The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1533 - BREAKING： Joe Biden Is A Sick Man

00:00:00.000 As the country prepares for President Trump's triumphant speech tonight,

00:00:04.060 accepting the 2024 Republican nomination for president,

00:00:07.860 Joe Biden is running as far as he can from the campaign trail. Why, you ask?

00:00:13.340 Thank you all so much for your patience and understanding. Regrettably,

00:00:20.320 I was just on the phone with President Biden and he shared his deep disappointment at not being able

00:00:34.640 to join us this afternoon. The president has been at many events, as we all know,

00:00:41.560 and he just tested positive for COVID. So, of course, we understand that he needs to take

00:00:53.600 the precautions that have been recommended. Do people still test for COVID? What year are we in?

00:01:02.640 People are doing that. Also, Biden is fully vaccinated, which means that we can add

00:01:09.060 another failed promise to the list. You're not going to get COVID if you have

00:01:13.420 these vaccinations. Biden also declined to wear a mask around his staff and supporters,

00:01:19.980 even after he announced that he had COVID. So, anyway, I digress. I digress.

00:01:27.220 President Trump was shot in the head and did not alter his campaign schedule in the slightest.

00:01:32.380 Joe Biden contracted a mild cold and is now locking himself in his private home in Delaware

00:01:37.640 until further notice. Trump survived an assassination attempt. Biden, I hope,

00:01:44.040 will survive this bout of sniffles. But the Biden campaign is on life support if it isn't

00:01:50.420 already in hospice. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:07.640 A Home Depot employee was fired for posting on social media that she wishes that the shooter had

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00:04:18.540 Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S, to 989898 today. I did not make the comparison between President Trump being

00:04:27.700 shot in the head and moving right on with the campaign, doesn't change a single event,

00:04:34.440 and Joe Biden getting the sniffles. I'm not the one to make that comparison. Incredibly,

00:04:39.480 it is the Democrats. It is some of President Biden's former staffers who are drawing that

00:04:45.580 comparison. Here's the question that I have on that. These two men are both elderly. Donald

00:04:50.880 Trump is an elderly man who, for whatever reason, was given nine seconds to take a iconic photo op

00:04:57.260 during an active shooter situation. Weird situation, we'll figure that out one day.

00:05:02.420 But his survival of that and bouncing right back and going right to his convention

00:05:07.560 is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of strength. This current president of the United

00:05:13.840 States is 81 years old and has COVID. Should he be fine in a couple of days? Doesn't that convey

00:05:21.320 exactly the same thing? That he's strong enough, older than Trump, to have gotten something that

00:05:26.560 used to really be fatal to people his age? So if he does fine out of it and comes back and is able

00:05:33.260 to do rallies, isn't that exactly the same? I mean, it's not exactly the same. It's not the same

00:05:38.040 incident, but it's an elderly man coming through out of an illness. It should. 1.00

00:05:43.900 Okay, so you can see Jen Psaki as Joy Reid is on this crazy rant. You can see Jen Psaki trying to 1.00

00:05:54.260 keep the corners of her mouth from pulling up too much. First of all, Joy Reid begins. She says,

00:06:01.100 I don't know why this man was allowed nine seconds to take an iconic photograph after he had just had

00:06:08.900 part of his ear blown off and nearly had his brains blown out. I don't know why. I don't know what.

00:06:13.060 It was all a setup. That's the insinuation, right? The insinuation is this was all a setup that Trump

00:06:19.360 somehow with the secret cabal of conservative Republicans who control the world or something,

00:06:25.680 he conspired to have this shooter blast off the top part of his ear, but just narrowly because of

00:06:33.000 the wind and the turn of his head, miss his brain and all. And this was all in service of

00:06:38.860 taking a photo with blood streaming down his face and an American flag waving behind him. And then

00:06:45.640 that's the insinuation. What other what other insinuation is Joy Reid making? I don't know.

00:06:50.720 So right off the bat, even if you had no familiarity with Joy Reid, you'd say, well,

00:06:55.400 this lady is a little bit off her rocker, but then she actually goes for it. Then she actually 1.00

00:07:00.920 says, look, Trump nearly had his head blown off two days ago, and then he went on the campaign trail

00:07:09.440 and Joe Biden has a mild cold that every single person on earth has had multiple times.

00:07:16.100 So aren't those basically the same thing, you know, when you really think about it and you see

00:07:21.960 Jen Psaki looking at her just what what are you are you really? But then Jen Psaki's got to go with it

00:07:28.060 because she's got the same job as Joy Reid, which is to serve as a propagandist for Joe Biden. I mean, 0.57

00:07:33.780 that was actually the official job description for Jen Psaki when she was the White House press secretary.

00:07:38.560 She goes, yeah, sure. Yeah, let's go with that. There's and even Joy Reid doesn't believe it

00:07:46.780 because you heard her adding all of these caveats at the end. No, look, I'm not saying it's the same

00:07:51.640 incident, but look, what I'm saying is they're both old men and face challenges, you know?

