The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1710 - Warning from the President： Don't Be a ＂Panican＂

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00:00:37.700 The president is warning you not to become a panican. 1.00

00:00:42.880 That is apparently, in his words, a new political party based on weak and stupid people. 1.00

00:00:49.260 What I say is, in a world of panicans, be a panicant. 1.00

00:00:54.600 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:00:55.380 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:56.980 Welcome back to the show.

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00:01:58.660 The big news this morning, who knows?

00:02:01.360 By the time you're listening, if you're watching this live, then this is real news.

00:02:06.120 If you're listening to this one hour after I record it, if you're listening to this five,

00:02:11.280 six hours after I record it, who knows what the stock market is going to look like.

00:02:15.320 But right now, the stock market has rallied.

00:02:18.520 Dow futures were up 1,100 points, I think.

00:02:21.700 The NASDAQ 100 was up 2.5%.

00:02:24.560 S&P 500 futures were roughly about 2.5% up.

00:02:29.200 So don't be a panican. 1.00

00:02:31.180 What is a panican?

00:02:32.000 A panican is a member of the political party that panics all the time. 1.00

00:02:35.600 I'm not panicking.

00:02:36.280 Do you see me panicking?

00:02:37.020 I'm not panicking.

00:02:38.480 The main takeaway over the past few days, as you've seen pundits and analysts and

00:02:45.300 chattering heads freaking out over the tariffs.

00:02:47.980 My biggest takeaway is knowing with certainty exactly which public figures are overexposed

00:02:54.760 in equities.

00:02:55.400 That's my big takeaway.

00:02:56.580 And I don't mean to be glib about the market downturn.

00:03:00.440 A market downturn can seriously harm people if we do enter into a recession, a global recession.

00:03:06.520 That could harm people.

00:03:08.360 However, remember, deep breath.

00:03:11.140 You only lose money when you sell.

00:03:13.580 Well, the only two times that the price of a stock should ever concern you are when you

00:03:18.640 buy and when you sell.

00:03:20.080 Goes up and down and the little colors are moving up and down on the chart.

00:03:24.300 Doesn't affect you really at all.

00:03:26.120 I mean, if the company goes out of business, I guess that would affect you too.

00:03:28.420 But as of now, nobody's really lost any money.

00:03:31.600 And on an even more serious point, weren't we conservatives the ones who were saying that

00:03:38.380 the market was inflated under Biden?

00:03:41.540 Weren't we the ones saying that the market was artificially high and the underlying economic

00:03:46.300 realities really didn't support those high stock prices?

00:03:50.160 And furthermore, aren't we conservatives the ones who have said that the real deep underlying

00:03:55.960 economic realities that we've seen over the past 20, 30 years are really not good for

00:04:02.280 Americans?

00:04:03.300 Because yes, we have more services bought and sold in America now.

00:04:08.140 Maybe GDP ticks up a little bit, but we've hollowed out our manufacturing base.

00:04:12.620 We are now extraordinarily reliant on hostile foreign powers.

00:04:16.200 The minute that the Wu flu comes out from China and our supply chains get disrupted, we can't 1.00

00:04:22.100 buy anything because we don't have anything anymore.

00:04:23.660 Haven't we been talking about that in both parties for 30 years?

00:04:27.240 So what Trump is doing is making a move for a generational win.

00:04:31.720 Here's what he tweets out.

00:04:34.260 The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done decades ago.

00:04:39.660 Don't be weak. 1.00

00:04:40.700 Don't be stupid. 1.00

00:04:41.960 Don't be a panican. 1.00

00:04:44.780 A new party based on weak and stupid people. 1.00

00:04:46.800 Be strong, courageous, and patient, and greatness will be the result. 1.00

00:04:50.880 Now, we'll see how this goes.

00:04:55.580 It is entirely possible that this doesn't work out.

00:04:59.340 It sends us hurtling into a global recession.

00:05:02.420 Republicans get completely destroyed in the midterms.

00:05:05.820 A Republican never wins election again.

00:05:07.760 It's all possible.

00:05:09.800 Okay?

00:05:10.340 But Trump's gut has been pretty good so far.

00:05:14.040 He won re-election with a mandate to do something different, something much like this.

00:05:20.160 I would just say, channeling my inner spiritual Zoomer, let him cook.

00:05:25.180 Okay?

00:05:25.500 Let him cook a little bit.

00:05:27.020 See what he whips up in the kitchen.

00:05:29.820 I understand that the market volatility is insane.

00:05:32.480 Yesterday, there was a rumor, totally unsubstantiated, that started going around social media.

00:05:39.060 I think by way of Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, who said that Trump was considering a pause on tariffs.

00:05:48.180 And so the market had been tanking.

00:05:49.800 This completely unsubstantiated rumor from a Trump economic advisor comes out.

00:05:54.960 Market shoots through the roof.

00:05:56.340 Then the White House clarifies, says, no, no, no, we're not pausing the tariff.

00:05:58.840 Market goes down again.

00:05:59.840 But then, hey, you wait a few hours and the market's up.

00:06:03.540 It's like they say about the weather in Iceland.

00:06:05.060 You don't like the weather?

00:06:05.720 Wait 15 minutes.

00:06:06.400 Trump was in the Oval Office yesterday with Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

00:06:11.260 He was asked about the tariff pause directly.

00:06:14.600 No uncertainty in his answer.

00:06:17.160 Why don't you be open to a pause in tariffs to allow for negotiations?

00:06:21.600 Well, we're not looking at that.

00:06:23.660 We have many, many countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us.

00:06:28.280 And they're going to be fair deals.

00:06:29.720 And in certain cases, they're going to be paying substantial tariffs.

00:06:35.060 They'll be fair deals.

00:06:36.400 As you know, I spoke this morning with the Prime Minister of Japan.

00:06:41.220 And we had a very good conversation.

00:06:42.940 They're coming.

00:06:44.240 And I said, one thing, you're going to have to open up your country because we sold no cars, like zero cars in Japan.

00:06:50.740 And they sold millions of cars into our country.

