The Michael Knowles Show - June 13, 2023


Ep. 1266 - Men With Fake Breasts Party At The White House


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Transvestite strippers took to the White House lawn to perform a sex show in front of the President. What do we do with it? Is it OK to do so? And why should it be allowed to go on?

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00:00:37.680 Since I'm already banned from YouTube this week for refusing to pretend that men are women, 0.99
00:00:42.180 I might as well make the most of it by calling your attention to the degenerate display that recently took over the White House.
00:00:51.460 Welcome to the White House.
00:00:52.580 Thank you.
00:00:53.980 Happy Pride Month.
00:00:55.500 Happy Pride year.
00:00:57.420 Happy Pride life.
00:00:58.820 Yeah.
00:01:00.840 Transgender children.
00:01:02.240 You are beautiful.
00:01:03.360 You are heard.
00:01:04.540 You belong.
00:01:05.480 You are understood.
00:01:06.640 You are loved.
00:01:07.920 And you belong.
00:01:10.400 One of the bravest, the most inspiring people I've ever known.
00:01:15.080 I mean your mama.
00:01:15.580 Transvestite strippers. 0.99
00:01:16.620 Bravest people I've ever seen.
00:01:17.800 Can we take a little video?
00:01:18.940 Hi, Mr. President.
00:01:20.660 It is an honor of trans rights or human rights.
00:01:23.140 This is the lawn of the White House.
00:01:34.560 The monument is in the library.
00:01:37.720 Gay news. 0.54
00:01:38.520 And then there we go.
00:01:41.760 Is that the White House?
00:01:42.520 Topless.
00:01:45.180 Transvestite strippers jigging, jiggling around on the lawn right there, right in front of the White House. 0.99
00:01:51.460 On the White House grounds.
00:01:53.580 Creepy, weird, deeply disheartening.
00:01:59.140 Not just these men who are obviously in need of deep psychiatric and spiritual help, but the White House staff and the president himself who hosted it.
00:02:08.240 The transvestites who put on a strip show at the White House are scandalous. 1.00
00:02:11.960 But the real degenerates are our rulers who invited them and cheer them on.
00:02:17.480 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:02:18.400 This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:27.240 Welcome back to the show.
00:02:28.920 In just a moment, we will get to the big news of 2024.
00:02:33.460 Pencementum.
00:02:34.820 The Pence campaign officially kicking off.
00:02:37.260 We'll get to that in a second.
00:02:38.080 First, though, I had a big debate with my producers before the show.
00:02:41.860 In fact, I brought Brett Cooper into it because she was sitting next to me in the makeup chair. 1.00
00:02:45.200 What were we supposed to blur out in that scene at the White House?
00:02:50.420 The fact that we have to blur anything out at the White House, the executive mansion for the United States government, is really, really sad.
00:02:58.300 I guess it's been that way since at least the Clinton era.
00:03:00.860 But it's really sad that it's now out in the open.
00:03:02.740 Used to be when naughty things would happen at the White House, it would be behind closed doors, locked in the Oval Office.
00:03:07.860 Now it's right out there on the lawn.
00:03:09.160 You've got these men and women taking their clothing off and jiggling around in a sexual manner right there in front of the president.
00:03:19.160 But the reason it was confusing is because there's a man who has breast implants, and he's covering himself mercifully, but he's a guy with breast implants.
00:03:28.900 And then there are women who chopped their breasts off and are showing off their scores, also topless. 1.00
00:03:34.000 What do you censor?
00:03:38.420 I came down on the side of you blur out the actual women's breasts or surgically removed breasts.
00:03:47.400 You don't necessarily censor the man's chest because men take their shirts off at the beach.
00:03:54.560 That's fine.
00:03:54.920 It's not considered sexual.
00:03:55.940 But when the men mutilate themselves to appear to be like women, I guess what you should do is blur it all. 0.81
00:04:04.580 I guess that's what we should have done, right?
00:04:06.180 We should censor all of this because it's obscene.
00:04:10.400 And even, gosh, I don't know, a year ago probably, certainly five or six years ago, we would have censored all of this.
00:04:19.380 The idea that this would be at the White House would be absolutely unthinkable.
00:04:23.000 For most of American history, we not only prohibited but actively prosecuted people who engaged in all of this kind of behavior.
00:04:34.280 Even just regular old cross-dressing, not even the stuff at the White House, regular old cross-dressing was illegal throughout much of the United States, including San Francisco, which is now drag capital of America. 1.00
00:04:43.740 And over the years, the people have wanted to continue to enforce these standards and norms.
00:04:49.500 But it's our degenerate, elite, liberal ruling class that has constantly undermined the will of the people, whether that's through legislation.
00:04:56.740 I think about the Communications Decency Act, Child Online Protection Act in the 1990s, both of which were designed with bipartisan support.
00:05:06.500 Republicans and Democrats, Congress and the White House pushed this legislation to say, hey, we don't want this weird porn stuff everywhere. 0.99
00:05:13.900 And then it was an elite liberal judge who struck it down and pretended that James Madison enshrined the right to, I don't know, to jiggle around on the Internet and access all sorts of weird images.
00:05:25.540 Not the case.
