The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1500 - Terrorist Leader Praises Leftist Students

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00:00:30.000 American college students who have spent the past five or six months,

00:00:34.020 really the past five or six decades,

00:00:36.060 protesting on behalf of leftist causes have just received a major endorsement.

00:00:41.480 I'm not talking about Noam Chomsky or Jesse Jackson.

00:00:44.660 I'm not even talking about Ibram Kendi or Robin DiAngelo.

00:00:48.700 Those guys are small potatoes.

00:00:49.760 I am talking about the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

00:00:58.140 The Ayatollah, who has ruled Iran with an iron fist since 1989 after coming to power alongside 0.96

00:01:04.540 his predecessor during the Islamic Revolution, has written something of a love letter to

00:01:09.740 America's campus leftists.

00:01:12.100 Dear university students in the United States of America, the Ayatollah writes,

00:01:17.620 You are standing on the right side of history.

00:01:21.960 You have now formed a branch of the resistance front and have begun an honorable struggle,

00:01:28.860 a jihad, if you will, in the face of your government's ruthless pressure, which openly

00:01:34.720 supports Zionists. 0.84

00:01:36.600 No sooner had the Ayatollah offered his words of encouragement than a new flag dropped.

00:01:43.400 You can see there, if you're just listening, I'll describe it to you.

00:01:46.380 There's the national emblem of Iran and the Takbir sitting atop the Pride Progress rainbow 1.00

00:01:53.140 flag.

00:01:53.740 It's a little bit of syncretism.

00:01:55.320 It is being reported that the Ayatollah's preferred pronouns are Khamenei, Er, they, and

00:02:01.780 them.

00:02:03.040 Khamenei, them, in the plural accusative. 0.98

00:02:05.980 It's a great troll. 0.88

00:02:07.000 It's really funny.

00:02:08.000 Very clever stuff from the Ayatollah.

00:02:09.820 But it's mostly funny because if these university students behaved in Iran as they regularly behave 0.99

00:02:16.940 in America, most of them would be arrested for multiple crimes and executed.

00:02:21.220 That is not in any way an exaggeration.

00:02:23.860 That would give a whole new meaning to college kids getting stoned.

00:02:29.200 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:29.840 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:30.600 Welcome back to the show.

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00:04:19.060 I love the Ayatollah story so much.

00:04:21.820 It's just, we would like to remind you all that trans rights are human rights.

00:04:28.620 And death to America, inshallah, Allahu Akbar. 0.97

00:04:33.700 Also, we would please request that you use our preferred pronouns. 0.61

00:04:38.740 And do not assume that gender is a biological reality.

00:04:46.860 Oh, la, la, la, la, la.

00:04:47.880 Okay, all right, that's enough.

00:04:49.120 Speaking of tyrants punishing people, New York judge, Mershon, has, as of yesterday evening,

00:04:58.880 dismissed the jury.

00:04:59.800 So they hadn't come to a verdict right away after the final day of closing arguments.

00:05:04.480 Mershon was trying to get the jury to come to a verdict, and he seemed to kind of stretch

00:05:12.620 the rules a little bit.

00:05:14.940 Usually, I'm no legal scholar, but usually it seems to me when juries have to come to a

00:05:20.740 conclusion about whether a defendant is guilty or not, usually they have to, at the very least,

00:05:26.000 agree on what crime he committed.

00:05:27.960 But Judge Mershon, this liberal hack in New York, said, actually, that's not necessary

00:05:34.160 in this case.

00:05:35.300 Judge Mershon, according to reports, again, we don't have a camera in the courtroom, but

00:05:39.260 according to reports, he told the jurors they do not have to unanimously agree on what crime

00:05:45.980 Trump actually committed.

00:05:47.500 So they could say, okay, four jurors think he committed this crime in this way, and another

00:05:55.740 four jurors think, actually, no, he didn't commit that crime in that way, but he committed

00:05:59.400 this other kind of crime in this other way.

00:06:01.240 And then another four jurors could say he jaywalked or something, I don't know.

00:06:04.260 But because all 12 agree that the man did something, they can convict the former president,

00:06:11.100 current Republican nominee for president, and put him in an orange jumpsuit and imprison

00:06:14.740 him before the election, that according to Judge Mershon.

00:06:18.980 Now, I had to assume I was misinterpreting what was going on here, because I didn't go

00:06:26.800 to law school, I've never been a prosecutor, so I thought, no, obviously I'm missing something. 1.00

00:06:32.360 This is so stupid and insane and corrupt, there's no way this is real. 0.99

00:06:37.460 But then I turned to someone who actually does know a thing about prosecutions, including 1.00

00:06:42.040 in the Southern District of New York, that would be Andy McCarthy, who was former chief

00:06:47.740 assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York.

00:06:50.620 Here was Mr. McCarthy's take on the judge's instructions.

00:06:55.660 It's really outrageous, because in a normal criminal case, every statutory crime has what

00:07:03.080 we call elements of the offense.

00:07:05.420 Like in a bank robbery case, it's, you know, you have to rob, it's got to be a financial

00:07:09.940 institution, you have to show intent.

00:07:11.940 Those are the things the jury has to agree on unanimously, that they were proved beyond

00:07:17.820 a reasonable doubt.

00:07:19.120 Here, what we're doing is taking the element that actually makes this a felony, because

00:07:25.160 remember, falsification of records is normally a misdemeanor in New York.

00:07:29.180 What makes it a felony is that you're concealing or committing another crime.

00:07:34.180 And here, the judge is telling them they don't have to agree about what the other crime is

00:07:39.360 under circumstances where that not only is what makes this a felony, what makes it a four-year

00:07:46.000 potential prison penalty rather than a year or less, but it's also what gets us into the

00:07:52.180 courtroom.

00:07:52.700 Because if this had been a misdemeanor, the time to bring this case would have lapsed in

00:07:57.960 2019.

