The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1287 - The Cocaine In The White House Gets Epsteined

00:00:00.000 The Secret Service has concluded its investigation into a bag of booger sugar found in the Biden

00:00:05.820 White House and concluded that they cannot identify any suspect. According to the Secret

00:00:12.660 Service, despite combing through security systems and indexing several hundred individuals who

00:00:19.940 entered the West Wing, the West Wing, which is perhaps the single most surveilled and secure

00:00:24.760 place on planet Earth, the investigators were unable to find any fingerprints. That, of course,

00:00:32.760 was the investigators' first mistake. If you want to identify the owner of some Cartagena nose candy,

00:00:39.100 you don't check for fingerprints, you check for nostril prints. But regardless, Hunter's nose

00:00:44.900 is currently scrounging like a pig for truffles to find the next foreign shakedown to score another 1.00

00:00:50.160 10% for the big guy. So he, just like his entire family and his family's staff,

00:00:56.260 they're all unavailable to face any consequences. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:01:19.220 goodranchers.com. Use code Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S, today. The Biden campaign and Biden White House have

00:01:27.540 a big political liability right now. That political liability is Biden's refusal to acknowledge one of

00:01:33.040 his grandchildren. That's finally bubbling over. We'll get to that in a second. First, though,

00:01:37.540 the Bidens are just totally protected. They're totally protected. I've been to the West Wing on

00:01:45.740 just one occasion, but went into the West Wing. I can tell you firsthand, people know where you are

00:01:51.560 at all times. There are cameras everywhere. There are people watching everywhere. You are searched like

00:01:58.020 crazy. It's smaller than a lot of people think it is. It's not some big wide open space. It was built

00:02:03.740 for smaller people in a smaller time. If they wanted to figure out whose coke this was, they would have

00:02:10.440 done so. But the Secret Service is going to look the other way because the big guy doesn't want,

00:02:17.780 let's say it's not a member of his family, even though very likely it is, doesn't want people

00:02:22.300 within his inner circle prosecuted for bringing coke into the White House. So they're just going to move

00:02:26.620 along, move along, nothing to see here. There was a little glimmer of hope over the past couple days,

00:02:32.280 Republicans grilling Christopher Wray, director of the FBI on Capitol Hill, trying to see if amid all

00:02:39.900 of these Biden scandals, the document scandal, the bribery scandal, the potential payoffs 10% for the

00:02:45.560 big guy, is Biden getting investigated at all? And the FBI starts to maybe give us a little hope and

00:02:52.960 then pulls it right back. Did Joe Biden take payments from Burisma or any other foreign companies

00:02:59.940 as vice president, president or private citizen Biden? As you may know, there is an ongoing

00:03:06.380 investigation being led by the U.S. attorney in Delaware, Mr. Weiss, appointed by President Trump

00:03:13.500 in the last administration that our Baltimore field office is working with. And I would refer you to

00:03:18.800 to him as to what, if anything, can be. So the president is under, he is under investigation.

00:03:25.100 I'm not going to confirm or speak to who is or isn't under investigation for what. I'm simply

00:03:31.260 going to tell you- So he's not under investigation?

00:03:32.540 I didn't say that either. By longstanding department policy and practice, I'm not going to be

00:03:38.820 confirming or denying who is or isn't under investigation.

00:03:43.480 So he hangs out a little bit more at the top than one might expect. He's saying there is an

00:03:49.280 investigation in Delaware going on. He's saying this in response to a question about an

00:03:54.460 investigation for Joe Biden. And then he immediately walks it back. But let's say that

00:03:58.440 there is. Let's say the U.S. attorney in Delaware is investigating Joe Biden for taking bribes from

00:04:03.260 Burisma, from China, from wherever. Does anybody seriously think they're going to hit him with this?

00:04:09.040 Does anybody seriously think that? There was an investigation into the Koch in the White House,

00:04:13.080 which would be extraordinarily easy to identify. And frankly, all of us have a good gut instinct of

00:04:19.160 whose it was to begin with. They couldn't do that. They say, oh no, yeah, the investigation was

00:04:23.420 inconclusive. Does anybody seriously believe that the investigation is going to be anything

00:04:27.620 but inconclusive in the case of Joe Biden's bribery? No, of course not. They're going to

00:04:32.780 drag this thing out. They're going to slow walk it. And then nothing's going to happen as a result.

00:04:36.500 Now, speaking of slow walking investigations, there was a bit of strange news coming out of

00:04:41.480 the DOJ in the last two days, which is that Ray Epps is going to be charged. Ray Epps is this

00:04:49.600 strange figure from January 6th. Ray Epps, sorry.

00:04:54.960 January 6th, the worst day in the history of America, the worst coup d'etat ever.

00:05:01.040 So, Ray Epps is this odd figure from January 6th because he is the most prominent guy that we have

00:05:08.280 on camera, we have on audio multiple times, urging people to break into the Capitol on January 6th.

00:05:15.300 He was so officious in his calls for the mob to get unruly and to aggress on Capitol Hill that a

00:05:24.280 group of people around him, when he was calling for this, said he was a Fed. Said, wait a second,

00:05:28.580 you're just trying to egg us on. You're a Fed, Fed, Fed. And they were chanting it all around him,

00:05:32.260 but he kept it up and he kept chanting for people to go into the Capitol. He was on the FBI's website.

