The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 Democrat New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has extended voting rights to 35,000 convicted felons

00:00:07.360 or as he calls them, the Democrat base. We will analyze why Democrats rely on felons,

00:00:13.920 foreigners and children to help them win elections. Then the latest in Donald Trump

00:00:18.640 ushering in an era of peace for the entire world and a word on Barbara Bush, something that

00:00:24.660 everybody is missing. Finally, the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Hey, everybody. So I'm still on the road. I'm in Philadelphia. I've just finished a delicious

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00:00:48.840 And so anyway, I'm speaking tonight at Trump University, the University of Pennsylvania

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00:01:32.420 Pennsylvania. That should be a lot of fun. So before we get started, there's a lot to talk about

00:01:37.580 today. A lot. The Democrats are they're moving beyond satire at this point. They're actually

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00:04:16.820 coffee shops. Skillshare.com slash Michael. Okay, let's get into this thing. You know, I think Cuomo

00:04:23.000 is just trolling me practically. He's, uh, uh, I was going through New York state. I was in New York

00:04:29.540 for like six hours and he decides, Hey, I'm going to spring all the jails so we can get some more

00:04:34.100 Democrat voters. Absolutely outrageous. And it really did get me thinking, this is what the Democrats rely

00:04:40.660 on. They rely on felons and foreigners and children. I spent at least 10 minutes this

00:04:47.160 morning trying to make that alliteration work like felons and foreigners and fetuses or something

00:04:52.940 like that. But we all know the Democrat party's relationship to fetuses. That is not exactly in

00:04:58.580 the base. So it couldn't work, but they are relying on all those three. We'll talk a little bit about how

00:05:04.560 they're doing that. The, the main thing we're seeing here is just a total subversion of the law.

00:05:10.700 The law in New York is if you're out on parole, right, you've been convicted of a felony and you're

00:05:15.360 on parole, you don't get to vote. That's how it works. Your actions have consequences. And if you're

00:05:19.940 going to commit felonies, then you, you lose some privileges of citizenship. But Andy Cuomo doesn't

00:05:25.440 like that. Now he's not going to go in and change the law. That would be too democratic. That would be too,

00:05:30.140 too much law and order. That would be too civilized. Instead, what he's going to do,

00:05:34.640 this is what he said. He goes, quote, it is unconscionable to deny voting rights to New

00:05:40.460 Yorkers who have paid their debt and reentered society. Why? Why is that? First of all,

00:05:48.100 they haven't repaid their debt. They're out on parole. Parole is when you get out a little early,

00:05:53.100 you get out temporarily, you do, you actually have not paid your debt to society. So even on the

00:05:58.220 premise, he's wrong. But why is that unconscionable? Why is that? If someone commits a felony, do we

00:06:04.080 really want that person crafting policy for our country? Maybe in some cases, but plenty of people

00:06:09.200 get perfectly reformed and they come out and they're upstanding citizens again. A lot of people

00:06:13.800 don't. Why is that unconscionable that we would deny them the right to vote? Really what this is all

00:06:19.880 about is just lining up new Democrat voters. And I think Andy Cuomo knows this. This has been a trend

00:06:25.440 going on for a while in the Democrat party. And when they have governorships across the country,

00:06:30.620 the way that Andy Cuomo is going to do this is by pardoning them. So he's going to take 35,000 people

00:06:36.800 right now who are felons on parole, and he's just going to pardon them of their crimes so that then

00:06:42.780 they have, you know, that, that makes them into eligible voters. You hear, uh, everyone raising

00:06:49.220 Cain because Donald Trump, uh, pardoned Scooter Libby, a guy who was guilty practically of

00:06:54.960 nothing. And everyone's freaking out about that because he's pardoned like one guy. Andy Cuomo

00:06:59.780 says, not only am I going to pardon 35,000 right now, I'm going to keep pardoning them. The more

00:07:04.060 they come up for parole, I'm just going to keep pardoning and pardoning and pardoning and pardoning.

00:07:07.740 And then they're going to keep voting for me. In the United States, there are 6.1 million people

00:07:13.900 who were not able to vote in 2016 because of a felony conviction. So either they're on parole,

00:07:20.260 they're, you know, they're inmates, they're whatever. They couldn't vote in the election.

00:07:24.500 How do you think those guys are going to vote? Are they going to, you know, it, it, they're going to

00:07:29.220 vote for their, for their fellow crook. They're going to vote for their fellow criminal, Hillary Clinton.

00:07:34.380 They're going to break for Democrats. There's no question about that. Uh, right now, one in 40 Americans,

00:07:39.420 2.5% of the voting age population, according to the sentencing project, cannot vote. Now,

00:07:46.160 mind you, 50% of the country that's voting age doesn't vote anyway. They just don't want to vote.