00:07:58.640 So the only reason they're still able to bring this case is because it's a felony, allegedly,

00:08:04.360 and yet now the judge is saying, you know, you don't have to agree on what the felony

00:08:08.140 is.

00:08:09.740 So Andy McCarthy's saying, no, not only is it as bad as you think it is, it's actually

00:08:14.460 worse.

00:08:16.460 Because the judge is playing a little bit of a shell game here.

00:08:21.280 The judge is saying, it almost reminds me of that Obamacare decision.

00:08:25.060 And remember, the Obamacare decision hinged on whether or not the Obamacare penalty was

00:08:30.340 a penalty or a tax.

00:08:32.560 If you didn't purchase health insurance from a private company, then you could be penalized

00:08:37.440 under Obamacare.

00:08:38.880 But if it was a tax, the court wasn't able to hear the case.

00:08:45.120 If it was a penalty, it undermined the case.

00:08:48.540 So they were kind of caught between a rock and a hard place.

00:08:50.660 And it seems the same thing here, saying, no, no, you don't need to agree that it's

00:08:55.820 a felony.

00:08:56.840 I mean, if it's not a felony, we don't even have the right to hear this case.

00:09:00.440 But you don't have to agree.

00:09:01.420 Just agree that Trump is a bad guy.

00:09:03.940 If you all can agree that Trump is in any way a bad guy, then we can put him in prison.

00:09:09.680 Now, another former federal prosecutor, this would be Niyama Rahmani, says, quote, an outright

00:09:16.320 acquittal is unlikely, meaning Trump is likely to be convicted.

00:09:22.060 But a hung jury is very possible, at least, given the political nature of the case.

00:09:28.160 And even convictions on misdemeanors would be a victory for the former president, for

00:09:31.340 the exact reasons that Andy McCarthy just laid out.

00:09:36.060 If he's convicted on a misdemeanor, he's going to appeal it.

00:09:38.660 And they're going to say, well, they had no right to even bring this case.

00:09:40.760 So forget about it.

00:09:42.640 And they'll probably say forget about it because this is a case being tried in New York.

00:09:45.460 The big takeaway is that the fix is in.

00:09:48.360 They keep changing the rules.

00:09:50.580 They keep moving the goalposts. 0.96

00:09:53.300 They tell the jurors they don't even need to agree on what the freaking crime is. 0.92

00:09:58.180 You just have to get Trump. 0.97

00:10:00.600 And we're going to bring a porn star in to testify, even though she really has no information

00:10:04.400 that's relevant to the case. 0.98

00:10:05.580 And we're going to bring some crook rat lawyer in, Trump's old fixer, who has admitted to 0.89

00:10:10.800 committing crimes that are worse than the crimes that Trump is being accused of. 0.99

00:10:14.720 And Cohen, Michael Cohen, the rat, hasn't even been a prosecutor for those crimes. 0.90

00:10:19.420 Doesn't matter. 0.95

00:10:20.180 We're going to make a big show, big circus here.

00:10:22.680 We're going to invite the Biden campaign to hold a big press conference outside.

00:10:28.040 They're going to bring Robert De Niro for some reason, probably because they couldn't get

00:10:30.720 anybody better.

00:10:31.900 It's going to be a circus because this really has nothing to do with the law or justice.

00:10:36.420 This is a political prosecution to get Trump.

00:10:40.080 So what are the odds that he gets acquitted?

00:10:44.500 Seems relatively low.

00:10:46.560 The verdict is coming out any minute now.

00:10:49.900 We're speaking in the morning.

00:10:52.080 So by the time you're listening to this, the information might be out of date.

00:10:56.680 But I think this is still actually relevant and worth talking about.

00:11:00.220 Who is on this jury?

00:11:02.020 The New York Times did a little bit of a expose on the jurors, not with names or anything.

00:11:09.380 You know, you don't want to dox these guys.

00:11:11.340 But juror number one works in sales, lives in West Harlem, says he gets his news from

00:11:17.240 The New York Times and watches Fox News and MSNBC.

00:11:19.720 There's no way that guy is going to vote to acquit Donald Trump.

00:11:23.300 Because even though they slipped the Fox News in there to seem balanced, if you read The New

00:11:26.760 York Times, if you turn on MSNBC, you're a huge lib, you're going to convict Trump.

00:11:31.620 So that guy's voting to convict.

00:11:34.140 Also, because this trial is not really about a crime.

00:11:36.000 It's just about whether or not you like Trump or not.

00:11:38.720 And also, the reason we don't prosecute presidents generally is because everyone has a strong

00:11:43.240 political opinion of that person.

00:11:44.720 So that's always going to cloud their judgment, even if there were a real crime being alleged.

00:11:48.920 Juror number two works in finance, lives in Hell's Kitchen.

00:11:52.960 He likes hiking and music.

00:11:54.820 He follows Michael Cohen on social media.

00:11:58.720 Also, Kellyanne Conway, Trump's former campaign manager, says Trump's done some good for the

00:12:05.320 country.

00:12:05.760 It goes both ways.

00:12:06.600 Okay, maybe.

00:12:07.780 Maybe that guy is the secret conservative.

00:12:09.980 I don't know.

00:12:10.200 Maybe he could vote to acquit.

00:12:11.760 Juror number three lives and works in Chelsea, reads The New York Times, finds articles on

00:12:16.600 Google.

00:12:16.940 Okay, that person definitely voting to convict.

00:12:20.140 Juror number four, engineer from the West Village.

00:12:24.820 Obviously going to vote to convict.

00:12:27.120 You could have stopped at West Village, which we will.

00:12:30.560 Juror number five works in education and is from Harlem.

00:12:35.460 So immediately you would think this person's going to vote to convict.

00:12:39.140 However, she says she appreciates Mr. Trump's candor.

00:12:42.040 President Trump speaks his mind.

00:12:43.140 I would rather that in a person than someone who's in office and you don't know what they're

00:12:46.180 doing behind the scenes.

