Biden addresses the nation from the Oval Office, in part to prove that he's alive, and in part, to give some explanation as to why he suddenly has declined to run for re-election. Michael Knowles explains why that makes no sense.
00:00:00.000President 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.
00:00:12.160You 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.
00:00:27.860We 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.
00:00:44.860Hmm, 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.
00:00:55.240For 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.
00:01:07.240A 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.
00:01:17.920It 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.
00:01:29.800It was a failure even in its final Oval Office speech. Because he didn't answer the fundamental question.
00:01:37.500If 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,
00:01:48.540if that's the best he's got, how on earth can he serve as president for another six months?
00:01:52.780I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:03:18.780Joe Biden, when he was still trying to cling to the Democrat nomination for president,
00:03:22.380after the disastrous debate performance, he said, yeah, I'm going to stop doing events after 8 o'clock.
00:03:26.340So 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?
00:05:08.740It'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.
00:05:22.600And then he comes back out, and you think, okay, all right, buddy, yeah, that's a good one.
00:05:49.040I 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.
00:05:55.380So even when he shows energy now, it's just kind of sad because you know this guy is not long for this world.
00:06:03.180At 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.
00:07:41.040If you deal with the problems in the country, it benefits everyone.
00:07:45.840President 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.
00:08:03.980I'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.
00:09:13.520Editors 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.
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00:11:54.460In 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.
00:12:03.040I'm old enough to remember when that was Barack Obama's campaign line in 2008.
00:12:08.200Oh, I'm running, I took over after the worst economic crisis, the Great Depression.
00:12:39.820And for the next six months, I'm going to keep working on my moonshot to cure cancer.
00:12:44.060Bro, you've been working on the moonshot to cure cancer since, what, 2016 is when Barack Obama tasked you with that?
00:12:49.160In 2016, Barack Obama said, I am appointing, just as Joe appointed Kamala to fix the border, Barack Obama appointed Joe Biden to cure cancer.
00:13:35.940So the libs have to lean into identity.
00:13:39.940Without any accomplishments and with a lot of failures behind them, they've got to lean into identity.
00:13:44.680This is why it's helpful to them to have Kamala Harris, because they can say that she's black,
00:13:48.500even though she's half Tamil Indian and half Afro Jamaican, which is, she doesn't really have any African-American ancestry.
00:13:56.080But, you know, they can kind of make it look a little bit if you squint like she's African-American.
00:14:01.320And she's a woman, so they're going to lean into that.
00:14:03.300And 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.
00:14:17.300Listen to what they went after Brian Kilmeade for.
00:14:19.240Obviously, you compare him to President Biden, who is muddling his way through speeches.
00:14:23.540People know he couldn't go more than 15 minutes.
00:15:41.240The 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,
00:15:52.020they're saying that Kilmeade said colored sorority.
00:15:56.300She'd rather go speak to a colored sorority.
00:17:10.620I'm not allowed to call them black, or in her case, I guess, Tamil Indian.
00:17:13.340I'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.
00:17:24.140I, today, am required as a matter of political correctness to use the term of color.
00:17:28.940So 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.
00:17:46.340Colored and of color are semantically identical statements.
00:19:27.540The people who tell you that you have to believe that a little boy can become a little girl.
00:19:37.320The 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.
00:19:51.080Those people are telling you that J.D. Vance has weird views of gender.
00:21:02.120He believes marriage is between a man and a woman.
00:21:03.900So he has this really weird view that every single person on earth forever believed until 2015.
00:21:10.280That 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.
00:21:20.120You know, that marriage is a union between a man and a woman.
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00:27:14.800Having 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.
00:27:21.940J.D. Vance is much more intelligent than the person who wrote the Politico piece.
00:27:26.060J.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.
00:27:37.500J.D. Vance was much more intelligent than whoever this New York Magazine reporter was.
00:27:47.000Many 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.
00:28:10.080And the supposed geniuses who are now mocking these people, they would appear to be mistaken.
00:28:18.220Now, speaking of the decline of intellectual life, there's a new study out, headlines everywhere, terrible, terrible news.
00:28:25.720It turns out adults are no longer reading.
00:28:29.380New study by the Reading Agency sheds light.
