The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 196 - Democrats’ 2020 Strategy： WAHHHH!

00:00:00.000 The leftists, pinkos, hippies, and freaks who make up the Democrat electoral coalition met 0.52

00:00:04.920 last week and over the weekend at the Netroots Nation conference to establish their strategy

00:00:10.800 for 2020. Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Liawatha Liz Warren, Comrade de Blasio, all made their

00:00:18.560 pitch to that wretched hive of scum and villainy. We have got the highlights. Spoiler alert, 0.99

00:00:24.020 they hate you and want to control your lives. Then Kamala Harris's perverse view of her own 1.00

00:00:28.960 country on This Is America, and we electrocute a criminal on this day in history. I'm Michael

00:00:34.720 Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show. A lot to get to. A lot to get to today. So we have

00:00:47.840 all the Netroots clips, and man, they're good. The Democrats are really outdoing themselves lately,

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00:02:27.400 to Netroots. So if you're not familiar with it, I actually wasn't familiar with the name. I remember

00:02:32.980 the event, but the Netroots Nation Conference started in 2006. If that number sounds familiar to you,

00:02:39.920 it's because that was the year that the Democrats made their huge lurch to the left. They decided

00:02:46.880 they were going to double down. They were going to be the Democrat base of the Democrat party,

00:02:52.060 and they were going to move far left. And it actually did help them in the short run. It

00:02:55.320 did help them win some seats. So they're doubling down. They're going to be trying to make that same

00:02:59.440 move again. Netroots began as the agenda setting moment for the left and for the Democrat party.

00:03:07.560 It began, do you know that website Daily Kos? I don't think it's that big anymore,

00:03:11.080 but it used to be very big even five, six years ago. The Daily Kos was this very far left site by

00:03:16.860 Marcos Mulitsas. It was his blog. And so anyway, he and a bunch of other lefty, angry bloggers got

00:03:23.100 together and started this. First, it was a conference for Daily Kos. Then it became Netroots.

00:03:28.440 Netroots is where you've seen some great moments at Netroots before, even if you don't know it.

00:03:32.520 Do you remember that moment last year where Bernie Sanders was on stage talking about socialism?

00:03:37.040 And then he got out lefted because Black Lives Matter came on stage and took his microphone.

00:03:44.340 And he said, well, you can stay there. You can, that's fine. That's okay. And it zoomed in on

00:03:48.760 him with the like, with the Curb Your Enthusiasm music, you know, and they stole his microphone.

00:03:55.100 They did the same thing to Martin O'Malley, actually. Nobody even remembers Martin O'Malley.

00:03:59.680 He was the generic, bland, guitar-playing guy who never had a chance at winning the Democrat

00:04:07.340 nomination in 2016. So Martin O'Malley was giving a speech at Netroots, and Black Lives Matter did the

00:04:11.800 same thing to him. They took his microphone. It always is fun because it's really their crazies.

00:04:17.960 You know, you really can't compare the crazies on the right and the left. Everybody's got our crazies.

00:04:23.260 But like, the crazies on the right, with a few exceptions, the crazies on the right just like,

00:04:28.620 really like the Constitution. Those are our most eccentric people, again, with a few exceptions.

00:04:35.360 But the kind of majority of the eccentric, fringy people on the right, they're just like,

00:04:39.860 yeah, I really like freedom. I know that you like freedom. I really like freedom. The ones on the

00:04:43.900 left are screaming. I mean, they're like shrieking, shutting people down, coming on stage,

00:04:48.960 threatening people. That's what you get at Netroots. So at Netroots, we got everyone

00:04:53.080 to trot through here. All of the 2020 presidential contenders walked through. We got Cory Booker,

00:04:58.820 Kamala Harris, Comrade de Blasio, Liz Warren, a bunch of other people. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:05:05.540 came out. And of course she did. You know, she's the new darling of the Democrats. They try to say,

00:05:10.400 by the way, when we knock Ocasio-Cortez for not knowing anything and for being proudly ignorant, 0.96

00:05:14.960 they say, well, she's just a candidate somewhere in Queens. She's not the head of the party. 1.00

00:05:19.960 They're making her the head of the party. They're turning her into a superstar. 1.00

00:05:23.080 That's why she's fair game for us all to attack. So they're doubling down. They think it's 2006.

00:05:29.280 They're going to run in 2018 and in 2020 as though it's 2006. Hard left, they think they're

00:05:35.460 going to double down on their base. That's going to motivate them to go out to the polls.

00:05:38.860 I hope they do this. I know they don't watch my show, so I'm not worried about letting the cat

00:05:43.020 out of the bag. The secret is that 2018 is not 2006. It is so not 2006. 2006, you know,

00:05:51.700 there was a lot of anger over the Iraq war. That was really the motivating factor on the left.

00:05:57.700 There was a lot of distaste for George Bush, but mostly for that reason. In 2018, we have

00:06:03.860 peace abroad. We've got a booming economy. We've got a terrific economy coming out. You know,

00:06:09.760 how did the left turn their 2006 victory into a 2008 victory? It's because there was this

00:06:13.300 devastating economic crash. Now we don't have that. We have record high employment, record low

00:06:20.280 unemployment. We've got a great economy. Economy has never done better. The IMF credits President

00:06:26.100 Trump's policies for that. Everybody's gotten a tax break. Virtually everybody, some wealthy people in

00:06:31.140 blue states haven't quite gotten a tax break, but everyone else, everyone who would vote for

00:06:35.120 Republicans, everyone that the Democrats want to put in their so-called coalition of the ascendant

00:06:39.880 has done very well in this economy. And, you know, what they do, their entire strategy is to divide

