The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 In politics, as in life, one has to play the hand one is dealt. Ideally, one can turn lemons

00:00:06.700 into lemonade. One can mix as many metaphors as one likes, you get the point. You've got to make

00:00:13.240 the best of even bad situations, which is precisely what President Trump did, perfectly,

00:00:19.080 as you will see, on day two of his historic criminal trial, when Trump finished off a day

00:00:24.900 of prosecution and political persecution by visiting a bodega in West Harlem.

00:00:31.740 I'm going to a bodega. You know about that, right?

00:00:35.300 Four more years, four more years, four more years, four more years, four more years, four more years,

00:00:46.020 four more years.

00:00:47.540 Four more years, four more years in Harlem. Now, the bodega Trump visited, it's not just any

00:00:56.280 bodega. He did not hit the bodega for a Mountain Dew and a Tin of Zin. This was the Sanaa Convenience

00:01:03.320 Store, where two years ago, a worker was arrested and charged with murder for defending himself

00:01:09.660 against a thug who was attacking him. You probably remember this story. We covered it at the time.

00:01:16.460 You can see there's this guy. This guy pushes this poor, somewhat elderly man. He's attacking a 61-year-old

00:01:22.960 man, and he's trying to rob the place, I guess. He figured the relatively elderly man was a soft

00:01:30.100 target. The man's just sitting there minding his own business, and this thug just keeps getting in

00:01:35.580 his face, demanding money, I guess, from the cash register, keeps pushing up on this guy.

00:01:41.460 Finally, this guy has enough, grabs a knife, and just stabs the thug and defends himself.

00:01:47.320 What the criminal did not expect was that the relatively elderly man would defend himself.

00:01:54.480 No one expects that ever anymore. Now, in a properly functioning city, this guy, Jose Alba,

00:02:01.900 would have been given a key to the city for his act of bravery, protecting his fellow worker,

00:02:07.640 and helping to curb crime. Instead, the leftist DA, Alvin Bragg, charged him with murder

00:02:13.780 until the videotape of the incident came out and caused such a public outcry at the injustice

00:02:20.400 that Bragg had to drop the charges. In any case, this visit from President Trump

00:02:27.120 was politically brilliant on every front. Trump, whether you love him or hate him,

00:02:33.860 I think you have to admit is the consummate showman. And this visit showed three things in vivid detail.

00:02:40.180 One, it showed that Trump connects with the common man. This is not a $1,000-a-plate gala.

00:02:46.400 This is a bodega in Harlem, which means that, two, it showed that Trump connects with voters

00:02:53.340 who are not typical Republicans. Mitt Romney does not host campaign events north of 125th Street.

00:03:00.400 I suspect Mitt Romney doesn't host campaign events north of the penthouses on 85th Street.

00:03:05.180 Trump does. But the most brilliant aspect of this stunt is number three. It shows that the New York

00:03:11.860 justice system is insane at best, and likely it's just corrupt. Because Alvin Bragg is the man

00:03:20.140 currently prosecuting Donald Trump. Alvin Bragg is the kind of guy who would prosecute an innocent

00:03:26.700 older man for defending himself against dangerous crooks. Alvin Bragg, who only failed to imprison

00:03:34.700 that man when the public outcry against the injustice reached a fever pitch.

00:03:40.540 I think I'm having deja vu. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:05:28.420 members FDIC, terms and conditions apply. Speaking of the Trump prosecution,

00:05:34.520 also a little quick recap here from day two. Attorneys for President Trump had a potential

00:05:40.360 juror dismissed after they found posts on the jurors' social media pages attacking Trump and

00:05:48.700 specifically calling for Trump to be put in jail. Posts that said, lock him up. And we're not just

00:05:55.200 talking about one juror here. Okay, the judge, even this dirtbag judge who's going to try to make Trump

00:06:01.100 miss his child's high school graduation, even he acknowledged, okay, if you post lock him up on your

00:06:06.680 social media, you're probably not going to be an impartial juror in the case of Donald Trump.

00:06:13.200 But how many jurors are we going to have to dismiss here? Of 96 potential jurors on the first day,

00:06:21.440 more than 50 were dismissed after indicating that they were unable to be impartial.

00:06:26.940 One person, so the one guy, lock him up guy, he's gone. Then another juror posted on social media

00:06:33.460 saying, quote, Republicans projected to pick up 70 seats in prison. That was his little commentary

00:06:39.300 during the elections. That potential juror, also not selected. Then another one, there was another

00:06:45.640 one who posted a video on March 27th, so not that long ago, featuring Trump with the words,

00:06:51.980 I'm dumb as F-U-C-K. Turns out if you post that video of the defendant weeks before the trial

00:07:00.760 with disparaging comments, turns out you're not an impartial juror.

