The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1963 - Conspiracy Theories Have Driven Libs Insane： New Shooter Details Emerge

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00:01:26.880 more details emerge about the latest lib to try to murder president trump and npr discovers in real

00:01:33.420 time just how radical their own side has become then a leading senate candidate calls for democrats

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00:01:46.640 a terror attack at a taylor swift concert you know those austrians always waging jihad

00:01:52.300 i'm michael knowles this is the michael knowles show

00:01:56.880 welcome back to the show uh james comey's been indicted there's a lot happening i'm on the road

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00:03:59.800 comey was the fbi director during the 2016 election he's been very political he's obviously

00:04:07.800 a lib and a democrat i was actually grateful to him in 2016 because he did call some attention

00:04:14.720 to a hillary clinton scandal even though he ultimately didn't prosecute her for wiping

00:04:18.380 her email servers. It was 10 years ago. But nevertheless, I've always had a little bit of

00:04:23.240 a soft spot for James Comey because I felt that despite his own desires, he did kind of help

00:04:28.040 Trump in the election. But he's been a major critic of Trump. And then a year ago, he posted

00:04:32.240 a picture to Instagram that said 8647. And it was in seashells on the beach. 8647, which means to

00:04:42.140 get rid of to nix to nullify 47 being president trump this was james comey going through his

00:04:49.340 artistic phase out in the wilderness you know exploring himself and the art like so much left

00:04:55.940 wing art really just ended up being a bunch of nonsense and ultimately advocating violence

00:05:01.320 toward conservatives so that's what this indictment is about and i don't know that they're

00:05:07.820 going to get him on it, probably Comey is going to argue that 86 here refers to impeachment or

00:05:14.740 something, you know, some peaceful way of getting rid of the president rather than actually killing

00:05:18.680 him. Of course, within the context of multiple assassination attempts on Trump, continuous

00:05:23.460 assassination attempts on Trump, it's a little hard to argue that. Nevertheless, probably it's

00:05:28.400 going to be hard to get him. Now, if the government didn't have good evidence, maybe they wouldn't

00:05:32.380 have even brought the charges. Regardless of what happens in the case, I'm really glad

00:05:38.340 that the government is prosecuting people in this way. This is the point that I've been making on

00:05:45.480 this show, not just for days now, but for years, which is that what is needed is to reestablish

00:05:53.060 order, to reset the standards and norms of our society. The mainstream left, and we'll get to

00:05:59.560 NPR admitting this in a second. The mainstream left has come out in normalized violence and

00:06:07.060 obscenity and threats and all manner of speech that really should not be protected.

00:06:13.300 So what you need is for the government to come in, the law as a teacher, to reimpose those

00:06:18.120 boundaries. You have to have consequences in order for people to change their behavior.

00:06:23.840 We should arrest Hassan Piker. Hassan Piker, who is one of the clearest examples of a 0.82

00:06:28.840 mainstream lib, who campaigns with Democrat congressmen and senators, who was campaigning

00:06:34.860 with the New York mayor, Zoran Mamdani, who has openly called for the murder of multiple

00:06:39.040 Republican senators, who has tortured his dog on camera, who hates America, says America

00:06:43.540 deserves 9-11.

00:06:44.480 That guy should be prosecuted for his crimes, and ideally, he would be deported as well.

00:06:48.460 You have to have consequences, or else they're not going to change their behavior.

00:06:51.920 And this is becoming a big problem, which NPR realized in real time.

00:06:55.920 So NPR. NPR came out and analyzing the shooting on Saturday night at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. They were looking through all the background of the shooter to see just how radical he had become. What they discovered is he's not all that radical.

00:07:16.760 You know, you've seen some of the typical, well, it's the radical left and their rhetoric.

00:07:23.680 That's, they need to cool it down.

00:07:25.780 But then you look at the social media profiles that have been attributed to the suspect, and they're really not that radical.

00:07:32.280 I think what's most troubling about this one from the people I've interviewed is just that this person's admittedly thin online presence and writings paint a picture of a pretty normal guy with views that are quite common in America.

00:07:46.020 You know, it doesn't appear that there was any so-called radicalization.

00:07:50.740 And so I think, you know, through the court case, many will be looking for indications of what could have tipped him into an alleged, you know, plan for violence.

00:08:01.380 That is NPR's Odette Youssef. Thanks so much.

00:08:04.520 You can hear NPR realizing the significance of this in real time.

00:08:10.680 What's that last line there? You know, it doesn't appear there was any so-called radicalization.

