The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1606 - Vandals Set Fire To Voting Drop Boxes

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00:01:17.580 Ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington state have caught fire, reportedly burning up hundreds of ballots.

00:01:24.760 Officials in Pennsylvania have reportedly turned away voters hours before cutoff times.

00:01:29.360 There are going to be all sorts of conspiracy theories to explain what's going on.

00:01:34.420 But you actually don't need any conspiracy theories to see a plain fact.

00:01:39.540 Elections today are less secure than they were before Democrats changed the rules.

00:01:46.120 And you don't need conspiracy theories to ask yourself why Democrats did that in the first place.

00:01:52.800 I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:07:15.020 And I'm feeling really good. 0.99

00:07:16.340 And I'm feeling really good because Joe Biden tells me I am like garbage. 0.97

00:07:20.440 Or Puerto Rico, where I'm in my home state of Delaware. 0.93

00:07:23.980 They're good, decent, honorable people. 0.99

00:07:26.280 The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. 0.99

00:07:29.940 His demonization is seen as unconscionable. 1.00

00:07:32.720 And it's un-American. 0.99

00:07:35.720 That's Joe Biden, president of the United States, calling half the country garbage. 0.96

00:07:41.720 Why is he doing this? 0.88

00:07:42.520 He's doing this because at the Trump rally at MSG, there was a roast comedian who opened up the show.

00:07:48.620 And he made all sorts of jokes.

00:07:50.340 He made jokes about Democrats.

00:07:51.580 He made jokes about Republicans.

00:07:53.080 He made jokes about all sorts of people.

00:07:54.440 He's a roast comedian, okay?

00:07:56.740 And a pretty famous one. 0.94

00:07:58.980 So one joke he made is he said there's a floating island of garbage, but we call that Puerto Rico or something.

00:08:05.920 And it was a funny joke. 0.83

00:08:07.660 He tells all sorts of funny jokes.

00:08:09.100 So anyway, Joe Biden decides to make a statement that is not a joke.

00:08:14.420 He decides to get very offended on behalf of Puerto Ricans, even though the Puerto Ricans in the room thought it was a funny joke because it was. 0.99

00:08:20.940 But Joe Biden decides to say the only garbage I see is Trump supporters, half the country garbage. 0.99

00:08:30.540 Barack Obama called half the country bitter clingers, clinging to their guns and religion. 1.00

00:08:35.960 Hillary Clinton called half the country deplorable. 1.00

00:08:37.720 Now Joe Biden, a week before the election, calls half the country garbage. 0.69

00:08:45.980 This could end the campaign for the Democrats.

00:08:49.620 So the Democrats fly into cover-up mode.

00:08:54.220 You're not going to believe how Politico covered this.

00:08:56.640 Politico said, Biden in a Zoom call with the organization Voto Latino said, quote, 0.98

00:09:02.420 the only garbage was the, quote, hatred of Trump supporters who said such things about American citizens. 0.97

00:09:09.660 Is that what Biden said? 1.00

00:09:10.960 Hold on. 1.00

00:09:11.740 Biden said the only garbage was the hatred of Trump supporters who said such things about American citizens. 1.00

00:09:15.920 Hold on. 0.99

00:09:16.540 Can we go back to the tape?

00:09:17.540 What did Biden say?

00:09:18.380 Or Puerto Rico, where I'm in my home state of Delaware.

00:09:22.220 They're good, decent, honorable people. 0.99

00:09:24.460 The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. 0.99

00:09:28.020 His demonization is seen as unconscionable. 1.00

00:09:31.180 The only garbage I see out there is his supporters. 1.00

00:09:35.980 The demonization of people is unconscionable. 1.00

00:09:39.760 Two sentences.

00:09:40.620 It's not even as though he said something and then he caught himself and he redacted what he said. 1.00

00:09:45.420 He said, the only garbage I see is his supporters. 0.99

00:09:49.060 That is half the country. 1.00

00:09:52.800 Conservatives, independents, some Democrats for Trump.

00:09:56.380 White people, black people, Puerto Rican people, men, women, everybody.

00:09:59.840 His supporters.

00:10:03.060 Politico just lies about this.

00:10:04.640 This reporter, Jonathan Lemire.

00:10:06.600 Lemire.

00:10:07.260 I don't.

00:10:07.600 This is just a complete lie.

00:10:09.980 It's not even they stretch the truth a little bit or they covered certain things up.

00:10:14.000 This guy just lied.

00:10:15.400 Politico just lied trying to cover up for Biden.

00:10:17.620 Why?

00:10:17.760 Because they know this is absolutely devastating.

00:10:22.060 This is a deplorable comment times a thousand.

00:10:26.260 One week before the election.

00:10:28.640 Which raises a question.

00:10:30.440 Why did Biden say it?

00:10:32.820 Did he say it because he believes it?

00:10:34.820 Yeah, maybe.

00:10:36.680 But is there something more to it?

00:10:40.100 Some people are wondering, did Biden make this comment because he hates Kamala and wants her to lose?

00:10:45.520 And I don't know.

00:10:46.740 He's not totally in control of his faculties.

00:10:49.320 He says things that he doesn't think about.

00:10:51.160 That's been true for all of Biden's career.

00:10:53.360 But I guess the question is, who does Joe Biden hate more?

00:10:58.640 You, conservatives, Trump supporters, or Kamala Harris?

00:11:05.000 And if you ask me, I think it's the latter.

00:11:09.160 I think Joe Biden could get along better with Trump supporters than he could with Kamala Harris.