00:12:46.800 And so this might be the kind of person, sure, education, liberal field, West Harlem, or

00:12:51.560 regular Harlem, pretty liberal place.

00:12:54.040 But this might be the kind of South Bronx resident who goes to the Trump rally.

00:12:59.420 Maybe there's a chance that person votes to acquit.

00:13:03.160 Another person works in technology, lives in Chelsea, reads The New York Times, guaranteed

00:13:06.820 convict.

00:13:07.880 Juror number seven, works in legal field, lives on the Upper East Side, says he had political

00:13:17.320 views as to the Trump presidency, and he agreed with some policies, disagreed with others.

00:13:22.300 Okay, he might, maybe he'd acquit.

00:13:23.860 If you don't just outright say you hate Trump, maybe you'd vote to acquit.

00:13:26.960 Juror eight, Upper East Side, works in finance, reads The Journal, Wall Street Journal, enjoys

00:13:31.740 skiing and yoga, guaranteed convict.

00:13:34.680 Yoga?

00:13:35.060 Are you kidding?

00:13:35.400 No person who's ever done yoga is going to vote for Donald Trump.

00:13:39.140 Juror number nine, works in education, is from the Upper East Side, says Trump, he was

00:13:44.680 our president, everyone knows who he is, everyone was talking about politics, guaranteed convict.

00:13:48.580 Saying, yeah, we all have thoughts on Trump, guaranteed to convict.

00:13:51.540 Juror 10, lives in Murray Hill, on the East Side of New York, says he doesn't follow news,

00:13:58.280 but if anything, it's The New York Times, guaranteed convict.

00:14:00.620 Juror 11, product manager, lives in Upper Manhattan, says,

00:14:05.320 I don't like Trump's persona, how he presents himself in public, guaranteed convict.

00:14:10.060 Juror 12, works in healthcare, Upper East Side, says she likes live music and hiking, listens

00:14:16.320 to religious podcasts.

00:14:17.240 So you'd say healthcare, Upper East Side, probably, probably convict, but listens to

00:14:21.260 religious podcasts.

00:14:22.440 Okay, if you're religious, good chance you're going to vote for Trump.

00:14:28.000 You're going to like Trump.

00:14:29.120 So, okay, maybe you quit.

00:14:30.380 So what does that leave us with?

00:14:31.940 Three or four who might acquit, the rest convict.

00:14:35.020 But that's all you need.

00:14:35.700 If you get three or four who say, I'm not participating in this, I'm not sending the former president

00:14:39.040 to jail, the current Republican nominee, I don't want to do that.

00:14:44.120 Why am I talking about this case from the perspective of, do you like Trump, do you not

00:14:49.240 like Trump?

00:14:49.720 Why am I not talking about the merits of the case?

00:14:51.740 We've talked about the merits of the case earlier.

00:14:53.320 There are really no merits to the case.

00:14:54.960 But even if there were, that's not what this case is about.

00:14:58.500 That's not what prosecuting a former president and a current nominee is about.

00:15:03.120 The case is about a referendum on Trump's politics and whether our political order can

00:15:11.980 tolerate a right-winger and a conservative in the presidency.

00:15:14.820 The only question on this trial is whether or not a secret conservative snuck onto the jury.

00:15:22.320 That's the only question.

00:15:24.840 It doesn't matter what Stormy Daniels said or Michael Cohen said or any of that, or Judge

00:15:29.000 Marshawn, who's just salivating at the prospect of sending Trump into an orange jumpsuit.

00:15:33.460 The only question that matters is, did a secret conservative sneak on this jury and will that

00:15:39.080 person have the courage, it will require immense courage, to stand up and stop this travesty

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00:16:13.440 Now that we've figured that out, back to the discussion.

00:16:16.140 You know, my series, Michael And, is not your typical conversation.

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00:16:42.800 But I'll see guys that take you guys' advice, and sometimes, you know, it ruins their life.

00:16:50.160 What would men do if they begged you for advice?

00:16:52.540 Again, I'm not in the business of telling men what to do, you know.

00:16:56.060 But I think you kind of are.

00:16:57.000 Well, what percent of women do you think are marriageable? 1.00

00:16:59.320 I think you're squirting the issue.

00:17:00.840 People are not going to return to marriage until you make the institution more fair. 0.90

00:17:04.520 Well, what they'll do is they'll return.

00:17:05.720 It doesn't matter what you say.

00:17:06.900 It doesn't matter what I say.

00:17:08.000 You guys have been preaching marriage for a decade, and the rates of marriage have still

00:17:11.960 been going down.

00:17:12.800 Why?

00:17:13.320 Because the cost is too high, and the quality of women is too low. 1.00

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00:17:18.240 Do you want to get married?

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00:17:32.880 So go check out that long-form interview.

00:17:35.240 Speaking of juries, Joe Biden just took a little trip.

00:17:39.480 This was kind of interesting.

00:17:40.840 Joe Biden just took a little trip at about 8 p.m.

00:17:45.580 So it's pretty late into the evening to meet with his son, Beau Biden's widow.

00:17:51.340 Now, this woman, Hallie Biden, is not merely Beau Biden's widow.

00:17:57.760 She's also Hunter Biden's former mistress.

00:18:01.500 Hunter Biden obviously was married to another woman, but then decided to abandon.

00:18:05.240 His family and shack up with his former sister-in-law.

00:18:09.660 And Joe Biden just went there pretty late at night to meet with Hallie Biden

00:18:15.060 just days before the Hunter Biden gun trial is to take place.

00:18:22.480 Peter Doocy, one of the few conservatives in that White House briefing room,

00:18:26.400 just asked whether this might have something to do with witness tampering.

00:18:31.140 Why did President Biden have a private meeting with a witness who plans to testify in court against his son?

00:18:38.660 Can you say more?

