The Michael Knowles Show - November 13, 2026


Ep. 2103 - Is The NVIDIA Sex Scandal A Deep-State Coup To Get Trump？

Ep. 2102 - My Most Unpopular Take： Surveillance States Are Good

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00:00:29 largest company in the country goes down in a sex scandal with massive national security implications 0.82
00:00:34 that might also be a deep state coup to destroy the president, we will examine what the Wangs 0.85
00:00:41 have been up to at NVIDIA. Lots of behavior from the Wangs. Then AOC lays out the Democrats' game 0.88
00:00:49 plan to take down President Trump. And Greta Thunberg laughs at climate activists. I'm Michael
00:00:55 Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. The most interesting cultural story of all of these
00:01:19 things, you know, biggest company in the country going down in multiple sex scandals,
00:01:24 is actually is also a kind of a sex story where it's a very sexual culture,
00:01:27 but it pertains to Miley Cyrus lying to her future husband about not being a virgin. That is
00:01:35 one of the most depressing cultural signals I've ever seen. Flip is going viral. We will get to
00:01:41 that. First, though, this minor issue with NVIDIA. If you've not been following it,
00:01:46 NVIDIA was the biggest company in the country. Now, no longer, because the stock took a hit,
00:01:51 so it's number two, number three, depending on the hour of the day. But this is a multi-year
00:01:56 brewing scandal, and it's about a lot more than Wang's. So the CEO, or the former CEO,
00:02:02 he just resigned, Jensen Wang, Wong, it's just, I'm a sucker for a good pun.
00:02:07 So beyond the Wang issues, this starts in 2023. U.S. officials start to investigate
00:02:13 whether or not NVIDIA has been selling computer chips to China. They're not allowed to sell
00:02:19 computer chips to China, but there are kind of ways to get around it. You could sell it to third
00:02:22 party countries and then third party companies, and then they sell them to China. So three years
00:02:27 ago, we get this investigation. Two years ago, 2024, the intelligence community identifies this
00:02:34 woman, Alice Wong, as a possible security threat. China has a lot of spies in the United States.
00:02:42 They're at our universities. They're at our companies. They're on Eric Swalwell's couch.
00:02:46 there are a ton of Chinese spies. So they identify this woman. They say, all right,
00:02:50 she might be a security risk. NVIDIA has now been for years one of, if not the biggest company in
00:02:58 the United States. And then last October, we get the New York Times breaking a story
00:03:05 that there's an investigation into chip sales to China. All right. Then we get the story that
00:03:14 U.S. intelligence had concluded that this woman was a spy and she was pretty close to Jensen Wong.
00:03:21 There's Alice Wong and Jensen Wong, no relation, a lot of Wongs. Trump was apparently briefed on
00:03:27 this in October. Then the House committees request closed door testimony on November 5th of this
00:03:37 year. The New York Times reports on November 6th that the relationship between Wong and Wong
00:03:43 was indeed romantic, as a lot of people surmised. Then Jensen Wang, the CEO, admits to it on
00:03:50 November 8th. The board announces it's going to investigate on November 10th.
00:03:55 New York Times admits a second affair, or rather reports on a second affair from Jensen Wang with
00:04:02 some subordinate, not a Chinese spy, but still not good. You know, the guy's married. This would
00:04:06 have been NVIDIA's VP of healthcare. And then just yesterday, we get the announcement that
00:04:11 the CEO of NVIDIA has resigned. So why is this interesting? It's tabloid gossip. There's sex.
00:04:17 There's Sutterfuge. There are computer chips. We're in this Cold War with China. So it's all
00:04:22 very interesting, reminiscent of the Cold War, the original Cold War between the United States
00:04:26 and the Soviet Union. The reason I think this is interesting, though, is because of how the
00:04:32 reporting has come out. The reason I think this is interesting goes way beyond the CEO of NVIDIA,
00:04:37 even way beyond the biggest company in the country. I see a pattern now. I see an operation
00:04:45 being set in motion that I think is targeting President Trump. And you got possibly, if you
00:04:51 don't mind entertaining my conspiracy theory hat for a second, putting on the tinfoil, I think you
00:04:55 got possibly a little preview of where this is going during that 60 Minutes interview with Ross
00:05:01 Douthat. Everybody was sitting around the clips of Trump saying that even at the pearly gates,
00:05:05 He doesn't know if he can forgive his enemies.
00:05:07 He might even be willing to go to hell for it.
00:05:09 You know, all these really colorful clips.
00:05:10 Well, here's one that people did not pay too much attention to,
00:05:13 which is some of the dirty business that the AI CEOs have been up to.
00:05:19 The DOJ, we had a situation where somebody was reported to us to be doing something bad with AI.
00:05:28 We called them very strongly and said, get ready to go to jail.
00:05:31 Please give your wife a kiss goodnight.
00:05:33 Who was this person?
00:05:34 I can't tell you.
00:05:35 For this company.
00:05:35 I can't tell you.
00:05:36 But we said, do you like the color orange?
00:05:40 Because get rid.
00:05:42 Go home right now. 0.68
00:05:44 See your wife and children.
00:05:45 Give them a kiss.
00:05:46 Good night.
00:05:48 And that's the story because tomorrow morning you're going to jail.
00:05:52 If they wanted to make a deal to put that to come.
00:05:55 This person totally changed everything.
00:05:58 Totally.
00:05:59 Yes, sir.
00:06:00 Yes, sir.
00:06:00 Yes, sir.
00:06:00 Was it a leader of a major AI company?
00:06:03 One of the big ones, yeah.
00:06:04 OK, one of the big ones, one of the big ones.
00:06:06 OK, so who is President Trump talking about?
00:06:08 This interview was less than a week ago. 0.90
00:06:10 There are a couple of prominent homosexuals in Silicon Valley. 0.96
00:06:13 So he says, kiss your wife goodnight. 0.97
00:06:14 That takes a couple of the companies out of it.
00:06:17 Is he talking about Anthropic here, possibly?
00:06:19 Or is he talking about NVIDIA?
00:06:21 Is he is he giving a little preview of this Jensen Wong scandal?
00:06:24 He was doing some very bad stuff, but we called him.
