The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1326 - New York Mayor Says Immigration Will ＂Destroy＂ The City

00:00:00.000 Just a little over four months after the New York City mayor's office celebrated Immigrant

00:00:05.460 Heritage Week, the leader of the Big Apple seems to have changed his tune on foreigners

00:00:10.920 coming to his city.

00:00:13.840 And let me tell you something, New Yorkers.

00:00:17.760 Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an end into.

00:00:24.120 I don't see an end into this.

00:00:26.900 I don't see an end into this.

00:00:28.560 This issue will destroy New York City, destroy New York City.

00:00:36.560 We're getting 10,000 migrants a month.

00:00:42.440 One time we were just in Venezuela.

00:00:46.080 Now we're in Ecuador.

00:00:47.800 Now we're getting Russian speaking coming through Mexico.

00:00:50.740 Now we're getting Western Africa. 0.71

00:00:53.360 Now we're getting people from all over the globe have made their minds up

00:00:56.780 that they're going to come through the southern part of the border and come into New York City.

00:01:02.500 And everyone is saying it's New York City's problem.

00:01:06.880 Every community in this city is going to be impacted.

00:01:10.340 We have a $12 billion deficit that we're going to have to cut.

00:01:16.300 Every service in this city is going to be impacted.

00:01:20.540 Ann Coulter, is that you?

00:01:24.740 President Trump?

00:01:26.180 No, that's not President Trump.

00:01:28.200 That guy is way more anti-immigration than President Trump.

00:01:32.700 Liberal Democrat Mayor Eric Adams says the current levels of immigration stand to destroy New York City. 1.00

00:01:42.140 And he's right.

00:01:44.760 The greatest predictor of opposition to mass migration, contrary to what the liberal media will tell you,

00:01:51.420 is not race, it's not class, it's not even political party.

00:01:56.080 The greatest predictor of opposition to mass migration is proximity to the consequences of mass migration,

00:02:03.400 which is always and inevitably harmful to political communities,

00:02:08.580 as statesmen and political philosophers have observed for millennia.

00:02:13.480 The proof?

00:02:15.920 Adams himself, who just a few months ago was still towing the liberal line on sanctuary cities.

00:02:22.260 All are welcome here.

00:02:24.320 Diversity is our strength.

00:02:26.680 But now he's discovered that those ridiculous slogans are connected to real events.

00:02:31.680 And those real events are really occurring.

00:02:35.300 And they're harming everyone involved.

00:02:38.320 So now, finally, he's motivated to consider maybe trying to do something to stop it.

00:02:45.080 That's thanks to Republican governors like Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis,

00:02:49.300 who started sending those busloads of illegal aliens up to the blue cities.

00:02:54.020 And who, we can only hope, will keep the buses coming.

00:02:59.040 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:59.700 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:01.680 With a barely reanimated corpse in the White House,

00:03:23.600 CBS is finally asking the awkward question to Kamala Harris,

00:03:27.380 are you ready to be president?

00:03:28.860 We'll get into what that means in just a moment.

00:03:31.400 First, though, speaking of the breakdown of political order,

00:03:34.280 not just in New York, but all around the country,

00:03:37.600 Mike Huckabee just got into hot water.

00:03:40.720 Oh, boy, all the left-wing opposition groups,

00:03:43.080 they were sending this clip around.

00:03:45.040 This was on Governor Huckabee's excellent show, Huckabee,

00:03:48.280 on which he said that if the legal shenanigans that the liberals are trying right now to keep Trump off the ballot,

00:03:57.180 if they stop Trump from winning the election,

00:04:01.300 then this will be the last election decided by ballots rather than bullets.

00:04:05.180 Do you know how political opponents to those in power are dealt with in third world dictatorships,

00:04:13.920 banana republics, and communist regimes?

00:04:16.540 Well, it's simple.

00:04:17.880 The people in power use their police agencies to arrest their opponents for made-up crimes

00:04:23.860 in an attempt to discredit them, bankrupt them,

00:04:27.620 imprison them, exile them, are all of the above.

00:04:32.360 And if you're not paying attention,

00:04:34.300 you may not realize that Joe Biden is using exactly those tactics

00:04:38.240 to make sure that Donald Trump is not his opponent in 2024.

00:04:42.760 Here's the problem.

00:04:43.760 If these tactics end up working to keep Trump from winning or even running in 2024,

00:04:48.080 it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets.

00:04:54.780 There it is.

00:04:56.020 He's threatening.

00:04:57.360 He's another insurrectionist.

00:04:58.800 We've got to throw Mike Huckabee in prison for 20 years.

00:05:03.200 Mike Huckabee said nothing wrong.

00:05:06.300 Every single thing Mike Huckabee just said is right,

00:05:10.140 regardless of even what happens in the election and how you interpret it.

00:05:13.940 If the legal mechanisms that the liberals are trying to use,

00:05:21.460 which are really illegal mechanisms,

00:05:23.180 if they succeed at taking Trump off the ballot in certain places,

00:05:27.640 then the likelihood of civil war is much higher.

00:05:30.880 The last time that we had a president elected not being on the ballot in a number of states

00:05:35.500 was immediately before the civil war.

00:05:37.760 That's just an historical fact.

00:05:39.320 He's not saying if Trump loses the election fair and square,

00:05:43.440 then the next election is going to be decided by bullets rather than ballots.

00:05:46.720 He's saying if these unfair, often illegal operations that the liberals are trying,

00:05:53.940 if those succeed, then you're going to have a breakdown of the electoral order.

00:05:57.060 That's obviously true.

00:05:58.120 It's even true if the liberals exert this kind of power

00:06:03.720 and keep the conservative from having a fair shake at being elected.

00:06:06.740 Even then, even if the conservatives do nothing and they sit at home on their hands,

00:06:11.580 it will nevertheless remain true that the future elections will be decided by bullets rather than ballots

00:06:16.940 because the bullets will be in the guns pointed by the state at the people who want to challenge the regime.

