The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1365 - Free ＂Trump University＂ For All

00:00:00.000 Breaking news for American education. The Republican frontrunner for president wants to bring

00:00:04.760 Trump University to all Americans for free.

00:00:09.460 I'm announcing today we will take the billions and billions of dollars that we will collect by

00:00:14.860 taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university endowments, and we will then

00:00:21.700 use that money to endow a new institution called the American Academy. Its mission will be to make

00:00:28.120 a truly world-class education available to every American free of charge and do it without adding

00:00:35.400 a single dime to the federal debt. This institution will gather an entire universe of the highest

00:00:41.680 quality educational content covering the full spectrum of human knowledge and skills and make

00:00:48.260 that material available to every American citizen online for free. The Academy will award the full

00:00:55.340 and complete equivalent of a bachelor's degree. In addition to help the 40 million Americans who

00:01:01.100 have some college education but no degree, the American Academy will grant credit for past coursework

00:01:08.080 at legacy institutions and give you the chance to complete your education at the American Academy

00:01:14.900 for free and much more quickly than is now possible or available.

00:01:19.840 The Libs are going to lose their minds, as will the Libertarians, as will the Republican

00:01:25.920 establishment, as will many fancy conservative movement types who went to brand name schools

00:01:32.260 and fill their mahogany home libraries with many dusty books. And yet, this is a great idea.

00:01:41.580 I love this idea. Not because I am convinced that the American Academy will provide the best kind of

00:01:50.220 education around, but rather because the education system that we've got today basically can't get any

00:01:58.540 worse. Since the 1960s, the organized radical left has taken over virtually every educational institution

00:02:05.660 institution in America, especially the college colleges and universities, including the fancy

00:02:10.820 prestigious name brand schools. That is the left's epicenter of power. What Trump is suggesting here

00:02:18.400 is a pure political power play. Bleed the left's power center of its funding and of the malleable

00:02:26.380 minds that it shapes. You say online schools aren't ideal? Sure. But virtually every lib school in America

00:02:34.740 already offers online courses. And online courses make it much easier for students to transfer out

00:02:41.560 of those lib schools, including if they've got a lot of credits, but they haven't yet graduated,

00:02:46.340 including if they've taken some coursework, but don't have a degree. You can just transfer all that

00:02:50.180 over from the lib school to Trump's conservative school. Free college is a bad idea, you say, because

00:02:55.980 it dilutes the quality of the degree and makes the system beholden to government apparatchiks.

00:03:00.800 Sure, I totally agree. But that's already the case at most liberal schools, and Democrats inch

00:03:07.720 nearer and nearer every single election cycle to flooding their own schools, all the lib schools,

00:03:13.000 with the same type of funding that Trump is talking about, only orders of magnitude higher.

00:03:18.600 Trump's academy, you say, might not properly teach Aristotle and Shakespeare? Sure, but neither do Harvard

00:03:26.380 in Yale at this point, to say nothing of the less prestigious, much more highly attended schools

00:03:31.540 that teach little more these days than racial resentment, sexual confusion, and contempt for our

00:03:36.820 country. Conservatives like to talk a good game about mixing up our strategy and recapturing the

00:03:43.200 institutions and bleeding the organized left of its political power. If we're serious about doing that,

00:03:50.000 this is a great way to do it. If we're not, if we've just been bluffing this whole time,

00:03:57.020 then we can keep up the same old playbook that has for more than half a century consistently handed

00:04:03.240 the libs virtually every institution in America. And then we can pride ourselves on our devotion

00:04:10.220 to the dubious principle of always losing. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:04:15.620 Welcome back to the show. Elon Musk, one of the big tech giants, seems to suggest that the 2020

00:04:41.800 election might have been a little bit sketchy. He seems to be on board now with the so-called

00:04:48.080 election deniers. We'll get to that in a second. First of all, I don't want to move off the Trump

00:04:52.540 University thing, or sorry, the American Academy under Donald Trump too quickly, because there's

00:04:57.960 going to be one objection here. And the objection is, well, beyond the spending, beyond the new government

00:05:03.740 power, beyond the quality of the education, if conservatives get on board with this idea in principle,

00:05:11.080 when a Republican is in office, then when a Democrat is in office, they're going to use

00:05:16.760 the American Academy to achieve their own ends. They're going to make the American Academy super

00:05:23.220 liberal, and it's going to have the backing of the government and all this funding, and you can

00:05:26.220 transfer in and blah, blah, blah. Two responses to that objection. One, the left already has that power

00:05:33.860 because they control statistically all of the universities in the country. And those universities

00:05:39.860 receive a ton of government funding, and they're moving more and more toward free college and debt

00:05:45.640 forgiveness for student debt and all the rest of it. They already have that. So there's very little

00:05:50.240 for conservatives to lose by attempting to carve out our own little center of power in that same

00:05:56.540 universe. But second of all, Trump could, or at least conservatives could in theory, establish the

