The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1264 - This Could Be Serious Trouble For Trump

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00:00:30.440 On the very same day that a Republican lawmaker revealed allegations from a previously undisclosed

00:00:35.800 FBI memo that Ukraine did in fact bribe Joe Biden, Joe himself, and his son Hunter to the tune of $5

00:00:44.000 million each, the Biden DOJ announced that it would indict Donald Trump over his alleged

00:00:51.360 mishandling of classified documents. We sometimes joke about these indictments. Oh, here they go

00:00:57.520 again. Seems to me I've heard that song before. Which radical DA is exploiting a porn star or a 1.00

00:01:04.800 gossip columnist or whoever to, to drag Trump over bogus charges this time?

00:01:10.220 We sometimes say this will only help Trump's political chances. His numbers are going to go

00:01:15.620 up. Yeah, sure. This is a little bit different. This isn't some two-bit prosecutor in New York.

00:01:22.860 This is the federal government. Joe Biden's federal government. Indicting Joe Biden's chief political

00:01:30.900 rival over an alleged crime that Trump not only could not have committed because he couldn't have

00:01:38.080 mishandled the classified documents because as president, he had the right to declassify whatever

00:01:42.880 he wanted, however he wanted to do it. But furthermore, it's over an alleged crime that Joe

00:01:49.680 Biden himself committed. Joe Biden had classified documents strewn all over the place, unsecured

00:01:57.320 in multiple states. And he committed that crime when he did not have the power to declassify those

00:02:03.900 documents at will. The DOJ is indicting Trump for having some outdated physical copies of presidential

00:02:12.620 documents in his home under lock and key, all with the full knowledge of the government. While Hillary

00:02:20.280 Clinton stored classified contemporary information on an easily hackable home server and didn't get so much

00:02:28.260 as a slap on the wrist. No Democrats have gotten in trouble at all for that. Donald Trump could

00:02:33.880 go to prison for the rest of his life. Now, even Joe Biden's DOJ is not so reckless and stupid 1.00

00:02:40.960 as to go after Trump on the classified documents charge per se, since they know as well as anyone 0.97

00:02:48.680 that Trump had the right to declassify. So instead, they're going after him for violating the Espionage

00:02:55.500 Act. You know that super spy Donald Trump, agent for Moscow or whatever, the same nonsense they've

00:03:00.500 been promoting for seven years that has now been totally disproven time and time again.

00:03:04.900 They're going after him for, quote, gathering, transmitting, or losing information respecting

00:03:10.120 the national defense. They're going after him for obstructing justice. Vague charges that are so

00:03:15.460 obviously political that even my leftist doppelganger on MSNBC is admitting it.

00:03:19.840 You have to wonder if the Justice Department is considering whether there is some political

00:03:26.600 solution to this criminal problem, whether part of the issue here is not just that Trump has

00:03:32.200 committed crimes, but that Trump has committed crimes and plans on being back in the White House.

00:03:37.080 Do they consider as part of a potential plea offer something that would prescribe him,

00:03:42.360 proscribe him from running for office again? I don't know.

00:03:45.940 Well, there it is. So maybe they'll make a deal. We won't throw you in prison for the rest of your

00:03:50.700 life, but you just got to stop running for office. I don't care, especially, not only do I not care

00:03:56.400 how high your poll numbers are, especially when your poll numbers get high, we're going to stop you

00:04:00.160 from running. We're going to stop people from having the chance to vote for you. How's that sound?

00:04:05.260 Is that a good deal for this allegedly terrible crime? For all the pearl clutching over Trump's

00:04:10.120 upending of norms and our sacred democracy? Trump pretty much just joked about it. Lock her up was 0.95

00:04:17.720 a funny line against Hillary in a debate. It was not something that he ever seriously intended to do.

00:04:23.940 When Democrats worried that locking up presidential candidates to say nothing of former presidents

00:04:28.760 would send us fully into banana republic territory, they were right. That's why we didn't do it then. 1.00

00:04:34.980 And that's exactly why they are doing it now. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:04:59.780 This really telling story of a gal who is working on OnlyFans and selling pictures of her body and

00:05:07.400 everything. Even though she could have been a lawyer, she has fancy degrees, good educational 0.99

00:05:11.060 background. She decided to become a porn star. And her reasoning for it is quite bad, but it's 0.97

00:05:16.300 reasoning that a lot of modern people take up. So we'll get to that in a second. First though,

00:05:20.400 I don't want to let our corrupt establishment off the hook. Not even just here in the United States,

00:05:24.060 even over in France. Did you hear about this attack yesterday? Horrific, horrific attack where

00:05:29.660 a migrant in France, a Middle Eastern migrant, starts wreaking havoc around a playground and starts 1.00

00:05:36.280 stabbing little toddlers, cute little toddlers, two French, two tourists, I think one British, 0.59

00:05:41.400 one Dutch. These are kids. I have a son who's the age of these kids right now. So it especially 0.58

00:05:47.520 rings a chord here, which is, these are sweet little innocent kids, two-year-old kids.