00:06:23.760 If there is no longer to be any real political opposition permitted in the United States,

00:06:30.360 if every time an actual opposition leader tries to run,

00:06:34.240 he gets shut down because the liberals won't even let him be placed on the ballot,

00:06:39.780 then that means that our elections are decided by bullets rather than ballots

00:06:42.580 because they're decided by the implicit coercive force of the state, of the regime.

00:06:47.620 As is often the case with Mike Huckabee, what he's saying is obviously, obviously true.

00:06:54.020 And the liberals are pursuing that strategy.

00:06:55.860 Do not confuse yourself.

00:06:57.800 Don't think it's hyperbole or that we're all paranoid with tinfoil hats.

00:07:00.940 The liberals are explicitly trying to keep Trump off the ballot.

00:07:03.440 There's a group, I teased this a couple of days ago,

00:07:05.520 a group in Colorado trying to say that the 14th Amendment

00:07:09.200 is sufficient to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot.

00:07:13.340 This is Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics based in Washington, D.C.

00:07:18.440 Group filed a lawsuit on Wednesday on behalf of several Colorado voters

00:07:23.520 to keep Trump off the ballot because, here's why,

00:07:26.340 Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says that public officials are not eligible to hold office

00:07:32.220 if they, quote, engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States.

00:07:36.760 Now, Trump, for all of the ridiculous charges that have been thrown at him in New York,

00:07:44.680 in D.C., in Georgia, in Florida, none of those charges is for insurrection.

00:07:51.700 Obviously not.

00:07:52.520 It's absurd.

00:07:54.580 Even if that were the case, I don't see any evidence that that fact alone

00:07:59.720 would preclude a man from running for president,

00:08:02.960 the mere suggestion that he were an insurrectionist.

00:08:05.260 I mean, if that were sufficient, then they could do it to stop Donald Trump right now.

00:08:10.840 But what this really represents is a criminalization of politics.

00:08:17.020 I've pointed out that when the liberals accuse conservatives of being authoritarian,

00:08:22.060 it's an absurd claim.

00:08:24.320 Conservatives meekly suggest that maybe we return to the social mores of 2015

00:08:29.120 and we're told that we're knuckle-dragging, authoritarian,

00:08:32.920 we're basically the Taliban or something.

00:08:34.620 But let's say that the authoritarian accusation were fair, which it is not.

00:08:39.820 If it were fair, it would still be preferable to what the liberals are offering,

00:08:43.620 which is totalitarianism.

00:08:46.460 Authoritarianism is when the government says,

00:08:48.400 hey, you can't do weird stuff in the street.

00:08:51.020 You've got to stop letting your freak flag fly on Main Street.

00:08:54.920 But what you do in your private life is not any of our concern.

00:08:59.420 What the totalitarians say is even your private life needs to be dictated by us.

00:09:06.320 It's a big difference.

00:09:07.920 Authoritarian regimes will often allow a lot of space in the culture,

00:09:14.120 in local communities, for people to basically do whatever they want.

00:09:17.360 It just can't infringe on national cohesion and unity.

00:09:21.820 Totalitarian regimes encourage kids to rat on their parents, like is happening now.

00:09:26.920 Totalitarian regimes insist on the party orthodoxy in the education system,

00:09:32.920 and in the media, and in the press, and in the civic associations,

00:09:37.440 and in, I don't know, the local bowling league, in every facet of society,

00:09:43.540 the propaganda and the party line has to permeate.

00:09:46.040 And if you question it in any way, you'll be ostracized.

00:09:48.360 You'll be kicked out of the public square, which today is called deplatforming on social media.

00:09:52.500 You'll be threatened with legal action.

00:09:54.180 You'll be thrown in the can for protesting.

00:09:56.280 There you have it.

00:09:57.000 We've seen this time and time again.

00:09:59.820 That is a totalitarian system.

00:10:01.700 And what it comes down to is in the name of liberalism,

00:10:05.140 they say that we can't have any alternatives to liberalism,

00:10:09.420 even when the people want an alternative to a liberal agenda that isn't working very well.

00:10:16.180 So then you see the pitting of liberalism against democracy,

00:10:19.700 which the liberals then attack.

00:10:22.100 They attack democracy, but they don't call it democracy.

00:10:24.380 They wear the mantle of democracy.

00:10:25.960 They say, we're defending our sacred democracy.

00:10:28.100 We're just attacking the populists.

00:10:30.060 Well, what's a populist?

00:10:31.700 A populist is someone who has the people on his side.

00:10:34.400 Well, what does it mean when you've got the majority of the people on your side?

00:10:37.300 It means you're standing up for the democracy.

00:10:39.320 Democracy is nothing more than majority rule.

00:10:44.280 Intrinsically opposed.

00:10:46.020 And we see this more clearly and clearly every single day to liberalism.

00:10:52.100 We hear all sorts of attacks on our sacred democracy,

00:10:55.060 like on January 6th, the worst moment in this or any republic ever.

00:11:00.320 You want to talk about an attack on democracy.

00:11:02.600 What they are doing, what the liberals are doing in Colorado,

00:11:04.680 the test run that they've got to try to wield the law unjustly to prevent a man who they say is unelectable

00:11:11.360 from being put on the ballot because they know that he's eminently electable

00:11:14.480 because they know that the people largely support him.

00:11:17.940 That's the biggest attack on our democracy that we've seen in a very long time.

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00:12:27.900 So what do we do about it?

00:12:29.760 What are we going to do about all these problems?

00:12:32.740 Conservatives in elected office and in the media and everywhere in between

00:12:37.160 are pretty good at diagnosing problems, but then they shrug their shoulders.

00:12:42.960 They throw up their hands.

00:12:43.820 They don't have any solutions.

00:12:46.120 I think I've got a little bit of a solution.

00:12:47.820 Here it comes by way of my own senator from the state of Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn,

00:12:52.600 who is warning about the prospect of a government shutdown.

00:12:57.400 And government shutdowns happen regularly these days, but usually the script is that

00:13:01.840 the Republicans are eager or willing to shut down the government and the Democrats don't

00:13:06.640 want to shut down the government.

00:13:07.600 What makes this occasion different is that the roles are reversed.

00:13:13.080 The Democrats would like to have that government shutdown because it would

00:13:17.460 halt these investigations that the House is working on.

