The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1614 - BREAKING： FEMA Denied Hurricane Relief To Trump Supporters


Summary

Daily Wire has obtained documents proving that FEMA discriminated against Trump supporters after a hurricane killed dozens of Americans. The documents were obtained by a whistleblower and leaked to Daily Wire by a former employee of the Department of Homeland Security. The result? FEMA denied relief workers access to homes with Trump signs.


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00:00:54.320 The Biden-Harris administration has been caught intentionally and specifically denying disaster relief
00:00:59.820 to Trump supporters after a hurricane killed dozens of Americans.
00:01:04.280 Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:05.880 Welcome back to the show.
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00:01:34.540 a University of Oregon frat life director, who is also a Kamala supporter,
00:01:40.360 he is actively telling Trump supporters to kill themselves.
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00:02:43.560 Now, back to the darker machinations from our government.
00:02:48.800 This is thanks to a Daily Wire exclusive report.
00:02:51.740 Really, really good stuff from DW.
00:02:54.420 I can say this without boasting because I had nothing to do with getting the documents for this report,
00:02:59.860 but it is pretty amazing.
00:03:01.980 The Daily Wire has obtained documents proving that FEMA has discriminated against
00:03:07.280 Trump supporters.
00:03:08.940 We have screenshots here provided to Daily Wire by a whistleblower.
00:03:14.500 Internal messages obtained showing that FEMA ordered its relief workers not to help out homes that had Trump signs.
00:03:22.500 So you see right here, implement best practices, avoid homes advertising Trump.
00:03:28.840 That's the second bullet point on the list.
00:03:33.420 Whistleblowers say they were told that this was a best practice.
00:03:38.280 The workers would enter into the system that they made no contact with residents,
00:03:43.480 and then they would blame the directive, which they had gotten, which said,
00:03:46.780 Trump sign, no contact per leadership.
00:03:51.080 And so one whistleblower came out and said, this is too much.
00:03:54.640 This is evil.
00:03:56.220 Obviously evil.
00:03:57.040 Said, I thought we could go help and make a difference.
00:03:59.880 When we got there, we were told to discriminate against people.
00:04:02.580 It's almost unbelievable to think that somebody in the federal government would think that's okay.
00:04:06.540 Now, of course, if you've been paying attention to the way that this administration acts,
00:04:10.880 to the way that our federal government has been so corrupted,
00:04:13.400 not just during the Biden-Harris administration, but earlier than that as well,
00:04:17.240 then it won't be that surprising to you.
00:04:19.500 But if you're someone who just signs up, I'm going to go help people who are the victims of a hurricane,
00:04:25.000 and then you're told by your superiors, hey, don't provide any help.
00:04:29.060 This hurricane that's killed dozens of Americans don't provide any help if someone has a Trump sign in their yard.
00:04:34.020 You let that person die.
00:04:35.820 You let that person starve.
00:04:36.980 You forget about them.
00:04:38.880 You could imagine if you don't pay close attention to politics, you just show up to help out your community.
00:04:44.960 You would be quite scandalized.
00:04:48.060 And FEMA knows this.
00:04:50.100 So DW has received an update from FEMA.
00:04:52.620 FEMA confirms this happened.
00:04:55.500 Because that's the top line takeaway.
00:04:58.340 FEMA is not denying this.
00:04:59.640 They're not saying this is fake news or an altered screenshot.
00:05:02.500 They're saying, no, okay, this happened.
00:05:04.760 And FEMA says that it is, quote, deeply disturbed by this employee's actions, quote, horrified that this took place.
00:05:13.200 And they say that FEMA has taken, quote, extreme actions to correct this situation.
00:05:19.440 Okay, good.
00:05:20.240 Well, all of that talk is very cheap.
00:05:24.760 It's very easy for FEMA to say that after the fact.
00:05:27.480 Where is the accountability?
00:05:31.580 Where is the proof that this has been corrected?
00:05:34.060 Where is the proof that the wrongdoers have been punished?
00:05:36.640 Where is the proof that this isn't going to happen again?
00:05:38.680 Nothing.
00:05:39.180 Just a lot of cheap talk from a corrupt federal government that has consistently and increasingly discriminated against and persecuted conservatives in recent years.
00:05:48.920 It's not as though we didn't know this was happening.
00:05:51.780 And this, to me, this is the best part.
00:05:55.080 The best part of this whole story.
00:05:56.600 It's an awful story.
00:05:57.500 But the silver lining, I guess, is exposing this kind of corruption for everyone to see.
00:06:04.300 Trump already said this was happening.
00:06:07.240 Trump said this was happening back during Hurricane Helene.
00:06:10.520 And here's what the New York Times said about it.
00:06:12.960 Fact check.
00:06:15.280 Fact check from the New York Times.
00:06:19.680 Trump's false claims about the federal response to Hurricane Helene.
00:06:22.560 The former president falsely accused the Biden administration of spending disaster funding on migrants.
00:06:27.440 That also happened.
00:06:29.160 But that's beside the point because we're going to focus on the second thing Trump claimed that the New York Times says was false.
00:06:35.420 Neglecting areas that had voted for Republicans.
00:06:38.420 And ignoring a call from a Republican governor.
00:06:43.100 Fact check.
00:06:44.460 Fact check.
00:06:45.060 10,000 Pinocchios.
00:06:46.280 Trump lying yet again.
00:06:48.280 Where on earth would Trump get the idea that the federal government, that FEMA, would intentionally neglect areas that had voted for a Republican?
00:06:59.160 Oh, right.
00:06:59.960 The text messages from FEMA that the Daily Wire has exclusively obtained.
00:07:04.980 You think there might be more text messages out there?
00:07:08.420 If one news outlet, one real news outlet like the Daily Wire, not a fake news outlet like the New York Times.
