The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1376 - Paper Ballots Help In Right-Wing Argentina President's Victory

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00:00:17.540 the election of right-wing libertarian Javier Millet in Argentina, pundits are racking their

00:00:23.400 brains over how it happened. How did Millet do it? What differentiates the election in Argentina

00:00:30.820 from elections in, say, Brazil or the United States or anywhere in between? Was it Millet's stance on

00:00:39.960 social issues? Was it Argentina's presently soaring inflation? Was it his blunt talk? Was it his funny

00:00:48.860 hair? I've got a simpler answer. Two words. Paper ballots. Last month, the Buenos Aires Herald

00:00:58.420 reported that city residents would be required to vote on paper ballots after electronic voting

00:01:04.780 machines caused all sorts of chaos and confusion in the primaries, leading to a federal judge striking

00:01:11.560 them down and returning to voters the right to elect candidates the old-fashioned way.

00:01:18.860 What's the argument for electronic voting? The only argument is that it makes the process faster

00:01:24.380 and more efficient, except it doesn't. Because the machines break, and then the pipes burst,

00:01:32.360 and then vote counting takes days and weeks even, especially when the vote count starts to look bad

00:01:38.680 for liberals. Paper ballots gave Argentinians their answer on election day. It was an answer that the 0.97

00:01:47.860 liberal elites don't like. It was an answer that the Argentinian people might not have gotten had

00:01:54.700 computers allowed the count to drag on behind an opaque electronic veil of secrecy. The only advantage

00:02:02.940 that electronic voting has over paper ballots is that it makes it much, much easier for bad actors to steal

00:02:10.000 elections. Argentina was right to get rid of it. American conservatives better take note if we want

00:02:17.560 that result down south to herald good things for us next year. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:00.980 presidential nominee, currently the governor of California, doing his best Patrick Bateman impression

00:03:05.720 every day. He just accidentally admitted that LGBT activism is obscene. We'll get to that in just a

00:03:12.880 moment. First, though, the man who currently has the job, Joe Biden, is losing a lot of support.

00:03:19.640 His numbers are absolutely in the doldrums. He seemed to endorse Gavin Newsom for president the

00:03:26.600 other day. He said, this guy is really good. He could do anything. He could even have the job I'm

00:03:30.220 running for. And a lot of Democrats, I think, were listening to that and saying, yes, he's certainly good,

00:03:35.340 Joe. You're right. But it's worth remembering, even as everyone appears to abandon Joe Biden,

00:03:41.600 that he does still have one really prominent endorsement, and that is the endorsement of

00:03:48.340 Osama bin Laden. People forget this because Osama bin Laden's endorsement of Joe Biden came from a 0.63

00:03:55.160 letter that was discovered after the raid on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan and Abbottabad.

00:04:00.180 But in that letter, Osama said that groups, the jihadi groups, will remain on the lookout for Obama

00:04:10.600 or Petraeus, the American general and director of the CIA. The reason for concentrating on them is

00:04:18.560 that Obama is the head of infidelity, and killing him automatically will make Biden take over the 0.97

00:04:24.840 presidency for the remainder of the term as it is the norm over there. Biden is totally unprepared for 0.96

00:04:30.780 that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour in this

00:04:37.140 last year of the war, and killing him would alter the war's path. So please ask Brother Ilias to send 0.89

00:04:42.260 to me the steps he has taken into that work. Okay. I think the letter is real. I think the endorsement

00:04:49.200 is real. And I think Osama bin Laden's point about Joe Biden is absolutely correct. And I think that 0.91

00:04:53.820 point was proven right over the past few years of Biden's presidency. Bin Laden, very evil man, 0.71

00:05:01.420 had lots of crazy ideas floating around his head, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

00:05:07.520 And he was right about Biden. Joe Biden's presidency has led America into crisis.

00:05:15.240 Three years ago, we had peace in the Middle East. We had a flourishing economy before COVID.

00:05:22.000 We had our allies around the world stepping up to the plate, actually paying for some of their own

00:05:28.380 defense. We had trade deals being renegotiated. We had, at least for a time, immigration declining,

00:05:34.980 illegal immigration declining, until the deep state gummied up the works and hindered Donald Trump from

00:05:41.460 diminishing that. Things were pretty good. Things were pretty good, remember?

00:05:46.800 And then Joe Biden took over. And it's amazing how quickly things can fall to pot.

00:05:53.300 Proving Osama bin Laden's prediction correct, which might actually help Joe Biden here. Because don't

00:05:58.600 forget, Zoomers are flocking to bin Laden on TikTok. They've discovered Osama bin Laden's letter to 0.94

00:06:05.540 America. And they're discovering this as though for the first time and saying, oh, wow, Osama was totally 0.83

00:06:12.320 right. And we covered it on the show a few days ago. So who knows? Maybe this is all, maybe the Osama 0.99

00:06:18.080 endorsement was actually leaked by the Biden campaign to win him support among the Zoomers.

00:06:23.120 That would be 5D. That would be, I think, 9 or 10D chess, which, because I agree that Biden is a

00:06:33.520 complete train wreck, he probably is not capable of playing. But who knows? That might be the effect of

00:06:37.720 it. Now, speaking of attacks on Joe Biden, I have to sort of defend him a little bit.