00:13:22.520 And Chairman Comer, Chairman Smith, Chairman Jordan are continuing to push forward to get

00:13:28.660 this information and to find out exactly what the relationship is between Joe Biden and Biden

00:13:35.880 Incorporated and archives.

00:13:38.580 You were just talking about archives, not wanting to turn over all of these emails with the pseudonyms

00:13:45.060 that Joe Biden was using as he was vice president.

00:13:49.180 And they want to get those so that they have a record.

00:13:54.000 So they have that paper trail of what the involvement was.

00:13:57.820 And of course, we know that they're continuing to get bank records.

00:14:02.600 And the American people, certainly Tennesseans, Jason, every time I talk with them, they want

00:14:08.580 to know what happened, who was involved.

00:14:12.100 And for people that did things wrong, they want them to be punished.

00:14:17.600 I certainly feel that way.

00:14:19.200 I think a lot of other people feel that way, too.

00:14:20.940 I think one of the big frustrations with our current system is that the bad guys, especially

00:14:25.300 when they're liberals, just get away scot-free.

00:14:28.080 And there are never any consequences for the Clintons, for corruption under Obama, and certainly

00:14:32.280 for the Bidens.

00:14:34.620 So that means that we got to keep the government open.

00:14:37.100 Why do we have to keep the government open?

00:14:38.960 Because in this case, a government shutdown would shut down the investigations into Biden

00:14:43.460 heading into an election year.

00:14:44.760 And we've got a lot of smoke when it comes to Joe Biden and corruption and selling American

00:14:50.940 influence overseas.

00:14:51.920 And so we should keep those going.

00:14:54.340 I, as much as anybody, am sick and tired of Republicans just chattering and holding committee

00:14:59.380 hearings and not doing anything about it.

00:15:02.640 But it is a simple fact.

00:15:04.000 The only way today that you get anything even resembling transformational change is through

00:15:11.600 the presidency and the judges.

00:15:13.560 You don't get it by electing members of Congress, usually.

00:15:16.640 You don't get it by electing senators, usually.

00:15:19.160 You can get it in the state houses, but that's just one state out of 50 states.

00:15:23.660 So the way that you get real change, real laws are not passed by Congress anymore.

00:15:28.100 They're passed through the executive branch, and they're passed under the guise of constitutional

00:15:33.460 or statutory interpretation by the judges.

00:15:35.860 And the way that you get judges is by electing a president.

00:15:39.320 The way that you get the appointed bureaucrats is by electing a president.

00:15:43.780 And the way you elect a president is by electing a president.

00:15:47.340 In this case, how are we going to elect our president and kick out their president?

00:15:51.720 The only shot that we've got at it, I'm not saying it's sufficient.

00:15:54.780 Maybe the Democrats have so much power that it doesn't matter.

00:15:57.420 And they can just rig the election like they did last time, and they won't be kicked out

00:16:00.800 of office.

00:16:01.280 But the only shot that we're going to have at that is to bring as much pressure as possible

00:16:05.660 to bear on Joe Biden and the Democrats.

00:16:08.260 And the only way to do that right now, there are a few ways to do it in private industry,

00:16:13.880 like shutting down the liberal activist groups that censor the conservatives in the public

00:16:18.940 square, like buying a social media platform as Elon Musk did and opening it up to conservative

00:16:24.680 speech.

00:16:25.000 So that's happening in the relatively private sphere.

00:16:27.040 And we'll get to that in one second.

00:16:28.380 But for ordinary citizens, the only way that we can do that to bring that maximum pressure

00:16:33.100 on Joe Biden right now is to keep the investigations going.

00:16:35.300 And so as a matter of prudence and practice, we got to fund the government.

00:16:40.680 This is the first time in any of these crises that I've said that the wise thing to do is

00:16:45.200 to go ahead and fund the government.

00:16:46.820 But it is much more important to try to take down Biden and try to get our own presidential

00:16:51.620 nominee into office than it is to quibble over a few gazillion dollars when we're already

00:16:56.740 have a debt to GDP ratio over 100%.

00:16:58.900 We've got to have more transformational change than just nibbling around the edges of the

00:17:04.560 budget.

00:17:04.900 We need to throw a wrench in the system. 0.93

00:17:06.440 Now, speaking of throwing a wrench in the system, Elon Musk is threatening to sue the Anti-Defamation

00:17:12.420 League for defamation.

00:17:16.000 I love this story so much.

00:17:18.620 I've been meaning to get to it for a few days now.

00:17:20.960 It's just it's just been simmering and it gets better and better and better.

00:17:24.820 The Anti-Defamation League is a group ostensibly founded to stop anti-Semitism, to stop hatred

00:17:33.900 against the Jewish people and smears against the Jewish people.

00:17:37.400 That's not really what it does.

00:17:39.040 I mean, I guess that's part of what it does.

00:17:40.720 But the Anti-Defamation League will happily attack fellow Jews if those Jews happen to be

00:17:45.940 conservative or happen to question the liberal narrative.

00:17:48.380 So the Anti-Defamation League will happily attack libs of TikTok, an Orthodox Jewish woman, 0.95

00:17:54.620 because she doesn't tow the party line. 1.00

00:17:56.920 And the Anti-Defamation League will talk about things that have nothing to do with the Jews

00:18:00.100 whatsoever, just plain, regular old left-wing nonsense.

00:18:03.920 And the way that they do it is by bandying around this accusation of anti-Semitism, just

00:18:10.120 a specific version of the race card, which is the biggest card you can play in America.

00:18:15.300 It's the worst thing you can possibly be called.

00:18:17.140 And they say, hey, if you oppose Hillary Clinton, you're an anti-Semite.

00:18:20.040 Hey, if you don't like Joe Biden, you're an anti-Semite.

00:18:22.320 Hey, if you don't allow us to censor your platform, we're going to call you an anti-Semite.

00:18:27.860 In fact, the Anti-Defamation League has sent out threats.

00:18:31.460 This is documented.

00:18:32.460 We have letters, threats to, I think there was one that they sent to Iceland.