00:07:50.820 But every, they're, the left is taking issue with this, that 2.5% of eligible voters can't vote

00:07:57.140 or would be eligible voters, voting age, Americans can't vote. Why is, who cares? Why is that a big

00:08:03.860 deal? They say this is awful. The United States has one of the biggest, uh, prison populations

00:08:09.280 in the whole world. It's the highest incarceration rates in the world. 670 inmates in the United

00:08:15.060 States per 100,000 Americans. That's so much higher than all of the other developed nations,

00:08:20.660 you know, that we protect and that all look up to us because we have a way better country than they

00:08:24.420 do. It's five times the average of all of those. The next closest is Israel with 250 inmates per

00:08:30.980 100,000. You know, the next closest is that other really, really good country that is a beacon of hope

00:08:35.880 and order and civilization in a terrible region of the world. You know, like, man, why wouldn't we,

00:08:40.480 why would we want to be like that? Why can't we be more like Italy, you know? Why, I don't, because

00:08:44.520 Italy is, runs rampant with crime. The mafia controls like half of that country. No, man, you know,

00:08:51.420 it's just too many people. And they point out the number of Americans incarcerated in prisons has

00:08:58.500 increased over the last 25 years. Now, look, I'm not that old. I've, I haven't been roaming around this

00:09:04.920 earth for too long. Uh, but I've noticed something over the last 25 years that's confirmed by

00:09:10.380 social science statistics. Uh, we've increased the prison population over the last 25 years and crime

00:09:17.720 has steadily decreased. Hmm. I wonder if there's, could you, do you think there's possibly a

00:09:24.220 correlation between those things? The New York times, famously Fox Butterfield, uh, he ran a headline

00:09:29.840 something to the effect of, uh, prisons, uh, crime continues to drop despite prisons filling.

00:09:38.240 Hmm. I, you're saying despite, maybe there's a correlation here between those two things.

00:09:43.960 So who cares if we have the highest incarceration rate in the world? This isn't like the Soviet Union

00:09:48.440 here. This isn't like we're, uh, imprisoning political dissenters or something that only happened

00:09:54.260 when Barack Obama didn't like Dinesh D'Souza because Dinesh D'Souza made a movie about him. So then he

00:09:59.160 threw him in jail for some ridiculous trumped up charge, but usually in the United States,

00:10:03.100 and certainly when good Republicans are in office, that doesn't happen. We don't just have a lot of

00:10:06.980 political dissent prisoners or anything like that. We have criminals in prison. That is a good thing.

00:10:12.600 We have the highest incarceration rate in the world. Good. Let's keep getting it a little bit

00:10:15.900 higher, baby. Cause there's still crime going on on those streets up in a little bit more. Maybe

00:10:20.200 we'll have some safer streets. Uh, but of course this is a strategy that they want to pursue

00:10:24.480 in Virginia. We saw this in 2017, the Democrat governor, Terry McAuliffe, he started using

00:10:32.600 executive orders to restore felons voting rights in 2016. And at the time we all knew what he was

00:10:38.880 doing. If he thought that the felons were going to break for Republicans, he would never do it.

00:10:42.900 But Terry McAuliffe restored the voting rights of 168,000 felons and 42,000 of them had registered to

00:10:51.300 vote very quickly before that race in 2017. Now that it wasn't close enough that race for that

00:10:56.880 to really have made a difference. You have to add in all of the other people who shouldn't be voting

00:11:00.560 when you get to those numbers, but still that's a lot of people and extra 42,000 votes for a tight

00:11:06.420 election can really be a determining factor. Democrats know this and they're not going to get

00:11:10.400 fooled again right now in Maine and the people's Republic of Vermont. Current inmates are allowed to

00:11:17.840 vote. Actual like people in prison. I don't know if they get a furlough or something to go down to

00:11:22.120 the polls and wreak some havoc both on our democracy and on the people around there. And then they get

00:11:26.820 to go back in, but they choose to have, uh, actual prisoners voting more on this in one second. But

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00:13:48.240 where, uh, even a person who is a felon, committed a felony, completed his prison sentence. We're not

00:13:54.880 talking about being out on parole, actually paid his debt to society. Even then they still can't vote.

00:14:00.840 And listen to these states. Let me know if they sound like anything to you. Alabama, Arizona,

00:14:06.140 Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wyoming.

00:14:11.980 The thing they have in common is they're like really nice states. They're good states, you know,

00:14:16.660 they keep their affairs in order and they're just like good and orderly and civilized. They're not

00:14:20.840 California, which is just absolutely bankrupt or New York being flooded, a sanctuary city subverting

00:14:27.140 federal law, uh, giving illegal aliens rights to vote, things like that. It isn't that at all.

00:14:33.980 Uh, and it's because they keep, they keep a hard line here. We'll get back to why this is the case.

