The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1833 - Trump Brings Peace To The Middle East

00:00:00.000 President Trump seems to have brought peace to the Middle East again, the second time,

00:00:05.880 as he gets Israel and Hamas to agree to end the war. New York's Democrat attorney general

00:00:11.280 gets indicted for actually doing the thing that she preposterously accused President Trump of

00:00:17.260 doing some time ago. But more important than any of that, Columbus Day is back.

00:00:24.000 Today we have your Columbus Day proclamation for Monday, which we're signing a bit early.

00:00:29.500 Christopher Columbus, obviously, discovered the New World in 1492. He was a great Italian explorer.

00:00:38.340 He sailed his three ships, the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria, across the Atlantic Ocean,

00:00:42.720 and landed in what's today the Caribbean. But this is a particularly important holiday for

00:00:48.100 Italian-Americans who celebrate the legacy of Christopher Columbus and the innovation

00:00:52.880 and explorer zeal that he represented. In other words, we're calling it Columbus.

00:00:58.820 Columbus Day. That was the press that broke out in applause.

00:01:10.240 Columbus Day. We're back. Columbus Day. We're back, Italians. 1.00

00:01:24.480 We're back, Italians. Repeal the 22nd Amendment. Make Trump Caesar. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the 0.96

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00:03:22.540 so much, I don't have any quarter for people who criticize it. Sorry, I don't care what you think

00:03:29.600 about tariffs or immigration or whatever. He's in the right on these questions, but I don't even care

00:03:35.880 if he'd be in the wrong. The man gave us Columbus Day back. Okay, and did you see how he did it?

00:03:44.400 Did you see how the administration announced that Columbus Day was back? Because we've had

00:03:49.920 Columbus Day for a long time for, depending on how you score it, either 130 years or at least 90 to 100

00:03:58.960 years in the American public consciousness. Though it really goes back to 1891, 1892,

00:04:04.240 that Columbus Day really enters the American mind as a celebration of the man who discovered

00:04:10.500 America. Then there was pushback within the last 10, 15 years. They said Columbus was a murder or

00:04:16.220 a genocide or a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And they tried to replace it with Indigenous People's 0.98

00:04:21.120 Day, whatever that means. And it wasn't just the libs doing it. There was even, I'm not going to name

00:04:25.700 him because he backed off. There was a Republican senator who proposed replacing Columbus Day

00:04:33.820 on the federal holidays with Juneteenth. They were going to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.

00:04:40.480 This Republican senator said, oh, well, we don't want to add too many holidays and mess up the

00:04:44.140 economy. So let's just get rid of Columbus Day. Who cares? That was a Republican.

00:04:47.800 And I said that I would donate to whoever would primary that Republican if he kept it up. But then

00:04:51.740 he dropped it. So now we're all good. Okay. Columbus has been getting it coming and going for like 10

00:04:57.880 years now. And Trump ends it. He says Columbus Day is back and the administration did so

00:05:02.420 by referencing one of the great Columbus scenes in recent popular media, Care of the Sopranos.

00:05:12.120 That's what he did. He discovered America is what he did. He was a brave Italian explorer.

00:05:16.800 And in this house, Christopher Columbus is a hero. End of story.

00:05:20.260 It was a brave Italian explorer. Even the way that the White House,

00:05:23.060 the administration is announcing it. Okay. And of course, Mr. President, you know,

00:05:25.740 Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean in 1492. And the first time I heard it,

00:05:30.980 I heard literally the verbatim phrase. He was a brave Italian explorer. He did this,

00:05:36.140 he did that. Now, I don't think upon re-listening, I don't think he said brave and he said great,

00:05:41.800 but it's assonant. It's the same number of syllables. It's obviously a reference to that

00:05:48.640 well-known clip. He was a brave Italian explorer. And in this White House,

00:05:53.480 Christopher Columbus is a hero. So true. So, so true. There's going to be a lot of

00:05:58.720 introspection. There are going to be a lot of stories told about what America is as we enter

00:06:03.080 the bicesquicentennial, the 250th anniversary of the founding of America. And be on the lookout for

00:06:09.800 this kind of stuff. Because as I see it, there are three ways that we can tell the story of America.

00:06:15.540 There's the liberal story of America, which is America's always been evil. You know,

00:06:21.120 was founded by this evil genocider, slave trader, Christopher Columbus. Again, Christopher

00:06:26.060 Columbus, a great man. Not only a great man, but a good man. A devout Catholic, a brave Italian

00:06:33.300 explorer, a man who is not guilty of half the nonsense they accuse him of. On the witness of

00:06:41.020 his political enemies, do we come up with this nonsense about Columbus? Anyway, well, there'll be

00:06:45.120 more to say about Columbus later. But they say he was discovered by this evil guy named Columbus,

00:06:49.740 and then it was settled by these crazy religious kooks. And then they killed all the Indians. And 0.84

00:06:54.840 then we had slavery. We basically invented slavery. And that was the original sin. And then we oppressed

00:06:59.420 women. And then we oppressed blacks. And then we oppressed Hispanics. And we're just so dirty and 1.00

00:07:03.500 rotten and evil. And we oppressed homosexuals. Then we oppressed the transsexuals. And then we're 0.99

00:07:07.800 just so dirty, rotten and evil. And this country sucks. That's the liberal story of America that

00:07:11.780 you're going to hear it next year in the 250th. Then there's the squishy conservative story of

00:07:17.680 America. This is the liberal Republican story of America. And what they say is,

00:07:23.480 they say, yes, we were discovered by that at Columbus. He was kind of a genocider. And he

00:07:27.480 was bad. It was really bad. And yeah, the Puritans, they had a lot of problems. And Washington and

00:07:34.620 Jefferson owned slaves. And so they weren't great. And yeah, we had slavery. And we did kind of oppress

00:07:40.000 women. And we did oppress blacks and gays and trans, blah, blah, blah. But look how far we've

00:07:46.640 come. Look how far we've come. America, it's not like the left liberals say. It's not that America's

00:07:55.260 a bad country. It's just as bad as we've always been. No, no. We can be a good country. I mean,

00:08:01.520 we've been very bad, but we've overcome all those evils. And we're getting better by the day. That's

00:08:07.480 like, that's the squish conservative view, which accepts all the premises of the left liberal view.

