On today's show, Michael Knowles talks about the dangers of mass immigration, and why we should all be thankful for the fact that we're not the nation of the Muslim pirate ship. He also talks about how much better our lives would be if we were more like other countries.
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00:05:01.940Biggest story, brutal, brutal start to Thanksgiving.
00:05:07.300The day before Thanksgiving, an Afghan refugee, so-called an Afghan who was brought into the United States under Joe Biden's disastrous immigration policy,
00:05:18.960specifically from Afghanistan, to cover up for his particularly disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
00:05:26.020An Afghan murdered two National Guardsmen.
00:05:31.940A National Guardsman and a National Guardswoman, and a young woman in particular.
00:05:36.700Sarah Beckstrom, just 20 years old, 20 years old, signs up to support her country, defend her country, is stationed in Washington, D.C.
00:05:47.380Because Democrat cities have allowed the political order to get so dangerous, so out of control, that the National Guard has had to be called in.
00:05:55.840And this Afghan now proving the point.
00:07:01.980They kill young Americans the day before Thanksgiving.
00:07:04.200According to the Congressional Research Service, 77,000 Afghans entered the U.S. under this Joe Biden program, which was in place for a year after U.S. withdrawal.
00:07:14.720And this guy who shot the Guardsmen is not the sole case here of these Afghans committing crimes or even attempting to kill people and commit terror actions.
00:07:23.240There are a litany of examples of this, which we'll get to in a moment.
00:07:27.520Why was the guy let in in the first place?
00:07:29.000Apparently, he worked with the CIA in Afghanistan.
00:07:30.880And a lot of these guys, they maybe helped out the U.S. in some way during our 20-year occupation of Afghanistan.
00:07:37.320And then we say, okay, we're going to let them all in.
00:07:39.600And they've all been properly vetted, supposedly.
00:07:42.740Not only did Democrats immediately respond by defending the Biden era program, by defending the indefensible.
00:07:51.300MSNBC yet again responded to this tragic murder by immediately, as it was happening, by attempting to justify it.
00:08:04.860But of course, there's so much controversy happening in the United States right now with ICE, who are also wearing uniforms and wearing masks.
00:08:14.280And so there's, you don't know, people walking around with uniforms in an American city, there are some Americans that might object to that.
00:08:26.080And so apparently this shooting has happened.
00:08:31.340There are people, so report, at least one National Guardsman shot.
00:10:13.680We then get, thanks to PBS, an actual earnest instantiation on one of the funnier Norm MacDonald bits.
00:10:21.360Norm being the greatest comedian probably ever, but certainly of any of our lifetimes.
00:10:26.160Norm MacDonald had a zillion funny bits.
00:10:28.520But one of them was, this long bit, he said, my greatest fear is that a Muslim terrorist would get hold of a dirty bomb detonated over a major city,
00:10:35.820killing tens of millions of people, because then the backlash against peaceful Muslims would be terrible.
00:10:41.960And his guest on his show, she couldn't laugh at it.
00:11:26.500The refugee groups, the open borders groups, the pro-Muslim groups, those groups are really concerned.
00:11:33.960The second that a 20-year-old woman who serves in the National Guard is murdered by an Afghan Muslim terrorist the day before Thanksgiving,
00:11:41.060their first thought is, gosh, the backlash against Afghanis is going to be terrible.
00:11:46.980But I guess my concern, I guess we're different because my concern is for the Americans that the so-called refugees are murdering.
00:11:53.840So that makes us different, and we have different priorities.
00:11:56.420And I guess that makes us different from PBS.
00:12:00.560I guess that makes us different from MSNBC.
00:12:03.740I guess that just makes us pretty different.
00:12:05.560What the liberal media, I mean, these are two indefensible reactions.
00:16:21.360I mean, I guess something against Afghanis.
00:16:22.820But let's, nothing against Afghanis in general.
00:16:25.220But I'm the vice president of the United States.
00:16:27.340I have a responsibility to the American people.
00:16:30.040Clearly, the liberal media feel no such responsibility.
00:16:32.840And you see this antagonism to the United States, to the native population of the United States, being expressed more and more and more crazy statements from a Democrat member of Congress and from a prominent liberal commentator.
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00:21:40.480Jasmine Crockett is granting the premise of deporting some people who are a threat to our country, who should not be here.
00:21:48.160Having granted the premise of mass deportations, now we are only arguing about the particulars.
00:21:56.820Whom does it make more sense to deport?
00:21:59.040The so-called white supremacists, who are by and large American citizens, who are the ones who are actually criminals, are all in prison already.
00:22:08.560Them, this vanishingly small number of American citizens who basically just kill each other, who are already in prison.
00:22:16.100Or, the tens of millions of foreign nationals who have no right to be here, who are, by their very existence in the country, constantly committing crimes, and who are also generally working with foreign terrorist organizations.
00:22:34.160Or, let's put aside the illegal immigrants for a second.
