Ep. 161 - Trump’s Eerie Ability To Predict The Future
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As President Trump's critics continue to wind up with egg on their face, and his own assertions keep asserting themselves in reality, it's time to ask, has anybody else noticed that Donald Trump has an eerie ability to predict the future? We'll explain what that's all about, and then we will try to predict The Future.
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Donald John Trump, the voice of one tweeting out in the wilderness as President Covfefe's
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critics continue to wind up with egg on their face and his own assertions keep asserting
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themselves in reality. It's time to ask, has anybody else noticed that Donald Trump has an
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eerie ability to predict the future? We will explain what that's all about. Then we will try
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to predict the future. In November in America, in Ireland, for the Catholic Church, a lot of
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predictions going on. Prognostication will abound. Finally, some very good news on the culture
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front. We'll get into that later. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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We have got so much to get to today. We're going to talk about President Nostradonald and his bizarre
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ability to predict the future. It is actually pretty eerie, but I think I have a theory on why
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that is the case. We will watch clips going all the way back to the Comedy Central roast of Donald
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Trump back in 2011. Nobody plays these clips, but they're quite prescient, actually. Before we do
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slash Covfefe. You know, predicting the future, it's been on my mind a lot recently. I'm about to head
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out to New York. I'm going to be there getting ready for my wedding. I've got my bachelor party coming up
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this weekend. So if you don't see me next week or any other time in the future, you know, I'm sorry.
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I had too much fun at my bachelor party. Not a bad way to go out, but I'm thinking about the future a
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lot. And have you noticed this? I have actually noticed this over the past nine months. Donald
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Trump has this weird ability to predict the future, or at least it seems like he's predicting the future.
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And it's much more pronounced because all of his opponents have a total lack of ability to predict
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the future. In fact, all of their predictions do not come true. They make these totally
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insane predictions. These, we're certain it's definitely going to happen. Trump can't win.
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99% sure. None of this is going to, and then none of them come true. And what Trump says,
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which we all say is crazy at the time, that seems to happen. Here's just a little reminder from Nancy
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Pelosi. At this news conference and on the floor, Democrats talk about this bill often in very
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apocalyptic terms, but isn't really what's going on is that many people are getting a very modest tax
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cut and some people are getting a tax increase while a lot of this is also going to business,
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but it's not the end of the world? No, it is the end of the world. This health care,
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the debate on health care is life death. This is Armageddon. This is a very big deal.
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No, this is Armageddon. No, this is, no, let me just, it is the end of the world. I don't want
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to. So that was Nancy Pelosi. And okay. So now we've lived through it because the trouble with
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predictions, this happens in political predictions and in sports predictions is these guys that go on
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TV, Nancy Pelosi gets up there in front of the cameras and they make their predictions and then
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they don't come true. And then we keep listening to them for some reason. So we got, you know, Nancy
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Pelosi says this is Armageddon and yet we still listen to her. We still believe her. We still
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give her the floor. And it isn't just Nancy Pelosi. Paul Krugman predicted that the markets would
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plunge if Trump won the election. What, how he said the markets are going to plunge. What happened?
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Trump won the election. The markets rose. Why don't we do, we even handle this in sports and sports.
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They say this is no, this could never happen. Then it happens and we keep listening to them the next
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day. There's a Bloomberg headline from 2016. The headline was Citigroup says a Trump victory in
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November could cause a global recession. What happened? Not only was there not a global recession,
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but the global economy rose. In fact, the IMF gave credit to Donald Trump for that jump in the
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global economy. Okay. We still read Bloomberg though. We still listen to Citigroup. Politico predicted
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quote, wall street is set up for a major crash. If Donald Trump shocks the world on election day
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and wins the white house, major crash, huh? Just didn't happen. And they weren't set up for a
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major crash because the markets rose. Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney. So it's not just these crazy lefties.
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It's Mitt Romney. Who's at least nominally a Republican. I know he invented Obamacare and he
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spends most of his time criticizing the effective conservative Republican president, but you know,
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he's nominally at least a Republican. He said Donald Trump's domestic policies would lead to
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recession. What's happened? We've, we've had one of the greatest bull market runs in history.
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That happened last year. None of the experts predicted it, but that's exactly what happened.
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Six trillion dollars worth of wealth created, particularly for the 55 million Americans
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with 401k plans. The, the other 25 million Americans who have IRAs, 20 million who have
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company pensions, stock ownership plans, and for virtually everybody else because of tax reform.
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So even if you're not among the many, many, many millions of people who have some stake in the
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market. First of all, you do because the, you're in the economy, but also because of tax reform,
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everybody is rising. The median household income rose pretty significantly within the last year.
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That's the median household income that just reported very recently. We were told by Donald
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Trump's economists and by Donald Trump himself, we'll, we, we won't see 3% economic growth anymore.
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Those are the old days. Now we have the new normal. It can't happen. What happened under Donald Trump?
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We got, we saw greater than 3% economic growth and it isn't just on these election predictions.
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Donald Trump came out and said that MS-13, they're animals, that, that awful gang that kills children
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and rapes people. Their, their motto is something like kill, rape, control. So maybe there's some other
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permutation of those three, but that's their motto, right? They said, those guys are animals. And the left
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said, they're not animals. They're people. How dare you? They start defending MS-13. Not one week
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later, an MS-13 member named animal is sentenced to 40 years in a federal prison for murdering a 15
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year old boy. This seems a little weird, doesn't it? You see the whole thing is about animal. And then
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not a week later, the guy's name is animal. That's his street name. And he goes to prison for 40 years.
