The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 184 - The Beautiful Game

00:00:00.640 Democrats allege that President Trump colluding with Russia stole the 2016 election.

00:00:06.480 According to a new public opinion poll, most Republicans think the Mueller probe is a witch

00:00:11.320 hunt, perhaps because President Obama installed a mole on the Trump campaign.

00:00:17.120 The beautiful game wraps up in Russia as the real beautiful game of politics kicks off

00:00:22.360 in Helsinki at the Trump-Putin summit.

00:00:25.040 We will analyze.

00:00:26.040 Then, Brits try to nix Brexit, and Ariana Grande proves Pat Robertson right on feminism 0.99

00:00:31.680 and witchcraft.

00:00:32.680 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:52.540 Without further ado, I need to know what happened in the game.

00:03:55.020 Let's turn to our sister network, Daily Wire 2, and Jeremy, the God King Boring.

00:03:58.400 Yoga is a pagan sex ritual, Michael. 0.64

00:04:07.320 As has been pointed out ad nauseum by common trolls since this bit first began, the Femme 1.00

00:04:13.800 Fatale World Cup is a true World Cup in which well-paid players from squads all over Europe

00:04:19.880 change jerseys and play up their grandmother's accents to represent the districts beyond Capital

00:04:24.600 City in a televised death match with indecipherable rules meant to provide circus for the masses

00:04:29.560 while the muckety-mucks eat until they barf and then eat some more. 1.00

00:04:33.040 Since it is a truly global competition, it seems appropriate to take instruction from

00:04:38.540 the foremost citizen of the world and the first U.S. president not born on this continent,

00:04:42.860 Barry Satoro, who, ignoring the actual Christian faith of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,

00:04:48.460 scolds us that the arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice, but it is not doing

00:04:55.460 so on its own.

00:04:57.200 Indeed, it does so by way of money.

00:05:00.640 And, in the end, might finally made right even in the World Cup, with France GDP $2.46 trillion

00:05:07.320 obliterating Croatia with its GDP of roughly $50 billion, pretty much destroying every funny 0.99

00:05:14.500 joke about the World Cup.

00:05:16.880 Fortunately, we here at The Daily Wire 2 managed to secure an interview with one of America's

00:05:22.300 top soccer players to explain what went so wrong for Croatia and so right for basic capitalist

00:05:28.340 principles.

00:05:28.760 Well, here we are with one of America's foremost soccer experts.

00:05:32.500 Let me ask you, what is your favorite thing about the beautiful sport?

00:05:37.480 Hmm.

00:05:41.660 What did you make of Giroud's performance in the World Cup?

00:05:44.280 Okay, well, here's a better question.

00:05:48.400 Croatia has a GDP of $50.43 billion.

00:05:53.180 Their chief export is transport equipment.

00:05:55.980 How do you think that factored into their matchup with France, whose three chief exports are cheese,

00:05:59.840 wine, and cowardice?

00:06:03.020 Well, I guess the only question in the aftermath of France and Croatia's final,

00:06:07.820 will Germany rise again?

00:06:16.600 That's all the time we have.

00:06:22.780 Thank you, Ben, for that very important interview.

00:06:26.040 Of course, the biggest news of the weekend was not France being on the wrong side of history.

00:06:30.820 It was FIFA's bold and courageous decision to stand up to the patriarchy by no longer giving

00:06:36.680 women any screen time whatsoever at future World Cup matches. 0.76

00:06:40.260 In an official statement, FUFU President Eduardo on the take claimed that women have no place at the 0.87

00:06:45.940 World Cup unless they are homely and insufferable, in which case it's still okay to show them as long

00:06:50.720 as you pay them exactly 0% of what you're paying the male players who are far less interesting to watch.

00:06:56.300 Feminists the world over celebrated the news that American men would no longer have any reason 0.99

00:07:00.700 whatsoever to tune in to this mind-numbing snoozefest by crack-hackling like angry hens

00:07:05.980 about how evil men are for no longer tuning in to this mind-numbing snoozefest. 0.97

00:07:10.260 The trans community objected to the news that women can no longer be shown at soccer matches

00:07:14.400 simply because they look like women by reminding us that while the gender pay gap is real, 0.97

00:07:18.620 gender is not, and that looking like a woman is pretty much the definition of womanhood. 0.61

00:07:23.480 That's just science.

00:07:25.640 U.S. President Donald Trump responded to the announcement that hot babes would no longer

00:07:29.420 get airtime at the World Cup by pulling America out of hosting the games in 2026,

00:07:34.160 calling America's traditional allies losers, and asking Republican super donor Elliot Broidy 0.69

00:07:38.540 for the number of that playmate he definitely didn't have sex with. 0.92

00:07:42.440 And that's all the news for the 2018 World Cup.

00:07:45.280 I want to give a special thanks to Twitter handle StrangelandElf for being lovely in every way

00:07:49.960 and for not flying to Los Angeles and killing us before today's broadcast,

00:07:53.620 and to the six or seven people who actually thought this bit was funny. 0.80

00:07:57.040 Soccer truly sucks, and Germany will rise again. 1.00

00:08:00.640 Michael, yoga is a pagan sex ritual. 1.00

00:08:04.580 Back to you. 0.56

00:08:05.360 Really is the best part of the sport.

00:08:14.940 Really thorough reporting, Jeremy.

00:08:17.340 Thank you, so I was really taken all around the world with that.

00:08:20.200 I'll confess to being pretty much out of jokes.

00:08:23.760 That doesn't mean we're going to stop the segment.

00:08:25.580 Oh, God, no.

00:08:26.160 No, absolutely not.

00:08:27.300 That would never hold that against us.

00:08:28.820 I do have to wonder, though, so France won the World Cup.

00:08:32.480 Is this not the great triumph of this segment that we've done now for weeks?

00:08:36.800 Can a sport be a sport if France can win it?

00:08:41.600 That's a fair point.

00:08:42.620 I always feel bad for our friends the French.

00:08:44.840 I mean, after all, they did help us win the American Revolution.

00:08:48.560 That was the last war in which they showed heroism, bravery, backbone, spine.