00:05:37.880 He still appears in an FBI tweet, most wanted people from January 6th, but he wasn't charged

00:05:46.200 with a crime. He wasn't arrested. He's like the only guy from January 6th that was not arrested or

00:05:52.780 charged with a crime. So a lot of people have suggested that he's a Fed. The suggestion that

00:05:58.640 he was a Fed was then bolstered by the liberal media defending this guy. Don't forget the liberal

00:06:03.100 media had called January 6th the worst day ever. And it was almost the end of the Republic and it was a

00:06:07.340 coup d'etat. And yet they're defending the most prominent instigator of January 6th.

00:06:12.260 That didn't make a lot of sense. Glowing profiles in the New York Times, a constant defense of him.

00:06:16.860 Now Ray Epps saying he's going to sue Fox News for defamation, probably in the hopes that Fox will

00:06:22.980 just settle out of court. And now the DOJ comes out and says Ray Epps is going to be charged. So

00:06:28.540 the timing of this is convenient at the same time that Ray Epps is bringing a lawsuit against Fox News to

00:06:36.420 try to have a shakedown and get some money and maybe further tarnish Tucker Carlson's reputation

00:06:41.340 in the liberal media. The DOJ is saying, okay, well, we are finally going to arrest him.

00:06:48.100 But that doesn't answer anything. Why did it take two and a half years? Why did the DOJ round up every

00:06:56.980 Midwestern granny who had the audacity to take a photograph in the Capitol Rotunda on January 6th? 1.00

00:07:03.040 They rounded them all up within about a week. They threw a lot of them into prison. They threw

00:07:07.380 a lot of them into solitary confinement. Yet this guy, the most prominent instigator of the whole

00:07:13.180 thing, whose location we've all known because he's had these glowing magazine and newspaper profiles,

00:07:19.320 the DOJ waits two and a half years. What is this about? I think they're hoping that this puts to rest

00:07:24.320 the conspiracy theory that Ray Epps has some relationship with the federal government.

00:07:29.540 To me, this just adds fuel to the fire. This seems even more bizarre than had they not charged

00:07:37.180 him in the first place. Doesn't explain a damn thing. Seems a little bit like smoke and mirrors.

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00:09:07.640 So you remember when the libs tried to blow me up in Pittsburgh? This is a story that happened a couple

00:09:12.560 of months ago. I had a campus speaking event. A lot of radical students tried to shut it down.

00:09:18.380 The administration at Pittsburgh tried to shut it down. Legislators tried to shut it down.

00:09:23.640 They couldn't do that because it's a public school, so there's something called the First

00:09:26.940 Amendment. The event went off, but then the anarchists showed up, and they set the street

00:09:31.420 on fire, and they burned me in effigy, and as I was walking onto the stage, they threw an explosive

00:09:35.220 at the building. Cops made us walk back in, but we did the event anyway, and we wouldn't let them

00:09:40.220 intimidate us. Okay. Well, the great update here was that the FBI arrested the two anarchists who

00:09:48.320 got this explosive and threw it at the building, and they indicted them as well. There's a further

00:09:53.540 update, which is that the Torch Antifa network has taken responsibility for this attack that missed.

00:10:02.640 I'm still here. Ha ha ha. So Antifa, which the libs tell us does not exist, has issued this

00:10:10.040 statement. This is specifically the Torch Antifa network, thanks to Andy Ngo, who has just done

00:10:14.460 the best reporting on Antifa out there. They've said, breaking update, the Torch Antifa network,

00:10:20.100 a collective of violent cells that include Rose City Antifa, has claimed bombing suspects Brian Pepe

00:10:25.080 DePippa and Crystal DePippa as their members. These aren't spring chickens, by the way. This is a 36-year-old 0.92

00:10:30.620 man and a 40-year-old woman, a married couple that decided that what they were going to do

00:10:35.180 on a Tuesday night or whenever the event was, was to show up in Pittsburgh and try to blow up a

00:10:41.400 speaking event where two people were debating a matter of public policy and anthropology for that

00:10:47.880 matter. Antifa goes on, they're soliciting donations, or I'm sorry, this is from Andy Ngo.

00:10:53.440 They're soliciting donations for the extremists using PayPal, though it appears PayPal has paused the

00:10:58.520 campaign, which is good. They're now soliciting tax-deductible donations using a far-left

00:11:03.420 non-profit. Daryl Lamont Jenkins was revealed through court documents to be one of the leaders

00:11:08.060 of Torch Antifa. According to federal investigators, DePippa traveled across the country in recent months,

00:11:13.680 repeatedly set off explosive sensors at airports for RDX, but of course the TSA let him get on the

00:11:18.860 airplanes anyway. So the libs are going to tell you Antifa is not real. Well, if Antifa's not real,

00:11:25.840 that would be news to Torch Antifa, which, like ISIS, is claiming responsibility for this terror

00:11:30.780 attack. If Antifa's not real, then who are the two people who just got arrested wonderfully by the

00:11:36.000 FBI and charged by the DOJ? There are many other anarchists and Antifa members who identify themselves

