The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1280 - Leftists Try To Blow Me Up

00:00:00.000 Happy 5th of July. I hope everybody had a good Independence Day. I know it's easy these days

00:00:06.660 to feel down on America because our government is so corrupt. That's why I was so pleased to

00:00:12.800 kick off 4th of July weekend with some excellent and unexpected news. After years of watching

00:00:20.340 leftists get away with political violence against conservatives, I learned late last week that two

00:00:27.860 Antifa anarchists have been arrested by the FBI and they've been charged by the DOJ and they're

00:00:34.060 facing potentially a decade in prison for hurling an explosive in my direction at the University of

00:00:41.360 Pittsburgh. Turns out the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night

00:00:47.180 that our flag is still there. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:01:11.200 Hunter Biden's child, Joe Biden's seventh grandchild that he won't acknowledge,

00:01:15.400 is becoming a major political liability for him in 2024. And apparently Biden's senior staff

00:01:20.960 are now telling the White House aides never to acknowledge this child. We'll get to that in one

00:01:25.300 second because it's not only a political liability finally for him, but it's also like the worst thing

00:01:31.260 the guy has done as far as I'm concerned. He'd destroy the economy. He sent us hurtling toward

00:01:35.120 World War III. But just on a personal level to deny your little four-year-old grandchild is just so

00:01:41.160 awful. So we'll get to that in a second. First though, I don't want to move too fast off this

00:01:44.120 anarchist story. This is really, really great news. And there's some backstory here, which I've never

00:01:48.880 talked about on the air. But I gave my speech or my debate at the University of Pittsburgh,

00:01:54.800 and there was a ton of publicity around it. I was supposed to debate this trans-identifying

00:01:59.520 professor, and we were going to debate the question, what is a woman who decides where does

00:02:04.320 sex and gender come from, that sort of thing. At the very last moment, he pulls out of the debate

00:02:08.680 because I just think he realized he didn't have a leg to stand on. So he pulls out at the very last

00:02:14.700 moment. And Brad Palumbo, who's a libertarian, gay-identifying, not trans-identifying, but gay-identifying

00:02:21.320 political commentator, he pinch hit at the last moment, which is very nice of him.

00:02:27.820 And there were all sorts of threats on the debate. There were petitions from legislators,

00:02:33.680 everyone trying to shut this thing down. And then there was a major protest outside of the debate.

00:02:38.880 So we get to the venue. These people are not just holding their signs with their stupid chants.

00:02:43.900 They're setting the street on fire. They burned me in effigy. They're shouting all sorts of threats.

00:02:50.580 The cops lead us in the back. We're backstage about to go on. As we go on stage, an explosive goes off.

00:02:59.940 And so you hear the building kind of shakes a little bit. You hear this big explosive. The

00:03:02.940 cops send us back into the green room while they secure what's going on over there. Eventually,

00:03:07.620 I said, look, I want to keep going. I don't care what's going on outside. Let's go. We're doing this

00:03:12.080 thing. We're not going to let these guys shut us up. So we go. There were a lot of threats throughout

00:03:16.420 the whole event. They tried to end it early. We just kept plowing on. Finally, they did have to

00:03:20.900 cancel our meet and greet afterward. But we get out of there, do the full debate. Okay, fine.

00:03:25.140 I then get a message through my assistant, which was that the FBI wanted to interview me because the

00:03:33.080 FBI just happened to be at my debate and wanted to bring charges against these Antifa people.

00:03:40.580 And I thought, you know, I'm very pro-law enforcement. I've got friends who've worked

00:03:45.100 for the FBI. I know lots of great people who've worked for the FBI. In years past, wouldn't have

00:03:50.500 thought anything of it, would have happily spoken voluntarily to the FBI. But then I thought, you know,

00:03:56.480 just a few weeks before I got this request, there was a memorandum that came out that showed the

00:04:02.060 FBI was trying to infiltrate conservative Catholic parishes, called conservative Catholics a domestic

00:04:08.580 terror threat. You know, a little bit before that, the FBI knocks on the door of a pro-life advocate

00:04:16.720 and arrests him in front of his seven kids for just for being a pro-life advocate. I thought,

00:04:21.500 that's not good. This is the FBI that had illegitimately gone after Trump on completely bogus

00:04:28.200 charges, spied on his campaign, did the dirty work of the Democrats and Barack Obama. I thought,

00:04:33.340 you know, this is the FBI that set up Mike Flynn on nothing. I thought, you know, I don't know.

00:04:38.440 I don't know that I trust the FBI and the DOJ, certainly not under Joe Biden. I'm good. I don't

00:04:44.540 really believe that they're going to bring charges against Antifa. And I'm really pleased to say I was

00:04:49.940 wrong. I was really surprised to see it. But not only did the FBI arrest these guys,

00:04:55.300 but then the DOJ, U.S. attorneys, brought charges against them. It's a husband and a wife. They're

00:05:01.500 not kids, by the way. There was one time I was attacked at the University of Missouri, Kansas

00:05:05.560 City by some weirdo with a squirt gun full of who knows what. And when I did speak to the cops after

00:05:11.980 that and they said, you know, okay, do you have any statement? And I said, look, I don't really want

00:05:15.720 to encourage you guys to press charges if it's just some stupid kid. I don't want to ruin his life

00:05:20.940 because he just is an idiot. Even if he attacked me, whatever, you know, who cares? And to which 0.69

00:05:26.060 the cops then told me, no, Michael, he punched a police officer that he's got bigger problems than

00:05:30.880 you. So I said, okay, but it's a kid, doesn't matter. These guys, this husband and wife from

00:05:34.960 Pittsburgh that threw the explosive, they're in there. One of them is 36 years old. One of them

00:05:40.740 is 40 years old. So these are not spring chickens. These are hardened, criminal, radical leftists.