00:11:14.900 Some evidence of this, when Trump was at that fire station campaigning in Pennsylvania, what did he do?

00:11:20.200 He put a Trump hat on and smiled for the cameras.

00:11:22.960 And he played it off as a little joke.

00:11:24.520 But Joe Biden is a really good politician.

00:11:27.880 He was never the brightest bulb in the pack.

00:11:29.360 He was never going to solve nuclear fusion.

00:11:31.000 But he's a really good politician.

00:11:32.960 That is going to be the last part of Joe Biden's brain to go, his political sense.

00:11:36.940 He knew exactly what he was doing.

00:11:38.400 When Biden came out there, Kamala and Ron DeSantis were in a fight over handling the hurricane. 0.52

00:11:44.360 And Kamala was complaining that DeSantis wouldn't take her call.

00:11:46.660 And DeSantis said, I don't need to take her call.

00:11:48.180 I speak directly to the president.

00:11:49.620 Whose side did Joe Biden take?

00:11:51.180 Joe Biden took DeSantis' side.

00:11:52.920 He said, oh, I don't know.

00:11:53.740 I think DeSantis is doing a great job.

00:11:55.360 I've been talking to him.

00:11:55.980 He's got my personal number.

00:11:57.040 I don't know what everyone's complaining about.

00:11:58.240 He did a great job. 0.99

00:11:58.920 And now, one week before the election, after reports come out that Kamala doesn't want Joe Biden on the campaign trail, he does one event and he comes out and he says, Trump supporters are garbage. 0.99

00:12:11.700 I don't know. 0.97

00:12:12.680 Crazier things have happened in politics than a sitting Democrat president hoping for a Republican to win.

00:12:20.660 There was some rumor back in 1968 that LBJ was secretly, privately pulling for Richard Nixon over Hubert Humphrey.

00:12:29.960 He was pulling for the Republican over the Democrat.

00:12:32.740 Could be the same here.

00:12:33.840 Whatever the motivation, I don't even care that much about the motivation.

00:12:37.020 That clip needs to go everywhere.

00:12:39.320 That needs to be a 30-second ad being blasted all over YouTube.

00:12:42.480 Now is the time to do it. 1.00

00:12:44.600 Joe Biden, the Democrats, they say half the country is garbage. 1.00

00:12:48.640 You want to vote for that? 1.00

00:12:49.460 I don't think so.

00:12:50.020 Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is not much better at campaigning than Joe Biden is right now.

00:12:55.760 Kamala Harris just squandered the applause of her audience in a way I have never seen a politician do. 1.00

00:13:06.980 It was such clear retail politics incompetence.

00:13:11.820 Take a listen.

00:13:13.920 Kamala! Kamala! Kamala! Kamala! Kamala!

00:13:18.120 Kamala! Kamala! Kamala! Kamala! Kamala!

00:13:23.560 Okay, now I want each of you to shout your own name.

00:13:26.300 Do that.

00:13:27.860 Stop.

00:13:29.920 Because it's about all of us.

00:13:31.860 It's about all of us.

00:13:33.080 And listen, I have fought my whole career to put the people first.

00:13:37.840 So she's got the crowd going, Kamala, Kamala. 1.00

00:13:42.280 Okay, now, now everyone recite the alphabet backwards.

00:13:48.180 Z, huh?

00:13:49.700 What?

00:13:50.060 One time I was working on a campaign for a wonderful woman.

00:13:53.620 And there was a press conference that we were having.

00:13:56.280 This was for like a local race in New York.

00:13:58.100 There was a press conference we were having.

00:14:00.640 And this candidate, she said, hey, do we want more Obamacare? 0.58

00:14:07.080 No.

00:14:07.980 Do we want more government regulations?

00:14:10.900 No.

00:14:11.680 Do we want more freedom?

00:14:13.940 No.

00:14:14.240 Yeah.

00:14:14.680 Yes.

00:14:15.260 Yeah.

00:14:15.540 Do we want more?

00:14:17.060 No.

00:14:17.720 Yes.

00:14:17.920 And she was kind of confusing the crowd.

00:14:19.780 One of the rules when you get the crowd chanting, keep it simple.

00:14:23.860 Everyone needs to know what you're chanting.

00:14:25.800 Great.

00:14:26.160 Now, everyone say your own name.

00:14:28.540 Great.

00:14:28.960 Now, everyone solve for the equation 3x to the 4th equals 4y over n.

00:14:37.660 Solve for n.

00:14:41.200 Because it's about all of us.

00:14:42.620 It's about all of us.

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00:15:46.060 Enough about Biden.

00:15:47.620 Enough about Kamala.

00:15:48.720 Let's talk about nuts and bolts of the election.

00:15:50.980 Ballot drop boxes are catching fire in Oregon and Washington.

00:15:55.340 Now, I'm no physicist, but it seems to me that ballot drop boxes do not just spontaneously combust.

00:16:02.620 It would appear to me that they are being lit on fire.

00:16:05.460 They're also made of metal, so it means someone's doing something on the inside of the box, right?

00:16:10.340 According to reports, here's a report from The Mirror, hundreds of ballots have been lost in connected fires.

00:16:19.680 So it's not that these are randomly happening.

00:16:21.860 They are connected incidents.

00:16:25.320 All sorts of people are going to be speculating about who did this.

00:16:28.780 The left is going to say the right did this because these are liberal areas, right?

00:16:32.240 Washington and Oregon, Portland and Vancouver.

