The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 236 - Make ‘Em Angry, Make ‘Em Stupid

00:00:00.000 Democrats continue their downward spiral as pollsters up Republican chances for the midterms,

00:00:05.620 all of which exposes a fundamental rule of politics. 1.00

00:00:08.920 When your opponent gets angry, your opponent gets stupid. 1.00

00:00:12.320 Then CNN and Twitter expose themselves as hypocrites. 1.00

00:00:15.420 President Trump offers voters an honest choice. 1.00

00:00:17.880 And Teen Vogue gives us the dumbest article on the internet today. 0.98

00:00:22.200 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show. 0.97

00:00:30.000 Things are going from bad to worse for Senate Democrats, some other candidates as well, looking really bad.

00:00:39.580 Nate Silver, he's the pollster who made his career just predicting that Obama would win things.

00:00:46.060 Nate Silver, a left-leaning pollster, is saying that right now there is a better chance that the GOP picks up votes in the Senate

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00:00:57.760 People are losing their minds in these Heidi Heitkamp, Beto O'Rourke.

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00:01:08.520 We'll cover all of those races.

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00:03:23.940 Okay, so Nate Silver is putting GOP chances at picking up seats in the Senate.

00:03:29.020 Picking up seats at a higher chance than Democrats taking the Senate.

00:03:34.360 Right now, the Senate is very close.

00:03:36.160 And who knows?

00:03:37.080 Anything could happen.

00:03:37.900 In the midterms, the party that holds the White House is supposed to lose seats,

00:03:41.960 maybe lose the Congress, lose the Senate.

00:03:44.440 Things are looking pretty good.

00:03:45.500 But to drive this point home, things are looking so good right now for Republicans

00:03:52.200 compared to what they should be looking like, that there's this candidate in Nevada, 0.93

00:03:57.560 GOP candidate for state legislature, who is a pimp. 0.94

00:04:02.060 He owns a bunch of brothels. 0.95

00:04:04.280 He died a few days ago. 0.69

00:04:06.040 A dead pimp discovered at his brothel by Ron Jeremy, the 70s porn star, after a party that

00:04:13.000 was attended by Joe Arpaio, the sheriff, Grover Norquist, the tax guy, and Tucker Carlson

00:04:18.840 called in.

00:04:19.960 Dead.

00:04:20.900 The guy is actually dead. 0.66

00:04:22.660 Dead pimp in Nevada.

00:04:24.540 He is poised to win his race.

00:04:26.240 It is right now.

00:04:26.940 All of the polling suggests a dead pimp in Nevada is going to win the race because he's

00:04:31.540 a Republican over the Democrat.

00:04:33.360 This is unbelievable stuff.

00:04:36.060 Now, look, anything could happen here.

00:04:38.620 I don't want you to be confused with my making a prediction.

00:04:42.000 Predictions can become self-fulfilling here.

00:04:43.540 If the Republicans don't feel motivated, they won't get out the vote, and they're going to

00:04:47.000 lose everything.

00:04:47.560 They're going to lose everything, and then they're going to impeach Trump, and then they're

00:04:50.400 going to try to convict Trump in the Senate.

00:04:52.180 Nate Silver, the left-wing pollster, still puts Democrats at an 84% chance of taking

00:04:57.040 the House.

00:04:58.220 That's what the data say right now.

00:05:00.680 Data have been wrong before.

00:05:01.920 I've got 400 smackers and a check signed by Ben Shapiro over there because the data were

00:05:07.280 wrong in 2016.

00:05:08.840 Anything could happen right now.

00:05:10.540 Enthusiasm is really high on the Republican side.

00:05:12.860 This is something of what is unprecedented.

00:05:17.320 In part, it's because of Kavanaugh.

00:05:18.840 In part, it's because of Liawatha. 0.95

00:05:20.400 Liz Warren.

00:05:21.300 In part, it's because of these unfair, the Russia investigation that's, I think, now

00:05:24.760 in its 75th year.

00:05:26.680 It's, you know, all of these things seem very unfair.

00:05:28.820 The news media stacked against them, and that everything is going so well in the country,

00:05:33.180 which we'll cover a little bit later.

00:05:34.560 But, you know, the economy is going well.

00:05:36.080 Unemployment basically doesn't exist.

00:05:37.540 Things are going gangbusters.

00:05:40.260 Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve Chairman, says that this is the tightest labor

00:05:44.960 market he's ever seen in his life.

00:05:47.120 And Alan Greenspan is like 7,000 years old.

00:05:49.700 So, things are going really well.

00:05:51.860 That's why Republican enthusiasm is up.

00:05:54.060 Democrat enthusiasm is really high, too.

00:05:56.300 So, let's say Republicans have enthusiasm at 2010 levels.

00:05:59.660 Democrat enthusiasm is really high, which means it's anybody's game.

00:06:02.940 It's all about getting Republicans out there and depressing the Democrat vote, which the

00:06:09.080 mainstream media and Democrats themselves have done pretty well.

00:06:12.160 I wonder, I think there's a chance that maybe only one out of 1,024 Democrats will actually

00:06:16.700 show up.

00:06:17.320 You know, we'll only get one 1,024th of the Democrat expected vote.

00:06:21.340 But they've really gone mad.

00:06:23.280 So, this gets to my central thesis here, which is that when your opponent gets angry, your 1.00

00:06:29.500 opponent behaves stupidly. 0.99

00:06:31.740 Get angry. 1.00

00:06:32.740 Go mad. 1.00

00:06:33.700 Get stupid. 1.00

00:06:34.940 And Donald Trump has made them angry. 1.00

00:06:37.500 He's driven them mad. 1.00

00:06:38.500 And therefore, they've gotten a little bit stupid. 1.00

00:06:41.720 To just give you a little taste of this, I will show you a glimpse of every Democrat 1.00

00:06:45.460 voter in the country.

00:06:47.660 I hate the cruise.

00:06:49.300 I hate the cruise.

00:06:50.820 I hate the cruise.

00:06:57.580 I hate the cruise.

00:07:02.600 That about sums it up.

00:07:03.980 That's pretty much every voter ripping up the sign, you know, getting all crazy.

00:07:07.940 This was a guy who was just walking down the street trying to tear up Ted Cruz signs.

00:07:12.080 Obviously, the Democrats have been driven mad.

00:07:14.740 They have a madness. 1.00

00:07:16.140 They have gone crazy. 0.99

00:07:17.600 That guy looks like a demon. 0.97

00:07:19.320 And he's being like, what have you to do with us, Ted Cruz?

00:07:23.500 Our hour has not yet come.

00:07:25.500 Whatever, you know, your hour has not yet come.

00:07:28.400 We mentioned this last week.

00:07:29.940 Vox.com, the left-wing outlet, has been encouraging Democrats to practice witchcraft.

00:07:36.380 It's not a joke.

00:07:37.200 You know, Pat Robertson said this in 92.

00:07:39.060 He said that feminism makes people practice witchcraft.

00:07:41.500 Now, Vox.com is proving him right.

00:07:43.140 They're saying, yeah, Democrats should practice witchcraft in solidarity with one another.

00:07:48.280 There was a story out today that a woman has become an abortion doula in New York.

00:07:54.400 You know, a doula to help a woman through pregnancy.

00:07:57.120 She's become the opposite of that.

00:07:58.300 She's become an abortion doula. 1.00

00:08:00.040 And she's asked and begged to be in the room for 2,000 abortions. 1.00

00:08:04.880 And the woman looks like a witch. 1.00

00:08:05.940 She's got crazy colored hair. 1.00

00:08:07.060 She looks all kooky. 0.54

00:08:08.060 She looks like, I mean, if you just look up witch in the dictionary, you'll get this woman. 1.00

00:08:12.240 But also, speaking of witches and demons, these Antifa, the quote-unquote anti-fascists in Brooklyn from Catland Books are now calling themselves witches.