00:05:54.480 And then this migrant goes over and just starts stabbing them. And I think all of them were in 0.99

00:06:01.480 critical condition. I don't know how it's shaken out. I haven't seen an update yet. Absolutely

00:06:06.580 horrific, horrific crime. The story here is not even the horrific attack, which had become all too

00:06:13.440 common. That's why they're not exactly newsworthy anymore. Ever since mass migration took over,

00:06:17.520 Europe, you're seeing a lot of this in countries that previously had relatively low crime,

00:06:21.520 even the Scandinavian countries. No, the story here is how this is being reported

00:06:25.500 across the pond. This is what Sky News had to say about it.

00:06:31.040 It seems to me that the French police, not the anti-terrorist investigators,

00:06:37.340 have taken charge of the case. And this tells me that this is not a terrorist-driven case.

00:06:45.100 It's mainly of a criminal case. My fear is that regardless of what, I mean, the investigation

00:06:54.180 shows, the fact that the suspect is a Syrian refugee and an asylum seeker will likely be

00:07:02.280 used a great deal by the far right in France, given how, I mean, the cultural wars and the question

00:07:10.100 of refugees. The first thing I would say, the most important thing is that really our hearts are with

00:07:17.980 the victims and their families, given the fact that they are children, I mean, three years old.

00:07:23.540 And finally, even though we don't have information, my first instinct tells me that this is really

00:07:31.080 a mentally disturbed individual, as opposed to being part of a terrorist organization like Al-Qaeda

00:07:38.100 or the so-called Islamic State. He says, my first reaction is to say how terrible this is for the

00:07:46.000 little children. That wasn't his first reaction. You heard his first reaction. He said, my first

00:07:53.020 reaction is that this is going to be seized upon by the far right to advance their anti-immigrant,

00:08:00.020 anti-refugee campaign. That's the real tragedy here. Oh yeah, the first thing that strikes me about

00:08:06.680 this crime is how the Republicans are going to pounce. That's how we talk about it in America,

00:08:11.320 the way they talk about it in Europe. They say, the far right is going to seize upon this

00:08:16.160 to advance their anti-immigrant agenda. Secondly, it's really sad that these little

00:08:23.100 toddlers were stabbed by the refugee who had no business being in France, who received asylum 1.00

00:08:28.480 up north and then comes down to France because, I don't know, I guess he likes the weather in France

00:08:33.540 a little bit better. Then is told, no, you got to go to the first country that you received asylum in.

00:08:37.460 And then what's the next thing he says? And by the way, I just want to know,

00:08:40.560 this has nothing to do with ideology. This has nothing to do with his belief system.

00:08:45.480 It's purely mental health. Maybe it is. I don't know. I have no idea what motivated this guy.

00:08:51.560 But you just, you see this instinct. Anything that goes wrong always has to be the fault of

00:08:57.920 the far right. The far right always has to be to blame. Far right, by the way, means anybody to the

00:09:03.520 right of Barack Obama. It has to be their fault. It's either their fault for committing the crime,

00:09:08.300 which is unusual, or it's their fault for seizing upon the crime to advance their terribly unjust

00:09:12.660 agenda. That's the first thing. Second thing is ideologies that the left embraces can never be at

00:09:19.580 fault. If a leftist commits a crime and his ideology is a part of that crime, plays a role in it, then

00:09:29.160 it's just a mental health problem. You saw this in the transgender shooting in Nashville. You saw this 0.90

00:09:35.000 in the leftist shooting of the congressional baseball game. You see this every single time.

00:09:43.080 And then the third thing you see is the incidents are never about themselves as far as the left is

00:09:48.620 concerned. It's only about how they can achieve political advantage. And you especially see that

00:09:55.820 now with the classified documents issue. The libs have been mishandling classified documents

00:10:00.680 forever with no right to do so whatsoever. But then the moment that a Republican that they don't

00:10:08.140 like, who seems popular, who seems like a threat to the system, not just a threat to the Democrats

00:10:12.240 instead of the Republicans, but to the whole liberal system. When that guy crops up, all of a sudden,

00:10:18.060 they go after him, they throw the book at him, even when he had every right to have those documents.

00:10:23.180 The battle we're seeing here is not just the left versus the right or the Republicans versus the

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00:12:05.260 You want to talk about the people versus the elites? Forget about Trump for a second, who's the most

00:12:09.540 populist major candidate on the right that we have seen in a very, very long time. And that's why the

00:12:14.400 libs hate him so much. That's why they hate him more than his rivals. But you see it on the left

00:12:19.720 too. Cornel West is a socialist professor. He was at Harvard for a while, then he was at Princeton.

00:12:26.240 And he's really leftist. I mean, he's really out there. He would produce rap. He produced a rap album.

00:12:32.740 He campaigned for Bernie Sanders. He is a radical. He's a radical leftist.

00:12:38.620 He's announced that he's running for president on the People's Party platform.

00:12:46.360 MSNBC is furious about it. It's not Fox News that's furious about it. Well, Fox News now,

00:12:50.540 you know, not the most right-wing network. It's not the Daily Wire that's furious about

00:12:54.300 Cornel West running. I welcome it. I think it's probably going to be a pretty funny campaign.

00:12:58.060 I think it'll be entertaining. He'll probably raise some ideas that are at least

00:13:02.120 more insightful, perspicacious than what Joe Biden is talking about.

