The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1437 - DANGEROUS： Rural White People Are Terrorist To The Libs

00:00:00.000 New threat to democracy just dropped, according to the left. Can you guess what it is?

00:00:04.920 If you've been paying attention to liberal politics for even five seconds over the last

00:00:10.060 60 or so years, this should be an easy one. You got your guess? You know the big threat

00:00:17.040 to democracy? All right, MSNBC, take it away. Why are white rural voters a threat to democracy 0.99

00:00:24.440 at this point? You would think, as we pointed out, looking at Joe Biden's background and Donald

00:00:29.360 Trump said that the opposite would be true. I mean, we lay out the fourfold interconnected

00:00:34.760 threat that white rural voters pose to the country. First of all, and we show 30 polls 0.99

00:00:39.540 and national studies to demonstrate this. We provide the receipts in Chapter 6. They're the

00:00:43.540 most racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay geodemographic group in the country. Second, 1.00

00:00:49.600 they're the most conspiracist group. QAnon support and subscribers, election denialism,

00:00:54.120 COVID denialism, and scientific skepticism, Obama birtherism. Third, anti-democratic sentiments.

00:01:00.640 They don't believe in an independent press, free speech. They're most likely to say the president

00:01:04.300 should be able to act unilaterally without any checks from Congress or the courts or their

00:01:08.300 bureaucracy. They're also the most strongly white nationalists and white Christian nationalists.

00:01:13.140 And fourth, they are most likely to excuse or justify violence as an acceptable alternative to

00:01:18.440 peaceful public discourse. So you mentioned a lot of negative factors about this demographic.

00:01:25.260 A lot of negative factors. Basically, none of them true. They're the most science-denying people.

00:01:30.760 What are you talking about? The liberals believe that men can become women.

00:01:33.920 Science is the white rural voters are the science deniers. They're the most in favor of censorship. 0.74

00:01:38.900 The Biden White House is working, and frankly, even the liberal Washington bureaucracy before Joe

00:01:45.340 Biden gets in, is working with the liberal big tech companies to censor who? To censor the liberals?

00:01:50.760 No, to censor the white rural voters. Are you kidding me? Nobody seriously believes that white 0.99

00:01:54.800 rural voters pose the gravest threat of violence. According to every statistic we've got, whites are 1.00

00:02:00.080 significantly less likely than blacks and Hispanics to commit violent crime. And cities are twice as 0.93

00:02:06.080 violent as rural areas, not just in the aggregate, but per capita. So when we're talking about white 0.97

00:02:11.540 rural voters, we're talking about pretty much not quite, but almost the least violent group in the

00:02:17.380 country. They're certainly not the most racist. They're the least racist. Pew Research has shown for

00:02:23.260 years now that whites have virtually no racial consciousness whatsoever. Unlike every other race, 1.00

00:02:29.500 every other race which has rates of racial consciousness anywhere from three to almost five

00:02:34.380 times that of whites. Homophobic? What a ridiculous word. And again, not true. Whites are far and away

00:02:41.540 the most accepting group when it comes to light loafers. Hispanics, and especially blacks, are 0.98

00:02:47.420 significantly less likely to be down with the friends of Dorothy than the whites are. It's not even close. 0.97

00:02:53.600 But all of that actually is beside the point. Even if the claims that these guys are making were true,

00:03:01.400 how would that threaten democracy? Homophobia threatens democracy? When did that happen?

00:03:11.080 Nationalism threatens democracy? Of course not. Democracy just means government by the people.

00:03:17.840 Nationalism, ironically, is a prerequisite for democracy. But if it wasn't clear before,

00:03:24.820 the liberals are not worried about any threat to democracy. They're worried about the threat that

00:03:31.180 is coming at them from democracy. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:54.640 Welcome back to the show. President Trump has a new nickname for Gavin Newsom. It's a good one.

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00:04:43.300 things to burn and to smell. The biggest immediate democratic threat to the liberals

00:04:50.560 is Donald Trump. Once again, Trump is not a threat to democracy. Donald Trump is a threat of democracy

00:04:58.840 to them. And they admit this. They say, oh no, Trump is leading in the polls. Most voters want

00:05:05.780 to vote for Trump. That's a threat to democracy. Most voters doing anything can't be a threat to

00:05:10.900 democracy because democracy simply means government by the people. So what they're really talking about

00:05:16.440 is liberalism, of course. And Trump is probably the biggest threat to their version of liberalism,

00:05:23.100 secular, globalist liberalism in my lifetime. And he's really coming at them pretty strong.

00:05:29.680 So they're trying to shut him down. How are they trying to shut him down? They're trying to bankrupt

00:05:34.440 him. They're trying to put him into prison. They're prosecuting him on four fronts. And they're

00:05:39.760 prosecuting him at the local level. They're prosecuting him at the federal level. But they just had a

00:05:42.620 setback, which is that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear President Trump's request to decide

00:05:52.500 whether or not he is immune from prosecution on charges of attempting to overturn the results of

00:05:59.960 the 2020 election. So President Trump is being accused of trying to overturn the results of the

00:06:05.560 election. He didn't exactly do that. He was questioning an election that was obviously rigged.

00:06:09.680 And they're trying to jail him for that. Well, what do we do? He's running for president again.

00:06:16.040 He's ostensibly the Republican nominee. He elevates this up to the Supreme Court. The court will

00:06:22.920 consider, quote, whether and if so, to what extent does a former president enjoy presidential immunity

00:06:30.080 from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office?

