The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 308 - It’s The Sun Monster, Stupid

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00:00:37.680 A CNN panel of Democrat voters confirms my 2020 predictions.

00:00:42.440 The party is moving left of Lenin.

00:00:45.140 Forget moderation, forget focusing on the economy. 1.00

00:00:48.420 In 2020, it's the sun monster, stupid. 1.00

00:00:51.540 Then Liz Warren continues to botch identity politics. 1.00

00:00:53.980 Masturbation becomes a sexual orientation. 0.75

00:00:57.540 And Christians around the world gorge themselves as Mardi Gras leads us into Lent.

00:01:02.720 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:04.760 Happy Mardi Gras.

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00:01:22.300 Quite a lot to get to.

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00:03:01.620 Study after study shows that little old me is correct about 2020.

00:03:06.820 The consensus view about 2020 that we have been hearing now for a while is the Democrats,

00:03:12.080 they're going to want a moderate.

00:03:13.800 They're going to want a centrist.

00:03:15.600 They're going to, look, look, if they run Joe Biden, they'll be great. 1.00

00:03:19.040 The consensus view, it's the economy, stupid. 1.00

00:03:22.240 That's what they would always say. 1.00

00:03:23.180 James Carville said this famously for Bill Clinton's runs.

00:03:27.400 So, you know, Democrats, if they just focus on practical issues, working families, that's

00:03:32.020 the way that they're going to win in 2020.

00:03:34.140 And the thing is, the consensus view is always wrong.

00:03:36.940 The Democrats are not going to go for that.

00:03:39.540 Maybe that would work if they could do it, but the Democrats are simply not going to go

00:03:44.040 for it.

00:03:44.480 My view on this is that the Democrats are out for blood.

00:03:48.060 They are triggered on an hourly basis by Donald Trump.

00:03:51.280 They pay attention to those tweets with more attention than they give to their families

00:03:58.040 or to their jobs.

00:03:59.280 They are obsessed with it.

00:04:00.780 They're obsessed with him. 0.98

00:04:02.100 They want to punch back.

00:04:03.980 They are basically as infuriated by him as right-wingers were by Barack Obama.

00:04:08.580 And now they are learning a lesson that we have previously learned. 1.00

00:04:13.400 The old view, the 90s view, is that it's the economy, stupid. 0.99

00:04:17.900 It was, this would basically be the neoliberal view. 0.99

00:04:21.200 Stop arguing about the culture wars.

00:04:23.180 Stop worrying, arguing about religion.

00:04:25.600 Just focus on material things.

00:04:28.140 That's what people really care about at the end of the day.

00:04:30.500 That's all they want to vote on is just if they're getting a little bit more money or

00:04:33.900 a little less money, that's all that it is.

00:04:36.280 It's not the 90s anymore.

00:04:38.120 And there is actually a reaction in both political parties right now against what we would call

00:04:42.920 neoliberalism, against this materialist point of view.

00:04:48.180 So what does this look like on the right?

00:04:49.760 It looks like the right is embracing its traditions.

00:04:52.600 It looks like the right is wanting to make America great again.

00:04:57.140 It's the right looking back first through the Tea Party, then through the Trump movement

00:05:01.400 and saying, you know, there was something that we have lost even amidst this material prosperity

00:05:06.300 that we want to regain, that we want to look back to.

00:05:09.260 So we look back to our ancestors, we look forward to the future.

00:05:12.900 What does this look like on the left?

00:05:15.300 Well, it's the left embracing their own culture and it's the left embracing their own religion.

00:05:19.840 And for the left, their religion is environmentalism.

00:05:23.660 Their religion is global warming.

00:05:25.700 Their religion is the Green New Deal. 0.68

00:05:27.120 That's why this crazy plan that costs $93 trillion that would outlaw your home, your car,

00:05:33.620 your airplane, your everything is basically become the central discussion during the 2020

00:05:41.960 Democrat primaries.

00:05:43.340 That's why it's because it's a hearkening back beyond just mere economic matters all the

00:05:48.520 way to religious matters, which on the left means environmentalism.

00:05:51.820 The clearest sign of this, the clearest sign of the rejection of the 90s, the rejection of

00:05:56.240 neoliberalism is that Hillary is out. 0.86

00:05:58.960 I know there have been how many times has she said, I'm probably not going to run.

00:06:02.460 I know it doesn't look like I'm going to run.

00:06:04.740 Some advisor leaks and says, she's not going to run. 0.96

00:06:07.180 But it wasn't her saying it herself.

00:06:10.060 Why?

00:06:10.460 Because Hillary Clinton's been running for president since she was six years old. 1.00

00:06:14.460 But now she has come out and said, on my own hometown news network, News 12, because

00:06:19.580 Hillary Clinton, who is my distant cousin, I'm sorry to say, also lives at the town over

00:06:25.360 from where I grew up.

00:06:26.540 Basically, man, there's really a lot going on in our little neighborhood, isn't there?

00:06:29.720 Because in Chappaqua, you have Hillary Clinton living. 1.00

00:06:32.460 Then in Bedford Hills, that's where I grew up.

00:06:34.260 And then in Yorktown Heights, in the ritzier part, northern, you have Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:06:39.220 I think I'm the only Republican in my entire home county.

00:06:43.180 Regardless, that's a diversion.

00:06:44.840 That's a digression, rather.

00:06:46.180 She comes out on News Channel 12 and she announces once and for all, Hillary Clinton

00:06:52.640 is not running for president in 2020.

00:06:55.140 Can you tell me now, standing here, 100% that you've ruled it out?

00:06:59.500 I'm not running, but I'm going to keep working and speaking and standing up for what I believe.

00:07:05.020 So even there, she says, I'm not running.