00:13:08.440 No, it's the liberals that are upset that Cornel West is running. There's a piece here

00:13:12.840 on the Joy Reid blog of MSNBC. Cornel West's leftist presidential bid has right-wing DNA.

00:13:21.260 The people framing newly announced presidential candidate Cornel West as a leftist seem to be

00:13:26.360 lazily sanitizing his recent history, and voters deserve better. What are you talking about?

00:13:31.540 Cornel West is an actual Marxist. He said, you can't, how are you going to say this guy

00:13:38.200 is a right-winger? This guy advocates abortion, and he has an extreme view about abortion.

00:13:44.680 He embraces socialist economic policies. He's attacking Joe Biden and the liberals from the left,

00:13:51.360 and the liberals don't like that. So the liberals are trying to characterize him as a right-winger.

00:13:56.340 But he's not a right-winger. What does, this doesn't make any sense. What is this campaign

00:13:59.540 platform? Here, here it is.

00:14:01.720 Democracy creates disruption. It creates an eruption. It creates an interruption.

00:14:09.100 Wide from below, the energies of everyday people is manifest. And I know there are precious people

00:14:16.460 in your life who you care for. That's why it's important for you to be involved, important for

00:14:24.580 you to participate. We're not talking about hating anybody. We're talking about loving. We're talking

00:14:31.140 about affirming. We're talking about empowering those who have been pushed to the margins. Because

00:14:40.940 neither political party wants to tell the truth about Wall Street, about Ukraine, about the Pentagon,

00:14:48.400 about big tech. Oh, that's why they hate him. They don't hate him because he's a right-winger. He is

00:14:55.000 very much not a right-winger. But he's anti-establishment. He's anti-liberal. This is hard

00:15:02.500 for some conservatives to make sense of because for decades now, we've failed to distinguish between

00:15:08.720 liberals and communists. And also for many decades now, we've defended liberalism. Some conservatives

00:15:14.400 have said, oh, I'm a classical liberal. I identify as a liberal. The liberals are the true conservatives

00:15:19.140 or whatever, which is not true. And so we've blurred the lines in part because it's funny.

00:15:26.460 It's funny when we call Joe Biden a communist or something, in part because the liberals and the

00:15:31.720 communists have a fair bit in common with one another. But they're distinct groups. And it's worth 0.65

00:15:39.160 pointing out that the Marxists and the conservatives also have some things in common with one another

00:15:46.460 as opposed to liberalism. Politics is a little bit more complicated than just left versus right

00:15:52.580 exactly. A friend of mine who's a Marxist, very intelligent, educated guy, he thinks that Karl Marx

00:15:58.280 would have been in the Tea Party. If Karl Marx lived in 2011, he would have been a member of the Tea Party.

00:16:02.380 This is why Cornel West, who is extremely left-wing, is a big promoter of democracy. The liberals hate

00:16:10.020 democracy. The liberals are always trying to undermine democracy. Whenever the people vote

00:16:13.320 for something they don't like, they try to suppress the will of the people. That's very pro-liberal,

00:16:16.700 but very anti-democratic. Cornel West just wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal with a

00:16:22.380 conservative defending the classics, defending DeSantis for defending the classics. Cornel West has read

00:16:30.040 all of the classic works in the West. He's come to very leftist conclusions as a result of that.

00:16:36.340 But he embraces the classics, the classical tradition, unlike the liberals who are trying

00:16:41.840 to suppress that, get the classics out of school and replace it with a bunch of modern nonsense and 0.97

00:16:46.860 gay porn in the case of a lot of these school libraries. So the liberals hate him too. There's a 0.99

00:16:51.900 good book out, or it's about to come out. I just did a review of it in the American Conservative.

00:16:55.400 It's by Patrick Deneen, who wrote Why Liberalism Failed. And the new book is called Regime Change.

00:17:00.860 And he has a really helpful little chart in it, where he points out four quadrants of politics.

00:17:06.780 And on one axis, you have favors the people, doesn't favor the people. And on the other axis,

00:17:15.940 you have views the people as revolutionary and views the people as conservative. And so you've got four

00:17:24.260 versions of politics here. Classical liberalism, libertarianism, say, progressive liberalism,

00:17:31.220 conservatism, and Marxism. And each goes in a different quadrant. The classical liberals don't

00:17:41.340 favor the people. They favor revolt. They favor rule by an elite. Same goes for the progressive liberals.

00:17:52.120 They don't really favor the people. They favor rule by the elite. But one of them thinks the people

00:17:56.840 are revolutionary. The other thinks that the people are a conservatizing force.

00:18:01.540 The Marxists do favor, at least in theory, favor rule by the people. That's why you always hear power

00:18:06.960 to the people. And we need a people's revolution. Workers of the world unite. They, at least in theory,

00:18:11.220 favor rule by the people. They think the people are revolutionary. They're going to be the leaders of

00:18:15.640 the revolution. Conservatives also favor rule by the people. They also, they think the people are

00:18:20.540 generally right. But they think the people are not revolutionary. The people are a conservatizing

00:18:24.460 force. That's why you see Edmund Burke, Benjamin Disraeli, many American conservatives who say,

00:18:28.640 Alexei de Tocqueville, say, you know, that the people have this common sense. They've got this wisdom

00:18:33.620 that slows down the crazy schemes of the ruling class. Conservatives and Marxists have a fair bit

00:18:41.300 in common. And the liberal establishment, the liberal ruling class is going to go after those 1.00

00:18:47.060 left-wingers. That's why they went after Bernie so hard. That's why they're going after Cornel West

00:18:50.580 now, even in MSNBC. And that's why they go after Trump. Because Trump is not a classical liberal

00:18:54.420 exactly. He's not a member of the ruling class. He's a populist. He does favor the people. He favors

00:19:02.760 shaking things up and giving the people a greater say. That's why they're going after him so hard.

