The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1414 - Taylor Swift May Destroy President Trump

00:00:00.000 Taylor Swift could sway the presidential election votes of nearly one in five Americans.

00:00:07.300 A new poll from Newsweek has found that 18% of voters would be more likely or significantly

00:00:13.980 more likely to vote for a candidate if that candidate were endorsed by Taylor Swift.

00:00:19.140 Taylor Swift, for those who don't know, is famous for writing songs specifically

00:00:24.760 about her terrible judgment in men. So, for a decadent and crumbling republic, 0.98

00:00:31.440 that seems to fit the bill perfectly. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:54.760 Welcome back to the show. We might go to war with Iran. We'll get to that in a second. 1.00

00:00:59.640 Obviously, pretty urgent news. We'll get to that because I have a take on the whole situation that

00:01:04.920 I haven't heard from anyone on the left or the right. But first, we got to get to something more

00:01:09.720 important, which of course is the Taylor Swift conspiracy theory. I am not a big fan of the

00:01:16.760 Taylor conspiracy theories, not because I don't believe in some conspiracies these days. Obviously,

00:01:25.040 the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is about six months now. But the reason I

00:01:31.380 don't really buy the Taylor conspiracy theories is because I am inclined to like Taylor. I know she's

00:01:37.000 kind of a lib. I know that her songs are not for me. I don't think I would ever intentionally put on

00:01:43.720 a Taylor Swift song. But I kind of like her because she's normal and she's just kind of pretty and she 0.59

00:01:51.840 doesn't have all sorts of crazy tattoos and mutilations. And she doesn't, you know, I don't

00:01:58.220 know. She's just like pretty and she's dating a football player and she sings about completely banal 1.00

00:02:02.460 and ordinary subjects. And I like that. In a culture such as ours, where you have Lil Nas X twerking on the

00:02:10.000 devil himself and you got that other rapper lady who's singing about being a demon and you got that

00:02:15.480 other rapper dude reenacting a Hieronymus Bosch painting where people are walking into the mouth

00:02:20.620 of the devil and people are dying at his concerts and all. And that kind of insanity and that depraved

00:02:27.280 culture to just have a pretty little blonde girl who goes out and sings about breaking up with her 0.99

00:02:31.940 boyfriend and then shows up to a football game and kisses her football player boyfriend on the cheek 0.99

00:02:36.540 or whatever. That's great. I'm all about it. But she also might hand the country over to the 0.77

00:02:41.740 Democrats, according at least to the conspiracy theorists. And it's not just on the right. It's

00:02:46.240 not the fringe tinfoil hat people who are very conservative. It's the left to MSNBC ran a headline

00:02:53.760 not that long ago. This is on Christmas Day. Taylor Swift could save Joe Biden in 2024. No, seriously,

00:03:02.320 the musical megastar may be the rare celebrity with the cultural influence to shift the political

00:03:06.360 tides. A number of people on the right have said that Taylor is really famous and popular because

00:03:10.860 the liberal establishment is trying to blow her up into being the most influential woman in the world 1.00

00:03:16.480 so that she can sway the election. Now, I didn't find that persuasive. Peachy Keenan, however, who is a

00:03:23.580 wonderful right-wing writer, she pointed out yesterday, if you look at Taylor Swift's tour dates,

00:03:30.300 you got basically just a constant slew of performances. I'm just looking at her upcoming

00:03:38.640 performance, February 7th, February 8th, February 9th, February 10th, February 16th, February 17th,

00:03:43.180 right, goes on and on and on. Then all through February, all throughout March, all throughout,

00:03:49.680 she doesn't seem to be working much in April. Then you go straight May, all throughout May,

00:03:54.340 all throughout June, all throughout July, all throughout August. And then there's a big break.

00:04:06.360 August 20th is her last tour date scheduled. And then she doesn't appear again until November 14th,

00:04:13.220 just what, a week and a half after the 2024 election. So Peachy Keenan suggested, she said,

00:04:19.940 oh, good, that's, there's a gap in Taylor's tour schedule here so she can go stump for Democrats 1.00

00:04:24.280 around the country. And I, I don't know. Peachy Keenan's a very, a very thoughtful conservative

00:04:31.380 writer. It might be the case that that's just a coincidence and maybe she's going to go marry 0.95

00:04:35.980 this football player and go on a honeymoon. I hope she does. It might, it could be the opposite.

00:04:40.780 It could mean she doesn't want to be touring during the election season because she doesn't want to be 0.73

00:04:45.520 asked for comment and, and she just wants to kind of lay low. In fact, I think that's probably the 1.00

00:04:50.780 most likely scenario. Taylor endorsed Joe Biden back in 2020, but it was very, very mild. It was

00:04:58.120 something like one Twitter post and she was holding a cookie that said Biden 2020, 2020. So I don't know

00:05:03.600 it, it, by the standards of Hollywood, she seems to be among the least enthusiastic left wingers. 1.00

00:05:10.700 I think that's so much of her appeal. She's just nice and pretty and inoffensive. So that's kind of

00:05:16.380 what I'm hoping for. I remain a cautious Swifty, not because I listened to her music, but I like that

00:05:22.840 she's normal and gives people an alternative in our culture to the particularly crazy brand of popular 1.00

00:05:30.420 entertainment. But I could be proven wrong. I don't know. We'll just, we'll keep these tour dates

00:05:34.420 over on the side. Speaking of artists on the left, a group of climate wackos threw soup on the Mona Lisa 0.99

00:05:43.220 yesterday.

00:05:52.100 They're speaking some sort of barbaric tongue. I don't know if that's, are they channeling demons

00:05:58.280 or something? I can't quite make out what they're saying, but they are the climate, the climate action

00:06:05.560 maniacs who keep traveling all over the world and throwing soup on priceless works of art.

