The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 175 - Trump’s Masterstroke： Making Dems Honest Again

00:00:00.000 The Trump administration has achieved a lot in just 500 days.

00:00:03.700 Record low unemployment, a booming economy, the appointment of Neil Gorsuch and countless

00:00:08.280 other originalist judges to the federal courts, and about to be more originalist judges because

00:00:12.860 breaking news, Anthony Kennedy is retiring from the Supreme Court.

00:00:16.480 The Trump administration has also finally moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem,

00:00:21.800 gave all Americans significant tax relief, has slashed the federal bureaucracy,

00:00:25.680 the list goes on and on. But the past few days have confirmed President Trump's most

00:00:31.580 incredible political achievement of all. He's making Democrats honest again.

00:00:36.840 Democrats from the New York Times op-ed page all the way up to the halls of Congress and the Supreme

00:00:41.120 Court are now openly advocating censorship, electing self-described socialists, demanding the abolition

00:00:47.960 of law enforcement, and calling for mob terror against political opponents and their children.

00:00:52.680 Democrats have not been this honest since they started a war to keep Republicans from freeing

00:00:57.320 their slaves. We will analyze what all this means for our country's future. Then, CRTV's Gavin

00:01:03.180 McGinnis joins to discuss whether the U.S. is headed for civil war. Finally, the similarities between

00:01:09.260 President Trump and Elvis Presley, as we analyze lessons for Republicans from Elvis's 1968 comeback

00:01:15.360 special on This Day in History. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:22.680 So much to get to today. We have so much to talk about. We will get to this breaking news. This

00:01:33.880 finally came out that Anthony Kennedy is retiring from the Supreme Court. This could upset the balance

00:01:39.520 of four and a half to four and a half, because Kennedy has been the sort of swing vote, though this term

00:01:44.240 he's been great. We will analyze all of that a ton, a ton to get to, because just this week, Democrats

00:01:49.960 have shown their hand. Donald Trump made them do it. And the Supreme Court case that came out today

00:01:56.200 is aptly named Janus, because we've got a god of doors, of gates, two faces. The country could go

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00:04:02.840 did nothing for you. In the old days, it was pretty easy to look at Democrats and Republicans,

00:04:09.940 to look at the difference. In the old days, Democrats were pretty honest. They started

00:04:13.940 this entire civil war. I guess we might have another one coming up, but the first time they

00:04:18.100 started that civil war, they said, look, we want to keep our slaves. Republicans are trying to free

00:04:22.560 the slaves. Okay, we stand for this. We stand for that. They're all terrible things they stood for.

00:04:26.880 Then, about a century later, the Democrats started to get a little murkier about this. Actually,

00:04:32.020 I got to tell you, in the 1930s, the big complaint from American political scientists,

00:04:36.920 the Political Scientists Association, was not that the parties were too extreme,

00:04:40.920 that they were too different, but it was that they were too similar. So you couldn't really tell.

00:04:44.400 You know, Bill Buckley started the conservative movement basically because of this. He said,

00:04:48.960 there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans. You know, the Barry Goldwater campaign

00:04:54.980 was for a voice, not an echo. Have a voice, not an echo. Have a choice, not an echo, rather.

00:05:00.040 But he gave a voice to those conservatives who wanted something different. Now, they're being

00:05:04.660 honest again. You know, they elected in Queens Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This is an open millennial

00:05:11.680 socialist, unseated one of the top Democrats in the House. And she ran, her campaign was awful and 0.87

00:05:17.840 despicable. She ran on basically just socialism. She went on, you know, Medicare for all. She went on 0.63

00:05:26.200 abolishing law enforcement, all of these terrible things. But she, and she won. She unseated this

00:05:33.360 top Democrat. The RNC has been capitalizing on all of this now. Here is the latest ad from the RNC.

00:05:39.760 A few years ago, ideas that we talked about were thought to be fringe ideas, radical ideas,

00:05:48.380 extremist ideas. Those ideas are now mainstream.

00:05:51.880 I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country.

00:05:56.100 And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline

00:06:03.880 station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them

00:06:11.320 they're not welcome anymore, anywhere. 0.99

00:06:14.680 Do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless c*****. 1.00

00:06:19.020 What's Uncle Tom but for white women who disappoint other white women? 1.00

00:06:23.140 One way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy. So please, bring on the recession.

00:06:27.860 When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?

00:06:31.620 I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.

00:06:36.520 That's a powerful ad. For those who couldn't see it on screen, at the end it says the left

00:06:50.920 in 2018 unhinged. And the better ad would be the left in 2018 dangerous. Because it is

00:06:55.760 a real threat. They're threatening violence, right? And that's at least Maxine Waters, all

00:07:00.240 of these people, the right is decrying them right now and saying it's so awful. Good, you're

00:07:03.920 showing your true colors. The left has had this undercurrent of violence for so, so long.

00:07:08.660 The Democratic Party founded the Ku Klux Klan. It was the terrorist wing of the Democrat

00:07:12.200 Party. There has been an undercurrent of violence for a long time. It went underground for a little

00:07:16.220 bit. And there were subversive organizations in the 20th century, not the least of which

00:07:20.060 were the weather underground, these domestic terrorists who were constantly threatening

00:07:23.840 violence against their political opponents. Now it's back up again. Good, I'm glad. You know,

00:07:28.820 during the old days they pretended otherwise. They wouldn't talk about their real

00:07:33.760 motives. But now Donald Trump, he's just got this magic touch. He makes these people

00:07:38.080 finally be honest. It's a Herculean feat. You know, the media have followed suit, by the

00:07:42.820 way. Because obviously we've come a long way since Barry Goldwater called for a choice,

00:07:47.280 not an echo. We've got the media now admitting that they hate the Trump voters. Not just their

00:07:53.940 political opponents, not just Donald Trump, not just a mere disagreement. They despise the

00:07:59.920 people and consider them wicked who voted for Donald Trump. Here's a little glimpse of the

00:08:03.640 mainstream media.