00:14:39.320 The, the left calls this racist. They say it's racist. If you don't let either people who completed

00:14:46.960 their sentences, criminals that completed their sentences vote or people on parole vote, or even

00:14:52.660 people in prison vote, if you don't let those, all those criminals vote, that's racist. You say,

00:14:57.940 what are you talking? Why is that racist? They say, because it, that means you're not going to let

00:15:01.760 black people vote. So did you hear what you just said? You just said, you're the one, you just said

00:15:07.180 black people and criminals are synonymous. That's what I didn't say that. I don't think that,

00:15:12.300 I don't think that's true. You said that, but they do that. Oh, they, they say, oh, it's right.

00:15:16.660 It's just racist. And where this really all comes from, there have always been these little moves.

00:15:21.520 Oh, Hey man. Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we let criminals vote? You know, they'd always do a

00:15:26.240 little bit. The 2000 election, that's what broke this. That that's where this all started to steamroll

00:15:31.460 up. Uh, to a 2002 study, uh, found that Democrat candidates receive seven out of every 10 votes

00:15:41.340 that would be cast by felons or ex felons in 14 of the then previous 15 U S Senate election years.

00:15:49.580 They get 70% of them. That's just one study that shows this. Another study should put it in starker

00:15:55.520 terms, which is that had felons been allowed to vote in Florida in 2000, Al Gore would have won that

00:16:02.080 election. Sore Loserman would have actually ended up winning the election and being the president. And

00:16:06.900 that would have been very terrible because that election came down to 537 votes. That was not a

00:16:12.660 big election. So, uh, that could really matter. I mean, that would swing whole elections. Now that's,

00:16:20.700 that's the reason they're doing it. It's the same thing with amnesty. It's the same with all these

00:16:23.520 things. They just want votes. They just want to have, they've even admitted this in a Democrat memo

00:16:29.200 that it's important to their electoral strategy to get all of these sort of undesirable

00:16:34.400 constituencies to, uh, to vote for them. And so you've got the criminals. That's, that's the new

00:16:39.560 bit that's in the news today. You also have the foreigners. We know that, uh, illegal and legal

00:16:44.020 aliens, illegal aliens and legal immigrants, recent immigrants to the United States identify with

00:16:50.220 Democrats between three times as frequently and 8.75 times as frequently huge, uh, disparities

00:16:57.240 between identifying Republican or identifying Democrat. So they say, give us amnesty, give us amnesty.

00:17:02.840 We're going to let all the ex-criminals vote. Then we're going to let all of the foreigners vote.

00:17:07.400 They're even doing, they're giving ID cards out. They're letting illegal aliens vote in certain

00:17:11.740 elections. And then the children, then think of the children. So these are the most manipulable

00:17:17.400 constituencies, right? You got these felons who are, you know, their lifeline is the state,

00:17:25.300 right? They're, they're in a very direct relationship to the state. Then you've got illegal aliens who are

00:17:30.300 living in the shadows and say, we'll give you this little goody. We'll give you this amnesty, but

00:17:33.960 you got to remember who to vote for. And then kids. So right now, DC, Washington, DC is considering

00:17:40.220 allowing 16 year olds to vote in the next presidential election. Very bad. I just imagine

00:17:47.000 that kid from Parkland high school, from Douglas, Stoneman Douglas high school. That guy's going to vote,

00:17:53.340 excuse me, that guy is going to vote in the next presidential election. If DC gets its way,

00:17:59.180 it's always lefty places that are doing this district, the district of Columbia and these

00:18:03.620 states. Uh, you've got to remember 18 year olds have only been allowed to vote since 1971, since

00:18:09.480 the 26th amendment. Probably not a great idea to do that. Then, uh, probably not a great idea to do that.

00:18:15.040 Now, this brings us to the question, what is the vote? Why is it just like, I need my right to,

00:18:20.940 if I deserve my right to vote, it's always, elections are always better. If the most number

00:18:25.160 of people vote, if the highest number of people can, can vote, why is that the case? We want good,

00:18:31.920 like good people to vote. We want people who are somewhat informed, who have a clear political

00:18:37.800 vision, who have a good political vision, who love the country, love their country. That's who we want

00:18:42.480 to vote. We don't want just anybody to vote. Why don't we let the whole world vote in our elections?

00:18:46.900 Why? Why just limit it to look, they're already trying to extend voting rights to foreign

00:18:50.600 nationals who happen to be in the United States. Why not let the whole world vote in our elections?

00:18:55.060 Oh, cause that's probably not a great idea. There's this really shallow thinking in our,

00:18:59.560 in modern liberal democracy that, Oh, the more votes, the better rock the vote. South Park parodied

00:19:04.640 this with a puff daddy. And they said like voter die. I'm going to shoot you. If you don't vote.

00:19:09.820 No, if you don't want to vote, don't vote. Please don't vote. Please. If you do not want to vote,

00:19:14.020 if you feel that you're not equipped to vote, don't do it. Let people who know what they are doing and have a

00:19:19.500 vision for America, those guys should vote. And it definitely shouldn't be those little kids that

00:19:23.820 CNN's trotting on TV. That's what this is all pointing toward. So we should not let that happen.