00:06:05.120 American Academy such that it would be very difficult to replace the teachers and the administrators

00:06:10.740 with huge libs. And the reason I know that that is the case is because that's exactly what the libs

00:06:16.800 have done at all the other schools since the 1960s. From what the libs have done is they've gotten

00:06:21.740 themselves into the universities. The radicals from the 60s are now, to borrow a phrase from Roger

00:06:26.200 Kimball, the tenured radicals of the 90s and 2000s all the way up to present day. And by reforming,

00:06:34.720 quote unquote, I think deforming, but they say reforming, the way that the schools conduct

00:06:40.100 university business, giving the faculty a greater say in hiring and giving the deans and the deputy

00:06:46.580 deans and the deputy assistant deputy deans of diversity, equity, and inclusion a greater say

00:06:50.940 in personnel, they essentially lock themselves in. So you've got a critical mass of libs on the

00:06:58.080 faculty and in the administration, and then they change the hiring process and all the rules such

00:07:03.060 that they basically only hire themselves. So now it's virtually impossible to crack through.

00:07:08.900 The one example I've seen of a conservative going in there and cracking up that lock would be

00:07:15.460 Governor DeSantis at New College in Florida, who went in and he said, I'm going to make an example out

00:07:20.440 of this school, and I'm going to run roughshod over the libs who are locking out the conservatives,

00:07:25.660 and he installed a good, solid new board and is recrafting the curriculum to be solid and conducive

00:07:33.240 to virtue and flourishing and knowledge. But that's one example. Otherwise, the left has done a great job

00:07:38.980 at locking in their power there. Conservatives could do the same if we would simply mimic the tactics,

00:07:44.420 albeit, when we do it, in a just way toward good ends. Not, as the libs often do,

00:07:51.500 sometimes in an unjust way and always toward very, very evil ends. Not good stuff.

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00:09:16.720 Speaking of unfortunate products of American higher education, Barack Obama has gone viral over the

00:09:23.460 weekend for chiming in on the outbreak of war in the Middle East. Some conservatives have pointed out

00:09:31.080 that Obama-era policies driven directly by Barack Obama vis-a-vis Israel and the Palestinian

00:09:39.160 territories in the broader Middle East would appear to be directly responsible for what's going on.

00:09:45.460 Obama says, hey, hey, hey, no, man, come on. It's all of our fault.

00:09:49.780 The problem with the social media and trying to tick-tock activism and trying to debate this on

00:09:58.180 that is you can't speak the truth. You can pretend to speak the truth. You can speak one side of the

00:10:06.940 truth. And in some cases, you can try to maintain your moral innocence, but that won't solve the problem.

00:10:15.420 And so if you want to solve the problem, then you have to take in the whole truth.

00:10:23.460 And you then have to admit nobody's hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree.

00:10:38.380 Okay, there we go. For the first part of that, I thought Obama was channeling his inner Kamala

00:10:43.040 Harris. And Obama's a pretty smart guy. And when you want to discuss the truth, you need all the

00:10:48.160 and the whole truth. And we're nothing but the truth. And so we, when we, we on our debates,

00:10:54.440 we don't, we're a little narrow and shallow and we don't always. And I said, what are you babbling

00:10:58.820 about? Get to the point. He says, listen, this war in the Middle East, it's all our fault.

00:11:02.180 Oh, no, it isn't. No, it isn't at all, actually, because here's the thing. Here's the thing.

00:11:12.060 During the Obama administration, he and his team made a conscious decision to weaken the state of

00:11:19.160 Israel and to embolden the enemies of the state of Israel. And they had all sorts of arguments and

00:11:25.740 reasons for doing so. And in fact, we're seeing some of those arguments now in real time on Twitter

00:11:30.380 and in the streets and with the people waving the Palestine flag, making a ruckus in cities around

00:11:36.520 the country and around the world, saying from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,

00:11:40.740 saying that they want to abolish the state of Israel. Obama never explicitly went that far,

00:11:44.980 but he clearly undermined the state of Israel. In fact, he sent one of his top campaign advisors

00:11:51.560 to go oust Bibi Netanyahu in Israel. And then he, then he obsequiously bowed down at every turn

00:11:59.460 to the leaders of Iran and gave them a bunch of money and didn't punish them for capturing our 0.94

00:12:03.220 sailors. And it was a complete joke. No surprise, you saw some aggression during his administration.

00:12:11.180 Then Trump comes in and it's all good. And you see the Abraham Accords being signed and you see 0.56

00:12:15.680 relative peace in the Middle East. Who would have imagined Donald Trump, the reality TV show host,

00:12:20.100 the real estate mogul would bring peace to the Middle East. He did it. And then Biden comes in

00:12:24.460 as Obama's third term. And what happens? You see the biggest outbreak of war in the Middle East in

00:12:31.220 many decades. Well, we all bear some responsibility. I agree with Barack Obama that politics and

00:12:40.040 territorial disputes and holy wars, wars of religion are complicated. I agree with that.