00:06:14.560 And there's cops there, but the cops, oh, those, oh no, those are activists too.

00:06:20.580 Where are the, where are the cops? Where are the, where are the museum guards? Where are the docents even?

00:06:25.420 Why won't someone tackle these people and get them away from a priceless work of Western art?

00:06:32.680 These people, these climate cultists are like the Taliban blowing up the ancient Buddha statues, 0.87

00:06:39.600 the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan, except they're less justified. At least when the Taliban 0.98

00:06:46.300 blew up the Buddha statues, they were blowing up idols. I'm not defending it. I'm not, I don't think

00:06:52.160 the Taliban is justified in almost anything it does, but at least, at least I can understand why 1.00

00:07:00.700 a monotheist might get rid of pagan idols. Here though, these climate cultists are blowing up

00:07:07.860 beautiful pieces of Western art, or at least trying to, or at least trying to ruin them with soup.

00:07:13.220 Why? Because the climate cult has always been about punishing our civilization.

00:07:21.680 The climate cult, I call it a cult because it's like a cultus, you know, it's, it's, it's a form

00:07:26.360 of religion, a perverted and false religion, but it's a form of religion that has all the hallmarks 1.00

00:07:31.120 of religion. It has the notion of original sin. It has the notion of redemption. It has an apocalypse 0.59

00:07:38.620 and it has an eschatology. It has everything. And in the climate religion, our civilization is the

00:07:48.480 cause of the fall. In, in the, the climate cult, it's we in the West who have industrialized,

00:07:54.500 we have polluted our earth and set the earth on a course for utter destruction. And so only we

00:08:01.820 can save ourselves. We need to stop driving cars and stop having babies and stop eating meat and stop

00:08:09.560 doing anything. We need to stop living and growing and developing in order to, I don't know, save the

00:08:17.360 world. So that's why they're not going to destroy indigenous art. They're, they're also not going to

00:08:22.060 destroy modern art because modern art also is about punishing our civilization. Modern art also

00:08:26.460 is about, is about feeling shame and guilt and, and, uh, looking at ourselves, uh, as, as, uh,

00:08:35.840 decadent objects. It's, it's about degrading us. So of course, no surprise there whatsoever.

00:08:42.880 They want to punish our civilization and a great way to do it beyond telling us not to have families

00:08:47.760 anymore and, and destroying what we eat and destroying how we move and how we live is destroying

00:08:52.200 beauty. Destroying beauty is, is perhaps the most efficient way to demoralize a civilization.

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00:10:16.420 President Trump's trade advisor, Peter Navarro, has just been sentenced to four months in prison

00:10:22.160 for doing exactly what Hunter Biden did. Well, no, I'm sorry, not exactly what Hunter Biden did.

00:10:28.660 You've probably seen those clips, you know, with the hookers and the drugs and the guns. Peter 0.92

00:10:31.660 Navarro never did any of that stuff. Not exactly what Hunter Biden did in that Peter Navarro never shook

00:10:36.880 down foreign oligarchs and sold American influence for millions and millions of dollars. He never did

00:10:41.180 that. Peter Navarro just didn't show up to testify before Congress. That's why he's going to the clink

00:10:49.920 for four months. The exact same thing that Hunter Biden did, Hunter Biden gets off scot-free. Peter

00:10:55.740 Navarro was asked to appear before the January 6th committee in March of 2022. He was ordered to

00:11:02.580 provide documents to that committee one month prior. He didn't do either of those things,

00:11:06.880 citing executive privilege. This is a top advisor to the President of the United States,

00:11:11.560 and the Congress has absolutely no right to drag him before them. That would be a major weakening of

00:11:19.480 the separation of powers. Congress is not absolute. Congress is not supreme in the United States.

00:11:27.340 Congress is one of the three branches of government, and they have no right to do that.

00:11:31.200 So now the judiciary has sentenced Peter Navarro to four months in prison. He was ordered also to

00:11:37.540 pay a fine of $9,500, which is a reduction, by the way. The U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta wanted

00:11:43.660 to sentence him to six months in prison and fine him $200,000. That was what the Justice Department

00:11:52.540 requested. Actually, I'm being unfair to Judge Amit Mehta. Judge Amit Mehta was the one who heard this

00:11:57.240 request and then reduced that. But it's still ridiculous. The guy sentenced him to prison and 0.92

00:12:02.060 charged him a bunch of money for what Hunter Biden did. Hunter Biden also defied a subpoena to appear

00:12:07.220 before the House Oversight Committee for a closed-door deposition. He didn't do it. He held a big press

00:12:11.200 conference in front of the Capitol about how he wasn't going to do it. Then he made a big hullabaloo

00:12:14.660 inside the Capitol later on about how he wasn't going to do it. And he gets off scot-free,

00:12:18.220 completely lawless. What's the point of this? The point of putting Peter Navarro, a very amiable

00:12:23.540 economic advisor, into prison is to demoralize the right. It's to discourage people ever from

00:12:31.060 working for Donald Trump, even in senior White House positions. It's to discourage anyone from

00:12:36.240 ever contradicting the liberal ruling class. Because they'll say, yeah, if you have a difference of

00:12:41.500 opinion on trade, I mean, think about this. Peter Navarro, he's a protectionist. Peter Navarro was

00:12:47.860 the pro-tariff advisor in the Trump White House. And the liberal establishment is globalist. A lot of

00:12:55.860 the Trump election was about opposition to globalism, just as the Brexit was about opposition

00:13:01.180 to globalism, just as Viktor Orban in Hungary, his election was about opposition to globalism,

00:13:05.320 just like George Maloney's election in Italy was about opposition to globalism. And the libs,

00:13:10.560 they love globalism. They hate national borders. They hate national sovereignty. They want to break all

00:13:15.220 of that down and have us all just be governed by the blob. And so they go after this guy in particular,

00:13:20.980 Peter Navarro. And Navarro has stood very firm. He just went on TV to explain that throwing him in

00:13:29.900 the clink is about a lot more than just him. If anybody thinks they're not trying to put Donald

00:13:36.660 Trump in prison for 700 years, they just need to look at what they did to me yesterday.

