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00:00:44.700 President Trump claims another political scalp as his endorsed candidate, Ken Paxton,

00:00:50.140 unseats yet another incumbent Republican senator.

00:00:53.520 Then, homicidal left-wing streamer Hassan Piker rats on the vast funding system tied to foreign governments that promotes leftist activism in the United States.

00:01:03.940 One little subpoena from the Treasury, one little envelope, and Piker is selling all of his comrades down the river.

00:01:10.900 We will get into how it works.

00:01:12.360 Finally, Canadians can now receive government approval to kill themselves at Tim Hortons.

00:01:18.220 How convenient.

00:01:18.960 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:19.660 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:28.820 Another one bites the dust.

00:03:30.200 Another one bites the dust down in Texas.

00:03:33.220 John Cornyn, Republican senator, long-term incumbent,

00:03:38.220 goes down in his primary fight against Ken Paxton.

00:03:41.360 Ken Paxton, who was the darling of the MAGA base

00:03:43.800 and who got the endorsement from President Trump.

00:03:46.060 this was not particularly close 63 to 37 when i was checking last night with 64 of the votes in

00:03:54.140 i don't know what the final tally was you know what i'll just look it up i can just let's the

00:03:58.480 i try not to use screens on this show because i am a traditional conservative and i hate screens

00:04:06.180 let's see final score as of five minutes ago on the new york times site wow it's very very stable

00:04:11.920 but an even bigger margin to Paxton, Paxton 63.8 and Cornyn 36.2. This means that in this

00:04:22.480 election cycle, two sitting Republican senators have gone down in primary challenges. That has

00:04:28.620 never happened in the history of the Senate. Both of the Trump endorsed candidates winning

00:04:34.640 over the incumbents. Now, my first takeaway on this, just given how some political commentators

00:04:43.080 have been analyzing the primary campaigns is, how are you going to blame this one on the Jews?

00:04:48.920 That's what I want to know. There's some people out there in political commentary and podcasts

00:04:54.880 and punditry that are blaming all of the primaries on the Jews. They're saying that

00:04:59.700 the Jews or Israel or AIPAC or something can control the GOP and control Trump. And so

00:05:05.940 they're really the ones calling the shots in the primaries. I would point out in this primary in

00:05:10.520 Texas that AIPAC endorsed John Cornyn and Cornyn went down by a lot, by a huge, huge margin here.

00:05:18.760 And Trump, of course, backed Paxton over the AIPAC endorsed candidate Cornyn. So I don't think

00:05:25.160 that really explains the race in Texas. Some people have pointed to the pro-Israel issue

00:05:30.780 in the race with Thomas Massey going down, another incumbent congressman losing his seat in Kentucky.

00:05:36.480 But it also doesn't explain why Brad Raffensperger went down in Georgia. Also doesn't explain why

00:05:42.580 Bill Cassidy went down in Louisiana. Also doesn't explain why the five Indiana state legislators

00:05:47.120 went down up in the aforementioned state of Indiana. There is one common thread to all of

00:05:54.120 these races. The common thread is whoever Trump supports wins and whoever Trump opposes loses.

00:06:02.200 And maybe you don't like Trump now. I mean, a lot of people in political media,

00:06:07.080 even erstwhile conservatives or libertarians have turned on Trump.

00:06:10.400 And maybe they've done so for ideological reasons. I think more so they've done it because

00:06:14.980 the media always have an incentive to be in opposition to the government.

00:06:19.500 when your party is in power, your ratings go down. So some people maybe unwittingly,

00:06:25.160 maybe cynically decide that it's better for them to be in opposition because it lets their ratings

00:06:29.780 go up. But regardless, a lot of people have turned on Trump within the media class.

00:06:34.280 That has not happened in the GOP. That has not happened with the primary voters in the

00:06:40.080 Republican Party. Clearly, Trump has a complete lock on the GOP. He owns it. So now the people

00:06:47.700 who oppose Trump, especially from the right, now what they're saying is, well, it's a pyrrhic

00:06:53.120 victory because Trump has won these primary campaigns, but he's going to lose the general

00:06:57.220 election in November. All of his backed candidates are going to go down. Again, I don't really buy

00:07:01.980 that. People are saying that Ed Galrain, who beat Thomas Massey, that he's going to lose that seat

00:07:06.800 in Kentucky. I just don't buy it. It's a safe seat. I think he's going to win. People are saying

00:07:10.600 Ken Paxton can't possibly beat James Tallarico. I think, look, Tallarico is getting a lot of media

00:07:15.920 attention. He's got a lot of donations. So maybe he'll be a viable candidate. But in himself,

00:07:20.900 I think he's actually kind of a paper tiger. And everyone keeps betting against Ken Paxton.

00:07:25.660 I've heard this for years because Ken Paxton has a, shall we say, colorful personal life.

