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00:00:00.000 President Trump held a rally in the South Bronx yesterday, one of the most Democrat

00:00:04.220 districts in the country, also one of the most dangerous. Not the sort of place that

00:00:09.620 Republicans tend to campaign. In fact, the last Republican presidential candidate to

00:00:14.340 campaign in the South Bronx was Ronald Reagan, coincidentally also the last Republican

00:00:19.200 presidential candidate to win New York. AOC, who grew up in wealthy northern Westchester

00:00:25.380 before restyling herself Jenny from the block and representing parts of the Bronx in

00:00:29.920 Congress, she predicted that Trump would have a low turnout like she usually gets at

00:00:35.440 her rallies. In fact, Trump had a massive turnout. At the very least, thousands of people. There

00:00:42.600 are some conflicting reports of how many, but we're talking about thousands and thousands

00:00:46.200 of people, despite the rain and maybe more than that, as even the liberal media had to

00:00:53.240 admit. What's the crowd like and what kind of response did he get?

00:00:59.920 Well, certainly a bigger crowd than I think Democrats would like to see, particularly

00:01:02.760 given this is one of the bluest counties in the entire country. Now, one of the things

00:01:07.300 that was interesting to me is that the Trump campaign said that they were going to micro

00:01:10.020 target to get people from the community to come to this rally. I wasn't sure what to

00:01:14.780 expect. I've gone to a lot of these rallies across the country, and there are often people

00:01:18.720 who travel hundreds of miles to see Donald Trump, and they're not necessarily part of the

00:01:22.580 community. So what did Trump say and do at this rally? It was the usual campaign fair,

00:01:30.200 plus a little cross-promotion with some local rappers.

00:01:35.100 Here as well is rapper Chef G. Does everybody know Chef? Where is Chef G? Where is he?

00:01:43.020 Come on up, fellas. Rapper Sleepy Hollow. Come on up here, fellas. How are you, man? Hey. Oh,

00:01:57.360 I like that. I want to get that done.

00:02:00.300 One thing, one thing I want to say. One thing I want to say. They always going to whisper

00:02:15.400 your accomplishments and shout your failures. Trump going to shout the wins for all of us.

00:02:22.060 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ashford, I like those teeth. I want to find

00:02:42.480 out where you did. I got to get my teeth like that. I want that to happen to me. I want those gold

00:02:48.840 teeth. Where's old dirty bastard? Where's ODB? Probably mobbing with the D-O-double-G right off

00:02:55.980 the streets of CPT. Thank you, folks. Thank you. Trump is just incredible. Abolish term limits.

00:03:06.080 Make him president for life. I'm joking, sort of, even though actually Ronald Reagan,

00:03:10.920 his last political crusade was to abolish term limits. Also just saying that. But hey,

00:03:14.840 I digress. Regardless, Trump has a political superpower that no top candidate has had since

00:03:22.940 Reagan. And the superpower is that Trump is a showbiz genius. And he knows that the show must

00:03:30.760 go on, which means that he is completely unflappable. A lot of politicians are stiff.

00:03:38.020 Something happens that they didn't expect. They don't know what to do. Trump, he just rolls with it.

00:03:43.380 Attack him in a debate, he's going to come up with a one-liner. Only Rosie O'Donnell,

00:03:48.100 because you'd be in jail. The list goes on and on. Reagan could do it too.

00:03:52.100 Raid Trump's home, what's he going to do? He's going to raise millions of dollars off the headlines.

00:03:56.080 Indite him in New York. Hold him court prisoner in New York. He's going to hold a rally with

00:04:01.660 rappers in the South Bronx. Politics is the application of eternal principles to constantly

00:04:09.120 changing circumstances. No one in politics adapts and meets the moment faster than Trump.

00:04:17.120 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:04:18.600 Welcome back to the show. Chris Murphy, Democrat senator from Connecticut,

00:04:42.140 says if you want to make neighborhoods safer, you have to accept more immigrants,

00:04:48.240 illegal aliens specifically. So we're going to take a little look at the numbers

00:04:51.500 of Chris Murphy's neighborhood. You will not be surprised

00:04:54.060 to hear what those numbers show. There's so much more to say. First though,

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00:06:24.780 there's a lot of news to get into, a lot shaking up the presidential race. There's some breaking news,

00:06:30.800 and this is a little personal, so I have to get to it off the top. Media Matters, which is a left-wing

00:06:37.100 activist organization that exists solely to get me and other public conservatives fired. Media Matters,

00:06:47.860 an organization that is funded by some of the worst and most powerful leftists in the culture,

00:06:54.780 exists to get conservatives in the media, not elected office, in the media, fired for saying

00:07:01.220 things that they don't like. Media Matters has just had to fire a lot of people because their

00:07:07.680 business isn't working anymore. By my count, by a very conservative count, Media Matters has tried

00:07:13.980 to get me fired 228 times over the years, distinct occasions. And the number is probably higher than

00:07:21.260 that. I am basing that number just off of the number of articles under my section of the Media

00:07:27.780 Matters website. Now they laid off at least a dozen staffers and management and people at all levels of

00:07:38.600 the organization. And the reason for this is Elon Musk is apparently suing them for defamation.

00:07:44.580 They're all blaming it on Musk. Now there's one Media Matters publicist. I don't know. I refer to

00:07:52.880 them as my publicists because they clip out many of the best parts of my show and they get them a lot

00:07:56.980 of views and get more people to watch my show. There are two people there specifically who have

00:08:00.220 done that over the years. That'd be Jason Campbell and Zachary Drennan. I'm very pleased that neither of

00:08:05.460 those fellas have been fired because they're the best at the company. Because only the creme de la creme

00:08:10.760 are assigned to take me out, baby. They're the tippity top of the Media Matters hierarchy.