00:18:41.140 Hallie Biden is a key government witness who allegedly disposed of a gun that Hunter is accused of buying illegally.

00:18:49.300 President Biden was at her house this week.

00:18:51.940 I think the American people should also be told the full breadth of this, not just a part of this question here.

00:18:58.960 As you all know, the president actually spoke to this yesterday during his memorial,

00:19:05.320 I think impactful, powerful memorial day address, where he talked about the passing, the anniversary,

00:19:12.120 the ninth anniversary of the passing of his son.

00:19:15.300 And he visited her as that anniversary is approaching.

00:19:19.720 He visited her days before the anniversary of the passing of his son.

00:19:23.820 And she is family.

00:19:26.240 She was married, obviously, to his late son.

00:19:29.060 And I think that is something also to mention as you're asking your question to me.

00:19:33.740 So they did not talk about her testimony?

00:19:36.000 This was not about that.

00:19:37.420 This was about the ninth anniversary of the passing of his son.

00:19:42.860 That is upcoming in days.

00:19:45.280 Peter.

00:19:45.640 How dare you, Peter, raise the question of whether or not Joe Biden was witness tampering

00:19:52.320 days before his son's gun trial when the woman that he went to see allegedly helped Hunter Biden commit that crime?

00:19:59.660 How dare you?

00:20:00.540 Because Joe Biden's other son died.

00:20:03.520 How dare you?

00:20:04.680 Yeah, it's very sad that Joe Biden's other son died.

00:20:06.560 That is a very sad thing.

00:20:08.520 And it's very sad that that woman lost her husband.

00:20:11.140 And it's very sad that Hunter Biden abandoned his family and began an affair with his brother's widow.

00:20:17.940 And it's but all that sad stuff is not really what's at issue here.

00:20:23.220 What's at issue is whether or not Joe Biden is witness tampering before finally we're getting a trial of Hunter Biden,

00:20:32.020 who has committed all sorts of crimes very, very publicly.

00:20:34.280 We've known about for years.

00:20:35.300 And this corrupt DOJ at the corrupt Biden administration has slow walked the prosecution,

00:20:41.680 tried to give Hunter Biden a sweetheart plea deal so he wouldn't have to face any consequences whatsoever for his crimes

00:20:47.600 and for peddling American influence for using his father's name to enrich the Biden family to sell American state influence overseas.

00:20:55.220 What's what's what's of interest here is whether or not Joe Biden himself,

00:21:03.840 the president of the United States, is doing the exact sort of thing that the liberals are accusing Trump of doing.

00:21:10.120 Witness tampering.

00:21:11.980 And Karine Jean-Pierre has nothing.

00:21:14.320 So she just stands on Beau Biden's grave is what she does.

00:21:17.860 She said, how dare you?

00:21:18.940 How dare you raise any question about this?

00:21:20.900 Beau Biden died.

00:21:22.200 It's very sad that Beau Biden died.

00:21:23.560 Did they talk about the trial?

00:21:27.660 It wasn't about the trial.

00:21:29.580 I didn't ask if if the visit was about the trial.

00:21:32.800 What Peter Doocy asked is, did they talk about the trial?

00:21:37.060 Did they talk about Hunter Biden's crimes?

00:21:40.060 Did they talk about how Haley Biden might have helped Hunter Biden commit those crimes,

00:21:43.480 which she's going to be asked to testify about in court? 0.95

00:21:46.800 Did they at all talk about that?

00:21:50.020 How dare you?

00:21:51.140 How dare you?

00:21:52.200 How dare you?

00:21:52.860 How dare you?

00:21:53.560 How dare you people? 1.00

00:21:56.640 You freaking Democrats. 1.00

00:22:00.020 Pardon my French. 1.00

00:22:01.100 It's not quite French.

00:22:01.820 I'm using words that are only slightly vulgar today.

00:22:03.740 It's like a, I don't know what Mediterranean country that would be, Portuguese or Spanish or something.

00:22:09.060 But I'm astounded by it, by how brazen this is.

00:22:14.580 I shouldn't be any longer because this is what the liberals always do.

00:22:18.540 But everything they accuse Trump of doing, they have done themselves.

00:22:23.320 They accuse Trump of colluding with the Russians.

00:22:25.140 They colluded with the Russians to put together the Steele dossier to frame Trump.

00:22:28.960 They accuse Trump of turning the government against his political enemies.

00:22:32.740 They turn the government against their political enemies for many years now, going back to the IRS scandal under Barack Obama.

00:22:38.780 And then the spying scandal on the Trump campaign under Barack Obama.

00:22:42.760 And then the total undermining of President Trump's administration through the liberal bureaucratic state.

00:22:51.060 Now, that same corrupt DOJ refusing to prosecute the Biden family or trying to slow walk it or trying to undermine that prosecution.

00:23:01.900 Witness tampering.

00:23:03.400 Everything they accuse the Republicans of doing, they have done themselves 10 times over.

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00:24:15.640 Speaking of crackheads, do you remember some years ago, this was about two or three years ago now, there was a news story that the Biden administration was supplying pipes to drug addicts.

00:24:31.160 And conservatives pointed out that this was a bad idea, that as part of the public health initiatives of the Biden administration, they were giving drug paraphernalia to drug addicts.

00:24:43.880 We said, maybe that's not a good idea.

00:24:45.400 And what did we hear?

00:24:47.860 We were told that this was total fake news.

00:24:53.760 Here's an article from 2022, Washington Post.

00:24:56.860 No, the federal government is not spending $30 million on crack pipes.

00:25:02.840 How many Pinocchios did they give it?

00:25:04.840 Let's see, was this one of their Pinocchio?

00:25:06.980 No, this was an even fuller, just a full article.

00:25:10.000 No, this is fake news, faux rage.

00:25:13.380 Their words, not mine, from conservatives.

00:25:17.900 Another article, CNN, fact check.

00:25:19.620 Biden admin is not funding crack pipes.

