The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 279 - The Shutdown Is Working

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00:00:15.420 New polls show public support for the wall growing during this government shutdown.

00:00:20.400 How will those new numbers affect Democrat strategy?

00:00:23.340 Then, a future also ran announces his bid for the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination.

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00:00:35.700 And finally, do conservatives talk too much about the Constitution?

00:00:39.360 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:07.920 How's this government shutdown going for you?

00:02:10.980 Is it okay?

00:02:11.560 Are you surviving?

00:02:12.740 Are you all making it through this awful, terrible?

00:02:15.140 Yes, you are.

00:02:15.820 Statistically, you are making it through the government shutdown.

00:02:19.040 And great new news for conservatives and people who want to build the wall coming out of this shutdown.

00:02:26.180 You probably missed it because all of the headlines right now are talking about how increasingly people blame President Trump for the shutdown.

00:02:34.620 They blame President Trump for the shutdown over Democrats.

00:02:37.920 This should come as no surprise.

00:02:39.860 President Trump took credit for the shutdown.

00:02:42.420 He was in a meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and he said, yep, I'll own the shutdown.

00:02:47.100 I would be proud to shut down the government for border security.

00:02:50.120 So all the headlines saying this is really bad for Trump.

00:02:52.900 He's being blamed for the shutdown.

00:02:54.820 He should end this shutdown soon.

00:02:56.400 Whenever the Washington Post is telling you to do something, it is a safe bet to do the opposite.

00:03:02.100 And that's what we're seeing here.

00:03:03.880 Because the hidden number, other than who they're blaming for the shutdown, blah, blah, blah, is Washington Post is showing this.

00:03:10.560 During the government shutdown, support for building the wall is increasing.

00:03:14.360 Right now, support for building the wall is up.

00:03:17.340 Forty-two percent is the number of Americans who support it.

00:03:20.720 That's up from 34 percent last January.

00:03:24.040 Now, 54 percent still oppose building the wall, but that's down from 63 percent last January.

00:03:29.300 So it doesn't matter where the people are.

00:03:31.320 It matters where the momentum is headed.

00:03:33.240 If the momentum is headed in the direction of border security and building the wall, that's a bad sign for Democrats.

00:03:38.520 And actually, the numbers are even better when you look at registered voters.

00:03:42.240 So among registered voters, support for the wall is 46 percent.

00:03:45.440 That's four percentage points higher than among the population broadly.

00:03:49.140 Now, also, nearly half of those polled, of wall opponents, believe that Democrats should compromise to end the shutdown.

00:03:57.460 So all of this taken together, the bad news for Trump is they blame him for the shutdown.

00:04:02.860 But the bad news for Democrats is their position is weakening.

00:04:06.520 So according to WAPO, ABC, CNN, Americans blame Trump for the shutdown.

00:04:11.000 But people don't care about the shutdown.

00:04:13.100 There was this poll that was taken a couple weeks ago, a week and a half ago, by Rasmussen,

00:04:17.980 which showed that 6 percent of Americans said that they had been seriously affected by the government shutdown.

00:04:24.140 21 percent of Americans didn't know that the government was shut down.

00:04:27.680 That's two weeks into the shutdown, already one of the longest in history.

00:04:31.100 Now it is the longest in history.

00:04:32.960 People don't really seem to care about it.

00:04:34.900 But the problem for Democrats is not even the PR.

00:04:39.800 It's not the PR of the shutdown so much.

00:04:42.040 Speaking of PR, Democrats right now are sunning themselves down in Puerto Rico.

00:04:46.120 If you've just eaten or you have a weak stomach, do not close your eyes right now when we put up this photo.

00:04:52.280 Senator Bob Menendez was photographed on a beach in Puerto Rico, shirtless, gawking at some woman's bikini right in front of her.

00:05:02.020 He just looks like he's lost in this cloud of, oh, this woman. 0.99

00:05:06.020 And Bob Menendez, this is a bad look for him because federal investigators are fairly confident that he paid underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.

00:05:15.180 So now he's in Puerto Rico.

00:05:17.440 He's sort of right next door.

00:05:18.820 Really bad look.

00:05:19.760 But that's where they are.

00:05:20.480 They're down there sunning themselves in Puerto Rico.

00:05:22.880 Yuck.

00:05:23.320 I'm very glad I didn't have breakfast before today's show.

00:05:27.200 The reason, it's not a PR problem because they're not going to be blamed for the shutdown.

00:05:31.180 Even if it shows the government's shut down, they should be in Washington trying to make a compromise, and they're there sunning themselves on the beach.

00:05:37.280 That's not the issue.

00:05:39.300 The issue for them is more tactical when it comes to the policy because while they're sipping their Mai Tais and Bob Menendez is gawking at young bikini-clad women, the numbers are moving in the direction of building the wall.

00:05:51.760 We know already the vast majority of Americans support ending illegal immigration.

00:05:57.880 They support border security.

00:05:59.780 Actually, it's even bigger than that.

00:06:01.600 But the majority of Americans support reducing legal immigration from its current rate of 1.2 million people per year down to about half a million people per year.

00:06:10.860 That's more than a 50% reduction even in legal immigration.

00:06:14.460 So this immigration issue has always been a huge winner for Republicans and for President Trump.

00:06:19.260 That's why President Trump staked his presidential campaign on building the wall and on border security.

00:06:25.440 Now, even when they pulled Democrats a year ago, they pulled them on whether giving amnesty to Dreamers, the DACA people, illegal aliens who came to the United States below the age of 18.

00:06:36.760 If that should be a priority for a Democrat Congress, even the majority of Democrats said, no, that shouldn't be the priority.

00:06:42.840 People care about other issues.

00:06:44.740 And so illegal immigration has always been a big winner. 1.00

00:06:47.640 Reducing legal immigration now seems to be a real winner. 1.00

00:06:50.320 But until recently, building the wall was a loser issue for Republicans.

00:06:54.120 What does this mean?

00:06:56.000 It means that, you know, the American people contain multitudes and maybe they're confused about public policy.

00:07:01.580 But while Democrats have been sunning themselves in Puerto Rico, those numbers have moved and they're not moving in a good direction for Democrats.