00:05:45.980 And after watching the George Floyd riots gone for months and months and months, the cops do nothing

00:05:51.080 because the political leaders told them they could do nothing. After watching all sorts of lawlessness

00:05:55.960 encouraged by our political establishment. Meanwhile, law enforcement is weaponized by the

00:06:01.780 liberals to go after ordinary conservatives. I'm just very pleased. I want to give credit where

00:06:07.440 credits do. Good job to the FBI. Good job to the DOJ. Now I hope, I hope that these two don't get

00:06:14.160 off with a little slap on the wrist. I hope this isn't all just a big PR stunt and then they don't

00:06:19.960 need to really worry about anything. The fact that these guys threw their explosive, not just in my

00:06:26.400 direction, but there was something in between them and me and that thing would happen to be a bunch of

00:06:33.540 police officers. I think that might've elevated the case here. And so because of that, I hope they face

00:06:39.000 some serious punishment. They're looking at up to 10 years in prison and they deserve it. We've got

00:06:44.220 to show the radical left that we're not going to tolerate their political violence, especially not

00:06:49.680 political violence on a college campus, especially not political violence against people for holding

00:06:53.800 an open debate on a basic question. So good job. Now let's make sure they see it through. When the

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00:08:05.460 text Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S, to 989898. Speaking of the courts, really great decision came out of the

00:08:13.720 Supreme Court. The hits just keep on coming. You know, we talked about how the Supreme Court struck

00:08:17.480 down affirmative action. We'll get to more on that story in just a moment because, you know, I hate to

00:08:21.980 say I told you so. One of my big predictions about that case has already been proven true.

00:08:26.200 But there was another great case, which was over religious liberty. Court ruled 6-3 that a web

00:08:33.320 designer who did not want to participate in a quote-unquote gay wedding ceremony will not have

00:08:41.840 to do so. That this woman has a First Amendment right not to use her creative services to participate

00:08:48.560 in a ceremony that violates her moral views. This is a 6-3 decision, so it's not even a 5-4. It's not

00:08:55.620 even like Robert sided with the libs or anything like this. Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion and

00:09:01.700 said no. Not only do Colorado bakers not have to bake gay wedding cakes or whatever, but web designers 0.68

00:09:10.220 also don't need to contribute their creative services, their language, their intellectual work

00:09:15.820 to these ceremonies that they believe are not only incoherent and absurd, but also violate their

00:09:22.320 moral views. Great news, and it's popular. Forget about the law for a second, because there have

00:09:28.260 been all sorts of lawless Supreme Court decisions. Decisions that came down that established a

00:09:33.980 constitutional precedent that had nothing to do with the Constitution or the law, natural or civil.

00:09:42.280 I think another reason why this decision came down is because it's popular.

00:09:45.780 Most people don't think that you should be forced to participate in a sexual ceremony that you find

00:09:53.720 morally objectionable. The vast majority of Americans think that. This is the first Pride month in my

00:10:01.020 lifetime where Pride has become less popular. You saw it with Bud Light, you saw it with Target, you saw it

00:10:09.720 with, even Cracker Barrel is getting flack for embracing the rainbow. That wasn't true for my whole

00:10:17.240 life. Starting in the 90s, accelerating with the popularity of Will and Grace. Then in recent years,

00:10:25.840 everything just gets painted with a rainbow for at least a month. This year, there was a lot of pushback.

00:10:31.880 You're seeing this reflected in American social views. Pew has reported this. Gallup has reported on this.

00:10:38.540 Gallup showed that Americans' views of same-sex relations have dropped, not just marriage or

00:10:46.200 transgenderism or whatever, but relations period have dropped seven points in one year.

00:10:51.540 So the court looks at the polls, the court reads the news, and the court discovered that this Pride 0.85

00:10:57.040 stuff is very unpopular. That's why Republicans need to keep pressing on this. Because what we were told

00:11:03.040 in those early days of the Pride movement was this is just about tolerance and acceptance and leave us

00:11:07.500 alone. And how does it affect you? And keep your nose out of people's bedrooms and whatever. But

00:11:11.400 that's never what it was about. The inevitable logical conclusion of the Pride movement was we're

00:11:16.660 going to go into your kid's kindergarten and we're going to teach them wild ideologies about sex and gender 1.00

00:11:22.580 and not only the relations between the sexes and within the sexes, but even one's understanding of

00:11:29.720 human nature itself. And people have just said, enough, enough with that. The DeSantis campaign is

00:11:38.380 capitalizing on this right now. And DeSantis is being pilloried, not just by the libs, but by the

00:11:43.880 squishes on the right for an ad that people are saying is homophobic. Here's the ad.

