The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1874 - Alleged Charlie Kirk Assassin Smirks During First Court Hearing

00:00:00.000 The smirking leftist trans furry fancier who allegedly murdered Charlie Kirk made his first 0.62

00:00:06.140 appearance in court yesterday, and though it was infuriating for Charlie's friends and for his

00:00:11.700 many, many admirers, the alleged shooter's mere demeanor, I think, cleared up a lot of the apparent

00:00:18.640 confusion over whodunit. Then, tensions ramp up between the U.S. and Venezuela as Venezuelan

00:00:24.800 dictator Nicolas Maduro threatens to break America's teeth, and everyone seems to forget

00:00:29.180 that a Catholic mystic who prophesied 9-11 said of some major global event that it will start in

00:00:36.160 Venezuela. You don't really hear about that little tidbit a lot in the mainstream media. We'll get

00:00:40.480 into that. Also, the president of the European Commission finally decides to stop illegal Muslim 1.00

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00:03:29.520 because in journalism, until someone's been convicted of a crime, you have to say alleged.

00:03:34.600 But the guy whose fingerprints were found all over the gun, who was turned in reportedly by his

00:03:41.380 parents, who reportedly sent text messages confessing to the crime, who did this, that,

00:03:47.200 and the other thing. This guy finally appeared in court. He was wearing a shirt, a tie, and shackles.

00:03:53.460 And he was smirking. And the smirk, I think, is real key here because it's been three months. It feels

00:04:01.720 like it's been three years, but it's been three months since Charlie was murdered. And we all saw

00:04:07.620 the guy get arrested. Tyler Robinson is the suspect. We all saw him get arrested. We all learned about

00:04:13.760 his trans, furry, gay boyfriend. We all saw the weird text messages. We all saw that they were part 0.99

00:04:21.840 of a Discord server with other pro-LGBT, pro-anarchists, leftists. We all saw a lot of weird

00:04:29.620 stuff. And then he went away because he's been arrested. And there's an investigation. There's

00:04:33.720 gonna be prosecution. So people have kind of had this guy out of their minds. And then you can fill

00:04:40.140 in the gaps or you can forget about him entirely. But now we have to see him. We have to look at this

00:04:44.100 guy. And the thing that I noticed, and I think the thing that a lot of people noticed, whether you

00:04:48.480 were friends with Charlie, whether you were one of the many millions of people who admired Charlie,

00:04:51.820 the thing you notice is this freak was smirking. He was smirking. In the courtroom video, in the

00:05:00.380 courtroom pictures that we have, he was smirking. He wasn't saying, I'm an innocent man. You got the

00:05:06.880 wrong guy. I'm wrongly accused. He was smirking. He was showing no remorse. And he would seem to me

00:05:16.980 to be insinuating his guilt with his facial expressions, with his demeanor, with his laughter,

00:05:22.820 with his nonchalance. Here's how PBS described it. He, Tyler Robinson, smiled at family members

00:05:29.120 sitting in the front row of the courtroom where his mother teared up after he entered the court.

00:05:35.420 Next to her were Robinson's brother and father who took notes throughout the hearing.

00:05:40.140 Robinson's legal team says his pretrial publicity reaches as far as the White House with Trump

00:05:44.880 announcing soon after Robinson's arrest. With a high degree of certainty, we have him. I hope he

00:05:48.660 gets the death penalty. Fair point. But defense attorney Kathy Nestor has raised concern that

00:05:55.580 digitally altered versions of Robinson's initial court photo. This is the best part of the reporting

00:06:00.640 to me. The defense attorney is arguing that digitally altered versions of Robinson's initial court photo

00:06:08.520 has spread widely, creating misinformation about the case. So this is deep fakes. This is AI. This is

00:06:14.460 photoshopped. Some altered images show Robinson crying or having an outburst in court, which did not

00:06:20.500 happen. Very interesting that the defense attorney would bring this up because I think this argument

00:06:27.260 actually cuts against her defense, cuts against Tyler Robinson's defense. If he were crying, if he were

00:06:36.120 having some kind of emotional outburst, to me, that would speak much more toward his potential

00:06:42.460 innocence than a kid sitting there smirking while he's being brought up for murdering Charlie Kirk after

00:06:49.580 he reportedly confessed to having killed Charlie Kirk after his DNA was found on the gun.

00:06:57.980 As I frequently say, long before Charlie was murdered in many other circumstances,

00:07:03.500 it's always the ones you most expect. This guy, everything we know about him is that he's an LGBT,

00:07:14.460 highly online, furry loving, radical, anarchist, violent freak. And these kinds of guys have been

00:07:26.860 threatening to murder Charlie and everyone around Charlie and all the people who kind of do what

00:07:33.980 Charlie does forever. And some of them have tried. Some of them have gotten closer.

00:07:41.820 One piece of evidence that I've mentioned in all of this, as we talk about the left-wing terror

00:07:46.780 problem that even the Atlantic Magazine has to admit, is when I was giving a talk at the University of

00:07:51.340 Pittsburgh two years ago and a radical leftist, very online anarchist showed up and threw an explosive

00:07:58.140 into the crowd as I was walking on stage and seriously injured a female cop. Would have happily 1.00

00:08:04.460 killed many more people had he had the opportunity. He's in federal prison for this. That guy at least

00:08:09.980 was ostensibly straight. He worked in cahoots with his wife who got off with a slap on the wrist.

