The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1529 - The DISASTROUS Biden Press Conference Explained In 2 Mins

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00:00:37.580 Last night, following the conclusion of a NATO summit,

00:00:40.420 President Joe Biden gave what his staff promised would be a big boy press conference.

00:00:46.020 The president's first full press conference in eight months to reassure the American people

00:00:50.880 that he was still up to the job and ready to serve another four years.

00:00:55.120 The evening did not start out well.

00:00:57.880 Now I want to hand it over to the president of Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has

00:01:03.400 determination.

00:01:05.040 Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin.

00:01:08.000 President Putin.

00:01:09.560 He's going to beat President Putin.

00:01:11.480 President Zelensky.

00:01:13.000 I'm so focused on beating Putin, we got to worry about it.

00:01:16.440 Anyway.

00:01:16.720 Anyway, after confusing the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Biden then confused his vice president

00:01:25.260 with his opponent.

00:01:27.420 I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president,

00:01:31.120 but I think she was not qualified to be president. 0.92

00:01:34.200 Now a man who is this confused probably should not be commander in chief, and apparently he's

00:01:39.320 not.

00:01:39.620 Our military is where I'm following the advice of my commander in chief, the chief of staff

00:01:47.560 of the military, as well as the secretary of defense and our intelligence people.

00:01:52.620 It was a long press conference after an important NATO summit.

00:01:56.440 And if you didn't have time to watch it, the main takeaway is that President Joe Biden and

00:02:01.400 Vice President Donald Trump have done a marvelous job supporting President Vladimir Putin of Ukraine.

00:02:07.080 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:07.880 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:23.940 Welcome back to the show.

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00:04:11.560 It was a rough press conference.

00:04:13.700 I'm going to go through this as quickly as I can because there were a few moments that

00:04:18.240 you simply cannot miss to understand the gravity of the situation for the Democrat Party, which

00:04:26.620 is now in total mutiny and revolt against the nominee, and they're trying to get him to

00:04:31.860 step down, but also the United States.

00:04:34.320 A lot of people wondered if President Biden was going to step down as the Democrat nominee

00:04:39.220 last night.

00:04:40.040 My production team was staying late in order to cover this to go live, and I said, guys,

00:04:44.180 the odds of that happening are like 1%.

00:04:46.820 And the reason is, if Biden steps down as the Democrat nominee in 2024, he has to resign

00:04:52.940 the presidency.

00:04:54.520 Because the reason he would be stepping down as the nominee is that he has dementia, that

00:04:59.460 he's not mentally up to the task.

00:05:03.200 But if he's not mentally up to the task of running for president, he's certainly not mentally

00:05:06.840 up to the task of being president.

00:05:08.420 So he wasn't going to make this statement after a NATO summit and a press conference.

00:05:13.160 This would be a statement he would make from the Oval Office.

00:05:16.160 This would be very serious.

00:05:17.220 President resigning the office, and then Kamala would become president, and it just wasn't

00:05:21.940 going to happen.

00:05:22.980 So he went out to try to reassure the Democrat elites and Democrat voters, and then at the

00:05:30.820 tertiary level, the American people, that he's still up to the task.

00:05:33.740 It didn't work that well.

00:05:35.540 He comes out.

00:05:36.080 It was supposed to be an off-the-cuff press conference.

00:05:37.500 He gives a windy speech off of a teleprompter.

00:05:40.180 And then he says, okay, now I'm yours.

00:05:43.060 Ask me anything.

00:05:44.700 Let's go.

00:05:45.700 No holds barred.

00:05:46.900 I'm going to be flying extemporaneous.

00:05:49.880 And then he undermined that by beginning the press conference with the acknowledgement

00:05:55.100 that he was given a list of reporters to call on.

00:05:59.820 With that, I'll take your questions.

00:06:02.680 I've been given a list of people to call on here.

00:06:06.800 Reuters, Jeff Mason.

00:06:08.160 So he does this all the time, but it was especially damaging during this press conference

00:06:13.660 because this was supposed to be Joe Biden, freewheeling, no questions too tough, I can't

00:06:19.040 answer it.

00:06:19.660 And that's why I've got a highly curated list that my staff has vetted.

00:06:23.500 This after the Biden campaign just got caught asking a radio station to cut out segments

00:06:28.840 of an interview with Joe Biden, the radio station actually acquiesced.

00:06:32.180 So it didn't accomplish what it was supposed to accomplish, which is Joe Biden can handle anything.

00:06:36.860 That was supposed to be your takeaway from it.

00:06:39.160 Right from the start, he was saying that this is going to be highly curated.

00:06:43.960 Most of the reporters did ask him if he was going to get out, if he's too old, if he's

00:06:48.760 still up for the job.

00:06:50.160 Zeke Miller was one of the few, maybe the only reporter to ask him a substantive policy question.

00:06:56.880 And I thought this was really smart because Biden had prepared all the answers to whether

00:07:02.200 or not he's too old, whether or not he should get out, if he thinks he's up to it in 2024.

00:07:07.560 The test of his mental acuity is, can he answer questions on policy?

00:07:12.820 Can he track all the names of the players?

00:07:15.580 No.

00:07:16.160 Can he track all of the geopolitical conflicts that are sparking off?

00:07:20.220 No.

00:07:21.020 Can he, you know, but that was going to be the test.

00:07:25.380 Don't tell me you're up to the job.

00:07:26.920 Show me you're up to the job.

00:07:27.640 So I thought it was really smart of Zeke Miller to ask those questions.

00:07:31.900 He then did follow it up with questions on whether or not he's up to the job.

00:07:36.840 And Biden kind of flubbed those too.

00:07:39.280 But here's just a little glimpse of Biden trying to explain geopolitics.

00:07:44.700 And I think you'll see that some of our European friends are going to be curtailing their

00:07:54.180 investment in Russia.

00:07:57.060 I mean, excuse me, in China, as long as China continues to have this indirect help to Russia

00:08:07.320 in terms of being able to help their economy as well as, as well as help them in as a consequence

00:08:15.100 that their ability to fight in Ukraine.

