The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1742 - British Mom JAILED After Supposed “Racist” Post

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00:00:37.680 A British mother is currently serving a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence in the U.K. over a supposedly racist tweet.

00:00:46.320 That is not exactly a man-bites-dog story.

00:00:48.300 We have known for years now that the U.K. regularly tramples the speech rights of its citizens

00:00:54.080 and prioritizes foreigners over its own citizens.

00:00:57.160 What is newsworthy about this particular case is that President Trump and his team

00:01:02.120 are telling the U.K.'s liberal prime minister to knock it off or else.

00:01:06.800 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:07.520 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:08.420 Welcome back to the show.

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00:02:19.860 This story out of the U.K. is insane.

00:02:21.780 A woman is in jail for 31 months, for two and a half years, more than two and a half 0.86

00:02:27.600 years, for sending a supposedly racist tweet.

00:02:32.280 Now, what's the context of this tweet?

00:02:34.020 The context is the Southport killings.

00:02:36.780 Do you remember that?

00:02:37.380 It was a little while ago.

00:02:38.580 A 17-year-old boy of Rwandan descent murdered a bunch of little British girls and seriously

00:02:44.620 injured many more with a knife.

00:02:46.280 And then this woman, Lucy Connolly, tweets out, mass deportation now, set fire to all

00:02:53.420 the effing hotels full of, I'm going to clean up the language a little bit, full of the jerks 1.00

00:02:59.600 for all I care.

00:03:01.060 While you're at it, take the treacherous government politicians with them.

00:03:04.420 I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure.

00:03:08.260 If that makes me racist, so be it.

00:03:10.040 So, the key to this tweet is the phrase, for all I care.

00:03:15.380 Because you could say, well, the woman ordered people, incited violence. 1.00

00:03:19.800 She said, go down and burn all the migrant hotels. 1.00

00:03:23.340 But she didn't say that.

00:03:25.360 She said, set fire at all the effing hotels, for all I care. 1.00

00:03:29.780 For all I care.

00:03:31.280 Which modifies that statement and clearly implies you can go burn down all the hotels, for all

00:03:38.040 I care.

00:03:38.440 If she were saying, go burn down these hotels, she would be implying that she cares.

00:03:43.900 She would care for you to do this thing that she's instructing you to do.

00:03:46.880 That's not what the phrase, for all I care, implies.

00:03:49.760 The phrase, for all I care, says, you can do this.

00:03:51.940 You cannot do this.

00:03:53.220 I don't care.

00:03:54.440 I couldn't care less.

00:03:55.960 So, that's the phrase.

00:03:57.160 It's a little rude.

00:03:58.520 She uses some salty language. 0.50

00:04:01.520 Interestingly, the Southport killings were carried out not by a migrant, but by a descendant

00:04:07.620 of migrants.

00:04:08.560 You know, a Rwandan kid.

00:04:10.040 He's not, you know, British people, or English people, rather, are the descendants of the 0.99

00:04:14.840 Angles, the Anglos and the Saxons. 0.99

00:04:16.820 This kid is British broadly, I guess, but he's Rwandan.

00:04:19.820 And so, she confused him for a migrant.

00:04:21.700 Easy mistake to make.

00:04:22.720 But she says, look, if that makes me racist, so be it.

00:04:25.300 Should you go to jail for two and a half years over a racist tweet?

00:04:28.180 The UK says, yes, of course.

00:04:32.500 The US State Department says, maybe not.

00:04:36.020 The State Department under Trump is saying that it is monitoring the case of Lucy Connelly.

00:04:40.520 And actually, Vice President J.D.

00:04:42.360 Vance brought this up in front of Keir Starmer, the liberal prime minister of the UK.

00:04:47.900 I said what I said, which is that we do have, of course, a special relationship with our

00:04:54.500 friends in the UK and also with some of our European allies.

00:04:57.080 But we also know that there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just

00:05:03.120 the British, of course, what the British do in their own country is up to them, but also

00:05:07.940 affect American technology companies and, by extension, American citizens.

00:05:11.200 So that is something that we'll talk about today at lunch.

00:05:13.480 Well, we've had free speech for a very, very long time in the United Kingdom and it will

00:05:19.280 last for a very, very long time.

00:05:21.460 Well, no, I mean, certainly we wouldn't want to reach across US citizens and we don't.

00:05:25.740 And that's absolutely right.

00:05:26.980 But in relation to free speech in the UK, I'm very proud of our history there.

00:05:31.580 L.O.L.

00:05:32.960 Are you kidding me?

00:05:34.020 J.D. speaks very well there.

00:05:35.920 And Starmer says, shoot, he's making us look bad.

00:05:38.360 Well, you know, we've had free speech in the UK for a very long time.

00:05:42.660 Yeah, we defend our free speech rights.

00:05:45.100 Yeah, yeah.

00:05:45.900 I don't know why he sounds like Michael Caine.

00:05:48.600 But Keir Straum is saying, yeah, we defend our free speech rights.

00:05:51.660 I mean, sure, we'll arrest you for praying in your head outside an abortion clinic. 0.61

00:05:55.680 Yeah, we'll arrest you for that.

00:05:56.860 You're not allowed to pray inside your head outside an abortion clinic.

00:05:59.820 You're not allowed to tweet that you object to the wholesale slaughter of little girls with

00:06:05.020 knives.

00:06:05.680 You can't say that on Twitter.

00:06:07.200 That's racist.

00:06:07.880 You could go to jail for years for that.

00:06:10.460 But we support free speech.

00:06:12.920 Batman, we do.

00:06:14.220 Okay, do you?

00:06:15.720 Totally ridiculous, given the UK's clampdown, not just on free speech broadly, which, as

00:06:21.920 you know, and as I write in my book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, is a nebulous

00:06:25.700 concept in the abstract because you got to get down in the nitty gritty.

00:06:30.000 Speech from people who have nothing to say is worthless.

00:06:34.080 There's no substantive meaning to that kind of free speech.

00:06:36.900 And really what the UK does is clamp down on good speech, or at the very least defensible

00:06:43.120 speech of its citizens, and defend the speech of people who are doing very bad things.

