The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1491 - The Trump Vs Biden Debate Explained

00:00:00.000 Oh, it's on, baby. Against all odds, Joe Biden has agreed to debate Donald Trump.

00:00:06.780 Crazier still, it was Biden who suggested it.

00:00:10.860 Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. And since then, he hadn't shown up for debate.

00:00:15.220 Now he's acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal. I'll even do it twice.

00:00:21.140 So let's pick the dates, Donald. I hear you're free on Wednesdays.

00:00:24.060 I hear you're free on Wednesdays. Apparently, that's when Trump is not needed in court because

00:00:30.140 Joe Biden and his Democrat friends are trying to imprison him.

00:00:35.140 Yeah, Donald, you're running away. Oh, you're too busy to debate. What, just because I'm trying

00:00:40.480 to imprison you right now because I'm so afraid that if you run fair and square against me, I'll

00:00:45.440 lose? Yeah, well, Donald, make my day. Let's debate. Trump, for his part, has accepted.

00:00:50.380 It is my great honor, said President Covfefe on Truth Social, to accept the CNN debate against

00:00:58.280 Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of the United States and a true threat

00:01:02.460 to democracy on June 27th. Likewise, I accept the ABC news debate against Crooked Joe on September

00:01:08.060 10th. Thank you, DJT. It is on.

00:01:13.540 And the only demand that Joe Biden made was to insist that not a single person in the audience

00:01:22.000 be permitted to watch it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:10.820 Biden doesn't want an audience at the debate, that's real. No exaggeration. We have it here

00:03:17.140 in the Biden campaign's own words. This is from Biden-Harris dated May 15th, so just yesterday.

00:03:23.720 This is to the Commission on Presidential Debates.

00:03:27.260 President Joe Biden believes the interests of the American people are best served by presidential

00:03:31.140 debates that offer timely and relevant information to inform voters before they make their choices.

00:03:36.260 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The purpose of this letter is to provide notice that the president

00:03:40.320 will not be participating in the Commission on Presidential Debates, announced debates in 2024.

00:03:45.920 Instead, he's going to participate in other debates, the ones that he and Trump were talking about,

00:03:49.880 CNN and ABC. Okay, why? Why is that? If he's going to do the debates,

00:03:58.200 why would he not go with the longstanding tradition of the Commission on Presidential Debates?

00:04:04.320 And why would he now go with these other news organizations? Well, the first reason he gives

00:04:08.560 is that the schedule that the Commission gave doesn't work for Biden and doesn't work with all

00:04:13.660 of this early voting, which the Democrats have crammed down our throats because it benefits them

00:04:17.800 and allows them to rig the election more easily. But second, this is the key. Second,

00:04:22.340 the Commission's model of building huge spectacles with large audiences at great expense

00:04:27.080 simply isn't necessary or conducive to good debates. The debates should be conducted for

00:04:32.700 the benefit of the American voters watching on television and at home, not as entertainment for

00:04:37.360 an in-person audience with raucous or disruptive partisans and donors who consume valuable debate

00:04:41.960 time with noisy spectacles of approval or jeering. As was the case with the original televised

00:04:46.620 debates in 1960, a television studio with just the candidates and moderators is a better,

00:04:51.320 more cost-efficient way to proceed. Focus solely on the interests of voters. Okay,

00:04:55.660 that's a lot of words to say. I don't want to get booed off the stage. And that's what this is about

00:05:00.800 because Trump has made a big point in his campaigns, all of his campaigns, to observe that

00:05:09.760 he draws huge crowds and his opponents do not. So he drew huge crowds in 2016. Hillary did not.

00:05:16.880 And all the smart political analysts at the time said, the crowds are not a good predictor

00:05:22.540 of how things are going to turn out at the ballot box. But they were because Trump won and Hillary 0.97

00:05:28.740 lost, even though all the smart money said Hillary was guaranteed to win. Then in 2020,

00:05:33.820 Trump drew huge crowds and Biden drew basically nobody. Now, the way that they got around this in

00:05:40.960 2020 was they shut the whole country down and they said, you're not allowed to go to any sort of event,

00:05:44.480 let alone a presidential rally. And then they changed all the voting rules in the weeks and

00:05:49.280 months beforehand and rigged the election. This time though, even though there is a new COVID

00:05:54.260 variant, the libs are obviously dangling that out in front of us. Probably they're not going to be

00:05:58.080 able to do COVID again. And you look, you see the Biden rallies, such as they are, smattering of

00:06:04.080 people at them. President Trump shows up to Wildwood, New Jersey. He gets tens, tens of thousands of

00:06:08.640 people to show up to support him. So what's going to happen at a debate if the audience is allowed to be

00:06:13.800 there? The audience is going to cheer for Trump and they're going to attack Biden. And it's going

00:06:18.200 to, it's going to off foot Biden because Biden is obviously in the throes of senility.

