As the Libs are preparing a rhetorical war with their conservative uncles this Thanksgiving, President Trump is preparing a trade war with Mexico until they stop poisoning our country with criminals and fentanyl. Today's guest is Michael Knowles.
00:03:28.320This tariff will remain in effect until such time as drugs, in particular fentanyl, and all illegal aliens stop this invasion of our country.
00:03:35.160Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long-simmering problem.
00:03:45.740This is the only language that gangsters understand.
00:03:48.020This language of, hey, Mexico, you let the cartels control the border, okay, and then the cartels launch an invasion of our country and they poison Americans.
00:03:59.080Okay, we're going to blame you for that.
00:05:54.540If you just get the policy wonk in the room from the Brookings Institution, he says, well, actually, you know, we're considering a lot of 25% tariff.
00:06:01.200But that's not going to make the government of Mexico or China, as Trump is discussing there, shaking their boots.
00:06:08.820But if you get a guy who has a plausible claim to being a maniac and to being vindictive and to being a loose cannon going there and say, we are going to bury you.
00:06:20.380They might believe it just as our adversaries around the world believed it under Trump the last time.
00:06:26.800Now, the other reason this policy matters, one, it's really important to stop the illegal invasion.
00:06:33.400However, it's also a telling policy because it means that Trump is willing to cause economic pain in the short run.
00:06:44.320If President Trump levied a 25% tariff on Mexico or Canada or China, certainly, that would cause massive economic pain in the United States in the short term.
00:06:56.800However, it would cause great economic and political benefit in the long term.
00:07:03.240We are not benefiting from having poison pour across our border, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans.
00:07:09.460We are not benefiting from an invasion of millions of people a year coming in, screwing up our labor market, screwing up our housing market, not assimilating into our culture, causing all sorts of social distress.
00:07:21.700We are not benefiting from that economically, politically, spiritually, or anything.
00:07:25.600So the long-term effects of this open border have been completely disastrous on every level.
00:07:31.080But to fix it, if Trump were really to enact something like a 25% tariff, that would cause economic pain.
00:07:42.620However, in the long run, it would benefit us.
00:07:45.760To say nothing of the fact that as a matter of justice, it is important that a nation have borders and be able to enforce its immigration laws and not be poisoned by foreign criminals.
00:07:55.420You're seeing a similar policy right now in construction.
00:08:00.960So Trump's saying, all right, we're going to close up the border.
00:08:03.840We're going to deport the illegal aliens.
00:08:06.720Construction moguls are whining to liberal media that this is going to hurt them.
00:08:10.900Stan Merrick, construction mogul, and an economic consultant, Ray Perryman, were just whining to NPR that Trump's mass deportation program, quote, would devastate the construction industry.
00:08:24.240Saying, quote, we wouldn't finish our highways.
00:08:27.100It's not remotely practical to round up and deport everyone.
00:08:29.420One, we simply don't have an economic structure that can sustain that.
00:08:33.380There are more undocumented people, undocumented people, using all the liberal language, liberal euphemisms that don't actually describe the problem.
00:08:41.680The problem with those people is not that they lack, they drop their driver's license somewhere.
00:08:47.940They lack working papers from the county clerk.
00:08:50.660The problem with those people is they are foreign nationals who have no right to be in this country, who broke our laws to get here,
00:08:56.640and who are causing all sorts of social disorder and stress on our economy while they are here,
00:09:02.000and who are committing crimes, and who are bringing with them a lot of social pathologies.
00:09:47.660Because big business likes the cheap labor.
00:09:50.400They like creating a class of indentured servants who have been trafficked by criminal cartels from Mexico because it means they can pay lower wages and they can be more productive and bring in more profits.
00:10:03.600Now, that doesn't mean that their observation is false.
00:10:07.080When they say that deporting all the illegal aliens would cause huge economic turmoil, they are 100% right.
00:10:13.400Part of the reason that the politicians have gotten away with the program of mass migration is that Americans are not having kids anymore.
00:10:22.240Now, Americans are not having kids in part because they no longer have economic stability because of things like mass migration, because the labor market has been so upended, because big government has colluded with big businesses.
00:10:34.520Corrupt government has colluded with big businesses, and so it's very difficult to support a family because of things like feminism, which also messed up the labor market.
00:11:56.200First, though, go to preborn.com slash Knowles.
00:11:58.880The fight for life has never been more crucial than it is right now.
00:12:01.860While the Libs fight to expand abortion to make it easier to end the innocent lives, Preborn Ministries is on the front lines fighting back, fighting for life, fighting for truth, fighting for the most vulnerable among us.
