The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1994 - ＂Michelle Obama Is A MAN!＂ UFC Night Delivers As Iran Submits To Trump

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00:01:00.000 As if scripted by Hollywood precisely as fighting was set to begin at UFC Freedom 250 at the White

00:01:06.900 House, fighting stopped in the Iran war, infuriating cultural elitists and belligerent

00:01:13.080 neocons. A lot of overlap in that Venn diagram. The events of this weekend produced some of the

00:01:18.920 most iconic political images of my lifetime. With the help of the heavens themselves,

00:01:24.780 We will get to the most consequential 24 hours of the past 107 days since the Iran war began.

00:01:31.560 Also, Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire.

00:01:35.080 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:35.700 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:54.780 Welcome back to the show. Also, speaking of extreme sports and violence and danger,

00:02:00.440 really, really sad video. A 21-year-old woman, bungee jumps off a bridge in Brazil,

00:02:05.540 but the company that had her doing it, that threw her off the bridge,

00:02:08.940 never put the cord on her. So they just threw her off the bridge.

00:02:13.180 Really sad personal story. Also, there is political import. I think that's why it's

00:02:16.920 going viral. We'll get to that momentarily. First, though, fight night, baby. Absolutely

00:02:22.060 crazy at the White House. So the images, the images alone were worth whatever this thing

00:02:28.080 cost. And because it's President Trump, he was able to do this for basically nothing

00:02:33.180 in terms of the actual cost. I think UFC was paying for the actual event itself.

00:02:36.620 Then this amazing military flyover, which is part of military training, but it just looked

00:02:41.780 crazy. It was military jets flying over the White House with this crazy arena that they built that's

00:02:47.880 bigger than the White House itself, with this gladiatorial combat in the center, 5,000 people

00:02:53.320 all around. This image looks like those memes that were going around in 2016. Do you remember this?

00:02:59.420 In the first Trump campaign, there were all these memes that an artist actually drew. This was pre-AI.

00:03:04.820 And it was Trump riding on an elephant crossing the Delaware with George Washington on a tank

00:03:11.120 playing electric guitar or whatever. It was these crazy images of we're back, baby, we're America,

00:03:16.400 more America than ever. And the only difference is this photo is real. This is the meme turned

00:03:24.420 reality. This actually happened on the South Lawn of the White House. And even earlier in the day,

00:03:32.960 what is most astounding about all of this is earlier in the day, you had this image taken

00:03:38.260 from, I guess it was from the Lincoln Memorial. And it was this image looking down past the

00:03:42.920 reflecting pool down at the Washington Monument. And you can see this giant rainbow in the sky

00:03:48.120 with a zap of lightning coming out too. Lightning that seems to connect almost the rainbow

00:03:54.260 to the Washington Monument. It's just this jarring image that in centuries past would

00:04:01.080 have been an omen. It would have been considered an omen, a sign and a wonder. In pagan antiquity,

00:04:08.000 this would have been a sign of the favor of the gods. And what strikes me, I mean,

00:04:12.100 there's too many images. Our whole show would just be looking at these images and the significance

00:04:16.020 of these images. But what really strikes me is when you look at the White House image with the

00:04:20.480 flyover and the UFC tantal, you say, okay, well, look, that image cost money to make.

00:04:26.100 The White House knew what it was doing here. It knew it was going to get that picture. And man,

00:04:30.100 that picture is worth a thousand political campaign speeches. That picture is worth

00:04:34.760 a lot more than a thousand dollars or a thousand words. But then you look at that image of the

00:04:39.720 rainbow with the lightning and the Washington Monument over the new reflecting pool.

00:04:45.520 And you say, wow, man, Trump got that image for free. You get that one. That one didn't cost a

00:04:51.960 penny. And you have the rainbow during what the liberals have dubbed pride month, but it's really

00:04:59.820 a month dedicated to the sacred heart of Jesus. That's what it's supposed to be, June. And you

00:05:04.140 say, wow, in this pride month at an event that in a White House that has totally gotten rid of all

00:05:09.980 the pride stuff. Now you get a rainbow not made by man, not being pushed by political activists,

00:05:15.440 not an artificial rainbow. You get a real rainbow appearing in heaven with this beautiful pastel

00:05:21.460 colored sky with lightning coming down right before this UFC fight as peace is being signed

00:05:28.180 between the imperial hegemon and Persia. On the president's birthday, the president,

00:05:34.340 who is this cesarean figure, you've got Trump there during his birthday feasts with his

00:05:41.320 gladiatorial games, signing peace treaties with the Persian empire. And you've got Baron Octavian

00:05:48.140 Augustus Trump sitting behind him, stone cold. He's like seven foot, 15 inches tall. And it just,

00:05:54.820 man, classical politics is back, okay? Whatever technocratic liberal nonsense we thought we had

00:06:02.500 constructed in modernity, that's all gone, baby. We're back to the politics of lightning and

00:06:07.440 rainbows and gladiators and the Western Empire signing treaties with the Persian Empire.

00:06:13.780 It is, the gods of the copybook headings have returned, and this was crazy. Now,

00:06:20.440 Now, amid all of this, I can't even get to all the events earlier in the day.

00:06:25.820 The events earlier in the day where you have like dirt bikes flying, doing flips in the air

00:06:30.120 over the White House, where you have bald eagles flying in. I mean, this is populist entertainment.

00:06:36.500 Some people are saying, well, this is degrading the White House. This is degrading to the

00:06:42.560 dignity and stature of the White House. I say, okay, first of all, there is precedent for this.

00:06:47.560 Teddy Roosevelt hosted boxing matches at the White House. And not only did Teddy Roosevelt,

00:06:55.640 this is 100 years ago, very serious president of ours, and a good parallel to Trump, not only did

00:07:00.060 he host boxing matches at the White House, he participated in them. And he only stopped

00:07:04.480 participating in them after he was partially permanently blinded in one eye during a boxing

00:07:09.880 match. So there's precedent here. Teddy Roosevelt hosted a sumo wrestling match in the White House.