00:06:49.900 So Vance here, totally right.

00:06:52.380 And also highlighting a contradiction within the lib paradigm, the globalist paradigm.

00:06:59.740 He said, you hear Keir Starmer, we wouldn't want to infringe on the American system.

00:07:04.440 We wouldn't want to stick our nose in your business.

00:07:06.280 Yeah, well, you would, first of all.

00:07:07.520 You people all do that.

00:07:08.440 But also, I thought the world was flat.

00:07:10.460 I thought we all lived in an interconnected global world.

00:07:13.000 I thought that was the big objection to Trump, is that Trump brought up this, the N-word

00:07:17.720 again.

00:07:18.960 Not that one, and not nuclear, as President Trump mentioned, but national.

00:07:22.960 Now, nationalism, Trump brought that up, the globalists said, this is terrible, we're all

00:07:27.820 an interconnected world, we all give up some of our sovereignty to international institutions,

00:07:31.960 to big financial institutions, we all sing kumbaya, we all have something to say about

00:07:36.360 each other.

00:07:36.900 But hold on, okay, well, we want to criticize the way that you're jailing a British woman

00:07:41.180 for a perfectly understandable, at least, response to the mass killing, killings which

00:07:47.480 are not totally disconnected from the problem of mass migration, which is probably the chief

00:07:51.780 gripe that the nationalists have against the globalists.

00:07:54.440 Then all of a sudden, you're ardent nationalists, and you say, get out of our business.

00:07:58.960 Cuyus regio, eus religio.

00:08:00.600 I don't think so, bust, you're not going to work.

00:08:02.180 The globalists cannot have it both ways, and Starmer knows it, okay?

00:08:06.620 In fact, I don't mean to be too harsh on Keir Starmer, because Keir Starmer, to me, is

00:08:10.920 the bellwether here of where global politics is moving, and it's clearly moving to the right.

00:08:17.040 Keir Starmer, I played this on the show last week.

00:08:18.620 Keir Starmer, super-duper lib UK prime minister, a guy who denies that there is any concrete

00:08:26.280 identity, even to the English people, famously did that on a podcast with Constantine Kislin.

00:08:31.180 Keir Starmer just came out against mass migration.

00:08:34.400 Let me put it this way.

00:08:38.140 Nations depend on rules, fair rules.

00:08:42.160 Sometimes they're written down.

00:08:44.400 Often, they're not.

00:08:46.480 But either way, they give shape to our values, guide us towards our rights, of course, but

00:08:54.500 also our responsibilities, the obligations we owe to each other.

00:09:00.720 Now, in a diverse nation like ours, and I celebrate that, these rules become even more important.

00:09:09.620 Without them, we risk becoming an island of strangers.

00:09:12.660 Whoa, super-duper lib globalist Keir saying that if we continue to have mass migration,

00:09:22.400 the barely questioned policy of not only the left, but also the right in the UK and throughout

00:09:29.500 the West for the past 30 years, if we continue to have that, we'll become an island of strangers.

00:09:34.420 That guy sounds like Pat Buchanan.

00:09:36.280 Okay, that guy sounds like Donald Trump.

00:09:39.360 More than Donald Trump, that guy sounds like an immigration restrictionist.

00:09:43.340 Why?

00:09:44.100 Because Keir Starmer reads the polls.

00:09:46.360 Because the liberals are reading the polls.

00:09:49.020 Because the New York Times just has a major, really, really interesting piece out about the

00:09:54.060 polls, which show that the left is dead on the operating table.

00:09:58.900 The right has been advancing steadily for a decade now.

00:10:02.380 And if the left-wing parties want to have any hope of a future, they need to change tune

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00:11:26.420 It's rare that I say there's a piece you have to read in the New York Times.

00:11:29.600 This is it.

00:11:31.020 This is from Shane Goldmacher, national political correspondent in the New York Times.

00:11:35.700 He says, one of the clearest ways to see how Trump has transformed the political landscape

00:11:41.620 is to look at what we're calling triple-trending counties, those that have steadily marched

00:11:45.880 in each party's direction in the Trump era.

00:11:48.260 The results are stark.

00:11:49.100 And there's just one little graph, one little infographic that shows it all.

00:11:54.340 These are counties that started to move in either direction, for the Republicans or the

00:11:59.640 Democrats in 2016, then kept going in that direction in 2020, then kept going in that

00:12:05.140 direction in 2024.

00:12:07.960 Even though we say Trump won in 16, we say Trump lost in 20, we say Trump won in 2024.

00:12:13.500 These counties kept moving in the direction of the Republicans and alternatively in the

00:12:19.160 direction of the Democrats.

00:12:20.180 You look at the chart, it's all red.

00:12:23.360 For geographically, about 60% of the country, it's moving red.

00:12:30.540 The rest of the country, not moving blue.

00:12:33.060 The rest of the country, just kind of empty.

00:12:34.540 You see a handful of tiny little pockets of the blue.

00:12:39.420 But if you were to overlay that with the red, the whole country just about is moving Republican.

00:12:46.980 And not just for one election cycle, for three successive election cycles, including one

00:12:52.480 in the middle in which Trump supposedly lost.

00:12:55.780 Here are the takeaways.

00:12:57.400 Takeaways from, you don't actually have to read the New York Times, though it's a

00:12:59.600 good piece.

00:13:00.180 And you should read it if you have the time.

00:13:03.160 The Democrats are making some gains.

00:13:05.540 As you can see, there are a handful of counties that are moving in the Democrat direction consistently

00:13:10.180 for 10 years.

00:13:12.100 It's only the wealthiest people.

00:13:15.580 Democrats, I'm just quoting directly from the piece.

00:13:17.640 Democrats are gaining ground in a small sliver of the best educated enclaves.

00:13:23.060 We'll get to what best educated means in a moment.

00:13:25.120 All told, Mr. Trump has increased the Republican Party's share of the presidential vote in each

00:13:30.780 election he's been on the ballot in close to half the counties of America.

00:13:35.380 1,433 counties in all, according to the New York Times.

