The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 150 - Thank You, Lord, That Obama Is No Longer President

00:00:00.000 On this national day of prayer, Michelle Obama, who was never proud of her country until it elected her husband president,

00:00:06.860 refers to herself in a speech at Temple University as our forever First Lady.

00:00:12.780 Thankfully, she's actually the never ever again First Lady.

00:00:16.300 Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu reveals a shocking intelligence operation that proves Barack Obama practically gave Iran nuclear weapons and threatened the world order.

00:00:26.120 Thankfully, he's not president anymore.

00:00:27.800 And finally, in what is sure to become a new daily segment, we rejoice in the media fallout over Kanye West's newfound conservatism.

00:00:36.820 There is so much to be grateful for this National Prayer Day.

00:00:40.360 Then the Mailbag, I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:00:52.660 So many reasons to rejoice.

00:00:54.720 Especially thinking of terrible days gone by.

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00:03:24.580 Okay, it's National Prayer Day.

00:03:28.100 This is a very good day.

00:03:29.280 We're going to be very thankful.

00:03:30.600 Because at one time, a priest that I listened to in New York, he said that there were three prayers that you should always be saying.

00:03:38.100 I love you, thank you, and I'm sorry.

00:03:40.220 Today, we're going to be focusing on the former two.

00:03:44.480 We can all repent in our own time and, you know, flog ourselves and things like that.

00:03:48.660 Probably we should all do it.

00:03:49.760 But we've got a lot to be thankful for because Michelle Obama, let's just begin with the First Lady, First Lady's First. 1.00

00:03:56.100 She is no longer the First Lady.

00:03:57.760 Here is Michelle Obama talking at Temple University.

00:04:01.680 Doubters, I know you have everything it takes to succeed.

00:04:05.860 I know that you are me.

00:04:07.500 And if I can be standing here as your forever First Lady, then you can do anything you put your mind to.

00:04:23.480 If I, well, you can.

00:04:24.840 If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas.

00:04:27.660 You're not the forever First Lady. 0.59

00:04:30.060 Apparently, some Democrats on the Internet refer to Michelle Obama that way.

00:04:34.260 But just imagine the disrespect of that.

00:04:36.420 She gets up there and says, I'm I am your forever First Lady.

00:04:40.840 Forget about that woman who's in who's actually the First Lady. 1.00

00:04:43.220 Who cares about her?

00:04:43.920 I'm the forever First Lady.

00:04:45.320 This was not as bad as Michelle Obama's classic gaffe when she said and by gaffe, 0.65

00:04:50.820 I mean when she accidentally was honest to the American people.

00:04:53.480 And she said that she'd never been proud of her country except when they elected her president or elected her husband president.

00:04:59.840 That she said, otherwise, I've never been proud of my country.

00:05:02.640 This is pretty bad, though.

00:05:04.000 Now, this, she says, you are me.

00:05:08.160 No, we're not.

00:05:08.840 We're not you.

00:05:09.580 We're not.

00:05:09.940 Why are we you?

00:05:10.600 Why would we want to be you?

00:05:11.860 I don't we I don't know that people like you very much.

00:05:15.180 Now, speaking of this, speaking of the National Prayer Day and this me, me, me, you are me.

00:05:20.260 I'm your forever First Lady.

00:05:22.260 This is a classic Obama, both her and her husband, the classic Obama messiah complex.

00:05:27.500 Here was Barack Obama speaking just a little while ago.

00:05:30.640 You know, I would create a hundred or a thousand or a million young Barack Obamas or Michelle Obamas or, you know, the next group of people who could take that baton.

00:05:45.020 This is the Obama messiah complex.

00:05:48.900 It's why people call Donald Trump a narcissist.

00:05:51.680 Donald Trump is the most humble man in the world compared to the Obamas.

00:05:55.660 Whenever they need an example of a good thing or something good to be, they refer to themselves.

00:06:02.380 She says, you are me.

00:06:03.960 But you say you are bright.

00:06:05.800 You're ambitious.

00:06:06.680 You're talented.

00:06:07.500 You're the future.

00:06:08.240 You're the.

00:06:08.480 No, no, no.

00:06:09.240 That not all of that pales in comparison to you are me.

00:06:12.520 Barack Obama, when he says, I want to change the future, I want to have a wonderful country, and the best way to do that is to create little versions of me.

00:06:22.120 Me, the greatest American ever.

00:06:24.720 Because Barack Obama said he doesn't really like America.

00:06:27.480 He doesn't like the way that America is.

00:06:29.200 That's why he wanted to fundamentally transform America.

00:06:32.040 You don't want to fundamentally transform something that you love.

00:06:35.000 I don't say to sweet little Elisa, I love you so much, honey, but I want to fundamentally transform you.

00:06:39.800 That isn't what you do.

00:06:40.940 And thankfully, on the National Day of Prayer, they're no longer in the White House.

00:06:45.860 Ah, that is so nice.

00:06:47.640 Melania Trump has been wonderful.

00:06:49.920 She's been a wonderful first lady.

00:06:51.740 She's been graceful.

00:06:53.100 She's been elegant.

00:06:54.420 She's been charming.

00:06:56.080 And Michelle Obama was not.

00:06:57.740 Michelle Obama said, practically, that she doesn't like her country, and she's disrespecting the current first lady. 0.98

00:07:04.280 She's saying, I'm still the first lady.

00:07:05.900 I'm forever the first lady.

00:07:07.280 And all these people, they're pretenders.

00:07:08.960 I'm forever the first lady.

00:07:10.040 There was that incident at the inauguration, President Trump's inauguration, when Melania

00:07:14.960 Trump brought Michelle a gift, a nice little ritual, and she hands her a box.

00:07:19.480 And Michelle acted as though this were some terrible thing.

00:07:23.240 She said later on the Ellen DeGeneres show, she said, quote, I mean, this is like a state

00:07:27.840 visit.

00:07:28.260 So they tell you that you're going to do this.

00:07:29.920 They're going to stand there before you get this gift.

00:07:32.940 So it's never happened.

00:07:34.780 So I'm sort of like, okay.

00:07:36.420 That's a direct quote from the Ellen show.

00:07:39.020 You know, she said, what am I supposed to do with this gift?

00:07:41.360 Everyone cleared out.

00:07:42.440 No one would come and take the box.

00:07:44.040 Wah, wah, wah.

00:07:44.960 Just not nice.

00:07:46.760 Not elevated.

00:07:47.820 And a lot of people said that Melania Trump would not be a good first lady because she was 0.96

00:07:53.560 a supermodel.

00:07:53.940 Supermodel, perhaps Donald Trump's wealth and success played some role in his charming her

00:08:00.820 and wooing her.

00:08:02.140 And she has been wonderful.

00:08:03.900 Yet you still hear these people say, oh, Michelle was so much better.

00:08:07.400 Michelle was not a good first lady. 1.00

00:08:09.680 I try not to give too much flack to the family of politicians, except when they make themselves

00:08:15.760 a spectacle, except when they put themselves in the public arena more than they have to be.

00:08:20.880 She wasn't very good at being a first lady.

00:08:22.960 And Melania's done a wonderful job. 0.96

00:08:25.000 But of course, that's all just the prelude.

