The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1851 - Zohran Mamdani Stole This Group From Us

00:00:00.000 Conservatives are still reeling from the election losses two nights ago, and it was brutal,

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00:00:20.120 After decade upon decade of inane, insufferable, left-wing babble,

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00:02:22.040 There are a lot of really important lessons that came out of election night that we're now beginning

00:02:25.220 to see in the data. But look, here's a little silver lining, and it's somewhat improbable,

00:02:32.640 actually, after the Democrats did so well this time. Hollywood, finally, after so many years of all

00:02:40.760 this stupid political babbling, Hollywood says it wants to get out of the politics business. 0.99

00:02:47.360 And there's a very curious reason why. Here is Jennifer Lawrence explaining her position. 0.99

00:02:52.760 You have been politically outspoken in the past. In the first Trump administration,

00:02:57.400 you know, you had a lot to say. I'm curious how you feel about talking out now.

00:03:08.880 I don't really know if I should. I think, like, the first Trump administration was so

00:03:16.060 wild, and just how can we let this stand? Like, I felt like I was running around like a chicken with

00:03:24.940 my head cut off. But as we've learned, election after election, celebrities do not make a difference

00:03:34.680 whatsoever on who people vote for. And so then what am I doing? I'm just sharing my opinion on

00:03:43.180 something that's going to just add fuel to a fire that's ripping the country apart.

00:03:49.220 Oh, I love this. This is so introspective. Seriously, I'm not mocking her. This is great.

00:03:54.720 She said, look, I used to talk about politics all the time. I'd drive myself crazy. And I'm going to

00:03:59.780 stop. Not because I don't think it's my place. Not because I just want to go entertain and go,

00:04:04.420 you know, dance and sing. And no. I said, I'm going to shut up about it because it's having no effect.

00:04:10.420 It used to have an effect. There was a time, including when I was a young boy,

00:04:16.820 that politics, or rather celebrities speaking out on politics, even though they didn't know

00:04:21.780 anything, George Clooney doesn't know anything about politics. But when they would speak out,

00:04:25.440 that would move some voters. And increasingly, that isn't happening.

00:04:29.140 The question then that Jennifer Lawrence doesn't answer is why? And I will tell you why.

00:04:33.380 Why? The reason why is because we now have celebrities whose entire job it is to talk 0.79

00:04:42.800 about politics. And that was not always the case. Used to be you'd get, you know, the star of some

00:04:47.620 movie or something would be asked about politics in some interview. And he or she would babble about

00:04:51.940 it. And it would almost always be for the left. And people would listen. Now, there's just been a

00:04:58.200 process of specialization. Maybe this just happens in capitalism. You've seen it happen in academia.

00:05:03.860 Used to be you'd have a professor would talk about philosophy, maybe ancient philosophy,

00:05:08.620 maybe modern philosophy. But they would teach the general courses or history. They'd cover American

00:05:13.520 history. And then over the years, you know this if you've ever been to any kind of university class,

00:05:18.720 it becomes so hyper-specialized that the professor says, well, you know, I'm actually,

00:05:22.780 I'm the world's leading expert in the history of Aboriginal pygmies in the eastern part of Uganda 1.00

00:05:32.680 from 1921 to August of 1921. And I'm actually, I'm not the leading expert on that. I'm the leading

00:05:41.860 expert on those pygmies who themselves were experts in Indo-Iberian literature, 1.00

00:05:52.780 about trees. And that's it. And I'm only being slightly hyperbolic.

00:05:58.780 They're so hyper-specialized. You see this throughout the university. You see this in

00:06:02.060 corporate America. Very few generalists anymore. Very few people who can do lots of different jobs.

00:06:08.120 They're people who hyper-specialize on one, not just one department, but one aspect of the department,

00:06:14.740 one platform, one task. It's just all these hyper-specialization. That's happened in celebrity even.

00:06:23.260 When I was a kid, when many of you were kids, though not the younger audience,

00:06:28.680 there were Hollywood celebrities divided between movie stars and TV stars. Movie stars more prestigious.

00:06:35.460 And then there were political analysts who were guys who wore, you know, ties. And they would go on

00:06:40.980 the handful of news shows. And they would talk about elections. And they would talk about politicians.

00:06:45.980 And they would talk about policy. And they would debate all that sort of stuff.

00:06:51.820 Now, though, in recent years, and I guess I'm part of it,

00:06:56.080 that has given way to a different kind of political influencer.

00:07:01.160 Who is not the guy who's obsessing over policy or candidates or even elections?

00:07:05.360 Is just someone who, and doesn't even go on the news show, just kind of has his own stream,

00:07:10.680 has his own platform, has his own whatever, and talks about kind of weird, abstract stuff.

00:07:15.920 And maybe doesn't even concern himself with actual politicians or elections.

00:07:19.540 But they're nevertheless political influencers.

00:07:22.220 And they're the ones who are offering opinions on any matter of politics.

00:07:27.520 And I think basically what happened in the celebrity industry is the movie stories got crowded out from that.

00:07:33.680 People stopped paying attention.

00:07:36.740 Specialization strikes entertainment, too.

00:07:38.960 And this new class of celebrity is not the same thing as George Will and Charles Krauthammer.

00:07:45.120 Or even Bill Buckley or Gore Vidal.

00:07:47.000 It's this different kind of thing.

00:07:49.640 It's got a little bit of the glam of Hollywood.

00:07:51.900 It's got a little bit of the lifestyle influencing.

00:07:55.800 It's got a little bit of politics, maybe a touch of philosophy, maybe a little religion, though.

00:08:00.640 Used to be that the political analysts didn't really talk about religion.

00:08:03.100 Now it's got a little bit of that, and it's different.

00:08:06.320 Jennifer Lawrence, she lost her job.