00:06:24.500 Plus even the people who might have otherwise been inclined to support Biden, the independents,

00:06:29.160 the moderates, for goodness sakes, even members of Biden's own base have turned on him recently

00:06:34.120 for all sorts of reasons. The moderates and the independents have turned on him because he's been

00:06:37.860 a terrible steward of the economy and he's opened up the Southern border and flooded it with 0.95

00:06:42.920 foreign nationals, many of whom are dangerous and he's mishandled foreign policy. This last point 0.99

00:06:47.700 leads into why Biden's base doesn't like him right now. And it's because Biden's base hates the state

00:06:52.580 of Israel and supports the Palestine liberation movement. And Biden is still viewed as a defender

00:06:58.240 of the state of Israel because Biden is funding the state of Israel because America gives Israel

00:07:01.940 six and a half percent of its military. So Biden's totally wedged. He speaks in a way that sounds

00:07:08.060 anti-Israel, but practically he's still mostly supporting Israel. And so he can't win for losing.

00:07:14.600 So the only answer for Biden is don't campaign as much, try not to talk as much. And okay,

00:07:22.260 if we have to do a debate, because we're looking pretty bad in the polls right now,

00:07:25.320 at least make sure that there is no one in the room to show people who is winning this debate.

00:07:32.640 So then the question is, all right, they're going to show up, CNN and ABC News.

00:07:38.100 What are they going to debate? The economy, immigration, foreign policy, sure.

00:07:45.740 But don't you think that maybe at some point Joe Biden is going to bring up

00:07:51.540 the main theme of his campaign against Trump? Don't you think at some point Biden is going to bring up

00:07:57.640 up January 6th, the very worst day in the history of this or any republic? Don't you think that might

00:08:05.180 come up? Don't you think Donald Trump is a threat to democracy? Don't you think that is going to come

00:08:10.140 up? Don't you think Donald Trump compromised national security by holding classified documents?

00:08:15.280 Don't you think that is going to come up? Don't you think Donald Trump is on trial right now

00:08:20.180 for violating campaign finance law? Sort of. Maybe I don't. It's actually kind of unclear what

00:08:25.500 they're prosecuting him for. But don't you think that's going to come up? Well, if that comes up,

00:08:31.360 Trump is legally not permitted to discuss it because the judge has implemented a gag order

00:08:39.240 on Donald Trump in New York. Trump appealed the gag order and we find out yesterday or rather on

00:08:47.360 Tuesday that the gag order will remain in effect. So I guess it depends how long this criminal trial

00:08:55.200 goes on. Depends how long the gag order is implemented for. But as of today, Trump is

00:09:01.020 prevented from making public statements about witnesses participating in the trial, counsel

00:09:05.580 other than Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, members of the court staff and the district

00:09:10.740 attorney staff, the family members of any counselor staff member. And it also encompasses prospective

00:09:19.980 jurors. There are a lot of people here. And Trump is not really allowed to talk about this case.

00:09:23.600 And he keeps talking about this case because he's running for president, for goodness sakes.

00:09:26.920 And this is an unprecedented persecution of a former president, not to mention current leader

00:09:32.940 of the opposition. And so he's got to talk about it. Even if he didn't want to bring it up,

00:09:39.080 the media are bringing it up. Joe Biden's bringing it up. Trump doesn't have a right to defend himself

00:09:45.280 on the campaign trail while he's running for president in what is supposedly the greatest democracy in the

00:09:49.860 world. What are they going to talk about? On the one hand, Joe Biden is saying, we want a big open

00:09:58.400 debate. Come on, make my day, pal. Go on. Are you feeling lucky, punk? You know, he's doing his best

00:10:04.300 Clint Eastwood impression. But then on the other hand, Biden's thugs are trying to shut Donald Trump

00:10:10.280 up and throw him in prison. And if there is going to be a debate, make sure that nobody actually sees it

00:10:15.500 or participates in it. Why? Because for all that bluster, go on, make my day, pal. For all that

00:10:22.660 bluster, Joe Biden knows he's got nothing. The one thing that, the two things, I guess, that could

00:10:31.820 help them, though they're really sort of the same thing, is if you get rid of the audience and you

00:10:36.440 stop Trump from talking about things you don't want him to talk about, then the media can spin the

00:10:41.300 debate and pretend that Biden won, even if he didn't. And then the extension of the media,

00:10:48.180 the even more powerful version of the media on the internet is big tech. And big tech can also spin it.

00:10:54.760 And this was actually the subject of my recent sit down during a Michael and with Dr. Robert Epstein.

00:11:01.740 Check out the teaser.

00:11:02.240 We published a landmark study in which we show bias in Google search results can change people's views

00:11:10.400 about anything at all. How bad is it? I gave a briefing, a private briefing. A few minutes later,

00:11:18.020 one of them walked out. I know exactly who it was. And he walked up to me and said, Dr. Epstein,

00:11:22.000 based on what you just told us, I predict you're going to be killed in some sort of accident in the

00:11:27.100 next few months. But a few months later, my beautiful, amazing wife was killed in a horrendous 0.95

00:11:35.660 car accident. Are you deterred at all? Yes. Then there's another part of me, which is the science

00:11:44.200 guy. Every single thing we do is relevant to everything that's happening right now. With the

00:11:50.300 algorithms shifting the views of people who are undecided on some issue or other around the world

00:11:57.820 by the billions. You know what? We are fucked, okay?

00:12:10.860 The full episode is available now at the Michael Knowles YouTube channel and on Spotify and on X.

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00:12:27.660 of course, on Daily Wire Plus. Speaking of speaking out, Harrison Butker of the Kansas City Chiefs

00:12:38.460 just gave a commencement speech at Benedictine College.

