The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 254 - The Leftist Snake Eats Its Own Tail

00:00:00.000 The election recounts have finally halted and Democrats have reluctantly reconceded but swear to fight another day.

00:00:06.960 Meanwhile, in Europe, bureaucrats trample the will of the people and try to kill Brexit.

00:00:12.000 We will analyze undemocratic liberalism and illiberal democracy.

00:00:16.240 Then, young people stop having sex, a homeless bum scams America, and Google has an anti-labor labor movement on its hands. 0.69

00:00:23.320 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Huzzah, the impossible has happened.

00:00:34.940 Democrats have conceded an election in Florida.

00:00:37.820 We didn't think it was possible.

00:00:39.720 It hasn't happened for 15 or 20 or 50,000 years, but Democrats have done it.

00:00:44.680 Andrew Gillum, the Democrat running for governor, has finally reconceded.

00:00:48.860 And Bill Nelson, the senator Democrat from Florida, has conceded to Rick Scott.

00:00:53.460 We will analyze what it means and why and how the left, not just in the U.S., but broadly, is trying to undermine both liberalism and democracy.

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00:02:37.360 The Impossible.

00:02:38.060 What a great day.

00:02:39.300 What a wonderful celebration.

00:02:40.320 Democrats have conceded races.

00:02:43.060 Ron DeSantis, the Republican, has officially beaten Andrew Gillum.

00:02:47.100 He is now the governor of Florida or governor-elect of Florida.

00:02:51.360 He won this race by 34,000 votes.

00:02:54.080 That's out of 8 million votes cast.

00:02:56.640 So he won it by 0.41%.

00:02:59.940 Andrew Gillum was holding out.

00:03:02.160 He was hoping that all of those fraudulent Democrat votes that were pouring in were going to bring that number down to 0.25%,

00:03:07.760 at which point that would have triggered under Florida law an manual hand recount, an automatic, rather, hand recount.

00:03:15.260 So he was really hoping for that.

00:03:17.220 There was rampant corruption going on in this case.

00:03:20.400 There were provisional ballots being discovered days after the election.

00:03:24.940 Democrat activists were backing up truckloads full of ballots into election headquarters.

00:03:29.540 It was a total farce.

00:03:31.780 Brenda Snipes, who is the election supervisor of Broward County, it looks like she's going to be forced to resign now. 0.98

00:03:37.720 And this is true also in the Senate race.

00:03:40.900 So Andrew Gillum, in the governor's race, he finally conceded.

00:03:45.360 He tweeted out,

00:03:45.820 Okay, so he congratulates him.

00:04:05.460 That's good.

00:04:05.860 I had a little trepidation here when I read this because Andrew Gillum has conceded this race before.

00:04:12.600 And then he unconceded it because he realized that he could try to steal the election.

00:04:16.220 But unfortunately, it didn't work out for them.

00:04:18.080 So he goes on.

00:04:20.460 He says,

00:04:21.080 We are going to keep fighting.

00:04:22.440 We will keep working.

00:04:23.380 And in the end, I believe that we will win.

00:04:26.100 I'm so thankful to each and every one of you.

00:04:28.640 So what does that mean?

00:04:29.560 It sounds like the sort of thing when you lose a race, you say,

00:04:31.840 We're going to keep fighting.

00:04:32.960 He's saying,

00:04:33.360 I believe that we will win.

00:04:35.260 Now, that's what he said after the election because he kept inventing all of these new votes that were coming in and in and in.

00:04:41.860 But this is the typical Democrat move.

00:04:45.320 It is the perpetual campaign.

00:04:47.720 The campaign is never over.

00:04:49.620 Loss doesn't matter.

00:04:51.020 Loss is only a temporary setback because the wheels of history are moving.

00:04:55.200 They are progressing inevitably toward the future, toward utopia.

00:04:59.440 And Bill Buckley, when he started the National Review, the conservative flagship newspaper at that time,

00:05:04.460 magazine, rather, said that a conservative is one who stands athwart history yelling stop.

00:05:10.420 So the left, the Democrat Party, they're saying that we're going to keep fighting.

00:05:15.740 We're going to win.

00:05:16.500 This is barely even a loss.

00:05:17.940 We're going to win.

00:05:18.440 We're going to barrel through.

00:05:19.240 We're going to win.

00:05:19.960 And the conservative says, stop.

00:05:22.580 This is not just true in America.

00:05:24.200 It's true in Britain as well, as we're going to see.

00:05:27.000 The other race in Florida is Rick Scott beating out Bill Nelson.

00:05:29.740 And Bill Nelson, I think, has served three terms in the Senate.

00:05:33.020 That longstanding Democrat senator, Rick Scott beat him by, at last count, 10,000 votes.

00:05:40.420 So this was after it triggered a machine recount.

00:05:43.040 It triggered a manual recount.

00:05:45.080 But as many provisional ballots and fake fraudulent ballots and illegal ballots as they could count,

00:05:52.540 they still couldn't come up with that last 10,000.

00:05:54.700 So Bill Nelson finally conceded, here's Nelson's concession address.

00:05:58.280 Well, things worked out a little differently than Grace and I had hoped.

00:06:02.920 But let me say I, by no measure, feel defeated.

00:06:06.700 And that's because I've had the privilege of serving the people of Florida and our country for most of my life.

00:06:13.020 And I don't think anybody could have been as blessed.

00:06:17.260 It's been a rewarding journey as well as a very humbling experience.

00:06:21.720 I was not victorious in this race, but I still wish to strongly reaffirm the cause for which we fought.

00:06:31.860 A public office is a public trust.

00:06:35.580 Is that what happens when you serve in the Senate for three terms?

00:06:38.720 Do you inevitably become that guy?

00:06:40.960 That guy who, does he have any human left in him?

00:06:43.540 He's just a good old politician. 0.98

00:06:45.820 And I'm going to force that smile, even though I want to murder about half of the constituents in my state.

00:06:53.440 But I will like to congratulate him. 0.91

00:06:57.520 And his face just morphs into, he's just a purely plastic politician.

00:07:01.040 It's amazing he got as far as he did.

00:07:03.100 Especially, you know, Rick Scott is a pretty good, he was a pretty good governor.