00:07:30.300 But regardless, Ken Paxton keeps winning elections, okay? Every time they say there's no way Paxton's

00:07:35.520 going to win the seat, there's no way he's going to become attorney general of Texas. There's no

00:07:38.340 way, no way, no way. Guess what happens? He does. So regardless of what happens in the general,

00:07:44.900 Trump's hold on the GOP

00:07:47.260 is very firm

00:07:49.100 which means that

00:07:50.800 when we look ahead to 2028

00:07:52.280 as of now

00:07:54.060 all the signs point to

00:07:55.180 that primary will be decided

00:07:56.960 by Trump

00:07:57.600 it will not be decided

00:07:59.280 by some random activist

00:08:00.800 it will not be decided

00:08:01.920 by a podcaster

00:08:03.040 or a live streamer

00:08:03.960 or a tweeter

00:08:04.460 as of today

00:08:05.660 it's going to be decided by Trump

00:08:06.680 for good or ill

00:08:08.240 he owns the GOP

00:08:09.500 now

00:08:10.020 we turn to the left a little bit

00:08:11.700 this is my favorite news story

00:08:13.820 of the

00:08:14.560 at least the past several weeks. Left-wing streamer, Hassan Piker, who is a homicidal

00:08:19.460 streamer, he's called for the murder of ordinary Republican senators. Hassan Piker has received a

00:08:24.780 subpoena from the Treasury Department. The subpoena comes in regard to his trip to Cuba,

00:08:30.760 where Hassan Piker unbelievably bragged about violating US law. The old school communists 0.90

00:08:40.760 were a little more clever. The old school communists in America, they were a little

00:08:44.920 tougher, okay? Guys like Alger Hiss. Alger Hiss, who was a communist Soviet agent working in the

00:08:50.700 State Department, helped found the United Nations. Alger Hiss evaded detection for a very, very long

00:08:56.040 time. Even Richard Nixon, who's a real smart, tough guy, it took Nixon almost a year and a half 0.99

00:09:01.300 to take down Alger Hiss. But today's communist subversives, they're a little bit weaker, okay?

00:09:07.820 So they go on live stream and they start bragging about violating federal law. 0.90

00:09:11.460 They give the government the rhetorical rope to hang them.

00:09:14.320 And then the minute they receive one tiny little subpoena from the Treasury, they start ratting on all of their comment rats, which is exactly what Hassan Piker did.

00:09:23.640 So here's an old clip that is circulating right now, which begins to show you maybe why Piker got this subpoena.

00:09:31.640 I want to go to Cuba.

00:09:33.220 Would you be down? 0.97

00:09:34.040 I fucking love Cuba. 0.91

00:09:36.040 Oh, yeah, you'd be down? 0.98

00:09:37.080 yeah i've filmed a documentary there um they the cuban government actually uh hit my contact from

00:09:44.540 the embassy and told them that if the only thing stopping asylum coming to cuba was the

00:09:50.940 consistent internet access we can make it happen yeah cuba is sick wait like the government reached

00:09:56.880 out to you so yeah yeah of course it's uh well not reach out to me there's like uh there's a

00:10:02.620 middleman there um i because i had a i had a doctor from cuba cuba does this thing called

00:10:07.700 medical missions and they've been doing it since uh i believe like the the 70s and it's incredibly

00:10:14.920 successful they have a massive very robust like medical program because kind of they have to

00:10:20.700 because they're under an incredible sanctions regime by the united states of america that the

00:10:25.460 rest of the world thinks is abhorrent except for america and israel that keep consistently

00:10:29.840 vetoing it over and over again. Okay, he digresses. He's like a fruit fly. He can't

00:10:33.740 keep his mind on one topic. But listen to what he just said there. He says, I can't get over it.

00:10:40.440 Michael, get it together. Back in the old days, when subversives in America were working with 0.91

00:10:46.140 hostile foreign governments against whom we have embargoes, for instance, or serious sanctions,

00:10:51.220 they would hide it. They would say, oh, yeah, no, what are you talking about? I've never met

00:10:55.980 the ambassador from the Soviet Union. No, what do you know? No, they're not. Not me. No,

00:11:00.760 absolutely not. I am a patriotic American. This guy comes out. I was colluding with the Castro

00:11:06.940 family. And then then his interviewer says, wait, hold on. You were you were conspiring

00:11:13.320 with a hostile foreign government that you're not allowed to work with. Well, no, I mean,

00:11:18.500 not directly because we were hiding it through a middleman. Here's exactly how I committed all the

00:11:24.420 crimes. Hey, is that camera rolling? It's just beautiful. It's a beautiful thing.

00:11:30.000 Algier is rolling over in his grave. So he says, I'm working with a foreign government.

00:11:37.000 It's hostile that we have an embargo against. Come arrest me. And then it gets better.

00:11:44.080 When the government actually sends him a subpoena for all the things that he's admitting to on

00:11:48.100 camera he completely crashes out none of this is illegal okay as an american citizen you can

00:11:56.960 literally be in correspondence with individuals in another country the american restrictions on 0.98

00:12:05.420 this stuff are idiotic i have a journalism visa what the are you talking about and what's really 0.97

00:12:11.620 funny about it is that every single media outlet that goes to cuba does this as well cnn al jazeera 0.99

00:12:19.240 abc fox news every every american news outlet that has been to cuba has done this yeah so

00:12:29.340 no that isn't true i have a little personal experience here because i've been to cuba on

00:12:34.020 a journalist visa and at no point did i conspire with the cuban government at no point was i in

00:12:40.120 direct contact with officials from the Cuban government or even intermediated contact with

00:12:44.660 the Cuban government. I never asked them to give me special internet access. I never stayed at

00:12:49.080 their government owned hotels because all of that is in fact illegal. So he's completely crashing

00:12:56.260 out because he doesn't, he just, look, maybe he's being honest here and he just honestly is ignorant 0.96

00:13:01.280 and he doesn't know what the US law is. He previously confessed on live stream to violating 0.86

00:13:05.640 U.S. law by staying at the hotel. And he got the law completely wrong. He said, no, no, no,

00:13:10.340 the U.S. government makes you stay at the Cuban government hotels. That's not true. That's the

00:13:13.900 opposite of what the law says. You're prohibited from doing that. So he's clearly spooked by the

00:13:20.100 subpoena. And then this is the piece de resistance. The second he gets this subpoena,

00:13:26.440 this little envelope from Treasury, he rats on everybody that he's working with.

