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00:00:34.240 The army raises the enlistment age as the Iran war rages into its third week.

00:00:41.040 I thought I was too old and not nearly athletic enough, but we'll find out.

00:00:46.420 Also, the worst serial killer in American history dies in prison,

00:00:49.980 and most people have never heard his name. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:53.520 I totally vindicated. You know how much I hate to say I told you so, but this is as pure a

00:03:00.580 vindication as ever I've seen in politics. What have I been telling you for who knows how many

00:03:07.360 years at this point? There are a few things that I come back to every month, every week,

00:03:12.800 maybe every show. I quote Dante. I refer to St. Thomas Aquinas. I tell you how much I hate to say

00:03:19.900 I told you so. One point that I come back to all the time is that all of liberalism,

00:03:25.800 write this down if you haven't written it down yet. Get the pencil, pull over if you're driving,

00:03:30.920 pencil and pad a paper out. All of liberalism comes down to three words, screw you, dad. 0.99

00:03:40.440 That's what it's all about. At a very deep level, it's an opposition to God, our heavenly father. 0.97

00:03:47.220 at a terrestrial level. It comes down to hating people's humanly fathers.

00:03:55.460 Screw you, dad. In the middle of those two things, it comes down to an aversion to patriotism, 0.98

00:04:01.660 patriotism, which is an extension of filial piety. All of liberalism comes down to screw you, dad. 0.96

00:04:07.580 You no longer have to take my word for it. Even Axios agrees. Here's Axios. 0.96

00:04:13.960 Dems eyeing Whitehouse lean into their childhood traumas. Dems eyeing Whitehouse. Who are they

00:04:24.440 talking about? Well, it opens up with, let's see, my article's actually slightly cut off.

00:04:30.660 It opens up with Josh Shapiro. Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania. In his recent book,

00:04:37.380 Where We Keep the Light, Shapiro writes that he had a happy childhood and it points an unhappy

00:04:41.160 childhood home. He says his mother, Judy, could be unstable and that he and his siblings believed

00:04:46.720 if we were good, we could stop the chaos and the yelling. And he just talks about how this is not

00:04:52.780 so much a daddy issue as a mommy issue. He says, this is what really moved him on. And I guess his

00:04:58.540 mom didn't like the book. Surprise, surprise. And Governor Shapiro said, in many ways, I hope she's

00:05:02.280 able to see this one day. My mom is the hero in that book. I talk about what an unstable lunatic 1.00

00:05:07.280 she was and how the trauma she inflicted on me made me the man that I am. So in many ways, 0.90

00:05:10.920 she's the hero because of what a bad mom she was. Gavin Newsom is even, according to Axios,

00:05:17.780 even more candid about his at times fraught relationships with both parents,

00:05:21.680 which he says left him caught between two worlds and fully accepted by neither.

00:05:25.460 In his book, Young Man in a Hurry, he recounts how he has dyslexia and his mother told him it's

00:05:30.560 okay to be average, Gavin, because he didn't do well on tests. He said there were no crueler

00:05:35.840 words she could have told him. Then his parents got divorced. And I guess his father worked a lot.

00:05:40.280 His father was a financial advisor to the Getty family and was a judge. And so he played that

00:05:45.140 off in an interview and pretended to a black audience that he was just like them. So my pops

00:05:51.340 went out, got a carton of milk one day, never came back. I was playing hoops and eating mac

00:05:56.580 and cheese and mayonnaise sandwiches or whatever. But really what he meant is his parents got

00:06:01.600 divorce and his dad worked a lot. In any case, he says it gave him a lot of trauma.

00:06:06.280 His sister also talked about this. And this is really bad. I mean, seriously,

00:06:11.980 divorce is really awful. It's one of the worst things that can happen in the life of a person

00:06:15.840 because it blows up the fundamental building block of politics. And so I grant that some of

00:06:23.340 these, having a crazy mother, like I guess Josh Shapiro did, that can be really bad.

00:06:26.920 and here though, this goes next level. Forget about divorce, forget about the crazy mother. 0.95

00:06:33.280 Gavin Newsom's mother was so crazy that she killed herself. And before she killed herself, 0.99

00:06:38.700 she called Gavin and said, if you want to see me, you got to see me before next Tuesday because 0.92

00:06:43.000 I'm going to kill myself. So I do feel bad. Gavin Newsom is obviously extremely messed up.

00:06:48.640 But in any case, not only is he super messed up, he is running on being really messed up.

00:06:53.600 J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois. He talks about how his dad died when he was seven,

00:06:59.180 and his mom was an alcoholic who died when he was 17, and how awful this was.

00:07:04.240 So I want to make the point. I'm not actually mocking any of these people

00:07:11.460 in their claims of trauma. I'm sure they all did deal with some traumas. Everybody deals

00:07:17.060 with some traumas in life. It's a fallen world, isn't it? The specific things that they're

00:07:21.880 talking about are all really bad. I'm not denying any of that. Everyone has experienced similar

00:07:27.540 traumas in their lives. The thing I'm making fun of them for, the thing I'm pulling up that red 1.00

00:07:33.100 flag for, is bragging about this. We should not be bragging about these things. In the old days

00:07:41.840 in politics, when we had a healthy society, if you were to brag about your upbringing at all,

00:07:47.100 you would brag about coming from a good family. You would downplay the bad stuff.

00:07:53.200 You would downplay the bad stuff because one, you wanted to protect your family.

00:07:58.440 And two, you wanted to protect your own image because having a good family carried social

00:08:04.120 currency and having a bad family was considered disreputable. It was the sort of thing you'd

00:08:09.660 want to hide. Ronald Reagan didn't talk very much about how his father was an alcoholic.

00:08:14.320 When it came up, he spoke about it very broadly and always in a very charitable way.