00:08:15.500 But it all kind of goes together. The anarchism and the leftism and the radicalism and the violence and

00:08:20.060 frequently the LGBTism and especially the T part of the LGBTism. It always kind of seems to go 0.96

00:08:25.980 together. It's not like there weren't warning signs. Now, one part of the murder that we still

00:08:33.820 need to figure out. There are two parts to the murder, as far as I'm concerned, that we still

00:08:37.340 need to figure out. One, who was that guy who popped up after the shots rang out? And that older 0.98

00:08:43.340 looking guy, the guy who got up and said, I did it, I did it. And he gets arrested and then he admits

00:08:48.780 when he gets to the jail. No, I didn't. I didn't really do it. I was just distracting so the real

00:08:52.700 shooter would get away. Who was that guy? Was there some planning involved or was he just a total freak?

00:09:00.780 Both of those are plausible to me. I've met a lot of these freaks. Could have been part of a broader

00:09:06.140 conspiracy. We do know that people were posting on social media in advance of the murder saying,

00:09:11.980 this will happen, this will happen. Now, that's not dispositive because that happened. That's what

00:09:17.260 these guys do. These radical leftists, these violent leftists will say before conservatives

00:09:24.380 go out and give talks and appear places, run for office. President Trump always, you know,

00:09:29.820 be ashamed if something happened to him tomorrow at such and such event. Oh, tomorrow, that's going to

00:09:34.300 be a big event. That's going to change the world. They do this kind of thing.

00:09:37.740 Now, they also might've plotted this all out. Maybe that weird freaky text exchange between

00:09:44.780 Tyler Robinson and his trans furry boyfriend, maybe that was to cover up the trans furry boyfriend's 0.95

00:09:50.780 involvement. That's how it read to me. I don't know. I haven't looked at more evidence. Maybe

00:09:56.220 more people were plotting this out in the discord server. Maybe. But what about Tyler Robinson? We're

00:10:02.540 seeing him now. He's in court now. He's smirking. He's having a grand old time.

00:10:10.300 There are two ways that this guy could get off. As far as I can tell, there are two ways that this

00:10:15.020 guy can get off. One is that people just don't believe that this kind of guy could do it.

00:10:21.500 It can't be some fruity leftist who likes his discord server and has a bizarre affection for

00:10:32.780 his trans furry roommate. It can't be him. He's a fruit loop. He's a poof. He's a weirdo. No way. 1.00

00:10:40.620 Couldn't be him. They don't do that. The left isn't violent. The LGBT, it can't be him. 0.83

00:10:45.260 It can't be just one leftist tries to murder a conservative. There have been plenty of examples

00:10:51.260 of this, of course, over the years, even in recent years. But no, it couldn't be. It couldn't have

00:10:55.100 been this guy. It had to be someone else. The left is always there. It has to be a white supremacist.

00:11:00.380 It has to be a white guy. Even when it's Hispanic, they say, well, he's a white Hispanic. 0.73

00:11:05.740 He's a white Middle Easterner. And he has to be a right winger. He can't be a leftist. Or the

00:11:12.060 moment they prove that it is a leftist, they say, well, his politics couldn't be discerned.

00:11:16.060 The trans shooter who murdered the Christian kids at the Covenant School in Nashville,

00:11:20.460 they said, oh, no, she wasn't political. The moment we found out her ideological motivations, 0.52

00:11:24.940 no, no, it was no ideological motivation. She was just after fame. So it's just one way that

00:11:30.700 Tyler Robinson could get off is to say, oh, no, it couldn't be. It couldn't be him. The left isn't

00:11:36.940 violent. The LGBTs aren't violent. Or here's the other way they get off. 1.00

00:11:43.580 That people are happy he did it. That's the other way. The other way that this guy gets off the hook

00:11:50.060 with all of this evidence is that people say, well, you know, hate breeds hate, doesn't it?

00:11:55.500 That was MSNBC's reaction while Charlie was bleeding out in Utah. MSNBC's reaction while they were covering

00:12:03.660 this event. While the most prominent promoter of peaceful debate in the country was dying

00:12:13.820 after being shot by a leftist, Matthew Dowd, Democrat analyst on MSNBC said, well, you know,

00:12:19.020 hate breeds hate. That's what happens, isn't it? Wasn't he asking for it, essentially, is what he was

00:12:24.140 saying? Don't think that Tyler Robinson, they got his fingerprints, they got his DNA, they got the

00:12:33.180 family turning him in, they got the texts to the furry boyfriend, they got this, they got that,

00:12:37.340 they got this. Don't think he can't get off. Don't think he can't get off. Don't doubt the power of

00:12:45.660 narrative in deluding people. Gosh, we've all lived through that for decades, haven't we?