00:07:08.540 So right now, the American people, I think, are also realizing how much government they won't miss.

00:07:15.100 Democrats were hoping, they were praying that if the shutdown dragged on now to the longest in history, people would say, gosh, we need our IRS.

00:07:22.620 IRS, oh, I miss my IRS.

00:07:25.140 Oh, please bring me back my IRS.

00:07:27.000 They would say they would miss all of this government.

00:07:28.920 The country is going just fine without all of the non-essential government workers.

00:07:32.940 Now, it can't go on forever, but it can go on for a pretty long time.

00:07:36.120 As Ronald Reagan said, you'll be surprised at how much government you'll never miss.

00:07:39.720 So I hope the Democrats stay in Puerto Rico.

00:07:42.120 I hope Bob Menendez has the time of his life.

00:07:43.960 That poor girl, she's in my thoughts and prayers.

00:07:46.240 Because the smart Democrats know that it benefits them to end this shutdown.

00:07:50.560 And you can see Mika Brzezinski trying to turn up the pressure on MSNBC.

00:07:55.560 I would take it a step further and worry that we look weak and that this is the moment that anybody with ill will has to act or to get further than they have been able to get in the past as it pertains to us on the international stage.

00:08:12.400 So Mika now, she's not using the talking points that appeal to Democrats. 0.96

00:08:17.400 She's not using, oh, the poor illegal aliens, oh, the federal workers. 0.99

00:08:22.020 She doesn't use those talking points. 0.99

00:08:23.820 The talking points she's using here are, we look weak.

00:08:27.420 Our enemies are going to attack us.

00:08:29.820 We're going to be physically harmed.

00:08:33.240 She's using talking points that appeal to Republicans and that appeal to President Trump and that appeal to President Trump's base.

00:08:38.540 She has to do this because they're trying to turn up the pressure on President Trump, make it feel as though his own people are cracking, his own Republican caucuses are cracking on this issue.

00:08:50.240 It doesn't seem that they are.

00:08:51.660 A couple little sounds in the Senate.

00:08:54.480 Lindsey Graham wants President Trump both to invoke a national emergency to build the wall and to end the shutdown. 0.93

00:09:00.440 There are some little fissures, but not a lot.

00:09:03.060 And it's because as it pertains to public policy, Republicans are winning this.

00:09:08.060 As it pertains to image, President Trump is taking the hits.

00:09:11.000 Sure, but he's made a whole career out of taking the hits.

00:09:13.720 There's no such thing as bad press to President Trump.

00:09:16.360 And so he's taking a personal popularity hit.

00:09:19.940 That will recover.

00:09:21.040 People's memories in this news cycle, in this 24-7, 2019 news cycle, are so short.

00:09:28.500 It doesn't matter.

00:09:29.340 The old conventional wisdom was you would have to pay for a government shutdown at the ballot box.

00:09:35.260 The old conventional wisdom was, regardless of who started it, Republicans get blamed for government shutdowns and they lose elections because of it.

00:09:42.900 We found out that wasn't true in 2014.

00:09:45.400 In 2013, Republicans shut down the government.

00:09:47.760 Ted Cruz shut down the government.

00:09:49.200 In 2014, Republicans took the Senate.

00:09:51.440 It doesn't really matter anymore.

00:09:54.660 Politics has changed since the 90s or the 80s or whatever.

00:09:58.000 It doesn't really matter.

00:09:59.440 So I think it's really shrewd if the White House, let Trump take the personal popularity hit, let the policy gain in popularity, and we'll end up in a place where already you're seeing certain Democrats saying, well, maybe we could have some border security.

00:10:12.800 Well, Chuck Schumer used to support the wall.

00:10:15.180 He voted for the wall.

00:10:15.900 Well, it's only getting better, and time is still on our side.

00:10:19.540 You can't wait forever on this government shutdown, but the Republicans still do have time on our side.

00:10:25.300 So they should hold firm, and if it means invoking a national emergency finally to break it, fine.

00:10:31.180 But I see much more pressure right now on Democrats than I do on Republicans.

00:10:35.040 They're also, the Democrats, you'll notice, are also eager to change the subject from the shutdown.

00:10:40.960 So they thought for a while they were focusing on it.

00:10:42.820 Before Christmas, you remember, it was all about the shutdown.

00:10:45.400 This is going to be our big talking point.

00:10:47.120 The Trump shutdown, they called it in the Oval Office.

00:10:49.380 And then it didn't, when it didn't matter so much, when it wasn't a matter of, you know, really moving poll numbers on approval ratings, all of a sudden they start talking about other things.

00:11:01.420 Here's Brian Stelter wondering if we're not talking enough about Russian collusion.

00:11:06.540 I was watching Good Morning America this weekend, and both mornings they led with snowstorms and scares at malls and other stories, and not this.

00:11:14.840 And I just keep wondering if the public is ill-served, if we don't make it really clear what the stakes of this story are.

00:11:21.540 How can a more issue not lead with this drama, I guess is what I'm saying.

00:11:24.840 I think plenty of times we lead with this drama.

00:11:29.020 Talk cable, I agree.

00:11:29.620 And we lead also with what is becoming the looming question over all of this.

00:11:34.660 And even Fox reporters are now asking this question of some of their sources.

00:11:40.980 Are we, I think we're just, have you even heard of Russian collusion?

00:11:43.980 I don't even think, I've never even heard of it.

00:11:46.040 I wish the mainstream media would cover, who is Bob Mueller?

00:11:49.520 I mean, what, are you saying, President Trump and Russia?

00:11:53.300 I don't know, I've got to look more into this. 0.60

00:11:55.080 We will talk about this much more, because obviously a ridiculous pivot, but a necessary one for Democrats.

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00:13:51.980 So, Brian Stelter thinks we're not talking about Russian collusion enough.

00:13:57.220 According to Newsbusters, the Media Research Center did a study.

00:14:00.440 Between June 1st and September 30th, Russia received more airtime than any other topic on mainstream news.

00:14:08.720 And guess how much of it was slanted negatively toward President Trump?

00:14:13.200 I'll give you a second to think of it.

00:14:15.640 97%.

00:14:16.120 It's not quite 100.

00:14:17.860 Maybe I would have guessed 100%.

