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00:01:06.140national in Maine just days after shooting a Mexican national in Texas. And Democrats still
00:01:12.280do not understand how conservatives think about illegal immigration. We will get into the details,
00:01:17.540our real motives, our real thoughts. Then singer Dua Lipa launches a library of banned books
00:01:24.980that includes the most officially, formally promoted books in the entire world. That always
00:01:32.980seems to happen. Lindsey Graham's sister takes over her brother's Senate seat. And last but not0.99
00:01:38.900least, the US now controls the Strait of Hormuz in the new Iran war. I'm Michael Knowles. This
00:01:43.300Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. So much going on. President Trump has a big speech
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00:03:53.080puretalk.com slash Knowles to start saving. The biggest story is this ice shooting in Maine.
00:03:59.020at 7 a.m. yesterday in Biddeford, Maine, ICE immigration officers shoot and kill a guy.
00:04:08.660He was a Colombian national who was in America. They shoot and kill him in Maine. That's basically
00:04:14.340all you're going to hear about this story from the establishment media. What they will not tell you
00:04:18.240is that the ICE officer shot and killed the Colombian national as he was allegedly driving
00:04:23.720in the direction of the officer. We saw that exact situation play out in Minnesota during
00:04:29.140the ICE raids last year. So there's an investigation going on. It doesn't seem like
00:04:34.480there was a lot of camera footage or body cams in this case, which is good for the libs.
00:04:38.900The libs want to pretend that when there's no body camera footage, it's because something
00:04:44.920egregious occurred on the part of the officers. And this is the fascist right wing state
00:04:50.580oppressing the poor, helpless, marginalized communities. But that's not really what
00:04:54.620happens. You'll recall that the libs about 10 years ago made this big push for body cameras
00:04:59.640on cops. And then the moment that happened, the moment they got the body cameras on cops,
00:05:03.980they realized that the cops are in the right statistically 100% of the time.
00:05:08.000And then all of the supposedly oppressed, victimized perpetrators, they were basically
00:05:16.440always in the wrong, and the cops, if anything, were too restrained. So you're going to see a lot
00:05:22.060more out of this ICE shooting in Maine. What's strange, it's not really strange when you analyze
00:05:28.800it, but what seems strange at first glance is that the ICE-involved shooting in Maine
00:05:33.880comes just days after another ICE-involved shooting in Texas, one that you probably
00:05:38.240didn't even hear that much about if you heard about it at all. Why is that? Why are you hearing
00:05:43.180so much about the ICE-involved shooting in Maine, where you have a foreign national0.98
00:05:46.640who is accused of driving his car at police officers who was killed, almost the exact
00:05:51.400same circumstances. In both cases, the person who was killed was not the target of the ICE raid
00:05:57.260himself. Why did you hear about the one in Maine but not the one in Texas? Because Maine is in play.
00:06:03.700Maine is a really hot seat that is in play. Democrats are trying to unseat Susan Collins.1.00
00:06:07.940They had the Nazi rapist, allegedly, Graham Plattner, who was their candidate until a few0.94
00:06:14.400days ago when finally he was removed. But they think they can take that seat. Whereas in Texas,0.98
00:06:18.960they're going to have a hard time, even though they're putting some resources behind
00:06:21.560James Tallarico, the allegedly straight, allegedly male, allegedly Christian Democrat nominee for
00:06:26.640Senate there. That's probably not going to happen. So once again, for people who are analyzing this,
00:06:32.800who are just kind of normies, centrists. They're not all that ideological. Just recognize you are
00:06:38.380being played by the liberal media. You are being played by the Democrat establishment.
00:06:43.480It's not that the incident in Maine was so much more egregious than the incident in Texas.
00:06:49.680They're basically the same incident. It's just that Democrats think they can win in Maine,
00:06:53.580and they probably can't win in Texas. It's the same thing we saw last year when there were ice
00:06:58.460raids around the country, but the only one that people ever heard about was in Minnesota.
00:07:02.060And the reason they heard about it in Minnesota was not because ICE was especially super-duper mean in Minnesota.
00:07:07.260The reason they heard about it in Minnesota is because the Democrats who run Minnesota and who run Minneapolis in a state so liberal it's the only one that didn't vote for Ronald Reagan in 1984.