00:07:06.120 He's a pretty good candidate.

00:07:07.540 But he's out.

00:07:08.460 Bill Nelson is finally out.

00:07:10.300 I'm very glad that takes care of Florida.

00:07:12.200 Then you move up to Georgia. 0.99

00:07:14.160 Georgia's the ridiculous one. 1.00

00:07:15.580 I actually understand why the Democrats held out in Florida. 0.99

00:07:19.440 Because one, it's extraordinarily corrupt.

00:07:22.060 And two, these were close votes. 0.85

00:07:23.340 Even before all these fraudulent, ridiculous days later recounts, new ballots coming in.

00:07:29.680 It was a very close vote.

00:07:31.280 Florida is known for close votes.

00:07:33.220 And then when you add these corrupt officials like Brenda Snipes in there, 1.00

00:07:36.420 they probably thought maybe we can squeak it by.

00:07:38.360 Maybe we can steal this election.

00:07:39.880 That's fine.

00:07:40.580 People have been stealing elections in America for as long as the country has existed.

00:07:44.080 Especially Democrats because they're very good at it.

00:07:46.460 So I kind of understand it there.

00:07:48.220 The one that is puzzling is Stacey Abrams.

00:07:51.260 Stacey Abrams was running against Brian Kemp to be the governor of Georgia.

00:07:57.080 The Republican Brian Kemp won.

00:07:59.460 He didn't win by 10,000 votes.

00:08:01.160 He didn't win by 30,000 votes.

00:08:02.720 He won by 55,000 votes.

00:08:04.560 He won by 1.4%.

00:08:06.400 That is not that close.

00:08:08.420 You know, you see that automatic recounts are triggered at 0.25%, maybe 0.5%.

00:08:13.980 This is 1.4%.

00:08:15.700 It's three times the number that triggers an automatic recount in Florida.

00:08:20.880 And so he wins by a fair bit. 0.99

00:08:23.900 Stacey Abrams, total sore loser, awful candidate, 1.00

00:08:27.960 boasted about how illegal aliens are part of her voter coalition. 1.00

00:08:32.160 Not a good idea.

00:08:33.280 For future candidates who are taking notes right now, don't do that.

00:08:35.940 That doesn't play well with voters.

00:08:38.080 So she constantly was trying to drag this thing out.

00:08:41.360 She wouldn't concede.

00:08:42.140 She's still barely conceding.

00:08:44.180 Here is Stacey Abrams talking to Jake Tapper

00:08:46.600 after it's all but been admitted around the country

00:08:50.140 that the Republican Brian Kemp beat her.

00:08:52.880 Do you think that Brian Kemp is not the legitimate governor-elect of Georgia?

00:08:58.460 The law as it stands says that he received an adequate number of votes

00:09:03.300 to become the governor of Georgia.

00:09:05.120 And I acknowledge the law as it stands.

00:09:06.780 I am a lawyer by training.

00:09:08.420 And I am someone who's taken a constitutional oath to uphold the law.

00:09:12.240 But we know sometimes the law does not do what it should.

00:09:15.440 And that something being legal does not make it right.

00:09:18.260 This is someone who has compromised our systems.

00:09:20.780 He's compromised our democratic systems.

00:09:23.800 And that is not appropriate.

00:09:25.600 And therefore, my mission is going to be to make certain

00:09:28.000 no one else has to face this conversation.

00:09:29.880 The law as it stands.

00:09:33.220 Listen to what she's saying.

00:09:34.680 Read between the lines here.

00:09:36.360 She's saying, well, yes, according to the law,

00:09:39.660 the person who wins the most votes becomes the governor.

00:09:43.380 Yeah, that's according to the law.

00:09:45.140 But sometimes the law gets it wrong.

00:09:47.680 Meaning the people got it wrong.

00:09:49.780 Meaning that the person who gets the most votes should not become the governor.

00:09:53.260 That there should be some new election, a runoff election, another recount.

00:09:58.460 We're going to discover new ballots somewhere.

00:10:00.300 She is saying, she says, look, I'm a lawyer.

00:10:02.840 I guess she is a lawyer.

00:10:04.080 She's pretty, certainly pretty slippery. 1.00

00:10:05.680 She's got some of the traits of lawyers stereotypically. 1.00

00:10:08.800 But what she is arguing against is the ability of Georgians to choose their governor.

00:10:15.640 She says, yeah, I guess technically, according to the law, he won the election.

00:10:18.880 But I don't think he should have won the election.

00:10:20.420 And therefore, she's suggesting that he stole it.

00:10:24.040 I mean, that's the quote that an Abrams loss in Georgia is that this is the suggestion among

00:10:30.380 Democrats that he stole the election.

00:10:32.020 It was illegitimate.

00:10:33.100 It was unfair.

00:10:33.760 It wasn't.

00:10:34.520 He won the election.

00:10:35.620 He didn't win it by a little couple thousand votes or 10,000 votes.

00:10:38.500 He won it by a good margin.

00:10:40.300 But they won't even concede that because to them, to progressives, anytime a conservative

00:10:45.720 wins, that is illegitimate.

00:10:48.060 Why is it illegitimate?

00:10:48.940 Because there's progress.

00:10:50.180 There's progress to be made.

00:10:52.400 That's why we're progressives, isn't it?

00:10:54.100 There's a utopia at the end.

00:10:55.460 We're going to get to it.

00:10:56.500 And if you stand in the way of progress, if you stand athwart history yelling stop, then 1.00

00:11:00.480 you must be either stupid or evil. 1.00

00:11:02.660 You must be so stupid you can't see the progress in front of you. 1.00

00:11:05.240 Or you've got to be evil. 1.00

00:11:06.380 You want to stop people from living in this paradise that the Democrats are going to give

00:11:10.920 you if you just give them a little bit more money and a little bit more power.

00:11:14.300 That's what she means.

00:11:15.140 That's what all of these Democrats mean.

00:11:16.940 When they say it's illegitimate, the law failed, democracy failed, they stole it.

00:11:21.960 What they're really saying is anytime a conservative wins, that is illegitimate because it's against

00:11:27.420 progress.

00:11:28.180 This isn't just true in the United States.