00:07:08.660 It seems as though that's as ironclad as it could possibly be.

00:07:13.600 However, she's a Clinton, so she can't ever give a straight answer on anything.

00:07:16.940 So she says, I am not running.

00:07:18.020 If you have to parse that in Clintonese, she could run tomorrow. 0.99

00:07:22.680 Currently, she's not running.

00:07:23.940 She could run tomorrow, but it does appear that it's too late.

00:07:27.900 There are too many competitors in the race already, too many people who will use up her donors. 0.99

00:07:31.980 It's a little too late for her to jump in. 0.51

00:07:34.080 She isn't doing the things that you need to do to run. 0.76

00:07:36.660 And she's not running because the Democrats don't want her. 1.00

00:07:41.200 And Hillary Clinton is pretty empty. 0.98

00:07:44.040 She can be whatever she wants.

00:07:45.380 She can be a hardline ideologue. 0.99

00:07:47.900 Then she can compromise on her ideology if she thinks the ends justify the means.

00:07:52.600 She's a Clinton. 0.96

00:07:53.960 Being a Clinton means never have to say what you really believe because you don't believe anything.

00:07:59.140 Hillary Clinton, from her days at Wellesley, was clearly leaning left.

00:08:06.320 She loved Saul Alinsky, rules for radicals.

00:08:10.320 She did have this essential leftist belief, and she let it get quashed for decades and decades while she supported her husband, while she supported the new Democrats.

00:08:19.240 Now the Democrat Party has thrown her out for that. 0.97

00:08:21.640 Even if, down at her core, she's really a hardline leftist, they're throwing her out.

00:08:25.720 They want somebody who is fully committed to the cause.

00:08:30.020 There was a poll that came out yesterday, NBC, Wall Street Journal poll.

00:08:35.480 It said, oh, the thing that voters least want in 2020 is a candidate who's a socialist or who's over 75.

00:08:44.260 Now this was being aired as evidence that, no, no, the Democrats are going to moderate.

00:08:49.060 No, no.

00:08:49.880 No, Michael, what are you talking about?

00:08:51.740 The Democrats are going to nominate a centrist and they're going to beat Trump.

00:08:54.400 Those headlines were all wrong because what the headlines showed is that in a general election, being a socialist and being over 75 was not preferable.

00:09:04.100 But that's not the case for the Democrats.

00:09:06.300 And as we see time and time again, what the Democrats want is a far left winger.

00:09:11.560 Someone who is going to react to Trump as the polar opposite, is going to be a hardline socialist.

00:09:17.760 That is a bad incentive for Democrats because if the Democrats only have incentives to nominate some far left winger in their primary, they're going to have a very hard time in the general election.

00:09:30.900 That's really what that NBC, Wall Street Journal poll shows.

00:09:34.040 And don't just take my word for it.

00:09:35.900 Alison Camerata on CNN held a focus group yesterday where she asked, what do people want in their candidate?

00:09:44.300 Do they want a Joe Biden who pretends to be a regular man of the people, rust belt sort of guy?

00:09:50.120 Or do they want some crazy Bernie Sanders, Alexandria occasional cortex, Elizabeth Warren, whatever?

00:09:57.540 Which way are they going to go?

00:09:58.940 The CNN panel was pretty clear.

00:10:00.920 The winning formula would be for a Democrat to be pragmatic and more centrist.

00:10:06.380 Show of hands.

00:10:07.740 Two of you feel that way.

00:10:08.700 How many of you feel that the time is right for a progressive and that's what would win?

00:10:13.120 Carol?

00:10:13.560 We're ready for progressive candidates.

00:10:16.020 They've won all over the country.

00:10:18.140 And I think we need bold, strong leadership.

00:10:22.500 And you'll find that in the progressives.

00:10:24.320 I think that we had the standard bearer for the kind of pragmatic centrist candidate in Hillary Clinton in 2016.

00:10:33.300 And Donald Trump is now the president.

00:10:35.340 He is not your average political candidate.

00:10:39.520 So we really need to try to think outside the box because, you know, it seems like the dude has made of rubber.

00:10:44.900 Like anything you throw at him just bounces off.

00:10:47.160 I mean, there's nothing that sticks.

00:10:48.560 Absolutely.

00:10:49.540 There's a lot of insight in that panel.

00:10:51.760 There's a ton of insight.

00:10:52.760 One, that he's the Teflon Don.

00:10:55.400 That they keep, what are they throwing at him?

00:10:57.780 They're throwing the Russia accusations.

00:11:00.540 They're throwing campaign finance accusations.

00:11:02.720 They're throwing corruption accusations.

00:11:04.180 They're throwing all these things at him.

00:11:05.800 They're saying he's too conservative.

00:11:08.740 Then they're saying he doesn't have any political beliefs.

00:11:10.880 He's nothing.

00:11:11.600 Then they're throwing all these things at him.

00:11:13.160 And it just bounces off of him.

00:11:14.780 And so what these progressives are saying is that there is no way that nominating an empty vessel is going to beat that.

00:11:25.660 The way that you're going to beat the Teflon Don is you've got to be so direct.

00:11:29.840 You've got to channel all of your forces, all of your ideology, all of your identity politics.

00:11:34.820 That's the only way that they're going to take him down.

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00:13:14.360 Democrats want a progressive.

00:13:16.320 They want a hardcore progressive in 2020.

00:13:18.680 What is the practical consequence of that?

00:13:21.740 Mr. Vice President, former Vice President Joe Biden, unfortunately, you ran in 1988.

00:13:27.300 You ran in 2008.

00:13:28.880 You never got the job.

00:13:29.760 It looks like you're probably not going to get it again.

00:13:32.660 How many of you would like to see Joe Biden get in?

00:13:35.280 Show of hands.