00:07:16.320 There is a precedent, even beyond America, for great leaders hosting games.

00:07:23.420 But then, of course, you want to talk about the dignity of the White House. 1.00

00:07:26.700 Let's not forget that during the Biden administration, you had topless trannies 0.93

00:07:31.820 showing up with artificial rainbows, not real rainbows from the heavens, 0.97

00:07:35.580 artificial rainbows in the White House portico. 1.00

00:07:37.720 You had these topless trannies flashing themselves at the White House. 1.00

00:07:42.120 I think far more degrading than a bald eagle flying in and some dirt bikes doing flips in 1.00

00:07:48.120 the air. And I think it's not that the left is above bread and circuses, bread and circuses,

00:07:54.500 which describe great and slightly decadent empires. It's that they're just bad at them now.

00:08:02.160 I mean, if my question is the question of Russell Crowe and the gladiator, are you not entertained?

00:08:07.520 is this not why you have come? If we're going to be a decadent late stage empire,

00:08:12.460 I would much rather be the gladiator kind of empire than the gay orgy kind of empire. 1.00

00:08:16.480 Wouldn't you? I think so. I mean, this was a wild night. Do we have the clip? 1.00

00:08:21.820 One of the fighters at one point gets up and he calls Michelle Obama a man. 0.98

00:08:28.740 Hey, shout out to Trump for having the balls to put some like this on. 0.98

00:08:32.420 and if I'm going to say anything 0.99

00:08:36.820 there's only one person

00:08:38.960 more incredible than the

00:08:41.080 incredible Hulk and that's my lord

00:08:43.100 and savior Jesus Christ

00:08:44.220 now listen

00:08:48.360 Alex Pereira

00:08:51.260 I want a 1.00

00:08:52.980 shama on your mama 1.00

00:08:54.980 don't even know what that 0.92

00:08:57.080 refers to don't even

00:08:58.400 and lastly

00:08:59.740 Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right, America?

00:09:08.680 Ladies and gentlemen, Josh Hulkin.

00:09:11.460 All right, moving on here, folks. I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion.

00:09:17.060 I actually don't like the Michelle Obama's a man jokes. I know I'm not allowed to say that.

00:09:22.480 Can I say that? The reason I don't like the Michelle Obama's a man jokes,

00:09:27.100 One, I don't think she's actually a man. 0.62

00:09:28.440 But two, I just don't like mocking women's appearances. 0.95

00:09:33.500 However, I don't like it. 1.00

00:09:35.180 I don't think it's gentlemanly.

00:09:36.180 I don't love it, okay?

00:09:37.900 However, if that's the only mild criticism you could make of this event,

00:09:44.220 the libs have nothing.

00:09:45.160 I mean, people were posting all over social media saying,

00:09:47.040 the left will never recover from this.

00:09:49.060 The left is on life support.

00:09:50.760 Because it was just, it was the Jets and the fighting.

00:09:53.720 And it was such popular entertainment.

00:09:55.760 It was such popular entertainment.

00:09:57.920 And it just seemed so visceral and it seemed so real.

00:10:01.120 It really was the difference between the artificial rainbow flag and the actual rainbow in the sky.

00:10:07.040 A friend of mine, Father George Rutler, makes this great point. 0.79

00:10:10.000 He says, it is a wicked generation that seeks a sign and wonder, and I'm not the first to observe it. 1.00

00:10:14.340 But it's a stupid generation that ignores a sign and wonder. 0.99

00:10:18.240 And just everything, the circumstances surrounding this event, not the least of which is the peace deal with Iran, which we'll get to momentarily. 1.00

00:10:25.300 the fact that it's on Trump's birthday, the signs from the heavens. I mean, every aspect of this

00:10:30.800 was so real, so visceral. Even part of the reason, like 95% of that fighter's comments

00:10:37.580 were really great. He's talking about our Lord and Savior. That's great. The cultural elites

00:10:42.140 hate that stuff. But America loves that. And they should love that because we're invoking God and

00:10:48.080 we're giving gratitude to God. And it's okay to say the name of Jesus. And it's okay to have

00:10:53.780 earnest faith. And it's okay. That's actually what people want. If you're going to have popular

00:10:58.920 entertainment, if you're going to have slightly decadent shows, we want the dirt bikes and the

00:11:03.500 eagles and the fighting. We don't want the topless trannies. It just felt so visceral and so real. 1.00

00:11:10.040 And the left tried to put on its own response to this. And it was so hilariously out of touch.

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00:12:39.200 The lib response comes from the Committee for the First Amendment, which put on its own show

00:12:45.840 to counter program UFC Freedom 250. The show was called Rise Up, Sing Out.

00:13:09.200 left behind. It's time. How do we get there? Together or never get there at all.

00:13:18.880 Perfect. Absolutely perfect. The left is not above bread and circuses. The left is just somehow

00:13:27.140 now terrible at them. It is the right that is better at putting on culturally significant

00:13:34.960 national games and entertainment and displays. And all the left can do is get a bunch of aging

00:13:41.820 hippies out there to sing out of tune. Say, oh, we're really mad. We're mad. Drum circle,

00:13:49.580 take it. Oh, we're mad. We're really angry and sad. Then Robert De Niro gets up there. I didn't

00:13:58.500 even pull the clip. Robert De Niro gets up there. He says he can't love America.

00:14:02.600 This is the left's response to the most in-your-face, hyper-saturated, red, white, and blue, rah, rah, rah, USA.

00:14:10.880 The best they can get is you get this aging movie star get up there and goes, I don't even love America anymore.

00:14:17.280 Back to the drum circle.

00:14:18.600 Oh, I'm mad and sad.

00:14:21.020 And you just think, bro, are they going to ever win elections?

00:14:24.420 What's the point of elections at this point, by the way?

00:14:26.360 Because we have Julius Donald Caesar Trump sitting on the throne for his birthday games and feasts.

00:14:35.580 Augustus sitting behind him.

