The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1364 - Libs Turn Into White Supremacists


Summary

A report says neo-Nazis are hijacking the pro-Palestine protests in support of the Palestine Liberation Movement. What does that mean? Is it a good or bad thing? What does it mean, and why is it bad?


Transcript

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00:00:37.700 I've got some really disturbing news.
00:00:39.560 This by way of Vice News, which is reporting that neo-Nazis are apparently hijacking the left-wing anti-Israel protests.
00:00:49.140 You see, many pro-Palestine groups on the left, groups such as Black Lives Matter,
00:00:54.080 are excusing and even celebrating Hamas terrorists for slaughtering Israeli civilians,
00:00:59.960 which is totally fine according to the liberal media.
00:01:03.040 But now, the neo-Nazis are doing precisely the same thing, which is evil and must be stopped.
00:01:09.980 Hundreds of thousands of liberals have been rallying in cities around the world
00:01:13.340 in support of the Palestine Liberation Movement and against the state of Israel.
00:01:18.060 That includes liberals, that includes Islamists, that includes all sorts of people
00:01:23.960 that are totally great according to the press.
00:01:26.980 But some neo-Nazis have joined them, which is very bad.
00:01:32.160 Even though the neo-Nazis are doing precisely the same thing with the same rhetoric
00:01:38.020 to advance the same objectives,
00:01:40.040 it is bad when they do it because they're white and on the far right
00:01:45.100 instead of brown and in the mainstream left.
00:01:48.600 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:50.180 Welcome back to the show.
00:02:10.500 Elon Musk says that George Soros fundamentally hates humanity.
00:02:14.720 I'm sure he'll soon be called an anti-Semite
00:02:16.360 because anytime you criticize the most prominent left-wing funder in the world,
00:02:21.300 people tell you that you just hate the Jews or something like that.
00:02:25.340 Anyway, we'll get to that in just a moment.
00:02:26.660 First, though, this word hijacking is really being used in an interesting way here.
00:02:32.720 Neo-Nazis and the far right are trying to hijack the pro-Palestine.
00:02:35.680 What is the point of the pro-Palestine protests?
00:02:39.160 The main mantra that you hear is,
00:02:41.620 from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,
00:02:43.660 which means abolishing the state of Israel,
00:02:45.160 which plenty of people around the world want to do,
00:02:48.020 including the neo-Nazis.
00:02:50.000 There are plenty of other people who also want to do that,
00:02:52.160 and they're different groups, but they have the same objectives.
00:02:54.480 So how is it hijacking?
00:02:56.460 If a group comes in and says,
00:02:59.800 hey, you guys over there, you distinct group,
00:03:02.800 we support what you believe,
00:03:05.640 we are going to join with you in the actions that you're currently performing,
00:03:09.360 and we hope for the very same objectives that you hope for.
00:03:12.920 How is that hijacking?
00:03:14.020 Hijacking is when you go in and you turn a political movement towards some other ends.
00:03:19.660 You subvert a political movement.
00:03:20.940 Here, though, it's just the same thing.
00:03:22.700 The only difference is that when the brown people do it,
00:03:25.100 Vice News says it's good,
00:03:26.220 and when the white skinheads do it,
00:03:27.960 Vice News says it's bad.
00:03:30.200 Now, if you call me crazy,
00:03:31.280 call me some sort of wild egalitarian.
00:03:34.560 But I think that an action ought to be judged on its intrinsic value,
00:03:39.740 rather than the shade of the people who are performing such an action.
00:03:44.120 But on the issue to the Israel-Palestine conflict,
00:03:46.800 what is the solution?
00:03:48.080 The answer is,
00:03:49.800 there isn't one,
00:03:50.920 as Hamas has made clear.
00:03:52.860 Israel is a country with no place in our land.
00:03:59.280 We must remove that country because it constitutes a security,
00:04:02.220 military, and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation.
00:04:06.580 We are not ashamed to say this with full force.
00:04:08.940 We must teach Israel a lesson,
00:04:10.840 and we will do this again.
00:04:12.480 The Al-Aqsa flood is just the first time.
00:04:14.400 There will be a second, a third, a fourth.
00:04:15.620 That's referring to the attack on October 7th.
00:04:17.760 Because we have the determination, the resolve.
00:04:20.160 Will we have to pay a price?
00:04:21.560 Yes, and we are ready to pay it.
00:04:24.200 We are called a nation of martyrs,
00:04:25.680 and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.
00:04:28.380 We did not want to harm civilians,
00:04:30.700 but there were complications on the ground.
00:04:35.940 The occupation must come to an end.
00:04:37.400 Occupation where?
00:04:38.100 In the Gaza Strip?
00:04:38.820 No, I'm talking about all the Palestinian lands.
00:04:42.480 Does that mean the annihilation of Israel?
00:04:44.060 Yes, of course.
00:04:45.560 The existence of Israel is illogical.
00:04:47.640 The existence of Israel is what causes all that pain, blood, and tears.
00:04:51.700 It is Israel, not us.
00:04:52.820 We are the victims of the occupation period.
00:04:55.420 Therefore, nobody should blame us for the things we do.
00:04:58.360 On October 7th, everything that we do is justified.
00:05:05.020 Okay.
00:05:06.580 Whatever one thinks of the Israel-Palestine conflict,
00:05:09.760 which actually is a complex conflict that has gone on in its present form for 100 years
00:05:14.780 and has gone on in other forms for millennia at this point,
00:05:18.480 whatever one thinks of the conflict,
00:05:20.700 the last part of what he said there is not true ever under any circumstances.