00:11:41.500 as Antifa members who have been totally let off the hook for violence in recent years, but at least

00:11:45.440 these two have been prosecuted. And presumably, one of the main reasons they were prosecuted is their

00:11:51.380 explosive that they threw at the building went into a crowd of about a dozen cops and injured

00:11:56.520 cops on the scene, which escalates the issue even more. All of which is to say, Antifa is a real

00:12:03.300 thing. It's a real organization. They should be rounded up and thrown in prison. They should be

00:12:08.020 investigated like the mafia is investigated, like the Ku Klux Klan is investigated. I'm sick of hearing

00:12:12.560 about the Ku Klux Klan from the libs. The libs pretend that the Ku Klux Klan exists. I don't think

00:12:18.720 there are five members of the Ku Klux Klan in America. If there are, I think every single one 0.99

00:12:23.020 of them is an undercover agent spying on the other ones. They don't even know that the other ones

00:12:27.200 are feds. There are very, very few of these people. And yet, the way the media treats them,

00:12:32.980 they're the greatest terror threat. I mean, this is the way the DOJ even talks about the great terror

00:12:36.800 threat in America's white supremacy. Show me the Klan hood. I don't see it anywhere. Then they point to

00:12:40.820 these other groups. They'll say, look at the Patriot Front. I love it. They call it a front. It's a little

00:12:46.420 on the nose for the Hollywood scriptwriters. The Patriot Front is a far right, white supremacist 0.91

00:12:52.860 organization marching and having all sorts of displays covering up their faces.

00:12:59.600 What are these guys actually doing? The so-called Patriot Front front is going up and has really

00:13:06.360 flamboyant displays at the Lincoln Memorial or something. And then they go home. They go back

00:13:12.120 to their homes in Langley or wherever they live. When they do show up with actual right-wingers,

00:13:17.320 the right-wingers usually push them away, like the Proud Boys or any of these other right-wing

00:13:21.420 groups. Where's the threat? Meanwhile, Antifa, for years now, has been attacking, maiming,

00:13:30.520 killing people across the country, showing up to every prominent right-wing event. And then during the

00:13:36.100 BLM riots of 2020 decides to torch the country for eight months, sea to shining sea. And the feds 1.00

00:13:43.280 don't do anything about it. Until now. Until now. This is really good stuff. I don't want to be too

00:13:47.280 harsh on the FBI, especially the FBI for arresting them and the DOJ for charging. But we've got to go

00:13:52.700 further, folks. This is an organization. We have history in this country of going after not just

00:13:58.300 individuals, but organizations. You can do it for the mob. If you can do it for the Klan, you certainly 0.93

00:14:03.960 can and should do it for Antifa. Now, speaking of political violence, Emmanuel Macron, the leader

00:14:10.860 of France, has just received an unpleasant package in the mail. He received a severed finger from a

00:14:18.440 living human being. This was sent to the official residence of President Emmanuel Macron, according to

00:14:25.020 a report from the London Evening Standard. Showed up at the Élysée Palace in Paris. No note was included

00:14:32.140 in the package. The investigators then took the finger and put it in the fridge, like the regular

00:14:38.960 fridge where they keep their coffee and sandwiches and things, because they wanted to preserve it so

00:14:43.440 that they could investigate it further. So far, no analysis has come out. Would seem a little bit

00:14:50.840 threatening. Or if it's not threatening, at least a lot of people are concluding this is the evidence

00:14:56.940 that whichever person mailed this to Macron is just totally crazy. To which I say, how dare you? 0.76

00:15:04.760 How closed-minded and bigoted of you to suggest that this is evidence of someone who's gone a 0.89

00:15:12.100 little bit crazy who needs psychiatric help? You know what I call this? I call this fist-affirming 0.85

00:15:16.820 care. That's what happened here. And it's so wonderful that this fist-affirming care is being

00:15:22.540 put on display at the highest levels of national politics in France. Frankly, in the name of

00:15:27.420 progress, in the name of liberalism, I think we need to exalt that sort of thing here. That was a

00:15:34.460 man who identified as fingerless. Yes, he had a finger assigned at birth, but he identified as

00:15:39.580 fingerless. And I'm just so happy that he could get the care that he needs. I'm sure he's doing

00:15:45.040 wonderfully now. Thank goodness that when we're talking about other anatomical parts,

00:15:51.320 America is much more progressive than these regressives who would suggest there's something 0.99

00:15:57.160 disordered about that. Can you imagine? I don't think I violated any rules from big tech

00:16:02.920 in my commentary on the finger. Speaking of dubious medical treatments, this is a bad one.

00:16:10.040 This is a bad one. The FDA has approved the first ever over-the-counter birth control pill.

00:16:17.200 The pill is called Opil. It will be available without a prescription. It's a daily oral contraceptive

00:16:23.120 sold over-the-counter. This is bad. This should not be permitted. I won't even say we should ban it.

