The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1355 - Queers for Palestine!

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00:00:30.300 As the war in the Middle East enters its third week,

00:00:32.640 AOC is already demanding that America accept Palestinian refugees.

00:00:38.140 Should Arab countries be taking on the lion's share of the burden to absorb 1.00

00:00:43.000 what could be over a million, if not more, refugees from Gaza?

00:00:46.420 I think there's something to be said about the region's partners being able to support and step up Palestinians.

00:00:52.800 However, that does not abdicate the United States from our historic role that we've played in the world.

00:00:59.280 of accepting refugees and allowing people to restart their lives here.

00:01:04.540 No thanks.

00:01:06.180 That seems like a bad idea.

00:01:08.420 Maybe, perhaps, we could consider taking in the relatively small number of Christians living in the Palestinian territories.

00:01:15.800 Not because we hate Muslims or anything like that, but because there are lots of Arab states around the Holy Land that could take the Muslims in.

00:01:24.280 And America is a Christian country.

00:01:26.060 And even putting Christian solidarity aside, that means there's a good chance that Christian refugees will assimilate. 0.99

00:01:33.400 And the ability to assimilate matters because peoples and cultures are different.

00:01:39.680 And there's one more concern, which might resonate more for AOC.

00:01:43.400 Why would liberals want to bring these refugees to our awful, oppressive, Islamophobic country? 1.00

00:01:53.260 All we ever hear from the left is how terrible and evil and oppressive America is, 0.99

00:01:59.360 especially toward persons of color and Arabs and Muslims in particular. 0.91

00:02:05.420 Does AOC just hate these people? 0.99

00:02:09.000 Want to make them even more miserable?

00:02:11.400 Or is that argument, like so many of the liberal arguments, totally disingenuous?

00:02:17.120 Nothing more than a fact-free rhetorical cudgel for beating Americans into submission to the left's political interest.

00:02:23.880 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:24.500 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:25.300 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:45.820 Joe Biden's brother wrote him a $200,000 check right after one of his shady business deal closed.

00:02:52.220 We'll get to that in one moment because Joe Biden keeps saying,

00:02:55.300 on all of the accusations of his corruption, he keeps saying,

00:02:58.000 where's the money?

00:02:59.080 Show me the money.

00:02:59.780 Where'd the money go?

00:03:00.380 Well, we have a check.

00:03:01.000 We have the money.

00:03:01.580 So we'll get to that in one second.

00:03:02.580 First, though, I want to remain on this point about the differences of peoples for a while.

00:03:08.600 There's a story out of Italy.

00:03:09.920 Italy has this lady prime minister, Georgia Maloney, 0.89

00:03:13.640 heralded as a great conservative hope in Italy.

00:03:17.280 And Maloney has just announced that she's split from her long-term romantic partner.

00:03:21.780 They were not married, but they have a kid together,

00:03:23.800 and they've been together a long time.

00:03:25.720 This guy is an Italian TV journalist,

00:03:28.760 and they split because he cracked a joke with some of his colleagues about having a threesome or a foursome,

00:03:34.620 something like that.

00:03:35.320 It's unclear how serious he was about inviting the colleague to have a threesome with him.

00:03:39.880 But in any case, Maloney said, okay, we're through.

00:03:42.640 And my main take on the story, forget about marriage and family and what this means about Western decadence and whatever.

00:03:50.000 Put all of that aside for a second.

00:03:51.240 My first reaction to this story is, the Italians, man. 0.98

00:03:57.720 You know, a zebra doesn't change its spots.

00:04:00.480 Is that how the saying goes?

00:04:01.380 The people's, this coming after decades of the political influence of Silvio Berlusconi,

00:04:09.740 the former playboy Italian PM who would hold bunga bunga parties with the young niece of Muammar Gaddafi

00:04:17.620 and make jokes about how he had to turn his playboy charm on to speak to lady foreign ministers and prime ministers around the world.

00:04:25.020 And this guy who just lived a lifestyle of a Casanova, of the classic Italian playboy.

00:04:31.560 And I think, man, these Italians, they don't change. 1.00

00:04:34.040 This has been true going back to antiquity because cultures and people are different, okay? 0.99

00:04:42.060 This is actually one of the major themes of the godfather.

00:04:44.860 In the godfather, you got this Italian family and they come to America and they believe in America.

00:04:49.660 And we all believe in America.

00:04:50.720 And they're going to assimilate. 0.54

00:04:51.600 And you got the young Michael Corleone, the son who, even if the rest of his family is going to be in the business of the mob,

00:04:57.780 he's going to be the clean-cut American war hero.

00:05:00.300 He's going to go to Dartmouth.

00:05:01.440 He's an Ivy League graduate.

00:05:02.560 He's going to be the American. 0.70

00:05:04.080 As Don Corleone says to him, you're going to be the senator, Michael.

00:05:07.820 You're not going to be buying off the senators.

00:05:09.420 You're going to be the senator.

00:05:10.320 You're going to be the American guy. 0.71

00:05:11.800 But the culture just pulls him back in.

00:05:15.320 Just when he thinks he's out, it pulls him back in.

00:05:17.960 The pull of culture, the pull of one's tribal identity from the family all the way up to the nation and the people is very, very strong.

00:05:29.100 And what multiculturalism and liberalism has told us for the past many decades now, five or six decades, is that peoples are all basically the same.

00:05:36.140 So you can transplant a guy from Timbuktu into America, and within five minutes, he's going to be eating hot dogs on the 4th of July and eating apple pie and indistinguishable from somebody whose family came over 400 years ago. 0.97

00:05:48.220 And that's just not true.

00:05:49.980 Assimilation is very, very hard.

00:05:52.080 And that's something we need to keep in mind when AOC is suggesting that we need to import a million people, the majority of whom elected Hamas in 2006.

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00:07:18.420 Speaking of Palestine and assimilation, there's a photo that went viral.

00:07:22.640 I think Libs of TikTok, our great friends over there, posted it.