00:06:45.860 people along racial lines, along ever more precise racial gender lines. The numbers don't look good in

00:06:52.800 that direction. President Trump's support among black voters is now at 29%. Now that doesn't sound

00:06:59.020 very high. That sounds pretty low. It should be higher. Hopefully it will be higher by the end of this

00:07:03.360 term and certainly by the end of the second term and third term, fourth term. You know, it'll keep

00:07:07.640 increasing. But his support just a year ago was at 15%. That support has basically doubled in one year

00:07:14.760 among black voters. And the Democrats are running scared. They're terrified by this. So they're trying

00:07:18.780 to demagogue on race issues, on class issues, on all of this. Having set up all of that, having set up

00:07:26.800 what seems to be the Democrats' unsuccessful setup for 2018, let's delve into the craziness and enjoy

00:07:33.040 they're a spectacular failure. Take it away, Laya Watha. According to Trump, the problem is other

00:07:40.300 working people. People who are black or brown, people who were born somewhere else, people who 0.75

00:07:46.960 don't worship the same, dress the same, or talk the same as Trump and his buddies. Before getting into

00:07:55.320 all of that, when she says don't worship the same, does she mean they're not lapsed Presbyterians?

00:08:00.780 What do you mean by doesn't worship the same? She's, you know, they're, what they're trying to do

00:08:05.720 is run up against this stereotypical religious right, hard ideological conservative. And they

00:08:12.320 keep failing at that because Donald Trump isn't those things. He, he regularly misspeaks when he's

00:08:18.120 trying to discuss Christianity. He's not fluent in the language of Christianity because he's not

00:08:23.040 a figure of the religious right. Someone asked him if he'd ask God for forgiveness. He said,

00:08:27.380 I try not to make any mistakes. That's why I don't have to ask for forgiveness.

00:08:32.960 Then she says, you know, he's trying to divide working people against this and that, and this

00:08:37.100 is that. He represents those people. He represents the people that Elizabeth Warren wants to represent,

00:08:43.160 but she can't. She is a liar. First of all, she lied. I, we make jokes about this because she's 1.00

00:08:48.240 Laya Watha. She's chief spreading bull. And, but she, this is really offensive to a lot of people. 1.00

00:08:54.300 She is the whitest woman that has ever walked the earth. And she lied about being a racial minority 1.00

00:09:00.920 to get preferential treatment in employment. She won if regardless, because those policies are on 0.96

00:09:07.160 the books, she could have taken a job away from an actual native American and she lied. She, she's 1.00

00:09:12.600 just a fraud through and through, but also she's this effete Harvard professor, this true elitist who 0.96

00:09:19.400 looks like one and speaks like one to use her identity politics. And Donald Trump doesn't, 0.78

00:09:25.180 he doesn't talk like one of those people. He doesn't talk like any elitist. He talks to people

00:09:30.440 in the way that people talk on the street. He talks to people like the way that New Yorkers talk.

00:09:34.500 That is much more compelling. That's much more attractive. I'll let Liz Warren keep going. 0.89

00:09:38.240 And it comes in all sorts of flavors, racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia. It comes in all sorts of

00:09:48.200 forms, nasty personal attacks, trolling on Twitter, winking at white supremacists. And it all adds up

00:09:57.740 to the same thing, the politics of division. Politics that tries to pit black working people against

00:10:06.360 white working people so they won't band together. Politics of division that tells Americans to 0.96

00:10:15.080 distrust each other, to fear each other, to hate each other. You see the politics of division by

00:10:23.260 Donald Trump, they, they keep, uh, white working people and black working people apart so they don't 1.00

00:10:29.040 join up and kill the rich whitey. That's what she's saying. It's, I don't, does she hear herself 0.96

00:10:35.460 when she's talking? The left is always projecting and here more than ever, she's, she's talking about

00:10:41.500 dividing people along all of these lines and all of the language that she uses to divide, to, to 0.84

00:10:46.620 describe this divides people along precisely those lines. She is dividing people against, along lines

00:10:52.680 of race. Not the Republicans, not Donald Trump, not Mike Pence, not Paul Ryan. No, they're not.

00:10:59.200 She is. She's dividing people along lines of, of, uh, wealth and class. Not Donald Trump,

00:11:07.700 not the Republican party. She's dividing people along all of these lines. To, to, the, the way that 0.98

00:11:12.340 they rattle off that phrase, racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, phobic-phobic, 0.98

00:11:19.200 liawathaphobic. I'm a liawathaphobic. I certainly would fear her if she were in the White House. 0.99

00:11:23.660 The, the way they rattle it off, like they've been practicing it in their sleep, like they say it in

00:11:28.300 their sleep. They're talking about the boogeyman that doesn't exist. We, we, uh, have the lowest

00:11:33.300 amount of, uh, overt racism in the history of the United States, possibly in the history of the

00:11:37.840 world, anywhere else in the world. I, I, I don't know if you've traveled much, but the rest of the

00:11:42.440 world is not as enlightened on, on racial matters and ethnic matters and cultural matters as the

00:11:48.000 United States is. We're doing better than anyone else in the history of the world. And, uh, but Liz

00:11:53.660 Warren, they just repeat this, this boogeyman that they need to, uh, that they, that they need to

00:11:58.820 have. And by the way, forget even just the question of this, this kind of bigotry or that kind of

00:12:04.380 bigotry. They are the ones that are, uh, promoting anti-black bigotry, vicious, physically intimidating 0.96

00:12:12.220 anti-black bigotry against a friend of mine, Candace Owens. But we will get to that in one second. 0.94

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00:14:08.380 they're, they're talking about their, uh, all of that racial bigotry that the right is spewing

00:14:15.440 against the left, against black people. They're anti-black bigots, aren't they? Uh, let's cut to 1.00

00:14:21.340 a video of my friend Candace Owens walking around with Charlie Kirk of TPUSA. You've got the Antifa

00:14:27.440 group, uh, the anti-fascists. And to translate that for you, uh, anti-fascist in left-wing language

00:14:32.920 means fascist. Uh, so you've got these people just screaming in her face for, uh, supporting

00:14:40.240 Republican politicians. Here they are.

