The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 250 - Florida Woman Corrupts Democracy

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00:00:13.700 get the truth about debt. A Florida woman has botched an election and corrupted democracy. 1.00

00:00:19.360 We will examine the shenanigans in Florida and why Democrats are simply incapable of ever

00:00:24.500 conceding an election. Then the left gets honest about abortion and immigration. Michelle Obama

00:00:30.480 calls Donald Trump a racist and a misogynist. And Trump deals deftly with foreign leaders in France.

00:00:36.580 Finally, a Veterans Day glimmer of hope that the left and the right might just maybe

00:00:42.380 tone down some of the antipathy. I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:46.760 So much to get to today. So much going on all around the world. And most especially

00:00:58.320 in that epicenter of botched elections and pure political corruption, Florida. This woman, 0.99

00:01:05.480 Brenda Snipes, the Broward County election supervisor, is now performing cartoonishly corrupt acts that 1.00

00:01:13.780 are threatening the integrity of our democracy as the Democrats just keep digging and digging in those

00:01:18.940 graves to find a few more dead people and fictional people to go vote for them and hopefully push them

00:01:24.440 over the edge in that governor's race and that Senate race. We'll get to that in a second. But first,

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00:02:47.120 You might have thought, you, you foolish you, you might have thought that the elections were over

00:02:53.860 on Tuesday night. Maybe they went into Wednesday morning. You know, a week ago. Now, six days ago.

00:03:00.140 But you would be wrong. And you would be wrong for two reasons. One, because Democrats are not

00:03:06.800 capable ever of conceding any elections. Al Gore is still looking for votes to become president in

00:03:12.860 2000. Hillary Clinton, I think she's the real president. I'm pretty, I think she's technically

00:03:17.000 the president. Even though she didn't win the election, she's still going to find all those votes.

00:03:21.760 So one reason, Democrats refuse to concede elections. Second reason, Florida. Just Florida.

00:03:29.220 Florida. Specifically, Broward County and Palm Beach counties. So Broward County, you remember

00:03:36.820 them. That's, there was that awful school shooting there and a ton of corruption among those elected

00:03:41.480 officials. Total negligence. They weren't paying attention to threats. They were just dumping kids

00:03:47.160 back into the system. The sheriffs were passing the buck. I mean, just awful corruption there. This

00:03:52.360 is bled over into the elections. Broward County election supervisor, Brenda Snipes, is discovering

00:03:58.380 every day more and more votes that were cast for Democrats that just, whoops, they forgot to see

00:04:05.580 them on election night. Oopsie daisy. Well, okay, that's fine. Overturned the elections. Republican

00:04:10.920 Ron DeSantis, he didn't really win. And Rick Scott, the former governor of Florida, Republican candidate

00:04:19.060 for Senate, he didn't really win. It's actually socialist Andrew Gillum. He's about to become the

00:04:25.660 governor now. He conceded the race, by the way. Democrat socialist Andrew Gillum. He has now

00:04:30.700 unconceded because that's Florida for you. So right now, according to Politico, this woman,

00:04:38.060 Brenda Snipes, the Broward County election supervisor, is expected to be removed from office. That's good,

00:04:44.580 but it's about 15 years too late. This woman came in. She has been in this job since 2003. She has

00:04:50.860 already been found or accused and found in violation of counting unlawful votes, destroying ballots,

00:04:59.640 sunshine law violations. Those are transparency violations. Missed deadlines. Just within the last

00:05:05.800 couple of years after the 2016 election, she was caught red-handed destroying election ballots within

00:05:12.660 12 months. You're supposed to keep those ballots for 22 months to make sure that you don't do some

00:05:18.260 nefarious election meddling and then try to cover your tracks. Looks like she was covering her tracks. 1.00

00:05:23.880 Also in 2016, she left a ballot proposition off of the ballot. There was a ballot proposition

00:05:30.140 regarding medical marijuana. It was left off of the ballot, probably because people were using too

00:05:35.260 much of that Haitian oregano and they managed not even to include it on some of the ballots. Not all

00:05:40.600 the ballots. Some had it, some didn't. A total mess. Also in 2016, granted, she's been in this job 15

00:05:47.120 years. These three are just within the last two years. In 2016, Broward County posted the election

00:05:52.600 results to their website before the polls closed. I don't know. They must have been clairvoyant. They

00:06:00.280 must have been telepathic to just know that people were going to vote for Democrats. They must have just

00:06:06.120 known how things were going to go. So they posted that, obviously, a major violation to post-election

00:06:11.740 results before the polls close. In 2012, so going back four years, this woman, Brenda Snipes, discovered

00:06:20.560 a thousand new ballots, uncounted ballots, one week after the election. They just turned up, whoopsie

00:06:27.340 daisy. In 2004, there were 58,000 mail ballots, mail-in ballots that were not delivered to voters.

00:06:35.700 So voters never had the opportunity to fill it out or mail it back to the government. That's not even

00:06:40.140 just finding a thousand votes in a closet somewhere. That's 58,000 people didn't get their votes.

00:06:47.320 So amidst all of this, the races have tightened. The races for Senate and for governor. Ron DeSantis

00:06:55.520 running against Andrew Gillum, the socialist, for governor, and Republican Rick Scott running against

00:07:00.640 Democrat Bill Nelson for the Senate. And what you're seeing on CNN, NBC, MSNBC, New York Times,

00:07:08.960 wherever, is that the polls are tightening. Right. They're tightening because they're discovering a

00:07:14.800 bunch of fraudulent ballots. That's why. You've got to call it like it is. Right now, Rick Scott,

00:07:19.440 the Republican, is only up 0.25% on Nelson. So that's 12,500 votes or less. This triggers a hand recount

00:07:29.800 of the election. Ron DeSantis, the Republican, is up less than half a percentage point on Andrew Gillum.

