The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1723 - Crying Lib Goes Viral： Photo Is FAKE, But the Crimes Are REAL

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00:00:50.780 Another liberal judge has been arrested, again, for assisting illegal aliens in their crimes. 0.98

00:00:56.540 President Trump is yet again under fire, this time for the single dumbest non-traversy of his entire 0.99

00:01:03.160 political career. And another associate of Jeffrey Epstein has died by suicide, allegedly. 0.97

00:01:10.140 Lots of death, mystery, and crime today. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:14.840 Welcome back to the show. A new study out showing that politicians are more vulgar and profane

00:01:38.660 than ever. Not on this show, though. We don't go blue on this show as a rule, okay? This is a

00:01:44.120 respectable, family-friendly show most of the time. Politicians in both parties, though,

00:01:49.940 they're going blue, and I think I actually know why. There's a lot more to say on that in one moment.

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00:03:08.500 The FBI has arrested Judge Hannah Dugan, Wisconsin judge. She's a judge out of Milwaukee. 0.98

00:03:16.180 She's been arrested on charges of obstruction because this judge allegedly

00:03:21.540 got an illegal alien off the hook as the illegal alien was about to be arrested last week.

00:03:28.800 According to Kash Patel, FBI director, quote, we believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected

00:03:35.780 federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse. Eduardo Flores Ruiz allowing the

00:03:42.800 subject an illegal alien to evade arrest. I know this is confusing because it sounds like I'm just

00:03:49.680 repeating the story I told you last week. That isn't true. Last week, a judge and his wife were

00:03:55.520 arrested for housing illegal alien gang members. That is to say, domestic terrorists. Well, I guess

00:04:03.840 foreign terrorists who are now domestic because they've crossed into our country illegally in their

00:04:07.900 homes. That's a totally different case. In this case, there's a judge who had an illegal alien,

00:04:15.620 clearly guilty, dead to rights. And this judge, as the guy's about to be arrested, the judge basically

00:04:21.040 lets him out the back door, which is a crime. Now, we have to say allegedly, we don't know that the

00:04:28.440 judge actually did it. You know, everyone's entitled to due process. However, this judge

00:04:31.720 appears to have rather left-wing sympathies. You can see the judge wearing a mask in some

00:04:38.580 photo that's going around virally now. In 2019, another judge, Massachusetts Judge Shelley

00:04:43.680 Richmond Joseph was charged with obstruction of justice for doing the same exact thing

00:04:48.880 after helping an illegal migrant avoid ICE in her building. She was then suspended for three years

00:04:55.860 and then charges were dropped by Joe Biden. So if you're a judge, if you're a liberal judge today,

00:05:01.900 you could see why you'd be tempted to open up the back door, let the illegal out before 1.00

00:05:05.580 law enforcement comes in to arrest him. Because you say, well, the last regime let judges get away

00:05:11.120 with this kind of thing. Well, there's a new sheriff in town. So no, if you do that,

00:05:17.120 you're committing a crime. And now, finally, you're going to be held accountable for your crime. And

00:05:22.660 the libs are losing their minds on this. They're saying, they're arresting judges. I saw all these

00:05:29.160 liberal accounts, Aaron Rupar, all these people. They're the Trump administration. They're arresting

00:05:35.340 judges. First of all, it was not so long ago that the liberals were trying to murder judges. Do you

00:05:44.180 remember a few years ago when the then Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, walked in front

00:05:50.240 of the Supreme Court, said, we're coming for you, Justice Kavanaugh. We're coming for you, Justice

00:05:53.460 Court, since you've unleashed the whirlwind. You're going to reap the results. And then shortly thereafter,

00:05:58.160 a leftist traveled from California to Washington, D.C. to murder Justice Kavanaugh at his home,

00:06:02.500 possibly murder his entire family. And threatened all these other justices. Alito had to move out

00:06:07.860 of his house. Remember that? So not so long ago, the left was celebrating the possibility of murdering

00:06:16.180 federal judges. Seems like arresting a judge would be relatively modest in comparison. But it was also

00:06:21.720 not so long ago that the libs were saying no one is above the law. Remember? Remember when the libs were

00:06:26.580 arresting Donald Trump multiple times over nothing, arresting Trump for having some documents in his

00:06:35.740 home. Joe Biden had more documents in less secure areas of his home. Joe Biden got off the hook

00:06:40.640 without question. Donald Trump needs to have his home raided. He needs to be arrested. He needs to

00:06:45.040 prosecuted four times for various non-traverses. That was totally fine. That was not a threat to the rule

00:06:50.780 of law. But arresting judges for clearly committing crimes, harboring terrorists in their homes,

00:06:57.540 and obstructing law enforcement, that's somehow beyond the pale. It doesn't make a lot of sense to

00:07:03.680 me. They're arresting judges now. Right. And we're going to arrest a lot more judges if the judges keep

00:07:10.020 committing crimes. So word to the wise, judges, cut it out. Keep the doors locked. Now, the biggest

00:07:18.780 non-traversy that I've ever seen in Donald Trump's entire political career, and there have been a lot

00:07:24.620 of them, occurred at the Pope's funeral. I mean, there are going to be a lot of funeral events,

00:07:33.500 and there's going to be a lot of public mourning for Pope Francis. Trump flew in for it, and the libs

00:07:39.080 are up in arms because Donald Trump wore a blue suit with a blue tie. You can see Melania wearing a

00:07:47.080 beautiful mantilla, black, and Trump is wearing blue. And the libs lose their mind on it. Here's

00:07:53.100 the New York Times. Trump's blue suit at Pope's funeral draws attention. President Trump's choice

00:08:00.380 stood out in a sea of world leaders and famous faces who were dressed in customary black.