00:08:22.440 And they're saying that they're going to put a hex on Brett Kavanaugh.

00:08:27.220 They're going to use a bunch of spells and magic and things like that to put a hex on our new Supreme Court justice, Brett Kavanaugh.

00:08:34.280 And when they were asked about this, why is Antifa, this left-wing political group, why are they associating with witchcraft?

00:08:41.600 They said this, quote,

00:08:43.040 We are embracing witchcraft's true roots as the magic of the poor, the downtrodden and disenfranchised, 1.00

00:08:49.260 and its history as often the only weapon, the only means of exacting justice available to those of us who have been wronged by men.

00:08:57.860 Now, luckily, we've got priests and exorcists praying for Brett Kavanaugh, so hopefully the hex won't work and the Antifa lunatic witches will be stymied.

00:09:08.760 But this reminds me of a central book on the left, Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky.

00:09:14.560 Saul Alinsky, tactics used by Barack Obama, a friend of Hillary Clinton.

00:09:19.540 Hillary Clinton wrote her senior thesis on Saul Alinsky.

00:09:22.240 They had a lot of correspondence back and forth.

00:09:25.740 She called him a mentor and a friend of hers.

00:09:28.900 And Saul Alinsky dedicated his most famous book, Rules for Radicals, to Lucifer, to that first rebel who won himself a kingdom, Lucifer.

00:09:39.300 He dedicated, after the first edition, I think they took that dedication out.

00:09:42.620 But it's in the first edition, and it really does make me wonder.

00:09:46.880 Look at the imagery on both sides.

00:09:48.620 You've got, broadly across the left, people adopting witchcraft imagery, cultish imagery, satanic imagery, evil, wicked, dark imagery.

00:09:59.560 And then, you know, obviously on the right, there's the religious right that adopts light imagery, godly imagery.

00:10:07.100 I don't think that's an accident.

00:10:08.520 I really don't think that's an accident.

00:10:09.620 And just listen to how those witches in Brooklyn and how Saul Alinsky, you know, the community organizer, Thug, who was an ideological hustler, especially exploiting poor people,

00:10:21.200 they put these witchcraft images into ideological leftist terms.

00:10:27.620 They say witchcraft is about the poor over the rich or about the oppressed over the oppressors or this or that.

00:10:33.860 They're using all of that divisive language of the left to make it about us versus them.

00:10:39.180 We're going to start a new world.

00:10:40.820 We're going to conquer them.

00:10:42.140 It's all about division.

00:10:43.280 It's all about greed.

00:10:44.480 And ultimately, it's all about failure.

00:10:46.740 I really don't think it's a coincidence, you know.

00:10:48.680 And this is a step along the road.

00:10:50.580 You make your opponents angry.

00:10:51.820 You make them mad.

00:10:52.760 You make them lose their minds.

00:10:54.120 You make them look like that guy with the cruise signs.

00:10:56.000 I hate to cruise.

00:10:56.860 Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah.

00:10:58.040 I'm sorry, by the way.

00:10:58.980 That almost lapsed into a sweet little Elisa voice.

00:11:00.880 I didn't mean to do that.

00:11:01.680 That was a demon voice that I was intending.

00:11:04.240 This is the rule.

00:11:05.240 You make your opponents angry.

00:11:06.420 You make them mad. 1.00

00:11:07.200 And you get them to act stupidly. 1.00

00:11:09.680 This is the great advantage we have going into these midterms. 0.99

00:11:13.020 Heidi Heitkamp, we talked about this yesterday, running in North Dakota.

00:11:18.020 She is Democrat.

00:11:19.820 She's down by a lot.

00:11:21.000 She was already down by about 12 points.

00:11:22.720 And she released a newspaper ad listing purported victims of sexual assault.

00:11:27.980 The only problem was they never consented to have their names in the newspaper ad.

00:11:32.400 Some of them don't support Heidi Heitkamp.

00:11:34.620 Some of them say they weren't even sexually assaulted.

00:11:37.280 I mean, this is a total catastrophe for Heitkamp, a total meltdown.

00:11:42.100 She came out and she apologized.

00:11:43.780 But, I mean, this is probably going to kill her campaign. 1.00

00:11:47.140 The fallout is still happening.

00:11:48.540 Here is one of the women who was named in that advertisement, giving her opinion of Heidi Heitkamp's tactic.

00:11:56.820 We just heard from Senator Heitkamp who said, all I can do is say, I'm sorry.

00:12:01.440 I want to know what I can do to fix this.

00:12:03.640 Has she said that personally to you, that she's sorry?

00:12:05.960 Um, no, she has not.

00:12:09.200 You were told, though, as I understand it, that she would be reaching out.

00:12:13.280 Uh, yep.

00:12:13.980 I was told that she was going to reach out to every one of the women that was, um, you know, put in this without our consent.

00:12:20.360 Uh, but she has yet to reach out to me.

00:12:22.280 She said she also wants to know what she can do to fix this.

00:12:25.120 Is there something in your mind that she could do?

00:12:26.900 Uh, you know, the damage has kind of already been done.

00:12:31.440 Um, you know, the names that didn't want to be put out there are already out there for the world to see.

00:12:37.040 And, uh, you can't really retract that.

00:12:39.640 Um, the damage is done.

00:12:41.320 The damage is already done.

00:12:42.740 There are certain things you can't undo.

00:12:44.560 There are certain things you can't unsay.

00:12:46.200 You know, in politics, slick politicians are always trying to leave themselves wiggle room.

00:12:50.260 Always leave yourself an exit strategy.

00:12:52.600 Whatever you say, whatever promise you make, whatever tactic you employ.

00:12:55.820 And usually, good politicians are very careful about all of these things.

00:13:00.280 But when you start to really get emotional, when you start to get really passionate, when you start to get really angry, you start to make mistakes.

00:13:07.720 And that's what Heidi Heitkamp did here. 1.00

00:13:09.520 She was so whipped up into a frenzy by the Me Too movement, by the Kavanaugh stuff, by Donald Trump talking about women, that she allowed herself to make a colossal mistake.

00:13:19.240 You can't, uh, you can't take that back.

00:13:21.920 And so it doesn't look like she's got a real future.

00:13:23.920 This is another point I want to underscore.

00:13:26.240 We talked about this when Nikki Haley gave that speech about how we shouldn't own the libs, how it's a bad idea to own the libs and to get people angry and to get to trigger them and to make fun of them because it doesn't persuade anybody.

00:13:38.080 Nonsense.

00:13:39.040 This is why you have to own the libs.

00:13:40.700 This is why.

00:13:41.340 Because you whip your opponents into an anger and into a frenzy and then they make mistakes.

00:13:47.200 They hang themselves, they tie the rope, and they throw it over the beam, you know.

00:13:51.200 I mean, they really will do, they will do the work for you.

00:13:54.740 It's not that Donald Trump is some master tactician and strategist.

00:13:58.960 I don't think he is at all.

00:14:00.540 I think he's extraordinarily effective because he triggers his opponents into doing all the damage themselves.

00:14:08.060 And that's, that's what's happened with this hype camp thing.

00:14:10.160 Here is, uh, here are some, I mean, the, the fallout, even on CNN, even on these left-wing outlets, even on the, the mainstream news, ABC, NBC, even they have to admit that this was a big error.

00:14:21.520 Uh, listen to what some of the other victims are saying.

00:14:23.460 She says she's terrified for her safety, like many other victims, because of this situation.

00:14:29.680 There are people that I am in hiding from, from when I was, um, you know, from when these actions happened to me when I was a teenager.

00:14:36.500 And my name being blasted out there, you know, and especially, I didn't realize this until this morning, that my, my, not my address, but at least, you know, the, the town that I live in was also posted on this.

00:14:47.900 That's right.

00:14:48.460 It's actually putting these girls in danger.