00:08:04.240 There are still generations of people, older people who were born and bred and marinated in it,

00:08:27.360 in that prejudice and racism. And they just have to die. 0.99

00:08:31.640 A lot of his supporters believe that we are the enemy of the American people. And that is 0.99

00:08:36.060 a really, really an awful situation. We are not the enemy of the American people. We love

00:08:41.260 the American people.

00:08:42.960 Of course you do. Of course. No, we love them. By the way, I didn't show you the extra

00:08:46.640 minute and a half or two minutes of that montage that was put together by Gravy or Grabby News.

00:08:51.620 Drew played the first half on his show. There's just too many clips of media figures, especially

00:08:56.720 on cable news, talking about how these people who voted for Donald Trump are racist, evil, wicked. 0.99

00:09:02.340 They need to be shut up. They need violence to be threatened against them. And so we had to split 1.00

00:09:06.960 it up between the two shows. But of course, no. Why would anyone think the media are opposed to the

00:09:11.740 American people? They're enemies of the American people. I don't know. With rhetoric like this and with

00:09:15.800 open calls to violence like this, some people are suggesting that we're headed towards civil war.

00:09:20.440 The breaking news today, which we're going to analyze it in a little bit. Anthony Kennedy,

00:09:24.680 the swing vote on the Supreme Court, stepping down. Some people are saying this is the moment.

00:09:29.040 If there's going to be a civil war in the country, it's because the court is about to lose a balance

00:09:33.720 that it's had for a long time or potentially could lose that balance. To help us analyze whether or not

00:09:38.960 we're careening towards civil war, we bring on an expert from Canada, Gavin McGinnis. Gavin,

00:09:44.820 thank you for being here.

00:09:46.660 Thank you for having me, sir.

00:09:47.860 So, Gavin, listen, you, I know that, I know that you're from America's hat or neighbor to

00:09:52.740 the north, but you're an adoptive- I moved here in 1999. When am I going to be considered 1.00

00:09:57.380 an American? That's the, that's the real question. You know, there's such an anti-immigrant

00:10:01.460 fervor right now that obviously, you know, I think you're seeing the Trump backlash even

00:10:05.260 in your own personal life. Are we headed towards- You guys are like, you guys are like the

00:10:08.660 Japanese. If there's a Korean guy who was born there, but his parents are Korean, he's 0.99

00:10:12.700 never Japanese. You can never be American. 1.00

00:10:17.580 In that accent. Yeah. You can never be. Are we going towards civil war?

00:10:21.180 Yeah. I think we're already here. It's, it's a very slow creeping civil war. Like you look

00:10:26.860 at the ethnic cleansing in South Africa that didn't happen in an afternoon. Yeah. It was

00:10:32.140 like the frog boiling in water. And then everyone realized, wait a minute, the farms are gone.

00:10:36.060 How long has this been going on? And I think we've been seeing creeping violence since Trump

00:10:41.020 won and it's getting more and more like this past week is intense. It's an asymptote. I don't

00:10:46.420 know how mathematically literate you are, but it's totally illiterate. Okay. Well, it's a thing.

00:10:52.020 It's a craft. It's the big one. That's the one that goes big. That's the one that goes big and

00:10:56.820 it's going big. I mean, this past, I was just recently mapping out all the attacks on conservatives,

00:11:01.860 not because that's the be all and end all, but it's a good little litmus test and you map them out

00:11:07.140 and it's Boink with Kat Timph and then Boink with Tommy Lauren and then Boink with Chadwick Moore

00:11:15.300 and Milo and then Boink, Boink, Boink this week with Sarah Huckabee Sanders and, and, uh, and who

00:11:20.660 was it? Mitch McConnell just keeps going, going, going, going, going. Steven Miller, they went to

00:11:23.780 his apartment. They started screaming outside his apartment. And then you go, well, surely someone's

00:11:28.580 going to be raining it in. And Maxine Waters goes, what are you pussies doing? Get out there and keep 1.00

00:11:34.180 their children awake and scream, no peace, no sleep. Come on. This is the Maxine Waters moment.

00:11:39.700 She's been calling for violence since the early nineties, since what, since before you even immigrated to 1.00

00:11:44.260 America. And now she's coming out and she's like, this is it. We can finally be, but you know,

00:11:49.140 the, the pushback on this I've heard is that the right has all the guns and the left are lazy.

00:11:54.260 Is that, is that some hope for the future? That just means they're going to lose.

00:11:58.980 That just means that they're doomed. That's true. That's hope for the future, I guess.

00:12:04.660 They don't know how to fight. Like, have you noticed tough guys, tough guys never say,

00:12:09.060 we're going to go out there and we're going to punch people in the face. Yeah. Tony Soprano 0.81

00:12:14.420 doesn't go, I, it's a very difficult situation. I'm going to go and murder a bunch of snitches. 1.00

00:12:19.940 He just goes, Oh, uh, it would be unfortunate if something were happening. 0.99

00:12:24.740 I don't know nothing. I don't know nothing about what happened.

00:12:27.780 Yeah. Well, we're going to sit here and we're going to take care of that thing about the thing

00:12:32.420 with the stuff, with the guy. We're going to go put the suprasad in the cannoli and the,

00:12:37.780 and the Rico case is going to get 10 feet taller. I don't know. That's combining a little Donald

00:12:41.700 Trump in there. Yeah. If there's any liberals out there and you're watching us wondering what our

00:12:45.540 next step is, notice when we look at each other, we sort of just go,

00:12:51.380 that means you're going to be in big trouble. That is a good, you know, I got to say one of our

00:12:56.580 writers, Amanda Presto Giacomo, she tweeted out this picture today from some company and it was all these

00:13:02.020 men wearing t-shirts, smiling, big hugging each other. It said that the future is female.

00:13:08.020 And those are the guys who are going to fight us in the civil war.

