The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1331 - Biden Crime Family Loses Hunter To Criminal Indictment

00:00:00.000 Hunter Biden, a man who has documented terabytes worth of his own crimes across at least five

00:00:06.140 criminal categories on at least three different continents, has finally been indicted.

00:00:12.380 Has hell frozen over? 0.91

00:00:14.660 Are pigs flying?

00:00:16.300 Au contraire, mon frere.

00:00:18.540 It is just business as usual because these charges are nothing but a misdirection.

00:00:24.640 You see, Hunter is not being charged with tax fraud, which he committed, but which could

00:00:30.760 implicate his father.

00:00:32.280 And he isn't being charged with failing to register as a foreign agent, another crime

00:00:36.440 he committed that could also implicate his father. 0.67

00:00:39.460 And he isn't being charged with smoking crack and abusing hookers in just about every corner

00:00:44.860 of the globe, crimes that he most certainly committed and which don't directly implicate

00:00:49.540 his father, but which nevertheless reflect quite poorly on the first son and the Biden

00:00:53.980 family.

00:00:54.380 No, no, he's being charged with lying on some paperwork when purchasing a firearm.

00:01:02.480 That is to say, he's charged with making too expansive a use of his Second Amendment rights,

00:01:10.340 rights cherished by Americans since long before the nation's founding and defended especially

00:01:15.520 by Biden's most trenchant critics.

00:01:17.740 He's being charged with the crime least significant, least damaging to his father, and most likely

00:01:26.520 to elicit sympathy.

00:01:28.540 This is not quite the political masterstroke that Biden's DOJ thought it had with that sweetheart

00:01:34.260 plea deal to let Hunter off the hook entirely, which ultimately was undermined by a judge who

00:01:39.600 laughed it out of the courtroom.

00:01:40.760 But this is pretty close.

00:01:44.020 Now, these gun charges do still theoretically carry with them the prospect of something like

00:01:49.560 25 years in prison.

00:01:51.780 But that's obviously never going to happen.

00:01:55.100 Joe Biden will under no circumstances allow his last living son to rot in prison, even if

00:02:02.340 Hunter were somehow convicted.

00:02:03.860 The indictment is a limited hangout to get the heat off the big guy until he makes it through

00:02:11.340 his next election.

00:02:13.700 Nothing more, nothing less.

00:02:15.500 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:16.220 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:33.860 Welcome back to the show.

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00:02:50.900 Dove, the company Dove that makes soap and shampoo, is partnering with a fat liberation activist

00:02:57.420 who hoaxed her way into destroying some poor college girl's life, who has a very, very checkered 1.00

00:03:03.320 past, and this is par for the course for liberalism.

00:03:05.500 We'll get to that in a moment.

00:03:06.220 First, though, speaking of prosecutions, of leading political figures and their families

00:03:11.200 and associates, Donald Trump will not stand trial next month.

00:03:17.340 You know I hate to say I told you so.

00:03:18.760 In this case, I really love to say I told you so.

00:03:21.020 It was announced some weeks ago that amid all of these indictments with Trump, Trump

00:03:26.460 was going to stand trial in October of 2023.

00:03:31.160 And I said, that's absolutely preposterous.

00:03:34.140 This was the Georgia prosecutor who was pushing for this speedy trial.

00:03:37.660 I said, what are you talking about?

00:03:38.940 You've got the former president, current leader of the opposition.

00:03:41.800 You've got 18 co-defendants on this ridiculous, unprecedented sort of case.

00:03:47.420 You think that you're going to get your trials together within two months, not a chance in

00:03:53.420 hell, and that's the case.

00:03:55.320 So this is good news for Trump in that he's not going to have to deal with this trial as

00:03:59.140 he continues along his way to secure the nomination, which right now looks pretty secure.

00:04:07.360 Now, don't shoot the messenger if you like one of the other candidates.

00:04:10.080 I'm just saying right now, Trump's poll numbers not only have remained the same, they've actually

00:04:15.100 gone up a little bit.

00:04:15.840 The latest poll we've got from Fox News shows that Donald Trump is at 60% among Republican

00:04:22.640 primary voters.

00:04:25.080 Trump's at 60.

00:04:26.440 DeSantis, who's the number two guy, is at 13.

00:04:30.260 Vivek, who has jumped up in the polls, number three guy, close at DeSantis' heels, he's at

00:04:35.760 11.

00:04:36.600 Nikki Haley has helped herself.

00:04:38.560 She's at five.

00:04:40.420 Pence, three.

00:04:41.080 Scott, three.

00:04:41.780 Christie, two.

00:04:42.580 So that's a huge, huge spread.

00:04:44.660 This is a 47-point lead right now for Trump.

00:04:48.200 But also what's interesting is the movement here.

00:04:51.240 So we were told that not showing up to the debate was going to be disastrous for Donald

00:04:54.920 Trump.

00:04:55.440 And you were going to see that the other guys, especially DeSantis, were going to jump up

00:04:58.960 in the polls.

00:04:59.680 And as a result of that, Trump was going to have to show up to the second debate.

00:05:02.720 And I said, yeah, look, if DeSantis jumps in the polls, then Trump will show up to the

00:05:06.540 second debate.

00:05:07.220 But I actually don't think it's going to hurt him.

00:05:09.280 I think not showing up to the debate is going to help him.

00:05:12.680 And that would appear to be the case.

00:05:14.720 Since August, Trump is now up seven points from where he, in August, he was at 53%.

