The Michael Knowles Show - May 05, 2026


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In the latest episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael talks about the latest in the Iran crisis and why the ceasefire between the United Arab Emirates and Iran is probably over. He also talks about why the situation in the Strait of Hormuz may not be as bad as it appears.

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00:00:27.820 You know how much I hate to say I told you so.
00:00:32.180 Just shortly after I predicted yesterday that this would happen,
00:00:36.840 Iran fired 15 missiles at the United Arab Emirates,
00:00:40.480 prompting the United States to sink seven Iranian boats in Schrodinger's Strait of Hormuz
00:00:45.420 in a volley that media outlets report is, quote, threatening the ceasefire.
00:00:51.220 Now, despite my accurate prediction, I am no military expert.
00:00:55.680 And yet, it seems to me that when both sides of a conflict start firing on each other again,
00:01:03.300 the ceasefire is probably over.
00:01:05.580 I don't know that much about the military, but I do know about the English language.
00:01:09.060 We will get into why the war can't end.
00:01:11.280 Then, Democrats pin their midterm election hopes on an oyster farmer with a Nazi tattoo.
00:01:16.700 Barack Obama embraces his inner Darth Vader on May the 4th.
00:01:19.980 And Eric Swalwell teaches us all a lesson on the intellectual effects of sin
00:01:25.360 through a series of very, very gross Snapchat videos.
00:01:30.500 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:03:25.960 So we're shooting this show a little bit early today. We're shooting the show a little bit early
00:03:30.320 because I'm going to Dartmouth. I'll have a debate with Mehdi Hassan at the Dartmouth
00:03:35.300 political union over President Trump and the constitutionality of his administration.
00:03:42.100 Very much looking forward to it.
00:03:43.620 So because of that, because the situation in Iran is changing by the second, not even
00:03:48.640 by the hour, because of that, by the time that this airs, the situation will probably
00:03:54.680 have changed another 150 times.
00:03:56.960 But last we spoke yesterday, the ceasefire remained in place.
00:04:02.520 The Strait of Hormuz was closed.
00:04:04.320 It was doubly closed.
00:04:05.300 And the United States said that it would help guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz, 0.94
00:04:09.680 which I pointed out would lead Iran to fire missiles because Iran cannot allow the United
00:04:18.540 States to expose them as being weak. Iran has played the most significant card it's got. Even 0.89
00:04:24.480 if Iran had a nuclear weapon, closing the strait is the most powerful weapon at their disposal. 0.97
00:04:29.320 So they played that card and they can't back down now. Likewise, the United States, by using 0.94
00:04:35.140 President Trump's double reverse UNO card, doing a blockade of the blockade, the United States
00:04:39.740 can't really back down either. Because if we do, this will be akin to when the British and the 0.81
00:04:44.880 French were exposed as being weak in the Suez crisis, which marked the beginning of the end
00:04:50.300 of Britain and France's major global powers. So we're just in this stalemate ceasefire.
00:04:56.620 But everyone kind of wants the ceasefire because no one really wants the war.
00:04:59.540 Iran militarily could be absolutely blown to the Stone Age, and then you'd have a major
00:05:06.400 destabilization in the region. Likewise, the United States doesn't want to get bogged down
00:05:11.300 in a land war there, and so everyone's just holding on to a ceasefire even as the missiles
00:05:15.740 are flying. However, it was probably ever thus. So it seems to me this breaks the ceasefire,
00:05:22.760 whether or not at this very moment we acknowledge that breaking the ceasefire.
00:05:26.680 And so the two options, as I've been predicting from the beginning, are a deal that we probably
00:05:32.500 don't want or a ground invasion that we definitely don't want. And before everybody rushes to blame
00:05:38.040 Trump, which of course everyone wants to do in this moment, I'm reminded of the very scientific
00:05:42.880 Twitter poll I took eight months ago, nine months ago now, which was, should the United States allow
00:05:47.640 Iran to get a nuclear weapon? 90% said no. Should the United States go to war with Iran? 90% said
00:05:53.880 no, okay, you see the brutal position that the president is in. So the options I suspect are a
00:06:00.360 deal that we don't want or a ground invasion, which would be politically devastating, even amid
00:06:06.400 lots of other good news for the Trump administration, but the American public, the right-wing
00:06:10.260 base would not want it. So what do we do here? Well, in the column of negotiating, getting a deal,
00:06:19.640 Assuming you don't want a ground invasion and a 10-year occupation of Iran.
00:06:24.800 One point that I haven't seen anyone really address is that in these kinds of moments,
00:06:33.300 presidents, not just past presidents, but presidents who are particularly known for their strength
00:06:37.900 have been restrained, have sometimes backed off a little bit.
00:06:43.360 One of the clearest examples would be Truman.
00:06:46.000 Truman, who was a pretty tough guy, you know, the only national leader ever to drop nuclear weapons.
00:06:52.500 Truman, when he was, his advisors were pressing him to invade China and to expand the Korean War,
00:06:59.300 he didn't. He didn't do that. Dwight Eisenhower, Eisenhower, real tough guy, helped win World War
00:07:05.460 II. Eisenhower, when he was pushed to get deeply involved in Vietnam, there were already some
00:07:10.760 American military advisors over there, but when he was pushed to get deeply involved,
00:07:14.320 he didn't. He pulled back. Clearest example probably is Ronald Reagan. And that's a direct
00:07:19.560 parallel here because this example involves Iran. When Iran's proxies hit the Beirut barracks
00:07:28.020 in 1983, killing over 200 troops, US troops, Ronald Reagan did not retaliate, did not launch
00:07:36.460 a ground invasion of Iran, actually pulled the troops out of Lebanon. So that's not satisfying.