00:05:25.320 The notion that anything we do is justified because of our political claim,
00:05:30.460 that is not true.
00:05:31.420 To the contrary, there is something called just war.
00:05:36.240 And there are two chief considerations, even within just war,
00:05:41.140 which is, is your action just when it comes to going to war?
00:05:46.120 And is your action just when you are already in war?
00:05:49.560 And we've gone over on this show, I won't rehash it here,
00:05:52.040 we've gone over some of what makes a war justified,
00:05:54.900 going all through the ages from great thinkers,
00:05:58.000 including Cicero all the way up through St. Thomas Aquinas
00:06:00.740 and others all the way up to the present.
00:06:05.140 That last part that he just said there is not true.
00:06:08.020 There are in fact rules to war because there is such a thing as the moral law.
00:06:12.700 And there are moral considerations in war just as there are in peace.
00:06:17.340 What this does mean is that the war is almost certainly intractable
00:06:20.960 because the demands here cannot really be resolved.
00:06:25.040 The pro-Palestine movement says that Israel's establishment in 1948
00:06:30.120 constituted an unjust act of imperialism,
00:06:33.340 that the British gave the Jews this land that they had no right to give them.
00:06:38.480 And as a result of this,
00:06:39.920 Palestinian Arabs were kicked out of their land into other places.
00:06:44.780 And so they will just simply not accept the existence of the state of Israel.
00:06:49.300 Israel's argument is that God gave us this land millennia ago
00:06:52.980 and obviously different religious groups have different views of what that covenant means.
00:06:58.480 Christians have a different view.
00:06:59.440 Catholics and Orthodox have a different view even than say evangelical Protestants.
00:07:03.560 And obviously Jews have a different view and Muslims have a different view.
00:07:05.980 So that's the theological argument.
00:07:07.980 And then the more recent legal argument from the state of Israel
00:07:11.980 is that the Balfour Declaration grants the premise
00:07:15.720 that the Jews can establish a state in Israel.
00:07:17.360 And in 1948, the UN says it can happen.
00:07:19.960 And then an even more recent argument from a military and political perspective
00:07:23.980 is that Israel will say, we fought a war and it's ours.
00:07:27.060 Law of conquest.
00:07:28.180 Okay, well, then the response to that is going to be,
00:07:31.260 okay, well, we're going to keep making war on you just like Hamas has said here.
00:07:34.360 We're going to just keep doing October 7th.
00:07:36.900 We're going to keep attacking children.
00:07:38.620 We're going to keep attacking women.
00:07:40.460 We're going to keep attacking civilians.
00:07:42.000 And there's going to be no end to it, which is very, very sad.
00:07:45.220 It's a sad fact.
00:07:46.120 I think there are some utopians out there
00:07:48.220 who believe that there's going to be a once and for all answer
00:07:50.800 to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
00:07:53.480 I just don't think it's going to happen.
00:07:55.680 I guess Israel could annex Gaza, formally annex Gaza.
00:07:59.760 I don't think that the Arab states in the region are going to take kindly to that.
00:08:02.640 I don't think the West Bank is going to take kindly to that.
00:08:04.500 I think it's probably going to expand the war.
00:08:06.680 They could glass Gaza.
00:08:08.760 Same thing.
00:08:09.640 They could try to send the Gazans to Egypt.
00:08:11.480 I don't know that that's going to work.
00:08:14.160 Conversely, Hamas could go in and say we're going to kill all the Jews
00:08:16.940 or rout them out of the land of Israel.
00:08:19.180 I don't think that's going to go over all that well either.
00:08:21.380 So it seems relatively intractable now,
00:08:24.180 which is why, for the American audience,
00:08:27.740 my perspective has always been and remains,
00:08:31.080 the chief U.S. interest in this war is to contain the war.
00:08:36.460 There's no reasoning with the head of Hamas.
00:08:38.280 Okay, there's no reasoning with we celebrate our women and our children martyrs
00:08:43.740 to die so that we can abolish the state of Israel.
00:08:46.860 There's no arguing with we love death more than the Israelis love life.
00:08:50.080 Okay, and there's not going to be any way.
00:08:52.800 What's going to happen?
00:08:53.540 The state of Israel is just going to say,
00:08:54.520 okay, never mind then.
00:08:55.380 We're gone.
00:08:55.880 Well, we're going to leave.
00:08:57.300 We've been here for 75 years, but okay, we're done now.
00:09:01.060 You're right, Hamas.
00:09:01.880 You convinced us.
00:09:02.680 No, there's not.
00:09:03.360 So the only interest for the United States, or the chief interest, I should say,
00:09:08.820 is contain the war.
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00:10:14.220 Speaking of containing threats, there's a new poll out
00:10:17.260 that looks at the race, not just Biden versus Trump,
00:10:21.340 not just Trump versus the Republican primary candidates,
00:10:23.620 but Biden versus Trump versus RFK Jr.
00:10:27.420 And according to this poll, forget about who wins and who pulls votes from whom.
00:10:32.200 According to this poll, this is Quinnipiac, which is a very serious poll.
00:10:36.920 RFK Jr. is currently polling at 22% against Biden and Trump.
00:10:44.780 So according to this poll, if it's just Biden versus Trump, Biden wins by one point.