00:07:58.220 Yeah, it's true. I mean, the challenge from a sniper, courage under fire, blowing off part of your head

00:08:06.220 and the courage to maybe cough a little bit for a couple of days, different. It just requires

00:08:13.740 different degrees of courage. Even even the Democrats don't believe this, but Joy Reid and

00:08:21.840 Jen Psaki are still promoting Biden. They are still living in the hope that Biden will remain the nominee.

00:08:31.000 And is it because they think Biden's the best candidate? No, it's just the big split with the

00:08:35.180 Democrats here is some Democrats believe you can't get rid of Joe Biden. I guess there are a handful

00:08:40.160 of Democrats who believe that Joe Biden is still the best candidate in 2024. But even the ones who

00:08:44.680 don't believe that, some think, well, there's no way to get rid of him. So I don't want to come out

00:08:48.020 against the leader of my party and the sitting president, maybe the future president. Then I'm

00:08:51.960 going to lose my access. They're going to consider me an enemy. I'll be on the blacklist.

00:08:56.120 So they're still pushing Biden and increasingly having to do rhetorical acrobatics to do it.

00:09:02.240 They've got to compare an assassination attempt to COVID. But then there are many,

00:09:07.840 if not more Democrats who are coming out and saying, it ain't Biden. Guys, drop it. It can't

00:09:14.000 be Biden. We are going to get this guy out. Don't forget, the Democratic National Convention

00:09:18.800 is at the end of next month. But there are ballot deadlines. There's a ballot deadline in Ohio.

00:09:25.220 Meaning that, and we've been talking about this for months now, the Democratic Party might have to

00:09:30.420 virtually nominate a candidate for president even before the convention. And they might

00:09:35.800 have to do that by July 21st. So now we're talking three days. The calls for Biden to step down are

00:09:41.220 ramping up. John Carl, Jonathan Carl, who is a major liberal establishment reporter. He is the

00:09:50.340 chief Washington correspondent for ABC News. Here's what he has to say is going on behind the scenes.

00:09:54.460 The pressure from Democratic leaders for Biden to get out of the race is intensifying. In fact,

00:10:00.780 one person who has been out there publicly defending Biden told me just a short while ago,

00:10:06.500 Biden is going to see the whole House of Cards come down soon. As for that meeting in Rehoboth,

00:10:11.900 Delaware, I am told that this was a one-on-one meeting, just the Senate leader and the president,

00:10:17.700 and that Chuck Schumer forcefully made the case that it would be better for Biden,

00:10:22.280 better for the Democratic Party, and better for the country if he were to bow out of the race.

00:10:27.140 And David, when I went to Schumer's office to ask them about, to tell them I was going to report this

00:10:32.500 and tell you this tonight, absolutely no denial from Senator Schumer's office. They only said this,

00:10:38.300 Leader Schumer conveyed the views of his caucus. In other words, the views of Democratic senators.

00:10:44.160 I am also told that Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the House,

00:10:47.920 has expressed similar views directly to the president.

00:10:53.640 Hakeem Jeffries is a big player. Jonathan Karl, for that matter, is a big player as a

00:10:57.940 liberal establishment journalist. But Chuck Schumer, Chuck Schumer is one of the most powerful

00:11:03.400 players in the Democrat Party. And his office isn't even denying that he is going to Biden's house,

00:11:11.440 Biden's private residence, where Biden is locking himself up until further notice,

00:11:14.860 indefinitely now, because he's got a case of the sniffles. And he's going to say,

00:11:18.780 hey, Joe, you got to get out. You've totally lost the confidence of the Democratic Party.

00:11:24.340 You got to go. The question now is, will Biden take the off ramp? Until now, he has not. And the

00:11:34.260 reason he has not is because there's been no incentive. What does Joe Biden gain by getting out

00:11:41.040 of the race? He's a million years old. All he wants to do is be president. He's wanted to be

00:11:46.360 president since he was in the womb. What does he get out of it? He's already been mocked and

00:11:51.460 humiliated as having dementia and having been a failed president. So what does he get? At least

00:11:58.060 if he sticks around, he gets to be a two-term president, even if he remains a terrible president,

00:12:02.160 even if he's deeply unpopular. At the very least, people will say, oh, he's a two-termer. He got

00:12:07.900 reelected. He won. He won. He accomplished as much as one can at the ballot box in electoral politics.

00:12:17.380 Now, however, Joe Biden, for the first time since the mutiny came up,

00:12:23.980 is hinting at an off ramp. We'll get to that in one second. First, though,

00:12:27.340 just a couple of days ago, I sat down with Donald Trump Jr. for his first long interview after the

00:12:33.840 assassination attempt on his father and the miraculous moment that saved President Trump's

00:12:39.320 life. Check out this teaser. I got a call, you know, 615, whatever it was. Your dad's been shot.