00:08:17.240 But a lot of their colleagues got fired. So Mr. Drennan writes,

00:08:21.680 many of my best colleagues at Media Matters lost their jobs today. I'm sharing their announcements

00:08:26.840 in this thread. However you feel about our work, it should worry you that any billionaire could do

00:08:31.680 this to any outlet at any time for any reason. It's a sad day for free speech.

00:08:34.760 Media Matters is a billionaire funded company that exists strictly to get people fired for saying

00:08:48.820 things that the billionaire liberals don't like. The irony is very great. Still though,

00:08:56.400 I don't really like schadenfreude because I think it veers into sinfulness and it's not good for your

00:09:02.540 own soul. And, you know, who knows? These people all have very strange views of the world and they

00:09:08.780 have all faced lots of challenges in their lives. And you sort of think they're before the grace of

00:09:12.380 God go I. So anyway, I hope that the Media Matters people, they'll be all right. Right now,

00:09:19.040 they're all wrong. So I hope they'll end up all right. And I hope that they decide to turn their

00:09:25.600 attentions, their lives and their labor toward more edifying pursuits than trying to get me fired.

00:09:31.040 228 attempts, none yet successful. Meanwhile, on the Democrat side, Bobby Kennedy Jr.

00:09:42.720 Just, he kept the head scratchers coming. You know, in recent weeks, he's done things that are

00:09:47.680 a little strange. Like when he endorsed abortion right up until the moment of birth, we thought,

00:09:51.700 hold on, Bobby Kennedy, some of your supporters, a lot of them actually are kind of right wing. I don't

00:09:56.880 think that's going to appeal to them. But as I've said from the beginning, Kennedy takes more votes

00:10:01.040 from the Democrats than from the Republicans. So he's, I guess he just wanted to appeal more to the

00:10:04.620 left. Well, he's really, he's really embraced that lane. Yesterday, he tweets out, I want to take a

00:10:11.700 moment to celebrate Harvey Milk Day and honor a man whose bravery transformed our society. Harvey Milk was

00:10:19.780 a trailblazer for LGBTQ plus rights and the first openly gay individual elected to public office in

00:10:27.120 California. He died fighting for what he believed in and left behind a world in which people could

00:10:32.920 live more freely and more authentically. And it goes on. I mean, there's four paragraphs long about

00:10:38.180 Harvey Milk. Harvey Milk was a pederast. Harvey Milk was a grown man who sexually preyed on underage

00:10:47.020 boys. Harvey Milk was a, an extreme unrepentant degenerate. They don't come much worse than him.

00:10:56.880 Okay. There's a, uh, an infamous story of Harvey Milk in his early thirties targeting a 16 year old

00:11:06.040 runaway boy and just sexually abusing him for, for a long time. And then when he was done with them,

00:11:12.260 the, the, the messed up boy was suicidal. And reportedly, according to a book about Harvey Milk,

00:11:20.640 when, when Harvey was told about this, that, that this young boy who he had used and abused

00:11:25.620 was, was going to kill himself, uh, Harvey Milk said, tell him not to make a mess.

00:11:31.380 You know, don't, don't make, if you're going to do it, don't leave blood on the wall or don't,

00:11:35.120 don't make, don't make a mess. This is a sick, sick freak. Okay. This guy, he, his name should never

00:11:41.760 be uttered. I mean, he was just a complete disgrace and, and he was killed in like workplace

00:11:46.080 violence. You know, he, another, uh, another member of the San Francisco government, but, uh, not,

00:11:51.540 not exactly an admirable life or a hero. Now we have, you know, statues and ships named after him.

00:11:58.480 I mean, totally crazy. Uh, the, the best part of RFK's, RFK Jr.'s endorsement of this very degenerate

00:12:07.100 pederast is the, it's probably going to make Democrats more likely to vote for him. I mean,

00:12:12.520 that's, that's the craziest part to me. Had Bobby Kennedy just kept talking about how the government

00:12:19.020 shouldn't force you to take experimental drugs that can have adverse side effects or even kill

00:12:22.820 you. Had Bobby Kennedy been talking about how, uh, global elites shouldn't be able to shut down

00:12:27.680 your government and reorder your election system, then the right would be more likely to vote for him.

00:12:32.780 But because Harvey, Harvey Milk, because Bobby Kennedy is now talking about how we ought to be

00:12:38.460 able to murder babies up until the moment of birth and we ought to celebrate sick pedos, uh, all of a

00:12:43.560 sudden he's going to, he's going to be all the more a left-wing hero. Tells you everything you need to

00:12:50.100 know about the left. And it tells you everything you need to know about Bobby Kennedy's role in the

00:12:53.820 campaign, which is this, this guy is a net positive for conservatives because there are a lot of people

00:13:00.760 who are disillusioned with Joe Biden who are going to vote for him. I don't think very many Trump

00:13:06.360 voters are voting for this guy. Certainly not after the past couple of weeks. Now, speaking of San

00:13:11.100 Francisco story out, this is in Yahoo says that, uh, one of the biggest burgeoning new businesses

00:13:21.980 is selling banned books. One man's plan for a San Francisco business, banned books and naked

00:13:30.160 booksellers. So you can read it in Yahoo news comes originally from the LA times amid San Francisco's

00:13:37.420 retail crisis. One man has a business idea he thinks could be wildly lucrative banned books sold

00:13:43.800 by buck naked bodies. And there's this guy, George Davis, a self-proclaimed body freedom activist who

00:13:51.320 pitched the idea on Craigslist. And, uh, he's, he's going on and wants to make this a reality.

