The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1295 - It's Time To Impeach Joe Biden

00:00:00.000 After years of speculation, one of the great mysteries of the art world has finally been

00:00:06.200 resolved. We now know who bought Hunter Biden's doodles. According to the news outlet Insider,

00:00:13.900 Hunter's buyers include major Democrat donors. Can you believe it? One such donor is a woman

00:00:21.900 named Elizabeth Hirsch Naftali. She has given a bunch of money to Joe Biden's campaign and to

00:00:28.460 the Democrat National Campaign Committee. She's hosted fundraisers with Kamala Harris. She is a

00:00:33.600 Democrat muckety-muck. And what do you know, right around the time that Naftali bought some of Hunter's

00:00:40.340 art, Hunter's father, the president, named her to a prestigious political commission, the Commission

00:00:47.220 for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad. And Naftali is just one of the buyers. Another buyer,

00:00:53.720 whose identity remains unknown, apparently spent $875,000 on Hunter's scribbles. All in all,

00:01:02.460 Hunter's art show generated $1.3 million in sales. And who knows how many presidential appointments.

00:01:12.500 It's a big grift, of course. We all knew that. Hunter's art is terrible, and his only notable

00:01:20.000 accomplishments are petty crime. So the only reason anyone could possibly have for buying his junk is 0.71

00:01:27.380 to curry favor with his dad. It's just a plain old bribe. And yet, more evidence of high crimes and 0.94

00:01:36.380 misdemeanors, all of which add up to an increasingly plain fact. It is time for Republicans to impeach

00:01:44.000 Joe Biden. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:54.200 Welcome back to the show. Snow White, the new Snow White. She's not, she's not white. It's not 0.97

00:02:03.100 more of a dusky color, a little bit swarthier. I say this as a member of the swarthy community. 1.00

00:02:09.180 She, the not being typecast is the least of it. She just gave an interview in which she has

00:02:17.920 persuaded me that I think at most seven people are going to go see this movie. We will get into why

00:02:23.060 what Disney is doing is so bad and stupid. First, though, major movement in geopolitics and major 0.99

00:02:31.760 movement with the leaders of nations. And coincidentally, one of those big movements

00:02:35.400 is right here in Hungary. So this week, I'm in Hungary. I am now officially a Hungarian author.

00:02:41.700 My best-selling blank book, Reasons to Vote for Democrats, a Comprehensive Guide,

00:02:45.460 has been translated into Hungarian. And it's been released. It was released yesterday.

00:02:51.920 And so I'm on the ground in Hungary. I'm doing my book tour here. And I will cap that off with a

00:02:56.660 speech at the MCC, which is one of the big think tanks at the MCC Fest, a big political event here in

00:03:01.840 Hungary. That will be on Friday. Past American speakers include our friends Dennis Prager and

00:03:07.960 Tucker Carlson. And I will hopefully follow their acts as the U.S. and the West broadly are looking

00:03:16.580 at the prospect of World War III, which the Hungarian president just brought up yesterday in

00:03:22.720 Transylvania. So we'll get to that in one second. First, though, I want to get to our political leader,

00:03:27.040 Joe Biden. And I want to get to this point that I have held off on for a long time. You can't

00:03:31.200 say that I've been rushing toward this or I've been hyperbolic or anything like that.

00:03:34.640 I have always been pushing the brakes on a purely politicized impeachment. Now is the time to impeach.

00:03:40.700 The legal predicate is there. I don't think impeachment is just a political act. I don't

00:03:44.360 think it's just when the opposition party gets the House, then we impeach the guy who's in the

00:03:48.460 White House. That's not how it's supposed to work. There's a legal basis for it. Biden meets that

00:03:52.780 basis. The evidence of the bribes and the high crimes and misdemeanors, it's so apparent now.

00:03:58.020 We have terabytes and terabytes of his son's laptop proving this, certainly showing a lot of

00:04:04.520 evidence for it. So the time has come. And I'm not the only one saying it. And Lauren Boebert is

00:04:09.280 not the only one saying it. And Jim Banks and House representatives, they're not the only one

00:04:12.700 saying it. Kevin McCarthy as well, Speaker of the House, is floating the prospect of impeaching Biden.

00:04:18.520 This is rising to the level of impeachment inquiry, which provides Congress the strongest power to

00:04:26.480 get the rest of the knowledge and information needed. Because this president has also used something

00:04:32.920 we have not seen since Richard Nixon. Used the weaponization of government to benefit his family and

00:04:39.820 deny Congress the ability to have the oversight. I believe we will follow this all the way to the end.

00:04:45.960 And this is going to rise to an impeachment inquiry, the way the constitution tells us to do this.

00:04:50.960 And we have to get the answers to these questions.