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You saw this. Donald Trump was talking about the, during the campaign, the building the border wall
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and all those awful criminals coming over from the Mexican side of the U S border. And they said,
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how do you couldn't, what are you talking about? There's no crime. There's no crime. And then the
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Katie Steinle incident erupted right after that. He seems to just be able to predict one step ahead,
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see exactly what's happening right in the future. In 2013, Donald Trump tweeted out, quote,
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Wiener is gone. Spitzer is gone. Next will be lightweight attorney general, Eric Schneiderman.
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Is he a crook? He's worse than Spitzer or Wiener. So he tweets that. And I don't know,
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people say, what's Schneiderman? Who cares? What are we worried about Schneiderman? Just five years
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later, this happened a couple of weeks ago. Eric Schneiderman was forced to resign within hours
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after allegations came out from multiple women that he abused them sexually in the throes of sex.
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He got drunk and was battering them and hitting them. This is a guy, he was a full throated Me Too
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supporter, right? Nobody could have expected who could have predicted this wonderful feminist,
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this great Democrat politician in New York was actually beating women against their will
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when he got a little too drunk in New York. Who predicted it? Donald Trump did. How on earth
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does president Covfefe, the voice of one tweeting in the wilderness, how does he predict all of these
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things? Go back even further. Don't even worry about 2013. 1987, Donald Trump took out a full
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page ad in the New York Times. It said, there's nothing wrong with America's foreign defense policy
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that a little backbone can't cure. Now, it seemed like he was taking a shot at the Reagan administration
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here. And you got to say, we did win the Cold War. So I don't know if that is exactly the best way to
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read that. But the statement taken on its own is true. There's nothing wrong with America's foreign
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policy that a little backbone can't cure. And we look around and we see that in action.
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He did this to Iran. He did this to Korea. And experts have lost their minds. When he said to
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North Korea, a little rocket man is short and fat and I've got a button on my desk with nuclear
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weapons and mine works. When he said that, the experts lost their mind. They said, he's belligerent.
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He's bellicose. He's going to throw us into World War III. If he rips up the Iran deal,
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we're going to go into World War III. It's certain to happen. I have a PhD and I wear a tie
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and my glasses are horn-rimmed. You have to believe me. It's going to cause the end of the
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world. Here, you just see a little bit from what the mainstream media said when he did all of those
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Bob Corker screaming at the top of his lungs that we are at risk of World War III.
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The most important political news of the weekend and today also happens to be the most important news
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in the world because it's about nothing less than World War III. And this news doesn't come
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Relations Committee, Republican Senator Bob Corker. Senator Corker shocked Washington yesterday by
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saying what virtually everyone in Washington was thinking, which is always, always the best way
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to shock Washington by saying something that everyone is thinking, but not saying.
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I can't, I don't even know where to begin with how wrong that is. But just to begin, just first,
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nobody in Washington has ever thought anything without saying it. The most dangerous place on
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on his own points. Everybody's saying that we're going to have World War III. Everybody's thinking
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their heads. So they got that wrong. How about, oh, let's pull it back forward to 2018. Just this
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Russia investigation, all of the nonsense and the lies and the fake news and the bad predictions.
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How many times have you turned into the news? You've tuned in and they've said, this is it for Trump.
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Now we got him. Now, now we got him. We, Michael Flynn had lunch. He had borscht for lunch. So now we
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they got Trump. They got him. Now they've got him now. Uh, and then that, and they never have
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Trump. Do you notice that they always say that we're going to get him and then it never happens.
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Does it on all? And on all of this, it seems that Donald Trump has been right the whole time.
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Donald Trump has been right the whole time. Obama and his bureaucratic crones have been caught
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lying multiple times. Donald Trump said that Barack Obama wiretapped his campaign and I'd like to,
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okay, so he said, uh, we've been wiretapped. When he tweeted it, he used quotation marks,
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wiretapped. The importance of this is that it shows as Donald Trump usually does when he speaks,
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he can speak using metonyms or synecdoche or many literary devices that perhaps he's unaware he's
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using. But he even used that phrase because I don't think Donald Trump was alleging that Barack
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Obama personally went into Trump tower and installed a little device on his actual telephone,
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right? Nobody thinks that that's what Donald Trump was saying, but all of the people who want to prove
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Trump wrong, even though Trump was right, they say, well, he didn't wiretap him. Right. Well,
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Donald Trump also said Obama did it. Does anyone, does anyone think Donald Trump actually alleged
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Barack Obama broke into Trump tower? No, he's speaking metaphorically and using metonyms.
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And the Obama administration did surveil his campaign. They didn't just surveil some aids,
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although they did surveil aids, but they surveilled the head of his campaign, the chairman of his
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campaign. This is what we heard when this came out. This was from the FBI quote, with respect to the
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president's tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration,
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I have no information that supports those tweets. And we have looked carefully inside the FBI.
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The department of justice has asked me to share with you that the answer is the same for the
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department of justice and all its components. The department has no information that supports those
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tweets. That's what we heard, right? Except that's not true. We later learned that Barack Obama was
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directly surveilling, Barack Obama's administration was directly surveilling the Trump campaign
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chairman, Paul Manafort, and likely picked up the calls of the president himself. How about now?
