The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1456 - $16 Million! Jon Stewart's Trump Attack BACKFIRES

00:00:00.000 A lot of the supposed crimes the liberals are in trying to imprison Trump over seem a little bit

00:00:05.620 weak to most people. He held on to some documents from his time in office, like many of his

00:00:11.360 predecessors and even his successor, Joe Biden, before he was his successor, before he was even

00:00:16.040 president. He called the Georgia Secretary of State when there seemed to be election irregularities.

00:00:24.180 He incorrectly estimated the value of some of his properties. To most people, I think,

00:00:30.000 those supposed crimes don't really rise to the level of imprisoning a former president

00:00:36.260 who happens to be the current leader of the political opposition, which is why Jon Stewart,

00:00:41.380 in his heroic return to the Daily Show News Desk, is here to explain to us why that last crime is

00:00:48.760 super duper serious. And the attorney general of New York knew that Trump's property values were

00:00:57.040 inflated because when it came time to pay taxes, Trump undervalued the very same properties. It

00:01:02.240 was all part of a very sophisticated real estate practice known as lying.

00:01:08.000 So the judge calculated that the value that he gained from the lying with interest was around

00:01:12.620 $454 million. Now, you might be saying to yourself, well, that sounds pretty straightforward. Whatever

00:01:16.840 gains you got from lying, you have to pay back. Well, that's because you're a f***ing idiot. 1.00

00:01:20.620 If you knew anything about business, if you had an MBA, you'd know. You're a f***ing idiot. 1.00

00:01:27.260 We're talking about a victimless crime. They find an ordinance or a law that has never been used 1.00

00:01:33.020 ever before in anyone else. He's committed bank fraud where there's no victim. It makes no sense.

00:01:39.500 No victims. There was no victim. Because they are not victimless crimes. First,

00:01:44.860 the banks got paid back at lower interest rates. Although, to be honest, who gives a s***? But 0.97

00:01:50.020 second, money isn't infinite. A loan that goes to the liar doesn't go to someone who's giving a more

00:01:56.460 honest evaluation. So the system becomes incentivized for corruption. And this is part of a different

00:02:03.360 Trump fraud case. But avoiding taxes hurts all of us. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. What Trump did

00:02:10.920 cheats the little guy? It opens the door to corruption. It hurts all of us. And apparently,

00:02:18.520 Jon Stewart did pretty much the exact same thing. According to assessor records obtained by the New

00:02:24.320 York Post, in 2013 and 2014, Jon Stewart's Tribeca home had an estimated market value of a little under

00:02:32.360 $1.9 million. It's kind of odd. Tribeca is probably the nicest neighborhood in Manhattan,

00:02:39.440 which is the nicest part of New York, which is one of the most expensive places in the country.

00:02:43.460 $1.9 million? The assessor value was even lower than that. Significantly lower. It was just $847,174,

00:02:54.280 which is strange. Because that same year, 2014, Jon Stewart sold his property for $17.5 million.

00:03:02.700 It's a pretty big difference. Stewart's property sold for more than 20 times the amount that the

00:03:11.460 tax assessor valued it to be, which means that Jon Stewart paid significantly lower property taxes

00:03:19.700 than he should have, which means that Jon Stewart did the very same thing that he lambasted Trump for

00:03:26.940 doing, which always happens. The libs accused Trump of colluding with Russia. We later find out that not

00:03:34.660 only did Trump not collude with Russia, but they did. The libs accused Trump of threatening to withhold

00:03:41.060 aid from Ukraine if Ukraine didn't perform special favors for him. We later find out not only did he not

00:03:47.600 do that, Joe Biden actually did that exact same thing as vice president. The Georgia prosecutors

00:03:53.600 accused Trump of running a mob-like corruption scheme. We later find out it's the DA and the

00:03:59.120 prosecutor themselves who are taking kickbacks and acting like the mafia. Now, even on this somewhat

00:04:06.940 niche accusation, misvaluing New York real estate, we find that the liberals attacking him once again

00:04:14.460 have done the misdeeds themselves. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:04:23.600 The feds have raided P. Diddy's home. Puff Diggity Dog. Snoop Puff. I don't know. He's had a lot of

00:04:46.440 names over the years, but I want to say I told you so. But really, since he emerged on the scene,

00:04:53.780 with all the drugs and the sex and the rap and everything, I was a little skeptical of the guy.

00:04:58.980 I was not convinced that he was living his life as a paragon of virtue. But who knows? The federal

00:05:06.240 government is also extremely corrupt. So the whole story is really crazy. We'll get into it in just

00:05:10.220 a moment. First, however, you got to get your smells and bells candle, baby, because what day is it?

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00:06:10.060 Everything the libs accuse Trump of doing, they have also done or done a more egregious version

00:06:14.480 of it. How's it looking according to Bloomberg and Morning Consult? So these are not exactly right

00:06:20.700 wing institutions. Trump is absolutely destroying the competition with facts and logic and votes.

00:06:28.380 In six out of seven swing states, Trump is winning. And it's not just a head-to-head

00:06:35.940 Trump versus Biden, because that's probably not what the race is going to look like.