00:04:54.220 The only part I don't like there is the Nixon dunking. Okay. We need to, we need to stop knocking

00:04:59.720 Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon, he made some political mistakes as president and some of his policies were

00:05:04.940 kind of wrongheaded, but Richard Nixon got done wrong. He was the first conservative, the first

00:05:11.500 Republican to get done in by the deep state while he was in the White House. It was the test run for

00:05:16.960 what happened to Trump. Richard Nixon is a far better man than any of the Democrat presidents in

00:05:22.340 my lifetime. The reason the libs hate him so much, the reason that the deep state hated him so much

00:05:26.420 is because Richard Nixon was right about Alger Hiss. And Richard Nixon, when he was up on Capitol Hill,

00:05:32.260 pointed out that there were communists in the government working for the State Department, including a top

00:05:36.840 State Department official, a top lib named Alger Hiss, who was instrumental in the founding of the

00:05:42.080 UN and everyone called Nixon crazy and they attacked him and he held firm and he was right. Alger Hiss was 0.99

00:05:48.320 a dirty, rotten, freaking commie. And we proved that they never forgave him for it. And so the deep state 1.00

00:05:52.980 threw him out of office for some complete nonsense tape on a door for some campaign dirty trick that

00:05:58.260 the Democrats have played every campaign 10 times, whatever the Republicans have done. So, okay, that's a

00:06:03.300 little bit of a digression. I get very defensive of my tricky dicky. But beyond that, what do we mean

00:06:10.180 that Richard Nixon, we haven't seen the weaponization of government like this since Richard Nixon. What

00:06:14.820 about Barack Obama, who weaponized the IRS against his political opponents, against a group that I was

00:06:18.960 a member of, the Friends of Abe, the conservatives who were in show business in Hollywood and New York.

00:06:23.840 Barack Obama wielded the government agencies against his political enemies all the time. This has been

00:06:29.480 a pattern that we've seen on the left and it's been done on the left way more than it's been done

00:06:34.140 on the right. And that's not even the reason that this meets the standard for impeachment.

00:06:38.680 We've got evidence of corruption. We've got evidence of bribery. We've got evidence of high

00:06:43.280 crimes and misdemeanors. Why not? Why not impeach him? Because we're going to ruin people's trust in

00:06:51.360 our institutions. I'm pretty sure that ship sailed, guys. Well, because if we do it to them,

00:06:56.380 they'll do it to us. They've impeached Trump, what, like a hundred times already? And they're

00:06:59.600 going to keep doing it if he gets it back into office. The time has come. Why? Because

00:07:03.960 that means we'll get Kamala Harris. We're heading into a presidential election. Who cares? 1.00

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00:08:16.160 to 989898. So, of course, right when the Republicans are on the brink of actually doing

00:08:25.840 something, right when they are on the brink of wielding their political power to impeach the

00:08:31.200 president, to maybe try to wrest some power back from the liberals, they're going to distract us

00:08:38.560 with a bunch of flying saucers. Of course, of course we need a distraction. So now the House

00:08:42.440 is going to hold urgent hearings on UFOs. They're here. Capitol Hill braces for the UFO invasion

00:08:53.640 with an epic House committee hearing. That's right. We got it, baby. We're getting the UFOs over here.

00:09:00.940 I have one question. I have one question about the UFOs. Forget, I'm going to put aside, I know

00:09:05.640 Matt Walsh and I have an ongoing debate where I point out that extraterrestrial aliens don't exist

00:09:13.420 and Matt says a bunch of nonsense. I'm not even having that debate right now. All I'm asking is

00:09:19.380 this question. How come China doesn't have hearings on UFOs? How come Russia doesn't have urgent

00:09:27.740 hearings, urgent meetings of the senior leadership about all the extraterrestrials, ET, coming to planet

00:09:34.320 Earth? How come if you look at a map of all the UFO sightings around the world? How come, I'm not

00:09:40.180 saying all of them are in the West, in the United States and Europe, but how come the vast majority

00:09:45.140 of them are? What's that about? Is this really an urgent thing? Do you really believe, do you really

00:09:55.080 seriously believe that little green men are the most or even a remotely urgent problem facing our 1.00

00:10:06.020 nation? Or do you think it is bread and circuses, distraction, perhaps sincere fantasy, but perhaps

00:10:16.120 cynical distraction nonsense? Which do you think is more likely? Seems pretty clear to me. But, hey, hey,

00:10:22.900 former Pentagon officials, former intelligence agency people, they swear up and down that we in the

00:10:30.000 United States, we're in possession of technology from outer space. The objective here, I think,

00:10:37.780 and the opportunity is for the American people to come to better understand why it is that so many in

00:10:44.280 Congress actually takes seriously the idea that there are UFOs, UAP that are violating U.S. airspace and the

00:10:55.740 associated rumor, allegation, that we may have in our possession off-world technology recovered from

00:11:03.760 someone else's space program. I've been told that we have recovered technology that did not originate on

00:11:11.120 this earth by officials in the Department of Defense. Notice it's always, I've been told

00:11:22.060 by very credible anonymous people. I, listen, one time, one time, seriously, you're not going to believe

00:11:28.680 this. My, my mother's cousin's best friend from work, her boss, Z's nephew, worked at a defense

00:11:39.700 contractor and he talked to the janitor who once overheard some kind of anonymous guys talking

00:11:47.740 about how there are definitely UFOs. Yeah. And you can take that to the bank. Uh-huh. So that's why we

00:11:54.940 need to have these hearings. We need to have these hearings so that the American people can understand

00:11:59.420 why members of Congress might believe in extraterrestrial aliens. I'm not speaking ill of

00:12:09.820 members of Congress. I like a great many members of Congress. Some of my dear friends are members of

