The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1227 - Black Teens Loot Chicago, Woke Citizens Cry For Police

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00:00:15.200 On Saturday night, more than 100 teenagers rampaged through the streets of Chicago.

00:00:20.900 I'm not talking about juvenile delinquent little hijinks. They weren't just throwing

00:00:25.740 eggs at houses and toilet paper on trees. These teenagers were torching cars. They were beating

00:00:32.440 the living daylights out of each other and others. They were attempting to breach police barricades.

00:00:38.980 Two boys, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old got shot. How did Chicago's new mayor-elect react?

00:00:46.620 He urged people not to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities

00:00:53.400 in their own communities. Yes, if only there were a couple more after-school reading programs,

00:01:01.220 then maybe these high school seniors wouldn't have felt the need to torch cars and shoot people.

00:01:06.340 It's not their fault, you see. You've got to stop demonizing them. I, for one, think we should stop

00:01:14.640 demonizing, demonizing. To demonize means to portray something as wicked and threatening.

00:01:21.580 If shooting people and burning down a city isn't threatening, I'm not sure what is. Our problem

00:01:28.500 is not that we demonize things. It's that we demonize the wrong things. We demonize normal

00:01:36.180 social behavior. We demonize the distinction between men and women. We demonize family and

00:01:42.620 patriotism and Christianity. It's wrong to demonize good things. But it's good to demonize bad things. 1.00

00:01:52.480 That's how we recognize threats. That's how we protect ourselves against them. That's how we

00:01:58.480 prevent the rest of the country from turning into the cautionary tale of Chicago. I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:04.200 This is The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. This episode is brought to you

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00:02:46.820 First though, speaking of demons, I had a lot of demon talk on the show recently. Well, speaking of

00:02:51.340 demons, AI is advancing. Nations are searching for AI dominance. AI is advancing much more rapidly

00:03:02.900 than a lot of people could have predicted. If you think about what AI art looked like even six months

00:03:08.660 ago, it was extremely rudimentary. The computers couldn't figure out how to do hands. When you typed

00:03:14.140 in prompts, it came out all weird and blurry. Today, AI art is absolutely incredible. It's

00:03:21.000 masterful. You can type in a prompt. You will get amazing results very quickly, usually on the first

00:03:26.460 try. You're seeing how AI is developing at solving problems. You're seeing how AI is developing at

00:03:32.160 using language. It's moving fast. So fast that the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai,

00:03:38.800 is joining a lot of other big tech executives to call for regulation on AI. Now, the cynical read here

00:03:47.820 would be that Sundar Pichai is just calling for regulation on AI so that he can get a strategic

00:03:52.220 advantage. But Google's been working on AI for a long time. Google is as advanced at AI as pretty

00:03:57.720 much anybody else out there. And Pichai is saying that regulations, quote, should align with human

00:04:03.520 values, including morality. He says, it's not for a company to decide. This is why I think the

00:04:09.880 development of AI needs to include not just engineers, but social scientists, ethicists,

00:04:15.500 philosophers, and so on. He's saying that this is such a transformative technology.

00:04:23.100 This is going to have such widespread effects for human life that we need to take a pause here and

00:04:29.940 just make sure not only that we can do this, but that we should do this and figure out how we should

00:04:35.560 do it before the technology escapes our hands. Notice that list. He said, it shouldn't just be the

00:04:41.680 tech guys, but it should be social scientists, ethicists, philosophers, and so on, who make

00:04:47.440 these decisions. You notice anyone missing from that list? Which group should have maybe some say

00:04:56.120 over how our society looks and is governed and will grow to be moving forward?

00:05:03.860 You ever think about the people? Aren't we supposed to live in a government of the people,

00:05:11.240 by the people, and for the people? I agree big tech executives shouldn't be the only people

00:05:17.260 making these decisions, but are social scientists all that much better? Ethicists? I don't know.

00:05:24.080 There aren't a lot of great ethicists these days. Philosophers? What kind of philosophy are they

00:05:28.560 peddling? What about the people and the people's representatives? This is the one group that Sundar

00:05:34.460 Pichai won't list because our tech executives and our corporations generally and our bureaucracy and

00:05:42.620 most of the people that hold the power in this country, they don't respect the people and they

00:05:48.660 don't respect the people's representatives and they acknowledge that the people don't really have

00:05:54.060 much power anymore and they don't think that the people should have any power. They are just as

00:06:00.220 dismissive of the people as anyone else. So while Sundar Pichai has the right idea here,

00:06:09.500 which is that you can't just let three billionaires decide the future of humanity,

00:06:13.960 but the one group they exclude is the one group that theoretically is supposed to govern,

00:06:17.640 the people. No respect for that whatsoever. But the technology is advancing.