00:07:25.240 It's of a guy, a sort of vaguely brown-looking fellow with a keffia around his neck, not on his head, but around his neck, holding up a sign that's one of the versions of the gay flag.

00:07:39.240 And it says, Queers for Palestine. 0.63

00:07:41.440 And everyone's attacking this guy, mocking him.

00:07:48.560 I want to have a different take here.

00:07:51.360 I'm with him.

00:07:52.780 I stand with him.

00:07:54.020 I strongly support sending all American LGBT activists to the Palestinian territories immediately. 0.99

00:08:02.080 I know that we have a spending problem here.

00:08:05.340 We've got major deficits, a whole lot of national debt.

00:08:08.500 I don't care.

00:08:09.040 Money is no object.

00:08:10.060 I am strongly in favor of Congress allocating funds to send every single American LGBT activist,

00:08:17.720 not just the ordinary people who kind of do some weird stuff in the privacy of their own,

00:08:21.240 but I'm like the activist types, you know, the ones with the signs and the flag and the yelling and the screaming

00:08:26.860 and the changing our curricula and our standards in public life, that I want to send every single one of them to Palestine immediately. 1.00

00:08:35.720 If we need to send them with first-class airfare, I'm fine allocating that money as well.

00:08:40.400 Whatever it takes, we need to support the queers for Palestine. 1.00

00:08:44.260 Now, the queers for Palestine probably don't know a ton about Palestine and how their behaviors will be received there, 1.00

00:08:57.120 but they can find out firsthand.

00:08:59.540 I don't want to ruin the surprise for them.

00:09:01.920 Speaking of queers, just the queers generally, 1.00

00:09:07.160 Maxim has just named a dude to the hottest 100 women list,

00:09:11.120 and this happens so frequently.

00:09:16.260 We've heard this at least since Bruce Jenner called himself Caitlyn,

00:09:21.800 and we were all told by the culture that he's just so brave and beautiful.

00:09:29.180 And forget about the brave part,

00:09:31.620 we now have to say that all of these transvestites are really, really beautiful.

00:09:36.700 And this guy, he goes by Danielle Laidley.

00:09:39.760 I don't know what his real name is.

00:09:42.520 He's a man.

00:09:43.500 He's a former Australian rules football player.

00:09:46.440 And I don't know if football means soccer or football or rugby.

00:09:50.060 And I don't, the whole thing is very confusing

00:09:52.400 and blurs all sorts of lines that should be relatively distinct.

00:09:56.140 But what I do know is he's been named to the hottest 100 women list in Australia for 2023.

00:10:03.020 He landed at the number 92 spot.

00:10:05.700 But the way you know that Maxim is lying is not even that he's a dude.

00:10:15.320 And it's not even that he's an athlete.

00:10:19.540 You know, so he's kind of a burly dude.

00:10:21.080 The way you know that Maxim is lying

00:10:22.920 and the way you know that this fellow is not one of the 100 hottest women in Australia

00:10:28.260 is because he's 56 years old.

00:10:31.260 And I have nothing against 56-year-olds.

00:10:35.460 56-year-olds can be graceful and elegant.

00:10:38.420 They can be beautiful.

00:10:39.560 They can have classical beauty.

00:10:41.660 But they basically can never be hot.

00:10:47.200 56-year-olds are not supposed to be hot.

00:10:50.020 They're supposed to be mothers, perhaps grandmothers.

00:10:52.840 They're supposed to be matronly. 1.00

00:10:55.260 They're supposed to be mature.

00:10:56.420 But they're not, you're supposed to be hot when you're like 22.

00:11:01.200 And also when you're a woman and not a male football player.

00:11:04.080 But it's just such an obvious lie.

00:11:10.100 Put the man thing aside.

00:11:13.380 Everything in our culture has to be inverted now.

00:11:15.900 Every single thing.

00:11:17.420 And so they even want us to believe that a 50-something-year-old man or woman is like hot.

00:11:23.920 But that isn't true.

00:11:26.440 And it shouldn't be.

00:11:27.880 It shouldn't be true.

00:11:28.980 We should stop ogling 56-year-olds, especially if they're male football players.

00:11:32.120 And stop forcing everyone to live in just a vat of lies.

00:11:36.940 Speaking of gender bending, there's a really, really important story that just came out.

00:11:41.920 By the way, is any of my show going to be on social media today?

00:11:44.400 Or any of the big tech platforms going to allow any of these stories?

00:11:46.980 Probably not.

00:11:47.900 There's a really important story on Daily Wire.

00:11:49.460 This is from someone named Sophie Ottaway.

00:11:53.880 And Sophie Ottaway is a man who for much of his life has identified as a woman.

00:12:02.480 It's not his fault, though.

00:12:04.040 He was basically tricked at birth.

00:12:06.080 More than basically.

00:12:06.780 He just was tricked at birth.

00:12:08.360 The headline is,

00:12:09.460 Doctors performed a sex change operation on me at two days old.

00:12:13.240 I found out decades later.

00:12:16.100 He found out he was born male.

00:12:17.860 He's got XY chromosomes. 0.64

00:12:20.060 But because he had a genital defect when he was born, the doctors performed some crazy surgery.

00:12:28.240 And then directed his parents to tell him that he was actually a woman.

00:12:33.000 And to try to explain away all of the strange facts about his biology.

00:12:38.560 And then at puberty to start putting him on estrogen drugs.

00:12:41.660 And just whatever it was, don't tell him that he was really born a man.

00:12:46.140 And if this story sounds familiar, it's because it's been done before.

00:12:50.640 There was this very sad case of the Reamer twins. 1.00

00:12:54.280 Bruce and Brian Reamer.

00:12:57.040 And one of the twins had a problem at birth.

00:13:00.620 I think it was a circumcision gone wrong or something like that.

00:13:03.320 And the doctors destroyed his genitals and told the parents to raise him as a girl, as Brenda. 0.97

00:13:10.800 But he never felt like a girl.

00:13:12.600 And same story that we have here from Sophie Ottaway.