00:25:25.040 I mean, just dozens and dozens of these articles.

00:25:27.380 But now, let's go back to the Washington Post one day ago.

00:25:31.240 Fentanyl users get free smoking gear in some cities.

00:25:34.040 Now there's pushback.

00:25:34.740 No, the federal government isn't spending $30 million on crack pipes.

00:25:41.880 Yeah, fentanyl users are getting a bunch of pipes, and some people don't like that.

00:25:45.560 Now, I know what you're going to say.

00:25:48.940 I know, because you're very clever.

00:25:50.440 You're thinking, well, Michael, the way that they get around this is they're saying, look, in some cities, some city initiatives are providing these pipes to drug addicts.

00:26:02.160 But that's not necessarily the federal government, except it is.

00:26:05.900 It actually is.

00:26:07.520 So we have just one example.

00:26:10.920 This is from the CNN example.

00:26:13.180 They talk about one L.A. program giving out these pipes to drug addicts.

00:26:18.360 And they say that the drug addicts are getting the pipes from L.A. Community Health.

00:26:23.360 But that's just a local group.

00:26:24.400 It's not necessarily the federal government, right?

00:26:26.320 Except that L.A. Community Health gets money from the California Healthcare Foundation.

00:26:31.620 So then I just Googled.

00:26:32.400 I said, let's see how many degrees from Kevin Bacon we have to get here. 0.88

00:26:36.980 Let's just follow the money.

00:26:38.860 How quickly do we get back to the federal government?

00:26:40.940 Okay, L.A. Community Health gets money from the California Healthcare Foundation.

00:26:44.300 Google California Healthcare Foundation.

00:26:46.020 California Healthcare Foundation gets money from the federal government.

00:26:52.660 Like many entities that focus on the underserved, the 600-plus federally qualified healthcare centers, FQHCs, FQHC lookalikes, and nonprofit centers in the state can be particularly hard hit during an economic downturn.

00:27:05.480 And the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that recently enacted federal stimulus package recognizes community health centers' role and blah, blah, blah.

00:27:11.440 They give us a bunch of money.

00:27:12.200 Another conspiracy theory proven true.

00:27:16.880 We've said for years now that the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is about 6 to 12 months.

00:27:22.100 In this case, it took about two years to be totally proven right here.

00:27:27.140 But we are totally proven right.

00:27:28.620 Now, the liberals are providing pipes, not just to crackheads, to fentanyl addicts too.

00:27:35.000 Fentanyl, as poisonous a substance as has ever existed in America, responsible for as many deaths as any drug has ever been responsible for.

00:27:42.900 They're getting the pipes for the fentanyl too.

00:27:45.000 And it's not just coming from local little one-off centers.

00:27:48.260 A lot of these groups are being funded by the federal government.

00:27:54.540 The problem here is the libs have already moved on to another lie.

00:27:58.460 This is two years later.

00:28:00.520 So all the comedians who made fun of the conservatives for saying that the liberals were funding crack pipes and fentanyl pipes even for drug addicts.

00:28:09.880 So all those comedians, they made their jokes, and then they moved on.

00:28:12.660 And no one's going to follow up on this.

00:28:14.700 And the libs are going to keep doing it. 1.00

00:28:15.620 Now some people are pushing back.

00:28:17.020 We were pushing back two years ago when you lied to us and said it wasn't happening.

00:28:21.560 Doesn't matter.

00:28:22.780 They've moved on to the next lie.

00:28:24.360 And all the libs are going to make fun of us for pointing out their new lie. 1.00

00:28:27.740 And then two years from now when it doesn't matter anymore, that's when they can admit it.

00:28:31.820 Now speaking of drug-infested cities and liberal lies,

00:28:35.840 San Francisco just got caught in a very, very awkward situation.

00:28:41.460 San Francisco, in recent days, just very quietly took down a flag that had been hanging outside their Civic Center Plaza.

00:28:53.100 That flag would be the Pine Tree flag, the Appeal to Heaven flag that Justice Alito got in trouble for flying at his home.

00:28:59.360 I don't know really how we came to the point in America where a Supreme Court justice could be in trouble for flying a flag

00:29:08.640 that was one of the earliest American Revolutionary War flags that was put on ships commissioned by George Washington

00:29:14.440 that was designed by Washington's aide-de-camp that quotes John Locke.

00:29:20.700 Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, that's the worst part of the Pine Tree flag.

00:29:23.540 And that says, an appeal to heaven.

00:29:24.960 But that very same flag that the liberals told us was an insurrectionist emblem that called for the overthrow of the American Constitution

00:29:37.520 that was used by traitors and guys wearing horn hats and podium thieves.

00:29:41.540 That flag was hanging in the Civic Center, not even of some right-wing municipality, of San Francisco, the most liberal city in the country.

00:29:50.960 And after this non-traversy exploded with Alito, those San Francisco government officials looked around at each other and said,

00:29:56.220 uh, yikes, uh, there's a new memo out.

00:30:00.960 Apparently that classic American flag is evil now.

00:30:05.060 Can we, can someone just kind of take it down?

00:30:07.740 Ixnay on the appeal to Evan A.

00:30:10.720 So, because it's going to look really weird for us.

00:30:14.240 There are other flags up there.

00:30:16.440 There's a Gadsden flag, a don't tread on me flag, a Texas Lone Star flag.

00:30:21.760 Those are still up for now, though the libs have tried to, to attack the Gadsden flag, the yellow, you know, don't tread on me for a while too.

00:30:29.240 Those are still up there.

00:30:30.120 But now the appeal to Evan flag is down.

00:30:33.260 Because rewriting history creates very awkward moments.

00:30:39.260 But that's what the libs do. 1.00

00:30:40.660 The libs rewrite history because they recognize, it's funny to think that the libs who burn the American flag, who desecrate the American flag,

00:30:50.980 that the libs actually have understood a very important piece of political advice, which is you have to wrap yourself in the flag.