00:11:29.660 This is true in Britain as well.

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00:13:44.800 So the left undermining democracy and ironically undermining liberalism is not just happening

00:13:50.340 in the United States.

00:13:51.340 It's happening in Britain as well.

00:13:53.080 It's happening with the Brexit vote.

00:13:54.660 Do you remember Brexit?

00:13:56.080 Do you remember Brexit?

00:13:57.040 It was the British exit from the European Union.

00:13:59.940 They voted on this.

00:14:01.060 They voted on this in June of 2016.

00:14:03.460 That also was not a close vote.

00:14:05.600 We were told, oh, the forces of staying in the European Union, they're going to win it

00:14:09.620 by a landslide.

00:14:10.680 Hey, guys who want to leave the EU, don't even go vote.

00:14:13.940 Don't even, you know, the polls.

00:14:15.220 Look at the polls.

00:14:15.900 There's no way you could possibly win.

00:14:17.500 Does that sound familiar?

00:14:18.480 I think we've heard that in the United States before.

00:14:20.160 So they go and they do the vote and the leave segment, it was leave or remain.

00:14:25.260 Those who want to leave the EU, those who want to remain in the EU, leave one by 52%,

00:14:29.480 or rather with 52% of the vote.

00:14:32.320 52 to 48 to leave the EU.

00:14:34.400 That was in June of 2016.

00:14:35.960 And yet for some reason right now, Britain is still in the European Union.

00:14:39.440 Why is that?

00:14:40.160 The reason is it is very difficult to pull yourself out of these supranational, transnational, 1.00

00:14:47.380 extranational organizations.

00:14:49.380 This is why the United States, for centuries at this point, since the very founding, since

00:14:53.940 the Washington administration has been wary of entangling ourselves in supranational empires.

00:15:00.400 Because once you're in them, once you give up that national sovereignty, once you give up 0.60

00:15:04.460 your liberty, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to get it back.

00:15:08.620 So Theresa May, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, has promised, she said, we are going

00:15:13.680 to negotiate the Brexit, we are going to fulfill the promise of Brexit.

00:15:16.920 What did she promise?

00:15:17.820 She said Britain would leave the single market and the regulations of the European Union.

00:15:23.420 What is going to happen under her new Brexit negotiation deal?

00:15:27.020 The reality is that Great Britain is going to be subject to exactly the same common rulebook,

00:15:32.740 they're changing the name of it, but it's exactly the same rules and regulations and single

00:15:37.020 market as they're currently in with the EU.

00:15:39.760 Another promise was that Britain would leave the customs union, that they would be free

00:15:43.640 to sign free trade deals with other countries.

00:15:46.220 They can make a free trade deal with the United States.

00:15:48.380 They can make a free trade deal with anybody, bilateral trade deals.

00:15:51.820 The reality now with this awful Brexit deal, this fake Brexit deal from Theresa May, is that

00:15:57.760 Britain will stay in the customs union.

00:16:00.180 There will be no ability to negotiate free trade deals with other countries.

00:16:04.040 What about the European Court of Justice?

00:16:06.760 Brexit promised, Theresa May promised when she negotiated the deal, that Britain would

00:16:10.880 be able to leave the European Court of Justice, this extranational, transnational judicial body

00:16:16.780 that overtakes national sovereignty.

00:16:18.860 In this fake Brexit deal, the United Kingdom remains in the European Court of Justice on regulations,

00:16:26.360 on trade, and the UK courts have to follow it.

00:16:29.200 It's a big fake out.

00:16:30.760 It is not Brexit.

00:16:32.160 It is as though the people voted to leave the European Union, and then a bunch of people

00:16:37.300 on both sides of the aisle, Labour, Tory, whatever, they said, okay, we're going to follow the

00:16:42.020 will of the people, and then neither side is doing it.

00:16:45.200 How did this happen?

00:16:46.720 If the majority of your citizens vote for something on a referendum, promised that it would take

00:16:53.600 effect, why on earth would the party that promised it pull out and say, no, we're not actually going

00:17:00.840 to do it, Theresa May, no, we're not actually going to do it?

00:17:03.120 The first one is bureaucratic pressure.

00:17:06.520 Bureaucrats can outlast you. 1.00

00:17:08.560 They are your rulers.

00:17:10.540 They've got time on their side.

00:17:12.240 You don't have time on your side.

00:17:13.640 If another Brexit vote were given today, would it pass?

00:17:17.340 Would the British people vote to leave the European Union?

00:17:21.000 I'm not sure.

00:17:21.940 A lot of left-wingers, George Soros in particular, are trying to have another referendum to undo

00:17:26.420 it.

00:17:26.860 They're just, this is what they do.

00:17:27.880 They do it in Florida.

00:17:28.920 They just keep voting and voting and voting until they get the answer that they want.

00:17:32.820 But also, one, the tide of public opinion is going to change, but those bureaucrats from

00:17:37.920 Brussels to the United Kingdom, those guys are not going to change.

00:17:41.280 A few of the electeds will leave, but the actual government forces, the actual state,

00:17:46.240 is not really going to change.

00:17:48.100 Now, the Tories, the conservatives in the United Kingdom, they're ostensibly the ones who are

00:17:53.200 supposed to be negotiating this Brexit deal.

00:17:55.760 They're supposed to be the ones on the side of leaving, but I think a lot of them secretly

00:17:59.320 wanted to remain in the European Union.

00:18:01.580 They say, oh, those people, those country bumpkins, they just voted emotionally.

00:18:07.800 They're probably clinging to their guns and religion, although I don't think they have

00:18:11.100 that many guns in Britain, but those country bumpkins shouldn't have done it. 0.99

00:18:15.080 They're voting against their interests, we know better, so we're going to mollify them.

00:18:18.420 We're going to pacify them and pretend that we're pulling out of the EU, but really, we're

00:18:22.460 going to, in effect, have exactly the same deal that we have now.

00:18:27.040 And that's why you have now a number of members of Theresa May's cabinet resigning, because

00:18:32.740 the ones who actually wanted the Brexit are saying, this is nonsense, you're trying to

00:18:35.860 pull the wool over our eyes.

00:18:37.060 No way.

