The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1635 - Libs SIMP Over CEO Assassin

00:00:00.000 Now that the election's over, the liberal media are admitting that under the Biden-Harris

00:00:04.340 administration, pretty much everything has gotten worse, historically worse.

00:00:10.100 Does it count as honest journalism if they tell the truth when the facts no longer matter?

00:00:16.620 Hmm. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. As the libs jump up and down with joy over the murder of that United 0.99

00:00:42.680 Healthcare CEO, one liberal pundit, Joy Reid, is flipping the script. She says that conservatism

00:00:49.120 justifies violence. We'll get to that in a moment. First, though, folks, stop the car,

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00:02:03.340 Little bit of Christmas cheer coming in early. Jill Biden had this to say about the season at the

00:02:12.020 White House. So, I hope that you all feel that sense of, you know, peace and light and that just

00:02:21.100 for a moment when you leave here today that you feel, I don't know, a little, a sense of joy because

00:02:27.420 I think we all need like this, you know, we all need to feel joy now during this, this time of the

00:02:33.840 season, during, just during this time. So, anyway. Okay, now I'll start. You're all reading into that.

00:02:44.100 Oh, man. Hell hath no fury like the wife of a husband scorned. You cannot convince me that

00:02:54.560 Jill Biden did not vote for Donald Trump. That, to me, that seals the deal. That little joy

00:03:00.320 comedy bit she just did, that little comedy routine, that is 100% proof that Jill Biden not 0.94

00:03:08.480 only didn't vote for Kamala, I think the woman voted for Trump. Jill Biden is quickly becoming 0.96

00:03:13.600 one of my favorite figures in American public life. I didn't see that one coming.

00:03:17.760 But notice the setup here because Jill Biden's not really a politician and she's certainly not a 1.00

00:03:22.760 comedian. So, she's a little awkward in her setup of what was obviously a comedy bit that was pointed 0.97

00:03:29.860 at Kamala who made joy the initial motto of her campaign. She comes out there, she goes,

00:03:37.280 this season, we all need to feel peace. We all need to feel comfort or whatever she said. I wasn't

00:03:43.820 even paying attention. You know, there was the one, two, it's the rule of three. It's the one,

00:03:47.620 two, and we need to feel this. And we need to feel, she has this theatrical pause. I don't know,

00:03:52.540 just maybe a little bit of joy. Are we all feeling a little joy since the election? Kamala?

00:04:02.820 Oh, wait. And then she even admits, she acknowledges the shade she is casting at Kamala

00:04:09.940 when she looks with that mug on her face. She looks over there at the reporter. She says,

00:04:16.220 oh, you're all reading a little bit into that, aren't you? That joy comment. How do you like

00:04:22.320 that joy, Kamala? A lot of people suspected that maybe Jill Biden didn't like Kamala Harris so much 1.00

00:04:28.740 after Kamala Harris led a coup d'etat to throw Jill's husband off the top of the ticket, 1.00

00:04:33.860 booed him out of his second term. I guess it would have been Jill's second term. 0.99

00:04:36.420 But then I think a lot of people got the sense that maybe this woman is voting for Trump

00:04:40.940 when she wore a red dress on election day. Seemed pretty intentional. Then you have all these

00:04:47.740 pictures of late with Trump visiting the White House and Jill looking at him like this man is

00:04:52.760 her hero. She is just fawning over this guy. And then that final line, you know, ever since the

00:04:56.860 election and this season happens to follow immediately after the election, I'm just feeling

00:05:01.080 a little bit of joy. Love her. She's great. Jill has really done a 180 in my book. I am now very,

00:05:09.600 very pro-Dr. Jill. I hope you are too. Why wouldn't Jill be feeling joy at the election of

00:05:16.280 Donald Trump? A lot of, look, most Americans voted for Trump. Most Americans voted for Trump.

00:05:22.220 A huge number of people across all different demographics voted for Trump. He won an electoral

00:05:26.360 college landslide. Why is that? Because things under the Biden administration have gotten much,

00:05:32.400 much worse. The liberal media would not admit that before the election. Now that the election

00:05:37.140 is over, now they're all admitting it. Here's a CBS News headline. Just came out yesterday.

00:05:42.780 CBS News. Americans are paying more than ever for health insurance. Denials add to their pain.

00:05:49.540 Now this isn't not possible. You and I both know this headline. It can't possibly be true

00:05:55.820 because Barack Obama promised us that when he passed his Obamacare health care plan,

00:06:01.700 the Affordable Care Act, that was going to bring down the prices for health insurance. That was

00:06:07.060 going to solve our health care problem once and for all. Do you, I'm not going crazy, right? You

00:06:11.980 remember when he told us this. Over the next 10 years, from 2010 to 2019, they are pledging to cut

00:06:21.240 the rate of growth of national health care spending by 1.5 percentage points each year,

00:06:28.920 an amount that's equal to over $2 trillion. $2 trillion. Their efforts will help us take the next

00:06:38.660 and most important step, comprehensive health care reform, so that we can do what I pledge

00:06:44.380 to do as a candidate and save a typical family an average of $2,500 on their health care costs

00:06:51.060 in the coming years. Let me repeat that point. What they're doing is complementary to and is going

00:06:57.340 to be completely compatible with a strong, aggressive effort to move health care reform through here

00:07:04.320 in Washington with an ultimate result of saving health care costs for families, businesses,

00:07:10.040 and the government. That's how we can finally make health care affordable.