00:13:58.700 What's so silly about the minute I saw this headline, I said, they're not selling banned books.

00:14:05.020 The naked booksellers, that's kind of weird, but one thing I meant, maybe they will be naked behind

00:14:09.820 the counter. But the one thing I know they they're not going to be selling banned books.

00:14:13.900 And sure enough, he comes out and he says, stripped to its barest concept, his bookstore

00:14:18.360 would employ only nude booksellers and sell only banned books. Davis believes the store will cater

00:14:21.780 largely to the LGBTQ plus community and would draw in crowds looking to ogle. And he hopes by

00:14:28.980 LGBTQ books are not banned. Those are books that people pretend are banned. And sometimes the handful

00:14:37.760 of Republican lawmakers who have anything resembling a spine will ban them from kindergarten classrooms,

00:14:42.760 will ban them from elementary schools, maybe, maybe just up to the third grade, but maybe,

00:14:48.720 but those books are not banned. Books that are banned are books like David Irving saying the

00:14:54.860 Holocaust didn't happen. Okay. Those are banned books. And by the way, let's not forget, I'm not a

00:14:58.880 free speech absolutist. All right. You're not going to see me guilty of the charge of hypocrisy

00:15:03.580 because I do think society needs standards and taboos. I don't think every book should be in every

00:15:08.800 bookstore. I think we need, we need good norms of taste and behavior. I'm part of a church that had

00:15:17.280 an index of prohibited books for a very long time until very, very recently. So I'm not saying we need

00:15:24.160 totally naked people to sell us any book out there, but don't pretend that that gender queer

00:15:29.040 is a banned book. Five-year-olds are reading it. That's not true. I can go on Amazon right now and

00:15:34.720 buy, I would, I would guess virtually any book that is being sold in this weirdo's bookstore.

00:15:41.600 There are books that I can't buy and some books that I'm not even interested in buying,

00:15:45.820 but it ain't these. It's not, it's not the sexual liberation books. It's not the left books

00:15:50.800 that I can't read. Well, we're banned. We're so bad. This is like every year when the libs

00:15:56.200 put out their banned book lists and it includes things like, you know, To Kill a Mockingbird.

00:16:01.800 No, To Kill a Mockingbird is not a banned book. Every school child in America reads it.

00:16:05.880 That's not, that's fake. It's, it's a fake presentation of victimhood. It's, it's so that

00:16:11.800 the libs can pretend that they are, you know, the, the, the ascendant proletariat, long beleaguered,

00:16:20.620 but, but grabbing the reins of power, speaking truth to power. They're not, they're the power,

00:16:25.440 they're the power. These naked guys in San Francisco, trying to sell porn out of their

00:16:29.860 shop. They are the dominant power or at the very least the established powers totally support them.

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00:17:58.360 Speaking of how liberals dress or do not dress, Kamala Harris and her husband, Mr. Kamala Harris,

00:18:08.840 just posted a photo before they went out to a state dinner in honor of the president of Kenya.

00:18:16.700 And all I want to say about this photo, they look good. That's all I want to say. Don't you ever

00:18:23.840 accuse me, media, well, I guess media matters might probably isn't watching the show right now because

00:18:27.800 most of them got fired. But the ones who didn't might still be watching the show. And don't you

00:18:33.280 ever say that I don't ever say anything nice about the left. Even Kamala Harris, who is a disreputable

00:18:39.720 and generally a difficult person to watch. She looked very nice. She looked elegant. She wore a

00:18:46.080 nice gown. It was a ball gown, you know, to the floor. And there was a sort of a cape almost over it.

00:18:52.800 Very modest but elegant, covered her arms. And then Mr. Kamala Harris wore a suit that basically

00:18:58.680 looked good, decent enough looking suit. I don't think he's exactly a fashionista. I don't think

00:19:05.640 he spends a lot of time at the haberdasher, but they look good. And I just, the reason I want to

00:19:10.340 point this out is that generally in American culture, we look like slobs. This is especially true

00:19:16.220 on the left. They just present themselves in a casual and a degrading way. And these two,

00:19:23.260 actually, they looked nice. And we should, good job. That should be encouraged. We need a little

00:19:28.360 bit more respectability. And you're not going to get it if only the right is respectable. You need

00:19:31.740 the left to act that way too. That's it. That's it. That's the one nice thing I'll probably ever say

00:19:36.500 about Kamala Harris. But, you know, they look good. Good job. Now, the Biden campaign does not look very

00:19:43.960 nice right now. It looks very weak. Joe Biden has just announced that he will be canceling $7 billion

00:19:53.760 in student loans, which will affect about 160,000 people. Now, this will not affect the really poor

00:20:02.420 people, you know, the really struggling working class Americans, the oppressed racial and ethnic

00:20:08.220 minorities from marginalized communities. It's not going to affect them. Most Americans don't

00:20:13.660 graduate from a four-year college. The student loan play is a play for largely white, liberal yuppies,

00:20:23.540 upwardly mobile, probably going to get decent paying jobs or at least have the chance to get

00:20:28.660 decent paying jobs. So this is a bribe to people who are already doing relatively pretty well. But Biden

00:20:36.420 needs to secure that vote, especially these days when Biden has lost the kids on the college campuses,

00:20:43.300 who, though they're not always the most reliable voters, when they vote, they are reliably Democrat.