00:06:27 We got him in line.
00:06:28 OK, the way I'm seeing this play out.
00:06:31 The New York Times is reporting at the New York Times.
00:06:34 is the organ of establishment liberalism.
00:06:37 Where's the New York Times getting its information from?
00:06:39 Seems to me it's very likely
00:06:41 it's getting it from the intelligence community.
00:06:42 Could be getting it from some of the political actors.
00:06:45 Why is this story breaking just now?
00:06:47 Just after the midterms,
00:06:49 Republicans take an historic drubbing.
00:06:51 We know that the Democrats are gonna come into power.
00:06:54 And if they're smart,
00:06:55 we'll get to their strategy in a second.
00:06:57 If they're smart,
00:06:57 the Democrats will not push all their unpopular policies.
00:07:00 The Democrats will spend the next two years
00:07:02 just subpoenaing everybody, investigating everybody, creating an image in the public's
00:07:07 mind of corruption, trying to impeach members of the cabinet, just trying to kneecap the
00:07:11 2028 Republican presidential nominee. So why is it all coming out now? And
00:07:16 where does this lead? Jensen Wang goes down over a sex scandal. They actually didn't quite get him
00:07:24 on the spy scandal. So then, because he wasn't resigning, because the board wasn't firing him,
00:07:29 They drop another report.
00:07:31 Well, you know what?
00:07:31 He was sleeping with someone else too.
00:07:33 If we can't get him on the spy thing,
00:07:34 we'll get him on a Me Too thing
00:07:35 with one of his subordinates.
00:07:36 Okay, they finally take him out.
00:07:38 But they're already shifting the narrative
00:07:40 to try to go after Howard Lutnick,
00:07:42 Commerce Secretary at the White House,
00:07:45 for his dealings with NVIDIA.
00:07:47 That reporting started to hit yesterday,
00:07:49 the day before that.
00:07:50 So they're not only trying to get rid
00:07:52 of the head of NVIDIA,
00:07:54 they're trying to get rid
00:07:56 of one of the cabinet secretaries.
00:07:57 And maybe he'll go, maybe not.
00:07:59 As of the time of this airing, Howard Lutnick has not stepped down, has barely responded to this.
00:08:04 But if they go after Howard Lutnick for not dealing with the concern of the threat of the
00:08:11 chip sales to China, if they're going after him, what's to stop them from going after President
00:08:15 Trump for his involvement? Was the president totally kept away from this? Did he know something?
00:08:21 Was he briefed in the Oval Office? What I see in the NVIDIA story, and I'm kind of surprised the
00:08:26 Democrats have dropped this so early. I thought they would wait until they actually took office.
00:08:30 I see the beginning of their first attempt in this administration to impeach President Trump.
00:08:35 They already impeached him twice in the first Trump term. I think they're probably going to
00:08:39 try to impeach him a billion times in the second Trump term. I see in this story the beginning
00:08:44 of that. It all just looks too coordinated. It all looks highly, highly suspect. You always have
00:08:50 to ask in these kind of scandals, Cui Bono, who benefits from this? That's where I see this play
00:08:54 We'll see if my Nostradamus prediction is correct or if this is a crazy conspiracy theory.
00:08:58 We know for a fact, though, guaranteed what is not a conspiracy theory
00:09:01 is that the Democrats are planning on a whole host of impeachments.
00:09:06 Here is AOC describing the order of operations on impeachment.
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00:10:43 What are the Democrats going to do?
00:10:44 I'm in the nation's capital.
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00:10:52 You can feel the tone shift.
00:10:55 It's still a Republican-dominated town, but there's trepidation.
00:10:59 There's a sense of dread.
00:11:00 Some people are belligerent and they're excited to fight the Democrats.
00:11:03 But generally speaking, we know there's going to be this retribution, this force coming
00:11:08 to D.C. in January.
00:11:10 What are they going to do?
00:11:11 Try to impeach everybody. 0.89
00:11:15 There are so many criminals in this administration. It's hard to figure out
00:11:20 who should be, you know, the order of operations. There are going to be many, many, many investigations.
00:11:26 I imagine many subpoenas, and we have to follow wherever the evidence takes us.
00:11:32 Okay, so there's definitely one true thing that AOC said here from her perspective,
00:11:37 which is that it's hard to figure out the order of operations. I'm sure that AOC,
00:11:42 since the second grade has struggled.
00:11:44 Do you do the parentheses and the exponents first?
00:11:47 Do you, I forget, do you do the division
00:11:49 before the multiplication or?
00:11:52 So no doubt, I think she's being 100% truthful.
00:11:55 She would pass a lie detector test.
00:11:57 AOC struggles with the order of operations,
00:11:59 probably with algebra and possibly with basic arithmetic.
00:12:04 After that, she says that this is gonna be a sea of subpoenas,
00:12:08 which is a mark in her favor for AOC as the 2020 presidential nominee, because it shows that AOC
00:12:14 is one of the more disciplined Democrats on Capitol Hill. It's AOC realizing what the
00:12:21 Democrat mandate is here. If the Democrats come in and say, woohoo, we lost the popular vote in
00:12:26 2024. People seem to think we were totally nuts, but then we won this big midterm election.
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00:12:35 infinity migration. You know what we're going to do? If they do that, if they actually try to
00:12:41 follow through on their policy agenda, one, it'll be vetoed by President Trump, thank goodness.
00:12:46 But two, the American people are going to turn on them again. Just as you saw that pendulum swing
00:12:52 back so far since the historic Republican victory of 2024, unified government for the Republicans,
00:12:57 presidency, House, Senate, Supreme Court. Just as you, from that massive win, you saw it swing
00:13:02 all the way to Republicans losing 40 plus seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate.
00:13:06 If the Democrats push their agenda, their actual policy agenda, it's going to swing right back.
00:13:11 So the best thing that the Democrats can do is not give Republicans that fodder. It's just to
00:13:16 push this line that there is corruption and be kind of vague about it. Go after
00:13:21 middling staffers, maybe pluck off a cabinet secretary. I don't think they're going to get 0.99
00:13:27 Trump on anything. They probably can't resist going after Trump. But if they're smart, if
00:13:33 they're disciplined, that's what they'll do. And that's what AOC says they're going to do.