00:07:14.160 If one news outlet, thanks to a whistleblower, was able to obtain these kinds of documents.
00:07:23.440 You think there might be more documents?
00:07:25.160 You think this might have happened in other places?
00:07:28.060 This reminds me of the FBI Catholic memo.
00:07:33.300 The memo that revealed that the FBI had been spying on Catholic churches and treating traditional, normal, conservative Catholics as though we were domestic terrorists.
00:07:43.480 And you remember there's one memo that leaked.
00:07:45.440 And the FBI said, oh, no, this is an isolated incident.
00:07:47.520 One field office.
00:07:48.580 We're appalled by this.
00:07:49.680 We had no idea.
00:07:50.340 All the same nonsense that FEMA's spouting.
00:07:52.520 Oh, this is shocking.
00:07:53.680 We've gotten to the bottom of it.
00:07:54.700 Don't worry.
00:07:55.380 This is an isolated incident.
00:07:56.540 And then what happened?
00:07:58.120 We found out there was another memo at another field office.
00:08:01.180 And actually, this was happening at other places all around the country.
00:08:05.660 Seems pretty similar to me.
00:08:07.460 But the gray lady, paper of record, says, no, no, no, this isn't happening.
00:08:12.560 Trump is a total liar.
00:08:14.400 Fact check.
00:08:15.680 Totally false.
00:08:16.480 Once again, President Trump is vindicated on a claim that he made.
00:08:23.660 And once again, the New York Times is caught peddling fake news.
00:08:28.840 What is the New York Times going to say?
00:08:30.100 Well, no, no, no.
00:08:30.500 He was talking about Hurricane Helene, not Hurricane Milton that occurred immediately afterward in basically the same place.
00:08:35.360 Oh, yeah, that makes me feel a lot better.
00:08:37.080 What?
00:08:37.340 Are you kidding me?
00:08:38.000 We just got a little bit of smoke that you denied existed.
00:08:41.740 And now you're saying, don't worry.
00:08:42.560 There's definitely no fire.
00:08:45.720 Once again, President Trump vindicated.
00:08:48.100 Once again, the New York Times caught peddling fake news.
00:08:51.000 Which brings me to my broader and more practical point for the Trump administration.
00:08:55.060 The next White House press secretary should strongly consider revoking the credential of the New York Times for the daily press briefing.
00:09:04.480 I don't say this out of cruelty.
00:09:06.680 I don't say this out of mad passion or anything like that.
00:09:09.520 I say this dispassionately, having studied the situation for some time, having worked in this role as a press secretary.
00:09:16.920 I worked as a press secretary for a member of Congress on a campaign, on the campaign side.
00:09:21.460 So, I'm familiar with how the job is done.
00:09:25.440 I'm not saying that one should act out of emotion or anything like that.
00:09:29.780 But if you're a press secretary, you have to set the tone.
00:09:32.940 You have to create disincentives for the media to lie about your candidate or the politician that you're representing.
00:09:42.380 And you need to reward news outlets that tell the truth and report on things accurately.
00:09:48.480 It might not always be flattering to your side, but if a news outlet is acting with integrity and reporting the news to the best of their ability and doing a basically good job of it, you want to reward those outlets.
00:10:01.560 The New York Times, once considered the paper of record, has been so dishonest, so absolutely negligent and reckless with the facts in recent years.
00:10:13.840 And specifically with regard to Trump, I think it would be irresponsible to continue to give the New York Times the basically unfettered access and the patina of prestige that it has enjoyed for so long.
00:10:29.400 This is egregious stuff.
00:10:30.900 And on this story, we're not just talking about the New York Times spreading fake news about, I don't know, some gossip from the West Wing or something.
00:10:37.700 We're talking about a story in which Americans, half of the country, were targeted and persecuted by the federal government during a natural disaster that killed dozens of Americans.
00:10:49.760 And the New York Times helped cover that up.
00:10:53.260 That's egregious.
00:10:55.280 That is a complete other level.
00:10:58.320 And I think that the New York Times needs to face consequences for that.
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00:12:07.380 Now, speaking of other things that President Trump was right about, a great new story has just come out that Hamas is calling to end the war in Gaza immediately.
00:12:20.780 The story was published November 6th.
00:12:24.100 The election took place November 5th.
00:12:27.140 It was clear by about midnight, a little after midnight on the 5th, that Trump was going to win.
00:12:33.080 And then 1.45 p.m. Eastern time, the very next day, Hamas calls for an immediate end to the war.
00:12:40.160 You know, President Trump has been saying on the campaign trail, when asked about these foreign policy problems that sprung up under Biden, he said, they would have never happened under me.
00:12:50.120 These wars are going to end.
00:12:51.740 I'm going to be elected.
00:12:52.520 These wars are going to end.
00:12:55.120 It looks like we're seeing the beginning of this.
00:12:58.600 Day after the election, Hamas calls to end the war.
00:13:03.680 Four days later, Qatar has reportedly announced it will no longer host Hamas.
00:13:08.840 So Hamas is the terror organization that was elected in Gaza.
00:13:12.480 Hamas leadership has a very cozy relationship with Qatar.
00:13:16.320 And they have nice penthouses in Qatar, and Qatar hosts them.
00:13:20.680 Four days after Trump is elected, Qatar says, actually, you know what?
00:13:24.160 We're good.
00:13:24.700 No, thanks.
00:13:25.140 We don't want to risk a missile strike in our country.
00:13:28.900 We don't want to risk damaging relations.
00:13:33.020 Look, we have the Biden-Harris administration.
00:13:35.500 They'll probably reward us if we harbor terrorists.
00:13:38.120 But Trump, Mr. Cowboy Donald Trump, I don't think so.