00:12:15.620 Congress. There are members of Congress who believe all sorts of things that are not true,

00:12:24.160 not rational. There's a member of Congress who once in a, in a public hearing asked if putting

00:12:33.680 too many people on the island of Guam would cause the island to capsize. Okay. The fact that a handful

00:12:41.560 of kooky congressmen think that ET is out there trying to make contact with us, that doesn't convince

00:12:48.140 me. And the fact that anonymous deep staters, anonymous people whose job it is to conduct

00:12:54.780 psyops are anonymously telling us that there are little green men out there. I just, I just don't

00:13:02.580 believe it. Think about how the quality of cameras has improved in the last, forget the last 50 years,

00:13:09.700 in the last five years, in the last two years, the quality of the camera on your iPhone could shoot

00:13:15.440 in a super duper ultra high definition feature film. And yet the quality of footage of UFOs has

00:13:23.660 remained exactly the same since 1945. There has been no improvement. It's always, for some reason,

00:13:30.540 when the cameras, no matter how advanced they are, encounter aliens or Bigfoot, the footage gets

00:13:35.420 really grainy. I don't know why that is. It's really strange. Just don't believe it, folks. Why would

00:13:41.240 the government be putting this out there though? I guess we have to address that question. Well,

00:13:44.640 few reasons. One, it could be our technology and we're trying to be cagey about it. Two,

00:13:52.600 it could be the technology of an adversary. I don't really believe that. I don't think that

00:13:55.960 China, for instance, has technology much more advanced than ours. Not yet, at least, though

00:14:01.280 that's an issue that we'll get to in a second. It could be that actually we've depleted a lot of

00:14:07.020 our defense infrastructure. And as China is rising so quickly, it could be that we're trying to bluff.

00:14:13.500 I think it was Darren Beatty who made this point. He said that he thinks that the Pentagon and the

00:14:17.640 deep state are just trying to bluff and convince China that we're in possession of ET technology.

00:14:22.500 It's a little bit outlandish, but it's not as outlandish as little green men coming to Earth, 1.00

00:14:26.980 the evidence for which is nil. It's zero. It's just the media. How do we know that there are

00:14:33.120 little green men? Because the media tell you so and because anonymous people at the Pentagon and

00:14:37.780 shady figures in the intelligence agencies tell you so. The people who lie all the time,

00:14:44.080 whose job it is to lie, are the ones who have convinced you that this is likely.

00:14:48.660 Doesn't seem very likely to me. Seems like a nice distraction. Huh? Who are we going to impeach?

00:14:55.500 What are we going to do about immigration? What is that? What about the failing economy? Oh, look! 0.96

00:15:00.360 A butterfly. That's not a butterfly. That's a flying saucer.

00:15:02.700 Now, speaking of entertainment, we covered woke snow white, no longer white, snow taupe,

00:15:09.200 snow beige, snow swarthy, snow not well. Snow's not swarthy. Some kind of sediment or sand that is

00:15:16.460 no longer blanc. The new reboot of Snow White is going to have a Hispanic lady. And that's bad enough 1.00

00:15:26.800 because it contradicts the story and it does so for purely leftist political reasons. But

00:15:32.220 this girl, this young woman, just explained the far more egregious changes to the story

00:15:40.080 than the casting of this out-of-place actress.

00:15:44.220 You said you were bringing a modern edge to it on stage. What do you mean by that?

00:15:48.440 I just mean that it's no longer 1937 and we absolutely wrote a snow white that is...

00:15:54.320 She's not going to be saved by the prince.

00:15:55.700 She's not going to be saved by the prince and she's not going to be dreaming about true love.

00:15:59.360 She's dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be and the leader that her late father told

00:16:04.100 her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave, and true. And so it's just a really incredible

00:16:08.780 story for, I think, young people everywhere to see themselves in.

00:16:11.520 Snow White is running for president.

00:16:13.940 I'm launching my campaign. I am.

00:16:16.540 How many dozens of people do you think are going to go see that?

00:16:21.840 Maybe I'm being too optimistic.

00:16:24.320 How many...

00:16:24.920 How many couple of people do you think are going to go see that movie?

00:16:30.500 That sounds so, so terrible.

00:16:34.880 The central feature of the movie...

00:16:36.540 Forget about the central feature of Snow White's character,

00:16:39.760 namely that she's very, very white.

00:16:41.360 It's in her name.

00:16:42.840 Forget that.

00:16:43.460 Actually, seriously, forget that for a second.

00:16:44.820 The central feature of the movie is that it's a movie about love and that she is reawoken by love.

00:16:54.500 And they're taking the love out of it.

00:16:57.300 No, it's not about Prince Charming and love anymore.

00:17:00.400 It's about what a girl boss she is. 1.00

00:17:02.840 Because that's what little girls dream of. 0.95

00:17:04.340 They dream of being a girl boss. 1.00

00:17:05.660 So insist, so insist the liberals.

00:17:12.240 But that's not what little girls dream of ever. 0.89

00:17:14.380 And it's going to flop just like all the other ones flop.

00:17:17.000 And the left bears a lot of responsibility for this because the left controls Disney and all of the other institutions in the country.

00:17:23.240 But the right bears some responsibility too.

00:17:25.500 Because the right has gone along with this.