00:08:05.500 Now, I'm looking at the picture, even the picture the New York Times is using. And it's true,

00:08:10.080 his suit's a little bit lighter than the others. The guy behind him is wearing a navy blue suit.

00:08:14.600 The guy, a few rows behind him, is wearing a blue shirt, looks like. The guy right behind him is

00:08:23.220 wearing, like straight back behind him, behind the guy in the turban there, is wearing a rather 0.84

00:08:28.640 bright blue tie. There's a red tie over here. There's another red tie. But then, the way you know this is

00:08:36.800 the most ridiculous non-traversy, the biggest fake news story ever involving Trump. Forget about Russia. 0.94

00:08:43.420 Forget about the phone call to Ukraine. Forget about January 6th. Forget about all this nonsense.

00:08:48.900 The way you can just, I'm so grateful for this story because it shows you not to have any faith

00:08:55.560 in the establishment media. Joe Biden wore basically the same suit to the Pope's funeral.

00:09:02.920 Analogous role, two presidents, one Republican, one Democrat. Same event, same suit. Trump's was

00:09:15.740 maybe a smidge lighter in color. They were both blue suits, both with blue ties. And no one wrote

00:09:23.160 about Biden's suit. And everyone wrote about Trump's suit and the great faux pas of wearing a blue suit.

00:09:28.500 It's an admission, an implicit admission from the New York Times, from the establishment media

00:09:36.460 generally. They don't care for the truth. They don't care for objectivity. This is,

00:09:42.620 you could not have a more perfect comparison. And when Biden does it, it's fine because Biden's a

00:09:49.200 Democrat. When Trump does it, it's not fine because he's Trump. One final point on this. I wear black to

00:09:55.000 funerals. I think it is good to wear black to funerals. I think you should wear black to

00:09:57.940 funerals. I have heard from liberals for like 20 years now or more that, or I think longer actually,

00:10:08.760 that it is passe. It is outdated to wear black to funerals. That these days you can wear blue or

00:10:17.060 any color really. You don't have to do it anymore. Not one single liberal who is criticizing Trump for

00:10:24.380 wearing a blue suit to the Pope's funeral. Actually wears black to funerals. It is so, it is so

00:10:31.000 deeply disingenuous. And if, if they want to defend themselves, show me the article about the

00:10:37.380 great offense that Joe Biden wore the blue suit. You're not going to find it. Now, turning from

00:10:43.340 alleged fashion crimes to actual crimes, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent associates and

00:10:52.860 accusers has just killed herself, allegedly. This is Virginia Jufri. She was certainly the most famous

00:11:02.460 of Jeffrey Epstein's girls, a young girl when she started working with him, alleges that he and Ghislaine

00:11:08.640 Maxwell made her sleep with all sorts of rich, powerful guys. And Ghislaine Maxwell is in jail

00:11:15.420 in large part because of this woman's testimony. She allegedly killed herself. And people are

00:11:20.780 skeptical of this because she sent out a tweet back in 2019. She said, I'm making it publicly known that

00:11:26.460 in no way, shape or form, am I suicidal. I have made this known to my therapist and general practitioner.

00:11:31.860 If something happens to me in this, in the sake of my family, if she meant for the sake of my family,

00:11:38.180 do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quieted.

00:11:44.680 Then she kills herself. People on the internet are saying, well, this is evidence. It's just like

00:11:49.180 Jeffrey Epstein. He didn't kill himself and she didn't kill herself either. Here are just the facts.

00:11:55.020 This woman, Virginia Jufri, took legal action against Epstein a decade ago, back in 2015,

00:12:02.400 back when very few of us were even talking about the Jeffrey Epstein story, even though there was

00:12:06.120 stuff bubbling out there about it. The establishment media weren't touching it. Virginia Jufri takes 1.00

00:12:11.920 legal action against him. Fast forward to just about a month ago, Virginia Jufri claims to have been hit

00:12:19.420 by a bus. And she posted this picture of herself really bruised up, especially in the face, not so much

00:12:24.600 on the rest of her body, but in the face, she's got cuts and black and blue. And the bus driver in this

00:12:31.680 case disputed her characterization of it. She said, you know, I kind of clipped a car a little bit. I got

00:12:36.620 out, made sure everyone was okay. The driver was a 70 plus year old woman. The driver was fine. I didn't even

00:12:41.580 really pay attention that there was a passenger in the car. I don't think those bruises are from my bus

00:12:47.880 clipping the car. Then a few days later, there is a news article that's released, uh, that Jufri has

00:12:55.420 been beaten by her husband. Allegedly, uh, Jufri claimed that she suffered years of physical abuse

00:13:01.080 at the hands of her husband. The couple had just recently split up after being married for more

00:13:05.320 than two decades. She wrote back in March, my beautiful babies have no clue how much I love them

00:13:10.100 and they're being poisoned with lies. I miss them so very much. So I guess her kids were taken away

00:13:14.100 from her, maybe with the husband or something. She goes, I've been through hell and back in my 41

