The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 293 - America Will Never Be A Socialist Country

00:00:00.000 President Trump won the night with a far better-than-average State of the Union address

00:00:04.420 that boldly declared America will never be a socialist country.

00:00:08.900 Poor Bernie Sanders, sulking in the corner.

00:00:11.760 Of course, the mainstream media couldn't tolerate that,

00:00:14.120 so they unleashed a torrent of dishonest fact-checks.

00:00:18.120 We will fact-check the fact-checkers.

00:00:20.560 Then, a better-than-average Democrat response as well.

00:00:23.240 We will discuss why, but ultimately, it still fell flat.

00:00:26.660 Huzzah, hooray, the republic fights another day.

00:00:28.940 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:37.900 A good night. A good night for President Trump, a good night for the Republican Party,

00:00:41.980 and a very good night for America.

00:00:44.040 We covered the State of the Union last night here for about, it felt like about 18 or 27 hours,

00:00:50.420 so we won't go through point by point on the State of the Union.

00:00:53.120 What I want to focus on is the reaction to the State of the Union that's in the mainstream.

00:00:58.940 In the media, that's among the Democrat Party.

00:01:00.320 That, I think, is probably more interesting than the speech itself.

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00:02:18.400 Before we get to the reaction, let's just start with one of the best lines of the entire night.

00:02:23.660 Maybe the most important line of the night, which has prompted probably the most vocal reaction.

00:02:30.320 Here in the United States, we are alarmed by the new calls to adopt socialism in our country.

00:02:39.880 America was founded on liberty and independence, and not coercion, domination, and control.

00:02:53.140 We are born free, and we will stay free.

00:02:56.460 So you can see here, Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders looking so upset, so frustrated.

00:03:16.320 We renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.

00:03:28.580 Comrade Bernie slinking down even further in his chair.

00:03:32.020 He's so very upset.

00:03:33.880 Now you'll notice here, one of the more interesting things about the State of the Union is you look at who's clapping, who's not clapping, who's standing, who won't stand.

00:03:41.420 Bernie sinking down into his chair.

00:03:42.960 Remember, even Nancy Pelosi clapped at that line, America will never be a socialist country.

00:03:49.120 She didn't stand and clap, but she did clap.

00:03:52.000 Now, obviously, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, those Bolsheviks currently in our government, they would not clap or stand, but Nancy did. 0.83

00:04:01.520 And this is important.

00:04:02.820 This is a good sign.

00:04:04.060 The line is very important because I actually do fear encroaching socialism in America.

00:04:09.520 I do fear it.

00:04:10.260 You now have the majority of millennials identify as socialist.

00:04:15.000 You now, it's just creeping along as it often does.

00:04:19.160 And a little confidence goes a long way.

00:04:21.520 The Democrats always do this.

00:04:22.820 They make bold declarations, often crazy sounding declarations.

00:04:26.880 And then they say them often enough and then they get repeated by the mainstream media.

00:04:30.680 And then they start to sink in and this is how they took over the culture. 0.89

00:04:34.340 Republicans should be able to do that too.

00:04:35.980 We should make these bold declarations.

00:04:40.300 Now, what if America one day becomes a socialist country?

00:04:43.400 Well, it won't happen on my watch.

00:04:45.220 I'm going to do everything I can to make sure it doesn't happen on my watch.

00:04:48.100 There's something very Churchillian about this strategy.

00:04:50.780 This is what Winston Churchill did during the Second World War.

00:04:53.500 During the darkest hours of that war, he said, this, future generations will look on us and say, this was their finest hour.

00:05:01.040 We shall go on.

00:05:02.580 We shall fight in the beaches and in the streets.

00:05:05.440 We shall never surrender.

00:05:07.400 We'll never surrender.

00:05:09.000 And it was just this total defiance.

00:05:11.280 And it was that sort of defiance that President Trump made last night.

00:05:14.220 Oh, some socialists won elections.

00:05:16.760 Oh, the Democratic Party is veering towards socialism.

00:05:20.040 Non-socialist Democrats can't run in the 2020 Democrat primary.

00:05:25.600 Who cares?

00:05:26.920 America will never be a socialist country.

00:05:31.140 And he linked this to Venezuela.

00:05:32.760 This is very important as well.

00:05:34.580 You know, one thing he did is that he came out and declared the winner of the Venezuelan election that happened a week or two ago.

00:05:42.360 He declared that Juan Guaido is the legitimate president of Venezuela over the socialist Nicolas Maduro.

00:05:49.600 I do love that the U.S. can do that.

00:05:52.780 I do love that during our State of the Union, we can just declare presidents of other countries.

00:05:57.560 I'm not being facetious either.

00:05:59.780 We should.

00:06:00.620 That country has fallen to nothing. 0.98

00:06:02.740 Nicolas Maduro is a ridiculous dictator who's destroyed that country after the destruction of Hugo Chavez. 0.99

00:06:10.260 Great. 0.99

00:06:10.700 We should kick him out.

00:06:11.480 We should feel nothing wrong about that.

00:06:14.040 I assume he won the election legitimately, even if he didn't.

00:06:17.740 I'm sorry.

00:06:18.220 I assume that Guaido won the election legitimately.

00:06:21.300 But even if he didn't, I love that the U.S. can go in there and say, we're going to stop that misery.

00:06:24.860 No more misery.

00:06:25.960 Uh-uh.

00:06:26.540 Get out, Maduro.

00:06:27.800 Too bad.

00:06:29.100 Try again next time.

00:06:30.800 That's really nice.

00:06:31.880 And the connection to Venezuela is very important.

00:06:34.360 Venezuela had one of the best economies in the world.

00:06:37.160 In 1950s, sometime during the 50s, it was the fourth strongest economy in the world.

00:06:44.000 It's an oil-rich nation.

00:06:45.620 It was a very wealthy nation.

