The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2077 - Mamdani ＂Remembers＂ October 7th With Anti-Israel Tweet

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00:03:09.620 Secretary of State Marco Rubio marks October 7th with a speech for the ages at the Acropolis,

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00:05:56.360 Acropolis, before we get into some of the other speeches, President Trump gave a great speech,

00:06:01.440 before we get to NatCon Jerusalem on October 7th and Mamdani and all the rest,

00:06:07.060 I want to thank everybody for the prayers and congratulations. My fourth child was born

00:06:12.320 yesterday. First baby girl Knowles, very exciting. I did not wait for you all to light my celebratory

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00:07:59.280 Okay, that's it. That's all the ads, because I want to tell you about Marco Rubio.

00:08:02.640 rubio goes to the acropolis on october 7th and so a lot of people were wondering why is he there

00:08:09.860 this is october 7th that day in the uh modern conception it just just refers to that horrific

00:08:17.260 terror attack by hamas on the state of israel killed over a thousand israeli jews three years

00:08:23.540 ago and there's a lot of resonance there's a lot of significance to that date but the tie-in to

00:08:29.380 the Acropolis is that three years ago was not the first time that October 7th became

00:08:33.940 synonymous with a Muslim attack. The first time goes back to 1571, the Battle of Lepanto,

00:08:42.140 when the Ottoman Turks very nearly took over Europe. There have been three occasions when

00:08:47.120 the Muslims nearly conquered all of Europe. The first time was the Battle of Poitiers. They were

00:08:51.060 taken back. They were finally beaten back by Charles Martel, Charles the Hammer,

00:08:56.860 grandfather of Charlemagne. Second time was the Battle of Lepanto in Greece. That was October 7th,

00:09:01.700 1571. The third time was in 1683. It was the Battle of Vienna, largest cavalry charge in

00:09:07.780 history. That was September 11th, 1683. So even when you see these dates crop up again and again

00:09:13.500 with Muslims in history, they do that. That's the sort of thing that they do. Osama bin Laden

00:09:17.620 referred to that date, actually, as to one of the reasons why they chose September 11th.

00:09:22.260 So same thing here.

00:09:23.780 Rubio is not just making a point about the Muslim attack on the state of Israel three years ago on October 7th.

00:09:29.620 He's putting this into a broader context.

00:09:32.900 The speech is absolutely phenomenal.

00:09:35.360 Here's just a little clip of it.

00:09:37.200 I encourage you, though, to watch the whole thing.

00:09:38.800 Here's the Secretary of State.

00:09:51.860 why we do a great test.

00:09:54.120 Anyone who's out there,

00:09:56.320 it's for us to go forward,

00:09:57.720 so I've been playing chatting with Paul,

00:09:59.600 and I'll park with those who do that.

00:10:04.280 And also the project in the future.

00:10:08.240 It allows us to drive the27.

00:10:11.320 And I've heard this earlier that the patient's

00:10:14.680 even posted on the return,

00:10:19.480 Okay, put a pause here.

00:10:45.900 This is such an important framing because the speech could very easily have been purely defensive.

00:10:53.200 Say, we must protect these things because, you know, the Muslims tried to take them over in 1571 here in Greece.

00:10:59.960 Or, well, they do it more recently.

00:11:01.900 They've done it in recent years.

00:11:03.020 They keep doing it.

00:11:03.780 And it's not just the Muslims.

00:11:05.280 It's the leftists and it's the communists and it's all these people are threatening us.

00:11:09.240 So we need to defend against that.

00:11:11.560 That's not what he's framing this as.

00:11:13.800 He says, hey, I'm here at a place where Western civilization began.

00:11:19.620 And what they were pursuing, what they were going on the offensive for, was excellence.

00:11:25.840 Now, excellence is a really key word here because what he's referring to is virtue.

00:11:31.420 And in the modern West, we refer to values.

00:11:36.600 Even the conservatives, forget about the leftists for a second.

00:11:39.280 Even the conservatives will say, we need to defend our conservative values.

00:11:42.580 our Christian values, our Judeo-Christian values, our Western values.

00:11:47.400 Even accepting the framework of values is conceding something to the left

00:11:54.240 because there's a big difference between a value and a virtue.

00:11:58.760 A value is a modern idea.

00:12:01.360 A value is a relative idea.

00:12:03.480 It's a subjective idea.

00:12:04.740 You have your values.

00:12:05.840 I have my values.

00:12:07.100 Our civilization, we have certain values, but other civilizations have their own values.

00:12:12.160 Virtue is different.

00:12:13.660 Virtue is older.

00:12:14.880 Virtue is classical.

00:12:16.680 And virtue is objective.

00:12:19.440 Virtue is just excellence.

00:12:22.360 Virtue, you have athletic virtues.

00:12:24.740 The New York Yankees didn't show very many of them last night when they were eliminated

00:12:27.940 in the ALDS.

00:12:29.820 Luckily, my daughter was born that day, so it was a good day on the whole, but it was

00:12:33.240 a little rough night.

00:12:34.000 You had athletic virtues in ancient Greece.

00:12:36.240 You had moral virtues.

00:12:37.640 You can have political virtues, but they're objective.

00:12:39.980 We can know something about them. We can be confident they're about something outside of us, something that is pulling us to be greater than just our own inclinations and our own individual desires.

00:12:53.360 And he's saying, no, no, no, what we stand for is solid. It's excellence. We could know it. Other people should be like us, and we should defend them, not just because we like them or they suit our preferences,

00:13:05.900 but because they are true

00:13:07.380 and there is something about them

00:13:08.420 that is perennial, even eternal.

00:13:10.240 Keep going.

00:13:35.560 Okay.