00:13:43.440 Lots and lots of pressure.
00:13:44.800 Now, of course, the way that Hamas really could end the war is just release the hostages, the remaining hostages,
00:13:49.100 who haven't been killed in captivity.
00:13:52.860 Release them.
00:13:53.500 The war is going to be over.
00:13:56.140 I suspect they're going to increasingly, as every day goes by that President Trump has been elected until the inauguration,
00:14:01.940 I suspect Hamas is going to do everything it possibly can to end that war.
00:14:06.720 Because a real president is back in town now.
00:14:09.420 And they remember that Trump, on the one hand, he would rebuff all of the war hawks of the Republican and Democrat establishment.
00:14:19.200 In some ways, he seemed like a total dove on foreign policy.
00:14:21.640 And then he'd drop the mother of all bombs.
00:14:25.020 And then he would tell little rocket man in Korea that he's got a button and his button's bigger, his nuclear weapons work.
00:14:32.600 And then he would assassinate the top Iranian general.
00:14:35.980 But he would also try to use diplomacy with Vladimir Putin.
00:14:41.360 He would use diplomatic measures with Xi Jinping.
00:14:46.360 He would bring down tensions in the Middle East.
00:14:50.280 War hawks in both parties have wanted to bomb countries in the Middle East for decades now.
00:14:54.960 Trump says, no, no, we want to bring peace to the Middle East.
00:14:57.020 It's the Abraham Accords.
00:14:57.780 So the key to that foreign policy was, you just don't know what you're going to get.
00:15:02.200 He's rather unpredictable.
00:15:03.460 And bad actors around the world don't want to take the chance.
00:15:08.380 Still, even amid all of this winning from Trump, some people are still upset by President Trump's victory in the election,
00:15:17.160 including the University of Oregon fraternity life director who has instructed Trump supporters to kill themselves.
00:15:23.220 I'm done crying.
00:15:26.320 My sadness is over.
00:15:27.880 My anger has set in.
00:15:30.200 I am a very petty person and I am very proud of that.
00:15:35.140 Love it about myself, actually.
00:15:37.160 And so I say this in the most disrespectful way possible.
00:15:41.520 I don't care if you are my family.
00:15:43.900 I don't care if you are my friend.
00:15:45.860 I don't care if we've been friends our entire lives.
00:15:48.440 You can literally go f*** yourself if you voted for Donald Trump.
00:15:53.880 If you are so sad about your groceries being expensive, get a better paying job.
00:16:01.120 Do better in life.
00:16:02.380 Get a f***ing education.
00:16:04.040 Do something.
00:16:05.280 Because you are f***ing stupid.
00:16:07.720 And I hope you go jump off of a f***ing bridge.
00:16:12.360 I don't care if you're my family.
00:16:14.380 I don't care if we've been friends for a long time.
00:16:16.500 If you voted for Trump because you can't afford groceries, I hope you kill yourself.
00:16:23.520 You can always tell from that nose ring in the middle.
00:16:27.300 You saw that?
00:16:27.920 I don't know that I've ever seen a man with that kind of a nose ring.
00:16:30.860 It's not the nose ring on the side, which, you know, can be kind of nice sometimes.
00:16:35.120 It's the, on a girl, not on a guy, obviously.
00:16:37.560 But it's the one in the middle.
00:16:39.180 The bull nose ring that looks like you're out of some Hieronymus Bosch painting or something.
00:16:43.420 That one, I've never seen that nose ring on a stable or happy person, ever.
00:16:49.820 Not once.
00:16:51.740 So that's not a good sign.
00:16:54.020 And then he opens his mouth and proves it.
00:16:58.220 Imagine saying that to your family.
00:16:59.760 Imagine saying that to your mother.
00:17:01.120 Your mother voted for Trump.
00:17:02.520 Say, I don't care if you're my family.
00:17:04.180 I don't care if you're my mother.
00:17:05.520 I go kill yourself.
00:17:06.620 What, just because you can't afford, oh, you can't afford groceries.
00:17:10.740 Yeah, well, and you voted for the guy who was a really good president over the incompetent liars on whose watch World War III seems about to kick off.
00:17:18.420 Well, you know what?
00:17:19.600 You go kill yourself, mom.
00:17:21.880 That's what he's saying.
00:17:22.680 I don't care if you're in my family.
00:17:24.020 I don't care if you're my childhood friend.
00:17:26.300 What are we listening to?
00:17:27.740 What are we looking at?
00:17:28.520 We're looking at a total lack of charity.
00:17:33.300 Three theological virtues.
00:17:34.800 Faith, hope, and charity.
00:17:37.580 Faith, the evidence of things not seen.
00:17:42.980 The substance of things hoped for.
00:17:45.420 Hope is a theological fact.
00:17:48.900 It's a virtue, but it's grounded in a fact of the resurrection.
00:17:51.820 And charity is love.
00:17:53.300 Charity is actually the most important of the theological virtues.
00:17:56.000 Because if you do good things, but you do it without love, then you're like a clanging gong.
00:18:06.400 And if you lack charity, when you have certain political disagreements, say, you're going to jump to this conclusion.
00:18:13.280 If you don't have love for other people, any minor political dispute, you know, I don't know, a presidential election,
00:18:22.500 a ballot referendum on raising the transit tax, I don't know, anything.
00:18:28.880 Will, any disagreement, any conflict, will lead you to wish death on the other person.
00:18:34.880 Because you have no, there's nothing binding you together.
00:18:37.380 You don't, love is to will the good of another for the person's own sake.
00:18:41.440 So if you don't, if you don't have any care whatsoever for the person's own good, then this is how you'll sound.
00:18:46.540 But what kind of a world is that?
00:18:49.280 What kind of life is this guy living?