00:13:43.140 They're not messing around. Four months in prison. They even want to put me in prison

00:13:49.040 before I can have my appeal in this case. And they want Trump in prison and out of the Oval Office.

00:13:58.600 And they want folks like me not to be able to help him out. And here's the thing. Here's what I'd ask

00:14:05.260 your viewers to understand. I am. It's not rare. I am the first senior White House advisor with a

00:14:12.200 alter ego to the president ever, ever to be charged with this alleged crime. And the irony here, Sean,

00:14:18.280 the irony is that the Department of Justice itself has maintained a policy for more than 50 years

00:14:25.300 that says that senior advisors like me absolutely cannot be compelled to testify before Congress. Why?

00:14:33.320 Because it violates the constitutional separation of powers and interferes with the ability of

00:14:39.120 executive privilege to provide effective presidential decision making.

00:14:45.340 Totally right. If the Congress can jail senior presidential advisors for refusing to give them

00:14:53.740 whatever they want and show up whenever they want, that is an obliteration of the separation of

00:14:58.860 powers. Rather than having three co-equal branches of government, the legislature, the executive,

00:15:04.340 and the judiciary, now we've just got a supreme legislature. And the executive works for the

00:15:10.240 legislature. The president works for the Congress. That's not what I learned in civics class. But no one

00:15:14.360 learns anything in civics class anymore. Peter Navarro's point, really brilliant here. So how do you make

00:15:19.280 sense of that? How could the DOJ, which for 50 years has maintained this policy of saying that

00:15:24.520 the senior White House advisors can't be compelled to testify before Congress and provide documents to

00:15:30.580 them, how could the DOJ then simultaneously prosecute a Trump senior White House advisor for doing that?

00:15:36.680 Because they don't view the Trump White House as legitimate. That's why. You want to talk about

00:15:41.560 election deniers and deniers of the legitimacy of our sacred democracy. It's the Biden White House.

00:15:47.820 It's the DOJ that's doing that. They don't view Peter Navarro as a normal senior White House advisor

00:15:53.300 because they don't view Donald Trump as a normal president. They don't view any of them as

00:15:56.860 legitimate. So anything can be done to Trump. And in their minds, it won't upset the norms of our

00:16:02.680 sacred democracy. Yeah, in our sacred democracy, we usually don't jail the opposition leader,

00:16:08.840 but Trump's different. We can't normalize him. Yeah, in our democracy, we usually don't jail

00:16:13.660 former presidents, but Trump's different. He's not a real president. He's a fake president.

00:16:17.820 His voters, they're not real Americans. They're deplorable, irredeemable Americans. They don't 1.00

00:16:21.340 deserve any rights. Jail them too. You know, any of them, if any of them happen to be walking even

00:16:26.540 within five miles of the Capitol that day, you know, maybe they were going to go get a drink at

00:16:30.120 Old Ebbets Grill. But yeah, just go round them up too. Some Midwestern granny was taking pictures 1.00

00:16:35.520 on the National Mall. Yeah, get her too. None of these people are legitimate. You, you're not

00:16:39.380 legitimate. You're a deplorable, irredeemable. You oppose Joe Biden. You're a threat to democracy. 1.00

00:16:46.160 That's what this is about. That's the way it does make sense is the problem. It, it makes sense if

00:16:53.160 you accept they're very dangerous premises that half of the country is not, not legit or entitled

00:16:58.540 to political rights. Now, speaking of law and order, a clip from a law and order episode has just gone

00:17:05.220 viral. This is, law and order has been on the air, I think for 150 years at this point. I think law and

00:17:10.440 order predates the invention of the television. Law and order has gotten consistently more and more

00:17:14.960 woke as the culture has gotten more and more woke. There's a scene that's gone viral of a woman 1.00

00:17:21.680 being interviewed by cops and she's been raped. She was raped by a black man, 0.99

00:17:28.860 but she doesn't want to prosecute him because of her white privilege. 1.00

00:17:32.940 But Natalie, Jay Watson raped you. Do you think I forgot? How could I? This entire trial 0.99

00:17:43.360 has been an exercise in reminding me. And this is your chance to do something about it.

00:17:48.320 I'm going to believe me because I can, I can afford therapy. I have that luxury and maybe one day

00:17:57.780 I'll be okay. But if that teenager goes to prison, he may not be ever.

00:18:18.320 I don't want that. Natalie, wait. Everyone's making fun of this clip. I don't know why they're

00:18:27.820 making fun of this clip. That seems very accurate to me. That's, that is exactly how liberal white 0.61

00:18:34.480 women think. Yes. I think it was Robert Frost who said a liberal is a man who can't take his own

00:18:42.200 side in a quarrel. Absolutely. That's how a lot of liberal white women in New York city would think. 1.00

00:18:49.340 Yes, I've been victimized, but, but the, the man who victimized me is black and I'm white. And so I

00:18:55.760 must've done something wrong. I must've been asking for it. Even if I wasn't, I've got so much privilege.

00:19:00.240 We can never punish anyone. Certainly not. If that person is black, you can't punish them.

