The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1724 - Is Elon Musk the Antichrist？

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00:00:11.700 Elon Musk just gave a nonverbal ALS patient the ability to speak by sticking a computer chip in

00:00:17.660 his brain. Is the South African billionaire a world historic humanitarian, or is he,

00:00:24.000 as others are suggesting, the Antichrist? Also, turning to Elon's more mundane task of cleaning

00:00:30.560 up the government, have your tax dollars been funding George Soros' left-wing activism all

00:00:37.100 around the world? We got the receipts. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:54.000 Welcome back to the show. The most important story coming out of Washington.

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00:02:30.900 That's Elon Musk's company that's going to give us a computer chip, plug us into the matrix. That part

00:02:34.820 seems kind of scary. However, there's a guy who has Lou Gehrig's disease who cannot speak,

00:02:40.660 who's got a family, he's got a wife, he's got three kids, and this guy's in a wheelchair,

00:02:45.700 he's on a tube. Physically, he's really messed up. This guy now sounds like this and is able to

00:02:53.220 communicate like this thanks to Elon Musk. Hi, I am Brad Smith. I'm the third person in the

00:03:00.500 world to receive the Neuralink brain implant. I'm also the first person with ALS and the first

00:03:05.080 nonverbal, which means that I rely on it for all communication. I'm making this video using the

00:03:11.160 brain-computer interface to control the mouse on my MacBook Pro. This is the first video edited with

00:03:16.580 the Neuralink and maybe the first edited with a BCI. This is my old voice narrating this video,

00:03:23.720 cloned by AI from recordings before I lost my voice. Before Neuralink, I had to use an eye gaze

00:03:30.800 control computer for all communication. It is a miracle of technology, but it is frustrating.

00:03:36.200 It works best in dark rooms. So I was basically Batman. I was stuck in a dark room. Neuralink lets

00:03:45.240 me go outside and ignore lighting changes. The implant is in my motor cortex, which is the part

00:03:50.780 of my brain that controls body movement. The actual implant is the size of five U.S. quarters in a stack.

00:03:57.200 It goes on. I encourage you to watch the whole video. It goes on for minutes where he's just

00:04:00.660 describing how Neuralink works. He says, you know, it doesn't read my deepest, darkest thoughts. Don't

00:04:04.800 worry. If you're in the market for a Neuralink, it's not going to just start blurting out what you

00:04:09.740 think about that jerk. You know, you're like your brother-in-law who you don't like or that, you know, 1.00

00:04:14.480 your colleague who you think is hot or whatever. You know, it's not going to start blurting that out.

00:04:19.180 It's controlled. It's done in a more controlled way, but it is this absolute marvel of technology.

00:04:27.540 And it raises questions for people. Is this ethical? There are very, very serious questions

00:04:33.800 about technologies like Neuralink, about transhumanist technology, very serious ethical

00:04:42.540 questions that could compromise human dignity, potential abuses, ways in which this could be

00:04:48.540 profoundly immoral. However, I think it is pretty clear that this use of this technology

00:04:55.520 is pretty morally sound. And I'll have a real moral philosopher or theologian weigh in if I'm

00:05:03.440 getting something wrong here. But the key distinction would be, in this case, the technology

00:05:09.460 is being used to rectify a defect. So we all have various defects. It's a fallen world. We have

00:05:18.100 imperfect bodies and we live in an imperfect society and imperfect environment. So if you use the

00:05:26.700 technology to rectify a defect, that is to stay, to restore something like your speech to its proper

00:05:35.200 functioning, that would be, generally speaking, morally licit. Where it would become immoral is if you

00:05:44.180 used this technology to augment human capability. So if you use the very same technology, not to restore

00:05:52.780 human powers that had been lost, but to surpass human powers. You get a computer chip in your head

00:05:59.420 so you can reason a million times faster than the average human. Where we cease to be homo sapiens and

00:06:07.040 become something like homo deus, to use the language of the liberal writer Yuval Harari. 0.67

00:06:12.000 The transhumanists who are looking forward to shuffling off this mortal coil and uploading our 1.00

00:06:18.220 consciousness to the cloud or something like that. That would be immoral. That would compromise

00:06:22.560 human dignity. That would be terribly unethical. However, in this case, if we use the technology

00:06:27.840 to help people who are sick to restore their functioning as humans, I think we're in relatively 1.00

00:06:38.260 safe territory. It's a little spooky. It's kind of Brave New World, but that is just a marvel. The

