The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 174 - We Live In Supremely Good Times

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00:00:28.080 Movement that inspires.

00:00:30.000 My fellow Americans,

00:00:32.540 it is with a heavy heart that I report that San Francisco,

00:00:36.700 New York, Los Angeles, Chicago,

00:00:39.180 they've all been reduced to rubble

00:00:41.340 by the deluge of leftist tears

00:00:43.480 following the recent Supreme Court rulings

00:00:45.780 on Christian bakers and abortionists and Somalian travelers.

00:00:50.380 Chicago looks basically no different,

00:00:52.700 but a difficult day nonetheless for left-wingers.

00:00:55.460 We will analyze this supremely good times that we're living in,

00:00:59.380 and give three cheers for Donald Trump and Cocaine Mitch.

00:01:03.160 We've got a lot to talk about today.

00:01:04.760 We're going to analyze everything from there to the end of liberalism,

00:01:08.020 why infant baptism is a violation of human rights, 0.79

00:01:11.520 how the Democrats have nothing to run on,

00:01:13.720 and we'll probably all drown in the tears.

00:01:15.800 I'm Michael Knowles,

00:01:16.660 and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:04:26.800 Get ready for the deluge.

00:04:28.620 Get,

00:04:28.840 this is what we have been talking about. 0.99

00:04:30.620 You all thought I was so foolish 0.98

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00:04:33.920 You,

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00:04:35.840 Well,

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00:05:08.040 The devastation is so awful to watch.

00:05:32.020 We could probably go to watch that because that doesn't even begin to capture

00:05:36.060 the deluge of leftist tears that are pouring out today.

00:05:38.180 We could have probably watched the whole movie, Deep Impact, and it wouldn't have quite gotten

00:05:42.580 to it.

00:05:43.060 I'm really glad I have my Tumblr.

00:05:44.460 I hope that you have your Tumblr too.

00:05:46.440 For those of you, I suppose, who were listening, you know what that was.

00:05:50.420 That was the deluge of leftist tears.

00:05:52.860 Let's get right into it.

00:05:54.120 To begin, three cheers for Donald Trump and cocaine Mitch McConnell.

00:05:58.520 Three cheers.

00:05:59.320 Hip, hip. 0.85

00:06:00.240 Hooray.

00:06:00.760 Hip, hip. 0.85

00:06:01.700 Hooray.

00:06:02.180 Hip, hip. 0.85

00:06:03.000 Hooray for cocaine Mitch and Donald Trump.

00:06:05.220 Because they gave us Neil Gorsuch.

00:06:08.240 Cocaine Mitch, that's the only way I'm going to refer to him from now on.

00:06:11.520 Cocaine Mitch, he stalled out.

00:06:14.500 Barack Obama tried to pressure everybody to put his left-wing justice on the Supreme Court,

00:06:20.200 Merrick Garland. 0.98

00:06:21.640 And cocaine Mitch said, nope, you're a lame duck president. 0.98

00:06:24.300 We're going to wait for the next guy to come around. 0.97

00:06:26.180 And by the way, people thought, oh, it's going to be Hillary. 1.00

00:06:28.360 Just do it.

00:06:28.960 Come on.

00:06:30.100 Merrick Garland is relatively moderate.

00:06:32.140 Oh, no, this is awful.

00:06:33.240 This is, you're robbing Obama of his ability as a president.

00:06:36.340 Blah, blah, blah.

00:06:37.140 Never mind that Joe Biden advocated exactly the same thing when George Bush was president. 0.99

00:06:41.980 Said, no, you're a lame duck. 0.98

00:06:43.380 We're not going to take any of your court nominees. 0.99

00:06:46.680 Cocaine Mitch stood firm.

00:06:47.940 And I got to tell you, folks, he walks like a turtle. 0.86

00:06:54.320 He talks like a turtle.

00:06:57.440 But I got wise. 0.98

00:07:00.560 He's the devil in disguise.

00:07:02.460 Oh, yes, he is. 0.97

00:07:03.560 He is.

00:07:03.920 He's so he's such an operator.

00:07:05.800 He Mitch McConnell, you know, conservatives get frustrated with Mitch McConnell because he probably isn't like a rock ribbed conservative ideologue.

00:07:14.540 I don't really know that he has these hard line conservative political philosophy.

00:07:20.200 When he first ran for the Senate in the 1640s, he was a moderate.

00:07:25.520 He said he was a centrist.

00:07:26.820 But what he's really, really good at is politics.

00:07:30.200 And right now it is politically advantageous to be conservative.

00:07:34.800 And he is one of the most effective people at enacting conservative public policy in this country.

00:07:40.780 He's done a really good job.

00:07:42.720 And and we can thank him for this court appointment.

00:07:45.360 It's where, you know, he said very wisely.

00:07:48.540 He said, you know, the winners make policy and the losers go home.

00:07:52.480 And this is to some of his conservative critics.

00:07:55.100 But he's been great.

00:07:56.000 I mean, really, really good.

00:07:57.120 And President Trump for nominating all of the Trump critics on the right.

00:08:00.980 They said, oh, Trump will never nominate an originalist.

00:08:03.540 He'll never nominate a textualist judge.

00:08:05.640 No way he's going to work with the Democrats.

00:08:07.760 No, blah, blah, blah.

00:08:08.620 And then what did he do?

00:08:09.560 He gave us a great originalist judge in the vein of Antonin Scalia, whom he replaced.

00:08:15.700 Really good stuff.

00:08:17.120 So right now, the Drudge Report especially, but a lot of conservative outlets,

00:08:21.420 they're focusing on how the Supreme Court upheld the travel ban, the President Trump's travel ban.

00:08:27.320 You could call it Obama's travel ban.

00:08:28.880 It's the same thing, right?

00:08:29.860 I mean, this is not, the left is calling it a Muslim ban.

00:08:33.820 But you'll notice that most Muslims in the world can still travel to the United States as often as they want.

00:08:39.740 This is a ban from these terror-ridden countries that don't have proper vetting procedures. 0.98

00:08:44.540 So we just don't know who's coming in and who's coming out.