00:13:36 Because AOC, I'm not saying she's smart, smart. I'm not saying she got like a perfect score on
00:13:42 the SAT. I'm not saying she's in Mensa. I'm not saying she knows the order of operations.
00:13:46 But the girl does no politics. She's very good at being a congressman. 1.00
00:13:49 So she follows this up by specifics on impeachment.
00:13:52 how high do you go do you go after trump i mean do you try to impeach trump
00:13:58 i mean i think we should leave all options on the table absolutely i mean of course this
00:14:03 supreme court uh as well has also kind of legalized a lot of this criminality and they're
00:14:10 pointing at impeachment impeachment in this republican majority at that time was pointing
00:14:13 at the supreme court uh so we'll see we'll we'll approach it but i think all options are on the
00:14:18 Put a pause here. What is she talking about? The Supreme Court has legalized criminality.
00:14:24 That's a totally sincere question. Let me know in the comments. I don't know what she's
00:14:27 specifically talking about. I don't know what AOC is talking about. In principle,
00:14:31 it's kind of funny to think that the Supreme Court could legalize criminality because from
00:14:37 a basic perspective, if you legalize something, it is no longer criminal. It's also especially
00:14:42 funny from AOC's perspective because the left supports criminals over innocent people. The
00:14:46 left runs on emptying prisons. The left runs on decriminalizing all sorts of crimes. The left
00:14:53 runs on restoring all sorts of rights to convicted criminals. That's really funny. The one way that
00:14:59 you could say that AOC's comment makes sense in principle is to say, well, the positive law
00:15:04 sometimes gets things wrong. Legislators and judges, they can get things wrong because
00:15:09 ultimately law is not something that we create out of our own minds. It's not something that
00:15:13 emerges from the democracy. Law is something that we interpret, that we understand, that actually
00:15:19 exists outside of our own mind and will. The law is something, the civil law is something that we
00:15:25 come to by way of discerning things like the natural law, which pre-exists us, which will
00:15:31 live on past us, and which is part of the objective moral order. I could say that because I'm a
00:15:37 Christian and I'm conservative and I'm not a big lib. But the libs don't believe that. The liberal
00:15:43 view of the law is that the law is just a creation of our own minds and our own wills. So this is a
00:15:48 little bit of a philosophical digression, but what AOC says does not make sense at any level
00:15:54 other than in the narrow sense that they want to impeach Trump. And I think that does relate
00:16:00 to the NVIDIA story. I think they are trying to find any angle to hurl some supposed crime
00:16:08 onto the president. Don't forget, they were impeaching him over nothing in the first term.
00:16:13 They were impeaching him over a phone call with Ukraine, after which Trump supported Ukraine.
00:16:19 They were accusing him of a quid pro quo with Ukraine, a country that the United States
00:16:24 continues to support and a quid pro quo without a quid. There was no quid. Trump didn't get
00:16:32 anything out of it. So they will impeach him on the basis of absolutely nothing. And that's clearly
00:16:38 the play. Okay. Speaking of confused and eccentric young liberal women, Greta Thunberg,
00:16:46 Greta St. Greta of the Blessed Sailboat is recently now going viral because she was
00:16:53 interviewed about a climate group that she founded. So you remember Greta, you have stolen
00:16:59 our dreams, Greta, sailing around the world on her boat, talking about how the sun monster was
00:17:03 going to kill us all in five seconds if we don't do everything that she wants. Well, that was then,
00:17:08 this is now. Greta has moved on to other causes, such as protesting in support of Hamas. She's
00:17:15 given up the tree hugging and the Patagonia fleeces in favor of the keffiyeh. She's gone 1.00
00:17:23 along with the times. She was asked about this climate group that she founded and a recent
00:17:28 climate protest that she had. And rather than take that protest seriously, rather than take
00:17:34 some pride in people following in her footsteps to support Mother Earth, she instead burst out
00:17:41 laughing and made fun of them. That on a day where there's a Fridays for Future demonstration
00:17:47 in Berlin.
00:17:48 Is it?
00:17:58 Really?
00:17:58 Yeah.
00:17:59 They still do that?
00:18:04 Oh, really?
00:18:10 They're still talking about the climate?
00:18:12 What is wrong?
00:18:13 We've moved on. 1.00
00:18:15 We're Muslim now. 0.97
00:18:15 Yes, we used to be neo-pagan, tree-hugger, Gaia-worshipper witches, but now we are jihadis. 0.93
00:18:25 They never got the memo. What losers? 0.99
00:18:30 That is our new dream. They stole our old dreams. Now our new dream is the caliphate. 0.99
00:18:35 Inshallah.
00:18:36 So if you recall, you might have a weak memory. You don't remember how Greta used to sound.
00:18:41 Here is Greta, in probably her most famous or infamous moment, castigating the entire world because they wouldn't switch to paper straws or something, because they had destroyed the natural environment.
00:18:56 This is all wrong.
00:18:59 I shouldn't be up here.
00:19:02 I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean.
00:19:06 Yet, you all come to us young people for hope.
00:19:10 how dare you you have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words
00:19:18 how dare you you've stolen my dreams you remember i remember that i was around at that time i got
00:19:27 in a little trouble for observing the reality of greta i recall some years ago and yet now
00:19:34 Greta is stealing her own childhood dream. She's mocking her own childhood dream.
00:19:40 I agree she should have been in school. She should not have been a truant, but she was anyway. 0.96
00:19:44 And now she's on the other side of it. She says, you still care about the environment? What's wrong
00:19:48 with you? That's so stupid. No, the sun monster is not going to kill us in three years. No, no, 1.00
00:19:53 no. What we have to do now is kill the Jews. No, I shouldn't joke about it, but she's really moved 1.00
00:19:58 on. Now her chief cause is the Palestinian cause and anti-Israel activism. And okay, fine. She's
00:20:05 doing that because that is now what is fashionable on the left. What was fashionable on the left 0.82
00:20:10 10 years ago was climate activism. The Green New Deal, that's what swept AOC into office,
00:20:16 but that had diminishing political returns. So she moves on to what's hotter among her base. 1.00
00:20:20 In other words, as some of us predicted, the climate revolution was never really about the
00:20:29 climate. It was always about the revolution. That's the key. All of these moral crusades that
00:20:37 the left takes on temporarily, it's never really about the issue. It's never about the supposed
00:20:44 substance of it. It's always just about the procedure. It's always about the revolution.