00:14:41.880 White supremacy! 0.97

00:14:48.880 White supremacy! 0.99

00:14:50.880 White supremacy! 0.99

00:14:52.880 White supremacy! 0.99

00:14:56.880 White supremacy! 0.99

00:14:58.880 White supremacy! 0.95

00:15:00.880 There's still- 0.96

00:15:02.880 Get that out of my face. Don't let that touch me. I'm not kidding.

00:15:04.880 Don't let that out of my face!

00:15:11.880 Wow, that's-

00:15:13.880 Did you, did you hear that? Like, shrieking from hell? Just like these demons, these just

00:15:21.880 screaming in her face. For those of you who couldn't see the video, they're yelling F white 0.96

00:15:26.880 supremacy. At Candace Owens, a black woman, they are all white people. They're all white 0.97

00:15:33.880 women. White women with, like, crazy blue hair and probably deep-seated emotional problems 1.00

00:15:40.880 stemming from their families. I don't know. They're a lot, they got a lot of issues going 0.98

00:15:44.180 on, clearly. If you get up to someone's face and start screaming at them in public, you've

00:15:47.880 got some issues. But it's all these white girls going up with loud whistles, uh, with 1.00

00:15:53.880 megaphones right into Candace's ears and shrieking, F white supremacy. That, that is white supremacy. 1.00

00:16:02.880 That, they are, they are the white supremacists. They are the white people who are drowning 1.00

00:16:06.980 out physically intimidating Candace Owens because of her beliefs for thinking what she wants 0.97

00:16:11.340 to think. Because you're not supposed to. They say, no, if you're black, you're not allowed

00:16:14.520 to. You're not allowed to think that. Listen to us. We're white women. We're allowed to tell 1.00

00:16:18.600 you, black woman, what to think. That's what they're saying. I mean, it is, it is really,

00:16:22.320 it's easy to make fun of it. And Candace has thick skin. She's a tough girl and she can handle 0.93

00:16:26.420 herself very well, obviously. But it, this is really deeply offensive and horrifying. These

00:16:33.180 white girls shrieking in her face, how dare you, how dare you hold a position that I don't give you 1.00

00:16:39.820 permission to hold. That's what they're saying to Candace Owens. Really crazy. That's the left 0.98

00:16:43.440 though. That is what, uh, they're doing to her. The left is always projecting onto other people,

00:16:49.200 their own biases, their own sins. They're saying F white supremacy. You're the white supremacist. 0.90

00:16:54.400 You're the white, you're the one who's telling people how they have to think, how they have to 0.99

00:16:57.820 behave. And if they don't get in line, you're going to physically intimidate them. You're going to

00:17:01.100 scream in their face, try to blow out their eardrum. Uh, so I don't want to, I don't want to 0.81

00:17:05.620 let Liz Warren totally get away though. I mean, those were the highlights from her speech. I don't 0.98

00:17:09.140 want to let her totally get away though. Uh, there was another, another woman who comes up to the podium 1.00

00:17:13.280 and, uh, I think this was a dig at Liz Warren. You, you judge for yourself.

00:17:19.720 Netroots Nation, please welcome from the great state of New Mexico,

00:17:23.580 Deb Haaland.

00:17:32.480 Hello, Netroots Nation.

00:17:36.300 My name is Deb Haaland. I'm the democratic nominee for New Mexico's first congressional district.

00:17:42.480 If elected, if elected, I'll be the first native American woman in Congress.

00:17:49.120 Did you catch that? Did anybody catch that? Are you sure you're not the second Deb? You sure you

00:17:58.300 think that lady was whiter than Casper the ghost over there? You don't think she's the first native 1.00

00:18:02.320 American in Congress? You don't know? Maybe not. No, I guess it would be Deb. Uh, so I re I really

00:18:07.700 like that. I think it is a dig at Liz Warren because it is offensive to people who, who, you know, 0.74

00:18:13.540 don't lie about where they come from. Um, but this is the kind of thing, right? This is what you get at

00:18:18.060 the Netroots conference. This is what the Democrats are setting up for 2020. Their platform is going to

00:18:22.720 be all identity, all identity politics, not thoughts, not ideas, not even public policy,

00:18:29.840 all identity. Listen to me because I'm a native American woman. Listen to me in the case of Liz Warren,

00:18:36.480 because I'm a fake native American woman. Listen to me because I'm a black Muslim, lesbian, uh, 0.98

00:18:42.800 Martian from Venus. I don't know how, how, how's that possible? I don't know how that's possible.

00:18:46.720 And illegally, you might say, uh, the, the, another serious contender showed up, uh, Kamala Harris, 1.00

00:18:53.260 Kamala Harris from my own state of California. Uh, what was most interesting about her speech though,

00:18:58.160 because she, she touched on all the same points, but she played it safe. And I, I'm,

00:19:02.960 I wonder what that shows. Here is Kamala Harris spouting inane platitudes. 1.00

00:19:07.520 As I look around this room, I see the best of what America is really about.

00:19:15.000 And I see the best of what America can be unburdened by what we have been.

00:19:22.880 And I see in this room and all that is represented in this room, the power of the people.

