The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 274 - Oh No! Everything Is The Same!

00:00:00.000 The Democrats officially take control of the Congress and the government remains partially

00:00:04.520 shut down and everything feels exactly the same. Hmm, what should that tell us about

00:00:10.420 congressional Republicans and the federal government? We will analyze. Then, the first

00:00:14.740 two Muslim women elected to Congress take the oath of office on a Quran belonging to Thomas

00:00:19.600 Jefferson. Apparently, they didn't read the terrifying things Thomas Jefferson wrote about

00:00:24.740 Islam. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo makes an early 2020 presidential endorsement and

00:00:29.740 abortion activist defends killing children to children. And finally, the mailbag. I'm

00:00:34.380 Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:43.040 Oh, the horror, the horror of everything being exactly the way it was a month or two ago.

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00:02:10.280 isn't it? Everything's different. The federal government is shut down. The Democrats just took

00:02:15.120 control of the Congress and nothing feels different at all, does it? Does it? This is

00:02:20.600 the very good news. This is a wonderful thing to find out. What has changed in this government

00:02:25.860 shutdown? I was actually thinking, I woke up today, I asked sweet little Elisa, I said,

00:02:31.360 what should I talk about today on the show? What's big in the news? She said,

00:02:34.680 Mac, you should do the government shutdown. And I said, well, I would, except there's nothing to talk

00:02:38.600 about. What has changed in your life during this government shutdown? First of all, it's not a

00:02:46.740 full government shutdown. Only part of the government is shut down. But here's what's shut

00:02:50.660 down. The IRS is partially shut down. Is anybody shedding a tear for the IRS being partially shut

00:02:57.280 down as we approach tax season? I don't think so. The EPA is partially shut down. So now, I don't know,

00:03:03.800 the Delta smelt might not be able to get their spa treatments every week. They'll only be able to get

00:03:09.860 them every month. Except that's not even true because the states are funding environmental

00:03:13.320 protection as well. I can't really name anything else that's actually shut down. Is our military

00:03:20.520 shut down? No, of course not. Is law enforcement shut down? No, of course not. What is being shut down?

00:03:27.040 Are our embassies shutting down around the world? No. What is remaining open? Social security?

00:03:33.800 Medicare? Medicaid. Biggest drivers of our debt and deficit, biggest portion of the federal budget,

00:03:40.060 all remain open. The thing that actually could drive people crazy, if senior citizens were not 1.00

00:03:46.340 able to get their social security checks, then maybe you would see a political push to end the

00:03:50.340 shutdown, but not going to happen. The Mueller investigation remains open. If we're going to shut

00:03:53.980 down the government, shouldn't we shut down the Mueller investigation? Maybe then that would be

00:03:57.780 pretty motivating for half of the country. Air traffic control. I was just flying all around

00:04:02.100 the country between Christmas and New Year and all of that. I had my TSA pre-check shut down one time

00:04:08.020 for one flight. And frankly, it was enough to get me on the phone to call President Trump and say,

00:04:12.480 do it, cave. I don't care about the wall. Let me get my pre-check. Other than that, everything's

00:04:16.220 running fine. Air traffic control. All the flights are going great. Veteran benefits? Veterans are still 1.00

00:04:21.100 getting all of their benefits. Food stamps remains open. Child nutrition programs remain open.

00:04:25.360 Even Native American food subsidies for reservations, all remaining open. The Violence 0.99

00:04:30.620 Against Women Act expired during the government shutdown. This was a big, they thought this was

00:04:35.560 going to be a big political issue on the left. Even those programs are still funded. Even in the

00:04:41.500 thing expired, they're still all being funded through the Justice Department, through Health and

00:04:45.200 Human Services. The shutdown isn't changing anything. It doesn't matter. And therefore, the longer the

00:04:51.040 shutdown goes on, the better. Why? Because what are the headlines? There's no headline about the

00:04:54.760 shutdown. But what we can say, we can point to the shutdown and say, look, such and such percent of

00:05:00.940 the federal government was shut down for weeks. I don't know, maybe a month, maybe a month and a half.

00:05:06.360 And nothing about your life changed. This is what Ronald Reagan was talking about when he said

00:05:11.480 that you will never, you will always be surprised at how much government you won't miss.

00:05:17.380 You could lose 30, 40 percent of the federal government. You wouldn't miss it at all.

00:05:23.100 You could fire half of the bureaucrats in this country. You would miss no government. There's

00:05:27.980 no suffering to this shutdown. You know, Barack Obama, when he shut down the government during his

00:05:33.300 administration, he tried to make it really mean. He tried to make it really hurt. He would shut down

00:05:38.220 veterans memorials just as veterans groups were trying to see them. He was really trying to make it

00:05:43.740 painful. National parks largely are not shut down right now. They still have some funding. People

00:05:49.120 are still working, some without pay, some with pay. It's fine. It's going just fine. Keep this

00:05:54.360 shutdown going on. Even if we get the border wall funding, keep it, keep it shut down. This is going

00:05:58.620 just fine. And it underlines this very important conservative position, which is that all of this

00:06:04.600 government that the left tells us without this bureaucrat, without this agency, the country will fall

00:06:10.520 apart. Children will starve. People will die. Nope. No, no. Just shut it down. It's all fine.

00:06:17.680 Life is going on just fine. Maybe we can make, you know, we always talk about making tax cuts

00:06:22.400 permanent, making this law permanent. Maybe we can make this partial government shutdown permanent.

00:06:26.860 I think it would go a long way to advancing our agenda. Maybe that's the 4D chess that President

00:06:30.660 Trump has been playing all along. The other big news, the other shocking news of the day,

00:06:36.260 the Democrats officially retake Congress. Oh, here we go. Nancy Pelosi rising up, becoming the new

00:06:42.260 Speaker of the House. The blue wave. It was really sort of a purple puddle, but never mind that.