00:13:37.380 What's happening, Russell?

00:13:39.220 His time is done.

00:13:40.580 I'll be honest.

00:13:41.000 I used to think, like, you know, because obviously he was riding like kind of the Obama wave.

00:13:45.580 And I thought he was the person that would unite the party.

00:13:49.140 But to be honest, you know, Senator Biden really comes from the kind of the good old boy politics of the past.

00:13:57.920 I don't think Joe Biden represents that new thing that we need.

00:14:01.100 We just we need a new economy.

00:14:02.680 We need a new politics.

00:14:03.980 And we need someone different.

00:14:06.340 New, new, new.

00:14:07.780 We don't need guys who compromise.

00:14:09.420 We don't need guys who are old. 0.68

00:14:10.760 There are two ways to read that line by the first gentleman who said Joe Biden represents the good old boy politics of the past.

00:14:20.180 The one way to read it is identity politics.

00:14:23.160 He's an old white guy. 0.58

00:14:23.980 He looks like the good old boys, doesn't he?

00:14:26.140 And so I think there's a little bit of that going on.

00:14:30.180 Obviously, the Democrat Party is quite concerned with identity politics.

00:14:34.220 But I think actually to give this guy the charitable read of what he's saying, and I think a legitimate one, when he's talking about the good old boy politics, I think what he's talking about is compromise.

00:14:46.740 I think what he's talking about is speaking to the other side.

00:14:49.560 It's not treating the other side like they're a bunch of Nazis because Joe Biden was able to do this.

00:14:55.080 Joe Biden was as tough a partisan as anybody there is.

00:14:57.880 And don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

00:14:59.600 However, during the period of time that he was very prominent in the Senate, was basically talking from the 70s all the way up until he was vice president, you're looking at a guy who at least had the impression that he could work with the other side.

00:15:14.320 You're looking at a guy who was working in a political era that rewarded, to some degree, compromise, that rewarded being moderate, that rewarded being able to work with other people.

00:15:25.200 That is not our time in politics.

00:15:27.400 Our time in politics actually punishes you.

00:15:29.600 If you are seen to be able to talk to the other side or work with the other side, especially on the left, because the left has decided that the right-wingers are Nazis.

00:15:37.540 I mean, they call us Nazis all the time.

00:15:39.620 They call us fascist, Nazi, criminal, terror, all these sort of things.

00:15:45.560 And so if you work with those people, you're part of the problem.

00:15:48.360 You're not part of the solution.

00:15:49.600 And Joe Biden has cultivated that image for his entire career.

00:15:53.760 I think both of those things are really working against him.

00:15:56.920 So what do they care about?

00:15:58.280 You've got a little taste of identity politics.

00:16:00.880 You've got a little bit of, you want a little more radicalism.

00:16:03.740 You want a little more leftism.

00:16:05.120 But how does that manifest?

00:16:07.000 Because being far left can mean anything.

00:16:08.900 It can mean you want 90% tax rates.

00:16:10.980 It can mean you want to, you know, have the workers take over the means of production.

00:16:17.560 It can have an economic focus or it can have this environmental focus.

00:16:23.220 It can have a sexual focus.

00:16:24.720 It can be feminist leftism or it can have an environmental focus. 0.97

00:16:28.440 I keep coming back to that because that is, I think, at the base of Democrats' 2020 plans.

00:16:36.600 That, I think, is at the base of what the left is looking at.

00:16:40.340 And the panel can explain the policies they're looking toward.

00:16:46.980 The panel can explain the political issues that they're looking toward.

00:16:51.960 And then I'll explain why they've been duped into thinking that's the primary policy.

00:16:55.960 What will you be voting on in 2020 if the election were held today?

00:17:00.420 Mary, what's your big issue that you feel you would vote on?

00:17:03.600 You know, my big issue truly is about climate change.

00:17:07.300 I think because it touches everyone and it touches jobs and it touches our future.

00:17:14.580 And we cannot have a conversation about politics without considering what we are doing to the planet.

00:17:22.960 And, I mean, you see people freaking out over the wall and these migrants coming up from Central and South America. 0.99

00:17:29.860 I mean, that's going to be like nothing compared to the migration we will see as climate change really starts to affect the sea level rise.

00:17:36.620 I mean, the ice is melting fast.

00:17:38.560 The ice is melting fast.

00:17:39.860 Just as a side note, that isn't true.

00:17:43.280 Actually, ice in the Antarctic, ice in the North Pole as well, there is more ice than less ice.

00:17:52.060 Yeah, it depends on the time of the year, obviously.

00:17:54.760 But overall, the amount of ice that we're seeing there is greater than it was when Al Gore told us the world was ending.

00:18:01.500 That's just a slight factual point.

00:18:05.660 But it actually doesn't really matter what the facts are.

00:18:08.580 What matters for 2020 is what the Democrats think that the facts are.

00:18:12.440 And what you hear is a universalizing, totalizing religious system.

00:18:18.540 That is why.

00:18:19.600 It's the Andrew Breitbart lesson applied to the left.

00:18:22.600 Andrew Breitbart says politics is downstream of culture.

00:18:25.040 We know from Russell Kirk and from many other people, culture is downstream of religion.

00:18:29.900 It's downstream of the cult.

00:18:31.880 It's what we worship.

00:18:32.840 What we worship defines the culture.

00:18:36.160 It's also been said many times that all political problems ultimately are theological problems.

00:18:40.800 And the left is waking up to this.

00:18:42.180 And the previous totalizing religion for the left was communism.

00:18:46.540 During the 20th century, it was varying degrees of communism.

00:18:50.760 That was the religion.

00:18:52.920 You hear Bernie Sanders still talking this way.

00:18:55.120 He vacationed in the Soviet Union.