00:19:31.120 And these past 18 months have demonstrated that the people in power are no match for the power of

00:19:42.080 the people. Wow. How brave. Where, when did you write that? Just utter platitudes. And I am here to

00:19:53.300 tell you that the sky is blue, not red. It's not red. It's blue. The sky. I am here. I am

00:20:01.100 so proud to be here because the sun is bright, not dark. It's not dark. It's, it's bright.

00:20:08.620 Oh, do I clap? I don't know. She said it in such an emphatic way. There's a character,

00:20:13.320 a Congresswoman character on 30 Rock. I don't know if you've seen this. I forget her name.

00:20:18.040 And she kind of like maybe the fifth season or something. And she comes in and she just starts

00:20:22.060 talking and saying things that are just either inane platitudes or nonsense. But because she says

00:20:27.140 them emphatically, everyone gives her a standing ovation. That was Kamala Harris at this Net Roots

00:20:31.500 conference. And a part of that is she's considered a favorite going into this election. We don't really

00:20:36.720 know anything about her. She's relatively new to the Senate. She doesn't have much of a record. We 0.89

00:20:40.400 know she's a lefty, but a lot of the commentary about her has focused on all of these aspects of

00:20:45.740 identity politics. She herself has totally embraced identity politics. She has run on them. She's,

00:20:50.780 I'm a black woman. That's why you've got to support me. That's why I'll be good.

00:20:54.100 And so I think perhaps Kamala Harris thinks she's going into 2020 with this great advantage.

00:20:59.120 The Democrats are embracing identity politics. That is what they're running on. She has the most

00:21:03.880 identity politics, not only black, but a woman, not only, you know, not only woman, but from

00:21:08.600 California. I don't know. She's all of the, not only that, but she's young and she's this and that,

00:21:12.760 right? She checks all of these boxes. And so she thinks, all right, I can play it safe because this is

00:21:17.660 mine right now. I'm in the lead right now. And I don't know, given her electoral coalition,

00:21:22.620 that very well might be the case. She clearly has an advantage over Cory Booker because Cory Booker

00:21:27.920 is a man. Kamala Harris is a woman. So she played it relatively safe, but she's still got her hits 1.00

00:21:35.240 in. I mean, she still had her cred. Here is Kamala Harris going on. Let's speak truth that if it wasn't 0.99

00:21:42.260 clear before Charlottesville, it is clear now, racism is real in this country and we need to

00:21:48.920 deal with that. Let's speak truth. Sexism is real in this country. Let's deal with it.

00:21:58.220 Let's speak truth. Anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia are real in this country. Let's deal

00:22:04.600 with it. So she had to get those lines in. You heard Liz Warren do it too. They all have to go 0.88

00:22:11.820 and they say America's awful. It's racist, sexist, xenophobic, Islamophobic. I love, by the way, 1.00

00:22:18.200 that they equate Islamophobia with racism, with hatred of people for their skin. Your skin is

00:22:27.900 something you can't change unless you're a pedophilic pop star. You can't change the color 0.97

00:22:32.000 of your skin unless you have a lot of money and an amusement park in your house in California.

00:22:36.540 But your views, you can change. Views are up for criticism. It's very mean to criticize someone

00:22:41.580 for the way they look, for any aspect of the way they look. It's just crude and rude and not very

00:22:45.860 civilized. But to criticize someone for holding bad ideas is perfectly legitimate. In fact, that's

00:22:52.200 what we are called to do in society, in civil society, in a civilization where we discuss things

00:22:59.620 and where we have a democratic republic. That's what we're called to do. Religion is just a bag 0.81

00:23:04.180 of ideas. It's just a bunch of ideas. And to equate those two is a real slate of hand. The left

00:23:10.380 always does this, but she's doing it too. So she gets all of her hits in. Okay, she comes out of this

00:23:15.880 thing looking fine. She doesn't look too wacky. She didn't, you know, she didn't Ocasio Cortez herself. 0.98

00:23:20.580 She didn't make some bizarre gaffe where you're like crazy gesticulations and spouting things that 0.97

00:23:26.300 just like orders of magnitude from being, from being true. Um, the biggest disappointment was

00:23:32.040 Cory Booker. The biggest disappointment probably to himself, certainly to Democrats is Cory Booker.

00:23:36.760 Here is Cory, uh, giving, given at his level best. We say an oath that we are a nation of liberty and

00:23:46.180 justice for all, but that's just words. It's a civic faith. But I'm one of these people that says,

00:23:51.520 before you tell me about your religion, first show it to me and how you treat other people.

00:23:57.820 Well, how are we living our civic gospel? How are we living our civic gospel that demands

00:24:05.420 for us to reject the normalcy of injustice, the normalcy of apathy, the normalcy of indifference

00:24:11.680 and rise to the higher ground of activism, of engagement, of love. And that's the last person I want to end with.

00:24:19.580 His name is Hassan Washington. I'm a big believer that if America, if this country hasn't broken your heart,

00:24:31.140 then you don't love her enough because there's things that are savagely wrong in this country.

00:24:39.420 There's a normalcy of injustice that we've accepted.

00:24:42.300 And I tell you, Newark has gifted me a wisdom that can only come from wounds.

00:24:52.060 A sense of purpose that can only come from shared pain.

00:24:56.800 It's a city that at times where my heart has been broken, but I've learned that the heart is this

00:25:02.100 interesting organ that can, it's the only one that really works, even if it's gotten broken.