00:19:28.920 Okay. Before we, we have a lot of mailbag to get to. I got to wrap it up here before that. I do want

00:19:33.240 to have a note on Barbara Bush. Everyone is so sad about Barbara Bush. It hit everybody hard. I,

00:19:39.840 we, I had the show with Owen yesterday, so we didn't get to talk about this other than that Fresno

00:19:44.660 state professor who I won't even acknowledge her name, who said those mean things about Barbara

00:19:49.080 Bush. Other than that, everyone is so sad. And I was wondering, why is that? She was 92 years old.

00:19:55.040 She lived a good life. We're not weeping for Barbara Bush. We're weeping for ourselves. I think

00:20:00.380 we're weeping for not the death of Barbara Bush, but the death of marriage, a marriage that their

00:20:06.460 marriage lasted 73 years. George Bush and Barbara Bush were weeping for the death of high school

00:20:13.200 sweethearts that stay together and have kids and, you know, get married at age 20 or however old

00:20:18.920 they were. We're weeping for the death of a culture of politeness and civility and, and, and culture

00:20:25.580 itself of being cultured and restraint and a little bit of formality and, uh, and strength. And on that

00:20:33.540 point of strength, we're weeping for the death of strong womanhood, truly strong womanhood. Barbara

00:20:39.060 Bush, I I've, uh, read all the books that George W. Bush has written and he refers to dad, you know,

00:20:44.560 he calls George Bush dad, but he only referred to Barbara as mother, his mother, the, all of the

00:20:50.540 stories of Barbara Bush, she took a firm hand. She was a tough cookie. You know, this was not, not

00:20:55.460 someone that you'd mess with lightly. And that's a, look, she wasn't the CEO of some company. She was a

00:21:01.060 wife. She was a wife who was one of the strongest women in the country, uh, uh, idolized. She was

00:21:08.720 strong. She was strong in her family. She ran that roost, you know, she kept everybody together. She

00:21:14.840 kept it all going, but it was, it was so traditional. It was not that she was out there with the pink hats

00:21:22.620 screaming with signs or anything like that. And, and that's died and it's made women weaker and it's

00:21:27.400 made society more coarse. And I think we're coming to grips with that. And we're, we're looking back

00:21:32.860 and saying, God, wasn't that nice. That's why we're not, look, she, Barbara Bush lived a great

00:21:37.640 life. She lived to be 92 years old. She died holding her husband of seven plus decades as hand.

00:21:44.500 And they were holding hands at the moment she died. There's nothing to be sad about, uh, in that

00:21:50.320 life. There's nothing tragic about that. That's a good way to go. What's sad is what the culture has

00:21:56.340 become and the moral absurdity that has replaced that, that nicer culture, the legalism and, and

00:22:03.400 your relationship to the state and the selfishness of just saying, no, I'm going to, I think I'm just

00:22:08.180 going to be single forever and just do whatever I want and me, me, me, me, me. And that's all it is.

00:22:13.400 And it's not about relationships and it's not about building something and it's not about shared

00:22:17.160 experience. And it's not about a life that has a coherent beginning, middle and end, and a purpose.

00:22:21.500 We've lost a lot of that. And maybe this moment of reflection is everyone's weeping for Barbara

00:22:27.000 Bush. Maybe we'll think about that ourselves and say, hmm, maybe it's time we try to fix our culture.

00:22:32.980 Just a thought. I don't want to end on that really sad note. So I will just point out very briefly,

00:22:37.940 Donald Trump is bringing peace to the Korean peninsula after seven, you know, uh, the Bushes

00:22:43.940 were married over 70 years. The Korean war has been going on for about 70 years and Donald Trump may

00:22:49.580 finally be ending it. They're talking about, uh, formally ending the Korean war. There was a truce

00:22:54.840 in 1953, but it could be formally ending now under president Covfefe. Uh, and you can tell by the way

00:23:01.100 that Donald Trump has been working on this pretty hard. He just admitted that he sent, uh, Pompeo,

00:23:05.680 the CIA director to personally meet with Kim Jong-un last week. Uh, China is furious about this China,

00:23:12.940 because by the way, the Korean war was always a war between the U S and China. It wasn't really about the

00:23:18.220 North, the North Koreans and the South Koreans. It was always a proxy war between the U S and China.

00:23:23.080 It looks like it still is. And right now, Donald Trump is squeezing the Chinese. Uh, uh, this week,

00:23:29.080 the Trump administration prevented American suppliers from selling parts to a major, a Chinese tech

00:23:34.420 giant. The, uh, there were, you know, there were a lot of Chinese soldiers, millions of soldiers

00:23:39.820 who fought in the Korean war. And in the old days, the, uh, preconditions necessary for

00:23:45.900 denuclearization in North Korea was that the U S let all of the troops out of the South.

00:23:51.260 Now that's not even a precondition apparently, uh, from stories that are coming out of North Korea.

