The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 240 - Booms, Bums, and Bombs

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00:00:13.700 get the truth about debt. Just one day after a suspicious package was found at George Soros'

00:00:19.100 Westchester home, another suspicious package was intercepted on its way to the Clintons'

00:00:24.180 Westchester home. Another suspicious package sent to Barack Obama, Eric Holder, John Brennan

00:00:29.640 at CNN for some reason, even though he doesn't work there. Lots of suspicious packages. We will

00:00:34.760 analyze what it means, who it's likely from. Is it a lunatic or is it a dirty trick? This is very 0.97

00:00:40.180 close to the midterm elections. The timing is curious. Then, Democrats have finally settled

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00:01:06.880 tears. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:09.400 If only I had my leftist tears tumbler. I'm on the road. The Covfefe on campus tour

00:01:22.980 chugs along. It rolls along here. I'll be at Grand Canyon University tonight. I'll be speaking

00:01:28.820 here at 7 p.m. Eastern, or 7 p.m. Pacific, rather, 10 p.m. Eastern. Should be a lot of fun. Can't wait to

00:01:34.520 talk to the kids. Then we're heading on down to South Dakota. Then we're going to Alabama. We got a lot

00:01:38.440 going on this week. I'm glad that we're able to do the show on the road because people are now

00:01:43.800 sending bombs in the mail. This is not very good. We don't know anything about who sent them,

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00:03:21.360 slash Knowles, K-O-W-L-E-S. Moving from knives onto bombs, we have to talk about these many

00:03:29.220 suspicious packages sent around. It was discovered that they did have explosive material in them.

00:03:35.840 Pretty rudimentary, not very sophisticated. Nevertheless, I think the one that was sent

00:03:39.580 to George Soros' house was detonated. Nobody was hurt. Nobody has been hurt, which is why I'm

00:03:44.340 allowed to joke about this and I'm very pleased that I can. If someone had been hurt, it would

00:03:47.900 be such a downer. One, it would be a very bad thing. We don't want to have acts of domestic 0.99

00:03:52.700 terrorism in our country. Well, beyond the acts of domestic terror perpetrated by Antifa and the

00:03:58.240 left, you know, elected Democrats telling people to go to Republicans' homes, harass them where their

00:04:04.200 children sleep, that kind of thing. We don't want any more acts of civil unrest or political violence

00:04:09.700 in America. The timing here is really, really weird. We're, what are we, 13 days away from the

00:04:17.200 midterm elections. For the last two weeks, the news cycles have had the headlines, Democrats, mob,

00:04:23.680 violence. Now, all of a sudden, all of these attacks come out. I'm not, take off your tinfoil

00:04:30.680 hats. I'm not saying that this is some grand conspiracy. I'm not saying George Soros sent bombs

00:04:35.760 to himself or anything like that. I'm just saying the timing is pretty weird. There are a lot of weird

00:04:41.760 political dirty tricks on both sides of the aisle that happened as we approach elections. And so I

00:04:48.500 want to know who this is, who this guy is who sent it, what the motivations were. I don't think we

00:04:54.300 should jump to any conclusions whatsoever. This is what happens. We did a whole episode the other day

00:04:59.160 on how when people in politics get angry, people in politics go mad. And when people in politics go

00:05:06.360 mad, they get stupid. Don't get stupid. Don't get passionate. Stay cool. Stay removed. I got to tell 1.00

00:05:12.520 you, President Trump and the White House and Vice President Pence are handling this perfectly. I'll

00:05:17.720 show you this clip, then we can compare it to how the Democrats have reacted to other acts of political

00:05:22.420 violence in the United States. Take it away, President Trump. The full weight of our government

00:05:27.160 is being deployed to conduct this investigation and bring those responsible for these despicable acts

00:05:34.360 to justice. We will spare no resources or expense in this effort. And I just want to tell you that in

00:05:43.120 these times, we have to unify. We have to come together and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable

00:05:51.520 message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the United States of

00:05:58.920 America. Exactly right. This is exactly the right response. Compare that to what we've heard over the

00:06:08.140 last two weeks from Maxine Waters. Maxine Waters, a little earlier than that. Hillary Clinton, Eric

00:06:13.880 Holder, who says, when Republicans go low, kick them. Hillary Clinton, who says, you can't be civil, 1.00

00:06:19.420 who called half the country deplorable and irredeemable. Maxine Waters, who explicitly said,

00:06:23.800 go out there, harass conservatives where they are in the street, where they sleep. Additionally,

00:06:30.560 where they sleep. You had Cory Booker saying, get up in the faces of congressmen. This was the right

00:06:37.900 response from President Trump. And it stands in stark contrast to how Democrats have been reacting

00:06:43.940 to political violence that we know is motivated, has political and partisan motivations. So what do we

00:06:50.200 make of this? This is pretty weird. I actually lived, I grew up right down the road from where

00:06:55.800 George Soros lives and where the Clintons are. I didn't know at the time that Hillary was my fourth

00:07:00.660 cousin, twice removed, so I never had to sit for any Thanksgiving dinners with her mirabile dictu. 0.77

00:07:06.460 So what, what can we make of this? We, before we try to analyze the motivations, let's try to analyze

00:07:14.960 what the effect of this is, what this looks like from the outside perspective. Let's assume that

00:07:20.020 the person sending the bombs is rational, which is a bizarre, you know, that's a tough assumption to

00:07:24.880 make. He could just be a total lunatic, very likely is. But let's say the person is rational. 0.98

00:07:29.480 What is the effect of sending the bombs? You've got a midterm elections that were supposed to be a

00:07:33.940 blue wave where the polls have turned all in the direction of Republicans and conservatives in recent

00:07:39.420 weeks. You've got headlines for the last two weeks, all about Democrat political violence.