00:07:16.280 Just in case you forgot, so private health care is going to cut the rate of growth and then the

00:07:20.260 government's going to come in and it's actually going to cut costs. So the average American is going

00:07:23.880 to save $2,500, except, well, hold on, CBS News is now admitting that Americans are paying more for

00:07:30.040 health insurance than ever before. And we even gave Obama a little buffer here. He said this would

00:07:36.160 all happen within 10 years. We gave him 15 years. Maybe that's what happened though. Maybe did they

00:07:40.880 go down after 10 years and they spiked up again to the highest levels ever? No. Actually, the costs

00:07:47.820 of health insurance just skyrocketed because of the Democrat policies. Joe Biden actually came out

00:07:54.080 during the Obamacare signing. He said, this is a big effing deal. And it ended up being a huge deal.

00:08:00.160 Because the opposite of what the Democrats promised has happened, health care costs went through the

00:08:05.700 roof. Now, why else is CBS posting this now? Because CBS is justifying or at least laying the

00:08:13.900 groundwork for others to justify the assassination of that UnitedHealthcare CEO. The UnitedHealthcare

00:08:19.160 CEO comes out and then all of a sudden CBS says, well, you know, people are really irritated. There are a

00:08:23.980 lot of denials of coverage and the costs are going through the roof. It turns out Obama and the

00:08:28.500 Democrats totally lied to us. OK, well, the libs are reacting to this by cheering on the murder of

00:08:34.560 the health care CEO and booing the arrest of his murderer. This from Jon Stewart.

00:08:40.620 I was like, couldn't have been that guy today. They did appear to catch that guy today at a

00:08:46.500 McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It's true. Look, I'm sorry, guys. Apparently, a bystander at the

00:08:55.040 McDonald's ratted him out. And normally I would say snitches get stitches. But obviously without

00:09:01.340 pre-approval, there's really.

00:09:02.800 Several amazing parts of this clip, three distinct, amazing parts of this clip. One,

00:09:13.420 they say the murderer got caught and you hear the audience, multiple people in the audience

00:09:17.220 booing. Jon Stewart's very liberal, uniformly liberal audience boo. They caught the murderer

00:09:23.220 of that health care CEO. Second amazing part of that clip, Jon Stewart's punchline is that

00:09:28.780 health insurance companies are terrible. The punchline wasn't anything about how it's wrong

00:09:32.820 to commit murder. The punchline wasn't anything even really about the murderer. The punchline was,

00:09:36.480 yeah, don't we hate those health care companies? You don't get your pre-approval. And then the

00:09:41.140 third amazing part ties in with what we were talking about with Obamacare, which is Barack Obama gets

00:09:45.340 elected, promises to fix the health care problem once and for all. And Jon Stewart is making the same

00:09:51.720 jokes today in the year of our Lord, 2024, as he would have been making in 2007. You had three

00:09:59.400 Democrat terms over that time. You had Obamacare go through. You had the Supreme Court implausibly

00:10:04.780 uphold Obamacare. You had Republicans, thanks to John McCain, unable to repeal Obamacare. You've had

00:10:10.940 Barack Obama's health care plan since he passed it in his first term. And Jon Stewart's making the exact

00:10:16.640 same jokes. Yeah, you need pre-approval. Yeah, the prices are going up. Yeah, you're going to be

00:10:20.840 denied coverage. Yeah, this health care system's terrible. Then why did we pass you stupid Obamacare 0.96

00:10:24.720 that shot the prices up through the roof? What was the point of it? It got us nothing. It only made 1.00

00:10:29.000 the problem worse. Three amazing parts of that clip. Jon Stewart wasn't the only one, though. We also had

00:10:34.400 Jimmy Kimmel and even Elizabeth Warren seeming to justify the murder of that health care CEO.

00:10:40.640 Oh, cool parrot. Does he talk?

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00:10:45.760 What? You'll see. Earn five times the points on groceries, dining, recurring bill payments and

00:10:50.560 more. Okay. Earn points for paying your credit card bill on time every month. Where'd this parrot

00:10:55.120 even come from? Just flew in the window. I mean, like, from where? The zoo? The bank, I think. He's got

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00:11:10.660 You have the clapping seals in Jon Stewart's audience guffawing at the murder of the CEO.

00:11:15.760 How about Jimmy Kimmel's audience?

00:11:18.560 What is going on? There are dozens of products for sale on Etsy with his face on them. There are

00:11:26.200 lookalike contests. There's Luigi Mangione crypto. People are making fan cams. Do you know what these

00:11:32.960 are? These are, again, I learned about this thing. These are tribute montages like this.

00:11:37.300 I'm taking a chance because I like you a lot. So I'll give it a shot. Give it all that I got.

00:11:43.520 There's this whole segment about, man, how good looking is this murderer? Yeah, people love him.