00:08:08.020 She still has her movie job, but she lost her politics job.

00:08:10.600 So did all of Hollywood.

00:08:11.820 That's a good thing.

00:08:12.660 Very, very good thing.

00:08:13.560 Okay.

00:08:14.960 That's all the good news I have for you.

00:08:16.960 That's almost all of it.

00:08:17.880 Because we have to get to the election and what to learn from the election

00:08:20.440 so that we don't repeat it in the midterms and in 2028. 0.69

00:08:23.060 So we'll turn to part of that class of inane political babblers.

00:08:27.660 Rachel Welch. 1.00

00:08:29.200 She was the girl who went viral for saying that Charlie Kirk was an awful piece of SHIT. 1.00

00:08:35.360 And it was recently, within a week or two ago. 1.00

00:08:37.880 And no one really on the right had ever heard of her.

00:08:40.840 But she sat down with serious people.

00:08:42.200 The Democrat leader in the House, Hakeem Jeffries.

00:08:44.400 A bunch of members of Congress.

00:08:46.140 She's part of that class, albeit on the left-wing side of the class. 0.72

00:08:48.820 So at the Zoran victory rally, she's standing around with Mehdi Hassan,

00:08:54.120 who used to be a TV journalist.

00:08:55.720 Now he's just one of these bomb throwers on the far left and other people.

00:09:00.260 And she made the claim that Americans have no culture.

00:09:04.680 Okay, so she said this, and her entire side believes this.

00:09:24.120 And actually, there are people, even on the squishy part of the right, who believe this.

00:09:27.620 Of all the crazy, insane things this woman's ever said,

00:09:29.900 this one is very widespread. 0.91

00:09:32.060 It's very mainstream.

00:09:33.800 America has no culture.

00:09:35.380 Two claims, really.

00:09:36.220 Three claims, I'm sorry.

00:09:37.820 The first one is America has no culture except for multiculturalism. 0.83

00:09:43.280 Which is inanity. 0.94

00:09:45.040 That's just to say America has no culture.

00:09:46.740 So other cultures have to fill it in.

00:09:49.500 We've heard this over the years.

00:09:51.240 Usually it's white people have no culture. 0.95

00:09:52.880 They mean this in much the same way. 0.68

00:09:55.100 But America has no culture other than multiculturalism.

00:09:57.420 Now, of course, this raises a question.

00:09:58.400 What was the American culture before multiculturalism?

00:10:02.700 Multiculturalism is relatively new.

00:10:03.920 It's like four or five decades old.

00:10:05.920 What about before that time?

00:10:07.700 What about before mass migration?

00:10:09.140 What about before the discouragement of assimilation?

00:10:12.620 We didn't have anything?

00:10:13.740 Because we invented everything out of the last 100 years that's ever been invented.

00:10:18.000 200 years.

00:10:19.000 We have dominated in culture.

00:10:21.680 Our culture has spread throughout the world.

00:10:23.260 Our products have spread throughout the world.

00:10:24.760 We're the global hegemon.

00:10:25.740 We didn't have anything.

00:10:28.820 There was no culture of the pilgrims and the Mayflower.

00:10:31.460 It was just multiculturalism.

00:10:32.500 They were just waiting for someone to arrive from Pakistan to give them tikka masala.

00:10:37.980 Ah, fill in the void.

00:10:39.180 The vacuum of culture.

00:10:40.380 There was no culture of the founding fathers, the colonial era.

00:10:43.420 There was no culture in the 19th century.

00:10:45.960 The cowboys and the industrial titans.

00:10:49.380 And there was no culture.

00:10:50.120 There was no apple pie and hot dogs and fireworks on the 4th of July.

00:10:54.240 There was none of that.

00:10:54.700 The culture of Broadway, the culture of jazz, the culture of baseball, the culture.

00:11:00.520 No.

00:11:01.740 No culture beyond multiculturalism. 0.98

00:11:06.200 And follow up, crusty old white people need to figure that out. 1.00

00:11:09.420 Kind of ironic because Miss Welch is white and of a certain age. 1.00

00:11:14.040 Says they got to figure that out.

00:11:15.740 And so what is this really?

00:11:17.660 It's not telling us anything about American culture.

00:11:20.160 It is telling us about the left and really about the mainstream left.

00:11:25.540 And that is that they hate their home.

00:11:29.360 That is, I think, the defining feature of the left in America today, if not always, which is a self-hatred and an oikophobia, to use the word of the late, great Sir Roger Scruton, a hatred of home.

00:11:45.920 And we know this.

00:11:47.460 The libs, like, hate their home.

00:11:48.400 I want to move out. 1.00

00:11:49.220 I hate you, Dad. 0.92

00:11:49.960 You know, of course. 0.99

00:11:50.660 There's all that.

00:11:51.740 But that's no longer just a fringe view.

00:11:54.340 And it's not just petulant little children.

00:11:55.800 That is the mainstream left-wing view.

00:11:57.880 This is why at their rallies, you're hard-pressed to find an American flag.

00:12:02.140 You find a Palestine flag.

00:12:03.740 You find a BLM flag. 0.99

00:12:05.020 You find a gay flag. 0.98

00:12:06.000 You find a Mexican flag. 0.95

00:12:07.220 You won't find an American flag.

00:12:09.020 That's the argument.

00:12:11.380 It's this purely negative force to say, that is endeavoring to make its description true, to hollow out an American culture, to erase and replace any vestige of what would be American culture, and in so doing, to create a vacuum that actually does fill in with the cultures of the rest of the world.