00:13:35.900 I don't know how to do that, so I'm going to ask you a question.

00:13:41.900 You know, a class who is a global class, the one I can write,

00:13:45.900 is it's your class and your class.

00:13:47.900 Because you don't like to do the class and your class.

00:13:51.900 You have your group studies that you must know.

00:13:53.900 You don't look at the class, you don't like it,

00:13:56.900 it's probably a class that you don't like it,

00:13:59.900 it's your class and your class and your class.

00:14:01.900 put a pause here. There's been a commentary in certain quarters about the threat of post-liberalism

00:14:28.640 or whatever, this Christian nationalism or all these kind of populism, all these isms

00:14:35.300 that are united in as much as they supplant the old kind of squishy liberal neoconservative

00:14:43.240 GOP consensus. There's been a lot of talk about that. And some people have even tried to put

00:14:48.980 forward Marco Rubio as an exemplar of the liberal neoconservative establishment order,

00:14:55.360 contrary to people like President Trump or J.D. Vance or any other number of people in the Trump

00:15:02.640 administration and the conservative movement. And what Rubio is showing here is he's one of

00:15:08.940 the real conservatives. He's not a lib. He's not going to just be some neoconservative establishment

00:15:15.400 type because we have the juxtaposition of value versus virtue. Here we have the juxtaposition of

00:15:22.060 liberalism versus a more classical conception of politics. Politics ordered toward excellence,

00:15:29.180 ordered toward the common good, ordered toward the advancing of our civilization.

00:15:33.660 Liberalism, not just in its modern leftist progressive form, but liberalism generally,

00:15:39.720 even in the classical form, establishes what Leo Strauss called a low but solid ground.

00:15:47.320 So we're not necessarily going to reach for the highest things. We're not necessarily going to

00:15:51.580 pursue virtue. We're not necessarily going to weigh in on the matters that really move the

00:15:56.040 human heart and that concern the human mind. No, no. We're going to establish a low but solid ground

00:16:02.000 of mere economic power, of appeal to mere private interest. And we might not hit the very heights

00:16:10.220 anymore, but it's going to be a really nice, stable political order. And what Rubio is saying

00:16:14.040 in this speech is, no. No, no, no. We don't want the low but solid ground. We want to look up.

00:16:20.180 We want to be like the builders of the Parthenon.

00:16:22.100 We want to build up.

00:16:23.080 We want to strive for excellence.

00:16:24.700 We want to strive for virtue.

00:16:26.000 We want to be better than others, and we want others to look to us as an example and to build themselves up too.

00:16:32.920 That's what we want.

00:16:34.560 Rubio, obviously, is Catholic, so he's approaching this from a Christian framework.

00:16:38.400 But this kind of speech would appeal to people who are not Christian.

00:16:41.020 This would appeal to ancient Greeks, the kind of men who built the Parthenon.

00:16:45.360 This is a really, really important speech

00:16:48.780 because what it is signaling to the American right

00:16:52.400 is, sorry, you guys thought I was your last best hope

00:16:55.520 to go back to the old squishy consensus,

00:16:57.800 the kind of neocon, kind of libertarian,

00:16:59.920 kind of just make money and ignore all the big issue stuff.

00:17:03.060 I ain't doing that.

00:17:04.060 Hey, did you get the message?

00:17:05.300 I'm standing in front of the freaking Parthenon.

00:17:07.480 We're going to build up.

00:17:08.660 We're not going to accept low but solid ground.

00:17:10.180 We're not going to accept just mere peace and safety.

00:17:12.300 We're going to be excellent.

00:17:14.360 Keep going. Put a pause here. Sorry, I know I'm going to have to stop every 10 seconds in this

00:17:29.800 excellent speech. Well delivered by Rubio. I'm sure he had a hand in authoring it, whoever the

00:17:34.240 speechwriters were. Excellent work. He's getting into Thumos now. Now we're talking, baby. Thumos

00:17:40.660 is the spirited part of the soul. It's not just the pure facts, logical part. It's not just the

00:17:48.120 policy wonk part. It's not just the appetitive part. It's the spirit. It's the chest. We say,

00:17:56.220 no, no, no. By the way, this is not merely a classical conception of government. This is

00:18:01.980 something that the founding fathers and the framers of the Constitution were deeply concerned

00:18:05.360 with. Alexander Hamilton writes about this at length in the Federalist Papers, that we want

00:18:11.780 a spirited government. So this is going to irritate some of the late 20th century libertarian types.

00:18:17.180 It's going to irritate maybe some of the neoconservative and establishment types.

00:18:20.560 But he says, no, no, no, we don't want just a tiny little government that can fit into our pocket

00:18:24.640 that we can throw away. We don't merely view politics as a thing to be contained so that we

00:18:30.900 can maximize individual autonomy to the point that we can chop our genitals off. No, no, no, no,

00:18:35.140 No. We want spirit. We want an active government that is within its proper limits, but that is

00:18:41.900 doing good. And in order to do that, you have to get beyond mere procedural questions,

00:18:47.260 mere quantitative questions of the size of government. You have to get to qualitative

00:18:50.420 questions, to substantive questions. What is good? What is bad? What is excellent?

00:18:55.940 What is degraded? And we're going to pursue the former and reject the latter. Keep going.

00:19:05.140 absolutely right. We're doing this not just because we have great ambitions.

00:19:15.760 We're doing this because if we are not actively pursuing the good, if we are not actively

00:19:19.920 building, if we are not actively excellent, not only are we going to stagnate, we're going to die.