00:06:47.300 And then even in recent memory, it was doing very well until socialism crept in and destroyed it.

00:06:53.700 Within our lifetimes, we've seen socialism wreck that country.

00:06:57.080 And what President Trump is saying is that people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, like all of the incoming socialists, like Bernie Sanders, what they want to do is follow in the footsteps of Venezuela.

00:07:10.900 Now, what they say is, no, no, no, we don't want that.

00:07:13.180 We want to follow the Nordic countries, like Denmark. 0.94

00:07:18.180 Denmark explicitly says we are not a socialist country.

00:07:20.920 Actually, all of those Scandinavian, Nordic countries, they did experiment with socialism, and it damaged their economy, and they have since undone a lot of those socialist reforms.

00:07:31.260 They've reinstituted a lot of capitalist reforms, and their economies have boomed as a result of that.

00:07:36.260 So it's totally disingenuous.

00:07:38.860 A lot of those countries have freer economies than the United States.

00:07:41.300 It's totally disingenuous when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or whoever says, no, no, we're just going to be like those nice white countries up north.

00:07:49.900 Because there is an underlying racial message here, which is, oh, no, no, no, not like those scary countries with mixed ethnic populations. 1.00

00:07:59.400 No, just those places that are 100% ethnically homogenous.

00:08:03.100 No, like that's the good socialism.

00:08:05.040 It's not even socialism.

00:08:07.800 And it's increasingly less like socialism.

00:08:11.300 What they're proposing is Venezuela.

00:08:14.400 Even this Medicare for all plan, this goes so far beyond what you see in the Nordic countries or what you see in the United Kingdom,

00:08:21.540 where at least there still exists private health insurance very often.

00:08:25.780 Whereas here, Kamala Harris, probably the leading Democrat presidential candidate, is saying we need to abolish private insurance. 0.96

00:08:32.860 Abolish it totally.

00:08:33.740 Government runs everything.

00:08:35.780 Other Democrats coming and backing her up on that. 0.76

00:08:37.860 The future that these people see looks like Venezuela.

00:08:42.280 And President Trump pointed that out.

00:08:44.160 I think it was a big win.

00:08:44.920 The other reason America will never be a socialist country is because of the incompetent socialist politicians.

00:08:50.960 You know, Bernie Sanders never held a job in his entire life until he got himself elected and went on the public dole.

00:08:56.860 He had his honeymoon in the Soviet Union, sang shirtless with Soviets, talk about colluding with the Russians. 0.63

00:09:02.140 But even better than him, we learned last night that in 1986, Elizabeth Warren claimed Native American ancestry when she was filing with the Texas Bar.

00:09:13.920 Now, why is this important?

00:09:15.260 This is important because she has previously said, oh, I didn't really do that.

00:09:20.340 No, I didn't really claim ancestry.

00:09:22.140 It was a mistake by Harvard.

00:09:24.120 It was a bureaucratic error.

00:09:26.000 I never used it to my professional advantage.

00:09:28.940 No, it's just a silly misunderstanding.

00:09:30.720 Now we have her signature right on the paper.

00:09:35.060 She claimed in her own handwriting, American Indian ancestry.

00:09:39.980 Not Harvard, not an administrator, but her.

00:09:43.300 Even, well, look, we all know that she's done this.

00:09:45.560 Very few conservatives ever believed her ridiculous line about not knowing or not being aware and never using it to her advantage.

00:09:53.300 But, last week, it has since been reported, Elizabeth Warren privately apologized to Cherokee Chief Bill John Baker.

00:10:03.140 Privately, not publicly.

00:10:05.000 Now, it later became public when this was reported.

00:10:08.080 But she was sorry.

00:10:09.220 She apologized for, quote, for furthering confusion about tribal citizenship, end quote, for not being more mindful about this decades ago.

00:10:17.080 So, the question is, why did Elizabeth Warren apologize last week?

00:10:21.860 What has changed?

00:10:23.340 I mean, initially, she launched her presidential campaign pretending still to be Native American because she's won 1,024th Native American, maybe. 0.88

00:10:32.780 So, what has changed?

00:10:34.140 Well, we figured it out last night.

00:10:36.020 The Washington Post reported that Liz Warren had filed with the Texas State Bar in 1986 as an American Indian. 0.94

00:10:45.320 So, that comes out last night.

00:10:47.540 And yet, a week ago, she apologizes privately.

00:10:49.940 Why would that happen?

00:10:51.060 It seems to me that the Washington Post tipped her off.

00:10:55.280 What else could it be?

00:10:56.600 When she, she then apologized, and this was reported by the Washington Post when this story came out.

00:11:02.060 And what did she apologize for?

00:11:03.600 Quote, for furthering confusion about tribal citizenship, quote, and for not being more mindful about this.

00:11:08.800 She used the same language that she used on the private conversation with Baker last week.

00:11:13.620 So, the corruption of all of this gets even more fetid.

00:11:18.200 It gets even more dank, which is that the Washington Post finds this out.

00:11:22.900 They've been helping to cover from Liz Warren for a long time.

00:11:25.400 They find out that she actually did commit this fraud.

00:11:29.500 Obviously, intentionally, she did it for a very long time.

00:11:31.800 She did it to further her career.

00:11:33.760 So, what do they do?

00:11:34.680 They tip off Liz Warren.

00:11:36.220 Almost certainly.

00:11:37.420 So, then she can get ahead of the story.

00:11:38.860 Apologize to the Cherokee Nation. 0.99

00:11:40.480 Then, a few days later, the Washington Post reports it.

00:11:42.800 Really corrupt.

00:11:43.620 And the Washington Post is so transparent about all this.

00:11:47.600 And this is the other reason why America will not become a socialist country.

00:11:50.720 It's because the media, cheering it on, are so transparent.

00:11:54.840 Look, President Trump gave a very good speech last night.

