The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 17 - Hurricane Harvey： Trump Sidesteps MSM Tsunami

00:00:00.080 As Hurricane Harvey batters Texas and rescue workers do their best to mitigate the enormous damage,

00:00:06.820 President Trump deftly sidesteps the tsunami of negative press

00:00:10.480 that the mainstream media have been waiting to unleash again since this time 12 years ago.

00:00:15.220 Plus, finally, once again, roaming millennial, Amanda Prestigiacomo and Nakeh Jarrett 0.94

00:00:20.240 join the panel of deplorables to discuss Amazon's Whole Foods price cut,

00:00:24.980 Obama's soon-to-be-deported dreamers, and a new study on the best ways to buy happiness.

00:00:30.000 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:40.200 Well, everybody, happy National Bowtie Day.

00:00:42.980 It is, you may have noticed, a little something different about my appearance.

00:00:46.160 This one was given to me by a Republican political operative buddy of mine, Bill, in New York.

00:00:51.420 I think he got it at the Union League Club there, which is a conservative club.

00:00:55.240 And I will say, I think that all men should know how to tie a bow tie.

00:01:00.340 It is a skill that any good gentleman should know, and you should use that skill very rarely,

00:01:05.340 or else you become like Bill Nye or something.

00:01:08.000 Bill Nye, the not-very-scientific guy.

00:01:10.100 So, happy National Bowtie Day.

00:01:11.640 I hope you all celebrate as well.

00:01:13.220 And I also have to thank a little bit of news over the weekend.

00:01:15.980 We were off.

00:01:16.600 We didn't have a show on Friday.

00:01:17.960 And I came home on Friday.

00:01:19.640 I never check my mail.

00:01:20.740 So, my mailbox is stuffed with like 100 Wall Street journals and letters and stuff.

00:01:25.400 And there's a letter in there from the White House.

00:01:27.900 There's a letter from, so I open it up, and it's from President Trump, actually.

00:01:32.020 He was thanking me for my literary contribution.

00:01:35.380 And I think the letter said, congratulations on your success.

00:01:38.820 Keep up the good work.

00:01:39.640 So, thank you, President Trump, a true supporter of scholarship and fine literature.

00:01:45.340 I really appreciate it.

00:01:46.660 And speaking of President Trump and doing a good job, we have his response to Hurricane Harvey.

00:01:52.940 So, just in short, I'm sure you've all been seeing the news clips and reading about it.

00:01:56.120 This has been truly a catastrophe.

00:01:57.720 It's been even worse than anyone predicted.

00:01:59.740 There are six people confirmed dead already, but rescue workers haven't even gotten to the hardest-hit parts of Houston and other parts of Texas.

00:02:08.040 Houston's expected to get a total of 50 inches of rain.

00:02:11.420 That's an annual total in two or three days.

00:02:15.480 They got 20 inches of rain within 24 hours.

00:02:18.740 There are more than 3,000 National Guard troops deployed already, 130-mile-an-hour winds.

00:02:24.480 And President Trump will travel to Texas on Tuesday.

00:02:27.660 So, he'll travel tomorrow.

00:02:28.580 Now, the similarities between this and Hurricane Katrina are pretty eerie, actually.

00:02:34.520 Hurricane Katrina happened almost 12 years to the day before Hurricane Harvey did.

00:02:41.000 Katrina was on August 29th.

00:02:42.980 Harvey's on August 25th.

00:02:45.040 Both presidents were on vacation.

00:02:46.960 President Trump was at Camp David as this was happening.

00:02:50.080 The media have both been waiting to pounce on the presidents for things that are beyond their control.

00:02:55.860 They're both ready to criticize all of the verbal responses.

00:02:59.660 So, last week, before going to Camp David, President Trump was asked if he had last-minute advice for Texas before the hurricane made landfall.

00:03:07.780 This was his response.

00:03:08.640 The audio is a little bit hard to hear, but he's asked, as he's walking to the helicopter, he's asked, do you have any advice for the people of Texas?

00:03:26.680 He says, good luck, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to say, except that the president is now expected to give grand statements of spiritual consolation and high-minded advice.

00:03:40.600 And that's just not what this president is for.

00:03:43.220 This president is a guy who just goes into deregulation.

00:03:47.620 He's a guy who's moving around all of his administrators.

00:03:52.380 He's a guy who's in the weeds in the politics, but he doesn't really rise up to this great moral speaker in a way that we've come to expect from presidents.

00:04:02.960 President Obama was sort of the opposite.

00:04:04.500 All he would do is give these grandiose speeches, and he couldn't actually accomplish anything through his own policies or through pushing legislation.

00:04:12.040 So, he's been roundly criticized for saying that.

00:04:15.360 You could see the mainstream media had their fangs out to just rip this guy to shreds.

00:04:20.820 President Trump was asked what to say to Texas.

00:04:23.000 He says, good luck.

00:04:23.920 It was everywhere.

00:04:24.540 Washington Post, Politico ran a piece that was very honest about the political perils of this storm, knowing what happened to President Bush and Hurricane Katrina.

00:04:32.460 So, you remember, during Hurricane Katrina, here was President Bush's response just a few days after he had been criticized for his lack of a response to the natural disaster.

00:04:43.660 Americans have every right to expect a more effective response in a time of emergency.

00:04:49.460 When the federal government fails to meet such an obligation, I, as president, am responsible for the problem and for the solution.