00:06:44.720 Joe Biden went viral yesterday, again, for supposedly making weird, creepy comments to a

00:06:50.580 little girl. Here it is.

00:06:51.860 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And I love your ears. I love them. They're really cool. What's your

00:06:57.720 name?

00:06:58.760 Catherine.

00:06:59.600 Catherine, what a beautiful name. That's my mommy's name. Well, nice to see. How old are you, 17?

00:07:05.400 Six. Six. Okay. So the way this is being reported and going viral is Joe Biden compliments

00:07:14.560 a six-year-old's body and then he creepily asks if she's 17 and he's a big creep. And he is kind

00:07:21.400 of creepy. I'm not denying that at all. He's got the weird thing about sniffing girls' hair

00:07:26.360 and there's the weird stuff in the Ashley Biden diary. And he's weird. I'm not denying that.

00:07:33.260 But this video is not an example of that creepiness. It's an example of another character

00:07:40.660 flaw with Joe Biden. But I don't think he's letching on this little girl. When he's complimenting

00:07:45.980 her ears, I don't think that's him objectifying her. And when he's asking if she's 17, I don't

00:07:52.580 think he's trying to take her out on a date. The character flaw that this reveals about Joe Biden

00:07:58.400 is not his lasciviousness. It's his absolute, oily, glad-handing, simpering, back-slapping 0.75

00:08:06.640 politician empty-suitedness. That's what it is. Joe Biden has no answer on any issues. I don't think 0.93

00:08:13.840 he has any particular convictions on any political issues either. But what he's really good at is

00:08:19.920 back-slapping people and joking around, making them feel like he's good old Uncle Joe.

00:08:24.700 So what he's doing here, he's putting on a show for the other people in the room. It's not like

00:08:29.140 he's having a private moment with this little girl. He's putting on a show for all these adults

00:08:32.520 in the room. Hey there, little girl. You're so nice looking. Hey there. How old are you? 17?

00:08:39.360 No, I'm just joking anyway. It's like when a politician kisses babies. That's what this is.

00:08:46.960 And for Joe Biden, who's 700 years old now, if you're under 40, you're a baby to him.

00:08:51.440 So it's what it is. And it's his best shot at getting elected. If Joe Biden has ever been

00:08:57.320 elected president, it will have been because he is really good at back-slapping and simpering.

00:09:04.820 And that's what's going on here. The hair stuff is weird, but I just think it's a distinct issue.

00:09:10.240 And I want to be fair, okay? I don't want to just be a total hack all the time. I want to defend

00:09:15.780 Joe Biden so that I can criticize him further. Speaking of sexual impropriety, Gavin Newsom,

00:09:22.160 the governor of California, just accidentally said that LGBT behavior is obscene.

00:09:29.420 He tweeted out, this was a few days ago, he tweeted out this article from the New Republic,

00:09:34.520 and he said, a city in Tennessee has banned being gay in public. This is just the beginning. We have 0.87

00:09:42.020 to call this out. Wow, a city in Tennessee banned being gay in public? What's that? I looked,

00:09:48.600 and the city is right near me. It's Murfreesboro. They banned being gay in public, whatever that

00:09:54.180 means? Well, hold on. What did they actually ban? I looked in. I pulled up the article. 0.88

00:10:00.600 The city passed an ordinance back in June. Newsom's just tweeting about it now in November.

00:10:06.540 Back in June, they passed an ordinance banning indecent behavior, including indecent exposure,

00:10:14.720 public indecency, lewd behavior, nudity, or sexual conduct. In other words, the governor of

00:10:23.980 California has just equated being gay with indecent and obscene behavior. Oopsie daisy. Gavin Newsom 0.99

00:10:34.480 has just made the argument that the most staunch right-wing social conservatives have been making

00:10:39.380 for a long time. What the libs have tried to argue is, no, this kind of behavior in public is not

00:10:46.240 obscene. No, the pride parades, they're totally family-friendly. No, the drag queen story hour, 0.85

00:10:53.760 it's just nice fellas wearing silly costumes, just innocently reading books to little kids.

00:10:59.520 The conservatives have said, nah, man, the pride parades are creepy and weird, and they belong, 1.00

00:11:03.480 if anywhere, they belong in a red light district in some seedy back alley club.

00:11:07.820 They certainly don't belong on Main Street. And the drag queen story hour stuff, it's a bunch of 1.00

00:11:12.740 groomers and sometimes actual convicted sexual criminals who just get a kick out of behaving in 0.94

00:11:19.840 a provocative sexual way around little kids. That's really what it's about, and it's gross, 0.98

00:11:23.620 and it should be banned. And Gavin Newsom, the Democrat just came out, and he's like, hey,

00:11:28.060 those conservatives, they're totally right. Oops, that's what we call a Freudian slip,

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00:12:56.360 ZipRecruiter, the smartest way to hire. Speaking of undermining the liberal narrative, there's a story,

00:13:01.980 I bet you've seen it going around, that Israel, the state of Israel, has arrested an NBC journalist

00:13:08.460 for expressing public support of Hamas and the Palestine liberation movement.