00:16:36.080 So it's pretty liberal places.

00:16:38.340 The right is going to say it's the left doing this because the left is better at rigging the elections than the right is.

00:16:44.860 And they're all going to be pointing figures, but I don't really care which side it is because my point is more basic than that.

00:16:51.800 My point is this system is less secure than it used to be.

00:16:56.460 The voting system today is less secure than it was before the Democrats changed the rules.

00:17:01.660 In this case, by placing ballot drop boxes all over the place and telling people to drop off their votes.

00:17:07.860 Of course, unsupervised ballot drop boxes left out for weeks are going to be less secure than polling places with lots of supervision on one day that we used to call Election Day.

00:17:22.420 Of course, that's the case.

00:17:24.760 When Democrats changed Election Day to election season and they changed polling locations from a specific precinct to just random boxes all over town, that necessarily made the system less secure.

00:17:40.580 So you've got to ask yourself, why did they do that?

00:17:42.800 Then we turned to Pennsylvania, crucial state of Pennsylvania.

00:17:45.640 I'm a little less concerned about Washington and Oregon, which are left-wing states, but Pennsylvania is a crucial swing state.

00:17:52.780 According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, there are some shenanigans.

00:17:57.340 Officials turned voters away while they were waiting in line to get their mail-in ballots, turned voters away hours before the cutoff time.

00:18:06.840 Now, I know that big tech is doing everything that it can to silence people from raising any questions about the shenanigans, so I'm just going to read directly from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

00:18:20.440 Don't blame me.

00:18:21.260 Don't shoot the messenger.

00:18:22.180 This is what the Philadelphia Inquirer is saying.

00:18:23.680 In a Sunday letter to county officials, U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick and several GOP members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly argued that the county had disenfranchised voters on Saturday when voters had arrived to request a mail ballot at the Doylestown Election Office were turned away two hours before the county office offering the service was set to close.

00:18:43.160 Employees at the Bucks County Election Office, which was open to voters from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., cut off the line around noon for voters looking to request a ballot, receive it, and return it in one trip.

00:18:54.460 Now, was this the only incident?

00:18:55.640 No.

00:18:55.980 This incident followed days of long lines and early cutoffs in Bucks County at their main election office and two satellite offices.

00:19:03.980 The Philadelphia Inquirer says it also underscores the limitations of Pennsylvania's on-demand mail ballot process.

00:19:10.380 So how is the system even supposed to work here?

00:19:13.120 Do they have early voting?

00:19:14.580 Not exactly.

00:19:15.180 They were waiting in line to get mail-in ballots, but then to immediately return those ballots, which they're allowed to do.

00:19:20.020 So as the Inquirer concludes, counties allow voters to visit an election office, request a mail-in ballot, and fill it and return it same day.

00:19:28.420 In Bucks County, it takes 12 minutes per voter.

00:19:30.480 Those voters work with election board employees who are also responsible for processing mail ballot applications and voter registrations.

00:19:38.080 So then my question is this.

00:19:41.160 How is this system better than the system we used to have?

00:19:44.800 The system we used to have where you would just show up on election day and vote.

00:19:47.980 And if you were in line, you got to cast your vote.

00:19:51.080 And there were no cutoffs, and there were no officials pulling people out of line two hours before the cutoff,

00:19:56.940 and there were no confusing and changing regulations over a mail-in or a mail-in with a same-day return or a mail-in,

00:20:02.960 but you can't return it the same day.

00:20:04.480 Or how is this system better?

00:20:06.420 I'll tell you what the left would say.

00:20:08.520 The left would say this system is better because it means that you do not have to inconvenience yourself on election day.

00:20:15.480 The left will say this system is better because voters who are much less engaged in politics are more likely to vote

00:20:24.000 because they have a greater window to vote.

00:20:27.680 Let's say they don't care enough about voting to actually take the time on election day or to wait in a line,

00:20:32.660 but maybe a week or two prior, if someone cajoles them, maybe they'll show up and vote.

00:20:36.520 And it is more likely that that person, that disengaged person, who by his own behavior displays less knowledge of and interest in politics,

00:20:49.960 that guy's more likely to vote.

00:20:52.340 And the other thing that distinguishes this new system of voting from the old system is there's a greater opportunity to cheat

00:20:59.060 because you can tell the voters who are waiting in line,

00:21:03.940 yeah, sorry, no, never mind, we got a new cutoff time now, it's two hours early, come back tomorrow, it's okay,

00:21:08.640 or you got your ballot, okay, but you can't mail it in right now, you got to go do it tomorrow,

00:21:12.120 or you got to go stand on one leg and hop up and down while doing the chicken dance.

00:21:18.300 Sorry, yeah, those are the new rules, yeah, maybe tomorrow we're going to have new rules on top of that.

00:21:21.720 But that's it.

00:21:25.500 Lower information voters are more likely to vote, and there's a greater opportunity to cheat.

00:21:30.580 Those are the only two differences.

00:21:33.200 Those are the improvements in the mind of Democrats.

00:21:35.780 But I don't think it's good for voters who don't care about voting, who are not engaged, who don't know anything.

00:21:41.220 I don't think it's good that it is much easier for them to vote.

00:21:46.520 I want voters to have to care a little bit.

00:21:50.060 I want voters to have to do just basic things, like show up on election date, have an ID, have registered to vote.

00:21:58.340 I want them to have had to demonstrate at all that they have any interest in politics.

00:22:04.100 Because if they don't, their vote is less than worthless.