00:13:30.560 i think that ultimately the target is uh uh probably uh singham and his operation

00:13:39.820 from psl to answer coalition to coping like anything that he has ever financed

00:13:45.760 and it's not new it's been it's been around for a while but it's obviously uh

00:13:51.900 it's held through regardless because like it's ridiculous right it's like totally 0.77

00:13:58.880 ridiculous to um to try and and you know to try and stop like the political advocacy of an american

00:14:10.920 uh citizen right roy singham is a american citizen he lives in china now and he he's a uh 0.64

00:14:19.320 centimillionaire i think he like has almost a billion dollars not sure how much money he has

00:14:24.300 now but like he's been a funding vehicle for a lot of like uh uh political uh a lot of uh

00:14:31.360 political movements in the country like a lot of activism and they hate that like the american

00:14:36.440 government hates that so they're trying to uh jam him up you know they're they're trying to hit him

00:14:43.680 on anything and everything they possibly can yeah like all the crimes he's committing he goes it's

00:14:49.000 Roy Singham. It's not me. Go get him. He's this hundreds of millionaire, maybe a billionaire

00:14:53.820 communist funder who is living in China. And hint, hint, hint might be colluding with the

00:14:58.500 Chinese government. And he funds all of these subversive communist political movements in

00:15:01.940 America, including the ones that are all committing all the crimes with the Cuban 0.83

00:15:04.600 government. And it's him, not me. Don't get me. Can you believe this? This is crazy. 0.89

00:15:09.520 The US government can't stop American citizens from certain types of political activism. Yes,

00:15:15.440 of course we can. That's been true since the very founding of the country. It's been true

00:15:18.300 since the Alien and Sedition Acts. And by the way, it was true with the re-upping of the various

00:15:24.960 Alien and Sedition Acts and legislation in the early 20th century when we prosecuted people

00:15:30.300 just like Hassan Piker, deported them in some cases, arrested them. For goodness sakes, Woodrow

00:15:35.580 Wilson put the leading socialist in America, Eugene Debs, his political opponent, in prison,

00:15:40.220 and he was right to do so. We've done this many, many times over the years.

00:15:44.980 and i the ratting is just the best part because it seems like he's kind of defending this

00:15:51.260 communist funder who's allegedly working with the chinese government but but in a way it's

00:15:56.580 him passing the buck no no it's him it's him go get him most subpoena most effective subpoena ever

00:16:01.360 love this i guess it came from treasury good on scott besant my admiration for him grows more

00:16:06.980 and more each day looking at his political skill hilarious this is poor hassan piker i mean look

00:16:14.780 Kassan Piker should be arrested. He should be imprisoned. Ideally, he would be deported. He's

00:16:18.160 just absolutely awful for the country. He's an anchor baby who came here to bilk the system.

00:16:23.040 He's just terrible. He celebrates political violence against conservatives. We should 0.80

00:16:26.960 definitely get him out and banish him to Elba if we can. But the one little bit of sympathy I have

00:16:33.100 for him, the one little bit of pity I have for him is he's just clearly in so far over his head.

00:16:38.140 He just, he does not, the communists are not sending their best. Okay. And that is delightful

00:16:46.460 and a little bit sad. Now, speaking of hostile foreign governments, we turn away from the Far

00:16:51.740 East. We turn away from the Middle East or even 90 miles off Florida. We turn to America's evil

00:16:56.900 top hat where the Canadian government is now approving their own citizens to kill themselves 0.54

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00:19:00.280 episode. Up in America's evil top hat, really, really sad story. Canadian citizens are being

00:19:07.300 approved to kill themselves by their government outside of a coffee and donut shop. Tim Hortons, 0.76

00:19:13.320 great, great coffee and donut shop. Here we have a headline from the National Post.

00:19:18.080 Ontario man dies of MAID, medical assistance in dying. One of the many euphemisms for suicide.

00:19:28.460 The more popular euphemism is euthanasia. Euthanasia, which literally means a good

00:19:34.360 death. And this is ironic. Like all politically correct euphemisms, it is the opposite of the

00:19:39.640 truth because suicide is the worst death. It is the single worst kind of death because it is a

00:19:45.900 death that involves a grave mortal sin on the part of the person who is dying. It splits the

00:19:51.880 self against the self, and it is the final indulgence of despair. It's just as bad as it

00:19:59.660 gets. And we, in our confused modern age, we call it the good death. The other thing they call it

00:20:04.980 is medical assistance in dying. And he dies of MAID after being assessed outside of a Tim Hortons.

00:20:12.020 In a second case, the same doctor failed to administer one of three drugs used in assisted

00:20:16.660 deaths, and the patient resumed spontaneously breathing after being pronounced dead.

00:20:22.220 It gets more ghoulish by the second.

00:20:24.800 So there's three drugs that they apparently give you to help you kill yourself because

00:20:28.580 the Canadian government doesn't want to treat you because Canadians don't think the citizens

00:20:32.220 should care for one another.

00:20:33.220 They want to get rid of the expensive refuse, as they consider their fellow man. 0.97

00:20:38.840 And so they just say, hey, you want to kill yourself?

00:20:40.580 Oh, you stubbed your toe.