00:05:27.080 The transvestites have their own problems, and we need to make sure that we encourage them to behave in a way that's conducive to human flourishing, their own and societies. 0.95
00:05:38.780 But the transvestites are just deeply troubled people who probably come from all sorts of bad circumstances and have all sorts of bad ideas and have been encouraged in their delusions by irresponsible leaders. 1.00
00:05:50.060 The real corruption, well, it's all corrupt, but the far deeper corruption is in the ruling class.
00:05:58.120 And you're seeing this, forget about the sex stuff for a second, you're seeing this, especially right now, in the Bidens, in their plain, regular, old, corrupt business dealings.
00:06:06.860 So this allegation came out about a week ago that Hunter and Joe Biden took millions of dollars in bribes from Ukrainian muckety mucks in exchange for Biden, 0.97
00:06:18.380 who was then the vice president of the United States and Barack Obama's point man on Ukraine, getting a prosecutor fired who was looking into the corrupt business dealings of one of the institutions in Ukraine,
00:06:29.720 Burisma, this energy company, that then not only paid off Hunter Biden and gave him all sorts of money for his apparent expertise on Ukrainian natural resources,
00:06:38.600 which I don't think Hunter Biden possesses, but also just outright paid five million bucks to Hunter, five million bucks to Joe, according to the allegation.
00:06:45.500 Now, do we believe this allegation?
00:06:47.160 Well, it would appear to have been written in some FBI memoranda.
00:06:51.900 And Senator Chuck Grassley, who is one of the most respected members of the United States Senate,
00:06:56.120 just came out and detailed the dirt that Burisma apparently has on Biden, on the Bidens, to make sure that they kept up their end of the bargain.
00:07:06.920 The foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden, allegedly has audio recordings of his conversation with them.
00:07:17.880 17 such recordings.
00:07:20.840 According to the 1023, the foreign national possesses 15 audio recordings of phone calls between him and Hunter Biden.
00:07:32.520 According to the 1023, the foreign national possesses two audio recordings of phone calls between him and then Vice President Joe Biden.
00:07:44.560 These recordings were allegedly kept as a sort of insurance policy for the foreign national in case that he got into a tight spot.
00:07:54.760 The 1023 also indicates that then Vice President Joe Biden may have been involved in Burma, employing Hunter Biden.
00:08:06.020 So, Chuck Grassley, not telling us anything that normal people didn't already suspect.
00:08:10.120 In fact, we had that video, you know, I wish I had pulled it, but you've seen it so often now.
00:08:15.640 I've played it on the show many, many times of Joe Biden speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations, bragging about how he got this prosecutor fired.
00:08:23.780 And he said, we're going to withhold a billion dollars in aid if you don't fire this prosecutor.
00:08:27.440 Why did he fire the prosecutor?
00:08:29.040 Well, it would appear that that prosecutor was investigating the company that was paying off Hunter Biden, certainly.
00:08:36.220 And according to this allegation, paying off Joe Biden as well.
00:08:39.160 And then, as Chuck Grassley says, detailing his reports from the intelligence community, the Ukrainian oligarchs were keeping these recorded phone calls with Hunter and with Joe, just in case anything ever went south.
00:08:54.860 These are very, very corrupt people.
00:08:57.900 Why does it matter for us?
00:08:59.060 Because the Bidens got millions and millions of dollars on political grifts selling American influence, wielding the government of the United States for their personal enrichment.
00:09:06.860 No, we all kind of knew that was happening.
00:09:09.880 They're not the first ones to do it.
00:09:11.520 It's a reminder that as we look ahead to 2024, very, very corrupt people.
00:09:16.320 Oh, we do have that clip.
00:09:17.440 Wow, they secretly pulled that clip for me.
00:09:19.140 Can we get that clip of Joe Biden bragging about getting this prosecutor fired?
00:09:24.260 They were walking out to the press conference and said, no, I said, I'm not going to, we're not going to give you the billion dollars.
00:09:29.840 They said, you have no authority.
00:09:31.420 You're not the president.
00:09:32.160 The president said, I said, call him.
00:09:35.140 I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars.
00:09:37.760 I said, you're not getting a billion.
00:09:39.280 I'm going to be leaving here.
00:09:40.300 And I think it was what, six hours.
00:09:41.640 I looked, I said, I'm leaving in six hours.
00:09:43.600 If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money.
00:09:46.680 Oh, son of a b****. 1.00
00:09:48.960 Got fired.
00:09:50.200 Well, what do you know?
00:09:52.440 He got fired.
00:09:54.560 Why would Joe Biden brag about this?
00:09:56.220 One, he can't keep his mouth shut.
00:09:57.720 But two, there's political cleverness in hiding in plain sight.
00:10:03.980 So if he's presenting this at the Council on Foreign Relations, he's presenting this, maybe he thought it was a closed room.
00:10:08.720 But even if he knew it was on camera, he'd say, yeah, look, I felt this was a bad prosecutor.
00:10:12.920 And so, of course, I did this.
00:10:13.820 I'm proud of it.
00:10:14.420 I'm doubling down on this.
00:10:17.320 His defenders will now say, no, this was just an important part of U.S. policy to get rid of this one random prosecutor who was looking into issues in Ukrainian energy companies.
00:10:27.000 Okay, what does it mean when we've got very corrupt people running the government?
00:10:30.780 It means that they will do anything.
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00:12:26.520 Things are not looking great for Trump from a legal perspective right now.
00:12:32.440 The reason for that is not just the crime that they're alleging that Trump committed.
00:12:39.780 Not just the quality of the crime, but the quantity.