00:06:43.700 ability for this man to communicate with relative ease with his family, with his own voice, not even

00:06:49.360 the Stephen Hawking, like beep, boop, beep, boop kind of voice. That's pretty amazing. The question is,

00:06:55.820 do we have the moral guardrails anymore to prevent abuses? Do we have the moral guardrails and discipline

00:07:04.580 to say, all right, we will go this far, but no further? We will go this far toward rectifying

00:07:09.800 imperfections. We'll go this far toward just treating people with Lou Gehrig's disease,

00:07:15.920 for instance. But we won't go further into augmenting human potential and seriously compromising

00:07:20.760 human dignity. Now, speaking of human potential, there's one story I have to get to very quickly

00:07:25.340 because my producers are making me. Would, in a fight, would one gorilla defeat 100 human beings

00:07:37.920 or would 100 human beings defeat a gorilla? A stupid question, a stupid internet meme, and 1.00

00:07:48.140 my producers are making me waste precious time on this show discussing apparently the most important 1.00

00:07:55.520 question of the week. But this is not a difficult question. It hinges on only one aspect of the

00:08:04.040 hypothetical. Do the humans get to use weapons or not? If the humans use weapons, then you don't need

00:08:10.580 100 men to defeat the gorilla. You just need one man. Really, a four-year-old could defeat a gorilla.

00:08:15.680 Look at Harambe. Assuming in this hypothetical that the men are not allowed to use weapons,

00:08:21.260 that is to say, human beings are not allowed to use our distinctive advantage, that is to say,

00:08:26.780 our faculties of reason, the very thing that makes us children in the image of God,

00:08:36.920 in the abstract. Okay, if you took that away, I don't know why there's some stupid TikTok playing 0.99

00:08:41.880 of a gorilla just wrestling men right now. The degradation of this show makes me wonder if 0.98

00:08:47.460 we've become gorillas ourselves, brutes without faculties of reason. But if the men don't have 0.84

00:08:53.740 the weapons, the gorilla would win every time. It's not even close. This should not be debated.

00:08:59.820 The strength differential between a gorilla and a human being is roughly the same as the strength

00:09:07.200 differential between a human being and a dachshund and a little tiny 20-pound puppy,

00:09:13.780 a little French bulldog. So ask yourself, even me, I'm not exactly captain of the football team.

00:09:19.360 If 100 dachshunds came at me, would I defeat them or would the dachshunds rip me to shreds? 1.00

00:09:26.520 I would win every time. It's not like 80% versus 20% of the time. It's not 99 versus one.

00:09:32.880 Every single time, I would win. Now, the objection that's raised is, well,

00:09:37.980 what if the humans coordinate? Yeah, what if they do? What if the dachshunds coordinate? If they don't 1.00

00:09:42.320 have tools and weapons, the things that make human beings strong physically, we're like a reed.

00:09:51.580 I think it was this Pascal. I've been quoting Pascal a lot recently. Pascal, one of the great geniuses

00:09:56.680 of modernity in the Ponce, says we're interesting because we're like a reed. But because we have reason, 0.99

00:10:02.540 because we're a rational creature, we're both the weakest creature and the strongest creature.

00:10:08.020 Well, yeah, if you take away our ability to use tools, then we're the weakest creature,

00:10:12.740 and the gorilla would win every time. This isn't really a debate.

00:10:16.580 Are you satisfied, producers? I don't know. Have I been able to penetrate your brow ridges?

00:10:24.620 Have I been able to get deep into your rational faculties, you as dignified creatures made in the 1.00

00:10:29.080 image and likeness of God to make it clear that this is a stupid debate? The gorilla would win. 1.00

00:10:35.380 You are flattering yourself if you think you and 99 buddies could defeat the gorilla.

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00:12:53.820 saltyseaairthecandleclub.com. Has your tax money been used to fund George Soros? George Soros,

00:13:04.320 billionaire, hedge funder, broke the Bank of England. George Soros is the most prominent

00:13:09.840 left-wing donor on planet Earth. He's got enough money of his own, and yet your taxpayer dollars

00:13:18.380 have been used to fund his leftist organizations that have in turn used that money to destroy your

00:13:25.680 country. This is not my discovery. This is the discovery of the Media Research Center. Great work

00:13:32.520 here showing that the U.S. government has given $11 million directly to George Soros groups,

00:13:38.380 not just indirectly. Remember, when Elon went into USAID, Elon and Doge go in and they find a lot

00:13:46.440 of corruption. They see things like the U.S. government giving money to the Tides Center.

