The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1473 - The Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan Spending Bill EXPLAINED In 3 Mins

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00:00:37.680 About 15 months ago, Republicans took back control of the House of Representatives.

00:00:42.480 With so many pressing national problems, a faltering economy, an invasion across our southern border, a mass poisoning through fentanyl and opioids,

00:00:51.400 finally, we could focus on something other than sending money to Ukraine.

00:00:57.920 Except we didn't.

00:00:59.460 Unfortunately, the House kept ignoring all the important issues and mostly just sent more money to Ukraine.

00:01:04.340 So, six months ago, a handful of House conservatives ousted Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy and replaced him with the ostensibly more conservative Mike Johnson.

00:01:16.540 And then, we got a bunch of familiar gridlock.

00:01:20.440 And finally, last Friday, we got more funding for Ukraine and Israel and Taiwan.

00:01:28.860 Now, Speaker Johnson's job is in jeopardy.

00:01:32.440 And many conservatives are shocked and scandalized.

00:01:36.380 But I am not shocked and scandalized.

00:01:39.720 Because as I have mentioned many times, this was always going to happen.

00:01:45.200 Because this is how our government works.

00:01:47.860 Look at these people.

00:01:49.540 Look at these Democrats on the floor of the House.

00:01:51.260 They're waving Ukraine flags on the floor of the American House of Representatives.

00:01:56.200 Our representatives, our statesmen, are waving the flags of another country.

00:02:00.620 Why is that?

00:02:01.300 Because we are not a yeoman republic.

00:02:04.900 We are not even a nation state.

00:02:07.340 We are a global empire.

00:02:09.620 We don't pass laws for ourselves by starting with singing bills up on Capitol Hill like in Schoolhouse Rock.

00:02:17.400 We have a Byzantine system of bureaucrats and administrative obligations that fund and manage a global empire.

00:02:26.740 That empire benefits us in some ways.

00:02:29.540 I don't want to be totally down on the empire.

00:02:31.640 There are some benefits that we get.

00:02:33.800 At the same time, it takes from us many of our political rights and traditions.

00:02:38.540 You might not like that.

00:02:39.980 I might not like that.

00:02:41.640 You might even be angry with me for telling you that.

00:02:44.480 But that's just the way it is.

00:02:46.920 Most pundits, you're going to hear two takes on this today from pundits on both sides of the aisle.

00:02:53.120 Both takes are going to involve a lot of yelling and screaming.

00:02:56.760 Either because one side demands that you view Ukraine as the most important battleground for freedom and democracy or whatever.

00:03:08.020 Or on the other side, you're going to hear yelling and screaming because they're going to say that we need to cut all foreign aid.

00:03:13.140 And we only need to focus on domestic problems.

00:03:16.220 We need to not give one red cent to anyone overseas, which will not happen.

00:03:20.540 And probably cannot happen because that is not how empires have ever worked or will ever work.

00:03:27.280 And it's certainly not how our empire works.

00:03:29.040 So those guys on both sides of the issue, both sides, it's basically the same conclusion, nothing.

00:03:35.540 They're going to yell and they're going to scream impotently.

00:03:38.300 And then nothing that they predict or demand will happen. 0.96

00:03:41.360 We will all still think the Ukraine war is ridiculous and futile.

00:03:45.980 And then we'll keep funding it.

00:03:47.940 And I'll be over here calmly describing to the best of my ability what is going on.

00:03:53.440 And why am I calm?

00:03:54.920 Why am I calm?

00:03:55.580 Because history is the representation of lust and violence that is ultimately redeemed, despite our best efforts, by God.

00:04:04.860 No one in politics has lower expectations or greater hope than Christians.

00:04:11.280 Seems like a paradox.

00:04:13.520 That's the way it is.

00:04:14.600 We fight hard.

00:04:16.020 We do our best.

00:04:17.780 But we know how the principalities and powers that govern this world work.

00:04:21.700 We know that the only way to accomplish anything is first to acknowledge reality.

00:04:27.220 That's true at a personal level and it's certainly true at a political level.

00:04:30.400 That is not always great for garnering clicks.

00:04:33.360 But it is better for your blood pressure and for your perspicacity.

00:04:37.220 Because it means that you won't be constantly shocked and appalled by how politics actually works.

00:04:44.780 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:04:45.480 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:04:51.700 Welcome back to the show.

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00:05:54.400 Real quick, what's in this funding bill?

00:05:58.140 It's a $95 billion bill.

00:06:01.220 Now, it was broken up into different little pieces of funding because the House wasn't able to pass the whole thing at once.

00:06:07.780 So, it starts out $60 billion allocated for Ukraine, then $17 billion or thereabouts for Israel,

00:06:18.280 then $9 billion for humanitarian aid, and then $8 billion to support Taiwan.

00:06:25.980 Is any of this justifiable or defensible from a national security or even national interest perspective?

00:06:34.280 The most justifiable one, obviously, is Taiwan. 0.97

00:06:39.180 The reason for that is we rely on Taiwan for semiconductors and microchips.

00:06:44.540 If we lose Taiwan, we're going to be up the creek without a paddle.

00:06:48.340 Also, because we will lose Taiwan to arguably our biggest geopolitical adversary, China, rising China, 0.99

00:06:55.260 challenging American hegemony, potentially leading into a multipolar world.

00:07:00.580 And so, the easiest argument for this kind of funding goes to Taiwan.

00:07:07.280 What is the argument for Ukraine?

00:07:10.980 Ukraine is the biggest line item here, right?

00:07:14.420 $60 billion. 0.99

00:07:15.400 The argument for funding Ukraine right now is to kill more Russians. 0.99

00:07:18.940 That's basically it. 0.99

00:07:20.200 That Russia remains a geopolitical adversary of the United States,

00:07:24.420 and they're getting a little high-handed in their traditional sphere of influence.

00:07:27.980 And we don't like that.