00:07:06.880 The problem here is not this crazy leftist juror or that crazy leftist juror, this guy who's got a

00:07:13.240 grudge for Trump. The problem is with the type of prosecution this is. When you're prosecuting a

00:07:20.620 president, nobody is impartial, especially when it comes to Donald Trump, who causes emotions to run

00:07:27.100 high in his supporters and in his opponents. There is not one person in America who does not have a

00:07:35.780 strong opinion about Donald Trump. Not one person over the age of seven who doesn't have a strong

00:07:42.060 opinion about Donald Trump. In part, it's because he's a polarizing and eccentric figure, but in part,

00:07:49.540 it's just because he was the president. This is why, until the Democrats blew up our constitutional

00:07:56.020 order with these unjust prosecutions and certainly imprudent prosecutions, this is why we didn't

00:08:01.500 prosecute presidents. Because, put their personality aside, they're the president. Everyone has a strong

00:08:08.920 opinion. There is no way to have an impartial juror adjudicate the evidence, weigh the claims from the

00:08:17.760 prosecution and the defense, and come to some politically neutral conclusion. We're talking about

00:08:24.680 the president of the United States here. One more reason why, before the Democrats started turning

00:08:31.380 us into a banana republic, we said, even if some presidents get up to some crafty and dodgy stuff,

00:08:40.240 like the Clintons, for instance, we're just not going to prosecute those people. Even if Hillary

00:08:45.580 murdered hundreds of people. No, I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm sort of joking. Please, Hillary,

00:08:49.660 I'm joking. Please, I'm a family. Don't get me. Even if past presidents pretty clearly committed

00:08:57.220 crimes, or at least engaged in some degree of corruption, we're not going to prosecute them

00:09:02.000 because that's bad for the office of the president. It's bad for our political order.

00:09:07.640 Forget about the individual, and maybe the individual actually did commit some crime, but it's

00:09:10.860 just not prudent, and it's not even practical under our current system of law, which demands impartial

00:09:18.980 jurors, blind lady justice. Not possible here. So, okay, you dismiss 50 out of the 96 jurors.

00:09:26.680 That still leaves you 46 jurors who can't be impartial. No one, not one person above the age

00:09:32.320 of seven in this country can be impartial when it comes to Trump or any other president.

00:09:38.940 Speaking of New York, some illegal aliens just took to the New York City Council to complain.

00:09:46.380 You see, because New York City has been flooded by illegal aliens.

00:09:52.200 There are so many illegal aliens in New York causing so many problems that even the liberal

00:09:55.880 Democrat mayor of New York, Eric Adams, is pulling his hair out. He doesn't have any hair left,

00:10:00.320 but if he did have hair left, he would be pulling his hair out about it. He said illegal immigration

00:10:03.760 is going to ruin New York City. He tried to schedule a meeting with the Biden White House to address

00:10:08.580 this. And then coincidentally, a couple of days before the meeting, an investigation,

00:10:12.340 a corruption investigation was launched into Eric Adams, and then he kind of dropped the matter.

00:10:16.200 I think probably a little bit of a heavy-handed message coming from the Biden team saying,

00:10:20.980 quit attacking us on illegal immigration. But even the Democrats in New York know this is a big

00:10:25.420 problem. So many there. Where have they been putting them? They've been putting them at luxury

00:10:29.740 hotels. One of my favorite hotels in New York, the Roosevelt Hotel, became an illegal alien shelter.

00:10:35.120 And I usually spend some time around that area when I'm in New York. I walked by there. It's just

00:10:40.600 fighting age men. It's just young fighting age men from Latin America and from Africa and the

00:10:46.420 Caribbean all over the world, but specifically the third world. Maybe you see one or two women,

00:10:50.980 one or two kids. It's mostly just young fighting age men, economic migrants, who are just hanging

00:10:55.840 around super nice hotels in New York for free. And now what are they doing? They're showing up to

00:11:02.880 the New York City Council to thank them for this incredible generosity. No, they're there to whine

00:11:07.280 and complain that the accommodations and the food aren't good enough.

00:11:11.520 At the shelter, the food, my kids cannot eat the food at the shelter. And on Ramadan time,

00:11:17.700 we couldn't eat because when you come back for the breaks, the food is no good at all.

00:11:22.960 And they give us two months to stay at the shelter, and then you have to go out again with

00:11:28.960 your luggages and the kids and find another place. It's very difficult. And also, I have a kid that

00:11:35.980 is like 18 to 19. Until now, he doesn't have no school.

00:11:41.780 Okay. So that, okay, let me, I'm going to put myself in the shoes of these foreign nationals

00:11:48.360 who have come over here and then just taken our stuff, taken our, many of the people who are coming

00:11:55.500 through. I can't speak to these individuals specifically, but many of the foreigners who

00:11:59.560 have come here have come here illegally. And then they come and they take our stuff and they stay in

00:12:04.300 really nice accommodations, at least by my standards. Maybe they have higher standards than I do, but by

00:12:09.320 my standards, Roosevelt Hotel is pretty nice. And they eat our food and they abuse our system of law.

00:12:18.140 And they use our resources, including our educational resources, though some seem to use them more than

00:12:23.380 others. And, but I'm putting myself in their shoes and I say, okay, it's probably disorienting

00:12:29.960 being in a totally different country, totally different culture. It is disorienting if you

00:12:35.760 only get to stay in one sort of free housing for a few months, and then maybe you have to move to

00:12:40.740 some other free housing. And maybe you don't have a private chef who's going to make your meals

00:12:44.640 exactly to your taste every single day. So, you know, I wanted chicken tonight, but instead they

00:12:48.940 serve me beef. Oh, I didn't, I don't want beef again tonight. I had beef two nights ago.

00:12:53.860 Okay, sure. I'm sure that's a little uncomfortable. And, and, and you come to a country that doesn't

00:13:00.260 generally celebrate your holidays because we're not a Muslim country. So you really take Ramadan

00:13:05.380 seriously. Americans don't really know very much about Ramadan because again, we're not, we're not a

00:13:10.480 Muslim country. We're happy to accommodate people, but yeah. Okay. Maybe the Ramadan celebrations

00:13:15.640 aren't quite up to your standards either. Hey, here's an idea. Don't come to our country.

