The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1377 - The Israel and Hamas Ceasefire Explained

00:00:00.000 A Quinnipiac poll has just found that 61% of people want to avoid discussing politics at

00:00:06.540 the Thanksgiving table. That is not a surprising number. The surprising, the horrifying number

00:00:13.560 is that apparently 29% of people want to discuss politics at the Thanksgiving table.

00:00:21.960 And do you think that 29% is a really informed group of people? No, you know that that 29%

00:00:29.000 is the least informed group of people in the entire country. You know, and I know that that 29%

00:00:36.920 should certainly not be allowed to vote and probably should not be permitted in public

00:00:41.680 unsupervised. You know, and I know that that 29% comprises your silly haired niece and your 0.99

00:00:49.200 androgynous cousin, and they're going to bring up politics tomorrow, whether you want it or not.

00:00:53.900 So let's all load up on a little bit more rhetorical ammo before we settle down

00:00:59.020 to the Thanksgiving table. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:01:53.420 Joe Biden celebrated his 81st birthday, and the White House inexplicably released a picture of him

00:02:00.660 sitting at a table, not even a particularly grand table, sitting at a table that looks like truly it

00:02:07.100 could be in a nursing home with a weird angle. And then this flame, like the very gates of hell were

00:02:13.580 opened up, and just a massive flame coming off this cake. Joe Biden gripping the sides of the

00:02:18.560 table for dear life, smiling over the cake alone in a room. Every single thing about this photo

00:02:24.920 is bad. Whoever runs White House communications, the photographer, this is obviously not, doesn't

00:02:32.540 look like an official White House photographer. It looks like someone snapped it on a cell phone.

00:02:35.720 All these people should be fired. The picture is the meme of the dog sitting in the burning house

00:02:42.540 saying, this is fine. It is so eminently memeable, it's actually a pre-existing meme

00:02:49.640 that one posts when things are falling around all about them, which is what's going on in Joe Biden's

00:02:56.420 presidency. The reason I bring it up is not merely to dunk on Joe Biden or to get some White House

00:03:01.740 staffers fired. The reason I bring it up is because this is a perfect example of people being too clever

00:03:10.900 by half. This is a perfect example of political operatives trying to solve a problem, and in so

00:03:17.380 doing, making the problem worse. Here's the problem. It's Joe Biden's 81st birthday, and most people think

00:03:23.480 he's too old to be president. So what they ordinarily would have done, usually once you're above the age of,

00:03:30.000 I don't know, five, instead of putting individual candles for every year of your life,

00:03:35.460 people just put two candles in the shape of numbers. So you'd have an eight and a one,

00:03:42.320 but that would be so clear that Joe Biden's 81. They didn't want to do that. So they said, okay,

00:03:46.820 how can we get around this without looking like we're trying to avoid the issue, but still being

00:03:50.920 kind of fun? And I know what we'll do. We'll put 81 candles on the cake. Yeah, that's the ticket.

00:03:56.480 And then people won't count all the candles, and then we're going to light them all on fire,

00:03:59.860 and there's going to be a bonfire on the White House table because that's a lot of candles because

00:04:04.360 Joe Biden's super old. So while trying to avoid confronting the issue, they inadvertently make

00:04:10.440 the problem worse, which is something that our federal government does all the time, particularly

00:04:14.480 under the leadership of the liberal establishment. I have a second point on this meme that I haven't

00:04:21.060 seen anyone bring up other than yours truly, perhaps because the left sometimes calls me a Putin

00:04:28.520 stooge or pro-Russia or whatever. Well, okay, I guess here's a point that I got to hand to Russia and

00:04:35.980 to Putin, which is I don't generally say you got to hand it to Russia and to Putin, but here you do.

00:04:43.140 Because I seem to recall months ago, this was back in April, there was a picture of Vladimir Putin

00:04:49.620 sitting at a table. He was having a meeting with some other political person, and he was just

00:04:54.340 holding on to the table. He had his hand on the table, just sitting there like, I don't know,

00:04:57.940 I'm doing that right now. Didn't seem unusual in any way to me. And for weeks, the Western media

00:05:06.180 propaganda, what it is, ran headlines about how Vladimir Putin putting his hand on the table

00:05:14.360 was evidence that he was on the brink of death, that he had cancer and Alzheimer's and dementia

00:05:21.240 and Osgood-Schlatter disease and restless leg syndrome and IBS and I don't know, any number of

00:05:28.680 ailments. We could tell this because the tea leaf readers in the Western propaganda outlets could see

00:05:37.740 exactly the tension that Putin had on the table. All right, so we heard about that for weeks and Putin's

00:05:42.980 still alive. Then you get to this picture with Biden, the man is gripping both sides of it. I

00:05:47.460 don't see any of those headlines, rightly so. I don't think that either of those things are evidence

00:05:54.300 that either man is on the brink of death. But it shows you what the fake news is. This is something,

00:06:03.720 I think Drew may have been the first one at this outfit to make this point, since Drew was around

00:06:08.440 when journalism was invented. The point is that the fake news is not fake because they get some

00:06:16.840 story wrong. The fake news is fake because they view every story through a predetermined ideological

00:06:25.500 lens that is divorced from reality. It's either at least indifferent to reality and very often is

00:06:33.360 outright hostile to reality. That's why it's fake. It's fake because you could show the liberal media

00:06:40.300 two identical pictures of Putin and Biden. The only thing that could be different on the pictures

00:06:46.220 is the subtle facial differences between the two men. And they would read the one and they'd say,

00:06:51.500 see this Putin, he's on the, how old is Vladimir Putin? He's like 70 or something.