00:11:48.300 They're buying all sorts of merch from him and the audience laughing, clapping. So you say, okay,

00:11:52.380 well, comedians are making jokes about it. But are there any sober, serious liberals, maybe even

00:11:56.940 elected liberal politicians, maybe even major national statesmen who are justifying this sort of thing?

00:12:02.240 And the answer is yes. Former Harvard professor, current United States senator,

00:12:08.820 former presidential candidate, as establishment dem as it gets, Elizabeth Warren. Here's what she 0.71

00:12:13.720 had to say to Joy Reid. Joy Reid, interviewing her, says, so we've been talking a lot about this

00:12:18.720 Luigi Mangione, the case about the UnitedHealthcare CEO. People are very angry at UnitedHealthcare,

00:12:24.840 I think, for a good reason, denying care and the whole system. So Joy Reid says, yeah,

00:12:28.480 people are angry. Yeah. Basically, yeah, it's justified to murder the CEO. Elizabeth Warren, 0.96

00:12:34.200 who is supposed to be a more normal person than Joy Reid, who's a complete lunatic, 1.00

00:12:39.080 she says, look, we'll say it over and over. Maybe, should I do an Indian accent for Elizabeth 0.97

00:12:44.320 Warren? Oh, yes. Well, great spirit says, no, no, no. Here's what she said. Look, we'll say it over

00:12:49.120 and over. Violence is never the answer. This guy gets a trial, who's allegedly killed the CEO of

00:12:55.100 UnitedHealthcare. But, here we go, here's a but. Violence is never the answer. No, I'll get a trial.

00:13:01.220 But, you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands.

00:13:10.180 And Joy Reid responds, they start to take, yeah. And then Warren said, we need regulation,

00:13:14.700 in part, to rein those guys in. Those guys, the CEOs of the health, you don't, look,

00:13:19.240 violence is never justified. That's also not true. Violence in self-defense is justified.

00:13:23.280 Violence in a just war is justified. Violence on the part of the civil authority, 0.71

00:13:27.620 for instance, to imprison or execute murderers, that's justified. Murdering someone in cold blood,

00:13:33.760 that is not justified. That's never justified. And yet, what she seems to say here is, look,

00:13:39.420 violence is never justified, but maybe this murder in cold blood of the CEO, maybe that is.

00:13:45.200 I told you yesterday, there was a major journalist from a major outlet, a liberal outlet,

00:13:52.660 who texted me, said, why are the libs getting the blame for celebrating the murder of this

00:13:57.540 healthcare CEO? And I said, I think it's because of Taylor Lorenz, the wacky liberal influencer

00:14:03.460 journalist. But it's actually not just Taylor Lorenz. Over the past 24 hours, you're seeing it's

00:14:09.380 the audience from Jon Stewart, the audience for Jimmy Kimmel, a ton of people on social media,

00:14:13.440 but even people like Joy Reid, okay? And then Elizabeth Warren, even a sitting U.S. Senator,

00:14:18.880 they are substantially justifying this murder. Even when they say they're not justifying it,

00:14:25.460 in their words, in their logic, they are. Why are they doing that? Why are you seeing the libs

00:14:31.140 celebrate the murder of the healthcare CEO, but not the conservatives? Is it because conservatives love

00:14:34.960 health insurance companies? No. We don't like health insurance companies anymore. I mean,

00:14:38.520 we appreciate that there is such a thing as health insurance, but we have all the same problems with

00:14:42.500 the healthcare system that the libs do. The reason is that the libs, in their ideology,

00:14:49.480 take up a consequentialist view of ethics that says that the ends justify the means.

00:14:54.760 They've done this for a very long time. The libs will say that perhaps even acts that we would say

00:15:01.120 are intrinsically evil can be justified if they give us a good end. Conservatives don't really think that

00:15:05.800 way. Libs are more comfortable with political violence. They do it during BLM. They support

00:15:13.080 Antifa. I'm not just talking about the fringe weirdos. I'm saying established people in professors,

00:15:18.220 in professor chairs, in the U.S. government. They will not only defend, they will sometimes even

00:15:25.300 financially support violent groups that commit street violence in service of political ends.

00:15:32.720 We once called that terrorism. In the case of BLM, in the case of Antifa, in the case of a guy

00:15:38.380 murdering a healthcare CEO, they just do that. They're comfortable with that. Conservatives really

00:15:42.500 are not. The rowdiest we get is some guy puts on a horn hat and takes selfies at the U.S. Capitol.

00:15:48.120 No comparison there. So Joy Reid comes right out, not even just in her interview with Elizabeth

00:15:54.340 Warren. She just comes right out and says that, look, stop talking about the liberals. Stop

00:16:01.500 talking about this UnitedHealthcare CEO. Conservatives are the violent ones. In fact, 0.93

00:16:05.660 conservatism itself calls for violence. Because the truth is, those on the right don't necessarily

00:16:13.000 abhor violence if it's against someone they don't like, like Black Lives Matter activists or pro-Palestinian

00:16:18.500 protesters, undocumented immigrants or the homeless. That's why we see them get behind people like 1.00

00:16:23.400 Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two BLM protesters, or George Zimmerman, who shot and killed

00:16:28.280 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and turned them into cause celebs. Just look at how, in nearly the same

00:16:34.360 breath, Fox's Laura Ingraham speaks about the 26-year-old UnitedHealthcare suspect and Daniel

00:16:40.360 Penny, who was just acquitted yesterday in the subway chokehold death of 30-year-old homeless man

00:16:46.400 Jordan Neely.