00:13:52.380 The Tides Center, which does work overseas, but the Tides Center also funds Black Lives Matter,

00:13:57.680 Black Lives Matter in the United States, which then extorts money and political concessions from

00:14:03.440 politicians and extorts corporations and burns your neighborhood down. So there you saw a really

00:14:09.980 clear example of the government taking your tax money, laundering it through some NGO, sending it

00:14:16.900 right back into your neighborhood through the most radical, explicitly Marxist activists of BLM,

00:14:24.360 burning your neighborhood down, screwing up your political order, taking more money from you so that

00:14:28.160 they could do it all again, rinse and repeat. Well, here we don't even have an indirect link. We have a

00:14:33.280 direct link to George Soros, $11 million. So the Open Society Foundation, which is George Soros's big

00:14:42.120 organization, is said back in February 12th, the claims that the Open Society Foundations founded by

00:14:48.580 George Soros receive funding from USAID or direct the funding of a multi-billion dollar U.S. government

00:14:54.980 agency are manifestly false. Okay. MRC looks into this, discovers that the State Department and USAID,

00:15:03.600 USAID, which is now part of the State Department, committed $11 million, $11,091,856 to be precise,

00:15:13.140 in grant money from 2007 to 2014 for the Open Society Institute and the Alliance for Open Society

00:15:19.820 International, which is the legal operating name for Open Society Institute Baltimore, which later,

00:15:24.980 announced that it was closing down a couple years ago. Over $8 million of that money was from the

00:15:31.540 State Department to the Open Society Institute International for the purpose of administering

00:15:36.440 the Muskie Freedom Support Act Graduate Fellowship Program, blah, blah, blah, all these little grants,

00:15:42.920 all these little programs, all these little upshot is your tax money was going directly from a U.S.

00:15:51.340 agency to George Soros. Now, you're going to look at this and say, well, it's only $11 million.

00:15:57.380 To some of us, $11 million is still a lot of money. But you say, well, for the U.S. government,

00:16:02.040 that's not a lot of money. You know, we live in the era of billion, multi-billion dollar

00:16:05.620 presidential campaigns. So, $11 million is not a lot of money. What I'm pointing out here is,

00:16:11.900 MRC did one investigation into one agency and found $11 million going straight to George Soros.

00:16:22.280 You think that's it? You think that's the whole story? I think that's the tip of the iceberg.

00:16:27.520 I was having lunch with a friend of mine who is very intelligent, very well-educated,

00:16:33.320 very plugged in to political realities. This was a week or two ago. He says to me,

00:16:38.960 Michael, I got to know, do you think, are we just funding the Democrats, our tax dollars?

00:16:47.000 I said, what do you mean by that? He said, well, I just, the Democrats have had a fundraising

00:16:52.940 advantage at the presidential level since 2008. Since 2008, Democrats have been out fundraising

00:16:59.940 Republicans by hundreds of millions of dollars every cycle. Now, sometimes we win the election,

00:17:05.540 2016, some would say 2020, but certainly 2024. Sometimes we win the election, sometimes we lose

00:17:12.360 the election. But the Democrats have been out raising the Republicans every cycle by hundreds

00:17:17.600 of millions of dollars. Is it just that they have more billionaires than we do? Maybe,

00:17:22.920 but we have billionaires. Is it just that they have more fired up grassroots activists? I don't

00:17:28.780 think that's really it. We won the popular vote this year, we the Republicans. I don't.

00:17:32.820 Or is there some funny business going on with the money? At the time I said, gee, I really don't

00:17:39.220 know. I mean, could be, there's a lot of corruption. There's a lot of graft, especially in USAID. Elon

00:17:44.580 just showed that. But then I look at something like this, 11 million bucks, just straight to George

00:17:50.020 Soros. George Soros, the biggest left-wing election funder on earth, private citizen.

00:17:57.200 $11 million. That is scandalous. But the real scandal is the open question. How much more of

00:18:07.400 your taxpayer money was going straight to the Democrats? Now, speaking of Democrats taking

00:18:15.220 money that they shouldn't, Nancy Pelosi has become a very wealthy woman while a member of Congress. 1.00

00:18:22.100 She's been a member of Congress since, I think, 1794 at this point. And she's just making a public

00:18:27.840 servant salary, but she's worth a ton of money. How? Well, because her stock portfolio 1.00

00:18:33.260 seems to outperform some of the top guys on Wall Street. That's amazing. Why? Nancy Pelosi,

00:18:39.900 she picked the wrong career. Why did she get involved in the government when she's clearly one of the 1.00

00:18:44.940 shrewdest investors on earth? Well, maybe her portfolio is performing so well because she's got a little

00:18:50.440 bit of insider knowledge. And maybe because the laws are a bit lax when it comes to Democrats. Well,

00:18:57.820 it comes to both members of Congress, both sides of the aisle, insider trading.

