The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1448 - Willie Nelson Releases Lib Triggering Song

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00:00:37.680 Country music legend Willie Nelson has a new song out.

00:00:40.840 And while other pop stars promote abortion like Olivia Rodrigo or devil worship like Lil Nas X,

00:00:47.400 Willie is focusing on a different issue, the southern border.

00:00:56.980 I work on the border.

00:01:01.420 I see what I see.

00:01:08.680 I work on the border.

00:01:13.240 And it's working on me.

00:01:18.420 I lie awake at night.

00:01:22.580 Knowing what I know.

00:01:24.420 There's a price on the head

00:01:29.700 Of every border patrol

00:01:34.120 Where the smugglers do business

00:01:39.620 That's where I make a stand

00:01:43.480 I know this old desert

00:01:48.180 Like the back of my head

00:01:52.760 It goes on.

00:01:57.420 It's great.

00:01:58.200 This is a big deal.

00:01:59.080 Not so much because of what the song will do

00:02:02.380 As what the song represents.

00:02:05.960 Willie Nelson is a big lib.

00:02:08.660 Willie Nelson has supported the most left-wing candidates in the country for decades.

00:02:12.520 He's smoked more Haitian oregano than Snoop Dogg.

00:02:15.560 But he's a special kind of liberal.

00:02:18.960 He's a liberal who gets conservatives.

00:02:22.220 He caters to pot-smoking country music listeners.

00:02:26.840 He is what Woody Harrelson has called a redneck hippie.

00:02:31.540 This country seems so divided, beautiful, ugly, black, white, blue, red.

00:02:39.040 I love everybody.

00:02:40.560 Maybe because I'm a redneck hippie.

00:02:43.700 You know, the red in me thinks you should be allowed to own guns.

00:02:47.880 The blue in me thinks squirt guns.

00:02:52.540 So I'm red and blue, which makes purple.

00:02:57.320 I'm purple.

00:02:58.580 Red and blue makes purple.

00:02:59.600 It's a funny line.

00:03:00.340 This is on SNL, too.

00:03:01.920 And he's saying, look, I'm not just a total lib.

00:03:03.660 I'm also a redneck.

00:03:05.220 I'm a little bit of both.

00:03:06.520 And this redneck hippie thing represents an important constituency. 1.00

00:03:10.360 There are a lot of redneck hippies in America. 0.98

00:03:12.580 Everybody loves Willie Nelson.

00:03:13.820 Most people like Woody Harrelson, too.

00:03:16.320 They're libs. 0.59

00:03:16.860 They're Hollywood stars.

00:03:18.480 But unlike all the other Hollywood stars, they understand the rest of the country.

00:03:23.300 They don't hold the rest of the country in contempt.

00:03:26.100 I don't know what exactly motivated Willie Nelson to release a song in an election year

00:03:31.660 praising U.S. Border Patrol.

00:03:35.280 Maybe it's a patriotic concern about the invasion across our southern border.

00:03:39.680 Maybe it's a liberal concern that Joe Biden,

00:03:42.600 the candidate that Willie Nelson endorsed in 2020,

00:03:45.220 is going to lose if he doesn't address his biggest political liability.

00:03:49.920 Either way, this song, even if nobody listens to it,

00:03:54.420 this song is bad news for Joe Biden and very good news for Donald Trump and the rest of us.

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00:05:24.980 Speaking of good news for Donald Trump, the judge in the Fulton County case, well,

00:05:34.120 I should be clearer than that because there are multiple Fulton County cases.

00:05:38.280 There is the case brought by Fulton County against Donald Trump.

00:05:43.220 The Rico case accusing Trump of being a gangster, a mob boss, because while he was president of the

00:05:49.940 United States, he made a phone call to the secretary of state of Georgia to just inquire

00:05:54.740 into the obvious fraud that was going on in the 2020 election.

00:06:00.600 And because of that, because President Trump raised questions about how the election has

00:06:04.580 been conducted, as virtually every prominent Democrat has in all the elections that have

00:06:09.040 been even remotely close or that they've even outright lost for the last, I don't know,

00:06:13.760 for my entire lifetime.

00:06:14.580 Because of that, they're now prosecuting Donald Trump.

00:06:19.140 But there's another Fulton County case because the DA who brought that case and the prosecutor

00:06:25.980 who was prosecuting that case appear to have been shacking up, you know, getting doing some

00:06:32.480 frisky things that husband and wife are supposed to do. 1.00

00:06:34.420 But they're definitely not husband and wife.

00:06:36.040 And it looks as though the DA prosecuting Trump unjustly enriched herself by overpaying her

00:06:44.380 married boyfriend to prosecute the case.

00:06:47.400 And then he was buying her all sorts of nice fancy dinners and trips and all the like.

00:06:51.400 So then she gets prosecuted or she she's at least brought up and questioned by a judge for 0.85

00:06:56.760 this. And the judge has ruled that she can stay on the case so long as she fires her boyfriend. 1.00

00:07:05.620 So her boyfriend can no longer actually be the prosecutor prosecuting Trump, but she gets to be

00:07:11.660 the DA and the prosecution of Trump can continue.

00:07:14.820 This is from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee.