00:11:57.600 He gave probably a B-plus speech, which for a State of the Union address is very, very good.

00:12:02.460 The State of the Union addresses are awful.

00:12:04.660 They're so boring. 0.54

00:12:06.020 They're so largely pointless.

00:12:08.980 Although, they can have some shining moments.

00:12:11.140 And he did a very good job.

00:12:12.820 So, the media are furious.

00:12:15.080 Because the Democrat, Stacey Abrams, we'll get to her in a minute. 1.00

00:12:17.960 She also did a pretty good job. 0.84

00:12:19.260 But it just fell flat by virtue of the reaction always falls flat.

00:12:26.640 And she wasn't that great.

00:12:28.120 Trump did a much better job.

00:12:29.260 So, the media were furious.

00:12:30.360 And they instantly started issuing fact checks.

00:12:33.540 But the fact checks are not fact checks.

00:12:36.340 They are opinion columns.

00:12:38.700 They're leftist opinion columns that dishonestly call themselves fact checks.

00:12:43.840 We'll get to all of those in a second.

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00:14:25.420 These fact checks, which are not fact checks.

00:14:28.280 They're leftist opinion columns.

00:14:29.340 The best one, my favorite one of the whole night, came from NPR.

00:14:34.420 So NPR, right after this speech, issues this fact check.

00:14:38.420 They say, quote, fact check.

00:14:40.660 President Trump praised the record number of women in Congress, but that's almost entirely

00:14:46.140 because of Democrats, not Trump's party.

00:14:49.560 Fact check.

00:14:50.480 Boom.

00:14:51.220 Mic drop.

00:14:52.440 How is that a fact check?

00:14:54.560 What is the fact?

00:14:56.660 First of all, they're talking about Trump's praising the women in Congress.

00:15:02.760 Praise is not something that can be fact checked.

00:15:06.920 He did praise them.

00:15:08.040 They're not saying he didn't praise them.

00:15:09.360 You can't.

00:15:09.860 So, okay.

00:15:11.020 Second, the record number of women in Congress is a fact.

00:15:15.820 And they don't dispute that fact.

00:15:19.060 And then, the but, the but in their sentence is amazing because it's totally unrelated to the first part of it.

00:15:24.660 It doesn't change anything about the number of women in Congress. 1.00

00:15:27.420 It doesn't change anything about Donald Trump's praise of them.

00:15:30.560 I don't think Donald Trump is confused about where a lot of those women came from. 0.96

00:15:35.940 I don't think he thinks they're all Republicans.

00:15:38.600 It's just, the language is so amazing.

00:15:41.060 Fact check.

00:15:41.580 Like, President Trump praised the record number of women in Congress, but that's almost entirely because of Democrats. 1.00

00:15:48.680 It's as if to say, President Trump praised the record number of women in Congress, but you should still hate him because he's a huge jerk and I hate him. 1.00

00:15:56.100 That was the fact check. 0.99

00:15:57.100 Like, NPR, which we're all paying for, by the way.

00:16:00.240 We're paying for that fact check.

00:16:01.660 Politico had a great one.

00:16:02.740 Politico, State of the Union fact check.

00:16:05.400 Trump said, quote, one in three women is sexually assaulted on the long journey north.

00:16:10.960 That's partly true.

00:16:12.520 Here's the full story.

00:16:14.820 Okay, do you know why this?

00:16:15.600 So, President Trump said, one in three women are raped or sexually assaulted on the journey across that border.

00:16:24.640 Now, the reason that they say it's only partially true is because the real number, according to a Doctors Without Borders study, shows that it's only 31%.

00:16:35.760 Oh, they got him now. 0.99

00:16:40.400 President Trump, oh, that liar. 1.00

00:16:42.260 There, President Trump said that, liar said that 33% of women are raped and sexually assaulted on the journey north. 1.00

00:16:52.280 Really, it's only 31%. 0.96

00:16:53.860 Boom, fact check.

00:16:55.360 Fact check, Donald.

00:16:57.200 Fake news.

00:16:59.080 Alternative facts.

00:17:00.320 By the way, what's funny about this, they're citing this one Doctors Without Borders study.

00:17:05.700 There are other studies that show that the number is much, much higher.

00:17:09.100 Between 60% and 80% of women are raped and sexually assaulted.

00:17:13.000 That's according to Amnesty International.

00:17:15.060 That's according to a fusion survey, both of which were reported in the Huffington Post, a left-wing outlet.

00:17:20.260 So, actually, President Trump probably could have used those numbers.

00:17:22.400 It would have been just fine.

00:17:24.600 But how disingenuous, how dishonest.

00:17:27.920 He said it was one in three. 1.00

00:17:29.380 Liar. 0.97

00:17:29.940 It was only 31%. 1.00

00:17:31.840 They're just trying to nip at anything that he says.

00:17:36.060 And even if he doesn't lie, even if he doesn't say something that's even slightly untrue, they'll just pretend that it's untrue.

00:17:43.520 If I say one in three, first of all, just to use the phrase one in three is to say I'm not using a precise percentage right now.

00:17:52.880 If I, you know, if I, if let's say the number were 35%, he also probably would have said one in three.

00:18:00.400 It's just easier to say.

00:18:02.140 It sounds better.

00:18:02.900 It's better rhetoric. 0.95

00:18:04.680 If that number had said 35%, I bet that President Trump would have said one in three women are raped or sexually assaulted crossing that border.

00:18:11.820 But, of course, then, in that case, Politico would not have fact-checked it because it would have been even more in the favor of President Trump's argument.

00:18:20.280 CBS, I think, possibly has the most egregious of the fact-checks.

00:18:25.560 Here is theirs.

00:18:26.620 They say, President Trump claimed nearly 5 million people have been lifted off of food stamps.

00:18:31.140 But then, what CBS points out is that for last, as of last September, the number of people off of food stamps since the beginning of Trump's presidency was only 4.1 million.

