The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1580 - $150,000 Bounty On President Trump？

00:00:00.000 If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. After President Trump survived an assassination

00:00:05.940 attempt by a hair's breadth back in July, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden continued to call him an

00:00:12.100 existential threat to the country. So it was no surprise when nine days ago, another would-be

00:00:17.740 assassin tried to take President Trump's life. I say would-be assassin because we now have evidence

00:00:23.920 from the alleged perpetrator written down that that was exactly what he intended. According to a note

00:00:30.620 just released by the DOJ, the perp allegedly wrote, quote, this was an assassination attempt on Donald

00:00:37.280 Trump, but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. I will offer

00:00:44.200 $150,000 to whomever can complete the job, end quote. Which raises just one question.

00:00:53.920 Why exactly did the DOJ release this letter? I want to believe the Biden-Harris DOJ released this

00:01:03.200 letter in order to advance the prosecution of Trump's would-be killer. But if that were the case,

00:01:08.100 couldn't they just have submitted it to the court privately? Why did it have to be public? It took

00:01:13.640 a year and a half to get a manifesto from the trans killer who shot up a Christian elementary school in

00:01:19.060 Nashville. Why did it only take eight days to see this letter? A letter offering a massive reward

00:01:24.940 to anyone who might succeed where two previous assassins had failed. It's almost as if the Biden-Harris

00:01:32.840 DOJ is eager to put a bounty out on Trump's head. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:39.840 Welcome back to the show. Greta has turned jihadi. That was a twist. I guess in a way, 0.93

00:02:08.180 I sort of saw it coming. I'm not, I didn't know about the, I knew she was going to just go down 0.94

00:02:12.400 the left-wing rabbit hole and support whatever the left-wing cause was at the time. But Greta has 1.00

00:02:18.220 fully embraced the, how dare you Akbar, way of life. There's so much more to say. First, though, 0.81

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00:03:48.880 Knowles, promo code Knowles. If I didn't know any better, listen, if I didn't know any better,

00:03:55.280 it would seem to me like the Biden-Harris DOJ were rushing to release this letter from the alleged

00:04:02.280 assassin offering a $150,000 bounty, that's huge, in order to encourage people to keep trying to

00:04:10.080 kill Trump. If I didn't know any better, thank goodness, I hope I know better. Meanwhile, the 0.88

00:04:17.060 Harris campaign itself is running not as the government, not as the incumbent administration,

00:04:22.980 which it obviously is, but running as a challenger. This posture reached its most absurd extreme just

00:04:31.480 a couple days ago when Tim Waltz said this on the campaign trail. We can't afford, we can't afford

00:04:40.500 four more years of this. We cannot afford four more years of Kamala Harris in the White House. 1.00

00:04:49.080 That's why we got to send Kamala Harris back to the White House. Four more years of this, 1.00

00:04:53.580 the unemployment, the migration, the foreign affairs, the collapse in the world order, we can't 0.99

00:05:00.460 afford any more of this. So please reelect Kamala Harris. This should be the biggest self-own of any 0.84

00:05:08.840 presidential campaign in memory. And yet, it's not. They're getting away with it. Kamala Harris is

00:05:17.900 getting away with running as a challenger. And the way she's able to do that is by, one, not having

00:05:26.340 really staked out a position on anything in this campaign. She did in 2020 when she was running as a 0.88

00:05:32.860 radical leftist. And then she basically just shut up about policy and only talked about Venn diagrams

00:05:38.900 and school buses while she was vice president. But she can sort of get away with it because it's not

00:05:44.240 exactly a re-election campaign for an incumbent. She isn't the president now. Biden is the president

00:05:53.580 technically. So it's just kind of weird. I mean, she is the incumbent vice president.

00:05:57.380 So four more years of this should reflect poorly on her. And yet, they're kind of getting away with

00:06:05.400 it. And they're getting away with it largely because the media will back them up. And the

00:06:08.640 media do still wield a lot of power. Not for you. If you're listening to this show on podcast or

00:06:13.660 terrestrial radio or if you're watching on YouTube, if you're kind of dialed in, you understand the

00:06:20.020 game, I think, a little bit better for how our political order works. But there are a lot of people

00:06:23.020 who don't pay a ton of close attention to politics. And they just kind of have ABC or CBS or NBC on or

00:06:28.460 they just believe what they see on Google News. And so the media do wield a lot of power for those

00:06:35.380 people. That makes up a lot of voters. There's one thing that might change that dynamic. I think

00:06:42.100 there's one potential inflection point left in this race. Maybe there's more if the DOJ is going to put

00:06:49.980 out hits on Donald Trump. But there's at least one more. And that is, over in the Middle East, Israel is 0.80

00:06:55.960 currently destroying southern Lebanon. Not with facts and logic, but with pagers and beepers and gigantic

00:07:02.040 bombs. Over the past few days, the state of Israel has killed top Hezbollah commander along with 37 other

00:07:09.620 militiamen and civilians. Just a couple days ago, Israel hit some 1,300 targets in southern Lebanon. The

00:07:17.220 Lebanon Health Ministry is claiming that 274 people have been killed, 1,024 people injured two days ago

00:07:23.660 alone. The U.S. is now sending more troops to the Middle East. It's not that the U.S. is deploying

00:07:28.900 troops for the first time. We have troops all over the world and we have a lot of troops in the Middle

00:07:32.580 East. Well, the Pentagon has said that we're sending more. We don't know how many. The Pentagon

00:07:36.480 Press Secretary Major General Pat Ryder would provide no details on how many additional forces,

00:07:41.520 what exactly they're doing there. But the U.S. currently has about 40,000 troops in the region. So,

00:07:46.860 that's a lot of people. Thus far, Kamala has been able, implausibly, improbably, to run as an

00:07:55.580 incumbent. Or as a challenger, rather. This could be the final twist that makes that strategy untenable.