00:08:27.440 That's just the amuse-bouche to the real thankfulness, which is that Barack Obama is

00:08:31.860 no longer president.

00:08:32.880 There's a major news story this week that shows us just how wonderful it is that Barack

00:08:37.780 Obama is no longer president.

00:08:39.900 But before we get to it, before we get to how Barack Obama, more than any president in

00:08:44.120 recent history, imperiled the world order, an utterly failed president, before we get to

00:08:49.320 that, let's just recount some of his other failures.

00:08:52.380 Barack Obama, people forget this.

00:08:55.320 When, you know, history wipes away all of these sins and all of these bad decisions and

00:09:00.480 all of these bad policies, essentially everything the guy did was a failure and made the country

00:09:05.640 worse.

00:09:06.220 He entered office during a bad recession and he made the recession worse.

00:09:11.560 Usually in economic crises, the deeper the recession, the more robust the recovery.

00:09:16.680 That's just the way it works.

00:09:17.720 The Obama recovery, which he says it was the worst recession since the Great Depression.

00:09:22.440 Okay.

00:09:23.040 The Obama recovery was the worst recovery in seven decades.

00:09:26.760 If it was the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, he should have had a

00:09:29.840 good recovery.

00:09:31.000 But he didn't because of his own policies.

00:09:33.360 During that recovery, GDP averaged a 2.1%.

00:09:37.420 I think that's the worst economic performance of any president since World War II.

00:09:41.980 His economist said, you know, that's just the way it is.

00:09:45.240 That's just the new normal.

00:09:46.260 That's the best we can hope for.

00:09:47.640 Yeah, 3%.

00:09:48.460 That's not going to happen.

00:09:49.700 Donald Trump comes into office.

00:09:50.780 He immediately starts posting quarters of 3% or greater economic growth.

00:09:55.000 Barack Obama spent more on stimulus money than all of the stimulus packages ever combined.

00:10:00.620 You take every stimulus bill in history, add them together.

00:10:05.080 Obama spent more with worse results, with counterproductive results.

00:10:08.840 So it's adding insult to injury.

00:10:10.580 Not only did he not help the economy recover or allow the economy to recover, he also blew

00:10:15.680 an unprecedented amount of taxpayer money on it.

00:10:18.600 During the Obama administration, millions of Americans fell below the poverty line.

00:10:22.760 Food stamps soared.

00:10:24.160 You heard he was called the food stamp president. 0.83

00:10:25.820 And then lefties, racist lefties, said that that was a racist comment.

00:10:31.000 And this always boggles my mind. 0.88

00:10:33.600 They said that if you use the phrase food stamps, then that's racist.

00:10:37.340 You're talking about black people.

00:10:38.820 You say, not all black people are on food stamps.

00:10:42.060 What are you talking about?

00:10:42.900 You're the one who said that.

00:10:44.380 I didn't say that.

00:10:46.100 It's absolutely not racist at all.

00:10:48.140 No, when you call someone a food stamp recipient, you're calling them black.

00:10:52.100 No, that's you, pal.

00:10:53.140 You're the one who has that image in your mind, not us.

00:10:55.820 During the Obama administration, the national debt doubled.

00:10:59.420 Millennials under the Obama administration lived with their parents at the highest rates

00:11:03.860 since the Great Depression.

00:11:05.840 There's a cultural aspect to that, and there's the economic aspect.

00:11:09.000 Obama did a terrible job managing the economy.

00:11:11.260 What else did he do?

00:11:12.040 Oh, right, he destroyed health care.

00:11:13.780 Barack Obama destroyed one-sixth of the economy when he upended our health care system,

00:11:18.660 and he lied.

00:11:19.680 He lied blatantly to the American people, and he even admitted that he lied.

00:11:23.420 He said, oh, you can keep your doctor.

00:11:25.640 Oh, premiums aren't going to go up.

00:11:27.540 Oh, it's okay.

00:11:28.900 PolitiFact named the, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

00:11:32.540 They named that the lie of the year.

00:11:34.360 And Obama even admitted this.

00:11:36.400 When the premiums started going up, when costs started to rise, when people's coverage changed,

00:11:41.000 he said, well, what, you didn't think you were going to get all that good stuff for nothing, did you?

00:11:47.280 Well, yes, we did.

00:11:48.440 We did think that because you promised us that.

00:11:50.760 That's exact, oh, come on, what, you're going to believe me, a Chicago politician?

00:11:54.340 What's the matter with you?

00:11:55.220 That's basically what he told us.

00:11:56.880 He snubbed his nose at the American people. 1.00

00:11:59.160 He says, what, you were so stupid that you believed me? 1.00

00:12:01.280 So the premiums rise. 1.00

00:12:02.520 And after all of this, we were told this is universal health care.

00:12:06.200 This is the, we've been wanting this for a hundred years.

00:12:08.780 After all of that, 30 million Americans remained uninsured.

00:12:13.120 After all of that, upending a sixth of the economy, shooting up the prices of health care premiums,

00:12:18.940 diminishing the quality of coverage, people losing their doctors and 30 million Americans uninsured.

00:12:24.460 An abject failure.

00:12:26.080 How about on foreign policy?

00:12:27.180 Well, on foreign policy, Barack Obama managed to lose a war that we had already won.

00:12:32.320 We had won the Iraq war.

00:12:34.620 The troop surge in 2007 won for us the Iraq war.

00:12:37.820 Barack Obama chose to lose that war.

00:12:39.880 He chose to pull out troops without a status of forces agreement.

00:12:42.780 He chose to lose it.

00:12:43.780 What happened?

00:12:44.280 ISIS came up in its wake.

00:12:45.740 But don't, that's okay.

00:12:46.820 Barack Obama restarted the war in Afghanistan for no reason.

00:12:50.280 The actual reason that he did it was because all of his campaign was running against Bush.

00:12:54.760 So he had to run against the Iraq war, but he didn't want to seem like the weakling that he is.

00:12:58.960 So he had to pretend that Afghanistan was a good war. 0.96

00:13:02.780 I don't know why.

00:13:03.740 The Iraq war was the bad war and Afghanistan's a good war because he needed a good war to win his election. 1.00

00:13:08.440 So he restarted that war.

00:13:09.940 And it's no coincidence that the vast majority of American military deaths in Afghanistan occurred under Barack Obama's watch.

00:13:17.460 Not George W. Bush.

00:13:18.820 Over 75% under Barack Obama's watch.

00:13:21.600 They told me if I voted for John McCain, we'd get more war in the Middle East.

00:13:25.560 And they were absolutely right.

00:13:28.020 What else did Barack Obama do on foreign policy?

00:13:30.360 Well, all we hear these days is about Russian collusion.

00:13:34.120 Donald Trump colluded with Russia.

00:13:35.920 Donald Trump had a bowl of borscht at the Russian tea room in Manhattan in 1976.

00:13:41.080 He colluded with Russia. 0.58

00:13:42.420 What did Barack Obama do?

00:13:43.540 Barack Obama allowed Russia to invade Crimea and much of Syria under his watch.

00:13:49.160 He gave them Barack Obama sat across from the leader of Russia or the fake leader of Russia, Medvedev, the Putin crony.

00:13:56.620 And he thought that he was not being recorded.

