make money.

00:34:09.420 Paying the extra fee doesn't mean you get to put it in the aisle.

00:34:12.600 You do not get to block the aisle with your dog crate.

00:34:15.320 If God forbid anything happens on that flight, I am not going to have Fifi be the reason that

00:34:19.740 I do not make it to the raft.

00:34:21.220 More importantly, the aisle is not for puppy crates.

00:34:24.040 The aisle is for drink carts.

00:34:26.160 My access to overpriced mediocre scotch on those cylindrical ice cubes with the little

00:34:31.280 hole in them that are very delicious, that is much, much more important than Fifi's vacation.

00:34:36.200 Also, if you were going to violate every rule of polite society and bring a non-service

00:34:40.640 dog on an airplane, why would you bring a 10-month-old puppy who can barely breathe to

00:34:45.780 begin with on the flight?

00:34:47.260 10-month-old puppies are very fragile, especially when they can barely breathe, and you're supposed

00:34:50.760 to be careful with them.

00:34:51.780 And why would you bring it on United Airlines?

00:34:54.040 Did you see what United Airlines did to that doctor?

00:34:56.040 Hey! 0.99

00:34:57.600 Hey! 0.99

00:34:58.120 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, come on.

00:35:03.440 Come on, come on, come on. 0.97

00:35:04.720 Hey! 0.99

00:35:06.840 Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, no!

00:35:13.000 Guys, my God, what are you doing?

00:35:20.140 No, this is too long, oh my God, look at what you did to him!

00:35:25.300 Oh my God!

00:35:27.080 I have to go home.

00:35:28.240 I have to go home.

00:35:29.620 I have to go home. 1.00

00:35:33.600 Just kill me, just kill me, kill me, just kill me, I have to go home. 1.00

00:35:38.420 Kill me. 1.00

00:35:39.280 Just kill me. 1.00

00:35:40.200 Just kill me. 1.00

00:35:41.540 Just kill me. 1.00

00:35:44.000 That's how United Airlines treats a human doctor. Not just a dog, not even just a human, 1.00

00:35:50.620 a doctor. That's what they do to a doctor. Just kill me. Just kill me. Dragging him,

00:35:54.460 clubbing him on the head. Did this owner really think that they were going to allow 0.98

00:35:57.780 a 10-month-old puppy in a crate to block the aisle on the airplane?

00:36:02.360 Now, who cares about all this? No, it's a sad story. It makes some points. It drives me insane

00:36:09.460 when dogs bark on my flights. I really, really don't like that. But who cares about all of this

00:36:14.160 generally? It's because we live in a culture that values animals more than people. Just look at PETA

00:36:19.640 and Planned Parenthood, two of the most important non-profit organizations. They raise a ton of

00:36:24.280 money. They have a ton of members. The two most important non-profits on the left exist to save

00:36:29.600 animals and kill humans. That's what they do. That's because we don't have a coherent moral

00:36:34.240 framework anymore. We don't have a coherent moral framework. We don't know what we're here for,

00:36:38.960 the difference between humans and animals and different animals and what the purpose is.

00:36:43.400 It's just, you know, if it feels good, do it and we're all going to become warm food and that's

00:36:46.280 basically it, right? Since it's Lent, I get questions about what books I'm reading and what

00:36:52.120 books other people should be reading to kind of think of, put yourself in the Lenten penitential

00:36:55.980 spirit to get ready before Easter. Walk with our Lord 40 days before Easter. So I'll just recommend

00:37:03.820 a few. First, the book that we're all reading here and rereading here at The Daily Wire is After Virtue.

00:37:08.960 By Alistair McIntyre. I think Drew's talked about it a little bit on the show. I think Ben has

00:37:13.720 referenced it. I have. We're all kind of reading and rereading it right now. Check it out. It's

00:37:18.300 called After Virtue by Alistair McIntyre and then we can all tweet about it and it'll be fun.

00:37:22.660 A few more books for Lent. If you're agnostic or in a period of spiritual doubt,

00:37:26.980 read Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. It doesn't get much better than that.

00:37:30.840 Also, what's great after that. Also by C.S. Lewis are The Abolition of Man and The Weight of Glory.

00:37:36.540 If you've already gone through Lewis, it's time to move on to Chesterton. Everlasting Man is good,

00:37:40.720 but Orthodoxy is better. Chesterton is just like a fatter, boozier, smokier, more Catholic 0.99

00:37:46.540 C.S. Lewis. And C.S. Lewis talks about how he takes quite a lot from Chesterton too. Finally, 0.66

00:37:51.860 you can join me in reading Hilaire Belloc's The Great Heresies, which I have just begun,

00:37:57.280 wherein Belloc takes on the Aryan heresy, the great and enduring heresy of Muhammad, 0.99

00:38:02.740 the Albigensian attack. What was the Reformation and the modern phase? Belloc is an inimitable writer.

00:38:08.800 He's like even more Chesterton than Chesterton. So that's a great one too. Okay, I think we've

00:38:13.040 covered it. The kids, the Democrats, the dead puppies, and the great and enduring heresies.

00:38:19.000 That's our show for today. If you get your mailbag questions in, do it now so that we

00:38:24.340 can answer them for tomorrow. And I will see you then. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 14, 2018

Ep. 121 - Democrats Encourage Students To Cut Class

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