The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 284 - Oh, Is The Government Shut Down？

00:00:00.000 With all this excitement about baby Hitler and punching teenagers, does anybody even remember 0.89

00:00:04.860 that the government is shut down? We will analyze where the impasse stands. Then more mediocre

00:00:10.840 presidential candidates enter the race for the Democrats. We take a look at the case for Kamala

00:00:15.780 and wonder how Kirsten Gillibrand ever got elected to the Senate in the first place.

00:00:20.420 Finally, the culture of death in Holland on the 46th anniversary of Roe versus Wade.

00:00:25.540 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 You know, I do have to point out before we get started here, yesterday I spent virtually all

00:00:39.520 of the show talking about how the mainstream media and politicians and pundits on the left and the

00:00:45.080 right and parts of the Catholic Church totally maligned, unfairly defamed, smeared those Covington

00:00:53.860 High School kids from the video clip in Washington, D.C. So I was talking about that for most of the

00:00:58.860 show yesterday. I then, right after the show, I went and I did an interview for EWTN, which is the

00:01:04.920 Catholic News Channel, and we were talking about the same issue. We were talking a little bit about

00:01:08.920 the March for Life, and okay. Immediately after I finished the interview for the Catholic News

00:01:13.660 Channel, I go to my computer and I am notified that my episode of my show for that day has been

00:01:19.960 banned in the Holy See. It was banned in Vatican City. It was banned all around there, and China,

00:01:27.260 and China, which a note for the Holy See, when you find yourself on the side of China, you're probably

00:01:34.960 doing something wrong, especially when it comes to free speech and matters of the church and the faith.

00:01:41.720 So I find that very amusing that my criticism, apparently, who knows, maybe it was a mistake,

00:01:48.800 maybe it was a mistake from YouTube, but apparently the one episode in which I really criticize

00:01:54.340 some prominent priests and some prominent bishops and archbishops gets my show banned in the Holy See

00:02:02.040 and the Vatican. I don't know which force, if this was intentional, I don't know which forces in the

00:02:08.540 Holy See have conspired to ban my very dangerous episode where I just lay out the facts of this

00:02:16.560 event and non-traversy in Washington, D.C., but whoever they are, I guess you're known by your

00:02:21.880 friends and you're known by your adversaries, so I get a real kick out of that. One of the few

00:02:27.440 popular podcasts hosted by a Catholic has been banned, at least one episode, in the Vatican City.

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00:04:13.640 You probably don't remember that. This is a wonderful moment in our politics where what

00:04:19.460 should be the biggest story, Democrats have held this over Republicans' heads for years. If you shut

00:04:23.940 down the government, the people are going to go crazy. They're going to throw you out of office.

00:04:26.920 It's proving the adage which Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana, said, which is you'll

00:04:32.600 be amazed at how much government you won't miss. And that's what we're seeing here. People don't

00:04:37.840 even know that this shutdown is happening. We're talking about the Covington kids. We're talking

00:04:41.920 about baby Hitler. Nobody notices because, frankly, at this point, it may be the strategy of the Trump

00:04:48.640 administration to just keep these federal workers away forever. These non-essential employees,

00:04:53.800 we are not missing any government. So what are we going to get? Are we going to get a compromise?

00:05:00.940 Are we going to get a deal? President Trump has offered a proposal, a deal. And the deal is pretty

00:05:09.520 simple. He's offering partial DACA relief, partial relief for the dreamers or the illegal aliens brought 0.94

00:05:18.180 here before the age of 18 in exchange for part of the border wall. It's not amnesty for DACA. It's not

00:05:25.760 the whole border wall. It's a temporary relief, a few years where the DACA people won't get deported 1.00

00:05:31.500 for a little bit of wall funding. And just take a guess at how the mainstream media and Democrats

00:05:38.620 are treating this proposal.

00:05:39.960 Senate Republicans are pushing for that vote on the president's so-called compromise. That's the

00:05:45.360 plan that would provide temporary protections for dreamers in exchange for the $5.7 billion that the

00:05:50.580 president has been demanding for his wall. But Democrats say it is dead on arrival. They will

00:05:55.420 not vote for it. They are adamant that they won't negotiate until Republicans agree to reopen the

00:06:00.600 government. And there are no signs that they're going to cave on that. George, the Senate Democratic

00:06:03.780 leader Chuck Schumer saying, quote, it's very hard to negotiate when a gun is being held to your head.

00:06:07.740 Oh, wow. That's a big quote. It's very hard to negotiate when a gun is being held to your head.