00:12:13.340It is fascinating how the same people who cry about following the science totally ignore the scientific reality of fetal development.
00:12:20.340But that is exactly what Preborn's network of clinics reveals through the power of ultrasound technology.
00:12:25.240When a mother sees her baby's heartbeat, when she witnesses that undeniable proof of life, everything changes.
00:12:31.860Preborn's clinics are strategically positioned in areas with the highest abortion rates, offering free ultrasounds and welcoming these women with God's love.
00:15:46.060Liberals in Hollywood have learned nothing.
00:15:47.900Sharon Stone was just complaining to Italians on the film circuit that the reason that Trump won in the elections is that most Americans are idiots.
00:17:30.440Sharon Stone is suggesting that when we're trying to get an example of good government, we look to Italy.
00:17:37.680Italy, which has had something like 50 governments since World War II.
00:17:41.520Italy, which hasn't had a serious, effective ruler since Caesar Augustus.
00:17:46.900Italy is supposed to be our exemplar for good government.
00:17:51.020This is a classic case of liberal projection.
00:17:56.140Everything they say about us applies to them.
00:18:00.240These conservatives are ignorant, and they're arrogant, and they're stupid, and I hate them, and they're unworldly, and they're so arrogant.
00:18:09.640Find me a more shining example of arrogance than Sharon Stone and the leftists in Hollywood.
00:18:36.860The strategy after 2016 was call many Americans idiots and see how that works.
00:18:43.160The strategy after 24 is going to be call most Americans idiots and unworldly, not sufficiently cosmopolitan, arrogant to say that about one in five black guys, half of Hispanics, and almost half, not quite almost half of women, but 40% of women under 30.
00:20:49.980I've only seen the aggression get more and more intense.
00:20:53.320But they realize that, and the New York Times here and I are in total agreement, the transgender ideology was a major issue in this campaign.
00:21:03.420It wasn't always bubbling to the surface.
00:21:05.480It didn't show up in the opinion polls.
00:21:07.560But I promise you, it was a major issue in the campaign because a lot of normal people looked at the, the libs' insistence that you put husky dudes in the girls' changing room at the public pool.
00:21:17.300And they said, oh, the Democrats have lost the common sense.
00:21:20.280So even if I don't care about the weird sex stuff, if, if Democrats think that a man is really a little girl, then the Democrats probably also have impaired judgment on the economy, on immigration, on foreign policy.
00:21:31.420It was just, it showed that the Dems had just lost the plot.
00:21:34.860So the New York Times acknowledges this, admits that those of us who called it were right, at least implicitly, and says, some activists say all or nothing tactics are not working.
00:21:45.180Okay, the problem for the, the Times, and the problem for the trans movement, and the problem for the libs broadly who embrace the trans movement, is this is one of those issues that has to be all or nothing.
00:21:56.680Not every issue has to be all or nothing.
00:21:58.620Not even abortion has to be all or nothing.
00:22:00.880There are incoherent approaches to abortion that are not consistent and are usually immoral.
00:22:05.640But you can say, okay, at this, after this date, we're not going to have abortion.
00:22:09.680Before this date, we'll have abortion.
00:22:10.720With the transgenderism, though, it is, it is pretty much all-encompassing.
00:22:16.680With the transgender issue, because sex is so core to human nature, because sex is so prevalent in our activities all throughout the day, because people have to use the bathroom all throughout the day, because companies have to hire people, because girls have sports leagues,
00:22:38.260because sexual differences at the heart of so much of human nature, you can't go halfway with transgenderism.
00:22:46.640The minute one dude is allowed to go into the women's bathroom, you have totally embraced the transgender ideology.
00:22:52.740And if that dude is not allowed into the women's bathroom, as we're seeing on Capitol Hill now with that guy, Tim McBride, who calls himself Sarah,
00:22:58.600then you have totally rejected the transgender ideology.
00:23:02.780If you embrace it, you've got to trans the kids, because it's about human nature.
00:23:05.420If you don't embrace it, maybe you shouldn't trans adults.
00:23:13.580And the Dems have thrown in their lot with this ideology, which means they've got to take it all the way, which means they're going to lose elections.
00:24:43.120You will go to jail for opposing federal immigration authorities.
00:24:46.700Now, speaking of libs not changing, Gavin Newsom over there in California, Gomorrah-by-the-Sea, has proposed to counter President Trump's proposal to get rid of the electric vehicle rebate.
00:25:02.540Right now, the federal government subsidizes electric vehicles.
00:25:05.700President Trump says he's going to get rid of that.