00:13:11.780 Yeah. And I've, I've literally fought them before. I mean, at NYU, Antifa and in,

00:13:16.660 in New York, Antifa is particularly bourgeois. They're all white. They're all sons of academics. 0.94

00:13:21.940 They're all skinny and we fought them and it felt like punching a raw spaghetti. 0.59

00:13:27.620 Like their bones just crumple like bird bones under your fists. And then they bring in more

00:13:33.140 women to help them. And you go, all righty, uh, this is what you want. This is just to remember,

00:13:38.580 you are the guys here who are, you know, trying to, you're the future is female people. Uh,

00:13:43.860 is these Antifa guys, the thing about them, I noticed like in the pre Antifa days in America,

00:13:49.620 when I was at college, I noticed all of the occupy, you know, radical rah, rah. They were all the

00:13:55.220 children of a hedge fund managers. And then all of the college Republicans were there on like

00:14:00.340 financial aid and work study. And so is, is it just like a big, they're really angry at their dads for

00:14:06.900 not being home enough as a kid. And it's really just some like psycho babble playing out on the

00:14:11.620 national stage. Well, what word keeps coming up with them? Patriarchy, patriarchy, patriarchy.

00:14:17.860 What's a patriarch? It's a father. They are, and I'm sorry to get all Freudian, but they are mad

00:14:22.900 at dad for divorcing mom and abandoning them. And by the way, that's a valid beef.

00:14:28.260 I agree with the impetus for these radical alt left lunatics. I agree with their rage, 0.87

00:14:34.740 but the way they're directing it is like a spoiled child. They're acting like petulant 0.67

00:14:39.700 children and petulant children get spanked on the bum bum. 1.00

00:14:42.500 This is exactly, I didn't put it quite in those terms, but this is exactly my theory 0.98

00:14:47.620 on how to handle these guys is they're like little petulant children. I had Jesse Lee Peterson on the

00:14:51.860 show a little while ago and he said basically the same thing that there, there is this rage

00:14:56.900 among the American left because their parents are divorced or their fathers left home or whatever.

00:15:01.860 And when you look at the, I'm not saying there's a exactly a correlation here, but they do coincide.

00:15:06.660 There is this total breakdown of the family, huge increase in divorce rate for the, the parents of

00:15:11.780 these young people. Now fathers leaving the home, a ton of out of wedlock birth. Is this basically just

00:15:17.380 the flip side of that social conservative argument? You know, the society starts at the family.

00:15:22.340 And if you have a breakdown of the family, you're gonna have a breakdown of society.

00:15:25.620 I think you can link it to pretty much anything. I think it's the reason there's a disproportionate 0.87

00:15:29.940 number of blacks involved in crime. I think it's the, the idle hands of welfare, which shattered the 1.00

00:15:35.460 black family and left these single mothers with nothing to do, no discipline. And so these kids get 0.94

00:15:42.340 bored. Blacks committed crimes about the same as whites back before welfare took over. 0.99

00:15:47.780 Thomas Sowell talks about this all the time. 0.99

00:15:50.180 If you and I were sitting in the projects all day, just smoking pot in the lobby until the postman

00:15:56.420 couldn't see where the, the little steel boxes are. Cause it's like fog down there. And that's

00:16:01.780 a true story. Uh, I swear to God, I would get up to mischief. I'd be like, do you want to learn

00:16:06.100 how to hotwire a car? Like, do you want to throw it? We used to do that as teenagers. We throw bricks

00:16:10.180 out of, at cars out of boredom. This, this expanded adolescence is going up to thirties and forties

00:16:16.180 with third generation welfare. These kids are getting into crime. So that's linked to fatherlessness.

00:16:21.220 I think, uh, the Trinitarios in New York, murdering people is linked to fatherlessness. 0.99

00:16:26.180 I think that these petulant brats screaming, I hate it here. I hate America and storming upstairs 1.00

00:16:32.260 and slamming their door so hard that their little name plate falls off the door and shatters them. 0.99

00:16:37.140 I'm never talking to you again. I never, I hate all of you. And in it, we obviously can't handle 0.96

00:16:44.580 the gangsters and say, get back downstairs or something. But as far as the, the bourgeoisie

00:16:49.540 who are mad at us, like these guys saying punch people in the face, we have to protect them from

00:16:54.260 themselves because these people, they don't want the universe that they claim to want. Like look at

00:16:59.380 gender, for example, say you would let them handle gender. What's it up to now? Like 72?

00:17:05.140 Yeah. 468 genders. I believe that I checked this morning on Drudge. I don't know if it's 1.00

00:17:09.860 increased since then. We have this thing in my family called kids day once a year and

00:17:14.260 there's no rules whatsoever. You could murder someone on kids day.

00:17:17.380 It's like the purge. It's like, it's the purge. And that's how I lost my wife actually,

00:17:21.620 my second wife. I'm so sorry to hear that. Yeah. It's gotta be really hard.

00:17:24.500 It's gruesome. Oh my God. But, um, they eat candy for dinner and they stay up watching movies. So

00:17:29.300 four in the morning and the next day they are dead to the world and miserable. And what we're doing

00:17:34.820 with the left and what Obama's entire, uh, administration, his entire terms were,

00:17:40.340 was a giant kids day. And these kids are obese with candy and they're going to kill themselves. 0.98

00:17:45.460 If they, if you let them keep going, they'll, they'll candy themselves to death.

00:17:49.140 That's true there. We've got to raise them up. We got to try to raise them up. Right. And you see it

00:17:53.540 all the way. I mean, all, uh, in the New York times right now, all the way from the New York

00:17:57.780 times to the Supreme court, they're talking about how we can't have any free speech. Free speech is

00:18:01.780 bad. We can't let conservatives talk. Only I can talk. Oh, stop. Shut up. Stop listening.