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Because the big story in the news is the deep state gunning for Trump. And what does this mean?
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Does this mean that there's some guy with a mustache twirling his mustache around sitting
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at the FBI, some regular agent who's doing his job and just trying to protect the country?
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Of course not. That's not what that means. But what it does mean is there is a bureaucratic creep here.
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There is political creep. We know that Barack Obama weaponized the federal government and the
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bureaucracy to attack his political opponents. I'm a member of an organization that was the victim of
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this. So is it really so crazy to suggest that there was a White House influence on the FBI in
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these investigations? As a matter of fact, we know from the leaked Peter Strzok texts that the White
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House was running the investigation, right? Now, even if that's contradicted later, we have that coming
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out that the White House is influencing these investigations. We went through the timeline a bit
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yesterday. The Wall Street Journal lays it out very well. The FBI claims that they didn't open up the
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probe into Donald Trump and Russia collusion or whatever until July 31st, 2016. Now, that was the
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claim. And Donald Trump came out and he said, BS, I don't believe it. All the smart people said,
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you have to believe the FBI. Come on, you have to believe the FBI. You can't believe Donald Trump.
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He's a crazy guy. So then the New York Times reports on Friday, the FBI's top secret informant,
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Stephen Halper, met with Donald Trump aide Carter Page only after a July 31st launch of the probe.
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See, keeps the FBI's timeline. See, it keeps the Obama administration timeline. The Washington Post
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went further in their flacking. They said, nah, Halper and Page didn't meet until August 31st,
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until early September. They didn't know well into that probe. Now, Carter Page says something
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different. Carter Page says that he met with the FBI informant, Halper, in mid-July, early to mid-July.
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And we know this actually happened because it occurred at a very public symposium
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at Cambridge University in the UK. Page further says that he was invited to that symposium
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at the end of May, end of May or early June. Okay. Now, I know that this is one reason, by the way,
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why people aren't talking about this too extensively on the news is it's kind of hard to wrap your head
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around. There are so many moving parts. When you get into nefarious politics, that's what happens.
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But, uh, Halper, the FBI informant, was a central figure in that symposium that Carter Page was
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invited to. The symposium was titled 2016's Race to Change the World. Another central figure at that
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symposium was Sir Richard Dearlove, who spent four decades working for British intelligence MI6. He was
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the chief of MI6 from 1999 to 2004. So we've got an FBI informant who worked, uh, in, for the federal
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government and for the intelligence agencies for decades. We then have a British intelligence agent
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who'd worked for decades. That means that Dearlove, by the way, worked with Christopher Steele, who ran
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the Russia desk for MI6 and compiled the famous dossier that was funded by Hillary Clinton and by
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the Democrats. Whoa, that's a lot of coincidences. So they all just coincidentally, just, hey, coincidentally,
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they all invited this Trump campaign aide to this symposium before the, uh, the Russia probe allegedly
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began into Donald Trump. And it's just a coincidence probably, right? That's just a, that, look, sometimes
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decades-long intelligence officers from multiple countries, sometimes they just invite members of
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political campaigns whom they're surveilling to, you know, to, uh, academic conferences, who knows?
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And then coincidentally, two months later, they start surveilling him, right? That's just what
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happens. I don't know about that. Now, does this mean for sure that, uh, Barack Obama was sitting
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there saying, we're going to spy on Trump. We're going to kill him. We're going to kill him. No,
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doesn't mean that for sure. We don't want to jump the gun. We want to be serious here. Does it mean
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we should investigate? Yeah, I think we probably should investigate. I think that's probably a good idea
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because now the left is denying it. And Scott Adams summed it up perfectly. He had a great tweet on all
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of this. He tweeted out, quote, four things to understand about spy gate. That's what they're
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calling it. Number one, there was no spy in the Trump campaign. Number two, the spying that did
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not happen was totally justified. Number three, it would be bad for national security to identify the
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spy who doesn't exist. Number four, the spy's name is Stefan. Is that a way? I don't know. Some of those
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seem to share that. That's basically the argument from the left now. It's a really hard to believe.
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Um, we'll see where that investigation goes. I will just say though, all the people who go on TV
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with the ties and when with the sharp, you know, with my glasses, basically there's Rachel Maddow.
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They go on and they give the expert opinion. They've been wrong the whole time. Not only have
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they been wrong, we know that they've lied publicly. We know that they've lied on the record.
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We know that people from the administration, the Obama administration have lied.
00:22:11.140
Donald Trump has a pretty good track record here. I don't know. I don't know which side I'd lean
00:22:16.260
toward if I were a gambling man, which I am. And I have the check from Ben to prove it.
00:22:19.880
Uh, I don't know. I'd probably put my bets on president Kofete and this will get back. So
00:22:24.220
we have to answer this question. How, why is it that Donald Trump, a gigantic reality TV star,
00:22:31.000
casino real estate mogul wins the presidency on his first try? How did that guy, why is he a prophet?
