The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1589 - Trump & Elon Musk Rally Reaction

00:00:00.000 President Trump makes his triumphant return to the site of his near assassination.

00:00:04.900 Senator Ron Johnson wonders about a potential second shooter at the aforementioned assassination

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00:02:08.220 Go text Knowles to 989898 today. Trump returns to the site of his near assassination, Butler,

00:02:19.140 Pennsylvania, where he came within a hair's breadth, a 20-degree turn at the very last minute

00:02:26.140 of having the back of his skull blown off by a shooter. This time, he brought some friends. Well,

00:02:33.520 I guess he brought friends the first time, all of those great Trump supporters who showed up

00:02:37.440 to what is now an increasingly dangerous event, a Trump rally. He brought some friends on stage too,

00:02:44.360 including one of the wealthiest, and I suppose you would say now one of the most powerful men in

00:02:50.800 the world ever since he owned, ever since he bought X and now has part of the public square,

00:02:55.600 that would be Elon Musk.

00:02:58.800 American astronauts into space. Come here. Take over, Elon. Yes, take over. 0.97

00:03:09.120 You know, the true test of someone's character is how they behave under fire.

00:03:17.340 And we had one president who couldn't climb a flight of stairs,

00:03:21.000 and another who was fist pumping after getting shot. This one request is very important. Register

00:03:29.260 to vote. Okay. And get everyone you know and everyone you don't know, drag them to register to vote.

00:03:42.600 There's only two days left to register to vote in Georgia and Arizona. 48 hours.

00:03:48.300 Like, text people now. Now. And then make sure they actually do vote.

00:04:01.640 If they don't, this will be the last election. That's my prediction.

00:04:09.400 He said a lot more. He did a lot more. But this arc shows you, I think, why people really like Elon,

00:04:16.600 why Elon has a lot of credibility, why Elon has many hundreds of billions of dollars, and why Elon

00:04:26.280 would endorse Trump. Because Elon and Trump have something in common besides being billionaires.

00:04:34.400 Elon and Trump are both totally confident being themselves. Elon and Trump are both

00:04:42.400 completely authentic, love them, hate them, think they're weird, think they're eccentric. They don't

00:04:48.760 care. They are themselves. Elon Musk comes on stage, jumping up and flailing and dancing around

00:04:56.420 in exuberance. Kamala Harris pretends that her campaign is all about joy. They tried this obviously 1.00

00:05:02.460 focus-tested, contrived slogan for the campaign. Joy! Elon actually demonstrated joy yesterday.

00:05:10.920 That's what joy looks like. Joy looks kind of weird sometimes. I don't want to take this too far.

00:05:17.940 But when I picture King David dancing before the Lord, that's kind of what I picture. I picture it

00:05:23.880 being a little bit weird and people being embarrassed for him or having secondhand shame for this

00:05:29.480 exuberant display. But Elon don't care. Other billionaires, other very serious businessmen who own

00:05:36.860 corporations and they wear neckties and things, they would have walked on stage and said, listen,

00:05:41.320 here are the stakes and I support Trump because we need to reduce our regulations and increase

00:05:47.660 America's competitiveness for businesses like mine. Elon doesn't do that. He just jumps up and down.

00:05:52.840 He walks on stage. He's wearing the dark MAGA hat. It fits in with his aesthetic, the black clothes and

00:05:58.980 the black cyber truck. But then, he's not a clown. Far from it. Elon gets on stage and he explains

00:06:05.920 clearly and soberly why he's supporting Trump. He says, this man showed courage under literal fire.

00:06:12.220 That is an important quality for a president. And he goes on in his speech to say he supports X, Y,

00:06:17.380 and Z issues. And then he makes this grand point that people are going to mock him for. He says,

00:06:23.160 there won't be elections if Trump loses. What does Elon mean by this? Well, he's explained

00:06:29.860 elsewhere what he means by this. He means the Democrats are importing enough foreign nationals

00:06:37.020 into the country. And they've been doing so for many years, but they've really ramped it up in

00:06:40.360 recent years. They're importing so many foreigners into the country that the votes of Americans will 1.00

00:06:45.440 not matter if Democrats win this election, especially because Kamala Harris is running on not only

00:06:52.640 importing more foreigners into the country, not only are they currently giving these foreigners

00:06:58.280 voter registration forms, and many of them have been caught on undercover videotapes from the

00:07:04.920 Heritage Foundation and elsewhere saying that they will go out there and they will vote.

00:07:09.580 But Kamala Harris is saying, we're going to give these people amnesty. We're going to put them on a

00:07:12.580 pathway to citizenship so they'll be able to vote legally. Some of these states are decided by 10,000

00:07:18.020 votes. Arizona was decided by 10,500 votes in 2020. Right now, there are over 200,000 voters in Arizona

00:07:26.980 who might be ineligible to vote at the state and local level because they haven't provided proof of

00:07:31.140 citizenship. Okay, the razor thin margins that decide these elections compared to the millions and

00:07:39.740 millions of foreigners that the Democrats are importing into the country, it's not even close.