00:06:37.520 Now, this is actually a very important question. Whether you love Trump or hate Trump or you care

00:06:43.120 about the 2024 election or not, this is a very important question because in banana republics and

00:06:48.940 tinpot dictatorships, when a party falls out of power, their opponents who come into power prosecute

00:06:56.020 the ousted party. That's what happens in a lot of unstable regimes. In our country, we don't do that.

00:07:04.860 That's just not the sort of thing we do. We certainly don't prosecute people for things that

00:07:08.920 they did while they were in office, official acts as president of the United States. And we don't do

00:07:14.380 that, not because sometimes presidents don't get a little bit loose with the law. Barack Obama

00:07:19.120 certainly did. He behaved in a way that was not only illegal, weaponizing the government against his

00:07:23.040 enemies, but unconstitutional in the case of the executive amnesty. We don't even really do it with

00:07:28.280 Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton perjured himself as president of the United States. It's a very serious crime.

00:07:32.180 He was impeached when he was president, but we didn't go after, try to throw him in prison

00:07:37.300 after he left office. Clintons have done many, many shady things that were pretty clearly criminal

00:07:43.260 over the years. We just don't do it. And we don't do it not because we like the Clintons,

00:07:47.200 not because we like Obama, not because we like Trump, but because that would pose a grave threat

00:07:51.080 to the integrity of the office of the president and to the way that our government functions.

00:07:55.040 So the court has decided that oral arguments will begin the week of April 22nd.

00:08:00.900 And the court has instructed the appellate court to keep special counsel Jack Smith's case against

00:08:06.020 the president, against President Trump, paused until the Supreme Court reaches a decision,

00:08:11.100 obviously, because the Supreme Court is going to decide whether or not Trump has immunity. That's

00:08:15.280 the bedrock of the entire Jack Smith investigation into Trump. The whole federal Joe Biden,

00:08:23.540 DOJ-led investigation into Biden's top political rival. Why is the court hearing this? Because

00:08:29.080 they have to, of course. I mean, if the Supreme Court doesn't hear a question like this, what are

00:08:33.820 they supposed to hear? What are they supposed to decide? We have co-equal branches of government

00:08:39.580 for this reason, of checks and balances, to have a separation of powers, and to resolve

00:08:45.480 questions for which there is no immediately clear answer. So it's not going to be an appellate

00:08:51.300 court that does that. It's not going to be a district court that does that. It's going to

00:08:53.760 be the Supreme Court of the United States. The liberals are furious over this. The gals over 1.00

00:08:58.760 at The View are suggesting, as the libs always do, this is the end of democracy.

00:09:06.540 They're listening to these arguments in April. The end of their term is in June,

00:09:10.160 right? They return again, I believe, in October. The Bush B. Gore case happened real quick.

00:09:16.380 Do you remember that? The Supreme Court knows how to work real fast.

00:09:20.740 That was the day democracy died. Well, it was certainly an injustice to many people.

00:09:25.980 It's honestly, I think.

00:09:28.880 So I guess that's a relief that democracy already died 20 years ago, 24 years ago,

00:09:32.940 so we don't need to worry about democracy dying again. But it wasn't the day democracy died,

00:09:37.920 and it wasn't an injustice at all. And most libs who bring up Bush v. Gore as a way to attack the

00:09:43.740 credibility of the Supreme Court know absolutely nothing about that case. The irony of Joy Behar

00:09:49.220 saying, the Bush v. Gore case of the day democracy died, the Bush v. Gore decision upheld democracy by

00:09:54.600 saying that the vote, which was clear enough, it was a close election in Florida, but it was clear

00:09:58.900 enough, and there were recounts, and it stands. The guy the people elected gets to be the president.

00:10:04.920 And when the libs tell you that this is an outrage to democracy because it was a 5-4 decision,

00:10:12.940 and it was the five conservative judges who ruled for Bush, and it was the four liberal judges who

00:10:18.760 ruled for Gore, that isn't even true. There were two decisions that came out. One, over the substance

00:10:25.340 of the case, over the Equal Protection Clause, over how the election was conducted, and two,

00:10:29.560 a remedy for what to do because the supposedly greatest democracy in the world couldn't conduct

00:10:34.380 a presidential election. On the more substantive matter, the decision was seven to two. So you had

00:10:41.800 two liberals coming over and siding with the conservatives. It was only on the remedy. What

00:10:46.560 do we do now? Do we drag out this recount even further and stop the president of the United States

00:10:51.040 who obviously won the election from taking office when he's supposed to? We can't even have the

00:10:56.520 peaceful transfer of power in the United States. Are we going to do that? Or are we just going to

00:10:59.940 cut to the chase and uphold what everyone has found already, which is that Bush won the election?

00:11:04.420 Well, that was very bad, though, because the people elected Bush, and the people had to be wrong.

00:11:09.440 They had to be wrong. Even though, I guess technically, you know, that was an expression

00:11:13.000 of democracy, it can't be. Because for the liberals, democracy, if the people are operating in a rational

00:11:18.880 way, they always have to vote for the liberals. So any time that the people oppose the liberals,

00:11:23.720 any time that people vote for the conservatives, in the liberals' minds, it has to be an attack on

00:11:28.520 democracy. Somehow, either because you've suppressed a vote, or you've brainwashed people,

00:11:34.340 or you've put them under a false consciousness where they're voting against their own interests,

00:11:37.900 or whatever they're going to call it, it can't ever be legitimate for people to vote for the

00:11:43.180 conservatives and to vote against the liberals. Because the glories of liberal government are just

00:11:49.180 so clear that if they don't win, something had to go wrong. The election had to be. In the face of