00:18:43.860 Now, of course, that was five months ago, and the number keeps increasing.

00:18:48.240 But they say, actually, this is the best part because they include this in their fact-check.

00:18:54.100 Quote, data for the fourth quarter of 2018 has not yet been published.

00:18:57.780 And that number had already been trending downward before Mr. Trump took office.

00:19:03.860 So, okay, so they're saying the number is trending downward.

00:19:06.940 So the number of people off of food stamps is trending upward.

00:19:11.300 You're saying five months ago it was 4.1 million.

00:19:13.960 So now, who knows what that number is?

00:19:15.540 It's probably significantly higher.

00:19:16.860 You might say it's nearly 5 million.

00:19:19.140 And then the kicker, they're doing the same fact-check thing that NPR did.

00:19:23.000 They're saying, and that number had already been trending downward before Mr. Trump.

00:19:28.100 Mm, mm, mm, mm.

00:19:29.960 Oh, yeah, he didn't say that it wasn't.

00:19:32.440 When did President Trump ever say that the number wasn't trending downward or that it was trending upward?

00:19:36.900 When?

00:19:37.680 I never heard him say.

00:19:38.780 They're just, yeah, okay, well, President Trump's right, and a lot of millions and millions of people are off of food stamps. 0.98

00:19:44.280 But, oh, I hate him, and he's a big meanie, and I hate him.

00:19:46.460 So, here is the wildest one. 0.97

00:19:51.040 This was in the, CBS did a whole long list of these.

00:19:54.480 This is the wildest part of the fact-check.

00:20:00.220 Donald Trump, during the State of the Union, talked about that awful New York abortion law, red infanticide law,

00:20:07.080 the law that allows you to kill a baby as it is being born. 0.96

00:20:10.240 One second before birth, you can kill it. 0.96

00:20:12.240 Not as bad as Virginia, where apparently you can kill the baby six hours after it's been born. 0.99

00:20:16.460 At least.

00:20:17.640 But he mentions this, and the CBS fact-check tells you everything you need to know.

00:20:22.520 Lawmakers in New York cheered with delight upon the passage of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother's womb moments from birth.

00:20:36.420 These are living, feeling, beautiful babies who will never get the chance to share their love and their dreams with the world.

00:20:44.320 By the way, if you're watching that clip, could Chuck Schumer possibly look more maniacal if he tried?

00:20:50.840 I think when people read the Bible and they're creating images in their mind for what Moloch looks like,

00:20:57.480 Moloch almost looks like Chuck Schumer.

00:21:00.000 Like, it's very hard to visualize, it's hard to create in our mind's eye something as sinister looking as Chuck Schumer there,

00:21:08.400 but look, he's just, they're crouching, ah, yes, ah, he's got his fingers on his, he's like, he's like Ugo Lino,

00:21:13.540 he's just waiting to eat his children, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, really, really creepy.

00:21:17.600 Someone should give him a little media training.

00:21:19.160 It's amazing for a man who's lived on television for the last 40 years, he really doesn't know how to look great on,

00:21:25.240 between this and the American Gothic meme that he helped to create a few months ago,

00:21:30.980 it really not looking great, but what did the fact check say?

00:21:35.480 Here's the fact check.

00:21:37.120 Now, with all of the other fact checks, it says fact check, true or false,

00:21:41.440 or it says partially true or partially, whatever.

00:21:43.080 However, this one, it doesn't say true and it doesn't say false, it says this,

00:21:47.380 facts, New York's Reproductive Health Act guarantees a woman's right to abortion through 24 weeks of pregnancy.

00:21:54.820 After that, an abortion is only allowed if a doctor decides the fetus is not viable or to protect the patient's life or health.

00:22:03.820 Now, of course, what this really means, and they made it very clear in the New York law,

00:22:09.180 is that if a patient's mental health will be affected by having the baby, you can kill it at any point.

00:22:16.680 But that's a total cop-out.

00:22:18.460 I say, yeah, I'll be really sad if I have a kid. 1.00

00:22:21.660 Kill it. 1.00

00:22:22.260 Then you can just kill it immediately. 1.00

00:22:23.660 Or the doctor says it's non-viable. 0.99

00:22:25.500 What that means is if the baby has some deformity.

00:22:27.900 If it's not born like the perfect little designer baby that its perverted parents want, 0.99

00:22:32.240 or that the perverted doctor want, then they can kill it at any given moment. 0.95

00:22:36.920 The way we know this is true is that the New York abortion law changed the New York penal code

00:22:41.580 such that before, if you killed a woman who was 24 weeks pregnant or later,

00:22:47.560 you would be charged with double homicide because you killed the woman and you killed the baby.

00:22:51.620 Now, they took that out of the New York penal law.

00:22:54.060 If you kill a pregnant woman who is giving birth, you're only charged with killing one person. 0.96

00:23:00.900 That's how we, so we know that they're trying their best to twist it.

00:23:03.340 They know they can't quite, so they don't even say true or false.

00:23:06.280 They just issue an endorsement of the New York law.

00:23:11.320 They just say, well, here's the best argument we can give for the New York law.

00:23:14.800 Totally transparent.

00:23:16.760 There are even subtler claims, and we have to get to Stacey Abrams' response.

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00:24:48.120 So there are even subtler claims that they make in these fact checks.

00:24:52.360 Here is one.

00:24:54.800 The claim that President Trump made, this is from President Trump's State of the Union.

00:24:59.560 It says, unemployment has reached the lowest rate in half a century.

00:25:04.400 Okay, true.

00:25:05.680 They're saying, fact check, this is inaccurate now, but it was true at one point.

00:25:12.000 The unemployment rate dropped to 3.7% in September, the lowest rate since December 1969.

00:25:17.620 But apparently since then, it has ticked up a couple tenths of a percentage point.