00:14:19.460 97% is the number.

00:14:21.260 Of course, they talk about Russia all the time.

00:14:24.640 But they're desperate now to move off of this issue of border security because they're going to lose that issue.

00:14:29.220 And the Washington Post, CNN can run as many scare headlines as they want about how President Trump is taking the blame,

00:14:35.460 about how the border wall doesn't yet have 50% approval.

00:14:38.200 It will have 50% approval if we keep focusing on it, if politicians keep focusing on it, and if the media keep focusing on it.

00:14:45.100 So, great.

00:14:45.780 Keep it coming, guys.

00:14:46.780 Give us more shutdown.

00:14:48.860 Give us more headlines about the border wall and border security.

00:14:53.200 The trouble with if they pivot to Russia is there's not a lot of there there, and even ABC News is admitting this.

00:15:00.740 What I am getting is that this is all building up to the Mueller report and raising expectations of a bombshell report.

00:15:09.040 And there have been expectations that have been building, of course, for over a year on this.

00:15:12.340 But people who are closest to what Mueller has been doing, who have interacted with the special counsel, caution me that this report is almost certain to be anticlimactic.

00:15:22.220 That if you look at what the FBI was investigating in that New York Times report, look at what they were investigating.

00:15:27.900 Mueller did not go anywhere with that investigation.

00:15:30.300 He has been writing his report in real time through these indictments.

00:15:33.580 And we have seen nothing from Mueller on the central question of was there any coordination, collusion with the Russians in the effort to meddle in the elections?

00:15:45.340 Or was there even any knowledge on the part of the president or anybody in his campaign with what the Russians were doing?

00:15:51.160 They haven't laid that out yet in the indictment.

00:15:53.460 Oh, George Stephanopoulos, the former spokesman and communications director for Bill Clinton.

00:15:58.060 And he's saying, well, no, not yet, not yet, but maybe they could.

00:16:00.140 But Jonathan Karl is a very serious journalist.

00:16:02.380 And by the way, that wasn't a clip from the Daily Wire.

00:16:04.660 That wasn't a clip from CRTV or the Blaze TV.

00:16:07.540 That wasn't a clip from Fox News.

00:16:08.860 It wasn't a clip from any right-wing source.

00:16:10.460 That was ABC with the former Clinton communications director sitting there in the anchor chair.

00:16:17.060 And they're saying that sources familiar with the Mueller investigation are pointing out there isn't much there there with regard to Russian collusion.

00:16:26.420 So you've got now these big issues, the two issues dominating the news, the Mueller investigation and the government's shutdown slash border wall.

00:16:35.660 And everything you see in the headlines says this is really damaging to Republicans and conservatives and Donald Trump.

00:16:42.680 When you dig in just slightly below the surface, it doesn't really seem to be.

00:16:46.220 The poll numbers seem to be in our favor.

00:16:47.880 And everything we're hearing about the Russia investigation seems to be in our favor as well.

00:16:52.420 Bad news for Democrats, especially as they look toward 2020.

00:16:55.880 And I know you're going to remember where you were on Saturday afternoon.

00:17:00.340 I know you probably came home, you wrote it in your diary.

00:17:03.280 I remember exactly where I was when the future also ran Julian Castro admitted that he was going to, or announced rather, that he was going to run for president.

00:17:14.660 And I just, I remember where I was when a guy with the name of Castro decided that he was going to win the state of Florida and win the presidential election.

00:17:24.040 Here is his very, very sad presidential announcement.

00:17:27.980 We have always been at our best, but we're united by something bigger.

00:17:33.200 And in this journey, in the days to come, together we will show that hope can be bigger than fear, that light can be bigger than darkness, and that truth can be bigger than lies.

00:17:44.600 And as long as we work for it, tomorrow will always be better than today.

00:17:49.620 So let's go work.

00:17:51.000 Vámonos!

00:17:53.180 Thank you.

00:17:55.260 Thank you.

00:17:55.960 Good is better than bad.

00:17:59.760 Forward is better than backward.

00:18:02.520 Yummy is better than icky.

00:18:04.820 Andele, andele, amigos.

00:18:06.740 Give me a break. 0.96

00:18:08.140 What a pathetic announcement that not a soul cared about at all. 0.99

00:18:12.760 Does this guy stand a chance? 0.90

00:18:15.220 I know we were saying that about Donald Trump in 2015, 2016.

00:18:18.940 Does Julian Castro stand a chance?

00:18:20.880 He is, on the one hand, leaning in to Latino identity politics.

00:18:27.120 So he's got a little accent over the A on his logo.

00:18:31.260 He ended his announcement speech by saying, Vámonos!

00:18:34.860 I don't know.

00:18:35.740 I think he speaks English because he spoke in English for the first part of the speech.

00:18:39.820 Then for some reason, he ended it in Spanish.

00:18:42.040 I couldn't quite tell you why.

00:18:43.740 He is playing into this identity politics.

00:18:46.340 But then the entire stuff of his announcement speech was just this boiled over poor man's

00:18:51.520 Barack Obama platitudes.

00:18:54.460 I mean, it was just nothing.

00:18:55.860 It was all that sort of, good is better than bad.

00:18:58.420 Hope is better than fear.

00:19:00.080 We're gonna, you know, like, okay.

00:19:01.740 We did that once.

00:19:02.640 We did that with the guy who's way better at it than you.

00:19:06.100 Nobody wants a poor man's Barack Obama. 0.91

00:19:08.460 You need to offer voters something.

00:19:10.660 So Julian Castro's announcement basically, I don't think, changes the field.

00:19:15.320 I mean, he's running for vice president.

00:19:16.960 He's not running for president right now.

00:19:19.440 He's, I don't even know if he's showing up in the polling.

00:19:22.080 In part, that's because he doesn't have a lot of name recognition.

00:19:25.100 And also because he's just not that impressive.

00:19:27.400 He was the secretary of housing and urban development for a minute.

00:19:30.380 And he was a mayor, like, okay, all right, when is, is the county executive gonna run

00:19:35.800 for president now, too?

00:19:36.940 Is the dog catcher gonna, it's really sad.

00:19:39.600 What it shows us, though, the reason his announcement actually matters is it shows us

00:19:43.540 that everybody and his grandmother is gonna be running for the Democrat nomination for

00:19:47.720 president in 2020.