00:06:56.560 Joe Biden's got over 10 years on the guy, I think.

00:06:59.080 And they would say, Putin, he's on the brink of death. He's fading. This is, we need regime change.

00:07:05.280 He's going to lead to nuclear war. And then Joe Biden, who's assent to the presidency, actually has

00:07:10.680 seemed to augur nuclear war to herald the coming of the apocalypse. That guy, they would say, he's

00:07:18.620 totally fine. Happy birthday. Move along, move along. Now, speaking of foreign affairs, Israel and Hamas 0.99

00:07:24.560 have tentatively agreed to a ceasefire. And hardliners in Israel don't like it.

00:07:31.000 And I don't know, maybe, I think probably most of the pro-Palestine people like it in as much as

00:07:38.240 they want any kind of ceasefire. But what's the American perspective here? Because the American

00:07:42.600 perspective is not identical to the Israeli perspective, even though Israel is an official

00:07:46.580 ally of the United States. And the American perspective is certainly not identical to the

00:07:51.100 Hamas or the Palestine liberation view. So what's the American perspective? I think it's good. 0.98

00:07:55.380 I think it's a win-win all around. Hamas has agreed to free 50 women and children. 0.87

00:08:02.100 Don't forget, Hamas has 239 hostages in Gaza. That's a lot of people. They've agreed to free

00:08:06.800 a little under a fifth of them. This is going to be over a four-day period.

00:08:11.560 Israel has now said that it will extend the ceasefire by an additional day for every 10 hostages

00:08:21.200 released. So Hamas has bought itself a little bit more time. If they do 10 every day, they're going

00:08:27.260 to have another 15 to 20 days. We're not really clear as to how many hostages have already died

00:08:35.300 in Gaza. Hamas will release 50. Israel will release 150. So it's a three-to-one trade. Still

00:08:44.140 probably worth it if you're the Israeli government. It's not exactly clear when this goes into effect.

00:08:52.800 It's not exactly clear what happens afterward. I think this is great. It's great because

00:08:58.560 Israel cannot agree to just an outright ceasing of the war because Hamas poses an existential 1.00

00:09:07.980 security threat by governing in Gaza. So if they say, okay, the war's over, it's all good, 0.96

00:09:13.760 and then Hamas rebuilds, we're just going to be right back in this place five minutes from now.

00:09:18.200 Likewise, though, I'm not with the hardliners who say that we've got to just glass Gaza and who cares 0.78

00:09:23.840 about all of the civilians and who cares that half the population of Gaza is children.

00:09:27.620 And we got to do what's got to be done. I don't think that's true either. And I don't think that

00:09:32.940 satisfies the criteria of just war. And furthermore, I think the perspective that I'm most interested in 0.72

00:09:41.000 here is what the American interest is. And as I've said from the beginning, I think the American

00:09:44.180 interest is to contain the war so it doesn't expand. Iran has expressed some hope that the war 0.73

00:09:49.460 would not expand. Okay. And it looks like Netanyahu's playing ball too. So if Netanyahu can

00:09:56.920 mortally injure Hamas while getting the hostages back, while reducing to some degree the civilian 0.93

00:10:06.660 casualties, that seems like a win-win-win. This seems like actual diplomacy. For much of my life,

00:10:12.720 diplomacy has gotten a bad rap because it just seemed like the term that liberals used because

00:10:19.100 they were afraid to actually fight our enemies. But diplomacy is a very good thing,

00:10:24.000 and it is preferable to outright war. And one of the big shifts, I think, in the right-wing thinking

00:10:29.240 on diplomacy was Trump because Trump's foreign policy was unpredictable. His critics would say

00:10:36.980 that it was incoherent. I don't think it was incoherent. I think it was really good. Victor

00:10:40.420 Davis Hanson makes a good case that Trump had basically the best foreign policy in our lifetime.

00:10:44.680 that you didn't know what he was going to do. He talked like a dove, and then he dropped the Moab.

