The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 310 - What Will Be Trump’s Legacy？

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00:00:37.660 A federal judge rebukes special counsel Robert Mueller and springs Paul Manafort from life in the clink.

00:00:44.300 Hide your kids, hide your wife. 1.00

00:00:46.080 Paul Manafort will be out of prison within about two years.

00:00:50.500 As Mueller goes down at court, wages go up for the first time in over a decade.

00:00:54.380 Amid all the non-traverses, we zoom out and consider what the Trump legacy might look like 20 years down the road.

00:01:01.740 Then, International Women's Day sparks the communist revolution in Russia, and kids go on strike to protest climate change.

00:01:10.760 Do you have to produce something to go on strike?

00:01:12.960 We'll find it.

00:01:13.420 We will analyze all of it.

00:01:15.020 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:16.880 Updates from Russiagate.

00:01:26.160 Oh, it's taking a tough turn for Democrats.

00:01:29.080 This has been, you know, I forget when it was, a few weeks ago, we had a really tough week for conservatives, and we were all kind of down.

00:01:34.620 And then, this past two weeks, three weeks maybe, the Green New Deal, then you get Ilhan Omar spouting anti-Jewish slurs, then you get people defending Ilhan Omar and the Democrat Party, then you get Russiagate going down at court.

00:01:53.400 Really, really bad sign for the special counsel probe and for all the Democrat alarmists on Russia.

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00:03:42.780 So we had the sentencing of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

00:03:47.900 That happened yesterday.

00:03:49.980 You heard they were going to throw the book at him.

00:03:52.820 Mueller wrote up an 800-page report.

00:03:55.260 They didn't want any leniency for him at all.

00:03:57.680 They said, this guy, he's not working with prosecutors the way we want him to.

00:04:03.260 He should get 15, 20 years, maybe more in prison.

00:04:07.600 Guess how much the judge gave him?

00:04:09.320 Judge T.S. Ellis gave him 47 months.

00:04:15.120 But that includes the time he's already been in prison.

00:04:17.180 So actually, he's only going to serve another 38 months.

00:04:20.220 And that's not even true, because he's almost certainly going to get out six months early.

00:04:23.720 So he's going to get, what, 32 months?

00:04:25.660 He's going to be out in a little over a year, or a little over two years, two and a half years.

00:04:30.100 That is a huge rebuke of Mueller.

00:04:33.720 And that's what this is really about.

00:04:35.660 The stakes here are for the Russia investigation.

00:04:38.740 This judge, T.S. Ellis, actually, in a fairly direct sense, rebuked the special counsel investigation here,

00:04:47.140 because he made a point to acknowledge that this sentence, these crimes, had nothing to do with the Trump campaign and Russia.

00:04:56.920 This is a humiliation for the special counsel.

00:05:00.520 This is a humiliation for the Russia probe.

00:05:02.940 Manafort was the guy.

00:05:05.360 He was the one who worked with the Russians for years.

00:05:08.120 He was working with pro-Russian forces in Ukraine.

00:05:10.300 He was in, when he was running the Trump campaign, he was talking to people.

00:05:15.540 He must have had nefarious dealings.

00:05:17.360 They went after him, 800-page report, and they give him 47 months, which really becomes 32 months. 0.98

00:05:26.320 Pathetic. 1.00

00:05:27.620 Oh, absolutely pathetic. 1.00

00:05:30.020 So what, what is the point here? 0.99

00:05:33.440 Where does this come from?

00:05:34.680 Why was it so different than all of the mainstream media expected?

00:05:38.420 This gets to the importance of the judges, because this judge, as the mainstream media are going to tell you now,

00:05:45.600 was appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1987.

00:05:49.580 Oh, they are fuming.

00:05:51.420 Oh, they wanted Manafort to rot, never see his kids again.

00:05:56.000 Here is the reaction from MSNBC.

00:05:58.800 It says, this judge, Ellis, has never read the first thing about Paul Manafort,

00:06:01.980 had never known that Paul Manafort was known as the leader of something called the Torturer's Lobby

00:06:06.380 for representing unsavory dictators around the world long before he ever came to Donald Trump's orbit.