00:22:37.960How about the so-called refugees who are here from terrorist-laden countries, from totally foreign cultures, from totally foreign religions, who are here committing terrorist attacks?
00:25:47.940At Ali, responding to Americans who are rightly quite concerned that the people that we import into this country from foreign places keep murdering us.
00:26:00.080Here's Wajahat Ali's brilliant liberal commentary.
00:26:45.900Some white women, you know, the Western civilization women, the pure women, the American women, quote unquote, the Rust Belt women, the real women.
00:27:32.560I can't help but notice in this terribly vicious diatribe by Wajahat Ali against white people and America, you know, the kind of founding stock of America generally.
00:27:45.040I can't help but notice in this vicious about why he hates every single thing about us and our country and our culture.
00:27:50.880I can't help but notice his parents came here.
00:27:54.380And in fact, his whole argument is that all these other people are coming here as well.
00:27:58.260Wajahat Ali is a perfect example of the problems of immigration.
00:29:00.920It's a hostility that comes from his race and his nation of origin, homeland, I guess, a generation back, and culture.
00:29:11.220And what this suggests to me is that even in the best of circumstances, heritage is a part of identity that is enduring, that is complex, that is enduring, and that cannot simply be waved away by passing a multiple choice civics exam.
00:29:34.840As even grants, he says, look, all of this mass migration, it started in 1965.
00:29:38.300I know we all pretend like America's a country of immigrants, and it was all founded by immigrants, and it was all just immigrants all the way down.
00:29:45.400It really just started in 1965 when the liberals opened up our immigration process and flooded the country with the third world, and everything's basically gotten worse ever since.
00:29:54.760But, you know, it's not only because of the immigrants, but it's both a symptom and a cause of many problems.
00:30:01.120But anyway, here we are now, and that's how it goes.
00:30:03.580Even under the best of circumstances, where you have a guy like Wajihad Ali, who is as assimilated to American liberal culture as it is possible to be, went to one of the exemplars of American liberal institutions, and even there, he has this deep tribal identity.
00:30:22.820Me, Pakistani, me hate you, white, hunky American.
00:30:26.580Like, basically, he sounds like a complete knuckle-dragging troglodyte, doesn't he?
00:30:31.280But with a kind of liberal twist to it.
00:30:36.380It tells us that the ancients and the medievals, and basically everyone before the 1960s, was right about immigration.
00:30:45.980Our founding fathers, who severely restricted immigration.
00:30:50.140Everyone was right about immigration until us.
00:30:53.880St. Thomas Aquinas in particular comes to mind.
00:30:56.720I'll just get just a little bit from St.
00:30:59.540You know, it wouldn't be an episode of the show without a little Thomas Aquinas.
00:31:02.080This is from Summa Theologiae Prima Secundae, question 105, article 3.
00:31:08.040Man's relations with foreigners are twofold, peaceful and hostile, and in directing both kinds of relation, the law contained suitable precepts.
00:31:15.780For the Jews were offered three opportunities of peaceful relations with foreigners.
00:31:19.900First, when foreigners passed through their lands as travelers.
00:31:23.000Secondly, when they came to dwell in their land as newcomers.
00:31:25.920And in both these respects, the law made kind provision in its precepts for it is written,
00:31:29.720thou shalt not molest a stranger, and again thou shalt not molest a stranger.
00:31:49.900Thirdly, when any foreigners wish to be admitted entirely to their fellowship, speaking of the Jews, and mode of worship.
00:31:56.180With regard to these, a certain order was observed.
00:31:58.980For they were not at once admitted to citizenship, just as it was law with some nations that no one was deemed a citizen except after two or three generations, as the philosopher Aristotle says.
00:32:09.460The reason for this was that if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might attempt something hurtful to the people.
00:32:23.480St. Thomas Aquinas is saying, look, here is how the Jews handled immigration in the Old Testament.
00:32:28.040Because the Old Testament prefigures Christ, the Jews as a people are a particular people that is the type of all nations because God, who is the God of everything, is a God who also cares very much about the particulars.
00:32:42.640So much so that his only begotten son, only begotten son, is particularly incarnate in a particular place in a particular time to a particular woman and is crucified by a particular governor, Pontius Pilate.
00:32:56.400He picks particular apostles and a particular church he founds in order to spread from the particular to the universal.
00:33:05.680So, St. Thomas Aquinas says, okay, the Jews, being a particular people who are the type of all nations, they didn't just like open up all their borders.
00:33:37.160And then he doesn't just cite the Jews in the Old Testament.
00:33:39.480He also cites Aristotle, wisdom also from Greece.
00:33:43.520And he says, you know, you don't make them citizens all at once because it takes some time.
00:33:49.900It's not that you say, all right, you have to have a certain amount of, a certain kind of blood in you or else you're not allowed into the nation.
00:33:57.900But it says you need a little bit of time.