00:19:25.700 Superb speech. Loved it. Very, very well done. There's a sense of something eternal here about

00:19:32.620 our civilization. And this is contrary to the view of Karl Marx. Karl Marx said there was nothing

00:19:36.700 eternal, that we could just change everything. We could change human nature. We could change

00:19:41.620 through the development of the science of history, nothing would remain permanent.

00:19:45.500 It was all up to our praxis to do whatever we want. We shall be as gods. Rubio says,

00:19:51.120 not quite. We can emulate God. We can try to be closer to God. We can pursue the good.

00:19:57.320 But those are eternal things, and we have to change our orientation to pursue them.

00:20:01.920 We're not going to change reality

00:20:03.360 to go into accord with our subjective feelings.

00:20:07.180 Okay, really, really good stuff.

00:20:08.940 Now we'll get to what Mom Donnie said on October 7th.

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00:21:33.900 So let's turn from Athens over to New York City.

00:21:39.440 New York City, a great city, even though the baseball team really blew it last night.

00:21:44.040 New York City, a place that I've lived in.

00:21:47.100 I grew up, I was born in New York.

00:21:49.100 I grew up in New York, and sad to see that New York has become Mamdana Stan.

00:21:54.240 I am not Jewish, but I have many friends who are Jewish.

00:21:57.060 and New York is a very Jewish city.

00:21:58.620 And on the anniversary of October 7th, 2023,

00:22:01.840 the mayor of New York decided to take the opportunity

00:22:04.000 to discuss how much he hates the state of Israel.

00:22:06.860 You can't make it up.

00:22:07.900 I shouldn't laugh, but you can't make it up.

00:22:09.540 He says, this day is profoundly painful

00:22:11.820 for so many New Yorkers.

00:22:13.580 It marks three years since the horrific war crimes

00:22:15.520 of October 7th.

00:22:16.360 On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis

00:22:18.660 and abducted 251 others.

00:22:20.120 We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors

00:22:21.700 who still carry that unthinkable loss.

00:22:24.200 Okay, that was what, two sentences?

00:22:26.300 Three sentences.

00:22:28.060 Now you get this novel that he wrote for the rest of the tweet.

00:22:31.900 You get that little nod to, yeah, okay, I guess it was bad that Hamas killed all those Jews.

00:22:37.160 And then he gets into what he really wants to say.

00:22:40.040 The suffering did not begin nor end on that day.

00:22:42.680 It instead continued through the Israeli government's devastating ongoing genocide in Gaza,

00:22:46.920 in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, including more than 21,000 children.

00:22:51.380 Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed.

00:22:55.000 that suffering is intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on hospitals waiting. Israel, Israel,

00:22:59.440 Israel, Israel, terrible. We hate Israel. Israel sucks. Israel's the worst. I mean, I'm not defending

00:23:04.020 Hamas, but like, you know, come on, Israel's really, really bad. Three years later, we must

00:23:07.900 refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue. Okay, yeah, three years later,

00:23:11.360 the lesson is Israel sucks. To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can

00:23:15.780 live in freedom, safety, and dignity, but I'm really only talking about the Palestinians,

00:23:18.980 and I'm going to mostly ignore Hamas, and did I tell you Israel sucks? That's his tweet.

00:23:23.820 That's the mayor of New York.

00:23:25.200 Jew York City, as some of us call it.

00:23:27.620 A lot of Jewish constituents in New York.

00:23:29.320 Jews have done a lot to build up New York.

00:23:31.760 Even if it weren't a largely Jewish city, come on, man.

00:23:35.600 I don't know.

00:23:35.880 It's October 7th.

00:23:36.760 How about you save your anti-Israel invective for October 8th?

00:23:40.000 Does that sound?

00:23:40.480 No.

00:23:41.200 Mamdani can't do it.

00:23:42.720 He cannot do it.

00:23:43.960 And why is he saying this?

00:23:45.520 This is the part that people aren't getting.

00:23:48.240 Mamdani is not just saying this because he's an ideologue who hates the state of Israel.

00:23:52.820 Mamdani is saying this because it is politically safe to say it.

00:23:58.400 In other words, Mamdani is saying this because most people hate the state of Israel now in

00:24:03.420 America.

00:24:03.860 And this is something that Israel supporters largely do not understand or refuse to understand.

00:24:11.260 If you are ardently pro-Israel, if you're in the Israeli government, if you are an Israel

00:24:16.020 supporter in the United States, this should freak you out, not just because Zoran Mamdani

00:24:19.960 has an ideology you don't like.

00:24:21.340 this should freak you out because he is allowed to say it because he feels he has the political

00:24:29.860 cover to say it because most people in america today especially when if you just look at the

00:24:36.780 left and republicans under 40 it's basically everybody kind of agrees with him that is a very

00:24:44.140 scary fact and that is uh one reason why nat con the national conservatism conference took place

00:24:50.500 in Jerusalem. I was really hoping to get out there. I really enjoy going to NatCon. I would

00:24:56.120 have loved to do it. And the reason I could not go is because I had something a little more

00:25:01.860 important going on here. Very few things would be more important than a great political event,

00:25:05.700 but the arrival of my daughter was certainly one of them. So I did not go. A number of my friends

00:25:09.260 did go, and they had some pretty tough words for people who are concerned about the U.S.-Israel

00:25:15.120 alliance. We'll get to that in a second. Before we get to that, though, I do want to stick in

00:25:19.200 America because we're talking about religion, Islam, Judaism, Christianity. Well, guess what's

00:25:24.140 going on in Ottumwa, Iowa? In Ottumwa, Iowa, the city council opened with a prayer, with an

00:25:32.060 invocation, not to God, the God of the Jews and the Christians and the Muslims, imperfect though

00:25:40.500 some of their conceptions may be. It didn't invoke with a prayer to Jesus Christ, the second person

00:25:47.760 of the trinity the incarnation of god himself it began with an invocation to the devil

00:25:54.560 it is done hail satan let us pray dear dark father let us stand now unbowed and unfed by

00:26:03.260 arcane doctrines born of fearful minds in darkened times let us embrace the luciferian impulse to eat

00:26:08.640 of the tree of knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old okay so on the one

00:26:15.260 hand, this is the most special boy of all of Reddit. It's weird, especially because he's

00:26:21.120 bald that he's not wearing a fedora. He's not wearing a literal fedora, tipping his cap.

