The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1317 - Trump's Mugshot Means The Die Has Been Cast

00:00:00.000 On the 10th of January, 49 BC, Julius Caesar led his army across the Rubicon River in Italy,

00:00:07.600 an event he marked, according to the historian Suetonius, with three simple words,

00:00:14.600 Iacta alia est, the die is cast, by which he meant that historical events would from then on

00:00:23.680 proceed according to fortune and fate. Whatever happened, conflict was inevitable. The event

00:00:31.660 could not be undone. Caesar had not only broken the law, but the entire political order. The phrase,

00:00:39.940 according to the Greek historian Plutarch, did not originate with Caesar, and it didn't even

00:00:44.320 originate in Rome. It went back centuries earlier to a line from the Greek playwright Menander.

00:00:49.180 The idea, no doubt, went back centuries earlier than Menander.

00:00:54.980 Sometimes human affairs are relatively settled, orderly, predictable. At other times,

00:01:02.580 people upend everything, at which point nothing is predictable. At those times,

00:01:10.080 political prognostication ceases to be useful. Everything seems up to chance.

00:01:15.600 Last night, Democrats in Fulton County arrested the former President of the United States and the

00:01:22.760 current leader of the opposition. They took his mugshot like a common criminal in defiance of

00:01:29.020 centuries of tradition and the universally agreed-upon meaning of the law. Anyone, left, right, or center,

00:01:37.200 who tells you that he knows what happens now is either woefully ignorant of history,

00:01:42.920 which today is entirely plausible, or he's lying, which is entirely plausible too.

00:01:49.600 What was predictable is that something like this would happen eventually.

00:01:56.660 America is not immune to history. America is not immune to human nature.

00:02:03.460 Fundamental political shifts have occurred since the dawn of civilization.

00:02:07.720 No regime lasts forever. And the only certainty now is that the die has been cast.

00:02:15.380 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:17.280 Welcome back to the show. We've got extremely astute commentary from a guy who runs a group

00:02:43.000 called—I'm actually—I don't think I'm allowed to say on this network or in modern American society

00:02:49.100 the title of the group that he runs. But let me say—I could say Ninjas for Trump. He runs a group

00:02:55.380 called Ninjas for Trump. And no, this man is not Japanese. He's very much an African American. We'll

00:03:00.220 get to that in just a moment. First, though, the prosecutions. We talked to Jenna Ellis yesterday.

00:03:04.740 There's another guy, another friend of mine who was indicted. This is John Eastman. John Eastman,

00:03:12.160 a great legal scholar, a former dean of Chapman Law School, very serious fellow, wonderful guy,

00:03:18.340 who was arrested. And he saw the same historical parallel that I just saw. He says that the Rubicon

00:03:27.080 has been crossed. It represents a crossing of the Rubicon for our country, implicating the fundamental

00:03:33.300 First Amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances. As troubling, it targets

00:03:39.420 attorneys for their zealous advocacy on behalf of their clients, something attorneys are ethically

00:03:45.320 bound to provide, and which was attempted here by formally challenging the results of the election

00:03:51.660 through lawful and appropriate means. An opportunity never afforded them or their clients in the Fulton

00:03:58.640 County Superior Court. Sometimes people like to compare Trump to other world historic figures.

00:04:05.080 They might compare him to a Julius Caesar type. But in this analogy, it's not Trump who crossed the

00:04:10.120 Rubicon. It's the Democrats who crossed the Rubicon. By which I mean, and I think John means,

00:04:17.580 we don't know what's going to happen. Nobody is going to predict what's going to happen.

00:04:20.980 Caesar, when he said the die is cast or let the die be cast, didn't know what was going to happen.

00:04:25.980 Maybe the Senate was going to win. Maybe Caesar was going to win. What that statement means is that

00:04:31.300 conflict is now inevitable. How do you go back? We have for the first time ever in the United States

00:04:40.300 arrested a former president. That would be bad enough. But we've arrested a former president who

00:04:47.360 happens to be the current leader of the political opposition, who's beating Donald Trump, or who's,

00:04:52.620 I'm sorry, who's beating Joe Biden in a number of polls, general election polls, who's 40 points

00:04:58.660 ahead of his next rival in the GOP primary, who's a very serious leader of the opposition.

00:05:04.060 How do you go back? What happens now? Are we just going to stop arresting former presidents?

00:05:08.560 We're just going to stop arresting opposition leaders? You can't undo that. The regime has

00:05:14.840 fundamentally changed. And this is the inevitable consequence of the first time you might say the

00:05:21.740 Democrats started to cross that Rubicon. And that was in 2020 when, I don't know, are we allowed to

00:05:26.640 say this on YouTube? I'll put it this way. When the Democrats changed all of the election rules,

00:05:32.960 in some cases, illegally and unconstitutionally, to give themselves an advantage by opening up the

00:05:38.300 system to fraud. And then they stopped counting the votes when it looked like Trump was going to

00:05:41.680 win. And they waited a week or two. And then magically, the Democrats started to win. That's

00:05:45.980 how I'm going to put it. Because I want to stay on YouTube. Let's see how John Eastman puts it.

00:05:51.380 Do you still think the election was stolen?

00:05:54.100 Absolutely.

00:05:55.140 Absolutely. Still.