00:08:48.980 Poor vetting has destroyed Europe in the last 10 years.

00:08:52.900 And it's caused some trouble in the United States, too.

00:08:55.460 This is a perfectly normal policy.

00:08:56.880 It's a policy that the Obama administration pursued as well.

00:08:59.320 Well, they're calling it the Muslim ban because they're just so upset.

00:09:03.020 But I got to tell you, other cases are more important.

00:09:06.220 So it's true, the Supreme Court gave us a win here.

00:09:08.600 But it's much more important that the Supreme Court upheld three other cases within the last couple weeks.

00:09:14.180 And we'll take a quick look at those.

00:09:15.860 The first one, 73-year-old Baronelle Stutzman, Washington State florist who had served her gay friend and customer for a decade, I think.

00:09:26.060 And then he said that he wanted her to arrange flowers and flower arrangements for his gay wedding ceremony.

00:09:33.120 And she said, oh, well, that violates my religious beliefs.

00:09:37.940 So I don't want to participate and give my artistic endeavors to participate in something that I consider immoral.

00:09:44.120 And it was a really hard thing.

00:09:45.440 And, you know, they cried.

00:09:46.600 And she was really friends with him.

00:09:47.740 And then this guy's worse half, not his better half, but his worse half, insisted that they bring suit and sue this woman out of house and home and just destroy her life and livelihood.

00:09:58.800 Fortunately, the Supreme Court came around and vacated the ruling that held her in violation of the law. 0.93

00:10:04.060 And they said, no way.

00:10:06.120 She's not in violation of the law.

00:10:07.480 So that goes back to Washington State.

00:10:09.420 This is a big win for religious liberty in this country.

00:10:12.060 This is a huge win. 0.96

00:10:13.060 You know, the left is really hypocritical on this point, right?

00:10:18.740 Because that guy, what's his name, the Spider-Man guy who was on Broadway and Angels in America, Andrew Garfield, he comes out and he says, come on, let's just bake a cake for everybody. 0.87

00:10:30.640 Come on.

00:10:31.180 Hey, shouldn't we just bake a cake for everybody?

00:10:32.640 Until they don't want to.

00:10:34.160 And then all of a sudden it's, yeah, we're going to kick Sarah Sanders out of our restaurant. 0.98

00:10:37.800 Yeah, that'll show you that at least the Supreme Court here is saying, if you have religious beliefs, you don't have to violate them.

00:10:44.420 That's a big, big win.

00:10:46.160 Another similar case, this came out a little while ago, is Jack Phillips.

00:10:50.280 He's the baker from Colorado.

00:10:51.720 They seem like the same case.

00:10:52.860 It's the same thing.

00:10:53.480 Doesn't want to cater gay weddings and doesn't want to participate in them with his services. 1.00

00:10:58.660 And the Supreme Court found that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission violated his rights and discriminated against Jack Phillips.

00:11:05.420 Another huge win for religious liberty.

00:11:07.200 You know, this country was founded on religious liberty.

00:11:09.800 Even if you're an atheist, even if you're agnostic or you don't really care, that is essential to the fabric of the United States.

00:11:18.400 It's no coincidence.

00:11:19.500 This place was founded by people who all they wanted was religious liberty.

00:11:23.660 The pilgrims who came over here from Leiden and the United Kingdom, they wanted to be able to practice their religion freely.

00:11:30.800 It's woven into the fabric of the United States.

00:11:33.300 It appears again and again throughout U.S. history.

00:11:35.200 Ann Coulter once gave me this advice back when she was talking to a group of students who were, you know, you know that fashionable thing where you're socially liberal but fiscally conservative.

00:11:46.860 That's like the first step on becoming a conservative.

00:11:48.940 And so she was talking to them.

00:11:50.480 She said, look, even if you are in favor of abortion, if two candidates are offering to lower your taxes, and one of them is pro-life and one of them is pro-abortion, vote for the candidate who's pro-life.

00:12:03.580 He'll lower your taxes more.

00:12:05.160 And what she meant by that is there's a coherent political philosophy and political philosophies that are on the right side of the aisle.

00:12:14.940 So religious liberty plays a big role in this.

00:12:17.280 Even if you don't really care, you don't go to church, you don't whatever, it's woven into the fabric of the United States.

00:12:23.160 And to oppose religious liberty is ultimately a left-wing position.

00:12:27.180 I know you want to be fashionable or something.

00:12:29.180 You say, oh, but no, I'm cool.

00:12:31.140 I like anything that's gay.

00:12:32.500 I like that.

00:12:33.040 Even if it's in violation of the Constitution, I like, don't fall for that trap.

00:12:37.940 That's a trap of the left, and the Supreme Court has given us another day of freedom, which is a big win.

00:12:43.060 Then probably the best one of all is in California, my own state.

00:12:46.720 When do we ever get good news in California?

00:12:49.220 Never.

00:12:49.960 I just had to go and, you know, right now, basically, if you've ever owned a firearm in your life,

00:12:54.800 the California state is going to tie you up and put you to the Grand Inquisition. 0.57

00:13:00.260 It's not great for conservatives out here, but we've just got a major win,

00:13:04.300 which is that the Supreme Court says that California law, the FACT Act, is not constitutional.

00:13:12.240 So the case was the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates versus Becerra, the Attorney General of California.

00:13:19.120 And the question at play is whether this California law is legit.

00:13:23.480 This law that says that crisis pregnancy centers and pro-life and non-abortion providing health clinics have to advertise abortion.

00:13:34.680 The FACT Act says if you are a pro-life Catholic, whatever, pregnancy center, you have to say, 0.53

00:13:41.480 hey, you can go get an abortion, go get an abortion. 1.00

00:13:43.420 You have to sort of, you know, advertise it.

00:13:45.900 And the Supreme Court found, Justice Clarence Thomas, I think, wrote the opinion of the court,

00:13:50.440 that this is in violation of the First Amendment.

00:13:52.480 You don't have to do that.

00:13:53.800 I don't have to advertise for abortion.

00:13:56.280 This is a huge, huge win.

00:13:58.340 All of that before we get to the one that everybody's tweeting about.