00:22:09.660 It's actually counterproductive.

00:22:12.300 It's not as though voting is just some magical act.

00:22:15.940 It's not as though voting is intrinsically holy, that it's some kind of sacrament.

00:22:20.020 Voting is an instrument to get good government.

00:22:22.720 We hope.

00:22:23.600 It can also be an instrument to get bad government.

00:22:27.240 We vote because in America we believe that if people vote, they're more likely to get a good government.

00:22:33.360 But that requires good people to have good information and good judgment to be casting those votes.

00:22:41.400 If all of a sudden Democrats are encouraging people who do not have good judgment, who do not possess good knowledge, who do not really care at all about the country, if Democrats encourage them to vote, you're not going to get good government.

00:22:54.500 You're not going to get better government.

00:22:55.440 You're going to get worse government.

00:22:57.140 And on top of that, you're going to have greater opportunity to cheat.

00:22:59.460 You've got to ask yourself, if the system is in every way worse today than it was four years ago before Democrats changed all the rules, why did Democrats change the rules?

00:23:10.560 There's so much more to say.

00:23:11.880 First, though, text Knowles to 98-98-98.

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00:23:53.660 The price of gold has increased 40%.

00:23:56.000 Coincidence?

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00:24:18.580 Today.

00:24:19.680 Both those things are really helpful to Kamala.

00:24:22.540 Low information voters coming out and a greater opportunity to cheat.

00:24:27.420 They're helpful to Kamala because Kamala is not persuading voters who require better information.

00:24:34.440 Kamala is not persuading voters who are more engaged in the political process.

00:24:38.820 Because not only can Kamala not name any achievements of hers in recent years, she can't even name her own policy goals.

00:24:47.240 If you could accomplish only one major policy goal that required congressional action, what would it be and why?

00:24:55.720 Well, there's not just one.

00:24:58.760 I have to be honest with you, Carol.

00:24:59.960 There's a lot of work that needs to happen.

00:25:02.400 But let's let's I think that may be part of this point that how I think about it is we've got to get past this era of politics and partisan politics.

00:25:14.780 Slowing down what we need to do in terms of progress in our country.

00:25:18.480 And that means working across the aisle.

00:25:20.380 I've done that before we did it around whether it be what we were able to accomplish with the bipartisan infrastructure deal or some of the work that we have done in terms of dealing with gun safety.

00:25:32.360 But we've got to work across the aisle.

00:25:34.680 And it is my commitment to work with Democrats, with Republicans, with independents to deal with a number of issues.

00:25:41.960 How hard is it to say bring down inflation?

00:25:46.020 Is that so hard?

00:25:47.300 Bring down inflation.

00:25:48.000 It's three words.

00:25:48.620 Is that so hard to say?

00:25:51.520 Mind you, this woman is not asking what is your greatest achievement?

00:25:55.640 What?

00:25:55.880 She's not even asking what have you done?

00:25:57.960 Can you name a single achievement?

00:25:59.900 That would be difficult for Kamala because she hasn't achieved anything. 0.97

00:26:02.580 And the two tasks that she was given by the president to deal with the border crisis and to connect rural Americans to high speed Internet, she failed at both.

00:26:10.640 Completely failed at both.

00:26:13.020 She didn't connect one rural American to high speed Internet.

00:26:15.240 And obviously, the border is a disaster.

00:26:17.660 So all she's being asked is, hey, of all your policy goals, what's just give me one example, just one thing that you even want to do.

00:26:29.300 And Kamala says, oh, I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to I don't know.

00:26:35.380 Can I call a friend line?

00:26:37.340 Then when she tries to land on an answer, her answer is not a policy goal.

00:26:42.880 It's a procedural goal.

00:26:44.400 She says, I want to work with Democrats and Republicans.

00:26:47.300 I want to work with everybody and bring people together.

00:26:52.160 That's that's basically the only wrong answer she could have had.

00:26:55.220 Because the policy goal is not about the procedure.

00:26:58.660 It's not about the medium.

00:26:59.600 It's about the end.

00:27:01.100 It's about the result.

00:27:03.520 Bring down inflation.

00:27:04.540 That would have been the smartest answer.

00:27:06.380 Stop the invasion on our southern border.

00:27:09.000 That would have been a good answer, but it would have hurt her with her base.

00:27:11.420 So I see why she resolve the conflict in the Middle East.

00:27:14.440 That would have been a good answer.

00:27:15.500 Resolve the war in Ukraine. 0.65

00:27:16.600 That would have been a good answer to improve education.

00:27:20.000 I don't know.

00:27:20.680 Improve health care.

00:27:21.480 Do anything.

00:27:23.620 This woman is so unfit for office. 1.00

00:27:27.360 She doesn't even know what it is that she wants to do, let alone has she demonstrated

00:27:35.400 any ability actually to do those things.

00:27:37.420 She won't be able to do those things. 0.97

00:27:38.820 We don't know what she wants to do.

00:27:40.760 We don't know what she wants to do.

00:27:42.760 Does she want to expand fracking? 1.00

00:27:44.520 Does she want to end fracking? 1.00

00:27:46.200 Does she want to support Israel? 0.51

00:27:48.420 Does she want to oppose Israel? 0.94

00:27:50.800 Does she want to seal up the border? 0.97

00:27:53.720 Does she want to open the border? 0.98

00:27:55.220 Does she want to lock up criminals? 1.00

00:27:56.760 Does she want to let criminals out of prison? 1.00

00:27:58.240 I don't know the answer to those questions.