00:08:14.700 But instead of coming to the conclusion that we're evil today, they come to the conclusion

00:08:19.260 that we're better today and we could be even better tomorrow. But they're essentially the same story.

00:08:25.480 Then there is a third view, which I would recommend. And that's the conservative view,

00:08:29.480 the actual patriotic view, which says, you know, a bunch of the stuff you're talking about

00:08:34.280 is nonsense. The things you say about Columbus, nonsense. The things you say about the institution

00:08:39.100 of slavery vis-a-vis America, nonsense. Not that slavery is not unique to America, far from it.

00:08:45.300 The unique thing about America is we ended slavery a relatively short period of time. But slavery is

00:08:50.660 just a fact of human life. It exists today in Asia and Africa. And there are gradations of servitude 0.81

00:08:56.040 and there are moral and immoral ways to think about it. But it's like, give me a break, guys.

00:09:00.400 You try to identify that as essentially American, that's nonsense. And, you know, 0.99

00:09:06.240 basically your whole liberal history of America is just bunk. A lot of the facts are wrong. But more

00:09:12.940 importantly, the relevance of those facts to the story of America is wrong. All that stuff,

00:09:19.760 it's basically irrelevant. Even when you guys say something that is true on the rare occasions

00:09:23.840 that your invective against America touches on something that is factually true, it's unimportant.

00:09:28.900 This is a country that was founded by intrepid brave explorers, starting with those brave Italian

00:09:36.120 explorers down there, down there in the Caribbean. And then the Puritans, not the Puritans, actually,

00:09:42.620 the pilgrims on the Mayflower, the founding of America. Mayflower, a great cigar brand, by the way.

00:09:48.220 Those guys had a vision for a new Jerusalem, okay? Actually, in Massachusetts Bay, John Winthrop

00:09:57.540 understood that America would be a model of Christian charity. And then the founders and

00:10:02.960 framers were asserting their rights as Englishmen. And they said that the principles of Christianity are

00:10:07.560 the principles on which independence was won. And they said, thank providence, thank God,

00:10:12.700 that we come from a common stock and we have common beliefs and we have this common experience

00:10:17.360 of the revolution. And then we pushed through because we were not only a religious country,

00:10:22.480 but we also had this entrepreneurial commercial aspect, Plymouth and Virginia. And we were building

00:10:28.200 and we've had all of this amazing intrepid innovation and discovery and bravery and audacity.

00:10:35.980 And that's the story of America. And tradition. And at the same time, perhaps paradoxically,

00:10:42.040 this great love of tradition. We're in some ways the most avant-garde and the most conservative

00:10:47.180 country on earth. We're the revolutionary country. We might be the last of the old regimes

00:10:52.960 when you consider the power of the American president. We're this amazing country, man.

00:10:57.540 And all that stupid nonsense that the left talks about, that barely has anything to do with it.

00:11:02.440 But that's the third way to talk about it. Anyway, that's the way Trump's talking about it.

00:11:06.940 That's what Trump's talking about here. That's the story Trump is telling. And which is good that

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00:14:32.620 the gift of a lifetime. Much less important than Columbus Day being back. President Trump has secured

00:14:39.140 peace in the Middle East again. It seems, it seems, you never know in the Middle East.

00:14:42.960 Uh, Trump has, has reached a peace deal in Gaza and everyone's going to be skeptical. They say,

00:14:48.660 well, is, is Hamas really going to stick to it? Are they going to uphold their end of the 0.58

00:14:53.880 bargainers? This is just a stalling tactic. Israel, I think probably will because Israel 1.00

00:14:58.340 is more accountable to America. And sometimes Israel undermines what America is trying to do

00:15:03.940 internationally. But here it seems like that, I think it seems like they're on board.

00:15:07.800 So the question is Hamas. Hamas never honors anything, but who knows? Maybe there might be

00:15:13.060 the right incentives here. Trump proposed this peace deal a week or two ago. And I read through

00:15:17.560 it. We actually didn't have time to talk about it on the show, but I remember reading through it and

00:15:20.680 I said, man, this is a good deal because it not only is it plausibly going to bring peace to the

00:15:28.720 Middle East again for President Trump. Don't forget he had the Abraham Accords. There's peace in the

00:15:32.660 Middle East. It was historic. It was amazing. Then the Democrats put Joe Biden into office.

00:15:36.920 Joe Biden screws up everything. Major war breaks out in the Middle East. Would not have happened

00:15:40.560 had Trump been president. Now Trump has to restore peace to the Middle East. Again,

00:15:43.680 it looks like he's doing it. But what I love about this deal also is that it totally vindicates me.

00:15:50.300 Not to make it up, but we got to have priorities here. Peace in the Middle East, that's good.

00:15:54.500 But me being right, slightly more important. You remember those panicans who freaked out when Trump

00:16:03.260 said, out of the blue, it seemed to freak out Netanyahu, frankly, when they were sharing a stage

00:16:07.200 together. He said, we're going to take over Gaza. It's ours now. I'm going to build a Trump casino

00:16:11.980 there, basically, is what he was insinuating. And we're going to send all the Palestinians away. 1.00

00:16:17.580 They're going to leave. And who knows? The Israelis were floating that the Palestinians would go to

00:16:21.580 South Sudan, the one place on earth less pleasant than Gaza. And everyone starts freaking out.