00:12:31.980 That's where we're at. 0.73

00:12:33.620 And the crusty old white people have to get along with that. 1.00

00:12:36.780 And this is only a more explicit statement of what the mainstream left has said for years, going back to political science papers on the coalition of the ascendant, on how white people need to just disappear, how they'll decline as the demographic majority. 0.78

00:12:51.480 You know, this country was 95% white or something, and now we're approaching a place where it's still about 60% white, but it's going to decline below 50% soon enough, if nothing changes.

00:13:02.080 And the left is celebrating that.

00:13:07.220 So it's not that the right is claiming this.

00:13:08.940 The left is openly calling for this and openly celebrating that.

00:13:11.960 That explains a little bit of an uptick, especially among younger people, in recognizing that, well, if every other race and every other group gets identity politics, maybe they should have some identity politics too.

00:13:25.080 And even beyond the explicitly racial appeal, the suggestion that every culture is great except for the American culture, which doesn't even exist anyway, is going to create a reaction among Americans, patriotic Americans.

00:13:40.200 That says, well, hold on, if other people are going to be chauvinists for their culture, maybe I should be a chauvinist for my culture.

00:13:47.220 And there are ways that that can be bad and can go off the rails and there are dangers inherent and all of that.

00:13:52.240 But those reactions are not wrong in themselves.

00:13:56.380 Those reactions are, in fact, the only rational conclusion that you can come to, given these political circumstances.

00:14:05.380 And so I think the appropriate way to appeal to that is, one, to acknowledge that that is valid and to ground all of one's reactions to it in the heart of their problem, which is they hate their home and we love our home.

00:14:21.400 So that's the way to offer something positive about it.

00:14:24.040 We love our home.

00:14:25.440 I love my home.

00:14:26.700 I love my hometown.

00:14:27.860 I love my family, my literal home.

00:14:31.200 And I love my extended family.

00:14:33.480 And I love, J.D. Vance talked about this.

00:14:34.900 He saw this coming.

00:14:35.700 He talked about the Ordo Amoris, the hierarchy of love, the order of loves, the Ordo Caritatis.

00:14:42.300 That's where we have to begin.

00:14:44.080 And I think that offers a positive vision.

00:14:45.980 And it also prevents people from spinning off the rails and going in all sorts of bad and unjust directions like the left has done.

00:14:52.620 You have to acknowledge, no, it is perfectly rational.

00:14:55.420 It's perfectly good, especially amid this kind of political environment, to say, no, no, no.

00:15:01.620 We want something different.

00:15:03.440 And we want to offer a positive version.

00:15:05.960 You might hate your home.

00:15:07.260 I love my home.

00:15:08.620 You might hate your family, your tribe, your people, your whatever.

00:15:13.060 I like them.

00:15:13.740 You know, and actually it's your hatred of your own and your hatred of yourself leads to all manner of cruelty and hostility and antagonism toward everybody else.

00:15:24.280 But my love, a proper love of one's own, my proper love of myself and of my home and my people and my family and everything actually spills over into an appropriate love for other types of people too.

00:15:35.720 That's it.

00:15:36.260 That's the only reaction.

00:15:38.100 But the stakes could not be clearer.

00:15:39.840 You know, the reaction since Charlie was murdered has clarified a lot of things.

00:15:47.300 And I believe people are beginning to recognize the existential threats that have come from the left, politically existential threats, to America as a political community.

00:16:01.480 That is really key.

00:16:02.940 That's another little silver lining we're learning from the terrible election a couple nights ago.

00:16:07.880 We're also learning about one demographic group that we are not speaking to as Republicans.

00:16:14.320 And the Democrats are speaking to this group.

00:16:17.220 It's like the one group they're speaking to.

00:16:18.680 They've lost a lot of the electorate across races and sexes and geographic locations.

00:16:23.600 But there is one part of the electorate that they are speaking to that Republicans are not speaking to.

00:16:27.640 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:18:04.760 Zoran Mamdani. 0.79

00:18:07.140 Zoran, the queer caliph. 1.00

00:18:09.640 He's not literally, he's not personally queer.

00:18:11.540 He just has a queer politics. 0.85

00:18:13.360 The Muslim communist, who's the mayor of New York, as I told you, I think the Muslim part of his identity is relatively minor.

00:18:22.140 I think the communist part, the rote, leftist, millennial part is really, really prominent.

00:18:26.480 I think this was proved again.

00:18:27.560 One line from his speech we didn't talk about yesterday.

00:18:29.420 It should send a chill up your spine, and that is on the role of government.

00:18:36.680 We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.

00:18:45.000 Very, very scary statement.

00:18:49.780 And weirdly enough, the second part of the statement, I think, is even more terrifying than the first part.

00:18:55.700 They're both pretty bad.

00:18:57.820 There is no concern too small for the government to care about.

00:19:02.120 That's really chilling because a lot of what voters reacted against with woke leftism two, three years ago was the idea that the government was going to come in and say, hey, you are not even allowed to dress your child.

00:19:16.800 You're not allowed to call your child by his proper pronouns.

00:19:21.940 You're not allowed to educate your child.

00:19:24.320 You're not allowed to do any of that.

00:19:25.800 We're going to tell you how to do that.

00:19:27.780 They've been trying to invade these small concerns for a long time.

00:19:30.460 Going back almost 15 years, the Democrats outlawed certain light bulbs, the nice warm light bulbs.

00:19:36.180 They outlawed those because the sun monster was going to kill us over the light bulbs, and they made us have these disgusting, flashing, hideous, cold light bulbs filled with mercury, actually, which was bad for the environment, bad for you.

00:19:48.480 And happily, we kind of got rid of that, but now then corporate America just came in and got rid of the nice light bulbs, and we have the ugly ones again.

00:19:54.480 But obviously, the left has been very concerned with invading all these private spaces.

00:19:58.660 That's very, very scary.

00:20:00.460 The flip side of that is there's no problem too big for the government to solve.