00:07:18.560 I guess it's a it's a it's a as big a win for Fannie Willis and the Democrats going after Trump as

00:07:24.780 as I can imagine. I mean, there was no world in which they said, oh, yeah, enjoy your next

00:07:28.580 vacation to the Caribbean where you're you're getting kickbacks of taxpayer dollars that you're

00:07:32.780 paying your boyfriend to go after the president in an unprecedented kind of prosecution that that

00:07:37.660 is upending our political order. Yeah, I hope you try to try the conch fritters. 0.87

00:07:41.420 They're really nice in St. Martin or wherever you're going to go.

00:07:43.940 So that was never going to happen. So this was the biggest win for her.

00:07:46.760 The prosecution against Trump continues. Her boyfriend's got to step back a little bit.

00:07:50.460 He's going to is going to now, you know, have to go enjoy his Caribbean dinners in private

00:07:56.040 and she gets to keep going after him. The judge did rebuke Fannie Willis, however,

00:08:00.880 for her, quote, tremendous lapse in judgment. He also questioned her honesty about the timing of

00:08:07.960 the relationship beginning between her and this prosecutor. Seems pretty clear to me that the two

00:08:12.840 of them are lying. If you watched any of the testimony, it's pretty clear. And their insistence that

00:08:19.920 their relationship only began after he was hired was contradicted by close friends. And it just

00:08:25.180 stinks to high heaven. They provided no evidence that their that their relationship began when

00:08:29.940 they say it did. McAfee called it, quote, concerning there were no documents to corroborate

00:08:34.800 Willis's claim that she paid her boyfriend back. This was the the the whole corruption question here

00:08:42.160 hinged on. She hires this guy who's totally unqualified to prosecute Trump. She overpays him. 0.93

00:08:48.480 She pays him a ton of money. And then all of a sudden he starts taking her on fancy trips.

00:08:52.300 Now, she says, oh, I paid him back. So the judge says, all right, well, show me the proof that you

00:08:56.580 paid him back. There must be a check. There must be a credit card receipt. There must be this. She

00:08:59.960 must be that. And the best she could come up with was she paid for a roundtrip airplane ticket from,

00:09:05.860 I think it from Atlanta, get Atlanta to it was a very short. It was like an hour flight or something.

00:09:12.680 Meanwhile, he's paying for all these dinners, all these expensive vacations. And she says,

00:09:16.420 no, I paid him back, but it was in cash. So the judge says, well, where'd you get all that cash?

00:09:20.280 He goes, oh, I'm always storing cash all around my house. I've had I've been I've been keeping cash

00:09:24.900 in my house since I took it out of the campaign fund for my first campaign, which is a crime.

00:09:30.100 So she she inadvertently admitted to embezzling campaign funds. They even go after her for that. 1.00

00:09:35.140 She looks as crooked as can possibly be. And the judge admits here. He's like the fact that you 0.79

00:09:40.700 don't have any receipts, you don't have any evidence for paying him back is troubling.

00:09:46.060 But never mind, I'll let you keep prosecuting this. No big deal.

00:09:49.280 Because it, quote, withstood direct contradiction and was corroborated by some other evidence,

00:09:57.120 namely this one really cheap flight that she bought in 2022. Other than that,

00:10:03.260 it looks ridiculous. But but the judge says the claim, quote, was not so incredible as to be 0.86

00:10:08.040 inherently unbelievable. And so because he didn't have them on videotape the whole time,

00:10:13.720 you know, doing all the things they said they didn't do, she gets to keep keep prosecuting. 0.97

00:10:19.220 Now, I mentioned at the top of this that this is maybe good news for Trump. How is this good news

00:10:23.800 for Trump? The prosecution continues. This woman gets a tiny little slap on the wrist. Not even that

00:10:28.440 the unqualified prosecutors out, but they'll just get another one. The reason I think this could be good

00:10:34.420 news for Trump is the reason that Jeffrey Toobin came up with on CNN. You remember Jeffrey Toobin?

00:10:40.460 He's a liberal CNN analyst who had to step away for a while because of some personal scandals. But

00:10:46.220 now he's back. He's no fan of Trump, certainly. He's no conservative Republican. But he comes back

00:10:52.540 and he says this ruling from the judge is actually probably pretty good news for Trump

00:10:57.260 because it just irreparably damages the reputation of the prosecution.

00:11:03.520 Today was a very good day for Donald Trump. This case is going nowhere, even if in the extremely

00:11:11.500 unlikely event that this somehow staggers to trial in August or in the fall. Think about this.

00:11:17.600 There's another racketeering case in Georgia where jury selection, not the trial,

00:11:22.540 jury selection has taken a year. This case is never going to trial before the election.

00:11:31.780 You know, it's an embarrassment, all of this. I mean, Fannie Willis has hung on, but this case

00:11:38.320 is going nowhere very quickly. And as far as I can tell, this trial will be conducted during the

00:11:44.200 presidency of Malia Obama. I mean, it is so far behind. So because Gwen was saying she thinks that

00:11:51.040 the, you know, the, it was an anomaly, the, the Rico case involving young thug that lasted for 10

00:11:56.360 months. Right. I mean, okay. You know, jury selection will take somewhere between a month

00:12:01.000 and a year. I mean, there are lots of legal motions that are still to be decided in this case,

00:12:06.740 just as there are in, in the other cases that Trump is facing.

00:12:10.520 So Fannie Willis has managed to cling on. This has already weakened a very weak type of prosecution.

00:12:19.780 And in this other example of this type of prosecution, the Rico case, it took 10 months.