00:13:59.300 He thought their cameras and the microphones were off.

00:14:01.140 And he said, hey, listen, I know that I said all that stuff, you know, about how I'm going to be tough on you.

00:14:05.760 But direct quote, I will have more flexibility after my election.

00:14:10.980 To which Medvedev responded, duh, duh.

00:14:13.640 I will transmit this information to Vladimir.

00:14:16.060 Duh, duh. 0.71

00:14:16.600 We actually have video of Barack Obama colluding with Russia and admitting that he's misleading the American people on his stance on Russia.

00:14:25.320 That's the only explanation.

00:14:26.860 If he weren't misleading the American people, he would have said, hey, we don't have to wait until after the election.

00:14:31.840 I'll just tell them that I'm going to give Russia flexibility.

00:14:34.160 But he didn't.

00:14:34.700 He said, in order to win my election, I have to pretend that I'm tough on Russia. 0.86

00:14:38.380 But don't worry.

00:14:39.340 You can invade and rape the lands of anybody around you and do whatever you want. 0.69

00:14:43.240 What else did he do on foreign policy?

00:14:44.700 Well, he gave the Cuban slave-holding Castro regime a bunch of money.

00:14:49.600 Now, in fairness, I've smoked a couple cigars in my life.

00:14:52.840 But what he did was he decided that he was going to give the Cuban regime everything they wanted in exchange for nothing.

00:15:01.440 In exchange for absolutely nothing.

00:15:03.360 As a matter of national policy, a terrible idea.

00:15:05.760 You've got to give John F. Kennedy credit.

00:15:08.340 John F. Kennedy liked Cuban cigars as much as I do.

00:15:10.920 And he ordered all of his boxes of Cuban cigars.

00:15:13.400 And then he instituted a trade embargo.

00:15:16.120 Because he had to punish the regime for upsetting the world order.

00:15:19.040 And for its horrible human rights abuses.

00:15:21.400 Stealing property.

00:15:22.520 Killing people. 0.94

00:15:23.540 Enslaving political dissidents. 0.99

00:15:25.540 As a matter of national policy, it was a sound policy.

00:15:28.140 Barack Obama said, okay, we'll just give you whatever you want for nothing.

00:15:30.880 Then, just a penultimate aspect of Barack Obama's foreign policy, he managed to destroy Libya and Egypt.

00:15:39.060 Both.

00:15:39.640 Now, he didn't destroy it when he went and gave apology tours.

00:15:42.560 And apologized for American policy in the Middle East at the beginning of his presidency.

00:15:47.340 But instead, he turned on a long-standing American ally, Hosni Mubarak, let him crumble.

00:15:53.280 And in Libya, he allowed that situation to decay.

00:15:55.860 So, it's now a failed state and led directly to the chaos that allowed terrorists to come in there and kill our first ambassador overseas since 1979.

00:16:07.940 That's not a great record.

00:16:09.400 By all counts, a terrible president.

00:16:11.520 But that's not even his biggest blunder.

00:16:14.180 The thing that he will be remembered for.

00:16:16.440 Because Barack Obama knew.

00:16:17.540 He said during his presidency, well, I can't get anything passed through Congress because I'm a horrible negotiator.

00:16:22.560 And I don't have any friends even really in my own party.

00:16:25.400 But what I can do is I have a pen and a phone.

00:16:29.340 So, I'm okay.

00:16:30.620 Congress isn't going to pass laws.

00:16:31.920 But I'm going to sign executive orders with a pen and a phone.

00:16:36.500 And this leads to the Obama rule.

00:16:38.560 I guess you could call it the Trump rule.

00:16:40.100 That which can be enacted with a pen and a phone can be repealed with a pen and a phone.

00:16:44.420 Ha, ha, ha.

00:16:44.940 So, he was desperate at the end of his administration to get the Iran nuclear deal.

00:16:50.320 The big deal that was going to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons.

00:16:53.600 And anybody who wasn't one of the 22-year-old failed novelist writers who were advising him on foreign policy for some reason,

00:17:01.420 who weren't any of those people, people who had any proper sense of the world said, 0.99

00:17:06.280 the Iranians are liars. 1.00

00:17:07.720 They've been the greatest threat to the world order since the Iranian revolution. 1.00

00:17:12.020 And you don't give them nuclear weapons.

00:17:14.000 He said, I can handle this.

00:17:15.580 Don't worry.

00:17:16.180 I can handle this.

00:17:17.140 So, here is what Barack Obama promised us.

00:17:20.320 Today, after two years of negotiations, the United States, together with our international partners,

00:17:27.540 has achieved something that decades of animosity has not.

00:17:31.560 A comprehensive, long-term deal with Iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon. 0.69

00:17:39.300 Total lie.

00:17:40.560 Complete lie.

00:17:41.400 Everything about that is not true.

00:17:43.180 How do we know that?

00:17:44.320 Because the Israeli prime minister, Bibi Netanyahu, who during the Obama era was the leader of the free world,

00:17:49.600 he explains in one of the greatest presentations in modern political history.

00:17:54.500 We didn't have any program to develop nuclear weapons.

00:17:57.480 Anyway, we consider nuclear weapons both irrational as well as immoral.

00:18:01.680 Well, tonight, I'm here to tell you one thing.

00:18:06.400 Iran lied. 0.93

00:18:09.340 Big time.

00:18:11.400 After signing the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran intensified its efforts to hide its secret nuclear files.

00:18:19.100 A few weeks ago, in a great intelligence achievement, Israel obtained half a ton of the material inside these vaults.

00:18:32.200 And here's what we got.

00:18:36.840 55,000 pages.

00:18:38.580 Another 55,000 files on 183 CDs.

00:18:50.860 Everything you're about to see is an exact copy of the original Iranian material.

00:18:57.160 You know, if every TED Talk were like that, I would watch them.

00:19:02.180 Or every, it's like when they do the new iPhone and they're walking, they say, this is the new iPhone.

00:19:06.080 Bibi Netanyahu, a master showman.

00:19:08.300 And this is really humiliating for Barack Obama.

00:19:11.200 This was supposed to be Barack Obama's one lasting achievement.

00:19:15.160 And we now know it's a total failure.

00:19:17.000 Everything Obama told us about the deal was a lie.

00:19:19.440 And every promise of the deal is, of course, a lie because it essentially hands Iran nuclear weapons. 0.65

00:19:25.520 So, with this, I mean, this was the last thing Obama had to hold on to.

00:19:29.100 And it just turns out it was an abject failure.

00:19:32.080 So, all of the Obama alumni, who I think just turned 16.

00:19:35.680 So, happy 16th birthday to all of the Obama senior policy advisors.

00:19:39.720 They, all of these alumni are out in force to defend the Iran nuclear deal.

00:19:44.000 But it's very funny because they're contradicting one another.

00:19:46.900 So, I guess they didn't text each other beforehand and say, okay, we're going to lie about it this way instead of this way.

00:19:52.720 Jim Garrity at National Review pointed this out.

00:19:54.720 It's really funny.

00:19:55.820 Tommy Veeder, Veeder, Veeder, I don't know, former National Security Council spokesman under Barack Obama.

