The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1677 - Ukraine WAR Over？ Trump Threatens Elections For Zelensky

00:00:00.000 The war in Ukraine may finally be coming to an end, but as the Trump administration prepares

00:00:06.220 for negotiations with Russia, the self-styled defenders of Ukrainian democracy are terrified

00:00:13.020 and furious because not only does Trump plan to bring peace to Ukraine, he even wants them

00:00:20.980 to hold elections again. And how could democracy survive that? I'm Michael Knowles. This is the

00:00:26.160 Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. Do children belong at weddings? The debate that has taken over social

00:00:52.300 media. Really important. I mean, everything going on in the world, a really important question. And

00:00:56.540 I'm sorry to say many of my fellow conservatives are getting this question wrong. Can you imagine

00:01:03.360 that the horror? Ukraine might have to hold elections again, which is of course a grave

00:01:09.200 threat to democracy. We're defending democracy over there, don't you know? We're sending hundreds of

00:01:13.760 billions of dollars to Ukraine, which previously the media told me was one of the most corrupt

00:01:19.560 countries in the world and infested with Nazis. But then after the libs got all on board with the 0.70

00:01:25.220 Ukraine war, then Ukraine was a sparkling example of Madisonian democracy, totally above board,

00:01:33.320 basically the 51st state. And if we allow democracy to die in Ukraine, why? There's no hope for it

00:01:43.080 anywhere else in the world. And that's why it's so important that Ukraine not hold elections.

00:01:46.960 You know, Ukraine was supposed to hold elections a year ago, last spring, and they didn't do it.

00:01:55.240 And President Trump is not pulling any punches here. So Newsweek reports, there are concerns that

00:02:02.840 the Ukrainian president could be voted out of office if the country holds an election. Yeah, right.

00:02:07.960 That might happen because that's what democracy does. And of course, I don't even want to rehash it.

00:02:14.440 It's become trite and cliche at this point to observe that the libs don't really care about

00:02:18.600 democracy. They care about liberalism and leftism and progressivism. So when the people vote against

00:02:23.340 liberalism and leftism and progressivism, they say it's a threat to democracy, even though that's an

00:02:27.580 incoherent statement. Now, Zelensky is not doing himself any favors. Zelensky just came out. He said,

00:02:33.600 no, unfortunately, President Trump, I have great respect for him as a leader of a nation that we have

00:02:38.620 great respect for the American people who always support us, unfortunately lives in this disinformation

00:02:44.920 space. So there, I'll take out that parenthetical winding nonsense. He says, unfortunately, President

00:02:52.440 Trump unfortunately lives in this disinformation space. Translation from the Ukrainian, he's calling

00:02:59.780 Trump a dummy. He's saying Trump doesn't understand the reality. He's a stooge for propaganda from the 0.95

00:03:06.980 Russians. Trump is a stooge. He doesn't know the real facts on the ground in Ukraine. He's just, 1.00

00:03:13.060 he's ignorant. He believes a lot of things that are not so. Trump, as you might imagine, punched back. 1.00

00:03:21.060 We have a situation where we haven't had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial law, essentially

00:03:30.080 martial law in Ukraine, where the leader in Ukraine, I mean, I hate to say it, but he's down at 4%

00:03:36.620 approval rating. You have leadership, and I like him personally. He's fine. But I don't care about

00:03:44.260 personally. I care about getting the job done. You have leadership now that's allowed a war to go on

00:03:49.520 that should have never even happened. That's right. But part of the problem here has been

00:03:55.520 leadership. And I don't want to throw all the blame on Zelensky. He doesn't deserve all the blame.

00:03:59.780 In fact, I'm much more inclined to blame Joe Biden because the war broke out on his watch. And

00:04:04.240 frankly, Joe Biden invited the war. He literally invited the war. People forget this. He said,

00:04:08.720 if it's only a minor incursion by Russia into Ukraine, it's no big deal.

00:04:12.580 So, but we have a leadership problem, okay? And it is not irrational for the Ukrainians to want 1.00

00:04:20.700 to pick a new leader. At the very least, they should have that right, shouldn't they?

00:04:25.180 Isn't that what this fight over democracy is all about? Now, Trump went a little further on

00:04:29.140 truth social. He said, a dictator without elections, Zelensky better move faster. He's not going to have

00:04:33.960 a country left. In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia,

00:04:38.180 something all admit only Trump and the Trump administration can do. So, the left is going

00:04:43.740 to twist this. But what is he saying here? He says, if Zelensky doesn't move fast, he's not

00:04:48.360 going to have a country left. That's not a threat from Trump. Trump isn't saying, I'm going to give

00:04:51.940 your country away. That's an observation of what this war is doing to Ukraine. If Zelensky does not

00:04:59.380 resolve this war, there is not going to be much of Ukraine left to defend. Because the U.S. grand 0.60

00:05:05.380 strategy here, pushed by the liberal elites all the way up to Joe Biden, has been to keep the

