The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 309 - The Left Has Hypnotized The World

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00:00:37.580 In the wake of Representative Ilhan Omar's repeated anti-Jewish slurs and accusations,

00:00:43.380 Nancy Pelosi tries to take a vote to condemn anti-Semitism.

00:00:47.600 How do you think that went?

00:00:48.800 Unfortunately for Pelosi, a generational divide has emerged among Democrats on the question of Israel and anti-Semitism.

00:00:55.840 We will analyze why the left no longer likes the Jews.

00:00:59.920 Then, a leftist thug attacks a conservative activist at UC Berkeley.

00:01:04.580 That man has now been arrested.

00:01:06.280 But, in a culture that equates speech with violence, will that man ever see justice?

00:01:11.780 We'll find out.

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00:01:23.000 We will get to that, plus the mailbag.

00:01:24.700 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:25.400 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:33.660 So, big news.

00:01:35.720 It's still breaking as we're talking about it.

00:01:37.800 And we'll see what changes, maybe even during this show.

00:01:41.600 You've followed Representative Ilhan Omar.

00:01:43.980 She is this woman who has accused Israel of hypnotizing the world, who has said that the world needs to awaken to the evil doings of Israel.

00:01:53.480 She was asked why people in America support Israel.

00:01:57.240 And she said it's all about the Benjamins, baby. 0.84

00:02:00.160 She doesn't like Israel and she doesn't like the Jews. 0.96

00:02:03.580 This much is clear. 0.61

00:02:05.540 She's got a long history of extremism. 1.00

00:02:08.220 So, now there's this generational divide that's broken out among Democrats.

00:02:14.140 The older Democrats, like Nancy Pelosi, want her to apologize and to stop criticizing Jews unfairly.

00:02:21.700 Stop attacking Jews and get her to stop these comments.

00:02:26.120 And then there's the younger side, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, who are defending her on it. 0.99

00:02:32.040 Now, you've got Pelosi.

00:02:34.760 You've got Rahm Emanuel just wrote an op-ed, I think, in The Atlantic.

00:02:37.520 You've got the old guard here saying, condemn this.

00:02:40.680 And the new kids don't want to defend it.

00:02:43.740 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or rather, the new kids don't want to condemn it.

00:02:48.960 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that Ilhan Omar is simply defending U.S. foreign policy.

00:02:56.780 This isn't anti-Jewish.

00:02:58.400 It's just defending, or questioning, rather, U.S. foreign policy.

00:03:02.140 Now, that is not the case.

00:03:04.280 Where is the difference?

00:03:04.940 You know I don't throw the phrase anti-Semitism around lightly.

00:03:07.660 I almost never use the phrase racism.

00:03:09.460 I try to be more specific because those phrases have been emptied of meaning.

00:03:13.600 What Ilhan Omar is doing is anti-Jewish.

00:03:17.380 It is anti-Semitism.

00:03:19.500 We will explain the difference, and we'll see how this is going to damage Democrats in 2020.

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00:04:47.720 What Ilhan Omar is different than simply criticizing Israel.

00:04:51.520 One, it seems like her criticisms come unprovoked.

00:04:55.800 I pray.

00:04:56.620 And they're so outrageous.

00:05:00.020 They're not just saying, okay, the Venezuelan dictator needs to be ousted.

00:05:05.300 Okay, China needs to address its trade policies.

00:05:09.380 Okay, Russia needs to stop interfering with our interests in the Middle East.

00:05:14.920 Okay, it's not that. 0.93

00:05:15.980 It's saying there is a particular evil of Israel and they are, and Jews in America are not trustworthy. 1.00

00:05:24.120 They're not loyal to our country because they have a dual allegiance. 0.96

00:05:28.440 They have a dual loyalty.

00:05:30.160 She's now said that she's expected to have allegiance to another country, meaning Israel, to work in the U.S. Congress.

00:05:36.800 That just is not true.

00:05:38.700 And this is where it crosses over the line.

00:05:42.560 When her criticism of Israel is so unlike normal criticism of any other country, that's how you know that it's prompted by something else.

00:05:50.320 And so you've got the old guard in the house, you've got the new guard, the AOC types, they're fighting it out.

00:05:58.360 Where is the future of the Democratic Party going to be?

00:06:01.580 Just look at the 2020 candidates.

00:06:03.340 Of the 2020 Democrat candidates, they are all universally defending Ilhan Omar.

00:06:09.600 So much for the Jews. 1.00

00:06:11.080 They're throwing them out the bus for the 2020 race.

00:06:15.080 Bernie Sanders said, quote, we must develop an even-handed Middle East policy which brings Israelis and Palestinians together for a lasting peace.

00:06:23.260 What I fear is going on in the House now is an effort to target Congresswoman Omar as a way of stifling that debate.

00:06:31.660 So this is what they're all doing.

00:06:33.360 They're making Ilhan Omar into the victim.

00:06:36.500 Ilhan Omar is the one praying that Allah awaken people's eyes to the evils of Israel, 1.00

00:06:42.500 saying that we need to end our friendly relationship with Israel, 0.63

00:06:47.440 saying that we need to stop having dual loyalty,

00:06:50.880 targeting out American Jews and saying that they're not trustworthy.

00:06:53.800 But Ilhan Omar becomes the victim in this backwards identity politics.

00:06:58.940 Harris, Kamala Harris says, quote,

00:07:01.100 there is a difference between criticism of policy or political leaders and anti-Semitism.

00:07:06.360 Right, there is a difference.

00:07:07.920 And what Ilhan Omar is doing is anti-Semitism.

00:07:10.100 Harris then says, I am concerned that the spotlight being put on Congresswoman Omar may put her at risk.

00:07:19.200 At risk of what?

00:07:21.760 Just at risk.

00:07:22.820 She's a victim. 0.98

00:07:23.620 Look, she's a victim. 1.00

00:07:25.040 She's at risk.

00:07:26.760 Well, because what Congresswoman Omar is doing is saying the Jews are not loyal to America and you can't trust them.

00:07:32.900 Do you think that puts Jews at risk when a member of Congress says that?

00:07:36.360 Do you think when a member of Congress implies that nefarious Jews are just paying off every politician to support their country in the Middle East,

00:07:44.660 that that puts Jews at risk?

00:07:47.260 No, no, no.

00:07:47.680 It's Ilhan Omar who's at risk.

00:07:49.720 She's a delicate little flower, Ilhan Omar. 0.91

00:07:51.600 She's basically a little girl.

00:07:53.940 I mean, she's 37 years old and a member of the United States Congress. 0.99

00:07:57.060 But look, you can't.

00:07:58.500 No criticizing Ilhan Omar.

00:08:00.000 No, she's just, she's at risk.

00:08:01.780 And then Elizabeth Warren, Laya Watha, says, quote, branding criticism of Israel as automatically anti-Semitic will have a chilling effect on our public discourse

00:08:10.340 and makes it harder to achieve a peaceful solution between Israelis and Palestinians.

00:08:15.620 Palestinian, I think Palestine is, we've covered it a little bit before on this show.

00:08:21.060 It's the country between Narnia and Wakanda.

00:08:24.460 It's, I think it's to the east of Narnia and to the west of Wakanda. 0.74

00:08:27.700 So that's what Elizabeth Warren is talking about here.

00:08:29.620 Now, of course, she's right.

00:08:31.600 Yeah, of course, you can't brand any criticism, all criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism.

00:08:36.520 But that's not what we're doing.

00:08:37.620 We're using very specific examples.

00:08:39.280 And the left won't acknowledge those examples.

00:08:41.680 Why?

00:08:43.460 Until right now, congressional Democrats would not vote for a resolution to condemn anti-Semitism.

00:08:50.060 Even one that didn't mention Ilhan Omar by name.

00:08:52.980 Now, I'm just getting in that they are going to vote on a, they are going to vote on a resolution to condemn hatred, but not specifically and exclusively anti-Semitism.

00:09:07.580 They're going to vote on something to condemn all forms of bigotry.

00:09:11.820 And this is one of the great ironies of recent politics.