00:14:37.240 It's just incredible. 0.79

00:14:39.460 All of this after signing a peace deal with the Persians.

00:14:42.980 And this is really important.

00:14:43.960 This actually interests me more than the UFC fight.

00:14:47.160 We got the peace deal.

00:14:48.500 And this is going to, you're going to see a big flip again.

00:14:53.040 You saw when the war in Iran kicked off, you saw a ton of people who were never Trumpers.

00:14:57.720 All of a sudden, they were the biggest fans of Trump in the world.

00:15:01.060 And you saw a lot of people who have been with Trump since 2016 who said, I don't know.

00:15:06.400 You saw some people really panic and totally turn on Trump.

00:15:09.160 But then you saw some people like me who I've been with Trump since 16.

00:15:13.280 I voted for the guy three times.

00:15:15.620 I love the guy.

00:15:17.520 He's the best president of my lifetime.

00:15:18.600 And I thought, you know, had I been on the NSC, I probably would have argued against the strikes

00:15:22.520 in Iran. It's not because the Iranians don't deserve it. It's not because they haven't done 1.00

00:15:26.060 a lot of horrible things. I just, I don't think we're going to get regime change. I don't think

00:15:30.400 that there's a reasonable probability of success. I don't think that it's proportional necessarily.

00:15:35.660 And so I definitely want to set back their nuclear ambitions, but I don't know that the

00:15:39.920 juice is going to be worth a squeeze here. I would be a little more skeptical and restrained about

00:15:43.280 the war. And then this war has gone on and on and on. The United States has achieved its stated

00:15:48.860 objectives. Don't forget, the stated objectives were stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, 0.72

00:15:54.400 weaken the regime, make sure it doesn't get past the breakout point where their ballistic missile 0.92

00:15:59.240 programs are so good that we can't stop them from acquiring a nuclear weapon. It was really 0.83

00:16:02.580 narrowly tailored. There were all sorts of little other options that could have occurred. It could

00:16:07.340 have been regime change, I guess. We could have brought the Shah back in. But the actual goal 1.00

00:16:12.760 here for the United States was to stop or severely set back Iran's nuclear ambitions. 0.98

00:16:18.680 We did achieve that. We got that. We got exactly what we wanted. And then you saw some people 0.97

00:16:23.140 bang in the wardrobe saying, no, we need to push further. We need regime change. This is

00:16:26.980 going to be awesome. And us on the restraint side, we said, no, you're probably not going

00:16:32.440 to get that. Wouldn't it be great if we could get regime change in Iran? But you're not going

00:16:35.060 to get it. The juice is not going to be worth the squeeze. There's absolutely no appetite in America

00:16:38.320 for another regime change war, boots on the ground, 10-year occupation. 0.97

00:16:42.220 We don't know that the regime that replaces the mullahs is going to be any better. 0.87

00:16:45.680 I have really no evidence of that anyway.

00:16:47.420 We don't know that there's actually some deep appetite among the Iranian people for this.

00:16:51.940 We know there's a lot of propaganda around that, but they never seem to successfully rise up. 0.96

00:16:55.680 So I want the deal.

00:16:57.560 I want the deal.

00:16:59.900 And you're going to see a lot of people today who were never Trump, then they flipped,

00:17:04.320 and they were the most pro-Trump.

00:17:06.260 and you're going to see them flip. They're going to become anti-Trump again. Here's what Trump had

00:17:09.180 to say. He said, Barack Hussein Obama's deal with Iran, the JCPOA, was an easy, beautiful,

00:17:15.120 smooth road to a nuclear weapon, which Iran would have had six years ago and would have used long 0.72

00:17:19.060 before now. My agreement with Iran is the exact opposite, a wall to no nuclear weapon. In fact, 0.85

00:17:23.440 they no longer want a nuclear weapon. Okay, that part I don't believe. Nor will they have one,

00:17:28.300 either through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement. That could be true.

00:17:32.240 The deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz

00:17:35.540 Strait is open to all. This is the key. Because the toughest weapon that the Iranians have is not

00:17:40.540 a potential nuclear weapon. The toughest weapon is closing the Strait of Hormuz, choking off 20% 0.99

00:17:44.620 of the world's oil supply, not to mention gas, not to mention petrochemicals, not to mention

00:17:48.480 fertilizer, not to mention a bunch of other stuff. So he's saying the Hormuz Strait will be open to

00:17:53.660 all. Our relationship with Iran is a much different, better one than previous administrations

00:17:57.680 have had, unlike Obama's hundreds of billions of dollars in payments to them, including $1.7

00:18:01.220 billion in green cold cash. No money will exchange hands at the appropriate time when all is calm.

00:18:05.540 We'll go in and get the nuclear dust. 0.70

00:18:07.120 This was a key here

00:18:08.040 because we wanted their highly enriched materials. 0.97

00:18:10.880 We weren't going to just let Iran have it, 0.96

00:18:12.380 even though the Fordow bombings last year 0.94

00:18:14.240 buried a lot of that enriched material

00:18:16.160 way deep underground.

00:18:17.200 We don't want to let them have it

00:18:18.060 so they can dig it up and use it again.

00:18:19.560 We want to get the nuclear dust.

00:18:21.020 He says this deal is going to get us the nuclear dust.

00:18:23.760 Thanks to our beautiful B-2 bombers

00:18:25.160 and their brilliant pilots.

00:18:26.220 We're going to downblend and destroy it, 0.91

00:18:27.900 whether in Iran or in the United States. 1.00

00:18:29.480 We look forward to working with Iran

00:18:30.960 and the entire Middle East long into the future.

00:18:32.640 Hopefully this process will all work out

00:18:34.000 quickly, easily, and smoothly.

00:18:35.540 If it doesn't, we have the ultimate alternative. 1.00

00:18:37.920 We still got those B2s, you know. 0.99

00:18:40.300 Hopefully never to be used again. 0.99

00:18:41.920 In fact, one way to read that sentence is we have the ultimate alternative.

