The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1328 - Biden Lies About Post 9⧸11 Visit

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden is wrapping up his whirlwind tour of Vietnam

00:00:04.260 as he wraps up most engagements these days

00:00:07.160 by muttering listlessly before shuffling off the stage.

00:00:12.500 And let's see, let's follow my orders here.

00:00:21.620 Oh, no.

00:00:23.680 Come on.

00:00:24.800 So what do you think?

00:00:26.720 We got the cards.

00:00:27.860 The staff, is there anybody you haven't spoken?

00:00:33.640 I ain't calling on you.

00:00:35.100 I'm calling on you.

00:00:35.660 I said there are five questions.

00:00:39.300 Anita, VOA.

00:00:41.520 Oh, yeah, Anita, VOA.

00:00:43.800 He opens up.

00:00:44.580 He says, hey, where's the staff?

00:00:47.420 Where was I supposed to call on?

00:00:49.720 I can't find who I was supposed to call on.

00:00:51.660 All right, does anyone have questions?

00:00:52.740 And then some of the actual reporters who might ask potentially a challenging question,

00:00:56.820 raise their hands.

00:00:57.140 He says, no, no, not you.

00:00:58.380 I'm not calling on you.

00:00:59.120 Who was I supposed to call on?

00:01:00.480 Anyway, all right, bye.

00:01:01.640 The worst part of Biden's performance is not the senility, which we've all known about

00:01:07.520 for years.

00:01:08.160 And it's not even the cynicism, which we've all known about for decades.

00:01:12.840 It's the transparency.

00:01:15.820 Biden isn't even trying to hide his unaccountability.

00:01:19.380 He isn't even trying to pretend to take serious questions from an independent press.

00:01:25.900 He isn't even really claiming to be running the show.

00:01:30.260 In some ways, transparency is worse than deceit.

00:01:35.500 At least if Biden were trying to deceive us into thinking that he's really in charge and

00:01:40.540 responsive to the people, at least it would signal that he respects our intelligence or

00:01:46.300 that he cares what we think.

00:01:48.300 But he doesn't.

00:01:49.900 He jokes about his irresponsibility.

00:01:52.600 He doesn't campaign.

00:01:54.560 He doesn't act as though he needs our votes.

00:01:57.580 And maybe that's because with all the recent changes to our electoral system, he doesn't.

00:02:03.360 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:04.120 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:23.880 We've got really important news.

00:02:27.040 Miley Cyrus is opening up about her divorce.

00:02:29.680 But we're going to push that pressing national news just a little bit to get to more of Biden.

00:02:36.900 Because yesterday was obviously the anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks.

00:02:41.740 Very traumatic day for everybody my age and older.

00:02:47.000 And a day of incredible historical significance for people who are younger than me, who don't

00:02:54.400 really remember what happened.

00:02:55.880 And Joe Biden decided to mark that day also by not remembering what happened.

00:03:02.680 Crowns are in New York.

00:03:04.860 And I remember standing there the next day and looking at the building.

00:03:09.560 I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell.

00:03:12.180 It looked so devastating because the way you could, from where you could stand.

00:03:18.000 That didn't happen.

00:03:19.860 On September 12th, Joe Biden was in Washington, D.C.

00:03:23.580 And he was voting in the Senate and the Capitol on a resolution to condemn the World Trade Center attacks.

00:03:31.540 He probably believes, maybe he believes that he was in New York on that day.

00:03:39.260 I actually think it's not that he knows that he's lying.

00:03:42.640 And it's also not that he is totally bought into the lie that he actually believes that it's true.

00:03:50.020 I think there's a third possibility here, which is that Joe Biden doesn't care if what he says is true.

00:03:56.440 That's called cynicism.

00:04:00.200 It's between deceit and senility.

00:04:02.980 There is this place where Joe Biden has lived for his entire political career, and it's cynicism, indifference to the truth.

00:04:10.660 Pontius Pilate is probably the typical cynic who, when he's confronted by Christ, who says, I am the truth.

00:04:20.680 Pontius Pilate says, what is truth?

00:04:22.940 Oh, what is truth?

00:04:23.960 Come on, there's no such thing as truth.

00:04:25.120 I think that's where Joe Biden is.

00:04:27.700 He just doesn't, he'll just say whatever sounds good.

00:04:31.500 And maybe he believes it, maybe he doesn't.

00:04:33.260 I think he just doesn't really care.

00:04:35.620 And when you're in a place where the politicians are often going to mislead you, but when you're in a place where they don't even care, they're not even conscious of the fact that they're misleading you.

00:04:47.640 For whom words are just sounds that sometimes make people feel more inclined to like you and applaud, rather than words constituting meaningful speech with which we can deliberate and come to rational conclusions about the world and decide on a program for the entire political community.

00:05:07.900 What is good?

00:05:08.480 What is true?

00:05:08.960 What is beautiful?

00:05:09.500 How are we going to flourish?

00:05:10.080 When we get to a point where words are just sounds, we are reduced to just grunting baboons. 0.89

00:05:16.840 We've ceased to live in human society.

00:05:19.060 I don't want to be too hyperbolic about it, but the fact that that speech has been robbed of its meaning, the fact that we are no longer even scandalized when our politicians lie to us, or even more scandalous, don't care about the truth at all.

00:05:35.220 That accounts for a great deal of our present political problems.

00:05:39.240 There are always political problems in every society, but ours right now are different and worse than they have been in the past.

00:05:46.720 Now, speaking of presidents and the presidential race, President Trump, the chief rival to Joe Biden right now, has just received a really, really big endorsement.

00:05:57.600 This from South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem.