00:18:50.980 Where he says, yeah, all my friends, all my family, all anyone, I don't care.
00:18:54.320 Go, go kill yourselves.
00:18:55.620 I would be happy if you killed yourselves.
00:18:58.520 Very, very lonely world.
00:19:00.040 Very disordered kinds of politics.
00:19:02.900 And I don't think the guy's really alone.
00:19:06.100 He's a, he's at the University of Oregon.
00:19:08.360 That's kind of crazy.
00:19:09.500 It's not the only university that has fallen prey to madness.
00:19:12.500 The Ohio University and Harvard both canceled classes after election day.
00:19:19.460 So a professor from Ohio, Amy Chadwick, has gone viral.
00:19:25.640 Has her pronouns in her bio, of course.
00:19:28.100 Writes to the class, hi all, I've decided to cancel class today to give space to those who are devastated by the election results.
00:19:34.780 I've already interacted with students who are hurting badly, who are scared, who are tired, who are unsure how to go on.
00:19:40.120 For those of you who are sad, scared, traumatized, angry, et cetera, please know you are not alone.
00:19:46.000 You're not alone.
00:19:47.700 There are resources available to help you support yourself.
00:19:51.100 Please take time to take care of yourself.
00:19:52.600 Find small joys and hold close to the people who matter to you and tell everyone else to go kill themselves.
00:19:57.680 No, I'm kidding.
00:19:57.960 She didn't put that in there.
00:19:59.060 She goes on, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:20:00.420 All the best, Amy.
00:20:02.440 Suffice to say, Amy Chadwick would not have sent this email had Kamala won the election.
00:20:07.500 I would have been rather sad had Kamala won the election.
00:20:11.300 I'd be sad because you would see the promotion.
00:20:15.420 Well, you'd see the further dissolution of our economy.
00:20:18.580 It'd be hard for people to afford groceries.
00:20:20.320 You would see the promotion of infanticide on a mass scale.
00:20:25.360 That would make me sad.
00:20:26.720 You would see further attacks on the family, further attacks on the rights of religious.
00:20:31.400 You would see the promotion of castrating little children and pretending that they're the opposite sex.
00:20:37.240 You would see a lot of things that would make me sad.
00:20:41.020 But they wouldn't cancel class.
00:20:42.920 And no professors would be telling us to find the small joys and hug those close to us.
00:20:49.520 Harvard basically did the same thing.
00:20:51.360 Harvard professors, not the whole school, but Harvard professors canceled class after the Trump win.
00:20:57.960 My heart dropped a little bit, one student said.
00:21:02.020 It was a very somber campus.
00:21:03.420 This is from the Harvard Crimson.
00:21:05.780 This was actually the greatest hint that I had.
00:21:09.600 One of the greatest hints I had that Trump was going to win is a friend of mine who's in a PhD program
00:21:14.660 was informed before the election that there would be lectures and meetings about how to cope with educating
00:21:24.100 in a time of awful Trumpian fascism after the election.
00:21:28.000 I thought, okay, so clearly the lib professors think that the election very likely could go toward Trump.
00:21:35.480 My only question with all of these professors, it's really awful.
00:21:39.980 Well, obviously, university employees who are telling more than half the country to kill themselves
00:21:45.560 probably should not be employed, should not be involved in education.
00:21:49.260 But for the Ohio professor, for the Harvard professors, do the students and parents get a refund?
00:21:57.300 If a professor cancels class because the professor is so devastated that a Republican won an election,
00:22:04.600 do the students who paid for the classes, often through expensive loans,
00:22:09.620 or do the parents who sometimes pay for the classes, do they get a refund?
00:22:15.720 Probably not.
00:22:17.840 Then I think the professor's pay needs to be docked, okay?
00:22:22.420 And I think there has to be the consequence.
00:22:26.000 We should not tolerate this stuff.
00:22:27.820 We should fire people for doing this stuff, and not out of cruelty.
00:22:30.520 Unlike the Oregon frat director with the weird nose ring, I don't hate these people.
00:22:35.480 I don't want them to kill themselves.
00:22:37.020 I actually want what is good for them.
00:22:39.140 They are not in a good place.
00:22:40.620 They've totally lost their minds.
00:22:42.280 And so I want something good for them.
00:22:44.860 And in order for them to have a good life, they have to be punished.
00:22:48.400 This is the takeaway from Socrates in Plato's Gorgias, okay?
00:22:53.400 It would actually be contrary to the happiness of these people.
00:22:56.980 It's contrary to the happiness of wrongdoers for them to consistently get away with their wrongdoing.
00:23:02.640 They need to be corrected here out of love, out of helpfulness.
00:23:07.660 But these people need to be punished for their insanity, or it's only going to get worse.
00:23:11.960 You know, Am I Racist?
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00:23:25.120 Plus, behind-the-scenes footage where Matt reveals how he pulled off the biggest troll
00:23:29.220 in the history of the left.
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00:23:48.000 We turn from Harvard to Yale.
00:23:52.020 A Yale psychiatrist has just gone on Joy Reid's show on MSNBC to advise Libs
00:23:58.300 to cut off their conservative family members at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
00:24:03.280 If you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends
00:24:09.240 who you know have voted in ways that are against you, like what you said, against your livelihood,
00:24:16.980 and it's completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why.
00:24:21.960 You know, to say, I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood
00:24:27.680 and I'm not going to be around you this holiday.
00:24:29.980 I need to take some space for me.
00:24:31.540 I think there is a level of, you know, need to establish boundaries.
00:24:36.260 And if you feel like you need to establish boundaries with people, whether they're your family or not,
00:24:41.240 I think you should very much be entitled to do so.