00:07:44.160 So when Elon says, look, it's game over for American sovereignty, when Donald Trump says

00:07:50.280 there is no greater act of disloyalty to your country than to undermine its sovereignty, which

00:07:55.460 is what Kamala Harris has done as the vice president, as the borders are, this is what they're talking 0.95

00:08:00.960 about. So then after Elon's excellent speech, I suppose before Elon comes on stage, President Trump

00:08:09.300 walks out. He opens up, he used that line that he said he was going to use, which is, as I was saying,

00:08:18.140 and then he turns and there's that graph on the screen, the graph that was the immediate cause of

00:08:22.640 saving his life because back in July, Trump pulled up a graph about immigration. And it was just at that

00:08:29.180 very last minute when he goes to look at the numbers on the graph, on the chart, that his head turns and

00:08:33.880 the bullet misses him. It doesn't quite miss him, but it only hits his ear. So Trump begins, as I was

00:08:39.860 saying, he goes on and on. But then, timed perfectly, at exactly the moment that the shots rang out,

00:08:47.980 President Trump has a moment of silence for Corey Comparator, the Trump supporter who died

00:08:53.980 heroically shielding his wife and kids from the assassin's bullets. And he has a moment of silence for

00:09:00.340 Corey, followed by one of the most remarkable moments in not just modern American presidential

00:09:08.400 politics, but in American politics, period. It is 6-11, 12 weeks to the minute that the shooting began.

00:09:18.520 I would like to ask everyone to join me in a moment of silence.

00:09:30.340 So there are no cuts in here. There was that moment of silence. The bell rings out. But this is what is

00:09:53.860 really remarkable. You're hearing the beginning of what sounds like Ave Maria. And then a singer walks on stage.

00:10:00.860 There are so many people here. I don't know, what is it, 100,000 people or something. I mean, you can look at the aerial views.

00:10:07.860 Well, there's a lot of red MAGA hats. And they're all here, some heads bound, listening to the Ave Maria. It was just the Hail Mary in Latin.

00:10:14.860 put to music.

00:10:39.860 I would sit here and listen to all of the Ave Maria, but we can get to the significance of it.

00:10:53.860 What is going on here? Is this the first time that the Ave Maria has been sung at an American political rally,

00:11:02.260 at a presidential rally? I can't think of any other example.

00:11:04.980 There isn't often a lot of Latin that is spoken or sung at these, much less Latin in a traditional hymn,

00:11:16.540 a prayer, actually, the Hail Mary, and specifically a prayer associated with Catholics.

00:11:23.740 What is going on here?

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00:12:50.280 K-N-W-L-E-S, today. A lot of people are going to be scratching their heads as to how an apparently

00:13:01.220 lapsed Presbyterian, whose supporters are largely non-denominational Protestants, would wind up in

00:13:08.940 a field in Pennsylvania with about 100,000 other supporters listening to, in some cases singing,

00:13:15.580 the Ave Maria, a prayer for all Christians, a very ancient prayer, but that is specifically

00:13:22.900 associated with Catholics. Add on to that President Trump's recent social media posts. He posted on the

00:13:30.120 Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady on Mary's birthday. And he posted on Truth Social. He said,

00:13:36.440 happy birthday, Mary. And he posted an icon, or he posted the image from the tilma of Our Lady of

00:13:42.800 Guadalupe, which is this image that converted millions and millions of people in the Western

00:13:47.820 Hemisphere. A miraculous image venerated in the Catholic Church. So it's specifically associated

00:13:54.500 with Catholics. Then he posted later the St. Michael prayer on the Feast of St. Michael,

00:13:59.400 Michaelmas, which is an ancient Christian feast celebrated not only by Catholics, also by the

00:14:05.100 Eastern Orthodox and also by some Protestants, Anglicans, and Lutherans. But he posted a prayer

00:14:10.340 written by Pope Leo XIII. What's going on here? Why is it the case that there seems to be such a

00:14:18.800 Catholic influence, not just on the Trump campaign, but on the whole MAGA movement? Not just on the

00:14:25.980 whole MAGA movement, but on conservatism broadly. I mean, J.D. Vance obviously is Catholic. Someone on

00:14:31.400 the social media team would appear to be Catholic. Melania was raised Catholic. The conservative

00:14:40.000 intellectual movement has been Catholic for a long time. William F. Buckley Jr., Russell Kirk,

00:14:45.140 Phyllis Schlafly. I'm just naming a handful. A lot of the present people in D.C. are Catholic.

00:14:51.780 A lot of grassroots. What is going on? I'll tell you what's going on. This is not surprising,

00:14:57.940 at least should not be surprising, if you've read your Alexei de Tocqueville, Democracy in America.