00:28:00.600 I have suspicions because she's a leftist, but I don't know.

00:28:04.040 She's held every side of every issue.

00:28:07.100 And then when asked what she wants to do, she can't give an answer.

00:28:09.780 Maybe that's why she can't give an answer.

00:28:11.560 Because she's held every side of every single issue.

00:28:13.840 So she knows anything she says is going to contradict something else that she said.

00:28:17.240 Not a good sign.

00:28:19.100 Not a good sign at all.

00:28:21.100 One thing to draw a blank on your achievements.

00:28:23.080 A whole other to draw a blank on your goals.

00:28:25.220 Tim Walls not doing much better than that.

00:28:27.240 Tim Walls has decided he's going to try to get the young male vote,

00:28:32.040 which has really dipped for the Kamala Walls ticket.

00:28:35.360 He's going to try to do that by posing in a Kamala film studio campaign office in front of a computer screen holding a video game controller sitting in front of a Mountain Dew.

00:28:49.820 But you don't even know it's a Mountain Dew because they've twisted the bottle.

00:28:54.740 So all you see is the nutrition information because they didn't want to get hit for trademark infringement.

00:28:59.740 So it's the most generic, contrived photograph I've seen in a long time in politics.

00:29:08.780 And the cherry on top of this cringe sundae is that the game controller is not even on.

00:29:16.240 If you zoom in on it, there's no light.

00:29:19.000 It's not on.

00:29:19.660 It's off.

00:29:20.160 He's staring at presumably a blank computer screen with a Mountain Dew in front of him in a campaign office with a camera in front of him.

00:29:29.520 As if to say, how do you do, fellow gamers?

00:29:33.320 I, like you, thirst for the green soda.

00:29:36.360 Please give me your vote.

00:29:37.720 This is on the levels of cringe that we saw from Hillary in 2016 when she said,

00:29:42.580 Hey, you guys ever hear of Pokemon Go?

00:29:46.580 Well, how about you, Pokemon Go to the polls?

00:29:51.060 And Tim Walls, she says, hey, Tim, nobody's ever going to out cringe my campaign.

00:29:58.440 And Tim Walls says, hold my Mountain Dew.

00:30:00.400 Hold my generic green soda.

00:30:02.080 I don't think it's going to work.

00:30:04.400 This is inauthentic.

00:30:07.660 At times, inauthenticity doesn't matter.

00:30:11.880 At times when people trust the political system broadly, you can get away with being a little inauthentic.

00:30:18.140 I'm going to commit a political heresy here.

00:30:21.420 And I'm going to observe.

00:30:23.120 I love Ronald Reagan.

00:30:24.800 I don't in any way want to besmirch the legacy of St. Ronald.

00:30:30.360 But Reagan seemed a little scripted at times. 0.60

00:30:33.980 You know, he was a movie actor.

00:30:37.300 And he would read his lines perfectly.

00:30:40.080 But they didn't always seem, well, off the cuff.

00:30:44.060 Trump, you know, goes off on a thousand tangents.

00:30:46.540 And sometimes you wince when he says things.

00:30:48.480 Because you say, oh, he shouldn't have said that.

00:30:49.980 But at least you know he's going off the cuff.

00:30:51.940 Ronald did not.

00:30:53.220 He said his lines like movie actors of a previous age.

00:30:57.800 Trump's a reality TV star.

00:30:59.200 Ronald Reagan was a movie star from the golden age of Hollywood.

00:31:02.760 So he seemed a little inauthentic at times.

00:31:08.740 Or at least a little scripted.

00:31:10.640 But it didn't matter.

00:31:11.480 Because people broadly trusted the system.

00:31:13.460 And because he was sincere.

00:31:15.420 He was a sincere person.

00:31:17.040 And the system was basically functioning.

00:31:18.880 So if things were a little scripted and formal, that was okay.

00:31:22.780 Today, though, people don't trust the system.

00:31:25.980 The system has lied to them a lot.

00:31:28.800 Lied to them about COVID.

00:31:30.560 It lied to them.

00:31:31.660 It used COVID as the excuse to change all the voting rules.

00:31:34.100 To make the elections much less secure.

00:31:36.660 It lies to them all the time.

00:31:38.480 It lied to them to keep their kids out of school.

00:31:40.600 And to keep them away from their dying parents.

00:31:42.260 And to stop them from going to Christmas and funerals.

00:31:44.420 And getting married.

00:31:45.160 And it just has lied to them.

00:31:47.680 Lied to them about the necessity and efficacy of those vaccines.

00:31:50.960 And the safety of those vaccines.

00:31:52.160 And it just lies to them all the time.

00:31:54.300 So in that kind of world, inauthenticity really matters.

00:31:57.400 I think it's because of that world.

00:32:00.540 That someone like Trump, who maybe you agree with.

00:32:02.960 Maybe you disagree with.

00:32:03.620 Maybe you agree with him 70% of the time.

00:32:05.100 You disagree with him 30% of the time.

00:32:06.400 But you know where he stands.

00:32:07.640 That's going to be attractive.

00:32:09.880 Now, speaking of Tim Walls.

00:32:11.520 There's a new study out.

00:32:13.200 The new study says that masculinity might shorten lifespans.

00:32:20.080 Headline, does masculinity shorten lifespans?

00:32:22.160 This study suggests manly men are at higher risk of heart problems.

00:32:28.260 I only mention this study to point out that Tim Walls will live forever.