00:07:46.320 You're now 13 days away.

00:07:51.060 In what way, if this were sent by a conservative, in what way would this help conservatives? All this

00:07:55.700 would do is turn the momentum, possibly turn the momentum back against conservatives and Republicans

00:08:01.940 in favor of the left. All it would do is undercut what we've seen for weeks and weeks, and even longer

00:08:07.400 than that, if you go back to the election of Donald Trump, of political violence from the left.

00:08:12.120 So as a matter of politics, this sort of stunt would only benefit Democrats and left-wingers,

00:08:20.040 and it would only harm conservatives and Republicans. If this person is rationally motivated,

00:08:26.900 why now? Why would they send these rudimentary bombs now? Wouldn't they send them, I don't know,

00:08:35.340 after Hillary Clinton, I don't know, after Maxine Waters, this is a better example. Maxine Waters

00:08:41.660 actually called for political violence. Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder, they can kind of walk a

00:08:47.940 line and say, oh no, we didn't quite do it. Wouldn't they have sent, if they were motivated

00:08:52.020 because of the calls for violence from the left, wouldn't they have sent them weeks ago, months ago?

00:08:58.460 Well, it seems like they would have. If they were motivated to advance a political agenda,

00:09:03.900 wouldn't they have sent them when there was an actual political agenda on the line, when there

00:09:10.860 actually were the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh, for instance, when it looked like Kavanaugh was

00:09:15.840 going to get railroaded in his confirmation process? Wouldn't they send it when it looked like

00:09:19.780 conservatives were losing, when it looked like there was something really to gain from it? So they

00:09:25.120 don't gain anything in that regard. So then let's examine the other one, which is that it's not a

00:09:29.780 dirty trick, it's not some rational actor, it's a lunatic, which seems to make a fair amount of 0.69

00:09:33.860 sense. We know that one of these packages was sent to John Brennan, former CIA director, former 0.75

00:09:38.860 communist voter. He voted for Gus Hall in the 1970s, an awful leftist who has been pitiless and absurd

00:09:49.600 and hysterical in his condemnation of President Trump and the Republicans. He was a political hack,

00:09:54.480 he should never have gotten the job under Barack Obama in the first place. Now he's made himself

00:09:58.140 into a Twitter celebrity attacking the president. Okay. They sent the package to him, care of CNN,

00:10:05.120 but John Brennan works at MSNBC. He's an MSNBC contributor. So I don't understand, I mean,

00:10:10.340 I guess that could be a mark in favor of the person is a total lunatic. The return address was Debbie 0.73

00:10:15.240 Wasserman Schultz. So they're trying to make clear all of these packages going out within a couple days

00:10:20.180 of each other, the return address, the person who is sending this is clearly trying to make it

00:10:24.360 apparent to everybody that this is aimed at Democrats. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was the

00:10:29.400 former head of the Democrat National Committee. Now, interestingly, Debbie Wasserman Schultz was

00:10:35.560 also the head of the DNC when the primary election was unfair to Bernie Sanders and was favorable to

00:10:41.660 Hillary Clinton. Okay. A lot of these are Obama holdovers, obviously the Clintons, Debbie Wasserman

00:10:48.840 Schultz. Okay. I don't see a political motive for a right winger. So I, I predict if it, if it is a

00:10:57.260 right winger, it is a true Looney Tune. I mean, you, you will see tinfoil hats and wacky behavior,

00:11:05.160 even wackier and less, less explainable than engaging in political violence. Could it be a dirty trick?

00:11:12.620 Yeah. Anything's possible. Anything's possible. I'm not saying it is. I'm not saying that it's likely

00:11:16.560 that it is. What I'm saying is reserve your judgment until we find out who this person is.

00:11:23.460 There is clearly a political motivation. If this person is rational, there is clearly convenient

00:11:29.940 timing here. If this person is rational, reserve your judgment until we find out what happens.

00:11:34.600 President Trump said it very well. He said, we have got to bring this person to justice. We got to find

00:11:39.280 out who it is, bring them to justice. There's no place for this in American politics. That's true.

00:11:43.260 Regardless of their political motivations, that's true. Regardless of their ideological affiliation,

00:11:49.160 just wait and see. I, we, one should always urge caution in these kinds of things because

00:11:54.540 especially right before elections, they are, they are often designed to elicit an emotional response.