00:12:24.620 It took a year. Well, the Democrats don't have that kind of time. They've got what,

00:12:29.560 eight months till the election. So on the current timetable, there's no way that this case goes

00:12:37.660 anywhere in any meaningful period of time. And Toobin thinks it's not going to go anywhere ever.

00:12:41.920 He says it'll be the presidency of Malia Obama before we end up seeing, seeing anything.

00:12:47.120 Uh, totally right. Totally right. And even if we hadn't seen the scandal with the prosecutor and

00:12:54.240 the DA, this bizarre, tawdry sex scandal that put them both on the stand that exposed them for,

00:13:01.740 for the, for the gangsters that they are. Ironically, they're going after Trump with,

00:13:06.280 with a legal provision meant to target the mob. And they are behaving like the mob,

00:13:10.920 keeping cash all over their house. I'm waiting for them to pull a gun out of their ankle. 0.96

00:13:15.740 But even, even if the case had not been so weakened in that way, it already

00:13:20.240 was probably going nowhere. This might've just been the death knell. Great news.

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00:13:56.680 for more. President Trump, hot on the heels of this judgment, which at least on the surface

00:14:01.880 looks kind of bad for him, doesn't miss a beat, just goes full bore after Fannie Willis. 0.71

00:14:08.200 All these local cases like Fannie, Fannie. It's spelled Fannie. It's spelled Fannie like your ass, 0.67

00:14:17.700 right Fannie. But when she became DA, she decided to add a little French, a little fancy, Fannie. 1.00

00:14:28.020 Fannie and, you know, Fannie and Mr. and Mrs. Wade, which his wife did not appreciate. His wife didn't

00:14:39.140 appreciate. Can you imagine these two people trying to take down a very popular, I'm a very popular

00:14:44.480 president. I mean, again, I got more votes than any sitting president in history. We have these two

00:14:50.800 lowlifes trying to take down a president of the United States. But you know, equally badly, they went

00:14:57.760 after 26 people. They wanted to make it 48 people. They had some senators that these guys know very well

00:15:05.440 who were indicted, who were ready to be indicted, and somebody stopped it. And they wanted to find

00:15:11.500 out what the hell is going on in Georgia. What's going on with the elections? And it's so crazy.

00:15:18.080 And they almost got indicted for that.

00:15:21.980 The man, I've said it before, he's anti-fragile. This is a term, I've applied this term to Trump since

00:15:30.040 probably 2016. It's a term that's the subject of a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. And it describes

00:15:36.920 things that are pretty sturdy. You know, let's say there's sturdy things. A sturdy thing falls off a

00:15:45.160 table, and it gets a little bit weakened. But it's still strong enough. Okay, it's fine. We'd call that

00:15:52.700 sturdy. We'd call it pretty well-built, pretty strong. Then there are things that are fragile.

00:15:57.060 In fragile things, they fall off a table, they shatter. They just can't withstand a lot of

00:16:03.180 pressure. We think of those as the two categories. There's a third category, though, which Taleb

00:16:08.600 talks about, which are things that are anti-fragile. Things that seem to get tougher the more you damage

00:16:18.220 them, the more you pummel them, the more you attempt to injure them, the stronger the things get.

00:16:22.700 That appears to be the case with Trump. I'm not just saying this to make lemonade out of lemons or

00:16:29.640 anything like that. I'm not just saying because I like the guy. The man is being indicted

00:16:35.540 four different ways. He potentially faces something like 700 years in prison. He obviously doesn't

00:16:44.920 really matter. In any case, he's facing the rest of his life in prison. Corrupt prosecutors are

00:16:53.180 trying to take all of his stuff. They're coming up with ridiculous evaluations for the worth of some 0.98

00:17:00.880 of his properties. I'm going to one of his properties tomorrow, Mar-a-Lago, for an event for a group called

00:17:05.640 Catholics for Catholics. Mar-a-Lago, they're saying, is worth $17 million. Probably one little tiny 0.80

00:17:14.080 piece of that property is worth $17 million without any of the business on top of it, without any of

00:17:19.500 the memberships, without even factoring in that it goes from ocean to ocean. It goes from water to

00:17:26.040 water on Palm Beach, which is one of the most valuable pieces of property in the United States.

00:17:32.280 It's just absurd. But they're just doing it to try to take all of his money away. And still,

00:17:37.500 this guy seems to get more excited every time they go after him. Most politicians, in his case,

00:17:46.420 when they first start going after him, maybe he'd put on some bluster. And then as they continue to

00:17:51.440 go after him, they threaten him with jail time. They threaten to take all his money. They threaten

00:17:54.920 to banish him to St. Helena. Most politicians would get defensive. They'd say, hey, hey, hey,

00:18:01.560 whoa, come on. Hey, this isn't fair. Let's be reasonable here. Okay, I admit, maybe. But with

00:18:06.980 this guy, every time they announce a new prosecution, he goes out and gives an even

00:18:12.180 more boisterous press conference. He seems to get excited by it. He seems to thrive on this.

00:18:16.860 And this isn't anything new in Trump's character. This is what we've seen for 20 years now,

00:18:21.720 or more than 20 years. I mean, the guy's been a tabloid star since the 80s.

00:18:25.560 And he was a network TV star in the early to mid-2000s. And then he would get into these

00:18:31.960 these matches. I don't want to use the vulgar term for it, but he would get into these feuds

00:18:39.260 with Hollywood stars. And he'd seem to relish it. You know, Rosie O'Donnell criticizes him on TV.