00:07:28.900 We don't like seeing Russia grow. 0.85

00:07:30.660 We still view Russia as a threat. 0.94

00:07:32.200 Russia does, in fairness, still have a lot of missiles pointed at us.

00:07:34.600 And so, we are not funding Ukraine because Ukraine can win the war.

00:07:38.880 Ukraine cannot win the war.

00:07:41.320 The number of personnel and the amount of materiel involved are insufficient to actually defeat the Russians in the war.

00:07:49.620 So, the only thing that the United States is aiming at by continuing this war is killing more Russians. 0.67

00:07:55.760 And they'll use the euphemism, which is weaken the Russian military. 0.99

00:07:59.660 But what that means is the Russians are going to keep pouring in, and we're going to keep killing them. 1.00

00:08:03.360 Well, we're not going to kill them. 1.00

00:08:04.500 It's Ukrainians who are going to kill them. 1.00

00:08:05.840 A lot more Ukrainians are going to die, but the die is cast. 1.00

00:08:09.580 That is the American grand strategic vision in Ukraine.

00:08:13.240 That's the whole scope of it.

00:08:14.400 There's really not much more to it.

00:08:15.880 And you might say, well, that's awful.

00:08:17.440 That's terrible.

00:08:18.120 That's cynical.

00:08:18.860 I guess it is, maybe.

00:08:20.780 But that's just the way it is.

00:08:22.420 How about Israel?

00:08:23.460 Why are we funding Israel?

00:08:25.080 The reason we're funding the state of Israel goes back a long way, actually.

00:08:28.980 The modern state of Israel, the roots of it, go back to the British Empire.

00:08:33.220 The American Empire is kind of the continuation or even the apotheosis of the British Empire.

00:08:38.440 And so, we've hung on to a lot of British customs, obviously British law.

00:08:44.120 We are, the people who founded America were British and a lot of their affinities and their obligations.

00:08:51.920 It was founded famously in the Balfour Declaration.

00:08:55.900 Then it's formally founded by the United Nations.

00:08:58.040 The United Nations also plays a role in the American Empire.

00:09:00.800 And then from the perspective of American national interest, Israel is part of America's Middle East alliance.

00:09:08.500 We get, you know, a little military base there in Israel.

00:09:12.820 We get some intelligence from Israel, perhaps.

00:09:15.460 But it's part of a broader alliance.

00:09:16.960 Israel is not our only ally in the Middle East.

00:09:19.380 But Israel is a particularly conspicuous one because it's a non-Muslim ally in the Middle East.

00:09:27.540 And who are our other allies?

00:09:29.620 Well, it's Saudi Arabia.

00:09:31.600 It's Turkey.

00:09:32.440 Some of the time, Turkey's a NATO ally.

00:09:34.380 It's Qatar.

00:09:35.380 It's Bahrain.

00:09:36.440 It's Kuwait.

00:09:37.380 It's the United Arab Emirates.

00:09:38.880 It's Egypt, notably, is an ally of ours.

00:09:41.140 Jordan is an ally of ours.

00:09:43.380 But when you have allies in any region, that means that you have enemies in that region, too.

00:09:47.800 The clearest enemy, not even just to the United States directly, but to all those guys I just mentioned, especially Israel. 0.98

00:09:55.420 But also places like, also certainly Saudi Arabia and others, is Iran.

00:10:00.420 So you've got Iran as an enemy.

00:10:02.620 Therefore, you've got Syria, which is an ally of Iran, as kind of an enemy.

00:10:06.980 Therefore, you've got Turkey sometimes as kind of an enemy, even though they're also a NATO ally and have been for, what, 70 years now.

00:10:12.800 And Afghanistan now is, you know, Afghanistan's not even really a country.

00:10:16.400 But in as much as it is, it's an enemy.

00:10:18.420 And so that's that.

00:10:19.840 That's that.

00:10:20.480 And I know that's not a sexy explanation of why we're funding these things.

00:10:23.540 And you might still say, well, I want to defund all of it.

00:10:25.900 Yeah, maybe you do.

00:10:26.840 And maybe there have been plenty of brilliant statesmen in American history who say, we don't want an empire.

00:10:32.280 But we just, we have one.

00:10:33.920 We have one.

00:10:35.040 And so we're going to keep funding it, whether you want to, whether I want to.

00:10:37.820 It's just, that's just how it's going to work.

00:10:39.440 And when you have an empire, that means that you garner to yourself certain alliances.

00:10:45.700 And when you garner alliances, that means that that engenders enemies as well.

00:10:49.400 And that's just the way it happens.

00:10:50.620 It gets back to a line that I mentioned earlier in the monologue, which is that history is the representation of lust and violence.

00:10:59.160 It's the representation of desire and violence.

00:11:02.720 And that's just the way it goes.

00:11:04.580 It's ultimately redeemed.

00:11:05.560 So I don't want to sound like I'm a total doomer here.

00:11:08.520 You know, history is also the playing out of God's providence.

00:11:11.460 So it's got a good beginning.

00:11:13.580 It's got a good middle, you know, the incarnation and the crucifixion and the resurrection.

00:11:17.000 And it's got a good end.

00:11:19.280 But, you know, there's a lot of nastiness in the middle because it's a fallen world.

00:11:24.620 Simple as that.

00:11:26.160 And then how about then $9 billion for humanitarian aid?

00:11:28.600 That's the amount of money that we pay just to make ourselves feel better for funding all of this violence.

00:11:34.260 Which I'm not even knocking the U.S. for funding the violence.

00:11:36.680 We're an empire and that's what empires do.

00:11:38.280 And that's politics because this world has fallen and it's run by principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places.

00:11:45.180 And that's how it goes.

00:11:45.880 This doesn't mean that the principle of the state or even the principle of the empire is wrong.

00:11:50.740 The civil authority is there for our good and it's there because we need peace and we need order in order to have liberty.