00:20:05.880 Now, I want to be totally clear here.

00:20:08.800 I am not a small government conservative. 0.88

00:20:11.720 I think that's a silly phrase.

00:20:13.960 I think it's meaningless in a country of 320 million people that is actually the global hegemon that spans from one ocean to another ocean. 0.73

00:20:21.220 I think that's very silly in a country that has military operations around the globe that has something called AFRICOM. 0.98

00:20:29.480 You know, we have a command for Africa.

00:20:31.600 Okay, we're not going to have a small government.

00:20:33.800 And a small government might be a dream of libertarians or anarchists.

00:20:37.160 That's not the dream of conservatives.

00:20:39.600 We want a proper government, an appropriate government, a government that knows its own boundaries and limitations.

00:20:47.440 So, no, I don't want a federal government that's deciding your light bulbs and telling you to put your little boy in a dress.

00:20:53.440 However, I believe in federalism.

00:20:58.120 Conservatives tend to believe in federalism, subsidiarity.

00:21:00.940 So, you want maybe the state government to have a little bit more of a role in that.

00:21:04.160 You want the county government to have a little bit more of a role.

00:21:06.200 You want the municipal government to have maybe even more of a role in defining, being closer to these local cultures and helping to shape them.

00:21:13.720 I am, I know this is going to be heresy for the libertarians listening.

00:21:17.540 I love HOAs.

00:21:20.600 I love, oh, I love HOAs. 0.59

00:21:23.340 I hate neighborhoods that do not have HOAs.

00:21:26.380 Are you still listening?

00:21:27.440 How many listeners did I just lose for saying that?

00:21:29.840 I love them.

00:21:30.940 You know why?

00:21:31.720 Because I drive through the neighborhoods without the HOAs, and there's ugly architecture. 0.99

00:21:37.280 And sometimes they tear down beautiful homes, they put up ugly black cube monstrosities, and they have all stupid sorts of signs. 0.99

00:21:43.440 In this house, we believe in communism and Islam and the sun monster, whatever. 1.00

00:21:46.820 You know, they put up, it's just so, it's horrible. 0.95

00:21:48.800 It's anarchy.

00:21:51.000 Whereas, in my HOA, I'm not allowed to do crazy things to my house.

00:21:56.160 Good.

00:21:56.700 You know what that means?

00:21:57.540 All the houses in my neighborhood are really beautiful. 1.00

00:22:00.140 I'm not allowed to have some stupid political sign in my yard. 1.00

00:22:02.820 Good. 0.99

00:22:04.160 Maybe I want to, I don't actually don't even want to put one up, but you know what that means?

00:22:07.440 That means my neighbors can't put them up either.

00:22:08.820 I don't have to deal with it.

00:22:10.140 Helps to maintain, there's, it's a politically mixed neighborhood, but it maintains order, propriety.

00:22:16.820 A sense of community, shared purpose.

00:22:19.380 It points to the common, I love it.

00:22:21.900 Okay.

00:22:23.320 So I'm, I want appropriate government.

00:22:26.780 My HOA doesn't come in and tell me what kind of eggs I have to put in my fridge.

00:22:31.280 Zohra Mamdani wants to do that.

00:22:32.600 In fact, he wants the government to take over at the grocery stores.

00:22:36.240 And he doesn't want you to have your own house.

00:22:38.040 He doesn't want you to have your own apartment, but he wants the government to take that over too.

00:22:41.000 He is openly advocated for like communes.

00:22:43.220 Okay.

00:22:43.500 Really scary stuff.

00:22:44.420 And then to the first part, when he says, there's no problem too big for government.

00:22:49.340 What about like evil?

00:22:51.980 What about like the presence of evil in the world and a fallen, a fallen culture, a fallen society?

00:22:59.120 Is that, I think that's too big.

00:23:01.760 I think original sin is too big for government to solve.

00:23:04.300 Every utopian and totalitarian movement throughout history has thought that it could solve that.

00:23:12.340 Zohra Mamdani is promising to solve that.

00:23:15.280 I believe that poverty, generally speaking, is too big a problem for the government to solve.

00:23:21.280 It can ameliorate it.

00:23:22.440 It can work on it a little bit.

00:23:23.940 It can soften the edges.

00:23:25.720 But I believe, call me crazy, I think the poor will always be with us.

00:23:29.200 I think there are facts of the fallen world that the government cannot fix.

00:23:31.940 But communists, and to some degree socialists, and just secular materialists, frankly, liberals

00:23:40.620 post-enlightenment, all, if you scratch them deep enough, they agree with that.

00:23:47.760 There's no problem, at the very least, there's no problem that a proper political order can't

00:23:52.460 solve.

00:23:53.360 And so for the left, it's the big government.

00:23:55.420 And for the right, it's the magical, invisible hand of the free market is going to solve all

00:23:58.560 the problems.

00:23:58.860 If only we would let the free market grace us with its beneficence.

00:24:04.100 But no, there are problems.

00:24:05.340 There are certain problems that are too big for any government.

00:24:07.040 And there are certain issues that are too small for most government.

00:24:10.920 This is dystopian.

00:24:13.060 Zohra Mamdani is, I believe, who he's told us he was.

00:24:17.520 And New York has done this before.

00:24:19.520 They've elected democratic socialists before.

00:24:21.320 It didn't work out.

00:24:21.880 David Ninkins didn't work out very well.

00:24:23.360 And took Giuliani, the 90s, to fix it.

00:24:26.040 And then Mike Bloomberg kind of maintained it, and then it started to fall apart again.

00:24:29.500 But we're seeing that.

00:24:31.420 And I hate to say I told you so that I was right about this, but it's true.

00:24:34.940 Say what you will about the Muslims.