00:08:16.020 uh this is npr's odette youssef thanks so much yeah there there wasn't radicalization because

00:08:22.920 the guy who shot up the correspondence dinner who tried to kill trump in the whole administration

00:08:26.100 he just sounds like a normal liberal now there there was a survey that came out last year

00:08:31.740 this is from ncri found out that 56 percent of self-identified left-wing respondents

00:08:37.300 justified murdering president trump that was april 2025 56 percent we know that very liberal

00:08:45.920 people are seven to eight times as likely as very conservative people to say that political

00:08:49.840 violence can be justified we know that elected officials and major media figures and intellectuals

00:08:57.680 and ordinary old joe liberal all these people huge swaths of them justify political violence

00:09:03.220 so yeah of course at a certain point when you examine the priors of the guys who actually go

00:09:10.480 in there with the shotguns to try to blast off the head of the president you're going to find

00:09:13.840 doubt he thinks exactly what you think well uh welcome to npr it turns out that the deranged 0.97

00:09:20.600 psycho killer who tried to murder the president is basically just like us isn't that right yes

00:09:25.620 that is right odette yes that is right okay jared well back to you so what are we going to do about 0.78

00:09:31.780 it you can either you can either plead with the libs to be normal actually please don't kill us 0.66

00:09:37.220 or you have to prosecute them when they threaten to kill you which is what the comey prosecution's

00:09:41.080 about. What's the alternative? Can someone offer me an alternative? Yeah, I don't like to live in

00:09:45.980 a civilization. I don't like to live in a society where former FBI directors are prosecuted, where

00:09:51.480 former presidents, for that matter, are prosecuted. I don't want to live in that society where

00:09:54.980 presidents have to give preemptive pardons to their families. I want to live in that. I want

00:09:58.500 to live in a high trust society where people just kind of get on in a normal way. But when half the 0.52

00:10:03.140 country is constantly justifying the murder of the other half, you don't get to live in that

00:10:08.320 society. Then you got to bring down the heavy hand of the law because there will be order. 0.99

00:10:11.960 So we can either behave ourselves or we can impose order from the government, but there will be order.

00:10:19.440 So speaking of this shooter, another quirky fact that's come out of this shooter and this,

00:10:25.360 we have to thank Mr. Kaczynski, not Ted Kaczynski, Andrew Kaczynski. He said, we went through 4,700

00:10:33.660 of cole allen's tweets posts and one of the strangest things we found was he shared a lot

00:10:38.500 of posts claiming the butler assassination attempt against trump was staged he also repeatedly

00:10:43.960 compared trump to hitler and urged people to buy firearms so i i love this actually i love that the

00:10:50.480 guy who tried to blow trump's head off unsuccessfully happily thought that trump staged the last

00:10:56.880 assassination attempt because i see this cognitive dissonance a lot have you noticed this people say

00:11:02.960 that definitely didn't happen and i'm sorry it failed that's what a lot of people were saying

00:11:08.740 about the assassination attempt on saturday is that you know this thing it definitely didn't

00:11:12.540 happen this is totally fake and i'm really disappointed that it failed you see this with

00:11:16.280 online nazis a lot they will simultaneously say the holocaust didn't happen and it's you know it's

00:11:21.960 a pity it didn't go far enough not to admit not to make light but you can't simultaneously hold

00:11:27.400 those views and be coherent you cannot simultaneously hold the view that trump is

00:11:32.860 is faking his assassination attempts there's no way that anyone would actually assassinate trump

00:11:39.580 and then you yourself are going to go assassinate trump so much of the discourse around the

00:11:45.000 assassination is just a refusal on our part to acknowledge that much if not most of the mainstream

00:11:53.240 left actually wants to kill us we don't want so we say no it was fake no it was trump no it was

00:12:00.680 the deep state no it was israel no it was russia no it was iran no it was china no it was martians

00:12:07.060 from planet zebulon seven any of those answers would be preferable would be more comforting 0.92

00:12:12.740 than acknowledging the fact that the mainstream left wants to shoot you and your kid

00:12:21.060 wants to i'm not even i'm not even being hyperbolic here the attorney general of virginia 0.97

00:12:28.400 came out in text messages fantasizing about murdering republicans and the republicans kids

00:12:35.540 just to hurt the republicans and then when those text messages came out the attorney general

00:12:42.160 candidate the democrat didn't lose a single endorsement i confronted cory booker about this

00:12:46.720 during my senate testimony on capitol hill booker didn't pull his endorsement and you know what

00:12:51.160 happened the democrats in virginia elected that guy we don't want to acknowledge so much easier

00:12:56.800 would it be to say oh no it's a hoax it's a deep state it's some foreign government it's

00:13:00.980 but it's not it's not the call is coming from inside the house now speaking of you're just

00:13:06.420 talking about you know the people who say the holocaust wasn't real and it didn't go far enough

00:13:09.780 Speaking of Germanic violence, an Austrian man has pled guilty to plotting a terror attack on Taylor Swift.

00:13:17.900 The facts of this, we have this from The Guardian here.

00:13:22.660 Austrian man, you see that right there, pleads guilty to plotting terror attack.

00:13:26.700 Defendant, 21, in court with second man over alleged scheme to kill music fans outside the Vienna Stadium.

00:13:33.060 First line, a 21-year-old has pleaded guilty in an Austrian court over a jihadist plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago.

00:13:42.700 This guy apparently pledged allegiance to ISIS, and he wanted to do a Muslim terrorism to Taylor Swift.

00:13:53.720 I don't want to sound prejudicial or racist, but I'm a little skeptical that the man is Austrian.

00:14:01.540 you know say what you will about the austrians there's one austrian in particular who was a 0.50

00:14:07.400 rather nasty fellow rather violent but he wasn't a jihadi i don't i don't think this guy this in

00:14:16.220 this case i don't think he was really austrian what does it mean to be austrian maybe that can

00:14:23.360 be mount walsh's next hit movie what is an austrian what are we're really now pretending

00:14:30.140 that a Muslim who's just arrived from North Africa or the Middle East

00:14:35.800 is as German as a beer hall, is as German as potato salad? 0.81

00:14:42.360 Do we really believe that?