00:18:37.600 But they've done this a number of times, where they will say, hey, I bet you sure wouldn't

00:18:44.160 like it if we called you a Nazi, whether or not the accusation is fair. 0.61

00:18:49.420 So you better tow the line.

00:18:50.820 They'll threaten to lie about people.

00:18:52.460 So it was a really awful organization.

00:18:54.280 And Elon Musk came out, he himself having been defamed by the ADL, and said, declare our

00:18:59.200 platform's name on the matter of anti-Semitism.

00:19:01.000 It looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation

00:19:06.000 League.

00:19:06.840 Oh, the irony.

00:19:09.080 Love it.

00:19:09.900 So absolutely go after the ADL.

00:19:12.440 You should go after some of the other groups too, though.

00:19:14.120 It's not just the ADL.

00:19:15.680 It's groups like Right Wing Watch, which is a project of People for the American Way, which

00:19:21.080 is one of the most ironically named groups in America, because it is a handful of elites

00:19:27.060 for a very un-American way.

00:19:28.600 There are several others out there where these groups exist.

00:19:31.600 They're watching the show right now, and they try to clip out little pieces of the show and

00:19:35.340 get us all fired, and they try to censor people on social media.

00:19:38.240 My only request, as we take down all of these left-wing censor groups and we actually wield

00:19:44.260 political power, because there's no such thing as a neutral public square, there's no such

00:19:47.960 thing as a neutral political order, we're going to have to stand for something, or rather

00:19:51.380 we're going to have to push certain people out to the fringes, and I absolutely think

00:19:54.440 we've got to push these liberal censors out to the fringes. 0.86

00:19:56.320 My one request to Elon, though, is as we take them all down, please don't take down

00:20:00.900 my publicists at Media Matters.

00:20:02.880 I have had a very good working relationship with Media Matters for many years now.

00:20:07.640 They watch my show every day.

00:20:09.480 They're watching it now.

00:20:10.820 They clip out some of the best parts of my show, and then I get to retweet them, and

00:20:15.800 they get a lot more eyeballs on my work.

00:20:17.180 So please, take down the ADL, take down Right Wing Watch, do whatever you want, but please,

00:20:24.080 I have no interest in finding a new set of publicists.

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00:21:46.960 Old ways, more traditional practices, regular old religion, often scoffed at and demonized

00:21:54.880 by the libs.

00:21:55.500 But not all the old ways.

00:21:59.680 Some old, very irreligious things like mystical practices of healing are opening doors for

00:22:08.360 spirits and demons.

00:22:10.860 You don't even have to ask me.

00:22:11.840 This is what even with the libs are often talking about.

00:22:14.180 So is it all fake?

00:22:15.420 Is it just BS?

00:22:16.400 Are they diluted?

00:22:17.840 Or is it something more?

00:22:19.080 My guest, Jen Nizza, the Italian word would be Nizza, but Jen explains exactly what happens 0.99

00:22:27.620 if you open that door and receive messages from beyond the veil.

00:22:30.040 Check out this teaser of Michael and the former psychic.

00:22:34.300 When I was a real psychic medium, I really wanted to help people.

00:22:39.240 I was told I had a gift from God.

00:22:40.980 And that draws you in, right?

00:22:42.280 It must have scared you when you discovered this ability.

00:22:46.200 I wasn't scared until I started seeing scary things and hearing scary things and getting

00:22:51.840 touched by demons.

00:22:59.540 This episode, Michael and the psychic.

00:23:02.400 It was fine until the demon touched me.

00:23:04.300 It's on YouTube right now.

00:23:05.720 So be sure to head on over there, watch that.

00:23:08.360 And you can check out the ad-free, unedited version exclusively on Twitter at M. Knowles

00:23:13.440 Show and, of course, at Daily Wire Plus.

00:23:17.160 My favorite comment yesterday is from CO Catholic Gal.

00:23:21.240 Oh, there we go.

00:23:22.120 Colorado Catholic Gal, who says, you know the episode is spicy when it's only 30 minutes

00:23:26.080 long.

00:23:26.480 That's true.

00:23:27.060 When the show opens up with the question, is Barack Obama a gay crackhead? 0.86

00:23:30.480 You know that in order to accommodate our friends over at YouTube who want to censor

00:23:35.960 out anything even moderately interesting or controversial, you know that we're going

00:23:41.140 to have to trim that down.

00:23:42.840 And the way to get the full show, totally unedited, no bleeping, no censors, no cuts, is going to

00:23:48.000 be RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Twitter, M. Knowles Show, and, of course, Daily

00:23:53.920 Wire Plus.

00:23:55.540 So Elon opens himself up by threatening to sue the Anti-Defamation League.

00:24:02.400 Guess how the ADL responds?

00:24:04.120 You know how the ADL is going to respond?

00:24:05.860 And the head of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, they're going to say that any attempt to stop

00:24:10.500 them from censoring the American public square is, drumroll, anti-Semitism.

00:24:16.900 Were you seeking to have some kind of either role at Twitter or any kind of donations made

00:24:23.000 or other things?

00:24:23.620 No.

00:24:24.020 I only say that because there have been folks who've looked at these situations and felt

00:24:27.620 that they were being shaken down.

00:24:30.000 Look, I think, let me be honest about that, right?

00:24:33.180 I think it is a sort of anti-Semitic trope to suggest when Jewish people express a degree

00:24:39.080 of outrage over anti-Semitism, that somehow that's a shakedown because Jews are greedy.

00:24:46.220 So the answer to the question is obviously yes.

00:24:49.800 Obviously, Greenblatt and the ADL were seeking a role in censoring Twitter.

00:24:56.640 The way that we know that, Elon Musk showed this, is that ADL started its boycott of Twitter.

00:25:01.620 ADL is largely responsible for the drop in Twitter revenue after Elon Musk took over.

00:25:07.680 And we know that the ADL launched its anti-Twitter campaign the moment that Elon took over.

00:25:13.220 So the moment Elon takes over, nothing changes in the service of Twitter.

00:25:17.680 Over time, he's implemented some changes.

00:25:20.140 But nothing changes the moment that he takes over.

00:25:22.200 But the ADL starts the shakedown.

00:25:26.880 The ADL starts the harassment campaign in order to do what?