00:08:02.640 Because the wedge issue right now within the Democrat Party, I mentioned Greta, the leftist 1.00

00:08:09.320 performance artist slash street activist par excellence. Greta's getting real angry at the 1.00

00:08:14.720 strategy of the incumbent administration, which continues to support Israel. The Democrat base

00:08:19.180 hates Israel. The Democrat establishment and donor class still broadly supports Israel. This could be

00:08:25.540 a big wedge issue. And they're going to have to do something. The Biden-Harris administration is

00:08:31.760 deploying more troops. We're sending Navy ships over into the region. If there is a major war that breaks

00:08:38.080 out hard to imagine how there isn't in southern Lebanon, the U.S. is going to have to do something

00:08:43.240 because we're the global hegemon. And Israel only exists because of American support. So, there is no

00:08:49.240 way that the incumbent administration can get out of this. That could reflect very poorly on Kamala

00:08:56.600 Harris. Especially in certain swing states, like Michigan, with large Muslim populations. This could be the final 1.00

00:09:03.060 twist. I've said now for a few days, what makes the present instability in Israel and southern Lebanon and Gaza so

00:09:12.320 odd is that if you're Israel, it makes total sense to do what they're doing. If you are the United States, it makes total 0.98

00:09:21.080 sense to try to get them to stop doing what they're doing because it's bad for the United States to get pulled into another

00:09:25.140 war in the Middle East. So, what they're doing is bad for America. But oddly, it's kind of good for 0.99

00:09:30.620 Republicans in as much as it's really bad for Democrats and it's bad for the incumbent administration,

00:09:35.440 which is running as a challenger. Is that confusing enough for you? Well, let me make it even more

00:09:41.160 confusing speaking of foreign affairs. Zelensky, Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, is currently in

00:09:48.740 America touring U.S. munitions factories. You know, he's trying to check out the goods before we send them

00:09:53.260 all over to him. He's over in Pennsylvania, swing state, and he is giving interviews to American

00:09:58.880 press attacking President Trump. Seems a little inappropriate, wouldn't you say? This guy, this

00:10:06.300 joker, like actual joker who's a comedian, turned leader of Ukraine to whom we have given billions

00:10:13.880 and billions of dollars in arms and munitions, is currently here looking a gift horse in the mouth,

00:10:19.380 inspecting these munitions, going to swing states, effectively campaigning for Kamala Harris and

00:10:24.680 attacking the former U.S. president, at least his campaign ticket, and defending the incumbent

00:10:31.240 administration. So, here's the interview. I'm just going to read you a little bit of this interview

00:10:33.780 with The New Yorker. Zelensky says, my feeling is that Trump doesn't really know how to stop the war,

00:10:39.140 even if he might think he knows how. With this war, oftentimes, the deeper you look at it, the less

00:10:43.660 you understand. I've seen many leaders who were convinced they knew how to end it tomorrow,

00:10:47.160 and as they waded deeper into it, they realized it's not that simple. The New Yorker journalist

00:10:51.580 says, apart from Trump's own reluctance to talk about Ukrainian victory, he's chosen J.D. Vance

00:10:55.920 as his vice presidential running mate. He is too radical, says Zelensky. He's too radical. Who asked

00:11:01.320 you? Who asked you, Zelensky, to weigh in on President Trump's choice of running mate in the

00:11:08.620 American election? No, he is too radical. He is no good for Zelensky. No good for Ukraine. No,

00:11:13.460 we veto. We do not like J.D. Vance. The New Yorker interviewer responds, Vance has come out with a more

00:11:19.720 precise plan to give up our territories. Direct quote, to give up our territories. I do not like

00:11:24.840 this. I do not like this, J.D. Vance. Your words, not mine, but yes, that's the gist of it. And then

00:11:30.340 Vance, then Zelensky concludes. His message seems to be that Ukraine must make a sacrifice. 0.94

00:11:36.620 This brings us back to the question of the cost and who shoulders it. The idea that the world should

00:11:41.480 end this war at Ukraine's expense is unacceptable. But I do not consider this concept of his a plan

00:11:47.000 in any formal sense. What? Cajones on this guy. What cojones? Whatever cojones recently flew off

00:11:56.100 the Hezbollah militants, I think they all landed with that guy. He's got cojones in spades to do this, 0.99

00:12:01.160 to come to America to criticize the former president, current Republican nominee for president, 0.94

00:12:07.540 and his running mate, and all the stuff that we've given him over the past few years,

00:12:14.380 say, no, we need more of it. How does he get away with this? I'll tell you exactly how he gets away

00:12:18.100 with this. Because Vladimir Zelensky is not the leader of a foreign country. That's how we think

00:12:25.920 of him. That's what he looks like. He's got the funny accent and the weird clothing and Ukraine is all 1.00

00:12:29.900 in the middle of nowhere. And so it seems like he's the leader of a foreign nation, but he's not.

00:12:36.160 Vladimir Zelensky is a vassal within the American empire. And I'm not even saying that as a bad

00:12:42.840 thing. I'm not, in principle, opposed to empire. In fact, I think empire is probably the more natural

00:12:50.900 and sometimes preferable form of political order. It certainly goes back to the earliest days of

00:12:59.000 history. So I'm not saying it like it's necessarily a bad thing. It might be a bad thing,

00:13:03.640 because the American empire right now seems rather precarious. I'm just saying that's what it is.

