The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2 - MacArthur Vindicated： N. Korea Can Nuke Us

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00:00:38.420 North Korea can hit most of the United States, say U.S. officials. The U.S. has detected highly

00:00:44.900 unusual levels of submarine activity by North Korea. Mike Pence says all options on the table

00:00:50.980 for North Korea. North Korean ICBM test, longest in the history of the regime. U.S. military set

00:00:57.640 to test a new missile as early as tomorrow in response to North Korea. Sebastian Gorka on North

00:01:02.660 Korea. This is a results-driven presidency. That's ominous. We are now on the threshold of a real 0.70

00:01:07.940 national security crisis with North Korea. Surprisingly, not fake news from Andrea Mitchell.

00:01:13.220 According to a Pentagon assessment, after decades of international negligence, the regime led by

00:01:18.620 tinpot dictator and Dennis Rodman admirer Kim Jong-un may now launch an attack, not only on Hawaii and

00:01:24.820 Alaska, but also on the continental United States. Thank goodness the mainstream media are diligently

00:01:30.600 focused on President Trump's third cousin twice removed, who once ate borscht in the 1990s. Plus,

00:01:36.420 we'll be joined by a truly deplorable panel of roaming millennial Amanda Prestigiacomo and Zoe Rachel 0.99

00:01:42.740 to discuss the left's Tommy Lauren hypocrisy, a professor of Beyonce studies. It's a real thing.

00:01:50.120 And a professor who was fired for the mere act of threatening to shoot the president and a new

00:01:56.720 study that shows Americans don't want their doctors to kill them for some reason. I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:01.000 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:02.220 So this report, this comes from an unnamed Pentagon official, but analysts are taking it very

00:02:15.800 seriously. They say that what they're seeing is highly unusual. It does seem to be the consensus.

00:02:20.820 There's some debate over whether or not North Korea can strike the U.S. mainland, but there seems to be

00:02:25.440 some consensus that it looks like they can. Although it's unclear what those weapons would do once they

00:02:29.900 re-enter and attempt to strike the mainland. Forget about those experts. Let's look live at our live

00:02:36.680 feed camera from Pyongyang. Do we have that?

00:02:40.460 Hans Briggs? Oh, no. Oh, hello. Great to see you again, Hans.

00:02:48.000 Mr. Ill, I was supposed to be allowed to inspect your palace today, and your guards won't let me into

00:02:53.260 certain areas. Hans, Hans, Hans. We've been through this a dozen times. I don't have any weapons of

00:03:00.360 mad destruction, okay, Hans? Then let me look around so I can ease the U.N.'s collective mind.

00:03:05.980 Hans, you're breaking my balls here, Hans. You're breaking my balls. 1.00

00:03:09.660 I'm sorry, but the U.N. must be firm with you. Let me see your whole palace or else. 0.99

00:03:14.620 Or else what? Or else we will be very, very angry with you, and we will write you a letter telling

00:03:24.140 you how angry we are. Is Hans Briggs still around? That might be old footage. I don't know if that's

00:03:30.780 actually coming to us live from Pyongyang, but that has been the policy of the United Nations and all the

00:03:36.860 nations in the region and the world for the past 25 years. They say, North Korea, if you don't comply

00:03:42.220 with our nuclear requirements, we're going to be very angry. We're going to have the sanctions

00:03:48.460 that are already in place. We are going to put pressure on you. Now, this is not just the opinion

00:03:52.780 of Kim Jong-il in that clip or Kim Jong-un or Hans Blix or the international community. This is also the

00:04:00.380 opinion of left-wing favorite Jill Stein. We're hurting here the position of the South Korean people

00:04:07.100 who've been very clear that what they want, they are tired of war. We don't even have

00:04:11.100 a peace treaty. The Korean War is still on. There's an armistice, but the people of the Korean Peninsula,

00:04:17.260 and especially in South Korea, have lived under the threat of war for decades now. They're really

00:04:22.300 tired of it. They would like to move ahead by negotiating a peace treaty. And the demonization

00:04:29.340 of North Korea is part of the run-up to regime change. We saw it in Iraq. We saw it in Libya. It's 0.64

00:04:37.740 part of demonizing a government that we then want to exercise regime change on. And then what do we

00:04:43.820 get? You know, look at our track record here. It's not so good. The demonization of North Korea.

00:04:49.180 Marshall, can you demonize a demon? Is it possible? Are they like a double demon? Can you demonize

00:04:54.860 Moloch? I don't know, but possibly you can. I'm not sure which is more cartoonish, the marionette Kim Jong-il

00:05:01.580 or the 2016 Green Party candidate for president. I'm not sure. Please go on.