00:25:31.040 To just have fun on a Saturday afternoon?

00:25:33.800 No, in order to get a seat at the table and have a role in shaping the content of Twitter.

00:25:39.400 And he says he's doing it in the name of stopping anti-Semitism or whatever.

00:25:44.120 But that's obviously not.

00:25:45.860 I want to be as charitable as possible.

00:25:47.500 Maybe that's a part of the ADL's mission.

00:25:49.780 I'm somewhat skeptical.

00:25:51.500 But certainly, the mission is not merely that.

00:25:55.080 How could you argue that trying to shut up one of the most prominent Orthodox Jewish women in the entire country is a good way to stop anti-Semitism?

00:26:03.540 It would seem to be maybe an example of anti-Semitism.

00:26:06.400 A self-hating sort of anti-Semitic, anti-anti-Semitic campaign.

00:26:10.740 I'm getting lost in the inception of it all.

00:26:14.420 Yeah, that's what it is.

00:26:15.660 And so what does he do?

00:26:16.400 When he gets caught, his eyes open wide.

00:26:18.540 He's like, oh, no, I didn't.

00:26:19.800 You're an anti-Semite for even asking that.

00:26:22.120 And this is, of course, the case.

00:26:24.480 Accusations of racism are always so cheap.

00:26:28.840 They're so cheap.

00:26:29.720 Including the specific case of accusations of anti-Semitism, but anything, anti-black, anti-Hispanic, anti-this, anti-that.

00:26:37.840 Other than anti-white, you're not allowed to even suggest that prospect in our culture.

00:26:42.420 The only group that you're legally and culturally permitted and encouraged to discriminate against and insult.

00:26:48.280 You're not even allowed to bring up the prospect of that.

00:26:50.500 But for any other group, it comes out, and it's always so cheap.

00:26:53.200 I remember David Webb.

00:26:55.100 I brought this example up before.

00:26:56.560 David Webb is a black conservative.

00:26:57.580 He was on the radio.

00:26:58.680 He was interviewing a black woman who's a liberal.

00:27:00.780 And when he was winning the debate, she just said, well, that's your white privilege showing, David.

00:27:05.240 Because it was radio, and she didn't know what he looked like.

00:27:06.920 He just started laughing.

00:27:07.960 He said, you know, that's not going to work on me, lady.

00:27:10.960 So what do we do in the face of this, in these cheap accusations of racism that are totally disingenuous?

00:27:17.180 They're in bad faith.

00:27:18.800 What is our response to that?

00:27:20.100 Is our response to care and to beg and to say, no, please, don't.

00:27:23.460 I'm not a racist to some of my best friends or black Muslim pygmies or whatever kind of group is considered the most oppressed? 0.98

00:27:33.440 No, I don't think so.

00:27:34.360 You're not going to convince them.

00:27:35.300 They don't care.

00:27:36.040 The argument is not in good faith.

00:27:37.640 Then is the alternative to just be really mean and cruel and discriminatory against all sorts of different groups?

00:27:44.840 To become what they accuse us of?

00:27:46.200 No, I don't think that's the answer either.

00:27:47.800 The answer is, first, stop caring when they call you a racist or an anti-Semite or an anti-thisist or a phobic or whatever.

00:27:57.120 Just stop caring.

00:27:58.200 It's not real.

00:27:59.240 They don't mean it.

00:28:00.960 They just don't like you, and they want to shut you up.

00:28:03.060 So stop caring, first of all.

00:28:04.640 But then there is a flip side to that, too, which is make sure that you orient yourself toward justice and charity.

00:28:11.040 Those are going to be a lot better guides than anti-racism or being an ally against the phobia or a this-ism or that.

00:28:18.860 Just orient yourself toward justice and charity and pursue the virtues and avoid the vices and avail yourself of God's grace and, in all things, act with justice and charity.

00:28:31.120 And then ignore the noise.

00:28:32.780 Who cares about that stuff?

00:28:33.720 Speaking of ignoring the noise, my man Mitch, cocaine Mitch McConnell himself, has been asked to step down as Senate Majority Leader or Senate Republican Leader.

00:28:45.860 And he says no.

00:28:49.540 What do you say to those who are calling on you to step down?

00:28:53.560 Do you have any plans to retire anytime soon?

00:28:56.580 I have no announcements to make on that subject.

00:28:59.200 What do you say to those who are calling on you to step down?

00:29:00.380 I'm going to finish my term as leader, and I'm going to finish my Senate term.

00:29:04.340 Thank you.

00:29:07.120 I'm with Mitch, man.

00:29:08.140 That guy wields power great.

00:29:09.360 I don't care how old he is.

00:29:10.460 I don't see a better alternative right now.

00:29:12.320 If you told me there was some great prospective Republican leader in the Senate waiting in the wings who's going to be right-wing and conservative, okay, great.

00:29:20.480 But I don't really see that.

00:29:22.360 So as of now, I'm sticking with my man, Mr. Cocaine.

00:29:25.200 Speaking of finding alternatives, there was a video that was going viral.

00:29:27.760 This was Emily Ratajkowski, who truly I could not pick her out of a lineup.

00:29:31.960 I just saw this lady going. 1.00

00:29:32.840 I thought she was a random lady, just like random private citizens go viral these days. 1.00

00:29:37.360 Turns out she's Emily Ratajkowski, who's a big model or something. 0.95

00:29:40.320 And she was encouraging women to get divorced. 0.98

00:29:42.360 So it seems that a lot of ladies are getting divorced before they turn 30. 1.00

00:29:50.520 And as someone who got married at 26, has been separated for a little over a year, 32, I have to tell you, I don't think there's anything better.

00:30:03.140 If being in your 20s is the trenches, there is nothing better than being in your 30s, still being hot, maybe having a little bit of your own money, figuring out what you want to do with your life, everything.

00:30:15.160 And having tried that married fantasy and realizing that it's maybe not all it's cracked up to be.

00:30:21.340 And then you've got your whole life still ahead of you.

00:30:24.960 So for all of those people who are stressed or feeling stressed about that, about being divorced, like it's good.

00:30:33.440 Congratulations.