00:14:44.120 We might have to believe that because in some European countries,

00:14:47.120 40% of the births now are to foreigners, to foreign Muslims in particular.

00:14:51.420 So not only people who come from a different group of people,

00:14:54.820 but people who have a radically different religion

00:14:56.980 and a religion that's been in conflict with our religion for 1,400 years.

00:15:01.320 But what does it mean?

00:15:02.660 What does it mean to be an Austrian?

00:15:05.360 It seems to me that to be an Austrian is to be part of the Austrian people.

00:15:10.740 Austria is not an idea.

00:15:13.140 Austria is a geography, but Austria as a nation is a people.

00:15:17.080 There are Germanic people. 0.99

00:15:18.220 They got a little Celt in them. 0.99

00:15:20.340 The English come from the Angles. 1.00

00:15:23.420 The French come from the Franks.

00:15:25.420 What are these people?

00:15:26.980 are we permitted to say anymore that a nation is a people?

00:15:31.880 No, in a lot of these countries, they don't.

00:15:33.900 And it's because they've followed America's lead.

00:15:35.620 America, which in recent decades has come out and said,

00:15:38.020 we're not a real country at all.

00:15:39.160 We're not a real people.

00:15:40.040 Anybody can be an American.

00:15:41.080 America is just an idea.

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00:15:49.640 and he will be called racist and alt-right 0.99

00:15:52.780 and probably a Nazi for it.

00:15:54.520 But this speech is none of those things, and this speech, we all need to take this to heart if we're to survive as a nation.

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00:17:41.400 no kings,

00:17:42.280 no kings,

00:17:43.520 because Donald Trump

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00:17:47.420 no, we don't want any kings

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00:17:50.820 No kings!

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00:17:55.600 Kings are very attractive.

00:17:57.440 Kings actually serve a purpose

00:17:58.860 in public life.

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00:18:00.900 we don't have time

00:18:01.560 to get to all the arguments

00:18:02.820 in defense of monarchy

00:18:04.340 at the moment

00:18:04.760 because we have to focus

00:18:05.720 on what's going on in the news.

00:18:07.220 There's a lot.

00:18:07.800 But people really liked

00:18:09.380 King Charles being there.

00:18:10.740 And President Trump's remarks

00:18:12.360 in front of King Charles

00:18:14.700 were some of the very best

00:18:15.820 he's given of either of his terms.

00:18:17.720 Here in the shadows of monuments to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, honoring the British king, might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of American independence.

00:18:34.600 But in fact, no tribute could be more appropriate.

00:18:38.700 Long before Americans had a nation or a constitution, we first had a culture, a character and a creed.

00:18:46.760 Before we ever proclaimed our independence, Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts, moral courage, and it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea.

00:19:01.100 For nearly two centuries before the revolution, this land was settled and forged by men and women who bore in their souls the blood and noble spirit of the British here on a wild and untamed continent.

00:19:16.760 They set loose the ancient English love of liberty and the Great Britain's distinctive sense of glory, destiny, and pride.

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00:19:43.120 their hearts beat with an English faith

00:19:46.120 and standing firm

00:19:47.440 for what is right, good, and true.

00:19:52.440 I'm going to pause right here

00:19:53.600 before we get to the real right hook

00:19:57.840 of Trump's remarks.

00:19:59.640 But already what he says is,

00:20:01.480 look, we're British.

00:20:04.160 We Americans, we're British.

00:20:06.300 And this reminds me of comments

00:20:07.720 that Antonin Scalia made

00:20:08.820 some years ago on television.

00:20:11.020 Scalia said, it's really funny,

00:20:12.340 Scali's a big Italian guy, as Italian as all get out. And he said, you know, I was studying in,

00:20:17.540 I think it was Switzerland during law school. And I went, you know, and I didn't really feel

00:20:22.080 that comfortable in Switzerland. And I didn't really feel that comfortable in Italy, even

00:20:26.060 though I'm Italian, but I didn't really feel that comfortable in Italy. But then I visited England

00:20:29.720 and in England, I felt perfectly comfortable. Even I, Nino Scalia, felt more comfortable in

00:20:36.660 England than in Italy because I am an American and America comes from England and that is our

00:20:43.600 patrimony and we are in a deep sense English there's this kind of silly shallow uh caricature

00:20:54.100 of American identity it says we don't care what the king of England's had to say since 1776

00:20:59.860 who you know but that's that's not real we love england actually it was annoying when they burned

00:21:07.820 the white house down you know we're still getting over that a little bit but very very quickly after

00:21:12.100 the revolutionary period we made friends with england again because we're so similar because

00:21:17.320 we're like the child of england because the american revolution in many ways was not a revolt

00:21:21.980 against englishness it was an assertion of our english identity that's how edmund burke defended

00:21:28.180 it to the house of commons so we are english we come from england we're not just an idea floating

00:21:35.480 in outer space we are not spiritually culturally italian even me i look pretty swarthy i look but

00:21:42.480 no if you're an american and you grew up in america you are much more english so then what

00:21:50.120 is america president trump concludes in recent years we've often heard it said that america is

00:21:57.120 merely an idea. But the cause of freedom did not simply appear as an intellectual invention of

00:22:05.940 1776. The American founding was the culmination of hundreds of years of thought, struggle,

00:22:14.420 sweat, blood, and sacrifice on both sides of the Atlantic. Fate drew a long arc from the

00:22:22.700 meadow at runnymede to the streets of philadelphia that ran through the lives of people born and bred

00:22:30.620 on the british code that no man should be denied either justice or right american patriots today

00:22:39.500 can sing my country tis of thee sweet land of liberty only because our colonial ancestors

00:22:49.020 first saying, God save the king.