00:10:49.920 If it's Biden, Trump, and RFK Jr., Biden wins by three points.
00:10:55.580 So this contradicts earlier polls.
00:10:57.060 I have long said I think RFK takes more votes from Biden than he does from Trump.
00:11:02.240 And most polls have backed that up and I still stand by that prediction.
00:11:06.300 This poll contradicts that though, albeit very slightly,
00:11:08.980 and says no, RFK actually takes slightly more votes from Trump.
00:11:13.160 I don't totally buy that, but could be the case.
00:11:15.560 The crazier part about it is that RFK Jr. is at 22%.
00:11:19.480 So you got Biden at 39, Trump at 36, RFK Jr. at 22.
00:11:23.380 22 in that kind of a race when the other two major party frontrunners are in the 30s and
00:11:29.200 you're in the 20s, that's crazy.
00:11:31.700 That's really good.
00:11:33.540 And then what happens when you add Cornel West into the race?
00:11:35.600 Again, Quinnipiac is predicting that Biden always wins.
00:11:38.960 But then it goes down a little bit again.
00:11:40.820 Biden is up one point.
00:11:42.580 It's Biden 36, Trump 35.
00:11:44.120 So statistically even, RFK Jr. loses a little bit at 19%.
00:11:48.640 And then Cornel West is at 6%.
00:11:50.900 So according to this, the combination of Cornel West and RFK Jr. is better for Trump than just RFK Jr. himself.
00:11:58.460 Again, these are pretty slim margins.
00:12:00.900 So forget about that for a second.
00:12:03.480 How does RFK Jr. poll at 22%?
00:12:06.060 Some would say it's because he was right about COVID.
00:12:10.580 Or at least he was more right about COVID than Anthony Fauci or Joe Biden or maybe even Donald Trump for that matter.
00:12:16.720 Maybe.
00:12:17.260 But I don't think that the RFK Jr. support is primarily about COVID.
00:12:20.860 One, because he's polling well among Democrats.
00:12:25.380 I think he said, what, 20% among Democrats.
00:12:27.380 But also, if the chief issue in this race were COVID and the handling of COVID, Ron DeSantis would be the Republican nominee, not Donald Trump.
00:12:37.340 But right now, Trump is destroying DeSantis.
00:12:39.560 According to this very same poll, Trump is at 64%.
00:12:42.620 Ron DeSantis is at 15%.
00:12:44.900 So, Trump is at more than 4x what DeSantis is.
00:12:51.420 And then DeSantis is at roughly 2x what the next highest polling Republican, Nikki Haley, is at, which is 8%.
00:12:57.360 So, you got Trump with a 49-point lead.
00:13:01.760 Ron DeSantis can claim, maybe it's his greatest achievement, it's certainly up there, that he was the best governor in America on COVID.
00:13:11.460 And yet he's losing.
00:13:12.320 So, what's the RFK Jr. thing about?
00:13:13.600 I think the RFK Jr. 22% surge in the polls is about a longing for a bygone era.
00:13:21.980 I think it's not because RFK Jr. is the most normal guy in the world, but his last name's Kennedy.
00:13:27.540 And he's more moderate, at least on some issues, than Joe Biden.
00:13:32.000 He's more moderate on immigration.
00:13:34.300 He's a little more moderate on abortion.
00:13:36.760 He's a little more moderate on a few issues.
00:13:39.800 Joe Biden doesn't really believe anything.
00:13:41.280 So, to say more moderate or more radical would imply that he has beliefs, and he doesn't.
00:13:45.740 Joe Biden licks his fingers, figures out which way the wind is blowing, and then goes with that.
00:13:48.880 And because the Democratic Party is so much more radical now, and because RFK Jr., I think, actually does have some beliefs, he seems more moderate.
00:13:56.800 And people just think, ah, back in the 60s and 70s, man, politics was a little more normal.
00:14:01.580 It was crazy then, too.
00:14:02.780 You know, we were, like, assassinating presidential candidates, and there was a cultural revolution, and bombing federal buildings.
00:14:07.340 But, you know, though, all in all, it was more normal than it is now.
00:14:11.240 That's the longing that we're seeing.
00:14:13.360 And he represents that because of his last name.
00:14:16.760 And Trump and Biden, for a lot of Americans, represent the modern craziness.
00:14:24.360 Now, of course, nostalgia is history after a few drinks.
00:14:27.520 So, as I've just alluded to, the 1960s weren't all that hot.
00:14:31.180 There were major protests, a ton of what is euphemistically called civil unrest, which just means political violence, the assassination of major political figures.
00:14:40.260 So, it wasn't all that great.
00:14:41.520 Age of Aquarius, a bunch of weird hippies cropping up, doing drugs, destroying the family, all sorts of stuff.
00:14:47.920 But, people are nostalgic.
00:14:50.440 And so, how far can RFK Jr. ride that nostalgia?
00:14:55.340 Further and further, depending on how much the political order falls into chaos, which doesn't show any signs of letting up doing that.
00:15:02.960 Now, speaking of longing, one of the biggest Halloween costumes this year, I am told.
00:15:08.440 I was traveling on Halloween, but I was getting updates.
00:15:11.280 And I'm told that one of the big Halloween costumes was Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift.
00:15:16.320 And, in fact, Travis Kelsey was talking about this with his brother, Jason Kelsey.
00:15:22.500 Apparently, they have a podcast because every white man, every white millennial man in the country, if not in the world, has a natural right to a podcast.