00:06:00.540 It is my honor to present to you the man in the arena.

00:06:06.820 He is a man of significance.

00:06:09.140 He is the leader, the fighter that our country needs.

00:06:12.780 He has my full and complete endorsement for president of the United States of America.

00:06:18.200 I will do everything I can to help him win and save this country.

00:06:24.120 Ladies and gentlemen, the 45th and the 47th president of the United States, Donald J.

00:06:31.600 Trump.

00:06:32.200 There you have it.

00:06:32.840 I generally have not covered endorsements.

00:06:35.420 I mentioned early on when DeSantis was getting some congressmen because they were some of the first endorsements that he had gotten.

00:06:42.260 People who decided to turn on Trump and go for another guy, I haven't really covered many of the endorsements since then.

00:06:48.120 The reason I'm covering this one, the reason that this one is significant, is because Kristi Noem is not just a Republican governor.

00:06:56.280 She was a potential presidential candidate. 0.99

00:06:59.040 Kristi Noem, like Glenn Youngkin in Virginia, was obviously considering running for president herself. 0.99

00:07:05.680 She set herself up to do that during COVID.

00:07:08.200 She was playing kind of coy with it after COVID, right up until a couple days ago, I guess.

00:07:13.560 Now she's decided that she's going to endorse Trump, which to me says not only that she thinks that Trump is the best candidate, which is explicitly what she's saying, but what it means is she believes that Trump just is going to be the nominee.

00:07:27.220 And so she thinks not only is it her interest to get on Trump's side in this battle between him and DeSantis and Vivek and Chris Christie or whoever, but she thinks it's in her interest not to run against him.

00:07:42.980 Trust me, if Kristi Noem thought that Donald Trump had any weakness right now and that she would have a shot at the presidency, she would be running.

00:07:50.020 Inside every governor is a president just waiting to get out.

00:07:54.220 Some uncharitable people have asked how many governors, how many presidents are waiting inside of Chris Christie, which I don't, that's not very nice.

00:07:59.880 That's not, that's not a nice thing to say at all.

00:08:01.540 But Kristi Noem wants to be president and she's not going to run and she is going to endorse this guy because she thinks in another sign of something we've been talking about for weeks that the presidential primary is, if not over, pretty severely tilted in the direction of Donald John Trump.

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00:09:34.340 Speaking of presidential candidates, Vivek Ramaswamy has just come out.

00:09:38.960 Another step in his bold campaign to not play it safe, to keep shaking things up, to take strong stances on policy issues.

00:09:49.380 Vivek has just come out against birthright citizenship.

00:09:52.200 So I would end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:09:57.600 But not for illegal immigrants? 0.98

00:09:58.340 And the children of illegal immigrants. 0.99

00:09:59.640 Well, what does it mean for everybody else?

00:10:01.080 I mean, we're all citizens, whether sixth generation or first generation.

00:10:04.960 In my case, if you're born in this country, you have citizenship if you're born under legal circumstances.

00:10:09.620 But I think that if somebody comes to this country illegally and has a child while here, I do think we have to end birthright citizenship. 1.00

00:10:17.220 But does that mean you deport like a one-year-old?

00:10:19.500 I think you would do the family.

00:10:20.960 You would take the whole family unit.

00:10:22.440 So I'm strongly opposed to policies that would separate kids from their parents.

00:10:29.140 I think that that was discussed even in the Trump administration and otherwise as a tactic for deterring people from coming.

00:10:37.480 As a pro-family leader, I will not adopt such a policy.

00:10:43.520 But we will send back the family unit as such.

00:10:45.640 And I think that if you came to this country illegally, the right answer is you have to be sent back to your country of origin, come back through the same legal means, getting in the same line that everybody who's coming into this country legally is already pursuing. 0.88

00:11:00.640 I tend to agree.

00:11:03.620 I think he makes a good point here.

00:11:06.200 And you're going to have some people mostly on the left, but even some people on the right who say, how dare you?

00:11:12.000 Birthright citizenship is a core bedrock principle of this country.

00:11:16.060 You're upending.

00:11:16.580 Well, it's not, actually.

00:11:18.200 It's not.

00:11:19.540 A lot of what a lot of people believe about the Constitution and American history and the American form of government is not true.

00:11:28.360 A lot of it is revisionism from the middle of the 20th century.

00:11:32.240 And this would be a good example of that.

00:11:34.240 Now, I'm not saying that it's clear from the text of the Constitution that the children born to illegal immigrants on U.S. soil are not citizens.

00:11:43.880 That's not what I'm saying.

00:11:44.720 What I'm saying is I think it's pretty clearly an open legal question.

00:11:48.680 Here's the text.

00:11:49.920 The text that we have is from the 14th Amendment.

00:11:52.980 Now, the key here is subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

00:12:08.580 Obviously, anybody who is on American soil ever is subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. in a certain sense in that when you travel to foreign places, you have to observe the laws of those places.

00:12:21.280 But they are not subject to the jurisdiction in the full sense, in that they are not citizens of that country.

00:12:29.360 There are clear exceptions to this issue determined by the courts over time.

00:12:36.460 Native Americans were not subject.

00:12:38.740 Children of diplomats, not subject.

00:12:41.740 Occupying soldiers, not subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

00:12:45.300 And therefore, all of their children did not automatically receive birthright citizenship.

00:12:48.400 But it's been debated for a very long time now.

00:12:51.620 The case that most clearly weighed in on this was from 1898.

00:12:56.520 It was U.S. versus Wong Kim Ark, which seemed to determine the matter on the side of birthright citizenship.

00:13:04.940 But it remains an open question.