00:06:12.560 And, you know, this wasn't just a one-off, you know, brief period of crime here that he's been accused and convicted of.

00:06:19.420 This was a 10-year crime spree, as Mueller, as prosecutors have laid out.

00:06:23.660 This was a massive effort to defraud banks and evade taxes for a long time,

00:06:28.380 and then to lie and commit felonies after already admitting guilt and making a deal with prosecution.

00:06:33.540 So, it's a really surprising outcome from a federal judge who, you know,

00:06:38.460 from what I'm told by prosecutors who have been in front of this court,

00:06:41.200 tends to be a lot harder on poor defendants than on white-collar offenders.

00:06:48.120 Excuse me just one second.

00:06:49.200 I'm sorry, I should have done it.

00:06:50.220 I just wanted to make sure I could hear the whole clip.

00:06:51.980 Oh, yeah.

00:06:59.120 That's nice.

00:06:59.840 You just get off an airplane, you're feeling a little dehydrated.

00:07:02.460 Luckily, MSNBC provides all of the waterworks that we want. 1.00

00:07:06.320 A crime spree from Paul Manafort.

00:07:09.920 What is Paul Manafort's crime?

00:07:11.100 His crime is wearing tailored Italian suits, is what his crime is.

00:07:14.820 He's spent too much money on his suits.

00:07:17.040 The guy's a lobbyist.

00:07:18.700 Lobbyists work with crooked people.

00:07:20.800 That's what he did.

00:07:21.620 Is he a little bit crooked?

00:07:22.800 Yes, obviously. 0.62

00:07:24.340 A crime spree?

00:07:26.140 Are you kidding me?

00:07:28.020 There's so, and then, then they just try to completely twist it.

00:07:30.760 They say, well, he's really hard on poor people. 0.81

00:07:33.960 Ah, he's, the judge is probably a racist too.

00:07:36.120 He's like, no, they, because they wanted to send him to the clink for anything.

00:07:40.220 They are so desperate.

00:07:41.940 This is the trouble.

00:07:42.840 You know, last night I was talking about global warming at the University of Cincinnati.

00:07:47.540 And I made the point, if you are going to predict the end of the world, if you are going to predict the apocalypse, you only get to do that once.

00:07:58.400 You've got to be right.

00:07:59.700 When you make these huge accusations, when you make these huge predictions, like Donald Trump committed crimes with the Russian government to steal the 2016 election, his presidency is illegitimate.

00:08:12.200 That he needs to be in prison.

00:08:14.760 When you make those kind of claims, the truth is going to come out at some point.

00:08:19.340 When Al Gore says the world's going to end in 15 years, when Ocasio-Cortez says the world's going to end in 12 years, that time is going to come.

00:08:26.840 He said that the polar ice caps could be melted by 2014.

00:08:29.620 2014 came.

00:08:31.640 It seemed like it was so far in the distance when Al Gore made that movie in 2006.

00:08:36.580 But then 2014 came around, what happened?

00:08:38.480 There was more ice mass in the polar ice caps than there was in 2006.

00:08:43.840 And then he became a laughing stock.

00:08:45.540 And then no one saw his sequel.

00:08:47.100 And now nobody listens to Al Gore.

00:08:48.620 Even fewer people listen to him now than listen to him in 2006.

00:08:51.960 That's the trouble with the Russia claims.

00:08:54.340 They were so furious after they lost the 2016 election, they had to blame it on somebody.

00:08:59.520 So they blamed it on the Russians.

00:09:01.280 They made up this huge story that has distracted our politics for over two years now.

00:09:07.660 They bet the farm on this Russia conspiracy thing.

00:09:11.980 And it's just not panning out.

00:09:14.860 And the worst that you're getting is a longtime lobbyist getting a slap on the wrist and he's got to go to the clink for a couple years.

00:09:22.900 It's a humiliation.

00:09:26.920 And what else in Russiagate?

00:09:29.240 We found out today, you remember Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, testified before Congress and basically gave nothing, no new information.