00:11:56.180 all evidence, it had to be illegitimate. There's much more to say. First, though, go to tnusa.com

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00:13:06.820 peace of mind. That is tnusa.com slash Knowles. Speaking of democratically elected leaders,

00:13:14.860 Mr. Javier Millet, the new leader of Argentina, the arch-libertarian who got elected. He's sort of

00:13:22.900 a populist. He's got kind of crazy hair, and many American right-wingers find him eccentric and

00:13:29.160 delightful. He has just done something that I'm really happy about. Javier Millet in Argentina has

00:13:36.800 banned trans language in government. And you might say of all the things that matter, you know,

00:13:42.820 he's got to fix the economy. He's got to give greater representation to the people. He's got

00:13:48.620 to restore some traditional norms. Why does this matter? Well, first of all, this is a traditional

00:13:53.660 norm that he has to reassert. And also, I was a little skeptical of Millet. You know I love the

00:14:01.380 leader of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, who I was supposed to meet a week ago, and then I had to fly out too

00:14:05.740 early. I missed him. He's really great. Why do I like him? Because he's doing good things,

00:14:10.760 and he's stopping bad things. He turned his country from the most crime-ridden country in the world

00:14:15.000 into the safest country in the Western Hemisphere. And he did it by exercising power in a just and

00:14:20.840 moral and effective way. Really like him. Daniel Nuboa in Ecuador, I think he's doing a very good job.

00:14:26.920 He's going about three-quarters of the way to the Bukele option. But he's rounding up the 0.87

00:14:32.840 gangsters. He's doing a good job. Javier Millet, I was a little skeptical of because he's not

00:14:36.980 a rock-ribbed conservative exactly. He's a libertarian. And there's a lot of overlap,

00:14:42.720 but there's a lot of places where the libertarians and the conservatives disagree.

00:14:46.500 But this decision on this trans language in government, that's not a libertarian decision.

00:14:52.860 That's not a you do you, do whatever you want. Who am I to judge? Just get the government out of

00:14:58.080 it. I can't say what a man or a woman is and let anyone use whatever bathroom they want.

00:15:02.200 It's not that kind of decision. This is conservative. This is what the libs call

00:15:07.520 authoritarian. It's not authoritarian. It's just normal. But that's what they call it.

00:15:12.060 Argentina announces that they're going to ban this leftist inclusive language across all

00:15:17.000 public administration offices and documents. Everything related to the gender-based perspective,

00:15:24.860 end quote, will be banned throughout the administration. This is really, really great

00:15:30.680 news. They're going to ban. They're going to proceed to initiate the proceedings to ban inclusive

00:15:38.140 language and everything related to that. And we all know the details. This is the sort of thing that

00:15:44.220 conservatives have wanted for a long time and that ordinary people want for a long time.

00:15:47.820 I mentioned the story not because Argentina matters all that much to American politics,

00:15:51.380 but because even the libertarians know that the trans thing is totally nuts. It's nuts. 0.98

00:15:59.960 Nobody wants it. It's crazy. There's no right to it. It's not good for anybody. It's especially not

00:16:05.160 good for the people who are chopping their genitals off and pretending to be the opposite sex. 1.00

00:16:08.560 It's this issue is a total winner for conservatives. When I came out and did my CPAC speech about how 0.99

00:16:17.360 the ideology is terrible for everyone and should be eradicated from public life entirely like it was

00:16:21.180 until six, seven years ago, when I said that there were a lot of squishes who said,

00:16:25.660 we can't have this kind of language. This is going to scare off the independent, moderate voters.

00:16:30.380 No, this is a total winner. Everyone agrees with this. Everybody agrees with this. Who has two

00:16:34.660 functioning brain cells and who isn't totally deluded and perverted by our crazy, irrational 0.96

00:16:39.960 culture. The vast majority of people know that a man can't be a woman. It's so obvious. It's so clear.

00:16:47.320 Any conservative who doesn't run on this full steam ahead is nuts. To say nothing of the fact that 0.73

00:16:53.360 it's the right thing to do is just politically, it's a total winner. Now, speaking of problems in

00:17:00.520 foreign countries, Mitt Romney has just made a pretty stunning admission during an interview on

00:17:06.720 CNN. Of course, he's on CNN. And he's being interviewed about Ukraine funding, which he's

00:17:13.040 very much in favor of. And most conservative, most Americans, but especially most conservatives are

00:17:18.940 opposed to. The CNN interviewer, to her credit, she comes out and she raises the big question about

00:17:25.560 Ukraine war funding, which is, how will this money possibly change the outcome of this war?

00:17:34.300 If we're going to forget for a second any other thoughts you have about foreign policy,

00:17:39.960 let's say that we're just going to give them this money based on whether or not it's going to be

00:17:44.880 effective or not. How can you say this is going to be effective when everyone agrees that the amount

00:17:49.320 of money that we're giving them, the amount of arms that we're giving them, to say nothing of the

00:17:53.220 amount that's just going to the oligarchs through graft? How are you going to say that this is going

00:17:58.380 to change the outcome of the war? And Mitt Romney says, oh, it won't.

00:18:03.960 So you disagree with your colleague, Senator J.D. Vance, who is making the argument that 60 billion

00:18:10.000 more dollars won't fundamentally change Ukraine's stance on the battlefield.

00:18:14.480 Yeah, that is an interesting point. It just happens to be as accurate as it is irrelevant.

00:18:18.800 All right. It may not change their stance on the battlefield. What it does do is communicate to

00:18:23.080 the entire world that we honor our commitments and we stand with our friends and we will help

00:18:28.620 freedom fighters around the world who are our friends and allies.