00:12:46.140 I got a hold of my father and, you know, surprisingly calm in the hospital. And, you know, by then I'd

00:12:52.440 already gotten to see the video and sort of him coming up defiant in the face of actual fire. It was

00:12:57.740 sort of amazing. And he just sort of said, you know, hey, man, you're the you're the biggest badass I

00:13:01.820 know. And because I genuinely believe that. You watch the episode now on the Michael Knowles

00:13:12.260 YouTube channel, and you can subscribe to watch the ad free version on Daily Wire Plus.

00:13:20.780 There is the 45th president. Now, we hope the 47th president. As for the 46th president,

00:13:25.680 Biden has for the first time given the vision of a scenario in which maybe he would consider

00:13:37.560 not running in 2024. This in an interview with BET.

00:13:43.120 Is there anything that you would look to you personally, not anybody else, not other pundits,

00:13:48.400 not even perhaps family members, that you would look to to say, if I see that, I will reevaluate?

00:13:55.840 If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said,

00:14:00.880 you got this problem, that problem. But I made a serious mistake in the whole debate. And

00:14:10.080 look, when I originally ran, you may remember it, I said I was going to be a transitional candidate.

00:14:14.160 And I thought that I'd be able to move from this, just pass it on to someone else.

00:14:19.520 But I didn't anticipate things getting so, so, so divided. And quite frankly, I think

00:14:28.000 the only thing age brings a little bit of wisdom. And I think I've demonstrated that I know how to

00:14:33.360 get things done for the country, in spite of the fact that we couldn't get it done. But there's

00:14:38.960 more to do, and I'm reluctant to walk away from that. So, he still obviously wants it. He's still

00:14:46.560 fighting for his political life. But for the first time, he's setting himself up in off-ramp.

00:14:54.400 He's looking ahead and he's saying, wow, we're playing this game of chicken here.

00:14:59.600 It's me and the Democrat establishment. And the Democrat establishment is saying, Joe,

00:15:04.960 if you don't drop out, we're going to make you unelectable.

00:15:08.400 And Joe is looking at the Democrats. He says, hey, Democrats, if you don't get on board,

00:15:12.560 I'm going to be unelectable and you're going to lose all your power. So, who's going to blink

00:15:15.920 first? This is the first time. I'm not saying Joe Biden totally blinked, but his eyes are half

00:15:21.280 closed here. His eyes are always half closed because he's falling asleep because he's obviously

00:15:24.800 way too old to be president. But this is the first time where he says, look, if I were diagnosed

00:15:29.440 with some medical condition. Don't forget, White House visitor logs have shown that a

00:15:33.680 Parkinson's specialist has visited the White House now, what, some 10 times in the last 20 months?

00:15:41.040 Or vice versa? Was it 20 times in 10 months? He's been there a lot. This is a neurologist

00:15:47.440 who specializes in Parkinson's who keeps showing up to the White House. Is he showing up to the

00:15:51.820 White House because the deputy assistant, deputy assistant secretary, secretary wants to see a

00:15:56.160 doctor and doesn't want to take a walk to the medical center? No. Obviously, these visits are

00:16:02.440 for the president. And we know that Biden has seen a neurologist on at least three occasions,

00:16:10.080 as Green Jump here told us. But initially, the White House lied. Initially, the White House tried

00:16:14.200 to say that he had only seen a neurologist in the context of his annual checkup. Now, we know that

00:16:18.840 isn't true because the checkup was in February of last year, and he saw a neurologist in January.

00:16:24.420 And maybe again in February, maybe again in March. And he's seen a neurologist recently again. So is

00:16:32.400 that what we're talking about? Or is the medical condition COVID? COVID's the catch-all. Sorry.

00:16:38.080 All right, folks, I got COVID. I'm going to drop out. That's the first thing you notice.

00:16:42.220 Second thing, he says, I ran to be a transitional candidate. Here again, we see an off-ramp.

00:16:48.940 Look, Joe, look, folks. Come here, Jack. It was always the plan for me to only serve one term and

00:16:55.920 to be a transitional candidate. But then this poses a problem. Because if the plan was always

00:17:02.240 for him to only serve one term, then why has he been running for president again? And why has he

00:17:08.380 resisted calls to drop out of the race? Well, he gives you an answer there. He says, because Jack,

00:17:12.620 I didn't expect things to get so, so divided. So that's what kept him in the race. So I'm not

00:17:19.200 saying in reality. In reality, he wants to hold on to power until they drag him out on a stretcher.

00:17:23.780 But in the narrative that Biden is constructing for himself, there's no way I'm dropping out of the

00:17:29.120 race. You're getting out, buddy. Okay, look, I might get out if I were diagnosed with some serious

00:17:33.780 medical condition. But look, I ran to be a transitional candidate. Okay, well, if you're

00:17:40.700 a transitional candidate, then get out of the race. No, no, but you see, things are so divided.