00:18:44.780 We have the nuclear weapons. 0.73

00:18:46.240 Hopefully never to be used again after we used them the last time in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 0.63

00:18:50.320 Depends on how hardcore you want to read that sentence.

00:18:52.860 Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.

00:18:56.440 So what are the details here?

00:18:58.840 We've got Israel not thrilled about this.

00:19:03.840 we've got iran i guess signing on to this we've got the u.s signing on and we've got

00:19:09.540 pakistan which mediated this according to pakistan the deputy prime minister and foreign

00:19:16.160 minister senator muhammad ishaq dar something or other held a phone call between the foreign

00:19:21.440 minister of the kingdom of saudi arabia prince fazal bin farkhan they welcomed the u.s iran

00:19:26.040 negotiations into their final stage there will be an electronic signing ceremony the saudi foreign

00:19:31.440 minister appreciated Pakistan's consistent, sustained efforts in support of mediation.

00:19:35.460 Both sides discussed the forthcoming regional foreign ministers meeting scheduled, blah, blah,

00:19:39.880 blah. Don't forget, this doesn't just involve US and Israel and Iran. This also involves Saudi

00:19:43.780 Arabia and Qatar and Kuwait and Bahrain and Oman and all the Gulf states. I think this is pretty

00:19:50.480 good. So what does Israel say? Israel says, the Israeli defense minister Israel Katz says Friday

00:19:55.980 that Trump is pursuing a deal based on his assessment of American interests. But Israel

00:20:00.640 expected him to uphold shared principles around Iran's nuclear program, missiles, and terrorist

00:20:05.300 proxies. So the way to read this is, hold on. Israel wanted the US to go further. Because if I

00:20:12.480 were the prime minister of Israel, that's what I would want too. Because this is a point at which

00:20:16.320 the US interest and the Israeli interest have diverged. There's a lot of overlap, but sometimes

00:20:20.580 it diverges. And they have a shared interest in stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

00:20:25.520 But they diverge in that for the United States, it doesn't really matter if the Iranian regime

00:20:31.340 switches over. It could be better. It could be worse, but it's not an existential threat.

00:20:36.120 For the Israelis, this Iranian regime does pose an existential threat. And because support for 0.99

00:20:42.900 Israel and the United States has collapsed, including among Republicans, I think the 0.81

00:20:46.120 Israelis view this as maybe their last chance to get the global hegemon to really back them

00:20:49.320 into regime change in Iran. So this is an area where they've diverged. And Israel is acknowledging

00:20:53.380 this. They're saying, yeah, okay, Trump is doing this because that's what's in the American

00:20:57.600 interest. But we expected him to uphold shared principles, not to just follow the American

00:21:04.440 interest, but to hold to some abstract principle. What's the abstract principle?

00:21:08.900 I guess the abstract principle is regime change. It's not just stopping the terrorist proxies.

00:21:15.800 Iran ostensibly is going to stop funding the terrorist proxies in this deal. I guess no

00:21:19.320 one believes the Iranians. But the United States cannot be expected to wage a war for some abstract

00:21:26.520 principle, especially an abstract principle that really just redounds to the benefit of another

00:21:31.000 nation. The American people are simply not going to go for that, nor do I think they should go for

00:21:35.760 that. So then the Israeli defense minister says, oh, sorry, a senior US official says in response

00:21:41.700 to the Israeli defense minister, I understand the Israeli skepticism. Hezbollah killed a lot 0.79

00:21:45.300 of innocent Israelis, especially Israeli civilians. So we don't expect any country to 0.99

00:21:49.040 give up their right of self-defense. What we do expect is that if we're able to have everyone

00:21:52.320 participate in the peace process, that everyone else will do the same. In other words, Israel,

00:21:56.560 stop launching these attacks to gum up the peace process. This is the right move for President 0.91

00:22:01.940 Trump. It's the right move for the United States. The state of Israel hates it. I get why the state

00:22:05.940 of Israel hates it. If I were an Israeli politician, I would probably hate it too.

00:22:10.040 But here are the rubbers meeting the road. Trump has hated the Iranian regime for many decades now.

00:22:18.240 He has been very clear. He will not let Iran get a nuclear weapon. He has followed through on all

00:22:22.320 of those promises. He has not changed his position one little bit. But for the United States,

00:22:28.600 the goal here is to stop the Iranian nuclear program or set it back considerably and to

00:22:34.100 reopen the Strait of Hormuz. And Trump is not going to give up the midterm elections. He's not

00:22:38.640 going to give up America's stature in the world. He's not going to give up high gas prices. He's

00:22:45.000 not going to give up the mandate that he was given by the American people. He's not going to give up

00:22:49.020 his objectives for some broader objective that could overthrow his whole legacy if he gets

00:22:54.960 bogged down in a regime change quagmire in Iran. There's just a divergence here. And so not only

00:23:01.640 does President Trump have to balance Iranian aggression and perfidy, he's also got to restrain 0.95

00:23:08.100 to some degree the Israelis. He's also got to balance the interests of all the other Gulf states. 0.55

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00:23:15.340 right before the birthday celebrations and the gladiatorial combat and the various signs in the

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00:24:38.200 Promo code M-I-C-H-A-E-L. Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. This with the IPO of SpaceX.

00:24:48.120 and people are so furious about this. Zoran Mamdani tweets out,

00:24:55.740 reason number one trillion why we should tax the rich. Don't forget, Zoran Mamdani was born

00:25:02.940 with a silver spoon. Zoran Mamdani was raised outside of the United States. He lived in Uganda

00:25:10.180 and he was born pretty rich and he's never really successfully run anything in his life 0.96

00:25:16.760 other than running New York City into the ground thus far. But he says we need to take Elon Musk's

00:25:21.940 money. Graham Plattner, the neo-Nazi slash sort of dirtbag leftist hicklib running for Senate in 0.92

00:25:32.820 Vermont, or sorry, in Maine, he said Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.