00:13:08.720 Ukraine is not a sovereign, independent nation in any meaningful sense. Vladimir Zelensky is not

00:13:14.280 the duly elected leader of his sovereign nation. Didn't they suspend elections? He is a vassal

00:13:20.080 within the American empire. And the American empire does not just include 50 states. It doesn't just

00:13:24.580 include the 48 contiguous states. It doesn't just include the 48 states plus Alaska and Hawaii. It also

00:13:30.180 includes territories like Puerto Rico, territories like Guam, American Samoa. It also includes,

00:13:38.180 really, I guess you'd say it includes NATO. NATO is within, underneath the protection of the American

00:13:44.000 empire. And it certainly includes Ukraine, which is a proxy for a fight between the United States

00:13:49.720 and Russia. And so Zelensky, when he comes here and criticizes our presidential candidates,

00:13:54.120 in a way, I kind of get it. I still find it offensive as an American, but I kind of get it.

00:13:59.420 If you're Zelensky, you're saying, look, man, whatever, I am vassal in your empire. You have 1.00

00:14:03.380 provided me munitions. I am doing job for you in Eastern Europe. Now I want to weigh in on my

00:14:08.200 presidential candidate. One man, one vote. Where do I drop off my ballot? That's what he's probably

00:14:12.880 doing in Pennsylvania. He's probably trying to figure out the drop box he's going to put his ballot

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00:15:32.620 Speaking of impressive territorial feats, this is a story I had to get to. This is an amazing story.

00:15:40.780 It comes from, it's being reported actually all throughout local news. This headline is from

00:15:45.700 Nine News. Cat travels hundreds of miles back home after it went missing in Yellowstone. How the

00:15:53.620 missing cat made it from Wyoming to California, or even knew the right direction toward home,

00:15:59.880 remains a mystery. So experts remain puzzled. But the leading theory right now as to how this cat

00:16:06.080 made it all the way back home is that she avoided walking through Springfield, Ohio.

00:16:10.920 I think that basically explains it. And so happily, the cat is back home and not roasting on a spit in

00:16:18.560 Ohio. I have really nothing to add to the story. I just wanted to make the cooking cats joke. The

00:16:23.960 migrants with the voodoo and the, so really, it's an impressive story, but that's really all I wanted 1.00

00:16:28.540 to say about it. Speaking of vagrants, though, turning to human beings, really troubling story out of

00:16:34.240 the U.S., the U.S. is on track to hit a new record high of homelessness. Over 650,000 Americans are

00:16:43.900 living in the streets right now. This is according to data collected and analyzed by the Wall Street

00:16:49.580 Journal from more than 250 homeless organizations. They've counted at least 550,000 homeless people so

00:16:55.440 far. That is a 10% rise from last year's numbers. The numbers gathered from cities and from rural areas

00:17:02.260 shows homelessness just as it was on a single night. So obviously, these numbers change and people,

00:17:08.860 they're on the streets one night, they're off the streets another night, but that's just a little

00:17:11.900 bit of a snapshot. This means that, given the trend, we'll probably surpass last year's high,

00:17:18.540 which was 653,000, which is a ton of homeless people. That is the highest number that we have

00:17:24.080 ever recorded. The government started to collect these data in 2007, and now 15, what is it, 17 years

00:17:30.420 later, I guess, this is the highest number we have ever seen. What is causing this rise?

00:17:36.240 There are a few factors. First of all, there are just legitimate economic problems.

00:17:44.340 So you can't overlook that. There are people who are homeless today simply because the economy is

00:17:51.100 in bad shape. And the economy sort of looks like it's in good shape because the market has looked

00:17:54.240 strong and maybe GDP has ticked up a little bit. But inflation, the shocking cost of consumer goods

00:18:00.500 under Biden and Harris, the massive increase in the cost of housing, all of those things have

00:18:05.340 combined to put some people on the streets, not because they were addicted to drugs, not because

00:18:09.880 they made, you know, years and years of terrible decisions, simply because of the crushing economic

00:18:15.780 burden. That's real. Okay. I think that accounts for a rather small percentage of the homeless, but

00:18:20.440 that is real. Then we mentioned the cost of housing. What could be driving the cost of housing up?

00:18:25.760 Might it have something to do with the millions and millions of migrants that Biden and Harris are

00:18:31.420 importing into this country? I'm not even just talking about the ones that they open the

00:18:34.980 door for, that they say, please flood into our country illegally. We won't check. Don't worry, 0.99

00:18:40.360 we're going to give you amnesty the first chance we get. Not even just them, but I was mentioning

00:18:44.960 the Haitians in Ohio before. Harris and Biden imported over 300,000 Haitians into the country.

00:18:50.160 This is a failed state that has reports of cannibalism, that widely practices voodoo. 1.00

00:18:54.780 We've imported hundreds of thousands of those people. And it's not just the Haitians. All of 0.92

00:19:02.380 these countless numbers of Haitians, Venezuelans, Guatemalans, Nicaragans, Hondurans, all these

00:19:08.160 people just flooding through Mexico. What do you think that's going to do to housing? It's going to

00:19:12.700 drive the costs up. And it's going to create problems in the labor market, which is going to

00:19:16.720 make it even tougher for actual American citizens who are just trying to scrape by in an economy where

00:19:21.380 the cost of goods and services could be up 22, 25, 30% since Biden took office. That's a big problem.

00:19:28.640 But then there's another problem on top of that. Because contributing to these homeless numbers are

00:19:35.400 obviously, it's all the migrants we're looking, especially in these cities. But I think the real 1.00

00:19:40.860 secret sauce that's created this massive historic problem is permissiveness.

00:19:47.960 So we can look at all the economic problems. The economic problems on the road do not account

00:19:52.480 for this record high homelessness. It's less an economic problem than a permissiveness problem.

