The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1421 - I Can't Get Ice Spice Out Of My Head

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00:00:37.700 The fight over the Senate's fake border security bill is heating up,

00:00:41.000 with Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer now arguing that U.S. troops will be fighting in Ukraine

00:00:46.500 if Republicans don't open up the southern border and fund a bunch of random wars. 0.98

00:00:53.380 We're at a turning point in America.

00:00:55.240 This bill is crucial, and history will look back on it and say, did America fail itself?

00:01:01.260 Why is it crucial?

00:01:02.580 Well, if we don't aid Ukraine, Putin will walk all over Ukraine.

00:01:08.060 We will lose the war, and we could be fighting in Eastern Europe in a NATO ally in a few years.

00:01:12.940 Americans won't like that.

00:01:14.740 If we don't help Israel defend itself against Hamas, 0.97

00:01:18.180 that perpetual war will go on and on and on.

00:01:21.280 If we don't help humanitarian aid to the starving Palestinians in Gaza,

00:01:26.140 hundreds of thousands could starve.

00:01:28.520 And the border, everyone has said it's chaos.

00:01:31.520 A speaker, you just saw Speaker Johnson, he said it's chaos.

00:01:34.600 We have to do something legislative a few months ago.

00:01:37.520 But what has happened, and answer your question,

00:01:40.560 so this is crucial for America.

00:01:42.140 It's a turning point.

00:01:43.200 History is going to look over our shoulders and say, did we rise to the occasion?

00:01:46.960 Let me distill all that gobbledygook down into one sentence.

00:01:51.040 What Schumer is saying is, open up your border,

00:01:55.060 flood your country with future Democrat voters,

00:01:57.780 and give us money for foreign wars that don't involve vital American interests,

00:02:01.860 or we will send your sons to die in Ukraine. 0.90

00:02:05.680 That's what he's saying.

00:02:07.000 It's not so much a political prediction as it is a threat.

00:02:10.580 They tried.

00:02:11.680 The libs tried simply lying to us.

00:02:14.280 They tried pretending that this bill was a border security measure.

00:02:18.940 Then we found out it wasn't.

00:02:20.740 Most of the funding has nothing to do with the border,

00:02:23.620 and the few little bits of it that do relate to the border

00:02:26.200 actually open rather than close the border.

00:02:29.560 We don't need any legislative solution here.

00:02:32.300 The president and the secretary of Homeland Security could simply enforce the law,

00:02:36.060 and they refuse because they want to keep the border open.

00:02:38.300 That's why they're trying to pass a bill that will open the border even more.

00:02:41.520 So they tried the carrot.

00:02:43.440 That didn't work.

00:02:44.800 Now they're trying to stick, open up the border or we'll send your sons to die.

00:02:49.940 Just the latest proof of something that we've been saying for a long time.

00:02:53.360 You know, I hate to say that I told you so.

00:02:55.360 For the Democrats, open borders and mass migration are priority number one.

00:03:01.140 They see this as the key to permanent political hegemony,

00:03:04.860 and they will not allow something as trivial as pesky voters from keeping it from them.

00:03:11.900 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:12.800 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:13.560 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:34.200 Tucker apparently interviewed Putin.

00:03:36.340 It's kind of crazy.

00:03:37.360 A lot of people are preemptively attacking Tucker for it.

00:03:40.660 We will get to it later on in the show.

00:03:42.700 First, though, we've got to turn our attention away from the Kremlin.

00:03:46.460 We've got to turn our attention away from Ukraine and from the southern border. 0.95

00:03:50.540 We've got to turn it to Ice Spice.

00:03:54.080 Because I had this question.

00:03:55.980 You've got our political leaders just forcing stuff that nobody really wants down our throats,

00:04:01.580 weakening our country, throwing open our borders.

00:04:03.740 And Americans, a lot of them are going along with it. 0.81

00:04:07.020 How did we become so weak?

00:04:08.640 How did we become so servile?

00:04:10.860 And I think Ice Spice actually demonstrates part of the way that happened.

00:04:17.720 She has a new song out.

00:04:18.960 It's called You Ain't the S-H-I-T, parentheses, F-A-R-T. 1.00

00:04:28.980 Miss Spice, take it away. 1.00

00:04:31.200 I think you the s***, bitch. 1.00

00:04:33.040 What?

00:04:33.720 You're not even the f***.

00:04:35.080 I keep going hard.

00:04:37.500 I'm breaking they hearts.

00:04:39.320 Like, what?

00:04:40.440 Bitch be quick, but I'm quicker. 1.00

00:04:42.400 Bitch be thick, but I'm thicker. 1.00

00:04:44.200 She could be rich, but I'm richer.

00:04:47.320 Keep going.

00:04:48.200 Okay, that's all we need, actually.

00:04:50.480 This reminds me of a line from Plato, as the musings of Ice Spice often do.

00:04:57.600 From, I think, I forget exactly which book of Plato's Republic.

00:05:02.720 He writes, quote,

00:05:03.440 Which do you think this does?

00:05:25.460 Alan Bloom, great humanist and a great conservative writer of the 20th century.

00:05:35.060 He, in his book, Closing of the American Mind, had a chapter on how rock music is really bad for you because it arouses the bass passions.

00:05:41.720 And rock music is like Brahms compared to Ice Spice.

00:05:45.860 This is music for animals.

00:05:48.100 The music itself is for animals.

00:05:50.280 Just jiggling around, smacking yourself as Ice Spice is doing.

00:05:55.660 But the lyrics also are for animals.

00:05:57.640 You think you're the S-H-I-T, B-I-T-C-H, but you're not even the F-A-R-T. 1.00

00:06:07.760 You think you're rich, but I'm richer.

00:06:10.280 You think you're quick, but I'm quicker.

00:06:11.920 And it goes on, and it's so disgusting and crass and vulgar.

00:06:15.940 I can't get it out of my head.

