The Michael Knowles Show - November 16, 2018


Ep. 253 - Even Republicans Misunderstand Crime

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Michael Avenatti Donald Trump Michelle Obama John Michael Seibler Mike Lee Jared Kushner Oprah Winfrey Ronald Reagan Tom Cotton Ben Shapiro Hillary Clinton Covfefe Daniel Patrick Moynihan Transformed Safely Winston Churchill Harvey Weinstein Maureen Callahan Julie Swetnick Andrew Clyde Austin Stevens and 31 more
Ep. 252 - The Never-Ending Power Struggle Ep. 254 - The Leftist Snake Eats Its Own Tail

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Trump announces his endorsement of the First Step Act, a criminal justice reform bill with bipartisan support. Meanwhile, porn lawyer Michael Avenatti is arrested for allegedly beating a woman. We will analyze the case for and against letting criminals like Avenatti off the hook. Then Michelle Obama keeps gaslighting, and Flake keeps flaking, and Nancy Pelosi possibly loses control of her own party.

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00:00:00.000 President Trump announced today his endorsement of the First Step Act, a criminal justice reform
00:00:05.540 bill with bipartisan support. Ironically, just as creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti,
00:00:11.140 you know the male feminist, is arrested for beating a woman. We will analyze the case for
00:00:15.920 and against letting criminals like Avenatti, allegedly, off the hook. Then Michelle Obama
00:00:21.300 keeps gaslighting, Flake keeps flaking, and Nancy Pelosi possibly loses control of her own party.
00:00:26.960 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:30.000 We've got our first bipartisan agreement in a very long time, which is how you know we should
00:00:42.520 oppose it. Whatever it is. If you've got Republicans and Democrats agreeing on something,
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00:02:17.780 Do that while you're listening to me explain the First Step Act to you. So this is a big moment.
00:02:23.360 President Trump just endorsed the First Step Act. He had Democrats and Republicans behind him.
00:02:28.660 Here is President Trump explaining it.
00:02:30.260 The President Trump's members have reached a bipartisan agreement. Did I hear the word
00:02:35.100 bipartisan? Did I hear? Did I hear that word?
00:02:45.960 That's a nice word. Bipartisan agreement on prison reform legislation known as the First Step.
00:02:53.680 And that's what it is. It's a first step, but it's a very big first step.
00:02:57.240 Today, I'm thrilled to announce my support for this bipartisan bill that will make
00:03:02.480 our community safer and give former inmates a second chance at life after they have served their
00:03:08.660 time. Okay. So I do, I do like that he opens up. He's joking about bipartisan. This actually does
00:03:13.880 help him in the sense that the left is trying to portray him as this very partisan, very extreme
00:03:19.620 figure when really he is willing to work with Democrats. I think he's actually eager to.
00:03:23.880 They're just too foolish to take him up on the offer. But what is this act? 0.98
00:03:28.420 The act is called the First Step Act. It is the Formerly Incarcerated, Re-Enter Society, 0.88
00:03:33.820 Transformed Safely, Transitioning Every Person Act because congressmen love stupid acronyms. That's 1.00
00:03:41.720 why Formerly Incarcerated, Re-Enter Society, Transformed, Say, okay, blah, blah, blah. Really what
00:03:46.160 it is is rehabilitation programs for early release for criminals. That's the whole thing. The left is
00:03:52.060 denying this. The left is denying that this is all just about early release for criminals,
00:03:56.660 but that's what it is. Vox.com said, the bill would not reform or reduce how long people are
00:04:03.020 sentenced to prison for, which has been the prime target of criminal justice reformers over the
00:04:07.360 past few years. Instead, the bill focuses on rehabilitating people once they're already in
00:04:12.820 prison by incentivizing them with the possibility of earlier release to partake in rehabilitation programs.
00:04:19.100 It's not quite a contradiction that they've just made, but it might as well be. They're
00:04:24.300 saying, oh, it doesn't reduce how long people are sentenced for. It just reduces how long they're
00:04:29.620 in prison for. Okay. That is a real distinction. It's a real distinction in so much as there's front
00:04:35.740 end prison reform and there's back end prison reform. The front end is it decides how long people are
00:04:40.540 going to get a sentence for. And then the back end is how long they actually stay there. But the effect
00:04:44.420 is the exactly the same, which is criminals getting out of prison early. That said, some
00:04:50.160 conservatives are for it. Obviously, president Trump, uh, the heritage foundation, heritage
00:04:54.900 foundation, fellow John Michael Seibler is for it. He gave a long explanation, made a conservative case
00:05:00.120 for it. So did Mike Lee. I love Mike Lee. I like a lot of these things, Donald Trump, the heritage
00:05:04.440 foundation, Mike Lee, but I'm still very skeptical. Mike Lee opens up his piece defending it today.
00:05:10.080 And he, he refers to common sense sentencing reform. Whenever I hear somebody talk about
00:05:16.480 common sense, blah, blah, blah, legislation, I run away because it never seems to be common sense.
00:05:22.580 They say common sense. I think they protest too much. It's one of those mealy mouthed words that
00:05:27.700 the right and the left both use, but it makes me skeptical. And then Mike Lee in his piece goes on.