00:06:12.960 So the Democrats are saying they won't negotiate until Trump reopens the government, which is to say

00:06:17.360 they won't negotiate until Trump gives them everything they want and they get and he has to

00:06:22.320 give or he gets nothing in return. Rather, they won't negotiate until Donald Trump gives up the

00:06:27.920 entire negotiation. And the mainstream media are applauding them for this. You know, it would be

00:06:32.360 pretty interesting to see how this would be covered if it were a Democrat president and the

00:06:36.340 Republicans were the ones in the Congress who were refusing to come to the table or deal with

00:06:40.920 any negotiations. What President Trump offered is a totally fair proposal. If anything, it's got

00:06:46.240 people on the right very upset because they don't want any even partial amnesty for DACA. Now, the more

00:06:54.280 moderate Democrats, the more reasonable Democrats are the ones who are saying, hmm, possibly we should

00:07:00.620 take this deal. Possibly we should reopen the government. Then we can actually try to negotiate

00:07:05.000 around the edges, try to expand protections for DACA, whatever. But the Democrats are being held

00:07:10.900 hostage by a radical base. And don't just take my word for it. Take the word of a well-known Democrat,

00:07:16.860 major former news anchorman, Tom Brokaw.

00:07:19.920 It's a very troubling time. I think the Democrats are as much to blame right now as the Republicans

00:07:25.660 are. They've got control of the House, but they're mostly just, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're not going to

00:07:30.180 do what you want to do. I haven't seen a grand plan. And you've got the young people running

00:07:34.660 through the halls who are the new members of Congress who are conducting pep rallies every

00:07:39.080 day instead of getting together with the more moderate people or the people from the people

00:07:45.300 from the Midwest who have won in Ohio and Wisconsin and Minnesota where they need to win again if

00:07:50.560 they're going to get control. But they're being driven hard by the left.

00:07:54.040 So Tom Brokaw going pretty hard after specifically Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and all of these other

00:08:00.360 freshman members of Congress who are holding their party hostage. And I think he's got this right,

00:08:05.620 Tom Brokaw, as a more old guard Democrat. But look, he is a left winger. He was the anchor of NBC

00:08:12.140 News. He is the guy. He is the mainstream media. And even he is pointing this out. It's a tough spot

00:08:18.120 for Pelosi. Why would Pelosi take a deal when she's got to fight her base, which is

00:08:24.020 rather radical. And they're the ones who go out and donate money. They're the ones who go out

00:08:28.460 and hand out palm cards. They're the ones who matter when it comes to primary elections.

00:08:34.060 They're the base. And the majority of Americans who do want a deal. They're not answerable to that.

00:08:40.300 Even President Trump isn't really answerable. But the way you see it right now, President Trump

00:08:44.300 has offered a compromise. Democrats have offered no compromise. I mean, when they say,

00:08:48.240 we will not negotiate until you reopen the government, the entire fight is over whether

00:08:54.020 and how to reopen the government. So there is no, they're just saying we will not compromise for

00:09:00.080 even Tom Brokaw to point that out is pretty illuminating. Ann Coulter, of course, takes

00:09:04.300 exactly the opposite approach. Ann Coulter tweeted out, quote, 100 miles of border wall in exchange for

00:09:11.560 amnestying millions of illegals. So if we grant citizenship to a billion foreigners,

00:09:16.500 maybe we can finally get a full border wall. Because Ann, who previously had written

00:09:23.400 e pluribus awesome in Trump we trust, has been disillusioned with the administration and is very

00:09:31.260 upset now because she thinks President Trump is going to cave on this. And it's a serious fear.

00:09:36.600 But when conservatives are debating, is this a good proposal from President Trump or a bad proposal?

00:09:42.600 Is it a good deal or a bad deal? Temporary relief for DACA in exchange for part of the border wall?

00:09:49.280 It actually seems like a pretty good deal, only in so much as the dreamers, so-called, already have

00:09:56.720 de facto amnesty. At the moment, what they have is they're not being deported. They're not really

00:10:03.200 even being used as a political bargaining chip because they're the most sympathetic of the group of

00:10:10.140 illegal aliens. So all President Trump is saying in this deal is, okay, we'll put off deporting

00:10:15.480 them a few more years in exchange for part of the border wall. It gives both sides the ability to

00:10:21.040 walk away, which is really what needs to happen for this government to reopen. The other thing that

00:10:26.080 needs to happen for the government to reopen is for people to care about the shutdown. And I think

00:10:30.400 ultimately that's why this shutdown is now on its, what, 32nd day or 33rd day, longest shutdown in

00:10:36.020 American history, it, people don't feel it. And so if they don't feel it, then President Trump gets

00:10:41.520 to rally his base, Nancy Pelosi gets to rally her base, and there's no reason to reopen it. I think

00:10:47.260 broadly so far, this is still a win for Republicans. The longer that this is drawn on, it's true that 0.55

00:10:54.780 President Trump took a slight hit in popularity, but the wall has gotten much more popular and

00:11:00.640 government has seemed much less necessary. All of this bloated federal government has seemed a lot

00:11:05.740 less necessary during the shutdown. So I guess keep it up. I, as long as President Trump doesn't offer

00:11:11.380 a final fix of amnesty, as long as he doesn't say in exchange for part of the wall, we will give

00:11:17.340 these illegal aliens, dreamers, we will give them permanent residency or amnesty or citizenship or 0.99

00:11:26.260 whatever. As long as he's short of that, the other added benefit is that he's showing the country that

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00:12:57.280 I've got breaking, shocking news. Kamala Harris is running for president. We knew it was going to

00:13:03.080 happen. Here's the opener. Truth, justice, decency, equality, freedom, democracy. These aren't just

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00:13:59.620 Wow. I'm just really got all that groove. I feel like I'm in my mood mix just listening to that fun

00:14:04.180 opener. So it's kind of a boring, typical political platitudes. But you do get a sense of the mood.