00:20:01.860 He, I believe, was a senior policy advisor for Obama during eighth grade.

00:20:06.500 He said, quote, after years of bashing U.S. intelligence agencies for getting Iraq WMD wrong,

00:20:12.880 Trump is now cooking up intel with the Israelis to push us closer to a conflict with Iran.

00:20:19.200 A scandal hiding in plain sight.

00:20:22.440 Okay, so Tommy, little Tommy's point of view, Tommy's point of view is that he, this is all a lie.

00:20:29.280 Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump are lying.

00:20:32.640 And look, Barack Obama, his entire administration appeared to hate Israel.

00:20:37.280 Barack Obama, his campaign apparatus tried to get Bibi Netanyahu kicked out of power there.

00:20:42.260 So they're saying, oh, they're just lying.

00:20:43.780 It's just a lie.

00:20:44.880 But Ben Rhodes, another former foreign policy advisor to the president, at the same time said, quote,

00:20:51.140 by reminding everyone of the well-known pre-Iran deal history,

00:20:54.620 Netanyahu inadvertently made the case for why the Iran deal needs to stay in place.

00:20:59.140 Without it, all the restrictions on Iran's program and the inspections regime that verify compliance go away.

00:21:06.040 So Ben Rhodes' answer to this is, yeah, no, we knew about all that.

00:21:10.100 But, so, so these guys both worked for Obama, same guy, same time, same issue, as a matter of fact.

00:21:17.420 And one of them says, oh, this is a total lie, totally cooked up by those, those Israelis and by Donald Trump. 0.87

00:21:23.880 And then the other guy at the same time says, yeah, no, we knew about all of it.

00:21:27.300 So, okay, maybe next time you should text each other and figure out which lie you're going to try to spread

00:21:31.280 to make up for your abject failure.

00:21:33.820 This is a major difference between the right and the left, because this hasn't been said enough.

00:21:39.480 Donald Trump is much, much better at being the president than Barack Obama.

00:21:43.980 The country under Donald Trump is much, much better off than under Barack Obama.

00:21:48.460 The world order is much, much better off under Donald Trump than under Barack Obama.

00:21:53.920 The left, they said, what are you, what are you, that's crazy, what are you talking about?

00:21:57.000 This is a major difference between the right and the left.

00:21:59.880 The right likes the thing itself.

00:22:02.440 The left likes the appearance of the thing without the essence of the thing.

00:22:08.300 The right likes practical things.

00:22:11.360 The right, or the left rather, prefers the theoretical.

00:22:15.300 They say, so here's an example.

00:22:16.980 Donald Trump doesn't look like the president, does he?

00:22:19.880 He doesn't talk like the president.

00:22:21.540 He doesn't walk like the president.

00:22:22.920 He doesn't tweet like the president.

00:22:24.500 It's, oh, it's crazy.

00:22:25.460 This is a threat to the world order.

00:22:26.800 Except he's very good at being the president.

00:22:28.580 He's very good at making deals with people, even on getting the pop culture on his side.

00:22:41.080 We'll talk about Kanye in a second.

00:22:43.000 But he doesn't, so Donald Trump doesn't look like the president, but he's very good at being the president.

00:22:46.220 Barack Obama looks just like the president.

00:22:49.140 He talks like the president.

00:22:51.860 He comports himself like the president.

00:22:54.800 He uses all the right words.

00:22:56.540 He smiles like the president, smile and a wink.

00:22:59.880 But he was terrible at being the president. 0.71

00:23:01.740 He was, I mean, he was utterly a failed president.

00:23:03.840 He has no accomplishment in office.

00:23:06.680 Everything was a failure.

00:23:08.860 A major difference between the right and the left.

00:23:10.480 And now when people clutch their pearls and they say, but Trump, he, he doesn't hold his

00:23:15.180 Chardonnay glass right, guys.

00:23:17.140 You say, that's okay.

00:23:17.880 That's fine.

00:23:18.860 He's good at being the president.

00:23:19.960 And by the way, people like Kanye West are waking up to this, which brings us to what is

00:23:24.540 sure to become a daily segment, Kanye Watch.

00:23:29.120 I'm really happy for you.

00:23:30.480 I'm going to let you finish.

00:23:32.380 Thank you, Kanye.

00:23:33.200 I appreciate that.

00:23:33.880 The latest fallout from Kanye saying conservative things.

00:23:37.900 What do we have?

00:23:38.400 Let's do a quick rundown before we get to the mailbag.

00:23:40.480 A CNN op-ed writer wants to censor Kanye West.

00:23:44.440 They actually want to shut him up.

00:23:46.040 The CNN writer says, quote, the time has come to stop amplifying his platform when he continues

00:23:51.760 to misconstrue facts and distract the public from truth.

00:23:56.800 Shutting him down is not a matter of censoring opinions.

00:24:00.100 It's a matter of being responsible in how we elevate or endorse the cult of celebrity in

00:24:05.020 situations that further espouse toxic lies.

00:24:07.620 The cult of celebrity that the left invented.

00:24:10.480 At this point, any outlet that continues to allow Kanye West a platform to knowingly speak

00:24:15.240 such misinformation is enabling the former or exploiting his status for ratings.

00:24:20.180 On the misinformation, by the way, let me just say this.

00:24:22.900 The one thing that all of Kanye, Kanye's critics are saying is that he lied about slavery because he said, if there, if you've been a slave for 400 years, that's a choice.

00:24:36.320 That is true.

00:24:37.580 That is historically and mathematically true.

00:24:39.960 Now they're saying, well, no, he's talking about the transatlantic slave trade.

00:24:43.520 The transatlantic slave trade began in 1619.

00:24:46.780 It didn't be the Dutch brought African slaves to America in 1619.

00:24:50.420 If that number were true, then the trans, then for 400 years, that would mean that, first of all, we'd be in the future. 0.99

00:24:56.740 It would have to be 2019 right now.

00:24:58.280 And the transatlantic slave trade would have to still be going on, which it's obviously not.

00:25:02.340 And ended centuries ago.

00:25:04.840 The point he was making is that there is a mental imprisonment.

00:25:08.240 And these guys make his point for him on CNN.

00:25:10.600 They say, no, we're not trying to mentally imprison you.

00:25:13.220 Hey, guys, imprison Kanye West.

00:25:16.160 Stop. 0.99

00:25:16.700 Shut him up. 0.98

00:25:17.240 Don't let him talk anymore. 0.84

00:25:18.460 So that's one aspect.

00:25:19.700 Another wonderful aspect of Kanye watch, which we all predicted because politics is downstream of culture and major pop culture leaders who speak to specific demographics can really affect politics.

00:25:31.560 Donald Trump's approval rating among black men in particular has doubled in a week.

00:25:36.680 In one week, that approval rating is now at 22%.

00:25:40.640 Previously, it was at 11%.

00:25:42.840 Also, at the same time, his disapproval rating among black men has dropped significantly from 87% to 71%, according to this latest survey.

00:25:54.080 Black men surveyed also who said that they have mixed feelings about Donald Trump rose from 1.5% to 7.1%.

00:26:01.260 So you've got this 22% approval.

00:26:03.320 And then you've got this huge bump, 5.5 point bump on mixed feelings.

00:26:10.080 So what does mixed feelings mean?

