The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1538 - Biden's Strange Address EXPLAINED In 3 Mins

00:00:00.000 President Biden addressed the nation from the Oval Office last night, in part to prove that he's actually alive and in part to give some explanation as to why he suddenly has declined to run for re-election.

00:00:12.160 You know, we've come so far since my inauguration. On that day, I told you, as I stood in that winter, we were stood in a winter of peril and a winter of possibilities. Peril of possibilities.

00:00:27.860 We were in the grip of the worst pandemic in the century. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War. We came together as Americans.

00:00:44.860 Hmm, funny, I don't remember much of that happening. I don't even really remember Biden describing the winter that way in the early days of his presidency. Here's what I remember.

00:00:55.240 For unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for unvaccinated. For themselves, their families, and the hospitals, they'll soon overwhelm.

00:01:07.240 A winter of severe illness and death, that's a little bit harsher than peril and possibilities. But of course, the reality of Biden's presidency was much harsher than whatever promises he made at the inauguration.

00:01:17.920 It just didn't work out. The whole thing was a failure on pretty much every front. The economy, national security, foreign affairs, even trying to run for re-election.

00:01:29.800 It was a failure even in its final Oval Office speech. Because he didn't answer the fundamental question.

00:01:37.500 If he's too old and feeble to run, if he's slurring his words on national television in what was pitched as a live speech and would appear to be a pre-taped speech,

00:01:48.540 if that's the best he's got, how on earth can he serve as president for another six months?

00:01:52.780 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:13.540 Welcome back to the show.

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00:02:57.460 I mentioned there in my intro that it would appear that Biden's speech was not live,

00:03:02.820 even though it was pitched as a live speech.

00:03:04.320 And the way that the internet figured this out is they looked at his watch.

00:03:07.660 So the speech went live, supposedly, at, what, 8, 10 p.m. Eastern time?

00:03:13.600 But the watch was set for 6.07.

00:03:17.280 So, and which makes sense.

00:03:18.780 Joe Biden, when he was still trying to cling to the Democrat nomination for president,

00:03:22.380 after the disastrous debate performance, he said, yeah, I'm going to stop doing events after 8 o'clock.

00:03:26.340 So if he's not going to do evening events anymore, then why would he give the most momentous speech of his presidency in real time in the evening after 8 o'clock?

00:03:36.080 It wouldn't happen.

00:03:37.200 So that would appear to be just one more lie on top of the lies that he mentioned in the speech,

00:03:41.900 on top of the many lies that he said during his presidency,

00:03:46.400 which tops off the failed promises that he made at the beginning of his presidency.

00:03:51.200 It was just a flop.

00:03:52.080 Now, at other times of the day, Biden still seems to have a little bit more energy.

00:03:56.420 Biden was just speaking at an event, again, to give a little proof of life. 0.96

00:04:00.760 And he's a liar, so he was spreading more of the typical lies about Donald Trump. 0.91

00:04:06.420 But he did it with a little more vim and vigor. 0.99

00:04:08.800 By the way, remember when he was trying to deal with COVID, he said, just inject a little bleach in your veins.

00:04:15.140 He missed it.

00:04:15.920 It all went to his hair.

00:04:22.080 Look, I shouldn't have said that.

00:04:30.580 I probably shouldn't have said that.

00:04:36.240 True.

00:04:36.880 You guys are a bad influence on me.

00:04:38.560 So obviously, Trump didn't tell people to inject bleach into their veins.

00:04:44.020 This is one of the many lies about Trump that Biden's been spreading for years.

00:04:48.400 But I can't even get that riled up about it because you watch this.

00:04:51.760 And in a way, I'm as right wing as they come.

00:04:55.040 I really don't like Biden. 1.00

00:04:56.060 I think he's a nasty, nasty man, terrible president. 0.99

00:04:59.540 But you kind of pity him a little bit. 0.99

00:05:02.360 In a way, you almost feel good that he got a little of his vim and vigor back.

00:05:07.020 It's weird watching him now.

00:05:08.740 It's weird watching him after he was shuffled off the stage, yanked off the stage in Las Vegas, thrown into his home in Rehoboth Beach, had the presidency taken away from him, or at the very least had the 2024 nomination taken away from him, totally sidelined in a palace coup.

00:05:22.600 And then he comes back out, and you think, okay, all right, buddy, yeah, that's a good one.

00:05:29.060 You sure burned Trump there.

00:05:32.120 It's like watching someone who you know is terminally ill. 0.92

00:05:35.800 He is politically terminally ill.

00:05:38.400 We know his political career is about to end.

00:05:41.500 He might literally be terminally ill, but he still hasn't been forthright about his medical conditions.

00:05:46.700 But I don't know.

00:05:49.040 I think you just go softer on someone when you know that they're in that kind of feeble condition, and that's where Biden is.

00:05:55.380 So even when he shows energy now, it's just kind of sad because you know this guy is not long for this world.

00:06:03.180 At the very least, he's not long for the political world, and just looking at his age and his behavior, probably not long for the rest of the world either.

00:06:11.160 So now it's Kamala.

00:06:12.680 Kamala Harris is the presumptive nominee.

00:06:15.500 And Libs are working overtime to protect her on one specific point. 1.00

00:06:20.560 Kamala has a number of weaknesses, but one of her biggest weaknesses is she was put in charge of the border. 1.00

00:06:27.460 President Biden said, I am going to make Kamala my point person on the border.

00:06:32.060 She's the borders are.

00:06:33.040 This is how this was reported.

00:06:34.000 And the Libs obviously hate that fact because the border has been the most conspicuous failure of the Biden presidency.

00:06:41.260 And it's the failure that people are most riled up about.

00:06:43.880 It's right there in the top two or three issues of the campaign.

00:06:47.920 You've got the economy and immigration. 0.72

00:06:49.980 Those are, that's pretty much it.

00:06:51.020 But so Democrat Senator Chris Murphy, he responds to this observation by J.D. Vance that Kamala was Biden's borders are.

00:06:59.340 He says, this isn't true.