00:18:56.900 He had a fascination with communism.

00:18:58.540 He would always defend communist dictators.

00:19:00.860 That was his religion.

00:19:02.140 It has shifted now.

00:19:03.220 After the fall of the Soviet Union, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was no more communism to idolize.

00:19:09.120 It had so obviously failed, and so they had to take that totalizing religion for the left and transform it.

00:19:14.620 They've transformed it into environmentalism.

00:19:17.020 Every political issue for the left can boil down to that first principle.

00:19:21.440 Even illegal immigration.

00:19:23.400 They say, oh, you think illegal immigration is bad now?

00:19:25.640 Just wait until the sun monster melts all the ice caps.

00:19:28.760 Then it'll be really bad.

00:19:30.760 Oh, you think that the energy industry is difficult now?

00:19:36.520 You think gas prices are high now?

00:19:38.180 Just wait until global warming destroys our economy, makes it such that we can't use fossil fuels.

00:19:45.700 Once we deplete all our fossil fuels, look at what prices.

00:19:48.120 Just wait until global warming, global warming, global warming.

00:19:51.700 Because it gives people a sense of purpose.

00:19:53.480 It gives them a substitute for sin.

00:19:55.760 It gives them a substitute for redemption.

00:19:58.240 It gives them a substitute for penance.

00:19:59.820 It gives them a substitute for salvation, for saving the world.

00:20:04.660 It gives them a substitute for charity.

00:20:06.340 It's going to affect everybody on earth.

00:20:09.820 That is what it's all boiling down to.

00:20:13.380 That's why the Green New Deal is an all-encompassing economic plan. 0.93

00:20:17.560 Political plan.

00:20:18.460 Social plan.

00:20:19.140 That's why it's gaining traction. 0.98

00:20:22.480 Because it's a lunatic plan. 0.85

00:20:23.700 We've all read the draft legislation. 0.91

00:20:25.080 I think I read it on the show.

00:20:27.280 So how can people get behind it?

00:20:29.520 Because it touches everything.

00:20:31.360 It totally changes everything.

00:20:33.120 We have a beautiful new world ahead of us.

00:20:35.000 A utopia ahead of us.

00:20:36.300 All based on this foundational myth, which is global warming.

00:20:40.100 This is the global struggle.

00:20:46.220 This is the war.

00:20:48.160 You heard Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say, we need to gear up for climate change and mobilize for climate change the way we mobilized for World War II.

00:20:56.200 And what's so ironic about that is she then, in the same breath, she says, and we should stop mobilizing for wars.

00:21:04.760 So we need to treat global warming like it's a war, but we shouldn't fight any wars.

00:21:08.600 We shouldn't fight any actual wars.

00:21:09.880 It's a total inversion.

00:21:11.420 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said this on Twitter yesterday.

00:21:14.400 She was trying to defend Ilhan Omar.

00:21:17.340 Ilhan Omar doesn't like the Jews. 0.96

00:21:19.420 And she hates the Jewish state. 0.90

00:21:21.420 And Ben has talked about it on his show. 0.72

00:21:23.460 So she is anti-Semitic.

00:21:25.240 I don't throw that word around lightly.

00:21:26.700 I try not to use those sort of words.

00:21:29.440 But she is exhibiting that.

00:21:31.500 And so the left is trying to defend her.

00:21:33.360 AOC is trying to defend her specifically.

00:21:35.760 And so she tweets out, quote,

00:21:37.940 I remember a time when it was unacceptable to question the Iraq war.

00:21:42.280 All of Congress was wrong, including both the GOP and Democrat Party,

00:21:46.660 and led my generation into a disastrous and long war that virtually all would come to regret,

00:21:51.120 except for the one member who stood up, Barbara Lee. 1.00

00:21:56.060 Okay?

00:21:57.460 Now, she then responded to this.

00:22:01.280 And she said, oh, wait a minute.

00:22:02.260 I'm sorry.

00:22:02.600 I meant Afghanistan war. 0.96

00:22:04.140 My apologies.

00:22:05.560 So she said, because we debated the Iraq war.

00:22:07.780 I remember the debates over the Iraq war.

00:22:10.400 But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn't, 0.92

00:22:12.340 because she has got the memory and historical knowledge of a fruit fly.

00:22:16.120 So she said, oh, no, I'm sorry.

00:22:17.480 I mean a completely different war.

00:22:19.000 This would be a gaffe that would really matter if a Republican said it with her. 0.98

00:22:24.980 They ignore it.

00:22:25.760 And then she doubles down. 0.99

00:22:27.020 She says, quote,

00:22:27.540 But honestly, we shouldn't have been in either war.

00:22:32.000 And we should end the authorization of military force while we're at it.

00:22:38.580 So, you know, she's that person who can't apologize.

00:22:41.820 She's that person who gets something wrong,

00:22:44.640 and then she sort of apologizes because she has to.

00:22:46.940 And then she tries to tell you why she was actually right in the first place.

00:22:50.140 She's doing that thing,

00:22:52.040 which is just evidence of someone without any humility.

00:22:54.840 But look at the radicalism of that statement.

00:22:58.280 Because if she came out and said, I'm against the Iraq war, okay?

00:23:01.940 A lot of people are against the Iraq war.

00:23:03.560 Donald Trump, in many ways, is against the Iraq war.

00:23:05.840 So, okay, that's fine.

00:23:06.880 There are plenty of criticisms to hurl at the Iraq war.

00:23:11.220 But she's criticizing any military response after 9-11.

00:23:16.440 She's criticizing the Afghanistan war.

00:23:18.660 She's criticizing the authorization for the use of military force after 9-11,

00:23:23.800 after Islamic terrorists who were harbored by nation states

00:23:27.640 took down our center of commerce, the World Trade Center,

00:23:32.200 killed 3,000 American civilians, attacked our Pentagon,

00:23:35.520 and tried to attack either the White House or the Capitol.