00:18:47.320 And then Trump launches a years-long jihad against Rosie O'Donnell that he kept up during the 2016

00:18:54.400 presidential race. He just thrives on this kind of thing. And so now, you know, there's another

00:19:01.060 judgment that seems to hurt him, even though politically it will probably help him. And he

00:19:04.300 says, oh, let's go. I'm going to make fun of Fannie Willis's name. I'm going to compare it to a vulgar 0.98

00:19:09.240 word. I'm going to—and this is the key. The man's real political talent is he can engage

00:19:18.800 people who are otherwise not particularly interested in politics in relatively complex

00:19:26.600 political matters. And that skill should not be undervalued. He is a showman. He is the best

00:19:34.900 showman in America. He's the funniest comedian in America. He's the biggest, best TV star in America.

00:19:39.640 He was the star of the top-rated show on network television for 15 years, okay?

00:19:44.520 There are objective measures to say this guy is very good at what he does. He's very good at

00:19:50.180 capturing attention, keeping people tuned in. What we're talking about here in Fulton County

00:19:54.400 is a complex, dry, and boring case involving a RICO statute, a racketeering law. It's my job to read

00:20:04.180 about this thing. And even I kind of get lost in the weeds on what exactly they're trying to argue

00:20:07.940 here. But Trump can convey this to ordinary voters who are going about their lives, have their jobs,

00:20:14.520 have their families, do not for a living, you know, read all of these kinds of court briefings and

00:20:21.180 news reports, and he can connect it for them. He can weave this into a narrative that is compelling

00:20:29.840 for the ordinary person. Most politicians, virtually no politicians can do that. That's a very impressive

00:20:36.420 political skill. This is why Trump's coalition requires getting voters who are unlikely to be

00:20:43.720 that engaged to come out and vote. That's one of the ways he was able to win in 2016. That's why

00:20:49.740 the Democrats had to change all the voting rules in 2020 and use COVID as an excuse to do it.

00:20:54.020 That's how the man is still capturing the attention of voters, even as the elite political class

00:20:59.660 was praying that virtually 97% of the elite political class was praying that some non-Trump

00:21:06.000 candidate would be the nominee in 2020. But it was never going to happen. And the reason they didn't

00:21:11.020 see it is because there is a major chasm between the Trump base and Americans who do not regularly

00:21:17.620 travel to the Beltway and the elite political class. Trump gets it. And if anyone wants to challenge

00:21:24.200 the guy and take the mantle from him for the Republican Party, they're going to need to try to get on

00:21:29.380 his level, which is probably not possible. There's so much more to say. First, though,

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00:22:48.660 Preborn.com slash Knowles. Enough of Fannie Willis. We are going to stick to the topic of 1.00

00:22:54.940 liberal black women. Kamala Harris is a real problem for the Democrat party. Don't take my 1.00

00:23:01.220 word for it. You can read about it in the Washington Post. Washington Post, perhaps the

00:23:06.960 house organ of the liberal establishment, just ran an editorial. This was written by Kathleen Parker,

00:23:14.880 called on VP Kamala Harris to step aside for the country's sake.

00:23:20.960 The Kamala conundrum comes down to this, she writes. She was picked because she was black and 1.00

00:23:27.100 female, a combo tantamount to job security. Now that she's become a burden to the Democratic ticket, 1.00

00:23:32.280 Biden can't fire her. He can't risk alienating his base, full stop. Totally true. I totally agree 0.98

00:23:38.980 with this Washington Post writer. I don't say that very often, but I say it there.

00:23:45.020 Quote, the seriousness of this situation can't be overstated. Biden's diminishing faculties,

00:23:49.700 notwithstanding his relatively successful State of the Union address, and his increasing physical

00:23:54.320 frailty are concerning. Every honest person knows he's not in top form. A recent New York Times poll

00:23:59.720 found that 73% of registered voters believe Biden is too old to be the nation's top executive.

00:24:04.820 This includes 61% of those who voted for him in 2020.

00:24:14.000 That is so totally true, and I'm enjoying Schadenfreude. I just love it. I loved every word that I read

00:24:24.260 of this Washington Post piece, because she's right. And this is a tragedy for the Democrats,

00:24:31.080 a tragedy in the truest sense of the term. The potential downfall here is not coming from some

00:24:39.880 external factor. It's not coming from some uncontrollable environmental event. The potential

00:24:46.640 downfall for the Democrats here, for Joe Biden and for that whole party, is coming from one of their own

00:24:53.480 character flaws, one of their own mistakes that they couldn't overcome, and so it just causes

00:24:57.840 their downfall. This is the consequence, not just of Joe Biden's cynical decision to pick a black 1.00

00:25:06.200 woman and to exclude any other candidate from the race. But he said, I need to pick a Democrat, 0.99

00:25:12.220 prominent black woman. There were three people who could have filled that role, 1.00

00:25:15.800 who were actually even somewhat plausibly able to serve as the running mate. That was Susan Rice. 1.00

00:25:22.580 She was out, though, because she's not all that charismatic. She's fairly competent, it seems,

00:25:26.640 but she was not that charismatic on the campaign trail, and she was Obama's fall man for Benghazi.