00:12:42.420 I was ranting a week ago about how modern university commencement speeches are generally

00:12:52.020 terrible and how comedian speeches are generally the worst of all of them. And I was surprised that

00:12:59.820 Jerry Seinfeld, he, no knock on Seinfeld, but I was just surprised given the type of speech it was

00:13:05.060 that he gave a good speech. Well, now we have, without question, the greatest example of a university

00:13:15.540 commencement speech in my lifetime. This guy, Harrison Butker, is one of the most articulate,

00:13:26.200 insightful people in public life. And I know he kicks a football for a living,

00:13:30.700 but compared to the speeches of congressmen, senators, governors, presidents, intellectuals,

00:13:38.800 academics, all this guy gave, it was a, it was a tour de force. It was,

00:13:44.520 it was the best commencement speech I have ever heard that was delivered during my, I'm trying

00:13:52.160 to think of an, of an exception, probably a hundred years ago, there were better commencement speeches

00:13:55.520 or, or at least as, but, but I don't, I actually don't know. It was that good. Without further ado,

00:14:01.420 Mr. Butker, take it away. As members of the church founded by Jesus Christ, it is our duty and

00:14:06.660 ultimately privilege to be authentically and unapologetically Catholic. Don't be mistaken,

00:14:12.620 even when we, even within the church, people in polite Catholic circles will try to persuade you to

00:14:18.120 remain silent. There even was an award-winning film called Silence, made by a fellow Catholic, 0.50

00:14:23.480 wherein one of the main characters, a Jesuit priest, abandoned the church and as an apostate,

00:14:29.060 when he died is seen grasping a crucifix, quiet and unknown to anyone but God. As a friend of

00:14:35.380 Benedictine College, His Excellency Bishop Robert Barron said in his review of the film,

00:14:40.760 it was exactly what the cultural elite want to see in Christianity, private, hidden away, and harmless. 0.63

00:14:48.020 Our Catholic faith has always been countercultural. Our Lord, along with countless followers,

00:14:53.180 were all put to death for their adherence to her teachings. The world around us says that we

00:14:58.440 should keep our beliefs to ourselves whenever they go against the tyranny of diversity, equity,

00:15:03.700 and inclusion. Congress just passed a bill. We're stating something as basic as the biblical teaching

00:15:09.160 of who killed Jesus could land you in jail. It goes on, and I've had to just pick small moments

00:15:16.580 because the speech goes on for 20 minutes. This is so spot on the money. He's not just saying,

00:15:26.280 he's obviously at a Catholic college here at Benedictine, so he's tailoring his remarks even

00:15:30.260 more specifically in Catholic language. And it would appear that Mr. Butker is, like me,

00:15:37.540 an attendee of the traditional Latin mass and holds the views that tend to go along with that.

00:15:43.900 Butker comes out here and he says, when Catholicism, when the faith appears in the culture,

00:15:53.520 what does the culture want? They want us to be quiet. They want it to all be private.

00:15:57.580 Do you remember, this was a subtle change of language, when freedom of religion became freedom

00:16:04.040 of worship? Those politicians used to talk about religious freedom. They don't really talk about

00:16:09.720 that so much anymore. Now they talk about freedom of worship. Why? Because religious freedom has more

00:16:16.820 public connotations to it. Freedom to worship, that's something you can just kind of do in your

00:16:24.180 head, in your home, not in public, not for anybody to see. It doesn't affect anybody else. You wouldn't

00:16:31.480 even know. And Butker says, no, we're called to public life and we're called to public professions

00:16:39.380 of our faith. And that's going to be countercultural. It's always been countercultural. It's been

00:16:45.000 countercultural since ancient Rome. And the political forces, they're going to try to silence us,

00:16:51.000 like that law that the Republicans in Congress tried to pass a week or two ago, which would have

00:16:58.260 amended Title VI to ban quoting parts of the New Testament, to ban quoting facts from the gospel.

00:17:10.140 Totally crazy stuff. You say, how could this happen? Well, Butker says, because the culture

00:17:14.060 has always been against the true faith, because this world is governed by principalities and powers 0.99

00:17:20.760 and spiritual wickedness in high places. Then he goes on. That isn't even the part that went viral.

00:17:26.060 I thought this was all, to me, the most interesting part was when he's speaking about the faith and

00:17:30.780 the implications of the faith in public life. But the part that went viral is when Harrison

00:17:34.620 Butker is talking about the main thing that goes viral these days, namely the relationship between

00:17:39.900 men and women. I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you.

00:17:46.140 How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the

00:17:50.660 promotions and titles you're going to get in your career? Some of you may go on to lead successful

00:17:55.600 careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited

00:18:00.020 about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. I can tell you that my

00:18:05.020 beautiful wife, Isabel, would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began

00:18:10.140 living her vocation as a wife and as a mother. I'm on this stage today and able to be the man I am

00:18:16.520 because I have a wife who leans into her vocation. I'm beyond blessed with the many talents God has

00:18:23.560 given me. But it cannot be overstated that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met

00:18:30.900 in band class back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of

00:18:40.760 the most important titles of all, homemaker. The man here is on the verge of tears pouring out

00:18:50.360 an expression of love for his wife and the libs and the feminists are accusing him of misogyny

00:18:57.520 for saying that he loves his wife and she excels in her role as a homemaker and a mother and a wife.