00:14:50.140 The reason the voice was all messed up is because she's trying to hide her identity and hide her voice. 1.00

00:14:53.700 So they, they put a little scrambler on her. 0.99

00:14:55.580 Um, but of course it, it's tantamount to doxing people.

00:14:58.400 In the age of social media, in the age where you can look up someone's name and find out basically where they are, this is tantamount to doxing them.

00:15:04.840 There were people who were trying to dox United States senators in, uh, in the U.S. Congress.

00:15:10.340 And, uh, those people were, I mean, that, that is felonious behavior.

00:15:13.740 Uh, and, but they're doing it because they were whipped into such a frenzy, they couldn't see the consequences of their actions.

00:15:19.140 This was such an obvious blunder to someone who is thinking clearly, but you've always got to think clearly.

00:15:25.660 I think this is also true for the people on the right.

00:15:28.060 You know, uh, some people on the right were really, uh, triggered by President Trump as, both as president and as a candidate.

00:15:34.600 And they started thinking emotionally a little bit too.

00:15:37.080 And some of them have egg on their face now.

00:15:38.840 You don't want to do that.

00:15:40.480 You should always view politics clearly.

00:15:42.600 Politics lives on outrage.

00:15:44.200 It thrives on outrage.

00:15:45.100 We'll explain why Donald Trump knows this and he's using it to our, all of our advantage, uh, in a little bit.

00:15:50.440 But you, you at least have to try to think clearly.

00:15:53.700 You know, I, I have this rule on Twitter.

00:15:55.840 If I ever start to get angry, which is almost never happens, if I ever start to feel that way, I log off Twitter.

00:16:03.240 I don't, I, because then you make mistakes.

00:16:04.880 You don't want to leave yourself open to making those kinds of mistakes.

00:16:07.620 By the way, the mainstream media mob, word carefully selected, the mainstream media mob are letting themselves make mistakes too.

00:16:15.880 Because they are really starting to lose it as well.

00:16:18.000 Here is just a clip, uh, from, I think her name is Brooke, uh, Baldwin.

00:16:22.600 She, so, you know, this, this whole mob issue.

00:16:25.480 She said, uh, this girl on her show, Brooke Baldwin said, I'm not going to let people use that talking point.

00:16:31.900 I'm not going to let them use the word, and she cut off this guy. 0.87

00:16:34.460 Because he said Democrats are behaving like a mob, you know, there, there's mob violence.

00:16:38.380 Democrats are calling for more mob violence at politicians' homes.

00:16:41.680 She said, I'm not going to let you use that talking point.

00:16:43.280 Here's her defending her line. 0.98

00:16:45.560 So, uh, we had Matt Lewis on, who I love having on, uh, from the Daily Beast, and he brought up the word mob.

00:16:52.840 And, and at the time, the mob, the mob word had been this talking point from Republicans, from all up and down Capitol Hill,

00:16:59.220 in the wake of what had happened with, with Dr. Ford and Justice Kavanaugh.

00:17:02.840 And so, when he brought the mob word up again, I, I call him, I called him out.

00:17:08.180 And listen, like, I don't want to be the word police, and that was not my intention.

00:17:12.440 But I also believe in calling out talking points.

00:17:16.240 And to hear him bring that up, I had to, I had to say something.

00:17:20.300 I don't want to be the word police, but, she said, you know, when they say but, it means the opposite of what I just said.

00:17:27.180 That's, it's always, well, I don't, I don't, I, I support free speech, but, and so she, okay, but fair enough.

00:17:32.600 She says, I think those talking points, they're shallow, they're cheap, and I'm not going to let people get away with talking points on my show.

00:17:39.500 Ain't going to happen, right?

00:17:40.980 Hold on, let's cut back a few weeks or a few months.

00:17:45.320 Are you sure about that, Brooke Baldwin?

00:17:47.340 She made a determination with her doctor that she would power through this.

00:17:50.960 She made a decision to just power through this.

00:17:53.260 We've decided to power through sometimes, just power through this.

00:17:57.060 Continue to, to power through it.

00:17:58.760 Yes, she tried to power through it. 0.87

00:18:00.260 She decided to power through it.

00:18:01.840 Well, you know, Brooke, she just wanted to power through. 1.00

00:18:04.040 She just wanted to power through her schedule.

00:18:05.920 So, she wanted to just power through and keep doing it.

00:18:08.280 I appreciate all of her desire to, to power through.

00:18:11.600 To power through and get things done.

00:18:13.760 She tried to power through it. 0.92

00:18:15.120 It was Hillary Clinton's decision, essentially, to power through. 1.00

00:18:20.000 Yeah, Brooke, you know, and Brooke supports her powering through, because she powers through. 1.00

00:18:23.760 Brooke powers through, too, I think.

00:18:25.200 I think Brooke likes to power through certain talking points, but doesn't want to power through other talking points, because she's a hack. 1.00

00:18:31.180 I mean, this, obviously, you could, you could pull up this kind of footage.

00:18:34.500 And the, the thing about power through, I mean, you had Robbie Mook, the Clinton campaign chairman, pushing this line.

00:18:39.980 Whereas on, on Brooke's show, when they were talking about, uh, uh, the mob mentality of the left right now, you had Matt Lewis, who's just a writer for the Daily Beast.

00:18:49.780 He's actually at a left-wing publication, and he's making the point that they actually are calling for mob violence.

00:18:54.460 Maxine Waters is calling for mob violence.

00:18:56.900 Democrats around the country are using mob violence.

00:18:59.780 And she says, you can't use that one.

00:19:02.000 Now, if you were talking about Hillary powering through, all right, maybe we could get along with that. 0.89

00:19:05.640 So, uh, uh, so they're getting sloppy.

00:19:08.580 The left is getting sloppy now.

00:19:10.100 Uh, this has been the case since, basically, since Donald Trump announced he was running for president.

00:19:14.720 Certainly since November 2016.

00:19:17.180 So, uh, we're also seeing this in big tech.

00:19:21.080 So, it's not just the, uh, politicians.

00:19:22.920 It's not just the media.

00:19:24.040 It's also in big technology.

00:19:25.320 Twitter, at this point, I think, has no even remotely plausible claim to being fair, to treating the left and the right fairly.

00:19:34.520 This happened within the last couple days because of one Louis Farrakhan.

00:19:38.500 Louis Farrakhan, you know, the Nation of Islam.

00:19:40.880 Uh, uh, sir, if, if anybody is a hate monger in the United States, it's Louis Farrakhan. 0.96

00:19:45.260 He talks about the white devil. 0.99

00:19:46.540 He talks about the satanic Jews. 1.00

00:19:48.500 Uh, he, he's a, a race hustler, uh, you know, for black people. 0.95

00:19:52.140 And, uh, by the way, he actually took a photo with Barack Obama in 2005 that the mainstream media buried. 0.97

00:19:59.140 They would not let this be released during the presidential election because Farrakhan is such a wicked dude. 0.97

00:20:03.740 He's such a hate monger and he's such a race hustler. 0.90

00:20:06.660 So, uh, Farrakhan, though, still is allowed to have his Twitter account. 0.97

00:20:09.780 Twitter doesn't mind.

00:20:10.900 He posted a tweet that said,

00:20:12.620 I'm not anti-Semite.

00:20:14.260 I'm anti-termite.

00:20:16.140 Along with this video clip.

00:20:17.420 Now, white folk don't like Farrakhan.

00:20:25.120 Some of them respect me. 0.56

00:20:29.600 But those who have been our deceivers, they can't stand me.

00:20:35.620 So, when they talk about Farrakhan, call me a hater.

00:20:44.540 You know what they do?

00:20:46.320 Call me an anti-Semite.

00:20:49.980 Stop it.

00:20:51.940 I'm anti-termite.

00:20:53.800 Do you get it?