00:12:50.540 Charlie? And don't doubt the targeted intentional violence of the left and the degree to which they

00:12:59.100 will downplay, excuse, justify, and even celebrate political violence. That's exactly what they did

00:13:04.860 when Charlie was killed. We'll see more. We'll see more from him. If I were the defense attorneys,

00:13:10.060 I would do everything I could to get those cameras out of the room. To me, if there was a shadow of a

00:13:15.500 doubt in someone's mind, you see the smirk on the guy's face, that's it. Okay. Speaking of violence,

00:13:21.180 tensions between the US and Venezuela are ramping up. Nicolas Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela,

00:13:28.060 is threatening to punch in the teeth of America. And people are kind of sleepwalking into this war

00:13:34.220 in Venezuela. Myself even, I've been kind of glib and dismissive of it. There is a warning of a Catholic 1.00

00:13:43.740 mystic, a 20th century Catholic mystic who is now a servant of God. Her case for canonization has been

00:13:50.380 opened. There's a warning in which she says that a major global event, a catastrophic global event,

00:13:58.540 will begin in Venezuela. And this is a woman who prophesied 9-11. We'll get to that momentarily

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00:15:29.140 slash Knowles. Nicolas Maduro. We've been trying to oust him for how long now? How long has the CIA

00:15:37.540 been trying to prod that guy out of, I mean, going back multiple presidential administrations.

00:15:42.240 Now, especially that President Trump is turning his attention away from the Middle East toward

00:15:46.880 the Western Hemisphere, where we've asserted dominance for, gosh, for over 200 years now.

00:15:54.300 Trump is zapping the drug boats, and he's building up the military off the coast, and he's reportedly

00:16:00.280 just calling Maduro and saying, hey, we'll let you out if you leave now, but I can't guarantee your

00:16:05.100 safety afterward. And he's, and he's, and he's now seizing a Venezuelan oil ship. Maduro says he's

00:16:12.560 going to break America's teeth. Trump's response, it's kind of funny, according to the reporting,

00:16:16.980 he says, I assume we keep the oil. Do we finally get the oil? This is always Trump's great criticism

00:16:21.660 of the Iraq war. I loved it so much. His criticism of the Iraq war was not some left-wing criticism.

00:16:26.640 You know, oh, Islam's a religion of peace. Oh, we can't, oh, the precious Ba'ath party. We can't, 1.00

00:16:34.300 you know, it wasn't that. And it wasn't even a nationalist kind of opposition. It wasn't saying,

00:16:41.100 we need to stick within our own borders. We can't ever have interests around the world. His opposition

00:16:44.960 to the Iraq war was, we didn't even get the oil. The Libs said, no war for oil, no war for oil. My

00:16:50.300 problem is, we didn't have a war for oil. No war for oil? I thought this was a war for oil. Hold on.

00:16:57.360 Wait, you guys sold this to me in a terrible way. So, Trump's reportedly, this is according to the

00:17:03.460 Sun, he says, I assume we keep the oil. 70 million bucks on board. So, what does that mean for Venezuela

00:17:09.700 to kick us in the teeth? It's Venezuela. Who cares? They are allies of our geopolitical adversaries,

00:17:16.560 Russia, Iran, China. I love that Trump's playing tough. He's not getting in the muck with, I don't

00:17:23.860 like it when people get in the muck. Everyone loves to get in the muck. They love to get in the

00:17:27.700 muck and be gossipy, little reviling detractors, and they just love to just like try to, but why

00:17:33.120 would Trump do that? He's going to go get, Fidel Castro benefited from this. When the United States

00:17:38.380 would really go after Castro in an over-the-top way, Castro loved it because it built up his profile.

00:17:44.140 I think that's what Maduro wants here. Trump says, nah, who cares? Who's he? What? Nada. He is nada.

00:17:49.960 We are going to keep the oil. Comprende? He says he's going to give the U.S. a real being. He says,

00:17:56.300 in times like these, we must be like warriors. This is Maduro. With both eyes peeled, working,

00:18:01.280 producing, building, keeping the country functioning, and be prepared to kick in the teeth the North 1.00

00:18:05.740 American empire if necessary. Okay. Trump, too. He was asked for why this operation happened. He said,

00:18:13.760 quote, it was seized for a very good reason. What happens to the oil? We keep it, I guess. Okay.

00:18:19.960 I'm fine with this. I don't lose sleep at night over the United States asserting influence,

00:18:29.840 especially, anywhere really, but especially within our traditional sphere of influence and within the

00:18:33.740 Western hemisphere. However, we don't want to just rush into war and we don't want to be led blindly

00:18:41.140 into war because wars can spin out of control. There's a Catholic mystic. Bear with me. I know there

00:18:49.740 people who don't believe in mystics, period. There are people who aren't Catholic or aren't Christian

00:18:54.540 or just bear with me. There's this woman, Maria Esperanza de Bianchini. She was Venezuelan. She

00:19:01.680 died about 20 years ago, 21 years ago. She's a servant of God. The canonization process includes

00:19:08.400 all these steps, servant of God, venerable, blessed, and then finally you're canonized a saint.