00:17:27.220 The right has gone along with this kind of language that undermines love, that undermines the family as the basic unit of society, that undermines traditional gender roles, that undermines traditional duty, period.

00:17:46.000 The right has gone along with it because while for decades the right would pay some lip service to traditional family values, what would they say out of the other side of their mouths?

00:17:55.760 They'd say, that's why we need creative destruction and we need to innovate constantly and we need everyone to go to work.

00:18:01.800 For goodness sakes, President Trump, whom I love, he's my favorite president of my lifetime.

00:18:06.020 But President Trump bragged about how low the women's unemployment rate is. 1.00

00:18:10.380 Which sounds nice until you think about it.

00:18:12.320 What does that mean?

00:18:12.940 He's bragging about how women are just going out and laboring in that widget factory. 0.89

00:18:18.800 No, they're not staying home with their kids.

00:18:20.440 No, siree.

00:18:21.220 That would be retrograde.

00:18:22.920 No, those women are going out there and working in the factory like they damn well should. 1.00

00:18:27.840 Who needs a homemaker? 1.00

00:18:29.500 Who needs a mommy at home? 1.00

00:18:30.940 No, sir.

00:18:31.980 We're conservatives.

00:18:32.960 Why would we support that?

00:18:35.120 So we bear a little responsibility to even the conservatives, even the greatest president in my lifetime.

00:18:41.120 We have gone along with this.

00:18:42.740 We've embraced a kind of feminism. 0.95

00:18:45.000 We've embraced a kind of, more than a kind of, individualism.

00:18:49.800 We've embraced a kind of social radicalism.

00:18:52.980 Some conservatives even want to be the progressives.

00:18:56.320 We want to say, no, we're more progressive than the Democrats are.

00:18:59.260 No, well, that's how you end up ceding all of the institutions to the left.

00:19:02.840 That's how you end up with Snow Tope bragging about how there's not going to be any more love in a fairy tale.

00:19:10.440 There's not going to be any more love in one of the most cherished, beautiful stories in the American cinema.

00:19:16.260 Now, speaking of women's issues, if you think that's bad, if you think it's bad that feminists are running Hollywood, just wait until you find out that apparently, because of our far-left administration, girl bosses are going to be running our military. 1.00

00:19:29.680 What could go wrong?

00:19:31.400 What could go wrong?

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00:22:23.420 Joe Biden is apparently picking the first woman ever to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

00:22:31.560 And why is he picking her?

00:22:33.320 Because she's a woman. 0.93

00:22:35.120 Is he picking her because she's the most qualified for the job? 0.69

00:22:37.400 No.

00:22:38.140 Is he picking her because she was the number one person recommended for the job?

00:22:42.260 No.

00:22:43.020 He's picking her because she's a woman. 0.99

00:22:44.560 And of course a woman should run the military, right? 1.00

00:22:47.460 Right?

00:22:47.960 Traditionally, women always run the military. 1.00

00:22:49.640 Because they're so much physically stronger than men.

00:22:52.340 And because they're so much colder and more calculating and able to deal with blood and guts and gore and death.

00:22:59.980 And really difficult decisions of life and death.

00:23:02.460 Right?

00:23:02.800 That's why.

00:23:03.460 Right?

00:23:03.720 Is that it?

00:23:04.360 I'm not so sure.

00:23:05.120 Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin presented Biden with a series of choices for who would serve as the Navy's next top officer.

00:23:15.320 And he picked a dude, an Admiral Samuel Paparo, who currently leads the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

00:23:23.800 He was supposed to succeed and become the next Chief of Naval Operations.

00:23:29.280 And Biden decided, no, he was going to pick this lady.

00:23:32.220 I have no knock on the lady.

00:23:33.980 I, seriously, I don't.

00:23:35.440 I don't mean to knock her personally.

00:23:37.180 I'm very grateful for her service.

00:23:38.720 I admire her service.

00:23:39.560 It's a wonderful thing to do.

00:23:42.460 Ladies should not be running the military. 1.00

00:23:45.460 They just shouldn't.

00:23:47.680 Do you really believe?

00:23:49.120 Even, we have leftists who listen to this show.

00:23:52.220 And who write into me sometimes.

00:23:53.660 We have leftists.

00:23:54.620 We have feminists. 1.00

00:23:55.360 We have all sorts of people.

00:23:56.200 I appreciate that.

00:23:56.740 And I think, and what some of you have told me as you listen to this show, because I don't just give the GOP talking points and I spend probably just about as much time going after conservatives as I do going after the left.

00:24:07.260 So I'm speaking to you now.

00:24:09.260 I'm not only speaking to the conservatives.

00:24:10.900 I'm speaking even to you, hardened feminist leftist listeners. 0.97

00:24:14.520 You really think a lady should be running the military? 1.00

00:24:18.980 You really, if you're being totally, you don't need to admit this to anyone publicly.

00:24:22.240 You really think that?

00:24:24.600 You do not.

00:24:27.220 Men are soldiers. 1.00

00:24:30.840 Men are killers. 0.99

00:24:32.500 Men are physically tougher. 1.00

00:24:35.840 Men, that's a job for a man. 1.00

00:24:38.600 Right?

00:24:38.960 Yes, we can admit that.