00:14:01.500 And the one that everybody's tweeting about is this travel ban.

00:14:05.400 Travel ban is Trump versus Hawaii.

00:14:07.340 The Supreme Court's decision today reverses the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision.

00:14:11.980 The Ninth Circuit, you know, left of Lenin, the pretty left-wing court.

00:14:15.960 And it reverses that.

00:14:17.980 Keith Ellison, the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, not some wacko, not even just some congressman, not some activist on the street.

00:14:26.880 He's one of the heads of the DNC.

00:14:28.720 He tweeted out and he said,

00:14:31.320 The U.S. Supreme Court just ratified Donald Trump's total and complete shutdown of Muslim entry into the United States.

00:14:38.580 That isn't true.

00:14:40.540 That isn't.

00:14:41.180 Indonesians can come to the United States.

00:14:42.700 That's fine.

00:14:43.940 Malaysians can come to the United States.

00:14:45.240 You know, people from, Muslims can come into the country.

00:14:48.420 If you're from Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, or Yemen, then it's going to be a little tougher for you to come into the country.

00:14:58.040 Why?

00:14:58.360 Because there aren't vetting procedures in those countries right now.

00:15:00.940 Because they're basically all failed states to come into the country.

00:15:04.680 Now, I notice a few things about those countries that are on the travel.

00:15:08.260 They're calling it the Muslim ban.

00:15:09.900 One of the heads of the Democrat Party is saying it's a total and complete shutdown of Muslims in the United States.

00:15:15.540 Does North Korea have a huge Muslim population?

00:15:18.420 I didn't know that about North Korea.

00:15:20.440 How about Venezuela?

00:15:21.860 Is Venezuela like a hotbed of radical Islamic activity?

00:15:26.340 I don't think so.

00:15:27.200 Not at all.

00:15:27.620 And, you know, by the way, this first came about with the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015.

00:15:36.460 This was during the Obama administration.

00:15:38.120 They were identifying countries like this to have restrictions on their travel.

00:15:42.260 It makes perfect sense.

00:15:43.100 You can't have somebody coming over from a failed state and legitimately protect your country. 1.00

00:15:49.080 The left tried to make a big issue about it.

00:15:51.440 Now what Keith Ellison is saying is that it's all Gorsuch's fault.

00:15:56.260 Of course, it's Gorsuch's fault.

00:15:57.960 And it's because he's serving his paymasters.

00:16:01.240 That's the word he used.

00:16:02.280 His paymaster.

00:16:03.120 Who are Gorsuch's paymasters?

00:16:04.740 Just the U.S. taxpayers, right?

00:16:05.920 He's a federal judge.

00:16:07.080 He just gets paid what a federal judge gets paid.

00:16:09.420 But then he, Keith Ellison, you know, he's the first Muslim elected to Congress.

00:16:14.460 And he compared this ruling to Plessy versus Ferguson or the Dred Scott decision.

00:16:20.100 All the upholding, you know, destroying black people's civil rights, you know. 1.00

00:16:26.900 After 9-11, Keith Ellison compared George W. Bush to Hitler. 0.95

00:16:31.020 This guy has a history of making these insane statements.

00:16:34.080 But right now, a lot of the left is going along with this.

00:16:36.560 Oh, this Muslim ban, they don't know anything about this ruling.

00:16:39.900 They don't know anything about the history of this policy.

00:16:43.680 This is not a huge deal.

00:16:45.520 Right now, even the people in the commentariat on the left, who are the ones who are supposed

00:16:49.520 to be, like, normal about this and have some context.

00:16:52.400 Matthew Iglesias at Vox.com, he tweeted out,

00:16:55.660 Now, the theft of Merrick Garland's Supreme Court seat is legitimately the greatest heist

00:17:01.180 in the history of the world.

00:17:03.700 Now, I need to, the theft of Merrick Garland's seat.

00:17:07.420 Merrick Garland was first nominated and then, you know, we booted him because Trump got elected

00:17:11.180 and then we got Justice Gorsuch.

00:17:14.620 I've got to ask, because I, not five minutes ago, the left was telling me that the 2016

00:17:18.880 election was the greatest heist in the history of the world.

00:17:21.560 And before that, they told me the 2000 election was the greatest heist in the history of the

00:17:25.640 world.

00:17:25.820 And basically, whenever something happens that they don't like, they tell me that it's

00:17:29.380 the greatest heist in the history of the world.

00:17:30.980 Which one is it?

00:17:32.320 Is this the greatest one ever or is it not?

00:17:34.480 The stolen, see, I got to tell you, Matthew Iglesias, don't you make me play that Joe Biden

00:17:39.280 clip.

00:17:39.860 I'm not going to do it.

00:17:40.780 It was played so much where Joe Biden said, this president is a lame duck and we're not

00:17:46.060 going to deal with any of his Supreme Court nominees. 0.88

00:17:50.280 Don't make me play that.

00:17:51.160 I'm going to play that clip.

00:17:51.980 I'm going to make a whole episode of that clip if you keep this up.

00:17:54.100 David Axelrod came out, he tweeted, he said, as one after another, five, four rulings of

00:17:57.880 the Supreme Court on voting rights, abortion rights, the travel ban and more are announced.

00:18:01.960 The full meaning of the Senate majority leader's unconscionable, nearly year-long blockade

00:18:06.980 against the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland is manifest.

00:18:11.080 David, don't you make me play that Joe Biden clip.

00:18:14.620 Don't you make me do it. 0.94

00:18:15.480 Because it's just utter hypocrisy.

00:18:17.540 And one thing that's worth pointing out here is that I don't think the Merrick Garland,

00:18:23.360 Neil Gorsuch issue would have changed this decision at all.

00:18:26.260 Well, perhaps it would have changed a decision on the abortion case in California.

00:18:32.840 Maybe it would have changed the decision on the florist or on the baker. 0.95

00:18:36.580 I mean, there are certainly the, it is pretty bizarre that there are four left-wing judges

00:18:40.480 who say, yeah, we've got to compel you to participate in gay weddings. 0.99

00:18:43.600 We're going to compel you to advertise for abortion clinics. 0.59

00:18:46.320 That is pretty weird.

