The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 297 - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)

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00:00:37.740 President Trump waxes philosophic on his big, beautiful wall.

00:00:42.300 We will analyze the long tradition of ascete conservatives and Philistine liberals. 0.84

00:00:47.640 Then, independent Democrat presidential candidate Howard Schultz calls the Green New Deal immoral.

00:00:53.180 Cory Booker says poor people shouldn't eat meat.

00:00:55.780 And we ask, do animals have feelings?

00:00:58.800 Do white teenage boys?

00:01:00.720 We will ask the important questions.

00:01:02.700 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:11.120 If you hadn't seen it, the cover of Esquire is causing a lot of mayhem and chaos

00:01:18.280 because it features a white teenage boy in middle America.

00:01:24.020 People are outraged.

00:01:26.380 The usual suspects are all feigning indignation.

00:01:29.840 People want him off the cover.

00:01:31.400 They think it's awful to have a teenage boy on the cover.

00:01:33.880 This gets to a central bias, a central condemnation of the left.

00:01:40.320 We'll get to it by the end.

00:01:42.260 Once we talk about whether animals have feelings, we can figure out if white teen boys do too.

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00:02:53.720 Before we get to whether teenage boys have feelings or not, teenage white boys, 0.69

00:02:59.300 let's talk about an overgrown teenage white boy, President Donald Trump, who remains on the war path.

00:03:06.420 We talked about this yesterday.

00:03:07.760 He's having a very good start to his week.

00:03:09.960 He's had a very good previous week.

00:03:11.640 And he just keeps on doing it, keeps on winning.

00:03:14.760 And there is even more good news now.

00:03:18.060 So we talked about good potential news from his cabinet meeting.

00:03:24.920 We'll go through that cabinet meeting today.

00:03:26.220 We talked about the rally down in El Paso.

00:03:29.380 We talked about how he's winning in public opinion.

00:03:31.660 But now he's even got some more trolling.

00:03:34.020 If you looked at his Twitter account this morning,

00:03:37.040 he was referring to the Senate investigation into his improprieties with Russia.

00:03:44.520 And he tweeted out, not a Daily Wire clip, not a Fox News clip.

00:03:50.140 He tweeted out an MSNBC clip to celebrate this news.

00:03:54.900 MSNBC News exclusive reporting on the Senate Intelligence Committee,

00:03:58.420 their investigation into Russian election interference and what they have and have not uncovered.

00:04:03.820 NBC's Ken Delanian has just jumped in front of a camera to join me with his new reporting.

00:04:07.860 So, Ken, what are you hearing?

00:04:09.140 What are you learning?

00:04:10.000 Hallie, after two years and interviewing more than 200 witnesses,

00:04:14.040 the Senate Intelligence Committee has not uncovered any direct evidence of a conspiracy

00:04:18.160 between the Trump campaign and Russia.

00:04:20.100 That's according to sources on both the Republican and the Democratic side of the aisle, Hallie. 0.98

00:04:24.900 And careful viewers and readers will note that Senator Richard Burr,

00:04:27.680 the chairman of the Intelligence Committee who leads this probe,

00:04:30.380 essentially said that in an interview with another network last week.

00:04:33.580 But what I've been doing since then is checking with my sources on the Democratic side

00:04:37.120 to understand the full context of his remarks because that was essentially a partisan comment

00:04:41.540 from one side.

00:04:43.040 But this is a bipartisan investigation.

00:04:44.700 And what I found is that the Democrats don't dispute that.

00:04:48.020 Oh, my.

00:04:48.860 So President Trump included that entire clip from MSNBC because the schadenfreude is so much better

00:04:53.980 when your opponents are saying that.

00:04:55.800 What they're saying is the Senate Intelligence Committee was investigating Trump's links to Russia,

00:05:01.720 Russian interference, whatever.

00:05:03.980 They came up short.

00:05:06.040 And now you could say, well, the Senate is run by Republicans.

00:05:09.080 And so it's no surprise that they came up short.

00:05:11.960 But what they're saying on MSNBC, to their credit, they're at least admitting it,

00:05:15.720 is that they spoke to sources on both sides of the aisle on that committee.

00:05:20.220 The Republicans said the investigation turned up nothing.

00:05:23.420 The Democrats said the investigation turned up nothing.

00:05:27.260 Now, we predicted that this would happen weeks and weeks and months and months ago, of course.

00:05:31.100 But we also saw that this was happening in particular right now last week when Adam Schiff,

00:05:39.220 that Democrat congressman who's running all the investigations, when he started shifting

00:05:43.660 his focus away from Russia onto Donald Trump's financial interests, you realized they were coming

00:05:49.900 up with nothing on Russia.

00:05:51.840 Russia was the story.

00:05:52.800 If they could have said, ah, Donald Trump visited Russia.

00:05:56.700 He ate borscht 10 years ago.

00:05:59.100 If they could have linked him, they would have stuck on that story.

00:06:02.020 But they can't.

00:06:02.660 They came up with nothing.

00:06:03.840 And so now they're saying, well, if Vladimir Putin is not buying off Donald Trump,

00:06:10.060 we want to make sure that nobody else is either.

00:06:12.580 So we're going to look into all of his financial records since forever.

00:06:16.580 And then we're going to make sure nothing is improper there.

00:06:20.300 Now, the reason for this, of course, is that Donald Trump is a very wealthy man.

00:06:23.940 He has about a zillion businesses.

00:06:25.680 Some of them succeeded.

00:06:26.640 Some of them went under.

00:06:27.900 Any guy who's worked for a long time in business is going to have very complex financials.

00:06:33.420 And they're hoping to look in and find something untoward, especially if you worked in real estate

00:06:38.860 development in New York.

00:06:39.920 You probably dealt with some shady characters.

00:06:41.740 So now they're just trying to rummage through Trump's trash and find anything that might

00:06:45.900 be scintillating for gossipers, anything that might be scintillating to try to bring him

00:06:51.700 down.

00:06:52.200 But on Russia, what have they got thus far?

00:06:55.440 Nothing.

00:06:56.900 Now, we can wait for the Mueller report.

00:06:58.640 Maybe Bob Mueller found something that nobody else was able to find.

00:07:02.900 Maybe he found the smoking gun of Donald Trump colluding with Boris and Natasha.