00:11:49.220 I will do everything in my power to protect our LG, BDQ citizens.

00:11:58.380 But Caitlyn Jenner would have walked into Trump's power. 0.67

00:12:00.380 Trump hanging out with Bruce Jenner. Trump holding up a rainbow flag.

00:12:04.040 You would be fine with her using any bathroom she chooses.

00:12:06.340 Is that as correct?

00:12:07.060 In the future, can transgender women compete? 1.00

00:12:11.080 Lady MAGA.

00:12:12.000 Yes.

00:12:12.380 Make a marriage.

00:12:13.220 Who's a drag queen. 1.00

00:12:15.060 Who's pro-Trump.

00:12:15.840 And then DeSantis comes out and just says, no.

00:12:20.260 You see all these like Sigma male memes, Patrick Bateman.

00:12:25.080 DeSantis signs a draconian anti-LGBT bill.

00:12:29.540 DeSantis enacts a wave of laws.

00:12:31.100 You see the Chad meme guy, like super strong guy.

00:12:35.940 DeSantis unstoppable.

00:12:37.420 Drag just produced some of the harshest, most draconian laws that literally threaten trans existence. 0.88

00:12:44.040 Congratulations, Ron DeSantis.

00:12:45.280 Mission accomplished.

00:12:46.640 You win.

00:12:50.540 This governor does not care.

00:12:52.400 DeSantis on a crusade.

00:12:58.240 A real wolf had finally arrived.

00:13:00.700 Wolf of Wall Street.

00:13:01.480 So really leaning into this online Sigma male, socially conservative.

00:13:06.820 No, we're not going to tolerate this Rainbow Pride stuff anymore. 1.00

00:13:10.740 I think it's a great ad.

00:13:11.700 I think it's a great ad.

00:13:12.940 One, because it's funny.

00:13:15.240 It's a self-aware ad.

00:13:16.840 I don't think anybody really believes that Ron DeSantis is going to be, you know, instituting

00:13:20.660 Sharia law and throwing homosexuals off rooftops, right? 1.00

00:13:23.140 Nobody really believes that.

00:13:24.220 But the ad with all of its Sigma male, Patrick Bateman kind of vaporwave aesthetic is showing people a real aspect of his political legacy and his accomplishments, which is we're not going to enshrine special protections for this disordered view of human nature.

00:13:43.560 We're going to be nice to people.

00:13:45.260 We're going to tolerate things within reason.

00:13:47.440 But no, we're going to roll back the pride movement that's now made it all the way into your kid's kindergarten classroom.

00:13:54.260 And it's really, really good.

00:13:55.240 And he's smart to go after Trump on this because Trump is by far the most pro-LGBT LMNOP candidate that the GOP has ever run for president.

00:14:03.700 And I don't think this is because Trump is some crusader for gay rights or transgenderism or anything like that.

00:14:10.580 I think it's because Trump is just, he's just an old school normal guy who doesn't really care about this stuff.

00:14:16.900 And he kind of, he's willing to pander to different groups to get their votes.

00:14:21.480 But, you know, I don't think you can call him a rainbow activist or anything like that.

00:14:25.580 The reason this is a really good attack, though, on Donald Trump is it gives the Republican base a justification for abandoning Trump and embracing DeSantis.

00:14:34.920 I'm not saying it's going to work, but it's one of the first things that will give the base that justification.

00:14:40.100 Because right now, looking at the field, the real hardcore guys remain pro-Trump.

00:14:47.320 It's just a fact.

00:14:48.380 You might say that's not fair.

00:14:49.440 You might say DeSantis is the more conservative candidate.

00:14:51.460 Maybe that's ultra, I don't know.

00:14:52.940 I'm just saying the hardcore guys remain pro-Trump.

00:14:57.560 And the more GOP establishment types, if they've got to pick between the two, are going for Ron DeSantis.

00:15:03.320 So DeSantis has this establishment baggage.

00:15:06.320 Even if it just comes by virtue of the fact that he's the guy who's posing a real challenge to Trump right now, he's got to deal with that.

00:15:13.300 He has to somehow answer the fact that the GOP establishment and the mainstream establishment more broadly is going softer on DeSantis than they are on Trump.

00:15:22.740 This is one great way to do it.

00:15:24.400 If he runs to the right of Trump on the social issues, specifically on the Rainbow Coalition, that will give the hardcore guys an opportunity to say, actually, if we really want to be subversive, if we really want to be edgy, we're going to follow this guy who's threatening the sexual revolution, which the libs hold very, very dear.

00:15:47.480 And the other reason this works is because, while the establishment is very pro-Rainbow, the people broadly, including many Democrats, are not.

00:15:56.820 This is a real wedge issue between the elites of the uniparty and the people broadly, the few and the many.

00:16:03.180 It's one of these great wedge issues.

00:16:04.580 So really, really strong stuff for DeSantis.

00:16:06.520 Now, does an ad showing that DeSantis is tougher on LGBT activism than Trump, does that make up a 30-point gap?

00:16:14.500 I'm not sure about that, but it is still very early in the race.

00:16:17.960 So if there is a chance for DeSantis, this is probably it.