00:18:33.380 So initially when I heard Romney say this, I thought, hold on, was that a gaffe?

00:18:37.960 Did he mean to say it's as accurate as it is relevant?

00:18:40.840 Meaning to say it's not accurate? No, no. He's saying it's accurate. J.D. is right. The money

00:18:51.860 that we're about to send them, it's not going to change the outcome on the battlefield. But that

00:18:56.400 doesn't matter. The effect of our money in actually helping the Ukrainians doesn't matter at all.

00:19:04.280 All that matters is that we look like we're helping the Ukrainians.

00:19:07.740 But of course, he's just undermined even that point because he's admitting we're not actually

00:19:12.400 helping the Ukrainians because it won't change the outcome on the battlefield. It's all just 0.98

00:19:15.680 kabuki theater. It's all just a show and a way to launder some money and a way for Ukraine oligarchs

00:19:21.860 to get rich and a way to keep our military industrial base, I guess, churning out weapons. Although,

00:19:27.700 frankly, we could probably use some of those weapons ourselves. It's not like you can ramp up that

00:19:32.160 kind of manufacturing forever. So what's the end? We're going to keep giving them money.

00:19:37.740 To prove that we stand with our allies, even though we're acknowledging that we're not

00:19:41.100 actually going to help our supposed ally Ukraine at all. And we're going to do that to prolong the war

00:19:47.600 so that many, many more Ukrainians and many more Russians can die not to achieve anything.

00:19:55.060 That is a very, very wicked view of politics and foreign policy.

00:20:03.300 It'd be, it'd be, I can't believe it, but, but he's, he clarified. It's not even then he just said

00:20:08.500 it's, it's as accurate as it is irrelevant. He says that point might be true. Yeah, sure. It is true.

00:20:13.420 He said, no, no, I know what I said. It's accurate. Not going to change a thing, but we can at least

00:20:19.340 pretend and we'll make some more weapons and a lot of Ukrainians and Russians are going to die and 1.00

00:20:25.040 nothing will change, but, you know, we'll feel good about pretending that we're doing the thing

00:20:30.960 that I'm admitting that we're not going to do. America. And, and we're the bad guys. Hold on.

00:20:40.320 We, the people who have been skeptical of the Ukraine conflict and our involvement in it and

00:20:45.340 a proxy war with Russia and the Ukraine joining NATO for that matter. We're supposed to be the

00:20:50.680 bad guys. We're the Putin apologists. We're the ones who are going to let the evildoers go in and

00:20:55.200 do all this. This guy, the nice guy just admitted that he's just going to needlessly kill or allow

00:21:03.100 to be killed or fund to be killed thousands and thousands, maybe tens of thousands of Ukrainians 0.84

00:21:08.760 and Russians for no reason other than to pretend. We're the bad. I don't know. I don't know. I'm 1.00

00:21:17.040 starting to think maybe, I'm starting to think maybe these pro, pro-Ukraine war guys are a little,

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00:22:33.820 My favorite comment yesterday is from Dominic Zelenak, who says,

00:22:37.980 some girls are dancing around a gas station with Stanley cups. For this, we reference the works of 1.00

00:22:42.920 St. Thomas Aquinas. That's true. Actually, you know what's amazing? So yes, my analysis of the

00:22:48.660 dancing white girls underneath the gas station did basically come down to St. Thomas Aquinas on the 1.00

00:22:55.500 relation of the natural law to the human law and how we ought to legislate these things and how we ought to

00:22:59.720 encourage virtue and discourage vice. But even when I was driving into work yesterday,

00:23:04.340 I was listening on audiobook to the City of God by St. Augustine. And St. Augustine is much more

00:23:09.500 readable than St. Thomas Aquinas. He's just more vivid. He kind of pulls at the heartstrings a little

00:23:15.480 bit more than St. Thomas is an encyclopedia. He's like a human encyclopedia. And St. Augustine,

00:23:21.440 I was reading this part of him, of City of God, where he's talking about reply guys,

00:23:28.080 where he's examining the obligation you owe to reply to every one of your adversaries who makes 0.87

00:23:35.520 some dumb point. And he basically says, don't fall into the trap of going too far down a Twitter

00:23:39.440 thread and replying to some dummy. And I thought, man, I know both St. Thomas Aquinas and St.

00:23:45.460 Augustine, I know their works are so relevant to today, even though people don't read them as much

00:23:49.500 as they should. But like, wow, man, St. Augustine, the guy is so perspicacious. He's so deeply

00:23:55.640 insightful. He understood Twitter many, many centuries before Twitter ever existed, and then

00:24:01.960 became X. Really important news has come out. Speaking of slick politicians like Mr. Willard Romney,

00:24:10.720 President Trump has a new nickname for the slickest politician in America. That would be

00:24:16.320 Governor Newsom. Now, Governor Newsom reminds me of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. So I've

00:24:22.280 called him Governor Bateman. You know, I just, not to be clever or anything, just because that's what

00:24:27.400 he, to me, they look and sound identical. But Governor Bateman, it doesn't work on a campaign

00:24:33.980 trail. No one's going to make that connection. So President Trump has just unveiled his new nickname

00:24:40.200 for Newsom. We weren't promising free education, free medical, free everything. I mean, all the

00:24:46.660 promises that are made, no wonder they come. I mean, you look at what this governor, Newscum from

00:24:52.820 California, isn't that his name, Newscum? What he's done to California is unbelievable. 0.56

00:24:59.420 Did you hear that? I said, Newscum. What do you think about that? It's pretty funny, huh? Newscum.