00:25:20.940Gavin Newsom in California, to counter-signal Trump and probably to set himself up for 2028 to be the Democrat nominee, he says, we are going to offer electric vehicle rebates in California, except on Teslas.
00:25:33.760We're not going to offer rebates for Tesla's.
00:25:36.100The most prominent electric vehicle in the world, we're not going to offer rebates.
00:25:42.280And the only electric vehicle produced in California, produced in our own state, we're not going to offer those rebates.
00:25:49.520But if you make electric vehicles somewhere else and they're much less popular, we, the government of California, thanks to the taxpayers of California, will pay you for that.
00:26:21.760The purpose is to help protect the environment.
00:26:23.900Okay, you're going to protect the environment by giving away taxpayer money to buy electric vehicles, to encourage people to buy electric vehicles.
00:26:33.780But you won't help them to buy the electric vehicle that everyone wants, the one that they are most inclined to support.
00:27:49.120I'm very pleased to nominate Jim O'Neill to serve as the Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services to work alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:27:55.520He will oversee all operations and improve management, transparency, and accountability to make America healthy again.
00:28:01.520I have known Jim O'Neill for many years.
00:28:06.000For those who are not friends with Jim and don't know him personally, he co-founded the Teal Fellowship with Peter Teal.
00:28:13.760The Teal Fellowship is a fellowship that gave $100,000 to university students to drop out of college and to go start businesses and to go pursue unconventional education.
00:28:25.760As President Trump points out in his press release about Jim, this has led to lots of entrepreneurship, lots of great scientific research.
00:28:34.180On the matter of scientific research, Jim has been CEO of the SENS Research Foundation, cutting edge of really impressive scientific research.
00:28:45.820So I know a lot of the Trump picks that are getting the media attention are the superstars, guys like Bobby Kennedy or Tulsi Gabbard or Pete Hegseth, guys who are on TV a lot, who have just attracted a lot of the limelight.
00:28:58.460Just a reminder that a lot of the people that you have not heard of, maybe, or a lot of the people that you, in any case, don't pay a lot of attention to, are extremely qualified, impressive picks.
00:29:14.540Just a great, great pick by President Trump.
00:29:18.440Now, speaking of President Trump shaking Washington, President Trump plans to fire the Department of Justice attorneys who worked on cases against him.
00:29:27.740And this is the big scoop from the Washington Post.
00:29:31.020According to the Post, multiple sources close to the Trump transition team indicated that those who will be fired include career attorneys, who are often not fired when a new administration takes over, and that this is going to be a clearing out of the DOJ.
00:29:47.800Furthermore, Washington Post says that Trump wants to create investigative teams within the department to look for evidence of fraud in the 2020 election that may have happened in the battleground states.
00:29:58.260Yeah, wow, great work, you crack journalism team.
00:30:01.580This is why they're going to lose their seat in the White House briefing room.
00:30:03.780I don't know if they're going to lose their seat, but it's why maybe they should.
00:30:07.160Yeah, of course Trump is going to fire the crooked DOJ attorneys who worked on cases against him, not just because of petty personal grievance, but because of public policy, because of the common good.
00:30:18.140But these attorneys upended centuries of American legal precedent up until the past few years.
00:30:26.880We did not prosecute former presidents in this country.
00:30:29.920We were not a banana republic tin pot dictatorship.
00:30:32.300But the libs hated Trump so much, they were so afraid that the people were going to reelect Donald Trump, that they tried to throw the guy in jail.
00:30:38.480And they turned us into a degraded and debased country akin to some banana republic.
00:30:57.480That's why people elected Trump and Trump might even investigate potential voter fraud in the election before six weeks before which the Democrats changed all the rules in some cases in unconstitutional ways, in ways that opened the election up to a far greater possibility of fraud.
00:31:55.080This out of France, a Muslim schoolgirl accused her teacher of Islamophobia, said that her teacher sent Muslim students out of the room and then showed images of Mohammed, which is which is banned in Islam.
00:32:57.060Now, Islamophobia is a term that was popularized after 9-11 because after 9-11, the liberals were far more concerned with the potential backlash against supposedly peaceful Muslims than they were over the 3,000 Americans who were killed in the attack on the Twin Towers and on the Pentagon.
00:36:17.200So I'm wondering if there are any ladies of marriageable age in the audience who might live in my area who might be interested in going on a date with me sometime.
00:36:26.620If there are any that are interested, please, I guess, send in a voicemail bag response, and we'll see if we can work something out then.
00:36:38.360Thank you, Michael, and Ben, and Jacob, and Markella, for giving me this opportunity.