00:09:16.480 Do you remember a year ago, two years ago, you had the Black Lives Matter movement and the candidates would be asked, they say, do Black Lives Matter?

00:09:26.800 And do you know what they would say?

00:09:27.520 They say, all lives matter.

00:09:28.860 They'd say, how dare you?

00:09:31.200 Oh, the left was outraged by all lives matter because all lives matter undermines and overshadows the specific and particular fact that Black Lives Matter.

00:09:44.780 How dare you generalize when we are condemning a specific form of bigotry unless it's against the Jews and then it's great. 1.00

00:09:52.160 And then that's what we have to do. 0.94

00:09:54.260 Pure hypocrisy from the left.

00:09:55.980 Now, this is all just taking the premises of leftist identity politics as they are.

00:10:03.000 I'm just pointing out the internal inconsistencies here.

00:10:06.680 Now, the left comes back and they say, well, well, listen, you have your own racial issues on the right.

00:10:12.780 Sure, I guess so.

00:10:13.620 I guess every, the man's heart is evil from the very beginning.

00:10:18.940 So, yeah, sure.

00:10:19.760 Okay, I guess we're fallen people.

00:10:21.900 There are every, there are going to be bigots all over the place.

00:10:24.160 They're saying, well, you have Steve King.

00:10:27.040 Remember, Republican Representative Steve King.

00:10:29.900 He asked the question, he said, white supremacy, white nationalism, Western civilization.

00:10:34.580 When did that become controversial?

00:10:37.320 And what Steve King said is, I was taken out of context.

00:10:40.980 I meant to say, I was listing these things and then Western civilization is what I was asking when it became controversial.

00:10:48.140 Okay, I don't know if that totally carries water.

00:10:50.020 But then what happened?

00:10:50.940 When he got called out for it, Steve King went on the floor of the house.

00:10:54.720 Do we have the clip?

00:10:55.800 Today, the New York Times is suggesting that I'm an advocate for white nationalism and white supremacy.

00:11:01.020 I want to make one thing abundantly clear.

00:11:04.040 I reject those labels and the evil ideology that they define.

00:11:07.500 Further, I condemn anyone that supports this evil and bigoted ideology, which saw in its ultimate expression the systematic murder of six million innocent Jewish lives.

00:11:20.840 It's true that like the Founding Fathers, I am an advocate for Western civilization's values and that I profoundly believe that America is the greatest tangible expression of these ideals the world has ever seen.

00:11:33.740 Under any fair political definition, I am simply an American nationalist.

00:11:39.840 Could not be clearer.

00:11:41.440 Whatever he said in that interview with the New York Times, whether he was misquoted, whether he was quoted perfectly, he comes out there, he says, I reject this evil ideology.

00:11:51.000 I condemn anybody who supports this evil ideology.

00:11:54.520 They then had a vote based on the quotation that the New York Times reported from him.

00:12:00.480 They had this resolution to condemn white supremacy and it was seen largely as a rebuke to Steve King.

00:12:06.720 What did Steve King do?

00:12:07.600 He voted for his own rebuke.

00:12:09.880 What more can the man do?

00:12:11.940 How about on the right, though?

00:12:12.840 What has Ilhan Omar done?

00:12:14.280 She said, oh, I'm sorry.

00:12:15.940 Wink.

00:12:17.540 Oh, I'm, oh, no, I'm sorry.

00:12:18.860 I didn't mean to say that.

00:12:20.160 Wink.

00:12:20.920 Tee hee hee. 1.00

00:12:21.900 And then what does she do? 0.89

00:12:22.740 She keeps it up.

00:12:23.780 She keeps up the dual loyalty smears, the can't trust a Jew smears. 1.00

00:12:28.200 She keeps it all up.

00:12:29.120 And what happens, what would happen to any Republican who defended Steve King on the merits of that quote that he was reported to have said?

00:12:37.040 What would happen?

00:12:37.600 They would be, they would be ostracized from American society.

00:12:40.940 They'd be thrown out of the country.

00:12:43.080 And yet you have fresh faced popular Democrat members of Congress defending Ilhan Omar on this.

00:12:49.180 What's very interesting about this, what's, this is something nobody is talking about.

00:12:54.260 It is actually the most interesting aspect of this whole Ilhan Omar anti-Semitism debate is the difference between right-wing and left-wing anti-Semitism and how Ilhan Omar is actually engaging in right-wing anti-Semitism.

00:13:07.740 Her defenders are engaging in left-wing.

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00:14:35.500 So, the most interesting aspect of this whole Omar's debacle on antisemitism is the one that nobody's talking about,

00:14:42.920 which is the difference between right-wing antisemitism and left-wing antisemitism.

00:14:47.840 Look, today, antisemitism appears to be, for the very large part, a left-wing problem.

00:14:54.040 That wasn't always the case.

00:14:55.340 When the right is antisemitic in history, when the right has been antisemitic, has not liked the Jews, has excluded the Jews, the line of attack usually goes something like this.

00:15:06.300 The Jews are seen as rootless cosmopolitans with no allegiance, with no loyalty to the countries that they live in.

00:15:13.520 And they control the world, usually through finance or debt specifically.

00:15:19.360 And this financial power, combined with higher levels of education, also allows them to control the media.

00:15:26.400 More or less, that is the kind of traditional antisemitic narrative that has been embraced at times by some groups on the right.

00:15:37.380 So, Ilhan Omar, leftist Democrat politician, has centered her criticism, specifically as it relates to Israel and to her Arab neighbors, using this line of attack.

00:15:51.460 This is the line of attack she's using. 1.00

00:15:53.140 All about the Benjamin's baby, dual loyalty, allegiance to another country. 0.71

00:15:57.480 You can't trust them when it comes to this country.

00:16:00.180 She is using the classic, traditional, antisemitic narrative.

00:16:05.320 But the people who are defending Ilhan Omar are not using that traditional narrative.

00:16:10.720 They're actually defending Ilhan Omar's antisemitism from the left-wing antisemitic point of view.

00:16:16.320 And that leftist angle is basically this.

00:16:20.040 It uses parts of the traditional angle, but it views it through an intersectional identity politics scope.

00:16:26.060 Which is, you would think, the normal person would say, okay, identity politics, intersectionality, you're all about protecting oppressed minorities.

00:16:33.280 The Jews have been oppressed for a very long time.

00:16:36.820 They were slaves in Egypt. 0.86

00:16:38.160 People try to kill them every 50 years or so. 0.96

00:16:40.780 Clearly, if anyone's got a grudge to bear, it would be the Jews. 1.00

00:16:44.420 And the leftist angle on it is this.

00:16:47.260 The Jews are not really a persecuted ethnic and religious minority.

00:16:52.320 Because the Jews are successful.

00:16:54.280 So, you can see, this uses the kind of classic line, which is the Jews are successful in finance.

00:17:01.000 The Jews are successful in the media.

00:17:03.340 The Jews are successful in the arts.

00:17:05.720 And because they are successful in those fields, fields that they've traditionally been permitted into,

00:17:12.760 because they've been successful, they lose their victim status.

00:17:15.920 So, victimhood has currency in 2019, in the leftist intersectional ideology.

00:17:22.900 They lose that currency of victimhood because of their success.

00:17:27.260 Because for the left, success is a sin.

00:17:30.440 Success, not just when we're speaking about racial or religious demographics,

00:17:35.360 success broadly is a sign that you have cheated.

00:17:38.960 It's a sign that you weren't playing fair.

00:17:41.500 The old line, the only way the fat guy got fat was by stealing the food of the skinny guy.

00:17:46.340 The only way the rich guy got rich was stealing the money of the poor guy.

00:17:49.720 That's the leftist idea.

00:17:51.020 The static world where it's all just competing interests.

00:17:55.120 Nobody can work together.

00:17:56.280 No rising tide can lift all ships.

00:17:58.500 So, the fact that the Jews as a people have succeeded,

00:18:01.820 the fact that Israel, specifically, is a thriving democracy,

00:18:05.780 surrounded by absolute rubble in that region,

00:18:08.640 that is prima facie evidence. 0.87

00:18:10.520 That the Jews and Israel have cheated and they've oppressed people. 0.99

00:18:15.600 That's how the left views it.