00:13:20.140 How about you stay in your country with your customs and your food and your housing and your

00:13:24.760 resources and your tax base and your system of laws. If you like that so much more, how about you

00:13:29.440 stay there? And if you come to America, how about you say, thank you. How about first you say, I'm sorry.

00:13:34.660 I'm sorry that I've come here in many cases illegally. Sorry for breaking your basic laws. You might even

00:13:40.600 consider going back. And if you want to immigrate doing it the right way, but it, if you're going

00:13:47.020 to stick around here, how about you just say, Hey, thanks, thanks for all the free stuff and thanks

00:13:50.640 for not prosecuting us. And thanks for, why'd you come here in the first place? Why, if, if it's so

00:13:55.980 bad here and all the free stuff isn't up to your standards, how about you, how about you just consider

00:14:02.160 for one second, why you even came here in the first place? Now in a sane, healthy country,

00:14:07.720 the New York city council would say exactly that to these people say, have you lost your minds?

00:14:14.000 Have you lost your minds that you're, you're attacking us for giving you free stuff and

00:14:20.060 treating you kindly and welcoming you? Sorry, we didn't put you up at the Shangri-La. Sorry that

00:14:24.980 you had to settle for the Roosevelt hotel, but we don't live in a sane country. So the New York city

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00:15:39.580 The one way I know that some of these migrants have assimilated to America is they are adopting the

00:15:46.220 kind of language that typifies the American liberal establishment class. What they say

00:15:51.840 is that all these standards that have not been met for the foreigners comes down to racism.

00:16:01.400 This is unacceptable. This is shameful time in New York history. This city is not friendly for all

00:16:07.880 people. It is anti-African and xenophobic. You all are responsible for this pain and suffering that

00:16:15.480 will affect us for generations to come. But you also can change this for better. New York

00:16:22.240 City should at least live up to the standard it projects to the world. Africans deserve dignity and

00:16:29.240 respect. We are not animal. You have an habit to receive all of our immigrants, all of our community.

00:16:36.000 Why is it going to be done only to the African? Because it's embedded protocol of racism and xenophobia

00:16:45.000 in this city. And I want all my fellow Africans to know what it is that they will face if they come

00:16:52.000 in New York City. I also would like Africans and Latin Americans and Asians and even some kind of

00:17:00.460 Europeans, not that there's very much European immigration, but I want everybody to know.

00:17:04.500 Yes, you don't. When you immigrate into America, especially when you do it illegally,

00:17:13.120 yeah, it's, I hope it's going to be a little difficult. I hope it's, I hope there are some

00:17:20.040 barriers to that, to breaking our laws and, you know, effectively erasing our national borders.

00:17:26.140 I hope everyone knows that. Unfortunately, that is not the case though, because these people get to

00:17:31.080 show up and mouth off to the duly elected representatives of New York City for the New

00:17:38.460 Yorkers, I don't know, not just completely rolling over and being doormats and giving them every single

00:17:45.100 thing that they want. This is, the words are very difficult to make out because this woman doesn't

00:17:48.960 speak English properly. She hasn't even assimilated enough to speak English properly. But she said that

00:17:53.620 that when, when these foreigners are not given all the food and all the money and all the resources and

00:17:59.400 all the accommodations that they want, that it is racism and xenophobia. It's racism and xenophobia.

00:18:05.160 What are you talking about? Is it racism when I don't get a free room at the Roosevelt Hotel?

00:18:08.980 Is that anti-Italian discrimination? Anti-WASP? Anti-Mayflower discrimination? I don't think so.

00:18:14.280 You know, when I break the law, not that I break the law, but if I were to break the law,

00:18:20.460 would that be discrimination if I were arrested? Well, here's the difference.

00:18:25.020 If I broke the law, I probably would be arrested. And these people, at least the illegal immigrants

00:18:29.840 among them, break the law and they're not arrested. They're actually, they have the red carpet rolled

00:18:33.780 out for them and they're given almost everything they want, but not quite. And the New York City

00:18:38.780 council just nods along. That's the sickest part. This is where I actually don't totally blame these

00:18:43.000 guys who are part of the waves of mass migration and the illegal immigration, is they are being

00:18:47.780 invited in by the liberal establishment. Joe Biden is inviting these people in. He could not

00:18:52.500 possibly make it clearer that these guys can break our law with impunity.

00:18:58.560 And so is it any surprise when they get a little high-handed about it? When they start to demand even

00:19:06.020 more? No, it's no surprise at all. They've been encouraged in that by our liberal establishment class.

00:19:10.940 The real shame here is, there is some degree of shame on the foreigners who are so obviously

00:19:17.540 ungrateful for what they've been given in America. But the greater shame is on the New York City

00:19:23.200 council. And the greater shame is on the liberal establishment all the way up to Joe Biden.

00:19:27.300 Now, speaking of racism and xenophobia, speaking of racial politics, Joy Reid on MSNBC has just

00:19:35.520 explained, finally, what the Trump prosecutions are really about. And what they are really about

00:19:42.320 is getting whitey. There is something wonderfully poetic about the fact that despite the fact that

00:19:49.200 even if convicted, he's not going to go to prison, the first person to actually criminally prosecute

00:19:55.620 Donald Trump is a black Harvard grad, the very kind of person that his former staff, the people who

00:20:02.700 worked for him, Stephen Miller, etc., want to never be at Harvard Law School. But he was. And he came out

00:20:11.480 and graduated. He's prosecuting you, Donald. And a black woman is doing that same exact thing in Georgia.

