In this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael explains why Joe Biden can't remember what happened on the day of 9/11, and why he doesn't care if what he says is true or not. He's not even trying to be transparent, he's just lying.
00:04:35.620And 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.
00:04:47.640For 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.
00:05:10.080When we get to a point where words are just sounds, we are reduced to just grunting baboons.
00:05:16.840We've ceased to live in human society.
00:05:19.060I 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.
00:05:35.220That accounts for a great deal of our present political problems.
00:05:39.240There are always political problems in every society, but ours right now are different and worse than they have been in the past.
00:05:46.720Now, 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.
00:05:57.600This from South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem.
00:06:00.540It is my honor to present to you the man in the arena.
00:06:32.840I generally have not covered endorsements.
00:06:35.420I mentioned early on when DeSantis was getting some congressmen because they were some of the first endorsements that he had gotten.
00:06:42.260People who decided to turn on Trump and go for another guy, I haven't really covered many of the endorsements since then.
00:06:48.120The reason I'm covering this one, the reason that this one is significant, is because Kristi Noem is not just a Republican governor.
00:06:56.280She was a potential presidential candidate.
00:06:59.040Kristi Noem, like Glenn Youngkin in Virginia, was obviously considering running for president herself.
00:07:05.680She set herself up to do that during COVID.
00:07:08.200She was playing kind of coy with it after COVID, right up until a couple days ago, I guess.
00:07:13.560Now 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.
00:07:27.220And 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.
00:07:42.980Trust 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.
00:07:50.020Inside every governor is a president just waiting to get out.
00:07:54.220Some 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.
00:07:59.880That's not, that's not a nice thing to say at all.
00:08:01.540But 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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00:10:22.440So I'm strongly opposed to policies that would separate kids from their parents.
00:10:29.140I think that that was discussed even in the Trump administration and otherwise as a tactic for deterring people from coming.
00:10:37.480As a pro-family leader, I will not adopt such a policy.
00:10:43.520But we will send back the family unit as such.
00:10:45.640And 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.
00:11:19.540A lot of what a lot of people believe about the Constitution and American history and the American form of government is not true.
00:11:28.360A lot of it is revisionism from the middle of the 20th century.
00:11:32.240And this would be a good example of that.
00:11:34.240Now, 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.
00:11:49.920The text that we have is from the 14th Amendment.
00:11:52.980Now, the key here is subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
00:12:08.580Obviously, 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.
00:12:21.280But they are not subject to the jurisdiction in the full sense, in that they are not citizens of that country.
00:12:29.360There are clear exceptions to this issue determined by the courts over time.
00:13:07.400And it gets to something we were talking about yesterday, which is we look to statutes.
00:13:11.840We look to constitutional interpretation.
00:13:13.580We look even back before the founding of our country.
00:13:16.980We 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.
00:13:39.000It's an open question, and the answers are not always clear.
00:13:45.220And changing political circumstances sometimes change the way that eternal principles can be applied in politics.
00:13:51.920That's why politics is different from archaeology.
00:13:55.560That's why politics is different from history.
00:13:57.820That's why politics is different from philosophy, because there are changing circumstances in the present that we're in.
00:14:02.680So not only are we interpreting documents, but we are writing the script as well.
00:14:06.460And 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.
00:14:19.620That's in addition to the millions of foreigners just entering our country illegally and changing our political structure.
00:14:25.900Then 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.
00:14:35.640That 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.
00:14:45.080That's why the Democrats are encouraging it.
00:14:46.920And 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.
00:15:00.120Not just one minor aspect of the law, but the entirety of the law, the entirety of the political community.
00:15:04.500This 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.
00:15:23.180Well, 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.
00:15:33.580Because we know the 14th Amendment was passed over the question of slavery.
00:15:38.460The 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.
00:15:48.940And which won't be defended even by the Chamber of Commerce Republicans because they want to get cheap labor.
00:16:28.600Well, then maybe the liberals will regulate our businesses, which they're already doing.
00:16:33.900Well, 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.
00:16:44.320That's the problem we have to address.
00:16:45.320And 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.
00:38:22.300Speaking of schools, great news out of New York.
00:38:26.960New York City teachers who refused to get the Fauci ouchie are now going to get their jobs back with back pay.
00:38:35.920This 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.
00:38:52.160But, unfortunately, this is still a win for the Libs.
00:38:56.520Because 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.
00:39:12.960They still used the mandates to pressure everyone else voluntarily to get the jabs.
00:39:18.720This was the secret story of the mandates.
00:39:21.520The mandates were not primarily about getting everyone to take the Fauci ouchie through coercion.
00:39:28.780The 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.
00:39:38.140They would have already gotten what they wanted.
00:39:39.560But, what the Libs were doing here was asking forgiveness rather than permission, which is generally a good rule in politics.
00:39:46.780Because politics, especially Republican politics, lowercase r, you know, Democratic politics, lowercase d, is about action.
00:39:55.240It's about things happening very quickly.
00:39:56.900Sometimes the action happens first, the deliberation happens later.
00:40:14.880It's happening all around the country.
00:40:17.880Now, 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.
00:40:28.140He said, this immigration crisis, this is going to destroy New York City.
00:40:32.140And this is after Eric Adams had said for a long time, we're sanctuary city, diversity is our strength, everyone's welcome here.
00:40:38.100But then they started coming after Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis sent buses up to New York.
00:40:41.740And all of a sudden, Eric Adams changed his tune.
00:40:44.060Well, 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.
00:41:00.700This issue will destroy New York City, the city we knew, we're about to lose.
00:41:10.800But frankly, you know, I think we need to find, and we've dealt with this before.
00:42:25.220And so now the rest of the team is going to flip.
00:42:27.820This is a concept in political theory that the political boils down to a distinction between friends and enemies.
00:42:38.300This is something that isn't often spoken about explicitly because it was articulated most clearly by a political philosopher named Carl Schmitt.
00:42:47.640And Carl Schmitt had the misfortune of being a German in the 1930s like Heidegger.
00:42:54.480But even Leo Strauss, for instance, another great political philosopher, largely exonerates Carl Schmitt of a lot of the nasty charges against him.
00:43:04.200And 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.
00:43:40.120And this notion that there's a distinction between friends and enemies, it actually goes much, much deeper than some political differences.
00:43:49.180You know, Democrats and Republicans left and right.
00:43:55.020You know, Ronald Reagan used to say that we have no enemies, only opponents here.
00:44:00.940And so he'd always talk about his Democrat opponents.
00:44:02.580And 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.
00:44:19.980And so I think it's really beautiful that Ronald Reagan tried to avoid that.
00:44:22.980But increasingly, though, you hear the left talk about us as enemies and you hear the right talk about the left as enemies.
00:44:27.560That tells you about a breakdown in the political order.
00:44:31.620There is a video that I was hoping to get to today.
00:44:37.200I'll have to just tease you with this.
00:44:39.480But I don't know how tempting this is going to be because the video is absolutely repulsive.
00:44:43.380The mayor of Burbank, California has just subjected himself to being spanked in public by a drag queen.