00:15:30.860 I don't know how that came to be, but just looking at the results here, I'm not sure that I know a single white millennial man who does not have at least one podcast.
00:15:43.300 So, I guess the Kelsey brothers have one.
00:15:45.540 And they were talking about how odd it is that people were dressing up as this previously relatively unknown football player and Taylor Swift.
00:15:53.960 There were so many people that dressed up like Travis and Taylor and me and Kylie and Mom.
00:16:02.080 Like, it was probably the most…
00:16:04.080 It was a Kelsey Halloween.
00:16:06.000 Yeah, that was a major amount of Kelsey outfits.
00:16:08.960 It was a New Heights.
00:16:09.680 It was a Kelsey.
00:16:10.540 It was pretty creepy watching that many people be us, but it was awesome.
00:16:16.700 It's kind of cute.
00:16:18.140 I don't know that much about Taylor Swift.
00:16:20.420 I certainly don't know anything about Travis Kelsey.
00:16:22.180 Kelsey, it's kind of nice.
00:16:24.640 I don't mind it.
00:16:26.260 It seems sort of relatively wholesome.
00:16:28.860 America seems obsessed with Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift, just as America is obsessed with all of Taylor Swift's boyfriends, which shows a problem for Taylor Swift and her career.
00:16:41.320 And the problem is this.
00:16:43.620 Taylor Swift cannot get married and move on with her life without radically changing her career.
00:16:52.180 People love when Taylor Swift gets a new boyfriend.
00:16:58.680 But she needs to keep getting a new boyfriend in order to do that.
00:17:02.100 All of Taylor Swift's songs are just about her ex-boyfriends.
00:17:06.500 So she needs a steady supply of ex-boyfriends if she's going to have a steady supply of songs.
00:17:10.080 And the songs are popular and they've made her into a billionaire.
00:17:12.260 But the minute that she gets a serious boyfriend and then gets married and she's off the market, what's she going to write about?
00:17:18.840 What's she going to sing about?
00:17:19.900 What are the celebrity tabloid people going to follow?
00:17:24.060 Where's the surprise?
00:17:24.860 It's like a sitcom.
00:17:25.780 This is the problem for sitcoms.
00:17:27.160 In a sitcom, you've got the two characters who are love interests.
00:17:30.360 And the question is always, will they or won't they?
00:17:33.360 And then the moment that they get together, the show is terrible.
00:17:37.060 You want them to get together.
00:17:38.580 You want to believe that there is true love and marriage and a happy ending.
00:17:43.760 But the problem with a sitcom is it's got to go on.
00:17:46.140 So that can't be the ending.
00:17:47.560 And then the minute that you, the viewer, get what you want in a sitcom,
00:17:50.880 the moment that Niles and Daphne finally get together, the show goes stale.
00:17:56.860 Because there's nothing left.
00:17:58.000 There's no more anticipation.
00:17:59.280 Now it's just a marriage.
00:18:00.280 People don't want to watch a marriage.
00:18:01.900 So what is she going to do?
00:18:02.880 This is a big problem, I think, with our culture.
00:18:05.700 Is we don't want to move on.
00:18:08.780 We want to remain perpetually adolescent for our whole lives.
00:18:11.840 I think it's a big part of why Taylor Swift's music remains so popular.
00:18:15.980 I think it's a big part of why the sitcom has been the defining genre of the past 30 years.
00:18:21.620 I think it's a big reason why people don't get married.
00:18:24.800 And put marriage aside for a second.
00:18:26.800 Why they don't grow up.
00:18:29.040 Why you have people in their 30s and 40s using terms like adulting.
00:18:33.440 Because they're so proud that they paid a bill for once.
00:18:36.740 But life is not a sitcom.
00:18:39.540 Life is a drama.
00:18:41.860 Life is a drama.
00:18:43.000 And you've got to lean in and grow and not be perpetually a child.
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00:20:34.300 My favorite comment yesterday is from Bill Burkett, 7166, who says,
00:20:39.860 It's gotten a little hard to watch the show with half of it cut out.
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00:20:46.460 I feel you.
00:20:48.040 There have been some cuts on the YouTube show.
00:20:50.420 I mean, I just do my show, is the thing.
00:20:53.000 Because I'm not going to allow the jerks at big tech to censor me from saying what I'm going to say.
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00:21:00.840 So we have to clip out the parts that are not allowed on certain platforms.
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00:21:26.000 I don't know what more I can do for you.
00:21:28.280 Unless you want me to go in and change the largest company in the world, which has a liberal bent.
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00:21:33.540 I'm doing my best for you.
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00:21:44.960 However, speaking of human relationships, Elon Musk has just said that George Soros hates humanity.
00:21:55.540 Soros, I don't know.
00:21:56.760 I mean, he had a very difficult upbringing.
00:22:01.560 And in my opinion, he fundamentally hates humanity.
00:22:06.780 That's my opinion.
00:22:08.320 Really?
00:22:08.920 Yeah.
00:22:09.140 I mean, well, he's doing things that erode the fabric of civilization, you know, getting DAs elected who refuse to prosecute crime.
00:22:17.520 That's part of the problem in San Francisco and L.A. and a bunch of other cities.
00:22:22.020 So why would you do that?
00:22:24.060 As is often the case, Elon Musk, spot on here.
00:22:26.880 This is the irony with humanists and humanitarians.
00:22:32.040 The humanists and the humanitarians, they suggest that they are exalting mankind.