00:08:52.600 Of course.

00:08:53.100 It worked out well for us.

00:08:54.440 That's true.

00:08:54.940 And then all the people that helped us in that revolution, by the way, promptly had their heads cut off about ten years later.

00:09:00.220 That's right.

00:09:00.660 As we now fly the flag of the French Army.

00:09:03.400 Really thorough reporting, Jeremy.

00:09:04.720 I can't wait to keep talking about this important, beautiful game.

00:09:10.060 When will the next soccer match be that we can watch and talk about?

00:09:17.820 I'm going to have to be just plainly honest with you, Michael. 0.93

00:09:23.540 Well, I don't know crap about soccer.

00:09:27.140 I don't know who plays it or when. 0.92

00:09:29.280 They built this brand new stadium in Los Angeles.

00:09:31.680 I don't think that's for the World Cup.

00:09:33.200 It's still eight years from now.

00:09:34.580 Could be.

00:09:35.120 Who knows, really?

00:09:36.280 As far as I know.

00:09:37.060 I will say that according to social media, a lot of people do go to soccer matches at said stadium.

00:09:44.820 Which is somewhere in Southern California.

00:09:46.420 Well, I have to give you a lot of props, though, Mr. Godking, because your network, our sister network, Daily Wire 2, really did stream phenomenal coverage of all of the game over the weekend.

00:09:57.700 And people can go check that out.

00:09:58.820 I really liked it at dailywire2.com.

00:10:00.780 So maybe people can check that out.

00:10:02.200 Mr. Godking, I can't thank you enough.

00:10:04.720 You've really shown me the light on this beautiful sport and great news that President Trump is reacting to the cancellation of babes in that way.

00:10:13.380 I can't wait for the United States never to host the World Cup.

00:10:16.760 He is constant as the North Star.

00:10:20.020 Jeremy the Godking, boring everybody.

00:10:21.860 Daily Wire 2, thank you very much.

00:10:23.560 Bam! 0.98

00:10:24.480 Bam. 0.97

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00:10:27.560 Really good.

00:10:30.260 Speaking of the beautiful games in Russia, speaking of the beautiful games, let's talk a little bit about the beautiful games of international politics.

00:10:39.880 Because that really is the beautiful game.

00:10:42.180 And Hemingway had this great quote about games.

00:10:44.560 He said, there are only three sports, bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering.

00:10:49.800 All the rest are merely games.

00:10:52.000 And a more Hemingway quote I don't think I've ever heard.

00:10:55.680 Politics is a beautiful game.

00:10:57.060 It is a game.

00:10:57.900 It's not a sport.

00:10:59.240 The distinction that Hemingway is drawing is between something where you really could die, you know, your life is really on the line, and then games, you know.

00:11:06.400 And what we're seeing now is not war.

00:11:09.560 We're not at war, really.

00:11:10.900 We're not, the Trump-Putin summit is not about war, precisely.

00:11:15.480 The Trump-Muller probe is not about war.

00:11:18.720 The Democrats and Republicans are not at war.

00:11:20.660 We're in games.

00:11:21.440 And politics is a high-stakes game, but it is a game.

00:11:25.420 And everything you've been hearing over the past few weeks, the Mueller indictments, the curiously timed Mueller indictments, all the way up to the Trump arrival in the United Kingdom, all the way to Trump meeting with Putin in Helsinki.

00:11:36.740 It's all about games.

00:11:38.880 And what is the thesis of the game?

00:11:41.240 The Democrats' play here, from just their side, is that the president colluded with Russia.

00:11:47.460 That is, that's their position.

00:11:49.100 That's what they're staking out.

00:11:50.240 That's how they're going to play this game.

00:11:51.360 And we have some video of it, don't we, of the president colluding with Russia.

00:11:54.040 Let's see it.

00:11:54.440 No, no, no, not when President Obama said that he was going to mislead the American people, when he promised that to the head of Russia on camera, he thought he was having a private conversation.

00:12:16.340 I'm talking about the other time that the president colluded with Russia.

00:12:19.440 You warned us about this, and you said there's about $145 million in kickbacks to the Clinton Foundation total?

00:12:27.100 Yeah, that's right.

00:12:28.240 $145 million that we know about comes from a variety of sources, but it's basically nine shareholders in this Uranium One company, guys like Frank Chustra, Sergey Kersen, and others.

00:12:40.100 And there's, there's a major story to be told there, not only about how this deal was approved, but how this deal was put together, and the fact that the Clintons made a lot of money by basically helping the Russians to corner the world uranium market.

00:12:54.840 No, I'm not talking about that time that former future President Hillary Clinton helped the Russians, took a lot of money by helping the Russians to corner the global uranium market.

00:13:03.380 I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about when the president colluded with Russia, just like all the Democrats have been saying.

00:13:09.040 I established, I think, an effective working relationship with Mr. Medvedev.

00:13:14.640 And as a consequence, Russia's economy was growing.

00:13:18.120 They had the opportunity to begin diversifying their economy.

00:13:21.360 Their relations across Europe and around the world were sound.

00:13:25.880 They joined the WTO with assistance from us.

00:13:31.940 And since Mr. Putin made this decision around Crimea and Ukraine, not because of some grand strategy.

00:13:41.540 Governor Romney, I'm glad that you recognize that al-Qaeda is a threat. 0.91

00:13:45.120 Because a few months ago, when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia.

00:13:49.980 Well, not al-Qaeda, you said Russia in the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War has been over for 20 years.

00:14:00.700 Well, I was looking for the tape of President Trump colluding with Russia.

00:14:04.280 Maybe the producers in the back can try to find that.

00:14:06.460 We just found a bunch of Democrats colluding with Russia, President Obama and then former future President Democrat Hillary Clinton.

00:14:13.000 They did.

00:14:13.700 And this really does expose the whole Russia narrative as a farce.

00:14:17.660 It's a political game and they're playing that game and that's fine, but that's the position we're in.

00:14:22.740 These are not honest brokers here, not the Democrats, not the media, perhaps not even the bureaucrats who are pushing this narrative too.