00:13:19.120 years, but this is incredibly hurting me worse than anything else. Hurt me, abuse me, but don't

00:13:23.480 take my babies. My heart is shattered and every day that passes my sadness only deepens. So you really 0.98

00:13:28.960 feel for this woman. She's had a rotten life and she was exposed to lots of terrible things as a young

00:13:35.320 gal. And you just feel for her. You feel she's suffered a lot. She's a troubled woman. I think she

00:13:41.820 killed herself. We should pray for her. We should pray for the repose of her soul. I think she killed 0.72

00:13:47.320 herself. I think if you examine the evidence, there's no reason that the people who want to

00:13:53.800 shut up the Epstein story would have killed her now. They would have killed her in 2015. For 10

00:13:59.600 years, she's been spilling the beans. Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison because of this woman. 1.00

00:14:03.360 So if they were going to get her, she's kind of spilled it all. You know, there's not,

00:14:06.420 there's really not much reason to get her now. On top of that, she said she wouldn't

00:14:12.200 kill herself, but that was a while ago. That was six years ago. A lot can change. Like

00:14:16.180 your husband, who you're accusing of beating you, leaves you and takes your kids. You say,

00:14:22.000 my heart's broken. This is the worst pain I've ever gone through. My heart is shattered.

00:14:24.880 She posted after this bus crash that allegedly left her with the bruises, though it might've

00:14:30.540 been the husband who left her with the bruises. It might've been something else. She says,

00:14:33.160 I only have four days to live. I think she killed herself. I'm not saying Jeffrey Epstein killed

00:14:38.500 himself. I'm saying that I think she killed herself. And the reason that this matters

00:14:42.760 politically, and it's not just a gossipy story about this, you know, bizarre sex ring.

00:14:49.460 The reason it matters politically is it's important for us to remember, we who consume the news,

00:14:54.280 we who are trying to make sense of political events in a time when there are legitimate conspiracies

00:14:59.400 that are taking place. The juiciest conspiracy theory is not always the truth. That's not always

00:15:08.900 the correct narrative. Sometimes it is. Conspiracies happen. People collude and conspire.

00:15:17.120 That happens. But it's not always the truth. There are some people who adopt a pose of,

00:15:24.000 you know, realism, cynicism, but they call it realism. And they say, oh, you think you know how,

00:15:29.740 oh, actually, the world is much worse than you even think it is. And they believe that this kind

00:15:36.360 of deep pessimism passes for wisdom. But I think it's naivete, a lot of the time at least.

00:15:42.520 The evidence here to me is a troubled woman who lived a really rough life killed herself, probably. 0.96

00:15:52.820 And I think that actually tells you more about the human condition,

00:15:55.880 even than the Jeffrey Epstein sex ring. There's still tons of questions. Who was funding Jeffrey

00:16:01.320 Epstein? Where did he get his money? Where was his career from? Why all the spying? What was the

00:16:05.980 purpose? Whose interests did this serve? Who are the rich guys who have been protected here? There are all

00:16:10.680 sorts of questions about Epstein. I am in no way diminishing that. But also sometimes people do

00:16:19.420 kill themselves. And that's a dark reality about the human condition that we also have to confront.

00:16:25.340 And just going to the juiciest, most TikTok-y viral theory, it doesn't, that might get you clicks on

00:16:31.380 the internet, but that doesn't really reveal the truth of situations. It doesn't really help you

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00:18:16.220 is a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He is a self-identified gay guy. 0.98

00:18:23.440 He has been caught in something of a sex scandal. It's specifically a pornographic picture scandal. 0.61

00:18:30.980 So I'll try to speak of this in relatively euphemistic ways so that, you know, we try to keep

00:18:37.440 the show above board here. We try not to get it. We don't go blue, as I mentioned at the top of the

00:18:41.340 show. This guy, John Reed, had this to say after photographs leaked purporting to be from one of this

00:18:49.320 guys' social media accounts. He says it's not from his social media accounts, but it would appear to

00:18:53.560 be pictures of him in compromising positions, shall we say. Here's his response.

00:18:58.700 I haven't publicly performed or publicly posted anything pornographic. Have I seen porn? Yes.

00:19:07.400 Have I had one-night stands? Yes. Are my exes all still in love with me? No. What more can I

00:19:15.740 possibly tell you? And why am I the candidate who has to answer these questions on this topic?

00:19:23.060 Okay, this is not a good defense. The word publicly here stands out to me as a big problem. He says,

00:19:33.180 I haven't publicly performed or publicly posted anything pornographic, which means he has privately

00:19:43.340 performed and privately posted things that are pornographic. That's probably disqualifying,

00:19:50.600 just generally. I'm not saying the guy can't have taken some kind of saucy pictures. But if we're

00:20:01.540 talking about actual pornography, come on, man. You should not be performing privately or publicly in

00:20:09.660 that if you want to hold public office. Or if you have, you should. I've interviewed former

00:20:15.180 pornographic performers. You need to have a real about face. You need to really turn your life around.

00:20:20.600 In a marked way that I'm not, I don't know that he has. Just from the way he's talking about this.

00:20:25.360 I haven't publicly posted. What do you mean you've privately posted? To like a group text or something?