00:30:34.320 Congratulations.

00:30:35.800 Congratulations.

00:30:36.820 The lady doth protest a little too much, me thinks. 1.00

00:30:39.580 Really terrible advice.

00:30:40.860 Divorce is always just awful in all circumstances.

00:30:44.040 It's terrible.

00:30:45.460 And it's a fallen world, and it happens sometimes.

00:30:48.900 And the culture used to greatly discourage it.

00:30:51.580 Now the culture encourages it.

00:30:53.180 The law encourages it through things like no-fault divorce and through the abolition of the meaning of marriage by redefinition and judicial fiat, thanks to the romantic poet Justice Anthony Kennedy.

00:31:03.860 So everything is – and the whole culture of hyper-individualism is aimed at destroying the family, which is destroying the country, and it's making everybody miserable.

00:31:13.300 You know I don't cite social scientific statistics because I think they're bogus, but when they support my views, I'm happy to cite them.

00:31:21.520 People have gotten much more miserable.

00:31:23.160 You see this in self-reported rates of happiness.

00:31:25.520 You see this especially in the reports of rates of happiness for women.

00:31:28.380 You see this in the prescriptions of depression pills, which have skyrocketed for everybody, but especially for women.

00:31:33.160 You see this in the average life expectancy in the United States, which has declined because of deaths of despair.

00:31:40.700 You see this in the major drug epidemic and the suicide epidemic for white men in their middle age in particular.

00:31:47.980 People are really miserable, and this has coincided exactly with the sexual revolution, at the center of which is divorce.

00:31:56.620 It's just – and so we try to prune around the edges of the sexual revolution with this fashionable ideology that YouTube won't let me talk about or with the redefinition of marriage or with the LGBTQ movement, but it really comes down to divorce.

00:32:11.560 And it's a political problem, not just a personal problem, because it's the fundamental political unit.

00:32:16.340 It's the bedrock unit of multiple people forming a cohesive body on which you build townships and counties and states and ultimately a nation.

00:32:27.520 So, one, it's a political matter.

00:32:30.000 It's public.

00:32:30.500 You're speaking to people.

00:32:32.140 You take a vow in front of the public, in front of a minister, in front of God.

00:32:36.000 And we have the right to say something about that, because Emily Ratajkowski's selfishness or just, you know, extreme fatal supply of copium is not just a problem for her. 1.00

00:32:49.260 It's a problem for the whole country.

00:32:50.200 It threatens the very social fabric.

00:32:51.960 Now, before we go, speaking of women, I do have to get to the story because I teased it. 0.96

00:32:58.660 And it's not a long story to get to.

00:33:00.660 It'll eat into mailbag a little bit, but we have to get to it.

00:33:03.540 Joe Biden is very, very old.

00:33:06.000 And now, CBS News has asked the awkward question to his vice president, are you ready?

00:33:14.800 So, you're 58 now.

00:33:16.840 If you win a second term, as you and the president are running to do, he would be 86 at the end of it.

00:33:24.840 The Wall Street Journal had a poll showing two-thirds of Democrats say Joe Biden is too old to run again.

00:33:32.080 Are you prepared to be commander-in-chief?

00:33:34.580 Yes, I am.

00:33:35.320 If necessary.

00:33:37.260 But Joe Biden is going to be fine.

00:33:39.320 And let me tell you something.

00:33:41.380 A little quick on the draw there, Kamala. 1.00

00:33:43.620 Not a great look.

00:33:44.660 First of all, she's obviously not ready to be president.

00:33:46.780 Though the government can effectively operate without a president now as it has been under Biden.

00:33:51.300 So, I guess she's as ready as anybody in that the role of the individual in the office of president has been diminished.

00:33:58.040 But not a good look for Kamala. 1.00

00:34:00.300 Because in this case, you're supposed to say, listen, Joe Biden is totally ready to go.

00:34:04.900 So, there is no fear whatsoever that he's going to drop dead or drop out of the race or anything.

00:34:10.340 So, it's obviously when I accepted the role of vice president, a prerequisite for that is that one is prepared to step into the role.

00:34:17.120 God forbid.

00:34:18.360 But I'm not.

00:34:20.040 But you see that question.

00:34:21.280 Are you ready?

00:34:21.780 Yes.

00:34:22.560 Uh-huh.

00:34:23.480 Okay.

00:34:24.000 What?

00:34:24.320 What?

00:34:24.600 Did you just get a phone call?

00:34:26.080 Did something happen?

00:34:27.160 I mean, no, Biden, he's really good.

00:34:28.860 So, people champing at the bit to take over for old Joe in the election.

00:34:35.320 Even the Democratic primary.

00:34:37.080 But that election could get even more bonkers than it already is.

00:34:41.680 Now, for some of the biggest news in Daily Wire history.

00:34:43.960 We are just hours away from the X event of Candace Owens' new 10-part docuseries, Convicting a Murderer.

00:34:48.460 If you haven't heard, we're showcasing episode one tonight on X, formerly known as Twitter, 9 p.m. Eastern.

00:34:52.880 If you haven't seen it, here's another peek at the season teaser for Convicting a Murderer.

00:34:56.840 Coming up on Convicting a Murderer.

00:35:00.020 Part of me don't want to believe that he did this.

00:35:02.260 The blood that was on that back area was indicative of a head wound.

00:35:06.460 My brother likes to push a lot of people around.

00:35:09.180 I don't give a f*** about anything.

00:35:10.780 I ain't gotta listen to nobody.

00:35:12.420 How were these filmmakers able to convince so many people that a man like Stephen Avery is innocent?

00:35:18.360 How many times did he stab her?

00:35:21.440 Once.

00:35:22.860 And show me where.

00:35:24.300 Right here.

00:35:25.040 They gave him power.

00:35:26.240 They're trying to get everything that I made that they did.

00:35:28.240 It's not good for an Avery to have power.

00:35:30.760 I told you all along, keep your f*** about shot.

00:35:33.620 That can hurt Stephen.

00:35:35.160 I'm not in the life form no more.

00:35:36.600 I can't do it.

00:35:37.660 Watch Convicting a Murderer, a new 10-part series on Daily Wire Plus.

