The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1792 - DC Police Chieftess Struggles to Understand English

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00:00:30.000 As President Trump reasserts federal authority over Washington, D.C.,

00:00:35.780 former future President Beto O'Rourke has a message for his fellow Democrats.

00:00:42.400 We are in a basketball game right now, if you'll excuse the metaphor,

00:00:46.180 where the refs have left the arena. 0.86

00:00:48.760 And the other side is just clobbering the shit out of us, 1.00

00:00:51.060 just punching us in the face, kicking us in the nuts. 0.99

00:00:53.220 And we're kind of throwing our hands up and we're asking the crowd, 0.93

00:00:56.240 the people of America, hey, do you see what's going on here?

00:00:58.580 This is unfair.

00:01:00.000 This isn't the rules that we agreed to play by.

00:01:02.940 Well, who cares about the rules right now?

00:01:05.280 Punch back, kick back, dunk over their heads and win some power. 0.98

00:01:11.840 When I look at Beto, it seems to me as if Dr. Frankenstein dug up the bodies 0.79

00:01:17.160 of a millennial and a Gen Xer, then cobbled together the most putrid parts

00:01:23.140 and then animated the monster with estrogen.

00:01:25.720 Let's throw the rules out the window, man.

00:01:30.120 Gee, what a novel concept from the party that brought you open borders, abolishing prisons

00:01:36.020 and mutilating kids.

00:01:38.600 What if we just like disregarded all the rules and took power, man?

00:01:43.880 Yeah, you did that.

00:01:46.600 You did that for a long time.

00:01:49.320 That's why the people gave your opponents power last November.

00:01:53.360 That's why they gave us power.

00:01:54.860 And in case there was any doubt about the wisdom of the people doing that,

00:01:59.700 the D.C. police chief just vindicated Trump on the very point in question.

00:02:04.300 We'll get to it.

00:02:04.820 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:05.360 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:21.140 Welcome back to the show.

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00:04:14.920 However, I guess I need to address the elephant in the room.

00:04:19.220 I need to address the Fuhrer in the room. 1.00

00:04:22.900 Hitler is in my set today. 0.87

00:04:24.920 Hitler and Papa Pio Dodicesimo. 0.55

00:04:28.240 You know who we're talking about, baby?

00:04:29.620 We're talking about Papa Pius XII.

00:04:32.520 Because I have a new series that's debuting on Daily Wire Plus right now.

00:04:37.160 It is called The Pope and the Fuhrer, The Secret Vatican Files of World War II.

00:04:40.960 It addresses the horrible calumny, the horrible smears that have come up against Pius XII over the 20th century, early 21st century, including calling him Hitler's Pope.

00:04:52.560 So we'll get to that.

00:04:53.880 Over my shoulder.

00:04:54.960 The angel and the devil we'll have today on my shoulder.

00:04:58.460 Pope Pius XII, Hitler. 0.96

00:05:01.720 Which way, Western man?

00:05:02.940 Which way?

00:05:04.700 Let's get to more prosaic public figures first.

00:05:08.020 First, that would be the police chief in Washington, D.C., a lady, for some reason, named Pamela Smith, who was asked about President Trump's recent federal assertion of power over the Washington, D.C. Police Department.

00:05:23.980 She was asked a question, a very basic question about what this means.

00:05:28.180 But she did not know what the words of the question mean.

00:05:33.900 That's what the chain of command is now.

00:05:37.800 What does that mean?

00:05:38.660 Well, is it Pam Bondi speaking to the mayor, speaking to you, or how does this work?

00:05:42.080 So the executive order is clear.

00:05:45.200 The president has requested MPD services.

00:05:48.320 You can take her off.

00:05:49.020 That's fine.

00:05:49.280 That single response, that beautifully reflexive response from the Washington, D.C. police chief totally vindicates President Trump asserting federal authority here.

00:06:06.040 Hey, okay, so President Trump has asserted this authority from the Home Rule Act because it's federal district.

00:06:11.360 So what is the chain of command?

00:06:16.920 And the police chief in our nation's capital says, what does that mean?

00:06:24.540 What is the chain of command?

00:06:30.380 How do you want me to do?

00:06:31.500 You want me to mime it?

00:06:32.360 It's a very simple question.

00:06:33.740 What's the chain of command?

00:06:35.100 Me no understand what those words mean.

00:06:37.780 Well, maybe you shouldn't be the police chief.

00:06:39.720 Maybe you're proving President Trump right.

00:06:44.240 Because not only can you not command authority and enforce the law in Washington, D.C., you don't even know what the words mean, which is the point.

00:06:54.380 And it's the problem.

00:06:55.160 And it's why that city is now full of smashing grabs and carjackings and murders and vagrancy and homelessness.

00:07:02.980 And allegedly, according to reports from NBC News, even cops trying to cover up all the crime by cooking the crime statistics.

00:07:11.280 Trump, totally, totally vindicated here.

00:07:14.540 Now, speaking of law enforcement, the federal level, not the failures at the municipal level and in the District of Columbia.

00:07:21.720 There is an amazing survey just came out.

00:07:25.760 This is from the Center for Immigration Studies.

00:07:27.800 You remember I mentioned a CIS study a couple of months ago showed that the immigrant portion of the population seems to have dropped by about a million people in the first four or five months of the year.

00:07:44.680 And this was right around the time that Trump's critics on the left were cynically mocking him and Trump's critics on the right were petulantly mocking him for not deporting enough people fast enough for failing, supposedly, on the immigration issue.

00:07:59.040 Because the arrests were lower than they wished or the official deportations were lower than they wished.

00:08:04.760 But then CIS came out with this report.

00:08:07.320 So hold on, we're missing a million people, a million migrants, mostly illegal immigrants, were here in January.

00:08:14.500 They're not here right now.

00:08:15.360 What happened?

00:08:15.920 It's not that Tom Homan exactly threw them out of the country.

00:08:18.720 It's that they self-deported, which is something that President Trump campaigned on.