00:08:20.380 He wasn't whining about his dad, even though Reagan had a pretty traumatic childhood.

00:08:28.080 Discretion is a good thing, folks. Stiff upper lip is a good thing. This actually relates to

00:08:34.440 that really viral tweet that people are still talking about. It was this guy, this Christian

00:08:39.740 social media marketer who posted this now, I don't know how many tens of millions of times 0.59

00:08:45.160 it's been viewed, tweet, where the first line of it is, my wife was promiscuous. I was a virgin.

00:08:51.360 But we're both redeemed in the light of Christ. And then he goes on to this description of a good

00:08:57.720 religious truth. But he opens up. He says, yeah, my wife, she was a real slut. Me, I was very

00:09:04.560 wholesome. I was a virgin. I was wonderful. I was just a beacon of virtue and morality.

00:09:09.260 but my wife, she was a tawdry lady of the streets. And anyway, let me tell you about the gospel. 0.99

00:09:15.060 And I say, no, look, guys, it's not. Yes, there is redemption. Yes, everybody suffers. Suffering

00:09:22.340 is part of life. Suffering can be sanctifying. Josh Shapiro can even be right that his mother,

00:09:26.720 in a way, can be a hero of the story in as much as whatever trauma she did or did not inflict on

00:09:31.820 him did allow him to become the successful man that he is. You can keep it to yourself sometimes.

00:09:40.040 You can keep a stiff upper lip. To quote Tony Soprano, whatever happened to Gary Cooper,

00:09:43.920 the strong silent types, you can kiss it up to God. Your suffering does not need to become

00:09:51.060 everyone's problem. You don't need to engage in the sin of detraction by telling the true

00:09:57.120 sins of others to anyone who will hear, to millions of strangers on the internet. 0.95

00:10:01.560 Maybe Shapiro's mother was a nut. Gavin Newsom's mother definitely was a nut. 0.99

00:10:06.840 Maybe Pritzker's mother was an alcoholic. I'm sure she was. 0.98

00:10:12.220 Maybe the guy who went viral on social media, maybe his wife really did have a promiscuous past. 1.00

00:10:18.280 You don't need to tell everybody all the time. Sometimes we can just keep these things to

00:10:23.000 ourselves. But you don't get as much social media clout. And in our perverse culture,

00:10:30.220 good things no longer really carry social currency. Victimhood does carry social currency.

00:10:37.720 There are all sorts of these perverse incentives. I saw it described in the Christian social media 1.00

00:10:43.280 post. Someone, I forget who it was, I wish I could give attribution, but I guess I'll just

00:10:47.220 steal the idea for myself, made the point that specifically among evangelical Protestants,

00:10:52.140 there is this hazard sometimes of coming to the true conclusion that the greater the depths of

00:11:01.880 degradation, all the more glory to God for redeeming somebody. I was so low. I was so low,

00:11:09.000 everything seemed impossible for me, but then God saved me. That's a more powerful story than

00:11:13.760 I was only a little bit low. That's a more powerful story than I did something that was

00:11:18.620 kind of a little bit wrong. You know, I stole a cookie from the cookie jar and then God redeemed

00:11:21.980 me. Much, much more powerful to say I was a murderer and a thief and a prostitute and a 0.97

00:11:27.000 glutton and a drug addict and God saved me. And so in a culture that rewards personal exposition

00:11:34.740 in a publicly confessional kind of culture such as ours, a culture where we share just a little

00:11:41.200 bit too much about everything. I mean, isn't that what social media is? In that kind of culture,

00:11:46.960 there's this real moral hazard that in a way encourages lurid bad behavior because then when

00:11:54.940 it turns around, all the more glory to God. Well, same thing in our politics. We went from

00:12:01.160 a political order which prized people who had their act together, who were successful businessmen,

00:12:08.580 who were longstanding statesmen, who were pillars of their community. We went from that culture

00:12:14.460 to a much more populist and individual culture, where really political debates

00:12:19.880 began to surround whose mother washed more floors for less money.

00:12:24.800 That culture that makes an idol out of suffering, poverty, lack of opportunity,

00:12:34.140 lack of education, even that kind of culture is not going to be the most conducive

00:12:38.160 to political good. Proof positive here, case in point.

00:12:44.460 look at the leading candidates for president on the left. Now, hilarious story, because one thing

00:12:51.600 you'll notice about those guys, Shapiro, Pritzker, Newsom, they're all white guys.

00:13:00.440 Shapiro's Jewish, but he's white. I know Kamala didn't pick him to be vice president because he 0.71

00:13:05.680 was a Jew. And I know, I know, I know, I've heard all the stories. But they are three white guys,

00:13:10.700 and the Democrats don't like that.

00:13:12.400 It's actually one reason why in California,

00:13:14.800 USC just canceled a gubernatorial debate.

00:13:17.780 Delightful New York Times story.

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00:15:22.540 apply. Beautiful headline. Frame this one. New York Times, California governor debate canceled

00:15:29.960 after criticism over lack of diversity. The debate would have featured six candidates,

00:15:34.740 all white. And the inclusion of a low polling mayor drew scrutiny in particular.

00:15:41.040 So USC was supposed to host a gubernatorial debate. Less than 24 hours before it was supposed

00:15:47.360 to take place, they canceled it because the candidates were white. According to the university,

00:15:55.540 the selection criteria have created a significant distraction from the issues that matter to voters.

00:16:00.360 KABC, the local LA TV station, was going to broadcast the thing. So the candidates were

00:16:07.700 Matt Mahan, the mayor of San Jose, who's one of the guys running. It was two Republicans

00:16:16.180 and then three Democrats who were polling at the top.

00:16:19.140 And you know some of these guys.

00:16:20.920 It's Swalwell.

00:16:23.780 It's Tom Styers up there.