00:08:19.940 This rambling goes on for minutes.

00:08:23.060 And so the, the Democrat spin doctors who are, are, are trying to get on Biden's good

00:08:30.360 side, not the ones who are in full mutiny, but the ones who are now hedging their bets because

00:08:34.780 Biden is showing no sign of stepping down and it's just a big game of chicken.

00:08:38.760 The Democrat spin doctors are saying, look, Biden had a great command of the facts.

00:08:44.660 He was able to just riff on foreign policy.

00:08:46.920 He wasn't, he was meandering.

00:08:48.060 So then I went and I said, we got, we had chip, chips in America.

00:08:51.500 And I went and we put him to Europe or Asia.

00:08:54.480 And then, and China said, it was just a complete meandering nonsense.

00:09:00.280 No one could have drawn any conclusions from it.

00:09:04.520 China did not come out all that clearly here.

00:09:07.480 Japan and Korea didn't fare any better.

00:09:09.160 I remember when the staff, I said, I'm going to go to South Korea.

00:09:12.960 We're going to get the chip.

00:09:14.420 What are you doing?

00:09:15.760 I'm going to get Japan and Korea back together again after, you know, essentially having 1.00

00:09:22.340 hostilities toward one another since the end of World War II.

00:09:26.380 I'm going to move and see that we can expand, you know.

00:09:30.080 You know, you know, there was a lot of, you know, there was a lot of, anyway, if I took

00:09:35.960 a shot of vodka every time Joe Biden lost his train of thought and abruptly concluded

00:09:42.160 his statement with, well, anyway, I would be deader than Joe Biden.

00:09:47.060 This was, it wasn't every single answer, but it was pretty close.

00:09:51.060 He then fell into another rhetorical error, which is also probably caused by his senility,

00:09:58.460 which is he, he fell into that really creepy whisper voice.

00:10:03.060 You know, you know, Joe Biden will just kind of be

00:10:05.860 talking and it's almost normal.

00:10:07.000 And then he gets into that really creepy, that really creepy Joe Biden whisper voice.

00:10:10.840 He did that several times.

00:10:13.560 If your team came back and showed you data that she would fare better against former 0.89

00:10:18.340 President Donald Trump, would you reconsider your decision to stay in the race?

00:10:23.500 No, unless they came back and said, there's no way you can win.

00:10:29.260 Me.

00:10:31.140 No one's saying that.

00:10:33.000 No one says that.

00:10:34.140 Actually, all of them do, but you can't read polls or much of anything else anymore,

00:10:41.540 or you're just lying to us, which, which is, I don't know, which is more likely actually

00:10:46.620 at this point.

00:10:47.420 That was the end of the press conference until one reporter jumped the line.

00:10:53.760 And I guess he wasn't on that sheet of paper, but he stood up.

00:10:56.060 And as the president's handlers are trying to shuffle him off the stage, the reporter says,

00:10:59.820 hey, hey, hold on.

00:11:00.720 In this very press conference where you're trying to convince us all that you have a command of the

00:11:04.660 facts and your faculties, you confused your own vice president with your opponent in this race.

00:11:10.220 You called Kamala Harris Donald Trump.

00:11:12.640 So, like, come on, man, what gives?

00:11:15.000 Doesn't that undermine your argument?

00:11:16.780 Here's Biden's answer.

00:11:18.040 This concludes.

00:11:18.980 Respectfully, earlier you misspoke in your opening answer,

00:11:22.100 you referred to Vice President Harris as Vice President Trump.

00:11:26.020 Right now, Donald Trump is using that to mock your age and your memory.

00:11:31.100 How do you combat that criticism from tonight?

00:11:33.720 Listen to him.

00:11:36.520 This concludes tonight's press conference.

00:11:39.460 Listen to him.

00:11:40.680 Okay, we agree.

00:11:42.200 Joe Biden and I agree.

00:11:44.080 You should listen to Donald Trump.

00:11:45.520 That's a good idea.

00:11:46.400 And what did Donald Trump have to say about this?

00:11:48.680 He congratulated Joe Biden.

00:11:50.460 He posted on Truth Social,

00:11:52.060 Crooked Joe begins his big boy press conference with,

00:11:54.820 I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president,

00:11:58.220 though I think she was not qualified to be president. 0.83

00:12:01.600 Great job, Joe.

00:12:02.660 So, you're doing a great job.

00:12:06.380 Whatever you hear, you're going to hear two stories.

00:12:10.020 Now, the Republicans, in this case,

00:12:11.980 are not only going to give you the clearest picture of what happened

00:12:17.040 because we like honesty and we don't want to tell lies,

00:12:21.880 but even beyond that,

00:12:24.240 even if Republicans had no integrity whatsoever,

00:12:26.400 the reason you're going to get the best analysis of this from Republicans is

00:12:29.420 Republicans basically want Joe Biden to stay in the race,

00:12:33.080 but Republicans want to beat Joe Biden in November.

00:12:35.640 And so we make fun of him,

00:12:37.180 but we also want him to stay in the race

00:12:38.820 because it seems pretty clear right now Trump would win about 57 states

00:12:42.040 if Biden is the opponent.

00:12:43.800 So, we don't have much of a dog in this fight.

00:12:46.740 Also, the second tier candidates who could replace Biden, Kamala Harris almost certainly,

00:12:52.920 but even the rest of them are just not a huge threat to Trump.

00:12:57.160 Biden in full form with altered election rules is a threat to Trump.

00:13:03.120 This guy is much less of a threat to Trump.

00:13:05.280 So, we're kind of just telling you like it is.

00:13:08.860 I hope we do that all of the time,

00:13:11.620 but in this case, we really have no incentive to lie or spin.

00:13:14.720 The Democrats, you're going to hear totally conflicting conclusions.