00:23:37.380 And because of the heroism of people on Flight 93 were taken down before they could succeed.

00:23:43.200 We are talking about the most significant terrorist attack on our nation ever.

00:23:49.420 And she says, no, we shouldn't have responded.

00:23:52.760 No, no, we shouldn't respond.

00:23:55.960 There is nothing noble about this.

00:23:57.860 There is nothing right about this. 1.00

00:23:59.420 This is moral idiocy. 0.99

00:24:00.600 This is like people who read the line, turn the other cheek, 1.00

00:24:04.680 and twist that and pervert that line into a sick pacifism that would let the cruel rape the earth.

00:24:11.700 Rather than reading it as it is, which is a spiritual tactic and strategy for humility to defeat the Prince of Pride.

00:24:20.580 This is a perverted pacifism.

00:24:24.980 But I bring it up, in this case, not just to criticize what she said on its merits, though I will do that,

00:24:32.200 but to show the perversity of the Green New Deal.

00:24:36.580 She says we need to mobilize for war to attack plastic litter and air pollution.

00:24:43.300 But we shouldn't mobilize for war when people declare war on us and kill 3,000 of our civilians.

00:24:51.180 Look at the backwardsness of that.

00:24:53.120 Look at the total inversion of that.

00:24:55.720 This is, by the way, why the Green New Deal, I think, is just fatally flawed as a matter of public policy. 0.59

00:25:02.440 Cocaine Mitch seems to think the same thing, which is why he really wants to bring it up for a vote.

00:25:06.680 He says we need to get everyone on the record here.

00:25:08.380 You know, there is a sense that we have liberty.

00:25:14.500 Liberty is good to protect.

00:25:15.760 We like protecting our liberty, our traditional liberties, as they're embodied in institutions and our traditional rights as Americans.

00:25:21.540 We want to protect those liberties.

00:25:23.840 However, the protection of life has to come first.

00:25:26.740 You don't have liberties without life.

00:25:28.320 Protection, when they come into conflict, you do for a spell, have to prioritize protection.

00:25:35.300 And what these Democrats are doing is they're totally flipping it.

00:25:38.240 They're saying that they're threatening both security and liberty.

00:25:43.380 They're threatening our liberty through the Green New Deal. 0.85

00:25:46.200 They're saying we're going to take away all your money, your house, your car, your rights, your political representation.

00:25:51.320 We're going to basically undo the American Republican system.

00:25:54.860 And we're going to outsource all political decisions to a little committee of Democrats.

00:26:00.060 But they're also threatening our security.

00:26:02.420 Because at the same time, they're saying we're going to mobilize for the sun monster.

00:26:05.960 We're not going to fight any wars.

00:26:08.240 It's a big loser, I think, in 2020.

00:26:10.960 But they've bought into this because of their religious fervor.

00:26:16.700 We'll see, by the way, how Liz Warren is imperiling her 2020 hopes. 1.00

00:26:21.540 We'll also talk about auto-sexuality.

00:26:24.320 Screwing yourself has never been so politically correct.

00:26:26.580 And then we'll get to Lent if we have time for Marty Graub.

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00:27:00.780 It is, you're not going to see the ice caps melt.

00:27:05.340 That's probably unlikely.

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00:27:13.620 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:27:21.040 Elizabeth Warren.

00:27:27.040 Elizabeth Warren is still failing to answer the only question that matters to her campaign. 0.98

00:27:34.980 Her fraud.

00:27:36.160 Her lying about her heritage.

00:27:37.780 Her original lie that has permitted her entire career.

00:27:42.260 And she keeps getting this answer wrong.

00:27:45.040 So now she's doing an interview on CNN, a friendly outlet, with David Axelrod, a Democrat operative, obviously a friendly person.

00:27:52.360 And he says, how are you going to answer this?

00:27:56.340 And she still hasn't come up with an answer.

00:27:59.800 Obviously, that's a very small part of your lineage, you know, 132nd or something.

00:28:08.320 So why did you do it?

00:28:10.320 So, you know, like you said, I grew up in Oklahoma.

00:28:14.540 I learned about my family the same way most people learn about their families, you know, from my mom and my dad and my aunts and my uncles.

00:28:24.500 She's answering these questions like she's a perp on To Catch a Predator.

00:28:30.180 She's answering, whoa, so why don't you take a seat right over there?

00:28:33.280 Oh, okay, okay, yeah.

00:28:35.120 So what were you doing here today, huh?

00:28:37.200 What were you, it's like David Axelrod's become Chris Hansen.

00:28:40.880 So what, what'd you plan to do here?

00:28:42.300 Oh, nothing, nothing.

00:28:43.300 I was just, I was just learning about my family, like most people do, about, you know, from their mother and father and, you know, but she's trying to play it down.

00:28:54.000 She's trying to, oh, no, it's nothing.

00:28:55.600 No, no, it's, it's not nothing.

00:28:57.380 It's something.

00:28:58.220 This is the biggest threat to your political career.

00:29:00.860 You've got to deal with it like an adult.

00:29:02.640 You've got, you can't pretend it's not real.

00:29:04.480 You've got to deal with it head on.

00:29:05.720 She should attack it head on.

00:29:07.240 She keeps playing defense. 0.84

00:29:09.300 But, but the issue is all of the fraud.

00:29:13.540 This is a big deal.

00:29:15.360 She claimed to the Texas Bar Association that she was Native American.

00:29:19.200 She claimed to Harvard University she was Native American.

00:29:23.080 This helps you get jobs.

00:29:24.700 This helps you in hiring.