00:06:22.840 These doomsday predictions are getting closer to reality. And this is not just the bots that are

00:06:28.920 seeking the destruction of humanity. And this is not just all the bots that are going to take your

00:06:33.380 jobs. This is also bots that are going to cut at the core of human social interactions. These are bots

00:06:41.680 that are, as I have predicted now for some years, are going to be making really, really weird porn.

00:06:48.520 So got an article right here. Associated Press, deep fake porn could be a growing problem amid the AI 0.89

00:06:57.760 race. I said the moment that AI started to come out, I said that very soon AI is going to be so good

00:07:04.600 that people are not going to look for porn just from the regular porn channels anymore. They're going

00:07:09.800 to want to make their own porn and they'll be able to do it with anybody. The girl down the street,

00:07:13.720 the next door neighbor, the pretty girl in your math class, and using just a picture or two,

00:07:18.340 what people are going to do is construct their own kind of weird, creepy porn, obviously without the

00:07:22.560 consent of the people who are being depicted. And it's going to be pretty realistic. And then I said,

00:07:27.100 when the AI porn reaches a sufficient level and the sex robots reach a sufficient level,

00:07:33.500 then the human race is going to go extinct because people are going to lock themselves in their rooms 0.99

00:07:37.440 and live in this solitary chamber where they're surrounded only by their own fantasies.

00:07:44.520 You might say, Michael, that can't happen. That's too dystopian.

00:07:48.920 We're already doing that to a large degree and we're enshrining it in public law.

00:07:53.480 We are already encouraging people to live in their own fantasy world, divorced from reality,

00:07:58.860 especially on issues of gender and sex, but on a whole host of other issues as well.

00:08:06.840 People are retreating into their safe spaces. And it's not just the little snowflakes on the

00:08:11.480 college campuses as we used to make fun of them. It's everybody is retreating into their own safe

00:08:15.840 spaces and their own echo chambers online and their own virtual reality. Now, the good news,

00:08:23.820 the silver lining in the storm cloud of the AI deepfake porn is that the result of this will be

00:08:28.920 something that I called for in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.

00:08:32.520 The result, hello, thank you. The result of this will be

00:08:36.120 what was missing from the Sundar Pichai comments on the development of AI. The result of this will be

00:08:42.840 the people once again reasserting some control over standards. The result of this will be

00:08:49.080 the reassertion of obscenity law. It has to be. Unless we're going to live in a society where you're

00:08:57.720 free to make obscene videos that very realistically depict all sorts of people who don't consent to

00:09:03.320 it, then the law is going to have to once again clearly distinguish between obscene material and

00:09:11.200 material that is not obscene. And it's not exactly a science. And it's just as Potter Stewart says,

00:09:16.040 it's not that you can exactly define pornography, but you know it when you see it.

00:09:19.800 We're going to have to do that if any of this deepfake porn is going to be actionable. If you

00:09:25.020 have the right not to be depicted in graphic pornography, and if our country is going to

00:09:29.460 recognize that, then our country has to recognize first what is porn and what isn't porn, and then

00:09:36.120 take action against the obscene materials. It will determine if we will have a standard of obscenity.

00:09:44.940 That is good news. We will reassert that the people have a right to define our own standards.

00:09:52.060 That's bad news for the technocrats and the bureaucrats and the master of the universe tech 0.98

00:09:58.380 people. But the people, you will see an acceleration of this rising populism that you saw creep up

00:10:05.020 during the Trump campaign. That will have to happen because the alternative is to lose society

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00:11:30.220 I think I've made it. As far as critics of transgenderism go, I've reached the peak.

00:11:36.700 I can never get any higher. I was obliquely referenced on RuPaul's Drag Race.

00:11:43.260 Yes! Body down! 0.98

00:11:46.280 Just naked, bitch! 1.00

00:11:48.200 Body down! 1.00

00:11:49.300 Letting them all know.

00:11:50.540 Yes!

00:11:51.840 You ain't eradicating us, honey.

00:11:53.440 You ain't eradicating us, honey. So this choice of words. I don't think I'm

00:12:00.160 taking a step too far to say this is a direct response to my seatback speech where I used

00:12:04.680 this word eradicating that all the libs went crazy about. Even the White House misrepresented what

00:12:08.880 I said. But I did use that word eradicating. I said, for the good of society, especially for the

00:12:12.960 good of the poor people who fall and pray to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from 1.00

00:12:17.820 public life. The whole preposterous ideology at every level. The fact that drag queens on this show 1.00

00:12:25.320 are pushing back against my comments is a little weird because are drag queens transgender? 0.96

00:12:32.380 I never, I always thought of those two groups as distinct.

00:12:37.200 Transgenderism is the idea that a man who puts on a dress is really a woman. Drag shows are a joke. 0.99

00:12:44.580 They're a punchline. The drag performers know that they're men. That's what's so funny about drag. 0.77

00:12:50.620 That's what defines drag, is that they're men who dress up in these ridiculous caricature costumes 0.98

00:12:55.320 of women put on shows, and then they take the clothing off afterward. In fact, I've heard pro-transgender 0.98

00:13:03.220 activists attack drag queens for making a mockery of transgenderism in the same way that a black 0.93

00:13:09.520 activist might take issue with a white performer putting on blackface.