00:22:41.920 That they are perfecting humanity.
00:22:44.420 And all they want is for humanity to live up to its full potential.
00:22:49.280 And the way they're going to do that is by getting rid of all those stupid things we believed in the past.
00:22:53.520 We're going to get rid of religion.
00:22:55.000 That only holds us back and makes us fight each other.
00:22:57.600 And it's not very inclusive.
00:22:59.780 And it's not diverse and equitable or whatever the modern jargon is.
00:23:04.560 We're going to get rid of all the traditions.
00:23:07.060 We're going to get rid of all the normal bonds and relationships.
00:23:10.000 We're not up in the whole world.
00:23:10.880 We're going to be revolutionary.
00:23:12.280 But the irony is that the humanists and the humanitarians end up degrading human beings.
00:23:19.980 When you have God in your perspective and all the things that go along with God, religion, civilization, inspiration, when you have that, mankind becomes most perfectly himself.
00:23:36.080 Because man is made in the image and likeness of God.
00:23:39.560 So when your society is oriented toward God, you become more perfectly who you really are.
00:23:45.080 When you take God out of the equation and you say, we're going to be humanists, we're going to only focus on humanity.
00:23:52.400 We're not going to focus on all those other moral or religious considerations and rights and obligations.
00:23:56.980 We're just going to focus on human beings.
00:23:58.780 Humans are the greatest thing of all.
00:24:00.100 We're going to turn humans into gods.
00:24:01.580 We're going to write a book like Yuval Harari wrote called Homo Deus.
00:24:06.080 Ironically, what you do is you degrade humans.
00:24:08.200 Because you're forgetting what humans are supposed to be.
00:24:11.040 You're forgetting in whose image the humans are made.
00:24:14.100 And so you make humans like animals.
00:24:16.620 You make humans like computers.
00:24:18.140 We start talking about humans like machines.
00:24:20.240 Or we start talking about humans as no different from irrational beasts.
00:24:23.560 We're just flesh.
00:24:24.620 We're just hormones and synapses and pistons firing.
00:24:28.580 We pretend that we have rational thought, but we don't really.
00:24:32.080 We know that that's just an illusion.
00:24:34.180 You're just a cog.
00:24:35.300 You're just a machine.
00:24:36.120 You're like a computer.
00:24:37.040 We're going to hack you.
00:24:38.320 You're going to have a hackable.
00:24:39.980 We're going to biohack your body.
00:24:42.280 And we're going to transform you.
00:24:43.260 We're going to upgrade the software, whatever stupid language they use.
00:24:46.340 So ultimately, they degrade humanity.
00:24:48.480 This has always been the case.
00:24:50.580 It's always, even George Soros, he's a tragic figure to me.
00:24:54.060 Because the thing I think of first when I think of George Soros is Esperanto.
00:24:57.980 To me, Esperanto explains George Soros.
00:25:00.440 This is a man who grew up, his father was one of the leaders of creating Esperanto and promoting it.
00:25:07.120 This failed universal second language.
00:25:10.980 It's a language that was just concocted.
00:25:13.100 It's a contrivance.
00:25:14.520 And it was supposed to be the second language.
00:25:17.080 For all the people who speak all these different languages, that's how they would all converse with one another.
00:25:20.660 And we'd all come together kumbaya.
00:25:22.000 And the irony is there already was a universal second language for thousands of years in the West.
00:25:27.780 And that language is Latin.
00:25:29.080 And it was precisely at the time that all these new modern hip liberal people said,
00:25:33.080 we've got to get Latin out of life.
00:25:35.280 We've got to, Latin's a dead language.
00:25:37.500 We've got to forget that.
00:25:38.420 And all of a sudden, it was exactly at that time that they said,
00:25:41.680 hey, wait, we need a universal second language.
00:25:43.120 So they contrive this thing Esperanto, which is just inhuman.
00:25:46.980 In fact, if you try to teach little kids to speak Esperanto,
00:25:50.320 they will naturally make it more complicated.
00:25:53.120 Because life isn't so simple.
00:25:54.820 And we, human beings, are just not that good at playing God.
00:25:59.060 We're not, we actually can't create the universe better than it was already created.
00:26:02.920 And George Soros, it was a childhood speaker of Esperanto, and he is a big promoter of it.
00:26:09.360 Just as he's a big promoter of all of these human contrivances to remake the world after our own image.
00:26:14.660 Not going to work very well.
00:26:16.340 Very, very degrading.
00:26:17.680 Speaking of humanitarians, Democrat Representative Jason Crow is voting against Republican Speaker Mike Johnson's
00:26:27.820 Israel support bill because it, quote, politicizes Israel.
00:26:34.680 I'm not going to support this bill.
00:26:36.260 It's a horrible, horrible bill.
00:26:38.580 It's horrible for Israel because it actually doesn't have any humanitarian aid funding.
00:26:44.140 So like I've long said, there's no sole military solution to this.
00:26:48.200 We have to couple humanitarian aid and protection of civilians with the military response.
00:26:52.680 And if we don't do that, neither one of those will be a success.
00:26:55.240 So there has to be humanitarian funding, but they have politicized this effort to support
00:27:01.280 Israel in a way that is unacceptable.
00:27:03.740 It sets a precedent that these national security supplementals will be subject to politics in
00:27:08.440 a way that we never have subjected in the politics before.
00:27:11.540 And I'm just not going to stand for it.