00:25:21.340 And so they're saying, yeah, this isn't true now.

00:25:23.420 But that fact check actually is false.

00:25:25.660 That is a lie.

00:25:26.420 President Trump said, quote, unemployment has reached the lowest rate in half a century.

00:25:32.720 That remains true today.

00:25:35.440 Now, obviously, the unemployment rate is going to fluctuate.

00:25:38.460 It's going to tick up a little bit.

00:25:39.600 It's going to tick down a little bit.

00:25:40.540 It's not going to stay exactly the same at all times.

00:25:43.080 What he is saying is that the unemployment rate has reached the lowest point in half of

00:25:47.300 a century during my tenure, and not just during my tenure, in the last year, which is what

00:25:51.600 I am reporting to you, Congress.

00:25:53.860 It's what I am reporting to you, the American people.

00:25:56.080 Within the last year, in this update, unemployment has reached the lowest rate in half a century.

00:26:01.160 That is 100% true.

00:26:02.780 It's not inaccurate now.

00:26:04.080 It's not partially true.

00:26:05.280 It's not whatever.

00:26:06.040 The Democrats, the mainstream media, want to pretend that it is just to take away the

00:26:10.600 achievements of this presidency.

00:26:12.060 It is just true.

00:26:13.520 The fact checkers are not true. 0.96

00:26:15.280 They're liars. 1.00

00:26:16.220 Either they're extraordinarily stupid. 1.00

00:26:19.240 Either they don't understand how language works at all. 1.00

00:26:22.360 You know, journalists, you know, people who likely majored in English or literature or

00:26:26.640 journalism. 0.84

00:26:27.360 Either they have no idea how the English language works, or they're liars.

00:26:30.840 Which one do you think? 0.99

00:26:31.460 It's obviously liars.

00:26:32.380 I also really, we have to get to the Democrat response.

00:26:36.140 This, I was so excited.

00:26:38.300 Stacey Abrams was giving the response.

00:26:40.760 Who is Stacey Abrams, you ask?

00:26:42.560 Yeah, I don't really know either.

00:26:44.700 Stacey Abrams was the, not even the majority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives.

00:26:50.800 She was the minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives.

00:26:54.200 And that's it.

00:26:56.860 That's who she, now why on earth would the Democrats choose her?

00:27:00.500 One, the National Democrat Party going up against Donald Trump, the President of the United

00:27:04.840 States, why would they choose her to be the response to the State of the Union? 0.92

00:27:10.520 One, because it's a thankless job that always fails, so a lot of bigger names don't want it.

00:27:16.020 Two, she's currently doing nothing.

00:27:18.000 She lost that race for Georgia governor, and she refused to concede it, but now she's got

00:27:22.700 a lot of free time.

00:27:23.320 Okay, the other reason is because the Democrats are doubling down on identity politics.

00:27:30.980 She made this, Stacey Abrams made this a huge point of her campaign. 1.00

00:27:34.320 Stacey Abrams made her whole campaign about racism, disenfranchisement. 1.00

00:27:39.360 They're attacking maybe as I'm a black woman. 0.99

00:27:41.780 That's what her whole cynical, ridiculous campaign was about. 1.00

00:27:46.300 And she lost. 1.00

00:27:48.100 Thankfully, she lost.

00:27:48.840 She finally conceded.

00:27:49.980 The Democrats started to get carpal tunnel, writing all those fraudulent ballots out,

00:27:53.840 so they finally gave up.

00:27:54.960 They didn't want to hurt their wrists anymore.

00:27:56.800 And the Democrats choose her to give this response because they're just as bigoted as

00:28:01.280 Stacey Abrams is.

00:28:03.500 They're just as cynical as Stacey Abrams is.

00:28:05.560 It doesn't matter what you've accomplished.

00:28:06.980 This woman has accomplished basically nothing in her entire life, and yet they choose her 1.00

00:28:11.820 over far more qualified Democrats because of the color of her skin and because of her 1.00

00:28:15.940 sex.

00:28:16.260 That's what it's, and because she can run the intersectional identity politics campaign. 1.00

00:28:22.520 I'm actually going to be speaking on this topic tonight at UCLA, despite my losing my

00:28:27.440 voice, despite the sickness, the difficulties.

00:28:31.600 I am going to persevere because we're going to do this speech tonight on the bigotry of the

00:28:36.640 left, specifically how the way to reduce bigotry is to increase prejudice.

00:28:41.300 Prejudice, a topic that seems, you know, we don't talk about it a lot.

00:28:46.240 People don't know what bigotry means.

00:28:47.660 People don't know what prejudice means.

00:28:49.100 But we certainly can see the rampant bigotry of the left and the Democrat party.

00:28:53.660 We're going to see it here in a second with Stacey Abrams' response.

00:28:56.260 If you're around UCLA, check it out tonight.

00:28:57.800 I think we're going to stream it, too, at the Daily Wire.

00:29:00.280 So if you don't want to come and have me get you sick, then you can come check it out on

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00:29:21.000 You get everything.

00:29:22.340 And you get this.

00:29:24.240 I've got to tell you, when I'm feeling a little under the weather, as I currently am,

00:29:28.340 some people drink a hot toddy.

00:29:31.380 Some people take cough medicine.

00:29:33.760 Some people, no.

00:29:34.960 You know what I do?

00:29:35.520 I just open up my leftist tears.

00:29:37.620 Oh, look at that steam. 0.98

00:29:38.540 Do you see that?

00:29:41.660 Oh, I'm just getting the steam from the leftist tears.

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00:29:53.100 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:30:05.380 All those leftist tears have fogged up my glasses.

00:30:08.120 I don't mind.

00:30:09.260 I actually think I can see more clearly through the leftist tears than I could before they had fogged up my glasses.

00:30:14.960 We've got to get to this State of the Union response. 0.97

00:30:17.660 It was pretty ridiculous.