00:13:17.820 Over time, these guys said,

00:13:20.440 Well, I'm not attracted to boys.

00:13:23.060 And I don't feel like a girl.

00:13:24.520 Especially as puberty approaches.

00:13:26.340 Maybe I'm a lesbian. 1.00

00:13:27.420 Maybe I don't know.

00:13:28.040 I'm this.

00:13:28.380 I'm that.

00:13:29.120 And finally, the story comes out.

00:13:30.320 And it really devastated them.

00:13:32.020 In the case of the Reamer brothers, this awful case was based on the perverted scientific inquiry of a guy named John Money, 0.95

00:13:41.680 who I talk about in my book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which is available now, as it has been, thank you, for a couple of years.

00:13:48.340 But it was an experiment on human beings, on real poor little kids, to determine whether sex and gender are deep and actually part of our nature.

00:13:59.940 Or if they're essentially socially constructed such that a clever doctor and some dishonest parents could just change it willy-nilly.

00:14:08.600 And what we learned from the Reamer twins, Reamer-Reimer, I forget how it's pronounced, and what we're learning from Sophie Ottaway here, is that sex and gender go deeper than genitals.

00:14:19.920 And that's what the trans activists say.

00:14:21.980 The trans activists say, gender is about so much more than just my genitals.

00:14:27.280 And in a way, that's true.

00:14:28.980 And the argument from the trans activists is, I can change my genitals. 0.98

00:14:33.580 I can have them surgically changed to more closely resemble the genitals of the opposite sex. 1.00

00:14:40.540 But that doesn't change anything, does it? 0.78

00:14:43.480 That's what Sophie Ottaway and Brian and Bruce figured out.

00:14:48.780 That, no, there's something deeper.

00:14:50.620 What is that deeper thing?

00:14:52.800 Chromosomes, I guess, is one aspect of it.

00:14:55.040 The way that your hormonal system works is part of it.

00:14:58.520 And maybe it goes deeper still.

00:14:59.920 Now, I've long resisted the conservative response to transgenderism, which says that the way we know what a man is and the way we know what a woman is, is just chromosomes or just genitals or something like that.

00:15:16.560 It's deeper.

00:15:17.760 The conservative view, the traditional view of that, is that sex derives mostly from matter.

00:15:25.200 We are form and matter because we're hylomorphic beings.

00:15:27.700 So we're body and soul.

00:15:28.620 And the sex derives mostly from our body.

00:15:32.480 But it applies as, to use the technical term, an inseparable accident of the individual.

00:15:37.260 So it applies to the whole person for our lives as long as we remain an individual, body and soul, connected.

00:15:43.940 And there are going to be a lot of modern scientific people who say, oh, here we go, mumbo-jumbo about the soul.

00:15:48.900 Here we go, mumbo-jumbo about metaphysics.

00:15:51.200 Here go these religious kooks again. 1.00

00:15:53.100 But how do you explain Bruce and Brian?

00:15:56.540 How do you explain Sophie Ottaway?

00:15:57.920 How do you explain these people who have had the materialist experiment tried out on them?

00:16:02.780 You just change the genitals around. 1.00

00:16:04.300 You just lie to the person.

00:16:05.400 You just say, hey, you're actually a woman and sex is just socially constructed anyway, so it doesn't matter. 0.93

00:16:10.760 They've had these things tried on them. 0.98

00:16:12.340 It's made them all extremely miserable.

00:16:13.920 And they've figured out the truth.

00:16:16.140 And we all know the truth, too.

00:16:18.060 So much of modern conservative activism, I think, the success of modern conservative activism is going to boil down to persuading people to trust the things that they instinctively know are true rather than believing some cockamamie mumbo-jumbo from some quack sitting in an ivory tower somewhere who tell you that actually boys can be girls. 0.90

00:16:40.000 Sex doesn't matter. 0.97

00:16:40.600 Sex doesn't matter. 0.97

00:16:41.500 Up is down.

00:16:42.340 Left is right.

00:16:43.700 Convincing us to disbelieve the things that we've all known for millennia.

00:16:48.940 Now, speaking of digging deeper, where's the money?

00:16:52.100 Where's the money proving that Joe Biden is a crook and was peddling American influence overseas to enrich himself and his family?

00:16:59.740 Where's the money, Jack? 0.92

00:17:01.220 Come on, corn pop.

00:17:02.320 Show me the check.

00:17:03.260 Well, we got the check.

00:17:04.220 James Comer, who's running the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, has revealed bank records that show a $200,000 direct payment from James and Sarah Biden, Joe's brother and sister-in-law, to Joe Biden.

00:17:18.940 In 2018, James Biden got $600,000 in loans from AmeriCorps.

00:17:24.860 AmeriCorps was a financially distressed and failing rural hospital operator.

00:17:30.360 So it goes to bankruptcy court.

00:17:32.360 Bankruptcy court says that James Biden received these loans, quote, based upon representations that his last name, Biden, could, quote, open doors and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections, which was probably true.

00:17:46.620 So James Biden gets the $600,000 loan.

00:17:50.780 On March 1st, 2018, AmeriCorps wired a $200,000 loan into James and Sarah Biden's personal bank account, not their business bank account.

00:18:03.300 So you got $600,000 is the big number.

00:18:07.960 $200,000 goes directly to the personal bank account of the brother of the now president of the United States.

00:18:13.320 And on that same day, James Biden writes a $200,000 check from that same personal bank account to Joe Biden.

00:18:23.520 What more evidence could we possibly have that Joe is taking bribes?

00:18:33.420 There's no more.

00:18:35.100 You couldn't have a more smoking gun.

00:18:36.720 In a way, I'm kind of surprised that Joe was this sloppy.

00:18:41.720 I figured that as a crook, he would have at least hid the money a little bit better, one or two more shell companies before it going basically just straight into his brother's personal bank account, straight from that.

00:18:52.760 Not even from a different bank account, from that bank account to Joe.

00:18:56.460 That's all the evidence you need.