00:16:53.440Well, I'm going to talk about various things,
00:16:55.160but I'd rather not say because if I say,
00:16:58.120maybe it's going to take some of the guilt off.
00:17:01.600I think what's going to, when I, this is G-I-L-T, when I, when I look at this, when I look at what's happened in this country, so much with the elections, when I look at how rigged our elections are, look at Spencer Pratt, Spencer Pratt was an easy number two and maybe number one, but certainly number two, and all of a sudden they had the mail-in ballots pour in and Spencer Pratt was gone.
00:17:27.300That was in Los Angeles. Spencer Pratt was gone. And that was easy. And who beat him in no name,
00:17:35.100who was all of a sudden so great that she got practically 100% of the votes from the mail-in
00:17:42.160ballots? The whole thing, our elections are crooked, and we've got to straighten them out.
00:17:47.400We got to have voter ID. We got to have proof of citizenship, and we have to do something about
00:17:51.920the mail-in ballots. Okay, so what's the Thursday thing about? Is Trump going to
00:17:56.580reach over from the executive and just pluck two senators out of the Capitol?
00:18:02.260Oh, would that it were so simple. Wouldn't that be so beautiful? Is Trump going to say
00:18:06.860that Venezuela rigged the 2020 election? Maybe. I mean, we'll see what the intelligence reports say
00:18:13.640about foreign interference. The election was obviously rigged, and we all know it.
00:18:18.460It was at least rigged by Democrats who changed all the rules in the weeks beforehand.
00:18:22.740But what this is really about, reading between the lines here, is about Trump making a big push
00:18:28.200to pass the Save America Act. That's obviously what it's about. All of the specific instances,
00:18:33.120all the specific examples that he's pointing to would be rectified by the Save America Act,
00:18:39.340voter ID and discouraging the mail-in ballots and all the rest of it. So that's clearly what
00:18:44.520it's about. The justification for passing the Save America Act would be the rigged elections,
00:18:49.080which includes not just 2020, but also the strange influx of mail-in ballots that went for the
00:18:56.700improbable socialist candidate, even over Karen Bass in Los Angeles, that took that away from
00:19:03.140Spencer Pratt. It seems to me it's all about the Save America Act. I don't think he's going to
00:19:07.640pluck a couple senators out. That would be great. But that's my prediction, is the Thursday speech
00:19:11.860is a big push for the Save America Act. He might have some new information based on intelligence
00:19:16.820reports. You might even see a push to get it through the Senate based on the death of Lindsey
00:19:22.840Graham. Lindsey Graham, who is a staunch ally of President Trump. You have this traumatic moment
00:19:27.200for Republicans in the Senate. Maybe this is one last push to get it through. One last point on it.
00:19:33.580When Trump says here, he goes, I don't want to give too much of a preview because it might take
00:19:37.200some of the guilt off it. A lot of people were scratching their heads. What do you mean? Take
00:19:40.580the guilt i mean the guilt for stealing 2020 election what do you mean by the guilt and then
00:19:44.960he clarifies he says g-i-l-t just guilt meaning like guilt versus gold you know gold coloring on
00:19:52.040on on uh some object that's a that's a very intelligent play on words i don't know if he
00:19:58.800like that is people always say like trump is too he's still blunt and he speaks like a five-year-old
00:20:03.420and whatever that trump is obviously smart guys and he clearly knows how to use words well and
00:20:08.740in this case, he was using this word guilt that a lot of people don't even use anymore. And he
00:20:12.560realized he had to clarify. In any case, I expect lots more of rhetorical spectacles coming Thursday
00:20:18.940night. But I really hope at the end of all of it, I really hope we get the Save America Act passed.
00:20:23.720Do you know why? Because Democrats, sitting Democrat politicians, including Democrat Senator
00:20:29.300Alyssa Slotkin, are now openly saying that if the Save America Act is passed, the Save America Act,
00:20:35.940which just says you have to prove you're an eligible voter to vote. If the Save America
00:20:40.400Act is passed, no Democrat will win any election in any state around the country.
00:20:48.700The other thing that we blocked yesterday was the Save Act, right? Which was literally
00:20:53.320allow this administration to rig our democracy so that it would be hard for1.00
00:21:05.820any Democrat in any state to win any election and disenfranchise all married women in the1.00
00:21:11.640meantime, by the way. You'd have to show your birth certificate at the polls if you have a0.99
00:21:16.020married name. Okay, so hold on, hold on, hold on. Before that last comment, notice what she says.