00:04:57.800 So, President Bush, as always, he's taking responsibility, even when it isn't exactly his responsibility to take.

00:05:05.520 The troubles with Katrina were largely failures of local government, of Democrats who destroyed that city, who didn't prepare for these storms, didn't have sufficient levies to keep the water out.

00:05:15.760 And the federal government did respond.

00:05:18.560 He was criticized for not going to Louisiana, which he said he didn't do because he didn't want to cause more trouble there and make it more difficult to lead the recovery efforts.

00:05:29.080 Nevertheless, this still wasn't enough.

00:05:31.020 And then we got the most famous criticism of President Bush's response from that famed, that world-renowned psychologist, Kanye West.

00:05:38.620 Just to imagine if I was down there and those are my people down there, so anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help with the setup, the way America is set up to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off, as slow as possible. 1.00

00:05:56.980 I mean, this is, Red Cross is doing everything they can.

00:05:59.360 And we already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way, and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us. 0.99

00:06:09.980 George Bush doesn't care about black people. 0.99

00:06:14.100 Please call. 0.99

00:06:15.800 Mike Myers' response there, looking at Kanye West, that poor guy.

00:06:21.640 He's just like, did I stutter?

00:06:23.160 Yeah, just like a train just hit him.

00:06:25.840 And, of course, there's the ever-eloquent Kanye West.

00:06:28.600 I'm not – they say that to write well is to think clearly.

00:06:31.580 That's why it's so hard.

00:06:32.780 I think the same might be true of speaking.

00:06:34.980 So, anyway, none of this was enough for President Bush.

00:06:38.520 He made the right decision not to go to New Orleans and not to further add to the chaos.

00:06:44.800 President Trump is not making these mistakes.

00:06:47.060 He has clearly learned from his predecessor.

00:06:50.200 He knows the media.

00:06:51.020 If President Bush was the worst at maneuvering around the mainstream media of any modern president, President Trump is – he's a creature of it.

00:07:00.600 He was made for it.

00:07:02.040 He is the media.

00:07:03.540 I think that's why he's so good at navigating through them.

00:07:06.740 So what's he doing now?

00:07:08.520 He's tweeting.

00:07:09.280 He's tweeting a lot.

00:07:10.960 He knows he's unlikely to get a fair shake in the press.

00:07:13.260 So he's going to write the story himself.

00:07:14.860 He sent out 22 tweets in the last few days himself about Hurricane Harvey and then four retweets of local officials and other federal officials, Pruitt and Vice President Pence.

00:07:25.880 The vast majority of his Twitter timeline is him talking about Hurricane Harvey.

00:07:30.300 We get, as Hurricane Harvey intensifies, remember to plan ahead.

00:07:33.440 I have spoken with Governor Abbott of Texas, Louisiana Governor Edwards, closely monitoring Hurricane Harvey.

00:07:38.520 You can't tell me I'm not monitoring.

00:07:40.040 I told you myself.

00:07:41.100 I received a Hurricane Harvey briefing this morning.

00:07:43.360 I encourage everyone in the path of Hurricane Harvey to heed the advice.

00:07:47.200 Just arrived at Camp David, where I am closely watching the path and doings of Hurricane Harvey.

00:07:52.920 Be safe, in that wonderful Trumpian fashion of all caps and an exclamation point.

00:07:57.420 On and on, we will remain fully engaged with open lines of communication.

00:08:01.040 To ensure your safety ahead of Harvey, heed the warnings.

00:08:03.380 He's repeating himself even.

00:08:04.860 But he will not be accused of not paying attention to this and of letting this disaster consume the local area without a federal response.

00:08:15.160 The mainstream media are furious.

00:08:17.540 They are furious that he's handling this well.

00:08:20.380 So Vox tweeted out a headline, President Trump's response to Hurricane Harvey devastation.

00:08:26.300 Wow.

00:08:27.140 Trump's bowled over by Harvey's size and scale, not its impact on victims. 0.99

00:08:30.900 Absolutely ridiculous.

00:08:32.120 In one of these 26 tweets, he used the word wow to describe an unprecedented hurricane in Texas. 0.87

00:08:38.800 I think that's fair enough.

00:08:40.220 And if that weren't enough for Vox, they said, here's when President Trump's response to Hurricane Harvey will really matter.

00:08:45.980 Whatever he says while it's unfolding matters far less than what he does in the coming weeks.

00:08:50.460 They're basically admitting we were hoping that this guy would screw it up while it's happening, just like President Bush did.

00:08:56.860 He didn't.

00:08:57.760 So now we have to say that doesn't really matter.

00:08:59.720 Even though three days ago they said that he needed a robust response while it was happening, that good luck wasn't enough.

00:09:05.420 So now they're saying we just need to watch the coming weeks.

00:09:07.860 That is not enough.

00:09:08.880 And all of this misses the point a little bit on the difference between the federal government and the state and local governments.

00:09:14.400 This is a regional issue.

00:09:16.460 It's a state issue.

00:09:18.060 So we're all turning to the president to see how the federal government is going to react.

00:09:23.460 Really, I think this undercuts a lot of the federalism and the principles of limited government that we constantly are talking about on the right.

00:09:32.440 CNN, believe it or not, CNN, which John Nolte assures me is Hitler and ISIS.

00:09:37.760 CNN was shockingly somewhat honest in their headline today.