00:05:11.720 Ukraine war going as long as possible in order to degrade the Russian military. Degrade the Russian 0.86

00:05:17.700 military is a euphemism for killing as many Russians as possible. And, in fairness, from the foreign policy 0.93

00:05:24.100 grand strategy standpoint, the way that all the elite geniuses in Washington, D.C. are looking at it,

00:05:30.480 is they're saying, look, we can kill a lot, hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers. Russia has

00:05:37.220 military weapons pointed at us, has ICBMs pointed at us. So, you know, they're an adversary for many

00:05:43.300 decades now. We can kill a ton of Russians and we don't even need to risk our lives for it because the 1.00

00:05:50.060 Ukrainians are going to do it for us. So, the cost of degrading the Russian military, slaughtering all 1.00

00:05:54.840 the Russians, is going to be an entire generation of Ukrainians. But a small price for us to pay, we don't 1.00

00:05:59.920 really care that much. So, we're going to keep this war going as long as possible. It's not going to

00:06:03.680 help Ukraine, really, in the long run. But at the very least, it's going to hurt Russia. And indirectly,

00:06:08.340 that's going to help the United States. That is the grand strategy. That is the philosophy on the

00:06:13.960 war in Ukraine. Some people are going to say, yeah, heck yeah, that's right, let's go for it.

00:06:18.400 Some people are going to say, that's kind of ghastly. And that might not actually fulfill

00:06:21.900 the criteria requisite for a just war. And actually, maybe blessed are the peacemakers. And actually,

00:06:29.140 maybe President Trump should wind this thing down now. But the one thing I can tell you,

00:06:35.580 whatever you want to say about elections during wartime, whatever you want to say about this

00:06:39.500 potential peace deal as it's shaping up, Zelensky, in my view, has just proven that he deserves to be

00:06:45.540 voted out of office. Because he just did one of the stupidest things a leader of Ukraine could do. 0.99

00:06:50.180 Namely, pick a fight with Donald Trump in public. The only reason that this war is still going on is 1.00

00:06:56.320 because the U.S. has been bankrolling it. This war would have been over in about two weeks if the

00:06:59.600 U.S. not backed Ukraine. And this guy is going to now turn to the leader of the free world,

00:07:07.000 to the guy leading the country that is the whole reason that Zelensky is still in power.

00:07:12.140 And he's going to call him a dummy? Donald Trump, who has been known to hold a grudge or two?

00:07:18.300 For that political incompetence alone, Zelensky probably should not be running Ukraine anymore.

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00:08:27.620 Last bit on Zelensky. This is crazy to me. Zelensky comes out and he says

00:08:31.620 that he will not accept a peace proposal that is negotiated between the United States and Russia.

00:08:38.980 The thing that President Trump said this week, he did not say yes when he was asked if he sees

00:08:46.800 Ukraine as an equal member in the peace process. He did say later that Ukraine would have a seat at

00:08:54.140 the table. Have you been given any assurances that Ukraine will have an equal seat at the negotiating

00:09:01.560 table? So, I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine.

00:09:09.660 Never. And our people, never. And our adults and children and everybody. It can't be so. This is the

00:09:15.920 war in Ukraine against us. And it is our human losses. We are thankful for all the support,

00:09:22.280 unity between USA, in USA, around Ukraine support, bipartisan unity, bipartisan support. We are

00:09:30.560 thankful for all of this. But there is no, any leader in the world who can really make a deal with

00:09:37.360 Putin without us, about us. That isn't true. I have sympathy for the Ukrainians. I don't have any 1.00

00:09:45.060 soft spot for Putin invading another country. But this peace will be negotiated by the United States.

00:09:51.640 In fact, I go further. The United States is the only country that can negotiate this peace.

00:09:55.320 Ukraine has very little to do with it at the level of diplomacy and peace. Because the war in

00:09:59.520 Ukraine is a proxy war between the United States and Russia. Full stop. He who pays the piper calls

00:10:04.300 the tune. That's that. That's politics. Okay? Now, this doesn't mean the U.S. is going to roll over

00:10:11.220 here. You saw just last week, J.D. Vance came out and he said, you know what? We might send U.S. troops

00:10:15.640 to Ukraine. Setting up the stage for a negotiation with Putin. Yeah, maybe Ukraine will join NATO.

00:10:21.640 Okay? So we've got competent people in charge. But this is a decision that is going to be made

00:10:27.160 between the United States and Russia. It's just realpolitik. There is no President Zelensky.

00:10:34.760 There is no sovereign Ukraine nation without the United States right now. So, sorry, buddy.