00:16:32.580 We should just keep the current system in place, which is that you can't get birth control over-the-counter. 0.98

00:16:36.980 And there are a lot of reasons as to why. The liberals are thrilled about this. They want

00:16:42.040 sterility. They want sterility and promiscuous sex and everyone to be miserable. And as we've 1.00

00:16:49.820 followed the liberals' sexual ethic, everyone has become more and more miserable over the last 60 0.95

00:16:53.920 years. Okay, obviously that's what they want. The libertarians are probably fine with the over-the-counter 0.97

00:16:59.280 birth control thing. There were many conservatives 10 years ago who would have said, oh, I'm all for that. 0.77

00:17:03.320 Let's reduce regulations. Let's let people choose to do whatever they want.

00:17:06.480 The conservatives, of course, are going to say, no, this is a bad idea. And there are a number of

00:17:09.740 reasons. The really hardcore, philosophically consistent conservatives will name the really

00:17:17.820 deep reasons as to why this should not be permitted. First question would be, what good does it do?

00:17:24.220 What good can possibly come out of over-the-counter birth control pills? Well, then people don't need to

00:17:31.100 go get a prescription in order to have mostly demeaning, promiscuous sex. Well, then people 0.98

00:17:37.160 can have fewer children. We have a dying population. The birth rate in America is below replacement and

00:17:42.320 has been for a very long time. Is that a good thing to have fewer children? I don't think so. Is it good

00:17:46.340 for individuals to have fewer children? I don't think so. Is it good for society? No, it's not. What

00:17:50.100 other good comes from it? Well, people will have more bodily autonomy. Yeah, it's true. I guess you have

00:17:55.880 the bodily autonomy to hack your arm off, too. Is that good, though? Does that lead to human

00:17:59.600 flourishing? No, I don't think so. Okay. But then, even if you're not a really hardcore conservative,

00:18:05.240 even if you're a little bit moderate and you're in the middle, what else is going to come from this?

00:18:09.060 Well, minors are going to access this stuff. Your kids, your daughter is going to access this stuff, 1.00

00:18:15.440 or she will have the ability to. If you say, listen, honey, listen, 13-year-old daughter,

00:18:20.120 I don't think it would be good for you to have promiscuous sex. I think that would be 0.99

00:18:23.520 bad physically for you. You might contract some sexually transmitted disease. You might become

00:18:30.060 pregnant and not know what to do about that. You might be used and abused, but it could also cause 1.00

00:18:36.960 a lot of psychological problems if, starting at the age of 12 or 13, you're just used for the

00:18:43.120 sexual gratification of men without any consequence whatsoever because they'll have you take these

00:18:47.860 pills. Furthermore, maybe there are some questions. I know you're not allowed to raise this

00:18:53.080 possibility, but a lot of women have it, especially in recent weeks and months. Maybe it's not good to 1.00

00:18:59.560 pump yourself full of a bunch of chemicals starting at a very young age without talking to a doctor,

00:19:04.520 without talking to your family, without really paying a lot of consideration to this.

00:19:10.880 Maybe that's not a good idea to do that sort of thing. That would be the more centrist kind of

00:19:16.800 view of it. What good comes from this? Do we have a surplus of babies in this country?

00:19:23.280 Do we have too much sexual restraint in this country? No, I don't think so. And so the only

00:19:29.640 way to oppose this is for the conservatives to stand up. And the only way for the conservatives to

00:19:34.020 stand up is to get rid of all this stupid nonsense about maximizing individual autonomy. 1.00

00:19:39.540 me. That is not freedom. Freedom is not just doing whatever you want whenever you want to do it. 1.00

00:19:46.880 Legalizing all the drugs, legalizing all the weird sex stuff, legalizing mutilating your body,

00:19:51.880 that's not freedom. That is slavery to your basest appetites. Conservatives used to know that.

00:19:57.440 We kind of went a little crazy for a few decades there. I think we're coming back out of it now,

00:20:00.720 though. We need less weird sex stuff and we need more babies and restraint. That would be very good.

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00:22:11.760 the Screen Actors Guild, please prepare yourself. Sit down. Pull over if you're driving. This is going to

00:22:17.700 be tough. The Screen Actors Guild is going on strike. Okay, moving on. The SAG, when SAG is the

00:22:28.460 Screen Actors Guild, it merged about 10 years ago with after the American Federation of Television Radio

00:22:33.280 Artists voted unanimously to go on strike. They will be joining another strike in Hollywood, which is the

00:22:40.280 Writers Guild of America strike. And that means effectively that unionized Hollywood is shut down.

00:22:46.340 And SAG is kind of a crappy union. Back in my wayward youth, I would occasionally work with the Screen

00:22:53.820 Actors Guild as a professional actor. And it's not a great union because at any given time, like 99% of

00:23:01.860 its membership is unemployed because actors have hard times getting jobs generally. And so all of these

00:23:08.260 radical leftists who are largely unemployed just voted to go on strike. But the SAG union doesn't do a lot

00:23:15.660 for actors generally. The Writers Guild actually is a pretty good union for its members. SAG doesn't do

00:23:20.860 all that much. And so in recent years, a lot of professional actors, a lot of huge name actors

00:23:25.060 have gone FICOR, financial core, which is to say they don't really go along with the union.

00:23:31.940 They'll pay their dues because they have to as a result of a court case, but they don't really care.