00:25:03.780 It's a good nickname. It's a good nickname. And it reminds me of something about Trump's nicknames

00:25:10.800 that make them better than the other nicknames. I say this with true humility, no false modesty here.

00:25:16.520 My nickname for Newsom is not that good. Because it just doesn't, I mean, if you've seen American 0.77

00:25:22.140 Psycho, maybe it's amusing, but it doesn't hit you right away. Newscum does. Everyone gets Newscum.

00:25:32.000 It's just like when Trump started calling Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas. The name that

00:25:37.900 we had all been previously calling Elizabeth Warren was Focahontas. It was a pun. It was a

00:25:42.660 little play on words there because she pretends to be Indian, but she's not really Indian. You get 0.88

00:25:46.920 it? So she's, it's not Pocahontas. She's Focahontas, F-A-U-X. But that's too much. It doesn't 0.99

00:25:52.860 work on the campaign trail. Focahontas, it's a little too clever. Just Trump just punches him at the

00:25:58.280 absolute lowest, most grade school level. Yeah, she's Pocahontas. And it's much funnier and it 1.00

00:26:04.620 worked a lot better. Even all of the nicknames for the contenders in 2016. There are all these

00:26:12.240 sorts of attacks you could think of to hit Marco Rubio that would be clever, have something to do

00:26:16.900 with his personality or is, but little Marco, that was it. Even Jeb, for goodness sakes, the Bushes have

00:26:22.840 been in American politics for a hundred years. No, it's just low energy, Jeb. It's so evocative.

00:26:28.180 It just, it puts an image in your mind that anybody can get. And now Governor Newsom has his,

00:26:34.560 new scum. Hmm? Hmm? Now, you know what scummy people would never do? They would never subscribe 1.00

00:26:43.560 to my YouTube channel, but you should subscribe to the Michael Knowles YouTube channel right now.

00:26:47.920 All you have to do is ring the bell and smash it and click it and whatever, do whatever you have to do.

00:26:52.840 Now, speaking of Democrat executives turning from California to New York, New York City Mayor Eric

00:26:59.900 Adams continues his right-wing redemption tour when this guy who ran as a kind of moderate Democrat,

00:27:07.360 and then he governed as a pretty liberal Democrat, well, he's now recognizing that the consequences

00:27:12.540 of his policies are terrible and deeply unpopular, especially when it comes to illegal immigration,

00:27:17.080 which Eric Adams has previously said could destroy New York City. So he's, this was months ago. He said

00:27:23.140 illegal immigration is going to destroy New York City. And it really is crazy. They filled up classic 1.00

00:27:27.200 legendary New York hotels with just young fighting age men from, from Latin America who are obviously 1.00

00:27:33.420 economic migrants who are unvetted, who should not be there. Nobody wants them there. 1.00

00:27:37.700 We're not even talking about young families here, poor little kids. No, we're talking about pretty

00:27:43.240 much just young men. So he said, that's really terrible. He goes to meet with Biden at the White

00:27:46.880 House over, over this. And then just before his scheduled White House meeting, there's an

00:27:51.760 investigation into Eric Adams that's announced, a corruption investigation. All of a sudden, Eric

00:27:56.500 Adams backs off the White House meeting, but he's coming back. He's hitting hard again. He says,

00:28:01.140 at the very least, okay, if we can't get rid of all the illegal aliens, New York has got to do 1.00

00:28:06.500 something to, in any way, circumscribe its sanctuary city status.

00:28:14.320 The women in the migrants in the sanctuary cities that are here, they want to grow. I still don't 1.00

00:28:19.880 understand why the federal government is not allowing them to grow. They need to have the right

00:28:23.480 to grow, like all of us that have come to this country had the ability to do so. But those small

00:28:28.740 partners that are committing crimes, we need to modify the incentive of the city law. And if you

00:28:34.840 commit a felony, a buying act, we should get to turn you over the ice and have you deported. It is

00:28:39.800 a drive to live in this city. And if you need to do so, you don't have to be afraid to do so.

00:28:48.900 How pathetic is this? The audio is a little weak there. Obviously, the Democrats are not blasting 0.86

00:28:53.440 this on CNN, so you're not getting really high quality audio. What he's saying is, hey, look,

00:28:57.320 I know we're a sanctuary city and everything, but if you commit like a bunch of violent felonies,

00:29:04.420 can we at least turn you over to ICE? Can we maybe at least turn you over to the immigration

00:29:11.360 enforcement? And then they'll probably do nothing about it because Biden wants them to let all the

00:29:15.880 illegals into the country. But can we at least do that? And is that, how pathetic, how pathetic. 1.00

00:29:21.680 If you're in this country illegally, you should be deported. And then if you really want to come in, 1.00

00:29:27.620 you can apply to be an illegal immigrant. We have a lot of that too, by the way. We have way more of

00:29:33.200 that than most people want, but that's a conversation for another. At the very least,

00:29:38.220 you're here illegally, you get deported. We don't do that. If you're here illegally, 1.00

00:29:42.960 you get to stay. If you're here illegally and you commit a crime, you usually get to stay. 0.97

00:29:50.660 You might get out on bail that day and then go commit more crimes. If you are here illegally and 1.00

00:29:56.680 you commit a violent crime, you still get to stay. And so all Eric Adams is doing, he's not saying we

00:30:03.880 need to restrict all migration, which we do. He's not saying we need to deport all illegals, which most

00:30:09.320 people would like us to do, but it probably is impractical. He's not saying we should even

00:30:13.960 deport all the illegals who commit the crimes. He's saying just these particularly bad crimes,

00:30:17.820 can we please? And even that, you know what that's going to be met with? Totally deaf ears. The

00:30:21.880 Democrats don't want that because they think it, one, they think it serves their permanent electoral

00:30:29.440 advantage. But two, they just hate America. I don't know how else to put it. I don't mean to be

00:30:36.160 needlessly provocative. I don't want to be hyperbolic, but they don't like America. Whenever

00:30:40.740 they talk about America, they talk about our evil racist ancestors and how we genocided the Native 1.00

00:30:45.200 Americans and how we had slavery and Jim Crow and it's just a dirty, rotten, evil place. And the only 1.00

00:30:51.380 good thing about America is how we might be able to claw our way out of our terrible, disgusting past.