00:14:12.480 Peggy Noonan had a good column in the Wall Street Journal recently where she said running for president

00:14:17.180 now is not about ideas. It's not about proposals. It's about mood. It's not even so much personality.

00:14:24.160 It's mood. What kind of mood are you in? And so this is a fairly slick video. Nothing really new here.

00:14:31.940 The Intercept had an interesting question, which is now percolating, which is the problem for Kamala

00:14:37.540 Harris is whether or not a prosecutor can become the president or at least the Democrat nominee in the

00:14:44.520 age of Black Lives Matter. Brianna Gray had written that piece because Kamala Harris, unfortunately for 1.00

00:14:51.620 her, has a record. She made her career as a prosecutor. It's why all this cool, hip, my mood mix stuff is

00:14:58.180 probably going to fall flat as it's not that authentic. She's a lawyer. She's a prosecutor, 0.93

00:15:02.560 obviously a pretty successful prosecutor. She became an attorney general of California, then senator,

00:15:08.180 and now she's running for president. She was pretty tough, pretty tough on crime. But in an age where 0.99

00:15:13.020 even Republicans are running away from being tough on crime, in an age where President Trump is bragging

00:15:19.720 about how he's letting a lot of criminals out of prison, is a prosecutor really going to work to

00:15:25.000 win the Democrat nomination? I'm not so sure about that. And so this is a real problem for her, and I

00:15:31.640 think she recognizes that it's a real problem. So what she's doing is she's totally running in the

00:15:37.320 direction of identity politics. She's been doing this for a long time, but she's really honed in on

00:15:43.400 it. So when did she release her announcement? Martin Luther King Day. This big day. She's

00:15:48.260 identifying herself. In that video, the mood mix video, she talked about how she's from Oakland,

00:15:55.660 about how she was a young Black woman, and that's why songs about young Black women really inspired her.

00:16:02.740 She said that her favorite song is from Funkadelic, and she's really playing into the mood of these

00:16:09.880 identity politics. This is a real trouble for her, though, because we're in an age of 4K video.

00:16:18.380 We're in an age of Instagram Live. We're in an age of filming our dental cleanings. We're in an age

00:16:25.040 where it's very difficult to hide your genuine self. This is sort of an advantage for the public.

00:16:31.200 You know, when Franklin Roosevelt was president, most people didn't realize he was in a wheelchair

00:16:35.800 because the press covered it up. The press would cover up for JFK's marital infidelities. They'd

00:16:41.940 cover up for LBJ's many marital infidelities. There was a huge distance. Even President Reagan,

00:16:48.240 not no infidelities, but President Reagan was a scripted president. He would write all his lines

00:16:53.900 out really carefully. He was an actor. He was really polished. There was a distance between the

00:17:02.000 candidate, the president, and the people. That is gone. We've elected a reality TV star president.

00:17:09.040 And really, Barack Obama was the first one to advance this because he was the first president

00:17:15.140 of the social media age. Donald Trump has blown it up. The press secretary, Sarah Sanders,

00:17:20.920 doesn't need to give press conferences because President Trump is tweeting all the time.

00:17:25.780 He was joking about this. He said, well, I told Sarah, she doesn't need to go out there to the 0.99

00:17:29.020 podium because you'll all lie about her anyway. And what's the difference? We're communicating to

00:17:33.540 the American people. And it's true. He is. He's communicating himself through Twitter. And in

00:17:37.660 this age of constant contact of high definition video, I don't know that Kamala Harris can portray

00:17:45.500 herself as this fun mood mix, you know, introductory video dancing candidate who's a mood, who's a mood

00:17:55.720 of identity and hide her record. I mean, she was a prosecutor when you've, when you're an unknown

00:18:01.380 entity such as Barack Obama was really before he ran for president. When people don't know a lot

00:18:06.720 about you, they can throw their hopes and dreams on you. When you're a known entity, especially when

00:18:11.920 you're in a field of probably 20 Democrat candidates, they are going to dig up every single case that

00:18:17.580 she ever worked on. There's already stories that are percolating of how she fought to keep an

00:18:23.580 innocent man in jail in the age of criminal justice reform, in the age of Me Too. I'm not sure that

00:18:29.380 that is going to work really well, but she's not, certainly not the worst candidate. Speaking of

00:18:34.680 highly mediocre candidates, Kirsten Gillibrand continues to humiliate herself. And this time 1.00

00:18:42.480 it came at the hands of none other than Jake Tapper. You said Trump's immigration positions

00:18:47.520 are racist. That's a, that's the word you use racist. Now, as you know, you were more conservative

00:18:54.260 early on in your career on immigration. CNN's K files out with a new report this week on your 2008

00:18:58.960 campaign website and a mailer sent from your congressional office back then a long time ago, but still

00:19:04.420 in your, in your public life. Take a look. You said that you were a quote, firm opponent of giving

00:19:09.520 quote, amnesty to illegal aliens, unquote. You said English should be quote, the official language of