00:11:57.980 But it gets kind of messy and nasty in the meantime.

00:12:01.120 And that's why McCarthy was going to fund it and Johnson's going to fund it.

00:12:05.320 And whoever the next speaker is probably going to have Keane Jeffries, the Democrat.

00:12:09.440 But even if we get another Republican, they're going to fund it too because that's how the government actually works.

00:12:14.700 And you might say, well, but it shouldn't and I don't like that it does.

00:12:17.820 Well, okay, man, I'm just here to tell you the truth as I see it.

00:12:23.400 I'm just here.

00:12:24.860 Don't shoot the messenger, okay?

00:12:26.520 If you want someone to just yell and scream and, you know, make you feel really good about your misperception of the government or your mistaken predictions or something.

00:12:37.480 I'm not that guy.

00:12:39.400 Can't.

00:12:40.280 But I'll tell you, it's better for your blood pressure and it's better for your perspicacity if you accept the way politics actually works.

00:12:45.820 Because that's also the only way that we'll actually be able to accomplish anything.

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00:14:11.820 Speaking of things the House is doing that is driving people crazy, the House is going to ban TikTok.

00:14:18.780 Okay, we say, hey, hey, members of Congress, it'd be great if you could fix this economy.

00:14:23.520 Hey, members of Congress, it'd be great if you could seal up that border and stop the major invasion,

00:14:27.500 historic invasion of the United States.

00:14:29.460 Hey, members of Congress, it'd be good if you could stop the mass poisoning of Americans that 1.00

00:14:34.680 is occurring because of China and the cartels that control the border.

00:14:38.260 And you know what the House of Representatives says?

00:14:40.240 They say, yeah, best we can do is ban TikTok.

00:14:45.180 Sorry, we can't fix any of that other stuff.

00:14:47.980 We actually can't because, you know, the Democrats control the Senate and the presidency and the

00:14:52.820 bureaucracy, of course.

00:14:54.000 But yeah, but we can ban TikTok.

00:14:55.780 So is that good?

00:14:56.840 Does that work for you guys?

00:14:57.760 Does not excite me.

00:15:01.540 The House passed this legislation that would ban TikTok in the US if the China-based owner

00:15:07.140 does not sell its stake in TikTok within a year.

00:15:10.980 And this passed overwhelmingly.

00:15:12.500 It was a 360 to 58 vote.

00:15:16.620 Not 360 to 358.

00:15:18.060 It was 360 to 58.

00:15:19.220 Overwhelming passage of this bill.

00:15:21.480 Now it goes to the Senate and they're going to keep negotiating and trying to work this thing out.

00:15:25.480 I have no problem in principle with banning a social media app.

00:15:30.460 As you know, I'm not exactly the most libertarian guy in the world.

00:15:33.640 I think that we have a political right to ban these kinds of things for all sorts of reasons.

00:15:37.580 Not for any reason, but for all sorts of reasons.

00:15:39.720 So in principle, I got no problem with it.

00:15:41.440 But in practice, I do.

00:15:42.700 I'm not in favor of banning TikTok.

00:15:44.660 Why?

00:15:45.280 Because a question you got to ask yourself when bills pass is,

00:15:48.820 who stands to benefit from this?

00:15:51.840 Who stands to benefit?

00:15:52.840 Why are you getting such an overwhelming bipartisan majority of people who want to ban this?

00:15:58.180 Why are so many Democrats on board with banning TikTok?

00:16:02.340 Is it because all of a sudden they hate the chai comms or something like that?

00:16:05.580 All of a sudden they're concerned with obscene material being presented to our kids.

00:16:10.620 Democrats are all in favor of presenting obscene material to our kids.

00:16:13.360 Democrats hold parades for months at a time to present obscene material to our kids.

00:16:18.940 So it's not that.

00:16:19.600 They're afraid of appeals to the prurian interest that you see on TikTok. 0.94

00:16:23.240 They're afraid.

00:16:23.800 No.

00:16:25.240 They're afraid that the Chinese communists are going to propagandize us with far left material.

00:16:30.380 The libs are already trying to propagandize us with far left material. 0.97

00:16:33.960 Who stands to benefit from this?

00:16:36.160 Mark Zuckerberg, who's a huge lib, who may have been the reason that Democrats took the 2020 election

00:16:43.040 through his $400 million of funding, specifically of organizations that would determine where to place ballot drop boxes.

00:16:52.240 We're talking about real nuts and bolts, significant maneuvers in the 2020 race.

00:16:56.880 Mark Zuckerberg benefits because he's the competitor to TikTok.

00:17:00.680 He runs Instagram and Facebook.

00:17:02.500 And Joe Biden benefits.

00:17:04.480 Joe Biden is being raked across the coals on TikTok right now, in no small part because the Gaza war has generated a lot of interest, especially among young people, especially on social media platforms, especially on TikTok.

00:17:18.020 And Biden is being blamed for the mishandling of that war in the youth vote popular consciousness. 0.56

00:17:25.300 So it's real convenient for the Democrats right now that they're going to pass this law and the Republicans are going to be all for it because we think it's going to attack those darn chi-coms, those reds over there in China. 1.00

00:17:37.440 But really, the only people who are going to benefit, the only people who are going to get hurt probably is Republicans.

00:17:44.720 And the only people who are really going to benefit are Joe Biden and Joe Biden's and the Democrats' enforcement arm in the so-called private industry, which is largely Facebook.

00:17:56.300 Maybe Google a little bit, but it's Facebook and Instagram.

00:17:59.840 Hmm.

00:18:00.840 I don't really, why are we doing that?

00:18:02.300 I want there to be more competitors to Facebook and Instagram because Facebook bragged about throwing the 2020 election to the Democrats.

00:18:12.240 And they censor us.

00:18:13.620 And sure, I don't like the Chinese communists coming in and censoring us.