00:18:58.560 I mean, we had all the evidence we needed when we got the Hunter Biden laptop, where Hunter Biden is saying, yeah, we're giving 10% to the big guy.

00:19:04.320 Sometimes I got to give half my salary to my dad.

00:19:06.420 I'm not going to do that to you, though, kids.

00:19:08.920 Yeah, I'm the bag man for the Biden family is essentially what he was saying.

00:19:12.700 We already knew all of that.

00:19:14.600 And it doesn't really matter.

00:19:17.000 And the reason it doesn't really matter is because of a crisis of regime that we're facing.

00:19:21.260 We nominally live in a democracy.

00:19:23.920 Sometimes people draw a distinction between a republic and a democracy, but broadly speaking, we're talking about the same thing.

00:19:30.040 Government of the people, by the people, for the people.

00:19:32.640 But there's a dark side to democracy, which is mob rule.

00:19:38.120 Just as you can have a monarchy, but you can have a dark side to monarchy, which is tyranny.

00:19:42.660 Just as you could have an aristocracy, which is theoretically good.

00:19:47.040 Aristo means good.

00:19:47.820 It's supposed to be government by good people, small group of good people, but governing for the common good.

00:19:52.860 The bad side of aristocracy is oligarchy.

00:19:55.700 What distinguishes the good from the bad version of all of these regimes?

00:20:00.880 What distinguishes it is whether you are governing for the common good or for your self-interest.

00:20:08.020 That's the classical distinction going all the way back to the ancient Greeks, going back to Polybius.

00:20:12.100 In modern political philosophy, people make less of this distinction.

00:20:19.880 Thomas Hobbes famously said that that distinction is basically bunk, and we just view our own regimes as good and other people's regimes as bad.

00:20:27.620 But I think the distinction is pretty real.

00:20:30.240 There have been good monarchs throughout history, and there have been tyrants throughout history.

00:20:32.840 There have been good democracies throughout history, and then there have been states run by mob rule.

00:20:37.860 The problem here is the American democracy, such as it is, has already decayed so significantly that people are ruling openly for self-interest.

00:20:49.160 And so this $200,000 check is not going to bother the Democrats because the Democrats are going to say, well, at least he's our guy.

00:20:55.300 At least he's on our side.

00:20:56.340 Yeah, he's enriching himself, but who cares?

00:20:58.920 He's going to enrich me too.

00:20:59.920 He's going to give me handouts, he's going to punish my enemies, he's going to let me and my friends off the hook for committing the same or worse crimes as the conservatives and the Republicans.

00:21:08.640 So, yeah, he's governing out of self-interest, but he's our guy, and we're governing out of self-interest too.

00:21:13.720 This is the line of, I think it was H.L. Mencken, who said, democracy is the theory that the people know what they want, and they deserve to get it good and hard.

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00:22:37.460 Speaking of national leadership, sorry to report, Jim Jordan is out of the race for Speaker of the House.

00:22:45.040 In a way, I'm happy to report this because I like Jim Jordan, and I think Jim Jordan is a good guy, and I wouldn't want to wish the worst job in Washington, D.C. on him.

00:22:53.380 But he would have been a good speaker.

00:22:55.340 Would have been great for conservatives.

00:22:56.800 Anyway, he's out.

00:22:57.580 Couldn't get the votes.

00:22:58.100 So now we have new people in the race, one of whom is the young Byron Donalds.

00:23:03.560 I am a candidate officially.

00:23:05.700 We put out a notice on our ex telling the American people and my colleagues that I've thrown my hat in the ring to run for Speaker of the House.

00:23:13.100 Look, let's be very clear.

00:23:14.500 Our House right now, we're having some issues.

00:23:17.440 We can repair those issues.

00:23:19.160 But it requires us to be unified, number one, go back to business and secure our border, actually fund this government responsibly, and then continue to lay out that conservative vision for the people who sent us here.

00:23:31.780 That job can still be done.

00:23:34.420 I believe I am the leader that can get that job done.

00:23:37.460 That's why I threw my hat in the ring to run for Speaker of the House.

00:23:39.940 He's in the race.

00:23:41.420 He's in the House Freedom Caucus, so he's siding with the conservatives.

00:23:44.680 He's close to President Trump.

00:23:47.260 He is a favorite of at least a good portion of the GOP base.

00:23:51.640 44 years old.

00:23:52.760 He was first elected to Congress only a few years ago.

00:23:55.500 So obviously, ambitious guy.

00:23:57.880 His critics are going to knock him and say he doesn't have the experience.

00:24:00.660 He's too new.

00:24:01.580 He doesn't know how to work the levers of power.

00:24:03.400 For Speaker of the House, that's maybe the most important thing to do.

00:24:05.980 Any kind of congressional leadership, you've got to know what buttons to push, what levers to pull.

00:24:10.380 So it'll be hard, I think, for him to get the requisite support.

00:24:15.380 But on the flip side, any congressmen who vote against him are racist.

00:24:22.540 Those are the rules now.

00:24:24.120 Those are the rules.

00:24:24.700 I didn't make the rules.

00:24:25.860 The libs made the rules.

00:24:27.380 But those are the rules.

00:24:28.020 This guy could be the first black Speaker of the House of Representatives. 0.96

00:24:34.200 And so anyone who votes against him is a big racist. 0.95

00:24:38.100 And that's that. 0.67

00:24:39.940 It's good for the goose.

00:24:42.240 It's good for the gander.

00:24:43.000 If it gets us a Republican Speaker, you know, that's fine.

00:24:45.300 The word racism doesn't mean anything anymore.

00:24:47.040 So I don't even think it's dishonest.

00:24:48.340 It's just like calling someone a flimmity flammity flammity flammity.

00:24:50.960 Doesn't, I don't know, it doesn't mean it's not dishonest to call someone.

00:24:53.260 That just doesn't mean anything.