00:19:05.180 They're great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, 0.98

00:19:10.060 great grandparents might've been slaves or something. So we can't punish criminals. If,

00:19:16.160 if we send that man to prison, he, he, what, he, what, he might be reformed. That's, that's the

00:19:24.960 thing that might happen. Of course the, the woman, the character is wrong in what you, but I actually

00:19:31.100 think that law and order episode is pretty accurate on how white liberals talk about race and justice

00:19:36.160 and crime and all that stuff. Of course. Now in real life, what would happen is this woman would 1.00

00:19:41.940 say, no, don't prosecute this man or probably the DAs or someone say, no, don't prosecute him. 0.97

00:19:45.940 He's black. He lives in the inner city. He can't, we can never hold anyone accountable for crime there. 1.00

00:19:50.720 And so he would be released and then he would immediately rape someone again. And he'd probably 0.98

00:19:55.900 do it like 10 or 20 more times. And then maybe he'd go to prison for about five minutes, but then he'd

00:20:01.560 get out on parole and he'd go do it a bunch more times too. That's what would really happen.

00:20:04.560 So it wouldn't help anyone. If, if he were punished, there's a chance he might be reformed.

00:20:11.340 I know people who've gone to prison for more serious crimes than that, actually,

00:20:15.200 and who have been reformed and lived good lives. So you can do it. It's called a correctional

00:20:18.340 facility. The point is to correct you. But, uh, what, what we're told now by the libs is the

00:20:23.760 complete opposite. What we're told now by the libs is that, uh, if you're held responsible for your

00:20:29.640 crimes, uh, you will, it will destroy your life. And if you're not held responsible, you'll somehow

00:20:35.960 magically clean up. Of course, of course that is not the case, but that is an accurate reflection

00:20:40.540 of the culture. Good job. Good job, law and order. You got it right. Speaking of white guilt, Senator 0.61

00:20:44.560 James Langford, who is a Republican ostensibly, uh, is very upset about the GOP killing a, killing

00:20:54.580 potential border deal with the Biden administration. It would be absolutely absurd for me to agree to

00:21:02.340 5,000 people a day. This bill focuses on getting us to zero illegal crossings a day. There's no

00:21:09.000 amnesty. It increases the number of border patrol agents, increases asylum officers. It increases

00:21:13.640 detention beds so we can quickly detain and then deport individuals. It ends catch and release. It

00:21:20.080 focuses on additional deportation flights out. It changes our asylum process so that people get a

00:21:25.820 fast asylum screening at a higher standard and then get returned back to their home country. 0.89

00:21:31.100 This is not about letting 5,000 people in a day. This is the most misunderstood section of this

00:21:36.220 proposal. Okay. We'll get into what he's talking about here with 5,000 in just a second, but it

00:21:41.740 sounds pretty good. Doesn't it? It sounds good. Oh no, it's going to reduce the crossings and it's

00:21:46.140 going to increase deportations. This bill, it's so misunderstood. This is the bill.

00:21:49.820 That Mitt Romney is pushing. Mitt Romney is complaining that that mean old Donald Trump,

00:21:54.260 he's encouraging Republican senators to kill the bill and all the squishy Republicans are pushing

00:22:00.000 this kind of bill. But some of them, you know, James Lankford here, I don't want to just write

00:22:06.040 him off as a squish. He's saying, no, it's really good. It's going to reduce illegal immigration. 0.95

00:22:11.300 Oh man, it's Lucy with the football all over again, isn't it? Isn't it? I don't care what the

00:22:17.620 bill says. And we'll get into what it says in a second. I don't care what it says. There can be

00:22:22.920 no deal with Democrats on the border because the Democrats are currently breaking the law.

00:22:30.800 Okay. It'd be one thing if this problem just popped up out of nowhere and, you know,

00:22:34.840 the Republicans and Democrats have different sort of interests, but we're going to come together and

00:22:38.640 come to a compromise. And no, there is a law already on the books. There are lots of immigration 0.58

00:22:43.540 laws already on the books that the Democrats are intentionally violating. And we're supposed

00:22:48.220 to negotiate with them. There can be no good faith negotiation there. There can be absolutely no

00:22:52.860 trust that they'll fulfill any of their obligations in this bill. They're not fulfilling their obligations

00:22:57.760 under the current law. There can be no deal. The deal is completely dead on arrival. Any Republican

00:23:03.920 who votes for this bill should be thrown out of Congress, should be thrown out of the Republican

00:23:08.220 Party. It's a joke. If these, I don't want to ascribe to malice that which is explained by

00:23:13.380 stupidity, but I don't want stupid senators either. If you seriously believe that the Democrats 1.00

00:23:18.320 currently breaking the law are going to magically start enforcing the law with all the promises that 0.98

00:23:23.300 they're making you, if you just sign one more bill, then you're useless. Get out of Congress,

00:23:27.540 get out of the Republican Party. Speaking of the border crisis, America is currently experiencing

00:23:33.700 an invasion with millions of illegal aliens flooding our border under the Biden administration.

00:23:39.600 As Texas fights the surge, Arizona's governor remains silent as Biden pursues his perverse

00:23:45.420 agenda. Ben Shapiro traveled to America's southern border to reveal the depths of the crisis. What he

00:23:49.840 discovered is shocking. It is criminal. It is our duty at the Daily Wire to share the truth. Take a look

00:23:54.220 at the invasion on the southern border. America is currently experiencing an invasion. A lot of people

00:24:00.000 coming in from Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria. Is there a fair bit of gang affiliation among

00:24:05.460 them? Always. These people are just crossing the border illegally, waving their hands in the air at

00:24:09.280 our cameras saying, hey, here I am. Come get me. We're no longer the border patrol. We're the welcome

00:24:13.940 patrol. The number one site in America for fentanyl trafficking across the border. And if Joe Biden

00:24:18.540 remains in office, it's only going to get worse. I'm Ben Shapiro, and this is The Divided States of

00:24:22.960 Biden. Invasion on the southern border. Watch now on Daily Wire+.