00:30:56.360 If you want to be successful politically, you can't attack your country.

00:31:01.880 You can't attack the body politic.

00:31:03.440 You don't attack the people who constitute the country.

00:31:06.680 You have to wrap yourself in that flag.

00:31:10.140 You have to say, no, I'm more American than apple pie.

00:31:12.840 I represent the will of the people.

00:31:14.540 That's how you have political effect in a republic.

00:31:18.280 And they do that.

00:31:19.360 The way they do that, because they can't really wrap themselves in the historic American flag, which symbolizes the historic American nation and our traditional way of life,

00:31:28.100 because they hate all of that and they want to overturn all of that.

00:31:30.980 The way that they do it is by rewriting history.

00:31:33.000 And they say, no, actually, our founding fathers, the government that they instituted absolutely demands that we allow perverts to read stories and dance for little toddlers at the library.

00:31:47.780 It demands it.

00:31:49.520 Which part of the Bill of Rights is that in?

00:31:51.840 I don't know, somewhere.

00:31:52.700 It's in Invisible Link, but it's there.

00:31:54.580 Declaration of Independence says we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all six-year-olds must be allowed to transition their gender.

00:32:00.260 That is the true meaning of American liberty.

00:32:03.640 Sure, some liberals just outright attack the founding fathers and they outright attack that America is evil and rotten.

00:32:11.660 But the successful ones, the ones who actually get stuff done in the direct political scene, I'm thinking of Barack Obama.

00:32:19.120 I'm thinking of Joe Biden.

00:32:20.620 I'm thinking of any of the really prominent, of Pete Buttigieg, even Kamala Harris.

00:32:25.720 The people who are the players in politics right now, they wrap themselves and it's like, America, we need to live up to our best ideals.

00:32:33.720 That means that you're going to give me a lot of money and I'm going to force you to buy a product from my friends in the healthcare industry.

00:32:40.680 That's what it means.

00:32:41.620 America, America's very highest shining ideals means that we're going to weaponize the IRS against our enemies.

00:32:47.240 There's no red America. 0.90

00:32:49.420 There's no blue America.

00:32:50.620 America, there's the Barack Obama's vision of America and that's all that really matters.

00:32:55.420 That's what they say.

00:32:56.680 And people buy it.

00:32:58.300 Because that makes you feel good.

00:33:00.540 So you have to rewrite history.

00:33:04.520 This is why Nike, this is why Colin Kaepernick, a left-wing activist, convinced Nike to take down the Betsy Ross flag.

00:33:11.360 They said, no, that American revolutionary flag, that's racist, that's evil, that's terrible.

00:33:18.240 No, no, that's not our highest ideals.

00:33:20.400 No, no, the appeal to heaven flag, it's not our highest ideals.

00:33:22.980 So what are they going to replace it with?

00:33:24.200 They're going to pretend that America was not founded on a conception of ordered liberty as it was.

00:33:30.060 They're going to say America was founded on licentiousness.

00:33:34.140 This is why they want to pretend that the pride flag is the natural evolution of American liberty. 0.66

00:33:40.100 So we've replaced the appeal to heaven flag with an appeal to hell.

00:33:43.580 That's how it goes.

00:33:44.900 Not great for the country, but very clever politics.

00:33:49.100 Now, speaking of deception, there's a survey out that says that nearly half of Zoomers live a double life online.

00:33:58.980 A survey of about 2,000 Americans split evenly by generation found that 46% of Gen Z feel that their personality online vastly differs from how they present themselves in the real world.

00:34:15.260 Numbers were lower for other generations.

00:34:17.920 27% of respondents across all generations report this feeling.

00:34:21.480 38% of millennials report this feeling, then it drops off even more for Gen X, 18%, then it drops off even more for baby boomers, 8%.

00:34:30.340 But 46% for the Zoomers.

00:34:33.820 My reaction to that is, is that all?

00:34:37.120 It's only half of Zoomers who feel they're living a double life online.

00:34:41.020 I'm surprised.

00:34:41.600 I think that number is way too low.

00:34:43.460 I bet the real number is higher.

00:34:44.400 However, if you look at online pornography, you are living a double life online.

00:34:52.220 Assuming that you don't present yourself as just a satyr and a pervert in public, you're living a double life.

00:34:57.920 If you make nasty comments on Twitter or any other kind of thread, any other kind of social media platform that you don't make to people's faces, you are living a double life online.

00:35:11.800 If you, I don't know, read certain material, watch certain videos that you would not cop to in real life, you're living a double life online.

00:35:23.860 Everyone lives a double life online.

00:35:26.760 The being online inclines you to leading a double life.

00:35:31.500 This is why the generation that grew up online with no memory before the internet is the most likely to say they're living a double life, to admit it.

00:35:40.020 And then the millennials, who I still do remember before we had the internet.

00:35:44.080 I remember before we had a computer, just barely, but I remember it.

00:35:47.980 They're a little bit less inclined.

00:35:49.240 Gen X, which grew up for a long time without a computer, without the internet, they're significantly less inclined.

00:35:54.220 The boomers, who didn't have the internet for much, if not most of their lives, only 8% say they live a double life.

00:35:59.680 But that's what the internet does.

00:36:01.160 And it's curious timing, this survey, because the Catholic Church is recognizing the sainthood of Carlo Acutis, who is this first millennial saint, is how he'll go down in history.

00:36:19.560 And he's considered a saint of the internet, because he used the internet to list all sorts of Eucharistic miracles and call people's attention to that.

00:36:30.020 It's a very, very beautiful thing.

00:36:31.300 The real technological moral problem of our age is how to stop the shocking technology of the internet from splitting people's personalities in two, from disintegrating the individual.

00:36:53.020 Because the internet leads to compartmentalization and to multiple personalities and a kind of schizophrenic existence.

00:37:01.980 And one of the great deceptions of the internet is that what you do online isn't real.