00:20:42.000 It's going to cost us a few dollars in Band-Aids. 1.00

00:20:44.960 Hey, have you thought about killing yourself? 0.99

00:20:46.660 Oh, you're depressed, huh? 0.99

00:20:48.420 A family member died, or you're getting a little older,

00:20:51.040 you've got some pain, or you lost your job.

00:20:53.160 Okay, well, instead of helping you get a new job

00:20:55.100 or supporting your family or any, 0.99

00:20:57.220 have you thought of killing yourself? 0.95

00:20:59.400 That's what the government now says. 0.98

00:21:00.680 But it gets more and more ghoulish,

00:21:02.240 because I guess the way they do it is they give you three drugs,

00:21:04.480 one of which paralyzes you, the next one does this,

00:21:07.260 the next one does that.

00:21:07.980 But the one that paralyzes you, I guess this doctor forgot to administer.

00:21:13.000 So his lungs just started working again after he was already pronounced dead.

00:21:17.380 Really, really horrifying.

00:21:20.800 So the reason I want to highlight this story is because the way it's being reported is that the problem here is that assisted suicide wasn't done correctly.

00:21:33.280 They violated some of the procedures.

00:21:35.080 You know, look, guys, you're not really supposed to give a citizen approval to murder himself outside of a Tim Hortons.

00:21:42.360 You're supposed to do it in a doctor's office.

00:21:45.060 You know, listen, guys, when the doctors violate their Hippocratic oath and the government violates its most basic charge, which is to advance the common good and care for its citizens.

00:21:52.600 You know, what they're really supposed to do is give you all three drugs that will kill you and not forget one, not forget the lung drug.

00:22:00.040 That's what's really wrong here.

00:22:01.340 And so this guy is being prosecuted for this.

00:22:05.080 and everyone agrees, oh, this was done really, really poorly, and maybe we need a little bit

00:22:10.980 more oversight over the assisted suicide program. No, that's not the point.

00:22:16.700 The problem here is not the Tim Hortons. If you're going to kill yourself, 0.99

00:22:21.500 Tim Hortons is actually a nice place to do it. I'm not recommending killing yourself, 0.99

00:22:25.060 but I like Tim Hortons a lot. Those little tiny, the little Canadian munchkins that they have there, 1.00

00:22:29.280 they're very tasty. The coffee's very good. The problem is not the location. The problem is not 1.00

00:22:34.560 that the doctor forgot to give him one of the three poisons. The problem is that doctors are

00:22:39.880 killing patients. The problem is that the government is killing citizens. And even that

00:22:48.200 is darker than it sounds, because they're not even taking responsibility for doing it.

00:22:53.000 They're persuading the patients and sanctioning the patients to kill themselves.

00:22:58.360 That's the problem. The problem is assisted suicide. We mentioned yesterday the Pope's

00:23:03.420 recent encyclical on artificial intelligence, which is kind of a misnomer, the way it's being

00:23:09.800 described, because the encyclical is actually about humanity. It's called Magnifica Humanitas,

00:23:15.980 Magnificent Humanity. It's about remaining human in an age of AI, in an age of technology,

00:23:22.180 in an age of ideology, how to remain human. And the most basic charge of a human being,

00:23:31.440 the first precept of the natural law is that good is to be done, good is to be pursued,

00:23:36.660 and evil is to be avoided. And that is true of individuals, and that's true of governments.

00:23:42.560 And now we've totally flipped this. And we've said, no, no, people should kill themselves,

00:23:49.400 and our citizens should kill themselves. And the way we've gotten there, it's not an accident. 0.96

00:23:53.300 It's not something peculiar to America's evil top hat. This is the inescapable consequence of

00:23:59.280 the false premises of liberalism. Liberalism, which begins with the false belief that originated

00:24:04.940 in the garden of nature that we own ourselves, that we are fully autonomous creatures, that we

00:24:11.160 have full rights to do whatever we want with ourselves, that we can appropriate to ourselves

00:24:15.140 the power of God, that we shall be as gods. That's the problem with liberalism. That's the first

00:24:21.720 problem with liberalism. And I know sometimes I go out, I give speeches or I'm in debates or even

00:24:26.960 on this show, and people will write in to me, they'll say, Michael, stop conflating leftism

00:24:31.060 with liberalism. You know, your real problem is with the left, not with liberalism. These leftists,

00:24:36.120 they're not true liberals. And I've had to correct people for years, and I say, no, no, no,

00:24:40.720 the problem is with liberals too. Leftism is an outgrowth of liberalism, certainly. They're a

00:24:44.860 related thing, and they can be distinct in their own ways. But the problem is with liberalism.

00:24:50.540 You don't have a right to kill yourself. You don't have a right to kill yourself. And there 0.96

00:24:54.600 are going to be some conservatives. There are going to be some people on the right who say,

00:24:56.560 look, if a guy wants to kill himself, what's it to me? You know, it's his choice.

00:25:02.420 No, that's not true. There is a reason that suicide was not only not permitted by the state,

00:25:07.460 not only not assisted by the state, but was against the law for most of history,

00:25:12.660 and which is still against the law in most places in America.

00:25:15.840 Because you don't have a right to do it. And the moment that we grant as a consequence of

00:25:21.300 liberalism that you have a right to kill yourself, you're going to end up with medical assistance 1.00

00:25:25.540 and dying. You're going to end up killing your citizens outside of a freaking Tim Hortons. 1.00

00:25:31.160 Smiley, smiley. It's all going to be done in the name of sympathy and empathy and humanity 0.99

00:25:36.740 and compassion. Death with dignity, they call it. It's the least dignified death.