00:25:31.260 So Obama destroyed her political career. She's out. The other one was Karen Bass. She is an actual

00:25:39.140 communist. She was a member of communist organizations and a Looney Tunes Congress lady

00:25:45.100 from California at the time. That was not going to fly. So the only other option was Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:25:51.320 She was just the last woman standing, and Biden picked her, even though he probably doesn't like 0.87

00:25:54.700 her very much because her campaign was focused on how he's a terrible racist. So he picks her

00:25:59.660 cynically because she's a black woman and he's a white man. But it's so much worse than that for 0.92

00:26:05.600 the Democrats. This is so far beyond Joe Biden. This is a consequence of the Democrats' anti-white,

00:26:11.260 anti-male bigotry. That's it. The Democrat Party has decided to adopt a form of identity politics 0.97

00:26:18.240 that maligns white men in particular, also Christians, also people who are in any way traditional,

00:26:28.460 people who have ordinary, traditional, sexual, and romantic family behaviors, and those guys are out. 0.79

00:26:35.040 But especially white people and men. Now they got to deal with that because they have a pretty good 0.90

00:26:43.460 candidate in the wings. That would be Gavin Newsom, but he's a white man. Seems to be straight. He

00:26:50.340 seems to be all the things that Democrats hate, so they can't pick him. And then they're all floating

00:26:56.120 this idea of Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama doesn't want to be president. She was the only person, 0.85

00:27:00.760 I guess, who could take over for Kamala Harris. Not going to happen. Who's left? You're going to 0.90

00:27:05.760 pick Susan Rice? You're going to pick Karen Bass? I don't think so. You're done. You're done. Sorry,

00:27:11.160 guys. You made your bed. Now lie in it. I'm not saying Biden can't win. He can win.

00:27:17.220 The liberals control the media. They could rig the election again. It would be a little harder

00:27:21.840 because they don't have the excuse of a global pandemic. I'm not saying Biden can't win.

00:27:26.840 Things could turn around for Biden. But as of now, the Democrats seem quite worried he's going to

00:27:31.820 lose. And if he does, it will be because of their own flaws. Now, speaking of racial ideology, Advil

00:27:39.260 has just decided that pain is racist. I should not have to beg my doctor to

00:27:47.680 run tests or ask them to take another look.

00:27:56.840 Advil hosted a roundtable. Welcome to Believe My Pain, a discussion about systemic pain bias in

00:28:07.280 healthcare. I want to thank all of you and all of you for joining me today as we talk about this

00:28:12.200 very important issue. I also want to thank the Pain Equity Project developed by Advil in partnership

00:28:18.000 with the Morehouse School of Medicine and Black Health for inviting us to be a part of their commitment

00:28:22.760 to addressing pain bias in black communities. Pain bias. We need pain equity. If that doesn't sum up

00:28:29.920 this whole ideology, I don't know what does. We need pain. We need everyone to feel pain.

00:28:34.460 We need pain equity. You whites aren't feeling enough pain and you're going to feel more pain. 0.99

00:28:39.980 We're going to make sure of it. We're Advil. We used to be a pain reliever. Now we're a pain 0.95

00:28:43.920 multiplier for white people. We need pain equity. I guess they could mean that no one's going to have 0.93

00:28:50.900 any pain anymore. I don't know how they're going to achieve that. There's not enough Advil in the

00:28:54.640 world because this is a fallen world. So where does this crazy ideology come from? Comes from

00:29:01.240 liberal utopia, liberal utopianism. The utopia, frankly, the liberal part, both that view, which is so

00:29:14.060 prominent today, fundamentally denies original sin. I believe in original sin. Christians believe in 1.00

00:29:25.700 original sin. Even non-Christians broadly agree. Jews certainly believe in something akin to original 1.00

00:29:34.520 sin. It's right there in the very first book of the Bible. Muslims do. Even sensible pagans do. 1.00

00:29:44.060 The reason to believe in original sin is not because of some mystical intuition or strictly

00:29:50.180 because of revelation. It's because we all have eyes and experience the world. And we recognize

00:29:54.800 that the world is broken. There's just something fundamentally broken. And we all sin and bad

00:30:00.740 things happen to good people. And there's just something broken about this world. Suffering is a part

00:30:05.860 of this world. What the liberals say is, no, we're not fundamentally broken.

00:30:12.660 Christian, Christians recognizing the problem of original sin, see that we can't actually ever save

00:30:19.820 ourselves. We require God's grace and we cooperate with God's grace. It's not like we don't have any

00:30:25.180 role in it. It's not as though we don't have any free will, but we require God's grace. We're not going

00:30:30.080 to save ourselves. The liberals, the liberal utopians, they say, no, we can save ourselves. First of all,

00:30:37.360 we've got to get rid of all that old fuddy-duddy religion that's inhibiting progress. And then what 0.99

00:30:42.280 we need to do is just be really, really rational. And we're just going to construct a proper society

00:30:49.020 that eliminates all the causes of the pain, which are systemic injustice. If we were just a little

00:30:55.040 more rational, if we were just a little bit more technocratic, then we would eliminate all that

00:31:00.300 systemic structural injustice. And then we wouldn't have any pain and then we'd all be happy. And you

00:31:06.980 hear this with the techno-utopians. They'll say, then we're going to cure death. Then we're going to

00:31:11.020 upload our brains to the cloud. Then we're going to live forever, man. And it's all going to be really

00:31:15.360 groovy, right? It's not going to happen. And their attempts to do so are probably only going to cause

00:31:20.200 more pain. But that's the fundamental distinction. The Christians and the normal people understand that 0.92

00:31:26.040 there is such a thing as original sin because it's a fallen world. And the liberal utopians say,

00:31:29.680 not necessarily, you know, for all of human history, everywhere in the world, we've been

00:31:33.680 trying to fix this problem. But we're very close to the solution. Just give us a little more time

00:31:39.040 and money. Okay. That's one problem. A derivative of that problem is the ideology of egalitarianism.