00:12:00.460 Don't give it to them. Don't fall into that trap. Okay. Uh, regardless of, uh, who sent the bombs

00:12:07.600 and what the bombs mean and what the bombs really are, uh, president Trump yesterday, he extolled the

00:12:12.760 virtues of nationalism over globalism. And this has elicited a, obviously a violent response from the

00:12:18.900 left, but it has elicited a violent rhetoric as well. Uh, now he said, I am a nationalist. I think

00:12:25.160 this was the first time he's talked about nationalism a lot, but he said it so explicitly, he made a point

00:12:30.340 that this is the thesis. I am a nationalist. And what does that mean? You know, we had Yoram Hazani who has

00:12:34.880 that great book out, the virtue of nationalism and, uh, nationalism is pitted against globalism.

00:12:42.520 Nationalism saying that the world order, the Westphalian system, the nation states that we have

00:12:47.000 are the best system to preserve liberty, freedom, and prosperity. Maybe it's not the most peaceful.

00:12:54.640 Sometimes nations go to war with each other, but it preserves liberty as opposed to globalism in which

00:13:00.340 people and their communities and their states and their countries seed their sovereignty

00:13:04.700 and their freedom to supranational institutions that don't have any particular allegiance to them

00:13:10.400 or their families or their communities. Uh, this is like the European union, we could say, or the

00:13:16.340 international criminal court. Uh, that's the difference. And Trump says between those two

00:13:20.920 things, we're not ceding our freedom. We're not ceding our liberty. I am defending the American

00:13:25.580 founding and what has led us to so much peace and prosperity and liberty and enjoyment for hundreds

00:13:33.100 of years. I'm defending the nation. How do you think the Democrats responded? How do you think

00:13:39.480 Democrats and CNN responded to this? Here is Democrat Congressman Gregory Meeks, uh, interpreting the

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00:15:50.540 Okay. So how did the Democrats and CNN respond that, you know, in their typically stayed normal

00:15:56.720 way? This is how they responded to Donald Trump saying the very basic thing, something that all

00:16:01.020 of our founders and framers would say, something that all normal people in the history of the

00:16:05.620 United States would say, I support the American nation. I don't want to give our freedom away

00:16:09.820 to, uh, extra super national organizations. Here's the reaction.

00:16:14.560 A globalist is a person that wants the globe to do well, frankly, not caring about our country

00:16:23.660 so much. And you know what? We can't have that. You know, I have a word. It sort of became old

00:16:30.180 fashioned. It's called a nationalist. And I say, really, we're not supposed to use that

00:16:35.700 word. You know what I am? I'm a nationalist. Okay. I'm a nationalist.

00:16:39.480 All right. So what's your reaction to that, Congressman?

00:16:44.680 My first reaction to that is the synonym to a nationalist is a chauvinist. And, uh, that

00:16:51.680 apparently is what this president is. Uh, and to say that we are a better than or, you know,

00:16:59.620 it reminds me of the kinds of words, uh, that came from people like, uh, Hitler who thought

00:17:06.480 that in Germany, he was a nationalist. So just to begin, that isn't true. I thought

00:17:12.120 president Trump said it very well in that speech. Uh, what Gregory Meeks said is not true. Nationalism

00:17:17.980 and chauvinism are not synonyms show. We've heard of chauvinism. You hear of male chauvinism

00:17:22.860 or this show. It's kind of boastful, prideful, being a braggart about your country or your community.

00:17:28.940 Uh, what it, uh, it comes from, uh, this probably apocryphal French soldier, Nicolas Chauvin,

00:17:34.580 and he's an apocryphal, probably apocryphal French soldier in Napoleon's army. That isn't,

00:17:41.300 uh, nationalism. Nationalism says we protect the country. We defend the interests of a country.

00:17:46.520 We extol the virtues of free nation states that we can interact with. Uh, if we're talking about

00:17:53.060 Chauvin, we're actually talking about the opposite of nationalism. You're talking about imperialism.

00:17:57.560 You're talking about globalism. You're talking about armies that try to go out through the rest

00:18:02.460 of the world, take over other places, conquer other places. That isn't nationalism. And people

00:18:07.920 bandy these terms about, they, I guarantee you Gregory Meeks has no idea where the word chauvinism

00:18:12.860 comes from, but that's what it comes from. Also show, uh, the reason I say the soldier Chauvin

00:18:17.600 was probably apocryphal is that we have no record that he existed and, uh, tales of his and the use of

00:18:24.460 the word chauvinism was used by critics of, uh, Napoleon used by critics of Bonapartism.

00:18:31.100 So, uh, even that it's, it, it's a term that was invented in derision. It's a term that was invented

00:18:37.300 to be used as an attack. You know, the, the left accuses the right of anti-intellectualism all the

00:18:43.080 time. The right is so much more intellectual than the left. We're skeptical of experts. We're skeptical

00:18:50.180 of intellectuals, but if you're going to use a word, I do find that people on the right

00:18:55.540 know what it means. Of course they do. They use language appropriately. They use language to mean

00:19:01.240 what it means on the left. They use these slogans all the time. That's why they have political

00:19:05.740 correctness is to use terms that don't have real meanings or that have perverse meanings or that

00:19:10.540 have meanings that aren't what they purport to be. I always, I want to take the opportunity to point

00:19:15.440 this out whenever I can. The right is far more intellectual than the left. How many public

00:19:20.540 policy think tanks are there on the left? The left has the universities. Fine. They have,

00:19:25.400 they have taken over the educational system, but how many think tanks dedicated to public policy do