00:22:54.360 Absolutely magnificent.

00:22:56.180 Give me a rubber band and a syringe.

00:22:58.860 I want to inject that speech directly into my veins.

00:23:02.460 This is a repudiation of an idea

00:23:05.980 that has cropped up in the last few decades

00:23:08.100 that America is a purely creedal nation.

00:23:12.420 And even some people that we love,

00:23:14.140 even guys like Ronald Reagan,

00:23:15.460 sometimes leaned into this,

00:23:17.740 that america is just an idea you have had modern politicians guys on the campaign trail recently

00:23:23.460 coming out saying america's an idea you know a kid can be sitting in bangladesh and he can be

00:23:28.000 more american than the 12th generation kid who grew up in west virginia but of course that's

00:23:33.980 preposterous because the kid in bangladesh is not an american and the guy in west virginia is an

00:23:39.000 american so america has to be something more than an idea and what is the idea what's really funny

00:23:44.620 about the people who's, look, obviously, I think there's a creedal aspect to American identity.

00:23:49.040 I'm not saying there's no creedal part. There's no role for ideas in the American identity. I'm

00:23:54.120 just saying America is not a purely creedal country. And what's very funny is when you ask

00:23:58.900 the creedalists, the ones who say America is only an idea, you say, okay, what's the idea?

00:24:04.080 They can never tell you. Some will say it's freedom. Some will say it's meritocracy.

00:24:09.900 some will say it's opportunity some will say it's anything and that's really what it comes down to

00:24:17.420 because the notion that a nation can be just an idea is uh just a way of blowing away limits

00:24:26.360 saying we're not going to be limited by a race we're not going to be limited limited by a stock

00:24:32.060 or by even a religious tradition or by geography no no no those that's too limiting we're we're

00:24:39.700 going to be an idea because ideas float through the ether they move from mind to mind but but

00:24:45.000 because the very notion of the creedal nation is really just an excuse to abolish limits when you

00:24:52.220 try to get them to nailed okay what exactly is the idea they'll say well anything you say okay

00:24:58.320 is the idea that uh we hold these truths to be self-evident all men are created equal and endowed

00:25:04.280 by their creator with certain unalienable rights so the idea the idea is god exists in order to be

00:25:11.480 an american you have to believe that god exists and endows us with certain unalienable rights

00:25:16.060 the real creedalist people will say well no because if that if that were the idea which is

00:25:21.700 i think the most basic idea you can say that's the thesis of the declaration of independence

00:25:26.560 if you if you really believe that then you say okay well then atheists can't be americans

00:25:32.440 because the american ideas that our creator endowed us with natural rights so if you don't

00:25:37.440 believe in natural rights if you don't believe in liberty if you don't believe in god you can't be

00:25:41.680 an american even if you're a 12th generation born and raised in virginia you can't be no none of

00:25:47.860 them would say that so not even the creedalist people believe that america is just an idea

00:25:51.720 they just they just it's an excuse not to think it's an excuse not to come to conclusions

00:25:58.620 It's an excuse not to exclude, but nations are exclusive. 0.51

00:26:03.040 We exclude people with our borders, with our stock, with our citizenship, with our law and with our rights. 0.94

00:26:10.400 So what is America? 0.81

00:26:12.820 America is a people.

00:26:14.920 And the way that we know this, and I'm so, whoever wrote this speech, you know, two thumbs way, way up.

00:26:21.280 Great speech and well delivered by the president.

00:26:23.640 But America is a people.

00:26:25.260 And the way you know this is a very simple thought experiment.

00:26:28.020 If you kept the geography of America and all the buildings and all the businesses, but you took all 320 million Americans that there are right now and you got rid of them, you just sent them to Greenland, which will soon be part of America. 0.59

00:26:44.460 You just moved them out of the country and you replaced them with different people, Bangladeshis or Tibetans or sub-Saharan Africans or Eskimos, I don't know, whatever. 0.92

00:26:57.200 You just replaced all the people. You still have the Declaration of Independence. You still have the Constitution. You still have the World Trade Center and the big arch in the Midwest. You just don't have any of the people. Would it still be America? The answer obviously is no. So America is a people. Who is that people? 0.99

00:27:14.340 well it's not the other people that's that's what it is president trump making this exclusive claim

00:27:22.020 a corrective to really almost 50 years of liberal abstraction beautiful beautiful stuff now

00:27:28.620 speaking of soaring oratory from republican politicians our pal brandon gill freshman in

00:27:36.140 congress young republican up-and-comer looks kind of like clark kent he absolutely nailed it

00:27:42.820 when he was grilling a pro-abortion advocate in Congress yesterday.