00:19:58.480 We can't put people in insane asylum. We closed those many, many years ago.

00:20:06.300 A lot of people, probably most people on the street, are addicted to drugs. And we're not doing

00:20:12.520 anything to stop it. We don't arrest them. We don't arrest people for drug crimes anymore.

00:20:16.340 The Democrat Party and many in the Republican Party are calling for relaxing drug laws.

00:20:22.100 Guess what the consequence of that is? You get more druggies. And when you get more druggies,

00:20:25.380 you get more people living on the street. Then we have the permissive open border. Well,

00:20:30.920 guess what comes across that border? It's not just people. It's also drugs. Lots and lots of drugs,

00:20:36.120 which lead to people on the street. Then on top of that, we live in a culture that encourages

00:20:42.560 mental illness. We have some psych drugs and we dope up a huge swath of the population,

00:20:49.200 but we also encourage disordered desires and behaviors and identities and the sorts of things

00:20:54.360 that lead to people not living ordinary, stable lives in stable homes with families, the sort of

00:21:00.180 lives that lead people to be vagrant. This is in part an economic problem, and the economic problem

00:21:06.560 is in part a chosen problem by the Biden-Harris administration. But more broadly, this is a

00:21:11.760 cultural problem. People are on the street in record numbers because we, as a society, through

00:21:16.840 our elected representatives, want them to be there. If you don't want those people to be on the street,

00:21:21.380 force them off of the street. Force them to go to homeless shelters. A lot of them don't want to go

00:21:25.120 to shelters because then they can't do drugs. Force them to stop doing drugs. If they keep doing drugs,

00:21:29.140 arrest them. Put them in prison. Cut off the supply of the drugs. Close off the open border.

00:21:33.360 Punish people, the drug dealers, who are getting off on plea deals because they plea down to saying

00:21:37.780 they have a little dime bag of pot when, in fact, they're selling drugs on the street and poisoning

00:21:41.460 whole communities. Get tough on this stuff. Right now, we don't have either party really getting

00:21:45.660 tough on this. The Republican Party, if anything, has become more permissive on drugs in recent years.

00:21:50.760 Okay, well then don't look up one day and see you've got 650,000 people on the street and scratch

00:21:55.600 your head wondering why. It's because of specific policies that both parties have endorsed.

00:22:00.540 There's so much more to say. First, though, go to thecandleclub.com slash

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00:22:58.420 slash Michael. Speaking of permissiveness, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now looking into reining in

00:23:10.000 the conservative media environment because we have to do something about this scourge,

00:23:15.740 this plague of conservatives speaking their mind on social media. I do think that several members of

00:23:22.000 Congress in some of my discussions have brought up media literacy because that is a part of what

00:23:30.400 happened here. And we're going to have to figure out how we reign in our media environment so that you

00:23:43.360 can't just spew disinformation and misinformation. It's one thing to have differing opinions, but

00:23:50.740 it's another thing entirely to just say things that are false. And so that's something that we're looking

00:23:59.540 into. So we're looking into that. We're looking into that because you can't, you don't have a right

00:24:06.820 to say stuff that I don't like. We got to do something. We got to reign you in, conservatives.

00:24:11.800 Right now, conservatives have one social media platform, the smallest of them all, X,

00:24:19.140 happily, where we can speak. The rest of the social media platforms, we can't. You know,

00:24:24.160 if you watch this show on YouTube, huge segments are censored out of the show every day. So if you

00:24:29.780 want to get the full show, you've got to go to Spotify, you've got to go to Apple Podcasts,

00:24:33.400 you've got to go to X, you've got to go to Daily Wire Plus, of course, because the tech

00:24:38.460 live forums are already reigning in conservatives, and AOC wants to reign them in even further.

00:24:43.600 And my answer to that, you're going to hear conservatives whine and yell and scream and

00:24:46.840 rend their garments and say, this isn't fair, but my constitution says you can't, man. But

00:24:51.580 my answer is, yeah, of course. Of course, she's going to want to reign this stuff in. 1.00

00:24:55.000 There are three options when it comes to our public square. Either they reign us in,

00:25:07.100 we reign them in, or we both reign each other in. Either the public square will be dominated

00:25:15.520 by leftist standards and taboos exclusively, or it will be dominated by conservative standards

00:25:22.820 and taboos exclusively, or we'll come to some kind of conciliation where we agree, OK, certain

00:25:29.720 things are off limits, but we'll have a broader range even for behaviors and ideas that are

00:25:36.780 in conflict with one another. But that's how it's going to work. Over the weekend, I had

00:25:40.880 the great honor and privilege of debating Princeton professor Robbie George on the topic of academic

00:25:47.820 freedom. And it was to commemorate God and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley Jr., which is a book

00:25:52.860 sometimes invoked in defense of academic freedom, but which ironically is a polemic against academic

00:25:58.700 freedom. Before the right was for free speech, we were against free speech. Before the right was

00:26:04.400 for academic freedom, we were against academic freedom. Not because we oppose it, not because

00:26:09.300 there is such a thing as perfect free speech and academic freedom and we think it's bad, but because

00:26:13.960 we don't think it's real at all. We think those are just polemical terms that, terms of propaganda

00:26:19.860 that are used by the left to subvert traditional standards and norms before they impose their own

00:26:25.720 standards and norms themselves. And as part of this debate, I pointed out that after Buckley wrote

00:26:31.960 God and Man at Yale, his next book was a defense of Senator Joe McCarthy. And he said, he said,

00:26:37.660 McCarthyism, I'm slightly paraphrasing, McCarthyism is a crusade around which people of stern moral

00:26:42.840 character can unite. And then, even though he tempered his support for McCarthy a little bit,