00:26:11.220 It doesn't mean they're starting not to like Donald Trump.

00:26:13.900 It means they're starting to like Donald Trump.

00:26:15.480 And before you accuse that poll of being some cooked up Republican thing, that's from Reuters.

00:26:19.700 Reuters is reporting that.

00:26:21.220 That isn't some right wing source.

00:26:24.100 So we're seeing this political effect.

00:26:27.440 We're seeing the Breitbart effect, Andrew Breitbart effect, come into play.

00:26:30.600 That politics is downstream of culture.

00:26:32.060 That's great.

00:26:32.840 And Kanye West has all the right enemies.

00:26:35.440 USA Today ran a headline.

00:26:36.980 Greatest rapper alive? 0.63

00:26:38.580 How Kanye West devolved into just another internet troll. 0.53

00:26:42.420 Yeah, right.

00:26:43.340 Okay.

00:26:43.620 Okay, buddy.

00:26:44.240 Sure.

00:26:44.760 Sure.

00:26:45.000 Yeah, I'm sure.

00:26:45.540 I bet as many people are reading USA Today or listening to Kanye West.

00:26:48.980 Totally.

00:26:49.200 Then the really heinous one is USA Today ran a headline, Chris Brown tears Kanye West to

00:26:56.620 shreds over his slavery comments.

00:26:59.100 And this is an improvement for Chris Brown because Chris Brown usually just tears into

00:27:02.600 his girlfriends.

00:27:03.420 So it's good when he's tearing into other male rappers, I guess.

00:27:06.520 Chris Brown said, quote, this is just entertainment to y'all. 1.00

00:27:08.780 This man is a clown. 1.00

00:27:10.120 Wake the heck up, Kanye. 1.00

00:27:11.720 He didn't say heck.

00:27:12.500 Please.

00:27:13.220 Slavery was a choice.

00:27:14.640 What?

00:27:15.420 Hey, Chris, how about you learn to read so that you can find out that Kanye was exactly

00:27:18.680 right? 0.99

00:27:19.200 Please, black people, do not follow West on his path to destruction. 0.99

00:27:23.740 Whatever help you think I need, get it for him ASAP. 0.99

00:27:27.180 And this really bothers me.

00:27:29.320 It bothers me any time Chris Brown does anything because the judicial system should have taken

00:27:34.700 him out back and put him down like old yeller a long time ago. 0.97

00:27:37.820 Chris Brown is just, let's just read.

00:27:39.700 His police report is publicly available.

00:27:42.220 This is just a little snippet from the Chris Brown police report.

00:27:44.560 The guy who's lecturing Kanye West and Americans on how we should comport ourselves

00:27:48.560 historically and politically.

00:27:49.600 This is from the police report.

00:27:50.880 Quote, a verbal argument ensued and Chris Brown pulled the vehicle over on an unknown

00:27:56.300 street, reached over Robin F., that's Rihanna, with his right hand and opened the car door

00:28:02.340 and attempted to force her out.

00:28:04.100 Brown was unable to force Robin out of the vehicle because she was wearing a seatbelt. 0.97

00:28:08.040 When he could not force her to exit, he took his right hand and shoved her head against 0.94

00:28:11.880 the passenger window of the vehicle, causing an approximate one inch raised circular contusion.

00:28:17.480 Robin turned to face Brown and he punched her in the left eye with his right hand. 1.00

00:28:21.400 He then drove away in the vehicle and continued to punch her in the face with his right hand

00:28:25.860 while steering the vehicle with his left hand.

00:28:28.260 The assault caused Robin F.'s mouth to fill with blood and blood to splatter all over her 1.00

00:28:32.340 clothing and the interior of the vehicle.

00:28:34.200 Brown looked at Robin and stated, quote, I'm going to beat the S out of you when we get

00:28:39.800 home.

00:28:40.220 You wait and see.

00:28:42.560 That is the only part that I can read on air, I think.

00:28:46.240 It gets much, much worse.

00:28:48.360 That's Chris Brown.

00:28:49.400 Chris Brown also got a neck tattoo of a battered woman and he never served any actual time for

00:28:53.300 his many vicious crimes.

00:28:54.700 This is the guy telling Kanye West to get the help that he needs.

00:28:58.720 Absolutely outrageous.

00:29:00.340 There are very few political or culture stories that actually get me physically angry and Chris

00:29:07.100 Brown, anytime he does anything, is one of them.

00:29:09.400 So that's one of Kanye's enemies.

00:29:11.360 Then another one.

00:29:12.560 Finally, Eric Garland from The Atlantic.

00:29:15.220 He writes that Kanye West, this is a great one.

00:29:18.580 This is my favorite one.

00:29:19.700 Kanye West is an agent of Moscow.

00:29:22.300 This is the new thing.

00:29:23.160 This is the new I don't like you on the left. 0.54

00:29:25.920 If the left doesn't like you, they'll just say you're a Russian spy.

00:29:29.580 So Eric Garland writes, quote, both are witting or implausibly unwitting, at least assets of

00:29:36.620 Russian intelligence, be it through Roger Stone, likely Jones's case, or other corrupt

00:29:40.200 elements.

00:29:41.160 They're calling Kanye West a witting asset for Russia, a witting Russian spy.

00:29:50.440 Eric Garland, by the way, bills himself as a strategic intelligence analyst.

00:29:55.020 That's really something.

00:29:56.020 This is the best. 0.97

00:29:57.200 It's sad because The Atlantic used to be a good magazine and now it's 90% trash. 0.94

00:30:02.100 I still subscribe, but it's just awful. 0.93

00:30:03.820 And this is the strategic intelligence from The Atlantic.

00:30:07.040 You can tell a lot about a man by his enemies.

00:30:11.000 You can tell a lot about, look at all the enemies coming after Kanye West.

00:30:14.100 I sort of have to defend Ben here.

00:30:15.620 I spend most of my time provoking Ben.

00:30:17.160 But there was the funniest thing on Twitter yesterday is when a shirtless vitamin salesman

00:30:22.100 started sending a lot of mean tweets about Ben.

00:30:25.000 You can tell a lot about a man by his enemies.

00:30:27.380 Okay, we've got to get to the mailbag.

00:30:28.840 We're running way late.

00:30:29.760 So before we get to the mailbag, I'm sorry.

00:30:32.240 We've got a great mailbag today, but I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

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00:31:12.040 You got me, The Andrew Klavan Show, The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:31:13.700 So my conversations coming up, folks, you can ask questions in the conversation.

00:31:18.220 I will answer them.

00:31:19.640 Everybody can listen.

00:31:20.400 Few can ask questions.

00:31:21.360 Many are called.

00:31:22.240 Few are chosen.

00:31:23.660 None of that matters.

00:31:27.440 Oh, that's really good.

00:31:28.680 Let's just see.

00:31:29.960 Is Michelle Obama the forever first lady?

00:31:33.000 Is she?

00:31:34.460 Oh, no.

00:31:34.980 Melania Trump is the first lady.

00:31:36.600 Is Barack, are we going to have a million Barack's and Michelle's?

00:31:40.380 Oh, no.

00:31:40.920 Kanye West is talking like a conservative Republican and quoting Thomas Sowell.