00:05:32.940 He tells the story of a young father of two who got caught by an informant selling pot. He sold
00:05:39.100 three dime bags of pot to an informant. Uh, while he was in possession of a gun, he got a 55 year
00:05:44.300 sentence. Notice how they try to bury certain things in here. So it's, it's a young father of
00:05:48.940 two. Okay. That's fine. Um, he, he happened to be in possession of a gun, but he wasn't, he didn't
00:05:54.760 shoot the gun. He didn't grab the gun. Okay. That's fine. Because we all would agree that passing
00:05:59.480 out three dime bags of pot is not worth spending most of your life in jail. Uh, we, I think we can all
00:06:05.660 agree with that in Los Angeles, there are billboards now for marijuana delivery services. So it's legal
00:06:12.100 in many States, but it's still illegal as a federal matter. So we would all agree with that. However,
00:06:17.880 one, if you're the father of two, don't sell drugs, don't be a drug dealer. Just my first guess a two,
00:06:23.360 if you're the father of two, who's selling drugs to make his money, don't carry a gun. That sounds
00:06:30.100 pretty stupid. Don't do that either. That said still, maybe he shouldn't go to jail for 55 years. 1.00
00:06:35.260 Fine by me, reform that law, reform the mandatory minimum for selling three dime bags of pot at the 0.55
00:06:42.480 federal level. Fine by me, no issue. But that's not really what the first step act is about.
00:06:47.240 One of the issues he brings up that it's a father of two, I think, because one of the real issues with
00:06:53.400 imprisoning people is it can wreak havoc on families. Obviously if you're in prison for 50 years,
00:06:58.980 you can't raise your kids, you can't be with your wife. A lot of conservative wonks have pointed out
00:07:04.160 that each year behind bar increases the likelihood of divorce by 32%. So every single year that you're
00:07:12.100 incarcerated, your chance of divorcing your spouse goes up by 32%. Eventually you're almost certainly
00:07:17.380 going to get divorced. Okay. That's not a good statistic. We're pro-family as conservatives. We
00:07:22.160 don't want that. However, what they forget to tell you is that very few inmates are married.
00:07:26.260 So even, even in 2002, which was the closest study I could find on this, only 16% of inmates were
00:07:33.020 married. And I can only imagine that, that, that number has decreased in the last 16 years.
00:07:38.720 And a lot of evidence suggests that it is. So the better point I think that conservatives could make
00:07:43.680 if they want to support the first step act is specifically on black families, because black men 0.93
00:07:49.160 account for 6% of the country. They account for 38% of prison inmates. That's true in, at the state
00:07:55.240 level, that's true at the federal level. So obviously there's a hugely disproportionate number
00:07:59.880 of black men committing crime and then being sentenced to prison for crime. This obviously reduces the 0.74
00:08:06.600 availability of those men for marriage. And it's been suggested in some quarters that this has caused
00:08:12.200 the breakup of the black family. There are other causes of that too, but marriage has declined
00:08:17.020 immensely among black Americans from the 1960s to the present. The rates of marriage in the 1960s
00:08:23.760 for blacks was 61%. Today it's 38, or I'm sorry, today it's 32%. So it's, it's almost cut in half.
00:08:30.400 Now, what are some causes of that? Maybe prison, maybe, uh, welfare as, as, as Daniel Patrick
00:08:36.680 Moynihan suggested, maybe the, the reason I, I think it's probably much more cultural and has much more
00:08:42.000 to do with government programs, uh, like welfare dependency, which incentivizes breaking up the family
00:08:47.760 is that there's been a major marriage decline among white people too. So among whites,
00:08:52.240 marriages declined from 74% to 56% during that exact time, not as greatly as the black family has been
00:08:58.600 broken up, but still a pretty huge chunk. One of the major Republicans campaigning against the first
00:09:05.620 step act is Tom Cotton, excellent Congressman. Um, Tom Cotton, uh, has now, apparently this is all just
00:09:14.020 being reported by various sources has been lobbying various law enforcement groups to drop their support of
00:09:19.540 the measure. Apparently it was his campaigning that was responsible for the law enforcement
00:09:24.580 association, or I'm sorry, the federal law enforcement officers association from dropping
00:09:29.360 their endorsement for it. And what Tom Cotton says, he goes out pretty boldly. And I 100% agree with him
00:09:35.260 on this. The problem in America is not over incarceration. You hear this from the left. You heard
00:09:40.740 from libertarians. You hear it from conservatives. They say, Oh, the problem we, we over incarcerate.
00:09:45.280 There are too many inmates in our prisons. No, the problem in America is under incarceration.
00:09:50.840 We don't catch enough of our criminals. Law enforcement in this country identifies 19%
00:09:56.120 of the perpetrators of property crime. 81% of people who perpetrate property crime just walk free.
00:10:03.480 They're, they are never even identified. This is maybe lucky for them. It's very merciful to the
00:10:09.860 criminals, but for the people who have their property destroyed or stolen, it's not merciful at all.
00:10:14.120 They're being wronged. And that's injustice. How about violent crime? Law enforcement identifies
00:10:18.940 only 40% of violent criminals in America. So fewer than 50% of violent criminals get identified and are
00:10:28.300 even brought up for criminal justice in the first place. 53% get away. That is way, way too much.
00:10:36.080 So what are some good things about this bill? I would say the, the, the good thing about it is that
00:10:42.100 it's not terribly extensive. It, uh, it's, you know, it still keeps people in prison for a while.
00:10:48.080 Jared Kushner identifies why eat conservative supporting this is wrongheaded. Jared Kushner
00:10:55.000 said, quote, the biggest thing we want to do is really define what the purpose of a prison is,
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00:12:44.780 about criminal justice reform. Apparently he's one of the big people pushing this in the white house.
