The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1496 - The FBI Could Have Taken Out Trump

00:00:00.000 The FBI raid on President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago, which was personally authorized

00:00:05.480 by Joe Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland, apparently included the authorization to use

00:00:12.200 deadly force. We are now learning this fact thanks to unsealed court filings brought to light

00:00:18.660 by the conservative journalist Julie Kelly. I have just two of them here. Obviously,

00:00:23.740 there are many more. But the first one says very clearly in the raid that according to an

00:00:30.160 operations order, that was the name of the raid on Mar-a-Lago, or rather, that was the name of this

00:00:37.640 particular document pertaining to the raid on Mar-a-Lago. This was produced in Discovery.

00:00:42.700 The FBI believed its objective was to seize classified information, NDI, and U.S.

00:00:48.320 government records as described in the search warrant. And therefore, law enforcement officers

00:00:53.500 of the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary. The agents planned to bring

00:00:59.800 standard-issue weapons, ammo, handcuffs, medium and large-sized bolt cutters, and they were told

00:01:07.040 not to dress in uniform. They were told to wear unmarked polo or collared shirts and to keep law

00:01:12.960 enforcement equipment concealed. Okay, so then what happens if they get to Mar-a-Lago? Let's say they

00:01:19.160 meet the president. Let's say they run into Trump. Let's say they run into the U.S. Secret Service

00:01:24.600 who are there to protect the president. Well, according to all these contingencies here,

00:01:31.000 should the former president arrive at Mar-a-Lago, FBI, MM, EM, and OSCs, all different initialisms for

00:01:41.960 the jackbooted thugs that Biden sent down to rob the president, will be prepared to engage with the 0.88

00:01:49.380 former POTUS and U.S. Secret Service team? Engage with them? What does that mean? Should the U.S.

00:01:57.340 Secret Service provide resistance or interfere with FBI timeline or accesses? FBI, MM, EM will engage with,

00:02:04.360 and then some of this is redacted. And they will engage with the U.S. Secret Service POCs per existing

00:02:12.560 liaison relationships. And then furthermore, the FBI search team will knock on each guest room door

00:02:19.540 to determine occupation status. FBI will request a map list of rooms and skeleton key card for all the

00:02:25.200 rooms. So the operations order here says that the FBI is going to show up armed to the teeth.

00:02:32.220 They're going to try to blend in with everyone else. And they're going to be authorized to use

00:02:37.280 deadly force. And then if they have to, they're going to engage with U.S. Secret Service and Trump

00:02:42.360 himself. Some Biden apologists are trying to argue that this kind of language is routine in FBI raids.

00:02:49.380 It is not. It is not. There is nothing routine in the FBI sending in heavily armed agents to raid a

00:02:55.600 former president and current opposition leaders home with specific instructions on how to engage with

00:03:01.700 the former president and U.S. Secret Service should either, quote, provide resistance or interfere.

00:03:07.620 What conclusion is one to draw from these facts other than that powerful people in the government

00:03:14.960 want to assassinate Trump? It seems crazy to say. I will be the first to admit this seems crazy to say.

00:03:22.760 You asked me five years ago, could this ever be the sort of thing that one would suggest? I would say no.

00:03:27.780 But then again, you asked me five years ago, it seems crazy to think that the president of the

00:03:34.000 United States would send jackbooted thugs to raid the home of his predecessor and current political

00:03:38.240 rival. Our political reality has become crazy. So what other conclusion are we supposed to draw?

00:03:46.500 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:05:00.620 to engage with the former president when they raid his home. That's not great. Meanwhile,

00:05:04.660 turning to another co-equal branch of government, you have a justice of the Supreme Court being

00:05:11.580 called a traitor and an insurrectionist for flying an American Revolutionary War era flag.

00:05:18.400 This is the latest update to Alito Flaggate. You remember the non-traversy last week was that

00:05:25.600 Justice Alito, actually I guess it was Justice Alito's wife, after she had been harassed and

00:05:32.660 called all sorts of terrible names by her neighbors while just out going for a walk in

00:05:37.080 the neighborhood. This was after the Libs, presumably, leaked the Dobbs decision that overruled

00:05:43.520 Roe v. Wade, forcing the Alitos out of their home because the Democrats kept threatening to murder

00:05:47.640 Justice Alito, as well as other conservative judges. And they really tried to murder one of

00:05:52.540 them, Justice Kavanaugh. And luckily, the murderer Lib, who traveled from California to D.C., 0.76

00:05:58.660 was stopped because some U.S. Marshals happened to be on the scene. After all of this, Mrs. Alito

00:06:04.760 flew an American flag upside down, which is a symbol of distress. Specifically, it's a maritime

00:06:12.100 symbol. If your ship is going on, you fly your flag upside down, you say, we're in distress,

00:06:15.460 and then hopefully you get rescued. So for an hour or two, she flew the flag in distress.

00:06:19.580 We were told that this was an insurrectionist January 6th symbol. It's not. It's a very longstanding

00:06:25.880 distress signal that applies to all sorts of flags, including the American flag. Well,

00:06:31.220 now they got a new one. They got an update. Apparently, the Alitos had the audacity to fly 0.96

00:06:39.040 the pine tree flag. This is a flag, if you haven't seen it, it's a white standard with

00:06:45.040 pine tree in the middle, and it says, an appeal to heaven. According to New York Times reporting,

00:06:51.780 another provocative flag was flown at another Alito home. So the Alitos, I guess, have this other 0.93

00:07:00.500 house, and this is where they flew that flag. This time, it was the appeal to heaven flag,

00:07:05.440 which, like the inverted U.S. flag, was carried by rioters at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

00:07:14.460 The worst day in the history of this or any republic. Also known as the pine tree flag,

00:07:20.580 it dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into obscurity in recent years,

00:07:25.440 and is now a symbol of support for Donald Trump, for a religious strand of the Stop the Steal

00:07:32.140 campaign, and for a push to remake the American government in Christian terms. Okay, okay.