00:08:24.760 It's something that his DHS under Kristi Noem has really prioritized, even creating an app to encourage people to self-deport.

00:08:32.760 Well, apparently it was working.

00:08:34.220 And now the number of apparent self-deportations has gone from one million in four or five months, pretty good number, to 2.2 million in seven months.

00:08:46.040 2.2 million.

00:08:47.280 This is the overall foreign-born population in the United States, down 2.2 million from January to July.

00:08:57.980 The illegal alien population is estimated to have fallen 1.6 million this year.

00:09:04.740 That's 10%.

00:09:05.740 That's 10% at the high number from the conservative estimate.

00:09:10.880 Conservative estimate is that there are 11 to 16 million illegal aliens in the country.

00:09:13.940 So 1.6 million, there you go.

00:09:15.680 That's 10% or maybe more.

00:09:18.160 Where did they get these data from? 1.00

00:09:20.900 There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. 0.98

00:09:22.980 Well, they got the data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the Household Survey, which is officially called the Current Population Survey. 0.99

00:09:30.660 So it's not even as though they went to Justice Department statistics.

00:09:34.540 It's not even though they're just showing who's working, who's actually employed, who's doing stuff.

00:09:41.260 In many ways, these numbers are much more reliable than Justice Department numbers.

00:09:46.180 1.6 million fewer illegals this year.

00:09:48.720 So Trump may have, according to CIS, pretty reliable source, may have taken care of 10% of the illegal alien problem.

00:09:58.700 Now, of course, that leaves you 90%.

00:10:00.420 We're already halfway through the first year, a little over halfway through the first year.

00:10:04.640 You only get four years.

00:10:06.020 So he's actually kind of on track, right?

00:10:09.000 He's fixed one—he's gone through one-eighth of the time that he has, and he's fixed one-tenth of the total problem.

00:10:21.080 Those are pretty good numbers, especially when you have people on the left who don't want to fix the problem at all, cynically mocking him.

00:10:27.440 And these petulant saboteurs, a small number of them, but they still exist, and they're very mouthy.

00:10:33.220 Them on the right who are saying, oh, see, this is why I didn't want to vote for Trump.

00:10:37.440 This is why I'm so precious and moral, and I sat the election out, and I would have let Kamala Harris be president.

00:10:42.620 He's not even deporting enough people.

00:10:44.780 I'm so special.

00:10:46.320 I'm so important.

00:10:47.320 I mean, I've never done anything, but I'm going to criticize Trump and the DHS.

00:10:50.660 Listen, well, I don't know, bro.

00:10:54.080 First of all, if you're a true immigration restrictionist, as I am, and I think most Americans are deep down right now, then 2.2 million total is pretty good.

00:11:03.260 But 1.6 million illegal aliens gone means the self-deportation is working.

00:11:09.360 It means the Trump administration policies are working. 0.95

00:11:12.000 It means the plan trusters are vindicated, and the panic hands look like total schlubs and losers yet again. 0.70

00:11:18.560 Have I put too fine a point on it? 0.75

00:11:21.120 I don't think so.

00:11:21.960 Because at a certain point, I don't want it to seem as though I just automatically defend anything the administration does.

00:11:30.880 You know, I have criticized the admin for certain things over the years.

00:11:34.360 As I've said, Trump doesn't get things 100% right.

00:11:36.800 It's about 97.8% of the time he gets it totally, maybe even higher.

00:11:41.460 But he's a human being.

00:11:42.620 Sometimes they get things wrong.

00:11:43.640 It's just at this point, they've gotten things right so many times on so many issues on immigration, on war, on trade.

00:11:52.780 Remember when tariffs were going to destroy the global economy, and then none of that happened, and it didn't even cause inflation to spike?

00:11:57.800 And actually, inflation's looking great right now.

00:12:00.400 And actually, Trump was going to be terrible for the pro-life cause.

00:12:05.000 And what happened?

00:12:05.620 He got Roe v. Wade overruled.

00:12:06.780 And actually, and actually, and actually.

00:12:08.260 And just at a certain point, the reasonable conclusion is to let the guy cook and trust the plan a little bit because it seems to have worked out.

00:12:14.980 And that is true, yet again, proven true, we've got two major data points now on immigration.

00:12:21.480 Now, speaking of great masses of people, have you noticed all the sorority girls dancing? 1.00

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00:14:02.300 Sorority girls are going viral. 1.00

00:14:06.000 Aren't they?

00:14:06.500 Aren't they always sort of going viral?

00:14:07.680 People generally like sorority girls. 0.81

00:14:09.160 Well, they're going viral for dancing.

00:14:11.680 It's a family show.

00:14:31.420 I need custody of the eyes.

00:14:33.400 But you get the point.

00:14:34.780 The sorority girls have been going viral. 0.99

00:14:37.680 I have one question right off the top.

00:14:39.860 Did that ever stop?

00:14:41.680 I know that things got kind of crazy there for a little bit in the 20-teens and 2020s, early 2020s.

00:14:48.260 But there were sororities the whole time, right?

00:14:53.080 And they were like good looking and they did dances and they had partied.

00:14:57.000 And that always happened.

00:14:58.420 I'm not convinced that ever stopped.

00:15:00.380 I think that always happened.

00:15:02.280 And a lot of the, I don't know that that's a huge, massive win for conservatives and that I'm sure a lot of them voted for Kamala or whatever.

00:15:10.100 But, but I guess it's good.

00:15:13.280 I guess it's good, right?

00:15:14.860 It's good that this is at least going more viral.

00:15:17.720 It's good that this is at least getting more attention.

00:15:20.440 It's mostly good in the sense that five years ago, the people going viral would not have been cute little sorority girls. 0.99

00:15:29.280 They would have been androgynous, fat, deviant transvestites. 1.00

00:15:36.180 Right, so it's the Jaguar to Sydney Sweeney pipeline. 0.99

00:15:43.040 It's the general move, especially among young people, to the right.