00:06:17.480 It's so over the top in its vulgarity that I find it funny, and I actually have texted it to a few people because I can't get over it.

00:06:24.980 But it's very depressing because this is popular music.

00:06:28.660 This isn't just some little track that came out from some unheard of musician on the internet somewhere as a joke.

00:06:35.840 This was debuted at some big Spotify event.

00:06:39.280 This is a woman who's done collaborations with Taylor Swift, other prominent musicians.

00:06:45.740 I'm not as familiar with the Ice Spice oeuvre, but she's a very popular musician.

00:06:52.720 And this is the kind of slop, cultural slop, that goes out there for, I'm sorry to say, we, the increasingly unwashed masses.

00:07:01.760 This is it.

00:07:03.220 And when this is bouncing around your head, well, it's not really bouncing around your head.

00:07:06.480 It's bouncing around your loins.

00:07:07.540 It's bouncing around your lower passions.

00:07:10.300 But what Plato says is true.

00:07:12.240 This surpasses and subverts your reason.

00:07:17.280 So you're not reasoning about this.

00:07:18.600 When you sit and listen to some classical music or Gregorian chant or something, it's much more intellectual.

00:07:23.580 It's much more rational because you're not immediately aroused and bumping and grinding and bouncing and twerking and doing all the stuff that Ice Spice is doing.

00:07:31.100 But this kind of music makes you behave less like a rational soul and more just like an animal.

00:07:37.620 You know, just kind of bouncing around and thinking about bodily functions and fluids and movements.

00:07:44.160 And if we treat ourselves and educate ourselves to be like animals, if this is the kind of stuff that forms our soul, then we're going to be ruled like animals.

00:07:54.640 Then we're going to be ruled like a bunch of pigs and cows and sheep, which is increasingly how our political order works.

00:07:59.980 Now, speaking of our political order, President Biden has just come out and explained a conversation that he had.

00:08:15.240 This was at the beginning of his presidency with French President François Mitterrand, who died in 1996.

00:08:24.300 You know, right after I was elected, I went to what they call a G7 meeting, all the NATO leaders.

00:08:31.780 And it was in the south of England.

00:08:35.100 And I sat down and I said, America's back.

00:08:37.660 And Mitterrand from Germany, I mean, from France, looked at me and said, you know, how long are you back for?

00:08:53.500 And then he said to me, hey, Jack, he said, you want to pass that croissant?

00:09:00.140 I said, I don't have enough butter there, pal.

00:09:01.700 And we were going swimming.

00:09:05.780 We went swimming down there by playing banjo.

00:09:09.240 And we, where am I?

00:09:11.260 This is the sort of stuff that old people do in the final months of their lives. 1.00

00:09:15.320 I'm not intending to pick on Biden particularly or to be all that provocative.

00:09:22.340 Just anyone who's ever had a grandparent decline and die knows that this is the sort of stuff they do.

00:09:27.520 They confuse not just dates, not just, you know, this past Tuesday with two Tuesdays ago.

00:09:33.840 They confuse decades.

00:09:35.560 They confuse people.

00:09:37.180 They confuse figures and epochs.

00:09:39.860 It's not as though Mitterrand in France was the previous president.

00:09:46.680 You know, it was Mitterrand and then it was Emmanuel Macron, who's the current president of France.

00:09:51.160 The guy was president of France in the 80s through the early to mid-90s.

00:09:56.700 And then he died a year after, he left in 1995, he died in 1996.

00:10:01.680 And what does Biden know?

00:10:04.380 It's just like your grandparents.

00:10:07.460 On their way out, they would talk about, you know, Aunt Sally, who died 20 years prior.

00:10:12.680 As though they were just talking to her yesterday.

00:10:15.860 I'm not saying it's the sixth sense.

00:10:17.200 I'm not saying he's actually talking to dead people.

00:10:18.800 But he certainly is confusing whole epochs, whole eras of politics.

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00:11:44.000 Now, shockingly, that man might get another term as president because the establishment

00:11:51.580 is willing to do anything to get rid of Donald Trump.

00:11:54.900 The latest setback for Trump comes from an appeals court, which has just ruled that President

00:11:59.340 Trump does not have presidential immunity from prosecution of alleged criminal acts

00:12:04.580 related to 2020 election interference and blah, blah, blah, insurrection nonsense.

00:12:09.220 This was decided by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

00:12:14.080 This pertains to special counsel Jack Smith's election interference case.

00:12:18.720 So, you know, Biden has sent his goon, Jack Smith, to try to destroy the former president

00:12:23.380 and the leader of the opposition because, especially these days, all the polls are showing

00:12:27.600 that Donald Trump would beat Joe Biden, especially in the swing states.

00:12:30.580 So Biden's got to get rid of him.

00:12:32.300 And Trump has argued, hey, man, I was the president.

00:12:35.600 I've got some immunity here.

00:12:36.620 You can't just go after your political opponents like we're a tinpot banana republic dictatorship.

00:12:42.520 And the U.S. Court of Appeals says, yes, we can, actually.

00:12:45.420 And we are going to do that specifically to you, Donald Trump.

00:12:48.580 So the Trump team will certainly appeal this to the Supreme Court.

00:12:52.360 And there are two things I'm certain of when that appeal goes up to the Supreme Court.

00:12:56.440 The two things I'm certain of are that the Supreme Court will want nothing to do with this.

00:13:01.100 The Supreme Court does not want to decide this case.

00:13:04.440 And the second thing that I'm quite confident of is that the Supreme Court will not be able to avoid it.

00:13:11.220 I got to meet Antonin Scalia when he was alive, obviously.

00:13:14.980 I'm not like Joe Biden.

00:13:15.880 I don't talk to dead people.

00:13:17.180 And I met him twice when I was a student.

00:13:20.940 And on at least one occasion, maybe both times, Bush v.

00:13:24.280 Gore came up when the Supreme Court in 2000 decided the presidential election.