00:06:53.640 With China, as you know, against my statement, they put a 34 percent tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already.

00:07:04.300 And I said, if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow at 12 o'clock, we're putting a 50 percent tariff on above the tariffs that we put on.

00:07:14.200 So they've gone for years.

00:07:15.900 They've become a rich country because of people, again, that were in the White House that allowed this to happen.

00:07:21.040 Okay, two really important indicators that came out of this comment.

00:07:25.480 One, we might be in a trade war with China.

00:07:28.140 And that will be very bad for markets and investors.

00:07:30.540 And that could be really dangerous.

00:07:31.820 And it's unclear how we get out of it because we're very reliant on China.

00:07:34.580 Though China needs us to.

00:07:36.360 Two, Trump wants more trade.

00:07:39.700 I am increasingly confident of this.

00:07:41.700 And I think that maybe that has something to do with the market rebounding.

00:07:45.320 This follows, this statement follows what Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, was saying.

00:07:49.900 Which is that Japan's coming to the table.

00:07:53.160 China bad, Japan good. 0.94

00:07:55.100 China won't negotiate. 0.83

00:07:56.840 And we're in an escalating tariff situation.

00:07:59.740 Japan good, we are negotiating.

00:08:02.260 And what the Treasury Secretary said was that we are about to enter a new golden age of trade.

00:08:09.320 So I've been saying for some weeks now.

00:08:10.780 In fact, I asked this of the Treasury Secretary.

00:08:14.400 It's unclear what the chief goal of the tariffs is.

00:08:18.320 Is it leverage to lower trade barriers in other countries?

00:08:21.960 Is it the reshoring of American manufacturing?

00:08:24.740 Is it raising revenue?

00:08:26.820 Any of those things are good, but they contradict each other.

00:08:29.800 If you lower the barriers in other countries, you don't get the jobs or the rev.

00:08:33.360 If you reshore American manufacturing, you also don't get the rev because you got the jobs.

00:08:36.860 You're buying stuff here.

00:08:38.400 Which is it?

00:08:38.940 I am increasingly confident Trump just wants better trade deals.

00:08:44.320 But I think he wants more trade.

00:08:46.180 I think that's what pitting Japan against China is about.

00:08:49.340 I think that's what this language from the Treasury Secretary, the golden age of trade, is about.

00:08:52.940 I think that's what this comment from the Oval Office is about.

00:08:55.200 I think he wants more trade.

00:08:56.980 I think markets like more trade.

00:08:58.780 Whether or not he can land the plane is a totally separate question.

00:09:02.780 Because as of now, we still haven't seen how this is going to play out.

00:09:07.380 And it will probably play out over the course of weeks.

00:09:10.680 But Trump levied tariffs on China.

00:09:14.340 China responded with reciprocal tariffs.

00:09:16.120 Trump said, if you don't get rid of those reciprocal tariffs, I'm going to levy a 50% tariff on top of everything I've already done.

00:09:24.740 So we're in an escalating situation.

00:09:26.540 I think the deadline he gave to China was noon today.

00:09:29.640 So it could be the case that Trump wants more trade and doesn't get it because he can't land the plane.

00:09:33.040 But at the very least, it appears that the chief goal of all of this is more trade.

00:09:39.120 And markets like that.

00:09:40.460 And maybe we just let Trump cook.

00:09:41.860 And maybe we stop being panic hands.

00:09:43.220 Okay, because really no one has lost any money yet.

00:09:46.120 Until you panic and sell.

00:09:48.080 Then you have lost money.

00:09:50.280 Meanwhile, the Agriculture Secretary, Brooke Rollins, goes on CNN and has some great news that also might buoy the markets.

00:09:58.360 There's so much more to say.

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00:11:12.680 Now, on the question of economics, we turn to the Agriculture Secretary,

00:11:17.140 who had this to say about the tariff plan.

00:11:20.440 I think we'll see, in short order, a really positive outcome from this.

00:11:24.740 We already have 50, 5-0, 50 countries that have come to the table over the last few days,

00:11:30.720 over the last weeks, that are willing and desperate to talk to us.

00:11:34.160 We are the economic engine of the world,

00:11:36.700 and it's finally time that someone, President Trump, stood up for America.

00:11:42.680 Okay, so this number is important, too.

00:11:44.940 50 countries coming to the table,

00:11:46.840 because it helps us to make sense of the way the tariffs were rolled out in the first place.

00:11:53.180 Many people, first, there are some people who just hate tariffs.

00:11:56.720 Forget about them.

00:11:57.980 They're not caught up to speed on what Trump campaigned on and what Americans voted for.

00:12:04.180 Some people like tariffs, but they say this was rolled out poorly because Trump should have been more targeted.

00:12:10.900 So Trump's levying tariffs on what?

00:12:12.900 The McDonald and Herd Islands?

00:12:14.380 What's he going to do?

00:12:15.000 He's going to tariff penguins?

00:12:16.020 There aren't even any people there.

00:12:17.380 That's crazy.

00:12:18.260 It's too broad.

00:12:19.180 It seems indiscriminate.

00:12:20.380 The way that they arrived at the tariff number was what?

00:12:23.820 Taking the trade deficit and dividing it by, like, four or something?

00:12:27.920 It wasn't quite that simple.

00:12:29.500 But it was a blunt equation that gave them the number for the tariffs.

00:12:35.340 Why were they so broad and blunt about this?

00:12:37.440 Well, now the fog is beginning to clear.

00:12:40.980 And you say, okay, maybe it really wasn't about 50 countries, 100 countries, 150 countries.

00:12:45.440 50 countries are coming to the table.

00:12:47.060 We're going to renegotiate our trade deals.

00:12:48.780 It's going to be great.

00:12:49.520 We're going to declare victory over that.

00:12:51.400 But China's not coming to the table.

00:12:53.280 So what you're seeing play out now, I think, is exactly what the people who were calling

00:12:59.700 for targeted tariffs, pretty much only on China, were asking for in the first place.

00:13:05.060 It's all a little bit.