00:12:49.000 He's saying, what is the purpose? Is the purpose of prison to punish or is it to rehabilitate? And
00:12:55.360 I think Jared is very smart. I think he's a very capable guy and he is falling into a classic
00:13:00.280 misunderstanding. The purpose of criminal justice is justice. It is to punish people who have committed
00:13:07.240 crimes. If the purpose is not to punish them, then there's no reason to have them there in the
00:13:12.220 first place. If the purpose is just to rehabilitate, then how can we only do it against criminals?
00:13:17.460 There are plenty of people who need a lot of rehabilitation. I could probably use a little
00:13:21.540 rehabilitation in my life. Why is it that we only apply it to criminals? We only apply it to
00:13:26.860 criminals because the primary purpose of criminal justice is to punish criminals. It is retribution
00:13:33.460 for crimes. So I totally understand how if you lose sight of that, if you lose sight of the value of
00:13:39.220 punishing criminals, you would absolutely before all let the prisoners out, put them into lovely little
00:13:46.100 daycare facilities where they can learn to be nice and sing kumbaya. That's fine. But as Adam Smith
00:13:52.020 pointed out, mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. This certainly applies at the level of
00:13:57.020 our government and of a criminal justice system. And by the way, the more that you introduce these
00:14:02.720 kind of programs, which give preferential treatment to some people who try it out, not other people,
00:14:06.620 and at one level, but not another level, you are increasing the injustice. So to Mike Lee's point,
00:14:11.580 if some poor guy, he was selling drugs when he shouldn't have been, he had a gun, maybe he
00:14:16.740 shouldn't have had a gun on him. Maybe he shouldn't go to jail for 55 years because of that. That's
00:14:21.780 fine. If you want to reduce it to 10 years or five years or, or I don't know, three years, do whatever
00:14:27.940 you want, or you want to legalize pot. Again, that's fine. If you want to vote on it, make that a
00:14:31.660 law. But to, as a matter for federal inmates, give them this ticket out of jail, it seems crazy.
00:14:39.380 The other good thing about this is it only affects federal inmates and the majority of inmates are in
00:14:44.380 state prisons. But still, we should not let this creep into our conservative conversation
00:14:48.600 too much because it is totally missing sight of the purpose of prison. Speaking of people who might go
00:14:55.240 to prison, Michael Avenatti. I don't know if you've seen this today, kind of a sad story. It's an,
00:15:00.080 it's ironic. So there's a little schadenfreude for the creepy porn lawyer. He's been arrested 0.95
00:15:04.440 for beating a woman. Obviously feel horrible for the woman. If these allegations are true,
00:15:10.760 that's a terrible thing. The only good thing out of it is that Michael Avenatti is getting what's his
00:15:16.440 because Michael Avenatti, this guy has shamelessly portrayed himself as a women's advocate. He says he's
00:15:23.380 a women's advocate his whole life. What did I tell you? What did I tell you about male feminists?
00:15:28.360 I just gave a speech on this the other night in How to Be a Man When You Look Like a Maddow. 0.99
00:15:32.680 Male feminists are the creepiest people on the face of the earth. If a male feminist comes walking 1.00
00:15:37.640 around your daughter, run in the other direction. Pick him up, throw him into the next town. Do not 1.00
00:15:43.200 let him around your daughter. They're very creepy. How many, uh, how many feminist gallows did Harvey 1.00
00:15:47.900 Weinstein go to? I think a lot. How many, how many feminist gallows was he smiling with Meryl Streep
00:15:53.440 and Oprah Winfrey at? I think a lot. He's still a big creep. And we know Avenatti is a creep,
00:15:58.320 but now he might beat women as well. Avenatti for his part is vehemently denying the charges. Here he is. 0.78
00:16:05.020 First of all, I want to thank the hardworking men and women of the LAPD for their professionalism
00:16:12.080 and their work today. They had no option in light of the allegations. Secondly, I have never struck
00:16:22.460 a woman. I never will strike a woman. I have been an advocate for women's rights my entire career,
00:16:31.080 and I'm going to continue to be an advocate. I am not going to be intimidated from stopping
00:16:38.160 what I am doing. I am a father to two beautiful, smart daughters. I would never disrespect them
00:16:48.000 by touching a woman inappropriately or striking a woman. I am looking forward to a full investigation,
00:16:56.980 at which point I am confident that I will be fully exonerated. I also want to thank everyone
00:17:04.660 for their support that has reached out. You know my character. You know me as a man, and I appreciate
00:17:12.120 it. Thank you. My character. Oh, Michael Avenatti's character. What is, everybody knows Michael
00:17:18.940 Avenatti's character, don't they? He's a creepy porn lawyer. That's his character, who exploits women 0.99
00:17:24.100 to try to advance his own would-be political career, which has just gone up in flames. Stormy Daniels
00:17:29.320 says she might find a new lawyer. She says if the charges are true, she's going to dump him and find a
00:17:33.660 new lawyer. Not even good enough for Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti's character. We know
00:17:38.400 his character is that he dug up a bunch of fake accusers also to propel his own political career,
00:17:45.740 for which he is, by the way, being criminally investigated now. That's great. He said he also
00:17:50.680 won't be intimidated. Do you realize what he's saying by that? When he says, I won't be intimidated,
00:17:54.780 what he is implying is that this is a false charge. Now, I don't know how good your memory is.