00:16:25.640 All these guys.

00:16:25.980 Anyway, they're white guys.

00:16:28.400 But they're the top polling candidates.

00:16:31.600 And you got this Mayor Mahan who's making waves.

00:16:35.280 So what's the problem here?

00:16:37.320 You say, okay, here are the criteria.

00:16:39.000 We're going to have the top polling guys,

00:16:40.820 top polling people, sorry,

00:16:42.440 and they're going to debate

00:16:43.780 to see who should be the next governor. And then they look at it and they say,

00:16:48.540 well, hold on, it's all white guys. Well, we can't have that. But hold on, I thought that 1.00

00:16:54.520 we supported democracy. I thought this is what democracy looks like. We need to defend democracy

00:17:00.100 and the Republicans pose an existential threat to our democracy. And yet it's these libs who

00:17:03.180 are undermining democracy because the criteria was polling. So the voters want the white guys 0.88

00:17:10.180 or ladies, I guess. Is there a lady in there? Is Katie Porter in there? I don't know. Didn't 1.00

00:17:15.020 even read the whole article. Doesn't matter. The problem is the whiteness. So the voters say,

00:17:21.320 we want the white people. And the people who defend democracy say, well, you can't have that. 0.90

00:17:29.080 You can't have that. We're not even going to let you see those candidates.

00:17:33.320 The problem here is a tension between democracy and liberalism. When the left talks about

00:17:39.500 democracy, they're usually talking about liberalism. This is how they can say that

00:17:44.440 Trump winning the popular vote is a threat to democracy. That statement taken literally

00:17:49.500 is incoherent. Someone winning the popular vote by definition cannot be a threat to democracy.

00:17:55.220 He is the expression of democracy. This is how they can say that Viktor Orban winning election

00:18:01.080 after election, popular elections can be a threat to democracy in Europe. Because when they say

00:18:08.340 democracy, what they really mean is liberalism. And liberalism is an ideology that animates a

00:18:16.180 society. And so you have constantly changing circumstances. Liberalism at its core,

00:18:21.460 basing itself on the primacy of the individual and the maximization of the autonomy of the

00:18:27.160 individual, breaking free from all constraints, all restrictions. One constraint in the minds

00:18:33.680 of liberals being race, the idea that the whites are the oppressors, that the non-whites are the 0.95

00:18:38.880 oppressed. And so to truly liberate oneself, we need to overthrow the white people. But by golly, 0.98

00:18:45.700 the liberal Democratic voters have reflected their opinion in the polls, have expressed their

00:18:52.680 opinion in the polls. The polls reflect that they want a white guy. What do we do now? Do we go with

00:18:57.840 democracy or do we go with liberalism? They always go with liberalism. Even when it means

00:19:02.800 punishing their own candidates, their own liberal Democrat candidates for governor by kicking them

00:19:10.500 off the stage on the basis of their race. I love this. It's beautiful. I just want to sit. I'm

00:19:16.540 going to sit on my hands, sit on my hands, just look over at California and watch, watch the

00:19:21.460 implosion because it's not just California. This is playing out at the national level as we see

00:19:25.860 Pritzker, Shapiro, Newsom, whole lot of white guys, whole lot of clean cut, rich Brooks Brothers

00:19:35.740 suit wearing white guys at the top of the polls for the Democrat presidential nomination.

00:19:41.160 You notice that? I know there are some weirdos in the mix. There's AOC. She's not a top candidate 1.00

00:19:47.620 for president, but she could be taken seriously. But who are the ones who are really getting the

00:19:53.680 us who have already run before, who are already getting all those profiles, who are already

00:19:57.280 running their campaigns. It's Newsom, it's Shapiro, it's Pritzker, it's Buttigieg. Don't forget

00:20:01.360 Buttigieg. On and on and on. I guess Whitmer is probably going to run. She's not a man, but she is 0.72

00:20:10.380 white. Why is this? Well, obviously it's because Kamala lost. It's because wokeness, the ideology

00:20:21.600 that really places a primacy on race is out of favor with the electorate.

00:20:26.980 The electorate overwhelmingly voted against that.

00:20:28.760 That's why they elected Trump with a popular vote,

00:20:30.300 and they gave Republicans a unified government.

00:20:33.120 So they're going to go for a white guy.

00:20:35.980 The only Democrat who has even ostensibly won the presidency in recent years

00:20:42.160 is Joe Biden.

00:20:43.080 He's a really old white guy who wears nice suits.

00:20:45.680 So that's what they're looking at.

00:20:48.120 And they can't accept it, but they want it.

00:20:51.240 They hate it, and they love it.

00:20:52.520 Odi Adamos, says Catullus.

00:20:54.680 They don't know what to do.

00:20:55.980 They're torn between two extremes.

00:20:58.240 And I'm here to watch the show.

00:20:59.740 Meanwhile, beyond the political battles, real battles rage on.

00:21:04.800 The Iran war is in its third week, and the army is raising the enlistment age to 42.

00:21:10.980 I'm about to pull out that banjo, start playing that Arlo Guthrie song,

00:21:15.520 The Draft Dodger Rag.

00:21:16.680 You ever hear that song?

00:21:17.280 I remember I actually did play it in high school.

00:21:19.600 It was my little high school band.

00:21:21.240 And the song goes, Sarge, I'm only 18.

00:21:23.680 I got a ruptured spleen and I always carry a purse.

00:21:26.760 I got eyes like a bed and my feet are flat.

00:21:28.660 My asthma is getting worse.

00:21:29.500 This whole thing about this guy who doesn't want to be drafted.

00:21:32.200 And he's making all these excuses.

00:21:33.540 How quaint it is now too, by the way.

00:21:35.340 I'm only 18.

