The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1859 - The Epidemic Of British Women Killing Their Children

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00:00:18.220 Teenage girls no longer want to get married. 1.00

00:00:20.840 British women are killing an increasing number of their children. 1.00

00:00:24.260 And a new analysis shows how much liberals want to kill their countrymen.

00:00:28.640 We will get into the end of civilization.

00:00:31.640 Happy Tuesday.

00:00:32.480 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:00:33.120 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:30.700 First thing I want to get into is a juicy little tidbit.

00:02:34.480 I want to have my morning tea.

00:02:36.040 I want to spill it with all of you.

00:02:38.200 The morning tea comes to us by way of Jonathan Karl, the ABC reporter, who is speaking at the 92nd Street Y.

00:02:45.940 And he gives us a little bit of insight into 2028 because he gives us insight into the way J.D. Vance was selected to be Trump's running mate in the first place in 2024.

00:02:58.500 All this stuff is going on, and he's still going back and forth.

00:03:05.320 He had basically decided J.D. Vance, like earlier that day, when he landed in Milwaukee, I was told point blank that it was like 80, 90 percent Marco Rubio.

00:03:17.440 So you had this push and pull.

00:03:20.320 You had Rupert Murdoch, Lindsey Graham, and a whole group of Republicans allied with them pushing to say, you know, J.D. doesn't have the experience.

00:03:34.360 Marco is perfect for you.

00:03:36.020 Marco can help you more electorally.

00:03:37.660 J.D. doesn't win over any new voters for you.

00:03:39.800 On the other side, you had Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, all making the case for J.D. Vance.

00:03:48.220 And I actually called Tucker Carlson to ask about this.

00:03:52.440 It had been reported by the New York Times that one of the arguments that Tucker Carlson had made was that if you pick somebody like Marco Rubio that the establishment likes, they're going to assassinate you.

00:04:08.220 He made this case before Butler.

00:04:10.120 They're going to kill you so this guy becomes president.

00:04:13.520 How's that for tea?

00:04:14.680 Do you like milk in your morning tea?

00:04:16.020 I have mine black, actually.

00:04:17.960 Really important tidbit because it tells us about 2028.

00:04:22.320 I totally believe this.

00:04:23.620 I don't always believe the establishment media, but I totally believe this play.

00:04:27.280 There was a move to push a candidate like Rubio, and I think Rubio is great too, but Rubio more acceptable to the establishment of the Republican Party.

00:04:35.840 And then there was a separate move being pushed by Don Jr. and Elon and Tucker to say, no, no, no, go for J.D. Vance.

00:04:44.060 He's more with the base.

00:04:45.500 He's more where the Republican Party is going.

00:04:47.700 He does, I think, win over some voters you don't necessarily get because he's from middle America, because he wrote Hillbilly Elegy, because he's got this amazing story where he came from nothing, very broken home to the heights of success.

00:05:00.180 But he doesn't forget where he came from, and according to Jonathan Karl, I haven't talked to Tucker about this, but according to the reporting, Tucker says, you got to pick someone more like J.D., who the establishment hates, because if you pick someone the establishment likes, they'll assassinate you.

00:05:17.360 And this is going to be shocking to a lot of people, and they're going to say, that's hysterical, and that's just fear-mongering.

00:05:24.640 However, let's not forget that there were two occasions when people came pretty close to assassinating Trump last year.

00:05:31.880 One occasion where, by all rights, the assassin should have succeeded and only failed because, implausibly, at the last minute, Trump turned his head a little bit, and so the bullet only grazed his ear.

00:05:43.620 It would have blown out the back of his skull otherwise.

00:05:46.820 And what we know for certain is that Trump picked J.D. Vance.

00:05:51.520 And this kind of calculation is going to be really jarring to people who think back on the last, I don't know, 80 years of American politics and say, we've had relative peace.

00:06:01.200 Yeah, there was a Cold War, but we won the Cold War.

00:06:03.400 Then there was the post-Cold War hegemony, that wonderful halcyon period where we ruled the world basically unchallenged and were the cock of the walk, right?

00:06:13.860 What we are seeing in this calculation, if it is, in fact, the case that Trump picked J.D. Vance in part to protect himself from being assassinated, is not some great aberration from politics.

00:06:25.740 What we are seeing is a return to a more traditional kind of political calculation.

00:06:32.100 Throughout the ages, kings have had servants taste their food before they ate because they knew that the threats against them were so high.

00:06:40.140 We've had many American presidents assassinated.

00:06:43.240 You think of, I don't know, Lincoln, McKinley.

00:06:47.800 The list goes on and on of successful assassination attempts, and then there are unsuccessful assassination attempts.

00:06:55.260 Teddy Roosevelt, after he was president.

00:06:58.120 Ronald Reagan, while he was president.

00:07:00.140 Jerry Ford, while he was president.

00:07:02.280 Kennedy was successfully assassinated.

00:07:04.660 Donald Trump, while he was about to become president, after he was president.

00:07:07.500 This is a return to traditional politics.

00:07:11.460 And as the political order in the United States and elsewhere continues to fray, you should expect more of a return to this traditional kind of politics.