00:20:17.200 And a black woman forced you to pay $175 million fine that's out now also in question because the

00:20:24.340 people who put it up, that might not be legit. Donald Trump is being held to account by the very

00:20:30.420 multicultural, multiracial democracy that he's trying to dismantle. And for me, there's something

00:20:36.220 poetic and actually wonderful about that. It says something good about our country that we're still

00:20:41.600 capable of having that happen. Go DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home.

00:20:47.080 Joy Reid says there's something wonderful, beautiful, poetic about white people punishing,

00:20:52.960 about black people, rather, punishing white people. That's it. That's what that whole monologue came down

00:20:59.500 to. And what's amazing, I have such low expectations for American politics at this point. I have such

00:21:06.940 extremely low expectations for the political left. And even still, it never occurred to me that anyone

00:21:14.500 would look at the Trump prosecutions through a racial lens. Never occurred to me that Alvin Bragg is a

00:21:20.420 black guy. Never really occurred to me that Fannie Willis is a black woman and that somehow had anything

00:21:26.440 to do with the prosecution. Truly, it never once crossed my mind. There are all other aspects of

00:21:34.780 injustice that occurred to me about the Trump prosecution. But that part, it never crossed my

00:21:39.180 mind until that. And now, now I can't unsee it. For the libs, every single thing comes back to the

00:21:52.160 nastiest, most elemental kind of grievance and personal interest.

00:22:02.060 We have to prosecute the former president, upend our political order, try to imprison the current

00:22:10.260 leader of the opposition so that we can experience the wonderful beauty of black people getting

00:22:17.440 whitey. So says Joy Reid. Now, what I recommend to delve a little further into these things, but also

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00:23:48.840 Speaking of white guys, a little bit of a hard segue.

00:23:52.140 Rand Paul has just raised a question that he observes no one really is asking in the Israel,

00:24:01.560 Israel, Iran, Gaza. I don't know. It's becoming now really a true

00:24:05.400 Mideast regional war. It might become a world war.

00:24:10.020 He's saying there's one question that nobody's really asking about in the conflict.

00:24:13.680 Here's the question.

00:24:14.860 You know, I think we're very fortunate that it was ineffective and that

00:24:17.780 Israel's and U.S. defenses were able to stop 97% of this.

00:24:22.300 But I think one question that's not being asked enough this morning is,

00:24:25.320 everybody's asking, what is the next step to escalation?

00:24:28.140 There's another question. What are the possibilities that we could de-escalate the situation?

00:24:33.300 You know, every action has a reaction. Hamas attacked on October 7th.

00:24:37.500 Awful, dreadful. Israel kills two generals. Now Iran attacks.

00:24:42.680 So every action has a reaction. And is there a possibility that this could be de-escalated at this point?

00:24:48.860 And I think people ought to take a breath, wait a little bit.

00:24:51.780 Medicine, we're taught to check your own pulse before you check the patient's pulse.

00:24:55.460 You need to calm down and think with a clear head before we move forward.

00:24:59.600 I would like to correct Senator Paul here.

00:25:01.760 There is at least one other person who has been asking this question since day one.

00:25:06.220 And that would be yours truly, where I've observed from the beginning,

00:25:10.660 Israel's attacked. Israel obviously has a right to self-defense.

00:25:15.060 And Israel has certain national interests in this war.

00:25:17.560 The Palestine Liberation Movement, backed by Iran and involving other powers,

00:25:24.060 has obvious interests in this war.

00:25:27.160 And some of those interests align more or less closely with American interests, but they're distinct.

00:25:31.920 America has its own interest in this war.

00:25:34.360 And America's interest in this war is to contain it, to wind it down.

00:25:38.860 Nothing good will come to America by this war escalating.

00:25:45.440 The Israelis might get something out of the war escalating.

00:25:48.580 The Iranians might get something out of the war escalating.

00:25:51.340 The Palestinian Arabs probably won't get anything out of the war escalating,

00:25:54.440 because they're just used as pawns.

00:25:55.680 But I guess in principle they could.

00:25:58.720 But America really can't get anything out of the war escalating.

00:26:01.580 So the question that Rand Paul asks is so important here.

00:26:05.900 And he's right.

00:26:06.460 He's one of the very few people in national politics who's asking this.

00:26:10.640 How do we wind this thing down?

00:26:15.460 Very difficult.

00:26:16.220 All the grand strategists, they want to see three steps ahead.

00:26:20.080 And they want to, well, they're grand strategists, you know.

00:26:24.020 So they get a little pulled into grandiosity sometimes of how this is going to expand.

00:26:28.040 Okay, how do we step back from the brink, especially when we have pretty much nothing to gain?

00:26:34.340 So we turn to our commander-in-chief.

00:26:36.260 And what is our commander-in-chief's idea of how to de-escalate the war?

00:26:42.440 Well, he's telling Israel not to invade Haifa.

00:26:47.540 And I made it clear to Israelis, don't move on Haifa.

00:26:51.560 And it's just not, I mean, anyway, I just, look what we did recently when Israel was attacked.

00:27:03.200 Now, I actually agree with President Biden here.

00:27:06.140 It's rare that I agree with him, but I agree it would be unwise of the Israelis to move on Haifa

00:27:11.720 because Haifa is a town in Israel.

00:27:13.940 So it would be weird, wouldn't it?

00:27:16.060 It would be weird if the IDF invaded an Israeli town.