00:20:30.120 That's not good. Have I seen porn? Okay, well, statistically, what? 99.9% of men have seen 0.61

00:20:37.140 pornography. So again, I don't know if this is the way you should talk about it if you're running for

00:20:40.220 office. But okay, fine. Have I had one-night stands? I wouldn't be, this is not good stuff. You

00:20:44.840 should not be talking about this. Are my exes all still in love with me? Okay. So he's saying,

00:20:50.140 he's saying without saying, yeah, the pictures are real, but I didn't post them.

00:20:53.980 Glenn Youngkin, governor of Virginia, has asked him to drop out.

00:20:58.080 Now, I look at a guy like this, and I think there's really no excuse for his behavior.

00:21:04.980 This guy, I think, is in his mid-50s. And I don't know that these incidents had occurred all that long

00:21:11.400 ago. I mean, this technology didn't even exist to do this kind of stuff all that long ago.

00:21:15.660 So I think there's really no excuse. He certainly should have known better.

00:21:19.860 This isn't like some teenager who got caught sending a racy picture on Snapchat, and now his or her life

00:21:27.280 is ruined. This is a grown man who is in his 50s. Like, come on, give me a break. However,

00:21:32.980 it did get me thinking. Forget about this guy. I mean, I don't know. He's running essentially

00:21:36.860 unopposed. He's got the Republican nomination more or less locked up. So I don't know what's

00:21:42.900 going to happen to the lieutenant governor's race in Virginia. But it did get me thinking.

00:21:47.940 What about the people who did send racy pictures on Snapchat when they were teenagers?

00:21:53.420 People who are maybe a little bit younger than me, but not Zoomers, basically. Just Zoom. What 0.88

00:21:58.420 happens when the Zoomers are politicians? Because we've already seen this with the millennials. 1.00

00:22:03.200 Because digital cameras and then smartphones took off when millennials were still in high

00:22:08.240 school, you're seeing just a ton of stuff. For the Zoomers, what percentage of Zoomers have

00:22:20.380 not sent a racy picture to a boyfriend or girlfriend at some point in their lives?

00:22:25.040 Like 10%, 20%. It's just so many people have done that already, that we are going to have to

00:22:33.700 grapple with the fact that there is going to—this is legitimately scandalous. Probably this should

00:22:38.840 tank this guy's campaign now. But in his defense, in 10 or 20 years, this is going to be ubiquitous.

00:22:48.780 This is going to be—there will be, somewhere out in the ether, on some server somewhere owned by

00:22:54.780 Meta or Google or somewhere, there will be racy pictures of every Zoomer politician in the country.

00:23:02.260 And how are we going to react to that? Are we going to degrade our standards and say,

00:23:07.040 well, this is just how it is now? Is this going to cause a reaction, a restoration of standards,

00:23:12.660 a new Victorian era? Actually, I have some predictions on this.

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00:25:05.520 Southern Republicans moving from Virginia to South Carolina, this clip went viral last week. I want to

00:25:11.240 touch on it briefly. Nancy Mace was accosted by a trans-identifying fella, a guy who says that he's

00:25:17.980 a woman. They got into a bit of a shouting match before the trans-identifying fella made as though he

00:25:25.400 were about to throw a potted plant at Nancy Mace's head. 1.00

00:25:30.060 Does your husband call you, babe? I'm not there. Okay, so even better. And I don't, I don't care. Okay, so I would like

00:25:39.060 for you to apologize, but this is derogatory then, but second to follow. Is tranny derogatory then? Well, no. Yeah. So, tranny, yeah, tranny, tranny, tranny. 0.97

00:25:51.060 Okay, so you see, I guess it's a guy? Picks up the potted plant. You think, is he about to smash this in

00:26:02.720 Nancy Mace's face? And then he, but he walks away. And there's Nancy Mace. She goes, tranny is 1.00

00:26:08.900 derogatory? Well, tranny, tranny, tranny. And there's something kind of funny about it, but the whole thing, 1.00

00:26:14.520 this whole exchange just feels so tired, doesn't it? I've been, I've been at the forefront of the

00:26:24.880 transgender battles of the last five or 10 years. And even to me, I just think this whole thing is 0.99

00:26:31.880 so tired. It's over. It's over. Transgenderism is right now on track to be eradicated from public 1.00

00:26:40.720 life entirely. Everyone's sick of this. The Republicans are sick of this. The Democrats are 0.95

00:26:46.200 sick of this. The Republicans are sick of it because it's revolting. The Democrats are sick of it because 0.69

00:26:50.620 it keeps costing them elections. The women are sick of this because it takes away their rights. The men 0.72

00:26:55.940 are sick of this because it is repulsive to pretend to be the opposite sex. It just is. Everyone knows 1.00

00:27:01.840 there's something wrong with it. We're now beginning to learn more about some of the causes and

00:27:06.860 incentives behind transgenderism. They're being rectified. Scientists are sick of it. 1.00

00:27:14.160 The Cass Review is sick of it. Governments are sick of it. The UK is, it's just, I think it's over.

00:27:20.640 I think it's, and so this is the last little gasp of it. Stop calling me tranny. You're a tranny.

00:27:25.700 Stop calling me tranny. But it's just, everyone finds the whole thing tedious. I think it's, I think it's 0.99

00:27:30.580 over. I'm declaring that we are on the brink of transgenderism being eradicated from public life 1.00

00:27:36.040 entirely. Not a moment too soon. Now, speaking of debates over what is or is not vulgar,

00:27:42.440 there's a, there's a survey out that shows that politicians today are more vulgar than ever.