00:19:07.480 Donald Trump doesn't fit neatly into the Republican box or the conservative movement box.

00:19:11.300 That's what makes him so dangerous to them. Politics makes strange bedfellows. Think about

00:19:18.300 how the conservatives tend now to agree with the radical feminists on pornography. Radical 1.00

00:19:25.860 feminists were very anti-porn. The kind of liberal squishy feminists were pro-porn, sex positive. But 1.00

00:19:31.580 the radical feminists were very anti-porn. They said it's misogynistic and exploitative. Conservatives

00:19:36.380 agree with them. The classical liberals agree with the squishy feminist liberals. They say,

00:19:40.460 oh, porn is good. Don't worry about porn. People have the right to porn or whatever. 0.97

00:19:44.180 So that makes strange bedfellows. Think about it on transgenderism. It's the radical feminists 1.00

00:19:48.600 who are probably most vociferously anti-trans. So the conservatives now make common cause with

00:19:53.820 someone like J.K. Rowling, who's very to the left. Because we agree with each other on this topic.

00:20:00.340 We disagree with the liberal establishment. And on that topic, we just got a really disturbing bit of

00:20:06.160 info about Ellen Page. She's the actress who now goes by Elliot, who says that she was, I don't know,

00:20:12.380 she was accosted in MAGA country holding her Subway sandwich a year ago. She told a difficult

00:20:18.400 to believe tale of transphobic, homophobic attacks in West Hollywood, which is the gayest neighborhood 0.98

00:20:26.640 in America. And a lot of people didn't believe it. But where did she come up with what appears to be a

00:20:32.060 fable? She's a troubled lady. She's got some trouble. In fact, she explains in an interview 0.96

00:20:38.980 with the LA Times about how she tried to kill herself. So one night, well, LA Times writes he,

00:20:45.040 I'll change it to she, because Ellen Page is a woman. One night she tried to knock herself out, 1.00

00:20:49.280 took her knuckles to her face, and pounded over and over until bruises formed. For days after,

00:20:54.400 she sat in a lawn chair on the porch, ashamed, her face sore. And then she heard a voice,

00:20:58.640 you don't have to feel this way. It was a small voice, barely discernible, but it kept echoing

00:21:04.460 in her head a way out. If it, it was as if something in my brain turned around, recalls

00:21:10.340 Page, now 36, the agonizing voice saying, no, you're not. No, you can't just switch and you can't just

00:21:18.660 switched and became very gentle and loving. Oh, maybe I'm trans. Why don't I explore that? Within weeks,

00:21:24.520 she had scheduled a Zoom consultation with a doctor to discuss top surgery, meaning lopping her breasts 1.00

00:21:28.340 off. The procedure was scheduled for November. A month later, she announced her fans on Instagram

00:21:32.480 who have known her since the release of Juno, 13 years prior that her name was now Elliot.

00:21:39.380 What do you call it when you're in the midst of a breakdown, where you're harming yourself,

00:21:46.200 where you're behaving very irrationally, and then you hear a voice in your head

00:21:50.440 telling you that reality is different than it is. And that voice in your head then leads you to even

00:21:58.000 more destructive and harmful behaviors. We, in our modern culture, we just call that,

00:22:03.180 we either call that mental illness, or in this case, what the liberal culture calls it is your

00:22:08.840 intuition, your true, the vibes of the universe telling you the truth, man. In traditional culture,

00:22:16.060 in Christian culture, there's another word for that. And, and if you want to hear a description of

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00:23:57.380 wildfires have been intentionally set. Arson charges have already been laid in some cases.

00:24:02.120 I'd seen some reports of this that not infrequently is the case. And what's ironic is in some cases,

00:24:11.020 the people who commit this environmental destruction are environmentalists themselves.

00:24:15.460 I'm not saying that's what happened here in Canada. I'm not saying that's not what happened

00:24:19.700 either. We don't know. We'll see how that plays out in the courts. But very often that is the case.