00:17:44.820 Yeah, they're divided because of you, because you're a terrible president. And that's why I've

00:17:48.080 got, there's, we still have to get the job done. I've gotten results for the American people. What

00:17:52.280 results? So you're seeing this constant push and pull. You don't know. He hasn't settled.

00:17:59.660 He hasn't accepted that the Democrats want him out. He knows that time is running out. He knows

00:18:05.600 they might, he knows they might win now. And so he's got to give himself some kind of an off ramp.

00:18:11.280 But I think in that guy's mind, he is still running in 2024. He's feeling the pressure and

00:18:19.500 he's hearing the Chuck Schumer and he's listening to Hakeem Jeffries and he's, he's feeling that

00:18:24.960 pressure, but I think he's still holding on for re-election.

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00:19:07.040 delivered. Now, if he did not have COVID, and I don't know, maybe Biden has COVID. He's not wearing

00:19:14.160 a mask. So if he had COVID, he should be wearing a mask, right? And I thought he had all his vaccines,

00:19:18.780 so he shouldn't just not contract COVID. Anyway, if he didn't have COVID, he would need to get it

00:19:23.900 because Biden needs to cancel his speeches, and he needs to cancel his speeches because he sounds like

00:19:30.960 this. Also in Las Vegas, he just canceled the rest of the Vegas tour, but speaking in Las Vegas,

00:19:37.920 it was just a couple days ago at the NAACP. This is what we're hearing from President Biden.

00:19:42.280 I know. I thought you'd say, Joe, you may not have a Congress. Well, guess what? You all told me I

00:19:50.660 couldn't pass the Inflation Reduction Act. You all told me I couldn't face it. Anyway, we did it.

00:20:00.600 We're going to bring rents down. As I said, we're going to build 2 million affordable homes.

00:20:05.020 The cap rent increases to 5% a year, so corporate landlords can't, God, anyway, I don't want to get

00:20:11.100 going. I'm going to get very upset. But there's gouging America. By the way, not only saves lives,

00:20:20.320 it will save taxpayers just what I did on the first round on dealing with Medicare. It saves the

00:20:26.500 taxpayer $160 billion because they don't have to pay these exorbitant prices to these, anyway.

00:20:36.760 Anyway, anyway, he's using a teleprompter. He's not even, if you're going off the top of his head

00:20:46.300 and he's a million years old and he's got COVID or whatever, and he's got almost certainly some

00:20:51.020 more serious neurological condition, and he loses his train of thought every once or twice,

00:20:55.980 and he's so, anyway, like I just did, okay, you forgive that. He's using a teleprompter here,

00:21:02.340 and he's still losing his train of thought, and he's still digressing, and he's still diverting,

00:21:07.800 and he's still just falling apart. He's physically falling apart. So they got to get him off the

00:21:12.780 trail. Maybe he does have COVID. Don't we all have COVID like every three months now or something?

00:21:17.620 It seems like COVID is just constantly going around. But the problem is obviously much deeper

00:21:22.660 than COVID. There is a chance that you don't see this guy on the campaign trail again.

00:21:28.060 The dates are just coming upon us very, very quickly. We're not all that far out from the

00:21:33.440 DNC, and we're days out from the deadline for the Ohio ballot. If the Democrat establishment succeeds

00:21:41.180 at getting Biden out of the race, you almost certainly won't see him on the campaign trail

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00:23:39.740 amazing speech last night at the RNC. This was given by a 98-year-old World War II veteran who shows

00:23:48.040 up there in uniform. He's got his cap on. And the whole speech is worth watching. But there was one

00:23:57.120 moment in particular that I think spoke to our political moment, spoke to the reinvigorated,

00:24:04.000 reclarified vision of conservatism and made a really important point about American history

00:24:10.860 and about all history. It hurts my heart to see what our current president and vice president have done

00:24:20.740 to the country I love so well. They humiliated us in Afghanistan again. We pushed around in China. 0.94

00:24:32.420 Terrorists run wild in the Middle East. And they let our own southern border get overrun. 0.98

00:24:40.760 America, people say, people is, America is an idea. But I believe America is much more than that.

00:24:54.380 America, America is our home.

00:24:56.800 Love this. First of all, this guy is 98 years old. He's pushing 100. He's not a professional

00:25:06.980 politician or anything like that. He's got, at least according to chronology, he's got some years

00:25:14.060 on our sitting president who has spent his entire life talking in public. And this guy

00:25:18.760 is much more articulate, much more compelling, obviously much more with it. And even putting

00:25:24.820 senility aside, the senility of the current president, this guy has far greater insight

00:25:30.340 into American history and politics. It was a beautiful, beautiful speech from this World War

00:25:36.960 II veteran with that beautiful point there at the end. America is much more than an idea.