00:27:46.960 We will get to that master class in pro-life advocacy first, though.

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00:29:13.060 This is how you defend the pro-life cause.

00:29:17.100 You're an advocate for abortion, for abortion policy.

00:29:20.800 What's your favorite type of abortion?

00:29:23.900 I am an advocate for patients having access to the full realm of reproductive health care.

00:29:29.520 But do you have a preferred method of abortion that you like?

00:29:32.900 I do not.

00:29:33.480 Let me read through a couple different methods, and I want to get your take on how much you like

00:29:39.460 these. The first type is called a suction abortion. This is when the cervix is dilated 0.98

00:29:47.400 and a strong suction, 29 times the power of a household vacuum cleaner, tears the baby's body

00:29:53.500 apart and sucks it through the hose into a container. Do you prefer that method?

00:29:58.500 I stand by my former testimony.

00:30:00.220 Okay, what about this one? This one is called dilation and curatage. After dilation of the cervix, a sharp looped knife is inserted into the uterus. The baby's body is cut into pieces and extracted, often by suction. Do you prefer that method?

00:30:17.280 this is a brilliant question

00:30:21.040 we all like political philosophy we if you're listening to a show like this you like

00:30:27.660 political philosophy and abstract ideas and deep conversations that's great you know i really like

00:30:32.820 that too but in practical politics you need to take all those ideas all the studies all of the

00:30:39.480 treatises and you need to boil them down to slogans you need to make them really applicable

00:30:44.140 easily communicable you need to be able to put your opponents on the spot that's great too we

00:30:49.640 like that too you know to quote president trump it's called trolling we do a little trolling

00:30:53.320 well this is really effective trolling this is substantive trolling with purpose

00:30:57.900 what's your favorite kind of abortion beautiful beautiful because who is this woman this woman

00:31:08.120 is an abortion advocate. She's an abortion. She advocates for abortion. She'll try to use 1.00

00:31:15.180 euphemisms. So, oh no, it's for choice. Okay. The choice to do what? To have an abortion.

00:31:19.920 It's for reproductive care. Okay. What kind? It isn't. It's the opposite of that. But okay. 1.00

00:31:24.380 What kind of reproductive care? Oh, for abortion. You're not talking about sonograms, right? You're 0.92

00:31:30.140 talking about abortions. Okay. So you're an abortion advocate. Okay. That's fine. I'm not

00:31:34.180 an abortion advocate. I'm an abortion opponent. You're an abortion advocate. That's fine. You

00:31:38.520 advocate for them. What's your favorite kind? What's your favorite kind of abortion? Is it the

00:31:44.980 one where the vacuum sucks the baby out and grinds them up with the razors? Or is it the one where

00:31:50.020 you crush the baby's skull? Or is it the one where you inject the baby with poison and burn

00:31:53.820 his skin off? Which is your favorite kind? Which one do you most advocate for because you're an 1.00

00:31:58.020 advocate? Brilliant question. I've never heard it put this pithily, this persuasively.

00:32:06.480 This is a slogan. This is similar to our pal, Matt Walsh, who I was with in Idaho last night.

00:32:11.940 This was similar to when he stumbled on the question, what is a woman?

00:32:16.700 The funny thing about the question, what is a woman is, it's actually kind of difficult to

00:32:20.460 answer. You know, you can say it's an adult female human being or something, but that doesn't really

00:32:24.840 answer it. I prefer to answer it by saying it's sugar, spice, and everything nice. Because you

00:32:29.960 have to answer the immaterial aspects of what a woman is, as well as the physical aspects of what 1.00

00:32:33.860 a woman is and the relation between the body and the soul. It's actually kind of complex, you know?

00:32:37.040 But it's a great question because the people who are arguing that men are women just look like 1.00

00:32:43.540 complete idiots when they're presented with it. They look foolish. They look ridiculous. 1.00

00:32:49.280 And this is a question like that. What's your favorite abortion? 1.00

00:32:51.900 no one can answer that because abortion is a horrible thing it's gruesome and the only way

00:32:58.460 that you can convince anyone to tolerate it is by appealing to their base appetites say hey don't

00:33:05.640 you want to have a lot of sex without any consequences and not have to take care of

00:33:09.840 people and spend money and be responsible well then what you can do is exercise your reproductive

00:33:17.820 choices and health you know but you have to be very euphemistic about it and appeal to very

00:33:22.400 base desires but so when you just call it into stark relief you say what's your favorite kind

00:33:28.900 i love it i want to hear i think you will hear this from every pro-life advocate very quickly 0.81

00:33:36.500 good on brandon this is really good stuff okay speaking of bloodthirsty women the hens of the

00:33:43.840 you were absolutely thrilled that president trump and his cabinet felt fear felt the fear of death

00:33:53.360 at the white house correspondents dinner but you know now now that so that room was full of some

00:34:00.180 of the most important political leaders in the country right now right now they know they've

00:34:05.760 lived it in their own flesh the fear that our school children go through now they know what

00:34:10.840 it's like to have to jump under a table the way that school children jump under a desk and we are

00:34:17.900 a country that is vulnerable to this we have now seen shootings in malls and churches in temples

00:34:25.140 and walmart we saw it in baseball fields with the republicans and so you know it's i still don't

00:34:31.900 understand how congress took no action after sandy hook after 20 children between the ages of six and

00:34:38.000 seven were killed but maybe now that they have felt the fear themselves yeah they will do something

00:34:45.200 so when you get past uh the cya rhetoric of the view here they're trying to dress up their

00:34:56.880 grotesque claims i'm really glad that trump and his wife stephen miller and his wife and pete

00:35:04.320 Hegseth and his wife, I'm really glad, and the vice president, I'm really glad they all were afraid for their lives because a Democrat wanted to kill them all.