00:10:41.340 We're calling the shots. Okay? That's just how it goes. Now, speaking of foreign affairs and death, 0.87

00:10:46.140 by the way, we talked about South Africa. President Trump has called attention to the

00:10:51.160 hideous, degrading situation in South Africa, where you have major South African political leaders 0.99

00:10:55.720 singing along, leading thousands of people in chants to kill the whites, kill the farmers, 1.00

00:11:01.460 kill the boar. And now you've got a black South African podcaster going viral, claiming that white 1.00

00:11:08.300 people are not human. The problem that South Africans have right now is that we don't understand 1.00

00:11:14.720 white people. White people are inferior species to us. We are homo sapiens. They've got Neanderthal 1.00

00:11:22.100 blood in them. This is the science. And this is not science that was done by black people. It was 1.00

00:11:26.000 done by them. You understand? Abutlive W. Lewis, they were eugenicists. They studied this and they

00:11:31.020 realized that they're inferior to blacks. The white population is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking 1.00

00:11:34.880 For us, it makes no sense to descend into the savagery that they have. Whatever land that 0.61

00:11:40.060 they're holding onto, either way, their numbers are dwindling. Whatever leadership that they had

00:11:43.840 is dying out as well. And you know about wealth disappearing after the third generation that

00:11:49.220 is passed down to, you know? So we are there on the last generation. We're dealing with the weakest

00:11:54.580 whites that the world has ever seen. So we expect to have Ubuntu, humanity. Unfortunately, by the

00:12:04.240 strictest definition of what a human being is, white people are just below human beings. You are 1.00

00:12:10.240 negotiating with an animal, a wild dog that you're trying to train to be tamed, to be upo,

00:12:16.760 who guards your house. You can never do that. Okay, so he's got some antipathy toward white people,

00:12:23.480 I'm sensing. He does say one thing that is true. He points out that the genome of white people 1.00

00:12:30.560 does include DNA, apparently, from Neanderthals. And this is different from sub-Saharan blacks. 1.00

00:12:37.040 So there are pretty marked genetic differences between sub-Saharan black people and all sorts

00:12:45.620 of other people, specifically with regard to the Neanderthals. Now, he says this means that white

00:12:50.000 people are subhuman. I don't know. I mean, white people have done a good job throughout history. 0.95

00:12:54.600 I'm pretty impressed with the kind of civilization that white people have built. So I think we should 0.99

00:13:00.340 not be so quick to knock the Neanderthals. If there really is Neanderthal DNA in white people,

00:13:07.640 then I don't know. The Neanderthals might have had something to go for them, if there's some kind of 0.95

00:13:11.580 genetic basis for that civilization. But all of that is beside the point. He says that the basic

00:13:18.360 definition of what it means to human being, to be a human being, is genetics. And he goes further.

00:13:24.360 He says not only is it genetics, but it's actually in the absence of any remnant of Neanderthal DNA.

00:13:30.720 And that, to me, seems without basis. Though that is the claim of many racial biological essentialists

00:13:38.340 these days. What actually makes us human, the fundamental aspect of what it means to be a human

00:13:47.140 person, is that we have a rational nature. That's what it is. And this is a difficult point for

00:13:54.320 people on the left and the right and all sorts of people these days to understand. Because while we

00:13:58.600 flatter ourselves in thinking that we're scientifically very advanced, we've become 1.00

00:14:02.480 philosophically and theologically and anthropologically stupid. We've just, we've lost our ability 0.99

00:14:08.640 to think in ways that people would have taken to be second nature in classical antiquity, in the

00:14:14.860 Middle Ages, and even in the early modern era. But that's what makes us human.

00:14:19.060 This guy has different genetics than I do. Take his word for it. He's got different genetics. I got

00:14:24.920 some Neanderthal around there. Maybe it's in my brow ridges. I don't know. But we are both

00:14:29.540 recognizably human. And that is because we both have a rational nature. I can speak to him.

00:14:35.340 We could, well, we can't get married because he's a fella. But I could marry his sister. It would be

00:14:39.340 possible. We could have children. We could have a human life. It doesn't just boil down to genetics.

00:14:46.000 boils down to a rational nature. Now, you might say that guy doesn't sound very rational. But he is

00:14:50.500 rational in the sense that he can have conversations about abstract topics. He can

00:14:56.960 contemplate abstract concepts such as justice, such as human nature, such as freedom and equality and

00:15:05.560 politics. He does actually check those boxes. But he's undermining his own point, I think.

00:15:10.440 Because white people are obviously human beings. Asian people are human beings. We know what a 0.61

00:15:16.600 human being is, okay? So there has to be something deeper than hair or skin or genetics. I'm not even

00:15:23.340 denying that race is a serious part of human life. It is. Of course it is. Those distinctions are real. 0.97

00:15:28.320 But there is something deeper. There is something that unites us. There is something called human

00:15:33.580 nature. And what that is, what separates us from monkeys and the delta smelt and rocks and trees,

00:15:40.200 is our rational nature. You don't put a pit bull on trial for biting someone. The pit bull can't help

00:15:48.860 himself. He doesn't have a rational nature. Unintentionally, perhaps, this South African anti-white

00:15:56.280 activist in a collapsing country might actually be telling us, reminding us of something about human

00:16:01.900 nature that even we in the West are forgetting. Now, speaking of what makes a human, big breaking

