The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1524 - Soros-Backed Group Spends $10M To Destroy SCOTUS

00:00:00.000 Democrats have suffered some major setbacks since their presidential nominee

00:00:03.580 suffered rigor mortis on national television, but they've got a new strategy.

00:00:08.640 Destroy the Supreme Court. According to fawning reporting from Politico's Heidi Prezibola,

00:00:15.800 the liberal Soros-funded activist group Demand Justice will now spend $10 million

00:00:21.560 attacking the Supreme Court for doing its job. If the name Heidi Prezibola, I'm probably

00:00:28.300 mispronouncing that, sounds familiar. It is because she was featured on this show not long ago,

00:00:33.500 demanding that Christians shut up and stay out of the political process. 0.96

00:00:37.300 And the one thing that unites all of them, because there's many different groups orbiting Trump,

00:00:40.860 but the thing that unites them as Christian nationalists, not Christians, by the way,

00:00:46.020 because Christian nationalists is very different, is that they believe that our rights as Americans,

00:00:50.960 as all human beings, don't come from any earthly authority. They don't come from Congress,

00:00:55.840 they don't come from the Supreme Court, they come from God.

00:00:59.720 That left-wing activist masquerading as a reporter has obviously never read the Declaration of

00:01:05.380 Independence or the Bible, or one suspects any serious political philosophy of any kind.

00:01:10.760 And she has outlined in what is basically a press release how the money is going to be spent to

00:01:17.080 destroy the Supreme Court. Democrats will, in her words, conduct, quote, opposition research on

00:01:22.580 potential Supreme Court picks and, quote, work to mobilize key constituencies affected by the court's

00:01:28.260 decisions. That last phrase is particularly interesting because Supreme Court justices are not

00:01:34.960 elected. They're appointed, and they're appointed for life, so they're not even reappointed.

00:01:40.300 They're just, they're there. Mobilizing key constituencies could not serve any legal or

00:01:47.200 constitutional purpose. All it can mean is encouraging threats against the court, the kind

00:01:53.380 we saw in the lead-up to the Dobbs decision, when leftists illegally protested outside the homes of

00:01:57.780 conservative justices, one of whom was nearly assassinated, and another one of whom was forced

00:02:02.160 to flee his home. These are not fringe groups or activists. This is a well-funded mainstream liberal

00:02:07.600 group promoted by a national reporter for Politico. This is not an idle complaint. It is a declaration

00:02:14.380 of war against a co-equal branch of government, the sort of thing one might call an insurrection

00:02:20.820 and an existential threat to our democracy. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:44.380 Welcome back to the show. A black Olympian runner has just declared through tears that she is so

00:02:52.960 happy that she was picked for the Olympics because she's now making a way for everyone who looks like 0.99

00:02:57.880 her. So I dug into some of the numbers on how rare black runners are in the Olympics, and the results

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00:03:45.340 home. We'll blitz through the latest round of bad polls for Biden because it's very newsworthy,

00:03:53.200 but then it tells you about all the machinations. The political ground right now is moving very,

00:03:58.940 very quickly under our feet, and nobody really knows what's going to happen. But the reason that

00:04:04.020 the ground is moving is because Biden showed himself to be half a dead guy during that national

00:04:08.060 debate, and the polls are reflecting that. So these are some of the earliest polls that have

00:04:11.500 come out after the presidential debate. USA Today Suffolk University poll shows 41% of Democrat voters

00:04:18.200 want Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 race. Now, okay, that's the headline that everyone's reporting.

00:04:24.020 However, the flip side of that is 51% of Democrats want him to remain on the ticket.

00:04:29.700 So it's not good for a guy who's now, who's an incumbent and who's supposed to be the nominee

00:04:36.240 of the party. 51% seems low, but it's a bare majority. And so Democrats, if you remove Biden now,

00:04:43.500 that is a threat to our democracy. How dare you undermine our sacred, beautiful democracy?

00:04:50.880 You can't. He's your nominee. No take backs. You got to stick with him. The poll also shows

00:04:57.920 only 28% of Biden's supporters said that he won the debate. You know, usually after these things,

00:05:04.720 a guy could show up on stage, start speaking gibberish, and bang his head against the podium.

00:05:10.320 His partisans will still say he won the debate. Well, here, Biden's performance was so bad,

00:05:15.120 just a little over a quarter of his own supporters say he won the debate.

00:05:18.600 And then when you look at independents, 64% of independent voters want Biden replaced on the

00:05:25.500 ballot. So these are people who theoretically could vote for Biden. You know, not the hard

00:05:29.780 partisan Republicans, you're never going to win. Not the hard partisan Democrats, you're never going

00:05:33.080 to lose. It's those independents that both parties are going to fight over. A clear majority of them

00:05:38.380 say they want Biden gone. There's another poll, CBS News, YouGov shows 72% of registered voters

00:05:44.300 believe that Joe Biden does not have the mental and cognitive health to serve as president. 0.86

00:05:48.920 Almost three quarters of registered voters think that this man's brain has turned to mush,

00:05:54.640 and he can't even do the job today of being president, much less get a second term.

00:05:59.800 Why that matters is not that people recognize Biden's in decline. Some of us have pointed that

00:06:05.740 out for some years now. It's the movement, because they took this same poll back on June 9th.

00:06:11.640 Only 65% of registered voters said that Biden was senile and not fit to be president.