00:20:48 It's always about tearing down whatever institution or norms or social strictures
00:20:53 that are in their crosshairs and that are impeding their broader agenda.
00:20:57 When I see that clip of Greta, I think of like a teenager.
00:21:02 Teenager, you and your teenage friend, you listen to some band,
00:21:06 and you really like this band.
00:21:07 And then a year later, you're still listening to the band,
00:21:09 and your friend says, you still listening to that band? 0.99
00:21:12 Nah, man, that band's for losers now. 0.95
00:21:13 You got to listen to the, you know, chuckling squashes now, you know, before, yeah, no, 0.98
00:21:19 I know last year we're, nah, man, now that's lame. You say, no, remember we loved, we went to the
00:21:24 concert. I have the t-shirt. Nah, man, no, that's not cool anymore. You're not cool.
00:21:29 You still talking about the weather? You still talking about the sun, man? That's, come on,
00:21:33 that's like 2018. Get with the program. Get your keffia. What a loser. Hey, Sally doesn't even have
00:21:38 a keffia. That's what Greta is doing. And we'll see what the next crusade is. Be aware of it, 1.00
00:21:45 though. The object of her ire and her contempt, it's not some CEO. It's not some politician.
00:21:53 It's not someone impeding some actual issue. It's you. It's you. It's the way of life that
00:22:01 you want to continue to live, the way that your country works, and your hopes and dreams. That's
00:22:07 that's the issue that she's protesting. Okay, speaking of cultural icons, speaking of young
00:22:12 women who are very, very famous, Miley Cyrus has a much more relevant sex scandal for all of us 0.66
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00:23:53 It's the Call Her Daddy podcast, right? 0.98
00:23:54 Just totally depraved, doing more to set women backward, 0.98
00:23:59 doing more to destroy male-female relations 0.96
00:24:02 than anything we've seen since Lysistrata. 1.00
00:24:04 She goes on that podcast
00:24:05 and starts talking about her first sexual experience.
00:24:09 And I always say it's a family show.
00:24:10 We try to keep it clean.
00:24:11 I actually can keep this one clean.
00:24:13 It's not that hard
00:24:14 because the sex scandal is an anti-sex scandal. 0.98
00:24:17 It is Miley Cyrus admitting
00:24:19 that she tried to make herself out 0.80
00:24:22 to be more of a lady of ill repute. 0.59
00:24:26 She tried to pretend to be more 0.96
00:24:28 of a woman of loose morals 0.96
00:24:29 than she actually was. 0.88
00:24:31 She lied about not being a virgin.
00:24:36 And when did you hook up with a guy? 0.99
00:24:39 I hooked up with,
00:24:40 well, I didn't go all the way with the dude.
00:24:42 I was 16.
00:24:43 It wasn't Nick Jonas.
00:24:44 It wasn't Nick Jonas,
00:24:46 but I ended up marrying the guy.
00:24:48 Oh my God.
00:24:49 So that's pretty crazy.
00:24:50 So that's the first guy you hooked up with.
00:24:52 Yeah, which I lied and said
00:24:53 that he wasn't the first,
00:24:54 so I didn't seem like a loser.
00:24:55 Okay, but now you're telling the truth.
00:24:56 It's such more of a full circle story.
00:24:58 It's so weird because I couldn't think, I couldn't think of anyone.
00:25:02 He was like, oh, whoever you had sex with.
00:25:03 And I couldn't think of anyone.
00:25:04 So I just like made somebody up that I knew, but we had never actually had sex before.
00:25:08 And then like his friend ended up marrying him.
00:25:10 And so then it was like, oh, now my friend is marrying someone you've hooked up with.
00:25:13 So then when I was like 24, I had to say that I lied when I was 16.
00:25:15 You're like, so that was a full-blown lie.
00:25:17 It was a lie that I held on to for like 10 years.
00:25:20 Wow.
00:25:22 Throughout history, just a little brief history of male-female relations since the dawn of time.
00:25:27 throughout history, many, many women have lied about being virgins. They go to get married and 0.51
00:25:35 they say, yeah, yes, this is my first time. And now we're becoming one flesh, you and I, and you
00:25:41 know, wow, what an amazing novel experience this will be. But they're not actually virgins. That's
00:25:45 pretty normal in human history, in this fallen world. What is strange and depraved and something
00:25:52 out of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World about our culture is that now women are lying about not 0.97
00:25:59 being virgins. At 16, I mean, there's so many elements to this story that make you weep for 0.93
00:26:05 the culture. She thinks at 16, and age plenty of people, you know, plenty of people start doing
00:26:12 weird stuff that they shouldn't do at age 16. But she thinks at 16, she should have lost her
00:26:18 virginity long ago. What age? 14? 12? When do you, that is sick stuff. But at 16, rather than say,
00:26:26 hey, you know, I'm a, I'm a virgin. The way that you entice the man to say, no, what are you
00:26:31 talking about? I'm a huge slut. Anyway, let's, come on, let's go, you know, bump ugly's or 1.00
00:26:35 whatever. And she gets caught in this lie. It's, I guess it's kind of funny. She gets caught in 0.61
00:26:41 this lie and she says, oh no, I slept with so-and-so before that. And then they continue
00:26:46 to be friends with this person, and this friend marries that person, and this is part of the lore
00:26:50 of their friend group, and he has to admit, oh, no, no, I lied. I was actually much more wholesome
00:26:55 than I let on. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. We need to change the incentives in our culture.