00:13:14.580 So what is it now? Is it all kind of the same? Is it all being blended together? Or what is this

00:13:20.760 about? The reason that all of these groups band together certain times, the drag queens and the

00:13:27.720 transvestites, the transgender identifying transvestites, even though they seem to not have

00:13:32.780 much in common, the reason that the feminists and the transgender movement sometimes have some 1.00

00:13:42.080 alignment is because all of these movements are directed at abolishing normality, abolishing normal

00:13:52.560 life, normal society, the society that for 2,000 years we've called Christendom, informed by and

00:13:59.780 animated by Christianity. That's what they're after. And so all sorts of weird groups that often bicker

00:14:06.740 among themselves. They will unite to attack us. This is why I'm so pleased that the CPAC speech

00:14:16.260 reset the conversation as it did. Because the libs thought they had won on transgenderism. They 0.68

00:14:20.540 thought the whole debate was just about, should we trans the five-year-olds or wait until they turn

00:14:23.660 eight? And then my speech said, no, transgenderism is completely wrong. It doesn't make any sense, 1.00

00:14:28.480 and we shouldn't tolerate it in society. This is the topic, by the way, of my debate tonight

00:14:32.000 at University of Pittsburgh. So I've had this debate on the books for well over a month.

00:14:38.000 We had a really top scholar, this guy, Professor McCloskey, Donald McCloskey, who now goes by Deirdre.

00:14:44.920 And he was going to debate the issue. And then he pulled out at the last minute because I suspect he

00:14:50.220 felt that he was going to lose. His view was indefensible. So lest the debate get canceled,

00:14:55.820 we have a pinch hitter, a guy named Brad Palumbo, who is not T-identifying, but he's lumped in with

00:15:06.300 the LGB. At least he's very down with the rainbow. And so we will be debating, should the law regulate

00:15:14.800 transgenderism? And if you've got your plans to come out there to Pitt tonight, I can't wait to see

00:15:19.740 you. I assume the event is sold out, but maybe show up if there's a standby line. A lot of times

00:15:26.040 what the libs do is they'll reserve a lot of seats, and then they'll either not show up or they'll show

00:15:30.520 up and walk out very quickly so it looks like it's an emptier hole. So there's a shot we'll have that.

00:15:35.080 Should be a lot of fun over at Pittsburgh. And many thanks to Brad Palumbo for filling in and

00:15:40.540 making a slightly more middle-of-the-road version of the argument that Professor McCloskey was afraid to

00:15:45.740 make. Speaking of the relationship between the sexes, some really bad news. And it actually comes

00:15:52.200 out of retail business. The bad news is that David's Bridal has filed for bankruptcy. What do

00:16:00.420 I care about David's Bridal? Not very much about the store itself. I don't like what this says about

00:16:05.360 the culture, though. David's Bridal has filed for Chapter 11, laid off more than 9,000 employees.

00:16:12.580 Why is David's Bridal going bankrupt? Now, it would seem to me not just because of a decline

00:16:19.920 in retail shopping, that's something that all retail brands have had to deal with with the

00:16:23.840 rise of the internet, but some have fared better than others. I think this is about what David's

00:16:27.720 Bridal sells. David's Bridal sells wedding dresses and wedding tuxedos. And marriage rates are hitting

00:16:34.960 all-time lows. People are just not getting married. So if people are not getting married, that's really

00:16:39.620 bad for retailers who are in the wedding business. And furthermore, the couples who are getting married

00:16:46.640 very often are not wearing formal dresses. The whole act of getting married has become much more

00:16:54.420 casual in recent years. People very often are not married by a priest anymore. People very often are

00:16:59.060 not married in churches anymore. People often will just go down to the courthouse, get a marriage

00:17:05.080 certificate. People will get married not in tuxedos and gowns anymore, but sometimes in just dresses

00:17:10.880 and ordinary suits. Marriage itself has become much less formal. Marriage has been now redefined to be

00:17:20.380 much more ambiguous, to not mean what it once did. Marriage for the last 2,000 years at least has been

00:17:25.980 understood to be the union of a husband and a wife for the good of the spouses and the sake of the

00:17:30.480 generation and education of children. Today, that's not what marriage means. Marriage is the union of two

00:17:34.460 people for whatever. Marriage is, I guess, a special union of two people who may or may not be of

00:17:42.840 different sexes, who may or may not be faithful to one another, which may or may not be undertaken as

00:17:51.000 a vow before God, which may or may not be undertaken as a vow in public, which may or may not last, and

00:17:56.740 which may or may not just dissolve for any whim or caprice that either of the parties feel. So it just

00:18:02.440 doesn't mean anything. It means that the conservatives who predicted that tinkering with marriage and

00:18:08.180 redefining marriage to include things like same-sex unions would not strengthen marriage. It would not

00:18:12.460 expand marriage. It would just weaken and ultimately abolish marriage. And as with every other prediction

00:18:17.960 that the social conservatives have made, that has come true. The formality part is important too, though,

00:18:23.600 because people feel now, well, why do I need a piece of paper? Why can't I just cohabitate?