00:14:30.260 There is a big political game going on.

00:14:32.300 We're going to see who's going to win.

00:14:33.460 The stage it's being played out on is Helsinki.

00:14:36.100 President Trump is getting a lot of flack from the left and from his critics on the right.

00:14:40.660 But it's really undeserved.

00:14:42.480 This is a game.

00:14:43.420 So we'll see how the game is being played.

00:14:45.440 Let's go right in to President Trump meeting with Putin.

00:14:49.520 Before anything got started here, before the private meeting, before the press conference afterward, they held a little presser, a little meet and greet beforehand.

00:14:57.820 And I've got to tell you, you know how it started off in the right way because President Trump made fun of soccer.

00:15:03.240 Here it is.

00:15:03.640 Well, first of all, Mr. President, I'd like to congratulate you on a really great World Cup, one of the best ever, from what everybody tells me, one of the best ever, and also for your team itself doing so well.

00:15:20.340 I watched quite a bit, and the United States, we call it soccer.

00:15:26.860 And I watched quite a bit of it, and I watched the entire final and the semifinals, and they were really spectacular games, but it was beautifully done.

00:15:35.640 So congratulations on that.

00:15:37.000 So on the level, I don't want to read too much into this, you know, on the 98% of what this is, it's just a nicety, you know, trying to, what do you say about somebody who's like a vicious KGB killer who poisons people with polonium?

00:15:50.360 You know, you just sort of say, oh, the games were nice, right?

00:15:52.340 But he did get these kind of barbs in there, which is like, first of all, he implied that he'd never watched soccer before, which is obviously true because nobody has watched soccer before.

00:16:00.540 He also said he refused to call it football or release it.

00:16:03.280 You know, we call it soccer in America, that little weird thing that you kids do.

00:16:07.200 We call it soccer.

00:16:08.060 We do that.

00:16:09.040 But he also said that the ones in Russia were some of the best ever, which is obviously true.

00:16:14.120 That's, I think, a little bit of a backhanded compliment, you know, damning with faint praise.

00:16:18.620 But he opens up, he says, yeah, yeah, soccer, it was good.

00:16:20.940 It was good.

00:16:21.260 It was good. 0.97

00:16:21.640 And I got to tell you, from the beginning here, part of the Democrat game is that Donald Trump is a total nincompoop. 1.00

00:16:29.240 He's a total incompetent idiot politician. 1.00

00:16:32.380 And you can't have it both ways. 1.00

00:16:34.380 Ben pointed this out on the Bill Maher show the other day. 0.92

00:16:36.920 The Democrats' angle here is both that Donald Trump is a total incompetent nincompoop and also he's a political mastermind genius who colluded with Russia. 0.87

00:16:44.880 And you can't have both. 0.98

00:16:45.760 You have to pick one.

00:16:46.540 You're not allowed to have both.

00:16:47.480 Democrats are trying to push both narratives right now.

00:16:49.480 They're trying to push it so that any way Trump turns, he's trapped by this Democrat playbook.

00:16:55.280 I think we all have to conclude.

00:16:56.820 Donald Trump is a great politician.

00:16:59.360 He's a really good politician.

00:17:01.060 He's good at politics.

00:17:02.320 He's even good at political speech.

00:17:04.200 Here is just a quick example of, I think, the most basic level of political speech.

00:17:09.100 Politics 101.

00:17:10.200 I noticed this in my early days working on campaigns.

00:17:12.940 And I'll just, I'll show you, this is how President Trump is exemplifying political talk.

00:17:17.080 I think we have great opportunities together as two countries that, frankly, we have not been getting along very well for the last number of years.

00:17:26.420 I've been here not too long, but it's getting close to two years.

00:17:29.920 But I think we will end up having an extraordinary relationship.

00:17:33.420 I hope so.

00:17:33.880 I've been saying, and I'm sure you've heard over the years, and as I campaign, that getting along with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. 0.67

00:17:42.580 And I really think the world wants to see us get along.

00:17:46.120 We are the two great nuclear powers.

00:17:49.400 We have 90 percent of the nuclear.

00:17:52.920 And that's not a good thing.

00:17:54.440 I think it's a bad thing.

00:17:55.580 And I think we hopefully can do something about that because it's not a positive force.

00:18:00.460 It's a negative force.

00:18:01.840 So we'll be talking about that, among other things.

00:18:05.020 You see that.

00:18:05.740 It's a this thing, not a this thing.

00:18:07.460 This is political speech 101.

00:18:09.440 And it plays out differently with different people because in order to affect a political agenda, you need to throw issues into stark light.

00:18:15.780 Now, what kind of mealy-mouthed people do, what Barack Obama likes to do sometimes when he's being called out for not dealing properly with Russia or whatever, is he says, well, it's very complicated.

00:18:25.920 It's very nuanced.

00:18:26.740 It's really, and you can't say, do, do, do, do, do.

00:18:28.580 Okay.

00:18:29.320 When you're trying to obfuscate, that's what you do.

00:18:31.340 When you want to call things into stark light and achieve something politically, you say, it's this, not this.

00:18:35.220 It's black and white.

00:18:36.120 And what dishonest politicians do, by the way, is they, whenever they say that, whenever they use that phrase, like, I want to lower your taxes, not raise your taxes, whatever they say after not is what they really want to do.

00:18:50.320 That's what, like, slimy politicians do. 0.92

00:18:52.980 It's like, look, I want to help alleviate poverty, not just help out the rich, right?

00:18:58.940 And it's always just the last one.

00:19:01.320 But Donald Trump is an honest politician.

00:19:03.700 He's honest to a fault.

00:19:04.820 I think his critics on the right and the left both say this.

00:19:07.180 They say he's too, you know, he's too clear in what he says.

00:19:09.700 I say I'm going to cut taxes.

00:19:11.480 He cuts taxes.

00:19:12.200 He says he's going to appoint an originalist.

00:19:13.900 He appoints an originalist.

00:19:14.940 He says he's going to try to work things out with Putin.

00:19:16.880 He tries to work things out with Putin.