00:07:20.900 You should expect more of these kind of maneuvers.

00:07:24.840 This is a return to the norm.

00:07:26.120 You're seeing this broadly in our politics.

00:07:28.360 A lot of what is called the new right, a lot of the avant-garde in the Republican Party that J.D. Vance has said to represent, is in many ways a return.

00:07:36.020 A return, not just to what the Republican Party used to be, but a return to what politics normally is.

00:07:41.920 What politics is under normal conditions.

00:07:45.220 A lot of what is called the new right is a return from the kind of abstract procedural norms that have dominated politics to a greater focus on the substantive goods.

00:07:57.520 Trump running in 2016.

00:07:59.500 He was asked, why are you running?

00:08:00.700 He said, because I want to give you good neighborhoods.

00:08:02.340 All the abstract ideologues freaked out.

00:08:04.360 They said, that's not your job.

00:08:05.420 Your job is to maintain this abstract liberal order and to tick up GDP in this way that is actually somewhat intangible and divorced from substantive goods.

00:08:14.900 And Trump says, no, I want you to have good neighborhoods.

00:08:17.180 And I want the criminals off the streets.

00:08:18.960 And I want the illegal Venezuelans to stop pouring in. 1.00

00:08:21.880 And I want a good country.

00:08:24.640 That's it.

00:08:25.320 And I think it shows you how important J.D. Vance is as an individual, but also as a representative of something to Trump's second term.

00:08:38.520 Trump's second term, because it's non-consecutive, being a little different than other presidential administrations.

00:08:45.320 Trump, in picking Vance, was choosing a successor even before his second term had begun, which is why there probably will be a Republican primary in 2028.

00:08:56.600 A lot of people want to be president.

00:08:58.280 There probably will be something resembling a primary, but it's different.

00:09:01.580 This is different than the end of George W. Bush, the end of George H.W. Bush, the end of Ronald Reagan even.

00:09:09.540 There was a primary at the end of Reagan, even though George H.W. Bush was elected as Reagan's third term.

00:09:15.080 You still have Buchanan running.

00:09:16.680 It was still a lively contest.

00:09:17.880 Ronald Reagan actually didn't weigh in in that primary until closer to the end.

00:09:21.540 Here, I think you're seeing something closer.

00:09:23.280 And so it's why it's no surprise that Trump has effectively already endorsed a ticket of J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio.

00:09:30.120 Now, speaking of the political order fraying and speaking of murder, horrifying statistics coming out of the U.K.

00:09:38.160 Anyway, this just reported on by Philip Wilkinson, actually, great, great economist, shows that the number of abortions in the U.K. is skyrocketing.

00:09:55.740 And what's really weird about this is that conceptions are remaining basically the same.

00:10:03.020 So you've got abortions going through the roof and conceptions staying just about the same. 0.99

00:10:10.800 Why is that?

00:10:12.720 People are offering all of these explanations.

00:10:15.380 Well, it's because of COVID, because people just weren't shacking up as much.

00:10:19.000 They weren't conceiving as many babies in 2020, 2021, 2022.

00:10:22.820 That's not really the case.

00:10:24.380 It's just that a greater portion of British babies who were conceived are being killed before they're born.

00:10:31.240 And this would appear to be tied to a massive hike in energy prices around 2022, a massive hike in inflation over there, also in 2022.

00:10:42.160 Inflation in 2022 hit the highest level in 41 years.

00:10:45.580 And it's leading to a kind of death spiral because people are not really focusing on this.

00:10:50.940 The immigration problem in the U.K. is like the immigration problem throughout all of Europe, which is the same thing as the immigration problem in America.

00:10:58.420 It is being driven primarily by abortion.

00:11:03.480 The argument for mass migration, beyond the moralistic arguments, oh, these poor people, you know, they want to come here for a better life.

00:11:11.740 That's why people always wanted to come to the West for a better life.

00:11:15.440 Why do we tolerate it now?

00:11:17.280 Because they say we're not having enough kids and we need to prop our economies up.

00:11:21.700 And the only way to prop our economies up, which we have to do to prop up the welfare states that we all have to varying degrees, you especially see that in the U.K., the only way to do it is to import more foreigners. 1.00

00:11:31.960 But as you import more foreigners, the social order continues to fray. 1.00

00:11:37.180 And that creates some economic problems.

00:11:39.740 That contributes to inflation.

00:11:41.080 That leads people to think that they don't have the material resources to have children.

00:11:45.300 So either they don't conceive, that's like the best case scenario of those two choices, or they kill their kids.

00:11:51.660 They conceive and they continue to kill their kids. 0.98

00:11:53.420 It represents a civilizational suicide, which then leads to more migration, which exacerbates the problems.

00:12:01.900 That's focusing on the material causes.

00:12:03.620 If you focus on the deeper causes, though, the real reason that people are not having kids is a decline in religion.

00:12:12.780 That's it.

00:12:14.320 People have tried to examine the birth rate crisis, which we've had in our own country for over 50 years now, since 1971.