00:28:32.680This is out of the UK, though it's a problem throughout the Western world.
00:28:36.720Half of British adults do not regularly read.
00:28:40.960The survey shows that 24% of people between the ages of 16 and 24 have never been readers.
00:28:46.860And it surveyed 2,000 people who are nationally representative of UK consumers.
00:28:52.300The 50% of adult respondents who say they do read regularly represents an 8% decline since 2015.
00:28:58.500So over the course of nine years, you've got an 8% drop in the people who regularly read.
00:29:04.48058% of adults, 8% point drop, so it's even much more significant.
00:29:08.58058% of adults answered affirmatively to that same question nine years ago.
00:29:14.100So 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.
00:30:11.920He 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.
00:30:19.560He 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.
00:30:33.780In a way, there is a problem in modern society, which is that people are reading too much.
00:30:42.820In a way, you'd say they're not reading enough.
00:30:44.120In a way, you'd say they're reading too much.
00:31:18.780And 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.
00:31:29.380But the people who read self-help books, for instance, I think that's generally bad for you.
00:31:35.680I think that generally leaves you worse off than you were before.
00:31:38.920People who read pop philosophy written by fashionable left-wing atheist materialists, that's bad for you.
00:31:46.420Very often, you are left dumber and more incorrect at the end of the book than you were beforehand.
00:31:53.200It can lead you down a very, very bad path.
00:31:56.640This is very contrary to the wisdom of our age, including on the right, where we say, no, you just got to read more.
00:32:06.760You need to say and do whatever you want.
00:32:08.280No, man, that can be really bad for you.
00:32:10.800That 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.
00:32:43.520I go back to the same three or four authors, but, you know, with a few extras sprinkled in over there.
00:32:48.600But 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.
00:33:01.660And 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.
00:33:09.580That's an expression of how education ought to be.
00:34:08.320Sometimes 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.
00:34:38.380There, 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.
00:35:02.300So 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.
00:35:08.240It's because it represents the country, and you don't want to show disrespect to the country.
00:35:12.420So this guy says, no, I don't want the flag to be disrespected.
00:35:15.840But 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.
00:35:30.780The Israel-Palestine conflict is a complex one.
00:35:34.800America's interests do not always line up with Israel's interests.
00:35:37.900There are some people who are extraordinarily pro-Israel who insist that Israel and America are basically interchangeable and we have exactly the same interests.
00:35:49.980However, 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.
00:35:58.640And at the pro-Palestine rallies, they burn the American flag.
00:36:02.320Just, 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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00:37:24.180Christianity guiding America's destiny has been.
00:37:28.760It's a thing that has been noticed and understood and cherished.
00:37:31.500So if you want to get rid of everything that's been, you're going to try to include those things, too.
00:37:34.800The pro-Palestine crowd was out in force yesterday because the prime minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, showed up to give a message to Congress.
00:37:44.860Well, I have a message for these protesters.
00:37:47.700When the tyrants of Tehran, who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair, are praising, promoting, and funding you,
00:37:56.980you have officially become Iran's useful idiots.
00:42:53.420Americans do not have the appetite for regime change in Iran.
00:42:56.280Back 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.
00:44:18.080I have no appetite to do that whatsoever.
00:44:20.040To simultaneously recognize that the people waving the Palestine flags hate your country and are wrong about pretty much everything.
00:44:28.280Now, 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.
00:44:44.660Sexually explicit, non-consensual images created with AI.
00:44:49.680So, you know, this most notably affects celebrities who have filed lawsuits about this.
00:44:55.720You know, you type in so-and-so's face and make them look really hot and naked or whatever, you know.
00:45:00.080But 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.
00:45:08.640The 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.
00:45:16.780That's a big political problem looming.
00:45:18.680So the legislation is called the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act.
00:45:23.640Nothing D.C. loves more than a good acronym or initialism.
00:45:32.800It 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.
00:45:44.120So, as divided as we are, there are some things that we can agree on.
00:46:08.220You know, you shouldn't regulate that.
00:46:09.120I said, no, there has been an appetite, a bipartisan appetite, to do something, to regulate and restrict porn for decades now.
00:46:16.340And 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.