00:13:39.700 It is a staggering political achievement, especially considering that Mr. Trump was defeated in the

00:13:44.720 second of those three races in 2020.

00:13:49.200 I mentioned LOL at the top of the show.

00:13:54.880 Is it possible?

00:13:57.840 I don't know.

00:13:58.140 Am I allowed to?

00:13:58.560 I think I'm allowed to suggest this now on YouTube, since we have all of these data,

00:14:02.380 including being reported by the New York Times, that the country has moved consistently and

00:14:07.800 decisively to the right from the beginning of the Trump political era all the way through the end.

00:14:14.840 And there are all these counties that continue, what, 1,433 counties, about half the country

00:14:19.580 continued to move to the right even in 2020.

00:14:23.380 Is it possible that maybe the 2020 election wasn't totally on the up and up?

00:14:30.160 I'm not saying anything about voting machines.

00:14:33.380 I'm just saying, is it possible that the way to explain Joe Biden's supposed victory in 2020

00:14:39.600 is, is it possible that that victory is better explained by the fact that Democrats in the

00:14:46.440 weeks before that election changed all of the election rules and violated state constitutions

00:14:51.700 in some cases and put unsecured ballot drop boxes, in some cases illegally far away from

00:14:57.740 county clerk offices, and in some cases didn't really seem to permit oversight of the ballot

00:15:03.260 counting, and in some cases took days and even longer to count all the ballots?

00:15:07.240 Is it possible that totally changing all the rules of the election to make it less secure

00:15:12.760 in every single way might better explain the Biden victory than just a sudden shift in political

00:15:21.660 wins?

00:15:22.040 Because according to the New York Times, there was no such shift.

00:15:25.200 The country continued to move to the right.

00:15:28.520 Specifically, the country continued to move toward Trump the whole time.

00:15:32.580 Just, just an idle thought.

00:15:36.480 By contrast, the piece goes on.

00:15:39.280 Democrats have steadily expanded their vote share in those three elections in only 57 of

00:15:45.540 the nation's 3,100 plus counties.

00:15:49.720 Not, not 5,700, not 570, 57.

00:15:54.800 The scale of Mr. Trump's expanding support is striking, while roughly 8.1 million Americans

00:15:59.620 of voting age live in triple-trending Democrat counties, so 8.1 million Americans of voting

00:16:03.980 age live in the counties that have moved steadily to the Dems, 42.7 million live in Republican

00:16:12.040 ones.

00:16:14.460 Whoa.

00:16:16.600 Five times as many, more than five times as many live in the Republican ones.

00:16:22.360 We are not currently in the position we were in in 2016.

00:16:26.160 This is not, oh, we just got to defeat the libs on some of the arguments and we got to

00:16:31.520 show people that we won the argument.

00:16:35.380 We won.

00:16:37.480 This is, this is why, by the way, you, you see this reflected not only in electoral politics,

00:16:41.360 you see this in political media, you see this in the intellectual circles.

00:16:45.300 We don't have to go out there anymore and have the really facile arguments in front of

00:16:51.880 the millions of people on YouTube and on TV to, to totally own the libs.

00:16:56.460 We don't actually have to do that right now because we won.

00:16:59.400 We owned them.

00:17:00.160 We own them currently.

00:17:01.320 We, they belong to us.

00:17:02.760 The 13th amendment has effectively been abolished.

00:17:05.300 We own the libs.

00:17:06.180 They're our property.

00:17:08.840 Now the question is, how do we rebuild?

00:17:12.880 What are we going to do with the popular support that we have won?

00:17:16.800 We want it.

00:17:17.500 The New York Times points out there's this tiny sliver of the country that still trends

00:17:23.640 in the Democrat direction.

00:17:25.540 It is, their words, the party's sparse areas of growth are concentrated almost exclusively

00:17:30.040 in America's wealthiest and most educated pockets.

00:17:32.480 Now, even that is not fair because what do you mean most educated?

00:17:35.840 You mean most likely to have a college degree?

00:17:38.260 College degrees are worthless.

00:17:39.460 There's a student at the University of Connecticut right now who graduated.

00:17:42.220 She is now suing her high school, uh, uh, school district because she graduated with

00:17:47.320 honors and she's illiterate. 1.00

00:17:49.280 She's currently a student at the University of Connecticut, a prominent state school.

00:17:52.780 She is illiterate. 0.73

00:17:53.860 She can't read the university degree in itself means nothing.

00:17:57.900 Harvard students, supposedly among the best universities in the country, Harvard students

00:18:02.640 now have to take remedial math courses.

00:18:05.600 The, the university, America's oldest university had to institute a remedial math course because

00:18:10.320 the supposed creme de la creme of American students can't do basic algebra.

00:18:14.820 The university degree in itself means nothing.

00:18:18.300 University education in principle is good and I encourage it.

00:18:22.120 I'm one of the only conservatives who actually does encourage it, but I'm right about that.

00:18:26.020 But in practice, the university education today is meaningless.

00:18:31.480 And certainly the graduate degrees, the master's degree, all these people get master's degrees

00:18:35.460 because they don't know what else to do.

00:18:37.360 PhDs even, PhDs used to be, at least that was a little rigorous.

00:18:40.320 Today, not so clear.

00:18:42.260 It's still, it's still an okay indicator that you can at least spell your name.

00:18:47.960 But even that, even that is sus.

00:18:52.100 To me, what this report tells is, it's not about the best educated, most brilliant, most

00:19:00.140 widely read Americans.

00:19:01.340 They're the Democrats and all the, all the unwashed idiot hoi polloi. 0.95

00:19:05.040 Those are Republicans.

00:19:05.860 That's not what this means.

00:19:06.640 The crucial factor is not brilliance, but satisfaction with the status quo.

00:19:14.000 If you have graduated from colleges, universities, especially the elite universities, if you have

00:19:19.680 graduate degrees, all this, what that says is, you are cool with the status quo.

00:19:24.600 The system in which you are succeeding according to the rules established by our super-duper liberal

00:19:32.560 elites, you're making money.

00:19:34.780 The system is working for you.

00:19:36.220 Most people, the system is not working for them, at least in their perception.