00:13:07.400 And it gets to something we were talking about yesterday, which is we look to statutes.

00:13:11.840 We look to constitutional interpretation.

00:13:13.580 We look even back before the founding of our country.

00:13:16.980 We look to the common law tradition, which is another place where we get some evidence for birthright citizenship, though it's a little bit different when we're talking about whether or not someone is born the subject to a king, which is what we get from the English common law tradition, versus a citizen of a republic such as the United States, which entails, one might argue, many more privileges and many fewer responsibilities.

00:13:39.000 It's an open question, and the answers are not always clear.

00:13:45.220 And changing political circumstances sometimes change the way that eternal principles can be applied in politics.

00:13:51.920 That's why politics is different from archaeology.

00:13:55.560 That's why politics is different from history.

00:13:57.820 That's why politics is different from philosophy, because there are changing circumstances in the present that we're in.

00:14:02.680 So not only are we interpreting documents, but we are writing the script as well.

00:14:06.460 And it is simply a fact that 7.5% of all births in the United States, we're talking about 300,000 births per year, are to illegal aliens.

00:14:18.380 7.5%.

00:14:19.620 That's in addition to the millions of foreigners just entering our country illegally and changing our political structure. 1.00

00:14:25.900 Then their children, who account for 7.5% of all U.S. births per year, all of that population growth, 7.5% are going to be U.S. citizens.

00:14:35.640 That is a radical changing of the demographics of the United States and a radical changing of the citizenship, which is a radical changing of the political order.

00:14:45.080 That's why the Democrats are encouraging it.

00:14:46.920 And I know I got in trouble a little bit for pointing out that sometimes we need to be a little more willing to wield power in the cases of emergencies that threaten the entirety of the law.

00:15:00.120 Not just one minor aspect of the law, but the entirety of the law, the entirety of the political community.

00:15:04.500 This might be a good example of that, where if you have, contrary to the letter of the law and certainly to the spirit of the law, where you have a foreign invasion radically changing your political community, which in a republic, by the way, means you're changing the whole thing because we're supposed to have self-government here.

00:15:23.180 Well, in that case, we might need to clarify what exactly is meant by all persons born or naturalized in the United States or citizens of the United States.

00:15:33.580 Because we know the 14th Amendment was passed over the question of slavery.

00:15:37.240 That's what it was about.

00:15:38.460 The 14th Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with Guatemalan economic migrants pouring across the border, the border which will not be defended by Democrats because they know that it will give them political advantage.

00:15:48.940 And which won't be defended even by the Chamber of Commerce Republicans because they want to get cheap labor.

00:15:54.080 We know that, okay?

00:15:55.120 So maybe we need to be willing to wield power.

00:15:57.000 Or we can just sit on our hands and we can whine and complain and we can say, oh, if only the Democrats would support the border.

00:16:03.300 I mean, we're not going to do anything about it because, you know, U.S. versus Wong Kim Ark in 1898 said that we can't.

00:16:11.040 So we're just going to sit there.

00:16:12.400 It's the same thing as the people who say, well, we can't regulate Google.

00:16:17.200 Because, you see, Google is controlling the entire public square and all of our speech in the society.

00:16:22.060 But, you know, look, if we regulate Google, that's a private business.

00:16:27.840 They can do whatever they want.

00:16:28.600 Well, then maybe the liberals will regulate our businesses, which they're already doing.

00:16:33.900 Well, if we impose certain boundaries on and manage the way that speech is governed in our society, well, the left might do that too, which they're obviously already doing.

00:16:43.640 That's the whole point.

00:16:44.320 That's the problem we have to address.

00:16:45.320 And that's a big issue because if you sit on your hands long enough, 7.5% of all births per year, you just have a new country at a certain point.

00:16:56.880 And Vivek sees that.

00:16:58.040 And Vivek is dealing.

00:16:58.680 This is why he's a candidate who is largely favored by younger conservatives who recognize that Ronald Reagan's a great guy.

00:17:07.840 Bill Buckley's a great guy.

00:17:09.020 We love our 20th century conservatives, but we have new challenges now.

00:17:13.340 They dealt with their challenges.

00:17:14.460 We have new challenges now.

00:17:15.700 And we need to handle them ourselves.

00:17:17.900 Now, speaking of people in places that they don't belong, there's a fella who wants to go into the girls' restroom. 1.00

00:17:27.420 He has now gone viral.

00:17:29.460 This video is the It's Ma'am video.

00:17:32.600 You remember that video in the bodega?

00:17:34.060 It's Ma'am!

00:17:34.660 Do I look like a man to you?

00:17:36.080 It's Ma'am!

00:17:37.500 This is It's Ma'am version 2.0.

00:17:40.000 My daughter goes into those bathroom and no man needs to be in there. 1.00

00:17:45.340 You understand me?

00:17:46.220 I'm not a man.

00:17:47.000 You are a man. 1.00

00:17:48.180 You are a crazy type of man. 1.00

00:17:50.000 You are a man. 1.00

00:17:51.920 Start acting like a man. 0.79

00:17:53.280 Yeah, let's go outside.

00:17:56.340 You're going to call me a man.

00:17:58.500 You're a man.

00:17:59.520 You're a man.

00:18:00.360 Yeah, let's go.

00:18:02.000 What?

00:18:03.260 What happened?

00:18:04.640 Why?

00:18:05.760 Why are you acting this way?

00:18:08.160 I'm a man.

00:18:09.120 So are you.

00:18:09.740 No, I'm not.

00:18:10.480 I'm not a man.

00:18:11.180 What are you?

00:18:11.900 I was born intersex, dude.