00:24:36.420 But if this guy were some ardent religious Muslim, he would at least recognize that there 0.95

00:24:41.420 are certain things the government can't quite do.

00:24:43.500 There is something of the transcendent out there.

00:24:45.860 Now, how did he get elected?

00:24:47.900 He got elected because there is one demographic group that he spoke to, that Democrats are

00:24:52.400 speaking to, that the Republicans don't speak to, and don't even really want to speak to.

00:24:56.620 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:26:12.460 Really good piece.

00:26:14.460 Really good piece from John Carney.

00:26:17.900 He's the econ and finance editor for Breitbart.

00:26:21.260 Co-author of Breitbart Business Digest, but this actually was in Commonplace.

00:26:24.960 You can go read it on Commonplace.

00:26:25.920 It's really good.

00:26:26.180 It's called Zoron's Park Slope Populists.

00:26:28.320 My parents lived in Park Slope before I was born, and before it was a really hot neighborhood

00:26:35.100 of yuppies.

00:26:35.640 It used to be kind of a crummy neighborhood.

00:26:37.940 And I lived the first, I don't know, few months or so of my life in Sheepshead Bay,

00:26:43.640 way out in the areas that are not so into Zoron, well, more traditional New York areas.

00:26:49.020 But Park Slope, Bushwick, Williamsburg, these areas, they love Mamdani.

00:26:56.660 And these areas are not populated by the working class.

00:26:59.440 They're not populated by, you know, the Yemeni bodega owner or whatever that he was talking

00:27:03.520 to in the victory speech.

00:27:05.380 No.

00:27:05.920 They are, I'll just quote John Carney here.

00:27:07.600 The Park Slope, Bushwick, Mamdani supporters are not in any meaningful sense working class,

00:27:13.300 but they are not exactly elite either.

00:27:16.820 They belong to a group that has become increasingly central to American politics,

00:27:20.920 the downwardly mobile professionals, the overproduced graduates of our university system

00:27:26.360 raised to expect middle-class stability and discovering instead that the system has little

00:27:31.040 to offer beyond high rent and burnout.

00:27:33.900 Their rage is real.

00:27:35.240 And if the right wants to be serious about building a majoritarian coalition around economic

00:27:39.980 renewal, which I thought is what we were all about, I thought that's what a lot of the

00:27:43.240 right-wing populism was about, it ought to start by understanding that rage, not mocking it.

00:27:49.580 It's the consequence of the snowflake generation.

00:27:54.100 We used to talk about the millennial snowflakes who are on college campuses.

00:27:57.180 And well, now they're not kids anymore.

00:27:59.420 Now they're in their late 20s, their 30s, and they have university degrees.

00:28:04.080 And we on the right, we want to make fun of them. 0.99

00:28:06.380 And we say, oh, you've got some dumb degree in, you know, lesbian dance theory. 1.00

00:28:09.400 And that was a waste of money. 0.99

00:28:10.420 And yeah, sure.

00:28:12.640 But they're deeply in debt.

00:28:15.100 They did not want to become lesbian dance theory teachers.

00:28:17.580 They actually went to school to become lawyers or to become middle managers at some corporation

00:28:23.880 or to become marketing executives or to work a white-collar job, to become accountants.

00:28:30.420 I don't know, to do these things.

00:28:32.020 And the life that that used to promise, that they were promised, that they invested a lot

00:28:38.440 of money into, or that their parents invested a lot of money into, or more importantly, that

00:28:42.200 they took out a lot of money in debt to pay for, it's not paying off.

00:28:46.700 That doesn't really exist anymore, as it used to.

00:28:50.360 And they're real irritated about it. 0.96

00:28:52.600 And there's going to be an impulse on the right to say, yeah, well, screw them.

00:28:57.740 You shouldn't have done it.

00:28:59.000 You should have gotten a job.

00:28:59.920 You should have studied a practical major.

00:29:02.380 You should have gone to trade school.

00:29:03.960 You should have been an entrepreneur.

00:29:05.680 You should, yeah, okay.

00:29:06.200 Okay, that's an important demographic, because that demographic is supposed to be the bourgeois.

00:29:13.720 And there are a lot of bougie people in Park Slope and Williamsburg. 1.00

00:29:18.060 But the bourgeois can be and should be a good right-wing coalition, a good right-wing demographic,

00:29:26.940 I should say.

00:29:28.160 They should be.

00:29:29.120 They're the middle class, the people who want to be in the middle class.

00:29:31.720 They're the kind of responsible strivers who just want, you know, the good American life.

00:29:38.220 Not the ones, not the ones who are dropping out of Harvard like Mark Zuckerberg and becoming billionaires.

00:29:42.880 Or the ones at Stanford like Peter Thiel becoming billionaires, being these, it's not them.

00:29:48.040 And it's not the bodega owners.

00:29:51.260 It's that middle class professional that has been before a very important Republican demographic,

00:29:57.000 conservative demographic.

00:29:57.980 It could be again.

00:29:59.180 But Republicans have to speak to their concerns.

00:30:02.460 Because if this election the other night, and it's New York, it's different from Peoria and the rest of the country,

00:30:07.880 but that demographic is going to become more prominent, not less, in future years.

00:30:15.220 Especially as the boomers die. 1.00

00:30:17.220 That demographic is going to become more angry, not less angry. 0.89

00:30:21.160 Especially as AI begins to change the labor market, as mass migration continues to change the labor market,

00:30:30.300 as global economic shifts, maybe moving toward more of a bipolar world between the U.S. and China,

00:30:35.400 not just American hegemony.

00:30:36.500 It's going to be a big problem.

00:30:37.880 And it is just a descriptive fact Republicans need to speak to them and not dismiss their concerns and make that group feel that they are on their side.

00:30:49.540 Because they are so bereft of support.