00:27:19.800 That would, that, I don't know that it would escalate the war,

00:27:22.740 but it would confuse a lot of people.

00:27:24.420 And it would, it would be just weird, I guess.

00:27:28.460 I'm not sure that President Biden knows that Haifa is a town in Israel.

00:27:33.240 He, he actually, he certainly does not, did not when he said that.

00:27:37.780 But he, I guess he is confusing it with Rafa, a town in Southern Gaza, one of the last real

00:27:46.660 strongholds that Netanyahu says he has to invade in order to accomplish his military objectives.

00:27:51.940 But he just confused the two towns.

00:27:54.540 And you might say, well, it's just a gaffe.

00:27:57.080 Well, it was just a little slip of the tongue.

00:27:59.420 Yeah, Joe Biden has a lot of little gaffes, a lot of little slips of the tongue.

00:28:05.400 And they don't seem to be the kind of gaffes that Biden used to have,

00:28:08.420 where he'd say something outrageous or offensive, simply because he's callous.

00:28:14.160 These are the kind of gaffes that happen when you are in obvious cognitive decline,

00:28:18.100 and you constantly confuse the names of people and places.

00:28:21.740 You constantly confuse dates.

00:28:23.560 You don't remember when you were vice president of the United States,

00:28:26.300 as we found out when Joe Biden was giving testimony to a special investigator.

00:28:30.300 You don't, we are at a very precarious moment in world affairs.

00:28:39.260 We've got a very weak economy.

00:28:41.820 We have effectively no borders in the United States.

00:28:44.920 We have a lot of civil strife.

00:28:47.040 There's a movie out now about what the next American civil war is going to look like.

00:28:51.300 And the reason that a movie like that is coming out is because people are sincerely afraid of it.

00:28:56.060 They recognize that there's a lot of social discord.

00:28:58.480 On top of that, you've got the first major war in Europe, breaking out since World War II.

00:29:02.840 And you've got a war in the Middle East that continues to escalate,

00:29:06.000 that requires a very sophisticated hand to manage.

00:29:09.560 And you've got this guy who is president, who doesn't remember the name of towns in Israel,

00:29:16.000 the name of towns in the Palestinian territories,

00:29:18.640 probably doesn't remember his own name most of the time.

00:29:21.320 He is simply not up to the task.

00:29:22.800 There is a degree of competence required to be president.

00:29:28.960 The way we view the presidency these days, everything is just ideological.

00:29:33.480 Everything is just, well, are you on this team or that team?

00:29:35.620 Do you begin with this set of premises or this set of premises?

00:29:38.480 Do you have these first principles or these first principles, red or blue?

00:29:42.520 And that stuff matters.

00:29:43.960 I don't mean to downplay these kinds of distinctions.

00:29:46.120 But there's also just a degree of competence necessary.

00:29:48.380 If you went to an average high school in America and you found the biggest stoner, bum, loser,

00:29:56.360 flunky, and you said, hey, man, you're the president now, good luck.

00:30:00.660 I think all of us would agree that's probably not wise.

00:30:03.560 That's probably not prudent.

00:30:04.220 He probably wouldn't succeed, not because his ideology is off,

00:30:07.780 but because he just lacks the basic competence required to do the job.

00:30:11.180 He doesn't remember names and places, and he doesn't have functioning faculties of reason.

00:30:16.500 Well, unfortunately, that's the position we're in now with Joe Biden.

00:30:19.620 Not just because he was kind of a flunky in school, which he was,

00:30:22.160 but also because he's just extremely old.

00:30:24.540 And even beyond that, there are 80-year-olds who are very highly functioning.

00:30:28.700 But this guy is in very clear cognitive decline.

00:30:32.740 Next thing you know, he's going to launch an American attack on Haifa,

00:30:35.420 and that's really going to send the situation into a tizzy.

00:30:38.740 Right now, you can subscribe to the Michael Knowles Show YouTube channel.

00:30:41.960 You can destroy that like button with facts and logic.

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00:30:49.980 Speaking of foreign wars, House Speaker Mike Johnson,

00:30:53.880 the conservative Republican who was put into office to replace Kevin McCarthy,

00:31:00.540 that squished Kevin McCarthy, that big lib Kevin McCarthy,

00:31:04.060 the conservatives in the House ousted him in part, in large part,

00:31:07.880 because he wanted to spend a lot of money funding the war in Ukraine.

00:31:11.080 So we've installed House Speaker conservative Mike Johnson,

00:31:14.240 and what is he going to do?

00:31:15.980 He's going to fund the war in Ukraine.

00:31:17.760 So there's four separate bills.

00:31:19.580 Everyone will be able to give an up or down vote based on their own merits,

00:31:22.720 and that's what they desire.

00:31:24.640 Now listen, we made a better product as well,

00:31:26.980 because there is Ukraine, as you know, is controversial.

00:31:29.800 What we did, Jake, in this package, we changed it.

00:31:32.320 80% of the spending for Ukraine is replenishment of American weapons and stocks.

00:31:38.700 That's a really important thing for our own U.S. industrial base and defense base,

00:31:43.900 and that's going to be a very important part of it.

00:31:46.060 And we added other innovations that conservatives like and that make good sense.

00:31:51.080 I mean, for the Ukraine piece, for example,

00:31:53.160 any assistance that goes for governmental aid is converted to a loan.

00:31:56.820 That's what a lot of people said was very important, and we implemented that.

00:32:00.580 You know, there's a lot of innovations here, and I think it's a better product in the end.