00:30:18.620 Stacey Abrams starts out, I actually, I will make this point. 0.65

00:30:25.640 Relative to all the other State of the Union responses, this was pretty good.

00:30:29.600 She actually did a relatively good job.

00:30:31.340 I'm damning with faint praise because they're all just horrific.

00:30:34.880 But generally speaking, I think they learned their lesson from last year when that guy, Kennedy, the young red-haired Kennedy, when he did it, it was just, it was like in a junkyard, basically.

00:30:44.320 He had a broken down car behind him. 0.98

00:30:45.780 It was really pathetic. 0.89

00:30:47.220 So, you know, obviously Marco had Watergate where he reached for his water and that people made fun of him for that. 0.97

00:30:52.840 Bobby Jindal's wasn't great.

00:30:53.940 I mean, they just don't go very well.

00:30:55.400 They've learned some lessons, which we can identify in a second.

00:30:58.180 But the content of the speech was absurd.

00:31:01.080 I mean, it was, we'll do an actual fact check here because a lot of it was demonstrably false and self-contradictory.

00:31:08.840 And you just got the impression that Stacey Abrams is not ready for prime time. 1.00

00:31:12.980 She started out, for her first two sentences, strong.

00:31:16.300 She started with this heartwarming story about how her father was walking alone in the rain and he saw a homeless man and he gave him his jacket in the rain.

00:31:27.460 And what a heartwarming story she tells.

00:31:29.700 When we asked why he'd given away his only jacket, my dad turned to us and said,

00:31:36.200 I knew when I left that man he'd still be alone.

00:31:39.600 But I could give him my coat because I knew you were coming for me.

00:31:44.640 Our power and strength as Americans lives in our hard work and our belief in more.

00:31:50.420 My family understood firsthand that while success is not guaranteed, we live in a nation where opportunity is possible.

00:31:58.920 But we do not succeed alone.

00:32:01.880 In these United States, when times are tough, we can persevere because our friends and neighbors will come for us.

00:32:09.760 Our first responders will come for us.

00:32:12.680 So what she's saying is blah, blah, happy, happy, platitude, platitude.

00:32:18.640 Now, whether you believe the story about her father or not, who cares? 0.99

00:32:22.080 Politicians tell these ridiculous stories all the time. 0.98

00:32:24.940 My mother washed more floors for less money than your mother did. 1.00

00:32:28.800 I met Johnny in the middle of Iowa.

00:32:31.400 And Johnny, he just lost his job and his whole family.

00:32:35.560 They all left him and he got really sick.

00:32:39.520 And Johnny had $3 left in his bank account and he gave it to me for my campaign because he believes in us. 1.00

00:32:44.820 So they tell these stupid stories, whatever. 0.99

00:32:47.940 The trouble with this story is that she contradicts herself because she's not ready for prime time. 1.00

00:32:52.740 So if you hear, she says,

00:32:55.760 My father knew that when I left that man, he would still be alone.

00:33:01.940 But when I walked on, you would come and get me.

00:33:05.920 But then she goes on to say,

00:33:07.420 In America, we're never alone.

00:33:08.820 No one's ever alone.

00:33:10.560 So which is it?

00:33:11.520 Is the guy alone or is he not alone?

00:33:13.820 This seems like a minor point.

00:33:15.360 It actually matters to the larger argument that she's making.

00:33:19.060 Because she's inadvertently contradicting her own point.

00:33:22.200 In America, there are three options.

00:33:25.040 In America, are we alone and therefore we need bigger government to come in because of how alone we are?

00:33:31.920 We need big daddy government to come give us the jacket. 0.99

00:33:34.100 Or in America, are we not alone because we have friends and family and private charity and civic organizations to come and help us out?

00:33:42.600 Or in America, are we not alone because we already have the big government?

00:33:49.020 Stacey Abrams is a big government gal. 1.00

00:33:51.140 She wants big government all day long. 1.00

00:33:53.560 The white knight of the government to come in and just take money from people and give it to favored groups and other people.

00:34:01.120 That's what she wants.

00:34:02.540 So I don't think she's making the argument that because in America we have private charity and friends and family and a rich civic culture, therefore we don't need big government.

00:34:11.320 I think that choice is out.

00:34:13.040 So now we have two options.

00:34:14.280 Are we alone and therefore we need bigger government?

00:34:16.440 Or are we not alone because we already have big government?

00:34:20.420 Well, she ends her whole talk by saying we're not alone in America.

00:34:26.180 So it seems that what she's actually concluding is that we are not alone because we have an adequately large government.

00:34:33.520 Okay, good.

00:34:34.440 It's big enough.

00:34:35.280 Okay, go away. 0.63

00:34:35.980 Fine.

00:34:36.260 Bye-bye.

00:34:36.960 See you.

00:34:37.740 There's no problem.

00:34:39.080 We're not alone.

00:34:40.420 The reason that we're not alone is we already have the big government so we don't need a bigger government.

00:34:44.500 Or she's saying we are alone.

00:34:46.540 And I think the point she really wants to make is that we are alone.

00:34:49.240 Everything's terrible.

00:34:50.420 America's a terrible, awful place. 1.00

00:34:52.060 And therefore we need all of her stupid big government programs. 1.00

00:34:55.480 She wants to make that point but she's not allowed to make that point because that would be negative. 1.00

00:34:59.460 That would be negative.

00:35:00.360 It doesn't look good for a reaction to the State of the Union.

00:35:02.440 It doesn't look good for her career.

00:35:03.460 She's a nobody who just lost her race and she hasn't really done anything else in her life.

00:35:08.080 So that doesn't look good.

00:35:09.240 She just sounds like she's whining and complaining from the sidelines. 1.00

00:35:12.400 But the other reason that doesn't work is because the economy is doing really, really well.

00:35:17.600 I mean America's doing very well right now.