00:05:06.460 Again, it's the North Koreans who've added the provocation in launching missiles and testings. 0.80

00:05:11.100 Well, but remember where that came from. Long before they began their missile test,

00:05:15.500 the U.S. was conducting nuclear bombing runs against North Korea. We actually had nuclear weapons

00:05:22.620 until the end of the Cold War. We actually had nuclear weapons stationed in South Korea. So this is

00:05:27.420 very frightening to them. They've been basically cornered into feeling like they have to develop

00:05:32.220 a nuclear weapon. You know, a lot of people donated to her and gave her money. That's true. I think

00:05:37.020 she went to Harvard too, which probably probably explains it all. So that's true. We have been

00:05:42.860 maintaining the world order now, even during this crisis that's gone on for decades. And we have not

00:05:47.820 fired on the Kim regime. We didn't take out the grandfather, the founder, Kim Il Sung. We didn't

00:05:52.940 take out Kim Jong Il in the 90s. And we haven't taken out Kim Jong Un, who is now the leader of

00:05:57.740 North Korea. And we've punted on this through three different presidential administrations,

00:06:02.140 for some good reasons, for some bad reasons. First up when this became an issue was Bill Clinton,

00:06:07.180 the luckiest man in the world. Devil protects his own. Bill Clinton was very lucky. He came at a time

00:06:12.140 after the fall of the Soviet Union, which had been propping up the Kim regime in North Korea.

00:06:17.260 He came at a time when Kim Il Sung, the Sun King of North Korea, died. So that instituted a period of

00:06:23.260 three years of mourning. Kim Jong Il had to protect against possible coups. He even had,

00:06:27.660 there was this natural disaster, a major flood in North Korea, which caused a famine. It just didn't

00:06:32.860 seem like a big issue at the time. And Bill Clinton was not focused on foreign policy. Then George W.

00:06:38.300 Bush was not as lucky as Bill Clinton. He walked in right into 9-11. He was fighting two wars in the

00:06:44.700 Middle East that were a reaction to 9-11. And in 2006, Kim Jong Il detonated the first nuclear weapon 0.63

00:06:53.900 that the regime had ever detonated. So they saw that not only were they seeking these weapons,

00:06:58.140 but they finally had attained them. Now, unfortunately, President Bush was busy

00:07:02.060 fighting other wars. He didn't turn his attention to North Korea in any really meaningful way other

00:07:06.940 than the sanctions. And then came Barack Obama, who also did nothing about North Korea because he's a

00:07:12.620 terrible president. There are no excuses really that Barack Obama could rely on. Totalitarian leaders

00:07:20.780 have this amazing gift for duping the American left. I don't know, they work some magic or some

00:07:26.940 charm on them. And that's what Kim Jong Il did. Do we have a cut of Kim Jong Il working his charm on the

00:07:33.660 left? I don't think so.

00:07:35.820 I guess our live feed is cutting out. Our live feed from Pyongyang. Maybe the regime found it.

00:07:41.260 Maybe this is news that the war is starting. Hopefully not. Stay tuned. They've always been

00:07:47.900 able to do this from from Stalin onward. And because the left says we need to focus on problems here.

00:07:53.340 We need to focus on global warming. We need to focus on education. We need to focus on the social

00:07:57.980 social welfare system. And they aren't too concerned with the international order. So Barack Obama was

00:08:03.500 elected to wind down those wars in the Middle East. He easily could have turned his attention to the 0.83

00:08:08.300 Pacific, which I think he intimated he would during the 2008 campaign. Instead, Barack Obama instituted

00:08:14.540 a policy called strategic patience, which is an incredible euphemism. Of all of Barack Obama's euphemisms,

00:08:20.940 strategic patience was great. It's similar to leading from behind or tactically can kicking. Tactical can

00:08:28.220 kicking was a favorite of Barack Obama's. But what did it get us? It got us more major missile tests,

00:08:33.420 it got an American high school student kidnapped and killed by the Kim regime. So now Donald Trump

00:08:38.540 has two terrible options. Military option now that they have significant nuclear capabilities

00:08:43.820 or more sanctions and economic incentives. For the military choice, as ever, here is Lindsey Graham.

00:08:50.700 There is a military option to destroy North Korea's program and North Korea itself. He's not going to allow 0.57

00:08:57.340 President Trump the ability of this madman to have a missile to hit America. If there's going to be a 0.95

00:09:02.620 war to stop him, it will be over there. If thousands die, they're going to die over there. They're not

00:09:07.420 going to die here. And he's told me that to my face. And that may be provocative, but not really. When

00:09:12.540 you're a president of the United States, where's your allegiance lie? To the people of the United States,

00:09:17.020 this man, Kim Jong-un is threatening America with a nuclear tip missile. President Trump doesn't want

00:09:23.260 a war. The Chinese can stop this. But to China, South Korea and Japan, Donald Trump is not going

00:09:29.180 to allow this missile threat to mature. Just to be clear. Now that's tough talk from Lindsey

00:09:33.420 Graham, who in fairness, I don't know that Lindsey Graham has ever seen a war he didn't like.