00:05:56.560 No question. No question.

00:05:58.100 And you won't answer on immunity from prosecution.

00:06:01.140 You won't answer that.

00:06:01.740 Do you think that the others in this case have a standing on that? People like Meadows?

00:06:05.580 No comment.

00:06:07.660 Did they do a mugshot and everything inside?

00:06:09.360 No comment.

00:06:11.120 Thank you, sir.

00:06:12.960 The thing I love about John Eastman, he's a very respectful guy. He's a very amiable guy. Even

00:06:18.280 as they're indicting him, he's pretty buoyant. And he says, yeah, the election was stolen. Now,

00:06:23.700 let's say you don't think the election was stolen. Plenty of people don't think the election was stolen.

00:06:28.500 He does. So then the question is, regardless of what actually happened in the election,

00:06:36.720 what are they prosecuting him for? He sincerely believes the election was stolen. Donald Trump,

00:06:44.200 I think, sincerely believes the election was stolen. Even if Trump didn't sincerely believe it.

00:06:49.860 Frankly, even if John didn't sincerely believe it, every defendant has the right to legal counsel.

00:06:55.480 So why are they going after Trump?

00:07:00.260 They're going after Trump because he's a legal threat. And they're going after him illegally.

00:07:03.640 And they've gone after him illegally since 2016, since the moment he announced his campaign.

00:07:09.320 Is it really such a stretch to suspect that maybe they violated the law a little bit at their best

00:07:16.920 opportunity to take him out? I don't think so. Speaking of taking out your political enemies,

00:07:21.500 this is a story from a couple of days ago. There's been an update to it. So I'm glad we're getting

00:07:25.320 to it now. Mr. Prigozhin, who's the head of the Wagner Group, or if you're fancy, the Wagner Group

00:07:32.100 in Russia. This is the Russian mercenary group, very serious fighting force, has reportedly been killed.

00:07:41.320 The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency has announced an investigation to determine the cause

00:07:48.400 of this aircraft crash in which Prigozhin and 10 passengers total were killed. Now, of course, 0.97

00:07:56.460 Yevgeny Prigozhin has been a walking dead man for quite a while since he led a coup on Moscow,

00:08:04.180 on Vladimir Putin. Putin tends not to be so nice to people when they try to take him out.

00:08:10.380 So we've been waiting for a stray bullet to fly into Prigozhin's window or a little polonium to make 1.00

00:08:15.820 it into his afternoon tea. And now it looks like the plane crashed. The update to the story is a

00:08:20.380 second airplane that Prigozhin owned was seen landing in Moscow, oddly enough. And so some are

00:08:26.880 suspecting that he may have faked his death and he might still be alive. And you might say that's

00:08:32.500 totally crazy. He's done it before. He did it one other time. He faked his death with an airplane

00:08:36.580 crash. So there's a shot that he's done it again now. At first, I felt kind of bad for the other people

00:08:41.900 who were on that plane. But then I thought, you know, I don't know, if you're flying around on a

00:08:45.080 private plane with Prigozhin, you're a little sus. You know, you're probably up to some fairly 1.00

00:08:51.580 dubious activities. What's the lesson for us? There is a political lesson in the plane crash and

00:09:00.580 potential assassination of Prigozhin. There's a lesson for us here in America, which we'll talk 1.00

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00:10:15.200 take down Putin teaches us anything, it's a line popularized on the TV show The Wire. It's a line

00:10:20.920 that goes back many centuries before that in various forms. If you come at the king, you best not miss.

00:10:28.720 That's a lesson for everybody because Trump's rivals in the GOP race are learning that now.

00:10:36.340 Someone like Ron DeSantis, who's an excellent governor, maybe the best governor of my lifetime,

00:10:41.260 really amiable guy, very clear political vision, just all around terrific. I don't have enough nice

00:10:46.400 things to say about Ron DeSantis. And yet, we are beginning to see that it was probably ill-advised

00:10:54.500 of him to take on Donald Trump in 2024. And it's probably ill-advised because Trump is dominant. I

00:11:00.700 suspect his poll numbers are going to go through the roof after the release of the mugshot last night.

00:11:05.300 And now DeSantis' political career is very likely over. It's not like he can just back away now.

00:11:11.360 He took on Trump head-on, and if you come at the king, you best not miss. Trump is learning that lesson

00:11:17.280 too, though. Trump, unlike a lot of other squishy Republicans of the uniparty variety in recent

00:11:23.020 decades, Trump actually threatened some of the most cherished values of our liberal ruling establishment.

00:11:30.560 Those values would be immigration, those values would be free trade and globalization, and those values

00:11:37.060 would be war. And Trump threatened all three of those. No matter which party won over the last 30,

00:11:42.140 40 years, you'd get more of all three. You'd get more mass migration, more globalization, and more

00:11:49.720 through specifically through free trade, and more war, no matter which party got elected.

00:11:55.840 So things were simpatico. Then Trump comes in and threatens that, and they tried to kill him for it.