00:07:07.860 Russia, but right now, as we have said since the beginning, since 2016, it's just not looking

00:07:15.920 like it.

00:07:17.500 So, the substantive question.

00:07:19.200 President Trump is obviously winning on this one issue that has dogged him.

00:07:22.100 You can tell he's sort of let it get to him because he'll just tweet out, no collusion,

00:07:25.960 crazy investigations.

00:07:27.920 He mentioned it in the State of the Union.

00:07:29.680 Now on the substantive question, will President Trump take a deal on the wall or will he shut

00:07:36.740 down the government?

00:07:37.880 So, he shut down the government and he said, we need to get 5.7, I believe, billion dollars

00:07:43.680 for wall funding.

00:07:44.540 Now, 5.7 billion dollars is not nearly enough to build the wall.

00:07:47.800 It's only enough to build a couple hundred miles of new wall.

00:07:51.880 Then the government was shut down, longest shut down ever.

00:07:54.080 Then the government reopens and he says, I'm going to open it for three weeks, but if we

00:07:57.500 don't get to the negotiating table, if you don't give me money for the wall, then I'm

00:08:01.380 going to shut the government down again.

00:08:02.800 So, will he shut it down?

00:08:05.660 I don't think so.

00:08:07.400 I don't think he's going to.

00:08:08.680 I don't know how important it is that he does actually.

00:08:13.100 Well, it depends on how else he can get the money.

00:08:15.660 I think he likes his high approval rating.

00:08:17.820 I think he likes that right now he is seriously winning.

00:08:21.960 There's a lot of momentum in the public opinion sphere for him.

00:08:25.820 So, I don't think that he wants to kill that approval rating and halt that momentum by

00:08:29.760 shutting down the government again.

00:08:31.080 Also, what would he be shutting it down for?

00:08:34.440 He needs to build the wall.

00:08:36.480 He needs to build the wall.

00:08:37.560 If he can't do it, he's toast in 2020.

00:08:39.760 But if he can do it another way, he should.

00:08:42.680 So, the deal on the table that has been struck by legislators that they're now bringing to

00:08:46.900 Donald Trump asking his opinion on takes the amount of requested money down from $5 billion

00:08:51.820 all the way down to $1.375 billion for a wall.

00:08:56.860 That is a fraction of what they offered him for the wall.

00:09:00.420 Obviously, a lot less than he asked for and they won't be able to build much wall for this.

00:09:05.000 What are they going to be able to build?

00:09:05.860 50 miles maybe of wall?

00:09:08.140 So, why would Donald Trump take the deal?

00:09:10.300 There's one really big reason why he would take the deal.

00:09:12.760 And the reason is this.

00:09:14.640 If he gets even $1.4 billion or $1.375 billion for the wall, he can come back and destroy the

00:09:22.320 Democrats' fundamental argument, which is that walls are immoral, which is that walls don't work.

00:09:29.060 That's been their argument now since the beginning.

00:09:31.640 Walls are immoral, ineffective, and they cost too much money.

00:09:35.180 And what President Trump can say, if he takes any amount of money, if they give him 50 bucks

00:09:39.160 out of their pockets, he can say, well, if walls are immoral, then you all just committed

00:09:43.900 an immorality.

00:09:45.620 If walls are ineffective, then you all just gave me money for nothing.

00:09:49.740 And if walls are too expensive, then you all just wasted the people's money, even if it's

00:09:53.700 only some of the people's money, even if it's only a tiny fraction of it.

00:09:57.980 So, I think there actually is an argument to take a deal, even if the deal isn't going to

00:10:02.320 build a whole lot of wall, because then what is their argument?

00:10:05.460 When he comes back and says, we need more money for more wall, are they going to say,

00:10:08.800 it's immoral?

00:10:09.600 He said, well, you all did it already.

00:10:11.540 I mean, this argument was so effective for Republicans when they pointed to Chuck Schumer

00:10:17.060 and said, hey, Chuck Schumer, in 2006, you paid for the wall.

00:10:21.320 Now, it never got built, or in a lot of places it wasn't built, but you paid for it.

00:10:26.920 So, what's changed now?

00:10:28.720 Now, some Democrats in the House and the Senate were not susceptible to this attack because

00:10:33.800 they weren't there in 2006.

00:10:35.620 They're relative newcomers.

00:10:36.920 But now, if he gets all of them on the record as paying for this wall, what argument do they

00:10:42.380 have?

00:10:42.600 I'm not sure.

00:10:43.800 The thing that needs to be addressed, of course, is how does he build the rest of the

00:10:47.840 wall?

00:10:48.240 If he just builds 50 miles of wall, he's toast in 2020.

00:10:52.020 His supporters will abandon him.

00:10:54.060 If he can't build more than 50 miles of wall, what are we doing?

00:10:58.260 What are we even doing here?

00:10:59.300 It's his signature central campaign promise.

00:11:01.820 So, President Trump, all of this swirling around in his head, he finally addressed the

00:11:05.660 question over whether he would accept the deal or not at a cabinet meeting.

00:11:09.640 We're getting a beautiful-looking structure that's also less expensive to build and works

00:11:18.360 much better.

00:11:19.540 That's a good combination of events because it was crazy what they were putting up.

00:11:23.120 In fact, I happen to think that the walls that they were building were so unattractive and

00:11:26.720 so ugly that walls got bad names, okay, if that means anything.

00:11:30.680 But they were so ugly with rusted steel and big, ugly plates on top that were all tin

00:11:36.140 canned.

00:11:36.580 It's called tin canned where they're wavy because the heat makes them expand and contract and

00:11:42.660 they tin can.

00:11:43.340 I said, why didn't you paint the steel?

00:11:46.220 Well, sir, we saved money by not painting it.

00:11:49.380 I said, yeah, but it's going to rust.

00:11:51.420 You have to paint.

00:11:52.080 I've never seen, I've ordered a lot of steel.

00:11:54.120 I've never seen in my whole life steel come to me that was unpainted.

00:11:57.780 So he goes on like this for a little bit.

00:12:00.860 You'll notice the way he's talking about the wall, he's not talking about it in utilitarian

00:12:04.800 terms.

00:12:05.420 He's not talking about it even as a matter of cost.

00:12:08.100 He's talking about it in strictly aesthetic terms.