00:20:48.920 So this is just, it's an easy payoff for him. Democrats have been talking about forgiving student

00:20:53.740 loans for, which is, which, because the, the, the graduates are so often Democrats, it's just a payoff to

00:21:01.180 their, their, uh, political friends and allies. Uh, they've been talking about this for a long time.

00:21:06.860 It's just an easy way to say, Oh, okay. The college libs are upset with me. Give them,

00:21:11.760 give them $7 billion. Is that enough? Is $7 billion enough to get me across the finish line

00:21:15.360 in November? Uh, I hope so. Perhaps it will be. This policy is bad in principle, not even because

00:21:24.920 I'm opposed in principle to debt forgiveness every so often, you know, I don't know, like a jubilee year.

00:21:31.040 We see certain cycles of debt forgiveness going back to antiquity. So in principle that that doesn't

00:21:36.500 bother me only forgiving the loans of relatively wealthy, upwardly mobile people seems unjust and

00:21:43.720 unfair in principle. This is bad in practice in that it is going to, uh, encourage more people to

00:21:51.160 take out quarter million dollar loans for degrees that are largely worthless at institutions that are

00:21:55.300 designed to make these people, uh, hate their country and hate their families and less inclined to

00:22:00.720 flourish. That's true. But the one really good thing about this policy is it is good in what it

00:22:06.920 portends. It is good in that it shows Joe Biden thinks he can lose. He thinks he can lose. He

00:22:16.220 wouldn't be doing these kinds of things if he thought the election were totally wrapped up.

00:22:20.560 I talked to some Republicans who have been rightly, I think, scandalized by the way the libs rigged the

00:22:26.380 2020 election changed all the rules, allowed voting weeks and months before, allowed billionaire libs to

00:22:33.920 fund leftist organizations that moved ballot drop boxes in ways that were actually illegal and changed

00:22:39.780 the laws in some, in some ways unconstitutionally. Like in the case of Pennsylvania, and I could go on

00:22:43.380 and on and on. They're scandalized by that. And they think there is no way that the Republicans can

00:22:47.580 win. Trump can run the best campaign. He can get every rapper in the South Bronx to endorse him.

00:22:50.880 Doesn't matter. It's the fixes in, right? That's what they think. No, no. They might succeed at

00:22:58.460 rigging it. Joe Biden might win. I'm not saying that won't happen. But Joe Biden would not be doing

00:23:04.140 these things if the election were already in the bag. He wouldn't be releasing oil from that Northeast

00:23:08.380 Reserve if the election were already in the bag. He wouldn't be rushing desperately to hand out these

00:23:14.040 payoffs to his base if the fix were totally in. He could just go sit in his basement and drink a glass

00:23:21.060 of Ovaltine. But the fix is not totally in. Trump, at least as of right now, can still win.

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00:24:52.340 My favorite comment yesterday is from Kale. I thought it was Kale B. Vic. Like, you know,

00:25:00.280 the vegetable, then the insect, and then the man who abused those dogs at the pit bull fighting

00:25:07.340 rings. But no, I think it's Caleb Vic. Anyway, moving on. He says, single-handedly, Michael,

00:25:13.420 you've convinced me to drop my marijuana addiction for pure alcoholism for the next 20 years. You're a real

00:25:19.100 one. Thank you for the advice. I, well, it's not, you might have missed, you're welcome. You're

00:25:29.100 welcome. That's all I can say. Bribing the yuppies is not going to be enough for the Democrats to win

00:25:37.760 the election. It'll take them far. The yuppies are an important part of the Democrat base, but it's not

00:25:44.220 going to take them all the way. So what is Chris Murphy doing? He is trying to flood the zone.

00:25:53.220 Chris Murphy, as Democrats have been doing for many years now, is encouraging mass migration.

00:25:59.060 And he wants an open border because at the very least, he knows that the children and grandchildren

00:26:03.440 of immigrants are more likely to vote for Democrats. There are some exceptions, like Cuban

00:26:09.180 immigrants and their children are more likely to be Republican. That's why Obama killed Cuban

00:26:13.760 immigration. Just focused on the other Latin American immigration. Obviously, there are some

00:26:18.240 who do vote Republican, but just Dems are looking at a numbers game. If the majority are going to vote

00:26:23.180 for them, they're going to blow up the border and encourage an invasion. The arguments that they've

00:26:29.240 made for that are weak, but they tug on the heartstrings. These people, they're desperate.

00:26:35.720 They're fleeing political persecution. It's usually not true. Usually they're just fleeing

00:26:39.340 economic hardship, but they're, you know, they're mothers, they're children. Usually it's just young

00:26:44.580 men of fighting age, but no, they're, they're, please help the poor masses. Okay. It tugs on the

00:26:50.240 heartstrings. I get it. Chris Murphy has gone further. Chris Murphy is now making the argument

00:26:54.780 that when you take in a bunch of unvetted illegal aliens, it actually makes your neighborhood safer.

00:27:00.820 It's part of an effort to try to make Americans believe that there is a specific dangerous threat

00:27:10.980 posed to you by immigrants. That you should be afraid of immigrants. That there is a crime wave

00:27:18.440 sweeping this country caused by people who are coming to this country to seek a better life.

00:27:25.420 The facts are this, whether you choose to want to believe the facts or not, that is not my decision.