00:12:47.200 But when it comes to this war, this is directly attributable to the Obama policies.

00:12:55.780 And it's, it's, it's just like any kid, whoever gets caught doing anything bad,

00:13:00.680 he just instantly says, well, listen, you know, it's really complicated, actually. I think it's

00:13:04.740 sort of all, isn't it kind of all of our fault when you really think about it? No, man, it's you,

00:13:09.480 you got, you're, you did it. I got your hand in the cookie jar. Well, no, but when you really

00:13:14.260 think about it, we all stole the cookies, didn't we? No. When you really think about it, not so.

00:13:18.020 And you see the administration doing this today. Obama's third term in the form of Joe Biden

00:13:23.020 is now sending out its spokesman, National Security Council spokesman, John Kirby,

00:13:28.660 to say definitively that Joe Biden would veto a funding bill for the state of Israel if

00:13:36.400 they lose the Ukraine funding.

00:13:38.960 The president would veto an only Israel bill. We, I think that we've made that clear.

00:13:45.600 There you go. The one silver lining in, I think, a pretty dangerous policy here

00:13:51.600 is that this would seem to undercut the argument that the Jews control everything.

00:13:59.260 You know, there's been this idea for a long time that the Jews control everything because

00:14:03.340 the Jews have done very well in lots of industries that are very important all over the world. So

00:14:06.980 you could, you could sort of see why people might come to that conclusion.

00:14:11.520 But if the Jews control everything, why can't they get funding from the United States 0.97

00:14:17.220 for this war? Why, why, if the Jews control everything, why is it that the Biden administration 0.61

00:14:24.200 is willing to gamble with the security of the state of Israel, potentially with the right of the

00:14:29.860 state of Israel to exist? Netanyahu is saying this is a second war for independence.

00:14:33.020 Strictly so that they can pressure Republicans to support Ukraine war funding, which is immensely

00:14:39.640 unpopular among a broad swath of Americans, including independents and Democrats.

00:14:45.660 Wouldn't you, if the Jews controlled everything, wouldn't you think they'd already just have 1.00

00:14:49.700 passed that Israel only bill and then they'd move on to Ukraine or whatever? But no, that's not what's

00:14:53.380 going on here. Joe Biden, like Barack Obama, does, does not have a particularly strong defense of the

00:15:00.700 state of Israel. And so he's willing to gamble a little bit and say, all right, Republicans,

00:15:05.880 you want to cut out Taiwan funding? You want to cut out Ukraine funding, especially? All right,

00:15:10.080 well, then we're going to hold up the Israel funding bill because they know that Republicans

00:15:13.120 are much more pro-Israel than the Democrats are. And for Democrats right now, Israel is a really losing

00:15:21.220 issue because while the donors largely still support the state of Israel, the on the ground rank and file

00:15:27.800 members of the Democrat party are pro-Palestine liberation. They're the ones in the streets

00:15:32.480 marching with the Palestine flags. They're the ones marching with BLM, BLM, which posts a picture

00:15:38.120 on social media of a paraglider celebrating the Hamas terror attack on that, on that concert festival.

00:15:45.360 So politically, it's much wiser for Joe Biden to say, yeah, we're going to hold up the bill and that

00:15:50.660 way at least we'll maybe get some Ukraine funding and that'll at least be somewhat popular among

00:15:54.580 Democrats. Very dangerous game here, though, because as I've said from the beginning,

00:16:01.140 the American interest here is to contain the war.

00:16:06.380 The emboldening of Islamic terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran, for that matter,

00:16:16.260 that will not help to contain the war. That will only help the war to spread.

00:16:22.720 If there is actually an existential threat to the state of Israel and Israel, say, starts threatening

00:16:27.260 to use nuclear weapons or something like that, that is not a way to contain the war.

00:16:31.220 Contain the war does not just mean, hey, ceasefire, everybody stop. Contain the war means 0.76

00:16:35.880 permit Israel to defend itself, to achieve what it needs to achieve, namely the ousting of Hamas, 0.66

00:16:43.860 which is an unacceptable security threat for the state of Israel.

00:16:46.300 And then contain any potential expansion of the war, which has already expanded

00:16:53.340 continuously. But to just say, hey, we're not, we're going to hold up all funding and make this

00:16:58.420 situation even more tense and less certain is a recipe for World War III, which is something that

00:17:06.100 Joe Biden and his ideological predecessor, Barack Obama, have excelled at. That was the old joke after

00:17:12.640 Obama got elected. Obama, the worst foreign policy president in my entire lifetime, who came out 0.76

00:17:17.780 and said, I remember the argument. They said, if you vote for John McCain, you're going to get

00:17:25.020 another war in the Middle East. This was the argument in 2008. And then what happened?

00:17:29.560 I voted for John McCain and we got more wars in the Middle East and North Africa and elsewhere.