00:25:38.680 Let's make sure he's also the last. There's just pure envy. There's not even really an argument

00:25:45.300 that they're making for how Musk's money could be used in a better way. They're not, they have

00:25:50.500 presented no plan, certainly no plausible plan to use that money in a way that would actually help

00:25:55.500 people. It's just envy. And envy, Dante tells us in Divine Comedy, envy is the cause of the evils

00:26:03.000 in the city. Envy is a particularly damaging vice for politics. It can really destroy a political

00:26:11.060 community. And what the left is pushing out here when they see Elon become a trillionaire

00:26:14.120 is pure envy. Now you have the total laissez-faire classical liberal libertarian capitalist types

00:26:21.080 who go way too far in the other direction. And they say, it's Elon Musk's money. He earned all

00:26:26.440 of it. And it's entirely his to do with. He has no responsibilities for that money whatsoever.

00:26:31.340 There's no such thing as a universal destination of goods. And it's his, and it's his to do with

00:26:35.240 as he chooses. There is a middle ground here, though. I would say before you start raising

00:26:41.100 your eyebrow at how Elon Musk made a trillion dollars. I would start raising your eyebrow at

00:26:47.580 how Nancy Pelosi made all of her money. Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi started her political career 1.00

00:26:53.400 in 1987 with a net worth of around $600,000. Today, her estimates put her wealth at hundreds

00:27:00.640 of millions of dollars. How'd she manage that one? We know that Nancy Pelosi, she's a pretty

00:27:07.400 active stock trader, she and her husband. How did she get her? I know how Elon Musk made his money

00:27:12.780 because Elon Musk is one of the most successful business leaders of our day. He revolutionized

00:27:21.580 the electric car. He revolutionized space travel. He wants to send men to Mars. He built PayPal.

00:27:30.900 And he's been involved in so many other major businesses. I know exactly how Elon made his

00:27:35.460 money? How did Nancy Pelosi make her money? How about Josh Gottheimer? Josh Gottheimer, 0.99

00:27:40.940 Democrat from New Jersey. He's multiplied his net worth considerably. He makes hundreds of

00:27:48.360 individual stock trades each year. How did he do it? I see corruption in the way that those guys

00:27:53.840 made their money. I don't see a ton of corruption in the way Elon made his money. So what's the

00:27:58.800 via media here? Between the absolute envy of the socialists and the communists on the left

00:28:02.720 and the hardcore laissez-faire capitalist view of the libertarians and the classical liberals.

00:28:09.220 The via media is Elon made his money, private property is in fact a right,

00:28:14.760 and it's an efficient way to allocate resources, and it brings with it moral obligations.

00:28:20.320 It does. With great power comes great responsibility.

00:28:23.520 And Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire, and he does have moral and social obligations.

00:28:27.280 Worth pointing out when it comes to Elon, he is living up to them.

00:28:30.220 elon musk actually is a public-minded civic-minded person let's not forget he he put his companies on

00:28:38.840 hold his multiple companies that he's running very successful companies to go work for free

00:28:44.240 for the white house to clean up the federal government with doge whether you like doge

00:28:49.240 whether i don't know why anyone would hate doge in fact even the libs who pretend to hate doge

00:28:52.680 they're copying doge zoran mamdani copied doge he has a new york city version of doge now that

00:28:57.420 he's totally aping from Elon Musk. It'll be much less successful. But Elon gave up his private

00:29:02.360 interest to serve the common good. Think about what he did just with Twitter. When he put his

00:29:07.640 money where our mouth is, when he put up $44 billion to preserve the public square, it was

00:29:13.200 a civic-minded activity. Elon Musk is not going to make most of his money on Twitter if he makes

00:29:18.400 any money on Twitter. He put that up there because the public square was being abused by the left,

00:29:23.840 and it was being contorted. And in a self-government such as ours in a republic,

00:29:28.100 if you control the public square, you control the whole politics. It was being run by a bunch

00:29:31.620 of oligarchs who were kicking ordinary conservatives out of it, who were deplatforming

00:29:35.820 the sitting president of the United States. And Elon Musk took his money and actually served the

00:29:41.000 public good with that by buying Twitter. So yes, Elon has plenty of moral obligations,

00:29:46.180 and as does anyone with means. But he's actually living up to it to a considerable degree.

00:29:54.720 A lot more than Zoran Mamdani or Josh Gottheimer or Nancy Pelosi or any of those people. Okay.

00:30:01.880 Speaking of moral obligations, this is a really disturbing video.

00:30:05.800 You probably saw this going around. We've made sure that the really gruesome parts are censored

00:30:10.780 out this was going viral all over the weekend. A 21-year-old woman is in Brazil. She decides to

00:30:18.360 go bungee jumping. So she's got a company here that she hires. She's in some suit. You can see

00:30:24.380 the rope down there at the bottom. And the company picks her up and launches her into her bungee jump.

00:30:40.780 And then you see in the video, so they pick her up, they lift her over their heads,

00:30:46.500 they throw her off the bridge, and then the camera pans down. The rope is not connected to her.

00:30:52.300 Very gruesome. So they just throw her off the bridge. They just throw this woman without any

00:30:58.300 rope off the bridge. And you can see the video goes on. We're not going to show the rest of it.

00:31:03.180 They just throw, it's really, really horrifying. According to Yahoo News,

00:31:06.320 this woman's fiance was there. He immediately received medical attention. He became ill. I

00:31:13.060 guess he passed out when he saw that she had died. Some organizers then ran from the scene

00:31:19.920 after she fell. Authorities later located two of them who ran away with the aid of a police

00:31:24.520 helicopter. They arrested them. And it's really, really horrifying. Because you can see it,

00:31:30.080 obviously. You have the perspective to see, wait, the rope is down there. How is everyone involved

00:31:34.480 in this. Not just the woman who maybe she had her mind on something else. She trusted this company,

00:31:39.960 but all these workers, they just threw her off the bridge without any thought in the world.

00:31:47.860 And what's dazzling about this is the incompetence and the obliviousness.

00:31:53.100 What's dazzling? You say, how could someone, when the stakes are this high,

00:31:56.700 how could people be this oblivious not to tie the rope to the woman as they throw her off the bridge?