00:24:25.180 And it's like the black people who hang nooses from trees and say that they were set burning 0.99

00:24:33.760 crosses and say they're the victims of an anti-black hate crime. Why do they do that? 0.98

00:24:36.820 Why does Jussie Smollett walk around downtown Chicago and say he was attacked by white supremacists

00:24:42.500 who happen to be Nigerian, we later found out? They do it, one, because they're a little off, 1.00

00:24:48.120 two, to get attention, and three, because they think that will accelerate social change to bring

00:24:53.660 about the political changes that they want. So they think that, okay, people aren't taking climate

00:25:00.500 change seriously enough. Well, maybe if I burn down forests, then they'll start to take it

00:25:04.640 seriously. People aren't taking racism seriously enough. Okay, well, maybe if I pretend that I was

00:25:09.580 almost lynched in Chicago, maybe then they'll take it seriously enough. So they'll lie, they'll harm

00:25:13.780 themselves, they'll harm the cause that they allegedly care about. But it's for a greater good. It's to

00:25:20.460 accelerate that kind of change, and it's pretty bizarre. Now, speaking of Christianity, as we just

00:25:29.580 were, Pat Robertson just died. Pat Robertson was the host of the 700 Club. He was quite aged, 93 years

00:25:37.100 old, and he just kept broadcasting. So he'd just still be in that chair. He was still very sharp until

00:25:42.080 the end. I really like Pat Robertson, and I like him for a number of reasons. He and I had, you know,

00:25:48.860 probably would have some theological differences, let's say. But he was basically on the right side

00:25:53.240 of things. He was basically fighting for all the right stuff. He basically had all the right enemies.

00:25:57.820 And Pat Robertson was a confounding figure in modern politics in that he helped me to see how

00:26:06.580 corrupt our media and establishment are. Because this guy was portrayed as a complete looney tune idiot 1.00

00:26:11.700 by our mainstream establishment media. He was anything but. This was a very, very serious man. 1.00

00:26:18.720 A lot of people don't know this. He had a law degree from Yale, the top law school in the country.

00:26:24.460 He worked on Wall Street. He was, by the standards of the modern world, he was extraordinarily successful,

00:26:30.980 pretty much as successful as one can be. And then he had a conversion experience,

00:26:35.880 gave up his wicked ways, and became a televangelist, became a presidential candidate. When you look at his

00:26:44.700 interviews as a presidential candidate back in 1988, he was a very sober, serious person, giving

00:26:49.440 really detailed answers on domestic policy, foreign policy. Very serious guy. And he never shied away

00:26:54.780 from his faith. And he never shied away from blunt language. Pat Robertson, in a fundraising letter in

00:27:01.200 1992, formulated one of my absolute all-time favorite quotes in American politics. And I'm going to read

00:27:08.680 it. I've memorized most of it, but I'm going to read it to get it word perfect. I cannot improve on what

00:27:13.460 Pat Robertson said. He said, quote, the feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It

00:27:18.060 is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, 1.00

00:27:22.680 kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians. 1.00

00:27:29.120 Little harsh, and yet, and yet. Show me the lie. Show me the lie. I don't see the lie anywhere. 1.00

00:27:38.620 Speaking of weird sex stuff, the CIA has come out of the closet. CIA usually hides in closets and under

00:27:45.060 beds and does all sort of secret spy stuff. Well, they've come out of the closet. CIA is pro-pride.

00:27:52.320 They tweet out, CIA's 2023 theme for Pride Month is welcome. Wellness, equity, LGBTQ positive,

00:28:02.580 community, openness. Me! Pride Month is an occasion for all of us at the agency to pay tribute to the

00:28:09.620 rich history, community, and mission contributions of our LGBTQ positive officers. Hashtag pride.

00:28:15.900 What's funny is CIA, for most of its history, would regularly try to ferret out homosexuals because 0.77

00:28:24.960 they knew that they were a security risk because they could be blackmailed. But I guess now, one of the

00:28:29.640 silver lining in the storm cloud of all this sexual revolution stuff is that it's hard to blackmail people

00:28:36.040 because it's all out in the open. If a guy like Sam Brinton worked for the federal government, the former

00:28:42.540 nuclear waste czar, if he worked for the federal government in the past and someone had a picture of him

00:28:48.260 wearing leather costumes, leading a guy around on a leash, dressed up like a dog, wearing women's clothing,

00:28:53.560 lipstick, whatever, they could have turned that guy, if the Soviets got that picture, they would have flipped him.

00:28:58.360 He would have been a double agent. Oh, they would have gotten him, right? But now, Sam Brinton is

00:29:04.740 publishing the photos himself. So there's no blackmail. It's really bizarre and degenerate, but

00:29:10.940 that would be, I guess, the silver lining. So the CIA, they're all for it. The other thing in defense of

00:29:17.220 the CIA here is that pride is obviously a massive psyop. It's a massive psyop intended to weaken our

00:29:24.860 country that was regularly promoted by our enemies who encouraged all this kind of sexual 0.70

00:29:29.980 deviancy. The Soviet Union had many memoranda written about this, about how they were going to

00:29:34.960 try to infiltrate the United States and promote this sexual deviancy because it would weaken the 1.00

00:29:39.080 nation. You hear former KGB officers talking about this openly. And so because pride is a massive psyop

00:29:45.020 and because the job of the CIA is to run psyops, I guess there is a little bit of a congruency there.