00:18:47.260 But on this issue of whether the Trump federal agencies can restrict travel from certain

00:18:53.540 dangerous places, I'm pretty sure Merrick Garland would have gone along with the majority

00:18:57.980 of the court.

00:18:58.480 He would have done exactly what Gorsuch did.

00:19:00.240 And here's why.

00:19:01.420 This was reported, I think, in Politico.

00:19:04.080 Ronald Rotunda, who is a Chapman University professor of law, he wrote, I don't think Merrick

00:19:09.720 Garland looks at who is president.

00:19:11.340 I think he's deferential to executive power, to the power of the executive branch and the agencies

00:19:16.140 to do what is certainly within their purview.

00:19:18.720 He spelled this out in, I think, the 80s at a Harvard Law Review article.

00:19:23.800 Akhil Amar wrote about this and talked about this long before Trump came around.

00:19:29.620 Merrick Garland, this is a fairly open and shut case.

00:19:34.000 I don't think this is a big, it's become a big political issue because it's been misrepresented

00:19:37.680 by talking points.

00:19:38.520 But it actually isn't one of these, you know, touch button issues.

00:19:44.200 So that's all they have.

00:19:47.620 All they have are these sound bites.

00:19:49.440 I'd like to point out the pinnacle of this.

00:19:54.560 The New York Times, the New York Times used to be a newspaper, as Andrew Klavan points out,

00:19:58.160 and they are now investing money creating these short little cartoon videos, like Cartoon

00:20:03.480 Network, like Saturday morning cartoons.

00:20:05.440 Here is what the New York Times, as all of these public policies are up for discussion,

00:20:09.560 up for grabs.

00:20:10.020 This is what the New York Times is spending its time producing and showing to its readers.

00:20:18.340 I know words.

00:20:19.620 I have the best words.

00:20:24.960 Do you have a relationship with Vladimir Putin?

00:20:28.540 I do have a relationship with him.

00:20:30.760 And I think he's done a very brilliant and amazing job.

00:20:35.600 He's put himself really as, you know, a lot of people would say he's put himself at the

00:20:39.640 forefront of the world.

00:20:40.380 If you can't see what's going on on the screen, it's this cartoon of a shirtless Vladimir Putin

00:20:45.320 and now a shirtless Donald Trump.

00:20:47.200 And they're holding hands.

00:20:48.720 They're riding together on a unicorn with rainbows going around.

00:20:52.880 They're both shirtless, by the way.

00:20:53.900 They're almost naked.

00:20:54.620 Trump is in his underwear.

00:20:55.880 And they're smiling.

00:20:56.840 And now they're kissing.

00:20:58.260 Now they're kissing really closely.

00:21:00.460 And there's fire between their lips.

00:21:03.140 And now you can see their tongues are, I can't even describe this as graphic as it is.

00:21:08.460 They're twirling around one another, their tongues in their open mouths as they kiss.

00:21:13.440 And Donald Trump then cuts back to him and he's sitting on his bed making kissy faces,

00:21:18.240 almost naked, and watching the television.

00:21:21.160 Then he shoots the TV.

00:21:22.060 That's with a shirtless picture of Vladimir Putin on the wall.

00:21:27.020 This is produced by the New York Times.

00:21:28.980 This isn't something that appeared in the New York Times.

00:21:31.420 This is a production of the New York Times. 0.88

00:21:34.000 And this gay obsession is really bizarre and pretty ironic. 0.86

00:21:38.720 So you've probably noticed this over the past couple of years. 0.98

00:21:42.060 All of the left is obsessed with Mike Pence and Donald Trump and gay stuff. 0.98

00:21:49.780 All of this gay imagery. 0.99

00:21:51.140 This started because Mike Pence, you know, however many years ago,

00:21:56.580 said he might support some law that as part of it gave certain funds to certain therapy programs

00:22:05.880 for people who were suffering from sexual confusion. 0.99

00:22:09.160 And they turned this into Mike Pence wants to electrocute gay people. 0.99

00:22:13.100 I don't know how they got there. 0.99

00:22:14.420 That's what they did. 0.99

00:22:15.300 And obviously the culture right now is obsessed with gay sex. 0.98

00:22:18.320 You've seen the pride weeks over the last, or the pride parades over the past couple of weeks. 1.00

00:22:23.580 that all anyone cares about is gay sex. 0.98

00:22:26.300 Not North Korea, not foreign wars, not the economy, not entitlement programs, 1.00

00:22:33.060 not marginal tax rates, not health care, just gay sex. 0.97

00:22:38.280 That's the only thing that anybody can talk about. 0.95

00:22:40.440 That has become the sacrament and the idol to the left.

00:22:44.360 But the irony here is that in this video, the New York Times is criticizing Donald Trump.

00:22:49.880 They're insulting and they're attacking Donald Trump.

00:22:51.840 This isn't just a sort of saying, oh, I don't really like his travel ban. 1.00

00:22:54.620 This is saying, we hate this guy and we're going to make him look like a big, fat, naked blob. 0.96

00:23:00.080 But the way that they insult him, the part that they think this is the best attack we can make on Donald Trump, 1.00

00:23:06.340 is they call him gay. 0.95

00:23:08.960 These are the same people telling us it's great to be gay and gay is beautiful and gay is wonderful and gay is good. 0.74

00:23:14.600 And then on the other hand, they're saying, yeah, you know how we're really going to insult Donald Trump? 0.99

00:23:18.180 Ha ha, you're gay. 1.00

00:23:19.360 Ha ha ha. 1.00

00:23:20.080 Hey, Trump, you're gay. 1.00

00:23:21.440 Ha ha ha. 1.00

00:23:22.500 Right?

00:23:22.880 Like you do in second grade, like school kids do when they're like eight years old. 0.98

00:23:28.980 They say, ha ha, how gay. 0.97

00:23:30.100 I don't know that they understand the irony of that, but that this is the attack and it's so gross and so small 0.97

00:23:37.260 because the New York Times, which used to have some prestige, I don't really know why,

00:23:42.960 but you know, it was a serious thing.