00:12:42.940 They are throwing the kitchen sink at this guy.
00:12:46.580 Dozens of counts against Donald Trump.
00:12:50.580 Why?
00:12:52.640 Because if even one of them sticks, as Jonathan Turley, the often pro-Trump law professor and legal analyst points out, the man could die in prison.
00:13:04.120 The problem is that he's got to run the table.
00:13:07.640 He's 76 years old.
00:13:09.480 All the government has to do is stick the landing on one count, and he could have a terminal sentence.
00:13:15.240 You're talking about crimes that have a 10- or 20-year period as a maximum.
00:13:19.860 The evidence here is quite strong.
00:13:22.980 Now, we haven't heard their other side.
00:13:24.920 Generally, these indictments are a lot stronger on the day they're issued than the next day.
00:13:29.040 So they may be able to knock down some of these issues.
00:13:31.920 But some of this evidence is coming from his former counsel.
00:13:35.940 And these are very damaging statements that have been made against him.
00:13:40.300 It may be hard to move those.
00:13:42.240 The fact is, both things may be true.
00:13:45.060 Yes, the Department of Justice may have been out to get him, but he made it easy.
00:13:49.860 I mean, if you look at what is being described in this indictment, confronted with someone that he felt was trying to get him, he couldn't have made it more easy for them to do so.
00:14:01.980 He made it easy.
00:14:03.500 And maybe he did.
00:14:05.040 Maybe he did.
00:14:05.800 Donald Trump is not one to go along to get along, to be pushed around, to slap backs and cozy up to the political establishment and wait his place in line.
00:14:17.980 That's not what Trump does.
00:14:19.580 That's not why he got elected.
00:14:20.900 That's not how he became famous.
00:14:22.440 That's just not in the guy's bones.
00:14:26.520 And so Turley, who has long defended Trump, says, yeah, maybe the DOJ is out to get him, but maybe he made it easy for them to get him.
00:14:33.640 Okay, but I don't really care about that last part because they would have gone after him for something.
00:14:42.920 They would have indicted a ham sandwich if that ham sandwich's last name was Trump.
00:14:46.720 They've been trying to get him on completely spurious charges, totally made up in some boardroom at the FBI, or actually more likely in the Clinton campaign, since 2016.
00:15:03.000 And now maybe they get him because he moved a box of documents from one room to another.
00:15:07.240 Joe Biden keeps documents all over the place underneath his Corvette where his degenerate son, degenerate seems to be the word of the day, because it describes our ruling class.
00:15:20.560 Joe Biden keeps these documents in multiple states.
00:15:23.480 Going back to his time in the Senate, when he had no right to declassify this on a whim, nothing happens.
00:15:31.240 Hillary Clinton has contemporary classified information on a server, easily hackable, no consequences whatsoever.
00:15:38.480 So I appreciate Jonathan Turley's analysis.
00:15:41.980 I'm sure he's right.
00:15:43.580 But I don't want to hear this from any of Trump's advocates.
00:15:46.140 I certainly don't want to hear this from any Republican or conservative who's trying to figure out what we do now about this case.
00:15:51.700 I don't want to hear, well, you know, they might have gotten him.
00:15:54.320 No.
00:15:54.720 You know when Trump said I could shoot a guy in Fifth Avenue and I wouldn't lose one vote?
00:16:00.300 I'm basically there at this point.
00:16:02.620 And I'm not there even because of any intrinsic quality about Trump.
00:16:06.160 I'm there because of how corrupt our political establishment and legal establishment are that they would go after Trump as a little wrench in the gears.
00:16:18.800 Trump as this weird outsider who kind of broke the rules and they're going to try to kill him for it.
00:16:24.900 They're going to try to have the man die in prison for it.
00:16:27.960 And I just don't like that very much.
00:16:31.220 Now, there is a glimmer of hope here for Trump.
00:16:32.960 The judge who's handling this case is a Trump appointee.
00:16:36.220 Her name is Aileen M. Cannon, court official for, or a judge rather, in Southern District of Florida.
00:16:44.860 And she has previously seemed to take Trump's side on this particular issue.
00:16:51.220 So that is great.
00:16:53.240 Without violating justice, without violating morality, we need to reward our friends and punish our enemies.
00:17:01.460 That's what the libs do. 1.00
00:17:02.580 Well, the libs do that while intentionally violating principles of justice and morality.
00:17:06.920 And then they try to destroy their enemies by any means necessary and reward their friends,
00:17:12.640 especially when their friends are committing criminal acts.
00:17:14.860 And what does the right do?
00:17:16.200 The right for too long has said, well, listen, what the liberals are doing is not right or just.
00:17:21.440 That's true.
00:17:22.120 But hey, Donald Trump, he did jaywalk that one time.
00:17:26.160 And so, look, I think if we're going to be principled, I think we need to send him to Gitmo.
00:17:31.040 You know, because he did, he, there was that one time when the speed limit was 30 miles an hour.
00:17:35.960 And at one point, it looked like he was going about 32.
00:17:38.600 So, I'm pretty sure we need to send him to the guillotine.
00:17:43.700 Look, because we're principled.
00:17:45.700 Okay.
00:17:46.100 Now, I don't think that's principled.
00:17:47.520 I think that's cowardly.
00:17:49.500 And I think that without violating principles of morality and justice, which is, that's an important part of it.
00:17:55.760 So, we need to reward our friends and punish our enemies.