00:07:01.580 This isn't true.

00:07:02.940 The Biden put Harris in charge of the border narrative is made up.

00:07:07.260 Okay, that's the claim from Chris Murphy, hack of hacks, Democrat, propagandist and politician.

00:07:15.080 So how about his claim?

00:07:16.680 Where did Republicans get the crazy notion that Kamala Harris was the border czar for Joe Biden? 0.87

00:07:23.520 And now to the Biden presidency.

00:07:25.500 President Joe Biden announced Vice President Harris will lead the effort to tackle a sudden surge of migrants at the U.S. southern border.

00:07:32.760 The announcement came as the federal government opened another emergency shelter to deal with the influx.

00:07:38.020 CBS 4's Donya Backus reports.

00:07:41.040 If you deal with the problems in the country, it benefits everyone.

00:07:45.840 President Biden is tapping his Vice President Kamala Harris to oversee U.S. diplomatic efforts to address the recent influx of migrants along the southern border.

00:07:55.180 Okay, that wasn't Fox News.

00:07:57.620 That wasn't the Daily Wire.

00:07:58.840 That wasn't the Blaze.

00:07:59.740 That was CBS News.

00:08:00.960 Now here's Biden in his own words.

00:08:03.980 I've asked her, the VP today, because she's the most qualified person to do it, to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks stemming the migration to our southern border.

00:08:27.500 There you have it.

00:08:28.360 So it's not even just one isolated event.

00:08:30.500 This week, Kamala is going to deal with this particular challenge on immigration.

00:08:33.600 No.

00:08:34.120 He says, this woman is my point person.

00:08:37.060 I'm putting her in charge of the border.

00:08:40.200 And the border no longer exists for all intents and purposes.

00:08:44.100 We have had more migrants cross into the country illegally by multiples than we've ever had in American history.

00:08:50.800 You don't need to take CBS's word for it.

00:08:52.800 You don't need to take Joe Biden's own word for it.

00:08:54.560 Here you have the Associated Press, Biden taps VP Harris to lead response to border challenges.

00:09:00.420 That's from March 24th, 2021.

00:09:02.640 Keep that date in your mind.

00:09:04.120 Axios reported it at the time.

00:09:05.620 Everybody reported it.

00:09:06.580 But now they're deleting it.

00:09:09.700 Here's Axios.

00:09:10.780 This is a center left publication.

00:09:13.520 Editors note, this article has been updated and clarified to note that Axios was among the news outlets that incorrectly labeled Harris a border czar in 2021.

00:09:23.420 Incorrectly.

00:09:24.140 Hold on.

00:09:25.580 Hold on.

00:09:26.160 First of all, among the news outlets, every news outlet reported that because Joe Biden said that.

00:09:32.340 You just heard it in Biden's own words.

00:09:36.680 But they've got to memory hold that.

00:09:39.500 So what does it tell us?

00:09:41.340 They are retconning this.

00:09:43.120 They are to cite an overused work of literature that seems to describe the situation.

00:09:51.280 1984, they just memory hole everything.

00:09:54.360 They rewrite history.

00:09:55.720 The party controls everything.

00:09:56.880 There is no history.

00:09:57.680 There is no past.

00:09:58.640 It's just whatever the party says in the present.

00:10:01.120 They're focusing on the border because they know this is Kamala's biggest liability.

00:10:06.000 This is the issue that the Republicans need to hammer.

00:10:11.360 Americans hate this influx of mass illegal migration.

00:10:17.500 They hate it because it makes a mockery of our laws.

00:10:20.260 They hate it because it floods our country with criminals because the border is not controlled by Kamala Harris.

00:10:24.780 It's controlled by criminal cartels.

00:10:26.420 They hate it because it's flooding our country with poison and killing many, many people.

00:10:31.720 Worst mass poisoning in American history.

00:10:35.020 They hate it.

00:10:36.580 And Kamala is responsible.

00:10:40.000 That's what they can't.

00:10:41.360 They're going to rewrite their own articles from three years ago.

00:10:44.180 Well, thankfully, the internet is forever.

00:10:46.260 This should be at the top of every Republican campaign ad.

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00:11:54.460 In the Biden speech, you heard some lies, you know, it was the economy was the worst, was the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

00:12:03.040 I'm old enough to remember when that was Barack Obama's campaign line in 2008.

00:12:08.200 Oh, I'm running, I took over after the worst economic crisis, the Great Depression.

00:12:12.060 Now listen here.

00:12:12.680 And probably Joe Biden's just getting confused between the time he was vice president and the time he was president.

00:12:18.620 This was, this is the worst crisis in America since the Civil War.

00:12:22.220 And I would know, Jack, I was around at the Civil War.

00:12:24.320 Me and Corn Pop, we're fighting opposite sides up there in Scranton.

00:12:30.440 So you get all of this kind of hyperbolic language.

00:12:33.320 And then what do you get?

00:12:34.780 You don't really get him citing specific accomplishments because he doesn't have any.

00:12:38.200 So it's all about the future.

00:12:39.820 And for the next six months, I'm going to keep working on my moonshot to cure cancer.

00:12:44.060 Bro, you've been working on the moonshot to cure cancer since, what, 2016 is when Barack Obama tasked you with that?

00:12:49.160 In 2016, Barack Obama said, I am appointing, just as Joe appointed Kamala to fix the border, Barack Obama appointed Joe Biden to cure cancer.

00:12:58.000 Probably not the best choice.

00:13:00.740 If you said, Michael, if any one person in America is going to cure cancer, who do you think it would be?

00:13:06.200 I would bet pretty much every penny to my name that it would not be Joe Biden.

00:13:11.800 And so he hasn't, obviously, he hasn't done that.

00:13:13.740 And so it's all about the future.

00:13:14.640 And we're going to do this.

00:13:16.260 We're going to do that.

00:13:17.180 Hey, bro, you've been in politics for 54 years at the national level.

00:13:22.760 And you haven't accomplished anything, really.