00:26:25.920 Hey, fellow Satanists. God, I don't believe in a spaghetti monster. All that mid-2000s

00:26:32.840 Reddit-tier nonsense. No, no. There's something deeper about this. And this is something a lot

00:26:39.560 of people are not going to want to hear. But to bet, I showed up to work today after my daughter's

00:26:44.200 birth to tell you things that you might not necessarily want to hear. But the more perceptive

00:26:49.360 among you will get this. He's not just an edgelord, this guy. He is taking liberalism to its logical

00:26:57.920 conclusion. You heard that line there? He's referring to the Luciferian impulse in the

00:27:02.580 Garden of Eden to taste from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Liberalism, not just

00:27:09.980 the modern progressive kind, not just the leftist kind, but liberalism as such is Luciferian.

00:27:17.820 There's a reading of John Milton's Paradise Lost. It's the radical romantic reading of Paradise

00:27:23.240 Lost in which Lucifer, in which Satan is the hero. And I don't think that that's really what

00:27:30.500 Milton is intending. Milton is showing that in a way because Lucifer is very tempting. He's very

00:27:37.700 attractive. He wins people over. He persuades them. He seduces them. And so the Satan in

00:27:43.960 Paradise Lost kind of does that. But when Satan says it's better to reign in hell than to serve

00:27:49.440 in heaven, that is what liberalism says. Liberalism says, rather than constraining my autonomy to

00:27:57.380 follow the objective moral order and the institutions and the traditions, I'm going to

00:28:01.380 throw all of that away and I'm going to do whatever I want to do. When Lucifer says in

00:28:07.320 paradise lost. The mind is its own place. It can make a hell of heaven and heaven a hell.

00:28:11.600 That's what liberalism says. Liberalism says we can't ever know any of these

00:28:15.040 great questions objectively. We just have to do what we want to do. We need to come to our

00:28:19.780 own conclusions. We need to live our lives authentically in accordance with our desires,

00:28:25.000 all the way up to choosing our own sex. We can be whatever we want. The mind is its own place.

00:28:30.980 The texts don't have any meaning. The world doesn't have any meaning. There's no telos to

00:28:34.580 human nature. No, no, we just make of it what we will. That's liberalism. That's basic liberalism

00:28:39.400 101. Liberalism itself, I mean, I don't want to paint with too broad a brush. I guess, yes,

00:28:45.660 I do. It's just Luciferian. Liberalism, which arose as a competitor ideology to displace

00:28:53.960 Christianity, which had ruled the West for a thousand years. We should not be surprised

00:29:00.600 when liberalism leads to the invocation of Satan at a city council meeting.

00:29:06.440 And what the Reddit tier atheists and Satanists will say is, well, you have religious freedom,

00:29:10.680 so if you get to have a Christian prayer or a Jewish prayer or even a Muslim prayer,

00:29:14.300 why can't you have a satanic prayer? Checkmate, Christians. Okay, they can say that.

00:29:20.920 But what's your answer? What's your response? Indeed, one of the evidences that liberalism

00:29:26.820 is Luciferian is the fact that liberalism says this can happen. Now, of course, this is not what

00:29:32.700 the founding fathers or the framers of the constitution intended. This is not what John

00:29:36.020 Locke or John Milton intended, who were very early classical liberals, some of the archetypal

00:29:41.200 classical liberals. They all said that atheists should be censored. They shouldn't have any free

00:29:45.580 speech or participate in the government. But the working out of liberalism throughout history has

00:29:51.280 led to this. If your political ideology, let's say that you're a good liberal, a good classical

00:29:57.160 liberal, what is your argument to stop the invocation to Satan at a public institution,

00:30:04.460 at a house of our government? Do you have one? Probably not. A lot of people are going to say,

00:30:10.500 who cares if he makes his invocation to Satan? Other people who are good liberals,

00:30:15.680 they're going to say, well, this is wrong, but I can't quite say why it's wrong.

00:30:21.100 And I can't quite think of a mechanism to stop it that would not be authoritarian or totalitarian.

00:30:28.040 Meanwhile, of course, all the framers of the Constitution would have run this guy out of town

00:30:32.200 on a rail. They would have deported him or killed him. There's no question about it. But

00:30:37.140 we're not going to do that. There's no law that would do that. There's no,

00:30:41.540 why is that? Because of a weakness in liberalism itself, which is one of the reasons that you've

00:30:48.720 seen a rise in all of these responses. Post-liberalism at its most basic, post-liberalism

00:30:54.380 is not one thing. Post-liberalism is a lot of different things, much as Protestantism is not

00:30:58.500 one thing. It's a lot of different things. It's just all reaction, in reaction to something.

00:31:03.600 Post-liberalism is in reaction to liberalism. Protestantism is in reaction to Catholicism.

00:31:07.920 I'm actually not, I'm not having any invective here. I'm not drawing a connection in this

00:31:13.580 commentary between liberalism and Protestantism or whatever, or Satanism or anything like that.