00:07:36.980 That's less than 33,700 votes. In Florida, that triggers a machine recount right away. So now

00:07:43.120 they're tightening up. In Broward and Palm Beach County, they found there was a teacher at a polling

00:07:48.780 place, an elementary school, who went into a closet and just magically found a box of provisional

00:07:55.400 ballots waiting in there. This brings us to the definition of a word, by the way, provisional ballot.

00:08:01.240 When Democrats discover provisional ballots days after the election, the provision that those

00:08:07.560 ballots seek to rectify is that Republicans won the election. That's the provision. So just in case

00:08:13.600 Republicans win an election, there's a provision which is called inventing a bunch of fake ballots

00:08:19.220 to go in there. So Town Hall right now is reporting. Laura Loomer saw that a bunch of other provisional

00:08:26.500 ballots were found in a rental car at a Fort Lauderdale airport. They were found in the trunk

00:08:31.820 of the car. You can actually see, some people have been posting this around Twitter, that these boxes

00:08:36.620 of ballots were being transported in private cars. They were being loaded onto rental trucks. Here's

00:08:41.600 just one example of a guy who happened to see it happening.

00:08:44.500 I know it's dark, and it's hard to see. I think by 2.8, he just walked up there with the provisional

00:08:52.320 ballots, walking back into the precinct, and a bag of like, you know, the paper ballots. And I said to him, I go,

00:09:00.260 what, you just can carry those around? And they said, no, the truck left them. But the truck's right here,

00:09:06.740 so I'm not real sure what the hell's going on here. But I don't think it's right.

00:09:11.900 Yeah, I don't think it's right either. I don't think that's right. People are throwing those

00:09:17.540 ballots around like it's Monopoly money down in Broward County. And look, we've had difficult

00:09:22.400 races for years in Florida, constant incompetence. And that's what Democrats are trying to blame this

00:09:28.900 on right now. They're trying to blame it on incompetence. It's not incompetence. It's corruption.

00:09:34.620 Maybe this woman is also incompetent. She clearly is because she doesn't cover her tracks very well. 1.00

00:09:39.360 But this is also rank corruption, because these people will not concede a race. Marco Rubio has

00:09:47.060 been tweeting this out. He's been tweeting out updates from the election and the ongoing election

00:09:52.200 and how days and days and weeks and weeks go by. Democrat Andrew Gillum, who had already conceded

00:09:57.960 the race, then unconceded. And he said, every vote is going to count. It's going to count if it takes a

00:10:02.760 week or a week and a half or two weeks or whatever. And it is true. They're counting a lot of ballots.

00:10:07.580 There are reports of ballots coming out that only have one candidate filled in, just one Democrat

00:10:12.420 candidate, imagining that scores of people are showing up only voting for one person, Andrew Gillum,

00:10:18.240 and then leaving the polling place. Obviously absurd. So I think the fact that Rubio is tweeting this

00:10:23.860 out tells us something. Rubio is not a shoot-from-the-hip kind of guy, generally. He's usually pretty

00:10:29.000 thoughtful. He's sometimes a little too cautious. And he is calling this out for what it is, rank

00:10:33.900 corruption. Also right now, one of the little hidden stories in this is that the two Democrat

00:10:40.500 campaigns that we're talking about, Gillum and Nelson, are objecting to a judge rejecting

00:10:47.400 non-citizen ballots. This came out, we saw a transcript from the court, because they're fighting

00:10:52.360 this out. They're going to be fighting this out in court for a while now. And a judge rejected one

00:10:58.180 ballot because it was a non-U.S. citizen. And both Gillum's camp and Nelson's camp objected to that.

00:11:07.000 They are now openly saying, we want non-citizens' votes to be counted. And there's a great irony here,

00:11:13.340 which is that that vote in particular, the one that was ineligible because the person was not

00:11:17.760 a U.S. citizen. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking Latin American, cross the border 1.00

00:11:22.600 illegally. No, that wasn't the problem. It was a name that seems Eastern European or Russian,

00:11:29.260 Katia. And it was described that way as a phonetic spelling because it was obviously a foreign name,

00:11:34.640 which means, I think conclusively, that the Democrats are colluding with the Russians.

00:11:38.660 That's just a little side part of the story, but it certainly does seem to be the case.

00:11:42.360 Consider this. We are now six days out from this election. The Republicans won. We know that they

00:11:50.520 won. They got more votes. We knew it that night. We knew it the next morning. We know it today.