00:09:41.080 They said, quote, this is truly a magical day.

00:09:45.280 Maybe we've all just been wiped into the apocalypse and we're seeing the impossible.

00:09:50.100 The quote, Trump meeting and tweeting his Harvey moment.

00:09:54.880 So CNN is acknowledging Trump is really rising to the occasion here.

00:09:58.460 He's plugged in.

00:09:59.620 He's being serious in his response.

00:10:02.820 He's not yelling at celebrities or something.

00:10:05.180 He's being earnest.

00:10:06.820 And he's actually talking to officials and broadcasting that for all of us.

00:10:10.520 They had to get that little jibe in that he's tweeting about it.

00:10:13.320 But the only reason he's tweeting about it is because you guys wouldn't give him a fair shake if he didn't.

00:10:17.980 If he didn't have that direct line of communication to the American people, all we would be hearing is a replay of 2005. 0.93

00:10:24.820 And Donald Trump doesn't care about black people. 0.92

00:10:26.660 I don't know how many black people there are in Houston. 0.97

00:10:28.080 But Donald Trump doesn't care about Texans or something like that.

00:10:31.640 And fortunately for him and for us on the right and as Americans, he is able to sidestep those Democrat hacks.

00:10:38.680 With that, we have to bring on our panel.

00:10:40.820 This is a very special day.

00:10:42.380 This is the longest that I have gone since launching my show without speaking to Roaming Millennial.

00:10:47.260 It has been hell.

00:10:48.540 I have the shakes.

00:10:49.480 I've been in withdrawal.

00:10:50.680 We have Roaming Millennial back. 0.97

00:10:51.980 We have Amanda Presto Giacomo from The Daily Wire back.

00:10:54.960 We just had her in studio last week.

00:10:56.960 And Not Gay Jared, the one and only Not Gray Jared, host of The Morning Grinders. 0.97

00:11:01.900 And he's on some other guy's show with some kind of mug or something.

00:11:05.120 I don't know.

00:11:05.660 I forget the details.

00:11:07.380 Roaming.

00:11:08.920 What role has the tweeting played in this news cycle?

00:11:12.140 I think it's actually been really smart of Trump to say, like you said, almost not overdo it, but just really make sure to cover all his bases.

00:11:21.640 Make sure that there's no way that anyone can accuse him of not taking this seriously or, you know, trying to sidestep this.

00:11:28.840 I mean, I think if the Charlottesville incident kind of taught him anything, it's that he needs to be, you know, almost shove it down these people's throats with what he thinks, what he cares about.

00:11:38.520 And so, as always with his Twitter, I think he has this great tool to just reach out to people and kind of even sidestep any of the need to go through the media to communicate with his base and even people who are critical of him.

00:11:50.740 And I think, you know, there have been some rough instances of his Twitter use, but this is an instance where he's actually done a good job, in my opinion.

00:11:56.840 That's right.

00:11:57.200 And he hasn't tweeted very much about Charlottesville.

00:12:00.260 He was basically silent about it until he gave that statement, and it seemed to come back and bite him.

00:12:05.400 Do you think he should have used Twitter during Charlottesville, too?

00:12:09.440 You know what?

00:12:10.140 I was someone who, I was satisfied with his initial condemnation of all violence, hatred, and bigotry, and I was further satisfied by his explicit condemnation of neo-Nazis and the KKK.

00:12:21.480 Unbelievable that you would allow that kind of racist rhetoric to go on.

00:12:25.660 You know, kind of taking him at his word.

00:12:27.720 It's this new thing.

00:12:28.720 But, you know, he actually did, I think, initially tweet out at least one thing, you know, condemning violence generally on Twitter.

00:12:36.320 But if we look at people like Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, and, you know, even someone like Mitt Romney, who were very, very vocal about this on social media, they're people who the, you know, mainstream media have actually been praising in regards to this.

00:12:49.040 And so for, I don't know, the leftist elites, at least, that is more what they were looking for.

00:12:54.700 But, again, you know, I think there are people that they're just never going to be happy with anything he does anyway.

00:12:59.280 Right.

00:12:59.580 So he might as well get his message out there. 0.99

00:13:02.180 Not gay, Jared. 1.00

00:13:03.240 Were the attacks on Bush during Hurricane Katrina, and I know you were, like, four during Hurricane Katrina. 0.84

00:13:09.100 I was, yeah.

00:13:09.780 You can barely remember this, but were the attacks on him fair, looking back on it now through the lens of Hurricane Harvey, was it fair, or did he just not fight back against an unfair media narrative?

00:13:21.740 I think Trump really has paved the way for the pushback.

00:13:24.960 I don't know that it's such a different world we live in now compared to back then.

00:13:28.360 You know, there was no Twitter for Bush to take advantage of to get his message out there.

00:13:34.700 I don't know.

00:13:35.180 I think, gosh, how old would I have been?

00:13:37.760 I would have been 15, 15 when all this happened.

00:13:40.040 So for me to even look back through the lens of today, it's not only just warped and so different, radically different, the way the media is.

00:13:46.480 I think the presentation, the pushback that we as conservatives have against the media, it didn't exist.

00:13:51.880 I would have liked, in hindsight, to see Bush maybe push back a lot more and not take, you know, the blame for things that maybe weren't his fault.

00:13:58.100 But that's a difficult one.

00:14:01.380 I don't know.