00:07:36.680 The New York Times doesn't know anything. I used to think they knew stuff, but they lied.

00:07:44.180 Now I think they lie, and they also don't know stuff.

00:07:49.920 Hello, fellow insurrectionists. I, too, have an appeal to heaven flag here on my desk.

00:07:55.000 I have this appeal to heaven flag next to a lot of other Revolutionary War flags. In fact,

00:07:58.620 one of the longtime listeners to the show and participants in the member segmentum,

00:08:03.720 A.C. Cactusflower recently sent me this Bedford flag, which is far more provocative than any of

00:08:09.200 these other flags. The Bedford flag, which was, according to tradition, flown at Lexington and

00:08:15.140 Concord, has an arm, like a coat of arm wearing knight's arms, holding a sword that says,

00:08:23.720 Vince Out Morire, win or die. Could you imagine if Alito had flown that? But it's got other flags

00:08:28.100 here. It's got the Betsy Ross flag. We were told the Betsy Ross flag was racist a few years ago.

00:08:32.600 Nike wanted to make shoes with the old Betsy Ross flag. You know, it looks like the American flag,

00:08:35.920 but the stars are in a circle. Colin Kaepernick said that was evil and racist,

00:08:38.860 so they canned the shoes. It's got the Grand Union flag here. This was the first naval flag

00:08:43.440 of the United States. Looks like an American flag, but it's got kind of a little British flag up in

00:08:47.440 the corner there. We've got the Gadsden flag. We were told that's racist and evil and terrible

00:08:51.240 and terrorist. It's usually used by libertarians. It's the yellow flag with the snake. Don't tread on me. 0.64

00:08:56.220 We have another version of that. It's on the red and white stripes. Don't tread on me.

00:09:00.500 I've got some more. I have had this little desk flag set up since I started here at the Daily Wire.

00:09:08.200 Going back to my earliest on-camera days here, when I was the cultural correspondent on the

00:09:12.520 Andrew Klavan show, you can go back at the tape, I have had this collection of flags,

00:09:18.120 absent my recent acquisition of the Bedford flag, I had it on my desk. This was before,

00:09:23.820 certainly before Donald Trump was the nominee, right? This was before Stop the Steal and

00:09:29.820 January 6th, 2021, by what, six years or something? And it had the appeal to heaven flag.

00:09:37.620 It has fallen, the appeal to heaven flag has fallen into obscurity among liberals, just like all of the

00:09:44.720 early American flags have fallen into obscurity among liberals, just like the current American flag

00:09:49.460 has fallen into obscurity and disuse among liberals. Because liberals hate the American flags,

00:09:54.320 because liberals hate the country. I don't want to be hyperbolic or needlessly provocative about it,

00:10:01.460 but they do. Which is why it was so preposterous when the Libs attacked Alito for flying the American 0.70

00:10:08.140 flag upside down as a symbol of distress. The Libs do that at virtually all of their protests.

00:10:13.400 When they're not setting the flag on fire, they're flying it upside down as a symbol of distress.

00:10:19.400 Frequently, they don't fly that flag because they don't like the American flag because the flag is

00:10:22.900 a symbol of the country and they don't like the country. So they fly other flags. They fly the

00:10:26.120 Antifa flag, they fly the gay flag, the pride flag, because they want to fly symbols of things that are

00:10:34.120 not the country because they like things that are not the country. They like things that the country

00:10:40.040 could be. They like alternatives to the country, but they don't really like the country.

00:10:44.380 The appeal to heaven flag particularly arouses their ire because it's an appeal to heaven.

00:10:50.580 Sometimes the text on here is an appeal to God, but usually it's an appeal to heaven.

00:10:55.780 They say this is a symbol of Christian nationalism. Well, it's a symbol of the American Revolutionary War,

00:11:00.320 and the American Revolutionary War did appeal to Christianity. John Adams, our nation's second

00:11:05.920 president and a founding father, said the Christian morality is the morality of the country. It

00:11:09.380 couldn't be founded on any other morality. John Jay, first chief justice of the Supreme Court,

00:11:13.180 one of the authors of The Federalists, a founding father, he said the same thing. It's a Christian 0.80

00:11:18.220 country. Thank goodness. Thank God that providence has provided that we're a Christian country.

00:11:24.660 That's what he said. And so this kind of Christian language comes from the American Revolution. It goes

00:11:29.900 back further. It goes back to the Mayflower, which by the way, if you're thinking of Father's Day gifts,

00:11:35.440 I don't know what I'm allowed to say on certain social media platforms. Let's just say Mayflower

00:11:42.900 is a good thing to keep in mind if you're looking for Father's Day gifts. But this Christian language 0.99

00:11:47.600 was always there. My least favorite part about the appeal to heaven flag is that that text actually

00:11:54.860 doesn't come from the Bible. It doesn't come from the writings of the church fathers or the saints.

00:12:00.180 My least favorite part about it is that that text actually comes from John Locke in the second

00:12:04.440 treatise of government. And it is an argument for the right to revolution because the final stage

00:12:12.900 in your appeal process to rectify political wrongs is not just to appeal to your senator or your member

00:12:20.640 of parliament or to your king even. It's to appeal to heaven, to God, which is a little bit lib

00:12:27.960 revolutionary language for me. But the underlying principles, I think there's a lot to recommend

00:12:33.320 them. And certainly those principles were present at the time of the revolution. They're deeply

00:12:41.120 embedded in the American tradition. The libs are going after Alito and the other judges that they have

00:12:48.040 tried to kill in recent years. Not because the judges are somehow anti-American. It is because

00:12:56.080 the libs are anti-American. And they hate people who defend the legitimate, enduring traditions of

00:13:02.500 this country. And they hate the symbols that represent that country. There's so much more to say.

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00:14:11.120 Not to put too fine a point on it, though Providence has provided for us a video of some crazy lib

00:14:16.500 going viral because he flew into a fury when he noticed that there were people flying American

00:14:23.280 flags on the beach.