00:06:39.780 The Bloomberg Morning Consult poll is looking at Trump versus Biden versus JFK Jr. versus

00:06:46.780 Cornel West versus Jill Stein. Stein, Cornel West, even Bobby Kennedy Jr. are not going to take a ton

00:06:53.780 of votes away from the two main candidates. But they could be decisive. If it's even remotely a

00:06:59.080 close race, which probably will be, because Donald Trump is very popular and the Democrats cheat. So

00:07:04.740 no, no, even the Democrats have some voters, many of whom are dead, but some of whom are alive.

00:07:11.400 In any case, if it's a tight margin, the Cornel West vote, the Jill Stein vote, certainly the Bobby

00:07:18.720 Kennedy Jr. vote, could be decisive. So right now in North Carolina, Trump is up six. Pennsylvania,

00:07:23.900 Trump is up six, even though good old Scranton Joe comes from the blue-collar towns of Pennsylvania.

00:07:30.020 Well, Trump is crushing him there right now. Arizona, Trump's up six. Nevada, Trump up six.

00:07:34.700 Georgia, Trump is up six. Oh, sorry, Trump is up seven. It's unclear, though, if pipes bursting in the

00:07:41.580 middle of the night will affect that score. Wisconsin, Trump is up two. So you'd like him to have a

00:07:48.140 little bit more of a buffer. And then Michigan right now is a tie. So in none of the seven swing

00:07:53.080 states is Joe Biden currently leading. But what is this going to mean? Why is Trump doing so well

00:08:01.300 with these other candidates in the race? Well, that's because Jill Stein, if she takes votes from 1.00

00:08:05.760 anyone, she's the Green Party candidate, she's going to take votes from Joe Biden. Cornel West,

00:08:11.600 if he takes votes from anyone, he's going to take votes from Joe Biden because he's a radical leftist.

00:08:16.820 So for some leftists, Joe is just too moderate. Amazing to say, but he is. I mean, in his political

00:08:25.600 career, Joe Biden always positioned himself as a moderate. Now, because Joe Biden doesn't know

00:08:29.940 what his name is, it would seem that other people are pulling the marionette strings. And so

00:08:33.600 he engages in policies that are pretty radically leftist, totally embracing transgender ideology, 0.89

00:08:40.380 embracing open borders in a way that we've never seen before in American history. Millions and

00:08:45.080 millions of foreign nationals flooding the country. But even that is not far left enough for some 0.98

00:08:50.280 voters. So they could go over to Cornel West, especially this wedge issue of the Israel-Palestine

00:08:55.160 conflict. The Democrat establishment is still broadly pro-Israel. The Democrat base is vehemently

00:09:01.420 pro-Palestine liberation. So that's going to be an issue where some people are going to say,

00:09:06.680 I just, I hate Biden's Israel policy. So I need to vote for someone else. They're not going to vote

00:09:12.280 for Trump. Trump is also extremely pro-Israel. So they're going to end up voting for someone

00:09:16.060 like Cornel West, who's made Israel-Palestine a big part of his campaign. And then you get into

00:09:20.680 JFK, or RFK rather. But even the rhetorical mistake I just made, I think shows you the potency

00:09:27.740 of an RFK race. Because there are a lot of Democrats who think, man, I've been a Democrat my whole life,

00:09:34.440 but the party's gone off the rails and Biden's an embarrassment. I miss the good old days of the

00:09:38.940 Democratic Party. You know, the good old days, like the days of John F. Kennedy. How many people

00:09:44.660 say I'm a Kennedy Democrat? I came of political age during the Kennedy race. A lot of boomers say

00:09:50.840 that. And RFK Jr. is a Kennedy. And his dad ran for president too. And his uncle was the president. So

00:09:58.360 who's that going to help? Who's that going to hurt? I've said from the beginning, I think that

00:10:04.480 the Kennedy candidacy helps Trump and hurts Biden. Yesterday, as I mentioned on the show,

00:10:11.020 Bobby Kennedy picked his running mate, who is a big lib, like a huge lib, like the former wife of 1.00

00:10:16.740 Sergey Brin from Google, who's got a ton of money, who's supported Biden 2020, who's given a lot of

00:10:22.400 money to left-wing causes. Well, Trump is jumping on this bandwagon too. He says, RFK Jr. is the most

00:10:28.140 radical left candidate in the race by far. He's a big fan of the Green News scam and other economy

00:10:33.160 killing disasters. I guess this would mean he's going to be taking votes from crooked Joe Biden,

00:10:38.140 which would be a great service to America. His running mate, Nicole Shanahan, is even more

00:10:41.940 liberal, in quotes, than him, if that's possible. Kennedy is a radical left Democrat and always

00:10:46.760 will be, three exclamation points. It's great for MAGA, but the communists will make it very hard for

00:10:52.620 him to get on the ballot. Expect him and her to be indicted any day now, probably for environmental

00:10:58.160 fraud. He's crooked Joe Biden's political opponent, not mine. I love that he is running.

00:11:03.160 And I think Trump is being sincere here. I agree with everything that Joe Biden just said,

00:11:10.200 or I'm sorry, that Donald Trump just said here. I agree that he is Joe Biden's opponent.