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00:36:12.240 Finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week

00:36:14.360 when I get to hear from you in the mailbag.

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00:36:25.980 I'm running behind already.

00:36:27.640 I'm going to fly through these mailbag questions.

00:36:31.200 Hey, Michael.

00:36:31.960 What advice do you have for men and women who want to get married and have a family,

00:36:36.120 but it hasn't happened yet?

00:36:37.660 I'm in my mid-30s.

00:36:38.720 I've been on the Catholic dating apps and attended my local young adult groups,

00:36:42.020 all to no avail.

00:36:43.320 It's pretty disheartening when the desires of your heart are good and they are not fulfilled,

00:36:46.920 especially when you are getting older and wondering where God is in your waiting season.

00:36:50.700 Would love some words of encouragement for women and men experiencing this.

00:36:53.800 Thanks for all you do.

00:36:56.560 Wonderful question, and I'm sure a lot of people are asking.

00:36:58.940 I have so many female friends in their 30s who will say, 0.80

00:37:03.500 I really want to get married, and it just hasn't happened.

00:37:07.080 And it's not because they're feminists, and it's not because they're liberals, 1.00

00:37:10.440 and it's not because of anything.

00:37:12.120 They're just great.

00:37:12.920 They're just terrific.

00:37:14.040 But our culture is such that it's much harder these days to settle down,

00:37:19.900 find a husband or wife.

00:37:22.080 It's hard on the guys to, and live a good life because of the insistence that everybody

00:37:27.660 just pursue a career, because of the insistence that you find yourself and just establish who

00:37:32.200 you are before you meet somebody, which is completely bogus, by the way.

00:37:36.180 It's totally the opposite.

00:37:38.260 What you want to do is grow up with somebody, ideally, and get married.

00:37:44.280 I mean, just as you're saying, I want to get married as quickly as I can.

00:37:46.940 Because, you know, when people are young, they're like putty, you know, and you get two

00:37:50.260 pieces of putty, and you stick them together, and they fit really easily together.

00:37:54.060 And then over time, you know, they'll shape in accordance with each other.

00:37:58.040 But if you leave the putty out, and the putty just kind of hardens into its own shapes,

00:38:03.460 and then you try to stick those hardened putty shapes together, it's going to be much harder.

00:38:07.740 Not impossible.

00:38:08.560 Plenty of people do it, but it's going to be more difficult.

00:38:10.480 Those are the difficulties you're experiencing.

00:38:12.040 You've got to go to the places where they are, where you are likely to find the people

00:38:18.280 whom you would like to marry.

00:38:20.340 I know this seems simple, but people don't do it.

00:38:22.880 So you say, well, I don't like the apps, or I'm on the apps, but the apps aren't working.

00:38:25.860 Forget about the apps.

00:38:27.040 The apps are a video game.

00:38:29.080 Sometimes the apps work.

00:38:30.140 I know people have gotten married out of them, but it's a little game.

00:38:33.140 People are just swiping and chatting.

00:38:34.560 It's, you know, maybe not going to be the most effective.

00:38:38.720 It's going to be friends of friends.

00:38:40.640 It's going to be friends of family.

00:38:42.300 It's going to be people at church.

00:38:43.540 If you're fortunate enough to go to a church with very young people at it, I would recommend

00:38:48.280 the traditional Latin mass, where the median age is eight, probably, because of all the

00:38:52.700 children.

00:38:53.040 You take the children out of it, the median age is probably 25, so I think that'd be a

00:38:56.300 good spot to go.

00:38:57.480 Or professional networking groups, you know, but with a political kind of a group.

00:39:03.560 Work on a campaign for a while.

00:39:04.920 You know, you join your local Republican women's club, you know, what, hopefully a different 1.00

00:39:10.260 kind of Republican club where there are men.

00:39:11.500 But I just mean, go to places where people who not only share interests with you, not

00:39:16.420 just like the bowling league, but who share a point of view about the world.

00:39:21.160 Ultimately, religious is obviously good, but even political, even cultural, even, that's

00:39:28.100 where you're going to want to go.

00:39:28.980 And it can happen fast.

00:39:30.620 I know friends for whom, having taken that advice, it happens fast.

00:39:34.460 Okay, next question.

00:39:36.780 Hey, Michael, when I first became a conservative, I think it's pretty safe to say that I was

00:39:40.940 viewing my conservatism through capitalism.

00:39:44.840 I was going to school with a bunch of Keynesian people and socialists, and I wanted to prove

00:39:50.860 to them that capitalism was superior to their model.

00:39:54.360 I might have even considered myself a fan of Ayn Rand.

00:39:57.120 But as the years went by, and I started to think more philosophically, I started to care

00:40:04.800 less and less about capitalism, or about economics at all.

00:40:09.280 And nowadays, I kind of have the opinion that capitalism is not philosophical.

00:40:15.540 And so it doesn't even enter into my political philosophy.

00:40:18.900 Do you think that this is a stance that conservatives should take?

00:40:22.580 Do you think that conservatives should view economics as something separate from their

00:40:27.860 political philosophy?

00:40:29.980 I appreciate your response.

00:40:31.200 Thanks a lot.

00:40:32.960 No, not as separate, but as merely a component part and not the most important component.

00:40:40.320 Your first part is totally right.

00:40:42.780 I think you're still a little confused in the second part of what you've said.

00:40:45.140 Yes, it's true when we are confronted with campus socialists, the inclination is to say,

00:40:50.980 well, I'm a capitalist, as though that were the alternative.

00:40:54.960 Capitalism is a word that was popularized by Marx and Engels.

00:40:59.160 Capitalism is, markets are good, you know, economic growth is good.

00:41:05.100 But if you make the source and summit of your ideology capitalism money, then you're no different

00:41:11.600 than the mammon-worshipping materialists that you're supposedly fighting against. 0.86

00:41:16.500 And capitalism as an ideology is not the opposite of socialism, it's just the flip side of it.

00:41:24.260 But it's both capitalism and socialism make the same anthropological error, which is viewing

00:41:29.920 man as fundamentally an economic creature.

00:41:32.540 They both make the fundamental anthropological error of viewing man as fundamentally individual.