00:23:44.320 They put good words together, they had good writers.

00:23:46.160 It's now basically become the Occupy Democrats Facebook page.

00:23:49.500 There is no real difference anymore between the New York Times and the Occupy Democrats Facebook page.

00:23:54.860 It's just, they spent who knows how much money producing a video over a minute long with all this illustration, 0.89

00:24:03.900 all, you know, totally animated video to call Trump gay. 0.93

00:24:07.860 That's it. 0.97

00:24:08.580 That's what they're doing. 1.00

00:24:09.300 That is so pathetic. 0.97

00:24:11.080 Meanwhile, on the, back in reality, the attacks that Maxine Waters called for on Republicans are already happening. 0.98

00:24:20.180 They're already manifesting.

00:24:21.120 So, uh, Maxine Waters says, yeah, you're going to go out, I want Democrats to go out whenever you see a Republican,

00:24:26.900 whenever you see a conservative in the street, I want you to get right in their face, scream at them,

00:24:32.700 scare them, physically intimidate them, terrorize them, go to their homes at night, scare their families, 0.90

00:24:38.600 keep their families awake.

00:24:39.580 That's the kind of stuff she's saying.

00:24:40.780 It's already happening.

00:24:42.040 Uh, there was a huge mob of, of protesters and rioters outside of Stephen Miller's apartment,

00:24:47.200 White House aide Stephen Miller.

00:24:48.320 Uh, there's a camp out now in Portland, Oregon of, uh, of Occupy ICE demonstrators.

00:24:56.180 So the immigration enforcement, there's a camp out.

00:24:58.660 They're going to occupy this whole, this whole area.

00:25:01.000 And it brings up this question, are we headed for a civil war?

00:25:05.120 And I say this with a straight face because major figures are suggesting it.

00:25:10.300 Major cultural figures and political figures.

00:25:12.360 Steve King, uh, from, uh, Iowa, I think he's from, he's just come out and said, we're headed

00:25:17.760 for civil war.

00:25:19.500 We're, we've got Harper's Ferries coming up and after Harper's Ferries, Fort Sumter.

00:25:23.280 Harper's Ferry was the raid, uh, on John Brown in 1859.

00:25:27.620 And then, uh, Fort Sumter was when the, the civil war began, 4.30 in the morning, April 12th,

00:25:33.120 1861, uh, when the, the South basically started firing on a national army stronghold at Fort Sumter.

00:25:40.840 And are we headed this way?

00:25:43.000 It is true.

00:25:43.400 The left seems to hate us.

00:25:45.660 And I don't think it cuts both ways.

00:25:47.040 I don't think, oh, we all hate each other.

00:25:48.820 I don't think it's those ways. 0.99

00:25:50.280 I think that the right considers the Democrats kind of, uh, useful idiots as they've always 1.00

00:25:56.400 been useful idiots for Lenin and Stalin and all the bad people on earth. 1.00

00:26:00.940 Now they're useful idiots for, uh, you know, for, uh, Venezuela, for Cuba, for all of our 1.00

00:26:07.020 enemies. 1.00

00:26:07.440 Steve Schmidt, the former Republican, Republican, who's now a big Democrat, he's, he's basically

00:26:12.500 saying the dictator regimes in Venezuela and Cuba, they're better than the United States. 1.00

00:26:16.960 They've always been useful idiots, but that's what the right thinks of the left. 1.00

00:26:20.280 And the left thinks that the right are evil, vicious, sick, psychopath monsters. 1.00

00:26:25.980 I don't think that about the left. 1.00

00:26:28.380 The left does seem to think that about us.

00:26:29.980 It's why the Nazi comparisons are all over the place.

00:26:32.460 Are we headed for civil war?

00:26:35.560 I don't think so.

00:26:37.320 I don't think so.

00:26:38.320 I mean, uh, Steve King, part of his evidence for this is that there's a Occupy weirdo rally

00:26:43.840 in Portland, Oregon.

00:26:45.500 That's the definition of Portland, Oregon.

00:26:47.320 It's just wacko Occupy weirdo rallies, right?

00:26:50.360 That if that, if, if they were sitting down as a, like, if like families were sitting down

00:26:54.520 having a tea party and playing cricket, that would be the, that would be the stranger thing

00:26:57.700 in Portland, Oregon.

00:26:58.580 So I don't think we have it in us.

00:27:00.640 I don't think, first of all, the right has all of the guns in this country, but I don't

00:27:04.260 think that the left really has it in them.

00:27:05.980 I think they're just behaving like petulant children.

00:27:08.360 Petulant children can be really annoying and they can be destructive for sure, but they

00:27:12.060 don't pose an actual threat or an existential threat.

00:27:14.860 They're just going to mess things up and drawing crayon all over the wall, but they just don't

00:27:18.740 have it in them.

00:27:19.340 Even the name Occupy, right?

00:27:20.680 They don't even move.

00:27:21.520 They're just sitting there kind of weak and I don't see us heading for civil war.

00:27:26.660 I think, unfortunately, our culture is too decadent for civil war.

00:27:29.820 I guess that's a good effect of a decadent culture is that you're not really going to

00:27:32.960 all start killing each other.

00:27:34.660 But we're just too accustomed to luxury and, and sitting around and getting whatever we

00:27:41.400 want on our phones.

00:27:42.500 And we're just, I don't, I don't actually think we're there.

00:27:45.640 We're just in this kind of cultural malaise.

00:27:48.440 But, but things around us are going very well.

00:27:52.560 What are Democrats?

00:27:53.680 Democrats are the party of talking points.

00:27:55.540 At this point, they're the party of talking points.

00:27:57.900 The total Muslim ban. 1.00

00:27:59.920 He's a Nazi. 1.00

00:28:01.180 He's Hitler. 0.97

00:28:02.020 It's all, it's all, check your privilege.

00:28:04.120 Check.

00:28:04.320 It's all just shallow talking points.

00:28:07.000 You know, uh, the, the, the obsession with the 2016 election was stolen.

00:28:12.420 This, the Senate or the judicial seat was stolen.