00:07:41.960 We don't like that. We certainly could launch a ground invasion of Iran. We could overthrow 0.95
00:07:46.040 the regime that way. We could do it. We're the global hegemon. We're still basically the only
00:07:50.120 people on earth who can project power. But assuming that that is politically basically
00:07:55.760 impossible, something that people really don't want, there isn't an opportunity here for a
00:08:01.920 negotiated settlement. Even if it's a bad deal, Trump doesn't need to lose his whole legacy on
00:08:08.160 And actually, plenty of very strong presidents have done something like that.
00:08:11.700 No one's going to want to hear this.
00:08:12.900 No one's going to want to hear either of those options.
00:08:14.680 But from before the war began, as the war was beginning and lots of people were celebrating,
00:08:19.580 I was a little more restrained.
00:08:20.840 And as the war has continued, I've just pointed out, it's difficult to see a clean win here. 0.55
00:08:26.740 It's hard to see that 88-minute Venezuela win.
00:08:30.100 And so we might be in a situation where you have to deal with a deal that you don't really want.
00:08:35.340 but can someone tell me
00:08:37.720 the alternative
00:08:38.260 I don't know
00:08:39.600 all the people
00:08:40.020 who are banging the drums
00:08:40.960 for war saying
00:08:41.460 no we just need to go in
00:08:42.500 and finish the job
00:08:43.320 and topple the regime
00:08:43.960 okay fine 0.96
00:08:45.520 I don't like the Iranian regime
00:08:46.740 but
00:08:47.060 do you really think
00:08:49.240 an extended
00:08:49.980 occupation
00:08:51.300 of Iran 0.92
00:08:52.160 is going to pan out 1.00
00:08:53.140 once you get rid of the malas 1.00
00:08:54.520 do we really see a path forward 1.00
00:08:55.900 on which party
00:08:56.520 is going to take over
00:08:57.400 and
00:08:58.100 make sure that the
00:09:00.140 end result we get
00:09:02.060 isn't worse
00:09:02.500 than what we started with
00:09:03.380 I don't totally see it
00:09:05.340 I don't totally see that. So whatever, remains to be seen, not to be flippant about it,
00:09:11.000 but we're in Schrodinger straight here. So every time you observe what's going on in the
00:09:16.080 Strait of Hormuz, it seems like things have changed. Okay. Now, some good news for the
00:09:20.420 administration. Despite all the doomerism, all the blackpilling, all the talk that Trump's
00:09:26.280 coalition is totally dead. Here we have no less a liberal authority than CNN pointing out
00:09:30.540 that President Trump's approval among black voters, that is to say the group that is most
00:09:35.200 solidly repped by the Democrat Party, the group that Republicans have had the toughest
00:09:40.140 time with over the years, and a group that Trump made gains with in his recent election,
00:09:47.320 black voters are sticking with Trump. Look, Trump's approval among African-Americans at
00:09:51.760 this point in term one, he was at 12 percent. You know, he's been losing ground with a lot of
00:09:56.180 people. He's gaining. He's gaining ground with African-Americans. He's up to 16 percent at this
00:10:01.580 point. But do you see this as part of a bigger trend? I see this as absolutely part of a bigger
00:10:06.920 trend. Donald Trump's Republican Party is absolutely gaining ground, not just him gaining
00:10:12.760 in terms of his approval rating, but look at the party ID margin, Kate, because this to me
00:10:17.120 was absolutely stunning. Look at this party ID margin among African-Americans at this point
00:10:21.360 in Trump term. Number one, Democrats had a 63 point advantage. That is absolutely fall. Look
00:10:26.560 at where it is now. A double digit shift away. Democrats, of course, still have the advantage,
00:10:31.180 But it's a 12-point shift to the Republican Party.
00:10:34.500 Those are real numbers.
00:10:36.020 I mean, that is a major shift.
00:10:38.360 You see Trump claiming more of the black vote, and you say, well, look, it's only 12%.
00:10:41.900 Yeah, it's only 12%.
00:10:43.200 But when you only need to chip away three or four points to give yourself popular vote victories,
00:10:49.040 all of a sudden, that little shift matters a whole lot.
00:10:52.300 And then the party ID.
00:10:53.600 Yes, most black voters identify as Democrats.
00:10:56.160 But if you can chip that all the way down from 63% down to the low 50s, 0.70
00:11:01.180 or 50, or maybe it keeps going. That is massive. You don't need to win 90% of the black vote.
00:11:07.260 And the Trump coalition is a weird coalition. I was speaking to my friend Bradley Devlin about
00:11:11.420 this yesterday. The Trump coalition is bigger than the conservative movement.
00:11:14.980 The people in the think tanks and on the podcasts and the nerds and the policy walks,
00:11:19.900 they like to talk about the conservative movement. We view ourselves, many of you listening,
00:11:24.660 view yourself as being part of the conservative movement. The reality is the Trump coalition is
00:11:28.640 bigger than the conservative movement. The conservative movement is probably 20% of the
00:11:32.420 country. Well, the conservative movement is much smaller than that, but the people who feel
00:11:36.440 represented by the conservative movement, probably 20% of the country. The Trump movement is 50% of
00:11:42.860 the country. Very important to keep this all in mind. Things are going quite well for the Trump
00:11:49.140 coalition. We haven't even talked about the jobs numbers yet. We'll get to that, and we'll get to
00:11:53.020 the biggest silver lining, looking at the midterms. I'm not going to sugarcoat it. Things look pretty
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00:13:27.360 Folks, have you ever seen me or Matt post something on X
00:13:31.040 and then read the flood of insightful commentary
00:13:34.260 and encouragement that typifies Twitter?