00:18:01.260 A few weeks ago, Michael Avenatti was leading the chorus of saying, we need to believe all women.
00:18:07.040 We need to believe Julie Swetnick. We need to believe known liars because women can't lie. 1.00
00:18:12.480 Women never lie. So it was believe all women until they accused Michael Avenatti.
00:18:17.000 What a jerk. So what are the charges? TMZ, this is according to TMZ, a woman filed a felony 1.00
00:18:26.140 domestic violence report concerning Michael Avenatti. She showed up with a face, quote,
00:18:32.380 swollen and bruised with red marks on both cheeks. This incident allegedly occurred on Tuesday,
00:18:38.920 but the confrontation that everybody's talking about was on Wednesday. This was when a woman 0.99
00:18:43.520 was on a sidewalk with her cell phone with sunglasses on to cover her face because she'd
00:18:48.640 apparently been beaten. She was sobbing and screaming into the phone, quote, I can't believe you did this
00:18:54.360 to me. I'm going to get a restraining order against you. This is when all of a sudden Michael Avenatti
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00:21:07.000 exactly what happened, but according to witnesses, he storms in where the woman is and he says,
00:21:11.500 she hit me first. This is BS. This is effing BS. But just some advice. I know he went to law school.
00:21:17.880 I never went to law school, but a little bit of advice. Don't start justifying the action that you
00:21:24.980 then deny that you did. That's a bad idea. When you start explaining why you hit her and then deny
00:21:31.000 that you hit her, that doesn't look good. Just come and say, I didn't do anything. If you say,
00:21:35.120 she hit me first, it's like little kids. It's actually like little kids. Why'd you hit your
00:21:39.520 brother? He hit me first. You shouldn't have hit him. No, I didn't hit him, but you just said he
00:21:43.780 hit you, of course. Now, of course, Michael Avenatti is already being investigated. He was turned over
00:21:50.900 for criminal investigation by the Senate Judiciary Committee for all of those fake Kavanaugh
00:21:55.360 allegations he came up. Some are saying that his political career is falling apart. I mentioned that
00:22:00.960 earlier. That's the talk. It's on fire. I think this guarantees he's going to be the 2020 nominee.
00:22:07.060 Isn't it? If you're going to be the Democrat nominee for president, don't you basically have
00:22:11.840 to be under criminal investigation at this point? Don't you have to be just a dirty, rotten, 1.00
00:22:17.160 crooked criminal? This is really going to help him. Unless Hillary gets in the race again, 1.00
00:22:21.880 then it's going to be a head-to-head to see who can be the most disreputable presidential
00:22:27.080 candidate in history. Speaking of people who want to run for the presidency,
00:22:31.380 Michelle Obama is back in action. It's unclear if Michelle Obama wants to be the president or if
00:22:36.160 she wants to be Oprah. Maureen Callahan had a great piece in the New York Post today that said
00:22:41.540 she was either going to become president or a self-help guru. That's what all of this becoming 0.80
00:22:46.660 is about. I'm becoming. It's all that kind of pseudo-spiritual Oprah-y stuff. In either case,
00:22:52.960 she's making this book tour go around, and she keeps putting her foot in her mouth. Here's
00:22:57.180 Michelle Obama.
00:22:58.700 You know, and this is also sort of an interesting thing when people would say that taxpayers are
00:23:03.220 paying for that. And the truth is, yes, you don't pay rent and you don't pay for staff. But
00:23:09.520 everything, every dish, every, they would count the number of peanuts that you'd eat and charge it
00:23:16.080 back. No. So you'd get a bill at the end of it. It's not a, you know, it's not an aw. We live in a
00:23:21.720 White House, y'all. You know, I mean, this is not a complaint. It's just something that people
00:23:27.100 don't understand. Okay. So she's saying she's not complaining, right? She's not complaining about it.
00:23:33.600 But she obviously is. She is. She's, I'm just explaining this to everybody. The reason that
00:23:39.260 people don't know about this is because we've never, ever heard a first lady complain about this 0.90
00:23:42.860 before, that the president and the first lady have to pay for their own meals, that they don't just
00:23:48.780 get that for free. This is the first time we've ever heard this. I suppose she's better than Hillary
00:23:54.860 Clinton, though, because the reason that we might be able to infer that the president and the first
00:24:01.080 lady have to pay for certain things is that when the Clintons left the White House, they stole the 1.00
00:24:04.680 furniture. They literally packed up furniture on the moving truck and took it with them. They had to
00:24:09.920 give it back because that was theft. You're not allowed to take everything. But the thing that's
00:24:14.080 really, I mean, there was a silly comment from Michelle Obama, but she's selling these tickets
00:24:18.400 for thousands of dollars a seat. So she's got to give a little juice and she's got to give a, okay, 0.99
00:24:22.380 fine. That's whatever. When she came on later, she said in this conversation, quote, I'm finally
00:24:29.340 claiming my story is the quintessential American story. Yes, I'm black. Yes, I'm a woman. And yes,
00:24:35.920 I grew up working class and my parents didn't get to go to college or finish college. How dare someone
00:24:41.020 tell me? I don't love my country. The first part of what she said is true. She, I don't know why
00:24:48.440 she's finally claiming it. I wish she had claimed it earlier. It is true. Her story is a quintessential
00:24:53.820 American story. She is a black woman. She grew up working class. Her parents didn't get to finish 0.65
00:24:58.880 college and she became the first lady of the United States. She went to law school. She was a lawyer.