00:09:38.060 He's definitely been much more hawkish from the neoconservative wing of the party. But here,

00:09:42.940 Lindsey, Senator Graham's view lines up with that of General Douglas MacArthur.

00:09:47.180 During the Korean War, General MacArthur, 1951, he wanted to push into North Korea. He wanted to 0.60

00:09:53.420 keep this going and have an absolute victory to fight international communism, particularly on the

00:09:58.140 peninsula. President Truman disagreed with this. He wanted to keep that war very limited.

00:10:03.420 They got into a tete-a-tete about this. It seemed as though perhaps General MacArthur was undermining

00:10:09.740 Truman's initiatives. And I'm not totally sure about this. We do have a video clip

00:10:14.380 of the message that General MacArthur issued in 1951. Can we pull it up?

00:10:18.620 Get off my lawn. Listen, old man, you don't want to f*** with me. Did you hear me? I said, 0.99

00:10:27.340 get off my lawn. No. Are you f***ing crazy? Go back in the house. Yeah. I blow a hole in your

00:10:33.260 face and then I go in the house and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack f*** 0.99

00:10:39.500 like you five feet high in Korea. Use you for sandbags. 1.00

00:10:43.020 Maybe that's a reenactment. I'm not sure. Also, great job bleeping the one of 10 swear words in

00:10:50.620 that clip to Marshall, great producer. But in any case, Truman refused. Truman refused

00:10:59.500 MacArthur's demands, which you heard in that clip beautifully played by Clint Eastwood. And so the DMZ,

00:11:06.220 the demilitarized zone, was set up along. The 38th parallel, North and South Korea were firmly

00:11:11.100 established and the war came to an armistice. Now, perhaps 65 years later, we will pursue what

00:11:17.260 General MacArthur advocated, possibly too little too late. The other alternative are economic

00:11:23.180 incentives and economic sanctions. It's not very clear though that these will work. North Korean

00:11:28.700 economy of late has been growing fairly well, between one and five percent economic growth. Most

00:11:34.540 estimates have it around four percent. The reason for this is somewhat complicated. China buys 99%

00:11:41.020 of North Korea's coal exports. North Korea literally ships its people out of the country

00:11:45.740 to work as slaves in other countries. Gets about a billion dollars a year for that. And the North

00:11:51.180 Korean regime still has access to a lot of the international banking system. So what is President

00:11:56.700 Trump going to do? Our leader. We have some interesting situations that we'll handle North Korea,

00:12:04.140 Middle East, lots of problems that we inherited from previous administrations, but we'll take 1.00

00:12:10.460 care of them. We'll take care of them very well. We'll handle North Korea. We're gonna be able to

00:12:14.940 handle them. It will be, it will be handled. We handle everything.

00:12:19.660 We handle everything. What's all the, what's all the fuss about? We are going to handle it.

00:12:24.780 Great talk from President Trump. With that, let's bring in our panel. We have from the YouTubes,

00:12:30.380 the brainy, the beautiful roaming millennial is with us. From the Daily Wire, we have the also

00:12:36.460 brainy and beautiful, Amanda Prestigiacomo. And then from everywhere else on the internet,

00:12:40.860 we have the probably a little less brainy, definitely much less beautiful, Zoe Rachel.

00:12:45.500 Always good to have him here as well. Amanda, why can't we just kill this guy? He is, he is in a, 1.00

00:12:51.820 one guy, he's in a third world country. He's very overweight. He has heart problems. Why,

00:12:56.140 why is he still alive? We should just put it in the hands of Lindsey Graham, because clearly,

00:13:01.500 he wants, he wants this. He just wants to obliterate everyone. No measure from Lindsey Graham, 0.95

00:13:06.220 of course, but we shouldn't expect any. I mean, it's a really touchy situation, but I do actually,

00:13:14.380 I have more, I feel better with President Trump than President Obama, as crazy as that sounds,

00:13:20.780 because nothing, again, he just kicked the can down the road. At least President Trump is talking

00:13:24.940 about getting China in there and cutting out, putting sanctions on them and trying to do

00:13:30.380 something. But yeah, it's a little, it's a little crazy right now. And we have Jill Stein,

00:13:34.460 who's insane. And then we have Lindsey Graham, who's also the biggest war hawk there is to date. 1.00

00:13:38.620 Who would have thought mild-mannered Lindsey Graham, he's so soft-spoken, he's so genteel,

00:13:44.380 and he just wants to gun everybody down around the world. So the Castros, the Kims, the Clintons,

00:13:51.260 why do these terrible families stay in power for so long? What is it about them that we can't

00:13:56.220 wrench them from power? I'm not saying anything until you say that I'm brainy and beautiful.

00:14:03.100 In the interest of moving on with the show, and also when I speak from the depths of my heart,

00:14:08.060 you are, you are both brainy and you are very beautiful, Zoe Rachel. 0.99

00:14:11.580 Oh, shut up. The longings of my heart and my loins. So Rachel. 0.99

00:14:14.940 You can left out the loins, man. You had me, you had me at hello.