00:15:03.760 This is probably the greatest read on American politics, on early American politics, written all

00:15:10.320 the way back in the early 19th century. In book one, chapter six of Democracy in America,

00:15:16.580 Alexei de Tocqueville writes, I am inclined to believe that our posterity will tend more and more

00:15:22.380 to a single division into two parts. A single division, religiously, into two parts. Some

00:15:30.860 relinquishing Christianity entirely, and others returning to the bosom of the Church of Rome.

00:15:36.800 So Tocqueville famously, he's a Frenchman, he comes to America, he tours around all these small

00:15:42.640 little towns in New England, he travels all around America, and he writes his take on American

00:15:48.740 democracy, which has been lauded ever since as one of the most insightful analyses of the American

00:15:58.540 Republic. And yet, there's this little part in here, book one, chapter six, where he says,

00:16:03.500 yeah, I think Americans are going to end up either Catholic or atheist. I think those are the two 1.00

00:16:09.240 divisions they're going to tend toward. And as we live and breathe, we are seeing those two divisions

00:16:14.660 expand. What is his reasoning? Why is it that America is going to end up Catholic or atheist?

00:16:21.200 Well, his reasoning, he writes, is that men living in democratic ages are therefore very prone to shake

00:16:28.400 off all religious authority. But if they consent to subject themselves to any authority of this kind,

00:16:35.520 they choose at least that it should be single and uniform. Religious powers not radiating from a

00:16:43.340 common center are naturally repugnant to their minds. And they almost as readily conceive that

00:16:49.640 there should be no religion as that there should be several. That's his reasoning. You can take it or 0.95

00:16:55.920 leave it. But that is why Tocqueville predicted that this Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania would

00:17:03.280 sound and look like this. Now, you might say, well, there are a lot of Catholics in Pennsylvania.

00:17:06.820 Sure, there are Catholics in Pennsylvania. There are a lot of Catholics in a lot of different parts of

00:17:10.540 America. I don't think there being some Catholics in Pennsylvania would explain this. You don't see 1.00

00:17:15.640 this kind of thing from the Mitt Romney campaign or the John McCain campaign or the Bush campaign or

00:17:21.520 the other Bush campaign. This is increasing. The Catholicity of conservatism and MAGA and Trump

00:17:31.000 is at least aesthetically and at least rhetorically is increasing. And it isn't just Trump. And it isn't

00:17:41.100 just the handful of people around Trump. I'm inclined to believe that Tocqueville was right

00:17:45.700 about a lot of things. And this seed was planted long ago. And history has been moving in this

00:17:52.600 direction. Now, speaking of the shooting, Republican Senator Ron Johnson has questions about the

00:18:00.440 shooting. And he is entertaining the theory that perhaps Trump was not almost murdered in that

00:18:07.120 field in Pennsylvania, merely by some weird 20-year-old who was registered as a Republican,

00:18:12.680 but who voted for Democrats and I guess supported Joe Biden and who we don't really know anything about

00:18:17.160 and who had no social media footprint. And then the whole thing is just a little strange.

00:18:21.460 Maybe there was a second shooter.

00:18:23.320 We interviewed one of the snipers on Hercules 2. That was the team that was obstructed by a tree,

00:18:28.900 couldn't see crooks. In the testimony, and we haven't interviewed the other guy, but that sniper

00:18:35.340 said he thought, when he started hearing shots fired, he thought his partner was hit because he

00:18:40.280 heard the zip crack of a bullet fly to his left. Looks over, he wasn't. He said, how far do you think

00:18:47.120 that bullet was to our left? And his partner goes, I thought it was to the right. They're six feet

00:18:53.060 apart. So as it stands right now, the testimony is a bullet flew between Hercules 2, the second

00:19:00.880 sniper team. They couldn't see crooks. Crooks couldn't see them, which puts pressure on the

00:19:07.260 FBI. And I just put it on today. When are we going to get your ballistics report, your bullet

00:19:13.880 trajectory report, the audio report from, you know, where's your analysis?

00:19:20.480 So Senator Johnson is not exactly the most tinfoil hat eccentric member of the upper chamber. Okay.

00:19:28.780 He's a pretty reserved guy, a pretty staid guy, put together, not one taken to flights of fancy.

00:19:36.300 And he's saying, look, I've listened to the testimony. And the testimony right now is that

00:19:40.160 there is a bullet that flew between these two sniper teams. So maybe they just misheard or I

00:19:45.800 don't know, but these are pretty highly trained guys. So anyway, we have to at least entertain the

00:19:49.940 possibility that there was a different trajectory for at least one of the bullets than we've been

00:19:56.060 told. And if that is the case, then it might change our understanding of what happened in that

00:20:00.140 field in Pennsylvania, just two days before the Republican National Convention that would have

00:20:05.140 nominated Trump or might not have nominated Trump, I guess, had he been dead. And that occurred just

00:20:09.720 eight days before Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race. It raises questions,

00:20:13.760 not just for the crazy internet people, but even for people as reserved and moderate as Senator Johnson.