00:18:28.820 Why do we need some, why do I need the government to tell me that we're married? Why do I need to put 0.96

00:18:32.140 on a tuxedo and a wedding gown? Why do I need to, we don't need all that nonsense. We know that we love

00:18:38.980 each other. Come on, let's just, you know, let's just throw on a t-shirt and let's just say we're

00:18:43.680 married and let's, that'll be fine, right? People have the idea now that formality is pompous, 0.98

00:18:51.440 that formality is egotistical even, and that to be truly humble and, and to, to stop thinking so

00:19:03.040 much of yourself, you just be really casual. That's much more authentic. In reality, the opposite is

00:19:07.640 true. Formality is humble because when you are formal, when you put on a uniform, this is why,

00:19:17.500 one of the reasons soldiers put on uniforms. This is one of the reasons monarchs will put on

00:19:21.800 uniforms. When, when you are formal, you take attention away from yourself. When you are, when

00:19:28.900 you are, when you dress in a formal way, when you behave in a formal way, according to rules of

00:19:33.100 etiquette, when you engage in rituals that are prescribed, it's not about you, it's not about

00:19:37.320 you writing your own vows, it's not about you redesigning your own party and having your best

00:19:41.320 friend officiate the wedding or whatever. When you submit yourself to rules of formality, you're

00:19:48.020 saying that this thing that I'm engaging in, this role that I am taking on, the role of a husband,

00:19:54.480 the role of a wife, the role of a married couple in society, the role of a mother and a father, 0.51

00:19:59.140 that is bigger than me. And so I am going to suppress my individuality, my personality,

00:20:05.300 my perceived delightful uniqueness. I'm going to suppress that for my performance now of this

00:20:14.860 role that is bigger than me. Our society, if we are to be a serious society again,

00:20:22.280 needs to take formality and ritual much more seriously. And that is especially true when we're

00:20:30.740 talking about marriage, which is the fundamental political institution. If that becomes casual,

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00:24:40.260 You've just embraced this ideology, which says that women don't have any special rights. 1.00

00:24:45.940 Women don't have the right to a bathroom or their own sports leagues. You're going to support this 1.00

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00:25:13.040 opposing principles. Just pick a side or shut up and hope it blows over. But if they keep vacillating

00:25:20.340 back and forth, they're going to seem schizophrenic. Our whole culture is going to seem schizophrenic.

00:25:25.020 This is why the debate over transgenderism has gotten so hot is because the leftists are insisting

00:25:34.120 on their radical notion that men can really be women. So they're pushing for the radicalism and

00:25:40.380 the conservatives are trying to be nice and they're trying to have it both ways. And they're trying to

00:25:45.340 say, well, I don't want to tell anybody what to do. I just, I would meekly suggest that maybe we

00:25:49.340 shouldn't trans the seven-year-olds. No, you should impose your views on people. If your views are 0.90

00:25:55.900 right, either you conservatives are going to impose your views on people on this subject,

00:26:01.480 or the leftists are going to impose their completely insane views on this subject.

00:26:06.840 But someone's views will be imposed. You can't just keep vacillating back and forth. On Mondays,

00:26:12.760 women have their own bathrooms, but on Tuesdays, they don't have their own bathrooms. 1.00

00:26:15.420 bathrooms. And maybe some men who identify as women can go into the women's bathroom,

00:26:20.060 like if they're really pretty or something. If they've had enough surgery and bought enough

00:26:25.040 makeup, then they can go in. But if they look a little husky and their Adam's apple's too big,

00:26:28.480 they're not allowed to go in. But no, just someone's view is going to win. We have bathrooms.

00:26:36.420 People need bathrooms. Either women get their own bathroom or they don't. 1.00

00:26:41.020 But either way, someone's imposing their views on the rest of people. So if that is the case and

00:26:48.360 the law has to weigh in, if the law doesn't weigh in on what a woman is, then the law doesn't have 1.00

00:26:52.860 much to say about anything. I would rather live according to a law that is in accordance with

00:26:59.340 truth rather than a law that is in accordance with falsehood. I want to use our intellect and

00:27:07.160 then we use our will to assert the intellect and public life. Speaking of intelligence,

00:27:13.160 Senator Tommy Tuberville has a really, really good idea for a law that will impose views and

00:27:20.920 increase all sorts of restrictions. But it's an important bill, not only for national security,

00:27:25.080 but also for the national character.