00:05:22.660 According to this poll, now he's at 60%.

00:05:25.040 Since August, DeSantis is down three points.

00:05:27.920 Even though he did relatively well, he did fine in the debate, down three points.

00:05:32.900 Vivek is even.

00:05:34.280 So Vivek, some people thought Vivek did really well in the debate.

00:05:36.620 Some people were really turned off by him.

00:05:38.040 So whatever.

00:05:38.740 I guess that shakes out to be he's even with where he was.

00:05:41.920 Nikki has gone up one point.

00:05:43.680 Pence has gone down two points, despite a relatively strong debate performance.

00:05:48.000 Tim Scott's remained the same.

00:05:49.320 Christie, the croissants, the croissants would seem to be over.

00:05:52.060 That is down one.

00:05:53.420 The other graph I want to point to is not just this one random Fox News poll, but RealClear

00:05:58.500 Politics is average of all the polls going all the way back to July of last year.

00:06:05.100 This is the primary.

00:06:10.420 And you can see there's some ups and downs, a little bit.

00:06:13.140 Trump is up a little bit from where he started last July.

00:06:16.740 DeSantis is down a little bit from where he started last July.

00:06:20.340 And then Vivek jumped up because no one knew who he was before, but still not.

00:06:24.540 He didn't jump up that far.

00:06:25.740 Relative to where he was, he jumped up very far, but relative to the race, he didn't.

00:06:28.580 But basically, nothing has changed.

00:06:34.000 Nothing.

00:06:34.720 Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars raised, despite all of the ads, despite all

00:06:40.360 of the campaign teams assembled, despite all of the canvassing door to door, despite all

00:06:44.120 of the online social media operations, rapid response, directing, none of it has mattered

00:06:52.360 at all.

00:06:53.420 So I don't, don't shoot the messenger.

00:06:56.940 I'm not saying give up hope.

00:06:58.060 Look, something could happen if you support a DeSantis or a Vivek or one of the other candidates.

00:07:03.620 But regardless of this race showing you that Trump is just really, really strong or that

00:07:10.580 DeSantis is not as good a candidate as they said he was, or Vivek is the game changer or

00:07:15.260 this, that, or the other thing, take the candidates out of it for a second.

00:07:18.740 It's just not really a dynamic race.

00:07:22.060 I guess that's the issue.

00:07:22.840 We think it's a dynamic race because you've got this wild eccentric character in Donald

00:07:29.040 Trump who's being indicted as a former president, leader of the opposition for the first time

00:07:32.640 ever.

00:07:32.900 Oh my goodness, four indictments all over the country.

00:07:35.280 This is crazy.

00:07:35.920 We've never seen anything like it.

00:07:37.040 And then we've got Ron DeSantis, this very strong, very popular governor in Florida who's

00:07:41.740 taking the Republican Party in some ways in a new direction and, or at least building on

00:07:46.840 the previous president, Donald Trump.

00:07:49.060 And then you've got this guy, oh man, it's going to be so dynamic.

00:07:51.500 Ten candidates, isn't this?

00:07:52.920 No, it's not.

00:07:54.420 It's not.

00:07:56.160 Because the leader of the pack is running effectively, practically, mostly as an incumbent.

00:08:02.980 And so the race is going to be more dynamic than George Bush's primary race, which essentially

00:08:08.980 didn't exist in 2004.

00:08:10.260 It's going to be more dynamic than Barack Obama's primary race in 2012.

00:08:17.120 But it's going to be much, much less dynamic than any other kind of primary.

00:08:22.080 The question, if you are one of the other campaigns, or if you're the Trump campaign for that matter,

00:08:26.180 that you've got to ask now is, what could happen to change this graph, which has remained

00:08:33.260 relatively unchanged for 14 months?

00:08:37.680 We've got to talk about that.

00:08:39.100 The campaigns are certainly all going to be talking about that.

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00:09:47.420 Elections do matter, though.

00:09:49.400 Elections really, really matter because forget about the politicians now for a second.

00:09:53.320 I want to turn my attention to Planned Parenthood.

00:09:55.280 Planned Parenthood has suffered massive layoffs less than two weeks before the anniversary

00:10:04.120 of the decision in Dobbs to overrule Roe v. Wade.

00:10:10.240 It was two weeks before, according to the Boston Globe.

00:10:12.400 More than 100 employees of Planned Parenthood's national staff received notice that they would

00:10:18.640 lose their jobs.

00:10:20.460 Why are they losing their jobs?

00:10:22.040 Is it because donations to Planned Parenthood dried up?

00:10:24.720 No.

00:10:25.460 Donations to Planned Parenthood spiked.

00:10:28.500 After Dobbs, that was a major historic fundraising opportunity for Planned Parenthood.

00:10:33.360 They took advantage of it.

00:10:34.500 But every big lib in the country was saying, give your money to Planned Parenthood.

00:10:38.140 So they had the money, but demand cratered.

00:10:42.940 They no longer had the customers.

00:10:45.160 They no longer had quite so many mothers coming in saying, hey, I'm in a desperate situation.

00:10:51.620 And then these predators at Planned Parenthood say, oh, I've got the answer. 0.97

00:10:55.340 Murder your baby and give us a little bit of money for it, too. 1.00

00:10:58.120 We'll do the hit job if you just pay us. 1.00

00:11:02.200 That's the problem.

00:11:04.240 It was not a matter of funding.

00:11:06.240 It was not a matter of investment.

00:11:07.640 It was a matter of demand.

00:11:09.660 Demand totally cratered.