00:16:09.580 news that porn gal who says that she slept with a thousand guys is reportedly pregnant. I'm not going

00:16:18.060 to say her, I don't even know what her real name is, but I'm not even going to say her stage name

00:16:21.180 because she's probably just doing all of this for attention anyway and I don't want to promote her 1.00

00:16:24.860 platform. But she says that she's pregnant. You know, a thousand guys, statistically, I guess that

00:16:30.720 makes sense. I don't, you know, even contraception is not a hundred percent effective. So at a certain

00:16:35.220 point of the numbers game, I guess you're going to get pregnant. But then, no sooner does the thousand 1.00

00:16:39.840 guys in a day porn gal say that she's pregnant than the other one, the gal who says she slept with a 1.00

00:16:45.400 hundred guys in a day. She is now also saying that she's pregnant. And I don't know if I believe 0.97

00:16:51.480 either of them because they are prostitutes who are selling fantasies to men. That's their whole 0.98

00:16:57.920 career. So I don't know. I am not convinced that they're totally above board here. But in any case,

00:17:04.760 one of them, the one named Lily says it's official. The secret is out. And it's a little unclear

00:17:12.580 because she showed she's got this big baby bump, but then the test she showed suggests she's just

00:17:16.540 one to two weeks pregnant. So that might be fake news. And then the other gal, this is what her 1.00

00:17:23.980 evidence was that she's having cravings for weird food. So she wants to take another pregnancy test. 1.00

00:17:30.180 So tomorrow I'm going to take another pregnancy test because, well, I want to know how far along.

00:17:37.500 Okay. So who knows? Maybe they're pregnant. Maybe they're lying. Who knows? If it is true 0.98

00:17:42.940 that these two are pregnant and you might be able to hear outside of my home studio right now,

00:17:48.940 that there are babies and toddlers crying. Because I've got, I got three of them for age four and

00:17:55.120 under. And the Daily Wire decided to shut down the studio today because there are three snowflakes

00:17:59.460 on the ground and they're afraid of their employees driving. And actually knowing how Professor Jacob

00:18:04.400 drives, they probably should be afraid of them driving even on a perfectly sunny day in the summer.

00:18:08.020 And regardless, I digress. Let's say that soon these two porn gals will have little kids crying 1.00

00:18:14.220 around their homes as well. It is possible to celebrate children without affirming all means

00:18:23.980 of producing children. Children are always a good. I was talking about this yesterday when we were

00:18:28.760 bringing up IVF and the in vitro fertilization executive order. Children are always good. But

00:18:34.740 that doesn't mean that all ways of producing children are good. IVF is not morally defensible. Rape, 0.94

00:18:41.640 you can produce a child through rape. No one's going to be defending rape. Going further, producing 0.99

00:18:46.920 a child out of wedlock, that's not good. That's not good for the child. You should not endeavor to do

00:18:51.800 that. It is better to have a child out of wedlock than to murder the child through abortion. But that

00:18:58.120 doesn't mean that it's good to have a child out of wedlock. Doesn't mean that it's good to sleep with

00:19:02.300 a thousand people in a day or a hundred people in a day or really anyone outside of marriage. And we can be

00:19:09.760 very clear about that, okay? Kids are good, but not all the means of procuring children are good.

00:19:17.300 Going to the IVF store, if you're a single person, and creating a child intentionally to deprive that

00:19:22.500 child of a mother or father, not good. A homosexual couple going and channeling their natural desire 1.00

00:19:29.860 for a child into this deeply immoral practice of intentionally creating a child to deprive him of

00:19:36.160 his mother or father. Not good. Not good. And we need to speak very, very clearly about that.

00:19:41.400 Because we have this tendency in modern life to just be really nice to everyone and affirm

00:19:45.860 anyone's choices, no matter how deviant or disordered. But that ain't good. Who knows? These

00:19:51.580 two gals might be lying anyway. But if they are pregnant, good. Don't kill the babies. Do what you 1.00

00:19:57.240 can. Make the best of a bad situation. But let's not kid ourselves here, okay? There is a better way,

00:20:04.280 and we need to affirm that for everyone else. There's so much more to say. First, though,

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00:21:35.620 I said, you know, look, this Trump executive order, in many ways it doesn't really matter

00:21:41.460 because while the order is being promoted as this great expansion of IVF, if you actually

00:21:47.780 read the executive order, Trump had a press conference. He called on a staff member to come

00:21:53.820 up and mention this executive order. Trump didn't even do it himself. He mentioned it in a series

00:21:59.040 of two other executive orders. And all it really does is task the policy council, the domestic policy

00:22:08.860 council of the White House with writing up a paper, figuring out ways that you might be able to lower

00:22:13.360 the cost of IVF or expand access. But it's not just like, hey, do a homework assignment. You know,

00:22:18.960 there's not necessarily teeth to it. So I'm hoping that this is just pushed to the side and

00:22:24.040 slow walked to the point of being irrelevant. You know, it checks a box for PR, but that's it. Because