00:24:54.320 So, okay. 0.98

00:24:55.080 You vote against Byron Donalds, you're racist. 0.96

00:24:56.860 There are other candidates for Speaker. 0.83

00:25:00.080 Actually, as of this morning, I think everyone is running.

00:25:02.660 I think I'm running.

00:25:03.980 Matt might be running.

00:25:06.060 Candace, Brett, she's in Hungary right now.

00:25:07.760 She's probably running for Speaker, though. 0.99

00:25:09.440 Every Republican in the world is running for Speaker.

00:25:11.920 The first few guys, though, to throw their hats in, well, you've got Byron Donalds.

00:25:15.720 Then you've got a few other people.

00:25:16.680 You've got Representative Kevin Hearn.

00:25:19.360 He's the chairman of the Republican Study Committee.

00:25:21.860 You've got Congressman Jack Bergman.

00:25:24.800 He's an impressive guy, former Marine Corps Lieutenant General.

00:25:27.420 He's been in office since 2017.

00:25:29.960 You've got Pete Sessions.

00:25:31.080 Pete Sessions has been in Congress for a long time.

00:25:32.940 He's served for 11 terms.

00:25:34.760 But he was defeated in 2018.

00:25:37.300 And then he got reelected in 2020.

00:25:40.260 And Sessions also formerly ran the National Republican Campaign Committee.

00:25:45.980 So he was in leadership, doling out money.

00:25:49.920 That might give him a slight advantage.

00:25:51.640 Though it was a long time ago.

00:25:52.880 He ran the NRCC back in 2009 to 2013.

00:25:57.500 So, you know, what have you done for me lately does prevail on Capitol Hill.

00:26:02.580 I don't know who's going to win it.

00:26:03.840 And there are about a billion other people who are going to jump in the race, too.

00:26:07.060 The thing that surprises me most about this is that these are all pretty solid guys.

00:26:12.920 Maybe Sessions, just by virtue of having been there for a long time and having been around leadership,

00:26:18.220 maybe he's got a little bit of the upper hand.

00:26:20.080 Maybe, I'm not even convinced of that.

00:26:22.220 But these are all pretty conservative, pretty solid guys.

00:26:26.160 All four of these guys are at least as solid.

00:26:30.660 I think actually significantly more solid and conservative than the previous speakers we've had.

00:26:35.420 Than Kevin McCarthy, than Paul Ryan, than John Boehner.

00:26:38.520 Maybe even the Newt Gingrich.

00:26:39.860 I really like Newt Gingrich, but 90s were a different time.

00:26:43.400 But he had some liberal eccentricities when he was speaker.

00:26:48.500 That's not a bad situation for us to be in.

00:26:50.660 We need a speaker, though.

00:26:51.660 And if this works, if we end up getting an effective conservative Speaker of the House,

00:26:56.860 then Matt Gaetz's stunt will have been worth it.

00:27:00.040 It will have been vindicated.

00:27:01.940 If we don't, and we end up with some squish compromise candidate that the Democrats are controlling,

00:27:08.000 then things will not be looking very good for Congressman Gaetz.

00:27:11.440 Now, speaking of candidates, RFK Jr. has just come out and endorsed some form of reparations for slavery.

00:27:22.380 And I love this story.

00:27:23.640 I love this story.

00:27:25.100 Some conservatives are really upset by it.

00:27:26.460 I'm not.

00:27:26.820 I'm so happy about it.

00:27:27.800 Here's what he said.

00:27:29.760 He said, we need federal tax dollars to, quote, rebuild black infrastructure, like banks and businesses. 0.73

00:27:34.180 He supports, quote, direct redress payments or tax credits to black people by virtue of being black. 0.84

00:27:41.560 He says, communities that were specifically targeted for destruction need to be specifically targeted for repair.

00:27:46.880 During Jim Crow, black banks, businesses, hospitals, schools, and farms were targeted for destruction.

00:27:51.620 Racists knew that without these, the black community had no chance of building wealth.

00:27:55.860 We must set aside federal dollars to rebuild black infrastructure. 0.96

00:27:58.800 These programs complement direct redress payments or tax credits to the descendants of the victims of Jim Crow and other victims of persecution.

00:28:06.080 RFK Jr. will find ways to offer this redress that are legal, fair, and win the approval of Americans of all races.

00:28:12.040 Okay.

00:28:13.120 You know, I hate to say I told you so.

00:28:16.440 I called it when Americans and when the right-wingers in particular were saying, RFK Jr., he's a right-winger.

00:28:24.180 That guy, he's a conservative candidate.

00:28:26.380 That we should back him over Trump or DeSantis or somebody.

00:28:29.160 I said, he's a lib.

00:28:30.660 He's a liberal.

00:28:31.520 That's no knock on him exactly.

00:28:33.500 He's always been a liberal.

00:28:34.340 His name's Kennedy.

00:28:35.200 He just sides with us on COVID vaccines, which is good.

00:28:40.180 But there are other issues, you know, like the economy and abortion and immigration and national security and everything and everything.

00:28:49.880 And he's with the liberals on pretty much everything.

00:28:52.980 Environmentalism, energy.

00:28:54.020 And he happens to be with us on COVID vaccines.

00:28:59.480 To RFK's point, the actual point he's arguing here, he says that black people were treated unfairly, so we need to give them money in different forms.

00:29:06.840 Of course, that was the point of the expansion of the welfare state in the 60s.

00:29:10.920 That was the point of the Great Society.

00:29:12.780 That was the point of the laws that followed the Civil Rights Act.

00:29:15.280 It was about transferring wealth and investing in black infrastructure and giving handouts and tax credits and different sorts of things specifically to black people. 0.62

00:29:23.340 And it didn't really improve things at all.

00:29:26.560 So when you hear about a Kennedy Democrat, this is exactly what we're talking about.

00:29:31.880 The Kennedy Democrats have not changed one iota since the 1960s.

00:29:35.160 The problem is those policies from the 1960s didn't help anything.

00:29:40.760 And in many ways, they hurt the country and the position of black people. 1.00

00:29:45.860 So it's just more of the same.