00:18:06.900 That's all you're getting, uh, all the time from the left. Is there any way to raise them up? I mean,

00:18:12.420 is it just a soft paddle? Stop. Like, you know, when a homeless man comes into the bar and that 21

00:18:18.180 year old who just started drinking in a bar engages him and you go, thanks buddy. Now we have a crazy

00:18:22.980 person with us for the rest of the night. You don't engage them. And we have to stop giving

00:18:28.500 the left credit. We have to stop trying to debate them and trying to listen to them.

00:18:32.740 The answer is just no, sit down. Like it was beautiful with Trump when they said there was

00:18:36.900 some journalists from Univision. He's like, excuse me, senior. Can you stop saying anchor babies is

00:18:42.500 offensive? And Trump is like, Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, what would you like me to say? Um, he had no idea

00:18:48.020 by the way. And he goes, Hey, how about the, um, uh, future dreamer of, uh, real American citizen,

00:18:56.740 undocumented baby of the person. And Trump goes, what? That takes too long. I'm saying anchor baby.

00:19:02.740 That's the attitude we have to have. Like what do you, how many genders do you think there are? 1.00

00:19:05.780 Uh, about 470. Now we're not doing that. There's, there's two.

00:19:09.460 I'm going to stick with two. I wouldn't give you one if you weren't so greedy. I would have said three,

00:19:12.580 but no, we're doing two. Stop giving these people credit. That's what you get. I'm going to stop this

00:19:16.420 car and turn it right around. If you want four more genders, that's it too. That's all you get. 1.00

00:19:21.380 Gavin, my dad would just slam on the brakes on the highway. You've given me a lot of hope for

00:19:26.500 the few. I was a little nervous about that civil war coming up, but you've really given me some

00:19:29.700 hope for the future. You know, kids day is over. The candy is all unwrapped. It's all gone.

00:19:34.740 Now it's time to be grownups again. And we're not going to engage the drunk guy at the bar.

00:19:39.700 Think of it as a child civil war. What if all the eight year olds were to rise up today to take over 0.89

00:19:45.700 the country? You just go, Oh, well got to punch some kids. 0.98

00:19:50.660 I feel really bad. I never thought that my life would go to join this. Don't get me wrong. 0.98

00:19:55.460 I hate myself kind of, but if it's got to be done, it's got to be done with this for a long

00:19:59.620 ass time, but it's, you know, Gavin, this seems to me to be part and parcel of, of your longstanding

00:20:05.780 political philosophy coming back from one of the greatest video works you've ever produced,

00:20:09.940 wrestling your baby. Yeah, this has been coming up for a long time.

00:20:13.780 This is America. Trump's America is basically a giant nation of baby wrestling.

00:20:20.740 Put on your baby wrestling gear. Here we go, boys.

00:20:23.060 Here we go. All right, Gavin, I got to let you go. Uh, that, that really paints a picture. We're

00:20:29.060 right now. We're at Janice, you know, we're at the gate to the future. And all I see is just

00:20:33.060 wrestling babies. Gavin McGinnish, you can get them on CRTV. Get off my lawn. You get them everywhere,

00:20:38.020 though. Gavin's stuff is some, some of the best and funniest commentary out there. Gavin,

00:20:43.060 thanks for being here. Thanks for having me, buddy. I see it. So I don't even know why I,

00:20:49.460 you know, sometimes I prepare notes when I talk to people, but then if, uh, if Gavin's coming on,

00:20:53.860 I just say, okay, well, let's see where this is going to go. So, so the good news is the good

00:20:59.300 news about all of this. I, by the way, I agree with most of what he just said, especially with

00:21:03.300 the baby wrestling, because the American people are responding. You know, the mainstream media,

00:21:08.260 they're just crying and whining and everything's awful, rending their garments and gnashing their

00:21:12.420 teeth. And yet there's a new poll out today from Axios and Survey Monkey, which shows that the

00:21:17.700 majority of Americans, all Americans, not just Republicans, not just conservatives,

00:21:23.060 believe that the mainstream news media regularly and intentionally publish fake news. So the 72%

00:21:31.380 total of all Americans polled in this poll say that the mainstream news media, CNN, ABC, NBC,

00:21:37.940 New York times, Washington post regularly publish falsehoods, uh, in their reporting.

00:21:43.860 Now, this number, when you look at just the G G D G O P, the Republican party is 92%. It rises to 1.00

00:21:50.340 almost all of them. 79% of independence. So the vast, vast majority of independence. And even this is

00:21:56.180 the kicker, the majority of Democrats believe that the majority of self-described Democrats,

00:22:01.140 53% believe that the mainstream news media regularly publish lies, lies, intentional falsehoods. So it

00:22:08.420 seems that they're not re really being fooled. There is something that we fall into here, which is a

00:22:13.220 moral equivalence, a totally false moral equivalence. You know, uh, that if everybody is extreme,

00:22:18.660 this side hates this side and the state hates this side, and it's all the same and it's all bad. Hey,

00:22:22.980 we can blame Republicans and Democrats there. It's all about basically the same. No,

00:22:27.540 no, it isn't the same. It isn't. The left is to blame. They are to blame. If there is blame to go

00:22:33.300 around, the lion's share of it belongs on the left and with the Democrats on the one side of these

00:22:37.780 issues, we're talking about particularly free speech today. You've got, but even, you know,

00:22:41.780 national sovereignty, all of these important questions on the one side, you have the Supreme

00:22:45.860 Court, you have the law, you have the will of the American people. You have the, the American

00:22:50.020 tradition. On the other side, you have the mainstream media and Democrat politicos,

00:22:54.740 the mainstream media who regularly tell lies and the Democrat politicos who are inciting violence.