00:27:32.860 It's your decision. But immigrants commit crimes in this country at a rate lower than natural born

00:27:44.080 citizens. You may not believe that if you watch Fox News every night, but I hate to tell you it is the

00:27:51.680 truth. So if you want a safe town or a safe neighborhood, you're better off, you are statistically

00:28:01.580 safer if you have immigrants. Okay. First off, notice the slate of hand, the conflation of illegal aliens

00:28:13.600 who cross the border with the help of criminal and often satanic cartels like MS-13 with immigrants

00:28:20.780 broadly. You know, your great aunt Sally who came over from Liverpool and a poor Honduran peasant

00:28:29.440 who was smuggled across the border by Satan worshiping gangsters who are using those people

00:28:36.160 to funnel drugs and to promote crime. Not the same thing. Okay. So the libs always conflate those two

00:28:42.420 terms in order to blur the statistics. And of course, any crime that an illegal alien commits in the

00:28:49.080 country is one crime too many. You can't compare them to crimes of native born American citizens who

00:28:55.320 have rights to be here rather than foreign nationals who should not be here. Every American citizen who

00:29:01.420 is murdered by an illegal alien, and there are many of them, is a needless death. And the blood of that

00:29:08.980 murder is on the hands of the Democrats who encourage the illegal aliens to come over. Totally needless.

00:29:13.860 But even put the statistical magic tricks aside for a second.

00:29:20.400 Does Chris Murphy really believe this? If you really want to be safe, you need to have a lot

00:29:25.700 of immigrants in your neighborhood. Illegal alien, even legal immigrants. Sure, whatever, Chris.

00:29:31.160 Do you really believe that? Because Nate Hockman, great right-wing writer, young conservative,

00:29:40.380 just kind of looks at the numbers. This should be an easy statistic to check, right? And he points

00:29:44.120 out, he says, this is Chris Murphy's house, a beautiful three-bedroom in Northwest Washington,

00:29:49.660 D.C. The neighborhood is 76% white. That's weird. The median household income is 300% the national

00:29:59.120 average. Huh, that's kind of weird. It's not generally where the immigrants are going,

00:30:03.900 the illegal aliens. This is an abstract debate for him, writes Nate. He's never had to live with

00:30:09.600 the consequences of his own policies. The proof that not one lib truly believes what Chris Murphy is

00:30:18.160 saying, including Chris Murphy, is how fast Martha's Vineyard shipped those illegal aliens out of town

00:30:25.880 when Ron DeSantis gave them a free plane ticket. That's the proof. If illegal immigration,

00:30:32.660 if any kind of immigration, really makes neighborhoods safer, better, more flourishing,

00:30:37.980 Martha's Vineyard would have started to build them houses. But that's not what Martha's Vineyard did.

00:30:42.700 The minute that illegal aliens showed up for pretty much the first time ever in a really nice,

00:30:49.640 wealthy liberal enclave, what happened? The libs made sure they were on a bus within 48 hours.

00:30:57.100 We love you. Thank you. You're welcome. Bye-bye. Bye-bye now. Okay. Yeah, no, you're so wonderful.

00:31:03.200 You're a future dreamer. We're going to pay for your college. Well, yeah, your college over there,

00:31:07.360 not here, not going to Cape Cod University. Okay, bye. Bye. We love you. Bye. We love you from afar,

00:31:13.220 from a real far distance. Bye. Can you go over there to like Texas or something? That'd be great.

00:31:20.660 They don't believe it. They don't believe it for one little second. Don't watch what they say on the

00:31:28.340 floor of the U.S. Senate. Watch how they behave. Speaking of illegals and the U.S. Capitol,

00:31:36.200 there was a vote yesterday over a law. There's a law in D.C. that says that, I can't believe,

00:31:43.220 I can't believe this even has to be a law. The law says, if you're not a U.S. citizen,

00:31:48.400 you don't get to vote in the U.S. federal district. If you're a foreign national, you have no right to

00:31:55.920 be in America. You don't get to vote in American elections in the capital of America. There is a

00:32:02.020 law. And so, of course, the Democrats want to repeal that law. And how'd the vote go? Luckily,

00:32:06.740 it gets shut down. But there were a huge number of Democrats who voted to allow illegal aliens to

00:32:19.880 vote. A huge number. And so, what does that tell you? It tells you that Democrats, at least in their

00:32:29.820 behavior, are transparent about their desires for mass migration. Democrats, not in their speech,

00:32:36.280 but in their behavior, they say, yeah, the reason we want the illegal aliens is the votes. Of course.

00:32:44.940 And maybe it won't work in 2024, but they're playing the long game. Maybe 2028, maybe 2032,

00:32:50.700 maybe 2036. Now, speaking of 2024, President Trump just picked up a big announcement. This would be from

00:32:56.560 a former competitor of his, Mickey Haley. I put my priorities on a president who's going to have

00:33:05.460 the backs of our allies and hold our enemies to account, who would secure the border, no more

00:33:13.700 excuses. A president who would support capitalism and freedom. A president who understands we need less

00:33:24.020 debt, not more debt. Trump has not been perfect on these policies. I've made that clear many, many times.