00:24:44.560 Are you noticing a theme here among all these people, some of whom are from very elite institutions?
00:24:53.500 Hey, if you're my family member, you voted for Trump, go kill yourself.
00:24:56.980 Hey, if you have a family member who voted for Trump, don't go to Thanksgiving.
00:25:00.100 Don't go to Christmas.
00:25:02.880 Don't, don't be friends with Republicans.
00:25:06.560 Don't acknowledge that you're family members with Republicans.
00:25:08.840 This is the perfect follow-up to that Julia Roberts ad.
00:25:13.440 Remember that Julia Roberts ad in the campaign?
00:25:16.380 Julia Roberts says, hey, women, even if your husband likes Trump, you should go into the voting booth and cancel out his vote.
00:25:24.180 That big, dumb, fat, stupid idiot.
00:25:26.320 Don't you hate your husband?
00:25:27.860 I bet you want to divorce him.
00:25:29.680 That's right.
00:25:30.160 Well, if you can't divorce him yet, at least go annul his vote in the voting booth.
00:25:35.020 That's right.
00:25:35.580 You, your fat, dumb, stupid husband.
00:25:38.760 I'm noting, I'm noticing a theme that the left wants to consistently undermine the family.
00:25:45.600 And the left has to consistently undermine the family.
00:25:49.020 It's been doing it for about a century now, undermining it through the liberalization of divorce, through the discouragement of marriage, through the promotion of all sorts of things, you know, contraception, abortion, all the sexual revolution, promiscuity, LGBT, LMNOP kind of stuff.
00:26:03.720 All of it.
00:26:05.460 Then the redefinition of marriage within the last decade.
00:26:09.500 And then now this.
00:26:11.320 Undermine your husband at the voting booth and don't show up to Thanksgiving with your cousin or your mother, for that matter.
00:26:19.220 Democrats want to break up families.
00:26:21.140 The reason Democrats want to break up families has a practical aspect and an ideological aspect.
00:26:26.980 Start with the ideological.
00:26:28.300 The ideological aspect is that the liberal view is that man is fundamentally an individual.
00:26:34.260 The conservative view is that man is fundamentally a political animal coming from Aristotle, a social creature, a person born not in the abstract floating in outer space with perfect rights and entitlements, but rather a part of a community.
00:26:48.860 The natural community, the natural society, the fundamental political building block, which is the family, with obligations to our parents, to our siblings, then from there to our community, to our state, to our country.
00:26:59.880 The liberal view, we're all just individuals.
00:27:02.600 We can be whatever we want.
00:27:03.680 We're perfectly autonomous.
00:27:05.220 We even have autonomy over our own biology, over our own selves.
00:27:10.020 If we're men, we want to become women.
00:27:11.940 We can.
00:27:12.460 If we want to murder our children, that's our right.
00:27:15.300 Total individuals.
00:27:16.640 So that's the ideological point.
00:27:17.860 The practical reason the left hates the families, though, is that family is the chief impediment to the left's schemes.
00:27:25.000 This is why the left is constantly trying to take your kids out of the home at younger and younger ages, government-funded pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-K.
00:27:32.840 I think they basically take the kids from the neonatal unit and put them in drag queen story hour at the elementary school library.
00:27:38.960 As a practical matter, we know that families sometimes object to ideologies that are being taught at younger and younger ages.
00:27:49.340 So we say, okay, if your family objects to an ideology, maybe Child Protective Services is going to come in and take your kids away.
00:27:54.740 If your family, if your parents won't affirm your transgender identity, well, maybe CPS is going to have to come in there and take your kids from you.
00:28:03.080 Maybe if the left does succeed at getting the parents to have a divorce, maybe the judges are going to favor the party that is pro-leftist ideology.
00:28:17.080 There's a fight over whether or not to trans a kid.
00:28:19.180 Guess which party is going to win in court?
00:28:20.680 Guess which parent?
00:28:21.260 That's what they're after.
00:28:24.520 So it's no surprise.
00:28:25.580 Of course they don't.
00:28:26.280 They want the libs to cut off their conservative family members.
00:28:29.800 They hate family.
00:28:31.320 This is just an excuse to do it.
00:28:33.300 Now, one last school I'll get to.
00:28:35.700 One last college before we move on.
00:28:38.280 And it has to do with the place that I'm going today.
00:28:40.160 That would be Iowa.
00:28:40.920 I'm heading to the University of Iowa.
00:28:43.200 You should come on by.
00:28:45.000 If you are in the area, Cedar Rapids, come on by.
00:28:49.840 You can get tickets.
00:28:50.520 I think I tweeted out the link.
00:28:51.980 Or I think there might still be tickets.
00:28:53.200 Maybe not.
00:28:53.860 But go check it anyway.
00:28:55.260 I'd be great to see you out there.
00:28:56.980 And worst case, you know, we can do a standing room or they can try to expand the room or something like that.
00:29:00.760 So head on over.
00:29:01.380 I will be heading out immediately after this show today.
00:29:04.600 But in the lead up to my visit, the Iowa Gazette had a whole big feature on what my visit means.
00:29:13.000 And I'll just read from the ex post from the reporter who put out this feature.
00:29:18.040 Days after Trump's historic victory, returning him to the White House, conservative commentator Michael Knowles on Monday will speak at the University of Iowa, inciting pushback from some on campus in the form of vandalism and planned protests.
00:29:34.520 Inciting, hold on, wait, I'm inciting?
00:29:41.840 To incite, I don't have my Oxford English Dictionary in front of me, but to incite is to encourage, to urge on some violent or illegal or otherwise unseemly action.
00:29:56.140 When have I done that?
00:29:59.360 When have I encouraged vandalism?
00:30:03.800 When have I encouraged people to protest me in the form of vandalism or perhaps some other violence?