00:11:11.360 And here's what the staffers are saying in telling the Boston Globe.

00:11:15.900 Planned Parenthood said the pivot was necessary to meet this moment after Dobbs.

00:11:19.020 But the staffers, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject matter,

00:11:23.100 often described disillusionment with the organization.

00:11:26.040 They included union and non-union workers, some who had been laid off or left for other reasons,

00:11:30.680 as well as some who are still working there.

00:11:32.540 They're disillusioned, you know.

00:11:34.920 Turns out that when you work for an infanticide mill, it's not all it's cracked up to be.

00:11:40.020 You know, I thought we were working with people with integrity here.

00:11:42.820 I thought we were signing up with high-minded, noble people who make it their mission in life

00:11:49.020 to slaughter the most innocent, vulnerable persons on planet Earth.

00:11:52.400 And then what do you know? 0.74

00:11:53.240 They're kind of deceitful.

00:11:54.620 Could you imagine? 0.99

00:11:55.840 They don't have the strongest moral code, those professional murderers of babies.

00:12:01.600 The article goes on.

00:12:03.560 Planned Parenthood struggles with the right level of transparency, said another national

00:12:07.760 staffer who was laid off.

00:12:09.180 It felt like they were trying to give us a lot of transparency about the process.

00:12:12.660 Like, we're making this pivot.

00:12:14.540 These are some of the things that are changing.

00:12:16.240 But there wasn't a lot of transparency around, like, the vision and where things were going

00:12:20.660 based on those changes.

00:12:24.960 Planned Parenthood is so opposed to transparency that they lobby against laws that would make

00:12:32.720 women who are about to murder their babies look at ultrasounds. 1.00

00:12:36.400 If you are looking for transparency, I would not recommend looking at Planned Parenthood, the entire

00:12:44.500 business model of which relies on hiding and disguising the fact that your baby is actually

00:12:50.840 a baby.

00:12:51.320 The whole business model relies on distracting you from seeing what is obviously true so that

00:12:58.200 they can make money and get whatever satanic kicks they get out of murdering little children.

00:13:06.320 You're not going to get transparency there.

00:13:09.560 You're not going to get high-minded idealism.

00:13:12.220 You're not going to get noble comportment and behavior.

00:13:16.420 And now, you're apparently not going to get a job.

00:13:21.260 This is a great story because it proves something that conservatives did not believe for far too

00:13:28.340 long, which is that we long have said politics is downstream of culture, the movies in a culture,

00:13:35.980 the music, the art, the behavior, the traditions, the rituals, that all matters.

00:13:41.020 Of course, that all matters.

00:13:43.100 But it can be said with just as much seriousness and truth that culture is downstream of politics

00:13:49.900 because the law is a teacher.

00:13:52.160 What happened here?

00:13:52.940 What happened here is not that people got together and they just had a change of heart

00:13:59.040 organically from the culture and society, and so they decided to stop killing their children.

00:14:05.380 It's that the heavy hand of the law came down and made it much more difficult to murder children,

00:14:11.420 and then fewer people did it.

00:14:13.280 That's what happened.

00:14:15.080 You know, sometimes we've been told by the politics is downstream of culture fanatics,

00:14:20.760 who make an idol out of that concept.

00:14:22.940 That, actually, if you pass a law, that's not going to change anything at all.

00:14:28.020 No, no, the law doesn't affect behavior.

00:14:29.980 The law doesn't create incentives.

00:14:31.160 No, no.

00:14:31.760 Unless the change in law is motivated by just a change in culture, which springs up organically

00:14:38.080 from the society, then it's not going to have any effect at all.

00:14:40.960 Well, here's proof that that's a lie.

00:14:43.480 That isn't true.

00:14:44.660 You can change the law, even if the culture, which is completely dominated by liberals in Hollywood,

00:14:51.360 in the academy, in lower education, in everything, everywhere, you can change the law and you will still get that effect.

00:15:00.000 Planned Parenthood is still going to have to lay off workers because fewer women are going to show up to murder their babies 1.00

00:15:04.440 because the law says so, and the law is a teacher.

00:15:09.020 What liberalism does, classical liberalism and libertarianism and modern liberalism and all of its derivations,

00:15:16.720 what it does is it tries to depoliticize everything.

00:15:19.640 So it creates these contrasts between politics and culture, the law, the government, and society, and free associations.

00:15:33.060 But we live in a republic.

00:15:35.500 We live in government of the people, by the people, for the people, at least in theory.

00:15:39.840 So what's really the difference between those two things?

00:15:42.500 That distinction gets a little bit blurry.

00:15:45.740 It gets a lot blurry, actually.

00:15:47.220 And really, what that distinction serves to do is merely a polemical purpose to discourage authentic political action

00:15:56.000 and to disguise authentic political action under the guise of it being depoliticized through the economy

00:16:02.680 or just through private business or just through the culture.

00:16:04.820 Do you really believe?

00:16:05.780 This is what some of these people would say.

00:16:07.100 They would say that when Google, Twitter, and Facebook completely dominate the public square

00:16:12.520 and cut out conservatives from speaking and censor all sorts of ordinary things and true things,

00:16:18.280 even right before an election, they censor the Hunter Biden laptop story,

00:16:21.340 and it changes the results of the election according to post-election analyses and surveys.

00:16:28.120 But what these types of people will say is, well, that wasn't a political action.

00:16:33.480 That was just private enterprise.

00:16:34.820 That was just private businesses doing whatever they want to do.