00:23:36.420 The influence of the Screen Actors Guild has waned dramatically just as the influence of unions,

00:23:41.240 especially in Hollywood has waned dramatically, just as the influence of Hollywood has waned

00:23:46.660 dramatically. And that's really the point here. The writers are going on strike. The actors are

00:23:51.580 going on strike. Does anybody care? When was the last time you went out to see a movie? I bet,

00:23:58.720 just judging by box office numbers, the last time you went out to see a movie was to go see The Sound

00:24:03.680 of Freedom starring Jim Caviezel, which is a movie that was made largely outside of Hollywood.

00:24:10.100 Jim Caviezel's a terrific actor. He's a big Hollywood star. The movie was funded basically

00:24:16.420 by just a bunch of kooky conservatives. And then it was made by a bunch of highly skilled professionals

00:24:21.440 who were disenchanted with the way that the Hollywood studio system works.

00:24:28.180 Other than that, what shows are you watching? I'm not watching any shows right now. You know what

00:24:31.780 show I'm watching right now? Occasionally, I'll put on an episode of Father Brown from the BBC.

00:24:36.520 I don't even know what's coming out of Hollywood. The only movies that I would be even tempted to

00:24:40.900 see in Hollywood is Mission Impossible. I guess just Mission Impossible. I don't even know. I'd like

00:24:49.200 to go see the last movie star on earth, Tom Cruise. Maybe I would go see him in a movie. Other than

00:24:55.000 that, I don't even know what they're producing. I'm a culture vulture. I worked in Hollywood for a

00:25:00.660 considerable amount of time. I've worked in New York. I like the arts. I read poetry. I read plays.

00:25:07.340 I should be the number one audience, the number one fan for these things. And yet I'm tuning out

00:25:15.560 and you're tuning out. And this is reflected in the completely collapsing viewership of the Academy

00:25:21.180 Awards, the collapsing viewership, not just of movies and theaters, but even of the big Hollywood

00:25:26.780 films on streaming. It's over, guys. So, okay, you're going to protest. Okay, you don't have any

00:25:33.640 leverage anymore. Fine. The writers and the actors are going to strike. Fine by me, man. That's fine.

00:25:40.000 We're going to go watch Sound of Freedom. Speaking of power brokers, turning to the 2024 race,

00:25:48.020 there's a report out with bad news for the DeSantis campaign, which has struggled since its launch,

00:25:53.520 suggesting that top donors are considering a flip to Tim Scott. Tim Scott, you know,

00:26:01.060 nice, fairly moderate centrist Republican senator from South Carolina.

00:26:07.560 I don't know that I'd buy this report if the report is real. Come on, man. That's not going to work.

00:26:15.660 It means that the donors who don't want Trump are souring on DeSantis' chances,

00:26:20.380 so they're looking for an alternative. I really like Tim Scott personally. It's not going to happen.

00:26:27.960 Just looking at the numbers, looking at the political realities, it's not going to happen.

00:26:32.300 Could Tim Scott in some world become the number two guy to Donald Trump if DeSantis' campaign really

00:26:39.800 totally collapses and all of the anti-Trump forces rally around Tim Scott? Maybe.

00:26:46.700 I think, though, at this point, donors who are trying to take a candidate from 3%

00:26:55.280 to the nomination, they're just setting their money on fire.

00:27:01.860 DeSantis himself, who's got almost 20%, the odds that he would be able to take the nomination right now

00:27:07.660 are quite low. And I know that people are very upset with me for this. Guys,

00:27:12.860 I'm like the last conservative pundit in America who's not actively working for a presidential

00:27:18.320 campaign, and I'm just calling it like I sees it. And people are pulling their hair out. They're

00:27:21.920 saying, but no, but in 2016, but in 2012, but in 2008. I'm saying, guys, that doesn't matter. We

00:27:26.960 haven't had an analog for this kind of a primary since 1892 because that was the last time that you

00:27:32.520 had a one-termer running for a rematch. So yes, Donald Trump is not the incumbent, but practically

00:27:40.140 speaking, in many ways, he is like the incumbent. That's why these other guys are not going to catch

00:27:44.780 fire. And the other problem here, I love Tim Scott. He's a really nice guy. But Tim Scott has a very

00:27:51.200 conciliatory tone. He's really nice, as I've just said. And if you think that this moment in 2024

00:27:57.620 is the moment for like a really nice conciliatory guy to meet in the middle and work across the aisle

00:28:02.900 and aw shucks, we're all on the same team. You don't know what time it is. You got to go get

00:28:07.500 your watch fixed. That's not where we are right now. The two candidates who have a real shot at

00:28:12.560 the nomination right now are Trump and DeSantis. And the left field candidate, who's done a lot

00:28:18.300 better than a lot of people predicted, is Vivek Ramaswamy. What do all three of them have in

00:28:22.560 common? They've all bucked GOP orthodoxy and the nice, nice work across the aisle, just cut taxes, 0.90

00:28:28.660 ignore the culture. They are all extreme culture warriors in their own ways. And they're the only

00:28:35.420 guys with any momentum whatsoever or any real shot at the moment. Donors, you got to know what time

00:28:42.840 it is. Money cannot buy you the nomination. Money alone cannot buy you the nomination. Just ask

00:28:48.800 President Jeb Bush. Now, before we go, you know what? I'm just going to have to leave this. This is,

00:28:54.580 I tease. This is what I do now. I tease in the show. Joe Biden has a big political liability that

00:29:01.380 I've called out for a while because I think it's actually my least favorite thing about the guy.