00:10:50.060 And then he would refuse to respond to certain aggression of our enemies, and then he'd kill

00:10:54.840 the top Iranian general. And then he would meet with Kim Jong-un, and then he'd call him short and fat 0.70

00:11:00.740 and say he's going to blow him up with a nuclear weapon. But then he wouldn't blow him up with a

00:11:03.900 nuclear weapon, and you just didn't know what to do. And that, oddly enough, was diplomacy,

00:11:07.800 diplomacy, and it was very effective diplomacy, and we had relative peace. So if, as far as I'm

00:11:12.980 concerned, if we can fix up the election system, if we can copy, you know, Argentina or something and

00:11:19.660 try to conduct elections here in the supposedly greatest democracy in the world, and we can get

00:11:23.640 a conservative elected, then my main foreign policy aim for the next year is just to not only contain

00:11:32.340 the war in the Middle East or contain the war in Ukraine, it's to contain the errors that Joe Biden

00:11:37.620 is able to make. If we can just minimize the amount of screw-up that can occur under his watch,

00:11:44.100 and we should never underestimate that per Barack Obama, if we can just minimize his ability to throw

00:11:50.760 the world into World War III, that would be very much in our best interests. Now, what's in your 1.00

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00:13:11.140 The issue of Israel-Palestine is splitting the liberals. There's a House Democrat who is just

00:13:16.180 quitting the Progressive Caucus because the squad and the young members of the Progressive Caucus

00:13:21.400 are very anti-Israel, very pro-Palestine, and she's very pro-Israel. This is Lois Frankel.

00:13:27.920 Now, I know that there are a lot of right-wingers out there who don't have strong feelings on the

00:13:35.660 Israel-Palestine conflict. It's not my top priority. I feel bad for the innocent people

00:13:40.780 being killed. I don't like that it's a flashpoint that can destabilize the world, but it's not my

00:13:46.800 top issue. For some people, they care very passionately about it. For me, it's not the top

00:13:52.580 issue. It is, however, I think everyone has to agree. It is an excellent wedge issue with the

00:14:02.740 left. The American people still broadly, overwhelmingly agree that they support the

00:14:09.060 state of Israel. Regardless of what you're seeing online or some of the super avant-garde online

00:14:14.680 communities, support for the state of Israel is still the overwhelmingly popular opinion in the

00:14:19.880 United States. On the left, it's much more split because the radical left, which is increasingly

00:14:26.620 represented in Congress, despises the state of Israel because they view the state of Israel as a

00:14:32.640 colonial, settler, white, European enclave in what ought to be the Muslim Arab Middle East. And they hate 1.00

00:14:41.500 the state of Israel with a burning, fiery passion. And you also have Democrats who vigorously,

00:14:48.880 strongly support the state of Israel. So if you're a conservative, what do you do? You

00:14:55.280 exploit that wedge. That's just smart politics. I don't think there's anything immoral about that.

00:15:03.220 I don't think there's anything unjust about that. I think we want to weaken our opponents here in the

00:15:07.580 United States. This is a great issue on which to do it. Just as we want on the domestic social issues

00:15:14.020 to split the feminists from the pro-LGBT activists, and we can do that over the trans issue, which is a 0.96

00:15:19.900 wedge there, so too we should split the Democrats in Congress, the progressive caucus, on this issue

00:15:25.960 of Israel-Palestine. Even if you don't care about it at all, which I know a great many people don't

00:15:30.380 care about this issue, it will still, even if you don't think one bit about the Holy Land,

00:15:36.160 it will still benefit you domestically. So one good reason to, like the Iran-Iraq war, 0.96

00:15:45.740 in the progressive caucus, you kind of just want both sides of the Democrats to lose.

00:15:50.140 Speaking of this issue, splitting the libs, it's splitting them outside of government too.

00:15:55.140 Susan Sarandon, big lib Hollywood actress, was just dropped by UTA, her talent agency,

00:16:00.800 for her pro-Palestine rant. She was going on and on. She said, Jews are finally feeling what it's like

00:16:08.720 to be Muslim in the United States, which is a kind of an interesting rewriting of history,

00:16:15.180 that now apparently Muslims are the ones who have always felt like the outsider, who have always felt

00:16:22.860 like they're not totally welcome in society. But I don't know that that's a totally accurate 1.00

00:16:30.660 representation. The libs still, they invert reality quite a lot. And so what Susan Sarandon

00:16:37.260 went on to say was, you don't have to be Palestinian to care about what's happening in Gaza. I stand with

00:16:41.360 Palestine. No one is free until everyone is free. That's not true, by the way. That's a completely 0.84

00:16:46.460 meaningless statement. I have no idea what that means. You could say there's no justice for anyone

00:16:51.780 until there's justice for everyone. I think that might be true because justice is giving to people

00:16:56.260 what they deserve. But freedom is not that. An individual can be perfectly free even in a

00:17:04.900 tyrannical, slavish society. Freedom is not contingent upon other people. Freedom is the perfection of the

00:17:12.740 will, which is contingent on the perfection of the intellect. You can be free even sitting in a jail cell.

00:17:18.100 So I don't know what she's talking about, but she says a lot of crazy things.