00:11:17.720 I agree that Joe Biden, much more than Donald Trump, is going to be motivated

00:11:21.620 to take Kennedy out of the race. And I love that Bobby Kennedy is running,

00:11:26.640 which means that at the very least, the Democrats are going to try to deny him a ballot line in most

00:11:32.400 states. That's why there was some talk that Kennedy might be looking at the libertarian line.

00:11:37.040 Even though Kennedy is not exactly a libertarian, the libertarians have ballot access in all 50

00:11:42.140 states. And if Kennedy wants to pose any kind of challenge to Biden and Trump, he needs to be on

00:11:47.300 the ballot. So he's not going to do that as an independent candidate. He needs some party ballot

00:11:51.840 access. That could happen. And if that happens, maybe Joe Biden indicts him for something,

00:11:57.020 spread misinformation. They'll do anything they can. Trump here trying to point out two things.

00:12:05.780 One, he's trying to tell his supporters don't even consider voting for Bobby Kennedy. Even though you

00:12:12.240 like Bobby Kennedy on the vaccines, don't consider voting for him. He's a radical leftist. But he's

00:12:17.340 also then trying to give an incentive to the actual leftists to vote for him. He's saying, oh,

00:12:23.920 he supports the Green New Deal. Joe Biden doesn't totally support the Green New Deal.

00:12:27.540 Oh, he supports this. Oh, he supports that. Oh, he picked this radical left-wing vice president.

00:12:33.180 It's all to say, hey, disaffected leftists, go vote for this guy. It's a nice little wedge.

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00:13:57.520 Corrine Jean-Pierre, the White House Press Secretary, was just being interviewed on a radio station in

00:14:03.220 Charlotte. She was asked a question. I don't think a provocative question. I don't think an unfair

00:14:10.640 question. I think she was asked a very fair and pertinent question that she didn't like, so she

00:14:16.420 ran away. I told a number of people that I was talking to you today that it was interesting, though.

00:14:22.820 They all said, would you please just ask her, does the president have dementia? And so before I move

00:14:29.220 on from that, does he? Mark, I can't even believe you're asking me this question. That is a credibly

00:14:35.260 offensive question to ask. But you know people ask it. Wait, oh, let me, no, no, no, no, no, no. You,

00:14:41.080 Mark, you, you, you, you took, you're taking us down this rabbit hole. Let me, let me, let me be very

00:14:47.300 clear about this. For the past several years, the president's physician has laid out very, in a

00:14:55.160 comprehensive way, the president's health. We see we are in a different place than we were a year ago

00:15:00.680 on gas prices, eggs, milk, seafood products, all the important groceries. Those costs have gone down

00:15:08.760 because of what this president has been able to do. And they, and with that, thank you so much,

00:15:13.580 Mark. Have an amazing, amazing day. Wow. Wow. She hung up. Wow.

00:15:19.640 Wow. Absolutely brutal in a few ways. It shows how bad Kareem Jean-Pierre is at this job. One,

00:15:31.400 she needs to expect this question. This is not just the question of some shock jocks on the radio.

00:15:36.880 Do those guys sound like shock jocks to you? No, they sound like ordinary radio hosts who are asking

00:15:42.140 a question that everyone is asking around the world because it appears that Joe Biden is in

00:15:48.540 cognitive decline. It looks like he's got dementia. She needs an answer to that. She doesn't have an

00:15:53.540 answer to that. She says, what? I am so offended. I, uh, okay, well, let me be totally clear.

00:16:00.380 Uh, she pauses because she doesn't have an answer to it. So terrible preparation from Kareem Jean-Pierre.

00:16:05.580 Then she says, his doctors say it's fine. Okay. Nobody really believes that that means anything though.

00:16:10.080 And then she doesn't even have the good sense to hang up at that point. She, she would have been

00:16:16.600 well within her rights to say, you know, that is an outrageous question, deeply offensive. You're

00:16:23.780 clearly just trying to take pot shots at the president. Who's been a very capable president

00:16:29.060 whose doctor has cleared him, uh, as, as being cognitively very healthy, many, many times.

00:16:35.680 I can see what this is. If you want to have a comedy show roast, that's fine, but don't, don't,

00:16:40.380 you know, diminish the, the dignity of the president of the United States. I'll talk to you later,

00:16:44.560 sir, hang up the phone there. At least there would have been some motivation for it.

00:16:49.780 It probably Democrats would have defended her in that. But what she does here is she says,

00:16:55.700 no, no, he's fine. He's definitely doesn't have dementia or whatever. And then she goes on. I cut

00:16:59.980 out part of the middle cause it was too long. She goes on for two minutes talking about egg prices

00:17:03.480 or whatever. And then I'm sure people off camera are in the white house are saying to her, get off the 1.00

00:17:08.580 line. You're blowing it. What are you doing? And then she says, okay, with that, uh, I'm just good. Okay.