00:27:47.820 This according to GovPredict. GovPredict has data out showing that obscene language,

00:27:53.980 not including S-H-I-T and F-U-C-K, but all other obscene language has been used at an all-time high

00:28:02.220 by politicians. And they're counting, they have different metrics to figure out the frequency

00:28:09.860 of these words. But just to use X, 1,225 instances on X so far this year, compared with just 833

00:28:18.020 instances by politicians back in 2018. That's a pretty marked increase. But you can see it all

00:28:25.820 around here. So, the black is all the words other than S-H-I-T and F-U-C-K. And back in 2014,

00:28:35.920 you're looking, just on Twitter, you're looking at instances, 58 instances. 2015, 98. 2016, 127.

00:28:42.820 2017, 825. 2018, only a little bit higher, 833. 2019, 1225. So, and it cuts off here, but it's

00:28:53.420 obviously getting much higher. But you're seeing this with all sorts of other words too.

00:28:58.920 Even S-H-I-T jumped up a lot in 2018. It's gone down a little bit since then. F-U-C-K peaked in 2018. 0.99

00:29:07.560 It's gone down a little bit since then. And that actually backs up my thesis on all of this. Some

00:29:12.280 people are going to look at this and say, oh no, the West is doomed. It's all decay from here. And

00:29:16.960 we're just going to get more and more vulgar and more and more obscene. And there's no way to stop it.

00:29:20.900 And there's no end in sight. I don't think so. I think actually we're reaching peak vulgarity.

00:29:30.000 And we're seeing peak vulgarity specifically among Gen X and millennial politicians.

00:29:36.800 Beto O'Rourke. This is just one example used in some of the news coverage here.

00:29:40.040 Beto O'Rourke, who, remember him? He ran for Senate, lost to Ted Cruz, ran for president,

00:29:44.660 lost to everyone. He kept just trying to run for office and he kept losing.

00:29:48.260 He was asked by reporters what Trump would do in response to a mass shooting back in 2020. He said,

00:29:56.180 he's been calling Mexican immigrants, rapists and criminals, members of the press. What the F? 1.00

00:30:00.720 He said the real word. What the F? I remember Chris Murphy, the Democrat senator from Connecticut. 0.92

00:30:07.040 He tweeted out the other day, it was a really hard effing day.

00:30:11.920 I want to hear this from you. You're a man. Shut up. Don't whine about your day.

00:30:16.640 It's very, it's womanish. It's very, it's not, it's fine when you want women to behave like women, 1.00

00:30:22.800 but when men behave like women, that's not womanly, that's womanish. That's, what are you doing?

00:30:26.940 I don't, and I don't want you to be vulgar, period. I don't, oh, it's really hard effing day.

00:30:30.580 What the F? This is, this is a Gen X and millennial phenomenon.

00:30:36.620 And it's because Gen X is the cynical latchkey generation, right? They're the latchkey kids. 0.98

00:30:44.360 They're cynical and they don't really believe in anything, man. They're grunge. They're cool.

00:30:47.780 They're whatever. They're gonna, Kurt Cobain's gonna kill himself because things are too good. 0.96

00:30:52.080 You know, it's just like, uh, speaking of suicide, there's a lot, a lot of death in the show today,

00:30:57.120 but it's just, that's the generation, uh, whatever. Nothing means anything. Come on. Don't be

00:31:00.960 enthusiastic, man. We're just gonna be cynical. You know, we're the latchkey kids. We're not

00:31:04.600 supervised. We're gonna be, we're cool. The millennials are different from Gen X. I'm a

00:31:09.320 millennial. I'm a millennial, but I see my own generation with clear eyes. The millennials were 0.91

00:31:14.680 the opposite of latchkey. The millennials were helicopter parented and the millennials tend

00:31:19.380 to be a little bit spoiled and a little bit entitled and extremely sensitive. The snowflake

00:31:24.580 generation. And, and, and this also leads to a kind of vulgarity, this entitlement, this lack of

00:31:30.720 decorum, this hypersensitivity. The, to me, the video of the millennials took place at Yale 2014

00:31:38.380 or 2015 when shrieking girls screamed at professor Nicholas Christakis, a preeminent liberal academic

00:31:46.160 who was the master of Suleman college. And there was this whole scandal. Some of you might remember

00:31:52.400 it where some DEI type administrator sent out an email to Yale students said, Halloween's coming up.

00:31:58.340 Make sure you don't put on any offensive costumes. And professor Christakis' wife sent out an email

00:32:04.240 to her students and said, Hey, you know, you're 20 year old Yale students. You could probably dress

00:32:08.760 yourselves. Okay. Just, you know, you have judgment. And this led to a campus uproar. And the shrieking

00:32:14.660 girl said, this is not about creating an intellectual space. This is about making a place of comfort and

00:32:19.880 home here. And they start shrieking profanity at their professor. It's a similar behavior to Gen X, 0.94

00:32:26.720 but motivated by different things. So, okay. You get Kristen Gillibrand using naughty words. You get

00:32:33.860 Beto, you get Chris Murphy, you get the squad, you get a Jasmine Crockett, the new, the new AOC,

00:32:39.720 another millennial using all, so it's a nasty language. I am confident that the zoomers will 1.00

00:32:46.880 restore the norms. Okay. I think the boomers, even though they were kind of hippies, they 0.66

00:32:54.640 generally don't do this. The silent generation didn't do this. The greatest generation didn't do 0.92

00:33:00.360 this. The Gen X started to loosen up the norms. Millennials took it to an extreme.