00:20:58.160 Do you get what he is saying? 1.00

00:20:59.840 The Jews, according to Louis Farrakhan, are like bugs that eat away at wood in your house. 0.99

00:21:06.640 Did you get it? 0.98

00:21:07.980 I, just in case you didn't get it, because that's Louis Farrakhan, he's allowed to have his Twitter. 0.99

00:21:11.860 Meanwhile, Alex Jones, all Alex Jones is doing is warning people that, you know, the frickin' frogs are turning gay. 0.99

00:21:17.820 All he's trying to do is shirtlessly sell vitamins to people. 0.99

00:21:20.880 He loses his Twitter account.

00:21:22.540 Gavin McGinnis, who just wrestles babies.

00:21:25.020 That's, I think, his biggest crime in life is that he wrestles newborn babies.

00:21:28.900 He loses his Twitter account.

00:21:30.420 But Louis Farrakhan, who calls Jews termites, he gets to keep his Twitter account.

00:21:34.200 That's how it works.

00:21:35.280 Because those two guys, Jones and Gavin, are considered broadly within the right wing.

00:21:41.200 Jones a little less so, but Gavin is.

00:21:43.480 And Louis Farrakhan is considered within the left wing.

00:21:46.980 So they let Louis Farrakhan keep his Twitter account.

00:21:48.840 What this is showing is that nothing ever changes in politics.

00:21:54.460 It's showing that big tech is now taking over the role of the mainstream media in censoring conservatives.

00:22:00.540 For decades and decades, the mainstream media not only censored conservatives, but they would let conservatives go on their shows

00:22:06.500 and then only present them in the way that the left wanted to present them.

00:22:10.620 So they'd distort what they had to say.

00:22:12.180 They would pervert their messages.

00:22:13.200 They would always filter conservative thought through the lens of the mainstream media.

00:22:18.380 New media and big technology allowed us to get our message out there unadulterated.

00:22:24.820 That's how you're seeing the show right now, probably.

00:22:27.620 But now, you know, more and more, YouTube will censor those shows, will demonetize those shows.

00:22:33.400 Facebook, same thing.

00:22:34.500 More and more, Twitter will cancel the accounts or censor the accounts or suspend the accounts of conservative people

00:22:40.620 and not do the same on the left.

00:22:43.180 They are now taking over the role of the media in censoring conservatives.

00:22:47.640 I like this story in a certain sense because it means that politics is never over.

00:22:52.480 The left is always coming out to get you and the empire is always striking back, which, you know, fair enough.

00:22:58.960 That means you've got to stay on your toes.

00:23:00.500 There's nothing new under the sun.

00:23:01.980 And it means that we have to innovate.

00:23:03.580 You know, part of the reason, I think, that Republicans and conservatives have had an advantage here

00:23:07.500 is because there's all this pressure to innovate, to innovate on policy.

00:23:11.760 Conservatives have been leading on policy for certainly my entire lifetime and before.

00:23:18.200 The left has no policy ideas.

00:23:20.140 The only policy idea is to go back to 19th century socialism.

00:23:23.740 That's the left's big policy idea.

00:23:25.280 But all of the think tanks are conservative.

00:23:26.860 All of the actual policy centers are conservative because there is a pressure on us to innovate.

00:23:32.960 Same thing with new media.

00:23:34.460 Conservatives dominate new media.

00:23:35.920 Why do they dominate? 0.95

00:23:36.740 Because there's a pressure on us.

00:23:37.760 We have to do it or else we can't get our message out.

00:23:40.440 And now conservatives are going to have to innovate again.

00:23:42.500 You know, we had a good run in this iteration of social media and we're going to have to keep innovating again.

00:23:47.680 All of this is a little bit of a sideshow.

00:23:53.480 All of this is a little bit of what's going to happen in November, what's going to happen in the midterms, what's going to...

00:23:58.840 Very few people are talking about what is happening right now in the levers of government.

00:24:03.320 And this underlies a totally false attack from the left and the right on Donald Trump,

00:24:09.420 which is that he's too sensationalist, he's too much of a showman.

00:24:13.160 I just want him to, you know, sign tax laws or whatever.

00:24:16.780 I just want him to tweak parts of the welfare state.

00:24:20.080 Okay, right.

00:24:20.740 When he does that, no one would cover it.

00:24:22.300 He would have no ability to galvanize public support on those issues.

00:24:26.280 Here's one example of it.

00:24:28.280 During a cabinet meeting, President Trump made a pretty big announcement,

00:24:31.480 gave a pretty big directive to his cabinet secretaries,

00:24:34.580 which I'm certain you haven't seen anywhere, but it's very important.

00:24:37.300 Here he is.

00:24:40.620 I'm going to ask everybody to come back with a 5% cut for our next meeting.

00:24:45.740 I think you'll all be able to do it.

00:24:47.980 There may be a special exemption.

00:24:50.860 Perhaps, I don't know who that exemption would be.

00:24:54.120 If you can do more than 5%, some of you will say,

00:24:56.300 hey, I can do much more than 5%.

00:24:57.740 I'm sorry, I was doing my Ruth Bader Ginsburg impression while I was watching that cabinet meeting

00:25:04.680 because nobody's watching this, and nobody's watching it because while it's very, very important,

00:25:09.240 it's not a show, so people aren't going to cover it.

00:25:11.400 It's Donald Trump at a cabinet meeting saying, you know what we need to do is cut these departments by 5%.

00:25:15.740 If we cut them by 1% year over year over year, we would, for a number of years,

00:25:19.960 we would have a significant reduction, certainly in the growth of the federal government,

00:25:23.800 if not in the federal government itself.

00:25:25.900 Trump is saying we're going to do even more than that.

00:25:27.900 We're going to reduce it 5% within this year, and I'm sure we can do it.

00:25:31.460 Of course they can do that.

00:25:33.920 Nevertheless, nobody's going to cover that because it's actually Trump just holding a meeting.

00:25:37.960 One thing this shows us is that there is a serious Trump.

00:25:42.420 All we think is a covfefe and horse-faced Trump, but there is this serious Trump who,

00:25:47.120 look, the guy's a workaholic, he's built a lot of businesses,

00:25:49.780 he's risen to the top of very difficult fields.

00:25:52.060 Obviously, this guy can work within normal business environments,

00:25:57.300 but because he's a showman, he understands that that's how you galvanize public support,

00:26:01.560 and we need the showmanship because this would not be covered,

00:26:04.420 this would not galvanize public support,

00:26:05.680 this would not get a win, even though it's extraordinarily important work.

00:26:09.940 And I just want to point out every now and again that very important work like this,

00:26:13.220 deregulation, shrinking parts of the federal government, cutting back on certain costs,

00:26:18.000 that is happening right now.

00:26:19.880 You're just not seeing it because it's not part of the show,

00:26:22.040 and probably it's good that you're not seeing that part of it.

00:26:24.900 It's probably good to have the media off here jabbering about horse face,

00:26:28.340 which is totally trivial and doesn't matter at all because what really matters is this,

00:26:32.920 and we don't want the mainstream media's eyes on us shrinking parts of the government,

00:26:36.900 hopefully shrinking more of the government as the administration goes on.

00:26:40.000 The other good thing that President Trump has done for the office of the presidency

00:26:43.840 is that he's made it less mystical, less majestic,

00:26:48.340 he's taken less responsibility for every little thing that happens in the entire world.

00:26:54.800 President Trump was asked to give his thoughts on what would happen in the midterm elections.

00:26:57.900 Here's what he thinks.

00:26:58.480 If they don't go out and vote, then they have themselves to blame

00:27:03.100 because they'll lose wealth, tremendous amount.

00:27:05.180 I've built up $11.7 trillion in wealth.

00:27:09.280 You report on it.

00:27:11.260 I've built up all this wealth in the country.

00:27:13.360 We've built up, the economy's done so, so well.

00:27:16.300 If people don't go out there and vote for Republicans,

00:27:19.600 they have nobody but themselves to blame.