00:32:32.260 If the study is true, you don't have to ever worry about Tim Walls perishing in office or anything like that.

00:32:39.380 He could be elected president.

00:32:41.160 He could serve until the end of the republic.

00:32:43.340 Now, speaking of mortal Democrats, there is this report I referenced earlier that Kamala is keeping Biden off the campaign trail.

00:32:52.580 It's really, really awkward.

00:32:53.760 But it's being reported by Axios, which is a center-left publication, has pretty good access.

00:32:59.520 Harris stiff-arms Biden in final stretch.

00:33:03.600 President Biden wants to campaign for Vice President Harris in the last days before the election.

00:33:07.800 Harris's campaign keeps responding.

00:33:09.280 We'll get back to you.

00:33:10.560 We'll get back to you.

00:33:11.160 So they're slow-walking him.

00:33:12.620 And this is being reported.

00:33:14.360 This was reported a couple days ago.

00:33:16.220 And then what? 1.00

00:33:17.080 Just yesterday, Joe Biden comes out with this garbage comment? 1.00

00:33:21.340 I don't know. 0.99

00:33:22.420 To me, that is another piece of evidence in the Biden-called-republicans-garbage-intentionally-to-undermine-Harris column.

00:33:31.180 I don't want to attribute great complexity of thought to Biden, who's lost his marbles.

00:33:35.240 But, I don't know.

00:33:36.760 This report comes out.

00:33:38.540 Harris campaign stiffing Biden, slow-walking Biden, wants to keep him off the trail.

00:33:44.340 A day or two later, Biden comes out and brutally undermines the Harris campaign.

00:33:50.040 This is not the first time this has happened.

00:33:51.960 And, ooh, that's evidence of a lot of Democrat infighting.

00:33:59.860 I've heard through the grapevine.

00:34:01.820 I won't reveal my sources.

00:34:03.780 But I've heard through the grapevine from people who know that really top Democrats, we're talking former presidential candidates.

00:34:11.360 We're talking former top administration officials, Democrat administration officials, have privately said they expect Trump to win.

00:34:20.180 And they expect Harris to win.

00:34:21.340 I was really pleased to hear this.

00:34:22.620 I heard this about one former Democrat presidential candidate.

00:34:27.780 I heard this about one major Democrat donor.

00:34:31.460 And, actually, also a former presidential candidate himself.

00:34:34.180 That they both have privately said that they expect Trump to win.

00:34:38.940 Which made me feel really good.

00:34:40.400 Because I know a lot of Republicans, given all the shenanigans and all the changing to the voting rules, a lot of Republicans are a little bit blackpilled.

00:34:46.720 And they're thinking, you know, I just don't know if it's possible.

00:34:49.460 Even if all of the country absolutely loves Trump, even if he's dominating the polls.

00:34:53.980 I just don't know if they, the powers that be, will let him win.

00:34:56.500 But it would seem to me, from the reporting from people who know, from the freak out, from the attempt to cover up these quote-unquote gaffes from people like Joe Biden, the undermining of the Harris campaign by Joe Biden, all of it, the whole kit and caboodle.

00:35:11.020 It would seem to me that the liberal establishment right now thinks Trump is going to win.

00:35:17.140 Or, at the very least, thinks Trump has a good chance of winning.

00:35:19.620 The only way he's actually going to win is if you get out there and vote.

00:35:21.820 I voted yesterday.

00:35:23.580 Very pleased that I voted yesterday.

00:35:24.860 I went to one early voting place.

00:35:27.260 The line was so long, I had to go somewhere else.

00:35:29.120 I went to a different early voting place.

00:35:31.460 This is crunch time, folks.

00:35:36.680 Now, I want to turn our attention away from the nuts and bolts of electoral politics toward political media for a moment.

00:35:43.120 Because there was an absolutely hilarious moment on CNN.

00:35:46.640 And it tells you a lot about how conservatives ought to engage with the media and the popular culture.

00:35:51.940 We'll get to that in one moment.

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00:36:23.760 My favorite comment yesterday is from Aaron Dennis 1111.

00:36:27.600 I wonder if the UK will ban kneeling toward the east five times a day.

00:36:32.140 No, no, no, no, no.

00:36:33.100 They'll ban prayer inside your head if you look like you're even vaguely Methodist, maybe even Unitarian.

00:36:42.760 But no, if you're wearing the keffiyeh, if you're wearing the burqa, and you've got the prayer rug out, and you're kneeling toward Mecca five times a day, 0.68

00:36:50.100 shouting, Allahu Akbar, you can do that wherever you like.

00:36:53.740 No doubt about it.

00:36:57.900 Speaking of supposed gaffes on the campaign trail, Ryan Judusky was on CNN.

00:37:04.400 For those of you who don't know Ryan, he's a Republican strategist and a media commentator.

00:37:09.700 He was on CNN on a panel debating, well, debating the campaign and the MSG rally,

00:37:17.880 but also the Israel-Palestine issue, pointing out that the left has really embraced the pro-Palestine,

00:37:25.760 which is to say kind of pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah cause.

00:37:29.160 That's not a great look for them.

00:37:31.700 So Ryan threw out this quip against the super-lib, insufferable CNN commentator Mehdi Hassan.

00:37:43.280 If you don't want to be called Nazis, stop doing it. 0.80

00:37:46.120 You've been called an Nazi-Semite more than he lost his table.

00:37:50.380 People would sit there and-

00:37:51.340 No, by me.

00:37:52.140 I never called you an Nazi-Semite.