00:20:25.180 So then what are we supposed to conclude? Especially that they don't have the ballistics report. We don't

00:20:32.180 know. I mean, this happened a little while ago now, guys. How come the FBI is not getting the US

00:20:36.480 Senate the kind of information that it's requesting? It raises questions, especially because palace

00:20:44.400 coups occur throughout history. It isn't that unusual for a big political leader to be assassinated

00:20:53.040 or for someone to try to assassinate him or for powerful people within the society to try to

00:20:58.080 assassinate him. That isn't unusual at all. It's not unusual. I mean, a disproportionate number of

00:21:05.260 American presidents have been assassinated or have had attempts on their life. And palace coups happen.

00:21:10.980 A soft palace coup happened just eight days after the near assassination of Trump in the Biden

00:21:17.000 campaign. When the Biden campaign locked him up in his house in Delaware and then posted something to

00:21:21.040 social media saying, I'm dropping out of the race. Forced him out. These things happen all the time.

00:21:26.400 Add to all of that, this talk about Trump posing an existential threat to the republic,

00:21:33.360 Hitler 2.0, it's at least possible. It's at least possible that something else happened 0.58

00:21:40.900 in Pennsylvania than we have been officially told, especially as so much information has been withheld,

00:21:47.300 especially as one of the explanations as to why law enforcement or secret service didn't make it up

00:21:51.820 onto the roof where the shooter was positioned was because the roof was sloped. Well, you know,

00:21:58.300 we had agents up there yesterday. So I guess they figured out how to get over the very slight slope

00:22:03.800 on the roof. It just, there were just a lot of holes in the story. And so I think Senator Johnson is

00:22:09.460 totally right to keep pressing on this. And I think every day that the federal government doesn't

00:22:14.420 get the Republican senators information, it raises even more questions. There's so much more to say.

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00:23:46.620 And I, oh boy, I got to bring my blood pressure down when I tell you this news. This was going

00:23:54.380 viral on the internet yesterday. You boys been ripped off, okay? Your favorite author of blank books,

00:24:04.400 yours truly, has been ripped off. There is a new book that has hit the shelves. I take it from this

00:24:12.320 video in Walmart. The Achievements of Kamala Harris by Jason Duda, maybe. I can't quite tell the name

00:24:21.420 of the author because just the way that it's filmed. A book filled with blank pages. And then I think it's

00:24:30.180 on Amazon too. The description of the book actually mimics some of our language. In my magnum opus,

00:24:41.180 number one bestseller on all of Amazon and still selling well today, Reasons to Vote for Democrats,

00:24:47.480 a comprehensive guide, also filled with blank pages. Now, if I sue this man, his legal defense,

00:24:54.440 of course, could be that he stole nothing. And I don't know the case law on this. So I don't know

00:25:00.540 if I'm really, he better lawyer up. But I don't know if I could really bring suit. Of course,

00:25:05.940 there have been blank books before mine. There was Everything Men Know About Women. That's a good one. 0.86

00:25:12.160 The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro T. Agnew. That was another one. It actually goes back to 1880. So

00:25:16.500 maybe I don't have much of a case. And good on this guy,

00:25:19.380 because it made me realize when this joke came out, I'm sure it's a good, it's obviously his thesis

00:25:25.160 is totally correct. It made me think, wow, man, it's been seven, almost eight years since my blank

00:25:33.920 book. That's a long time. Seven, almost eight years since I had my blank magnum opus out there.

00:25:43.080 And yet nothing about politics has changed. And I don't mean that in the sense that,

00:25:48.120 ah, well, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, you know. This is how politics, this is

00:25:51.940 life. It's a turn. No, I mean, I mean it much more practically and literally. We have the same

00:25:56.780 candidates. I mean, Trump, eight years later, Trump is still the candidate. He's still the Republican

00:26:04.820 nominee. And you might say, well, Kamala wasn't the nominee in 2016. Sure, but Kamala was the VP for

00:26:14.040 Joe Biden. Joe Biden was the VP for Barack Obama, who Trump was following. And more broadly,

00:26:22.340 Hillary was the candidate. And more broadly, Kamala, Biden, Hillary are all the exact same

00:26:28.520 kind of candidate. They're just avatars of the liberal establishment. There's nothing particularly

00:26:36.040 novel or individual about them. Hillary Clinton just is. She has formed so much of the Democrat 0.98

00:26:44.180 establishment. Joe Biden is just a total empty suit. And then Kamala Harris was the empty pantsuit

00:26:49.820 for the empty suit in office. So it's all just the same kind of thing. They basically keep the

00:26:57.000 same suit and they just replace the person who's in it. And then you have Trump there, who's the

00:26:59.900 same candidate. Furthermore, not only do we have the same candidates that we had, or the same types of

00:27:04.680 candidates we had in 2016, they're running on the same issues. The weird trans stuff and migration 1.00

00:27:11.720 and free speech to a lesser degree. And then not only do we have the same candidates and the same

00:27:19.360 issues, but we even have the same jokes. Because in 2016, you had my book, Reasons to Vote for

00:27:24.980 Democrats, and now you have the achievements of Kamala Harris. And so it just feels like we are stuck

00:27:29.960 in this morass of the status quo. Fashions don't change as much anymore. Candidates don't change.