00:29:47.340 But the other reason I love this story is we've been told that from all the geniuses, even on the right, they say, oh, if RFK Jr. runs, he's going to take votes from Trump.

00:29:57.960 And the reason that people have said that is because Trump, he's a kooky populist.

00:30:02.900 And RFK Jr., he's a kooky populist.

00:30:05.780 And the kooky populists are going to take votes from one another.

00:30:08.940 The people who have the opinion that RFK Jr. was going to take more votes from Trump than from Biden are the kind of people who really don't like Trump.

00:30:17.520 And they write off Trump as some eccentric, populist, unmoored man who has no principles whatsoever, who just appeals to the basest, appetitive elements in society.

00:30:27.820 That's not my view of Trump.

00:30:29.920 I like some of the other Republicans, too, but I also like Donald Trump.

00:30:33.000 And I have long thought that Donald Trump appeals to a basically coherent, in fact, rather traditional kind of American conservatism.

00:30:43.560 And there's a coherence to his political program, even if he sometimes says things that are somewhat contradictory or eccentric.

00:30:50.700 And therefore, if a liberal comes around, he's not going to be able to pull the wool over the eyes of Trump voters.

00:30:56.760 That Trump voters are not as gullible and deplorable and irredeemable and whatever else the establishment tells us as the establishment might have us believe.

00:31:08.100 And then guess what?

00:31:08.900 You see polls, polling Americans, even in certain decisive places, on who they would vote for if it were Trump versus Biden.

00:31:18.260 And then who they would vote for if it was Trump versus Biden versus RFK Jr.

00:31:21.520 And guess who RFK Jr. takes more votes from?

00:31:24.060 Guess who hates to say, I told you so?

00:31:28.400 Maybe me.

00:31:29.900 I'm the one who did it.

00:31:31.260 Speaking of the Republican primary, Ron DeSantis looking really, really good over the weekend as he evacuates, him himself, evacuates more Americans from the Holy Land as war breaks out.

00:31:41.580 Happy to report we had another flight bringing Floridians back from Israel land in the wee hours of the morning.

00:31:47.760 We've been able to help hundreds of people get back from the war zone safely to the United States, to the state of Florida.

00:31:55.420 We've also put a lot of supplies that have been donated over to Israel, and I know they're really appreciative of it.

00:32:01.680 And we've got another flight coming, most likely tomorrow morning.

00:32:05.300 So federal government dragged its feet.

00:32:07.400 A lot of those folks didn't have any options.

00:32:09.640 We stepped up, showed the leadership, and are delivering results.

00:32:13.220 This is the best thing DeSantis can do for his campaign, because it's also the thing that's going to give him a path if this primary doesn't go his way.

00:32:25.520 Ron DeSantis is never going to beat Donald Trump at the charisma game.

00:32:31.100 Nobody is.

00:32:32.340 It's not even a knock on DeSantis.

00:32:34.060 Nobody is.

00:32:35.580 Ron DeSantis is not going to beat Donald Trump on the rhetoric game.

00:32:40.560 DeSantis might have more controlled or disciplined rhetoric, but it's not as exciting.

00:32:47.660 Ron DeSantis is never going to beat Donald Trump on the debate game.

00:32:50.380 Trump's not even going to go to the debates.

00:32:52.560 DeSantis is not going to beat Donald Trump on the rally game.

00:32:55.420 Trump's always going to have more exciting rallies.

00:32:58.680 The thing that Ron DeSantis can do is get results from his political office.

00:33:06.320 Donald Trump does not currently have a political office.

00:33:08.600 Ron DeSantis does.

00:33:10.560 So Donald Trump, I guess, could send his airplane as a private citizen to lift people out of Israel.

00:33:16.180 Might be kind of difficult to do.

00:33:18.380 Ron DeSantis is governor of Florida, with potentially constituents and family members of constituents in the Holy Land.

00:33:25.060 He can send airplanes over there, and he can get results done.

00:33:28.260 And what's great about that strategy is, one, if Trump stumbles, he'll be able to point to, I've been doing this.

00:33:36.040 I've been doing that.

00:33:36.880 I've been very effective.

00:33:37.820 I've been doing my job.

00:33:38.760 I'm not just selling out my second term as Florida governor to run for president.

00:33:42.880 I'm still getting stuff done, which he's doing.

00:33:44.620 And if the primary doesn't go his way, he won't have completely blown his career on one failed bid for president.

00:33:54.820 He'll still be able to point to momentum and achievements.

00:33:58.440 He can make the most of his time in the office that he's sitting in, especially as the presidential election does not appear to be going his way.

00:34:05.580 Speaking of evacuating the Holy Land, some good news. 1.00

00:34:09.360 Two American hostages have been released by Hamas.

00:34:13.400 These are a mother and a daughter, dual citizens of Israel and the United States.

00:34:18.500 They were freed on Friday.

00:34:21.880 Hamas turned them over.

00:34:23.340 This is according to a spokesperson for the Israeli prime minister's office.

00:34:27.280 It's really great news.

00:34:28.360 Thank God.

00:34:28.940 Wonderful that they've been released.

00:34:31.200 There are still over 200 hostages.

00:34:33.800 And until the hostage situation is dealt with, the war is only going to escalate.

00:34:43.160 There's nothing.

00:34:45.700 That is still just such a tense point.

00:34:48.100 They've got to deal with that problem before you can resolve the war.

00:34:52.500 This would never have happened under Trump.

00:34:55.480 I don't want it to seem like I'm just shilling for Trump or something.

00:34:58.180 This probably wouldn't have happened under any Republican president, but it definitely wouldn't have happened under Trump.

00:35:02.620 In the same way that this kind of thing wouldn't have happened, most likely, under Reagan.

00:35:09.940 Don't forget, in 1980, we were dealing with the Iran hostage crisis for a very, very long time.

00:35:14.620 And then the day that Ronald Reagan is inaugurated president, the Iranians released the hostages, which was a big middle finger to Carter.