00:17:34.820 Now, speaking of funding the war in the Middle East, here's one that's really going to make the 0.99

00:17:39.620 Libs head spin. And it shows you the complexity of war that armchair quarterbacks, armchair generals

00:17:45.740 generally do not appreciate. Wall Street Journal has a report out now that the Russia backed

00:17:51.620 paramilitary group, the Wagner group, you remember the Wagner group formerly led by this guy named

00:17:57.920 Prigozhin, who turned on Vladimir Putin and started marching his paramilitary toward Moscow,

00:18:03.960 lost his gumption at the last minute, turned back around, and then he had an unfortunate plane crash

00:18:08.660 that I'm sure Vladimir Putin had nothing to do with. But the Wagner group, the Wagner group,

00:18:13.320 if you want to sound really scary about it, a very serious military force, does a lot of fighting

00:18:18.900 for Russia. So the Russia backed Wagner group is reportedly looking to send advanced air defense

00:18:26.160 systems to the Middle East. My question is, what is the average purple haired American liberal

00:18:33.080 supposed to think about this? Because the Palestine liberation people are good. Depending on how

00:18:41.520 radically left you are, if you're in Antifa or BLM, you will explicitly support Hamas and Hezbollah.

00:18:47.320 So those guys are good because they're attacking the state of Israel. But those guys are now getting 0.93

00:18:54.560 support from Russia, which is very bad because Ukraine is good and Russia is bad. Because Russia, 0.95

00:19:02.420 they're the new Nazis, even though they're fighting Ukraine, which has incorporated elements of a 0.79

00:19:08.740 neo-Nazi movement into its military. But that country is led by a Jew. And the Jews are now the Nazis, 0.96

00:19:16.540 even though the Jews are the most prominent victims of the real Nazis who existed 70, 80 years ago.

00:19:29.680 So we're pro-Wagner, are the Libs pro-Wagner now or they're, because they're pro-Hamas? I don't know. 0.73

00:19:37.100 You know what it tells me? It tells me war is very, very complicated. And everyone who is trying

00:19:44.820 to simplify the war down into a five-second soundbite or a few bullet points on the back of a

00:19:49.780 napkin, they are risking expanding the war, which is already extraordinarily complex. And then you

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00:22:32.960 cost. Speaking of the military, Ron DeSantis had something great come out over the weekend,

00:22:42.460 which is he answered the call to defend Tommy Tuberville. Tommy Tuberville, the Republican

00:22:49.520 senator who is holding up Joe Biden's military promotions because the Pentagon decided to push

00:22:57.440 a radical pro-abortion policy. The Pentagon decided that they were going to take taxpayer dollars

00:23:02.900 and pay service members to go to different states, to fly to different states, to kill their children 0.53

00:23:10.440 through abortion because the Dobbs decision from the Supreme Court limited the constitutional license

00:23:17.320 to abortion. So after Dobbs comes out, after Roe v. Wade is overruled, the Pentagon top brass,

00:23:24.100 they say, hey, it's really, really important to be a fighting force. It is really, really important

00:23:28.480 that we pay our service members to kill their own children. No matter how difficult it is, 1.00

00:23:33.640 even if they have to fly across the country, we are going to pay our service members to kill 0.96

00:23:36.600 their own children, which seems contrary to the purpose of the military. The purpose of the U.S. 0.95

00:23:41.620 military is to protect us and kill our enemies. The purpose of the U.S. military is not to kill

00:23:48.060 our own children. That would be, to my mind, the very opposite of the purpose of the U.S.

00:23:53.240 military. So Tommy Tuberville heroically stands up and says, you're not getting your promotions.

00:23:58.060 You're not getting more top brass out there at the Pentagon until you roll back this policy.

00:24:02.140 We are still a government of the people, by the people, for the people. I am an elected

00:24:05.560 representative of the people. We're not going to let you wacko far leftists who have infiltrated

00:24:11.120 the U.S. military, the last conservative institution in America. We're not going to allow

00:24:15.160 you to spend our money without any oversight to this evil, evil end. And a bunch of the squishes 1.00

00:24:20.980 have turned against Tommy Tuberville. But Ron DeSantis just came out and defended him.

00:24:24.880 Do you agree that Tommy Tuberville should lift the blockade on military promotions? Do you agree

00:24:31.000 with Republicans in the Senate? Actually, I think that what the DOD is doing, I don't think they're

00:24:35.080 following the law with respect to the abortion tourism. I don't think taxpayer money should be

00:24:39.320 spent on that. We have a very weak defense industrial base. We've got huge problems with recruiting.

00:24:45.140 And so their focus on that, I don't think it's consistent with the law. I also think it's

00:24:49.460 misguided. I would also point out that you can promote people on an individual basis. I think

00:24:55.540 the Senate has decided they have not wanted to move a lot of those. But if there's people that

00:24:59.520 are mission critical, they can move it in spite of what Senator Tuberville did. But I think fighting

00:25:04.440 back on the Pentagon, going outside the boundaries of the law, I think that's Congress's appropriate role

00:25:09.320 for oversight and checks and balances.