00:27:05 I made this point on free speech, which is that a way to understand the shifting norms and taboos
00:27:10 is that in the 50s, you could teach the Bible in schools. You could not teach pornography in
00:27:15 schools. And in 2026, you can teach pornography in schools, but you can't teach the Bible in 0.92
00:27:20 schools. So you just had a total flipping of the taboos. Well, it's the same thing here. 0.66
00:27:24 It used to be the attractive thing was to be a virgin. The taboo was to be a little loose
00:27:31 before you're married. And so you'd kind of lie, you'd pretend to be the good thing instead of the
00:27:37 bad thing. And we still do that. We still pretend to be the desirable thing. We still sometimes
00:27:41 puff ourselves up to make ourselves look more attractive, but we've just totally flipped what
00:27:45 we understand that to be. How sad. How sad for a 16-year-old girl. And so how do you reset the
00:27:53 morals? That's the question. How do you reset the taboos, the standards, the things that are
00:27:58 attractive? There are all sorts of mechanisms for it. Some of it is cultural. It's mimetic.
00:28:04 We've talked about Rene Girard here, that we imitate people that we admire in their behavior,
00:28:09 in their speech, even in their desires. Some of it is institutional. Some of it is didactic.
00:28:14 What are the schools teaching? Used to be the schools said, don't have sex before marriage,
00:28:19 or you're going to get a bunch of diseases and no one's going to want you. And they really kind
00:28:22 of laid it on thick. Now they're teaching sex ed in like third grade. And they're telling five-year
00:28:27 olds that they can switch their gender. And they're filling their head with a bunch of
00:28:30 gobbledygook and nonsense about sex. Some of it comes from the government. The fact that our laws 0.99
00:28:36 now, encourage a bunch of weird sex stuff, redefine marriage, promote all manner of AIDS to weird sex
00:28:42 stuff, and degrade marriage, both in definition and in ease of destroying it through divorce laws. 1.00
00:28:50 All of those things lead to that culture that Miley Cyrus is in. And so there is a way out of
00:28:56 it. It's not that we throw our hands in the air and say, oh, gosh, I just don't know. I just don't
00:29:00 know how we get back to it. You just change what the schools are teaching. You change what the law
00:29:05 says, specifically about sex stuff. You punish bad behavior and you reward good behavior. And
00:29:11 you change the movies and the cultural representations. And guess what? You'll
00:29:15 return to a more sane culture. And shouldn't we all be able to agree, even if you're like a big
00:29:20 lib, even if you're kind of pro-sexual revolution, shouldn't we all agree that a 16-year-old girl
00:29:24 should not be ashamed to the point of lying to her boyfriend that she is a virgin? Even like her
00:29:31 body her choice. She didn't want to lose her virginity before 16. Shouldn't we agree on that?
00:29:36 Even the other wholesome part of the story-ish, by our today's standards, she ends up marrying
00:29:39 that guy. Even that's considered kind of embarrassing. Oh yeah, I married the first
00:29:43 guy I slept with. Isn't that kind of embarrassing? No, that's good. That's good. For most of human
00:29:49 history, that would be considered desirable, if not mandatory. When we get back to something like
00:29:54 that. Okay. Turning to a more prudish sexual morality. It's definitely the opposite end of
00:30:01 that spectrum. Mike Pence is back in the news because after the midterm drubbing, a lot of
00:30:07 people angling to run for president as Republicans. We've talked about J.D. Vance, obviously, I think
00:30:12 is the front runner. Marco Rubio could run, but it doesn't seem like he will run. Ted Cruz wants
00:30:17 to run. Rand Paul wants to run. Ron DeSantis wants to run. Those are just the serious candidates.
00:30:22 then a bunch of other people want to run. And apparently, Mike Pence might throw his hat in
00:30:26 the ring. You said in September you have, as of now, no plans to run in 2028. And I'm wondering
00:30:33 if the results of the midterm elections, have you maybe changing your mind? And have Republican
00:30:38 donors, activists, your friends reached out to you to ask you to reconsider? Well, we've been
00:30:43 hearing from a lot of people around the country. I've been very humbled by that. But let me say
00:30:48 that the most important thing is that we win the presidency in 2028. And to do that, I think it will
00:30:56 be essential that we focus first on what we're for before we focus on who we're for. I mean, that's
00:31:04 why I wrote my book this summer. That's why our work at Advancing American Freedom is going to
00:31:10 continue to lean into advocating that broad mainstream conservative agenda that's defined
00:31:15 to the republican party
00:31:17 but for the last fifty years
00:31:19 mean the truth is if if we don't return the republican party
00:31:23 under the principles of the strong defense uh...
00:31:26 limited government fiscal responsibility and the right to life
00:31:30 it won't matter who we nominate
00:31:32 in twenty twenty eight
00:31:34 because of this version of republicanism
00:31:36 was just rejected by the american people
00:31:40 okay so there are a lot of people a lot of snarky people in the comments in my
00:31:43 Mike Pence has no shot.
00:31:44 What a joke.
00:31:45 He's not hearing from people trying to get him to run.
00:31:47 That's crazy.
00:31:48 I don't know that that's totally true.
00:31:49 First of all, I'm sure there are people talking to Mike Pence, telling him that he should run.
00:31:53 And after the drubbing, that's his argument at the end.
00:31:55 He says, well, whatever this version of the Republican Party is, it has been rejected by voters.
00:31:59 Now, I disagree with him on that.
00:32:01 I don't think that's true.
00:32:02 In fact, I don't think that the midterm elections were a referendum on the Trump agenda.
00:32:09 And I don't think that's just cope either.
00:32:11 I think the midterm elections were a referendum on the war in Iran and the consequences and
00:32:16 significance of the war in Iran.
00:32:19 I think, in other words, I think that there were a lot of Republicans who either didn't
00:32:22 show up or who did show up and voted for Democrats, huge numbers of people who had swung to the
00:32:27 Republicans in 24, who swung back because they felt that President Trump had not fulfilled
00:32:34 his agenda.
00:32:34 And we can debate the nuances of that.
00:32:36 And I think the White House messaging was a little weak about that.
00:32:38 I think they could have sold a lot of the big achievements that they had in the first couple
00:32:42 of years. But regardless, just go issue by issue. Was the midterm elections about how now all of a
00:32:48 sudden voters actually want an open border and mass migration? Trump ran on, closed the border,
00:32:54 restrict migration. Do we really think the voters came in and they said, no, no, no, you know what
00:32:58 we want? We want an open border again with 3 million illegals pouring through. No, I don't 0.94
00:33:02 think so. Was the midterm election a referendum on President Trump cutting taxes, maintaining the
00:33:12 Trump tax cuts, and creating a better regulatory environment for business, and watching the stock
00:33:17 market go up? No, no, no. I think the midterm election was a referendum on the stock market
00:33:21 going down a little bit again, or gas prices going up, or the cost of goods going up again
00:33:26 because of the digression, the detour,
00:33:29 the diversion into Iran.