00:12:19.980 And they try to examine it from all these sorts of reasons, all these different angles.

00:12:25.160 Is it ideological?

00:12:26.540 Is it material?

00:12:27.980 Is it something in the water?

00:12:29.420 Is there something turning the frogs gay? 0.80

00:12:30.820 What is it?

00:12:31.260 The most reliable predictor of whether or not people will have children and not kill them before they're born is religiosity.

00:12:41.340 The religious people have kids.

00:12:44.220 The irreligious people do not. 1.00

00:12:46.560 This ties into the immigration problem, too.

00:12:49.800 Because when you import a ton of people, in the case of the UK, a ton of people with a different religion, you further erode the religion of the country. 0.99

00:12:58.840 So much so that the king of England, who is supposed to be the head of the Church of England, which at least in name continues to exist, he changed one of his kingly titles.

00:13:07.540 He used to be Defensor Fidei, Defender of the Faith.

00:13:11.380 King Charles has now changed it to Defender of Faiths, which leads to a kind of religious indifferentism, which tells you that religion doesn't really matter.

00:13:18.960 You know, it might help you as a kind of personal preference.

00:13:21.740 It might make you feel good, but it doesn't really mean anything.

00:13:25.040 There's no truth to it.

00:13:26.360 All religions are basically the same, which is to say all religions are equally untrue. 0.98

00:13:31.880 That furthers this problem.

00:13:34.540 It compounds it.

00:13:35.820 It leads to a civilizational death spiral.

00:13:38.500 What we are seeing in the United Kingdom is a national suicide.

00:13:42.880 Abortion, more than any other action, more than any other issue, represents killing a nation's future.

00:13:52.140 Because you are literally killing the nation's future, because the nation's future literally is the next generation.

00:13:58.180 And when you refuse to conceive the next generation, or even more gruesomely, when you do conceive the next generation and then kill it off through an intentional action, you are killing your own country. 0.64

00:14:09.020 Which means that this is an existential crisis.

00:14:13.800 And when I say this, I don't just mean the material problems that are compounded by immigration, that then sometimes lead to more abortion, which then leads to more immigration, which then leads to more material problems.

00:14:26.400 And that's, yes, we need to try to fix all of that by curtailing migration, not just illegal immigration, but total immigration.

00:14:32.460 And yes, we need to try to get people to have more kids, maybe through some government incentives.

00:14:36.160 But what's at the heart of the problem?

00:14:37.640 What is at the heart of the problem is the decline of religiosity.

00:14:41.600 That is the reliable predictor of having more kids, which fixes all of the other problems.

00:14:47.420 Which means, and this brings us right back to the new right, the shift from procedural norms to substantive goods in our focus.

00:14:54.180 What is meant by the avant-garde of the conservatives and of the right?

00:14:58.820 It means that religion is an existential public political problem.

00:15:05.000 We need more religion.

00:15:08.280 We need more people actively practicing religion.

00:15:10.860 The truer the religion, the better. 0.94

00:15:13.060 But let's at least start with religion in principle.

00:15:17.100 That is an existential political problem.

00:15:20.640 I'll put it in the bluntest terms possible.

00:15:23.040 The government needs to promote religion and suppress atheism and suppress secularism and suppress religious indifferentism.

00:15:30.840 It has to do that as an existential matter.

00:15:34.620 If it does not do that, the UK will die.

00:15:38.460 Europe then will die.

00:15:39.960 And eventually, the United States will die.

00:15:41.960 We'll literally die.

00:15:43.100 There won't be any more kids.

00:15:44.400 And there will be some kind of zombie corpse of a country still walking around.

00:15:47.720 But it will be filled with entirely different people who believe entirely different things, who have an entirely different civilization.

00:15:54.080 And this is the message.

00:15:55.740 If you said, Michael, you get to sit down with the president of the United States.

00:15:59.560 Michael, you get to sit down with the prime minister of the UK or the king of England or whatever.

00:16:03.580 And you get to impress upon them one point.

00:16:05.880 This is the point I would impress upon them.

00:16:09.820 The promotion of religion has become an existential need.

00:16:14.660 It should be top of the list.

00:16:16.440 All of the other problems flow down from the decline of religion.

00:16:21.960 And the big obstacle to the promotion of religion is liberalism.

00:16:26.560 Liberalism, which says that we can't ever really know anything about religion.

00:16:30.140 And, you know, it's kind of like, you know, judgy and authoritarian.

00:16:33.320 It's a kind of authoritarian.

00:16:34.860 And it's kind of, what are you?

00:16:35.920 We can't really promote that.

00:16:37.100 And that might infringe upon the individual autonomy or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:16:41.440 Liberalism, which says we need to push religion out of public life.

00:16:44.620 Maybe we'll tolerate it in private life.

00:16:46.960 Can't do that.

00:16:48.460 Cannot do that.

00:16:49.880 Look at the UK as your crystal ball.

00:16:52.380 That is where your country is headed.

00:16:54.020 You, Americans.

00:16:55.060 You, Europeans. 0.91

00:16:56.700 You, people around the world.

00:16:59.620 Deal with that problem or don't and let your country die.