00:25:43.620 And this is a big theme of the RNC. This is a big theme of the J.D. Vance pick for vice president.

00:25:48.840 This is a big theme of the reinvigorated and reclarified vision of conservatism that we've

00:25:55.720 seen emerge over the last five or 10 years. It's an aspect of conservatism that I have been

00:26:01.720 vociferously promoting because I think it's a correction to a bunch of liberal abstraction

00:26:07.580 nonsense that we've heard for about half a century, a little more than half a century now.

00:26:11.740 There are people who want to convince you that America is only an idea. We're not a people.

00:26:18.820 We're not a place. We don't have tradition. We don't have history. We don't have borders. We're

00:26:23.160 nothing. We're just floating in outer space, not even in outer space. Beyond the physical world,

00:26:28.920 America's just this amorphous, ahistorical idea. And that is a bunch of BS. America is animated by

00:26:36.160 ideas, just as all nations are animated by ideas. And there are particular ideas that animate America.

00:26:40.500 Of course, that's true. But America is people. If you took America today, 330 million people,

00:26:47.520 and you had all the people, and you just replaced them with totally new people,

00:26:51.700 but you still had the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution,

00:26:54.680 you would not have the same country. You would have a totally different country.

00:26:58.960 If you, think about it another way, if you took all the American people, 330 million people,

00:27:03.760 and you put them in the steps of Mongolia, but it's the same people, you would have a different

00:27:12.140 country. If you, if you radically altered or replaced the people, the place, the prime figures in the

00:27:24.320 development and the cultivation of the country. If you replace these things, you would have a different

00:27:28.920 country. Because countries, politics, history, take place in time and space. We are incarnate.

00:27:44.560 The world has real flesh and stuff to it. It's not just abstract ideas. J.D. Vance,

00:27:52.560 accepting the vice presidential nomination, made the same point.

00:27:58.300 You know, one of the things that you hear people say sometimes is that America is an idea. And to be

00:28:05.840 clear, America was indeed founded on brilliant ideas like the rule of law and religious liberty,

00:28:11.620 things written into the fabric of our Constitution and our nation. But America is not just an idea.

00:28:18.760 It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation.

00:28:27.720 Now, it is part of that tradition, of course, that we welcome newcomers.

00:28:31.200 But when we allow newcomers into our American family, we allow them on our terms. 1.00

00:28:37.940 Here, here, here, here. I love this point. He then ties it in with immigration, which is,

00:28:42.240 which is relevant to the conversation. But even just that first point,

00:28:45.980 we're, we're a people with a shared history and a shared future. We have a common future.

00:28:54.120 And it's, and you can't, you can't just replace the geography or the borders or the people or the

00:29:01.760 anything really. It's all, it's real stuff. Okay. Our nation is not just the Declaration of

00:29:07.860 Independence. It's not just the Constitution. It's not, it's, it's real. We're a nation. We're a

00:29:14.740 nation. I love, I was already elated by the J.D. Vance pick. I am now three times as elated,

00:29:22.200 if it was possible to be so. Though I, I would have expected nothing less. A beautiful speech,

00:29:28.220 clearly a focus of the RNC, because you're hearing it out of the mouths of multiple speakers.

00:29:32.340 You're hearing it from the young guns. How old is J.D. Vance? He's 12. No,

00:29:35.840 he's a little older than I am. But still, he's a young vice presidential candidate,

00:29:40.120 certainly compared to the presidents in the race. And you're hearing it from a 98-year-old

00:29:45.720 World War II veteran who's accumulated a lot of wisdom over his life. And you're hearing the same

00:29:50.160 point. We're a nation. We're a real people with a real history. And we, we have to recognize that,

00:29:57.260 or we're not going to have very much of a future at all. J.D.'s speech was good. It was really,

00:30:03.480 really good. The line that probably went most viral is when J.D. talked about his mother. If

00:30:10.040 you read his book, his best-selling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, you'll know that J.D. Vance's

00:30:16.600 mother struggled with addiction and all sorts of problems when J.D. was a kid. He was raised largely

00:30:21.680 by his grandmother, Mama, I think, or Meemaw. I didn't grow up in the same area, so I don't remember

00:30:28.660 the precise name for grandmothers down there. But she, she's a major figure in the book. And you

00:30:34.480 kind of wonder, well, what happened to J.D.'s mother? Well, J.D.'s mother was there in the

00:30:38.660 audience after all those difficulties growing up, watching her son accept the nomination for vice

00:30:45.040 president. Our movement is about single moms like mine who struggled with money and addiction but

00:30:51.720 never gave up. And I'm proud to say that tonight my mom is here, 10 years clean and sober. I love you,

00:30:58.200 example. J.D. Ma! J.D. Ma! J.D. Ma! J.D. Ma! J.D. Ma! J.D. Ma! J.D. Ma! And, you know,