00:35:12.220 I'm really glad because, and they try to gussy it up, and they say, because they need to pass gun control.

00:35:20.800 You know, they feel the fear that the other people fear because of gun.

00:35:24.440 First of all, no one has ever had three assassination attempts on him.

00:35:27.740 No one walking around today advocating for gun control has had people try to kill him three times and then had half the country call for his murder for 10 years.

00:35:35.760 No one's had that.

00:35:36.500 So Trump naturally should feel much more fear than anybody else.

00:35:40.200 But second of all, none of the Democrats' gun control proposals would have stopped any of the big shooting events of the last 10 years.

00:35:46.260 Marco Rubio actually made a great point about this when he was running for president in 2016.

00:35:50.180 And the Democrats have no answer for this.

00:35:51.620 Even the liberal fact-checking websites have no answer for this.

00:35:53.880 So it's totally disingenuous.

00:35:56.360 This is just a cheap way to try to get out of the heinous thing that they've said, which is that Republicans should worry for their lives when they walk out in public, simply for being Republicans.

00:36:05.000 And what's notable about this is that what the women of the view are saying is exactly what the live streamer Destiny said, Stephen Bonnell.

00:36:14.960 He said this right after Charlie Kirk was killed.

00:36:17.200 I think it was after Charlie was killed or after President Trump was killed or maybe both.

00:36:20.920 Or President Trump was almost killed or maybe both.

00:36:22.720 he said good republicans need to fear for their lives when they go out in public

00:36:28.280 that way maybe they'll shut up maybe that way they'll stop being republicans they need to

00:36:32.180 fear for their lives so live streamer fringe leftist destiny said this crazy thing but actually

00:36:38.020 it's the exact same thing that the women of the view on network television are saying during the

00:36:41.360 daytime that's the takeaway okay hassan piker said america deserves 9-11 and that it's good

00:36:48.620 that Republicans are fearing for their lives 1.00

00:36:51.900 and that we should kill Republican senators 1.00

00:36:53.480 and on and on and on. 1.00

00:36:55.080 But you know what?

00:36:56.260 That's what 56% of Democrat respondents

00:36:59.140 are saying to pollsters.

00:37:00.920 And you know what?

00:37:02.380 That Hassan Piker,

00:37:03.380 he's a coveted endorsement for AOC

00:37:05.200 and Bernie Sanders and Zoran Mamdani

00:37:07.100 and mainstream Democrats.

00:37:09.100 And you know what?

00:37:10.080 Joe Biden himself said that Trump

00:37:11.800 poses an existential threat to the country,

00:37:14.000 thus justifying his assassination.

00:37:16.680 There's no difference.

00:37:17.660 There's no difference between Anna Navarro and Destiny.

00:37:20.280 There's no difference between Joe Biden and Hassan Piker.

00:37:24.180 It's all the same stuff.

00:37:27.040 So what do we do about it?

00:37:29.560 The only thing we can do, brings us right back to the top of the show, is to start prosecuting these people, is to fire people from public airwaves, is to ostracize people from society, is to make people lose their jobs when they celebrate the killing of Charlie Kirk or the assassination attempts on Trump.

00:37:46.240 and to prosecute the people who call for the assassination of the president.

00:37:49.600 You just have to do it.

00:37:50.440 That's very much in keeping with American history.

00:37:52.560 There's nothing anti-American about it at all.

00:37:54.360 But also, it's the only way that you're going to fix a problem

00:37:56.620 that is of such an enormous magnitude

00:37:58.480 that we refuse to acknowledge that it's real. 0.99

00:38:01.060 We would rather believe that the deep state Jewish-Russian-Iranian Martians 0.99

00:38:06.220 from planet Zebulon 5 cooked the whole thing up 0.99

00:38:09.760 than acknowledge that half the country wants to kill the other half

00:38:13.280 and it only goes in one direction.