00:33:08.200 Then the zoomers, they're reacting against that. I see in the zoomer, I think I might be a spiritual 0.91

00:33:15.140 zoomer. The zoomers are trad. They are helping to lead the return to religion. Some millennials do. 1.00

00:33:25.360 The return to religion, the return to orthodoxy, the return to norms. They want the trad wife and 1.00

00:33:29.640 the trad life and they want to have kids and they want to live in a normal society because society has 0.83

00:33:33.220 become so bizarre. We have so obviously begun to live in clown world that there is a reaction against

00:33:38.080 that. So, okay. Enjoy, enjoy it while it lasts. Gen X and millennials. You can even see, you really can

00:33:44.540 see it. Not with the, all of the other words, but especially with S-H-I-T and F-U-C-K. I'm just even 0.98

00:33:50.840 noticing this now after I had formed my thesis. I'm glad it affirms it. You're seeing it. It's beginning

00:33:55.140 to decrease. The zoomers might well be the new Victorians. That will be a surprise to some of them, 1.00

00:34:01.160 but I think it's true. I think it's true, man. Speaking of generational shifts, last Saturday

00:34:07.080 marked an anniversary that not a lot of people talked about. Last Saturday marked the 250th

00:34:14.620 anniversary of the outbreak of the American Revolution. Did you know that? The battle of

00:34:19.780 Lexington and Concord. The 250th anniversary was last Saturday. Now, you know, I have a personal

00:34:25.420 connection to the American Revolution because two of my direct ancestors fought in it. One of whom,

00:34:30.020 John Knowles died of his wounds later on from Bunker Hill. Simon Knowles, though,

00:34:34.220 fought from Bunker Hill all the way across the Delaware, fought at all the, most of the big

00:34:38.560 battles, fought with Washington for a lot of it was at Yorktown, ended up being discharged

00:34:42.420 honorably with Washington up at Newburgh at the end of the war, 1783. I have a real personal

00:34:51.580 love of the revolutionary era. And it was a long time ago. 250 years. I think of it like a family

00:35:02.820 connection, but it was 250 years. Okay. Empires don't often last much longer than that.

00:35:12.660 In some ways, we're such a young country, but in some ways, we're a rather old country.

00:35:16.160 And I think this helps us to understand a lot of our politics right now. There is a 20th century

00:35:22.800 political scientist, Rain Tagepera. I think I'm probably mispronouncing his name. I think it's

00:35:29.120 Rain Tagepera, who argued that empires last 250 years. Uh-oh. That's not good news after last Saturday.

00:35:38.720 Paul Kennedy, great intellectual and scholar. He didn't explicitly claim that empires last 250

00:35:46.780 years, but the trends that he pointed out don't look great for us. You know, he has a famous study

00:35:51.560 from 40 years ago, the rise and fall of great powers. Economic change and military conflict

00:35:57.280 from 1500 to 2000. It points out that great empires have this almost impossible balancing act.

00:36:05.860 They have to balance their wealth and their economic base and their military power and their

00:36:13.720 strategic commitments. Right now, you've got Americans arguing and saying, hey, we don't want

00:36:18.680 to just be a tax farm for an overseas empire that benefits everyone but us. You know, that was a big

00:36:23.100 theme in the 2024 election. Exactly what Kennedy's talking about. So there's this constant tension

00:36:29.460 between what we consume and what we spend and invest and how we defend ourselves and there's

00:36:36.100 all this tension. Some empires last longer. Rome lasted for 500 years. The Byzantine Empire lasted

00:36:44.820 1,100 years. Some are shorter. The Mongol Empire was under 200 years and it was like 160 years. 0.90

00:36:52.380 And the Umayyad, I always mispronounce that, caliphate, that was less than a century.

00:36:59.600 Bringing it back to earth, we always hear that we're living in unprecedented times. You hear this

00:37:06.540 from the libs, there's unprecedented times. Donald Trump is upending the order of the United States.

00:37:12.020 No, it's not unprecedented times. These kinds of political trends that we're seeing right now

00:37:20.260 have happened many times throughout history. The cycle of regimes has happened many times

00:37:24.960 throughout history. We're living in very precedented times. We should not, however,

00:37:33.460 allow this to leave us complacent. If political scientists are correct, big if, we're kind of

00:37:42.540 living on borrowed time as an empire. And so the goals that President Trump needs to affect,

00:37:51.480 the stuff he has to do right now, they're extremely, extremely difficult. And if the United

00:37:59.880 States did continue on the course of decline that the liberals have set us on, that wouldn't be all

00:38:07.120 that surprising. It would be, the more surprising thing would be if President Trump can manage to

00:38:12.340 succeed at making America great again. If anybody can do it, he can do it. The guy is a world historic

00:38:16.160 figure. But don't just look at the Trump presidency in the vacuum of the last three or four

00:38:24.180 presidencies. Don't just look at this moment in American history in the vacuum of even the last 50

00:38:29.080 or 100 years. Look at America compared to other empires. Look at America, not so much from the

00:38:37.820 perspective of exceptionalism, but just look at how politics usually works. We're in a privileged

00:38:45.500 and precarious moment. Even the libs should hope that Trump succeeds. Even the libs. And they probably

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00:39:50.220 yesterday is from Samantha Rawson, 4216, who says, I wish Trump could run for a third time

00:39:55.460 so that he could yet again beat a woman in the presidential race. 0.93

00:40:00.380 Samantha, you seem to be betting on AOC as the Democrat nominee, speaking of vulgar and

00:40:06.600 common-sounding politicians. And you might be right. You might be right about that.