00:11:56.320 How many votes were cast in Broward County in that election? I'm not saying how many votes were cast for

00:12:02.840 one person or the other. I'm just saying how many total votes were cast? We don't have an answer for

00:12:09.500 that. Brenda Snipes can't give us an answer for that. The election supervisor. Nobody can seem to 1.00

00:12:16.580 give us an answer for how many votes were cast. Something is clearly terribly wrong if they can't

00:12:22.500 even get a number of the people who went to the polls. And the reason that we can't get that number

00:12:26.980 is because of all this corruption. But you've got to go after it. You've really got to go. This is the

00:12:32.740 same reason why we've got to go after all of the fake accusers who made up stories against Brett

00:12:37.520 Kavanaugh who perjured themselves in some cases. The reason we have to go after them is because if we

00:12:43.480 don't punish them, it sets up a precedent whereby it will encourage more people to do this. Right

00:12:50.660 now, Christine Ford has made a million dollars and got a book deal off of her testimony about which

00:12:57.400 there are many questions. Testimony that contradicted itself many times. Very suspect. Highly not

00:13:03.440 credible. She's gotten a lot out of that. And afterward, more and more people came up and

00:13:09.480 made up wholly false stories. Fortunately, in that case, accusers like Julie Swetnick are now being

00:13:15.340 criminally investigated. Michael Avenatti, who is pushing and pimping out women to make false claims,

00:13:21.320 he's being criminally investigated. We need people in Broward County who are engaging in this kind of

00:13:27.480 corruption to be wearing orange jumpsuits pretty soon. It's that serious. Because especially in a swing

00:13:32.880 state like Florida that can decide whole elections, you know, certain counties can decide governor,

00:13:38.780 can decide senate, can decide the president. You've got to make sure that you've got election integrity

00:13:43.580 and Democrats don't have a whole lot of that. This is also the moral hazard of turning election day

00:13:49.500 into election season. You hear this all the time from the left. They say, we need more time to vote.

00:13:55.180 It used to be election day. There was one day. Now we need more time early voting. We need,

00:14:00.620 everybody should get a mail-in ballot. People should have to opt out of mail-in ballots. We have

00:14:05.500 all of these mail-in ballots coming in, all of these provisional ballots being cast. We saw

00:14:10.460 undercover from Project Veritas that election workers were encouraging non-citizens to vote

00:14:15.640 around this country. That's the trouble, is when it goes on for days and days and weeks and weeks

00:14:19.940 to vote, then the counting of those ballots tends to go on for days and days and weeks and weeks

00:14:25.000 because there's just so much more room for shenanigans. And this is the downside of that.

00:14:29.820 For years, when the left has tried to make election day far wider, because the left is much better at

00:14:35.540 stealing elections than the right. You know, I'm not saying Republicans have never tried to pull a

00:14:40.100 dirty trick or nothing, but the Democrats really seem to have made an industry out of it. They really

00:14:45.220 made it out of the political machines, Tammany Hall. They've just mastered it. There's Chicago machines

00:14:51.480 that still exist. We elected a Chicago machine politician to be president in Barack Obama.

00:14:56.940 They're just really good at it. Giving them more time gives them more opportunity to steal elections. 0.94

00:15:01.900 And this is the flip side of it, is when you say, why wouldn't you want more voting? You say,

00:15:09.360 because I want every vote to count. And when you allow these sorts of shenanigans to go on,

00:15:14.640 you're canceling out people's votes. More votes is not always the best thing in the world,

00:15:20.980 especially when some of those votes are fraudulent. We already know that many of the votes down there

00:15:25.740 are fraudulent. And every fraudulent vote that's cast negates, deprives a fellow American of their

00:15:32.920 own right to vote. It takes a vote away from every single one of them. You don't hear that too much,

00:15:37.520 but that's the way it is. And I think Republicans have shied away from this issue. They should embrace it

00:15:42.940 because it's really serious and you're never going to beat Democrats at this game. You're never going

00:15:46.900 to beat them at stealing elections and machine politics. Not that you would want to in the first

00:15:51.420 place. It's wrong. It's very unethical. But also, technically speaking, you're just never going

00:15:58.140 to beat them. They've got too much practice at it. Now, if Democrats are being dishonest in Florida,

00:16:03.540 which they are, they are at least now being honest on a couple of issues like abortion and illegal

00:16:09.100 immigration. You might've seen this ad. There is now an ad for Planned Parenthood. It wasn't put

00:16:13.960 out by Planned Parenthood, but it was put out by a left-wing organization supporting Planned

00:16:17.700 Parenthood, supporting abortion rights. It is the most honest abortion ad that has ever been made. 0.69

00:16:23.200 Take a look. So you see a cute little baby wearing one of those pink hats, like from the women's 1.00

00:16:30.060 march. It says, she deserves to be loved. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh, she's so cute. Look at that little 0.99

00:16:36.020 baby. Oh, she deserves to be wanted. Yep. Yes, that would be nice. Okay. Still, there's no way that

00:16:44.560 they could turn this cute ad into the worst thing ever made, could they? She deserves to be a choice. 1.00

00:16:51.280 Oh, they did it. Okay. They did it. They turned a very cute ad of a baby into absolutely a horrifying

00:16:58.160 monstrosity. Hashtag stand with PP, Planned Parenthood, AP Action Fund. This was produced

00:17:05.160 by something called the Agenda Project. I kid you, when I saw that ad, I refused to cover it. I didn't

00:17:10.940 want to tweet about it because I was certain that it was a right-wing hoax. I was certain of it and I

00:17:16.340 didn't want to be accused of spreading fake news. I said, it's so on the nose. You know, the trouble with

00:17:21.560 us right-wingers, we're just not creative enough. We're just, I don't know, we're not subtle enough.

00:17:27.060 Oh no, it was a real ad. It's so horrifying. Now, the thing I like about this ad is that it's honest.