00:22:38.840
Why, how come that guy can predict the future, but all of the experts with PhDs can't predict the
00:22:43.340
future? It all goes back. Well, it goes back further than this, but it certainly goes back
00:22:47.660
to the 2011 comedy central roast of Donald Trump. This is sort of a long clip, but it's really
00:22:52.220
important. And people haven't dug this one up in a while. This thing is so rich with clues as to why
00:22:58.460
Trump has succeeded in politics. Here it is. I speak of the atrocities that we as a nation
00:23:04.800
must endure like the Jersey Shore. A piece of advice, my greasy friend.
00:23:16.380
You don't need to put all of that product in your hair. You just don't. Look how great my hair looks
00:23:25.080
and I don't use anything. And it looks very good. What's the difference between a wet raccoon
00:23:33.500
and Donald J. Trump's hair? A wet raccoon doesn't have $7 billion in the bank.
00:23:42.420
Very funny. Okay. Very funny. America is going through tough times and we all need to laugh. True.
00:23:57.160
I know that better days are ahead. If we believe in ourselves and the way I believe in myself,
00:24:08.580
and I really do believe in myself, then come June, if I decide to run, you'll have the great pleasure
00:24:18.000
of voting for the man that will easily go down as the greatest president in the history of the United
00:24:27.560
States. Me, Donald John Trump. God bless America and good night. Good night.
00:24:38.920
There is so much there. This was not in 2015 even. This was not before this recent run. This was in
00:24:46.240
2011. This is in 20, because he was considering running in 2012. And I actually just remembered this.
00:24:52.520
He said in some interview, might've been as part of this roast. He said at the time, he said, you know,
00:24:57.080
if I choose to run for president, I'm going to do a lot better than all you people think I'm going to
00:25:01.700
do. And we all, you know, we all laughed at him at the time that thought President Donald Trump,
00:25:05.780
that was a joke, right? It was a joke in movies. People joked about it as a punchline.
00:25:09.760
And there's so much here. There's so much political skill. And that's, I think, why he
00:25:14.100
seems like he can predict the future. You know, he's having fun. He's joking around with the
00:25:19.160
celebrities who are on the dais. There are a lot of celebrities on the dais. There's Snoop Dogg,
00:25:23.360
the family guy, guy, Seth MacFarlane, Lisa Lampanelli, a ton of people, the Jersey Shore
00:25:29.280
guy, Mike, the situation. And he's there and he's joking around and they're joking around with him
00:25:33.400
because in those days it was okay to joke around with Donald Trump. It wasn't, you know, now you're
00:25:38.380
not allowed to if you're a Hollywood celebrity. Now you have to pretend you hate him. But, you know,
00:25:42.220
until five minutes ago, all of Hollywood loved this guy. He was a king of Hollywood. So he goes out
00:25:47.660
there. He had some good lines. He had a line about Snoop Dogg. He said, Snoop Dogg is a
00:25:51.140
do-rags-to-riches story. Yeah. A line about Lisa Lampanelli. She's a comedian whose whole joke
00:25:57.320
about her is that she's not the, not the most svelte lass in the world. You know, she's not
00:26:03.220
terribly thin. And so people make fat jokes about her and she loved it. She's laughing, clapping,
00:26:08.740
you know, that was all nice. He's making jokes about the other people, how they're basic cable
00:26:14.660
hacks, you know, talentless people. And he's this big star. Also true in some ways about certain
00:26:20.740
people up there. But what we see here is he jokes about himself easily. He jokes about, you know,
00:26:26.320
people say that he can't joke about himself. Donald Trump can't take a joke. That isn't true at all.
00:26:31.360
They say Donald Trump is a narcissist, you know, like Barack Obama's a narcissist. No way. No way.
00:26:38.340
I mean, does Donald Trump have an ego? Yeah. Trump has an ego. I don't think anybody's denying that.
00:26:43.560
But is he a narcissist? No. And here's the difference. An egotist, hard charging, puts his
00:26:50.920
name on buildings, says his name a lot, gets it out there, pushes back, won't, you know,
00:26:56.680
won't take the hits. He's going to go, he's going to punch, right? If he, if he takes a joke,
00:27:01.000
he's going to give that joke right back. What the narcissist does is he takes it so personally.
00:27:07.700
With Donald Trump, I don't think it's personal. I don't think he takes, I don't think he goes home
00:27:11.260
and cries and he says, oh, he didn't like me. Or he gets really angry. He says,
00:27:14.520
though he did, they, I'm going to get him back. Oh, no, I don't think it's that at all. I think
00:27:18.900
he has a great ability to, uh, compartmentalize, to abstract himself from situations. And that's
00:27:24.860
why he has some pretty cold thinking because it can't be both, right? He can't be coldly strategic
00:27:28.820
and this angry narcissist. Barack Obama seems like a narcissist. I mean, he wrote two books about
00:27:34.560
his favorite subject by the time he was in his twenties or something like that. Uh, there were,
00:27:39.300
I think the second memoir came out in his thirties that there is a certain narcissism there. It's
00:27:44.980
the difference I suppose is that Donald Trump writes his own press releases and Barack Obama
00:27:49.680
believes his own press releases. And those are two different things. You can even see it. You see it
00:27:54.940
in the way that Donald Trump talks. So he leans into the money thing. He's always talking about how
00:27:58.980
much money he has, you know, the differences, the hair, the, the wet raccoon or whatever he says
00:28:04.240
isn't worth $7 billion, but he pushes you past the sale. When he talks, he says, if I run,
00:28:10.480
you will have the pleasure of voting for the greatest president in the history of the United
00:28:17.120
States. And what he does, this is another thing Scott Adams has mentioned, though not on this
00:28:21.920
particular point, just the category, Donald Trump pushes you past the sale. So instead of saying,
00:28:27.340
I'm going to win the presidency. Okay. If he said that, you say, no, you won't. But he says,
00:28:33.240
I will be, not only will I be the president, I will be the greatest president, not just in the
00:28:39.820
recent years, I'll be the greatest president in the history of the country. Not only that you will
00:28:44.160
have the, you will have pleasure voting for me. It will be a pleasure to vote for me. And the reason
00:28:49.180
you do this, it's the same reason Trump talks about the wall. And he says, uh, Mexico is going to
00:28:54.140
pay for the wall. He says it not because Mexico is going to pay for the wall. Who cares if Mexico
00:28:58.740
pays for the wall? It's not that expensive. What he's doing is he's establishing in your mind that
00:29:03.420
the wall will be built. The wall is going to be built. And so that's not up for debate. All that's
00:29:09.520
up for debate is who's going to pay for it. I will be the president. That's not up for debate.