00:27:28.900 We're being attacked by China and other countries around the world. And we need to make sure that 1.00

00:27:34.660 that we're all in this together, not just New York, not just Alabama, not just Iowa. We're all in it

00:27:39.800 together.

00:27:40.940 In it together. And what he's suggesting then is a ban on land ownership by companies with ties to

00:27:47.500 adversarial nations and specifically land that can be used for farming. Duberville followed up this

00:27:53.780 clip with a tweet. He said, food security is national security. I've introduced legislation to block

00:27:58.440 China and our other enemies from buying America's farmland. Obviously that's true. You don't want your 1.00

00:28:02.420 enemies to control your food supply. That would be crazy. We see what happens when your enemy

00:28:08.860 controls the supply chain, which is that in times of crisis, the enemy cuts off your supply chain and

00:28:15.500 then you're just done. We saw this especially during COVID. It was easy during the heyday of globalism

00:28:21.680 in the late 80s, certainly through the 90s and into the 2000s. Everyone thought that the world was just

00:28:28.520 going to keep on churning out more cheap products and there was no trade-off to offshoring our

00:28:35.000 manufacturing, offshoring our food in some cases, that everybody was going to benefit.

00:28:40.440 But there are always trade-offs in economics. And what the globalists thought was that we'd reached

00:28:46.600 the end stage of history and liberalism now reigned supreme. And over time, we were going to erase

00:28:51.860 national borders. And we were, yeah, people are going to have to give up their power, but it's fine

00:28:55.140 because we'd all get cheap crap from China. And so you wouldn't need to have any political rights 0.97

00:28:59.440 and you don't need to make anything here. American labor is too expensive. I mean, we're going to put

00:29:02.540 those Americans out of work, but who cares? They're going to get cheap TVs and stuff. And we can always 0.98

00:29:07.100 just give them some money to go away and pay for it in some government program. But that GDP is going

00:29:12.820 to go up and that's all that matters, right? And no, some conservatives started to think, huh,

00:29:18.860 China. It might not be so great to offshore all of our manufacturing. These are people like Pat

00:29:25.140 Buchanan and Donald Trump, for that matter. This was what the Trump campaign ran on. It's a different

00:29:30.580 set of policies than the other Republicans ran on. Trump said free trade might not be the best thing

00:29:35.260 in the world because, yeah, maybe the stuff that's being made in China is cheaper. But then if we go to

00:29:41.240 war with China, we don't have any stuff anymore. Yeah, maybe we can manufacture ammunition or weapons 0.72

00:29:47.100 even overseas. But if we do that, then what happens when we go to war? Well, we're not going

00:29:51.400 to get our stuff. If we sell our farmland to foreign adversaries, well, what happens if there's 0.50

00:29:59.880 a war? What happens if the supply chain breaks down? We're seeing a return to tradition, especially

00:30:06.320 in the Republican Party. What all of the squishes are referring to as an apostasy, a turning of our back

00:30:12.940 on our Republican conservative principles because we don't love unfettered free trade anymore. No,

00:30:16.640 what we're returning to is tradition. The Republican Party was founded on protective

00:30:20.440 tariffs. There can be a sensible balance reached so that you can preserve a robust economy while

00:30:26.340 still not endangering your national security and your supply chains. But we're going back to

00:30:31.520 tradition here. Nature is healing. The protective tariffs are returning. Industry is returning to

00:30:37.900 America. Our farmland is being protected against foreign adversaries. Nature is healing.

00:30:42.320 Speaking of the balance of power, Ron DeSantis was just up in New Hampshire. Ron DeSantis had to deal

00:30:50.820 with some hecklers and he handled it very, very well. If you looked at governor races, president races,

00:30:57.060 20, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. Yeah, thank you. Jews against DeSantis. Jews against DeSantis. You got to have a little spice in the speech, right? I mean, you got to have a little fun. And then importantly here, DeSantis, he doesn't flinch. He doesn't move. This crazy lady who claims to speak for the Jews is a squirted off stage. Why do you want to pay the ticket to get in just to do that? I don't know, but different 0.93

00:31:26.900 DeSantis makes a joke about it. DeSantis makes a joke about it and he moves on. Now, I think that woman can expect legal action from Ben Shapiro. I don't think Ben is going to be thrilled with this woman claiming that Jews hate Ron DeSantis. I don't think she really speaks for all of the Jews. But this is really great for Ron DeSantis. 0.52

00:31:44.120 Because Ron DeSantis' biggest weakness right now is that he has too much establishment support. And it's not DeSantis' fault that he's got too much establishment support. It's a good thing ultimately for his campaign to have that support. He just doesn't want the appearance of that support.

00:32:00.320 And the reason he's got a lot of it now is because he is the non-Trump candidate in the race. And so it's not that he's necessarily a squish or a neocon or establishment or whatever people are saying about him. It's just he's not Trump. 0.54

00:32:14.220 So the people who really, really hate Trump, there are a lot of powerful people who really hate Trump, they are going to flock to DeSantis because he's the only alternative right now.