00:24:26.320 Our southern border is wide open. The blame rests squarely with Joe Biden. Join Ben on the ground as

00:24:31.960 he uncovers the truth of one of the most destructive presidencies in American history. Watch Invasion on

00:24:36.800 the southern border streaming now on Daily Wire+. What's in this deal, this supposedly wonderful deal

00:24:43.420 that the Republicans are going to reach with Joe Biden to solve the problem on the border? Well,

00:24:48.620 Senator Lankford and Democrat Senator Murphy have a deal to expand legal immigration levels by an

00:24:57.520 additional 50,000 green cards annually. And then to expedite work permits for illegal aliens who have

00:25:04.440 been released into our nation's interior. And then to provide taxpayer-funded lawyers for unaccompanied

00:25:11.960 minors, illegal alien minors. And then this is the part that Senator Lankford is disputing, but other

00:25:20.580 senators are celebrating, which is allowing up to 35,000 illegal aliens to arrive at the border every

00:25:29.320 week before imposing border controls, among other aspects. Forget the 35,000 a week. Let's say Senator

00:25:37.700 Lankford's right. Forget about anything having to do with illegal immigration in this bill. The bill

00:25:46.000 expands legal immigration levels by 50,000 green cards and expedites work permits for current illegals.

00:25:52.240 That's bad. That's bad. We have too much immigration, period. I have nothing against immigrants. Some of my 1.00

00:26:00.120 family were immigrants. Some came here before the immigrants, but some were immigrants. And so I have

00:26:05.840 nothing against them personally, but we have too many of them. We take a million legal immigrants a 1.00

00:26:10.260 year, and now we're taking millions and millions of illegal immigrants. Three million illegal immigrants

00:26:16.000 a year, probably. It's too much. Since 1965, when the Democrats blew open our immigration policy,

00:26:24.100 between 1965 and 2015, we took 60 million people in. Legal, illegal, doesn't matter. That's the largest

00:26:32.780 movement of people ever in recorded history. Since 2015, the numbers have spiked. We've got 6.2 million

00:26:39.100 minimum, according to the CBO, during Biden's presidency. Illegal, plus another three million

00:26:44.940 legal. So now we're at what? Upwards of nine and a half migrants? It's just too many people. It's a 1.00

00:26:49.820 country of 320 million people. It's too much. No polity could take that many people in from different 1.00

00:26:55.780 cultures and assimilate them, and we don't even try to assimilate them. It's the end of the country.

00:26:59.600 This is not some modern, nativist, racist, hillbilly, yokel kind of stuff. This is perennial

00:27:07.840 political philosophy going back to Plato. It just doesn't work when you let a ton of foreigners into 1.00

00:27:11.740 your country. So no, sorry, guys. I know for a long time, Republicans have maintained this position

00:27:17.200 on immigration. They say illegal immigration is bad. I mean, we're going to squish to the Dems and

00:27:22.140 give a lot of amnesty usually, but it's bad. We're at least going to say in principle it's bad,

00:27:26.080 but legal immigration is always good. We're all for as much legal immigration as possible.

00:27:31.440 Even President Trump, who has been the best on the immigration question of any Republican

00:27:35.600 president in my lifetime, even he said, we want to kill illegal immigration, but we want more legal

00:27:39.880 immigration than ever. Well, he's half right. We do want to kill illegal immigration. Obviously, 1.00

00:27:45.240 of course, we want to enforce the law, but we also have too much legal immigration.

00:27:48.680 And it's not the immigrants' fault. It's not the current immigrants' fault. It's just that the 1.00

00:27:54.760 Democrats let way too many people in. It's caused a ton of social problems, and we need to assimilate

00:27:58.200 people before we can let anyone else in, or before we can let anywhere near these kinds of levels of

00:28:02.640 people in. Sorry, it's just too much. It's called prudence. You know, it's the number one political

00:28:09.180 virtue. It's prudence, okay? Being wise here. So it's a terrible bill all around. Any Republican who votes

00:28:17.000 for it is a total joke and should be thrown out of politics. Speaking of foreign affairs, we've got

00:28:22.480 the most disturbing story of the weekend. Three American service members were killed over the

00:28:29.020 weekend, and many more were wounded in a drone strike by Iran-backed terrorists in Jordan.

00:28:36.980 President Biden explained what happened on Sunday. Awful attack, and now you've got a lot of people

00:28:44.120 banging the drums for war with Iran. And of course, it wasn't Iran directly, but it was Iran-backed

00:28:52.920 militants used a drone to attack and kill some of our service members. That's very serious.

00:29:00.340 So the question is, what do we do now? Do we retaliate at all? How do we retaliate? Some people

00:29:05.440 are calling for a strike on Tehran, on the capital of Iran. Is that what we're going to do?

00:29:11.400 I don't know that that's a wise idea. I don't know that that's a wise idea at all. Because what's

00:29:17.820 going to happen, it's probably happening already, is the U.S. is going to blame Iran for its terrorists

00:29:27.120 that it has funded attacking U.S. troops. And Iran is going to blame the United States for the war in

00:29:33.480 Israel. And the reason for that is that we fund the Israeli military. Something like six and a half

00:29:39.400 percent of the entire Israeli military budget comes from the United States. It's, what is it,

00:29:44.000 $3.8 billion in military funding per year? Now, then people will say, well, yeah, we back Israel 0.88

00:29:50.840 because Israel's surrounded by terrorists, and they got attacked, and there was a major pogrom on

00:29:54.440 October 7th, and so we're going to back them. Sure. But I'm not talking about anything of the morality

00:30:01.100 of the war or the attack. I'm talking about who the belligerents are. If the United States blames Iran

00:30:09.520 for what its proxies do, then Iran and a lot of other Arab states are going to blame the United

00:30:15.820 States for what its proxy Israel does because we're the ones funding the war. Without American funding, 0.52

00:30:20.940 there is no war. So the hawks say, bomb everyone. And the doves say, never go to war ever. 0.96

00:30:27.240 And what I say, I guess, is the least popular view of all because I'm not a hawk and I'm not a dove.