00:22:28.820 this is, it's a relatively novel technology, but growing public opinion is turning against it as

00:22:37.520 people come to understand what this really is. One of the downsides of IVF that keeps popping up,

00:22:44.500 and this news story just popped up yesterday, is that people, people keep giving birth to the wrong

00:22:50.240 babies. The scientists in the lab coats at the IVF shops keep cooking up the wrong baby in the

00:22:55.560 Petri dishes and giving it to the wrong mothers. It was an error that Christina Murray calls 1.00

00:23:00.860 unimaginable in every IVF patient's worst nightmare. This was never, ever a thought in my mind until it

00:23:08.000 happened. Murray is suing low country-based coastal fertility specialists, claiming the clinic

00:23:13.460 transferred her the wrong embryo. The 41-page lawsuit says when she gave birth in December

00:23:19.020 2023 after undergoing IVF at Coastal Fertility, the child was African-American, while Murray and the

00:23:26.700 sperm donor she picked were both white. I would have strangers approach us in public and ask whose child 0.90

00:23:34.240 I had. I kept his life as concealed as I could out of protection for him. After a five-month custody

00:23:40.600 battle, Murray says she was forced to give the baby to his biological parents. At a news conference,

00:23:45.820 her lawyer says they're still trying to figure out how this happened and pointed to what he calls a

00:23:50.580 lack of regulation. Until IVF clinics are subject to real regulations, reporting requirements, and

00:23:57.900 mandatory certification programs for lab staff, these types of errors will continue to occur.

00:24:04.260 I'll tell you how it happened. Okay, I don't have a ton of sympathy for this woman because

00:24:09.460 she engaged in acts that are pretty clearly immoral. You know, going and purchasing sperm or even

00:24:17.200 just acquiring sperm with a donated sperm from someone who is willing to sell or otherwise donate his

00:24:24.420 future children in order to deprive that child of a father. To fulfill the selfish desire to have a child

00:24:31.120 as one has a handbag or a purse is not as bad. You know, I understand the natural longing for a kid, but you

00:24:38.700 have to respect the legitimate rights of children and you can't prioritize your own

00:24:43.320 disordered and selfish desires over the legitimate rights of children because children are not just objects

00:24:48.500 to be bought and sold, commodities to be traded. They're subjects. They're human persons with rights for

00:24:54.600 themselves. That's the first part. And the second part, I don't know, maybe she just got the wrong sperm. 1.00

00:25:00.180 That can happen. When you industrialize procreation, that can happen. And, you know, when you're talking

00:25:07.960 about industrial products like automobiles or briefcases or computers or something, when a product

00:25:14.640 comes out defective or contrary to the way that it was designed, you say, okay, no big deal. I'm going

00:25:20.260 to throw it out and get a new one. But when you treat the human person as one of those commodities,

00:25:24.320 you don't just throw out the human. Well, actually you do. In the IVF industry, unfortunately,

00:25:27.720 most of the people who are created as products are just thrown out. They're killed and then thrown

00:25:32.340 in the trash. But it's not what you're supposed to do. That's deeply, deeply wrong. And then now 0.97

00:25:37.780 you have this situation where this woman's been raising this kid for months and has to give the 1.00

00:25:43.740 kid up. It's very hard on her. It's very, very hard on the kid. Just absolutely horrifying to do to the

00:25:48.220 kid. For what? This is a lot more common than people think. This story just broke yesterday.

00:25:53.660 There have been many other such cases that are currently being litigated.

00:25:58.100 No bueno. No good. Okay. Speaking of children, I have to wade in on a hot cultural debate. Do

00:26:05.500 children belong at weddings? Every conservative I've seen, especially including my friend,

00:26:11.960 Mr. Walsh, who is wading into this debate all the way in. He's got his boots pulled up. He is going

00:26:19.740 into the deep end of this debate. He says, it is insane to think that women, that the children

00:26:24.760 rather, should not be present at weddings. This all started because a woman went viral 1.00

00:26:30.280 for giving the side eye to a little kid who was crying during her wedding ceremony at a ceremony

00:26:37.080 that was supposed to exclude children.

00:26:39.300 Times over the last few weeks, but I'm the only one that knows them. And one of the questions I asked

00:26:45.060 was, when did you know you were in love and wanted to spend the rest of your life together

00:26:51.760 as husband and wife? Okay. Now this was during the wedding ceremony. So this is, it's even more

00:26:59.260 nuanced. Okay. One, do children belong at wedding ceremonies? Two, do children belong at wedding

00:27:05.200 receptions, which usually follow the ceremonies? Three, is it ever acceptable to exclude children

00:27:12.100 children from weddings? The answer is yes. It is perfectly acceptable to exclude children from 1.00

00:27:20.000 weddings. You shouldn't be a jerk about it. You know, you shouldn't give the side eye. You shouldn't 0.99

00:27:24.300 shame people for having children. I'm not saying you can't invite children to weddings. I've been to