00:13:18.000 The Democrats who are fully opposed to Biden at this point,

00:13:20.660 who have come out and said he's demented and we can't have him be president,

00:13:24.320 they're going to say this was a disastrous press conference.

00:13:26.900 The Democrats who are still trying to curry favor with Trump, at least publicly,

00:13:30.160 they're going to say this was a good press conference.

00:13:33.900 He talked about China, even though he got some names wrong and some places and things.

00:13:38.320 And anyway, he was able to talk for whatever it was, half an hour or more.

00:13:42.480 So, that proves to you he's up to the job.

00:13:46.100 The press conference failed.

00:13:47.640 And the press conference failed because the purpose of the press conference

00:13:50.200 was to persuade people that Biden is not in mental decline.

00:13:57.420 And he did not achieve that.

00:13:58.860 He will not see a boost in his poll numbers,

00:14:02.860 any significant boost in his poll numbers from it.

00:14:05.580 He will not see any boost in support from Democrats because of this conference.

00:14:10.340 It failed.

00:14:11.560 It failed to achieve.

00:14:12.380 Even though Biden was able to stay awake,

00:14:14.260 he wasn't quite drooling and staring off into the vast abyss like he was during the debate with Trump.

00:14:19.920 So, I guess in that way, it's an improvement if your expectations are that low.

00:14:23.040 But it did not achieve what it was supposed to achieve.

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00:15:44.700 This whole episode, I'm not saying the NATO conference.

00:15:47.360 I'm not even saying the presidential debate.

00:15:51.140 I'm saying the whole collapse of the Biden propaganda machine has exposed not just Joe Biden

00:16:00.940 and not just the Biden staff, but the journalists as absolute hacks.

00:16:07.180 And you don't need to take my word for it.

00:16:09.620 They themselves, some of the most prominent liberal journalists, are admitting it.

00:16:14.060 Here's an exchange between Chuck Todd of NBC and Jonathan Martin of Politico,

00:16:20.260 two key representatives of two key establishment liberal news outlets,

00:16:27.320 admitting that the journalists, the reporters,

00:16:31.920 have been gossiping about Biden's obvious cognitive decline for years.

00:16:37.520 The politicians and the Democratic Party have shown in the last few days

00:16:42.100 that a lot of them simply don't have the courage of their convictions.

00:16:47.020 They simply aren't willing to stand up and say in public what they've been telling folks like us

00:16:52.240 in private for years.

00:16:55.080 This is not a new story.

00:16:56.600 Jonathan, I don't want to out.

00:16:58.020 I'm not going to out the cabinet secretary.

00:17:00.080 Right.

00:17:00.360 But I had a cabinet secretary two years ago.

00:17:04.320 Right.

00:17:04.860 OK, two years ago.

00:17:07.400 All out of the blue.

00:17:08.620 Ask me.

00:17:10.280 Do you really think he's going to he can't run again like this?

00:17:14.340 And I said, well, you have more interaction with him than I do.

00:17:17.320 And they said, I don't have a lot of interaction with him.

00:17:21.140 This is a pretty senior cabinet secretary.

00:17:23.820 So and this was two years ago.

00:17:26.440 This is this is one of those, you know, it's the classic open secrets, a nonversation.

00:17:31.900 Right.

00:17:32.220 It's the story everybody knows.

00:17:33.960 And no one was everybody was afraid to talk about.

00:17:36.600 Chuck, I think we actually have had this this conversation about the nonversation last year.

00:17:42.300 I know we did use that word.

00:17:43.980 Yes.

00:17:44.540 We've chronicled this.

00:17:45.760 I mean, you know, look, for for those that want to say, oh, the media is it.

00:17:48.540 Look, the media is as good as it's is as the sources who don't lie to us are.

00:17:52.300 Hold on.

00:17:53.060 Hold on.

00:17:53.420 Hold on.

00:17:54.920 I'm sure you guys have been talking about this for years. 0.96

00:17:57.560 I'm sure I'm sure your sources in the Democrat political establishment have told you for years that Biden is demented.

00:18:05.080 And I'm sure you've known that and agreed with that.

00:18:07.520 And I'm sure that you, Chuck Todd, have talked to Jonathan about this.

00:18:12.700 Jonathan Martin of Politico.

00:18:14.420 I'm sure many other liberal journalists have talked about this.

00:18:18.120 But you didn't chronicle it.

00:18:19.860 That's the that's a big lie right there.

00:18:21.500 Oh, we've chronicled.

00:18:22.460 No, you've chronicled it amongst each other.

00:18:25.360 I don't remember seeing those big, splashy reports on NBC and Politico and The New York Times and The Washington Post saying Biden is demented. 0.75

00:18:34.060 He's too senile to be president.

00:18:35.720 There's no way he can go on.

00:18:37.060 You all said that, apparently, amongst yourselves.

00:18:40.060 But you didn't tell us.

00:18:41.660 You hid it from us.

00:18:42.520 And in some cases, you lied to us.

00:18:44.060 And you pretended that we weren't seeing what we were seeing.

00:18:47.560 We weren't hearing what we were hearing.

00:18:48.820 Actually, it was just the return after 70 years of a childhood stutter.

00:18:52.420 But you knew it.

00:18:54.580 And then when we conservatives said, hey, the guy's demented, obviously, right? 0.85

00:18:57.980 The guy should be in a nursing home.

00:18:59.500 You said, no, this is a conspiracy theory.

00:19:01.520 This is a lie.

00:19:02.260 Let me quote Joe Scarborough.

00:19:03.300 This is the best Biden we've ever seen.

00:19:05.760 Intellectually, analytically, we've never seen a better Biden.

00:19:09.040 But you all knew it.

00:19:10.720 And you all just lied to us.

00:19:14.080 Why did they do that?

00:19:15.680 Because they thought that their job was not to expose the truth.

00:19:20.500 It was a nonversation, right?

00:19:21.740 Their job was to hide the truth.

00:19:23.200 And then at the end, you can tell Chuck Todd realizes, oh, yikes.

00:19:26.640 I'm admitting that I just lied to my audience for years.