00:13:26.480 You had a crime bill that was okay in the 90s, but that all got unwound.

00:13:30.860 Other than that, what have you?

00:13:32.940 Nothing.

00:13:34.020 You got nothing.

00:13:34.540 So it's all about the future.

00:13:35.940 So the libs have to lean into identity.

00:13:39.940 Without any accomplishments and with a lot of failures behind them, they've got to lean into identity.

00:13:44.680 This is why it's helpful to them to have Kamala Harris, because they can say that she's black, 1.00

00:13:48.500 even though she's half Tamil Indian and half Afro Jamaican, which is, she doesn't really have any African-American ancestry.

00:13:56.080 But, you know, they can kind of make it look a little bit if you squint like she's African-American. 0.96

00:14:01.320 And she's a woman, so they're going to lean into that.

00:14:03.300 And they're going to viciously slander and attack anyone who is in any way vulnerable to the charge of racism, as they did yesterday to Brian Kilmeade on Fox News.

00:14:17.300 Listen to what they went after Brian Kilmeade for.

00:14:19.240 Obviously, you compare him to President Biden, who is muddling his way through speeches.

00:14:23.540 People know he couldn't go more than 15 minutes.

00:14:28.100 She's very good on the prompter.

00:14:29.220 No one even doubted that.

00:14:30.360 She had 3,000 people there. 0.86

00:14:31.940 Why are they there?

00:14:32.640 A lot of them have to do with, hey, I'm a Democrat.

00:14:34.740 I thought we were going to go down in flames.

00:14:36.720 Now we have a shot.

00:14:37.600 The problem with Kamala Harris, number one, she has not had her record exploited heavily because people thought and marginalized her. 0.93

00:14:44.000 Even in the Democratic Party, they said, wow, what a bad choice Joe Biden made.

00:14:48.520 Number two is she hasn't sat down for an interview.

00:14:51.460 When she sits down in an interview and says, do you want to fund ICE?

00:14:55.980 Where do you stand on Medicare for all?

00:14:59.360 Why didn't you show up?

00:15:01.140 The most recent decision, already you got a question.

00:15:03.540 She will not show up for the prime minister's joint session of Congress today.

00:15:07.940 She'd rather address in the summer a sorority, a college sorority, like she can't get out of that. 0.94

00:15:14.140 So that's her decision.

00:15:15.680 And that's her decision to back up the protesters. 1.00

00:15:17.640 And how about the border?

00:15:18.500 When they ask her about the border, I haven't been to Europe either.

00:15:20.760 Remember she said that?

00:15:21.960 She's the border czar.

00:15:22.660 She didn't go to the president.

00:15:23.840 She didn't go to the border.

00:15:24.660 And now we're learning that two of the border chiefs, the last two border chiefs, she hasn't talked to.

00:15:28.900 Okay, if you're a normal person, you listen to that clip.

00:15:30.940 You're probably struggling to figure out what on earth could the left find objectionable about that clip?

00:15:36.300 All of the stuff that Kilmeade just said is true.

00:15:39.280 So what are they going after?

00:15:41.240 The libs, I'm not joking, are pretending that when Kilmeade said she'd rather go talk to a college sorority than talk to an interviewer who's going to ask her tough questions, 0.99

00:15:52.020 they're saying that Kilmeade said colored sorority.

00:15:56.300 She'd rather go speak to a colored sorority. 1.00

00:15:58.940 Now, we have the tape.

00:16:00.340 You can go back and play it a million times.

00:16:02.660 It's clear enough to me.

00:16:04.320 Even if he garbles his word a little bit at the end, you can hear the first syllable very clearly.

00:16:09.740 And the first syllable is call.

00:16:12.980 What's funny about this totally dishonest attack on Brian Kilmeade is it's actually not the same syllable.

00:16:23.060 College and colored are different.

00:16:25.980 They are spelled about the same, but they're different sounds.

00:16:30.860 Call, C-A-H-L, call, and cull, C-U-H-L, cull. 1.00

00:16:39.540 It's not collared, like collared greens or something.

00:16:42.800 He said college, college sorority, of course. 0.98

00:16:47.760 But then, it's a very dishonest attack, very, very silly. 0.70

00:16:50.460 But I see everyone defending Kilmeade and saying, he would never say such a thing. 0.91

00:16:54.740 It's outrageous to suggest he would say such a thing.

00:16:57.120 My response is, so what if he had?

00:17:00.160 So what if he had?

00:17:01.680 The libs tell me that I have to refer to women like Kamala Harris as women of color. 0.99

00:17:09.200 That's the new euphemism.

00:17:10.620 I'm not allowed to call them black, or in her case, I guess, Tamil Indian.

00:17:13.340 I'm not allowed to use any other word throughout American history that has ever been used in a neutral, technical way to describe people of a certain ethnic and racial background.

00:17:24.140 I, today, am required as a matter of political correctness to use the term of color.

00:17:28.940 So why is it that I am required to call Kamala Harris a woman of color, but if someone on Fox News were to have referred to colored sororities, which they did not, no one did, that that would somehow be a hideous violation and terribly racist.

00:17:46.340 Colored and of color are semantically identical statements.

00:17:50.520 So who cares?

00:17:52.440 My defense of Brian Kilmeade is, yeah, it's just a matter of fact that he didn't say what they're accusing him of saying.

00:17:57.540 But even if he did, he would just be using the idiom of the left.

00:18:01.840 But of course, when the left uses it, it's good.

00:18:03.640 And when the right uses it, it's bad.

00:18:06.260 Which brings us back to a phrase coined by Michael Anton, the celebration parallax.

00:18:11.500 When the left talks about replacement migration, it's wonderful because they're celebrating it. 0.97

00:18:15.460 Look at all this wonderful replacement migration we have.

00:18:17.200 But when the right talks about replacement migration, it's a hideous, awful, racist conspiracy theory.

00:18:22.380 They're talking about the same thing.

00:18:24.220 It's just the difference is one's perspective.

00:18:28.780 If you think it's a good thing, it's true.