00:16:25.940 Some of the pro-Israel people were freaking out. A lot of the anti-Israel people,

00:16:31.240 the pro-Palestine people were freaking out. Some of the kind of America first guys who don't really

00:16:35.620 want anything to do with the Middle East were freaking out. I said, guys, let him cook. 1.00

00:16:40.840 This is obviously a negotiation tactic. It would not be just to ethnically cleanse this area and send 0.89

00:16:47.520 2 million Palestinians to Africa or anywhere else for that matter to force them out. This is a 1.00

00:16:53.240 negotiation tactic to force Hamas to the table, to keep Israel in line. 0.76

00:16:59.600 What Trump was proposing was the only thing that could irritate both the Palestinians and Israel.

00:17:05.760 Because Trump was saying, we're going to kick all of you out of your homes. It's obviously going to

00:17:10.620 freak out the Palestinians. And Trump seems crazy enough that he might do it. And he said, and by the

00:17:14.860 way, Israel, you're getting out too. We're going to take over. You're not going to annex it. We're 0.99

00:17:18.300 going to do it. We're going to do what we want. Maybe we're a little bit of a wild card. Freaks out Israel 1.00

00:17:22.260 too. I said, it's a negotiation tactic. This isn't going to happen. Chill. And so what was Trump's

00:17:27.580 plan? Gaza will be de-radicalized, terror-free, so it doesn't pose a threat to its neighbors. It'll

00:17:34.920 be redeveloped for the people of Gaza who have suffered more than enough, a recognition of the

00:17:39.680 suffering in Gaza. The war will immediately end. Israeli forces will withdraw to an agreed upon line

00:17:46.520 to prepare for a hostage release. During this time, all military operations, including aerial and

00:17:50.940 artillery bombardment, will be suspended. So that's a message to Israel, because you'll recall

00:17:55.680 when President Trump was negotiating an end to the hostilities between Iran and Israel,

00:18:01.060 they negotiate an end to this. And then Israel just keeps bombing them. And Iran, you know,

00:18:04.920 Iran's not exactly a good faith player in this either. But he's saying, look, we got to stop.

00:18:10.000 Once we agree to this, immediate stopping of the aerial and artillery bombardment, the Palestinians, 1.00

00:18:15.140 good luck getting them ever to stop firing rockets. Battle lines will remain frozen.

00:18:18.600 Okay. Then within 72 hours of Israel publicly accepting this agreement, all hostages alive and

00:18:23.540 deceased will be returned. That's where we are. We're at number four right now. Hamas and Israel 0.96

00:18:28.960 have in principle agreed to the first part of this plan. Now we're in the 72 hours.

00:18:37.480 20 hostages or so are believed to be alive right now. 28 are presumed dead. Israel, now to fill in the

00:18:45.360 specifics of what was outlined here in the broad plan. In exchange for 20 live hostages,

00:18:51.760 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences in Israeli jails will be released to Palestine,

00:18:57.460 to Gaza. 1,700 detainees from Gaza will be sent back. So Israel's paying a high price for the hostages.

00:19:05.000 But Israel can afford to pay a higher price is basically the thought. This is all a very live 0.98

00:19:14.420 thing. Will it work? Has Trump brought peace to the Middle East a second time? Not totally clear.

00:19:21.100 This is the most impressive advance toward Middle East peace since the last time Trump did it.

00:19:28.660 Even Barack Obama's admitting it, though Obama won't give Trump credit. Obama sent out some lengthy

00:19:32.920 tweet last night about how great this is and wonderful for peace in the Middle East and

00:19:35.760 everything. He just forgot to put Trump's name in the tweet. There's just one person missing.

00:19:41.400 You know, this didn't just happen organically. It didn't spring out of the ground like a rutabaga.

00:19:46.520 It was put together by the president who succeeded where you, Barack Obama, failed,

00:19:52.600 who succeeded where your successor, Joe Biden, failed.

00:19:55.260 This is the best chance at peace in the Middle East since the last time Trump did it.

00:20:04.000 And I'd love in this case to tell you that I told you so. Now, other great news.

00:20:11.020 Letitia James in New York, the attorney general of New York, you might remember her

00:20:15.680 for campaigning on prosecuting Trump and holding Trump liable for all sorts of civil offenses,

00:20:23.660 just trying to take Trump down, using the law. Letitia James did her best. She was part of the

00:20:29.340 broad lawfare effort by the Democrats under Joe Biden to put Trump into prison because he was not

00:20:36.540 only the predecessor, but also the leader of the opposition and obviously popular enough to become

00:20:41.060 president again with the popular vote. Letitia James appears to have been hoisted with her own

00:20:47.860 petard. Letitia James has just been indicted and she hasn't been indicted for anything.

00:20:52.320 She's been indicted for actually doing the kinds of things she wrongly accused Trump of doing.

00:21:00.000 What did she accuse Trump of doing? She accused Trump of falsifying business records to get loans

00:21:09.740 at more favorable rates and to overinflate, for instance, the value of some of his homes.

00:21:17.760 That wasn't really true at the time. They like sort of nabbed him on it, but it was preposterous,

00:21:24.480 the sort of things that they were alleging and the sort of things that judges were finding.

00:21:28.600 But what was Letitia James indicted for? She's charged with bank fraud and making false statements 1.00

00:21:35.180 to a financial institution in connection with a home purchase in Norfolk, Virginia in 2020.

00:21:39.220 What? So she, she buys a home in Virginia and this home is supposed to be a residence of hers,

00:21:45.580 but she was just going to use it as an investment property. Here's some evidence for that. She's the 0.61

00:21:50.780 attorney general of New York. She's not living in Virginia. She clearly lied, clearly lied. 1.00

00:21:59.800 She also had an apartment building in Brooklyn. She said in order to get the loan that the,

00:22:06.420 the building had four units. The building actually had five units. This was not an idle mistake,

00:22:14.560 a clerical error. That was a very significant difference. One, I don't think Letitia James

00:22:19.580 is so stupid that she doesn't know how many apartment units are in the building she bought. 1.00

00:22:23.800 We're not talking about a 200 apartment high rise. We're talking about four or five. I think she knows.