00:37:53.460 I mean, I'm not saying or saying-

00:37:54.440 I'm a supporter of the Palestinians.

00:37:55.780 I'm used to it.

00:37:56.200 Yeah, well, I hope your beeper doesn't go off.

00:37:58.120 The thing is, is that- 0.69

00:37:59.220 Did you just say I should die?

00:38:00.460 You should not. 0.96

00:38:01.180 No. 1.00

00:38:01.560 Did you just say I should be killed? 0.95

00:38:02.600 No, I did not say that. 0.98

00:38:04.380 Hold on. 0.99

00:38:04.640 Did your guest just say I should be killed? 0.99

00:38:06.320 On live TV? 0.98

00:38:07.520 I said, I hope you're-

00:38:08.000 Guys, let me just stop.

00:38:09.100 You said you hope my beeper doesn't go off.

00:38:10.600 Guys, you said I would just stop that right now.

00:38:12.240 Of the Palestinians. 0.96

00:38:13.400 Hamas? 0.90

00:38:13.980 Guys, let me just stop.

00:38:14.680 I said Palestinians.

00:38:15.660 Are you?

00:38:16.460 Am I what?

00:38:17.580 No, of course I'm not.

00:38:18.240 Palestinians are not. 1.00

00:38:18.820 I apologize. 0.99

00:38:19.440 Are you a racist, violent person inciting violence against me? 0.97

00:38:22.440 Ryan, Ryan. 1.00

00:38:23.100 That's disgusting.

00:38:23.560 That is completely-

00:38:24.480 I apologize.

00:38:25.000 That is completely out of pocket. 0.99

00:38:25.800 Let's have first block say the Muslim guy should be blown up on TV. 1.00

00:38:30.100 Okay, now in fairness, I am offended by something that Ryan said here. 0.96

00:38:34.360 I am offended that he apologized.

00:38:36.680 Other than that, it was a great line.

00:38:38.400 That was quick wit, okay?

00:38:42.120 Mehdi Hassan calls conservatives Nazis.

00:38:46.300 So he is, by implication, calling Ryan, the conservative on the panel, a Nazi.

00:38:55.120 And Ryan points out this is kind of ironic because the Libs have been supporting Hamas.

00:39:01.040 Hamas, which wants to commit a genocide of the Jews.

00:39:03.920 Kind of rich that the Democrats would call the Republicans Nazis when the Democrats right now seem to have sympathy for a group that shares quite a lot in common with the Nazis.

00:39:14.820 And Mehdi Hassan says, yes, I support the Palestinian cause.

00:39:18.880 Yes, I support that.

00:39:19.800 And Ryan, quick wit as can be, goes, well, then I hope your beeper doesn't go off in this interview.

00:39:23.740 What does the beeper refer to?

00:39:26.180 The beeper refers to Israel's military operation against Hezbollah, which targeted specifically the Hezbollah militants and blew off their crotches. 0.74

00:39:33.600 That's a funny line.

00:39:34.960 That's a really, really good line for cable news.

00:39:37.820 And then Mehdi Hassan clutches his pearls.

00:39:41.740 He's just spent the last portion of the segment calling Ryan a Nazi.

00:39:46.520 But then the minute that Ryan throws a little bit back at him in a much fairer way, all of a sudden, how dare you?

00:39:53.220 How dare you, sir?

00:39:54.900 And all the other Libs on the panel, how dare you? 1.00

00:39:57.160 That's a cross the line.

00:39:58.960 He didn't cross the line.

00:39:59.680 That's a funny line.

00:40:01.220 The line is funny.

00:40:02.200 The line, actually, the line that he uttered is funny.

00:40:04.160 The only mistake that Ryan made here was that he apologized, shouldn't have apologized.

00:40:11.540 Other than that, I think it was great.

00:40:13.680 He demonstrated an extremely quick wit.

00:40:16.520 And if CNN doesn't like that wit, then they don't deserve him, okay?

00:40:21.400 I say this as someone who has gotten in trouble for saying funny but true things on cable news, incisive comments.

00:40:28.620 I am actually skeptical of anybody, of any conservative pundit who has not been banned, at least temporarily, from a major cable news network.

00:40:38.720 Because it seems to me, then, they're not incisive enough.

00:40:42.120 You know, they're not really getting to the heart of the matter enough.

00:40:45.540 So often, the purpose of conservatives on cable news really doesn't matter the channel.

00:40:51.700 The purpose is to be a court jester in the kingdom of liberalism, to go in, give the appearance of opposition, but never really push back too hard.

00:41:00.880 You know, it's the point is to just lose with dignity, but to, in so doing, legitimize the liberal system.

00:41:09.200 And so, in this case, Ryan didn't take it.

00:41:12.440 He said, you're going to call me a Nazi?

00:41:14.100 You, ironically, while you're supporting all this crazy Palestinian stuff, where the Palestinians elected Hamas, and they committed all these terror attacks? 0.88

00:41:21.620 Okay, well, I hope your beeper doesn't go off.

00:41:24.380 Yeah, you heard me.

00:41:25.360 Did I stutter?

00:41:26.280 Yeah.

00:41:27.120 Good.

00:41:27.580 Are you going to ban me?

00:41:28.420 Okay.

00:41:29.280 Now, the reason, and again, it's in the moment when these kind of cancellation attempts happen, it's very difficult, and sometimes, you know, you're tempted to just say, okay, well, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that. 0.87

00:41:42.240 I remember, I was on a cable news network, and I pointed out that the left, we were debating environmentalism, and I said, the whole thing is so ridiculous, the global warming alarmism, because the way you know that this isn't primarily a scientific matter is that Democrats are exploiting a mentally ill Swedish child to advance their agenda.