00:30:54.120 I'm not saying, oh, cry over, you know, the Wellesley graduate.

00:30:58.200 I know, I'm not losing sleep over it.

00:30:59.720 I'm not crying my eyes out.

00:31:01.160 But some of you want to say it's the world's smallest violin, but they are going to matter.

00:31:06.000 And a Muslim communist won their votes because a communist said, hey, bourgeois, middle class America, 0.72

00:31:15.740 I'll give you a better deal than the right will.

00:31:19.080 The right did not counter that effectively.

00:31:21.700 The right has to counter that.

00:31:22.680 Very, very important.

00:31:23.520 Now, about young people, a much more important issue.

00:31:27.140 Is having a boyfriend embarrassing now?

00:31:29.020 I did not read this article.

00:31:31.400 I am not a subscriber to Vogue.

00:31:32.780 I am not on TikTok.

00:31:34.120 Like, I have a TikTok, I guess, but my team runs it.

00:31:35.920 I don't have the app.

00:31:38.280 Is having a boyfriend embarrassing now?

00:31:40.040 By Shante Joseph in Vogue.

00:31:43.020 I was turned on to this article, which has gone viral on social media,

00:31:47.560 by young Professor Jacob, my associate producer.

00:31:50.960 He said, you know, this was a big one.

00:31:53.540 If you could survive this, if your relationship could survive this article going viral on social media,

00:31:58.000 you guys are going to get married.

00:31:59.760 What is so embarrassing about having a boyfriend?

00:32:03.000 It's just first few lines.

00:32:04.540 If someone so much as says, my boif on social media, they're muted.

00:32:10.480 There's nothing I hate more than following someone for fun,

00:32:13.180 only for their content to become my boyfriend-defined suddenly.

00:32:16.300 It's probably because for so long, it felt like we've lived in boyfriend land, you know,

00:32:20.480 and then it goes on to complain that a woman is only defined by her boyfriend.

00:32:23.160 It never goes the other way.

00:32:24.040 You know, no man defines himself online by his girlfriend,

00:32:26.480 and women need to be girl bosses, and blah, blah, blah. 1.00

00:32:29.720 However, the article goes on,

00:32:31.920 more recently, there's been a pronounced shift in the way people showcase their relationships online.

00:32:36.140 Far from fully hard-launching romantic partners,

00:32:38.600 straight women are opting for subtler signs. 1.00

00:32:40.660 A hand on a steering wheel, clinking glasses at dinner, the back of someone's head.

00:32:43.920 Or the more confusing end, you have faces blurred out of wedding pictures,

00:32:47.460 or entire professionally edited videos,

00:32:49.240 with the fiancé conveniently cropped out of all shots.

00:32:50.940 Women are obscuring their partner's face when they post, 1.00

00:32:54.040 as if they want to erase the fact that they exist without actually not posting them.

00:32:59.640 So what gives?

00:33:00.240 Okay, it goes on.

00:33:01.740 I'm going to read the whole article.

00:33:02.500 You can read it yourself.

00:33:04.040 I will tell you why this is happening.

00:33:06.320 I'll tell you exactly why this is. 0.97

00:33:07.400 And it's not because the women are just selfish and narcissistic on social media. 1.00

00:33:11.440 They are, also. 0.99

00:33:13.100 Women should not be on social media. 1.00

00:33:14.720 I discourage it.

00:33:15.780 I discourage it.

00:33:17.680 We've talked a lot about trad wives in recent years.

00:33:19.900 It is not possible to be a trad wife if you are on social media posting selfies on Instagram.

00:33:23.600 You can't.

00:33:23.960 It's not possible.

00:33:24.860 That is a contradiction in behavior.

00:33:27.920 However, it's not just that.

00:33:29.720 It's not just that social media makes us all self-centered.

00:33:32.420 There's a very practical reason why women don't want to post their boyfriends on social media. 1.00

00:33:36.460 And it is because boyfriends are temporary and social media is forever.

00:33:43.920 That's why.

00:33:45.500 It is our modern hookup culture, our modern culture that discourages marriage on IMAX.

00:33:54.000 That's why.

00:33:55.960 And I think, got to give credit for, I'm on the side of the women here.

00:33:59.080 I don't think women should be posting about their boyfriend on social media. 1.00

00:34:02.260 Because I think these women are not posting about their current boyfriend on social media,

00:34:08.240 not just to appease their own pride.

00:34:10.400 It's actually for their next boyfriend.

00:34:12.840 Because no guy wants to think about the other guys that have dated his girlfriend or his wife.

00:34:18.180 No guy.

00:34:19.320 I don't care if you've dated for 10 years.

00:34:21.520 I don't care if you've been married for 50 years.

00:34:23.300 Yeah, I remember my grandfather.

00:34:24.400 My grandma and grandpa were married for almost 70 years before my grandpa died.

00:34:29.080 If you brought up the guys that would try to date my grandmother when they were broken up a little bit.

00:34:35.280 They dated in high school and they broke up a little bit.

00:34:37.020 If you brought him up, he could be 90 years old.

00:34:39.200 He would get angry.

00:34:40.640 As well he should.

00:34:43.060 No one wants to think about that.

00:34:44.860 And this is a technological problem or magnification of a social problem.

00:34:51.440 You know, in the old days before there was social media, maybe a woman dates a few guys and gets married.

00:34:56.740 You don't have to think about it again.

00:34:58.700 Now, the internet is forever.

00:35:00.240 Even if you delete the picture from social media, it's still like on the internet.

00:35:03.040 It's still there.

00:35:04.400 It's very, very wise.

00:35:06.300 You should not post pictures of your boyfriend.

00:35:08.560 But what does this tell us about our behavior?

00:35:10.200 What it's, I think what it's expressing is women would rather get married.

00:35:15.080 Or stay single.