00:19:15.600 Now, basically, a saint is just anyone who's in heaven. Your grandma might be a saint, but the

00:19:21.340 canonization process formally recognizes with the keys of Saint Peter, with the power to loosen,

00:19:27.040 to bind, with the authority divinely instituted, we believe, to say this person is definitively in

00:19:32.420 heaven. And she's in that process, this woman. This woman predicted 9-11. Maria Esperanza de Bianchini

00:19:42.880 prophesied 9-11 in 1992, I think it was, so before the attacks of 1993, said that she saw two buildings

00:19:51.960 with black smoke pouring out. So that was interesting. Not only was it before the attack

00:19:57.620 in 2001, it was before the attack in 1993. Then apparently prophesied it again in 2000 and then

00:20:03.120 yet again in August 2001. This is a woman who had mystical visions of Mary, of Our Lady.

00:20:09.640 Catholics are not required to believe this, to believe private revelation, but many people do.

00:20:15.680 And apparently, this Catholic mystic once said, of Venezuela, it will start here.

00:20:22.060 What is it? What is it? What is it though? She didn't say World War III will start here. She

00:20:31.720 didn't say, she just was discussing calamities with global implications and said, it will start here

00:20:37.680 in Venezuela. And what I find so arresting about that, let's say for a second, you're not Catholic. 0.98

00:20:45.220 Let's say you're not Christian. Let's say you're not religious in any way. Let's say you don't believe 0.97

00:20:49.140 in mystics. Let's say you think that's all woo-woo claptrap and you're a real hardened materialist

00:20:54.420 realist and you just stick with the empirical facts. Okay. Do wars ever start in unpredictable ways?

00:21:05.620 Like for instance, if a Serbian nationalist were to murder an archduke and the child of

00:21:15.280 an imperial leader, could you ever imagine that that would start the world war that would fundamentally

00:21:26.960 change the civilization? You probably wouldn't predict that. You wouldn't say that because

00:21:33.380 an automobile made a wrong turn down a street, a Serbian nationalist would kill an archduke 0.88

00:21:41.040 and a Habsburg archduke and that would fundamentally reorder the entire world and lead not only to 0.88

00:21:48.960 one other, but actually two other global wars because it would lead immediately to the second

00:21:54.160 world war and then to the cold war, all of which are basically the same struggle. No, you wouldn't

00:22:00.720 predict that. World wars have started for less than what's going on in Venezuela. And don't forget,

00:22:06.320 what's going on in Venezuela is not just about, you know, some two-bit dictator trying to hold on to

00:22:10.780 oil. There are Chinese interests there, Russian interests there, Iranian interests there. It's

00:22:15.720 kind of like the war in Ukraine. It's kind of like the war in Israel-Gaza. There are a lot of interests

00:22:19.560 intersecting. I would not be, and this is, look, I'm, this is a, an admonition as much for me as it is

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00:24:03.800 Speaking of global affairs and European empires collapsing, the president of the European

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00:24:17.300 immigration into Europe, which is drowning Europe in its historical enemy, Islam, which has been 1.00

00:24:25.500 trying to conquer Europe since the 8th century. Now, they're just welcoming them all in after 1.00

00:24:29.920 rebuffing them for 1,400 years. Just, well, please, come on in. Well, now, some Europeans don't like

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00:24:55.760 president of the European Commission says, okay, okay, you're right. We need to stop illegal

00:24:59.760 immigration, and I figured it out. I figured out how to do it. We're going to have way more legal

00:25:03.600 immigration. Here she is. We must open more safe, safe pathways, legal pathways to Europe. We must

00:25:15.100 create more bridges between our continents. We must make sure that people can find a job where their

00:25:22.780 talent is needed, match the skills, bring skills across our borders. And this is at the heart of our

00:25:31.440 new talent partnership, which offer work rules into Europe. Said Contra, what if we don't have more

00:25:41.940 legal and safe and open pathways to Europe? What if we, what if we don't need that? What if we, she says,

00:25:49.940 we must open more safe and legal pathways to Europe so that we bring in the Indians and all these other 0.99

00:25:56.860 people. What if though, what if you don't? Why do you have to do that? She thinks, we talked about

00:26:01.940 this on the show, I think yesterday, two days ago. She thinks that the part that everyone is really

00:26:06.940 upset with about the illegal immigration is the illegal part. And so she said, hey, I have an idea.

00:26:13.860 You all hate this mass illegal immigration. Well, what if we just make it all legal? 0.99

00:26:20.260 I wave my European wand and now it's all legal. Now you're not going to be upset, right?

00:26:23.940 I mean, sure. All these people are still going to be raping your daughters and killing your family 0.98

00:26:28.980 and putting minarets up over your skyline and, but shooting up your Christmas markets, but, but now

00:26:35.640 they'll be legally shooting up your Christmas markets. Okay. Not, it won't be illegal shootings

00:26:42.060 anymore. What if we just don't, this has been a major shift in rhetoric from the White House,

00:26:50.100 which is, by the way, people are going to ask about this. I'm wearing a Christmas tie. Yes. I'm

00:26:55.900 wearing, so some say, but you'll notice it's got little Christmas trees on it, red tie, but only

00:27:01.400 some of the trees have stars on it. I consider this to be more of an advent tie. And I'm wearing this

00:27:07.300 because I was so honored and so happy to be able to go to the White House advent party yesterday.

00:27:13.260 It was great. I think on the invite, it said it was a Christmas party. Obviously it's an advent party.