00:16:21.300 This was a little bit the Cruz strategy in 2016.

00:16:23.980 The Cruz strategy was to say, I am to the right socially of Donald Trump.

00:16:27.980 And actually, they focused on the transgender issue here, because Donald Trump said that people who identify as the opposite sex, they can use whatever bathroom they want to use.

00:16:39.900 And Ted Cruz said, see, Donald Trump is a leftist on the transgender issue, and I'm going to insist that men use the men's room and women use the women's room. 0.96

00:16:48.040 And because Trump got the nomination, people drew, I think, the wrong conclusion from that, which is, they'll say, well, okay, this socially conservative strategy, this is the best way to become the first loser.

00:17:00.200 You know, this is the best way to come in number two in the GOP race.

00:17:03.420 The people forget the particulars of this.

00:17:05.420 Had the rest of the field dropped out, had Marco Rubio dropped out before Florida, Ted Cruz almost certainly would have been the GOP nominee in 2016.

00:17:13.720 And you might say, well, Cruz would have lost to Hillary.

00:17:15.720 I don't know what would have happened in the general.

00:17:17.120 I'm just telling you about the primary.

00:17:18.740 That was a very close primary until Trump finally broke away right there at the end.

00:17:24.740 So if DeSantis follows the Cruz social conservative strategy in a race where there were fewer candidates, many fewer serious candidates.

00:17:34.340 In 2016, there were 20 guys on the stage, and they all had kind of roughly the same chance at different points.

00:17:42.080 Right now, that's not true.

00:17:43.640 There were two, three, maybe four candidates who can pose a real threat here.

00:17:47.860 And so if DeSantis can rally that anti-Trump support, and then he pursues something akin to the Cruz strategy in 2016, it's not necessarily the worst idea.

00:17:58.880 So with DeSantis potentially finding some light here and being able to gain some ground, what's going on with the rest of the field?

00:18:06.660 The rest of the field is going after DeSantis.

00:18:08.600 You saw this just now with Chris Christie.

00:18:11.220 You know, I've talked about my dark horse bet that Chris Christie could really have a moment in this race.

00:18:16.860 And I know everyone mocks me for it, talking about the Chris-a-sons, the croissants we call it for short.

00:18:21.360 But if I were even allowed to bet on Predict It right now, Predict It's not even showing Chris Christie in the GOP primary betting markets,

00:18:30.740 I'd put a small amount of money on it because I think he could have a blip, at least, a moment.

00:18:36.480 Christie is not going after Trump right now.

00:18:38.440 He's going after Ron DeSantis, specifically over January 6th.

00:18:44.200 I wasn't anywhere near Washington that day.

00:18:47.040 I have nothing to do with what happened that day.

00:18:49.460 Obviously, I didn't enjoy seeing, you know, what would happen.

00:18:52.560 But we've got to go forward on this stuff.

00:18:54.800 We cannot be looking backwards and be mired in the past.

00:18:58.120 He talked a little bit before that about how Biden is running for office and why he, or Biden running and why he should defeat him.

00:19:04.020 But is that the way you think Republicans should be answering that question on January the 6th?

00:19:08.460 He wasn't anywhere near Washington.

00:19:10.580 Did he have a TV?

00:19:12.240 Was he alive that day?

00:19:14.300 Did he see what was going on?

00:19:16.580 I mean, that's one of the most ridiculous answers I've heard in this race so far. 0.99

00:19:20.620 You don't have an opinion about January 6th, except to say, I didn't particularly enjoy what happened.

00:19:28.260 People were killed.

00:19:28.880 That's not exactly a strong statement.

00:19:29.880 People were killed.

00:19:30.780 People were killed.

00:19:31.500 That's true.

00:19:31.940 Well, one person was killed.

00:19:33.140 The one person who was killed in the political violence of that day was a Trump supporter who was killed by a trigger-happy cop.

00:19:39.380 That's the part that Chris Christie leaves out there.

00:19:42.040 But it's a smart attack for Christie.

00:19:45.620 Because Christie's running a kind of a kamikaze campaign where he's theoretically trying to go after Donald Trump.

00:19:52.280 But he knows if he wants to stay in long enough to go after Trump, he's got to take out Ron DeSantis.

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00:22:22.380 Okay, Christie is going after DeSantis because if DeSantis remains strong, then none of the other candidates are going to have a chance to really take their shot at the king, at Donald Trump.

00:22:33.960 Which means that the candidates are going to focus their fire onto DeSantis, which means Trump is going to maintain his big league.

00:22:46.040 It probably is not going to help the lower polling candidates.

00:22:49.980 It could hurt DeSantis.

00:22:51.340 We've already seen DeSantis' numbers go down.

00:22:53.100 That is why this nomination is set up in such a way that Donald Trump has the overwhelming likelihood of becoming the nominee.

00:23:04.280 And I talk to many people around the country.

00:23:06.400 I'm on the road constantly.

00:23:08.520 And they say, oh, you know, I just wish Trump would get out of this thing.

00:23:12.380 I hope you, I wish he would drop out.

00:23:14.320 Some people still love Trump, by the way.

00:23:15.720 I don't want to undersell that either.

00:23:17.460 There are a lot of people who still love Trump.