00:13:15.320 And what you're going to hear from the liberal defenders of the state of Israel is that this is

00:13:20.800 not true. Israel has not arrested a journalist. It's totally different. This person is, for some,

00:13:28.840 whatever reason, this person is not a real journalist and they were siding with the terrorists

00:13:32.940 and that's why we arrested them. And it's not arresting journalists. But that's not true. The

00:13:38.460 state of Israel arrested a journalist. This person, not like a, you know, it wasn't Walter Cronkite,

00:13:42.580 but this person was a freelancer working for NBC. I think it's totally defensible, but it's not

00:13:49.940 defensible from a liberal perspective. It's only defensible from a conservative perspective. It's

00:13:54.500 only defensible from the perspective that there's no such thing as totally neutral, balanced journalism

00:14:01.040 without any political partisan leaning whatsoever. It's only defensible if you reject the liberal

00:14:09.940 notion that we just need total, absolute free speech at all times everywhere with no standards

00:14:15.740 whatsoever, man. And we can never in any way have standards or norms of decency, man. It's only

00:14:22.960 defensible if you adopt the view that I adopted in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling

00:14:28.460 Minds, which at the time, hello, where's my bell? Where's my bell, guys? Good grief. I don't,

00:14:32.620 they're already on vacation for Thanksgiving. At the time I wrote that book, which now was what,

00:14:37.420 two years ago? A lot of conservatives were embracing the liberal view that, that journalists

00:14:45.200 are the esteemed fourth estate and they're above reproach and the journal, we have to defend the

00:14:53.100 journalists at all costs and we need total free speech at all. No, we need, we need proper speech

00:15:02.520 protections in line with the American tradition, in line with the best practices of our civilization,

00:15:12.340 but we can't pretend that societies are not entitled to any standards whatsoever. We can't pretend that we

00:15:20.260 don't, we're not allowed to have standards against indecent behavior and obscenity. That's the point

00:15:26.420 we were just making with Gavin Newsom. In this case, the state of Israel sees this freelance journalist

00:15:34.460 promoting Hamas, Israel's sworn enemy against which Israel is currently conducting a war, and they're

00:15:41.860 saying, oh yeah, we're not going to allow the propagandists for our enemy, terrorists who are

00:15:46.560 killing civilians and who currently have hostages in Gaza. We're not going to let this propagandist

00:15:52.240 just go about spreading wartime propaganda. We're going to arrest this person. And then NBC fired the

00:15:58.780 person. And now there's one less propagandist on the street. But I think that's totally defensible.

00:16:07.300 If I were in the Israeli government, that's exactly the sort of thing I would do.

00:16:11.200 There are wars, an existential war as they describe it. It's a, it's another war of independence,

00:16:15.320 but don't look at me and tell me that the facts are not what they are. Don't try to save the liberal

00:16:22.660 narrative as many on the center left and even on the center right are trying to do right now.

00:16:27.720 No, we're admitting here, there's no such thing as totally neutral journalism. We're admitting that

00:16:33.480 the distinction between journalism and propaganda is a little bit blurry sometimes. We're admitting that

00:16:41.020 societies have the right to standards and norms. We're admitting that at times of war, particularly

00:16:45.980 existential war, some of those civil liberties that we all enjoy sometimes get a little bit curtailed

00:16:51.780 because if they were not to be total, a little bit curtailed, then you would lose the totality of

00:16:57.520 those civil rights protections. Don't liberals, don't urinate on my leg and tell me that it's raining. 0.93

00:17:04.020 This is a great teachable moment for the realities of speech in society. And it's a great opportunity 0.86

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00:17:18.940 Number one national bestseller. Thank you very much. Now I want to go back to Newsom. We took a little

00:17:24.220 break from Newsom to go to Hamas. Now we're going to go back to Newsom. Gavin Newsom is running TV ads.

00:17:31.240 It's Gavin Newsom, who's totally not running for president. Remember, he supports Joe Biden. He's

00:17:35.400 not running, but he is running TV ads against Ron DeSantis ahead of the Newsom-DeSantis totally

00:17:42.520 not presidential debate. Wanted by order of Governor Ron DeSantis. Any woman who has an abortion after 1.00

00:17:51.760 six weeks and any doctor who gives her care will be guilty of a felony. Abortion after six weeks will 0.99

00:17:59.100 be punishable by up to five years in prison. Even though many women don't even know they're 1.00

00:18:04.060 pregnant at six weeks. That's not freedom. It's Ron DeSantis' Florida.

00:18:11.020 Campaign for Democracy PAC is responsible for the content of this advertising.

00:18:15.580 No candidate. I love the disclaimer here. Not authorized by any candidate or candidates

00:18:21.500 committee, even though who narrated the ad? The ad was narrated by Gavin Newsom.

00:18:25.100 Why is he running ads against DeSantis right now? Well, they got this debate coming up.

00:18:30.180 This is the true undercard presidential debate. And they got the debate coming up.

00:18:35.880 And Newsom wants to prime the public to say that he won the debate.

00:18:42.280 He's just trying to get in his opponent's head before the debate. And why did he pick this issue?

00:18:48.020 He picked this issue because he wants to prime a split between the DeSantis and the Trump camps.