00:12:02.900 I mean, they immediately, the moment he said, we're going to build a wall, we're going to stop the

00:12:06.120 migration, we're going to renegotiate trade deals, especially on trade. That was pretty new for a

00:12:10.480 major candidate in the Republican Party. It was a return to an older form of conservatism,

00:12:15.440 but it was pretty new for the last 30, 40 years. They said, uh-uh, we're going to start spying on

00:12:19.380 his campaign. We're going to cook up evidence through the fake Steele dossier. We're going to

00:12:24.300 work with Hillary. We're going to work with the Democrats. We're going to try to take this guy out. 0.95

00:12:27.140 We're going to do it through his entire presidency. We're going to rig the election, and then we're going

00:12:30.380 to throw him in jail if he tries to run again. That's what they've been doing. And so Trump is

00:12:33.960 learning that lesson, too. You come at the king, you best not miss. The stakes are very, very high.

00:12:42.500 And if we point back and say, well, look, they'd never actually arrest a presidential candidate.

00:12:47.680 Well, no, look, they'd never actually spy on a presidential campaign. Well, no, they'd never

00:12:52.580 actually persecute people for simply voicing their support and their political dissent. Why? No,

00:12:59.720 they'd never arrest lawyers just for representing their clients. They'd never, they'd never, they

00:13:04.000 never is gone, guys. We are in uncharted territory. So people are defending Trump. A lot of people are

00:13:12.520 outraged by the obvious injustice. And one of those people leads a group that I'm not allowed to,

00:13:20.020 I don't think I'm allowed to say it on the air. Probably not even allowed to say it in private

00:13:24.540 company, even though it's, it's a word that has a soft R, not a hard R. So it's a word that you hear

00:13:30.740 in the popular culture. So I'm just going to say ninjas for Trump is the group that he leads. A lot

00:13:36.240 of supporters going down into Fulton County, expressing their support for Trump as he was

00:13:40.900 booked last night. Well, here is, to my mind, I'm not being ironic or sarcastic in any way. Here is one

00:13:48.920 of the most articulate defenses of Trump and clear-eyed views of political philosophy I have

00:13:54.200 heard from a viral character in years. I'm here to support President Trump. You want to know why I'm

00:14:02.980 here to support President Trump? Because they done did black men like this for decades, make up charges 0.99

00:14:08.440 and put on, so I know Trump is innocent. I support Trump against this corrupt, two-tiered justice system.

00:14:14.460 That's why I'm here to show my support as a black man for Trump. And I'm wearing my shirt

00:14:18.940 and for Trump 2024, and I mean that. What do you think about the indictment?

00:14:24.020 Oh, it's a bunch of bulls**t. It's going around the country. You know, Fanny, Fanny Willis,

00:14:28.780 she's a, she went to school with my sister, so she's full of s**t. She was full of s**t then. 1.00

00:14:32.420 So she's a puppet for the white liberal that is controlling everything. She's in front, 1.00

00:14:38.820 but the white liberal back there pulling those strings, telling her what to do. 0.99

00:14:41.720 That's what I think about her, making a fool of herself. 1.00

00:14:45.800 Do you think it's going to help his election?

00:14:47.560 Of course it is. It's going to elevate him out of the way. I think we should make Trump king.

00:14:50.980 That's how I feel. We should make him king.

00:14:53.960 Wouldn't that be like, kind of like communistic?

00:14:56.440 No, there's no way near communist. No, we're just going to make him king,

00:14:59.200 but we still got our freedoms and rights and everything. He fought that. Yeah, Trump for king 2024.

00:15:04.940 This guy, I'm not joking. Do not think that I am in any way being ironic. This guy is smarter

00:15:10.160 and more insightful and has a clearer view of political philosophy than 97% of the chattering 0.99

00:15:16.620 class, probably more, 98 or 99%. His name is Derek Gibson. He ran for governor of New York. I think

00:15:22.120 he's running for Congress right now. This guy is smart and he connects with people because he is

00:15:29.040 able to speak in a way that's entertaining and so he can go viral. Think about what he said there,

00:15:34.000 even just at the end when he said, I think we should make Trump king. And the woman laughs and she

00:15:38.320 isn't that kind of communistic. And all of a sudden the joke kind of stops and he looks at her and he

00:15:44.480 says, wait, what? Being a king is communistic? Do you not know anything about regime and political

00:15:53.860 philosophy? Who on earth would say that monarchy is communistic? Good grief, lady. Not everything

00:15:59.900 that isn't 1982 style liberalism is communist. Good grief. No. What does he say? He says, no,

00:16:07.260 it's not. Monarchies have existed for all of human history. Communism has been around for about 200

00:16:12.340 years. No, there are some differences. Communists tend to subvert monarchies too, by the way. You know

00:16:18.180 how the communists have overthrown a number of monarchies or attempted to overthrow a number of

00:16:22.940 monarchies? The Bolsheviks, I don't think that the monarch of Russia, I don't think Tsar Nicholas

00:16:29.060 said, oh, wonderful. My fellow communists come in and kill my family. What are you talking about?

00:16:34.320 He says, no, it's not. He says, it's not communistic. We'll still have our freedoms and our rights.