00:32:01.200 Is there political import here?

00:32:03.900 Is this just a sad personal story?

00:32:05.700 Or is there some political lesson that we can take from this?

00:32:08.580 And I think part of the reason why this is going so viral is there is a political lesson.

00:32:13.400 Each of us sees something in this video.

00:32:15.500 This touches on some fear that we all have.

00:32:17.800 And the fear is maybe our political leaders are sometimes as oblivious and reckless and careless and self-interested as the people who are running this bungee jump company.

00:32:30.580 That's the political import to me.

00:32:31.920 It actually makes me think about the Iran war. 0.92

00:32:34.220 Because what we tell ourselves, especially when we live in a modern, decadent society 0.94

00:32:39.160 where we trust the experts to run everything, we trust that they will run everything properly.

00:32:45.400 So we don't have to think about it.

00:32:46.780 We don't have to have a stake in our political community anymore.

00:32:50.600 We don't need to actually live up to our obligations as citizens.

00:32:52.960 Because we just trust the experts to run everything.

00:32:55.380 And especially six years ago, we realized that the experts don't know anything.

00:33:00.040 much of the time. So six years ago, when the Wu flu hits, and our experts say,

00:33:07.040 you gotta stand six feet away and put a hanky on your face, and that'll stop you from getting

00:33:11.420 the virus. And then that didn't work, then none of that happened. And we're gonna take away all

00:33:15.320 your rights, and we're gonna make your parents die alone. And we're going to stop kids from 0.89

00:33:19.240 going to school. And we're gonna do that until you get the vaccine that's gonna stop you from

00:33:22.900 getting the virus. And then it doesn't stop you. And they say, no, just joking, just joking.

00:33:27.320 this vaccine is going to stop you from transmitting the virus. And then that doesn't

00:33:30.080 happen. And they say, no, just joking. Anyway, it would have been a lot worse if you hadn't

00:33:33.340 had the vaccine, which is totally safe, by the way. Then people start dying from the vaccine,

00:33:36.720 even as the public health authorities eventually admit it. And you realize, oh, shoot, man,

00:33:40.380 maybe our elites don't always have it all together. Maybe we need to take some matters

00:33:46.920 into our own hands. Maybe we need a little bit more restraint. That is how I feel the Iran work

00:33:51.740 could have turned out. It's part of why I'm so, so relieved to see that the Trump administration 0.95

00:33:56.600 is pursuing this peace deal. That it's not going for the utopian nation-building neocon ideology

00:34:03.540 that typified the Bush administration. No, don't worry. We just need to drop a few more bombs. We

00:34:08.280 need to send 50,000 Marines in. We need to topple the regime in Tehran. Then we're going to have

00:34:13.240 Madisonian democracy sprout out, and it will be a springtime for the Middle East. I don't really 0.99

00:34:18.020 buy that, man. I think actually the downside is much, much worse. I think that could really

00:34:25.700 seriously damage the United States, not just the Republican Party, not just destroy Trump's legacy.

00:34:29.640 I think it could really damage the United States. I think the region could be worse off than it was

00:34:33.980 before, as we saw with the Iraq war, as we saw with Libya, as Afghanistan dragged on and on and 0.67

00:34:40.780 on. There was really no benefit from that at all. We just gave the country right back to the people 0.88

00:34:43.820 we took it away from 20 years prior. I think things really could have spun out of control.

00:34:48.800 In fact, I think some of the more belligerent voices on the Iran war, I think some of them

00:34:53.120 were very much like the bungee company that threw this woman off without ever checking to

00:34:57.400 see if there was a rope on her. And so it's encouraging to see the administration recognize,

00:35:05.580 shoot, man, you know what? We're in a much more perilous and degraded position than a lot of us

00:35:12.680 thought we were. And we're going to take the gains that we can get, especially with the Iran war. 0.99

00:35:17.500 we've achieved our objective. We've either stopped or seriously set back Iran's nuclear 0.94

00:35:23.740 ambitions. We've smacked them really, really hard. We took out a lot of their top officials, 0.93

00:35:29.040 but we haven't totally destroyed the regime. We're going to get their nuclear dust,

00:35:33.100 hopefully. Hopefully that works out. We're going to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. 0.99

00:35:37.300 We're going to take the wins that we got, and we're going to move on to other areas because

00:35:41.480 there's so many areas in the country that we need to fix. Don't forget, it was just, what,

00:35:45.960 three, four years ago that you had trannies flashing people on the White House lawn, okay? 1.00

00:35:51.760 We have a lot of problems on immigration, on social issues, on the economy, economic problems 1.00

00:35:56.820 that were exacerbated by the Iran war. Could have gotten a lot, a lot worse on foreign policy in

00:36:01.560 Ukraine, in the South China Sea, in Africa, elsewhere. We have a lot of problems to deal

00:36:06.840 with. We're going to take the wins that we can get, and we're going to rebuild, and we're going

00:36:09.360 to keep building. We're going to keep building. That's the only way you get to that golden age.

00:36:12.480 there's a lesson there's a lesson in all sorts of these little these little issues it's in those

00:36:17.980 little things that the rot begins okay speaking of reckless dangerous activities another video

00:36:22.380 that went viral over the weekend is ellen page now goes by elliot trans identifying actress

00:36:29.320 who gave her definition on some podcast of healthy masculinity

00:36:34.160 healthy masculinity to me is or even just something i've felt as trends like transitioning is

00:36:43.440 like leaning away from whenever there is some sort of impulse or expectation you've put on yourself

00:36:50.720 to like shut down or conform in a way that usually feels like this like i am closing off

00:36:58.640 i remember kind of being like oh elliot maybe you should you know talk with your hands a little less

00:37:02.940 or you know maybe in pictures you're because all ever since transitioning now i'm like johnny i'm

00:37:09.020 smiling i am smiling in those photos whereas i used to be so i could barely look at a photo of

00:37:14.940 myself i was always like you know and now and i'll be taking to say a dude's like hey are you are you

00:37:20.860 victor from umbrella academy you know and we're doing a photo together he's very i'm right yeah

00:37:26.220 and like having that moment where i'm like oh should i also not like should i also be close 0.99

00:37:31.500 And it's just like, what the fuck, Elliot? 0.99

00:37:33.620 What are you talking about? 1.00

00:37:35.600 Like, oh, honey, you're the part of the problem.