00:17:59.600 And we need to start wielding power to do so.
00:18:02.240 Now, the good news for Trump, in addition to having an apparently favorable judge, is that the people still really like him.
00:18:11.060 Not only are his poll numbers remaining high, they are increasing amid all of these prosecutions and persecutions.
00:18:18.340 Latest Trump we got, or latest Trump, the latest poll we have out from CBS shows Trump is at 61% in the primary field.
00:18:25.660 He's 38 points up on his next closest rival, Ron DeSantis.
00:18:30.540 DeSantis is at 23%.
00:18:32.300 So, that's a little over a third of the support that Trump has got.
00:18:37.140 Next up, Tim Scott and Mike Pence.
00:18:39.100 We'll get to Pence in a second.
00:18:39.940 After that, Nikki Haley, after that, Vivek, and then Asa Hutchinson, David Burgum, Burgum Momentum, Larry Elder, and Chris Christie.
00:18:50.440 We're still waiting on the croissants, the croissants.
00:18:52.440 It's going to happen.
00:18:55.560 The people are with Trump.
00:18:58.260 Very clearly, any way you measure it.
00:19:01.420 The question is, do the people still matter to the government?
00:19:06.860 We theoretically have government of the people, by the people, for the people.
00:19:10.700 In practice, I think we all know that is not the case.
00:19:14.180 In the name of expanding democracy, democratic accountability has been shrunk.
00:19:18.360 In the name of expanding democracy, we now have widespread mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting,
00:19:22.840 which, as even Barack Obama would admit at least 10 years ago, opens up the process to a lot of fraud.
00:19:27.780 Every fraudulent ballot cast is a ballot, a legitimate ballot of a real voter that is not cast.
00:19:34.900 And the power of the people diminishes.
00:19:36.740 Every locker in Michigan that is discovered to have been stuffed with hundreds of mail-in ballots,
00:19:42.080 well, those are hundreds of ballots, hundreds of people whose voices were not heard in the government.
00:19:46.620 That's just the electoral issue.
00:19:47.880 Then you have the issue of actual legislation.
00:19:49.940 Who passes the laws?
00:19:51.040 It's obviously not the people.
00:19:52.940 It never was the people at any large scale in the United States.
00:19:55.680 It was supposed to be the people's representatives.
00:19:57.240 But it's not them anymore either.
00:19:58.580 It's a bunch of unaccountable bureaucrats who will remain in power no matter who the president is.
00:20:04.060 In order to have a real effect on the deep state, which now numbers something like 2 million people,
00:20:08.520 depending on exactly which branches of the government you count,
00:20:11.500 you're looking at a federal bureaucracy of about 2 million people.
00:20:14.760 When a president comes into office, he replaces 4,000 to 5,000 of them.
00:20:19.120 That's nothing.
00:20:20.180 And so, yeah, okay, he replaces these appointees.
00:20:22.520 They come and go, but the powers that actually craft the laws, they remain.
00:20:28.320 Followed by the judges, for which there is a little bit more democratic accountability,
00:20:32.160 but they tend to rule in ways that advance the cause of liberalism.
00:20:36.140 To say nothing of the national sovereignty that we've sent overseas to international organizations,
00:20:41.060 to international trade agreements, to corporations.
00:20:46.840 The Republicans, in many ways, the conservatives have been the ones to deregulate such that
00:20:50.740 we've let a lot of power leave the people and go to corporations who theoretically should be
00:20:56.440 accountable to market forces, but very often are not.
00:20:58.840 Because they've decided to get into cahoots through crony capitalism with other major
00:21:04.920 multinational corporations, as well as multinational organizations like GARM,
00:21:08.660 the Alliance for Responsible Media, which is nothing more than a pro-leftism,
00:21:17.460 pro-liberalism cartel that is now tied up with the World Economic Forum.
00:21:22.020 So all of us, I mean, we could go down this rabbit hole all day long, but all of which
00:21:25.520 is to say the people have given away a lot of their power.
00:21:28.480 And whenever the people do something that the liberal elites don't like, say, elect Donald
00:21:32.860 Trump, for instance, then the ruling class will say that it's a threat to democracy.
00:21:36.960 When the people want something that is popular, by definition, that is an expression of democracy,
00:21:43.480 but not according to the libs who have supplanted American democracy with liberalism.
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00:23:21.840 Trump, for his part, he says he's never going to leave.
00:23:24.260 Interview in Politico, he says, I will never leave.
00:23:27.320 Look, if I would have left, I would have left prior to the original race in 2016.
00:23:30.780 That was a rough one in theory.
00:23:32.560 That was not doable.
00:23:34.280 But the, and that's kind of funny.
00:23:36.200 Trump, in this quote, uses the word that I've been using all day long.
00:23:40.140 That was not intentional that I've followed him.
00:23:42.340 He said, these are thugs and degenerates who are after me.
00:23:45.400 So, so true.
00:23:48.100 Now, the question for Republicans is, do we just finally need an alternative?
00:23:51.460 Is that it?
00:23:51.820 Does Trump just have too much baggage?
00:23:53.380 Are they just after him too hard?
00:23:54.760 Is there no way to overcome the attacks on him?
00:23:57.820 Do we need an alternative?
00:23:59.020 Dene, Dene Benton, who is some Broadway person, gave us the answer to that question the other
00:24:08.800 night at the Tony Awards when she referred to the number two guy in the Republican race
00:24:14.000 for president as, I'll let her put it in her own words.