00:18:53.720 He wants to rally up the most left-wing base, which supports infanticide. But he also wants

00:19:00.580 to prime this split between the Trump and DeSantis camps because Trump was asked about DeSantis'

00:19:05.660 abortion policy in Florida. And Trump reflexively criticized it. Now, I don't think Trump criticized

00:19:11.540 it because Trump is pro-abortion. I think Trump is the most pro-life president we've ever had in my

00:19:16.060 lifetime. And he's responsible for getting Roe v. Wade overruled after 50 years.

00:19:18.920 But Trump reflexively attacks whatever his opponents do. And so when DeSantis did something

00:19:28.340 very, very good in Florida, which is protect life to a large degree, what was it, a six-week

00:19:34.160 abortion ban? Trump attacks that. He would have attacked anything that DeSantis did. But this puts

00:19:41.380 conservatives in a pickle because it's a wedge between the Trump and DeSantis camps. Even if

00:19:46.700 everyone agrees on pro-life, it's just another way to get in there. And it's a reminder that Gavin

00:19:51.820 Newsom is a very, very clever politician. He's really smart. In fact, after DeSantis accepted

00:20:00.260 the debate, and it was clear that this was going to go ahead, Newsom mocked DeSantis. And he said,

00:20:07.340 this is a joke. DeSantis is crazy for accepting this debate because it shows that he's not focused.

00:20:12.620 He's supposed to be debating the other Republican presidential candidates. He shouldn't be debating 0.84

00:20:15.720 me. Implicit, I think, was that the debate is good for Newsom because it elevates Newsom to the level

00:20:22.060 of a presidential candidate. If Newsom could have debated Trump, I'm sure he would have.

00:20:26.480 Trump's not going to debate anybody. So, okay, he's going to debate DeSantis, next best thing.

00:20:30.460 But then he mocks DeSantis. He says, why is DeSantis debating me for? I'm not even officially

00:20:34.400 running for president. I'm just the governor of California. Guy's totally unprepared. He's just

00:20:37.920 getting in his head ahead of this debate that, the point of which I can't even quite understand here.

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00:22:14.020 today. DeSantis is in a tough spot right now. As I've said from the beginning, I won't belabor the

00:22:18.560 point. He always was in a basically impossible position because the best thing to recommend him

00:22:24.180 is the best campaign pitch for DeSantis is that he's the better version of Trump. Bigger,

00:22:28.500 better, faster, stronger. He's more focused, more of a policy wang, whatever.

00:22:35.740 That argument only works if DeSantis can pull a significant number of Trump voters. So far,

00:22:40.800 he has not been able to do that. So then the second best argument for DeSantis is, well,

00:22:45.300 he's not Donald Trump, so he'll be the alternative to Donald Trump. But the never-Trumpers, some of them

00:22:51.400 like DeSantis, some of them don't like DeSantis because they view DeSantis as a little too Trumpy,

00:22:56.060 a little too willing to use government power. So a lot of those people who really want an

00:23:01.820 alternative to Trump, they're looking at Nikki Haley. They were looking at Tim Scott before Tim

00:23:07.340 Scott dropped out of the race. They're looking at other candidates. So this hurts DeSantis' polling.

00:23:12.660 He's still the number two guy in the race. But right now, even in Florida, University of North

00:23:16.920 Florida poll shows Trump at 60% in Florida. That's DeSantis' state where he's currently governor.

00:23:21.240 He's currently up on DeSantis by 39 points. That puts DeSantis at 21. And DeSantis is still way up

00:23:27.840 on his next nearest opponent, Nikki Haley. But who cares? If you're looking at 60 versus 21 versus

00:23:36.700 six, it doesn't really matter. DeSantis could have 30 points. He would still be way behind

00:23:44.380 Trump. And nobody wants to be number two. The other thing that's going to hurt DeSantis here,

00:23:50.820 again, I hate to be the bearer of bad news for people who, and I really like DeSantis too. I'm

00:23:56.300 not endorsing in the primary, but I really like the guy. I think he would be a perfectly good

00:23:59.740 president. I think he's been an excellent governor of Florida. But what you're going to start to see

00:24:03.900 happening is the momentum building. Now that it looks as though DeSantis is not going to go the

00:24:08.680 distance, some people are going to start to look at someone like Haley. 1.00

00:24:11.420 But other people who were sitting on the fence are now just going to endorse Trump.

00:24:17.460 So you've seen Sarah Sanders, for instance, who obviously she worked for Trump. She's been very

00:24:22.260 supportive of Trump. But she said, I'm not really going to endorse yet. She just endorsed in the

00:24:26.580 primary, endorsed Trump. You're seeing people who had previously endorsed DeSantis in Florida.

00:24:30.560 Five of them, Florida representatives, flip and they vote. They now endorse Trump. You're seeing now

00:24:38.240 Governor Abbott in Texas who was sitting on the fence. He wasn't going to pick a candidate.

00:24:42.700 He's just come out now. He endorses Trump.

00:24:46.140 We need a president who's going to secure the border. We need a president who's going to restore

00:24:52.040 law and order in the United States of America, not letting these criminals run ransack over the

00:24:58.740 stores that you see images of almost nightly. We need a president who's going to restore world peace

00:25:05.880 as opposed to this outbreak of warfare under Joe Biden. We need Donald J. Trump back as our

00:25:14.660 president of the United States of America. I'm here today to officially proclaim my endorsement

00:25:21.720 for Donald J. Trump to be president of the United States of America again.