00:06:16.100 So it's a huge number too. But then you see a spike like that, a 7% spike that's more than

00:06:21.980 a 10% spike over where it had been. Yikes. That's not good news. I looked at the New York

00:06:29.000 Times website yesterday, something I tried rarely to do. And four out of the five top op-eds on the

00:06:35.660 website were calling on Biden to drop out. And one of the op-eds was still kind of touching on

00:06:43.220 the Biden issue, but it wasn't explicitly calling on him to drop out of the race. But four out of five

00:06:46.860 of the op-eds on the New York Times, you know, the house organ of the liberal establishment,

00:06:53.380 brutal news. Meanwhile, you get Carl Bernstein, who is one of the journalists. It was Woodward and

00:06:58.720 Bernstein to take down Richard Nixon. It was really just a deep state coup to take down Richard Nixon,

00:07:03.740 but that's a conversation for another time. Bernstein, you know, goes on. And for the last 50

00:07:08.740 years, his job has been to go on cable news and whoever the president is, usually a Republican,

00:07:14.700 say, this is President so-and-so's Watergate moment. He's brought on, trotted on by the liberal

00:07:22.420 establishment. He has carried water for the liberal establishment since the 1970s. And even Carl

00:07:29.380 Bernstein is coming out here and saying, actually, my sources say Biden is even worse than you think.

00:07:37.100 Well, these are people, several of them, who are very close to President Biden, who love him,

00:07:42.480 have supported him, have been among them, or some people who have raised a lot of money for him.

00:07:48.140 And they are adamant that what we saw the other night, the Joe Biden we saw, is not a one-off,

00:07:57.340 that there have been 15, 20 occasions in the last year and a half when the president has appeared

00:08:04.240 somewhat as he did in that horror show that we witnessed.

00:08:09.620 Okay. Fifteen times at least in the past year that Carl Bernstein, intrepid reporter Carl Bernstein's

00:08:17.880 sources say he appeared just as bad. My question is, where was that reporting before the debate?

00:08:24.560 Where were all these intrepid journalists who have all their well-cultivated sources

00:08:29.900 before the debate? If this has been going on 15 times that Biden looks slack-jawed and drooling

00:08:35.100 in the past year in front of people, how come those reports didn't come out before the debate?

00:08:42.440 One, because the journalists are not fair reporters. They are radical left-wing activists like that lady, 0.99

00:08:49.200 Heidi Prezibola, who's writing press releases for groups that are designed to take down the,

00:08:56.980 that are left-wing funded, left-wing billionaire funded groups designed to take down a co-equal

00:09:01.880 branch of government. And they are propagandists for the liberal establishment who go on TV and carry

00:09:08.540 the Democrat Party message when it's convenient. And they were trying to squeak Biden across the finish

00:09:15.480 line. Either they just didn't know. They just hadn't talked to those sources. They weren't doing

00:09:20.520 their jobs. Or they did know, and they were covering up for Biden because they thought, you know,

00:09:25.220 we'll just call it a childhood stutter. The American people are so stupid that they're not going to 1.00

00:09:29.360 figure out that we're lying to them. And then we'll get him across the finish line. And then whatever. 1.00

00:09:32.720 If he falls down a flight of stairs, then we'll have Kamala. And it doesn't even matter. Kamala's no 0.91

00:09:36.480 good. But we'll, we'll just have all of our apparatchiks in the administration and we'll get the

00:09:41.840 policies we want. And then when it was undeniable on national television, now all of a sudden the

00:09:46.700 intrepid journalists know how to pick up a phone and talk to their sources. There's so much more to

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00:10:54.740 those annoying phone calls. AmericanFinancing.net. At least one person wants Joe Biden to stay in the

00:11:01.320 race. This, according to the New York Times, Hunter Biden is one of the strongest voices urging his

00:11:09.100 father to stay in the race. I'm just quoting now from the Times. One of the strongest voices imploring

00:11:14.660 Mr. Biden to resist pressure to drop out was his son Hunter Biden, whom the president has long leaned

00:11:19.480 on for advice, said one of the people informed about the discussions, who, like others, spoke on

00:11:25.760 condition of anonymity to share internal deliberations. Hunter Biden wants Americans to see the version of

00:11:31.780 his father that he knows, scrappy and in command of the facts, rather than the stumbling aging president

00:11:35.940 we saw on Thursday night. Hmm, gee, I wonder why Hunter Biden might want his dad to remain president.

00:11:43.620 You know, I wonder why the guy who has been found guilty of all sorts of crimes and who has not even

00:11:50.900 yet been prosecuted for the serious crimes that he obviously committed. We have the, his own records,

00:11:57.120 we have pictures, we have videos of it that he took from his laptop. Wonder why that guy might want his

00:12:02.740 dad to remain president. Hey, dad, hey, don't listen to every single other person out there. No, no.

00:12:09.460 Come on, man. Come on, Jack. Need you to stick in there. Give, give old big H the pardon power,

00:12:15.680 baby. Come on, let's do it. Let's do it, dad. We have to. This is a classic example of the dark side

00:12:25.320 of political regime. Going back to our good friend Polybius, the ancient writer, he says there's good

00:12:32.460 forms of government, bad forms of government, and they look like mirror images of each other.

00:12:36.260 So the good form of government by one man is a monarchy. The bad form of government by one man is

00:12:41.460 a tyranny. Good form of government by a small group of people is aristocracy. The bad version

00:12:46.620 is oligarchy. The good version of government by the people is democracy. The bad version is mob rule.

00:12:52.800 What distinguishes them? In the good versions, you rule for the common good. In the bad versions,

00:12:57.780 you rule for private interest. This is obviously just about private interest. If Hunter had any care

00:13:02.460 for his father, he would stop this embarrassment. But Hunter wants to avoid putting on an orange jumpsuit,

00:13:09.400 and Hunter, having been the bag man, apparently, for the Biden family for some years,

00:13:13.680 feels that this is owed to him, one suspects. And so he's saying, hey, dad, you got to stick in the

00:13:17.700 race. One of the strongest voices urging him to stay in. No surprises there whatsoever.