00:19:30.020 they have? Like two, maybe Brookings is kind of left. I don't know, two or three. How many are on

00:19:36.360 the right? About a zillion. You've got a heritage. You've got AEI. You've got Cato. You've got

00:19:42.460 Hudson. You've got all of these institutions of public policy because the right actually is better

00:19:47.940 about this. We just don't go boasting about it all the time. We're not chauvinists about it all the

00:19:51.780 time, to use their word. This reminds me, I was talking to John Fugelsang, the actor and comedian

00:19:56.900 at Politicon, and I talked about him a little bit yesterday. But we were arguing about the Bible on

00:20:01.960 Twitter and he thought he got a slam dunk. He said, you haven't read this passage of numbers to prove

00:20:08.980 that abortion is great and God approves of abortion. He sent me the passage. I looked at it and I 0.75

00:20:14.240 realized one of the words was mistranslated. The word for miscarry, the word that he thought meant

00:20:21.000 abortion was just mistranslated. So I just Googled all different translations of it. Every other

00:20:25.560 translation was different. It didn't use that word. It was just one poor translation. This is the left.

00:20:31.760 They're so intellectually pompous, but they don't have a lot backing them up. They don't have a lot of

00:20:36.440 support. And I think this is why the right is so much better at trolling them. You know,

00:20:41.560 comedy requires wit. You have to have a quick wit to do it. And President Trump totally trolled

00:20:48.920 Barack Obama the other day. It's because the right is harder, better, faster, stronger, you know,

00:20:54.520 to quote Kanye. This is probably why Kanye likes us. It's why he's got all that dragon energy flowing

00:20:59.140 through them. They're just a little bit quicker. And President Trump used this dragon energy

00:21:02.780 pretty hard on the immigration issue. He tweeted out a video of Barack Obama with the caption that

00:21:09.580 said, I agree with President Obama 100%. Here's the video of Obama.

00:21:15.260 We are a generous and welcoming people here in the United States, but those who enter the country 1.00

00:21:19.740 illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law. And they are showing disregard for

00:21:27.820 those who are following the law. We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, 1.00

00:21:36.060 undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently,

00:21:42.300 diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country. 0.93

00:21:48.620 Who is that man? Could somebody tell me who that man is and why he's wearing Barack Obama's face as a

00:21:53.500 mask? Why? He really does a good impression of his voice too. How could you, that was Barack Obama,

00:21:58.540 I think from 2005, back before Democrats had completely given way to the extreme fringes of

00:22:04.940 their party by whom they are now held hostage. So you had, obviously illegal immigration is illegal.

00:22:10.140 It's not that complicated. Democrats realized that they had to veer hard to the left. They got angry,

00:22:14.780 they got mad, they got stupid. Now they're held hostage by this lawless base. And it's true. Of 1.00

00:22:19.660 course, I agree with Barack Obama there too. Barack Obama agrees with Donald Trump there. I was waiting

00:22:24.380 for Barack Obama to go on and say, that's why we need to renegotiate NAFTA. That's why we got to pull

00:22:28.620 out of the Paris Climate Accord. That's why we have to make America great again. Make America great

00:22:33.260 again, folks. Got to do it. Okay. We're getting totally killed over here. You know, China, China's 1.00

00:22:37.580 totally killing us. I don't know. I could go on for hours. Illegal immigration is a winning issue. 1.00

00:22:44.060 And among the vast majority of Americans, including Democrats,

00:22:47.820 the Democrats made a huge miscalculation when they allowed themselves to become dependent on

00:22:53.500 and hostage to that extreme lawless fringe of their party. This is why President Trump is running so

00:22:58.540 hard on it. Illegal immigration is a violation. It is a violation of our borders. It is a violation of 0.85

00:23:05.020 our laws and our country and our sovereignty and our freedom and our votes. It is a total violation.

00:23:10.540 It's why people of both parties react so strongly to it. It's why Trump is right to run so hard on this.

00:23:17.340 And just before the midterms again, we were talking about dirty tricks when we were talking

00:23:22.060 about those suspicious bomb packages. There is a gigantic caravan of illegal aliens crossing up

00:23:30.860 through Latin America that is due to arrive on our border. I don't know the morning of election day.

00:23:36.620 I mean, the timing is almost perfect. What is this caravan? What is this caravan? Who's behind it?

00:23:43.020 This is certainly a ploy by the left. We know who helped to organize it. It's

00:23:47.740 leftist institutions and leftist politicians. But it actually sort of plays to both the extreme

00:23:55.260 fringes of the Democrats who now run that party and to the right. It plays more to the right because

00:24:00.540 we've got more people who care about it on that side. But we know that this caravan, which is now up

00:24:05.500 to something like 14,000 or 15,000 people, started out as just a couple hundred people

00:24:10.220 in Honduras, was begun by this Honduran ex-politician and radio host. He's the host of this show called

00:24:17.260 Without Borders. And the organization that has been pushing these caravans for a long time now is

00:24:22.060 Pueblo Sin Fronteras, People Without Borders, as this radical leftist Honduran politician,

00:24:27.340 Bartolo Fuentes. So this guy, Bartolo Fuentes, is involved in this. He's trying to push people up

00:24:33.980 and push illegal aliens into the country. Then a news report in Latin America said that Bartolo

00:24:40.060 Fuentes was going to pay for all of the provisions to get up to the United States, going to pay for

00:24:46.460 everything. You know, to hire one of these coyotes, to hire one of these awful human traffickers to get 0.51

00:24:51.580 people into the country, that can cost $7,000, $10,000. These people don't have that kind of

00:24:56.700 money. So you see a lot of both ambitious and desperate people joining into the caravan to try

00:25:03.740 to make it in without having to shell out 10 grand and do whatever unspeakable acts they would have to

00:25:09.340 do if they couldn't come up with that money. So now you've got 14,000 people descending on the border.