00:19:18.240 He says he's going to destroy ISIS militarily.

00:19:21.180 He destroys ISIS militarily.

00:19:23.260 He's really honest.

00:19:24.040 He's got a good record on keeping his promises.

00:19:26.100 This is something new.

00:19:26.940 It's why people don't really understand Donald Trump that well, is because what he says he's going to give you is what he actually gives you.

00:19:32.420 So the press conference then afterward is being pilloried.

00:19:35.400 They're saying John McCain sent out this blistering statement.

00:19:37.920 You know, John McCain pulls no punches as though John McCain ever pulled a punch.

00:19:41.400 You know, he's always criticizing the president.

00:19:43.800 He has a penchant for criticizing people in his own party.

00:19:46.360 And he's always issuing grandiose statements.

00:19:48.360 He says, it's the worst press moment ever in the history of the presidency in my lifetime.

00:19:53.280 It's terrible.

00:19:53.880 Wah, wah, wah.

00:19:54.360 Right.

00:19:54.880 Okay.

00:19:56.280 Was the press conference perfect?

00:19:57.940 No, I don't think anybody says it was perfect.

00:19:59.820 Broadly, though, it's good.

00:20:01.360 And President Trump really achieved something important here, which is forget about the Putin thing.

00:20:05.640 It doesn't really matter.

00:20:06.660 They had their private meeting and the United States is going to pursue its interest.

00:20:11.920 Russia is going to pursue its interest.

00:20:13.220 We'll see if we can get along.

00:20:14.280 Probably we can't, but maybe we can.

00:20:15.760 The achievement that President Trump had in this press conference is he fended off the

00:20:20.660 Democrat attacks and he offended off their game strategy.

00:20:23.940 The Democrat game strategy is to put him in a corner such that anything he does is a loss

00:20:29.540 for Trump.

00:20:30.180 If he hits Putin, it's a loss.

00:20:31.640 If he plays soft with Putin, it's a loss.

00:20:33.800 That's what they were trying to do.

00:20:34.760 He fended that off very well.

00:20:36.440 Here's just a little bit from the press conference.

00:20:38.940 The disagreements between our two countries are well known.

00:20:41.820 And President Putin and I discussed them at length today.

00:20:48.620 But if we're going to solve many of the problems facing our world, then we're going to have

00:20:54.880 to find ways to cooperate in pursuit of shared interests.

00:20:58.660 They also did trade some barbs.

00:21:00.720 You had to be watching this closely.

00:21:02.720 But they did trade some barbs here.

00:21:04.280 You know, President Trump called Putin a global competitor.

00:21:07.420 They said, do you really think he's a competitor?

00:21:08.780 Some of the Russian journalists said, do you really think he's a competitor?

00:21:11.640 He says, yeah, absolutely.

00:21:12.380 He's a competitor.

00:21:13.200 And we're going to compete for oil, giving oil to Europe right now.

00:21:17.840 Europe is buying a lot of oil from Russia.

00:21:19.480 And I want to stop that.

00:21:20.460 And I want them to buy more from the United States because we're the largest oil producer

00:21:23.540 in the world.

00:21:24.140 We're number one.

00:21:24.860 We're number one.

00:21:25.720 This is a pretty strong statement from Trump.

00:21:27.560 Putin got in a dig about Israel.

00:21:29.740 Putin said, you know, it was actually a concession to Israel.

00:21:32.620 They're going to go back.

00:21:33.780 Syria needs to go back to the ceasefire from, I think, 1974 and, you know, basically ensure 0.98

00:21:40.500 Israeli peace and security.

00:21:43.660 And Putin said, you know, President Trump was really specific about Israel.

00:21:48.040 He was really focusing on Israel.

00:21:49.640 And this was a little dig in there to try to create some turmoil, some domestic turmoil 0.71

00:21:53.840 for the United States, but just a little bit of a line.

00:21:55.980 And then President Trump, when he was broadly deflecting questions about the Mueller indictment

00:22:02.140 and the collusion and the this and that.

00:22:04.320 But he did have this line.

00:22:05.580 I forget the exact wording.

00:22:06.460 He did say like, well, you know, President Putin's going to answer some questions.

00:22:09.420 He's going to look into this.

00:22:10.360 There's some things being raised.

00:22:11.980 You know, it wasn't this total saying, yes, Putin didn't interfere in our election.

00:22:15.660 He said, well, he's going to have to look into that.

00:22:17.500 He basically takes President Putin's denial for, you know, for what it is.

00:22:23.160 What are you going to do?

00:22:23.840 He says, we didn't do it.

00:22:25.140 And then he's going to say, yes, you did.

00:22:26.360 You did it. 1.00

00:22:26.740 You did it, damn it. 1.00

00:22:27.460 No, that blows up the whole summit. 1.00

00:22:29.700 But he did get in there like, well, OK, I don't, you know, well, let's see what we

00:22:33.780 believe from Vladimir Putin.

00:22:35.860 The media then, of course, come in and they try to trash this.

00:22:39.080 So the real game here is the media trying to blow up this summit, put Trump in a position

00:22:44.260 where everything he does is wrong.

00:22:45.860 By the way, these indictments came out last week, the end of last week.

00:22:48.980 Is that a coincidence?

00:22:50.420 I got to tell you, you know, people try to make Bob Mueller and the special counsel look like

00:22:54.240 he's totally above politics.

00:22:55.620 People, they do this with the Supreme Court.

00:22:57.540 The Supreme Court's totally above politics.

00:22:59.700 Bob Mueller watches the election returns.

00:23:01.540 Bob Mueller watches the presidential calendar.

00:23:03.960 And the Supreme Court watches the election returns too.

00:23:06.680 That's the longstanding political reality of things.

00:23:10.040 Those indictments came out on that day to blow up the summit, to blow up the Putin-Trump summit

00:23:18.940 in Helsinki.

00:23:19.660 That's what it was all about.

00:23:21.100 There are no coincidences in politics.

00:23:23.300 So how did Trump do on that?

00:23:24.680 Well, here is the big blow up on holding Russia accountable.