00:35:15.780 But they, you should post pictures of your husband.

00:35:18.440 Maybe.

00:35:18.900 I don't know if you're on social media.

00:35:20.020 Or of your spouse, generally.

00:35:21.300 But not of your boyfriend or girlfriend.

00:35:24.680 A recognition that we shouldn't spill all of these temporary moments of our lives.

00:35:30.000 One of the most insidious aspects of the internet, especially social media, is they make permanent things that ought to be fleeting.

00:35:36.300 You go out some wild night. 1.00

00:35:38.080 You're taking stupid pictures, posting them online. 1.00

00:35:39.720 Those are things that might be fun in the moment that you're going to want to forget probably 10 years from now. 1.00

00:35:44.100 That's it.

00:35:44.580 That this is, it's like we got to take the yuppies seriously if we want to beat the mom donnies of the world.

00:35:49.560 We got to take the ladies seriously. 0.91

00:35:51.520 This is very practical stuff.

00:35:53.620 I'm with you, ladies.

00:35:55.300 Three cheers to Vogue and to the Zoomer girls not posting their boyfriend. 1.00

00:36:00.080 That's right.

00:36:01.760 Wait for your husbands. 1.00

00:36:03.460 And if you have to post an Instagram picture, that's fine.

00:36:06.820 Speaking of permanent solutions, temporary problems and permanent solutions, President Trump might nuke the filibuster.

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00:38:12.440 It happened again.

00:38:13.380 You know what happens.

00:38:14.660 I, they send me the comments in the morning.

00:38:18.220 I look at them.

00:38:18.940 I read my favorite comment, whatever.

00:38:20.280 I don't really look at the names.

00:38:22.020 And yet again, and yet again, the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music.

00:38:27.640 We need to give him a prize for the most comment.

00:38:30.380 I don't do it intentionally.

00:38:31.420 It just, he said yesterday, New York City, November 5th, 2025, a day that will live in

00:38:37.560 Intifada.

00:38:38.600 It's good.

00:38:40.480 It's good.

00:38:41.060 I'm a sucker for a good pun.

00:38:43.700 Also, I have to, I have to make an apology.

00:38:45.880 It takes a very handsome man to admit when he's wrong.

00:38:48.920 It's not that I was, I also was right about this, but I told you.

00:38:52.580 When was this?

00:38:53.620 A few days ago?

00:38:54.380 A week ago?

00:38:54.740 I said, we have this amazing new Advent calendar or Advent candle set called the Luke's Adventure

00:39:00.720 set.

00:39:02.060 Three candles and then one differently colored candle for the four weeks of Advent when we

00:39:06.800 meditate the four last things, death, judgment, heaven, and hell.

00:39:09.940 Beautiful.

00:39:10.760 Smells like nice pine tree.

00:39:12.340 It's so great.

00:39:13.280 Or I said, order it now.

00:39:14.920 It will sell out.

00:39:17.340 Sold out instantly.

00:39:19.100 I did my best to get a restock.

00:39:21.340 I thought I would be able to sell.

00:39:22.720 I thought I'd be able to stock up a lot more.

00:39:26.820 We sold out.

00:39:28.400 And some of you called.

00:39:29.440 Actually, you picked up the phone and you called and you yelled at some of our staff members

00:39:33.440 here because it sold out too quickly.

00:39:34.940 I'm sorry.

00:39:36.200 I wish we could have made more.

00:39:37.560 This is just to remind you.

00:39:39.260 So I'm very happy for everyone who got the Luke's Adventure set.

00:39:41.700 Sorry for those who didn't.

00:39:42.900 You know, Advent will come around next year too.

00:39:44.680 This is just a reminder because I have some cool products in the works that I know a lot

00:39:49.560 of people are going to want.

00:39:50.140 But on the cigar front, on the candle front, on many other fronts.

00:39:55.020 But when I tell you, you got to believe me.

00:39:56.820 I wouldn't mislead you.

00:39:58.080 When I tell you, you have to order like right now.

00:40:01.040 I mean, these things could be gone in minutes.

00:40:02.500 So anyway, I'm sorry.

00:40:03.640 I'm sorry.

00:40:04.100 Next year, we'll try to make a lot more.

00:40:06.520 I thought we had a lot of candles and we did.

00:40:08.560 We'll have a lot more next year.

00:40:09.860 Okay.

00:40:10.600 All right.

00:40:11.140 I'm sorry.

00:40:12.600 Speaking of permanent solutions, President Trump might nuke the filibuster.

00:40:16.920 What is the filibuster?

00:40:19.620 The filibuster says that a bare majority in the Senate does not get to do whatever it

00:40:22.960 wants.

00:40:23.300 That actually you have to get up to 60 votes.

00:40:25.180 And that means that the party that's in power doesn't have total power.

00:40:29.400 And it means that the minority party still can do things and block things. 0.56

00:40:33.180 And there has been talk from both parties for many years now ramping up that they're

00:40:37.560 going to nuke the filibuster.

00:40:38.600 Get rid of it so a bare majority can do whatever it wants.

00:40:41.160 And it's usually the conservatives who say this is a bad idea.

00:40:44.400 But the Democrats have pulled back from the brink at times too.

00:40:47.800 We've weakened the filibuster for various nominees, judges, whatever.

00:40:50.980 But it still exists.

00:40:52.240 It's why the government is shut down right now.

00:40:54.100 Why is the government shut down when the Republicans don't want it shut down and the

00:40:58.140 Republicans control the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate?

00:41:01.580 Because there are just enough Democrats there to gum it all up.

00:41:05.180 And there are enough Democrats there that with the filibuster, they can't reopen the

00:41:08.700 government.

00:41:08.940 Trump says we got to nuke it.

00:41:12.200 Here's what he says before I weigh in.