00:25:14.700 The president has to turn them away. And there's an easy way to do this. At every single debate,

00:25:21.740 from now until election day, at every single campaign event, at every meeting, at every

00:25:27.340 opportunity, Republicans should ask Democrats if they believe that all of those 14,000 people

00:25:34.380 should just enter the country, should just be allowed to come in. Should we open our doors and 1.00

00:25:38.460 let them in? Because it's a wedge issue. There's a wedge between the radical fringe that holds their

00:25:46.540 party hostage and the demographics that they require to vote for them to get elected. There

00:25:51.900 is a major wedge here. They should hit it every single time because there are a lot of people

00:25:56.780 in this caravan that we don't want to get here. There was a report that terrorists, Islamic terrorists, 0.99

00:26:02.060 are now using the caravan as an opportunity to come in and try to infiltrate the country.

00:26:08.540 Do we know who these people are? Do we have hard proof of this? Of course not. That's the problem. That's

00:26:12.940 the problem of illegal immigration. If we had proof of who these people were, they would be arrested or 0.82

00:26:17.180 worse. But we don't because lawlessness breeds chaos and it breeds a lot of bad outcomes. By the

00:26:23.980 way, the people who are in this caravan, the people who are around this caravan are already admitting

00:26:27.980 that there are criminals here. Here is one of them saying just that. Criminals is everywhere. Okay.

00:26:37.100 It's criminals in here. I mean, it is, but it's not that many. I mean, there's good people here

00:26:44.940 trying to get through Mexico and then get to the United States. But that doesn't mean that everybody's

00:26:51.660 a criminal, right? Right. Well, technically everybody is a criminal because they're trying

00:26:58.540 to violate one of the most basic laws of the country, which is you can't enter the country

00:27:03.580 illegally. You can't enter and stay there and live there illegally and access services and possibly vote.

00:27:11.260 You can't do those things. That is a crime. I mean, that is a major crime. If a person's first act,

00:27:16.380 when they get to the country, they're dreaming of the country, they want a better life. I don't even

00:27:20.460 mean to mock them. I get it. If I lived in Honduras, I'd want to come to the U.S. too. 0.99

00:27:23.980 But if their first act as Americans is to violate an essential American law, what kind of citizens

00:27:32.140 are they going to be? We don't want those kinds of people. You know, President Trump launched his

00:27:36.620 presidential campaign. He said that Latin America is sending criminals and rapists and murderers and 0.98

00:27:43.180 bad people. That guy's admitting it. I mean, that guy there who's in the caravan is admitting, 0.99

00:27:47.340 yes, some of these people are criminals. There are a lot of criminals. Absolutely.

00:27:51.340 That's the problem. That's why we have to vet people. That's why when there are countries that 0.98

00:27:57.020 can't adequately vet those who are coming to the United States, we can't let them in. You need order. 1.00

00:28:02.220 Americans' lives are on the line, and it is the purpose of the American nation. It is the basic and

00:28:07.980 primary responsibility to protect American people. So the caravan is chugging along. President Trump

00:28:16.220 should pull out all of the stops. This is only a winner for him. There is no downside. There is

00:28:23.180 no downside to this. He should use it as an opportunity to build the wall. He should take

00:28:27.580 all of that foreign A that used to go to Honduras or Guatemala or to Mexico. He should tax those 1.00

00:28:32.780 remittances hard. He should, or cut them off completely, intercept them completely, use every

00:28:37.580 single penny to build that wall. It would be a huge political winner. And clearly, it's an important

00:28:42.860 problem. People used to say, oh, walls don't work. That's obviously absurd. The pope said something to

00:28:49.820 that effect. The pope guarded by a very important wall that was built by many other popes for precisely

00:28:54.860 the reason that walls work. We know that walls work very well in countries that are surrounded by people

00:29:00.060 trying to constantly get in, like Israel. Walls do work. But people used to say, oh, illegal immigration

00:29:05.420 isn't a big problem. It isn't happening that much. It isn't affecting the economy. We know it's

00:29:09.740 happening now. We're seeing 14,000 people descend on the country, build the wall. It's both necessary

00:29:15.660 as a matter of practical domestic policy. It's also necessary, and foreign policy, I suppose. It's also

00:29:23.180 politically totally advantageous. No reason not to do it. The other Trump troll that came out on Twitter

00:29:29.900 was so good. In the same breath, he's so good at this. He treated out, quote, 0.51

00:29:35.900 Republicans will totally protect people with pre-existing conditions. Democrats will not.