00:25:26.880 There he is. Okay. So you're seeing consolidation and that will probably continue. I'm not saying

00:25:34.240 DeSantis is out of the race yet, but the question is what is going to change the momentum here?

00:25:40.560 The answer previously was the debates. Just wait until the debates and then that's going to change

00:25:44.540 the momentum. Didn't happen. A lot of people were saying Trump should show up to the first debate.

00:25:48.140 You'll recall some of us said that while we might like Trump to show up to the debate,

00:25:52.600 if I were advising the Trump campaign, I would say, don't show up to the debate because it can only

00:25:57.180 hurt you. It can't really help you. It's very, very high risk, very little potential reward.

00:26:02.260 Then some people said, okay, he won't show up to the first debate, but he will show up to the second

00:26:05.460 debate. I was skeptical of that too. I said, we'll see if the strategy works. Strategy works so he

00:26:10.400 doesn't have to show up to any of them. So now the debates aren't going to make a difference.

00:26:13.260 So now what's going to change the momentum? Well, for DeSantis, he's got this Hail Mary pass,

00:26:17.800 which is the debate with Gavin Newsom. If that debate goes really well, maybe that affects the

00:26:23.560 race. If the debate goes poorly for DeSantis, that might affect the race too, in that it might

00:26:28.100 wrap it up even more quickly. What about the other candidates? The vague has a different strategy.

00:26:34.480 The vague is not going out and debating prominent left-wing politicians. The vague is going out.

00:26:40.680 You want to get back to our Hamas story. You want to get back to the real nature of journalism. 0.73

00:26:44.800 The vague is going out, and he's attacking the most notable and prominent opposition leaders of

00:26:52.440 all in the United States, namely the left-wing media. That language, they live like vermin. 0.98

00:26:58.160 Do you believe that that is, as your Republican colleague Chris Christie has said, neo-Nazi rhetoric?

00:27:05.060 This is a classic mainstream media move. Pick some individual phrase of Donald Trump,

00:27:10.380 focus on literally that word without actually interrogating the substance of what's at issue.

00:27:16.020 The word was chosen for a reason. I think that we are in the middle of a cultural war in this

00:27:19.100 country. The word was chosen for a reason. It's actually describing a series of behaviors.

00:27:23.180 You have Antifa and other related groups that have been burning down cities for the last three

00:27:26.800 years in this country. Would you describe them as vermin? Wildly violating the rule of law. We have an

00:27:30.260 invasion on our southern border. We have millions of people crossing our southern border. Let's talk about

00:27:34.580 the substance of why we have to recognize that we're not in ordinary times. Would you use that

00:27:39.660 language yourself? The vocabulary of the vermin or not is not what's important. Well, I haven't used

00:27:43.540 that language. So you can look at my track record on the campaign trail. I talk about the issues. We

00:27:48.400 all talk about them differently. But what I'm not going to do is play some game of focusing on some

00:27:52.960 word that somebody else said without ignoring entirely the substance of what we're actually talking

00:27:58.520 about. A border crisis of historic proportion. Economic stagnation we haven't seen in 50 years.

00:28:03.980 A national identity crisis and the loss of national pride in the next generation that's potentially

00:28:09.260 existential for this country. Let's talk about our dependence on China today. We're actually

00:28:13.920 talking about Xi Jinping picking on Donald Trump's word vermin to talk about that status quo.

00:28:19.000 You know what's vermin? What's running around San Francisco on a given day before Gavin Newsom

00:28:23.500 cleaned it up on a dime to roll out the red carpet for Xi Jinping. If he could do that for Xi

00:28:28.260 Jinping, he could have done it on ordinary day. This is a good strategy. This is what we want to see. 0.85

00:28:33.980 We want to see our candidates own the libs. Look at Millet down in Argentina. Javier Millet,

00:28:41.620 who is an economist. He's a professor. But Javier Millet is also a TV personality. Javier Millet is

00:28:50.360 also a guy with a silly haircut, a guy who dances up on stage. And what does he do? He gives these 0.95

00:28:54.960 interviews where he just belligerently attacks the left and people gobble it up. That's what we want

00:29:01.060 to see. And I don't think that's necessarily wrong or base. The libs run the show. They run every

00:29:07.460 institution. They've run them into the ground. They obviously despise us. They express their

00:29:13.320 contempt for us at every turn. And so, yeah, we want to see some conservatives give it right back to

00:29:20.780 them. And what's the most effective way to do that? You could do it by debating the governor of

00:29:26.740 California. It would probably be a pretty good debate. But the way you're most likely going to

00:29:32.540 get that minute clip that goes viral is in one of these exchanges online. So I think Vivek is very

00:29:40.120 sharp. He's a very strong candidate, especially for having virtually zero name recognition before he

00:29:45.620 entered the race. The question now is, can he close the gap? I don't really think there are enough

00:29:52.600 CNN hits in the world for that alone to be what closes the gap. But it could serve him pretty well

00:30:00.920 in the race. And especially if Trump does end up being the nominee, it could position him well for a

00:30:06.940 cabinet position or something else. Or if Trump is out of the race, he might even have a shot at the

00:30:11.760 title. Meanwhile, Trump says, we got to end all this. Trump tweets out, or he doesn't tweet it out.