00:18:13.700 I was born intersex.

00:18:15.040 Yeah, okay.

00:18:15.480 I was born with both.

00:18:16.980 Sir, you're going to have a problem if you keep going into women's bathrooms. 1.00

00:18:21.040 Somebody's going to do something to you.

00:18:22.580 I'm just telling you the truth.

00:18:24.100 I'm a man.

00:18:25.640 You want to go outside?

00:18:26.240 Let's take this outside.

00:18:27.840 Classic female histrionics. 1.00

00:18:29.620 You know, this is just every time I disagree with a woman in public, it's always, let's go 1.00

00:18:36.740 outside, brother. 0.99

00:18:38.200 Or I'm going to beat you into a bloody pulp. 1.00

00:18:41.040 You know, it's just like, that's just the way women talk. 1.00

00:18:43.180 It's just like, blah, blah, blah.

00:18:44.300 It's amazing, you know?

00:18:45.640 So obvious that this man is a woman.

00:18:49.260 I love his excuse.

00:18:50.220 He says, no, no, no.

00:18:50.800 I was born intersex, which is hermaphroditic, you know, genital ambiguity, which does happen.

00:18:56.640 It's rare, but it does happen.

00:18:58.300 But he wasn't.

00:19:00.200 I would be willing to bet a fair chunk of change that that guy was not.

00:19:05.460 Very often, transgender identifying people will try to use the case of sexual ambiguity,

00:19:13.380 genital ambiguity at birth to argue for their ideology, which has nothing to do with biology

00:19:19.320 and nothing to do with any ambiguity.

00:19:21.440 It's just transgenderism is the ideology according to which one's body has nothing to do with 0.96

00:19:27.120 one's gender identity.

00:19:28.560 Hermaphroditism, intersex, is when it's a little bit unclear.

00:19:34.120 In the case of that fella, even if he really were intersex or hermaphroditic, it wouldn't

00:19:38.960 be unclear. 0.92

00:19:39.580 He's obviously a dude, even if he's got some genital deformity.

00:19:42.760 So he would still go into the men's restroom, and he's obviously a guy.

00:19:47.500 But it's very telling that the trans-identifying people always go to hermaphroditism. 0.98

00:19:53.160 They always go to intersex, because even they know that their ideology is completely 0.99

00:19:58.160 incoherent.

00:19:59.140 It is not defensible according to anything even resembling a serious epistemology or

00:20:05.080 anthropology.

00:20:05.960 And so they've got to pull a fast one.

00:20:08.920 You know, they've got to move the goalposts. 0.94

00:20:12.800 But even then, it doesn't quite work.

00:20:16.300 If a lady is screaming at you, Adam's apple jiggling in fury and telling you that he wants

00:20:24.880 to take you outside and beat you into a bloody pulp, you could probably be justified in assuming 1.00

00:20:30.120 that is a man. 0.97

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00:23:32.080 No?

00:23:32.320 All right.

00:23:32.620 I hope you're at DailyWire.com right now, and I hope you're at MNoll's show on Twitter.

00:23:37.060 California has just passed a bill that would require judges to consider whether parents

00:23:42.480 affirm gender identity, that is, go along and trans their kids, in custody battles. 0.81

00:23:48.860 This is a Democrat-backed bill, obviously, AB 957, passed the State Assembly on Friday and

00:23:55.220 the State Senate on Thursday.

00:23:56.240 So if Newsom signs it, the bill will require judges to consider how pro-trans a parent is

00:24:04.460 in custody battles.

00:24:06.280 And if you're not pro-trans, if you won't trans your kid, you could lose custody of your kid.

00:24:10.400 To which I would advise all of my friends in California, if you're having a child, if you have

00:24:19.080 a child already, flee.

00:24:22.980 You have to flee.

00:24:24.280 I guess if you are in a very strict, strong, highly defined marriage, you know, you're a Catholic

00:24:34.360 who believes in Catholic teaching, or you're an Orthodox Jew, or you're a Muslim, and you take 0.84

00:24:41.700 your faith very, very seriously, not only on the question of sexuality, meaning gender identity,

00:24:48.460 but also on the question of marriage, can you get divorced?

00:24:51.760 You know, a Catholic church, there is no divorce.

00:24:53.860 You're not allowed to divorce.

00:24:55.000 So that, I'm not saying it has never happened, but that's a good sign, okay, you're not going

00:24:59.680 to have to deal with Gavin Newsom over here trying to trans your kids and take your kids 0.99

00:25:03.120 away from you if you won't chop his genitals off. 1.00

00:25:05.540 If you're not in that, if you're like most people today who are a little bit unclear about 0.99

00:25:10.400 what they think about marriage, or maybe they're a little bit on the fence, and I don't know,

00:25:13.960 I don't go all the way with the crazy trans stuff, but I'm okay with some of the LGBT movement,

00:25:18.740 whatever. 0.99

00:25:18.960 If you're ambiguous in any way, get out, flee, run, man. 0.99

00:25:24.860 This is an important rule in politics.

00:25:27.820 You got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, and know

00:25:34.340 when to run.

00:25:36.300 This would be a case where you should run.

00:25:38.940 Gavin Newsom is saying, I'm going to take your kid away from you and chop your kid up and 0.98

00:25:43.380 turn your kid into a grotesque eunuch, and I'm going to brainwash your kid, and I'm going 0.99

00:25:48.420 to give your kid a miserable life, and there's nothing you can do to stop it, because I am 0.99

00:25:52.600 wielding political power and the power of the law, and a lot of conservatives are not willing

00:25:58.220 to do the same.