00:13:28.140 And he said, are you people still complaining about this?

00:13:32.720 Enough about this.

00:13:33.780 You think that the Supreme Court wanted to decide the 2000 election?

00:13:36.800 We didn't want any part of it, okay?

00:13:38.620 But no one would decide it.

00:13:40.780 So we became a mockery, the United States.

00:13:43.400 We couldn't conduct a presidential election.

00:13:45.560 We're supposed to be the greatest democracy in the world.

00:13:47.220 And so because the legislature wouldn't deal with it and the states couldn't deal with it, the Supreme Court had to deal with it.

00:13:52.460 And we ruled the way we ruled and get over it.

00:13:54.200 But they didn't want to.

00:13:55.120 And I'm sure they don't want to now.

00:13:56.540 But likewise, I'm equally confident they won't be able to avoid it.

00:14:00.100 Because if the Supreme Court declines to hear this case, then the Supreme Court is getting involved.

00:14:04.900 If the Supreme Court wants to hear the case, the court's getting involved.

00:14:08.820 But if they don't hear the case and they uphold the appellate decision, then that's the very same.

00:14:13.960 It's the Supreme Court saying, in America today, you can prosecute the leader of the opposition.

00:14:20.960 In America today, we're going to become a tin pot dictatorship.

00:14:24.460 Go for it.

00:14:24.780 It would be a stamp of approval to Joe Biden and to all of the Democrats who have been trying to stymie President Trump, even from running, since 2015.

00:14:35.180 So they can't avoid it.

00:14:36.520 The question is not, will they rule on this one way or the other?

00:14:40.260 They'll rule either by their silence or in a formal opinion.

00:14:44.440 The only question is, how are they going to decide?

00:14:47.320 Now, speaking of removing people from office, there is an effort underway to remove DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who is the figurehead of this open border crisis.

00:14:57.760 And some Republicans want to impeach him.

00:14:59.740 And the very principled, reasonable, moderate Republicans are saying that this is a bad idea.

00:15:08.100 They're saying that Mayorkas might be terrible, you see, but he has not committed an impeachable offense.

00:15:15.000 And therefore, because I'm a very principled conservative, I'm not going to become like those Democrats, you see.

00:15:22.640 I'm not going to actually wield any political power or threaten the liberal establishment.

00:15:27.540 No, no, no.

00:15:28.340 I'm just going to lose with dignity.

00:15:30.700 Yes, that's right.

00:15:31.840 Follow me on the Bill Kristol podcast next week.

00:15:34.400 And it's just all completely ridiculous.

00:15:35.820 Regardless, there is a very, very good legal argument for impeaching DHS Secretary Mayorkas.

00:15:44.160 Very good argument.

00:15:45.560 There's an even better historical argument for impeaching Mayorkas. 1.00

00:15:49.240 And there is an ironclad political argument.

00:15:53.200 The Heritage Foundation actually has a good piece on this.

00:15:54.940 I encourage you to read the whole thing.

00:15:57.200 Mayorkas feigns ignorance. 0.92

00:15:58.780 He says, quote, it's very difficult to make sense of it.

00:16:02.760 It's very difficult.

00:16:03.680 So I don't try to make sense of it.

00:16:05.120 I'm doing my work.

00:16:06.380 I'm doing my work and making sure it doesn't distract me from it.

00:16:11.560 You're emphatically not doing your work.

00:16:13.760 Your work is to secure the border.

00:16:17.300 You are not only failing to do that, you are intentionally not doing that.

00:16:22.260 You're shirking your responsibilities.

00:16:26.380 So what's the legal background here?

00:16:28.720 To impeach someone, they need to have committed treason or high crimes and misdemeanors.

00:16:37.160 Other high crimes and misdemeanors.

00:16:38.300 So does this count?

00:16:39.860 Well, it would seem to count.

00:16:41.600 You know, there's only been one cabinet secretary who's ever been impeached in American history.

00:16:48.560 This was Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876.

00:16:53.280 And what was he impeached for?

00:16:54.900 Among the charges included were that he, quote, disregarded his duty as Secretary of War.

00:17:01.880 So you're not supposed to impeach someone for maladministration, just for being kind of incompetent.

00:17:08.960 But historically speaking, now we're going back 150 years.

00:17:12.780 The one time this has happened, the one precedent we have, is that a cabinet secretary was impeached for actively disregarding his duty in his cabinet position.

00:17:23.660 Furthermore, the House Judiciary Committee outlined about 50 years ago when impeachment is proper.

00:17:30.900 And impeachment, according to them, is proper when an official exceeds the powers of his office.

00:17:36.500 Or behaves in a manner grossly incompatible with the proper functions and purpose of his office.

00:17:40.500 Or employs the power of his office for an improper purpose.

00:17:44.480 So even according to that, the 1970s, surely the, and that was obviously a Democrat House, surely Mayorkas qualifies.

00:17:55.240 He is abusing his power.

00:17:58.880 His behavior is grossly incompatible with the proper functions of his office.

00:18:02.320 The function of his office is to secure the border.

00:18:04.820 That's largely his job.

00:18:06.820 And he's not doing it.

00:18:07.860 He's intentionally not doing it.

00:18:09.160 He is abusing his power by releasing these illegals into the interior of the country. 1.00

00:18:14.140 He's certainly exceeding the powers of his office.

00:18:16.180 And he's seeking to imply the powers of his office for an improper purpose.

00:18:19.560 Flood the country with foreigners. 1.00

00:18:21.560 Checks every box.

00:18:22.960 And then, then you get to, that's the legal and the historical basis.

00:18:26.740 But then you get to the political basis.

00:18:28.720 We now use, now we, the Democrats, now use impeachment in this country as just a kind of a referendum on leaders that they don't like.