00:17:13.320 I have a good day. Hang up. It's so weak. And, and the only defense of her, the only defense of the

00:17:20.280 white house I can muster is they can't figure out an answer for the dementia question. They can't

00:17:29.040 figure it out because he's obviously in massive cognitive decline and everybody sees it. And the

00:17:36.040 white house has been caught on hot mics, admitting it. Remember when James O'Keefe went on that set up

00:17:44.480 investigative journalist date with some dude in the white house, the cybersecurity director and the

00:17:50.980 cybersecurity director said, yeah, we all know it. We all know the guys in decline, but we can't get

00:17:56.260 them off the ticket. Oh, it's so frustrating. Yeah. I'm sure everybody in the white house, including

00:17:59.880 Kareem Jean-Pierre is saying that. So what do you do? What do you do? You watch the polls go up and up

00:18:06.060 and up for Trump. Great news for us. Very bad news for him. What's what are the issues here?

00:18:10.500 You hear Kareem Jean-Pierre talking about egg prices are actually going slightly down. I mean,

00:18:14.500 they're way up from when, when Joe Biden took office, every, everything costs way more today than

00:18:21.160 when Joe Biden took office, but you know, the egg prices have diminished a little bit. Okay.

00:18:25.640 That's not even the top issue for people. According to a Harvard Harris poll, once again,

00:18:29.120 not exactly a right-wing source. The biggest issue as some of us have predicted is immigration.

00:18:37.540 Joe Biden, unfortunately for him has the lowest approval rating on all the, on all of the issues

00:18:45.340 on his handling of immigration. 36% of respondents say that immigration is the biggest issue in the

00:18:53.200 country. 33% say inflation and price increases are the top issue facing the country. Also a horrible

00:19:00.600 weak point for Joe Biden. And then finally economy and jobs comes in third at 23%. And even below that

00:19:10.680 crime and drugs, which is another extreme, 18%, extreme weak point for Biden. So you're looking at the

00:19:18.440 four top issues, even just the top three, which is usually how you judge these things. Biden is

00:19:25.480 terrible. But if you add the fourth top issue too, that's one of Biden's worst crime and drugs, 0.91

00:19:30.740 because the Democrats are suggesting that we let everybody out of prison and the Democrats want to

00:19:35.140 open up the border. They're sending in federal agents to tear down border protections that states

00:19:42.020 like Texas have put up. And that's how all the drugs get in. And the drugs are begin in China 0.55

00:19:47.280 with the raw materials. They're created in Mexico by the criminal cartels, which control the whole

00:19:52.060 border. And then they come into America and they poison the country and people hate it. 0.99

00:19:56.560 Just absolutely devastating. I don't think I've ever seen a presidential election year

00:20:02.540 quite, quite this bad for the incumbent because often you'll say, okay, well, the top issue for people

00:20:09.620 is XYZ and that issue is not good for the incumbent. But the second best issue is ABC. And actually the

00:20:19.560 incumbent's okay on that. And the challenger is somewhat weak on that. And so you kind of go back

00:20:23.560 and forth. On this one, Biden's underwater on all of them. So what's the case for reelection? Well, we know

00:20:33.200 what the case for reelection is. The case for reelection is my opponent is super duper mega

00:20:38.020 Hitler, who is going to destroy the entire country, who's going to upend democracy, who's going to 1.00

00:20:43.580 rip up the constitution, who's going to name himself Caesar, who's going to install a Nazi regime. 0.84

00:20:50.240 And that's why it's very important that we put him into prison before you all can vote for him

00:20:55.040 because he's beating me. And, but if he, if he does get elected, we are, are not going to have

00:21:00.460 anything even resembling America's constitutional Republic anymore. That's the only, that's the

00:21:05.280 only campaign line they can muster because they're reading these polls too. It's not like these are the

00:21:09.920 secret polls that only conservatives see. They say, oh, not talking about immigration. Oh, not talking

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00:22:43.360 Speaking of growing political issues, you might've seen an issue that's cropping up around the country,

00:22:48.880 actually, which is the problem of squatters. People going in, often illegal aliens, but other

00:22:58.100 sort of ne'er-do-wells who are living outside the law, they'll go in and they'll just start living in 0.84

00:23:03.140 someone's house or apartment. And it's thinking pretty easy, easy enough, you know, the rightful

00:23:09.840 owner comes in and just like tosses him out or something. But no, actually, there have been really

00:23:15.060 awful cases where some of the squatters will murder the homeowners in the news actually just

00:23:19.940 this week. And then even crazier, actually, sometimes the rightful homeowners can't evict the

00:23:27.440 squatters because supposedly of squatters' rights. This has been an issue in places like France for a

00:23:34.700 long time, which actually protects the right of indigent criminals, of bums to take other people's 1.00

00:23:45.740 property. And just by virtue of having taken it, they get to keep it for some time. Now, because the

00:23:51.580 left is on the rise in America, some American institutions have protected this too. Not so in

00:23:58.880 Florida, though. This issue came across Governor Ron DeSantis' desk. And so what did he do? He

00:24:06.400 signed a law outlawing it. Simple as, very simple. The new law, which goes into effect at the beginning

00:24:12.640 of July, ensures that property owners are no longer forced into all sorts of lengthy and expensive court

00:24:18.320 proceedings to remove squatters. DeSantis wrote in a statement, quote, we're putting an end to the

00:24:25.760 squatters' scam in Florida. While other states are siding with the squatters, we are protecting

00:24:29.680 property owners and punishing criminals looking to game the system. Simple. It's great. Love it.