00:15:47.880 And so to the sorority girls who are dancing and going viral, I say two cheers.

00:15:53.200 Two cheers for the sorority girls. 1.00

00:15:55.380 It's not three cheers though.

00:15:57.460 For the same reason that Sydney Sweeney is not three cheers.

00:16:00.960 It's two cheers.

00:16:02.060 It's good.

00:16:02.700 It's an improvement. 0.97

00:16:04.420 Better than the transvestites. 1.00

00:16:06.380 But it's not three cheers because I remember when I was in college, the sororities did not have houses.

00:16:12.300 Or if they had houses, most of the sorority girls did not live in the house. 1.00

00:16:16.340 Do you know why?

00:16:17.460 This is probably apocryphal, but the explanation that was given was it dated back to the blue laws in Connecticut.

00:16:22.740 That whenever you had more than seven or eight girls who were not related to each other living in a house, it was considered a brothel. 0.99

00:16:28.380 And I think that's apocryphal, but it certainly comes from real laws that used to exist.

00:16:35.080 And it's not, it's sororities or not, it's not the ideal.

00:16:41.080 The ideal is good, solid, stable societies where we, where we have modesty, where we, dating is done in a good, orderly, respectful, good way.

00:16:55.180 And that, but if you're telling me that that's out of reach for most people at the moment, and my choices are tranny polycules or like cute sorority girls jiggling to country music, obviously the latter is to be preferred and nature is healing.

00:17:10.940 No doubt about that.

00:17:11.960 Okay, speaking of sexualized content, this story came to me by way of a friend of mine.

00:17:18.200 I didn't notice it.

00:17:20.140 I don't, I haven't played video games really since Grand Theft Auto Vice City.

00:17:23.640 Before that, it was probably Donkey Kong Country.

00:17:26.200 But EA Games, is that, is that the biggest video game manufacturer?

00:17:31.040 EA Games in recent years came out with Sims 4.

00:17:35.500 I remember Sims 4 when I was a kid.

00:17:37.120 It's a little, little guys, you play as little guys and it's just a little town, whatever.

00:17:39.900 So they came out with Sims 4 and an automatic update to Sims 4.

00:17:45.680 This is the real key.

00:17:46.560 So you go out, you buy Sims and you just get your regular Sims.

00:17:50.360 And then there's an automatic update that you did not ask for, that more importantly, your kids did not ask for,

00:17:55.620 that allows you to choose avatars that are trans.

00:18:01.900 So this came out, this came out around the height, the peak of the trans craziness. 1.00

00:18:08.840 But this kind of stuff is still around all throughout video games.

00:18:12.100 The parent buys the kid the video game.

00:18:14.520 Then there's an automatic update and EA tells you what's new.

00:18:17.860 Top surgery scar.

00:18:20.140 Under the same body category, all players can find a body scars category with an option for teen and older male Sims,

00:18:27.820 masculine or feminine frame, to add a top surgery scar to their Sims. 1.00

00:18:30.760 That's the scar for when girls get their breasts lopped off. 1.00

00:18:34.800 And then there's that horrifying Frankenstein scar there. 0.90

00:18:38.300 That, you can choose that now.

00:18:41.180 For teen and older, but teen Sims.

00:18:45.700 You can also choose binders and shapewear.

00:18:48.140 With this update, that you can't, like, refuse.

00:18:51.640 It's just an automatic update.

00:18:53.980 Players can find two new assets and create a Sim.

00:18:56.600 Under the tanks in the tops category, you'll find a binder top asset for your teen

00:19:00.680 and older Sims.

00:19:01.500 In the underwear category for bottoms, there's a new shapewear asset.

00:19:04.900 Shapewear asset for your Sim.

00:19:06.000 So it's just, it's the weird trans instruments. 1.00

00:19:10.660 And it came out a couple years ago.

00:19:12.080 I don't think this would have come out new today, but it's around.

00:19:15.440 And it was automatic.

00:19:16.400 And it was designed to bypass parents.

00:19:19.900 And it's a reminder that this radical stuff, not just on the trans issue, though that was

00:19:26.320 the most visible, but on all of it.

00:19:28.360 The racial issues on everything.

00:19:31.160 It's not organic.

00:19:33.380 There's a guy sitting in a boardroom who makes this decision.

00:19:36.720 And they don't ask the parents, and they don't even really ask the kids.

00:19:40.020 They just push it on you.

00:19:42.060 And because we live in society, because we're not just atomized individuals who are wholly

00:19:47.760 immune from the effects of living in a country, because it actually does matter what the environment

00:19:54.580 around us is like, that affects how we live, because we won't live in a vacuum like the liberals

00:19:58.400 think we do, or the liberals pretend to think that we do.

00:20:02.260 Because of that, these social contagions spread until people have finally had enough.

00:20:08.360 So the fact that this is still permitted to exist is insane.

00:20:11.220 This seems like a really easy fix for me, for Republicans in Congress, and for the White 0.59

00:20:15.700 House, which is to just require, at the very least, a warning label.

00:20:18.960 I mean, I think the people who push this stuff should be arrested and thrown into Alcatraz

00:20:22.420 or St. Helena, but at the very least, needs a warning label, promotes radical sexual content,

00:20:30.300 LGBT, whatever, and then watch the sales of those things drop. 0.99

00:20:34.440 And if people violate it, toss them in the can.

00:20:36.320 You know, I mean, this is totally crazy stuff.

00:20:38.780 An easy win for conservatives, especially because the culture is very much on our side now.

00:20:44.120 Things are looking pretty, pretty, pretty good.

00:20:48.420 Now, speaking of warnings, a Harvard professor is worried that an alien spaceship

00:20:57.020 is going to reach us in 115 days.

00:21:01.780 Here he is.

00:21:04.080 Harvard professor Avi Loeb says aspects of these images, including the brightness around the object

00:21:08.980 and its unusual trajectory, suggests it's not natural.

00:21:13.040 Instead, he argues it could be alien technology.