00:17:22.880 Anyway, as a result of this, she was dropped from her talent agency, which is not,

00:17:27.580 it's actually not the best look. If you're concerned about rising antisemitism in the United States,

00:17:32.140 it's not the best look for the Hollywood talent agencies to say, hold on, you oppose the state of

00:17:36.780 Israel, you'll never work in this town again. How dare you? There's rising antisemitism. So that's not a

00:17:42.320 great look. But broadly speaking, I think Susan Sarandon still is the one who looks bad in this

00:17:47.480 situation. The thing that really gets me about this whole thing is the keffia. If you're just 0.92

00:17:53.160 listening to the show right now, you probably can't see it. Susan Sarandon, this white Hollywood liberal 0.99

00:17:59.140 is wearing a Palestinian keffia. She's wearing the same thing that Hamas would be wearing. 0.98

00:18:04.660 And you think, okay, guys, I've said this from the beginning, getting back to my point on,

00:18:10.500 you know, even if you don't really care about this war in the Middle East, you know, it's not,

00:18:14.540 you don't want to be on the side with Hamas generally, right? Generally, I think that's a 0.99

00:18:19.160 safe bet. You don't, when Osama bin Laden's letter to America was going viral, you don't actually have

00:18:24.700 to hand it to Osama bin Laden ever under any circumstances. Susan Sarandon wearing the keffia,

00:18:29.680 what does she think would happen if she moved to Gaza with all of her liberal nonsense? Do you 0.99

00:18:36.940 think they would welcome her with open arms? For a brief period, they probably would for the

00:18:41.080 propaganda. But I don't think she would fit in very well with Hamas or Hezbollah or Palestinian

00:18:46.980 Islamic jihad. It's just so preposterous. And obviously, she hasn't thought one iota about it. 1.00

00:18:56.960 But this is my kind of issue. The kind of issue that can get a latte-sipping Hollywood liberal,

00:19:05.260 to use the old caricature, to wear the wartime garb of jihadis, that is an issue that has driven

00:19:14.920 a people mad. Now, speaking of picking sides, Bob Vander Plaats, who's the president and CEO

00:19:24.660 of the family leader, which is an evangelical group, he just announced that he is endorsing

00:19:30.940 Ron DeSantis for president. I'm thrilled to throw my personal endorsement and support

00:19:37.020 behind Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida. We need to find somebody who can win in 2024.

00:19:42.760 And what we saw in 2022, the supposedly red wave really only happened in Florida and in Iowa.

00:19:48.780 Governor DeSantis took a reliable toss-up state in Florida and made it complete red,

00:19:54.600 won by 20 points, won in demographics that we haven't won in. But he's also done that by being

00:19:59.380 a bold and courageous leader. So right away, it was kind of his endorsement to lose. But as you know,

00:20:04.820 Brett in Iowa, they go to church with us. They're in our homes. They come to our offices,

00:20:09.440 the leadership summit. But at last Friday's Thanksgiving Family Forum, he closed the sale with me.

00:20:15.240 He was very clear about, we need a president who can serve two terms, not one term. We don't need

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00:20:24.960 themselves with the best and brightest people versus having a hard time attracting them again.

00:20:30.220 And someone who's actually going to do what they say they're going to do. And I just think he's got

00:20:34.300 the spine to do it. And I think he's got the experience to win for us.

00:20:38.160 That's a big endorsement, big Iowa endorsement. This follows a big endorsement from Kim Reynolds,

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00:22:59.860 Friday. The DeSantis campaign is all in on Iowa. They've already signaled that. They pulled their

00:23:04.620 staff out of other states. They moved them to Iowa. Iowa first in the nation. Caucus, big deal.

00:23:10.240 They want to regain any momentum in the race in Iowa. And DeSantis has done a good job on the

00:23:17.440 endorsement front. He just got the endorsement of a major evangelical leader in Iowa, and he got the

00:23:22.240 endorsement of the governor of Iowa, who, by all accounts, is a fairly popular governor.

00:23:26.300 And yet, and yet, Trump is still up. And he's not up 10 or 20 points. He's up 40 points.

00:23:37.320 So, what does that mean? It means that the endorsements don't seem to be mattering as much

00:23:45.920 this cycle as they have perhaps in past cycles. It means that people's minds seem to be relatively

00:23:53.280 made up. It seems that the people are less persuadable than the elites within the Republican

00:24:02.160 Party. The elites, the operators, the office holders, the political players, they seem to be

00:24:08.600 able to go from side to side. They sit on the fence sometimes. Then, only at the last minute do they

00:24:13.520 endorse a candidate. But the people seem to have their minds relatively made up.

00:24:17.260 Vander Plaats says, look, the candidates here, they're not distant. They come to church with us.

00:24:24.040 They sit down in our civic associations. They come into our living rooms. That's true.