00:25:03.660 She became the first lady. It's hard to imagine succeeding at a higher level than that. However,
00:25:08.320 she finishes it. She says, how dare someone tell me I don't love my country? The reason why we've
00:25:14.820 suggested that Michelle Obama doesn't love her country is because she told us herself. Here's
00:25:19.780 Michelle Obama in 2008. I don't think we've seen that, but what we've learned over this year
00:25:28.000 is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback. And let me tell you something for the
00:25:37.420 first time in my adult lifetime, I'm proud of my country. And not just because the rock has done
00:25:45.400 well, but because I think people are hungry for change. First time in my adult life, I've been proud
00:25:51.820 of my country. She says it. And then she has the audacity to go out and say, how dare you suggest 0.91
00:25:57.620 that I don't love my country? We're suggesting it because you say it's this constant gaslighting.
00:26:02.780 It actually reminds me. Do you remember that time that Ben Shapiro was on Piers Morgan and he he's
00:26:09.260 there are debating gun control. And Piers tried to use this tactic to to deflect from something
00:26:13.620 he'd done. He said, how dare you? Here's the clip. What you tend to do is you tend to demonize people
00:26:18.020 who differ from you politically by standing on the graves of the children of Sandy Hook saying they
00:26:22.380 don't seem to care enough about the dead kids. If they cared more about the dead kids, they would
00:26:25.440 agree with you on policy. I think we can have a rational political conversation about balancing
00:26:29.860 rights and risks and rewards of all of these different policies. But I don't think that what
00:26:34.400 we need to do is demonize people on the other side is as being unfeeling about the about what
00:26:39.100 happened in Sandy Hook. How dare you accuse me of standing on the graves of children that die there?
00:26:43.560 How dare you? I've seen you do it repeatedly, Piers. Like I say, how dare you? I mean, you can keep
00:26:48.120 saying that, but you've done it repeatedly. How dare you? How dare you? The election of my husband is the
00:26:53.940 first time in my adult life I've ever been proud of my country. Well, Piers, you said that that's the
00:26:58.120 first time in your adult life. You've been proud of your country. How dare you? How dare you suggest
00:27:01.820 that I said what I said? How dare I saw you say it? This is one of the things that's so frustrating
00:27:07.440 about Michelle Obama. If she would have just apologized, we would have forgiven her. She
00:27:12.140 would have just said, wow, that was a terrible statement. I'm sorry. I, it isn't true. I spoke out
00:27:18.280 of, I don't know. I mean, it's actually a hard statement to explain. It's such a specific statement
00:27:23.560 that she's never been proud of her country. But if she said, you know, I have been consumed in this
00:27:27.880 ideological anger against America. And I realize now I'm one of the luckiest people in the history
00:27:32.620 of the world. And only in this country could that ever happen. And what a terrific country
00:27:36.080 this is. And I'm really, really sorry. I might've meant it when I said it, but I've realized how
00:27:40.820 stupid and awful that statement was. If she had said that, we would have forgiven her, but she hasn't. 0.99
00:27:45.380 She's just denying that she ever said it. Absolutely outrageous. We have a lot more to get to that
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00:28:51.420 We got a lot today. We have a lot to get through from Elliot. Dear professor Covfefe with one of
00:29:04.820 the most pro America and assimilation based immigration administrations we've had in ages.
00:29:09.920 Do you think there is any chance that English will be made the official language of the country
00:29:14.280 rather than just leaving it to the States? I hope so. I sure hope they do. English should and must
00:29:20.920 become the official language of the United States. I have nothing against other languages. I rather
00:29:27.120 like other languages. I speak other languages and I encourage you to learn other languages too.
00:29:32.220 However, the left has brought us to the place where we must have an official language because
00:29:37.200 we have so little that unites us anymore in the country because of the multiculturalism of the left, 0.99
00:29:43.360 because the left insists on not assimilating anybody into the American culture and denigrating
00:29:48.220 American culture. We have very little that unites us, including our language. I mean, it's a sort of 0.94
00:29:53.820 old stodgy complaint to hear somebody angered by the phrase press one for English, but it is an
00:30:00.720 outrage that I have to press one for English. We are in America. If you had a little thing that said,
00:30:05.920 you know, press one for Spanish, maybe if at the end or hidden, okay, that's fine. Not there are a lot
00:30:11.480 of people in this country who don't speak English, but they should, they should learn it. They should be
00:30:16.080 made to learn it. They should ideally learn it before they get here. But if they don't do that,
00:30:19.840 they should learn it immediately upon getting here. You know, half of my, or half of my family
00:30:23.660 rather came on the Mayflower. The other half came on a sardine boat for all intents and purposes.
00:30:28.080 They came over from Italy and they took great pains to learn English. They refused even to speak 1.00
00:30:33.120 Italian in the household because they wanted to become Americans. And people in this country who have 1.00
00:30:39.700 come from other places, Central America or South America should behave in exactly the same way.
00:30:43.880 And they shouldn't speak Spanish in the home or they shouldn't speak it very much. They should 0.97
00:30:47.520 learn English. This is true of immigrants from East Asia. This is true of immigrants from all over
00:30:53.100 the place. Learn English because if we still had a common culture that united us, we can't even agree
00:30:58.480 on the American flag anymore. We can't even, half the country is protesting the flag at this point.