00:25:42.600 Having some government bureaucrats stick you full of poison and approve you to do so standing

00:25:47.760 outside of a coffee shop is the least dignified way that you can possibly die, certainly when

00:25:52.820 it's done with your consent. This is not about abuses or eccentricities. It's the whole program

00:25:58.640 over 5% of Canadians right now die this way. Ever since it's become legal, 7% of people in Quebec

00:26:04.720 die this way. This was only legalized in 2016. It's not just going to be the fringe cases. That

00:26:09.560 would be bad enough. This is now just increasingly how you die in Canada. You kill yourself and the

00:26:15.820 government encourages you too. Sick. Okay. Speaking of death, the Democrats have fallen 1.00

00:26:22.400 to a new low. They are using fallen soldiers on Memorial Day to score cheap shots against Trump.

00:26:30.100 This was so bad, even the Democrats had to delete their post. We'll get to that momentarily. First

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00:27:40.480 for an additional 10% off when you sign up for a subscription. Democrats really outdo themselves.

00:27:47.160 On Memorial Day, they post, today we honor the American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice

00:27:52.940 in Trump's war with Iran. Then they post a picture. It says, remembering the Americans

00:28:01.020 who have died in Trump's war with Iran. And it's all of the pictures of the 13 American servicemen

00:28:06.240 who died in, who made the sacrifice in this recent military standoff with Iran.

00:28:14.460 This is so tasteless, classless, grotesque, and out of step with how Americans traditionally

00:28:23.220 treat Memorial Day and victims, sorry, not victims, of the service members who give their lives,

00:28:32.520 who have made the ultimate sacrifice.

00:28:35.520 This is so out of step with it.

00:28:37.180 So out of step that even Democrats called it out.

00:28:40.160 Senator Tammy Duckworth posts,

00:28:42.020 it is incredibly distasteful to use our heroic dead

00:28:44.220 for a political attack on Memorial Day.

00:28:46.380 I'm a Democrat and I condemn this post by the DNC.

00:28:49.580 Congressman Jason Crow says,

00:28:51.960 if we want the moral high ground, we have to do better.

00:28:54.460 I fought for our country and served with those

00:28:55.840 who made the ultimate sacrifice.

00:28:57.120 It is wrong to politicize this day.

00:28:58.920 I won't hesitate to call out my own team when we fall short.

00:29:02.520 This is really bad. It was so bad that seven, eight hours later, the Democrats finally took

00:29:07.120 the post down. You should not be using fallen service members as props to score cheap political

00:29:15.140 points against your opponent. You just shouldn't do that. That's really out of step with the

00:29:19.360 American tradition. It's really classless. Even the two Democrats who have a hint of a moral

00:29:25.760 conscience recognize that as such. So why did they do it? That's my question. You know, look,

00:29:32.100 I'm all for invective and polemics and all that.

00:29:34.040 You know, that's part of politics.

00:29:35.360 But my chief interest in politics, my primary interest when I'm trying to analyze a political problem is to just say, how did they get there?

00:29:43.840 Let me try to put myself in the other guy's shoes before I condemn the person, before I inveigh against the person, which I'll get to.

00:29:50.620 But before I do that, how on earth did they make this choice that was so grotesque that they had to, in a rare instance, walk it back, that members of their own party were attacked?

00:30:00.040 How did they get there?

00:30:00.740 I think I know why. Because the Democrats have no respect. No respect, I say. It's the Rodney

00:30:08.800 Dangerfield problem. No respect, no respect, I say. The Democrats have no respect. They have

00:30:13.740 no sense of reverence. They have no sense of proportion, certainly. So let's start with the

00:30:21.620 last part. They have no sense of proportion. For the Democrats, they ignore the higher things and

00:30:27.860 the broader things and the rich complexities of life. They ignore how we got here. They ignore

00:30:31.920 everything that undergirds what we have. They ignore our spiritual reality. They ignore theology

00:30:37.800 and ontology and epistemology and the moral order. And for the Democrats, everything is so narrow.

00:30:45.400 It's just politics. It reminds me of an addict. An addict is one whose scope of what gives them 0.94

00:30:54.820 pleasure constricts. It's just really, really narrow. A lot of things give me pleasure. Cigars,

00:31:01.260 for one. Ukulele gives me pleasure. Playing ball with my kids gives me pleasure. A nice meal gives

00:31:08.120 me pleasure. Going, sitting on the beach gives me pleasure. Reading a good book, on and on and on.

00:31:14.280 You could probably name dozens of things that give you pleasure. For the addict, though,

00:31:18.980 It just narrows in. The only thing that gives them pleasure is the drug, or the porn, or the

00:31:25.500 whatever. Whatever it is, if you're a glutton, just food, or whatever it is. That's all that

00:31:32.200 gives you pleasure. And for the Democrats, all of the richness of life is just kind of constricted

00:31:38.100 down into politics. All that matters is politics, and within politics, all that matters is the will.

00:31:42.340 The triumph of the will over the intellect, over reason, which we are told is nothing but a

00:31:48.800 mask for the power structures of white supremacy or patriarchy or whatever. We can't be reasonable

00:31:55.520 here. We just need to take matters into our own hands. We need to be like Raskolnikov in Crime

00:32:00.060 and Punishment. We need to transcend the facade of the moral order and just pursue our own will,

00:32:05.580 the tyranny of the will at all costs. And so for them, it's all political activism.

00:32:10.520 And they treat it as a religion. If you have super lib relatives or friends, you know this.

00:32:14.360 They just, they don't want to talk about anything else. They're the ones who bring it up at

00:32:17.440 Thanksgiving. They're the ones who bring it up at dinner. They can't think about anything else.