00:29:52.560 You'd hope that the CIA doesn't run psyops against America. That would be your hope, I guess. But

00:29:57.240 anyway, there it is. CIA went gay. More like CI gay, am I right? Am I right? Speaking of the weird sex 0.97

00:30:02.880 stuff too, there's a really telling interview from an OnlyFans girl whose name eludes me or escapes me at

00:30:09.900 the moment. But she was speaking to Piers Morgan on one of his TV shows. And what separates this

00:30:15.620 OnlyFans girl from other OnlyFans girls is that she has a lot of academic credentials. She has a

00:30:21.040 professional credential. She could have made a good amount of money as a lawyer. Instead, she chose to 0.53

00:30:26.700 strip on camera. Here's why. I'm just curious about you being someone who embarked on a law career,

00:30:36.140 was obviously very bright, went to university, packed it in just for money to be effectively

00:30:43.360 an online stripper. I mean, that's what you do, right? Yeah. Way worse than an online stripper. 1.00

00:30:48.120 What do you mean, way worse? Way worse. Online stripper is just, you know, naked. I do things that 1.00

00:30:52.860 are way more grotesque than that. Just pornography? Pornography, anything. But it's all within what I

00:30:58.040 want to do. And I absolutely love it. And I'm really good at it. You know, I could be a good lawyer,

00:31:01.920 yes. But also, am I good at doing other things on video and camera? How do you feel when you want

00:31:06.940 to have kids yourself? Well, I mean, that's, I don't really want kids right now. But at least

00:31:11.540 How old are you? 25. Right. So you will do at some stage, probably, right? Maybe. When you do,

00:31:16.880 are you going to be proud that you have your little ones and they look at you and go,

00:31:21.380 didn't you want to be a lawyer, mummy? What happened? Yeah. And you go, yeah, but look at all my stuff.

00:31:25.460 They can cry in a Ferrari. They can cry in a Ferrari. That's a good line.

00:31:30.300 But think about what that line means. It means this woman is willing to compromise 0.97

00:31:38.860 her children's well-being for money. Because they will cry. And I guess maybe they'll cry in

00:31:48.640 a Ferrari. I doubt she's making Ferrari money. They'll probably cry in like a mid-grade Lexus. But 0.75

00:31:52.360 she's saying, one, I'm willing to compromise my kids' well-being for money.

00:31:57.420 And two, she's saying money is more important than a more metaphysical sense of well-being.

00:32:06.900 Money is more important than integrity. Maybe not at every level, but enough money.

00:32:11.360 At the high levels, when you're talking about Ferrari money, that is more important.

00:32:15.620 It's like that old joke about a guy walks up to a girl at a bar and says, hey, would you sleep with

00:32:23.240 me for a hundred bucks? She says, absolutely not. He goes, would you sleep with me for a million

00:32:26.760 dollars? I got a million dollars to pay you right now to sleep with me. She goes, oh, well, yeah, 1.00

00:32:33.260 maybe. He goes, okay, how about 200 bucks? She says, what? What are you talking about? He goes, well,

00:32:37.580 now I know what you are. Now we're just haggling about the price. That there's a difference,

00:32:42.300 not in degree here, but a difference in kind. Are you the sort of person who would sell your integrity

00:32:46.700 for money? Or are you not? I'm not really knocking this girl. The temptations here are

00:32:53.860 extraordinarily high. And I'm sure that if you're very, very good at OnlyFans, you can make a lot

00:32:58.480 of money. The vast majority of girls make essentially no money on this and then sell out their image and 1.00

00:33:04.700 their integrity and their future marriages and relationship with their children for nothing.

00:33:10.980 Like a lot of Faustine bargains, they actually won't even get the material benefit from it.

00:33:14.800 But I see how some people could be really tempted to do this stuff in our modern culture,

00:33:20.740 especially a modern culture that ignores the moral order. But it's really not a complicated

00:33:25.160 question. There are some things that you should not be willing to do for any price,

00:33:33.520 in part, in no small part, because money isn't all that. Beyond a certain point, money doesn't

00:33:39.700 really make you any happier until you can afford private air travel. And then it does make you

00:33:44.020 happier in certain circumstances. But other than that, it doesn't really make you happier.

00:33:48.560 The material things of this world will pass away. Possession will not make you happier. In fact,

00:33:55.740 it'll probably just arouse your desires to get more material things. All the money in the world is not

00:34:01.580 worth a sense of spiritual peace. Not even close. It's just, this is not soft, so proselytizing.

00:34:10.580 It's just a fact, because metaphysical things are more enduring. Your treasure in heaven is going to

00:34:15.940 last a lot longer than a Ferrari, which is going to rust and break down quicker than you think.

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00:35:43.440 from you in the mailbag. The mailbag is sponsored by Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com slash Knowles to save

00:35:48.060 50% off your first month. Take it away. Hi, Michael. When the right says that we love America and the left

00:35:55.120 does not, I think this needs to be reevaluated. When the left says they love America, what they

00:36:00.440 really mean is they love what America could be if their values were put in place. But when the right

00:36:05.840 says they love America, it seems to amount to basically saying that they loved it when America

00:36:10.600 defeated the Nazis, for example. But I'm looking around as a conservative in 2023, and I can't find

00:36:19.880 anything to love about our nation broadly. We kill babies. We deny God. We trans the kids. We open our 0.95

00:36:28.520 borders to thieves and criminals and rapists and drug dealers, and we look the other way when it

00:36:32.260 affects our neighbors. Our nation seems evil from shore to shore. Why would I love America? Am I wrong

00:36:39.600 in thinking this way, or should conservatives think long and hard about what patriotism is?