00:24:41.460 But, you'll say, this lady, she deserves it.

00:24:44.280 No, she obviously doesn't deserve it. 0.68

00:24:45.480 She wasn't recommended for the job.

00:24:47.640 Joe Biden just picked her because she's a woman. 1.00

00:24:50.460 So you can't even say, well, you're right, generally men are better at running the military than women. 0.55

00:24:55.620 But, you know, in this case, no, she was just picked for being a woman. 0.78

00:25:01.280 Well, but it's important that we pick her. 1.00

00:25:03.360 Why?

00:25:03.740 Why is it important?

00:25:04.360 Because this breaks the glass ceiling and this shows that women can do anything. 1.00

00:25:07.900 Yeah, well, women can be appointed to any position by liberal presidents, of course. 1.00

00:25:13.500 What's the point of the military?

00:25:16.740 Is the point of the military to make feminists feel good about themselves? 1.00

00:25:21.320 Is the point of the military to present some radical and absurd notion that the sexes are indiscernible rather than complimentary?

00:25:31.400 Is that the point?

00:25:31.960 No. 0.99

00:25:32.220 The point of the military is to kill our enemies. 0.99

00:25:34.720 Okay?

00:25:34.980 And as we have allowed the military, along with all of our other institutions, to fall into mission drift and mission creep,

00:25:42.660 the position of the United States as the global hegemon has fallen into doubt.

00:25:46.840 And our enemies have risen up to the point that now you have world leaders around the globe, and especially in the West,

00:25:53.440 and actually in the country that I'm sitting in right now, Victor Orban, who is probably the last man in Europe,

00:25:59.240 the last person standing up for traditional, conservative, Christian, Western beliefs.

00:26:07.120 That guy is now saying, because the U.S. has allowed itself to be weakened so much, we are in a very perilous moment,

00:26:14.360 and we are on the brink, potentially, of war.

00:26:17.600 Why is it good to have a woman leading the military? 1.00

00:26:20.320 It's not good for the military.

00:26:21.740 Not good for the country.

00:26:23.260 I guess it's good for feminism. 1.00

00:26:24.600 But feminism is bad for the country, too. 1.00

00:26:27.780 You heard this whole argument some years ago, not all that long ago, with women in combat.

00:26:32.060 Why is it good for women to be in combat? 1.00

00:26:33.380 I think it's a national disgrace that we send women into combat. 1.00

00:26:38.220 Maybe some woman wants to do it. 1.00

00:26:39.780 Too bad.

00:26:40.800 The military is not about your personal desires. 0.98

00:26:43.440 It's about fitness and about killing our enemies, okay?

00:26:47.140 And what we've been doing is putting the cart before the horse, and this has been the disease of our politics.

00:26:51.880 We do it in pretty much every institution.

00:26:55.700 We do it in Hollywood. 1.00

00:26:57.300 We put some stupid, woke message ahead of entertainment. 0.99

00:27:00.980 That's why people don't generally see the movies anymore. 0.99

00:27:03.660 Other than Barbie and Oppenheimer, when was the last time anyone talked about the movies?

00:27:07.220 It was a very long time ago.

00:27:09.780 We do it in the universities, where we just promote people and admit people,

00:27:14.300 not based on whether they can handle the course load,

00:27:17.960 but whether it will make us feel good about our multicultural priorities and wokeness and political correctness.

00:27:24.500 Okay, well, then the standards decline, and then our elite no longer really knows anything.

00:27:30.980 But it's a big problem.

00:27:33.180 And this just came out.

00:27:35.500 I fly into Hungary.

00:27:36.940 I'm not taking credit for this, but I fly into Hungary, and Viktor Orban just comes out strong against further funding the Ukraine war.

00:27:43.800 And Viktor Orban gives this great speech in Transylvania, presumably alongside Count Dracula and Count Chocula.

00:27:49.060 But Viktor Orban, the leader of Hungary, gives this speech.

00:27:52.660 And he says, guys, we're sleepwalking into World War III because all you leaders in the West are living in fantasy land.

00:28:01.680 He had a wonderful line in this speech.

00:28:03.400 I encourage you to go listen to the whole speech or read it so you can read the English translation.

00:28:06.940 In one, he says that if you're in European politics right now, if you mention Western values, the only values you're allowed to talk about are mass migration, LGBT.

00:28:20.400 What was the other one?

00:28:21.160 Let's see.

00:28:23.500 Hold on.

00:28:23.860 I'll just look it up.

00:28:24.420 I have a computer here when I'm on the road.

00:28:26.940 It says mass migration, LGBT. 1.00

00:28:29.260 Oh, and war.

00:28:30.060 That's the third one.

00:28:32.800 But then he comes to a more important point.

00:28:34.580 He says, ladies and gentlemen, dear summer camp, the situation we're living in today in which day by day we are moving toward conflict.

00:28:42.560 The question, the million dollar question is whether this conflict can be avoided.

00:28:45.780 There are ever more studies and books on this, and I'm also working from them.

00:28:48.740 One notable work says that in the last 300 years, there have been 16 occasions when a new champion, global power, has risen to pull alongside or overtake the world's leading power.

00:28:59.840 The bad news is that of the 16 instances thus identified, 12 have ended in war, and only four were peacefully resolved.