00:09:38.840 Just testified that Trump is a big meanie and a really bad guy.

00:09:42.180 Well, now it's come out that Michael Cohen met privately with the House Intelligence Committee chairman, Democrat Adam Schiff, for 10 hours to prepare for that testimony.

00:09:56.100 Four separate occasions.

00:09:57.980 10 hours of testimony.

00:09:59.320 Schiff, who lives in California, represents a district in California, flew out to New York to meet with Michael Cohen.

00:10:05.320 Now, you have to wonder, okay, what was he doing?

00:10:12.680 Was he, I mean, obviously he was coaching the witness.

00:10:16.680 This is not good.

00:10:17.660 That's not a good look for Democrats.

00:10:19.700 Why did they do that?

00:10:20.620 Because they knew it was going to come up empty.

00:10:22.620 And apparently, Adam Schiff's not a very good coach. 0.99

00:10:24.920 Because 10 hours of coaching later, Michael Cohen still looks like a schmuck on Capitol Hill. 0.97

00:10:29.220 Still doesn't give you anything. 0.99

00:10:30.780 So desperate.

00:10:33.840 So now, now they're launching investigations into the finances and the business and the this.

00:10:39.460 And it just looks so desperate because the clock ran out for them.

00:10:44.600 They said, okay, we're going to, this Russia thing, we're going to go as hard as we can with Russia. 0.97

00:10:51.080 You can't go forever.

00:10:52.580 Eventually, people need you to put up or shut up.

00:10:54.520 You have to produce results.

00:10:56.400 And now they've got nothing.

00:10:58.480 Now the dog ate their homework.

00:10:59.680 And it's a beautiful sight to behold.

00:11:03.260 Michael Cohen, we know he lied to Congress.

00:11:05.780 He was convicted of lying to Congress.

00:11:07.600 He's the first convicted liar to Congress to be called back to testify before Congress.

00:11:13.500 And we know he lied there again.

00:11:15.740 We know that he lied about not wanting a job in the White House.

00:11:19.320 It's a matter of public record.

00:11:20.340 He sought a job in the White House.

00:11:21.700 We know that he lied about not seeking a pardon.

00:11:23.800 He did seek a pardon, matter of public record.

00:11:25.860 They just end up with egg on their face, being rebuked and reprimanded by a federal judge who has a good sense of justice here.

00:11:36.020 By the way, I hope Paul Manafort still gets pardoned.

00:11:37.860 Not because what he did wasn't wrong.

00:11:42.040 Of course it was wrong.

00:11:43.020 He's a lobbyist.

00:11:44.740 Lobbyists tend to work with pretty crooked institutions and do kind of crooked things.

00:11:50.640 But does anyone really believe Paul Manafort would be in prison right now if he had not committed the real crime of helping Donald Trump become president?

00:11:58.040 That's the crime.

00:11:59.940 They knew that that was what he was being investigated, what he was being prosecuted for.

00:12:04.500 And this judge, I think, in a very fair way, actually carrying forth justice, said we're not going to throw away the rest of this guy's life because you don't like that he helped a Republican win the White House.

00:12:17.880 Some other good news for conservatives.

00:12:20.320 The economy doing very well.

00:12:21.800 Actually, there's some bad news couched in a lot of good news.

00:12:24.220 The bad news is we only added 20,000 jobs in February, but job growth basically flatlined.

00:12:29.980 This is way below expectations.

00:12:31.980 Now, February is a slow month.

00:12:33.520 Probably this is just a weird fluke.

00:12:37.040 And I don't say that to try to brush a bad jobs number under the rug.

00:12:42.940 It's just that right now we currently have a record number of people employed.

00:12:47.860 So this is, I think, the 18th record that we've hit during the Trump presidency.

00:12:51.720 We've got 157 million people in this country employed.

00:12:56.740 That's an all-time record.

00:12:57.760 So you can't really say, well, they've only added 20,000 jobs.

00:13:01.140 Well, okay, I mean, our unemployment rate is basically zero.