00:18:18.360 And I had my TikTok account banned within three seconds of starting it just about. 0.66

00:18:23.320 And TikTok does have all sorts of disgusting material on it.

00:18:26.440 But the same is true of Facebook.

00:18:28.160 Facebook censors us, bans us, and has all sorts of awful material on it.

00:18:32.920 So why are we going to give a huge advantage to Facebook and the Democrats and Joe Biden?

00:18:38.220 It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

00:18:39.520 Speaking of Biden, did you know that Joe Biden's uncle was eaten by cannibals in New Guinea?

00:18:44.660 That was news to me.

00:18:46.540 We called him Uncle Bozy.

00:18:48.660 He was shot down.

00:18:50.820 When he was in the Army Air Corps, before there was an Air Force, before a single-engine plane reconnaissance flight over New Guinea, he had volunteered because someone couldn't make it.

00:19:02.860 He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time. 1.00

00:19:10.700 They never recovered his body, but the government went back when I went down there and they checked the pounds and parts of the plane and the like.

00:19:18.460 Okay, so in case it's a little garbled, the audio is a little hard to hear there outside, but the upshot is Joe Biden's uncle supposedly shot down in New Guinea and then eaten by cannibals.

00:19:33.500 And I got to tell you, of all the Joe Biden tall tales that we've ever heard, old corn pop there at the Scranton or was it Delaware swimming pool, old hairy legs, old Joe Biden's dad just extolling the virtues of two dudes making out back in the 50s or whatever.

00:19:56.940 I remember that story from Joe Biden, of all the stories we've ever heard, plenty of stories about his family and his uncle getting eaten by New Guinea cannibals is probably the most plausible one. 0.94

00:20:09.500 Because there are, you know, we've, we've had American excursions, we're a global empire.

00:20:16.020 We've had American excursions all over the world, all over the Pacific.

00:20:21.020 And there are a lot of cannibals in New Guinea today, not even 50 years ago or 70 years ago or whenever this story supposedly occurred.

00:20:29.960 Like today, people in New Guinea practice cannibalism.

00:20:35.080 That's real.

00:20:36.800 So I don't, the story is probably fake because Joe Biden said it.

00:20:43.120 Joe Biden, who rarely says true things, said this, therefore I don't believe it.

00:20:48.440 But if a person who were not an infamous liar told me this story, I'd probably believe it, man.

00:20:55.080 We don't, you know, we don't generally practice cannibalism here.

00:20:57.440 We'll see how much longer, we keep the border open long enough, who knows.

00:21:00.600 But, but generally that's frowned upon in America and in Europe and in the West.

00:21:06.800 But they do practice it in a lot of other places.

00:21:08.920 That's true.

00:21:10.000 We sometimes, we're a little parochial.

00:21:11.500 We forget that there are all sorts of crazy behaviors and all sorts of civilizations.

00:21:15.720 We take our civilization for granted very, very often.

00:21:20.360 And we are going to regret that when we have to witness more cannibalism.

00:21:24.540 Not just of Joe Biden's uncle, but you know, it's not.

00:21:28.100 Civilization's a precious thing.

00:21:29.300 We ought to hold on to it.

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00:23:03.180 Now, the White House is doubling down on Joe Biden's cannibal story.

00:23:09.260 We just have a cannibal tab in your book.

00:23:13.380 There's no cannibal tab.

00:23:14.820 What are you talking about?

00:23:17.100 Is that what you're asking me about?

00:23:19.640 Can you finish it?

00:23:20.700 Yeah.

00:23:21.420 Okay.

00:23:22.020 Look, I'll just, and I think we shared this with some of you.

00:23:24.580 So I'm just going to kind of repeat.

00:23:26.220 Look, you saw the president.

00:23:27.420 He was incredibly proud of his uncle's service in uniform.

00:23:30.520 You saw him at the war memorial.

00:23:32.080 It was incredibly emotional and important to him.

00:23:34.540 You saw him respond to all of you when asked about the moment yesterday.

00:23:40.000 And his uncle, who lost his life when the military aircraft he was on crashed in the Pacific after taking off near New Guinea.

00:23:46.980 The president highlighted his uncle's story as he made the case for honoring our sacred commitment to equip those we send to war and to take care of them and their families when they come home.

00:23:58.180 I won't belabor the point.

00:24:01.240 There's not a ton of meat on this bone of KJP's response to the cannibal question other than to say, this lady's got a tough job. 1.00

00:24:10.120 You know, I have a bit of pity.

00:24:12.320 I don't like what she's doing.

00:24:13.920 I don't like who she's working for.

00:24:16.400 But this is a tough job.

00:24:19.680 When you've got to start answering questions about your uncle, about the president's uncle being eaten by cannibals, you know your boss has strayed a little far afield. 0.79

00:24:31.120 You know your boss is not in a great spot.

00:24:34.020 And the Democrats' position in the 2024 election is not in a great spot.

00:24:37.800 Despite all of the power that they have, they really do have operational control over most of the institutions in our country.

00:24:46.400 And still, I'm not totally gloom and doom, blackpilled, it's all over.

00:24:52.480 And still, there is a pretty good shot that Donald Trump gets reelected in November.

00:24:58.600 They wouldn't be trying to throw him in prison if there weren't.

00:25:01.860 They wouldn't be simultaneously prosecuting him on four fronts if there weren't a pretty decent chance that even with all the rigging and all the thumbs on the scales, that Trump could be elected.

00:25:11.620 Especially if the president, the current president, keeps going off talking about cannibals and hairy legs.

00:25:17.560 Speaking of threats to Joe Biden, Bobby Kennedy Jr. is posing a major threat because Bobby Kennedy Jr. just got ballot access in Michigan.

00:25:31.820 Don't forget, it doesn't matter if RFK Jr. gets ballot access in New Jersey or New York or something.

00:25:37.380 States that Joe Biden is obviously going to win.