00:37:38.540 Okay, so obviously off the top, 1.00

00:37:40.300 this is a very severely mentally ill woman. 0.97

00:37:43.120 And the things she's saying about herself just aren't true. 0.98

00:37:46.780 Like she says, I used to be so sad and down all the time,

00:37:49.940 but now I'm just always smiles.

00:37:51.360 And you say, are you?

00:37:52.460 I don't know, I'm looking at you in this interview

00:37:53.940 and you look sick and sad and you're not smiling,

00:37:56.420 except when you performatively do so

00:37:58.200 as you're explaining your smile.

00:37:59.600 But if you look at pictures of Ellen Page back when she acknowledged that she was a woman, she actually did look healthy, and she was smiling, and now she always looks really sick and frail and really sad.

00:38:09.680 So I just don't believe her own self-perception, obviously.

00:38:13.960 Obviously, she has a problem with self-perception. 0.93

00:38:15.500 She thinks she's the opposite sex. 1.00

00:38:17.060 But what's more interesting than that is what she says about masculinity because it's perfectly wrong.

00:38:24.220 she says to me what a healthy masculinity is is when you want to restrain yourself when you feel

00:38:30.740 an impulse to restrain yourself or i guess that's the common theme of the show today is restraint

00:38:34.720 when you want to restrain yourself when you want to sort of discipline yourself put someone else

00:38:41.780 before you and you know you take a back seat you just don't do that and you just push beyond the

00:38:47.380 limits you make it all about you and i think that's coming from a man a card carrying man

00:38:53.360 here carrying a few other things that make me a man, that's actually the opposite of what

00:38:57.120 masculinity is. There are plenty of times that I would like to indulge just my private pleasures

00:39:01.640 and my personal delights and whatever, but I don't get to do that because I'm the man. I'm the head

00:39:06.800 of the household. I'm the husband. I'm the father. I have to put other needs first. I have to put the

00:39:10.920 needs of my wife first a lot of the time. I have to put the needs of my kids first a lot of the

00:39:14.660 time. I have to put the needs of my community or my company first a lot of the time because I'm the

00:39:19.160 man, I'm the one who goes out to the office to work. And sometimes I have a great job. I have

00:39:23.760 kind of a fake job. I'm not in any way complaining about my job. But whatever job you work,

00:39:29.700 you got to do things you don't want to do sometimes. You got to do a little of the

00:39:33.440 drudgery. You got to listen to your boss. One of the key aspects of healthy masculinity is not

00:39:41.000 putting yourself first, not allowing yourself to be unbounded. And it reminds me of how the trans

00:39:47.560 women, the men who think that they're women, the inverse of Ellen Page, it's how they describe 0.82

00:39:53.800 femininity. What do they say? The trans woman view of femininity is just being a big slut,

00:40:00.620 basically, for lack of a better term. The trans woman view of femininity is high heels and 1.00

00:40:08.000 stilettos and big fake breasts and drag queens. But that's not femininity either. 1.00

00:40:14.720 Notice both the Ellen Page definition of healthy masculinity and the trans woman version of 1.00

00:40:21.600 femininity. They're basically the same. And it's all about just blasting past boundaries, 0.97

00:40:28.520 eliminating limits, which is, of course, the motivating spirit of all of liberalism.

00:40:33.640 The whole idea of liberalism is to transgress limits, political limits, social limits,

00:40:39.080 uh sexual limits religious moral limits all of these limits that's what liberalism is is blasting

00:40:46.580 past limits to try to recreate reality to make yourself into a god that's what it's about 0.97

00:40:50.900 so ellen page says real healthy masculinity is just being a jerk not putting anyone else first 1.00

00:40:57.560 and just thinking about yourself and being a jerk and the trans woman version of femininity is 1.00

00:41:02.220 femininity is just being a slut not putting anybody else first not not recognizing limits 1.00

00:41:07.620 and being modest and no, no, no. You notice there are no modest trans women. Have you noticed that? 1.00

00:41:12.740 Yeah. It's the same thing. And so what they're getting wrong is not just what makes up the

00:41:19.480 opposite sex. They're obviously quite wrong about that. But really more fundamentally, 1.00

00:41:24.580 what they're getting wrong, it's the same error. And it's about human nature as such.

00:41:29.800 We as humans are bound by limits.

00:41:33.540 We have flesh.

00:41:35.540 We're going to be a certain height.

00:41:37.780 Maybe we want to be taller, but we're a certain height.

00:41:39.720 We're going to be a certain weight.

00:41:40.760 Maybe we want to be thinner.

00:41:41.680 We're a certain weight.

00:41:42.860 We're going to age.

00:41:43.880 We're going to die.

00:41:45.040 We live in a time.

00:41:46.120 We don't get to pick the time we live in.

00:41:48.200 Probably, hopefully, we don't pick the time we leave.

00:41:50.540 We're limited. 0.99

00:41:51.800 And so the animating factor of all of these offshoots of liberalism, including transgenderism, 0.77

00:41:55.860 is just trying to get past those limits. 0.83

00:41:58.480 And ironically, there is a way to transcend those limits that God himself offers to us,

00:42:04.820 which is in the incarnation and the crucifixion and the resurrection of his son,

00:42:09.360 who says, whoever believes in me might not perish, but might have everlasting life.

00:42:12.960 And here's how you do it.

00:42:14.500 You eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, and you will have life in you.

00:42:17.440 If you don't do that, you will have no life in you.

00:42:19.960 You need to repent and believe in the gospel.

00:42:23.040 You need to follow me.