00:31:18.720 was thinking it'll be 10 years officially in January of 2025. And if President Trump's okay

00:31:26.880 with it, let's have the celebration in the White House. Great, great line. Really good idea,

00:31:35.780 frankly. Very powerful. Why is that line so powerful? It's powerful because it addresses

00:31:43.340 multiple major political problems in our country. All just to say, hey, love you, mom. You're clean

00:31:51.280 and sober now 10 years. Let's celebrate that in the White House. It recognizes the opioid crisis

00:31:56.340 that Joe Biden has allowed to explode. He's allowed it to explode because he's opened up our border

00:32:03.580 primarily. So this poison flows into the country. I know people who have been killed from this. I bet

00:32:09.760 you listening. I bet virtually every single one of you listening knows someone who has been killed

00:32:15.800 because of the opioid crisis and the fentanyl crisis and the drug crisis broadly, or at least knows

00:32:22.300 someone who knows someone. At least every single person in the country, I think, knows someone who

00:32:25.780 knows someone. So it addresses that, this major drug crisis. How else has Biden exacerbated that?

00:32:31.060 Because the Democrats have weak drug policies. They have weak immigration policies. They have

00:32:34.840 weak crime policies generally, but especially on drugs, they let the drug dealers back out in the

00:32:39.340 streets if they arrest them at all. So it speaks to that total neglect by the Democrat elite and

00:32:46.580 Joe Biden of a major issue that's actually killing our friends and our family members.

00:32:51.900 It also speaks to a class divide. It used to be that the Republican Party was painted as the party

00:33:00.320 of rich Uncle Pennybags and the Democrats are the party of the working man. This RNC made clear that

00:33:04.640 is just not true. You got the head of the teamsters showing up. You got a union boss showing up for the

00:33:10.520 Republicans, not the Democrats. Meanwhile, the Democrats have taken the latte-sipping limousine

00:33:18.000 liberal caricature all the way to its extreme, to its conclusion. They seem to have nothing in common

00:33:27.000 with the working man anymore. They'd rather talk about the rights of transgender Zimbabwean children 1.00

00:33:32.620 at some academic conference than address any of the immediate concerns of the working class,

00:33:39.220 who they call irredeemable and deplorable, and who they have said, or at least implied,

00:33:46.140 ought to just die off. Speaks to that. J.D. Vance came from very, very difficult circumstances. 0.98

00:33:54.500 And then he ended up in college. He ended up at the top law school in the country. He ends up in the

00:34:00.420 Marines. He ends up being very successful in venture capital. He ends up a member of the United

00:34:06.860 States Senate. Now he's the vice presidential nominee and very likely vice president starting

00:34:10.980 in 2025. And then what it speaks to that to me was so beautiful about J.D.'s speech

00:34:15.320 was this persistent assault on family that we've been seeing for the last several decades from the

00:34:21.940 Democrats. The Democrats are doing everything they can to attack the family, to take away the rights of

00:34:27.740 parents, to educate their kids, to encourage divorce, to split up families, to redefine family,

00:34:35.380 to pretend that marriage is something other than what it has always been and always really will be.

00:34:41.800 A new assault on marriage that we've seen just in the past few years to deny that mothers matter, 0.96

00:34:47.300 that babies need their mothers. Now a man or two men can go out to the baby store and just buy a baby, 0.77

00:34:52.300 purchase an egg from a mother, rent another woman's womb, and then create a child for the express 1.00

00:34:57.880 purpose of denying that child his mother. A direct assault just on moms. The relationship between a

00:35:05.160 kid and his mom, it's a very important relationship. And you see all of that, all of that brought together

00:35:11.160 in J.D.'s speech, along with grace and forgiveness and reconciliation. J.D. and his mother clearly didn't have

00:35:17.960 a great relationship for a long time. Now it's together. And then the mothers overcome the

00:35:22.560 addiction. You know, that can-do spirit in America, the ability to actually overcome obstacles,

00:35:31.440 to practice virtue, to live a good life. And to say that's not just going to be a personal triumph,

00:35:37.200 it's going to be a political triumph for all of us because we're going to celebrate it in the

00:35:40.560 people's house. We're going to celebrate it in the White House in January. Beautiful, pitch-perfect,

00:35:45.700 speaking to issues that really, really matter to Americans. The regular old political issues that

00:35:51.140 we debate on TV, and then even more than that, maybe, the issues that stir our hearts, of which

00:35:56.840 we're not always totally conscious. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to

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00:37:08.580 from Torn Fur Hire. Remember, boys and girls, vegetables are great for a balanced diet and not

00:37:15.180 for a balanced government. Great point. Pithy and true. There were other speeches, other good

00:37:23.980 speeches at the RNC last night. You know, they churn these speeches. The speeches are each like

00:37:27.340 five minutes, so you get a lot of people coming through there. But I thought it was a classy move

00:37:32.440 and good for the party that President Trump's rivals from the Republican primary were invited

00:37:38.340 to speak. That's Ron DeSantis, and that is Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley, who made it in, she lasted until

00:37:44.620 at least Super Tuesday. She was the last big competitor in the race. Here is Nikki's message

00:37:50.680 for the RNC. America has an amazing ability to self-correct. In this moment, we have a chance

00:37:59.200 to put aside our differences and focus on what unites us and strengthens our country. Let us join

00:38:05.980 together as a party. Let us come together as a people, as one country, strong and proud. Let us show

00:38:14.780 our children and the world that even on our worst day, we are blessed to live in America.