00:29:05.240 But he's mostly gotten away with it until now. And it's the fact that he doesn't acknowledge his

00:29:09.180 seventh grandchild, the love child from Hunter Biden. And even the White House is beginning to

00:29:15.360 have to acknowledge this. And the campaign team is being told to try to avoid this question as best

00:29:20.540 they can. But we don't have time because we got to get to the mailbag right now. So sorry,

00:29:24.120 tee hee hee, that's a little bit of a tease. When you want to look good, where are you going to go?

00:29:31.560 When you want to look a lot better than any of these politicians, where are you going to go?

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00:30:40.200 supplies last. GenuCell.com slash Knowles. My favorite comment yesterday is from Hugh Jordan,

00:30:47.060 who says, for future reference, Knowles has made it clear he's not endorsing any of the GOP candidates

00:30:51.500 for the primary yet. Thank you very much. Thank you. The one guy who gets it. Everyone's trying to

00:30:57.700 shoot the messenger over here. The people who are completely only gung-ho on Trump, they're attacking

00:31:05.140 me for being too harsh on President Trump. The people who are totally bought in on DeSantis,

00:31:10.400 they're attacking me for being too harsh on DeSantis. I'm being harsh because it's a primary,

00:31:15.880 and I'm not working for any of these candidates, and I'm just calling them like I see some folks,

00:31:20.240 and these are tough guys, and they got thick skin, and if they can't handle a little criticism from

00:31:24.780 yours truly, how the hell are they going to take on Joe Biden, huh? Now it's time for my favorite

00:31:30.000 moment of the week when I get to talk to you in the mailbag. The mailbag is sponsored by Pure Talk.

00:31:35.420 Go to PureTalk.com slash Knowles to get 55, 0% off your first month. Take it away.

00:31:41.380 Hey, Michael. I have a friend who recently lost his mother. I've been praying for my friend and his

00:31:47.900 family as well as the mother's soul. I have also been praying for her body as it has been made known

00:31:55.020 to me that the family will be cremating her body and having a reception. I don't believe the family

00:32:01.580 will be bearing the ashes afterward, but this is what the mother wanted. My question is,

00:32:08.340 how should I go about attending this event? Because I want to be there for my friend,

00:32:14.340 but I don't know if I should be worried about any sins as cremation makes a mockery of the

00:32:20.660 resurrection. Thanks. I share your view of cremation. I have had loved ones, family members who have been

00:32:29.100 cremated. Not my preferred choice. I do think as a symbol, it does make a mockery of the resurrection of

00:32:37.260 the body. And I think that's why as our culture moves away from its traditional religion of

00:32:42.240 Christianity, cremation is becoming more and more popular. That said, I don't think it's a sin to be

00:32:48.400 cremated. Even the Catholic Church now allows for cremation post-Vatican II, unfortunate. So I don't

00:32:55.700 think it's a sin to be cremated. And I don't think it's sinful for you to go, you know, support your

00:33:02.640 friend at his mother's funeral or whatever kind of post-funeral service they have if she were

00:33:07.460 cremated. I don't see any sin or stumbling block there at all. Just as I don't think it would be

00:33:14.380 sinful to go attend a weaker liturgy of almost any sort if the point is to go pay your respects to the

00:33:22.640 dead, pray for the repose of her soul, and help your body. I think you're okay. I think you might be

00:33:28.040 you might be missing the forest for the trees there if you're if you're a little too worried

00:33:34.120 about that. I share your reservations, but no, it's okay. Go support your buddy and pray for your

00:33:38.540 your friend's mother. Okay, next question. Hi, Michael. This is the Shuckmeister. You'll be happy

00:33:44.260 to know that for the time being, I've kept Mr. McGillicuddy from forcing my future trad wife to

00:33:49.200 work at the widget factory. Unfortunately, though, the only reason that so is because she doesn't exist in

00:33:54.640 my life right now. In all seriousness, I wanted to tie this into a topic you brought up recently

00:33:59.180 about how IVF commoditizes people, specifically that a baby from IVF is a good end from a bad

00:34:05.280 means. Can we not extend that rationale to dating apps? I'm a young Catholic gentleman in my mid-20s,

00:34:11.380 and I have a hesitation about using them because I feel like they commoditize people. The end is good

00:34:16.780 in that people are getting in relationships, but the means to get there is swiping left or right on a

00:34:21.880 person who has hopes, dreams, talents, and identity all behind that screen just loosely crammed into a

00:34:27.320 few sentences and pictures. On the apps, you and everyone else are the product. Is that feeling

00:34:32.880 justified or am I just a bit too old-fashioned? Love to hear your response. Thanks. The feeling is

00:34:38.900 justified and you might be a bit too old-fashioned. Both of those things are true. Yes, there's something

00:34:45.560 a little distasteful about putting an advertisement for yourself up where your prospective spouse is

00:34:52.780 just judging you based on not only your looks but on pixels on a screen and a couple written words.