00:40:13.640 Okay, quickly looking at imperial matters. Mr. Zelensky has just rejected President Trump's

00:40:20.680 peace deal. And Putin has just been pounding Ukraine. So Trump ran into Zelensky at the Pope's

00:40:30.560 funeral, and they had a little meeting off to the side. I don't think it really went anywhere.

00:40:33.880 Because Zelensky said that Trump's proposal to recognize Russia's re-annexation of Crimea

00:40:41.800 is unacceptable. It's not that Ukraine isn't going to give up the eastern provinces that Russia took.

00:40:49.780 It's not that Ukraine is not going to give up a ton of its territory. Ukraine will not even 0.68

00:40:56.800 recognize Russia's claim to Crimea. Crimea, which historically has been a big part of Russia,

00:41:02.280 but then which was given to Ukraine, and it's now contested. And then Putin invaded and took Crimea

00:41:06.800 back. Zelensky is saying even Crimea is not on the table. Okay. Meanwhile, Putin just starts

00:41:15.000 pummeling Kiev, not even pummeling the eastern provinces. He's pummeling Kiev. So much so that

00:41:19.780 President Trump posts on Truth Socialist, says, Vladimir, stop. What are you doing? All caps.

00:41:25.120 What are you doing, Vladimir? I'm trying to broker a peace. Neither party wants peace.

00:41:31.880 Neither the Ukrainians nor the Russians want peace. So Trump is great at brokering deals. He's a master

00:41:40.180 of the art of the deal. But if neither party in this conflict wants peace, I guess it's just going

00:41:48.020 to keep going on. Both sides are so deeply dug in. Neither has insinuated at all that he would accept

00:41:57.960 a peace deal. At a certain point, Trump probably has to make good on his threat to just walk away

00:42:02.560 from the negotiating table. Okay. Keep pummeling each other some more. Keep killing Putin or Trump

00:42:08.060 rather pointed out that 5,000 soldiers a week are dying. Okay. If both of these world leaders want to

00:42:14.220 keep sacrificing their men in this totally intractable conflict, there's not really all that much that

00:42:21.500 we can do. At least one party needs to want peace for the deal to work. Meanwhile, there was a massive

00:42:28.860 explosion in Iran. At least 25 dead, at least 800 wounded. Yet the Iranian news agency, the minute I saw

00:42:36.160 this headline, I said, oh no, here we go. It's starting. Either we bombed Iran or Israel bombed Iran 0.73

00:42:41.660 or somebody bombed Iran. Saudi, I don't know who bombed Iran. But I don't know, here we go. We're

00:42:46.380 going to get a war in Iran. But Iran, sorry, I don't want to pronounce it the Barack Obama way.

00:42:51.720 Iran. Iran, and I'll pronounce it good American way. Iran is arguing that it was just an accident,

00:42:59.940 likely set off by containers of chemicals. No one really knows why they detonated, why there was this

00:43:05.200 massive explosion. But Iran has not said that it was sabotage or a deliberate attack. Now that might be

00:43:10.620 strategic, it might have been an attack, but they don't want to admit it because that would escalate

00:43:13.800 things further. In any case, Trump is directly threatening Iran. Trump says in an interview

00:43:18.460 with Time Magazine, if we don't make a deal, I will be leading the pack to fight in Iran. You asked if

00:43:27.140 Netanyahu would drag me in, like I'd go on willingly? No, I may go in very willingly. If we can't get a deal,

00:43:34.620 I think we're going to make a deal with Iran. Nobody else could do that. 1.00

00:43:36.940 Now, some people who really don't want to go to war with Iran, which is most of America,

00:43:42.800 they're going to be pulling their hair out here. They're going to be saying,

00:43:45.000 oh no, why is Trump talking this way? Stop it, Trump. We don't want to go to war with Iran.

00:43:51.860 There are two different ways to talk tough on Iran. The one way is the way that the real war hawks talk,

00:43:58.300 the ones who really do want to go and bomb Iran. The way that they talk tough on Iran is they build a 0.85

00:44:04.060 moral case against Iran. These mullahs have abused their power. They're an illegitimate government. 0.99

00:44:08.760 They oppress women. They oppress gays. They are a great threat to America. They are not only a threat 1.00

00:44:14.320 to Israel. They're going to come over here and bomb us too if we don't stop them. And they're the 1.00

00:44:18.040 greatest evil in the world. And we got to bomb them. That's the way that they talk tough on Iran. 1.00

00:44:23.500 That's not how Trump is talking about Iran. The way Trump is talking about Iran is he's saying,

00:44:28.760 oh, Netanyahu doesn't need to drag me in. I'm going to go there. I'm going to pound on myself.