00:17:03.160 But don't say you weren't warned.

00:17:04.340 You were warned.

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00:20:54.740 Ron DeSantis, remember him?

00:20:56.880 Probably the best governor in America.

00:20:59.280 Lost a little bit of shine in the National Republican Party because he challenged Trump

00:21:03.080 for the nomination in 2024.

00:21:05.840 But still an excellent governor, has a lot of great ideas.

00:21:09.420 And here is what Governor DeSantis just said about the immigration problem.

00:21:16.360 But you know, you have some strain on the right.

00:21:18.980 This is, oh, no, no, you know, illegal immigration is bad. 0.99

00:21:23.060 Legal immigration, no matter what, is good. 0.87

00:21:24.920 And wait a minute.

00:21:25.820 Now, I'm not saying any of it's, that it's all bad or what.

00:21:29.240 But is bringing 10 million people from, like, Somalia and dumping them into Georgia, is that good because it's legal? 1.00

00:21:37.380 I think you have to think critically about what are we doing with an immigration policy?

00:21:41.680 And is it benefiting the American people?

00:21:44.460 Is it helping to promote a strong American culture?

00:21:47.680 We should never bring people into this country who hate America.

00:21:52.220 100% love this, perfectly said.

00:21:55.600 The problem is not just illegal immigration because it's illegal.

00:22:02.020 You know, illegal, bad, legal, good.

00:22:05.160 The question is, is immigration, mass migration, good for America today or bad for America?

00:22:12.240 I think any honest look at it has to say, on the whole, mass migration, especially from these countries that are very different from the United States, where the people form ethnic and religious enclaves, that shred social solidarity, where people don't even speak English, where they don't believe what we believe, where they don't practice the habits that our country has cultivated, that that's bad. 0.91

00:22:34.560 This is what is meant by the shift from merely procedural norms to substantive goods.

00:22:39.600 Because you come out on the new right and you say, hey, I think all this migration is bad, whether it's technically legal or illegal.

00:22:46.580 And you get the abstract ideologues who say, no, but you don't understand.

00:22:50.100 There's a poem under the Statue of Liberty written by some communist that says that the poor huddled masses have to come to America.

00:22:57.420 You say, all right, well, I don't remember, like, Alexander Hamilton writing that.

00:23:01.080 I don't remember reading that in the Constitution or the Federalist Papers.

00:23:03.700 It's fine that some socialist wrote a poem 100 years ago, but is it good or bad for us?

00:23:08.320 No, no, you don't understand.

00:23:10.000 Diversity is our strength, and America is a country of immigrants.

00:23:13.020 Okay, well, neither of those things are true, and they're just slogans that cropped up in the last few decades.

00:23:17.640 So is it good or bad for America?

00:23:19.340 No, no, you don't understand.

00:23:21.240 Actually, we're living in a globalized world where we're all interchangeable automatons, and trade is the only good thing, and we need to just all be citizens of the world.

00:23:30.960 Hold on.

00:23:33.520 Let's get back to brass tacks.

00:23:35.840 Is it good or bad?

00:23:38.380 This is the return from the abstractions and models of liberalism to a classical conception of politics, which says that politics is for something.

00:23:49.160 Liberalism says that politics is for protecting the individual autonomy of people from the predations of the government.

00:23:56.300 That's on the left and the right.

00:23:59.640 That's what they think politics is for, but that's not what politics is for.

00:24:02.320 Politics, most basically, is how we all live together in community, and the purpose of politics is to advance the common good.

00:24:09.760 The common good, not being the aggregate of private goods, you know, like I like cigars, and Johnny likes crystal meth, and so the common good is protecting cigars and crystal meth.

00:24:22.620 No, that's not what the common good is.

00:24:24.220 The common good is that good which is shared by all, which is not diminished when individuals participate in it.

00:24:31.200 It's just the good of the common, and we do have something in common, namely we're all part of the same country.

00:24:37.580 That's what it is.

00:24:38.460 And therefore, law is not just what some legislator writes down through the sheer tyranny of his will, whatever he thinks, that must be acceptable and promoted by the sheer fact of the procedure by which the law was passed.

00:24:51.380 No, the law is an ordinance of reason for the common good by him who has care of the community and promulgated.

00:25:03.620 That's it.

00:25:04.320 That's the big shift, and that's at the heart of a lot of the fissures that you're seeing right now in the Republican Party and on the right as the GOP tries to figure out what it's going to do after Trump.

00:25:13.120 Are we going to return to the old, sterile liberalism that has led to the literal deaths or near deaths of our countries?

00:25:24.240 Look at the UK.

00:25:25.480 Or are we going to get back to basics and get to a more classical conception of government and a more classical conception of politics and a more Christian conception of politics and say, no, it's actually about doing good stuff and opposing bad stuff.

00:25:38.080 That's it.

00:25:38.720 Really smart, really smart shift here from DeSantis.

00:25:42.220 I think you're seeing this echoed at the national level as well.

00:25:45.800 This is not coming out of nowhere.