00:18:38.040 Conservatives in the U.S. do this, too.

00:18:39.560 They do it all the time.

00:18:41.480 This is that Beltway thing, that swamp thing, that Washingtonian establishment thing, is

00:18:46.540 they go out and they campaign hard on conservative issues, and then what do they do when they

00:18:50.280 get to office?

00:18:50.880 Nothing.

00:18:51.480 They never intended to do it.

00:18:53.360 I've been in a lot of campaigns.

00:18:55.260 I've met a lot of elected officials.

00:18:57.140 And when you talk to a lot of them, the establishment type, specifically the coastal type, the ones who

00:19:03.760 have been in D.C. for a long time, they feel that they have much more in common with elites

00:19:09.940 in journalism and politics on the other side of the aisle than they do with their own base

00:19:15.060 and with their own constituents.

00:19:16.500 And probably they do have more in common.

00:19:18.820 Probably their living situation is much more similar to elites on both sides of the aisle.

00:19:24.800 Probably the music they listen to, the cocktail parties that they go to, the entertainment

00:19:29.120 that they digest, the books that they read, are actually probably more similar among those

00:19:34.540 self-appointed, benevolent, better elites than they are among their own base.

00:19:39.760 So they play to their base.

00:19:41.320 They touch down on cultural issues, on immigration, on issues that really matter to the base, which

00:19:46.900 is sophisticated, by the way.

00:19:48.340 These aren't just country bumpkins.

00:19:50.840 I've talked, I mean, I've traveled all around the country doing these speeches.

00:19:53.960 And I'll talk to people in shops and Ubers, on campuses, and the so-called country bumpkins

00:20:01.460 and the flyover country can articulate to me how policies affect them and affect their

00:20:06.860 communities much better than anybody can in New York or L.A.

00:20:09.780 When I talk to people in New York or L.A., they don't know who their congressman is.

00:20:13.520 Why not?

00:20:13.960 Because they're in the center of the world.

00:20:15.960 They don't think in such provincial ways.

00:20:17.920 They only think of grand matters like the European Union or the United Nations or national

00:20:23.700 politics.

00:20:24.600 But people in the so-called flyover country, they do know who their congressman is.

00:20:28.000 They know who their state senator is.

00:20:29.480 They know who their assemblyman is.

00:20:30.820 They're much more in tune with the individual needs and demands of their communities.

00:20:37.000 That's why they know the specifics of how national and state policies affect them much better

00:20:41.520 than people on the coasts.

00:20:42.920 The other reason I think that Britain is trying to get away with this, that European elites

00:20:49.620 are trying to get away with this, and why Americans get away with this, is because

00:20:54.040 conservatives buy the left-wing cultural line, especially the elite conservatives.

00:20:59.800 They buy the line.

00:21:01.000 They hear that the left and the culture, they'll tell you that's impossible.

00:21:04.940 Oh, it's impossible to build a wall on our southern border.

00:21:07.800 Oh, it's impossible to renegotiate trade deals.

00:21:10.720 Oh, it's impossible to enforce our immigration laws.

00:21:14.200 It's just not possible. 0.96

00:21:15.200 Look, I know we need to tell our dumb constituents that we're going to build a wall, but we can't 0.97

00:21:21.580 really build a wall. 0.99

00:21:22.540 Look, I know we need to tell our constituents, who don't know as well as us because they didn't

00:21:26.620 go to Eaton and Oxford and Harvard, that we need to tell them that we're going to have

00:21:31.680 the Brexit.

00:21:32.360 But we can't really do it.

00:21:33.480 It's not possible.

00:21:35.100 Why is it not possible?

00:21:36.120 If the Trump election has taught us anything, it's that we should greatly expand our imagination

00:21:44.780 and the bounds of what we think is possible politically.

00:21:48.420 We've gotten a lot of things done.

00:21:49.760 Just one example, they use this on the train station, or the train station, the embassy in

00:21:54.960 Jerusalem.

00:21:55.780 The United States embassy in Israel is now in Jerusalem.

00:21:58.500 It used to be in Tel Aviv.

00:21:59.300 A lot of politicians have promised to move it to Jerusalem, and none of them ever intended

00:22:05.840 on doing it.

00:22:06.440 Donald Trump actually did it.

00:22:07.740 Expand your imagination.

00:22:09.080 Before we get into what's going to happen in Great Britain and Europe, let's make a little

00:22:13.040 money, and let's talk about something very important to our liberty.

00:22:16.160 Talk about expanding your imagination.

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00:22:34.720 A lot of new people these days are taking an interest in firearms.

00:22:37.720 Sometimes I think people think that gun owners and gun enthusiasts are like 175-year-old

00:22:44.620 old men with mustaches.

00:22:46.520 That's not true.

00:22:47.200 A lot of new demographics.

00:22:48.740 After that shooting at Pulse nightclub, at the gay nightclub, I know a lot of gay people

00:22:53.840 joined the NRA, started joining other gun clubs, going to the range.

00:22:58.600 Buying firearms.

00:22:59.520 Everybody should do it.

00:23:01.180 Women certainly should. 1.00

00:23:02.760 There's one way for women to protect themselves physically against men, and it is to have 0.99

00:23:07.080 weapons, to have firearms that evens the playing field.

00:23:10.060 This is very important.

00:23:11.280 It's important to protect our rights.

00:23:12.560 Now more than ever, you have congressmen, elected officials who are saying they're going

00:23:16.580 to take away your guns.

00:23:17.980 They're saying it openly.

00:23:19.020 They're saying the government will come for you and use the force of the state.

00:23:21.900 Protect yourself.

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00:24:13.000 Pick up some gun gear.

00:24:13.780 Help out with a great cause.

00:24:15.040 Defend your rights.

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00:24:18.240 You've got to make sure that you can back all that up.

00:24:20.640 It's great.

00:24:21.020 I love that website.

00:24:22.820 So, what is next for Britain?

00:24:26.560 What is actually going to happen out there?

00:24:29.000 Possibly Theresa May is out.

00:24:30.700 The Prime Minister of Britain may be out over this.

00:24:32.840 She's already had five resignations from her cabinet. 0.89

00:24:35.120 She might have two more resignations, possibly. 0.70

00:24:37.520 Boris Johnson might be in.