00:29:13.340
All that's up for debate is, will I be the greatest president in American history or just the
00:29:18.160
greatest president in the last 20 years or something, right? That's what he's pushing. I will be the
00:29:22.660
president. The only question is, are you going to have pleasure voting for me or great pleasure
00:29:27.100
voting for me, right? He does this. It's a really strong tactic of his. And by the way, he did better
00:29:33.600
at this roast than most of the other performers because he's funnier because he's more in the
00:29:37.220
culture. The other guys were funny. I don't mean to denigrate them. I'm not, I don't want to be a
00:29:40.580
hack here. They are funny people. Seth MacFarlane's a very funny guy. Snoop Dogg actually was pretty
00:29:45.020
funny. Mike, the situation wasn't, you know, it's not his strong suit, but, uh, but a lot of them
00:29:50.700
were funny, but Trump was better. Why? Because people relate to Trump and because Trump knows
00:29:55.620
people. He talks about this. He said, one of the secrets to my success is I really know people.
00:29:59.520
I'm a people person. So I think here we have the answer to our question. Can Trump actually
00:30:05.060
predict the future as he plugged in to, you know, the cosmos and the natural order of the universe?
00:30:10.540
I don't know about that, but why does it seem like he can predict the future? It's because
00:30:15.480
he can put his finger on the pulse of the culture. He knows people. He talks to people. He's not
00:30:21.320
isolated. He doesn't live in a little bubble in DC. He doesn't just go to lunches at the Brookings
00:30:25.700
Institution and talk about how sad it is that people don't hold their champagne glass in the
00:30:30.200
right way anymore. It's why he's a good salesman. I mean, he's the greatest salesman in the modern era.
00:30:35.780
He is all sales, right? He sells everything. He sold his, he sold real estate and he made incredible
00:30:41.640
deals on real estate in New York basically by just tricking the media by, you know, it's great in
00:30:47.640
that book I just read by Conrad Black, Lord Conrad Black, Donald J. Trump, a president like no other.
00:30:53.560
We had him on the show this week, I guess, this week or last week. He talks about how when he put
00:30:58.240
the Commodore deal together, he just did it by sheer tyranny of will. He knows people. He knew how the
00:31:02.960
city would react to this, how the state, the, this company would react to this, how the media would
00:31:08.560
react to this and he just put it all together and he did it. He's totally in the culture so he can
00:31:12.460
shape the culture. This is why Andrew Breitbart was right. He's, if he's in the culture, if Donald
00:31:17.760
Trump is in the culture, it means Donald Trump is in the present. Most people are living in the past.
00:31:22.620
Most people are fighting the last war, especially in politics. People who are living in the past think
00:31:28.120
people who are living in the present are seeing the future. Most people are fighting the Mitt Romney
00:31:33.020
campaign. By the way, now people are fighting the, the 2016 race. They're trying to fight the 2016
00:31:38.320
race in 2020. 2020 is going to be different and you're going to see this all over again. You're
00:31:42.560
going to see it's going to look like Donald Trump's predicting the future again. That's not because
00:31:46.520
he's predicting the future. It's because he's living in the present. I've got to say goodbye to
00:31:49.900
Facebook and YouTube. We have a ton more to get to. You cannot miss it. Very important points. Look,
00:31:55.420
I'm going to be gone for a week on my honeymoon. So I got to give you all the good covfefe now.
00:31:59.520
Otherwise, Ben is going to just depress everybody and he's going to say like, things aren't that great.
00:32:04.000
He, he, he doesn't snort nearly as much covfefe as I do. So you're going to want, you know, at least,
00:32:08.740
at least you'll have a Clavin to say that everything is tickety boo, but we got to get
00:32:13.560
all that covfefe out right now. If you're on dailywire.com, thank you. You help us keep the
00:32:17.740
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00:32:22.000
And I'm going to, I'll probably get arrested for that, but I need it. I, cause you're not allowed to
00:32:26.080
drink open containers of covfefe on the beach. That's not allowed. It's against the law. You got to put it in
00:32:30.780
the appropriate FDA approved vessel for leftist tears. So what do you get? It's $10 a month,
00:32:35.880
$100 for an annual membership. You get me, you get the Andrew Klavan show. You get the Ben Shapiro show.