00:25:47.240 I remember there was a great debate in the 90s on Bill Buckley's firing line show where Bill Buckley, who these days is sometimes much maligned as being a defender of managed decline and liberalism, whatever.

00:26:00.360 Bill Buckley was on the side of the debate that said, we need to drastically reduce all migration.

00:26:05.740 And it was more liberal, centrist, even center left types who were saying, no, no, no, we need more migration.

00:26:12.800 Diversity is our strength.

00:26:14.080 We're a nation of immigrants, blah, blah, blah. 0.99

00:26:15.740 And so you have people today who call themselves conservatives who are really just conserving the liberalism of 20 years ago.

00:26:22.180 That's not going to cut it because the liberalism of 20 years ago led to the decline that we're seeing today.

00:26:29.820 We need something different.

00:26:31.860 We need to get back to what is good for the country.

00:26:36.200 That involves clarity.

00:26:37.200 And then we need to get back to the courage to actually advance that good, even as they call us authoritarian or whatever, which is totally ridiculous.

00:26:44.920 Okay, speaking of immigrants, the pro-immigration side in America is getting hoisted with its own petard.

00:26:52.180 Even the New York Times is admitting it.

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00:30:24.480 Speaking of immigrants, I love this story out of the New York Times.

00:30:27.140 I love this so much.

00:30:28.040 Story out of the Times, for some women, the American dream is in Mexico City. 1.00

00:30:36.660 Where is it?

00:30:37.300 Do I have it?

00:30:37.760 I don't have the printed text.

00:30:39.620 Here it is.

00:30:41.040 And it's this beautiful look at Mexico City, just a little touch from the Times reporting.

00:30:47.240 While Americans make up only a tiny fraction of Mexico City's foreign resident population,

00:30:51.780 data shows they are driving a tourism boom, with more women than men visiting this year,

00:30:57.700 and some women have made it their new home, saying they have largely felt welcomed.

00:31:02.940 But the influx of foreigners has angered some residents, who say the newcomers have caused

00:31:09.760 prices to soar, have caused rents to double.

00:31:14.780 Does this sound familiar?

00:31:15.960 The central districts of Condesa and Roma, in particular, have become expat strongholds.

00:31:21.840 So you're getting these enclaves of people who've come from America to Mexico,

00:31:25.180 with English spilling from sidewalk cafes and American-style restaurants.

00:31:30.400 And the locals don't like it.

00:31:32.460 The Mexicans don't like it very much, that these Americans keep coming to their country, 1.00

00:31:37.540 and they're causing housing prices to skyrocket.

00:31:40.920 They're causing inflation to skyrocket.

00:31:43.000 They're only hanging out with each other.

00:31:45.000 They're not assimilating to the local culture.

00:31:47.620 And they're not bothering to speak the native language.

00:31:51.720 Gee, that must be terrible.

00:31:53.900 I can't, wow.

00:31:54.920 I'm sure glad the New York Times did this report on the problem of immigrants not assimilating

00:32:00.680 and irritating the locals and causing their lives to get worse,

00:32:03.440 and causing the prices to go off, and not learning the language in Mexico.

00:32:08.060 I'm really glad.

00:32:09.220 You know, I wonder if this problem is happening anywhere else in the world.

00:32:13.080 Maybe we should call these hard-nosed New York Times journalists and see if they can find an extension of that story anywhere else.

00:32:24.300 Because I really feel bad for the Mexicans in this case.

00:32:27.300 You know, no citizens should be expected to tolerate an endless flow of foreigners coming into their country and screwing up their economy and fraying their social solidarity and not assimilating and speaking a different language and just totally taking over. 1.00

00:32:42.780 Right?

00:32:44.600 Wouldn't you say?

00:32:45.760 Boy, this is a great report from the New York Times.

00:32:49.840 Can we extrapolate anything?

00:32:51.140 Because that sounds really unpleasant.

00:32:53.680 And maybe we should, you know what I'm going to do?

00:32:55.620 I'm going to say as an American, as American women, ladies, that's very disrespectful. 1.00

00:33:01.200 You should not just pour into a foreign country and do that. 0.97

00:33:03.540 So I'll tell you what, I am calling on the Americans who are doing this to cut it out and be more disrespectful.

00:33:09.000 And maybe the citizens of other countries should stop doing that as well.

00:33:14.380 Don't you think?

00:33:14.860 That's a good idea.

00:33:16.240 It's amazing.

00:33:16.960 It's a kind of version of the celebration parallax.

00:33:20.220 Mike Anton over at Claremont.

00:33:21.740 Actually, I guess he's at the White House now.

00:33:23.000 But Mike Anton over at Claremont.

00:33:25.160 Or he, no, I'm sorry, he's at the State Department.

00:33:26.780 He made this point.

00:33:28.360 He said, you know, there's a celebration parallax where when the left does something that they want to do.

00:33:34.280 Like, I don't know, flood the country with migrants and they observe it, then that's a really good thing and everybody celebrates. 1.00

00:33:44.400 But when critics of that very same policy observe the policy and they bemoan it, they lament it, that is a dangerous conspiracy theory.