00:12:12.060 And here, President Trump comes from a long conservative tradition.

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00:14:33.620 So President Trump is there at the cabinet meeting talking about the wall.

00:14:39.080 And the way he's talking about it is in aesthetic terms.

00:14:42.720 He said the walls that they built before, the fences they built before were so ugly,

00:14:47.140 they gave walls themselves a bad name.

00:14:49.800 He said up at the top, because the steel was poor quality and it wasn't painted,

00:14:54.840 it would start to tin can.

00:14:56.580 It would get waves throughout it.

00:14:58.020 It would start to rust.

00:14:59.580 And President Trump was outraged that it would start to rust.

00:15:02.560 Good steel, you shouldn't rust.

00:15:04.180 You should be able to paint it.

00:15:05.220 That way it won't rust.

00:15:07.000 I love that he's speaking in these terms.

00:15:11.320 These aesthetic terms, these graphic terms, show a big difference with the left.

00:15:16.040 The left tends to be strictly utilitarian.

00:15:20.600 And conservatives are not.

00:15:22.780 I think in the popular culture we get this backwards.

00:15:24.860 We think of conservatives as the sort of stodgy old man reading the Wall Street Journal,

00:15:29.880 just counting the dollars in his bank account.

00:15:32.380 And liberals rather, you know, they're the artistic ones, man.

00:15:35.720 They've got such cool artistic ideas.

00:15:38.040 In reality, it's the reverse.

00:15:40.380 Because the left has very little imagination.

00:15:42.440 The left has its ideology, it's got its science of politics, its science of history,

00:15:48.400 and it's trudging along joylessly toward progressive utopia.

00:15:52.700 But on the conservative side, conservatives have a more romantic view of the world,

00:15:57.580 a more immense, complex, intricate view of the world.

00:16:02.820 We have a greater appreciation of mystery.

00:16:05.320 We look at the world with greater awe and wonder.

00:16:08.140 It's no coincidence that the big mac daddy of conservative thought,

00:16:11.740 the godfather of conservative thought, Edmund Burke, was a proto-romantic.

00:16:17.420 He inspired the romantics.

00:16:19.300 Our main conservative modern founder, Edmund Burke,

00:16:24.660 before he wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France,

00:16:27.700 he was an aesthetic philosopher.

00:16:29.740 He wrote An Inquiry into Our Ideas on the Sublime and the Beautiful.

00:16:34.160 President Trump is going to write the revised and expanded edition, I think.

00:16:37.300 He's going to write a sequel to that.

00:16:40.580 These terms, obviously President Trump has used these a lot.

00:16:44.000 On the campaign trail, one thing that really set him apart from the other candidates

00:16:47.520 is the other candidates would all be speaking in really dry policy terms.

00:16:51.260 And President Trump would paint a picture.

00:16:53.420 He would paint a picture of John Kasich eating in a disgusting manner.

00:16:58.260 Say, oh, you ever see the way that guy eats? 0.98

00:16:59.940 It's disgusting. 0.99

00:17:01.040 He just stuffs his face. 0.98

00:17:02.760 He's hovering over the plate. 0.99

00:17:04.140 It's disgusting.

00:17:05.080 And then you'd have this image in your head. 0.95

00:17:06.600 You'd have an image of low-energy Jeb.

00:17:09.940 What does low-energy evoke?

00:17:12.000 Maybe like a little atom with the electrons are dead or so.

00:17:15.600 Just kind of a guy slumped sort of like this.

00:17:17.560 Little Marco.

00:17:18.760 He's always sweating.

00:17:20.740 He's always thirsty.

00:17:22.160 So it gives you this image of a nervous guy.

00:17:24.420 A guy reaching for water.

00:17:25.920 Sweat pouring down his face.

00:17:27.420 He was always painting pictures.

00:17:29.100 And it created images that really stuck.

00:17:32.440 So throughout that entire campaign, when he gave you a nickname, when he gave you a description,

00:17:37.060 it would really stick.

00:17:39.380 This is a wonderful tool of conservatives and of the right.

00:17:43.140 And we should use it all the time. 0.99

00:17:44.640 We should use our vivid imagery, our appreciation of a world that is more complex than some stupid little manifesto. 0.96

00:17:53.240 You know, then here's the whole world in five bullet points, according to Karl Marx. 0.96

00:17:57.680 The conservative view is so much richer than that.

00:18:00.520 We should use it.

00:18:01.280 I mean, this is part of what makes leftism so inhuman.

00:18:06.220 Leftism treats human beings like material objects.

00:18:10.100 Leftism says, when our material needs are satisfied, everything is great.

00:18:16.780 So when Barack Obama was talking about jihad in the Middle East, he said,

00:18:21.940 oh, the reason that these guys are committing jihad is not because they're motivated by big ideas.

00:18:27.060 It's not because they have a perverse view of God and the divine and the transcendent and the purpose of their lives.

00:18:34.900 No, no.

00:18:36.180 It's because they don't have jobs.

00:18:38.080 It's because they can't afford to buy iPods.

00:18:41.160 You know, if these guys in jihadi land, if they could just buy iPods and watch TV, 1.00

00:18:48.040 oh, then they'd be totally fine.

00:18:49.820 Then they would.

00:18:50.200 It's just, we're just automatons.

00:18:52.380 We're just material, fleshy, deterministic machines.

00:18:57.460 Once you plug us full of material, then we don't have any thoughts anymore.

00:19:02.740 This is the idea of the left.

00:19:04.480 That's unhuman.

00:19:05.360 They don't realize that human beings are not primarily material creatures.

00:19:09.800 We're primarily spiritual and artistic creatures.

00:19:14.560 G.K. Chesterton wrote about this.

00:19:16.500 With the earliest men, when you think about the caveman, what image comes into your mind?

00:19:21.180 This sort of semi-conscious, big, eyebrows, not very smart guy who's dragging a club in one arm and his wife in the other.

00:19:31.600 And he's dragging them around and he's a brute and he's barely, he's not capable of reason and he's barely recognizable to us.

00:19:39.440 Because that is the leftist view of what a human being fundamentally is.

00:19:45.260 But we don't know that the caveman carried a club around.

00:19:49.720 We don't know that the caveman dragged his wife by her hair.