00:19:29.740 No, no.

00:19:31.020 Look, they knock the media. 0.68

00:19:32.400 But the media is only as good as the sources that don't lie to us are.

00:19:35.540 No, no.

00:19:35.780 You just admitted the sources weren't lying to you.

00:19:38.080 The sources told you the truth.

00:19:39.300 The sources told you that cabinet secretaries told you that Joe Biden was in mental decline.

00:19:43.920 You lied.

00:19:44.720 You lied to us.

00:19:46.900 That's the problem.

00:19:48.040 Why?

00:19:48.480 Because the job of the establishment journalists is not to speak truth to power.

00:19:52.440 It's not to follow the facts wherever they lead.

00:19:55.640 The job of the establishment journalists is to be propagandists for the Democrat Party.

00:20:00.040 And you thought that you could get away with it.

00:20:02.560 You thought that the childhood stutter lie was going to be sufficient.

00:20:06.580 And you could hide Biden.

00:20:07.920 And as long as you didn't cover him too closely, he would squeak by.

00:20:11.560 He'd beat Trump in 2020.

00:20:12.940 Maybe he'd beat him in 2024.

00:20:14.920 And unfortunately for you, Biden's poll numbers declined just low enough that Biden had to challenge Trump to a debate.

00:20:22.140 Biden would have avoided the debate otherwise.

00:20:23.580 Biden set all these outrageous conditions where he hoped Trump would either reject the conditions or try to negotiate.

00:20:30.220 And then he could get out of it and not look like a chicken.

00:20:33.040 But Trump, very wisely, just accepted all of the conditions.

00:20:37.800 He said, sure, whatever you want.

00:20:39.140 We'll do it on CNN.

00:20:40.300 We won't have an audience.

00:20:41.520 We're going to have a big DNC banner behind us.

00:20:43.440 I don't care, Joe.

00:20:44.100 I just want to get you on stage, talk man to man.

00:20:45.980 And then Joe got exposed.

00:20:48.860 He wasn't exposed because the journalists dug in.

00:20:51.620 He wasn't exposed because the sources leaked.

00:20:53.640 He was exposed because Trump was able to bypass the journalists.

00:20:58.360 That's exactly what happened.

00:21:00.940 And now all of a sudden the media are talking.

00:21:04.880 They weren't talking very much for three years.

00:21:08.120 Now they're talking and now they're angry.

00:21:09.800 Why are they so angry at Joe Biden?

00:21:12.400 They sound like a jilted lover.

00:21:14.380 They sound like they've been betrayed by Biden.

00:21:16.140 But they're admitting to you they knew about this.

00:21:19.680 The reason they're furious at Biden is not that he lied to them.

00:21:23.360 He didn't.

00:21:24.500 It's not that the people around him lied to him.

00:21:25.960 They didn't. 1.00

00:21:27.560 It's that he made them look foolish. 1.00

00:21:30.980 They had a deal. 1.00

00:21:32.300 They made a little pact.

00:21:33.340 Okay, we're all going to cover for you, Mr. President.

00:21:35.720 You're just going to play it cool and you're going to win.

00:21:38.060 And we're all just going to move forward together.

00:21:41.220 And then Biden blew it.

00:21:42.940 Biden slipped. 1.00

00:21:44.380 And he made the journalists look foolish and look like the hacks that they are. 1.00

00:21:49.960 And now they're real angry about it. 0.99

00:21:52.240 There's so much more to say.

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00:23:05.860 My favorite comment yesterday is from MatthewHubley7282, who says,

00:23:10.820 To the Republicans in Congress, never interrupt your adversary when they are in the middle of losing.

00:23:14.720 So true.

00:23:17.100 I know, I learned this last night, President Trump could invoke the 25th Amendment if he wanted, because he is the vice president of the United States, according to Joe Biden.

00:23:25.680 But I still don't think that Vice President Trump should do that, because I think Joe Biden, I mean, I guess that would make Trump, would that make Trump president automatically?

00:23:33.960 But then we have to figure out who the commander in chief is, because apparently, according to Biden, the commander in chief is neither the president nor the vice president.

00:23:39.200 But in any case, maybe it would be safer just to run the election as is.

00:23:45.260 You got the Democrat nominee chosen by the Democrat primary voters, Joe Biden.

00:23:49.340 What a great expression of democracy.

00:23:51.080 And you got the Republican nominee chosen by the Republican voters, Donald Trump.

00:23:55.860 Let's just let him duke it out in November, shall we?

00:23:57.920 Let's see how that goes.

00:24:01.080 My nerd 12-year-old producer, Professor Jacob, gave me an earful when I was in the makeup chair today.

00:24:08.640 And I asked him to do this, because I saw this story that Star Wars had gone super lib.

00:24:13.800 And I know that he's a big nerd and has been following this all very closely.

00:24:17.160 And we covered it on the show a few weeks ago.

00:24:19.480 When I say it's gone lib, I don't just mean a little cheeky line here and there.

00:24:23.700 I mean, they've now inserted transgender pronouns into the Star Wars universe.

00:24:28.920 And they had a whole episode about lesbian space witches making an IVF force baby through some kind of galactic surrogacy. 1.00

00:24:38.080 We're talking real news, political, relevant, lib stuff.

00:24:45.460 So now, in episode seven of the new Star Wars show, The Acolyte, they've gone much, much further.

00:24:53.040 They have turned the Jedi, who are supposed to be the good guys, into the bad guys.

00:24:58.820 And they've turned the lesbian space witches, who sometimes make themselves look like weird gas smoke demons, into the good guys. 0.90

00:25:11.180 Here's just a quick scene that's been going around the internet. 0.94

00:25:18.900 So for those of you who are just listening, the lesbian space witch turns herself into a black smoke demon thing. 0.89

00:25:25.240 And then the Jedi, apparently there's an Asian Jedi now. 0.96

00:25:28.820 The Jedi pulls out his lightsaber and stabs the smoke.