00:33:34.120 But Biden has been a catastrophe. So, I will be voting for Trump. Having said that,

00:33:43.160 I stand by what I said in my suspension speech. Trump would be smart to reach out to the millions of

00:33:53.260 people who voted for me and continue to support me and not assume that they're just going to be with

00:34:00.320 him. And I genuinely hope he does that. So, Nikki's voting for Trump. Nikki Haley previously

00:34:08.380 had said she didn't know if she was going to vote for Trump. She's going to vote for Trump. And she

00:34:12.460 says, but Trump will have to earn the votes of my supporters, which might be true. But then they're

00:34:19.000 not really supporters of hers. If you are a supporter or follower of a political candidate,

00:34:25.660 then you follow that candidate. So, if Nikki says, I'm going to vote for Trump, then that means

00:34:30.940 one would imagine a large number of her voters will vote for Trump. That's the value of an

00:34:36.740 endorsement. It's not so you get one extra vote. It's so that you get the vote of an entire political

00:34:40.640 flank. And of course, she's doing this. I've said from the beginning, Nikki Haley has very good

00:34:47.640 political skills. I know there are a lot of conservatives who don't like her these days,

00:34:51.600 but she's a very talented politician. She's succeeded. She's made it to the very heights

00:34:57.100 of politics. And so, of course, I mean, she would have been completely out of her mind not to endorse

00:35:01.160 Trump. Because at this point, if she didn't endorse Trump, she might as well just become a Democrat.

00:35:05.600 There's no, what's the argument not to endorse Trump at this point, given the race between Trump

00:35:12.620 and Biden and RFK Jr., you know, pro-abortion, pro-pederasty RFK Jr. I don't think so, okay?

00:35:19.740 Obviously. So, she made the wise choice. And this would seem to be evidence of

00:35:26.000 what many of us suspected from the beginning, which is that the primary was a fait accompli.

00:35:32.140 And I said from the beginning, I wasn't going to make an endorsement in the primary. And I said

00:35:36.720 plenty of really nice things about Trump's competitors, notably Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley,

00:35:42.300 too. Even though she, in the early days, didn't seem quite as strong as DeSantis against Trump.

00:35:47.880 But it just always looked from the beginning like Trump was running like a quasi-incumbent. So,

00:35:55.180 it didn't really matter. It was kind of like a fake primary.

00:35:58.460 And so, if you turn on the incumbent or the quasi-incumbent, you're effectively switching

00:36:06.100 parties. And she's not going to do that. Nikki Haley is going to remain a Republican.

00:36:09.980 I suspect most of her supporters in the primary will. And the ones who won't were probably Democrats

00:36:16.820 in the first place. They said it couldn't be done. A new razor introduced on Amazon had no chance of

00:36:24.940 becoming the number one seller in any category. But because of you, Jeremy's second-generation

00:36:29.000 Precision 5 razor is officially the number one bestseller on Amazon. It's great news.

00:36:35.140 But are you surprised? People are fed up with woke companies. We all want great woke-free products

00:36:41.520 more widely available. So, Jeremy's Razors crushing it on Amazon is no surprise.

00:36:46.400 What is also not a surprise is how the experts thought we should do the new Jeremy's Razors commercial,

00:36:50.900 the second greatest commercial ever. Jeremy is simply thinking, how do we really sell

00:36:57.360 second-gen and let people know the new Razors are radically redesigned and offer a truly superior

00:37:02.020 shave? He steps away for one second, and the experts bring on Black Jeremy, Indians, Dot and Feather,

00:37:10.100 I think both, a body positivity higher, a lot of people. It was all a blur. You will have to check

00:37:18.980 out the commercial to see if Jeremy caved to the DEI crowd. But more importantly, you should go over

00:37:22.640 to jeremysrazors.com, get the new second-gen razor, like Jeremy said it backstage. These razors are

00:37:27.840 remarkable. It is time to shave like a man, not a manifesto. One last note, and I think this probably

00:37:35.120 is just being left unsaid by a lot of people, even though we all know it intuitively. If you go to

00:37:39.580 Amazon, you'll notice that the face of Jeremy's Razors is really, really handsome, a really good-looking,

00:37:46.600 young, virile, quarter-English, quarter-Irish, half-Italian man. And if we were trying to

00:37:53.960 pinpoint exactly how did Jeremy's Razors become number one on Amazon, you know, was it the commercial?

00:37:58.420 Was it the product? Was it that really good-looking, swarthy sex icon, you know, being the face of it?

00:38:08.200 Well, you go to Amazon, you see, you let me know what you think. Finally, finally, it's time to get to my

00:38:12.660 favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag. Our mailbag is sponsored by

00:38:17.080 Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com slash Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S, to upgrade your cell phone service

00:38:22.740 to America's most dependable 5G network. Take it away. It's time.

00:38:28.720 Hey, Michael. It's Landon, the resident LDS representative in a lot of your chats.

00:38:33.380 I was hoping to get your view on what I call the hot girl problem, which I can't really make up my mind

00:38:38.660 on. It seems like every time a female character is designed with some sex appeal in mind for the

00:38:44.600 predominantly male audience, the feminists would come out of the woodwork to complain about the

00:38:49.760 patriarchy and the male gaze. Thing is, though, back in the day, like the 90s, it was the old moral

00:38:56.820 majority right who would make complaints about these characters on grounds of sexualization and

00:39:01.300 pornography. I hope you see my conundrum. As a conservative, my instinct is to reject all

00:39:06.900 feminist complaints. Wholesale. As a fan of many of the games and comics that these

00:39:12.260 hot female characters appear in, I don't want to see the creatives behind them censored or stymied.

00:39:18.600 As someone with a more traditional spend, I want to promote more modesty in our popular culture.

00:39:23.800 And as a single straight male, I like looking at hot chicks in my games and movies.

00:39:28.700 Hoping you might provide some clarity on this issue and keep up the good work.