00:30:56.980 Everything that America was and presently is is bad, but America might be something decent in the

00:31:01.440 future. That's why we need to fundamentally transform America. That was the campaign message of

00:31:05.000 Barack Obama, which is an admission that he hates America because you don't want to fundamentally

00:31:10.720 transform things that you love. And Obama was not just speaking for himself. He was speaking for

00:31:14.640 most, most prominent liberals in public life. Not saying all liberals, not saying all people who

00:31:22.040 say, well, you know, I'm not quite a right winger, you know, but I just, hasn't the left gone a little

00:31:26.300 crazy? I'm just saying for the, the, the current crop of democratic leadership, they, and, and the,

00:31:33.500 the current crop of the democratic base, you know, the real activist base, the AOCs of the world, 0.69

00:31:38.040 they don't like the country and they want to fundamentally transform it. And part of that is

00:31:43.220 opening up the borders, not even just as a cynical political play, but because they think America

00:31:47.160 doesn't deserve to exist because this is stolen land and it's a terrible country and we're really

00:31:50.740 racist or whatever. And, and we, we need to, we need to really, you know, give America stripes,

00:31:56.140 really just beat it up a little bit. And, and so you have poor Eric Adams. He's saying, well,

00:31:59.920 I got to bear the brunt of this. None of you liberals in Martha's Vineyard actually have to deal with this.

00:32:03.900 When, when, uh, Governor DeSantis sent some illegals to your nice part of the world, 0.99

00:32:08.340 you shipped them out of there within 48 hours. Me, I'm not allowed to ship out even the felons. 1.00

00:32:12.600 And they say, yeah, whatever, Eric Adams, be quiet. We're going to investigate you for corruption.

00:32:16.120 If you, if you raise any more questions about this now, there's so much more to say.

00:32:23.000 There's so many more stories I have to get to this story. There's one story I've been trying to get

00:32:26.840 to for a week, but alas, you know, I'm a tease. And today is my favorite day of the week

00:32:30.840 when I hear from you in the mailbag. So all I'm going to tell you is this lady ballers is the 1.00

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00:32:47.920 Here's a quick look at what it's being called by us. The most triggering movie of the decade.

00:32:52.240 Leftists are losing it over lady ballers. Nothing's changed. This movie is a straight 1.00

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00:33:06.460 to be banned. I'll cancel you. I can get the blinds, please. Total 11. The most toxic BS you've

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00:33:40.400 I get to hear from you in the mailbag. Our mailbag is sponsored by Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com

00:33:44.420 slash Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S to start saving on wireless today. Take it away.

00:33:50.200 Hey, Michael. My question is around pot, weed, devil's lettuce, whatever you want to call it.

00:33:55.680 My husband likes to smoke and he liked to smoke even before we met over nine years ago.

00:34:01.680 So I just made it clear early on that I just wanted to know when he was going to do it or

00:34:06.920 when he had done it. So I knew when I'm interacting with him, what sort of state of mind he's in.

00:34:10.740 But we've run into a situation, it's probably seven or eight times where he smokes, does not

00:34:18.040 tell me. I kind of figure it out after some nagging. And then he fesses up to it after lying

00:34:24.340 for a bit. And so it just feels exhausting. It feels like the definition of insanity, expecting

00:34:29.560 his behavior to change over the last seven or eight times this has happened. And now we have two young

00:34:34.840 boys under the age of two. And this most recent time he had smoked before coming home to see us.

00:34:39.900 So it just felt a little sad that he was doing that before coming home to see us, insulting, being

00:34:46.100 lied to. And so I suggested that he either join me in my next session with my faith-based counselor,

00:34:52.120 or we do a joint meeting with some leadership within our church. And he's not really up for

00:34:59.440 either of those options. So I wanted to see what ideas you might have. And I would appreciate any

00:35:05.320 input. Thanks. The big problem is not that he's puffed on the sin spinach. That's a problem. But

00:35:11.700 the bigger problem is that he's lying to you. That's a big problem. A husband is not to lie to his wife,

00:35:19.520 and a wife is not to lie to her husband. That is a major, major problem. That is a type of infidelity. 0.82

00:35:26.140 Okay, that is really bad. And he should be made to know that that is really, really completely

00:35:32.600 unacceptable and a major violation of trust and of the marriage. So why is he lying? He's lying

00:35:42.000 because he's addicted to drugs. That's why. And he probably doesn't know it or he won't admit it to

00:35:47.000 himself. And in part, that's not all his fault because our culture tells us constantly that you

00:35:52.860 can't become addicted to marijuana. But you obviously can. And the evidence is that the

00:35:59.360 people who are really into it exhibit all the behaviors of addicts. In this case, he's sneaking

00:36:04.520 it around when you're not there. He's trying to hide it from you. He's downplaying his dependence

00:36:10.420 on it. He's not even able to go see his family without toking up. Obviously, that's addictive

00:36:15.140 behavior. But it's not just your husband. I mean, I've got plenty of buddies who like a little of