00:13:06.020 I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday.

00:13:07.580 He said, it seems kind of like shiny keys.

00:13:10.400 He's a military guy.

00:13:11.560 And he said, you know, if I was ever dropping a bomb on someone, I'd kind of dangle shiny

00:13:15.100 keys over here.

00:13:16.280 So I'd go, you know, I'd drop a bomb over here. 0.97

00:13:18.000 Then everyone goes over there.

00:13:18.840 They leave their homes.

00:13:19.460 Then I can get them.

00:13:20.540 You know, I don't hit the target immediately in the first place.

00:13:25.680 I play it out a little bit over time.

00:13:28.860 I get people to come to where I want them to come.

00:13:31.300 I set the conversation in terms that are favorable to me.

00:13:34.600 That might be what Trump's doing here.

00:13:36.260 Because if 50 countries go down to maybe just a flat 10% tariff, if all the extra or punitive

00:13:44.540 tariffs or reciprocal tariffs go away, now you're really just dealing in a situation with China.

00:13:50.540 And do we forget, is our memory so short, that when we left off with Trump in the first term,

00:13:58.140 right before COVID hit and the world shut down, Trump was engaged in a trade war with China and

00:14:03.960 was doing a good job of it.

00:14:05.360 He was winning the trade war.

00:14:06.740 And then the Wu flu snuck out and everything went to pot. 0.85

00:14:10.000 And then Biden became president.

00:14:12.180 But is that just what this is all about?

00:14:13.600 Is this just all about China?

00:14:16.640 Increasingly seems that it is.

00:14:17.680 Okay, moving from the agriculture secretary, but sticking on women in politics, a woman 1.00

00:14:22.720 has gone viral and even been featured on Good Morning America for crying about the end

00:14:28.700 of her maternity leave.

00:14:29.840 So today is my last day of maternity leave, and I go back to work tomorrow.

00:14:39.620 And I just feel like I haven't had enough time with them.

00:14:48.900 I know I got longer than a lot of women get with three months, but it just doesn't, I just 0.98

00:15:00.720 don't feel ready.

00:15:01.580 I had a very high risk pregnancy because they shared a placenta.

00:15:07.500 They were five and a half weeks premature.

00:15:10.180 We were in the NICU for several weeks.

00:15:12.180 So you kind of feel a little robbed of that postpartum experience.

00:15:15.960 And that does not get accounted into your maternity leave.

00:15:20.280 It's just like such an abrupt change that you're with your babies all the time.

00:15:26.500 And then you pick them up from daycare and you might just get a few hours.

00:15:33.340 I just felt like so disconnected to them.

00:15:36.420 I would, sorry, I'm going to get emotional.

00:15:39.960 I would just like cry like they're going to forget me.

00:15:42.800 Okay, I get it.

00:15:45.760 I have a pity sandwich for this woman that is stuffed with a no sympathy cold cut. 1.00

00:15:52.200 It is, there is, it is a pity sandwich.

00:15:54.600 I immediately feel bad for her.

00:15:56.200 And in the end, I feel bad for her.

00:15:57.780 But there is a little bit of no, no sympathy stuffing in there.

00:16:02.320 Because my first question is, why is this woman on TV? 0.97

00:16:05.300 Why is this woman putting her children first on social media, then on national television? 1.00

00:16:11.120 Not a great start to motherhood.

00:16:12.800 Don't do that.

00:16:13.340 Don't put your kids on social media.

00:16:15.420 Don't use your kids to become a big celebrity.

00:16:17.560 Don't do it.

00:16:18.280 They didn't ask to be famous.

00:16:19.560 I get it.

00:16:19.980 They're not going to resemble what they look like right now for very long.

00:16:22.760 But just, come on, cut it out.

00:16:24.260 Be with your, you want to be with your kids?

00:16:25.220 Be with your kids.

00:16:27.620 Now, I do feel bad for her.

00:16:30.000 I feel bad for a lot of mothers who, they go through this pregnancy and it's extremely physically

00:16:35.280 taxing.

00:16:36.140 It's emotionally taxing.

00:16:37.980 They're postpartum.

00:16:39.200 They want to be with their kids.

00:16:40.320 And they got to go back to the widget factory.

00:16:41.960 And they got to go work for Mr. McGillicuddy and make widgets and get a paycheck that they

00:16:48.120 can give to their husband so that their husband can hire some other woman to raise their babies 1.00

00:16:54.020 while his wife is at work.

00:16:55.400 It seems crazy.

00:16:56.840 It seems so inefficient.

00:16:58.620 It seems so inhuman. 1.00

00:16:59.640 This woman says, I want to be with my kids more, but I got to go back to my stupid job. 1.00

00:17:04.000 That's true. 1.00

00:17:06.160 Now, my, the little no sympathy stuffing in here is, you can live on one income.

00:17:12.640 You can live on one income.

00:17:14.920 I'm not saying that it's easy.

00:17:16.900 I'm not saying you can maintain your quality of life that you have now, but you can.

00:17:22.980 Your grandparents had things that were not as nice as you do.

00:17:28.200 So how can, and I'm not just speaking abstractly here.

00:17:30.960 I am speaking with some knowledge because I am part of a rather traditional community.

00:17:35.600 Okay.

00:17:35.840 And I know plenty of people who do it, but if you want to live on one income today,

00:17:39.680 it means you're not going to live right downtown, probably.

00:17:42.700 It means you're going to live a little outside of the city.

00:17:45.500 Maybe more than a little.

00:17:46.580 Maybe you're going to live an hour outside the city.

00:17:48.280 And you're not going to have the nice big McMansion.

00:17:51.020 You're going to have a, you're going to have a starter home, maybe.

00:17:53.700 And you're not going to have two cars.

00:17:56.180 You may not have two cars.

00:17:57.080 Everyone has to have his own car today.

00:17:58.340 Well, you know, your grandparents didn't have two cars, probably.

00:18:01.020 Maybe your parents didn't have two cars.

00:18:02.780 Maybe you have one car.

00:18:04.280 And maybe you don't go on the big fancy vacation every year.