00:18:30.340 And if you think it's a bad thing, it's a crazy, wild conspiracy theory.

00:18:33.020 Well, same with of color and colored.

00:18:36.280 So they're going to try to paint Kamala as untouchable. 1.00

00:18:42.160 You can't criticize her at all.

00:18:43.420 And they're going to use J.D. Vance as a foil.

00:18:45.660 Well, these are the two now young candidates in the race.

00:18:50.440 And Kamala is a brave, beautiful, wonderful woman of color.

00:18:55.900 And J.D., he is the worst of the worst.

00:19:00.000 The worst kind of person you can be. 1.00

00:19:01.660 He is a straight white man. 0.98

00:19:04.600 And he has the audacity to know that he's a man.

00:19:07.200 He is a cisgender.

00:19:08.660 He's just every terrible thing in the book.

00:19:10.580 And so you have a Politico piece that just came out.

00:19:16.420 Politico as beltway establishment as it gets.

00:19:19.540 A piece in the magazine.

00:19:21.360 J.D. Vance has a bunch of weird views on gender.

00:19:26.520 That's the headline.

00:19:27.540 The people who tell you that you have to believe that a little boy can become a little girl.

00:19:37.320 The people who tell you that a big husky dude with five o'clock shadow and an Adam's apple must be permitted to strip down naked in your daughter's changing room at the public pool.

00:19:51.080 Those people are telling you that J.D. Vance has weird views of gender.

00:19:55.800 So what are the views?

00:19:57.380 I read this whole article, I'm sorry to say.

00:19:59.920 And I outlined all of the views.

00:20:02.460 First one is he says the country is run by childless cat ladies.

00:20:06.940 Show me the lie.

00:20:08.100 By the way, he's not making fun of women who suffer from infertility.

00:20:11.760 Obviously, that's a great pain for a lot of people.

00:20:14.640 And, you know, I've seen it a little bit up close.

00:20:17.720 And it's obviously a very terrible thing.

00:20:19.820 That's not what he's talking about because one of the childless cat ladies he cites is Pete Buttigieg. 1.00

00:20:23.480 So he's obviously referring to a type.

00:20:25.220 We all know who this type is.

00:20:26.740 And we all know that he's right about that.

00:20:28.700 We are run by childless cat ladies, if not literal, at the very least spiritual. 0.99

00:20:33.200 He then expresses skepticism of gender ideology.

00:20:37.040 Politico put that in quotes, gender ideology. 0.99

00:20:39.820 That's one of his weird views.

00:20:41.560 He doesn't think dudes can become chicks.

00:20:43.340 He opposes abortion. 0.94

00:20:44.660 So he thinks that we shouldn't murder little babies.

00:20:48.160 That's one of his weird views.

00:20:49.400 He supports pro-family policies like the policy in Hungary, which encourages people to get married and have more children.

00:20:57.340 So about as common sense of political policy as you can imagine.

00:21:00.620 He supports that.

00:21:01.340 That's a weird view.

00:21:02.120 He believes marriage is between a man and a woman.

00:21:03.900 So he has this really weird view that every single person on earth forever believed until 2015.

00:21:10.280 That he supports this really weird, crazy view that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and then running mate to be vice president Joe Biden ran on.

00:21:20.120 You know, that marriage is a union between a man and a woman. 0.70

00:21:22.240 Yeah, he holds that view.

00:21:23.500 But he holds that view about nine years after you're allowed to hold that view, which had been held for all of history.

00:21:28.620 He thinks divorce has become too common.

00:21:30.920 So he's not really gung-ho on divorce.

00:21:34.640 That's another weird view.

00:21:35.860 That's it.

00:21:36.440 That's all the views.

00:21:38.100 Those are all the views.

00:21:39.760 I'm not hiding.

00:21:41.020 I'm not selectively, you know, choosing this one or excluding that one.

00:21:43.840 That's everything they cite is a weird view.

00:21:45.760 If those are weird views, then the vast majority of Americans are weird.

00:21:53.760 Those are the most normal views that I can imagine on the issue of sex and gender.

00:21:59.900 The Libs views, obviously, are quite weird.

00:22:03.180 And when they go up for a vote at the ballot box or as a big issue for a candidate's campaign, they are roundly rejected by the voters.

00:22:12.680 It shows you how weird our Beltway elite really are.

00:22:16.380 But okay, if JD is weird, that's great.

00:22:19.180 I guess we got a real weird country then because that is what most people believe.

00:22:23.780 You know, the greatest interview show on the internet yesterday now is more than just the most fun you can have on YouTube.

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00:24:14.320 One last little note on J.D. as they go after him.

00:24:17.680 Because there's not much to go after with Trump anymore.

00:24:19.860 Everyone knows everything that Trump has ever done.

00:24:22.140 Every scandal, or would-be scandal, or totally contrived hoax that the libs could come up with.

00:24:27.880 They've pretty much already tried, and people have formed their opinions of Trump.

00:24:31.500 So now they're going after J.D.

00:24:33.440 ProPublica, left-wing outlet, is also insinuating that J.D. is totally crazy.

00:24:38.420 A headline yesterday, in private speech, J.D. Vann said, the devil is real.

00:24:42.900 And praised Alex Jones as a truth teller.

00:24:45.160 Now, the joke here that J.D. made about Alex Jones is he said, you watch Alex Jones and you watch Rachel Maddow.

00:24:51.340 Alex Jones gets more things right than Rachel Maddow does.

00:24:54.320 They call Jones a conspiracy theorist.

00:24:56.080 The left are far more prolific conspiracy theorists.

00:24:59.900 But the first line there, J.D. Vann said, the devil is real.

00:25:05.020 Here's what he said.

00:25:07.040 He said that every person in attendance for his speech believed something that's a little crazy.

00:25:10.900 In his case, he said, I believe the devil's real and that he works terrible things in our society.

00:25:15.580 That's a crazy conspiracy theory to a lot of very well-educated people in this country right now.