00:35:20.040 President Trump's approval rating is doing quite well.

00:35:23.240 Three quarters of Americans approved of his State of the Union speech last night.

00:35:26.500 It was a very popular speech.

00:35:28.100 So she can't, everywhere she tries to turn to make her argument she gets cut off.

00:35:33.940 So instead she makes half of two arguments.

00:35:36.780 But it's just not convincing.

00:35:39.540 She just isn't ready for prime time.

00:35:40.980 I guess that's the issue.

00:35:41.940 So then she goes on to talk about, you know, the only problem.

00:35:45.380 There aren't really any problems happening right now, relatively speaking, in the country.

00:35:49.480 So the only problems that she can find are these contrived problems, which is the government shutdown.

00:35:54.860 The government shutdown that nobody really felt affected by.

00:35:58.920 You know, a couple weeks into the shutdown they took a poll.

00:36:01.600 They said, how many people feel they've really been impacted by the shutdown?

00:36:05.580 Six percent of respondents said they had.

00:36:08.040 They said, how many people know that there's a government shutdown?

00:36:11.040 21 percent of respondents didn't even know the government was shut down.

00:36:14.720 So that's the closest thing to a real negative issue she could find.

00:36:18.860 And so she hammers it.

00:36:20.000 Just a few weeks ago, I joined volunteers to distribute meals to furloughed federal workers.

00:36:25.840 They waited in line for a box of food and a sliver of hope since they hadn't received paychecks in weeks.

00:36:33.780 Making livelihoods of our federal workers a pawn for political games is a disgrace.

00:36:39.260 The shutdown was a stunt engineered by the president of the United States, one that defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people, but our values.

00:36:52.380 The government shutdown with furloughed workers abandoned not just our people, but our values.

00:36:58.660 You would think, from what this woman is saying, that the shutdown that just happened was the first time ever that the federal government shut down.

00:37:06.660 Maybe she thinks that.

00:37:07.780 I don't know what she thinks.

00:37:08.800 I don't think she thinks a whole lot.

00:37:11.220 In reality, we have had, in our history, ten government shutdowns with furloughed workers.

00:37:17.260 We've had them under both parties.

00:37:19.440 We've had them under presidents of both parties.

00:37:21.440 Clinton, Trump, whatever.

00:37:23.660 We've had them all around.

00:37:25.400 The reason that you can go a long stretch without a government shutdown is because one party basically dominates or one ideology dominates.

00:37:35.660 Certainly before the conservative movement started in the 1950s and 60s, you basically had the liberal consensus.

00:37:43.260 You had everybody basically agreed the same thing.

00:37:45.800 There was a huge, I mean, there were radicals at both sides, but you basically, everyone agreed on this kind of squishy leftism.

00:37:51.580 And that changed when conservatives started to assert themselves in the culture and in politics.

00:37:57.260 But a lot of people have shut down the government.

00:37:59.620 That doesn't abandon our values.

00:38:01.400 If that's the case, we've been abandoning our values for decades and decades and decades.

00:38:05.600 Then she makes a real rhetorical misstep.

00:38:08.060 Our most urgent work is to realize Americans' dreams of today and tomorrow, to carve a path to independence and prosperity that can last a lifetime.

00:38:20.380 Children deserve an excellent education from cradle to career.

00:38:24.160 Bad week to talk about cradles, Stacey. 0.93

00:38:27.460 If you're a Democrat, this is not a great week to talk about cradles because the governor of Virginia, your party, just said that we should be able to kill babies in cradles. 1.00

00:38:38.120 You know, after talking to the doctor and the mother, then you should be able to kill them. 0.99

00:38:41.980 In New York, you know, that baby's already halfway out. 0.99

00:38:45.040 You've got the cradle already, and you're allowed to kill it now in New York.

00:38:47.520 And the government's cheered with delight to, quote, the Democrats cheered with delight to, quote, President Trump.

00:38:53.940 Not a great week to do that.

00:38:55.140 It's almost a cheap shot, but it's just to show you she isn't, it's just a little weak.

00:39:00.000 But she goes on to make the point that she was trying to make, which unfortunately contradicts the entire argument of her own party.

00:39:06.320 We owe them safe schools and the highest standards, regardless of zip code.

00:39:11.980 Yet this White House responds timidly while first graders practice active shooter drills, and the price of higher education grows ever steeper.

00:39:21.220 So what she is talking about now is basically a cynical lie.

00:39:25.740 She's talking about school choice and how we need school choice.

00:39:29.320 We need to stop it, stop children from being prisoner to their zip codes and allow them to go to better schools if they can get into those schools.

00:39:36.900 The Democrat Party is explicitly fighting all Republican efforts for school choice to allow kids to go to better schools.

00:39:45.560 In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio, leftist Democrat, is doing his best to get rid of charter schools.

00:39:52.620 He is doing his best to lock those kids, largely racial minority kids, largely poor, into their terrible zip codes so that they can never get an education. 1.00

00:40:01.840 That's what it is.

00:40:02.880 This is a cynical lie.

00:40:04.400 They are, and the reason they're doing it is because they're held hostage to the teacher union who pays them a lot of money.

00:40:10.040 But for her to go out there and say it, it's so bizarre, I can't think of an analogy.

00:40:15.500 She is saying what we need to do is the policy that we've been fighting Republicans on for years.

00:40:22.120 The policy that Republicans want to do that we won't let them do. 0.93

00:40:24.440 Ridiculous. 0.73

00:40:24.880 Then she just starts describing things that, she goes from false advertising over her own party's positions to just describing things that are not true. 0.90

00:40:35.480 The Republican tax bill rigged the system against working people.

00:40:40.360 Rather than bringing back jobs, plants are closing, layoffs are looming, and wages struggle to keep pace with the actual cost of living.

00:40:49.080 We owe more to the millions of everyday folks who keep our economy running.