00:32:40.100
You get to ask questions in the mailbag, ask questions in the conversation. You should get
00:32:45.180
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00:32:51.700
free wedding mailbag. I'm probably going to be asking you questions. That's what I really need.
00:32:55.880
Uh, you will get this because none of that other stuff matters. This matters. The leftist tears
00:33:00.860
Tumblr because every time Nostradonald predicts the future, every time our great prophet, the one
00:33:08.220
tweeting out in the wilderness predicts the future, the tears are going to flow and you're going to
00:33:12.140
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00:33:14.260
All right, we're back. And I'm glad, I'm kind of glad we put this one behind the paywall because
00:33:28.540
I have to criticize Bill Kristol. And I really like Bill Kristol personally. Bill Kristol was a
00:33:33.460
professor of mine for a summer in DC and I like him very much personally. He's a very nice guy.
00:33:38.740
These tweets though, these, you know, I've held off long enough. These tweets,
00:33:44.060
Bill Kristol tweeted the other day, he said, quote, one striking contrast between Reagan and Trump.
00:33:50.800
Reagan's conservatism was a youthful movement in spirit and often in fact fueled by hopefulness
00:33:56.100
for the future. Trump's conservatism is a reactionary movement of older Americans fueled
00:34:01.040
by anger and fear. You know, I've always been an old soul, I guess. I guess I've always been an old
00:34:07.840
so Kanye West maybe is very old too. Maybe Candace Owens or Charlie Kirk. Are they all old? All the,
00:34:14.160
all of the YouTube people who are, are they all really old? Is that it? I don't think so. I don't
00:34:19.880
think that's true at all. In fact, I think the oldest Trump supporter I know is Andrew Klavan and
00:34:24.720
he behaves like a younger man than I do. You know, the latest I ever stay out when I go out at night is
00:34:30.500
when I'm hanging out with Drew. The Trump movement is a youthful movement. It's energized and it's
00:34:34.760
exuberant. Donald Trump won more millennials than John McCain or Mitt Romney. Donald Trump did just
00:34:40.400
fine with the youths. You know, I, I worry, I fear without descending into psychobabble that Bill
00:34:47.520
Crystal might be projecting here. Angry, old, fearful. I don't know. Does that describe Kanye West or does
00:34:56.460
that describe President Trump's detractors? Ronald Reagan's movement was youthful. That's absolutely
00:35:01.820
true. Ronald Reagan's movement happened almost 40 years ago. Well, it really had happened over 40
00:35:07.260
years ago because it began in the sixties and seventies. Now the Ronald Reagan movement is older.
00:35:12.940
It's older, but now we need something new. Ronald Reagan solved the problems of his time. He did his
00:35:18.640
part. He kept the faith. That's what he said. When he said farewell to Americans, he said, we did it.
00:35:24.300
Let them say of us, we did it. We kept the faith. We did our part. We can't dig up the body of
00:35:28.700
Ronald Reagan and have him become the head of the Republican party and the president again.
00:35:32.660
You can't exhume poor Gipper. Gipper did a good job. Let him rest. Let him have his eternal reward.
00:35:38.520
Now we're dealing with something new. We're dealing with something new and a reactionary
00:35:42.700
movement of older Americans fueled by anger and fear oppose him. But that's, that's no legitimate
00:35:49.000
reason. The remaining anti-Trump right is living in a fantasy world. One, because it barely exists
00:35:55.280
anymore. Of all of the, the more prominent Trump critics on the right, we had, Ben was one during
00:36:01.740
the campaign. Certainly he was always the most reasonable about this. It kills me to be too
00:36:06.380
complimentary toward the big boss on the show, but he was always the most reasonable. He wore,
00:36:10.480
he put that MAGA hat on the day that Trump nominated Gorsuch, right? He wore that MAGA hat,
00:36:15.280
but even some of the holdouts, the people who, who still just really were constantly negative
00:36:20.040
toward Trump. Jonah Goldberg said the other day that he would vote for Donald Trump. That was pretty
00:36:24.780
good. And look, there's news out today that I don't even want to tell you about. I actually do.
00:36:29.900
I've tried to avoid talking about this on the show because I don't want to jinx us. I don't want to
00:36:34.180
jinx November. Bloomberg is reporting that the blue wave may be dissipating. The headline today is
00:36:40.820
Democrats prep for battle, not surfing a blue wave. Remember though, all those really smart guys in
00:36:45.680
suits with glasses on TV and they go on TV. So, you know, you have to believe them. All those guys told
00:36:51.040
us it was going to be a blue wave. Republicans were going to lose the house and the Senate and
00:36:55.300
Donald Trump was going to be kicked out of office. And what are we seeing now? We're seeing maybe
00:37:01.660
there are some cracks. Now, I don't want to tell you, don't tell anybody. I know that only the most,
00:37:06.700
you know, the, the fringiest, most extreme people of the vast right-wing conspiracy tune in here.