00:16:47.240 Did you notice anything about all the examples she cited? So in this case, Joy Reid is saying, look,

00:16:55.640 some people on the left are celebrating the murder in cold blood of the CEO of a health insurance

00:17:00.100 company. But conservatives will defend Kyle Rittenhouse or George Zimmerman or Daniel Penny.

00:17:08.480 What do those three guys have in common? In all three cases, even including George Zimmerman,

00:17:13.360 in all three cases, those men killed someone in self-defense. The case of Kyle Rittenhouse,

00:17:21.660 he was being shot at by violent terrorist people, and he responded in self-defense. He was out there

00:17:31.360 to defend his community. But then when he shot those people, he was defending himself. George Zimmerman,

00:17:37.220 much maligned because he got out of the car and followed this young man around a neighborhood.

00:17:41.760 But when George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin, he did so in self-defense. We have photographs

00:17:46.560 from when he was booked of his head all bloodied up. I mean, Trayvon Martin was banging this guy's

00:17:51.840 head into the ground. He could have killed him. Daniel Penny, the clearest example now, a career 0.65

00:17:57.440 criminal, not just a homeless man, a career criminal with a rap sheet a mile long who had busted up an

00:18:02.160 elderly woman's face and smacked another elderly guy's face and had been arrested something like 42 times, 1.00

00:18:07.580 gets on a subway, says, I'm going to kill all of you. I'm going to hurt you. I don't care. 1.00

00:18:10.440 I don't care about going to jail. Daniel Penny then subdues him, and the man who was also high

00:18:15.520 on drugs dies in the process. That is self-defense. So Joy Reid says, look,

00:18:21.740 stop talking about the leftists who support unjustified murder because the conservatives

00:18:30.460 sometimes have to commit violence in self-defense. So those two things are basically the same.

00:18:35.240 They don't really seem like the same thing to me. So a lot of the libs have lost it.

00:18:41.220 Some Democrats are trying to suck up to Republicans right now. Some Democrats

00:18:44.960 are trying to seem moderate and to be able to work with the new administration because the

00:18:48.820 Democrats, because the Republicans rather, have unified government. That would be someone like

00:18:53.000 Senate Majority Leader, Senate Majority Whip in leadership, Dick Durbin, who is trying to

00:18:59.880 communicate to Trump and the Republicans, that even as they consider mass deportations,

00:19:04.240 the dreamers, you know, the sweet little dreamers, they deserve amnesty and citizenship.

00:19:11.160 Donald Trump said on Sunday he would work with Democrats to allow dreamers to stay

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00:19:22.020 ultimately. Do you think you can realistically get a deal done with Trump on dreamers? And what could

00:19:27.460 that look like? Based on what he said last Sunday, I do believe that. I was sitting on the couch kind

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00:19:36.800 sat up straight. And he said he was ready to talk. He wanted to see if we could find an agreement

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00:22:00.620 even amid the mass deportations? Dick Durbin, Senate Majority Whip, he says yes, at least the dreamers need 1.00

00:22:06.760 to stay. Who are the dreamers? Dreamers, obviously, is a euphemism and a term of propaganda designed to

00:22:16.060 tug on your heartstrings and make you give the Democrats whatever they want. Dream. What's

00:22:20.060 a dreamer? I'm a dreamer. I have dreams sometimes. Do I, I don't count as a dreamer? It's, dreamer

00:22:26.080 is an even more ridiculous euphemism than undocumented American. Whatever you want to say about illegal 0.97

00:22:30.580 aliens, they ain't Americans. Undocumented American. The distinguishing feature of them is not that they 1.00

00:22:35.600 lack documents. It's that they're here illegally. And then they're dreamers. And the other, the other 0.99

00:22:41.280 aspect of the dreamer euphemism is it makes us imagine a five-year-old who was brought over here

00:22:46.240 and it's just this doe-eyed little child in kindergarten. The dreamers are like 50 now.

00:22:50.680 Okay. The dreamers are, are middle-aged people, sometimes approaching later middle age.

00:22:56.560 Okay. Okay. The dreamers. But you might say, okay, they, they came over when they were young.

00:23:03.420 They didn't really have much to say about it. Shouldn't we just let them all stay? Here's a

00:23:07.820 problem. There are 535,000 DACA recipients in the U.S., the so-called dreamers, people who have

00:23:14.900 officially been given an unconstitutional amnesty and promise by Barack Obama after Obama said he

00:23:21.240 wouldn't do it after Obama admitted that what he eventually did do was unconstitutional. 535,000.