00:24:30.880 That's always been true. But why aren't the polls moving? We could find out, the caucuses are in

00:24:37.080 January. We could find out that all the polls were totally wrong. But I don't think that all the polls

00:24:42.580 are totally wrong. One or two polls, maybe. I don't think that all the polls weighted properly

00:24:49.700 by RealClearPolitics for now, what, 16, 17, 18 months. I don't think they've all been totally

00:24:54.960 wrong by 40 points. It tells me that this race is much, much less dynamic than previous races because

00:25:04.740 you've got a guy who's running effectively as an incumbent. First guy in over 100 years who's running

00:25:10.240 for his non-consecutive second term as president. And even if it works, I'm not trying to rain on the

00:25:18.500 parade of the DeSantis campaign here. But even if it works, the last time Iowa predicted the Republican

00:25:23.420 nominee was 2000 with George W. Bush. And then obviously 2004, he runs for reelection. But 08,

00:25:31.180 they picked Huckabee. 12, they picked Santorum. 16, they picked Cruz. So if you're a DeSantis campaign

00:25:36.920 strategist, why are you putting all your eggs on Iowa? Even if you could win Iowa, there's no

00:25:42.420 evidence that that helps you get the nomination. There's a lot of evidence it doesn't. Unless this

00:25:47.660 is just a Hail Mary, unless DeSantis is saying, well, I can't win New Hampshire. I can't win South

00:25:51.820 Carolina. I can't win Nevada, maybe. They pulled out of, I'm not sure, they pulled out of Nevada. I mean,

00:25:57.700 I think that Trump is basically going to win it all. But even so, why pull campaign staff out of

00:26:03.180 Nevada to go to Iowa? Unless you want to be able to say, well, we got one state, and I don't know,

00:26:08.440 and then make a play for some future position. It's looking like there is a consensus being formed

00:26:16.780 here. It's looking like after a long primary with no changes whatsoever, broadly speaking,

00:26:24.320 people are beginning to settle in, even if some big endorsements are going on the other side.

00:26:27.400 Now, speaking of rivalries, this is a story I meant to get to a couple days ago. Big story.

00:26:33.780 Glad it's finally making the national news. An ugly feud, writes the Wall Street Journal,

00:26:39.660 is rocking the blue-blooded Mayflower Society, looming over Thanksgiving. The organization

00:26:46.720 battling with a pilgrim descendant, quote, I'm pissed. 1.00

00:26:50.420 First, I was having dinner with my friend on Sunday night when this Wall Street Journal headline

00:26:59.060 popped up. And he turns to me, he goes, you're not going to believe this. He said, there's a,

00:27:02.260 he goes, have you heard there's a big feud in the Mayflower Society? The Mayflower Society is like 130

00:27:08.500 years old or so. I think it's 126 years old. In the entire 126-year history of the Mayflower

00:27:17.420 Society, I don't know that it has ever made a national headline. And now, two weeks after the

00:27:24.860 launch of Mayflower Cigars, mostly sold out, though maybe you could check the website,

00:27:30.020 mayflowercigars.com. I think there's still, there might be a handful of packs that have trickled in

00:27:33.340 for pre-order, 21 plus, some exclusions apply. You know the drill. Two weeks after the launch of

00:27:38.900 Mayflower Cigars. The Mayflower Society makes national headlines. All nature is but art unknown

00:27:47.860 to thee. All chance direction which thou canst not see. I love this story. I mean, I think it's

00:27:52.640 ridiculous. The story is basically that one of the members of the Mayflower Society is just totally

00:27:58.880 obsessive about legal documents. And he read the Mayflower Society charter, which is quite old.

00:28:04.820 And he read Massachusetts state law. And he said that there is a little bit of a conflict here

00:28:09.760 between the charter and the Massachusetts state law. And the other members of the Mayflower Society

00:28:13.860 very rightly said, yeah, okay, Bob, like sit down. Who cares? And this guy, what's his name? Charlie

00:28:19.540 Morgan is suing. This has been a protracted legal battle. The society finally kicked him out because

00:28:27.560 they said he was so annoying. And he said, absolutely not. I demand to be reinstated in the Mayflower

00:28:32.860 Society. And you need to change your charter because we're open to massive legal liability,

00:28:38.720 which I don't think. I think the Massachusetts prosecutors have other subjects on their mind

00:28:44.580 beyond the bylaws of the Mayflower Society. But I love the whole story. And I love the Mayflower

00:28:52.260 Society. I think I might be the youngest member of the Mayflower Society in the entire country.

00:28:56.760 There are a lot of people who have Mayflower ancestors, but not a lot of people have gone

00:29:02.880 through the process of tracing them back and providing the documentation. My grandfather

00:29:06.360 was really into genealogy, so he did it for our family. I think there are 31,000 members worldwide

00:29:12.240 of this group. And I love that it's in the news. And it's not just because I love the story of the

00:29:17.880 Mayflower, and I love the pilgrims, and I love America. It's really not just because of that.

00:29:21.880 I love the very notion of a genealogical society. I love when people care about their family and

00:29:32.900 their family history and their family's role in history, period. I like that. I think that's

00:29:39.420 deeply conservative. And I think we live in an age where we ignore the past broadly. We neglect our

00:29:48.940 families. We move away from our families. We don't care what our families have to say. We don't feel

00:29:52.500 obligation to our families. And if we think about the past at all, we think about it negatively.