00:13:27.460 Meanwhile, the persecution of the Trump-affiliated conservatives is ramping up. Steve Bannon

00:13:32.780 is going to jail. And for his jail, for his sentence, he has chosen Danbury Correctional

00:13:42.120 Facility in Connecticut. Why did he choose it? Here is Steve Bannon in his own words.

00:13:46.560 Look, folks, if it took me going to prison, because remember, the reason I chose Danbury,

00:13:51.920 I asked for Danbury for a very specific reason. Back in 19, the only other person that's ever been

00:13:58.140 sent to prison for a congressional subpoena, a congressional subpoena, not going to a house

00:14:05.680 subpoena for contempt, held in contempt, was Reg Lardner Jr. Back in the 1940s, during the

00:14:13.960 House Un-American Activity Investigation. Columbia Studio fired him, okay, because of his political

00:14:19.820 beliefs. And then he was found guilty. They sent it to the DOJ. He was sent to prison. He was sent to

00:14:26.040 this prison. That's why I requested Danbury, because there's no difference in his fight

00:14:31.500 than in our fight. I'm a political prisoner of Nancy Pelosi. I'm a political prisoner of Merrick

00:14:37.420 Garland. I'm a political prisoner. I'm a political prisoner of Joe Biden, the corrupt Biden establishment.

00:14:44.160 Okay. Obviously, we support Steve. We support anyone who's being unjustly persecuted for being

00:14:50.460 a conservative. But what he said here isn't true. He said there's no difference between that communist

00:14:59.800 being sent to prison and Steve Bannon being sent to prison. There's a big difference. The big difference

00:15:04.820 is that guy was a communist, and Steve Bannon is a conservative. Steve is not giving himself anywhere

00:15:10.480 near enough credit. There's a big difference. The people who are putting Steve Bannon in jail right now

00:15:16.600 are communists or communist sympathizers, or at least we would say radical leftists,

00:15:23.500 why would Steve Bannon draw a comparison between himself and a communist and express sympathy for

00:15:30.200 the communist? His speech here is taking a liberal line of argument to say, look, it's not about the

00:15:41.080 particulars of political philosophy or the particular political ends we want to achieve. All that matters is

00:15:45.680 procedure. I am being targeted for my political speech. Forget about the substance of that

00:15:54.380 political speech, the substance of goods we're after. No, no, it's just about procedural norms.

00:15:58.460 I'm being targeted by the government for things that I'm saying about politics, and that's why I'm the

00:16:02.280 same as a communist. Now, Steve Bannon is a very intelligent guy. So I suspect that he didn't just

00:16:08.300 make this argument accidentally. Probably he is intentionally making a liberal line of argument here

00:16:14.840 in order to persuade more liberal and moderate, centrist, independent voters.

00:16:22.080 But it is kind of funny to hear him say this because, you know, here he's criticizing the House

00:16:28.860 Committee on Un-American Activities. The HCUA was great. It was fabulous. There were actual communists,

00:16:35.380 not only in Hollywood, there were communists in the State Department. We know this for a fact because

00:16:40.580 Richard Nixon doggedly pursued one of them who was a very senior member of the State Department

00:16:45.540 who helped found the United Nations, for goodness sakes. That was Alger Hiss. And this was based on 0.82

00:16:51.000 the testimony of Whitaker Chambers, a former communist who left the Communist Party, wrote an

00:16:55.820 excellent book called Witness. And nobody believed Whitaker Chambers other than Richard Nixon.

00:16:59.860 And no one believed Nixon. They always mocked Nixon. And Nixon and Chambers and the hardcore

00:17:06.980 conservatives and McCarthy, a man who was defended by William F. Buckley Jr., so urbane a conservative

00:17:12.880 as that in McCarthy and his enemies, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. They were all right. 0.85

00:17:18.540 There were communists who had infiltrated the government who were trying to destroy the government

00:17:21.580 from within. And we nabbed at least one of them. We nabbed Alger Hiss. We got some other spies too, 0.71

00:17:27.900 you know, during the effort to root out communists. For goodness sakes, we were in a cold war with the

00:17:32.120 Soviet Union that was trying to subvert our country and install communism as they did in a number of 0.99

00:17:37.160 other countries around the world. Very curious that Steve Bannon would take this line of argument here.

00:17:45.040 He's appealing to a liberal sensibility. And maybe this is what the Republicans are going to do moving

00:17:50.220 forward. I'm not sure this is the wisest strategy. In fact, I think it's better to draw a clear

00:17:54.280 distinction between us and communists. And I think it's important to focus on substantive goods rather than

00:17:58.600 merely procedural norms. I think that the liberal lines of argument actually have hurt us. But maybe Steve Bannon

00:18:03.620 is thinking it's an election year. Just say we're we are being politically persecuted. Forget about what we

00:18:10.500 believe and what we're trying to achieve. Forget about that. If you're a leftist and you even have sympathy for the

00:18:15.920 communists, you need to have sympathy for me.

00:18:17.780 Anyway, it's it's a bold strategy. We'll see if it pays off. I don't mean that in a snarky way.

00:18:22.840 It very well might. In fact, if the polls are any indication, it is paying off when the vast majority

00:18:29.480 of Americans, including a lot of Democrats, including a lot of centrists, believe that that Trump is being

00:18:36.720 prosecuted primarily for political reasons. Now, speaking of liberal lines of argument, there's this

00:18:42.360 black Olympic runner. Her name is Alacia Johnson. She's the runner in the women's 100 meter.

00:18:49.540 She has just come out, tears in her eyes, so happy that her selection for the Olympics

00:18:57.460 will maybe help to carve a path for people who look like her. 0.91

00:19:02.640 It was all guy. I already knew. I already knew before the season started what was coming for me.