00:36:21.300 the Haitian oregano. And the ones who've really gotten into it, the wake and bake kind of guys,

00:36:26.300 they will become furious if you ever suggest that maybe marijuana isn't the greatest thing in the

00:36:33.200 world. If you ever suggest that maybe it might be at least psychologically addictive, they'll become

00:36:39.560 furious with you. And Mike Cernovich has made this point. And that's how you know that it's obviously

00:36:43.880 addictive. If you tell me, cigars which actually are not addictive because you just don't get enough

00:36:49.080 nicotine from them to have the same effect of like if you were smoking cigarettes or those little

00:36:55.520 pouches or whatever, zin. But they're habitually addictive in the sense that any habit is kind

00:37:01.980 of addictive. But if you tell me, Michael, you're having five cigars a day. It's too much. It's not

00:37:06.400 good for you. You need to have three cigars a day or one cigar a day or something. I think I would

00:37:12.760 say, okay, yeah, you're right. Five is probably too much. Okay, I'll take a little break for a while.

00:37:15.940 Just make sure I'm not actually addicted to it. Or if I were drinking too much. Michael, you're

00:37:21.420 having three drinks a night. This is not, okay, maybe I'll take a step back. You're right. It's

00:37:26.420 not good to have three drinks a night. But with pot, if you tell potheads, hey, you know, guys,

00:37:32.960 you shouldn't be like smoking. You shouldn't be ripping your vape like five times a day. They will

00:37:38.260 yell at you. They'll say they're self-medicating. It's actually, it's fine. All the studies show

00:37:43.100 blah, blah, blah. So he's a drug addict and he's lying to his wife. And I think maybe you should put 0.98

00:37:48.860 it in those kind of blunt terms. And, you know, wives are to submit to their husbands and husbands 0.97

00:37:54.440 are to love their wives. But especially if you're already going to this kind of counseling and he's

00:37:57.740 not that interested in it, I think you need to make clear to him that he is failing in his

00:38:02.780 responsibility as a husband. And you don't need to be insulting about it. You should be very loving

00:38:06.760 about that. But he's on a very bad path that is imperiling your family. And he needs to cut it

00:38:11.960 out and act like a man. Next question. Hi, Michael. My name is Heather and I am a Christian

00:38:16.740 of the Dutch Reformed tradition, which means that I'm a Calvinist. I've been reading up on the

00:38:22.080 teachings of Augustine and Aquinas. And it seems to me that they both believed that God predestined

00:38:27.740 all who would be saved. Like Calvinists, they did not reject free will, but rather understood the

00:38:33.480 expression of free will as acting according to one's strongest inclination. This view of free will

00:38:39.400 is compatible with deterministic predestination. As a Calvinist, I believe that humans, in our fallen

00:38:45.220 nature, are inclined only toward evil. But God, in his mercy, grants his saving grace to whom he

00:38:50.900 chooses. And that saving grace changes our hearts so that we have a desire to glorify God. My question

00:38:56.740 for you is, why is Calvinism considered heresy and Catholicism, given what Augustine and Aquinas taught?

00:39:03.480 Thank you for answering my question, and God bless you.

00:39:06.600 Very good question and very well articulated, though I think you are a little mistaken. And

00:39:12.500 it's funny because we've been talking about St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine over just the

00:39:15.880 past couple of days. Providential, you might say. St. Augustine, usually Calvinists don't cite

00:39:22.880 St. Thomas Aquinas as being a proto-Calvinist. I think St. Thomas Aquinas' defense of free will

00:39:32.040 is usually pretty clear. But St. Augustine sometimes is one who Calvinists will invoke.

00:39:39.340 And I think it's mistaken. There's a famous quote from St. Augustine that comes from, I think it's

00:39:44.840 Sermon 169, which is that God made you without you. This is actually a point that I make sometimes

00:39:52.800 when discussing the right to life, questions of abortion and the death penalty. God made you without 0.99

00:39:58.140 you. This is the crucial part. But he doesn't justify you without you. So St. Augustine very

00:40:04.940 explicitly says that you participate in responding to God's grace. Now, if you say, well, no, I'm not

00:40:13.480 describing a kind of Calvinism that denies free will. I'm just saying that you seem like you have

00:40:18.860 free will, but it's all an illusion. Well, if we're just talking about illusion, then there's really

00:40:22.560 nothing I could possibly say to convince you because it's unfalsifiable if we're all just

00:40:29.820 living in an illusion, right? But there, I think it's a mistake for Calvinists to, certainly to

00:40:35.120 quote St. Thomas Aquinas, or to justify their views on St. Thomas Aquinas, but also Augustine,

00:40:40.900 who is the one that they usually go to. A question that I have for Calvinism and all novel theological

00:40:47.040 movements is, why did it take so long? If this is true, if the true version of Christianity came 0.96

00:40:55.080 out in 1652 or whenever, 1545, why did it take so long? And what happened in those intervening years?

00:41:02.800 And what did the church fathers believe? What did people believe in the apostolic age? I think this

00:41:06.200 is in part why people who are part of more novel Christian sects, or even other sorts of religious

00:41:16.420 sects will try to tie their views to antiquity, which is, again, part of the attraction of St.