00:19:48.920 And actually, we had another person that nobody expected and nobody expects to become president

00:19:55.140 announced over the past week, Democrat rep Tulsi Gabbard on CNN's Van Jones show.

00:20:02.400 Are you gonna run for president of the United States and do something about it?

00:20:05.820 Do you think you should?

00:20:06.580 Do you think you should?

00:20:07.640 Are you gonna run?

00:20:08.660 Are you gonna run?

00:20:15.340 I have decided to run and will be making a formal announcement within the next week.

00:20:19.760 Whoa.

00:20:20.120 What?

00:20:23.120 So you don't, you actually, I mean, obviously they set this up beforehand, but the way,

00:20:26.820 you can even hear it in the audience's reaction.

00:20:28.900 Van Jones sets it up, he says, well, you're complaining about it, maybe you should run.

00:20:31.840 Are you gonna run for office?

00:20:32.980 And she sits there and she's, and you expect her to say, oh, I don't think so, not yet,

00:20:36.860 okay, you're fine.

00:20:37.980 Because she's, like, nobody's ever heard of her ever.

00:20:40.980 And then she says, yes, I am going to run.

00:20:43.900 And you can almost hear the gasps of surprise in the audience, like, oh, gosh, now I guess

00:20:48.280 I have to Google this person to find out who she is.

00:20:51.640 However, saying all of that, it doesn't look like she's got a great shot.

00:20:55.220 She's a congresswoman from Hawaii. 0.99

00:20:57.460 I don't think Hawaii has ever given us a president, member of Congress, congressmen don't usually

00:21:02.120 get elected president.

00:21:03.760 That all said, she is a much more interesting candidate than Julian Castro.

00:21:08.440 She served in the Hawaii Army National Guard, so she's got military experience.

00:21:13.820 She's held various positions on different issues.

00:21:18.320 Here is on same-sex marriage before it became mandatory in the Democrat Party to wholeheartedly

00:21:24.640 embrace redefining marriage.

00:21:26.220 She said, quote, to try to act as if there's a difference between civil unions and same-sex 0.71

00:21:30.960 marriage is dishonest, cowardly, and extremely disrespectful to the people of Hawaii who have already made 1.00

00:21:36.380 overwhelmingly clear our position on this issue. 0.99

00:21:39.160 As Democrats, we should be representing the views of the people, not a small number of homosexual 0.97

00:21:43.840 extremists.

00:21:46.340 So that was her view not that long ago.

00:21:48.660 Then, all of a sudden, 2012 rolls around.

00:21:52.500 Obama endorses gay marriage.

00:21:55.980 Joe Biden endorses redefining marriage.

00:21:58.060 And all of a sudden, she turns around and says she endorses it, too.

00:22:00.640 This is going to come back to bite her. 0.99

00:22:02.280 So she checks off a lot of the intersectionality boxes that will help her in this inevitable

00:22:08.480 race politics primary.

00:22:10.720 She's the first Hindu ever in Congress.

00:22:13.500 She's got religious diversity going for her.

00:22:16.300 But they're already slinging dirt on her that she's homophobic. 1.00

00:22:20.340 This is already coming.

00:22:21.300 And it's not coming from Republicans.

00:22:22.660 It's coming from either Liz Warren or Beto O'Rourke or Kamala Harris or Cory Booker or blah,

00:22:28.060 blah, blah, any of the other thousand Democrats who are already in the race.

00:22:30.460 But this is going to be really ugly.

00:22:33.160 You see this all around.

00:22:35.240 You see this actually in Oscars politics.

00:22:38.500 As the award season is coming to Hollywood, all of a sudden, movies that everybody liked

00:22:43.420 and thought were really nice, Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody, there was no controversy.

00:22:48.360 All of a sudden, now that they're winning Golden Globes, you're seeing smear campaigns against 0.84

00:22:52.400 them, how they're awful, they're racist, they're this, they're that, they're sexist.

00:22:55.680 And you're going to see the exact same thing in any competitive campaign season. 0.98

00:23:01.260 And 2020 is certainly no exception to that.

00:23:04.620 They're going to get her for being homophobic. 1.00

00:23:06.980 I don't know what they're going to get Julian Castro on yet.

00:23:09.280 Probably they won't need to get him on anything because no one knows his name.

00:23:14.140 But now Liz Warren is already stepping in it too. 1.00

00:23:16.260 She was up in New Hampshire and she was asked a question by a wonderful troll of a reporter

00:23:21.980 asking her if she supports renaming Columbus Day Indigenous Peoples Day.

00:23:26.900 She should have pretended not to hear the question and moved on.

00:23:29.480 This is not a winning issue for Chief Liyawatha.

00:23:32.440 And yet, what does she say?

00:23:33.600 She says, my feeling is why would we not want to honor indigenous people?

00:23:37.700 These are the people who in Massachusetts reached out and helped the first settlers,

00:23:41.460 helped them survive those first harsh and rugged years.

00:23:44.480 I'm in favor of honoring.

00:23:45.680 I think that's a good thing to do, to honor my people that, you know, she didn't say that part.

00:23:50.560 A really bad issue for her.

00:23:52.100 She is sort of a joke.

00:23:53.220 She's being mocked by the reporters in front of her.

00:23:55.620 This happened when she announced that she was running.

00:23:57.820 She was mocked by a reporter who said,

00:24:00.120 what do you tell to voters who like you and your policies,

00:24:05.200 but think that you're unelectable because you're a fraud?

00:24:08.100 She's being mocked roundly.

00:24:09.620 I don't see this getting better.

00:24:11.260 She's had years to come up with an answer to these questions.

00:24:13.840 She hasn't.

00:24:14.460 So she goes in weak.

00:24:16.360 Castro goes in very weak.

00:24:18.940 Gabbard is going in weak.

00:24:20.240 Who are the others?

00:24:20.900 Joe Biden.

00:24:21.480 Joe Biden's brother says that he's definitely going to be running.

00:24:24.780 Everybody is running this time.

00:24:26.820 But again, he's a plagiarist who's run for president multiple times now and lost.

00:24:32.200 He's kind of out of it.