00:41:14.540 It's time for Republicans to do what they have to do.

00:41:16.900 And that's terminate the filibuster.

00:41:18.440 He said this at a lunch at the White House.

00:41:20.740 It's the only way you can do it.

00:41:22.140 If you don't terminate the filibuster, you'll be in bad shape.

00:41:23.960 We won't pass any legislation.

00:41:25.640 We have to keep the country open.

00:41:27.280 The way we're going to do it this afternoon is terminate the filibuster.

00:41:29.720 It's possible you're not going to do that.

00:41:31.080 And I'll go by your wishes.

00:41:32.860 You're very smart people.

00:41:33.780 We're good friends.

00:41:34.400 But I think it's a tremendous mistake, really.

00:41:36.440 It would be a tragic mistake, actually.

00:41:37.880 It's time.

00:41:40.140 It's time.

00:41:41.320 This is the key.

00:41:43.340 This is the key.

00:41:44.220 A lot of what we've been talking about in recent weeks has to do with timing.

00:41:50.460 You know the key to comedy, right?

00:41:51.960 You know the key to comedy?

00:41:55.480 Timing.

00:41:56.960 It's timing.

00:41:57.860 Timing's really important.

00:41:59.880 There are ideologues who want to say that one policy prescription must be true for all time.

00:42:05.980 You saw this with a lot of the never-Trumpers.

00:42:08.000 You see this with a lot of people in all factions of the right.

00:42:12.600 And they're wrong.

00:42:14.480 Because politics is applying eternal principles to constantly changing circumstances.

00:42:18.820 So it's true.

00:42:20.080 Today, Republicans are kind of pro-tariff.

00:42:22.880 For decades, they were very, very anti-tariff.

00:42:26.440 Before that, though, they were pro-tariff.

00:42:28.340 And actually, the party was founded on tariffs.

00:42:30.680 Does that mean that one side of that argument is always wrong and one side is always right?

00:42:33.920 No, it's that sometimes call for tariffs.

00:42:37.820 Some circumstances.

00:42:39.220 Sometimes our geopolitical adversaries put us in a position where the best course of action

00:42:42.700 to advance the good of the country is a tariff.

00:42:45.680 And sometimes it's not.

00:42:46.520 Sometimes it's to remove a tariff.

00:42:48.320 Sometimes you need more migration.

00:42:49.600 Sometimes you need a lot less migration.

00:42:51.340 There's no hypocrisy there.

00:42:52.840 There's no heresy.

00:42:53.580 Some of these people think it's like heresy.

00:42:54.860 It's not.

00:42:56.100 It's prudence, which is the chief political virtue.

00:42:58.940 There was a time when I would have said Republicans should not nuke the filibuster.

00:43:04.240 That time has passed.

00:43:06.040 That time has passed.

00:43:07.120 Because when the Democrats get back into power, they will nuke it.

00:43:11.700 I'm pretty confident of that.

00:43:13.600 They almost did it last time, except there were, what was it, two?

00:43:17.860 It was Manchin and Sinema who basically held it up.

00:43:21.500 Manchin and Sinema are gone.

00:43:23.280 So they're going to do it.

00:43:25.280 There was a time when Democrats would not elect a Muslim communist mayor of New York.

00:43:29.600 That time was gone.

00:43:30.540 There was a time when Democrats would not openly celebrate the assassination of a right-wing

00:43:35.900 debater on college campuses.

00:43:37.820 That time is gone.

00:43:39.820 There's a time that Jay Jones' texts would have eliminated him from the race immediately.

00:43:45.920 That time was like five years ago, and now that time is gone.

00:43:48.300 So, principled conservatives who have long, rightly, defended the filibuster, I think should

00:43:57.400 recognize what time it is.

00:43:59.200 Recognize that time is gone.

00:44:00.320 Because whichever party does nuke the filibuster is going to have a tremendous advantage.

00:44:05.860 Whoever does it first has a tremendous advantage.

00:44:09.420 And for a while, we could kind of count on the other party not doing it.

00:44:12.260 And that's over, guys.

00:44:14.160 That's over.

00:44:16.260 They would celebrate your death.

00:44:18.700 And they've told us that repeatedly for over a month.

00:44:23.480 Nuke the filibuster.

00:44:25.180 Reopen the government.

00:44:26.820 Pass any legislation.

00:44:29.060 Get the upper advantage.

00:44:30.560 We're in a different political situation.

00:44:32.080 We can either die politically, fighting the last political war, as a lot of conservatives

00:44:39.300 are inclined to do.

00:44:40.980 That reluctance, that caution, that patience is a good conservative feature, until it's

00:44:45.820 not.

00:44:46.900 We can either do that, or we can win.

00:44:49.700 I say we win.

00:44:50.760 I'm with Trump.

00:44:51.340 I say we win.

00:44:53.160 I'm with the more in tune parts of the conservative movement that says, guys, we're in a different

00:44:58.980 era now.

00:44:59.460 Now, I'm with Cocaine Mitch McConnell, who says, the winners go to Washington, the losers

00:45:05.360 go home.

00:45:07.740 Okay, now, speaking of political hostility, a clip has gone viral from the Shannon Sharp

00:45:12.100 podcast of a black guy, I don't know which guy, but some guy, he might be famous, saying

00:45:16.640 that he would track down the descendants of the family that bought his ancestors, the white 0.94

00:45:20.060 family, and show up at their house.

00:45:22.460 We'll get to that.

00:45:23.040 We don't have time to get to that today.

00:45:23.900 We'll get to that tomorrow, because today is Theology Thursday.

00:45:27.620 We've got some hardcore Bible trivia to embarrass me.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 06, 2025

Ep. 1851 - Zohran Mamdani Stole This Group From Us

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