00:14:20.540 Speaking of the longings of loins, let's talk about the Clintons.

00:14:24.300 Let's get to the point. I don't know what it is, man. It's for some reason, you know,

00:14:31.100 when you're able to make promises and you're able to accuse other people of being evil,

00:14:34.540 that just goes a long way. Empty promises and accusations go a long way. And that's how these

00:14:39.420 people are able to stay in power. That's interesting. You know,

00:14:42.620 roaming the, the Trump administration managed to secure the release of that American high school

00:14:47.500 student, Otto Warmbier. Unfortunately, he died, I think days later, weeks later. But they still

00:14:54.140 managed to secure the release, which president Obama could not. He worked on it for over a year.

00:14:58.700 Does this show a good sign for the Trump administration and how he's going to deal with

00:15:02.220 North Korea? Or are we just as bad off as it seems? Well, I think there's definitely a scale here, 0.99

00:15:08.460 right? I mean, you can be better than Obama and still not be doing so well so far. But I think

00:15:13.900 in terms of the Trump administration and their approach to North Korea, I think honestly, it's

00:15:18.620 the, it's the most hopeful I've been in a long time. Something that I do wish though, and this is

00:15:23.500 someone who's lived in China, you know, right now I'm in Hong Kong. I think that they have a,

00:15:28.460 the Trump administration, even though they may be great people, good people, some of the best,

00:15:33.260 I think they're, they're not doing a really good job in trying to incentivize

00:15:36.620 China in order to cooperate with their agenda, right? Because I mean, quite, quite frankly,

00:15:40.220 I think China doesn't have a huge role to play in this, but it's not exactly in China's best

00:15:45.980 interests or China's purview right now to protect American foreign interests in North Korea. And I

00:15:51.980 think until, until the US can see that and can kind of think of a way to maybe carrot and stick

00:15:57.180 situation with China, they're not really going to budge. You know, roaming, it's an awfully convenient 1.00

00:16:01.900 time for you to be going over to Hong Kong while those missiles start flying over the Pacific here.

00:16:06.620 What do you know? Have you been colluding with the North Koreans or the Russians or the,

00:16:12.300 or the Kushners or what, what do you know? Yeah, I'm just, I'm just getting as far away

00:16:16.940 from the East coast as I can. I might be coming back, you know, sometime next year and we'll see

00:16:21.180 how the electoral college works out in the, in 2020. That, that is the plan. Once we go up and smoke,

00:16:26.620 then I think roaming is going to be hosting my show too. You'll have, you'll have Ben's show,

00:16:30.060 you'll have Andrew Klavan's show. That's a great strategy. I should have thought of it myself.

00:16:34.460 Okay. Now I know that you want to watch more roaming millennial and so Rachel and Amanda Presta

00:16:39.340 Giacomo, but you can't because you're too cheap unless you subscribe to daily wire. So go over

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00:17:00.620 panel of deplorables. We're going to be talking about doctor assisted suicide. We're going to be

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00:17:09.660 subscribe and give me your money. So go over there right now, dailywire.com and we'll be back with

00:17:14.220 the panel of deplorables. So Tommy Lauren is under fire. She's under fire from the left for alleged

00:17:31.340 hypocrisy. I was over at Politicon over this weekend and she did a, she did a debate with

00:17:36.140 Chelsea Handler and there was this question that came up. Handler said, what do you do for health

00:17:41.020 insurance? And Tommy Lauren said, well, I'm only 24. And so therefore I'm on my father's health

00:17:47.020 insurance plan because under Obamacare, you get to stay on your parents plan until you're 71,

00:17:51.740 I think 71 or 74. They keep changing the regulations. So now the left is calling her a hypocrite. Amanda,

00:17:58.300 is she a hypocrite? She's using a perk that is available under the law, but she also thinks 1.00

00:18:03.740 that perhaps in general, it's not a great regulation. Is she a dirty, rotten hypocrite? 1.00

00:18:08.620 Well, first of all, the brain power in that room was just a remark on me. 1.00

00:18:15.100 You're bad. I didn't say it.

00:18:16.380 But I, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but, but I'm not going to attack Tommy here. It's Tommy Lauren,

00:18:20.940 actually, Michael. Um, but, uh, you can totally do a lot of show prep here at the daily wire.

00:18:27.180 Yeah, that's okay. I forgive you. But this reminds me of the attack on president Trump when he was,

00:18:33.020 uh, basically bashing tax loopholes and then using them. Yeah, no doubt. Like, of course he's going to use

00:18:37.980 them. It's such a stupid attack. There's so many things you can go after Tommy Lauren on, 1.00

00:18:43.180 and this is not one of them. Um, like I said, it's just like using the system that they implemented

00:18:48.540 and still being against it doesn't make any sense to me. That's a great point. They have,

00:18:51.260 there's so much material, uh, at their disposal. And of course the left has to shoot themselves in 0.77

00:18:56.060 the foot and use the, using the word. I have to ask, uh, uh, roaming did who won this debate?