00:23:28.440 Here's the press conference.

00:23:29.340 Do you hold Russia at all accountable for anything in particular?

00:23:33.380 And if so, what would you consider them that they are responsible for?

00:23:38.020 Yes, I do.

00:23:38.660 I hold both countries responsible. 1.00

00:23:41.560 I think that the United States has been foolish. 1.00

00:23:44.080 I think we've all been foolish. 0.99

00:23:45.980 We should have had this dialogue a long time ago, a long time, frankly, before I got to office. 0.98

00:23:52.520 That's right.

00:23:53.520 That's the statement.

00:23:54.280 That's the one that he's getting blown up for.

00:23:55.760 You know, he said there's blame to go around for the breakdown in Russia and U.S. ties and cooperation.

00:24:03.680 That's obviously true.

00:24:05.020 Later on, he says, you know, the probe is a disaster for our country.

00:24:08.380 You know, it's a, and that is, it is a disaster for our country.

00:24:11.400 Not, not for Russia's country. 0.66

00:24:12.560 It's not drawing some sort of moral equivalence between Bob Mueller and Vladimir Putin, a KGB killer.

00:24:18.280 But he's saying, yes, the probe, this has been pushed by Democrats, begun by Democrats,

00:24:23.060 begun by Democrat OPPO, constantly touted by the Democrat media.

00:24:26.780 That has been a trouble for our country, and it has strained U.S. and Russian relations.

00:24:31.120 But is there blame to go around?

00:24:33.620 That's the big question.

00:24:34.640 Is there blame to go around for the breakdown in U.S.-Russian relations?

00:24:38.840 Of course.

00:24:40.120 Of course.

00:24:40.680 Why are we negotiating from a position of weakness?

00:24:44.280 Well, Barack Obama did nothing when Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea.

00:24:49.760 That was a mistake.

00:24:50.920 There's some blame to go around there.

00:24:52.540 Hillary Clinton sold, took money from the Russians, and gave them control over a large 1.00

00:24:58.020 part of the global uranium market.

00:25:00.140 That was a mistake.

00:25:01.140 That comes to blame.

00:25:02.220 That affects our position.

00:25:04.120 President Obama leaned in and said, I am willing to lie to the American people.

00:25:08.560 I'm going to mislead the American people through my election, and then I'm going to pivot

00:25:11.360 and do the opposite of what I say I'm going to do.

00:25:13.460 Do something different than I'm promising the election.

00:25:15.380 I'm going to give you flexibility.

00:25:16.740 That's a position of weakness.

00:25:18.000 There's been a lot of blame to go around.

00:25:19.440 Of previous administrations not to take a hard line.

00:25:22.760 The Russian hacking, by the way, took place under the Obama administration.

00:25:26.780 Why didn't they stop it?

00:25:28.280 Why couldn't they prevent it?

00:25:29.360 Why couldn't they deal with it in real time?

00:25:30.880 That was a mistake.

00:25:31.700 There's blame to go around.

00:25:32.620 And that's not drawing moral equivalence between the United States and Russia.

00:25:36.980 I'm very pleased that President Trump is no longer drawing moral equivalence.

00:25:41.200 That's a good thing.

00:25:41.900 That means he's getting better in office.

00:25:43.500 But there is a lot of blame to go around.

00:25:45.180 And the past administration and the former future president, Hillary Clinton, as Secretary

00:25:49.840 of State, did a lot of damage to that relationship.

00:25:52.900 And it's because they led from behind, because they negotiated from weakness.

00:25:56.460 So the media still wouldn't let up here, though.

00:25:58.960 You know, President Trump, or President Trump, President Putin almost admitted, by the way,

00:26:04.100 that he did hack the election.

00:26:05.220 Here's Putin.

00:26:06.560 As to who is to be believed and who is not to be believed, you can trust no one if you

00:26:12.920 take this.

00:26:14.060 Where did you get this idea that President Trump trusts me or I trust him?

00:26:18.300 He defends the interests of the United States of America, and I do defend the interests of

00:26:24.180 the Russian Federation.

00:26:26.600 We do have interests that are common.

00:26:29.260 We are looking for points of contact.

00:26:32.220 There are issues where our postures diverge, and we are looking for ways to reconcile our

00:26:38.780 differences, how to make our effort more meaningful.

00:26:42.440 That's the whole story, folks.

00:26:44.020 That's the whole story.

00:26:44.820 They're saying the big New York Times headline here is, Donald Trump gives in to Russia.

00:26:49.760 He won't condemn Putin. 0.60

00:26:51.320 He won't scream and try to rip his head off on stage. 0.98

00:26:53.620 He's a sellout.

00:26:54.460 He gives in.

00:26:55.440 And Putin's lying and getting away with it.

00:26:57.360 Putin just admitted right there that he hacked the election.

00:27:00.400 That's the confession.

00:27:01.620 That's the big admission.

00:27:02.640 He said, look, what do you mean?

00:27:04.360 Because the question is, who should we believe, the U.S. intelligence agencies or Vladimir Putin?

00:27:09.300 Should we trust Putin?

00:27:10.320 And Putin actually comes out and says, why would you trust me?

00:27:13.300 Why are you trusting?

00:27:14.080 I don't trust Trump.

00:27:15.080 Trump doesn't trust me.

00:27:16.700 He's coming out.

00:27:17.360 This is the whole story because President Trump defends American interests and Putin 0.73

00:27:21.620 defends the Russian interests.

00:27:23.160 That's the admission right there.

00:27:24.320 But that won't be reported on, will it? 1.00

00:27:25.980 Because, you know, you never wonder with the Democrats if it's malice or idiocy. 0.99

00:27:31.780 But either they're very obtuse or they just didn't understand what Vladimir Putin is saying there. 1.00

00:27:37.640 The media still wouldn't let up.

00:27:38.780 Here, they're begging him.

00:27:39.560 They're saying, come on, Trump.

00:27:40.560 Blow up the whole summit.

00:27:41.400 Tell Putin off.

00:27:42.100 Do it.

00:27:42.400 Do it.

00:27:42.660 Do it.