00:25:10.960 But to answer the question, do you think that Senator Tuberville should lift the blockade that

00:25:15.920 he's put on military promotions?

00:25:19.180 No, because I think that we're trying to force a change in Pentagon policy to conform them to the

00:25:25.860 law, while at the same time he has allowed individuals to be appointed. So if there are

00:25:31.740 mission critical promotions, bring them before the Senate. I think he's been very clear that

00:25:35.840 that's appropriate, and I know that they have done that in certain instances.

00:25:39.040 Totally right on. Finally. Finally, you're hearing a Republican

00:25:44.060 in elected office, in this case, someone who's running for president,

00:25:48.860 say the obvious. Tommy Tuberville is a hero. This is an excellent, excellent move by him.

00:25:55.780 Very courageous. And the squishes who are standing on the sidelines, keeping their mouths shut,

00:26:00.980 while the top brass of the Pentagon transforms our military into an American baby-killing machine.

00:26:05.540 Can you imagine? And the, even worse, the squishes on the Republican side who are attacking Tommy

00:26:14.200 Tuberville, those people deserve contempt in public life. DeSantis, totally right here. And I want to hear

00:26:22.960 more Republicans saying it. Why is it taking the governor of Florida, the number two guy in the

00:26:27.900 presidential race, to be among the first prominent Republicans to defend Tuberville? I want to hear

00:26:34.120 every elected Republican defend Tommy Tuberville. Now, that was good stuff. I'm very, very happy with

00:26:40.820 DeSantis for this. Unfortunately, Governor DeSantis followed that answer with a very bad answer,

00:26:46.580 also on MSNBC. And the answer was, what should happen to President Trump if he is convicted in any of

00:26:54.980 these show trials brought by the liberal regime? Do you really believe that a man who's convicted

00:27:01.360 of, say, attempting to overturn the 2020 election or taking nuclear secrets back to his beach club,

00:27:09.040 do you actually still, as we sit here today, believe that person should be president?

00:27:13.160 So I signed a pledge, Willie, and that pledge is what it is. Now, do I think somebody under those

00:27:20.420 circumstances could get elected president? The answer is no. That will not happen. I think that

00:27:26.240 Republican voters will understand that as we get closer to voting. But it is, it would be fatal

00:27:33.060 in a general election. And I don't think the party should nominate in that situation.

00:27:38.720 Okay. I guess DeSantis needs to give this answer. I guess. Because DeSantis is running against Trump.

00:27:47.120 So he wants Trump out of the primary. DeSantis is running against Trump. He needs to convince

00:27:51.500 voters that Trump is not electable under any circumstances. And it's easy to say, especially

00:27:56.480 when teed up by an MSNBC host, that if Trump is convicted by the very, very legitimate courts and

00:28:04.300 trials that are bringing him up on very serious charges, not a complete Banana Republic show trial

00:28:10.140 Stalin-esque nonsense. No, no, this is all very serious. Donald Trump, one time, it looks like

00:28:16.660 he may have jaywalked in New York City. Can you imagine? Send him to the gulags for 150 years. 0.71

00:28:23.320 I guess DeSantis needs to give that answer because he's running against Trump. But it's a very bad answer

00:28:27.520 because it accepts the premise, the liberal premise, that these trials are somehow legitimate.

00:28:36.820 They're not. They're not. Part of the evidence that the trials are not legitimate, other than the

00:28:42.820 content of these trials, other than how unprecedented it is that a former president and current leader of

00:28:49.540 an opposition party, of the opposition party, would be indicted at the federal level, at the state level,

00:28:57.340 over supposed crimes that have never been prosecuted against a president, that the former

00:29:05.900 opponent of Donald Trump, with far less right, certainly committed more clearly than Donald Trump

00:29:11.580 ever did in the case of Hillary Clinton's classified email scandal, it accepts the premise that this is all

00:29:17.260 somehow legitimate instead of the show trial that it is. And that's no good because not only do

00:29:21.600 Republican voters know that this is a political persecution almost entirely divorced from the law,

00:29:27.580 many Democrats know that too. Polls of whether or not Donald Trump is being politically persecuted

00:29:33.700 through these trials show a clear majority of Americans, that means including independents and

00:29:38.620 Democrats, believe that it's a political persecution. So then you've got DeSantis, I guess

00:29:47.140 necessarily from his standpoint, echoing left-wing talking points, pretty crucial left-wing talking

00:29:53.220 points, even justifying implicitly the show trial of Donald Trump and the principle that a former

00:30:03.040 president and current leader of the opposition party, so long as he's a Republican, could be

00:30:07.940 prosecuted for this nonsense. Very, very bad. And it once again speaks to the impossible position

00:30:15.080 DeSantis is in, which is that DeSantis' whole candidacy is premised on being Donald Trump 2.0,

