The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 2003 - Woke Libs MELTDOWN Over America 250 - Michael Knowles REACTS

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Donald Trump George W. Bush Harvey Mansfield Michelle Obama Barack Hussein Michelle LeVon Bush Clinton Kanye West Joe Biden Cardiff.co Aristotle Michael Brioni Hitler Bushes Obamas Begin Elisa Venn Doug

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On today's show, we have a special guest on the show, Michael Bloomberg. He's a former prosecutor who served as a federal prosecutor in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He is now a professor of political science at the Berklee College of Education, and is a regular contributor to CNN and the New York Times.

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00:01:26.800 close to you. Please go to connexontario.ca. Not everybody is happy that America is 250 years old.
00:01:33.500 Some people wish we had died long before. And they think it is wrong of you to celebrate.
00:01:38.840 Where do we find such excruple degeneracy? We find it, of course, on TikTok. Take it away.
00:01:44.700 I want to remind everybody because we are coming out of May.
00:01:48.380 Septim piercing. And then there's going to be June. And then there's going to be July.
00:01:52.080 It's always the tell. 0.79
00:01:53.080 Remind everybody that July 4th is f***ing cancelled.
00:02:02.600 It's cancelled. It means nothing.
00:02:04.520 It's trash, it's garbage, it's something we vomited up, apparently. 1.00
00:02:08.240 If I hear a single f***ing firework, if I see a f***ing barbecue out there, 1.00
00:02:13.760 motherf***ers, it is cancelled. 0.99
00:02:18.780 Aristotle believed that one's physique had a relation to one's other virtues. 0.99
00:02:24.860 He was an early looks-maxer.
00:02:26.500 He believed that you really could judge a book by its cover. 0.57
00:02:30.620 And ugly people can be virtuous.
00:02:34.360 It's not even about natural ugliness so much.
00:02:36.960 When you see someone with the jolly rancher blue hair,
00:02:41.180 when you see someone who just looks like on the brink of death all the time
00:02:47.280 with no underlying medical reason.
00:02:48.880 When you see, crucially, when you see the septum piercing,
00:02:51.700 you know that you're dealing with someone
00:02:53.240 whose intellect and will have been rotted to the core.
00:02:56.880 And that should signal to you,
00:02:58.780 that should play upon your prejudice,
00:03:01.040 which is good, which we rely upon a lot.
00:03:04.100 That should signal to you that whatever you're about to hear
00:03:06.460 is probably very, very wrong,
00:03:10.300 if not influenced by Satan.
00:03:14.160 Next one. 1.00
00:03:14.720 250 years of freedom my entire ass. We cannot celebrate freedom while people are actively 0.99
00:03:21.580 being stripped of political power and civil rights. Y'all motherfuckers were lecturing 1.00
00:03:26.480 black people on how we needed to be grateful for Donald Trump because he did so much to pardon 1.00
00:03:32.720 and free black people. He did so much with his selective ass prison reform. You have nothing 0.76
00:03:39.080 to say. Prison reform is like the one thing Trump did that I hated. The one thing he's ever done
00:03:43.400 that I hated. 0.99
00:03:44.240 About the continued disenfranchisement of fel- 1.00
00:03:51.160 I love how she just conflates black people with criminals. 0.99
00:03:54.660 Just totally, casually, no explanation at all. 0.98
00:03:59.160 Just, she sees the Venn diagram of black people 0.93
00:04:03.060 and criminals to be a circle. 0.99
00:04:06.300 Like, cool it, Bull Connor.
00:04:07.680 Cool, hey, cool it with the racist remarks. 0.95
00:04:10.660 You've got to keep the white and the black surface. 0.98
00:04:13.220 There's a great political lesson that comes out of that TikTok, Doug.
00:04:16.100 I mentioned that basically the one thing Trump has ever done that I really, really, really
00:04:22.320 disagreed with was the prison reform, the jailbreak bill in the first term where he
00:04:27.360 sprung a bunch of criminals out of prison.
00:04:29.200 And it's funny when people, they say, Michael, you're too positive on Trump.
00:04:34.080 You never criticized Trump.
00:04:35.120 I say, that's not true.
00:04:36.580 I hated that jailbreak bill.
00:04:37.920 I hated prison reform, which is the one thing that a lot of those people usually like.
00:04:41.260 But I thought it was a bad idea.
00:04:43.420 It's okay.
00:04:43.900 You know, people can only be right at most 99.3% of the time.
00:04:47.160 In any case, it's a reminder as to why it's not a good idea to pander to people who just
00:04:53.420 fundamentally disagree with you.