00:13:38.960 Then you wonder, how would they respond to this?
00:13:41.460 Well, now you can see it.
00:13:43.120 I sat down with Matt after we were in Idaho last week.
00:13:45.920 We were going to get a cigar afterward anyway.
00:13:47.560 I said, okay, I posted.
00:13:48.580 I said, for the next 45 minutes,
00:13:49.980 Matt and I are having a cigar solving all the world's problems. 1.00
00:13:51.860 what should we cover here's what happened why you two is both some b-i-t-c-h as white boys 0.94
00:13:59.800 that don't know no mother effing gang signs i mean this is the kind of thing you get i mean this this
00:14:05.120 is why it's a great idea to surrender the programming of your show over to x uh commentary
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00:14:18.660 no i'm looking at it you got to say it i'm looking at it right now
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00:14:51.220 We need some white pills here, folks,
00:14:53.580 Because all you get is doom and gloom and all these people who realize Republicans, by historical accounts, should lose the midterms.
00:14:59.160 And, you know, people are kind of mixed on the Iran war and everyone's a critic and everyone wants more deportations.
00:15:05.800 And it's all this despair, man.
00:15:08.660 And that's not me.
00:15:09.360 I'm a glass half full kind of guy.
00:15:10.900 And there are a lot of good signs in politics and in the economy.
00:15:17.180 For instance, here is CNBC basically dancing on the desk over President Trump's jobs numbers.
00:15:23.580 Initial jobless claims hitting the wires at one hundred and eighty nine thousand hundred and eighty nine thousand.
00:15:32.920 Wow, that is truly incredible. We're looking at levels truly that we probably haven't seen since the late 60s.
00:15:40.260 This is very, very incredible. And continuing claims, one million seven hundred and eighty five thousand.
00:15:46.800 That would be the least going back to August of the summer of 24, actually April of 24.
00:15:54.480 So all, listen, all pretty good stuff.
00:15:56.840 Obviously, during the first year, we had record high stock market, all the rest of it, which drives home even to me.
00:16:02.420 Let me go back to being a doomer again.
00:16:04.100 It drives home to me that the real hiccup here is the Iran war, which the president himself has said.
00:16:10.360 He said it's a digression that he had to do for national security, for the good of the world. 0.83
00:16:14.180 you can't let this maniac regime get a nuclear weapon. We've been kind of fighting him for 47
00:16:18.160 years. I understand all the arguments. But if that's your weak point right now, if that's your
00:16:24.020 vulnerability, then the key is you have to move off it as quickly as possible with as much of a
00:16:29.820 satisfactory resolution as you can get. It's a basic rule of politics. When the debate you're
00:16:34.880 in does not favor you, when the issue you're discussing does not favor you, change issues,
00:16:39.500 change the terms of the debate. And there's a lot of good fodder for Republicans right now,
00:16:43.200 especially after the Supreme Court victory in Louisiana versus Calais,
00:16:46.340 which struck down Democrats' racist gerrymandering
00:16:49.660 and could give Republicans an additional half dozen seats in the midterms,
00:16:54.500 depending on how quickly the Republican governors can move.
00:16:57.260 Then, look at what the Democrats are pinning their hopes on.
00:17:00.920 This is one of my favorite headlines I've ever read.
00:17:03.220 This comes from Yahoo News, reporting from AFP.
00:17:07.140 Could oyster farmer with a Nazi tattoo scandal be Democrats' new champion?
00:17:13.200 could an oyster farmer with a Nazi tattoo be the Democrats' new champion?
00:17:20.020 They are referring to this guy who is running in Maine.
00:17:24.760 He's running for the Maine Senate seat.
00:17:26.480 His name is Graham Plattner, and he's got a Nazi tattoo.
00:17:29.660 Now, you're probably having deja vu, and you're saying,
00:17:31.500 hold on, haven't I heard about a Nazi tattoo before? 0.52
00:17:33.420 Yes, you have.
00:17:34.360 You heard Democrats cook up a non-traversy.
00:17:37.440 You heard Democrats make up a bunch of nonsense about Pete Hegseth
00:17:40.940 Because Pete has a lot of tattoos because he's a giga-chad military veteran.
00:17:46.040 And on his chest, he has a tattoo of the Jerusalem cross.
00:17:49.480 The Jerusalem cross is a medieval Christian symbol.
00:17:53.180 It is on the floor of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
00:17:58.020 This is a very, very mainstream Christian symbol, and it's awesome.
00:18:02.020 And then he also has tattoos that say Deus Volt.
00:18:04.740 This was the call of the Crusades, a unifying message of Christendom
00:18:09.260 that has endured for almost a thousand years.
00:18:11.760 He also has a tattoo of an American flag
00:18:13.640 and we the people in the font from the constitution.
00:18:17.080 And so he has these very basic,
00:18:19.840 very traditional Christian symbols
00:18:22.320 and symbols of American patriotism.
00:18:24.400 So of course the Dems go crazy
00:18:25.960 and they say that if you're a Christian or an American, 0.97
00:18:28.420 you're basically a Nazi.
00:18:29.880 The Nazis who were neither Christian nor Americans, 0.97
00:18:32.300 I should note, they say that's awful. 0.64
00:18:34.860 Those tattoos are disqualifying.
00:18:36.280 Meanwhile, they are now running a Senate candidate in Maine who has a literal Nazi tattoo that he has since tried to cover up. 0.72
00:18:44.640 But he is an oyster farmer, Nazi tattoo, and he might very well be the Democrats' best hope.
00:18:53.000 This guy is a socialist.
00:18:54.920 He runs on abolishing ICE.
00:18:56.660 Don't forget, Trump won the popular vote.