00:19:03.340 Was it, is it like the Iran Iraq war? We just hope both lose or did somebody come out on top? 0.80

00:19:07.900 America lost. Yeah, I won't. You know, that's, that's the thing. I'm Tommy Lauren, you know,

00:19:12.620 I don't see Idaho. I, with it, with her on everything. Um, but you know, she's, I think she

00:19:18.140 has a lot of good arguments to be made and, you know, Chelsea Handler is 0.98

00:19:20.700 a person. So, you know, human dignity and that, but, uh, you know, in general when,

00:19:27.100 yeah, it's a Tommy Lauren, Chelsea Handler debate. This wasn't any in-depth policy discussion.

00:19:31.100 Uh, there was a lot of, but my feelings, but my freedom, right? From, from each side. So

00:19:36.380 I don't think there were any, it was about as good as you would have expected it to be.

00:19:42.620 And I mean, in terms of winners, yeah, I guess it's just what, uh, what, what kind of

00:19:47.980 identity politics you like. I don't know, like pro America, pro leftism. Yeah. I, I don't know.

00:19:54.380 If anyone hasn't watched it yet, I would give it a miss. Watch Ben Shapiro and Chang Uyghur. That is 1.00

00:19:59.020 where all the action was. That was a great debate, but you guys are a couple of negative

00:20:02.060 Nancy's on this. Zoe, do you agree with them? Do you agree with, with our two female panelists?

00:20:06.860 Oh, you know, you better, you know, if you want to get out here safely. Um,

00:20:12.060 in calling, uh, um, I love the saying that, you know, if, uh, liberals didn't have double standards,

00:20:18.780 they wouldn't have any standards at all, you know? So of course they're going to call

00:20:22.060 Tommy Lahren a hypocrite, but, but here's the bigger hypocrisy. You, you, you got things like, 0.99

00:20:26.620 uh, Chelsea Hamler who goes off on a screaming, cursing tirade and then accuses Donald Trump of 0.51

00:20:32.620 whining. And not only that, after her screaming tirade and bragging about who she has sex with, 0.99

00:20:37.420 she actually says that he should act more like a president. I'm like, who the crap are you to 1.00

00:20:42.860 judge somebody and tell them to act more presidential? And how are you going to have 0.98

00:20:46.380 this debate about healthcare when you're promoting this promiscuous lifestyle? And then when people

00:20:52.380 get a sexually transmitted disease, they want to go and demand that the, the, the healthcare,

00:20:57.420 uh, slave that they're entitled to write them a prescription for their AIDS. 0.98

00:21:01.420 That is, that is a great racket. Now I'll always defend very promiscuous lifestyles,

00:21:06.140 but that is a great racket. And you know, I have to ask on that point,

00:21:08.940 Zoe, do you think there were two women in that debate? It was woman on woman. 1.00

00:21:13.820 Do you think that this exhibits Politicon's internalized misandry? Is this, is this sexism?

00:21:20.300 We have two women on this panel who, by the way, get paid 77 cents more on the dollar than we do. 1.00

00:21:25.980 Is this, is this Politicon's internalized sexism?

00:21:28.620 If this is, if this is true feminism, uh, this is a very strange way to, to show it. 1.00

00:21:34.140 There should have been total solidarity on that stage that there should have been no contention

00:21:38.220 whatsoever. You know, speaking of feminism, speaking of strong women and strong women voices,

00:21:44.940 we have to talk about a Beyonce studies professor. Now, uh, there is a New Jersey professor of women's 1.00

00:21:51.020 studies who specifically teaches about queen Bay, my cousin Beyonce. And he recently tweeted three

00:21:56.620 tweets quote, if I see any Trump bumper stickers on the road today, my brakes will go out and I'll run

00:22:01.820 you off the road. That's lovely. Will the second amendment be as cool when I buy a gun and start

00:22:06.140 shooting at random white people or no, he, uh, he is a white person himself, by the way, and quote, 1.00

00:22:12.380 Trump is an effing joke. This is all a sham. I wish someone would just shoot him out. Right now, 1.00

00:22:19.900 I know that you majored in Beyonce studies, whatever happened to academic freedom,

00:22:24.380 why are they kicking this important voice out of the academy?

00:22:27.020 Um, well, first off, I gotta say, you know, Beyonce studies, uh, if, if there's a bigger

00:22:32.860 example of the academic left hating the concept of employment, uh, I can't think of it. Right.