00:06:47.140 They are taking the Congress and nothing is going to change. Nothing is going to change. What could

00:06:53.340 change? Right now, one representative, Brad Sherman, is making moves to file articles of impeachment on day

00:06:59.020 one. That's cute. He's not even going to get Democrats in the House to support that. Not yet,

00:07:03.680 not before the Mueller investigation is over. And even if they did magically get all the Democrats

00:07:07.860 to vote to impeach, which they won't get to do, at least in the near future, they still wouldn't

00:07:12.300 get a conviction in the Senate. So none of that will change. It's just a grandstanding Democrat

00:07:17.200 making a fool of himself. Fine by me. Nothing new about that. What will happen now as a result of 0.99

00:07:23.720 the Democrats having the Congress? We won't get more tax cuts, probably. Frankly, though, maybe we will

00:07:30.120 get some tax cuts. Barack Obama was able to cut certain taxes or maintain certain tax cuts for

00:07:35.280 people, although he did raise taxes on others. We won't get entitlement reform. That's true. But we

00:07:41.060 were never going to get entitlement reform anyway. President Trump has made it a key aspect of his

00:07:46.160 platform that he wasn't going to touch Social Security, wasn't going to touch Medicare or Medicaid.

00:07:50.540 So that, I think, was probably always more of a pipe dream for conservatives. What legislative

00:07:56.360 accomplishments that we could have gotten are we not going to get now? Are we going to repeal

00:08:00.720 Obamacare? We had our chance to repeal Obamacare and John McCain shut it down. So a nominally

00:08:08.480 Republican senator voted to kill Obamacare repeal. Didn't get that. Are we going to get the wall?

00:08:13.620 We had the House and the Senate for two years. We didn't get the wall. Maybe we'll try to get some

00:08:18.280 wall funding now because of this government shutdown. But the Democrats taking the Congress,

00:08:22.360 that doesn't change anything. Actually, one of the few major pieces of legislation we were able to

00:08:27.920 get through when we had the unified government was letting a bunch of prisoners out of prison.

00:08:33.120 That was the big, the first step act. This was major legislation signed into law or passed rather

00:08:39.500 just before this government shutdown. Whoop-dee-doo. Great. Oh, I'm so glad we elected a conservative

00:08:46.220 Republican and we elected Republican congressmen so that we can let a lot of prisoners out of prison.

00:08:51.820 That's what we want. That's the number one on the conservative agenda. Let a bunch of criminals 0.68

00:08:56.360 out of prison. Great. Okay. Good. I'm glad. I hope. And that was also, by the way, a bipartisan law.

00:09:01.800 So we'll get that anyway, unfortunately. What changes though? So if the legislative stuff doesn't

00:09:08.020 matter, President Trump, all of the good governance that he's given us, which is excellent governance and

00:09:13.400 much better than most of his predecessors, all of that was from the executive. That was from

00:09:19.420 judicial appointments aided by Mitch McConnell in the Senate. That was on issues of foreign policy.

00:09:24.840 That was on issues of the executive bureaucracy and the executive agencies. So, okay, we lost one

00:09:29.960 house of the Congress. Woo. Whoop-dee-doo. Okay. That's fine. Now though, President Trump has an

00:09:36.640 adversary. Now, President Trump has Nancy Pelosi. This is pretty good. When Donald Trump has total

00:09:43.960 control of everything and no one's fighting him, he does fine. He's okay at maneuvering,

00:09:48.900 but he really shines. His best moments are when he has an adversary. You know, just today,

00:09:54.000 after Liz Warren announced her exploratory committee to run for president yesterday, 0.99

00:09:58.160 or two days ago rather, was it? Oh, it might've even been earlier than that. Oh gosh,

00:10:03.200 all the days are running together. But we covered it at least yesterday. President Trump sent out this

00:10:07.640 tweet today, which was the meme that we at the Daily Wire came up with of Elizabeth Warren's

00:10:13.800 campaign. And it says one slash 2020th. And, uh, President Trump tweeted that out with our little

00:10:20.420 Daily Wire watermark on it, which was just terrific. Excellent job, Mr. President. That is when he

00:10:25.020 shines. He shines when he has an adversary that he can just pummel into the ground like Jeb Bush or

00:10:30.880 Marco Rubio. Unfortunately, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton. He's just, he really shines when he's got an

00:10:35.700 adversary and he's going to have one now in Nancy Pelosi. Good. Okay, fine. It means we don't lose

00:10:42.260 that much on the legislative side, but maybe we pick up a little bit more in exuberance and looking

00:10:47.140 forward to 2020. That's a win for me. Um, there is something new in that we now have, uh, the first

00:10:54.380 two Muslim Congresswomen being sworn into office. And this is being heralded by the left as such a

00:11:02.140 wonderful moment because the left loves Islam. The left doesn't know anything about Islam.

00:11:07.820 The Islamic religion opposes essentially so many tenets of the intersectional left, but they don't 0.98

00:11:14.540 care because they view Islam as contrary to Western civilization and they view themselves as contrary to

00:11:20.300 Western civilization. And so they will unite in an intersectional hierarchy to oppose intersectional

00:11:26.000 civilization, or pardon, Western civilization, the man, the straight cisgendered white male, whatever, 0.57

00:11:32.780 the guy with the mustache. They're going to oppose big daddy. And this is why they're heralding this.

00:11:37.940 These two Muslim Congresswomen, Ilan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are now being sworn in on a Quran that was owned 0.78

00:11:45.580 by Thomas Jefferson. And the left loves this. They think, oh yeah, see all those Christian Americans,

00:11:52.980 they think of the founding fathers as Christian or deistic, but really Jefferson owned a Quran.