00:28:15.440 It's a theft.

00:28:16.120 What about Russia?

00:28:16.800 But then you ask them, just like I asked Tom Arnold on the show, said, what's your evidence?

00:28:20.480 Go a little further and they fall apart.

00:28:22.000 They don't have anything.

00:28:22.600 They only have talking points.

00:28:25.140 Uh, that, that is basically a good thing, I think, for the, the ascendant, uh, right. 0.73

00:28:31.200 Because right now we can say they're be, they're behaving like crazy people.

00:28:33.920 Sure. 0.96

00:28:34.120 They behave like crazy people and everything goes well. 0.92

00:28:36.700 All the public policy that we want is happening. 0.89

00:28:38.960 I think conservatives always want to catastrophize things.

00:28:41.320 I think we're going to look back on this time in history like a, like a Carly Simon song.

00:28:46.580 We're going to, like the song Anticipation.

00:28:48.380 We're going to be there and you're going to say, you know, anticipation is making me wait.

00:28:51.340 We're going to look back and we're going to say, stay right here because these are the good old days.

00:28:56.860 You know, these are the good old days right now.

00:28:58.800 The economy is doing great.

00:29:00.360 We're making these huge political wins, huge victories for American liberty, religious liberty,

00:29:06.300 founding constitutional liberty that we thought were impossible two years ago.

00:29:09.960 It's happening.

00:29:10.960 This is good stuff and you shouldn't miss it.

00:29:13.140 I hope you're not going to miss it because you're going to look back in 10 years and say,

00:29:16.540 man, it was pretty good.

00:29:17.800 It was pretty good.

00:29:18.480 I wish I'd been smiling around then.

00:29:20.480 These, we should take the wins while we can get them.

00:29:22.280 We've got a lot more to get to. 0.99

00:29:23.320 Donald Glover, Childish Gambino, that guy who made that stupid music video is being accused 1.00

00:29:27.640 of plagiarism because this is America. 0.99

00:29:30.660 And I also want to talk about the ends of liberalism, the philosophical end of liberalism,

00:29:35.640 which is saying that infant baptism is a violation of human rights.

00:29:39.960 And that changing a baby's diaper requires consent.

00:29:42.460 These are serious things that major figures on the left, in some cases, are talking about.

00:29:47.680 We'll get to all that.

00:29:48.820 Before we do, I have to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:29:50.980 You're going to miss Childish Gambino.

00:29:52.820 This is America.

00:29:53.720 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:29:55.340 Tune in for this show.

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00:30:04.440 you're going to want to ask questions.

00:30:06.260 You're going to want to ask questions in the mailbag.

00:30:08.220 You're going to want to see me, the Andrew Klavan show, the Ben Shapiro show, the conversation.

00:30:14.580 None of that really matters.

00:30:16.460 You just need this, guys, because these are the good old days.

00:30:19.420 And you're going to be bloated and floating in the good old days if you don't get your leftist here's tumbler.

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00:30:50.680 Make of that what you will.

00:30:52.060 So Donald Glover is getting sued for plagiarism.

00:30:54.880 I love this.

00:30:55.840 You remember the song?

00:30:56.840 It came out a little while ago.

00:30:57.860 This is America.

00:30:59.200 Do-ba-do-ba-do. 0.99

00:31:00.060 And it was like, America's really bad and we just, all we do is kill people and it's racist. 0.99

00:31:04.420 And it, you know, it turns black people into just minstrel show puppets. 1.00

00:31:09.560 And it's just, and America's really bad and wah, wah, wah. 0.98

00:31:12.300 Well, it turns out he stole the song.

00:31:14.480 He did.

00:31:15.220 He's getting accused of plagiarism right now.

00:31:17.260 So he's being accused of plagiarism by people who listen to another song by Jace Hartley.

00:31:23.540 You're not familiar with Jace Hartley?

00:31:25.500 Neither am I.

00:31:26.100 But he did a song called American Pharaoh.

00:31:28.340 And just judge for yourself.

00:31:31.520 What, the first one is Childish Gambino, This Is America.

00:31:34.520 The second one is Jace Hartley, American Pharaoh.

00:31:36.720 See if you can tell the difference.

00:31:37.560 This is America.

00:31:39.740 Don't got you slipping up.

00:31:41.780 Look how I'm living up.

00:31:43.840 Police be tripping up.

00:31:45.540 Yeah, this is America.

00:31:47.800 Runs in my area.

00:31:49.200 This is my area.

00:31:50.020 I got this track.

00:31:51.040 Hey.

00:31:51.260 I'm young and I'm black in America. 0.58

00:31:54.100 They try to attack and embarrass us. 0.93

00:31:56.420 Y'all don't want your daughters to marry us. 0.99

00:31:58.440 But they let us.

00:31:59.280 So I tear it up.

00:32:00.620 Got a wedding and mariners.

00:32:02.680 Half of society scared of us. 0.94

00:32:04.580 My n***a young with no barriers. 0.96

00:32:06.400 So if you owe me money, just. 0.99

00:32:08.480 Police killed my best friend.

00:32:09.640 They shot him dead.

00:32:10.600 I do not forgive.

00:32:11.520 I do not forget.

00:32:12.640 My life is a cliff and I'm by the ledge.

00:32:14.540 And in less than a moment, a lot is said.

00:32:17.440 It's the same song.

00:32:19.360 It's definitely the same song. 0.95

00:32:21.340 And Donald Glover, who also goes by Childish Gambino, he's like the worst thief ever because

00:32:28.020 he kept part of the name of the original in the name of his song.

00:32:32.720 So without attribution, without acknowledging that it was obviously influenced by, in a good

00:32:38.160 way, or just a ripoff, of American Pharaoh.

00:32:40.580 American Pharaoh by Jace Hartley.

00:32:42.520 This is America by Donald Glover, Childish Gambino.

00:32:45.440 Now, there's a great irony here, right?

00:32:48.060 This is America song is all about how America is just a place of theft.

00:32:53.040 It's a place of oppression, stolen labor, stolen property.

00:32:57.600 It's all guns, right?

00:32:58.700 Taking things at the foot of a, at the barrel of a gun.