00:19:09.040 The parallel here is really even stranger because I too, Elisa and I don't quite remember

00:19:15.640 all of the details, but we either met in sixth grade homeroom or in fifth grade district orchestra.

00:19:22.180 And he says, oh, I met in middle school band. So even that, Harrison Butker and I were basically

00:19:27.220 the same guy, except of course that he's an extremely successful NFL player and I have a podcast.

00:19:33.920 But other than that, other than he's a really top athlete and I pretty much couldn't hit the ball

00:19:41.420 and tee ball. Other than that, he and I pretty much, you know, you, you look and say, who's the

00:19:45.860 real one? You know, who do I shoot? Which is basically indistinguishable. But on that, on that

00:19:50.560 matter, really, we, we do have a great similarity and he's, he gets choked up with it because he says,

00:19:55.280 I couldn't, I couldn't do what I do. I couldn't be the man that I am without my wife. That's not

00:20:01.360 flattery. That's absolutely true. If I were, if I had to spend all of my time raising my children,

00:20:11.420 keeping my home, managing the private life of the family, the basic building block of politics,

00:20:16.220 if I had to, I don't know, cook the meals, clean everything, educate my children in the sense of,

00:20:26.120 you know, the actual nuts and bolts of teaching and nurturing your children day in and day out,

00:20:31.000 I wouldn't have one minute to do this show. It's not possible. You can, I know we live in modern life

00:20:36.220 where we're told that, you know, if a man doesn't wash exactly 50% of the dishes,

00:20:41.420 you know, he's a misogynist or something, but that's totally nonsense. Men and women are different.

00:20:47.160 We're drawn to different things. And I, I, I sometimes think, oh, you know, if I didn't have

00:20:52.740 a wife and children, I'd be so much more productive. And then I think, oh no, actually I

00:20:55.780 wouldn't. I would be lying on the couch, watching a baseball game, eating potato chips. Probably

00:20:59.780 that's what I'd be doing. Or I'd be out, you know, carousing at a bar or something like that.

00:21:04.160 Of course not. It's your, your wife civilizes you and you, one hopes, uh, tame your wife or, 0.80

00:21:14.460 or, you know, at least give some, provide some leadership to your wife. It's not, it's not just

00:21:17.480 a one-way street that you are just purely the recipient of, of, of all the wonderful, you know,

00:21:25.220 uh, adornments of married life from your wife. One hopes that the man contributes something too,

00:21:30.260 and the two grow together because we become one flesh and the, and the whole is greater than the

00:21:34.060 parts. Absolutely right. And for that, he's being called a sexist, which proves the first

00:21:38.760 part of his speech, which is if you state basic truths in a fallen world, in a world that has

00:21:44.620 gone mad, that is subject not totally to reason, but also to concupiscence and, uh, vice and disordered

00:21:53.780 desires, then if you speak the truth, people are going to pillory you for it. And he's, he's

00:21:58.360 experiencing that right now. People are pillorying him for it. Uh, but that's, uh, all the more reason

00:22:03.840 to watch his speech and take it seriously. Now, uh, speaking of the Kansas city chiefs,

00:22:10.560 the girlfriend of one of, uh, Mr. Butker's teammates is now, uh, a major part of a German 0.75

00:22:19.000 church service. Taylor Swift is, uh, I guess, providing the soundtrack for the church of the

00:22:27.780 Holy spirit, a famous church in Heidelberg that meets in a 600 year old building. The service that

00:22:35.280 they have is called the, uh, anti-hero Taylor Swift church service. According to the pastor,

00:22:44.920 Christophe Elcipien says the church of the Holy spirit has always been a place of encounter and

00:22:50.040 exchange. That's why a pop music religious service fits so perfectly with it. We are giving space

00:22:55.940 to the questions and issues that occupy the younger generation. This is so boomer. It's so I hate,

00:23:03.680 I don't want to use the word boomer purely as a term of derision. I love my, love my parents,

00:23:07.960 love, love my forebears, but this is so boomer. The book, this idea where it's even the generation

00:23:14.260 before the boomers, the generation that's, uh, reformed the, the Christian liturgy after the

00:23:20.400 second Vatican council. I don't think this is, I don't think this is a Catholic church here, but

00:23:23.940 the effects of this major revolution within the Catholic church were felt elsewhere. And it was

00:23:30.820 this notion that the way you're going to get the youths back in the pews is by making the church 0.55

00:23:36.940 more like the world worldliness. That's what's going to bring the youth back. And you know what

00:23:42.520 happened? Totally the opposite. The churches that embrace this sort of style emptied out for the

00:23:48.040 most part. We used to have a distinction or recognize a distinction between the sacred and the

00:23:55.160 profane. We were talking yesterday about King Charles, King Charles, who is a philosophical

00:23:59.020 traditionalist, uh, uh, in the vein of René Guénon, the notion that modernity turns us away from the

00:24:05.180 sacred, denies the sacred. Well, this is a great example of that. It's not that we need to be,

00:24:11.920 you know, speaking in ecclesiastical Latin and listening to a Gregorian chant all the time,

00:24:17.680 though it's not the worst idea to listen to Gregorian chant a lot of the time, but it's that

00:24:21.460 there is elevated language for our liturgy because Lex Arandi, Lex Credendi, the way that we worship is

00:24:28.040 going to reflect the way that we believe. And we don't seek the church because we want more

00:24:33.100 worldliness. We have enough worldliness. I, I, trust me, I'm up to the brim in worldliness.