00:18:35.980 They impeached Donald Trump twice, but the first time they impeached him in 2019, they impeached him for acting, quote,

00:18:42.860 in a manner contrary to his trust as president and subversive of constitutional government to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

00:18:53.260 Now, that is so absurdly broad, especially when we're talking about impeaching a president of the United States.

00:18:58.640 It's ridiculous.

00:18:59.280 It was ridiculous then.

00:19:00.360 But if that's the new precedent, can anyone, could Chuck Schumer even argue, could Mayorkas himself argue that he has not done that, that he's not acting in a manner contrary to his trust as the secretary of Homeland Security and subversive to constitutional government?

00:19:15.720 And he's intentionally breaking the law and encouraging hundreds of thousands, millions of people to break the law as well.

00:19:22.400 Basic laws like who gets to come into the country. 0.98

00:19:25.980 Impeach Mayorkas. 1.00

00:19:27.080 There's no real argument against this.

00:19:29.500 Good legal case, stronger historical case, airtight political case.

00:19:33.220 And yet there are two Republican congressmen who don't want to do it.

00:19:37.780 Tom McClintock and Ken Buck.

00:19:40.220 Tom McClintock says, quote, the only way to stop the border invasion is to replace the Biden administration at the ballot box.

00:19:47.560 Swapping one leftist for another is a fantasy, solves nothing, excuses Biden's culpability, and unconstitutionally expands impeachment that someday will bite Republicans.

00:19:55.400 So this is the classic squish argument. 0.87

00:19:58.980 Look, I'm sympathetic to Tom McClintock.

00:20:01.000 I don't want to unfairly malign him, but he's just flat wrong here.

00:20:04.920 This is the worst refrain of the squishes.

00:20:10.220 And they say, well, listen, if we in any way push back against Democrat injustice today, then hypothetically in the future, they might do it to us, even though they're already doing it.

00:20:25.260 And they've been doing it for years.

00:20:26.360 If we fight back at all, they, the Democrats in the future, might continue to do the very thing that they are doing to us right now.

00:20:34.500 Can you imagine?

00:20:35.720 Boy, that's sure scary, isn't it?

00:20:39.880 Well, it's scary that it's happening now.

00:20:42.560 It's not a hypothetical, and I wish we would do anything about it.

00:20:46.280 He says it unconstitutionally expands impeachment.

00:20:48.420 I agree, I wish impeachment were narrower than it is, but it's not unconstitutional.

00:20:53.660 It's not a historical.

00:20:55.560 It's not illegal.

00:20:57.360 It's not, no, it's just, it satisfies all of those criteria.

00:21:03.280 Historical, legal, politically wise, you got to do it.

00:21:06.900 The other one's Ken Buck.

00:21:08.460 He's retiring, and he's also come out against the impeachment efforts.

00:21:13.120 Unfortunate.

00:21:13.760 I hope we can flip McClintock back, because there are only three Republicans that determine the House majority.

00:21:21.040 It's not like this is some 20-member majority.

00:21:23.460 It's a three-vote majority.

00:21:25.380 So you lose two of them, okay, well, now you lose one more, and it's over.

00:21:29.220 And the Democrats are very good at unifying.

00:21:32.280 The Republicans are very bad at unifying.

00:21:33.860 But if we can't unify to take a vote that is largely symbolic, that is totally justified by history and politics and law to stop the issue of our time, the defining political issue of our time, that is mass migration, the complete blowing up of our borders, and an invasion from foreign countries. 0.72

00:21:56.340 If we can't do that, what's the GOP good for?

00:21:59.200 What are we going to do?

00:22:00.380 We're going to cut taxes a little bit more, maybe in the future or something.

00:22:03.280 Okay, what are we going to do?

00:22:05.140 What's the GOP going to do?

00:22:06.220 Build violins that we can fiddle while the country burns?

00:22:08.800 Okay, fine.

00:22:11.140 Guys, if the Republican Party can't unify on, hey, maybe let's stop the mass invasion that Democrats are using to create a permanent electoral majority, then just wrap it up, man.

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00:25:03.200 There are still a lot of centrists in the GOP.

00:25:06.020 That's how Tom McClintock and Ken Buck can come out against impeaching Mayorkas.

00:25:11.120 That is how one of the two remaining presidential candidates in the GOP primary can endorse this

00:25:19.220 horrific Senate open border bill.

00:25:23.340 Which one is endorsing it?

00:25:24.720 Obviously, it's not Donald Trump.

00:25:26.000 That would be Nikki Haley.

00:25:27.660 The one part I like about this bill is I like that it strengthens the asylum requirements.

00:25:35.220 That's very important.

00:25:36.340 We haven't had that, and we need that.

00:25:37.900 The part that I don't like about the bill, it doesn't require a remain in Mexico, which

00:25:42.020 is very important at keeping them from coming on U.S. soil in the first place. 0.93

00:25:47.260 And I don't like the 5,000 limit.

00:25:49.660 We don't want anybody to come in.

00:25:51.640 We can't say only when 5,000 people have crossed the border.

00:25:54.580 They need to stay there.

00:25:56.100 They need to figure this out.

00:25:57.480 They need to adjust it, amend it in any way that they can.

00:26:00.920 And they should not leave D.C. until they get us a border bill.

00:26:05.200 And no, we are not waiting until the general election to do this.

00:26:09.200 And it's irresponsible to say that Congress has to wait until a general election because

00:26:14.020 Trump is worried that he's going to lose.

00:26:16.380 There's a lot of reasons we got to worry Trump's going to lose.

00:26:19.060 But you don't sacrifice national security to do it.

00:26:22.720 Okay.

00:26:23.120 Anyway, I have a disagreement sandwich with Governor Haley here, which is, I agree with

00:26:28.760 the part you said in the middle, which is, yeah, 5,000 is way too many.

00:26:32.080 We don't want anyone.

00:26:32.900 We want to stop it.

00:26:33.800 We don't want any illegal aliens coming across the border. 1.00

00:26:36.760 I disagree with the first part.