00:21:16.680 You heard that right.

00:21:17.500 So, does this mean E.T. is real?

00:21:20.220 Hmm.

00:21:20.660 Joining us to discuss is Professor Avi Loeb.

00:21:22.720 He is the director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center

00:21:27.660 for Astrophysics and the former chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department.

00:21:31.940 The object looks strange.

00:21:33.940 It reflects a lot of sunlight.

00:21:36.740 And from that, one infers that the diameter is 20 kilometers.

00:21:40.100 And there is not enough rocky material in interstellar space to provide such a big object every decade.

00:21:48.320 You're not necessarily saying it is alien technology, or do you think that there is a possibility?

00:21:53.620 Or how probable do you think that is?

00:21:55.320 I actually defined the scale where zero is a natural object and 10 is definitely technological, and I put it at four right now.

00:22:05.580 At four?

00:22:06.920 So you're saying 10, it's definitely happening.

00:22:09.280 Zero, it's not happening.

00:22:10.220 You're saying there's a 40% chance the Harvard professor, what was he, a top Harvard astronomer, all these academic honors,

00:22:18.380 is saying there's a 40% chance that an E.T. alien spaceship is going to arrive at Earth in 115 days.

00:22:28.180 Intellectuals will do literally anything to avoid admitting that human beings are special.

00:22:40.460 That's what this is all about.

00:22:42.340 What this is all about is intellectuals doing anything in their power to deny the possibility that human beings are in fact special.

00:22:53.760 Because that's my view.

00:22:55.300 I think human beings are special.

00:22:56.960 I think we're made in the image and likeness of God.

00:22:59.800 I think we're unique on this planet because we alone have reason and will.

00:23:07.780 We're like the animals in that we are bodies and we have appetite and instinct.

00:23:13.780 But unlike the animals, we have reason and will.

00:23:17.000 And I know, I can already hear some PETA donor out there who's saying that actually, you know, animals are really smart too and they can reason and they're much smarter than we think they are.

00:23:26.060 Oh, yeah? Well, then put one of them on trial for biting you. 0.96

00:23:28.820 You going to do that? Are you willing to do that?

00:23:31.300 Dogs are so smart. Oh, they're so smart?

00:23:33.860 Then put them on trial and imprison them for biting you.

00:23:36.940 Make them pay restitution when they commit crimes and transgress the moral order.

00:23:43.340 Oh, you're not going to do that?

00:23:44.560 Why? Because they can't violate the moral order because they can't reason?

00:23:48.760 Oh, right.

00:23:50.280 Oh, but did you know that elephants actually sometimes walk over the graves if they're dead?

00:23:55.220 Oh, do they?

00:23:55.940 Okay, cool.

00:23:56.480 Are we going to give elephants loans from the bank?

00:24:00.640 Are we going to give them 30-year mortgages?

00:24:02.000 Are we going to subject them to our legal system? 0.64

00:24:04.140 Are we going to?

00:24:05.600 No, we're not.

00:24:06.440 Because they're animals.

00:24:07.200 We all know they're just animals and they don't have reason and will.

00:24:09.480 And we all behave that way all the time and none of you actually believes that they have reason and will.

00:24:12.960 So we're like the animals in that way.

00:24:15.000 We're bodies.

00:24:15.900 We do have instinct.

00:24:17.100 We do have appetite.

00:24:17.900 But we're like the angels in that we have intellect and will and we're special.

00:24:21.780 And what the libs say and what all these intellectuals say, they say, well, not even intellectuals, just popular people who refuse to accept religious truths.

00:24:30.780 They'll say, well, Michael, the universe, man.

00:24:34.920 Hold on one second.

00:24:41.920 The universe, man.

00:24:44.660 It's so big.

00:24:47.020 It's not.

00:24:48.100 It's statistically impossible.

00:24:51.780 That the universe could be so big, but we're the only intelligent life with will and reason in it, man.

00:24:59.220 And you say, okay, that's an interesting claim.

00:25:02.200 Where do you get that from?

00:25:03.920 What are the statistics?

00:25:05.520 Tell me about the probabilities.

00:25:07.080 How is that?

00:25:07.820 Why?

00:25:08.680 Well, it's just so big.

00:25:11.940 Yeah?

00:25:12.840 So what?

00:25:13.360 Why does the bigness of the universe imply that there is intelligent life elsewhere other than Earth?

00:25:26.440 Well, because it's just the conditions that allowed intelligent life to arise.

00:25:31.220 What conditions?

00:25:32.040 What conditions?

00:25:32.860 This is the crucial question.

00:25:34.040 Tell me in your story of things how we went from inanimate matter to life, first of all, and then how we went either from inanimate matter or from unintelligent life to life that has reason and will.

00:25:53.880 Tell me how that happened.

00:25:56.320 Because in order to assess the probability of that happening elsewhere, I need to know how you even think that happened in the first place.

00:26:04.400 And you're not going to give me an answer.

00:26:08.380 Not you.

00:26:09.040 You're very intelligent people.

00:26:10.440 But I'm talking about these Harvard professors.

00:26:13.040 I'm talking about all the geniuses on Reddit.

00:26:15.520 I'm talking about all these people who say it's totally impossible that the universe could be big, but there not be other human-like creatures in it on other planets.

00:26:26.420 In order to know that probability, you have to know anything whatsoever about how life began and how intelligent life began.

00:26:32.860 And you don't.

00:26:34.880 I have a thesis.

00:26:35.680 Here's my thesis.

00:26:37.080 I think that God fashioned man after his own image and redeemed mankind.

00:26:43.660 And you're going to say, well, you're just a religious person, Michael.

00:26:46.800 You're just a Catholic.

00:26:48.020 Yeah, I am.

00:26:48.900 You're right.

00:26:49.480 Yes, that's my view.

00:26:52.040 What's your better story?

00:26:55.080 What's your more persuasive argument?

00:26:58.180 I haven't heard it.

00:26:59.640 Have not heard it whatsoever.