00:26:48.000 he continued to defend the senator for decades after he died. Robert F. Kennedy Sr., by the way,

00:26:54.740 attended Joe McCarthy's funeral. So there was, in those days, a fairly strong anti-communist

00:27:01.880 sentiment. Now, the way McCarthy is taught, he's the evil boogeyman and, you know, he was totally making

00:27:06.780 things up and there were no communists in the government. We know there were communists in the

00:27:09.880 government because Richard Nixon caught one of them. That was Alger Hiss. But anyway, I digress. 0.53

00:27:15.180 McCarthy was not tactically all that effective, but in the broader, in the claims he was making

00:27:20.920 about communist infiltration and the threat of communism, he was absolutely right. So I pointed

00:27:26.620 out that Buckley, and I think it was 1966, had a show on his public affairs program, Firing Line,

00:27:33.140 called McCarthyism, Past, Present, and Future. This really scared people because, is it, McCarthyism has a

00:27:39.320 future? What? That's crazy. And so Professor George pointed out, he said, well, we know what the future

00:27:43.780 of McCarthyism looked like. The future of McCarthyism was from the left. And he's absolutely right about

00:27:50.320 that. But I think that just kind of proves my point. There was McCarthyism from the right when the

00:27:57.700 traditional Americans were vigorous in their opposition to communism. The moment we gave that up,

00:28:06.920 we didn't just get a neutral public square where everyone agreed to disagree about everything.

00:28:12.520 The moment we gave that up, we got McCarthyism from the left. We got communists, actual explicit

00:28:17.700 communists in some cases, and other shades of leftists persecuting conservatives and squeezing

00:28:23.740 out the space for conservative thought in the public square. Look where we are today.

00:28:27.480 We can barely speak anywhere. In the effective public square, the digital landscape, we have very few

00:28:32.200 places to speak of any prominence. In the university, we've all been run out. There are a handful of

00:28:36.580 conservative professors at prominent universities. In television, we're limited in where we can speak

00:28:45.080 because either we're advancing or we're retreating. But there's really no stable, neutral public ground.

00:28:53.640 Either we're defending our standards and norms or they are being eroded by the left. AOC ain't going to

00:29:00.960 stop trying to rein us in. The only question is, are we going to try to rein them in a little bit?

00:29:04.960 Are we going to say, you know, guys, you know, like the porn in the elementary schools and all the

00:29:09.200 obscenity, you know, and the kind of calls for the death of America and the jihad protests in the

00:29:14.980 streets and the whole... No. No thanks. We're good. No thank you. We're not going to do that. And the

00:29:21.580 Satan clubs at elementary schools, which is a real thing that actually is taking place right now,

00:29:26.120 which is absurd, even five or ten years ago to say would be a punchline. Yeah, all that stuff. No,

00:29:32.440 thank you. We're not going to do that. We're going to exercise our political freedom to set

00:29:36.120 standards. And no, we're going to rein you in, actually. But some conservatives don't want to

00:29:41.120 do that. They don't want to seem aggressive. They don't want to seem illiberal or authoritarian or

00:29:45.640 whatever. Whatever other polemical terms of propaganda are being used against us today. Okay,

00:29:51.400 that's fine. Well, don't be surprised when AOC, with those eccentric-looking eyes, shows up at your

00:29:59.040 door and reins in your ability to speak. Now, speaking of those eccentric liberal ladies, 1.00

00:30:05.720 Greta, Greta Thunberg, who is going to save the world. I don't know why she has a Mediterranean 1.00

00:30:11.980 accent. Greta, who's got more of a Nordic accent. She was going to save the world from the climate change 1.00

00:30:18.120 that was going to kill us all a few years ago. And we survived somehow, you know. So she's not

00:30:23.200 talking so much about the sun monster that was already supposed to have killed us. Now, she's

00:30:28.040 focused on a far more traditional enemy in public discourse. And that, of course, is the Jews. 0.99

00:30:36.260 Greta Thunberg is wrapping herself in a Palestinian keffia and is marching down the street behind a

00:30:44.340 Palestinian flag chanting about democracy and how we all need to support Palestine.

00:30:51.040 Show me what the people looks like.

00:30:56.260 Show me what the power looks like.

00:31:04.000 Show me what democracy looks like.

00:31:10.120 Show me what the people looks like.

00:31:15.160 Show me what power looks like.

00:31:19.100 I think I've gotten the message. I don't know how much more Greta we need. 0.77

00:31:26.040 How dare you, Akbar? Show me what power looks like.

00:31:33.380 This, this is really silly. Totally predictable, by the way, because I'm old enough to remember

00:31:42.100 some years ago when a conservative figure went on to cable news and pointed out,

00:31:49.180 that the left was exploiting a child with problems to advance their own vague general agenda.

00:31:56.960 That the child didn't really have particularly sophisticated or coherent thoughts of her own,

00:32:03.900 but was merely being made into a symbol and a spokesman for the left.

00:32:09.180 And it wasn't really about a single issue, as we were being told at the time.

00:32:12.920 It wasn't about environmentalism or the ozone layer or I don't know,

00:32:17.280 whatever particular aspect of so-called climate change they pretended it was.

00:32:21.780 It was just about leftism broadly, which is basically what climate change is all about.

00:32:26.080 It's why they use this really generic term that can't ever be disproven.

00:32:29.720 It's climate change is about changing not the physical climate so much as the political climate

00:32:34.140 to crowd out conservatives, to ensconce liberals in power permanently, and to radically reorder society.