00:18:06.940 And maybe you don't have all the latest gizmos.

00:18:08.520 And maybe you're not subscribed to every streaming service.

00:18:10.980 And maybe you're not getting Uber Eats every night.

00:18:13.540 And many of the creature comforts that define our age, you will not have.

00:18:20.440 But you can live on one income.

00:18:24.280 Okay.

00:18:24.780 We are the richest country in the history of the world.

00:18:27.340 If everyone else can do it for all of history, we can do it too.

00:18:30.720 But I don't want to just sound callous or disconnected or anything like that.

00:18:34.560 Because I understand why people don't want to give up the creature comforts.

00:18:37.740 It's not just that we're indulgent.

00:18:39.500 It's not just that we've become accustomed to luxury.

00:18:42.880 It's that we are mimetic creatures.

00:18:45.220 We imitate each other and we imitate each other's desires.

00:18:47.720 And so it's not enough to say, look, you give up your extra car and your Netflix and your vacations and your new clothes and your Uber Eats and going out.

00:18:56.300 Because if all of your friends are doing all of those things, you're going to be missing out.

00:19:03.680 And it's actually going to affect your friendships and it's going to affect your social life.

00:19:06.920 And people really do try to keep up with the Joneses.

00:19:09.240 That's not just a vice of human nature.

00:19:12.640 That is how we behave.

00:19:15.560 That's actually a key feature, not just a bug of human nature.

00:19:20.960 We imitate each other.

00:19:22.160 So I get it.

00:19:23.080 It's very difficult.

00:19:25.040 And I wish that we had...

00:19:27.560 The Libs want to have maternity leave for three months or something. 1.00

00:19:30.800 Conservatives want to have maternity leave for two months. 0.89

00:19:32.840 I think we should have maternity leave for 18 years. 1.00

00:19:34.980 Now, that requires reshaping the incentives, financial incentives, provided by our government.

00:19:42.400 Maybe it means we need a family policy closer to what we have in Hungary, where mothers don't pay taxes after they have a few kids. 0.89

00:19:51.620 Now, you'd say, well, if the mother's not working at the widget factory, she's not going to have an income anyway. 1.00

00:19:55.760 Well, maybe we reconfigure how families are paying taxes. 0.66

00:20:00.820 Maybe we incentivize mothers to stay home if they want to do it. 1.00

00:20:04.020 But don't forget, this was a big feature of the debate over feminism between Betty Friedan, the American feminist, and Simone de Beauvoir, the French feminist.

00:20:12.840 Betty Friedan, very American, said, you know, we need people to have a choice.

00:20:17.540 Women should be able to choose if they want to work or not. 1.00

00:20:20.700 Simone de Beauvoir said no.

00:20:22.460 If women have the choice to stay home and raise their kids and keep a home, too many women will take that choice. 1.00

00:20:29.780 Most of them will take it.

00:20:31.040 And we can't have that because then they won't be liberated.

00:20:34.020 So maybe we need to give women that choice. 1.00

00:20:36.640 But you could do it now.

00:20:37.720 If you really want to do it, you don't need to cry on TikTok and Good Morning America.

00:20:41.160 You can do it.

00:20:43.280 No one's saying it's easy, but it's possible.

00:20:46.100 Now, speaking of perverse financial incentives in our day and age, big, big story out of the reform of the federal government and religion.

00:20:57.760 One, Catholic Charities has suspended its deal with the U.S. government.

00:21:03.340 And this is great news.

00:21:05.020 Great news.

00:21:07.140 Catholic Charities has had a 50-year relationship with the federal government.

00:21:12.880 What is Catholic Charities?

00:21:14.260 I mean, there are a lot of Catholic Charities, right?

00:21:15.560 I support certain Catholic Charities.

00:21:17.980 But I'm talking capital C, capital C.

00:21:19.680 Catholic Charities, trademark over the S, is an organization from the Catholic bishops run by a bunch of NGO workers that facilitates mass migration.

00:21:31.740 That's really what it's about.

00:21:33.640 It's about bringing millions and millions of people into the United States in contravention of our most basic laws. 1.00

00:21:42.920 Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, who is the president of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops, said,

00:21:48.340 The bishop's decision came after the federal government suspended our cooperative agreements to resettle refugees.

00:21:52.840 The drastic reduction of these programs forced us to reconsider the best way to serve the needs of our brothers and sisters seeking safe harbor from violence and persecution.

00:22:00.760 And he wrote that for the Washington Post.

00:22:03.700 Why a Catholic would write for, even read the Washington Post, is another matter. 0.97

00:22:09.680 This might be presented as the Trump administration attacking Catholics or something.

00:22:15.260 99% of faithful Catholics are thrilled about this.

00:22:19.040 Because 99% of faithful Catholics have had the number of Catholic Charities for many years now.

00:22:25.100 And recognize that there are better places to put our money.

00:22:27.700 You know, if Catholic Charities had a deal to stop abortion, let's say it wasn't a deal to facilitate mass migration of economic migrants from Venezuela.

00:22:37.380 Let's say, instead, it was a deal to stop babies from being murdered.

00:22:41.900 A much more important issue than moving economic migrants around some borders.

00:22:46.840 If the Catholic Charities had a deal to do that, we would be all for it.

00:22:49.480 But that's not really what Catholic Charities does.

00:22:53.780 Catholic Charities acts as an NGO that is affiliated with the Catholic Church, but for which Catholic theology and tradition is not the most important thing.

00:23:06.780 And the federal government, you, the taxpayers, are not going to fund that anymore.

00:23:10.220 I'm a Catholic, and I don't give my money to Catholic Charities.

00:23:13.160 Okay?

00:23:13.380 I give it to other organizations associated with the Church.

00:23:15.660 I don't give it to Catholic Charities.

00:23:16.600 So why should you, the taxpayer, maybe you're a Protestant, maybe you're a Jew, maybe you're a Muslim, I don't know. 1.00

00:23:22.960 Why are you funding this?

00:23:24.320 Also, why are you funding this when it's just about resettling migrants?