00:32:22.900 And so if these wackos can start showing up and start screaming all sorts of crazy things at Ron DeSantis, that's going to make him look a lot better. The race in many ways will not be about support but about opposition. 1.00

00:32:37.460 One of the strongest arguments for Trump right now is that all the right people hate him. And they go after him in such an insane way that one feels he must be over the target.

00:32:46.300 And so if Ron DeSantis can start attracting the right people to hate him too, all the crazy ladies shrieking and screaming and getting on stage and carrying on, that will help him as well. 0.64

00:32:57.920 You know, when leftists say that America is systematically racist, they are telling the truth because we actually do have laws in this country against white people and Asians. 0.99

00:33:06.960 But they're lying about the way that they talk about it. All evidence points to the contrary of what they claim.

00:33:12.140 And every attempt to fix this problem in the name of equity is making the country worse.

00:33:16.980 Heather MacDonald is shutting down that malignant ideology of anti-racism in a brand new book, When Race Trumps Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty and Threatens Lives.

00:33:27.400 Heather exposes how the BLM-fueled equity obsession is destroying Western civilization. 0.99

00:33:31.980 We are tearing down meritocratic standards of achievement because those standards have a, quote, disparate impact on certain minorities.

00:33:39.060 We no longer enforce many criminal laws because doing so has a disparate impact on minority criminals.

00:33:45.320 But lowering standards, Heather explains, jeopardizes scientific progress, destroys public order, and poisons the appreciation of art and culture.

00:33:52.820 I really loved this book, When Race Trumps Merit's Eye-Opening.

00:33:57.280 The truth always is, Heather is unafraid to break taboos about academic achievement and crime. 1.00

00:34:02.720 She provides the data and the life stories that show the damage being done to this country in real time, all in the name of equity.

00:34:08.100 The book is a must-read for anyone who's concerned about the present state of the country and worried for our future.

00:34:14.040 When Race Trumps Merit, it's available on Amazon or wherever books are sold.

00:34:16.960 I just love it.

00:34:18.120 My favorite comment yesterday is from Spectroxis, who says,

00:34:22.860 Excited to see you tomorrow at my university, Mr. Knowles.

00:34:26.620 I'm excited to be seen at your university.

00:34:29.580 Apparently, the protests that are planned are fairly intense, so watch out, take care of yourself, show up early, make sure that you can get your seat and the libs don't intimidate you into submission.

00:34:41.280 Really, really looking forward to it.

00:34:44.080 Back to 2024.

00:34:45.580 DeSantis in New Hampshire apparently broke a state fundraising record for the party.

00:34:49.940 According to NHGOP Chairman Chris Ager, said this was the largest fundraiser in the history of the New Hampshire GOP, raising more than a quarter million bucks.

00:34:58.520 Ticket sales were halted earlier this week because they exceeded planned capacity.

00:35:03.340 Now, is this because of DeSantis or is this because of Biden?

00:35:07.220 Right now, Biden is so unlikable, he's so weak, Republicans are really eager for 2024, that maybe they're just showing up to support the party.

00:35:18.480 Or they're showing up because of the headline or because Ron DeSantis is growing a lot of support.

00:35:23.280 That will be debated.

00:35:25.320 Former President Trump, meanwhile, has a major lead over Republicans, including Ron DeSantis.

00:35:31.040 He's got a 21-point lead over DeSantis in a hypothetical Georgia GOP primary.

00:35:36.440 This is particularly important because Georgia has been a hot spot of Trump controversy and he's had a rough relationship with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, even though Kemp is a Republican.

00:35:47.340 And so the fact that Trump's got a major lead over there shows that the Trump campaign is still looking pretty good.

00:35:51.900 51% of Georgians support Trump, 30% back DeSantis, and 4% support Nikki Haley, 2% support Mike Pence, 7% of respondents are undecided.

00:36:03.680 So what this means is DeSantis is very exciting, he's done a great job as governor, he's a smart politician, he's running a great campaign.

00:36:13.580 It is still Trump's race.

00:36:16.760 The pundits disproportionately are pulling for DeSantis.

00:36:21.320 Pundits in the right-wing pundit class disproportionately haven't liked Trump.

00:36:26.460 Certainly that was the case in 2016.

00:36:27.880 It's still Trump's race.

00:36:31.840 That's just a fact.

00:36:32.740 It could change.

00:36:33.680 Obviously the libs are trying to arrest him in New York, D.C., Georgia, for that matter.

00:36:38.500 So DeSantis is in a great spot.

00:36:42.440 But as of now, it's not even DeSantis' fault.

00:36:45.020 Trump has just had a huge lead start.

00:36:47.080 He's been a worldwide celebrity for 40 years.