00:18:58.460 He appealed as a mainstream majority political issue on mass deportations.
00:19:01.760 This guy wants to abolish ICE.
00:19:03.080 Furthermore, this Democrat candidate wants to prosecute ICE agents.
00:19:06.280 Furthermore, this Democrat Senate candidate is pro trans. Furthermore, even it's like number
00:19:11.420 four on the list is, oh yeah, he also has a Nazi tattoo. And he is one of the most exciting Democrat
00:19:17.700 candidates right now. No matter how unpopular Republicans are, the silver lining is Democrats
00:19:24.280 are less popular today. In the year of our Lord, 2026, Democrats are less popular. I was at that
00:19:31.100 TPSA event with Matt in Idaho last week. And some people came up to ask questions and they were
00:19:37.240 going off about how disappointed they are in the Republican party. They said, what's the best
00:19:41.880 argument to vote for Republicans? And don't just tell me that it's so the Democrats don't get into
00:19:47.260 power. And Matt cuts them off and says, well, I just, I have to, you can't tell me what to say.
00:19:52.500 I have to tell you. If the argument were only to keep the Democrats from power, that would be
00:19:57.220 enough. And that is true. And most Americans think that, by the way. Because the Dems want to chop
00:20:04.760 up your kids. They want to, well, kill them through abortion and then chop them up through 1.00
00:20:09.440 castration and then also kill all of us because they support political violence in a very large 1.00
00:20:15.020 degree. These guys cannot field a good candidate. It just isn't happening right now. So look, we 0.88
00:20:25.320 have a shot at the midterms. You just have to take care of the one issue that is not very popular
00:20:29.940 and then focus on all of the good stuff. Now, you want to talk about bad optics.
00:20:35.000 Barack Obama posted a video with Mark Hamill. Mark Hamill, whose only notable film role
00:20:41.100 came in the mid-1970s. This was outside of Barack Obama's new presidential center,
00:20:48.280 which looks like a hunk of ugly, unfinished rock, brutalist trash. And he used the opportunity of 0.99
00:20:58.420 May the 4th to post one of the cringiest videos that a Democrat has posted in at least several
00:21:04.440 days. Though we'll get to Eric Smallville's video soon. Happy Star Wars Day from the Obama
00:21:12.000 Presidential Center. I have a very good feeling about this.
00:21:17.880 Mark, I'm glad you are here. I want to tell you about someone.
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00:21:32.440 I like where this is going. They join a scrappy group of underdogs and set out to
00:21:37.920 change things. By blowing up a giant space laser? Mark, this is not about you. As wonderful as you
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00:21:53.860 Presidential Center is much more than a museum. It is an entire campus built to empower you.
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00:22:08.440 See what I did there?
00:22:10.200 Strong the dad jokes are.
00:22:12.300 Oh my God, the whole thing,
00:22:13.900 even the jokes about the jokes are just, just...
00:22:18.880 So you think, look, you say Republicans are out of touch.
00:22:21.980 They are out of touch.
00:22:22.800 They're always, yes, Republicans are always out of touch. 0.98
00:22:24.480 Conservatives aren't cool.
00:22:25.360 Every time conservatives try to be cool, 0.96
00:22:26.960 it's lame and yeah, it's true.
00:22:29.300 But the best the Democrats have right now
00:22:31.540 is a washed up actor from the 1970s.
00:22:36.800 And what's crazy is the pick is totally fitting.
00:22:42.420 I don't think they intended for it to be fitting.
00:22:44.320 But to really push the Barack Obama presidential center on May the 4th with the Star Wars guy is so fitting.
00:22:53.220 Because the presidential center itself looks like an imperial cruiser from Star Wars.
00:22:58.680 It looks like Darth Vader architecture.
00:23:02.560 That's not a stretch.
00:23:03.380 Just look at it.
00:23:03.960 It is ugly and gray and drab and soul-crossing and depressing.
00:23:11.520 Why is this?
00:23:12.260 There are so many architectural styles to pick from.
00:23:15.400 How about Beaux-Arts, like Grand Central Station?
00:23:18.440 How about Art Deco, like the Empire State Building?
00:23:21.380 How about Neoclassical, like the nice buildings in Washington, D.C.?
00:23:24.940 Why would Barack Obama pick the ugliest form of architecture that has ever existed?
00:23:31.540 The answer is because it fits his political vision.
00:23:35.020 When I look at the Obama center, this is not just being frivolous.
00:23:38.840 This is not just being trivial.
00:23:39.780 This actually matters for politics.
00:23:41.760 Matters for one's soul, in fact.
00:23:44.220 When you look at the Obama presidential center, you actually do think of like the Death Star
00:23:48.400 or some ugly imperial cruiser. 0.76
00:23:50.300 It's like the Death Star, but uglier.
00:23:52.240 Or the other thing I thought of was Mussolini's facade on the Palazzo Broski.
00:23:57.780 Do you ever see this picture?
00:23:58.540 is this picture of a big, scary caricature version of Mussolini's face
00:24:04.660 with the phrase just, see, see, see, see, yes, in Italian.
00:24:07.900 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, all over it.
00:24:10.000 Covering up, actually, what is beautiful architecture,
00:24:11.740 but to try to make it look drab.
00:24:13.720 That's the fascist style.
00:24:15.020 Think about communist architecture, all those old Soviet bloc countries.
00:24:18.000 There's a building in Yugoslavia. 0.92
00:24:20.240 It's so powerfully ugly. 1.00
00:24:22.360 It also looks like something out of Star Wars.
00:24:24.960 It looks like one of the imperial bad guy ships in Star Wars.
00:24:29.580 And all of it, all of that brutalism, why?