00:16:39.380 He'll just be the king. And he's joking, obviously, but he's not joking about monarchy. There have been

00:16:47.400 many monarchies throughout history that are much more free and are much better at protecting people's

00:16:54.540 rights than supposed democracies. There have been many monarchies throughout history that are much

00:17:02.180 more free, that are much better at protecting people's rights than our supposed democracy right

00:17:05.880 now. Here's exhibit A. They're arresting all the dissidents and the lawyers simply for representing

00:17:12.840 the opposition leader who they're arresting too. So preposterous. There's a very shallow liberal view

00:17:19.860 that the only kind of regime that could ever possibly be good or legitimate is

00:17:25.180 democracy in the year of our Lord, 2023. Because a lot of these people will say, oh,

00:17:31.700 even democracy 20 years ago was evil. It was oppressive. We didn't have all sorts of rainbow 0.99

00:17:36.200 flags everywhere. It was awful. Give me a break. Going back to Polybius, we know. There are good 1.00

00:17:42.980 monarchies. The bad version of monarchy is tyranny, but that's just where the one man ruling is ruling

00:17:47.180 for himself rather than the common good. There are good aristocracies. There's bad versions called

00:17:51.600 oligarchy. And there have been perfectly lovely democracies, but there's a bad version called mob 1.00

00:17:56.820 rule. Where are we right now? But then getting to the first part of his political commentary,

00:18:03.900 Mr. Gibson's, he says, when he's asked, what do you think of the charges here? Do you think there's

00:18:10.140 any merit to the charges? He goes, ah, they're a bunch of BS. That is the only response I want to

00:18:15.180 hear when the legal case against Donald Trump is brought up. Because it's not a genuine legal case.

00:18:21.680 None of this is being done in good faith. None of this is sincere. It's obviously a bunch of BS.

00:18:26.380 The proof of that is, one, they don't ever prosecute Democrats who, even in recent memory,

00:18:30.980 have committed much more egregious versions of the supposed crime that Donald Trump committed.

00:18:37.180 But furthermore, they'd get him for eating a ham sandwich. They impeached him for being pro-Russia,

00:18:43.880 allegedly. They impeached him for being pro-Ukraine, allegedly. They impeached him,

00:18:48.380 or they investigated him for being pro-Russia. They impeached him for being pro-Ukraine,

00:18:52.420 allegedly. They said that he's an insurrectionist. They said that he had an in-kind donation to his

00:19:00.000 own campaign by sleeping with a porn star or something. They said that he raped a woman in

00:19:05.800 Bergdorf Goodman's 30 years ago, even though she fantasized about how wonderful this would have been.

00:19:10.240 And there's no evidence that Trump has ever spent more than five seconds with this lady.

00:19:15.620 It's just such obvious BS, and I just don't want to hear it from the chattering class. 1.00

00:19:21.800 Well, actually, if you look at the case against Donald Trump, actually, in paragraph four,

00:19:27.160 it says that he actually might, we should probably start imprisoning the political opposition.

00:19:32.320 Give me a freaking break, man. Check your clock and know what time it is.

00:19:35.460 Give me, I just don't want to hear it. You hear this from very serious people,

00:19:40.360 even Bill Barr, who I still have a considerable degree of respect for, at least as a political

00:19:45.220 thinker, political operator, to say, well, this case is serious, and this case is less serious.

00:19:50.400 It's all a freaking witch hunt, man. Molly Hemingway made this point. You know,

00:19:55.040 Stalin got his convictions, okay? Fidel Castro got his convictions. Chairman Mao got his convictions.

00:20:00.160 They got their convictions through show trials of political enemies, which is exactly what we've

00:20:05.500 got right now. I wish we could replace our elite, chattering political class with Derek Gibson, 0.56

00:20:11.640 leader of ninjas for Trump. He's a much more serious and clear-minded thinker.

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00:20:50.100 practices, they're often scoffed at or demonized by the libs, but not all of them.

00:20:55.840 The libs like to go back to really old practices, like really old occult demonic practices, the

00:21:01.560 mystical practices of healing medicine and clairvoyance and opening doors in for demons

00:21:08.840 and stuff, all in vogue for the libs. Is it all fake? Is it just a fantasy? Or is there something

00:21:17.160 more to it? Well, my guest, Jen Nizza, Nizza, if you were to pronounce it in the Italian way,

00:21:23.540 explains exactly what happens if you open that invisible door and receive messages from beyond

00:21:30.700 the veil. Check out this teaser for the next episode of Michael and Michael and the former psychic.

00:21:35.500 When I was a real psychic medium, I really wanted to help people. I was told I had a gift from God.

00:21:41.060 And that draws you in, right? It must have scared you when you discovered this ability.

00:21:46.300 I wasn't scared until I started seeing scary things and hearing scary things and getting touched by demons.

00:21:53.080 This episode comes out this Saturday. You do not want to miss it. Be sure to check out the ad-free

00:22:04.100 unedited version exclusively on Twitter at M. Knowles Show and Daily Wire Plus. My favorite comment

00:22:10.060 yesterday is from Elberg Galarga8909, what a name, who says, Mike Pence looks like he's playing a

00:22:16.860 Republican president in a movie written by a Democrat. That is really specific and really spot on. And

00:22:26.540 it's kind of a compliment to Pence, actually, in a way. Because in these Aaron Sorkin-type movies,

00:22:35.260 the Republican president-type, they're usually not evil. They're usually not Hitlerian figures or

00:22:45.320 demonic figures. They're usually just like really stuffy, you know, really stuffy and straight-laced.