00:30:19.180 He truths it out. He says, great polls just released. Best ever. Harvard, Harris, Trump,

00:30:24.040 67%. DeSanctimonious, 9%. Birdbrain, 8%. Is that Haley? Sorry, I've been a little behind on my

00:30:33.520 Trump nicknames this cycle. Birdbrain means, okay, 8%. Ramaswamy, 5% Christy, dead in the water,

00:30:41.800 a total loser. Interesting. Ramaswamy and Christie don't, even Christie, who Trump doesn't seem to 0.99

00:30:49.940 like very much, they don't get nicknames, though Trump does call Christie a total loser, dead in 0.99

00:30:55.440 the water. Trump ups 7% to 10% on crooked Joe Biden. RNC must save money on lowest ever ratings 0.96

00:31:00.620 debates. Use it against the Democrats to stop the steal. If not, revamp the RNC now. That last line

00:31:06.660 is the key here. Because Ronna McDaniel, who runs the Republican National Committee, only has a job 1.00

00:31:13.420 today because Donald Trump is willing to allow her to keep that post. Virtually every other candidate

00:31:20.520 is calling for her to step down. And major GOP figures and major conservative movement figures

00:31:25.160 are calling for her to step down. Trump so far has said, well, she can keep her job maybe. 0.87

00:31:29.800 But if she doesn't end these debates, maybe we got to revamp the whole thing.

00:31:37.460 And let's say you hate Donald Trump. As you know, I don't hate Donald Trump. I rather like the man.

00:31:42.300 But let's say you just hate the guy, or let's say you don't hate the guy, but you just don't want him

00:31:46.140 to be the nominee again, or however you feel. Can you really disagree with him on this point that the

00:31:53.720 debates serve no other purpose than to waste time and money, resources that could be spent fighting

00:32:00.440 the Democrats? Can you really disagree with that point? You might say, well, the voters have a right

00:32:07.100 to hear the candidates debate. Yeah, maybe. The voters don't seem to care. Because Trump's refusal

00:32:13.940 to show up has not hurt him in the polls. If anything, his polls have gone up. Well, sure,

00:32:20.220 but it's disrespectful to the voters. Yeah, again, the voters don't seem to feel that disrespect.

00:32:25.680 They don't seem to care at all. Well, I just think we ought to have more debates. Why?

00:32:34.140 Because that's what we have done in the past. Yeah, in the past, we haven't had primaries like this.

00:32:39.360 This is a totally different primary. Because for the first time in 100 years, you have a candidate

00:32:44.160 who was the president running for a non-consecutive second term. So it's totally different.

00:32:50.220 You can't say, well, that's what we did in 2008. So what's the point? You might hate him. You might

00:32:57.960 hate Donald Trump for being right about this point. But I don't think that anyone seriously can deny

00:33:02.700 that he is right here. There's no, if the debates were going to change the momentum of the race,

00:33:09.200 wouldn't they have done that in the first three debates? But the momentum of the race has not

00:33:13.680 changed at all in the slightest. Look back at the RCP, RealClearPolitics polling average.

00:33:19.320 So not even just one poll or two polls, but the average of all the polls weighted in a pretty

00:33:22.900 serious way. Going back all the way to the very start of this campaign, what was it, 15, 16 months

00:33:27.760 ago? Nothing has changed at all. Candidate goes up a little blip, goes down a little blip. That's a bet.

00:33:33.880 That's it. So what's the point? And if they don't cut this out, I mean, I'm not going to go so far

00:33:44.360 as to call for the RNC chairman to step down. But if you're Ron and McDaniel right now, you've got

00:33:50.280 to take this very seriously. I do not blame the RNC chairman for any disappointments that may have

00:33:57.780 occurred in recent election cycles. I think it's cheap and easy to blame the head of the RNC. I

00:34:04.960 don't think the head of the RNC matters all that much. I think the candidates matter. I think the

00:34:09.240 timing matters. I think the way that the elections are conducted, whether it's hackable electronic

00:34:16.620 voting machines or paper ballots, I think that matters. I don't really think whoever sits as

00:34:20.980 the chairman of the RNC does all that much. But if you're Ron and McDaniel and your only prominent

00:34:27.300 defender right now is saying, hey, lady, shape up or you're out, you probably got to take that pretty 0.96

00:34:32.580 seriously. So putting aside these elections for a moment, moving on to more consequential matters,

00:34:40.460 the Pentagon is, you want to talk about wasting money on nonsense. The Pentagon is about to finish

00:34:48.160 spending $270 million on DEI initiatives, which we'll get to in one second. First though,

00:34:55.440 my favorite coming yesterday is from Joshua McFerver, MK5RR says, bring Xi Jinping to Philly,

00:35:04.420 man. This place needs some help bad. I totally agree. Whoever wins the presidential election,

00:35:11.380 whether it's Trump or DeSantis, whether it's Biden or Newsom, whoever wins,

00:35:17.480 that person needs to promise within the first hundred days to bring Xi Jinping on a national

00:35:23.880 tour of the United States. All the major cities. We will clean up these cities for the first time

00:35:28.780 in decades. It'll be really great. Then send Xi Jinping home. I don't want him to stay here too

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00:36:18.580 The DOD, the Department of Defense, is now looking at spending $270 million in taxpayer funds to

00:36:28.300 advance diversity, equity, and inclusion, and accessibility. There's a new one. It's DEIA now

00:36:33.600 from fiscal years 2022 to 2024. So you had DEIA spending in fiscal year 2022 was $68 million.