00:31:21.460 I'm just pointing out these are negative categories and they're arising in response

00:31:25.660 to something. Okay. One of those responses is national conservatism. There was this NatCon

00:31:31.620 conference in Jerusalem on October 7th, and there was one speech, it's getting a lot of heat online,

00:31:37.360 One speech in particular I loved.

00:31:38.740 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:32:26.840 or candidates committee. A lot of good speeches at the NatCon conference. Now, I'm sure I would

00:32:33.840 have delivered the very best. No, I don't know if I would have delivered the very best, but I would

00:32:37.020 have agreed with a lot of the speakers there. My pal, Matt Peterson, gave a particularly good one,

00:32:42.760 I thought, as I was going through some of the speeches in the hospital room last night. Here

00:32:48.200 is Matt taking on, obviously, a rather urgent issue in Jerusalem on October 7th, which is the

00:32:55.580 US-Israel alliance. Well, many of my evangelical friends still here stand with Israel as a religious

00:33:04.340 duty. For many other, and they are my friends, for many other Christians in America, the idea

00:33:11.040 that their religion requires them to support the particular policies of another nation

00:33:14.980 is deeply insulting. Many Republicans frequently complain to me that they're done with this

00:33:20.220 dynamic. Many, again, who support Israel, want me to convey this message. They do not think that

00:33:26.840 their Christianity requires them to blindly support whatever decisions Israel chooses to make

00:33:31.480 and find it condescending if anyone assumes that this is the way they should think about it.

00:33:36.760 Now, this does not mean that they see no religious ties to the Holy Land. It means that relying on

00:33:42.260 this approach alone to American Christians is a dead end. I submit the way forward is frank

00:33:48.320 frank policy discussions based on reality. This means getting clear where interests align and do

00:33:54.100 not. And when they do not, it's okay. Excellent speech. Matt's going to get a lot of flack for

00:34:00.020 this. He's going to get flack because he's telling hard truths. Now, nobody can say that NatCon is

00:34:06.300 anti-Israel or anti-Semitic. It's put on in part by the Herzl Institute, which is the Zionist

00:34:11.200 Institute. The logo is the Star of David. And the founder of National Conservatism is a superb

00:34:17.520 Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazoni, who wrote that great book, The Virtue of Nationalism.

00:34:22.560 But there is a whole gamut of people who could listen to Matt's speech here and be really edified

00:34:28.180 by it. Some of the people who are skeptical of the Israel alliance, who feel that the Israel

00:34:33.660 alliance is costing America more than it's benefiting us, who don't like the moral, I don't

00:34:41.380 know, slogans, the moral domineering that you have from the pro-Israel side that suggests that the

00:34:46.280 United States has some always and eternal obligation, moral obligation to support the

00:34:51.120 state of Israel, whether because of theology or something else. What Matt is saying here is

00:34:55.120 that is not resonating with people. The polls completely bear that out.

00:35:00.020 And people, understandably, who listen to George Washington, the same George Washington who wrote

00:35:05.460 the letter to the Hebrew congregation saying that Jews are welcome as full participants in

00:35:09.120 the American project, that same George Washington said, avoid entangling alliances.

00:35:13.440 So people have a reasonable take if they're somewhat skeptical of the Israel alliance.

00:35:19.840 And you know who else could be edified by that speech?

00:35:21.980 People who are super duper pro-Israel because they're looking at the support of Israel in the United States collapsing, especially among younger people, on both sides of the aisle.

00:35:30.060 And what Matt is saying is if you want to preserve something like that alliance, you need to try another tactic.

00:35:36.320 The old slogans of the 1990s are just not working anymore.

00:35:40.840 And so we need to ground support for that alliance on things that are really tangible.

00:35:46.720 When our interests align, we point that out.

00:35:49.700 When they don't align, we don't push the issue.

00:35:52.740 On realpolitik, on imperial interests between the United States, Russia, and China,

00:35:58.980 between economic interests of the United States,

00:36:03.480 strategic interests of the United States, it's got to be more tangible.

00:36:06.280 You have to speak a different language if you want to stop the collapse in the polls.

00:36:09.500 Here is more of Matt.

00:36:12.420 I understand the desire to call out hatred.

00:36:17.780 But here's the problem.

00:36:19.540 Denouncing anti-Semitism in America in the abstract these days is much like calling an opponent racist.

00:36:26.000 Both terms have been hallowed out by the left.

00:36:29.980 The ADL, for instance, has long since lost any power over the right by attacking figures like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and TPUSA,

00:36:37.240 which is why the FBI cut ties with them last year.

00:36:40.240 We have a boy who cried wolf problem in America and the West.

00:36:43.240 The left makes accusations like this all the time,

00:36:46.240 and the younger rising right doesn't care about being called names

00:36:49.240 or abstract isms or isms from any side.

00:36:52.240 And frankly, neither do I.

00:36:55.240 But I don't... Yes, thank you.

00:36:58.240 But I do not mean to tell anyone to be silent, far from it.

00:37:02.240 On the contrary, if we're going to sort through the noise,

00:37:04.240 my advice is to stop using abstract categories and isms and ists and isstics.

00:37:09.460 Call out and argue instead about specific statements and positions you think wrong or

00:37:14.200 evil instead. Ask specific questions to specific people. Bingo. Cheers. Spot on. Spot on.

00:37:23.000 I am quite concerned with the spike in antisemitism in the United States,

00:37:26.660 just as I would be concerned with a spike in unjust racism. I think the antisemitism is a

00:37:32.180 little more pronounced at the moment, certainly on the left, but even on the right. Various forms

00:37:37.920 of racism ranging from the benign to the deeply unjust, that's a little less pronounced.