00:27:38.840 Issues don't change. I don't know what it is. Is this a technological fact that as technology has

00:27:45.200 advanced, we're all just locked in exactly the same place? We're in the eternal present? Is this

00:27:50.260 an ideological fact that as the ideology of presentism has advanced, the notion that the past

00:27:56.340 was totally terrible and we should just remain in a perpetual present and ignore the wisdom of our

00:28:02.240 ancestors and our own history? I don't know what it is, but it's like Groundhog Day. This is the

00:28:09.760 Groundhog Day campaign, and who knows? We might be in just a Groundhog Day of politics. There is one

00:28:15.420 thing that has changed, specifically over the past four years, and that is the cost of everything.

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00:28:32.100 understand it today, the lifetime cost. Take a guess. I told you at the top of the show, but if you

00:28:38.140 weren't paying attention or you were just tuning in now, $4.4 million. If you want to have the American

00:28:48.420 dream as it is presently understood over the course of your life, that will require $4.4 million.

00:28:58.980 That's a lot of scratch. How? What's the breakdown? According to Investopedia, you need $1.6 million for

00:29:05.920 retirement. You need $930,000 for home ownership. And you might say, well, I don't need to live in a

00:29:11.640 million-dollar house. It's $930,000 because you'll have a mortgage, presumably, and right now our

00:29:19.680 interest rates are a little bit high. And maybe you'll have multiple homes over the course of your

00:29:22.980 life, but even if you just have one, it adds up. All that interest adds up. Raising two kids, the cost

00:29:29.080 is $832,000 right now. Owning new cars, if you want to own new cars, $811,000 over the course of your

00:29:36.740 life. Annual vacations, $179,000. Wedding, $44,000 is the cost they expect. Pets, this one's shocking,

00:29:45.540 $37,000 to have a pet. And then your funeral will cost $8,000, probably more by the time we die.

00:29:53.880 What does this mean? If Trump and Vance are running on restoring the American dream,

00:29:59.700 Kamala and Joe Biden and Tim Walls now are running me. They don't talk about the American dream as much.

00:30:05.120 They don't like America and their policies are nightmares. So the only dreams they talk about

00:30:10.200 are the dreamers, which is like the 50-year-old gangsters who come over with MS-13 and assault

00:30:17.260 your family and kill people. But we pretend that it's like doughy-eyed eight-year-olds who are just

00:30:23.620 trying to have a break in school. In any case, they don't really talk about that. It's Trump and

00:30:28.080 Vance. How are they going to restore the American dream? Well, we need one thing that Republicans are

00:30:33.160 offering that the Democrats are not. That's pro-growth policies. It means you really do need

00:30:37.480 to grow the economy. There's no substitute for winning. You have to expand the pie. You need to

00:30:44.020 get America growing again. But even then, even if you do have some, I don't know, some regulatory

00:30:52.460 policies that will be beneficial to the American worker, the American family, and can, it's still not

00:30:58.420 going to bring you all the way to $4.4 million. What else do you need? Well, I think you need a

00:31:03.060 reshaping of priorities. Because what the most glaring aspect of this analysis to me is the raising

00:31:10.540 two kids part. That's it. That's all we're aiming at now in America, raising two kids. That's below 0.82

00:31:17.740 replacement. Replacement has to be a little bit higher than two kids because people die and because

00:31:25.660 accidents happen. And so really it's what, 2.1 or 2.3 kids is replacement. That's what we're aiming

00:31:31.940 at in America? Just two kids? That's like a big family now. How crazy is that? What if you want,

00:31:38.980 how about three kids? How about four kids? How about we get back to the days when it was normal

00:31:43.580 for Americans to have five or six kids? How about we get back to the days when it was normal, at least 1.00

00:31:47.900 for certain religious groups, the Catholics, the Mormons, and the Orthodox Jews, to have eight,

00:31:53.640 nine, or ten kids? How about that, huh? Wow, boy, or more. Then it's going to cost even more. So what

00:32:01.200 does that mean? All right, well, you got to retire. So the $1.6 million seems pretty firm there. Maybe

00:32:08.660 you could live with your kids. Intergenerational housing, that's something that we used to have.

00:32:11.960 We don't really have any more. That'd be, okay. Home ownership, maybe. We used to have,

00:32:16.600 when we talk about how your grandparents were able to get a home for significantly less money,

00:32:20.540 well, in part, it's because their homes were just less nice than the homes we build today. Maybe

00:32:24.160 you need a smaller kind of home. Those homes don't really exist anymore. Maybe we need to start

00:32:27.360 building them. Raising two kids, that's going to cost a lot to raise kids. Maybe you don't send

00:32:33.240 your kid to the private school. Maybe you don't buy your kid the nicest new electronics or the nicest

00:32:37.100 new clothing. But maybe you don't have to buy all the nicest food, but you just, you buy the normal

00:32:42.460 food and you buy the less expensive clothing. You don't have all the electronics. Owning new cars,

00:32:47.400 how about you drive an old car? You don't need to drive a new car.