00:19:43.580 There are more than eight times as many people saying the system is not working for me, as there are people

00:19:51.920 who say the system is great, I'm trending Democrat for 10 years.

00:19:56.180 We won.

00:19:58.940 We won the hearts and minds.

00:20:00.720 Now the question is, what do we do with that?

00:20:04.120 Where do we move these people?

00:20:07.140 And this is a tough question.

00:20:08.660 I was just yesterday reading the Aeneid.

00:20:11.060 I was going back to book six of the Aeneid by Virgil.

00:20:14.340 This is the political book, and it crops up.

00:20:17.640 I'm preparing a speech because I'm going to Hungary later this week for CPAC Hungary.

00:20:22.000 So let me go back to book six of the Aeneid.

00:20:24.080 There's a great line there that Aeneas is told.

00:20:26.900 Aeneas wants to go down and talk to his dead father.

00:20:29.900 And Aeneas is told, you know, the road down to the underworld is easy.

00:20:34.160 You'll have no problem getting down there.

00:20:36.700 It's just, it's a lot harder to get back up.

00:20:39.340 That's where you'll need all the favor of the gods to get back up. 0.57

00:20:43.040 It's easy for civilizations to come crumbling down.

00:20:45.800 And it's even relatively easy for people to realize that the civilization has come crumbling down.

00:20:50.740 That's all the normies, all the people in the middle, the ones who have moved to the right in recent years.

00:20:55.880 They're recognizing that.

00:20:57.360 Shoot, man, these liberal policies have really screwed up my country.

00:20:59.860 Yeah, it was bad.

00:21:00.560 Okay.

00:21:01.940 How do you get back up?

00:21:04.120 That's the question.

00:21:04.920 That's where the real debate is right now.

00:21:06.460 Now, speaking of these moral issues, speaking of rebuilding, there's another report out from the AP.

00:21:15.400 I got, we got the New York Times, now we got the Associated Press, something, something strange is in the air.

00:21:19.100 But the AP admitting that U.S. children of divorce do much worse in life than the kids of married parents, a mommy and a daddy joined together in matrimony forever.

00:21:32.860 U.S. children of divorce have reduced earnings, increased chances of teen pregnancy, and jail.

00:21:38.920 What does that mean?

00:21:40.140 Why are we coming to these conclusions?

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00:23:03.000 Folks, should we have nuked Japan?

00:23:04.720 Do the Jews run Hollywood? 0.98

00:23:06.380 How many years is too many to be stuck in the friend zone?

00:23:08.720 Find out in the latest episode of Yes or No with our very own Professor Jacob.

00:23:14.320 Do people who spend 10 years in the friend zone deserve to be there?

00:23:19.440 Ouch.

00:23:20.460 This is a brutal question.

00:23:21.980 This is terrible.

00:23:22.840 I need to take a drink before we talk about this.

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00:23:52.840 The Associated Press, which, you know, this wire service is now reporting to ABC News,

00:23:59.680 all the big lib outlets, admitting U.S. children of divorce have reduced earnings, study says.

00:24:05.440 Increased chance of teen pregnancy and incarceration.

00:24:08.800 I'm not going to read the whole article,

00:24:10.260 but it's specifically focusing in on kids whose parents divorce when they are five years old or younger.

00:24:15.640 They have a statistically significant lower earnings and increased chances of teen pregnancy,

00:24:26.400 doing jail time, and death.

00:24:29.540 This is a study out of the University of California, Merced.

00:24:34.500 The way that the researchers are explaining this is because divorce at a young age is typically tied to loss of financial resources,

00:24:43.040 a decline in neighborhood quality tied to a loss in financial resources,

00:24:46.880 and missing parental involvement because of distance or even just because of an increased workload required to make up for the lost income.

00:24:54.000 They say that accounts for 25% to 60% of the impact divorce has on children's outcomes.

00:24:59.420 Now, that means there's 40% to 75% that's not explained by purely economic factors,

00:25:03.600 which we all know is explained by social factors, moral factors, basic anthropological factors.

00:25:11.400 How many kids does this affect?

00:25:15.760 Almost a third.

00:25:17.320 Almost a third of American children live through their parents divorcing before they reach adulthood, according to the study.

00:25:24.360 I'm not surprised.

00:25:25.280 I'm a millennial.

00:25:26.000 The millennials were the first real generation to have to live through the divorce of their parents.

00:25:30.220 Zoomers have dealt with the same thing. 1.00

00:25:32.140 Gen Alpha, to a lesser degree, is dealing with that.

00:25:34.400 But in part, the slightly lower divorce rate now is just explained by the much lower marriage rate.

00:25:39.120 So fewer people are getting married in the first place, and we've redefined marriage.

00:25:42.860 So there are all these fake kinds of marriages, like two fellows and two chicks and all the rest of it. 0.51

00:25:47.360 What do we take away from this study?

00:25:52.880 For most of human history, divorce was understood pretty much universally to be bad.

00:26:01.340 In fact, just universally, it was bad.

00:26:03.320 Even in places that permitted divorce, divorce was permitted as the consequence of a bad thing.

00:26:11.520 In fact, you hear our Lord, when he's explaining in great detail what marriage really means.

00:26:17.600 He says, yes, Moses allowed you to divorce because of the hardness of your hearts, but from the beginning it was not so.

00:26:23.940 Everywhere, not just even in Christian civilization, but everywhere, divorce was understood to be basically bad.

00:26:29.340 Then, starting in the 1960s, in our neck of the woods, peaking in the 1980s and 90s, we convinced ourselves that divorce was good.

00:26:39.480 And we would hear these stupid lines, like, oh no, it's actually better for the kids to be raised where the parents aren't fighting all the time.

00:26:47.200 You know, it's actually, it's really better for the kids, for their parents to get divorced, because then, you know, their parents will be happy.

00:26:53.340 First of all, the parents won't be happy once they're divorced, because there's no such thing as divorce.

00:26:56.900 You still have to deal with the ex-spouse.

00:26:58.660 You're just in a very bad marriage, effectively, which is a Christian insight. 0.99

00:27:03.360 But two, it won't be better off for the kids.