00:31:44.340 Oh.

00:31:47.040 Oh, my gosh.

00:31:49.400 I, we got to go to a break.

00:31:51.400 Go to dailywire.com.

00:31:52.660 I've got to recover from how delicious that was.

00:31:54.700 Let's get into the mailbag because we're running out of time and these are great questions.

00:32:09.020 From Tyler.

00:32:10.420 Oh, Michael, the great and powerful.

00:32:12.660 I've been hearing people say that Islam and Christianity are the same religion with a few minor misunderstandings.

00:32:18.380 Can you please shine your all-knowing wisdom down upon them?

00:32:20.980 Thanks.

00:32:21.400 Big fan.

00:32:21.760 Yeah, sure.

00:32:23.020 They're not.

00:32:23.600 They're different religions, obviously.

00:32:25.420 I suggest you read the scriptures of both the Koran and the Bible and the writers, people who have written and theological writers about Islam and Christianity.

00:32:37.160 The big difference between the two is that Islam developed six centuries after Christianity as a Christian heresy. 0.68

00:32:45.940 It became something more than that, probably, but it developed as a Christian heresy.

00:32:50.520 We know this because the religion began when Muhammad visited a Nestorian or Aryan monk.

00:32:57.740 We're not sure what Christian heresy he was.

00:33:01.020 In Syria, his name was Bahira.

00:33:03.180 He was up there on a merchant trip with his uncle Abu Talib and he spent a lot of time with him and afterward concocted a version of Christianity that is in keeping with other heretical traditions.

00:33:15.700 And most heresy just, it can't come to grips with mystery.

00:33:21.560 So Christ is both perfectly divine and perfectly human.

00:33:25.880 Various heresies say he's entirely human or he's entirely divine.

00:33:29.100 The big difference, probably you would say that Islam is more political, it's more nationalist or pan-Arab, it's more for a particular people.

00:33:41.600 But these are all kind of minor observations or criticisms that one could debate.

00:33:46.960 The big difference is that Islam denies the cross of Christ.

00:33:49.840 So Islam says that they crucified him not.

00:33:52.100 It speaks very highly of Jesus, but it says they crucified him not.

00:33:55.820 And there are various theories as to how Jesus was up on the cross and then not crucified.

00:34:00.900 Plenty of people have written about this.

00:34:02.700 St. Paul writes about such proclamations six centuries earlier.

00:34:06.860 He writes,

00:34:07.200 Because there are many walking, and I tell you now even weeping, who deny the cross of Christ, who are enemies of the cross of Christ.

00:34:13.700 Because the cross of Christ overcomes death.

00:34:16.200 It's where the logic of the universe, the Logos, becomes incarnate and dies for our sins to redeem all of mankind.

00:34:22.700 It's a God of perfect reason.

00:34:24.780 It's a heaven of immaterial delight.

00:34:28.980 And Islam poses something different. 1.00

00:34:30.580 It's a God who is not confined by reason.

00:34:35.580 A God who is not necessarily the Logos.

00:34:37.980 A God who can be wrathful in irrational ways.

00:34:41.820 And a world in which death has not been conquered.

00:34:44.460 A world which promises material delights in heaven.

00:34:48.840 Those are very different visions of the world.

00:34:50.380 Those are very different religions.

00:34:52.420 Now it's commonly taught by people who haven't read any of these things,

00:34:55.980 and have no familiarity with either of the religions, that, oh, you know, we all worship the same God.

00:35:03.400 Not so.

00:35:04.400 Different religions worship different gods.

00:35:06.260 That's what makes them different religions. 0.99

00:35:07.640 If they worship the same God, they would be the same religion, wouldn't they? 0.70

00:35:11.360 They would manifest in the same ways.

00:35:13.820 But when we see vast differences in religion, we know that they're worshiping something different.

00:35:18.660 From James,

00:35:19.700 Dear Michael,

00:35:21.280 Fascism seems so unlikely today.

00:35:23.720 And does it?

00:35:24.540 I don't know.

00:35:24.780 I look around college campuses, and it seems very likely.

00:35:27.800 He goes on.

00:35:28.660 And it's difficult to imagine its philosophical appeal last century.

00:35:32.140 Could you attribute the rise of atheism nihilism during the 20th century as something that caused the appeal of fascism?

00:35:37.700 Seems to me that totalitarian fascist states force their own religion of government down the throats of their subjects.

00:35:43.720 Do you think there was an ideological appeal to fascism, or was the movement based in emotion and feeling?

00:35:48.560 Thank you guys.

00:35:50.180 Thanks, you guys and gals at the Daily Wire are the only thing keeping me sane these days.

00:35:54.040 That's a very good question.

00:35:56.600 Because I actually disagree with your read of fascism, or your reaction to fascism.

00:36:02.400 I'll say also that one can't really separate plain objective facts from the way that we react to them, from the way that we ascribe value to them, or that we have emotion about them.

00:36:14.340 That distinction is, I think, complicated and probably not a good one to make.

00:36:20.080 The appeal of fascism makes all the sense in the world.

00:36:23.240 It's a very appealing political ideology in a world without God.

00:36:28.740 It makes all the sense in the world without God.

00:36:31.180 Because without God, there's no natural law.

00:36:34.120 Without natural law, there are no natural rights.

00:36:36.340 The American version of conservatism only exists because of the profound, radically Christian character of America. 1.00

00:36:43.980 We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator.

00:36:48.940 We know this from Governor Winthrop in the model of Christian charity that baptized all of America in the early 17th century.

00:36:56.360 We'll read that a little bit later.

00:36:57.960 We know this from the pilgrims, the first Americans, the people who founded the first American colonies,

00:37:02.600 where we trace our foundation, where radical Christian zealots, fascism replaces God.

00:37:08.840 Of course, it's reacting to a world of atheism and nihilism.

00:37:12.200 And it has to overcome that nihilism with something.

00:37:16.100 Everybody's got to serve somebody.

00:37:17.780 So fascism replaces God with neo-pagan idols, the nation-state or the people or the fashi, you know, binding us all together.

00:37:26.280 It's a reactionary philosophy.

00:37:28.160 It's reacting against, as you point out, atheism, materialism, rationalism, positivism.

00:37:34.120 It's reacting against that.

00:37:35.440 I react against that, too.

00:37:36.660 I don't like those things either.

00:37:38.340 But that's what makes it so seductive, is when you react to all of those things that we don't like about modernity without God,

00:37:46.260 you just get the mirror image of all of those things, which is equally ungratifying.

00:37:50.800 Some say the world will end in fire.

00:37:52.060 Some say in ice.

00:37:52.820 This is what the alternative right gets so wrong, is they are reacting against all the right things,

00:37:59.080 but they're reacting in the wrong way because their reaction lacks God.

00:38:03.020 It lacks the crux, pun very much intended, of Western civilization.

00:38:09.320 And so it's a horrific caricature.

00:38:11.420 It's exactly the flip side of leftism.

00:38:13.980 Good question.

00:38:14.700 From Kevin.

00:38:15.460 Hi, Michael.

00:38:16.140 My 20-year-old son is a devout Christian.

00:38:17.980 He's been dating a wonderful girl for about four years.