00:27:21.900 I'd love this answer because during the Obama administration,

00:27:24.180 all you would hear is,

00:27:26.120 it's me, I will make the seas, sea levels lower.

00:27:30.340 I will, I, we are the ones that we've been waiting for.

00:27:32.660 We are, it's me, me, me, I, me, my, all through the night.

00:27:35.720 I, me, my, I, me, my, I, me, my.

00:27:37.580 You're doing his George Harrison impression.

00:27:39.840 Donald Trump actually doesn't do that.

00:27:41.800 For a guy who slaps his name on every building he's ever seen in his life,

00:27:45.220 he actually says,

00:27:46.760 look, I'm the, all I can do is what I'm doing.

00:27:48.620 I'm just Donald Trump.

00:27:49.760 What do you expect from me?

00:27:50.840 I'm Donald Trump.

00:27:51.960 I deregulate, I cut taxes,

00:27:54.140 I make the, the country friendlier to businesses.

00:27:58.540 I make the government friendlier to business.

00:28:00.840 But you've got to go out there and vote.

00:28:02.120 I'm not going to do that.

00:28:02.980 I can't do that for you.

00:28:04.060 And if you don't want it, all right, that's your fault.

00:28:06.400 That's a good attitude.

00:28:07.700 Because you can't just throw all of your hopes and dreams,

00:28:10.900 to quote Barack Obama, onto one guy.

00:28:13.680 Trump is not a god.

00:28:14.720 He's not a deity.

00:28:15.740 He's not a messiah.

00:28:17.000 He's Donald Trump.

00:28:18.080 He's emphatically and manifestly not any of those other things.

00:28:22.780 And so we got him.

00:28:24.940 He's a great tool.

00:28:26.460 He's a great leader.

00:28:27.780 He's actually a great political leader.

00:28:29.780 He's a great political executive.

00:28:31.900 He's not a messiah.

00:28:33.120 You've got to go out and do the work of re-electing Republicans

00:28:36.160 or you're not going to keep getting it.

00:28:37.400 And if you can't do it, you've got nobody to blame but yourself.

00:28:41.060 We have a lot of mailbag to get to right now.

00:28:44.760 Before we do that, though, I have got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:28:49.780 Look, I know that we're probably already being censored on there anyway,

00:28:54.140 so maybe you're on dailywire.com.

00:28:56.260 You've got to subscribe to Daily Wire right now.

00:28:58.700 Why?

00:28:59.640 One, because we're going to Politicon this weekend.

00:29:02.700 We're going to be at Politicon in Los Angeles on Saturday and Sunday.

00:29:07.900 I'm going to be there on Sunday.

00:29:09.080 If you're not in L.A., if you haven't bought tickets, if you're not going to go,

00:29:12.400 you can stream it on dailywire.com.

00:29:16.480 But you can only do that, obviously.

00:29:17.920 You can only interact with us if you're a subscriber,

00:29:20.360 so make sure you come on over there. 0.93

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00:29:33.680 This is what you need.

00:29:35.280 And if you drown in a sea of leftist tears,

00:29:37.260 you've got nobody to blame but yourself.

00:29:39.080 I'm channeling my inner Donald Trump.

00:29:41.100 You've got nobody to blame but yourself,

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00:29:51.140 We'll be right back with the mailbag.

00:29:52.300 All right, here we go.

00:30:04.120 From Carlos.

00:30:06.120 Since you are a Catholic,

00:30:07.700 I'm guessing you don't believe in same-sex marriage.

00:30:10.840 Do you also believe the government has the authority

00:30:13.560 to make same-sex marriage illegal?

00:30:15.620 If so, what would be the arguments for doing so?

00:30:20.160 It's true that I'm a Catholic,

00:30:21.420 but my opinion of the redefinition of marriage

00:30:23.960 does not hinge on my Catholic faith.

00:30:26.980 It's not that I think that gay marriage should be legal or illegal.

00:30:31.080 I think gay marriage is a contradiction in terms. 0.99

00:30:33.740 This is no offense to friends of mine who are gay

00:30:37.140 or who have any sort of sexual preference at all.

00:30:39.820 It's about what marriage is.

00:30:41.820 And unfortunately, during the question of gay marriage,

00:30:45.720 when the Supreme Court stole it from the public sphere,

00:30:50.240 we totally missed this debate.

00:30:52.260 The question isn't who should have the right to get marriage.

00:30:54.580 The question is what is marriage?

00:30:56.240 The people who support same-sex marriage

00:30:58.720 say that sexual difference doesn't adhere in marriage.

00:31:02.180 Oh, you're a man or you're a woman. 0.99

00:31:03.320 It doesn't matter.

00:31:04.140 It has nothing to do with marriage.

00:31:05.540 Marriage is just, what is marriage, sir?

00:31:07.600 Well, you know, it's the union of two people

00:31:10.880 who really like each other.

00:31:13.500 Okay, that could be friends.

00:31:15.100 Well, no, it's the union of two people 0.97

00:31:16.400 who really like each other and have sex with each other. 0.66

00:31:18.960 That could also be friends, you know.

00:31:20.840 Welcome to 2018.

00:31:22.200 Well, no, it's the union, well, for this or that.

00:31:24.540 They can't quite give an explanation.

00:31:27.160 For all of human history,

00:31:28.640 sexual difference has been the essence of marriage.

00:31:31.320 A union of husbands and wives,

00:31:33.680 at least one husband, usually just one wife,

00:31:36.440 sometimes more than one wife, depending on your culture.

00:31:38.800 In the West, basically, for a very long time,

00:31:41.380 it's been one husband and one wife

00:31:43.900 because those two complement one another.

00:31:46.700 In the beginning, God created man,

00:31:48.280 both male and female, he created them.

00:31:50.040 In our culture, in the Western culture,

00:31:51.560 the husband and the wife leave their families,

00:31:55.080 cleave together.

00:31:55.940 For what purpose?

00:31:56.880 Well, there's the logical possibility of life,

00:32:00.960 of procreation, of creating a family,

00:32:03.940 of the family being the essential building block of society.

00:32:07.240 The question that you have to ask yourself

00:32:09.900 if you support redefining marriage to include,

00:32:13.120 there are a few questions you have to ask yourself.

00:32:14.780 If you support redefining marriage 0.82

00:32:16.200 to include monogamous same-sex unions,

00:32:19.560 if you say sexual difference doesn't matter,

00:32:21.220 is why not include polygamous same-sex unions?

00:32:25.920 Why?

00:32:26.500 That's not, I'm not being,

00:32:28.320 I'm not trying to be offensive in any way.

00:32:29.900 Why wouldn't you?

00:32:30.500 If it's just about the union of people who love each other,

00:32:33.240 I know polygamous and polyamorous people.

00:32:36.740 Why?

00:32:37.340 You know, I wouldn't call them close friends,

00:32:40.140 but they're acquaintances at least.

00:32:41.200 Why wouldn't that constitute marriage?

00:32:45.580 If sexual difference doesn't adhere in marriage,

00:32:49.220 then what does marriage become?

00:32:52.100 What is it really about?

00:32:53.500 I've never heard a good answer to this.

00:32:56.400 Why should the Supreme Court decide that?

00:32:58.060 I don't know.

00:32:59.080 Marriage has a definition,

00:33:01.140 and the Supreme Court can't change that,

00:33:03.960 and I don't think public debate even can change that,

00:33:06.520 though I'd prefer if public debate did over the Supreme Court.

00:33:09.160 Marriage has a definition,

00:33:10.060 and therefore gay marriage is a logical impossibility. 0.90

00:33:13.580 Does it mean that gay people can't live together

00:33:16.220 or do whatever they want or sign a contract?

00:33:18.620 No, of course not.

00:33:20.040 Go with God, man.

00:33:21.060 I'm not here to tell you how to live your life.

00:33:24.560 But it means that you can't change the word.

00:33:27.240 You can't change logic.