00:21:22.680She goes, the SAVE Act, the SAVE America Act, which is the kind of juiced up version,
00:21:28.080the SAVE Act would make it hard for any Democrat to win any election in any state.
00:21:33.020what an odd thing to say because the save act the save america act they just say you need to
00:21:39.920prove you're an eligible voter in order to vote so what why in our country with tens of millions
00:21:46.580of illegal aliens and plenty of other people who shouldn't be voting why and people who read the
00:21:51.740election by voting twice and who ballot harvest and send in a bunch of uh stuff ballot boxes and
00:21:57.340all the rest why would the save act or the save america act make it hard for any democrat to win
00:22:02.800any election ever. Notice what she tacks on at the end there. She tacks on a blatant lie. She
00:22:09.100says it would also disenfranchise all married women. What? Yeah, it would also disenfranchise1.00
00:22:15.000all married women because they would have to bring their birth certificates to show that they could1.00
00:22:20.560vote. And I think what she's alluding to is that if your name doesn't match your voter ID,
00:22:27.620then it might be harder for you you know you need you need your id to match your actual name
00:22:32.060and okay it's hard for you to get on an airplane too i guess it's hard for you to
00:22:36.320cash a check too i guess it's hard for you to get a driver's okay what are you talking about
00:22:40.620i i can i can assure you just from personal experience my wife has a married name we live
00:22:48.240in states that have proper voting measures you know the kind of voting guidelines that will be
00:22:53.220mirrored in the Save Act, and my wife votes. And married women tend to vote Republican anyway,1.00
00:22:57.760so I don't know why Alyssa Slotkin is actually worried about that. She's not.0.99
00:23:01.440She tacks that little bit on there at the end, that total lie. I mean, I try not to attack
00:23:08.720straw man. I try to figure out what my opponents are really saying so I can seriously engage with
00:23:12.780it. This woman is just lying about that. That's not even close to true. And she tacks on that lie1.00
00:23:19.080at the end, only after she hears how bad what she just said sounds. Because what she just said is,
00:23:26.260if you have to prove you're an eligible voter, Democrats will never win another election in
00:23:29.600America. That's what she's saying. And she says, oh, yikes. Uh-oh, that's not going to play well.
00:23:35.520And it'll disenfranchise all the married women. It won't. And married women will have to bring1.00
00:23:40.700their birth certificate to vote. That's not true. But please forget that I just said that if you
00:23:46.820have to prove you're an eligible voter. Democrats will never win another election.
00:23:49.960What a strange thing to say. Okay. Speaking of liberal deception, Dua Lipa. Dua Lipa,
00:23:57.580who I am reliably informed as a singer, has just partnered with Livraria Lelo in Porto,
00:24:05.580Portugal. I love Porto. They make great wine, to open a library for banned and censored books.
00:24:12.240the libs love this stuff. They do this all day. It's band book week at schools across the country,
00:24:17.700public schools across the country. We're going to have a band book library, a band book store,
00:24:22.180and every single time the books that they have in the libraries and the stores
00:24:26.620are the most uniformly officially promoted books in the world. We'll get to the real band books.
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00:25:48.080PolicyGenius.com slash Knowles. Dua Lipa has a banned book library. If you want to go check
00:25:57.720out the books, I hope you're near Porto, Portugal. What kind of books will you find there? Oh, we got
00:26:04.520some real naughty stuff. Don't tell the authorities that you want to go check out
00:26:10.840The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, a book that is on curricula in every college in America and
00:26:19.900probably most public schools. Oh, you know what other books they have in the banned bookstore?
00:26:24.940Oh, you're going to be real bad if you read this one. They have 1984 by George Orwell.
00:26:34.060I bet you've never even heard of that book.
00:26:52.300If you've already made it through Simone de Beauvoir's Feminist Nonsense and 1984,
00:26:56.860which is a good book, but it's kind of overplayed,
00:26:59.080you can read this banned book, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
00:27:07.720Maybe the book is banned. I don't think the hit television series based on the book is banned,
00:27:12.160but maybe the book, I don't know. I haven't checked. I've never tried to buy the book.
00:27:14.900I have no interest in reading the book, but I think you can buy it everywhere.