00:21:36.060 I've got a ruptured spleen and I always carry a purse. 0.72

00:21:38.800 The excuse is I'm a gay guy. 0.96

00:21:41.080 Under Obama and Biden, they were only recruiting gay people. 0.98

00:21:44.760 The CIA and the military were putting out commercials about going with your lesbian moms 1.00

00:21:50.460 to the pride parade and how that would prepare you for the army or whatever. Now the commercials

00:21:55.720 are getting a little tougher. Now they're going back to just the regular old guys.

00:22:01.200 Disproportionately white guys, actually, but just like real tough guys. And in any case,

00:22:05.760 they're raising the age. Why? Does this mean the Iran war is going to go on for years?

00:22:11.240 Does this mean that there's going to be a draft? I don't think that's what it means.

00:22:16.320 I think what it means is the world is getting more dangerous.

00:22:20.960 I think what this means is the vacation from history.

00:22:23.900 We had a vacation from history from the fall of the Berlin Wall up until 9-11.

00:22:29.880 And then even during the global war on terror, a very small percentage of Americans actually served in the military.

00:22:38.300 The war is dragged on forever, but there was not a real intense national focus on winning the wars.

00:22:43.160 It wasn't clear what the objectives were.

00:22:44.680 they ended up being this kind of imperial wars. Some of the objectives became these vague

00:22:51.140 humanitarian objectives. We need to protect women's education in Afghanistan or whatever.

00:22:56.820 Now I think the world is getting a little more real with talk of multi-polarity, with talk that

00:23:03.580 even this war in Iran that has led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz could lead to the end of

00:23:09.020 the petrodollar, the fact that oil is purchased in US dollars, which gives the United States a

00:23:13.780 massive, massive advantage and privilege on the global stage. You could see a world,

00:23:18.540 I'm not betting on this happening. Trump still has my full trust. But if things really went south,

00:23:24.860 you have a world in which China could perhaps step in, demand that oil be purchased in yuan,

00:23:30.120 and you could have a major shift in who leads the world order,

00:23:34.700 multi-polarity, or even a more seriously rising China. All of that means

00:23:40.480 things are going to get more dangerous. And when things get more dangerous, we raise the

00:23:46.640 enlistment age to 42, which is a little scary for me. Listen, I barely made it on the t-ball

00:23:52.500 team, okay? I'm not the most athletic guy in the world, but I just turned 36. I'm still well within

00:23:57.700 that age range. Also, they're lifting a restriction. Previously, if you had been

00:24:05.360 convicted of a marijuana

00:24:07.620 offense, you know, minor drug

00:24:09.560 offense, you would not be eligible

00:24:11.560 to enlist. Now they're lifting that restriction.

00:24:13.620 And, coincidentally, they are

00:24:15.500 lifting the marijuana restriction on

00:24:17.640 April 20th,

00:24:19.940 420, which I know that's

00:24:21.640 clearly someone in the

00:24:23.640 Pentagon is having fun with that.

00:24:26.420 But

00:24:26.900 regardless of, you know, whether

00:24:29.620 or not now you can puff up a little bit,

00:24:31.740 you know, you can

00:24:33.720 have a little bit of that devil's lettuce,

00:24:35.360 what this is telling you when you sober up is that the world is getting more dangerous.

00:24:41.960 The Pentagon is declaring that and we should be listening.

00:24:45.320 Now, speaking of this war, how much of a threat is this to President Trump,

00:24:51.980 to his administration, and to the Republicans in the midterms?

00:24:54.940 There are a lot of people beating the war drums.

00:24:57.160 We call them the neocons, the war hawks.

00:25:01.220 Ironically, these were the people who were opposed to Trump for most of the last 10 years.

00:25:05.360 much of the last 10 years, who are now the most ardent supporters of this war in Iran.

00:25:10.980 And they will point to the fact that the war in Iran has something like 90% support

00:25:15.880 among Republicans, certainly among MAGA Republicans.

00:25:21.420 Beneath the surface, though, I think those numbers are a little bit dangerous,

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00:26:43.260 So I love watching CNN sometimes. I never thought I'd make that statement, but I love watching CNN

00:26:49.120 sometimes because the guy that they have doing the polls has had a lot of good news for Republicans.

00:26:55.100 So it's not really on CNN, but it's on the polls. The polls have been very good for Republicans.

00:27:00.460 Now you're seeing the polls begin to turn a little bit.

00:27:04.140 This is the same guy who just a week ago said the Iran war has 90% support among Republicans.

00:27:09.520 President Trump has 100% support among MAGA Republicans. Here is the first chink in the 1.00

00:27:15.980 armor. Here is the first recognition of some negative poll numbers, specifically when it

00:27:22.020 comes to the president standing with young men. In November of 2024, he beat Kamala Harris among

00:27:28.200 them by 13 points, by 13 points. Look at where he is now on his net approved rating. Down he goes.

00:27:33.740 It's a 20 point shift away from Donald Trump. He is now seven points underwater at this particular

00:27:40.100 point among men. I think it is very difficult for Republicans to do well in this midterm cycle.

00:27:45.200 if Donald Trump is underwater with men, as my uncle once wrote, where the boys are, where the

00:27:50.780 men are, they are underwater when it comes to Donald Trump. Okay, so that's overall men. But

00:27:55.680 what about young men who were really influential? Yes, young men. Of course, there was a massive

00:28:01.320 shift to Donald Trump from 2020 to 2024 among young men. And look right here. Whoa, yikes,

00:28:09.320 yikes yikes yikes men under the age of 25 on trump he won him in 2024 by five points look

00:28:16.720 where he is now the net approver waiting way down there down we go to negative 19 points that's a

00:28:23.380 nearly what is that nearly a 25 point switcheroo okay don't love this obviously and this is where

00:28:31.740 You know I have been invading of late against my fellow podcasters because I don't want to be too harsh against my comrades here, but the podcasters are a real problem right now.