00:32:03.280 Okay, I am not going to attack Mike Johnson.

00:32:06.640 You're not going to see me doing it.

00:32:08.620 And the reason is the same thing that I said when they announced that McCarthy was getting kicked out,

00:32:14.200 which is Kevin McCarthy.

00:32:16.100 I'm not totally defending McCarthy here.

00:32:18.920 He did some establishment, swampy kind of things.

00:32:22.560 But Kevin McCarthy was arguably the most conservative speaker House Republicans had had since the 1950s,

00:32:29.780 probably since Joe Martin in the 50s, maybe Newt, depending on the moment would have been.

00:32:35.500 He was certainly a more significant speaker, but he might have been more conservative.

00:32:39.260 But I don't know.

00:32:39.980 Actually, issue by issue, probably Kevin McCarthy was.

00:32:44.000 And he got thrown out.

00:32:47.000 Probably it was his own fault that he got thrown out because he gave his opponents the opportunity.

00:32:51.740 But then they floated all these names as possible replacements.

00:32:54.380 I said, I hope it's not Jim Jordan.

00:32:56.260 I hope it's not this guy.

00:32:57.240 I hope it's not that guy.

00:32:58.260 Why?

00:32:58.480 Because I like those guys, and I don't wish this job on my worst enemy.

00:33:03.860 Speaker of the House, if you're a Republican, is probably the worst job in Washington.

00:33:08.500 And then they pick this guy, Mike Johnson, who is great.

00:33:11.240 This is an ADF lawyer, strong conservative, religious conservative, social conservative.

00:33:16.420 The guy's great.

00:33:17.780 And what happens?

00:33:19.540 In the end, he's got to fund the Ukraine war.

00:33:22.160 In the end, he's got to play ball with the establishment.

00:33:25.100 And people are going to huff and puff and scream.

00:33:26.760 They might even throw him out of office.

00:33:28.720 But you know what?

00:33:29.540 Then they're going to install the next guy, and the same thing is going to happen to the next guy.

00:33:32.640 This was inevitable.

00:33:34.160 This was baked in from the beginning.

00:33:36.560 Why is that?

00:33:38.800 Because just within the Republican conference, the conservatives are not that strong.

00:33:43.920 The real right-wing, rowdy conservatives, there just aren't that many of them.

00:33:47.840 There are a lot of squishes and more moderate and establishment-type politicians in the Republican

00:33:55.040 conference.

00:33:55.720 And you've got to pull their votes along, too.

00:33:58.060 The rock-ribbed, right-wing, hardcore conservatives just don't have the votes.

00:34:02.180 Then beyond that, Congress doesn't have that much juice either.

00:34:05.360 Because our government is not run like the bill up on Capitol Hill like Schoolhouse Rock.

00:34:09.500 We have the House of Representatives, which is one half of the U.S. Congress.

00:34:14.660 And you've got the upper house, the upper chamber, the U.S. Senate.

00:34:18.220 And then you've got the administrative agencies, and then you've got the Pentagon, and then

00:34:23.920 you've got all sorts of money flowing around that is totally unaccountable.

00:34:28.520 And you've got the State Department.

00:34:30.180 And you have U.S. policy being made with pretty much no regard for the people who get elected

00:34:37.920 every two years.

00:34:39.560 Because the way Washington works is you've got the elected people, and you've got the career

00:34:45.480 people, right?

00:34:47.220 So you've got the talent that come in every two years, and then they leave.

00:34:50.580 And then you've got the career people.

00:34:52.180 You've got the staff for those electeds.

00:34:55.080 And the staff are going to be there often longer than the electeds will.

00:34:58.880 And then you've got the bureaucrats, the deep state.

00:35:01.800 You've got the guys who work for all the agencies who are going to be there forever, man.

00:35:06.220 So who do you think is going to have a bigger say in policy, especially when we're talking

00:35:09.540 about foreign policy, especially when we're talking about grand strategy?

00:35:12.520 The Ukraine war simply will be funded.

00:35:14.700 It's just a fact.

00:35:15.620 We can huff and puff and cry about it.

00:35:17.220 But it's just going to happen.

00:35:19.960 And any Republican Speaker of the House is going to get rolled.

00:35:24.140 That's how it goes.

00:35:24.900 If you want to fix that, you're not going to fix that on the Ukraine funding bill or the

00:35:29.320 Israel funding bill or, I don't know, I wish we had an Armenia funding bill, but we don't.

00:35:33.620 You're not going to fix it there.

00:35:34.720 These are going to be long-term structural fixes to how the government actually operates.

00:35:41.000 Now, speaking of violence, an Indianapolis judge has just found a woman not guilty for smothering

00:35:47.600 her child to death while high on meth.

00:35:49.640 The woman allegedly admitted that she smothered her three-month-old baby with a pillow while

00:35:57.360 she was high on meth in order to stop the baby from crying.

00:36:00.620 Little three-month-old baby crying out for mommy, and mommy, high on meth and tired, decides to

00:36:05.600 smother the baby to death rather than meet her needs.

00:36:07.760 Her, this woman's three-year-old daughter reportedly saw this happen, testified that this happened.

00:36:17.060 And the judge in this case, here's his ruling.

00:36:21.520 Court accordingly enters judgment of not guilty, reluctantly.

00:36:29.160 I do hope that you all take the opportunity to get the counseling that you need, to get the

00:36:37.440 counseling for the children that you need, that you learn from this behavior, and hopefully

00:36:45.100 the rest of the community learns from this behavior, that you cannot go out and party on

00:36:51.280 the weekend and be with children.