00:19:53.520 We don't know anything about the caveman other than this, that he was an artist.

00:20:00.000 Chesterton points this out.

00:20:01.380 The only thing we actually know about cavemen is that they painted drawings on cave walls.

00:20:07.140 Little animals in pigments.

00:20:10.880 That's what they did.

00:20:11.760 Actually, the only firm thing we can say about our hominid cave ancestors is that they had an artistic sensibility.

00:20:20.580 They wanted to reproduce their vision of the world in art.

00:20:24.420 And they had an abstract enough reason and a sophisticated enough consciousness that they were able to do that.

00:20:31.360 That they were able to see an animal in the field, go into a cave, and by torchlight or whatever, paint the little animal in the cave.

00:20:39.000 They had a sophisticated enough artistic sense that they could create the pigment in which to paint the animal.

00:20:46.100 That is a sophisticated creature.

00:20:48.740 That is a creature so sophisticated, he almost looks like you and me.

00:20:53.760 Turns out that our ancestors may have had a lot in common with us.

00:20:57.540 It turns out maybe the essence of humanity is aesthetic.

00:21:02.580 And conservatives really get this.

00:21:04.240 And even President Trump.

00:21:05.600 I mean, you know, our image of President Trump is that he's walking around the field with a club in one arm and his wife in the other arm dragging her by the hair.

00:21:11.600 But in reality, when you actually listen to this guy talk, especially when he talks about building, especially when he talks about his career, he speaks in aesthetic terms.

00:21:21.460 So that's how he's viewing the wall premier.

00:21:23.220 I think it's a great way to view it.

00:21:24.660 What about the deal itself?

00:21:25.980 I can tell you that, am I happy at first glance?

00:21:29.840 I just got to see it.

00:21:31.080 The answer is no.

00:21:32.620 I'm not.

00:21:33.700 I'm not happy.

00:21:35.540 But am I happy with where we're going?

00:21:37.700 I'm thrilled.

00:21:39.020 Because we're supplementing things and moving things around, and we're doing things that are fantastic, and taking from far less, really from far less important areas.

00:21:49.580 And the bottom line is we're building a lot of wall.

00:21:53.320 Right now we're building a lot of wall.

00:21:54.700 And you think it's easy?

00:21:56.020 We're building in the face of tremendous obstruction and tremendous opposition.

00:22:00.140 Look at the comparison, just how when he's talking about the wall itself to when he's talking about how he's going to fund the wall, he starts to say at the letter, yeah, well, we're taking a lot of money from different areas.

00:22:12.740 And frankly, everybody, and it's going from an area, it'll be in another area, obstruction.

00:22:19.380 He clearly cares a lot less about that.

00:22:21.520 I think he just wants to get the thing built.

00:22:23.800 And so, should he take the deal or not?

00:22:25.400 Well, if he can take the deal and then tie it around the Democrats' necks, that's fine, if and only if he can take the money from elsewhere.

00:22:33.960 Senator Ted Cruz has a great idea of where to get that money, which is that we've finally got El Chapo.

00:22:39.400 We're putting him into an American prison, so he's not going to break out this time. 0.61

00:22:43.180 He's not going to break out like he did in Mexico.

00:22:45.020 And we seized $14 billion from him.

00:22:48.360 President Trump only asked for $5 billion for the wall.

00:22:50.660 How about we take all that $14 billion through asset forfeiture?

00:22:53.920 And then, if you did that, you would not only be able to build the wall, you would make Mexico pay for it.

00:23:00.900 You'd be able to make Mexico pay for it without Mexico actually paying for it.

00:23:04.800 So, without making the Mexican taxpayers pay for it or the Mexican government, you take like the worst Mexican of all time and you just steal all his money, which he's given up now. 0.98

00:23:15.040 I mean, he's a prisoner.

00:23:15.920 He's not getting that money back.

00:23:17.260 And so, you take that money.

00:23:18.800 You make Mexico pay for it. 0.73

00:23:20.080 And, specifically, one of the main reasons we need this wall is because drugs keep pouring over the border.

00:23:25.400 This guy's responsible for a lot of that.

00:23:27.280 Take his money and make him build the wall. 0.97

00:23:29.080 You broke it, you buy it.

00:23:31.260 It would be terrific if we can do it.

00:23:33.240 Whether the asset forfeiture laws are such that that's even possible is up in the air.

00:23:37.560 Conservatives have been promoting this idea for a long time.

00:23:40.540 It's not just Ted Cruz or Donald Trump who can do it.

00:23:43.720 Maybe it gets challenged in court.

00:23:45.160 Maybe it's tied up in court for a long time.

00:23:46.760 It would be a great way to start doing it, though.

00:23:50.560 And, in this very whimsical way, you could accomplish every single one of the campaign promises in a way that certainly not even President Trump could have expected.

00:24:01.320 But, President Trump is not the only person who's upset with Democrats these days for obstruction or radicalism.

00:24:08.380 Democrat Howard Schultz is also upset with the Democrats.

00:24:11.860 And, here is why, in a CNN town hall, he's asked this question.

00:24:16.780 As a lifelong Houstonian, I've seen the damages that hurricanes have caused to my city.

00:24:21.420 And, I watched, as Harvey continued, in a devastating way, that damage.

00:24:26.020 So, in the face of a warming climate that leads to more powerful storms,

00:24:31.120 how much of a priority would climate change be to your administration?

00:24:34.320 And, what are some plans you have to tackle that issue?

00:24:36.380 Before we get to his answer, I would like to point this out.

00:24:39.480 This is the trick that the left does all the time.

00:24:42.140 He says, as a native Houstonian, I have seen the damage that global warming has done to my community.

00:24:48.760 I've seen what these storms that are caused by global warming.

00:24:52.040 I've seen what they do.

00:24:53.920 And, I've seen global warming up close because of specific weather events, global warming.

00:24:58.020 Is weather the climate or is weather not the climate?

00:25:00.520 Because, when Amy Klobuchar gets covered in snow, and we mock her for saying global warming is happening,

00:25:07.240 they say, weather is not climate.

00:25:09.380 And, then when this kid gets up there and says, there was a big storm that affected Houston,

00:25:14.960 therefore, that is global warming,

00:25:16.500 all of the left applauds and says, yes, that is, that specific weather event is the climate.