00:12:01.200 Ha ha. You see, how about that? Islam is just as essential to the American founding as, uh,

00:12:07.360 Christianity. Now the, of course the left doesn't know anything about history. So the irony here is

00:12:13.540 really enjoyable. I'm very glad that these two Congresswomen, uh, were sworn in on Thomas Jefferson's

00:12:19.280 Quran because, uh, Thomas Jefferson had his Quran to learn about the Islamic religion, which was our

00:12:27.100 first, uh, war when he was president. Our first war as a country was against the Barbary pirates,

00:12:33.560 against Islamic states. And it was because they were seizing our ships and seizing our goods and

00:12:38.100 seizing our sailors. So in 1801, uh, the, just before, uh, President Jefferson ascended into power,

00:12:45.140 the Congress gave them the authority to, uh, wage war and to attack these Barbary pirates.

00:12:52.040 And then he went in and sent ships in to stop them. And he refused to pay tribute to the Barbary

00:12:56.240 pirates. And his comments about the Quran, they could not be more explicit. He wrote to John Jay,

00:13:02.180 quote, it was written in their Quran that all nations who should not have answered their authority

00:13:09.000 were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them whenever they could be found.

00:13:14.760 And to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners. And that every Muslim man or Muslim 1.00

00:13:20.260 who should be slain in battle was sure to go to paradise. Fair enough. Okay. That's true. So he has 1.00

00:13:27.120 these notes written down and, uh, and actually even at the founding of our country, uh, Christopher

00:13:32.580 Hitchens pointed this out in an excellent essay for city journal in 2007, uh, at the earliest moments

00:13:38.500 of our country, uh, Thomas Jefferson, uh, in the first draft of the declaration of independence

00:13:43.960 wrote, uh, he condemned the slave trade and quote, the Christian King of great Britain for engaging in 0.84

00:13:54.200 this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers. He condemned the slave trade in this early

00:14:02.800 draft of the declaration of independence for not, for being un-Christian and for, he was condemning

00:14:08.060 the hypocrisy of the Christian King, George III, comparing it to the slave trade, which continues 0.53

00:14:14.880 to exist throughout the Muslim world and which certainly existed at that time and which existed 0.87

00:14:19.160 for a millennium before that. Uh, this is the actual founding history. This is the founding history

00:14:24.960 that you see in that Quran owned by Thomas Jefferson, which the left is now touting to swear in the first

00:14:30.800 to Muslim Congress women. And lest you think I'm Islamophobic, I would never want to be accused

00:14:36.280 of being Islamophobic. I actually don't know what that word means, but if someone could tell me what

00:14:40.980 it means, even if they can't, I don't want to be accused of it. Uh, these people are quite radical,

00:14:47.380 Ilan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. Ilan Omar, this new Minnesota representative, a tweeted quote, or yes,

00:14:54.800 Israel has hypnotized the world. May Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil 0.99

00:15:00.740 doings of Israel. Hashtag Gaza, hashtag Palestine, hashtag Israel. She tweeted this in 2014 during a

00:15:08.720 particularly hot moment of Israel's hostilities with Hamas, Hamas, the terrorist organization.

00:15:14.780 Uh, she supports the boycott, divest and sanction movement against Israel. She wants to starve Israel,

00:15:21.500 cut it off from the rest of the world and prevent it from continuing in, in the international order 1.00

00:15:26.900 as a state. How does the New York Times react to these women? The New York Times writes quote, 0.98

00:15:32.240 that the election of Ilan Omar and Rashida Tlaib is quote, a vehicle for the hopes of millions of

00:15:37.840 Muslims and others who feel touched by her life story and for the fears of those who feel threatened

00:15:43.780 by her. Now they're trying to make this, this big inspirational story and an indictment of the West

00:15:50.540 and all of these things. Just look at these people like Ilan Omar, Somali immigrant, gets elected to

00:15:56.880 Congress at the age of 36. What a wonderful country would do that. What an incredible country.

00:16:03.100 What other country on earth in the history of the world could such a thing happen?

00:16:07.100 Oh wait, name me any. Of course, what a wonderful, that's a wonderful thing to say about this country.

00:16:11.440 They're, they're trying to use it however, as an indictment and it's, it is all, it is not based on

00:16:16.940 reason. We talked about this a little yesterday with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Often on the right,

00:16:22.800 you'll hear conservatives say, well, we should point out to the intersectional left that the 0.93

00:16:29.420 Islamic religion is harsh on gay people or is harsh on women or it's illiberal or it's intolerant or it 1.00

00:16:38.900 calls for non-believers to have their necks chopped off or it goes, no, it doesn't matter. It doesn't 1.00

00:16:44.640 matter if you point that out. That's not what it's about. It's not about Islam. It's not about 0.98

00:16:48.640 women's rights. It's not about women. It's not about racial minorities. It's not about helping 0.87

00:16:54.160 any of those people. It's not about supporting any of those things. It's about attacking Big Daddy.

00:17:01.220 It's about attacking the top of the ideological ridiculous pyramid that they have constructed 0.98

00:17:07.720 in intersectionality, which is the man who is white, who's probably Christian, who thinks that 0.96

00:17:15.080 he's a man, who's straight. He's, he's attracted to women. It's all about going after that one person.

00:17:21.720 Logic be damned. It's not logical. You're not going to, uh, to attack them in this way. This is why

00:17:29.260 there was an article that I was, I did an interview for the Washington Examiner and they were asking what

00:17:34.480 the best way to go after the left is in, in this day and age. And the best way to do it is humor.

00:17:40.560 That's the best way. You're not going to get them and show them the error of their ideological ways

00:17:45.920 by just debating them, by just pointing out history or philosophy or theology or whatever.