00:26:37.840 She says this strengthens the asylum requirements.

00:26:41.840 I don't think it does.

00:26:43.280 I mean, I'm not calling Nikki Haley a liar.

00:26:45.540 I just think the bill is very dishonest.

00:26:47.300 And it says lots of things that are very deceptive.

00:26:50.820 And one of the things that it does is it empowers the Secretary of Homeland Security to unleash

00:26:57.620 a ton more people into the country based on rather dubious asylum claims.

00:27:02.380 And so I just don't buy that part at all.

00:27:04.820 And then I really disagree with that third part, which is when Nikki says that we need

00:27:10.640 a legislative solution.

00:27:11.700 We have a legislative solution already.

00:27:14.060 We've had it on the books for a long time.

00:27:15.800 It's current immigration law.

00:27:19.200 The reason there is a crisis is because the Biden administration refuses to enforce the

00:27:23.700 law that is already on the books.

00:27:25.180 This is why this Senate deal, this big compromise, was a joke from the start.

00:27:30.460 The Democrats are obviously not negotiating in good faith.

00:27:33.480 They're currently violating the law.

00:27:35.360 And so what do we think?

00:27:36.600 We're going to pass a new law, and then magically that's the one they're going to enforce?

00:27:39.420 They're not going to enforce any of them.

00:27:40.740 They want open borders.

00:27:41.660 And so they're going to enforce the provisions of this so-called border security bill that

00:27:47.480 further open the border.

00:27:48.720 I'm sure they're going to gleefully implement those, but they're not going to implement any

00:27:53.320 more border security measures.

00:27:54.860 Democrats have been playing this game on us since the 1980s, really since the 1960s.

00:27:59.340 But certainly since the Reagan administration, they've said, okay, give us some more illegal

00:28:05.420 aliens that we can turn into voters, and we'll give you more border security. 0.99

00:28:08.680 And every single time they promise it, we give them amnesty.

00:28:13.000 We give them more voters.

00:28:14.660 We give them more foreign nationals in the country.

00:28:16.880 And they don't give us any more security.

00:28:18.640 So I just think it's either woefully naive of Nikki here, or she's courting a position

00:28:27.940 that is in favor of more migration.

00:28:30.060 Now, I trust her on the second part.

00:28:31.780 I think she's being sincere that she wants less illegal migration.

00:28:34.500 Well, then you can't support this bill.

00:28:36.140 Just absolutely crazy to support this bill.

00:28:38.460 Now, Nikki is more inclined to intervene overseas. 1.00

00:28:41.840 And Chuck Schumer wisely tied the open borders parts of this bill to funding for the wars

00:28:48.560 that they want to be fighting.

00:28:49.640 So, you know, I'm not surprised that Nikki, who's a little more hawkish than some of the

00:28:54.240 other GOP, would be inclined to vote for that.

00:28:56.820 But the whole premise, I think, is just false.

00:28:59.460 We don't need any new legislative solution.

00:29:01.940 We need to enforce the old legislative solution, which the Democrats won't do, which proves that

00:29:06.100 they're not going to enforce the new one either.

00:29:08.440 What a joke.

00:29:09.480 Now, as for Nikki's position here, I think it's politically very smart.

00:29:14.440 I think it's really smart.

00:29:15.800 I think it had the DeSantis campaign been wiser, they would have recognized the fact that Nikki

00:29:23.000 Haley recognized early on, which is there's only one other lane in this race.

00:29:28.220 You got Trump, and he's running in the Trump lane.

00:29:30.280 So the only lane that the Trump opponent can run in is the anti-Trump lane.

00:29:34.280 And to be in the anti-Trump lane, you're going to have to attract the support of the moderates,

00:29:38.300 the centrists, the never-Trumpers, some Democrats who have become disillusioned,

00:29:43.080 and Chamber of Commerce, the GOP establishment.

00:29:46.020 That's it.

00:29:46.760 You know, it's no knock whatsoever on Nikki Haley.

00:29:50.120 That's her lane, and she's running in it. 1.00

00:29:52.460 But I don't see how that lane takes you the distance.

00:29:56.080 It makes you a really strong—well, not even that really strong.

00:29:59.080 It makes you the number two.

00:30:00.400 It makes you very clearly the number two.

00:30:01.900 But I don't think it takes you all the way to the nomination.

00:30:05.800 What's amazing here is you've got—the two GOP presidential candidates are on opposite sides of this bill.

00:30:11.720 Trump actively calling senators to kill it.

00:30:13.940 According to reports, Nikki Haley supporting it or supporting some version of it.

00:30:18.780 And then you got RFK Jr., a Kennedy who was running as a Democrat.

00:30:22.780 Then he realized the Democrats were obviously going to cheat him.

00:30:24.920 So now he's running as an independent, but he's a lifelong liberal.

00:30:28.180 He just came out against the bill.

00:30:29.520 Bobby Kennedy Jr. said,

00:30:32.300 The new Senate bill is a disaster.

00:30:34.560 We've already spent $113 billion on this proxy war in Ukraine, requesting an additional $60 billion when we have so many problems at home, including inflation and the border crisis is reckless.

00:30:42.060 No more money for Ukraine until we have a secure border, a booming economy, and pay off some of our $34 trillion of debt.

00:30:48.300 This is a consensus issue.

00:30:50.860 America doesn't want to continue fighting this war in Ukraine.

00:30:53.460 There's no strategic vision here.

00:30:55.620 It's unclear to most Americans what we get out of it.

00:30:58.580 Most Americans are not all that gung-ho on the expansion of NATO.

00:31:02.700 And it's not just because they're knee-jerk, rube-idiot isolationists or whatever we hear from the establishment.

00:31:08.680 That's also the opinion of Henry Kissinger, of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, of George Zimmerman, who wrote the Long Telegram, of—who was the other one?

00:31:19.460 Sam Nunn, of all these great cold warriors, okay?