00:14:01.940 2017 just changes everything.

00:14:03.440 It changes the lens of – when you try to force history through that lens, it becomes a really weird and awkward place, kind of like I was in a 15-year-old not looking at the news.

00:14:12.460 Not nearly that weird and awkward.

00:14:13.920 Certainly.

00:14:14.580 No, that's a great point.

00:14:15.880 We are hitting Bush a lot, I think, because he didn't fight back.

00:14:20.100 He never pushed back on the media.

00:14:21.680 All of these awful Bush-lied people died. 0.88

00:14:23.600 No war for oil.

00:14:24.600 All these lies that they promoted.

00:14:27.220 But the question is, how would he have fought back?

00:14:29.720 You know, Donald Trump is a creature of reality TV that he essentially made himself.

00:14:34.300 And back then there was no real direct line of communication.

00:14:38.040 That's true.

00:14:38.440 We might be a little unfair to Mr. George W. Bush.

00:14:42.020 Amanda, I'm very –

00:14:43.660 I'm sorry.

00:14:43.980 Go ahead.

00:14:44.740 Like, can you imagine if there would have been Bush Twitter, though?

00:14:47.520 I mean, we kind of missed out on something potentially great there.

00:14:51.220 I'm actually a little bit upset thinking about how great that could have been.

00:14:53.480 I hear a Netflix series in the making.

00:14:54.980 I don't think he would have given the media quite the gifts Trump does, though, sometimes.

00:14:59.080 So, you know, when Trump does come out – I had a problem.

00:15:02.020 Was it yesterday, Sunday, Saturday, Trump came out and tweeted something about his winning bigly in Missouri kind of tweets?

00:15:08.960 I do think Trump needs to be careful with not handing the media – they're not going to let him win no matter what. 0.95

00:15:13.600 But when you hand them gifts, when they say you're the dumbest president in the history of the presidency and you come out and stare directly into the sun, that's a gift.

00:15:20.840 Don't give the media gifts to run with because it's not helping you at all. 0.95

00:15:25.480 So it takes away from the things he does that are legitimately, you know, smart, wise, strategic moves as a president.

00:15:33.040 It's also literally a gift.

00:15:34.840 It's also literally a moving image of him staring at the sun.

00:15:38.760 A gift and a gift.

00:15:39.380 Well, he proved they were fake news, right?

00:15:41.260 Looked at the sun, still not blind.

00:15:43.020 So take that, science.

00:15:44.340 Absolutely.

00:15:44.780 People – he showed the opposite of what people were saying he was showing, you know?

00:15:50.200 They set out – he doesn't believe the fake news, so he's going to blind himself.

00:15:54.200 Doesn't look blind to me.

00:15:55.220 Looks like he has great vision, vision for the future.

00:15:58.680 Amanda, why are we so focused on the federal response here?

00:16:01.700 This is basically a state and regional issue.

00:16:04.600 Obviously, it's a tremendous state and regional issue.

00:16:06.940 But the federal government has promised to support state and local governments.

00:16:10.960 Why aren't we looking at the governors?

00:16:12.080 Why is everything focused on the president?

00:16:15.760 Yeah, well, this is what happened during Katrina.

00:16:17.760 It was actually – President Bush did a fine job, but it's the local level that fumbled everything, and he got blamed for it.

00:16:24.440 And like we saw in that video clip, George W. Bush, because he's just an honorable guy, took responsibility when he shouldn't have.

00:16:30.240 That wasn't his fault.

00:16:31.360 They were stonewalling him.

00:16:32.380 They told him, no, like, we don't stand down.

00:16:34.300 We don't need you.

00:16:35.240 We don't need help.

00:16:36.020 The evacuation was terrible.

00:16:37.400 They delayed it way too long.

00:16:39.280 That was all their fumble.

00:16:41.180 And this is a local, regional thing.

00:16:43.000 And now we look at what's going on in Texas, and there was much better management at the local and state level.

00:16:50.180 And that's why we're seeing this great success.

00:16:51.920 Yes, President Trump is offering support, as he should.

00:16:54.680 So did George W. Bush.

00:16:56.140 The difference is the optics.

00:16:58.380 George W. Bush says that, you know, I'm sorry, it's my fault.

00:17:01.420 Donald Trump goes to his Twitter feed and shows, no, I'm doing this, this, and this.

00:17:05.060 We're doing a great job.

00:17:06.020 Yeah, and that's the difference.

00:17:08.860 I mean, this is a local state thing.

00:17:10.700 And then, of course, the federal government is there for support.

00:17:12.960 But this is more local than anything else.

00:17:15.180 I even found his good luck to be clearly well-intentioned and fairly on point.

00:17:20.220 He's not saying we're going to abandon you in the storm.

00:17:23.060 He's saying this, obviously, we're not going to be able to effectively control disaster relief from thousands of miles away.

00:17:30.300 So good luck.

00:17:31.720 Take care of yourselves.

00:17:32.820 And we'll be there when you need to recover.

00:17:34.980 Yeah, it doesn't matter what he said.

00:17:37.120 They were going to jump on him anyway.

00:17:38.360 So even a good luck triggered them.

00:17:41.260 Absolutely.

00:17:42.020 All right.

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00:18:44.980 Okay.

00:18:45.380 We need to move on to very important news.

00:18:47.380 Amazon has purchased the overpriced left-wing yuppie food chain Whole Foods in recent weeks.