00:17:52.580 You're not going to get them that way. But one thing that is irresistible is humor. You can't help

00:17:57.960 but laugh. Even the most humorless people, if you hit their funny bone the right way, they can't help

00:18:03.620 but laugh. Laughing is an involuntary response to, uh, to reality. And we could go on for hours and

00:18:10.860 hours about what makes something funny, what theories of humor are. But to use just one example,

00:18:15.660 when you see incongruous things, when you see juxtaposition of absurdity and reality of fantasy

00:18:21.100 and reality, it does provoke laughter if it's, if it's delivered in the right way. This is the way

00:18:25.760 that we attack them. This is the way that we hit them on this because it, they're so ideologically far

00:18:31.800 gone. They're so enraptured with their own fantasy world. You're not going to get them in an earnest

00:18:37.620 way. You got to make them laugh. And, and we are going to get so much laughter out of this new

00:18:41.800 Congress. I'm actually fairly happy. And this is why I can't be so upset. Nothing is really going

00:18:45.880 to change on the legislative front. You're going to get more investigations of Donald Trump. Okay.

00:18:50.880 We knew that was coming. You're going to get threats of impeachment. You're going to get all this

00:18:54.960 kind of crazy stuff. You are going to see infighting. You are going to see craziness. You

00:19:00.720 are going to get 30 second Twitter video clips. You are going to get great stuff from this new

00:19:06.600 Congress. They're already fighting. There was a big move led by the farthest left faction of the

00:19:11.940 incoming congressional class to attack the rules being made by Nancy Pelosi herself. It is going to 0.70

00:19:17.840 be a lot of fun. Enjoy it. Don't complain. This is just fine. It's all, I'm like the bay or the

00:19:23.260 little dog where everything is on fire around him. It's fine. It's going to be fun. Look at that

00:19:27.620 fire around you and light your cigar on it. We're going to have a good time. Uh, speaking of looking

00:19:32.340 ahead to 2020, there is a new presidential endorsement that's come around. So Liz Warren

00:19:37.520 makes her really pathetic announcement. She does that really pathetic beer swilling a video that was 1.00

00:19:43.000 going around the internet. She goes, hello, hello, regular people. I'm a regular person. Glug, 0.99

00:19:47.340 glug, glug. I'm Liz Warren, a regular person. Glug, glug, glug. It was just pathetic. And everyone is

00:19:51.740 mocking her candidacy. Uh, Donald Trump obviously sent out the daily wire meme about it. One,

00:19:57.640 one, 20, 20th. Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York has a different idea for 2020. And I have to

00:20:03.720 say, kills me to say it. He's half right. I think, uh, of all the names that are out there,

00:20:10.400 I think Joe Biden has the best case. I think Joe Biden has the best case because he brings

00:20:19.280 the most of the secret ingredient ingredient you need to win for a Democrat, which is credibility.

00:20:27.180 You know, uh, where this country is, is they don't believe anyone. Trump was elected

00:20:34.780 as a rejection to the entire system. They just don't believe the Democrats. I'm going to do this.

00:20:43.640 I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. You haven't done anything. And every idea you've come

00:20:50.420 up with has backfired. And what have you done to help me in my life? You know, you don't hire an 1.00

00:20:59.960 airline pilot who has never flown a plane. Uh, where is the credibility in your argument?

00:21:08.480 Joe Biden can say, I was there. Okay. I was not the president, but I was the second seat.

00:21:16.200 Okay. Okay. This is actually half right. It's funny because Cuomo starts to undermine his argument.

00:21:22.260 He says, look, you're not going to hire an airline pilot who hasn't flown a plane.

00:21:25.820 Like, well, Joe Biden hasn't flown. Well, yeah, but he was there. He was there. He was,

00:21:29.960 he was there. He was in like row five. He was in economy plus comfort. Okay. He,

00:21:34.780 maybe he hasn't flown a plane, but he paid $150 more to be an economy plus. And he got a little

00:21:40.280 extra leg room and he got free booze on the plane. So, okay. I mean, it's a muddy argument,

00:21:43.780 but he's, he's making the case that Joe Biden has a lot of experience and he does have a lot of

00:21:47.960 experience. He was chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, Senator for a long time. He ran for

00:21:53.920 president about 75,000 times, vice president under Barack Obama, fairly popular as vice president.

00:22:00.220 And that's true. He points out that Donald Trump was a rejection of the system. Also true. One of

00:22:07.140 the reasons, there are many reasons why Donald Trump won, but one of the reasons why he beat

00:22:11.080 out 16 regular old Republicans and beat out Hillary Clinton is they were fed up with lying politicians 0.99

00:22:16.840 who talk like politicians, who look like Mitt Romney, who sound like Mitt Romney, who turn around and

00:22:21.940 switch their positions and have no ideological core like Mitt Romney, who stabbed their allies in the

00:22:26.520 back like Mitt Romney. Can you tell I'm still a little upset about this Mitt Romney, Washington

00:22:30.680 post op-ed yesterday, just a little bit, but it was a rejection of that. You know, Mitt Romney was our

00:22:35.160 previous GOP nominee. And we looked around at this guy and we said, we, we said, not him, anything but

00:22:41.220 that. Can we have the opposite of that, please? Can we, and we got, and you get Donald Trump and the

00:22:45.300 general election turned out that way too. They said, we don't need Clintons. No more Clintons. Stop. 1.00

00:22:51.620 We don't want you. We want Donald Trump. That's true. He was a rejection of the system.

00:22:55.760 Unfortunately, Joe Biden is the system. He's been in the system now forever.

00:23:00.460 Andrew Cuomo is right that Democrats have no credibility. What sort of credibility do they

00:23:04.820 have? They, they, I mean, what if I, I'm trying to think of, you can't think of a negative. That's

00:23:11.160 the trouble. What have they done? What was the legacy of the Obama administration? Part of Obamacare?