00:24:38.740 Boris Johnson, he's the politician in the UK who just looks like Donald Trump.

00:24:42.580 He's probably the slightly more classically educated Donald Trump, but he's got the same

00:24:47.860 hair.

00:24:48.100 He's got the same affect.

00:24:49.220 He's a terrific politician.

00:24:51.060 And he might be in.

00:24:52.560 There's a lot of talk that he might become the next prime minister.

00:24:56.980 This would be a welcome change because Britain is on the cusp of socialism, of Jeremy Corbyn,

00:25:03.120 hard left style socialism.

00:25:05.600 They are so close to it right now.

00:25:08.840 Britain has been through a lot in its history.

00:25:10.820 It faces a perilous moment.

00:25:13.220 And they need to make sure that this Brexit goes through.

00:25:15.700 They need to make sure that it's a real Brexit, not a fake Brexit.

00:25:18.800 But who knows?

00:25:19.640 I mean, this is a real turning point.

00:25:21.220 You always hear in the U.S., this is the most important election of our lifetimes.

00:25:24.380 This is the most important election, blah, blah, blah.

00:25:26.680 99% of the time, it's not.

00:25:28.460 This is a very important moment for the history of Britain.

00:25:30.820 And they're either going to careen toward insane leftism, give up their national power,

00:25:36.140 or they're going to take a stand for Britain.

00:25:37.860 I hope they do the latter.

00:25:39.360 As someone of partially British descent, I hope that they stand for their country and for their liberties

00:25:46.740 and for the people who have voted and who they are supposed to be representing.

00:25:51.780 We have a lot more to get to.

00:25:52.940 We're going to talk about why young people are not having sex. 0.93

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00:26:01.960 not the one who had that unfortunate incident with John Jr. and his wife and a knife,

00:26:07.840 but Johnny Bobbitt, who is the homeless guy who scammed all of America.

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00:27:55.600 Who cares about the elections?

00:27:57.000 Who cares about Brexit?

00:27:57.940 The real problem, the great plague facing this country, young people are not having sex anymore. 1.00

00:28:05.140 This is true.

00:28:05.920 They're not having sex.

00:28:07.000 There's an article right now in The Atlantic.

00:28:09.760 They refer to the sex recession that's going on in the United States.

00:28:14.180 It doesn't make any sense.

00:28:16.140 You would figure right now that sex would be more prevalent than you could possibly imagine.

00:28:21.180 They're the dating apps.

00:28:22.680 There's a study out that shows 50% of people sexed. 1.00

00:28:25.840 They send pictures of themselves on text and leave electronic paper trails of their degeneracy like a bunch of idiots. 1.00

00:28:32.260 What are you thinking? 1.00

00:28:32.820 What are you people thinking?

00:28:34.120 But, I mean, Teen Vogue.

00:28:37.200 Teen Vogue ran an entire feature on how to have sexual relations in places that you're not supposed to have sexual relations.

00:28:47.980 They ran an entire...

00:28:48.580 Teen Vogue.

00:28:49.360 Not regular Vogue.

00:28:50.300 You know, regular Vogue.

00:28:51.340 Adults get a little creative sometimes, a little curious.

00:28:53.720 Teen Vogue ran that feature.

00:28:56.480 And yet, nevertheless, all of this social mores relaxed.

00:29:00.940 People, there are 56 genders now according to Facebook, so logistically probably it should be pretty easy to find a partner to get around and bump uglies. 1.00

00:29:09.220 And yet, nevertheless, new studies show that teens and young adults are having less sex than ever.

00:29:15.560 Between 1991 and 2017, the percentage of high school students who have had sex dropped from 54% to 40%.

00:29:24.340 Now, in some ways, I suppose, if you look at it from a moral perspective or the perspective of an out-of-wedlock birth or abortion, then that's all very good.

00:29:34.460 But from a cultural perspective measuring libido and relations between the sexes, this is a little curious.

00:29:42.200 Why is it that when we've got this total sex-soaked culture, you can't turn on a TV show, you can't look at a billboard without seeing near nudity, nobody's having sex anymore?

00:29:52.220 I think that's part of the reason.

00:29:53.900 People in their early 20s right now are two and a half times as likely to be abstinent as people in Generation X, 40s, 50s.

00:30:03.360 Why is it?

00:30:04.740 In part, there's a decline in couplehood.

00:30:07.640 So they've studied this.

00:30:08.660 People who would say that their couples has declined dramatically.

00:30:12.460 Now, people are hooking up a little bit.

00:30:14.020 There is a hookup culture.

00:30:15.580 But actual boyfriend-girlfriend, if you have the flu, I'll get you chicken soup kind of couples don't really exist.

00:30:22.420 And as anybody who's ever been single or in a couple will tell you, when you're in a couple, you're going to have sex much more frequently.

00:30:28.360 I don't care what kind of Lothario, Don Giovanni you think that you are.

00:30:31.640 It just is a numbers game.

00:30:33.420 It's just not going to happen as much if you don't have a regular old sweetheart.

00:30:38.040 Another reason for this is that one-third of parents, or rather one-third of adults under the age of 35, are living with their parents.

00:30:46.940 This is a very sad state of affairs.

00:30:50.020 I've got friends who are like this.

00:30:51.680 I've actually got a number of friends who are like this.

00:30:53.400 So if they're watching the show, my apologies.

00:30:55.060 Don't want to make you feel bad.

00:30:56.640 But come on, you've got, I mean, it's very difficult to maintain an active sex life if you're living with your parents at the age of 35.

00:31:03.160 And it's happening around the world.

00:31:04.560 It's not just happening in the United States.

00:31:07.280 You've always heard about Japan.

00:31:08.900 Japan was always the example of this because they've got, broadly speaking, I don't want to make any cultural stereotypes here,

00:31:14.760 but they've got some weird sexual preferences over there. 0.62

00:31:17.980 You know, you see sometimes images of, like, squids and octopuses, and I don't remember Kurt Eichenwald got wrapped up in octopus tentacle porn.