00:27:06.540 That's just complete cope.

00:27:08.580 And three, if you're saying, well, the alternative is, you know, either the kids can grow up in a broken home,

00:27:14.100 or they can grow up in this home where the parents are yelling at each other all the time and fighting.

00:27:17.940 Hey, how about you just not fight?

00:27:19.480 How about you just not yell at each other all the time?

00:27:21.140 How about you act like civilized people and be normal?

00:27:23.460 You ever think about that?

00:27:25.620 This reminds me of the Chris Rock bit.

00:27:27.800 Chris Rock has this bit.

00:27:30.360 It's a very famous bit, but you probably can't do it on the show.

00:27:33.340 It's where he talks about the difference between black people and ninjas.

00:27:37.620 We'll say ninjas.

00:27:38.240 We had the Kanye West song a couple weeks ago, so we'll say.

00:27:40.340 And he says, you know, one thing I hate about this particular group of people, he goes,

00:27:45.580 is when they say, you know, they say things like, you know, I take care of my kids.

00:27:49.380 You're supposed to!

00:27:51.080 What do you want, a cookie?

00:27:52.020 You don't get plaudits.

00:27:54.580 You don't get a pat on the head for doing things you're supposed to.

00:27:56.940 Well, is it better to have a broken home than to have parents fighting all the time?

00:28:01.620 Yeah, how about you not fight?

00:28:02.780 How about you be normal and behave?

00:28:04.180 Good grief.

00:28:04.680 So what happened?

00:28:06.500 What happened?

00:28:07.960 Everyone, pretty much everywhere, for all of history, understood that divorce is bad.

00:28:13.160 And sometimes it's been tolerated, but it's been understood to be a not ideal thing.

00:28:18.360 Then from the 60s to the 90s, early 2000s, we convinced ourselves that divorce is good.

00:28:25.460 Actually, it's liberating.

00:28:26.920 It should be expanded and liberalized in the law.

00:28:30.380 That divorce, actually, man, what does marriage even mean, you know?

00:28:33.800 Divorce can't really be all that significant.

00:28:35.780 If marriage isn't all that significant, you know, man, it's like, whatever, you do you.

00:28:39.520 You follow your bliss, man, blah, blah, blah, whatever.

00:28:41.900 And now we're realizing that actually everyone for all of history until the 1960s was right.

00:28:48.240 And I think that's what we're going through on a lot of issues.

00:28:52.100 I think that's what we're going through on migration.

00:28:54.600 You want to know what people have thought about migration for all of history?

00:28:57.820 Go read Aristotle.

00:28:59.440 Go read Plato.

00:29:01.200 Go read Dante.

00:29:02.880 Go read anyone who basically universally says, yeah, you got to watch out for when you have a bunch of foreigners in your country because it's going to create dissensions and social problems. 1.00

00:29:11.900 Then, about the 1960s, we said, no, no, if you don't support your whole country being invaded by foreigners, even against your will, you're bigoted and bad.

00:29:22.800 And now we're realizing that people of every race are saying, actually, you know, that's not good to have just unfettered entry of foreigners into our country.

00:29:34.820 Something just happened in the middle to late 20th century.

00:29:38.080 And we all lost our minds for a little bit.

00:29:39.800 Call it the age of Aquarius.

00:29:40.780 We all just went a little bit kooky.

00:29:43.460 And now we're realizing that the gods of the copybook headings are still there.

00:29:46.920 We're realizing that things that we always understood to be true are still true.

00:29:51.020 Now, speaking of longstanding traditions and truths, a small point, you know, because of the holiday filming of the show, I was forced to take off for the holiday yesterday, even though I would have forced my whole staff to come in.

00:30:06.100 Vice President J.D. Vance got in some hot water with some people.

00:30:11.440 I think it's a small number of people.

00:30:13.120 Because when he flew out to meet the new pope, first American pope, he shook the pope's hand and did not kiss the ring.

00:30:20.280 You can see the picture.

00:30:21.960 Where is it?

00:30:22.940 Do we have the picture?

00:30:24.620 Maybe we don't.

00:30:25.700 It's a, here we are.

00:30:26.560 It's a picture of the pope shaking hands with J.D. Vance.

00:30:29.820 And many people are going to look at that and say, well, there's nothing all that strange about that, except that J.D. is a Catholic.

00:30:35.860 And Catholics, generally speaking, when they meet the pope, they're supposed to kiss the ring of the pope.

00:30:39.440 Now, I knew exactly what was going on the second I saw this.

00:30:42.700 But a handful of people objected.

00:30:44.740 They said, well, this is improper from J.D.

00:30:47.820 He's not prioritizing his faith.

00:30:50.460 There are all sorts of criticisms.

00:30:52.300 Here is the vice president explaining why he shook the pope's hand.

00:30:56.920 Okay, so I am a Catholic.

00:30:59.220 I believe that he, meaning Pope Leo, was actually the shepherd of 1.4 billion Catholics.

00:31:05.260 And so there are things like bowing before him, kissing the ring, that are signs of respect for a spiritual father.

00:31:12.100 Okay?

00:31:12.940 But on the world stage, I'm not there as J.D. Vance, a Catholic parishioner.

00:31:18.040 I'm there as the vice president of the United States and the leader of the president's delegation to the pope's inaugural mass.

00:31:22.620 And so, you know, it was interesting.

00:31:24.240 Some of the protocols about how I respond to the Holy Father were much different than how I might respond to the Holy Father.

00:31:31.620 How you might respond to the Holy Father purely in your capacity as a citizen.

00:31:34.860 So I knew this was his explanation the minute that I saw him shake the hand.

00:31:40.300 But not surprised at all.

00:31:43.980 Some people, even if they did understand that, they're giving J.D. a lot of grief over this.

00:31:48.980 And I think this is a little bit misplaced.

00:31:51.400 Okay?

00:31:51.560 It's as if to say that people are discovering for the first time that there is a tension between the modern world order and Christian civilization. 0.96

00:32:00.880 That's basically what they're saying.

00:32:01.780 It's like, well, hold on.

00:32:03.320 He should have.