00:32:42.340 So the people who think that climate change is really about the natural environment

00:32:46.600 are going to be surprised that Greta has taken up the Palestinian cause

00:32:51.440 and she's going to go join Hamas or something like that. 0.99

00:32:53.900 But if you recognize that climate change is simply a term for leftism broadly,

00:32:59.060 then it's no surprise because the activist left has been donning the keffiyeh for almost a year now.

00:33:06.140 And so of course she is going to do that.

00:33:09.960 Because even here, the leftists who are showing up at NYU and covering their blue hair

00:33:16.380 and their 17 piercings with a keffiyeh don't really know anything about Islam.

00:33:21.840 They've never read the Hadith.

00:33:23.760 I don't think they go to mosques or anything like that.

00:33:26.960 Most of them probably don't consciously believe in God or if they do, they don't like God a lot of the time.

00:33:31.880 They just know that they hate America.

00:33:36.760 And in as much as America and Israel have an alliance, they hate Israel.

00:33:41.960 And in as much as Israel is a settler colonial project, which it obviously is, 0.95

00:33:47.360 well, America is also a settler colonial project.

00:33:50.280 And there's an imperial aspect to the American government.

00:33:55.940 And it's all the things that we've been told that the left hates.

00:33:59.140 They just want to overthrow us, us, our power, our rule, our country, our history, the West broadly. 0.62

00:34:11.400 In as much as Israel seems to be a symbol of the West, they really hate it. 0.99

00:34:16.840 If Israel, there's another argument for the state of Israel, 0.96

00:34:20.720 which says Israel is actually an indigenous reclaiming of land.

00:34:26.280 So this is one of the arguments for Zionism. 0.89

00:34:29.200 One of the historical and even religious arguments for Zionism is,

00:34:32.580 hey, this land was ours and we got run off the land about 1970 years ago, 1930 years ago.

00:34:37.560 But we're coming back and we're taking it now.

00:34:39.160 So that's basically the argument that the left makes when they want to give Mount Rushmore back to the Lakota Sioux.

00:34:46.060 That used to be your land a long time ago.

00:34:47.980 And for some reason now we're going to give you back this land.

00:34:50.160 So they make that argument when it suits their purposes.

00:34:56.180 They make that argument for, I don't know, the Cheyenne or the Cherokee.

00:34:59.320 Why don't they make that argument for Israel?

00:35:01.020 Because it's really not about Islam and Judaism.

00:35:04.800 It's really not.

00:35:05.580 It is to a larger degree about Christianity in as much as Christianity animates our actual civilization, which is the West.

00:35:11.200 And that's really, really what they're taking aim at.

00:35:14.040 Whether that means telling you you can't drive your car.

00:35:15.920 Whether that means telling you you can't speak on social media.

00:35:18.960 Whether that's telling you that you can't have a say in your government.

00:35:22.620 This is what democracy looks like.

00:35:25.360 Looks like me, Greta Thunberg in a keffia.

00:35:28.740 This is what power looks like.

00:35:30.480 Oh, good grief.

00:35:31.300 All right.

00:35:31.660 If that's what that all looks like, check, please.

00:35:34.760 If there are any alternatives, thank you.

00:35:37.420 Now, one way that we can make sense of this crazy kind of racial and ethnic ideology that's been advanced 1.00

00:35:43.640 is to check out the groundbreaking documentary from Mount Walsh, which is Am I Racist?

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00:36:23.700 My favorite comment yesterday is from user-mw4eq5mq4b, a really pithy username, who says,

00:36:34.620 Imagine running on an anti-AI position and having your stance pulled by AI bots dystopian.

00:36:41.560 That's right, because I mentioned yesterday, the future of polling might well be just not polling human beings for days and weeks,

00:36:48.740 but polling AI bots who think they're human beings for about 30 seconds.

00:36:54.060 And we'll see after 2024 if this is an effective kind of polling, but the early results are promising.

00:36:58.740 Well, what happens when the interests of the AI bots diverge from the interests of humans?

00:37:07.480 I'm sorry, Frank Luntz, I can't let you do that.

00:37:10.900 I'm sorry, pollsters.

00:37:13.040 We will not.

00:37:14.220 We have our own interests.

00:37:17.500 This is, I was just going back and rereading Abolition of Man yesterday by C.S. Lewis.

00:37:22.180 And this is Lewis's point in Abolition of Man.

00:37:26.120 He says, every time man conquers nature through some great technological advancement,

00:37:32.080 the irony is that nature seems to conquer us simultaneously.

00:37:39.300 So, you know, we, I don't know, we invent artificial birth control.

00:37:42.940 It seems like we're conquering nature.

00:37:44.440 But then future generations are less free because of those choices.

00:37:49.640 Nature comes back and conquers man.

00:37:51.480 And this, of course, would be the transhumanists who are arguing that we need to upload our brains to the consciousness 0.95

00:37:56.180 or upload our consciousness to the cloud or something like that so that we can totally transcend Homo sapiens.

00:38:02.740 Okay, well, that final liberation would amount to nothing more than an Abolition of Man.

00:38:07.680 C.S. Lewis predicted it.

00:38:08.660 We might be living through it.

00:38:10.640 Speaking of deranged young women, do we have some tea here that I can pour out? 1.00

00:38:15.820 I've got a lot of tea to spill.

00:38:17.080 This is coffee, so I guess that won't suffice.

00:38:19.540 We'll just have to read the tea.

00:38:23.360 I'm not revealing anyone's private sins.

00:38:25.700 This is all totally public.

00:38:27.960 RFK Jr. is being accused of engaging in an e-affair, a virtual, a digital affair, with a liberal journalist, Olivia Nuzzi.

00:38:44.080 I'm going to give her the nice Italian pronunciation.