00:14:24.660 I'm here enjoying a nice day at the beach with my kids. And I turn around. I got these flags planted

00:14:32.920 here on the beach by these MAGA f*****. Listen, this is all America. We know. You didn't storm the 0.98

00:14:41.320 beaches to stake out your territory on the beach. This isn't the f***** moon. I get it. This is America. 0.73

00:14:46.920 But I'm sick of my flag being represented by white nationalist trash on a f***** beach. Go f***** yourselves. 1.00

00:14:56.720 I'm sick of it. I'm sick of you people who want to sit here on the beach with your families 1.00

00:15:03.840 and enjoy the sun and a wholesome time using my flag. My flag is supposed to represent

00:15:11.880 transgenderism and abortion and open borders. Okay, that's my country. That's what I and that's

00:15:19.860 why I, a big lib, want to reclaim the American flag. Well, the problem is, big lib, that's not

00:15:27.800 what the American flag stands for, which the wiser libs have understood. The libs are, this is the

00:15:35.380 subject of my book, Speechless. This is the subject of a lot of, thank you, this is the subject of a lot

00:15:41.840 of political conversation in recent years. The libs are always trying to take symbols, be they words,

00:15:50.480 be they flags, be they images, and reappropriate them and transform their meaning. The rainbow,

00:15:58.180 for instance, is a symbol that God gives to man to say that he'll never again destroy the world in a

00:16:05.100 flood. That's where the rainbow comes from. And the libs take that and make it into a defense of 0.98

00:16:11.160 really weird sex stuff. And they did, they appropriate on a similar topic. They took the

00:16:17.200 word gay, which meant happy, and they used that to apply to decadent sex stuff. But it's not just 0.74

00:16:23.580 on those social issues. Even terms like illegal alien, we've now made that term taboo. The term

00:16:31.720 you have to use is undocumented American. But the problem with illegal aliens is that they're not 0.99

00:16:36.420 Americans. That's what distinguishes them from everyone else. That is their political identifier.

00:16:42.160 But if you erase that and you say they're undocumented Americans, well, all of a sudden, 0.93

00:16:45.220 they're just another type of American. So obviously, they do have a right to be in the

00:16:48.940 country. If you take young criminals, juvenile delinquents, and redefine them justice-involved

00:16:57.300 youth, well, they're involved in justice. They're pretty good. You can't punish them, right? And

00:17:00.680 the list goes on and on. So that's what they've tried to do. That's what that guy wants to do with

00:17:04.680 the American flag. This American flag doesn't stand for you Christian evil conservatives. Uh-uh. 1.00

00:17:10.940 Uh-uh. It stands for me, a big lib, who basically stands for murdering babies and doing weird sex 1.00

00:17:17.100 stuff. That's my flag. But the thing is, it doesn't. It's very difficult to transform the 1.00

00:17:22.840 meaning of symbols. And so it can be done. The libs have done a pretty good job of it over the

00:17:27.780 years. But with the symbol of the country that everyone has rallied around for a very, very long

00:17:34.100 time, it's going to be much more difficult, which is why another group of libs, they just have their

00:17:39.040 own symbols. They say, no, okay, you conservative, probably Christian or Christian-friendly

00:17:45.380 Americans, you can have your American flag, and we're going to have our flag, which is the gay 1.00

00:17:50.520 flag. And that's going to be the flag that we salute, and it's going to be the flag that we fly in 0.81

00:17:54.240 parades, and it's going to be the flag that we consider to be the representation of our country.

00:17:58.860 And what we're going to just try to do is marginalize your flag and say that it's evil

00:18:04.900 and racist, and we're going to take it off of sneakers, and we're going to tell justices of

00:18:08.340 the Supreme Court to get rid of the flags of America, of the traditional American country,

00:18:12.820 and we're going to transform it into something totally new. Now, speaking of people spouting

00:18:18.740 off really dumb views, like that guy in the video, the NFL is walking back its criticism of 0.97

00:18:25.720 the great Harrison Butker. Harrison Butker gives his excellent speech, best commencement speech 0.98

00:18:31.640 of my lifetime at Benedictine College. This is a Catholic guy talking to Catholic students at a

00:18:37.400 very Catholic college about living a Catholic life, and somehow that created a lot of controversy.

00:18:43.860 It should not have. Nothing in Harrison Butker's speech could not be found in many catechisms and

00:18:50.460 perennial teachings of the Catholic church. Nothing. Not one sentence. It was totally

00:18:56.420 uncontroversial from the perspective of a practicing Catholic who believes what the church has taught

00:19:01.560 for 2,000 years. But it didn't cause controversy among those people. It didn't cause controversy

00:19:08.300 among the students in the crowd. We kept hearing all these liberal women be offended on behalf of the 1.00

00:19:14.320 girls in the crowd. The girls weren't offended. They were all applauding. It was the libs who were

00:19:20.660 shocked and offended. It was the women on The View. It was the New Republic. It was CNN. It was all 0.53

00:19:26.520 these people who couldn't stop. And it was the NFL. A spokesman for the NFL, senior VP Jonathan Bean,

00:19:34.640 said, Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity. His views are not those of the NFL as an

00:19:41.960 organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our

00:19:47.100 league stronger. We love abortion and weird sex stuff and feminism. We're the NFL. I am so happy.

00:19:56.020 Oh, this whole Butker commencement speech episode makes me so happy that I am a baseball fan and not

00:20:03.760 a football fan. Because even though baseball got, during BLM, they went a little bit squishy and it

00:20:09.860 kind of drove me crazy and I canceled my MLB TV subscription for a long time. But generally,

00:20:15.100 baseball kind of keeps it together and they don't spit on the American flag. Generally,

00:20:19.360 there was like one baseball player who did that during that whole episode. And generally,

00:20:24.420 they're kind of normal. To hear this from the league, this is so pathetic. Jonathan Bean, 0.99

00:20:29.500 I thought the NFL was run by men. Are you kidding me? We don't support this. We don't want any of our 1.00

00:20:36.520 players articulating traditional Christian views about anything. We're the NFL.