00:36:49.540 He is still winning.

00:36:53.420 At the very least, though, I think we would say this is increasingly becoming a two-man race. 0.97

00:36:59.500 And the other candidates, no one has really popped off yet.

00:37:03.640 So because it's becoming a two-man race, the DeSantis Super PAC is taking its first TV commercial shot against Trump.

00:37:11.260 Donald Trump is being attacked by a Democrat prosecutor in New York.

00:37:15.100 So why is he spending millions attacking the Republican governor of Florida?

00:37:19.300 Trump's stealing pages from the Biden-Pelosi playbook, repeating lies about Social Security.

00:37:24.680 Here's the truth from Governor Ron DeSantis.

00:37:26.960 We're not going to mess with Social Security as Republicans.

00:37:29.700 What did Trump say?

00:37:30.900 Entitlements ever be on your plate.

00:37:32.280 At some point they will be.

00:37:33.600 We will take a look at this.

00:37:34.720 Trump should fight Democrats, not lie about Governor DeSantis.

00:37:38.060 What happened to Donald Trump?

00:37:39.580 Never Back Down Inc. is responsible for the contents of this ad.

00:37:41.460 So this is the DeSantis campaign tone.

00:37:46.060 This ad didn't come from the DeSantis campaign. 0.98

00:37:47.900 Because of our stupid campaign finance laws, it has to come from an outside group that has no connection to the candidate. 0.94

00:37:53.700 Even though the groups exist strictly to raise a lot of money and help their candidates. 0.99

00:37:59.240 But the line of the campaign is, we like Trump.

00:38:04.840 He did great stuff.

00:38:07.000 What happened to him?

00:38:08.740 Where'd that guy go?

00:38:09.640 We're the new Trump.

00:38:10.400 Notice here, this squabble over entitlements.

00:38:15.680 The squabble isn't over Trump changing GOP orthodoxy and saying, we won't touch entitlements.

00:38:22.540 Until then, 2012, in 2008, in 2004, in 2000, the Republicans were running on cutting entitlements.

00:38:31.300 For most of my lifetime, Republicans have been running on cutting entitlements.

00:38:34.320 Trump comes in and he says, we're not going to touch entitlements.

00:38:36.640 Which are the biggest drivers of the debt and the deficit.

00:38:38.560 But Trump says, yeah, that might work in the libertarian think tanks.

00:38:42.680 But middle America doesn't want you to touch its social security.

00:38:45.140 So we're not going to touch it.

00:38:46.940 So the squabble here isn't Ron DeSantis saying, we've got to reform entitlements.

00:38:51.420 And Donald Trump won't address the problem.

00:38:53.260 No, no, no.

00:38:54.920 DeSantis is running more Trumpy than Trump.

00:38:56.880 He's saying, oh, I would never touch entitlements.

00:38:59.160 But Trump has previously said he would touch entitlements.

00:39:03.660 Again, this is why I say it remains today Trump's race.

00:39:07.560 Because Trump has defined all the issues.

00:39:10.600 Trump has defined the direction of the party.

00:39:12.420 So what the race is going to be is between Trump saying, I've still got it.

00:39:17.340 I'm still the Trump you voted for in 2016.

00:39:20.060 And DeSantis saying, what happened to Trump?

00:39:23.420 Whatever he was in 2016, he ain't that anymore.

00:39:25.980 And he gave the country away to Fauci.

00:39:28.180 And he's tired.

00:39:30.460 And he's lost focus.

00:39:31.660 And he only talks about himself.

00:39:33.140 And I'm the better version of Trump.

00:39:35.640 Now, the reason I'm skeptical that that campaign can work is because, generally speaking,

00:39:42.940 if people want something, they want the original.

00:39:47.660 This is why moderate Republicans don't work.

00:39:49.840 When moderate Republicans run as just a sort of nicer, better Democrat, they're going to lose.

00:39:53.540 If people want to vote for a Democrat, they're going to vote for a Democrat.

00:39:56.160 That's why Phyllis Schlafly called for conservatives to give people a choice, not an echo. 1.00

00:40:02.640 But that is the tone.

00:40:03.740 Trump has set the tone, and DeSantis is going to make the argument.

00:40:06.820 And it could be a pretty persuasive argument that he's the better version of Trump.

00:40:11.400 But that is a total vindication for the conservatives.

00:40:14.880 Because despite what some people are saying now, DeSantis is not just some squishy guy.

00:40:21.060 DeSantis is one of the most conservative candidates.

00:40:24.940 He's running one of the most conservative campaigns that we have seen in my lifetime.

00:40:29.980 Certainly since the days of Buchanan.

00:40:31.460 But can he ever do that more than Trump?

00:40:38.180 That's where the race is right now.

00:40:41.120 They're both running very hard because they know that Biden's poll numbers are absolutely terrible.

00:40:45.260 According to FiveThirtyEight, Biden's average approval rating is at 43%.