00:23:57.460 Sounds like the art of the deal to me, guys. I know that we all keep making fun of Trump and saying,

00:24:01.680 Oh, he just got lucky. Oh, he just got lucky. He keeps getting lucky. He just keeps,

00:24:05.400 keeps getting lucky. Now it's important here during the art of the deal that Kim doesn't try to

00:24:12.620 get us to have a massive troop production. We can keep some troops, but not all of them.

00:24:17.400 Uh, that, that would give China a great victory here. We can't do that, especially as they aggress

00:24:23.700 into the South China sea. We need to keep a pretty robust American military presence there.

00:24:28.260 Looks like it's going pretty well. So I'll keep my fingers crossed for all that covete.

00:24:31.880 We've got to get to the mailbag. We have a lot of mailbag today before we do that. Then I got to go

00:24:36.700 get ready for this speech and let, I don't know, maybe Antifa's there like wielding their clubs already

00:24:41.020 before we do that. Go to dailywire.com. If you're already on the website, thank you. You help us

00:24:45.840 keep the lights on, even in this great Da Vinci meeting space in the middle of Philadelphia. If

00:24:50.820 you're not there, go, you get me, you get the Andrew Klavan show, you get the Ben Shapiro show. None of

00:24:54.020 that matters. Guys, if Donald Trump brings peace to Korea, you need this Tumblr, man. Oh my gosh.

00:25:01.880 You are going to drown in, you're going to go down to Davy Jones's locker. The monumental

00:25:07.800 tidal waves of salty leftist tears are going to be so enormous. Get that leftist tears Tumblr. It's

00:25:14.380 happening right now. There's going to be a talk between Trump and Kim. Get that leftist tears

00:25:18.540 Tumblr before it's too late. Save yourself. We'll be right back.

00:25:21.460 All right. We have a little bit of time left. We got to burn through these mailbag questions. We

00:25:37.080 got some really good ones today. First one from Grayson. Michael, I really enjoy your show. Keep

00:25:41.800 up the good work. Recently you interviewed Owen Benjamin and he said CrossFit is a bit of a cult

00:25:47.440 and I tend to agree. I've been a competitive swimmer since I was four years old and I was

00:25:51.540 wondering if you think that world is also a cult. Thanks, Grayson. I don't know about competitive

00:25:57.400 swimming. I defer to your superior knowledge, but I suspect it is because a lot of these things are

00:26:03.220 now. What are some other cults? There's CrossFit. There's this joke, a CrossFitter, an atheist, and a

00:26:10.580 vegan walk into a bar. How do I know? Because they wouldn't shut up about it. They just tell you

00:26:15.220 immediately wear it on their sleeves. Veganism, environmentalism, the global warming people,

00:26:20.640 the PETA people, even really serious patriots sometimes like the civil religion types, and

00:26:28.080 obviously the leftists and the intersectionality people. Those are all substitutes for religion.

00:26:36.140 You know, they're cults. They are cults because everybody's got to serve somebody. So if you're not

00:26:41.480 going and having reconciliation with your priest or repenting or, you know, scourging yourself and

00:26:49.640 saying, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, then you're going to be buying carbon offsets and

00:26:56.960 carbon tax credits so that you can undo your sin of pollution. Everybody's got to serve somebody. You

00:27:03.580 are going to do this. You're going to make the animals into a sort of God, into a nature worship.

00:27:08.340 Oh, the innocent animals, they're so much better than us. Stop killing the chickens. Don't eat the

00:27:13.080 chickens. You're just, even civil religion, and we conservatives fall into this a little bit.

00:27:18.840 You know, you can't substitute God with the United States. I love the United States too. It's a

00:27:25.240 wonderful country. That isn't worthy of worship. That's worthy of protecting and defending and

00:27:30.960 admiration. But people can take things a little too far. And it's when you don't worship,

00:27:37.120 the guy who's, who is named, I am that I am, you know, Moses asks God, he says, who should I tell

00:27:45.760 them you are? And he says, I am that I am. When you don't worship that, then you have a pathetic

00:27:50.660 question, which is, who am I? And you find all these little niche things. So I don't know, maybe,

00:27:55.580 maybe, maybe you're taking swimming very seriously. I don't know, but you can do all of these things in

00:27:59.480 moderation. You just have to keep your priorities in order. Next question from Jeremiah.

00:28:02.900 I am sending this immediately after reading an article on your site about a Wyoming school

00:28:07.880 district passing a policy allowing teachers to conceal carry. Given that we already have a bit

00:28:12.380 of an issue with trained officers misusing firearms, I don't know if unscrupulously arming school

00:28:17.140 teachers is the best move. My concern is that if anything went wrong, such as a student disarming a

00:28:22.480 teacher or, God forbid, a wrongful shooting of a student, the Second Amendment wouldn't survive the

00:28:27.620 backlash. Fair point. According to the Nation Center of Educational Statistics, schools and

00:28:34.660 university campuses are the safest areas in the U.S. when it comes to violent crimes and getting safer,

00:28:40.080 despite the uptick in shootings. So I'm not convinced the risk is necessary. I know there

00:28:44.300 are restrictions for who can conceal carry in the bill, but I find these things to be vague and

00:28:50.000 unconvincing, not to mention other districts might adopt less strict policies as well. I'm a huge

00:28:54.840 Second Amendment advocate, but I don't want reactionary pro-gun policy. I don't see any

00:29:01.400 right-wing voices proposing nuanced ideas of what qualifies a teacher to be armed around students.