00:20:41.760 Just go wave the rainbow flag, Mr. Bean. So anyway, Roger Goodell had to correct this because

00:20:48.520 it turns out NFL fans and viewers don't agree with Mr. Jonathan Bean over that mean Mr. Harrison

00:20:57.100 Butker. So Goodell says, finally, and Goodell, he's a treat in his own right. But even Goodell realized,

00:21:04.600 he says, listen, we have over 3,000 players. They have a diversity of opinions and thoughts just

00:21:08.260 like America does. I think that's something we treasure. That's part of what ultimately makes

00:21:12.460 us as a society better. We are not going to go much beyond the statement we made last week.

00:21:17.260 But you did just go beyond the statement. Because the statement you made last week was,

00:21:21.120 we hate Christianity. And then now you had to come out and do damage control. And you had to override 0.85

00:21:27.600 your VP, Jonathan Bean. And you say, no, no, no, we like diversity of opinion. We're not gonna,

00:21:32.280 we're not gonna keep attacking Harrison Butker. All right. All right. White flag. Not the appeal

00:21:38.720 to heaven flag. The NFL would never wave that. But the white flag, you know, the flag of the

00:21:41.960 French army. That's the one they're waving, the surrender flag. Why? Because they know that normal 0.68

00:21:47.260 people, men, women, white people, black people, old people, young people, they know that normal

00:21:54.240 people, and especially NFL fans, are on Harrison Butker's side. They are not on the side of the

00:22:04.180 libs. The institutions, the elites are on the side of the libs. But if they don't want to totally lose

00:22:08.820 the common sense and totally lose their audience, they got to keep their mouth shut with their stupid 1.00

00:22:12.320 ideas and allow Mr. Giga Chad football player to say his piece, which most people agree with. 0.99

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00:23:38.660 in The Atlantic last night. I come home from a lovely backstage. We hadn't had backstage in quite a

00:23:45.260 while. It's available now if you want to watch it. And so I come home, we have a nice time, had a couple

00:23:49.700 of Coca-Colas, you know, a cigar. I'm just finishing up, writing a little script for today's show.

00:23:54.880 And I come across this headline. Why is Charlie Kirk selling me food rations? This was trending news.

00:24:06.040 Why is Charlie Kirk selling me food rations? And I didn't, I knew exactly what they were referring to.

00:24:11.900 Because Charlie, and just like all of us in conservative media, we sell all sorts of different

00:24:18.640 products and those advertisements are what keep us on the air. It's not just true of conservative

00:24:22.400 media. That's true of all of the media forever, for all time. And one of the things we sell are,

00:24:29.340 you know, emergency preparedness kits, certain types of food. You know, the liberals sell food

00:24:35.060 too. We sell some food. And so I knew the topic. I said, why is this news? And then this is what

00:24:41.840 they said. This reporter turned into the Charlie Kirk show for, I guess, the first time ever.

00:24:48.060 So the ads on the show espouse conservative values and talking points, mostly in service of promoting

00:24:55.800 brands such as Blackout Coffee, which sells a Second Amendment medium roast blend and Covert Op

00:25:00.760 cold brew. The commercial break sounded like something from an alternate universe. The more I

00:25:06.160 listened to them, the more I came to understand that was the point. So put a pause here. Charlie

00:25:11.340 Kirk sells coffee from companies that support the U.S. Constitution. That's it. It's a coffee

00:25:18.560 company that supports the Second Amendment. It's not even one of those later amendments like the 14th or

00:25:23.180 the 15th. It's the second one. Charlie Kirk selling coffee that is pro-Constitution. It's like something

00:25:31.740 from an alternative universe. What? Where are we? I'm used to only hearing ads from companies that hate

00:25:38.680 America and hate the Constitution. But then I came to understand that was the point.

00:25:45.320 This author goes on. Some brands, of course, speak the language of Democrats touting their

00:25:50.120 climate commitments and diversity efforts. But when I listen to left of center podcasts like Pod Save

00:25:56.220 America, Michelle Obama, the light podcast, put a pause there. No one has ever listened to Michelle

00:26:00.840 Obama's podcast. I refuse. This is how I know this article is fake news. Some people, I think,

00:26:05.840 listen to Pod Save America, Beltway, Establishment, Democrat types. Not one person has ever listened

00:26:10.980 to Michelle Obama's podcast. Probably as many people have listened to Michelle Obama's podcast as

00:26:16.020 have listened to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's podcast. Namely, Zilch, Zero. Anyway, it goes on.

00:26:22.220 MSNBC's Prosecuting Donald Trump podcast. I mostly heard ads from an assortment of nonpartisan brands,

00:26:28.800 such as Ford, Jefferson's Ocean Aged at Sea Bourbon, eHarmony, and SimpliSafe. The right,

00:26:35.720 meanwhile, has long-hawked products that you don't typically see advertised on mainstream outlets

00:26:39.860 and shows. Okay, I'm going to put a pause here. There are two explanations for this.

00:26:48.300 The explanation, two explanations for this and an explanation for why this is news.

00:26:53.040 The first explanation is liberals and conservatives have different priorities.

00:27:00.760 Yes, conservatives like brands. We like coffee, which is normal stuff that normal people drink.

00:27:08.800 And we like brands that support our country, the constitution.