00:23:28.200 Okay. Look, that's a lot of people, over half a million, but you might say it's a country of 320

00:23:32.760 million people, 330 million people. Maybe we can absorb it. Problem is there are as many as 3.6

00:23:39.120 million eligible dreamers because this, this dreamer nonsense has gone on for decades now.

00:23:44.860 3.6 million people. You're talking about 30% of all the illegal aliens in the country, 40% of all

00:23:51.220 the illegal aliens in the country. How do you, if, if the American people have just voted and said, 0.84

00:23:57.060 hey, people are here illegally, they got to go. They can apply to come back legally, but you can't, 1.00

00:24:02.080 you can't just give them amnesty. One, it's going to give Democrats a permanent electoral majority.

00:24:06.460 That's the only reason the Democrats want it. Two, it's a basic violation of our law. Three,

00:24:11.620 it's going to create incentives for more of those illegals to come over. So it's only going to 0.98

00:24:15.360 exacerbate the problem at the border, which is going to further undermine American sovereignty.

00:24:19.540 And it's going to be worse for the illegal aliens who are crossing with the help of criminal cartels.

00:24:25.380 60 to 80% of women and girls who cross that border illegally are raped along the way. They all go 1.00

00:24:30.040 into massive debt to some of the worst gangster criminals on earth. It's just horrible. There's,

00:24:34.780 you can't do it. It's totally irresponsible and cruel to give these people, millions of people,

00:24:41.740 amnesty and create this perverse incentive. So what could you do? Ideally, I'll tell you, 0.55

00:24:48.380 I'll tell you what I would do. This is going to be a messy political solution and it's not going to

00:24:52.600 make anybody happy, but sometimes that's how you got to work in politics. Sometimes you have to

00:24:57.400 recognize that prudence is a wonderful mean between extremes and it's a virtue and it's the paramount

00:25:04.980 political virtue. If I had my druthers, if I were king, I would probably let a lot of these people

00:25:10.500 live here. Not the, not the really bad criminals, but I would let a lot of these people who were brought 1.00

00:25:15.880 here as kids. I would probably let them live here. I would not give them any chance at citizenship. 1.00

00:25:20.740 I would not give them any legal status if they wanted to leave and go back to their countries 1.00

00:25:25.620 that they actually hold citizenship in all the better. But if they do want to continue to live 1.00

00:25:30.980 here, I would have a conciliatory middle ground solution. I would do the thing that the Democrats

00:25:35.240 always suggest with bewilderment and befuddlement. They say, would you just let these people live in

00:25:40.560 the shadows? Yeah, I guess so. I guess that between the mass deportation of people who really,

00:25:48.000 they basically abide by the law. They didn't consciously break any laws when they came here

00:25:51.840 because they came here as kids, even if it was decades ago. Yeah, I guess I'd just let them live

00:25:55.560 in the shadows if that's what they want. So long as they're not really disrupting too much.

00:25:59.860 For many of them, I guess I would do that. I certainly wouldn't give them citizenship. You can't do 1.00

00:26:03.360 that. I wouldn't give them any legal status. It's unconstitutional. It's wrong. It creates bad.

00:26:09.000 But yeah, sure, I guess. I guess as a middle ground, conciliatory, moderate option,

00:26:13.740 I'd let them live in the shadows. Here's why that won't work.

00:26:18.100 The moment that Democrats come back into power, even if they just get the White House,

00:26:24.720 but certainly if they have unified government, they'll give them amnesty and they'll make them

00:26:29.380 into American citizens. They will probably permanently screw up the border problem

00:26:32.780 and they will create what might be a permanent electoral majority. You just can't.

00:26:38.820 The Democrats won't allow you to do the nice, prudent, moderate thing.

00:26:45.480 It's not. They won't allow it. It's only a matter of time before Democrats make them citizens.

00:26:50.440 So you have to enforce the law. Generally, it's good to enforce the law, even if you were willing

00:26:56.160 to kind of bend the law or have some mercy or exercise a type of a pardon. The Democrats won't

00:27:01.960 let you do it. You can't let the dreamers stay. To let the dreamers stay is to say we're going to

00:27:07.620 give mass amnesty to many, if not most, illegal aliens in the country. It's to totally undercut, 0.50

00:27:14.560 to do the opposite of what the American people sent the Republicans to Washington with a unified

00:27:19.760 government to do. It cannot be done. And the immigration problem is really, really bad right 1.00

00:27:24.900 now, as even the New York Times admits. New York Times put up a graph showing that we now have an

00:27:30.560 historic immigration problem. A historic boom in immigration, writes the Times. Average annual

00:27:37.180 change in the foreign-born population as a share of the total U.S. population, it's just skyrocketed.

00:27:43.800 We're just so high. We have the highest foreign-born percentage of the population ever.

00:27:49.980 The Times writes, the immigration surge of the last few years has been the largest in U.S. history.