00:31:26.940 I'm not trying to relive these images. 0.89

00:31:29.060 I'm just telling you the Japanese have always had a bizarre relationship to sex. 1.00

00:31:32.840 And now, according to a new study, actually a 2005 study, so it's not even, I think the problem's actually gotten worse since then,

00:31:40.640 one-third of Japanese singles between the ages of 18 and 34 were virgins.

00:31:47.160 Guys, what's going on?

00:31:48.820 The Japanese analysts and pundits have blamed this on a term that I think we've got to bring into the United States, grass eaters.

00:31:56.980 I don't remember the Japanese word for it, but they're talking about grass eaters.

00:32:01.060 Herbivores is another one.

00:32:02.360 They're talking about soy boys.

00:32:05.100 That's the term there.

00:32:07.220 You know, in the U.S., especially these days, you hear terms like beta or cuck or soy boy or vegan or whatever.

00:32:14.740 You know, there are all these terms.

00:32:15.740 The Japanese have exactly the same terms.

00:32:17.820 But it's not just in Britain.

00:32:19.780 There was a study, or in Japan, rather. 0.98

00:32:21.540 There was a study a while ago in Japan that more young Japanese men would rather have a night with a computer and pornography than have sex with a woman. 0.96

00:32:33.420 I think it was the majority of Japanese men. 0.98

00:32:35.200 That's not good.

00:32:35.720 It's also true in Britain.

00:32:37.240 This is also true in Australia.

00:32:38.760 It's also true in Finland and the Netherlands that people are having less sex.

00:32:41.940 I think there are three culprits.

00:32:46.400 There are three culprits that we can point to in the immediate aspect, which is the hookup culture and porn and Tinder, because they're all fantasies.

00:32:56.140 All of them are.

00:32:57.060 The hookup culture, you know, the hookup culture dominates, especially college campuses these days.

00:33:02.180 But even, you know, young urban professionals, people in cities, there's a hookup culture.

00:33:06.700 So you're not necessarily dating someone or going steady with someone or it's your boyfriend or girlfriend.

00:33:11.320 You're hooking up.

00:33:12.980 A number of people who were surveyed by this Atlantic article said they hook up because they don't have social skills.

00:33:17.540 So they get blackout drunk.

00:33:19.020 They go.

00:33:19.580 They see a person who's reasonably attractive, and they go and hook up with them, and then maybe they call them.

00:33:24.840 Probably they don't call them the next day.

00:33:26.280 Okay, this is a fantasy as it pertains to having less sex because when you think back on the hookup culture, all you remember are the victories.

00:33:36.920 All you remember are the nights that you went home with somebody.

00:33:39.380 What you don't remember are the times that you struck out, the times that you were too sloppy drunk, the times that you went home and you wished somebody would bring you soup because you've got the flu.

00:33:48.860 You don't remember that.

00:33:49.800 You only remember all the times that you went home with a cute chick from a bar or a party or whatever, and that's a fantasy.

00:33:55.480 The same thing with porn. 0.98

00:33:56.520 Porn is a fantasy. 0.94

00:33:58.060 Porn is ubiquitous. 0.97

00:33:59.580 It is used by virtually every guy from very young ages now.

00:34:04.360 I mean, it comes in via fast internet connections.

00:34:08.000 You can see anything in the world.

00:34:09.300 The old joke is that if you can imagine it, there's a porn for it.

00:34:12.220 I don't think that's even a joke anymore.

00:34:13.840 I think Kurt Eichenwald proved to us that that's true with the weird tentacles from Japan. 1.00

00:34:17.780 So, porn is this other fantasy because when you get excited about pornography, it's because you're going to see naked chicks and weird octopuses or whatever your thing is. 0.93

00:34:30.200 But the reality of pornography is that you're sitting alone in a room with a computer, pleasuring yourself. 0.86

00:34:35.520 And I mean that both as a physical act and as a spiritual and psychological act.

00:34:40.880 You're just pleasuring yourself.

00:34:42.320 It's ubiquitous. 0.98

00:34:43.120 I'm not judging the statistical 100% of my audience, male audience, that looks at porn.

00:34:48.740 I'm just saying it is a fantasy.

00:34:50.660 That's why it's such a temptation.

00:34:51.860 That's why it's something that should be resisted.

00:34:53.840 And the other fantasy is Tinder.

00:34:55.180 Tinder and all of the dating apps where you swipe right, swipe left is a fantasy because while I know people who have gotten married off of Tinder, I've been to weddings where people get married off of Tinder, the majority of time spent on Tinder is not time meeting people, hooking up, finding a wife.

00:35:11.540 The majority of time on Tinder is just wasted time.

00:35:14.240 Swipe, swipe, a couple messages, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe.

00:35:17.680 So you think you've got access to all of the women of the world at your fingertips.

00:35:22.260 But in reality, it's just an illusion.

00:35:24.400 It's a mirage, swipe, swipe, swipe.

00:35:26.180 And a lot of people have written into the show and they say they don't even get people to write back.

00:35:30.340 It's just taking up all of their time.

00:35:32.300 So that's a culprit.

00:35:33.520 Another culprit is feminism. 1.00

00:35:35.600 I know it's easy to blame feminism for everything, so I will do that. 0.99

00:35:39.180 But feminism is a major problem here because feminism is trying to take all of the love and the care and the complementarity of the sexes out of relationships. 1.00

00:35:50.040 The great example of this as we approach Christmas season is Baby, It's Cold Outside.

00:35:55.360 You know, for the last few years, feminists have waged war on Baby, It's Cold Outside because they say it's a rapey song. 1.00

00:36:02.340 It promotes rape, which is insane. 0.66

00:36:05.460 The lyrics of Baby, It's Cold Outside are, 0.80

00:36:07.640 I really can't stay, Baby, It's Cold Outside.

00:36:11.340 I've got to go away, Baby, It's Cold Outside.

00:36:14.400 This evening has been so very nice.

00:36:16.160 I'll hold your hands there just like ice.