00:36:45.560 Thanks, and I appreciate your response. Great question. I had a wonderful mother. 0.95

00:36:51.640 Absolutely wonderful mother. Just love her to death. So it's easy to love my mother.

00:36:55.480 I have a wonderful father. It's very easy to love my father. Some people don't, though. Some people have

00:37:01.240 deadbeat dads. Some people have drug-addicted, neglectful mothers, vicious parents. Some people

00:37:10.280 have bad parents, okay? And yet, all people are called upon to show some respect for their parents,

00:37:18.900 and one hopes to love one's parents. This is filial piety, which is a good thing in itself. In the right,

00:37:30.060 proper order, we are called to respect and even to love our parents. If they're worthy of respect and

00:37:37.800 lovable, all the better, but we have that obligation. When people just openly, constantly

00:37:44.140 resent their parents and diss them all the time and whine and complain and blame them for everything,

00:37:49.120 that's when they become big libs, right? They say, I hate you, dad. That's what all liberalism 0.92

00:37:52.860 basically boils down to. Patriotism is an extension of filial piety. We owe our nation our support and

00:38:02.420 respect because it is our nation. And sometimes our nation resembles my loving, wonderful, great

00:38:08.260 parents. And sometimes our nation resembles the heroin addict, neglectful, degenerate people. 0.99

00:38:14.920 But we owe them a little bit of reverence and, at the very least, and love. And we owe it to them 0.70

00:38:23.120 and to ourselves to help them to improve and to live a good and more flourishing life. In no small part

00:38:31.180 because we're part of it. We're in that family. It's our community. You can't really leave that.

00:38:36.560 Your family is your family. Your country is your country. And so we owe it to our country, but we owe

00:38:41.340 it to ourselves also to love it. You can't really improve anybody if you hate that person. It's not

00:38:48.760 going to work. Next question. Michael, big fan and fellow Catholic here. I wanted to ask about at one of

00:38:56.260 your relatively recent speaking events, probably a couple of months ago, you briefly touched on the

00:39:03.120 topic of limbo during the Q&A section when somebody asked about whether or not unbaptized babies go to

00:39:09.340 heaven. I was wondering if you could expound on that and what the Catholic Church has historically taught

00:39:16.480 about limbo and what the Catholic Church currently teaches about limbo. And I had a second question,

00:39:22.800 which was, how does it feel to share a nickname with the former first lady of the United States?

00:39:31.260 Thanks, big Mike.

00:39:35.700 Really good questions. I guess I'll take the first one first. Yes, someone asked me,

00:39:41.360 some wise guy decided while I was giving a speech about abortion. He said, hey, do babies go to heaven?

00:39:47.380 Do pre-born babies go to heaven? And he expected me to just say yes, but I started to give the 0.98

00:39:53.300 traditional Christian answer on it, which is, well, there's actually this concept called limbo.

00:39:57.120 And then he cut me off because he realized he wasn't getting the gotcha answer he wanted. He goes,

00:40:00.280 well, if they go to heaven, we should kill them all, right? Isn't that good? And I was like, well, 1.00

00:40:03.400 that's not the answer. That was the problem. So what is limbo? A lot of people are confused about

00:40:07.960 this, including Catholics who don't even know what the church teaches anymore.

00:40:11.540 Limbo is, well, there are two kinds of limbo, traditionally understood. There is the limbo

00:40:19.500 of the just. And the limbo of the just is also referred to in the Bible as the bosom of Abraham.

00:40:24.820 It's the place that souls go after death before the opening up of the kingdom of heaven, before

00:40:33.360 the crucifixion and the resurrection and the redemption of mankind. So it's a kind of a hell,

00:40:43.040 but it's not like the hell with the pitchforks where you're being just brutally tortured for all

00:40:46.900 of eternity. It's nice enough. Maybe you would compare it to the Greek understanding of the

00:40:52.820 Elysian fields. It's kind of nice. Maybe a little less nice than that, but it's okay. And then Christ

00:40:59.020 goes down and harrows hell. And you see this in the writing of St. Peter. You see this in the

00:41:05.740 writing of St. Paul. You see also the necessity for limbo in the gospels, which is Christ goes in

00:41:13.320 and brings the just souls who died before the crucifixion and the resurrection and brings them

00:41:21.020 up to heaven to see the face of God. Christ says that to have eternal life, to be with

00:41:28.920 him in heaven, to see the very face of God, right? You need baptism. You need to be born

00:41:35.900 of water and of blood, reborn. And this baptism washes away original sin. So what happens if you

00:41:43.840 die before you've been baptized, especially in the case of like little unbaptized babies?