00:28:45.100 The podcasters are a real problem because their interests have diverged from the interests of conservatives in politics proper.

00:28:55.520 There's the political media, that's where we are, and then there is elected politics,

00:29:00.700 operative politics, activist politics. The interests have diverged. The interests were

00:29:05.880 aligned in 2024. That's why they called 2024 the podcast election. The podcast bros helped

00:29:10.680 bring President Trump the presidency and the popular vote. Let's not forget the youth vote,

00:29:16.180 driven largely by young men, shifted 10 points to the right in 2024. That was driven in large part,

00:29:23.940 if you had to give it to a singular individual, probably you would hand that one to Charlie Kirk.

00:29:29.220 But broadly, you would hand it to the podcast bros. Charlie did a million things,

00:29:32.580 one of which was he hosted a podcast. But that was one of the drivers.

00:29:37.520 Since that time, certainly since Charlie's death, since he was killed by a leftist assassin,

00:29:44.760 a political event that could have unified the right, you've seen a divergence. And in part,

00:29:51.140 that's because i was talking to chris ruffo about this yesterday and i he's he was saying what i've

00:29:55.320 been saying for weeks and he's a very sharp guy and he's done his own reporting and investigations

00:30:00.480 and come to the same conclusion which is the the politicos are after votes unity coalition building

00:30:09.100 policy the political media is after clicks and money and sometimes those things line up sometimes

00:30:16.840 they don't line up, but in recent weeks and months, the podcast bros have turned on Trump.

00:30:24.480 A lot of them, not me, obviously, I'm still very pro-Trump, but a lot of them have turned on Trump.

00:30:29.180 And this is where, you know, we point out there's a distinction between the real political order

00:30:33.540 and the podcast bros. What the podcast bros say about things is pretty different from what a lot

00:30:37.780 of voters say about things, even on the right. But this is one of those places where the two

00:30:41.620 meet. There is an interaction between the two. The interaction is young men. Young men in

00:30:46.620 particular listen to the podcasts. I mean, I think it's a federal law now that every white man under

00:30:52.100 the age of 50 in America has to have his own podcast. But that's where those two meet. And so

00:30:56.880 I think that is why you're seeing a cratering in particular among young men. It's because of the

00:31:03.280 perverse incentives of the podcast class and because of all of the baked in problems. This

00:31:08.900 is the first midterm election after presidential cycle. That's usually when the party in power

00:31:12.900 loses. This was coming off a particularly bad presidency, Joe Biden's. And so if you look on

00:31:18.580 the actual fundamentals, if you look on things like inflation, if you look on jobs, certainly

00:31:23.420 if you look on the stock market, Trump has done a good job. You look on affordability,

00:31:28.220 Trump has brought rental prices down six months in a row. Trump has done a good job. But things

00:31:32.620 got so bad under Joe Biden that nobody could move fast enough to make people not feel that pain.

00:31:40.940 On top of that, I think the foreign interventions, even though they have been very successful so far, 0.95

00:31:46.780 those foreign interventions have created the perception, especially among the podcast class,

00:31:50.780 which then bleeds down into the young men, which then does affect the vote, is the idea is that

00:31:56.980 the United States is not focusing enough on domestic matters, only more on foreign matters.

00:32:01.080 There are reasons for this, too, which is it's easier for the president to intervene internationally than it is domestically because there are no federal judges and Democrat congressmen and governors internationally.

00:32:10.160 You actually don't need to really deal with them.

00:32:12.000 In any case, in any case, this is a major problem.

00:32:16.520 This should be a five-alarm fire for Republicans heading into the midterms.

00:32:21.140 And I mentioned Charlie earlier.

00:32:25.220 Assassinations work.

00:32:26.100 That's why people do them.

00:32:27.620 And this one worked.

00:32:30.420 This one led to a lot of division on the right because they took out one of the clearest leaders of the young right.

00:32:37.300 And what's so funny about Charlie is Charlie is recognized as the voice of a generation of the young conservatives.

00:32:44.760 And he became that.

00:32:46.160 But when Charlie started, one of the ironies is Charlie was primarily talking to boomers. 0.90

00:32:52.100 When he started, he was speaking on cable news and he was going to these fundraisers with a lot of gray-haired Republicans.

00:32:57.880 And the pitch was always that he was going to speak to the young voters, but the first skill

00:33:03.120 that he honed was speaking to older voters and donors. It was this kind of funny paradox.

00:33:10.700 What's so amazing about Charlie, though, is he then became the thing that he was pitching.

00:33:16.360 He then really built the thing that did speak to young men and young women, and he built up the

00:33:22.100 largest young conservative organization in the entire country. He took those boomer bucks and

00:33:28.300 he actually put them to good use. And he was speaking to those people. And he was skeptical

00:33:32.300 of war in Iran. There's lots of broadcasts and tweets to prove it, but he was also completely

00:33:37.120 supportive of the president. And he was just one of these figures holding it together.