00:23:30.060 It's not, let's, that's good.

00:23:32.160 This is a good reform of the federal government.

00:23:33.600 Maybe we have a reform of Catholic Charities, too.

00:23:35.640 Sounds fine by me.

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00:24:44.280 Speaking of social issues, this is a providential news story.

00:24:51.000 I'm at Pittsburgh right now.

00:24:52.260 I'm at the University of Pittsburgh.

00:24:53.580 They didn't blow me up this time.

00:24:55.100 Great news.

00:24:56.120 I'm here.

00:24:56.620 No char, no ash on me.

00:24:58.340 It's good, too, because I wore a suit that I think is made of recycled bottle caps or something.

00:25:03.200 This is one of my least expensive suits.

00:25:04.920 Highly flammable, but no one threw a bomb at me.

00:25:09.420 No fireworks at the building like they did last time.

00:25:11.640 So, the topic of my speech was political violence.

00:25:16.100 How political violence is not exclusively a left-wing phenomenon, but it is distinctly a left-wing phenomenon.

00:25:21.400 And the speech is on my YouTube channel and Yaf's YouTube channel.

00:25:23.860 You can go check it out right now.

00:25:25.140 I encourage you to do so.

00:25:26.280 It's a good time.

00:25:26.700 As I'm giving this speech, there's an article published in The Federalist, hat-tipped to M.D. Kittle here,

00:25:33.540 and it's about a report that came out of the Network of Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University.

00:25:39.600 Fifty-five percent of leftists say that murdering Trump would be justified.

00:25:46.820 Fifty-five percent.

00:25:48.640 A clear majority.

00:25:51.180 This was a large part of my thesis last night, which I wrote before that report came out.

00:25:58.880 But I just knew it.

00:26:00.000 You know, I hate to say I told you so.

00:26:01.400 Anybody could see it.

00:26:02.340 Democrats, not just the crazy fringe, but all the way up to mainstream Joe Biden as president,

00:26:09.660 justified the murder of President Trump for years.

00:26:15.720 So, is it any wonder that 55 percent of leftists would say murdering Trump is justified?

00:26:21.060 It's 31 to 38 percent of respondents said that it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk and Trump.

00:26:29.480 But the numbers were totally skewed by the leftists.

00:26:35.240 Forty-eight percent said it would be justified to murder Musk.

00:26:39.260 It would be justified to murder the electric car manufacturer Rocketman who is advising the president on how to make the executive branch more efficient.

00:26:50.980 For that, for doing this great service to America, which has great precedent going back at least to Woodrow Wilson with the Bureau of Efficiency,

00:26:58.940 up through FDR, Truman, Reagan, Al Gore.

00:27:04.520 Al Gore eliminated a quarter million federal jobs and consolidated some 800 agencies when he was vice president. 0.99

00:27:10.480 But when Elon does it, he should be murdered. 0.99

00:27:12.960 And then 55 percent say Trump should be murdered. 0.99

00:27:15.980 I think, and this was my thesis last night, if you want the whole lecture, you can go check it out.

00:27:21.820 I think that political violence is a feature and not a bug of liberalism.

00:27:26.220 And the reason that I think that is, one, we just see the enormous number of violent left-wing incidents.

00:27:34.960 The handful of right-wing kooks who commit violence pale in comparison to the consistent left-wing violence.

00:27:44.660 The Republicans, mainstream Republicans, never endorse the kook who commits some violence on the right. 1.00

00:27:50.440 They disavow it.

00:27:51.560 No Republicans are defending the Oklahoma City bombing, okay?

00:27:54.280 Meanwhile, on the left, mainstream leftists are defending BLM as they murder dozens of people and burn the cities down. 0.76

00:28:01.960 They're defending Antifa in some cases.

00:28:03.940 They're bailing the rioters out of jail.

00:28:05.540 This is going all the way up to Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, staffers for Joe Biden.

00:28:10.580 So you can see it with your own eyes.

00:28:12.700 And I think the reason for that is this paradox at the heart of liberalism,

00:28:16.600 which is that liberalism begins by making an idol out of individual human reason.

00:28:22.000 It exalts individual human reason above all else and excludes things like history, morality, religion, duty, all the rest of it.

00:28:33.500 Just individual human reason.

00:28:35.060 We're going to recreate the world anew.

00:28:36.940 Some people see things that are and ask why.

00:28:38.660 I see things that never were and say why not.

00:28:41.800 The problem is the moment that you untether or you liberate your human reason from morality, history, religion,

00:28:48.760 religion, all the things that keep the appetites in check, then the appetites are going to start to take over.

00:28:54.500 And all of a sudden, you're going to be pulled into ever more absurd fantasies.

00:29:00.900 So how do we see this?

00:29:01.960 You have the classical liberals who generally defend negative liberty.

00:29:06.060 You know, the freedom from.

00:29:07.880 Freedom of speech from prosecution.

00:29:10.300 Freedom from the government confiscating my firearms.

00:29:13.280 The more progressive liberals embrace positive liberties.

00:29:16.880 So they say, we need the freedom of self-actualization.

00:29:19.820 You're not really free if you don't have the necessities of life.

00:29:21.880 So we need the liberties and the rights of welfare and food and health care and a universal basic income.

00:29:28.100 And the list goes on.

00:29:29.880 But the progressive liberals go further.

00:29:33.720 They'll say, in order to really self-actualize, in order to really be totally free,

00:29:37.960 we need the right to same-sex marriage. 0.67

00:29:42.780 In other words, the right to a thing that cannot possibly exist.

00:29:46.960 Same-sex marriage is a contradiction in terms.

00:29:48.840 Or, to use even a less controversial example,

00:29:51.480 we need the right to transgenderism, you know, for a man to become a woman.

00:29:55.760 Which is not possible.

00:29:57.520 But they demand these rights as their appetites and their desires become untethered from reason.

00:30:02.880 And so the irony is, the political project that starts out by making an idol out of human reason,

00:30:08.040 by exalting human reason, destroys human reason.