00:33:28.620 If we don't have,

00:33:30.520 if we can't agree on definitions,

00:33:31.700 we can't live together in a society,

00:33:33.220 we can't communicate.

00:33:34.200 So that's my position on that.

00:33:35.860 I guess now this is an unpopular position,

00:33:37.720 even though virtually everybody in the entire West held it

00:33:40.480 until just a few years ago.

00:33:42.420 I think that our current misunderstanding of the definition of words

00:33:46.520 is a momentary madness.

00:33:48.480 I think at some point we'll wake up from that.

00:33:50.580 But right now people are very confused,

00:33:52.960 which is why you've got activists in the street shrieking and howling.

00:33:56.700 It's because they're very confused,

00:33:57.880 and they can't articulate their points of view.

00:33:59.760 From Joseph.

00:34:01.460 Dear Michael,

00:34:01.980 The world has ended.

00:34:04.120 Civilization as we know it has collapsed and been reset.

00:34:06.920 You are one of the few who have survived this disaster.

00:34:10.160 So what three items, besides the Bible,

00:34:12.880 would you take with you into this new world?

00:34:15.360 Why?

00:34:16.220 Thanks. 0.97

00:34:16.680 And by the way, I don't think you are excreable. 0.94

00:34:20.280 Well, you know, 0.97

00:34:20.900 I'd probably a purple mattress movement watch

00:34:22.780 and a week of blue apron.

00:34:23.680 That's what I'd take into the world.

00:34:25.000 Promo code COVFEFE, baby.

00:34:27.120 Beyond that,

00:34:27.780 if I had to choose another three,

00:34:29.300 I would choose,

00:34:30.540 this is very hard.

00:34:31.360 These questions are always impossible,

00:34:33.340 but to reconstruct civilization,

00:34:35.480 I would probably choose,

00:34:37.080 I would bring Dante,

00:34:38.620 the Divine Comedy,

00:34:39.740 annotated Divine Comedy,

00:34:41.580 because the Divine Comedy

00:34:43.300 includes basically all of Western culture

00:34:46.300 is referred to in it

00:34:47.960 or alluded to

00:34:48.980 or brought in together

00:34:49.920 Western Christian theology and philosophy

00:34:53.060 and ancient philosophy

00:34:55.740 and literature,

00:34:57.380 and it's the greatest work of art in the West.

00:34:59.200 So I'd take that.

00:34:59.920 I would take Shakespeare,

00:35:02.360 specifically Hamlet,

00:35:03.700 because Hamlet is talking about

00:35:05.500 the crack-up of Western civilization,

00:35:07.480 probably the thing that sowed the seeds

00:35:09.540 for what led to that apocalypse

00:35:11.040 that I'm now trying to recover from,

00:35:13.080 and all the works of Shakespeare,

00:35:15.280 and probably Aristotle.

00:35:18.160 So I would take literature,

00:35:21.300 I would take really extraordinary literature

00:35:23.480 and theology,

00:35:24.940 literature and philosophy.

00:35:26.600 I wish that we could get

00:35:27.680 a little history in there too,

00:35:28.740 but you said I could only take three things.

00:35:30.380 From Spencer,

00:35:31.660 Oh Knowles, who knows?

00:35:33.420 In your opinion,

00:35:34.300 how can we best discover

00:35:35.480 God's will for our lives?

00:35:37.200 How can we distinguish God's will

00:35:38.740 from what merely happens to us?

00:35:40.540 More specifically,

00:35:41.840 how can we know whether or not

00:35:43.060 we've acted in accordance with God's will

00:35:44.720 when we make crucial decisions,

00:35:46.440 such as where to go to school,

00:35:47.740 whom to marry,

00:35:48.440 where to work, etc.

00:35:49.220 It is a wicked generation 1.00

00:35:52.860 that looks for signs and wonders,

00:35:54.880 as the Bible tells us, 1.00

00:35:56.740 but it is a stupid generation 1.00

00:35:58.420 that ignores signs and wonders. 1.00

00:36:00.460 So you shouldn't, you know,

00:36:03.640 be trying to interpret tea leaves

00:36:05.620 when you're trying to figure out

00:36:07.040 if you should go to this college

00:36:08.040 or marry this person or whatever.

00:36:10.740 However, I think we've all,

00:36:13.220 many of us have had numinous experience,

00:36:15.060 the experience of coincidence

00:36:18.540 or providence or whatever

00:36:19.720 that really makes you think,

00:36:21.700 huh, this has the unmistakable mark

00:36:24.720 of God on it.

00:36:26.400 When these things happen,

00:36:27.740 they don't always give you

00:36:28.560 a right answer.

00:36:29.280 I can't, often these experiences,

00:36:31.160 these religious experiences

00:36:32.160 are ineffable,

00:36:33.220 so they're really hard to relate

00:36:34.640 in words what they are,

00:36:36.800 but, you know,

00:36:38.000 it's like pornography.

00:36:39.700 You can't define it,

00:36:40.360 but you know it when you see it.

00:36:41.380 I mean, that's the only way

00:36:42.520 it's like pornography.

00:36:43.220 So what I would say,

00:36:46.180 when I've had these experiences,

00:36:47.780 when friends of mine

00:36:48.380 have had these experiences,

00:36:50.040 while we're trying to make

00:36:51.020 certain decisions,

00:36:52.740 what I always,

00:36:53.440 I don't interpret them

00:36:54.500 to mean one course of action

00:36:55.660 or the other or this or that.

00:36:56.920 I always take them to mean

00:36:58.280 that God is there

00:36:59.060 and that, you know,

00:37:00.120 maybe you're on the right track.

00:37:01.280 Maybe you're where you're supposed to be

00:37:02.800 because you're seeing,

00:37:04.660 you're seeing a sign or a wonder.

00:37:09.320 For all the rest of it,

00:37:10.420 you should use your reason.

00:37:11.360 You should use your desire

00:37:13.100 and your will

00:37:13.640 and your intellect

00:37:14.340 and pursue the virtues.

00:37:16.180 You know, I mean,

00:37:16.620 it's on you, man.

00:37:17.660 It's your life.

00:37:18.240 You've got to lead your life

00:37:19.320 and fortunately,

00:37:20.580 there is the grace of God

00:37:21.600 that abounds

00:37:22.220 and that will help you out

00:37:24.200 and lead you in the right way

00:37:25.120 and there's the helper

00:37:25.780 and the advocate.

00:37:27.720 But it requires

00:37:28.760 your own will as well.

00:37:30.760 So it's not,

00:37:31.540 you can't look to signs

00:37:32.360 and wonders to be an excuse

00:37:33.600 not to use your own faculties

00:37:35.240 of reason

00:37:35.680 and your own determination

00:37:36.840 and courage

00:37:37.640 and will

00:37:38.020 and all the other virtues.

00:37:38.840 You've got to do that

00:37:39.980 but in a way,

00:37:43.100 don't worry about it so much

00:37:44.160 because God is there

00:37:45.160 but you've got to put in the effort

00:37:46.700 and you've got to put in the work

00:37:48.100 and, you know,

00:37:49.660 just remember in the long run,

00:37:51.820 as long as you're doing the right thing,

00:37:53.060 you can't go wrong.

00:37:54.300 From Anne.

00:37:55.960 Hi, Michael.

00:37:56.680 Just found out

00:37:57.320 the leftists

00:37:58.580 are using the Lord's name in vain.

00:38:01.020 They always do that.

00:38:02.580 Claiming Jesus is a Palestinian. 0.70

00:38:05.540 Please explain this rhetoric.

00:38:07.240 Anne.

00:38:07.500 Oh, it's because 1.00

00:38:09.920 they're very dumb. 1.00

00:38:11.400 I think that's why 1.00

00:38:12.280 they're calling

00:38:13.060 Jesus a Palestinian. 0.66

00:38:14.600 For a while,

00:38:15.180 they were saying 0.94

00:38:15.520 Jesus is black 0.99

00:38:16.460 or Jesus is,

00:38:17.660 it's always just

00:38:18.360 to be used

00:38:19.420 in political debates.