00:04:55.360 The people who want to abolish prisons, the people who want to let the criminals out of
00:04:58.480 jail, you're not going to win those people over. 0.94
00:05:00.740 Trump can win over a bunch of black voters. 0.58
00:05:02.320 He did historically.
00:05:03.860 But he's not winning her.
00:05:05.380 He's not going to win a bunch of criminals.
00:05:06.760 He's got, you know, he's going to win like, you know, normal good people.
00:05:10.280 So if we could do it over, you can't repeat history, but if we could do it over, we need to put more people in prison.
00:05:16.180 The problem is not over-incarceration. The problem is under-incarceration.
00:05:20.260 As long as we have crime, we have an under-incarceration problem.
00:05:23.580 Next one. 1.00
00:05:24.420 I'm happy to report that America's 250th birthday party was as ghetto as we thought. 1.00
00:05:28.760 Here are some clips from inside the event, and it looks to be a sweaty time. 1.00
00:05:32.880 Just malt, liquor, and bologna.
00:05:35.380 And everybody's dressed like it's 2003, but not in a good way.
00:05:38.500 oh and then these two thugs got into a fist brawl just feet away from the white house
00:05:44.000 look at this usual suspects okay so there's a little irony to this because usually 0.89
00:05:51.960 the videos of people getting into fights on the streets is usually black people but in this case 0.94
00:05:56.000 it's white people so you say yeah look at those thugs yeah they're the usual suspects 0.98
00:05:59.460 Begin. It's okay. He's having fun mocking white working class aesthetics. And this is a criticism 0.99
00:06:11.460 that you usually don't see coming from black people. This is more a criticism you get 0.96
00:06:15.620 from white liberals because it's the safest group to beat up on. You're allowed to beat up on them 0.88
00:06:22.560 and you won't be called racist and you won't even be called classist. It's just fun. The white
00:06:26.420 working class and the white working class aesthetic you know wwe ufc you know dirt bikes
00:06:34.160 and bald eagles and explosions that that's uh mocked by the self-styled cultural elite
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00:08:01.720 And so this has been the knock on Trump for 10 years. He seems like white trash. Oh, he's just 1.00
00:08:07.300 leaning into the populism, even not just the white working class. Trump, oh, he's named in
00:08:14.240 all these rap songs. He's got the style of a rapper or a gangster. And yeah, that's true. 0.94
00:08:19.400 And he embraces it. And it's what gives him a lot of cross-cultural appeal because he is a
00:08:24.260 billionaire. He was born rich. My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars. He has
00:08:29.520 steakhouses and luxury golf courses, and he wears nice Brioni suits and all the rest of it.
00:08:33.940 but his tastes tend to be the tastes of normal people,
00:08:40.680 not of just the upper crust of the upper crust of the,
00:08:44.700 the aristocracy.
00:08:45.860 When Trump orders his steak,
00:08:47.420 he doesn't order it like all the fancy people do rare or medium rare.
00:08:50.760 He orders it burnt with ketchup.
00:08:52.420 When he wants entertainment,
00:08:53.800 he doesn't,
00:08:54.480 he doesn't go to the opera.
00:08:55.400 I like the opera.
00:08:56.200 He doesn't go to the opera.
00:08:57.220 He doesn't go to the ballet.
00:08:58.280 He goes to UFC.
00:09:00.100 Trump goes to see the Knicks game because he couldn't,
00:09:02.480 he said,
00:09:02.740 I had this league is so left wing.
00:09:03.940 but it's great entertainment and they mock him for it. I think they mock him for it at their
00:09:08.080 own peril. Normal people like that stuff. Okay. So that's fine. Mock him. He's too relatable.
00:09:14.700 He's not pretentious enough. He's look at this guy. He's not even condescending. Yeah. Okay.
00:09:19.900 I guess that's how he got elected at least twice and won the popular vote. Today on America,
00:09:24.300 septum on a man was reminded us who we are bitch i know that orange motherfucker is mad 1.00
00:09:35.740 i'm batman bitch you had all you had biden bush clinton obama bitch it was giving 1.00
00:09:47.320 presidential avengers bitch okay they hate this is what america 250 is supposed to look like bitch 1.00
00:09:56.420 okay this was america 250 i don't know what that shit on the white house lawn was 1.00
00:10:01.840 michelle obama you you know america doesn't deserve her they don't deserve a michelle obama 1.00
00:10:10.140 presidential run you don't deserve michelle lavon bitch you don't deserve michelle lavon 0.99
00:10:16.400 He's just repeating himself seven times for every quasi point he makes. 1.00
00:10:21.940 Graceful, class, intelligence, graceful, class, intelligence, qualifications, bitch. 0.99
00:10:33.880 Even through the disrespect. 0.99
00:10:37.240 I was given hope today.