00:35:22.520 But it also, I think, expresses the legitimate fear that Ronald Reagan was a cowboy and was unpredictable in his foreign policy.

00:35:31.160 And Donald Trump took that principle up to 11.

00:35:34.480 Donald Trump's unpredictability was so clear.

00:35:36.420 And he talked like a dove, and then he would drop the Moab.

00:35:38.980 He would say he doesn't want any more wars.

00:35:41.160 He'd be hugging Kim Jong-un.

00:35:42.320 And then he'd take out the top Iranian general.

00:35:44.380 You just didn't know what the guy was going to do.

00:35:45.980 And if there was a 5% to 10% chance that he was going to blow you to smithereens, then you behaved.

00:35:50.680 And you didn't get too feisty.

00:35:52.920 During the four years of the Trump administration, that is the only time in the last 22 years that Vladimir Putin didn't invade a new country or didn't go further into a country he'd already invaded.

00:36:06.700 It's the only time in those years that we didn't have new wars breaking out in the Middle East.

00:36:11.000 You actually had peace agreements being signed in the Middle East.

00:36:14.140 That you had relatively global peace.

00:36:18.240 And it's amazing how quickly things can fall apart.

00:36:22.680 We are now on the brink of World War III.

00:36:24.900 We still have hostages overseas.

00:36:28.100 Amazing how quickly things can fall apart.

00:36:29.860 And the question is, can you restore things just as quickly?

00:36:34.020 If Trump gets reelected, or if Trump loses the primary and Ron DeSantis gets elected, or Vivek gets elected, or Nikki, or whoever.

00:36:42.580 Can you restore what has been broken that quickly?

00:36:49.200 Maybe.

00:36:50.000 Maybe.

00:36:50.560 It's much harder to do.

00:36:51.420 Maybe you could, but it better happen fast, because the world is descending into global conflict.

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00:37:29.360 My favorite comment on Friday is from Michelle McDermott, 75, who says,

00:37:35.480 I know Michael's show is mostly watched by the younger generation, but this 75-year-old

00:37:40.120 Italian grandmother loves watching. 0.99

00:37:43.040 I am so honored to hear that.

00:37:44.740 And by the way, Michelle, this show is for all ages.

00:37:48.320 It's for all, we, some shows in politics, and especially on the right, they 90% target

00:37:57.000 young people.

00:37:58.240 Our show is enjoyed by all sorts of people.

00:38:00.120 In fact, I was very privileged to go to have some pizza with some Dominican sisters over

00:38:07.000 the weekend.

00:38:07.580 It was very nice.

00:38:08.440 And I found out that a sister, not of the Zoomer, or millennial, or even Gen X generation,

00:38:15.500 a sister of a certain age, watches the show regularly.

00:38:18.080 And I was so honored by that.

00:38:20.100 And I realized I got to make sure that I have properly formed content based on solid philosophical

00:38:25.180 and theological principles.

00:38:26.340 And we keep this show wholesome.

00:38:28.040 This is a family show, no naughty language, but I'm really honored that we can get the

00:38:32.760 Utes and the Italian grandmothers and lots of people in between. 0.95

00:38:37.820 Speaking of Israel-Palestine, this is a story that was going around last week.

00:38:42.060 I meant to get to it then, but I'll get to it now.

00:38:43.240 Here's a pizzeria in Gaza.

00:38:46.840 The Eiffel Bakery and Supermarket.

00:38:51.200 I guess actually, okay, it's located in Judea and Samaria.

00:38:55.460 The pizzeria posted an advertisement of one of the hostages, who happened to have been

00:39:04.260 a Holocaust survivor, holding a pizza.

00:39:06.880 And it was basically mocking this hostage.

00:39:10.060 And then Israel decided to completely destroy the pizzeria.

00:39:15.360 Understandably so.

00:39:16.160 This is war, and Israel sees one of the hostages being mocked by this private business.

00:39:24.860 And Israel just goes in and levels the pizzeria. 0.70

00:39:27.840 I get it.

00:39:28.680 If I were the prime minister, I very likely would have done the same thing.

00:39:33.980 But what is the legal basis for that?

00:39:38.460 What is the legal basis for leveling the pizzeria?

00:39:41.020 I don't think anyone's claiming that the pizzeria was housing Hamas leaders or weapons or anything

00:39:46.460 like that.

00:39:48.860 The justification for leveling the pizzeria is because they were mocking this hostage.

00:39:53.660 And that's extremely provocative.

00:39:57.200 And Israel and the Palestinian territories are at war right now.

00:40:01.320 And in war, people break things.

00:40:04.540 That's the argument.

00:40:06.800 But that's a reminder, too.

00:40:08.500 We are in all-out war.

00:40:10.840 And you're going to hear all sorts of legal justifications and all kinds of arguments for

00:40:16.300 why this side is doing this or that side is doing some other thing.

00:40:20.760 This is war.

00:40:22.060 And there is deep, deep enmity here between these peoples that goes back millennia and has

00:40:29.040 been inflamed recently by the Hamas terror attack that killed over 1,000 Israelis.

00:40:33.940 And things are going to get really, really ugly.

00:40:36.060 And it is just a reminder to me of something I've been saying repeatedly since the war broke

00:40:42.340 out, which is the U.S. interest in the war in the Middle East is to contain the war.

00:40:50.520 That's not the Palestinian interest. 1.00

00:40:52.540 The Palestinian interest is to destroy the state of Israel. 0.98

00:40:55.100 That's not the Iranian interest. 1.00

00:40:56.580 The Iranian interest is to destroy the state of Israel. 0.99

00:40:58.560 It's not the Israeli interest. 0.96

00:40:59.860 The Israeli interest is essentially to destroy the Palestinian territories and maybe to have 0.94

00:41:05.180 regime change in Iran.

00:41:07.720 That's not the Saudi interest or the Syrian interest or the Lebanese interest or this interest.

00:41:11.980 We have different interests here, okay?

00:41:14.140 And that's understandable.

00:41:15.980 Nations are different.