00:27:29.520 plenty of weddings that had little kids invited and it was a ton of fun. I've had a great time. You can do

00:27:34.860 that. It can be a blast, but it is perfectly acceptable to exclude children from wedding

00:27:42.000 receptions. It's fine. Okay. How dare, how could you, here, I'll prove it to you. Here's how I'll prove

00:27:47.100 it. Do you think it's okay to have black tie weddings? Do you think it is okay? I'm not saying you have to

00:27:53.800 do it, but is it all right for a wedding to be black tie? Expect the guests to come in tuxedos and

00:27:58.780 ball gowns? We would probably say yes. It's pretty common. Okay. Do children wear black tie? No, they

00:28:06.520 don't. Little kids should not be wearing tuxedos. That's crazy. Should little, should a little toddler

00:28:10.060 girl wear a ball gown? No, that'd be ridiculous. So there you go. Just there alone. One simple little 0.98

00:28:15.660 syllogism. It is okay to have a black tie wedding, but it would be inappropriate for children to wear

00:28:23.480 black tie. Therefore, we can conclude that certain wedding receptions can exclude children. It's okay. 0.92

00:28:31.600 And it can be nice, actually. It's all right to do. What this debate is really about is what it means

00:28:38.160 to be conservative, what it means to be traditional. It's not really about the wedding. It's not really

00:28:42.200 about the kids. We love kids. They're welcome in many circumstances. You can have a good time with

00:28:46.920 them at weddings, but I don't think you need to because there are two kinds of traditional that we're

00:28:50.980 talking about here. There's the Walton's traditional and the Windsor traditional. This is it. And I think

00:28:57.460 both sides of this debate are just talking past each other here. Walton's traditional, that's, you

00:29:03.860 know, the homestead with the overalls and the flannel and the cows and the whole family comes around to

00:29:09.900 dinner. That's good old, you know, salt of the earth kind of traditionalism. And that's great. I love

00:29:16.280 that. I don't look good in overalls, but I like that culture a lot. It's fun. Got a lot of friends in that

00:29:20.840 culture. It's cool, man. It's great. But there is another kind of tradition. There's the Windsor

00:29:26.280 traditionalism. The traditionalism of the tuxedo and the brandy snifter and the library built with

00:29:33.200 rich mahogany. And that's okay too. It's all right to have order and hierarchy. And it's okay to insist

00:29:46.280 upon differing levels of sophistication even. You wouldn't bring a three-year-old to a state dinner

00:29:53.560 at the White House. It's okay to exclude children in certain cases. But it's the clash of those kinds

00:30:01.020 of tradition. I think they're both good. I think there's a role for both of those. But that's really

00:30:04.860 what this is about. Okay. It's the Walton's traditionalism versus the Windsor traditionalism.

00:30:09.340 That's okay. If you want to have a fancy wedding, have your fancy wedding. It's all right. You'll see the

00:30:13.440 kids tomorrow. Take them to brunch the next day. It's all right. That's very traditional too, actually.

00:30:20.240 I know this is going to be very unpopular. But it's the truth. I got to tell you the truth. I got

00:30:24.840 to tell you what I'm seeing, folks. Now, speaking of upending tradition, the Libs just can't give it

00:30:31.520 a rest. There's a new star of a revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. Do you know who's playing the role

00:30:37.060 of our Lord? We'll get to it in a moment. If you are with us for election night or for the

00:30:43.480 inauguration, you know that the Daily Wire doesn't just show up. We take over. And now we're headed

00:30:48.420 back to D.C. today to do just that at CPAC. Join me along with Ben, Matt, Drew, Jeremy, live

00:30:55.800 tonight, February 20th. No scripted talking points, no corporate-approved narratives, just real

00:31:01.140 conversations that actually matter, streaming live on Daily Wire+. We are taking your questions. Do not

00:31:06.740 just watch CPAC. Be a part of it live Thursday night, tonight, February 20th on Daily Wire+.

00:31:13.800 My favorite comment yesterday is from Henry Bierman, 8431, who says, the fact that Michael

00:31:20.020 didn't use his Fauci voice in this video is the real tragedy here. That is a tragedy. I should

00:31:24.100 have. My deepest apologies. I also would like to apologize to all of you for poisoning you

00:31:30.420 with that clutch at that Fauci-ouchie. And also, sorry, for spending $241 million of your

00:31:36.180 texts pay your money to ranzing monkeys. Oopsie-daisy, please forgive your benevolent leader, Dr. Fauci.

00:31:42.460 Jesus Christ Superstar, a Broadway musical from the 70s, has a new lead, going to play the title

00:31:52.520 role of our Lord at the Hollywood Bowl. Who is it? Is it Jim Caviezel? No. Is it Jonathan Rumi? No.