00:33:02.680 And then what does he do?

00:33:03.520 He steals the song.

00:33:05.420 I don't, maybe, maybe I'm not giving him enough credit.

00:33:08.820 Maybe this is a real piece of meta art, you know, is like really art about art and

00:33:12.940 he's really making this commentary.

00:33:14.120 I don't think so.

00:33:15.100 I think he just stole it.

00:33:16.620 And now Jace Hartley has been very nice about this.

00:33:19.680 He said, Harley said that this is, you know, he's proud that it influenced the song and

00:33:25.560 he would have liked a little shout out, but that's okay, whatever.

00:33:28.560 And it is true. 0.71

00:33:30.320 It's really hard to prove these cases.

00:33:32.240 I don't know that Donald Glover is actually going to have to pay anything out.

00:33:34.560 And it's really hard not to be influenced by other music, especially when the music is

00:33:40.540 as bad as this.

00:33:42.160 The fact that this music is so bad is actually part of the reason why it's hard not to steal.

00:33:47.540 So, you know, other musicians, this happens all the time.

00:33:50.280 Musicians hear a ton of music, then they write something and they don't even realize they're

00:33:53.680 rewriting something else.

00:33:54.880 George Harrison did this on the song, My Sweet Lord.

00:33:57.000 He, uh, he basically, uh, he took, he was obviously influenced by the song, He's So Fine

00:34:04.160 by the Chiffons, or he seems to have been influenced by it.

00:34:07.080 And by the way, those two songs are way more different than American Pharaoh and This Is

00:34:12.160 America.

00:34:12.680 But why is that?

00:34:13.660 Because those two songs have music in them.

00:34:15.760 Those two songs, you know, My Sweet Lord has guitars and piano and it's got, it's got

00:34:21.460 melody, harmony, and rhythm, right?

00:34:24.840 It's got, it's actually music.

00:34:25.840 And so does, uh, He's So Fine by the Chiffons.

00:34:29.060 So they sound kind of similar, but, you know, there are little differences.

00:34:31.740 All this has is rhythm and talking.

00:34:33.780 It doesn't even have a melody.

00:34:34.860 It's just talking, right?

00:34:36.000 This is America.

00:34:37.060 Do ba da ba ba da.

00:34:38.020 I'm a Michael Knowles.

00:34:39.120 Oh la la ba ba ba.

00:34:40.260 It doesn't, there's no music to it.

00:34:42.300 So when you strip, you know, if, uh, Childish Gambino had stolen the beat, the rhythm of it,

00:34:48.300 but he had changed the melody and the harmony, then you'd say, okay, whatever, that's fine.

00:34:52.420 He's been influenced, but he's building on something.

00:34:54.140 But he can't, he can't even do that.

00:34:56.080 If he takes the beat, he's got the whole song.

00:34:58.840 Because there's very minimal music in the rest of the song.

00:35:02.260 Uh, I, I get great joy out of this, this, uh, thing.

00:35:05.840 It's bad news for the culture because our art really has decayed.

00:35:08.620 I talked about this a little in the mailbag, uh, last week, but since World War I, there

00:35:13.640 hasn't been art in America.

00:35:15.080 There's just been anti-art.

00:35:16.680 Uh, this is an idea that Jacques Barsin talks about in From Dawn to Decadence.

00:35:19.960 Sometimes after the First World War, all art becomes destructive or, or deconstructive,

00:35:26.580 or, uh, it just mocks what happened in the past.

00:35:30.300 But in any case, it's just working on what's already there and making it worse,

00:35:33.740 either by parody or by, uh, playing around, removing pieces, or by knocking the whole thing

00:35:40.600 down altogether like Dadaism.

00:35:42.500 And you're seeing the fruits of that.

00:35:44.060 I mean, you're just, or the, the opposite of fruits of that.

00:35:46.440 You're seeing the, the rinds and the cores and the rot of that in, uh, in American Pharaoh 0.78

00:35:51.620 and, uh, and this is America.

00:35:53.380 Really fun stuff though.

00:35:54.380 Go, go defend that.

00:35:55.600 You're, you're, you're lucky, uh, Donald Glover, that you have an American criminal justice system

00:35:59.600 and that Jace Harley isn't just going to go out and beat you because you clearly took his song.

00:36:05.720 Uh, before we go, we've got a couple minutes left here.

00:36:08.260 I do want to talk about, uh, infant baptism.

00:36:10.500 This is a thing, you know, this is a normal way to end the show.

00:36:13.060 You want to talk about infant baptism.

00:36:14.520 There is a story out now that Mary McAleese, Mary McAleese from Ireland, she was a former

00:36:20.440 president there.

00:36:21.560 She was president from 1997 to 2011 presiding over the total decay and destruction of a 0.96

00:36:27.980 formerly Catholic country.

00:36:29.640 Uh, she has come out against infant baptism.

00:36:33.080 She said that infant baptism is a violation of human rights.

00:36:36.300 For those, uh, in the audience who are, who don't practice infant baptism, uh, you know,

00:36:41.720 infant baptism is practiced by the Catholics and the Lutherans and the Anglicans, uh, Methodists,

00:36:47.760 Presbyterians, at least, uh, probably a few others.

00:36:50.540 And it's, uh, been practiced for, uh, oh, now 2,000 years.

00:36:54.280 And, you know, you put, uh, you, you baptize, uh, little babies into Christ and that's to give 0.51

00:37:00.160 them grace, you know, and endow them with, with grace.

00:37:02.540 And, uh, this is apparently a violation of human rights.

00:37:05.660 This is the logical end of liberalism.

00:37:09.680 And I'm not saying leftism, I'm not saying nihilism or subjectivism or whatever, like

00:37:14.800 all these things that we usually say, liberalism from classical liberalism all the way to the

00:37:20.620 present.

00:37:20.980 This is the natural end of that.

00:37:22.800 So, uh, here's what McAleese said.

00:37:25.160 She said, infant conscripts who are held to lifelong obligations of obedience.

00:37:31.200 You can't impose, really, obedience, obligations on people who are only two weeks old.