00:25:19.000 And that's how ProPublica is taking it. 0.93

00:25:21.240 That's how the libs are taking it. 0.93

00:25:22.420 This reminded me of a beautiful interview Antonin Scalia did at the late, great Supreme Court Justice in 2013 with New York Magazine.

00:25:29.540 He was talking to some know-nothing young reporter for New York Magazine.

00:25:33.640 And she was asking him his views about religion.

00:25:37.540 They said, yeah, I'm Catholic.

00:25:39.980 Oh, you believe in heaven?

00:25:42.080 You believe in God?

00:25:43.440 Yeah.

00:25:43.980 Yeah, I do.

00:25:44.420 Oh, wow, that must be awful scary to believe in hell, isn't it?

00:25:49.020 Yeah, well, sort of.

00:25:50.540 I mean, you know, Scalia's giving his answer.

00:25:53.060 And she's so stunned by Scalia being Christian that at one point he leans over in a theatrical whisper.

00:26:02.100 He says, you know, I even believe in the devil.

00:26:04.400 And here's what she says to him, the reporter.

00:26:07.280 Isn't it terribly frightening to believe in the devil?

00:26:10.100 And his response.

00:26:11.220 I love this response.

00:26:12.140 I go back to this response again and again.

00:26:14.800 You're looking at me as though I'm weird.

00:26:17.180 My God, are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the devil?

00:26:24.200 I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the devil.

00:26:27.160 It's in the Gospels.

00:26:28.640 You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the devil.

00:26:37.100 Most of mankind has believed in the devil for all of history.

00:26:40.560 And here's the kicker.

00:26:43.360 Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the devil.

00:26:48.300 I love this.

00:26:51.620 J.D. Vance is really weird because he believes in the devil.

00:26:56.120 He thinks men and women are different.

00:26:57.940 He thinks divorce is generally bad. 0.97

00:27:00.120 He thinks it's kind of generally a bad thing to murder babies.

00:27:05.180 He thinks marriage is between a man and a woman.

00:27:11.780 But let me promise you something.

00:27:14.800 Having followed J.D. Vance's career a little bit, J.D. Vance is much more intelligent than the person who wrote this Pro Publica piece.

00:27:21.940 J.D. Vance is much more intelligent than the person who wrote the Politico piece.

00:27:26.060 J.D. Vance is much more intelligent than the vast majority of people, not just in the country, but especially in our political class, especially in the people who consider themselves the geniuses and the experts.

00:27:37.500 J.D. Vance was much more intelligent than whoever this New York Magazine reporter was.

00:27:45.580 But forget about that for a second.

00:27:47.000 Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the devil and have believed in all the things that people have believed in for thousands of years that have helped to build up our civilization, that have helped us to see a little bit more clearly the fabric of the universe, our place in the cosmos, to see the truth.

00:28:10.080 And the supposed geniuses who are now mocking these people, they would appear to be mistaken.

00:28:18.220 Now, speaking of the decline of intellectual life, there's a new study out, headlines everywhere, terrible, terrible news.

00:28:25.720 It turns out adults are no longer reading.

00:28:29.380 New study by the Reading Agency sheds light.

00:28:32.680 This is out of the UK, though it's a problem throughout the Western world.

00:28:36.720 Half of British adults do not regularly read.

00:28:40.960 The survey shows that 24% of people between the ages of 16 and 24 have never been readers.

00:28:46.860 And it surveyed 2,000 people who are nationally representative of UK consumers.

00:28:52.300 The 50% of adult respondents who say they do read regularly represents an 8% decline since 2015.

00:28:58.500 So over the course of nine years, you've got an 8% drop in the people who regularly read.

00:29:04.480 58% of adults, 8% point drop, so it's even much more significant.

00:29:08.580 58% of adults answered affirmatively to that same question nine years ago. 0.96

00:29:14.100 So the normie response to this is, this is terrible, people don't read, people are idiots now, used to be so much better, everyone needs to read more or else we're all going to become adults. 0.98

00:29:27.100 I enjoy reading. 0.99

00:29:30.320 Sure.

00:29:31.620 I'm actually kind of a slow reader.

00:29:33.100 I've probably read more books than the average person, but I haven't read nearly as many books as many of my friends.

00:29:37.820 Those Clavons basically read three books an hour.

00:29:40.280 But should you read more?

00:29:43.560 Should you read more?

00:29:44.800 People are going to see those headlines and say, oh, doggone it, I really need to read more.

00:29:47.660 I need to set a reading plan.

00:29:49.100 I need to.

00:29:51.260 No, actually.

00:29:53.480 I don't think the problem is that people need to read a lot more.

00:29:57.220 In fact, some people need to read a lot less.

00:29:59.100 And I go back to a French philosopher, a Catholic, who was some member of the clergy, Antonin Gilbert Sertilange.

00:30:10.180 I'm sure I'm mispronouncing that.

00:30:11.920 He wrote a book called The Intellectual Life, in which this is a guy who lived at the end of the 19th and early, first half of the 20th century.

00:30:19.560 He condemned, quote, the passion for reading, the uncontrolled habit, the poisoning of the mind by excessive mental food, the laziness in disguise, which prefers easy familiarity with others' thought to personal effort.

00:30:33.780 In a way, there is a problem in modern society, which is that people are reading too much.

00:30:42.820 In a way, you'd say they're not reading enough.

00:30:44.120 In a way, you'd say they're reading too much.

00:30:45.120 They're just reading the wrong stuff.

00:30:46.440 You have to be careful about what you read. 1.00

00:30:48.280 There's so many dumb books out there. 0.99

00:30:50.660 And the comparison between reading and eating is a good one. 0.99

00:30:55.240 If you eat healthy food, that's good for you.

00:31:00.160 If you eat too much healthy food, if you eat even healthy food in excess, that can be bad for you.

00:31:04.920 You've got to eat the appropriate amount of healthy food.

00:31:08.300 If you eat too little healthy food, you'll die.

00:31:11.700 But if you eat junk food, then there's really no amount that's good for you.

00:31:17.380 It can always be bad for you.