00:27:13.200 I'm going to stand up and say there's a bipartisan way of doing this in a way that we have always
00:27:17.160 done in the past.
00:27:18.160 And we're not going to allow this to be politicized.
00:27:20.780 The Republicans have apparently politicized support for Israel.
00:27:27.320 What does that mean?
00:27:28.680 What on earth does that mean?
00:27:31.640 How do you politicize a congressionally ratified military aid package to a foreign government?
00:27:40.020 Was that, that wasn't political before?
00:27:42.280 What was it?
00:27:42.900 That was just kind of cultural, man.
00:27:45.260 You know, it was just artistic and spiritual.
00:27:47.620 It was personal.
00:27:48.240 It wasn't political when our duly elected representatives vote to spend taxpayer money on a military aid
00:27:54.900 package to support a foreign nation in a war.
00:27:57.720 That's not political.
00:27:58.520 Give me a break.
00:27:59.560 What is, that, that is one of the phrases that drives me craziest in modern politics is
00:28:04.640 when people accuse their opponents of politicizing something.
00:28:09.280 What does that mean?
00:28:10.600 Political means public.
00:28:11.940 That's all it means.
00:28:12.680 If, if, if an issue is of public interest, it is by definition a political matter.
00:28:19.620 This one is just extremely ridiculous because we're talking about international diplomacy and
00:28:25.900 foreign aid.
00:28:27.100 Well, that was previously, it was not a political matter.
00:28:29.420 I guess what he means is they're making it party political.
00:28:32.280 They're making it partisan.
00:28:34.100 But, Mike Johnson's not making it party political.
00:28:37.280 He's saying, hey, we're going to vote to give the Israeli government money.
00:28:40.220 You guys want in?
00:28:41.680 And, and a lot of Democrats are saying no right now because it's a wedge issue for the
00:28:44.620 Democrats because the Democrat donors support the state of Israel and the Democrat base
00:28:48.460 hates the state of Israel.
00:28:50.040 So, either way, the Democrat representatives are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
00:28:54.880 People just decry politicization when they want to delegitimize one's political opponents.
00:29:02.540 When they say that's out, your opinion is outside the scope of politics.
00:29:06.840 And, of course, they do that often because they can't win a political debate, including
00:29:12.260 in our nation's deliberative body.
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00:30:48.080 I'm going to pull it up here on my travel iPad.
00:30:54.200 Take it away.
00:30:56.080 Hey, Michael.
00:30:56.500 I'm a long-time listener.
00:30:57.760 I've been listening since my sophomore year of high school.
00:31:00.760 Currently a freshman in college.
00:31:03.040 And I have not missed a single episode since I started watching.
00:31:07.360 Pretty big achievement, in my opinion.
00:31:09.160 Right.
00:31:09.360 So I'm in a little bit of an interesting situation.
00:31:12.860 Just for preface, I'm a male who has tracks into females as well as males, too.
00:31:19.700 And I have a really good friend of mine, best friend I could ever ask for.
00:31:22.820 We started off kind of just as, like, normal, see you later type people.
00:31:26.320 And then shortly after, I didn't, you know, take this the way it was at the time, but developed
00:31:35.420 some, you know, feelings.
00:31:37.340 And as far as I know, I know him pretty well.
00:31:41.320 As far as I know, you know, he's a straight male.
00:31:45.840 Very questionable straight male.
00:31:47.080 But, you know, and it's just rough, you know, like, since we're so close, we basically tell
00:31:55.720 each other everything.
00:31:56.500 It's just rough hearing him, you know, talk about this particular girl now who he feels
00:32:02.260 strongly for.
00:32:03.900 It's just really hard, you know, not being able to, you know, tell him how I feel.
00:32:08.660 And I just really wanted some advice on it.
00:32:12.800 Thanks.
00:32:13.680 That's a tough one, pal.
00:32:17.080 What I would recommend is, don't tell him how you feel.
00:32:22.640 Because, look, you're obviously struggling with this.
00:32:25.760 You are attracted to women, but you're also dealing with some feelings of same-sex attraction.
00:32:30.740 And this is complicating your friendship.
00:32:34.620 It might be the case, I sometimes wonder.
00:32:37.140 I'm not saying that there's no deeper or more fundamental basis of same-sex attraction.
00:32:43.440 But the fact that it appears to be so widespread now, I do wonder if that is partly due to a
00:32:51.720 confusion over friendship.
00:32:53.500 Because men are, when men become friends now, it's called gay.
00:33:01.940 If you have a friendship that's any deeper than, hey, bro, let's go watch some strippers dance on the
00:33:10.600 sidelines at a football game while we eat chicken wings and drink beer, you know, if there's anything
00:33:14.380 deeper going on, then people will mock you and say, what, you talk about your deep thoughts and
00:33:19.020 feelings?
00:33:19.440 What are you, a fanook, you know?
00:33:20.980 Come on.
00:33:21.700 Why do you seem like a gay guy?
00:33:23.160 And then that's promoted in the culture, too.
00:33:25.320 So I think there's a real confusion about friendship.
00:33:27.620 And I think friendship is extraordinarily important for men.
00:33:32.200 One might call it the highest form of relationship.
00:33:36.100 That's what some of the ancient Greeks did.
00:33:37.480 They were a little light in the loafers themselves in certain practices.
00:33:40.420 But I wonder if that's a little bit of the issue here.
00:33:44.160 It's just the broader confusion about friendship in this day and age.