00:27:01.180 These are people who think we should arrest gorillas for attacking people at the zoo.

00:27:06.280 These are people who think we should give elephants 30-year mortgages because they're so smart, aren't they?

00:27:10.280 Now, speaking of mortgages and banks, I want to tell you about Old Glory Bank.

00:27:13.500 Go to oldglorybank.com slash Knowles.

00:27:16.060 Here's an uncomfortable truth.

00:27:17.420 Most big banks in this country are not neutral.

00:27:20.020 They're actively working against you.

00:27:21.900 They take the money you deposit.

00:27:23.220 They use it to fund things that you oppose.

00:27:25.020 They use it to undermine faith, family, and freedom.

00:27:28.040 They use it to support gender ideology, abortion, activism, ESG mandates, you name it.

00:27:33.040 You are usually unwittingly helping them do it.

00:27:35.720 Well, you can't say it's unwitting anymore because I'm telling you.

00:27:38.160 That's why you need to open an account at Old Glory Bank.

00:27:40.800 Be like me.

00:27:41.260 I heard about Old Glory Bank.

00:27:42.220 I go straight to the website.

00:27:44.000 It's very easy to open an account.

00:27:46.120 I highly recommend it.

00:27:47.320 It's FDIC insured, built by people who fear God, love this country, still believe in right

00:27:52.280 and wrong.

00:27:52.660 They don't fund evil.

00:27:53.540 They don't cancel people for standing up for truth.

00:27:55.600 They protect your money and what you believe.

00:27:57.900 Super simple.

00:27:58.660 Even I can do it, and I have a short attention span.

00:28:00.960 If you believe stewardship matters, put your money where your heart is.

00:28:04.460 It only takes minutes to switch.

00:28:06.860 Stop letting your money serve the wrong side.

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00:28:25.200 Speaking of man's role in the cosmos, really, really great news coming out of the state of

00:28:31.820 Israel.

00:28:32.160 One does not hear that very often, but there is a really great news going out of the

00:28:36.420 state of Israel, which is that the Hebrew Catholic Association has launched.

00:28:41.500 What is the Hebrew Catholic Association, you ask?

00:28:43.880 Good question.

00:28:45.500 Read just from the Catholic News Agency.

00:28:48.280 A group dedicated to providing a welcoming space for Jewish converts to Catholicism has

00:28:52.620 launched in Israel.

00:28:53.800 The Association of Hebrew Catholics celebrated its official launch with a mass on August 8th,

00:28:59.400 the eve of the Feast of its Patrons, St. Edith Stein, who was a Jewish convert to Catholicism.

00:29:06.640 The Syriac Catholic Exarch of Jerusalem, Bishop Yaakub Ephraim Semen, acted as the host for

00:29:11.780 the event.

00:29:12.040 There are Catholics, though, who are really into this.

00:29:15.360 The Latin Patriarch, Cardinal Pizzabala, who was Papabile. 0.61

00:29:18.200 He was considered one of the Pope candidates this recent cycle.

00:29:21.220 He's really wonderful.

00:29:22.220 He's been outspoken in a really clear moral way on the situation in Israel-Gaza.

00:29:28.020 He's managed to irritate partisans on both sides, which is how you know he's probably right.

00:29:33.420 And reportedly, Cardinal Burke is encouraging of this move.

00:29:39.640 I love it.

00:29:40.160 You know what I love about this story?

00:29:43.340 You know what I love about the Hebrew Catholic Association story?

00:29:46.720 It is going to be criticized simultaneously for being philo-Semitic and anti-Semitic.

00:29:56.180 It's at the same time people are going to say that it is hateful to welcome the Jews to 1.00

00:30:03.700 Catholicism, to Christianity, and that we don't want those dirty, rotten Jews in Christianity. 1.00

00:30:09.600 At the same time, the people who say they're the great defenders of Jews and the people who hate 0.99

00:30:16.120 the Jews, they're both going to criticize this Catholic organization with the support of some

00:30:22.120 of the most important men of the church and some of the most important prelates.

00:30:26.300 That's how you know it's a great organization.

00:30:28.220 Because, of course, if you, like me, think that the incarnation is real and the crucifixion and

00:30:38.220 the resurrection really happened and that Christ really is who he says he is and this

00:30:41.720 is the real, this is the true religion.

00:30:43.920 You know, Catholicism is universal.

00:30:45.540 It's the true religion.

00:30:46.600 It's true for everybody because we have human solidarity because humans really are special

00:30:50.740 and we do have something that unites all of us and we descend from a common ancestor

00:30:53.660 and we're redeemed by a common savior.

00:30:55.800 If you believe that, then you, if you believe that and you have charity, which St. Paul tells

00:31:03.560 us is the prerequisite for all of our actions in life, all of our religious life, you're going

00:31:09.200 to have faith, you're going to have hope.

00:31:10.040 If you don't have charity, you're nothing.

00:31:11.940 If those two things are true, then you want people to come on over and embrace the fullness

00:31:17.080 of truth.

00:31:18.240 You're not going to be like the Muslims and make them do it at the end of a sword, but 1.00

00:31:23.000 you're, but you want them to come over to the truth.

00:31:25.060 You want to welcome them.

00:31:25.820 And I think it's just a marvelous, marvelous organization, wonderful thing for everybody.

00:31:33.240 And I think it also exposes people who aren't, who don't really believe it.

00:31:38.760 If you are a Catholic and you say, I don't like this, you know, let the Jews just do their 1.00

00:31:43.940 own thing.

00:31:44.360 We don't need to go evangelize to the Jews.

00:31:46.740 Then either you're saying you don't believe Catholicism is true or you hate the Jews, but

00:31:52.920 you have to be saying one of those things.

00:31:56.280 And likewise, if you say, well, look, I love the church, of course, but I don't want those 0.99

00:32:03.800 dastardly Jews bringing their hamantash and bagels to my, you know, Sunday brunch after 1.00

00:32:09.220 church. 0.99

00:32:09.880 Well, what you're revealing is you don't have charity and you, maybe you believe that the

00:32:15.540 faith is true in some way, but you lack charity and you don't want to incorporate others or

00:32:20.720 our, our, our fellow men into the mystical body of Christ.