00:16:37.760 That's not political.

00:16:38.720 And if you don't like it, build your own Google.

00:16:40.700 Build your own Twitter.

00:16:41.400 What are you talking about?

00:16:42.480 We live in a self-governing republic.

00:16:44.540 If you can control the public square, you control the political order.

00:16:48.680 What Google, Twitter, and Facebook did is intensely political.

00:16:52.200 It's some of the most overt, heavy-handed political action I've ever seen in my lifetime,

00:16:57.120 maybe in the history of the United States.

00:16:59.040 And it's even more insidious than some authoritarian government worker doing so

00:17:05.860 because Facebook, Twitter, and Google have even less accountability, even less transparency,

00:17:11.040 and they're not obliged to uphold the principles that we have passed,

00:17:15.980 that our forebears have passed and ratified into law,

00:17:19.160 the protections of the Constitution, and laws in many cases.

00:17:24.100 Uh-uh.

00:17:26.420 The law is a teacher, baby. 0.88

00:17:27.820 It works.

00:17:28.360 And it has real, crucial, urgent effects.

00:17:31.260 It saves hundreds—it's saved hundreds of thousands of babies' lives.

00:17:35.240 There will be hundreds of thousands of people from this year alone

00:17:37.920 who will be born because some justices on the Supreme Court decided to change the law.

00:17:44.380 Culture be damned.

00:17:45.340 No, actually, culture be changed for the better because the culture is affected by the laws. 0.99

00:17:49.800 Okay.

00:17:50.320 Speaking of electoral politics,

00:17:52.180 we are losing one of the most controversial, detested, but sometimes lauded,

00:18:01.300 but just very confusing political figures.

00:18:04.800 Mitt Romney.

00:18:07.400 I've spent my last 25 years in public service of one kind or another.

00:18:12.280 At the end of another term, I'd be in my mid-80s.

00:18:17.880 Frankly, it's time for a new generation of leaders.

00:18:22.180 They're the ones that need to make the decisions that will shape the world they will be living in.

00:18:28.040 Now, we face critical challenges.

00:18:30.700 Mounting national debt, climate change, and the ambitious authoritarians of Russia and China. 0.77

00:18:37.440 Neither President Biden nor former President Trump are leading their party to confront those issues.

00:18:46.180 You know my views on Mitt Romney.

00:18:48.220 See, he seems like a nice enough guy, but he's a liberal Republican.

00:18:52.600 Mitt Romney runs for Senate against Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, and he says,

00:18:57.140 I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush.

00:19:00.180 I don't support Reagan-Bush.

00:19:02.340 I'm not.

00:19:02.760 Stop lumping me in with Ronald Reagan.

00:19:04.080 And then he loses that race, and he goes on, and he runs for governor of Massachusetts and wins that and invents Obamacare.

00:19:10.940 And then he runs for president on not a great campaign.

00:19:14.980 Then he decides to run for – well, he doesn't decide to run against Trump in 2016.

00:19:21.760 He entertained the thought of running, but he was pretty active as a never-Trumper and trying to kill the Republican ticket that year.

00:19:28.680 Then he runs for Senate in another state.

00:19:33.620 He wins.

00:19:35.120 He's a big lib in the Senate.

00:19:37.380 Okay.

00:19:37.860 I've got problems with his career.

00:19:39.440 And yet, got to say, folks, he's totally right with what he just said.

00:19:45.840 He's totally right when he says we need a new generation of conservative leaders.

00:19:51.160 You know me.

00:19:51.740 I'm not – like some of my friends and colleagues.

00:19:53.400 I'm not one to mock people for being old.

00:19:56.260 I don't think that we need age limits for government office.

00:19:59.760 I think we have – the only limit we need, which is the ballot box, when the ballot box works effectively.

00:20:05.980 I think that generally older people are wiser than younger people.

00:20:10.900 However, we do need a new generation of leaders.

00:20:14.400 The boomers have been hanging on for a very, very long time, a disproportionately long time compared to past generations. 0.91

00:20:19.320 When the sea change happens, it's going to be more radical the longer this goes on.

00:20:24.460 And that does threaten the stability of the country.

00:20:27.560 And also, we have seen in the one country in the West that has been able to affect real conservative policies and stop some of those pressing issues,

00:20:38.780 the migration crisis being right there up toward the top of them,

00:20:41.920 and also to turn around the birth rate problem, which is the crisis as a matter of policy in our civilization.

00:20:49.100 That country is a young government, okay?

00:20:52.980 You need a new generation because while the previous views and talking points and ideologies, 0.99

00:21:02.140 maybe they served a purpose for their time.

00:21:04.120 Maybe they did some good stuff in their time.

00:21:05.440 I'm not knocking the prior generations.

00:21:07.260 But now we've got new problems, and young people, you even see them popping up in the Senate. 1.00

00:21:14.620 They've got new solutions, applying eternal principles to new circumstances.

00:21:18.100 That's great.

00:21:18.520 The irony of this is what Mitt Romney is saying here is we need a new generation of conservative leaders.

00:21:23.560 But then he goes on to attack all the young conservatives.

00:21:26.280 He attacks J.D. Vance.

00:21:27.680 He attacks Josh Hawley.

00:21:29.060 He attacks Ted Cruz.

00:21:29.940 He attacks the people who actually are younger and are much more effective, I think, in their vision for the country.

00:21:39.500 So Romney, personally, he's still got a lot of problems in his understanding of politics.

00:21:44.780 But on this point, Mitt is totally right.