00:19:04.040 So Senator Josh Hawley has just proposed maybe my favorite, favoritely named act ever in Congress.

00:19:13.360 You know, members of Congress love a good acronym or initialism.

00:19:16.920 The Patriot Act, the Patriot Act, the SAVE Act, they always fill it in with some great acronym or

00:19:23.940 initialism. Well, in this case, Senator Hawley is proposing the Pelosi Act, the Preventing Elected

00:19:33.000 Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments Act. When I was in college, I didn't have a lot of

00:19:43.720 money and I wanted the school to pay for my cigars. So I started a club called the Society for

00:19:49.320 Intellectual Growth and Reinvigoration or cigar. And this, the Pelosi Act really puts my acronym to

00:19:59.460 shame. The Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments Act, Pelosi Act,

00:20:04.680 would amend chapter 131 of title five USC to prohibit transactions involving certain financial

00:20:13.400 instruments by members of Congress. So this, and this would go pretty far. This would ban lawmakers

00:20:19.340 and their spouses from holding, purchasing, or selling individual stocks for the duration of

00:20:26.840 the lawmakers' time in office. Now, it seems from reading the summary of the bill that it wouldn't

00:20:35.080 necessarily prevent members of Congress from being invested at all in the stock market.

00:20:40.620 That would seem too onerous. Members of Congress deserve to have 401ks too, don't they? They deserve

00:20:46.120 to have some investments. What it would prevent them from doing is holding, purchasing, or selling

00:20:50.680 individual stocks. So, okay, you buy a fund, you buy some index, you buy, okay, that's one thing.

00:20:56.420 But you don't want Nancy Pelosi going in there and buy, buy, buy, sell, sell, sell from the floor 1.00

00:21:00.400 of Congress because she just got some insider info and she wants to make another $50 million. 1.00

00:21:05.600 That seems quite reasonable. This is really important because of the seriousness of public

00:21:13.240 corruption. What distinguishes good regimes from bad regimes is not necessarily the form of the

00:21:23.800 government. It's not that monarchies are bad and democracies are good, contrary to liberal popular

00:21:28.860 belief. It's not that government by the many is better than government by the few, but worse than

00:21:34.460 government by the single individual. It's not that. There are good monarchies, there are good

00:21:40.200 aristocracies, there are good democracies. What distinguishes good from bad government

00:21:45.180 is whether the government is conducted for the common good or for the private interest.

00:21:50.580 That's what distinguishes monarchy from tyranny. That's what distinguishes aristocracy from oligarchy.

00:21:55.640 That's what distinguishes democracy from mob rule. So it's really important. And we focus on all sorts

00:22:01.700 of scandals in politics. We love a good sex scandal, don't we? Oh boy, that's juicy stuff. That makes

00:22:07.020 the front pages. But Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress, though she's notable among them,

00:22:13.680 get to engage in transparent public corruption for decades. And no one seems to really shrug a

00:22:20.860 shoulder at it. Really important. That's really, really, that is much more corrosive to the body

00:22:26.560 politic than a sex scandal. Sex scandals are bad too. But that kind of public corruption that rots the

00:22:32.760 whole regime. Great stuff from Hawley, and I hope it gets passed. I have much, much more to say. First

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00:23:55.360 Democrats, there's a poll out here from The Economist and YouGov shows that most Democrats

00:24:02.020 want Kilmar Abrego Garcia brought back to the U.S. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is that guy who is probably a

00:24:12.420 member of MS-13 and has weird gang-looking tattoos and had a court-protected order filed by his wife

00:24:19.620 because he beat her, allegedly. And, sorry, in the words of Democrats, he's just a Maryland dad.