00:30:34.620 I try to follow prudence in foreign affairs. My view, as I've said from the very beginning of this

00:30:40.720 conflict, is we need to contain the war so it doesn't escalate to the point that we will be

00:30:45.720 impelled to intervene. We're already there. The longer the war drags on, the more likely it is that

00:30:51.760 Iran is going to attack American troops because we have bases all around the world because we're a

00:30:56.440 global empire. We have bases in the region and we're funding Israel. So just as we know that 0.79

00:31:04.000 the way to stop all of these little terror cells, these jihadis who keep attacking us,

00:31:09.200 is to go after Iran, Iran knows that if they really want to stop the state of Israel, 0.53

00:31:13.680 not drawing any equivalence between the state of Israel and the jihadi terror cells,

00:31:17.220 but they know that the way to get people is to go after their backers and they know that we're the

00:31:20.480 biggest backer of Israel. So the likelihood of attacks on American troops in that region,

00:31:24.860 it's going to continue to escalate the longer this war drags on. So the question

00:31:29.480 for the Israeli government is, how does this war end? What does victory look like and when is that

00:31:35.480 going to be? The annexation, the Israeli annexation of Gaza is not a matter of US strategic interest.

00:31:44.060 It is a matter of Israeli strategic interest. If I were Bibi Netanyahu, I would recognize that the only

00:31:49.140 way to have a real security guarantee in that region is for Israel to annex Gaza. There's not going to be a

00:31:54.420 two-state solution. The Gazans are not going to have some thriving polity. Hamas is not suddenly 0.93

00:32:00.780 going to become a responsible government. It's never going to happen. So from the Israeli perspective,

00:32:09.880 the greatest security guarantee would be to annex Gaza. But if they're going to do that, 0.90

00:32:16.200 then they've got to just do it. I don't even really have any problem with that in principle,

00:32:20.660 in that I don't think Hamas is particularly good for the Gazans. So, okay, if they're going to do it, 1.00

00:32:25.960 though, they have to do it. The question from the American perspective is, when will this war end

00:32:31.380 and therefore thereby reduce the likelihood of more and more attacks on American troops?

00:32:39.340 Is it in the US strategic interest to just attack Iran? That's what Lindsey Graham seems to think,

00:32:44.060 Republican senator from South Carolina. He says, hit Iran now, hit them hard. 0.98

00:32:47.400 John Cornyn, Republican senator from Texas, says, target Tehran. Now, let's say, let's say 0.98

00:32:54.960 that you are of the opinion that war with Iran is in America's strategic interest. You've convinced 0.99

00:33:02.440 yourself that if we go in, hit them really hard, maybe push for regime change, maybe escalate this

00:33:08.020 conflict in the Middle East, that somehow that's going to serve the American interest, not only protect

00:33:12.480 US troops, but protect the American homeland. Okay, then you got to ask yourself another question.

00:33:16.840 Do you trust Joe Biden to conduct such a war? Let's say you're really bought in and you think,

00:33:22.720 no, we just need to project a massive amount of strength in the region and that's going to

00:33:28.540 protect us. You really trust Joe Biden to do that? I don't. And then you might say, well, Michael,

00:33:35.520 we can't just have our entire foreign policy be contingent upon the men who are leading the

00:33:42.000 country. Yes, we can. You go to war, not with the army you want, but the army that you've got.

00:33:46.060 And the army is doing great. Unfortunately, the top brass at the Pentagon are not so great. And

00:33:50.420 the commander in chief doesn't know what his name is. Let's check in for a second as we mull a war

00:33:54.980 with Iran and expanding this conflict in the Middle East into potentially a major regional or a global

00:34:00.520 conflict. Let's check in and see how the commander in chief is doing. Beer brewed here. It is used to

00:34:06.380 make the brew beer. Oh, earth rider. Thanks for the great legs. Thank you, Mr. President. Really

00:34:13.320 interesting. That's not even some old clip that I pulled up just to take a cheap shot at him. That

00:34:17.240 was three days ago in Milwaukee. I don't see how any reasonable person can convince himself

00:34:24.380 that an expanded war in the Middle East attacking Iran, the major regional power is smart right now. 0.68

00:34:31.720 I just don't see it. I don't. If you figure it out, please, please explain it to me. If you figure

00:34:39.660 out what Joe Biden just said there in Milwaukee, please explain to me what he said. I'd love a

00:34:43.360 translation. Now, the foreign policy hawks, just even to further undercut their credibility,

00:34:51.700 don't seem to be the brightest bulbs in the shed. They don't seem to really know what's going on.

00:34:56.360 Adam Kinzinger. You remember him, former congressman, whose Twitter page now says his

00:35:01.440 name is Adam Kinzinger, parentheses, Slava Ukraini, and then the American flag and the Ukraine flag

00:35:10.140 and the Israel flag. I guess I was about to say that makes him one of the few pro-Israel

00:35:15.880 Democrats. I forgot, though, that he's not actually a Democrat. He's a Republican who just sides with

00:35:20.440 the Democrats a lot. Very confusing stuff. He responds to Attorney General Ken Paxton in Texas

00:35:28.120 who said, there's no way that Texas would have joined the union if that meant we couldn't protect

00:35:33.240 ourselves from the invasion of the southern border. Kinzinger says, you didn't join the union.

00:35:38.860 You lost the war, idiot. 1.00

00:35:40.880 A little history lesson for Adam Kinzinger. Texas most certainly did join the union. Texas was a 1.00

00:35:51.580 republic before it joined the union. Before that, Texas was a Habsburg territory. But for 10 years,

00:35:57.140 from 1836 to 1846, Texas was a republic and then was annexed and then became a state.