00:25:59.740 This is something, this is the only thing that really disappoints me about many conservatives,

00:26:06.400 and I know this situation is starting to change, but it's been true for too long.

00:26:10.720 Conservatives don't want to fight back, and they don't want to wield political power because

00:26:15.200 they've bought into a BS, liberal, libertarian notion that wielding the government ever at all

00:26:21.080 for any reason is unjust and terrible and tyrannical and authoritarian and blah, blah, blah, whatever. 0.99

00:26:29.120 They're trying to chop your kid's genitals off and take them away from you and deprive you of 1.00

00:26:33.500 custody of your children. 0.99

00:26:34.280 Listen, if you don't stand up and wield the government to stop that and to punish the very

00:26:40.560 bad people who are doing this and to keep them out of political power for as long as

00:26:45.020 you possibly can, then you are engaging in a moral failing.

00:26:51.140 You are failing your political responsibility and your moral responsibility, in this case,

00:26:55.040 your responsibility to your children.

00:26:56.440 And it is because, it is precisely because Republicans have not wielded political power

00:27:02.620 that the demography of California has radically changed, and largely because of the influx

00:27:09.980 of illegal immigrants, California has been able to be dominated by Democrats now because they just 1.00

00:27:15.480 get more voters and they get more representation in the government, and so they get to wield more

00:27:20.240 power.

00:27:20.980 And Republicans, it started out on even an issue that seems totally unrelated to trans.

00:27:24.420 They say, we're not going to do anything about the illegal immigration.

00:27:27.340 Okay.

00:27:27.980 Then you get to certain corrupt election practices, ballot harvesting, mail-in ballots.

00:27:32.900 That's where Republicans say, well, we're not going to do too much about it.

00:27:35.120 We don't want to seem like we're authoritarian, or we don't want people to vote.

00:27:38.560 We don't want to be called racist or sexist or phobic or whatever nonsense they throw at

00:27:42.000 us, so we're going to back away.

00:27:44.000 Well, now we're at the point where Gavin Newsom is going to chop your kids up and take away

00:27:46.680 your visitation.

00:27:47.800 So now we're at the point, actually, where I think you have to make a tactical retreat.

00:27:52.140 And you have to make a tactical retreat for what purpose?

00:27:55.120 There's a big divide on the right.

00:27:57.060 Part of the right says, we need to break up the country.

00:28:00.020 We need there to be a conservative America and a liberal America, and just break up the

00:28:03.740 political entity, which is preposterous.

00:28:06.180 It never happens.

00:28:07.200 That never happens peacefully.

00:28:08.820 It's not going to happen peacefully.

00:28:10.440 The liberals are not going to do it.

00:28:11.580 But the flip side of that is, we need to tactically retreat the conservatives to the red places,

00:28:16.880 the liberals to the blue places, and then we conservatives need to impose our much better

00:28:22.620 political vision on the whole country.

00:28:25.140 And I know they're going to call us authoritarian, and I know it's not authoritarian to say,

00:28:29.940 no, Gavin Newsom, you don't get to chop up a child.

00:28:32.100 No, Gavin Newsom, you don't get to take a kid away from his dad because his dad knows

00:28:35.780 that he's a boy.

00:28:37.460 That's not authoritarian.

00:28:38.800 That's just.

00:28:39.860 That's liberal in the truest sense of the word.

00:28:42.540 That's good.

00:28:44.120 That's right.

00:28:44.860 That's the point of being a citizen in a self-governing republic.

00:28:49.760 Come on.

00:28:51.240 All right.

00:28:52.920 That rant is over, but we're still speaking of women's issues, and we get to Miley Cyrus.

00:28:57.480 You know I'm a Miley fan.

00:28:59.940 I mean, I don't listen to her music.

00:29:01.400 I don't really listen to any modern music, but I kind of get a kick out of her because

00:29:05.980 she says things that are at least contrary to what the liberals always believe sometimes,

00:29:10.220 and I think she's got a good voice, and I always loved Party in the USA.

00:29:12.940 So here is Miley Cyrus explaining her divorce.

00:29:16.380 I have to slow down because this is, like, actually serious.

00:29:20.600 So Glastonbury was in June, which was when the decision had been made that me and Liam's

00:29:27.180 commitment to being married just really came from, of course, a place of love first because

00:29:31.960 we've been together for 10 years, but also from a place of trauma and just trying to rebuild

00:29:37.340 as quickly as we could.

00:29:38.340 The day of the show was the day that I had decided that it was no longer going to work

00:29:43.860 in my life to be in that relationship.

00:29:46.440 So that was another moment where the work, the performance, the character came first,

00:29:51.280 and I guess that's why it's now so important to me for that to not be the case, that the

00:29:56.160 human comes first. 0.99

00:29:57.940 Notice how clinical and controlled Miley is here.

00:30:01.100 If you're listening to this, and I bring up this story not because I care about celebrity

00:30:04.920 gossip with Miley Cyrus, but because it tells you a lot about how to engage in society and

00:30:10.340 a lot about how our political order works.

00:30:13.380 Miley is reading off an iPad.

00:30:15.820 She's got her words written out perfectly here, and she's being very controlled.

00:30:18.740 She goes, and that was the moment at which I decided that this relationship was not going

00:30:24.620 to work in my life.

00:30:25.960 It's all this really vague clinical language, but then she says, she goes, look, I've always

00:30:30.660 just worked, okay, and the show must go on, and I was working, and I was working too much.

00:30:36.860 And I think she's implying here the reason her marriage fell apart was because she and

00:30:42.180 her husband just were too focused on their careers and just always put their work, which

00:30:48.460 is show business, first above everything else.