00:25:21.920 But, only that one.

00:25:23.140 Because, it confirms our biases.

00:25:25.340 Not the other specific weather events.

00:25:27.200 That's not climate. 0.99

00:25:28.200 What, you'd have to be an idiot to think that those specific weather events are climate. 0.99

00:25:32.800 Which is it? 1.00

00:25:34.160 You can, it cannot be both.

00:25:36.780 I know they want it to be.

00:25:38.060 It's very convenient when it's both.

00:25:39.500 It's the premise here, by the way, that before global warming, there was no such thing as hurricanes.

00:25:45.240 They never, no, first ever hurricane happened in 1997.

00:25:50.100 It was the first ever hurricane ever recorded by human beings.

00:25:53.780 We didn't even know what, we thought the gods were coming down, they were so angry with us.

00:25:57.060 Because of all the rain.

00:25:58.960 No, the first, in 1997, right when global warming started, that was the first hurricane.

00:26:04.620 No, of course, you have to pick one or the other.

00:26:07.700 But, for some reason, conservatives let the left get away with this.

00:26:10.740 They say, well, the extreme storms.

00:26:14.400 What about the extreme blizzard up in Minnesota?

00:26:16.540 Is that global warming?

00:26:17.660 You cannot have both ways.

00:26:19.160 So, Howard Schultz answers the question.

00:26:21.120 When I read the Green New Deal, and I try and understand what they're suggesting,

00:26:26.420 I don't understand how you're going to give a job for everybody,

00:26:30.320 how you're going to give free college to everybody,

00:26:32.560 how you're going to create clean energy throughout the country in every building of the land,

00:26:39.520 and then tally this thing up with $32 trillion on Medicare for All.

00:26:46.280 That's about $40 trillion plus, we are sitting, ladies and gentlemen,

00:26:51.260 with $22 trillion of debt on the balance sheet of America.

00:26:56.100 So, once again, not that I'm a business person or I'm an economist,

00:27:01.900 and maybe an economist would disagree with me,

00:27:04.520 but I think it's not, it's immoral to suggest that we can tally up $20, $30, $40, $50 trillion of debt

00:27:13.280 to solve a problem that could be solved in a different way.

00:27:16.740 Now, of course, he's right about this.

00:27:19.860 The question is, is this going to help him in his strategy to run as an independent Democrat for president,

00:27:25.960 or is this going to hurt him?

00:27:27.100 I think it helps him.

00:27:28.900 His whole strategy is that he has to split the Democrats,

00:27:33.460 he's got to split the reasonable Democrats away from the insane, radical, intersectional leftists,

00:27:39.120 and then he's got to siphon some votes off of Donald Trump,

00:27:42.020 and then he becomes president.

00:27:43.820 Now, is this a likely strategy?

00:27:47.600 Is he likely to become president?

00:27:49.240 No, but anything could happen.

00:27:52.900 Look, never say never when it comes to Donald Trump, as they say.

00:27:56.500 So, I suppose there's a world in which it does happen,

00:27:59.180 plus events change everything,

00:28:00.600 so if Donald Trump goes spiraling down for some reason,

00:28:03.500 he actually has a pretty good chance of doing it.

00:28:06.060 I don't think that Howard Schultz is running an intentionally futile campaign.

00:28:11.860 I don't think he's running just to show the strength of possible third parties.

00:28:15.780 I don't think that at all.

00:28:16.740 I think Howard Schultz is running to win.

00:28:18.900 He knows that the odds are stacked against him,

00:28:20.860 but he's going to put himself in a place where, if something goes wrong,

00:28:25.460 he could theoretically become president. 0.60

00:28:28.000 Now, there is an appetite out there for less crazy Democrats.

00:28:31.820 There genuinely is.

00:28:32.960 What Ocasio-Cortez and the Green New Deal people try to insist is that the American people broadly love the Green New Deal.

00:28:43.320 That's what they said.

00:28:44.060 They said over 80% of Democrats and over 60% of Republicans support the Green New Deal.

00:28:51.760 And what those statistics are based on is a survey from Yale's Center for Climate Change Communication.

00:29:00.460 And it's a totally bogus survey which polled people who did not know what the Green New Deal is,

00:29:06.420 have never heard of the Green New Deal,

00:29:07.920 and when it asked them about it, basically just said,

00:29:11.160 hey, the Green New Deal is really great and it's going to be really, really great.

00:29:14.620 And its supporters say it's really, really great.

00:29:16.740 Do you support it?

00:29:17.600 And then they were shocked to find out that most people supported that really great thing.

00:29:24.540 But when people actually learn about what the Green New Deal is,

00:29:27.700 88% of American energy destroyed,

00:29:30.100 costs $40 trillion that they're going to pay for by printing money out of thin air,

00:29:33.980 right out of the Federal Reserve,

00:29:35.820 that it's going to outlaw automobiles,

00:29:38.300 it's going to outlaw planes,

00:29:39.820 it's going to outlaw your house,

00:29:41.780 it's going to take away your doctor and your medical care, 1.00

00:29:44.860 it's going to take away unemployment insurance,

00:29:46.960 it's going to force people onto a backstop government job. 1.00

00:29:50.420 When people find out about that,

00:29:52.400 the popularity of the Green New Deal plummets to nothing.

00:29:56.480 So there is certainly an appetite out there for a less crazy Democrat.

00:30:03.680 Howard Schultz is filling that.

00:30:05.120 He's not a Republican.

00:30:07.540 Some people are trying to present him as this conservative guy.

00:30:10.420 He's not at all.

00:30:11.060 He really is a lifelong Democrat.

00:30:12.740 But there's an appetite out there for less insane Democrats.

00:30:16.040 Same thing on abortion.

00:30:17.880 There's a new survey out today from YouGov.

00:30:20.420 It shows that two-thirds of people who identify as pro-choice in favor of abortion

00:30:25.400 oppose third trimester abortion.

00:30:29.060 So two-thirds of people who think that they support abortion actually are pro-choice

00:30:34.720 think that after whatever, 24, 26 weeks, abortion should be illegal.

00:30:39.160 To say nothing of Ralph Northam, the governor of Virginia's idea that abortion should be legal after birth. 0.91

00:30:44.760 We should be able to kill babies once they've been born. 0.83

00:30:47.220 So there's a real appetite out there. 1.00

00:30:48.780 Howard Schultz is a tough dude.