00:33:54.960 That is misinformation that needs to be censored and the people who spread it need to be punished.

00:33:58.900 When people say it's happening and it's a good thing, that's great.

00:34:04.600 That gets on the cover of the New York Times.

00:34:05.960 When people say it's happening and it's a bad thing, it's a dangerous conspiracy theory.

00:34:09.360 This is kind of a version of it.

00:34:11.940 You know, the New York Times will come out and say there are no problems caused by immigrants.

00:34:14.740 They don't cause inflation.

00:34:15.540 They don't cause housing prices to soar.

00:34:16.940 They don't phrase social solidarity and everyone should love them.

00:34:20.240 Not just as a personal matter of brotherly love, but as a political issue.

00:34:24.020 We should just love it.

00:34:24.880 We should want more of it.

00:34:26.660 But when it happens in Mexico, it's really bad.

00:34:28.900 It's really bad.

00:34:29.720 Okay, I think it's bad probably everywhere.

00:34:31.460 Speaking of Latin American foreigners, you know, there's a talk right now about whether or not we're going to go to war with Venezuela.

00:34:38.620 Trump is just picking off all those drug boats and libs are freaking out about it. 1.00

00:34:43.020 They're really upset that less fentanyl is getting into the country and from foreign terrorist organizations that are the cartels.

00:34:49.420 But the fact that we have aircraft carriers and stuff off the coast of Venezuela suggests that maybe this isn't just about the drug runners.

00:34:58.020 Maybe Trump is going to make good on a long-standing American threat to oust the dictator of Venezuela, who is socialist Nicolas Maduro.

00:35:07.900 And I know a lot of people are hesitant for regime change.

00:35:13.240 A lot of people are hesitant for America to meddle in the affairs of other countries and oust leaders and all that.

00:35:18.380 And I, too, tend to be more on the side of restraint in foreign policy.

00:35:23.540 And then I saw this.

00:35:33.560 Maduro, he says, second task, peace.

00:35:36.720 Do everything for peace.

00:35:39.680 As John Lennon would say.

00:35:43.820 How did the John Lennon song go?

00:35:53.540 What a beautiful song, the lyrics.

00:36:01.860 For the young ones, look up the lyrics.

00:36:05.680 It's an inspiration for all times.

00:36:08.240 It's an anthem for all eras and generations.

00:36:10.160 Left by John Lennon as a gift.

00:36:13.440 To humanity.

00:36:15.420 Long live John Lennon.

00:36:17.100 He starts, he, not only does he mention it, he starts singing it.

00:36:19.920 I'm a young old abibo.

00:36:24.540 And then he goes, he says, the lyrics are really good.

00:36:27.260 It's not just the catchy tune, the lyrics.

00:36:29.880 The lyrics, which are a hideous dystopian communist ditty.

00:36:33.500 They say, imagine all the people.

00:36:35.220 Imagine there's no heaven.

00:36:36.940 Imagine there's no religion.

00:36:38.340 Imagine there's nothing to live or die for.

00:36:40.780 We're all just going to be soulless automatons in some communist hellhole.

00:36:46.360 And it radicalized me.

00:36:50.100 Not even the song.

00:36:51.260 Nicholas Maduro singing the stupid John Lennon song.

00:36:54.340 We need to bomb him.

00:36:56.000 We need to bomb him good.

00:36:57.940 We need to bomb.

00:36:58.940 We bomb. 0.51

00:36:59.680 Bomb.

00:37:01.560 Regime change now.

00:37:02.780 Bring me Paul Wolfowitz.

00:37:04.580 Bring me the ghost of Dick Cheney.

00:37:06.540 We need, I want F-16s flying over.

00:37:10.140 I want B-2 bombers.

00:37:12.340 I want maybe nuclear weapons. 0.59

00:37:15.460 No, maybe not nuclear weapons.

00:37:16.580 Because we want to keep the oil from Venezuela.

00:37:18.760 This, that's bad.

00:37:21.440 I was on the fence about Maduro.

00:37:23.180 But this is bad.

00:37:24.200 We cannot have, we cannot have the dictators of oil rich nations in our hemisphere promoting John Lennon.

00:37:29.900 This is a bridge too far.

00:37:31.260 Sorry, bomb.

00:37:32.060 Now, I'm being only slightly hyperbolic and joking.

00:37:38.380 Because there is a chance we go to war with Venezuela.

00:37:41.320 That Trump goes to war with Venezuela.

00:37:42.440 Trump who ran largely as an anti-war president.

00:37:45.480 But he's willing to use strength in precise ways when it counts.

00:37:48.580 All the way going back to the first term.

00:37:49.940 He's had the best foreign policy of anyone in my lifetime.

00:37:51.940 Probably even including George H.W. Bush, who was the other great foreign policy president of our lifetime.

00:37:57.940 In part because he was able to wage the Iraq war without actually going in and getting stuck in the desert and all the rest.

00:38:03.220 Managed the decline of the Soviet Union.

00:38:04.540 Okay.

00:38:06.140 What will the right think about this?

00:38:09.240 The right does not want to get bogged down in more wars overseas in the Middle East.