00:22:50.340 And they're not. And whereas the Democrat, it's always, he's free-spirited and open-minded man.

00:22:55.100 And he's just fighting for the people. And the Republican's really stuffy. But I don't know,

00:22:58.860 in our culture, which is so extremely free-spirited these days, perhaps we could use a little

00:23:03.440 stuffiness. That wouldn't be so bad. Speaking of attacks on political dissidents,

00:23:09.060 America's evil top hat, Canada, is going after our friend Jordan Peterson. Why are they going after

00:23:14.660 Peterson? Well, they're trying to censor him. A Canadian court is backing this psychologist

00:23:22.680 organization, the College of Psychologists of Ontario, which has embraced radical—I'm going

00:23:28.200 to have to bleep this one on YouTube, guys—radical transgender theory. And because Jordan understands

00:23:34.120 that men are not women, they're trying to take his license away. They're trying to go after him. 0.72

00:23:41.200 And the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ordered Jordan to pay $25,000 to the College

00:23:46.860 of Psychologists and upheld the order that he go through a social media education program.

00:23:54.740 There was a headline. You've got to see this headline. I just saw it pop up. I'm just going

00:23:58.680 to pull it up on my phone. I hate to have my phone out, just generally. But this headline

00:24:03.340 really spoke to me. This was, yeah, this is a headline about Carlos Santana. Carlos Santana

00:24:11.800 goes on most insane anti-transgender rant during concert. This is an article by Aidan Vaziri.

00:24:20.480 What was the insane rant? This is the first paragraph of the article. Carlos Santana delivered

00:24:26.660 a speech laced with anti-transgender remarks during a recent performance in Atlantic City, New Jersey,

00:24:31.260 telling the audience, quote, a woman is a woman and a man is a man.

00:24:37.580 Insane! Can you believe this guy? What a total nut. What a wacko. Totally insane. 1.00

00:24:46.440 That article is what they're going after Jordan for. This Jordan Peterson, he's gone totally insane.

00:24:52.740 He's stating a basic truth. Why are they going after him? They're going after Jordan because he is

00:24:57.640 effective. They're going after Jordan because unlike most people who come from the academy,

00:25:04.220 most people even who are clinical psychologists, Jordan is reaching millions and millions and

00:25:09.540 millions of people. They can't have that because he's reaching millions and millions and millions

00:25:15.020 of people and telling them really basic things about how to improve their lives.

00:25:19.000 We make fun of him because he says, well, make your bed, you know, clean up your room. And we laugh

00:25:24.740 about this. The funny thing is that such basic advice needs to be stated out loud. That's how

00:25:32.040 confused our culture is. And the libs don't like that. So they're trying to make an example of him.

00:25:38.060 They're trying to not just go after Jordan, who it doesn't really affect. I don't think Jordan is

00:25:43.320 taking all that many clients these days. He's traveling around the world giving speeches and writing books

00:25:47.120 and doing movies. This is a message for the other psychologists who dare to contradict the prevailing

00:25:55.820 orthodoxies on sexual ideology. Jordan doesn't need the money, but most other clinical psychologists

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00:26:37.560 Why are people turning to psychologists so much these days? Why are people turning into Jordan 1.00

00:26:42.520 so much? People are anxious, okay? They're so anxious that now, according to the Wall Street

00:26:50.300 Journal, nearly three patients in 100 who entered a healthcare facility left with a newly diagnosed

00:26:58.460 anxiety disorder. That rate is higher than cancer or diabetes, according to Truveta, which is a healthcare

00:27:05.160 and analytics company. 40% of people who take the most popular antidepressants for anxiety disorders,

00:27:12.480 because this is what the psychiatrists do, not the psychologists who do cognitive behavioral stuff.

00:27:17.460 We're talking about the drug dealers who just say, oh, you don't like your mom? Here, get high.

00:27:22.260 Take this drug, and then you'll feel better. 40% of people who take those drugs receive little benefit,

00:27:28.260 according to this study. Some need to stop the medications because they have awful side effects.

00:27:33.300 And by the way, that 40% number who receive little benefit, that means that there's 60% who get

00:27:39.820 some benefit. That 60% number of those is probably inflated, because research suggests that some of

00:27:44.840 the benefits of antidepressants are just placebo. So people pop the pill, and they think that they're

00:27:49.400 supposed to feel better, and they do. So even to say that 60% of people get some benefit from these

00:27:53.760 drugs, probably overstating it. Why are people so anxious? Whole host of reasons. Obviously,

00:28:03.300 the most fundamental reason when we're talking about any aspect of the human condition is going to be

00:28:08.240 a religious problem, because religion forms the basis of our belief about everything. Everything

00:28:16.500 flows from there. Our views of anthropology, our views of epistemology, our views of morality,

00:28:21.400 our views of politics. Everything comes from the fundamental question, who's God? Is there a God?

00:28:27.720 Is there meaning? What does it mean to be? What is even ontology? What does it mean to be? Comes

00:28:32.860 from theology. So that's the first one. But then there are just these political issues, which is

00:28:37.800 things are unsettled. I don't think you need to go pie in the sky, really abstract, to get to the heart

00:28:43.860 of why we're anxious now. We're anxious because our entire way of life is unsettled. We're anxious

00:28:50.140 because the ruling class can arrest the opposition leader and his lawyers and his friends just for

00:28:55.440 supporting him. We're anxious because the meaning of marriage has completely been exploded.