00:25:40.360 What about Michigan?

00:25:41.520 What about Pennsylvania?

00:25:42.580 What about Wisconsin?

00:25:44.240 What about Arizona?

00:25:45.040 What about states where even in a totally normal election, it's going to be kind of tight between the Democrat and the Republican?

00:25:53.520 Well, what happens if you have a Democrat who appeals to Democrats, who's going to pull some of those precious votes away from the Democrat nominee, Joe Biden?

00:26:04.120 States that were decided by a relatively small number of votes going all the way back to 2016.

00:26:10.040 And then maybe 2020, kind of a strange election.

00:26:12.560 And then 2024.

00:26:15.080 Bobby Kennedy Jr. now has ballot access in Michigan on the natural law party line.

00:26:20.360 Now, this is kind of funny.

00:26:21.700 I didn't know that there was such a thing as a natural law party.

00:26:24.100 It is kind of funny that a guy who defends murdering babies in the womb is on the natural law party line.

00:26:32.800 That seems a little strange to me.

00:26:35.340 I'm going to look into this natural law party a little bit because that's a little odd.

00:26:40.500 But I'm in favor of it.

00:26:41.640 I think it's great.

00:26:43.060 Does this mean that Kennedy will be the natural law party candidate, the nominee across the country?

00:26:47.540 No, I don't even know if the natural law party has a ballot line throughout the country.

00:26:53.080 States make their election laws, and there are all sorts of different parties.

00:26:55.840 I remember when I lived in New York, there were all sorts of weird parties.

00:26:58.640 There was the Working Families Party.

00:27:00.060 It was kind of a commie party.

00:27:01.240 But usually the Democrat would just pick up that line.

00:27:03.620 So the Democrat would be on the Democratic line.

00:27:05.320 The Democrat would also be listed on the Working Families Party line.

00:27:08.140 There was another line, the Independence Party, I-N-D-E-P-E, and E-N-D, excuse me, sorry for that, E-N-C-E. 0.95

00:27:21.360 Not Independence T-S, Independence C-E. 0.94

00:27:25.000 So it was confusing because a lot of people said, I'm not a Republican, I'm not a Democrat, I'm an independent.

00:27:29.640 They would sign up for that party.

00:27:30.780 But that party didn't mean you were not affiliated with a political party.

00:27:33.680 It meant you were joining this other kind of grifty political party where really you just kind of pay the bosses of it off, and then you get the line.

00:27:41.080 That party doesn't exist in every other state.

00:27:43.920 The natural law party doesn't exist in every other state, to my knowledge.

00:27:47.080 But this is a potential strategy for Kennedy.

00:27:50.000 Kennedy could go around just picking up random ballot lines, any ballot line that will put him on the ballot.

00:27:56.040 The Kennedy brand is a lot bigger than the natural law party, a lot bigger than the Libertarian Party, for that matter, a lot bigger than the Working Families Party.

00:28:03.020 So he could just pick up different ballot lines in every state, and then he's on the ballot.

00:28:06.840 And as long as that name Kennedy is on the ballot, he is going to take votes.

00:28:11.420 He's going to take votes maybe from both Biden and Trump, but I have been saying from the beginning, and I think I've been proven more and more correct every single day, hate to say I told you so, Kennedy is going to take more votes from Biden.

00:28:22.260 So I am all for it.

00:28:23.320 I hope he gets, I hope he stays on the natural law party line in Michigan.

00:28:26.360 I hope he picks up a line in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and Arizona and all over the country.

00:28:34.300 Now, Kennedy, it seems like I've kind of hit him a little bit because his abortion stance is not very much in keeping with the natural law.

00:28:42.220 But I would love to compliment Bobby Kennedy right now because he says some things that are very kooky and off base.

00:28:49.140 He says some things that are very right.

00:28:51.300 Don't forget, Bobby Kennedy was great on COVID.

00:28:54.200 He was much more precise on the COVID lockdowns and the whole COVID regime than were all the Democrats and many Republicans.

00:29:02.100 And he's showing his perspicacity, maybe that's the word of the day, on another issue that the Democrats and not even the Republicans are speaking about.

00:29:13.280 But it's an issue near and dear to my heart, and I know to many of you who are listening as well.

00:29:19.000 Bobby Kennedy Jr. is having the courage right now to call out the current ethnic cleansing of Armenians by Azerbaijan.

00:29:26.920 Beginning in 2020, Azerbaijan ruthlessly launched an ethnic cleansing campaign against this peaceful and peace-loving people.

00:29:37.100 It systematically bombarded population centers with cluster bombs and missiles. 0.51

00:29:42.760 And in September, Azerbaijan launched an unprovoked invasion and expelled all 120,000 ethnic Armenians.

00:29:50.460 While the world was focused on Gaza and Israel with indignation and outrage from every direction, we heard almost nothing about this mass expulsion of the entire population of one of the oldest Armenian states on the planet.

00:30:07.180 Empty condemnations of this ethnic cleansing campaign are not enough. 0.88

00:30:12.280 Unlike the 1915 genocide, this one is reversible.

00:30:16.220 The U.S. government needs to organize and mobilize the global community to take action to ensure the safe return of Armenians to ARTSOC and to defend their right to self-determination.

00:30:31.100 This is a situation where peaceful sanctions could actually work.

00:30:37.020 100% correct.

00:30:38.640 Bobby Kennedy Jr. is 100% correct on this issue of the current ethnic cleansing going on against the Armenians. 0.98

00:30:49.700 He's right that we've all been focused on, first it was the Ukraine war, and now we're all focused on Gaza. 0.78

00:30:55.400 And these terms, genocide and ethnic cleansing, are being bandied about by all sides.

00:31:00.900 The pro-Palestine people are accusing Israel of committing a genocide, or at the very least an ethnic cleansing, of the Gazans.