00:38:13.580 Wars that don't seem to directly affect American interests.

00:38:16.720 Or if they do, it's only in a distant way.

00:38:19.440 Wars that seem to go on forever.

00:38:22.220 Wars that we end up losing when all is said and done.

00:38:25.620 After 20 years, we just give Afghanistan back to the Taliban. 0.97

00:38:28.440 A lot of people left wondering what was that all for in the first place.

00:38:31.940 However, I do think there's something different about war in the Western Hemisphere.

00:38:37.340 And I wonder if this is a little bit of a third way in foreign policy.

00:38:40.680 The foreign policy, which is simplistically reduced to the interventionists on one hand and the isolationists on the other.

00:38:50.380 The people who want to invade every country on earth, world police. 0.79

00:38:53.560 The people who want to pretend that we're a yeoman republic and we don't have any international interests.

00:38:59.360 The notion that America should just be lighting up the Middle East with bombs and creating Madisonian democracies there.

00:39:05.060 It's a very new idea in American politics.

00:39:07.120 It hasn't worked out very well.

00:39:07.900 But the idea that we should broadly have control over Latin America goes back to the early 19th century.

00:39:15.620 That has been the operating policy of the United States for the vast majority of our history.

00:39:22.040 And I do wonder if this kind of pivot is a third way to avoid the pitfalls of neocon interventionism and I think a utopian libertarian isolationism.

00:39:34.480 Which is to say we are obviously going to be involved in international affairs.

00:39:37.980 But we are going to be more directly in affairs that are closer to home.

00:39:42.380 That more directly affect our interests.

00:39:44.540 That return to a more classical conception of politics.

00:39:47.780 If there's some lunatic communist who isn't making a ton of trouble but he's spouting off on the other side of the world, we pay a little less attention to it.

00:39:56.460 If we have some socialist singing John Lennon who is right near our shores, who's sending drugs and terrorists into our country and who has a lot of oil that we could use, that we could put to better use.

00:40:06.780 Then maybe we get a little more heavy handed closer to home.

00:40:10.060 I'm not – I don't want to – I know Daily Beast is already writing the article.

00:40:13.140 I'm not calling – I guess I'm literally calling to bomb Maduro but only for the song.

00:40:17.680 I'm not saying we have to go to war in Venezuela.

00:40:20.520 I'm not saying we need regime change in Venezuela.

00:40:22.900 I am just pointing out as a matter of the political order, this might be a third way to reconcile disparate factions of the Republican Party.

00:40:32.840 Between the heavy interventionism and the leave us alone isolationism.

00:40:37.500 This might be a third way to say, hey, when communists are messing around in our affairs and they have a lot of nice tasty oil that could help bring down energy and prices and inflation and everything in America, well, maybe they better think twice before they start singing Imagine.

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00:41:23.520 My favorite comment yesterday is from Captain Bipto, who says, your Mayflower Dawn bundle always being out of stock is anti-capitalist.

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00:41:36.400 The producers picked that comment because I did not pick a comment today.

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00:41:42.080 I know we've had supply issues.

00:41:44.360 Look, we sold out of what was supposed to be four months of cigars the day we launched just about two years ago.

00:41:50.120 And then we massively ramped up production.

00:41:52.160 We sold like 50,000 cigars in a day, though.

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00:41:56.700 And we've had a little bit of stocking issues.

00:41:59.100 Demand has outstripped supply generally like the whole time.

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00:42:26.800 Speaking of violence, really rough study.

00:42:30.080 Comes out.

00:42:30.720 This is via Rob K. Henderson at the Manhattan Institute.

00:42:33.300 It shows that for the first time ever, 12th grade girls are less likely than boys to say that they want to get married someday.

00:42:43.860 Always, for all of history, it's the girls, you know, sitting there. 0.55

00:42:48.380 They've got their crush.

00:42:49.320 They have a crush on John Smith.

00:42:50.940 And little Sally, Sally Jones is writing, Mrs. Sally Smith.

00:42:56.160 Mrs. John Smith.

00:42:57.940 You know, and kind of signing her name and dreaming of her wedding day.

00:43:00.780 And what are men dreaming about?

00:43:02.060 They're dreaming about the Roman Empire most of the time, every day at least.

00:43:05.500 They're dreaming about sports.

00:43:07.180 They're dreaming about cigars.

00:43:09.260 They're dreaming about, if they're dreaming about girls, they're not dreaming about getting married, usually.

00:43:14.300 That's how it goes.

00:43:15.260 It's the men have to be a little more dragged into getting married.

00:43:18.060 The women were always dreaming about it. 1.00

00:43:19.860 Now it's flipped.

00:43:21.040 It's flipped.

00:43:21.700 What a sign of a perverse culture. 0.79

00:43:23.460 What a sign of a culture facing existential crisis.

00:43:26.120 However, I can tell you why this is happening.

00:43:29.760 Everyone seems really confused by this.

00:43:31.120 I'll tell you why this is happening.

00:43:34.040 Because women follow social trends. 0.99

00:43:38.740 Men are less likely to follow social trends.