00:22:38.300 But, uh, yeah, you know, I've, I've actually had some conversations about this with people who 0.94

00:22:42.940 say that, oh no, you know, if we start to let go of professors who say things like killing white 0.86

00:22:48.860 people's okay, advocating white genocide, that's bad. Um, we're as bad as the left. Do we start doing 0.99

00:22:54.380 that? And I, no, I'm sorry, but no, uh, you know, not wanting actual racist and, you know,

00:23:01.580 actual extremists who call for murdering white people or presidents around your children, uh,

00:23:07.100 in positions of power, I don't think is a, you know, being, being as bad as the left or, you know,

00:23:12.220 thought control. And I, I think it's crazy that most academics get away with as much as they do.

00:23:16.940 What an uneducated rube roaming millennial is read a blog for goodness sake, will you get on Twitter? 1.00

00:23:24.140 So not only does this professor teach Beyonce studies and threatened to kill people, 0.91

00:23:28.300 he also has a terrible grasp of punctuation and grammar. Uh, do you think it's time to shut down

00:23:33.180 the colleges? Have the colleges just gotten out of control for employing these people?

00:23:37.340 Oh man, one thing I'm not going to go on the, uh, the grammar Nazi angle, but I tell you what, man,

00:23:42.780 this is once again, Democrats with their true KKK colors on display for some, when they disagree with 0.95

00:23:48.620 this, first thing they want to do is they want to start shooting people. They want to blow up 0.98

00:23:51.420 churches. They want to set things on fire. That's just who they are. This is what they do. And I'm 0.95

00:23:55.340 hoping, I'm hoping that at some point people will start to catch wind that this is what they are.

00:24:00.060 This is what they always done. This is just what they do. Are you accusing the party that founded

00:24:04.140 the KKK of racism? How dare you? How dare you? I am. I do it all day. No, no.

00:24:09.180 They do it all day. Michael, you're wrong because like there was this magical switch. Remember when

00:24:14.620 then like all the racists left. So it's yeah. Wait, so you don't, you don't remember, you don't,

00:24:21.820 gosh, guys, you have to read blogs. You have to start reading blogs. It was a time in the 1960s.

00:24:27.580 Everybody got together as a big convention and we all said, okay, so now I am a Republican,

00:24:32.540 I'm going to be a Democrat and you all you are now going to be Republicans. Do you not remember this?

00:24:37.820 Oh man. There's a lot of, there's a lot of abracadabra in that, you know, it's like this,

00:24:43.180 this sudden big switch, but I love the whole, okay, here's this big exodus, this big switch.

00:24:47.340 Okay. Go strong Thurman. Who's, who's what, who else is with me? And then as far as the big switch,

00:24:51.180 well, if all the Democrats came over here, where did all the Republicans go?

00:24:54.540 But Zoe, in order to refute the line about the parties switching,

00:24:58.140 you would have to read political history from the 1940s through the 1990s. Yeah, that's a lot of reading

00:25:03.020 to do. I can't, I haven't been prepared for that in college. I got to go get a job. Amanda,

00:25:07.180 have the universities always been crazy or are they getting particularly bad right now? 0.98

00:25:13.020 They're peak crazy. The more money we put into them, they hit peak crazy. I mean, 0.97

00:25:17.260 Beyonce, by the way, I mean, she is, so Al Gore is kind of like Joel Osteen for climate science.

00:25:23.980 Beyonce is like literally Jesus on the left. Like she is the second coming. She is it. Like they,

00:25:29.820 it's not just him. Does that make me John the Baptist since I'm her cousin?

00:25:32.700 Because that's great. That's not too bad. The voice of one crying out on Facebook.

00:25:37.020 Do you eat locust and honey? What's that taste like?

00:25:42.220 The, the, you know, this university thing is actually pretty, I actually take this pretty

00:25:46.540 seriously. I was just back at Yale. That place has been destroyed in like five years. And part of it

00:25:52.700 is, I think the funding part of it is that the administration has been so weak about all of

00:25:57.660 these student protests, but is there any light at the end of the tunnel? How are we supposed to fix

00:26:01.260 this? So any thoughts? Uh, you know, the funny thing is, man, is that, you know, these institutions,

00:26:07.180 they, they were Christian founded and Hey, you know, the snake got into the garden of Eden. So it's 0.99

00:26:11.500 like, you know, the devil, the devil's going to get into church and he got in there too. So, you know,

00:26:15.820 and the thing is, is for some reason, there's this push to qualify yourself as a sophisticated and

00:26:22.700 intellectual by disqualifying God and all their whole pursuit is to get as far away from that as

00:26:28.300 possible to show that they are of some secular, uh, uh, intellectual powerhouse. And that's,

00:26:34.140 that's a shame, man. It's because it's, it's, it's almost like you want to push all this intellect.