00:31:23.580 And it's the opinion of most Americans, too, even Democrats, even people like Bobby Kennedy.

00:31:31.520 Same thing goes for mass migration.

00:31:32.840 Most Americans don't want more migration, okay?

00:31:35.500 Most Americans certainly don't want more illegal immigration.

00:31:39.620 But when you look into polling on even legal migration, most Americans think we have too much legal migration.

00:31:45.380 When you actually get down to the nitty-gritty of numbers, it's too much.

00:31:48.800 We've got too many people coming in.

00:31:50.420 We've got to cut it out.

00:31:51.200 We don't assimilate them.

00:31:53.360 That's how it goes.

00:31:54.400 Now, we'll see, therefore, on this issue, who's going to win.

00:31:57.360 It's not going to be who's going to win, the Republicans or the Democrats.

00:31:59.420 It's going to be who will win, the people or the minority of political elites.

00:32:04.760 And that question remains open.

00:32:07.280 Now, speaking of critics of the medical establishment, such as Bobby Kennedy Jr.,

00:32:12.560 this is probably my favorite story of the whole day.

00:32:15.760 HHS, not DHS, not the Homeland Security Department, but the Health and Human Services Department,

00:32:22.220 was just asked to produce the evidence that it has that transgender-affirming care

00:32:29.020 is helpful and important to the so-called transgender youth.

00:32:33.440 A FOIA request was filed by Protect the Public's Trust,

00:32:38.740 asking for records of scientific evidence, studies, and or data

00:32:41.320 to support the Assistant Secretary of Health's claim

00:32:43.760 that gender-affirming care is medically necessary, safe, and effective

00:32:47.020 for trans and non-binary youth,

00:32:49.740 as well as for records of surveys of medical professionals

00:32:52.960 regarding the value and importance of gender-affirming care for minor children.

00:32:56.120 This has been a major policy initiative of the Biden administration.

00:33:02.020 The Assistant Secretary of Health is a dude who thinks he's a woman himself,

00:33:06.000 and they continue to talk about the importance, Biden and the rest of the administration,

00:33:11.680 of transing the kids. 0.57

00:33:13.580 So, okay, very simple question.

00:33:15.740 Show us the evidence.

00:33:16.840 Show us on what scientific basis you are pushing to castrate little kids,

00:33:23.020 make them sterile, give them bone problems, shorten their lifespan.

00:33:26.440 What's the basis for this?

00:33:28.900 And you know what they produced?

00:33:32.680 Two pages.

00:33:34.360 One document comprising two pages that, by the way, was not a scientific study,

00:33:41.700 was not a scientific survey, was a brochure.

00:33:46.860 That's the best they can do.

00:33:48.340 The PDF is called Gender-Affirming Care and Young People.

00:33:54.160 It's from the HHS website.

00:33:56.300 It's not a study.

00:33:57.860 And the brochure declares, quote,

00:33:59.380 research demonstrates that gender-affirming care improves the mental health

00:34:03.000 and overall well-being of gender-diverse children.

00:34:06.700 What do they base that on?

00:34:08.080 Jack Diddley Squat, pretty much.

00:34:09.720 The only citation given for this statement is a footnote to a single study

00:34:15.580 that showed that trans-identifying youths were maybe possibly slightly less suicidal

00:34:23.800 when they were being pumped full of the hormones and going under these treatments

00:34:27.600 than they were before that.

00:34:30.500 But only slightly.

00:34:33.540 Most of these youths who were receiving the so-called medically necessary gender-affirming care,

00:34:38.780 most of them, 51%, were suicidal while they were receiving the treatment.

00:34:45.060 Compared to the group, and we're talking about a relatively small group,

00:34:48.060 the group that wasn't receiving the treatment, 62%, were suicidal.

00:34:53.960 That's it.

00:34:55.100 You're most likely to be suicidal either way,

00:34:58.420 but we've got a two-page brochure here that cites one sort of scientific study.

00:35:05.120 And anyway, that's why we're going to chop your genitals off, kiddies. 1.00

00:35:07.800 Does that make sense?

00:35:09.720 Does that make sense to you?

00:35:10.900 They've got nothing.

00:35:13.340 Of course.

00:35:14.680 Of course they've got nothing.

00:35:15.940 When I was on the Whatever podcast in Santa Barbara last week,

00:35:19.760 one of the gals on one of the shows I did asked me,

00:35:24.560 she said,

00:35:24.980 Michael, if you found out that the transgender therapy was beneficial to people,

00:35:32.160 would that change your view about the truth of transgenderism?

00:35:34.800 Because I had made the claim that truth, beauty, and goodness are related.

00:35:39.760 This is a concept known as the transcendentals of being.

00:35:43.320 You know, we seek after the good, the true, and the beautiful,

00:35:45.780 and we believe that the good, the true, and the beautiful have something to do with one another.

00:35:49.320 They're not just totally isolated from one another.

00:35:51.300 And she said,

00:35:52.820 So, Michael, what if you found out that the trans-affirming surgeries were beneficial?

00:35:59.200 Would you then say that transgenderism is true, 1.00

00:36:02.220 or would you say that goodness and truth have nothing to do with each other?

00:36:05.700 And my response was,

00:36:06.900 I'm pretty confident that the science will never show that this stuff is beneficial.

00:36:11.160 She said,

00:36:11.500 No, no, but Michael, it's a thought experiment.

00:36:13.060 It's a hypothetical.

00:36:13.580 I said,

00:36:13.960 I know, and I appreciate your thought experiment in hypothetical,

00:36:16.960 but you're asking me if I found out that 2 plus 2 really equals 17,

00:36:23.580 would that change my view of mathematics?

00:36:25.500 Yeah, I guess it would, but I won't find that out.