00:32:03.840 Why didn't he kiss the ring?

00:32:05.960 Because he's here as a representative of the United States, a country that historically has not been all that friendly to Catholics.

00:32:12.640 And it was founded in a kind of an anti-Catholic way, though actually at a deeper level, I think the country was founded on the principles articulated by people like St. Thomas Aquinas.

00:32:22.840 And Alexi de Tocqueville thinks in America will trend Catholic or atheist over time.

00:32:26.520 And there are all sorts of arguments.

00:32:28.080 But I think it was Arthur Schlesinger said anti-Catholicism is the deepest-rooted American prejudice.

00:32:35.020 And so J.D. is saying, yeah, well, as the vice president of the United States, I didn't kiss the ring.

00:32:38.440 Because you know, had he kissed the ring, he would have had all this kind of anti-Catholic nonsense in all of the headlines.

00:32:44.060 And so it was a little bit of damned if you do, damned if you don't interaction.

00:32:50.740 But I would just point out here, going all the way back to 1795, we have an oath of allegiance in the United States for people to become naturalized American citizens.

00:32:59.000 The oath of allegiance reads, I hereby declare on oath that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince potent at state or solitude.

00:33:08.440 Sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.

00:33:13.540 One could argue that the oath of allegiance prohibits Catholics from being American citizens.

00:33:19.060 I know this has been resolved in a way that does not prohibit Catholics.

00:33:22.180 But I'm just pointing out, the vice president is dealing with political tensions that he is inheriting.

00:33:31.960 And he's doing his best.

00:33:33.400 And I think he's doing a good job of it.

00:33:34.780 OK, and I think that some people who defend tradition and order and hierarchy and faith and everything, they don't want to take yes for an answer.

00:33:45.940 I think this is true.

00:33:46.940 A lot of conservatives, we sometimes we insist upon clutching defeat from the jaws of victory.

00:33:52.680 We have the first ever practicing Catholic American vice president.

00:33:57.300 Take the W, guys.

00:33:58.800 Take the win.

00:33:59.880 That's a good thing.

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00:34:23.620 My favorite comment yesterday is from Asclepius Press, who writes,

00:34:27.460 Hi, Michael.

00:34:27.900 When I was a minor, I was groomed into delinquency by the PSL.

00:34:31.820 I'm not surprised to hear a member became violent.

00:34:34.060 It is extremely dark.

00:34:35.140 I will confess, when I first read this comment, I thought PSL referred to pumpkin spice latte.

00:34:41.920 And I couldn't, so I was groomed, I said, I was nearly groomed into delinquency by pumpkin spice lattes, too.

00:34:46.940 I could have gone broke.

00:34:47.960 They're so delicious.

00:34:48.780 They're so sugary.

00:34:49.540 I might have gotten diabetes.

00:34:51.380 But no, it refers to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which is the party that the alleged shooter who murdered the Israeli diplomats in D.C., that young couple, one of them is a Christian, at least, that he was a member of.

00:35:06.800 So, yes, there are radical groups that can groom you into delinquency.

00:35:09.760 It's true, and we need to clamp down on those groups.

00:35:12.220 As far as I'm concerned, get me another Joe McCarthy.

00:35:15.840 That's my kind of right wing.

00:35:18.380 But you can be groomed into delinquency by pumpkin spice lattes, too.

00:35:22.640 Take my word for it.

00:35:23.500 Don't mess around with that stuff, kids.

00:35:25.560 Speaking of religion, big, big news story.

00:35:30.220 There's a UFO in Colombia.

00:35:32.940 Did you hear about this?

00:35:34.100 It was getting a zillion views on social media.

00:35:36.820 So, here's the UFO.

00:35:41.200 Allegedly.

00:35:41.920 It's amazing how these UFOs are always caught on really grainy, weird footage.

00:35:47.200 And this one, I don't know about you.

00:35:50.720 I mean, it's very difficult to detect fakes these days because of AI and because of deep fakes.

00:35:57.320 This doesn't look that real to me.

00:35:59.120 But for those just listening, it's a sphere.

00:36:02.100 Just a sphere.

00:36:03.680 Floating around.

00:36:05.020 Doesn't have any wings or anything.

00:36:06.780 It's just floating.

00:36:07.340 It's in pretty regular patterns.

00:36:10.440 It's not doing any of the weird stuff like the 90-degree turns or anything like that that we hear about from the tic-tacs and some of the testimony from Air Force pilots.

00:36:17.940 But that's it.

00:36:19.840 Just floating around.

00:36:20.760 Looks super-duper fake to me.

00:36:24.540 Wait, I'm trying to look and see if there's Bigfoot cropping out of the bushes behind it.

00:36:29.840 And then we get a picture of the UFO.

00:36:33.580 And the picture looks like the fakest thing I've ever seen in my whole life.

00:36:38.180 It looks like a soccer ball with some weird Sumerian text on it and weird.

00:36:44.080 Looks like it was chiseled by a butter knife at home.

00:36:46.920 I mean, it just looks ridiculous.

00:36:49.740 And comes out of Colombia.

00:36:53.060 There are a lot of hoaxes of this sort in Latin America.

00:36:56.060 So in a piece about this from Newsweek, Julia Mossbridge, who is, she's a PhD.

00:37:01.980 I don't know.

00:37:02.220 She's sort of a random PhD that was picked by Newsweek to be interviewed for this.

00:37:05.720 She says, bugosphere, that's what they're calling this thing.

00:37:10.040 I really suspect it's a piece of artwork.

00:37:12.280 It looks so human-made to me.

00:37:14.440 Yes, it looks very human-made to me, too.

00:37:15.780 It says, I think that governments need to think more about the psychosocial positive aspects of these kind of mysteries.

00:37:22.300 Because self-transcendence is often ignored as a motivating factor in people's behavior.

00:37:26.320 When people start focusing on something that's bigger than us, it really powerfully changes behavior for the better.

00:37:33.900 And then, final point.

00:37:35.340 It seems to me we could use the mystery and the humility that UAP produced.

00:37:40.960 UAP is the new term for UFOs.

00:37:42.800 They changed it because UFOs sound kooky because they are.