00:27:16.920 It was beautiful. It was really gorgeous. President Trump made beautiful remarks. A little bit of a

00:27:21.700 sidebar, but don't ever, don't think people are, you went to a Christmas party, you're wearing

00:27:26.240 Christmas, it was an advent party. I'm wearing an advent tie. The Muslims are shooting up Christmas 1.00

00:27:32.100 markets though. And that's a big problem. Now maybe Europe needs to follow America's lead as it often

00:27:38.300 does. Europe followed our lead into wokeness. That was unfortunate. Now they got to follow Trump's

00:27:44.080 lead. Trump is recognizing, hey, the issue isn't illegal versus legal mass migration. We just want

00:27:49.800 less migration. The issue is on the substance, not just on the procedure. Now for this, major Democrats

00:27:57.400 are accusing President Trump of not understanding what it is to be an American. I don't think Donald

00:28:03.980 Trump has read the Constitution. I think he's ignorant to it. He's ignorant to a lot. I don't think

00:28:11.380 he understands that this is the foundation of our democracy. I don't think he understands what it is

00:28:19.300 to be an American. I mean, nobody in his family has ever served in our military. I mean, you go back

00:28:29.120 generations. I mean, my family, four generations, Donald Trump, nothing. I mean, all this guy cares

00:28:36.380 about is figuring out how he can fleece the American people out of their money. You know, this, this

00:28:42.740 president's presidency has been a travesty for this country. So Mark Kelly's contention is that

00:28:50.360 Trump doesn't know what it is to be an American. Because why? Because he's never served in the

00:28:56.700 military. Barack Obama never served in the military. Is Mark Kelly going to come out and say, Barack Obama

00:29:01.760 doesn't know what it means to be an American? Please give me that. Kamala, did Kamala serve in

00:29:06.380 the military? I don't think so. Did Joe Biden serve in the military? I don't think so. Did Bill Clinton

00:29:10.400 serve in the military? I don't think so. He's a bigger draft dodger than anybody. It's such a cheap

00:29:16.700 shot, which is all these kind of people take. He's not in America. He's not served in the military.

00:29:24.620 You know, I have a lot of buddies who have served in the military, a lot of family members who've

00:29:27.580 served in the military. They find this stuff disgusting. When some cheap two-bit politician

00:29:32.940 maybe served in the military, maybe he violated the uniform code of military justice, as Mark

00:29:38.040 Kelly appears to have done recently, when he encouraged soldiers not to follow orders.

00:29:42.920 Regardless, when they come out there and say, you, you're not American. I'm on, I'm American

00:29:46.900 because I serve in the military. You're not American. When they kind of just use it for cheap political

00:29:50.180 points, my friends who've served in the military and my family members, they find that disgusting.

00:29:54.680 But, but obviously it, it doesn't work on his, so then what is it? It's not that you have to serve

00:30:02.700 in the military to be an American. That's not a citizenship requirement. That's not how we

00:30:06.280 can conceive of ourselves. We wouldn't have any Democrat presidents in recent history if that were

00:30:10.340 the case. What's he saying? He's saying that Trump doesn't believe the right things. So actually

00:30:18.280 there are people on the right who, you know, people who at least would call themselves on the right,

00:30:22.020 who agree in principle with what Mark Kelly's saying. Namely that American identity is purely

00:30:29.940 creedal. In other words, that a guy today in Bangladesh who can recite the Declaration of 0.61

00:30:39.720 Independence, you know, we hold this truth to be self-evident and all the men are created equal

00:30:43.360 and they are endowed by the creator with certain unalienable rights. That that guy is American.

00:30:50.720 And the farmer in Idaho, whose ancestors came here on the Mayflower or something, that that guy,

00:30:59.200 if he holds the wrong political opinions, that that guy's not American.

00:31:03.760 How can you say Trump is not American? The Trumps have been in America since the end of the 19th

00:31:12.320 century. Some people go back further. The Knowles have been in America since 1660 and the Fullers, 0.87

00:31:17.760 who the Knowles is married into in the 18th century, the Fullers have been here since 1620,

00:31:23.920 since the Mayflower. But I don't know, 1880s is pretty good. That's when the Trumps got here.

00:31:29.200 Would we say this about any other people? Would Mark Kelly say, you know, a Chinese guy who doesn't

00:31:36.960 believe in Chinese things? He doesn't believe in the CCP. He doesn't believe in socialism with

00:31:44.240 Chinese characteristics, as Chairman Xi describes it. Even if that Chinese guy's family had been here 1.00

00:31:50.000 since, you know, Qin Shi Huang or something, since the first emperor of China. They say,

00:31:55.200 he's not Chinese. He doesn't believe the current thing. He's not. No. And this is part of what 0.99

00:32:01.120 we're coming out of. I think that's what a lot of these debates over immigration are about.

00:32:04.560 It's what a lot of the racism accusations are about, is a grappling with American identity.

00:32:10.720 America is a younger country than China. America has taken in lots of disparate peoples,

00:32:18.000 a lot of African slaves who were not considered Americans until the 14th Amendment, and now they are.

00:32:22.080 Now they are, they are American citizens because of the 14th Amendment. You got to grapple with that.