00:26:39.020 They're just really highly educated idiots. That is a really funny point because I did, 1.00

00:26:42.540 I did notice this at Yale. There was always this idea that if you weren't espousing the secular

00:26:47.740 point of view or the materialist point of view, you were just some, some rude from the hillbilly

00:26:53.100 countries. But the other thing I noticed is that all of the smartest people I met there, all, I mean,

00:26:57.420 the handful of really bright people I met were Christian or a Jewish or, uh, or, you know,

00:27:03.420 Eastern Orthodox or Catholic. They all had that in common. They were all God believers. Now,

00:27:07.980 roaming, you are not only a millennial, you're the roaming millennial. Have you noticed this problem

00:27:13.260 on campuses? And, uh, do you have any ideas on how to fix it? Well, I think I university campuses

00:27:20.060 are kind of like mini hubs for all progressive leftist policies, right? So anything that we might

00:27:26.380 see in large society from the progressive left is, is amplified on university campuses. So,

00:27:31.660 you know, that's true for any sort of social justice theories. And that's definitely true.

00:27:36.220 Like Zoe was saying for things like secularism and this, you know, anti-religious

00:27:41.660 stance that the left has been taking increasingly. And I think, you know, what is so interesting

00:27:45.740 about, uh, about that is that you have a lot of university professors who are espousing, uh,

00:27:52.700 you know, the value of secularism, which, you know, I don't think secularism might be inherently bad,

00:27:57.500 but then if you, hey, let's turn and look at the philosophy departments or the history departments and,

00:28:02.380 oh, look, Aquinas, St. Augustine, like all these great thinkers that you guys are teaching.

00:28:08.460 All those old white men, you mean, except for Augustine, I guess was fairly swarthy, 0.94

00:28:13.420 probably my skin color, but not Zoe's skin color. So he's bad. Sorry, go on. 0.87

00:28:18.140 For that, it's funny to me how, you know, they can have this sort of arrogance when it comes to

00:28:23.420 people who are religious, who still hold to Judeo-Christian values. But, you know, when you

00:28:27.900 actually look at the subjects that they would be teaching so much of, you know, classical Western

00:28:32.220 history and so much of what we hold to be Western values are built by people who believe the same

00:28:38.540 things that a lot of the religious right do now. You know, speaking of St. Augustine and to mystic

00:28:43.820 theology, we have to talk about assisted suicide. There's actually pretty good news on this front, 1.00

00:28:48.700 even as the universities burn and the missiles fly over from Korea. There's a new study out of Tarleton

00:28:53.660 State University, which finds that all 43 bills to legalize assisted suicide in 26 states this year

00:29:00.220 have failed. That's 100% failure rate. And that gives legalized suicide bills over the last 23

00:29:05.340 years, a 99% failure rate roaming. Why don't Americans want their doctors to kill them? It 0.97

00:29:11.740 seems so, it seems so obvious. It's, it's weird. It's almost as if they don't want their doctors

00:29:16.300 to kill them and they don't want their doctors to kill their loved ones. Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't

00:29:20.460 make any sense. It's so attractive and appealing. Some of my loved ones, I might have a different

00:29:24.460 opinion on Amanda. Does this represent a culture shift from a culture of death to a culture of life?

00:29:30.060 No, unfortunately, I don't think so.

00:29:34.060 Sad. Deport a great man, sad.

00:29:37.020 Yeah. These bills are going to keep on coming. And, you know, once this legislation starts,

00:29:42.620 I was looking up some, some data on this and in Belgium, for instance, they introduced the

00:29:46.700 legislation in 2001. And then this, it just kind of produced this slippery slope, this culture of death,

00:29:52.140 where as of now, currently, one of every 50 deaths is, they're euthanized. I mean,

00:29:59.260 that's insanity. And now they just legalized it for children with chronic illnesses or what have you.

00:30:05.420 So, I mean, it gets, it's a really slippery slope. So let's just, you know, we got to push

00:30:10.060 conservatism obviously to combat this, but it's really scary. And I don't think it's any

00:30:14.060 great news to celebrate. I think we still have a long way to go.

00:30:16.540 That's a great point. You know, and it raises an interesting question, why

00:30:20.620 this is different in America than it is in Europe. I'm sorry, Millennial, you were about to say 1.00

00:30:24.940 something. Well, I was just, you know, gonna say that it's, it is worrying that Europe is going

00:30:29.820 this way, especially, you know, when, when it comes to children. But I think part of what might

00:30:34.780 be positive about that, and we kind of see this in the recent, very tragic Charlie Gard case,

00:30:39.820 is that when people in the U S see these kinds of things happening in Europe, where we see not

00:30:44.140 only a government, uh, kind of takeover of healthcare and choices that affect your right

00:30:48.540 to life or, you know, living in general, I think it, you know, it, it might be a wake up call for

00:30:54.540 people here to see like, Hey, if we keep continuing down this road, this actually will be where it

00:30:59.020 leads to, right? I mean, slippery slope argument is it isn't always crazy. And I think this is a very

00:31:03.740 good example where, uh, people who are advocating for these bills in the United States need to take a

00:31:08.860 good look at Europe, what they're doing there. Like, do we want to be a society where we help