00:38:20.180 For the past year, she's been struggling with her Christian faith to the point that she's not sure she can call herself a Christian.

00:38:25.520 They have a very good relationship.

00:38:26.820 They're both committed.

00:38:27.840 How should I advise my son regarding his relationship with her, and how can he help her with this struggle?

00:38:33.420 Well, I mean, I was in her shoes when I was 20.

00:38:37.180 I was vaguely atheistic or agnostic at the time, and now I'm certainly not.

00:38:42.180 I think it's perfectly normal to go through those sorts of phases, and I think it actually helps one's faith

00:38:47.900 because when you come back, you have the zeal of a convert, even though you're just a revert.

00:38:52.200 I think it's fine.

00:38:53.160 Look, the truth above all things.

00:38:55.680 She's confused right now, and she's questioning things, and maybe she's reacting appropriately against incorrect interpretations of true religion.

00:39:05.380 Maybe she's reacting against heresies.

00:39:07.360 Maybe she's reacting against misunderstandings of Christianity.

00:39:10.340 That's good to react against those things.

00:39:12.980 The truth above all things.

00:39:14.360 Just have your son say, keep cool, keep calm, and explain the world as he sees it.

00:39:22.660 And you don't have to worry about those things.

00:39:25.240 You do your best.

00:39:26.920 God will do the rest.

00:39:27.780 But I wouldn't worry too much because there is a right answer.

00:39:32.320 And if you are patient, patience is a virtue.

00:39:35.240 If you're patient, I think the truth will come out as long as everybody's dealing in good faith.

00:39:41.460 From Kenneth, how much more time do we have?

00:39:43.000 We've got a little bit more time.

00:39:44.340 If we have to accept people because of their immutable characteristics, such as being gay or sexual orientation, 0.72

00:39:51.900 how is it that it is illegal in California to have a sex change material,

00:39:55.740 or it might be banned in California to promote sex change material,

00:39:59.640 but at the University of Texas they are going to treat masculinity as a mental health condition?

00:40:03.800 There's this bill in California that wants to ban all efforts to change one's sexual orientation.

00:40:10.220 And it's true, not just at the University of Texas, but all over the country now,

00:40:14.100 we hear about toxic masculinity. 0.59

00:40:17.020 This is a mental health disorder.

00:40:18.820 It's being studied by government agencies and public agencies. 1.00

00:40:22.400 It's because they're total hypocrites and lunatics. 0.99

00:40:25.260 But we don't need to take that seriously. 1.00

00:40:27.640 They are not being rational, and we don't have to take irrationality seriously.

00:40:31.840 But we should watch out for that phrase.

00:40:33.920 I did this PragerU video on the importance of precise language.

00:40:37.020 The left now is using this euphemism, toxic masculinity, to refer to manliness.

00:40:42.160 Now, look, manliness has two sides.

00:40:44.540 There's the gentleman, there's the hero, there's the good guy,

00:40:48.640 and there's the rapist and the warmonger and the villain.

00:40:51.560 It cuts both ways, and you have to be on the right side of that.

00:40:55.040 You have to use manliness in a good way.

00:40:56.840 The left is using that phrase to say masculinity is bad per se.

00:41:01.040 Manliness is bad per se.

00:41:02.760 But it's not.

00:41:03.220 There's a good manliness, and we have to always exhibit it.

00:41:06.000 And it's a very manly thing to correct people's errors in a patient but confident way.

00:41:13.740 All right, from Christopher.

00:41:14.920 Hey, Michael, I'm a huge fan of the show and listen daily.

00:41:17.200 As someone who's one of those heathen pagans you mentioned on May Day,

00:41:21.440 Walpurgisnacht, to your former German listeners,

00:41:25.000 why is it that Ben and yourself are so critical of anything pagan?

00:41:30.220 I understand a ton of people who are pagan and just are just those spiritual lefty commune types,

00:41:36.580 but some of us are conservatives that just happen to have differing religious beliefs.

00:41:41.220 Sincerely, Chris.

00:41:42.040 Thank you for the note, Chris.

00:41:44.060 Thanks for watching daily.

00:41:45.540 And since you watch daily, you'll get this edifying answer, I hope.

00:41:48.800 It's because you might have those differing religious beliefs, but they're wrong. 0.94

00:41:54.500 They aren't true.

00:41:56.180 It just isn't good, and that's why we're harsh on it, because it isn't true.

00:42:00.060 We're harsh on a lot of things that aren't true and aren't good.

00:42:02.660 Now, look, there are plenty of people who have good intentions and who say,

00:42:06.320 I don't sacrifice children or whatever.

00:42:08.680 Okay, I don't think you sacrifice children necessarily.

00:42:11.560 Plus, America sacrifices a million children a year.

00:42:14.280 But paganism itself is just wrong and bad, and you shouldn't do it. 0.93

00:42:17.140 The word pagan comes from the word paganus, which means villager or rustic.

00:42:23.640 It really means hillbilly or hick. 1.00

00:42:25.780 It's like a kind of uneducated, rough, stupid person. 0.99

00:42:29.020 This is where you get the words like paii or paisano in Italian, a paisan, or peasant in English. 1.00

00:42:36.900 They don't have good connotations.

00:42:39.160 Paganism is idolatrous, but it's the natural state of man.

00:42:42.260 Edwin Bevan writes about this very well.

00:42:43.840 Lewis and Chesterton allude to this.

00:42:47.620 Paganism is our natural state.

00:42:49.500 We're in the world.

00:42:50.260 We don't have access to theology unless we are in civilization.

00:42:55.620 And so we know that the world is spiritual and immaterial.

00:43:01.080 Paganism recognizes this too, and it becomes superstitious.

00:43:04.320 So we ascribe metaphysical things to various spirits, and it's idolatrous, essentially.

00:43:10.280 Idolatry is the gravest of mortal sins because it's an attempt on God's divine majesty.

00:43:15.820 Everybody's got to serve somebody.

00:43:17.140 That's why paganism exists. 0.99

00:43:19.020 We have to ascribe things that we see in the world, the immaterial things and metaphysical things that we experience all the time.

00:43:26.240 We ascribe it to something.

00:43:27.420 But it's false religion. 0.98

00:43:29.680 It's superstition.

00:43:30.760 And it's ultimately unsatisfying.

00:43:33.160 There is a theology.

00:43:34.900 That's the study of God.

00:43:36.040 There is a true God.

00:43:37.640 And there is false religion. 0.95

00:43:38.980 So the reason we're harsh on it is that it is false religion. 0.97

00:43:41.860 And it's rustic.

00:43:43.280 I mean, there's a reason why it's the natural inclination of man.

00:43:46.640 It's because if you're wholly uneducated, then you'll fall for that. 0.99

00:43:50.520 That doesn't make you stupid. 0.99

00:43:51.840 It just means you haven't thought deeply about these things or read deeply about these things. 0.98

00:43:56.300 But over time, when one does those, you arrive at theology.

00:44:00.780 And there is revelation here as well.

00:44:03.640 There has been revealed truth.

00:44:05.760 And that's where you get Christianity. 0.85

00:44:07.640 So I encourage you to study that a little bit and to look into it and pray about that on National Prayer Day.