00:24:39.080 That's all I have to say about it. We could, why can't we do that in other states? Why is it that

00:24:45.400 DeSantis just, he sits down, oh yeah, look at the squatter thing. That's kind of new. That's weird.

00:24:49.120 Anyway, outlawed. Boop, done. We need other conservative governors to do this. Simple.

00:24:59.580 It's also, one, it's important as a matter of justice. But two, it's just good politics.

00:25:05.560 The bill in Florida is overwhelmingly popular. There are certain issues that Republicans focus on

00:25:12.120 that aren't always so popular that are still very important to focus on. Something like abortion

00:25:16.460 is probably the perfect example, where the country is 50-50 on abortion, at least if you frame abortion

00:25:24.740 in the most favorable terms that the left uses. I think when you discuss abortion in a more precise

00:25:32.140 way, actually, I think a larger majority of people oppose abortion and support the right to life.

00:25:38.700 But it's a controversial issue. No question about it. Republicans, when we defend life as we should,

00:25:43.920 we sometimes take political flack. So you've got to balance that out by signing really popular stuff.

00:25:51.140 This is so popular. This is such a no-brainer. In fact, frankly, I feel the same way about

00:25:57.060 the transing the kids legislation. I know that some of the squishes believe, they believe the 0.63

00:26:02.380 Democrats that law is saying you're not allowed to castrate little children and give them bone 0.87

00:26:07.380 disease and sterilize them, that that's somehow controversial. It's not. Everybody supports that.

00:26:13.540 That is so overwhelmingly popular. The only people who don't support that are the weirdos and the

00:26:18.120 perverts and the degenerates who, unfortunately, do occupy positions of power in the United States, 0.89

00:26:24.000 but who are also overwhelmingly and disproportionately represented on social media. 0.99

00:26:29.100 But if you actually take surveys of this, hey, do you think we should trans kids and sterilize them 1.00

00:26:32.620 and turn them into Unix? The overwhelming majority of people say, no, what are you, a psycho? Of 0.99

00:26:37.600 course we shouldn't do that. So every Republican governor should be signing legislation banning

00:26:42.100 that stuff, as actually has happened in recent years. Squatters issue, the same.

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00:27:17.180 Now, speaking of people's homes and legal issues, Puff Daddy getting raided, man. This

00:27:26.680 happened a couple of days ago. I guess it happened on Monday. I'm just getting

00:27:31.760 to it now. It wasn't the top political story in the country as far as I'm concerned, but we should

00:27:37.020 get to it. The feds raided two homes belonging to Sean, Diddy, Puffy, Combs, and that is in

00:27:45.980 connection with a sex trafficking investigation. A number of outlets have reported that agents with

00:27:52.320 DHS conducted raids on homes in L.A. and Miami. Three women and one man have been interviewed

00:27:59.840 by the feds, quote, in relation to allegations of sex trafficking, sexual assault, and the

00:28:05.560 solicitation and distribution of illegal narcotics and firearms. This is according to NBC News. At

00:28:10.620 least three more people are scheduled to be interviewed by investigators. Some people are reporting that

00:28:16.660 Puff Daddy is apparently like the new Jeffrey Epstein or something like that. I don't know. I don't know

00:28:24.700 what all this is about. All sorts of theories floating around, some a little more implausible than

00:28:32.560 others. But my main take on the story actually has nothing to do with the scale of P. Diddy's

00:28:42.920 operation, the purpose of P. Diddy's operation, even the people involved. I don't really know,

00:28:50.540 and I don't even really care. My main takeaway is we know he did all this stuff to some degree or

00:28:57.480 another. We know. For years, you've heard about P. Diddy's parties and you know about the drugs and

00:29:04.020 the sex. And I think Usher, years ago, when Usher was a very young artist, went and spent some time

00:29:11.940 learning the industry with P. Diddy. And he talked about it. He said, these parties are insane, man.

00:29:15.380 There's drugs and sex and women. It's just everything, everywhere, you know. So we know it 0.89

00:29:19.920 all happens. And the main conclusion, I guess, is that eventually the bill comes due. Eventually the

00:29:27.880 bill comes due. It always comes due. There's no such thing as a free lunch. I don't want to just

00:29:33.760 make this the platitude show today, okay? But this is a fact of life that people forget,

00:29:39.720 especially in modernity. We think in modernity where we deny the moral order, where we really

00:29:49.760 embrace the expansion of private life, even on the left and the right. On the right, obviously,

00:29:56.540 we want to privatize everything so we can keep more money. And on the left, they want to privatize

00:30:00.280 everything so they can have weird sex. But both sides embrace the great expansion of the private 0.54

00:30:06.580 sphere and the great diminution of the public sphere. But both sides, the left and the right,

00:30:11.600 hate hearing terms like common good. They don't like that. They just think, no. When the left wants

00:30:19.540 to talk about something even resembling the common good, they just talk about growing the government,

00:30:23.680 you know. And the right, you're seeing the beginning of a movement to finally return to

00:30:28.900 talking about the common good. But it's still probably the minority view within the Republican Party.