00:17:35.300 The Agenda Project, it's a legit organization. It's a left-wing organization. It's promoting a

00:17:40.320 progressive agenda and this is to help out their friends, Planned Parenthood. But it's so honest

00:17:46.500 about every point. First of all, it shows the baby. So often in the debates about abortion,

00:17:52.380 you'll say, well, unborn babies shouldn't be killed in the womb. And they'll say, don't call it a

00:17:56.900 baby. It's a fetus. And then you point out to them that the word fetus just means baby. It just

00:18:01.320 means offspring. It's a Latin word. And they say, well, that's just semantics. And you say, right,

00:18:06.240 semantics means meaning. Nevermind. We're digressing here. So they show the baby, first of all. You say,

00:18:12.040 thank you. Thank you for being honest there. And then they use the correct pronoun. Because when

00:18:17.580 the left talks about fetuses, they say it. It's not a life. It's not living. It's not a human.

00:18:23.560 It's not a baby. But this advertisement says, she. It says, she deserves to be loved. She deserves.

00:18:30.140 She deserves. So it's admitting this is a person. There is a pronoun here. She has a personality.

00:18:36.800 She has characteristics. Okay. And what's interesting then about the subtext, or rather the captioning,

00:18:45.020 is that it's almost entirely wrong. It actually gets everything completely backwards. And I think

00:18:52.100 this is how they get their logic backwards, too. So even the first sentence, she deserves to be

00:18:58.160 loved. No, she doesn't. Nobody deserves to be loved. This is actually sort of the basis of all of our

00:19:06.420 thought about ourselves, about humanity, about God, theology, philosophy, is that mankind is imperfect.

00:19:14.760 We are not perfect. We're broken. We're flawed. There is original sin. We have fallen out of the

00:19:19.780 garden. We're never going to be perfect. We're always going to sin. That is the trouble. The

00:19:25.560 trouble is that we actually don't deserve to be loved. We want to be loved, and we can love other

00:19:30.620 people. And it's a beautiful thing when we are loved, but we don't deserve to be loved. The second

00:19:34.660 line in there, they say, she deserves to be wanted. This isn't true at all. It is not the just desert of

00:19:43.660 people to be wanted. Human beings do not deserve to be wanted. All of human history shows this to be

00:19:51.980 right. Even today, even today in the United States, 37% of U.S. births are unintended.

00:20:00.720 For all of human history, virtually everybody alive has been alive because someone had a little too

00:20:08.100 much fun one night, and mom and dad went out to the barn or whatever. But it's not that it was planned.

00:20:13.360 The whole idea of planned parenthood is a very new notion. People come out, and then they bring

00:20:19.160 great joy to the world, and they bring abundance, and they bring their creative energies, and they

00:20:23.420 bring their contribution. And we're all so grateful for the gift of life. That's why you see pro-life

00:20:28.920 billboards that say, smile, your mother chose life. But it's not that you were wanted. Even today in

00:20:33.780 America, with rampant abortion, ubiquitous prophylactics, ubiquitous birth control methods, 0.53

00:20:43.140 37% of U.S. births are unintended. And just look at those numbers. 4 million babies are born in the

00:20:49.980 United States every year. 1 million babies are aborted. 20% of babies conceived each year in the

00:20:56.160 United States are aborted. Actually, a little more than that, and a little under 4 million are born.

00:21:03.780 Imagine that number before widespread legal abortion. Imagine that number before the invention of the

00:21:09.640 condom. Imagine what those numbers were. And so the final line they say here is, she deserves to 0.99

00:21:17.100 be a choice. And obviously that's horrifying, because you look at this cute little baby who's

00:21:20.480 smiling at you, and you say, no, no, no, I don't want, don't, only choose one thing. You can't choose

00:21:25.400 anything to do with that cute little baby. But it tells you so much about the philosophy and ideology

00:21:31.120 of the left that the highest good, their final line, the one, two, three, the last punch, is

00:21:37.400 choice. That is the high. Better than love, better than being wanted or appreciated, it's choice.

00:21:45.840 And this is an absurd idol. Sometimes you get this a little bit on the right too. People make a total

00:21:51.060 idol out of choice. Choice for choice's sake. This was the argument for slavery. The argument for

00:21:56.620 slavery was states' rights. Now, broadly, I like states' rights. I like our federalist experiment.

00:22:03.900 I enjoy the separation of powers between the federal government, the state government, and the

00:22:08.620 local governments. But states don't have the right to do anything. And when you're talking about

00:22:14.340 slavery, the reason why states' rights is such a ridiculous euphemism is because of the obvious

00:22:19.660 question. States' rights to do what? To do what? Our system of government allows certain rights.

00:22:30.260 The philosophical underpinnings of our civilization permits certain rights, but it prevents other

00:22:34.620 rights. And obviously, this is the case for abortion. They say on the left that if you oppose

00:22:40.420 abortion, you're anti-choice. I'm anti-certain choices. I'm for other choices. The choice to do

00:22:48.020 what? There are certain choices that I think are bad but should be legal. There are certain choices

00:22:54.980 that are bad but constitutional. There are certain choices that are awful and should not be legal,

00:23:01.720 should not be permitted, and the force of the state should prevent those choices, one of which is

00:23:06.960 abortion. Because abortion stops a beating heart. Because abortion stops that little baby. 1.00

00:23:14.960 She does not deserve to be a choice. Actually, I think the only thing we can say about this commercial

00:23:22.760 definitively is she does not deserve to be a choice. She's a human. She's an individual human life.

00:23:29.860 She should not be killed without due process before she has the chance to smile and be in that

00:23:35.300 commercial. Truly wicked stuff. But at least you've got to give them credit for being honest.