00:23:17.700 Because even, not even all of Obamacare exists anymore. The mandate's gone. The central feature of the,

00:23:22.600 of Obamacare is gone. What, what did the Obama administration do? It was like eight years just

00:23:27.800 vanished, vanished before my eyes. What does that mean? I mean, what, who cares? And they don't,

00:23:33.940 they no longer like the Clinton administration because he was too conservative and because he's 0.99

00:23:38.560 been accused of rape and because he's a, he was a sexual predator. So they don't like that. So where 0.99

00:23:44.480 is, what have they done? I mean, what credibility do Democrats have over the last 30 years? Not very

00:23:50.720 much. So you've got Joe Biden. Okay. You've got some credibility there and the credibility is that

00:23:57.400 he's got experience. The trouble is experience doesn't really matter. Was Donald, is Donald Trump

00:24:04.180 experienced in politics? No. What office did Donald Trump hold before? Not, nothing, no, no office at

00:24:11.720 all. And experience doesn't really seem to matter to the voting public. They picked Trump over Hillary. 0.99

00:24:17.300 Hillary way more experienced. Trump won. Good thing Trump won. They picked Barack Obama over John

00:24:22.720 McCain. McCain way more experienced. Barack Obama still won. They picked George Bush over Al Gore.

00:24:29.560 Al Gore was more experienced. He was in the number two seat. He was the vice president before he ran for

00:24:34.720 president in 2000. And they picked Bush and good thing that Bush won. Obviously George H.W. Bush was more

00:24:40.920 experienced than Bill Clinton. That goes without saying. Jimmy Carter was more experienced than

00:24:48.100 Ronald Reagan. We don't care about experience. Richard Nixon was much more experienced than John

00:24:53.020 F. Kennedy. We actually, I think the experience thing is just a total canard. I mean, it's just a

00:24:58.560 total farce. It's one of those things in politics that we think should be true, but it isn't true. We don't

00:25:04.320 care. If anything, experience might be a disadvantage in politics. And so that's really going against Joe Biden.

00:25:09.560 He's also four years older than Trump. Trump is already not young to be the president. And so

00:25:15.660 Biden is already that much older. And the big issue, we were talking about intersectionality,

00:25:20.960 Joe Biden is big daddy. He's a straight white guy who's been in power forever and he's old. And he just

00:25:26.700 really, it's really going to be hard for the left, which has put all of its money on intersectionality

00:25:33.540 to then nominate and vote for a straight white guy who's old. It's just, I can't really see it 0.97

00:25:39.180 happening. I agree with Cuomo. Biden would be the best candidate right now that the Democrats have,

00:25:44.600 but they're not going to nominate him. I just don't, I mean, maybe Barack Obama tries to come

00:25:51.340 out and convince everybody to do it. It's just going to be really hard. They've set themselves up to fail

00:25:56.420 and they've set themselves up to fail with their best candidate. We've got a lot more to get to.

00:26:00.540 The most disturbing video I've seen in a very long time. And then of course the mailbag,

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00:26:49.600 with both the mailbag and the most disturbing video I've seen in a long time.

00:27:03.460 So there's this woman named Amelia Bono and she started a movement called the Shout Your Abortion 0.60

00:27:09.580 Movement. This is a turn in the left's ideological language. Some of us are old enough to remember

00:27:16.380 when Hillary Clinton in 2008 running for president says abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. 1.00

00:27:23.300 Now of course this doesn't make any sense. If abortion is morally similar to murder then it 0.73

00:27:27.700 shouldn't be legal. If abortion is no different than getting your tonsils taken out then it shouldn't 0.99

00:27:31.800 be rare. But this was her line and hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue and at least

00:27:36.740 she was acknowledging that there is a moral gravity to an abortion even if she's saying we should have 0.98

00:27:42.360 them anyway. Fast forward to now and you've got the Shout Your Abortion Movement being pushed by 0.60

00:27:47.200 this woman Amelia Bono and she is has just released this video of her talking to little children about

00:27:54.180 why abortion is great and why logically and if you follow it to the logical conclusion their parents 0.99

00:28:00.880 should have had the right to kill them. Do you think that sometimes it's not okay to have an 0.97

00:28:04.260 abortion? I want to say if like if you're being reckless if there's nothing wrong going on. I don't

00:28:11.060 know. I just don't agree.

00:28:18.900 When you have an abortion what exactly do you do to like have the abortion?

00:28:22.440 You go to the doctor and they put this little straw inside of your cervix and then inside of your

00:28:31.280 uterus and then they just suck the pregnancy out and it was like a crappy dentist appointment or 0.80

00:28:38.000 something. It was just like ah this is like a body thing that's kind of uncomfortable but then it was 0.67

00:28:44.200 over and I felt really just grateful that I wasn't pregnant anymore. I felt really really great. Can't you

00:28:52.700 see how great I feel to bet? That's why I'm I have to talk about it all the time is because of how

00:28:57.040 great I feel and it's not that my soul is being ripped to shreds from within me. No I feel great

00:29:03.540 kids. I feel great. Don't you want to be like me? That's you know there's this I can't believe they

00:29:08.660 actually included it in there. They included the reaction of a little girl talking to this woman

00:29:12.740 and she said what's what happens in abortion? She said well you know you stick a tube in there

00:29:16.880 and you suck the pregnancy out. What is the pregnancy? It's the baby of course and she says 0.76

00:29:22.620 suck the pregnancy out and you'll and it cuts to the little girl and the little girl goes that 1.00

00:29:25.840 yeah of course that's what we all did. You actually it's pretty dark humor but you it actually prompts 0.98

00:29:32.340 laughter because you see that the little kid has it right and this woman is deluding herself 1.00

00:29:38.480 to pretend that abortion is okay. What that little kid has is something called the wisdom of 0.94