00:38:24.220 Okay, all good stuff. There's nothing particularly controversial here, nothing particularly

00:38:30.180 objectionable as far as I'm concerned. I thought it was a good speech from Nikki Haley. Ron DeSantis

00:38:34.700 also got up there, who was discussed as really a potentially potent rival to President Trump,

00:38:41.400 though his campaign never really made it all that far. Still a very good governor,

00:38:46.560 a very popular governor. Here is what he had to say.

00:38:50.340 My fellow Republicans, let's send Joe Biden back to his basement and let's send Donald Trump back to

00:39:00.200 the White House. Life was more affordable when Donald Trump was president. Our border was

00:39:11.320 safer under the Trump administration and our country was respected when Donald Trump was our

00:39:18.440 commander-in-chief. Our enemies do not confine their designs to between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

00:39:25.760 We need a commander-in-chief who can lead 24 hours a day and seven days a week. America cannot afford 0.54

00:39:39.120 four more years of a weekend at Bernie's presidency.

00:39:45.140 So from DeSantis, you get a little bit more fire. He's a tough guy. He uses stronger rhetoric,

00:39:53.000 just as we saw in the primary. Ron DeSantis was running more in the Trump lane than in the other

00:39:58.620 lanes that were available. Nikki Haley was running a little bit more in the centrist, moderate lane. 1.00

00:40:02.780 But in any case, the upshot of both of their speeches was exactly the same, which is the

00:40:07.700 party's got to unify. We've got one nominee. His name is Donald Trump. We got to make sure that guy

00:40:12.080 goes back to the White House and the current occupant gets kicked out of the White House.

00:40:15.420 I think this is great. I am. I'm not shocked that I saw some Republicans complaining about

00:40:22.040 their being given speaking slots at the RNC because Republicans complain about everything.

00:40:27.800 conservatives love few things more than complaining. But I don't understand the complaints.

00:40:36.720 The GOP does need to unify. That's just a fact. We need to do even more than unify. We need to bring

00:40:43.780 other people into our united coalition, even people who aren't usually Republicans, in order to win.

00:40:49.820 That's the purpose of a convention. The immediate purpose of a convention is to nominate someone for

00:40:57.800 office. The only slightly broader purpose of the convention is to get everyone, get as many people

00:41:04.340 as possible, really excited to vote for that candidate, to get that candidate into office. That's

00:41:09.540 what it's for. So yeah, I want the Ron DeSantis part of the GOP to be on board with the team in 2024.

00:41:17.460 Yeah, of course I do. Yeah, I want the Nikki Haley wing of the GOP. I understand. There's some people

00:41:22.660 who they're miffed at Ron DeSantis for challenging Trump. I get it. Or there's some people in the

00:41:28.820 Republican Party who don't like Nikki Haley because they disagree with her on some issue or some other

00:41:32.900 issue. Okay, whatever. Fine. We got to win, right? We got to bring these. This is what I was saying

00:41:40.660 about Amber Rose when the Republicans were complaining about Amber Rose because she said and done all sorts of

00:41:46.040 naughty, terrible things. Had Amber Rose gotten up there at the RNC and said, we need to support

00:41:51.680 abortion and we need to promote pornography and we need to do all sorts of bad stuff as Republicans, 0.82

00:41:58.000 I would have objected to the speech, of course. But what did she say? She gets up there. She goes,

00:42:02.300 hey, I thought Trump was bad and the media told me Trump was bad, but my dad said that Trump is good.

00:42:10.880 And now I realize my dad was right. Her speech was dad was right. That is about as conservative of you

00:42:17.640 as you could possibly imagine. And it's pretty basic stuff. Hey, if you look like me, listen,

00:42:22.920 I know Republicans don't generally do well with the face tattoo community, but if you look like me and

00:42:28.640 you're not usually part of the GOP coalition, vote Republican. Great. I'm in. Sign me up. Cool. That's

00:42:33.960 great. Okay. Some Nikki Haley supporters really don't want to vote for Trump and Nikki Haley's getting up

00:42:39.480 there and saying, hey, you should do it anyway. We got to unite. Some Ron DeSantis supporters who

00:42:43.840 in many ways are probably more ideologically aligned with Trump, but they don't like how

00:42:47.860 nasty the campaign got. And maybe they want to stay home. And Ron DeSantis gets up there. He says,

00:42:52.160 hey, vote for Trump. Even if you don't like Trump and you do like me, I'm telling you, please,

00:42:57.160 if you like me, vote for Trump. Good stuff. Good stuff, guys. That's what it's for.