00:23:00.420 Those are the two sides. Pick your side. Those are not morally equivalent, not even close. So,

00:23:05.220 uh, you know, you've got Alexandra, uh, Ocasio-Cortez. She's coming out. She is a socialist. I,

00:23:11.380 you know, at least it's honest, but these issues are coming to an head and they're coming to a head

00:23:15.700 at the Supreme Court. So the, the Supreme Court now is the epicenter. That's why this breaking news

00:23:21.380 today about Anthony Kennedy is so important. He's the swing vote, right? He's the guy who

00:23:25.860 phenomenally sort of a conservative should not really a textualist. He wrote that basically romantic

00:23:32.020 poetry on the Obergefell decision, the, the gay marriage decision that had nothing to do with the

00:23:37.140 constitution. And, uh, but why are all these issues fought out at the Supreme Court? One, it's because

00:23:43.220 this is in the, in the government, the, the American government follows basically the tripartite soul.

00:23:49.300 So the logos, pathos, and ethos, the logical part, the emotional part, and the spirited part. So the,

00:23:55.300 the logical part is the court. You know, they're just analyzing the logic of the law. The, uh,

00:24:00.420 the emotional part is the Congress. Obviously they're totally responsive to the will of the people.

00:24:04.820 And then the spirited part is the executive. It's supposed to embody the American nation and sort of

00:24:09.700 wield the American nation to execute the laws and policies of the United States. Uh, the

00:24:14.820 philosophical battles are being fought at the physical philosophical place, but part of the,

00:24:19.620 they used to be fought in other places as well. The reason they're being fought there is because

00:24:23.620 the legislature and the presidency have both given up a lot of their power. They've said,

00:24:29.460 well, we don't want to deal with this. We don't, you know, especially the Congress has given up so

00:24:33.380 much of its power. We don't want to deal. The Supreme Court can rule. Even past presidents have said,

00:24:38.100 I don't know if this is constitutional, but we'll let the court decide. And President

00:24:41.780 Bush said this when he signed McCain-Feingold said, I don't know if this is constitutional,

00:24:45.060 but will the court will decide. No, it's your job to decide too. You're supposed to engage

00:24:49.060 in these philosophical battles for the country, but they've given up their power. So now we've,

00:24:53.540 we see these great, what a great week, what a great month for Supreme Court decisions,

00:24:57.700 great decisions on free speech with regard to religious liberty, with regard to abortion,

00:25:03.060 with regard to life, national sovereignty, and who can come into the country and who

00:25:07.220 gets to decide who leaves the country, who is able to enter and travel. And now labor,

00:25:12.340 labor liberty, you know, the, the ability, if you are working for, in the public sector,

00:25:17.140 for the government, that you can decide, I am not going to pay my union dues for this political

00:25:23.460 speech. I don't have to have my speech compelled. That's the big case that came out. Janus versus

00:25:29.380 the American Federation of State County Municipal Employees. So this guy, Mark Janus is a public employee.

00:25:36.660 He doesn't want to pay his union dues. He doesn't want his money going to politics. He disagrees

00:25:39.860 with, he doesn't want to participate in that speech that he doesn't believe in. Can the government

00:25:45.620 force him to, into compelled speech? Now, first of all, public sector unions are a farce. Government

00:25:50.900 unions and private unions are totally different entities. In the private union, you've got the

00:25:55.140 employer and you've got the employees and there's a tug of war. There's a battle here and that each has

00:26:00.020 something to lose, each has something to gain. So it's sort of a fair fight. When it comes to the

00:26:04.020 government, the public sector unions, the government is just negotiating with itself.

00:26:08.660 It's just negotiating with its own entities. So the people who elect them, the unions that give

00:26:13.620 them money, it's, oh, who loses? The American taxpayer loses. The American people lose. But they

00:26:18.900 neither have anything to gain by, by not raising rates, by not raising, giving into labor demands.

00:26:26.260 So this question was, do government employees have, have to have their speech compelled? And it's

00:26:34.180 really, you know, all nature is but art unknown to thee in all chances direction, which thou canst not

00:26:38.500 see. The name here, Janus is so important. Janus is the Roman god, the two-faced Roman god of gates,

00:26:45.620 of beginnings and of ends. And it really feels like we're at the end of something and maybe at

00:26:50.500 the beginning of something. We're at a gate here. The country can go one of two ways.

00:26:54.820 All of these Supreme Court decisions have been great because they've cleared away a lot of the 0.99

00:26:58.660 muck, all of the tyrannical, oppressive, yucky muck. But now the question is, do Americans want

00:27:04.820 liberty? Do we want freedom? Freedom has costs. Freedom has risks. Freedom leaves some people behind if,

00:27:10.820 if they, if they don't push themselves, if they can't succeed, if they take risks and lose.

00:27:16.420 Do Americans still have the will for freedom? Uh, the, the left in this country adamantly says,

00:27:23.780 no, they're pushing for a Medicare for all. And I always thought when I heard Medicare for all,

00:27:27.700 I thought that's the worst campaign slogan I've ever heard. Medicare for all. That makes it sound

00:27:32.340 like we're all just old geriatric, helpless people, you know, can't fend for ourselves.

00:27:37.300 And, but that's what they're running on. They say, we want you to be helpless. We want,

00:27:39.940 we're going to take care of you. Baby, baby, we're going to, it's okay. It's okay. And, uh,

00:27:45.540 that's what they're pushing for. You know, that, that election in Queens, they're, they're being

00:27:49.140 honest now. They're saying we're full on socialists. We don't like the country. We don't like law

00:27:52.900 enforcement. We're just going to, Hey, let us, let us be your benevolent betters, your dictators.

00:27:57.460 And then it's not just these wacko candidates all the way from the op-ed page of the New York

00:28:01.620 Times to the Supreme Court. Uh, the left is saying you should not have the right to speech.

00:28:06.900 You should not have the right to speech. That's what, uh, Elena Kagan, uh, left-wing justice on 1.00

00:28:12.180 the court. She had a blistering dissent in the Janus case. This is what she wrote today is not

00:28:17.700 the first time the court has wielded the first amendment in such an aggressive way. And it

00:28:21.940 threatens not to be the last speech is everywhere, a part of every human activity, employment,

00:28:27.860 healthcare, securities, trading, you name it. For that reason, almost all economic and regulatory policy

00:28:33.220 affects or touches speech. So the majority's road runs long and at every stop are black robed rulers 1.00

00:28:39.620 overriding citizens choices. The first amendment was meant for better things. Are you kidding me?