00:33:31 I think you go to,
00:33:32 do you think that the midterm election
00:33:33 was a referendum on ending DEI
00:33:36 and stopping schools from transing your kids
00:33:39 and not letting men into the women's bathroom?
00:33:42 Do you think the voters in the midterm said,
00:33:44 you know what, we actually love transgenderism. 1.00
00:33:46 Chop our kids' genitals off. 1.00
00:33:48 No. 0.99
00:33:49 I think, if anything,
00:33:50 it was a referendum on President Trump
00:33:52 apparently being distracted from that
00:33:54 because of the war in Iran,
00:33:55 which raised the cost of all sorts of goods, which really irritated them because gas and
00:34:00 diesel were way high just before the midterms. In other words, I hope the Democrats take the
00:34:07 wrong lesson from the midterms. I hope they think it was a rejection of the Trump agenda so they
00:34:10 doubled down on all the unpopular stuff. But I think that the midterm elections were a message
00:34:15 to the Republican Party to get back to what President Trump ran on, or at least to clarify
00:34:22 that they're still doing that, or to ramp up their efforts in that regard and to not take
00:34:25 as many detours. That's, I think, what the message is. But let's say Mike Pence is right.
00:34:30 And no, no, no, they actually just reject the Trump agenda and they want to go back to whatever
00:34:34 the Republican Party agenda was before President Trump. Someone is going to run in the race and is
00:34:40 going to get some support on that platform. Right now, though, I think the two people vying for that
00:34:45 are Senator Cruz and Mike Pence. And Senator Cruz will run for that with a little more of an edge,
00:34:50 I think, because people forget Pence. Pence was a big shot before the Trump administration.
00:34:56 Popular conservative congressman, popular conservative governor, a lot of right-wing
00:35:00 bona fides before President Trump remade the Republican Party. Senator Cruz, too, when he gets
00:35:05 elected, he goes down there to stop Obamacare. He does this billion-hour filibuster. He's reading
00:35:10 Green Eggs and Ham. Got a lot of Tea Party cred. So I think they're both running for that lane.
00:35:16 call it the Reaganite lane, call it the restore conservatism lane, whatever. It is running
00:35:23 anti-Trump. The reason, though, that I think Senator Cruz has an edge over Mike Pence,
00:35:27 no knock on Mike Pence, but it's just Pence has been out of the fight for too long. He doesn't
00:35:32 have a political position right now. And Mike Pence was Trump's VP. So he was part of that
00:35:38 first term. He was part of the change in the meaning of conservatism. Whereas Senator Cruz
00:35:43 can say, look, I was the number two guy. I almost got the nomination in 2016. I've worked with
00:35:47 President Trump when we have a good legislative agenda to push, but I push back on him sometimes
00:35:53 too. So I think he gets that edge of the outside. No, no, no. This is an alternative to Trumpism
00:35:57 with Mike Pence. He may very well run for president. I just think the message is going
00:36:01 to be a little more muddled. Meanwhile, not all of the cities, but a lot of our biggest cities
00:36:07 are being run by avowed socialists, which could be good for the conservatives. First though,
00:36:12 I want to tell you about Hallow.
00:36:15 There's a lot more to say first, though.
00:36:16 Go to hallow.com slash Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S.
00:36:18 Believe it or not, Christmas is right around the corner.
00:36:21 Soon, every available surface will be covered in wrapping paper.
00:36:25 The calendar will be filled with dinners and parties.
00:36:27 Someone will be standing beside a half-packed suitcase
00:36:29 wondering why Christmas feels so frantic.
00:36:32 The problem is not that we have too much to celebrate.
00:36:34 It's that all the preparation can distract us
00:36:36 from what we are preparing for.
00:36:38 That is why my friends at Hallow are leading Pray 25.
00:36:40 Be still this Advent.
00:36:42 It's an invitation to step away from the modern frenzy
00:36:45 and return to peace and purpose at the heart of Christmas.
00:36:48 Throughout the challenge, you will meditate on Psalm 46,
00:36:50 be still and know that I am God,
00:36:52 with reflections and excerpts from The Read of God
00:36:54 and The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.
00:36:57 Pray 25 helps you experience the nativity,
00:36:59 not as another sentimental decoration,
00:37:01 but as a moment of divine order entering a broken world.
00:37:04 So before Advent becomes another checklist of gifts,
00:37:07 travel, dinners, decorations,
00:37:10 remember what it is all for.
00:37:12 Center your days on prayer, silence, and the peace that only Christ can bring.
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00:37:22 Knowles.
00:37:23 My favorite comment yesterday, now I didn't pick it.
00:37:27 Professor Jacob picked this.
00:37:29 We'll see if he did well or if he deserves your derision and jeers and contempt in the
00:37:34 member segmentum.
00:37:35 Says to everyone in the comments, complaining about Michael's bad takes will just encourage
00:37:41 him.
00:37:41 that's so true. Isn't that so true? I was talking about this with a producer yesterday,
00:37:47 producer who's not at the Daily Wire, but we were talking about how people in podcasting and radio
00:37:53 and conservative media, they sometimes, they're beholden to the audience. They worry about the
00:37:59 audience. They want to follow the audience. They are afraid of offending their audience.
00:38:04 And I think, you know what? For all my flaws and my myriad sins, that is not one of mine.
00:38:10 I love the audience.
00:38:11 I love, I adore the creme de la creme.
00:38:14 This is as we, you're the creme de la creme
00:38:15 because you're cut above the rest.
00:38:18 I say that with zero flattery.
00:38:19 It's just true.
00:38:19 It's just a fact.
00:38:21 And as a result, I'm, I delight in offering
00:38:27 my least popular opinion.
00:38:29 I rejoice in my sufferings when I get the angry tweets
00:38:32 and the emails.