00:29:01.280 We're anxious because our economy is completely up in the air and we can't reliably make any money.

00:29:09.660 And even if we can reliably make money, most people are going to be saddled with a ton of debt

00:29:13.960 with no end in sight. We're anxious because inflation is going through the roof and we can't afford eggs,

00:29:19.680 especially I can't afford eggs because my wife wants to buy $50 eggs where they have three college 1.00

00:29:23.700 degrees. We are saddled with mountains and mountains of debt. We've got increasing

00:29:28.660 turmoil around the world, the potential of World War III. No wonder people are anxious.

00:29:36.040 This is a problem of not being settled. And some things fly out of our control. We talked at the

00:29:41.980 top of the show about crossing the Rubicon. And at a certain point, you feel as though your future is

00:29:47.960 up to chance. But we can settle certain things. We didn't need to explode the meaning of marriage.

00:29:53.740 We don't need to ply our country with all sorts of vice that turns us all into maniacs like drugs

00:29:59.560 and porn and all the rest of it. We don't need to open up our borders and let foreigners come into 1.00

00:30:04.920 the tune of three and a half, four and a half million a year. We don't need to let criminals off

00:30:09.480 the hook. We don't need to do any of that. Okay. And this is why I often extol the virtues of a tiny

00:30:15.580 little nation over in central Eastern Europe. That would be Hungary. What Hungary has done,

00:30:20.160 Hungary has gone through a lot of turmoil, 45 years of communist oppression. Hungary has made a very

00:30:26.020 concerted effort to settle things, to settle things in a way that is quite traditional, that people can

00:30:31.280 rely on. They just celebrated the anniversary of St. Stephen Day, the beginning of their country,

00:30:37.240 founded on the crown of St. Stephen over a thousand years ago. We are not going to fix the anxiety

00:30:46.160 pandemic, the real pandemic, by continuing to innovate and reinvent the wheel and invent 10 more

00:30:53.980 sexual identities and rewrite the constitution and rewrite all of our laws. We're going to 1.00

00:31:00.600 fix the anxiety epidemic. Here's the best advice. You don't need to spend a billion dollars on

00:31:07.220 your psychiatrist. I'm going to give you the advice right now. We're going to fix it by being

00:31:10.860 normal. Just endeavor to be normal and do normal things. It will help you quite a lot. Another

00:31:16.440 reason people are anxious, by the way, I'll have to tease this. This is going to be my tease until

00:31:20.520 Monday. You know I'm such a tease. Homes are shrinking. We talk about how the liberals want to make us all

00:31:26.940 eat the bugs and live in the pods and own nothing and be happy. Well, here's that second one in action.

00:31:34.180 Headline, goodbye, bathtub and living room. America's homes are shrinking. They're shrinking

00:31:38.480 considerably. We've seen a lot of shrinkflation recently. You go to the grocery store and instead

00:31:45.040 of getting 12 ounces in your jar of sauce, you're going to get eight ounces and you're going to see

00:31:51.180 things start to shrink. Well, homes are shrinking too. The whole civilization is shrinking. Families,

00:31:56.380 children, countries, it's all shrinking. Well, we'll get to that. Hopefully we don't shrink down to

00:32:00.460 nothing before the Monday show when we talk about it. But now, folks, are you sick of woke

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00:32:50.300 hand soap today. Finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you

00:32:55.840 in the mailbag. This mailbag is sponsored by PureTalk. Go to puretalk.com slash Knowles

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00:33:07.840 Hey, Mike. I was just laid off from my job doing spreadsheets at a widget factory, so I'm applying

00:33:13.820 to other jobs at other widget factories. And it's been a while since I've done a job application. I've

00:33:18.980 been at this widget factory for almost seven years. And I'm finding that the standard relevant

00:33:25.200 information that they need to know is updated to not only include your employment history and your

00:33:30.620 skills, but also your sexual orientation. So my question is, is it wrong to check the box to say

00:33:38.040 I'm queer or asexual or something like that? I don't want to lie to an employer, but I know that my

00:33:43.800 application is probably at a disadvantage if they see that I'm a straight white male versus maybe an

00:33:48.980 asexual white male. Curious on your thoughts. If you need to pretend to be sexually deviant to get a 0.74

00:33:59.840 job, and then you get that job, do you really think you're going to thrive and flourish at that

00:34:06.620 company? I don't know. I see the temptation now. It's like the temptation of a kid wanting to check

00:34:14.280 off that he's a racial minority on a college application because he knows white people get 0.71

00:34:19.140 discriminated against. This one, though, is, you can at least say, well, you know, my great, great,

00:34:25.020 great, great, great grandma had high cheekbones and might have been a quarter Apache or something. 0.99

00:34:30.360 And this one, though, you can't even write this off to the mists of time and genealogy because you

00:34:38.020 know whether you're a little light in the loafers or not. You know if you think you're the opposite

00:34:43.460 sex or not, and so you would be lying. So it's always wrong to lie. The ends do not,

00:34:49.380 good ends do not justify immoral means. But just at a practical level, if your company,

00:34:55.540 if this company that you're applying to will only hire you if you pretend to be Liberace or, you know,

00:35:00.180 if you do a drag show on casual Fridays, that's not a company that you're going to want to work for.