00:19:10.460 I literally I knew it was the easiest thing to do because everybody all the time said that I wasn't

00:19:17.060 good enough, said that I didn't deserve. And so I did this my way, my team's way, and just the way

00:19:24.640 that it was meant to be. This is for the hood babies. This is for the people who are poor to come from 1.00

00:19:29.280 nothing. This is for everybody that looks like me, that was ever doubting and I did it with a black 0.98

00:19:35.580 designer on my chest. This is what I stand for, and I'm making a way for everybody in my position.

00:19:41.780 She's making a way for everyone who looks like her. People are told you can't do this because

00:19:45.800 you're black. Couldn't be because she's a woman because the event is actually only for women. So 1.00

00:19:52.680 it's got to be because she's black and black people, they just they're told they can't succeed in 0.99

00:19:57.300 running. So I'm looking at the video of her doing the the hundred meter hurdles and every single 0.91

00:20:04.260 person running is black except for one. There's one white lady, but then all the rest of them are 1.00

00:20:08.200 black. And then that got me thinking, I'm not the biggest athlete in the world. You know, I don't 1.00

00:20:11.640 watch the Olympics really, but I said, well, how many runners, just runners generally and all these

00:20:17.460 different events, how many of them are black? Is it true that there is a dearth of black people 0.55

00:20:21.760 running? So I looked over just the last 60 years. That's that's as far as I went back in the men's 0.91

00:20:27.360 100 meter running. I don't know whatever the race is. Nine out of 10 gold medalists have been black

00:20:35.600 and one out of 10 was Italian and the Italians are kind of like 50-50. You know, they're the 1.00

00:20:39.320 Africans of Europe. 10 out of 10 silver medalists black, 10 out of 10 bronze medalists black. I looked

00:20:45.200 at the men's 200 meter, nine out of 10 who won the gold black. One out of 10, the one who wasn't

00:20:52.180 black was Greek. And you know, the Greeks invented the Olympics and they've been running for a long

00:20:56.340 time. So and they're also a little racially kind of ambiguous. 10 out of 10 silver medalists black,

00:21:01.400 nine out of 10 bronze medalists black. Men's 400 meter. I kept going down the list on the wiki page.

00:21:06.820 Nine or 10 of the gold medalists were black. One of them was ethnically ambiguous, might've been a

00:21:11.980 little bit black. I said, okay, let me look at the women. So I look at the women, 1.00

00:21:14.860 100 meter, eight out of nine gold medalists black, nine out of 10 silver black, seven out of

00:21:19.680 nine bronze black. What about the women's 200? 10 out of 10 gold medalists black, nine of 10 silver

00:21:25.600 medalists black, nine of 10 bronze medalists black. I don't know. I could probably fill up the whole

00:21:29.220 show listing the events in the Olympics, especially running where virtually every winner has been black

00:21:37.740 for a very long time. The only people who might think that they can't make it in Olympic running

00:21:43.700 are, are the people who do not look like that runner. Those are the old, the people who look like 0.99

00:21:50.120 that runner, the one, you know, she's carving away from people who look like her. They should feel the 0.98

00:21:54.840 most confident about being able to make it into the Olympics. So why is she saying this? Because

00:22:02.200 this is the ideology that forms our views of everything. Now, if you are black, you are always 1.00

00:22:09.300 at a disadvantage for everything. If you are white, you are always at an advantage for everything. 0.99

00:22:14.720 If you are black, anytime you do anything, it is the greatest triumph ever. You've overcome such odds.

00:22:19.940 If you are white, nothing you ever do is worth any kind of praise. Actually, it's worth derision, 1.00

00:22:24.860 even if you achieve something that's good. That's just the ideology. And the ideology has permeated

00:22:31.020 the culture and it's set in for everyone such that a woman who is an Olympic runner herself

00:22:36.160 could actually believe, say it with a straight face. I have overcome such odds because of my

00:22:42.620 skin color. I am paving a way for black people in running. There's so much more to say. First,

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00:23:50.580 puretalk.com slash Knowles. Speaking of incoherent statements, Joe Biden was incoherent again. He just

00:23:58.920 gave a climate speech and it's, I don't know, see if you can make this out. So folks know these

00:24:07.160 resources are available to them and anyone who needs them. You got, I was telling the group who

00:24:12.780 to brief me earlier, my brother has an expression, you got to know how to know. You, you do have to

00:24:20.340 know how to know. I guess that that's epistemology. Maybe Joe Biden is lecturing on epistemology here.

00:24:27.560 That was the only part I could really catch clearly. The rest of the sun, so my son, but

00:24:31.000 going back down, swimming pooled in Scranton, Pennsylvania. We got my little corn pop, got the

00:24:36.920 hairy legs on an ice cream and he's sitting in my mind. I got my brother, my brother, Jackie,

00:24:40.860 tell me you got to know what you know. You know what you know in there, Chief? It's almost blending

00:24:46.180 into Kamala Harris speaking jive. I don't know which, you know, we, we out here in these streets,

00:24:50.800 Jive Turkey, you know, we got, you know what I'm talking about, Slim Jack? We ain't here out,

00:24:54.180 it ain't easy, no man. You dig what I'm saying? That blood, my brother, Jack, my brother, Jack,

00:24:59.460 he know how to know. He know what you know how to don't know what you don't know. So who knows?

00:25:05.160 Maybe there actually will be a relatively smooth transition if Biden steps down and Kamala Harris

00:25:10.340 becomes the president. In any case, this is not fixing Biden's problem. To fix the problem,

00:25:16.620 I see why Biden gave this speech. Biden has to give a lot of speeches right now,

00:25:20.380 and he has to give the speeches because to fix the problem that was created by his dismal performance

00:25:26.900 at the debate, he needs to show people that he knows how to talk. This is the only skill Joe Biden

00:25:32.400 has ever possessed. He's a talker. That's what politicians do. They talk. And he's been talking

00:25:38.640 pretty well since the early 1970s when he was elected to the Senate below the constitutional age

00:25:45.080 requirement to be elected to the Senate. He's been in it for a long time, very ambitious guy,

00:25:49.740 and he's a slick talker, but he's not a slick talker anymore. So he's lost the one skill necessary

00:25:55.160 for politicians. So to fix it, he's got to go out there. He's got to show people he can talk.