00:27:20.120I think it's on curricula everywhere too. They also have The Trial by Kafka,
00:27:26.000one of the most famous and widely available books in the whole world,
00:27:29.020as well as the Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, which is banned by Muslims, not by anyone in the
00:27:35.080West. It's very popular in the West, but it is banned by Muslims. Muslims who have tried to
00:27:41.080kill Salman Rushdie for the book is a fatwa against him, and they almost succeeded at killing him.
00:27:46.660None of these are banned books. None of the books that appear on banned book lists during
00:27:50.420Banned Book Week at all the public schools and libraries across the country, none of them are
00:27:53.780actually banned or censored. If you wanted to have a banned book library, do you know what you would
00:27:58.360put in the banned book library? You would publish the collected works of David Irving. Okay, that's
00:28:03.180what you, you'd publish Holocaust revisionism. If you wanted to have a banned book week, you would0.55
00:28:08.520have the Anarchist Cookbook. And frankly, not even that, the Anarchist Cookbook, which is a guidebook
00:28:13.240to left-wing terrorism, even that isn't really totally banned. You can still get it on Amazon
00:28:17.660for like 50 bucks. You can't get it on Amazon for 10 bucks, but you can get it for 50 bucks
00:28:22.680on Amazon. The David Irving stuff, the Holocaust revisionism, you can't get those at libraries
00:28:30.440or bookshops. You can find them for like $1,000 on eBay or wherever. If you wanted to have a
00:28:36.920banned book week in a public school, do you know what book you would put in that banned book
00:28:41.940Library, you'd probably put the Bible, actually. You'd probably put the Bible, because that is
00:28:48.460maybe the only book that our law says you can't teach in schools. You can teach Mein Kampf in
00:28:55.640schools. You could teach the Anarchist Cookbook or David Irving in schools. In principle, you
00:29:00.440wouldn't, but you actually could. The one book you can't teach in schools by fiat of the Supreme
00:29:05.660Court of the United States is the Bible. Let me put that one in schools. Don't put Margaret Atwood's
00:29:10.200stupid nonsense. Don't put Simone de Beauvoir's feminist trash. You'd put those books.1.00
00:29:16.620So now, the rejoinder to this is, well, by golly, do you think that we should have libraries and
00:29:22.620shops with Holocaust revisionism or the anarchist cookbook or this, that, or the other thing?
00:29:27.920I think, no, not real. I guess if something is actively going to contribute to terrorism,
00:29:36.560You know, there are other ways to censor that.
00:29:39.640But no, I don't think that we need to oppose banning books.
00:29:44.920This is my really unpopular view that I think has become more popular over time ever since I wrote my book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
00:29:51.820But it was, thank you, it was very unpopular in 2016, 2017 when the right embraced free speech absolutism.
00:29:58.800But it's okay not to promote every book.
00:41:35.640U.S. and Israel attacked Iran because Iran wanted to build a nuclear weapon.0.71
00:41:39.420And the causus belli, at least, was that Iran's ballistic missile system was getting to the point that if it exceeded a certain immunity threshold, we would not be able to stop them from further enriching uranium to get a nuclear weapon.0.87
00:41:52.380So the argument for war, whether you buy it or not, the argument for war was we need to attack Iran now.0.90
00:41:57.080They're especially weak, and we're going to, therefore, dramatically set back their nuclear weapons program.0.95
00:42:04.700We do that, and then Iran plays the strongest card it has, which is the Strait of Hormuz.0.91
00:42:08.460It, for the first time ever, takes control of, mines, and shuts down the Strait of Hormuz, which controls 20% of global energy, along with petrochemicals and fertilizer and all sorts of other stuff that's flowing through there.0.85
00:42:20.760Then we were in this ceasefire, and it was kind of a standoff.
00:42:24.660And this is very painful for Trump because the midterm elections are coming up, and closing off 20% of the world's oil could seriously damage him and the Republicans.
00:42:32.200So they come to this memorandum of understanding, but it's very complicated because it's got to
00:42:37.240involve Israel's operations in southern Lebanon, southern Lebanon, which is controlled by Hezbollah,
00:42:43.180Hezbollah, which is controlled by Iran. So it's all, it's very, very messy. And in any case,
00:42:49.480Iran violates the ceasefire. So now Trump comes in, he says, this is my strait now.