00:43:02.400 The broad purpose of the convention is to ring out every single vote we can and win.

00:43:07.840 Now, speaking of winning, there's a Home Depot employee who was just fired for posting on social

00:43:14.440 media that she wished the shooter on Saturday had been a better shot and had succeeded at murdering

00:43:20.880 Trump. And we know this because this Home Depot employee was just approached at work by some guy

00:43:29.120 with a cell phone camera.

00:43:31.720 Are you?

00:43:33.540 Yeah.

00:43:34.940 Okay. From Cayuga. And you think that the shooter should have been a better shot?

00:43:39.440 Is that what you posted on Facebook?

00:43:43.420 You think that the shooter should have been a shooter, huh?

00:43:46.440 I am at work.

00:43:47.360 Yeah, I think that's pretty messed up. Pretty anti-American, if you ask me. As a veteran,

00:43:54.200 I'm disgusted. What have you provided to this country? Huh? I'm sorry. This is ridiculous.

00:44:04.880 You are ridiculous. And I'm making you famous. 1.00

00:44:07.920 Okay. You heard I censored out the woman's name. I don't want to make her any more infamous than she 1.00

00:44:16.380 already is. And the reason why is she's a Home Depot employee. She's a woman. I'm not saying she's 0.99

00:44:25.860 elderly or anything like that, but she's not a teenager in her 20s. She's a woman who is just

00:44:30.760 working her job. It's a tough job. It's a job where you don't get a lot of thanks all the time. 0.55

00:44:36.760 And this guy shows up to her work to try to destroy her life. I don't know what bills she's

00:44:43.300 got to pay. I don't know what her financial situation is. And you can see she gets kind of

00:44:50.440 nervous in the video. I'm at work. She doesn't know how to handle this. Why? Because she's not

00:44:55.640 a public figure. And so I find the whole thing really, really distasteful.

00:45:00.760 To go after some private citizen who's working a tough job for not a lot of pay and to try to

00:45:07.140 ruin her life. I just find it distasteful. I find it very distasteful that she said,

00:45:11.980 whether joking or seriously, I wish the shooter had succeeded at murdering the president.

00:45:17.940 I obviously find that distasteful too. I guess the reason that I wouldn't encourage this kind of thing

00:45:22.840 is she's a private citizen. Now, the only caveat to that is, and the only point that

00:45:29.960 this guy has as he's going to film her is that she has made herself a public figure. And she's

00:45:36.420 made herself a public figure by posting on social media. And she's not aware of that,

00:45:41.060 which is why, again, I'm still broadly against doing this to people. I'm still broadly against

00:45:48.220 going up to ostensibly private citizens and trying to ruin their lives because of something they posted

00:45:53.600 on Twitter or Facebook or something, making them really famous or infamous.

00:45:59.060 She's not aware, and most people are not aware, that social media makes everyone famous.

00:46:04.640 You know that prediction in the future, everyone will have 15 minutes of fame?

00:46:09.000 Well, it's much easier to have your 15 minutes of fame right now because you can just do it

00:46:12.920 yourself with a cell phone camera. That's what this guy is going to have 15 minutes of fame too,

00:46:17.520 for exposing this woman, giving her 15 minutes of fame. I don't think she understood that. I don't

00:46:24.300 think most people understand that. When you post on social media, you are engaging in a public act,

00:46:29.680 in a political act. You are making yourself a public figure. You are opening yourself up to the

00:46:34.180 dangers that public figures open themselves up to, which is harassment, sometimes physical assault,

00:46:39.940 or even someone tries to come out and kill you, and financial vulnerabilities,

00:46:46.360 that someone's going to go and try to make you lose your job.

00:46:49.540 So there have been a couple attempts to cancel me and destroy my career,

00:46:53.500 but that's kind of baked into the equation here. I'm a guy with a political show who goes out and

00:46:58.560 gives speeches and campaigns and does all that sort of thing, okay? So it's all baked in. But if

00:47:03.780 you're just a woman working at Home Depot, trying to make ends meet in a tough economy,

00:47:10.160 you're especially vulnerable. And so I find that really, really distasteful.

00:47:15.280 And one way to protect against it, one, is to have a little bit of grace and to know the occasion

00:47:20.860 for all of us to keep in mind. But two, for everyone to recognize,

00:47:27.580 your acts are going to be increasingly political because our private lives are becoming increasingly

00:47:35.580 public. Okay, today is Theology Thursday. The rest of the show continues now. You don't want to miss it.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 18, 2024

Ep. 1533 - BREAKING： Joe Biden Is A Sick Man

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