00:36:46.220 Then it jumped to $86.5 million in 2023. Then it jumped to $114.7 million in the initial request for

00:36:56.160 2024. So you're looking at $270 million. Why? For what? For what purpose does that serve?

00:37:05.380 It advances political correctness. It advances the liberal agenda. It advances wokeness or whatever

00:37:13.480 word you want to use. It in no way makes our military better able to fight wars.

00:37:22.600 How does diversity help our military fight wars? It doesn't. It doesn't at all. Unity helps militaries

00:37:29.420 fight wars. Diversity does not. Equity? How does equity help? We don't want equity in the military.

00:37:34.680 We want the strongest, baddest, toughest, craziest, most disciplined guys to go out there and kill our 0.99

00:37:41.680 enemy. You don't want equity. You don't want a leveling of anything. You want excellence. 1.00

00:37:48.860 Inclusion. Inclusion? I don't want inclusion in the military. I want exclusion. I want all the people who

00:37:56.360 are weak. All the people who are unsure about our objectives. All the people who are a little lukewarm

00:38:04.660 on patriotism. I want them all out of the military. I don't want inclusion. I want severe exclusion because

00:38:10.240 I want the very, very best. Accessibility even. I'm all for making life easier for people who have

00:38:19.780 particular difficulties in civilian life. Not in the military. I want people who are in the absolute 0.99

00:38:29.540 toughest, baddest fighting shape in the military. Listen, I don't run a four-minute mile, all right?

00:38:38.860 I've never focused as much as I probably should on physical strength, okay? I know I look like a

00:38:46.640 hulking, glistening Adonis. It's just how I was born. It's not for any working out. I'm not, I probably am

00:38:54.400 not in fighting shape to go fight a war today. That's fine, okay? If I were drafted, I'd try to, I'd try to

00:39:01.760 make it work, but I'm, I don't think that the military is for everybody. I want the toughest, baddest guys

00:39:11.180 who are going to fulfill the only objective of the military, which is to protect us, which entails 0.97

00:39:18.160 killing our enemies, okay? That's it. 270 million bucks. Not only wasted. The way this is being reported is

00:39:27.400 from this money is being wasted. It's not. It's even worse than that. It's money that is being spent to make

00:39:33.180 us weaker. How pathetic is that? Now, speaking of money grabs, Snoop Diggity-Doo Dog, as you know, 0.98

00:39:43.880 said that he was going to give up smoke. And when this ad came, he posted it to Instagram.

00:39:50.280 He said, hey, I'm giving up smoke. Please respect my privacy, Snoop. And I said, hold up.

00:39:55.560 All the fellas who'd be saying he's soft, Snoop don't play. He's going to rock it until the wheels

00:40:02.900 fall off. I thought that we might actually be preparing for a new episode. So if Snoop was going

00:40:09.580 to give up the sin spinach, maybe he'd move on to puffing something else. For those who are listening

00:40:15.280 right now, I am in fact tapping the Mayflower box. But it turns out Snoop had another trick up his

00:40:21.440 sleeve. Here it is. I have an announcement. I'm giving up smoke. I know what you're thinking.

00:40:28.840 Snoop, smoke is kind of your whole thing. But I'm done with it. Done with the coughing and my clothes

00:40:34.500 smelling all sticky icky. I'm going smokeless. Solo stole Fixed Fire. They took out the smoke. Clever.

00:40:51.440 Snoop is there, obviously high, toasting a marshmallow. It's clever. I love even the commentary

00:41:01.280 of the ad where he just looks at you and it's so officiously lame that it's actually cool and

00:41:08.000 funny again. He goes, clever. I'm going smokeless for this fire pit that I have outside. That dirty

00:41:14.680 D-O-double-G. He got us again. Maybe I should send him a box of Mayflower anyway. Maybe it's just an 0.98

00:41:23.140 opportunity. Okay. There's a note I wanted to read. Someone wrote in to me. Two days ago, a listener

00:41:30.420 wrote in. When I talk about dogs, you know I'm not a huge, it's not that I'm a dog person. It's not

00:41:36.760 that I'm a cat person. I say I'm a people person. I wrote in, or rather, I mentioned this story about

00:41:43.300 how pets don't make people happier. There's a study. I think studies are mostly bogus, but when

00:41:48.340 they back up my points, I cite them. And the study said, actually, you think pets are going to make

00:41:52.420 you happier. They really don't. Pet owners and non-pet owners are about equally happy. And I said,

00:41:57.000 this is important because there's no substitute for humanity. Maybe you can't have a child.

00:42:03.600 Maybe you're infertile. A lot of people deal with that. It's a very tough thing to deal with.