00:24:39.160 We, we need the church because we, we want to see something beyond this world.

00:24:47.960 We go there for the sacred. If it's just going to be a rock concert, to quote King of the Hill,

00:24:52.860 Christian rock does not make rock and roll better. It just makes Christianity worse. 1.00

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00:27:05.680 Sobbing. This, when people do this and give themselves permission to release their anger,

00:27:09.540 their capacity for joy actually expands, says Maria Banducci, who's some self-appointed guru,

00:27:16.500 probable witch. Yeah. So the women screaming, shrieking, smashing things on the ground. 0.99

00:27:23.540 This was formerly known as Tuesday for some women. Now it's known as a rage ritual that you paid 1.00

00:27:29.620 thousands of dollars for. Totally wrong. Natural in a certain sense, because this is a fallen world and

00:27:38.160 there's all sorts of kooky pagan religion and people give way to all sorts of disordered passions, 1.00

00:27:42.760 but not good. And the claims that these guru witches are making, not conducive to happiness.

00:27:49.400 So what does USA Today say? Kimberly Helmus still gets chills thinking about her first rage ritual.

00:27:55.780 Two and a half years after her divorce, the cybersecurity engineer embarked on a retreat

00:27:58.820 to Scotland with Mia Banducci, that woman whose quote we just heard, an author and self-described

00:28:03.840 spiritual fairy godmother, better known as Mia Magic, Magic, M-A-G-I-K, which is often, you know,

00:28:12.880 there's magic like little tricks, you know, pull a card, any card. And then there's magic like

00:28:17.440 occult rituals where these people actually believe they're, you know, commuting with spirits and stuff.

00:28:22.440 And usually magic, the card tricks is M-A-G-I-C. And then magic, the occult satanic stuff is spelled

00:28:31.940 with a K. And so she spells it with a K, not surprised. As part of the retreat, Banducci held

00:28:36.740 a rage ritual in which the participants scream. They've garnered attention on TikTok and the women 0.94

00:28:44.680 embody their anger. And they also, by the way, pay $2,000 to $4,000 for it. Though, if you only

00:28:53.780 want to go for one day, you can get a bargain. It's only $222. Not really a good idea. Generally

00:29:01.660 speaking, any of these self-help gurus, if someone is a prominent self-help guru, you should immediately

00:29:09.620 tune them out. The self-help gurus, because the self-help gurus are fraudulent imitations of

00:29:17.920 philosophers and priests. So they're not as smart or logical as the philosophers. They're certainly not

00:29:30.580 as wise and knowledgeable about the human condition as the priests. And they're certainly,

00:29:38.620 they also don't have the sanctity and consecration that goes along with being an actual member of

00:29:47.040 the priesthood. They're just frauds. It's all just fraud. They're basically the same as the people

00:29:51.280 who have the little shop in the strip mall, palm readings here, get your tarot cards read.

00:29:55.940 That's these spiritual gurus. But it's not just that they're frauds and it's a waste of money.

00:30:00.500 They're actually quite bad for you. They're contrary to your health. This is why traditionally in our

00:30:07.020 civilization for 2,000 years following the Bible, we don't consult these kinds of people. 0.98

00:30:12.180 Not just because they're silly and it's a waste of money, but because it's actually bad for your

00:30:15.320 health. Because the theory that Mia Banducci, this witch, is describing here, is kind of like

00:30:24.320 a Freudian theory. It's one of these self-help theories that comes out of Freud, which is this

00:30:30.960 notion that we just have a lot of pent up rage and energy and emotion. And we've just got to blow off

00:30:37.580 a little steam every now and again. And if we don't blow off a little steam, we'll explode.

00:30:41.340 So you got to blow off a little steam and then that will restore your body to equilibrium and your

00:30:45.800 mind to health. That's not really how it works. That view is contrary to the classical and Christian

00:30:51.200 view, which is that we're not steam engines. We're creatures of habit. And so if you're the sort of

00:30:57.880 person who practices screaming and yelling and hating people, you are actually more likely to

00:31:03.260 do that in the future. It's going to be easier for you to scream and yell and hate people.

00:31:06.420 And it's going to be much harder for you to have patience and resignation and love because you are

00:31:12.900 what you do repeatedly. We are creatures of habit and virtue and vice are habits too.

00:31:20.180 A lot of modern women are going to be told to do this and they're going to fall into it. And really 1.00

00:31:23.760 at a broader level, this is what all of modern feminism says. Modern feminism says, no, no, 1.00

00:31:31.440 you're not to love your husband. You're not to be complimentary to your husband. You're to hate

00:31:37.340 your husband. You're going to become the praying mantis of human beings. You're going to compete

00:31:41.240 with your husband. Everything's going to be a big fight and a battle and a negotiation for your

00:31:45.560 personal interest. And then when you don't get exactly what you want because you didn't know what

00:31:50.820 you wanted or because your husband beat you in the argument or I don't know, just because you're the

00:31:54.600 weaker sex, you're going to go out to the woods. You're going to pay some scam artist four grand

00:31:57.860 and you're going to scream and yell and break things. That's what you're going to do.