00:30:11.400 Because there's nothing left to hold the appetites in check,

00:30:14.080 and the appetites devour human reason. 0.95

00:30:17.040 And so, if you get to the absurdity point in liberalism, and I think we're there,

00:30:21.680 if you get to the point in liberalism where we can no longer even agree on the meanings of words,

00:30:26.580 we can no longer agree on the meaning of the word woman,

00:30:28.720 then the only way to conduct politics is through brute force.

00:30:33.880 Because, you can't persuade anyone, you don't even speak the same language anymore.

00:30:37.960 You have denied reason and objective truth.

00:30:41.380 You've sacrificed that in favor of your own personal and absurd desires. 0.99

00:30:49.020 So, the only thing left to do is club the other guy in the head. 0.54

00:30:52.940 And that's, I think, where we are. 0.99

00:30:55.340 I think 55% say murdering Trump is justified.

00:30:58.240 It's because they can't make reasoned arguments, they can't persuade people,

00:31:01.920 they will not subdue their desires to their reason.

00:31:06.660 So, the only thing left to do is pop the guy off.

00:31:10.360 Expect that number to go up.

00:31:11.720 Expect that number to go up as liberalism advances.

00:31:14.300 Now, the culture, I think, is on our side.

00:31:17.480 That's why we won the Electoral College in a landslide.

00:31:20.080 That's why we won the popular vote.

00:31:21.280 That's why we won the House and the Senate.

00:31:24.900 We have the Supreme Court.

00:31:26.160 And now I feel confident that we have the Supreme Court because you've been hearing for weeks from panic hands.

00:31:33.320 A lot of panic hands out there.

00:31:34.720 You've been hearing for weeks that President Trump's deportation policy is illegal, unconstitutional.

00:31:40.940 He's denying due process to the poor, face-tattooed, Satan-worshipping gangsters.

00:31:45.120 He invoked the Alien Enemies Act from 1798.

00:31:48.600 And that, he can't do that.

00:31:50.720 That's a really old law.

00:31:52.620 Don't you know laws have expiration dates?

00:31:54.240 I didn't know that.

00:31:54.860 I don't know.

00:31:55.100 I didn't go to law school.

00:31:55.740 But I don't think they have expiration dates.

00:31:57.560 In fact, I think the older a law is, the longer it's been around, probably the sturdier it is.

00:32:02.580 But anyway, we're told that's unconstitutional, terrible, awful.

00:32:06.640 Well, the Supreme Court just ruled on it.

00:32:07.900 And Chief Justice John Roberts has issued an order blocking a previous order from a district court judge

00:32:16.160 that demanded that a deported Salvadoran national, a foreigner, an illegal alien, be returned to the U.S.

00:32:24.680 So remember, Trump just enforces the most basic aspects of our law.

00:32:31.020 The libs lose their minds because they want an open border.

00:32:33.220 They want to flood the country with foreign nationals because they think it'll give them an advantage. 0.99

00:32:35.860 Some two-bit district court judge comes out and says, you need to turn the planes around.

00:32:41.120 You're not allowed to deport the face-tattooed, Satan-worshipping, fentanyl-dealing gangsters.

00:32:44.680 You're not, no, that's.

00:32:45.780 And what do the libs say?

00:32:46.780 They say, you must listen to the random district court judge.

00:32:50.680 It doesn't matter, President Trump, that you control the executive branch.

00:32:53.820 It doesn't matter that you were elected in a landslide.

00:32:55.680 It doesn't matter.

00:32:56.700 No, we must.

00:32:57.580 We have a government in this country that is ruled by a random district court judge.

00:33:02.900 Is that?

00:33:03.280 And they would say, this is what we need for checks and balances.

00:33:05.780 This is what we need for separation of powers. 0.93

00:33:07.080 I said, well, if we have checks and balances and separation of powers, that doesn't mean judicial supremacy.

00:33:13.060 Certainly doesn't mean supremacy from some random district court.

00:33:15.680 You're not even an appellate judge.

00:33:16.680 You're certainly not a Supreme Court justice.

00:33:17.960 Well, anyway, the Supremes have ruled.

00:33:20.940 We get to deport the gangsters.

00:33:22.940 It's cool.

00:33:25.140 Disre court judges, they got to sit back down.

00:33:27.760 The panicans, they're never going to recover from this.

00:33:31.340 Trump's policy will proceed apace.

00:33:33.780 That's very good news. 1.00

00:33:35.440 You know, the establishment media, they think that you are too dumb to see through their lies. 0.99

00:33:39.280 They twist the narrative. 0.99

00:33:40.280 They manipulate the headlines.

00:33:41.420 They bury the truth.

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00:34:12.020 Five, my favorite comment yesterday is from Patrick Ogin, 4553, who says, I have lost most

00:34:20.640 of my money at the gas pump.

00:34:22.060 This is the other reason that the panic hands don't get it.

00:34:25.620 This is the other reason that the chattering class, political elites, and the economic analysts

00:34:31.480 don't understand how Trump could implement the tariffs, the market could tank, and his

00:34:37.860 approval rating could go up four points.

00:34:39.360 They don't understand that for most people, stock market fluctuations mean nothing.

00:34:48.240 And stock market, even massive 40-year high collapses in the stock market, pale in comparison

00:34:54.940 to the price of gas going down.

00:34:56.840 And by the way, as a result of this tariff policy and the market volatility, the price

00:35:01.260 of oil has dropped down.

00:35:02.720 And the price of gas is coming down.

00:35:04.080 And that's going to matter a lot more to a lot more people.

00:35:05.920 You might say, well, what about me?

00:35:09.360 What about me with my 401k?

00:35:11.180 Yeah, I'm not downplaying it.

00:35:13.140 It could be bad.

00:35:14.560 But unless you are in retirement right now, and really even more specifically, unless you

00:35:18.360 are in retirement and overexposed inequities in retirement, which you should not be, and

00:35:23.240 a good financial planner would discourage you from doing that, for the vast majority of

00:35:29.120 people, even who are invested in the stock market, none of this matters right now.