00:31:11.360 And the pro-Israel side is pointing out, you know, actually in Hamas's charter, the governing authority in Gaza,

00:31:18.480 they explicitly call for either the genocide or at the very least the ethnic cleansing of the Jews in Israel.

00:31:23.500 So, yeah, there's a lot of ethnic cleansing accusations being thrown about.

00:31:28.520 But if we're so focused on this issue, why are we not focused on the current ethnic cleansing going on against the Armenians?

00:31:36.780 Armenia, which suffered a genocide a little over 100 years ago.

00:31:43.000 What was it, a million and a half Armenians were killed at the hands of Muslim Turks?

00:31:50.300 1915?

00:31:50.700 We don't even talk about that.

00:31:52.780 A lot of people won't even acknowledge that as a genocide.

00:31:55.640 Armenia.

00:31:56.220 Why do I care about Armenia? 0.81

00:31:57.200 Because it's the oldest Christian country in the world.

00:32:00.200 Armenia became a Christian country a dozen years before the Edict of Milan by Emperor Constantine that legalized Christianity throughout the Roman Empire.

00:32:09.140 This is the oldest Christian country in the world.

00:32:11.680 Christianity first arrived in Armenia seven years after the crucifixion and the resurrection.

00:32:15.880 It arrived at, by the mouths and the tongues of two apostles.

00:32:23.260 Okay.

00:32:23.700 There is a longstanding Christian presence and Christian identity in Armenia.

00:32:30.160 So, why does America care?

00:32:31.520 Well, as I said at the top, we are a global empire.

00:32:36.380 We are the global empire, actually.

00:32:39.020 We've always considered ourselves a Christian country.

00:32:41.800 In recent decades, unfortunately, there has been a concerted effort to stop thinking of America as a Christian country.

00:32:46.940 But, you know, it was one nation under God.

00:32:49.620 John Adams famously said that the morality for America is the Christian morality.

00:32:53.260 The people who formed America going all the way back to the pilgrims on the Mayflower, which is a great cigar company, by the way.

00:32:59.780 This was a Christian identity from the beginning.

00:33:03.320 And there were all sorts of little disagreements and conflicts between different sects.

00:33:08.660 But it's broadly a Christian country.

00:33:10.720 It comes out of the Christian West. 0.98

00:33:12.380 Christianity is the religion that has animated that civilization for as long as we have been a distinct and coherent civilization.

00:33:21.160 And so, if we are that empire, then the question to me is not, do we fund anything or do we not fund anything?

00:33:29.360 I guess for some people, we need to fund everything.

00:33:31.180 We need to fund every single war.

00:33:32.300 We need to wave the Ukraine flags on the floor of the House.

00:33:34.740 This is the greatest battleground for democracy and freedom.

00:33:37.640 Give me a break.

00:33:39.080 But it's also not the other side.

00:33:40.220 We need to just stop being an empire.

00:33:41.880 Well, we are one.

00:33:42.800 We need to stop funding everybody around the world.

00:33:44.900 Yeah, well, good luck with that.

00:33:46.160 How's that working out for you?

00:33:47.200 It's not working out very well at all.

00:33:48.720 To say that, to say we're just going to stop funding everything, we're going to stop being an empire, that is effectively to concede the political territory to our enemies.

00:33:57.620 Because you might not like the way that the American empire looks, but that is what it is.

00:34:01.500 So, if you say, well, I'm not going to play ball, I'm not going to engage in politics.

00:34:04.880 Okay, well, if you're not going to engage in politics, then you're ceding the political ground to your enemies.

00:34:09.880 America is an empire.

00:34:11.660 What kind of empire are we?

00:34:12.740 I bet a lot more people would be on board once again with the American empire if the American empire were doing good things and spreading good ideas and practices and institutions around the world.

00:34:25.100 I think a lot of the reason that people have taken a more isolationist view in just the last five or ten years to American empire is because we ask, what are we spreading?

00:34:36.160 What is the idea?

00:34:37.520 We're spreading the pride flag to Kandahar? 0.96

00:34:39.660 That what?

00:34:40.580 Excuse me?

00:34:41.860 I don't want to give one more red cent to do that.

00:34:44.980 I don't want to spread the pride flag in America, much less in Afghanistan or Iraq. 1.00

00:34:49.880 What are we spreading?

00:34:50.920 What are we standing for?

00:34:51.900 What's the point of the American empire?

00:34:54.600 What's the identity of the American empire?

00:34:56.880 But if we were to return to a little bit more of the traditional view, you know, the red, white, and blue, truth, justice, and the American way, the ideas, philosophical all the way up to religious, because all politics is ultimately theological, that formed our civilization and made us great in the first place, I think a lot more people would be on board.

00:35:16.260 We would have a lot more moral clarity, and we would have a lot more moral courage.

00:35:21.020 But this issue is a big one. 0.88

00:35:22.480 If we've got American statesmen waving the freaking Ukraine flag, Ukraine, one of the most notoriously corrupt countries that has been conquered and reconquered and fought over for a thousand years, this country has been conquered by the Poles, okay? 0.92

00:35:38.380 The Poles, who have faced a lot of oppression themselves. 0.91

00:35:40.800 This, this, this, it is a, it is an ambiguous conflict.

00:35:44.360 We're going to wave the Ukraine flag on the floor of the house, but we're not going to defend the oldest Christian country in the world, which is currently facing an ethnic cleansing at the hands of Muslim Turks. 0.98

00:35:54.180 The same, the same people who committed a genocide against the oldest Christian nation in the world a hundred years ago. 0.86

00:35:59.600 We're not going to stand up and have moral clarity on that.

00:36:03.040 Are we going to have moral clarity on anything?

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00:37:19.260 My favorite comment on Friday is from FrankS111, who says,

00:37:25.520 The Left, stay out of our bedroom.

00:37:27.380 Also the Left, you better listen to what we do in our bedroom and celebrate it.