00:30:34.680 So you've got left-wing communists. I guess that's probably the closest thing you have to public

00:30:41.280 talk of the common good. But even there, it's not really the common good in the true sense of that

00:30:45.260 word, in the classical sense of that term, which is that the common good refers to the stuff that we

00:30:51.160 all have together. And it includes our individual good. It presupposes that there is a good way of

00:30:57.720 living that we can know about objectively and somewhat reliably. And we can govern in accordance

00:31:04.940 with that because the basic principle of government is do good and avoid evil. It's the basic point of

00:31:11.880 the state. And there are all other things that come into this, principles like subsidiarity, which in

00:31:17.420 America is codified into federalism. And you often want decisions made at the lowest level at which they

00:31:25.940 can be competently made. And I'm not saying we're going to have Leviathan in a totalitarian state.

00:31:31.660 But we don't really talk about the common good at all anymore on the left or on the right in the

00:31:36.500 real true classical sense of the term that would be conducive to our flourishing. It's all just private

00:31:40.960 stuff. And then as a consequence of that, we compartmentalize everything. We say, okay, I can live

00:31:46.640 like a total weirdo creep in my private life. But in my public life, I'll still be totally put

00:31:51.860 together. So I can do drugs all the time. I'm going to do drugs all the time in my private life. I'm

00:31:56.200 going to have a completely messed up sex life. I'm going to be addicted to pornography. I'm going to 1.00

00:32:01.560 be totally selfish. I'm not going to give to charity at all. I'm just going to, I'm never going to go to

00:32:06.400 church. I'm never going to think about the moral order. I'm not going to read. I'm not going to help

00:32:10.600 myself in any way. I'm just going to be a selfish animal in my private life. But somehow we're going to 0.80

00:32:16.460 have a good public life too, somehow. I don't know, because we're going to be totally compartmentalized.

00:32:19.740 It doesn't work that way, folks. It doesn't work that way. A lot of us do it on the internet.

00:32:27.700 Forget even about the porn and that kind of stuff. Even just the way we talk to each other on the

00:32:32.000 internet behind a pseudonymous account. We think, ah, yeah, I'm going to just, all I'm going to do is

00:32:37.140 just troll people all day and I'm going to be really vicious and cruel and weird. But that's not my public 0.66

00:32:43.120 life. That's just my private life. No, it's all the same. You're just, you're a person. You're a person

00:32:46.880 and we're a country. And if everyone is just constantly engaging in vice and selfishness,

00:32:53.340 then our country is going to be vicious and very, very selfish. I have no idea what the broader

00:33:00.780 implications of what Puff Daddy was doing are. I should rephrase that. I don't know what the

00:33:08.520 intermediate implications are. I know what the private implications are, which is that he appears

00:33:12.100 to have been doing a lot of drugs and having sex and doing weird stuff. And I, and I do know what

00:33:16.040 the broadest implications are, which is that if everybody's doing this kind of thing, we're going

00:33:20.360 to have a really corrupt country. You can't simultaneously live two lives. Now, speaking of

00:33:26.000 crimes, Senator Bob Menendez, remember him? He's the Democrat from New Jersey, hilariously

00:33:32.900 corrupt. Everybody's known about it for many, many years now. It looks as though the bill is finally 0.97

00:33:38.420 coming due for Bob Menendez because once again, the feds have got him. He's back. This all really

00:33:47.220 started for Menendez, not when he started to engage in the corruption, but when he opposed Barack Obama.

00:33:52.920 And I believe he opposed Barack Obama on the matter of opening up Cuba. And after Menendez said,

00:33:58.680 look, I'm Cuban. I can't, I can't support you, Mr. Obama, trying to, to loosen the restrictions on Cuba.

00:34:06.000 Shortly after that, there's a federal investigation of Bob Menendez into the corruption that everyone

00:34:09.980 knew he was engaging in. And he actually beat those, those allegations, but then they hit him

00:34:15.200 again and investigators found envelopes full of cash in his house and just all, a lot of evidence of

00:34:22.260 extreme corruption, but he wouldn't resign. And I thought this was so delicious. In fact, I was

00:34:30.160 coincidentally just speaking with a member of Congress on a flight to or from DC. And he said, you know,

00:34:34.520 I've known Bob for a long time. That guy is only going to resign when he gets his, when he gets off

00:34:40.500 the hook, maybe if he gets his family off the hook, but definitely if he gets off the hook and that's

00:34:45.240 what he's doing here. So, so Bob Menendez, his latest chest move, which is going to have huge

00:34:49.620 implications for Democrats is that he says he's not going to run for reelection as a Democrat

00:34:55.240 coming up for his next Senate race. He said, I will not file for the Democratic primary this June.

00:35:03.780 I am hopeful that my exoneration will take place this summer and allow me to pursue my candidacy

00:35:08.220 as an independent Democrat in a general election. I don't think this is what this is really about.

00:35:15.900 I think what Bob Menendez is actually insinuating is the opposite of what he says. He says, look,

00:35:21.600 I'm not going to run as a Democrat. So you can nominate some other Democrat for my seat.

00:35:26.700 I'm confident that I'll be exonerated and then I can run as an independent Democrat.

00:35:32.820 I think the insinuation here is, look, I'm not going to run for the Democrat nomination.