00:31:46.980 The notion that we're all just the same. We're all just exactly the same. There's really no

00:31:51.360 distinction between any of us. Now, of course, there are distinctions between people. There's

00:31:57.160 distinctions between men and women. There's distinctions between the races. There's

00:32:00.920 distinctions between cultures. There's distinctions between geographies. There's distinctions between

00:32:05.460 classes. There's distinctions between all sorts of distinctions between ages. The liberals want to

00:32:11.120 deny all of that. But the consequence of that is if you start with the premise that we're all pretty

00:32:19.220 much exactly the same, then when disparities of outcome present themselves inevitably, the only

00:32:27.660 cause of that, if there's no original sin, if it's not a fallen world, if there are no distinctions and

00:32:33.600 natural inequalities between people, then the only cause of that can be some systemic structural

00:32:40.220 injustice, systemic racism, systemic sexism, systemic whateverism. That can be the only answer.

00:32:47.360 Black men run faster than white men, generally. That's just a general rule that has always been

00:32:56.780 true and will always be true. White men swim faster than black men. That's another one. That's just 1.00

00:33:06.360 true. It's just always been true. It always will be true. Men run faster than women. You see that issue 1.00

00:33:13.700 coming to a head in the transgender debate. Why is it though? Why is it that black guys run faster 1.00

00:33:18.840 than white guys and white guys swim faster than black guys? There's a study. I googled it. I said, 0.97

00:33:23.580 what's the explanation for this? There's a study from 2010. I'm sure there have been many other

00:33:26.900 studies. This is from the International Journal of Design and Nature and Ecodynamics. Here's what they

00:33:31.600 say, just in the abstract. Here we explain a much avoided phenomenon in the evolution of speed

00:33:37.500 sports for men and women. The world records in running tend to be set by black athletes and in

00:33:41.620 swimming by white athletes. We show that this phenomenon is predictable from physics. Locomotion 0.99

00:33:45.900 is a falling forward cycle in which body mass falls forward and then rises again. Mass that falls from

00:33:51.240 a higher altitude falls faster, down and forward. In running, the altitude L1 is set by the position

00:33:56.780 of the center of mass above the ground. In swimming, the altitude is set by the upper body rising above

00:34:02.560 the water, and it is proportional to HL1, where H is the height of the athlete. Stick with me.

00:34:08.180 They're using variables and certain jargon. The anthropometric literature shows that the center

00:34:14.600 of mass in blacks is 3% higher above the ground than in whites. This means that blacks hold a 1.5% 0.99

00:34:22.200 speed advantage in running, and whites hold a 1.5% speed advantage in swimming. Among athletes of the

00:34:28.900 same height, Asians are even more favored than whites in swimming, but they are not setting records because

00:34:34.200 they are not as tall. Boom. That's it. Simple enough. You don't really need a scientific study

00:34:38.900 to tell you that. You already kind of know that from common sense if you have eyes and any experience

00:34:43.080 of the world, but that's that. So what? What are you going to do about that? Are Asians going to get 1.00

00:34:50.720 taller? Are black people and white people going to suddenly change their center of mass? No, 0.94

00:34:58.560 it's not going to happen. That's just a natural inequality. So if we can accept those kinds of

00:35:05.100 natural inequalities, and we do our best to be as just to everyone as we possibly can,

00:35:09.840 but we just recognize that people are kind of different. Men and women are different.

00:35:13.120 People from different cultures and geographies are different. Yeah, okay, we do that. We'll probably

00:35:17.460 have a great time and all flourish. But if we deny that, you're going to just keep banging your head

00:35:25.100 against a wall because the further your ideology strays from reality, the more frustrated and angry

00:35:31.120 and revolutionary and resentful you're going to get. And all of a sudden, you're going to say that

00:35:35.660 pain is racist. Pain, a fact of a fallen world experienced by everyone, you're going to say, no,

00:35:42.760 I deserve to live without any pain ever. And I'm sure all of the disfavored groups, all my perceived

00:35:48.940 enemies, they don't have any pain. I'm the only one with pain and my pain is the only pain

00:35:52.380 that matters. And that kind of resentful ideology is fueling our political system today,

00:35:59.220 and it will not end very well. And we're going to need more than a couple of Advil to fix that

00:36:04.160 problem. Today, as many of you have very delightfully tweeted at me and messaged me,

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00:38:07.820 be 21 years old or older. Some exclusions apply. My favorite comment yesterday, or on Friday,

00:38:14.480 I suppose, is from Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music. I'm telling you, I don't look at the names

00:38:18.960 in the comment. I just look at the comment. But the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music keeps popping up

00:38:23.440 as one of my favorites, who writes, for Kamala Harris to care about the southern border, 0.82

00:38:28.840 there has to be a Planned Parenthood built over there. That explains it. That explains how we're

00:38:34.720 going to be able to get the vice president to visit the southern border. We're going to have to

00:38:39.920 stop pointing out that illegal aliens are killing American citizens. And we can just suggest to her 1.00

00:38:46.100 that actually a lot of American citizens are killing American citizens, their own children down

00:38:50.060 there. So you're more than welcome to go. And then she would run. She would run down there like

00:38:54.480 the Roadrunner. Speaking of illegal aliens, Tyson Foods is reportedly hiring lots of illegal aliens in

00:39:04.420 New York City. Tyson already employs about 42,000 immigrants and refugees. Now, it's unclear,

00:39:12.920 naturally, how many of those people are illegal aliens. Tyson doesn't want to release those numbers

00:39:18.520 in its very nature. It's an opaque question. But we're talking 42,000 immigrants and refugees,

00:39:26.280 including, one would imagine, a lot of illegal aliens. Garrett Dolan, who's an HR leader at Tyson,

00:39:35.300 just told Bloomberg, we would like to employ another 42,000 if we could find them.