00:38:14.680 Now, speaking of some confused women, liberal women, Ilhan Omar seems to think that there have been not one, not two, but 11 world wars. We'll get to that momentarily. First, though, my favorite comment yesterday is from DRB41194, who says,

00:38:29.840 if we played take a shot every time dems mentioned january 6th even nancy pelosi would have some

00:38:36.100 catching up to do that's true i think you're right maybe hillary clinton probably would

00:38:39.760 that is really damning for them because let's even if january 6th were what they said it was

00:38:47.340 which it isn't i mean the only person killed in political violence on january 6th was a trump

00:38:51.120 supporter killed by a cop the fbi was all over january 6th probably we're going to find out it

00:38:57.180 was getting funding from the spLC but it just what some of the guys were getting uh private

00:39:02.480 tours around the capital being led in by the but let's just say even if it was that is so damning

00:39:09.520 that that's the only instance of political violence from the right that they can point to

00:39:13.120 we're constantly told the right commits most political violence oh it's actual actually the

00:39:17.900 studies the studies say that the right commits most political violence you say well yeah because

00:39:22.260 your studies exclude all the left-wing political violence but if if that were true wouldn't the

00:39:28.120 democrats have anything to go back to than an unruly protest five years ago i think they probably

00:39:35.680 would okay ilhan omar is under fire because and this is actually an older clip but it's going

00:39:45.640 viral right now ilhan omar referred to the global event of the late 1930s into the mid-1940s

00:39:55.320 began in a random place called germany you know which we were just talking about germany at the

00:39:59.660 top of the show anyway she referred to that as world war 11 the last time the alien enemies act

00:40:07.720 was invoked it was used to detain and deport german japanese italian immigrants doing world

00:40:15.760 war 11 now listen listen listen i i don't like ilhan omar any more than you do okay but she

00:40:25.080 is being really unfairly castigated here because obviously ilhan omar when she's talking about

00:40:32.020 global conflicts she's she's also counting the greco-persian wars obviously the punic wars

00:40:38.600 the mongol conquests the nine years war you think she forgot about that one the war of the spanish

00:40:45.260 succession of course the war of the austrian succession the seven years war which in america

00:40:50.900 we call the french and indian war the american revolution another world war the napoleonic wars

00:40:55.660 and then the events of the 19 teens which we call world war one and then the follow-up world war

00:41:03.220 two obviously that's what she's talking about okay so can we please be fair to her what you think

00:41:10.180 that a leading democrat legislator is just completely historically and maybe literally

00:41:15.740 illiterate no it couldn't possibly be right right this country we in the congress we used to have

00:41:26.500 men like john adams and thomas jefferson and now now we have ilhan omar i've i've said this before

00:41:36.540 i've made this point before because when people talk about ilhan omar they they point out her

00:41:41.140 terrible ideology and they say oh she giggles at the prospect of islamic terrorism you know she

00:41:46.420 she giggles at al-qaeda she hates america yeah that's true but the ideology is only half the

00:41:54.980 problem one of one of the reasons we're cooked right now one of the big reasons that america

00:41:59.840 is cooked is not just the ideology yes the mainstream left wants to kill us all and they

00:42:04.400 don't know what men and women are and they want to slaughter babies and yeah the ideology is 0.99

00:42:08.320 really really bad but they also are really dumb i don't mean we even we on the right are kind of 1.00

00:42:15.100 dumb too and i don't even mean dumb in terms of low iq i mean we don't read things anymore and 0.98

00:42:20.420 we don't consider ideas in a thoughtful way the commencement exercises at harvard 150 years ago 0.99

00:42:26.120 involved disputations in latin and greek on matters of the natural law and now it's some

00:42:32.260 washed up stand-up comedian shows up and makes flatulence jokes and the the graduates giggle

00:42:37.940 I mean, we just don't know stuff anymore.

00:42:42.700 Maybe we've lost a few IQ points too.

00:42:44.740 I'm not sure about that.

00:42:45.820 But I just, I can't live with that belief.

00:42:51.200 So I just have to tell myself that Ilhan Omar was counting the wars of the Spanish and Austrian successions.

00:42:58.620 I'm just going to tell myself that.

00:43:00.860 I can't face the reality otherwise.

00:43:02.940 Now, speaking of violence among Democrats, there is a Michigan Democrat Senate candidate who is not helping the Dems rehabilitate their image after the latest one of them tried to kill the president.

00:43:19.140 We need Democrats who have the courage to stand up to the power brokers in our own party, let alone Trump and his goons.

00:43:30.720 We don't back down.

00:43:32.940 we don't back down we don't back down with all due respect if they go low we don't go high 0.51

00:43:41.860 we take them to the mud and choke them out so that guy is abdul el sayed abdul senator future 0.99

00:43:49.240 senator el sayed is not just some lunatic you know well he is he is a lunatic but he's not just 1.00

00:43:57.580 some lunatic. He is one of the leading candidates in the Democrat primary for the Michigan Senate 0.97

00:44:03.160 seat. He's tied with Haley Stevens. He very likely will win the primary and he very likely

00:44:08.440 will win the seat and he'll be in the US Senate. And he wants to choke out Republicans. He wants

00:44:13.220 to choke out Republicans. When they go low, we choke them out and ground them into the dirt. 1.00

00:44:18.140 well yeah it's not okay hasan piker says stuff on a live stream destiny says stuff on a live stream

00:44:27.800 if it were just them i would still want to deport both of them but it's sort of whatever

00:44:33.640 it's all of them it's all of these people it's all of them and it's really hard to hear

00:44:38.380 because i sound like a partisan hack when i say that but i'm i've really tried to come to any

00:44:44.640 other way of concluding that it's just who they are. And we need to put it bluntly,

00:44:53.760 Trump needs to be the guy they say he is. President Trump needs to be the guy that the

00:45:00.060 left says he is. Because if he's not, if he does not wield the law to punish the people who keep