00:38:46.660 I think she goes by Nuzzi, but I like Nuzzi. 1.00

00:38:48.320 Olivia Nuzzi is now suspended from New York Magazine for sexting RFK Jr.

00:38:57.560 And RFK Jr. is so incensed by this news story that he is threatening to sue Olivia Nuzzi over this.

00:39:04.180 According to another journalist, Jessica Reed Krauss, who Nuzzi befriended, apparently to get access to Kennedy, because Krauss is friends with Kennedy. 0.85

00:39:17.660 Friends of Kennedy believe Nuzzi set him up. 0.97

00:39:20.920 They recount that just two weeks after New York Magazine published her article, she made a flirtatious remark during a phone conversation.

00:39:27.120 In response, Kennedy blocked her number.

00:39:31.040 So the only time that Nuzzi seems to have been in physical contact with RFK Jr. that we know of was when she went up, profiled him for a little bit, and then published a hit piece. 0.54

00:39:41.380 So it wasn't even a flattering article about Kennedy.

00:39:45.200 She made a flirtatious remark during a phone call.

00:39:47.300 Kennedy blocks her number.

00:39:49.380 A few weeks later, Nuzzi emailed him asking to be unblocked, claiming she had urgent information about a hit piece being prepared against him.

00:39:55.320 He unblocked her for that conversation, but later that night, she sent him a provocative picture, prompting him to block her again.

00:40:02.120 For most of the next eight months, again, this is just Krauss' reporting, Kennedy kept her blocked,

00:40:06.660 except for a few occasions when Nuzzi contacted him from different emails and phone numbers,

00:40:10.400 insisting he unblocked her for urgent discussions about an imminent hit piece.

00:40:14.880 Once unblocked, she bombarded him with increasingly pornographic photos and videos that he found difficult to resist.

00:40:20.300 After brief exchanges, he would block her again.

00:40:22.840 Some doesn't smell quite right about this story.

00:40:28.840 And the first red flag in the story is this phrase, digital affair.

00:40:34.200 Bobby Kennedy had a digital affair with this young, relatively attractive, young female journalist.

00:40:44.620 Bobby Kennedy is a Kennedy.

00:40:46.240 And the Kennedys don't need to have digital affairs, okay?

00:40:53.240 The Kennedys don't need to sext women. 1.00

00:40:56.580 We're not talking about Anthony Weiner here.

00:40:58.500 This is the Kennedys.

00:40:59.900 The Kennedys have been probably the most infamous womanizers in American politics. 1.00

00:41:07.020 I can't think of anyone who surpasses them.

00:41:13.080 You're telling me that all of a sudden, a Kennedy, especially Bobby Kennedy, he's a good-looking guy.

00:41:17.860 You know, he's not 25 anymore, but he works out.

00:41:20.400 You're telling me that Bobby Kennedy, if he wants to have an affair, has to get his thrills, sending naughty pictures to some journalist?

00:41:29.080 I don't think so, Buster.

00:41:30.600 If a Kennedy wants to have an affair, a Kennedy has an affair.

00:41:33.020 I don't believe that part for a second.

00:41:36.420 But he's just getting a thrill texting. 0.74

00:41:38.000 Now, is this journalist totally nuts?

00:41:41.040 Yeah, probably. 1.00

00:41:41.800 Most journalists are totally nuts. 0.99

00:41:43.340 So I think that's probably true. 0.99

00:41:45.620 And these liberal lady journalists seem to punch above their weight on the craziness scale. 1.00

00:41:51.700 So sure, maybe she pursued him.

00:41:54.840 The question then becomes, was it a honeypot or was she legitimately just obsessed with him?

00:42:01.580 It seems a little bit like a honeypot in that she was just trying to lure him in to engage with her flirtations so she could do a big expose, as we are seeing now.

00:42:10.680 However, she also, this Olivia Nuzzi was engaged to Ryan Lizza, who's another prominent liberal journalist.

00:42:19.360 And apparently the engagement is off and the wedding is off.

00:42:21.760 So I don't know.

00:42:22.260 This might be real. 0.95

00:42:22.960 She might just be nuts and have gotten obsessed with Kennedy. 0.93

00:42:26.380 But I can't help but notice the timing. 0.98

00:42:29.240 Just after Kennedy endorses Trump, all of a sudden this supposed sex scandal comes out. 0.90

00:42:35.640 But it's a sex scandal without any sex? 0.98

00:42:39.560 A Kennedy is going to have a sex scandal without any sex? 1.00

00:42:42.100 I don't. 0.92

00:42:42.780 That doesn't pass the smell test for me.

00:42:44.260 Now, speaking of RFK Jr., a Wisconsin judge has just ruled that RFK Jr. must stay on the ballot, even though he dropped out of the race quite a while ago.

00:42:57.040 Kennedy had a lot of trouble getting on the ballot in swing states.

00:43:00.200 He finally gets on the ballot, says, OK, I want to get off the ballot.

00:43:02.320 I'm not running anymore.

00:43:02.960 They won't let him off the ballot.

00:43:04.020 Siding with the Wisconsin Election Commission, Dane County Circuit Judge Stephen Elke said it was too late for Kennedy to remove himself, according to state law.

00:43:14.940 The judge said that state law only allows people to be removed from the ballot if they die, which, of course, explains how Joe Biden was able to get off the ballot.

00:43:24.980 He's gone from the ballot.

00:43:26.760 He has been replaced, even though he won the Democrat primary for president.

00:43:29.780 He has been replaced by Kamala Harris.

00:43:33.760 But RFK Jr. appears still to have a pulse, especially we're hearing the saucy story about, you know, lurid accusations by a reporter.

00:43:42.740 He's still alive.

00:43:43.860 And as long as he's alive, and especially as long as he's endorsing Trump, they are not going to let this guy off the ballot.