00:32:49.440 used cars are expensive now, but you could just drive the same car that you have.

00:32:55.480 Annual vacations, maybe you don't take a vacation every single year. Maybe you downscale your

00:32:59.100 vacations. The wedding, maybe you don't need to spend 44 grand on that. Pets, good grief.

00:33:04.040 You know, I hate to say that the Haitians have a point here, but, and the Haitians take it too far. 1.00

00:33:09.140 But we don't need to treat our pets like their children. We used to treat our pets like pets.

00:33:14.000 You shouldn't treat your pets like a rotisserie chicken on the one hand, but you also shouldn't

00:33:18.240 treat your pets like a baby and put them in a little stroller and, you know, send them off to

00:33:21.740 college. They're pets. You should treat them like little pets. We need pro-growth policies, 0.83

00:33:27.200 but we need a reshaping of priorities, a return to the priorities that we had that prioritized

00:33:34.200 family over stuff and that prioritized human beings over dogs and cars. We need to return to

00:33:41.040 the priorities that we had when our country was growing. That's a big part of making America

00:33:44.980 great again. Speaking of the cost of goods,

00:33:51.560 President Trump has just defended a controversial policy to our friend Dave Ramsey. Trump defended

00:33:57.820 tariffs. The word tariff to me is a very beautiful word because it can save our country, truly. And yet,

00:34:06.060 I think because of graft, because of a lot of consulting payments and other things that given

00:34:11.420 by other countries, we have so much fighting with politicians on using it. I saved our steel

00:34:18.800 industries by putting tariffs on steel that China came in and dumped. And you know what they do?

00:34:24.320 They dump and dump and dump. Everybody goes out of business. Then they buy those businesses very cheap

00:34:28.740 and then they raise the prices to higher than they ever were. That's one of the many benefits that

00:34:33.980 they have if they want to do it. But by putting tariffs on, as an example, in the furniture business

00:34:39.260 in North Carolina, it was so vibrant and they stole our business. And they charge us, if you wanted to

00:34:46.700 build a furniture place, if you want to sell your furniture in China, they won't take it. But if you

00:34:52.620 want to build a plant in China to make furniture in China, using their labor, they open it. We're doing

00:35:00.060 the same thing. So what you were probably taught in school, if you're of a certain age, these days,

00:35:06.700 you know, if you're under 20, say you were probably just taught to go do a bunch of weird sex stuff

00:35:10.700 and do, and that America's evil and that God doesn't exist. And that's for, but if you're a

00:35:17.360 little older than that, and maybe even if you're still younger, you're probably taught tariffs don't

00:35:21.340 work. We were told tariffs don't work, trade, free trade works and tariffs are bad. That was,

00:35:28.520 that was how I was taught 19th and 20th century history. Trump here is giving very practical

00:35:33.600 examples. He says, and he said this in 2016, he said, if tariffs don't work, how come every other

00:35:37.760 country uses them? You know, it seems like they all think it works. China thinks it works. So he says,

00:35:45.600 I don't know, I think a tariff can work. And he explains practical scenarios in which a tariff

00:35:50.040 might work in the present because he's a business guy. He's a pretty practical guy.

00:35:54.020 But then already you're thinking, well, Trump is digging in a little bit more on this issue.

00:35:58.640 Maybe he's not a total idiot like the economists of a certain breed would say that he is. Then he

00:36:05.040 goes on and gives the historical understanding of tariffs. But a lot of people like, oh, well,

00:36:11.540 we don't want to have tariffs. The country was at the richest point in its history in the 1890s. It was

00:36:18.300 all tariffs. If you looked at William McKinley as an example, he was a big tariff president.

00:36:24.040 They had committees that were put in charge of what to do with the money. We were taking in so much

00:36:30.280 money. And McKinley would say, why should we let other people come in and steal our factories and

00:36:35.560 steal our workers and steal our jobs? And why shouldn't we benefit? And he tariffed the other

00:36:42.440 countries. And we made so much. And then they went to the income tax system later on. But they would

00:36:47.640 actually have, they had a blue ribbon committee. Our country was so rich, they didn't know what to

00:36:53.340 do with the money. And this blue ribbon committee was set up to determine how can we spend all of

00:36:59.740 this money? And they took it in through tariffs. But we can turn our country around, make it strong,

00:37:05.500 and then guard it with tariffs.

00:37:08.560 So President Trump goes back to President McKinley, who was a big tariff guy. He could go back even

00:37:12.860 further to President Abraham Lincoln, who said, give us a tariff and we'll have the greatest nation

00:37:17.900 on earth. So there is a case. I'm not saying tariffs are a cure-all to economic problems.

00:37:24.940 I'm not saying free trade is a terrible thing. What I'm saying is there is a case for tariffs.