00:30:50.180 He's not a squish. 1.00

00:30:52.140 He is running to win.

00:30:53.480 He sees an opening for himself.

00:30:55.500 I think it'll probably help Republicans broadly.

00:30:58.100 But who knows?

00:30:58.700 And if he is able to bring the Democrats back to some modicum of sanity, that would be a great service to the nation.

00:31:06.740 But a guy who is a squish is Cory Booker. 1.00

00:31:09.280 Cory Booker is telling everybody not to eat meat, especially poor people.

00:31:13.860 We will get to the Democrats all trying to outwoke one another.

00:31:19.440 Then we will ask, do animals have feelings?

00:31:21.980 Then we will ask, do white teenage boys have feelings? 0.55

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00:32:25.520 Cory Booker is a vegan today, I guess.

00:32:28.700 Of course he is.

00:32:29.520 Did anyone really think otherwise?

00:32:31.440 All of these Democrat candidates are trying to outwoke one another, other than Howard Schultz,

00:32:38.260 who basically is playing a different game. 1.00

00:32:40.200 He says, I'm not going to outwoke all you idiots. 1.00

00:32:42.260 I'm going to run on my own ticket, and I'm going to beat all of you because I have a lot of money. 1.00

00:32:45.920 So, you've got Kamala Harris yesterday talking about how she loves smoking pot and listening to Snoop Dogg,

00:32:53.940 even though Snoop Dogg didn't come out with his debut album until seven years after Kamala Harris said that she was smoking pot.

00:33:01.700 Okay.

00:33:02.240 Then you've got Beto O'Rourke writing his little diary entries like a teenage girl. 0.90

00:33:06.860 You've got Elizabeth Warren now addressing an Indian group.

00:33:11.300 She's doing it again.

00:33:12.060 She appeared at another Indian group and talked about how important it is to support Indians.

00:33:18.180 This is her white whale.

00:33:21.180 She cannot give this up.

00:33:24.680 I think maybe for a couple reasons.

00:33:26.580 One, she lied about it for so long that it's really hard for her to stop lying about being Native American.

00:33:34.800 And two, because of her own sense of virtue.

00:33:38.640 Either how she wants to appear virtuous to her voters or even her own sense of virtue to herself. 1.00

00:33:44.700 Because what she has done is lie about her race for decades to her professional advantage and actually to the disadvantage of real Native Americans. 0.89

00:33:53.460 And now, in her mind and in the mind of voters, she hopes she's supposed to be a really good virtuous person.

00:34:02.160 She's so much better than mean, bad guys like Donald Trump.

00:34:05.420 Those are bad people, but she's a good person.

00:34:07.620 Except it turns out she's not a good person. 0.96

00:34:09.620 She's a race fraud who disadvantaged Native Americans to get ahead in her career. 1.00

00:34:13.760 Not a good person. 0.99

00:34:15.780 At least as bad a person as the rest of us.

00:34:18.180 She's not St. Elizabeth.

00:34:19.740 She's not holier than thou. 0.99

00:34:21.960 She's a race fraud. 1.00

00:34:23.700 And so she can't get over it. 0.99

00:34:25.260 And she keeps going back.

00:34:27.640 She's, oh, let me release DNA results. 0.71

00:34:31.080 See, I'm right.

00:34:31.940 I'm a good person.

00:34:33.200 I'm not a liar and a race fraud.

00:34:34.820 I'm a good person.

00:34:36.160 Let me apologize to the Cherokee Nation. 1.00

00:34:39.000 See, I'm a good belief that I'm a good person.

00:34:42.960 She can't outwoke this.

00:34:44.500 This is going to dog her. 1.00

00:34:46.140 If she'd had an answer on this, she would have come up with one already.

00:34:49.700 But she hasn't.

00:34:50.640 It's dogged her for a long time.

00:34:52.000 She made her TP.

00:34:53.080 She can lie in her TP. 0.91

00:34:54.200 And now it looks like it's killed her presidential campaign. 1.00

00:34:59.320 She's going to keep going back to it. 0.78

00:35:00.480 It's going to keep being funny.

00:35:01.720 And now, to outwoke them all, Cory Booker is focusing on being vegan.

00:35:07.860 The thing you'll notice about all of this, smoke and pot, listening to Snoop Dogg,

00:35:13.040 writing little diary entries about your feelings, trying on new identities,

00:35:19.560 trying on racial minority identities that you don't even really have,

00:35:23.880 but you just want to kind of craft that identity, being vegan.

00:35:27.500 What do all these things have in common?

00:35:29.880 These are all phases that teenagers go through.

00:35:33.760 Teenagers go through all of these phases, some more than others.

00:35:37.580 It's because Democrats, these candidates, don't have a serious sense of purpose.

00:35:43.240 They don't have a serious sense of maturity.

00:35:46.040 They don't have a serious sense of identity.

00:35:48.560 So they just keep cycling through these phases like teenagers.

00:35:52.780 They're behaving in a shallow, sophomoric way.

00:35:56.140 They just never got to the next stage of mental and spiritual development.

00:36:02.920 And so they just keep trying on these different phases, these little fads.

00:36:08.160 Here is Cory Booker.

00:36:10.140 Cory Booker whining, as he usually does, defending veganism against his critics.

00:36:15.620 It's just disheartening to hear somebody in this day and age in the United States of America 0.84

00:36:22.140 say, basically, implicate that gay men are not men, that they're not guys.

00:36:29.680 That was the wrong clip. 0.94

00:36:31.880 Maybe.

00:36:32.240 Maybe that was the wrong clip.

00:36:34.240 That was Cory Booker talking about another rumor and actually, really, the woke prize of them all.

00:36:39.840 There have been public rumors for a long time that Cory Booker is gay, and he's always denied it.

00:36:45.620 Then he came out with this bombshell story last week.

00:36:47.780 Cory Booker has a girlfriend.

00:36:49.740 You know, she's living up in Canada.

00:36:51.400 None of us have ever seen her.

00:36:52.660 But yeah, he has got a girlfriend.

00:36:53.800 I don't know.

00:36:54.240 Who cares? 0.81

00:36:54.680 I don't really care if Cory Booker is gay or not. 0.82

00:36:57.500 But that would be the woke prize.