00:24:18.900 Hi, I'm Dene Benton, actor, thank you, and proud CMU alum.
00:24:28.380 Earlier tonight, CMU and the Tony Awards presented the 2023 Excellence in Theater Education Award.
00:24:36.200 And while I am certain that the current Grand Wizard, I'm sorry, excuse me, governor of
00:24:42.020 my home state of Florida, will be changing...
00:24:45.200 Please, please, please.
00:24:51.200 This is an object.
00:24:52.560 I am sure that he will be changing the name of this following town immediately.
00:25:03.840 We were honored to present this award to the truly incredible and life-changing...
00:25:08.660 I think we get the point.
00:25:09.780 I think we can cut off Dene Benton.
00:25:12.620 Okay.
00:25:12.760 Ooh, did you hear?
00:25:15.220 She called Ron DeSantis a racist.
00:25:19.960 Ooh, wow, what an amazing comedy routine.
00:25:24.040 What incisive humor that really allows me to see Governor DeSantis in a new and shocking light.
00:25:31.360 Wow, boy, that's it.
00:25:34.560 That's showbiz for you. 0.79
00:25:36.100 This reminds me of back in the Bush administration, Bush 2, Christopher Hitchens,
00:25:42.340 who for all his problems was pretty funny.
00:25:44.280 Christopher Hitchens goes on the Bill Maher show.
00:25:46.640 And Bill Maher made a joke about how George Bush was stupid.
00:25:49.380 And the audience started clapping and guffawing.
00:25:52.020 He said, what?
00:25:53.520 George Bush is stupid.
00:25:54.820 And Christopher Hitchens said, he goes, you know, this is ridiculous.
00:25:57.800 Not one person in your audience is smarter than George Bush.
00:26:01.020 He said, George Bush is a rather intelligent person.
00:26:06.900 And the George Bush's stupid line is the joke that stupid people laugh at.
00:26:11.460 And the audience started booing him.
00:26:13.440 And then he flipped them all off because he didn't really care.
00:26:15.720 That's how I feel here.
00:26:17.660 Ooh, hey, I got one for you.
00:26:21.000 Ready?
00:26:21.440 I'm going to speak truth to power and be really funny.
00:26:23.940 Ready?
00:26:24.860 Here we go.
00:26:26.740 Republicans are racist.
00:26:30.280 Bah! 0.97
00:26:31.120 Yeah, okay.
00:26:32.300 So regardless of what this says about the Dems and the Libs and the showbiz people,
00:26:37.120 this also tells you what the race is going to look like, no matter who gets the nomination.
00:26:42.600 Any Republican who gets the nomination will be Hitler. 0.80
00:26:48.400 Any Republican.
00:26:51.400 Maybe you prefer Ron DeSantis right now because you think DeSantis would be a better nominee.
00:26:55.280 Totally fair argument.
00:26:57.100 Great.
00:26:57.680 Have that argument all day long.
00:26:58.920 But if you prefer Ron DeSantis or any other Republican because you think he's clean and
00:27:05.160 the Democrats aren't going to hate him and the Democrats aren't going to wield their massive
00:27:09.020 political power to convince the centrists and the moderates and the squishy libs to hate 0.91
00:27:14.240 him, you are out of your mind.
00:27:17.640 Ron DeSantis will be super duper mega Hitler if he becomes the nominee.
00:27:23.440 Asa Hutchinson will be super duper mega Hitler if he becomes the nominee.
00:27:26.440 Anyway, Donald Trump is, far from being the most extreme, obnoxious, shocking, terrible
00:27:34.520 fringe candidate we've ever run, he's one of the most acceptable to the liberal
00:27:39.720 hordes that we've ever run as a Republican Party.
00:27:44.200 Donald Trump was a network television star for 15 years.
00:27:49.540 Donald Trump was a member of New York Liberal Society for 40 years.
00:27:54.080 Donald Trump was a tabloid star.
00:27:55.780 He was, he was wrapped of in hundreds of hip hop songs.
00:28:02.520 You do not get any more mainstream acceptable to the liberal culture than Donald Trump.
00:28:10.820 And they turned him into mega Hitler. 0.86
00:28:13.240 And they're going to do the same thing to anybody.
00:28:15.740 Notice, it's not even that they said Ron DeSantis is racist.
00:28:18.900 They said he's the grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
00:28:21.160 It's going to be, they would do it to Mike Pence.
00:28:27.040 Mike Pence is running for president.
00:28:32.080 And a lot of people don't think he's going to go very far as president.
00:28:36.660 And that's probably true.
00:28:37.560 The poll numbers are not looking, looking very good for Mike Pence.
00:28:39.920 Some people are making fun of his campaign aesthetic.
00:28:44.820 And there, I think they're somewhat misguided.
00:28:48.080 Mike Pence's campaign aesthetic is directly out of the 1980s.
00:28:53.160 Mike Pence's campaign aesthetic is like the Reagan Bush t-shirts that you see on college campuses a lot of the time.
00:29:00.380 Frat guys will wear them. 0.96
00:29:01.320 Reagan Bush 84, I want to be your president for the 1980s.
00:29:06.720 That is what, it's in the fonts, it's in the colors, it's in the way that his photograph is a little bit faded.
00:29:16.120 This is all intentional.
00:29:18.460 And it's intentional because Mike Pence is running as the real return to normalcy.