00:24:26.540 Illegal alien, found by multiple judges to likely be a member of MS-13, has gang-looking tattoos,

00:24:33.560 alleged to have beaten his wife. Or, as the mainstream liberal politicians say, just a nice

00:24:39.440 Maryland daddy, you know? He's dropped out of the news because the leading Democrat politicians

00:24:47.860 realize, this is bad. This is not a good issue. Senator Chris Van Hollen from Maryland flew down,

00:24:54.660 had a nice romantic lunch with this gangster in El Salvador, and it didn't play well in Peoria. So,

00:25:00.060 the Democrats at the national level have dropped the Kilmar Abrego Garcia thing. However, according to

00:25:07.400 this poll, most Democrats want him brought back. 87% of Democrats want him brought back to the United

00:25:12.240 States. Only 6% say that he should not be. Most Republicans, of course, say he should not be brought

00:25:18.800 back to the United States. Independents are split, and the lion's share of them, or, sorry, 27% of them

00:25:24.880 are unsure because they don't know. The ones who believe what the establishment media have been

00:25:29.640 saying about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, they're more on the fence. Maybe he should be brought back.

00:25:33.860 The ones who know the facts of the case realize this gangster should be stuck in El Salvador. 0.88

00:25:38.240 Even if he hadn't beaten his wife, even if he hadn't been a member of MS-13, he's an illegal alien, 0.99

00:25:43.000 and he shouldn't be in the country. But when you add in all these other factors, the guy obviously

00:25:46.780 should stay in a prison in El Salvador. So, where does that leave the Democrat politicians?

00:25:54.380 They're torn between what most people want, what common sense says, what the median voter says,

00:26:03.280 and what their base wants. The Democrats, they just have this problem. They have lost the common

00:26:09.480 sense. Most people don't want husky fellas going into the girls' bathroom. Most Democrats do. And if 1.00

00:26:17.680 you're a Democrat politician, you could say, it's very easy for Republicans and independents and

00:26:21.860 moderates to say, well, look, obviously the Democrat should just do what most voters want and what common

00:26:27.420 sense says. But it's not so easy because that Democrat politician has to answer to the donors,

00:26:32.160 and he's got to answer to his base, and he won't get through a primary if he opposes the Democrats

00:26:36.540 on issues like migration, on issues like crime, on issues like transgenderism, on issues like

00:26:43.360 Israel-Palestine, which is another issue where the Democrat base is not where the median American

00:26:47.540 voter is. So, the Democrats, I sympathize with them. I'm glad they're in this terrible position.

00:26:54.780 They put themselves in that position by being part of a lunatic party. 0.69

00:26:57.640 But I do pity them a little bit because it's not clear what exactly they should do.

00:27:04.560 Some of the more moderate Democrats, so-called, are saying, hey, guys, let's stop defending the

00:27:11.200 tattooed MS-13 wife-beating gangster. Can we please, can we find a slightly more sympathetic figure?

00:27:17.520 Henry Quellar, a so-called moderate Democrat, has come out explicitly and said, we should not focus

00:27:23.580 on bringing this gangster back, this alleged gangster back.

00:27:28.440 This is not the right issue to talk about due process. This is not the right case. This is not

00:27:34.980 the right person to be saying that we need to bring him back, back to the United States. I understand the 0.80

00:27:43.180 arguments about due process, but this is not the case to fight, to fight on. Democrats should not take

00:27:52.500 this issue. Okay, so he's obviously right about this. He's speaking on Brian Kilmeade's show

00:27:57.280 on Fox News Radio. So, it's a show that has a largely conservative audience.

00:28:01.960 And he goes on some of the right-wing channels. So, he's considered a moderate Democrat.

00:28:07.620 That guy voted with Joe Biden 96% of the time. Okay? So, don't try to write this guy off as,

00:28:15.320 oh, he's like Joe Manchin. Joe Manchin, who also voted with Biden a lot of the time.

00:28:19.200 But, oh, he's a moderate Democrat. Oh, he's a dino. He's a Democrat name only.

00:28:24.020 This guy voted with Biden 96% of the time. He just happens to realize that when a political party

00:28:32.660 goes all in against the popular vote, goes all in defending a wife-beating gangster, part of a group

00:28:40.360 that's identified as a foreign terrorist organization, it's probably not going to do well at the ballot box.

00:28:45.620 And yet, he's basically the lone Democrat admitting that in public.

00:28:51.920 You'll notice, after more information came out about this illegal alien, the Democrats suddenly stopped 0.89

00:28:57.480 the cause celeb. After Chris Van Hollen's disastrous romantic voyage to El Salvador to, you know,

00:29:04.480 rub this guy's hand and, you know, caress his hair, Democrats realized, okay, this isn't playing,

00:29:10.140 we're going to drop it. But the base hasn't dropped it. That's the problem. The base still wants it.