00:25:59.240 Problem is he can't talk. He no longer can speak. And Democrats have known this since at least 2020.

00:26:06.140 That's why they invented this story about the childhood stutter, which whether or not Biden had

00:26:11.220 a stutter as a child, it disappeared for 47 years of his national political career. No one ever heard of

00:26:16.700 it. No one ever suspected it. It came roaring back with a vengeance somehow. And it came roaring

00:26:23.020 back because it was not a return of a childhood stutter. It was the onset of dementia. So he can't

00:26:29.480 win for losing. If he does nothing and stays on his porch, as he did during the 2020 race, he's going

00:26:35.340 to lose. All the polls show it. If he goes out and speaks, he is going to lose even more.

00:26:44.660 As of right now, it seems there is nothing Biden can do to win. He can't even rig the election and

00:26:49.900 change all the rules because there's no bad batch of bat soup coming out of Wuhan. It's a little late 1.00

00:26:56.440 probably to do a global pandemic. So what's he going to do? The entire liberal establishment has

00:27:04.560 said his brain has turned to pudding. So what's he going to do? Nothing. Everything he does and says

00:27:11.780 makes it worse. This is true even for his spokesman. He's got this terrible spokesman,

00:27:18.020 Corrine Jean-Pierre, who's not that great at speaking herself, but they can't fire her 0.94

00:27:21.420 because, speaking of identity politics, she's not only a black person, but a black woman. Not

00:27:27.200 only a black woman, but a black lesbian. And so she has total job security. Her predecessor, 1.00

00:27:32.560 Jen Psaki, was okay. She was fine in the role. There have been many better press secretaries. 0.76

00:27:37.400 There have been many worse. One of the worst ones is Corrine Jean-Pierre. But Corrine Jean-Pierre is

00:27:42.560 going to have that job as long as she wants because she's not fireable. She's not good at the job, 1.00

00:27:48.860 but she's a member of identity groups that just simply can't be fired, certainly on the left.

00:27:53.000 So whenever there's a really important announcement to make, they always trot out John Kirby, who's just

00:27:58.160 like the plainest looking white guy you ever saw in your life. But John Kirby, who in any other

00:28:02.980 situation would already be the White House press secretary, because he's a white guy, he can't 0.99

00:28:06.860 replace a black lesbian. So he just remains the National Security Council spokesman. And they trot him out 0.97

00:28:11.580 when they've got important announcements to make. Here, they put out Corrine Jean-Pierre.

00:28:14.960 She's asked, okay, can you give us any explanation about the bad debate performance? I know that Biden

00:28:21.080 had a cold or something. Was he on cold medication? Is that why he was slurring his words and slack jaw

00:28:26.480 drooling? And her answer actually makes it worse. You just reminded us that President Biden had a cold

00:28:33.240 on Thursday. What medications was he taking in the days or hours leading up to the debate?

00:28:38.900 And I know that question has come in a couple of times to us. He was not taking any cold medication.

00:28:43.480 Was he taking any medication that would have interfered with his performance?

00:28:47.280 He was not taking any cold medication. That is what I can speak to. I've asked his doctor,

00:28:52.760 and that's what he stated to us. After the debate, did the President get examed by a doctor,

00:28:59.880 or did he get a neurological scan? A neurological scan? Look, what I can say is that, just to take a step

00:29:09.960 back. It was a bad night. We understand that it was a bad night. And the President has spoken to this.

00:29:19.240 And he understands that. And so I cannot speak to anything beyond what I just shared. The President

00:29:27.800 has regular annual physicals that we release in a thorough report.

00:29:33.900 Okay, just end it. I can't even bear to watch this brutal performance any longer. Almost as bad as the

00:29:42.240 presidential debate. But what's she going to say? It says he wasn't on any cold meds. Okay,

00:29:45.960 follow up. Normal question. Was he on any kind of medication that would interfere

00:29:49.700 with his performance? That's specific. It's not, was he on any other kind of medication? Joe Biden is in

00:29:55.960 his 80s. I'm sure he's on plenty of medication. Who knows? Maybe he's on blood pressure medication.

00:30:00.240 Maybe he's on this medication. Maybe he's on that. So the question specifically is any medication that

00:30:05.200 might have interfered with his performance. That is, any medication that alters one's state of mind

00:30:09.560 or radically alters one's behavior. Is he on any senility medication? Any dementia kind of medication?

00:30:19.260 And Corinne Jean-Pierre's implicit answer is yes. He says he wasn't on any cold meds. That's all I can

00:30:26.500 tell you. Now, she could have said, look, no, he's not on any medication that would have interfered

00:30:33.480 for his performance. And that would have covered all the normal meds that all sorts of old people 1.00

00:30:37.140 are on, like blood pressure meds, for instance. But she couldn't say no because I guess the implicit

00:30:43.380 admission here is, yeah, he was on a lot of medications that might have affected his behavior

00:30:48.840 in his speech and his performance. Yeah, he's senile. Yeah, that's what it is.

00:30:54.640 When the White House has to make the statement she made, look, we know it was a bad night.

00:31:00.420 You know things are bad. This woman's job is to never have to say such and such that the president 0.99

00:31:08.360 did is bad. That's her whole job. Everything the president does is good. Nothing he ever does is bad.

00:31:13.840 When the White House spokesman is forced by circumstances to say it was bad,

00:31:20.380 you know it's real bad. It's even the subject of jokes on SNL. We have our biannual funny sketch

00:31:28.480 from Saturday Night Live came out specifically on the question of, are they going to replace Biden?