00:10:38.800 It was a hug that was like a hug to the country.
00:10:42.520 It really was.
00:10:43.460 Um, and I don't care what they say. You can never make me hate Barack Hussein and Michelle LaVon, bitch. Play with your mother. Don't play with me. 1.00
00:10:56.680 why does he use their middle names or their maiden names yeah the black homosexual men 0.99
00:11:04.820 are one of the stranger groups because black men are one of the last groups in america 0.94
00:11:12.400 who have retained a real pride in masculine behavior this is a point that uh the harvard
00:11:18.540 professor harvey mansfield made in his book manliness 20 years ago black men still retain
00:11:25.260 a, they valorize masculinity, whereas other demographics don't really do that anymore. 0.99
00:11:32.840 And so the black effeminate men, that's a weird one. 1.00
00:11:37.520 I see. So my sexuality is weird. 1.00
00:11:42.080 And then it gets even weirder. Well, one, I mean, you knew you were in for it the minute you saw 0.98
00:11:46.780 not just a septum ring, but a septum ring on a man. That's really confounding. That's a red flag.
00:11:52.700 But when he says how much he loves George Bush,
00:11:56.800 I say, hold on, wait a second.
00:11:57.860 I remember when Kanye West was saying 0.99
00:11:59.380 George Bush hates black people 0.99
00:12:00.500 and Bush was Hitler and all this. 0.99
00:12:01.820 But because you get all of the presidents
00:12:04.740 and the first ladies other than Trump 0.98
00:12:06.180 at the Barack Obama giant garbage can 1.00
00:12:08.460 in the middle of Chicago,
00:12:09.880 he says this was the presidential Avengers.
00:12:12.180 And it just feels so contrived.
00:12:13.740 It feels so corporate.
00:12:14.580 And that's what he leans into at the end.
00:12:16.040 He's like, oh yeah, the Avengers.
00:12:17.500 We just love, we just want to go back
00:12:19.140 to George Bush and Joe Biden.
00:12:20.780 And that's what the people really want, do you?
00:12:23.320 I don't think you do.
00:12:24.100 He says, it's not a corporate event without those guys.
00:12:26.780 And that's the real truth of it.
00:12:28.360 Yeah, you're right.
00:12:29.200 It's not.
00:12:29.620 You're right.
00:12:29.920 Yeah, it's all the big corporate events.
00:12:31.240 They drag those kinds of people out.
00:12:32.960 It feels the Bushes and the Bidens and Obamas to some degree.
00:12:38.140 Yeah, they feel very corporate.
00:12:39.620 I was possessed.
00:12:41.420 And Trump's not that.
00:12:42.340 He doesn't appeal to the corporate boardrooms.
00:12:44.880 And he doesn't really appeal to, I don't know, to the old establishment.
00:12:49.460 He kind of broke that.
00:12:50.780 Which is why he's the real rock star and the actual rock stars have become like politicians.
00:12:58.440 Next one.
00:12:59.220 What's up, y'all, man?
00:13:00.400 Happy 4th of July, man. 0.99
00:13:01.660 I don't know who needed to hear this, but I'm at that age now where if you popping fireworks after 12 o'clock, I'm calling the police on your ass. 0.99
00:13:08.380 There's too much going on with Trump, Iran. 1.00
00:13:10.900 You got to worry about the YNs already. 1.00
00:13:12.960 You can't even walk outside no more. 1.00
00:13:14.460 So wrap that shit up at 1130 because when 12 a.m. hit, I don't need to hear shit. 1.00
00:13:19.620 That was fine. I don't really have a problem with that. I have little kids. I don't want 1.00
00:13:32.980 people setting off fireworks, waking my kids up, dragging me out the next day. That's fine.
00:13:37.040 I don't know why he would blame, you know, Trump or anything for that. He vaguely references the
00:13:43.260 war in Iran, but I, you know, all the gunshots in these cities, those are all run by Democrats, 0.97
00:13:47.520 But I agree with him. 0.92
00:13:49.180 Yeah, I agree.
00:13:49.800 I wouldn't have agreed 10 years ago,
00:13:50.960 but I'm a father of four.
00:13:53.640 I agree.
00:13:54.440 I don't want them waking my kids up at night.
00:13:55.900 All right, there's one,
00:13:56.600 there is some bipartisan agreement at the end. 0.88
00:13:58.540 The rest of them pretty crazy.
00:13:59.840 Happy 4th of July.
00:14:03.980 That was great content.