00:36:17.800 And what the feminists hear is a woman who's saying, 1.00

00:36:20.040 I want to leave, and a man who's saying, 0.99

00:36:21.820 You should stay, and that makes him a rapist. 1.00

00:36:23.920 He's a rapist. 1.00

00:36:24.840 He's not listening to her know. 1.00

00:36:26.440 What they misunderstand is seduction, coyness, modesty, the virtue of modesty,

00:36:32.040 which has been erased from feminist culture. 1.00

00:36:35.020 The woman who's saying, I really shouldn't stay, is not saying,

00:36:38.120 I'm in an alleyway, help me, help me, I want to get out of here.

00:36:40.460 She's with this guy that she likes.

00:36:42.100 She's before the fire.

00:36:43.400 They're having a couple drinks.

00:36:44.400 She wants to stay.

00:36:45.640 The reason she's resisting is because of the virtue of modesty.

00:36:49.120 She doesn't want to lose her reputation. 0.98

00:36:50.700 She doesn't want to seem too easy.

00:36:52.360 She doesn't want to seem like she's giving in.

00:36:53.960 And then he is trying to seduce her and persuade her to stick around.

00:36:58.300 The other line they mention about Baby, It's Cold Outside is,

00:37:03.200 she asks, Say, what's in this drink?

00:37:07.140 And the guy says, No cabs to be had out there.

00:37:09.020 This is a joke from the 30s and 40s.

00:37:11.120 When, again, in response to the virtue of modesty,

00:37:14.020 you want to do something that you're not really supposed to do,

00:37:17.300 then you could blame it on having too much to drink,

00:37:19.300 or there's a roofie in your drink, or whatever.

00:37:20.880 You're trying to give away responsibility for the act that you want to do.

00:37:24.520 But even broadly, even taking these exaggerations out,

00:37:27.140 the song is about a man who wants a woman,

00:37:29.560 and a woman who clearly wants the man too, 1.00

00:37:31.620 but is trying to resist.

00:37:32.900 And that is the game, because traditionally,

00:37:35.980 romantic relations between the sexes involve male assertiveness,

00:37:39.780 and then women ultimately deciding if they're going to stay or not, 0.99

00:37:42.660 if they're going to give in to the guy or not.

00:37:45.240 Women have totally eradicated this. 1.00

00:37:47.840 Now everything has to be consensual.

00:37:49.420 There's no difference between men and women. 1.00

00:37:51.500 It's all about consensual contracts.

00:37:54.020 Of course, Baby, It's Cold Outside is about consent too.

00:37:57.660 It's about a man trying to persuade the woman 1.00

00:38:00.020 to give away the virtue of modesty for a night

00:38:04.280 and have a little indiscretion, and they can enjoy each other.

00:38:07.300 That is consent too, but it's not clinical consent.

00:38:11.200 It's not signing a piece of paper and saying,

00:38:13.260 we're going to do this, and then we're going to do this,

00:38:14.480 and then we're going to do this.

00:38:15.220 But for feminists, they've wiped all of this out, 1.00

00:38:18.720 and it's made relations between the sexes pretty hard.

00:38:21.320 Is a man allowed to seduce a woman anymore?

00:38:23.960 Is a woman allowed to pay lip service to the virtue of modesty anymore? 1.00

00:38:28.640 What are dates looking like?

00:38:30.460 What does the relationship between the sexes look like

00:38:33.180 when feminists deny that there's any difference at all? 1.00

00:38:35.940 I think that's a big part of it.

00:38:38.580 But either way, I feel sorry for you, young people, 1.00

00:38:41.260 that you're all so terribly, I think, involuntarily abstinent at the moment,

00:38:48.440 and you're just giving in to porn and selfishness. 0.82

00:38:51.040 That's not great.

00:38:52.260 It's very fun.

00:38:53.200 Women are great. 1.00

00:38:54.060 It's great to spend time with women. 0.90

00:38:55.760 It's great to be respectful, and it's great to be a man,

00:38:58.080 and it's great to be a woman.

00:38:59.580 And the more our culture is confused about what all those things are,

00:39:02.560 the less you're going to see men and women interacting in any sort of capacity.

00:39:08.140 Johnny Bobbitt, I've got to talk about this.

00:39:09.900 This is something I'm very grateful for as we approach Thanksgiving.

00:39:15.020 Johnny Bobbitt is this homeless guy. 0.98

00:39:18.100 He's a bum.

00:39:19.620 You might remember him because about a year ago,

00:39:22.040 almost exactly a year ago, November 2017,

00:39:25.160 this woman, Kate McClure, 28 years old,

00:39:27.800 and her boyfriend, Mark D'Amico, who is a bit older,

00:39:30.360 they had this story where they said Kate ran out of gas on I-95,

00:39:35.220 and it was in November, and she was so cold,

00:39:37.580 and she couldn't figure out what to do.

00:39:39.240 And Johnny Bobbitt, Jr., a wonderful homeless man with a heart of gold,

00:39:44.640 took the last $20 out of his pocket and gave it to her

00:39:47.860 so that she could fill up her gas tank. 1.00

00:39:50.040 This is so heartwarming.

00:39:51.320 The media love this story.

00:39:53.080 Here's Good Morning America talking about it.

00:39:55.060 Just remind yourself of this heartwarming story.

00:39:57.760 So you're not wearing the glasses because you're Hollywood now?

00:40:00.560 No, man.

00:40:01.140 I've got an eye infection in my radar.

00:40:03.440 But it's Johnny Bobbitt, Jr.'s face and story that's gone viral,

00:40:07.800 with thousands giving to the Good Samaritan

00:40:09.800 after an honorable deed two months ago.

00:40:12.560 I was driving down 95 and ran out of gas,

00:40:17.800 so I pulled over to the side of the road.

00:40:19.920 He walked up and he said,

00:40:21.160 get back in the car, lock the doors, you know, I'll be back.

00:40:26.040 Kate McClure says she could tell the man walking up to her off the highway was homeless.

00:40:30.600 Got her gas to help her get back on her way.

00:40:32.820 Wasn't expecting anything in return.

00:40:35.140 Me and my boyfriend Mark went back the next day.

00:40:37.860 He gave him $100.

00:40:40.360 I was ecstatic.

00:40:41.260 That gesture of helping stranded motorists is something Johnny has done countless times.

00:40:46.720 How often would you go to see Johnny?

00:40:48.800 A few times a week.

00:40:50.720 Unknowingly, he was about to get hit with karma.