00:30:10.280 Incite?
00:30:11.660 I've incited vandalism by accepting the invitation of students to give a lecture at a university?
00:30:19.020 What?
00:30:19.480 Really, really wonderful little article here.
00:30:26.140 Pretty long feature about the speech.
00:30:28.560 So anyway, I don't know, maybe they'll update it once I give it.
00:30:33.300 This is what the press does, okay?
00:30:37.440 All of this, I mean, it'll be fun to speak at Iowa tonight, but I don't even mention the story so much for me as for what it says about this election.
00:30:43.780 I'll obviously be talking about the election.
00:30:45.540 It will be a celebratory occasion.
00:30:47.700 The libs are already fired up.
00:30:48.840 They've apparently already vandalized some of the posters advertising my visit.
00:30:53.860 They wrote fascist on one of them.
00:30:56.580 It's too bad.
00:30:56.980 It's a nice little picture, too.
00:30:57.880 And they just covered it up with the word fascist.
00:31:01.260 And the University of Iowa Young Americans for Freedom group has complained about this.
00:31:07.620 You know, the kids aren't really allowed to do this.
00:31:10.320 This is what the press does.
00:31:12.780 They lie.
00:31:13.600 The conservatives are always the bad guys.
00:31:17.260 The left is always the good guys.
00:31:18.680 Even when the left is vandalizing posters, threatening violence, burning down cities, ignoring legitimate conservative needs, denying potentially life-saving assistance to conservatives during natural disasters.
00:31:33.360 It's always somehow that the conservatives are the bad guys and the liberals are the good guys.
00:31:38.480 This, Knowles accepts an invitation to speak, inciting vandalism.
00:31:44.600 It's just another form of the typical leftist formula, which is conservatives pounce.
00:31:52.420 The left engages in some scandal.
00:31:55.140 The left commits some bad act.
00:31:58.020 And then the newspaper headline is about the conservatives reacting to the bad thing that the leftists did.
00:32:04.040 Conservatives pounce on leftist vandalism.
00:32:09.140 Hold on.
00:32:09.580 Wait, what's the story here?
00:32:10.820 Is the story that the left has committed some form of violence or is the story that conservatives object to the left committing some form of violence?
00:32:18.920 Well, the conservatives pounce.
00:32:20.820 The Knowles and Seitz story is an example of the latter.
00:32:26.880 This is, I think, largely why the left lost this election and why Trump won.
00:32:31.840 The press always does this, but this time they couldn't quite get away with it.
00:32:37.480 And they couldn't quite get away with it because of this perfect storm of lies being exposed.
00:32:45.760 In many ways, Kamala lost because of the press.
00:32:48.860 Because the press kept lying.
00:32:50.220 Oh, Biden, he's as sharp as ever.
00:32:53.800 Biden doesn't have a hint of dementia, the establishment media almost uniformly told us for years.
00:32:58.980 Oh, no, the economy, it's all great.
00:33:03.440 Oh, there's no border crisis.
00:33:05.380 Everything's wonderful.
00:33:06.300 Everything's coming up roses.
00:33:08.800 Until Biden is exposed during that debate with Trump and the American people realize they've been lied to by the press, by Kamala, by Biden, but also by the press for years.
00:33:21.020 Ooh, oopsie daisy.
00:33:21.980 Then the press has to flip on a dime.
00:33:23.460 Oh, yeah, we actually need to swap out a Biden for Kamala.
00:33:28.560 Hold on, you just told me Biden's in great shape.
00:33:30.800 How do you, none of you knew this?
00:33:32.200 None of you saw this?
00:33:33.000 Isn't your job to get the facts?
00:33:34.460 Isn't your job to have proximity to power and see what's really going on here?
00:33:42.100 Oh, right, you just lied to us.
00:33:43.440 Then Kamala comes in and she realizes, look, the calculations change now.
00:33:49.200 I don't need to carry water for Biden.
00:33:51.840 I'm a new candidate.
00:33:52.840 So all of a sudden, Kamala can say, you know, look, we're going to go in a new direction.
00:33:56.720 I'm a new generation of leadership.
00:33:58.220 I'm not Joe Biden.
00:33:59.240 I'm not responsible for the Biden record.
00:34:01.100 So then all of a sudden, the press says, okay, well, hold on.
00:34:04.060 Now we're not going to say the Biden record is totally uniformly good.
00:34:06.600 Now we'll admit there are actually a lot of problems with it.
00:34:08.440 And maybe there are some economic problems and maybe there are some migrant problems.
00:34:13.720 And that Kamala is in a really bad shape too, because Kamala has held both sides of every issue.
00:34:19.240 And the press has carried water for her, but carried water on both sides.
00:34:22.780 That exposes her further.
00:34:23.900 And then I think this issue that keeps cropping up, that the left wants to minimize is some trivial issue.
00:34:31.460 But I don't think it is trivial.
00:34:32.600 It's the transgender issue.
00:34:34.780 That's a big one.
00:34:35.800 Because people can see that men and women are different.
00:34:40.260 People can see that a dude is not a little girl.
00:34:42.560 People can see with their own two eyes that there's something disordered about a man stripping down in a public school changing room with a little girl in front of him.
00:34:51.980 They just know that.
00:34:53.100 There are just lies when they're told in such rapid succession with such egregious subject matter, such enormous subject matter, that the lies will expose not just the particular subject, they will expose the liars themselves.
00:35:13.160 I think that's really the issue here.
00:35:15.360 So the media were caught with their pants down in the public school, or in the public school locker room, you know, getting changed where they shouldn't.
00:35:21.360 The media were caught with their pants down.
00:35:23.480 The emperor had no clothes on.
00:35:26.300 And Kamala lost.
00:35:28.020 Great.