00:35:05.880 I'm not saying you don't need money. People got to get a job, but there are better ways to make

00:35:10.960 money than that. Next question. Hey, movie star Mike, it's the Shuckmeister. I've got a question

00:35:16.920 about your favorite movie, Me, Myself, and Irene, which I just watched for the first time a few

00:35:21.340 weeks ago. Recently on Music Monday, you mentioned a scene from the Blues Brothers, which is actually

00:35:26.000 my favorite movie because it's an absurdist comedy with Catholic undertones set near where I grew up. 0.97

00:35:31.040 I was wondering, though, why is Me, Myself, and Irene your favorite movie other than it being an

00:35:36.440 absurdist comedy with Catholic undertones set near where you grew up? I want a Roger Ebert-esque 0.91

00:35:41.540 response because this film was much raunchier than I expected for such a trad person like yourself.

00:35:46.900 Love the show. Thanks. Thank you. Great question. It's very raunchy. I wouldn't recommend it. I mean,

00:35:52.920 I think I saw it when I was about nine years old or 10 years old, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend

00:35:57.340 it for young audiences. But to your point, you say, well, it's this absurdist movie with Catholic 0.99

00:36:05.200 undertones. You might even just say with traditional wholesome undertones. Oddly enough,

00:36:11.140 for a movie that uses all sorts of vulgar language and has all sorts of vulgar images in it,

00:36:15.680 it's oddly wholesome. The point of the movie is pretty wholesome. It's very funny. It's just funny

00:36:22.200 at every single step of the way. But in being so hilarious, which is what I'm looking for in these

00:36:32.260 kinds of comedies, it actually gets across a message that is pretty conservative and normal

00:36:38.880 and true. If you took out all of the individual vulgar elements and you just replace them with

00:36:44.700 a wholesome alternative, then the story of the movie would be very conservative, would be very

00:36:53.620 trad. But it's just so funny. It's Jim Carrey's best work by far. I just love it.

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00:37:15.700 Next question.

00:37:17.100 Dirty Mike, what's up, baby? This is Tyler or Halo in your chat. Hey, I've got a quick question about an

00:37:22.120 ethical principle you talk about on the show in which immoral means are never justified by positive

00:37:27.760 outcomes. I was wondering if you could elaborate on the principle in general, but I've got two

00:37:31.600 specific examples I could think of. One involves politics and how Mitch McConnell

00:37:35.900 slowed things down in Trump's first Supreme Court nominee so that Trump could get that nominee appointed

00:37:41.620 after the election and Obama wasn't able to do it. And yet in the most recent example,

00:37:46.120 Mitch McConnell sped things up so that Trump could get the last Supreme Court nominee in

00:37:50.440 before Biden was elected. Only one of these seems to be the true way to go. So it seems immoral

00:37:56.080 for him to support both. And yet this led to Roe v. Wade being overturned, which was obviously very

00:38:00.560 good. Another example involves the Second Amendment. I heard of a case last year where an individual

00:38:04.940 carried a firearm into a shopping mall where firearms were banned, and yet he was able to stop

00:38:09.200 a mass shooting. So is it ever justified to use immoral means for a positive outcome?

00:38:15.040 Yeah, it's never justified to commit evil for a preferred good outcome. In the case of Mitch

00:38:25.020 McConnell, I guess I would just ask, what is the immoral action that he committed? You're saying

00:38:30.540 that for the Scalia vacancy, he dragged the process out to wait until Trump got elected so that they

00:38:38.540 could put a conservative judge in. But then in another case, he sped the process up also so that

00:38:46.060 Trump could put a conservative judge in. But speeding up or slowing down the process of a judicial

00:38:54.140 nomination has nothing to do with morality or immorality. If he refused to do it entirely or if

00:39:03.280 he, I don't know if he lied or cheated or just, but he didn't do any of that. He just, he just used

00:39:09.020 tactics that were neither moral nor immoral. They were, they were totally at his disposal. And

00:39:14.540 ultimately, I think they were probably the, if they were either moral or immoral, I think they were on

00:39:19.700 the side of morality because they, they were conducive to a good end without committing any evil

00:39:25.180 in the process. Um, now in the case of, what was your second example? The, uh, can we go back to

00:39:34.840 the second? I didn't hear it. What was the second example? We play that again? Oh, the, the mall

00:39:41.780 shooter. So a guy, a guy's not supposed to bring a gun into a shopping mall, but he does. And then

00:39:46.220 another guy brings a gun in and so he shoots the guy. Uh, that's a happy outcome, but he did still

00:39:51.180 break the law by taking the gun into the shopping mall. He couldn't have known. I mean, the odds

00:39:55.820 that there would be a shooting in a shopping mall are infinitesimally small. Uh, if everybody just

00:40:01.640 broke the law and brought their guns into shopping malls, they're in this particular place, which is

00:40:07.840 probably a very liberal place where people don't have good gun discipline, bad things could happen.

00:40:12.060 And if everybody just violated the law willy nilly, we'd have anarchy about. So I don't think that is

00:40:17.260 justified though. We are reminded that God can turn bad things to good and, and frequently does.