00:29:07.300 In other words, dear friends, we are at the most dangerous moment in world politics today when the leading great power, the United States, sees itself sinking toward second place.

00:29:17.420 Experience shows that the dominant great power tends to see itself as more benevolent and better intentioned than it really is, and attributes malice to its challenger more often than is or should be justified, of course.

00:29:28.140 Human nature.

00:29:29.420 Consequently, the starting point for each opposing party is not the intentions of the counterpart, but its capabilities.

00:29:34.260 Not what the counterpart wants to do, but what it is capable of doing, and thus war is already in the making.

00:29:40.880 This is what is called the Thucydides trap, named after the man who wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens, and who first identified the problem.

00:29:48.140 And without going too much into the Thucydides trap and all sorts of international relations, gobbledygook, there is an even odder, perhaps providential coincidence here,

00:29:57.260 which is that I was joking that I've now got the Hungarian translation of my blank book.

00:30:01.440 Well, the epitaph of my blank book is a quote from Thucydides.

00:30:07.120 It's a quote from the Peloponnesian War, which says that this is not an essay to win the applause of the moment, but an enduring work for all time.

00:30:15.000 And that is the work in which Thucydides observes this problem of a rising power and clashing with the dominant power.

00:30:24.100 And it's a problem that Victor Orban sees, and we can deny it, we can bury our heads in the sand, we can continue to turn away from the beliefs that made us great,

00:30:32.920 we can continue to focus on complete and utter nonsense like LGBTism and flooding our country with foreigners and funding wars all around the world. 1.00

00:30:43.920 But that is not going to help us remain in our dominant position so long as we are putting the cart before the horse and refusing to do the things that make us strong and great.

00:30:55.240 That's very dangerous.

00:30:56.240 I had this thought when I was traveling, which is that I flew into Paris, I had a layover in Paris, and I flew to Hungary.

00:31:05.400 And I was walking around, and I speak a little touch of French.

00:31:07.840 You know this if you're a member for the member of Segmentum, you know, I'll occasionally fall into a little bit of French.

00:31:14.140 I will refer to the members as the creme de la creme.

00:31:16.440 But my French is really terrible.

00:31:17.740 I don't speak a lot of French at all.

00:31:19.080 So I thought, okay, I could try to speak a little bit of French while I'm in the airport.

00:31:22.400 Oh, but I don't really have to.

00:31:23.820 You know why?

00:31:24.760 Because I'm American, and we're the dominant power, and everyone just does whatever we want.

00:31:29.780 And every time I've had the privilege of traveling in the last 20 years,

00:31:34.000 I've had that thought in the Middle East, in Europe, in South Asia.

00:31:37.900 I get to do whatever I want, and people are just expected to speak English.

00:31:43.740 And that's wild.

00:31:44.440 That's because we're the dominant power.

00:31:45.880 And that is slipping.

00:31:47.600 And maybe it's not irreversible.

00:31:50.320 Maybe we could turn this thing around, but you've got to address that problem, and we're not doing it.

00:31:55.700 We're not doing it.

00:31:56.700 We're just being poisoned by leftism.

00:31:58.580 And you want to talk about leftism and leadership.

00:32:01.060 A really, really sad story out of Canada, out of America's top hat.

00:32:06.420 There's a Toronto principal who was harassed by the libs and called a racist for no reason.

00:32:13.080 In late April of 2021, this principal was brought to attend a training, a DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion training,

00:32:21.600 by Kiki Ojo Thompson, who's some huckster or race hustler,

00:32:26.760 who presented a lecture to Toronto public school administrators and told them how virulent the racism was that afflicted Canadian society

00:32:36.200 and said that Canada was a bastion of white supremacy and colonialism

00:32:39.400 and that the horrors that were unleashed by colonialism and white supremacism and capitalism and sexism and thisism and thatism

00:32:46.640 regularly destroyed the lives of non-white and women Canadians.

00:32:51.060 Okay, so this guy, Richard Bilczo, just stood up and said,

00:32:57.160 no, you know, I don't really agree with that.

00:32:59.420 And he said, I think that teaching people this does an incredible disservice to our learners.

00:33:08.020 And so what happened after this was this race hustler, Kiki Ojo Thompson, made a big example out of this poor guy,

00:33:17.760 attacked him, he was just attacked by all these libs, he was defamed.

00:33:21.440 He actually won a court case because of how brutally he was defamed, but it didn't matter.

00:33:26.100 And the long and short of it is, very sadly, this guy killed himself.

00:33:29.420 And he killed himself, the family released a statement, and they said he killed himself because of the stress

00:33:37.320 and the reputational harm that was brought on by him being smeared by the left in a coordinated attack

00:33:44.840 to be called a racist when he knew that he was not.

00:33:49.480 I bring this up, you know, we obviously can pray for this guy's soul and pray for his family and everything.

00:33:53.480 I bring this up, though, not just as a cautionary tale for what's going on in our politics broadly.

00:34:01.840 I mean it as a cautionary tale for you, for people who mostly just live in private life.

00:34:09.760 You know, you're not running for office or something like that.

00:34:12.380 And so you're living in private life, and sometimes even in mostly private life,

00:34:16.420 you find yourself the object of the cancel mob.