00:40:55.340 What are you talking about?

00:40:56.800 The economy has been booming for over two years.

00:40:59.780 We have record low unemployment.

00:41:01.220 We have record low black unemployment.

00:41:02.900 We have record low Hispanic unemployment.

00:41:05.240 The economy basically could not be doing better.

00:41:08.800 So she's, oh gosh, okay, well that line didn't work.

00:41:10.760 Let's talk about the caged children.

00:41:13.060 We know bipartisanship could craft a 21st century immigration plan, but this administration chooses to cage children and tear families apart. 0.91

00:41:24.240 Caged children.

00:41:25.340 There was a photo that went viral of caged children.

00:41:28.200 People blamed Donald Trump for it.

00:41:29.720 The photo was from the Obama administration.

00:41:32.200 Donald Trump isn't choosing to cage children.

00:41:34.920 Why are we caging children?

00:41:36.100 Which really they mean separating illegal alien kids from the adults that are with them. 0.61

00:41:41.300 Who knows if it's their parents?

00:41:42.800 Often it's coyotes and human traffickers.

00:41:45.320 Well, the reason that we're doing that is because of an agreement, the Flores Agreement, from 1997.

00:41:50.700 From the Clinton administration.

00:41:52.260 Which said that we can't throw these little kids in jail. 1.00

00:41:55.140 The parents have to go to criminal holding, but the kids don't have to go to jail.

00:41:58.980 So we're going to separate them and put the kids in a nicer place.

00:42:02.620 So who do we have to thank for that?

00:42:03.980 Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

00:42:06.100 And then she makes her selfish argument.

00:42:08.440 She wants to make this selfish argument about voter suppression because she insists that the election was stolen from her in Georgia.

00:42:17.460 It was stolen because the Democrats got carpal tunnel writing all those fraudulent ballots so they couldn't ultimately give her the office.

00:42:24.540 She talks about voter suppression.

00:42:26.500 Unfortunately, again, she makes the opposite point.

00:42:29.040 Let's be clear.

00:42:31.480 Voter suppression is real.

00:42:34.160 From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls, to moving and closing polling places, to rejecting lawful ballots, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy.

00:42:46.560 While I acknowledge the results of the 2018 election here in Georgia, I did not, and we cannot, accept efforts to undermine our right to vote.

00:42:57.080 Oh, I agree, Stacey.

00:42:59.140 I agree.

00:43:01.120 Voter fraud is real.

00:43:03.040 That's what you said, right?

00:43:03.860 Voter fraud?

00:43:04.420 Voter fraud is real.

00:43:06.160 We know this.

00:43:06.880 There was a big survey that just came out in Texas, a big study, showed rampant voter fraud.

00:43:11.680 Non-citizens registered to vote.

00:43:13.820 To the tune of, what, 59,000, I think, had voted?

00:43:17.000 Cases of voter fraud.

00:43:18.900 Illegal votes cancel out legitimate votes.

00:43:21.000 If you allow someone to vote illegally, then it is exactly the same as taking away someone's right to vote.

00:43:30.900 There is no difference.

00:43:31.920 Their vote will not count.

00:43:33.800 Best way to secure the vote?

00:43:34.980 Stacey, I'm with you.

00:43:35.860 We ought to secure the vote.

00:43:37.340 Voter ID.

00:43:38.220 That's the best way to do it.

00:43:39.140 Because then those tens and tens of thousands of people won't be voting in Texas who shouldn't be voting.

00:43:45.380 And then tens and tens of thousands of votes won't be canceled out.

00:43:50.040 Tens and tens of thousands of people won't have their right to vote effectively canceled.

00:43:54.480 I will leave on a sort of nice note to Stacey Abrams.

00:43:58.900 This was relatively better than most of the responses.

00:44:01.700 The reason is the framing of it.

00:44:04.260 The reason these don't work is President Trump has the biggest audience.

00:44:07.300 First, he's got the world.

00:44:08.540 But then he's in the Capitol, this grand auditorium.

00:44:11.200 He's got the vice president and the speaker behind him.

00:44:12.960 He's got all of these 500 congressmen, senators in front of him.

00:44:17.580 And so it's just so grand.

00:44:18.980 And then they film the reaction in a little tiny broom closet.

00:44:22.400 They basically film it in my studio upstairs.

00:44:25.320 What Stacey Abrams did is she put all, it's kind of weird.

00:44:28.360 It's all of these people behind her.

00:44:29.980 And they were all a little blurry.

00:44:31.400 You couldn't, you know, you couldn't make out faces really.

00:44:34.140 All different colors and men and women.

00:44:37.040 And they were enough in the back that I didn't even, I assumed it was probably a green screen or something.

00:44:42.960 But you still got the feeling that she's surrounded by people.

00:44:46.180 This is just a basic lesson for political rallies.

00:44:49.140 You want to be surrounded by people so it looks like you've got a lot of support.

00:44:51.860 I thought that was a really smart revision to the response to the State of the Union.

00:44:57.440 But it fell flat.

00:44:59.480 Trump won the night.

00:45:00.500 And for now, we can say proudly, happily, hopefully, America will never be a socialist country.

00:45:08.200 Check us out tonight at UCLA.

00:45:10.040 And if you're not there, then I'll see you tomorrow on the show.

00:45:12.460 Get your mailbag questions in.

00:45:13.720 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:45:44.920 Yesterday on Daily Wire backstage, we had a blast reviewing the State of the Union address.

00:45:49.080 There were drinks.

00:45:50.040 There were cigars.

00:45:51.020 There was mockery.

00:45:52.240 All sorts of the stuff that you are looking for in any analysis of the State of the Union address.

00:45:55.960 Go check it out.

00:45:56.760 That was yesterday on Daily Wire backstage.

The Michael Knowles Show - February 06, 2019

Ep. 293 - America Will Never Be A Socialist Country

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