00:33:47.600 You mentioned that he's a questionable guy.
00:33:49.220 So maybe you're insinuating that he might have similar feelings that you do, which is
00:33:53.980 that he's attracted to women, but maybe he could go the other way.
00:33:57.680 I don't know.
00:33:58.100 Some people say that bisexuality, so-called, does not exist.
00:34:02.120 I just don't know.
00:34:04.220 I mean, you're saying it does exist, so I take your word for it.
00:34:07.060 And I don't know how that comes about, other than that it's, you know, disordered.
00:34:14.180 And you seem to have some trepidation even explaining this.
00:34:17.220 So I would follow your gut there, and I would follow traditional teaching.
00:34:21.260 And you've got a little bit of an easier time than people who are strictly attracted
00:34:26.980 to people of the same sex.
00:34:28.380 That's really hard for them, because what are you going to do?
00:34:33.820 You could get married and just sort of, you know, grit your teeth and bear it, close your
00:34:38.180 eyes and think of England.
00:34:38.800 Or you could be celibate, though perhaps not everyone is called to a vocation like that.
00:34:46.120 But that's a bit tougher.
00:34:47.320 Whereas you say, well, I am attracted to women.
00:34:49.780 I would pursue that then.
00:34:51.000 I think that's probably the right thing to do.
00:34:53.240 And if you're going to be married and have a, you know, sexual life, then I think I would,
00:34:59.960 if I were you, and you say, well, I like women and I like men, well, I'd just as soon go for women then.
00:35:04.340 And you say, well, I like my buddy.
00:35:06.940 I really, really like my buddy.
00:35:08.240 Well, okay, then I would really, really love your buddy as a friend.
00:35:11.920 I don't know that that would be improved in any way if you told your buddy, you know,
00:35:16.720 you like him as more than a friend.
00:35:19.220 I, you know, it's not, well, you listen to my show and you are writing in with this question
00:35:26.780 in such a sincere and earnest way that I think, you know, that might be a hard lesson for people
00:35:36.480 who say, but I've got this deeply held desire or something, but, you know, this is a fallen world.
00:35:42.200 And so our desires can become disordered.
00:35:44.780 And in this case, I would use your reason to follow the right way of doing things.
00:35:51.720 And then you can have both.
00:35:52.900 And you can have a wife and you can have your friend and you don't need to confuse the two
00:35:57.960 and cross the lines and potentially blow up both possibilities.
00:36:01.520 Next question.
00:36:02.660 Hi, Michael.
00:36:03.120 This is Kyle.
00:36:04.180 Big time fan of the show.
00:36:06.220 First time voice mailbag.
00:36:08.640 Really appreciate you keeping me up to date on the news.
00:36:11.020 One news story in particular was the one about seed oils.
00:36:15.060 While I thought I ate clean, I didn't realize how ubiquitous seed oils really were.
00:36:19.500 I had to even cut out my favorite brand of olives.
00:36:21.300 That being said, my question to you is what type of political solution is there for seed
00:36:27.440 oils and, you know, broader scale obesity, given that, you know, the seed oils have influenced
00:36:32.660 or greatly, like, greatly pushed up obesity rates.
00:36:36.500 And that's affected, you know, military recruitment, laziness, et cetera, et cetera.
00:36:40.000 You know, do you ever see, you know, maybe a major politician, say, a Ron DeSantis,
00:36:43.700 this Vivek, whatever, ever coming out against seed oils or, you know, reforming those industries?
00:36:51.020 What type of political solutions do you see?
00:36:53.200 Thanks for all you do.
00:36:55.200 It's funny you mentioned Vivek.
00:36:56.700 I could see him bringing up seed oils because he's the more eccentric, edgy candidate in the
00:37:03.460 GOP primary.
00:37:04.680 So I don't see Trump bringing it up.
00:37:07.140 I don't, DeSantis is in some ways a little more online and a little edgier than Trump.
00:37:12.280 But I don't, I think he's still too mainstream and established as a sitting governor to do that.
00:37:17.860 But I could totally see Vivek bringing up the seed oil thing.
00:37:21.900 Uh, and it's, the seed oil thing is the first big diet fad as an adult that I bought into.
00:37:31.860 I used to be really skeptical of it.
00:37:33.500 And then sweet little Elisa totally seed oil pilled me.
00:37:37.440 And I, I buy it.
00:37:38.340 And I, I, my son, sunburns are not as bad anymore.
00:37:40.500 So, you know, there's that.
00:37:41.980 Uh, but the answer is, the answer to the seed oil problem is spend a lot more money on food.
00:37:46.760 That's it.
00:37:48.180 That's why the seed oils are in everything because they're super cheap.
00:37:51.900 And right now we have very high inflation and we've got in particular inflation among food.
00:37:58.840 So what's the answer?
00:38:00.660 If you're doing well, you know, if my blank book sells some extra copies this Christmas,
00:38:05.920 then I have no problem.
00:38:07.060 We can, sweet little Elisa can go buy the most expensive seed oil stuff in the world
00:38:10.220 and we'll get fewer sunburns.
00:38:13.180 But for a lot of people who are hurting in this economy, it's just an issue of money.
00:38:18.360 So you could try to regulate it.
00:38:19.900 I suppose I'm not opposed to just and prudent regulation by the proper authorities, you know,
00:38:25.340 most local as can be, if possible.
00:38:29.040 I'm fine with that.
00:38:30.920 But it's not really going to solve the problem because the problem is really a financial one.