00:24:34.180 He's going to be very old if he's going to be reelected for the first time.

00:24:38.040 Who else?

00:24:38.840 Bernie Sanders is a thousand years old. 0.97

00:24:40.980 They're already accusing him of running basically a bizarre sex ring on his campaign.

00:24:45.660 You're seeing a lot of dirt being slung at him from the Me Too movement.

00:24:48.980 Who else?

00:24:49.760 Beto is pretty green.

00:24:50.900 They haven't figured out how to attack him yet, but I'm sure they will.

00:24:54.360 What this all goes to show gets back to our first point we made in the show today.

00:24:59.860 All of the headlines, all of the generic headlines seem to show that things are going very poorly for the Republicans and specifically for Donald Trump.

00:25:07.380 With regard to the 2020 race, a generic Democrat almost certainly would defeat President Trump in a 2020 election.

00:25:15.280 I'm fairly confident of that.

00:25:17.200 If we got generic Democrat, capital G, capital D, to run for office on a ticket with generic Democrat number two, they probably would beat Donald Trump in 2020.

00:25:29.400 The problem is there is no such thing as a generic Democrat.

00:25:33.520 There's just no such thing.

00:25:34.680 So, can President Trump beat Julian Castro?

00:25:40.020 Yeah.

00:25:40.600 Yes, he can.

00:25:41.440 Can he beat Tulsi Gabbard?

00:25:43.040 Also, certainly yes.

00:25:44.720 Can he beat Joe Biden?

00:25:46.240 A little tougher, but yeah, probably.

00:25:48.180 Can he beat Beto O'Rourke?

00:25:49.720 We'll have to see.

00:25:50.420 We don't know a ton about him.

00:25:51.400 He's a good campaigner, but I think probably, I don't really see Beto connecting in Pennsylvania.

00:25:57.880 I don't really see Beto connecting in Florida or even Michigan.

00:26:01.540 I don't know.

00:26:01.780 So, the generic news for Democrats is great, but you've got to get down at the particulars.

00:26:08.540 We're going to get into the particulars in a little bit, even with regard to American history and the Constitution on this day in history.

00:26:14.200 We've also got to cover the new drag kid that Democrats are pimping out and needles at Starbucks. 1.00

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00:27:03.720 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:27:11.120 All right.

00:27:15.940 One of the most disturbing stories that I've seen in a long time is the new drag kid. 1.00

00:27:20.280 I guess it's the most disturbing story since the last story about a drag kid. 0.97

00:27:24.560 This is parents putting their little children, 7, 8, 10-year-old children, dressing the little boys up as girls, having them parade around for lecherous men and do little dances.

00:27:37.780 This happened with this kid.

00:27:39.320 They call him Desmond is amazing.

00:27:40.780 Now there's a new kid, a 10-year-old Canadian boy, Nemus Quinn Malencon Golden.

00:27:46.460 He was featured in a very troubling piece in Huck Magazine.

00:27:51.160 It was just talking about his life as a child drag queen.

00:27:54.260 And it gets even creepier than some of the other ones because he posed for a photo with a drag queen named Violet Tchotchke, who is this guy who won season 7 of RuPaul's Drag Race, who in the photo was naked.

00:28:11.780 So they're now pimping out this kid, this 10-year-old little kid. 0.97

00:28:16.580 They're dressing him up like a girl and they're having him pose with naked men for the amusement of their sick and perverted audience. 0.99

00:28:25.220 This child's parents should be in prison at the very least. 0.99

00:28:29.900 They should be in prison.

00:28:31.020 The key should be thrown away at the very least.

00:28:33.560 This photographer, Jonathan Frederick Turton, should be in prison. 0.98

00:28:37.540 This is sick pedophilia. 0.99

00:28:39.500 This is sick child abuse. 0.95

00:28:41.300 If this were happening, not on the pages of glamorous leftist magazines, but in a housing project somewhere in the Bronx, that kid would be taken away from his parents. 0.86

00:28:51.920 Kids have been taken away from their parents by the state for good reason, for a hell of a lot less than putting him out in sexualized women's clothing and having him pose with naked men for magazine photos. 0.99

00:29:05.260 This is sick, sick pedophilia. 0.99

00:29:08.620 And now there is a backlash. 1.00

00:29:09.840 There's a backlash.

00:29:11.300 I see it on Twitter.

00:29:12.040 You see it from the commentary at all over magazines and blogs.

00:29:15.240 They're saying there's nothing inherently sexual about drag queens. 1.00

00:29:19.960 First of all, yes, there is.

00:29:22.040 Yes, there is.

00:29:22.840 I'm from New York.

00:29:23.680 I grew up in New York.

00:29:24.820 I've hung around the village plenty.

00:29:26.380 I've seen, you know, I've gone by drag bars.

00:29:28.980 It is inherently sexual because the idea of a drag queen is a character, a sexualized cartoonish idea of what a woman is and of what femininity is. 0.72

00:29:45.120 It isn't simply femininity.

00:29:47.320 You don't see child drag queens wearing pantsuits like Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:29:51.840 They're wearing feathered boas and they're wearing sequined dresses and it is a sexualized act. 0.99

00:29:56.460 The other kid, the other drag kid whose parents are abusing him, was recently found dancing at a gay bar with men throwing dollar bills at him.

00:30:07.800 But you're going to tell me that that's not sexualized? 0.95

00:30:09.840 Of course it is.

00:30:11.320 And you know what is certainly sexualized?

00:30:12.880 Putting that little kid in women's clothing and having him pose next to a grown naked man who himself is pretending to be a woman. 0.88

00:30:20.680 That is child abuse.

00:30:22.400 And I know that we as conservatives, we often talk about the overreaches of the government and the overreaches of the government telling us how to raise our kids, how to come into our kids' lives and our families' lives.

00:30:35.520 This is an example of where the government could come in and do a lot of good.

00:30:38.660 That those kids should be removed from their highly, horribly abusive parents.

00:30:43.340 Their abusive parents should be prosecuted, should be convicted, should at least go to prison for a very long time.

00:30:49.720 And these kids will have better lives.

00:30:51.860 The one, Desmond is amazing, his abusive parents said that when he was two or three years old, he began to explore different identities.