00:45:08.720 trying to kill him, and look, he is doing that now. He is wielding the law to prosecute James

00:45:14.280 comey and others but if he doesn't do that he'll just have riled them up and then abdul el sayed

00:45:22.660 is going to get into the senate and he's going to choke out republicans and the dems are going to

00:45:28.480 keep campaigning with hassan biker and they're going to keep calling for for people not to be

00:45:35.360 civil with republicans to go confront republicans in the streets to push back on them to go to their 0.94

00:45:39.540 homes it's trump needs to be you know there's the no kings rally and it's so ridiculous trump 0.94

00:45:47.080 comes out he says i'm not a king if i were he said this to 60 minutes he said if i were a king 0.76

00:45:50.780 i wouldn't be sitting here talking to you we need a king oh cesare mio perché non m'accompagna

00:45:55.820 to quote dante calling out for my caesar my caesar why do you not accompany me because we don't we

00:46:03.660 don't, we don't need Caesar. We don't need a guy formally to crown himself. We just need the

00:46:11.040 executive, which is the monarchical part of the American government, which is divided into three

00:46:14.760 parts. We just need the executive. And I'm not saying this is easy. It's kind of, it's, it's

00:46:20.340 complicated. We need the executive to just assert itself, to enforce the law and to bring these

00:46:29.420 people to heal. Now, can we do this? We're a little distracted overseas. That's part of what's

00:46:35.980 going on. I was just mentioning Abdul El-Sayed, speaking of Middle Eastern culture. What's going

00:46:40.660 on with the war in Iran? The war is over, kind of. The war, I mean, you got to hand it to Trump. He

00:46:48.280 said it would be over in four to six weeks, and we are in this ceasefire, but the war isn't

00:46:52.320 resolved. It's stopped. We're not actively doing a war right now. The missiles are not being fired,

00:46:58.680 but we're all just waiting to see what will happen because the Strait of Hormuz is being 1.00

00:47:03.420 blockaded by the Iranians, which means that 20% of the world's oil is not moving and fertilizer

00:47:07.900 and LNG and petrochemicals and a lot of other stuff. And then President Trump played the reverse

00:47:15.220 Uno card and blockaded the blockade. So now Iran can't get its exports out and it can't get its

00:47:20.440 imports in. And what? The president is saying that Iran is now in a state of collapse. There

00:47:28.860 are contrary reports that say that American intelligence says that Iran is not in a state

00:47:32.660 of collapse. CBS had a report, came out, I think it was just yesterday, which said from a reporter

00:47:38.120 on the ground that the government actually does seem to still have control of the country. But

00:47:42.740 Trump, who's very good at foreign policy, Trump is saying, no, no, no, we're hearing from the

00:47:47.300 Iranians that the government's in a state of collapse, so we don't know where it stands.

00:47:50.440 the problem for us is that with the straight having been closed this long already

00:47:57.640 eventually oil is going to go way way up we were waiting for 150 a barrel oil a month ago

00:48:06.540 it seems unavoidable at this point it seems unavoidable that we're going to get major

00:48:11.680 inflationary pressure it seems unavoidable that farmers are are not going to have a shortfall of

00:48:17.660 fertilizer. I think all of that would happen if we got a peace deal tomorrow, if we could say the

00:48:26.100 war was fully concluded tomorrow. I mean, I said this from the very beginning, that the Iran war 0.84

00:48:30.460 was the riskiest move that Trump has made ever in his political career. If it goes well, it's the

00:48:35.240 best masterstroke of foreign policy in my lifetime. If it goes south, it destroys his legacy. It will

00:48:40.660 be what people remember. And there's been so much good that it would be a real pity if that's what

00:48:46.100 people remember but we we can't we can't lose sight of this i mean i think in many ways it's

00:48:53.080 very good for republicans that the war iran war is out of the headlines right now and we're focusing

00:48:57.360 on all this good other stuff and we see the left for what they are which is murderous villains

00:49:02.300 trying to destroy our country and we see uh prosecutions for bad people and the massive

00:49:09.280 arrests for fraud in places like minnesota and on and on and on there's a lot of really good stuff 0.90

00:49:16.040 But there has to be a resolution to the Iran war because the problem is – it's so much more enormous.

00:49:25.820 The risk is so much greater than anything else that the president is facing right now.

00:49:30.260 And the ramifications, not just for the midterms but for 2028, for the Trump legacy are really incalculable.

00:49:37.040 Okay, there's so much more I want to get to, but I don't have any time.

00:49:41.420 And I don't have my iPad, though I do have to thank Doug Wilson because I'm in Doug Wilson's studio right now.

00:49:46.600 He very, very kindly loaned me his studio, his equipment.

00:49:50.360 This is for his show Blog and Mablog, Blog and Mablog.

00:49:56.800 Great title.

00:49:57.980 And so I really want to thank them.

00:49:59.780 I am in Idaho, and I'm coming home from Idaho now.

00:50:02.200 So I don't have the iPad.

00:50:03.480 We won't have the Chim de la Chim today, but I will see all of you tomorrow.

00:50:11.420 Thank you.

The Michael Knowles Show - April 29, 2026

Ep. 1963 - Conspiracy Theories Have Driven Libs Insane： New Shooter Details Emerge

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