00:31:03.360 But if we had a common culture, a common entertainment culture, a common religious culture,
00:31:07.540 a common broadly, broad values culture, that would be one thing, but we don't. So we at least need to
00:31:12.680 be united by that. I hope we get it through. I'm skeptical that we will. I don't. I think
00:31:16.820 that's probably a bridge too far. Maybe they'll build the wall first, but I really hope that they
00:31:21.060 do. From Mario. Hi, Michael. Wanted to ask your thoughts and insights regarding the early church
00:31:26.760 and the raging debate then of the nature of Jesus Christ. Eventually, the church decided
00:31:32.120 on the Holy Trinity. However, I also think some of the other ideas are interesting and perhaps
00:31:37.680 equally valid. Can you discuss your views? So what Mario is talking about is that in the early
00:31:43.700 days of Christianity, there were heresies that cropped up rather quickly within a century or two
00:31:48.720 centuries. And they had various perspectives on the nature of God and the nature of Jesus and the
00:31:54.360 nature of the Holy Spirit. They might be interesting ideas. They can't be equally valid. The reason they
00:32:00.660 can't be equally valid is their contradictory ideas. If one idea says that Christ is God and the other
00:32:07.060 idea says that Christ is not God, then they can't be equally valid. He either is God or he is not
00:32:12.740 God. The reason that I believe in the Trinity is because I see it throughout scripture. John 1 says,
00:32:20.280 in the beginning was the word, the logos, Christ, and the word was with God and the word was God. So we
00:32:28.020 know that Christ is God. Christ says that he is God at various points in the scripture. We know that the
00:32:34.220 Holy Spirit is God as well. St. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians, quote, the Spirit teaches everything,
00:32:39.020 even the depths of God. For what person knows a man's thoughts except the Spirit of the man which
00:32:44.600 is in him? So also, no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. So we now know that
00:32:52.900 God is God. God the Father is God. God the Son, Christ is God. And God the Spirit, the Holy Spirit,
00:32:58.620 is God. All three of these are God. Yet in the early church, there was some disagreement about
00:33:04.220 this. There were various heresies. Arianism, that's the heresy of Arius, who very famously got punched
00:33:09.880 in the face by Santa Claus at the Council of Nicaea. Arianism, that heresy, denied the divinity of 1.00
00:33:16.740 Christ. There was another very early heresy called Marcionism. Marcionism embraced the God of the New 0.75
00:33:22.960 Testament, but detested the God of the Old Testament and rejected the God of the Old Testament as
00:33:28.200 somehow different. There's Albigensianism, which came centuries later. This was a Manichean dualist
00:33:34.300 heresy that despised the material world. There are a lot of heresies, and there are many, many more
00:33:41.120 heresies than that. My main conclusion from all of this, and I advise you to take this under
00:33:46.640 consideration as well, is that the church fathers were extraordinarily smart spiritual people,
00:33:54.240 and they got it right. All of those various councils, the councils that came up with the
00:33:59.940 Nicene Creed, speaking of the Council of Nicaea, or the councils that compiled the Bible,
00:34:06.980 they really got it right. They knew what to put in and what to leave out. These are the smartest men
00:34:12.400 in history, and they weren't bumbling idiots. We, from our modernist perspective, I think look down on 0.99
00:34:18.220 them as old people who, you know, wore various robes and didn't have iPhones, so they couldn't 1.00
00:34:23.940 have been smart. These were extremely intelligent, wise people, and they got it right, and they've got
00:34:29.420 it right about the Trinity too. From Amber, hello, Mr. Knowles. I was listening to Maxine Waters talking
00:34:34.760 about most likely becoming the head of House Financial Services Committee and proud that she's the first
00:34:39.780 black woman to do so. If the left states that gender is fluid, a choice, then why all of the 1.00
00:34:46.380 celebrating of the first openly LGBTQ plus woman in Congress, the first Muslim woman in Congress,
00:34:51.940 the youngest female in Congress, etc. You make an excellent point. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense. 0.99
00:34:58.760 This is why transgenderism and identity politics more broadly has destroyed feminism, because you can 1.00
00:35:05.980 have transgenderism or you can have feminism, but you can't have both. Either gender and sex is innate, 0.72
00:35:13.740 it's essential, it defines our identity, you can metaphysically be one while not physically being
00:35:20.300 the other. It's so important that you will mutilate yourself to more closely resemble the other gender, 1.00
00:35:27.820 or everything's the same, or everything's exactly the same and gender doesn't matter at all.
00:35:33.640 Either it matters intensely, and in that case, either it's natural, it can't be changed, or it can be
00:35:38.800 changed, it doesn't matter at all. It's not natural. These ideologies eat each other up, which is why
00:35:44.160 it's pretty funny. I think if I am ever elected to Congress, I'm going to identify as the first black
00:35:51.440 gay Muslim leader of the Financial Services Committee. In fact, I might even identify that way
00:35:58.900 now, because why not? Why am I not? Who are you to tell me? Who the heck are you to tell me that I'm not
00:36:06.660 the head of the House Financial Services Committee? Check your privilege, okay? Amber? 0.98
00:36:11.800 All right. From Aaron. Michael, how can I get a liberal girl talking about her values in a 0.94
00:36:17.920 non-politically charged way? It's been my experience that when people don't know they are talking about
00:36:23.620 politics, they proclaim different values than they would if they were addressing a specific issue,
00:36:28.140 believing in individual rights, for instance. Thanks a lot. That's a very good point. People very often do not
00:36:35.520 preach what they, in fact, practice. The first thing you've got to do is charm her. This is good
00:36:41.300 advice generally when talking to women. You know, be attractive. Be charming. Don't come at it like 0.99
00:36:47.060 you're going to have a political debate or something. You want to hear from her. You want to get her
00:36:51.000 ideas. You want and kind of maybe hit her from, don't literally, don't be Michael Avenatti. Don't
00:36:56.380 literally hit her, but hit her rhetorically from different angles where she might not be as familiar.