00:30:23.320 bigger, better, faster, stronger, more articulate, more focused, more this. You like the original,

00:30:28.420 you're going to love the new version. That's the whole pitch. Even the way that the DeSantis campaign

00:30:34.920 is speaking now, they're saying that Donald Trump, he's not the man he was in 2016. That's the new

00:30:40.100 talking point from the DeSantis campaign. And I guess it's the best one they've got, but that only

00:30:46.280 doubles down on the notion that DeSantis is Trump 2.0. Yeah, we love Trump 2016, but I'm going to be

00:30:52.660 the real Trump 2016. The current Donald Trump of 2023, 2024, he's just, he's lost a step. He's not

00:30:58.780 what he promised us he would be. I'm the fulfillment of the Trump promise. Okay. Well, if that's the case,

00:31:04.320 you're going to turn off the moderates and the squishes and the establishment people in the, in

00:31:09.880 the GOP, but you're, you're probably not going to pull enough Trump people over. So then you've got

00:31:16.560 to, you've got to go on over and sort of side with the squishes and the moderates and the establishment

00:31:21.340 people. And you've got to go on MSNBC and you've got to make that case. And that's going to involve

00:31:25.300 echoing some of the lib talking points that are totally going to turn off the Trump people. So you're

00:31:29.240 left, even though you're seemingly the strongest candidate in the race, because you've got all

00:31:34.820 the Trump bona fides, but you're, you're also more polished and clubbable. So you appeal a little

00:31:40.060 bit more to the people who just simply don't like Trump's temperament and personality. You go from

00:31:44.280 looking like the strongest guy in the race into a man without a home, into a man without a country,

00:31:50.060 which is, I think being reflected in the polls. And it's unfortunate because the guy's pretty solid,

00:31:55.100 but he's just in, I think an impossible situation. Now, speaking of election security and fraud,

00:32:02.760 Elon Musk just tweeted out, he didn't tweet it. I guess he Z-ed it out. He X-ed it out. A video of

00:32:10.320 a woman stuffing a 2020 outdoor mail-in ballot drop-off box. So you can see here, same basic

00:32:19.860 thing. It looks like the same drop box. Everybody, look at all those people doing the right thing.

00:32:25.460 So they're waiting to vote early, right? Cuts the line. So this is a maroon dress woman, 0.96

00:32:30.300 or is this somebody else? Yeah. Yeah, I know that. Is that your mule? That's our mule. That's her.

00:32:33.500 Look at that. This is a mule. In front of everyone. Okay. Just cuts. Look at everybody sitting there

00:32:37.480 watching, like what? What's happening? So this is right now as she opens it up. Oh, can't figure out

00:32:43.200 to open up. You can hear Charlie Kirk's voice. Felony at what point? After the first one. Now

00:32:49.560 it's a felony. So this is a felon. Three felons at one drop box, everybody. I want you to think about

00:32:55.080 that. One after the other. In the broad daylight. I mean, now you could also get driver's license plate

00:33:02.180 info and stuff, right? Yes. So she, in broad daylight, while everyone else was watching, just violated

00:33:07.600 Georgia law. Right. Yeah. And so Elon tweets this out and just says, hmm, hmm, which is good news.

00:33:20.420 I have, from the beginning, felt that the 2020 election was a little bit dodgy. The moment I

00:33:26.640 saw those numbers turn, coincident with the pipes bursting in Georgia and the election overseers

00:33:36.620 being curiously shut out of some of the precincts and the whole process of counting being shut down

00:33:42.480 for a few hours in the middle of the night and then going on for days and weeks, I thought, you know,

00:33:47.300 this election doesn't seem totally on the up and up. Really, from the moment that the libs changed the

00:33:52.900 voting rules, in some cases to violate the law and state constitutions, like in the case of Pennsylvania,

00:33:58.560 and to enable widespread mail-in ballots and the ballot drop-off boxes, I thought, you know,

00:34:04.960 this isn't good. This is rife and open for fraud. As Barack Obama said 10 years ago, Barack Obama,

00:34:11.460 before this scheme became fashionable for Democrats and they thought they could really win it, Obama

00:34:16.720 himself and his team came out and said, oh no, unsecured widespread mail-in ballots, that's really

00:34:22.120 dangerous. That opens up the possibility of voter fraud. Then they realized they were very good at it,

00:34:26.840 so they've encouraged it. But this is big news. Not the fact that these people seem to be cheating,

00:34:34.340 but the fact that Elon Musk is promoting it. Because, don't forget, the way, if the 2020 election

00:34:42.200 were rigged to the point that it were stolen, that you got, that had it not been so rigged,

00:34:48.400 Donald Trump would have won. Some people are saying, well, it was rigged, but Biden would have won

00:34:51.300 anyway. Okay. If it were, if it were rigged to the point that it changed the outcome of the election,

00:34:57.540 then the chief villains in that story really are not the little election workers or the people on the

00:35:07.160 ground harvesting the ballots and signing them themselves and stuffing it into the drop boxes.