00:29:25.860 Harvard bragged about it.

00:29:27.500 This gives you a tremendous professional advantage.

00:29:31.320 She, she has to come out.

00:29:32.480 She, I'm going to give, if she watches the show, Senator Warren, Senatrix Warren, Chief Liawatha, I will give you the answer for your campaign to at least have a shot at working through this. 0.82

00:29:44.240 But what does she do? 1.00

00:29:45.620 She keeps denying, deny, deny, deny, deny.

00:29:48.520 She said never helped her in her whole professional career.

00:29:50.880 Based on what I learned growing up and the fact that I love my family, decades ago, I sometimes identified as Native American.

00:30:03.800 It's, it's, it never had anything to do with any job that I ever got.

00:30:09.700 That's been fully documented.

00:30:11.480 So the universities kind of fudged and used you for their own purposes.

00:30:17.040 It never had, it never had anything to do with my getting a job.

00:30:20.820 It, it, um, even so, um, I shouldn't have done it.

00:30:27.320 I'm not a person of color.

00:30:29.360 Uh, I am not a citizen of a tribe.

00:30:33.340 But, um, what I try to do is be a good friend to Native Americans.

00:30:39.740 That's her defense.

00:30:42.300 That's her defense.

00:30:43.380 I love my family and I try to be a good friend.

00:30:47.880 And then she says it didn't help her get a job.

00:30:49.700 It did help her get a job. 0.85

00:30:50.940 It did.

00:30:51.480 Well, of course it did.

00:30:52.720 That's why she did it. 0.99

00:30:55.620 If she wants to win, if she wants to get past this, she has to just take a little tiny dose of humility.

00:31:03.140 Just try to get rid of that.

00:31:05.180 Just a little, in a, in a chink of the armor of pride, just knock away a little bit.

00:31:10.880 She has to stop thinking in such a self-centered way, but she can't do it.

00:31:14.600 She needs to stop defending the cheating to get a job. 1.00

00:31:16.960 She has to stop denying that the cheating got her a job.

00:31:19.300 She needs to speak in cultural terms. 1.00

00:31:22.000 She's not learning the lesson that younger Democrats have learned.

00:31:25.360 She needs to go out there and say,

00:31:27.680 I thought I was more Native American than I am.

00:31:30.920 When I was a kid, because of what my family told me, I thought I was more Native American than I am.

00:31:35.660 And I identified myself as more Native American than I am because I learned about the historical struggles that Native Americans went through.

00:31:45.420 And I really, this resonated with me.

00:31:47.680 And I felt that it was a part of my family.

00:31:50.320 And I didn't want to abandon that part of my family.

00:31:52.820 And I didn't want it to just disappear.

00:31:55.020 I didn't want it to be watered down.

00:31:56.520 She can even use the intersectionality language.

00:31:58.180 But she can say, I didn't want it to be, have all of the whiteness overshadow this real ancestor that I thought that I had,

00:32:05.700 that I thought I had in my relatively recent history.

00:32:08.340 I didn't want it to disappear.

00:32:09.880 And I know now that that was wrong.

00:32:12.620 I know that it was the wrong view of racial politics.

00:32:15.460 But it's what I did.

00:32:16.980 I did it for the best of intentions.

00:32:18.580 I did it because of a real natural sense of identity with an ancestor and a people that have been really hurt.

00:32:26.960 And it was wrong.

00:32:27.780 And it was the sort of thing that immature people do.

00:32:30.200 And I'm sorry that I did it.

00:32:31.420 But I've matured.

00:32:32.400 I've stopped doing it.

00:32:34.940 Obviously, I did it for the best of intentions.

00:32:36.680 But the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

00:32:38.420 And I am where I am.

00:32:43.960 And that's who I am.

00:32:44.820 And if it helped me get a job, I'm sorry for that.

00:32:48.320 I just didn't think through it.

00:32:49.760 It was wrong to do.

00:32:51.700 And I did it because of a real sense of heritage that maybe was just in my head.

00:32:57.620 Maybe it was just in the family folklore.

00:33:00.460 And I'm sorry for that.

00:33:01.920 But if she came out and said that, she might be able to squeak past this because it would be a total apology.

00:33:10.880 It would be not a denial.

00:33:12.880 It would be not a, it's not a big deal.

00:33:15.060 It would be not a, I love my family and I'm a good friend.

00:33:18.060 It would be none of that.

00:33:18.880 It would actually be getting to the heart of it because there is, I get it.

00:33:22.880 I've done genealogical research too.

00:33:24.620 People have a sense of belonging, a sense of their place in politics and history because of their family, because of their heritage, because of their family traditions.

00:33:37.100 This is an area where I actually see the logic of identity politics, or I at least see the premise of it.

00:33:43.260 I don't see the logic because the logic just falls apart as the left implements identity politics.

00:33:49.780 But I totally get it.

00:33:52.600 My family came over on the Mayflower.

00:33:55.580 Four members of my family came over on the Mayflower.

00:33:58.280 One of them died from wounds incurred at Bunker Hill during the Revolutionary War.

00:34:02.900 Another one went on to serve with George Washington throughout the entire Valley Forge, throughout the Revolutionary War.

00:34:07.920 I had another family member die at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War.

00:34:13.220 I've had ancestors in most American wars.

00:34:17.100 That gives me a sense of America and a sense of pride in America and a sense of ownership and belonging.

00:34:23.000 And a responsibility and an accountability to our tradition.

00:34:28.660 And I completely understand if your ancestors were slaves that you would have a very different view of America.

00:34:35.840 I totally get that.

00:34:37.000 And you might have a little resentment toward America.

00:34:40.840 I totally get that too.