00:37:00.940 And ask simple but pointed questions. I actually think specificity here is pretty helpful. You
00:37:07.600 could talk, don't talk about something that is, you know, so in the news. Donald Trump is tweeting
00:37:14.040 about it, for instance. But you could ask pretty pointed questions about, I don't know, you see a
00:37:19.440 cute little baby on a stroller. Say, wow, gosh, isn't that baby so cute? Oh my God, look at that cute
00:37:25.320 little baby. Oh my goodness gracious. How, oh my, he's only two months old. Wow. Oh my, just think
00:37:30.920 two and a half months ago, he was inside you. Wow. Look at that. Look at, and you could, and you
00:37:35.520 could murder it. I mean, don't end it on that, but point in the direction of the logical conclusions 0.57
00:37:41.680 and the logical extremes of arguments. And if you do it in a way that is conversational, not combative,
00:37:47.860 not debating, then it might just start turning some gears in the old noggin. And you don't even need to
00:37:53.600 harp on it. You don't need to resolve an issue there. Just plant the seeds. This is true, by the
00:37:57.720 way, not just of talking to girls, but it's true of talking to people generally. And ultimately over
00:38:01.880 time, people might come to that conclusion. It's very hard to convince somebody that he's wrong.
00:38:07.460 It's very hard to leave a discussion or a debate when someone will actually say, okay, well, at the
00:38:11.440 end of that debate, I'm wrong and you're right. Happens, sometimes happens, but not always. What it
00:38:16.400 usually happens is they'll leave. They'll say, I got to think about that. And then six months later,
00:38:20.720 they'll pass off your opinion as their own, which is fine. At least they got to the right opinion
00:38:24.980 from Matthew. Yo, Mikey, yo, Maddie, what's up? What do you think of a maximum wage and or maximum
00:38:33.220 capital and property ownership? I have a sibling who keeps proposing that billionaires shouldn't
00:38:38.740 legally be allowed to exist. Terrible idea. What do you think? I love billionaires. I love billionaires.
00:38:45.720 I've known a handful of billionaires just through my meanderings in politics. They're
00:38:50.920 wonderful. Billionaires have always been very good to me. I've never gotten a job from a poor
00:38:54.800 person. I got to tell you, billionaires have been a lot better to me professionally than
00:39:00.220 poor people have. Nothing against poor people. They've just never given me a job. Have they
00:39:03.800 ever given you a job? Have they ever given your brother a job? I don't think so. Why doesn't
00:39:07.400 he like billionaires? They employ you. They don't take money away from you. They just make more
00:39:15.040 money on their own. Productive work doesn't take money away from someone else. It increases
00:39:20.220 the total wealth of the world. So they made their money. That's fine. Why are you so angry at them?
00:39:26.840 They're giving you jobs. They donate a lot to charity. They seem to do good work. It's because
00:39:31.920 socialism is just an ideology of envy. Winston Churchill said, quote,
00:39:36.840 Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent
00:39:42.080 virtue is the equal sharing of misery. If you're looking at those billionaires and you're all angry,
00:39:46.400 maybe you should look at yourself and think, how can I become a billionaire? Maybe I'd like to be
00:39:49.800 a billionaire too, or at least a hundred millionaire. You know, at least, you know,
00:39:53.280 shoot for the stars. You'll land on the moon. What is that expression? I don't know. That never made a
00:39:56.920 lot of sense anyway, but that's what you got to look at. Look at the envy. Envy is not a very good
00:40:02.380 quality. From Samantha, Mr. Knowles, this is the question we've all been waiting for. What is your
00:40:08.760 favorite flavor of ice cream? I don't really care for ice cream. I know that's the least popular
00:40:14.500 thing I've ever said. I don't care for it. I never reach for it. It doesn't do a lot for me. I have
00:40:19.260 sensitive teeth. I've got to watch my waistline. No, thank you. The one that I can't resist is a
00:40:24.480 chocolate malted milkshake. That is actually my favorite dessert. That is the one that I will always
00:40:29.800 go for. But ice cream out of a container? No, thank you. If I have to, coffee is fine, but it doesn't do a lot
00:40:36.520 for me. From Nicholas, to the Catholic cigar smoker of the Daily Wire. I like cigars. You offer me ice
00:40:43.160 cream or a cigar. I'll go for the cigar. To the Catholic cigar smoker of the Daily Wire, as a cigar 0.97
00:40:48.380 and pipe smoker, I would like to know what you were smoking in the election special. Also, why do
00:40:52.920 conservatives smoke cigars and pipes significantly more than anyone else? For a third question, have you
00:40:58.500 considered pipe smoking? An excellent question. This was a little Easter egg in the election special.