00:32:25.640 You don't really believe in the great commission, making disciples of all nations, not, not all

00:32:29.820 nations, but one, but all nations.

00:32:31.220 I think it's terrific.

00:32:32.280 I think it's just wonderful.

00:32:33.720 And it's good to see some happy news coming out of the Levant.

00:32:37.440 Okay.

00:32:37.800 Speaking of Catholics, our vice president, J.D.

00:32:40.140 Vance is, he's, he's firing some shots off.

00:32:45.440 Uh, the vice president is, while everyone else is focused on myriad and sundry other

00:32:50.800 issues, he's reminding us, you know, the Democrats wielded power in a rather unjust way over the

00:32:58.420 last 10 years.

00:32:59.800 And we all experienced this during COVID and the political class, the president experienced

00:33:05.300 this during the Russia hoax and the undermining of Trump's whole first term.

00:33:08.940 I mean, the Democrats in many ways stole Trump's first term from him and therefore stole the right

00:33:15.300 of the American people to pick their president in 2016.

00:33:17.600 They stole that.

00:33:18.380 They, they severely undermined that based on lies, things that they knew were not true.

00:33:23.940 They cooked up fake news about Trump between the Clinton camp and the FBI.

00:33:28.500 And they used that as an excuse to destroy his first term.

00:33:31.980 And no one has been held to account for that.

00:33:34.120 No one whatsoever.

00:33:35.960 The vice president coming out there and saying, look, we have the receipts.

00:33:38.480 And a lot of people are going to get indicted.

00:33:41.520 Do you want to see indictments?

00:33:43.660 I absolutely want to see indictments, Maria.

00:33:45.320 Look, of course, you've got to have the law follow the facts here.

00:33:49.040 You don't just indict people to indict people.

00:33:50.940 You indict people because they broke the law.

00:33:53.020 But if you look at what Tulsi and Kash Patel have revealed in the last couple of weeks,

00:33:58.060 I don't know how anybody can look at that and say that there wasn't aggressive violations

00:34:03.040 of the law.

00:34:03.700 What they basically did is they defrauded the American people in order to take 0.61

00:34:08.440 Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign talking points and turn them into intelligence by 0.94

00:34:14.440 defrauding the American people, defrauding the intelligence agencies, lying about what

00:34:18.860 the intel said.

00:34:19.720 They would take something that supported a Hillary Clinton campaign talking point and they

00:34:25.460 would overemphasize it and exaggerate it.

00:34:27.860 They took anything that actually contradicted that narrative and they buried it deep.

00:34:32.260 And through that, they actually laundered Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign talking points

00:34:38.080 through the American intelligence services.

00:34:40.180 That's a violation of the people's trust.

00:34:42.480 That's a violation of what our intelligence services should be doing.

00:34:46.160 And I absolutely think they broke the law.

00:34:47.880 You're going to see a lot of people get indicted for that.

00:34:49.620 So notice here, you know, I'm a great admirer of the vice president.

00:34:54.120 I think he's got a very clear political vision and, but politicians threaten stuff all the

00:35:00.300 time.

00:35:01.440 Even the good ones threaten stuff.

00:35:02.800 So you don't, if they're being too vague, you say, well, I don't know if anything's going

00:35:05.780 to happen here.

00:35:07.980 Vance is making a distinct claim.

00:35:11.020 He's not just saying, oh, you just wait, you just wait.

00:35:13.360 He says, people are going to get indicted.

00:35:16.280 That's a distinct claim.

00:35:18.020 That's a, that's not a threat.

00:35:19.340 That's a promise.

00:35:20.100 So this is good news.

00:35:22.960 He goes on to say, look, I don't just want to have more hearings before some house committee

00:35:26.780 or something.

00:35:27.340 I want indictments and we're going to have indictments.

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00:36:26.520 My favorite comment yesterday is from Tiffany M4B, who says, as a married woman, I don't feel 0.57

00:36:34.760 like I have to do it.

00:36:36.040 I get to do it.

00:36:37.700 I think you know what we're talking about here.

00:36:39.620 I don't need to be more explicit.

00:36:41.420 This is a family show.

00:36:42.900 No, that's good.

00:36:43.520 That's ideal.

00:36:44.940 But I actually am making a concrete point here.

00:36:49.460 Yeah, it's good that you feel that you get to do it.

00:36:54.340 That's what you want in a marriage. 0.84

00:36:56.200 It shouldn't be a burden.

00:36:57.480 It shouldn't be a duty.

00:36:58.440 But you do have to do it.

00:37:02.300 You do have.

00:37:02.780 This is the point.

00:37:04.700 Before we get, this all came up in the context of Lila Rose going viral for an apparently 0.97

00:37:11.300 controversial tweet and podcast clip on how husbands and wives relate to each other in

00:37:16.980 a marriage.

00:37:17.400 She made this claim, men don't need sex. 0.99

00:37:20.100 And she was saying something really kind of different, actually, than what it seemed like

00:37:23.100 she was saying.

00:37:23.740 But in any case, the preface to any discussion of this is, married men do.

00:37:31.400 Married men are entitled to sex, and you actually have to. 1.00

00:37:34.800 Ideally, you want to.

00:37:36.620 But even if you don't want to, you have to.

00:37:38.460 That's what you're signing up for.

00:37:39.520 I don't really know how this point is controversial.

00:37:41.700 What do people think marriage is?

00:37:43.260 If it is not that, what is marriage?

00:37:49.340 Why?

00:37:50.620 Why will there be indictments?

00:37:55.640 Funny enough, the reasoning is the same reasoning that Beto O'Rourke gave when he was projecting

00:37:59.900 what Democrats do onto Republicans.

00:38:04.860 Well, I think the only thing the far left really responds to is power, Jim, if I'm being honest.