00:38:20.700 So when there was

00:38:21.260 a political debate

00:38:23.260 in the United States

00:38:23.900 over black and white race relations,

00:38:25.740 they would do that.

00:38:26.760 Now there's a big political debate

00:38:28.020 over Israelis 0.95

00:38:29.040 and their treatment

00:38:30.340 of Palestinian Arabs

00:38:32.020 and so they're saying

00:38:34.020 Jesus was a Palestinian.

00:38:35.640 He wasn't.

00:38:36.460 He isn't.

00:38:37.540 He isn't a Palestinian. 0.88

00:38:39.360 Christ is a Jew. 1.00

00:38:41.740 He partook of Jewish customs.

00:38:46.620 He did Jewish things.

00:38:48.000 He taught in the temple.

00:38:50.380 He died for your sins

00:38:52.280 and was resurrected

00:38:53.040 on the third day.

00:38:56.500 But he's not a Palestinian. 0.95

00:38:58.020 The point that they're trying to make

00:38:59.620 is always this cheap political point.

00:39:00.980 They say,

00:39:01.120 Jesus is a socialist.

00:39:04.020 And you say,

00:39:04.700 well,

00:39:05.040 why do you think that?

00:39:06.400 They say,

00:39:06.580 well,

00:39:06.740 because I saw a meme about it

00:39:07.880 on Reddit one time.

00:39:08.980 I say,

00:39:09.180 okay,

00:39:09.800 can you explain,

00:39:10.780 can you give any example

00:39:11.600 of Jesus being a socialist?

00:39:12.700 And they never can.

00:39:14.260 So I think the people

00:39:15.280 who are saying

00:39:15.660 Jesus is a Palestinian, 0.75

00:39:17.360 look,

00:39:17.800 just to use the phrase

00:39:18.440 Jesus was,

00:39:19.840 is,

00:39:20.120 if you do that enough times,

00:39:22.100 you're kind of showing your cards

00:39:23.420 because for those of us

00:39:25.680 who believe in Jesus,

00:39:26.560 Jesus is before Abraham was, 1.00

00:39:29.040 he is.

00:39:30.440 But also,

00:39:31.400 they just haven't read the Bible.

00:39:32.700 You know,

00:39:32.860 the people who tend to preach the most

00:39:36.340 about these things politically

00:39:37.700 tend to have never cracked

00:39:39.900 the spine of the Bible.

00:39:41.020 So I would just laugh at them.

00:39:42.360 They'll come up with some new one

00:39:43.540 when there's a new political issue as well.

00:39:45.160 Hi, Michael.

00:39:45.760 Do you believe in the deep state?

00:39:46.840 And if so,

00:39:47.300 what do you think about it?

00:39:48.240 And how do you think

00:39:48.720 it's affecting our government

00:39:50.280 and democracy?

00:39:51.100 From Caleb.

00:39:51.720 Okay,

00:39:52.000 he didn't put his name up to him.

00:39:53.580 Yeah,

00:39:54.060 by definition,

00:39:54.980 the deep state exists

00:39:55.940 because the deep state

00:39:56.760 is the entrenched federal bureaucracy

00:39:58.380 that is unaccountable to voters

00:40:00.120 and that can't be moved along

00:40:01.580 by elections.

00:40:02.400 So that does exist.

00:40:03.780 I don't think it's like

00:40:04.560 men twirling their mustaches

00:40:05.900 in a bunker.

00:40:06.920 For the most part,

00:40:07.600 there are those types.

00:40:08.780 I mean,

00:40:08.980 there are those guys,

00:40:10.920 you know,

00:40:11.200 like some of the FBI guys,

00:40:12.780 Peter Strzok,

00:40:13.740 you know,

00:40:14.260 actually,

00:40:14.680 when he was testifying

00:40:15.520 before Congress,

00:40:16.340 he did look like a villain

00:40:17.520 from a James Bond movie.

00:40:18.720 But most of them

00:40:19.480 are just bureaucrats

00:40:20.960 who are so entrenched

00:40:23.080 and the government

00:40:23.500 is so bloated

00:40:24.220 and big and powerful

00:40:25.200 and unaccountable

00:40:26.660 that elections don't matter

00:40:28.580 because the elected officials

00:40:29.860 come and go.

00:40:30.720 But those bureaucrats 0.94

00:40:31.760 live forever.

00:40:32.780 You know,

00:40:32.960 bureaucrats have come closest 0.88

00:40:34.720 to finding the philosopher's stone

00:40:36.220 and immortality on earth.

00:40:38.320 It's virtually impossible

00:40:39.500 to fire them.

00:40:40.220 James O'Keefe's videos

00:40:41.160 quoted a bunch of DOJ officials

00:40:42.700 saying that.

00:40:43.320 We can't lose our jobs.

00:40:44.540 So that does exist

00:40:45.600 and the way to fight that

00:40:47.700 is to shrink the size

00:40:50.120 of the federal bureaucracy.

00:40:51.660 The Trump administration

00:40:52.460 has done a beautiful job

00:40:53.600 at that.

00:40:54.100 Before they finally claimed

00:40:55.300 Scott Pruitt,

00:40:56.040 before they finally threw him

00:40:56.980 out of office,

00:40:58.040 he was doing an excellent job

00:40:59.620 cutting the size

00:41:00.760 of the EPA

00:41:01.560 and hopefully we'll be able

00:41:03.180 to continue that

00:41:03.840 because bureaucracies

00:41:05.620 are naturally going to do this.

00:41:07.160 I don't even ascribe

00:41:08.460 the ill intention

00:41:10.620 to a lot of these people.

00:41:12.240 It just naturally happens

00:41:13.700 and the only way

00:41:14.140 to stop that

00:41:14.680 is to shrink it,

00:41:15.480 keep it small

00:41:15.960 and keep the government

00:41:16.560 accountable.

00:41:17.340 From Aslan,

00:41:18.880 Michael,

00:41:19.380 I've found debating points

00:41:20.620 with the left

00:41:21.060 is becoming far more taxing

00:41:22.360 because they're so entrenched.

00:41:23.500 How do you pick

00:41:23.980 and choose your battles,

00:41:24.900 especially with people

00:41:26.520 you respect as a friend?

00:41:28.140 Aslan.

00:41:29.860 Well,

00:41:30.440 Kanye West is a good example

00:41:31.600 of this.

00:41:32.160 Kanye West,

00:41:32.940 you know,

00:41:33.100 he came out,

00:41:33.800 he gave his political opinion

00:41:35.940 which all of his friends

00:41:36.800 disagree with

00:41:37.540 and they tried to guilt him.

00:41:40.220 They tried to shame him.

00:41:41.160 They said,

00:41:41.340 your fans don't want this.

00:41:42.460 You're ill.

00:41:43.540 I'm worried about you.

00:41:44.760 But the racism,

00:41:45.640 he said,

00:41:46.340 you can throw out

00:41:46.960 all the slogans you want.

00:41:47.880 It's not going to change my mind.

00:41:49.180 I would say two things.

00:41:50.160 I'm friends with a lot of Democrats.

00:41:52.100 You know,

00:41:52.260 I've lived in New York and LA

00:41:53.460 and went to a very left-wing school.

00:41:55.320 If I were not friends with Democrats,

00:41:56.720 I wouldn't have that many friends.

00:41:59.440 One thing I always try to do with them

00:42:01.340 is I never back down.

00:42:02.660 I never try to play nice

00:42:04.620 and conciliatory

00:42:05.340 and don't rock the boat.

00:42:07.700 I am,

00:42:09.000 I will exaggerate

00:42:10.380 my political views,

00:42:11.560 if anything,

00:42:12.280 with some of them

00:42:12.920 because you don't want them

00:42:14.160 to bully you

00:42:14.800 into going along

00:42:15.500 and agreeing with that.