00:29:25.500 Joe Biden ran pretty overtly as the return to normalcy, and he was elected.
00:29:33.640 But as we can all tell, we are not returning to normal.
00:29:36.500 We have transvestites stripping on the White House lawn, as Joe Biden says, they're the most courageous people he's ever met.
00:29:42.400 So the normalcy didn't happen.
00:29:46.120 Mike Pence is running as the real deal because Mike Pence is a politician of a different era.
00:29:52.440 He's a Republican of a different era.
00:29:54.000 He's even a gentleman of a different era.
00:29:56.140 He's a very amiable, polite gentleman.
00:29:59.940 And we don't see that a lot these days.
00:30:01.900 Certainly not on the left, but not even really on the right.
00:30:04.980 And so Mike Pence's campaign, he knows he doesn't have a shot in the Trump lane.
00:30:09.840 There's already two guys in the Trump lane.
00:30:11.400 He knows he doesn't have a shot in the young next generation lane. 0.99
00:30:16.740 So Mike Pence's campaign is nostalgia.
00:30:20.920 And nostalgia is very powerful.
00:30:22.820 Nostalgia can really take people pretty far.
00:30:29.360 Nostalgia is history after a few drinks, also.
00:30:33.100 So ultimately, I don't think it's successful.
00:30:35.960 But he's capitalizing on a nicer version, a more optimistic, happier version of what Trump has capitalized on.
00:30:46.920 Make America great again.
00:30:48.120 America used to be great.
00:30:49.540 Now it's extremely degenerate and disheartening.
00:30:52.360 And we're going to go make it great again.
00:30:54.120 And the way Trump is going to make it great again is by just absolutely pummeling his enemies.
00:30:58.660 Ron DeSantis, the way that Ron DeSantis is going to make America great again is by parsing very specific policy and turning the levers of power in a way that will destroy wokeism, destroy leftism, reduce the power of the administrative state.
00:31:17.640 Okay, so he's doing it a little bit more focused way.
00:31:19.740 And the way Mike Pence is going to make America great again is by just being normal, just forgetting about all this modern stuff, not really dealing with it, just putting up the nice glossy red, white, and blue campaign flyers.
00:31:33.320 Mike Pence is running for president.
00:31:35.200 It's a real long shot.
00:31:36.660 But it's a smarter campaign strategy than many of the other people in the Republican field.
00:31:42.760 Speaking of nostalgia, I meant to get to this yesterday.
00:31:45.820 The third longest serving Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, died over the weekend.
00:31:52.620 Berlusconi is one of the few people, he might be the only person in contemporary politics as a world leader who can rightly claim to have paved the way for Trump.
00:32:04.960 Berlusconi has been a major Italian political figure for most of my life.
00:32:10.800 He really, he rose to power in the mid-90s, and he just kept coming back into power.
00:32:15.920 He changed his political party, he changed the way things worked, he owned the media, he was the richest guy in Europe, and he was so freaking funny.
00:32:29.120 Berlusconi is even getting some plaudits from his critics, and they really hated this guy when he was alive.
00:32:33.380 But the Telegraph put together just a quick little montage of some of Berlusconi's most delightful moments.
00:32:40.180 So Berlusconi got in trouble because it turned out he was having all of these sex parties.
00:32:44.260 He was having all sorts of orgies and stripper parties, in private, not on the White House lawn, but in private at his zillion-dollar mansions with all of his rich friends.
00:32:53.040 One of the girls that he was sleeping with was the niece of Hosni Mubarak, the old leader of Egypt.
00:32:57.520 And these parties got to be called Bunga Bunga parties, and Bunga Bunga became a really popular phrase.
00:33:03.880 Apparently, he learned the phrase Bunga Bunga from Muammar Gaddafi, the former leader of Libya.
00:33:09.460 It's just this absurd, colorful life.
00:33:11.680 So anyway, here's just a little montage to give you a sense of Berlusconi.
00:33:15.140 Here he is.
00:33:15.520 He's talking to a couple gals at some political event.
00:33:18.700 He says to the blonde gal, you're so good, I'm almost forced to invite you to some Bunga Bunga. 1.00
00:33:22.220 And then he says to the man, he goes, yeah, you're pretty enough, you could come too.
00:33:30.540 And now he's speaking, Berlusconi says, okay, I'll give you my regards from someone, what's his name, what's his name?
00:33:36.980 He's a guy who's a little bit tan.
00:33:38.680 You know, he's got a little bit of a tan.
00:33:39.720 Oh yeah, Barack Obama.
00:33:42.360 And one time he says, look, I work very, very hard, I work without interruption.
00:33:46.000 Sometimes I see a pretty girl.
00:33:47.140 And I say, it's better to be passionate for beautiful girls than to be gay. 1.00
00:33:57.020 One time he's walking by, he sees what looks like maybe a police officer, a chauffeur, some woman,
00:34:02.440 walks up behind her and just starts gyrating his hips right behind her. 0.99
00:34:06.140 And then when she realizes what's going on, he just kind of walks away laughing.
00:34:12.080 One time Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, was waiting to greet him on a red carpet.
00:34:16.280 But he gets out of the car, sees Merkel, and then just goes and takes a phone call and makes her wait for him.
00:34:21.080 The guy was just a total pimp, you know, and he engaged in lots of immoral behavior.
00:34:26.460 And I hope he's been forgiven for those things.