00:36:28.940 I'm quite confident I won't find that out,

00:36:31.320 because I'm quite confident that men can't really be women, 0.98

00:36:34.620 because I'm quite confident that the soul and the body can't be totally separated and distinct in this life,

00:36:40.980 because I'm pretty confident that on this basic question of human nature,

00:36:45.620 what we have always thought is true,

00:36:48.780 and what a couple of new-agey quacks, perverts, seem to think today is false.

00:36:55.540 I'm confident.

00:36:56.380 I'd be willing to bet a lot on that.

00:36:58.900 And I would appear to be right,

00:37:00.460 because the federal government has gone out on a limb.

00:37:03.620 They want to cut off a lot of limbs,

00:37:05.300 but they've gone out on another limb in this case,

00:37:08.580 and they have said, we, the federal government, totally support transing the kids

00:37:12.980 because of all the medical literature.

00:37:15.360 And we said to the medical scientific department of the federal government,

00:37:20.680 we said, okay, give us your evidence.

00:37:23.800 And they had pretty much nothing.

00:37:27.540 If there were some evidence to have,

00:37:30.320 they would have it, and they would include it,

00:37:32.600 but they don't, because transgenderism is totally false.

00:37:36.540 Transing the kids is a horrible idea. 1.00

00:37:38.760 Transgenderism is false. 1.00

00:37:40.060 And that is why, for the good of society,

00:37:41.320 and especially for the good of the poor people who've fallen prey to that confusion,

00:37:43.900 the entire transgender ideology must be eradicated from public life entirely. 1.00

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00:39:10.860 My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop Norm's Music.

00:39:13.680 Did I pick the Drummer's Workshop Norm's Music

00:39:16.240 for my favorite comment yesterday as well?

00:39:18.740 Is that two days in a row?

00:39:19.800 Very impressive.

00:39:21.320 Comment is,

00:39:21.980 remember Target,

00:39:24.440 Du Bois can't be DeGurls. 0.95

00:39:28.420 He's, for Black History Month, 0.92

00:39:30.040 Target apparently confused W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington.

00:39:33.880 Du Bois can't be DeGurls. 0.95

00:39:38.280 Do you get it?

00:39:39.700 Do you get it?

00:39:40.200 I get it.

00:39:40.660 It's very funny.

00:39:41.080 Now, speaking of medical experts,

00:39:45.440 this has been a day,

00:39:47.240 it's been a day of laughing

00:39:51.020 and a day of weird sex stuff.

00:39:53.940 And those two things are related.

00:39:55.560 We can laugh or we can cry.

00:39:56.660 I laugh at the Ice Spice song.

00:39:59.620 I laugh at this article.

00:40:01.320 I laughed.

00:40:03.240 I'm laughing out loud right now.

00:40:04.760 Ha ha ha.

00:40:05.140 This is from NPR.

00:40:08.220 Headline.

00:40:09.420 I can't.

00:40:12.360 Headline.

00:40:13.980 Masturbation abstinence is popular online.

00:40:18.160 Doctors and therapists are worried.

00:40:22.220 Men are not being total wankers all the time.

00:40:26.920 Oh, uh-oh.

00:40:29.440 That's no good.

00:40:31.120 They're not.

00:40:31.760 Men are not being total weirdo creep demoralized losers.

00:40:37.400 That's not good for us in the liberal establishment.

00:40:40.420 Here are some highlights.

00:40:41.380 A very, very long piece.

00:40:43.060 NPR is very concerned that men are not committing a shameful and degrading action.

00:40:50.000 Here's a highlight.

00:40:51.540 Derek doesn't look at NoFap content anymore.

00:40:55.060 NoFap is apparently a website that encourages men to not do gross degrading things to themselves.

00:41:00.780 And he feels comfortable with the amount of porn he watches.

00:41:05.360 More recently, he got off his ADHD medication.

00:41:07.440 He realized it had been causing his erectile dysfunction.

00:41:09.860 Not pornography.

00:41:11.140 The pornography was totally fine.

00:41:13.320 How dare you besmirch our exalted pornography.

00:41:17.540 Now 24, he looks back at his time with these ideas and wishes he hadn't spent so much of high school stressed out about masturbation.

00:41:24.820 And, you know, someday, according to NPR, according to the liberals, someday, you're going to be on your deathbed.

00:41:31.820 You're going to be looking into the eyes of your grandchildren.

00:41:34.460 Well, you probably won't have grandchildren because you're a total sterile wanker. 0.99

00:41:37.320 But if you did, you'd be thinking about your grandchildren and your potential grandchildren.

00:41:40.840 And you'd be looking back on your life and you'd say, you know, if there's one thing I wish, it's that I had masturbated more.

00:41:48.160 You know, I just, if only, ah, all those years I spent, you know, reading books, working at soup kitchens, spending time with my family.

00:41:59.980 What a waste.

00:42:00.780 I could have been looking at porn and pleasuring myself.

00:42:03.840 Oh, such regret that I feel.

00:42:07.500 NPR goes on.

00:42:09.360 I see many people in nofap spaces believe they're addicted to porn.

00:42:13.200 But the word addiction means different things to different people.

00:42:16.820 Okay, we live in a world where we deny the moral significance of all sorts of bad actions, right?

00:42:25.620 Everything's an addiction now.

00:42:27.880 Oh, you can't blame me.

00:42:29.160 Hey, I've got an addiction to this drug or to this alcohol or to this food or I've got sex addiction or work addiction.

00:42:37.120 Everything's an addiction.

00:42:38.380 Every vice is pathologized.

00:42:40.880 Except for looking at porn and doing weird sex stuff by yourself.

00:42:43.880 That's not, no, well, hold on here.

00:42:46.560 We need, I think we need to be a little bit more specific here.

00:42:49.380 There is no official porn addiction diagnosis in the United States.

00:42:52.400 It's a condition called hypersexuality, which included a subsection for pornography, was considered and rejected by the psychiatrists who compile the influential diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

00:43:04.140 There's no, porn's great.