00:27:42.900 Here they are.

00:27:44.080 Would you now, with the whole world watching, tell President Putin, would you denounce what

00:27:48.940 happened in 2016 and would you warn him to never do it again?

00:27:52.020 All I can do is ask the question.

00:27:53.840 All I can do is ask the question.

00:27:57.600 Yeah, that's right.

00:27:58.340 That's it.

00:27:58.780 Obviously.

00:27:59.300 What do you want me to do? 1.00

00:28:00.300 I mean, Trump is sitting there like, are you an idiot? 1.00

00:28:02.900 What is to be gained? 1.00

00:28:03.880 What is to be gained from Trump going on stage and saying, you tried to spy on our election

00:28:09.180 and interfere with us?

00:28:10.820 And then they say, okay, well, there goes the summit.

00:28:13.500 Why did we have the summit at all?

00:28:14.640 I mean, the Mueller indictments coming out when they did was to stop the summit.

00:28:18.140 They don't want the summit to happen.

00:28:19.660 But what's to be gained from that?

00:28:20.980 Does anybody on earth really believe that Russia didn't try to interfere in our elections?

00:28:24.620 Russia's been trying to interfere in our elections since 1917.

00:28:28.040 Do we really think that all of a sudden they stopped interfering?

00:28:30.260 In the 1970s, 1980s, you had Ted Kennedy trying to collude with the Russians to help his presidential election.

00:28:39.180 You had Henry Kissinger was talking to the Russians, obviously.

00:28:43.760 The notion that they're not interfering in our elections and that we don't have strategic interests to spy on the Russians is absurd.

00:28:49.700 Of course, everybody spies on each other.

00:28:51.540 That's just the way it is.

00:28:52.420 They got a good one this time.

00:28:53.760 Sad, you know.

00:28:54.380 But does that mean that we shouldn't have any diplomacy now because a nation is spying on us, because a nation is aggressive, because a nation is trying to interfere in our elections and we're interfering in other elections and we're spying on other people, perhaps?

00:29:07.000 That means that we shouldn't have diplomacy?

00:29:08.700 That's absurd.

00:29:09.280 And they wouldn't believe it.

00:29:10.060 If this were a Democrat president, they would absolutely be saying, great, finally, diplomacy is winning.

00:29:15.060 It's just a political game.

00:29:17.320 And this is why you shouldn't get too riled up about this, folks, if you're on the left or the right.

00:29:21.040 This is a game that is being played out by the Democrat Party and the Republican Party.

00:29:26.480 You know, ironically here, ironically here, the New York Times is actually commending Donald Trump.

00:29:32.840 And they're commending him because they can't ignore it anymore.

00:29:34.800 On this foreign trip, he actually, the headline from the New York Times is,

00:29:38.040 Trump got from NATO everything Obama ever asked for.

00:29:41.240 It shows the game for what it is.

00:29:43.280 Because if Barack Obama were doing these things, they would be cheering.

00:29:46.460 The Democrat Party wants to put Donald Trump in a position where if he is too nice to Putin or he's diplomatic with Putin,

00:29:55.060 then it's evidence that he colluded, even though we've seen no evidence that there was any campaign collusion.

00:29:59.440 And what they're trying to do is back him into a corner where he has to be extremely aggressive with Putin,

00:30:03.240 which will hamper his agenda to try to, first of all, bring the nations closer together and to cooperate where they can.

00:30:09.260 Either way, it's a lose-lose for Trump.

00:30:10.680 Trump's not going to do that.

00:30:11.560 That's a big win.

00:30:13.020 That's a big win.

00:30:13.700 You know, here's the New York Times.

00:30:15.900 Now that the smoke has cleared from the NATO summit meeting, the most tangible result is apparent.

00:30:19.900 President Trump advanced President Barack Obama's initiative to keep the allies on track to shoulder a more equitable share of NATO's costs.

00:30:26.260 Mr. Trump even signed on to a tough statement directed at Russia.

00:30:29.340 For once, he saw eye to eye with his predecessor.

00:30:31.960 Yet whether Mr. Trump himself is clear about the strategy he's pursuing or whether he, in fact, has one remains mysterious. 1.00

00:30:37.640 Of course, you know, they've got to get their knock and Trump is an idiot, right? 1.00

00:30:40.800 That's from the New York Times. 1.00

00:30:41.900 But on actually what he's getting, it seems that he's getting the right things.

00:30:46.080 You know, Barack Obama sent campaign advisors to try to stop, to try to interfere in the Israeli election and kick out Bibi Netanyahu.

00:30:53.340 We didn't hear anything about this because this is a political game.

00:30:57.240 And I think, fortunately, was this a clear win for President Trump and the administration?

00:31:03.080 Was this a clear he knocked it out of the park?

00:31:04.660 Maybe not, but he won and he fought back.

00:31:06.240 And we should not be criticizing him for that because to do that is to deny the actual stakes of this game and to deny the reality of it.

00:31:15.880 By the way, this brings us to the Brexit.

00:31:22.080 So we all remember Brexit.

00:31:24.560 Oh, gosh, do we have to really want to get to these indictments?

00:31:26.580 We just have too much today.

00:31:27.820 All right, I'm going to analyze the indictments tomorrow.

00:31:30.340 But broadly speaking, I read through all of those Mueller indictments, those politically timed Mueller indictments.

00:31:35.900 And what they show is that, what the Democrats are trying to show is that President Trump called out and he said,

00:31:43.740 Hey, Russia, if you find the emails, you know, let us know.

00:31:46.800 And then they started hacking.

00:31:48.580 That's not true.

00:31:49.300 What the indictments show us very clearly is that the hacking started way beforehand.

00:31:53.720 It started in March.

00:31:54.560 President Trump didn't make those comments until the late spring and summer.

00:32:00.020 It started in March.

00:32:01.280 They spearfished.

00:32:02.240 They started hacking.

00:32:03.100 They were hacking for a very long time.

00:32:04.840 CNN says Trump asked Russian to get Clinton emails.

00:32:07.480 They immediately started trying.

00:32:08.640 Just not true.