00:23:18.940 They're gung-ho.

00:23:19.460 They want him to have another four years.

00:23:20.520 But the ones who say, oh, I wish it were some other candidate, maybe DeSantis or somebody like that.

00:23:24.880 Why won't he just drop out?

00:23:26.260 The reason he won't just drop out is because if you're telling yourself that Trump is not going to be the nominee because of some prosecution or because he is too much of a loud mouth or something like that, you are fooling yourself.

00:23:41.160 You are crazy.

00:23:42.720 This nomination is Trump's nomination to lose by a country mile.

00:23:47.900 I'm not saying he can't lose it.

00:23:50.960 I'm not saying some other candidate can't pop up.

00:23:53.840 But right now, it is not even close.

00:23:57.380 And the primary is, the circumstances of them are just such right now that all of the incentives are for the other candidates to take out DeSantis, not Trump.

00:24:08.200 Now, speaking of some of the other candidates, you know, there's a candidate here who, he and I go back to college together.

00:24:16.000 He was at the law school when I was an undergraduate.

00:24:18.540 And a lot of people didn't know who he was when he announced that he was running.

00:24:22.180 And I said, hey, don't underestimate this guy.

00:24:25.700 And some people said, oh, he's, this guy, he's an entrepreneur.

00:24:30.040 He's the Andrew Yang of 2024 GMP primary.

00:24:33.940 I said, I wouldn't compare him to Andrew Yang.

00:24:36.020 This guy is a lot sharper.

00:24:37.500 He's a lot more focused.

00:24:38.580 He's a lot more disciplined, a campaigner.

00:24:40.960 This guy could go somewhere.

00:24:42.900 A lot of people laughed.

00:24:44.140 You know, I hate to say I told you so.

00:24:46.660 He's going somewhere.

00:24:47.480 Vivek Ramaswamy has just broken double digits in the Republican primary race, according to Echelon Insights, which is a serious polling firm.

00:24:58.360 The poll found, as I have said for a long time, that Donald Trump has a strong lead.

00:25:04.080 He's got 49% support.

00:25:06.940 DeSantis is only at 16% support right now.

00:25:09.680 So now Trump has opened up the gap.

00:25:11.900 It's not just in the 20s anymore.

00:25:13.460 It's not just 30, 31.

00:25:14.640 It's not a 33-point gap.

00:25:16.060 And then Ramaswamy comes in third.

00:25:21.160 That's pretty amazing.

00:25:21.900 When you think about how many people are in the race, you've got multiple governors.

00:25:25.900 You've got Governor Nikki Haley, Governor Asa Hutchinson, who's kind of, you know, okay, whatever.

00:25:32.340 Governor Chris Christie.

00:25:33.840 You've got a sitting U.S. Senator, Tim Scott.

00:25:37.220 You've got other candidates.

00:25:38.620 And then this guy, Vivek.

00:25:39.940 Vivek, this tech, pharma entrepreneur, anti-woke business guy who's got an anti-woke asset management fund.

00:25:52.780 You know, he's just kind of like a weirdo.

00:25:54.540 And he's come out of nowhere because he's got a message that appears to be resonating with people.

00:25:59.280 Well, if anything goes wrong with the DeSantis campaign, DeSantis obviously is strong number two right now.

00:26:07.240 Vivek has a real shot at being bumped up to number two.

00:26:12.340 And then who knows?

00:26:13.260 Who knows what happens from there?

00:26:14.980 In any case, though, let's say you say, all right, he's in double digits, but he's not going to go the distance.

00:26:18.720 Again, wouldn't make predictions this far out, but let's say that were the case.

00:26:25.480 Vivek has every incentive to stay in this race.

00:26:27.560 His message is resonating.

00:26:28.740 His numbers are rising.

00:26:30.340 And every moment he stays in gives him a better opportunity to, if he loses the nomination, to become a cabinet pick.

00:26:38.500 To become a running mate even potentially, to have more power and influence over the GOP and potentially over the presidential ticket in 2024.

00:26:49.600 All the incentives are there and the influence just keeps rising for him.

00:26:55.520 I mentioned that they can I go back to college together.

00:26:59.340 Speaking of colleges, the big Supreme Court decision struck down affirmative action in college admissions,

00:27:04.960 specifically against Harvard and UNC.

00:27:09.200 And this case only really was able to go through because the discrimination was directed not only toward white people,

00:27:17.340 but also toward Asian students.

00:27:18.780 Had this just been about discriminating against white people, I don't think the court would have struck it down.

00:27:24.600 Because we just live in a culture where white people are denigrated.

00:27:28.280 They're not only legally discriminated against, but also the culture encourages uniquely,

00:27:34.960 white people to be denigrated, insulted, called, you know, the worst people in the world.

00:27:39.400 And the courts read the newspapers and they watch the election returns.

00:27:42.480 And I think probably affirmative action would have remained in place had it only been about white people. 0.57

00:27:49.600 But the Libs got greedy and they attacked Asian people because Asians have the highest test scores,

00:27:54.160 which really undermines a lot of the narrative around white privilege and whatever other nonsense the Libs talk about.