00:32:26.960 The 14th Amendment was ratified a long time ago. So you can't, you can't say it's just white guys,

00:32:32.320 or just black guys. And you can, there are immigrants who have been here for a long time.

00:32:37.440 So it's just believing something? So some guy in Tibet today, he's American, and I'm not? I don't think

00:32:44.240 so, Mark Kelly. Really shallow stuff. But it comes to an important question. Okay, before, speaking of

00:32:50.400 shallow stuff, before we get into Mailbag, I have to get to this really, really amazing, shocking,

00:32:57.760 arresting show that is on Netflix called Steps. Steps is about Cinderella's stepsisters. It's an

00:33:06.880 animated show, but here's how they pitch it. They say, think you know Cinderella's evil stepsisters?

00:33:12.640 Think again. When misunderstood Lilith is blamed for hijacking the royal ball with a stolen magic wand, 0.99

00:33:18.880 she accidentally turns her sister Margo into a frog and leaves the kingdom in the hands of a

00:33:22.560 prince-obsessed mean girl. Now, Lilith must team up with Cinderella, and a surprisingly dreamy troll, 0.98

00:33:29.760 to save their kingdom, repair the fractured fairy tale, and prove that even so-called villains deserve

00:33:35.120 a shot at happily ever after. Huh. You thought she was one of the bad guys. But what if the bad guy is

00:33:43.600 really the good guy? This is, this kind of storytelling is as dumb as when, you remember when

00:33:51.200 you were a kid and you had this, I remember when I had this thought, I said, what if the color I see

00:33:57.440 as green, someone else sees as blue? Do you ever think about that? Do you ever think about that? I'm

00:34:04.480 looking over at Professor Jacob, he's sitting here running the show because we're on the road, and he's

00:34:08.480 looking up and says, I had that thought this morning, Michael. No, it's not. No, it's not. No.

00:34:14.720 The color you see is green is the color green, okay? And the bad guys are the bad guys. And the good

00:34:20.800 guys are the good guys. And people are complex, but in narratives, it's not so lazy. It's like,

00:34:26.480 hey, this kind of storytelling is just, hey, what if it were opposite day? Hey, I have an idea. I have a

00:34:33.200 really great idea for a movie. What if it were opposite day? So we're going to take all the great stories,

00:34:38.240 and we're just going to like scramble them up a little bit. And that'd be even interesting. We're

00:34:42.480 just going to flip them. And the problem, the reason I don't care about Netflix or this movie

00:34:47.120 or whatever, but the reason I care is because this has poisoned our political culture, and we just

00:34:52.240 always assume that. That's why freaks who murder innocent good men can get off the hook. This is

00:34:58.160 why repeat offenders who've been arrested 75 times are allowed out to go murder and rape and kill and

00:35:03.600 pillage and burn. This is why. Because we had this thought. We had a functioning society called

00:35:10.080 Christendom, a functioning civilization, the greatest civilization ever in the history of the world.

00:35:16.320 And then one day we came out. This was roughly around, some date it differently. Some would say

00:35:22.480 it was in the 1960s. Some would say it was around the time of the so-called enlightenment,

00:35:27.600 liberalism, secularization, whatever it was. There was time that we now call modernity, where we just

00:35:35.600 came out and said, hey, but what if it were opposite day? What if the bad stuff is actually good, and the

00:35:41.840 good stuff is actually bad? Wouldn't that be wacky and interesting? It's not. It's wacky, but it's not

00:35:47.920 interesting. It's very, very bad. And it causes a lot of moral confusion. Okay.

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00:37:24.160 myself. Hey there, Mr. Knowles. My name is Cameron. And I heard you encouraging someone to,

00:37:33.280 when they said they were going to get baptized, to make sure it was in the titles. And I was

00:37:38.800 wondering why it is that the Catholic Church baptizes in the titles when Peter, the apostle,

00:37:46.880 commanded in Acts chapter two, for people to be baptized in the name of Jesus. And it looks like

00:37:54.720 that's the only way that they baptized throughout the book of Acts. I'm really curious to hear what

00:38:00.640 you have to say about this matter. And I look forward to your response. Thank you. Bye.

00:38:05.760 This is a really, really good question. And there's, there's a lot of confusion on this,

00:38:10.640 especially, I know there's some people who insist only on baptizing in the name of Jesus,

00:38:15.920 and they might do it for good intentions. But the reason that we baptize in the Trinitarian formula,

00:38:21.120 the reason that for a baptism to be valid doesn't have to be done by a priest, doesn't have to be

00:38:25.920 done by a Catholic or an Eastern Orthodox or whatever. For a baptism to be valid requires the

00:38:33.040 proper matter, which is water and the Trinitarian formula to be baptized in the name of the Father and

00:38:40.480 of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. The reason for this does not come from the book of Acts. It

00:38:45.760 actually comes from the gospels and it comes from our Lord in the gospel, according to St. Matthew,

00:38:49.840 Matthew 28, 19, where Christ gives the great commission. He says, go therefore and make

00:38:54.560 disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy

00:39:00.240 Spirit. So that's it. Now, people might leave it as saying, okay, well, you've got Jesus saying one