00:22:27.560 I think she can count to five, can't she? Maybe, maybe I'm being too generous in my expectations.

00:22:32.420 I think she can count to five. But if she had five units in the building, it would be a commercial 0.99

00:22:39.380 building and she would get a less favorable rate. If she had four units, she'd get the more favorable 1.00

00:22:44.000 rate as a, as a residential building. And so she lied. They got this woman dead to rights. 1.00

00:22:52.040 Allegedly, I suppose I have to say allegedly, but pretty clear from the facts that are being reported.

00:22:57.360 This woman lied. She defrauded a financial institution. What about the Trump case that 0.99

00:23:04.300 she was driving? In the Trump case, even, even the liberal media acknowledge this was kind of

00:23:11.280 ridiculous. Even CNN, even CNN obviously doesn't like Donald Trump, especially at that time was

00:23:16.700 going very hard. Real estate insiders question how Trump fraud judge valued Mar-a-Lago. The argument

00:23:21.480 in that case, and a judge found this, I'm a liberal judge, was that Trump had overvalued his Mar-a-Lago

00:23:27.020 estate by 2,300%. So he overvalued this in order to have more access to capital and it was all a bunch

00:23:33.120 of business fraud. This was Judge Angeron. He based that on the presumption that Trump's Mar-a-Lago

00:23:41.820 club was worth between 18 and $27.6 million, which was always completely absurd. There are private

00:23:53.540 homes in Nashville today that are listed for over $18 million, that are listed for probably around

00:24:01.480 $25 million. Do you think that some random home in the middle of Nashville is worth the same amount as

00:24:06.380 Mar-a-Lago, one of the most prestigious, beautiful, sprawling clubs in Palm Beach,

00:24:12.480 some of the most expensive real estate in the country with, with some of the most expensive,

00:24:16.080 wealthy, you know, well-heeled members? And are you kidding? Not even close, not even close.

00:24:21.860 That was such a preposterous number. Was he talking about some fraction of a fraction,

00:24:28.800 some little plot of what one, one room at Mar-a-Lago? What was he talking about? He based it on the

00:24:34.500 Palm Beach County assessors appraising the market value. But that was always, always absurd. Everyone

00:24:38.960 knows that the tax assessor valuation is less than the property would command. And in the case of a

00:24:44.140 private club like that, way, way less. So anyway, total nonsense. In that case though,

00:24:51.800 we're not talking about, I think President Trump actually was right in his valuations or roughly

00:24:55.700 right at least, but we're not talking about, ah, you know, I thought, I thought it was 10% higher

00:24:59.500 than it was or 10% lower than it was or whatever. We're talking about Letitia James saying,

00:25:03.240 I'm going to live in that home in a different state while I'm attorney general of New York.

00:25:07.020 That's a lie. That's Letitia James saying, oh yeah, actually it's a, it's four units, not five.

00:25:11.980 That's just a lie. They got her dead to rights. The libs are furious about this. They are now

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00:26:38.740 breaks down over the indictment of Letitia James. Here is CNN's Casey Hunt, one of the most delightfully

00:26:46.140 partisan and ideologically blinded of the journalists today. She comes out, and here's

00:26:52.960 her defense of Letitia James.

00:26:56.680 Aside for a second, what Tish James, and again, we're still getting the details, but if it's

00:27:01.720 related to this mortgage issue, I mean, this is something that everyone in America, or many people

00:27:06.540 at least, if you're lucky enough to be able to buy a house in America, you deal with this, right?

00:27:10.900 The federal government doesn't go after all of these people for doing this.

00:27:17.220 Yeah, yeah. Look, this is the sort of thing, I mean, Americans all the time commit mortgage fraud,

00:27:22.720 don't they? I mean, all the time. Who among us has not lied to a financial institution about what

00:27:30.620 state they're living in in order to get a more favorable mortgage rate? Who among us? Let he who

00:27:35.320 has not lied about the nature of his investment apartment building cast the first stone. Come on,

00:27:42.180 who am I? Is she telling on herself? I don't know. Should the feds start investigating Casey Hunt, too?

00:27:47.600 I've not committed mortgage fraud. Have you committed mortgage fraud? You haven't? No?

00:27:52.720 And again, we're not talking about like, yeah, I think I have $100,000 in the bank, but actually,

00:27:58.400 I only have $97,000, or I have $103,000. We're not talking about that. We're talking about like,

00:28:02.880 I live in a different state kind of lying. We're talking about there are a different number of

00:28:07.680 units in the building I'm buying kind of lying. Have you done that? This is not even reaping and

00:28:14.220 sowing. Some people, I think, are going to present this as, you know, the Democrats, while they're

00:28:17.960 sowing, they're loving it, right? Where they're sowing all this discord and political lawfare,

00:28:24.060 they're loving it. Woohoo! Yeah, this is me while I'm sowing. But then while they're reaping the fruits

00:28:28.080 of their sowing, then they're really upset because it's coming back on them. It's not even that.

00:28:31.180 This is just pure projection. Trump really didn't do the thing they're accusing him of doing.

00:28:37.200 Mar-a-Lago is not worth $18 million. It's worth a lot more than that, okay? He actually didn't do

00:28:43.500 the thing that they're accusing him of. She did this. It's just projection. Once again,

00:28:50.700 every leftist accusation is a confession. Speaking of those leftists, Abigail Spanberger,

00:28:56.840 running for governor of Virginia, she is endorsing Jay Jones, the attorney general,

00:29:02.760 candidate, the Democrat, who fantasizes about murdering his Republican opponents and their

00:29:07.080 children and murdering cops. Abigail Spanberger has stood by Jay Jones. She refuses to pull her 1.00

00:29:15.680 endorsement. Not one Democrat has pulled their endorsement of him because they agree with him.