00:37:30.840 That's true.

00:37:31.360 That's because, because, wow.

00:37:33.660 That comment coincidentally ties up a lot of what we're talking about on the show.

00:37:38.820 There's no neutrality.

00:37:42.100 There's no compartmentalizing, totally dividing ourselves into lots of different split personalities.

00:37:48.640 And there is no total privacy.

00:37:53.440 There's no total isolation from the world.

00:37:58.140 We are political.

00:37:59.760 We live in a society where the social creature, we can't, you can't just ignore that.

00:38:08.620 You can't do it at the personal level of, you know, just leave me alone.

00:38:11.740 You do you.

00:38:12.420 Don't yuck my yum in your town. 0.75

00:38:14.400 You can't even do it at the global level and pretend that we're not America.

00:38:17.980 We're America, okay?

00:38:18.700 It's different.

00:38:19.100 It's different to be America than it is to be Qatar, for instance, all right? 0.99

00:38:23.220 You can't just, oh, it doesn't matter what else is going on.

00:38:25.580 No, it does.

00:38:27.120 We live in a society.

00:38:28.700 So, you know, we can have the courage of our convictions.

00:38:31.420 We just got to, we have to be able to have, one, moral clarity and intellectual clarity on what is good for us and how to live and how best to institute and enforce these laws.

00:38:43.660 And then, two, we have to have the courage, the prerequisite of all the other virtues, to actually stand by it.

00:38:49.480 Now, speaking of this 2020 election and how Trump might have a chance of winning, some good news coming out of the RNC.

00:38:59.580 The Republican National Committee has announced that they will mobilize over 100,000 election integrity volunteers and lawyers into the battleground states.

00:39:11.660 This is helpful news because the big problem I've had with the Trump campaign, going back to the primary this year, you know, I love Trump.

00:39:23.380 You know, I supported Trump in 2016, even when it was somewhat unpopular among movement conservatives.

00:39:29.460 I voted for the guy.

00:39:32.980 I was delighted by his presidency.

00:39:36.760 I gleefully voted for him again in 2020.

00:39:39.600 And I just think he's great.

00:39:40.700 I think he's been the best president of my lifetime.

00:39:42.440 He's had faults.

00:39:43.300 He's done things that I disagree with.

00:39:45.180 And that's, of course, that's true of any president.

00:39:46.880 That's true of any other person.

00:39:49.200 You know, you're not going to be totally 100% on everything.

00:39:51.840 But I think he's been very, very good.

00:39:53.540 And for goodness sakes, the guy got Roe v. Wade overruled.

00:39:56.620 But here's the big but.

00:39:59.200 When it came to 2020, I said, look, I'm not making any public endorsement in the primary.

00:40:06.380 And I love Trump.

00:40:07.660 And I would be delighted if he had a second term.

00:40:10.920 But I fear that his campaign is not answering the question.

00:40:15.320 If he got cheated in 2020, how is he not going to get cheated again in 2024?

00:40:19.540 You don't need to convince me that 2020 was rigged.

00:40:23.780 Okay, I've said on the show many times, I've named a number of examples of how it was rigged.

00:40:29.620 And I think that the argument that, well, you know, the case was thrown out of court so many times,

00:40:33.840 that courts wouldn't even hear the cases most of the time.

00:40:36.760 Because the courts didn't want any involvement in it.

00:40:39.300 And there was obvious chicanery. 0.94

00:40:41.080 But that doesn't take away from the remaining question.

00:40:45.100 Well, if they did it in 2020, why won't they do it again in 2024?

00:40:49.540 Until recently, the RNC did not have an answer for this.

00:40:53.140 Now they do.

00:40:53.720 And the RNC and the Trump campaign are one entity now.

00:40:56.800 Okay, even Trump's daughter-in-law is helping to run the RNC right now. 0.99

00:40:59.960 And some of the squishy types called this nepotism and attacked Trump and said he was authoritarian or whatever.

00:41:06.660 Ronald Reagan did the same thing.

00:41:07.900 Ronald Reagan put his daughter at the top of the RNC in the 1980s as well.

00:41:11.460 So, in any case, 100,000 election integrity workers could be good.

00:41:16.580 There will be an election integrity hotline.

00:41:18.980 This will be set up in each battleground state where lawyers will monitor questions and concerns from those monitoring the voting.

00:41:24.980 Trump has just come out and said, having the right people to count the ballots is just as important as turning out voters on election day.

00:41:32.000 This is true.

00:41:32.680 Also, it's not just a Republican who has said this.

00:41:35.080 Very famously, FDR said this to LBJ.

00:41:38.560 When LBJ was running for his first big race, FDR was a mentor of LBJ.

00:41:43.860 And FDR lost at the last moment.

00:41:47.040 And there might have been some chicanery in that race too. 0.98

00:41:49.240 And FDR laughed about it and said, you know, you forgot to sit on the ballot box.

00:41:52.720 And FDR famously, in the 1948 Texas Senate race, stuffed the ballot box and stole the race.

00:41:59.780 And then he became senator, then became vice president, then became president.

00:42:03.240 Then he left office, then he died.

00:42:04.940 And only many decades later did we find out, and Robert Caro did a great job of explaining how this happened in his magisterial biography of LBJ, that LBJ stole that race in 1948.

00:42:16.820 Okay.

00:42:17.160 So, Trump is absolutely right here.

00:42:19.100 So, having the right people to count the ballots is just as important as turning out voters on election day.

00:42:25.800 This is probably the most important thing that the Trump campaign can do.

00:42:31.360 Not just to win on election day.

00:42:34.020 It's very important for that.

00:42:36.020 The Trump campaign also had to do this and has to double down on this in order to motivate people to vote.

00:42:44.100 Republican voters are demoralized.

00:42:46.300 We feel that the libs can just change all the rules in the weeks and months before the election, and Mark Zuckerberg can dump $400 million into left-wing organizations.