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00:23:05.660 My favorite comment yesterday is from Billy Mays 1.

00:23:08.400 Billy Mays here, who says, if Michael ever ran for POTUS, he would have my vote.

00:23:13.540 No doubt about it.

00:23:14.280 America needs to be safe.

00:23:15.140 Thank you very much.

00:23:15.740 I appreciate that.

00:23:16.720 There's a little wrinkle here, which is that I am currently too young to run for president.

00:23:21.180 I would be constitutionally ineligible in 2024.

00:23:25.220 The first time that I would be even eligible constitutionally will be 2028.

00:23:30.280 But if Republicans lose this election, then we, of course, will be in the gulags by that time.

00:23:35.400 So I suppose I could run for president of the gulags. 0.92

00:23:38.000 It's like running for class president, but in prison.

00:23:42.180 And maybe I will do that.

00:23:43.960 And if I do, I appreciate your support and I appreciate your vote.

00:23:47.900 Speaking of young people, Dove, the soap company, has just partnered with a young activist.

00:23:55.900 And this young activist's name is Zyana Bryant.

00:23:59.380 And if you've heard that name before, you might vaguely remember this person.

00:24:03.380 It's because she made a little bit of a name for herself by ruining a young white student's life 1.00

00:24:09.580 over a misheard remark at some BLM protest in 2020.

00:24:13.780 So there was some mostly peaceful, extremely fiery BLM protest.

00:24:19.720 And this gal, Zyana Bryant, who is black, said that she heard this young woman say that

00:24:28.540 the protesters would make good effing speed bumps.

00:24:32.800 That never happened.

00:24:34.920 There were investigations into this.

00:24:36.960 There was zero evidence.

00:24:38.480 There is significant evidence that this Zyana Bryant just completely made it up.

00:24:44.020 There was no evidence that this young gal, this UVA student, Morgan Benninger,

00:24:47.360 ever said anything even like that.

00:24:50.440 But it didn't matter because the damage was done.

00:24:56.440 Falsehood flies while the truth is getting out of bed.

00:25:00.560 So over a year, years of this young gal's life were ruined by this cynical activist,

00:25:07.700 Zyana Bryant, who was lying. 0.93

00:25:09.400 And now she's got a new object of her activism.

00:25:12.900 It's no longer BLM and mostly peaceful riots and looting and burning the country down. 0.80

00:25:17.600 Now she is a fat phobia activist. 1.00

00:25:21.680 And she's being rewarded for that with presumably a bunch of money and fame by Dove.

00:25:27.340 My belief is that we should be centering the voices and experiences of the most marginalized

00:25:33.080 people and communities at all times.

00:25:35.300 So when I think about what fat liberation looks like to me, it looks like centering the voices

00:25:39.600 and the experiences of those who live in and who maneuver through spaces and institutions

00:25:45.000 in a fat body.

00:25:46.180 It looks like making accessible spaces and having conversations that are aware of the fact that

00:25:51.340 people have different bodies and that they are interacting with space and people and institutions

00:25:56.740 and communities in a different way.

00:25:58.980 Fat liberation looks like fully embracing those differences and having those conversations

00:26:03.400 instead of shying away from them.

00:26:05.240 To learn more about fat liberation and the campaign for size freedom that Dove is supporting,

00:26:11.100 visit dove.com forward slash size freedom.

00:26:13.760 Tap in, join the campaign, support the campaign.

00:26:16.500 This is important and we should all be talking about it.

00:26:19.200 Okay, I'm not going to make fun of fat liberation.

00:26:21.520 And I'm not going to make fun of even Dove so much here.

00:26:26.160 I want to focus on something, one word that that woman said, and she said it multiple times.

00:26:34.320 Conversation.

00:26:36.660 This is what liberalism does.

00:26:38.880 For liberalism, the highest point of politics is not doing anything.

00:26:45.100 It's not changing anything.

00:26:47.440 It's not achieving a concrete objective.

00:26:50.380 It's just having endless conversations.

00:26:54.240 When you hear a political figure say, we need a conversation, we need a national conversation

00:26:59.700 on race.

00:27:00.520 We need a conversation on our democracy.

00:27:03.020 I think it's time that we just, it's so important that we have conversations about the ability

00:27:08.080 to have conversations while conversing about the significance of conversations.

00:27:13.080 That's what politics is all about.

00:27:17.060 When you hear that kind of talk, you know that you are, one, hearing from a liberal,

00:27:22.980 and two, being deceived.

00:27:25.880 You're hearing from someone who wittingly or unwillingly is deceiving you.

00:27:30.980 Because endless conversations don't do anything in politics.

00:27:35.760 And in politics, things have to get done.

00:27:37.940 Decisions have to be made.

00:27:39.560 Policies have to be implemented.

00:27:41.360 People have to get in line.

00:27:44.600 But that is contrary to the open, free-floating, conversational language of liberalism, man.

00:27:52.400 And so what happens in practice is that the liberals who ostensibly want to depoliticize

00:27:57.380 everything, stop coming to firm, rigid conclusions, just kind of keep the conversation open, man.

00:28:03.000 What they end up doing is they end up partnering with people who are decidedly illiberal to usually secretly implement their agenda.

00:28:13.060 This is why the liberals always go soft on Antifa.