00:37:45.400 So I'm concerned about that. But I think Matt is entirely right when he says,

00:37:48.760 just calling someone anti-Semitic, calling some idea in the abstract anti-Semitic,

00:37:53.260 it's not going to do anything. It's not helping. Look at the numbers. Pew Research found that

00:37:57.200 unfavorable views of the state of Israel rose from 42% in 2022 to 60% in March of this year.

00:38:04.520 Among Republicans under 50, 57% now hold an unfavorable view. A clear majority of Republicans

00:38:12.020 under 50. It's not Republicans under 20 or 30. It's 50. That's a lot. That's the majority of

00:38:18.980 even remotely plausibly young, middle, middle-aged and under Republicans. So what Matt is saying is,

00:38:25.700 no, no, no. Calling people anti-Semitic just generally doesn't work. So then there's going

00:38:31.880 to be this response, which says, well, what? You just want us to shut up in the face of rising

00:38:35.140 anti-Semitism? We're not going to do that. And Matt says, that's not what I'm telling you to do.

00:38:38.120 That's certainly not what I'm telling you to do. Oh my goodness. Look at me here. I'm here at the

00:38:41.900 National Conservatism Conference in Jerusalem. What I'm telling you to do is try a more effective

00:38:48.400 tactic. Your tactic is clearly not working. Your tactic is having exactly the opposite of the

00:38:54.180 intended effect. And I'll tell you exactly why. It's the same thing that happened to racism.

00:38:58.700 It's not that there's no such thing as unjust racism. It's that the left completely hollowed

00:39:02.560 out that term. And so it's useless. It is completely impotent. And a similar thing has

00:39:06.720 happened with anti-Semitism. And the ADL, by the way, has a lot of blame for that.

00:39:11.520 And the left largely has a lot of blame for that. Okay, so what do you do now? Matt says,

00:39:15.780 voice your concerns, make your arguments, but be specific about it because specific arguments

00:39:22.040 about specific people saying specific things with specific policies, they are much more likely to

00:39:27.800 have an effect. So, so true. And then Matt gets to young men. And this is an issue that is bigger

00:39:35.600 even than the question of anti-Semitism or the U.S.-Israel alliance.

00:39:42.240 Understand where many of the young men on the right are coming from.

00:39:46.460 As Stephen Miller posted within the last 24 hours from the White House,

00:39:50.760 a nation is its people. This has always been true. This will always be true. But if you were a young

00:39:58.280 white American, you have grown up in an education system and culture that celebrated both mass

00:40:04.520 migration to America as well as organized tribalism in America among all those being

00:40:10.480 imported there. An educational system and political culture that encouraged every ethnicity to join

00:40:16.540 together as an interest group against oppression from, well, you. They have been told that they

00:40:23.840 must apologize for their whiteness and that if they were ever to act as a group like everyone

00:40:27.840 else in America they see is trained to do and celebrated for doing, they are evil or Nazis.

00:40:34.000 And this anti-white sentiment and discrimination has had very predictable results. Now, I'm not

00:40:39.120 going to go into this in detail other than to say I'm not happy or sanguine about the tribalization

00:40:44.200 of America, but this is the reality in which young people have been born into, a reality in

00:40:49.600 which World War II is as far away as the Civil War was to those who fought in that conflict.

00:40:56.020 Phenomenal, phenomenal point. He says, look, these young men, these young white men in particular,

00:41:01.600 have been raised in a culture that is said that everybody needs identity politics except for you,

00:41:06.640 and the reason that everybody needs identity politics is to fight you. They're going to

00:41:11.180 impose identity politics upon you, young white men. They're going to view you as a discrete group,

00:41:16.160 but you're not allowed to view yourselves that way. And don't you dare even consider doing that

00:41:21.260 because we need to destroy you first. We need to call whiteness evil. We need to call masculinity

00:41:27.620 toxic. And we need to blame every single problem on you. We need to discriminate against you by the

00:41:32.280 law and with the encouragement of the popular culture. In other words, these young men are

00:41:39.400 responding to real political phenomena. And you might not like those political phenomena.

00:41:45.660 I certainly don't like those political phenomena. The young white men definitely don't like the

00:41:49.500 political phenomena. But they're happening. They're real. And burying your head in the sand

00:41:55.740 is not going to solve a thing. There is a kind of complementarity between Matt's speech in

00:42:01.100 Jerusalem and Marco Rubio's speech in Athens, which is saying, hey, we have to ground our

00:42:06.340 politics on things that are real, objective, even eternal. That's what Matt is saying here.

00:42:15.720 He says, it's not that young men are questioning the US-Israel alliance in isolation. It's not

00:42:22.740 that young men are sending edgy memes and jokes to the group chat in isolation. They're questioning

00:42:28.660 everything. Matt goes on to say, they're questioning everything. And so you need to

00:42:32.780 provide real answers to that, to real specific questions about specific policies and people.

00:42:39.200 You can't assume anything. These young men have been so maleducated. We all have

00:42:45.740 because of the absolute insidiousness of the left, which has gone after them personally,

00:42:52.800 which has lied about American history, which lied to them in a massive scandal during their

00:42:57.560 education, namely COVID, when they shut down their schools and made them take poison into

00:43:01.580 their veins for no reason at all. Yeah, no wonder they're a little bit skeptical.