00:29:40.860 Vote Republican. Love him. Love that tweet. Why did he send that out? Because the one issue that

00:29:47.580 Democrats have thought maybe they can try to run on, other than I hate Trump and Trump is Hitler,

00:29:52.060 is that health care is going to be taken away if the Republicans hold the Congress and hold the

00:29:59.580 Senate. Okay. I don't think that's going to work. I don't think that's a big campaign issue,

00:30:04.860 but he should run on that hard. Now, some people have pointed out, they've said, well,

00:30:08.380 you know, he's missing the premise. If we're talking about pre-existing conditions,

00:30:13.900 then we're not talking about insurance. Insurance is to protect against risks,

00:30:17.900 not against things that we already know that we have, so it has to be a separate program,

00:30:21.100 which is probably just part of the welfare system. And yes, you're right. You're totally right. I

00:30:26.620 totally agree with you. The tweet that President Trump sent out is not precise. It buys into a

00:30:32.220 definition of insurance that we all have to go along with, but which is not correct and not precise.

00:30:36.700 You're totally right. I don't care. I don't care. I do not care. Politics is a practical science.

00:30:45.340 Sometimes you have to use the circumstances that are at your disposal and you have to take into

00:30:50.780 consideration a lot of other factors like timing, like the rhetoric that your opponent is using,

00:30:55.580 and like the issues, the core issues that people care about. People don't want to lose their health

00:30:59.900 insurance. They don't want the government to take over their health insurance either. You've got to

00:31:03.820 focus on that. You're totally right. I hope that we can over time change the culture, change our

00:31:10.060 vocabulary so that people don't, so that people, first of all, understand what insurance is, because

00:31:15.660 this isn't just about preexisting conditions. Everybody misuses the word insurance. Insurance

00:31:20.940 is to protect against risk and dangers. Insurance is not to pay for things that we know we're going

00:31:26.460 to pay for. And yet, when you go to your annual physical, I don't go to annual physicals, but if I

00:31:30.620 did, you would use your health insurance to process that payment. It's not insurance if you go every

00:31:36.540 year. You know you're going to do it, but we misuse that anyway. So I think you're totally right,

00:31:40.940 but politics is a practical science. And speaking of politics as a practical science,

00:31:45.180 Heidi Heitkamp, Democrat in North Dakota, cannot catch a break. And the narrative is breaking so

00:31:51.260 well for conservatives right now, which is why I want to find out the story on this bomb thing.

00:31:57.420 But it's breaking so well. We'll get to all of that. But if you want to see it,

00:32:00.380 you've got to go to dailywire.com. I'm sorry. What do you want me to do? We've got to make a little

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00:32:38.540 a lot more.

00:32:50.460 So speaking of politics as a practical science, poor Heidi Heitkamp. She can't catch a break. 1.00

00:32:55.020 She's the one. She's the Democrat senator who published a list of alleged sexual assault victims,

00:33:00.220 published a full page ad in a newspaper without getting the consent of the people who suffered

00:33:04.540 sexual assault. And some people who didn't support her and people who say we weren't

00:33:08.940 sexually assaulted in the first place. It sent her campaign plunging. She had already been 9 or 10

00:33:13.740 points behind. She dropped to 12 points behind. Now I think she's 16 points behind. Falling apart,

00:33:17.980 but she won't suspend the campaign. And now James O'Keefe decided to kick her while she's down. I guess he

00:33:24.380 took the Eric Holder advice and just dealt this brutal blow to her campaign. Got her campaign staffers

00:33:30.700 on the record to admit that she's a liar. Here they are. After the election, if and when she gets 0.98

00:33:37.100 reelected, she's going to be super liberal. Maybe she wins by 20 points and she's like, okay, 1.00

00:33:43.020 maybe I can be a little more progressive. Yeah. If the country moved further than the West,

00:33:47.420 she would move forward. Yeah. Like I think if we had a Democratic Senate, 1.00

00:33:54.220 um, she would vote for more, more policies than you see more Democrats. Yeah. She's like,

00:34:00.940 the stuff that I'm being a little safe on now, she'd probably be a little more bolder about it.

00:34:05.660 If, if there's a blue wave in, uh, in November, I'm sure that her voting records will shift away from

00:34:13.580 the presidency. I don't like that you took the Obama poster down. Oh, that one was,

00:34:19.260 that's my, that's one of my favorite pictures ever. I know it's because the press was here.

00:34:27.500 You know, James just does God's work, doesn't he? Just goes in there and I don't know how he gets

00:34:32.700 them. It's because, you know, you get angry, you get mad, you get stupid. And that's what's happened 1.00

00:34:37.260 to Democrats here. So these campaign people will just admit to her. They'll say, oh yeah, when she gets

00:34:42.300 in, she's going to be super liberal. Oh yeah. She's talking, you know, right now,

00:34:46.060 I think it's Claire McCaskill, Democrat running in Missouri is running a radio ad saying, I'm not 0.94

00:34:51.340 one of those crazy Democrats. Direct quote, I'm not one of those crazy Democrats. They have to run 0.97

00:34:56.140 against their own party because they know how unpopular they are. So now they, obviously we

00:35:00.140 all know that Heidi Heitkamp would be a left winger if the Democrats had control of the Senate. 1.00

00:35:05.420 Everybody knows that. Of course she would. One, because the parties have gotten much more

00:35:09.740 ideologically uniform, uh, polarized from one another, but uniform within the parties.