00:25:32.760 But the smoke is apparently still sort of corporeal.

00:25:36.660 And then the baby that was created without a father cries out, Mom.

00:25:47.400 It's what she wants.

00:25:50.020 It's what she wants.

00:25:52.740 She chose you.

00:25:55.240 And then she falls down dead.

00:25:57.940 And the kid's really upset.

00:25:59.220 Mama! 1.00

00:26:00.600 Mama! 1.00

00:26:01.880 So the lesbian space witch, for those of you who weren't able to see it, lesbian space witch is there, gets a kid somehow without a father doing occult weird spells. 0.96

00:26:14.040 In the modern age, we would call this IVF and surrogacy, where you would just purchase a child on the open market.

00:26:18.780 And the Jedi realize there's something kind of, something not quite right about this.

00:26:23.600 So then the Jedi break the Jedi code, according to my nerd producer, and they go to kidnap these girls.

00:26:30.040 Which doesn't, it's not the sort of thing that the Jedi would do.

00:26:33.260 I guess a parallel in history is that Christians, you know, want to, we have a great commission, we want to make disciples of all nations, but we don't do it at the point of a sword.

00:26:45.840 Despite what the Libs say, that's basically never happened.

00:26:48.720 I mean, there are a couple of examples you could point to in 2,000 years of Christian history that was frowned upon by the theologians.

00:26:55.880 That's usually not how it happens.

00:26:57.260 And certainly, the Christians have, since the very beginning of the church, opposed, you know, baptizing children by force, say. 0.88

00:27:06.420 That's always been opposed by the church.

00:27:08.960 And you might say, well, I don't know, you could baptize the kids, and then they'll, you know, have the opportunity for eternal life.

00:27:13.220 But the church has always recognized the family as a good and natural institution, and so you wouldn't violate the parents' wishes.

00:27:22.440 Apparently, the Jedi had a similar kind of code.

00:27:24.600 And so this new show violates that.

00:27:26.680 The Jedi are now kidnappers, I guess. 0.99

00:27:29.600 But then, the craziest part of this is, the lady, the lesbian space witch, turns into a big smoke demon with scary eyes and black smoke. 0.99

00:27:39.120 It's obviously threatening the Jedi. 1.00

00:27:41.360 The Jedi stabs her.

00:27:42.260 And she goes, I was going to let her go.

00:27:46.440 I was, no, I was, I was, I'm the good guy.

00:27:48.240 I was going to, yeah, I just did the big smoke demon thing just to kind of, just as a farewell ooga booga booga.

00:27:53.940 But I was totally just joking, man.

00:27:56.280 I was just joshing around.

00:27:57.600 Why'd you stab me with your lightsaber? 0.57

00:27:59.100 Anyway, you know, and then she dies. 1.00

00:28:03.640 What this represents is a blurring of good and evil.

00:28:06.760 Something that people like about Star Wars, the reason that kids really like the show,

00:28:09.880 is it has a Manichaean view of the universe.

00:28:14.780 There's good and there's evil.

00:28:16.980 And they are, these are opposing principles and they're fought in this seemingly eternal battle.

00:28:22.360 That's not quite the Christian view of things, but that is the, it is a kind of basic, pagan, Gnostic, Manichaean view of the universe.

00:28:31.340 And it's really easy to understand and it's, it's childish and children are kind of drawn to it.

00:28:37.180 But the even more childish view, which is now prominent, not among little kids or, or even virtuous pagans,

00:28:43.260 but among liberal intellectuals in our present age, is that, hey man, there's really no such thing as good and evil.

00:28:49.820 You know, it's all just kind of, it's all 50 shades of gray, man.

00:28:53.720 You know, it all blurs together.

00:28:55.540 And in fact, some of the people behind the new Star Wars series use this phrase, gray, the gray Jedi.

00:29:02.480 It's the blending of good and evil.

00:29:04.140 Who can, who can really say what's good and evil?

00:29:06.820 Compare George Lucas talking about the force and Star Wars to, to the new people who are in control of the franchise.

00:29:13.260 You were in Star Wars.

00:29:14.340 Would you be on the light or the dark side?

00:29:15.860 Dark side.

00:29:16.260 Yeah, 100% dark side and dark side user right here.

00:29:20.200 So sorry, but the dark side is lurking.

00:29:24.060 It just is.

00:29:25.140 The dark side is pleasure, biological and temporary and easy to achieve.

00:29:30.960 The light side is joy, everlasting and difficult to achieve.

00:29:35.860 One is selfless, one is selfish.

00:29:37.840 And you want to keep them in balance.

00:29:39.400 What happens when you go to the dark side is it goes out of balance and then you get really selfish and you forget about everybody in you.

00:29:45.120 I really like the gray Jedi code, the gray Jedi code.

00:29:48.040 And like, I am just kind of a diplomatic person.

00:29:50.300 The best parts about Star Wars is there is no good or evil.

00:29:53.180 Depends on what side you're standing on.

00:29:54.680 Truly, you know what I mean?

00:29:55.460 I would be both.

00:29:56.700 I guess I'd be gray, you know?

00:29:58.280 Being able to access your emotions, but using your emotions for good.

00:30:02.460 Because when you get selfish, you get stuff or you want stuff.

00:30:05.800 And when you want stuff and you get stuff, then you are afraid somebody's going to take it away from you.

00:30:09.880 Whether it's a person or a thing or a particular pleasure, experience.

00:30:14.220 Once you become afraid that somebody's going to take it away from you or you're going to lose it, then you start to become angry.

00:30:21.140 Just like Mother Anna say, I would be questioning the whole system of saying what is light and what is dark.

00:30:27.740 I think definitely Jodie Tannis Maze would be like not existing inside of either side.

00:30:32.880 I guess I'd be gray, you know?

00:30:34.300 But my lightsaber would be red.

00:30:36.120 Yeah, I'm sure all of these modern Star Wars people would be gray.

00:30:40.420 Or even some of them are honest.