00:32:02.740 Why do they do this? They do this because they are unhappy people and they are unhappy because they

00:32:10.040 do this. It's kind of like fat bastard in Austin Powers, you know, I'm unhappy because I eat and I eat

00:32:17.480 because I'm unhappy. That's why the self-help addicts, the self-help addicts

00:32:24.080 are unhappy because they focus on the self and they focus on the self because they are unhappy.

00:32:33.060 And so it becomes this reinforcing circle. It goes on and on and on and they get more miserable.

00:32:38.920 I've never seen anyone become happier reading all this self-help crap and going to the woods and

00:32:44.640 listening to some self-help guru, which tell you to smash things. Never seen anyone get happier.

00:32:49.740 I have seen people get happier reading the true self-help book called the Bible. I have seen people

00:32:55.600 get happier going to church rather than, you know, the smash the sticks in the woods camp.

00:33:01.880 But why is that? There are many, many reasons that are more theologically profound than what I'm

00:33:08.340 about to say. But here's a basic reason. Because when you go to church, at least if it's a good

00:33:14.320 church, you're not focusing on yourself. Self-help is a recipe for misery because a man wrapped up in

00:33:23.880 himself makes a small package indeed. Right now, you should subscribe to the Michael Knowles YouTube

00:33:30.220 channel. Smash that like button. Ring that bell. Ding dong ding that thing. Speaking of mental illness,

00:33:40.060 Peru has just declared transgenderism a mental illness. Stop the presses. A fellow who thinks 1.00

00:33:50.020 he's a chick is a little kooky. Don't extra extra read all about it. The government of Peru has just 1.00

00:33:56.400 signed a supreme decree defining transsexuality as a mental disorder as part of an update to the

00:34:02.820 nation's essential health insurance plan. And this has prompted outrage from, and this is, I'm just

00:34:08.420 reading it from whichever outlet I was reading this in, the LGBTQIAP2S plus community. It's prompted

00:34:19.900 outrage. But there's an irony here because Peru did not declare transgenderism a mental illness.

00:34:26.400 To own the libs or anything like that. Peru declared it a mental illness so that people who 0.99

00:34:33.740 suffer from this confusion can get medical treatment. So the irony is that this declaration

00:34:41.280 was meant to mollify and pacify the LGBT LMNOP community. And they were angry about it because

00:34:50.340 they're angry about everything because they're always screaming and crying and demanding more nonsense.

00:34:54.660 But with this definition, if you identify as transgender or have some other gender identity,

00:35:03.080 you can have access to different health insurance. And this is part of the issue for the trans identity

00:35:09.540 is because the men who think that they're women aren't actually women, then many of them, if they

00:35:17.780 really pursue this ideology, will desire very, very expensive medical treatments that won't actually

00:35:25.960 help them. But they will be very expensive and they will chop up their bodies and they will fill 0.66

00:35:29.940 them with hormones and they will do all sorts of things. And those are very, very expensive. So they

00:35:33.660 need to justify the medical treatment. And the only way to justify that is to say that there's

00:35:40.160 something wrong with you. But the transgender activists refuse to say there's anything wrong 0.99

00:35:45.820 with them. They say, this is totally normal. Okay, well, if it's totally normal and you're just

00:35:48.700 operating perfectly, then you don't need all the expensive medical treatment. But you obviously do

00:35:53.120 want the expensive medical treatment, even though it's going to hurt you. So you have to admit that

00:35:56.260 there's something wrong with you, but they won't do that. This isn't even making Peru an outlier here

00:36:03.180 to say that transgenderism is a mental illness. We all know it is. But even in America, we currently 0.66

00:36:10.520 define transgenderism as a mental illness. Even in the current DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical

00:36:17.360 Manual for Psychology, the current one, we still say it's a mental illness. It's in there.

00:36:23.000 We used to call it, before 2013, we called it gender identity disorder. Then with political

00:36:29.060 correctness in 2013, we've started calling it gender dysphoria. But it's the same thing,

00:36:33.540 and it's in the DSM because it's a psychological problem. We do it too. We do it too, and then we

00:36:43.080 encourage it. It's one of the few, it might be the only mental illness that we universally 0.85

00:36:50.040 acknowledge to be a mental illness, implicitly or explicitly, and then encourage it. Because I guess 0.51

00:36:56.380 I guess that makes us a crazy country. If you're the kind of country that encourages craziness

00:37:01.100 and subsidizes craziness and mandates craziness as a matter of law, I guess that makes you a crazy

00:37:07.400 country, doesn't it? Now, speaking of things contrary to human flourishing, apparently there's

00:37:13.920 a new Planet of the Apes movie, news to me, and the new stars of the new Planet of the Apes movie,

00:37:19.060 they've decided to really reinvent their characters and reinvent the franchise because they

00:37:25.520 are taking the side of the Apes over the humans.

00:37:29.240 Listen, obviously, when I'm playing May, I'm team human, but I'm team ape. Freya's team ape.

00:37:37.600 Ah. Why so? I wonder.