00:27:54.880 Total net migration during the Biden administration is likely to exceed 8 million people. That includes

00:28:01.500 legal and illegals. According to this report by David Landhart, he runs The Morning, the flagship

00:28:10.500 daily newsletter for the New York Times. 60% of that surge has been illegal aliens. So the vast

00:28:15.560 majority, illegal aliens. I'm glad the New York Times is reporting on some news. Where was this 0.98

00:28:21.020 article a month and a half ago? After the election, we, oh yeah, Biden has had the worst immigration

00:28:26.780 policy ever, just even including legal immigration. This is an historic extreme, but it's also 60% of

00:28:33.600 it's illegal, and it's 8 million people, and it's really crazy. Where was that article before the

00:28:38.080 election? This is why people call these media fake news. And this is why outlets like the New York

00:28:46.660 Times probably should lose their seat in the White House briefing room. It's not even that they can't 1.00

00:28:51.600 collect the facts. In a way, it would be more excusable if they just couldn't do their jobs. They

00:28:56.080 couldn't collect the facts. They couldn't report on the news. They can, and they choose not to. Or they

00:29:02.680 choose only to report on the news when it will have a minimal political effect on Democrats,

00:29:09.160 a negative effect. They choose only to report on it after the election. They choose to order their

00:29:14.540 stories in ways to advance the agenda of Democrats and to attack Republicans. It's so, this is what

00:29:21.600 makes them the fake news. It's not that the individual things they're reporting are false. That

00:29:26.780 happens too with the New York Times. But that's not what goes on most of the time. It's the stories

00:29:32.540 they choose to cover, the stories they choose not to cover. When they choose to cover the stories

00:29:37.120 at the most strategic times for Democrats, it's just a PR company for Democrats. That's all it is,

00:29:44.360 which is fine. Republicans have PR companies too. But why would you give the Democrats PR company a

00:29:49.760 seat in the White House briefing room? Doesn't make sense. Turning from New York to California,

00:29:55.040 State Senator Scott Weiner. You might have heard of State Senator Weiner. He is a guy who got

00:30:01.960 national fame for trying to reduce punishments for pederasts in California successfully. He 0.99

00:30:10.260 introduced a bill to have the state go softer on grown men who sexually molest little boys.

00:30:18.320 That's Scott Weiner's claim to fame. Now, Scott Weiner is whining because Elon Musk is

00:30:26.980 not supportive of public transit in California. And he wants people to drive cars. Elon Musk,

00:30:35.780 the most prominent carmaker in the world now. He doesn't like the public transit system,

00:30:41.520 the so-called high-speed rail that's going to go in in California sometime within the next six

00:30:45.540 centuries. So Weiner is whining about this. He says, Elon has long hated public transit,

00:30:51.200 which he thinks carries a bunch of serial killers. He instead wants everyone to drive a car,

00:30:55.380 preferably a Tesla. Now he has government power and is trying to kill off California's high-speed

00:31:01.020 rail project. It's called killing off the competition. That's what it is. Killing off

00:31:04.840 the competition. Is California's high-speed rail project competition for Elon Musk? Well,

00:31:10.520 let's look at the numbers. I remember I lived in California back when they were building,

00:31:15.040 supposedly, the high-speed rail. Going to connect the top of the state to the bottom of the state.

00:31:19.540 It was going to move us into the future. It was going to be so amazing. And then I moved out of

00:31:23.820 California. They still don't have the high-speed rail. Construction of phase one began in the

00:31:29.420 Central Valley of California in 2015. Now the state even admitted they're not going to build

00:31:33.880 it all at once. So they were prioritizing the initial operating segment. The initial operating

00:31:39.360 segment was going to connect Merced to Bakersfield. So instead of connecting the whole state of

00:31:44.540 California, it was this little tiny, little tiny chunk, but two places that no one needs a train to

00:31:49.800 go between. That was the initial operating segment. Okay. That is 171 miles long. You could just drive

00:31:59.920 it. It's not a big deal. That's 35% of the total San Francisco to LA route from January 2015 to December

00:32:06.880 2023. Do you know how much money has been spent building just that tiny little segment between two

00:32:13.700 places that no one needs a train to travel between? $11.2 billion of taxpayer money.

00:32:22.320 So far, $11.2 billion has put not even the whole 171 miles, 119 miles under active construction.

00:32:35.860 It's not even close to being done. Not even close to being done. Not even that part.

00:32:38.860 As of this year, the entirety of phase one is projected to cost $106.2 billion. 0.97

00:32:49.240 Almost a decade after this project began, they're projecting that just phase one of this stupid 0.98

00:32:56.260 project is going to cost $106.2 billion. Let me put that number into perspective. Elon Musk 0.99

00:33:02.020 built both the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets, the latter of which the Falcon 9 is 605 tons and can land.

00:33:11.840 It can take off and then land on the ground. The most incredible technology maybe ever produced,

00:33:19.740 Elon Musk built both of those rockets for a total of $390 million. Million. It's difficult for us to

00:33:28.740 track orders of magnitude. We're talking about $106.2 billion with a B to build a tiny little part of

00:33:37.960 a railroad in California. That's what Scott Wiener and the Democrats want to do. Or Elon Musk can send

00:33:45.380 us up to outer space and land the car for $390 million for two different types of rockets.