00:33:59.280You can't just come here and, as we pretend today, you know, pass a civics exam, like a, you know, five-question civics test, and then we pretend you're as American as apple pie.
00:34:13.040It says, hence it was that the law prescribed in respect of certain nations that had close relations with the Jews, the Egyptians among whom they were born and educated, the Idumeans, the children of Esau, Jacob's brother, that they should be admitted to the fellowship of the people after the third generation.
00:34:29.700Whereas others with whom their relations had been hostile, such as Ammonites and Moabites, were never to be admitted to citizenship.
00:34:35.080While the Amalekites, who were yet more hostile to them and had no fellowship of kindred with them, were to be held as foes in perpetuity, for it is written, the war of the Lord shall be against Amalek from generation to generation.
00:34:46.120Man, Thomas Aquinas, as always, just, like, write about everything.
00:34:49.520He says, it's not that you should never take immigrants in, but when you take immigrants in, you should do so very, very carefully, and you probably shouldn't grant them citizenship right away.
00:34:58.840You should wait, maybe a generation, maybe two generations, maybe three generations, because it takes a while to be enculturated in all of the not totally rational, not totally articulable aspects of a political tradition.
00:35:15.660You know, to understand what fireworks and hot dogs on the 4th of July are, to have a little bit of the George M. Cohan songs in your blood, to have your heart swell a little bit when you hear about George Washington and Paul Revere.
00:36:53.080I think this was the question on a lot of people's minds, especially as we found out that Governor Tim Walls, the man who was the running mate with Kamala Harris, almost one heartbeat away from becoming the second woman president.
00:37:03.880Tim Walls was caught in a massive fraud scandal where taxpayer dollars from Minnesota were going to Somali schemesters who were sending it to a terror group in Somalia.
00:37:15.320Raised a lot of questions to people about immigration, which is not just who do we have to let in?
00:37:21.120Who do we, who are, who, through what procedures do we have to let these people in?
00:37:25.640Raised a question, which is, what do these people add to America?
00:37:32.960Why are we letting them in in the first place?
00:37:34.640We'll get to that in one second first.
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00:40:14.460A very happy Thanksgiving salutation to all our great American citizens and patriots who have been so nice in allowing our country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the world for being politically correct and just plain stupid when it comes to immigration.
00:40:28.700Goes on about the insane foreign-born population, 53 million people, all of the yearly benefits that they're getting, all the welfare benefits that we're told the migrants don't really get, all the, how recent all this problem was.
00:40:43.380And then he says, the seriously retarded governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing either through fear, incompetence, or both.
00:40:51.400While the worst congressman or woman in our country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the USA illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our country, our constitution, how badly she is treated.
00:41:07.320When her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime-ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of government.
00:41:23.460In public, sometimes people's private speech is a little saltier than their public speech, and I think that's good.
00:41:30.360It's good to have more decorum in public.
00:41:31.960It's good always to speak in a moral way.
00:41:33.860But in terms of the particulars of turns of colloquial phrase, it's good to maybe have more decorum in public than in private.
00:41:42.020One of the real popular things about President Trump, though, is he is, by all accounts, the exact same guy in public as he is in private.
00:41:51.200And at a time when our political order is so dishonest, when people are not merely a little more polite in public, a little more refined in public, but when people are actually hypocrites, when people say one thing and do the exact opposite in private.
00:42:07.200But in that kind of political order, it's quite refreshing.
00:45:20.420Hey, Tim Walz is a big, fat, stupid retard.
00:45:23.380You see what he did with those Somalians?
00:45:24.760Which one are you more likely to pay attention to?
00:45:30.440So people can quibble over his public use of the word retarded.
00:45:34.780But now, we're not talking about, I kind of, in many ways, I wish we would talk about retarded people and why we shouldn't kill them through abortion.
00:45:41.380Which is actually the chief political relevance of that word.
00:45:46.240But maybe that's a conversation for another time.
00:45:48.420At the very least, we're talking about the massive immigration fraud scandal, specifically regarding Somalis in Minnesota.
00:45:59.200The scandal is that Tim Walz, under his leadership, allowed Somalis to defraud the welfare system in all sorts of housing programs, food programs, all these kind of programs.
00:46:11.940Take the money, send it back to Somalia, in many cases, funding the terror group, Al-Shabaab, as Chris Ruffo reported.
00:46:18.500Even the New York Times has had to admit this.
00:46:20.260How fraud swamped Minnesota's social services system on Tim Walz's watch.
00:46:47.460Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers, using monitoring threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports, on and on and on.
00:46:54.680Okay, so then the question becomes, okay, you've imported these massive schemers, these fraudsters from Somalia,
00:47:02.700who have a foreign religion, who support actual terror groups, materially with taxpayer money.
00:47:09.540Who are kicking Christians and the native population out of various towns in the United States.
00:47:16.660Not just the Somalians, but Muslim immigrants generally.
00:47:20.020Dearborn, Michigan, probably the clearest example of this.