00:30:52.840 And I think that's what a lot of people do.

00:30:57.040 A lot of people put their jobs first.

00:31:00.140 That's a cause of a lot of marital strain. 0.98

00:31:03.180 A lot of people put their careers first and their education and their settling into their

00:31:08.340 professional life first.

00:31:09.500 That's why they don't get married until sometimes it's too late or it's much more difficult to

00:31:14.720 get married.

00:31:15.420 This is why they don't have kids.

00:31:16.780 They put off having kids until very often it's too late.

00:31:20.180 And it's a lie.

00:31:23.280 It's a scam.

00:31:24.660 And they come to regret it.

00:31:25.740 And the people who get suckered in by even something that seems noble, you know, getting

00:31:31.220 on your hustle and working hard and putting the show first, even they will come to regret

00:31:37.500 that very often.

00:31:39.100 Because you want to work hard and you want to be serious in your professional life and

00:31:42.400 you want to have good material means.

00:31:43.580 But that's not everything.

00:31:45.640 Okay?

00:31:46.000 You want to put on a good show.

00:31:47.780 Everybody's performing these days.

00:31:49.060 Not only are we at the point of society where everyone's going to be famous for 15 minutes.

00:31:53.620 Everyone is famous, at least at a local level, whenever they want to be.

00:31:58.520 Because we're always all performing for TikTok and Instagram and Snapchat and Facebook and

00:32:02.820 whatever.

00:32:03.680 Twitter.

00:32:03.920 So we're all always performing.

00:32:06.260 Sometimes we put that show first.

00:32:08.060 And this reminds me of a line that a Dante professor of mine told me once in Italy.

00:32:13.880 You know, I was brief.

00:32:14.640 In my wayward youth, I was briefly a professional actor.

00:32:16.640 And this Dante professor of mine, he said, you know, yes, Migueluzzo, I wanted to be an actor

00:32:23.680 as a young boy.

00:32:24.820 I took it very seriously.

00:32:27.880 My mother discouraged it.

00:32:29.480 She told me, there's the door.

00:32:30.580 You want to be an actor?

00:32:31.260 There's the door.

00:32:31.780 But I thought about it.

00:32:32.680 And I felt so sorry for him.

00:32:35.160 And I said, oh, no.

00:32:37.100 Professor, you never got to be an actor.

00:32:39.480 You never got to live out your dream.

00:32:40.980 And he said, oh, Migueluzzo, I used to want to be an actor, but now I am the real thing.

00:32:50.240 And I love that line.

00:32:52.120 I use that line.

00:32:53.420 Yeah, yeah.

00:32:53.760 I used to be an actor.

00:32:55.060 Now I'm the real thing.

00:32:56.240 And it's better to be the real thing.

00:32:58.280 It's very nice to play a married woman on a sitcom or in a movie.

00:33:05.440 I'm sure Miley Cyrus enjoys doing that.

00:33:07.800 It is better to actually be a wife and a mother.

00:33:11.660 It's better to be the real thing.

00:33:14.120 It's true for men, too.

00:33:15.580 I'm sure it's fun being a rock.

00:33:16.860 I've never been a rock star, but I'm sure it's fun to be a rock star and to play this

00:33:22.120 kind of character where you're just beloved by everybody.

00:33:25.020 It's better to be beloved by your family who actually will continue to care for you once

00:33:31.100 the music dies down, where that's a deeper kind of love and commitment and reality.

00:33:38.700 It's better to be the real thing.

00:33:42.760 Meghan Markle gave up being an actual princess so that she could audition to try to play princesses 0.99

00:33:47.780 in Hollywood.

00:33:49.120 That's how backwards our society.

00:33:51.040 We love the semblance of the thing, but we're so afraid of the reality of it because we're

00:33:56.020 afraid of commitment, because we're afraid of commitment not just to another person, not

00:34:00.840 just to circumstances and a home and a place, but a commitment even to an idea, even to the

00:34:08.820 truth.

00:34:10.240 So we go out and we perform.

00:34:11.800 Even modern spirituality, we make these vague gestures about the universe, man, and the

00:34:18.520 spirits and the vibes.

00:34:20.200 But we don't actually commit to religious belief because that would then impose certain

00:34:25.800 obligations on us.

00:34:28.040 Because if you really think that your prayers do something, then that raises the question,

00:34:33.360 well, how do they do something?

00:34:34.620 Who hears our prayers?

00:34:35.480 Who answers our prayers?

00:34:36.280 What does he, God, demand of us as a result of that line of thinking?

00:34:42.520 Theology, which is faith-seeking understanding.

00:34:44.580 We don't want any of that.

00:34:45.580 So we just keep making these half-hearted gestures.

00:34:47.420 We just keep playing roles in movies, on TikTok, in our daily lives.

00:34:53.440 And that will leave us empty.

00:34:55.520 The show is good, but the real thing is a lot better.

00:34:58.980 Now, speaking of the show must go on, got some good news a few days ago.

00:35:03.060 I'm finally getting to it now.

00:35:05.320 You remember in the spring, I gave a talk at the University of Pittsburgh, and this was

00:35:11.540 protested.

00:35:12.420 It was the last in a series of talks.

00:35:14.860 One was with my colleague Cabot Phillips, one was with Riley Gaines, my fellow Tennessean.

00:35:20.500 And then the final one was me.

00:35:22.680 And the left in Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania was very upset that I was speaking because

00:35:28.300 at CPAC, I made a comment that was obviously true and which the libs were furious about.

00:35:35.080 But it's a comment that I'm not allowed to say on YouTube.

00:35:36.660 I think you know which one I'm talking about.