00:37:31.200 There is a case for economic protection. The case for free trade, which leads inevitably to

00:37:39.280 globalized markets, which leads, when other countries don't institute their tariffs and

00:37:44.560 just game the system. Globalized markets lead inevitably to global political institutions

00:37:51.400 to govern those international markets, which leads inevitably to globalism.

00:37:58.240 I'm saying free trade isn't perfect. There is a case, a political and economic case,

00:38:05.000 against total free trade. And I know this is going to rankle the feathers of certain Republicans and

00:38:11.200 conservatives. But conservatives especially should know, of course there have to be problems with

00:38:18.340 free trade. No political solution to anything is perfect in this fallen world. There are always

00:38:24.480 going to be trade-offs. There are always going to be costs and there are going to be benefits.

00:38:28.540 That's what Trump is pointing out, which means that Trump is demonstrating greater economic and

00:38:32.900 political insight than basically our entire political and economic elite class for the

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00:39:15.980 slash subscribe. Code FIGHT for 47% off new Daily Wire Plus memberships. My favorite comment on Friday

00:39:23.660 is from phoenixrising1675, who says, I've had an abortion, and I'm here to say you never get over

00:39:30.040 it ever, even after 30 years. It's not my favorite comment because of what you went through. I'm very

00:39:37.200 sorry for you and for your baby and for the regret that you feel, of course, or at least the shame and

00:39:43.280 the guilt. The regret, though, of course, is natural. And it's, as I say, I know a number of women who've

00:39:49.920 had abortions, they all regret it. Most of them, I would say, admit that they regret it. Some of them,

00:39:58.700 they just demonstrate that they regret it. But it's a little bit more implicit or it only comes

00:40:04.340 out every so often. But they all regret it. They all do. This is the biggest lie. I was at the Live

00:40:10.280 Action Gala. I love Live Action. Fabulous pro-life organization that specifically educates about pro-life

00:40:16.620 and changes minds on abortion. And the biggest lie, I think, that the abortion industry tells women

00:40:24.720 is not that the baby's not a baby or whatever, because I think most women deep down know that 0.97

00:40:31.680 the baby is a baby. It's very hard to have a baby growing inside you and you don't know. I think a

00:40:35.560 lot of women just gaslight themselves and a lot of the men just ignore it. It's a baby. But the biggest 0.99

00:40:40.880 lie that the pro-abortion movement tells you is, hey, if you commit this action that you know is

00:40:46.200 wrong, if you kill your baby, you'll be free. You'll be happy. You have to do this. Your life

00:40:55.160 will be terrible if you don't kill your baby. This will be liberating. And it's not. This is

00:41:01.380 what the devil does. The devil whispers in your ear and says, that sin that you're thinking about

00:41:06.960 committing, that sin, it's no big deal. It's no big deal at all. Just do it. It's no big deal. And

00:41:13.180 then the minute you do it, he says, that's the biggest deal in the world. You're totally unlovable.

00:41:17.280 You can never be forgiven. You're irredeemable. You might as well keep sinning because what you

00:41:22.000 just did is the worst. Hey, devil, you just told me that that wasn't a big deal. Huh? What are you

00:41:26.000 talking about? It's the biggest deal ever. That's what the devil does. He says, at first he says you

00:41:31.820 won't be punished. Then he says you won't be forgiven. Both of which are lies.

00:41:35.500 Speaking of tariffs, Peter Navarro, who is a senior White House advisor to President Trump and

00:41:43.500 probably the most prominent pro-tariff voice in the Trump administration. He was just on a panel on

00:41:53.200 MSNBC with a guy, Gordon Sondland, who testified at the impeachment trial, testified against President

00:42:01.040 Trump. And Sondland is coming out on MSNBC and saying, yeah, I can't vote for Kamala. I'm with

00:42:09.920 Trump. A no for you after that. Why was it important for you to say no more Trump because of his January

00:42:15.560 6th conduct? And do you stand by that? No, I don't stand by it. And I'll tell you why.

00:42:20.240 I've now lived four years under the Biden-Harris policies. And I have to say that those policies

00:42:28.160 are not only becoming an existential threat to our country's way of life, but to our allies as

00:42:36.400 well. So when it has to, this is, no, no, I'll let you finish, but this is so striking. You said it

00:42:42.280 was a no for me after that. I did. I did. And here we are right now. I did. And you're saying it's a yes

00:42:48.140 for you. It is a yes for me. It is an absolute yes for me. That is how badly the Biden-Harris team

00:42:55.540 have prosecuted their job. But the whole point you seem to be making was that January 6th and that

00:43:02.240 kind of attack on democracy is bigger than any policy. I am seeing so many attacks on democracy

00:43:08.400 that eclipse January 6th. So I want to ask Sarah, if you want to ask me what those are.

00:43:14.560 My favorite part of this whole clip, you see that right there at the end, that little smile from

00:43:20.820 Peter Navarro, as he hears the line, the most important line from Sondland, who says, yeah,

00:43:26.940 yeah, I know, I know threats on democracy. I know that's why I ditched Trump. We have seen far

00:43:33.660 greater threats to democracy under Biden and Harris. And why is there that little smirk from Peter

00:43:43.160 Navarro? Because Peter Navarro just got out of jail after the Democrats jailed him.