00:34:42.660 Now, the answer, the way to work out of this is that if you allow that resentment to just fester with pride, with entitlement, with a chip on your shoulder, with a grudge, with hatred, then it becomes the identity politics that the left has today.

00:34:59.960 But if you look at that and you see history for what it is, and then you have some humility and some grace and some forgiveness and some gratitude for all the wonderful things that this country has done.

00:35:11.840 And you have some pride in helping, even if your ancestors were brought here and changed, that they helped to build this country that is so wonderful that you today can be a senator or you can run for this or you can have a job or you can have all the freedoms and all of the prosperity in the world.

00:35:27.920 That's a way to work out of that.

00:35:32.860 Heritage does matter.

00:35:34.360 It totally does.

00:35:35.040 That's why people are rightly angry at Liz Warren. 1.00

00:35:37.520 That's why Liz Warren cynically pretended to be a Native American. 1.00

00:35:41.000 And if she can speak in those terms, I think it would resonate with her voters.

00:35:47.460 They would resonate with Republicans.

00:35:48.920 I think it would allow her to work out of this a little bit.

00:35:51.960 But it would require a little dose of humility, a little bit of introspection, and a little bit of grace for the country.

00:36:00.800 And the Democrat Party in 2019 has none of that.

00:36:05.040 None of that.

00:36:07.660 This is the wonderful aspect of 2019, 2020 for Democrats, is it shows the logical conclusions of their ideas.

00:36:18.280 We are now talking, because the Democrats have become radicalized, because they don't want a moderate, they don't want a centrist, they want a far leftist.

00:36:26.960 They are showing the logical conclusions of their ideas.

00:36:30.780 The logical conclusion of identity politics, the whitest woman on earth is an Indian. 1.00

00:36:35.120 The logical conclusion of abortion, we should kill babies after they've been born. 1.00

00:36:39.360 The logical conclusion of global warming, we should overthrow the republic. 0.99

00:36:42.620 We should tax everyone at 80%.

00:36:44.440 We should suspend all of our political liberties.

00:36:47.520 If truly the entire world is going to end in 12 years because of the sun monster, as AOC says,

00:36:53.400 of course, yeah, of course, we should do everything we can, including suspending political liberties, including totally revolutionizing, overthrowing the republic,

00:37:06.260 everything we possibly can to stop that.

00:37:09.360 Now, of course, it isn't true.

00:37:11.060 The world isn't going to end in 12 years.

00:37:13.720 I'll bet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez every penny that I have to my name that the world will not end in 12 years, as she says it does.

00:37:22.140 AOC, Congresswoman, if you're watching, I know you watch the show, I am willing to bet every single penny I have to my name that the world will not end in 12 years,

00:37:31.300 if you're willing to take the other side of that bet.

00:37:33.500 Now, this is a great bet because if she's right, by the way, you know, I won't exactly have to pay out.

00:37:38.900 But every penny to my name, if you will take it.

00:37:41.740 But, of course, they don't really believe that.

00:37:44.280 I'm going to be talking about this, by the way.

00:37:45.860 I'm going to be giving a speech in Cincinnati on Thursday about how the global warming alarmists don't really believe what they say that they believe.

00:37:56.540 But that'll be a topic for another day.

00:37:59.040 That is, this is, and the logical conclusion, by the way, this is my favorite story.

00:38:02.360 We have to get to it before the end today.

00:38:04.000 The logical conclusion of the sexual revolution, which is so much of what the left talks about, gender, sexuality, sexual preference.

00:38:11.800 The logical conclusion of the sexual revolution is something called auto-sexuality.

00:38:18.560 Auto-sexuality.

00:38:20.000 This is, there was a big headline in the newspapers yesterday and today. 0.99

00:38:24.940 It gives new meaning to the phrase, go screw yourself.

00:38:28.560 The piece in Metro yesterday said, quote, 0.98

00:38:30.880 What it's like being auto-sexual when you find yourself attracted to yourself. 0.97

00:38:39.960 This is the logical conclusion of the sexual revolution is screwing yourself. 1.00

00:38:45.160 That's it. 0.96

00:38:45.640 The piece opens up, it says, quote,

00:38:47.300 Sexuality is fluid.

00:38:48.780 As with lots of things, it can evolve and boomerang over time.

00:38:52.520 Though so often thought about in binary terms, just as with gender, there are many different sexualities people identify as.

00:38:59.400 Auto-sexuality is one such identification that is seldom talked about.

00:39:03.540 It's the idea of being sexually attracted to yourself.

00:39:06.700 And can also come with being auto-romantic.

00:39:09.640 Experiencing the relationship with yourself as romantic.

00:39:14.680 The piece goes on.

00:39:16.300 It can mean being turned on by your own look and nudity.

00:39:20.300 Getting butterflies when you think about yourself.

00:39:22.860 Being excited to spend time alone.

00:39:25.400 And cover your ears, parents who are watching with children. 1.00

00:39:30.420 And masturbating to the idea of yourself. 0.99

00:39:33.780 It's all the feelings we get for a potential new suitor, but for ourselves. 0.99

00:39:38.120 Gia Vitale is auto-sexual and auto-romantic.

00:39:41.540 She is also engaged to get married to herself after proposing in March 2017.

00:39:47.120 After becoming aware of her sexuality at the age of seven, she didn't explore her feelings until she was in college.

00:39:53.840 That's because she's not a boy.

00:39:56.260 Boys, I don't want to get too graphic here.

00:39:58.980 Actually, Woody Allen defended this.

00:40:01.620 He explained this point very clearly in Annie Hall. 0.89

00:40:05.140 Don't knock masturbation. 0.99

00:40:06.640 It's sex with someone I love. 0.99

00:40:09.240 That's true.

00:40:11.120 I guess Gia Vitale, it took her longer to come to Woody Allen's conclusion.