00:18:52.020 And on their first day of operations, they have cut prices by 43%.

00:18:56.320 Now I'm very excited because it's the only place to get broccoli rabe, which is my favorite vegetable.

00:19:01.060 And also because even after selling a blank book and making it number one in the world, I can't afford to shop at Whole Foods.

00:19:06.360 It's not – it's out of my price range.

00:19:08.260 So this is great news as far as I'm concerned.

00:19:10.620 Roaming.

00:19:11.380 There are a lot of worries about Amazon having a virtual monopoly, tons of control.

00:19:16.960 But if it'll get us cheaper fish, should we really care?

00:19:19.340 Should we worry about these tech giants amassing all this power?

00:19:23.420 Well, I think, you know, worrying about monopolies in the age where Google controls pretty much everything is definitely a legitimate concern.

00:19:31.080 But when it comes to Amazon and Whole Foods specifically, you know, there are so many competitors out there at the moment.

00:19:37.060 I don't think we need to be worried just yet.

00:19:39.200 But I am really curious about, you know, all these price cuts they're doing.

00:19:42.480 Like, it's too early to say now, but I'm really wanting to know what's going on internally, like what kind of changes they're making to the way the company is run, that they're able to do this, right?

00:19:51.480 I mean, because like anyone, you know, I want to eat healthy, but I also want to pay, I don't know, rent, right?

00:19:57.720 So for the longest time, I've always thought like Whole Foods is just like a place you don't go, like a Lamborghini dealership.

00:20:02.940 But now, you know, I'll get some of the price drops and yeah, it's so much more affordable.

00:20:07.040 And I'm just wondering how they're doing it.

00:20:09.520 Like, is this like predatory pricing?

00:20:11.120 Are they just trying to, you know, make everyone go out of business and then they jack it up?

00:20:13.920 Like, I'm actually curious as to what's going on in Whole Foods where they're managing to make these massive cuts.

00:20:19.300 I wonder that as well, the same question could be true of Amazon, but Amazon keeps its prices relatively low.

00:20:25.540 Amanda, on that, everybody talks about loving mom and pop shops.

00:20:30.220 It's so nice.

00:20:31.260 It's the old America, Main Street, but nobody actually shops there because the prices are too high.

00:20:36.720 Should we embrace our corporate overlords?

00:20:40.280 Yeah, I mean, I'm not one of these people who thinks Walmart is evil or any of these big corporations are evil.

00:20:47.080 They hire a lot of people.

00:20:48.220 They help, you know, people with lower income to buy goods and services.

00:20:53.860 That said, I do wish there were more people, you know, supporting local businesses.

00:20:59.040 Growing up, my dad had a local, a small bakery, a small businesses.

00:21:03.240 And it just, it just, you know, that sense of community that we don't have anymore, you know, helping your neighbors and going to your neighbor's store.

00:21:10.640 That would be nice, but at the same token, I mean, Walmart and, you know, now this merger with Amazon, with Whole Foods, they're driving prices down.

00:21:19.860 And that does help consumers and that does help, you know, your options for low price, decent quality goods.

00:21:28.780 So, you know, it's a balance.

00:21:30.920 Right.

00:21:31.060 I don't ever borrow cups of sugar from my neighbor.

00:21:33.480 I don't think anybody's done that in about 40 years because you can just get a drone from Amazon to deliver it to you, to deliver a whole bag of sugar.

00:21:41.500 So much, there goes the old American community, I guess. 1.00

00:21:44.700 Okay.

00:21:45.240 I actually don't know my neighbor's name.

00:21:47.220 I'm just realizing now.

00:21:48.900 Well, is that just because you're in Asia and you can't pronounce it or something?

00:21:51.820 Or do you mean in America?

00:21:53.660 Well, both.

00:21:54.380 I don't know.

00:21:55.120 I'm just, yeah, I've never had it in my mind like, I should introduce myself to the neighbors.

00:21:59.000 Maybe that's awful, but I'm just like, I don't know, when I'm home, it's like, doors locked, sweatpants are on, you know, yeah.

00:22:07.120 Go with Mr. Lee.

00:22:08.440 You're bound to be fine.

00:22:08.880 My speciality.

00:22:09.800 It's like a one in ten chance.

00:22:12.120 It's a fair bet, yeah.

00:22:13.540 And maybe, you know, it's roaming.

00:22:15.080 I've seen the way some people post on YouTube and tweet to you.

00:22:18.820 I would just keep the door locked, keep the gun loaded. 0.99

00:22:21.360 These guys, they're crazy. 0.99

00:22:23.040 You don't need to be introducing yourselves to them. 0.99

00:22:25.200 Okay, we have to move on to the fake news.

00:22:27.380 In a typically hysterical fashion, the New York Times reports today, this is the headline, quote,

00:22:33.340 Dreamer plan that aided 800,000 immigrants is threatened.

00:22:37.840 The Dreamers, the Dreamer plan for those 800,000 immigrants, not illegal aliens.

00:22:42.860 They're immigrants of a dubiously legal variety. 1.00

00:22:46.280 Now, former President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, immigration plan,

00:22:52.160 may not survive legal scrutiny for the simple reason that it's illegal.

00:22:55.880 Can you imagine that?

00:22:57.100 Roaming, is DACA deader than disco? 0.56

00:23:00.700 I think so.