00:37:00.260 That would be the, if a candidate came out as openly gay during the primary, could you ever outwoke that? 0.72

00:37:06.700 But the only way to outwoke that would be to come out as transgender or something, which I guess any of them could do at any given time.

00:37:14.200 But this is what Cory Booker is doing.

00:37:17.180 He's leaning in all this way.

00:37:18.320 Whenever he's asked the question about being gay, he says, well, so what if I am?

00:37:22.240 Maybe I am gay.

00:37:23.980 I'm not gay, but what if I am?

00:37:25.520 And he's pushing this line.

00:37:28.480 I don't know whether Cory Booker is gay or not.

00:37:30.920 Frankly, I don't know if Cory Booker is vegan or not.

00:37:32.980 But they're just trying to check all of the behavioral boxes, what they view as the ideal behavioral boxes of the left.

00:37:42.200 Have a non-traditional diet, have a non-traditional sexuality, smoke non-traditional drugs, have a non-traditional ethnicity, even if you have to make one up out of whole cloth like Liz Warren.

00:37:53.340 That is what they're all aiming for.

00:37:56.160 And you'll notice what none of this has anything to do with is public policy.

00:38:01.680 None of this has anything to do with actually doing the job of president or even their own experience in life.

00:38:08.200 They're just talking about little fads that teenagers do.

00:38:12.480 The latest one now being veganism.

00:38:14.480 This does raise a real question, which is, what is the morality of veganism?

00:38:18.680 Do animals have feelings, as was recently asked in an article, I think in The Atlantic, are animals morally significant?

00:38:26.840 This article was really good.

00:38:27.920 I encourage people to read it.

00:38:29.020 Every so often, you know, Kate Flanagan always publishes good stuff in The Atlantic, and she's the one person who does.

00:38:34.960 And then all the other stuff in The Atlantic is trash.

00:38:36.960 I barely read it anymore, except every so often they publish a good piece.

00:38:41.480 So this one they ask, do animals have feelings?

00:38:44.640 And they talk about the Jains in India and this group of people who has a religious devotion to animals and how they understood long before the West did. 0.97

00:38:56.560 Long before those idiot Westerners, these Eastern spiritual people, realized that animals are really super conscious and they suffer all the time. 0.97

00:39:07.860 And they're just as complex as humans, and we can never even look at them the wrong way. 0.99

00:39:13.900 Here is the sort of fake science that they use throughout this article.

00:39:21.440 In the article, they say, quote,

00:39:22.600 In one experiment, honeybees were attracted to a boat at the center of a lake, which scientists stocked with sugar water.

00:39:30.280 When the bees flew back to the hive, they communicated the boat's location with waggle dances.

00:39:35.380 The hive's other bees would usually set out immediately for a newly revealed nectar load.

00:39:41.520 But in this case, they stayed put, as though they'd consulted a mental map and dismissed the possibility of flowers in the middle of a lake.

00:39:49.540 Other scientists were not able to replicate this result, but different experiments suggest that bees are capable of consulting a mental map in this way.

00:39:58.900 What?

00:39:59.380 Because all they want, this is the new move that everyone wants to do, they want to prove that animals are just as conscious as we are.

00:40:06.940 They anthropomorphize animals because they can't stand the idea that man has dominion over the land and the sea.

00:40:13.860 They can't stand the idea that man is superior to the other animals.

00:40:18.240 No, no.

00:40:18.760 We're all just the same thing.

00:40:20.560 We're basically just slightly more advanced honeybees.

00:40:23.360 But even the way that they say it, look at their imagination, the imagination of these scientists and especially this writer.

00:40:30.220 The honeybees were communicating in this really sophisticated way, this location far, far away on a lake in the middle of a boat.

00:40:37.360 And the other honeybees, they were all going to go over there to get the sugar water.

00:40:41.080 They didn't, of course.

00:40:42.340 But that's just because, why?

00:40:44.320 Because they had thought about it.

00:40:46.220 They were thinking about it really complexly.

00:40:48.480 And then, but then they didn't do it because they rejected it.

00:40:52.180 They had some meetings and they held a couple elections probably.

00:40:55.940 And I don't know, they built up huge civilization and then they just didn't do it.

00:40:59.580 And scientists weren't able to replicate any of the stuff we're saying.

00:41:02.440 But they're really, really, really smart, you guys.

00:41:07.540 This is the product of, I think, an idolatry of scientific materialism.

00:41:13.220 This is a product of an idolatry of processes of natural evolution.

00:41:16.840 People who want to erase the distinction between man and beast.

00:41:20.900 But human beings have intellect and will.

00:41:23.640 We are different.

00:41:24.720 We are categorically different from animals.

00:41:27.520 This is not popular according to modern orthodoxy.

00:41:30.860 But it remains true.

00:41:32.460 And attempts to present some other idea or to upend that always end up in silly mental gymnastics and unscientific conclusions such as this.

00:41:43.020 But it says a lot about our society, our modern materialist secular society, that we are so desperate to make ourselves the same as animals.

00:41:52.600 We want to level ourselves down in this egalitarianism, not just of the species, but of all the species.

00:41:59.940 We want to level ourselves down.

00:42:01.180 We want to anthropomorphize and exalt and raise up animals.

00:42:05.720 This is pagan.

00:42:06.920 And there is a reason that they're comparing this to the Jains or ancient Indian religions.

00:42:13.520 This is paganism. 0.66

00:42:14.660 And we have a new paganism on our hands because we are rejecting the natural order and all of the philosophical and theological and scientific fruits of our civilization.

00:42:25.060 So, I don't think animals have feelings.

00:42:28.140 Do white men have feelings?

00:42:29.280 There's a wonderful piece in Esquire called The Life of an American Boy at 17.

00:42:33.820 And the big deal.

00:42:34.800 This is so awful.

00:42:36.560 This piece talks about a white teenage boy in middle America.

00:42:42.200 He's on the cover of Esquire.

00:42:43.880 How dare they?

00:42:45.960 How dare you put a white... 1.00

00:42:47.960 White teenage boys are the worst. 1.00

00:42:50.160 White teenage boys are the only group in America that the culture permits and actually encourages us to hate and condemn. 0.99

00:42:57.860 You remember with those Covington boys who were waiting for their school bus in D.C. 0.95

00:43:01.980 Everyone jumped on them, tried to turn them into awful racial bigots, whatever.