00:37:40.020 I mean, look at the planet.

00:37:43.740 Oh, here we go.

00:37:45.140 Look at what the humans have done to the Earth.

00:37:48.020 Well, yeah. I dislike humans a lot, you know. You know, there's the odd one that's like,

00:37:53.740 no. I mean, there are, you know, there are times where you see humans come together and

00:37:57.720 you go, oh, isn't this lovely? And then there's times where you go, I absolutely hate us.

00:38:03.320 Yeah. None of this surprises me at all. It's kind of funny because the whole point of Planet

00:38:08.900 of the Apes is you're on the side of the humans against these ape overlords and the new 1.00

00:38:13.120 actors, they say, no, no, but in reality, yeah, sure, in the movie, yeah, but in reality, I hate

00:38:17.080 humans. Right. The liberals hate humans because, I'm just going to speak very bluntly here,

00:38:26.100 because the liberals are largely enthralled to demons who hate humans and want to destroy us.

00:38:30.640 That's kind of it. The spiritual darkness and principalities and powers of this world that I

00:38:35.100 mentioned earlier, they are expressed politically through liberals who have a false anthropology

00:38:43.480 and whose policies are contrary to human flourishing. And you see this in really direct

00:38:49.540 ways, like how they advocate killing as many babies as possible and killing old people and

00:38:55.740 sterilizing human beings and encouraging people not to get married and encouraging people not to have

00:39:00.240 babies. Even if you don't believe in spiritual reality, metaphysics, let's say you don't believe

00:39:05.240 in angels and demons, let's say you don't even believe in God. Okay. If demons were to exist,

00:39:10.460 I think we would all acknowledge that the sort of policies they would be pursuing are exactly these

00:39:16.560 policies, right? Very anti-human, killing people off, not making everyone miserable and raging and

00:39:23.880 going out into the woods and beating up sticks and screaming, right? If there were such a thing as a

00:39:28.860 demon, that would appear to me to be the kind of thing a demon would desire. Anyway, this is how

00:39:34.580 the liberals are. They are misanthropic. They don't like people. They like humanity in the abstract,

00:39:39.700 but they don't really like people. And you see this expressed in a lack of charity because charity is

00:39:46.300 one of the three theological virtues. We have the cardinal virtues. We have the natural virtues,

00:39:50.420 intellectual virtues, and moral virtues, things like courage, justice, prudence, temperance.

00:39:55.260 Then there's the theological virtues, faith, hope, and charity. And the greatest of these is charity.

00:39:58.980 Love for your fellow humans. So it is kind of an odd reversal. For the libs, they love humanity in

00:40:05.700 the abstract, but they hate the individual humans. For the conservatives, and especially for the

00:40:10.460 Christians, we have a pretty dim view of humanity in the abstract because we're so fallen and we know

00:40:16.700 that human nature is broken and we're not going to perfect it through our own efforts in this world.

00:40:22.260 Ain't no utopia that we're going to arrive at here politically. But we love humans individually.

00:40:27.780 Hence, a common expression, hate the sin, love the sinner. For the libs, it's totally the opposite.

00:40:35.560 Great way to prove this, especially after, you know, major Democrat politicians call for killing

00:40:41.300 babies up to the moment of birth. Some of them call for killing them after the moment of birth.

00:40:45.140 Doesn't make many waves in politics. Christy Noem shoots her farm dog. That's all we hear about for

00:40:51.300 two weeks. There was a study in 2013, 40% of people answered this study in a crazy way. The study said,

00:40:58.220 if a stranger were drowning and your pet were drowning, who would you save? 40% said the pet.

00:41:07.000 46% of women said the pet. They would save the pet over a human being. That's how we think. That's

00:41:13.820 how we think now. Very, very disordered. Maybe we are living in a planet of the apes. We're being,

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00:42:42.460 to take responsibility today. My favorite comment yesterday comes from KW91, who says,

00:42:49.720 I don't care what Mike says about that King Charles portrait being traditional. It looks like Charles

00:42:53.940 wearing Hugh Hefner's loungewear. Fair enough. But I never said the portrait was traditional.

00:42:59.620 The portrait is definitely not traditional, but the portrait is about King Charles's traditionalism.

00:43:07.340 And that is why it doesn't belong in Buckingham Palace, because it's, you know, it's quite modern,

00:43:12.180 the portrait. But it's why it's a good piece of art. Actually, it's a good portrait. And it's why it should hang

00:43:17.620 maybe a little down the street in a museum. It's a very good portrait, and it makes a very good

00:43:21.480 point. Speaking of women, Gail King, who is the co-anchor of CBS Mornings. She's a longtime friend

00:43:32.340 of Oprah Winfrey. There have always been these rumors that she and Oprah are, you know, like more

00:43:36.840 than friends. But I don't know if that's true. I don't see any particular reason why that's true.