00:23:40.240 They're also being honest on immigration. So this is another issue that, you know, you remember before

00:23:44.720 the midterm elections, there was all of this talk about the caravan moving up from Honduras to

00:23:51.080 Guatemala to Mexico. It was going to come into the United States. And it showed Democrats' hands

00:23:56.340 because Republicans were making a big deal out of this. Donald Trump made it a major final pitch for

00:24:02.480 the midterm elections. Stop illegal immigration. And Democrats couldn't answer. If they were smart, 0.64

00:24:09.040 they would have said, we don't want lawless caravans rolling into the United States. But instead,

00:24:13.740 they did two things. They denied that the caravan even existed in the first place. And then when you

00:24:18.500 showed them video of it, they said, oh, it's fine. It's not a big deal. Stop. Oh, come on now.

00:24:24.300 Here's CNN's Chris Saliza. Here's his reporting mocking people who oppose illegal immigration.

00:24:30.440 It's also far less scary than Trump is working hard to make it out to be.

00:24:36.940 So why is he doing it then? Well, for political game, duh. Trump has weaponized fear of rampant

00:24:44.100 illegal immigration among his supporters since he became a candidate for president back in 2015.

00:24:49.320 And now, with the midterm elections just days away, Trump is amping up his rhetoric even more.

00:24:55.600 Not only painting a picture of a ravaging horde charging toward our borders, but suggesting that

00:25:01.120 there may be some terrorist elements who are using the caravan to secure entry into the U.S.

00:25:07.500 How does a person with that voice become the chief political guy for CNN? Oh, my gosh. I don't even

00:25:17.000 know how to do that. You know, my voice is a couple octaves lower, so I don't even know if I could even,

00:25:22.680 but just that, wow, wow. Oh, my gosh. That's just CNN. CNN in a larynx. But what he's saying is also

00:25:29.040 awful, too. It's not just how he's saying it. Part of how he's saying it is that he's mocking people

00:25:34.080 who have these concerns. And it's that constant condescension that you get from Vox.com. You get

00:25:40.840 it from CNN where they say, come on. It's not really a big deal. No, it is a big deal. It's a

00:25:45.880 big deal when people break our laws and invade our country and access the social safety net. Here are 1.00

00:25:50.960 the facts. There was an illegal alien who just murdered three people in the United States. He 0.92

00:25:56.640 murdered three people after a sanctuary release. He was in jail. ICE wanted to pick him up.

00:26:03.780 And the jail that he was being held in, Middlesex County Jail in New Jersey, ignored ICE's requests.

00:26:11.140 They would not turn this guy over to ICE when he was released from jail because they supported

00:26:17.320 giving him sanctuary. This is what sanctuary cities do. They end up with people who commit violent crimes

00:26:25.760 when they should have been deported. It's a 23-year-old Mexican national. He killed two men. 0.98

00:26:29.580 He wounded two others. He killed a woman the next day. And Middlesex County Jail doesn't care. They

00:26:36.280 ignored the detainer placed by ICE. They wanted this guy to roam free. Immigration, illegal immigration

00:26:43.040 in particular, has become an increasingly difficult problem to deal with. There is a surge going on

00:26:51.000 right now. What the left likes to point out, like Chris Hill, is they say, oh, the caravan,

00:26:55.720 man, it's not a big deal. Look, it was 15,000 people. Now it's only 1,000 or 2,000. That's not

00:27:02.140 a big deal. And in a sense, they're right. It's not a big deal because thousands of people cross our

00:27:08.140 borders every single day. Right now, we are seeing a surge in illegal immigration. This past month was

00:27:15.300 40% higher than any other month on record. We've seen a 400% spike since last year. Why has it

00:27:23.640 spiked? It decreased dramatically when President Trump was elected because people thought that he

00:27:29.340 would be very harsh to illegal aliens who came in. What they then learned is that our system,

00:27:34.940 our legal system for immigration, is so broken that not even Donald Trump could fix it. And so you saw

00:27:40.380 those numbers flow over again. You're also seeing that because of all of the economic opportunity

00:27:44.420 caused by the booming economy. Right now, in certain areas along the border, there has been a 4,000%

00:27:52.760 increase in arrests. And just the past month, Border Patrol caught 51,000 people. 51,000 people. So

00:28:00.780 you're thinking it's already 1,500 people per day. But then another 10,000 people showed up. They

00:28:07.980 didn't cross the border and try to run and evade law enforcement. They showed up at the border and

00:28:13.340 demanded to be allowed in. And what do we do? Because we have an absurd immigration policy.

00:28:18.020 We let them right in. So now you're up to 2,000 people per day for the last month. What is the cost

00:28:24.460 of that? Because Chris Saliz is there. He's sitting in his lovely cocktail bar in Manhattan. He's swirling

00:28:30.120 his Negroni. And he says, oh, it's not a big deal that they come over here. It's very expensive.

00:28:34.960 It's very expensive. It's not only a violation. It's not only so anti-American that the first act

00:28:42.720 that these people commit once they're in the country is to violate our laws. But it's also

00:28:47.440 expensive and it strains our social safety programs. It costs $10,000 to deport illegal aliens. 0.65

00:28:53.580 That's just to deport them. Do you know how much it costs to keep them here? $70,000. It's seven times

00:28:59.400 higher. You'll often hear people say, oh, immigration is a net benefit. Oh, these people are working hard.