00:33:52.360 No one trusts the liberal government to build, to maintain, or to police public transit. Up there at the

00:33:58.360 top, Scott Wiener said Elon doesn't like public transit because he says there are killers on

00:34:01.560 there. Yeah. Hey, did you pay attention at all to the Daniel Penny trial? There was a killer on the

00:34:06.660 New York City subway, a potential killer, a career criminal, Jordan Neely, who said, I'm going to kill 0.99

00:34:11.740 all you people and I'm going to hurt you and I don't care if I go to jail. Thankfully, there was a 0.98

00:34:16.320 hero Marine and the liberal government tried to put him in jail. Is it any wonder that no one trusts

00:34:22.660 this public transit? Is it any wonder that people might prefer to drive a Tesla or whatever robo-taxi

00:34:28.080 Elon's going to come up with? Might give him a little more credibility here. Is it any wonder?

00:34:34.560 As far as I'm concerned, I'm no arch libertarian, far from it. Let Elon Musk run the government.

00:34:40.280 He'd do a hell of a lot better job than Scott Wiener and the California State Assembly,

00:34:44.580 State Senate, the U.S. Congress for that matter.

00:34:47.100 Some people say, I'm so worried. It seems that Jeff Bezos and Amazon has taken over the shipping

00:34:55.880 and the mail. I mean, good, give him the postal service. Good. He's a lot better at it than these

00:35:01.280 people are. I'm not saying the government can't do these things well. I'm not a libertarian. I think

00:35:06.920 the government can do things well sometimes, but they're not right now. Our government's just corrupt

00:35:11.620 and dysfunctional. So, all right. All right, Elon. I'd rather ride Elon's rocket ship from LA to San 0.87

00:35:18.060 Francisco than some stupid zillion-dollar train that's never even going to be built. There's so 0.99

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00:36:26.040 My favorite comment yesterday is from Nick Ramirez, 5579, who writes,

00:36:30.560 Influencer? I hardly know her. Damn near killed her, if you ask me. Speaking of people who kill 0.99

00:36:39.920 people, Bill Clinton is open to a pardon for Hillary Clinton in the final days of Joe Biden's

00:36:47.900 presidency. Here is Bill discussing the subject on The View. Do you think it would be wise of

00:36:55.920 President Biden to preemptively pardon any potential targets? What about your wife, Hillary 1.00

00:37:03.260 Clinton? She apparently is on Kash Patel's list. For what? Yeah. Well, they got a problem with her 0.69

00:37:10.320 because first, she didn't do anything wrong. Of course. Second, she followed the rules exactly as

00:37:17.580 they were written. President Biden wanted to talk to me about that. I would talk to him about it,

00:37:21.700 but I don't think I should be giving public advice on the pardon power. I think it's too,

00:37:28.320 it's a very personal thing. Bill Clinton probably shouldn't be giving public advice on the pardon

00:37:32.900 power, seeing as he infamously abused his pardon power when he was president in the final hours of

00:37:38.600 his presidency. Bill Clinton issued 456 pardons over the course of his presidency, which is actually not a

00:37:45.320 huge number in totality. But Clinton also issued 140 pardons of all sorts of cronies in the final

00:37:52.200 hours of the presidency. And that was widely criticized and it did appear to be corrupt.

00:37:57.540 But if I were Bill Clinton, I probably would like a little pardon from my wife. 1.00

00:38:02.300 Well, I don't know, if I'm Bill Clinton, maybe I want my wife to go behind bars so that I could have 1.00

00:38:05.140 a good time in Chappaqua. But Clinton here is saying, well, you know, I'd be open to it. But

00:38:10.900 you caught, he's losing his touch a little bit, Slick Willie, because when the view brings up this

00:38:18.060 matter at all, he says, you know, those Republicans, they're going after Hillary. They got it out for

00:38:22.640 Hillary because, and he's about to explain why the Republicans want to put Hillary into jail because

00:38:28.780 of all the crimes she's committed. But then he catches himself, he goes, because she did absolutely

00:38:34.920 nothing wrong ever. And she totally followed the law and she did everything right. And she never 0.59

00:38:40.400 even jaywalked. And that's why the Republicans want to, hey there, Sonny, what are you doing after

00:38:46.400 this taping? Maybe go get a little cup of coffee. I don't know. I'm just reading the subtext. I'm

00:38:53.380 reading what I suspect he was thinking about. That is a bad situation for the country because

00:38:59.400 because now there is an incentive to do it. There is an incentive to pardon all your cronies,

00:39:07.000 all of your associates at the end of your administration, blanket pardons a la Hunter

00:39:11.780 Biden, anything the guy might've even done for the past 10 years. We're just going to give him a

00:39:15.700 pardon now because the Democrats have established the precedent of imprisoning your political opponents.

00:39:23.840 This actually goes all the way back to Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson did this to Eugene Debs,

00:39:27.360 the socialist candidate, who still got 8% of the vote when he ran for president.