00:40:49.220 That's at nine points lower than his 52% disapproval rating.

00:40:53.480 So right now, Biden's disapproval is one point higher than Trump's approval rating on the same date in 2019.

00:41:09.760 Same point in his presidency.

00:41:11.580 So they smell blood in the water.

00:41:14.660 Now, the issue here is, do those polls really matter?

00:41:18.040 Or do Democrats just have a structural advantage?

00:41:20.740 Do the Democrats, for instance, have they changed the election rules enough?

00:41:25.280 And have they pushed enough widespread mail-in balloting?

00:41:29.320 And have they pushed enough ballot harvesting?

00:41:31.580 And have they pushed enough this idea that vote counting can take days and weeks?

00:41:36.740 You don't need results on election night.

00:41:39.360 Have they pushed that enough to give them an unbeatable margin to cheat?

00:41:45.120 That's the question.

00:41:47.120 I know people say you're a conspiracy theorist if you ever suggest that Democrats steal elections.

00:41:55.100 There's cheating in every election.

00:41:57.800 There's correspondence between FDR and LBJ joking about how to steal elections.

00:42:02.940 Okay, this always goes on.

00:42:04.360 Even Democrats during the Obama era observed that widespread mail-in balloting was going to open up a huge prospect for voter fraud.

00:42:12.220 Now, the Democrats figured out how to do this to their advantage.

00:42:14.880 So now they defend it and they say, if you ever raise a question about an election, you're an evil election denier who's destroying our republic.

00:42:22.380 The Democrats have less faith in our electoral system than the Republicans do.

00:42:26.100 Democrats have been denying the results of elections for a very long time.

00:42:31.060 So I think I don't want to discourage people from voting.

00:42:34.360 I don't want to give everyone a black pill of despair here or anything like that.

00:42:38.140 But we've got to look at this thing pretty steely-eyed and say, can Republicans win?

00:42:45.560 Can they overcome the structural advantage Democrats have given themselves?

00:42:48.600 Now, you're not allowed to ask that question anymore.

00:42:50.580 If you do, you could be slapped with a $1.6 billion defamation suit.

00:42:54.060 Right now, there's a story that the liberal media are absolutely obsessed with.

00:42:59.840 I haven't really paid any attention to it.

00:43:01.540 I don't really care all that much.

00:43:03.120 It's a story of the Dominion trial.

00:43:06.720 Dominion, the voting machine company, is suing Fox News for defamation.

00:43:10.220 Because Fox had the temerity to suggest, or certain Fox, not even many Fox hosts, a handful of Fox hosts,

00:43:16.760 had the temerity to suggest that maybe there were some shenanigans in the election.

00:43:22.300 And Dominion glommed onto this and said, you're questioning the integrity of our machines.

00:43:26.740 This is defamation.

00:43:27.480 We're going to sue you for a gazillion dollars.

00:43:29.100 What's this trial really about?

00:43:33.280 The message of this trial is that conservatives had better never dare question Democrat election wins. 0.62

00:43:43.020 And if you do, we'll destroy you.

00:43:44.600 We'll take away all your money. 0.96

00:43:45.800 We'll take away more than a billion dollars.

00:43:47.740 We'll take away your company.

00:43:49.880 The first chance we get.

00:43:52.280 Oh, he said something about Dominion.

00:43:53.500 Okay, I think that's actionable.

00:43:54.520 Let's go get him.

00:43:56.400 But do I care about Dominion?

00:43:57.540 Do I care about Fox News?

00:43:58.520 Do I care about, no, I don't really have a personal stake in any of this.

00:44:01.740 But I at least have enough sense to know, this is not about Fox News.

00:44:06.460 This is not about Sean Hannity.

00:44:08.680 This is not about, this is about conservatives raising the obvious question, which is,

00:44:14.900 to what degree did the libs rig the 2020 election?

00:44:21.240 That's the message of the trial.

00:44:23.040 Don't you dare ask those questions.

00:44:24.680 Now, speaking of society breaking down, we have got more coverage of the opening story today.

00:44:32.280 This mayhem in Chicago, where the mayor of Chicago says, oh, those poor misunderstood youth.

00:44:37.560 They just didn't, they didn't get to play enough soccer after school.

00:44:40.900 If they only had a soccer team, maybe they wouldn't go around marauding and shooting people and beating the living daylights out of people.

00:44:47.420 And that's, don't demonize them.

00:44:50.160 Don't demonize demonic behavior.

00:44:51.680 That'd be terrible.

00:44:52.380 So we've got terrific journalist, David Marcus, up to talk about it.

00:44:56.980 We've got some video footage from what's going on.

00:44:58.960 The rest of the show continues.

00:45:00.260 Now, you do not want to miss it.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 18, 2023

Ep. 1227 - Black Teens Loot Chicago, Woke Citizens Cry For Police

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