00:40:23.600 And that's what providence is. I hope that clears it up to the, to the broader point you ask, where

00:40:28.780 does this view come from that good ends don't justify bad means? It's just different, different

00:40:31.940 approaches to ethics. You know, one that prevails today is called consequentialist ethics, which is

00:40:36.560 that the morality of an action is, is dependent entirely on the consequence. Uh, there are other

00:40:43.520 visions of ethics, deontological ethics, you know, like Kant and, uh, you know, the idea that the,

00:40:49.980 it's the action itself that, that determines the morality, uh, regardless of the consequence

00:40:54.100 and virtue ethics, you know, going back to good old uncle Aristotle, which is, has come much more

00:40:58.220 into fashion again in recent years. So, uh, I hope that helps.

00:41:03.440 Michael, long-term fan of yours. Thanks for all you do. Yesterday, I went to the dentist of all places

00:41:09.760 and everything was going swimmingly. The x-rays, meeting the doctor, everything seemed normal

00:41:14.740 until I went to go for my cleaning. To my surprise, the dental hygienist was a trans, 0.99

00:41:21.060 a man with long fingernails and with a female name. He was clearly taking hormones, which was made 0.98

00:41:28.800 obvious by the severe facial acne. I let him continue to do the cleaning, but I kept reliving the moment,

00:41:35.960 wondering what I should have done. It honestly felt like a bad dream. Michael, tell me, should I have

00:41:43.420 run? What would you have done? Thanks for your wisdom. Good question. I would not have run,

00:41:49.340 especially if it were something relatively minor, just like a teeth cleaning. I would have stuck it

00:41:55.920 out probably and just been polite, but I wouldn't go back to that dentist because that dentist is hiring

00:42:02.440 crazy people to perform procedures on patients, which is extremely irresponsible, both to the

00:42:09.040 confused guy who thinks he's a chick and certainly for the patients. It's very irresponsible.

00:42:15.780 So no, if you have a defect of perception that is so severe that you don't know what sex you are,

00:42:23.880 or conversely, if you have a defect of will and desire so severe that your will is so perverted

00:42:34.040 that you would ignore reality to pursue a fantasy such as that, then I don't want you operating on me

00:42:44.480 in any way. I want you to get the help that you need to be back into society in a way that's

00:42:51.160 conducive to your flourishing and social flourishing. So I wouldn't go back. And then maybe

00:42:56.200 after a while, a dentist will get the message that you got to hire people who have their wits

00:43:01.980 about them, who are able to exercise even their most basic faculties of reason when we're talking

00:43:10.480 about patients' health. Okay. Before we get to the membrane segmentum, we can actually get to a

00:43:15.520 written mailbag today. This is from Jason. Good afternoon. The love guru of the Daily Wire.

00:43:26.740 I have a question about a relationship I'm in. I recently found out that the girl I am with and

00:43:32.240 love had a sexual past with some of my high school classmates who are still distantly in my social

00:43:36.840 circle. Well, I don't want to judge her for her past. I can't stop myself from being angry that they

00:43:42.200 took advantage of her in that intimate way. This has honestly bothered me to the point of me thinking

00:43:46.980 about breaking it off. Am I wrong to be feeling this way? How can I get past it? Thanks. Well,

00:43:52.740 you're writing this in a really chivalrous way, but your problem is not that your social circle from

00:43:59.660 high school, you know, your former classmates took advantage of this poor girl. The problem you have is 0.98

00:44:05.020 that she willingly slept with them, right? Unless it was a real violation or something. That's really

00:44:12.180 what's bothering you is that her will, which like the will of virtually every young person,

00:44:18.080 certainly a great deal of them, was a little out of whack with reason, did this and you got to live

00:44:23.500 with it. So that's bugging you. And I would say if you can get over it, then just get over it.

00:44:29.840 You know, we've all sinned, all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. It matters, you know,

00:44:35.560 how she is now, how her conduct is now, where her aim is now, where she's going. You know, the saints

00:44:43.460 did not all start well, but they all ended well. So if you can get over it, then get over it. If you

00:44:47.940 can't, if that's just too much of a hangup, and I get it, because it's not even like you're saying

00:44:52.980 in the abstract, I know this woman slept with a lot of guys, but, you know, look, I don't know these

00:44:57.280 guys, I don't know what their faces look like, I don't care, I'm never going to meet these guys.

00:45:00.160 But in this case, you're saying, well, I know them, you know, they were, we were in math class

00:45:03.500 together, and I can't get it out of my head. If you can't get it out of your head, if you're going

00:45:08.240 to be resentful about this, just break up with her. It's going to be better for her, it's going to be

00:45:13.420 better for you, if you can't get over it. If you can get over it, if you say, look, reasonably,

00:45:21.660 this girl did some things, maybe I did some things, maybe I did some things I shouldn't have

00:45:26.540 done, and okay, we're going to just call it there and move on into the future, then I think that's

00:45:33.040 fine. I don't think, you know, there's any particularly compelling reason for you to dump

00:45:37.540 the poor girl, but unless you can't get over it, in which case you're just going to build up that

00:45:41.860 resentment and hold a grudge for the rest of your life, that's not good for anybody. The rest of the

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 25, 2023

Ep. 1317 - Trump's Mugshot Means The Die Has Been Cast

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