00:29:06.840 So I'm sending this to all the Daily Wire shows in the hopes of getting an answer from the leading

00:29:11.920 authors and thought leaders of the right Knowles can answer to if he wants. Okay. No, don't worry

00:29:18.760 about it so much. Don't worry about it. Your fear is that someone is going to misuse a gun in schools.

00:29:25.260 They're going to have a gun in schools when they shouldn't, or they're going to use it wrong.

00:29:29.140 They already do that. They already do that. The school shootings have declined precipitously since

00:29:33.760 the early 1990s, but if someone wants to bring a gun to a school and misuse it, he's going to do it.

00:29:39.180 He can easily do that already. The point here is to have some people who can protect them in that

00:29:44.900 case in that instance. Why should you surrender your Second Amendment rights, your constitutionally

00:29:50.140 protected civil rights, because you're walking into what could be a very dangerous situation,

00:29:54.760 and a situation that will be much more dangerous if the bad guys know that nobody has a gun in there.

00:30:00.960 If somebody, it's not about arming teachers. It's not about saying, you need to carry a gun,

00:30:05.260 Mrs. Smith. And I know that you've never shot one of these before, but here you go. Here's an AR-15.

00:30:10.100 Have fun. She's like, you know, that isn't what this is. This is for people

00:30:13.900 who already exercise their Second Amendment rights, who are familiar with firearms, who are

00:30:19.520 responsible with them, to be able to use those rights. Plenty of people do that all the time

00:30:25.820 in this country, in the more sane parts of this country. And as we all know, more people are

00:30:30.520 killed every year by hands and feet and knives than are killed by AR-15s or any rifle of any kind

00:30:36.740 whatsoever. The argument against it, I don't see. I see it as very hypothetical. If there were some way,

00:30:43.900 to know that we couldn't, we could stop guns from being brought into schools and being misused,

00:30:49.120 then okay, then that's fine. Then we don't need teachers to be able to use their Second Amendment

00:30:53.260 rights. But if we could do that, that would, the problem would be totally solved, right?

00:30:58.460 That is the problem, is that that is impossible. And as long as that is impossible, we need people

00:31:03.280 who are responsible and sane and not evil and not criminals to be able to protect themselves and

00:31:09.080 protect others. Next question from Thomas. Troll Knowles, hooray that the Korean Peninsula is now

00:31:16.320 in peace during Donald Trump's presidency. But what happens if we have a liberal in the executive,

00:31:20.480 either in 2020 or 2024? Just wondering if you can foresee a conflict breaking out and the

00:31:25.280 Peninsula will go back on being disunified if the GOP loses control of the White House.

00:31:30.120 Love the covfefe-ness of this show. Been a subscriber since 2017. Tuned into the Daily Wire ever since.

00:31:35.680 Thanks, Thomas. Yeah, that's a real threat, isn't it? I mean, that is a real threat. Use George Bush

00:31:42.260 as an example of this. The war in Iraq had been mismanaged. It wasn't going very well. George

00:31:48.040 Bush undertook an act of serious political courage to surge the troops back when no one had the guts

00:31:53.060 to do it. No one wanted him to. Everyone was before the war, before they were against the war.

00:31:58.080 And Bush did it, and he won a victory in that country. And then Barack Obama won. And what did Barack

00:32:03.920 Obama do? He chose to lose that war, a war that we had already won. He chose to lose it. He didn't

00:32:11.000 want a status of forces agreement. He didn't want to maintain the peace. He just wanted to squander

00:32:14.920 the victories in Iraq, the immense political courage it took to win those victories, and cut

00:32:20.160 and run because he ran on running against Iraq and restarting the war in Afghanistan for some reason

00:32:25.480 because he needed a good war. He needed a war that wasn't Iraq to position himself against

00:32:30.180 Republicans. There are huge threats here. Look at ISIS. ISIS today would not exist. Wouldn't be

00:32:36.440 nearly as devastating. Wouldn't have had so much control in that region if we hadn't just pulled

00:32:41.080 all of our troops out and not secured a status of forces agreement. But these elections have big

00:32:45.720 consequences. And I wouldn't be surprised if, forget Korea, the Democrats will squander a lot of

00:32:53.260 hard-won victories from the past year. And they're certainly going to try to impeach Donald Trump.

00:32:58.400 These are huge stakes. So show up and vote in the midterms. Otherwise, you can't complain.

00:33:03.160 Go out there. The stakes are really, really high. Okay, from Brad.