00:31:00.140 He's two or three years old.

00:31:01.300 He was exploring the rug when he was crawling around saying Google Gaga.

00:31:04.800 He wasn't exploring anything. 1.00

00:31:06.060 These sick pedophile freaks are imposing this on their children and ruining their lives. 0.99

00:31:12.500 Look, children who put their kids into show business generally are ruining their lives because it's a really awful industry. 0.99

00:31:18.940 You wouldn't put your kids in the coal mines when they're seven years old, and you probably shouldn't put them in front of a camera either.

00:31:24.140 But even that is one thing.

00:31:26.600 Even that can lead to a career.

00:31:28.220 It usually is a destructive life.

00:31:29.900 But that's one thing. 0.99

00:31:32.780 But to put your kid in this sexualized sphere for the edification and the amusement and the pleasure of sick pedophile men is rank abuse. 0.99

00:31:42.720 And it's going to ruin these kids' lives. 0.99

00:31:45.700 They never had the choice to decide that they wanted to be drag queens at 2, 3, 4.

00:31:50.700 They don't have the choice to do it at 7, 8, 9, or 10 either.

00:31:53.680 It's a great irony of leftism right now that we're told that consent is everything.

00:31:58.300 We need informed consent about everything.

00:32:00.320 If you're going to kiss a girl, she's got to sign a notarized contract in order to do it. 1.00

00:32:03.780 Oh, and also, dress up your 8-year-old kid who obviously cannot give consent. 0.97

00:32:08.780 Dress him up in dresses and have perverted men throw dollar bills at him at a bar. 0.83

00:32:13.180 That's a good idea too.

00:32:14.440 It's this paradox.

00:32:15.620 There are these contradictions within leftism because leftism does not have any coherent philosophy.

00:32:22.000 It is an ideology that is primarily attacking tradition.

00:32:26.000 It is attacking our tradition, our civilization, and the West broadly. 0.90

00:32:31.240 We'll get to that a little bit later on this day in history.

00:32:34.260 But we should never fail to point out when the left contradicts itself because it doesn't care about logical coherence.

00:32:41.140 It doesn't care about logical coherence, and it doesn't care about these little kids' lives.

00:32:44.860 It just cares about attacking tradition and attacking Big Daddy at the top of the imaginary patriarchy that haunts their fever dreams.

00:32:53.940 Really disgusting stuff.

00:32:55.400 And I hope that lawmakers are listening in Canada and the United States, and I hope law enforcement is listening in Canada and the United States.

00:33:01.260 And I hope you take these kids out of their awful abusive environments, and I hope that you throw these awful parents in the clink and throw away the key.

00:33:10.460 Another terrible idea that's going on right now in society is Starbucks.

00:33:14.860 Starbucks now installing needle disposal boxes in some of its bathrooms.

00:33:19.540 This is after a 3,700 signature petition from Coworker.org.

00:33:25.860 You remember a little while ago when Starbucks said that everyone is welcome in the store.

00:33:32.640 You don't need to buy a product.

00:33:33.740 You don't need to be a customer.

00:33:35.160 If we don't let vagabonds in to live here and do drugs, we're racist somehow.

00:33:40.380 So shock, surprise, surprise, it turns out that Starbucks has turned into a homeless shelter.

00:33:44.800 And when you go into the bathroom now, employees have been stuck by needles that have been left over by drug addicts,

00:33:50.520 potentially exposing them to hepatitis or HIV or anything else.

00:33:54.340 So now these co-workers are saying we don't want to step on needles while we're doing our job at the coffee shop, figure out a way to stop this.

00:34:01.020 Starbucks has two choices.

00:34:02.420 They can either kick out vagabond drug addicts, as they should, or they can install needle disposal cartons in the bathrooms, 0.94

00:34:10.640 which is what it sounds like they're going to do.

00:34:12.880 And the trouble is Starbucks, because it's such a prominent industry leader, can set the tone and other places can follow suit.

00:34:20.100 This is broadly reflected in our debate on criminal justice reform.

00:34:25.500 And I know a lot of right-wingers are in conflict on this question.

00:34:30.080 Should we let a lot of criminals out of prison?

00:34:32.320 Is that compassionate or should we not do that?

00:34:35.340 Should we try to lock up criminals and be a little harsher on crime?

00:34:38.500 The answer is be harsher on crime, period.

00:34:40.960 There is nothing compassionate, nothing compassionate about Starbucks allowing drug-addled vagabonds to come in and further damage their lives 1.00

00:34:50.200 and further inject poison in their veins and give them incentives to do it by giving them a place to dispose their needles.

00:34:58.120 There's nothing compassionate about allowing their employees to be possibly exposed to HIV and other diseases just for coming in and working at a coffee shop.

00:35:07.560 There's nothing compassionate about having customers who tend to be sort of millennial yuppies just in there writing the next great American novel or something.

00:35:16.200 There's nothing compassionate about having them in that disgusting environment.

00:35:19.440 There's nothing right.

00:35:20.260 There's nothing just.

00:35:21.140 There's nothing moral about that. 0.99

00:35:23.260 Throw these people, first of all, throw them out of the Starbucks shop. 1.00

00:35:26.980 But then broadly, what do you do?

00:35:28.240 As homeless populations increase, tent cities crop up all over Los Angeles, where I live,

00:35:33.220 and all over San Francisco, it's gotten so much worse there, feces in the street, truly, what is the solution?

00:35:41.740 You can either give them incentives.

00:35:43.800 This is why the left doesn't understand economics, so you've got to really make it simple for them.

00:35:47.420 You can either give them incentives not to do drugs and defecate in the street, or you can give them incentives to do all of those things.

00:35:55.100 If we took all of these people and offered them a choice, said you can either go to a shelter where you can't do drugs, or you can go to prison, that would clear up the problem.

00:36:05.580 Rudy Giuliani basically did that in the 90s in New York, and it turned New York into Disneyland.

00:36:10.000 It turned a disgusting crime-ridden city into a relatively quite nice place to live. 0.97

00:36:14.960 Throw them in prison. 0.98

00:36:15.980 If you throw them in prison, they will sober up, I promise you.

00:36:18.740 Now, this question, a debate constantly among conservatives is, is the drug war a good thing or a bad thing?