00:23:01.900 And Dreamers, and, you know, even the concept kind of, even more broadly than Dreamers,

00:23:06.520 of, you know, citizenship through birth, that's something that I think a lot of people are

00:23:11.240 looking at more closely into how it's affecting immigration patterns.

00:23:15.520 Because, you know, I think everybody sympathizes with people who were brought over when they

00:23:20.220 were younger, when they had no choice.

00:23:21.840 Not gay Jared does not. 1.00

00:23:22.940 He's a psychopath. 1.00

00:23:23.520 He does not sympathize with them either. 0.99

00:23:24.920 Right.

00:23:24.940 He doesn't, he doesn't.

00:23:26.640 But, you know, these kids, it wasn't their fault.

00:23:28.820 But at the same time, we have to think about this logically.

00:23:31.300 If we do give all of these people who were, you know, brought even, you know, against their

00:23:36.400 will, they didn't have a choice with their parents, if we give them status, literally,

00:23:40.940 that's just going to encourage more people to do it, right?

00:23:43.160 Because what you're doing is sending a message to people that, hey, if you come here illegally,

00:23:47.540 you know, you might still be in trouble, but there's a chance that your child will be okay.

00:23:52.220 And, you know, America is probably the number one most wanted place to come for immigrants.

00:23:57.460 And there are people out there who will take that chance, who will risk themselves being

00:24:01.160 deported or put in jail just for their kids to have that legal status.

00:24:04.480 So I think the idea of giving dreamers status is just, it's very dangerous and it sets a

00:24:09.420 very bad precedent.

00:24:10.420 It creates this awful incentive that's only going to lead to more crime, obviously more.

00:24:14.560 And the conditions when you cross that border, I think I read some study that about 80% of

00:24:20.200 women and girls who cross are sexually assaulted.

00:24:23.400 There are a lot of people are maimed.

00:24:24.680 They have to go through these awful cartels.

00:24:26.560 But Amanda, isn't it a little uncompassionate to deport these kids who, they didn't make a

00:24:31.840 choice to come here.

00:24:32.600 They just found themselves here at the age of two.

00:24:35.060 So they broke the law, but, you know, they were toddlers.

00:24:38.120 Isn't it uncompassionate to ship them back home?

00:24:40.820 They've already built a life here.

00:24:43.380 Yeah, see, politically, this is a tough situation.

00:24:47.460 This is not the most politically advantageous thing to do to support these children, the DACA 1.00

00:24:54.220 people who were basically unconstitutionally given citizenship or legal status under President

00:25:01.260 Obama and benefits and such.

00:25:03.380 Politically, it's not the most savory thing to send them back.

00:25:07.040 But the thing is, as Rami was saying, it sets a really dangerous precedent and a really bad

00:25:10.500 incentive for this stuff to keep happening.

00:25:14.400 President Trump should end the DACA program.

00:25:17.160 I know that there's talks that he's going to try to get the Rays Act pushed through, you know, to kind of then, like, keep DACA in place, kind of save that, and then get the Rays Act through, which would be fantastic, just simply because of the politics of it.

00:25:33.400 There are even Trump supporters, a majority of Trump supporters, who are not, like, gung-ho on ending DACA, who are okay with leaving these children here or these people who are now grown here.

00:25:46.980 It's not the most politically advantageous thing to do.

00:25:49.560 That said, I think you've got to get rid of it.

00:25:52.320 I mean, you've got to stop it because it is such a dangerous precedent, and it is unconstitutional.

00:25:56.020 We are a land of laws.

00:25:57.140 It's clearly illegal.

00:25:58.020 And you never see that reported, by the way.

00:26:00.960 You never see it reported that a plurality or a majority of Trump supporters don't think we should just boot the kids out right away because that would obviously contradict the narrative.

00:26:09.580 It's like 75% or something.

00:26:11.460 Yeah.

00:26:12.540 But Amanda raises a great point with the Rays Act, and that's something I hadn't even thought about.

00:26:16.540 But, you know, if there was an immigration system in place that favored high-skilled immigrants that spoke English and, you know, went to American universities and, you know, higher learning institutions, you know, there would be a possibility for these dreamers to just apply for citizenship naturally or, you know, legal status naturally through that Rays Act.

00:26:34.000 Because I'm sure, you know, many of these people, they're skilled.

00:26:36.340 They have an education.

00:26:37.400 So, you know, this is kind of an issue where perhaps we're not even looking from this from the right perspective.

00:26:43.380 Absolutely.

00:26:44.480 Sorry, go ahead, Naki, Jared.

00:26:46.540 Oh, I would say the problem is, too, you go to every leftist website, every HuffPo website is reporting on dreamers, and in the background you can hear the Sarah McLachlan music playing trying to kick these people, right?

00:26:55.700 And I get it, I get it.

00:26:56.800 It's sad, but for every hardworking, you know, English-speaking, tax-paying, educated dreamer, we've got Jose over here stabbing people.

00:27:07.000 So, who's under the same umbrella.

00:27:08.900 He's referring to a real person, by the way.

00:27:10.680 In the studio, there is an illegal immigrant named Jose stabbing people. 1.00

00:27:13.960 Yeah, it's a real problem. 0.96

00:27:14.840 He keeps away the riffraff. 1.00

00:27:17.660 I'm in Texas, so we're under a feet of water here as we speak.