00:33:07.700 Dear Master of Trolls, Michael Knowles, this past tax season I worked as a part-time tax associate

00:33:12.260 at a tax prep company. After I prepare my clients' 2017 taxes, I show them what their taxes would look

00:33:18.100 like under the new 2018 tax rules. The new rules have been beneficial to all of my clients.

00:33:22.900 I should be acting apolitical. But when I explain how the 2018 tax rules benefit my clients,

00:33:29.140 I can't help but feel like I'm promoting Donald Trump and conservatism. How can I present the

00:33:34.340 benefits of the new tax plan without feeling like I'm promulgating a political agenda? Keep up the

00:33:38.960 terrific work. Yeah, reality is showing the advantages to having Donald Trump and Republicans

00:33:45.140 in the government. That is what reality does. Unless you want to lie to them, you can't do that.

00:33:51.200 You know, you can't be apolitical. Especially not in your line of work. Your line of work

00:33:56.240 is actually about central political issues. How much of your own property you're allowed to keep

00:34:01.220 and how you interact with this massive federal government that every year comes and gets its

00:34:06.020 claws into all of your hard-earned money. You can't do that. Politics is the affairs of men.

00:34:10.380 And money and making money and paying money to the government is central to the affairs of men.

00:34:17.280 So you're not going to do that. You know, the reality favors conservative governance and

00:34:22.820 conservative thoughts. Things get better. Things get more just. The society has become fairer,

00:34:28.820 more compassionate, more charitable. That's just the way it works. Don't worry about being apolitical.

00:34:34.320 It's like, you know, you've got this one really awful political agenda that hates its own country.

00:34:40.380 Hates itself. Wants to sow division and destruction. And then you have the other one

00:34:44.380 that says, make America great again. Say, oh, well, they're about the same. There's an equivalence

00:34:48.780 there. No, there's no equivalence. That one's terrible and this one's good. So you got to be

00:34:52.880 honest with people. From Taylor. Dear Cofefone. That's a good pun. I don't believe in the literal

00:35:00.180 presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Isn't a more plausible reason that the disciples react so strongly

00:35:05.440 to Jesus's language used during the last supper, simply because he is making himself the center of

00:35:10.300 a Passover meal and not because they think he is literally advocating cannibalism. At the very

00:35:15.940 least, the Eucharistic rituals practiced today in the Catholic church are a far cry from the simple

00:35:20.360 breaking of bread by first century Jewish nomads at likely a dirty table with likely soiled hands.

00:35:27.520 Doesn't the pomp and circumstance and mysticism miss the point? It's a metaphor, man. Come on.

00:35:32.660 Genuinely interested. Sincerely big fan of the show, Taylor. No, the things that you just said

00:35:38.440 aren't true. They aren't true. The Eucharist, as it is practiced even in 2018, is spiritually

00:35:45.340 identical with what was happening even in first century, in the first century, even among people

00:35:51.780 who lived during the time of Christ on earth and knew Christ and became the early converts to

00:35:57.720 Christianity. With regard to the metaphor, you're missing what a metaphor is. You're

00:36:02.640 misunderstanding what a metaphor is. This happened, first of all, nobody doubted the real presence of

00:36:08.660 Christ in the Eucharist until the 16th century or so. Nobody has any kind of big theological movement

00:36:14.600 in the West that was able to spread. Martin Luther didn't do that until the day he died. He believed in

00:36:20.200 the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. This is a very modern concept that comes out of rationalism

00:36:25.140 in the modern era. Metaphor is, you're using metaphor to say not literal, right? Symbolic,

00:36:35.300 but not literal. But the word literal, which means not symbolic, is referring to letters which are

00:36:41.440 symbols. So the relationship between symbols and the symbolized is much more complicated

00:36:47.400 between the literal and the metaphorical. What you're missing is what the Eucharist is, what the

00:36:56.400 sacraments are. The Eucharist has been celebrated and consumed since the very beginning of the church,

00:37:02.780 since Christ instituted it, and we can read that in the Gospels. Ignatius of Antioch, who was born

00:37:07.680 either in 35 AD or 50, excuse me, 50 AD, he could have been alive during the time of Christ.

00:37:16.420 He died between 98 and about 117 AD. He mentions the Eucharist as the flesh of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

00:37:25.320 That's in the first century. Justin Martyr, he refers to the Eucharist as the food over which

00:37:30.940 the prayer of thanksgiving, the word received from Christ has been said, is the flesh and blood of

00:37:37.340 this Jesus who became flesh. And the deacons carry some to those who are absent. The deacons would

00:37:42.880 actually carry the Eucharist out. They felt it was so important, a real thing, symbol and symbolized

00:37:48.440 coming together. Jesus is clear in his words. He says, this is my body. This is my blood. What is he

00:37:55.080 doing? Pliny the Younger writes of the Eucharist. Hippolytus of Rome writes of it. The Didache, you know,

00:38:00.680 the teachings of the Twelve Apostles, which was the, it's the earliest catechism of the church from

00:38:05.980 the first century. It deals explicitly with these sacraments, with baptism and with the Eucharist.