00:35:39.720 I'll back off. I'll go quietly into the sunset if I'm exonerated. If you let me off the hook,

00:35:47.160 liberals who run the deep state, if you let me off the hook, liberal elites who control our political

00:35:53.160 order, then I'll play ball and you can have your new Democrat senator. But if you don't let me off 1.00

00:35:59.260 the hook, I'm going to run as an independent Democrat. And then you're going to have another

00:36:04.620 official Democrat nominee and then the Republican's going to win. And then you're going to lose your

00:36:10.340 majority. And then Chuck Schumer's not going to be the leader anymore. And then even if Joe Biden

00:36:14.640 gets reelected, he's not going to get anything done. And if Trump gets elected, you guys would

00:36:18.960 be in big trouble. I think that's the insinuation. And I love it. That's probably the smart card he

00:36:26.280 should play. Bob Menendez is not exactly the most ideological member of Congress, certainly of the

00:36:33.440 Senate, probably of the entire US Congress. Bob Menendez is threatening to throw the election to

00:36:38.600 Republicans if Democrats don't let him off the hook. And that puts Democrats in a deliciously

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00:37:41.740 My favorite comment yesterday comes from Valerie Von Skulls 825, who says, living in California

00:37:48.600 literally costs a leg. That's true. That's true. It doesn't yet cost an arm and a leg. I hope. I

00:37:56.820 haven't checked the news this morning, but we can now say, officially, living in California costs a

00:38:02.940 leg. And now the upside is if you can't afford groceries because of how expensive it is, you

00:38:10.940 can eat the legs. So, you know, maybe it's a wash. I don't know. I don't know how it turns out.

00:38:15.820 Speaking of the consequences of elections, a writer for The Atlantic, Josh Barrow, has just come out

00:38:25.000 and said that Sonia Sotomayor, the Obama appointee liberal justice on the Supreme Court, should retire

00:38:33.060 now. And the article is basically exactly what you would expect. What he writes in there is not all

00:38:40.120 that interesting. The fact that he wrote it, the fact that The Atlantic published it, is very

00:38:43.980 interesting. This kind of article, and you're going to see more of them as November approaches,

00:38:49.880 this tells me the Democrats are not confident that Biden is going to win. If the fix were totally in,

00:38:55.600 if the Democrats felt that they had enough juice between the polls and the ballot harvesting and

00:39:01.260 the this and the that to get them over the finish line in November, they would not be calling on

00:39:05.420 Sotomayor to resign. She's got a few good years left in her. She's one of the most far-left 0.81

00:39:10.920 justices on the court. So they should want to keep her in. Joe Biden, who knows what Joe Biden's going

00:39:18.160 to do? They don't think that Biden is a shoe-in. They probably don't even think that he's likely to

00:39:25.540 win re-election. So they want Sotomayor to retire now. I don't think she will. Frankly, I just don't

00:39:33.360 think there's even time for that at this point. Probably, probably the Republican senators could

00:39:43.620 hold it up. Maybe. It's a little bit unclear because the Democrats do officially control the

00:39:48.760 Senate. But it's just so close in the election year. There could be some chicanery to gum that 1.00

00:39:54.220 up. So it's probably too late. But the Democrats are desperate because they don't know what else to do.

00:39:58.780 And if Trump wins again, who are the justices who are going to retire? I don't know. Sotomayor is no

00:40:06.180 spring chicken. Clarence Thomas is somewhat elderly, but that guy, I think, is going to stay in office

00:40:12.380 until he's gone. I think you're going to have to carry him out as stiff as a board. But you could

00:40:18.600 see a world in which all of a sudden, you can't call it a six-vote conservative majority Supreme

00:40:26.840 Court because John Roberts is kind of a squish. So let's call it right now five to three to a squish. 1.00

00:40:32.340 Maybe it becomes six. Maybe it becomes seven. Who knows? Big, big stakes on the court, which we

00:40:39.560 haven't even really talked about for 2024. Now, speaking of the consequences of Supreme Court

00:40:44.900 decisions, there's a Daily Wire investigation. This is from Leif Lemehue. Really worth checking out.

00:40:52.520 It's about 1,000 pages long. How a leftist network of websites floods red states with abortion pills 0.66

00:40:58.460 with no consequences. Subheader websites advertise foreign abortion pills to abortion-seeking women

00:41:05.640 across the country no matter what. Really, really important investigation. We now know, as I've

00:41:13.000 mentioned on the show a couple times recently, the majority of abortions are not surgical. The

00:41:17.720 majority of abortions take place when people take a poison pill and it kills their kid.

00:41:21.220 But the liberals are trying to liberalize access to the abortion pill. There's a case before the

00:41:28.560 Supreme Court right now on this very topic. But this carries major risks. Obviously, to the babies,

00:41:34.340 it's going to result in a lot more babies being killed. It poses risks to the women because these 1.00

00:41:42.500 pills are not very well regulated. They're quite dangerous, actually, especially when you're buying

00:41:48.020 these pills from unknown places, from unknown doctors. You know, women can be seriously injured 0.79

00:41:55.420 or even killed. But then furthermore, the pills pose a major threat to the political order because

00:42:02.060 right now, after the Dobbs decision, states have the right to regulate or even abolish and outlaw

00:42:10.160 abortion. They have the right to do that, obviously. There's no provision of the U.S. Constitution that 0.99

00:42:14.380 says women have the right to kill their kids. It's nowhere in there. No one even pretended it was in

00:42:18.660 there until Roe v. Wade in 1973. And now that's been overruled. It was totally a lie.