00:33:41.760 You can attribute a lot of that polling decline among young men to the assassination of Charlie

00:33:47.840 Kirk. These are all real political problems that we have to solve. And you know me, I'm a glass

00:33:54.160 half full kind of guy and I'm not a panican and I don't always focus on the negative stuff. But in

00:33:58.960 order to solve a problem, you have to acknowledge that there is a problem. And right now there are

00:34:02.320 many, many forces arrayed against the White House. And a lot of the arguments they're making

00:34:06.580 and a lot of the campaigns are disingenuous and divorced from reality. But in order to turn this

00:34:14.080 thing around, one, we need to get a handle on the podcast problem. We need to be able to

00:34:19.700 bring the political media back into alignment with the actual political good that we're trying

00:34:25.060 to achieve. Right now, they're spun out in a million directions. And two, the administration

00:34:31.180 needs to be seen as having a chiefly domestic focus. They're doing a lot of great domestic

00:34:38.040 work that they're not getting credit for. So there's a messaging issue here. There's a media

00:34:42.660 issue here. A lot of it's driven by the podcasters. I'm not even blaming the admin. But we have to

00:34:47.000 fix this problem. I don't care how many Iran polls you show me saying that 90% of Republicans

00:34:54.340 support it. If young men are swinging that rapidly in the wrong direction, and we can attribute that

00:35:00.920 to specific problems, including my own industry, not this show, but certainly this industry,

00:35:06.960 that's a problem that has to be solved. It is March. If this problem gets worse and worse and

00:35:12.200 worse, we're going to get blown out in a tidal wave in the midterms. It's early enough to fix it,

00:35:16.360 but we have to fix it now. Okay. Speaking of President Trump, speaking of President Trump

00:35:20.840 on domestic issues, great moment. Two days ago, when President Trump visited Elvis's home. And

00:35:27.000 I'm a huge Elvis fan for over 30 years. Guys, I don't know if you know this, but The Passion of

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00:36:00.320 Ocean Yan, who says, man, it is wild that the OnlyFans guy was able to pimp out like 18% of

00:36:07.140 the global female population and didn't even need to backhand a single one of them. Truly one of 0.98

00:36:12.680 the greatest feminists of all time. So true. He was sex positive, wasn't he? He was sex positive.

00:36:18.320 Okay. President Trump, this was a very special moment for me. I don't know how many, I haven't

00:36:23.920 talked about this too much. I have been a huge Elvis fan since I was five years old. I used to

00:36:28.060 do an Elvis impersonation. I roadied for an Elvis impersonator. I could probably sing or play almost

00:36:34.180 every single Elvis. So I love Elvis. Now I live in Tennessee, Elvis' state. I remember when I was

00:36:41.740 younger, I had visited Graceland, Elvis' home, and the West Wing within a relatively short period of

00:36:47.140 time. And I was very much in awe of both places. I was more in awe when I walked into Graceland.

00:36:53.440 So anyway, President Trump just visited Graceland, Elvis' house. Why, you ask? What did he have to

00:37:00.880 say, here it is. We love Elvis. Who doesn't love Elvis? Everybody loves Elvis, right? Hello.

00:37:12.380 Hello, everybody. We were here and we're touting how well it's done with the crime stats. And

00:37:19.400 over a period of five months, it's way, way down. And we're proud of it. We're going to come back

00:37:24.420 in two or three months and we'll have a very, very, one of the safest cities. So Memphis went

00:37:30.000 through a terrible thing and like in DC we're doing great and every place we go we're doing

00:37:36.520 great to be honest with you so Frank I'd love to go to Chicago I'd love to be invited to Chicago

00:37:42.440 we would get rid of crime in Chicago very easily but the Democrats don't want to do that I'd love

00:37:48.960 to go to San Francisco would make it something would bring it back to where it was and the mayor

00:37:55.100 is working hard he's a Democrat he's working hard there but we could do things that they just can't

00:37:59.080 too. But every place we go in Memphis, I guess you probably heard the crime numbers are way down.

00:38:07.120 Right off the bat, I've said this many times before, Trump is Elvis. That's something I

00:38:11.500 realized the first time I went to see a Trump rally. When I was at MSG, he walked out there

00:38:15.620 and you have to see it in person to really get this. He's Elvis. He's larger than life. He comes

00:38:20.280 out into the stadium. He is in complete control of the crowd. Every movement, every little this,

00:38:24.640 ever. He's just Elvis. I don't know how else to put it. He's larger than life. He wears kind of

00:38:32.320 funny suits. Some of the coloring, especially the ties, very loud. Elvis had the scarves. Trump has

00:38:37.440 the ties. Controversial, blunt. A lot of beautiful women in his past. The guy's Elvis.

00:38:46.500 So then you say, why is he in Elvis's house? Well, very simple. What he was actually doing

00:38:51.460 politically, was telling the media and therefore the people that his administration has reduced

00:38:59.280 crime in Memphis. That's all he was doing. He has this policy of deporting illegal aliens

00:39:07.720 and bringing in law enforcement to get down domestic crime. And he says, we're going to do

00:39:13.540 this in the badly run Democrat cities. Part of the reason he has to do Memphis is because Memphis

00:39:18.460 is a blue city and a red state. So he says, I want to go to Chicago. Chicago is a blue city

00:39:23.200 and a blue state. So it's actually harder for the federal government to go in. They could,

00:39:26.940 but it's harder. LA, San Francisco, blue cities in a blue state, can't do it. Memphis, blue city

00:39:33.300 and a red state, you can do it. So this could have been a tweet. This could have been a true

00:39:36.520 social post. Hey guys, we've brought down crime in Memphis, but that wouldn't have done anything.

00:39:42.720 It's got to be a little weird. It's got to be a little cultural. He's got to show up to Elvis's

00:39:47.240 house. We love Elvis. I didn't know Elvis. I knew Sinatra, but I didn't know. Anyway,

00:39:52.940 we've done a great job bringing down crime in Memphis. Memphis is a rough place. There've

00:39:59.320 been two places that I've been jumped in my entire life. One is the Jersey Shore. One is

00:40:03.940 Memphis. There's only two places ever. This is good. This is show business. He's just a pro.