00:25:06.240 Get that, man. Whatever the opposite of an Oscar is, get that for Corey. I've sat in on a lot of

00:25:15.780 auditions over time, New York, LA, college, you know, even before that. And I don't know that I've,

00:25:22.780 and I've seen a lot of bad performances. I've seen a lot of truly horrific plays, movies. I have never

00:25:29.540 seen anything as unconvincing as Cory Booker trying to be emotional. I have never seen,

00:25:34.580 it just doesn't, I'm not trying to be mean to Cory Booker. It just doesn't pass the smell test. It

00:25:40.800 doesn't look real. I don't think anybody in that room thought that he was genuine. It's so

00:25:46.200 disingenuous. It's so, he's not, he's just not good at performing emotion. Look, Cory Booker is a very

00:25:51.980 smart guy. He is very intelligent. He has a lot to offer his party. I don't know if he's got a lot to

00:25:57.580 offer the country, but he's got a lot to offer his party at least. But he's playing wrong. You can't,

00:26:03.020 I'll give a little, a little more advice from, you know, Stanislavski and Sanford Meisner and,

00:26:07.720 you know, great, great acting directors and theorists and coaches. You, you can't push. You don't want to

00:26:15.080 push against what is coming sort of naturally to you and what comes organically. Cory is all pushing

00:26:20.700 right now because he's not, he's this guy from New Jersey who was cozy with Wall Street and has

00:26:25.540 zillionaire donors and, you know, defended Mitt Romney in 2012. That's who Cory Booker actually

00:26:31.480 is. He's now running left of Lenin because he thinks that that's going to work. He thinks that's

00:26:36.840 going to get him the nomination. It's not because you have to be authentic. The lesson of 2016 should

00:26:41.580 have been that. You have to be authentic. When you're not authentic, you get blown off the stage

00:26:45.840 by somebody who is. Uh, really, really, uh, sad. He's savagely wrong. It's savagely tears of rage

00:26:52.780 said. Okay. No. Also just a usage note, please. He said that Newark gifted him with something.

00:26:58.820 That's not a word. The verb to gift is not, I know it's been in use. It has been in use at various

00:27:05.180 times for three or 400 years to gift. So I gifted this to you. It's not proper. There's a wonderful

00:27:11.200 word, which is give. I give you this. And now you have a gift from me. I've got a gift because I

00:27:16.880 gave it to you. I'll give it to you. Gifted. I gifted this to him. It's just like nails on a

00:27:21.940 chalkboard. Cory, come on. You went to Yale law school, learn how to use language better. Let's get

00:27:26.740 those tears out of here. Okay. So the main, uh, the main takeaway, this is all the Democrats are running

00:27:32.920 very far left. I don't want to harp on this too much, but that all of the candidates here, uh,

00:27:37.400 advocated Medicare for all open borders and abolishing law enforcement agencies, every single

00:27:42.420 one of them, a Medicare for all. I didn't think this was going to work for them. I saw this

00:27:46.780 percolating in the fringes a couple of years ago, few years ago. Uh, they say Medicare for all. And

00:27:51.400 that to me seems like such a sad sales pitch. When I think of Medicare, I think of old people who can't 1.00

00:27:55.520 take care of themselves, who are at the mercy of the government, who are at the mercy of the state,

00:28:00.000 who are just frail and weak and have no control over their own destinies.

00:28:04.420 Why would we all want that? Why would we do it? You should, you too can be like an 85 year old.

00:28:09.900 I want to be like an 85 year old. I'll be like one when I'm 85. I don't want to be like one now 0.77

00:28:13.500 when I'm 28. Uh, still they've all embraced it. They've all embraced socialist healthcare,

00:28:19.980 all the rest. These are not popular issues. They're not popular. You saw what happened with Obamacare.

00:28:24.720 It destroyed the Obama presidency because he pushed that through. People hated that policy.

00:28:28.220 They hate open borders. The majority of Democrats despise open borders and they don't want to

00:28:33.340 prioritize any immigration legislation, including any amnesty, uh, legislation, including for the

00:28:38.740 dreamers. The majority of Democrats don't want legislation legalizing even dreamers. That is a

00:28:44.460 crazy statistic, uh, of abolishing law enforcement. Who wants that? Nobody wants that. Um, so, okay,

00:28:50.660 that's fine. Keep it up. Do it, please. I hope this is your platform. Give it to me. Uh, all of these

00:28:55.740 candidates, by the way, are deeply flawed in a way that Trump is not. All of these candidates are

00:28:59.600 far left and, uh, they're running as ideologues, far left ideologues. Trump never did that. Trump

00:29:05.420 never did that. They've tried to make him into that on the left, but he isn't that. He's totally

00:29:09.860 heterodox. He's not ideological at all. He actually boasted about that in the campaign. He said,

00:29:14.420 I like this. I don't like this. I'm going to do this. I'm not a religious conservative. I'm this.

00:29:17.740 I do, do, do, do, do, do. He just, he's his own character. He's authentic. And there's a moderation

00:29:22.340 that comes out of that. Their people are more comfortable there. This is why people are more

00:29:25.840 comfortable with Donald Trump than Mike Pence. You would think people would be more comfortable

00:29:29.280 with Mike Pence. Stable, steady, good conservative politician, but he believes too many things.