00:42:25.420 So if it's the case that the states have the right to regulate abortion,

00:42:28.940 then the states have the right and the obligation to regulate these drugs. But if these drugs are just

00:42:34.400 being bought on the internet from some other state or from some other country, well, then the states

00:42:40.680 have to really get involved. And I know that conservatives in recent decades have been

00:42:46.220 terrified of regulation. They said, no, no, no. We don't want to give the government any more power.

00:42:50.300 We need to let the free market sort this out. Uh-uh. No, that's not true, especially when we're

00:42:56.440 talking about poison specifically intended to murder babies, which might have the side effect of killing

00:43:01.360 mothers as well and certainly would have the side effect of killing the right of the people to 1.00

00:43:07.080 govern themselves in these states. Really, really horrifying stories in this report. Strongly

00:43:13.560 recommend you check it out over at dailywire.com right now. And then once you read it, I strongly

00:43:19.100 recommend you write to your governor, your state representatives, and demand that they regulate this

00:43:26.340 immediately. And we can also hope and pray that the Supreme Court rules correctly to further restrict

00:43:33.420 the abortion drug at the federal level. Speaking of weird sex stuff, it has been one year since

00:43:39.560 the horrific Nashville shooting where a trans-identifying shooter, an adult, went in and shot up a 0.97

00:43:45.560 Christian elementary school. To commemorate this day, what is happening? You would like to think there 0.98

00:43:53.820 will be prayer services. I'm sure there will be, you know, in different churches. But what is happening

00:44:00.620 specifically with regard to this anniversary? Well, there's going to be a trans day of vengeance, 1.00

00:44:08.020 of course. A Tennessee music venue is hosting a trans day of vengeance just days after the one-year 1.00

00:44:17.400 anniversary of this shooting. It's being promoted by several bands. It says that the Graveyard Gallery,

00:44:25.740 man, how's that for a fitting name, in Murfreesboro is hosting the concert on March 31st.

00:44:30.620 Using it to raise money for a group that transes people. The shooting occurred on March 27th,

00:44:37.260 less than an hour away. So obviously, Graveyard Gallery in Murfreesboro should be boycotted.

00:44:42.840 They should be flooded with phone calls demanding that they cancel this event. This is absolutely

00:44:47.160 horrifying. This should not be permitted to take place. And whatever legal and commercial actions

00:44:56.840 are available to stop this or to diminish the success of this event should take place.

00:45:03.800 The trans day of vengeance. Not the trans day of joy, not the trans day of celebration, 1.00

00:45:10.020 the trans day of vengeance, of course. Of course, all of this left-wing activism, especially on the

00:45:14.740 transgender issue, has a tinge of, more than a tinge, of envy, of resentment, of anger, of vengeance, 0.79

00:45:23.620 of wrath. Of course. Because ultimately, it is a rebellion against reality. It's a rebellion against

00:45:32.360 the natural order. And that when people are opposed to the natural order, they become very,

00:45:37.200 very unhappy. And they become very irrational. So irrational that they think a man can become a woman

00:45:41.680 and vice versa. If you are celebrating a trans day of vengeance to commemorate the anniversary of a 0.99

00:45:48.160 shooting where an adult murders little Christian children, it's because you hate Christianity, 0.99

00:45:57.440 you hate children, you hate peace, and you hate God. You are filled with such wrath that it has totally 1.00

00:46:03.620 perverted your mind. And you are doing the will of the demonic, to put it as bluntly as possible.

00:46:08.720 It's been one year. And these lunatics who are hosting the trans day of vengeance, 1.00

00:46:14.900 you know, they're one matter. But then what about at the matter of the civil society? What about the 0.80

00:46:19.720 matter of the government? It's been one year we don't have the manifesto. We know that the shooter

00:46:27.280 released a manifesto. We know, I think Stephen Crowder was able to grab, somehow he was able to get a

00:46:33.780 couple of pages or something of this manifesto and release it. We know that this gender ideology 1.00

00:46:38.960 was a motivating factor behind the crime. The authorities won't release the manifesto. Why?

00:46:44.520 Because if it's ever any shooter who can even semi-plausibly be linked to the right wing,

00:46:51.360 we get the manifesto within minutes of the shooting, sometimes while the shooting is still going on.

00:46:55.160 But here, when not only is the shooter left wing, but is embracing an ideology that is being

00:47:02.980 ardently promoted at every level of the American left, you don't get it. You don't get it. You

00:47:08.160 won't see that. You won't see any admission of that. In fact, what you're going to be told

00:47:11.560 is that the shooter is the victim. And what you're going to be told is that to commemorate the day,

00:47:16.900 we need more vengeance. We need more vengeance. We need more absurdity. We need an even greater

00:47:21.580 rebellion against reality. And you know who gets hurt in the rebellions against reality?

00:47:26.820 The innocent. That's who. Today is Theology Thursday. The rest of the show continues now.

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 28, 2024

Ep. 1456 - $16 Million! Jon Stewart's Trump Attack BACKFIRES

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