00:43:41.680 But she's a big lib. In lib media world, she is, she's not the queen, but she might be a princess or 1.00

00:43:52.140 a duchess or something. Well, Gail King, at the age of 69, is making her debut as a Sports Illustrated

00:43:59.260 swimsuit model. And there are all sorts of pictures and videos of it. We don't need to see too many of

00:44:06.060 them. She is a fine looking woman for 69 years old. But this is not good. Now, I'm not sure that

00:44:12.580 anyone has read Sports Illustrated in the last 15 years. And so they keep trying to pursue all these

00:44:17.080 gimmicks, you know. But this is not good. It's weird. We all know it's weird. Even if Gail King

00:44:25.160 were a supermodel, it's still weird. It's age 69. And it's especially weird for just kind of normal

00:44:31.300 looking 69-year-olds. Why? Why is it wrong? Because this is not what 69-year-old women are 0.99

00:44:39.460 for. Okay, you know, you know a thing by what it is for. And 69-year-old women are not for the cover 1.00

00:44:50.920 of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. Whether you love Sports Illustrated, whether you like seeing

00:44:57.820 women in skimpy little bathing suits, whether you think that's wrong and disordered. And Sports 0.79

00:45:02.660 Illustrated should go away and we shouldn't have whatever. I think we can all agree. The purpose

00:45:09.480 of the swimsuit edition is not to show nearly 70-year-old women. And it's not the tea loss

00:45:20.340 of a nearly 70-year-old woman to prance around in a bathing suit.

00:45:27.220 Younger women, there's a good reason for them to prance around in a bathing suit sometimes because 1.00

00:45:32.900 these younger women are going to attract a husband. And then they're going to get married 1.00

00:45:37.420 and they're going to have children. And there are certain things that mothers do that single women 1.00

00:45:42.800 don't do and vice versa. And there are certain things that older women do that younger women don't

00:45:47.660 do and vice versa. But we deny that. We deny that anything has a purpose anymore that is objective.

00:45:53.780 It's all just totally subjective and subject to our own will, not to reason. And we deny time. We

00:46:02.100 deny aging. We deny history. We deny that things move and that there's a time for every season under

00:46:09.700 heaven, a time for war and a time for peace, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

00:46:14.860 a time to pose in skimpy outfits on Sports Illustrated and a time not to put the Sports

00:46:21.060 Illustrated swimsuit issue away. We deny that because we deny the body and we deny that we're 0.69

00:46:28.040 going to die. In the past, at the height of our civilization, we would think about how we're going

00:46:32.800 to die all the time because it's only from the perspective of death that we can understand our

00:46:36.940 own lives and the purpose of our lives and how maybe we're not built for this world because we're

00:46:40.500 not going to be here for very long and we need to think about eternal things. Is the soul going to

00:46:44.860 persist after death? Is there something more here? If so, where are we going? That's going to affect

00:46:50.520 very much how you live your life. We deny all of that. But it's all still true. Those facts of reality

00:46:59.340 are all still there. And when we deny them, we just make ourselves look ridiculous on the cover of

00:47:05.020 magazines in swimsuits. Now, Gayle King is fit for her age. Another guy who's pretty fit for his age,

00:47:12.700 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. You got to hand it to the guy. He's actually in pretty good shape

00:47:15.720 for an older guy who had a worm eat part of his brain. And RFK Jr. is still theoretically running

00:47:22.540 for president. And he is not going quietly into that night of oblivion. No, no.

00:47:27.440 The debate has been announced. Trump versus Biden, CNN, ABC. And RFK responds.

00:47:37.300 I'm happy to report that I will meet the criteria to participate in the CNN debate before the June

00:47:41.620 20th deadline. I look forward to holding Presidents Biden and Trump accountable for their records in

00:47:46.160 Atlanta on June 27th to give Americans the debate they deserve. Hashtag Kennedy Shanahan 24.

00:47:52.700 The only problem with this, of course, is that Bobby Kennedy was not invited to the debate.

00:48:00.180 It's a debate between the two people who could be president next November. Kennedy will not be

00:48:09.340 president. He will not be elected. There's not a chance. I'm not totally opposed to him showing up

00:48:14.680 to the debate. I'm not exactly in favor of it. The reason I'm not totally opposed is that,

00:48:21.220 as I've said from the beginning, Kennedy takes more votes from Biden than from Trump.

00:48:24.620 However, because of that, he's running to be the better Biden. And if he's running to be the

00:48:29.380 better Biden, he might show up to the debate and just hammer Trump because he's got to show

00:48:34.020 Democrat voters that he is better at doing the job as a Democratic nominee, namely hammering Donald

00:48:38.880 Trump. So there is political risk here for Trump. I see why Trump doesn't want him to show up.

00:48:42.920 I certainly see why Joe Biden doesn't want him to show up. It's a wild card. You don't

00:48:46.300 necessarily want a wild card in politics. So probably he will not be there.

00:48:53.340 Trump is getting an interesting defender right now, though. And I guess this is going to have

00:48:58.440 to be my tease because, as usual, we're running short on time. But in this big debate between

00:49:05.500 Biden and Trump, Trump is getting some defense from Mitt Romney, his old nemesis.

00:49:13.300 Mitt Romney is actually attacking Joe Biden and the Democrats, but specifically Biden for

00:49:19.720 allowing this prosecution of Trump in New York to go on. And it's not for the reasons maybe that

00:49:27.480 you would think. Romney is still being very, very cynical here. But we'll get to those reasons

00:49:33.980 tomorrow because today is Theology Thursday and the rest of the show continues now in the

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 16, 2024

Ep. 1491 - The Trump Vs Biden Debate Explained

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