00:19:14.240 the United States. You called for expediting deportation of undocumented immigrants. Now I know you have very 1.00

00:19:19.220 different positions today, but let me ask you if Trump's immigration positions are racist, were they

00:19:24.820 racist when you held some of those positions as well? They certainly weren't empathetic and they were

00:19:31.020 not kind. And I did not think about suffering in other people's lives. Oh my gosh. That is so

00:19:38.700 brutal. That is so brutal. I mean, Jake Tapper does this every once in a while. He's usually very

00:19:45.280 frustrating and he's a left winger and all that. Every once in a while though, you got to give him

00:19:49.600 credit. He does come swinging around and plays fair, at least briefly. And so he asks this question,

00:19:56.820 Senator Gillibrand, do you still beat your wife? And she stammers. She has no answer. And this is the

00:20:03.680 problem of, of Kirsten Gillibrand. If it's a problem for Kamala Harris, it's much worse for

00:20:10.120 Kirsten Gillibrand. She stands for nothing. She means nothing. She is Hillary without the charisma 0.98

00:20:16.500 and utter mediocrity. It is a question as to how she ever became a Senator in New York in the first

00:20:23.100 place. It's probably because New York politics are very smoke filled room. They're decided by a

00:20:30.900 corrupt cabal of people. It all takes place on the state level up in Albany, which is in the middle of

00:20:36.480 nowhere and has a lot of room for corruption to fester. She's just so, so weak and she's sold her 1.00

00:20:43.300 political soul. I mean, she's in a very tough position because she modeled herself after Hillary 1.00

00:20:47.860 and she was going to be moderate. And she first was running when all of the country agreed that

00:20:55.100 people shouldn't break our laws and we should prioritize citizens over non-citizens. Now her 1.00

00:21:00.580 party has run far to the left. And because she's still just nothing, she's got to run to wherever

00:21:07.200 the heat is and she's got to become something that she isn't. Jake Tapper wouldn't let her get away

00:21:12.860 with it. Other people aren't letting her get away with it either. And the 20 other Democrats who are

00:21:18.300 going to be running for president are certainly going to skewer this poor woman. She even got 1.00

00:21:23.260 skewered on ABC's This Week trying to run so far to the left. And Senator, lastly, I want to get your

00:21:29.700 reaction to the BuzzFeed report suggesting President Trump instructed his former attorney Michael Cohen to

00:21:35.740 lie to Congress about a proposed Trump Tower Moscow deal. The special counsel's office disputed that

00:21:41.720 report. What was your reaction? And did Democrats seize on that report too quickly?

00:21:47.720 The report is highly concerning, Martha. It just shows more evidence that perhaps this president did

00:21:53.760 obstruct justice. It shows that even though the special counsel disputes it. Martha, it raises a

00:22:02.400 question in my mind that is very serious. And so what we need is Mueller to be able to finish his

00:22:07.520 investigation. And one of the things that I'm most concerned about is that Senator McConnell will not

00:22:13.000 let a bipartisan bill come to the Senate floor to allow us to protect that investigation, to make sure

00:22:19.000 he cannot be fired prematurely. And the law says he can only be fired for cause. And so what our bill

00:22:25.440 does is it goes to a judge. So a judge can make an in-camera decision about whether this was done

00:22:30.080 properly and preserve all the evidence. So we have to protect the Mueller investigation. We need the facts.

00:22:34.360 And so this just shows how urgent that investigation is.

00:22:38.280 Okay. Thanks very much for joining us this morning, Senator.

00:22:40.900 Thank you, Martha.

00:22:42.060 Oh, it's so awkward to watch because this was the moment in English class when the teacher asks, you know,

00:22:50.920 what did you think about the book? What did you think about chapter four? And then, you know, you didn't read

00:22:57.520 the chapter. And so you say, well, you know, and you just spout all these vagaries. And she said, what? What are you?

00:23:03.060 Are you? You're talking about a different book. What are you? That character is not in the book.

00:23:07.340 What are you? And then you just start spinning. You're just, well, but really what I meant is it,

00:23:11.260 well, and, and, and, and another thing is I had a bagel for breakfast this morning and, uh,

00:23:15.100 and anyway, thank you so much for asking me the question. Thank you. So, so awkward and cringe

00:23:20.820 inducing because now she's saying that a, a, a totally discredited report from Buzzfeed is evidence

00:23:29.060 that we have to attack Donald Trump. I don't know. What is it evidence of? It doesn't mean

00:23:34.920 anything. The, the Buzzfeed hit job was so egregiously wrong that the special counsel,

00:23:41.540 which famously does not speak to the press issued its first statement in a year to say it wasn't

00:23:48.140 true. What is she talking about? Just a total mediocrity. And, uh, and yet she'll be running. 0.97

00:23:55.340 And, and so you look around the field and you think, gosh, Kamala Harris is relatively

00:23:59.240 good compared to her. Joe Biden is probably going to run. Who knows though? He hasn't been

00:24:03.820 tested in a little while. Beto is a fine candidate, I guess, but he's a straight white man, ostensibly