00:38:08.900 I wish that wasn't the case, but it actually is.

00:38:11.100 And so, excuse me, the thing that they're actually going to be responsive to is the recognition

00:38:16.600 that there are consequences on the other side.

00:38:18.500 And this is why it's so important and why the president is so insistent that we actually

00:38:24.040 take legal action against those who broke the law in the Biden administration.

00:38:28.080 If they get off scot-free, if they're never investigated, if they're never prosecuted

00:38:32.200 when they violated the law, then they're just going to come back and do the exact same thing

00:38:35.780 again.

00:38:36.060 And there are a few different ways, of course.

00:38:37.820 So it's the big tech companies that were censoring conservatives.

00:38:40.360 They've got to know that's not going to be allowed, and there are going to be consequences

00:38:43.460 for it.

00:38:43.900 The banks, the president is really preoccupied with this, and rightfully so.

00:38:48.360 So many conservatives, so many conservative nonprofits were debanked.

00:38:51.960 They actually had their money stolen from them by these big Wall Street institutions.

00:38:56.300 You've got to make sure that doesn't happen.

00:38:57.820 And of course, you've got to pay the lawfare back in kind.

00:39:00.760 You've got to say to the Comeys and the Brennans of the world, of course, you've got to follow 1.00

00:39:04.520 the law.

00:39:04.940 You can only prosecute people when they actually broke the law.

00:39:07.840 But we know that a lot of people broke the law in the last administration, and they've got

00:39:11.820 to face real justice.

00:39:13.900 Yes, all of that is true.

00:39:16.060 It's so obviously true.

00:39:17.560 Beto O'Rourke just admitted it.

00:39:19.940 One of the most prominent Democrats of the last five, six years just admitted it.

00:39:25.720 He says, we need power.

00:39:27.940 We need to take power.

00:39:29.200 And he went further.

00:39:30.320 Notice what the vice president said here.

00:39:31.860 He says, look, we're going to follow the law.

00:39:34.020 We're going to behave within the constraints of the law.

00:39:36.120 But we are going to wield the power that the people gave us.

00:39:40.060 That's exactly the right view.

00:39:41.500 Beto O'Rourke says, F the law.

00:39:44.700 F the rules.

00:39:45.940 F, F, F. 0.77

00:39:46.660 Because he's the worst combination of millennials and Gen Xers. 1.00

00:39:50.380 He thinks it's really cool when you say the F word.

00:39:52.660 You know, ooh, I'm bad.

00:39:54.600 I skateboard around parking lots, and I say the F word.

00:39:57.260 I'm bad.

00:39:57.920 Ooh.

00:39:59.240 Yeah.

00:39:59.760 Okay.

00:40:00.120 All right.

00:40:00.560 But that's passe.

00:40:02.620 It seems passe.

00:40:04.000 Don't marry the spirit of the age. 0.86

00:40:05.960 You will be a widow in the next, as Beto O'Rourke increasingly is. 0.63

00:40:08.500 So they're admitting it.

00:40:10.840 And J.D. makes this point.

00:40:11.740 He says, we have to pay the lawfare back in kind.

00:40:16.560 Because if we don't, they're just going to keep doing it.

00:40:19.880 And they're going to do it in more egregious ways.

00:40:21.420 And that not only will harm us, that will damage the common good.

00:40:25.220 Totally, totally right.

00:40:28.100 Now, speaking of power, troubling story coming out of Mozambique. 0.76

00:40:32.940 ISIS is beheading Christians and burning churches.

00:40:36.760 This, according to international observers, soldiers aligned with ISIS.

00:40:41.380 There are all sorts of little ISIS groups are beheading Christians and burning churches

00:40:44.920 and homes in Africa.

00:40:47.660 The most brutal attacks appear to be happening in Mozambique, but it's happening throughout

00:40:51.920 Africa.

00:40:52.500 I almost didn't cover this story because I've covered this kind of story so many times.

00:41:00.380 How many times have I covered the story? 0.99

00:41:03.180 Muslim radicals target Christians, behead Christians, kill Christians. 1.00

00:41:08.020 How many times? 1.00

00:41:09.520 Not just me covering the story.

00:41:11.720 How many times has this story happened?

00:41:14.600 This story has been going on for 1,400 years.

00:41:16.840 Don't forget the Arab conquest of the Levant. 0.83

00:41:24.140 You have Islam beginning in Arabia. 0.97

00:41:27.200 They conquer the Levant, the Holy Land.

00:41:29.320 This was Christian territory, primarily, in the 7th century.

00:41:33.920 You have the Muslims conquering North Africa, all around the Mediterranean, up into Europe, 1.00

00:41:44.960 getting to within 150 miles of Paris by 732, conquering Iberia and sticking around Iberia

00:41:54.080 until 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella, the great Spanish monarchs, booted them out and

00:41:59.780 ended the Reconquista by winning the Reconquista.

00:42:02.340 So, this has been going on for a long time.

00:42:05.100 And so, the reason I bring this, I mean, it's very sad and we should pray for these people

00:42:09.640 and try to help them if we can.

00:42:11.860 The reason I bring this story up, though, is there's all this talk about political realignment.

00:42:16.920 We constantly are hearing political realignment.

00:42:19.460 And there is a kind of realignment going on and the working class is moving more to the right

00:42:23.120 and different racial groups are actually shifting more to the right as well.

00:42:26.500 And we're beginning to rethink our enemies and our friends and our this and our that.

00:42:30.360 And we do want to win Muslim votes, especially as Democrats have imported a bunch of Muslims 0.99

00:42:36.580 to live in certain states, some swing states, including places like Michigan or places like

00:42:41.340 Minnesota, which are not really swing states, but still we'd like to get their votes there too.

00:42:45.780 Just something to keep in mind is historical trends persist.

00:42:50.800 If things have been a certain way for a long time, a conservative insight is there's probably

00:42:58.960 a reason for that.

00:43:01.260 And it's a liberal folly.