00:34:58.140 But that said, what happens when you go to a bar? When you go to a bar and you dress nicely and a

00:35:03.900 woman puts on makeup and the man throws on a jacket and he's trying to look cool or whatever and he's

00:35:09.040 ordering the drink, you are also putting yourself on display to be physically attractive to the

00:35:16.480 opposite sex to then perhaps go on a date and then perhaps dig a little bit deeper. So to some degree,

00:35:24.260 it's the same thing happening in the dating apps, albeit in perhaps a more concentrated and therefore

00:35:29.880 distasteful form in the dating apps. Would it be better for you to meet your future spouse in a more

00:35:37.620 lively and organic way? Perhaps, you know, high school sweetheart or a friend of a friend or you

00:35:43.480 get set up on a blind date or something like that. Yeah, sure. Maybe that would be better.

00:35:48.040 But the way people date now is on the apps. I think the issue of the dating apps is in part

00:35:55.460 a trend of capitalism, not of communism, not of just far leftism, but of capitalism too,

00:36:02.080 to turn people themselves into commodities to be consumed. Yeah, that's a problem.

00:36:06.160 But another problem of it is the abstraction of the identity from the body, which is a trend that

00:36:12.980 you see all throughout our culture and you see it especially in dating apps. That when you are

00:36:17.000 first encountering somebody through a dating app, you're not really encountering them,

00:36:20.860 you're encountering a disembodied simulacrum of that person. Not the real person in flesh and blood,

00:36:27.260 but just pixels on a screen. And that's a problem. As we move more and more into virtual reality,

00:36:31.940 we're losing real reality. As we live more and more in some metaverse constructed by Mark Zuckerberg,

00:36:39.240 we're spending less and less time in the fullness of the beautiful world that God has created for

00:36:44.260 us to live in. So that's something to worry about. This is why when people go on a date on dating apps

00:36:50.540 and they say, wait a second, you looked skinnier on your pictures or something like that. This is just

00:36:55.380 a baser expression of the same problem, which is you're not really looking at the person.

00:37:01.360 You're just looking at some zeros and ones on a screen that come together to form

00:37:06.420 a hint or a representation of that person. So yeah, it's fair to have all these reservations,

00:37:14.160 but also maybe just go out and date the girl and move past that ugliness in our culture, 0.51

00:37:22.260 whether it's the way people dress or comport themselves or where they meet or how they meet,

00:37:27.600 even sometimes through the medium of the dating app, and then get to the real stuff as quick as

00:37:31.800 you can. Okay, next question. Hey, Michael Knowles. My question to you today is about Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:37:38.520 So I've watched every clip, interview, speech of his that I can find, and honestly, I'm blown away.

00:37:44.040 Everything that I've seen has pointed me to believe that he is the right candidate and that

00:37:47.800 he deserves my vote. Now, with that being said and running the risk of sounding closed-minded,

00:37:53.540 the only drawback I see is that he is Hindu. So I believe we're one nation under God,

00:37:58.340 and I believe that to be the Christian God. So how do we reconcile this? Can I vote for someone

00:38:03.040 who doesn't believe in the God or in the religion that America's founding principles are based upon?

00:38:08.520 If a candidate came up and said that they were atheist, I would not vote for them solely based on

00:38:14.080 that. So as a conservative Christian, can I vote for someone in good conscience that is a different

00:38:19.380 religion than mine and doesn't believe in Christian morals? I appreciate it. I look forward to hearing

00:38:23.760 back from you. It's a real concern. You're going to hear a lot of squishes say, that's not a concern 1.00

00:38:29.580 at all. Don't worry about that thing. A man's private religion doesn't matter. No, of course it 0.93

00:38:33.660 matters. Religion is a very powerful thing, and it forms the way we think about just about everything.

00:38:38.440 So it's a real concern. I would ask Vivek how he thinks about religion, because one of the

00:38:46.540 curious aspects of Hinduism is you could get 10 Hindus into a room, ask them to explain religion

00:38:52.180 to you. You could get 10 different answers, 10 very different answers. So I would ask Vivek to talk

00:38:57.780 about religion to you. That's a legit question. And then furthermore, let's say he says, look,

00:39:02.060 I am a Hindu. I'm not even a Hindu that leans toward monotheism, though many of my Hindu friends

00:39:10.380 do, and maybe Vivek does too. I don't know, there's some other kind of Hindu or whatever.