00:29:59.320 We condemn our ancestors and our forebears. And we think that we're the most brilliant people in

00:30:03.940 the world because we've got an iPhone and we can Google things that a generation ago five-year-olds

00:30:08.120 would have known. And we think we're really smart because of that. I love the idea of a genealogical

00:30:15.440 society because we live in a very abstract age where we think that we're just atoms floating

00:30:20.220 in the ether, where we think that we're just born into a state of nature without any ties or

00:30:24.760 obligations, where we think that we're all just totally undifferentiated, that a people and

00:30:29.820 another people are totally substitutable for one another, where we think that men and women are

00:30:35.320 basically identical and one can become the other and vice versa. We live in an age where we don't

00:30:41.480 even recognize national borders. And we say anybody is an American if you only believe it in your heart.

00:30:46.860 And that isn't true. That just isn't true. People are different. Families are different.

00:30:51.900 Cultures are different. History has a big effect on that. And conservatives ought to prefer the

00:30:59.180 particular to the universal, to the abstract, to the distant, the near to the distant,

00:31:05.320 the tried to the untried. I'm paraphrasing the great political philosopher Michael Oakeshott here.

00:31:12.920 We ought to have an affection for our own, for our own history, our own culture, our own land,

00:31:19.340 our own shared experience. And so I don't like that the Mayflower Society is embroiled in this

00:31:28.220 high-stakes feud. But I do like that it's making headlines. And I think that we all ought to take a little

00:31:33.040 bit more care for our own families and our own family history. And we can do that while we smoke

00:31:37.980 Mayflower cigars. Speaking of making babies, a little bit of a hard transition, as it were,

00:31:44.480 there's a headline here that I totally believe. I don't usually trust the scientists, but on this

00:31:49.540 issue, I do. Scientists warn sex toys can cause diabetes. Now, if you're listening to this show,

00:31:56.500 you're probably, you know, you're a wholesome person. You're not, you probably don't do too much of

00:32:00.820 this. But if you're involved in this, get rid of it, it will give you diabetes, according to the

00:32:05.360 scientists. How is that? Well, because microplastic particles from numerous sources are ingested and

00:32:15.300 absorbed into the bloodstream. This is true when you drink a bottle of water. This is true as you

00:32:20.840 just move about our environment, which has some pollution in it. But apparently, it's especially

00:32:26.380 true with sex toys, which are far less regulated and which can include higher levels of phthalates,

00:32:33.280 which can affect hormone levels, and in present concentrations exceed U.S. consumer warnings.

00:32:39.400 They outline here the four types of currently available sex toys that are the worst offenders.

00:32:45.420 I'm not going to read those out because they're gross, and I don't even want to think about it

00:32:49.800 anymore. But this is the kind of story that I totally buy because it proves a point that I've

00:32:57.440 long thought, which is one, doing weird sex stuff has negative consequences, even if you can't foresee

00:33:02.180 them. And two, doing weird stuff, period, often has negative consequences, even if you can't foresee it.

00:33:12.520 Very few people would ever think, well, I don't know, I'm debating using a sex toy, but I sure don't want

00:33:18.360 to get diabetes someday. You wouldn't even think about it. You wouldn't think that there's any

00:33:21.520 connection between those things, and yet there can be. Well, I really want to do this thing or that

00:33:27.380 thing, but I don't want to catch monkeypox. Well, okay, all right, that was an issue that a couple

00:33:30.980 years ago some New Yorkers especially were dealing with. But I love the rule applied even more broadly.

00:33:38.640 It's such a conservative point of view. Forget the weird sex stuff for a second.

00:33:41.440 Conservatives tend to prefer the tried to the untried, the familiar to the unfamiliar,

00:33:51.160 in part out of prejudice, because we're not going to write a 20-page research paper on every single

00:33:58.980 question that we have in the day. We're just going to have to go on our gut instinct, otherwise you

00:34:01.980 wouldn't be able to get out of bed. And when we see that something has been done everywhere for all of

00:34:10.180 human history, just about everywhere on earth, certainly every civilized place on earth,

00:34:14.480 we tend to believe that's a good behavior, and we ought to consider adopting it or continuing it.

00:34:20.320 When we see that a certain behavior or conception has never been practiced anywhere on earth ever

00:34:26.460 until, say, five minutes ago, we tend to recoil from that. A great example of this would be

00:34:30.800 marriage. For all of human history, virtually everywhere on earth, marriage has meant something,

00:34:35.120 and it's involved sexual difference and complementarity. About eight years ago,

00:34:40.180 a romantic poet sitting on the Supreme Court decided to totally invert that idea.

00:34:45.060 And a lot of people said, well, what could go wrong? What could go wrong? What could go wrong?