00:18:17.040 It is evidence, therefore, that they can't be protected,

00:18:21.240 as are other oppressed minorities in their ideology.

00:18:24.800 The Jews, according to the left,

00:18:26.680 have basically become indistinguishable from the WASP culture, 0.96

00:18:30.880 the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

00:18:32.780 Whatever particular version of white that you identify as the man,

00:18:37.100 as the dominant racial or cultural group,

00:18:39.860 the Jews are now considered white, according to the left.

00:18:44.260 And so, this group, obviously, a small religious and ethnic minority,

00:18:49.020 as far as the world population goes,

00:18:50.680 and as far as the American population goes,

00:18:53.220 becomes big daddy.

00:18:54.960 They become the top of the pyramid.

00:18:56.900 Instead, they lose their victim status.

00:18:59.040 And so, it is okay to attack them and to attack their country in Israel, 0.98

00:19:02.840 even if the two arguments don't necessarily coincide.

00:19:07.880 And it's amazing to see Ilhan Omar at the center of this.

00:19:11.420 She's the one uniting them.

00:19:12.560 She's the one using that classic line of attack 1.00

00:19:17.020 and being defended by a totally different line of attack.

00:19:21.260 And it's going to keep up.

00:19:24.020 Eventually, whenever Ilhan Omar wises up a little bit,

00:19:27.720 she'll drop the kind of classic anti-Semitic slurs. 1.00

00:19:31.360 Because, by the way, if she just hadn't used that old narrative,

00:19:35.900 she would have gotten away with it.

00:19:38.120 If she hadn't gone through these old tropes that the left has rejected,

00:19:41.960 and she'd used the new leftist anti-Semitic narrative,

00:19:46.740 she would have completely gotten away with it. 0.96

00:19:48.520 A lot of people on the left have done that for years.

00:19:51.820 The left has basically permitted boycott, divest, and sanction,

00:19:57.220 has basically attacked Israel for years and years and years.

00:20:01.120 They've done it in a more subtle way, in a more modern way.

00:20:03.500 Ilhan Omar is showing us anti-Semitism through the ages,

00:20:08.160 how it morphs, and the freshman Democrats are leading that into the future.

00:20:12.360 And the 2020 Democrat candidates for president have adopted it.

00:20:16.980 Now, speaking of leftist victimizers,

00:20:19.680 do you remember, this happened a little while ago,

00:20:22.320 a conservative activist took a punch from a leftist activist

00:20:26.340 on the UC Berkeley campus.

00:20:28.900 This was caught on tape.

00:20:30.060 I think we have the tape of it. 0.99

00:20:33.500 Oh, s**t! 0.97

00:20:37.820 So this guy is there, this conservative guy, Hayden Williams. 0.98

00:20:44.700 He is helping students organize a conservative chapter on campus,

00:20:48.940 and they have a sign that it says,

00:20:51.780 hate hoaxes hurt real victims.

00:20:55.400 That's in regard to the Jussie Smollett hoax, race and hate hoax.

00:21:00.120 He makes this perfectly obvious point that hate hoaxes hurt real victims.

00:21:06.380 Duh. 0.99

00:21:06.960 And this leftist lunatic goes up and punches him right in the face. 0.99

00:21:11.340 Now, it turns out that guy's been arrested. 0.98

00:21:12.840 His name is Zachary Greenberg.

00:21:14.080 Turns out he's got a long rap sheet.

00:21:16.080 Assaults, restraining orders. 0.94

00:21:17.620 Obviously, the guy's a thug,

00:21:18.960 and it's no surprise that he's got a rap sheet.

00:21:21.520 But that guy is an example of a broader problem on the left.

00:21:28.160 This is not the first time we've seen this.

00:21:30.280 We saw this two years ago at Berkeley.

00:21:32.760 There was then a community college professor by the name of Eric Clanton.

00:21:37.440 It's easy to remember because it sounds like Eric Clapton,

00:21:39.740 so I'm picturing Eric Clapton, you know,

00:21:41.280 attacking conservatives with tire irons.

00:21:43.320 But no, it was not Clapton.

00:21:44.400 It was Eric Clanton,

00:21:45.680 a community college professor himself,

00:21:47.300 and he attacked conservatives, 0.56

00:21:49.480 hit them on the head with a bike lock.

00:21:52.380 So this happened two years ago. 0.98

00:21:55.780 What happens?

00:21:56.520 What was he sentenced to?

00:21:57.460 What's the justice?

00:21:59.700 Nothing.

00:22:00.320 He's got three years probation.

00:22:02.200 Doesn't have to go to jail.

00:22:03.740 Doesn't have to pay any fines.

00:22:05.120 Nope.

00:22:05.500 Three years probation.

00:22:06.300 He's all good.

00:22:07.700 This is a scary trend.

00:22:09.200 This is part of a broader trend.

00:22:10.500 And it's evidence that a culture

00:22:13.040 that defines speech as violence

00:22:17.220 is not going to punish people

00:22:19.300 when they react violently to simple speech.

00:22:23.480 This is what the left has done.

00:22:25.200 The Buckley program at Yale took a survey

00:22:27.180 showed that 81% of college students

00:22:29.880 say that some forms of speech are violence.

00:22:33.860 Not that they incite violence,

00:22:35.760 not that they depict violence,

00:22:38.000 that they are violence.

00:22:40.260 Now, if speech is violence,

00:22:42.540 then when someone says something you don't like,

00:22:44.660 you are justified in attacking that person.

00:22:48.120 So attacks on conservatives

00:22:49.920 who are minding their own business,

00:22:51.600 expressing their opinion,

00:22:52.880 are now justified.

00:22:54.320 Because it was the first,

00:22:55.800 the conservative speaker was violent first,

00:22:58.040 violent with his words.

00:22:59.620 And so I was violent with a tire iron.

00:23:02.000 So it's just violence.

00:23:03.100 Self-defense, really.

00:23:05.200 So much for sticks and stones can break my bones.

00:23:08.560 Words will never hurt me,

00:23:10.020 but my tire iron will hurt you.

00:23:12.240 This is what happens.

00:23:13.080 And President Trump talked about this at CPAC.

00:23:15.080 He made a brilliant point on it.

00:23:17.400 He took a hard punch in the face for all of us.

00:23:21.860 Remember that.

00:23:23.060 He took a punch for all of us.

00:23:27.000 I'm glad he brought it up,

00:23:28.180 and he's right.

00:23:28.740 He did.

00:23:29.340 He took a punch for all of us.

00:23:31.660 Because the left wasn't just going after Hayden Williams.

00:23:35.040 This guy was going after all of us,

00:23:37.260 all of us with whom he disagrees. 0.95

00:23:38.900 And he thinks he can punch us all in the face

00:23:40.540 because he disagrees with what we're saying.

00:23:42.920 This is very important for Trump to make an issue of this.

00:23:45.420 He was criticized in some corners

00:23:47.300 for making an issue out of this

00:23:49.600 scrapple at Berkeley.

00:23:52.940 But this is the issue.

00:23:54.540 This is why I did that Prager video,

00:23:56.160 control the words, control the culture.

00:23:57.620 This is why the war on political correctness is so important.

00:24:00.260 This is why it's important that we use correct pronouns,

00:24:03.400 not the fantasy pronouns

00:24:04.920 that the left is bizarrely insisting on,

00:24:07.640 but real language.

00:24:09.940 Because the left is willing to take a swing at you.

00:24:12.220 They're willing to hit you with a bike lock

00:24:13.620 if you don't use their fictitious words.

00:24:16.400 Because words matter.

00:24:17.480 Because this obviously matters.

00:24:18.820 And we can't let them get away with it.

00:24:20.640 And it's perfectly right

00:24:22.060 for the President of the United States

00:24:23.560 to get up there and say,

00:24:25.740 he took a punch for all of us.

00:24:27.280 They're trying to swing at all of us.

00:24:28.640 We have to fight this tooth and nail.

00:24:32.260 That's the issue.