00:34:22.260 And you will be called, if you're going to be canceled, you will be called racist.

00:34:25.860 Because in the West, racist is the worst thing that you can possibly be called.

00:34:31.880 And there's a lesson to be learned from this tragedy, and you've got to learn it.

00:34:35.920 Or when, God forbid, that mob turns on you, you could wind up in a similarly dark place.

00:34:44.960 We'll get to that in one second.

00:34:45.880 First, though, we know that men and women are undeniably different, not just physically, but on a much deeper level.

00:34:51.840 Ironically, the more the libs try to erase these differences, the more pronounced the differences become.

00:34:56.940 For example, women are more nurturing than men, as we've said.

00:35:00.280 That's a fact.

00:35:01.160 Holding on to those facts and understanding them is essential.

00:35:03.460 That is at the heart of Dennis Prager's new episode of PragerU's master's program.

00:35:07.920 In this series, Dennis is sharing 40 years' worth of hard-earned wisdom as he explores all kinds of topics,

00:35:13.860 such as how to be a good person, hurdles to happiness, the case for marriage.

00:35:18.600 This newest episode is extremely important because the more men and women understand each other,

00:35:23.100 the more they will be able to accept and appreciate their unique differences.

00:35:27.380 This is a fun episode.

00:35:28.980 You don't want to miss it.

00:35:29.780 Go to dailywire.com, become a member, and watch PragerU's master's program today.

00:35:34.780 Okay, the lesson to take away here from this sad case of the Toronto principal who was smeared as a racist and defamed

00:35:44.800 and became so depressed that he killed himself is he believed it.

00:35:54.260 He made one crucial mistake.

00:35:57.220 He took it seriously.

00:35:58.860 He thought that when the libs were calling him a racist, they were sincere or they cared about whether that accusation was true or false

00:36:11.320 or that he thought that that was an accusation that is even made in earnest today.

00:36:19.020 It's not.

00:36:19.960 It's completely meaningless.

00:36:22.660 Ann Coulter told me this when I was a college student.

00:36:25.000 It really stuck with me.

00:36:26.000 The moment the left calls you a racist, you know you've won the argument.

00:36:29.460 The moment the left calls you a racist, you should dance for joy.

00:36:32.760 You should dance for joy because it means you're a threat to them,

00:36:35.180 and it means you've said something that they feel is undermining their absurd political program.

00:36:41.360 You should put that on a plaque and frame it and put it on your wall.

00:36:46.760 You shouldn't do anything unjust, but assuming you're in this guy's position, you know you haven't done anything unjust.

00:36:53.820 You've examined your conscience.

00:36:56.540 I'm going through saying, I'm not, I don't think I'm not a racist.

00:36:59.160 Then not only forget about it, smile.

00:37:02.300 Oh, you called me a racist?

00:37:04.100 Okay, thanks.

00:37:05.700 I guess I'm doing something right.

00:37:07.280 I guess I'm doing something right, libs.

00:37:09.260 If I can get you to try to smear me, man, I guess I'm right over the target.

00:37:14.840 It isn't real.

00:37:16.560 And I know that the right has broadly woken up to this.

00:37:19.960 There are still some really nice, well-meaning people who they still don't get it.

00:37:23.260 They still, they try to persuade the left.

00:37:27.320 No, I'm not racist, actually.

00:37:28.920 No, I'm not.

00:37:29.520 Some of my very best friends are.

00:37:32.020 It's like the scene that I keep going back to in Breaking Bad when the gangster is about to kill Hank's brother-in-law, the cop.

00:37:38.060 He says, no, Hank, tell him you won't do anything.

00:37:39.640 Tell him you're sorry.

00:37:40.260 Tell him this.

00:37:40.680 Tell him this.

00:37:40.780 He goes, it doesn't matter what I tell him.

00:37:42.600 The guy made up his mind 10 minutes ago.

00:37:44.380 They made up their mind.

00:37:46.280 Drew makes this point beautifully.

00:37:47.600 Sometimes people will call someone a racial slur because they don't like the race.

00:37:55.060 Much more often, when someone calls someone else a racial slur, it has nothing to do with whether that person likes a race or not.

00:38:03.160 It's just that the person doesn't like the person he's insulting.

00:38:07.540 And so because he doesn't like that person, he's going to use any attack he can to insult that person.

00:38:13.040 If you go up, let's use a, not a totally politically charged one.

00:38:16.160 And I'm here in Eastern Europe anyway. 1.00

00:38:17.580 If you go up to someone and you say, you dumb, stupid Polak. 1.00

00:38:19.780 Is that indicative of a deep-seated hatred of the Polish people? 1.00

00:38:26.340 999 times out of a thousand, no.

00:38:27.740 It just means I don't like this person.

00:38:29.000 I'm going to use a naughty word.

00:38:30.680 That's it.

00:38:32.020 Now, speaking of leadership, we got to get to the race.

00:38:38.320 The race is really 2024 race.

00:38:41.400 I don't want to talk about it too much every day because we're still in silly season, but I do want to follow it because this is one of the most interesting primary races in my lifetime.

00:38:48.140 It's the most interesting primary race.

00:38:50.640 The only other one that might be as interesting as 2016 because Trump came out of nowhere.