00:36:56.420 Toxicology report did show meth in Dacia Lacey's system, but Judge Mark Stoner said if she had

00:37:03.160 been charged with reckless homicide or involuntary manslaughter, he could have found her guilty.

00:37:08.940 But she's not guilty of neglect of the dependent resulting in death.

00:37:15.620 Hold on.

00:37:16.700 So the guy's admitting, yeah, you killed your kid.

00:37:19.820 You killed your three-month-old baby because you were high on meth.

00:37:22.940 And if you had been charged with this type of killing your kid while high on meth, or this

00:37:27.060 type of killing your kid while high on meth, maybe I would have found you guilty.

00:37:29.860 But instead, because you were charged with criminal neglect leading to the death of an

00:37:34.480 infant, I'm going to find you not guilty.

00:37:36.920 Why?

00:37:37.340 Because she was too active in the killing of her child.

00:37:40.580 Because it wasn't, it actually wasn't neglectful.

00:37:42.980 She intentionally killed her child.

00:37:45.520 So that, something isn't adding up for me here.

00:37:49.920 And then you hear that judge speak.

00:37:51.260 He says, well, actually, regretfully, okay, I find you not guilty.

00:37:58.000 Now, I could have found you guilty because you did murder your kid.

00:38:01.780 You totally killed your kid because you were high on meth and you murdered your sweet little

00:38:05.680 baby.

00:38:07.000 But look, I think this can be a teachable moment.

00:38:10.120 I think it's going to be, look, we all make mistakes.

00:38:13.660 And I guess usually we have to pay for our mistakes, but you won't have to pay for anything.

00:38:17.520 You won't face any consequences whatsoever.

00:38:18.820 And I think we all need, I think we all, we all can learn a lesson here, can't we?

00:38:24.960 And the lesson we can learn is you shouldn't stay out quite so late at those parties, okay?

00:38:31.220 Be around children.

00:38:34.000 The party is the problem.

00:38:36.260 We're not talking about, you know, a cocktail soiree with a jazz quartet.

00:38:40.820 We're talking about a woman getting high on meth and going home and murdering her kid,

00:38:44.160 her little baby.

00:38:44.840 Well, it's a teachable moment for, and it's not a teachable moment for me.

00:38:48.900 I don't do that.

00:38:50.140 I'm never going to do that.

00:38:52.040 There but for the grace of God go I.

00:38:53.340 To quote Norm Macdonald, no river so long doesn't contain a bend.

00:38:56.340 I guess, theoretically, it could happen.

00:38:58.320 But I don't think I'm at great risk of that.

00:39:00.520 I don't think you're at great risk of that.

00:39:02.460 This woman did something heinous that was so easily preventable, probably 20 steps along

00:39:09.560 the way, and the judge lets her off the hook completely.

00:39:13.760 There's a line from Adam Smith, the author of Wealth of Nations, you know, the man credited

00:39:19.840 with inventing capitalism, basically, you know, the Enlightenment-era writer who was actually

00:39:27.860 a moral philosopher first.

00:39:29.420 The line is, mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

00:39:35.360 Now, I don't believe this line totally because I'm Christian, and we know that the quality of

00:39:40.500 mercy is a wonderful thing, and we know that though justice be thy plea, consider this that

00:39:46.720 in the course of justice, none of us should see salvation.

00:39:48.900 We like mercy.

00:39:50.000 Mercy is a quality of God's, actually, and it pulls us closer to God the more that we render

00:39:57.080 the acts of mercy, of course.

00:39:58.320 And at the same time, the civil authority must have some kind of justice.

00:40:03.960 We call it the justice system.

00:40:05.240 There's no justice here whatsoever.

00:40:08.020 A grave, grave miscarriage of justice that you see, well, just about any time we turn on

00:40:13.760 a courtroom news story today, it seems that justice has been not only perverted, but in

00:40:19.320 some cases just totally inverted.

00:40:20.900 In this case, the woman who murders a kid is the victim, the poor little kid is barely

00:40:27.240 talked about, the traumatized other kid, oh, you know, maybe get her some counseling

00:40:30.920 or something, move along, move along.

00:40:33.140 That doesn't fix any problem, it only makes the problems worse.

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00:41:32.360 My favorite comment yesterday is from Victor Montero, Adame 7, 8 for 7, man who says, how the

00:41:38.980 Apostle Paul defined intellectuals, quote, although they claimed to be wise, they became fools.

00:41:44.600 Romans 1, 22, so, so true.

00:41:51.240 Speaking of killing, very violent episode today.

00:41:54.560 An Uber driver was just shot and killed as the result of a telephone scam.

00:42:01.940 This is one of the weirdest stories I have seen in a really long time.

00:42:06.300 Reported by CBS News.

00:42:10.120 There was an 81-year-old Ohio man who received scam calls.

00:42:14.300 Maybe you've heard of these kinds of scam calls where an older person will get a call say, you

00:42:19.940 know, either I'm a young relative of yours or I've arrested a young relative of yours or I've

00:42:24.780 kidnapped a young relative of yours and you've got to send me money or your relative's going

00:42:28.560 to be in trouble.

00:42:29.380 In fact, my grandfather got one of these calls some years ago.

00:42:32.080 They really do target senior citizens.

00:42:34.300 So, this 81-year-old gets the call that involved threats and demands.

00:42:40.780 An unknown man told him over the phone he needed to pay $12,000 to get his nephew out of jail.