00:42:16.440 If they're not going to like you

00:42:17.720 because of your political point of view,

00:42:19.020 you don't want to be friends

00:42:19.720 with them anyway.

00:42:21.360 That said though,

00:42:22.180 I don't poke them.

00:42:23.040 I don't prod them.

00:42:23.740 I don't talk about politics

00:42:24.800 all the time.

00:42:25.340 If they bring something up,

00:42:26.480 I'll double down.

00:42:27.080 They say,

00:42:27.480 oh,

00:42:27.840 you know,

00:42:28.060 Trump,

00:42:28.620 Trump called Stormy Daniels

00:42:30.520 horse face.

00:42:31.580 Say,

00:42:31.800 I know it was so rude

00:42:33.040 to Mr. Ed

00:42:33.680 to compare her

00:42:34.420 to horses.

00:42:36.540 You know,

00:42:36.740 it's so rude

00:42:37.440 to all those horses

00:42:38.140 and then maybe

00:42:38.980 they can back off it

00:42:39.820 or something.

00:42:40.600 Always,

00:42:41.200 you know,

00:42:42.040 double down.

00:42:43.020 Don't let anything

00:42:43.740 go unanswered

00:42:44.520 but you don't need

00:42:45.580 to poke them all the time

00:42:46.420 because why are you

00:42:46.940 friends with them?

00:42:47.440 You're presumably

00:42:47.860 friends with them

00:42:48.480 because you share

00:42:49.340 some points of view.

00:42:50.420 You share some values.

00:42:51.940 You share some activities

00:42:52.960 together.

00:42:53.680 You like them

00:42:54.320 and so you don't want

00:42:56.160 to prod them.

00:42:56.860 You don't dislike them

00:42:57.820 but never back down.

00:42:59.780 Never back down.

00:43:01.200 The real way is

00:43:02.420 don't pick any battles

00:43:03.620 to begin with.

00:43:04.680 If a battle is picked

00:43:05.520 with you though,

00:43:06.120 you fight it right back

00:43:06.900 from Augustine

00:43:08.380 or Augustine.

00:43:09.860 Mike,

00:43:10.460 my very liberal

00:43:11.380 economics teacher

00:43:12.280 says the Trump tax cuts

00:43:13.640 are awesome

00:43:14.580 in the short run

00:43:15.300 but not great

00:43:16.040 in the long run

00:43:16.560 due to problems

00:43:17.260 and the large debt

00:43:18.240 that large debt

00:43:19.640 can cause down the road

00:43:20.460 and the tax cuts

00:43:21.160 do not really help

00:43:21.880 that issue.

00:43:22.620 How do I respond

00:43:23.240 to this?

00:43:24.040 AMDG.

00:43:27.580 First of all,

00:43:28.220 to quote famous

00:43:29.200 liberal economist

00:43:29.960 John Maynard Keynes,

00:43:31.400 in the long run

00:43:32.160 we're all dead.

00:43:33.720 No,

00:43:33.980 they're great

00:43:34.240 in the short run

00:43:34.740 and they're great

00:43:35.260 in the long run

00:43:35.940 and the debt

00:43:36.600 is a problem.

00:43:37.380 All of those things

00:43:38.060 can be true.

00:43:38.660 Your teacher is right

00:43:39.700 that the debt

00:43:40.200 is a major problem.

00:43:42.340 Not a problem

00:43:43.100 primarily

00:43:43.580 caused by Republicans

00:43:44.820 by the way.

00:43:45.520 The debt

00:43:46.260 and deficit

00:43:46.620 under Barack Obama

00:43:47.500 expanded dramatically.

00:43:49.100 You had regular

00:43:49.620 trillion dollar deficits

00:43:50.740 and President Trump

00:43:52.960 has not tackled

00:43:53.800 that problem yet.

00:43:54.920 The main response

00:43:57.240 I would say

00:43:57.740 is that tax cuts

00:43:59.140 don't cause the debt.

00:44:00.720 Entitlements

00:44:01.100 cause the debt.

00:44:02.260 Entitlements

00:44:02.620 are the majority

00:44:04.400 of the federal budget.

00:44:05.660 They cause the debt.

00:44:06.920 They are the main 0.71

00:44:07.320 driver of the debt.

00:44:08.200 They are insolvent.

00:44:09.060 They will make

00:44:09.400 the debt worse

00:44:09.960 and the deficits worse

00:44:10.800 if they are not checked.

00:44:12.400 It is Democrats

00:44:13.280 who are not allowing us

00:44:14.240 to address

00:44:14.840 those entitlement programs.

00:44:16.300 Medicare,

00:44:16.840 Medicaid,

00:44:17.560 Social Security

00:44:18.260 which will bankrupt

00:44:19.120 the country

00:44:19.620 and won't be there

00:44:20.460 for the young workers

00:44:21.460 who are paying

00:44:21.860 into it right now.

00:44:23.320 Tax cuts don't do that.

00:44:24.760 Tax cuts let people

00:44:25.600 keep a little bit more

00:44:26.360 of their own money.

00:44:27.560 That's fine.

00:44:28.140 That's perfectly fine

00:44:28.900 and they can stimulate

00:44:29.620 economic growth.

00:44:31.100 If people are serious

00:44:32.660 about taking on the debt

00:44:34.280 you're not going to do it

00:44:35.700 by raising taxes

00:44:37.480 because that also

00:44:39.320 could damage the economy.

00:44:40.600 You're not going to do it

00:44:41.440 with pork barrel spending.

00:44:42.960 That's another favorite buzzword

00:44:44.660 of the left and the right.

00:44:45.500 You're not going to do it

00:44:46.100 by eliminating

00:44:47.040 some bridge project

00:44:48.020 somewhere or whatever.

00:44:48.980 You're going to do it

00:44:49.840 by tackling the lion's share

00:44:52.080 of our budget

00:44:52.720 and the main driver of debt

00:44:54.360 and that's entitlement programs.

00:44:55.820 Show me someone

00:44:56.320 who has the guts

00:44:56.880 to deal with entitlement programs

00:44:58.220 other than Paul Ryan

00:44:59.360 who now has had his career

00:45:01.820 basically finished

00:45:02.620 in the Congress.

00:45:03.580 Show me someone

00:45:04.060 with that courage

00:45:04.680 and I'll vote for that person

00:45:05.880 but I don't see it

00:45:07.220 anytime soon.

00:45:08.160 Time for one more?

00:45:08.760 All right, time for one more.

00:45:10.560 From Elan.

00:45:13.260 Should we believe all men 1.00

00:45:15.460 if gender equality

00:45:16.880 is our goal?

00:45:18.240 Thanks.

00:45:19.360 What a great question

00:45:20.540 to end on.

00:45:21.520 You know, just wow.

00:45:24.280 We should believe all women

00:45:26.340 and because women 0.99

00:45:28.280 are equal to men

00:45:29.580 we should believe all men

00:45:31.600 and therefore

00:45:32.660 we shouldn't believe all women 1.00

00:45:34.380 and we shouldn't believe all men.

00:45:36.400 We should believe credible people

00:45:38.080 and give the accused

00:45:39.440 the presumption of innocence

00:45:41.840 until they're proven guilty.

00:45:43.420 Wow, man.

00:45:44.100 That is some poetry.

00:45:45.160 I'm going to have to tweet that out.

00:45:46.420 Okay, that's our show.

00:45:47.260 We're going to be back tomorrow

00:45:48.120 for a Friday show

00:45:49.480 because I ditched you on Tuesday

00:45:51.440 to go give a speech.

00:45:52.440 So, tune in tomorrow.

00:45:53.240 In the meantime,

00:45:53.680 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:45:54.540 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:45:55.560 I'll see you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 18, 2018

Ep. 236 - Make ‘Em Angry, Make ‘Em Stupid

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