00:24:09.360 in a, in intersectional race. Bernie is a hundred years old. And you start looking and they're all

00:24:16.440 weak candidates, but there is one candidate that the Democrats agree they want to see run for

00:24:22.220 president. One candidate so strong, so powerful, so compelling that 74% of Democrats want her to be 1.00

00:24:32.340 their nominee for president. Do you know who that person is? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. We will get to

00:24:39.720 why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is actually offering the American people something that they want. 0.55

00:24:45.820 We will get to the heart of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's legitimate appeal in just a second. But first,

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00:26:51.180 A new Axios survey monkey poll shows that 74% would vote for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:26:59.620 This is very, very terrifying. I think that's 74% of Democrats. I don't think that's 74% of the

00:27:06.440 country. Highly doubt that. But she has a legitimate appeal and she is legitimately showing 1.00

00:27:14.080 us something about politics. And some conservatives don't want to admit it because she's very ignorant 1.00

00:27:19.680 and doesn't speak like a terribly educated or serious person. But she is offering something real.

00:27:25.620 First of all, she's pretty good at politics. I think she's basically only ever done politics. 0.78

00:27:30.680 She's been an activist. I guess she was briefly a bartender and she was just always trying to run

00:27:36.080 for office. And then she became a very young congresswoman. Here is just the sort of example

00:27:40.700 though of her natural aptitude for politics. What would you say to some of those people who have

00:27:45.760 concerns about anti-Semitism within the Women's March group? Absolutely. Well, first of all,

00:27:50.080 I think that right now in this moment in the United States, we have to center this conversation.

00:27:54.940 I think that concerns of anti-Semitism with the current administration and the White House are

00:28:00.640 absolutely valid. And we need to make sure that we are protecting the Jewish community and all those

00:28:05.720 that feel vulnerable in this moment. I think right now, as it pertains to today, it's so important to

00:28:11.700 recognize why all of these women are coming together. And the reason all of these people are coming 1.00

00:28:17.640 together is to make sure that the rights of women are protected and advanced.

00:28:21.840 Okay. So you'll notice she didn't answer the question. The question was, what do you have to

00:28:27.720 say about the anti-Semitism in the Women's March? And she said, yes, we do need to talk about anti-Semitism

00:28:34.560 in the Trump administration and women are coming together in solidarity. That's what she said. But 1.00

00:28:40.600 she did it either because she's shallow minded or because she's a shrewd politician. And I think it's 0.98

00:28:48.620 both, but it leans on the latter, is she doesn't want to answer this question about the Women's 0.99

00:28:53.500 March, which is highly anti-Semitic. She doesn't. What does it benefit her? How does she advance by

00:28:59.800 answering that reporter's question? It's an old rule of politics. Don't answer the question you're

00:29:03.860 asked. Answer the question you want to ask or you want to be asked. And so she says, yes, we do need

00:29:10.180 to talk about anti-Semitism in the Trump administration, which is, by the way, patently absurd.

00:29:14.220 They named a train station in Israel after Donald Trump. Donald Trump has been a great friend to

00:29:19.200 the Jewish people. Many presidents have promised to move our U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

00:29:24.500 They've all flopped on it, except for Donald Trump, who actually did it. His senior advisor

00:29:28.760 is an Orthodox Jew. His daughter converted to Judaism. His grandchild is Jewish. It's just insane 1.00

00:29:35.020 to suggest that he's anti-Semitic. But it doesn't matter. She says it convincingly. She knows how to pivot 0.99

00:29:41.280 and she knows how to do it shamelessly. So she's got the political chops. It doesn't mean 0.77

00:29:47.120 that she's smart. It doesn't mean that she's educated. She's neither of those things. But

00:29:50.500 she is shrewd and she's got good political chops. So what is she selling? She's selling 1.00

00:29:55.800 radicalism and chaos.

00:29:58.700 I think that the part of it that is generational is that millennials and people and, you know,

00:30:06.220 Gen Z and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we're like, the world is going to

00:30:12.860 end in 12 years if we don't address climate change. And your biggest issue is your, your biggest issue

00:30:21.820 is how are we going to pay for it? And like, this is the war. This is our World War II.

00:30:28.220 You know, climate change actually is our World War II. That is correct. She is right. Generations

00:30:38.300 all face their own problems. So the greatest generation, as it's called, rightly so in modern 1.00

00:30:45.160 history, their challenge was World War II. Then the baby boomers, their challenge was the destruction 1.00

00:30:51.680 of the culture, which they helped to advance. Now, our challenge is imaginary. That's our challenge.

00:30:58.540 We have imaginary challenges. And we have imaginary challenges that are really driving us crazy.