00:32:21.220 And so they have no sense of proportion. Yes, politics really matters. I'm very pro-politics.

00:32:26.520 But there's more to life. And you have to put the political questions within their proper place

00:32:31.500 when it comes to eternal questions, moral questions, artistic matters, and so on.

00:32:35.520 So for them, any shot works. This is why they celebrated the assassination of Charlie.

00:32:40.540 They celebrated the assassination of Charlie because anything that can be seen to advance

00:32:45.380 their political position is worth it. Any opposition that they face is seen to be

00:32:50.840 existential. So they need to celebrate, even when a moderate centrist Republican goes around and

00:32:56.620 convinces his fellow citizens and is really nice and gracious about it. Even that guy,

00:33:01.120 he's got to die. And it's good when he dies in their minds. So anything, okay, 13 service members 1.00

00:33:07.680 die in a military conflict. And that needs to be used as a political cudgel.

00:33:13.160 and they have no respect. They have no reverence. They have no sense of the sacred.

00:33:18.080 They have no sense of enchantment. They have no sense of propriety. And so they don't realize

00:33:25.020 how grotesque their rhetoric and their behavior is. Even to the handful of people who have

00:33:33.440 maintained some sense of sense, common sense on their own side. And it shocks them. It shocks

00:33:40.660 them when Tammy Duckworth calls them out. Says, oh, shoot, maybe we really did go too far. But

00:33:44.560 the problem is they didn't know. They really had no sense of that. They had to be called out from

00:33:48.440 the outside. Okay. Speaking of common sense, Spencer Pratt campaigning very strongly in Los

00:33:55.220 Angeles. He's just given us a great way to reframe one of the big questions affecting Democrat cities

00:34:01.500 that is homelessness. We'll get to that in a moment. First, though, I want to tell you about

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00:35:25.240 America. One more time, hillsdale.edu slash revolution. I did not choose the comment

00:35:30.420 yesterday. This is from the producers. We'll see if I agree. Hard Boiled Entertainment says,

00:35:34.700 so can we finally get back to calling someone piker as an insult? Oh, that's a good, 1.00

00:35:38.620 kind of old timey. And I love old timey stuff. I just posted a video yesterday of his Imperial

00:35:44.960 and Royal Highness Archduke Edward Habsburg and I playing a trail of the lonesome pine.

00:35:49.260 I like really old timey stuff. And piker, that's an old insult. I like that. He's a piker. Okay.

00:35:56.880 Spencer Pratt, being interviewed by ABC7 in the race for mayor,

00:36:00.240 asked what he will do about the homeless.

00:36:05.760 What are your plans for the over 40,000 homeless in Los Angeles?

00:36:09.580 Yeah, well, they're not homeless.

00:36:11.520 They're drug addicts.

00:36:12.460 Most of these people are addicted to fentanyl and meth.

00:36:17.320 This isn't Spencer making it up.

00:36:18.200 Are you saying they don't have homes?

00:36:19.940 There is places for all of these people to sleep in L.A.

00:36:23.360 No matter what anybody tells you, we have housing and shelter for everyone that's living on the street.

00:36:28.480 They're choosing to be on the street because they want to do drugs.

00:36:31.780 They don't want rules.

00:36:32.900 They don't want to listen. 0.98

00:36:33.820 They want to have animals to abuse.

00:36:36.300 This idea that they're forced on the street right now is a lie that our city is perpetuating.

00:36:41.940 These 40,000 people, 60% of them, City Watch just announced this week, are not from Los Angeles.

00:36:48.900 They're not from California.

00:36:49.900 these people have been bust in by scam rehabs scam ngos scam homeless non-profits these people

00:36:59.380 when i unplug them and say we're not taking our tax money anymore they're all going to seattle

00:37:04.440 where the mayor will welcome them great framing here to call these people homeless is like

00:37:11.840 calling your mom a sack of carbon it's technically true i guess they don't have homes and your mom

00:37:19.820 is a sack of carbon in a certain sense, but that's not really what defines her.

00:37:25.000 You wouldn't say that's the distinguishing feature of you. It's true. She's kind of a

00:37:28.220 sack of carbon, but she's a human being. She's a woman. She's your mother. She's all of these 0.99

00:37:34.840 things. So yeah, I guess technically they're homeless on the street, but that's not why 0.98

00:37:40.880 they're on the street. That's not what defines them. For goodness sakes, they're not even

00:37:43.580 Angelenos. The majority, the clear majority of them are from outside of LA. Really what defines

00:37:51.320 them is they're drug addicts or they have some mental problems that they don't want to deal with

00:37:57.120 or that their families don't want to deal with. Or some of them are just bums. Some of them just 1.00

00:38:01.900 don't want to work. I remember one time I was in New Haven and I was walking by some young,

00:38:07.180 able-bodied bum. But young guy. He was a relatively good-looking guy. He was sitting 0.93

00:38:13.440 on a bench playing air guitar. And he goes, hey, man, can you give me some money? I was 20 at the

00:38:18.980 time. I said, I just started laughing. And he says, hey, it's not funny, man. I said, why don't

00:38:25.780 you have a job? I was a curmudgeonly conservative guy from a young age. So I said, why don't you

00:38:32.460 have a job? It'd be one thing if you're a quadriplegic, mentally ill person who really 1.00

00:38:40.620 can't work, but you're an able-bodied young guy. Why don't you get a job? And he just didn't want 0.92