00:39:15.180 Then you get to your question, which is, can I vote for someone to have public trust who doesn't

00:39:22.120 share my religion? Now, I would point to someone like Benjamin Disraeli. Benjamin Disraeli, a Jew,

00:39:27.400 one of the greatest prime ministers and one of the most important conservative figures in the UK

00:39:32.940 in recent memory. And by recent memory, I mean the last 300 years or so. So can that happen? Yeah,

00:39:42.760 I certainly think it can. Hinduism is a step even further than Judaism. But we live in a world where 0.99

00:39:52.880 things are not going to be perfect. So you say, well, I want the perfect Christian leader who's got

00:39:56.780 this particular view of Christianity and who's going to do this thing in public life, and he's

00:40:01.140 going to be this smart, and he's going to be this talented, and he's going to have this, this, this,

00:40:03.880 and the other thing. And you're not going to get all of that. So if you put, say, Vivek up against

00:40:10.500 some nominal Christian whose understanding of the faith is so warped that as a matter of public life

00:40:18.260 and the discharging of his public duties, he would end up being worse than an atheist, say, 0.76

00:40:22.980 then I think you just have to make a prudential practical judgment there. And I would say if

00:40:28.000 you're attracted to Vivek as a candidate, and you've got this one holdup where you haven't seen

00:40:34.660 any practical consequence of that yet, then I would say you'd be crazy to just throw the guy out

00:40:41.440 immediately. I would press it a little further, you know, keep a proper caution about those views

00:40:49.260 and try to prod them a little bit. But as a, as a practical matter, you judge the tree

00:40:56.440 by the fruit. Okay, next question. Hello there, Mr. Knowles. This is the conservative monk. I'm so

00:41:04.280 happy to finally get to talk to you. I'm coming at you with not a question, but a comment. I want to

00:41:10.660 implore you to please recant your dismissal of the existence of our interstellar overlords.

00:41:18.220 They are among us. They have been here a very long time. I have it on good authority to tell you

00:41:24.460 that if you recant your former statements and beg forgiveness at the feet of our interstellar

00:41:32.100 ambassador to our intergalactic masters, Ambassador Walsh, then you might forego working the salt mines

00:41:41.800 of Caglar 9 for the remainder of your life. Please do so, as many of us are very fond of you.

00:41:50.400 It's also noteworthy that I do not know Ambassador Walsh, nor did he put me up to this.

00:41:55.280 What? Hold on. What? I did, I did, I said the things. What? I gotta go.

00:42:03.440 Thank you for that missive. I appreciate that. With my friend Mr. Walsh on vacation for the past

00:42:10.680 week or two, I had not been barred by such inanity in a while. So I'll take your suggestion

00:42:18.980 under consideration. Let's get to a written mailbag before we get to the member block. It is fake

00:42:22.800 headline Friday too, by the way. So I'll need your help to make it through the fake headlines.

00:42:29.560 But before then, greetings, Mr. Nostradamus writes Zach. A few episodes ago, you spoke about the

00:42:34.780 possibility of a cigar talk in your show. What's your go-to brand? I myself am a fan of Monte Cristo.

00:42:40.360 Their Epic is my favorite, but my usual is their Platinum. My first cigar was the Kahlua from Drew

00:42:44.160 Estates. That has been discontinued. What was your first cigar? Thanks. Love the show, especially the

00:42:48.940 member's block, or as I call it, the Sanctum of Nostradamus. I could go on and on. I don't have

00:42:54.160 nearly enough time to go into this. I think cigars are very important. I was at a wonderful cigar

00:42:58.660 dinner last night. I really enjoy them. I have very particular tastes in cigars, developed over many

00:43:06.760 years of enjoying cigars. My first cigar was a machine-made Cuban cigar called a Guantanamera,

00:43:12.860 which is a really low-quality cigar. It's short, chopped-up filler, but it has that good Cuban

00:43:18.300 tobacco flavor. I was 15. What did I know? I really liked it. I hated cigarettes. I don't

00:43:23.000 like the devil's lettuce, but I really liked cigars. Shortly after that, I discovered Oliva

00:43:29.360 cigars, which at the time were not nearly as well-known as they are now. I just adore Oliva

00:43:34.620 cigars. They're Series O Perfecto. I still love, I think, dollar for dollar. You really can't beat

00:43:41.660 them. I love it. I then got into Tatuaje cigars and Don Pepin and my father. I got into that.

00:43:49.300 Padron, I love. I mean, you know, the list goes on and on of the brands, but I've been thinking

00:43:54.320 about this a lot lately because I do have particular tastes in cigars that I've cultivated. Occasionally,

00:44:02.720 you can get custom-blended cigars and those kinds of things. So anyway, I'll be exploring all of these

00:44:08.560 options. A lot of people write into me. They say, Michael, what should I smoke? I want to get

00:44:13.020 into this. Does one smoke by oneself? Yes. Maybe with a book. Wonderful relaxation opportunity.

00:44:18.680 Does one smoke socially? Yes, one absolutely does. You know, another great aspect of cigars for the

00:44:23.600 fellas is if you want to have a guy's night and maybe you love women, but you don't want always 1.00

00:44:28.760 women hanging around all the time, cigars are a great way because 99% of the time they can be woman 1.00

00:44:33.660 repellent. And sometimes women even like it when the men smoke cigars. One, because it, you know,

00:44:38.180 is very manly and virile and thumatic and increases your testosterone and all these things. But two,

00:44:44.640 they recognize that men need their own spaces sometimes and they need a little relaxation,

00:44:48.400 working very hard. So anyway, all of that to say, I'm giving more thoughts on how to incorporate

00:44:53.340 cigars more into the Michael Knowles show, Kheim de la Kheim universe. Now in that universe,

00:45:00.640 it is Fake Headline Friday and I need your help to find the fake headline among the real ones. The

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 14, 2023

Ep. 1287 - The Cocaine In The White House Gets Epsteined

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