00:31:18.780 And so a lot of people today, they want to read, either they'll just read, you know, kind of paperbacks for entertainment, which, okay, I guess, you know, either you scroll or you watch TV or you read paperbacks, but, you know, fine, I guess, if you want some recreation.

00:31:29.380 But the people who read self-help books, for instance, I think that's generally bad for you.

00:31:35.680 I think that generally leaves you worse off than you were before.

00:31:38.920 People who read pop philosophy written by fashionable left-wing atheist materialists, that's bad for you. 0.97

00:31:46.420 Very often, you are left dumber and more incorrect at the end of the book than you were beforehand. 0.94

00:31:53.200 It can lead you down a very, very bad path. 0.93

00:31:56.640 This is very contrary to the wisdom of our age, including on the right, where we say, no, you just got to read more.

00:32:04.540 You got to think everything.

00:32:05.580 You need total free speech.

00:32:06.760 You need to say and do whatever you want.

00:32:08.280 No, man, that can be really bad for you.

00:32:10.800 That can lead you to cultivate bad habits, to come to erroneous conclusions, to develop even bad mental habits and desires, and lead you way off the straight path.

00:32:20.340 No, what you need is curated reading.

00:32:26.280 What you need is teachers.

00:32:27.900 What you need is proper education, which guides you.

00:32:32.600 Okay?

00:32:33.000 You know, Sertilange suggested that people read pretty much just three books.

00:32:37.120 You know, they read deeply and they reread into authors.

00:32:41.100 And one, you know, guy I talk about all the time.

00:32:42.620 That's basically what I've done.

00:32:43.520 I go back to the same three or four authors, but, you know, with a few extras sprinkled in over there.

00:32:48.600 But to go back to my favorite author, Dante, don't forget that whole poem is about Dante being led by guides, by teachers, first by Virgil, then by his beloved Beatrice, then by St. Bernard of Clairvaux.

00:33:01.660 And he's meeting all sorts of other teachers along the way, his teacher, Brunetto Latini, his teacher, his ancestor, Caccia Guida, all the rest of them.

00:33:09.580 That's an expression of how education ought to be.

00:33:12.420 It has to be guided. 1.00

00:33:13.680 If you just go out there on your own and consume a bunch of crap, you're probably going to end up dumber than you were when you started. 0.99

00:33:18.020 Now, speaking of confused people, pro-Palestine protesters just lit an American flag on fire at Union Station in Washington, D.C. 0.99

00:33:27.240 Okay, so you see a lot of Palestine flags, a lot of protest of Bibi, the Israeli president, Bibi Netanyahu, was there.

00:33:44.660 And there you see some kind of Uncle Sam being hanged in effigy, Uncle Sam holding an American flag and an Israel flag.

00:33:54.580 Can't tell whose face is depicted on the effigy.

00:33:59.320 And then they're burning the U.S. flag.

00:34:01.240 Okay, a lot of keffias, that sort of thing.

00:34:02.980 I see this a lot.

00:34:08.320 Sometimes I notice patterns, you know, and I've noticed the more Palestine flags at a protest, the greater the likelihood that an American flag will be burned. 0.93

00:34:19.540 I've just noticed that.

00:34:21.140 I've never seen a patriotic pro-Palestine protest in America.

00:34:28.120 Have you?

00:34:29.000 At one point, some hero in Washington, D.C.

00:34:32.660 goes in to try to save the American flag from being burnt in protest.

00:34:37.620 Here's what happens.

00:34:38.380 There, Mr. Giga-Chad wearing his white Oxford shirt and chinos, grabs the flag, runs off with it, and then some keffia-clad lunatic lady goes and tries to tackle it and take the flag back so that they can further desecrate it. 0.98

00:35:00.560 Because the flag is a symbol.

00:35:02.300 So the reason that if you're raised right, you don't want an American flag to touch the ground is not because there's some magic in the cloth or something.

00:35:08.240 It's because it represents the country, and you don't want to show disrespect to the country.

00:35:12.420 So this guy says, no, I don't want the flag to be disrespected.

00:35:15.840 But the reason they burn it is because they do want to disrespect it because they recognize that there's a relation between a symbol and the thing that it symbolizes.

00:35:22.560 And they really, really hate America.

00:35:26.000 So what do we conclude from this?

00:35:30.780 The Israel-Palestine conflict is a complex one.

00:35:34.800 America's interests do not always line up with Israel's interests.

00:35:37.900 There are some people who are extraordinarily pro-Israel who insist that Israel and America are basically interchangeable and we have exactly the same interests.

00:35:47.500 And I don't think that's true at all.

00:35:49.980 However, if you've got to kind of pick a side in the Israel-Palestine conflict, I can't help but notice that at the pro-Israel rallies, they wave the American flag.

00:35:58.640 And at the pro-Palestine rallies, they burn the American flag.

00:36:02.320 Just, it's not, I don't think you need to know all that much about the conflict to have some sense of which side you maybe should be at least somewhat inclined to favor.

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00:36:37.620 My favorite comment yesterday is from Mega Casper C, who says they didn't want to be burdened by what has been, like, by the Constitution.

00:36:43.580 That's true. That's the scary thing about Kamala's stupid catchphrase. 1.00

00:36:47.540 We need to imagine what can be unburdened by what has been. 0.99

00:36:50.780 Inasmuch as that has a meaning, it's a Jacobin political meaning.

00:36:55.220 It's a radical, liberal political meaning to say, get rid of tradition, ignore the wisdom of the ages, spit on our forebears.

00:37:06.240 The past is evil, the present is a crisis, and the future is going to be great if you give us the power.

00:37:10.740 That is a very scary political program, because that's what it entails.

00:37:16.720 Unburdened by what, well, the Constitution has been.

00:37:18.920 The American way of life has been.

00:37:20.940 The American family has been.

00:37:24.180 Christianity guiding America's destiny has been.

00:37:28.760 It's a thing that has been noticed and understood and cherished.

00:37:31.500 So if you want to get rid of everything that's been, you're going to try to include those things, too.