00:35:16.140 And because she's a left winger. Yeah, of course she's a left winger. We all know that. There's 0.99

00:35:19.980 just something about seeing it though. There's something about seeing these staffers come out

00:35:24.860 and say, oh yeah, oh, let me, I was talking to her the other day. Oh, she's going to be big lefty. 1.00

00:35:29.340 She's going hard after Trump. If she gets elected right now, she's lying to the voters. Obviously she's 1.00

00:35:33.820 lying to the voters, but you know, once she gets elected, then, then she'll be okay.

00:35:37.180 She's probably not going to get elected as it stands right now, 16 points down,

00:35:40.620 hard to recoup that in less than two weeks. Uh, but it's just, it underscores how the narrative

00:35:45.340 is so important. Seeing, you know, I watched, uh, that, that I've watched so many awful left-wing

00:35:51.580 movies of the Barack Obama one Southside with you, the Clarence Thomas movie where he's a monster,

00:35:57.740 you know, and about Anita Hill, who's some saint, I guess. I don't know. And the movies are really

00:36:02.860 important because you see it. Now these movies lie. They, they don't tell the truth. They

00:36:08.860 misrepresent the historical record, that JFK movie by Oliver Stone, total historical lies,

00:36:15.020 but you see it and the narrative sticks with you. So if they can use the narrative and the culture

00:36:20.060 to tell lies, why can't we use the narrative and the culture to tell the truth? This is what happened

00:36:24.620 with the Gosnell movie. And it was written by Andrew Klavan. It was, it starred Dean Cain,

00:36:28.940 Nick Searcy directed it. So Rachel did a great job performing in it. And, uh, this movie comes out

00:36:34.940 and it opens pretty big release nationally, 650 theaters, I think did very well outperformed

00:36:40.700 expectations. And, but there, the theaters are starting to drop it slowly. They don't want this

00:36:46.220 movie about, and do you remember who Kermit Gosnell is? Probably you don't because it was never

00:36:50.700 covered by the media. It was, and now they're trying to drop the movie from theaters. Kermit

00:36:54.380 Gosnell is the biggest serial killer in American history. He killed countless babies, unborn babies, 0.80

00:37:00.460 then babies that were born. He would deliver babies. He would play with them and then he would

00:37:04.380 kill them. He, I mean, I don't even want to get into it. Watch the movie. It is so disgusting and 0.99

00:37:09.500 psychopathic, the things that this guy did. He finally was revealed because he, he injured women 0.99

00:37:15.180 in his office. So there was finally, after a while, there was an investigation, but a lot of people

00:37:20.220 knew about it. Politicians covered it up and the media would not show up to the

00:37:24.140 trial. Now they're trying to cover this up. So there was this, this girl, Kathy Zhu,

00:37:28.780 who's a young political commentator. She's on Twitter and all social media. She tweeted this

00:37:33.900 out yesterday. She said, yesterday I was pro-choice. I believe that women should have a say and the 1.00

00:37:39.420 government shouldn't be interfering with our lives today. I'm pro-life. Today I'm pro-life. After

00:37:45.100 watching Gosnell and doing in-depth research, I finally understand the horrors of loopholes in late-term

00:37:51.260 abortions, please go watch Gosnell. That's the point. That's the point of making the movie. The

00:37:57.020 point is not to make money. Movies don't make money. Movies almost never make money. All of

00:38:01.500 Hollywood is a scam. You probably already knew that, but it is. But the point is to change the

00:38:07.100 culture and change the narrative. And the Gosnell movie is clearly succeeding in that. And it's pretty

00:38:12.460 cool that Drew has a hand in that because he wrote the script. We have got to do more of this. We've

00:38:18.940 got to do more of this and not just on abortion. I mean, obviously that is such a basic issue that it

00:38:23.740 motivates a lot of people. It's a question of life and a culture of life, but there are a lot of other

00:38:28.380 issues too. We should be reclaiming that narrative. It's so important to see harsh truths. We use euphemisms.

00:38:35.580 Even the word abortion is a euphemism, right? Abortion used to refer to miscarriages, a spontaneous

00:38:41.740 abortion that the pregnancy would abort. That's not really what we're talking about. Abortion is going 0.99

00:38:47.020 in and ending a human life, ending a human life that's already begun. And you're going and making

00:38:51.580 a decision to end it, to kill it. This is very important for the millennial generation. This is 0.99

00:38:59.100 very important for what we call the snowflake generation, seeing harsh truths. This is why it's so 0.78

00:39:04.220 insidious to use politically correct language, is it makes you so much more fragile. Even just to use

00:39:10.300 the term undocumented, dreaming, future American, whatever the new jargon is, instead of illegal

00:39:17.020 alien. I don't say illegal alien to be mean to people. I say it so that we can deal in reality

00:39:24.140 with what the issues are that we're talking about. They're illegal aliens. They're not future 1.00

00:39:28.380 undocumented dreaming, whatever it is. When you use that soft language, those soft euphemisms,

00:39:35.420 you get very frail. You get very easily triggered when someone speaks reality. This is what happened

00:39:41.260 in the 2016 election. There's a new study out. I sometimes worry that we make a caricature out of

00:39:45.740 millennials and the snowflakes. And I don't want to make a caricature out of them. But now we have a

00:39:51.980 study to back it up out of Arizona State. They interviewed a ton of students. I think it was

00:39:57.420 700 or 800. So not a huge sample size, but significant of all various genders and races and

00:40:04.220 socioeconomic backgrounds. They found 25% of college students have been traumatized by the 2016 election.