00:31:34.380 But if Biden's not going to run, who will?

00:31:39.060 Just when you thought the terror was over.

00:31:42.980 I don't know. I don't know. Kamala?

00:31:46.560 You realize it's just beginning.

00:31:49.320 There's got to be someone.

00:31:50.740 Cory Booker!

00:31:51.620 He's corny!

00:31:52.960 Mary!

00:31:54.180 Listen to yourself!

00:31:55.440 From the producers of Smile and the twisted minds of Morning Joe.

00:32:04.380 For those not, for those listening right now, it's at Beto 2020.

00:32:13.200 Bernie on the wall.

00:32:15.000 You have Bernie.

00:32:16.060 I have the perfect candidate.

00:32:20.340 Babe?

00:32:21.600 A superstar who can go all the way.

00:32:28.300 In the ring.

00:32:29.680 Who's it going to be?

00:32:35.800 It's funny.

00:32:37.100 It's the biannual funny sketch from SNL because it's true.

00:32:42.120 I had actually forgotten when I did my own version of that sketch,

00:32:45.220 not having seen SNL or maybe before the SNL one came out,

00:32:49.060 I had actually forgotten about Beto.

00:32:51.000 Remember they tried to make Beto happen?

00:32:54.020 Bernie?

00:32:54.560 Yeah.

00:32:54.920 Here's one weird trick how Bernie can really, it's going to be 2072.

00:32:57.840 We're going to be saying, no, there's actually a chance Bernie could still win it.

00:33:01.160 So, there's really no one.

00:33:04.080 Really, the only even semi-plausible answer they've got right now is Kamala Harris.

00:33:09.940 The reason being, if Biden says he won't seek re-election because he's demented,

00:33:16.480 he has to resign the presidency.

00:33:20.920 Doesn't he?

00:33:21.480 If he's saying, I'm not going to run again, not because, like LBJ, you know,

00:33:26.480 I don't want to deal with the politics of it or I don't think I would win re-election

00:33:29.140 or I'm just sick of the job.

00:33:32.420 He would be saying, I'm not running anymore because I'm not up to the job.

00:33:35.180 Well, if you're not up to the job in November, you're not up to the job today.

00:33:39.560 So, then he would have to step down or they'd have to 25th Amendment, the guy.

00:33:44.800 And then Kamala would be president and then Kamala would be the presumptive nominee. 0.94

00:33:48.480 She obviously wants the job. 1.00

00:33:50.540 And so, if the Democrats skipped over her, they would be violating one of their sacred dogmas,

00:33:56.240 the dogma of intersectionality and black women being right about everything. 0.96

00:34:00.320 So, they couldn't replace her with a white guy. 1.00

00:34:03.040 They couldn't replace her with a lot of the candidates that they might consider. 0.93

00:34:07.060 So, then it's got to be Kamala.

00:34:08.580 And Kamala almost certainly loses to Trump, I think, and probably does worse against Trump

00:34:14.420 even than Biden does.

00:34:15.920 But what are they going to do?

00:34:18.280 So, it's a horror show.

00:34:19.060 It's a horror show for the Democrats and it's very funny for the rest of us because of how

00:34:22.360 well this is working out for Trump.

00:34:25.400 For now, you know, to quote Trump, we knock on wood, we knock on wood wherever we might have wood.

00:34:30.360 Now, speaking of entertainment, there's a story that I'm surprised that I am as interested in

00:34:35.600 as I am.

00:34:36.740 This is the rumor, now months-long rumors, of a divorce between Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.

00:34:42.940 Now, if you have not been following this story, you might think you were just transported back to 2003 or something.

00:34:49.140 No, you haven't been.

00:34:50.500 Ben Affleck dated J-Lo back in the early 2000s.

00:34:55.200 Then, they were engaged at one point, famously.

00:34:57.480 They did that terrible movie together, Geely, and it was a big tabloid thing.

00:35:01.640 Then, they break up.

00:35:04.280 Ben Affleck gets married to another actress, Jennifer Garner.

00:35:07.060 He's married her for 13 years from 2005 to 2018.

00:35:10.440 Then, they break up and he starts dating J-Lo again a few years ago.

00:35:14.160 And then, they got married and now the rumor is they might get divorced.

00:35:17.880 Why do I care about this story?

00:35:19.140 Because it reminds me of words of a great poet-philosopher, Don Henley.

00:35:26.480 The words are, there's danger in the embers and you have only yourself to blame if you get burned when you try to rekindle that old flame.

00:35:36.140 And you skip down a few stanzas.

00:35:39.140 Speak to me plain.

00:35:40.200 Tell me the truth.

00:35:41.160 Is it really me you miss or just your long-lost youth?

00:35:45.300 The J-Lo Ben Affleck story, it speaks to me in part because I was a kid when they were a big tabloid feature when they were dating.

00:35:56.940 And then, I thought it was so weird.

00:35:58.060 Oh, man, you were just married to this other woman for 13 years and then you're going back to your old flame.

00:36:02.500 And then, what do you know?

00:36:03.100 It doesn't actually work out.

00:36:04.200 Why?

00:36:04.700 Because time moves only in one direction.

00:36:07.260 And we are pulled back by nostalgia.

00:36:09.880 And nostalgia is a really insidious temptation.

00:36:15.600 Nostalgia, my friend Father George Rutler says, nostalgia is history after a few drinks.

00:36:20.160 Oh, it all seems so rosy in retrospect.

00:36:24.540 But nostalgia can be a real danger because you can't go backwards in time.

00:36:29.980 This is actually an area where the liberals and the progressives are probably a little more grounded to reality than the conservatives are a lot of the time.

00:36:38.280 It pains me to say it because the leftists are not all that grounded to reality on pretty much any other issue.

00:36:43.140 But on this one, they are.