00:29:19.600 Well, good on the moderator at her debate with Winsome Sears last night.

00:29:24.440 She was asked, do you stand by the endorsement? She tried to get out of it. She tried to wiggle

00:29:29.880 out, and the moderator kept up. Here's her answer. This is the end of her answer.

00:29:34.620 Ms. Spanberger, I understand what you're saying about the voters, but for you yourself,

00:29:37.680 do you still continue to endorse Jay Jones? 15 seconds, yes or no?

00:29:42.300 I, we are all running our individual races. I believe my opponent has said that about

00:29:46.740 her lieutenant governor nominee. And it's up to every person to make their own decision. I am

00:29:53.400 running my race to serve Virginia, and that is what I intend to do. Thank you, Ms. Spanberger.

00:30:00.520 We just want to clarify, you know, what you're saying is that as of now, you still endorse Jay Jones

00:30:07.320 as attorney general. I'm saying as of now, it's up to every voter to make their own

00:30:11.320 individual decision. I am running for governor. I am accountable for the words that I say for the

00:30:17.180 acts that I take for the policies that I have put out. Thank you. I am responsible for the policies

00:30:23.520 I put out and the work I will endeavor to do tirelessly for the people of Virginia.

00:30:31.180 Wow, it's brutal. It's because she's refusing to answer the question. A very simple question,

00:30:37.060 moderators on it. That was after a minute of her flailing around. And the question was,

00:30:40.340 do you stand by your, you endorsed him. You explicitly endorsed this guy. He fantasized

00:30:45.060 about murdering Republicans and their children and called them, accused them of breeding fascists

00:30:49.100 and fantasized about killing cops. And do you stand by your endorsement? And she said,

00:30:53.580 every voter has to make up his own decision. That wasn't the question. The question wasn't,

00:30:57.900 do you think voters can make up their decisions? The question was, do you endorse him? Do you still

00:31:03.880 endorse him? You made up, first of all, you were telling voters to vote a certain way. That's what an

00:31:07.140 endorsement is. But stop asking about this. I remember I just did this great show, Adam Friedland's

00:31:14.860 show. He's this very left-wing guy. It was very funny. We had a great time in New York. It's out

00:31:20.020 now. And I really enjoyed going out. But there was this one moment. And actually, I think he might

00:31:26.240 have cut it out of the show. Because I went, I don't know, I didn't watch the whole thing meticulously.

00:31:29.840 But I actually think he might have cut this segment out of the show, which is kind of funny,

00:31:34.500 where he was hitting me on the transgender thing. And I said, well, do you believe in 1.00

00:31:39.140 transgenderism? You know, is it, do you really? And we were kind of going back and forth on it.

00:31:44.860 Again, I'll see if I can find the clip. It might have been left on the cutting room floor,

00:31:48.120 understandably so, I guess, from his point of view. But I said, I said, look, do you believe in it?

00:31:54.560 And he said, oh, you guys are asking this question all the time. I said, no, no,

00:31:56.520 it's not what is a woman. It's do you, I just want to, do you really believe in transgenderism?

00:32:01.360 Do you think a man really can be a woman? And he said, well, I don't care. I said, I didn't ask 1.00

00:32:07.260 if you cared. I asked what you think. Do you think, what do you have a, you can think just

00:32:13.600 between us gals. It's just us gals on the camera. What do you think? Do you think a man, and he

00:32:17.620 refused to, he couldn't answer the question, which I kind of get because his liberal audience would hate

00:32:22.640 hate the answer, if he, if he were being honest, because we all know, you know, you can't be.

00:32:27.280 So I don't, I got to go back. I got to see if that clip is in there, right? It might,

00:32:30.020 it might've been cut out kind of funny. Well, that was the same thing Abigail Spanberger did.

00:32:34.180 Same exact thing. Do you stand by your endorsement? I don't. I mean, I think everyone

00:32:38.820 can make their decision. That's not what I asked you. I'm at, I'm not asking you about everyone

00:32:43.760 else. I'm not asking you about decision-making. I'm asking about a thing you did. You endorsed him.

00:32:49.880 You can unendorse him. Do you do that? Can't answer. Part of the reason she can't answer that

00:32:58.440 is that the Democrats broadly agree. That's what they showed us when Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

00:33:02.980 Speaking of democracy and liberal women who seem confused about things, Jane Fonda 1.00

00:33:07.060 raised the seriousness of an issue that no one's really talking about anymore.

00:33:15.120 But she's, you know, she's of a certain age. Maybe she's stuck in the past. She raised

00:33:19.260 the existential crisis of climate change.

00:33:23.220 We're facing two existential crises, climate and democracy. And it's now or never for both.

00:33:34.020 They are very interconnected. We have to solve them together. We can't have a stable democracy

00:33:40.440 and with an unstable climate, and we can't have a stable climate unless we have a democracy.

00:33:46.000 And so we have to fight both together.

00:33:49.260 Okay. The first part I kind of get, we can't have a democracy if we don't have a stable climate.

00:33:56.180 I guess that's true. You know, if like asteroids are hitting the earth and volcanoes are erupting and

00:34:00.220 the atmosphere dissipates, then it's true. You can't have a democracy. You can't have life. You can't have

00:34:06.480 human life either. But you can't, if you can't have human life, you can't have democracy. QED. Okay,

00:34:11.620 I get that. Said, and you can't have a, you can't have a stable environment if you don't have a

00:34:19.440 democracy. That part is a little more suspect to me because there have been, there was democracy in

00:34:26.900 ancient Greece, though the liberals today would not recognize that as democracy because it involved a

00:34:30.540 lot of slaves and things like that. But they had democracy then. And then for like most of the history

00:34:37.640 of our civilization, we've not had democracy. Anything resembling what we would call democracy

00:34:43.240 today. And the founding fathers, even the framers of the constitution were very, very skeptical of

00:34:47.100 democracy, even as they gave us a government that had a huge democratic element to it.