00:35:12.580 The big villains were the oligarchs in big tech, because it was big tech that censored damaging

00:35:19.520 information about Joe Biden. That alone could have thrown the election to Biden, censoring the

00:35:23.100 Hunter Biden laptop story. And it was big tech that funded this whole rigging. Don't forget,

00:35:30.460 it was Mark Zuckerberg and big tech who funded the schemes and the organizations that were responsible

00:35:39.200 for the widespread mail-in ballots and the drop boxes. In one case, putting the drop boxes illegally

00:35:44.760 far away from the county clerk's offices. So big tech was complicit. And then the moment you raised

00:35:51.560 any questions about the election, big tech shut you down, canceled your account, demonetized your show,

00:35:56.580 did all sorts of things. I don't just mean to single out Zuckerberg. It was all of them.

00:36:01.180 And now, finally, we have a conservative running one of the big tech platforms, the smallest one,

00:36:07.060 but still a prominent one. Punches above its weight because a lot of journos and people with a big

00:36:12.280 reach are on that platform, formerly known as Twitter, now known as X. So now, implausibly,

00:36:17.540 totally unexpectedly, you've got the chief group responsible for rigging the election,

00:36:22.360 as far as I'm concerned, big tech, has now been infiltrated by someone who is more amenable to

00:36:28.720 conservative views and desires, and who is questioning the election, who is violating

00:36:36.100 their chief prohibition in the days after the 2020 election. That's pretty good stuff. We need to

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00:37:49.620 bulletproofeveryone.com, promo code Knowles. My favorite comment last week is from Shelly Eisenhardt,

00:37:56.740 who says, Michael, I normally fast forward through the intros of a lot of YouTube shows I follow.

00:38:02.160 I love watching yours and your dance. On a serious note, thank you for all of your great

00:38:06.280 information. Thank you. You know, we went back and forth on it because the intro is a little

00:38:10.400 gay. I think we would all have to, it's a little, it's literally light in the loafers in that my 1.00

00:38:16.940 loafers are kind of light and they're dancing on the desk. And look, I know it's sometimes hard

00:38:21.000 to tell the difference between an Italian and one who is light, a European and one who is light in 0.84

00:38:26.480 the loafers. I being American, but of Italian extraction, it's confusing. Okay. But, but the

00:38:32.380 thing that pushed me over the edge on why I think it's kind of a funny intro is on the one hand, 0.98

00:38:38.120 the libs are accusing me of being a genocidal maniac who wants to slaughter all of the trans 0.55

00:38:43.700 people in the world or something, because I pointed out at CPAC that men and women are different. 0.78

00:38:48.560 And then on the other hand, they're going to call me a finocchio and say that I'm light in the

00:38:52.620 loafers because I dance on my desk. And I think that's kind of fun. I like that.

00:38:56.700 I like just kind of putting a little wrench in the gears of the liberal mind. So as far as I'm

00:39:02.060 concerned, the intro stays and I'm glad that you like it as well. Speaking of voter fraud,

00:39:08.860 there's a lot of evidence of it. There's a lot of evidence of voter fraud guys and consequential

00:39:14.080 voter fraud. There's a judge in Connecticut, Superior Court Judge William Clark, who has just

00:39:19.680 ordered the results of a recent mayoral primary election in Bridgeport, Connecticut, state's

00:39:24.260 largest city to be overturned and for a new election to be held. So not just, well, we found some

00:39:30.420 issues, but no, no, no, this election is null and void. We are going to hold a new election. That's how

00:39:35.520 bad the rigging was. Sometimes you hear with, with the 2020 presidential election that, well,

00:39:42.960 Trump's lawyers tried to make their case in court and they failed. That mostly isn't true. Mostly

00:39:49.800 what happened is the Trump lawyers tried to make their case in court and the courts didn't want to

00:39:52.920 hear it because the courts don't want to get involved because they don't want to be blamed for

00:39:56.240 picking one person or the other. So they mostly said, nah, no, thanks. We're not, we're not

00:40:00.900 interested. See you later, which is what courts often do. That's what, that's what the Supreme

00:40:04.600 Court did in 1948 Senate election in Texas, in which LBJ, a future president, stole the seat,

00:40:12.420 almost certainly stole the seat. And the Supreme Court said, no, we don't want anything to do with

00:40:15.940 it. So we're talking about a mayoral election here in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where the stakes

00:40:22.160 are relatively low. Consider the stakes for presidential election. No one's going to want

00:40:26.300 to touch that with a 10 foot pole. But here in this mayoral election, the judge came down,

00:40:30.900 and said that Bridgeport's incumbent mayor, Joe Ganim won the election as a result of significant

00:40:37.060 fraud. And what kind of fraud? You guessed it, fraud involving absentee ballots. The volume of

00:40:43.620 evidence in this case, he writes, including many hundreds of hours of video surveillance disclosed

00:40:49.600 and accepted into evidence is perhaps unprecedented in the state of Connecticut in an election case.