00:27:59.700 So because this case could be framed as one racial minority being oppressed by, I guess, another racial minority oppressor or something,

00:28:11.820 because the white people didn't really factor into it too much, affirmative action gets struck down.

00:28:16.060 And I celebrated this and I said, well, this is great news.

00:28:18.500 It had just broken when I came on air.

00:28:20.140 But I said, you know, the one bit of caution I'll give you here is the schools are going to continue to discriminate.

00:28:27.860 They're just going to do so by reducing the importance of objective measures and standardized tests.

00:28:33.580 And they're going to inflate the importance of, say, the personal statement and these more ambiguous criteria for college admissions,

00:28:41.460 such that if you say, you know, I am an oppressed person, Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter, in your personal statement,

00:28:47.040 then that will be given greater weight.

00:28:49.440 And that's how the schools will continue to discriminate against whites and probably Asians too.

00:28:53.680 Well, I really do hate to say I told you so here.

00:28:57.620 Harvard already proved me right within hours.

00:29:00.580 Harvard sent out this notice.

00:29:02.140 Dear members of the Harvard community,

00:29:04.620 today the Supreme Court delivered its decision in students for fair admissions versus president and fellows of Harvard College.

00:29:09.300 The court held that Harvard College admissions system does not comply with the principles of the Equal Protection Clause embodied in the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

00:29:16.140 The court also ruled that colleges and universities may consider in admissions decisions, quote,

00:29:22.520 an applicant's discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.

00:29:31.520 We will certainly comply with the court's decision.

00:29:36.640 And there you go.

00:29:38.020 There it is.

00:29:39.300 I did not predict that they would admit to this so openly, but they did.

00:29:48.240 It makes me feel good that they basically said, dear members of the Harvard community,

00:29:51.500 the thing Michael said on his show is exactly what we're going to do.

00:29:54.100 So I get a kick out of that.

00:29:55.700 I like being right about these predictions, but that's really on the nose.

00:30:00.820 It's so brazen.

00:30:01.800 It makes a mockery of the Supreme Court and the system of law.

00:30:05.420 And that's amazing coming from one of our nation's most prestigious universities.

00:30:10.320 They would say, yeah, an applicant, we can ask an applicant to discuss how race has affected his or her life.

00:30:16.680 So you know that's what they're going to put on the application now.

00:30:19.480 Say, okay, we can't ask what race you are, or we can't force you to tell us this, and we can't give weight to, you know, if you're black, you get an extra 200 points or something.

00:30:28.620 If you're white or Asian, you lose 200 points, but we can give an outsized weight to this question, how has race affected your life?

00:30:37.540 And just depending on how we feel about your answer, that's going to affect it.

00:30:42.480 So Harvard is saying we are going to continue to discriminate against white people and against Asian people in admissions, and Supreme Court, you can go pound sand.

00:30:50.440 They're saying this.

00:30:51.220 Other schools have been saying a similar thing.

00:30:53.760 I think we've got another one here.

00:30:56.140 Yeah, so this is some coverage.

00:30:59.300 This is from Danielle Wren Holley, president of Mount Holyoke College.

00:31:04.400 Will it become more opaque, this application process?

00:31:07.200 Yes, it will have to.

00:31:08.560 It's a complex process, and this opinion will make it even more complex.

00:31:11.940 I mean, it won't make it more complex than the outcome, which is whites and Asians will be discriminated against.

00:31:16.660 Black people and other racial groups will have an advantage.

00:31:21.520 And they're just going to do it in a way that's a little bit more complex.

00:31:27.160 They're going to have to ask a long answer question instead of just checking a box.

00:31:31.760 But that will continue.

00:31:33.180 And so forget about the college admissions.

00:31:35.200 Forget about the race discrimination question for a second.

00:31:39.420 This poses a great challenge to our entire system of law and order, and it accelerates a trend that we've seen for years now, which is nobody has faith in our system of law anymore.

00:31:48.460 Nobody has faith in our institutions.

00:31:49.980 And the Republicans are blamed for this because the Republicans are the insurrectionists from January 6th, the worst day in American history.

00:32:01.720 But much more than the Republicans and the conservatives, it's the liberals and the Democrats who have undermined our system of law and order and our political institutions.

00:32:12.760 They've questioned many more elections for far flimsier reasons than the conservatives had for a much longer time.

00:32:20.680 They've undermined our system of law and they've turned our system of law, which is supposed to be primarily a matter of interpretation, interpreting eternal principles of justice in the natural law and applying them to changing political circumstances in our positive civil law.

00:32:35.780 They've changed that to merely an act of the will.

00:32:39.180 No, we're not going to say that there's any objective moral order or natural law or anything.

00:32:42.960 That's all bunk.

00:32:43.740 We're just going to impose whatever the hell we want through whatever legal mechanisms we possibly can, unjust though they may be.

00:32:49.740 Well, by doing that, you undermine our faith in the system of justice, the idea that Lady Justice is blind with her scales.

00:32:57.920 No, that's gone now.

00:32:59.340 Justice will be meted out more intensely to political enemies and more leniently to political friends.

00:33:07.720 You see this even in the construction of courtrooms.

00:33:10.520 Courtrooms used to be gigantic.

00:33:11.740 Think of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

00:33:14.860 Big, sturdy, marble, temples, unchanging, heavy.