00:36:44.320 And it's that time only moves forward.

00:36:46.560 I joke and I say, I'd like to go back not to 2012, but to 1220.

00:36:53.140 And I do.

00:36:53.940 I look into the past.

00:36:54.900 I see there are a lot of great things about the past.

00:36:56.620 But I don't actually want to get in a time machine.

00:36:58.260 I just want to reestablish certain conditions and rehabituate people to certain behaviors and beliefs in the present.

00:37:06.720 But moving forward, because time only moves in one direction, you know, for Christians, for those of us in the West.

00:37:12.960 The Eastern religions don't really believe in time the way that we believe in time.

00:37:18.660 They think time can be cyclical or there can be cycles of reincarnation or certain pagan groups thought that time was kind of eternal, you know, and that nothing really ever changes and the universe is eternal.

00:37:28.920 And there are all sorts of views on it.

00:37:30.900 But that's not what Christians believe. 0.68

00:37:32.400 Christians believe the universe was created.

00:37:34.560 It was – there's an act of creation.

00:37:36.260 We know how the story begins.

00:37:37.600 We know the turn of the story.

00:37:39.120 The pivot of history is the incarnation and the crucifixion and the resurrection.

00:37:42.460 We know how the story ends.

00:37:44.120 And we know it will end one day in the apocalypse.

00:37:46.440 We've got to fill in the gaps in the meantime.

00:37:48.160 But the time moves in one direction.

00:37:50.640 Marriage here, in fact, the Christians raise it to a sacrament. 0.89

00:37:53.860 Christ raises it to a sacrament.

00:37:55.300 It says marriage is a symbol between Christ and his church.

00:38:00.660 Christ the bridegroom, the church the bride.

00:38:02.440 And it's a symbol of Christ's love for his church.

00:38:04.620 So that marriage, from the Christian perspective, is permanent.

00:38:09.420 And it moves in one direction.

00:38:12.780 And as we lose our Christian sense of society, you're going to see, as you are seeing, a lot more divorce.

00:38:19.060 But you're also going to see a lot more nostalgia, kind of paradoxically, I suppose.

00:38:25.140 Because you're going to see people forgetting that you've got to move forward.

00:38:28.960 This is a very important thing for us here at The Daily Wire.

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00:38:31.320 We've got to build the future.

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00:39:26.280 That was a great transition, huh?

00:39:29.300 My favorite comment yesterday is from Becky Faith, 1070, who says,

00:39:33.600 If Biden can't debate at 9 p.m., how can he make critical decisions at 2 a.m.?

00:39:37.780 Yes, exactly.

00:39:38.580 This is the problem.

00:39:39.320 And this is why the moment he steps down for re-election, he's got to resign the presidency.

00:39:45.800 And then Kamala's president.

00:39:47.060 And then what do you do?

00:39:48.320 Then what do you do?

00:39:49.340 Maybe you have to nominate her.

00:39:50.320 Speaking of marriage and the fruit of marriage, a really sad story hits the news.

00:39:55.760 And it's not only a story of great sadness, it's a story of great hypocrisy.

00:40:01.880 This is coming out of the UK. 0.88

00:40:03.700 A British nurse has been convicted of killing seven babies and trying to kill an eighth baby.

00:40:08.640 This is a nurse, Lucy Letby, who works in a neonatal unit at a hospital.

00:40:17.400 So, this is Countess of Chester Hospital.

00:40:22.460 It's in northwestern England.

00:40:24.820 This 34-year-old woman tried to kill a baby girl in his child, Kay, back in February 2016. 0.96

00:40:31.740 She had already killed a lot of other kids, allegedly. 1.00

00:40:37.020 And the kids she's killed were very premature girls.

00:40:42.700 The one she tried to kill was a very premature, in the words of the court, baby girl.

00:40:47.520 And she's killed others because she's in the neonatal unit. 1.00

00:40:52.120 In the UK, it is currently legal to kill these babies as long as you kill these babies in the womb. 0.99

00:40:59.520 But the babies could be the exact same age as the babies that this woman killed.

00:41:03.300 They just happen to be inside the womb and their parents don't want them. 0.78

00:41:07.540 Their parents consent to murdering the babies.

00:41:09.620 And so, had this woman just moved from the neonatal unit into the abortion unit and killed the exact same type of babies at the exact same age, those babies might have looked almost identical.

00:41:21.720 This woman not only wouldn't be brought up on charges, she'd be hailed as a hero of reproductive rights and freedom and gender equality. 0.59

00:41:30.420 But because the babies, delivered prematurely, were outside the womb, the babies that she killed and tried to kill, allegedly, could actually have been younger.

00:41:40.740 In some cases, significantly younger than the babies that are legally killed inside the womb in the United Kingdom.

00:41:48.100 Because the UK really doesn't place almost any limit on abortion at all.

00:41:54.560 Most abortions are supposed to take place before 24 weeks in the UK.

00:41:58.820 But an abortion can happen at any time. 1.00

00:42:01.640 We played a clip on the show a couple days ago of a woman who was told, full term, 38 or 39 weeks, that in the UK she could still abort her baby because the baby had Down syndrome.

00:42:11.300 So, in the UK there's a carve out here.

00:42:12.940 If there's a threat to the life of the mother, one.

00:42:14.880 But two, if the baby has disabilities. 0.96

00:42:18.700 So, if the baby's handicapped or a little mentally impaired or something, then you can kill the baby, you know, just seconds before the baby would have been born otherwise. 0.99

00:42:26.500 So, why is this woman being brought up on charges? 1.00

00:42:31.220 The woman's being brought up on charges because it's one of the most heinous crimes you can possibly imagine. 1.00

00:42:35.000 And the parents are demanding justice.

00:42:36.660 And, you know, the blood of the innocent cries out to God for justice.