00:34:50.400 What could go wrong by redefining the fundamental political institution? What could go wrong by

00:34:55.080 inverting the conception of human nature that we've had everywhere on earth for all of human history?

00:34:59.060 I don't know. I can't, I do know, I could list a hundred different things that could go wrong,

00:35:04.700 but there are actually a thousand, there are 2,000 things that could go wrong.

00:35:07.640 You couldn't even predict that sex toys will give you diabetes.

00:35:12.180 Surely you can't predict all of the unforeseen consequences that come along with redefining,

00:35:19.960 reordering fundamental aspects of our politics, which is why we ought to proceed with a great deal

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00:36:39.820 for 20% off today. My favorite comment yesterday is from Aaron Canfield, 76, who says,

00:36:45.840 when Snoop actually quits weed, that will be the day that lambs have come to lay with lions. So true.

00:36:51.280 So, so true. That's in one of the lesser remembered passages about the apocalypse.

00:36:59.020 And in that day, Snoop Dizzle-dee-doo-dog will lay down his sin spinach. Okay, I said forget about

00:37:07.380 weird sex stuff for a second. We're now going to go back to the weird sex stuff because I missed a

00:37:11.960 very important holiday. We are heading into Thanksgiving. Then we will be in Advent. Then

00:37:18.880 we will have Christmas. Then we will have New Year. Then we will have Arbor Day at some point.

00:37:22.000 But there's one holiday more sacred than any of them, according to our political elites. That is,

00:37:28.400 of course, the Trans Day of Remembrance.

00:37:32.200 Now, today on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we grieve the 26 transgender Americans who were killed

00:37:39.120 this year. Year after year, we see that these victims are disproportionately black women and women

00:37:46.820 of color. No one should face violence, live in fear, or be discriminated against simply for being

00:37:54.840 themselves. This is a perfect example of fake news. Exactly what I was talking about at the top of the

00:38:01.660 show. The fake news is not that 26 trans-identifying people died last year. That's probably real news. 0.96

00:38:12.660 The fake news is the focus on and supposed significance of that story.

00:38:22.340 How many people die in any given year? How many people die from car accidents? How many people die

00:38:26.420 from muggings? How many people die every weekend in Chicago from being shot by gangsters?

00:38:32.860 A lot more than that. A lot more than 26. But we focus on the 26 victims of the anti-transgender

00:38:41.220 violence. First of all, it's not exactly anti-transgender violence. In virtually all,

00:38:46.120 not all of these cases, but virtually all of them in the vast majority, this is cases of drug deals

00:38:51.840 gone wrong, of prostitution schemes gone wrong. This is, these are people, I'm not excusing

00:38:59.080 death in any way, but these are people who are putting themselves in extremely dangerous situations

00:39:06.360 where they would be in great danger whether or not they identified as trans. How many 0.99

00:39:12.540 transgender-identifying people kill themselves every year? A lot more than 26. That's for sure.

00:39:19.720 So, we say this is the day of remembrance. Okay.

00:39:24.140 The focus on that is what is the fake news. If we were to bring up the number of white people 0.57

00:39:37.340 who were harassed, say, because of the color of their skin, that would never make it into any

00:39:43.900 mainstream news outlet. If we were to bring up the number of Christians who were persecuted for their

00:39:49.180 faith. Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world. You don't need to take my word for it. 0.97

00:39:53.000 That's not the right-wing daily wire analysis. That's from the Pew Research Center. Okay.

00:39:58.700 That's from a number of groups that investigate these sorts of questions. They say that Christianity

00:40:05.920 is the most persecuted religion in the world. You would never get that sense from the establishment

00:40:09.300 media. Because they just don't talk about that. As we focus on problems that we've decided early,

00:40:17.820 early on, from the very beginning, are the greatest threat to the country. And then we find any example

00:40:24.800 to fit it. The greatest example of this is Derek Chauvin and George Floyd. There was a preconceived

00:40:29.820 narrative that cops were killing innocent black men in America. And it wasn't true. And it's not true

00:40:34.500 today. But then they finally found one case where it kind of looked like a cop was persecuting and

00:40:41.460 kind of looked like an innocent black man. And the details are a lot cloudier than that. But that was

00:40:48.480 all the left needed. They said, finally, we got our example to prove the story we already wrote. Okay,

00:40:53.740 let's burn the country down. And that's what they did. And that's what they're doing here as well.

00:40:57.700 And you see it coming out of the White House. Speaking of leftism in government, there's a leaked NSA

00:41:02.920 document that is defining all sorts of woke terms. Now, we're not talking about the, I don't know,

00:41:11.500 EPA. We're not talking about the Department of Education even. We're not talking about one of these

00:41:16.460 silly government agencies, the Office of Personnel Management. We're talking about the NSA. No such

00:41:23.740 agency. The shadowy government agency that collects all of your data and knows everything about you and can

00:41:28.560 really punish you if they want to. This group is defining in its diversity glossary white Europeans 1.00

00:41:37.500 as being responsible for settler colonialism. This group, the NSA, is attacking white fragility. 0.51

00:41:43.560 The NSA is warning of transmisogyny. There are over 327 DEI terms listed over 34 pages with words like

00:41:56.480 Zzer and whiteness and pansexual. This report coming from Spencer Lindquist of the Daily Wire.