00:41:22.120 Augustine, because he was writing so much earlier even than St. Thomas Aquinas. But I think those are

00:41:28.280 weak arguments. And so the question is, if these are novel views, as it seems to me, why did it take

00:41:34.000 so long if that's the true religion? Because also, to me, it's clear enough that the Calvinist premise

00:41:41.000 is contradicted by scripture. Again, I'm no expert, but it's clear enough because God does not will

00:41:49.120 that people go to hell. Meaning we see in 1 Timothy, we see in 2 Peter, we see elsewhere throughout the

00:41:58.540 scripture that God does not will for us to go to hell. He wills that all be saved. But we have a free

00:42:06.340 will and we can respond to his grace in any way we choose. We can either cooperate with it or we can

00:42:11.360 turn away from it. So it seems to me, I'm of the opinion that Hilaire Belloc was. Hilaire Belloc, a

00:42:15.960 great Anglo-Franco-Catholic writer and historian. And he said, Calvin is the true genius of Protestantism.

00:42:25.860 And his idea is fatalist. And obviously, Hilaire Belloc would say that it's wrong. But it's a coherent

00:42:34.340 system. It's a coherent system of thought, unlike some of the other versions, which I think are a little

00:42:38.900 less coherent. But it just seems to me to be mistaken, vis-a-vis Aquinas and Augustine and scripture and sacred

00:42:49.060 tradition. Okay, next one.

00:42:51.020 Dirty Mike, USMC Matt here. Just wanted to ask you a question. So I, unfortunately, had to move back to

00:42:59.540 California a while ago and am now being forced to go through implicit bias training at work.

00:43:06.140 I'm not worried about the online portion because I've been just going to mute it and click through

00:43:10.300 it and not pay attention to it and click whatever answer they want me to click. However, there is a

00:43:15.340 mandatory in-person portion that I can't get out of. And I'm just wondering how to navigate this because

00:43:22.940 I don't buy into any of it, obviously. I think it just creates more division. But unfortunately,

00:43:30.540 I don't have a choice in that matter. I do have a position where I could create something and step

00:43:36.560 out. I'm contemplating that. But just curious as to what your thoughts are and how to deal

00:43:41.400 with this type of training. Thank you.

00:43:45.540 Create something and step out. I don't quite know what you mean by that. You mean you quit your job and

00:43:49.020 become an entrepreneur or you mean you could, in your role in this company, come up with an excuse

00:43:54.100 not to go to the training. Either way, I think it's a matter for prudence. You know, we do what

00:44:00.820 our bosses want us to do, even if it's unpleasant. We don't do what our bosses want us to do if it's

00:44:06.960 immoral. But if it's unpleasant or we disagree with it or whatever, we sometimes do it. So this,

00:44:12.800 to me, is not the sort of thing where you have to show up and then make your stand and tell off this 0.99

00:44:16.600 lady and whatever or quit your job necessarily because you have to sit through a one-hour stupid 1.00

00:44:22.380 training. Depending on your circumstance, I suppose I would suggest that you just sit through 1.00

00:44:31.340 it and then ignore it, you know, and then just don't do anything about it. Now, if the training

00:44:37.100 is going to cause you to sin, you know, if it's going to cause you to behave in a way that doesn't

00:44:47.400 keep with your integrity, then maybe you have to figure out another option. But we have to be wise

00:44:51.500 as serpents and innocent as doves. The problem with this bias training is a political problem.

00:44:55.720 You're not, some of our focus on individuality and individualism on the right has really weakened us.

00:45:01.040 You're not going to fix this problem until you go in, you engage in political action as the left has

00:45:07.740 done to push corporate culture more in your direction and then take political action by

00:45:12.120 electing good leaders and having those leaders replace the bureaucrats with better bureaucrats

00:45:16.260 who can go in and take away some of the mandates from the office of civil rights or whoever's 1.00

00:45:20.400 mandating these stupid trainings. That's what I would recommend doing. And in the meantime, 1.00

00:45:24.680 you know, you don't need to impoverish yourself in the meantime, then you probably won't be able to

00:45:28.960 to take much political action anyway. Next question.

00:45:33.180 Hi, Michael. This is David. Thanks for all you do. A quick question. I've been reading some about

00:45:38.640 Viktor Orban, prime minister of Hungary. And I wonder what your reaction is to the harsh criticism

00:45:47.540 coming from the West toward Orban as a dictatorial strongman,

00:45:52.440 or whether he is merely attempting to uphold Christian social values and national identity

00:46:04.000 within Hungary. I wonder if the reaction comes from the progressive left, which is

00:46:11.960 attacking all who would uphold traditional values. Thanks a lot. Have a great day.

00:46:19.860 Sure. Yeah. I really like Viktor Orban. I think he's done a great job. By the standards of even

00:46:25.680 30 to 50 years ago, Viktor Orban is a centrist liberal politician. Okay. The fact that liberals in

00:46:34.240 the right, or in the West rather, are accusing him of being some far-right fascist just tells you 0.73

00:46:39.740 that the left in the West has gone completely insane and is now effectively, you know, a bunch of 0.97

00:46:46.560 commies. It's totally crazy. Viktor Orban leads a very tolerant country. What does he say? He says, 0.90

00:46:54.540 we need to follow the laws. We need to recognize that God exists. In your personal life, you don't

00:47:01.560 even need to, but we're going to do that as a matter of our public policy. We're not going to totally

00:47:06.500 throw out our thousand-year political tradition. We are going to recognize what marriage is. We're going

00:47:13.300 to have clean streets. We're going to arrest criminals. We're not going to totally open our borders to

00:47:17.820 a bunch of unassimilated foreign people. Really kind of basic stuff. And for that, they call him 0.98

00:47:24.560 Hitler. You know, it's just so profoundly stupid and offensive. No, he's great. Love, love Viktor 1.00

00:47:31.200 Orban. The rest of the show continues. Now, you don't want to miss it. Become a member. Use code

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