00:29:35.100 They say, oh, he's, he really takes his belief seriously. Trump, I feel like we can negotiate

00:29:38.840 with him. Uh, these candidates are, they're running into a brick wall right now, but keep it up. I hope,

00:29:44.060 I hope they do. Uh, do I have to say goodbye? No, I'll get one more bit in, then we'll say goodbye

00:29:48.240 to Facebook and YouTube. So the, the main takeaway from Netroots is the left doesn't like you

00:29:54.540 because you're all vicious bigots and, uh, the left needs to control every aspect of your lives, 0.78

00:30:00.600 your healthcare, your, uh, they're going to take away your ability to decide who comes in and out

00:30:05.280 of the country. They're going to take away your money so that they can pay for all of their crazy

00:30:08.440 social programs. They really don't like you. Uh, Angela Rye, CNN commentator typified this,

00:30:15.220 did this very well on Fredo Cuomo's show the other day. Well, while he just sat there, uh,

00:30:20.760 he just, just take a listen to this. Essentially not have any border. First of all, let's be very

00:30:25.980 clear. Let's be very clear. I can't wait to search your genealogy and see if you have any illegal

00:30:31.300 immigration in your family child. Like, I don't know what you're talking about. You've never once

00:30:35.560 asked me if I'm for open borders. You've never once asked me that. And at least I have the decency

00:30:40.880 not to continue to repeat myself. Clearly you don't want to enforce our clearly. You don't

00:30:45.100 want to enforce the, the border laws. Cause that's what I've said. No, what I don't want

00:30:48.960 to enforce is your president's nonsense. That's what I don't want to. Come on, man. You guys know 0.53

00:30:54.460 that this policy is ass backwards, plain and simple. You guys know this policy is inhumane, 0.93

00:31:00.640 plain and simple. Like if you just take yourselves out of it for just a moment,

00:31:05.140 take off the lenses of bigotry for just a moment. Okay. So now we're getting into the name calling.

00:31:12.840 Um, yes, we are. I'm calling this. Okay. That, you know, what's great in amidst all of this too,

00:31:20.220 you probably, if you were listening, you wouldn't be able to tell Chris Cuomo is there. The Fredo

00:31:24.480 of the Cuomo family is sitting there just, just like this, just, just wide eyed, just sitting there

00:31:31.660 silent, staring like a mook, just, just doing nothing. And he gets paid. I might've gotten 1.00

00:31:37.060 paid a little bit to, to not write a book, but this guy gets paid a lot more money to not host a

00:31:41.400 TV show. It's just, they're letting her accuse, uh, his other guest of being a bigot, of being a

00:31:48.360 racist out of nowhere. They made no, uh, they made, she made no argument whatsoever, right? She didn't

00:31:54.800 demonstrate anything through logic. She just said, you're a bigot, you're prejudiced, wah, wah, wah.

00:31:59.200 You have bad intentions. I hate your guts and you're terrible for the country. Really awful 1.00

00:32:03.460 stuff. I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube, but we'll explain this like profound

00:32:06.860 racism on the left as it comes up through Sarah Jong in the New York times and Candace Owens. Uh,

00:32:13.180 plus we've got, we've got to electrocute some people in chairs on this day in history. We've 0.94

00:32:16.960 got to show Kamala Harris and her racist view of America on this isn't, we've got a lot to come,

00:32:21.820 come back to. So let's hurry up and do it. Go to dailywire.com, please. If you're already there,

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00:33:06.320 Savagely wrong. That's just savagely wrong to make fun of Cory Booker. You remember Sarah Jong.

00:33:11.100 Sarah Jong is that tech reporter who sent out all of these tweets about how much she hates white people, 1.00

00:33:16.720 especially white men, and wants them to be eradicated from the earth. She actually said that. 1.00

00:33:21.840 She said, I'm so happy that white people aren't breeding so that they'll go extinct. She said, 0.96

00:33:26.920 we need to cancel white people. She said, white people shouldn't speak. They should be censored. 1.00

00:33:30.700 She just doesn't like them. I'd say they were jokes, but they don't, they were just, first of all,

00:33:35.800 they didn't have a punchline. And it just seems to me that over the years, she's kept this up and

00:33:41.800 clearly just hates white people. So they pointed this out to the New York Times. New York Times stands by 0.98

00:33:46.520 her on the editorial board. Now a video has surfaced at Sarah Jong from Harvard Law School,

00:33:51.480 where she attended college, or where she attended law school. Here she is.

00:33:56.200 Everything is implicitly organized around how men see the world. And not just men,

00:34:03.520 how white men see the world. And this is, this is a problem. This is why so many things suck. 0.85

00:34:10.960 That's why white men, that's why so many things suck. To quote Sarah Jong, New York Times editorial 1.00

00:34:16.740 board. All the news that's fit to print. The gray lady. The gray, at least, good thing the gray lady 1.00

00:34:22.740 is not a white lady. Otherwise, Sarah Jong would unleash some venom against her too. This is the 0.99

00:34:28.140 left-wing view of the world at this point, which is that white men are the cause of every problem in 0.99

00:34:35.280 the world. And everyone needs to band together through intersectionality to take them down and 0.98

00:34:40.080 to undo the patriarchy and all of the other terms they use for social hierarchies. Now,

00:34:44.840 any reasonable person listening to this would say, wow, she's a vile racist. She's at least saying 1.00

00:34:49.540 vile racist things. But the left answers and says, no, no, that's not racist because she's not white. 1.00

00:34:54.960 You can only be racist if you're white because it's about power. And only white people have power. 0.93

00:35:00.380 Nobody else has power. Vox.com. Zach Beauchamp writing for Vox.com, which is whenever I want to 0.67

00:35:06.220 learn, whenever I want to know less than I currently know, I go to Vox.com and then it just sucks

00:35:10.820 knowledge out of me. Vox.com, he wrote to anyone who's even passingly familiar with the way the

00:35:16.460 social justice left talks. This is just clearly untrue. White people is a shorthand in these 1.00

00:35:21.560 communities. One that's used to capture the way that many whites still act in clueless or racist ways. 0.96

00:35:26.240 It's typically satirical or hyperbolic to emphasize how white people continue to benefit

00:35:30.600 from their skin color or to point out ways in which a power structure that favors white people

00:35:35.120 continues to exist. What he's saying is, yeah, the left uses white, but they hate white people. 0.99

00:35:41.260 That's right. They don't like white people. And what makes it different, he writes, 1.00

00:35:44.480 what makes it different from actual racism is, yes, the underlying power structure in American society.