00:39:40.540 You want another? Let's just say for a moment that immigrants and refugees is a euphemism for 0.98

00:39:47.260 illegal aliens. I'm not saying it is, but if I were a gambler man, I'd put my money on it. 1.00

00:39:52.340 You've already got 42,000 of these people, most of whom shouldn't be in the country, 1.00

00:39:56.700 working for you. And you say, yeah, I wish we could violate the law even more.

00:40:00.140 Oh boy, you bet. Or I wish we could help others to violate the law even more, even if we're not

00:40:06.120 legally liable. Absolutely. Why? Why is that? The HR manager tells us. He says, they're very,

00:40:15.380 very loyal. They've been uprooted, and what they want is stability. What they want is a sense of

00:40:20.140 belonging. I think he just said the quiet part out loud. This is why big business loves illegal

00:40:27.060 immigration. Big business loves illegal immigration because illegal aliens are easy to exploit. 0.98

00:40:32.620 They don't have very much. They're very grateful for any job that you will give them. They're willing

00:40:39.560 to accept low wages. They're willing to accept bad working conditions. They're willing to accept

00:40:45.200 really long hours. They're willing to accept not having any legal protections because they're not

00:40:50.400 in this country legally. They're willing to accept all sorts of things. One, out of a sincere gratitude

00:40:57.020 that they have something here, economic opportunity, that they didn't have back in Honduras or wherever

00:41:01.600 they came from. But that's just the carrot. There's also the stick part. The reason that

00:41:06.220 illegal aliens are very easy to exploit by big business is that if they ever step out of line, 0.99

00:41:12.240 it's going to be one phone call to ICE, and those guys are going to be on a plane tomorrow.

00:41:16.300 It's not that immigration enforcement in the United States can't deport people.

00:41:19.700 It certainly can deport people. It just doesn't because powerful, entrenched interests in the

00:41:25.240 government and in big business don't want them to. The Democrats in the government don't want them

00:41:30.060 to because they view the illegal aliens as a future voting base that will give them a permanent 0.97

00:41:34.660 electoral majority. But big business, many of whom would call themselves Republicans,

00:41:39.160 they're sort of just chamber of commerce Republicans, they like illegal immigration because they get a

00:41:44.100 cheap, easily exploitable labor market. And so the crisis goes on. No matter which president we elect,

00:41:50.820 we get more and more mass migration. And it causes major social problems. 0.95

00:41:55.600 It kills people like Lake and Riley in Georgia and many others. It encourages exploitation,

00:42:04.100 especially sexual exploitation. There was a survey came out from Fusion and Amnesty International

00:42:09.300 years ago at this point. So long before we had a mass migration crisis at this level.

00:42:14.700 And it suggested that something like 60 to 80 percent of women and girls who cross the southern

00:42:18.960 border illegally are raped or otherwise sexually assaulted on the journey. Because the cartels,

00:42:23.560 some of the worst people on the face of the earth control the entirety of the border.

00:42:27.960 So you've got this horrific cruelty going on. But it's being encouraged by the biggest,

00:42:35.420 most powerful interests in the country. And they smile about it. The HR leader at Tyson,

00:42:39.860 he says, oh, it's great. These guys are so loyal. Yeah, it's fabulous. We get them all in a cabin on our

00:42:46.360 plantation, sorry, I mean our factory. And we give them a little bit of food and stuff,

00:42:50.260 a little bit of clothing and they never leave. It's amazing because they don't have anything

00:42:56.160 and we threaten them. So it's really great. You know, they're really loyal. I wish we could

00:43:00.200 hire a bunch more of them. Can we import some more slaves? Yeah. Why didn't anyone think of this

00:43:04.500 before? It's amazing. You know, you don't have to pay these guys very much and they're afraid of

00:43:08.460 you. Yeah. They don't have any rights or anything. Wow. What a great idea. We need to enshrine this

00:43:15.120 into law. Oh, wait, we can't. Because if it were illegal and we couldn't exploit them. Okay.

00:43:19.460 Yeah. Anyway, though, keep them coming, baby. Biden, come on, send us some more. 1.00

00:43:24.800 Not noble, not legal, not conducive to the flourishing of the United States.

00:43:31.820 Speaking of liberal policy priorities, really disturbing story out of Politico. That's true

00:43:38.520 most days, but this one's especially disturbing. A apparently well-known Democrat political

00:43:45.800 consultant is going to die on Thursday. How do I know that? Do I see the future? Am I

00:43:51.460 Noel Stradamus? No, it's not, not quite that. He's going to die because he scheduled his suicide.