00:28:18.020 Antifa doesn't want to have conversations. 1.00

00:28:20.460 When Antifa shows up to your event, they're not there to talk, okay? 0.99

00:28:24.060 They're there to crack some skulls and throw explosives at the venue and kill people if they can. 0.92

00:28:30.400 BLM doesn't want to talk. 1.00

00:28:31.920 BLM doesn't want to have conversations. 1.00

00:28:33.300 BLM wants to steal the microphone, shout their propaganda, then cut the mic and start looting stores and shaking down businesses and seizing power and, oh, also killing people. 0.99

00:28:46.320 That's what those groups want to do.

00:28:49.900 And the liberals can pay lip service to how this has gone too far and we don't like, we don't, we would never do this.

00:28:57.800 But they fund those groups, they bail those groups out of jail.

00:29:01.440 When the BLM rioters finally did get arrested on occasion, Kamala Harris bailed them out of jail.

00:29:06.960 She didn't bail out the peaceful protesters.

00:29:08.360 She bailed out the rioters who committed crimes.

00:29:10.820 Joe Biden's staff did the same thing.

00:29:12.460 They raised money to bail these criminals out of prison because the illiberal forces, the hard leftists and Antifa and BLM and outright communists and outright anarchists, they do the dirty work for the liberals.

00:29:28.220 And the liberals get to pretend that they're above politics.

00:29:30.840 No, no, we don't, we don't under, we don't, we don't view politics as a distinction between friends and enemies.

00:29:36.640 We don't want to force anybody to go along with our program.

00:29:39.320 We just want to be open and conversational.

00:29:42.460 But if you don't go along with our program, Antifa is going to show up at your door.

00:29:46.260 Oh, but they're not us.

00:29:47.200 No, we're totally different.

00:29:49.020 But hey, Antifa, when you do show up and crack some skulls, you're not going to be punished for it.

00:29:53.880 That is such a deception.

00:29:58.640 Even the very fact that liberalism says, we just have the economic sphere.

00:30:02.860 We just have the social sphere.

00:30:03.980 We have the civil society.

00:30:04.980 That's not political.

00:30:05.700 That's not politics and electoral offices and laws.

00:30:09.720 No, it's just the free market and the free conversation.

00:30:12.460 And then meanwhile, what, Dove partners up with these radical activists who are not there to talk to you.

00:30:21.100 Do not, beware, beware the endless conversation.

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00:31:56.860 Hello there, Puff Daddy.

00:31:58.300 John here with a question for the Daily Wire love guru.

00:32:02.140 Earlier this summer, I met this fantastic young lady, and she and I have really hit it off.

00:32:06.980 Just one example of something we have in common.

00:32:10.260 Both of our older brothers are priests, and they were actually ordained together.

00:32:14.740 So she and I were actually at the same ordination years ago before we ever actually met each other, which is a small world.

00:32:21.760 Anyway, I live in Alaska, and she's Mexican, and I've been down there to visit her once already, and it went great.

00:32:27.300 All right, thank you.

00:32:57.960 First of all, stop worrying.

00:33:00.120 Look at the lilies of the field.

00:33:02.460 Look at them.

00:33:03.800 More resplendent than Solomon in all of his glory.

00:33:08.140 Yes, they're trying to do COVID again to rig the 2024 election.

00:33:11.140 It's true.

00:33:11.980 I'll probably get in trouble with Media Matters for saying that, but it's just so obviously true that they're doing that now.

00:33:17.000 But there's no evidence that they're going to implement the travel restrictions.

00:33:20.880 So I wouldn't worry.

00:33:21.900 Just keep your courtship going and see how it goes.

00:33:26.060 But be prepared for the hypothetical.

00:33:28.380 What would you do in that case?

00:33:30.580 In that case, I would exercise prudence is what I would do.

00:33:36.420 The first question you have to answer is, do you find the jab morally acceptable to take on its own?

00:33:44.000 Because all of the jabs, to my knowledge, that are out there were at least developed and potentially produced with cells that were derived from aborted babies.

00:33:55.580 The bishops, you're Catholic, it sounds, the bishops have said that it is morally illicit.

00:34:01.660 Some of them have even pushed the jab on people.

00:34:04.280 So, you know, that's what the authority of the church is saying about this issue.

00:34:10.280 And I think you could receive the jab basically with a clean conscience because the authorities, the successors to the apostles, have said so.

00:34:20.200 However, it is a remote cooperation with evil.

00:34:22.600 There's no getting around that.

00:34:23.620 And so maybe your conscience would bother you.

00:34:26.280 Maybe that would keep you up at night.

00:34:27.460 First, decide on that.

00:34:29.380 Are you willing as a moral matter to take the jab?

00:34:32.000 Then you've got the secondary question, which is, well, I don't think the jab is good for me.

00:34:36.020 Yeah, fair enough.

00:34:36.660 It probably isn't.

00:34:37.680 I don't think that I need the jab.

00:34:39.640 You sound like a young guy.

00:34:40.840 You don't need the jab.

00:34:42.080 Well, I don't like to be bullied by these governments and by these apparatchiks who are insisting on this jab contrary to science and good political philosophy.

00:34:53.620 And medical ethics and all the rest.

00:34:55.580 Yeah, fair enough.

00:34:57.160 But if you've gotten past the moral question of, okay, I think it would be morally acceptable for me to take this jab, even though it is a remote cooperation with evil, then I think that's the biggest hurdle.

00:35:09.760 Because you think about this girl.

00:35:12.500 Maybe you marry her someday. 0.99

00:35:14.340 Would you take a bullet for the girl? 0.96

00:35:16.980 If you're going to marry her, probably you would. 0.98

00:35:18.660 Okay, well, if you're going to take a bullet, you'd probably take the poison Fauci-ouchie too, even if the worst case scenario happened. 0.66

00:35:24.320 So I wouldn't focus on the political issue.