00:43:04.060 It's a radical, revolutionary, liberal folly to think that we're just going to recreate the

00:43:08.020 world anew.

00:43:09.820 Revolutions are almost always terrible.

00:43:12.720 That's another conservative insight.

00:43:14.180 People who present themselves as radicals, as revolutionaries, as are usually wrong.

00:43:21.060 Usually, and it's not that it's 100% of the time, but it's a pretty safe bet.

00:43:26.300 If there have been tensions between Islam and Christianity for 1,400 years, if there has

00:43:35.260 been significant oppression of Christians by Muslims for now going on 1,400 years, with all the nuances

00:43:44.960 and all the details and all the color and everything that goes with that, probably the fundamental

00:43:51.440 things will apply as time goes by.

00:43:53.420 That's just a little bit of cold water to temper everyone's zeal and enthusiasm for the realignment.

00:44:00.520 Yes, you need realignments, but prudence is the paramount political virtue.

00:44:03.580 Let's not think we're going to reinvent the world.

00:44:06.020 Let's not become the utopians that we mock when we see them on the left.

00:44:09.200 Okay, now, there's a really great story I have to get to today.

00:44:15.500 And it's going to seem like it's out of left field, but it's really important.

00:44:20.160 The left has had such a hard time criticizing this administration that they have to criticize

00:44:26.120 it for nonsense.

00:44:28.260 The federal takeover of D.C., D.C., which is a federal district, and has always been under

00:44:32.760 the control of the federal government. 0.79

00:44:34.800 That's a silly thing to criticize Trump for.

00:44:38.060 Criticizing Trump for destroying the global economy. 0.74

00:44:41.580 When you look at the markets, you look at prices, you look at inflation, it's fine.

00:44:47.440 Criticizing Trump for starting World War III because he bombed an Iranian nuclear facility

00:44:51.880 and nothing of the sort happened.

00:44:53.820 They're attacking him for a lot of—they're attacking him for building a ballroom on the

00:44:57.240 White House because they need a new event space.

00:44:59.300 You know, they've got very little—well, here's the latest non-traversy, this by way

00:45:03.820 of the Wall Street Journal.

00:45:06.360 White House to vet Smithsonian museums to fit Trump's historical vision.

00:45:12.620 Top White House officials will scrutinize exhibitions, internal processes, collections,

00:45:17.120 and artist grants ahead of America's 250th anniversary.

00:45:20.280 This is the big—I looked on the Drudge Report, which has become this radically anti-Trump,

00:45:26.260 mostly left-wing—it used to be kind of right-wing, now it's left-wing news source.

00:45:31.020 And you look at it, it says, Trump trying to change the Smithsonian.

00:45:37.320 Not even the Smithsonian erases Trump's authoritarian grasp.

00:45:41.560 The White House is trying to scrutinize exhibitions, processes, collections, and art ahead of America's

00:45:48.080 250th anniversary.

00:45:49.000 I would just respond and say, yeah, of course, duh.

00:45:56.420 What do you think art is?

00:45:58.900 What do you think the Smithsonian is?

00:46:01.640 The Smithsonian is a collection of museums—art, history, science, all these things—to tell the story

00:46:12.080 of America, this coming year is the bicisquecentennial, the 250th anniversary of the founding of America.

00:46:19.600 We're telling the story of America.

00:46:21.640 The White House has made it a national initiative, as a Democrat, White House probably would have 0.87

00:46:25.540 too, to tell the story of America.

00:46:29.900 Yeah, I think Trump is going to care about that.

00:46:34.160 Yeah, I think that the party that represents America, that most Americans have elected,

00:46:40.160 that won the popular vote, is going to care about that.

00:46:43.380 Yes, of course.

00:46:45.640 Are you kidding me with this reaction?

00:46:48.840 The people who say that politics is downstream of culture and conservatives need to get back

00:46:53.340 in the arts.

00:46:54.620 And then the left, which has said that the arts is so important and ran the revolution

00:46:58.660 through the institutions, the long march.

00:47:00.400 And all of a sudden, we're supposed to be shocked that the White House has an artistic

00:47:05.340 interest in architecture and making federal buildings beautiful again in the Smithsonian,

00:47:11.240 how the Smithsonian tells the story of America.

00:47:12.680 Of course.

00:47:14.380 The self-conception of the United States has changed many times over the years.

00:47:20.300 That's true of any state.

00:47:21.700 What we thought we were when the Mayflower landed, which is a great cigar company, by the way,

00:47:25.820 what we thought we were when the Mayflower landed is very different than what we thought

00:47:29.100 we were in the late 17th century.

00:47:31.740 Very different than what we thought we were in the French and Indian War.

00:47:33.940 Very different than what we thought we were in the American Revolution or in the post-Revolution

00:47:38.380 period.

00:47:39.920 Articles of Confederation, even of the Constitution.

00:47:42.140 Very different than what we thought we were around the Civil War or at the beginning of

00:47:44.860 industrialization or into the 20th century or now.

00:47:48.740 Very important.

00:47:49.620 The fact that over the last 30 years, we say that America is just an idea and we're purely

00:47:55.200 a melting pot, if even that.

00:47:57.620 We're an abstract idea and a liberal democracy.

00:48:00.000 That's a very novel conception of America.

00:48:06.120 That's not what George Washington thought.

00:48:07.560 That's not what Abraham Lincoln thought.

00:48:09.960 That's not what Teddy Roosevelt thought, even.

00:48:12.360 And Teddy Roosevelt was actually in the audience at the play that coined the phrase The Melting

00:48:15.420 Pot.

00:48:17.500 These things change over time.

00:48:18.840 Yes, thank goodness Trump cares about what's going on at the Smithsonian.

00:48:23.760 It shows you that this is an administration that is dialed in.

00:48:27.200 We want them to be very, very dialed in because we want to make good use of the time that we

00:48:30.540 have in power that the people have given us, while Beto O'Rourke whines about it.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 13, 2025

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