00:41:48.120 The traditional teaching of the church is a little complicated in that St. Augustine took a view

00:41:52.280 that was a little bit harsher, which is that they go to hell essentially. But it's not the worst kind

00:41:56.900 of hell. They're not at the very pit being in the most kind of physical and spiritual torture,

00:42:02.220 but it's still hell. St. Thomas Aquinas took a little more lenient view, which is that the limbo

00:42:10.300 of the infants, the place that the infants go after death, is a place of perfect natural happiness,

00:42:16.100 but not supernatural happiness. That in order to have the supernatural happiness of the vision of God

00:42:20.240 himself, the beatific vision, that one must be baptized, that one must be redeemed and have his

00:42:28.860 soul sealed in Christ. But for babies who are not guilty of any sin other than the fallenness of human

00:42:36.620 nature, which we call original sin, they are still able to achieve perfect natural happiness. So it's not

00:42:45.020 like they're whining and complaining. Well, babies always whining and complaining. But it's not that

00:42:49.280 they're despairing in the sense of longing for this supernatural happiness that is unattainable for

00:42:57.400 them. They've got the perfect amount of happiness that one is capable of naturally, but they lack the

00:43:03.620 supernatural happiness that those who have been reborn into Christ can achieve. There's a lot more to say

00:43:09.940 about limbo. I mean, we could go on for hours and hours about what church fathers and doctors of the

00:43:14.420 church have said about limbo, but that's the basic idea. And it is necessary in order to

00:43:20.820 make sense of church teaching, which we get from our Lord himself in the Gospels, which is that

00:43:26.620 to enter heaven, you've got to be baptized and to be reborn in Christ. And so in order to make sense of

00:43:33.640 that, limbo is a place that, one, we actually do see it in the scriptures, but two, we can also

00:43:40.180 deduce it for a reason as great thinkers and theologians have done throughout history. Okay,

00:43:44.880 next one. Hey, Michael, this is a really quick message. Let's say hypothetically, I killed someone

00:43:52.860 because this didn't happen. This didn't happen. Let's say I killed someone and they, just imagine,

00:44:00.580 because you need to imagine, they are laying in front of me. I'm in the kitchen and some people are

00:44:08.060 just knocking at my door. So what can I do to get rid of the body and not get caught? That's my

00:44:18.740 question. It would be great if you could answer that before tomorrow, but anyway, yeah, yeah.

00:44:28.660 So hypothetically, I guess if someone were knocking at the door in this case, what you should do, if you

00:44:33.560 want to avoid jail time, if you don't care about the morality of it, you just open the door,

00:44:36.680 you tell them you are a Democrat. You tell them you're a Democrat, tell them you're happy to help

00:44:41.720 Joe Biden's re-election, you're able to do that, and then you'll get off without a hitch, and probably

00:44:48.040 those coppers will help you get rid of the body themselves. Next question. 1.00

00:44:53.220 Hey, Dirty Mike. Mr. Reality here. I wondered if you thought trans people who undergo surgery

00:44:58.660 and claim they're happy with being trans are experiencing a sort of Stockholm syndrome,

00:45:04.280 not unlike someone who's been kidnapped. Obviously, there's some trans people who

00:45:10.020 detransition, and then there's others who insist that they're the happiest they've ever been after

00:45:14.560 they've removed various body parts, and it just doesn't seem like that would be something someone

00:45:19.480 happy would do. But do you think they're all lying about being happy, or do you think some of them have

00:45:25.320 a sort of Stockholm syndrome almost? Thanks. Yeah, probably the latter. I don't know that I'd

00:45:31.260 call it exactly Stockholm syndrome. But yeah, people who engage in destructive behaviors

00:45:37.260 will very often find ways to justify those behaviors to themselves, even if they are conscious

00:45:46.180 at some level of the ways in which it is harming and destroying them. This is because it's easier for

00:45:50.760 people to change their mind than to change their behavior. And especially, in fairness to these people,

00:45:54.660 if they've turned themselves into eunuchs, if they've sterilized themselves, if they've given 0.95

00:45:57.880 themselves osteoporosis, if they've completely, or almost completely destroyed their bodies,

00:46:04.080 it's very hard to grapple with that fact. It's very hard to accept that. And so,

00:46:08.580 it's much easier to say, no, this is actually good. Boy, I'm so happy. Aren't I happy? And sort of

00:46:13.860 grit your teeth and bear it. Ultimately, that won't be good for them. The only way out is through. The only

00:46:18.320 way out is to say, gosh, I made a big mistake. Everyone makes big mistakes at some point. And say,

00:46:22.360 I made a big mistake. There's no totally fixing this. But in an ultimate sense, meaning to pursue

00:46:29.020 the good, to pursue the true, to live my life in accordance with the reality. One can do that.

00:46:34.540 But the first step is admitting that you have a problem, which a lot of people won't do.

00:46:38.860 It's true of all sorts of advice. Before we go, really quick, Brittany, would you marry Tim?

00:46:43.500 Brittany is the girlfriend of Tim, who is a member of the Creme de la Creme, a daily viewer of the show,

00:46:54.420 along with his, I hope, soon-to-be fiancee, Brittany. And so, yeah, this is for Tim Blanchfield. He wrote

00:46:59.820 in and asked, hey, Michael, would you mind bringing up a potential marriage proposal for me to the woman

00:47:06.560 I hope will be my wife, you know, love of my life, all that, you know, all that kind of schmaltzy stuff.

00:47:10.780 So anyway, Brittany, just wondering if you would marry Tim. Okay, we've got much more chatting to

00:47:16.860 do with one another in the member block. We've got the written mailbag to get to. We've got fake

00:47:21.440 headline Friday. It's top secret today, guys. Security clearance, according to my producer,

00:47:25.780 is level five, based eyes only. I need your help to discern what the fake headline is. So,

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 09, 2023

Ep. 1264 - This Could Be Serious Trouble For Trump

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