00:43:58.300 And why'd he schedule his suicide? Well, according to Politico on Thursday, March 21st,

00:44:02.940 one of the Democratic Party's most accomplished campaign consultants will die. Hal Malchow has

00:44:08.180 been planning for this day ever since 1987, when a genetic marker revealed he was likely to develop

00:44:13.060 Alzheimer's. He was barely 35, political operative, who'd come off managing Al Gore's first Senate

00:44:18.960 campaign while overcome with worry about his mother's early descent into dementia. Malchow resolved at that

00:44:25.180 time that he would commit suicide before, they say, take his own life. They, you know, it's sort of,

00:44:30.720 they like to use these euphemisms and take his own life before he became too diminished

00:44:36.080 and became a burden to those around him. So around his 72nd birthday last year, Malchow began

00:44:42.060 communicating with an assisted end of life organization. End of, it's just end of life

00:44:47.380 euthanasia. Euthanasia, which literally means good death. And it ironically means exactly the opposite.

00:44:54.060 It's the worst kind of death that is possible. It's the most unnatural and evil kind of death that is

00:44:59.100 possible. Where you not only die, you suffer in pain because it's a fallen world and we're mortal

00:45:05.300 and we're all going to die. No one here gets out of life in the terrestrial sense at least. But you

00:45:10.680 also commit a sin. You become your own murderer. So the last act that you ever perform is not just

00:45:18.260 to suffer with dignity and die as we all will die someday, but you actually murder someone, namely 0.95

00:45:23.440 yourself. And it divides the person into two people. It divides you against yourself and is just

00:45:31.560 extremely unnatural and evil. To say nothing of the political cruelty of it, you know, we call suicide

00:45:38.760 a selfish act because it harms the people around us. If you've ever dealt with a suicide, a friend,

00:45:46.520 a family member, you know that the loved ones of that person never recover, really. You know,

00:45:54.640 time heals all wounds to some degree, but they never totally get over it. It is a scandal and a

00:46:01.460 trauma that endures. And if a loved one, if a parent, for instance, commits suicide, you are much

00:46:06.140 more likely to commit suicide yourself. This is a political problem that spreads throughout the

00:46:10.360 community. This is why, obviously, there's a Christian prohibition on slavery. There is a

00:46:16.620 natural law argument against slavery. And there were pagan arguments against slavery. Plato talks

00:46:23.540 about this in particular. When I was at UW-Madison, I was speaking with a very intelligent political

00:46:27.940 scientist out there who pointed out the ancient Greek idea of miasma, of miasma as a kind of pollution

00:46:38.340 that just spreads throughout the polity, the community. And the miasma will come as a result 0.98

00:46:46.960 of violent acts and specifically suicide. Why is that? Well, is it just because those old ancient 0.97

00:46:53.860 Greeks were superstitious? Not sure it's quite that. And he used a great example. He said,

00:46:59.100 you go to a realtor, you say, I want to buy a home. You look at a few homes, you say, oh, I really

00:47:04.080 like that home. The realtor says, okay, well, I should just disclose to you the previous owner

00:47:07.920 he killed himself. He shot his whole family and then he killed himself in the home. But don't

00:47:13.880 worry. They wiped all the blood off the walls. It's all fine. They did it deeply and it's all okay.

00:47:17.800 Do you still want to buy it? Probably you're going to say no thanks. Why? It's not purely rational

00:47:26.660 in the sense that, you know, it's all clean. It's fine. There's no, what are you worried about?

00:47:30.220 You worried about ghosts haunting? You know, you're worried. You say, I don't know. It's just kind of like

00:47:33.380 bad juju. You know, I just don't know, man. It's kind of, I don't want that. Well, bad juju is

00:47:39.100 miasma and it's an ancient concept and it requires rituals to sort of undo it. What it expresses too 0.98

00:47:46.200 is a recognition that when you kill yourself, you harm the political community because you're part

00:47:51.300 of the political community and we depend one upon another because we're a social creature and the

00:47:55.160 political animal to flourish. We don't flourish, you know, alone in the woods somewhere or floating in

00:48:00.560 outer space. We flourish all together. This is why when the economy does, does poorly, you lose money.

00:48:05.860 This is why when the cops stop arresting people, you are more in danger. It's why these social

00:48:13.080 problems affect you and this hyper individualism pushed by the left and some quarters of the right

00:48:19.540 is going to lead to a lot of social and political decay and it's going to make your life a lot worse.

00:48:27.020 But natural for the Democrat party, which is a very selfish party and is the party of death. 0.87

00:48:33.100 It's a party that celebrates death. It has made a sort of sacrament out of killing babies. 0.99

00:48:38.620 It extols the virtues of not having any children and now it suggests that people ought to kill 0.99

00:48:42.740 themselves, not just when they're very old, but even when they're younger and younger. 0.96

00:48:46.240 Very bad idea. We should pray that this guy doesn't actually go through with it. We should pray for

00:48:50.700 his soul. We should try to convince him not to go through with it. And as a political matter,

00:48:56.100 we should convince all of us, all parties, all around the country, every group, including

00:49:02.960 the redneck hippies and just the hippies and the rednecks and everyone in between, we should 0.78

00:49:07.800 convince them to stop being so freaking selfish and to stop focusing on purely self-interest 0.65

00:49:17.260 without any care for the common good. That is from antiquity through the present, a marker

00:49:22.760 of when societies go bad. When all you do is ever think about the self and not the common good,

00:49:27.780 the actual political community, things are going to go really bad. And ironically,

00:49:31.620 it's going to hurt your own self-interest. It always does.

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 18, 2024

Ep. 1448 - Willie Nelson Releases Lib Triggering Song

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