00:29:04.720 Oh, sure. That might be true. They might be great people who work hard and go to church on Sunday,

00:29:09.720 but they cost the government a lot of money just to deport somebody, $10,000. But to keep them here,

00:29:17.100 if you don't deport them, if they're just accessing social services, $70,000 per person,

00:29:22.120 these levels now are a new high. They've broken the record of 2011 during the feckless Obama foreign 0.94

00:29:30.080 policy. And that is why nationalism is so popular now. There's a little tiff between the bromance of

00:29:36.380 Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron over the weekend. There's a little lover's spat

00:29:42.460 over the question of nationalism. We'll get to that in just a second. We'll also get to Michelle Obama

00:29:47.760 reminding us all why she's so awful. And a glimmer of hope on Veterans Day. An actual nice moment between

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00:31:15.180 We'll be right back with a lot more. A little lover's spat on the question of nationalism.

00:31:30.740 You remember a few weeks ago at the height of the midterm elections, President Trump came out. He

00:31:34.840 said thoroughly, I am a nationalist. Here he is. You know, they have a word. It sort of became

00:31:42.300 old-fashioned. It's called a nationalist. And I say, really? We're not supposed to use that word.

00:31:48.480 You know what I am? I'm a nationalist, okay? I'm a nationalist.

00:31:56.900 Yeah, Trump. Great point. And he explains in that very speech, he says they're globalists and

00:32:02.340 they're nationalists. There are people who think we should preserve our freedom in the nation-state.

00:32:06.000 There are people who think we should give away our national freedom to supernatural, 0.95

00:32:10.020 super national and transnational bodies like the United Nations or the European Union

00:32:16.100 that have no particular loyalty to us or our country or our people. But we're going to give it

00:32:21.980 away for some progressive fantasy of some global empire or something like that. He describes those

00:32:28.300 differences. Emmanuel Macron, for Donald Trump's former buddy and the head of France, during an

00:32:34.960 armistice day, observance over the weekend, came out swinging in a jab that was clearly intended

00:32:41.160 for President Trump.

00:32:45.280 Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism.

00:32:51.080 In saying, our interests first, whatever happens to the others, you raise the most precious thing a

00:32:55.900 nation can have, that which makes it live, that which causes it to be great, and that which is

00:33:00.820 most important, its moral values.

00:33:05.660 Okay. Sure, I guess. What he's trying to do is draw a distinction between nationalism and patriotism.

00:33:15.180 He's not the first guy to do it. It's not only the left that does this. The right does this sometimes

00:33:19.640 too. William F. Buckley Jr. was very fond of saying that he was thoroughly a patriot, but he hadn't a

00:33:27.560 drop of nationalism in him. And Rich Lowry, the current editor of National Review, has never been

00:33:33.340 able to figure out quite what he meant by that. George Orwell wrote an essay describing the difference

00:33:37.820 between patriotism and nationalism. And it's a lot of people drawing up a lot of false distinctions.

00:33:43.660 There is no difference. It's love of country. Patriotism is love of country. And I suppose,

00:33:50.440 if there is any distinction at all, it is that nationalism is the formalized global structure

00:33:59.140 of patriotism. It's love of country defined within the borders of the nation state.

00:34:06.240 But they're the same thing. I've looked up many definitions of patriotism and nationalism.

00:34:10.560 I've never really been able to see the great difference. I think it's a distinction without

00:34:16.220 a difference. And so it's love of country. Okay. It's love of the nation state, which has been our

00:34:22.100 system of global order more or less for 400 years. What does that mean? Why do we support nations?

00:34:27.980 It's because when you have political bodies and when you have the world identified and organized

00:34:36.640 into political bodies that are too small, then things get a little chaotic. They get a little

00:34:40.740 anarchic. When you have the world organized into political bodies that are too large, one empire or

00:34:45.800 two empires, things become oppressive. You have unaccountable people governing you and quashing

00:34:52.740 the rights and the liberties of nations. When you have nation states, that seems to be the sweet spot.

00:34:59.640 And that's what President Trump is talking about. And Macron is saying that when you are a nationalist,

00:35:06.140 you turn your back on the values that make our countries great. What values? What values is he talking

00:35:12.860 about? You notice he never mentions the values. What is immoral? What violates our values about the nation?

00:35:21.380 You know, there was a time not so long ago that nationalism was our values. When we said because

00:35:26.780 of the values that undergird our civilization, we are going to break up our Western empires and give

00:35:33.940 national sovereignty to former colonial powers. Indian nationalism was our values. Remember when

00:35:41.780 that was, they say, these overseas empires, that's not our values. We need to give them the liberty to

00:35:47.280 govern themselves. Now we've flipped it on its head because Western powers, as usual, are trying to

00:35:52.740 colonize different places all over the world. All over, not just their continent, but even beyond

00:35:57.780 their continents. What does that mean, our values? Now, if that meant that we agreed that the West was

00:36:05.960 a Christian place, that we had various nations here, but we all had Christian values, as was the case in

00:36:15.900 the West for at least a thousand years, then maybe it would be okay. If we had that cultural and 0.87

00:36:23.980 religious unity, then perhaps it would be okay to be a unified body. But we're not. What he's talking

00:36:31.140 about, our values, is he's alluding to secularism, liberal secularism, the project of the Enlightenment

00:36:38.400 that tries to recreate the philosophical and ethical systems of the West without the God that made all

00:36:46.260 of those systems. And it's just weak sauce. It's why when he talks about these things, when you hear

00:36:51.280 someone try to draw these distinctions, it's never that convincing because they're just saying words

00:36:56.340 that don't convey a lot of meaning. So how did President Trump respond? Remember, this is the 100th

00:37:01.160 anniversary of Armistice Day, of the end of World War I, on the 11th of November at 11 in the morning.