00:28:45.860 It's so, I mean, this argument, which is about choice, do people get to have choice? That's what

00:28:51.700 the Janus case is about. Do people get to have the choice to join the union or not to join the union,

00:28:55.540 to pay union dues or not to pay union dues. And she's saying that, that, that having that choice

00:29:02.180 is the opposite of choice. I mean, this is Orwellian stuff. War is peace up is down. That's what she's

00:29:07.140 saying. But, but listen to what she says. She says, you know, speech is involved in a lot of human

00:29:11.540 activities. You don't say Sherlock. Is that, is that right? Speech is involved because it's the first

00:29:17.940 amendment. It's the first one. It's not like the eighth amendment. It's the first amendment. The

00:29:21.540 founders clearly thought it was important. And every civilization in the history of the world

00:29:25.720 has said that speech is the essential human activity. Genesis, in Genesis, the, the primal

00:29:31.260 act of creation, the act that creates the cosmos is an act of speech. The Lord says, let there be light.

00:29:39.380 The, the, in Christianity, the, the savior is the word of God is the speech. What does Adam do? His job

00:29:46.600 that God gives him is to name things, to use his speech, to order the world. Uh, in, in Gilgamesh,

00:29:52.920 the, the rising up from the animal, from the brutal and the animalistic to the human is to gain

00:29:59.240 speech because speech is consciousness. And it's not just ancient myths. It's modern social science,

00:30:04.600 you know, uh, modern linguistics. Noam Chomsky, whom I rarely cite in the affirmative, but he's good on

00:30:10.340 linguistics. He says that a recursive language is what defines human consciousness. That's what makes a

00:30:16.200 human. A human is the ability to have language, to have words and speech. This is the essential

00:30:20.740 human activity. And Kagan is saying, yeah, but if we let people have freedom over their speech,

00:30:25.720 they're going to have a lot of freedom. We can't have that. Oh, we can't have no, no, no. Speech

00:30:30.180 is too important to humanity. We have to restrict that. We have to bring that down. And it's a, it's a

00:30:35.360 really sick and insidious argument, but that is the argument of the left. Now this was in the,

00:30:40.000 the New York times op-ed page that I'm going to have to sign off. This was in the op-ed page today,

00:30:43.960 I believe today or yesterday. Uh, the, the question was, uh, do ignorant, ignorant people 1.00

00:30:49.360 don't have the right to an audience, which is funny that the author of this op-ed got it, 0.96

00:30:54.260 got it published and got a pretty big audience. It was irony abounds. This was by a Brian W. Van

00:31:00.500 Norton, a philosophy professor somewhere. And the premise of the article is that, isn't it awful that

00:31:07.260 Ann Coulter gets to go on TV just like Ta-Nehisi Coates gets to go on TV because Ta-Nehisi Coates, 0.99

00:31:13.240 he's so great. He's that absolutely shallow thinker who writes for the Atlantic and blames

00:31:18.300 everything on race. And even though he's one of the most successful people in the country,

00:31:21.920 says that you can't get ahead because of your race. Meanwhile, he's won the MacArthur genius

00:31:26.180 grannies, succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. He's saying, isn't that awful that 1.00

00:31:30.560 conservatives get to talk, but so do lefties. He said, isn't it awful that Jordan Peterson

00:31:34.020 gets to go on TV just like Kate Mann gets to go on TV? Because Jordan Peterson, he's obviously

00:31:39.360 wrong. So he shouldn't go on TV. And then he quotes Marcuse, Herbert Marcuse, who's from the

00:31:44.940 Frankfurt School. He is a Marxist critical theorist. And Marcuse, he's actually pilloried

00:31:52.380 and mocked in the Coen brothers movie, Hail Caesar. The idiot character of George Clooney is saying like, 1.00

00:31:58.000 well, you know, Professor Marcuse said that this is all really good. And you know what else Marcuse 1.00

00:32:02.120 said? And then, and the joke is that Marcuse is just wrong about everything. And that's when Josh

00:32:05.760 Brolin picks him up and slaps him across the face. So he quotes Marcuse in this New York Times

00:32:09.920 op-ed. He says, quote, in endlessly dragging debates over the media, the stupid opinion is 1.00

00:32:15.420 treated with the same respect as the intelligent one. The misinformed may talk as long as the 1.00

00:32:19.240 informed and propaganda rides along with education, truth, and falsehood. If only we could censor all

00:32:25.820 those stupid, stupid people. That's the premise, right? But who gets to decide who the stupid 1.00

00:32:30.280 people are? What the bad ideas are? Why Herbert Marcuse, of course? Why Brian W. Van Norton, 1.00

00:32:37.720 of course? The op-ed page of the New York Times gets to decide. You don't get to decide.

00:32:42.360 Conservative people you disagree with don't get to decide. No, it's just them.

00:32:46.560 This is what they're pushing for. You know, it's no coincidence that these ideas,

00:32:51.520 particularly from Marcuse, helped to inspire the rebellions of the 1960s. Bombs in the streets,

00:32:57.580 riots everywhere, anti-establishment, anti-government protests. And we're seeing

00:33:02.640 them bubble up again, just as we're seeing threats of that. Again, there are left-wing

00:33:05.680 pundits who are saying we could have bombs in the streets, that we could have a real rebellion

00:33:09.960 in the country. No coincidence. That idea is a really terrible idea. There's a thought that

00:33:14.540 stops thought, and that's the only thought that ought to be stopped. We'll get into the question of

00:33:21.260 what's going to happen next when we go through the Janus gate, the two-faced gate in a second.

00:33:26.440 I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube. I'm already running long today.