00:40:16.620 This is the logical consequence of the left's sexual revolution. 1.00

00:40:22.440 The sexual revolution is all around us. 0.70

00:40:25.300 And by the way, I'm speaking not as this totally removed hermit from this culture. 0.97

00:40:30.800 During my atheistic, more decadent college days, my single days, I aspired to be a brigadier general in the sexual revolution.

00:40:41.140 It doesn't just affect the left.

00:40:42.960 This affects the left, the center, and the right.

00:40:45.240 And what they try to do is they try to make the right out as these prudish people who have no idea what they're talking about.

00:40:52.340 Oh, they just don't know.

00:40:53.480 They just can't imagine sexuality.

00:40:56.440 They just, they're so sheltered.

00:40:58.120 No, not at all.

00:40:59.720 Not at all.

00:41:00.360 First of all, if you're in the modern culture, you are in the sexual revolution.

00:41:04.320 And unless you really stick firmly to conservative principles or to really firmly to certain religious principles, this is how you behave.

00:41:14.040 The hookup culture is all around us.

00:41:15.620 The swipe right or swipe left culture is all around us.

00:41:18.820 But, ultimately, having seen many vantages of this, it is ultimately just about selfishness.

00:41:27.520 That's all the sexual revolution ever meant.

00:41:30.940 And we're seeing it at the very end with auto-sexuality, but it's all it meant.

00:41:35.800 This is why.

00:41:36.700 Now, the left looks on traditional sexual morality, and they just, they don't get it.

00:41:43.380 Why on earth would anyone ever care what sort of things you do in the bedroom?

00:41:47.700 Why on earth would anyone care what you do with yourself, as Woody Allen and the auto-sexuals seem to do? 1.00

00:41:54.480 Why would anyone care?

00:41:55.220 This shows why traditional morality holds a program for inventive sexuality or kinkiness or whatever. 0.83

00:42:05.120 Because all of those things, all of them, to varying degrees, turn the focus of sexuality onto the self.

00:42:12.340 And we're in a time where this is just the fact, that is just the fact of our culture, is that sexuality has been turned totally to the self.

00:42:24.880 We have sex robots that we're hearing reported on every single day. 0.97

00:42:28.900 Sex robot brothels. 1.00

00:42:31.380 Virtual reality porn. 0.99

00:42:33.120 And in cultures where these have been really introduced to a larger degree, I'm thinking mostly of Japan, birth rates drop. 0.99

00:42:40.820 Sex with women drops. 0.96

00:42:42.080 There was one study that showed that young Japanese men would prefer auto-sexuality than to have sex with a woman. 0.96

00:42:49.920 What this does, too, the logical consequence of this, is it makes sex unsexy. 0.62

00:42:55.340 That's all it means.

00:42:57.020 It turns out that all of human history, from the dawn of time until, I don't know, 1962, may have been a little bit wiser than we are today.

00:43:06.380 And look, between the campus kangaroo courts, between this clinical treatment of sex where you basically need to get a contract looked over by a notary public before you can kiss a girl, what it has done is the impossible.

00:43:20.640 The left has succeeded at the impossible. 0.63

00:43:22.900 They've made sex boring.

00:43:26.700 This is, I guess this is a good topic to end on now on Mardi Gras.

00:43:29.580 It's Fat Tuesday.

00:43:30.580 Again, speaking of our sexual revolution, you are so, so lucky that nobody in this room has beads right now.

00:43:37.680 We'd be getting quite the sexual revolution show.

00:43:44.140 This is Mardi Gras.

00:43:45.280 This is Fat Tuesday.

00:43:46.220 This is when Christians gorge themselves and do decadent things. 1.00

00:43:49.440 And then it leads into the penitential period of Lent.

00:43:53.100 Begins on Ash Wednesday and it ends on Easter.

00:43:55.620 This is a time of penitence.

00:43:58.460 This is a time of abstention from certain things.

00:44:01.240 This is a time of fasting.

00:44:04.960 People look on Christians as weird when they do this, when they fast for a couple days.

00:44:09.560 It's because we're in a culture that is all about instant gratification.

00:44:13.180 It's all about gratifying the flesh.

00:44:15.180 But ultimately, that becomes boring.

00:44:18.100 You know, the idea, I think it was Archbishop Fulton Sheen said that the traditional Catholic or Eastern Orthodox or traditional Christian idea of fasting is first you have the fast.

00:44:30.600 Then you have the feast.

00:44:32.260 And that the modern idea has become first you have the feast, then you have the hangover.

00:44:36.960 And that's our culture.

00:44:38.320 First you have the feast and then you have the hangover. 0.72

00:44:40.380 People get sex-austed.

00:44:42.280 People gorge themselves.

00:44:43.940 People are just, when you give in to the appetites of the flesh all the time, they lose their sensation.

00:44:51.940 They stop being nice.

00:44:53.040 They lead you ultimately to boredom, to a sort of depression, to you need constantly more and more.

00:45:01.200 Eventually, there's not more and more to stimulate you.

00:45:03.440 Maybe the old idea, maybe the tradition was a little wiser.

00:45:09.100 So now we have a feast, then we're going to have a fast for 40 days, and then we're going to have another feast.

00:45:14.100 And I look forward to all of it.

00:45:16.180 I look forward to seeing all of you.

00:45:17.320 Well, I'll see you tomorrow on Fox, if you tune in, at 9 a.m. Pacific, 12 p.m. noon on Outnumbered.

00:45:22.760 It'll be me and a bunch of lovely ladies. 1.00

00:45:25.140 And then I'll see you on Thursday, both for the show and for my speech in Cincinnati.

00:45:28.620 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 05, 2019

Ep. 308 - It’s The Sun Monster, Stupid

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