00:43:06.600 The DSM, which in recent years has downplayed the fact that if you're a dude who thinks he's a chick, you're obviously a lunatic.

00:43:15.140 The DSM, which of course always included that, has recently tried to downplay it a little bit.

00:43:21.280 The DSM, which has taken out all sorts of other sexual deviances in recent years because of political correctness.

00:43:29.080 Now they're saying, no, no, porn, man, all these psychologists, they say porn's totally awesome.

00:43:35.120 As an adult, unlearning much of what Derek took in from masturbation abstinence forums has been a long process, sometimes even bringing him to tears.

00:43:44.300 He's not angry, but thinking back, he just wants kids like he was to be cautious about whom they trust.

00:43:50.640 I could have been happy during that time rather than stressed out and anxious.

00:43:53.760 Yeah, trust us.

00:43:55.100 Trust us, the liberals who are encouraging you to be a fat loaf, to do a bunch of drugs, to watch porn all day long, and then to cut your genitals off the moment that the porn convinces you you're the opposite sex.

00:44:11.040 Trust us.

00:44:12.240 Trust us as kids.

00:44:13.520 Hey, come on out to the NPR van in the parking lot.

00:44:17.920 We got cookies and puppies out there and a lot of porn, too.

00:44:21.200 Oh, man.

00:44:22.380 This is, the Babylon Bee could have written this article.

00:44:26.360 It would have been indistinguishable from the actual article published on NPR.

00:44:31.320 The main takeaway from which is, they want you to be a wanker.

00:44:37.660 They want you to be sterile.

00:44:39.680 They don't want you to have kids.

00:44:41.320 They don't want you to be productive.

00:44:42.620 They don't want you to be virile at all.

00:44:44.980 They don't want you to be in control of yourself.

00:44:47.580 That's ultimately what it comes down to.

00:44:49.240 They want you to be totally enslaved to your low passions, your appetites.

00:44:54.140 They want you to be hooked on porn and drugs and everything else.

00:44:56.920 They don't want you to be in possession of your rational will.

00:44:59.680 Because then, if you are, they can't control you.

00:45:02.960 And what they want to do is control you.

00:45:04.880 That's the way it goes.

00:45:05.940 Now, Tucker Carlson is in Moscow.

00:45:10.480 That's kind of weird.

00:45:11.660 There was some chatter about this.

00:45:12.900 I didn't mention it on the show yesterday because it was still a little bit unclear.

00:45:17.400 Tucker has now confirmed it.

00:45:18.800 He flew to Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin.

00:45:21.740 We're in Moscow tonight.

00:45:23.280 We're here to interview the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin.

00:45:26.260 We'll be doing that soon.

00:45:27.380 Almost three years ago, the Biden administration illegally spied on our text messages

00:45:32.100 and then leaked the contents to their servants in the news media.

00:45:35.180 They did this in order to stop a Putin interview that we were planning.

00:45:38.620 Last month, we're pretty certain they did exactly the same thing once again.

00:45:42.540 But this time, we came to Moscow anyway.

00:45:45.920 We are not here because we love Vladimir Putin.

00:45:48.900 We are here because we love the United States.

00:45:51.700 And we want to remain prosperous and free.

00:45:55.780 I can't wait to watch it.

00:45:57.420 Tucker is already being preemptively criticized for the interview.

00:46:02.100 Already, there are political cartoons about how he's a Putin puppet and a Putin stooge and whatever.

00:46:07.040 But I don't really see why we would preemptively attack him for even conducting the interview.

00:46:13.840 Plenty of American journalists have interviewed Vladimir Putin.

00:46:16.360 He's not the first one to do it.

00:46:18.160 I think Megyn Kelly interviewed Vladimir Putin.

00:46:20.160 Barbara Walters interviewed Vladimir Putin.

00:46:23.200 Plenty of people have done it over the years.

00:46:24.600 Now, in the past, the United States was trying to have some sort of rapprochement with Putin.

00:46:31.240 They were trying to encourage Putin to liberalize.

00:46:34.160 They were – and I guess now we're not doing that.

00:46:39.000 I guess now we're saying Putin is the worst guy ever and they're calling him Hitler 2.0 and whatever.

00:46:42.540 So, I understand why the liberal establishment doesn't want any more interviews with Vladimir Putin.

00:46:48.060 But that's not good enough for me.

00:46:49.560 The liberal establishment is wrong about a ton of stuff.

00:46:51.220 So, I just – I'm not going into the interview thinking Tucker did a great job or just as he says, I love Vladimir Putin or I don't know.

00:46:59.140 I don't know if the interview is going to be good or bad.

00:47:01.760 I don't have any particular sympathy for Vladimir Putin.

00:47:05.400 But I do know that the liberal establishment lies to me all the time.

00:47:10.800 So, I'll keep an open mind.

00:47:14.300 I'll be listening.

00:47:15.460 Isn't it – aren't the liberals the ones who always tell us, knowledge is power, man.

00:47:19.540 Keep an open mind.

00:47:20.760 Collect all the information.

00:47:22.800 We can't suppress it.

00:47:24.000 But then the moment you've got a major world leader who's been a world leader for 20-plus years now, we can't listen to him?

00:47:30.900 No, it seems kind of crazy to me.

00:47:32.920 Along with the federal government spying on a journalist's text messages and the current leader of the opposition's text messages, Donald Trump, and then trying to throw him in prison?

00:47:41.240 I don't know.

00:47:43.180 I'm sure Putin has done all sorts of terrible things, just like Xi Jinping has done all sorts of terrible things.

00:47:47.760 But as our government becomes increasingly tyrannical and irrational, I'm certainly interested in hearing from non-official, non-liberal establishment-approved sources.

00:48:01.260 All right, that's our show.

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00:48:05.920 I've got to run out very quickly.

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00:48:15.640 I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 07, 2024

Ep. 1421 - I Can't Get Ice Spice Out Of My Head

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