00:34:32.740 But as far as a political leader goes, he's just one of the greatest of our lifetime.
00:34:37.560 And he paved the way for Trump, not just in his brash, media mogul, billionaire, celebrity, playboy kind of style,
00:34:47.240 but in his populism.
00:34:50.480 He, and he paved the way for even people who were more populist in Italy.
00:34:54.280 But during the rise of Berlusconi, he was really on the side of the people in a way that liberal politics
00:35:03.700 just had not been for a lot of the 20th century in Italy or in America or anywhere really in the West.
00:35:10.080 And Berlusconi comes out and he says, look, there's something wrong with this liberal system.
00:35:14.800 We're going to give more of a voice for the people.
00:35:18.100 And increasingly, that's where conservative politics is headed.
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00:36:06.740 Speaking of gaffes, here's a big gaffe from the Biden administration.
00:36:10.540 According to a government watchdog, White House Press Secretary Corrine Jean-Pierre has violated the Hatch Act.
00:36:15.820 Now, this is very ironic because any time that a conservative reporter, usually Peter Ducey,
00:36:24.260 asks Corrine Jean-Pierre about any of Joe Biden's problems, maybe his health problems,
00:36:31.160 maybe if he's going to consider campaigning for president, if he's going to go to any debates,
00:36:36.380 if he's anything, really basic questions that would pertain to the president's schedule.
00:36:41.280 Corrine Jean-Pierre says, Peter, I can't answer those questions.
00:36:44.260 I can't answer questions about the campaign.
00:36:47.180 That would be a violation of the Hatch Act.
00:36:48.980 The Hatch Act, which says that people working for the government cannot engage in political campaign activity.
00:36:55.400 I can't, that would be illegal, Peter.
00:36:57.320 And now she has been found by this government inspector to have violated the Hatch Act.
00:37:03.460 This is even being reported by NBC News.
00:37:05.480 The Office of Special Counsel determined that when Corrine Jean-Pierre referred to MAGA Republicans,
00:37:12.360 she used her official authority and influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election. 0.97
00:37:20.780 Of course, of course, this is a minor thing.
00:37:24.640 The Hatch Act is largely symbolic or illusory, actually.
00:37:32.380 Obviously, the people working for the government are regularly engaged in at least implicit campaign activities.
00:37:40.240 The whole reason the president has a press secretary, especially during campaign season,
00:37:43.800 is so that she can present the work of the government in such a way that we'll get the guy reelected. 1.00
00:37:50.760 But it's a reminder.
00:37:51.620 These guys lie all the time.
00:37:53.180 They're very, very corrupt.
00:37:56.120 Anything you could accuse the Republicans of, these guys are doing ten times worse.
00:38:01.620 And the problem is because they wield the vast majority of power in the country, they're going to get away with it.
00:38:07.760 And then they're going to throw our guys in prison for even maybe sort of seeming like they're doing the same thing.
00:38:15.140 Speaking of scandal, this is a pretty big news story, and it's not getting nearly enough coverage.
00:38:21.320 The, where is it?
00:38:23.760 Yes.
00:38:24.240 The largest Catholic health system in the country is transing people.
00:38:31.480 So this is a report out from the Lepanto Institute, Catholic Institute.
00:38:36.100 Common spirit health and the sex change industry.
00:38:39.500 So I'll just get here to the executive summary.
00:38:41.680 I recommend you read the whole report.
00:38:43.280 It's really good.
00:38:45.160 The largest health system in the U.S., common spirit health, is acting directly against Catholic moral teaching
00:38:50.340 in direct defiance of its Catholic identity.
00:38:52.720 The report shows that it's performing, that the health group is performing transgender surgeries,
00:38:59.160 providing hormone-based transgender therapies, providing puberty blockers to children 0.98
00:39:02.560 under the offices of so-called gender-affirming care,
00:39:05.720 is financially subsidizing the same activities through its employee benefits packages,
00:39:09.940 is financially subsidizing medical institutions performing these procedures and therapies,
00:39:13.580 is providing all forms of modern contraception, including abortifacient drugs,
00:39:17.760 so drugs that kill babies even after conception,
00:39:20.200 but also contraception, which again, not allowed, according to Catholic moral teaching.
00:39:25.420 And it's even performing elective abortions and surgical sterilizations.
00:39:31.060 Obviously both, both not permitted at all by Catholic moral teaching.
00:39:38.240 Major, major scandal.
00:39:39.500 And they even have just a list of all of the hospitals affiliated with this group and the things they provide.
00:39:43.880 Sex change surgeries, transgender health services, whatever.
00:39:47.480 Even abortion, you think abortion. 0.93
00:39:50.780 None of these things, if you're a Catholic, are you allowed to engage in. 0.90
00:39:55.300 But abortion in particular, the right to life is not just one right among many,
00:39:58.860 it's the fundamental right from which all the other rights derive.
00:40:01.780 All of these things being performed by Catholics. 0.91
00:40:03.960 There's an old line, and I will adapt it to our political use here.
00:40:11.620 When Rome catches a cold, the rest of the culture catches pneumonia.
00:40:17.260 When the Catholic Church messes something up, goes a little weak on something,
00:40:26.180 falls into scandal,
00:40:27.740 the rest of the culture will feel extraordinarily outsized ramifications for that. 0.71
00:40:36.740 Because the Catholic Church, whatever you think about the Catholic Church,
00:40:39.180 maybe you're Catholic, maybe you're not Catholic, maybe you don't like Catholics.