00:34:52.840 We had a stable environment for all that time. In fact, to Jane Fonda's point, when we didn't have

00:34:59.280 democracy, which is for most of the history of our civilization, by her own arguments, by the climate 0.55

00:35:04.840 change hysterics, the climate was fine. And actually it's only since we've had democracy,

00:35:12.620 and specifically only since we've had real hyper-democracy, not the democracy of the 18th

00:35:17.540 century, but the, the greater spread of democracy in the 19th and especially into the 20th century.

00:35:22.740 Well, that's when all the climate change increased. So as kind of, not only is what she's saying kind of

00:35:29.640 babble, you know, we can't have democracy without climate, without a good climate. We can't have a good

00:35:33.820 climate without democracy. Well, good luck, lady. But it's, it's actually, if according to her own

00:35:39.200 premises, what she's saying makes no sense at all. If, if the, the climate change is really dependent

00:35:46.300 on the nature of democracy, the state of democracy, we need to abolish democracy to save the climate.

00:35:52.500 We have, we have to, which is the only way we can get democracy, according to Jane Fonda. I don't know.

00:35:55.820 She, not, not much of a political philosopher, that one, I think. Okay. Uh, before we go,

00:36:02.600 and speaking of Hollywood celebrities, Jimmy Kimmel, after his temporary cancellation, has,

00:36:07.820 has identified the real victim of Charlie Kirk's assassination.

00:36:11.780 So you felt like your initial comments had been mischaracterized.

00:36:14.800 I didn't feel like it was. It was intentionally. And I think maliciously mischaracterized. Yeah.

00:36:23.700 He's lying again. He lied about Charlie Kirk's assassination. Then he lied about what he said.

00:36:29.000 Now he's lying about what we said about what he said. He hasn't learned a single lesson.

00:36:34.840 What did he say? He came out. He said, these MAGA, but Charlie Kirk was murdered. He made light of

00:36:38.840 Charlie Kirk's murder. He then put on the crocodile tears after he got uncancelled when he could audition

00:36:43.860 for his show again. But he didn't have any, any crocodile tears when he was initially talking

00:36:47.800 about it shortly afterward. He said, yeah, Charlie Kirk is murdered. And these MAGA people, they're

00:36:51.620 trying to, they're trying to just pretend like he, the shooter was anything other than one of them.

00:36:56.300 They're doing anything they can to say he was, wasn't one of them. The guy was a far leftist

00:37:01.760 engraved Antifa slogans on the bullets and confessed his left-wing idea ideological motivations

00:37:07.220 reportedly to his transfery boyfriend. Don't think he was a MAGA Republican. So he lied. 0.82

00:37:13.860 He just lied on TV. And then he lied about lying. I never meant to say that. And now he's lying

00:37:19.400 about our reaction. He said, oh no, these people, they knew, not only was I not lying,

00:37:23.060 they knew I wasn't lying and they maliciously smeared me. And I'm the real victim. I'm the

00:37:26.520 victim. He learned nothing. He learned nothing. And it's a great pity that he got his show back.

00:37:31.300 It's a great pity. We should have held the line more firmly. And if we don't, if we don't enforce

00:37:35.900 standards and if we don't punish people with social consequences and sometimes political

00:37:41.700 consequences, if they violate the law, if we don't ostracize people who remain stubborn in their

00:37:47.680 antisocial behavior, we're not going to have much of a society. And these guys are going to run rough

00:37:53.400 shot over us. And then the minute they get power again, they are going to send us to the gulags.

00:37:57.700 Very, very unfortunate. Okay. On that chipper note, we got to get to the mailbag.

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00:38:55.800 Conditions apply. Favorite comment yesterday is from Toady Coyote. Says, Michael Knowles has great genes.

00:39:02.400 What did we think? What did we think of the jean jacket? I know the jean jacket itself I think is

00:39:08.800 pretty cool with the Mayflower logo and then the Mayflower on the back. It's pretty, you know,

00:39:12.820 you feel like I need a cigarette behind my ear, need to be like riding my Harley to behind the gym,

00:39:17.820 you know, to pick up my girlfriend or whatever. Um, on me. Did we approve of the, if you weren't

00:39:24.640 watching the show yesterday, I was wearing this jean jacket. Some, some friends of mine really,

00:39:29.100 they loved it. And, but a lot of people, uh, hated it. They hated it. And I, I do feel a little

00:39:34.720 more myself in the smoking jacket than I do in the, in the jean jacket, but tell me in the comments.

00:39:40.680 Can I, can I get away? Can I get away with the jean? I don't know. Our mailbag is sponsored by

00:39:45.320 Pure Talk. Switch to Pure Talk with a qualifying plan of $35. Get a free one-year membership to

00:39:49.260 Daily Wire Plus. Take it away. Hi, Michael Knowles. Um, I'm listening to your podcast and you don't

00:39:55.900 seem to believe that Mamdani is a devout Muslim or a practicing Muslim. However, when I listen to

00:40:04.940 other Muslims talk about Mamdani, they say that he's practicing, practicing takia, takia. Takia is the

00:40:12.720 art of lying to gain the upper hand over an enemy and the art of lying to non-believers.

00:40:22.240 So have you ever considered that? And have you ever considered that the threat of these Muslims, 1.00

00:40:29.360 when you call them our friends, is more dangerous than you are willing to say on your podcast? Thank you.