00:33:29.560 Go over to dailywire.com. Why? Why do you need to go? You know what you get. You know what you get,

00:33:34.360 right? You get the shows, okay? You get the conversation. We've got a great 4th of July

00:33:39.860 special coming up backstage, Daily Wire backstage special with Jordan Peterson. You get to ask

00:33:46.380 questions. You know, you get to ask questions in the mailbag. You should go over there right now

00:33:49.440 because we're going to do that tomorrow. Anthony Kennedy is retiring.

00:33:59.360 Pray for me, guys, because I'm going to have to take a few big gulps here.

00:34:02.320 Anthony Kennedy is going to do.

00:34:03.720 I still have two and a half tumblers of this to finish. Anthony Kennedy is retiring, and we're

00:34:15.740 hopefully and probably going to get an originalist in his place. I've warned you guys before. You

00:34:21.460 haven't heeded my warning. Go to dailywire.com right now. You need to. You will be washed away. I

00:34:28.260 don't know if there's going to be a civil war, but there will be a flood, and the flood will cover

00:34:31.520 all of the earth, and it will last for many, many years because Anthony Kennedy is retiring,

00:34:36.600 and we're getting an originalist justice in his place. Go to dailywire.com. We'll be right back,

00:34:40.440 and then we'll compare Trump to Elvis.

00:34:51.900 I was a little hyperbolic at the top of the show. The last time, I said the last time the

00:34:57.700 Democrats were this honest was when we freed their slaves, and then they threw a war to try to stop

00:35:04.300 that. That's not quite true. The left was pretty honest in the 1960s. They actually were pretty

00:35:09.140 honest then. They would say, yeah, we want to overthrow the government, man. We want to help the

00:35:14.340 Soviet Union, man. We want to get rid of all of it. It's all awful. We want a new morality. We don't 1.00

00:35:19.440 like the traditional moral order. You had the weather underground, the leader of which was one of

00:35:24.880 Barack Obama's political mentors, Bill Ayers. You had them setting off bombs, trying to bomb

00:35:28.880 government buildings. What is going to happen with this civil war? I said yesterday I don't think

00:35:34.200 it's likely to happen. I think Matt Walsh said the same. I think we all kind of agree it's unlikely

00:35:39.480 that it's going to happen because, as Gavin said, the other side is a bunch of babies and we have all

00:35:43.280 the guns. But there is a new poll out that shows that 31% of Americans, all Americans, say that a

00:35:49.400 civil war is likely within the next five years. 11% say it's very likely. And this holds equally 0.99

00:35:56.220 basically among Democrats and Republicans. Democrats are more likely to think a civil war

00:36:00.440 is coming. That's 37% compared to 32% of Republicans. Independents, about a quarter of them say that a

00:36:06.640 civil war is likely. So who knows? That's a minority of voters. But the majority of voters, 59% of people

00:36:14.120 say that those opposing Donald Trump will start violence. And the reason they're saying that is

00:36:19.260 they're already doing it. It should be 100%. We've seen all the videos. They're saying, please go

00:36:24.640 attack their homes, attack their families, chase them down in the street. So we know that that's 0.97

00:36:30.020 happening. That is pretty scary. That is not a good place to be. But it gets back to that freedom

00:36:36.300 argument. You know, I'll use Mark Janus' name to talk about the god Janus, the Roman god Janus,

00:36:43.160 from where we get January. And it has two faces. It isn't all, you know, and we're so happy. I mean,

00:36:49.240 it's like the best two weeks of news ever. All of these huge Supreme Court victories, real victories

00:36:55.360 for liberty. Liberty's not going to die today. Anthony Kennedy, the squish is retiring. We're

00:36:59.860 going to get a good textualist judge in his place, we hope. I mean, this is all good news. But there are

00:37:04.260 two sides of that. There is going to be pushback. Some conservatives have suggested that Anthony

00:37:08.740 Kennedy is the last person holding the social fabric together because lefties can count on him

00:37:13.660 sometimes. He's a swing vote. Once the court becomes solidly originalist or textualist, then

00:37:19.080 Democrats and the left are going to have to admit that they are opposed to the law. They hate the law,

00:37:24.740 they hate the institution of the Supreme Court, and they're going to try to knock it down. The left is

00:37:28.360 very good at destroying institutions. Not good at building up institutions, but good at destroying them.

00:37:32.620 That is scary. There are two sides to the Roman god Janus. One looking back, one looking forward.

00:37:39.980 One looking behind the gate, looking behind you to the past, and one looking forward and seeing if

00:37:44.940 we can go together in a productive way. Freedom is risky. You don't know how it's going to turn out.

00:37:49.340 You can't predict the future. That's why it's the future. You cannot predict it. But there is a

00:37:53.980 chance, and we should embrace freedom because you can see light. Where there's light, there's hope.

00:37:59.340 And there is hope for the future of the country, but you've got to just march on forward. You've

00:38:03.880 got to keep plowing ahead, even though it's dangerous, even though the leftist mobs that

00:38:08.100 Maxine Waters is calling are going to your house and screaming, even though there are threats to

00:38:11.780 your job, threats to your place of business, threats to your family, threats to yourself.

00:38:16.580 You've just got to keep going forward. This is what it feels like to win. The United States has been

00:38:21.000 through way rougher periods than this. In the Civil War, they had to shoot trained armed soldiers. Now

00:38:26.880 we're just wrestling with babies. So you've got to, I know it still feels chaotic and rough, but these

00:38:32.720 are victories. There does seem to be hope ahead. The Democrats are being honest. They're showing

00:38:37.100 their cards and the American people don't like their cards. I think this does not, this is not a

00:38:42.000 great strategy for the Democrats. And we're going to, we're going to see that. We're going to see if

00:38:45.920 America still supports freedom or not, but we can learn a thing or two from Elvis Presley. And in my,

00:38:52.000 my last few minutes here on this day in history, 1968, Elvis Presley staged his comeback special

00:38:58.040 on NBC. And I think that there are some similarities here between Elvis and the president, obviously.