00:37:34.800 The pro-Palestine crowd was out in force yesterday because the prime minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, showed up to give a message to Congress.

00:37:43.680 Here is his message.

00:37:44.860 Well, I have a message for these protesters. 0.93

00:37:47.700 When the tyrants of Tehran, who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair, are praising, promoting, and funding you, 1.00

00:37:56.980 you have officially become Iran's useful idiots. 1.00

00:38:09.760 All right. 1.00

00:38:10.360 So you see, mostly the Republicans applauding at that.

00:38:12.580 The Democrats seem kind of irritated.

00:38:14.080 And then you have Rashida Tlaib.

00:38:16.680 She's, you know, one of the squad.

00:38:18.840 She's sort of like the Ringo of the squad, but maybe the George Harrison of the squad.

00:38:22.460 I don't know.

00:38:22.660 She's not one of the, she's not, you know, Ilhan or AOC.

00:38:25.720 That's more of the Lennon-McCartney side.

00:38:27.300 But she's a far leftist, doesn't know very much, wants to abolish prisons and do all sorts of crazy stuff domestically. 1.00

00:38:34.840 And she's extremely pro-Palestine on the foreign front.

00:38:37.800 And so she's wearing a Palestine keffiyeh around her neck and a Palestine flag button on her lapel.

00:38:44.520 She's wearing some kind of blazer, I guess, for some reason.

00:38:47.800 And she's holding a sign that says war criminal to describe Bibi Netanyahu.

00:38:56.380 Would anyone disagree with that phrase that Netanyahu used to describe these people?

00:39:02.240 Again, you don't need to know all that much about the Israel-Palestine conflict to observe

00:39:06.900 that the people who are most vociferously pro-Palestine are the people who are most clearly wrong about everything else.

00:39:15.480 I don't know very much about Israel-Palestine.

00:39:18.500 I do know about crime and punishment a little bit.

00:39:21.240 I do know that when you put more criminals in prison, that's good for society.

00:39:24.900 And when you let the criminals out of prison, that's generally bad.

00:39:27.360 So if I look at people who they're wrong on law and order, you know, they want to abolish prisons.

00:39:35.320 They want more socialist economic policies.

00:39:39.080 They want to encourage people to go get gender studies degrees for hundreds of thousands of dollars that are paid for by taxpayers.

00:39:45.040 They want an open border.

00:39:47.020 They want all sorts of terror.

00:39:49.620 They support Biden and Kamala Harris and all the worst politicians.

00:39:53.160 If I notice that the people who are wrong about pretty much everything also tend to be the most pro-Palestine,

00:39:59.460 that is going to color my view of the Palestine-Israel conflict.

00:40:03.200 I'm just going to assume, I think reasonably, that if they're wrong about everything, they're wrong about that too.

00:40:08.740 And that's what Bibi Netanyahu is counting on.

00:40:10.600 That's why the Republicans were applauding him.

00:40:12.340 One of the reasons the Republicans were applauding him.

00:40:13.980 Then he goes on to explain to Americans why Iran is such a threat. 0.87

00:40:17.840 For Iran, Israel is first. 0.99

00:40:20.300 America is next. 0.66

00:40:21.000 So when Israel fights Hamas, we're fighting Iran. 0.97

00:40:25.740 When we fight Hezbollah, we're fighting Iran. 0.98

00:40:28.860 When we fight the Houthis, we're fighting Iran. 0.98

00:40:31.700 And when we fight Iran, we're fighting the most radical and murderous enemy of the United States of America. 0.99

00:40:38.160 And one more thing.

00:40:40.360 When Israel acts to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, 0.65

00:40:45.000 nuclear weapons that could destroy Israel and threaten every American city, every city that you come from.

00:40:52.820 We're not only protecting ourselves, we're protecting you.

00:40:56.040 Okay, so is Iran the most murderous and radical enemy of America? 0.92

00:41:03.320 I don't think I would say that.

00:41:04.820 I don't think that's true.

00:41:06.420 Relatively small country compared to some of our other adversaries.

00:41:09.640 And relatively moderate compared to some of our other adversaries.

00:41:13.440 I think of North Korea.

00:41:14.340 I would say probably North Korea is a little more radical than Iran. 0.54

00:41:19.120 I would say that China is a little bit more substantial in terms of throwing its weight around than Iran.

00:41:24.980 I'm not saying Iran doesn't pose a threat to America. 1.00

00:41:27.080 Iran obviously does.

00:41:27.880 Iran tried to murder Trump just a few weeks ago, didn't they? 0.99

00:41:30.260 They've had assassination attempts plotted against Trump for years now.

00:41:34.260 Iran causes all sorts of problems for us. 1.00

00:41:37.160 But here there's a difference between the U.S. perspective and the Israeli perspective.

00:41:42.020 For the U.S., Iran is an adversary. 0.82

00:41:45.240 And sometimes we can work a little better with Iran. 1.00

00:41:47.660 Sometimes it's a little harder.

00:41:50.360 But America has a complicated relationship to the Middle East.

00:41:53.200 You've got hijackers on 9-11 coming from Saudi Arabia.

00:41:56.580 But you also have Saudi Arabia as one of America's best allies in the Middle East.

00:41:59.820 And Saudi Arabia propping up U.S. currency because of the petrodollar.

00:42:03.260 And you've got other alliances in the Middle East with Kuwait or Bahrain.

00:42:07.760 And then, you know, as a result of some of those alliances, then you've got some adversaries like Iran and Iran's coalition.

00:42:13.480 And that's before even considering Israel into the equation.

00:42:16.420 So what I'm saying about America's relationship with Iran is it's adversarial, but it's complicated.

00:42:21.220 When it comes to Israel, Iran poses an existential threat to Israel. 1.00

00:42:25.340 Iran does not pose an existential threat to the United States.

00:42:27.460 So there's a difference of perspective and vulnerability there.

00:42:31.340 So what does this mean for conservatives?

00:42:34.980 What's the upshot of it?