00:40:37.440 So, uh, I have considered that and, uh, I, I am not persuaded by it. Yes. First of all,

00:40:43.960 I've never called Mamdani my friend. Don't, there are certain kinds of Muslims, uh, not going to be 1.00

00:40:47.940 our friends. Some others who vote against Joe Biden, you know, or Kamala Harris in 2024, they,

00:40:53.060 I, we, we like those guys, you know, we can, we can bring them along. It'd be nice if they

00:40:56.320 converted to Christianity, but you know, we'll see politically speaking, it's, uh, politics is the

00:41:00.740 art of inclusion and the art of the second best. As for Mamdani, yes, I'm, I'm familiar with

00:41:05.740 the concept of takia, dissimulation, the, the notion that when one, especially when one is

00:41:10.460 threatened by a non-believer, one can deceive, uh, if you're Muslim, uh, I'm familiar with that. 1.00

00:41:18.500 He'd be playing a real long game. I think Mamdani, because, uh, the, the two thoughts on Mamdani are

00:41:26.760 Mamdani is secretly Osama bin Laden, but he's pretending to be a wimpy, you know, New York millennial 0.99

00:41:34.380 who marches along with all of the alphabet people, but he's secretly, you know, a Wahhabi who would 0.95

00:41:42.420 chop off all of their heads at the first moment and give them all a tour of the rooftops when he

00:41:46.600 kicks them all off the moment he gets power. Uh, that's one thought of it. The other thought is he is

00:41:53.060 a millennial leftist, uh, steeped, who happened, who also happens to be Muslim, but those things

00:42:01.460 aren't in conflict because to be a millennial leftist is to be steeped in all kinds of anti-Americanism.

00:42:07.780 Uh, the weird sex stuff and the radical open borders stuff and despising American history and

00:42:15.760 opposing the religions that built America, uh, and therefore supporting other religions with whom we've

00:42:21.080 been at war. I remember, I remember I was in, uh, middle school. I was in middle school during nine

00:42:26.600 11. Then I was in high school and the liberal teachers were really favorable in their teaching

00:42:32.680 of, uh, Islam. So even I made a joke one time, I was in like ninth grade or something like that.

00:42:39.040 I made a joke that the first terrorist was Muhammad and my teacher got really angry at me. My teacher

00:42:42.540 was very liberal. So you'd say on the one, how can these liberals who support LGBTism, uh, support Islam,

00:42:48.620 which would kick all of those people off of rooftops? How can those, and the, the common

00:42:53.580 threat is just a reflexive anti-Americanism. That's what I see in Momdani. He is a communist,

00:42:59.780 like an actual communist. He talks, he openly promotes communist ideas. He is radically pro-LGBT

00:43:06.760 and has called for queer liberation explicitly. And he seems favorable to the Muslim issues,

00:43:14.320 the pan-Muslim issues, but so is Greta Thunberg. So what, what is it? Is it a Zawahiri? Is it a 0.99

00:43:21.800 Sayyid Qutb? Or is he just like a, a typical whiny New York liberal millennial? I don't know. To me, 0.59

00:43:30.660 the evidence is all, all on the ladder. I've, I've no illusions about the threat of Islam. I note 1.00

00:43:35.800 frequently that we've been in conflict with Islam for, uh, 1400 years. We celebrated the anniversary

00:43:40.580 of the battle of Lepanto just a few days ago, but that ain't Mondani. In some ways, 0.50

00:43:45.660 it would be a recommendation of Mondani if that were the case. Okay, next one.

00:43:49.740 This weekend, our family of five is entering the Catholic church, no small part because of you,

00:43:54.340 Michael. So thank you for all your work. Um, I've been getting regular emails from the Vatican

00:43:59.180 and today, October 1st, there was an article in one of the Vatican's emails about how all Catholics

00:44:05.040 should pray for the abolishment of the death penalty. Uh, you and Mike, you and Matt Walsh

00:44:11.260 have talked a lot about how the death penalty is a good thing, especially in light of Charlie Kirk's 0.67

00:44:15.080 assassin. Um, but then it pointed me to the catechism of the Catholic church and paragraph

00:44:19.880 2267 talks about how the church should be seeking to abolish the death penalty worldwide.

00:44:27.120 I want to believe in everything the Catholic church has to teach and I have such open hands to

00:44:31.460 listen to it, but I just don't agree with this. Um, can you please help me catechize me? Uh,

00:44:37.460 how should I believe, what should I think about this? Um, as a Catholic now? Um, yeah,

00:44:42.900 I would love to hear your thoughts about that. Yes, really, really good question. And the short

00:44:47.520 version is the catechism of the Catholic church is great. The catechism as we know it is a document

00:44:51.960 from the early nineties from John Paul II. There have been other catechisms over the years,

00:44:55.780 the Baltimore catechism, the catechism of St. Pius X, many other catechisms going all the way back

00:44:59.700 to antiquity in the didache. Uh, and the, you know, the, the one that we refer to is from the

00:45:04.640 early nineties and then Pope Francis gave us, gave it an update. And the one in the early nineties

00:45:08.380 included this odd prudential insertion that while the death penalty is not intrinsically evil,

00:45:13.760 practically speaking, you know, we should, it shouldn't be practiced generally. And then

00:45:18.640 Francis took that to a greater extreme and said, it's morally inadmissible. Curiously though,

00:45:23.560 he couldn't say it was intrinsically evil because the church has, uh, uh, robustly vociferously

00:45:30.300 defended the, the death penalty for two millennia. And some popes have carried it out,

00:45:36.080 including blessed Pius IX who, who personally oversaw the execution of 500 prisoners in the

00:45:40.040 papal states. Uh, so is there a conflict here? No, the, the catechism of the Catholic church is a

00:45:46.260 great teaching tool, but it's, it's not as if, uh, the catechism is an infallible pronouncement of the

00:45:51.560 Pope on faith and morals like cathedra. Uh, it is, uh, not the case that, uh, you know,

00:45:58.120 we're hyper ultramontanists where if the, if the Pope tells us that we have to eat whoppers,

00:46:02.920 we can never eat a quarter pounder again. Uh, Pope Benedict XVI of blessed memory, a recent Pope

00:46:08.400 observed that unlike on certain issues, um, abortion say, uh, where there's really no question

00:46:15.020 about Catholic teaching going all the way back to the D.K in the earliest days of the church on the

00:46:18.700 death penalty, reasonable minds might disagree. Uh, so that's, that's how I would think about it.