00:31:04.660 The millennials are the most depressed, anxious, stressed out, suicidal generation in recent history. 0.98

00:31:11.800 25% of American college students, according to an ASU study, suffer PTSD from the 2016 election,

00:31:18.180 clinically high levels of stress based on imaginary things. It's not based on real things. Materially,

00:31:25.700 as a matter of peace, as a matter of foreign and domestic policy, we've never really been doing

00:31:32.020 any better than we are now. But in our imagination, things are really bad. So what she's saying is that

00:31:36.700 in 12 years, the world is going to end because of the snow monster or the sun monster or climate change

00:31:44.660 or whatever, nobody suggests this. There's no evidence of this, of course, at all. And let's

00:31:51.140 just take a little bet. I'm pretty good at bets. I got 400 bucks from Ben over there. I would like to

00:31:56.040 bet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the same amount that Ben and I bet, $400, that in 2031, the world will not

00:32:04.600 have ended. Okay? Alexandria, I know you watch this show. Do you take the bet? Just tweet me, let me

00:32:12.760 know. 400 bucks. You say the world's going to end in 12 years. I say the world will not end in 12 years.

00:32:19.100 Do you take the bet? I bet she won't take that bet. Because what she's offering is this radicalism.

00:32:24.220 What she's offering is this chaos. And the sneaky little truth is that that's what people want.

00:32:29.600 Specifically, what people want is a sense of purpose. And this is something that other forms

00:32:36.240 of government and other cultures are much better at instilling than our postmodern democratic culture,

00:32:43.700 liberal culture. In our culture, all that we can talk about is freedom or equality. Okay, those are

00:32:52.840 good. I like those things. I like spiritual equality and I like freedom, ordered liberty.

00:32:58.620 But there's not a sense of purpose. This has always been the critique of liberal society is that you

00:33:04.400 don't have a sense of purpose. It just leads to a society of consumption or it leads to a society of

00:33:10.040 decadence or it leads to, okay, fine. And what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is saying is vote for me and we will 0.97

00:33:17.000 save the world, which is on the brink of destruction and which will not exist in 12 years unless you take up

00:33:23.800 this great crusade, this great cause and vote for me. That's what she's saying. And that's compelling

00:33:30.160 because everybody wants purpose. But in particular, in a culture which is decadent, which is liberal,

00:33:38.420 people need to feel that there's some meaning to their lives, especially now our culture is so

00:33:43.580 materialistic. We just think, oh, well, people are born. Life is a tale told by an idiot full of sound

00:33:48.560 and fury signifying nothing. Then we turn to worm food and we die and it all doesn't mean anything

00:33:53.080 at all. And she's saying you can save the world if you vote for me. That's compelling. People want

00:33:58.140 that. People also want to frame politics in moral language as she does. But do you think it is moral

00:34:05.640 for individuals to, for instance, do we live in a moral world that allows for billionaires?

00:34:12.260 Is that a moral outcome in and of itself? No, it's not. It's not. And it's not. And I think it's

00:34:19.900 important to say that I don't think that necessarily means that all billionaires are immoral. It is not to

00:34:29.620 say that someone like Bill Gates, for example, or Warren Buffett are immoral people. I do not believe

00:34:35.840 that. First of all, it is to say that if having a billion dollars is immoral, then people who have

00:34:42.060 a billion dollars are immoral people. The reason she's she's qualifying her statement is she wants 0.96

00:34:47.180 all that good, good billionaire money for when she runs for president. So she does. She hates 1.00

00:34:51.780 billionaires to a point. But also, what a stupid conversation. The fact that people on the left think

00:34:56.600 Ta-Nehisi Coates is not just they think he's a great mind. The fact that they think that he's even

00:35:02.500 a middling mind is just astounding. And it shows you that we're living in the dark ages. But you're

00:35:07.480 having this conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I think if I went over to

00:35:14.360 Ben's house and I watched his children say Google Gaga to one another, I'd probably learn more. But they're

00:35:19.920 having this conversation. He says, you know, is it is it moral to have billionaires? She goes, no, it's not.

00:35:25.320 What does that mean? She's saying that allowing people to prosper and keep their own property

00:35:33.700 is immoral. So therefore, what she's saying is that stealing other people's property is moral.

00:35:39.880 It's not just moral. That's the moral corrective to the immorality of keeping your own property

00:35:44.220 and to the immorality of prospering. It's obviously insane, but it's framing a debate in moral language,

00:35:53.100 which until recently, Republicans and conservatives have failed to do. We talk about reforming the

00:35:58.280 debt. We should reform the entitlement state. We should take care of our debt. We should take

00:36:03.760 care of our deficits. This is a very important issue. But you're not going to do that by having

00:36:09.540 policy wonks tell you about how much money they're going to save you on your retirement plan. That's not

00:36:15.060 compelling to anybody. But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking in moral terms and doing it in the cynical

00:36:20.960 way, which is to vilify a whole group of people and doing it also in a cynical way because she's 1.00

00:36:26.420 substituting immorality for morality is pretty bad. But it's at least compelling and it's at least

00:36:32.460 giving people what they want. The other thing people want is courage.

00:36:35.600 On a scale of zero to some, how many do you give? I think it's zero.

00:36:47.300 That's what I thought.

00:36:50.820 Funny answer. Pretty sad that we're in this culture now where a network late night host uses that word

00:36:59.380 to a member of Congress on television on, you know, and everyone's applauding and hooting and

00:37:05.340 hollering. That's kind of sad for the culture. I'm all for speaking like a sailor in various specific 0.98

00:37:10.620 circumstances. That's not the circumstance that debases our culture and our government. Nevertheless,

00:37:16.880 that's what she's saying. She's learned this from Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the king of this,

00:37:21.220 right? He says, I don't care. I'm going to build the wall 10 feet higher. I'm going to make you pay.