00:43:07.580 And it occurs to me, listening to, and it wasn't just Matt's speech, there were a lot of speeches

00:43:11.900 from all sorts of people, Americans and Israelis and other Europeans were there too,

00:43:17.220 Jew and Gentile alike, men and women, slave and free. No, there were no slaves there,

00:43:21.720 but all are one in Christ Jesus. All of these speeches gave me this takeaway, which is that

00:43:29.280 there are three groups that benefit from dismissing young right-wing men as nazis

00:43:37.260 all of them with a broad brush there are three groups that benefit podcasters do that because

00:43:42.640 they get to up their ratings because they get to promote sensationalism and cruelty and nonsense

00:43:47.780 and absurdity and all so podcasters benefit their their numbers go up rhinos benefit because they

00:43:54.320 can try to contain the more conservative and classical conceptions of politics and leftists

00:44:00.980 benefit because they've been calling all of us Nazis, anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton

00:44:03.920 Nazis for 50 years. Those three groups benefit. You know the only group that doesn't benefit?

00:44:09.960 Conservatives. Sorry, I shouldn't say that's the only group that doesn't benefit. As far as I can

00:44:14.260 tell, there are three groups that don't benefit from that. Conservatives in America, also Israelis

00:44:20.300 and Jews. Those are the three groups that don't benefit. And it was a really important point that

00:44:25.660 came out of the NatCon conference in Jerusalem. So anyway, I hope I can make it next year. We'll

00:44:29.800 see. We'll see. Sweet little Lisa, she keeps getting pregnant, but maybe next year I'll be

00:44:34.000 able to go. Okay. And so you think that's shocking. Well, I have the most shocking

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00:46:03.040 My favorite, you know, I didn't pick the comment.

00:46:06.260 I'm a little bit, you know, I was a little busy yesterday.

00:46:08.520 So Mr. Davies picked the comment.

00:46:09.680 Let's see if he did well.

00:46:10.480 This is from AspiedDevotions6392.

00:46:15.480 Careful, Michael, that one-hour paternity break you took

00:46:17.880 could be a bad example to other dads to be lazy.

00:46:20.160 I know, you're right.

00:46:20.900 No, look, that's why I'm back in the chair.

00:46:22.480 That's why I'm back in the chair right now

00:46:23.720 with my cigar, with all of you.

00:46:24.920 It's a beautiful thing.

00:46:26.500 Shocking, shocking political content.

00:46:28.700 President Trump was speaking.

00:46:31.820 He's doing a lot of campaign rallies for the midterms.

00:46:34.060 And he shows up and he's coming out.

00:46:36.080 Anyway, at one point, he's kind of in this hero pose,

00:46:39.480 opening up his suit jacket, as people are wanting to do. But the cameras spied the label of the

00:46:45.140 jacket. And it turns out that Trump wears his suits from Joseph A. Bank, which is one of the

00:46:53.260 most affordable menswear companies in the entire country. It's kind of like Men's Warehouse.

00:46:58.260 You know, sometimes I actually have a lot of Joseph A. Bank clothing because I'm pretty frugal.

00:47:02.980 And so one of the hallmarks of Joseph A. Bank is, you know, you buy one suit and you get three for

00:47:08.240 free or whatever. It's kind of like Men's Warehouse that way. And Joseph A. Bank does make some suits

00:47:11.680 that are a little more expensive, but compared to other men's wear companies, Brooks Brothers,

00:47:15.140 J Press, Paul Stewart, it's way, way, way less expensive. And you say, what on earth? Why is

00:47:21.620 Trump shot? Why is Trump, what is he worth? $5 billion? $7, $8 billion? By some measures,

00:47:28.000 if you include the crypto stuff, it could be tens of billions of dollars. Why is he wearing

00:47:32.220 a Joseph A. Bank suit, I have never more deeply felt that he's just like me for real, for real.

00:47:41.320 You know, he really, I'm pretty frugal. I like the, I have a taste for the finer things.

00:47:47.160 My favorite way to get the finer things is when people give them to me. I try, I'm happy. I try

00:47:53.900 to be generous with my friends and my family, but when it comes to spending on me, I'm cheap.

00:47:58.580 I don't have to be cheap, but I like to be cheap.

00:48:01.500 And it's the same thing with Trump.

00:48:03.040 There are these stories of Trump being very, very generous to people,

00:48:05.960 taking care of people's medical expenses.

00:48:07.820 He doesn't take a salary as president of the United States.

00:48:10.680 There's a lot of evidence of him being very, very generous with people.

00:48:14.320 And he loves the finer things.

00:48:17.500 And he likes the finer things,

00:48:19.240 especially when he can work them as part of his businesses.

00:48:21.580 I like cigars so much.

00:48:22.560 I was spending so much money on cigars, I had to start a cigar company.

00:48:25.220 So I stopped spending so much money on cigars.

00:48:27.020 and president trump is frugal and that's the kind of guy i want to be president he's he's frugal not

00:48:35.140 because he has to be he's frugal for love of the game i oh i love that so much i drive a kind of

00:48:41.220 an older less expensive car around here and they yell at me at the daily wire they say michael

00:48:45.200 including professor jacob with the stupid camaros that he's always crashing says michael get this

00:48:49.420 is embarrassing get a fancy car i said no way michael come on we're gonna chip in we're gonna

00:48:54.520 buy you a car. I don't want, I won't take it. I won't accept it. I like the frugality for love

00:48:59.640 of the game. That's the guy that, that explains one, how he's so rich. You know, you got to save

00:49:08.140 pennies to spend dollars. It also explains why he gets what lots of Americans from lots of

00:49:16.280 different backgrounds think and experience. This guy was born rich. He became much richer.

00:49:22.660 he has been world famous for 50 years, and he's been the most powerful person in politics,

00:49:29.260 even when he was out of office, for a dozen years. How does this guy have such a connection?

00:49:35.480 He has a better connection to broad swaths of Americans than any president in my lifetime.