00:44:31.980 I'm going to fly over there in an F-35. I'm going to walk up to the mullah. I'm going to punch him 1.00

00:44:35.420 in his fat, stupid face. If he doesn't do what I want him to do, give me a deal. Yeah, that's right. 1.00

00:44:39.800 I'm going to carry a Molotov cocktail myself and throw it at the palace. Those jerks. Watch it. 1.00

00:44:45.140 You see me? You think I'm funny? I'm funny how? Funny like I'm a clown, like I amuse you,

00:44:49.400 I make you laugh. I'm here to amuse you. That's a different kind of tough talk.

00:44:54.360 There's no moral argument being made there. He's just saying, give me what I want or I'll blow

00:44:59.040 you to smithereens, which is the tough talk of a guy who wants a deal. When you build the moral

00:45:06.900 argument against the mullahs, they're illegitimate, they're oppressing their people, then you're

00:45:11.180 actually boxing yourself into a corner where you need regime change because you're saying the only

00:45:14.940 moral thing to do is have regime change. You're building the case to facilitate war. Here, Trump is

00:45:20.640 building a case to facilitate peace. Not one moral argument in his speech here. All he's saying is,

00:45:31.420 I will do it. Trust me, I'll do it. I killed your top general. I will do it. Do not test me,

00:45:37.360 but give me peace, which I think is the right course of action and should be something of a relief to the

00:45:44.060 people who do not want to go to war in Iran. I want to get to one of my very favorite things the

00:45:50.700 White House has done. I'm going to have to get to it tomorrow. It involves Christopher Columbus. We'll

00:45:53.340 get to it then because I have to mention today a clip going around from CBS News. Tony DeCupol.

00:46:01.600 We were talking about a little weird matters of the heart, weird sex stuff earlier today,

00:46:07.340 Jeffrey Epstein and all the rest of it. Bill Belichick, the greatest coach in the history of

00:46:13.860 football, just did an interview on CBS that hinged a little bit on his 24-year-old girlfriend.

00:46:22.820 Bill Belichick is something like 73 years old. The girlfriend is 24. It's raised some eyebrows.

00:46:29.800 And the girlfriend decided to sit in the room for the interview and actually interrupt 1.00

00:46:32.800 when Bill Belichick was getting questions she didn't like. Here's just a little clip from Tony

00:46:39.380 conducting the interview. Jordan was a constant presence during our interview. You have Jordan

00:46:47.040 right over there. Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship. They've got an

00:46:52.340 opinion about your private life. It's got nothing to do with them, but they're invested in it.

00:46:57.040 How do you deal with that? Never been too worried about what everybody else thinks. Just try to do

00:47:02.220 what I feel like is best for me and what's right. How did you guys meet? Not talking about this.

00:47:08.080 No? No. It's a topic neither one of them is comfortable commenting on.

00:47:14.320 Okay. So, and, but by the way, the interview was more than fair. Tony did a fabulous job here. He

00:47:20.340 doesn't hit it too hard. He says, but you know what he's really interested in is touchdowns and stuff,

00:47:24.060 you know? So it's not like it was a, this was not a gotcha question. Okay. If you're,

00:47:28.420 if you're a 73 year old guy and your 24 year old girlfriend insists on sitting eight feet away from

00:47:33.980 a, from a network news interview that's taking place, expect a question or two about it. And

00:47:39.340 then this woman interrupts, says, we're not, we're not talking about this. No, no, no. Poor Bill

00:47:44.320 Belichick there. He looks, you feel bad for Bill Belichick. And I took a note to myself. If by some

00:47:52.580 chance I ever become the greatest coach in the history of the NFL, I need to resist the temptation

00:48:00.220 to date a 24 year old girl. This is, these interviews, this is really the whole story of

00:48:06.360 Bill Belichick saga where they don't want to talk about how they met and it's a little sus and the

00:48:10.480 whole thing's a little, little dubious. It's a reminder that you, you can't escape the moral order.

00:48:16.840 You can't escape it. You think once you're rich and famous and established enough and people like

00:48:22.520 you enough that you can take some shortcuts. You can be a little indulgent. You can be a little

00:48:27.380 selfish. It's okay. You've built up so much. You can survive it. Bill Belichick is obviously

00:48:33.220 embarrassed in this interview as he should be. It is, this is embarrassing. The whole thing is

00:48:41.080 embarrassing. You, one feels pity. How do you feel pity for the winningest football coach ever?

00:48:45.900 Because you just do. Because it's just, it's just wrong, man. You can't, the, the moral order

00:48:53.880 remains undefeated. The natural law of people's consciences remain broadly undefeated. You can't,

00:49:02.880 when you start behaving in a way that is indulgent and irresponsible and maybe a little selfish and a

00:49:11.300 little, a little degen, you know, a little touch of degen. It, it, I don't care how many football

00:49:19.020 games you want. I don't care how rich you are. I don't care how much goodwill you have. You're

00:49:22.020 going to look bad. Okay. And you can have the nicest, most accommodating interviewer asking you

00:49:28.520 the nicest questions about it. It's not a good look, man. Not a good, that's not, is it worth it?

00:49:34.380 Is it worth it? No. They're even the most hardened, cynical dudes at the grizzled old

00:49:41.260 misogynist out there saying, I think it's worth it for that hot young thing. No, you don't believe 1.00

00:49:45.700 that. Not worth it. Not worth it. Your integrity and your virtue are worth more. Okay. It's Music

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 28, 2025

Ep. 1723 - Crying Lib Goes Viral： Photo Is FAKE, But the Crimes Are REAL

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