00:44:14.140 Because, as I alluded to in the question about fascism, when you react in politics in ways that are not grounded in true religion, it doesn't necessarily have awful results.

00:44:25.560 But it certainly can.

00:44:26.680 And it trends that way.

00:44:27.960 These things are very insidious.

00:44:29.780 The Bible is very clear.

00:44:31.080 God is very harsh when people worship pagan idols.

00:44:33.780 It doesn't turn out well.

00:44:34.860 They get lots of leprosors and, you know, storms and locusts and things like that.

00:44:39.300 So there's a reason for that.

00:44:40.640 It isn't just because the Bible is kooky.

00:44:42.860 It is, oh, how crazy that is.

00:44:44.300 No, it's really saying something about human nature and religion.

00:44:47.900 So I would think about that.

00:44:50.180 And, you know, and we'll all pray for you on National Prayer Day.

00:44:53.040 And you can pray for us from Spencer.

00:44:57.140 We'll do a couple more, then we'll have to wrap it up.

00:44:59.440 Oh, Grand Monsignor of the Covfefeites, Knowles.

00:45:03.160 Do you think elites, whether aristocratic or academic, are necessary for the preservation and transmission of culture?

00:45:09.320 If so, can we attribute the current degradation of Western culture to the egalitarian tendencies of democracy that have also removed from us the injustices of hereditary privilege?

00:45:21.020 I'll skip over that last part.

00:45:23.140 Yes, of course.

00:45:25.160 Aristocracy is a good thing. 1.00

00:45:27.040 Aristos means the best.

00:45:29.060 And krasi or kratia means power.

00:45:32.600 So, yes, you need the best to transmit culture because you need to transmit the best culture.

00:45:36.700 The trouble is, though, right now the people who would be our aristocrats aren't the best.

00:45:42.240 They are not the best of men.

00:45:44.240 Plato writes about the best of men.

00:45:46.000 And they're not.

00:45:46.840 They pretend that they are.

00:45:48.060 But we don't have an aristocracy because our culture is totally degraded.

00:45:50.980 So, yes, aristocracy is a wonderful thing.

00:45:53.500 But in an integrated culture such as ours, I don't give media elites or academic elites much credence.

00:46:00.880 That seems to be gone.

00:46:02.660 And you can find the remnant here or there that you can look toward.

00:46:06.240 But right now, probably democracy, which is the opposite of aristocracy, right?

00:46:11.800 Aristocracy is government by the best.

00:46:13.760 Democracy is government by the people.

00:46:15.800 Democracy is probably the worst form of government except for all of the others at our disposal right now.

00:46:20.180 Okay, last question and then a little sign-off for prayer day.

00:46:24.480 From Ivan, dear Michael, recently I started hanging out with an ex-girlfriend.

00:46:27.960 And while we only date for five months, we only dated for five months,

00:46:31.560 it was a tumultuous relationship that had many ups and downs,

00:46:34.220 but ultimately ended because I could not deal with her drinking problem.

00:46:37.480 She ended up kissing another dude at a party while drunk, which led to me dumping her.

00:46:42.000 Deep down, I sense she's a good person who may have, in fact, cared deeply for me,

00:46:45.640 but who's just going through a bit of a party phase, which I myself went through,

00:46:49.140 but have since left as it ultimately brought me unhappiness.

00:46:52.020 Am I making a mistake in trying to form a friendship with her in the hopes of one day

00:46:55.920 possibly rekindling our relationship?

00:46:58.180 Or should I spare myself the humiliation and part ways for good?

00:47:02.740 P.S. If Kanye ends up running for president in 2024,

00:47:06.100 would you appear in a commercial for him like you did for Cruz in 2016?

00:47:10.300 I've got some more commercials coming down the pike.

00:47:12.560 Look for that coming up soon.

00:47:13.740 And I won't comment yet on future President West.

00:47:19.080 Yeah, you should just dump her and not try to form another relationship with her.

00:47:22.880 That's a terrible idea.

00:47:23.880 Don't humiliate yourself.

00:47:25.260 She'd made out with another dude in front of you. 1.00

00:47:27.220 Are you out of your mind?

00:47:28.680 What's the matter with you?

00:47:29.840 I feel like Don Corleone talking to Johnny Fontaine.

00:47:32.660 What's the matter with you?

00:47:33.600 Get a hold of yourself.

00:47:34.400 You're going to act like a man. 0.91

00:47:35.380 No, don't do it.

00:47:35.940 If she comes groveling and begging and saying,

00:47:37.900 I'm sorry, I've totally changed my mind.

00:47:40.640 And, you know, I was so wrong.

00:47:42.640 And please, please forgive me.

00:47:43.920 Crying at your feet.

00:47:44.960 Then maybe consider it.

00:47:46.320 But don't go crawling back and say,

00:47:48.740 Please, do you like me?

00:47:49.780 Are you better now?

00:47:50.480 I understand.

00:47:51.220 No, no.

00:47:51.660 Are you kidding me?

00:47:52.300 No.

00:47:53.280 No.

00:47:53.800 I wouldn't even talk to her.

00:47:55.620 She comes begging. 1.00

00:47:56.400 Talk to her.

00:47:56.860 Otherwise, no.

00:47:58.000 Okay.

00:47:58.380 Before we get to that,

00:47:59.940 it's a real turn the other cheek for National Prayer Day.

00:48:03.360 Before we say goodbye,

00:48:04.440 there's one last thing I'd like to do.

00:48:06.320 Because it's the National Day of Prayer,

00:48:07.820 I would like to remind us of the baptism of America,

00:48:12.600 one of the early blessings to America,

00:48:15.500 which came from Governor John Winthrop in 1630.

00:48:18.700 It was written aboard the Arabella

00:48:19.840 that came over to what would become the United States in 1630,

00:48:25.620 a model of Christian charity.

00:48:26.800 This used to be required reading everywhere.

00:48:28.640 Now it's probably banned in schools.

00:48:31.120 But this is an essential American foundational text,

00:48:34.160 so we can read it before we say goodbye.

00:48:36.400 It's very long.

00:48:37.500 You should read the whole thing.

00:48:38.740 Here are the big quotes that are always pulled out.

00:48:41.420 Governor Winthrop.

00:48:42.780 For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill.

00:48:46.940 The eyes of all people are upon us,

00:48:48.620 so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken,

00:48:52.980 and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us,

00:48:55.800 we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

00:48:59.480 But if our hearts shall turn away,

00:49:01.740 so that we will not obey,

00:49:04.220 but shall be seduced and worship other gods,

00:49:07.160 our pleasure and prophets, and serve them,

00:49:10.100 it is propounded unto us this day,

00:49:12.380 we shall surely perish out of the good land,

00:49:15.540 whither we pass over this vast sea to possess it.

00:49:18.620 Therefore, let us choose life,

00:49:20.940 that we and our seed may live,

00:49:22.600 by obeying his voice and cleaving to him,

00:49:25.800 for he is our life and our prosperity.

00:49:28.560 Happy National Prayer Day.

00:49:29.740 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:49:30.520 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:49:31.540 I'll see you next week.

00:49:32.240 The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire Forward Publishing production.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 03, 2018

Ep. 150 - Thank You, Lord, That Obama Is No Longer President

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