00:37:06.940 You know, Twitter isn't real would be an example of that, that kind of thought.

00:37:11.500 But it is real.

00:37:12.660 It is real, because it's really happening in time and space, and it's really forming your soul and your habits.

00:37:18.720 And it has moral consequence.

00:37:21.780 We pretend it's all virtual and fake, but it's not.

00:37:24.840 There are real people on every end of the internet.

00:37:30.580 If you feel that you've got that double life, recognize you are imperiling the one life that you actually have.

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00:38:24.260 My favorite comment yesterday is from Blake All One, who says, guy finds a genie's lamp.

00:38:30.400 Genie says, okay, you get three wishes.

00:38:31.980 Guy says, I want to be happier with more money.

00:38:34.860 I want world peace.

00:38:36.520 Genie says, okay, Trump is president.

00:38:39.000 Now, what are your other two wishes?

00:38:41.160 Kind of a cheap little joke there, but there's some truth to it.

00:38:46.020 There's a little bit of truth to that.

00:38:48.320 What kind of life do we want to lead?

00:38:51.060 Jerry Seinfeld has an answer, an answer that I love.

00:38:53.300 Jerry Seinfeld on the heels of his excellent commencement address at, where was that?

00:38:59.480 At Duke, I think.

00:39:01.160 Jerry Seinfeld comes out and he says he wants to bring back dominant masculinity.

00:39:07.440 As a man, can I say that?

00:39:10.340 Are you sure you are?

00:39:10.900 Are you?

00:39:12.440 I've always wanted to be.

00:39:13.800 I didn't ask your pronouns before we begin.

00:39:15.420 I've always wanted to be a real man.

00:39:17.000 I never made it.

00:39:18.580 But I really thought when I was in that era, again, it was JFK, it was Muhammad Ali, it was Sean Connery, Howard Cosell.

00:39:30.600 You can go all the way down there.

00:39:31.600 That's a real man.

00:39:33.300 I want to be like that someday.

00:39:36.520 Well, no.

00:39:37.580 I never really grew up.

00:39:38.800 I mean, you don't want to as a comedian because it's a childish pursuit.

00:39:46.040 But I miss a dominant masculinity.

00:39:52.380 Yeah, I get the toxic thing.

00:39:54.020 I get it.

00:39:54.540 I get it.

00:39:55.660 But still, I like a real man.

00:39:58.860 Jerry Seinfeld misses that old dominant masculinity.

00:40:03.620 And this clip reminded me of one of the great moments from The Sopranos when Tony Sopranos says the same thing.

00:40:10.580 Let me tell you something.

00:40:12.540 Nowadays, everybody's got to go to shrinks and counselors and go on Sally, Jesse, Raphael and talk about their problems.

00:40:19.540 Whatever happened to Gary Cooper, the strong, silent type?

00:40:25.020 That was an American.

00:40:26.680 He wasn't in touch with his feelings.

00:40:28.100 He just did what he had to do.

00:40:29.060 See, what they didn't know was once they got Gary Cooper in touch with his feelings, that they wouldn't be able to shut him up.

00:40:35.160 And then it's dysfunction this and dysfunction that and dysfunction my fun goal.

00:40:39.880 Dysfunction this, dysfunction that.

00:40:41.300 We're getting some really great vulgar Italian slang this week.

00:40:45.380 We got the Vaffangul, which I assume some of you, at least from the tri-state area, have heard before.

00:40:50.620 Kind of a naughty imperative in Italian-American slang, which comes from an Italian phrase.

00:40:57.380 And then also frociagine from the Holy Father.

00:41:00.240 You know, c'è già troppa frociagine.

00:41:03.920 But the point that Tony Soprano and that Jerry Seinfeld and that the Holy Father have made, they're all true.

00:41:11.060 But Tony Soprano and Jerry Seinfeld are making the same point.

00:41:16.080 We miss that.

00:41:17.880 We miss a dominant masculinity. 0.86

00:41:22.060 A good, healthy masculinity.

00:41:24.420 We miss that.

00:41:25.040 And it's not just me, and it's not just Seinfeld, and it's not just Tony Soprano.

00:41:29.060 You miss it, too.

00:41:30.020 And it's not just conservatives, and it's not just moderates.

00:41:33.140 Liberals miss.

00:41:33.780 Everyone misses that.

00:41:34.560 You remember that video of the girl who said she was a lesbian, but then she went out on one date with one finance bro who was wearing, you know, a Patagonia fleece and bought her one drink.

00:41:43.860 And all of a sudden, she's gaga. 0.97

00:41:45.480 You know, she's ready to throw on a Donna Reed dress and start baking cookies. 1.00

00:41:50.140 Everyone misses that.

00:41:51.240 Why?

00:41:53.820 What most people think is the reason that we miss that dominant masculinity is because weakness is dangerous, because weakness imperils us.

00:42:01.380 It imperils our institutions.

00:42:02.640 It imperils our families.

00:42:03.760 It imperils our whole society.

00:42:04.840 That is true in part.

00:42:06.420 The other reason, though, that people miss that right now, why everyone misses that right now, is, ironically, because we like a little diversity.

00:42:17.340 The libs say they love diversity.

00:42:18.620 Obviously, they do not like very much diversity.

00:42:21.800 They not only don't like diversity of opinion, they don't like diversity of behavior.

00:42:26.020 They don't like, they like maybe diversity of skin color. 0.99

00:42:30.420 Not even that, though, because they hate white people. 0.97

00:42:33.180 They might like diversity of sex and gender, but not really, because they don't like normal guys. 0.99

00:42:36.560 So they don't like that.

00:42:38.000 But I do like diversity.

00:42:39.440 I like variety.

00:42:40.080 I think variety is the spice of life.

00:42:41.400 And the reason that we need a little diversity and the reason that we need a little variety is because this is a fallen world, and you're not all that.