00:38:33 I don't mean to do it in an offensive way,
00:38:36 But I love being a little bit contrarian and at least occasionally being proven totally right.
00:38:42 Okay, I want to get to DSA candidates who now just are running all of America's cities
00:38:48 in the ways in which that actually might be good for the 2028 nominee.
00:38:52 But I don't have time, man.
00:38:53 Come on, man.
00:38:54 I'm in D.C.
00:38:54 I'll be back in Nashville shortly after some meetings in the swamp.
00:38:59 So for right now, our mailbag is sponsored by PureTalk at puretalk.com.
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00:39:08 Take it away.
00:39:09 Hi, Michael. Really enjoy your show.
00:39:11 I wish to become Catholic.
00:39:13 My wife is baptized, and we recently baptized all four of our boys,
00:39:18 aged 5'2", and a brand new pair of twins all at the same time.
00:39:22 Our priest has informed me that it's a two-year process
00:39:25 before I would become eligible to be baptized,
00:39:27 and I am wholly, pun absolutely intended, committed to that process.
00:39:32 This leads me to my question. In my younger years, I was a part of two separate moments where life was not chosen. There were new age reasons at the times these decisions were made that mean absolutely nothing now, and they were made simpler by the abortion pill.
00:39:51 the indelible holes these decisions left in my heart have only grown larger and larger now
00:39:58 obviously there are men that refuse to be held accountable for their mistakes but i feel like
00:40:03 we inherently know deep down that when the enemy's at the gates we are the first to die
00:40:10 women on the other hand i feel like they have a more innate sense of survival so when they don't
00:40:16 choose life, it seems much more difficult to admit it was a mistake, leading to a large number to
00:40:21 promote abortion rather than condemn it. However, I've heard no men talk about the pain they carry
00:40:27 for women must be 100 times over, so I thought I'd be someone to at least try and take some
00:40:33 accountability for what I've done, and I'm here to say that it is hell. I did get a bit of relief 1.00
00:40:38 when I initially repented for the horrific things that I've done. However, when you recently told
00:40:43 the story of your family member telling you in your dream that he's in the other place and you're
00:40:48 going there too. It compelled me to send in this question. Will I be allowed when confessed to be
00:40:55 baptized? Thank you so much. Okay. Well, there's a lot in that question. I'll try to go through it
00:41:01 very quickly. First of all, you referenced that dream. I mentioned it on my interview
00:41:05 with The Exorcist. It just came out with Father Martins, which is on the Michael Lowe's YouTube
00:41:09 channel so you can check it out. I did not conclude, I had this dream where a family member
00:41:13 who had died, he was walking and he's wearing all black. I said, oh, are you going to heaven?
00:41:16 And he said, nope, I'm not. And you're not going there either. I woke up, ah, I thought, okay,
00:41:20 it could just be a psychological thing. But if it's any, I guess it could be some kind of warning
00:41:26 to get my life in order. But I don't, I actually didn't conclude from that, that we were all going
00:41:29 to hell because the upshot of that dream would be total despair. It would be, it would say,
00:41:34 there's nothing you can do. You're just going to go to hell. I think that would be one of the 0.99
00:41:37 takeaways from it. So anyway, I'm not, it's always good to have a reminder that you're going to die
00:41:42 and you want to make, make sure you're in the right place, you know, eternally. So if that
00:41:47 helps you to take that question seriously, I'm glad to hear it. Glad you're going to convert.
00:41:50 You say that you're asking if you can be baptized, even if you've participated in abortions
00:41:57 after you've confessed. And there is a little confusion there. You don't confess before you
00:42:02 you are baptized in the Catholic faith or in other flavors of Christianity that maintain
00:42:08 sacraments and traditional liturgy, et cetera. You can't actually confess before you're baptized.
00:42:15 When you're baptized, you know, the Holy Spirit leaves this indelible mark on your soul and you
00:42:20 receive all this grace and then you confess your sins after that for the sins you've committed
00:42:24 after baptism. But baptism wipes away all your sins. Like Christ on the cross wipes away all of
00:42:30 your sins. So you kind of, not to be glib about it, you get out on a technicality. Not only do
00:42:35 you not confess all those sins beforehand, you actually can't in a sacramental way. So yeah,
00:42:40 be baptized. People who have done a lot worse stuff than you have been baptized, and that's
00:42:45 very good, and you certainly can be. You're right, though, to think about this, and it's
00:42:52 probably good to give some witness to this. I've now thought for quite a while that the abortion
00:42:57 issue, we can argue about facts and logic, and that's very helpful. It persuades some people.
00:43:00 It persuaded me. I had a bioethicist persuade me not to support abortion anymore when I was a
00:43:04 teenager because, I mean, it was a little 20, 21, because I just was thinking about it intellectually,
00:43:10 and intellectually, I thought it was fine, and then she convinced me it was wrong. In D.C.,
00:43:13 as a matter of fact. But if you've been involved in an abortion, one in four women has an abortion 0.54
00:43:18 in her life, that means that there's a lot of men involved in abortion, too. I think a lot of the
00:43:23 defense of abortion is just emotional, and it's from a place of pride and trying to defend what,
00:43:28 if you admit it, would be an extraordinarily grave sin. But it's very good to bear witness
00:43:33 to that because you don't, you know, I've said it on the show a lot. This is how the devil gets you.
00:43:37 He whispers in one ear, and he says, hey, that sin you're about to commit, it's no big deal at all.