00:35:33.580 Be cool.

00:35:36.240 Let it play out.

00:35:38.480 Don't re-register with the panic-hand political party.

00:35:42.080 We'll see how it goes.

00:35:43.980 Because while we're hearing that the Democrats are going to clobber us in the midterms and

00:35:49.120 Republicans are going to get blown out of the water, then I look to the Democrat thought

00:35:53.200 leaders.

00:35:54.380 Not just the kooks.

00:35:55.480 I'm not just straw manning.

00:35:56.460 I look to the most normal, mainstream, moderate Democrats there are.

00:36:02.740 I look to guys like the Rage and Cage and James Carville, whose big pitch right now is 0.95

00:36:09.720 that Republicans are Nazis.

00:36:11.780 Do you know what's going to happen? 0.52

00:36:13.820 Do you know how this ends?

00:36:17.340 Do you know these collaborators with the country is going to feel toward collaborators with this

00:36:23.800 regime?

00:36:24.200 Maybe you need to go in history and see what happened in August of 1944 after Paris was

00:36:34.680 liberated.

00:36:35.860 They didn't take very kindly to the collaborators.

00:36:40.160 No.

00:36:41.580 It was not a very pretty sight in the streets of Paris.

00:36:45.860 I'm not saying that these people should be placed in pajamas and have their heads shaved,

00:36:54.240 march down Pennsylvania Avenue and spit on it.

00:36:57.100 I'm not saying that.

00:36:58.040 But I'm saying that that did happen.

00:37:04.180 So James Carville learned a new word.

00:37:06.580 He learned the word collaborator.

00:37:07.820 That's why he said it three times in the span of about 15 seconds.

00:37:11.340 And this is the really nuanced, big brain Democrat take.

00:37:14.620 Hey, James, you ran the Clinton presidential campaign, like the original one, you know, in

00:37:20.900 the 90s.

00:37:21.820 And you, you know, you've been such an important figure.

00:37:24.800 You're one of the cooler heads that prevails when the wackos from the Democrats, you know,

00:37:29.420 take over.

00:37:30.000 So what's your messaging after the Democrats lost the White House and the popular vote and

00:37:36.360 the House and the Senate and the Supreme Court?

00:37:38.060 What's your messaging? 0.98

00:37:38.900 I think y'all a bunch of Nazis. 0.98

00:37:40.400 I think y'all were now and when I was and I banged up, banged up, little bum, bum, bum, 0.98

00:37:44.700 ba-dum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. 1.00

00:37:46.820 What?

00:37:48.320 Say that again. 0.71

00:37:49.800 Basically, my, my, I wouldn't say my million voters, but you go to the voters and tell them 0.97

00:37:53.660 you're a bunch of Nazis. 1.00

00:37:54.500 We're going to shave your head, march you down Pennsylvania Avenue. 1.00

00:37:56.820 We're going to shoot you. 1.00

00:37:57.560 We're going, 55% American want to, on the left, say that we can murder Donald Trump. 1.00

00:38:01.980 We're going to murder you too because you're Nazi, big fat Nazi. 1.00

00:38:04.380 Hitler drank water. 1.00

00:38:05.200 You drank of water? 0.97

00:38:06.100 You're a Nazi. 1.00

00:38:07.900 Oh, okay. 0.99

00:38:09.000 Never mind then.

00:38:11.460 Great.

00:38:11.880 We have nothing to worry about at all.

00:38:13.780 If that is the best messaging the Democrats can come up with, come on, this is supposed

00:38:18.620 to be the best week for them.

00:38:20.520 Markets tanking, Trump's on the ropes, the walls are closing in, and the best they've got,

00:38:26.020 the best they've got is the only line they had throughout the 2024 campaign, the 2020

00:38:34.180 campaign that they've had for years. 0.98

00:38:36.620 Trump's a Nazi. 0.95

00:38:37.640 That makes me feel really good. 0.97

00:38:39.100 Why is this the best line they have?

00:38:40.520 It's, I'm not just making fun of James Carville.

00:38:42.320 I'm making fun of him a little bit, but I'm not just, I'm not calling him, I don't think

00:38:45.160 he's a dummy. 0.84

00:38:46.000 I think he's got pretty good political instincts. 0.95

00:38:47.960 But what else are they going to talk about?

00:38:49.920 Are they going to talk about trade?

00:38:51.440 What's their opinion of trade?

00:38:52.520 Some of the Democrats love free trade.

00:38:56.060 Some of the Democrats hate free trade.

00:38:59.060 It was the Democrats who were calling attention to the problems of globalist free trade before

00:39:04.340 many Republicans were.

00:39:06.960 So, which is, they just can't talk about it.

00:39:09.700 Are they going to talk about, I don't know, are they going to talk about Israel-Palestine?

00:39:12.680 Well, do they like Israel or do they like Palestine? 0.75

00:39:15.320 Seems like the Democrats are totally split on that issue.

00:39:18.240 Are they going to talk about, golly, I don't know, any other war? 0.97

00:39:24.600 I guess Ukraine they're kind of united on, but they know Ukraine is a political loser.

00:39:28.860 Are they going to talk about what?

00:39:33.300 What are they going to talk about?

00:39:34.920 They have nothing. 0.98

00:39:36.620 So the only thing they can say is Trump's a Nazi.

00:39:38.520 And if we don't head for a global depression, I think the guy's sitting in a pretty good spot

00:39:44.380 right now.

00:39:44.760 One thing that could threaten the Trump administration and the new golden age is the prospect of war

00:39:52.440 with Iran.

00:39:54.300 Trump broached this question yesterday in the Oval Office with Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:39:58.560 Here's his answer.

00:40:00.400 We're having direct talks with Iran.

00:40:03.680 And they've started, it'll go on Saturday.

00:40:07.740 We have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen.

00:40:10.500 And I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious.

00:40:19.140 And the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or, frankly, that Israel 1.00

00:40:24.780 wants to be involved with if they can avoid it.

00:40:26.960 So we're going to see if we can avoid it.