00:27:14.520 Liberals like nonsense, like diversity and environmentalism and, you know, the sun monster 0.98

00:27:20.440 is going to kill us all. They like that. So, they're drawn to that. So, that's partly why 0.99

00:27:24.040 you're hearing different products advertised. The second reason, why is it that the mainstream

00:27:30.980 brands tend to be on the liberal channels? Because these supposedly nonpartisan companies

00:27:37.140 are pretty partisan. Ford, think of just the big corporations, Ford, Target, Procter & Gamble,

00:27:46.620 Nike, Budweiser. I'm just pulling these off the top of my head. They're not nonpartisan. They've all

00:27:54.600 gone woke. For many years now, they have trended to the left. Some have trended very, very far to the

00:28:00.820 left. Like Nike canceling a shoe because it has an American flag on it. Because some radical NFL

00:28:06.680 activist and a malcontent, Colin Kaepernick, bullies them into it. Or Bud Light, which decides it's

00:28:15.160 going to be a really smart idea to do an endorsement deal with a man whose entire career is mocking

00:28:20.700 women and pretending to be a woman and peddling this insane ideology on everyone in the country, 1.00

00:28:26.540 including children. That's not just left of center. That is radical leftist. That is,

00:28:34.700 20 years ago, Democrats would have agreed with Republicans that you should be deported if you

00:28:39.500 push those kinds of views. Clinton Democrats, mainstream Democrats, today that is mainstream

00:28:45.240 on the left and mainstream in corporate America because the liberals have captured all the

00:28:50.160 institutions of power. So yeah, that's why the powerful mainstream brands advertise with the left.

00:28:56.780 They won't work with the right. So the right does have to work with smaller companies. Many of those

00:29:01.300 smaller companies are terrific. We work with these brands who are filling a market gap because

00:29:07.040 the mainstream, super big, powerful corporate institutions have gone so far to the left.

00:29:15.840 That's why. And why is this news? This is news because the libs have no idea how we think,

00:29:23.000 and the libs have no idea or refuse to acknowledge how our political order really works.

00:29:30.560 I know what they're going to say on Pod Save America. I know what Michelle Obama is going to say,

00:29:36.900 even though neither I nor anyone else has ever listened to her podcast.

00:29:40.840 The libs don't know what I'm going to say or what Ben is going to say or what Matt is going to say or

00:29:47.380 what Charlie Kirk is going to say. They don't know. The way that they know who we are, they certainly

00:29:52.160 know who we are because they publicize us all the time through their operative networks like Media

00:29:56.480 Matters and Right Wing Watch and all of the groups that exist to get us taken off the air because

00:30:00.960 they're so afraid that our views will reach people and they're so afraid that we'll sell food rations or

00:30:05.660 whatever coffee. And so they see the little clips usually taken out of context, almost always taken

00:30:12.500 out of context. And that's why they're familiar with who we are. But they've never listened to any

00:30:16.820 of our shows. They didn't listen to Rush Limbaugh's show. None of these people did. So they don't know

00:30:20.820 what we think. They don't know what we believe. They don't know why we believe what we believe.

00:30:24.300 And we do know what they think. So they just don't. They're just shocked. Why is it that Ford won't

00:30:29.340 work with Charlie Kirk? Because you guys won't let them. That's why. Why is it that the conservatives

00:30:37.160 don't seem to have much political power? Well, it's because the liberals have won virtually all of the

00:30:44.760 political power in the country. And that's a little bit your fault because you got, you libs are just

00:30:50.820 awful, you know, really, really powerful. And you've just squeezed us out of the public square. But it's

00:30:56.760 also our fault because we've let it happen. And we've been weak. And we haven't fought back in a

00:31:01.100 very effective way. But that's why. And at least we know it. At least we get what's going on. You

00:31:05.140 guys, you're just like befuddled. You're standing there scratching your heads drooling. Why is it

00:31:10.440 that Nike and Procter & Gamble and Bud Light don't want to advertise on the Michael Knowles show or the

00:31:16.020 Ben Shapiro show, the Matt Wall show, the Charlie Kirk show, or the Dan Bongino show? Yeah, gee, I don't know.

00:31:21.640 Have you guys looked around our political order once in the last 50 years? Good grief.

00:31:26.360 Now, speaking of consumer choices, this is a tough one. This is a tough one. You know I'm not the

00:31:34.000 biggest fan of the devil's lettuce. I'm not saying it's the single worst thing in the world. I'm just

00:31:37.800 not a big fan. I might have on occasion given it a little try. It's not my thing. However, my view is

00:31:49.980 not typical of America these days, I guess, because daily and near daily marijuana use is now

00:31:55.620 more common than similar levels of drinking in the US, according to an analysis of national survey

00:32:02.660 data over four decades. Gone are the days of Don Draper sitting back having a drink after work

00:32:15.060 or a drink during work, as was the case of a lot of those guys back then. Gone is the America of Don

00:32:22.060 Draper. In is the America of Seth Rogen and Cheech and Chong. So what I'm going to ask you, even if you

00:32:34.580 love the sin spinach, even if you think there's nothing wrong with it or whatever, do you think

00:32:40.860 America was better or would be better if it were the America of Don Draper? If it were the America

00:32:51.600 of men like Winston Churchill? I know Winston Churchill was British, though he had an American

00:32:56.360 mother and was actually a descendant of the Mayflower. But you know, men who after work,

00:33:02.500 maybe they like a drink, and maybe you don't like a drink or a smoke. But if you're going to pick one,

00:33:06.800 the America that, you know, has a little whiskey after work, nice glass of red wine, maybe,

00:33:13.120 or the America that rips a bong hit out of the Peruvian parsley.

00:33:17.480 I, you know, I have my view of it. I don't think, I think if America becomes a bunch of Seth Rogen's,

00:33:27.620 the conservatives are never going to win an election again. And I think Don Draper,

00:33:31.060 he probably voted Republican a lot of the time. Not Jon Hamm, but Don Draper probably did. And I think

00:33:37.760 that's borne out by how the elections went. Now, furthermore, in addition to pot smoking outpacing

00:33:44.280 drinking, a good 40% of current marijuana users are using it daily or near daily. Now, this blows

00:33:56.560 alcohol out of the water. This is more like cigarette smokers. If you're a cigarette smoker,

00:34:01.880 you very likely are having a cigarette every day or many cigarettes every day. That's not necessarily

00:34:07.660 true for people who drink. I don't drink alcohol every day. I drink a lot of days. I'll have a little

00:34:11.800 drink, you know, at the end of the day. But not every single day. Even cigars. I'm a cigar smoker.

00:34:17.260 I own a cigar company. And still, I don't have a cigar every day.