00:37:12.440
So I feel like I can tell you guys, but don't tell anybody else. Historically speaking,
00:37:17.600
we should lose this election in November. The Republicans should lose the house, if not the
00:37:21.200
Senate also. I don't know if that's what we see on the ground. I don't know if that's what we see
00:37:25.640
on the culture because everything's getting better. I don't tell them that because conservatives have
00:37:29.860
to go out for us to win it. So don't tell anybody, but I dare, I say I'm hopeful. Things are looking
00:37:36.220
good right now. So, you know, that's not an excuse to, uh, to go out and do battle in November,
00:37:40.700
but things are looking so good. Even Glenn Beck, who was a big, he was a big anti-Trump. He was a
00:37:48.060
Trump critic for a long time. I love Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck, this is such a beautiful day.
00:37:53.580
He came around. Here's the video. Enjoy. Here's why I'm predicting a 2020 win. When I saw yesterday,
00:38:01.580
the, how the press was all reporting the same damn story that Donald Trump was calling MS-13 gang
00:38:11.340
members, they left that out of the story, animals, and they were spinning it as if he was saying that
00:38:18.400
about all immigrants, I'd had enough. I'd have enough. Media, if you can get me, Glenn Beck,
00:38:27.760
to do this. There it is. And in case you're only listening to us on radio, I just donned a red
00:38:37.680
make America great again hat. If you can drive me to the point to where I say, you know what? I've
00:38:47.100
had enough. I'll vote for him in 2020. Gladly. I'll vote for him in 2020 and not really even on his
00:38:55.800
record, which we'll talk about here in a second, is pretty damn amazing.
00:39:00.720
Pretty damn amazing. Yes, that is. That video is pretty damn amazing. I love it. I love it.
00:39:06.360
Because where is it? The anti-Trump right is basically just gone now. It's basically over,
00:39:11.080
save for a few tweets. The remaining anti-Trump stuff on the right and, and even largely on the
00:39:16.500
left, it comes from fantasy. And this is the cultural side of things. We're gonna have to get
00:39:19.980
to this in the last five minutes here. A spell has been broken. The cultural hypnosis has cracked.
00:39:27.160
To, to, to use the phrase of Kanye West, the consciousness has shifted. Here's an example.
00:39:32.180
Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar is some popular musician. I take it. I'm using those words loosely.
00:39:38.900
He invited a white fan on stage at one of his concerts. He asked her to sing his song. Then he
00:39:44.900
decided to publicly shame her for singing the lyrics, which he wrote. Here's the clip.
00:39:50.920
What's your name? Delaney. Make some noise for Delaney right now.
00:40:14.100
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
00:40:18.300
wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:40:29.840
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:40:35.240
Will's just really cool, bro. You have to work.
00:40:44.560
It is painful to watch because it was obviously a setup. I mean, it's just ridiculous. Do you see
00:40:51.180
she goes, she's having fun. She thinks she's still in it, right? And then she goes, I'm sorry,
00:40:54.120
I'm sorry. I didn't know. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. So disrespectful to his fans. He put
00:40:58.220
the words in the song. It's like every third word in his songs. By the way, he won the Pulitzer
00:41:02.580
prize for literature. He won the Pulitzer prize. I just, that's, that's what happened in recent
00:41:08.660
years. That's what's happened to our culture. That's a sidebar. It's outrageous. It's ridiculous.
00:41:13.400
You look up there and you, you just feel so bad for her. He invites her on stage. He says,
00:41:17.900
sing the lyrics that I wrote. And then she sings the lyrics that he wrote. And then he calls her
00:41:23.360
a racist basically and publicly shames her. So, so wrong. Even Whoopi Goldberg agrees on this,
00:41:28.300
by the way, Whoopi Goldberg on the view. And I don't look to the view for wisdom, but Whoopi
00:41:32.720
Goldberg on the view said, that's ridiculous. It was wrong for him to do it. He shouldn't have done
00:41:35.800
it. And you know what? Most people agree with her and with that opinion. There are two explanations
00:41:42.060
that we could believe for why and how that woman sang the N word in this song. Here's one
00:41:49.380
explanation. This, this is crazy. This is my conspiracy theory. That he wrote the lyrics
00:41:53.780
and asked her to sing them. Okay. That's my crazy conspiracy theory. The other one is that
00:41:59.360
she hates black people. It's gotta be that, right? Nobody actually thinks that. Nobody thinks
00:42:04.900
this woman has animus for black people and that's why he's getting that flack. I, you know, the,
00:42:10.580
it's really, really ridiculous. We have so many, so little racial animus today that we have to
00:42:16.960
invent it. We actually can't, there's so little racial animus that we just have to make it up
00:42:21.540
out of whole cloth. It's just a fantasy. This ties in with our theme of Trump predicting everything
00:42:25.180
because the NFL has now banned kneeling for the flag and the national anthem. This was another one,
00:42:31.020
you know, people were doing it and they, they were, they were banning the flag or they were
00:42:35.100
kneeling for the flag and they were saying, because racism is so awful in America, we're going to
00:42:39.320
disrespect the American flag. So there was a lot to deal with there. There's a lie. I don't know if
00:42:43.680
I agree with this or that or that. That's crazy, but you certainly wouldn't disrespect the flag,
00:42:47.580
which gives you the right to protest, which gives you the right to self-government.
00:42:51.780
So NFL now has, has banned kneeling for the flag. By the way, it was already banned in the game
00:42:57.800
operations manual, which existed long before this hullabaloo, the game operations manual for the
00:43:03.000
NFL read, the national anthem must be played prior to every NFL game and all players must be on the
00:43:08.680
sideline for the national anthem. During the national anthem, players on the field and bench area should
00:43:14.240
stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand, refrain from talking. The home
00:43:18.980
team should ensure the flag is in good condition. It should be pointed out to players and coaches.