00:40:28.680 But it's getting to be very dangerous territory.

00:40:32.280 And hopefully those talks will be successful.

00:40:36.080 And I think it would be in Iran's best interest if they are successful.

00:40:40.340 We hope that's going to happen.

00:40:45.500 America has zero interest in a war with Iran.

00:40:50.560 Well, I'm not saying we don't have interests.

00:40:52.620 We have interests everywhere on Earth.

00:40:54.880 But the American people who elected Trump with the popular vote do not want war with Iran.

00:41:01.940 Full stop.

00:41:03.240 Period.

00:41:04.180 It ain't the Bush era anymore.

00:41:06.400 In fact, the Republican view on war in the Middle East is largely shaped by the Bush era.

00:41:13.220 Nobody wants it.

00:41:16.200 However, America does still have interests.

00:41:18.760 And so I think Trump's answer is very good.

00:41:21.020 He's saying, look, we're going to leave open the possibility that we engage in some kind of war with Iran

00:41:27.500 because we do not want Iran to get a nuclear weapon.

00:41:30.000 Because if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, we're very likely going to be dragged into war anyway, 0.96

00:41:33.260 and it's going to be a worse war.

00:41:35.000 But we want to strike a deal.

00:41:37.280 And there are going to be hawks on the right.

00:41:40.140 The neocons or the Wilsonian spread democracy all over the world or whatever.

00:41:46.280 They are going to say this isn't tough enough.

00:41:48.680 We've got to get even tougher on Iran. 1.00

00:41:51.140 I think Trump's via media here, I think his middle ground is very, very good.

00:41:56.040 You have to recognize that the United States has alliances.

00:41:59.920 He's sitting next to Netanyahu.

00:42:01.420 Netanyahu hates Iran.

00:42:02.860 Iran is the number one enemy of the state of Israel.

00:42:05.220 But the state of Israel has different interests than the United States.

00:42:08.080 We're not the same country.

00:42:08.860 We're allies, but we're not the same country.

00:42:11.120 So he's sitting there next to Netanyahu.

00:42:12.520 He says, look, we're going to be tough.

00:42:14.120 We're going to back our allies.

00:42:15.900 We're going to pursue American interests.

00:42:17.620 Take Israel off the table for a second. 0.99

00:42:20.000 The United States does not want Iran to get a nuclear weapon.

00:42:22.480 We're going to pursue our interests, but we would rather strike a deal.

00:42:27.080 For anyone who thinks that Trump is being too tough on Iran here, I would say grow up.

00:42:33.760 America has strategic interests everywhere in the world, certainly in that tough neighborhood.

00:42:38.740 But for the people who say that Trump is not being tough enough, there is zero appetite in the United States for war with Iran.

00:42:51.680 Nobody, nobody but nobody, we're talking less than 1% of people probably, would celebrate if America went to war with Iran.

00:42:59.960 And I think Trump knows that.

00:43:01.120 And while Trump is fighting political wars on multiple fronts, a once in 130 year plus tariff regime and a reorganization of the executive branch, a massive reform of the executive branch led by Elon Musk,

00:43:18.980 and massive transparency and declassification and a major tax bill that Trump has to get over the finish line and this and that and this and that.

00:43:30.700 We don't want to be dealing with war with Iran.

00:43:33.080 Okay, so maybe we strike a deal.

00:43:34.860 That would be good.

00:43:36.360 That's what we want.

00:43:37.540 Also, I'll just leave you on this note from the Trump Oval Office meeting with Netanyahu.

00:43:42.520 Trump reaffirmed, lest anyone has forgotten, that man wants to build a casino in Gaza.

00:43:48.080 In the Times of Israel, the IDF is fighting again in the Gaza Strip.

00:43:52.640 I myself might be called up in a month.

00:43:54.340 Do you think that's the way to pressure Hamas to get to a deal?

00:43:57.320 Do you think blocking humanitarian aid is also an effective pressure?

00:44:00.200 Well, you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip.

00:44:02.220 I think it's an incredible piece of important real estate.

00:44:07.360 And I think it's something that we would be involved in.

00:44:11.000 But, you know, having a peace force like the United States there, controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing. 0.98

00:44:18.160 And because right now, all it is, is for years and years, all I hear about is killing and Hamas and problems.

00:44:24.660 And if you take the people, the Palestinians, and move them around to different countries, and you have plenty of countries that will do that, and you really have a freedom, a freedom zone.

00:44:36.540 You call it the freedom zone, a free zone, a zone where people aren't going to be killed every day.

00:44:41.460 That's a hell of a place.

00:44:42.800 We call it the freedom zone, then we're going to call it the Trump-Gazan International Hotel and Golf Course and Casino.

00:44:51.180 I love Trump's innovation here.

00:44:56.740 I love Trump's audacity.

00:44:58.660 And I even like his broadly imperial understanding of geopolitics.

00:45:03.780 I don't think there's much appetite for this either.

00:45:06.680 So he keeps floating it out there.

00:45:08.600 Netanyahu's not even on camera during that.

00:45:10.300 Wait a second, I want the Gaza. 1.00

00:45:11.820 Why are you taking Gaza?

00:45:12.660 Give me Gaza. 0.98

00:45:13.360 No, no, no, it's ours.

00:45:14.160 It's ours, BB.

00:45:15.420 It's ours.

00:45:15.880 We're going to build beautiful blackjack tables all around, guys.

00:45:18.620 It's going to be beautiful and make a lot of money and be really great.

00:45:21.560 I don't think there's a ton of appetite here.

00:45:23.140 So I think also, because I'm not a panic-an, I don't know about you, I hear these things.

00:45:29.180 I see them as chips being moved around in a casino.

00:45:33.480 I see them as negotiating tactics.

00:45:37.500 Not disconnected from the potential war with Iran.

00:45:40.520 And we see where it lands.

00:45:42.700 I'm a panic-ant, though, baby.

00:45:43.880 You can't get me to panic.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 08, 2025

Ep. 1710 - Warning from the President： Don't Be a ＂Panican＂

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