00:29:14.960 So even during the election, I remember this on a little bit transgenderism, especially on Israel 0.98

00:29:19.900 Palestine. Democrats were saying, yo, man, be cool and be cool on this issue. It's not playing well

00:29:25.220 with the mainstream electorate. And what happened? Those, the Democrat activists, the base, throw on

00:29:30.940 their keffias and they go into the wrong bathroom. They just can't help themselves. Which means that

00:29:36.980 the Democrat mainstream politicians right now can't help themselves either. Now, on the issue of

00:29:42.240 deportations, mass migration, the Trump administration is in a tough spot too. The Department of Homeland

00:29:48.160 Security just, just released recent deportation numbers. Since January 20th, DHS says that ICE has

00:29:58.960 arrested over 151,000 illegal aliens and deported more than 135,000 illegal aliens, which is great. 0.98

00:30:08.340 That's more illegal aliens than I've ever arrested and deported. But do the math.

00:30:14.160 If we're talking about 135,000 deportations, then we're talking, if we, if you just extrapolate that

00:30:22.700 to the rest of the year, this was, this is the first hundred days of the Trump administration. If you

00:30:27.380 multiply that by a little over three, then we're talking about a little under half a million

00:30:34.120 deportations per year, which means that over the course of president Trump's second term,

00:30:38.940 you'll get a little under 2 million deportations in four years, which is between 12 and 18% of a

00:30:47.560 conservative estimate of the total illegal aliens in the country. There are an estimated 11 to 16

00:30:53.580 million illegal aliens in the country. If you deport a little under 2 million of them, you've deported 12

00:30:57.860 to 18%. It's not enough. It's a lot. I'm not knocking Trump for that. It's, it is hard to deport

00:31:05.780 135,000 people, but it's not enough. I, I do not point this out to suggest in any way that the Trump

00:31:14.540 administration isn't doing enough. The Trump administration is doing more than any administration

00:31:19.760 certainly in modern American history, maybe ever on all of these different fronts doing more than I

00:31:26.920 even expected them to do. And I've voted for president Trump three times now. And I expected

00:31:31.580 a lot of them. I mentioned it to show you the sheer enormity of the problem, the sheer enormity

00:31:39.120 of 11 to 16 million illegal aliens and the enormity of one of the two major political parties in the

00:31:47.960 United States crying and wringing its hands and gnashing its teeth when you deport even the very worst of

00:31:55.620 them. Chris Van Hollen is not flying to El Salvador to have lunch with sweet little abuela who's

00:32:02.840 committed no worse crime than making nice tacos for her grandkids on Saturdays. Chris Van Hollen is,

00:32:10.540 is staying up at night, tossing and turning in his bed because he can't stomach the fact that we've

00:32:16.900 deported a tattooed MS-13 gangster who probably beat his wife according to court filings.

00:32:22.580 Okay, that's the degree of obstruction and intransigence that you're talking about from

00:32:29.060 one of the two major American political parties, which no longer has much popularity at all,

00:32:33.000 but which does still have some political power. So even with the Trump administration

00:32:38.380 working as fast as it is possible to work, we're all cylinders firing here.

00:32:44.920 We're talking about half a million a year or less deportations. There needs to be, you need to

00:32:53.140 call, don't call the Trump administration. They know, they know what they want to do. Don't call

00:32:56.600 your Republican representatives unless they're squishes. Call your Democrat congressman, call 0.97

00:33:00.880 your Democrat senators, say we want many more deportations. You're not deporting enough. Call

00:33:06.160 Chris Van Hollen's office, say enough of the romantic lunches with the face tattooed gangsters.

00:33:12.180 Deport these people at least at double the rate. If you deported people at double the rate

00:33:17.840 that we're seeing under Trump, you would still not be deporting even 40% of the illegal aliens who

00:33:24.980 should not be in our country. You might not deport 30%. You might not deport 25% for that matter. 1.00

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00:35:37.700 America, great stuff from the White House. President Trump posted to Truth Social, I'm bringing Columbus

00:35:45.960 Day back from the ashes. The Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus,

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00:36:06.540 dates, and locations as it has had for all of the many decades before. And then the White House tweets

00:36:13.180 out. Just put a nice fine point on it. Christopher Columbus is so back. With applause. Christopher

00:36:22.300 Columbus. It's one of my hobby horses. I was radicalized to the right in part because of the

00:36:29.800 left's attack on Christopher Columbus. This great man, this man who discovered our country,