00:36:04.400 It reminds me of this line from the Bakke by Euripides, which is, 0.99

00:36:07.920 talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. The people most likely to volunteer their insults 0.96

00:36:15.740 and call you a big dummy and an idiot and a fool are the people who themselves don't know anything. 1.00

00:36:20.460 This guy doesn't know anything about very recent history of the United States. 1.00

00:36:26.000 This reminds me of a great piece of advice from Norm MacDonald, which I'll get to in one second.

00:36:31.280 First, though, my favorite comment yesterday is from Mural Emperor 5639, who says,

00:36:37.920 can't wait to watch some Mike's Tom McDonald reviews. Yes, last week, my producer said,

00:36:45.740 Michael, you got to review this new song by Tom McDonald. And I said, okay, well, when did my

00:36:50.520 channel become a Tom McDonald review channel? I don't know. Sometimes then we changed the channel

00:36:56.020 and everything. But then they played the song and I finally, I realized Ben Shapiro is rapping

00:37:01.560 in the song. And I thought it was AI. It's not AI. So we've got my reaction to their song totally

00:37:09.320 without any foreknowledge that is up on my YouTube channel right now.

00:37:13.640 The late, great Norm MacDonald once had a bit where he was turning to his sidekick and he said,

00:37:23.140 you know, I was reading this history textbook and you're not going to believe it. It turns out

00:37:28.120 the good guys have won every single war ever. And if you read a history textbook, that's true.

00:37:34.600 That's true. Because famously, history is written by the winners. And when someone like Adam Kinzinger

00:37:43.480 or any of these liberal establishment supporters in the Democrat party or in the Republican party,

00:37:52.760 they'll mouth off on history a lot. They'll give you their grand view of history and the history of

00:37:58.480 the United States. And then they will occasionally reveal that they don't know very much about history.

00:38:04.420 Most people don't know very much about history. It's okay. I don't know very much about history.

00:38:07.800 We don't, we don't learn history anymore. We haven't for some time in America.

00:38:12.380 They won't know basic facts like Texas was a Republic before it joined the union.

00:38:16.660 They won't know basic things because

00:38:18.400 perspectives on history change over time. If you asked an average American,

00:38:28.480 a hundred years ago, describe the history of the United States, they would give you a completely

00:38:33.060 different story than an American today. It'd probably be a lot more positive, frankly. You 0.99

00:38:38.480 ask, you ask the average American today, talk about American history. They'll say, well, first we killed

00:38:42.240 all the Indians. Then we enslaved all the blacks. Then we were really mean to the women. Then we were, 1.00

00:38:46.380 I think we were mean to the homosexuals too. And we're just rotten and terrible. Give me a can of 1.00

00:38:49.800 soup so I can throw it on some artwork. That's what they would say today. You asked them a hundred years

00:38:53.680 ago, probably would be a little different. You asked them a hundred years before that, it would be a little

00:38:56.660 bit different still. And in a hundred years from now, our perspective, not on just history,

00:39:01.960 but on ourselves, who we are, is going to change. People will see the past and the present and the

00:39:08.160 future quite differently. The people banging the drums for war, just like the people banging the

00:39:14.400 drums to throw Trump in prison, just like the people banging the drums to delegitimize the

00:39:20.480 deplorable, irredeemable half of Americans who are not liberal. Those people have a highly

00:39:28.120 polemicized view of history. They're going to justify it by history, but it doesn't mean their

00:39:33.260 history is correct. Even this phrase, liberal democracy, we're a liberal democracy. That's a

00:39:37.540 term that basically no one ever used until the 1930s. It didn't at all become even slightly popular

00:39:43.180 until the 40s. It didn't take off until the 1980s. Okay. None of our founding fathers considered us a

00:39:47.840 liberal democracy. None of the statesmen who built our country up until the middle of the 20th century

00:39:52.380 called us a liberal democracy. Now we're told that's what it is. And that colors the way that

00:39:57.480 we behave and the way we treat our government. These things are greatly subject to change.

00:40:03.080 And there are going to be people in the future who make fun of us for believing what we do now

00:40:06.260 about history and government. Now, speaking of local government, a Rhode Island school board

00:40:12.940 has just made an audacious claim that would make all of our founding fathers roll over in their

00:40:18.540 graves, which is that parents should not be notified of their children's sexual behavior in schools.

00:40:27.400 I don't think parents should be notified simply because society assumes that every child has a well

00:40:36.020 meaning family culture that is accepting of this. Sometimes the worst thing you can do is involve a parent

00:40:45.080 in some of these issues based on their own beliefs and their own culture. And that...

00:40:51.340 Put a pause right there.

00:40:53.900 Sometimes the worst thing you can do is involve a parent in some of these decisions based on that

00:41:01.000 parent's own belief and culture. So she's speaking very vaguely here. She doesn't quite express that

00:41:07.980 she's talking about LGBTQ issues until a little bit later. But that view is very, very popular among

00:41:13.340 the liberals. And it's at least an admission that there's a difference between the culture of the

00:41:18.880 public school, culture meaning like to cultivate, like how your kid is going to be raised. There's a

00:41:24.680 difference between that culture and the culture that many parents have at home. There's a big

00:41:29.680 difference between the beliefs being pushed in public schools where your children are being

00:41:34.980 indoctrinated by these beliefs and the beliefs held by those kids' families. There's a big

00:41:40.360 difference here. And when a conflict arises, they're going to go with their own beliefs and

00:41:44.800 they're going to override the beliefs of parents. Keep going.

00:41:47.560 Will cause that student to commit suicide. 0.99

00:41:50.200 And there it is. Put a pause right there again. 0.98

00:41:53.580 This is the second thing we hear, especially in the transgender debate. We hear, if you don't, 0.61

00:41:59.680 side with the liberals, if you don't suppress the conservative beliefs, the traditional beliefs, 0.95

00:42:06.360 your kid's going to kill himself. The worst kind of emotional manipulation I've ever heard, 0.69

00:42:11.120 but it's effective. Even me, I'm pretty immune to this. God forbid I ever heard this from a teacher

00:42:16.460 or something. I don't think I would for reasons that we'll get to in just a moment. But if I did,

00:42:21.400 that would scare the daylights out of me. I would have to take a place and say, am I totally wrong?