00:24:33.420 Is that just a coincidence?
00:24:35.560 Am I just drawing an unfair comparison?
00:24:38.600 No, that's all of a piece.
00:24:40.280 There's a reason for that.
00:24:41.340 Because the hardcore leftist architecture is all functionalist.
00:24:46.760 It says form follows function.
00:24:48.860 It's not supposed to be adorned and beautiful.
00:24:51.640 It's not supposed to have ornamentation.
00:24:53.600 that's all bourgeois or aristocratic or superfluous and all that money should just be spent on the
00:25:00.940 proletariat or something even though it never is so it's intentionally ugly because it's promoting
00:25:06.380 radical equality that is the idea behind the kind of communist brutalism and that is what you're
00:25:11.240 getting out of the out of the obama presidential library because that is the vision of the modern
00:25:16.100 american left one it is indistinguishable from communism many of the leading democrat candidates
00:25:22.660 are openly socialist, like that wacko up in Maine, but so many of them. 0.92
00:25:26.420 The leading Democrat commentators, guys like Hassan Piker, are openly socialist or communist. 0.72
00:25:31.620 They want this. They get a kick out of it. And it follows the ideology, which is radically
00:25:38.200 egalitarian, radically functionalist, denying of human spirit, purely materialist, and it's gross.
00:25:44.540 And the reality is you can judge a book by its cover. Most of the time, not all of the time,
00:25:49.440 But a lot of the time, prejudices are right, stereotypes are all true, and you can judge a book by its cover.
00:25:56.800 Don't blame me for that conclusion.
00:25:58.540 Blame Barack Obama.
00:26:00.440 Blame reality.
00:26:01.580 Now, speaking of unpleasant videos, Eric Swalwell, he was the former future governor of California.
00:26:10.340 After he was the former future president of the United States, he ran for president as a Democrat.
00:26:14.960 He was in Congress.
00:26:16.140 Now he says he's going to resign from Congress because he got caught up in a legal scandal, a residency scandal, a financial scandal, and then a sex scandal.
00:26:24.580 Eric Swalwell, with his antics on Snapchat, grown man on Snapchat, red flag.
00:26:31.260 Eric Swalwell is teaching us a classic lesson about theology and moral philosophy.
00:26:36.580 We'll get to that momentarily first, though.
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00:27:43.900 company, America's wireless company, Pure Talk. Eric Swalwell. I'm not playing the videos. Maybe
00:27:50.720 we have a picture of him. You can put a, all the pictures look goofy. It gets the message across.
00:27:55.540 I'm not playing the videos. Eric Swalwell, reportedly, has been accused by multiple women
00:28:01.000 of sending sexual messages, including videos of him doing things by himself while in a state
00:28:08.960 of undress. This is a family show I'm trying to speak clinically here. He joined Snapchat because
00:28:15.420 he said he wanted to restore faith in democracy. And then he immediately started DMing women on
00:28:21.120 Snapchat. Pictures of him committing gravely immoral and beyond morality, just really gross,
00:28:33.240 flabby, yucky, gross acts by himself. This is according to a bombshell report from Sunday. 0.92
00:28:40.560 CNN is reporting on this. Swalwell has been accused of rape, all sorts of non-consensual
00:28:45.720 encounters with all sorts of women. And according to CNN, he sent nude photos of himself and videos
00:28:52.620 of himself doing this gross thing, showing his face and naked body. So according to CNN,
00:28:57.940 these photos were saved by multiple women and leave nothing to the imagination, including his
00:29:04.100 identity because his face was in the videos too. So I want you for a moment, if you have not yet
00:29:09.580 tossed your cookies, if you have been able to keep your breakfast or your lunch down,
00:29:13.200 I want you for a moment to not think about the moral degradation the depravity don't think about 1.00
00:29:22.820 the morality of it for a second just think about how stupid this was this guy this is what boggles 0.99
00:29:31.920 the mind to me I get how people do immoral things because there's temptation and it's a fallen world 1.00
00:29:36.620 and we all do immoral things and we all sin. I get that. But think about the stupidity. This
00:29:43.620 guy is in Congress. He has already run for president. He is running for governor in a
00:29:49.520 crowded field of Democrats, some of whom have a lot of money. And this guy says, you know what
00:29:55.380 I'm going to do? I'm going to send nude photos of myself and photos doing gross stuff to women. 0.99
00:30:03.020 That's a good idea. 0.99
00:30:04.820 And I'm specifically going to send photos 0.98
00:30:06.440 that no woman has ever wanted even one single time. 1.00
00:30:12.540 There's the stupidity of a man who is in a very public position, 1.00
00:30:16.640 leaving himself this huge vulnerability, 1.00
00:30:19.980 creating massive, massive liability for himself. 0.67
00:30:23.280 But then furthermore, the thing he is sending to the women, 0.57
00:30:25.760 which I suppose is to arouse the women,
00:30:27.460 is something that has never aroused a single woman even one time. 0.99
00:30:33.140 When ladies send pictures or videos of themselves in a state of undress to men, 1.00
00:30:37.880 that can arouse men. 0.62
00:30:39.960 But men and women are different, and they relate to sex differently. 1.00
00:30:42.060 And this guy, the layers of stupidity that you have to get through 1.00
00:30:49.180 to get to the point of doing what Swalwell did are astounding. 1.00
00:30:54.580 And they teach us an important lesson about morality and anthropology,
00:31:00.040 Namely, sin darkens the intellect.
00:31:05.040 I don't care if you're not religious at all.
00:31:07.580 I do care.
00:31:08.200 But for the moment, put that aside.
00:31:10.800 You know, I'm not saying you have to be religious.
00:31:12.640 Well, I'm saying that too.