00:33:21.140 And now what are they?

00:33:22.260 They're tiny little brutalist office rooms with low ceilings where you don't feel that weight of the law and the weight of history and the unchanging questions and principles of justice.

00:33:36.900 It feels like any other bureaucrat's office where things can change on a dime and frequently, they do.

00:33:44.280 That's the libs doing that. 1.00

00:33:45.900 And it's now being pushed by supposedly one of the most prestigious colleges in the country.

00:33:52.220 You can expect all the other colleges to follow suit.

00:33:55.420 Now there's another lawsuit involving Harvard, which is a lawsuit to challenge the practice of legacy admissions.

00:34:03.820 So the court, at least formally, strikes down affirmative action, even if the colleges are not going to comply with that.

00:34:12.000 And the libs respond and they say, well, there is affirmative action for white people or for rich people or for people with long histories at these institutions.

00:34:24.400 And it's called legacy admissions.

00:34:28.000 And so we're going to try to strike that down, too.

00:34:29.800 And a lot of conservatives are cheering this on, but they are sadly very misguided.

00:34:36.380 And they're buying into the same silly principles that the liberals have.

00:34:40.900 This is maybe my most unpopular opinion on this issue, but I'm very pro-legacy admission.

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00:36:02.140 My favorite comment, maybe ever, but certainly from last week, is from Senor Basun4804, who says,

00:36:10.900 Michael is like if Dean Martin took up politics.

00:36:14.240 Thank you very much.

00:36:15.120 I appreciate that.

00:36:16.140 I was singing Volare in my walk into my office today.

00:36:18.960 And I think the reason you're saying that is because I've got scotch in my Tumblr every single morning.

00:36:25.760 You know, that's why I'm speaking in cursive by the end of the show.

00:36:28.720 So, the Libs are going after legacy admissions in colleges right now.

00:36:35.080 The conservatives are squishing on this and they think that they can find common ground with the liberals.

00:36:40.280 And they'll say, well, actually, you're right.

00:36:42.140 You know, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

00:36:44.140 And legacy admissions aren't meritocratic either.

00:36:46.820 And we love meritocracy.

00:36:47.900 And so, yeah, we'll go along with that, liberals.

00:36:49.480 But it's not a wise idea at all.

00:36:53.360 You're never going to find middle ground with the Libs because their starting premises are so off. 0.63

00:36:59.200 And two, legacy admissions are good.

00:37:03.040 They're good and very conservative.

00:37:05.840 I was not a legacy admission to college.

00:37:08.680 Far from it.

00:37:10.040 I did not grow up with money.

00:37:12.300 Far from it.

00:37:14.640 However, I am very supportive of legacy admissions for a few reasons.

00:37:18.560 One, just practically speaking, one of the benefits of going to these big name brand colleges is the networking.

00:37:26.300 Is the exposure to elements of society that you would not otherwise be exposed to.

00:37:32.620 So, why is it so important?

00:37:36.580 Take the Libs arguments for a second.

00:37:38.240 Why is it so important that poor kids from the inner city who never had a leg up are given special privileges to go to a place like Harvard?

00:37:49.260 Is it so that they can study calculus?

00:37:52.940 Is it so that they can read Dickens?

00:37:57.280 No, you can do that anywhere.

00:37:59.020 The reason it's so important, the whole argument for affirmative action in the first place,

00:38:02.400 is that Harvard is an elite institution that disproportionately has influence on American public life.

00:38:09.040 And so, we want people who have been kept out of the elite to be given a pass to get into the elite,

00:38:17.000 to refresh the elite, and to help improve their lot in life.

00:38:19.680 That's the whole argument for affirmative action.

00:38:21.840 Well, what makes Harvard elite?

00:38:26.560 Yeah, maybe a little bit it's the professors.

00:38:28.300 Yeah, maybe it's a little bit the dorms are nice or something like that.

00:38:30.720 You know, but the real thing is that it's the people that you're interacting with.

00:38:35.740 The old, wealthy families whose names you've heard of,

00:38:41.520 who have influence in banks and media and politics and education and all of these institutions.

00:38:47.240 And when you are injected into that society,

00:38:50.860 then you gain an advantage and you have an easier time becoming a member of that elite.

00:38:59.300 Whether that's still true today, whether or not Harvard and Yale and Princeton have lost a little bit of their luster,

00:39:06.420 that's a question for another time.

00:39:07.620 That's at least the idea for affirmative action.

00:39:09.680 And so, if that is the case,

00:39:11.920 then you need legacy admissions.

00:39:15.140 If the whole point is to hobnob with the fancy wealthy people, you know, I don't know, the Rockefellers and the Bushes and all these kinds of people,

00:39:26.080 and the Kennedys and all, then you need legacy admissions to hobnob with them.

00:39:30.040 Now, you might say, well, no, Harvard's just going to admit the people with the highest test scores.

00:39:36.120 Well, there's more to life than test scores.

00:39:38.240 There's more to human society than meritocracy.

00:39:44.980 You still need the people who own the companies to be involved.

00:39:48.020 You still need the people who own the land to be involved.

00:39:50.480 You still need people with stakes in government, with influence to be involved.