00:34:23.380 40% of marijuana users, and marijuana is different from cigars in that marijuana

00:34:27.760 goes into your lungs. So it wreaks certainly more havoc there. And unlike cigars or even cigarettes,

00:34:34.040 it changes your mind. It's mind-altering. It's more like alcohol in that way. And 40% are ripping

00:34:43.140 this stuff every single day, which shows that it is more addictive. A lot of my friends who are fans

00:34:50.820 of the ganj, they will say it's not addictive. It obviously is. If 40% of users are smoking every

00:34:59.220 single day, that's addictive. And I got friends, especially, you know, I lived in LA, kind of a

00:35:05.360 chewing capital of America. I had friends who were professionals, who would go to work, who were 0.73

00:35:11.520 wake-and-bake kind of guys, you know? Multiple friends, not just in LA, in New York, in all over the

00:35:17.780 place. So I'm just saying, I know, I see the trend line. So I know I'm on the losing side of this

00:35:24.440 for now. But in the long run, it will be proven. Mark my words, this is a Nolstradamus prediction.

00:35:33.200 I'm so furious about it that I'm knocking my microphone over.

00:35:37.820 It will be shown that marijuana is very bad for your health, for your physical health, like your

00:35:43.320 lungs, and for your mental health. It will be proven that marijuana is obviously addictive,

00:35:50.160 at least habitually, if not physically. And it will be proven that as more and more people smoke

00:35:57.620 marijuana more and more regularly, America becomes more and more liberal. It will be proven.

00:36:03.100 We might not be able to stop it. I'm just bookmark this and check back in 10 years.

00:36:12.100 And I will, at that point, hate to say that I told you so.

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00:36:35.580 You must be 21 years or older to order. Some exclusions apply. Now, with no further ado,

00:36:40.360 back to the show. Ladies and gents, this is the reason that we say do not miss Backstage.

00:36:45.900 We promised a big surprise from Jeremy Boring, and he didn't realize that we were promising that.

00:36:52.980 So he, I asked, I said, what's the big announcement? He said, I don't have a big

00:36:55.640 announcement. I said, what? He goes, yeah, I don't know. He said, I don't know. The marketing

00:36:58.640 department must have made that up. I didn't, I didn't say that. I said, well, you got to give him

00:37:01.980 a big announcement. They said, I don't know. Well, I got some stuff in the pipeline. I'll tell you what,

00:37:05.260 let's premiere the Jeremy's Razors. Second greatest commercial ever. That's right. So we didn't,

00:37:13.280 we promised a big announcement. He didn't have a big announcement. And then we got a big

00:37:16.920 announcement anyway. If you missed it, take a look right now.

00:37:28.140 Oh, hey, I'm Jeremy Boring, CEO of Daily Wire and founder of Jeremy's Razors.

00:37:33.380 Woke Razor companies love to take your money while trampling on your values. 0.83

00:37:38.160 Me, I just love your money.

00:37:43.140 Cut, cut, cut. 0.88

00:37:48.140 What the hell is this?

00:37:49.660 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, nobody calls cut on my set, but me. 0.72

00:38:12.400 What, do you run Hollywood now?

00:38:13.880 Two on the nose. 0.94

00:38:14.340 What is this?

00:38:16.400 We're filming the commercial for the brand new second generation Jeremy's Razor.

00:38:20.200 Yeah, I get it. We moved our manufacturing out of China. Plus, with the new Sprint 3 and

00:38:24.260 Precision 5 blades, you can shave like a man, not a manifesto. But who's he?

00:38:29.820 I'm Black Jeremy, huge fan. Do you mind if we get a selfie?

00:38:33.840 Oh, yeah, come on.

00:38:36.080 Look, we talked about this. Customers want diversity. Customers want inclusion.

00:38:40.820 Customers want Black Jeremy. 0.93

00:38:44.360 And for the commercials to be less macho. Can we please lose the flamethrower and the car?

00:38:49.860 It's overcompensating and we need...

00:38:52.040 Who are you?

00:38:53.120 I'm Deska. I've been following you around half naked for two years.

00:38:56.660 Hope that makes you some kind of expert on advertising. 0.97

00:38:58.940 Besides, don't you think it's a little insulting to Black people? 0.79

00:39:01.340 Oh, we prefer people of color.

00:39:02.940 Don't you think it's a little insulting to Black people of color that instead of giving 1.00

00:39:07.320 them their own roles to play, you just recast them as a beloved white character? 0.96

00:39:12.120 Hell yeah, it is.

00:39:13.580 We don't do it for people of color. We do it for liberal white women. 1.00

00:39:19.680 I'll spell it out for you. Liberal white women make most of the purchasing decisions 1.00

00:39:23.420 for the family, so happy commercials with people of color smiling at each other make

00:39:27.340 them feel hella virtuous. 0.98

00:39:28.920 Bitches love to feel virtuous. 1.00

00:39:30.580 They do. 0.99

00:39:31.460 Mm-hmm.

00:39:32.700 That's why there's no white people in commercials anymore?

00:39:35.800 Exactly.

00:39:36.680 But that's so...

00:39:37.900 Gay?

00:39:39.220 Sorry, I'm the body positivity hire.

00:39:41.520 You are so brave.

00:39:43.380 What is even happening right now?

00:39:45.340 Think of all the razors you'll sell.

00:39:47.100 And don't forget Jeremy's shampoo and conditioner.

00:39:50.380 They are excellent products.

00:39:52.480 Hey, what if I play your character a little less bitchy? 1.00

00:40:00.040 Unbelievable. 0.99

00:40:00.580 Jeremy's razors isn't for liberal white women. 1.00

00:40:06.000 It's for men. 0.99

00:40:07.240 Conservative men.

00:40:08.840 So stop giving your money to woke corporations who hate you.

00:40:12.200 Give it to me instead. 0.94

00:40:19.840 Hey, liberal white ladies. 1.00

00:40:22.800 You know what's up.

00:40:23.900 Go to jeremysrazors.com now and buy the new radically redesigned second-gen razors, featuring

00:40:31.720 sharper, longer-lasting blades, and superior durability.