00:43:47.540 Peter Navarro, unprecedented, to jail a senior White House advisor for defying a congressional

00:43:56.020 subpoena. And Navarro is not the only one. They did the same thing to Steve Bannon.

00:44:02.440 That's a threat on democracy. That's a threat on the separation of powers. Congress really has no

00:44:07.480 right to do that. If Congress has ever, in principle, had such a right, they've not exercised it.

00:44:12.600 It disturbs the balance of powers in the country. To imprison one's political opponents

00:44:19.560 simply for holding different political views, obviously is an undermining of American democracy,

00:44:28.200 of the republic. Peter Navarro knows that very well. Gordon Sondland knows that very well.

00:44:34.160 He opens up, he says, this administration has been absolutely terrible. The policies have been

00:44:37.940 absolutely terrible. But then he says, it's not just the economy and it's not just even immigration.

00:44:42.540 It's a fundamental undermining of the American country. Now, some anti-Trump Republicans are

00:44:52.980 sticking with it, such as Adam Kinzinger. Remember him? He was sort of the Ethel to Liz Cheney's Lucy.

00:45:01.040 Adam Kinzinger, he would cry during congressional testimony. He's an interesting one. Adam Kinzinger

00:45:11.360 has launched not just an anti-Trump group, but now an anti-Ted Cruz group, a group that is supporting

00:45:21.160 Colin Allred, the Democrat who's running against Senator Cruz, down in Texas. Allred just announced

00:45:28.680 this in local news down there, Houston Chronicle and ABC 13, and said that the Republicans for All

00:45:35.520 Red coalition will feature former Republicans, and it's a bunch of two-bit players who no one's ever

00:45:40.600 heard of, state rep Jason Vallalba, and a handful of people, and their big superstar, former Republican

00:45:50.020 congressman, Adam Kinzinger. Now, every campaign does this. Every campaign has Republicans for

00:45:56.320 this Democrat, or Democrats for this Republican, or it happens in every campaign, local, all the way up

00:46:02.860 to presidential. In principle, it's no surprise. The Kinzinger of it all shows you the game, though,

00:46:11.560 because Kinzinger said, look, I'm a Republican. I'm a principled Republican. It's not just that I'm a

00:46:18.500 squishy Republican, and that's why I want to support a Democrat, which is usually the case in these Democrats

00:46:24.440 for Republican or Republicans for a Democrat. It's usually these squishy, liberal, moderate, centrist types

00:46:30.040 who go, they flip sides in plenty of elections. Kinzinger, he said, no, I'm so conservative. This is the whole

00:46:37.560 Never Trump movement. I'm so supremely conservative and principled and right wing that I could never vote for

00:46:45.200 this Republican. I'm so principled, I'm going to vote for the Democrat. Okay, all right, maybe there's

00:46:54.280 just something about Trump that really got to the guy, really broke the guy. But what about Cruz?

00:47:02.900 Hold on here. Seems to me that your problem is not really just with Trump, that your problem

00:47:09.020 is with Trump and Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon and the, I don't know, the whole, all the people

00:47:18.520 around Trump. And it's not just the people around Trump. It's also the senators and congressmen who

00:47:24.560 are really close to Trump. But it's not even just the senators and congressmen who are really close to

00:47:28.280 Trump. It's also the chief rival to Trump in 2016. Don't forget, when the election came down to it,

00:47:34.420 it was Trump versus Cruz. So now, oh, so now it just seems like you have a problem with Republicans,

00:47:41.040 which I think is basically what this has always been about. In the very early days,

00:47:45.860 Never Trump might have had some real fears about Trump. But today, first of all, by 2017,

00:47:52.300 anyone who was still saying they were Never Trump was just a Democrat. But certainly by 2020,

00:47:57.480 by 2024, it was never just about Trump. It was about you. And that's what Trump has said for some

00:48:09.200 years now. It's probably the most famous meme of his campaign. They're not coming after me,

00:48:14.100 they're coming after you and I'm in the way. I'm a conservative. I'm a Republican. I don't like

00:48:21.980 the uniparty Democrat establishment, where the Democrats play the leading role and then the

00:48:29.020 Republicans play the supporting role. And they exist to be court jesters in the kingdom of liberalism

00:48:34.200 and to justify the liberal regime. And they'll put up some opposition. But on the crucial issues,

00:48:39.040 when it comes down to it, on migration, on foreign policy, even on economic policy, they'll cave.

00:48:45.480 Certainly on our civil liberties and on the structure of our government, they'll cave.

00:48:49.460 And Trump said, no, what if we don't do that? What if we do something at least a little bit

00:48:55.360 different? That's what this is about. It was never just about Trump. Today is Music Monday, baby. The

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 07, 2024

Ep. 1589 - Trump & Elon Musk Rally Reaction

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