00:30:41.580 I'd be on the dark side.

00:30:43.520 George Lucas giving a really elevated distinction between the good and the bad.

00:30:50.220 The light and the dark.

00:30:51.740 He's saying, yeah, one is oriented toward the common good.

00:30:53.740 One is in alignment with reason and justice.

00:30:59.020 And one of them is self-focused.

00:31:00.800 It's about self-interest.

00:31:02.080 It's not really about reason.

00:31:03.440 It's about the irrational will.

00:31:05.660 And that's a really good description.

00:31:08.640 Sheds a lot of light on the series.

00:31:10.740 And then all of these modern people, they say, no, I'm kind of gray, man.

00:31:14.180 There's no good and evil, man.

00:31:15.260 And you ever notice how the people who deny the difference between good and evil tend to do a lot of evil?

00:31:25.280 It's not usually the really meek, pious, sweet, charitable, humble people who are denying the difference between good and evil.

00:31:32.400 It's always the ones who are doing a lot of evil.

00:31:34.140 Kind of like a big cope to say, no, I mean, I'm not that evil.

00:31:39.880 You know, what's good?

00:31:40.900 What is good?

00:31:41.800 You know, what is truth?

00:31:43.180 What?

00:31:44.400 So this is something that we've seen crop up in false religion for all of history. 0.99

00:31:50.980 When one identifies divinity with just kind of everything, the pagans, pantheism, then you can't make a distinction between good and evil.

00:32:06.540 Because it's all just kind of in everything, man.

00:32:08.200 You know, we all got a little bit.

00:32:09.140 We have two wolves in our bodies, the good and the bad.

00:32:13.820 Whichever one you feed is the one that has more dominance and whatever, blah, blah, blah.

00:32:19.940 That's one view in pagan religion.

00:32:22.500 Then there's another view.

00:32:23.420 You see it especially in Islam, which is the view that, no, it's not that God is in everything.

00:32:30.300 God actually has basically nothing to do with us.

00:32:32.660 God is totally transcendent.

00:32:34.840 There is no Christ in Islam. 1.00

00:32:37.080 There is no sacrament, really.

00:32:39.380 It's God is totally transcendent.

00:32:40.740 We can't even communicate with him via reason.

00:32:43.620 He is utterly transcendent.

00:32:45.520 Then in Christianity, you have, in my view, the best of both worlds. 0.82

00:32:53.080 And I think the truest vision, which is God is totally transcendent.

00:32:59.140 He does create the world.

00:33:00.040 There is a history.

00:33:00.860 It's not just recurring cycles of incarnation.

00:33:04.100 And no, it's not just, you know, that God's kind of part of everything, man.

00:33:08.120 And we're all, you know, the divinity or whatever.

00:33:09.880 No, no, God really creates things and creates us, but he creates us in his own image, and

00:33:15.480 he sends his only begotten son to be incarnate as the crux of history to redeem us.

00:33:21.800 So we have a connection to God in the Imago Dei, in the incarnation, in the sacraments, and

00:33:29.300 even at a more abstracted sense in the sacramentals that he leaves to us.

00:33:34.080 Uh, and through our reason, the libs erase all of that.

00:33:40.340 There's no reasoning.

00:33:42.120 There's no, there's no, um, clear moral distinction.

00:33:46.160 There's no, the story doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:33:48.740 Just like the new Star Wars story.

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00:35:25.560 Hello, Mr. Knowles.

00:35:27.720 I listen to your show every day.

00:35:32.300 I am a truck driver going state to state in this wonderful country of ours, and I am enjoying

00:35:39.760 my first box of Mayflower cigars.

00:35:43.660 I just finished at dusk, and before that, I finished a don a few days ago.

00:35:51.040 I also enjoy smoking a pipe because I tend to find that I can have more smoke per dollar.

00:36:00.220 I was wondering, is there a way that you know of that I could tear up the end of a cigar

00:36:11.300 so that it is fit to smoke in a pipe?

00:36:15.220 Is there a way that I can do this cleanly and efficiently, especially while on the road?

00:36:24.340 I look forward to hearing your wisdom, oh swarthy, incensed papist. 0.99

00:36:31.300 That is a beautiful question, and what a beautiful scene.

00:36:38.200 One of my favorite ways to smoke a cigar is when I'm going on a long drive.

00:36:43.480 If a year or two ago I was driving to a friend's wedding in Mississippi, it was going to be a

00:36:47.780 seven-hour drive, I thought, oh, good.

00:36:50.460 People dread long car rides.

00:36:51.880 I look forward to them, especially if I'm driving alone, because I say, oh, good.

00:36:55.080 I'm going to put on a good podcast or a good audio book.

00:36:57.520 I'm going to spark up a good cigar.

00:36:59.380 There's an hour and a half of my drive right there.

00:37:01.960 So I love it, especially if you're a truck driver.

00:37:04.040 Depending on the range, you have the opportunity for a lot of good cigars.

00:37:08.460 And your question is very good.

00:37:10.040 Yes, the simplest way to do it is you just put the nub of the cigar into the pipe.

00:37:17.700 That's it.

00:37:18.140 You don't need to grind it up.

00:37:19.420 It depends on how wide the bowl is of your pipe, or if you have multiple pipes,

00:37:23.200 you probably want to use one of the wider bowls.

00:37:26.100 But that's all you do.

00:37:27.020 And this is a classic trick by cigar guys.

00:37:31.220 I had a great cigar dealer in Los Angeles.

00:37:35.040 He had very expensive cigars.

00:37:37.360 So I thought, I want to smoke this thing down until it burns my fingers.

00:37:40.720 I don't want to let any of this go.

00:37:42.320 And he said, oh, yeah, bro, bro, buddy.

00:37:44.240 What you do, of course, you smoke this cigar, then it starts to burn your finger.

00:37:48.040 You put the nub of it back in your pipe, and then you finish it that way.

00:37:52.040 It's a great way to do it.

00:37:53.480 It might be a little, although, frankly, it's probably easy.