00:37:27.160 Hey, listen, you listen, mother effer, whatever. It's that attitude, which people want. And I don't

00:37:33.040 know. Some people who were never Trump criticize this attitude. I don't criticize it. People

00:37:37.200 genuinely want it. We want to see some political courage. We don't want spineless cowards like

00:37:41.320 Mitt Romney to go around and be mealy mouthed and speak out of both sides of their mouth and then stab 0.99

00:37:47.400 his supporters in the back. They don't want that. They don't want people who are disloyal to a cause

00:37:53.220 or to their constituents. They want courage and they want people to stick up for them and fight

00:37:58.180 for them. And, and she's doing that. She offers that to a number of people. So I'm not surprised

00:38:03.000 at all. And because she has the political chops to get some media attention, I'm not surprised that 0.99

00:38:08.460 74% of Democrats would vote for her for president. I think she, obviously some of this is name

00:38:15.460 identification. So a lot of people don't recognize the name Kirsten Gillibrand, but they certainly

00:38:19.680 recognize Alexandria's name. And I assume a lot of this is going to fade away over the next six

00:38:28.280 years before Alexandria is old enough to run for president. But for right now, she's offering

00:38:33.460 something that people want. And I think President Trump offers that as well. And all the other

00:38:37.840 conservative politicians need to figure out how to offer that too, because Trump ain't going to stick

00:38:42.040 around forever, especially if the mainstream media and Bob Mueller get their way. So we've got to

00:38:47.080 figure out how to, to emulate both of them. And while emulating the form of them, bring the content,

00:38:55.380 which is real moral discourse, real policy solutions, real ways to reform our government

00:39:01.720 and real ways to reawaken an American spirit, which is lagging. The, all of those statistics about

00:39:09.000 millennials remain true. They're depressed, they're anxious, they're stressed, and they're suicidal.

00:39:12.800 That's a cultural malaise. That's a spiritual malaise. And we need to figure out a way to

00:39:17.360 re-excite a lot of our countries, and especially the younger parts of our country, because they will

00:39:23.900 be the majority of our country, and they will, they will define our culture for decades to come.

00:39:29.200 We have also got to talk about some breaking news. The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision,

00:39:34.400 has decided to lift a temporary injunction against the transgender ban from the military.

00:39:40.720 So I know that wording is a little complicated. The, you know, the Trump administration,

00:39:46.720 I'll even rewind a little further. For all of human history, people, men who think that they're

00:39:53.620 women have not been allowed to serve in the American military, because they have a pretty 1.00

00:39:58.040 significant mental disorder, and it creates some troubles on the battlefield. So Barack Obama,

00:40:06.020 toward the end of his administration, decided to change that and say that men who think they're

00:40:09.840 women can serve in the military. This creates a lot of problems. This creates some morale issues. 1.00

00:40:15.220 President Trump came in and said, no, we're going to reverse that. America did very well until three

00:40:20.440 years ago. They did just fine without allowing people who are confused about their gender to

00:40:25.640 serve in the military. So we're just going to go back to the thing we've done for all but the last

00:40:29.300 three years. And people lost their minds. There were court orders, injunctions. They stopped it.

00:40:34.280 What the Supreme Court today did in a 5-4 decision, write down the expected lines. The five conservatives

00:40:41.380 against the four liberals said that the Pentagon could prevent people who are confused about their

00:40:48.700 sex from serving in the military. This makes perfect sense. This is very good. Obviously, 0.99

00:40:55.800 transgenderism is a mental disorder. This affects only a handful of service members. It doesn't affect a lot

00:41:01.500 of them, but the principle affects a lot more people. If it were just about a handful of people,

00:41:06.020 then you could always say, leave it to the discretion of their commanding officers or whatever

00:41:11.660 and make the decisions on a per-person basis. But because the left has made this a national issue,

00:41:17.740 they've done that because they're trying to push through a whole slew of premises. Premises including

00:41:22.680 whether men and women are different, whether there's a legitimate sexual difference between men and women,

00:41:28.880 whether there's a legitimate difference between marriage and various new definitions of marriage,

00:41:36.400 whether they're trying to attack the nature of objective truth, and of course, they're trying to

00:41:42.700 attack the tradition. Is there an objective reality? And further, do we have a right to govern ourselves?

00:41:47.940 If we elect a commander-in-chief and he says people with a certain mental condition are not to be

00:41:53.280 serving in the armed forces, are we allowed to do that? Or are a bunch of leftist bureaucrats going to

00:41:58.660 come in and tell us no? That is a real serious question. I also have to bring this up. Unfortunately,

00:42:05.880 we're not going to get to some other things today, but we'll get to it tomorrow. Those Covington kids,

00:42:12.020 I talked to them. I talked about that yesterday. All of the mainstream media, the politicians, the church,

00:42:18.160 everybody who condemned those kids wrongly, defamed them. New evidence came out. Most of them didn't

00:42:23.480 apologize. Covington Catholic School had to cancel school today. One journalist for INE Entertainment,

00:42:29.580 Erica Briss, has been fired for saying that he wanted to kill the kids. He said, quote,

00:42:34.280 I don't know what it says about me, but I've truly lost the ability to articulate the hysterical rage,

00:42:38.900 nausea, and heartache this makes me feel. I just want these people to die. Simple as that.