00:40:42.940 The Catholic Church has been the pillar of Western civilization for 2,000 years.
00:40:50.300 The Catholic Church is the institution that stands very hardcore on issues that other institutions have given way on.
00:40:59.560 On issues like abortion.
00:41:01.220 On issues like human nature.
00:41:02.980 On issues like marriage.
00:41:05.460 The Catholic Church doesn't change.
00:41:06.800 There's just, one, I think it's divinely instituted,
00:41:09.180 but even if you don't think it's divinely instituted,
00:41:10.900 just the weight of history, the inertia of that institution.
00:41:13.980 So when there are chinks in the armor there, 1.00
00:41:19.400 that has huge ripple effects throughout the West,
00:41:23.640 throughout the whole world, really.
00:41:27.000 It also reminded me, I mean, one,
00:41:30.380 whoever is in charge of this over at the Vatican,
00:41:32.220 whoever's overseeing this, needs to get on this immediately.
00:41:34.380 This is a massive, massive scandal.
00:41:36.380 This is massive, massive grave mortal sin,
00:41:39.560 deeply, deeply evil, and they need to stop this.
00:41:41.900 But in addition to that, it got me thinking about my YouTube ban.
00:41:47.540 Why did I get banned from YouTube for this week?
00:41:51.320 I guess I'll be back next week, then we see what happens.
00:41:54.480 It's because I refuse to believe in transgenderism. 1.00
00:42:00.000 I don't think that transgenderism offers an accurate account of human nature. 1.00
00:42:04.320 I don't think a man can really be a woman. 1.00
00:42:07.880 On YouTube now, until very recently, until last week, I guess,
00:42:11.900 you are allowed to disagree with transgenderism,
00:42:14.760 transgender ideology on YouTube.
00:42:16.160 Today, you're not.
00:42:18.120 And it occurred to me, this is a form of anti-Catholic discrimination.
00:42:23.480 A very clear form.
00:42:24.400 And not just anti-Catholic.
00:42:25.920 Anti-Christian.
00:42:27.580 Anti-Muslim.
00:42:29.720 Anti-Jewish.
00:42:31.920 Anti-philosophy.
00:42:34.680 Anti-reason discrimination.
00:42:36.820 But I'll just speak from my own standpoint here, as a macro-snapping papist, a member
00:42:44.600 of the mystical body of Christ, and a confirmed member of the oldest institution in the West
00:42:53.440 that shaped the West.
00:42:56.040 I cannot say that a man is a woman.
00:42:59.320 I cannot participate in the transgender ideology. 1.00
00:43:04.840 That would be a sin for me to do.
00:43:06.500 I would be imperiling my soul.
00:43:08.280 I would be not only violating my conscience, I would be violating my faith if I did that.
00:43:15.160 YouTube is demanding that I do that.
00:43:18.520 YouTube is demanding that all of you, if you're Catholic, that you do that. 0.58
00:43:21.840 That if you're Protestant, unless you're a member of some Protestant denomination that's 0.88
00:43:26.180 embraced transgenderism, and maybe there are some, but I can't imagine there are all that
00:43:29.840 many, then YouTube is demanding that you Protestants violate your conscience and your 0.52
00:43:34.620 faith.
00:43:35.960 Unless you're a Reform Jew with a lady rabbi who eats bacon-wrapped shellfish on Friday 1.00
00:43:42.920 nights, if you're a serious religious Jew, YouTube is demanding that you violate your 0.69
00:43:48.400 conscience and your faith and your religion.
00:43:50.480 If you're a Muslim, YouTube is demanding that you violate your conscience and your religion
00:43:55.980 by affirming this obviously false anthropology.
00:44:00.200 Is YouTube going to get away with that?
00:44:01.900 Maybe they will, because we have a new established state religion, and it's the religion of that
00:44:06.980 flag that was hanging right there in the center of the White House facade, right in between
00:44:15.140 those columns and flanked by two American flags, while transvestites jiggled topless, stripping 1.00
00:44:21.900 in front of the President and First Lady of the United States.
00:44:24.060 Maybe that's the established church, and Christianity, and Judaism, and Islam, and all the rest of 1.00
00:44:29.120 it is being suppressed.
00:44:31.140 The Christians are going back to the catacombs. 1.00
00:44:32.960 Maybe that's where we are.
00:44:34.960 But we should at least call it like we see it while it's happening.
00:44:39.340 We should at least allow YouTube to know.
00:44:41.240 I've, since I'm off the channel this week, Candace made a point.
00:44:46.900 She said, go over and subscribe to our channels. 0.63
00:44:49.400 Keep those channels going.
00:44:50.400 YouTube is going to try to slowly suppress those channels.
00:44:52.040 So if you have a moment and you're on YouTube this week, head on over, subscribe to the
00:44:55.500 Michael Knowles Show channel.
00:44:57.140 Really stick it to those jerks.
00:44:58.620 We'll see if we're back on next week or not.
00:45:01.220 In the meantime, though, we've got to talk about aliens.
00:45:06.580 Something that some people in this building, namely my friend and colleague Matt Walsh, they
00:45:14.660 really want to talk about the aliens.
00:45:16.040 Aliens, of course, do not exist.
00:45:17.820 I'll be speaking with my friend Cabot Phillips from Morning Wire about this.
00:45:20.540 The rest of the show continues now.
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