00:37:55.400 If you're driving a truck, it's probably easier to do the cigar in the pipe thing than to

00:37:59.260 actually tamp a pipe.

00:38:00.620 You know, tamping a pipe and packing it is kind of tricky.

00:38:03.380 That's what I would do.

00:38:04.040 If the ring gauge is too large and the pipe bowl is too small, then what I would do is just slice it in half.

00:38:13.040 You know, it's long filler tobacco, so it's not like pipe tobacco, which is—the reason pipe tobacco is cheaper is because it's just much easier to produce.

00:38:20.080 It's all torn up into little strips or sometimes little bits.

00:38:23.200 And so, you know, this is long filler hand-rolled tobacco.

00:38:26.640 But even so, you just kind of pack it down.

00:38:28.440 I would just pack it down the same way you pack a pipe and enjoy it that way.

00:38:32.060 Don't let—then you'll get an extra 10% or 15% out of your cigar.

00:38:36.760 Happy trails.

00:38:38.660 Next question.

00:38:39.140 Hey, Michael.

00:38:40.840 I'm currently mired in a firehose of lib problems and need some advice.

00:38:45.020 My adopted aunt has a daughter who just had her 10th birthday who said she wanted to be a boy.

00:38:49.100 But that alone would be too simple.

00:38:51.200 My aunt divorced the dad of the mentioned 10-year-old and two siblings and took a new

00:38:55.420 wife, in quotations, who divorced her husband and took their son, only about two years old,

00:39:01.480 away from the father and now live together.

00:39:03.740 And the hair colors collectively make up everything on the pride flag.

00:39:07.020 I've known my aunt and their family ever since I was born, and I don't want to rip

00:39:11.240 it apart.

00:39:11.920 But I can't tolerate this without any intervention because I know it's wrong.

00:39:15.720 But I fear if I do, I'll ostracize myself from the rest of my family.

00:39:19.400 Any advice you have would be greatly appreciated.

00:39:22.480 P.S.

00:39:23.020 I'm sorry if this was confusing.

00:39:24.220 This is my first mailbag question.

00:39:25.780 And I know this sounds like a wild story, but on my honor, this is an entirely real story.

00:39:30.260 Yeah, I believe it.

00:39:31.540 So, first of all, don't worry about tearing your aunt's family apart.

00:39:36.540 She has done that.

00:39:38.320 You're not doing that.

00:39:39.200 She has done that.

00:39:40.660 She divorced her husband. 0.98

00:39:42.160 She decided she was going to be a lesbian like the witches in Star Wars. 0.99

00:39:45.060 She found this woman who, so not only has she scandalized her 10-year-old child, done something 0.64

00:39:51.320 profoundly evil to her 10-year-old child, but she's found this woman who then left her husband

00:39:56.220 and scandalized a two-year-old child in this awful way.

00:39:59.180 So, you're not ripping any family apart.

00:40:01.660 They've done a stellar job of that themselves.

00:40:03.960 So, you're torn between two things.

00:40:07.320 Do I do what is, you know, often prudent in families and generally just keep my opinions

00:40:14.260 to myself and they'll respect my opinions and we just, we all see each other a few times

00:40:18.740 a year for Thanksgiving and we just move on.

00:40:20.880 Or, do you follow your conscience and do what's right and tell her what's right?

00:40:29.040 Because there's a pitfall to either.

00:40:31.060 The pitfall of keeping your mouth shut is, what about when you have kids?

00:40:35.120 You know, what about the scandal that that is going to cause for your children and for

00:40:39.840 your siblings?

00:40:40.540 And I don't know, whoever else is in your family that we now, we tolerate, do we encourage

00:40:46.300 this kind of thing?

00:40:48.140 Divorce, scandalizing kids, removing them from their fathers.

00:40:52.520 Do we, that's what we do in this family now?

00:40:54.100 I don't think so.

00:40:55.140 I don't think so.

00:40:56.400 So, that's one downside.

00:40:57.480 But then the downside to voicing your opinion is you blow the whole family, not her family,

00:41:01.720 but your whole family up.

00:41:02.720 So, now, you know, Aunt Skylar or whatever doesn't come to Thanksgiving anymore.

00:41:08.520 So, what I would do as a prudent way to achieve both ends is I would go to your parents, right?

00:41:14.680 Because this is your aunt and you owe some deference and some respect to your elders.

00:41:20.480 So, I would go to your mother, your father, whoever sister it is and say, hey, you know,

00:41:26.260 Aunt Skylar is doing really awful things and, you know, at the very least she should dye 1.00

00:41:30.960 her hair back to a normal color, but she should probably also stop scandalizing children and 0.98

00:41:34.520 doing all this extremely disordered stuff and bringing it into our house.

00:41:38.220 So, what do you think should be done here?

00:41:41.260 And then if someone's going to talk to the aunt, it should probably be a sibling or, I

00:41:47.540 don't know, the grandparent or, you know, whoever, you know, your aunt's mother or father.

00:41:52.520 But that's how I would do it.

00:41:54.200 So, I would try to, in prudence, achieve both ends.

00:41:58.340 You don't want to be totally radical and just recklessly risk blowing up your whole

00:42:02.460 family, but you also don't want to be cowardly and not voice your opinion when you, perhaps

00:42:07.720 you could actually help the situation.

00:42:10.140 Next question.

00:42:11.780 Good morning, Michael.

00:42:12.880 This is Arun.

00:42:13.840 So, I watched last Thursday's presidential debate with delight and glee as the tyrant Joe 0.93

00:42:18.580 Biden was exposed for the demented fraud that he is.

00:42:21.720 But it appears to me that the left's alacrity to abandon him in favor of a more reliable and

00:42:26.580 sane candidate leaves us with a choice.

00:42:28.880 As you know, I love Trump. 0.97

00:42:30.760 No homo. 1.00

00:42:31.580 But I have serious doubts about his ability to win in a general election due to his lack

00:42:36.140 of popularity outside of his core base, which is why I preferred for us to nominate a candidate

00:42:40.940 such as Vivek or Meatball Ron.