00:36:34.820 this man who's a hero, he's a brave Italian explorer, one of the great geniuses of his age,

00:36:40.940 who made it across the ocean using nothing but dead reckoning on his first voyage, who is not guilty 0.93

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00:36:54.340 of that man's amazing life. That man who was a devout Catholic, who landed when he discovered the first

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00:37:43.420 to defend. He might, it might be more important for us to defend Christopher Columbus than it is to

00:37:48.420 defend Washington or Lincoln or Adams or Jefferson or anyone else, Reagan or Trump. Because Columbus is

00:37:57.580 the link with the old world, first of all. So he's that link with our civilization, the old civilization. We come,

00:38:06.160 we discover. America is not a break with our civilization. America is the flourishing of our

00:38:11.060 civilization. We still have those roots. Columbus was a deeply religious man. Carol Delaney, the historian, argues

00:38:18.640 that his purpose in establishing this new trade route was actually to fund another crusade to retake the

00:38:24.280 Holy Land. Very good goal. He's an important figure too because he represents our confidence.

00:38:36.880 You know, one of the stanzas of our national anthem is, conquer we must when our cause it is just,

00:38:42.020 and this be our motto in God is our trust. Columbus, some of the people who came after him,

00:38:47.400 some of the people who took political power from him were rather cruel to the natives. Columbus said,

00:38:51.000 don't be cruel to the natives. Don't take advantage of them. I mean, we're going to, we're going to

00:38:55.660 explore. We're going to establish colonies. We're going to, we're going to be great, but we want to

00:39:01.460 be just. We want to be fair as well. And that's what we say. We're not little wallflowers, okay?

00:39:08.440 We're not just going to shrink back. We're going to pursue our interests. We're going to be great.

00:39:13.600 We're going to grow. We're going to be strong. We're going to do what we want to do. We're going to make

00:39:17.800 sure best we can that it's in accord with justice, but we're not going to be ashamed of our

00:39:22.060 civilization. The attack on Columbus is, is the Trojan horse for us to, to be ashamed of, for us

00:39:30.460 to deride our whole civilization. Don't do it. Because the man in himself kind of represents the

00:39:36.240 whole thing in modernity. The, the gumption, the exploration, the religion, the political order,

00:39:45.040 the, all of it, the scientific achievement, the technological prowess. He's, he's got all of it.

00:39:53.420 You lose Columbus. You're going to lose a lot. You might lose your whole civilization.

00:39:56.700 Now, speaking of great people, Jennifer Coolidge, she's the lady. She's very good on White Lotus.

00:40:03.520 She's been in a bunch of other TV shows and movies and things. Jennifer Coolidge just raised some 0.99

00:40:07.520 eyebrows by claiming that gays are superior people. Well, how's the gay fan base different

00:40:15.240 than any other fan base? What do you love about having them love you so much?

00:40:19.140 Like, down. Why are we just, um, um, I think, um, maybe heterosexual people are more self-conscious.

00:40:29.860 The gay men and gay women get, just let it, let, just let loose and have a blast. They know

00:40:36.140 how to have a really, really good, really fun time. And, uh, and they're, um, they're really

00:40:43.460 original. You know, they come up, they're, they're, um, I don't know, just, uh, superior group of people.

00:40:50.760 They're superior. Is that, even the, the specific claim she's making here are not true. She says

00:40:55.200 they're just less self-conscious. That isn't true. Self-identified gay men and women are, uh, much more

00:41:02.620 likely than heterosexuals to report anxiety and depression and suicidality. So even that claim

00:41:07.920 isn't true notion that gays are so original. Sometimes, sometimes they're just derivative 0.99

00:41:14.200 carbon copies of Paul Linde. Okay. They're just kind of performing a stereotype of what people

00:41:19.840 think a gay guy is. So they get the voice. So it's not, this is taking it too far. This is like 0.74

00:41:25.420 when a white guy, instead of just saying, oh, I don't hate black people. Yeah. Some of my friends 0.67

00:41:29.680 are black. Instead of saying that, when they say, oh, I actually, you know, and the white,

00:41:33.440 the white liberals would do this a lot. I actually much prefer black people to white. I hate white 0.83

00:41:37.260 people. Actually the black people are much better than white people. You say, oh, are you going a 1.00

00:41:40.560 little bit? You don't need to say that white black people are worse than white people, but you also 0.99

00:41:45.460 don't need to say black people are better than white people. You can just kind of be normal if you 0.99

00:41:49.120 want. Like when it comes to the LGBT LMNOP, you don't need to throw them off rooftops. Okay.