00:31:13.520 You should be religious.
00:31:14.080 But anyway, okay, you get the point I'm trying to say.
00:31:17.860 Forget the morality side for a second. 0.99
00:31:21.440 Swalwell's not that dumb. 1.00
00:31:23.160 Swalwell wasn't born that dumb. 0.99
00:31:25.020 When Swalwell first ran for office, he was a pretty impressive politician. 0.98
00:31:27.800 He got into politics at a young age.
00:31:29.140 he won a lot of elections, he somehow semi-plausibly ran for president. 0.99
00:31:34.000 He didn't start out that dumb, but he did the dumbest things that politicians could possibly 0.99
00:31:38.040 do. The sort of thing that takes down every politician who gets taken down, and he did it 0.99
00:31:41.980 to the nth degree. Why did he do that? Did he hit himself in the head with a hammer? Was he
00:31:47.880 looks-maxing? No, I don't think he was looks-maxing. It's because he was finding himself in habits and
00:31:53.980 cycles of sin. And sin not only corrupts your soul, sin not only can lead you to perdition,
00:32:00.500 sin not only can lead you to attempt to sever a relationship of grace using your free will and 1.00
00:32:07.300 abusing your free will, sin makes you stupid, makes you do really stupid stuff. And so at a 1.00
00:32:15.200 certain level, I hope that the reason you don't sin is because you love God. And I hope that the
00:32:20.040 reason that you cultivate habits of virtue and sanctity is because you want to be with God forever
00:32:23.400 and serve him in this life. But just at a really basic, really even secular level,
00:32:28.840 when you sin, you're going to get dumb and you're going to do dumb stuff like Eric Swalwell did, 0.97
00:32:34.040 and it's going to screw up your life a lot. Let it be a word of caution. Let it be a word of 0.99
00:32:39.720 caution. Because I bet everyone listening right now, I bet every person walking the earth knows
00:32:45.720 this, can think, ah, why did I do that stupid thing? Man, I was really angry. It's really 1.00
00:32:50.860 wrathful, or lustful, or prideful, or gluttonous, or slothful, or whatever. Don't do it. Don't do
00:32:58.660 it. Don't allow yourself to be the next Eric Swalwell. Now, speaking of women, we've heard so
00:33:06.400 much in recent years about how men are polarizing. Young men are moving to the right. I guess that's
00:33:13.520 kind of true. Yeah, men are moving to the right. Trump really counted on young men in particular 0.62
00:33:17.440 for his political coalition 2024.
00:33:20.660 The millennial soy has given way
00:33:22.960 to the Zoomer reactionary.
00:33:25.300 That has happened. 1.00
00:33:27.440 But women have moved to the left more 1.00
00:33:30.680 than the men have moved to the right.
00:33:33.120 The tale of political polarization
00:33:34.840 is not one of the incel misogynist.
00:33:38.100 It is a tale of liberal women.
00:33:40.580 That's notable.
00:33:42.120 And I think reasonable people
00:33:44.280 who don't believe the headlines
00:33:45.540 probably saw this coming. 0.65
00:33:47.440 Because, well, for instance, when Charlie Kirk was assassinated, I've made this point before, it was the women. 0.77
00:33:56.700 It was largely the women, like nice, liberal, nice-seeming, normal women. 0.96
00:34:01.720 They were the ones who were excusing it, justifying it. 1.00
00:34:05.040 You saw a kind of bloodlust.
00:34:06.340 There was really weird. 1.00
00:34:08.840 Women, this is according to Gallup Poll Social Series data for the last 25 or so years. 0.96
00:34:14.660 young women have become much more liberal. The men have moved a little to the right,
00:34:19.920 but the 18 to 29-year-old women have become much, much more liberal. The culture war,
00:34:27.160 I would remind you, is a left-wing phenomenon. We can't blame the men for polarization. It's
00:34:34.860 more the women. And we always hear that it's the right that's focusing on these culture war issues. 1.00
00:34:40.800 They need to stop stoking the flames of the culture war.
00:34:43.220 I would remind you, the culture war, similarly, is entirely a left-wing phenomenon.
00:34:50.980 It's not the conservatives who redefined marriage.
00:34:53.460 It's the libs who redefined marriage.
00:34:54.920 It's not the conservatives who tried to change how people use bathrooms.
00:34:57.920 It was the libs who tried to change how people use bathrooms.
00:35:00.280 It's not the conservatives who decided to rewrite the Constitution to kill a million babies a year.
00:35:04.900 It was the libs who did that.
00:35:06.840 It wasn't the conservatives who decided to radically change the demographics of the country.
00:35:10.220 It was the libs who did that, and on and on and on.
00:35:13.740 By definition, it's the libs, it's the radicals, it's the revolutionaries who've changed the
00:35:19.360 culture, attempted to change culture.
00:35:21.340 We are reacting to that, and frankly, we've been much too modest in our reactions.
00:35:26.620 Okay, now, speaking of demographic trends, President Trump, he posted a politically 0.83
00:35:33.360 incorrect, horribly, terribly offensive, unacceptable, racist, bigoted, prejudicial,
00:35:41.320 post-yesterday on Truth Social. That was, of course, entirely correct. He was just posting 0.70
00:35:45.560 facts. People are very upset about it, but he has shifted the way that we talk about immigration
00:35:50.460 already, and I think he's giving a sign here of how we should shift it moving forward.
00:35:54.320 Folks, The Daily Wire has just released a bombshell investigation into fraud in Ohio.
00:36:00.280 We've heard about fraud in Minnesota, fraud in California.
00:36:03.040 This is even in a Republican state, the libs are able to bilk us for billions of dollars in fraud. 0.57
00:36:09.620 Read the report.