00:40:13.520 no one needs to tell Trump, but we need a little bit of that. We need a little creativity and we

00:40:18.860 need especially focus on domestic issues. We need a little bit of that headline grabbing creativity

00:40:23.260 because it seems to me, there's so many issues like this. There are plenty of issues where I

00:40:30.400 know that I'm right. Not to be overly confident, but there are plenty of issues where I've examined

00:40:36.120 the issue and I'm as reasonably confident as a person can be that I am right. And yet I know

00:40:40.620 it's a losing issue. That's true a lot of the time. Very often, the truth is not popular

00:40:47.040 because people's passions run away with them. And so, you can be the voice of one crying out

00:40:54.580 in the wilderness. You can be in the minority, and the minority can be correct. However, 1.00

00:41:00.640 if it's a losing issue, you would be crazy tactically to focus on that issue all the time.

00:41:09.120 The Iran issue might be like that.

00:41:10.880 The Iran issue, if President Trump succeeds in Iran, don't forget, we're on week three.

00:41:15.040 He told us it was going to take five weeks.

00:41:17.140 So we're not freaking out until week six.

00:41:19.680 We're on week three.

00:41:21.480 And the Iran issue, if he pulls it off, could be one of the great master strokes of foreign 0.99

00:41:26.460 policy ever in American history, certainly the greatest since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

00:41:31.900 And yet, harping on the Iran issue doesn't seem to be serving President Trump's poll

00:41:38.000 numbers very well, even if he's right. And even if it turns out to be spectacular, look, if it turns

00:41:43.500 out to be spectacular, maybe then we harp on it. But while there's still uncertainty, the

00:41:47.860 administration can be totally right on the issue and it can be kind of a losing issue or at least

00:41:53.880 a stalemate to talk about. You know what's not a losing issue? Crime. That's one of the few issues

00:41:58.820 that Republicans are still way up on. You know what's not a losing issue? Border control and to

00:42:03.620 a lesser degree, immigration broadly. Those are issues that we can talk about. We might be right 0.99

00:42:08.460 on all the issues. Right now, we're kind of losing, according to polling, on the economy.

00:42:12.940 Our economic policies are way better than Democrats' policies. But if it's a losing issue,

00:42:16.900 that's not the one you focus on. You can highlight where we've really succeeded.

00:42:21.340 Six months decline in rents, 100% of rental demand increases in New York and California

00:42:28.360 being driven by immigration. You can tie back into an even more winning issue, immigration.

00:42:31.620 But that's the way you got to look at these things. It's not enough to be right.

00:42:37.720 You need people to be talking about the things that are good for you.

00:42:42.080 That's the key here. That's what Trump is doing at Graceland. Good stuff. I love it.

00:42:46.820 Okay, speaking of murder, not just murder in Memphis, but murder more broadly,

00:42:52.720 the worst serial killer in American history just died in prison, and most people don't know his

00:42:58.780 name. Now, I suspect if you're listening to this show, there's a good chance you remember this

00:43:03.160 guy's name. This guy made the news over 10 years ago now, probably closer to 15 years ago now.

00:43:10.120 Kermit Gosnell. Do you remember that name? Kermit Gosnell. Gosnell was a butcher abortionist who

00:43:18.080 had a filthy clinic in which not only thousands of babies were murdered, probably thousands of

00:43:25.600 babies were murdered after having been born alive. So even with our perverse abortion law,

00:43:33.260 if a baby is born alive, certainly at the time that Gosnell was committing his killings,

00:43:39.620 but even broadly today, if a baby's born alive, you have to provide medical care to that baby.

00:43:45.400 And I know this is really weird because three seconds prior when the baby was inside the mother,

00:43:50.840 you would have the legal right to chop that baby up and murder the baby. 0.95

00:43:54.600 But then the minute the baby moves six inches,

00:43:57.820 now you have to provide medical care to save the baby.

00:43:59.740 But anyway, that was the law.

00:44:01.580 And Gosnell ignored that.

00:44:04.060 In many ways, Gosnell's position

00:44:05.500 was much more consistent and coherent. 0.99

00:44:07.520 So hold on, if I'm allowed to kill the baby, 0.99

00:44:09.840 if it's moral or legal to kill the baby inside the womb, 0.99

00:44:13.600 there's no reason it would be immoral to kill the baby 0.61

00:44:15.780 when he moves six inches. 1.00

00:44:16.920 So we're going to murder the baby anyway. 0.99

00:44:18.260 Anyway, they murdered thousands of babies in his clinic. 0.99

00:44:22.240 Multiple women died because of the terrible medical conditions, the filth of this clinic.

00:44:29.120 I mean, I don't want to be too graphic, but they found body parts in jars.

00:44:34.020 I mean, this was truly a house of horrors.

00:44:37.060 And now he's dead.

00:44:42.100 And he dies with a final injustice.

00:44:45.760 You know, it's all this injustice. 0.61

00:44:47.040 Obviously, this guy is one of the worst killers in American history, 0.77

00:44:49.800 the worst serial killer in American history, killed grown women, killed lots of babies, 0.99

00:44:55.400 just a true sociopath serial killer. And then at his trial, the media didn't show up. This was one 0.57

00:45:02.060 of the great scandals. The media didn't show up. They didn't want to talk about it because his

00:45:06.380 trial revealed abortion for what it is, which is just butchery, human butchery. That's all abortion 0.77

00:45:12.760 is. Abortion is nothing other than that. And we use euphemisms and we try to pretend it's not.

00:45:18.780 We say it's women's health care, and it's medical decisions, and it's reproductive choice, and it happens in hospitals and medical facilities, and it's planned parenthood. 0.96

00:45:28.840 But you know what it really is?

00:45:30.440 All it is is just butchering little babies. 0.89

00:45:33.900 That's all it is with, like, knives and stuff.

00:45:36.580 Sorry, I am intentionally being a little vivid here just to show you the difference between the euphemism and the reality.

00:45:43.020 And Gosnell's trial showed us that.

00:45:46.240 It became undeniable.

00:45:47.440 And so what did the media do?