00:29:44.080 repugnance. There are some things that just the when you just look at the sight of it something

00:29:48.640 disgusting something awful something grotesque a dead body whatever you look at it and you just

00:29:54.640 immediately withdraw it's so disgusting to you. That's the wisdom of repugnance and that little 0.97

00:29:59.020 girl is showing that when we're talking about killing a baby in the womb which is abortion and I'm not 0.99

00:30:04.860 going to attack this woman Amelia Bono. I mean she's she should put out more videos. It's the best 0.99

00:30:10.360 advertising the pro-life movement has ever had. Also because this is clearly a deeply disturbed

00:30:15.400 woman. We saw we did a video on this show we played it a little while ago of a woman who was 0.98

00:30:21.880 at a pro-abortion rally and she was talking about how when she was about to kill her baby she had this

00:30:29.000 vision of the baby singing a lullaby to her and then she sang the weird lullaby about how it was okay 0.89

00:30:35.780 for the mother to kill her. She talked about her religious views of how death is not different from

00:30:40.260 life and it was really creepy. I mean it was really creepy and sick and twisted and that's what this 0.75

00:30:46.180 woman has going on. I mean that's why if if you're confident in a point of view you probably don't need 0.99

00:30:54.560 to go out and sit down with a bunch of children and try to get little children to affirm your point

00:30:59.040 of view and fail at it actually and not really because all of the kids said well weren't you a little

00:31:03.820 reckless? I mean maybe you shouldn't maybe you shouldn't do that. Maybe that's not a great idea

00:31:07.840 and so I really feel for this woman. It's it's pretty sick and twisted stuff but this is the 0.65

00:31:14.420 logical conclusion. When you wipe away all of the euphemisms of this sucking out the pregnancy the it's 0.97

00:31:21.460 a weird little body thing. It's like an unfun dentist appointment. When you take out all of the

00:31:26.620 euphemisms you can always judge how true something is by how many euphemisms and how much jargon is being

00:31:32.320 used to describe it. When you take all of that away what do you have? You have a woman trying to 1.00

00:31:36.560 justify two children why she killed a child and and you look at the kid's reaction and they know it's

00:31:43.020 wrong and they can they know innately that it's wrong intuitively that it's wrong and she knows

00:31:47.880 that it's wrong too and she's trying to justify it with lies and she's failing and I think she's

00:31:52.080 probably failing even to herself. The lady doth protest too much methinks she's trying to wipe out 1.00

00:31:57.140 that damned spot like Lady Macbeth. I don't know how many more Shakespeare allusions I can use. 0.98

00:32:02.040 She knows that it is wrong. It is gnawing at her. It is keeping her up at night and she can change

00:32:07.200 her mind. It's not too late. Sometimes when people go down paths of sin and paths of evil and paths of

00:32:14.460 terrible decisions they say I'm so far gone I could never possibly come back. You can. You could do it in

00:32:20.320 two seconds. You have free will. It's a new day. We live in time. You can do it in two seconds but

00:32:26.440 it's hard for people to admit that they're wrong. It's hard for people to turn around even though it's

00:32:31.060 totally open for them. Let's get to the mailbag from Grant. Hi Michael. I'm 25 years old and I've

00:32:37.220 had intercourse with two women in my life. My current and my ex-girlfriend. I ostensibly regret doing so

00:32:44.180 with my ex because I've recently come back to serving God and Jesus in my life and I plan on

00:32:49.660 marrying my current girlfriend of four years after I graduate from university. Should I be feeling

00:32:54.440 regret for the first time with my ex? What is your stance on no intercourse before marriage? I'm deeply

00:32:59.920 in love with my current girlfriend. We talk about marrying each other often. Love your work. Thank

00:33:03.860 you for expanding my knowledge. Helping get me on the track to Jesus. P.S. Came for Ben. Stayed for

00:33:08.080 Michael. Yeah. Good man Grant. Cheers. Okay. Should you regret having sex with your ex-girlfriend?

00:33:15.060 Do you? Do you regret it? I think you do in part. You seem to in part. I mean I can't tell you if you 0.87

00:33:23.520 regret something but you're writing to me. This is kind of bothering you. Okay so you clearly regret it

00:33:28.160 in part but then you said use this word ostensibly. Apparently. It seems to be that you ostensibly

00:33:35.540 regret having sex with your ex-girlfriend. What do you mean by that? I actually know exactly what you

00:33:43.200 mean by that. You know I was an atheist for about 10 years and I know and and some of the great saints

00:33:49.340 in history know exactly what you mean by this. St. Augustine wrote but I miserable young man supremely

00:33:54.960 miserable even in the very outset of my youth had entreated chastity of you and said grant me chastity

00:34:01.320 and continency but not yet. Lord make me chaste but not yet. What you're saying is that in a spiritual

00:34:09.340 and intellectual way you regret having sex with your ex-girlfriend because you know that it's wrong

00:34:13.800 and yet in a physical way in a way that satisfies the the very real passions that you feel in your

00:34:20.060 very real physical body you don't regret it because it felt awesome and you really liked it and it was a

00:34:24.680 lot of fun. That's what you're saying. Okay yeah right that's that's my opinion. That's exactly right.