00:41:56.300 You can be kind of chill. You can not, you don't need to send the purity police to their homes.

00:42:00.020 All right. You can be normal and just recognize some people that sometimes they act a little

00:42:05.340 light in the loafers. There is such a thing as San Francisco and the United Kingdom. Okay. People

00:42:11.180 behave in weird ways sometimes and whatever. You just, you don't need, you don't need to be the

00:42:15.900 Taliban, but likewise, you don't need to say it's good. You don't need to say this should be 0.99

00:42:21.220 encouraged. Ah, yes. So there's no, there is no greater way of life than to, you know, go down to

00:42:26.860 West Hollywood or the village every night and go to, you know, gross bars. And no, I don't think so.

00:42:32.240 You can just say, Hey, it's all right. Just, we're just going to be normal. We're going to have

00:42:37.100 moral standards. We're going to, we're going to have some degree of tolerance and a little bit

00:42:41.800 of levity in life, but you don't need to just this constant. No, actually whatever is normal,

00:42:48.080 that's bad. And anything that is aberrant or subverts normality, that is good and superior.

00:42:55.440 Lady, come on. Just being, can't you be, can't people be normal? Now, speaking of people who are

00:43:04.780 overstating things a little bit, might be just a bit odd. The internet is asking if some weirdo is

00:43:09.600 the antichrist. This guy, I don't, I don't know why he's going viral now. It's like the gorilla versus

00:43:17.500 the hundred humans thing. I don't, I don't know why this is going viral right now, but some guy who's

00:43:23.460 been leading a cult for many years at this point, who calls himself Abdullah Hashem Abba Al-Sadiq,

00:43:30.600 has people asking all over social media, if, if this man is the antichrist.

00:43:35.900 I am Abdullah, the successor of Imam Al-Mahdi Alayhi Salaam, the successor of the comforter Ahmed,

00:43:43.900 the successor of Simon Peter, the successor of Muhammad, the successor of Jesus Christ. 0.92

00:43:51.980 I am the true and legitimate Pope. I am the proof upon the Christians. I am the son of the Muslims

00:43:58.020 through my father, and the son of the Christians and the Jews through my mother. I am the son of the

00:44:03.640 east through my father, and the son of the west through my mother. I am like Sulkarnein, who with

00:44:09.700 one horn in the east and one in the west, and I am the inheritor of all that lies between. I am more

00:44:16.640 knowledgeable than any false Pope, and I am appointed by name and the will of the prophets. My name is also

00:44:23.720 on the tongue of Isaiah, who have prophesied of the righteous servant, and he said, he will see his

00:44:30.120 offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. So, is he the

00:44:38.240 antichrist? No. No, I'm pretty sure he's not. I think he's just a kind of an odd, syncretic Muslim. 1.00

00:44:46.160 But he's not the antichrist, because the Bible tells us, some of the early Christian writers tell us

00:44:51.540 what they think of the antichrist. The antichrist is only addressed in the Johannine epistles. I think

00:44:56.400 it's four times in the scripture. So, there's not much directly written about the antichrist. Some of

00:45:00.020 the early Christian writers, and later Christian writers for that matter, have written about what

00:45:03.780 he will be like. But there is a consensus that he will be really popular. This guy has like four

00:45:13.380 followers. There is a consensus that he will be anti-Christian, that he will oppress the church.

00:45:19.000 This guy is just, I think, a kind of syncretic Muslim. There is a consensus that he will work 1.00

00:45:27.140 miracles and wonders. I don't, this guy can't, doesn't even have high production quality for his

00:45:33.480 videos. So, I don't, just to quell two major internet debates today. No, a hundred men without

00:45:43.440 weapons would not defeat a single guerrilla. And no, this random, weird kind of Muslim guy is not 1.00

00:45:49.380 the antichrist. Elon Musk has a greater likelihood of being the antichrist. I'm not saying Elon is 0.78

00:45:54.480 the antichrist. I don't, I also don't think that. But I'm just saying it would be, it would be much

00:45:58.000 more a person like Elon Musk than like this random eccentric Muslim guy. Ridiculous. You know what else 1.00

00:46:05.300 is ridiculous? Some of the jokes on Tee Hee Hee Tuesday, which is coming up right now. The rest of the 0.86

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 29, 2025

Ep. 1724 - Is Elon Musk the Antichrist？

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