00:40:53.680 What if we started a GoFundMe for this guy?

00:40:56.360 We set it up in the car on the way home.

00:40:59.980 They started a GoFundMe.

00:41:01.600 They raised $400,000.

00:41:05.240 Isn't that for Johnny, who helped her out, gave her his last 20 bucks?

00:41:08.700 He's always helping motorists because Johnny's such a good guy.

00:41:11.720 And this couple, they just decided out of the goodness of their heart to help him.

00:41:15.400 And that's so wonderful.

00:41:16.260 The trouble with the story is it's completely fake.

00:41:18.800 It is completely fake news.

00:41:20.720 Whenever somebody tells you that the news media don't run fake news,

00:41:24.600 point them to this story.

00:41:25.640 Because it wasn't just ABC.

00:41:27.140 Everybody ate this story up, ran with it.

00:41:29.520 It's a total hoax.

00:41:31.660 Johnny never gave her 20 bucks to fill up her gas tank.

00:41:34.480 She didn't run out of gas on I-95.

00:41:36.200 They didn't end up giving Johnny a lot of this money.

00:41:40.740 This was all a scam perpetrated by Kate McClure and her boyfriend, Mark D'Amico.

00:41:46.700 And they found this homeless guy, Johnny.

00:41:48.440 That is true.

00:41:49.100 They found this dude, and they used him.

00:41:51.200 And they offered to give him a portion of the money.

00:41:53.360 And they played on people's heartstrings.

00:41:54.900 And they raised $400,000.

00:41:57.280 It all started to unravel when Johnny Bobbitt sued the couple

00:42:01.080 because they weren't giving him enough of the money.

00:42:02.840 And they were spending money on vacations.

00:42:05.440 They were spending money on BMWs and Mercedes.

00:42:08.400 I mean, really nice cars.

00:42:10.060 And so eventually he sued.

00:42:11.600 And then this thing started to unravel.

00:42:14.020 What does this tell us?

00:42:15.340 What are the lessons as we approach Thanksgiving?

00:42:17.860 First of all, the press doesn't do its job.

00:42:20.000 The press doesn't investigate these things.

00:42:22.220 The media should have investigated this

00:42:23.960 before they ran this story from coast to coast.

00:42:27.640 And they didn't do it because they're weak journalists

00:42:30.480 and they're not living up to their profession.

00:42:32.400 Okay.

00:42:33.420 Also, the American people aren't doing their job. 0.58

00:42:36.400 Do-gooders aren't doing their job.

00:42:37.720 They should look into this.

00:42:38.820 Every time somebody puts their hand out

00:42:40.560 and says, give me some money, it's good to give charity.

00:42:43.180 I love giving charity.

00:42:44.160 I think everybody should give charity.

00:42:45.740 But you've got to make sure that you're not empowering scam artists.

00:42:49.280 And this also teaches us an important lesson about virtues.

00:42:53.640 Because I got this question when I was on the road.

00:42:58.380 This was from a girl who said, I'm a Christian

00:42:59.900 and I really want to know how to approach immigration

00:43:04.300 and illegal immigration.

00:43:05.700 Because my compassion tells me we should take in everybody,

00:43:08.780 anybody who wants to come in, anybody who's here illegally, 0.99

00:43:10.940 we should just take them in.

00:43:12.660 How am I wrong?

00:43:13.980 Shouldn't a Christian do that? 1.00

00:43:15.300 You say, yes, a Christian should be merciful

00:43:16.900 and compassionate and charitable.

00:43:19.320 But a Christian should also be prudent.

00:43:21.040 A Christian should also not create perverse incentives

00:43:24.040 that hurt people who cross the border illegally

00:43:26.260 or that hurt the country

00:43:27.420 and make it less capable of giving charity in the future.

00:43:30.280 There are many virtues.

00:43:31.460 There are seven virtues.

00:43:33.560 Faith, hope, and charity.

00:43:35.700 And another four virtues.

00:43:37.180 Fortitude, justice, prudence, and temperance.

00:43:40.880 And prudence is the important one here.

00:43:43.060 You shouldn't be imprudent.

00:43:44.840 You should use your knowledge.

00:43:46.980 You should use your rational faculties and your wisdom

00:43:49.920 to seek out what the truth of a situation is.

00:43:54.340 Because I think Chesterton talked about this,

00:43:57.360 how when you just take one virtue

00:44:00.540 and you promote that virtue to the exclusion

00:44:02.640 of all of the other virtues,

00:44:03.920 you can actually make it more closely resemble a vice

00:44:06.640 than a virtue.

00:44:07.640 If you have only mercy without any justice,

00:44:10.700 that's not a virtue.

00:44:12.700 That's not a great virtue.

00:44:13.440 If you have only justice without any mercy,

00:44:14.960 how can you have true justice in a world of fallen men?

00:44:17.540 And when you just give your money away,

00:44:20.040 I know we're too rich as a country.

00:44:22.140 We just want to give it away.

00:44:23.400 We feel like we're not good people.

00:44:25.080 We don't go to church anymore.

00:44:26.540 We don't participate in traditional charity.

00:44:29.080 We don't participate in our communities.

00:44:31.300 So when we see a GoFundMe and a HeartString story,

00:44:33.880 we just want to donate money to it.

00:44:35.820 But you've got to use your prudence as well.

00:44:39.060 And you can't choose one virtue

00:44:41.140 and exclude all of the others.

00:44:42.740 So while we're giving Thanksgiving,

00:44:45.000 while we're so happy for all the blessings that we have,

00:44:47.320 while we want to extend those blessings to other people,

00:44:50.440 you've got to use your head.

00:44:51.580 You don't want to make a situation worse.

00:44:53.220 You don't want to empower bad people and bad actors.

00:44:56.120 You want to use the resources that you have wisely.

00:44:59.060 This is a lesson that we can take personally and nationally.

00:45:02.340 We've got a lot more to get to,

00:45:03.640 but we're out of time.

00:45:04.580 Too bad.

00:45:04.960 We'll get to it tomorrow.

00:45:05.740 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:45:06.860 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:45:07.740 I'll see you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 19, 2018

Ep. 254 - The Leftist Snake Eats Its Own Tail

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