00:39:31.680 Feminists are usually ugly. They don't need to be. People, no matter what their kind of natural

00:39:43.680 appearance, they can do things that make them very pretty. Just kind of the way they do their hair,

00:39:48.020 the way they dress, the way they hold themselves and comport themselves. It's not just a purely

00:39:51.540 physical thing. And women who are naturally beautiful, when they become feminists, they tend

00:39:57.140 to make themselves much uglier. This is not even my own theory. A very liberal friend of mine

00:40:04.180 of many years, he once said this to me, just as a matter of course. He said, oh yeah, Michael,

00:40:10.500 of course, feminists are feminists because they're ugly. And they become more feminists because they,

00:40:15.620 you know, they make themselves uglier. Yeah, of course, that's what it is.

00:40:18.040 So there is that. They don't, the feminists don't like the hot chicks. Now your, your fear is

00:40:26.520 legitimate, which is you don't want to be just embracing pornography or something as a conservative,

00:40:31.880 but there's a difference between beauty and pornography. And it's, it's what the appeal is to.

00:40:39.380 Beauty appeals to, you know, certain appetites, certainly, but it's also reasonable. It appeals

00:40:49.020 to the reason as well. And it can be restrained and it partakes of the virtues. Pornography appeals

00:40:55.040 to the prurient interest. You know, it's all libido. Pornography is actually very unreasonable.

00:41:01.140 You know, this is, this is why cultures that are really convulsed by lust do things that are totally

00:41:06.540 absurd and unreasonable. You know, you just picture some orgy, whether we're talking about an

00:41:12.040 ancient Bacchanal, or we're talking about some modern Epstein Island kind of thing,

00:41:16.240 just picture it. It's people doing a lot of weird, kooky, bizarre things. You know, it's,

00:41:21.260 it's unreasonable. So that would be the line. Don't let the feminists bully you into taking beauty

00:41:27.940 away and beautiful women away. But just make sure that that beauty is reasonable, you know,

00:41:34.020 that it's, and that it's appealing to more than just your lower appetites. Next question.

00:41:41.460 Hey, Michael, back from America's evil top hat. I've just been looking at the critical response

00:41:47.060 to Abraham Raisi's death. First, they went from, you know, they were bombed. Bibi's got to resign to,

00:41:54.060 it was an inside job, all the corruption to, it was the storm. But I have a fourth theory,

00:41:59.540 conspiracy theory, if you will. You know how Saudi Arabia for the last five years has been doing the

00:42:05.360 cloud seeding. And then Dubai had a torrential downpour, the whole city got flooded, they didn't

00:42:11.580 have the infrastructure. They blamed it on global warming, and then they blamed it on a vortex of

00:42:17.100 storms. But what if Saudi Arabia managed to weaponize their own mistakes? Anyways, love the show. God

00:42:25.640 bless. Hmm. Hmm. We need to play a game of Clue or something like this. Yeah, it could have been

00:42:31.200 any number of people. Yeah, it could have been the Saudis. The Saudis don't like the Iranians. Yeah.

00:42:35.940 Could have been the Saudis. Could have been the Israelis. Could have been the Americans. Could have

00:42:40.000 been, I don't know, could have been an internal dissident. Could have been the Ayatollah.

00:42:46.000 I don't know, maybe he just got sick of his president. The reason that none of that really holds for me

00:42:52.380 is, killing the president of Iran doesn't really do very much. It doesn't change the political

00:43:01.520 circumstances for anyone. For Israel, for Saudi Arabia, for America, for anyone really. Because

00:43:08.340 the presidency is not where the power is held in Iran. The power, rather, is with the Ayatollah.

00:43:14.960 So if someone had gone in and assassinated the Ayatollah, whoa, okay, now we're talking about a

00:43:19.880 major global upheaval. But if you're just killing the president, the Ayatollah's going to put some

00:43:26.660 new president, and it's not really going to matter. So that's why, some other reasons too, but

00:43:31.520 that's, I guess, one of the main reasons why I think probably bad weather, lots of fog, mountains,

00:43:40.020 and helicopters, which don't have the best safety record, probably the easier explanation. If it can

00:43:47.960 get Colby, it can get anybody. Next question. Hi, Michael. My name is Lauren, and I am the very

00:43:54.000 lucky mama of two little boys. One is almost a year old, and the other one is set to make his

00:43:59.160 appearance in November. Now that my oldest is starting to understand words like yes, no, outside,

00:44:05.740 bath, et cetera, we have been doing a lot of modeling manners, like thank you, no thank you,

00:44:10.980 yes sir, no sir, et cetera. Because of this, my husband and I have started looking into some old

00:44:16.340 school manners that we'd like to teach our boys, and maybe some manners that we weren't taught when

00:44:21.020 we were growing up, and who better to give us someone to start with than the Dapper Don himself,

00:44:26.540 Michael Knowles. So what are your favorite manners that you'll be teaching your boys so that they grow

00:44:31.340 up to be the kinds of people you're proud to send out into the world? Thank you very much, and I hope

00:44:36.040 you have a great day. Great question. Here's one I want to start with, because it drives me crazy when

00:44:40.500 people don't know how to do it, and when I see men violating this rule. You're walking on a sidewalk,

00:44:47.120 you and your little honey. The man walks closest to the street, always. The reason for this is so

00:44:56.880 that when the horse is galloped by, they don't splash up all the kind of muck and guck and yuck

00:45:01.260 onto the woman. If anything, it'll hit the man. And it's a bit safer, and always, the man on the

00:45:06.600 outside. That's an easy one. Fix that now. I never want to see a woman walking closest to the road

00:45:12.600 when her cowardly husband is walking on the inside. Next one, obviously, hold the door for

00:45:21.840 a woman. You hold the door when she enters a room. You hold the door when she enters a car.