00:42:26.020 Should I totally cave on my beliefs? I don't. You've threatened me with the scariest thing I can

00:42:29.960 imagine. And that's what they do. They say, yes, you got to side with us. You can't ever side with

00:42:36.700 the parents. If you side with the parents, you're going to kill a kid. Keep going.

00:42:39.340 If you tell a student who's trusted you, who has come out to say that I'm a lesbian,

00:42:46.120 and you now go back and tell the parent that child has no faith in that school system ever again

00:42:54.400 and will never come forward with any information. And his second recommendation, or the third

00:43:01.300 recommendation... Put a pause. This is a little subtle point, but she says, and if that student

00:43:05.680 says she's a lesbian. But that's not really what we're talking about here, is it?

00:43:08.960 When we talk about LGBTQ, LMNOP, we're not talking about the 16-year-old girl who kisses a girl at a

00:43:18.360 party after truth and dare and thinks she's a lesbian for three days. That's the most anodyne version of 1.00

00:43:24.280 it, which is why this is what this manipulative liberal woman is doing. She won't say what we're 1.00

00:43:29.460 really talking about, which is homosexual men who engage in far riskier behaviors than lesbians. 0.95

00:43:34.900 And we won't talk about the real thing that everyone's talking about, which is transgenderism. 0.99

00:43:38.900 A kid who wants to mutilate himself, castrate himself, chop off his body parts, 0.98

00:43:43.520 sterilize himself, give himself bone diseases, give himself a 40% chance of suicidality and anxiety

00:43:51.400 and depression, and likely reduces life expectancy either because of suicide or just because of

00:43:56.520 the diseases that come about from taking these powerful drugs to pretend to be the opposite sex. 0.97

00:44:00.600 She doesn't talk about that. She knows those things are far riskier, certainly transgenderism, 1.00

00:44:07.260 far scarier. So she says, oh, it's just some girl wants to be a lesbian that week or something. 1.00

00:44:12.560 The fact that that's the example she uses tells you she realizes just how controversial what she's

00:44:18.380 saying should be. Keep going.

00:44:20.100 Or where is it here that they should have documentation from their parent or their physician or their

00:44:28.220 guidance counselor? I can tell you for a fact, as a medical provider, I would never have provided

00:44:35.020 that documentation to the school because it does appear that now you're segregating out this child

00:44:41.280 and you're trying to say that this is a disability. This is who they are. And this is not like to set up

00:44:52.080 even an IEP for them or anything. You're now saying that what you're doing has a stigma to it and it's wrong.

00:45:01.740 Put a pause there. You're saying that if you're a man who thinks he's a woman, that there's something

00:45:06.900 wrong about that. Yes, that's true. That's what virtually everyone for all of history has thought

00:45:12.400 because it is wrong because it's not true and it's not normal and it's not conducive to human

00:45:16.340 flourishing. Yeah, you can't do that. How dare you do that? Well, I don't know because I have a reason

00:45:23.080 and I hope that as an educator, I hope that the children will flourish in my school. And yeah,

00:45:28.640 you can't. How dare you? You got to encourage them to trans themselves. Well, that's also, 1.00

00:45:34.100 isn't that also a moral judgment that has carries? Yeah, but it's mine and my moral judgment's right,

00:45:38.220 even though it's contradicted by, you know, all of ethics and philosophy and anthropology and all

00:45:44.080 of history. But it's still, but mine's right and yours is wrong. Keep going. Look at what the disabled 1.00

00:45:48.120 students go through for normalization. These kids are normal. There's, this is just who they are.

00:45:56.000 This is who they are. I mean, that's just the way it is.

00:45:58.440 Okay. I've heard enough. Enough of this woman. I don't think I can take any more this early in 1.00

00:46:01.300 the morning. This is who they are. That's one claim. You look at a boy, the boy says he's a

00:46:06.640 girl and you say, that's who he is. He's a girl. So says you, there's no evidence of that.

00:46:13.900 So, and what if you're wrong as you are lady, you've ruined a kid's life. You've ruined that 1.00

00:46:20.000 kid's life. And you have, ironically, you say the reason you have to do this is so they don't kill

00:46:24.220 themselves. You have statistically greatly increased their risk of all sorts of harms

00:46:31.700 and injuries on every front. You have not ameliorated a single thing. And also, even beyond

00:46:38.940 the kind of consequentialist views here, calculus, it's just not true. It's obviously not true.

00:46:44.840 When you send your kids to a public school today, you are signing that kid up for the possibility of 1.00

00:46:52.480 having his genitals chopped off. Simple as not being hyperbolic, not being provocative just for 0.99

00:47:00.880 the sake of doing so. That's what they think. That's what the liberal schools think. That's what

00:47:06.520 the broader liberal culture thinks. That's what the federal government thinks, is that that's just

00:47:10.620 who they are. If he's a boy and he thinks he's a girl, that's just who he is. And the schools and

00:47:14.620 the government institutions have a right and a responsibility to keep that information from

00:47:18.940 the parents, to hide this information from the parents, and to encourage the kids to harm

00:47:23.220 themselves. That's what they're all saying out in public. You can't say you weren't warned. And we

00:47:28.060 all saw this during COVID too. That's what it means today. Maybe you went to public school. I went to

00:47:33.400 public school. Doesn't mean what it used to mean. That's what it means today. They're telling you that

00:47:38.220 risk. When they tell you who they are, you got to believe them. The rest of the show continues now.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 29, 2024

Ep. 1414 - Taylor Swift May Destroy President Trump

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