00:31:59.360 No. It is Cynthia Erivo. A black lady is going to play our Lord. And I know they're going to, 0.96

00:32:10.880 I'm already hearing it from the liberal Christians. They're going to say, well, it doesn't matter, 0.92

00:32:15.140 actually, the appearance of the person. It doesn't have been the sex of the person. You know,

00:32:20.740 our Lord is everything. No, actually, hold on. God, of course, is not bound by all of our little

00:32:28.200 human categories. But our Lord, who is God, but who has both a divine nature and a human nature,

00:32:36.340 actually enters into history in time and space with a body and a sex and a skin color and real

00:32:47.580 physical, he's a real person in time and space. So it does matter. I'm waiting. I think there's

00:32:57.680 going to be a revival of Spike Lee's Malcolm X and they're going to star Jim Gaffigan. Can you wait

00:33:01.860 for that? That's going to be so great, don't you think? Audiences are going to line up. I don't

00:33:05.680 think, they wouldn't do that. In fact, the libs in Hollywood in recent years have increasingly 0.99

00:33:12.380 insisted that you cannot play any character that you do not personally identify with,

00:33:21.780 that does not check off all of the criteria on your personal identity. You know, in my youth,

00:33:29.240 I was an actor. I've played all sorts of roles, all sorts of roles that are totally foreign to me.

00:33:35.160 I played, I played the devil once. I played, I played football players. That's, I've played

00:33:40.800 U.S. soldiers, played guys who are a little light in the loafers. I've played Hispanics. I've 0.97

00:33:48.040 played all sorts of things. It's not, it's not me. I haven't just played Italian, half Italian,

00:33:54.120 half Wasp, Irish from New York, millennial. That would be crazy. But the libs say now, these days,

00:33:59.440 if you want to play a gay guy in a movie, you have to be a gay guy. What happened to pretending? What 0.82

00:34:03.240 happened to acting? No, out the window. If you want to play a trans identifying person, you need to 1.00

00:34:08.620 identify as trans. But if you want to play our Lord, you can be a black lady. It's totally fine. 0.99

00:34:15.780 Hmm. Doesn't make a lot of sense. So there's no consistent principle here for the left. It's

00:34:22.760 just anything that would upend tradition, that would irritate normal people. They're for that.

00:34:29.540 But otherwise, no rules. No rules. We play by whatever capricious rules they come up with that

00:34:36.020 day. This does, though, speak to a deeper debate within the theater that's going on for a long time.

00:34:40.040 It was Bruce Dean who formerly ran the Yale Repertory Theater. Then he went up to the

00:34:46.180 art, the American Repertory Theater up by Harvard. And he got into a big fight with

00:34:52.240 the guy who wrote Fences. What is his name? He's probably the founder of the modern black theater

00:34:59.940 in America. Oh, anyway, his name escapes me. But he was a black playwright from St. Paul,

00:35:05.720 Minnesota area. And they had this big debate over colorblind casting. Should you cast

00:35:11.640 acknowledging race or not? August Wilson was the black playwright. And Bruce Dean,

00:35:18.540 this white liberal guy, said, yeah, colorblind casting is great. You can have colorblind casting.

00:35:23.020 And, you know, you could have black people play white characters and white people play black

00:35:26.900 characters. And that's all great. And it was the black guy. It was August Wilson who said, no, 0.56

00:35:30.240 you can't. You know, it's ridiculous. But some, I guess some, maybe sometimes there can be exceptions. 0.99

00:35:36.840 Denzel Washington did a great Macbeth. But, you know, no, generally, you can't have a black lady 1.00

00:35:43.420 playing our Lord. And you can't have Jim Gaffigan playing Malcolm X. And it doesn't make sense. You

00:35:48.500 know, we have to, there have to be certain limits here within the theater. But for the left, they don't

00:35:54.740 care. They're really just poking buttons. That's all this is about. This is not because Cynthia Erivo went in 0.93

00:35:59.420 and did a great version of an Andrew Lloyd Webber song. It's because they knew this would grab

00:36:04.400 headlines and get people like me to complain about it. And I guess they succeeded. Now,

00:36:07.620 speaking of Hollywood entertainers, this was really fitting. This was great. Mark Hamill,

00:36:14.120 whose only notable film role ever began in the 1970s. And he hasn't shut up about it since.

00:36:20.620 Mark Hamill was just presenting at the BAFTA Awards, the British Theater Awards. And as he was

00:36:28.920 presenting, his pants fell down. Hat tip to Colin Rugg for this little clip.

00:36:35.580 So what makes us love cinema so much that we're all gathered here to celebrate tonight?

00:36:40.180 For me, it's that films create worlds so vivid and stories so powerful that we lose ourselves

00:36:46.140 in them completely. They create immersive cinematic landscapes that feel alive, whether they're set

00:36:52.300 here in London or anywhere. This is like a Saturday Night Live sketch. If you're just listening to it right

00:36:57.160 now, halfway through, you can hear his voice start to crack. His pants just fall down. And you can't

00:37:01.220 really see on camera, though according to reports, as according to The Sun, Mark started speaking,

00:37:07.660 then his suit trousers just dropped to his knees. It was like they were too big for him. All the big

00:37:11.360 stars such as Timothee Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Adrian Brody would have seen it from their angle.