00:34:30.440 That doesn't the fact that you enjoyed having sex with your ex-girlfriend in a very physical way

00:34:36.880 does not change the fact that in an intellectual way you regret having sex because you realize

00:34:42.900 it may have demeaned certain relationships and it would have been better if you had waited to have

00:34:47.100 sex and you it you might have used somebody just for sex rather than for some better relationship 0.64

00:34:52.620 and it also doesn't change the fact that intellectually you know that it is wrong to have sex outside of 0.50

00:34:59.100 marriage. Doesn't change that at all. I don't know if it should keep you up at night. That is the human

00:35:03.980 condition. We are always striving against our flesh which is which has appetites that our intellect

00:35:09.240 doesn't have. So you did it and now you want to get married and you know that it's wrong. Okay life goes

00:35:16.240 on. The one thing you should not do and you should really seek to avoid but our culture does it all the

00:35:20.980 time is we say my body desires one thing and so I need to change my mind to agree with the lusts of my 0.92

00:35:28.140 body or else I'm a hypocrite. That doesn't make you a hypocrite because you think it's wrong to have 0.97

00:35:33.180 sex outside of marriage and yet you had sex with your ex-girlfriend. It makes you a human who's 0.99

00:35:38.580 fallen and has desires and can't always control his desires. That makes you human not a hypocrite. 0.73

00:35:44.400 Now if you're constantly going out and carousing and doing it anyway then you know if you make a 0.98

00:35:48.600 habit of it then then you you would be a hypocrite but it would be far far worse to to change your mind 0.99

00:35:55.420 and say no because I had sex before marriage it's okay to have sex before marriage or outside of 0.99

00:36:00.880 marriage. That would be the wrong thing and that would be the most dishonest thing because something

00:36:04.760 tells me that your intellect is thinking more clearly than you know a young man's body speaking

00:36:11.200 from experience. That doesn't young men's bodies don't always think in the clearest kind of way.

00:36:16.040 From Eric. Dear Michael aka dapper lib triggering troll. Can you explain the key differences between 0.76

00:36:22.760 conservatism and as Dave Rubin would say classical liberalism? Yes this is a excellent question.

00:36:31.580 Well done. This is confusing because in the United States conservatives largely seek to preserve a

00:36:38.560 classically liberal tradition and and the classical liberals would call these universal truths. I as a

00:36:46.100 conservative would not call these necessarily universal truths. I would call it a classically liberal

00:36:50.180 tradition. The difference here is that conservatives like Alexander Hamilton or like Edmund Burke while

00:36:57.920 defending a classically liberal tradition remain skeptical of those universal truths and prefer a

00:37:04.220 series of trial and error whereas classical liberals are so enthusiastic about it and they they are they

00:37:10.960 embrace it entirely. This I think would be a difference. It's a subtle difference but a major one.

00:37:15.100 Classical liberals tend to talk about the enlightenment as if history began in the late 17th century.

00:37:23.220 History began just after Thomas Hobbes and all of history that matters has happened in the modern era.

00:37:28.840 They are thoroughly modern whereas conservatives think there's a lot more to history and to the world

00:37:35.560 than that. There's a lot more than just John Locke. John Locke is not the be-all and end-all of political

00:37:40.620 philosophy. We've had many more things that matter. Institutions matter. This is another difference

00:37:46.780 between the classical liberal and the conservative. The classical liberal tends to always speak

00:37:50.720 in rationalist terms. He's always standing for something and it's only about principles usually

00:37:56.200 universal principles and in institutions be damned and who cares about candidates or elections or dates

00:38:02.760 or times or political parties or that none of that matters. All that matters are the ethereal

00:38:08.200 rationalist abstractions and ideologies that stand up here and they just kind of float in the air and

00:38:13.940 whenever you try to touch them you corrupt them. Whereas the conservative would say hey buddy look

00:38:18.940 down here come here come back to reality. There are institutions that transmit these ideas and we can

00:38:24.740 arrive at some of the same conclusions. Classical liberals and conservatives especially in America

00:38:29.420 arrive at many many of the same conclusions but we do so because we say these ideas have been

00:38:34.860 transmitted through time, through the tradition, through constant trial and error on the local

00:38:40.960 level, on the state level, on the federal level, in religious institutions, in the military, in all

00:38:46.080 everywhere, all around the culture and they have been tested, they've been tried, they've been refined

00:38:50.720 and they have lasted and they've endured and perhaps they've endured for a reason and therefore we can

00:38:55.260 support the idea but we remain skeptical of pure rationalist abstractions. You can tell which side of

00:39:01.920 this I come down on. I come down on the conservative side not the classical liberal side but I think

00:39:07.840 that a lot of the anti-Trump stuff, the schism on the right between the never-Trumpers and the people

00:39:13.940 who either reluctantly or enthusiastically embrace Trump, I think it's about this argument because

00:39:20.560 a lot of classical liberals will tell you that all that matters, there's no difference between

00:39:25.400 conservatism and classical liberalism but there is. You'll hear some people say I'm a conservative

00:39:30.300 because I'm a liberal, I'm a real liberal. Bill Kristol, who is the probably the leading

00:39:34.600 never-Trumper, says we should rename the Republican Party the Liberal Party and we should just have a

00:39:38.680 Liberal Party. That's fine for liberals, for classical liberals but for those of us who think that history

00:39:45.160 began before the late 17th and 18th century, who like other ideas, who have other senses of things,

00:39:51.660 who don't want to just float in the abstract, who like institutions, who like the ideas that are

00:39:57.880 embodied in them, who like culture, who like the things that can't be written down in a philosophy

00:40:04.020 textbook. That's not going to cut it and we're not totally married to rationalism and so I endorse

00:40:13.560 conservative thought over classically liberal thought but it's confusing in America because

00:40:17.380 when you just look on the surface, it's very often almost the same thing. Dave Rubin and I,

00:40:22.620 if you look at precise political issues, don't disagree on too much. We disagree on some things but

00:40:27.620 not probably we agree on more than we disagree on but when you look at the foundations of those

00:40:32.120 thoughts, they're probably quite different. From Mary, hey Michael, as a Catholic, why do you

00:40:37.080 believe in the death penalty? Don't you agree with the Catholic catechism updated version even before

00:40:43.380 Francis that says it is immoral unless in extreme circumstances in which the public is at risk

00:40:48.000 if the person is not killed, it est, if jail systems are insufficient, etc. No, not at all and the

00:40:53.380 catechism doesn't say that. The catechism even still refuses to say that the death penalty is

00:40:59.020 intrinsically evil. Pope Francis has all but said that. He's said that it's an attack on the inviolability

00:41:04.660 of the dignity of the human person or some such language but that isn't true. That's just wrong.