00:43:41 The minute you commit it, he says you can never be forgiven. But you can be. You can be. And the
00:43:44 way to most stymie the devil's work is to accept God's grace, which abounds infinitely. Okay,
00:43:49 next question. Hey Michael, this is Kyle Williams out in Portland, Oregon. I really enjoy your show
00:43:55 and I never miss an episode. Thank you for all that you do. I was curious about your thoughts
00:44:01 on a process that I've been thinking about for illegal immigrants in our country that have
00:44:07 actually become productive members of our society. What if they could turn themselves 1.00
00:44:12 into the court and demonstrate that they have gainful employment, residency, ideally some tax
00:44:19 paying history and no criminal record of course other than potentially overstaying a visa or
00:44:26 entering the country illegally and basically pay some hefty fines and be allowed to apply for and
00:44:34 receive some sort of visa to get them legal status to work and of course also be back on
00:44:42 a path where they can work toward U.S. citizenship through our regular
00:44:46 okay we hold on it cut out the question cut out but i think i get the general gist
00:44:52 what about these people who maybe they were illegal but you know you really like them and
00:44:57 they're they're good guys and they they do the best they can and they're not on welfare and
00:45:03 they contribute what do we do for them this is a really tough issue for politicians it's not a
00:45:09 tough issue i think for us to think about but for politicians it's tough because the american people
00:45:14 we talk a good game on deportations, rule of law, immigration, and we want to deport all the
00:45:21 illegals except for our gardener. You know, we want to deport all the illegals except for that 0.99
00:45:27 guy down the street because he's a really nice guy, you know, and his kids go to my kid's school 0.99
00:45:30 and, you know, he's really, you shouldn't deport him, right? But all the other ones got to go.
00:45:34 And so it's very tricky. It's kind of like how Congress can have very, very low approval ratings,
00:45:39 but all the congressmen, all the incumbents keep getting reelected because you hate all the
00:45:43 congressman except for yours. And everybody feels that way. And then Congress remains in power and
00:45:48 they don't do anything. So, except for this election where there actually was massive turnover.
00:45:52 So, on this issue, the problem is you can't grant any kind of leniency. You just can't because you
00:46:01 just immediately get some version of amnesty. And then the minute the Democrats are in power,
00:46:06 they're going to grant them a much more serious amnesty that will be harder to unroll, 0.89
00:46:09 as in the case of the Dreamers, where Barack Obama comes in and he says, hey, I can't just grant 0.63
00:46:13 with the wave of a pen, executive amnesty, that would be unconstitutional. That's way too extreme.
00:46:17 Okay, never mind. I'm doing it. He did the thing that he admitted was unconstitutional.
00:46:22 That's how desperate the libs are for mass amnesty. And part of that is ideological.
00:46:27 And part of that is cynical. Part of that is they really do believe that borders are evil
00:46:31 and America's awful and we deserve what's coming to us. And this is stolen land and everyone's
00:46:36 better than us and yada, yada, yada. But they also cynically believe that they're going to
00:46:41 get a permanent electoral majority if they give a mass amnesty, and they're probably right about
00:46:44 that. So how do we think about it? There is a middle ground. I'm in favor of a very restrictive
00:46:49 hardcore immigration policy where we deport like tens of millions of people and totally close the
00:46:54 border. Not even a knock on the immigrants. You don't have to be nasty or condescending or racist 0.97
00:47:00 about it. You can just say the foreign foreign percentage of population is the highest ever,
00:47:04 or well, now it's down a little bit thanks to Trump, but it was the highest ever. It's still 1.00
00:47:07 very high. And we just, we have too many foreigners here. Assimilation is too hard for right now. 1.00
00:47:12 So what we do in American history is we have these periods of mass migration, and then we
00:47:15 have periods of closing the border. And that's just kind of, it's like a sine wave throughout 0.83
00:47:18 American history. And from the mid-20s to the mid-60s, we had very little migration. Then in 0.69
00:47:24 the 60s, it opened up. We had mass migration, radically changed the demographics of the country. 0.79
00:47:28 Well, we need to go back to like 1925 for a little bit. And then maybe we can open it again 0.98
00:47:33 at some point in the future. But what are you doing? In the middle of these two views,
00:47:38 there really, maybe there are four positions. There is hardcore immigration restrictions,
00:47:42 send them all out, tens of millions must go, close the border totally. 0.98
00:47:45 Then there is the, yeah, we need severe immigration restriction, 1.00
00:47:50 including legal immigration restriction, but they should live in the shadows. 0.93
00:47:57 So you're not going to deport 20 million people. You're probably not going to deport Abuela or 0.98
00:48:01 most abuelas, but you're not going to give them any legal status either. They're just going to
00:48:06 continue to live in the shadows as they are now, and they should have some fear that they could be
00:48:10 deported at any moment, but we're not going to go out of our way to deport them because we have
00:48:13 bigger fish to fry. That, I think, is a relatively moderate position and one that I could at least
00:48:19 be persuaded of. Then you get the position of, we'll grant them some kind of legal status,
00:48:24 and then the extreme one is give them amnesty, give them citizenship. I think the only thing
00:48:29 resembling a compromise we can talk about as that second group. And if we want to get that second
00:48:33 group compromise, you got to talk as if you're going hardcore, full on, deport them all, close
00:48:39 the border, denaturalize. Let's start with Ilhan Omar. Okay. There's so much more I want to get to,
00:48:45 but I'm not allowed to because Professor Jacob won't let me. I would have, I left time to do
00:48:50 the member segmentum today. But Professor Jacob, he wants to do joyrides in the Camaro, donuts in
00:48:56 the Daily Wire parking lot, maybe eat some donuts. We'll get into the chat about that.
00:49:01 Anyway, it means that no membrum segmentum today. My apologies to the creme de la creme. I will see
00:49:07 you on Monday. Have a very good weekend. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:49:11 Father, I used to feel Christ.
00:49:28 I cannot feel anything here.
00:49:41 They take me out of my bed and they brought me here and they tell me nothing. What have I done? Article 58
00:49:49 Counter-revolutionary activity. That is all I know
00:49:52 They have to deal with so many enemies of the state all of whom claim their innocence who protest who cry
00:50:06 There are no answers here
00:50:08 Other than the ones they put in your mouth.
00:50:12 You'll break.
00:50:15 Today is your opportunity to demonstrate your loyalty to the people.
00:50:22 I'd like to know why I'm here.
00:50:24 Of course.
00:50:28 But you already know, don't you?
00:50:29 You must believe in something greater than the party.
00:50:34 You will remember your duty.
00:50:36 I've told you I know nothing.
00:50:37 And he growled like a feral animal. 0.99
00:50:41 You stink of failure. 1.00
00:50:43 You want me to lie. 1.00
00:50:44 Still a drunk! 1.00
00:50:45 Damn you! 1.00
00:50:48 They all break. 1.00
00:50:52 Maybe.