00:31:14.780 children kill themselves, where we decide that, you know what, this experimental procedure for this

00:31:19.820 dying baby, not really worth it. I don't really see it. Right. Because I mean, in my opinion, these,

00:31:24.300 these two things are very, they're very entwined, right? It all has to do with government and, uh,

00:31:28.700 it may be killing you. That is a great point. I mean, it seems to me that certainly the Anglosphere 0.82

00:31:34.460 should break off of Europe, that Brexit, they should try to move the island. And maybe we

00:31:38.460 could increase the space in between the United States and Europe as well. Fill up, maybe we need

00:31:43.020 a little more global warming to fill up that Atlantic ocean. So do you think that you should

00:31:47.260 be able to kill your family members? Oh, man. That's why, why ask me that? 1.00

00:31:54.300 What do you know about my family? Anyway, what do you know that I don't know? What are we,

00:31:57.740 I think, I think the base of this where it's really flawed is that I reckon the doctor has

00:32:03.660 an oath to take that says do no harm. And if you're helping somebody to kill themselves,

00:32:07.580 you're for surely doing them harm. And not only that, I mean, we're talking about assisted suicide,

00:32:11.660 man, that's a business. And the nature of business is to grow. So if you're going to make it a business

00:32:17.260 of assisting people with suicide, you can convince anybody. It's like, you know, hey man,

00:32:21.100 I wanna fatten up my pocketbook. But you gotta be a Trump level salesman to sell

00:32:25.580 people death to sell, kill. I mean, you have to be, that is the art of the deal, folks. 0.98

00:32:31.580 But when you think about it, I mean, look, we got a culture right now of culture of suicide bombers.

00:32:35.980 And they're taught from, from childhood that, hey, you kill yourself, you get what, 72 virgins,

00:32:40.860 you get some, you get some young boys, you know, that are as fresh as pearls, you know,

00:32:44.940 so you can actually sell this on people. You can actually create a culture.

00:32:48.620 That way seems a lot more exciting than in some hospital rooms.

00:32:51.340 Well, the older family members can feel like they're a burden and even,

00:32:57.340 you know, when you have that culture, yeah, when you have that culture of death,

00:33:01.260 older family members can feel like they're a burden and then kind of go forward with this

00:33:05.180 kind of stuff even though they don't really want to, you know, so.

00:33:07.660 And that's a great point with, uh, it being all about sales and business as well. Like,

00:33:11.420 do we want the government in a position, especially now where we have, uh, you know,

00:33:15.740 more government involvement in healthcare than we ever have in the United States,

00:33:18.780 do we want government in a position where it can actually maybe, I don't want to say talk

00:33:23.820 people into killing themselves, but be part of the decision process. Exactly. That is going to

00:33:29.020 objectively save them money in the longterm when we're talking about these serious illnesses.

00:33:32.700 Like I've, if you don't see a conflict of interest there, then I, I don't know what to say.

00:33:37.100 That's absolutely right. Yeah.

00:33:38.780 Go ahead. I don't see this. That's why I don't see this as the glass half full,

00:33:42.940 because at the same time we're pushing socialized medicine. So once you do that,

00:33:46.700 these are coupled together. So once that's pushed, you know, one of these bills gets in

00:33:50.460 there and then you have this culture of death, we have rationed healthcare and this stuff kind

00:33:53.260 of takes off and you do have that culture of death, um, amplified.

00:33:56.380 And at the core of this, there is the materialist worldview, the worldview that says that I don't

00:34:01.180 have a soul. I'm not going anywhere. There isn't a purpose to my life that's outside of me.

00:34:05.740 It's only a self-actualized purpose or a self-determined one. And in that case,

00:34:11.420 then suffering is the worst thing imaginable, right? In that case, you could possibly even

00:34:16.620 sell someone death, but we're not going to need any assisted suicide when the bombs start flying

00:34:20.620 and that little dictator nukes us all into oblivion panel. Thank you for being here. Roaming millennials, 0.66

00:34:26.220 Zoe, Rachel, and Amanda Prestigiacomo. Now we have to come to the final thought.

00:34:36.140 The big Kung Pao's chicken in the room that we have not yet discussed much is China. For years,

00:34:41.980 the United States has leaned on China to pressure North Korea on its nuclear weapons program to

00:34:46.860 evidently zero success. This week, China's vice commerce minister insisted, quote,

00:34:52.140 we think the North Korea nuclear issue and China US trade are in two completely different domains.

00:34:57.740 They aren't related. They should not be discussed together. Well, there's a new sheriff in town and

00:35:03.260 President Trump has promised to do just that finally tie trade to North Korean nukes. Critics will

00:35:09.900 shriek about the inefficacy of this tactic, but it couldn't possibly do worse than our previous quarter

00:35:14.700 century of failed policy on the peninsula. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.

00:35:19.740 Come back tomorrow. We'll do it again.

The Michael Knowles Show - August 01, 2017

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