00:38:44.860 one. He just wanted to be a bum. Well, what defines that guy is not that he's homeless. 0.98

00:38:49.680 What defines that guy is that he's a lazy bum and taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for him. 0.95

00:38:54.300 What defines the drug addict ones is that they want to do drugs. There are plenty of places for 0.99

00:38:58.840 them to go in LA. Those places are empty most nights. And furthermore, what defines a lot of

00:39:04.360 these guys is they're not even from LA. So good, send them back to where they come from. That's

00:39:09.240 really the way to think about it, is words as we know, color, and even constitute how we see the

00:39:16.360 world. So we feel bad for the homeless. We feel a little less bad for the drug addicts,

00:39:23.280 and more to the point, beyond our feelings. The solution to homelessness is to give people homes,

00:39:30.160 but that doesn't actually solve the problem that we're describing. Because the problem we're

00:39:33.640 describing is not one of homelessness, it's one of drug addiction and social neglect and mental

00:39:37.760 illness. So you got to treat that differently. But the libs don't want to treat any of that.

00:39:42.300 Okay, then send them to Seattle. Speaking of news media obliviousness, 0.96

00:39:48.620 I said I would get to this yesterday. I don't want to miss it.

00:39:50.780 there was a shooting at the white house this was friday i think it was and some 30 rounds go off

00:39:58.120 some guy shows up rap sheet a mile long he's trying to shoot people and the secret service

00:40:02.080 just unload on this guy a bystander was hit i guess the bystander is okay but as these rounds

00:40:06.280 are going off one of the news anchors doing a live shot doesn't even know what the sounds are

00:40:14.080 what is that

00:40:19.380 what is that she looks back totally confused she's kind of like disgusted but what is that

00:40:28.260 and then she she steps out of the booth she leans out of the booth you can't some are calling this

00:40:36.960 the most millennial reaction to an active shooter of all time she just leans out hey what is that

00:40:42.660 let me so let me step into the line of bullets let me is there what is that uh what is that

00:40:49.640 it's kind of like sabrina carpenter when the the arabic person started yodeling she says what is

00:40:54.960 that your culture i don't like that it was the same face what is that oh i don't like the sound

00:41:00.800 of that what is it was the most oblivious not a single instinct for self-preservation it's so

00:41:10.920 millennial. Look, I hate to beat up on my own age group, but I think this might be one of the real

00:41:16.780 defining features of the millennials, is just total cluelessness. Raised at the beginning of

00:41:24.200 the age of the participation trophy, told for their whole lives that they're the most special

00:41:29.080 people ever. When the millennials were in college, what was the term that described them? The term

00:41:33.160 that described them was the snowflake. Now it's a dated term, but it was the snowflake because

00:41:36.980 they were all told they were so special. They were protected by helicopter parents from all

00:41:41.760 the consequences of life. They were screwed up in their own ways, in the sense that all their

00:41:46.540 parents were divorced, and they were held to very high standards, and they were told that the only

00:41:51.860 way to have fulfillment in life is to achieve professionally, or make money, or become famous. 0.87

00:41:57.260 So look, I don't mean to be too harsh on the millennials, but for the sad and funny and

00:42:04.300 ridiculous aspects of the millennial upbringing, what it all redounded to was just a complete

00:42:08.740 cluelessness to the point that there's an active shooter right beside you. And you're kind of, 0.90

00:42:15.280 you say, what? I've never heard that before. And then you step out and potentially into the line

00:42:20.360 of fire. Now, I got to give this girl credit because she leaned into the joke. These memes

00:42:25.200 were all going around and she goes, what's her name? Julie Serkin. And she leans into it. She

00:42:29.740 goes i'm glad i could take one for the team with nbc's snl on summer break thanks for the memes

00:42:35.460 internet i hope you'll stick around for the reporting and so total credit to this girl

00:42:39.480 she really leaned into it that's very impressive that's the that's when you're the butt of a joke

00:42:44.120 you just kind of got to lean in laugh shake it off and move on but it does raise a very serious

00:42:49.860 question not even for her precisely but for for all of our news media for all of the people in

00:42:55.220 public responsibility, which is, can you really be a reporter if you don't know what gunfire

00:43:02.780 sounds like? Can you really be a reporter or a journalist or a pundit if you are so removed from,

00:43:13.760 protected from reality, that you are totally caught off guard by some of the most basic

00:43:22.080 elements of life most places in the world, which includes violence. This is one thing that does

00:43:30.060 worry me about the rising political class and the journalist class and the pundit class. 0.93

00:43:36.080 It's not just the rise of radical ideology, the Hassan Piker's collaborating with Chinese

00:43:42.040 communists, allegedly, potentially, or Cuban communists, admittedly, or any. It's not even

00:43:47.180 just them calling for violence against conservatives. Yeah, there's radicalism there.

00:43:49.980 There's some radicalism on the right. I guess what worries me more is just the ignorance,

00:43:56.080 the blithe ignorance, the incompetence, the inability to perform basic tasks, and the lack of

00:44:04.240 curiosity and discipline to better oneself. If you read letters that were written two generations

00:44:11.880 ago, certainly three or four generations ago, letters from 12-year-olds, 13-year-olds,

00:44:18.620 These are people who had read things, who knew things, who had had experiences, who had touched

00:44:23.900 grass, who had a deeper connection to reality than people do today. This is to be expected.