00:24:33.460 And if 81% of college students

00:24:36.100 think that speech is violence,

00:24:37.800 we need to make it clear to them that it's not.

00:24:39.880 We need to teach them

00:24:40.880 where their parents and their teachers have failed.

00:24:44.720 Words are not violence.

00:24:46.520 They're very different things.

00:24:48.360 We'll see what happens.

00:24:49.080 I'm speaking on a college campus tonight.

00:24:50.680 Maybe someone's going to show up with a bike lock there.

00:24:52.460 I hope not.

00:24:53.380 I hope the Cincinnati kids are a lot better educated

00:24:56.180 than the kids at UC Berkeley.

00:24:58.640 We also have got to get to the immigration debate.

00:25:02.860 Yesterday I was on the Fox show Outnumbered.

00:25:05.580 It was me and four ladies on a couch. 1.00

00:25:07.720 It was not a bad show to be on.

00:25:10.040 I usually am in my broom closet all day long

00:25:12.180 all by myself.

00:25:13.820 And it's nice to be around people

00:25:15.760 is what I'm saying.

00:25:16.760 And we had this debate on illegal immigration.

00:25:19.660 And to my left, Jessica Tarlov,

00:25:22.740 who I like very much,

00:25:23.620 she's the liberal on the panel.

00:25:25.140 She said, oh, it's not, you know, it's not, come on.

00:25:27.040 It's not, it's not a national emergency.

00:25:29.200 Come on, come on. 0.99

00:25:30.440 This is a crisis.

00:25:33.360 This is a crisis.

00:25:34.780 The people coming across our border.

00:25:36.480 So we know we've reached an 11 year high.

00:25:39.180 In February, 76,000 illegal aliens

00:25:42.200 came into our country.

00:25:43.100 This is way, way up, over 2,500 people a day.

00:25:46.420 And they're expecting higher numbers

00:25:47.980 as the weather warms up.

00:25:50.060 DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen

00:25:52.060 testified about this yesterday.

00:25:54.120 Our capacity is already severely restrained,

00:25:56.720 but these increases will overwhelm

00:25:59.240 the system entirely.

00:26:01.200 This is not a manufactured crisis.

00:26:03.280 This is truly an emergency.

00:26:05.540 It's an emergency.

00:26:06.600 Now, why?

00:26:07.140 Why is this happening now?

00:26:08.160 Because at the start of Trump's presidency,

00:26:10.780 illegal immigration was at a low.

00:26:13.100 And then it sort of ticked back up.

00:26:14.460 Why?

00:26:14.720 Part of this is because President Trump

00:26:16.280 has facilitated a booming economy.

00:26:19.520 The economy wasn't fabulous when he took office.

00:26:21.840 It's done a whole lot better.

00:26:23.040 So you have a lot of economic migrants

00:26:24.940 who want to come over here and get good jobs.

00:26:26.800 The other reason is Donald Trump

00:26:28.820 made his presidential campaign

00:26:30.480 totally focused on stopping illegal immigration.

00:26:34.860 And the people who were crossing our borders illegally 0.99

00:26:37.260 were dumb enough to think that we were serious about it. 1.00

00:26:40.000 They thought, I mean, they're not dumb. 1.00

00:26:42.700 Maybe they gave us the benefit of the doubt.

00:26:45.340 They thought we were being honest.

00:26:46.840 But no, this country, we've learned,

00:26:49.420 is not able to defend its own borders.

00:26:52.140 And so when they learned that very quickly

00:26:54.360 President Trump couldn't stop illegal immigration,

00:26:56.700 they all started coming again.

00:26:58.780 Now, the left wants to have it both ways here.

00:27:00.760 They want to have children and their families

00:27:06.520 united as they're being processed.

00:27:08.860 But then, as we learned from the Flores Agreement

00:27:10.780 in 1997 during the Clinton administration,

00:27:13.040 you can't have the parents and the children 0.99

00:27:15.000 in the same place

00:27:15.800 because the parents are being processed by law enforcement.

00:27:19.080 There aren't that many places

00:27:19.900 where you can house them together.

00:27:21.300 And you can't have a child in jail for very long.

00:27:24.580 So you've got to have the child processed 0.91

00:27:25.940 by Health and Human Services.

00:27:27.500 But you've got the parents who broke the law.

00:27:29.240 They're adults.

00:27:29.760 You can't just let them off the hook

00:27:30.900 for breaking the law,

00:27:32.420 which is the only other option

00:27:34.140 that the Democrats have left us.

00:27:36.000 Open borders.

00:27:36.820 Let them go.

00:27:38.300 That's how they enforce border security. 0.70

00:27:40.140 They don't.

00:27:40.840 They don't enforce the law.

00:27:42.840 All of this is to say,

00:27:44.260 we now have 15 GOP senators

00:27:45.940 who are going to vote against

00:27:48.240 this emergency declaration by the president.

00:27:51.360 We have 31, now 32,

00:27:53.460 national emergencies currently on the books.

00:27:56.160 Most of them really aren't national emergencies.

00:27:58.880 This one is a national emergency.

00:28:01.420 And even if you say,

00:28:02.120 well, okay, it's an 11-year high,

00:28:03.780 76,000 illegal aliens

00:28:05.720 invading our country in just one month.

00:28:07.380 But hey, come on.

00:28:09.000 This has been going on for a long time.

00:28:11.100 Right.

00:28:11.640 That's right.

00:28:13.300 This is how Drew often quotes Hemingway

00:28:15.340 in how people go bankrupt.

00:28:17.720 The sun also rises.

00:28:19.160 Guy says,

00:28:19.540 how'd you go bankrupt?

00:28:20.480 He says,

00:28:21.080 gradually, then suddenly.

00:28:23.720 If you have a moderate crisis for 40 years,

00:28:26.920 that becomes a big crisis.

00:28:28.280 Becomes a national emergency.

00:28:29.660 Gradually, then suddenly.

00:28:31.000 This is not the time for GOP senators to go weak.

00:28:34.100 Are we to say that only Democrat presidents

00:28:35.840 are allowed to declare national emergencies?

00:28:38.380 Well, they say,

00:28:39.600 the Democrats, once they have this power,

00:28:41.840 might use it on something else.

00:28:43.460 Right.

00:28:43.600 The Democrats already have this power.

00:28:46.440 Well, okay.

00:28:48.200 But, but it's,

00:28:50.380 the National Emergency Act is wrong in the first place.

00:28:52.600 Okay, fine.

00:28:54.600 Then repeal the National Emergency Act,

00:28:56.600 but don't prevent President Trump from using it

00:28:58.420 for a legitimate emergency.

00:29:01.460 Well, where's he going to get the money?

00:29:03.020 The National Emergency Act

00:29:04.240 specifically talks about military construction.

00:29:08.900 Maybe that's why he invoked it.

00:29:11.860 Now is not the time to go weak.

00:29:13.580 This is a major issue.

00:29:16.020 And just because it was a major issue yesterday

00:29:18.020 and a major issue the day before

00:29:19.400 doesn't mean that it isn't an even bigger issue today.

00:29:22.420 Just because the frog is in the pot

00:29:24.760 and the water is getting hotter by one degree every day

00:29:28.660 doesn't mean that eventually that frog isn't going to boil.

00:29:32.080 They should not go weak on this.

00:29:35.900 I have another story

00:29:36.900 that I really wanted to get to today

00:29:38.520 about Ehud Arieh Laniado,

00:29:42.700 a billionaire who died 0.95

00:29:44.740 during penis enlargement surgery 0.98

00:29:46.760 at the age of 65. 0.98

00:29:48.700 I really wanted to get to this story.

00:29:50.620 This story tells us a lot about our culture,

00:29:52.840 but we just don't have time to do it

00:29:54.060 because we have to get to the mailbag.

00:29:55.200 So I guess that's a reason to come back tomorrow.

00:29:57.440 We will have a Friday show tomorrow

00:29:58.760 because we weren't able to do one yesterday.

00:30:01.120 Tonight I'm going to be at the University of Cincinnati.