00:39:08.880 thing and his apostles saying another. The gospel of Matthew saying one thing and the book of Acts

00:39:12.720 saying another. So are the apostles disagreeing with Christ? No, because in the book of Acts itself,

00:39:21.920 you see different versions of baptizing in the name of Jesus. You see different

00:39:25.760 baptizing in the name of the Lord Jesus, baptizing in the name of Jesus Christ. So,

00:39:30.800 which is it? Is it in the name of the Lord Jesus or in the name of Jesus Christ? Or does it not matter

00:39:38.000 as long as it's only Jesus, but not the Father or the Son? And then we ignore what Christ says in

00:39:42.640 the great commission or no, there's no contradiction here. What the apostles are talking about in the book

00:39:46.880 of Acts is to distinguish Christian baptism from other kinds of baptisms. There were other kinds of

00:39:51.680 baptisms. I mean, our Lord is baptized by John the Baptist. John the Baptist was baptizing as he was

00:39:56.400 making straight the ways of the Lord. There were Jewish baptisms, there were pagan baptisms. And so 0.92

00:40:00.720 I think that's really what's going on in Acts is to say, no, no, no, you need to baptize people

00:40:06.400 in the name of Jesus into Christianity, into true religion. And how do we baptize? Well, Christ tells

00:40:13.600 us in the gospel according to St. Matthew, with water in the name of the Father and of the Son and

00:40:18.560 the Holy Spirit. Okay. Next question. I'm going to pull it up right now.

00:40:23.200 Hi, Michael. I recently listened to your analysis of the Trump immigration numbers.

00:40:29.360 And being the former high school teacher, well known to you, I couldn't help but decide what

00:40:35.920 kind of grade you deserve for your analysis. I would give you an A, maybe an A plus, but certainly not

00:40:41.520 the A plus, plus, plus, plus, plus that Trump has given himself. The reason for my slightly lower grade

00:40:48.000 than you were accustomed to when you were my student is because there was a slight omission.

00:40:53.840 In your analysis, I would suggest, and I'd like to know what you think, that you should add to the

00:40:59.200 numbers the number of immigrants that have been deterred from immigration. So the total number should

00:41:09.440 be everything you added plus the number of immigrants that would have come if Trump was not president,

00:41:16.960 which would balloon the success rate of his immigration policy beyond imagination.

00:41:21.760 So I'm suggesting a new data point, which will be immigrants deported, departed, and discouraged. 0.98

00:41:29.520 The new number and total of all that would be a wonderful improvement in the success rate

00:41:35.760 currently being reported. Have a great day. That is a great point, Mr. Poplardo. I heard that voice.

00:41:43.440 I said, wait, I know this voice. Who is the, wait, you were a teacher. You were, that's my civics teacher,

00:41:48.640 Mr. Poplardo from Fox Lane High School. And look, this is why Mr. Poplardo is the teacher and I'm the

00:41:56.240 student, because you make an excellent point. I mentioned, there are these people who are attacking

00:42:02.000 Trump. And it's not really attacking Trump from the left. The way you attack Trump on immigration

00:42:06.320 from the left is to say, it's inhumane to deport the face tattooed gangsters. It's in your,

00:42:12.240 because the bad guys are good, remember? And so we need to protect the bad guys.

00:42:16.240 And that's not, that's not in any way persuasive. The, at least certainly not for us. The attack from

00:42:25.360 the right by people who just hate Trump and I don't know, they want to burn the GOP down or they're

00:42:30.320 secretly helping the Democrats or whatever. But the, the, the attack is, well, Trump's not

00:42:34.640 really deporting enough people. He's only deported three or 400,000 people this year. And so first of

00:42:39.040 all, even just using the official formal deportations, Trump has deported over half a

00:42:44.960 million people this year, all through the official channels, you can document them. But that doesn't

00:42:50.640 tell you the whole story because in addition to that, you have 1.6 million or so self-deports.

00:42:57.440 So people who have, and maybe substantially more than that, people who have voluntarily

00:43:03.600 left the country, there are some lower estimates of that that put it at 800,000 self-deports.

00:43:09.440 Even, even down to, I've seen as low as half a million to 700,000. It's a little trickier to

00:43:14.800 figure out because these people are undocumented. However, you're looking at somewhere in the

00:43:19.600 neighborhood of certainly over a million to 2 million people leaving. That's pretty good. That's a, 0.77

00:43:26.400 that's a very good number, but Mr. Poplar makes very important point. Trump has also just stopped

00:43:32.480 bringing in the illegal aliens. There were 3 million, 3 million illegal aliens who are entering

00:43:36.480 per year at one point under the Biden administration. So that's right. If you add that in, now you're

00:43:42.720 looking at four to 5 million people who otherwise would have come in or stayed in this country who

00:43:48.480 have left. That is a success. And Trump has only had 11 months or so, so far. That's a success. And

00:43:55.920 really, I think the people who were hitting him over that are just trying to cope because they

00:44:00.560 didn't support him. They didn't believe in him. They, for whatever reason, they wanted to undermine

00:44:04.560 him and it, it, it didn't work out. He deserves a lot more credit on them. Okay. Let's take one more.