00:38:55.940 This one's actually more interesting because we haven't seen a primary like this since 1888.

00:39:01.200 We haven't seen a primary like this since Grover Cleveland ran for a non-consecutive term.

00:39:05.080 The only president in American history to win non-consecutive terms.

00:39:08.720 So the debate stage is set for now.

00:39:13.220 There could still be a little bit of movement, so maybe you get one more candidate up there.

00:39:15.980 But basically the stage is set.

00:39:18.660 Seven candidates make the debate.

00:39:20.980 Trump, obviously.

00:39:22.500 Ron DeSantis, obviously.

00:39:24.260 The Vake Ramaswamy surging now not only into third place but on the heels of second place, on the heels of DeSantis.

00:39:30.720 Mike Pence made it.

00:39:32.780 Nikki Haley made it.

00:39:33.920 And Nikki Haley is important because Nikki Haley has overtaken Ron DeSantis in South Carolina.

00:39:38.640 So if DeSantis can't make a big showing in Iowa and New Hampshire and they get down to South Carolina and he's not even in second place there,

00:39:44.640 the DeSantis campaign is probably done.

00:39:47.660 The fact that Nikki Haley, who a lot of people counted out the moment she announced,

00:39:51.020 is surged into second in South Carolina shows you it's still a live race.

00:39:54.980 And that's good news for every candidate, including Ron DeSantis, I guess, especially Ron DeSantis right now,

00:40:00.740 who's seen his numbers drop in recent days.

00:40:02.400 Tim Scott's going to make the stage.

00:40:03.880 Chris Christie, Chris Hassan's happening, baby.

00:40:05.620 Let's go.

00:40:06.100 So they've all made the stage.

00:40:10.600 The problem for them is why would Trump show up?

00:40:16.800 The reason Trump would show up is because maybe the polls are tightening and he'll look kind of weak or afraid or cowardly if he doesn't show up.

00:40:25.400 But Trump brings the ratings.

00:40:28.100 You and I might watch the primary debate if Trump is not there.

00:40:32.460 I guess I'll probably watch it or I'll watch most of it.

00:40:34.480 If Trump is there, I'll for sure watch it because you know it'll be entertaining.

00:40:38.000 But forget about this.

00:40:39.080 If you're listening to this show right now, you are paying closer attention to politics than 97% of this country, at least.

00:40:47.360 What about the far greater number of people who are really only going to watch if it's interesting and who think that this is a snooze fest otherwise?

00:40:55.300 I agree with the people boosting certainly Vivek, the people boosting Tim Scott, the people boosting even Mike Pence.

00:41:03.920 And certainly the people boosting Ron DeSantis who say the gaps in these numbers don't matter until they're face to face.

00:41:11.720 But they've got to get Trump's numbers down if they want him to get face to face because right now Trump has absolutely no reason to show up.

00:41:18.940 And before we go, there's a little extra wild card in there, which is Glenn Youngkin's approval rating is exploding right now.

00:41:29.780 Glenn Youngkin's approval rating in Virginia, new Republican governor of Virginia is at 57%.

00:41:37.900 Virginia is a blue commonwealth.

00:41:39.240 How did he do it?

00:41:40.840 Is it because he's a total squish? 1.00

00:41:41.980 He's not a total squish. 0.96

00:41:44.320 He's not quite as right wing as maybe some of us are, but he's not a total squish. 0.59

00:41:48.900 Don't forget that the successful parts of his campaign, the stuff that put him over the edge,

00:41:52.060 was when Glenn Youngkin was running on hardcore cultural issues.

00:41:56.320 Trans bathrooms in schools, on critical race theory in schools, real serious culture war issues.

00:42:05.460 Pulling 57% of Virginia.

00:42:07.100 And Glenn Youngkin has thus far managed not to irritate President Covfefe in the way that Covfefe wants to murder Ron DeSantis.

00:42:17.140 As of right now, I've never heard Donald Trump say one nasty thing about Glenn Youngkin.

00:42:23.160 So if Glenn Youngkin can wait in the wings, maybe soak up a little bit of adulation,

00:42:27.920 maybe put himself in a place where he's a favorite of Trump for a cabinet post, a running mate perhaps,

00:42:35.240 or that he is potentially in the wings if DeSantis collapses and Trump goes to prison.

00:42:43.480 Could be a very different race.

00:42:45.700 Now, with all of that leadership, we're going to be looking around the broader Western leadership

00:42:49.440 as I meander the streets of Budapest.

00:42:51.380 If you're in town, go pick up a copy of my book.

00:42:53.520 There's a very funny story on that book, by the way, which I'll get to.

00:42:56.240 I guess I'll have to get to it tomorrow.

00:42:57.340 In the meantime, if I don't see you on the Danube, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:43:02.660 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:43:03.400 There will not be any member block this week because it's just, come on, we're in Eastern Europe, all right?

00:43:09.100 They haven't built up the kind of infrastructure for the full-on creme de la creme experience just yet.

00:43:18.000 And if we fall into World War III, they won't.

00:43:19.920 But I will look forward to the member block when I get back.

00:43:23.940 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:43:26.040 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:43:26.760 See you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 26, 2023

Ep. 1295 - It's Time To Impeach Joe Biden

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