00:36:10.280 It's from Daily Wire's own Luke Rosiak.
00:36:12.000 Go to dailywire.com right now.
00:36:13.220 Read the whole investigation.
00:36:14.440 Share it.
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00:36:16.760 It's free.
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00:36:17.700 It's very, very important.
00:36:19.160 The vice president just tweeted about it yesterday.
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00:36:22.760 Do not let the networks cover this up.
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00:37:00.240 My favorite comment yesterday.
00:37:01.580 Once again, I don't even usually look at the names,
00:37:03.660 so I'm hearing it for the first time.
00:37:05.560 Drummer's Workshop Norm's Music, who says,
00:37:07.380 I haven't seen this much fraud since World War 15.
00:37:09.780 You're right.
00:37:10.980 You're right.
00:37:11.540 Depending on how many ceasefires and new wars we get
00:37:13.520 in the Strait of Hormuz,
00:37:14.660 we might double those numbers for World Wars anytime soon. 0.83
00:37:17.960 Ilhan Omar will be very pleased.
00:37:20.440 President Trump posted yesterday on Truth Social,
00:37:23.360 just some stats.
00:37:25.000 he was posting hate stats. Very hateful, totally unacceptable statistics.
00:37:31.840 Lifetime contribution per immigrant. This is the economic contribution to the United States 1.00
00:37:37.860 per immigrant from these places. North America. Lifetime contribution for an immigrant who comes
00:37:45.200 from North America to America, $573,000. We make over half a million bucks in every North American
00:37:53.280 immigrant we get. Scandinavia, $557,000. Almost the same. Oceania, Australia and New Zealand,
00:38:02.020 almost half a million. Japan, also over half a million. The UK, $481,000. Now,
00:38:10.700 let's look at some other countries. Somalia. How much does each Somali immigrant contribute to
00:38:18.280 America. Somalia, negative $1.1 million. We have that great breaking report on fraud coming out
00:38:26.960 from Luke Rosiak at the Daily Wire. Vice president just posted about it yesterday.
00:38:30.400 Highly encourage you to go to Daily Wire and check it out. Every Somali that we take into 0.98
00:38:34.360 America, on average, costs us over a million dollars. From the Caribbean, you know, we were
00:38:40.200 told that Haitians built our country or something. Every immigrant from the Caribbean that we get
00:38:45.680 costs the United States $675,000. From the Middle East, costs the United States $624,000.
00:38:52.000 From Latin America, costs the United States over a quarter million dollars. From Sub-Saharan Africa,
00:38:56.720 costs the United States almost three quarters of a million dollars. From Central and North Africa,
00:39:01.800 costs the United States 700 grand. This is from a study out of the Netherlands two years ago.
00:39:06.400 So, the question that should be on everyone's mind is, why do we do that?
00:39:16.900 Why do we do that? 1.00
00:39:18.680 If you have immigrants, I mean, look, money's not everything. 1.00
00:39:22.000 But if you're looking at contributions to the country, I promise you the Somalis are not making cultural contributions.
00:39:29.440 You say, well, they're costing us some money, but their food is just delicious. 1.00
00:39:34.240 It's not. 1.00
00:39:34.920 No one likes Somali food. 1.00
00:39:36.500 So Somalis don't have a lot of food.
00:39:38.160 So that's not the issue.
00:39:40.920 Why are we taking it?
00:39:42.180 Why are we taking these people in?
00:39:43.460 The reason is because in 1965,
00:39:45.920 the Democrats got rid of the national quota system
00:39:48.120 through the Hart-Celler Act.
00:39:50.520 Previously, we had a system that said
00:39:53.180 that this percentage of people can come from this country,
00:39:55.940 and this percentage of people can come from this country,
00:39:57.620 and this percentage of people can come from this area.
00:39:59.660 And it prioritized keeping American demographics stable.
00:40:05.900 You know, America, it's a jumble of, at that time, the Irish and the English and to some degree, 0.87
00:40:11.180 the Italians and the Jews and some Asian, not a ton. But that was about it. And then after 0.92
00:40:17.420 Hartzeller, they said, we're going to get rid of that system. We're going to flood the country with
00:40:23.140 all sorts of people from all sorts of places with no regard for the demographics of the US
00:40:26.800 because the national quota system, we were told, was racist.
00:40:29.920 i guess technically it was racially it was racially aware i guess it was it was racial
00:40:36.480 for sure was it racist though was it unjust that is to say
00:40:39.820 changing that system has not been good for the american economy changing that system has not
00:40:48.580 been good and this gets to the real heart of it for social solidarity it has led to a massive
00:40:54.060 breakdown in social solidarity, trust in institutions, major demographic upheaval
00:40:59.380 that no one really voted for, most people don't like. And now the American people voted
00:41:04.260 overwhelmingly against it. So it brings us to the new stage of conversations about immigration.
00:41:10.080 When I was a kid, the only debate regarding immigration was, do you want to have a lot
00:41:16.380 more legal immigrants or a lot more legal immigrants with a lot more illegal immigrants?
00:41:21.160 Those were the two positions you could hold.
00:41:25.300 Then the debate became, okay, do you want more?
00:41:31.000 I mean, I guess when I was really, really little,
00:41:33.440 both parties agreed illegal immigration was bad, but that gave way.
00:41:38.040 And then all of a sudden around the Trump era,
00:41:40.280 you started to have people say, well, hold on.
00:41:42.700 Can we have less migration total?
00:41:45.360 Can we have less migration generally?
00:41:47.500 Are you allowed to say that?