00:39:31.320 But then we kind of cut it out for a while. And now the Democrats are doing it again because they

00:39:35.340 tried to imprison Trump and they tried to kick Trump off the ballot and they justified his

00:39:39.400 assassination twice. So now we're in a situation where they say, oh no, man, those Republicans might

00:39:47.240 throw my wife in jail. The guilty flee when none pursueth. This is an example of that. This is an

00:39:53.340 example of the Democrats projecting. The Democrats know that they themselves tried to

00:39:57.080 imprison their political opponents. So even if, even if Republicans talk about it, sometimes,

00:40:01.480 you know, lock her up, lock her up. Trump didn't lock up Hillary Clinton. Now they're saying, oh,

00:40:04.560 yikes, this is the sort of thing I would do. So I should probably prepare for my opponents to do

00:40:09.380 that as well. The guilty flee when none pursueth. Speaking of political corruption, this is a side

00:40:16.420 little story. It's a little inside baseball, but it's pretty delightful and delicious. The Washington

00:40:20.960 Examiner is reporting that the Lincoln Project, these are the anti-Trump Republicans, the principled

00:40:29.740 Republicans who stood firm against rising tides of populism and Trumpism. And they supported the

00:40:38.360 Democrats because they put their country over party. That these guys are just a bunch of crooks 1.00

00:40:43.940 who set up the whole op to enrich themselves, which anyone with a modicum of political sense and 0.73

00:40:49.960 experience knew the whole time. Documents filed, according to the Examiner, with the Federal

00:40:55.900 Election Commission, show that over the last year, the Lincoln Project paid around $7 million

00:41:01.040 to consulting firms led by senior Lincoln Project operatives. So for those who don't know,

00:41:07.660 the Lincoln Project was founded by a bunch of slimy DC Republican political consultants who had not

00:41:14.440 been hired by Trump. When Trump took over the Republican Party, he did not hire these people.

00:41:19.240 These were very slimy people, and they were out. Some of them had even worked for Democrats because

00:41:24.000 they were mercenaries and they don't really have any principles. But when Trump gets in,

00:41:27.720 these guys are out. So being clever political operatives, they set up a group, they pretended

00:41:32.860 to have principles, and they milked Democrats for a ton of money. So they would go, they would air ads

00:41:38.500 in the most liberal media markets, places that would not have any effect on any elections,

00:41:43.220 but would convince libs to part with their money and give it to these slimy sort of Republican 0.96

00:41:49.280 operatives. And then the operatives would take all that money and pay their own individual

00:41:54.040 consulting firms for political consultancy. And they were just lining their own pockets. It was a

00:41:59.260 way to keep the lights on in their homes and keep their vacations coming and keep going to nice

00:42:04.620 restaurants while they were in the political wilderness because they couldn't get a job from

00:42:07.900 Donald Trump. The irony here is that the people, and it's an important lesson to learn, the people

00:42:14.480 who paraded their supposed morals and integrity are the most corrupt.

00:42:20.440 But I have to say, having been around politics for a little while and having worked campaigns and

00:42:27.880 seen that side of things, in a way, I think, good for them. It's slimy, it's gross, it's dishonest, 0.96

00:42:35.980 but I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Because who's the victim here? The victims are these

00:42:42.200 Democrat donors who gave these dirtbags a ton of money to enrich themselves. They got no political

00:42:49.960 effect for it. So in a way, I'm sure that these slimeball Republican operatives just wanted to

00:42:58.300 hurt Trump because Trump wasn't hiring them. But the actual effect of their activity has been to

00:43:03.980 waste a ton of Democrat money that otherwise could have gone to good activism and campaigning and

00:43:09.400 might have actually hurt a Republican. Instead, it just went to buy these guys some new TVs and

00:43:14.060 automobiles. Okay. All right. It's gross. But while my enemies are fighting, why would I interfere?

00:43:22.880 Speaking of fake conservatism, this is one last little bit. Maybe I'll talk about it a little

00:43:26.920 more tomorrow. Republicans and conservatives are celebrating great news that one of those far

00:43:34.320 left-wing Ivy League schools, even, Yale Law School, is launching a center to defend academic freedom

00:43:41.840 freedom and free speech. That's right. Yale is, in many ways, the belly of the beast when it comes

00:43:46.840 to leftism on college campuses. So now, after incidents, including at the Yale Law School,

00:43:52.400 ostensibly the most prestigious law school in the country, where academics and prominent lawyers

00:43:57.740 have been shouted down, screamed at by these buffoonish students, now the Yale Law School is taking a 1.00

00:44:04.480 stand to defend academic freedom and free speech. The Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech,

00:44:11.160 a huge win for conservatives, except it's not really. Tactically, it might be okay for us for

00:44:18.280 a moment. But the reason that the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech is not a win for

00:44:24.200 conservatives is that those things aren't particularly conservative. We're going to have to leave that

00:44:28.160 there. We will get to more on that perhaps tomorrow. But I'm so excited now because I'm going to speak to

00:44:34.660 all of you in the member room segmentum. I'm going to speak to all the creme de la creme, not the

00:44:38.800 hoi polloi on YouTube. You've got to go over, join Daily Wire Plus, use code Knowles. You'll get a

00:44:43.460 great deal and you'll have a great time. I'm also going to speak to my friend, His Excellency,

00:44:48.140 Bishop Robert Barron. See you over there.

The Michael Knowles Show - December 12, 2024

Ep. 1635 - Libs SIMP Over CEO Assassin

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