00:40:57.340 And you've got video after video after video, as some are seeing in the 2020 presidential election.

00:41:07.260 This, this probably only happened in Bridgeport, Connecticut, right?

00:41:10.540 This, this was probably inconsequential, right? It could, look, there's always fraud. This is what

00:41:15.400 you hear from the people who excuse what very possibly occurred in 2020. Well, look, there's always

00:41:21.940 fraud, but you know, it doesn't necessarily swing an election. Yeah, but sometimes it does. And to

00:41:27.760 swing a presidential election, you don't need to swing 300 million votes. You just need to swing

00:41:31.560 a handful of counties, which will swing a handful of districts, which will swing the whole election.

00:41:37.700 And then you look and you see, you've got certain bellwether counties that generally determine which

00:41:43.580 way the election goes. And you say, hold on, in the 2020 election, 17 or 18 bellwether counties,

00:41:48.440 out of what, 19 went for Donald Trump. Only one or two went for Joe Biden. Does that make a lot of,

00:41:58.400 I don't know. But many, because the, the fact or the potential fact, because the hypothesis is so

00:42:08.340 difficult to bear that an election really could have been rigged to the point of, of getting the

00:42:14.580 wrong answer. A lot of people will just keep their heads down and say, no, no, it probably was okay.

00:42:20.000 It probably, well, now, now you're just sauntering into a political buzzsaw because yeah, you're not

00:42:26.240 going to undo the 2020 election. There's not going to be a point where U S marshals lead Joe Biden out

00:42:31.500 of the Oval Office and they lead Donald Trump in and they say, sorry, sir. Yes. We now know for

00:42:36.180 certain it was a stolen election. And anyway, you can undo all the Biden stuff and Hey, there's not

00:42:41.080 going to be a war in the middle East anymore. And there's not, Russia is not going to invade

00:42:43.700 Ukraine anymore. And we're going to undo it. That's not, of course, and the economy is going 0.96

00:42:46.640 to be good again. Yeah, no, that's not going to happen. But if you don't acknowledge the very

00:42:52.720 plausible scenario in which the 2020 election was rigged in a consequential way, then you're not

00:42:59.400 going to do a lot to fix it before 2024. You're going to end up in the same spot, but the squishes

00:43:04.820 are still irate over the mere suggestion that the 2020 election was rigged. Here is Ken Buck,

00:43:11.640 a more liberal Republican coming out and saying he's, he's actually going to quit Congress because

00:43:17.560 some people who questioned the 2020 election are now in positions of prominence and leadership.

00:43:23.940 We continue to talk about and lie about the, the 2020 election as if it was stolen, as if it Joe Biden

00:43:31.680 wasn't the real winner of that election. We keep lying about January 6th and the prisoners from

00:43:37.400 January 6th, the defendants who are not political prisoners, but, but rather committed crimes. They

00:43:43.820 assaulted police officers, they damaged government property. And so I don't think we can have the

00:43:49.460 credibility we need with the American public. If we continue the lies that we're now telling

00:43:54.360 good grief, man. They say that we won't get over this stuff. They say that we who are a little

00:44:00.100 skeptical of some of the rule changes in 2020, and they say that we won't get over it. We're living

00:44:06.180 in the past. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Give it a rest, man. The election was

00:44:12.300 obviously rigged, but even if you think it was perfect, even if you Ken Buck believe it was the

00:44:16.180 most perfect election ever conducted and Joe Biden got 10 gazillion votes and he's the most popular

00:44:22.060 president ever in America, contrary to all evidence available to us, that's the most important thing

00:44:29.040 to you as a member of Congress, not immigration, not the outbreak of war, not the economy, not helping

00:44:35.800 struggling Americans, not this, that, or the other thing. No, no, no. The most important thing is that

00:44:41.760 every single elected Republican hails the great leader, Joe Biden, and says that he was obviously

00:44:47.500 totally elected without any questions. That's it. That's the most important thing to you. What a joke.

00:44:53.100 No wonder the GOP is considered the junior partner in the liberal establishment because so many people,

00:45:02.060 the squishes, their role is to be the court jester in the kingdom of liberalism and to push back just 0.80

00:45:07.280 enough that it seems like there's opposition and then at the crucial moments to lay down and roll over. 0.99

00:45:12.880 So pathetic. There's much more to get to. We'll have to get to it tomorrow because I'm going to 0.99

00:45:17.920 Cornell today. I'm going to be up at Cornell. If you are in Ithaca, New York, I hear that Ithaca is

00:45:22.940 gorgeous. Gorgeous. Do you get it? If you're around there, come on up. We will be discussing you,

00:45:29.340 me, and World War III tonight at Cornell. So I hope to see you in Ithaca. I'm not sure if tickets are

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