00:49:40.620 How does he do it? Joseph A. Bank is one way that he does it. Can you imagine how high their stock

00:49:47.240 is going to jump. One last point on this. One last point from the speech. I think this was a

00:49:53.940 different speech, actually. Trump, he's called greedy and selfish and egotistical and prideful

00:50:00.980 and all these things. He took a moment. He paused during one of his speeches to make fun of his own

00:50:05.500 hair. He's touching his hair, looking at the big jumbotron. This is not good news. Now I'm depressed.

00:50:35.500 I said, I look really sharp tonight.

00:50:37.300 Then I just looked at myself from the back.

00:50:39.000 This is not good.

00:50:43.320 Why didn't you tell me?

00:50:48.320 Why didn't you tell me?

00:50:50.100 Okay, two things Trump is showing us right here.

00:50:51.780 One, he's showing us meta politics.

00:50:53.800 And I've observed this a long time ago on the show.

00:50:57.260 Trump differed from the other presidential candidates

00:50:59.500 he ran against in 2016 and 2020 and 2024

00:51:02.340 in that they were all earnestly running for president.

00:51:06.380 They were doing the sort of things you do

00:51:07.760 when you run for president.

00:51:08.800 They were doing the hand gestures

00:51:10.100 and they were saying the things

00:51:12.380 and they were doing all of that.

00:51:14.220 And Trump did that to some degree too,

00:51:15.940 but he added a layer to it.

00:51:18.560 He was self-consciously running for president.

00:51:22.240 In as much as he would go out there and say,

00:51:24.320 okay, I have to say something.

00:51:25.680 They tell me I have to be presidential.

00:51:28.180 Do you want to get a load of this?

00:51:29.440 He might as well light up the cigarette,

00:51:30.880 pull out the stool spotlight on him get a lot of this this is what they what they want me to do

00:51:35.500 they want me to get a dog can you would you that's what all the presidents get dogs i don't

00:51:39.740 that's not me i don't think i can get a dog i'm it wouldn't it wouldn't be me would it here's what

00:51:45.620 i gotta say the thing they want me to say and so he's doing a riff about that which reads as

00:51:50.000 profoundly authentic it it reads as much more honest than the other politicians all those

00:51:56.340 other politicians want to say trump lies all the time and he's lying about the value of his

00:52:00.520 businesses and he's lying about his policies and he's lying about, he's exaggerating. But Trump

00:52:05.320 revealed himself to be more honest than all the other politicians because he was honestly running

00:52:10.400 for president. Whereas all those other guys were, they were just a layer below that. Okay,

00:52:15.200 that's one thing. The second thing he's showing us is that he can be self-effacing. This is a

00:52:19.300 point I've made and people have made fun of me for observing this point, but I'm totally right about

00:52:23.360 it. They say Trump is so prideful. He won't accept any insults and you have to fawn over him all the

00:52:29.420 time. Trump is up there. He's giving a speech on a totally unrelated topic. He catches a glimpse

00:52:33.700 of his thinning hair in the jumbotron. And then he says, I got to stop. And he doesn't try to hide

00:52:38.780 it. He calls attention to it. He makes it into a bit. He goes, I'm getting a little thin up there.

00:52:44.380 Now I'm depressed. I was having a good day. Now I'm depressed because I'm not looking as good as

00:52:48.940 I used to. I thought I looked good. Now I'm not looking as good. Look at my hair. Look at my

00:52:52.320 thinning hair. Look at my age. Look at my imperfections. Look at what's wrong with me.

00:52:58.360 That's what he's saying

00:52:59.540 And so paradoxically you get trump who's this bragger to puts his name in gold everywhere

00:53:04.840 Who ends up being the most self-effacing politician of anybody who shows up to the stages

00:53:09.080 That's part of the magic trump showed us this the way

00:53:13.000 The thing that totally convinced me of this was years ago on saint patrick's day

00:53:16.800 Someone asked me who's gonna have a beer. He said me i'm not gonna have a beer. No, i've never had a beer

00:53:20.660 I'm, the only president probably in history who can say he's never had a beer. That sounds like he's bragging

00:53:25.280 He says, could you imagine if I did?

00:53:27.760 Gosh, that's the only good thing you can say about me

00:53:29.800 is I never had a beer.

00:53:30.880 Oh man, if I drank, I'd be the worst.

00:53:34.300 That's self-effacing.

00:53:35.960 That's the only good thing you can say about me.

00:53:38.080 Look at all my flaws.

00:53:38.880 Look at my imperfections.

00:53:40.160 Whatever, I'm trying though.

00:53:41.120 I'm doing my best.

00:53:42.180 Doing my best for you guys.

00:53:45.400 Crucial political skill.

00:53:47.720 And it reveals why Trump's opponents

00:53:50.180 are like Wile E. Coyote chasing the roadrunner.

00:53:52.260 They can never get him.

00:53:53.100 they buy all the big bombs and falling pianos from the acme corporation and they never land

00:53:58.220 on him they never land on him because they don't they actually don't get what he's doing okay i

00:54:02.940 have an update on the cornell 7 remember i told you at the top of the show i said i was going to

00:54:07.180 try not to get to the cornell 7 because it's so gross now there's now it turns out the girl who

00:54:13.220 initially said she was not raped then later she changed her tune when she didn't get invited to

00:54:16.600 a halloween party she said she was raped then the guy said well maybe we were raped because if you

00:54:20.440 were raped because you were drunk. We were drunk too. So maybe we were raped. Anyway, one of the

00:54:23.980 guys, it appears, was like very literally tangibly raped by this girl. So we're not going to get to

00:54:30.480 that today. I'm having a good day and I want to get to that story. We'll get to that story tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 08, 2026

Ep. 2077 - Mamdani ＂Remembers＂ October 7th With Anti-Israel Tweet

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