00:32:09.860 All of this is about, this ultimate game is about overturning a democratic election.

00:32:14.780 You're seeing this in the Brexit.

00:32:16.220 Before we go, and then I'll analyze Ariana Grande. 0.99

00:32:19.180 Right now, there is a campaign.

00:32:20.600 Remember the Brexit when the UK is supposed to leave the European Union?

00:32:23.220 You might not remember it because it hasn't happened yet.

00:32:25.380 And the reason it hasn't happened is because, just like the left in America is playing their game,

00:32:30.060 the left in the UK is also playing this game to undermine a democratic election.

00:32:35.500 There was a referendum campaign.

00:32:36.900 The British people said, we want to leave the EU.

00:32:38.980 So what has George Soros done?

00:32:40.660 He's announced a push for a new referendum.

00:32:44.520 They say, we need a new referendum.

00:32:45.920 Why?

00:32:46.380 Because the first referendum didn't go his way.

00:32:48.180 Didn't go their way.

00:32:48.940 He said, quote, ultimately, it's up to the British people to decide what they want to do.

00:32:52.860 It would be better, however, if they came to a decision sooner rather than later.

00:32:56.640 That's the goal of the initiative, which I call best for Britain.

00:32:59.480 It's what I support.

00:33:01.340 They already had, they already decided.

00:33:03.400 They already had their voices heard.

00:33:04.580 And they just didn't give you the answer that you wanted.

00:33:06.720 So now you've got to do it again.

00:33:07.980 They do this again and again.

00:33:09.240 This pro-EU member of parliament, Justine Greening, wants a new vote.

00:33:13.380 And what the left wants to do, they want to keep voting.

00:33:15.460 They want to keep counting until they get their answer.

00:33:17.380 The election results come in and the numbers aren't in their favor.

00:33:20.420 Just keep counting.

00:33:21.880 Keep on counting.

00:33:22.700 Keep on counting right away.

00:33:23.740 It's anti-democratic.

00:33:24.760 It's being played out through the Mueller probe.

00:33:26.620 It's being played out through the mainstream media.

00:33:28.420 It's being played out on the global stage in Helsinki.

00:33:30.240 It's being played out at the Brexit.

00:33:31.500 We shouldn't fall for it.

00:33:32.440 You have to know the rules of the game if you're going to win the game.

00:33:35.160 And denying the game that's being played is not the way to do it.

00:33:38.800 It's a beautiful game, politics.

00:33:40.840 But you've got to look at it with pretty clear eyes.

00:33:43.660 And what we've got here is basically a win.

00:33:46.580 At least in this round, we've still got a win.

00:33:48.380 And it's much more beautiful and entertaining and important than soccer.

00:33:51.920 We've got to get to Ariana Grande.

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00:34:39.120 This is like a nice, tastes like a mixture of borscht and vodka.

00:34:44.880 It's really good this time.

00:34:46.800 I call it the Helsinki vintage.

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00:34:50.240 We'll be right back to explain how Ariana Grande is a witch. 1.00

00:35:03.560 In our remaining moments here, I want to turn to the question.

00:35:08.000 Forget the question about politics.

00:35:09.780 Forget the question about Russian collusion.

00:35:12.560 Is God a woman? 0.98

00:35:14.180 That's what Ariana Grande is alleging. 1.00

00:35:16.520 If you haven't seen her new music video, here's just a clip, and we will analyze it.

00:35:21.120 Is I, it be you?

00:35:25.300 You love her, I'm all pure.

00:35:27.980 You love her, I touch you, my one.

00:35:31.340 When all is said and done, you will believe God is a woman. 0.96

00:35:37.780 It's a little racy.

00:35:39.200 Are we allowed to play that on the show?

00:35:41.320 I don't know.

00:35:42.000 Play it again.

00:35:42.660 I don't know.

00:35:43.220 So this song that Ariana Grande has come out with, Ariana Grande, I think, is about four years old.

00:35:48.100 I don't know.

00:35:48.520 She's like 25 or something.

00:35:49.820 She's like a teeny bopper, and now she's a big pop star. 1.00

00:35:53.860 And I actually kind of like some of her work.

00:35:55.640 I think she's got like a real sense for pop music, which, you know, I'm going to, this is worse than liking soccer for my mouth.

00:36:01.340 Masculinity card.

00:36:02.540 But this song is really crazy because it's extremely cultic.

00:36:06.780 So God is a woman. 1.00

00:36:07.820 Obviously, it's a very provocative statement.

00:36:09.460 Also not true.

00:36:10.600 And you see all of this imagery throughout the music video.

00:36:14.800 People are saying it's so weird.

00:36:15.940 They don't get it.

00:36:16.700 You get this weird like flame thing and a bunch of screaming groundhogs.

00:36:20.140 And Ariana Grande sort of caressing in a sensuous way a storm system moving over the globe.

00:36:27.460 What does it all mean?

00:36:28.520 What does she mean by God as a woman?

00:36:29.920 Where does this come from?

00:36:31.080 It's really, really cultic.

00:36:33.980 Like, Pat Robertson joked about this.

00:36:36.120 And by joking, I mean he probably really believed this.

00:36:38.620 That feminism is tied into the occult. 0.98

00:36:41.080 It's tied.

00:36:41.580 Modern leftism is tied into the occult.

00:36:43.540 Ariana Grande is kind of proving that point here. 1.00

00:36:45.280 You know, you immediately get all of this anatomic imagery.

00:36:48.000 So you get like this flame that looks kind of anatomical.

00:36:51.880 You get this watery paint bed that has certain designs.

00:36:54.840 The storm system.

00:36:56.400 And it reminds me of Georgia O'Keeffe.

00:36:58.380 She was the one who painted very anatomical looking flowers.

00:37:02.260 You know, when you go to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe,

00:37:04.980 you have to watch this video right up front.

00:37:06.960 And they say, you know, Georgia O'Keeffe, 0.98

00:37:09.260 people thought she was painting women's anatomy. 1.00

00:37:11.780 But that isn't true.