00:44:09.600 I know I'm running late. Let's take one more question. Hi, Michael. You're an inspiration to

00:44:13.840 me. I wanted to share that I framed my prenup after your wisdom. Neither my fiance nor I believe

00:44:18.560 in divorce. So I had my lawyer draft the Knowles prenuptial agreement stipulating that whichever party

00:44:23.040 initiates the divorce forfeits everything. It may not hold up in the state of New Jersey,

00:44:27.360 but I figured I'd give it a try. I'm pretty confident that the prenup won't be needed. I want

00:44:32.080 it as a deterrent to divorce. Thanks for all that you do. I love that. Congratulations on your

00:44:38.080 marriage. I've suggested for years, the Knowles prenup. I said the, I, I do not support divorce

00:44:42.480 in any circumstance. Sometimes in extreme circumstances of danger, you need a separation,

00:44:49.840 but I just don't recognize divorce. Lord is our Lord. And, uh, what God has joined,

00:44:55.360 no man can separate and divorce has all these terrible practical, uh, consequences to it that

00:45:00.480 has really ruined society. And it's just bad for basically everyone involved. So I said, I support

00:45:06.080 one kind of prenup when you have all these manosphere kind of, they say, well, there,

00:45:10.160 therefore we need a prenup. You know, you got to protect men because of all the divorces. I said,

00:45:13.120 no, no, no, no, no. I don't want to protect men in the case of divorce. I don't want to protect

00:45:16.320 women in the case of divorce. Exactly. My chief goal is to prevent divorce. And that's why I support the

00:45:22.560 Knowles prenup, which is very simple. You get one line, whoever initiates the divorce forfeits

00:45:28.160 everything. That's the Knowles prenup. Now, uh, a thoughtful person did say, well, Michael,

00:45:36.320 uh, if you, if you begin with a prenuptial agreement of any kind, that would invalidate

00:45:41.920 the sacrament of marriage because you were opening yourself up to the possibility of divorce.

00:45:46.160 You're going, but, but I think the Knowles prenup gets around it because what the Knowles prenup is,

00:45:51.120 is, is not just a negative kind of whoever, whoever initiates a divorce forfeits everything.

00:45:57.120 What it really is, is a positive affirmation. You could also phrase it another way.

00:46:02.480 We believe in marriage, period.

00:46:09.120 Sign it. That's it. Those, those two documents, those two statements mean the same thing.

00:46:16.320 We believe in marriage. That's great. I love that. You say it might not be recognized in the

00:46:22.160 state of New Jersey. I guess it might not. It should be. It should be. I want to see candidates

00:46:25.920 for governor, state legislature running on that. It's a very important one. Okay. I'm late. I don't

00:46:30.800 care. I'm in Washington. What am I going to do the rest of the day? I'm Michael Knowles. This is

00:46:34.880 the Michael Knowles Show. Wonderful to be with you as always. See you on Monday.

00:46:46.320 The Michael Knowles Show.

00:46:53.360 All of this is an illusion. An echo of a voice that has died.

00:47:00.080 And soon that echo will cease.

00:47:01.440 They say that Merlin is mad.

00:47:20.000 They say he was a king in Dovid, the son of a princess of lost Atlantis.

00:47:25.840 They say the future and the past are known to him. That the fire and the wind tell him their secrets.

00:47:35.440 That the magic of the hillfolk and druids come forth at his easy command.

00:47:41.600 They say he slew hundreds. Hundreds, do you hear? That the world burned and trembled at his wrath.

00:47:49.920 The Merlin died long before you and I were born.

00:47:59.280 Merlin Emrys has returned to the land of the living.

00:48:05.040 Fortigan is gone. Rome is gone. The Saxon is here. 0.98

00:48:11.520 Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the Island of the Mighty. 0.99

00:48:16.000 And before the summer is through, he means to take the throne.

00:48:20.880 And he will have it. If we are too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him.

00:48:27.120 Here is your hope. A king will arise to hold all Britain in his hand.

00:48:32.400 A high king who will be the wonder of the world.

00:48:36.560 You.

00:48:36.800 To a future of peace.

00:48:43.680 There'll be no peace in these lands till we are all dust.

00:48:46.400 Men of the Island of the Mighty.

00:48:50.000 You stand together.

00:48:52.640 You stand as Britons.

00:48:55.360 You stand as one.

00:48:59.760 Great darkness is falling upon this land.

00:49:01.760 These brothers are our only hope to stand against it.

00:49:08.160 Not our only hope.

00:49:10.640 They say Merlin slew 70 men with his own hands.

00:49:14.800 I could say he slew 500.

00:49:19.280 No man is capable of such a thing.

00:49:21.920 No mortal man.

00:49:32.160 Yeah.

00:49:38.160 Don't bring to the докум to the division to be people of Islam. 0.99

00:49:41.600 Did you see that the authorities had never beenixted?

00:49:42.640 They surveyed himself of the day and says also theсячs of one.

00:49:50.160 If you don't know where and大 Grios's head is caused by...

00:49:53.200 It's supposed to be erroneous attack.

00:49:56.320 Demonstration mec.

00:49:57.200 That Carlisle's head Doolman.

00:49:58.160 That's been through.

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