00:41:05.280 I was smoking a cigar. I won't say the specific brand name of the cigar, but it was a cigar that
00:41:12.340 was made exclusively for Canada. And the reason I did that is because I'm still waiting for Lena
00:41:19.280 Dunham and all of the left-wingers from the last election who promised that they were going to move
00:41:23.260 to Canada to move to Canada. And they haven't done it, so I smoked a cigar made exclusively for Canada
00:41:29.180 just to celebrate. And you're the first person to ask. Maybe we'll all go to Canada and get more
00:41:34.420 because these kind of cigars can basically only be bought when you go up to Canada.
00:41:38.260 You know what I'm talking about? A little contraband from south of the border.
00:41:40.980 Okay, from Jacob. We've got time for probably one or two more.
00:41:44.560 Howdy, Michael. What advice do you have for us libertarians that are seeing that the Republicans
00:41:49.840 held control of the presidency, Senate, and House of Representatives for a full two years,
00:41:55.140 but still have not reformed welfare, balanced the budget, eliminated any governmental departments,
00:42:00.340 or repealed Obamacare. Sincerely, Jake. Great point. It's really frustrating. I've been advocating
00:42:08.940 for entitlement reform for a very long time. I think that's a very important issue. Only way to
00:42:13.400 get our debt and deficits under control. And yet it hasn't happened. I'll point out that Ronald
00:42:17.460 Reagan never shrinked the size of the government. He didn't shrink the budget. We hoped he would. It
00:42:21.500 was the real one failure of the Reagan administration. President Trump does not appear to be interested in
00:42:27.600 shrinking the size of the federal budget. Maybe shrinking the rate of growth. That would be nice.
00:42:32.440 He's cut down the budgets of cabinet departments. That's a great start. He's deregulated significantly.
00:42:37.800 He's reduced the size of various aspects of the federal government. But has this reduced overall
00:42:43.580 spending? No, absolutely not. It's probably not going to happen. I hope that we can get some kind of
00:42:47.980 entitlement reform through. Now that we've lost the House, I think you can kiss that goodbye.
00:42:52.860 This is too bad. Libertarians have a strange relationship to this administration because
00:42:59.840 Trump is speaking in some ways like a populist and a protectionist, all things that libertarians
00:43:05.560 tend to oppose. And yet he's stated that his ultimate goal is the elimination of tariffs.
00:43:10.840 It's the elimination of barriers to trade, which libertarians should like. Libertarians are going to
00:43:14.720 get a lot out of this administration, but it's not a libertarian administration. It will not be a
00:43:19.760 libertarian administration. And even administrations that seemed more favorably inclined to that way,
00:43:25.660 like Reagan's, also didn't fulfill that promise. Might just unfortunately be a pipe dream in a
00:43:31.340 modern democracy. But we can keep on hoping. One more. I don't care if I don't have time. I'm doing
00:43:35.500 one more. Michael, I am applying to medical school and trying to keep very high grades, but I cannot stand
00:43:42.600 listening to my professor pass off her opinions as facts in a general education class. She claims that
00:43:48.540 Trump abides by the same nationalism as Hitler and that patriotism is the opposite of nationalism.
00:43:55.380 How do I approach the debate without jeopardizing my grade? Thanks. Love the show.
00:44:00.600 You want my honest answer? This doesn't sound great. Keep your mouth shut. That's the answer.
00:44:07.440 I don't know. What are you, what do you want out of this? All I know from your question is that you
00:44:13.000 really want to go to medical school. If you really want to go to medical school and you think that this
00:44:17.620 woman is going to hurt your grades and prevent you in some way from going to medical school, 1.00
00:44:24.300 then just keep your mouth shut. What is to be gained by opening your mouth? You might be able
00:44:28.420 to change the minds of some of your classmates, but you could do that outside of class too. You can
00:44:33.540 just talk to them, be on the debate club, whatever, do conservative activism. Are you going to change
00:44:38.180 the professor's mind? Sounds like she's a little far gone for that, so I don't know that that's likely.
00:44:42.720 And if you want to change your mind, you could do it after you're out of her class and she can't
00:44:46.280 affect your grades. I have never hid my views, or rarely. I suppose a couple movies and plays that
00:44:56.920 I've been in, I've been very quiet. And sometimes, tactically, you have to be quiet. I've never hid
00:45:03.060 my views. When someone asks me, I've never lied about them. And I don't think you should lie about
00:45:06.960 your views either. But you don't need to go around parading them all the time if it's going to
00:45:11.800 seriously hinder your life. You've got to be innocent as a dove and wise as a serpent.
00:45:17.560 And you should maintain that. You've got to be a little bit the lion and a little bit the fox,
00:45:21.440 to use Machiavelli's phrase. You've got to be, I don't know any other animals that we can use.
00:45:26.160 I don't, you need to be a pelican and a swan. I don't think that means anything. But you've got to
00:45:29.800 have a little forbizia. You know, you've got to have a little awareness and astuteness when you go
00:45:34.620 about these things, because it's a real minefield. If you want to go out there and be
00:45:38.040 totally blunt about your views, go for it. I've frequently done that in my life.
00:45:43.060 But it will cost you. If you're willing to bear that cost, go for it. But if not,
00:45:47.140 maybe be a little astute and live to fight another day. Okay, that's our show.
00:45:50.540 If you're at the University of Michigan, come on by tonight. I can't wait to see you.
00:45:54.620 If not, I'm sure you can catch it on the internet at some point. I'm sure we'll have it up there
00:45:58.080 someday. In the meantime, have a good weekend. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael
00:46:02.040 Knowles Show. I'll see you on Monday.
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