00:37:08.640 And 11, 11, 11. And so President Trump could have gotten up there and rebuked him or disagreed with

00:37:16.080 him or punched back, but he didn't do it. And I think this was very smart. This underlines my contention

00:37:22.720 that Donald Trump is not a reactive guy. He doesn't take things personally. He doesn't get petty. He isn't

00:37:29.400 brought about by his passions and easily excitable. I don't think he's that at all. I think he's

00:37:37.340 quite meticulous and strategic about what he's doing. And that's what he was doing here. He ignored

00:37:42.300 Macron. They actually asked him what he thought about Macron's comments. He said, oh, they were

00:37:47.400 nice. Yeah, they were heartwarming. Lovely. Great. Okay, whatever. Moving on. Because it wouldn't have

00:37:51.760 been the place to do it. And had he refuted him there, they would say that he was exploiting the

00:37:59.440 remembrance of our fallen heroes of the First World War and exploiting Veterans Day and not 0.57

00:38:05.120 living up to the ideals of the presidency. Okay, so he's going to wait and fight that one another

00:38:09.780 day. Who cares what Macron thinks? He's the president of France. He would be the Vichy governor

00:38:15.180 if it wasn't for us. So I don't really care. An irony, too, that France, a nation that's

00:38:22.180 regularly tried to conquer much of the world or given into powers that were conquering the world,

00:38:26.860 is now lecturing us about how awful independent nations that protect the liberties of their

00:38:31.460 constituents. How awful that is. Okay, give me a break. Speaking of President Trump ignoring some

00:38:37.300 hate directed at him, Michelle Obama is back. She is reminding us how awful she is. She's got a new

00:38:43.820 book coming out called Becoming. Is that not the most pretentious, left-wing deconstruction? Just this

00:38:55.380 becoming. Oh, I'm becoming. I'm Michelle Obama. I haven't done anything, but I am becoming. I'm me.

00:39:03.580 I'm be. I'm just being. And that's so good. Isn't that so wonderful? So she's out pushing this book,

00:39:09.320 Becoming. And on the cover, you know, it says Becoming Michelle Obama, because the Obamas are

00:39:14.600 perhaps the most narcissistic couple to occupy the Oval Office in modern history. And she's giving 0.96

00:39:21.020 these, she's giving these book tours now, doing all of the media tours. And she describes, she goes

00:39:27.880 right for Trump's throat. She describes how she was willing to rebuke him before the entire world

00:39:33.340 at his inauguration. I made my own optic adjustment. I stopped even trying to smile.

00:39:41.200 People want to hear more from you about what's currently going on. And there is a fine line

00:39:46.940 that you and your husband, as previous administrations have done, is that you have to

00:39:53.120 step back and let the current one do what it's doing. But I think it's safe to say that during your

00:40:00.380 husband's presidency, it was no drama Obama, no drama Obama. So what goes through your mind when

00:40:07.500 you read and hear all that's going on right now with this administration?

00:40:11.100 I said what I continue to say. Being the commander in chief is a hard job. And you need to have

00:40:17.320 discipline and you need to read and you need to be knowledgeable. You need to know history.

00:40:21.240 You need to be careful with your words.

00:40:23.040 Is that right, Michelle? You need to be careful with your words. Like, for instance,

00:40:29.220 for instance, if Syria threatens to use chemical weapons against its own people,

00:40:36.080 and then, for instance, you draw a red line and you put the credibility of the United States and

00:40:40.680 the United States military on that line and say, if you do this again, we're going to go in and stop

00:40:45.100 you. And then Syria goes in and gases its own people again and you do nothing. Would that be 0.98

00:40:50.760 an instance where your words matter and you need to choose your words carefully and you need to know

00:40:55.980 history and you need to know the implications of the policies that you're pursuing? Is that right?

00:41:00.600 Is that, speaking of using your words carefully, would it be like, for instance, if you were a

00:41:06.140 first lady of the United States, your husband had just been elected the first black president, 1.00

00:41:10.140 and you said that the election of your husband was the first time that you were ever proud of your

00:41:17.920 country? Would that maybe be not the best choice of words? Should you maybe have chosen your words

00:41:24.400 more carefully here? It's absurd. And of course, the woman interviewing Michelle Obama, I love the

00:41:29.480 premise that she says, you know, I think it's safe to say that your husband's presidency was no drama

00:41:36.420 Obama. Is that safe to say? Is that safe? No drama like when you ignore the warning signs and the

00:41:44.080 police for help from our consulate in Benghazi and then al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists attack that

00:41:50.620 on the anniversary of September 11th. And then you lie about it and cover it up and say it was

00:41:55.220 caused spontaneously by a YouTube video. Or when you're running guns down across our southern border

00:42:01.560 and then those guns are used to kill Americans. Would that be maybe, or when you criminalize,

00:42:06.040 or when you politicize rather your internal revenue service to go after your political opponents and

00:42:12.160 shut down right-wing groups? Or when you politicize your justice department to also go after your

00:42:17.720 political enemies? And would that be drama? Is that any drama, would you say? I don't know. Is that

00:42:24.200 maybe when you try to take every little event that you can and exploit it to divide Americans along

00:42:32.580 racial and sexual lines? Like for instance, when the Supreme Court makes a decision to randomly

00:42:39.480 redefine marriage just because, because Anthony Kennedy decided to become a romantic poet one

00:42:44.600 night. And you take this seriously divisive issue and then you paint the White House in rainbow colors

00:42:50.020 in light. Is that, would that be an instance of that? Or when a Harvard professor is trying to break

00:42:56.320 into his own home and there's a conflict with the local police department and you turn that into a

00:43:00.960 national news story and say that the police department acted stupidly. Would that, and you'd make it an

00:43:07.740 entirely racial question. Would that be, I don't, I could go on all day. I could go on all day, Michelle. 0.50

00:43:13.420 But then of course, I would miss the central point, which is that Michelle Obama has the explanation

00:43:20.440 for every one of their own heirs for the whole reason that the U.S. ultimately rejected the Obamas,

00:43:26.880 rejected the Obama legacy, and rejected all of the, all of the policies that Barack Obama tried to

00:43:32.840 institute. Here's, can you guess, can you guess the reason? Here it is.