00:30:02.920 We are going to be talking about

00:30:04.380 global warming and the Green New Deal

00:30:07.440 and why it's a leftist cult

00:30:09.040 and why it won't do anything to help the earth

00:30:11.600 and why the people who push it

00:30:12.960 don't even really care about helping the earth.

00:30:14.700 We'll talk about all of that

00:30:15.880 tonight at the University of Cincinnati.

00:30:17.780 I think you can tune in

00:30:18.720 on either YAF's live stream or Daily Wire's.

00:30:20.880 One of us is going to be putting out,

00:30:22.360 so check all of our social media pages.

00:30:24.320 We will have links for you there.

00:30:26.900 In the meantime,

00:30:27.720 before we get to the mailbag,

00:30:28.540 go to dailywire.com.

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00:30:45.380 This is very important

00:30:47.140 as it is revealed for the next two weeks

00:30:50.180 that the Democrats can't even hold a vote

00:30:53.400 to condemn Jew hatred

00:30:54.600 as there is a major fissure in the Democrat Party.

00:30:58.340 As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:31:00.800 eats Nancy Pelosi for breakfast,

00:31:04.240 you're going to need that Tumblr.

00:31:05.740 There are going to be a lot of tears.

00:31:06.800 There's going to be a lot of wailing.

00:31:07.640 As the 2020 Democrat candidates

00:31:10.880 jump over themselves one after another

00:31:13.420 to say that Jew hatred isn't Jew hatred, 0.78

00:31:15.500 ooh, it's going to be a schadenfreude-filled event.

00:31:19.680 Make sure that you have your Tumblr.

00:31:21.440 Go to dailywire.com.

00:31:22.320 We'll be back with a lot more.

00:31:23.100 First question in the mailbag from Jason.

00:31:36.540 Michael, can we abort AOC? 0.97

00:31:41.420 The logic here being, of course,

00:31:43.160 if you're going to abort a kid

00:31:44.080 at the third trimester,

00:31:46.420 then you can probably abort a kid

00:31:47.780 after he's born,

00:31:48.800 like Ralph Northam says,

00:31:49.900 like the National Democrats say.

00:31:51.240 So you can probably abort a kid at 29,

00:31:53.860 like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:31:55.660 Well, by the logic of the left,

00:31:57.760 by the logic of abortion,

00:31:59.440 we certainly can abort Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

00:32:02.620 as long as her mother and doctor talk about it.

00:32:04.940 However, I think it would be very bad

00:32:06.340 to abort Ocasio-Cortez.

00:32:08.200 I really enjoy her on the national political scene.

00:32:10.860 I think she is making political issues very clear.

00:32:14.900 So often, in the old days,

00:32:16.580 in the days of the Clintons,

00:32:18.180 they would obscure their real motives.

00:32:21.520 They would say,

00:32:22.140 oh, listen, abortion,

00:32:23.900 it should be safe, legal, and rare.

00:32:27.000 That doesn't make any sense.

00:32:28.980 If it's tantamount to murder,

00:32:31.220 why should it be legal?

00:32:32.860 If it's not tantamount to murder,

00:32:34.280 why should it be rare?

00:32:35.800 Well, it doesn't make any sense.

00:32:36.860 Now, what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says

00:32:38.680 is, no, no,

00:32:40.120 here is the logical conclusion,

00:32:41.620 here is the radical conclusion

00:32:42.680 of all of these ideas,

00:32:44.200 all of this ideology.

00:32:46.040 You would hear the global warming types,

00:32:48.040 the people who,

00:32:48.880 the left basically just wants to use

00:32:50.460 the idea of global warming

00:32:51.580 to take all of the power

00:32:53.500 that they've wanted for 100 years

00:32:54.840 and to push socialism in through the back door.

00:32:58.280 And so you'd say,

00:32:59.180 well, if the world is going to end in 10 years,

00:33:01.960 if this is really threatening life on earth

00:33:05.320 as we know it,

00:33:06.580 one, you need to produce evidence of that,

00:33:08.480 and two, if that's true,

00:33:10.240 we need to totally upend

00:33:12.000 all of human society

00:33:13.320 to save ourselves.

00:33:15.980 They'll say, no, no,

00:33:16.840 we just, just give us a little more power.

00:33:18.780 Nah, just give us a little more tax, taxes. 0.99

00:33:21.560 Yeah, that,

00:33:22.560 no, no, no, don't worry.

00:33:23.880 I mean, yeah, the world's going to end.

00:33:25.080 It's no, it's going to end in 12 years.

00:33:26.740 So give us your money.

00:33:27.480 Give us more of your power.

00:33:28.960 Give us your liberty

00:33:29.660 and your political freedoms.

00:33:31.760 But no, but it's,

00:33:32.420 it's okay though.

00:33:33.140 It's no, no, no.

00:33:33.620 Don't ask too many questions.

00:33:34.860 And she takes it to the logical conclusions.

00:33:36.740 She says, no, no,

00:33:37.360 it's going to end in 12 years.

00:33:39.560 We need to destroy every building

00:33:41.140 in the country and rebuild it.

00:33:42.160 We need to outlaw 88% of American energy.

00:33:44.320 We need to outlaw cows.

00:33:45.600 We need to outlaw airplanes.

00:33:47.800 We have, no, we have to.

00:33:49.060 It's the logical conclusion.

00:33:49.980 I'm very happy that AOC

00:33:51.980 is following these ideas

00:33:53.720 to the logical conclusion.

00:33:55.160 I want to give her more airtime.

00:33:56.720 It's why I talk about her a lot.

00:33:58.160 It's why I analyze

00:33:58.920 what she's saying a lot.

00:33:59.960 And also to her credit.

00:34:01.840 Well, Democrats are just talking

00:34:03.780 about how Donald Trump,

00:34:05.020 you know,

00:34:05.720 didn't tip his waiter in 1983.

00:34:08.820 And that's the most progressive thing

00:34:10.720 they can talk about.

00:34:12.100 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:34:13.300 has the political courage

00:34:14.760 to offer ideas.

00:34:16.640 They're crazy ideas.

00:34:17.600 They're perverse ideas.

00:34:18.980 But at least she's offering them

00:34:20.600 so that we can debate them.

00:34:21.840 I would never want to debate AOC.

00:34:24.500 Some people who like abortion,

00:34:25.960 they say, well, we should listen.

00:34:27.520 The people who are being aborted,

00:34:29.800 they're welfare people. 1.00

00:34:31.560 They're stupid people. 1.00

00:34:32.760 They're, no, we don't want, 1.00

00:34:33.680 they're undesirables.

00:34:36.300 Such as Margaret Sanger

00:34:37.500 would write about

00:34:38.200 in Woman in the New Race, 0.53

00:34:39.560 the founder of Planned Parenthood.

00:34:42.380 That doesn't hold water.

00:34:44.080 Even if I didn't like

00:34:45.520 what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:34:47.600 is doing in the political media

00:34:49.520 so much.

00:34:50.800 Even if I didn't like that.

00:34:52.280 Even if I thought

00:34:52.940 she were the worst person

00:34:53.740 in the world.

00:34:54.180 I still don't think

00:34:55.320 she should be aborted. 0.93

00:34:57.680 Because it is wrong 1.00

00:34:59.020 to kill innocent little babies. 0.98

00:35:01.840 That's the way it is. 0.99

00:35:03.640 But, good question.

00:35:04.420 I mean, listen,

00:35:04.940 this is a confused culture.

00:35:06.380 If you took

00:35:07.040 the left at its word,

00:35:09.240 totally,

00:35:09.800 you should be able to do it.

00:35:11.180 From James,

00:35:11.940 what's your opinion

00:35:12.500 on the Convention of States?

00:35:14.340 The Convention of States

00:35:15.300 is the idea

00:35:15.880 that states are all

00:35:17.300 going to get together

00:35:17.900 and they're going to

00:35:18.680 amend the Constitution

00:35:19.620 because we can't do it

00:35:20.960 through Congress

00:35:21.460 and we're going to make

00:35:22.080 certain things clearer

00:35:22.940 and it's going to be

00:35:24.360 great for American freedom.

00:35:25.860 I don't like it.

00:35:26.640 I think it's a terrible idea.