00:42:50.280 You don't have everything that you need for a totally flourishing life.

00:42:58.400 This is in part a consequence of the fall of man and the fact that our nature is broken, and so we all have foibles, and we all have strengths, and we all have weaknesses, some more than others.

00:43:06.920 But this is also a fact of man's nature as a social animal.

00:43:12.300 This is why even in the Garden of Eden, when God makes Adam, Adam gets a little lonely, and it's not right for Adam to be alone, and so God makes Eve, pulls Eve out of his rib.

00:43:24.760 This is the Garden of Eden.

00:43:26.220 Things are perfect there.

00:43:27.560 And even in perfection, before the fall of Adam, man is still a social creature.

00:43:34.040 Man still gets kind of lonely when he's alone.

00:43:36.920 So, we need a little diversity.

00:43:40.440 We need a little complementarity.

00:43:43.220 The liberal idea, classical, liberal, progressive liberal, all the liberalisms in between, is basically that we're all that.

00:43:54.160 We're all that in a bag of potato chips.

00:43:55.820 You know, I don't need anybody else.

00:43:57.300 I don't need anything.

00:43:58.940 But we do, and we sense when we're missing something.

00:44:01.220 Our culture right now is extraordinarily effeminate. 0.87

00:44:03.580 The women are not feminine, and the men are extremely effeminate. 0.82

00:44:08.860 That's the worst possible combination.

00:44:11.940 And so, we're longing for a Gary Cooper.

00:44:14.720 This is why a politics that's got a little bit more machismo to it is attractive to a lot of people.

00:44:19.800 And that's why the days of the nice, sort of, you know, quiet wallflower presidential nominee, they're kind of over.

00:44:30.200 At least for the time being.

00:44:31.680 Now we want a big, boisterous guy who's just going to tell you what it is.

00:44:35.360 Gary Cooper doesn't go to shrinks.

00:44:37.720 He doesn't talk about his feelings.

00:44:40.320 You got to talk about this.

00:44:42.000 Sensitivity, that.

00:44:42.780 Sensitivity, that.

00:44:43.500 It's not fun, cool sensitivity.

00:44:44.520 Sensitivity.

00:44:46.580 Now, speaking of men in the old days, very old men, Joe Biden has just come out and reminded everyone of one of his favorite lies, which is that back in the 60s, Joe Biden, he was practically Martin Luther King.

00:45:00.620 Like I said, in 1969, I got involved deeply in the civil rights movement in 19...

00:45:08.280 And we, those of you who are Pennsylvanians, know that Delaware used to be a slave state and a southern state in its attitudes.

00:45:15.720 I mean, for real.

00:45:16.820 We have the eighth largest black population as a percent of the population of any state in the nation.

00:45:21.660 And one of the things that amazed me was how the community stepped up when you gave it a shot.

00:45:29.560 I remember back in the day when I was there writing the I Have a Dream speech for Martin Luther King.

00:45:37.380 I remember how he said, he turned to me, he said, Joe, I might not live much longer, but you need to carry on the torch.

00:45:45.580 You're the greatest civil rights leader in the whole world.

00:45:49.880 And Corn Pop and I are very proud of you, Joe.

00:45:52.200 That's basically what Joe is saying.

00:45:54.040 It has as much truth value as the story that Joe is spinning because this never happened.

00:45:58.480 And Joe was not involved in the civil rights movement really in any way.

00:46:02.780 You don't need to take my word for it.

00:46:04.100 Even the liberal outlets have admitted this is totally made up.

00:46:08.320 And yet he repeats it. 0.92

00:46:09.620 He repeats it not only because he's senile, but he repeats it because Joe Biden is a cynic. 0.65

00:46:14.580 He doesn't really care about the difference between truth and lies.

00:46:17.640 And because of habituating himself to this cynicism for many decades, he no longer really can tell the difference between truth and falsehood.

00:46:25.980 What's interesting here is not that he lied, which he's done many times and he's been called out for it many times.

00:46:30.760 He's going to keep doing it.

00:46:31.500 What's interesting is why he lied.

00:46:36.200 He lied because the civil rights movement in the modern imagination is the new founding of America.

00:46:43.260 And the Civil Rights Act is the new constitution for America.

00:46:47.400 Christopher Caldwell at the Claremont Institute wrote an excellent book on this, Age of Entitlement, maybe four or five years ago.

00:46:55.660 Worth reading.

00:46:56.420 That's what's interesting.

00:46:59.060 We talk about how the liberals grab hold of history, rewrite history, transform history.

00:47:04.320 This is a place where they've really done it very effectively.

00:47:07.560 If you want to be elected, if you want to be, at least right now, 2024 in politics, you need to grab hold of the legacy of civil rights.

00:47:17.880 In the way that in earlier periods in American history, you would have to grab hold of the legacy of the American Revolution.

00:47:22.740 In the way that perhaps in those earlier periods, you would grab hold of the legacy of the Mayflower.

00:47:28.300 Because those were considered to be the founding moments of America.

00:47:31.700 That is not true in recent years.

00:47:33.420 As American history has been revised and twisted, the true founding, the good founding of America.

00:47:40.260 We even skipped over Abraham Lincoln, the new founding of freedom.

00:47:43.280 Forget about Lincoln.

00:47:43.920 Lincoln's passé now too.

00:47:45.240 The new founding is the 1960s, the civil rights movement.

00:47:48.960 Washington is replaced by Martin Luther King.

00:47:50.940 The Constitution is replaced by the Civil Rights Act.

00:47:53.560 And so Joe Biden, for all of his cynicism and forgetfulness here, he's recognizing a real political fact in America.

00:48:01.960 Which is, he's making himself another kind of founding father.

00:48:06.600 He's probably old enough to have known Thomas Jefferson.

00:48:09.180 But it's more politically potent today to pretend to have known Martin Luther King.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 30, 2024

Ep. 1500 - Terrorist Leader Praises Leftist Students

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