00:42:06.360 They're not putting the scientists up front. 0.90

00:42:08.620 Al Gore is a politician.

00:42:10.400 He had the big environmental movie. 0.97

00:42:12.620 But what's so disreputable about what the Democrats are doing is that they were exploiting a mentally ill Swedish child. 0.96

00:42:18.360 That's what I said on air. 0.87

00:42:19.660 And the host on the show didn't bat an eyelash because it was just manifestly true.

00:42:24.460 I was speaking of Greta Thunberg, who's a teenager, whose mother wrote a book about how she suffered from all of these mental problems.

00:42:31.900 And then the left exploited this girl who they encouraged to drop out of school to go sail a boat across the ocean and put more pollutants into the air because of the airplanes that had to go fly over to meet her when she got to the other side to advance the environmentalist cause.

00:42:50.120 And I said, that's disreputable.

00:42:51.360 It's not good to exploit children.

00:42:53.360 It's certainly not good to exploit children with serious problems.

00:42:57.020 And it shows how weak the actual campaign activism is, how weak the actual argument is that they're not leading with scientists.

00:43:07.520 They're leading with exploiting kids, basically. 0.71

00:43:10.080 And for that, I got in all sorts of trouble.

00:43:13.160 Though then I was rather quickly uncanceled, but then, you know, I kind of what, it goes back and forth.

00:43:18.340 I remember at the time, though, that major cable news network asked me through back channels to apologize, to grovel.

00:43:26.220 And then, you know, they'll have me right back on.

00:43:28.620 And I was tempted to apologize, but I said, I don't think I said anything wrong.

00:43:32.320 I said something provocative.

00:43:33.840 I said something incisive, but I didn't say anything wrong.

00:43:35.940 I didn't, I basically just said what this girl's mother wrote in her book.

00:43:40.640 And I said something that was true that looks bad for Democrats, but I don't think I said anything wrong or cruel or immoral.

00:43:46.000 So why would I apologize?

00:43:48.080 I guess I would just apologize to grovel at this news network and then they'll have me back on immediately.

00:43:53.100 But I said, I think, I think they'll have me back on eventually anyway.

00:43:55.500 And I remember sweet little Elisa said, she goes,

00:43:58.420 Mac, don't you dare apologize.

00:44:00.440 Don't you dare apologize to them.

00:44:03.540 If you did something wrong, apologize.

00:44:05.100 If you didn't do something wrong, don't apologize.

00:44:06.880 And I think this is the key.

00:44:07.940 This is how conservatives have to engage in the media.

00:44:12.380 It's like that scene in Breaking Bad when Walter is asking his cop brother-in-law, Hank, to apologize to the cartel guy who's got a gun to his head.

00:44:22.480 And Hank says, you want me to apologize?

00:44:25.240 You think that's going to change anything?

00:44:26.320 That guy made up his mind 10 minutes ago.

00:44:27.900 Go do what you're going to do. 0.97

00:44:28.620 And he blows his head off.

00:44:31.580 CNN has to cancel Ryan for this.

00:44:35.680 And Ryan sort of, you know, I don't mean to pick on him for, you know, giving a kind of half-hearted apology in the moment.

00:44:41.600 You know, he was just trying to get through the panel. 0.84

00:44:43.600 But then later on, he said, you know, this is ridiculous. 0.97

00:44:45.640 CNN can call Republicans Nazis all day. 0.98

00:44:47.520 But then the minute we throw it back in their face a little bit, they hit us.

00:44:51.000 No.

00:44:52.340 No.

00:44:54.500 They're going to try to cancel you.

00:44:56.280 They want to cancel you.

00:44:57.440 If you say anything that is actually incisive, that actually moves the ball, they are going to try to cancel you for that.

00:45:07.260 So that's, to my mind, that's a good thing.

00:45:09.840 You know, that's the mark that you're actually doing something here.

00:45:11.980 You need to be able to survive that kind of a cancellation attempt. 0.78

00:45:15.580 And you need to stand firm when they try to kill you.

00:45:19.700 Very funny line from Ryan.

00:45:21.360 I don't, we stan Ryan over here, okay?

00:45:24.440 Now, speaking of cancellation, a huge story coming out of UC Berkeley.

00:45:27.180 This is crazy.

00:45:28.700 I just spoke at UC Berkeley a few weeks ago.

00:45:31.320 I gave a lecture there, actually, on the Crusades.

00:45:35.460 This was kind of a dry lecture on the history of the Crusades.

00:45:38.900 Because of this, Berkeley leftists, and it appears the administration, are trying to cancel the College Republican Club for inviting me.

00:45:48.700 They're trying to kick them off campus.

00:45:50.120 And the college Republicans who invited me are receiving death threats for inviting me to give a lecture on the Battle of Tours, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Battle of Hattin.

00:46:03.060 Shows you, shows you just what happens when you push back in any way against the left, even by just inviting a speaker to give a relatively dry lecture on a public school campus.

00:46:15.440 They're going to try to get you.

00:46:16.200 We'll get to that story tomorrow because I'm running out of time.

00:46:17.900 And I want to get to my friend, Mary Margaret Olihan.

00:46:21.060 The rest of the show continues.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 30, 2024

Ep. 1606 - Vandals Set Fire To Voting Drop Boxes

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