00:36:25.240 And you see the kind of divisions among conservative thought, which I celebrate.

00:36:28.840 It's a good thing that we have intellectual diversity on the right.

00:36:31.560 The left certainly doesn't have it.

00:36:33.100 But the drug war is a good thing.

00:36:34.480 It's a necessary thing.

00:36:36.780 It's not the ideal of the libertarian, stateless society or whatever fantasies are put forward by political theorists.

00:36:45.700 But we are in the midst of a horrific opioid epidemic.

00:36:50.320 We see that policies where we encourage people to have new needles and live on the street and defecate wherever they want do not help the problem.

00:36:58.420 They exacerbate the problem.

00:37:00.020 The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

00:37:02.540 And it's a moral confusion that we're suffering from that we only see this very narrow, perverse idea of compassion.

00:37:10.260 And we're not realizing the awful damage that we're doing to society broadly.

00:37:14.580 I've also got to talk about this day in history.

00:37:18.120 Speaking of the road to hell being paved with good intentions.

00:37:22.260 Because this day in history, two days in history.

00:37:25.020 On this day in history in 1942, Japanese internment policy went into effect.

00:37:30.460 This was from Franklin Roosevelt.

00:37:32.940 This came through Proclamation number 2537.

00:37:36.840 And it's sort of misunderstood.

00:37:38.340 The way that Japanese internment first worked is that all foreign aliens, illegal aliens, or resident aliens from the Axis nations, Germany, Italy, and Japan, had to register with the U.S. Department of Justice.

00:37:52.060 Following this, there was the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

00:37:57.600 Then finally, in 1942, there was the Executive Order 9066, which authorized the physical removal of all Japanese Americans.

00:38:05.580 Even if you had as little as one-sixteenth Japanese ancestry, you could be physically, forcibly moved into an internment camp.

00:38:13.380 The reason I bring this up is because it's not brought up very much in American politics.

00:38:18.640 And the reason it's not brought up very much is it doesn't look very good for progressives and Democrats.

00:38:23.420 So every crime committed by anyone who could vaguely be called conservative is constantly rehashed, dating all the way back to the Crusades.

00:38:30.600 We constantly hear about that.

00:38:32.220 You don't hear terribly much about Japanese internment.

00:38:34.940 And the reason is this.

00:38:36.900 When conservatives and Republicans point out that Democrats have an awful history, a party history of misery, from slavery to Jim Crow to disfranchising people to lynchings, on and on and on, they say, well, that was before the parties switched.

00:38:56.580 Those guys were conservative Democrats.

00:38:59.120 They weren't progressive Democrats. 0.90

00:39:01.060 And they sort of get away with this silly argument.

00:39:04.940 You can't get away with that with Franklin Roosevelt.

00:39:08.120 Franklin Roosevelt invented our welfare state.

00:39:11.940 If Franklin Roosevelt wasn't a progressive, who was a progressive?

00:39:16.000 Franklin Roosevelt is one of the presidents that Democrats and progressives hold up as one of the greats in history.

00:39:21.320 Him and Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon Johnson.

00:39:25.660 Those are the three big ones for progressives.

00:39:27.920 But Franklin Roosevelt is the one who issued Japanese internment.

00:39:31.520 This is historically a big problem for Democrats.

00:39:35.360 They can't get around it.

00:39:36.120 We should point it out.

00:39:37.640 Because the logical conclusion of leftist, big government, socialist governments taking over the industries, the logical conclusion of that is that they can control you.

00:39:49.360 They can move you.

00:39:50.560 They can take your property.

00:39:52.080 They can take your livelihood. 0.98

00:39:53.620 They can take where you live and move it to someplace else.

00:39:56.320 I've been writing a lot about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the dangers posed by socialism.

00:40:04.680 And you always hear, oh, well, socialism, it's fine.

00:40:07.800 Stop demagoguing.

00:40:08.780 So what's the big deal?

00:40:09.980 You get free health care.

00:40:11.080 As Ronald Reagan pointed out, the government big enough to give you everything that you have is, everything that you want, rather, is big enough to take away everything that you have.

00:40:20.480 And nowhere do you see that more clearly than in the leftist progressive legacy of Franklin Roosevelt.

00:40:27.980 We also have to talk about, speaking of political philosophy, on this day in history, in 1639, the first constitution in any American colony came to be the fundamental orders in Hartford, Connecticut.

00:40:40.480 And this was a binding compact.

00:40:42.760 It was a frame of government.

00:40:44.400 The reason that I bring up this obscure colony constitution is because it really shows us an important aspect of what we conservatives should think about when we frame our political philosophy with regard to modern politics.

00:41:01.160 I think conservatives talk too much about the constitution.

00:41:05.040 I do.

00:41:05.880 I know that will sound controversial.

00:41:07.800 I love the constitution.

00:41:09.480 I think it's one of the greatest documents ever written.

00:41:12.180 I can't love it enough.

00:41:14.080 However, I think we fall into this trap as conservatives of only focusing on this one document, on the constitution.

00:41:22.760 We say it's written in the constitution.

00:41:24.540 Therefore, that's the be all and end all.

00:41:27.100 That's the beginning and the end of the country.

00:41:28.920 And we have to follow it.

00:41:30.540 And if we don't follow it, we've gone terribly wrong.

00:41:32.260 And why aren't people following it?

00:41:33.400 And come on, guys, don't you remember?

00:41:34.520 It's right there written on the wire.

00:41:35.480 Why aren't you doing it?

00:41:36.040 And we get very frustrated by this because at least half of our country broadly disregards the constitution regularly.

00:41:43.200 The constitution is not the beginning of our country.

00:41:45.740 It's not even the first constitution in the history of our country.

00:41:48.400 That's the beautiful thing about our country.

00:41:50.800 And that view is the essence of conservative thought.

00:41:54.660 Our country didn't spring into being magically in 1776 or 1789 or 1787 or 1791.

00:42:02.540 It doesn't.

00:42:03.140 Or the 1800 president.

00:42:04.060 It doesn't.

00:42:04.920 It happens organically.

00:42:06.620 It happened through evolution, not just revolution.

00:42:10.020 And even the American Revolution was a fairly conservative revolution.