00:42:39.340 That's why.

00:42:39.780 We all know it.

00:42:40.820 No even semi-sensible person would suggest this woman should face anything other than the most severe consequences possible for these crimes.

00:42:49.780 But then, if you want to be consistent about that, you've got to outlaw the abortions.

00:42:58.320 You can't.

00:42:59.120 You either have to let this baby murderer off the hook for all of the babies she's killed. 0.98

00:43:05.060 This woman's allegedly killed, what, seven babies, tried to murder an eighth? 1.00

00:43:09.820 That's nothing.

00:43:10.640 That's child's play compared to any Planned Parenthood.

00:43:12.880 They do that kind of thing between breakfast and lunch.

00:43:14.940 Actually, they kill many more babies between breakfast and lunch. 0.98

00:43:17.720 So, you either have to let the murderer off the hook and keep your abortion or get rid of your abortion, outlaw your abortion, and you prosecute this woman if you want to be consistent about it, if you want to be fair and equitable, which obviously the libs do not. 0.76

00:43:35.720 Speaking of aberrant sexual behavior, really sad story.

00:43:40.240 I was going around the internet yesterday from The Guardian, another UK story.

00:43:44.860 And it was hitting a lot of the aggregators and the social media feeds.

00:43:49.560 And it stuck out to me in part because I receive a lot of mailbag questions about this very topic.

00:43:56.540 Headline, The Secret Lives of Porn Addicts.

00:43:59.340 I am meticulous about covering my tracks.

00:44:01.140 As pornography use soars, some men feel their behavior is moving from a compulsion to an addiction.

00:44:05.300 They describe how this affects their health, happiness, and relationships.

00:44:09.040 Just the first paragraph.

00:44:09.980 Tony is in his 50s and recently did a rough calculation of how much of his life he has spent looking at pornography.

00:44:15.560 The result was horrifying, he says.

00:44:17.820 It was eight years.

00:44:20.240 I can barely think about it.

00:44:22.260 The sense of failure is intense.

00:44:26.220 He's not saying that he looked at pornography sometimes over the course of eight years.

00:44:31.140 He spent eight full years of his life looking at pornography.

00:44:40.220 So almost a fifth of his life.

00:44:42.920 So about a sixth of his life, I guess. 0.97

00:44:45.600 Looking at porn.

00:44:47.980 And he says, look, he's got a total double life.

00:44:50.580 No one suspects this.

00:44:52.220 You know, he's told a couple of therapists and now this reporter.

00:44:55.320 And then the reporter interviews other people, health officials, who say, look, this is obviously an addiction, but it's not treated as an addiction.

00:45:07.540 Because it's politically incorrect.

00:45:09.280 It's not very sex positive to say that this is an addiction, but it obviously is.

00:45:13.660 In part, one doctor says that it is because it escalates.

00:45:18.380 It's not like, you know, you just look at porn and then you're good.

00:45:21.380 But you keep seeking out harder and harder forms of it.

00:45:25.120 Like with a drug, you start out with a soft drug.

00:45:26.860 And then if you keep doing drugs, you seek out harder and harder drugs.

00:45:31.480 That's the problem.

00:45:33.200 And it's a political problem.

00:45:34.800 I won't get into it.

00:45:35.380 It's really, I mean, read it.

00:45:36.560 It's good journalism.

00:45:37.840 And you really feel for all these guys who don't get married because of this, who don't have kids because of this, who have trouble holding down jobs.

00:45:45.220 Some of these guys start looking at porn at work because they're addicted.

00:45:48.420 You know, it's like a guy who's, I don't know, he's doing a drug.

00:45:50.400 He's blowing a line of Coke in the bathroom at work or something.

00:45:53.040 They start doing all of this and it's taken over their lives and they're miserable because of it.

00:45:57.500 And they're speaking to this woman.

00:45:59.520 That's not just a personal problem.

00:46:02.260 It's a political problem.

00:46:03.300 When you have people living double lives, obviously that's a public issue because at least one of those lives is the public one. 0.90

00:46:10.100 And there's no such thing really as a totally personal sin.

00:46:12.640 But when it's affecting marriages, when it's affecting birth rates, when it's affecting work, those are political problems.

00:46:19.020 This needs to be treated as a public health crisis and a political issue.

00:46:23.460 The problem is in our country, we're no longer even treating drugs as a public health crisis.

00:46:27.980 We regulate cigars and then we deregulate fentanyl and cocaine and heroin.

00:46:36.220 We regulate businesses, you know, operating their business, but we deregulate bizarre sex stuff. 0.76

00:46:43.340 I mean, there's one story out of San Francisco that actually ties in with my guest who's about to come on the member of the segment to him.

00:46:47.640 The San Francisco Pride Parade has just turned into the most depraved Sodom and Gomorrah style display in front of little children.

00:46:54.720 Whatever you're imagining, it's worse.

00:46:57.060 They sent me a video of this earlier.

00:46:58.700 I'm sorry to say I watched a minute or two of it.

00:47:02.260 So my guest is Taylor Hanson.

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00:47:13.440 That's a political problem.

00:47:14.700 You can't say love is love, you know, just leave me alone, stop interfering in my bedroom.

00:47:18.720 This stuff is happening in the streets.

00:47:20.400 It's affecting families.

00:47:22.020 It's affecting businesses.

00:47:23.220 It's affecting politics.

00:47:25.520 The liberal solution is not going to work.

00:47:28.440 The libertarian solution even is not going to work.

00:47:30.400 We need a classical and conservative solution here to help these people and to advance good and to set up the conditions for human flourishing.

00:47:38.560 That's the basic charge of politics.

00:47:42.000 The show continues now.

00:47:43.380 We'll see you over there.

00:47:43.960 We'll see you over there.

The Michael Knowles Show - July 03, 2024

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