00:41:37.580 The individual is the basic unit of society rather than the family is the basic unit of society.

00:41:42.260 Man as individual rather than as a social and political creature.

00:41:45.220 So yeah, as an ideology, it's wrong.

00:41:47.380 You don't want to, you want things in their proper place.

00:41:50.220 When things are in their proper place, they can be wonderful.

00:41:52.240 But when you take them out of their proper place and you worship them and you make them an idol,

00:41:55.600 then they go very badly.

00:41:57.620 So no, you can't separate economics from your political view because economics,

00:42:02.220 the way that we exchange goods and services and accumulate wealth, that's part of politics.

00:42:07.720 And it's an important part of politics, but it's not all of politics.

00:42:11.300 So what I would recommend is no, don't, if you separate economics, then you take that out of

00:42:18.160 the realm of the political and you say that it's basically not even subject to debate, which is

00:42:23.360 what the liberals, classical and modern, want you to do anyway.

00:42:26.980 No, say no, economics is totally subject to political debate and we want the best economic

00:42:33.360 system.

00:42:33.760 So we want markets that are thriving.

00:42:36.120 We want economic growth because some material prosperity is necessary to the more important

00:42:42.280 aspects of political flourishing, but there are those more important aspects.

00:42:47.180 And so you need an economy in service of higher political goals and those higher political goals

00:42:53.580 are going to be higher than money.

00:42:55.480 Next question.

00:42:56.980 Dear Executive Grassy Knowles, I wanted to mention that I saw that during your Membrum

00:43:07.440 Segmentum transition, you have a small quick scene of a light blue bowl with some rusted keys

00:43:15.080 inside.

00:43:15.680 And because of your Catholic identity, I wanted to see if you would call those your Catholic

00:43:25.880 church keys, your Catholic church keys, because they're small and ornamental and not very

00:43:40.000 practical.

00:43:43.340 Thanks.

00:43:44.100 I have long discouraged people from puffing on the Haitian oregano before writing into

00:43:50.360 the mailbag, but I am a sucker for a good pun.

00:43:54.420 And that's pretty, because it's not like that you get it.

00:43:59.400 Those aren't the real keys to the kingdom of heaven.

00:44:01.320 They're just a little ornament for my show, like a church key, like a church key.

00:44:06.540 It's a slightly labored pun.

00:44:09.360 I wouldn't necessarily lead with that on your Borscht belt one-liners, you know, when you're

00:44:15.000 doing the comedy tour.

00:44:16.020 But I enjoyed it.

00:44:18.520 I enjoyed it.

00:44:19.340 Next question.

00:44:20.960 Hey, Dirty Mike, Mr. Reality here.

00:44:22.240 I had a question for you about Trump's poll numbers.

00:44:25.080 So depending on which poll you're looking at, he's got 40%, 50%, 60% support within the

00:44:30.540 Republican Party.

00:44:31.760 I think you said many times he's running essentially as an incumbent, and I would agree with that.

00:44:36.660 But when Joe Biden's poll numbers come in at 67%, being that he is an incumbent, we look

00:44:41.320 at those as being terrible, because he's supposed to be the one all the Democrats are rallied

00:44:46.520 behind.

00:44:47.680 So we would consider anything less than 80%, 90% for him absolutely atrocious.

00:44:52.280 Why are we not considering Trump's the same way if he's essentially running as an incumbent?

00:44:56.500 Instead of looking at it as, oh, he's up 40 points on his challenger, that's great.

00:45:01.680 Why are we not looking at it as he's the incumbent and he's only pulling down 50% or 60%?

00:45:06.340 This is absolutely terrible numbers for him.

00:45:08.480 So I just wanted to get your thoughts on that, looking at these poll numbers for Trump as

00:45:12.660 if he was an incumbent instead of just a regular person in the race.

00:45:16.440 Thanks.

00:45:17.340 Great question.

00:45:18.220 The as if is the key here, because he's not really the incumbent.

00:45:21.980 And so I think the error you're falling into is just the flip side error of the error that

00:45:26.900 everyone else is falling into, which is everyone's saying, well, this is an ordinary primary,

00:45:30.840 and so we're going to conduct our campaigns as though this were an ordinary primary.

00:45:34.140 It's not an ordinary primary.

00:45:35.260 This is the first time since 1892 that a president has run for a non-consecutive second term.

00:45:39.740 So he's running, I've said practically or effectively as an incumbent, but not truly an

00:45:46.700 incumbent, not really, not even essentially as an incumbent.

00:45:49.620 So your side is, you're saying, well, he's running as an incumbent, and so his numbers

00:45:53.580 aren't that great for it.

00:45:54.320 But he's not really running as an incumbent, for starters, because there are 10 people in

00:45:57.360 the field.

00:45:58.020 And Joe Biden is running, I guess, technically against two or three people, but none of them

00:46:04.080 is really a serious challenger.

00:46:06.220 The closest is Bobby Kennedy, and even he's only at 19, 20%.

00:46:09.560 So Trump is running against DeSantis, very serious guy.

00:46:14.880 Vivek, serious guy.

00:46:16.560 Nikki Haley, serious woman.

00:46:17.920 I mean, whatever you think about these people's chances, we're talking about governors, ambassadors,

00:46:22.140 serious people, with big political machines behind them even now.

00:46:27.720 So in that field, with 10 people, if you're dominating with 59% of the vote, that's pretty

00:46:35.600 impressive and may end up being decisive, would seem to be decisive right now.

00:46:40.980 This is why you can't compare Trump's position in this, you can't compare the Republican primary

00:46:47.140 to anything.

00:46:48.240 You can't compare it to an ordinary Republican primary.

00:46:49.980 You also can't really compare it to just an incumbent running for re-election.

00:46:55.620 That's why I've said from the beginning, it is basically unique.

00:46:59.560 It's happened one other time in American history.

00:47:01.680 And so if you're trying to use the rulebook for anything that we see with regularity, that's

00:47:06.940 not ultimately going to serve you very well.

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 08, 2023

Ep. 1326 - New York Mayor Says Immigration Will ＂Destroy＂ The City

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