00:43:22.940
We continue to be judged by the public in this area of respect for the flag and our country.
00:43:26.500
Failure to be on the field by the start of the anthem may result in discipline such as fines,
00:43:30.940
suspensions, and forfeiture of draft choice for violations of the above, including the first
00:43:36.280
offense. It was announced today, teams will be fined by the league if players go on the field and
00:43:41.680
kneel. Now they're letting them stay in the locker room if they really want to, but if they go and
00:43:45.700
kneel, they'll be fined by the league. This isn't about the great patriotism of the NFL. I don't know
00:43:51.120
that they care at all about the country. This is about money and this is about reality. And Donald Trump
00:43:55.380
knows a lot about both of those things and brags about it a lot. You know, the kneeling thing
00:44:00.580
started a couple of years ago. It really took off last year. What happened? The NFL ratings tanked.
00:44:05.160
The 2017 audience was almost 10% down over the 2016 season. Trump brought the issue to a head.
00:44:11.640
Why? Because he's Nostradonald or because he's living in the present. He sees what's happening in
00:44:15.320
the culture. He was really strong on this issue. So now, in our last couple of minutes here, I'm going
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to get to some predictions for the future that don't involve Trump or NFL players or Kendrick
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Lamar or Nancy Pelosi or any of that. These are predictions that we're seeing over in Ireland.
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They've been big news items. On Friday, Ireland is going to vote on a referendum to repeal the Eighth
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Amendment to ban abortion. Ireland is a strong Catholic country. It's got some of the strictest
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abortion laws in the world and there's a vote now to possibly ban it. Now, by the way, if you want an
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abortion in Ireland, you just go to England and you get one. And that's what people do. But it's a
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strong Catholic country. This is being called the end of Catholicism in that country. The polls are too
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close to call. We're not really sure. There's been momentum on the side of pro-life. Hopefully, pro-life
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will eke it out. But to call it the end of Catholicism is a little crazy. I was talking with our colleague
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here, Paul Cardinal Bois, about this earlier. Ireland rejected its strict Catholicism a few years ago
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when it voted to redefine marriage. To redefine marriage to include same-sex gay unions. And so
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that's a question. Where is Ireland going? What is Ireland? Is it a Catholic country? Is it something
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new? This brings us to the Pope. The big headline this week is the Pope is okay with being gay or
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something. That was what the popular media were reporting. Because he told a victim of Chilean
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sexual abuse, Juan Carlos Cruz, that God loves him. This was reported by the media as,
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the Pope says it's totally cool to do a lot of gay stuff now. Pope loves gay sex, basically was the
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headline. And it's a little more nuanced than that. They thought it was shocking that the Pope
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would tell a gay man that God loves him. As though this were breaking with Catholic tradition. As though
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previously the Catholic doctrine was God hates gay people. When, that has never been, that has never
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once been the Catholic dogma or doctrine at all. God loves you. God loves you. If you're,
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if you have any sort of assortment of proclivities in your mind, God still loves you. You know,
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all man has fallen. People do many worse things than wink at the cute fella down the bar. You know,
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there's a deception and fraud and all of this. God still loves you, still wants you to turn to him
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and do the right thing. The culture is very confused. And so where's the prediction come in? Where's the
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living in the present to seem like we're predicting the future? The Catholic church will either hold
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true to its divine institution, to it, to the gospels, to the sacred tradition, or it would fade
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away. That's it. It won't, it won't become some sort of Protestant church and it won't, like so many
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mainline churches here, it won't say, okay, but now we're going to change this piece of 2000 year old
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doctrine. No, it'll defend its doctrine and its truth, or it will disappear. Ireland will be
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Ireland. It will be Catholic Ireland, the land, you know, the beautiful old Ireland, or Ireland
00:47:09.920
will cease to exist and something new will happen. But Ireland will be Ireland or it will cease to
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exist. The cultural argument of all of Trump's talk about globalism and nationalism, this is what
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that gets to. This is what it all is. Think of the Brexit. Britain will be Britain or there won't be
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a Britain. There will be, there will just be a big blobby EU. Britain will be Britain or there
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won't be a Britain. Americans will salute our flag and defend our country or they won't have a country.
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We won't have a country. Trump said this on the trail. He said, we will, we, we either have a
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country or we don't have a country. Irving Kristol said this in 93. Irving Kristol, Bill Kristol's father
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said, conservative thought is religion, nationalism, and economic growth. The foundations of civilization,
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religion, nationalism, and of course economic growth. It has to grow, it has to advance, or it'll wither
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away and die. The foundations of civilization are worth conserving. Those are the sure predictions.
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Those are the only sure. I'm not as good as Nostradonald, so I, those, that's all I can predict for sure.
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We will defend our countries and our faiths, or we won't have any countries or faiths to defend.
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That's it. I'll leave it to the other prophets who tweet out in the wilderness to predict which one
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that will be. But it is up to us, and for that, I am hopeful. Okay. And I, you know, I got to,
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I'm thinking about the future a lot these days, folks. Send in your questions to the mailbag.
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We will be back tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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