00:37:12.560 And then you go look and every single painting is pretty graphic and contradicts the video.

00:37:17.300 That's what you're getting here.

00:37:18.300 You're getting a lot of Georgia O'Keeffe imagery and a lot of cultic stuff.

00:37:21.120 It comes from, it reminds me of like Gilgamesh.

00:37:23.240 You get, you know, kind of this feminist, 1.00

00:37:27.000 I guess what it would be like a sacred prostitute. 0.99

00:37:30.000 This appears in Gilgamesh. 0.97

00:37:31.340 It appears in the Bible. 0.82

00:37:32.100 A lot of ancient religions had these sort of sacred prostitutes. 1.00

00:37:35.600 And you get a lot of imagery in here.

00:37:37.040 And I was thinking, I was like, am I reading too deeply into this?

00:37:39.620 Am I, I don't know.

00:37:40.480 So the video was released on Friday the 13th,

00:37:43.920 which is like Friday is the witch's Sabbath in the occult.

00:37:46.820 And, you know, obviously everyone knows what Friday the 13th symbolizes.

00:37:51.580 And then later on in the video, you get this book.

00:37:53.860 It's all of these men sort of screaming at her from a book.

00:37:57.160 And she's sitting there like the thinker,

00:37:59.460 the statue of the thinker,

00:38:01.380 which is based on the sculpture by Rodin.

00:38:04.100 And it's for a doorway surrounding the gates of hell,

00:38:07.040 which is based on Dante.

00:38:08.180 More kind of cultic, dark imagery.

00:38:10.720 Men are throwing words at her.

00:38:11.820 And the book that they're standing in is a history of agriculture.

00:38:15.420 It's these men in history, the history of cultivation.

00:38:17.860 It's written in French, but it's the history of aggravate.

00:38:19.820 You had a cult.

00:38:20.640 So at this point, I was pretty sure that that's what's going on.

00:38:22.660 Then Ariana Grande appears in front of this three-headed dog, Cerberus. 0.96

00:38:26.620 It calls to mind, you know, this dog of the underworld.

00:38:29.000 When you try to come for me, I keep on flourishing, she says.

00:38:32.340 Really, you know, poetry.

00:38:33.640 And then there's this crazy scene where these groundhogs just jump up from the ground,

00:38:38.060 this dry earth, and start screeching in this awful voice. 0.97

00:38:41.660 And so I read a piece on Patheos, a great website that has a lot of religious stuff, 0.99

00:38:47.360 by Matt Oren, who is a gay male witch. 0.97

00:38:51.720 Do with that what you will. 0.96

00:38:54.160 And he says that this is all a reference to the pagan holiday of Imbolc,

00:38:58.080 which coincides with the Christian holiday at Candlemas.

00:39:00.820 And it's a celebration of this goddess's return to the land

00:39:04.520 to bring water to this dry land and the light taking over the darkness.

00:39:09.120 And you see a total one-for-one in the imagery there.

00:39:12.680 The imagery of Groundhog's Day, the light taking over the darkness and the dry land,

00:39:16.120 and then the water imagery immediately comes afterward.

00:39:20.680 And then there's another image of Ariana Grande, like a she-wolf,

00:39:24.200 and like the little kids Romulus and Remus sort of suckling from her.

00:39:28.080 And I hope I'm not making this sound sensuous.

00:39:31.220 It isn't. 0.79

00:39:32.080 It's pretty gross looking.

00:39:34.660 But I'm really shocked by this,

00:39:36.560 because all the times you hear these right-wing sort of people say,

00:39:40.360 pop culture is awful, it's perverting the minds of people,

00:39:42.900 it's cultic, it's this, it's that.

00:39:44.640 It's so easy to brush them off.

00:39:46.460 And who cares? 1.00

00:39:47.100 Do I think that a whole generation is going to be destroyed by some stupid music video? 1.00

00:39:52.340 No. 1.00

00:39:53.060 But it is all cultic imagery.

00:39:55.060 It does really have a point.

00:39:56.560 And very easily in our political discourse,

00:39:58.640 it's easy to brush things off and say,

00:39:59.880 oh, you're thinking too much.

00:40:01.080 Oh, you're, well, you know who else thought too much?

00:40:02.840 The person who made this video.

00:40:04.180 They were thinking a lot too.

00:40:05.220 They were putting images there pretty intentionally.

00:40:07.200 There are a lot more references in it that we don't really have time to get into.

00:40:10.140 But it does really make you think.

00:40:11.440 I did this video for PragerU where I said,

00:40:13.440 you've got to watch your language.

00:40:14.800 People say, oh, who cares if you use illegal alien or undocumented immigrant?

00:40:18.800 Who cares?

00:40:19.340 It's just semantics.

00:40:20.900 Those words, those little things, they really matter.

00:40:24.120 One of the characters on The Crown a couple seasons ago, he said,

00:40:27.140 you know, it's in the small things that the rot begins.

00:40:29.940 You've got to really look out for that.

00:40:31.540 And it totally reminds me of that Pat Robertson quote.

00:40:35.060 Perhaps you've heard it.

00:40:36.100 I'll leave you on this note today because we've got to go.

00:40:38.680 But it is the greatest quote in political history.

00:40:41.500 From Pat Robertson, he's the squinty guy on the Christian channel. 1.00

00:40:43.840 He says, the feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women.

00:40:47.360 It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement 0.99

00:40:50.160 that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, 1.00

00:40:53.400 practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians. 1.00

00:40:58.320 I'm not going to unpack that. 1.00

00:40:59.900 I'll let Ariana Grande do that for you. 1.00

00:41:02.040 I'll let soccer, which is an outgrowth of that, do that for you.

00:41:04.880 But I'll leave you on that note today.

00:41:07.840 We've got some great guests coming up this week.

00:41:09.720 I can't wait for you to tune in for it.

00:41:11.360 Now that we've covered all of the political gamut for the last three days,

00:41:14.820 we can get back to more broader things tomorrow.

00:41:17.040 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:41:18.260 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:41:19.320 I'll see you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 16, 2018

Ep. 184 - The Beautiful Game

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