00:35:49.760 It's okay to say vicious things about whites because the whites have all the power. But let's 1.00

00:35:55.440 analyze that. Is that true? Sarah Jong is Asian. Asian Americans have higher average household 1.00

00:36:01.900 income than whites. They have a higher average household income than any other group. Asian

00:36:06.200 Americans disproportionately are accepted to top universities in the country, such as Harvard

00:36:11.040 Law School, such as the place from which Sarah Jong was making that statement. By objective measures,

00:36:17.540 Asians have much more power and privilege in the United States. Now, I reject these racial categories 0.99

00:36:24.300 per se because I don't think they tell you that much. They do tell you some things. They're sort

00:36:28.280 of interesting demographically and from matters of electoral politics. But they don't tell you very

00:36:33.160 much about power. They don't tell you very much about politics because they don't tell you about

00:36:38.420 ideas. They don't tell you about laws. There's no de jure racism in the United States, right? There's no 0.80

00:36:44.440 structural racism saying, okay, only Asian people can do this. Only white people can do this.

00:36:48.400 Absolutely not. I suppose there is one law which is affirmative action that says certain people 0.89

00:36:53.480 get a benefit in university admission and other people do not. But the point she's trying to make

00:37:00.860 that whites have all the power in America clearly isn't true. She's a living example of it. She's on 0.98

00:37:05.760 the editorial board of the New York Times. It's a powerful position, or used to be at least. I don't

00:37:09.680 know if it still is. The left is excusing this. Washington Post excused her vile remarks and said,

00:37:14.340 is it okay to make fun of white people online? Make fun of, in Washington Post language, by the 0.54

00:37:19.080 way, means call for the eradication of. They're excusing it. They don't like the country. They

00:37:27.080 don't like the history of the country. They all talk about this. They say, we are going to move

00:37:30.280 forward, not be burdened by our past. You know, this is the symbol of their regulatory efforts in

00:37:40.420 2018 and 2020, is the plastic straws. That's the symbol. The plastic straws. They need, they are so

00:37:47.240 riled up about how awful this country is, that they are going to go in and regulate everybody's

00:37:51.760 life. It's the plastic straws. Actually, the guy, the Santa Barbara councilman, who pushed for the

00:37:57.640 plastic straw ban, who pushed to make plastic straws illegal, he said, quote, unfortunately, common sense

00:38:03.280 is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people's lives. Every aspect. That's what he

00:38:08.900 said. He's the guy behind the straw ban. That's how they see the country going into 2020, going into

00:38:13.580 the midterms. More power to them. I don't know that that's a winning message. We hate you. We hate

00:38:18.940 everyone in the country. You're all vicious bigots, and we want to control your lives. And we're going 1.00

00:38:24.640 to focus on the least popular public policies that public polling shows us. That's what they are

00:38:30.160 pushing for. More power to them. I hope they do it. Keep going, guys. We've got to get to This

00:38:34.400 is America. On This is America, variations on a theme, a startling number of Americans don't know

00:38:41.520 anything about America. They don't know anything about America. Kamala Harris actually typifies 1.00

00:38:46.460 this. She tweeted out, quote, we won't be silent about race. We won't be silent about sexual

00:38:51.440 orientation. We won't be silent about immigrant rights. These are the very issues that define our

00:38:56.540 identity as Americans. They're not. Those are not the issues that define our identity as Americans.

00:39:03.580 As a matter of fact, that's what the left pretends defines our identity as Americans. Race, class,

00:39:10.880 sex. That's what they pretend does. But it doesn't. What defines our identity as Americans is our

00:39:16.140 dignity given by God and the rights conferred by our creator. Rights to life, liberty, and property,

00:39:20.980 which come from the natural law, which come from the natural law giver. It comes from freedom,

00:39:25.420 baby. F-R-E-E-D-O-M. It comes from freedom and having the responsibility to deal in freedom and to

00:39:31.180 govern ourselves. That's what it comes from. It doesn't come from the color of your skin. But a

00:39:34.660 lot of people think that. According to a new study from the Freedom Forum Institute on just the First

00:39:40.100 Amendment, just the First Amendment, 40% of respondents couldn't name any part of the First

00:39:51.540 Amendment. They couldn't name any of the rights outlined in the First Amendment. And just one out

00:39:57.680 of 1,000 respondents could name all of the rights in the First Amendment. Right to speech, freedom of

00:40:04.780 religion, freedom of press, freedom of assembly, and freedom to lobby, freedom to petition your

00:40:08.980 government. Only one out of 1,000 could name all of those rights. There are other studies that come

00:40:14.860 out that show that students, there was one from ISI that showed students at some universities knew less

00:40:19.820 about civics when they graduated than when they went in. They somehow learned, they unlearned civics and

00:40:25.760 their time in there. A startling number of people, 90% of respondents to one national survey,

00:40:31.620 couldn't identify the system of checks and balances in the government. A huge percentage

00:40:37.700 couldn't identify the purpose of the Bill of Rights. Huge percentage. Something like 70%

00:40:42.180 couldn't identify the purpose of the Bill of Rights. This is really scary. It's because we have

00:40:46.340 no civics education in the country. At any level, it's been replaced by ideological studies.