00:42:54.080 They're going to move our ballot drop boxes all around.

00:42:56.380 They're going to have widespread mail-in voting.

00:42:58.300 You're going to have weeks, months, maybe, to cast your ballot.

00:43:02.360 They're going to move these ballot boxes illegally far away from county clerk offices, and they're just going to get away with it.

00:43:10.020 And then it's going to take days, weeks, possibly, to count the ballots, and we just feel like our vote doesn't count.

00:43:16.300 But you need to make sure that Republican voters believe their votes will count.

00:43:21.120 And the way to do that is to flood the zone with election integrity workers who can raise all sorts of red flags, who can immediately start filing court cases in a timely way that are very compelling, get a lot of media attention on it.

00:43:38.380 Sunlight is a great disinfectant.

00:43:39.920 Got to do it.

00:43:40.520 This is a great use of money, and I think the RNC is doing a great job.

00:43:44.140 And I have not said I think the RNC is doing a great job at pretty much any topic in years.

00:43:49.560 So this is good news.

00:43:51.420 Now, let's get to a real issue, okay?

00:43:54.220 Not election integrity, but a real issue that gets to the core of our national crises.

00:44:00.380 And that, of course, is the racism of eco-anxiety.

00:44:06.000 Eco-anxiety is an environmental justice issue that disproportionately impacts Black youth.

00:44:11.780 Let's talk about it.

00:44:12.840 According to the American Psychological Association, eco-anxiety is defined as a chronic fear of environmental doom.

00:44:19.560 And that may include feelings of worry, guilt, shame, despair, and even hope.

00:44:25.180 However, just as the climate crisis doesn't impact people and communities the same, neither does eco-anxiety.

00:44:30.860 When we fully understand the relationship between social determinants of mental health and climate change,

00:44:35.500 we begin to understand that the nature of a person's eco-anxiety is also informed by systemic factors that exacerbate the ways that it's felt and addressed.

00:44:44.140 Communities of color, and particularly Black ones, are more vulnerable than white ones to sea level rise, wildfire, and heat waves linked to climate change.

00:44:52.320 Black youth are more likely to reside in hotter regions that trap and radiate heat, have the highest asthma rates in the country, 0.62

00:44:59.200 and are increasingly more likely to experience mental health illness,

00:45:03.140 all while having fewer avenues to really access often life-saving resources.

00:45:09.520 I agree with one thing here. 0.70

00:45:14.140 Which is that Black people probably are more susceptible to eco-anxiety.

00:45:20.900 And I think eco-anxiety is a real thing. 0.70

00:45:23.580 I do think people are neurotic for all sorts of reasons and about all sorts of things,

00:45:29.380 one of which can be that the sun monster is going to kill us all.

00:45:32.700 So, sure, eco-anxiety is real.

00:45:35.520 Boogeyman anxiety is real.

00:45:37.960 All sorts of anxieties are real.

00:45:39.600 Even if the thing that the people are fearing is not real or not a threat, the anxiety itself is real.

00:45:47.560 And Black people probably are more susceptible to it because they have been more propagandized.

00:45:52.920 There has been a more targeted effort to gin up all of these sorts of irrational fears in Black people for the last 60, 70 years. 0.66

00:46:02.260 So, sure, maybe it is the case.

00:46:07.840 It's at least possible that that's the case. 0.93

00:46:09.820 I'm not convinced that most Black people are sitting around quaking in their boots about the sun monster. 0.96

00:46:14.840 Liberal whites are doing that. 0.97

00:46:16.200 But I'm skeptical that Black people are. 1.00

00:46:18.200 But in principle, okay, maybe they could be convinced that the sun monster is racist, too. 0.94

00:46:22.860 Okay, they've been told that everything's racist, so maybe that's possible.

00:46:26.860 What is this really about?

00:46:31.200 All of the eco-anxiety, and the racist eco-anxiety even.

00:46:36.520 People recognize that there is something wrong in the world.

00:46:40.900 That's what it's about.

00:46:42.140 People recognize that there is something wrong in the world.

00:46:45.520 And the world is kind of broken, and there's injustice.

00:46:48.840 And the mistake that this woman is making, and that the hypothetical Black people who fear the racist sun monster are making, 0.52

00:46:57.000 and that all of the environmental alarmists and hysterics are making,

00:47:03.060 is they think that the problem is external rather than internal.

00:47:06.540 It's internal.

00:47:07.640 That's where the brokenness comes from.

00:47:09.660 The big threat to the world is not the sun.

00:47:14.120 The sun's actually pretty good.

00:47:15.520 You know, it allows our vegetation to grow.

00:47:17.280 It feeds us.

00:47:17.820 It warms us.

00:47:18.560 It says, the sun's okay in my book.

00:47:20.700 The threat to the world is people. 0.98

00:47:24.340 And it's not even just physically the people.

00:47:26.680 It's the interior of people.

00:47:30.300 It's the heart and the soul and the spiritual brokenness.

00:47:34.180 The call is coming from inside the house.

00:47:36.700 That's the problem.

00:47:37.880 But these people don't want to face the problems.

00:47:41.820 They don't want to look at the man in the mirror and ask him to change his ways.

00:47:45.900 So they have to blame it on everyone else.

00:47:48.560 They have to blame it on the other races. 0.99

00:47:50.380 They have to blame it on the boogeyman race, which is the white people. 0.99

00:47:53.080 They have to blame it on not even other races, not even other species, but other celestial entities. 0.99

00:47:59.060 We've got to blame it on the sun.

00:48:01.040 We've got to blame it on the greenhouse gases.

00:48:03.840 We've got to blame the brokenness of this world on something that is physical and external because we can't acknowledge that the problem is spiritual and internal.

00:48:12.200 That's a lot scarier.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 22, 2024

Ep. 1473 - The Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan Spending Bill EXPLAINED In 3 Mins

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