00:42:45.500 And this guy told the police that the caller threatened him and his nephew if he didn't pay

00:42:52.400 the ransom.

00:42:53.280 So, he said, okay, I'm going to come by and I'm going to collect this money.

00:42:58.500 Give me the money, you know, at the door.

00:43:01.620 So, what the scammer does is he doesn't go to collect the money.

00:43:05.640 He hires an Uber driver, sends an Uber driver over there.

00:43:08.400 And the Uber driver is just some woman, some like nice woman who has no idea what's going

00:43:11.800 on.

00:43:12.700 And the Uber driver is just told to go collect a package.

00:43:17.420 So, goes over there.

00:43:19.160 I guess this would be, I didn't realize you could even do this until some years ago.

00:43:23.600 But you can send an Uber driver to just go get stuff from a house and then take it somewhere

00:43:27.740 else.

00:43:28.600 So, that's what happened.

00:43:30.000 This poor Uber driver shows up and she has no idea what's going on and the guy shoots

00:43:36.500 her.

00:43:37.740 So, she was obviously unarmed.

00:43:39.880 But when she gets there, the guy says, get in the house.

00:43:42.900 You know, where's my nephew?

00:43:43.820 What's going on?

00:43:44.540 And he holds this woman at gunpoint.

00:43:45.980 She says, I have no idea what you're talking about.

00:43:47.320 He's like, sure enough, you have no idea what I'm talking about.

00:43:49.860 And this is a situation where you really, really feel for both of the parties who were

00:43:54.900 involved in the violence.

00:43:57.180 In that this guy has every reason to believe that this woman knows where his nephew is,

00:44:04.900 is threatening his nephew's life.

00:44:07.580 I'd consider holding the woman at gunpoint too, to get to the bottom of this.

00:44:11.840 Now, maybe you call the cops the moment you get the threat.

00:44:14.520 Maybe that was the smart thing to do.

00:44:16.040 But in any case, the woman's saying, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.

00:44:18.520 And then he shoots her.

00:44:21.840 There was a scuffle at the door and he shot her.

00:44:25.340 So, he's now being charged with murder, carries a penalty of 15 years to life in prison.

00:44:30.760 A bail was set at 200 grand.

00:44:33.640 Horrible story.

00:44:34.460 I really feel, obviously I feel for the woman and her family.

00:44:36.960 I really feel for this guy, this 81-year-old guy who, the only person who's really committed

00:44:41.360 a crime here, as far as I'm concerned, is the scammer.

00:44:43.540 And the scammer, we don't even know his identity because he just made a phone call.

00:44:47.220 I really, scammers and fraudsters are the lowest of the low.

00:44:52.440 I mean, these are the people who are in some of the lowest circles of hell, according to Dante.

00:44:56.460 They are, they're just like the worst people on earth.

00:45:00.920 And they're emboldened to get away with it.

00:45:04.360 Why?

00:45:05.880 Because of a novel technological fact of our age, which is that technology allows us to pretend to be another person.

00:45:17.280 Sure, you could always put on the Groucho glasses and lie about your identity.

00:45:20.800 But it was a little harder when you're there in flesh and blood, you're putting on a performance.

00:45:24.080 It's here, with the advent of telephones and certainly with computers, you just, you can live a digital life.

00:45:32.660 And you can convince yourself that your digital virtual life is not connected to your real life.

00:45:39.640 And we all do this to some degree.

00:45:42.520 We all do.

00:45:43.320 We get online and we put on a new persona.

00:45:46.780 A lot of people, probably the clearest example is looking at pornography.

00:45:50.040 Very few people want to admit to looking at pornography in public, but what is it, 90 plus percent of men look at it or have looked at it in private.

00:45:58.660 Because you say, oh, well, that's not my real life.

00:46:02.160 You know, you open up the incognito, incognito, meaning I'm totally unknown, I'm totally anonymous.

00:46:08.120 But even beyond that, let's say you don't look at porn.

00:46:10.160 I bet you're on social media.

00:46:11.620 And when people go on social media, they become monstrous.

00:46:14.880 They become different people.

00:46:15.880 They're nasty, they're wrathful, they're cruel, they're envious, they're prideful.

00:46:20.880 They're all, why?

00:46:21.800 Because you say, well, it's not real life.

00:46:23.280 Twitter is not real life.

00:46:24.400 That's what we say.

00:46:25.740 But it is real life.

00:46:27.380 It is real life.

00:46:28.720 And imagine you're the scammer here in this case.

00:46:31.800 You're just trying to make some money off an old guy.

00:46:34.480 Now a woman is dead because of it, and that old guy is going to die in prison.

00:46:39.140 Because you pulled a little prank.

00:46:41.440 Because you made a phone call.

00:46:43.200 You're saying, well, making a phone call can't be that violent.

00:46:45.880 Well, it's killed one person.

00:46:48.060 It's sort of killed two people in the sense that this guy is going to die in prison now.

00:46:52.660 You are always you.

00:46:55.940 Liberal modernity wants to compartmentalize us, divide us, alienate us from ourselves.

00:47:00.820 The extreme of this, transgenderism, tries to alienate us from our own bodies, from our own identities.

00:47:05.560 You can't really do that.

00:47:06.820 It's not possible.

00:47:07.880 You are yourself.

00:47:09.460 Every action you undertake, whether it's supposedly incognito or whether it's in the visible physical world,

00:47:15.300 it all has effects in the visible physical world, some of which are palpable.

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