00:42:13.420 We kept so much from the English system of government.

00:42:17.120 We got rid of the king.

00:42:18.080 We booted him out.

00:42:19.000 But we kept so much.

00:42:20.480 And that society had been built organically, not just since 1775, but since 1620, since the pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower,

00:42:28.680 since more settlers arrived in the New World, since more Englishmen arrived in the New World,

00:42:32.880 and created colonies and formed colonies.

00:42:35.360 And those colonies worked with each other variously and ultimately came together,

00:42:39.400 not because of the proclamation of some rationalist theorist sitting in an ivory tower somewhere,

00:42:46.460 but through the people of those colonies and their representatives working together to form and fight for specific goals,

00:42:54.480 to form together to fight the French and Indian War,

00:42:57.400 to come together to fight certain onerous taxes passed by the parliament and King George,

00:43:02.400 to fight certain onerous regulations that they didn't like.

00:43:05.760 It came together through evolution, not revolution.

00:43:08.340 This is the heart of what Edmund Burke talks about and what Russell Kirk talks about

00:43:12.800 and what the conservative tradition in the post-war conservative movement really talks about.

00:43:18.360 I put a question up on Twitter last week and I said,

00:43:21.280 if you were a conservative, for all the conservatives, how would you best describe your views?

00:43:25.920 And I gave a few options.

00:43:27.080 Obviously, there are a lot of others.

00:43:28.940 I said, would you say you're a traditionalist, you're a libertarian or classical liberal,

00:43:33.780 you're a neoconservative, or you're on the religious right?

00:43:38.340 And I think broadly that those four categories describe the different types of conservative out there today.

00:43:45.540 And by far, people said classical liberal or libertarian.

00:43:50.080 And traditionalist came in a little smaller.

00:43:52.860 I think we've got to recover some of that because that is the essence of conservatism.

00:43:56.800 We're conserving something.

00:43:59.480 And we're not just old fogies.

00:44:00.940 We're talking about a tradition which is actually not the old thing.

00:44:05.260 It's the newest thing we have because it's endured throughout the ages.

00:44:08.640 It transmits wisdom from our earliest ancestors in ancient Greece.

00:44:14.500 It transports wisdom from throughout the ages that we can still access,

00:44:18.820 which by trial and error has been helpful to us

00:44:21.660 and which by prescription we can possibly understand in the future.

00:44:25.900 You know, the two virtues which I think define the conservative over the leftist are prudence and humility.

00:44:35.140 Prudence, which we get from ancient Greece, which we get from Aristotle,

00:44:39.600 being wise in our judgment, taking care of whole contexts and saying,

00:44:45.560 well, we should maybe be a little cautious here.

00:44:47.560 This is a good, okay, this is fine, being prudent.

00:44:49.300 And then humility, which is an innovation of Christianity.

00:44:53.260 Obviously, conservatives are much more humble than leftists.

00:44:57.540 We don't think we're going to construct the utopian society.

00:45:00.300 We don't think that our ideas are the only ideas in the whole wide world.

00:45:03.960 We don't insist that everyone toes the party line or if they don't, we're going to shut them up.

00:45:08.640 It's kind of funny to brag about how humble you are.

00:45:10.720 It sort of undercuts your argument.

00:45:12.080 But the conservatives just demonstrably are much more humble.

00:45:15.020 And when we have a humility, because the beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord,

00:45:20.480 is an awe and is a wonder and is a humility.

00:45:22.740 When we have a humility, not just to the other people living today,

00:45:26.280 but to the democracy of the dead, to our forefathers,

00:45:29.120 to the people that we should be grateful for, for forging our country,

00:45:32.520 not in one big moment, but over generations and generations and generations,

00:45:36.360 that gives you an historical wisdom that will not just let you look back in history,

00:45:40.380 but will allow you to look forward with a little bit of prescription

00:45:43.220 and a little bit of wisdom to see how we should craft our country in the future.

00:45:47.800 All right, that's our show.

00:45:48.560 We ran out of time.

00:45:49.340 We've got a lot more to get to, though, so we'll do it tomorrow.

00:45:51.280 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:45:52.280 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:45:53.480 I'll see you tomorrow.

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00:46:21.900 Hey, guys, over on The Matt Walsh Show today,

00:46:25.200 we're going to talk about a pastor who lost his job

00:46:27.840 because he took a biblical position on sexual morality and gender.

00:46:33.640 I've got a few things to say about that.

00:46:36.000 We're going to talk about it.

00:46:36.760 Also, I want to discuss the habit that some Christians have of proof texting, 0.52

00:46:42.860 which is cherry-picking certain biblical passages

00:46:45.340 to support their heretical and erroneous views.

00:46:49.400 It's a very dangerous practice,

00:46:51.260 and we're going to talk about all of that today

00:46:53.800 over on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:47:34.500 Good Rick.

00:47:35.480 Okay.

00:47:35.780 Good Rick.

00:47:36.440 Good Rick.

00:47:36.740 Good Rick.

00:47:37.840 What is the best word?

00:47:39.360 Good Rick?

00:47:39.880 Allah.

00:47:40.380 That's lovely to be.

00:47:41.040 Good Rick.

00:47:42.160 Allah.

00:47:43.120 Michael hoarder.

00:47:43.780 Thank you all.

00:47:44.320 Allah.

00:47:44.640 Allah.

00:47:44.840 baby.

00:47:46.900 Take care.

00:47:48.680 Also.

00:47:49.320 Have you devolved?

00:47:50.880 enuncias.

00:47:51.560 Again,

00:47:52.100 enough people.

00:47:52.680 가지 car

00:47:53.120 and the time and the time.

00:47:53.220 Be the customeris and their displeries.

00:47:54.320 Have you ever talked about wit?

00:47:55.420 Or is our fund?

00:47:57.160 You know they have nuts who are hurt.

00:47:57.620 Have you ever asked me if perguntas. 1.00

00:47:59.220 I'm sorry.

00:48:00.020 Get this one?

00:48:01.000 You'll see them.

00:48:01.240 Your numbers are tied.

00:48:02.100 But wait a lot of input.

The Michael Knowles Show - January 14, 2019

Ep. 279 - The Shutdown Is Working

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