00:37:36.780 And you can't say to them at seven or eight or 14 or 19, here is what you contracted.

00:37:41.740 Here is what you signed up for.

00:37:43.020 Because the truth is they didn't.

00:37:44.840 And it's not just her. 0.96

00:37:45.880 She's not just some wacko. 0.97

00:37:47.640 Uh, Richard Dawkins said the same thing. 0.94

00:37:49.880 He said that infant baptism is child abuse.

00:37:53.220 Raising your children in religion is child abuse. 1.00

00:37:55.380 This is the natural end of liberalism.

00:37:57.740 Because you see these themes that are, that come from the beginning of liberalism in the

00:38:01.900 16th century, the modern era of emancipation and individualism coming to insane, absurd

00:38:08.840 fruition here at the end.

00:38:11.360 Uh, you know, uh, St. Paul describes, uh, baptism as replacing circumcision, which happens to

00:38:18.220 babies, right?

00:38:18.820 This is the new, you used to circumcise your babies.

00:38:21.000 Now you can baptize them.

00:38:22.380 Uh, St. Peter writes about this.

00:38:23.860 He says, uh, for the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off,

00:38:28.700 everyone whom the Lord, uh, our God calls to him.

00:38:32.040 There, that you, you can, uh, even if someone isn't at the age of reason or isn't able to

00:38:36.580 reason himself into making a formal decision to go to church, it can be done for them.

00:38:42.740 People who are mentally retarded, this can be done for them. 1.00

00:38:45.400 People who are little babies, this can be done for them.

00:38:48.420 But even on the right now, in certain, uh, versions of Christianity, there's this idea

00:38:53.440 that you have to make the conscious choice as a conscious individual to free and emancipate

00:38:58.880 yourself from the bonds of sin and go and, uh, engage yourself as an individual in the

00:39:05.180 church and in, and in the body of Christ.

00:39:07.880 This is a total modern crazy notion.

00:39:10.920 This, uh, also comes to fruition when, uh, activists say that when you change a baby's

00:39:16.660 diaper, they have to give consent.

00:39:18.680 Here's a, here's an activist with silly hair talking about that just a while ago.

00:39:23.200 I'm going to change your nappy now.

00:39:24.760 Is that okay?

00:39:25.680 Of course the baby's not going to respond.

00:39:27.320 Yes, mom, that's awesome.

00:39:28.360 I'd love to have my nappy changed.

00:39:30.160 But if you leave a space and wait for body language and wait to make eye contact, then

00:39:37.200 you're letting that child know that their response matters.

00:39:41.180 Oh God.

00:39:42.660 This is the end of liberalism.

00:39:44.000 This is the end of, of individualism and emancipation. 0.79

00:39:47.400 You know, now on college campuses, I think you, whenever you're going to pick up a girl

00:39:51.000 at a party, you have to have a notary public by you so they can notarize the consent.

00:39:56.560 It's usually about a four or 500 page contract that you have to sign before you can buy somebody

00:40:01.460 a drink or kiss them on the cheek or so, you know, say, would you like to go back to

00:40:04.760 my, uh, apartment?

00:40:06.060 I've got seven cameras on you now.

00:40:07.460 So we have total proof and the notaries over here.

00:40:09.660 It's all this, this obsession with the individual, the individual choice, the individual determination,

00:40:15.520 the individual emancipating himself from the society, from the culture, from the strictures

00:40:20.420 that society puts on you.

00:40:21.520 That's all modernism.

00:40:22.800 And it all ends up like this.

00:40:24.180 This is the logical end of that.

00:40:25.660 And there is an alternative.

00:40:27.600 You know, in the modern era, the last 500 years, that's all we've focused on.

00:40:30.820 And I'm not just talking about the left.

00:40:33.160 I'm talking about classical liberalism too.

00:40:35.560 The libertarians do this.

00:40:36.600 They say, I own my body.

00:40:38.200 I had Jason Stapleton from that, his libertarian show came on and he said, I own my body, but

00:40:44.220 you don't own your body.

00:40:45.360 That's just a fiction that you begin with.

00:40:47.340 That's just a, that's the myth that you're choosing, uh, to begin your political philosophy

00:40:52.280 from.

00:40:52.620 But it is nothing more than that.

00:40:54.100 It's just a story that you tell yourself.

00:40:56.320 You don't own your body.

00:40:57.100 You didn't make your body.

00:40:58.320 You didn't come up with the idea for your body.

00:41:00.880 You, you got it through an act of abundant grace.

00:41:04.260 It isn't you.

00:41:05.560 Someone else gave it to you.

00:41:06.880 Somebody else made you.

00:41:08.480 And you didn't save yourself either.

00:41:10.020 You didn't redeem yourself.

00:41:11.160 You were bought at a price by somebody else.

00:41:13.860 And, uh, when, uh, the modern era has tried to forget that or tried to erase that or tried

00:41:18.500 to create a society that denies that.

00:41:21.240 And, uh, it did that through liberalism, but liberalism has an end.

00:41:24.240 This is the craziness of it.

00:41:25.520 And, uh, therefore I think we have to rethink some of our initial assumptions and, uh, that

00:41:31.220 way we won't end up asking our little babies if they consent to have their diapers changed 0.58

00:41:35.840 or, you know, be brought up by the UN Human Rights Commission because we want to baptize

00:41:41.640 our children.

00:41:42.440 All right.

00:41:42.680 That's our show today.

00:41:43.660 We've got some really crazy guests coming up soon.

00:41:46.740 And I mean like crazy in the really good way, not like the bouncing off the walls kind

00:41:50.520 of way as some other guests may have been.

00:41:52.440 Uh, come back tomorrow, get your mailbag questions in so we can answer them on Thursday.

00:41:56.700 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:41:57.840 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:42:04.060 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Senia Villareal.

00:42:07.680 Executive producer, Jeremy Borey.

00:42:09.760 Senior producer, Jonathan Hay.

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00:42:13.820 And our technical producer is Austin Stevens.

00:42:16.840 Edited by Jim Nickel.

00:42:18.340 Audio is mixed by Mike Coromina.

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 26, 2018

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