00:42:24.420 You need to take up your cross. 1.00

00:42:25.760 put my, put my yoke upon you. My yoke is easy and my burden is light. But I had said, yo, 0.96

00:42:30.440 you got to follow me. Here's how you do it. And we want to do it for ourselves. And we fail like

00:42:35.380 Ellen Page fails. Okay. Speaking of rebrands before we go, the Democrats realize to the point,

00:42:41.380 I think Jack Posobiec was making it last night, Benny Johnson, a lot, a lot of right wing figures

00:42:46.000 were making this point. They said the left is never going to recover from this UFC thing. It's

00:42:49.500 is so America, is so powerfully America, the libs are never going to recover. The libs know they

00:42:56.380 have a problem. They know they're really out of touch. And so they're attempting a rebrand. Here

00:43:00.100 you have Rahm Emanuel, former hatchet man for Bill Clinton. Then he was chief of staff to Barack

00:43:07.160 Obama, longtime mayor of Chicago, longtime political figure. He says the Dems need to

00:43:13.180 seriously rebrand for 2028, as Rahm himself is eyeing a bid for the presidency.

00:43:19.280 Polls show Democrats aren't doing that well.

00:43:22.120 We got the voters right where we want them.

00:43:24.720 You know, why do you think people feel so negatively about the Democratic Party?

00:43:31.660 Because we earned their disrespect the hard way.

00:43:36.320 Look, when your back's against the wall, you can't make a mortgage payment.

00:43:41.480 or you can't go to the doctor's visit because you can't afford it,

00:43:44.400 or you're stealing money out of your 401k that you know is for your retirement,

00:43:47.880 but you're doing it to pay your bills today.

00:43:51.360 Do you expect the Democratic Party to show up?

00:43:55.560 Two things.

00:43:56.900 We told you, oh, things are great.

00:43:58.640 You just don't know it yet.

00:43:59.900 And B, we're running around, closed schools for two years when you didn't have to,

00:44:05.420 and then when we opened them, we'd blow open the bathroom door in the locker room,

00:44:08.160 and we didn't actually worry about the classroom.

00:44:10.120 we earned their anger because they when they're holding on to that windowsill with everything

00:44:17.700 they got they're digging their nails into the concrete on the windows or the wood

00:44:20.840 they want us to help them and we either told them they were wrong or b we got ourselves

00:44:28.160 wrapped around what i call a cultural cul-de-sac and kept going around in a circle talking to

00:44:31.600 ourselves this isn't that hard this isn't that hard and that's why look i'm gonna run against

00:44:38.700 my party. That's what he's saying. I'm going to run against my party because the party's gone

00:44:42.440 too woke. It's gone too radical. Rahm is famously one of the more practical-minded, tough-minded

00:44:48.420 Democrats. So in a different age, he could probably make a pretty serious run for the presidency. He's

00:44:54.300 a much more serious person than virtually anybody else in the party right now. And it's smart in a

00:44:59.800 presidential election to run against your party. People who run against their own parties tend to

00:45:03.280 do pretty well. Look at Trump. Trump famously ran against his party in 2016, totally took over the

00:45:07.620 party. Bill Clinton ran against his party substantially in the 90s. Ronald Reagan ran

00:45:12.860 against his party, ran against Jerry Ford. So you say that's not a bad idea. The problem is it's not

00:45:18.280 going to work. It's not going to work for Rahm in part because he is a pro-Israel Jew and the Dems 0.68

00:45:25.420 hate the Jews now. Even though most Jews are Democrats, but the Democrat party has taken a

00:45:30.260 real hard turn and hates the Jews. Whatever you want to say about anti-Semitism growing in some

00:45:35.300 quarters of the right, it's much more pronounced on the left. And especially when you couple that

00:45:40.600 with pro-Israel advocacy, there are distinct issues. There's obviously a substantial overlap.

00:45:45.560 Both of them are a problem in the modern Democrat party. But when you factor in that Rahm is a more

00:45:50.360 pro-Israel figure, he's toast. He's not going to go anywhere. He's actually tried to moderate his

00:45:55.540 support of Israel. You'll notice this. If you follow some of his comments for the past six

00:45:59.240 months or so, he's tried to moderate it to appeal to that anti-Israel wing of the party.

00:46:03.460 It's not enough.

00:46:04.140 It's too little, too late. 1.00

00:46:04.980 And anyway, they won't forgive him for being a Jew. 1.00

00:46:06.780 So it's just a fact. 0.92

00:46:08.280 It's a sad statement on the Democrat Party, but I don't see this working.

00:46:12.260 Same goes for Josh Shapiro.

00:46:13.560 Same problem.

00:46:14.400 Josh Shapiro should be, you know, he's not that tall.

00:46:17.860 So that's actually going to hurt him in any presidential election.

00:46:20.840 But still, Pennsylvania, it's an important state to win.

00:46:24.360 Decently successful governor.

00:46:25.700 He should be a leading candidate, but it's not going to work.

00:46:28.460 They've got all these things working against them.

00:46:30.320 You have the prejudices of the Democrat Party, the increasing animus toward Jews, the distinct

00:46:36.360 but related animus toward the state of Israel, and no appetite for moderation among the base.

00:46:41.060 That's the problem for the Democrats.

00:46:42.640 There is no appetite at all. 1.00

00:46:44.260 They want to bring the trannies back to the south lawn of the White House. 1.00

00:46:47.780 The base of the Democrat Party has learned absolutely nothing. 1.00

00:46:51.000 They have not given up woke.

00:46:52.080 They are Abigail Spanberger.

00:46:54.280 They might lie about it, but the minute they get into power, they're going to push the 1.00

00:46:57.240 most radical left agenda you can imagine.

00:46:59.120 They're James Tallarico.

00:47:00.320 who says, who invokes the blessed mother to try to defend abortion and who says God is non-binary.

00:47:06.020 They have not learned a thing. Devastating, devastating for the Democrats, maybe even

00:47:10.800 more demonstrating than the extremely patriotic display at the White House last night. Rest of

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 15, 2026

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