00:37:16.820Well, ladies, I'm not going to feature your—I don't think I'm going to feature your responses to this classifieds ad, this personals ad, rather, on the show.
00:37:25.200But, you know, anyway, if you're interested in a tall guy with, obviously, with his political priorities in order, if he's a regular member of this show, if you're in south Milwaukee, you know, I guess go hit him up.
00:37:46.360I plan on trying to start my own political podcast in the coming year with a hopeful start date of January 6th.
00:37:57.440And I was wondering if you had any advice on what I should do as I'm trying to try this out and start it off, and particularly what I can do to be successful, build an audience, and things like that.
00:38:12.020Um, I've already decided my focus is going to be on discussing the ideological and philosophical roots of conservatism and how that relates to what people can do on the ground so that they can be more active and engaged with affecting change with or without government and also affect the change of government more proactively.
00:38:36.380Um, any advice you have would be most helpful.
00:38:40.780Really great question, and I'm going to give you my advice bluntly and in the most encouraging way possible, even though it's going to sound discouraging.
00:41:13.560First, I just wanted to quickly thank you for being one of the best influences I stumbled across while holed up during coronavirus.
00:41:19.020Now, I had an interesting point that I thought you might want to tell Matt Walsh next time you guys talk about aliens.
00:41:23.880So I'm a Christian and I hate the idea of aliens.
00:41:26.340And honestly, it annoys me every time I hear Walsh bring up aliens, though it's really hard to tell if he's being sarcastic.
00:41:31.500And there is a really solid religious point that I think refutes aliens and should lead every Christian to think so.
00:41:36.740So Mother Mary is the mother of God, of course, but the idea of other physical life forms in our universe suggests their need for an incarnation of God for their race as well, because sin pervades all of creation now.
00:41:46.740A lot of Christians might think this is a perfectly conceivable option, that is, for God the Son to become incarnate for each race.
00:41:52.320But then this would suggest a need for a mother of God on each rational life-bearing planet.
00:41:57.900And it seems to me an unreconcilable issue to suggest multiple mothers of God.
00:42:03.180And it feels sacrilegious to our Blessed Mother and her specific uniqueness.
00:42:12.260And I've heard sometimes people say, well, I don't, people who don't like Mary sufficiently or who think that honoring the mother of God is somehow idolatrous or blasphemous or something, which is crazy.
00:42:24.320But I understand how people sometimes go down that path.
00:42:26.980They'll say, I don't even call Mary the mother of God.
00:43:20.160Big fan of the show, and I want to thank you for everything you do.
00:43:23.560Now, I'm a teenager, and I've recently been under the impression that we tend to be an ignored part of society.
00:43:31.360Not entirely, but a lot of the teenagers and younger people who are trying to speak out about important things just can't get their voice out there because of their age and also because they're not being represented by people who already have platforms.
00:43:45.900So my question is, what do you think the Daily Wire or you would do to support younger voices in conservative media, in the arts?
00:43:58.020And if there isn't really anything you have to answer that, what are other resources I could use?
00:44:03.560I've been writing things, self-publishing things, putting things on Instagram for quite a while, and just can't seem to gain traction.
00:44:15.900Well, this is related to the second question, which is how do I become a political media person?
00:44:21.740And you have gotten the point that it's not, I'm not going to launch a radio show, or I'm not going to launch a podcast even.
00:44:27.700I'm going to try to work through Instagram, or I'm trying to work through these new media channels that are maybe a little bit subtler and a little easier to get into.
00:44:36.620But to your point of young voices being ignored, young voices are ignored because they are by definition ignorant.
00:44:43.220I don't mean this with any condescension whatsoever.
00:44:47.160And I am still ignorant, and there are people who are older and wiser than me from whom I can learn.
00:44:52.740When I was a teenager, I was involved in politics in a somewhat public way.
00:44:57.000But I'm really glad I didn't have a show when I was 19 because I believed a bunch of things that weren't true and really weren't persuasive.
00:45:03.280I didn't fully know what I thought yet.
00:45:05.380So if I were a teenager in politics, I think you're doing the right thing, listening to shows like this one, thank you, and reading books and really figuring out what you think.
00:45:15.020Because you want to be ready to go when you are going to launch yourself, when you really have something that you have to say.
00:45:22.460Even the point you make in the question, you say, I have so much to say, but I don't know where to say it.
00:45:45.220I think you're exactly where you need to be.
00:45:47.500And then you can be testing out these things on Instagram.
00:45:49.380But I would say, don't be in a rush to get famous.
00:45:54.080It's nice to have notoriety if you have something that you think is worthwhile to say and you can persuade people and you can really do something.