00:35:27.420 I would just focus on the moral issue.

00:35:29.000 Do you think it is morally licit to take this particular jab for the specific reason that it was derived from cells that came from aborted babies?

00:35:40.280 That's the issue.

00:35:41.460 All the risks to your personal health, the irritation that the governments are forcing you to do that, to me that is very, very secondary and should be taken into proportion with your care for this gal.

00:35:52.500 Okay, next question.

00:35:54.400 Hey, Mike.

00:35:55.200 Do you think that the libs bringing back COVID will have a significant impact on the landscape of the Republican primary, particularly for Ron DeSantis, since shifting focus back to COVID will enable him to highlight his achievements in Florida and point to Donald Trump's decision to turn the country over to Dr. Fauci?

00:36:12.820 Curious on your thoughts.

00:36:14.480 It's his best shot by far.

00:36:16.780 If you are on the DeSantis campaign, from the perspective strictly of self-interest, you have got to be praying that Fauci comes back and that the COVID lockdowns go back into effect.

00:36:29.280 Because if you look at this chart here, nothing really has changed.

00:36:33.380 Inasmuch as there has been any change, DeSantis spiked and then he fell down.

00:36:38.680 But if you look where he began and where he is now, he's just down a little bit from where he was.

00:36:42.500 Trump is just up a little bit from where he was.

00:36:45.020 I don't see very much changing the race.

00:36:47.940 The race in the circumstances of this indictment or this mugshot or this, that, or the other thing seems so dynamic already.

00:36:56.260 And even with this dynamism, the race is totally flat. 0.98

00:36:58.980 So that's the only shot that DeSantis has.

00:37:00.860 But just looking how nothing has changed basically for any of the candidates in well over a year, I wouldn't put my money on that changing.

00:37:09.420 But if there is a shot for DeSantis, it is that one.

00:37:14.000 And DeSantis would be crazy not to hammer him for it.

00:37:18.300 The problem for DeSantis is he peaked too soon.

00:37:20.840 So he peaked during COVID.

00:37:22.440 And everyone loved him during COVID.

00:37:23.880 And they were all talking about him as a potential presidential nominee.

00:37:26.020 But people's memories are so, so short.

00:37:29.020 So you would have to remind people of it.

00:37:32.380 And COVID could help him.

00:37:33.560 Even then, though, I just think the race is stabilized enough.

00:37:40.400 I wouldn't predict that it would make much of a difference.

00:37:43.040 Next question.

00:37:44.440 Hi, Mr. Knowles.

00:37:45.440 This is Abby A. from the chat.

00:37:46.940 My question for you is in regards to college.

00:37:49.180 Because I'm homeschooled, I have a really big jumpstart on my school.

00:37:52.100 This will be considered my senior year of high school.

00:37:54.120 And next year, I will be eligible to start dual enrollment.

00:37:56.280 Once my two years are up, I have a planned out that I will have accumulated around 60 college credits.

00:38:01.220 If I were to continue on the next two years, I would have a bachelor's degree in finance shortly after I turn 19.

00:38:06.300 My question is, is it worth spending the time and money to complete my degree if all I want to do is be a stay-at-home mom and raise a family?

00:38:12.520 My dad says I have to have a backup plan in case something happens to my husband.

00:38:15.620 And I need to have a way to support my family.

00:38:17.680 I can't wait to hear your thoughts.

00:38:18.900 Love the show.

00:38:19.520 And keep up the good work.

00:38:20.440 I generally discourage people who are not sold on going to college from going to college.

00:38:29.100 I am not one of these conservatives.

00:38:31.280 Many conservatives will say, oh, don't go to college at all.

00:38:33.660 It's totally bunk.

00:38:34.500 No, if you are drawn to go to college and you want to go for the right reasons, I encourage that.

00:38:38.940 But I'm certainly not one of these conservatives who says, if you do go to college, you should major in some practical degree like STEM or something, parts of STEM like engineering or some.

00:38:48.880 I totally disagree with that.

00:38:50.360 The point of university education is to get a liberal education.

00:38:52.880 It's not to do job training.

00:38:54.320 You can do job training whenever later on down the line.

00:38:56.700 The point of a university education is to do things that are completely not practical at all, to just cultivate your rational will and to read dusty old books that will help you to see the world more clearly.

00:39:09.540 In your case, you're saying you would want to get this degree for a practical purpose.

00:39:16.860 You're not particularly drawn to it.

00:39:19.300 But because of the way your schooling has already worked, you would essentially get a college degree in one year.

00:39:29.980 I don't know.

00:39:30.820 Are you engaged to be married right now?

00:39:32.740 If you are engaged to be married and your husband is, I don't know, he's in the Navy or something and you're going to get married and then he's going to deploy and you're going to move all over the country and it would make going to college very, very difficult, then maybe, okay, maybe you get married and just start having kids, whatever.

00:39:47.760 If you're not engaged to be married, though, if you don't have the prospect of this wedding anytime soon and you've just got a year where you don't know exactly what you're going to do with it, I don't see why not.

00:40:00.040 I don't think it's bad to have a backup plan.

00:40:03.860 I wouldn't put off the life that you want to live for this life that liberal modernity pushes you into or so that you have a plan B.

00:40:14.680 But it doesn't sound like you would be pushing off that life.