00:45:48.400 Did they change their minds? No, they ignored the trial. They wouldn't show up.

00:45:53.700 And so Gosnell quietly goes away and he goes to prison. Then he dies quietly.

00:46:00.760 And the final injustice is most people still don't know his name.

00:46:05.140 The final injustice is the completion of the coverup. Okay, before we go, just real quick,

00:46:10.580 real quick, there is an Islamic sign. It was just draped over a 9-11 memorial in a cemetery.

00:46:18.400 This being reported by NBC Bay Area.

00:46:22.800 A banner displayed at a Contra Costa County cemetery has many in the community fired up tonight.

00:46:29.020 The banner, advertising a new Islamic portion of the cemetery, was draped over a 9-11 memorial.

00:46:35.360 And as NBC Bay Area's Jody Hernandez tells us, that has many people shaking their heads.

00:46:41.580 That banner has caused a huge uproar.

00:46:44.740 Memory Garden Cemetery took it down at about noon today.

00:46:48.180 But many say it never should have been placed at the 9-11 memorial site in the first place.

00:46:54.840 Gee, you think?

00:46:55.940 Yeah, of course not.

00:46:57.220 Of course not.

00:46:57.920 I'm a New Yorker.

00:46:59.020 I was in New York before, during, and after 9-11.

00:47:04.420 New Yorkers knew people who died.

00:47:07.140 And the line was, never forget.

00:47:09.100 And now on the 25th anniversary of 9-11, we have a communist Muslim as mayor of New York. 0.97

00:47:14.980 and we're getting Islamic signs placed over 9-11 memorials. So we forgot.

00:47:21.080 And part of the problem here is that there are three lanes for Islam to gain a greater 1.00

00:47:30.880 foothold in the United States. It's not just within the purview of one political ideology

00:47:35.420 or one faction or one party. There are actually three ways for Islam to enter into the US.

00:47:40.380 the the left wing hates america and hates the west and the west is christendom and christendom

00:47:48.160 is animated by christianity so in as much as islam has been in conflict with christianity 0.62

00:47:53.080 from the very beginning of islam because islam if we're being blunt about it is just a christian

00:47:58.840 heresy that became entangled with pan-arab nationalism that's basically what islam is 0.82

00:48:04.000 it's a it's a version of a christian heresy it began after muhammad encountered a heretical

00:48:08.960 Christian monk in the desert, even according to the Islamic accounts. And then it became 0.85

00:48:14.260 its own kind of religion, splintering off of a Christian heresy that has also animated

00:48:21.220 pan-Arabism. That's what it is. And so it's been in conflict with Christianity for 1,400 years.

00:48:27.220 It's tried to conquer the West for 1,400 years. And so the left, which hates the West and which

00:48:34.580 really hates Christianity, likes Islam for that reason. The liberals, not the hard left, but the 1.00

00:48:41.120 liberals are open to Islam because they've given up religion entirely. They've embraced a kind of 0.97

00:48:47.720 religious indifferentism where they think all religions are basically the same, and they're

00:48:51.100 all a little bit wacky, but whatever. If people want to just have their own religion, that's their

00:48:54.720 own private matter, and who are we to judge? A liberal, in the words of Robert Frost, is the

00:49:00.400 kind of person who can't take his own side in a quarrel. So for the liberals, they say, well,

00:49:06.160 who am I to say that Islam is wrong or to draw distinctions between religions or to exclude

00:49:11.580 anybody from anything? So come on in, the water's warm. There's no difference between taking in

00:49:15.700 Christians from Finland through our immigration system or a ton of jihadis from Afghanistan. 0.94

00:49:21.380 What's the difference? We're all the same, kumbaya. And then on the right, the right which

00:49:26.800 is the most hostile to Islam, there is, you know, a kind of a fringe right that doesn't like the

00:49:31.340 Jews. And because the Muslims also don't like the Jews, they're more open to Islam. And so you have 0.84

00:49:37.660 this trifold problem, which is that Islam can enter into the United States through really any 1.00

00:49:46.100 of the ideologies, any of the factions. And I'm not an extreme Islamophobe in the sense that

00:49:53.620 I think a small number of amiable, low-voltage, don't take the religion that seriously, Muslims, 1.00

00:50:01.840 is fine. It's okay. Small number, not enough to change the culture of a community, not very

00:50:06.440 limited. Okay, then we can convert them to Christianity. It'll be very nice. They're very

00:50:09.740 nice people. They're very polite a lot of the time, good food, and then they can come to America and

00:50:15.340 convert. Very small numbers. Okay, that's fine. But in large numbers, people who take that religion

00:50:21.100 very seriously, that poses a very serious threat to the country. And there is no doubt on the 25th

00:50:28.880 anniversary of 9-11 that when you have a Muslim mayor of New York, a guy who campaigned with one 0.71

00:50:35.740 of the original World Trade Center bombers, an unindicted co-conspirator in that, and when you've

00:50:42.720 got Islamic signs over 9-11 memorials, we forgot. We are particularly vulnerable to the predations 1.00

00:50:51.320 of all sorts of outside ideologies and influences, but Islam in particular. Islam weirdly checks a 1.00

00:50:57.060 lot of boxes, and this is nothing new. It's been going on since Charles Martel and even earlier,

00:51:02.520 but pretty scary to think on the quarter century anniversary of 9-11. Okay, I want to get to the

00:51:07.800 Muslim mayor of New York, Mamdani. But the rest of the show continues now. I got to say goodbye 0.99

00:51:13.360 to the Hoi Poloi. You don't want to miss this. Become a member. Use code NOLS,

00:51:16.100 Canada, WL. He has a check out for two months free on all annual plans.

The Michael Knowles Show - March 25, 2026

Ep. 1939 - The Worst Serial Killer In American History Has Died

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