00:35:27.580 I don't want

00:35:28.820 these people

00:35:30.660 who are alive today

00:35:31.880 to rewrite

00:35:32.840 our Constitution.

00:35:34.180 Some people say,

00:35:35.020 oh, don't worry.

00:35:35.620 It won't be a big deal.

00:35:36.460 It will be very limited.

00:35:37.540 We don't know that.

00:35:38.320 It's never happened before.

00:35:39.580 Things can get out

00:35:40.200 of control very quickly.

00:35:41.580 The point of a Constitution

00:35:42.560 is to tie us,

00:35:44.620 we the living,

00:35:46.180 to our forebears

00:35:47.500 and to our future.

00:35:49.880 It's the greatest democracy

00:35:51.040 of all,

00:35:51.560 as Chesterton would say.

00:35:52.380 It's the democracy

00:35:53.100 of the dead.

00:35:54.320 It ensures the survival

00:35:56.100 of a certain sense

00:35:57.720 of American tradition.

00:35:59.420 I don't want to touch

00:36:00.200 that at all.

00:36:00.820 I don't want to get near

00:36:01.600 that with a 10-foot pole.

00:36:03.000 No thank you.

00:36:04.960 There are,

00:36:06.120 it is true,

00:36:06.940 there is a much better world

00:36:08.740 that we could imagine,

00:36:09.760 a much better government

00:36:10.740 than we could imagine

00:36:11.500 than the one

00:36:12.180 that we currently have,

00:36:13.020 which has been so perverted

00:36:14.000 since the time

00:36:14.860 of the founding.

00:36:17.460 I don't think

00:36:18.500 that we're likely

00:36:19.960 to succeed

00:36:20.600 in shaping

00:36:21.580 that government.

00:36:23.100 In fact,

00:36:23.540 I think the left

00:36:24.600 has their own version

00:36:25.880 of a far better government

00:36:27.320 with far less

00:36:28.340 political liberty

00:36:29.000 for you and me,

00:36:30.200 far more control

00:36:31.260 for the collective

00:36:32.140 federal government.

00:36:33.880 I don't want to give them

00:36:36.300 the opportunity

00:36:36.860 to explore that dream.

00:36:38.000 I think it's a bad idea.

00:36:39.140 A lot of good people,

00:36:40.100 smart people,

00:36:40.920 are taking that idea on.

00:36:42.720 They think it's,

00:36:44.040 they're really gung-ho for it.

00:36:45.800 I think that the road to hell

00:36:47.120 is paved with good intentions

00:36:48.300 and we should stay away from it.

00:36:50.540 From Cesar,

00:36:51.860 hi Michael,

00:36:52.560 you're my favorite commentator

00:36:53.720 on the Daily Wire.

00:36:54.660 Oh, thank you very much.

00:36:56.000 Thanks.

00:36:56.180 Do you hear that, fellas?

00:36:57.740 Did you,

00:36:58.040 are you watching

00:36:58.600 and listening?

00:36:59.240 No.

00:36:59.960 Do you think FDR's New Deal,

00:37:01.780 aka government intervention,

00:37:03.420 was necessary

00:37:03.980 to stabilize

00:37:04.660 the American financial system?

00:37:06.880 I'm always questioned

00:37:07.760 and presented the New Deal

00:37:09.140 as a good example

00:37:10.460 of government takeover.

00:37:11.440 I look forward

00:37:11.800 to your viewpoint.

00:37:12.720 No, absolutely not.

00:37:13.760 It was a terrible,

00:37:15.020 disastrous program

00:37:16.340 for the American economy.

00:37:17.720 It delayed recovery

00:37:18.660 significantly.

00:37:20.160 We were only able

00:37:20.780 to recover

00:37:21.240 when the whole rest

00:37:21.940 of the world

00:37:22.320 blew itself up

00:37:23.080 and we were

00:37:23.500 the dominant superpower.

00:37:24.980 It was awful.

00:37:26.360 I mean,

00:37:26.700 you had Franklin Roosevelt

00:37:28.240 setting the price of gold

00:37:30.440 based on lucky numbers.

00:37:32.700 That's no joke.

00:37:33.400 You can read about this.

00:37:34.960 It was horrific.

00:37:36.320 Wage price controls,

00:37:37.640 all of these awful things.

00:37:38.760 Actually,

00:37:39.520 those programs

00:37:40.520 gave us

00:37:41.140 our totally convoluted

00:37:43.200 American healthcare system.

00:37:44.720 All the problems

00:37:45.320 with American healthcare

00:37:46.220 basically date back

00:37:47.680 to those wage controls

00:37:48.720 because when you try

00:37:50.860 to suppress

00:37:51.540 people's creativity

00:37:52.500 and enterprise,

00:37:53.100 it doesn't work.

00:37:54.180 It's going to find

00:37:54.620 expression somewhere else.

00:37:55.820 So the government said

00:37:56.560 we need wage controls.

00:37:58.320 This was ultimately

00:38:00.140 during World War II.

00:38:01.320 This is slightly after

00:38:02.380 the New Deal

00:38:03.100 has been implemented.

00:38:04.400 But they've got

00:38:04.760 all of these wage controls

00:38:05.720 because they have

00:38:06.080 a labor shortage

00:38:06.720 and they don't want

00:38:07.360 wages to shoot

00:38:08.160 through the roof.

00:38:08.880 So they have wage controls

00:38:09.620 but then the employers

00:38:12.020 need to attract talent anyway

00:38:13.540 so they start offering

00:38:14.540 medical insurance.

00:38:17.480 And then employer-based

00:38:18.280 medical insurance

00:38:19.080 has played a significant role

00:38:21.200 in some of the complexities

00:38:23.580 and unnecessary complexities

00:38:25.560 in our current

00:38:26.800 healthcare system.

00:38:27.760 Bad idea for the economy.

00:38:30.240 However,

00:38:31.040 and this is where Ben

00:38:31.820 and I differ a little bit,

00:38:33.520 probably while it was

00:38:34.920 not economically necessary,

00:38:36.320 it was politically necessary,

00:38:38.260 you had riots in the streets.

00:38:39.720 You had a lot of people

00:38:40.480 who had a lot more

00:38:41.780 progressive plans,

00:38:42.940 radical plans

00:38:43.500 for the government.

00:38:44.600 And unfortunately,

00:38:45.820 sometimes you need

00:38:46.460 to violate economic reality

00:38:47.980 to deal with political reality

00:38:49.380 because that's what

00:38:49.960 government does.

00:38:50.620 deals in politics,

00:38:51.780 the affairs of men.

00:38:53.080 And so I give FDR

00:38:54.260 a little bit of leeway

00:38:55.400 because he was dealing

00:38:56.860 in political reality.

00:38:58.680 Ronald Reagan hated tariffs,

00:39:00.980 wanted free trade,

00:39:02.920 ostensibly,

00:39:04.560 during his presidency.

00:39:06.040 But he instituted

00:39:06.920 those deal tariffs.

00:39:07.800 Why?

00:39:08.180 Because sometimes you need

00:39:08.820 to protect American industry

00:39:09.960 because you're a politician,

00:39:11.280 you just got to do it.

00:39:13.220 Next question from Andrew.

00:39:14.740 Hello, Michael.

00:39:15.740 I personally believe

00:39:16.960 that God views all sin equally

00:39:18.780 due to the fact that,

00:39:20.320 all things being equal,

00:39:21.820 any man can be driven

00:39:23.080 to commit any sin

00:39:24.440 entirely due to the circumstances

00:39:26.240 that his soul

00:39:27.180 has been placed in.

00:39:28.780 When they can,

00:39:31.200 why then can some sin,

00:39:33.160 as scripture says,

00:39:34.080 not be mortal?

00:39:35.560 Thank you, Andrew.

00:39:36.960 Andrew,

00:39:37.520 what you are falling into

00:39:38.480 is the error of fatalism,

00:39:41.020 bordering on heresy,

00:39:42.320 if not full heresy.

00:39:43.900 This error of fatalism

00:39:45.300 has been present

00:39:45.960 from Manichaeism

00:39:47.100 at the time of St. Augustine

00:39:48.580 all the way up

00:39:49.380 through the present day.