00:40:18.680 Some people do.

00:40:19.340 Some people push it off four years of college, then maybe a couple years of a higher degree or even a PhD, and then a long time of a career, and then they don't even start thinking about settling down until they're 30.

00:40:29.580 That's not the situation you're in.

00:40:32.040 So practically, I don't know, if you're not doing anything else with the year, might as well pick up a finance degree.

00:40:37.000 Next question.

00:40:38.560 Hey, Michael, it's Camille again, and yes, I'm still single.

00:40:42.160 And before you say, just take my advice and settle, I need you to understand that I have been trying, Michael.

00:40:49.080 It's not for lack of trying, and no, I'm not out there desperate, and no, I'm not out there picky.

00:40:54.300 Everyone says that when a girl who is still single and 29 is just picky, that just is not the case. 1.00

00:41:00.880 These quality of men is just not that high.

00:41:03.680 So I need some advice.

00:41:05.020 Like, how do I actually find someone I like?

00:41:07.820 And I swear, if you tell me to settle, I may have to unsubscribe and change my badge.

00:41:13.620 I might have to do it.

00:41:14.840 So please give me any good advice where I can find a guy to settle down and not settle.

00:41:20.660 Now, you need to go to the places where the men that you want to marry will be, and then 1.00

00:41:29.720 you need to be the sort of person who would be married by the men you want to marry.

00:41:35.420 Both of those things are very important.

00:41:38.300 And I'm not saying you can't be that person, and I'm not saying you don't know where those

00:41:41.080 places are, but I think if you have those two ingredients, that's going to help.

00:41:45.660 Now, so I have a great deal of sympathy here.

00:41:50.820 I don't want to sound like I'm being too harsh, but are you going to church?

00:41:58.520 Maybe you don't believe in God or something.

00:42:00.880 Okay, well, if you don't believe in God or if you don't practice religion, then you're

00:42:05.480 probably not going to meet a guy who does believe in God and does practice religion.

00:42:10.240 And the kind of guy you want to marry is the kind of guy who has religion.

00:42:15.520 So right there off the bat, that's going to be a problem for you.

00:42:19.420 If you are not regularly attending church and doing these sorts of things, you're not going

00:42:26.520 to be in the place with those kind of guys that you want to meet.

00:42:30.640 And you're not going to be the kind of person that those guys are going to want to marry.

00:42:35.700 First stop, right off the bat, what are you doing in your free time?

00:42:41.040 How are you even going about meeting these men?

00:42:43.440 Are you just going on dating apps?

00:42:44.680 Are you just like going to the bar?

00:42:46.000 Are you just going out to the downtown pubs or something, nightclubs?

00:42:52.200 Or are you talking to friends and saying, hey, can you set me up with this person?

00:42:56.700 What kind of friends are you talking to to set you up?

00:43:00.040 Are you talking to married, stable, normal friends who have already figured this stuff out?

00:43:05.700 Or are you just spending time hanging out with your girlfriends who are in the same boat that you are?

00:43:10.880 Which is it?

00:43:11.560 I don't know your situation, Camille, but I do know that I've had many female friends who have been in this situation.

00:43:18.500 And they've turned it around.

00:43:19.820 But the way that they've turned it around is not by continuing to do the same thing over and over again,

00:43:24.700 saying there's just no guys out there.

00:43:25.940 There are guys out there.

00:43:27.860 But are you going to the places where they are?

00:43:29.980 And if you do go to where they are, that's a big first step.

00:43:33.340 Are you the kind of person that they would want to marry?

00:43:38.500 Men are not nearly as shallow as we are told that we are.

00:43:43.260 You know, we've got red blood.

00:43:45.620 We like nice looking ladies. 1.00

00:43:46.960 We, you know, we like all of those things.

00:43:48.720 But when men think about getting married, dating for marriage, they're thinking about,

00:43:54.680 is this someone I want to live with for the rest of my life, even after all of our looks?

00:43:58.200 Everyone's looks are going to fade at some point.

00:44:00.060 Is this someone I want to be with?

00:44:01.620 Is this someone I want to raise my children?

00:44:03.840 Is this someone who sees the world in the same way that I do?

00:44:06.020 And sometimes, for some of my friends who have dealt with this, they have

00:44:10.160 continued to live like big libs.

00:44:16.000 They have continued to see the world, actually, as big libs. 0.96

00:44:19.660 But then they say, I want to marry a guy who's a good, strong, traditional, conservative,

00:44:23.640 normal, good husband type.

00:44:25.880 Well, that's not going to happen.

00:44:28.000 You've got to be the sort of person and do the sort of things that would attract that person,

00:44:33.260 which you can do.

00:44:34.360 It's not that hard.

00:44:35.220 It doesn't require a magic spell.

00:44:37.560 You've just got to do kind of basic stuff.

00:44:40.600 And what that will start to do is not only a value of the opportunity to meet these guys,

00:44:46.680 it will change your desire.

00:44:49.040 It will begin to turn your desire toward men who maybe right now you are not attracted to. 1.00

00:44:57.260 Maybe you're still attracted to the big, jerk, idiot, bad boys, even though you say that you're not. 1.00

00:45:02.300 A lot of women, they just are. 1.00

00:45:03.560 They just continue to be like that.

00:45:04.620 Your desires will start to change, and you'll be more attracted to the guys for whom you right

00:45:09.280 now are suggesting you might have to settle.

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 15, 2023

Ep. 1331 - Biden Crime Family Loses Hunter To Criminal Indictment

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