00:40:35.240 Now in more inclusive three- and five-blade models.

00:40:38.300 We worked with the best engineers to bring you a truly top-quality razor that is not made in China. 0.99

00:40:43.980 Today we are proud to announce not only have we brought you a new radically redesigned razor and the second-greatest commercial ever, but Gen 2 is now available for sale on Amazon.

00:40:54.400 Selling on Amazon means reaching even more people who want to shave that is like the shave of a man, not like a manifesto.

00:41:02.860 Within hours of the second-greatest commercial ever being released, Jeremy's Precision 5 razor became the number two-selling men's razor on Amazon.

00:41:10.240 Every win is one more step in winning back the culture from the libs. 1.00

00:41:14.320 We cannot do it without your support.

00:41:16.080 Business is hard.

00:41:17.420 Getting our products into retail happens in several steps.

00:41:20.100 This is just the first one.

00:41:21.760 In order to become Prime eligible on Amazon, we have to show Amazon the demand for our product.

00:41:26.680 That is where you come in.

00:41:27.920 We need you to head over to Amazon right now and make the Jeremy's razor, second-gen razor, the number one men's razor on Amazon.

00:41:36.560 My favorite comment yesterday is from Aaron Dennis, 1111, who says,

00:41:42.080 They never ask about female imams.

00:41:44.620 I wonder why.

00:41:46.140 It's so true. 0.84

00:41:47.420 That's true.

00:41:47.880 Now, don't forget, when the liberal journalist asked Pope Francis,

00:41:53.360 Do you think we'll see female deacons and priests ever? 1.00

00:41:59.620 Pope Francis responds, he goes,

00:42:01.500 No.

00:42:02.260 No.

00:42:03.000 You will not hear ever from those things.

00:42:05.960 You will never see those things.

00:42:07.540 No.

00:42:09.160 I added.

00:42:10.220 It was just one word answer.

00:42:11.320 No.

00:42:12.220 But why?

00:42:12.900 Why do they care?

00:42:13.560 Why not just be Episcopalian or Methodist?

00:42:15.440 Because they want to destroy the Catholic Church, 0.99

00:42:17.020 and they think that they have a chance of infiltrating and really weakening it.

00:42:20.500 I think they know if they ask that question of the Muslims, 0.58

00:42:22.520 first of all, they don't really care because it's a different civilization and a different culture.

00:42:25.740 But two, I think they realize that if they ask that question,

00:42:28.780 they will very quickly become disconnected from their heads.

00:42:32.060 So it's not, it ain't going to happen.

00:42:34.740 You're not going to see imamoruses anytime soon.

00:42:38.400 Speaking of different cultures, I have to make a big retraction. 1.00

00:42:45.800 I have to, it takes a very big man, a very big, handsome, sexy man to admit when he was wrong.

00:42:53.200 And I was wrong.

00:42:54.580 Now, I was wrong.

00:42:58.240 I didn't, I didn't err in that I made the right decision given the information I had at the time.

00:43:06.120 But later information proved that what I advocated was, was not correct.

00:43:12.520 And so I'd like to just clear the air.

00:43:15.300 A few days ago on the show, I endorsed Yusuke.

00:43:19.620 Yusuke is the black guy. 0.77

00:43:21.380 I, they, my producers insist that this, that this man's name is pronounced differently.

00:43:26.220 They, I heard Yusuke and then now they're writing in my teleprompter,

00:43:30.660 it's pronounced Yasuke.

00:43:31.820 I don't care, nerd, Professor Jacob.

00:43:33.860 I'm calling him Yusuke because that's what it's spelled like.

00:43:36.060 So anyway, I endorsed Yusuke.

00:43:38.680 And I said, Yusuke, even though he's a black guy in the Japanese samurai story,

00:43:44.900 he's a real character.

00:43:46.160 He went over to Japan with an Italian, Jesuit missionaries, and they go over there and he impressed

00:43:52.840 some of the imperial people and ends up becoming a retainer in Japan.

00:43:57.660 And so he's a type of samurai.

00:43:59.220 I think that's historically interesting.

00:44:00.620 And so I think I endorsed him being in the video game. 0.91

00:44:03.000 And then they had to make him gay.

00:44:06.860 And it's not even, look, had Yusuke been gay, I'd say, okay, include it. 0.80

00:44:12.520 Okay, I get, it's history and history is kind of interesting and weird sometimes,

00:44:15.460 but I don't think Yusuke was gay.

00:44:18.500 Okay.

00:44:18.940 And I know there are going to be all sorts of Jesuit jokes and all sorts of Italian jokes 0.88

00:44:22.980 that pop up as, but back in those days, the Jesuits were really, really solid.

00:44:28.660 Not they, things went a little bit wrong in the intervening, but there's no evidence that

00:44:33.300 Yusuke was gay. 0.68

00:44:34.360 And yet, according to new reporting on this from all sorts of outlets that I've never

00:44:39.780 heard of before, because I don't play video games.

00:44:41.380 According to this reporting, the company itself, Ubisoft, wrote in a blog post,

00:44:51.320 Naoi, I guess that's another character, and Yusuke's disparate personalities also lead them

00:44:56.600 to have different relationships and rapports with other characters.

00:45:00.140 And they don't always feel the same way about people, nor do people always feel the same

00:45:03.800 way about them.

00:45:04.800 Romantically, they will also attract and be attracted to different types of people

00:45:10.120 through the pair.

00:45:12.020 Players will get to experience a multitude of relationships.

00:45:15.900 And this is, there is a lot of other evidence in this article that I won't finish reading that

00:45:23.660 suggests that they're going to make Yusuke gay, because they got to make everything gay, 0.94

00:45:29.640 because it's 2024 and everything has to be, oh, not even gay. 0.94

00:45:33.640 Gay is sort of conservative and traditional now, by the standards of today. 0.91

00:45:37.600 Now it's all got to be like three genders and pansexual, and you got to be into like 0.97

00:45:44.160 polycules with billy goats.