00:39:50.800 This is the idea

00:39:51.700 that all events

00:39:52.560 are determined by fate

00:39:53.720 and free will plays no role.

00:39:56.480 This is wrong.

00:39:57.360 This is not true.

00:39:58.180 This is not Christian. 1.00

00:39:59.700 You do have free will.

00:40:01.520 There is providence.

00:40:02.400 There is omnipotence.

00:40:03.300 There is omniscience.

00:40:04.680 And you have free will.

00:40:07.240 Your will does play a role.

00:40:08.800 It is not totally fatalistically determined

00:40:13.280 that you will commit some sin.

00:40:15.820 You have moral culpability here.

00:40:17.980 Your will has a role.

00:40:20.200 And so this,

00:40:21.260 I hope that helps to explain

00:40:22.400 your problem

00:40:22.980 with that part of scripture,

00:40:24.320 which it clearly shows

00:40:26.040 that all sin is not equal

00:40:28.160 in the eyes of God.

00:40:30.780 From Grant,

00:40:32.800 Dear Michael,

00:40:33.380 Dear Michael from the block,

00:40:34.900 like Jenny,

00:40:35.780 what is your opinion

00:40:36.680 on a poli-sci degree?

00:40:37.980 Many people seem to think

00:40:39.400 it's useless.

00:40:40.220 Yes, Ben,

00:40:41.480 who has a poli-sci degree,

00:40:42.800 says that it's useless

00:40:43.480 and I agree.

00:40:44.280 Basically, that's true.

00:40:45.700 Political philosophy

00:40:46.460 is very good.

00:40:47.180 If you can find a program

00:40:48.140 that focuses on

00:40:49.220 political philosophy,

00:40:50.680 then I think

00:40:51.320 that's quite worthwhile.

00:40:52.500 If the program

00:40:53.260 is just political science

00:40:54.880 trying to teach people,

00:40:56.180 to treat people

00:40:56.820 as predictable robots

00:40:59.220 and automatons,

00:41:00.120 just focusing on statistics

00:41:01.420 or something,

00:41:02.320 that's probably useless.

00:41:05.140 This is because

00:41:06.220 there are lies, 1.00

00:41:07.040 damn lies, 1.00

00:41:07.460 and statistics. 1.00

00:41:08.200 This is because

00:41:08.600 the social sciences

00:41:09.420 can be highly politicized

00:41:10.800 and turned into

00:41:12.500 just ideology class

00:41:13.720 and because

00:41:15.520 if you use

00:41:16.520 a traditional academic discipline

00:41:17.920 like history

00:41:18.680 or philosophy

00:41:20.280 or

00:41:21.500 I suppose,

00:41:25.140 I mean,

00:41:25.920 look,

00:41:26.400 literature is actually

00:41:27.240 a good way

00:41:27.540 to learn about politics.

00:41:29.940 There are a lot of ways

00:41:31.220 in the traditional liberal arts

00:41:32.260 to learn about politics

00:41:33.220 that are probably better

00:41:34.360 than poli-sci.

00:41:35.280 From Nicole,

00:41:36.800 Hi, Michael.

00:41:37.480 My friend's main argument

00:41:38.460 for voting Democrat

00:41:39.200 is climate change

00:41:40.380 and they appreciate

00:41:41.920 that Democrats

00:41:42.800 make more of an effort

00:41:43.780 to address it.

00:41:44.720 They argue

00:41:45.240 at least Democrats

00:41:46.080 are trying.

00:41:47.020 Is it better

00:41:47.520 to not propose

00:41:48.340 any ideas

00:41:49.000 to address environmental issues

00:41:50.260 or to only suggest

00:41:51.460 bad ones?

00:41:52.300 Well,

00:41:52.640 we actually got to this

00:41:53.600 a little bit earlier

00:41:54.200 in the show.

00:41:55.940 The Democrats

00:41:56.760 are being disingenuous.

00:41:57.900 They're saying,

00:41:58.420 well,

00:41:58.840 the world is all

00:41:59.780 going to end

00:42:00.260 but just give it

00:42:00.960 just a little bit more power.

00:42:02.060 That's okay.

00:42:02.480 It's basically

00:42:03.480 a way of a laying guilt.

00:42:04.600 It functions

00:42:05.060 as a religion.

00:42:07.180 So,

00:42:08.100 I think it's

00:42:09.560 totally disingenuous

00:42:10.900 but why

00:42:13.580 they make an effort.

00:42:14.980 I mean,

00:42:15.140 the road to hell

00:42:15.620 is paved

00:42:15.940 with good intentions.

00:42:17.500 If they're destroying

00:42:18.560 our economy

00:42:19.180 and destroying

00:42:19.640 our political liberties

00:42:20.560 in a way

00:42:21.280 that's totally ineffective,

00:42:22.420 what good are they doing?

00:42:24.140 It's just virtue signaling.

00:42:25.380 It's totally empty.

00:42:27.540 Ask your friends

00:42:28.840 what good

00:42:29.380 is being accomplished.

00:42:31.260 See if they can answer.

00:42:33.200 From Marcel.

00:42:35.680 Ave Michael,

00:42:36.560 I recently met

00:42:37.320 a non-denominational Christian

00:42:38.700 and asked her

00:42:39.540 what she would give up

00:42:40.420 for Lent.

00:42:41.240 She said she does not

00:42:42.080 practice Lent

00:42:42.740 because who cares

00:42:43.500 about pointless

00:42:44.020 old traditions

00:42:44.680 and why should we

00:42:45.800 follow them?

00:42:46.580 Wasn't sure how to respond.

00:42:47.880 Love the show.

00:42:48.460 Thanks.

00:42:51.020 One way to respond

00:42:52.280 is to

00:42:53.220 ask her

00:42:55.300 how she's so confident

00:42:56.520 that the traditions

00:42:57.500 are pointless.

00:42:58.900 By definition,

00:42:59.680 traditions are old.

00:43:00.760 By definition,

00:43:01.340 they're also new

00:43:01.960 because they've survived

00:43:03.000 throughout so much time.

00:43:04.440 There's obviously

00:43:05.320 some vital force

00:43:07.120 within the tradition

00:43:07.960 by definition.

00:43:09.380 How does she know

00:43:09.900 they're pointless?

00:43:11.180 Can she describe

00:43:12.040 what the tradition is?

00:43:13.780 Can she

00:43:14.420 explain

00:43:15.680 why it was instituted

00:43:16.960 in the first place?

00:43:18.040 Can she explain

00:43:18.820 why people have done it

00:43:19.780 over time?

00:43:21.160 This to me

00:43:21.880 is the height

00:43:22.640 of

00:43:23.560 intellectual arrogance

00:43:25.740 and it's very shallow.

00:43:27.040 it's Chesterton's fence.

00:43:31.460 When you see

00:43:31.800 the fence

00:43:32.180 in the middle

00:43:32.480 of the road,

00:43:32.940 you have no idea

00:43:33.400 why it's there.

00:43:34.220 Don't just rip it down.

00:43:36.340 First,

00:43:36.740 you've got to figure out

00:43:37.480 why it was there

00:43:38.240 in the first place

00:43:39.040 and then,

00:43:39.920 only then,

00:43:40.760 can you possibly

00:43:41.480 be ready

00:43:42.520 to tear down

00:43:43.480 that tradition.

00:43:45.720 And I wonder,

00:43:46.580 does she not engage

00:43:47.340 in any old traditions?

00:43:49.200 I bet she's a 0.92

00:43:49.920 non-denominational Christian.

00:43:51.320 She probably goes

00:43:51.920 to church on Sunday.

00:43:53.360 Why does she engage 0.56

00:43:54.240 in that pointless

00:43:54.780 old tradition?

00:43:56.680 Is it not pointless?

00:43:58.580 Why is it a tradition?

00:43:59.520 Why does she do that? 1.00

00:44:00.740 Maybe ask her

00:44:01.320 about some of the

00:44:01.760 old traditions

00:44:02.200 she does too.