00:42:07.360 Maybe you're not called to marriage. Maybe you're not called to parenthood. But you should be

00:42:11.480 involved with people. You can be called to a kind of spiritual parenthood, like being your godmother,

00:42:16.500 godfather, maybe you're a priest or otherwise religious. But you need to be involved with

00:42:22.700 people. Dogs aren't going to cut it. And I got this letter. It says, Michael, I'm a 45-year-old mom

00:42:27.340 of dog that completely agrees with your opinion regarding dog moms. Not dog parents, as the men 0.59

00:42:33.160 rarely use the moniker. I fully fell for the lie that as a woman, I could have it all. I graduated

00:42:38.420 college with a BS in nursing and an officer's commission in the U.S. Air Force. Thank you for

00:42:42.180 your service. I had every intention of seeing the world, finding the perfect man, and being able to

00:42:46.320 work full-time while raising my children. But thanks to chick flicks and the feminist worm in my 1.00

00:42:51.520 ear, I kept looking for the next best thing and missed what was right in front of me. I fled from

00:42:56.040 a wonderful man who wanted to marry me because I had come to believe I could do better. Wrong. I bounced

00:43:01.200 from man to man, always wanting something more. I lost out on my one opportunity to have a family and

00:43:05.760 suffered the pain and loss of having to abort an ectopic pregnancy due to complications associated

00:43:10.560 with endometriosis. Even though it was a non-viable pregnancy, I grieve the loss of that little zygote

00:43:15.900 every day. As a result of my struggles, I became closed off and unable to accept love from men.

00:43:20.860 I remain single to this day. Although I have come to understand my mistakes and accept my culpability,

00:43:25.340 I know I am also a casualty of the leftist feminist ideology. I pray every day for healing and guidance

00:43:30.480 from God, for he is truly the only one who can make me whole and worthy of love. Since I'm single

00:43:35.440 and alone, I've chosen a dog as a companion for now. It was either that or cats, and I refused to

00:43:40.240 be a cat lady. I also deal with PTS for my military service and was graced with the gift of my Aussie

00:43:45.200 doodle puppy two years ago. While I love him dearly and I'm so grateful to have a watcher while I pee,

00:43:50.120 I do my very best to avoid the dog mom stereotype. I also urge every woman I talk to to avoid my mistakes

00:43:56.100 and accept that having it all is impossible. It's a cruel joke played by the left and perpetuated by

00:44:01.000 Hollywood and the media. It's so important to keep telling women that there is always a sacrifice 1.00

00:44:06.020 when we try to have it all. And the real question is, what are we willing to sacrifice? I grew up

00:44:10.620 with a working mom and dad. I can say with no hesitation, I would have preferred my mom was home

00:44:14.120 more. Any child that has a working mom is losing out on a very important bond, and it will shape them

00:44:18.800 in unimaginable ways and forever harm their life. I'm fortunate enough to still have my mom and dad

00:44:22.880 together in my life, but many adult children don't. It's the truth that the only thing I want

00:44:27.820 from my parents is their time and company. Money is important for survival, but you are so right

00:44:32.520 when you say a childless life is not worth a small increase in income. I'm living proof. I would give

00:44:37.120 up that 8% and more to be able to go back and fix the dumbest mistake of my life. I've tried to be a 0.80

00:44:42.040 parental figure by sponsoring a child through Compassion International. I write letters to her and try to be a

00:44:46.040 good influence, but it is a pale imitation of what I should have. I have a 16-year-old nephew who is a

00:44:50.380 budding artist, and I try to nurture his talent, but he lives far away, and it's difficult to

00:44:53.540 communicate with him. I take solace that my nephew is, was homeschooled by my sister-in-law, and I tell

00:44:57.900 her she's a hero every chance I get. I'm so worried about the future of younger generations and how

00:45:01.780 poorly they've been raised, many of whom have been raised by public school teachers, how warped and

00:45:05.200 poisoned their minds have become. They've become confused about everything and are ripe for the

00:45:09.380 plucking by leftist propaganda and activism. I encourage you to share my story and keep talking about the

00:45:13.920 importance of faith in God, family, children, and committed couples. These are the only things that will save us

00:45:19.440 from the abyss of leftist ideology and agenda. And then she goes on to thank me for the show.

00:45:26.420 Really good letter. Thank you for your letter. Sorry for the difficulties you have faced, but I think it was

00:45:32.000 really articulate, and you are giving people the grace of teaching by example of the things you've learned.

00:45:38.920 Really good lesson. Okay, it's Trans Tuesday. We got to get to it. The show continues now. 0.98

00:45:44.520 You don't want to miss it. Become a member. Use code NOLSKNWLS. Check out for two months free on all annual plans.

00:45:49.440 You don't want to miss it. You don't want to miss it. Yeah, you don't want to miss it.

00:45:54.360 Right, welcome to the last Entered Fame series.

00:46:06.280 I'll see you next time.

00:46:08.560 Look, the Raz sleek is beautiful.

00:46:11.200 I just don't want to miss anyone's birthday business.

The Michael Knowles Show - November 21, 2023

Ep. 1376 - Paper Ballots Help In Right-Wing Argentina President's Victory

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