00:46:22.920 I would take it with a little bit of a Mediterranean nonchalance and recognize that 1.00

00:46:26.220 not every pronouncement of a Pope is of, uh, equal significance. Next question.

00:46:32.960 Hello, Michael. My question revolves around Catholicism and fulfillment in life. Can a

00:46:38.260 Catholic devote their life to celibacy even without being part of holy orders? I'm a 23-year-old

00:46:43.740 Catholic trying to focus more on creating a fulfilling life. And that involves understanding

00:46:48.660 my faith more, training myself to be a boxer-like fighter, and educating myself to be like one of

00:46:55.080 the autodidacts of history. From my perspective, finding a wife or pursuing the family life would

00:47:00.740 get in the way of my education and training. I know I'm still young with more life ahead of me,

00:47:05.840 but best I ask the question than stay conflicted. So can a Catholic swear to celibacy even if they have 0.89

00:47:11.400 no intentions of becoming priests, monks, bishops, or deacons? Thank you for your time.

00:47:17.060 And professor, stop crashing your Camaros and get back to work. Quit gallivanting with your

00:47:22.120 girlfriend. You got a job to do. That's nice. Very smart man on many fronts. Short answer is yes.

00:47:28.140 Yeah, of course. Not everyone is called to marriage. In fact, just from the perspective of

00:47:32.080 the Catholic Church, if you're a certain type of member of Opus Dei, which is a, you know,

00:47:38.020 Catholic order from, starts out in the Spanish Civil War when the Bolsheviks, which we were

00:47:42.380 talking about the other day when the Bolsheviks were trying to destroy the church and killed 20%

00:47:46.480 of clergy in Spain. There are lay members, not clergy, lay members of Opus Dei who are celibate.

00:47:55.620 And there are people who are celibate also. But whether you get married or whether you're celibate

00:48:00.760 and a lay person or whether you take holy orders, the key is it has to be for God.

00:48:08.020 So I wouldn't be celibate just so that you can make an extra dollar. I wouldn't be celibate just

00:48:12.580 so you can paint an extra painting. I think your opinion could change over time when, you know,

00:48:18.140 look, I'm pretty career focused. Myself, I spent a lot of time thinking about work and working and,

00:48:22.360 you know, pursuing my career. But practically speaking, the greatest thing in my life is my family.

00:48:27.100 And I, you know, I don't know that in my early 20s, I would have imagined that, but that is the

00:48:30.920 case. You know, in terms of the practical, tangible, day-to-day human stuff, obviously one's

00:48:38.280 faith is the most important thing, but it ends up being the family. That might surprise you. But

00:48:42.960 regardless, maybe you're called to celibacy. But if so, it's just, your marriage has to be a symbol

00:48:47.480 of Christ's love for his church. Your celibacy has to be for God. Obviously, your holy orders would be

00:48:53.160 for God. So just make sure it's in the right place. Okay, I know they want me to go to the

00:48:56.180 Membrum Segmentum. I want to get to the last question.

00:48:59.220 Hey, Michael. So I'm headed to the Nashville Dance Fest this weekend because I recently took

00:49:03.200 up Western Swing Dancing to help me meet people. And it's been really great for me, honestly. I've

00:49:07.120 made a lot of friends. Granted, the women tend to be crazy. I'm not really sure if it's because 1.00

00:49:10.640 they're dancers or just because they're women. But I was wondering if there's any other activities

00:49:13.980 that you would recommend to help me be more social because I'd really like to branch out. Thanks.

00:49:18.380 Yeah, that's a great one. That's a really great one. And yeah, look, they're probably a little

00:49:22.160 crazy for both of those reasons. Maybe the dancing part is kind of eccentric, but maybe that

00:49:29.000 exacerbates the kind of natural level of craziness common to the gentler sex. But I would go for

00:49:38.220 other stuff like that. I often say, look, you can meet a girl in church. That's great. Isn't that

00:49:44.440 great? Or you meet a girl in school. I think in some ways that's almost better because you're 0.88

00:49:49.040 often younger in that case. You're kind of looking to date in high school or something. And that worked

00:49:53.800 out for me. I recommend that. But at work, it's a little dicier. Sometimes people, they eat

00:50:01.260 one place and they defecate, ideally at another place. It is not good to do those two things at the

00:50:09.320 same place, you understand. But I don't know. What's like swing dancing? I don't know. You could

00:50:13.880 take, you could join, I don't know, the symphony. Depends on how kind of pretentious you want to be.

00:50:18.780 Fancy and sophisticated. But you could go, there are all those kinds of groups. Like if there's,

00:50:22.160 if there are artistic groups there, you obviously have an interest in the arts. So I don't know,

00:50:26.100 you go join the local symphony or ballet or some theatrical kind of thing. That, you know,

00:50:32.860 you could join that. They're always young supporters of those groups. Or you could go, I don't know,

00:50:38.220 you could join a kickball league, you know? I mean, that's like another version of it.

00:50:40.660 You are doing something that is artistic and athletic. So you could kind of go either way.

00:50:44.260 But I think those are kind of fun. And the people who join those things are doing it

00:50:47.820 because they want to meet people. You know, so it's not, it's, there is an intentionality to that,

00:50:53.580 that might make it a little easier to ask a girl out. Okay. Thus speaketh the love doctor,

00:50:59.360 Nihil Obstat. It is Fake Headline Friday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss

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