00:37:16.500 Most guests looked horrified but said nothing. They were turning to each other wide-eyed as if to say,

00:37:21.480 did that just happen? So his pants dropped to the ground. He says, oh, and then he starts trying

00:37:26.140 to pull them up and his jacket gets all discombobulated. And it's really symbolic,

00:37:31.740 really fitting. Because Hollywood, the liberal entertainment, they've been caught with their

00:37:37.940 pants down. And their ratings have collapsed and their cultural influences collapsed and they all 0.93

00:37:42.980 hated Trump and yet Trump won the popular vote. And I just, it's really fitting. I don't have much

00:37:47.240 more to say about it. It is very funny to see this guy who really comes off as one of the biggest

00:37:52.780 left-wing jerks in all of Hollywood actually be pantsed on international television. Now, 0.92

00:38:01.020 speaking of the libs being caught with their pants down, LA Mayor Karen Bass was just interviewed about 0.84

00:38:06.660 what happened. You know, on her watch, her city burned to the ground. And technically it wasn't even

00:38:12.940 on her watch because she wasn't looking. She was negligent. She wasn't in town. She wasn't in the 0.87

00:38:16.900 country. She wasn't on the continent. She was in Africa on some kind of public-funded vacation

00:38:22.700 while her city was burning to the ground. And Alex Michelson, an excellent interviewer in LA,

00:38:28.540 asked her, he said, hey, you had warning that this kind of thing could happen. What happened?

00:38:34.060 We know that there was warnings about the weather before you went and you still went. What was the

00:38:39.900 thought process behind going to Ghana? So let me just tell you a couple of things. First of all,

00:38:44.200 when the White House called and asked me if I would represent the president, I said, yes,

00:38:49.500 it was going to be a very, very short trip over a weekend and two business days. We need to look at

00:38:57.440 everything about the preparation and all of that for the fires, because I think when we evaluate that,

00:39:06.120 we will find that although there were warnings that I frankly wasn't aware of, although there were

00:39:12.460 warnings, I think our preparation wasn't what it typically is, meaning that before there's a

00:39:18.880 major weather event, for example, last week when we knew we were going to get into the rains,

00:39:23.560 you saw us come together and us talk about, you know, get your sandbags, bring the K-rails out. 0.59

00:39:30.380 That type of preparation didn't happen. If that had, I will tell you, Alex, I wouldn't have even gone

00:39:36.420 to San Diego, let alone leave the country. But what do you mean there were warnings you weren't aware of?

00:39:40.840 Because I know we were talking about it on the news. A lot of people were talking about the problems.

00:39:46.380 Devastating. Devastating follow-up from Alex Michelson. He goes, hold on, what do you mean

00:39:50.460 that you weren't aware of? Like we were aware of it. We in the news, in the local news,

00:39:57.560 were aware of it. You're the mayor of LA. What do you mean you're not aware? Watch the news. I guess

00:40:01.620 you should watch the news. And then you'd find out about it. Everybody knew about this.

00:40:05.160 After LA burned to the ground, the Libs tried to blame climate change or just some total fluke of

00:40:12.800 nature, unexpected. These Santa Ana winds come in every year. This is not unprecedented in any way.

00:40:19.240 I lived in LA for six, seven years. I could have easily predicted this or something like this.

00:40:23.840 There was no preparation. That reservoir of water in the Palisades, that was empty right before these

00:40:30.580 really dangerous winds were coming in. They had not cleared the brush. There was no serious forest

00:40:34.880 management going on. They were redirecting 95% of rainwater into the Pacific Ocean to protect some

00:40:40.800 stupid delta smelt. I mean, crazy stuff. President Trump was warning about this in 2018. 1.00

00:40:46.580 Not good. Doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I wasn't aware is never a good excuse for a politician,

00:40:54.580 but totally insane in this case. And you've even got liberals turning on Karen Best. Does that mean

00:40:59.740 that even LA, Gamora by the Sea, might see a rightward lurch in the next election? We'll find

00:41:05.340 out. Now, here's a little teaser to leave you on. Transgender vegan cult members have just been 1.00

00:41:12.380 arrested and charged with murder in Maryland. It's always the ones you most expect. 0.73

00:41:18.040 They won't eat fish, but they will murder people. We will get to that story. I guess we got to get to

00:41:23.780 that tomorrow because I need to catch a flight. There won't be any member block today. I'm sorry.

00:41:26.800 Not just because I'm stuck here with three snowflakes, but even if the Daily Wire studios are

00:41:31.920 closed, I need to go get to my flight because I'm going to CPAC. And I'm giving my speech at CPAC.

00:41:37.100 We will see what kinds of bad ideas we eradicate this year. And then all of us together are doing

00:41:42.480 a backstage live from CPAC. So see you there. I'll see you tomorrow. I'm Michael Knowles.

00:41:46.180 This is Michael Knowles Show.

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