00:37:44.900 So they had to change it to unidentified aerial phenomena, but it's the same kooky thing.

00:37:49.280 Producing people who see and experience them.

00:37:52.520 We could use that as a way to bring countries together that are currently not together.

00:37:58.420 So this tells me the whole thing is just extremely fake.

00:38:01.500 And what her good insight tells me is that all the UFO stuff, all the ET stuff, is just fake religion.

00:38:09.280 And it's fake religion made by people who view religion as fake and therefore don't know what religion is.

00:38:16.480 They think that religion is just a helpful social tool to bring people together and get them to cooperate.

00:38:22.480 It's not real.

00:38:24.020 You know, look, here, where's my fedora?

00:38:26.140 Where's my Reddit account?

00:38:27.460 There's no, it's not, religion is not real, okay?

00:38:29.720 God doesn't exist.

00:38:30.860 But it's a helpful tool to convince idiots to do what we want and to cooperate and not kill each other.

00:38:37.620 So we're going to like kind of encourage it.

00:38:40.720 But we know, we're really smart.

00:38:42.420 We have fedoras and we have Reddit accounts.

00:38:44.420 We know that religion is not real. 0.97

00:38:45.940 Now, no, that's not real religion.

00:38:50.420 So then if you're going to create a fake religion, that's the attitude that you're going to have going in.

00:38:55.880 And your fake religion is not going to work either. 0.97

00:38:57.940 As I have said for many years now, aliens are angels and demons for libs.

00:39:05.380 We're seeing all sorts of replacement religions.

00:39:08.800 AI, AI is becoming a kind of god for libs and for secularists.

00:39:13.180 But it's just fake.

00:39:14.300 Because real religion, by the way, real religion can get people to behave in a good way because of morality and because of our accountability to God and because of divine grace.

00:39:25.140 But it doesn't necessarily get us all to be kumbaya.

00:39:30.340 You know, I'm a Catholic.

00:39:31.760 I believe in, Catholic means universal.

00:39:33.740 I believe in the universal church with jurisdiction over the whole earth, the head of which is the representative of Christ himself.

00:39:41.360 Okay, I believe in that.

00:39:42.460 But that's different from liberal globalism.

00:39:45.520 Christianity is not just about an artificial peace.

00:39:50.060 Christianity also comes with a sword and divides mother from son and divides brother from sister. 0.95

00:39:56.300 And because of the truth, Christianity does bring peace and does bring unity around the truth.

00:40:03.160 Not around some artifice, not around some social construct, some merely social construct, as the libs would have religion.

00:40:12.460 It's got to be around the truth or it's nothing.

00:40:14.240 So you'll see people say, well, look, we used to have a religious society and things went better.

00:40:19.520 Now we don't have a religious society and people are losing their minds.

00:40:22.720 So we need some of the mystery and humility that UAP produce in people.

00:40:28.080 We need the holy fear of E.T.

00:40:30.800 Not going to work.

00:40:31.820 That's not a holy fear.

00:40:32.920 That's silly.

00:40:34.360 I agree.

00:40:35.560 We could all use a little awe and wonder.

00:40:37.700 Chesterton said that the world does not suffer from lack of wonders, but from lack of wonder.

00:40:42.720 We could all use a little wonder and humility.

00:40:45.040 The only way that that will be real and sustainable is before the true God. 0.87

00:40:48.980 Speaking of little green men, Kermit the Frog just gave the commencement address at the University of Maryland.

00:40:54.080 Take a listen.

00:40:54.600 Dreams are how we figure out where we want to go.

00:40:59.480 And life is how we get there.

00:41:03.220 So graduates, I see you.

00:41:07.640 I see you out there.

00:41:09.960 And I know that you will find your people.

00:41:13.380 I know that you're going to take big leaps.

00:41:15.280 And I know that even though you're about to throw your caps in the air, good luck finding them again.

00:41:21.000 I know that you will stay connected to your families, your friends, and your dreams.

00:41:30.700 Because life's like a movie.

00:41:34.380 Write your own ending.

00:41:36.580 Keep believing.

00:41:38.160 Keep pretending.

00:41:39.760 You've all done just what you set out to do.

00:41:44.100 And you're just getting started.

00:41:47.680 That is so depressing.

00:41:49.640 That is so bad.

00:41:52.920 This is what modern education is worth.

00:41:56.420 All these kids, laughy, clappy, smiling at Kermit the Frog.

00:42:01.480 This is what modern education is worth.

00:42:03.840 It leaves you with exactly the same intellectual capacity you had when you were three years old.

00:42:09.660 When you were watching Sesame Street and The Muppets when you were three years old, you've not grown at all.

00:42:15.180 You could have a degree from a major state university.

00:42:17.360 It will leave you exactly the same as you were before.

00:42:21.580 Some will say,

00:42:22.640 Now, Michael, Jim Henson, the creator of The Muppets, he's a graduate of the University of Maryland.

00:42:27.140 Yeah, Jim Henson died 35 years ago.

00:42:29.200 If Jim Henson were giving the commencement speech, that would probably not be great either.

00:42:34.420 But it'd be vastly superior to a cartoon puppet frog.

00:42:40.760 That's really sad.

00:42:44.320 Really sad.

00:42:45.080 If I were a graduate of the University of Maryland after that, I would demand a refund.

00:42:49.300 That is pathetic.

00:42:51.240 But this is true everywhere, just about.

00:42:54.620 You can't really say it's all that much better at Harvard, as President Trump pointed out, when he just ramped up his war on Harvard.

00:43:01.600 Look, part of the problem with Harvard is that there are about 31 percent, almost 31 percent of foreigners coming to Harvard.

00:43:11.080 We give them billions of dollars, which is ridiculous.

00:43:14.700 We do grants, which we're probably not going to be doing much grants anymore to Harvard.

00:43:18.400 But there are 31 percent, but they refuse to tell us who the people are.

00:43:23.260 We want to know who the people are.

00:43:24.580 Now, a lot of the foreign students we wouldn't have a problem with.