00:41:10.940 It is certainly the tradition of all of Christendom that the death penalty is perfectly fine and 1.00

00:41:17.160 defended. St. Paul defends it in his letters. It is, it's defended in the gospels as the civil

00:41:26.620 authority, having civil authority is defended in the gospels. In fact, our salvation comes through

00:41:30.520 the crucifixion which is an example of the death penalty being instituted by a civil authority.

00:41:37.860 Thomas Aquinas defends this. The church fathers defend this endlessly. The point I'll make on this

00:41:44.500 is that all shallows are clear. So you, a lot of people look today and they say, oh, the death

00:41:49.160 penalty seems bad. And a couple popes, one pope has said it's really, really bad. So therefore it's

00:41:54.780 bad. No, it goes a little deeper than that. You have to think a little bit more deeply. All shallows

00:41:59.400 are clear and profound things are murky and a little more complicated sometimes, but that's their nature.

00:42:05.520 From Brett. Oh, kofefe sensei. Oh, su kofefe sensei. In my endless debates with a family member of

00:42:13.600 mine who identifies as a democratic socialist, I stumbled upon a hurdle I cannot quite clear.

00:42:18.760 The military, police, and border security are all socialist programs. And if we do not have a

00:42:23.520 problem with these socialized programs, and more than that, we love them, then why am I so staunchly

00:42:28.640 opposed to the socialist healthcare and socialism in general? Thanks, Mike. Well, I wouldn't call them

00:42:34.140 socialists. They're for the common defense. Everything you name is for the common defense,

00:42:38.340 our military, border security, law enforcement. And that's the purpose of the government. We have a

00:42:43.060 government to defend law and order and to defend us from threats outside and threats inside.

00:42:49.000 And they do it well, but there are mistakes. The left constantly is talking about how awful the

00:42:53.920 military is, how awful the police are. They want to demilitarize the police, meaning they want the

00:42:59.100 police to be even less like the military. So it's a little disingenuous for them to then come around

00:43:03.580 and say how great the military and the police are. The point is that when you give the government that

00:43:08.220 power, it's very hard to get it back. You can't really take it back from them. And the police and

00:43:13.360 the military make mistakes, too. I mean, we give them that power, and they do a wonderful job for

00:43:17.500 us, and they protect us, and they defend our liberty. But we only want to give the government

00:43:21.260 the amount of power that is minimum to protect us and to protect our liberty and to protect our

00:43:27.320 civilization. Why would we give them any more than that? The government isn't very good at doing

00:43:32.480 things. The government isn't very good at managing huge bureaucracies, and huge power on the national

00:43:37.840 scale especially can really corrupt people. So if you give the government control over your health

00:43:42.940 care, all of a sudden, in a very practical way, you're going to see quality go down and the costs

00:43:47.140 go up. But in a spiritual way and in a matter of political rights, you're going to see that you're

00:43:54.760 not going to have as much control over your body, over your family, over your liberty, over your life.

00:43:58.780 You're going to have, like in England, you're going to have parents begging to take their little baby

00:44:03.200 and get medical care outside of the UK. The Pope interjecting on the baby's behalf and saying,

00:44:08.980 bring him to this hospital. The United States saying, bring him to this hospital. And the

00:44:12.660 government saying, no, we own your baby. We own your life. Deal with it. You gave us that power. 0.99

00:44:16.940 That's why you have to stay away from socialism. One more before we go from Augustine. Michael,

00:44:22.420 I have been talking to a girl for a while now. We're finally ready to go on our first date.

00:44:25.740 We've not yet discussed politics. I was curious of how you brought up the topic with Sweet Little

00:44:31.100 Elisa and any other dating tips you have. Well, when I first met Sweet Little Elisa, I was 11

00:44:38.620 years old. So it didn't come up right away. I mean, I did come out of the womb smoking a cigar

00:44:44.900 and reading Edmund Burke. So there is that parting my hair. But it didn't come up right away. No,

00:44:49.200 we talked about other things, certainly when we were 12. And politics comes up when you talk and

00:44:55.880 you talk about culture and you talk about personal things, you talk about whatever.

00:44:59.220 But I never made a point about it. I wouldn't worry about it. I mean, here's my main advice on

00:45:05.200 dating. You should enjoy it. It's very fun. It is a great pleasure and privilege to be in the company

00:45:12.160 of a woman, having a drink, having a meal, what do you know, going on a walk. So this is a wonderful

00:45:17.840 thing. This is one of the great joys of life. Enjoy it. Talk to her. Find out what she thinks.

00:45:25.760 Find out what her points of view. Make her laugh a little bit. Show her something she hasn't seen.

00:45:30.760 That could be taken in a very bad way. I'm talking about a sunset or something. Be, you know, be

00:45:35.200 romantic. Be charming. Enjoy. If you're not enjoying the date, she's not enjoying the date. I promise you

00:45:40.260 that. And don't make it. It's not a job interview. You're not like, okay, are you going to be my wife?

00:45:44.680 Are we going to get married tomorrow? Okay, do you check this box? No, come on,

00:45:47.700 man. She's a human being. She's a woman. This is one of the great consolations of life.

00:45:52.540 Enjoy it. Have a good time. If you don't, let me know how it goes. Then I'll try to give you more

00:45:57.240 advice. All right, that's our show. We've got a backstage coming up, so I got to get out of here.

00:46:00.780 But tune in for that. It's going to be a lot of fun. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is

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