00:27:20.340 Yeah, right.

00:27:22.060 Exactly.

00:27:23.300 But, you know, Miss Millennial is right. 0.95

00:27:25.260 We do, it can't be plan A.

00:27:26.360 So, I think what Trump is doing is in kind of using it as some chips to play with kind of the Democrats on this thing to say, hey, build the wall because either we need to yank this program or nothing.

00:27:36.860 It's all or nothing because if you don't have the wall, if you don't have things in place that can really curb immigration, you know, illegal immigration, it doesn't work.

00:27:44.800 Because then it does become plan A for people.

00:27:47.040 That's what I would do if I was over there.

00:27:48.400 I would just hop the border, throw my kid, and say we're good as done.

00:27:51.060 We're Americans.

00:27:52.280 We're Americans in July.

00:27:53.180 I would say Trump supporters would be okay with getting money to fund a wall and having the RAISE Act passed.

00:27:59.380 So, we can get Congress to, you know, coalesce around that and then Trump maybe defers on DACA and lets that go.

00:28:05.280 But Trump supporters are not going to be upset.

00:28:07.120 I mean, the RAISE Act would be huge.

00:28:08.620 It's going to cap refugees. 1.00

00:28:10.540 Again, it's a system that looks at who we want.

00:28:13.280 We get to choose who comes into our system.

00:28:14.820 It's not just family based on relatives.

00:28:17.100 It cuts immigration in half.

00:28:19.120 So, this would be a huge win to kind of, as Jared was saying, you know, use it as leverage.

00:28:24.300 And I think he could do that.

00:28:26.120 And walls work.

00:28:26.600 You know, we got rid of DACA, right?

00:28:28.060 We were sitting at DACA for parents.

00:28:30.480 Was that like last month or two months ago?

00:28:32.160 Yeah. 0.83

00:28:32.340 Yeah, that's silly. 0.57

00:28:32.980 Yeah.

00:28:33.460 And your point, Jared, walls work.

00:28:35.700 If you build institutions and organizations and physical barriers to keep people from coming over, then you can talk about DACA or the Dreamers or whatever euphemism they want to use.

00:28:46.940 It's showing, Michael, because if you don't know this, when you build a wall, it's really about the birds.

00:28:52.380 If you heard Jeff Corwin talking about it.

00:28:54.440 So, you know, the birds.

00:28:55.000 The birds have a real problem.

00:28:56.140 It's going to just screw up the ecosystem.

00:28:57.740 I know.

00:28:58.120 Because birds apparently can't fly over walls.

00:28:59.640 I wear my species privilege on my sleeve. 0.90

00:29:01.880 It's disgusting. 0.95

00:29:02.520 Sometimes I disgust myself. 0.94

00:29:03.760 It's hard.

00:29:04.120 Now we need to talk about happiness.

00:29:06.320 Now that we've talked about the dreamers and dreaming, we need to talk about happiness.

00:29:09.740 A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that you can buy happiness.

00:29:16.880 Money spent on things does not apparently increase your happiness.

00:29:20.540 But money spent on things that save you time does buy happiness.

00:29:24.240 So it's a great idea and you should save your pennies.

00:29:26.520 Now, okay, Jared, is this just because we're soft and lazy and need more time to watch TV on the couch?

00:29:31.900 Oh, gosh.

00:29:34.300 I don't know.

00:29:35.300 It could be.

00:29:36.540 I used to never think you could buy happiness.

00:29:39.340 But one time I got to write on a yacht someone else's, someone else's own.

00:29:42.580 And I became a believer you could potentially buy it.

00:29:44.680 You could buy it.

00:29:45.300 There's a cost for that yacht and you could buy it.

00:29:47.900 And what this study is saying is that it's actually saying if you buy the yacht, that won't necessarily make you happier.

00:29:53.520 Which makes me question the science in the beginning.

00:29:57.020 But it says if you buy a vacuum cleaner or a laundry machine or a dishwasher, it will make you happier because it will save your time from doing mundane tasks.

00:30:06.220 And roaming, is this part of a larger trend?

00:30:08.620 Because in decadent times like ours, we don't like to do drudgery that characterized all of humanity until about 60 years ago.

00:30:16.420 So, you know, Adam pruned the Garden of Eden, right?

00:30:19.080 We've always done these kind of mundane tasks.

00:30:21.740 Is there something that we lose by not doing that, by farming it out to our computer or our dishwasher or something?

00:30:29.340 Well, this is a hard question for me to answer because on the one hand, I think that definitely as a society, as individuals, we're becoming a lot more, I don't want to say lazy, but yeah, lazy.

00:30:39.900 There's a lot of stuff that, you know, if it's not automated, we won't even think to do ourselves because that's not the mentality we've been brought up.

00:30:46.740 You know, we can either pay someone else to do it or outsource it to Subwood or have a computer do it.

00:30:51.680 You know, on the other hand, I'm very lazy and I like that.

00:30:55.260 So, yeah, I'm conflicted about this.

00:30:57.860 But, you know, I think especially when I look at children who are, I mean, I guess Generation Z, even younger, I mean, they're growing up without having to do things like, I don't know, like even worry about landlines, right?

00:31:12.700 Everyone has a cell phone now.

00:31:13.840 You don't even have to worry about the constraints of a wire and just stuff like that.

00:31:17.680 I think that we're not necessarily happier, but I would say that we are more comfortable and a lot of people are conflating comfort with happiness.