00:44:03.300 Because tradition

00:44:03.680 is very important.

00:44:04.480 We have bodies.

00:44:05.600 We are people.

00:44:06.180 We have ritual.

00:44:07.060 We have need of sacrament.

00:44:08.280 We have need

00:44:08.680 to encounter

00:44:09.440 the metaphysical

00:44:10.080 in the physical world.

00:44:11.600 Last question

00:44:12.220 from James.

00:44:14.020 Hey Michael,

00:44:14.580 I've identified

00:44:15.220 as an atheist

00:44:15.880 for the past 10 years

00:44:17.920 which I'm beginning

00:44:18.480 to regret.

00:44:19.080 I'm struggling

00:44:19.480 to get back

00:44:19.980 into religion.

00:44:20.780 Do you have any

00:44:21.160 suggestions to help me?

00:44:22.440 Yes.

00:44:23.600 Trick the devil

00:44:24.160 by appealing

00:44:24.720 to intellectual pride.

00:44:26.220 This is what I did.

00:44:27.120 This is I think

00:44:27.760 a cause of atheism

00:44:28.680 a lot in the culture today

00:44:29.920 and one way

00:44:31.360 to get past it

00:44:32.120 is to realize

00:44:33.100 that the arguments

00:44:33.740 for atheism 1.00

00:44:34.400 are extremely stupid. 1.00

00:44:36.280 The devil 1.00

00:44:36.700 he always seems

00:44:37.460 so convincing

00:44:38.040 and persuasive

00:44:39.420 and then you realize 1.00

00:44:40.020 he's a fool. 1.00

00:44:42.240 St. John Vianney 1.00

00:44:43.140 would make fun of him

00:44:43.820 called him 1.00

00:44:44.120 little idiot. 1.00

00:44:45.700 Do that. 1.00

00:44:46.360 Maybe appeal 0.79

00:44:47.080 in that way.

00:44:48.080 Try to work around

00:44:48.920 that way.

00:44:49.520 I mean you know

00:44:49.920 listen you're asking

00:44:50.540 me the question

00:44:51.040 so you clearly

00:44:51.720 value my opinion.

00:44:52.940 I'm telling you

00:44:53.520 God exists.

00:44:54.860 The smartest people

00:44:55.820 in all of history

00:44:56.480 are telling you

00:44:58.160 that God exists.

00:44:59.780 So figure out

00:45:00.300 why that is

00:45:00.880 how that is

00:45:01.360 how you've come

00:45:01.880 to not believe.

00:45:02.880 Alright I'm doing

00:45:03.280 one more.

00:45:04.220 I don't care

00:45:04.680 if we're going

00:45:05.040 to run late.

00:45:06.040 From Michael

00:45:07.440 it's because you

00:45:08.400 have a great name.

00:45:09.480 Hi Michael

00:45:09.880 no one has

00:45:10.540 really clearly

00:45:11.460 articulated the

00:45:12.200 difference between

00:45:12.800 socialism and communism.

00:45:14.180 What is the

00:45:14.700 difference between

00:45:15.220 the two?

00:45:16.480 I'll explain it

00:45:17.300 between the three.

00:45:18.620 I'll include

00:45:19.140 Nazism in there too.

00:45:21.360 Socialism is

00:45:22.540 an economic

00:45:23.640 and political

00:45:24.440 philosophy whereby

00:45:25.380 the means of

00:45:26.800 production whereby

00:45:27.540 property is

00:45:28.280 generally owned

00:45:29.120 by the collective

00:45:29.780 by the government.

00:45:31.480 You see this

00:45:32.440 as socialists

00:45:33.460 in congress

00:45:33.940 call for 80%

00:45:34.820 rates of taxation

00:45:35.740 and wealth taxes

00:45:37.340 and you're just

00:45:37.980 taking property.

00:45:39.020 It's just theft.

00:45:40.180 Now there are

00:45:40.560 different kinds.

00:45:41.260 There's democratic

00:45:42.340 socialism.

00:45:43.140 That's what we see

00:45:43.680 with Ocasio-Protez.

00:45:45.320 There is

00:45:45.620 international

00:45:46.360 socialism.

00:45:47.180 That's what

00:45:47.440 communism is.

00:45:48.720 Soviet communism

00:45:49.440 was an

00:45:49.880 international

00:45:50.400 movement.

00:45:51.260 Workers of the

00:45:51.940 world unite.

00:45:52.980 So it wasn't

00:45:53.400 focusing specifically

00:45:54.640 and primarily

00:45:56.160 on race

00:45:57.140 or sex

00:45:57.920 within the

00:45:58.900 country.

00:45:59.480 It's focusing

00:46:00.200 internationally.

00:46:01.200 Get all of the

00:46:01.820 labor of the

00:46:02.320 world to unite.

00:46:03.160 Then we'll have

00:46:03.520 an international

00:46:04.360 socialist

00:46:05.300 federation.

00:46:06.500 And then there

00:46:06.940 is national

00:46:07.480 socialism

00:46:08.080 which is

00:46:08.540 Nazism 0.87

00:46:09.100 which has a

00:46:09.920 much more

00:46:10.240 national focus

00:46:11.220 to it.

00:46:12.020 But as an

00:46:12.900 economic

00:46:13.360 philosophy

00:46:13.880 or political

00:46:14.400 system

00:46:14.900 they all

00:46:15.500 broadly

00:46:15.940 share

00:46:16.480 socialism.

00:46:17.460 And so

00:46:17.640 sometimes

00:46:17.960 people will

00:46:18.380 say

00:46:18.560 well so and

00:46:19.640 so is a

00:46:19.960 democratic

00:46:20.420 socialist.

00:46:21.660 Not a

00:46:22.240 national

00:46:22.700 socialist.

00:46:23.320 Not an

00:46:23.580 international.

00:46:24.140 Okay whatever.

00:46:25.100 Fine.

00:46:26.220 Socialist

00:46:26.620 nonetheless.

00:46:27.440 Same thing.

00:46:28.080 Okay that's

00:46:28.700 our show.

00:46:29.180 We're running

00:46:29.480 too late.

00:46:30.400 Check out

00:46:30.700 the speech

00:46:31.000 tonight at

00:46:31.380 University of

00:46:31.880 Cincinnati.

00:46:32.340 Should be a

00:46:32.600 lot of fun.

00:46:33.280 And then I'll

00:46:33.700 see you tomorrow.

00:46:34.360 In the meantime

00:46:34.700 I'm Michael

00:46:35.200 Knowles.

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00:47:04.200 2019.

00:47:05.660 Hey guys over

00:47:06.220 on the Matt

00:47:06.980 Wall show we're

00:47:07.720 going to talk

00:47:08.060 about the former

00:47:09.220 star football player

00:47:10.600 from Baylor who's

00:47:11.620 been acquitted of

00:47:13.160 rape charges but

00:47:14.040 the accusations

00:47:14.760 have permanently

00:47:15.960 damaged his

00:47:16.880 career, his

00:47:17.480 reputation so

00:47:19.020 we'll talk about

00:47:19.800 all the issues

00:47:20.760 surrounding that.

00:47:21.760 Also the

00:47:22.720 Girl Scouts have

00:47:23.480 gone all in on

00:47:25.040 their abortion

00:47:25.780 advocacy.

00:47:26.620 It is now

00:47:26.980 basically a

00:47:27.600 left-wing advocacy

00:47:28.400 group, the

00:47:28.860 Girl Scouts.

00:47:29.860 And finally

00:47:30.280 why is it that

00:47:31.520 really successful

00:47:32.400 people often did

00:47:34.300 poorly in school?

00:47:35.820 What is it about

00:47:36.560 the education system

00:47:37.580 that makes it so

00:47:38.280 that brilliant

00:47:38.840 people who are

00:47:40.340 going to be

00:47:40.720 successful in

00:47:41.300 life can't

00:47:42.300 succeed?

00:47:43.480 We'll talk about

00:47:44.300 that as well over

00:47:45.120 on the Matt

00:47:45.460 Wall show today.

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 07, 2019

Ep. 309 - The Left Has Hypnotized The World

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