00:45:45.340 So I formally withdraw my endorsement of Yusuke, not of the person Yusuke, he seems kind of

00:45:53.540 interesting, but of the video game.

00:45:55.420 They took a very interesting historical story, and they made it much lamer by imposing an

00:46:01.920 anachronistic and historically unsupported lavender coating to the whole thing.

00:46:11.040 It's out.

00:46:12.220 Now I'm never going to play Assassin's Creed.

00:46:15.680 Not that I was going to before.

00:46:17.000 Speaking of disreputable digital things, the feds have just charged a man for making child

00:46:24.240 pornography, which, you know, not exactly a man bites dog story, as you know, most people

00:46:30.680 who do that, all of them should be charged, and many of them are.

00:46:34.920 What was different here is he made the pornography with artificial intelligence.

00:46:38.800 So, you know, just like in movies, it'll say no animals were harmed in the making of this

00:46:45.740 movie.

00:46:46.120 I guess in a very literal sense, no children were harmed in the making of this AI pornography.

00:46:53.660 In a deeper sense, everyone is harmed.

00:46:56.600 But federal prosecutors charged a Wisconsin man for using a popular AI service to create

00:47:02.040 thousands of explicit images of children, marking what appears to be the first federal charge

00:47:09.240 of creating child sexual abuse material, applied to images entirely through AI.

00:47:16.100 This is some 42-year-old guy in Wisconsin, 13,000 fake images doing all sorts of sick stuff.

00:47:23.840 How are they prosecuting him?

00:47:25.040 A lot of people are going to say, well, this isn't, is this even illegal?

00:47:28.200 Certainly it would be illegal if he had done this with actual children.

00:47:31.480 But if it's just images, is that illegal?

00:47:33.380 It is, thanks to a 2003 Bush-era law banning photorealistic fake and obscene images.

00:47:42.380 And they're saying, the prosecutors are arguing, that this 2003 law, which is a very good law

00:47:46.920 and was a good step in restoring traditional speech standards that the libs opposed under

00:47:52.640 the, because to the libs, you know, kiddie porn, I guess, is free speech or whatever.

00:47:56.480 The Bush administration, the conservatives said, no, it's not.

00:47:59.660 And now they're applying this law to the new technology, which is artificial intelligence.

00:48:03.880 What does this show us?

00:48:06.080 This shows, let's zoom out from the particularly disgusting details of this crime and just zoom

00:48:12.540 out to the principle involved.

00:48:14.100 What this shows you is a very important principle, which is that criminal prosecution is at least

00:48:23.780 as much about reforming the perpetrator as it is about protecting the victim or the potential victims.

00:48:34.440 It's about reforming the perpetrator.

00:48:36.800 Because in this case, there is no direct human victim.

00:48:42.180 These images were just created by a computer or by a human being through a computer.

00:48:46.480 And yet, this guy is still going to be charged.

00:48:50.240 I hope he goes to jail for a very, very long time.

00:48:53.980 Because criminal justice is not just about protecting victims.

00:48:58.860 Criminal justice is not just about getting revenge or justice for victims.

00:49:04.980 Criminal justice is about justice, period.

00:49:09.000 Criminal justice is about retribution, primarily.

00:49:12.500 Partially, but even secondarily, it's about rehabilitation.

00:49:15.480 This is what the libs always say too, right?

00:49:17.200 It's about rehabilitation.

00:49:18.580 This is why we call prisons now correctional institutions.

00:49:21.640 Who are they correcting?

00:49:22.480 They're not correcting the victims.

00:49:23.480 They're correcting the perpetrators.

00:49:26.360 So even if there is no direct victim, you still got to correct the perp.

00:49:33.940 So you send this guy to prison for committing a crime that was a crime committed between him

00:49:39.940 and a computer because it will harm people broadly.

00:49:43.680 And the reason it will harm people broadly is because we don't live in a libertarian utopia.

00:49:47.080 We live in a society.

00:49:49.220 And we don't live in a world where Freud is correct.

00:49:52.880 We live in a world where Aristotle is correct.

00:49:55.040 So we don't live in a world where if you have disordered desires, you should vent them and exercise them.

00:49:59.420 We live in a world in which you should reorder your desires toward good things.

00:50:04.980 So let's say this guy just got to keep doing what he's doing.

00:50:11.680 He's going to cultivate more and more lust for this heinous and disordered act.

00:50:17.160 That is going to make him much more likely to carry it out.

00:50:20.940 Or he's going to send these pictures to people on the internet and he's going to inflame the lusts in them.

00:50:24.720 And one of them is going to carry these acts out at a certain point because we're incarnate creatures.

00:50:31.080 And the digital and the virtual only goes so far for incarnate creatures.

00:50:36.000 There's no substitute for the real thing.

00:50:37.480 And that can lead to really terrible consequences.

00:50:40.500 So you got to correct this guy.

00:50:42.220 Well, good.

00:50:42.820 Then we have to apply this to other crimes too.

00:50:45.740 The reason when the young man goes in and robs a liquor store,

00:50:53.520 the reason not to let him off the hook is not only to protect the liquor store employee.

00:50:57.940 It's not only to protect the people walking down the street in the city.

00:51:01.080 It's to help him, to correct him because there's something wrong in him.

00:51:06.720 And if that is not corrected, he's going to only get worse and that will harm him.

00:51:14.600 And it's going to harm all of society because he's part of society.

00:51:17.120 This was common sense from antiquity until about five minutes ago.

00:51:23.760 Now we forget all of that.

00:51:25.460 We let the criminals off the hook.

00:51:26.840 And that is cruelty to innocent people.

00:51:30.100 But it's cruelty to the guilty too.

00:51:32.980 Because you abdicate your responsibility as a society.

00:51:37.820 You abdicate your responsibility as a civil authority to help people flourish,

00:51:42.000 which is the point of government to do good and to avoid evil.

00:51:45.760 There's more to it than that, but that's the basic argument.

00:51:48.840 The rest of the show continues now.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 23, 2024

Ep. 1496 - The FBI Could Have Taken Out Trump

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