00:43:05.600 Then it turned out it was exactly the opposite.

00:43:07.340 And the senior culture writer at BuzzFeed, Anne Helen Peterson, said,

00:43:12.060 Well, you can understand why that face caused a visceral reaction in so many. 0.98

00:43:17.900 He's a young white guy and young white guys are the worst. 1.00

00:43:22.440 There was that piece in the Yale Daily News about how young white guys with brown hair are evil and we should ruin their lives. 1.00

00:43:28.980 That's the culture that we live in now. 0.97

00:43:31.640 Actually, the reaction that this piece has prompted is evidence that the piece is urgent and timely.

00:43:37.540 The big line now they say is, How dare you run that cover during Black History Month?

00:43:44.900 You can only do black things during Black History Month. 0.99

00:43:48.060 You can't do any non-black things during Black History Month. 0.95

00:43:51.360 You have to wait until White Middle Class Teenage Boy Month to run the cover of that kid on Esquire.

00:43:57.400 I don't know when White Middle Class Teenage Boy Month is.

00:44:00.240 It's not as though Esquire doesn't put black men on the cover of their magazine.

00:44:03.240 They do it all the time.

00:44:04.700 In just the last year or two, they've put on Idris Elba, Pharrell, Chadwick Boseman, Donald Glover.

00:44:11.560 Plenty of, you don't need, you don't only limit black men to one month. 0.99

00:44:16.540 You know, you can have black men in any month of the year.

00:44:18.780 It's okay.

00:44:19.240 They're not outlawed during all the other 11 months.

00:44:22.980 This is how the piece begins.

00:44:24.540 It says,

00:44:24.980 Ryan Morgan is 17 and happy to be a guy.

00:44:28.400 To be a girl would mean he'd have to deal with a lot more drama.

00:44:31.300 He'd likely have to deal with mean girls. 1.00

00:44:33.060 And he doesn't end up a mom.

00:44:34.720 And he could end up a mom, rather, which he doesn't ever want because being a mom is hard.

00:44:38.500 Probably the hardest job in the world.

00:44:40.480 Also, he might not think football was as interesting.

00:44:43.060 He isn't sure what would be interesting if it isn't football.

00:44:45.760 Then he isn't interested.

00:44:47.200 Other than that, he doesn't think there are too many reasons it would be better to be a guy than a girl. 0.51

00:44:51.960 Unless you're from the Middle East or maybe the inner city. 0.87

00:44:55.540 This is a profile of the way that a 17-year-old boy in America is thinking.

00:45:01.320 So it has all of these things.

00:45:02.840 He seems like a perfectly moderate kid, by the way.

00:45:05.280 It's not like he's some guy wearing a Trump hat every single place he goes.

00:45:09.820 He's saying being a mom is the hardest job in the world.

00:45:12.660 The reason he wants to be a guy is because that's who he is.

00:45:16.260 He can't really imagine being a girl.

00:45:18.620 But in the abstract, he doesn't think it would be terrible to be a girl.

00:45:21.740 Unless you're not living in Western civilization where it actually is pretty terrible to be a girl.

00:45:26.880 The editor of the magazine sent out a letter explaining why he put this piece.

00:45:31.520 Because he knew that there would be pushback.

00:45:34.120 The piece that he wrote in that letter is called,

00:45:36.340 Why Your Ideological Echo Chamber Isn't Just Bad for You, It's Also Bad for Your Kids.

00:45:41.160 And it is.

00:45:42.920 This is really bad.

00:45:43.620 We live in a very confusing culture where we're told to judge people only on their character,

00:45:47.280 not on the color of their skin or superficial physical characteristics. 0.99

00:45:50.700 We're also told that white teenage boys are the worst people ever. 1.00

00:45:55.140 The embodiment of evil. 1.00

00:45:56.800 Other than maybe grown straight white men who think that they're men. 0.92

00:45:59.980 That's the top of the intersectional pyramid. 1.00

00:46:01.720 But they're just awful people. 0.63

00:46:04.340 But don't judge anyone on their skin or on their sex.

00:46:06.880 We're told that men and women are so exactly the same.

00:46:09.580 That there's no difference whatsoever.

00:46:11.100 Men can be women.

00:46:12.040 Women can be men. 0.77

00:46:13.160 Sex barely exists.

00:46:15.220 And then we're also told if you treat women in a certain way.

00:46:19.900 If you don't treat men and women exactly the same.

00:46:22.740 You can never hit a woman.

00:46:26.540 Now of course we all know you can never hit a woman.

00:46:28.200 You can't hit a woman because men and women are different.

00:46:30.760 But if men and women are exactly the same, why can't you hit a woman? 0.98

00:46:34.420 If there's no physical or spiritual difference whatsoever.

00:46:37.680 We're told a lot of confusing messages.

00:46:40.360 We're told that everyone is entitled to his opinion.

00:46:43.600 Think outside the box.

00:46:45.260 Diversity.

00:46:46.140 Tolerance.

00:46:46.740 And then, as this article shows, if you're a white teenage boy who holds an opinion, 0.99

00:46:53.120 you're told shut up. 0.98

00:46:54.020 You have privilege. 0.99

00:46:54.800 You're not entitled to have an opinion. 1.00

00:46:56.460 Shut your mouth. 1.00

00:46:57.380 Check your privilege. 1.00

00:46:58.680 And stop talking.

00:46:59.620 These are very confusing messages.

00:47:01.880 A very confusing time.

00:47:02.940 A very confusing leftist culture that gave it to us.

00:47:05.160 The Esquire piece beautifully and bravely analyzes that.

00:47:08.580 I encourage you all to read.

00:47:09.320 It's a very long piece.

00:47:10.520 And you should read it and post about it too because it drives the left crazy.

00:47:15.400 Kudos to Esquire.

00:47:16.180 Esquire is not exactly a conservative magazine.

00:47:18.520 But they're at least dealing honestly with this question.

00:47:21.400 So my hat goes off to them.

00:47:23.640 I tip my MAGA hat to them.

00:47:25.240 Okay, that's our show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 13, 2019

Ep. 297 - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)

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