00:41:17.740 Peoples are different.

00:41:18.600 They're in different parts of the world.

00:41:19.520 And they've got different strategic interests.

00:41:21.780 But ours remains to contain the war before it spirals out of control, if it hasn't already. 0.98

00:41:31.420 Now, speaking of the role of reason in human behavior, I've got a very stupid article that 0.99

00:41:36.140 just came out. 0.98

00:41:37.080 This is from a Stanford University professor, Robert Sapolsky.

00:41:41.860 He's a neurobiologist.

00:41:43.100 He's a winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, which often goes to big libs.

00:41:48.720 I think that guy, Ta-Nehisi Coates, got it.

00:41:50.520 It's where they basically give you like half a million dollars or more.

00:41:53.680 It might be half a million dollars a year to just spout your inanities.

00:41:58.100 And it tends to focus on libs.

00:42:01.180 Robert Sapolsky at Stanford says that as a result of his studies, he has concluded there is no free will.

00:42:08.820 And here's his argument.

00:42:09.600 He says, the world is really screwed up and made much, much more unfair by the fact that

00:42:15.780 we reward people and punish people for things they have no control over.

00:42:20.620 We've got no free will.

00:42:22.740 Stop attributing stuff to us that isn't there.

00:42:26.040 So he's not just saying that we punish people for the ordinary things that we have no control over.

00:42:32.600 You know, we do something accidentally or we've got some impulse that we can't quite control

00:42:36.600 or we're mentally deficient or, you know, children have no impulse control over very little. 0.60

00:42:41.580 So we're not.

00:42:42.040 He's saying anything we do, anything, is something that we have no control over because we have

00:42:49.140 no control over anything at all.

00:42:51.340 The article goes on.

00:42:52.780 If it's impossible for any single neuron or any single brain to act without influence from

00:42:57.520 factors beyond its control, Sapolsky argues, there can be no logical room for free will.

00:43:02.360 And there we see it, because what is his argument?

00:43:05.000 What is his argument for us having no free will?

00:43:07.840 Is it that he's discovered some bizarre fact that we act before our conscious thought kicks in?

00:43:16.880 You sometimes hear those arguments against free will.

00:43:19.340 They're pretty dubious.

00:43:20.920 Do you hear that, I don't know, did he discover some magical cell that told him we don't have

00:43:26.960 any free will?

00:43:27.340 No, none of that.

00:43:28.400 What he discovered is that we are influenced by things that are not consciously our own choice

00:43:37.680 and autonomy, which like, duh, yeah, obviously, man, we live in the world and we're influenced

00:43:44.820 by any number of things.

00:43:45.900 We're influenced by our friends, by our family, by our upbringing, by the beliefs that we were

00:43:50.600 raised in, by the weather, by everything.

00:43:54.080 Yeah, we're influenced by all sorts of things.

00:43:56.020 How does that negate free will?

00:44:00.100 It negates free will, and I see how this MacArthur genius could fall into this trap.

00:44:06.080 It negates free will if you believe that freedom is total autonomy.

00:44:11.120 That's what the liberals believe.

00:44:12.240 That's what we in our civilization have believed for the last few hundred years, that freedom

00:44:17.580 is just the perfect autonomy over our body and perfect choice.

00:44:24.020 That's not what freedom is.

00:44:26.060 That's not the classical conception.

00:44:27.360 It's not the Christian conception of freedom. 0.68

00:44:29.480 The classical conception is that freedom derives from willingness, just willing things, and will

00:44:35.360 presupposes reason.

00:44:36.600 So if you've got a strong reason, if your intellect is well-formed, and if your will is well-disciplined

00:44:46.040 such that you can resist taking the third cookie after dinner, such that you can resist from

00:44:52.220 sleeping with the girl at the bar, such that you have control over your appetites, if your

00:44:57.160 will and your intellect are well-formed, then you can be said to be quite free. 0.99

00:45:01.240 But if they're not, if you're extremely ignorant and you're poorly educated, I mean, you're 0.95

00:45:06.620 poorly brought up, you've fallen into all sorts of vices, you haven't practiced virtues, 0.98

00:45:11.300 your will is very compromised, you can't see a drink without having the drink, you can't

00:45:16.100 see a girl without sleeping with the girl, you can't resist any of your base appetites,

00:45:19.940 even if you consciously don't want them, then you are not free.

00:45:22.400 Then you're a slave.

00:45:23.260 Then you are a slave to your own passions.

00:45:30.800 Being influenced by outside forces will depend on how well-formed your will and your intellect

00:45:39.400 are.

00:45:40.120 If you've been brought up the right way and you practice virtue, then even if some hot

00:45:44.840 lady walks in the room naked and tries to seduce you, you can chase her out of the room 0.98

00:45:47.860 like Thomas Aquinas did with a torch. 0.98

00:45:49.640 Say, get out of here, lady, I don't want you. 1.00

00:45:50.860 Even if someone hands you drugs and booze and all sorts of things, you can say, no, I

00:45:55.480 don't want any of that.

00:45:58.100 That's freedom.

00:45:58.900 The very fact that this Stanford professor, this genius, alleged genius, says that if you're

00:46:03.960 influenced by something, that means you're not free, shows you how degraded our will and

00:46:09.400 our intellect have become in our society, especially among the so-called intellectuals.

00:46:15.900 You know, the rest of the show continues now.

00:46:17.080 We have a song from Music Monday that I've been told to mention was picked by producer

00:46:22.020 Danny.

00:46:23.120 So if you hate the song, do not send your death threats to Mr. Davies.

00:46:27.600 Do not send your death threats to Professor Jacob.

00:46:31.460 Producer Danny is responsible.

00:46:32.680 The show continues now.

00:46:33.380 Go to dailywire.com.

00:46:34.120 Use code Knowles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.

00:46:36.880 Let's take it away.

00:46:43.140 Yep.

00:46:47.400 No.

00:46:48.160 No.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 23, 2023

Ep. 1355 - Queers for Palestine!

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