00:43:36.760 Her book, she writes,

00:43:37.800 Okay, it's racism. It's all, that's it. So they just don't like them because they're black, right? That's the only,

00:44:01.300 it couldn't be all of the other, all of the other issues like the terrible economy and the

00:44:07.220 trotting over all of our liberties and undermining the constitution left and right and politicizing

00:44:13.100 the federal. It couldn't be any of that. So she blames racism for everything. She takes no responsibility. 0.98

00:44:17.520 This is classic Democrat handbook. And then she calls Donald Trump a racist in the book. And then

00:44:24.120 she says this, quote,

00:44:24.940 What if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and drove to Washington? What if that person went

00:44:31.140 looking for our girls? Donald Trump with his loud and reckless innuendos was putting my family's

00:44:35.700 safety at risk. And for this, I'd never forgive him. You're doing the same thing. You're calling him,

00:44:42.740 she calls him verbatim a misogynist in the book. She constantly implies that he's a racist. And then

00:44:49.720 she criticizes him for impugning Barack Obama's character and inciting the crazies. You're doing

00:44:57.080 the same thing, Michelle. But of course, she's not nearly introspective enough to see that.

00:45:01.700 Navel gazing, perhaps, but not introspective enough at all. So it's an empty title. It's an

00:45:07.000 empty memoir. I think my book has far more content than her book does. But I want to leave us on a high

00:45:13.100 note because it's Veterans Day. And there actually is a good sign of the country coming together and

00:45:18.160 getting along. And shockingly, we see this on Saturday Night Live because that guy, Pete Davidson,

00:45:24.060 Ariana Grande's ex, who insulted Dan Crenshaw, the Republican congressman who lost an eye from an 0.79

00:45:31.420 IED while serving in Afghanistan, he has come out and apologized. And they had a great bit about it.

00:45:36.260 Here's Davidson. I mean this from the bottom of my heart. It was a poor choice of words. The man is a

00:45:43.260 war hero and he deserves all the respect in the world. And if any good came of this,

00:45:47.760 maybe it was that for one day, the left and the right finally came together to agree on something.

00:45:52.480 That I'm a dick.

00:45:56.300 You think?

00:46:00.460 So we good?

00:46:01.720 We're good. Apology accepted.

00:46:03.320 So he plays the Ariana Grande song. He then goes on and roasts Davidson a little bit. But what a

00:46:16.380 gentleman. All grace, all class goes on, accepts the apology. And it's nice to see this. You never

00:46:22.660 see Democrats doing this. Very rarely do you see Democrats doing this and forgiving and being

00:46:26.880 graceful toward Republicans. You do sometimes see it with Republicans to Democrats. And that is nice

00:46:31.460 when we see it. And then Crenshaw makes a serious point. And it's one I hope we can all listen to.

00:46:36.820 But seriously, there's a lot of lessons to learn here. Not just that the left and right can still

00:46:42.400 agree on some things, but also this, Americans can forgive one another.

00:46:48.960 Who wants to live in a society without grace or in a society where we view our countrymen as our

00:46:54.640 enemies rather than just our political opponents? A great line. And even over the weekend,

00:46:59.180 there are those awful fires in California. And James Woods, very conservative right-wing

00:47:04.600 actor and now Twitter celebrity, he was helping out Alyssa Milano, a left-wing lunatic who is

00:47:12.180 helping to run the Women's March. And she was there giving a side eye to Brett Kavanaugh during those 0.91

00:47:17.280 hearings. Crazy left-wing lunatic. And James Woods was helping her out, retweeting pleas to get her

00:47:22.120 horses out of town before the fire killed them. And so that was pretty nice. Alyssa Milano and

00:47:28.700 Deborah Messing, speaking of the Women's March, are now going out. They're calling out the

00:47:32.700 anti-Semitism that we see in the Women's March. That is a pretty good thing. I think in part, 1.00

00:47:37.320 this is because Democrats have taken the House. And so it's calmed the Democrats down a little bit.

00:47:41.940 They don't think that they're going to be out of power forever. They see that elections kind of

00:47:45.800 ebb and flow. You're seeing a lot more grace on the part of Republicans here than on the part of

00:47:50.400 Democrats. But that's okay. I understand Republicans are going to act more graceful and more mature in

00:47:57.480 these situations. If the Democrats can come a little way too, that would go a long way toward

00:48:01.940 helping us because ultimately we're all Americans. We're defended by the same people. We have the

00:48:06.480 same enemies who want to kill us. And we've got the same brave men and women who are out there

00:48:10.780 defending us. So happy Veterans Day to all the veterans who are watching. And an unexpectedly nice

00:48:18.900 political note to end on before inevitably the Democrats try to steal some more elections in

00:48:23.560 Florida tomorrow. But in the meantime, we can have a good day. Happy Veterans Day. I'm Michael

00:48:26.960 Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you tomorrow.

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