00:44:31.800 We live much of our lives mediated by virtual reality. We live a lot of our lives removed from

00:44:37.460 the harshness of reality on screens, in air-conditioned rooms, alone, without serious

00:44:42.740 relationships. But that a nation, much less an empire, cannot be effectively run by people

00:44:52.020 who are that disconnected from reality. It's not going to work out well. Look, 0.56

00:44:57.340 there are ideological problems too, but it's just like basic competence. There was a meme going

00:45:02.560 around the other day, but it's a meme based on something real, which was the Oxford admissions

00:45:08.220 test for a scholarship. And it was from something like 100 years ago. And to gain a scholarship to

00:45:15.280 Oxford, you had to explain the difference between different declensions, say, of the Latin language

00:45:23.260 and its superiority over ancient Greek. You had to explain your familiarity with the great texts

00:45:30.920 of Western civilization. Homer and Dante and Shakespeare, you had to parse for serious

00:45:39.200 questions of natural law. Today, some of the very top students at Oxford would be drooling at you

00:45:47.480 if you were to read them those questions. They just don't know. I'm actually going to Oxford

00:45:50.340 for a debate pretty soon, within a week or two. I don't mean to single them out. The whole culture

00:45:56.400 has just gotten so much dumber and so much more oblivious. And it does not bode well for us. 1.00

00:46:02.820 We can have the most perfect ideology in the world. But if people are insulated from reality,

00:46:08.760 we are screwed. And this is actually what the Pope was talking about. One last point before we go. 0.93

00:46:14.680 Doug Burgum, the Secretary of the Interior, he went on Maria Bartiromo's excellent show on Fox

00:46:20.660 business. And he was asked about the Pope and the Pope's encyclical on AI, Magnifica Humanitas.

00:46:27.940 And Burgum was pretty shocked that the Pope would weigh in on this issue.

00:46:32.660 And Secretary, even Pope Leo this weekend issuing a major document Monday focused largely on the

00:46:40.400 implications of the rise of artificial intelligence. The Pope saying that this technology could make

00:46:46.220 civilization less human. Why is the pope commenting about AI right now? Well, I didn't know that was

00:46:53.820 in. I didn't know that tech editorializing was part of the role of being pope. But it is a

00:47:01.080 but certainly some of these states in that have got high that have got very high electricity

00:47:06.760 prices today and they've got high electricity prices today because of of the policies they

00:47:11.900 pursued with trying to go with intermittent, unreliable, weather-dependent sources of

00:47:17.720 electricity. We've got to get back to, you know, baseload power to make this whole thing work.

00:47:23.060 But it is, the future is very bright if we can make sure we can get this stuff built.

00:47:29.020 Okay, okay, all right, all right. So, just that first reaction here, he says,

00:47:34.200 well, you know, I didn't know that tech editorializing was part of the role of being

00:47:39.000 Pope. It is. It is. I don't mean to be too tough on Secretary Burgum because he's not Catholic.

00:47:46.380 I think he's a Methodist. So I guess he just doesn't know that. But yeah, tech editorializing,

00:47:52.420 that is speaking about the relationship of man to technology, is very, very much in the purview of

00:48:00.380 the role of being the Pope. In fact, the Pope, the 19th century Pope from whom this Pope

00:48:06.600 borrows his name, Pope Leo XIII, is probably most famous for tech editorializing, for the

00:48:13.640 encyclical rerum novarum, for addressing the challenges that come with industrialization

00:48:18.620 and the way that man has to respond to industrialization to maintain his dignity

00:48:23.920 to remain fully human. Pope Pius XI spoke out with the rise of artificial contraception

00:48:30.820 and made very clear that the church does not support artificial contraception.

00:48:36.380 He made very clear the Catholic view that Christians cannot use artificial contraception.

00:48:40.960 This was then, his successors addressed this later, Pope Paul VI, who was conceived as a

00:48:46.940 more liberal pope, but even Paul VI made this very, very clear in Humanae Vitae. Pope Pius XII,

00:48:53.060 when nuclear weapons came about, Pope Pius XII spoke out, immediately condemned nuclear weapons,

00:48:58.000 described man's relationship to that technology. All of his successors have done that too.

00:49:02.680 Yeah. What do you think the role of the Pope is? He's not just an administrator. He's not just a

00:49:08.000 bureaucrat. The Pope is supposed to be the vicar of Christ, and he's supposed to speak definitively

00:49:13.300 to issues within history. That is why our Lord establishes a visible church and apostles and

00:49:22.780 their successors is because Christ is not just a figure from history like the Buddha or something

00:49:28.840 like that. He establishes a visible church and he gives the church authority, the keys to the

00:49:33.460 kingdom of heaven, the power to bind and to loose. Because he says, I will not leave you. I will not

00:49:39.520 abandon you even until the end of the age. I'll send the paraclete. So yeah, if the Pope is not 0.61

00:49:45.840 going to speak on moral matters, anthropological matters, if he's not going to offer guidance on

00:49:52.080 how we relate to the changes that come with history and politics and technology. I don't know.

00:49:58.420 What do you think he does? He prays. He appoints bishops and things like that. But yeah, of course

00:50:07.200 we need to speak to these things. If not him, who? Are we going to get our moral guidance on this

00:50:11.940 from Silicon Valley? I certainly hope not. Now, speaking of how we relate to this changing world,

00:50:17.500 this rapidly evolving world that seems to be robbing us of our humanity, I'm very pleased to

00:50:21.040 have my friend Luke Burgess on the show, who has a new book out addressing this and other

00:50:24.800 questions. The rest of the show continues. Now, you do not want to miss it. Become a member.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 27, 2026

Ep. 1982 - Get Legally Approved To Off Yourself Outside Of Tim Hortons

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