00:42:43.840 Every single one of them and their parents. That guy at least got fired. What about the others?

00:42:48.620 What about the others? When are the other journalists going to be fired? When are the

00:42:54.800 other politicians going to be thrown out of office? When is the Catholic Church in the Diocese of

00:42:59.740 Covington and Father James Martin and Archbishop Joseph Kurtz and Bishop Foyes and all of those people,

00:43:06.300 when are they going to apologize? When are they going to have consequences? This reminds me of the

00:43:11.060 Catholic Church scandal. The sex scandal comes out. There were cover-ups. There were this and this.

00:43:16.280 Oh, there's going to be a reckoning. And when is it? Rarely do you see a bishop resign. Rarely do

00:43:21.340 you see consequences. It's outrageous. This is literally the same issue in that we're talking

00:43:26.180 about child abuse. We're talking about that in the Catholic Church cover-up. We're talking about

00:43:30.220 that here with journalists, mostly vast majority left-wing journalists, smearing and defaming kids,

00:43:36.100 ruining their lives. When are they going to face consequences? All those celebrities who tweeted

00:43:42.260 things about them, doxing them, Kathy Griffin, when are they going to face consequences? When is

00:43:47.860 the diocese going to do it? I don't know. I hope soon. A lawyer named Robert Barnes has offered to

00:43:52.820 represent the kids to sue the outlets that defamed them, specifically Maggie Haberman at the New York

00:43:58.000 Times, who was calling for the kids to be expelled. There need to be consequences here. I wrote a piece

00:44:03.700 today, a column at foxnews.com, and it was outlining how the Covington thing happened, what it says about

00:44:10.960 our culture, and who's at fault. And someone wrote in to me and said, Michael, you're beating a dead

00:44:16.340 horse. This was a left winger. Move on, move on. It's okay. It doesn't matter. Move on, move on. I bet

00:44:21.640 the left wants us to move on. I bet the left, they tried their character assassination hit job. It failed

00:44:27.300 because thankfully someone else took a video and proved them wrong. And now they say, okay, it's old

00:44:32.220 news. It's the Bill Clinton playbook. Oh, it's old news. No, move on, move on. No, we're not going to

00:44:37.400 move on. We're not going to move on until somebody faces consequences. I hope these kids sue the New York

00:44:43.040 Times. I hope they get a lot of money from the New York Times. I hope they sue the individual journalists

00:44:48.660 who defamed them, who intentionally deceived the public and assassinated these kids' characters. I hope

00:44:55.740 they sue them into the ground. That would be a wonderful thing. And we're going to bring this up, not all the

00:45:00.940 time, but every once in a while, we're going to bring this up until they face consequences because they won't

00:45:05.940 stop. The left is still, the left is saying now there's a photo of the kids 10 years ago at this

00:45:10.740 school wearing blackface. That was going around the internet. It's not true. Alumni of the school

00:45:16.360 are saying they did this at all of the various games. They were different, they were different

00:45:22.060 colors. So one was black out, one was blue out and they were all dressed in blue. The other was

00:45:26.400 another color and they all wore these, which of course makes sense. You would expect if there were 20

00:45:31.080 people at a high school wearing blackface, it probably would have made the news. Don't you 1.00

00:45:35.940 think? Isn't that a little weird? Isn't that a little convenient? They're going to go. They're

00:45:38.940 all ready. I'll tell you what's going to happen next. The vultures in the media are going to go

00:45:44.480 through all of these kids' backgrounds. They're going to try to assassinate their character. And all

00:45:49.660 of this, all of it is beside the point. Did some kids at this school wear blackface 10 years ago?

00:45:53.880 It looks like they didn't. But it's all beside the point. The point is, did the kids harass the Indian

00:45:57.900 guy? Did the Indian guy and the black Israelites harass the kids? That's the only point. And they 1.00

00:46:02.980 lost on their major point. They were exposed as liars. So now they're trying, the next step is

00:46:07.540 going to happen is they're going to find that one of these kids said something racist 10 years ago

00:46:11.840 or something or sexist or whatever on Facebook. And then they're going to go after him for that.

00:46:15.640 Then they're going to find out one of the kids made a pass at a girl at a party six years ago.

00:46:20.180 And that's going to be, that's going to be a new skit. See how bad, how awful these kids are.

00:46:23.680 It's all beside the point. Was the mainstream media narrative correct?

00:46:28.600 Or did the mainstream media defame these kids? They defamed them. They should pay for it. They 0.96

00:46:32.080 should pay for it dearly. Got a lot more to get to, but too bad. We'll do it tomorrow.

00:46:37.180 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you then.

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Ep. 284 - Oh, Is The Government Shut Down？

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