00:35:38.440 You know, about eradication from public life entirely.

00:35:40.640 And so there were something like 11,000 signatures against my coming.

00:35:46.060 The university tried to shut it down.

00:35:47.720 The local politicians tried to shut it down.

00:35:50.340 Antifa terrorists tried to shut it down by throwing an explosive at the building while

00:35:53.580 we were walking on stage.

00:35:55.080 Still, though, we were able to go on.

00:35:57.140 They kept threatening.

00:35:57.840 They set the street on fire.

00:35:58.840 They were rioting.

00:35:59.660 At the very end of our debate, the cops basically rushed us off stage and out of the building.

00:36:06.740 So we had to cancel the meet and greet, had to cancel some of the events we had afterward.

00:36:09.780 And then the University of Pittsburgh tried to punish the college Republicans for having

00:36:15.360 the audacity to host me by charging them an $18,000, almost $19,000 security fee.

00:36:20.520 And ISI, the group that brought me the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the college Republicans,

00:36:26.400 they fought back really hard.

00:36:28.200 And Pitt got a lot of bad press.

00:36:29.500 And now they are no longer requiring the CRs to pay that fee.

00:36:31.880 That fee was effectively a conservatives on campus fee.

00:36:37.260 That was the fee to say, hey, we're a public university and we're not allowed to stop you

00:36:41.900 from bringing ordinary conservatives to campus, but we're going to punish you for it.

00:36:45.940 We're going to bankrupt you if you ever actually do it. 0.98

00:36:48.340 And so it was very important that Pitt backed down and those jerks over at Pitt finally called 0.99

00:36:52.620 UNCLE. 0.97

00:36:53.040 And that's great news.

00:36:53.960 And it's great news, especially because my new speech season is approaching.

00:36:57.900 We're launching it this month.

00:36:59.260 I'll give you the full rundown of schools in a few weeks.

00:37:02.020 We've got some great schools this semester.

00:37:04.100 We're going to launch it September 26th at Georgetown.

00:37:07.060 So if you're in Washington, D.C., head on over.

00:37:09.620 I think you can reserve tickets now.

00:37:11.340 So go check it out.

00:37:12.620 I'll see you in D.C.

00:37:13.340 And please don't throw any explosives at me.

00:37:14.940 And if you do, I hope Georgetown doesn't try to charge us all like $20,000 just for having

00:37:21.340 ducked and missed the explosive.

00:37:23.140 As you know, spooky season is quickly approaching.

00:37:28.360 There will be demons out on the prowl.

00:37:30.140 And I'm not just talking about those woke corporations who look upon your values with disdain.

00:37:34.820 Let's unwoke Halloween with Jeremy's chocolate.

00:37:38.080 Our delicious chocolates come in two forms.

00:37:40.500 He, him with nuts and she, her, which are nutless, just as God intended. 0.99

00:37:47.840 Don't be a ghoul.

00:37:48.820 Head on over to jeremyschocolate.com and order your chocolates right now in time for Halloween.

00:37:56.500 My favorite comment yesterday is from A.Romano703 who says,

00:37:59.240 This guy is always teaching me new words.

00:38:01.320 Perspicacious.

00:38:02.420 Wow.

00:38:03.480 Yes, I love that word.

00:38:05.080 Perspicacious.

00:38:06.660 Having ready insight into things.

00:38:09.660 Perspicacity.

00:38:10.580 Isn't that a good one?

00:38:11.200 I like that.

00:38:11.800 Bill Buckley used to do that.

00:38:12.780 Bill O'Reilly used to do that, too.

00:38:13.960 He'd just have a word out there.

00:38:15.160 He'd sprinkle in.

00:38:17.100 Perspicacious.

00:38:17.980 Hmm.

00:38:18.220 It's a good one.

00:38:19.580 Which one should I do today?

00:38:20.780 I don't know.

00:38:21.240 I haven't even thought of it.

00:38:22.300 Speaking of schools, great news out of New York.

00:38:26.960 New York City teachers who refused to get the Fauci ouchie are now going to get their jobs back with back pay.

00:38:35.920 This is according to New York State Supreme Court Judge Ralph Porzio who ruled that the decision to fire 10 employees of the New York Education Department and deny them religious exemptions was unlawful, arbitrary, and capricious.

00:38:49.540 So, that's good news.

00:38:50.540 So, that's good news.

00:38:51.080 We're so glad to hear it.

00:38:52.160 But, unfortunately, this is still a win for the Libs.

00:38:56.520 Because the Libs, by passing these mandates, which were obviously illegal and unconstitutional and which over time, if people just stood firm, very likely would have been ruled that way as we're seeing around the country and even in New York.

00:39:12.960 They still used the mandates to pressure everyone else voluntarily to get the jabs. 0.63

00:39:18.720 This was the secret story of the mandates.

00:39:21.520 The mandates were not primarily about getting everyone to take the Fauci ouchie through coercion.

00:39:28.780 The mandates were about getting enough people voluntarily to take the Fauci ouchie that even if this thing were overruled later on, it wouldn't matter.

00:39:38.140 They would have already gotten what they wanted.

00:39:39.560 But, what the Libs were doing here was asking forgiveness rather than permission, which is generally a good rule in politics.

00:39:46.780 Because politics, especially Republican politics, lowercase r, you know, Democratic politics, lowercase d, is about action.

00:39:55.240 It's about things happening very quickly.

00:39:56.900 Sometimes the action happens first, the deliberation happens later.

00:40:00.440 Well, that's what we're seeing here.

00:40:03.740 And they're going to do it again.

00:40:05.180 They're going to try to do the exact same thing again.