00:43:41.480 There are countless studies on this topic, including there was a major meta-analysis last year which showed that women are much more likely than men to conform to group norms.

00:43:50.600 This is why there's a famous line from George Orwell's 1984.

00:43:54.160 In fact, I copied it down here.

00:43:56.220 It's referring to the protagonist, Winston.

00:43:57.780 It says, he disliked nearly all women and especially the young and pretty ones.

00:44:01.620 Especially the young and pretty ones.

00:44:03.780 It was always the women and above all the young ones who were the most bigoted adherents of the party. 0.97

00:44:09.620 The swallower of slogans.

00:44:11.700 The amateur spies and nosers out of unorthodoxy.

00:44:17.420 George Orwell was not a misogynist.

00:44:18.760 He was observing a fact about women, especially the young ones, especially the pretty ones. 0.97

00:44:22.720 They go along with the social trends.

00:44:25.900 All the girls who are enforcing the cancel culture and calling you a bigot and a phobic and a this and a that. 1.00

00:44:34.180 It's that kind.

00:44:35.680 We all know the type, okay?

00:44:37.220 And it's no knock on them.

00:44:38.260 Vive la de France.

00:44:39.060 You know, that's human nature.

00:44:40.280 However, this means there's a good sign here.

00:44:44.260 Because women follow. 0.99

00:44:45.500 The decline in religion, getting back to what we were talking about at the top of the show.

00:44:49.440 The decline of religion was led by men. 1.00

00:44:52.000 And then women followed. 1.00

00:44:54.460 Now that religion has stopped declining, it's at least leveled out or it might be increasing.

00:44:59.960 Actually, there are good signs that it's increasing.

00:45:01.400 The return to religion is being led by men. 1.00

00:45:06.000 And women will follow that. 1.00

00:45:08.380 Because men lead.

00:45:09.900 They lead in every industry.

00:45:12.140 They lead in every political campaign.

00:45:14.200 They lead in every great nation in the world.

00:45:16.980 There are always some exceptions.

00:45:19.100 The exceptions prove the rule.

00:45:21.040 Men tend to lead.

00:45:22.960 Women tend to conform to social norms. 0.99

00:45:25.040 That's not something to be angry about.

00:45:26.320 Men and women are different.

00:45:27.100 Don't we agree on that?

00:45:28.160 Men and women are different.

00:45:28.840 This is one of the ways in which they're different.

00:45:31.820 And so what you're seeing is that men have led the decline in marriage.

00:45:36.520 This has been exacerbated by stupid divorce laws. 0.99

00:45:39.080 This has been exacerbated by a culture that says that men are toxic. 0.98

00:45:41.620 This has been exacerbated by all sorts of things that we should fix.

00:45:45.860 And now it's reached the point where more men want to get married.

00:45:48.400 More boys, 18-year-old boys want to get married than 18-year-old girls.

00:45:52.820 That means that that will switch.

00:45:54.140 As men return to wanting to get married, women will follow. 1.00

00:45:57.300 Because that's how the sexes work. 1.00

00:45:59.620 I am sure to be pilloried on all sides for this.

00:46:02.560 By the kind of red pill misogynist types.

00:46:05.280 And by the feminists. 0.99

00:46:07.000 And by the liberals.

00:46:08.380 And that's how you know that I'm right.

00:46:10.080 That's how you know that I'm right.

00:46:10.880 It's a little bit hopeful.

00:46:11.920 Okay.

00:46:13.120 Really important story that I want to get to today.

00:46:17.520 And it involves Blair White.

00:46:19.440 Do you know Blair?

00:46:19.800 Blair White was on this show years ago.

00:46:22.980 I mean in the earliest days of the show.

00:46:24.500 Because Blair is a guy who identifies as a woman.

00:46:27.240 But he doesn't even totally identify as a woman.

00:46:28.860 He went through the trans thing. 0.84

00:46:30.040 Got all the surgeries.

00:46:31.560 Looks more convincing than 99% of trans identifying people. 1.00

00:46:36.220 But he'll come out and say, look, I know I'm a man.

00:46:38.020 I know I'm not really a woman.

00:46:38.800 But it makes me feel good to pretend to be a woman. 0.95

00:46:41.360 And he's a really nice guy.

00:46:42.500 And when it comes to electoral politics, he tends to fall on the Republican side.

00:46:47.020 Which in itself is kind of interesting.

00:46:48.760 But we'll take all the votes we can get.

00:46:50.820 He just made a claim though.

00:46:52.320 That also, it shows you about men leading the return back to religion actually.

00:46:56.400 Is he says that he's Christian now.

00:46:58.920 But there's an error in his thinking about Christianity that is very common.

00:47:04.900 It's very widespread.

00:47:05.880 But hopefully we can correct that.

00:47:09.020 We don't have time to correct that today.

00:47:10.120 We will correct it maybe tomorrow.

00:47:11.720 Because today is Tee Hee Hee Tuesday.

00:47:13.180 The rest of the show continues now.

00:47:14.360 What a tease I am.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 18, 2025

Ep. 1859 - The Epidemic Of British Women Killing Their Children

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