00:38:33.860 That's what started the seed oil trend in the first place.
00:38:35.900 Next question.
00:38:36.420 Hey, Dirty Mike, Mr. Reality here.
00:38:38.700 I wanted to ask you to elaborate on your thoughts from Tuesday's show regarding Israel bombing
00:38:42.600 part of a church campus, not on that specific church, but rather on whether churches in
00:38:46.860 general should be safe havens for terrorists to plan acts of evil.
00:38:50.420 Throughout Eastern Roman history, tyrants would often try to take refuge in churches to
00:38:53.940 escape justice, only to be dragged out to face that justice.
00:38:57.420 In the modern era, terrorists use churches and other religious buildings, as well as hospitals,
00:39:01.340 schools, and so on, as places to conduct evil and relative safety.
00:39:04.560 There seem to be three options for a nation being victimized by these evildoers.
00:39:08.660 One, ignore them and let them carry out their evil.
00:39:11.200 Two, sacrifice the lives of their own soldiers to try to preserve the building.
00:39:14.940 Or three, bomb the building to destroy the evil.
00:39:17.540 I agree that it is sad when historical artifacts, especially churches, are destroyed in war,
00:39:21.720 but it seems wrong to suggest a nation victimized by terrorists should sacrifice more of its
00:39:26.100 citizens' lives to avoid damaging buildings that the terrorists are profaning.
00:39:29.920 Do you think churches should be off-limits?
00:39:31.800 That a victimized nation should sacrifice its own blood to avoid damaging churches?
00:39:35.760 Or do you have a different perspective I haven't suggested?
00:39:38.180 Thanks.
00:39:38.960 The issue with the church in St. Porphyrios is not as you describe it.
00:39:45.600 I guess is why I would call out that particular bombing.
00:39:49.300 No one is alleging that St. Porphyrios' church in Gaza was housing Islamic militants or that
00:39:55.740 Hamas had built tunnels underneath this church.
00:39:58.880 In fact, the Israeli airstrike was apparently, or I guess, I think that was, yes, that was
00:40:03.680 an Israeli airstrike.
00:40:04.580 It's sometimes confusing because sometimes the airstrikes or the rockets or the bombs come
00:40:09.100 from the Palestinian side and then they blame Israel and Israel blames the Palestinians
00:40:13.600 and then you find out later in the fog of war what really happened.
00:40:15.920 But in that case, it looked like it was the state of Israel sent a missile next to the
00:40:21.560 church because near the church, that's where the terrorists were hiding and it destroyed
00:40:27.300 part of the church because of that.
00:40:29.800 And so I don't begrudge the state of Israel defending itself and killing terrorists and
00:40:35.920 obliterating Hamas.
00:40:36.960 Obviously not.
00:40:37.940 But in that particular case, it's a real shame because the church was built by crusaders in
00:40:45.720 the 11th through 12th century and it dates back, parts of it date back, all the way to
00:40:48.960 antiquity.
00:40:50.420 So it's just a real loss for part of the church to be destroyed.
00:40:54.240 And I'm not suggesting that we need to make idols out of historical buildings, especially
00:41:01.960 churches.
00:41:02.600 But we can be a little careful.
00:41:06.160 You know, even at the height of the Second World War, the Nazis, the Axis and the Allies
00:41:10.800 decided not to destroy Paris.
00:41:12.660 They could have destroyed Paris, but they didn't destroy Paris.
00:41:15.600 That was good.
00:41:17.040 And so I just think that there are rules to war and there are special considerations to be
00:41:23.580 made in war.
00:41:24.220 And war is a bloody killing thing, to quote General Patton.
00:41:28.560 You know, there's no way of getting out of it in a really nice way.
00:41:32.360 But combatants can observe certain niceties and accommodations for how to keep living and
00:41:39.520 how to maintain culture after the war.
00:41:41.820 So that was an issue there.
00:41:43.380 I don't think the state of Israel intentionally tried to blow up a church or anything like that.
00:41:47.580 But one can go in and obliterate and kill the enemy while having some constraint and cultural
00:41:54.820 consideration.
00:41:55.360 And at the height of that, one should have consideration for churches.
00:41:59.740 All right.
00:42:00.380 Next question.
00:42:01.600 Hey, Michael.
00:42:02.420 Really big fan here.
00:42:03.900 I have a quick question for you.
00:42:06.020 You're always posting videos on YouTube reacting to fatphobic or TikTokers complaining about fatphobia.
00:42:13.540 And you encourage physical fitness and stuff like that.
00:42:17.240 Two-part question.
00:42:18.580 One, do you work out?
00:42:19.960 And second, if the answer is no, when are you going to start slamming some protein and
00:42:25.280 lifting some heavy circles?
00:42:27.040 Thanks.
00:42:28.580 Yeah, that voice sounds strikingly familiar to me.
00:42:32.460 Sounds a lot like the voice of one Professor Jacob.
00:42:38.000 Hmm?
00:42:39.740 Well, Professor Jacob over there thinks just because he's lifted a few weights, he's Mr. Beefcake.
00:42:44.080 Gets to push us all around, huh?
00:42:45.940 Gets to bully us and tell us to go hit the gym, huh?
00:42:48.260 Huh?
00:42:49.140 Yeah?
00:42:50.620 Hmm?
00:42:51.500 All right.
00:42:51.940 That's our show.
00:42:52.400 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:42:52.900 This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:42:54.120 See you next week.