00:43:51.400 Them's the rules.

00:43:52.680 Now, speaking of the rules, do you remember there's a story?

00:43:55.500 And speaking of the public square, there's a story I mentioned weeks ago.

00:43:59.940 There have been little updates to it, but now we've finally got a big update.

00:44:03.500 The founder of Telegram, this relatively small social media app, was arrested.

00:44:09.340 He was arrested in France because authorities said that his social media platform was being used to facilitate crime.

00:44:21.940 And he wasn't clamping down hard enough on it.

00:44:25.060 And so they arrested him.

00:44:27.060 Now, this guy, Pavel Durov, had been flamboyant about how he was a cosmopolitan man, a citizen of the world.

00:44:37.980 He didn't owe any particular allegiances to Russia or France or this or that.

00:44:41.540 He was just going to have a platform for free speech.

00:44:45.020 That didn't last very long.

00:44:46.440 According to the arrest, his platform has been complicit in running or in allowing illicit transactions, images of child sex abuse, drug trafficking, and fraud.

00:44:59.780 And he refused to communicate information to authorities.

00:45:04.180 And maybe there was money laundering.

00:45:05.740 And maybe there was the providing of cryptographic services to criminals.

00:45:09.700 And well, now, Pavel Durov is saying, OK, I'm going to change it.

00:45:15.200 Because one part of the story that's not being reported on all that much is that Telegram has been used, especially by right-wingers.

00:45:21.460 It's not a particularly left-wing platform.

00:45:24.700 And of course, because if conservatives can't speak freely on Facebook, if they're censored on Google and YouTube, well, where are they going to turn?

00:45:33.200 They're going to turn to even smaller platforms.

00:45:37.600 Now, the authorities are clamping down on this guy.

00:45:40.100 And what does he say?

00:45:40.620 He says, OK, fine.

00:45:41.960 You're right.

00:45:42.540 Our service has been abused by people.

00:45:43.940 We're going to change the way it works.

00:45:47.220 We're going to work more with authorities.

00:45:48.800 We're going to limit what people can say and do on here.

00:45:51.700 And we're going to make sure that problematic content is not available in search anymore.

00:45:55.380 OK.

00:45:57.380 I have no problem.

00:45:58.620 For a while, especially when this guy first got arrested, we heard about how this was an attack on free speech and blah, blah.

00:46:03.960 But, you know, that's not really my bag.

00:46:05.660 I think that's a left-wing way of arguing.

00:46:07.520 I have no problem prosecuting tech CEOs for this sort of stuff in principle.

00:46:11.440 The thing is, all those things that they accuse him of facilitating, all those things happen on other social media platforms as well.

00:46:18.640 The difference, though, is that Facebook and Google play ball with the feds and Telegram heretofore has not played ball with the feds.

00:46:27.280 That's the difference.

00:46:28.900 The difference is, who are your friends?

00:46:31.100 Who are you working with?

00:46:32.000 The difference is, Telegram says, I'm a man without a country.

00:46:35.500 And the countries say, oh, well, you're about to, you're going to have a country.

00:46:38.560 You're going to, we're, you might not have an interest in us, but we have an interest politically in you.

00:46:44.460 And so, of course, Telegram is going to have to play ball.

00:46:51.620 That's the difference here.

00:46:53.160 There's no way out of the political problem.

00:46:55.660 I think the free speech utopians, they think that there's some way out of dealing with the nitty-gritty ugliness of politics.

00:47:04.300 There's not.

00:47:05.100 We're a political creature.

00:47:07.320 We're not going to win elections without dealing with nitty-gritty political life.

00:47:12.060 We're not going to, we're not going to get our message out without dealing with nitty-gritty political realities.

00:47:19.680 Doesn't work for the big, fancy, wealthy social media founders who zip around on private jets.

00:47:26.100 It ain't going to work for us either.

00:47:27.060 The only way out is through.

00:47:28.460 The rest of the show continues now.

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00:47:35.180 We'll see you in the Membrum Segmentum. 0.98

00:47:42.060 Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 0.97

00:47:53.100 Growing up, I never thought much about race. 0.97

00:47:55.040 It never really seemed to matter that much.

00:47:56.880 At least not to me.

00:47:57.700 Am I racist?

00:47:58.880 I would really appreciate it if you left.

00:48:00.160 I'm trying to learn along this journey.

00:48:02.140 If I'm going to sort this out, I need to go deeper undercover.

00:48:06.440 They don't say I'm racist.

00:48:07.700 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.

00:48:11.380 Here's my certification.

00:48:12.500 What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. 0.71

00:48:15.240 This is more for you than this for you.

00:48:16.220 Is America inherently racist?

00:48:17.800 The word inherent is challenging there.

00:48:19.740 I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.

00:48:22.880 America is racist to its bones.

00:48:24.760 So inherently. 0.99

00:48:25.640 Yeah, this country is a piece of...

00:48:27.300 White folks. 1.00

00:48:29.800 Trash. 1.00

00:48:30.280 White supremacy. 1.00

00:48:31.080 White woman. 1.00

00:48:31.640 White boy.

00:48:32.180 Is there a black person around here?

00:48:33.480 What's a black person right here? 0.86

00:48:34.780 Does he not exist? 0.92

00:48:35.560 Does he not say I'm racist?

00:48:37.380 Hi, Robin.

00:48:38.140 Hi.

00:48:38.480 What's your name?

00:48:39.440 I'm Matt.

00:48:39.920 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

00:48:42.540 Never be too careful.

00:48:44.500 In theaters now.

00:48:45.620 Rated PG-13.

The Michael Knowles Show - September 24, 2024

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