00:42:36.660 Well, probably the upshot is what Trump says about it, which is, hey, I'm going to go in there and resolve these conflicts. 0.86

00:42:44.800 And it sounds overly simple and kind of silly and dismissive or glib or something like that.

00:42:50.580 But I actually don't think it is.

00:42:53.420 Americans do not have the appetite for regime change in Iran.

00:42:56.280 Back in the era of George W. Bush and the height of the neoconservatives, maybe Americans would have had more of an appetite for regime change in Iran.

00:43:06.040 They don't now.

00:43:07.520 Trump has no desire for that either.

00:43:08.960 He might go in and kill their top general, but I don't think he's going to try to overthrow the regime.

00:43:14.420 Otherwise, Trump is kind of a dove.

00:43:15.840 Trump is unpredictable politically.

00:43:17.920 And this is just a fact, Trump had the most successful Middle East policy of any president in my lifetime.

00:43:27.040 He might have had the most successful Middle East policy of any president, certainly since Ronald Reagan.

00:43:32.980 And maybe, I don't know, since World War II, he did a pretty good job balancing these issues.

00:43:40.240 You know, Biden doesn't want to meet with Netanyahu.

00:43:42.760 Kamala doesn't want to attend the Netanyahu speech.

00:43:45.420 Trump's going to meet with Netanyahu.

00:43:46.600 And Trump, at the same time, just received a letter and sent a letter back to Mahmoud Abbas, who calls himself the president of Palestine.

00:43:52.660 Abbas saying, Trump, I'm so sorry that you were nearly assassinated.

00:43:55.460 He said, Mahmoud, it's a great image.

00:43:57.600 It's right there on his Truth Social page.

00:43:59.300 Mahmoud, thank you for the kind note.

00:44:02.020 All will be good.

00:44:04.000 Yours, Donald.

00:44:06.100 We're going to work it out.

00:44:07.320 There's going to be great peace in the Middle East.

00:44:10.900 That's it.

00:44:11.400 You don't need to be clamoring to, you know, go topple Iran.

00:44:16.420 I'm not clamoring to topple Iran.

00:44:18.080 I have no appetite to do that whatsoever.

00:44:20.040 To simultaneously recognize that the people waving the Palestine flags hate your country and are wrong about pretty much everything.

00:44:28.280 Now, speaking of the U.S. Senate, one little good story coming out of the U.S. Senate, and actually out of both parties, the Senate just unanimously passed a bipartisan bill to provide recourse to victims of deepfake porn.

00:44:44.660 Sexually explicit, non-consensual images created with AI.

00:44:49.680 So, you know, this most notably affects celebrities who have filed lawsuits about this.

00:44:55.720 You know, you type in so-and-so's face and make them look really hot and naked or whatever, you know.

00:45:00.080 But as I pointed out, when this technology appeared on the horizon, I said, the big problem with this is not going to be the celebrities who already have to deal with similar problems.

00:45:08.640 The big problem is going to be the girl in your math class where some pervert, you know, decides to create fake porn and it looks pretty real and passes it around the school.

00:45:16.780 That's a big political problem looming.

00:45:18.680 So the legislation is called the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act.

00:45:23.640 Nothing D.C. loves more than a good acronym or initialism.

00:45:28.220 The Defiance Act passed unanimously.

00:45:32.800 It had the support of, it was co-sponsored by Josh Hawley, Mike Lee, Lindsey Graham, a lot of great Republicans, some Democrats too, sponsored by Dick Durbin, AOC in the House, and then a lot of Republicans co-sponsored it.

00:45:44.120 So, as divided as we are, there are some things that we can agree on.

00:45:48.660 And I've been making this point.

00:45:49.840 I made this point in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.

00:45:52.180 I've made this point, thank you, for years.

00:45:54.320 A lot of the commentary on the political elite, they say you can't do anything about porn.

00:46:01.320 It's a free speech issue.

00:46:03.120 You can't regulate porn.

00:46:04.800 And it won't be popular.

00:46:07.000 Americans love their porn. 0.96

00:46:08.220 You know, you shouldn't regulate that.

00:46:09.120 I said, no, there has been an appetite, a bipartisan appetite, to do something, to regulate and restrict porn for decades now.

00:46:16.340 And it was stymied because of crazy judges, but you saw it with the Child Online Protection Act and the Communications Decency Act in the 90s, major provisions of which were gutted by judges.

00:46:26.600 But it was Democrats and Republicans.

00:46:28.340 You know, Bill Clinton was signing these things into law.

00:46:30.800 Look at this.

00:46:31.420 AOC and Mike Lee agree on something.

00:46:33.080 When was that ever going to happen?

00:46:34.220 This is a winning issue.

00:46:36.840 It's a major public health crisis.

00:46:38.860 It's a major political problem.

00:46:40.760 You know, it's a matter of fraud and obscenity and all of these sorts of problems.

00:46:45.820 But it's a political winner, too.

00:46:47.060 So great to see that.

00:46:48.040 Let's see more of it.

00:46:49.540 Much more to say.

00:46:51.240 But, you know, we've been talking about matters of love.

00:46:55.260 And I often say I'm a lover, not a fighter.

00:46:59.020 But I'm also a fighter, too.

00:47:00.460 And I am going to be entering the ring as a corner man tonight for a major fight.

00:47:08.520 I'm going to be in the corner of Smilin' Sam Alvey.

00:47:12.100 You might know him from the UFC.

00:47:13.740 You might know him from all other sorts of fighting leagues, mixed martial arts, karate.

00:47:19.120 Well, I'm going to be there.

00:47:20.580 And I'm going to be giving Sam all the advice that he needs to do the left hook and the right punch.

00:47:26.340 And I'm going to—so you've got to—if you're in Nashville, you've got to come to this fight tonight.

00:47:31.920 If you're not in—you've got to watch it if you're not in Nashville.

00:47:34.300 And I'm going to be talking to Smilin' Sam right now in the member room segmentum.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 25, 2024

Ep. 1538 - Biden's Strange Address EXPLAINED In 3 Mins

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