00:39:55.100 Society is about a lot more than just how you did on your SAT.

00:39:59.280 Furthermore, pure meritocracy is not especially conservative.

00:40:03.560 Because another thing that legacy admissions do,

00:40:06.200 beyond the arguments that even the affirmative action proponents would make for legacy admissions,

00:40:12.160 is they provide stability.

00:40:14.600 They encourage affection for institutions.

00:40:17.440 When you've been going to Harvard for 12 generations,

00:40:20.320 you're going to have a great deal of affection for Harvard.

00:40:21.880 You're probably going to give more money to Harvard.

00:40:23.200 That money that you give to Harvard is going to pay for the scholarship students, by the way.

00:40:27.880 So it's going to help the meritocracy in some ways.

00:40:32.260 And it's going to make sure that those bonds of affection

00:40:35.400 keep the people who have the greatest interest in preserving these institutions

00:40:40.820 around for the longest period of time.

00:40:45.040 There's going to be stability there.

00:40:46.900 If your great, great, great, great, great granddaddy went to an institution,

00:40:50.460 your family's been going there for a long time,

00:40:52.000 then you're going to know things that you can't put in an admissions brochure

00:40:56.100 or in a training session.

00:40:57.960 You're going to know the nooks and the crannies and the ins and the outs of the place,

00:41:01.000 the ineffable little aspects of an institution

00:41:03.660 that give the institution its particularity

00:41:06.360 and make it lovable and make it unique.

00:41:08.760 And then, furthermore, you're going to have a certain enduring stability to the place.

00:41:23.980 Things that just don't change.

00:41:26.060 You know, there was always this conflict in GOP fundraisers in the last 30 years, let's say,

00:41:33.420 where you'd have the first part, you'd hear about the importance of family values.

00:41:39.700 And then in the second part of the GOP fundraiser speech,

00:41:41.960 you'd hear about the importance of creative destruction

00:41:43.660 and how we just need to change everything all the time and constantly innovate.

00:41:46.600 And those things are opposed to one another.

00:41:48.440 One of the, I guess, the central feature of a legacy admission is family.

00:41:53.160 The idea that you and your brother are going to go to the same college.

00:41:56.140 And maybe it's not a guaranteed way of entry into a college,

00:42:00.720 but that if your brother goes there and your sister goes there and your father went there,

00:42:03.980 then you're going to have an advantage to getting in there too.

00:42:06.560 Isn't it good?

00:42:07.140 Don't we want families to remain tightly knit?

00:42:10.400 Doesn't that provide a good, stable building block for society? 0.81

00:42:15.920 Isn't that a deeply conservative value?

00:42:19.120 It is.

00:42:19.560 And I guess I have a particular bit of credibility here because it wasn't a legacy admission

00:42:27.100 and my family didn't go to any of these places and I didn't come for money

00:42:29.640 and we didn't donate money to build a building on campus or anything like that.

00:42:32.940 And so I just can see it from the outside.

00:42:36.960 And it's like with anything in society that the liberals have,

00:42:41.480 through envy and resentment and pride, tried to knock down.

00:42:44.660 They fail to see even three feet ahead of them.

00:42:48.180 And they fail to see how these institutions that they resent and envy help them.

00:42:56.380 And when you knock down the legacy admissions,

00:42:58.780 you're going to knock down the advantages that these people are seeking.

00:43:03.280 Up to and including their own scholarships that are going to let them in.

00:43:08.820 Now, all of that said, Harvard's a pretty rotten place.

00:43:12.720 And if Harvard crumbles, I'm not going to shed a whole lot of tears for it.

00:43:16.760 A lot of the American elite institutions have been so rotted out by the left that if they crumble,

00:43:22.140 I'm not going to be all that upset about it.

00:43:24.640 But I don't want, when those institutions do crumble,

00:43:28.280 I don't want these people to say that I didn't tell them so.

00:43:32.920 Now, speaking of Nepo babies, 1.00

00:43:36.640 I guess I'll just have to tease this story.

00:43:38.800 Maybe we'll get to it tomorrow.

00:43:40.320 Tomorrow, a certain substance was found in the White House.

00:43:43.840 They found a white powder.

00:43:44.940 And you know other white powder scares that happen often in politics.

00:43:48.900 And when white powder is found anywhere, in someone's mailbox,

00:43:51.660 and this just happened with state legislators here in Tennessee,

00:43:54.240 you know, the emergency teams are called in.

00:43:56.980 They've got to test the powder.

00:43:57.860 People are evacuated.

00:43:58.800 So there's this big emergency at the White House.

00:44:00.560 We've got to get out of here.

00:44:01.460 There was white powder found in the residence.

00:44:04.180 The white powder was found just shortly after Hunter Biden paid a visit to the residence.

00:44:11.600 And I think you know where this is going here.

00:44:13.720 Let's just say it wasn't anthrax.

00:44:16.500 We don't know who the white powder belonged to,

00:44:19.780 but it would appear to be some of that grade A Hunter-esque booger sugar

00:44:25.280 found in the White House, residents.

00:44:27.940 We will.

00:44:30.080 We'll get to that story tomorrow, I guess.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 05, 2023

Ep. 1280 - Leftists Try To Blow Me Up

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