00:42:03.740 And it reminds me, this is nothing new. The adoption of these left-wing terms by mainstream

00:42:08.900 groups is nothing new. I happen to write a book about it called Speechless Controlling Words,

00:42:12.380 Controlling Minds. Great to pick up for, hello, hello. No one's in the office today. Everyone's

00:42:17.600 already on vacation. Great to pick up for Black Friday and for Christmas.

00:42:20.480 The left coins these crazy terms and redefines these ideas. But that's not the end of the story.

00:42:31.000 They then have to impose it on the mainstream. That's the harder challenge and they've succeeded

00:42:35.500 at it. In Chris Ruffo's excellent new book, he points out that Angela Davis, the communist terrorist

00:42:42.460 from the 60s and 70s, Black Power activist, she bragged, she has bragged in recent years

00:42:50.080 about how terms that were on the radical left fringe are now in the mainstream. Terms like

00:42:56.800 white supremacy, all the terms associated with intersectionality, they're in the mainstream

00:43:01.620 now. And because words are not merely tools that we use to communicate, but they actually constitute

00:43:07.880 much of our consciousness. When you can just get those terms into the air, then that forms the

00:43:14.020 lens through which everybody, conservatives included, very often view the world. Okay, before we move on

00:43:22.940 to member block, there's one story out of New York about illegal aliens who, you know, in the words of

00:43:30.800 even liberal Democrat Mayor Eric Adams, illegal aliens and the migrant crisis they've caused 1.00

00:43:37.080 could destroy New York City. Well, now some New Yorkers, not just politicians, on the ground New

00:43:45.060 Yorkers are pushing back because illegal aliens are getting free Thanksgiving food ahead of the poor 1.00

00:43:49.600 New Yorkers. A food fight in one neighborhood in Queens between NYCHA tenants and newly arrived migrants.

00:43:55.020 Fox size Ashley Rodriguez shows us how tensions are growing with not enough food to go around.

00:43:59.520 Why do we have to take the butt of everything? Okay, this community here is already suffering.

00:44:06.060 The residents living in NYCHA's Queensbridge houses look forward to the mobile food pantries that show

00:44:12.360 up weekly. But over the past year, they have witnessed 8,000 migrants move into their neighborhood,

00:44:17.900 and they've also noticed the migrants are also starting to take their stuff.

00:44:22.980 They was first online for the turkeys this morning. If they tell you to be there at 11 o'clock,

00:44:27.600 you get there at like 10.30, 10.45, but they already out there. The line is from over there to over here.

00:44:34.140 Free food giveaways, especially during the holidays, have become a source of tension between long-time New Yorkers struggling to get by and newly arrived migrants who are using the system to survive. 1.00

00:44:45.140 survive. A month ago, one altercation got so heated between a resident and a migrant, someone ended up in the hospital.

00:44:52.680 We would never turn anyone away for a meal, but there simply just is not enough for both NYCHA residents and the migrant shelter residents.

00:44:59.860 What the left does brilliantly here is they exploit a little kernel of truth to invert the truth.

00:45:10.260 It's the fake news, which is they say, well, in your charity, especially on Thanksgiving, you should, of course, share with the stranger and the foreigner.

00:45:18.220 Yeah, of course. I totally agree with that.

00:45:23.640 But does that mean that in order to fulfill that act of charity, we should take things away from our fellow countrymen?

00:45:35.160 That we should deny to the poor here in America the food on Thanksgiving so that we can give it to foreigners who have exploited our system and broken our laws? 1.00

00:45:45.240 That's not what that means. That's rather unjust. I don't find that particularly charitable at all.

00:45:52.620 Yeah, we're going to go into one of the worst neighborhoods in New York, and we're going to take away food from all you guys, all you poor New Yorkers, and we're going to give it to illegal aliens who break our laws, many of whom are mobbed up with the cartel. 0.53

00:46:04.420 Yeah, that's what we're going to do. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

00:46:06.620 Even if you want to give to the foreigner, it's a violation of charity for your fellow man, because charity does, in fact, begin at home.

00:46:18.800 This is an abundant country. There's a lot to go around, but this is a part of a deeper ideology that says not only should we not prefer the familiar to the foreign, not only should we not prefer the near and the practical to the abstract and the universal, we should actually only prefer the abstractions.

00:46:43.580 We should only support the foreigners. We should totally deny any sense of filial piety, patriotism, or concern for our community. 1.00

00:46:53.960 Not a very good message for Thanksgiving. That wouldn't be the message of the pilgrims. No, siree. Nothing American about that.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 22, 2023

Ep. 1377 - The Israel and Hamas Ceasefire Explained

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