00:43:27.300 I'm not going to have a problem with foreign students, but it shouldn't be 31 percent. 1.00

00:43:31.120 It's too much because we have Americans that want to go there and to other places, and they can't go there because you have 31 percent foreign. 1.00

00:43:39.400 Now, no foreign government contributes money to Harvard.

00:43:43.140 We do.

00:43:43.980 So why are they doing so money?

00:43:45.380 Number one, number two, we want a list of those foreign students, and we'll find out whether or not they're OK.

00:43:51.400 Many will be OK, I assume.

00:43:53.620 And I assume with Harvard, many will be bad.

00:43:57.320 And then the other thing is they're very anti-Semitic.

00:44:00.140 Everybody knows they're anti-Semitic, and that's got to stop immediately.

00:44:04.440 Do you see what Trump is doing?

00:44:06.420 I think you probably do.

00:44:07.900 But for those who haven't quite figured it out yet, Trump is demanding that the Democrats defend Harvard.

00:44:17.580 Trump is really, really good at this.

00:44:19.180 Trump is very good at getting his enemies to defend the indefensible.

00:44:23.240 So Trump will go out and make his enemies defend paper straws.

00:44:29.040 He had the EO about paper straws.

00:44:31.680 Everyone hates paper straws. 0.80

00:44:32.900 Everyone in this country hates paper straws.

00:44:34.740 He goes out, he says, ah, we're banning paper straws.

00:44:37.600 He makes the Democrats defend paper straws, all the trans stuff. 1.00

00:44:41.580 That's what that was about.

00:44:43.500 Everyone knows a fella shouldn't be in the girl's bathroom and locker room. 1.00

00:44:46.960 Trump goes out.

00:44:47.620 He makes the Democrats defend that.

00:44:50.440 Now he's making them defend Harvard.

00:44:53.900 Democrats have a problem identified by the New York Times, which is that they only appeal to wealthy people from elite institutions.

00:45:02.060 And most Americans view them as totally out of touch and uncaring about their problems.

00:45:08.580 So what does Trump do?

00:45:10.800 He puts the Democrats in a spot where they have to defend Harvard.

00:45:15.520 Harvard, the icon of out of touch, elite, rich, coastal.

00:45:21.700 And he's going to make them defend that.

00:45:23.760 And he's going to sprinkle on a little defense of anti-Semites in there.

00:45:27.060 He says, okay, hey, Democrats, here's what we're going to do for the midterms.

00:45:31.020 We're going to have you defend Harvard University.

00:45:34.440 We're going to have you defend 31% foreigners coming to this country and being subsidized by Americans, most of whom don't even go to college or don't even graduate from college. 0.93

00:45:44.300 And we're going to have you defend anti-Semites.

00:45:47.160 How does that sound?

00:45:48.360 And you know what the Democrats are going to do because they can't win for losing?

00:45:51.140 They're going to say, ah, sounds great, Donald.

00:45:53.220 We love Harvard.

00:45:55.920 Great.

00:45:56.480 The guy's a genius.

00:45:57.200 Okay, just briefly before we go, Emmanuel Macron, we're speaking of foreigners anyway.

00:46:05.080 I have to get to Emmanuel Macron, president of France, caught on camera, getting slapped, pushed, shoved, scratched by his wife on an airplane.

00:46:14.020 Take a look.

00:46:14.480 Oh, yeah, hold on.

00:46:21.940 That's not a slap for those of you who are only listening.

00:46:24.940 He's standing there.

00:46:26.840 And you see these hands of his wife, hands push his face away. 0.53

00:46:31.100 And then Macron's pushed back a little bit.

00:46:33.220 He looks out.

00:46:33.980 He sees the door is open on the airplane.

00:46:35.920 And he sees cameras there.

00:46:39.920 And then he does a little like, oh, huh?

00:46:41.840 Smile, wave.

00:46:44.320 Now he starts walking down first in front of his wife.

00:46:48.940 They're not holding hands.

00:46:51.200 They're not arm in arm.

00:46:56.820 What's going on?

00:46:58.560 The French government has said this was just a playful little shove.

00:47:03.320 And that happens.

00:47:04.220 You know, at least he'll do that.

00:47:05.380 I'll get out of here.

00:47:05.980 Get out of here, man.

00:47:06.700 Come on.

00:47:06.980 What are you doing?

00:47:07.680 But was it?

00:47:08.240 Play it again.

00:47:08.820 Play it again.

00:47:09.400 I need to see it again.

00:47:10.920 It doesn't look like he's expecting the show.

00:47:13.220 It doesn't look like they're all guffawing and smacking their knee.

00:47:16.080 And they're having a little.

00:47:19.560 No, I don't know.

00:47:20.360 It doesn't seem all that playful to me.

00:47:23.360 It looks really bad because he's so shocked when he sees the cameras.

00:47:26.320 However, my big takeaway, and I haven't seen anyone have this analysis, even though it's

00:47:32.200 obviously the correct one, is that this is the strongest evidence yet that Brigitte Macron

00:47:37.860 is in fact a woman.

00:47:40.400 Notice that was not a manly slap.

00:47:43.060 Not even in the way that gay guys slap.

00:47:45.540 It wasn't like that.

00:47:47.560 It was a womanly shove. 0.99

00:47:51.020 I know there have been some questions about the first lady of France, so we're not getting

00:47:57.480 into those here.

00:47:58.740 We're not, I don't know, I'm not, I've never really been persuaded by that.

00:48:02.100 But listen, if you are wondering, look, there's something weird with the marriage.

00:48:05.820 She's like a zillion years older than him and was preying on him when he was a teenage

00:48:09.340 boy and her student.

00:48:10.820 But regardless, we're going to put that aside for a second.

00:48:14.200 To me, this is some evidence.

00:48:15.720 It's whatever weird dynamic in their weird French marriage, this is the French, let's 1.00

00:48:19.300 not forget, not known exactly for their sexual propriety and orderliness.

00:48:27.120 Whatever you think about, I, that looked like the shove of a woman to me, okay? 0.97

00:48:32.460 Nihal Obstat, that's my take.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 27, 2025

Ep. 1742 - British Mom JAILED After Supposed “Racist” Post

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