00:40:51.760 Like, now in high schools, you'll read Howard Zinn. There are no civics classes, but you'll read

00:40:56.640 A People's History of the United States, excruple leftist propaganda. There's no civics education, and

00:41:02.520 freedom is only one generation away from extinction, as Ronald Reagan said. If you don't understand your

00:41:07.320 government, the systems of your government, then you're going to lose them. People don't even know

00:41:11.700 about the Bill of Rights, but they certainly don't know about the system that built our government.

00:41:15.560 You know, any tin-pock dictator can have a Bill of Rights, but we have a federal system of checks and 0.87

00:41:19.620 balances, which the left is willing to undermine. They don't understand the purpose of the country,

00:41:23.440 and if you don't understand the purpose of the country long enough, you lose it.

00:41:27.060 Before we go, we've got to get to this day in history. This day in history is a very important

00:41:30.420 one, because in 1890, on this day in history, the first criminal was sentenced to, or was executed

00:41:37.720 by the electric chair. This is a little grim, but you know, people have been talking about

00:41:42.080 the death penalty a lot lately. The current vicar of Christ on earth, Pope Francis, has been

00:41:47.500 talking about that. So I think it sheds some light on this debate. Conservatives are asking now,

00:41:52.240 in light of the Pope's comments, can we support the death penalty? Conservatives even have debated

00:41:59.300 this before. They say, do we want to give the state the power to kill people? Is it right for

00:42:03.000 the state to kill criminals? Is that Catholics have debated this? Pope Benedict said, I think 20 years 0.86

00:42:09.240 ago, that Catholics could have a legitimate difference of opinion on the death penalty.

00:42:13.740 What do we think about it? It's being outlawed all over the country.

00:42:16.240 So in 1890, at the Auburn prison in New York, William Kemmler was electrocuted for murdering

00:42:22.720 his lover with an axe. He murdered his lover with an axe, he was sentenced to death, and

00:42:26.540 he was electrocuted. Electrocution had been suggested nine years earlier by Albert Southwick.

00:42:32.840 I don't know if it's Southwick or Southwick. Albert Southwick, I'll just say that, who was

00:42:37.420 a dentist. And you know, dentists are so sadistic, they clearly like means of torturing people.

00:42:43.060 So anyway, he proposed the electric chair, because he one time saw an elderly drunkard

00:42:48.020 painlessly killed because he touched an electrical generator up in Buffalo. That's how he saw it. He

00:42:53.180 said, oh, this would be a good way to kill people. Hanging was a little less humane. With people who 0.99

00:42:58.600 were hanged, when they hanged the criminals, their necks would break, but they could hang there for half

00:43:02.760 an hour before they were totally asphyxiated. That's not good. So they said, okay, we're going to zap

00:43:07.280 these guys full of electricity. This will be humane. This is the better way. This is the,

00:43:11.300 the society has advanced here. Kemmler was strapped in. They sent 700 volts of electricity to him for

00:43:18.040 17 seconds, and the current failed. So they, they only sort of braised him. They didn't really cook

00:43:24.600 him. They didn't fully, they just braised him. And so he had, I mean, he was charred all over.

00:43:29.820 People could smell burnt clothing, but he was still alive. And then a little bit later, they sent

00:43:34.620 another charge over a thousand volts. They let it go for two minutes until his head was smoking.

00:43:39.120 Then they realized he was gone. This might sound a little gruesome. Southwick said, the guy who

00:43:44.860 advocated the electric chair, he said, we live in a higher civilization from this day on. And a lot of

00:43:50.320 people looked at it that way. They said, oh, good. We've, we just cooked that guy while he was still

00:43:54.120 alive and he was charred, but not dead. We burned a hole right to his spinal column and we had smoke

00:43:59.120 coming out of his head. We live in a higher civilization from this day on. People can confuse themselves on

00:44:04.380 moral issues, particularly issues of life and death, particularly when they're political.

00:44:09.340 George Westinghouse, a contemporary who was an innovator of the use of electricity at that time,

00:44:13.900 he had a different take on it. He said, quote, they would have done better with an ax and they

00:44:18.840 would have done better with an ax. He would have suffered less with an ax. They would have done

00:44:22.320 better. Just simple, simple execution that had served people well for a long time. One wonders if this

00:44:29.280 is not the case when it comes to the death penalty. It's very, it seems so morally clear

00:44:35.200 not to use the death penalty to people who have shallow thinking. It seems so morally clear that

00:44:40.860 it's awful. You know, the church, the Catholic church, despite this change recently, taught for

00:44:45.620 2000 years that the death penalty is not intrinsically evil. St. Augustine wrote in defense of it. St.

00:44:50.180 Thomas Aquinas wrote in defense of it. St. Paul writes in defense of it. And there seems to be a

00:44:57.120 change now. Perhaps the better question is to ask, what changed? Why do we suddenly think that this

00:45:03.040 thing is intrinsically immoral, that this thing is evil? I think it says a lot more about our culture

00:45:07.880 and our decadent culture and our moral myopia that we can frequently have. And nobody can attest to

00:45:14.140 that better than the burnt crisp chars of William Kembler on this day in history in 1890. On that

00:45:20.000 grisly, gruesome, disgusting final note, I got to say goodbye to you. Come back tomorrow.

00:45:24.520 How's that for a pitch? Come back tomorrow. Make sure you get your mailbag questions in

00:45:29.020 and tune into another kingdom for a season. Binge that baby, because we're about to release

00:45:32.900 the second season, me and Andrew Klavan. It's going to be a lot of fun. Tune in then. In the meantime,

00:45:36.860 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you tomorrow.

00:45:39.000 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Senia Villareal. Executive producer, Jeremy Borey. Senior

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