00:42:55.200One of the biggest issues with Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz, even during the ceasefire
00:42:58.840in the memorandum was they were using tolls. So they said, you can go through, but you got to
00:43:04.540pay us off. It was a shakedown. And now Trump comes in and rather than saying, and now there
00:43:09.100are no tolls, he goes, uh-uh, we're taking your straight. We're shutting off all of your oil.
00:43:15.480And you know what else we're going to do? We're going to take your tolls too. We're getting your
00:43:19.360tolls. That's the kind of gangster move. That's the kind of New Yorker, reminds me of a certain
00:43:23.900Italian-American subculture kind of move. But these are not the same kind of tolls.
00:43:29.420In fairness, I think in all objectivity, you can say, in the case of Iran,0.91
00:43:34.700Iran was just doing a shakedown here. Iran illegitimately took control of the Strait of0.70
00:43:40.640Hormuz and then shook people down to get it through and tried to make America look weak0.94
00:43:43.920on the world stage. In the case of the United States, if we really are to become the guardian0.77
00:43:48.540of the Strait of Hormuz, if we are now going to invest resources into protecting this from the1.00
00:43:52.880Iranians who are extortion artists, we should be reimbursed for that.1.00
00:43:58.100See, you could at least make a fair argument that these are different kinds of tolls.1.00
00:44:02.300But I think Trump is doing something even more here. It's not just him being a gangster and
00:44:07.160saying, we're taking your oil, we're taking your tolls, we're taking everything from you.
00:44:11.060What Trump is doing is he is creating an incentive for the rest of the world to get Iran to play ball
00:44:18.400such that the United States does not need to continue to run the Strait of Hormuz.
00:44:22.000If the US came in and just said, hey, we're just going to protect the Strait of Hormuz for free
00:44:25.720forever. We're going to take the endless volleys of Iranian missiles and rockets and all the rest.1.00
00:44:30.880And we're just going to do it because we're really nice guys. And that's our responsibility1.00
00:44:33.900in the world. If we did that, there would be no end to it. That would be a guarantee almost
00:44:38.800of a forever war. The fact that Trump is saying, hey, we're going to come in, we're going to beat
00:44:43.860up the Iranians. We tried to be nice. No one can say we didn't try. We tried to be nice. You
00:44:48.860wouldn't do it. So now we're just going to blow you up a little bit more and we're going to blow0.94
00:44:52.820you up for another 60 days and then maybe you'll learn. And we're going to control the Strait of0.63
00:44:56.800Hormuz, but we're going to toll the rest of the world. That creates an incentive for the rest of0.97
00:45:01.480the world to put a little skin in the game here. This is exactly what Trump did with NATO, where
00:45:07.360he was accused of trying to destroy NATO, but what he was actually doing was trying to strengthen
00:45:10.380NATO. He's bragged about strengthening NATO by getting NATO to contribute, by getting the other
00:45:15.060members to live up to their obligations. I think that's the same thing here. And I think what Trump
00:45:18.480is doing, rather than acceding to a forever war, which he ran against in 2016 and 2020 and 2024.
00:45:25.500I think what he's trying to do here is, in a very unfortunate circumstance, in a war that,
00:45:29.960as I've said from the beginning, all cards on the table, I would have argued against. I would not
00:45:33.520have gotten involved in this latest Iran war. But we are where we are, aliyat yakta-est,
00:45:40.480the die is cast. I think what Trump is doing here, I think all of his moves are designed
00:45:44.760to stop a forever war. If you let the Iranians continue to just violate the ceasefire and make0.99
00:45:50.280a mockery of the MOU and all the rest of it, you're increasing the chances of a prolonged0.93
00:45:55.100war, not decreasing them. And in this case, if you just say we're going to protect the Strait
00:45:59.360of Hormuz, you now are in a forever war because the Iranians are not going to accept that in0.98
00:46:02.980principle. So you're just going to be exchanging volleys with Iranians ad infinitum.1.00
00:46:08.660This move, however, I don't know if it's going to work. No one knows if it's going to work.1.00
00:46:13.020You know, I did this whole segment yesterday on the show with some of the wisdom of Machiavelli going back to 1375, pointing out that wars start at the will of anyone, but they don't end at anyone's will.
00:46:23.640Nevertheless, what Trump is doing here is clearly trying to wind down the war and get us out of it.