00:38:11.140 It also instructs on fasting and on daily prayer and things that I think are also a lot of more

00:38:18.160 rationalist versions of Christianity now today would try to deny or ignore. When Christ says at that

00:38:25.100 supper table, do this in memory of me, the word is anamnesis. I'm not, I don't have a

00:38:30.660 lot of Greek, but that, that isn't just in memory or, Hey, remember Jesus? Hey, you remember him? He

00:38:35.140 was a nice guy. It's, it's more akin to a memorial sacrifice. It's theologically rich and full. There

00:38:41.300 is something happening. St. John Vianney said, if we really knew what happened during the mass,

00:38:45.880 we would die, not from fear, but from love. What is happening here? Pardon my directness.

00:38:52.520 You're missing the point. Come on, man. It's a metaphor. You're, you're, you're missing the point

00:38:56.880 of what Christ is doing because in Christ you have the metaphor, the metaphysical, the logos,

00:39:02.800 the divine logic of the universe and the symbol, the physical, the flesh and blood coming together

00:39:11.580 in one in the incarnation. In the incarnation, the metaphysical and the physical become one.

00:39:17.320 They it's, it's the meeting of heaven and earth. And that's what we have in the sacraments as well.

00:39:21.940 The sacraments are regular touchings of heaven and earth together. So that the physical and the

00:39:26.520 metaphysical become the same thing. That's why they're so important. That's why everyone has

00:39:30.520 always defended them. That's why the early Protestant innovators all defended them. Practically

00:39:35.680 all defended these things. They're so spiritually important. They're so essential to what Christ is

00:39:41.700 that to deny them is missing the point. Do we have time? We have time for like one more, I think.

00:39:48.000 Let's see. What would be a good one to do? All right. I'm going to be, a lot of people were upset

00:39:53.780 with my Germany episode about how Germany is the worst country in the world, but I'm just going to

00:39:57.200 have to get to the, maybe we'll get to that in the conversation or something, or next week's mailbag.

00:40:03.300 Let's go to this last question. Dear Mr. Knowles, the Austin Lively of women's dreams. Ooh, hubba hubba.

00:40:10.080 I'm having some issues with my boyfriend. We've been dating for almost two years. We both live with

00:40:14.720 our parents and have been talking a lot about moving out together. I have a full-time job and

00:40:19.100 currently am seeking another part-time job. My boyfriend only has a part-time job and talks

00:40:24.540 about working more, but never takes any action. I have made it very clear that I will not support

00:40:29.640 him in our future, but I still feel like he wants to make no effort into future plans. How should I

00:40:35.620 handle this? I'm ready to be on my own and start a life. P.S. I'm a feminist's worst nightmare. I would

00:40:41.160 love to be fully supported by a man and live as a wonderful future housewife and mother. Thanks.

00:40:45.920 Well, sounds like you're going to need another guy, my dear. I'm sorry to say. Who knows? I guess

00:40:51.600 there are two sides to every story, but this guy's got a man up. It's like that scene in The Godfather

00:40:56.380 when Don Corleone takes the singer Johnny Fontaine. Johnny Fontaine, he goes, oh, Godfather, I don't know

00:41:01.500 what to do. He goes, you're going to act like a man. What's the matter with you? That sounds like

00:41:06.560 that's what your boyfriend needs. He needs a job. You need to work and he needs to want to work and he

00:41:11.740 needs to be a workaholic. All the people that I know whose marriages haven't worked out, who's from

00:41:21.180 across age brackets, a lot of times it's because there's an apathy. There's a lethargy. There's I don't

00:41:28.460 want to do this. Do I have to do this? Trying to just now you've got to take charge. You've got to

00:41:33.600 take charge. And especially if you want to live in these kind of more traditional roles, then he's got

00:41:39.820 to take charge and get out of the house. And frankly, if he, I don't know, maybe you're 16,

00:41:44.780 in which case that's okay. But assuming that you're not, assuming that your boyfriend isn't in

00:41:49.680 college or something, if he isn't working hard, especially if he's young and even more, especially

00:41:57.800 if he's older, if he isn't working hard and really driven and trying to do that, then to quote our

00:42:03.560 president, he sounds like a loser, total loser. Maybe this will shape him up and he'll go get a job.

00:42:09.160 But otherwise, get out of there. Get out of there, my dear. Run for your life.

00:42:13.280 Okay. I have got to go get ready for Penn. I've got to go put on my body armor to protect against

00:42:18.960 Antifa and things like that. I think we're going to live stream it. So try to tune in if you can find

00:42:24.060 the link anywhere. Otherwise, we'll post bits from it tomorrow or the following day. In the meantime,

00:42:29.620 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. If I survive Antifa tonight at Trump

00:42:34.100 University, I will see you next week.

00:42:35.900 The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire forward publishing production. Executive producer,

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