00:40:06.960 I hope people stand up.

00:40:09.240 Daily Wire stood up.

00:40:10.160 We took the Biden administration all the way to the Supreme Court, and we won.

00:40:13.900 But it's happening.

00:40:14.880 It's happening all around the country.

00:40:17.880 Now, speaking of this issue of immigration and the emergency and the crisis with immigration, you know that New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who's a liberal Democrat, he just came out.

00:40:28.140 He said, this immigration crisis, this is going to destroy New York City. 1.00

00:40:32.140 And this is after Eric Adams had said for a long time, we're sanctuary city, diversity is our strength, everyone's welcome here.

00:40:38.100 But then they started coming after Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis sent buses up to New York.

00:40:41.740 And all of a sudden, Eric Adams changed his tune.

00:40:44.060 Well, now that Eric Adams changed his tune, even the liberals on The View, who are as establishment lib as they get, even they, after years of diversity is our strength and no one is illegal and sanctuary cities are great, they're changing their tune too.

00:41:00.700 This issue will destroy New York City, the city we knew, we're about to lose.

00:41:10.800 But frankly, you know, I think we need to find, and we've dealt with this before.

00:41:14.760 I lived in Miami.

00:41:16.780 I was a migrant, an immigrant in Miami in the 80s.

00:41:19.720 You'll remember when we had the Marielle boat lift.

00:41:22.400 Yes.

00:41:22.540 A hundred and twenty five thousand Cubans came in a matter of six months.

00:41:27.040 It puts tremendous stress on a city, on a community, on the social services.

00:41:34.680 They need to be resettled elsewhere.

00:41:36.840 They need to spread out.

00:41:38.180 This is a massive country.

00:41:39.440 And it's only going to get worse with global warming and climate change because people can't live in certain parts of this world.

00:41:44.740 And don't forget about this totally unrelated boogeyman.

00:41:48.200 We got to get that in here to every story.

00:41:50.900 But listen to what Ana Navarro.

00:41:53.140 Ana Navarro is a huge lib. 1.00

00:41:54.100 But she goes, look, but they got it.

00:41:55.200 We got to spread these immigrants out. 1.00

00:41:57.540 We can't.

00:41:58.100 Come on. 0.98

00:41:58.500 These immigrants, they're going to destroy New York City. 1.00

00:42:00.360 Well, hold on.

00:42:00.920 I thought the immigrants were our strength.

00:42:03.220 I thought we're a nation of immigrants.

00:42:04.660 New York's a city of immigrants.

00:42:05.580 The more immigrants, the better. 0.99

00:42:07.980 But then Eric Adams, mayor of New York, changed his tune.

00:42:10.540 And now all the other liberals are changing their tune too.

00:42:12.640 Why?

00:42:14.320 Because Ana Navarro knows that she's on the same team as Eric Adams.

00:42:22.280 And Eric Adams flipped.

00:42:25.220 And so now the rest of the team is going to flip.

00:42:27.820 This is a concept in political theory that the political boils down to a distinction between friends and enemies.

00:42:38.300 This is something that isn't often spoken about explicitly because it was articulated most clearly by a political philosopher named Carl Schmitt.

00:42:47.640 And Carl Schmitt had the misfortune of being a German in the 1930s like Heidegger. 0.94

00:42:51.260 And so he's kind of been canceled.

00:42:54.480 But even Leo Strauss, for instance, another great political philosopher, largely exonerates Carl Schmitt of a lot of the nasty charges against him.

00:43:04.200 And so I think it's fair to mention this point because the point he's making here is obviously true, that the political boils down to very practical things.

00:43:13.100 It's not just pie in the sky, guys.

00:43:14.860 It's not just abstractions.

00:43:16.460 It boils down to are you on my team or are you on the other team?

00:43:20.360 If you're on my team, I'm going to show you more grace.

00:43:22.080 If you're on the other team, we're going to try to drive you out of the public square.

00:43:25.240 And there are a lot of squishy lib types who bemoan the fact that politics has become so tribal these days.

00:43:33.180 Politics has always been tribal.

00:43:35.380 Partisan politics has always been partisan.

00:43:37.480 That's what a party is.

00:43:40.120 And this notion that there's a distinction between friends and enemies, it actually goes much, much deeper than some political differences.

00:43:49.180 You know, Democrats and Republicans left and right.

00:43:52.980 It's a basic question.

00:43:55.020 You know, Ronald Reagan used to say that we have no enemies, only opponents here.

00:44:00.940 And so he'd always talk about his Democrat opponents.

00:44:02.580 And there's something really beautifully true about that because if you call your domestic adversaries your enemies, what you're doing is saying that there's no cohesent political unit here with the right to declare war, with the right to declare who really is an enemy, with the right to really move the entire body politic.

00:44:19.980 And so I think it's really beautiful that Ronald Reagan tried to avoid that.

00:44:22.980 But increasingly, though, you hear the left talk about us as enemies and you hear the right talk about the left as enemies.

00:44:27.560 That tells you about a breakdown in the political order.

00:44:31.620 There is a video that I was hoping to get to today.

00:44:37.200 I'll have to just tease you with this.

00:44:39.480 But I don't know how tempting this is going to be because the video is absolutely repulsive.

00:44:43.380 The mayor of Burbank, California has just subjected himself to being spanked in public by a drag queen. 1.00

00:44:48.420 I guess we'll get to it tomorrow.

00:44:51.500 Not because the video is so sensationalist, but because it tells you a lot about the civic religion that is now governing our society.

00:45:00.800 The rest of the show continues.

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 12, 2023

Ep. 1328 - Biden Lies About Post 9⧸11 Visit

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