00:45:26.840 Some people now, I think, believe this is too over the top. It's not. It's a very simple thing to do,

00:45:31.760 and it's very civilized. And it shows your woman, your wife, your girlfriend, your auntie,

00:45:40.860 any woman, that you respect her and that you're a gentleman. You just go. It's very simple. You

00:45:47.360 walk around the car. Come in. Walk around. No big deal. It doesn't need to be a big deal.

00:45:52.920 Other manners. Of course, yes or no, sir. Thank you so much. And a lot of this is just modeled. You

00:45:57.480 don't have to teach it explicitly. I noticed this because I try to follow these rules.

00:46:01.540 Myself. Then my son, my toddler, he'll walk in. I'll hold the door for him. I'll say,

00:46:07.760 after you, buddy. I'll say, well, thank you so much. Oh, thank you. Oh, you're very welcome,

00:46:11.260 buddy. Oh, that's a very polite way to say it. Oh, yes. Thank you, Dada. And then, of course,

00:46:16.960 grace before meals. That's an important manner. You don't begin eating until everyone is sat down,

00:46:21.900 until everyone is served. Or if the one person who hasn't been served says, please begin.

00:46:26.060 And then you say the grace. And then you eat. That's a very basic one. So many more. Maybe

00:46:32.780 you should do Michael's manners or rules of etiquette or something. But that's a good place

00:46:36.480 to start. Okay, next question.

00:46:38.740 Hi, Michael. This is Simcha. I love your show. I just wanted to comment on the important things

00:46:42.960 first. This week on Tuesday, someone made a joke about Moses crossing the Red Sea to get

00:46:47.160 to the other side. And according to Jewish texts, he actually came back on the same side. They made a

00:46:53.020 semicircle. But with regards to my question is about the land of Israel and the stuff going on there

00:46:59.820 and the Jewish people, because the Jewish people, certainly according to Jewish tradition and probably

00:47:05.860 also according to many Christians, are still the chosen people, or at least according to all

00:47:11.340 Christians, they were at some point. Does that mean that people should care more about what goes on

00:47:15.760 with the Jews and they should care about the fate of the Jewish people in Israel, etc., more than a

00:47:20.520 different war going on somewhere else in the world, which is not necessarily related to them, meaning

00:47:24.240 that even regular Americans should actually care and have an opinion about what's going on in

00:47:29.980 Israel? Thank you for answering my question.

00:47:32.740 Yes, basically. I'm not even saying they should. I'm just saying they do. Of course, the Jews are just a

00:47:38.480 little different. And the Christians have a relationship with the Jews that is special and

00:47:45.420 different from our relationship to the Tibetans. That's just a fact because the Jews have, first of

00:47:52.080 all, in the Old Testament, are the figure of God's people. You're pointing out that there are kind of

00:47:57.980 extreme versions, especially in Protestantism. There's the extreme of, I don't know, think of a modern

00:48:04.040 pastor invading against the Jews as the worst people ever. Or you have dispensationalist Protestants

00:48:10.780 who worship the secular state of Israel, not to be too hyperbolic about it, and who believe that

00:48:18.780 God has basically two different types of people and two separate deals or something. And that's not

00:48:24.960 the traditional Christian view. But the traditional Christian view certainly is that the Jews in the

00:48:30.060 Old Testament are the figure of God's people, just as so much is prefigured. The New Testament is

00:48:35.980 prefigured in the Old Testament. So what does this mean for our concern for the Jews in Israel and

00:48:42.860 throughout the world? Well, this is not a new question. This has been debated since the earliest

00:48:49.180 days of the church. And even early church fathers, writing in the fourth century, say, even when they

00:48:57.200 say, look, the Jews are wrong about this and that and this and that. But they'll say, but don't bug

00:49:03.280 them too much. Certainly don't wipe them out. Don't force them out of lands. You see this really begin

00:49:08.620 to coalesce in a letter from Pope Gregory the Great called Sicut Udeis, as to the Jews, and says,

00:49:16.580 look, the Jews, they're getting a few things wrong here, but they are to be preserved. They're not to be

00:49:22.360 molested. They're not to be kept from their religious practices. Just kind of let them do

00:49:29.640 what they're going to do. And in the fullness of time, at God's appointed time, they'll come back

00:49:34.200 in. They'll recognize that our Lord is who he says he is, but don't harass them too much. And this is

00:49:39.780 reaffirmed time and time and time again by many popes. Calixtus II, I guess, is the first who makes

00:49:47.160 Sicut Udeis a papal bull. You see this in statements of great, great saints, Bernard of

00:49:52.740 Clairvaux among them. So yeah, that's the view. The Jews are, we look forward to when we are all

00:50:01.800 united and the Jews enter the church and that'll be great. But in the meantime, the Jews, there are

00:50:07.820 particular people. One of the arguments for not bugging the Jews too much is they're a testament to

00:50:12.800 the old law. They're kind of like a living testament to the old law, even though two roads diverged in a

00:50:19.520 yellow wood at the time of the incarnation. But yes, of course, that's the case. And anyone telling

00:50:25.220 you otherwise, you know, pretending that, oh no, well, I don't know, our relationship with the Jews

00:50:29.660 must be the same as our relationship with the Uyghurs or with the, I don't know, Siberians or

00:50:35.320 something is, I think, being disingenuous. Okay, it's Fake Headline Friday. The rest of the show

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