00:35:28.540 I love it.
00:35:29.020 Thank you.
00:35:29.380 All in the passive will expressed in Providence, do we see that even bad people doing bad things can be used for good.
00:35:39.680 And we've seen a lot of good in the past week.
00:35:41.960 Now, my favorite comment yesterday is from the drummer's workshop, Norm's Music.
00:35:46.300 It says, all those women in the 4B movement, you know, the movement that says they're going to swear off men forever.
00:35:51.260 Good luck opening jars.
00:35:52.760 Good point.
00:35:54.520 Oh, it's real easy to say you're not going to sleep with men anymore.
00:35:56.920 Real easy to say you're not going to get married or have kids.
00:36:00.480 What happens, though?
00:36:02.040 It's 9 p.m.
00:36:03.900 Passed down the stove.
00:36:06.160 You can't get that ragu top off.
00:36:09.900 What are you going to do?
00:36:10.580 Who are you going to call, huh?
00:36:11.340 Don't call me.
00:36:12.860 Speaking of women and meltdowns, Christina Applegate.
00:36:17.680 She's an actress.
00:36:20.040 Those of us who are old enough to remember will remember Married with Children.
00:36:24.920 Very funny network TV show.
00:36:26.920 Christina Applegate was the daughter in that.
00:36:29.400 She's a huge lib actress.
00:36:32.040 And Christina Applegate posted this.
00:36:34.260 Please unfollow me if you voted against female rights.
00:36:37.740 By which she means killing kids.
00:36:40.800 Please unfollow me if you voted against female rights.
00:36:45.300 Against disability rights.
00:36:47.060 What does that have to do with anything?
00:36:48.140 I have no idea.
00:36:48.800 Yeah, that.
00:36:50.180 Unfollow me.
00:36:51.680 Because what you did is unreal.
00:36:54.480 Don't want followers like this.
00:36:56.360 So, yeah.
00:36:57.320 Done.
00:36:58.620 Also, after today, I will be shutting down this fan account.
00:37:01.980 It's not even my personal account.
00:37:03.100 It's an account for all my fans because I'm really famous.
00:37:05.920 That I've had for so many years.
00:37:07.940 Because this is sick.
00:37:10.420 Hate you.
00:37:11.100 Hate you guys.
00:37:11.700 Why don't you jump off a bridge?
00:37:12.680 She didn't say that.
00:37:13.600 But it's the same.
00:37:15.080 It's the same sentiment.
00:37:16.100 I'm not saying that the majority of people can't do something that's wrong.
00:37:22.520 They can.
00:37:22.860 The majority of people can act in disreputable and even despicable ways.
00:37:29.380 However, if you can't even understand why the majority of people would do something,
00:37:38.360 the problem lies not primarily with the people, but with your understanding.
00:37:43.140 It's a you problem.
00:37:44.000 So, most people voted for Barack Obama.
00:37:47.640 I think Barack Obama was horrible.
00:37:49.280 I think he was a horrible president.
00:37:50.640 I think he obviously hates America and has expressed his hatred of America.
00:37:54.580 For instance, when he said he wanted to fundamentally transform America,
00:37:57.860 you don't want to fundamentally transform things you love.
00:38:00.080 I think he was just awful for this country.
00:38:02.160 And I think it was shameful that the American people fell for his glib, really ugly routine.
00:38:10.060 Okay?
00:38:10.680 But I get why they voted for him.
00:38:12.180 He's a smooth talker.
00:38:15.080 They've been raised in the images and fantasies of liberalism.
00:38:20.160 And he was going to be the first black president, so they'd feel that they had defeated racism.
00:38:24.460 That's why they voted for him.
00:38:25.540 I get it.
00:38:26.040 I think there were lots of flaws in those premises, but I get why people voted for him.
00:38:34.020 Christina Applegate doesn't get why people voted for Trump.
00:38:37.080 She thinks it's because they hate women or something.
00:38:39.360 They hate the disabled.
00:38:40.300 Again, I don't even...
00:38:41.780 At least when they say, if you vote for Trump, you hate women, what they're saying is that women's rights equals murdering babies.
00:38:49.980 A flawed premise, but that's what they think.
00:38:52.600 Disabled...
00:38:53.120 I don't even know what this woman's talking about.
00:38:55.000 She doesn't even know what she's talking about.
00:38:56.720 But this is just my charitable advice.
00:39:02.000 A little bit...
00:39:02.720 For those libs out there who are not going to skip Thanksgiving, who are not going to write off their conservative relatives or tell their Trump voting parents to go jump off a bridge.
00:39:11.540 My advice to you is this.
00:39:14.720 If you can...
00:39:16.540 If you cannot even fathom why someone would vote for Trump, much less why most Americans would vote for Trump, much less why one in five black men would vote for Trump.
00:39:29.100 I thought we were told Trump is racist.
00:39:30.640 Much less why 46%, almost half of Hispanics, both sexes, would vote for Trump.
00:39:37.100 Much less why even young single women are moving more in the Trump camp and why married women voted for Trump.
00:39:43.160 If you can't understand that, maybe it's a you problem.
00:39:49.260 Maybe there's a failure of your intellect and your imagination.
00:39:54.680 Maybe it's a failure of knowledge.
00:39:57.120 You know what I suspect a lot of it comes down to?
00:40:00.300 I suspect a lot of it is you only consume the fake news.
00:40:05.220 You listen to the New York Times.
00:40:07.580 So you're told that President Trump was lying or otherwise wrong when he said that the Biden-Harris administration was discriminating against Trump supporters in disaster relief efforts.
00:40:20.960 However, we now know, we have FEMA has confirmed that actually the Biden-Harris administration did actively discriminate against Trump supporters when providing potentially life-saving disaster relief.