00:40:11.500 They're suffering the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. They're really suffering. That's not

00:40:17.420 that they're just saying they are and they aren't. They actually are. It is manifesting in clinically

00:40:21.980 high levels of stress because a Republican won the White House. Because that's why a Republican,

00:40:30.060 maybe a little boorish Republican, maybe a little uncommon Republican, uncommonly successful Republican

00:40:35.180 too. But that's why a politician that they didn't like won a political office and they are breaking

00:40:42.300 down. They are having nervous breakdowns, PTSD. You've got to toughen up, kids. You've got to toughen

00:40:49.100 up. I mean, nobody benefits from this. It is not compassionate to be soft and to treat adults like

00:40:55.340 they are children. That isn't compassionate at all. It hurts them. It hurts their ability to interact in

00:41:00.620 the world. It hurts their mental health, their emotional well-being, and certainly it harms society.

00:41:05.740 This is the issue with transgenderism. This is why I think it's so awful and exploitative and cynical 1.00

00:41:11.900 for the left to try to push their political agenda on the backs of the very small number of people

00:41:17.820 who suffer from gender confusion. It's awful. It's so cynical. They really shouldn't do it because, 1.00

00:41:23.580 one, it's leading to a lot more cultural confusion and it's not helping the people who suffer from this

00:41:28.780 condition. There's a major genital reconstructive surgeon, Professor Miroslav Djordjevic. I'm not great at

00:41:38.220 my Eastern European languages. Anyway, Professor Miroslav has pointed out that there is sex change

00:41:44.540 regret on the rise. He said, quote, those wishing the reversal of the surgery have spoken about

00:41:50.540 crippling levels of depression following their transition and, in some cases, even contemplated

00:41:55.260 suicide. We know this from the numbers. We already know this from the statistics. The levels of anxiety

00:42:00.300 and depression among transgender people, people suffering from gender confusion, are almost exactly the

00:42:05.900 same after the surgery as they were before. In some people, it can change in either direction.

00:42:11.500 It isn't helping people to indulge in delusions and to mutilate their bodies for them. There's no

00:42:18.140 evidence that it helps anybody. It's not helpful to live in lies. Lies are not helpful. The truth is

00:42:24.700 helpful. The truth can be harsh. It can be painful. It can hurt, but the truth will set you free.

00:42:30.940 We've got to start speaking that way to American millennials. I know it seems sweet and nice,

00:42:38.780 and oh, they'll grow up, and oh, they'll grow out of it. They won't grow out of it. The way you've got

00:42:42.860 to deal with it is speak harsh language, and it's so awkward because just to use the transgender issue,

00:42:48.140 that's the hottest topic for the left to talk about 0.4% of the population. They love it. They love to make

00:42:53.580 an issue out of it. If you're talking to somebody and they use the wrong pronouns, so for instance,

00:43:00.300 you've got a guy who thinks he's a girl or very much wants to be a girl, and he says,

00:43:04.460 I want to be referred to as she, even though he is he. Maybe your friend on the left calls him she,

00:43:12.220 and then you call him he. It is so awkward. I've been there. I've been in these conversations.

00:43:18.460 It's so awkward, and you just want to give in because it seems nice. Oh, the person

00:43:22.700 suffers from delusions, but it's so much easier. It is easier. It is easier, but it isn't more

00:43:28.140 compassionate. It isn't compassionate to live in delusion and to confuse an entire group of people.

00:43:33.100 You've now paralyzed an entire generation who's suffering from PTSD for the most trivial of things.

00:43:39.260 I sure hope we don't have to storm the beaches of Normandy again because Johnny Millennial is going to 1.00

00:43:44.780 be quaking in the ... I mean, he'll die. He'll literally collapse on the spot. If a presidential

00:43:49.660 election is giving him PTSD, he will die on the spot. He will just collapse, so don't do that.

00:43:54.700 Don't die on the spot. I'm going to be talking to a lot of millennials and post-millennials tonight

00:43:58.860 when I'm at Grand Canyon University for this YAF speech. It's going to be a lot of fun. We've been

00:44:03.020 talking a lot about the simple joys of being right. There are so many more, so many more now.

00:44:08.620 One of the simple joys of being right is you can get your questions answered in the mailbag,

00:44:11.980 so make sure you get your questions in by Friday. No show tomorrow, but we'll do a show Friday from

00:44:17.740 New York because I want to be in New York for about five minutes, and so we'll do it from there.

00:44:22.780 It'll be good. I'll get all that dragon energy from Trump Tower. Be sure to tune in in the

00:44:26.780 meantime. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. Maybe I'll see you at 7 p.m.

00:44:30.860 Pacific tonight at Grand Canyon University. If I don't, I'll see you on Friday.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 24, 2018

Ep. 240 - Booms, Bums, and Bombs

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