00:31:25.200 And, you know, we're so busy.

00:31:26.280 We have so many things to do now.

00:31:27.720 With all of my new responsibilities at The Daily Wire, if I don't get a solid 14 hours of sleep, I am useless the next day.

00:31:34.500 I can't do my show and I guess that's pretty much all I'm doing now.

00:31:37.600 You need that beauty sleep, of course.

00:31:38.960 I need it.

00:31:39.700 I need that beauty sleep.

00:31:40.880 Otherwise, I'm going to look just awful in National Bowtie Day.

00:31:43.900 Amanda, you are the saltiest writer at The Daily Wire, I think.

00:31:47.300 I think maybe even including Ben.

00:31:49.380 What makes you happy?

00:31:50.540 What's the key?

00:31:51.100 Yeah, this is going to sound really cliche, but it's really not.

00:31:57.160 I enjoy bothering feminists quite a bit. 1.00

00:32:00.120 It really is.

00:32:00.720 I mean, literally, there's like endless blogs about me and I just think they're really funny and I get a little joy out of that and it's not any money.

00:32:09.060 Like, I get paid to do it.

00:32:10.300 I actually make money doing it.

00:32:11.660 And it's just, it brings me serious joy.

00:32:15.080 I mean, it sounds cliche, but I genuinely enjoy when I love it.

00:32:19.120 Plus, you have this great Tumblr.

00:32:20.960 You can catch all those tears and keep them for yourself.

00:32:23.440 You get the time and the things.

00:32:26.160 Yeah, it's fantastic.

00:32:27.580 That's amazing.

00:32:27.960 Now, okay, Jared, what makes you happy?

00:32:30.700 Mug Club makes me happy.

00:32:32.500 I knew that I was coming back.

00:32:33.660 I knew that I was 69 for students and vets.

00:32:35.300 Or Tumblrs.

00:32:35.860 Tumblrs are pretty awesome, too, I hear.

00:32:37.540 I don't know.

00:32:38.140 I can't confirm.

00:32:38.500 You know, while we're talking merch, I got to say, I see your t-shirt and I can't really read.

00:32:43.600 What does the t-shirt say?

00:32:45.340 It is, uh, socialism is for figs.

00:32:48.480 It's for figs and it's that Che Guevara shirt with a limp wrist.

00:32:52.780 That is right.

00:32:53.700 That is right. 0.96

00:32:54.400 And, um, it's the quickest way to not only trigger people, but probably get punched in the face as well.

00:32:58.960 As many of our followers have.

00:33:00.140 I always love the subtlety at Louder with Crowder.

00:33:02.620 You guys, you paint with such a subtle brush.

00:33:05.900 Real subtle.

00:33:06.140 And, uh, coming soon, I believe, we have some onesies coming, uh, to the Lattercraft story.

00:33:12.080 There's actually, there's actually a checkbox on them to say, yes, I, I, I acknowledge I am a horrible parent.

00:33:16.520 Well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna bleach my eyes whenever you and Mr. Crowder start wearing that.

00:33:21.100 Roaming, what makes you happy?

00:33:22.100 This is gonna sound really petty, but I've gotten into this habit on Twitter where if there's someone who's trolling me, I'll, like, follow them back and then, like, not harass them, but just, like, a little bit until they block me.

00:33:35.880 Um, so I've had a lot of fun with that recently, and that is extremely petty, and I apologize to anyone who follows me on Twitter, because a lot of the time I'm just fighting with strangers, but, yeah, I would have to say, you know, if I had to choose something, yeah.

00:33:49.840 Roaming, you just, this was a big mistake, because now every single person who wants you to follow them is gonna start fighting with you on Twitter.

00:33:56.620 I feel like people do that anyway.

00:33:59.760 That's fair enough.

00:34:00.660 All right, you guys, you have your assignments, listeners.

00:34:03.180 Guys, thank you for being here.

00:34:04.460 Amanda Presta-Giacomo, Nakey Jared, and finally back again, Roaming Millennial.

00:34:08.320 Now it's time for my smart glasses and the final thought.

00:34:16.960 Endless think pieces have spilt ink over the question of President Trump's tweeting.

00:34:21.200 It occasionally undercuts his policy priorities, contradicts his cabinet members and campaign surrogates, even occasionally raises the prospect of legal trouble.

00:34:29.860 But Hurricane Harvey exposes all those worries for mere trifles.

00:34:34.080 President Trump's attention to the natural disaster, and more importantly, coordination with local and state first responders, has been able and admirable.

00:34:42.820 But we should remember that President Bush comported himself relatively well during Hurricane Katrina as well, despite the utterly failed response of local governments and a barrage of unfair and negative press.

00:34:53.980 The difference today is that President Trump sidesteps the mainstream media to speak directly to the American people and show them what he and his administration are doing, without the filter of Democrat operatives who masquerade as journalists.

00:35:05.000 That direct communication has even made the mainstream media, in this case, bend the knee and admit that the President is doing well.

00:35:12.780 Miracles abound.

00:35:13.960 So keep tweeting, Mr. President.

00:35:16.020 And you said it once, I'll say it again and again and again, despite the constant negative press.

00:35:20.460 Covfefe.

00:35:21.100 I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 28, 2017

Ep. 17 - Hurricane Harvey： Trump Sidesteps MSM Tsunami

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