00:39:03.720 And, uh, but also that the Republicans can learn a lot from that Elvis Presley 1968,

00:39:09.260 Elvis Presley 1968 comeback special. So, uh, the, the way this worked out, I don't know if you've ever

00:39:15.940 seen it. Let's just play a clip from the comeback special to, to show you what's going on.

00:39:20.620 I love Elvis. I'm a huge Elvis fan. I've been an Elvis fan since I was a kid. Uh, you know, Bill Buckley

00:39:43.760 even was a leftist, uh, left, uh, an Elvis fan. You know, there, there is something kind of

00:39:48.820 conservative about Elvis and I just, I really love him. And by 1968, Elvis's career was in the

00:39:54.660 gutter. I mean, it was so awful, largely caused by his manager, Tom Parker, but he, in 1956, he was

00:40:00.700 the big hit rock and roller, you know, the biggest thing in the world. And then he did this string of

00:40:05.740 forgettable Hollywood movies that I sort of enjoy, but they weren't very good. And he was a little

00:40:11.700 fatter and it just wasn't, he had nothing, you know? And so they had this idea for a comeback

00:40:16.340 special and what his manager, Tom Parker wanted was it for it to just be one of these Andy Williams

00:40:22.000 playing Christmas carols on TV, really boring. And you know, that would have been awful. There

00:40:26.860 was a young executive or a young director at NBC, 26 years old, Steve Binder. And he had a different

00:40:35.060 idea for the comeback special. It was going to be unplugged, uh, raw, honest. There were going to be

00:40:41.140 people all around him. And the way they found this, he came up with this idea as he walked

00:40:45.380 into Elvis's dressing room one night and he was just kind of jamming with his friends.

00:40:48.560 And he said, this is it. This is the special. This is what you want. And the most famous scenes

00:40:52.800 from that special are Elvis just playing around with his friends, people on stage, sitting around,

00:40:57.060 looking up at him, very casual, very authentic. Even the moments where it's really big on stage,

00:41:01.660 it's Elvis alone, vulnerable, not a crowds of throng people around him, not crazy lights and

00:41:08.120 everything. Just really intimate and really authentic. This is what the GOP can learn from

00:41:14.820 Donald Trump. Because what Donald Trump did is he took away all of the contrived glitz and glamour

00:41:19.340 and he made his campaign as authentic as can be. I mean, he talked directly to the American people.

00:41:24.820 His main mode of communication is a direct line to the American people on Twitter. It's not the

00:41:29.580 super specially produced campaign ad. You think of all the campaign ads Mitt Romney's ever run.

00:41:35.200 They're so slick. They're so tight. And they're totally unpersuasive. They're awful. I mean,

00:41:40.340 they're just blah, right? But Trump's was rough. If something went wrong, it went wrong, whatever,

00:41:45.420 you know. And this has been an evolution in American media forever. I mean, this has been an

00:41:51.760 evolution, forget just American media, since Pericles gave the funeral oration. You know,

00:41:55.960 the acoustics in ancient theaters were designed such that you ideally would maximize the volume that

00:42:03.060 would travel while still trying to remain intimate. You know, you wouldn't have to scream and shout.

00:42:07.120 You wouldn't have to jump around and dance around. You want that intimacy and that authenticity.

00:42:11.020 You get that in radio much better. Franklin Roosevelt used that very well. TV, much, much more

00:42:16.080 intimate. Then you get to the internet much, you're in these really close settings where you're just

00:42:20.920 talking. I'm not, I'm talking to however many people right now. I'm not shouting and screaming,

00:42:24.880 right? It's an intimate mode of communicating. The Republican Party should understand this.

00:42:30.360 We are winning. The conservative movement has talked and stirred something within the American

00:42:36.280 people. The public opinion polls all show this, that the public agrees with the GOP on the vast

00:42:43.580 majority of issues, even on fake news. I mean, the majority of people, the vast majority of Americans

00:42:48.080 agree with the GOP on immigration. You've got this woman who won the socialist in Queens. She says,

00:42:52.640 we want open borders. We need open borders. We need to abolish immigration law enforcement.

00:42:56.800 We're speaking to the American people. You don't need to like do a soft shoe about it. You don't

00:43:01.880 need to dance around and scream and shout. The message will win. You have to communicate it

00:43:07.220 authentically. And it really, the 1968 special really made me think about it. Because if Elvis had

00:43:12.220 come out and tried to do some big crazy show, no one would have cared. It's like, oh, that's sad.

00:43:16.860 He's trying to, oh, isn't that sad? But instead he just comes out and he's raw and he's himself.

00:43:20.900 Uh, that is how we're going to win in the midterms. That's how we're going to, that's how we're going

00:43:25.280 to go through the right gate of Janus and move the country in the right direction is speak honestly 0.93

00:43:29.500 because people aren't stupid. The left thinks that people are stupid and, and gullible fools and 1.00

00:43:34.620 easily confused and easily deceived. They're not. They're not people. The average person you pick 1.00

00:43:41.900 up on the street, the so-called average person that you pluck up, he's probably just as smart as you

00:43:46.000 are, right? There's no reason to think that you're this great genius. That is a total prejudice of the

00:43:50.640 left to say, we're all the geniuses in this room and everybody else out there. They're the unwashed

00:43:54.460 masses. Talk to people and respect them. Speak directly to them. Talk fearlessly, you know, and

00:44:00.400 don't ignore their complaints, their serious complaints. Don't ignore their needs. Don't say

00:44:05.860 that their needs are wrong and sinful. And if you want to have a, uh, you're law enforced that you're

00:44:10.360 a racist, Nazi, awful, terrible person, just speak to people directly and respectfully. It's going to 0.99

00:44:15.780 pay off. All right, that's it. And we got to fit Elvis into the show. Get your mailbag questions and we

00:44:19.960 got a lot more coming up tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles

00:44:23.740 Show. See you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 27, 2018

Ep. 175 - Trump’s Masterstroke： Making Dems Honest Again

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