00:40:31.400 If you knew that fact, if all you knew was what the New York Times said, you'd probably be more inclined to vote for Kamala.
00:40:40.320 However, if you knew that fact, if you knew the New York Times was lying to you, if you knew that the Biden-Harris administration was discriminating against Trump supporters in disaster relief, maybe you would be more likely to vote for Trump.
00:40:50.980 If all you knew was the New York Times, that Trump's going to start World War III, you might be more likely to vote for Harris.
00:40:58.360 If you knew the facts, which is that Trump brought relative peace, a greater, more widespread, deeper sort of peace to geopolitics than we've seen maybe in my entire lifetime.
00:41:10.680 Certainly over the last 20 years, you might be more likely to vote for Trump.
00:41:18.500 I think even when you think about the lies that were exposed, how the media was so-called with its pants down, maybe the greatest example of that was the assassination attempt over the summer.
00:41:30.300 Because the media had been saying with a drumbeat consistently for years, Trump is a threat to democracy.
00:41:36.480 Trump is a threat to our republic.
00:41:38.460 Trump is going to lead to violence in the streets.
00:41:41.460 And then a quick, a sudden, last-minute turn of 20 degrees is all that stopped the back of Trump's head from being blown off on stage in Pennsylvania.
00:41:52.040 You say, oh, huh, maybe this guy is not the threat to democracy.
00:41:55.680 Maybe the threats to democracy are actually being waged against this guy when they tried to kick him off the ballots, when they tried to imprison him four times.
00:42:03.340 Huh.
00:42:04.580 Maybe what I thought I thought, what I thought I knew just isn't true.
00:42:09.680 It's that old Reagan line.
00:42:10.880 It's not that the left is ignorant.
00:42:12.340 It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.
00:42:15.720 Maybe that's it.
00:42:16.320 Here's something else.
00:42:17.260 Here's another confounding little fact.
00:42:19.280 You might not have guessed.
00:42:20.020 CNN has reported it.
00:42:21.100 But Trump won the Catholic vote.
00:42:24.520 Trump won the Catholic vote by 18 points.
00:42:26.540 Now, you would think, well, yeah, the Catholic, they're Christian.
00:42:30.960 They tend to be a little more traditional, smells and bells and all that.
00:42:34.640 So, of course, but the Catholic vote had been split, Republicans and Democrats.
00:42:38.360 And really, they've favored Democrats recently.
00:42:42.120 According to the reports, Joe Biden won the Catholic vote last time by five points.
00:42:48.500 Trump wins it by 18 points this time?
00:42:51.120 Whoa.
00:42:51.380 How'd that happen?
00:42:54.080 Well, it might have something to do with Kamala cutting through the BS.
00:42:58.760 The media is saying, no, no, no, it's the left isn't anti-Christian.
00:43:02.900 No, no, no.
00:43:03.460 The left is no.
00:43:04.380 To be a good Christian, actually, you need to vote for abortion and the end of marriage.
00:43:09.320 No, of course.
00:43:09.980 If you're, no.
00:43:10.680 Okay, then Kamala's out there to rally.
00:43:11.940 She said, hey, you Christians who just said Jesus is Lord.
00:43:14.880 Yeah, you're at the wrong rally.
00:43:16.960 Yeah, you need to go to that Trump rally.
00:43:19.000 You're at the wrong rally.
00:43:19.720 We don't do that here.
00:43:20.560 We don't believe that here.
00:43:23.600 On top of that, you would say Joe Biden is at least nominally Catholic.
00:43:26.700 Kamala's not even nominally Catholic.
00:43:28.620 Kamala skipped the Al Smith dinner, the classic event, the Catholic charity dinner that presidential candidates traditionally go to.
00:43:37.740 Also, as the number of self-identifying Christians shrink, which is happening all throughout the West and in America,
00:43:46.280 I think it stands to reason that the proportion of Christians, and in this case, quite specifically Catholics,
00:43:53.580 who take the faith seriously will grow.
00:43:56.900 They're going to get more trad.
00:43:57.960 They're going to get more based.
00:43:59.760 This was Alexei de Tocqueville's prediction in Democracy in America.
00:44:02.540 He said, as religion, as America grows, as it develops, religion is going to trend in one of two ways.
00:44:10.140 Right now, it's this hodgepodge of all sorts of Protestant variations.
00:44:14.960 But Tocqueville says, in probably the best observation about the American polity ever written,
00:44:22.240 he says religion is going to tend in one of two directions.
00:44:24.700 Either the Christians are going to become more Catholic, they're going to become more traditional,
00:44:29.820 they're going to become more high church, but he says they're going to go in the direction of Catholicism,
00:44:34.100 or they're going to give up Christianity altogether.
00:44:37.100 But the ascent of a traditional, conservative, Orthodox Catholic vice president, the person of J.D. Vance,
00:44:43.240 a lot of Catholics around the Trump movement,
00:44:46.000 a lot of Catholics now voting 18 points for Trump, this is a pretty good sign.
00:44:53.500 Meanwhile, this will just have to be a little tease, because we've got to go, I've got to go catch a flight.
00:44:58.520 But meanwhile, there is a rise in religion on university campuses too.
00:45:06.100 Atheist chaplains.
00:45:08.480 People are, they're giving up God, but they don't want to give up their chaplains.
00:45:11.900 We will get into the apparently paradoxical position of the atheist chaplain, but not right now,
00:45:17.840 because I've got to go to Iowa.
00:45:19.160 If you're in Iowa, if you're around Cedar Rapids, I will see you over there tonight.
00:45:23.500 No member block.
00:45:25.220 Maybe I should do my member block from the airplane.
00:45:27.480 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:45:28.160 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:45:29.100 See you later on.