00:41:48.480 That was very, that was verboten, even on the right. But notice, all of those conversations
00:41:54.100 were just about numbers. It was just about how many. But the further question that President
00:42:02.420 Trump is bringing up in this Truth Social Post, and it's important, is from where? What kind of
00:42:06.760 immigrants are we talking about? Because an immigrant from Scandinavia is going to be more 1.00
00:42:12.360 assimilable than an immigrant from Afghanistan. An immigrant from the UK, well, actually now an 0.82
00:42:17.620 immigrant from the UK might actually be from Afghanistan. But if you're just talking about
00:42:21.540 the Brits, they're going to be the most assimilable of all. So are we allowed to talk about where we
00:42:28.600 want to get our immigrants from? President Trump has been beating this drum for a while. He was
00:42:32.460 excoriated for the SHIT whole country's comment when he described Haiti as an SHIT whole country. 1.00
00:42:38.760 And then Democrats started wearing shirts saying, Haiti is not an SHIT whole country. And you think, 1.00
00:42:43.020 it's being run by warlord cannibals 1.00
00:42:45.140 and they eat mud cakes. 1.00
00:42:46.280 It's not, like the Haitians think 1.00
00:42:47.540 it's an SHIT whole country. 1.00
00:42:48.760 That's why they're trying to come here. 1.00
00:42:49.940 And that's why you're not letting us
00:42:50.780 get rid of their temporary protective status
00:42:52.240 15 years later.
00:42:54.120 So can we be honest?
00:42:56.440 Can we be honest?
00:42:57.380 And does the United States have a right
00:43:00.660 to determine the demographics of its country? 0.97
00:43:05.360 Who gets to come in?
00:43:07.100 Since 1965, the answer has been no.
00:43:09.380 from the colonial era through 1965 the answer was yes and so then the question we have to
00:43:17.180 grapple with even to think about that is were all of our forebears just horribly racist and wicked
00:43:25.520 and bigoted and evil and wrong were they or was there something to it were they by and large good
00:43:34.260 people who had the right idea and maybe they even had the idea of how to govern the country a little 0.56
00:43:38.220 better than, I don't know, AOC and the oyster farmer Nazi who's running for Senate in Maine. 0.89
00:43:42.880 I think probably so. Now, before we go, speaking of the Trump administration, 0.77
00:43:50.260 Marco Rubio has gone viral. The video posted to the OSINT 613 account on X.
00:43:57.520 Rubio took a moment from the 15 jobs he has to DJ at a relative's wedding.
00:44:08.220 I'm feeling so close to you.
00:44:25.560 Here's Rubio.
00:44:27.100 Is Rubio just taking over Manning?
00:44:29.600 And it's just some relatives waiting.
00:44:31.140 It's great.
00:44:31.580 It's a great clip.
00:44:32.600 Good job.
00:44:33.160 Someone pointed out that Rubio is just the most Cuban American man ever to live.
00:44:37.400 I forget who posted this to social media.
00:44:39.720 It's a guy with multiple jobs.
00:44:42.200 He's a DJ as a side hustle.
00:44:44.880 You know, he's got, so my takeaway from this,
00:44:48.500 one, you know, it's a great clip.
00:44:49.500 It's very fun.
00:44:50.900 I don't know that Marco Rubio plans to run for president in 2028.
00:44:54.420 He has said that if J.D. Vance runs, he will support J.D. Vance.
00:44:57.380 And a lot of people, a lot of partisans are trying to split Vance from Rubio.
00:45:01.760 But these two guys seem to get along very, very well.
00:45:04.140 They seem to work very well together.
00:45:05.460 I think there's very little daylight between their views.
00:45:07.400 despite what partisans are saying in the media and activist circles.
00:45:12.500 So I don't know if Rubio plans to run in 2028,
00:45:15.120 but I do know that whoever posted that video wants Rubio to run.
00:45:19.160 Whoever took that video wants Rubio to run.
00:45:21.100 That is the kind of thing a presidential candidate does to endear himself to voters.
00:45:25.520 That is Bill Clinton going on Arsenio Hall's show playing the saxophone.
00:45:29.660 That's a presidential campaign move.
00:45:31.440 So it remains to be seen.
00:45:33.420 Is Rubio going to stand by his prior endorsement of J.D. Vance?
00:45:37.900 Are we going to see continued unity within the Trump administration?
00:45:42.340 Or are we seeing the beginning of a fraying?
00:45:45.080 Look, I hope and trust that the admin stays together.
00:45:49.020 Because amid all the divisions on the podcast right, on the activist right, on the pundit right,
00:45:55.500 the admin has been remarkably unified.
00:45:58.160 Very, very impressive.
00:46:00.540 But the DJ video raised my eyebrow.
00:46:03.640 It raised my eyebrow.
00:46:04.280 It's a good video.
00:46:05.320 It raised my eyebrow.
00:46:06.040 and not just because I like the music.
00:46:08.540 The music's fine.
00:46:09.380 Okay, no member block today.
00:46:11.200 As I told you, I'm going to Dartmouth.
00:46:13.560 If you're around, nothing's around Dartmouth.
00:46:14.800 So I say, if you're around Dartmouth,
00:46:16.060 come stop by today at the Dartmouth Political Union.
00:46:18.780 Nobody is around Dartmouth.
00:46:20.080 It is the middle of nowhere.
00:46:22.560 My family hails from New Hampshire.
00:46:24.420 The Knowleses go back to 1660 in New Hampshire.
00:46:27.400 My father's a Dartmouth man.
00:46:28.760 So anyway, it'll be a lot of fun.
00:46:29.720 You can catch it.
00:46:30.180 I think we're gonna be streaming it on Daily Wire.
00:46:32.280 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
00:46:33.380 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:46:34.220 See you tomorrow.
00:46:36.040 Thank you.