00:42:43.380 On the one hand, the exposure of Joe Biden's demented status to his own supporters now leaves

00:42:48.420 President Trump in a much stronger position going into the general election.

00:42:52.360 On the other hand, Joe Biden wields the nuclear codes and is thus capable, either through his

00:42:57.720 action or more likely inaction, of causing the destruction of this country via a nuclear 0.95

00:43:02.960 attack from one of our enemies.

00:43:04.800 Congressman Chip Roy recently announced that he is working on a bipartisan action aimed at

00:43:09.220 pressuring the executive cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Joe Biden from

00:43:13.620 the presidency in the interest of our national security.

00:43:16.480 Now, it seems to me that Joe Biden's demented status was already known to America's enemies,

00:43:20.640 if not acknowledged by the average Joe Biden voter.

00:43:23.620 Should we support the removal of Joe Biden at the cost of potentially replacing him with

00:43:27.960 a candidate who will present a much stronger showing against President Trump in the general

00:43:31.960 election?

00:43:32.880 Moreover, do you believe that it is wise for us to support the replacement of Joe Biden

00:43:36.820 with Kamala Harris, who believes in the evil ideologies of Joe Biden, but also has the

00:43:42.100 mental health and acuity of a 59-year-old woman and who can more effectively execute his

00:43:47.580 dangerous agenda?

00:43:48.880 Thank you, as always, for your insight.

00:43:50.260 Great question.

00:43:51.120 You're asking if we should imagine what could be unburdened by what has been, to quote one

00:43:55.060 of our great stateswomen in the country.

00:43:58.640 No, we should keep Joe in there.

00:44:00.440 I like, Chip Roy's great.

00:44:01.460 He's terrific.

00:44:02.100 I mean, no, I cast no shade on Chip Roy, but I would not support the 25th Amendment push.

00:44:07.660 Because of what you said about our enemies, as a Republican partisan, I like our chances

00:44:19.540 against Joe Biden.

00:44:20.520 Let's put it that way.

00:44:21.240 So I would like Joe Biden to remain the nominee for that reason.

00:44:24.460 And you don't know.

00:44:25.180 Kamala Harris could be even worse than Biden, but it's a wild card because we don't know 0.99

00:44:28.420 that much about her.

00:44:29.060 So there's a, let's say it's a 1% chance that she does a lot better than Joe.

00:44:31.900 I don't want to take that chance.

00:44:35.700 However, I would be willing to put my partisanship aside if it were really a matter of national

00:44:41.540 security, certainly an existential matter of national security.

00:44:44.740 But as you point out, Xi Jinping already knew this.

00:44:49.860 Vladimir Putin already knew this.

00:44:51.080 Maybe that's in part why Putin invaded Ukraine the moment Joe Biden got into office.

00:44:55.880 We all knew this.

00:44:59.120 You knew this.

00:44:59.700 I knew this.

00:45:01.000 Any ordinary Republican who doesn't only watch NBC News and CNN and read the New York Times, 0.97

00:45:05.760 we all knew that Biden was demented.

00:45:08.200 You think China didn't know that? 0.96

00:45:10.440 You think Russia?

00:45:10.960 So that's already been baked in and things haven't been going very well.

00:45:13.800 But I don't think anything has really changed from the perspective of international intelligence.

00:45:18.900 You don't need the KGB to go in and find out, wow, did you know, Vlad, that Biden's actually

00:45:23.640 demented, if Biden has a subscription to any TV network, he knew that already.

00:45:28.280 Next question.

00:45:30.520 Mr. Noltser-Damas, this is your second favorite UFC fighter, Smiling Sam Alvey.

00:45:35.320 And I've got a fight coming up.

00:45:36.520 A while back, you told me you'd corner me.

00:45:38.180 I want to make that happen.

00:45:39.440 So I actually talked to the higher ups in karate combat, where I am the champion, said,

00:45:43.500 hey, I need a fight that's local.

00:45:45.500 I need a fight that's close.

00:45:46.620 I need a fight that I can get the greatest corner in the world to you.

00:45:50.240 And they said, OK, how do we do that?

00:45:51.720 He said, you put it in Nashville, and I promise you he'll be there.

00:45:55.040 Well, they put it in Nashville.

00:45:56.540 July 25th, I will be defending my karate combat heavyweight championship belt.

00:46:01.940 I am the greatest karate kid in the world, and I would like your help to keep me remaining

00:46:05.720 that way.

00:46:06.760 July 25th, please join me.

00:46:09.240 We're going to make history.

00:46:10.340 I'm going to be the greatest champion that has ever been, and I would love to have your

00:46:13.800 assistance in doing it.

00:46:15.220 And I'll show you the ropes, too.

00:46:16.500 I'll show you the most miserable parts of fighting, weight cutting.

00:46:19.700 Anyways, let me know.

00:46:21.580 I will get you the details, and let's make it happen, sir.

00:46:24.580 Smile at Sam.

00:46:25.420 That's cool, man.

00:46:26.400 Well, let me see.

00:46:27.100 I mean, the only trick now is, you know, my wife might kill me in the ring of our living 0.92

00:46:33.020 room if I leave her and the three-week-old baby for a night.

00:46:37.600 But if you're in Nashville, assuming I'm not traveling or I'm not already booked, Mr.

00:46:41.600 Davies, Professor Jacob, please check the calendar immediately.

00:46:44.740 If we can make this happen, I want to, I'm going to go in there.

00:46:47.820 I'm going to be, I'm going to teach you, you know, the left hook and the right thing

00:46:51.180 and the whatever.

00:46:51.800 Let's go.

00:46:52.920 I'm in.

00:46:54.140 As long as I'm, as long as the calendar's open.

00:46:56.080 I'm in.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 12, 2024

Ep. 1529 - The DISASTROUS Biden Press Conference Explained In 2 Mins

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