00:13:03.860 Or I think the unemployment rate is about 3.8%, which is about as low as you can possibly get it.

00:13:10.440 Labor force participation way up, 63.2%.

00:13:13.020 During the Obama years, he would always try to cook the unemployment numbers by hiding relatively low labor force participation.

00:13:20.840 But here, it's relatively high.

00:13:22.440 So this is really good economic news.

00:13:25.400 And this is true across the board.

00:13:28.320 So unemployment rates for adult women, teens, blacks, and Asians stayed about the same, all near historic lows.

00:13:35.760 And unemployment for adult men, whites, and especially Hispanics dropped pretty precipitously in February.

00:13:43.300 And so you've got really tight employment, regardless of what the job growth number is.

00:13:47.460 You've got really tight employment.

00:13:48.640 What does that mean?

00:13:49.860 Wages are finally rising for the first time basically in my life.

00:13:53.480 I mean, it's been a long time since real wages have risen for people.

00:13:57.540 We've got 3.4% wage growth year over year.

00:14:01.620 However, this is really good news for the American worker who hasn't really had a raise in 10, 15 years.

00:14:08.500 First time in a long time.

00:14:10.380 And so you see those two competing narratives.

00:14:12.620 Obviously, you're not going to hear that on MSNBC or CNN.

00:14:15.240 You're not going to hear the good economic indicators.

00:14:18.320 They're going to focus on Donald Trump's tweets about no collusion.

00:14:22.020 They're not going to talk about all those boring statistics of how a record number of Americans have jobs,

00:14:26.800 unemployment across the board for every demographic is near record lows.

00:14:30.300 You're not going to hear that.

00:14:31.620 But what is the Trump legacy going to be?

00:14:34.700 This is sort of what I was thinking about as I'm getting this opposite information.

00:14:39.140 You know, Russia, Russia, Russia, illegitimate, blah, blah.

00:14:41.420 And you say, oh, everything's going great.

00:14:44.240 It reminds me that history changes very quickly. 0.93

00:14:48.860 Currently, the entire news cycle is Russia, Stormy Daniels, porn stars, total nonsense.

00:14:55.400 But history and historical views of presidents change very quickly.

00:15:01.280 When I was a kid, Bill Clinton was actually impeached for lying under oath,

00:15:09.060 for taking his intern into the Oval Office and making her into a human humidor,

00:15:15.300 and then humiliating her before the entire world.

00:15:18.300 He was actually impeached, and then for 15 years after the Clinton administration,

00:15:27.260 he was the most popular guy in the world.

00:15:30.320 His popularity recovered so much.

00:15:32.820 All people had were memories of that great 1990s economy.

00:15:36.000 All they had were memories of basically the economy that was permitted by the Reagan administration,

00:15:42.240 and then you had this huge once-in-a-200-years tech explosion with the Internet.

00:15:49.140 And people loved Clinton.

00:15:50.720 He was on the campaign trail all the time for Democrats.

00:15:54.020 Even some Republicans wanted his endorsement.

00:15:56.200 Now, the thing about the Reagan administration.

00:16:00.800 During the Reagan administration, you heard of all these scandals.

00:16:04.340 The Iran-Contra affair.

00:16:07.200 It was just a completely made-up affair because we were trying to fight communists in Latin America.

00:16:12.000 Oh, no. Oh, how terrible.

00:16:13.920 And they tried to make this into a big issue.

00:16:15.980 They tried to take his presidency down for it.

00:16:17.880 Then there was a rumor, you know, that Nancy Reagan was interested in astrology.

00:16:22.660 They tried to make this a huge story, big headlines.

00:16:27.360 Nobody remembers that.

00:16:28.520 I mean, nobody, I think, in the millennial generation could explain to you what the Iran-Contra scandal is.

00:16:37.420 Think about that.

00:16:38.560 If you're under 30 listening to this show,

00:16:41.640 could you explain actually what the Iran-Contra affair is?

00:16:44.920 I guess it's referenced sometimes on TV news.

00:16:47.180 No, it's nothing.

00:16:48.520 It's nothing with regard to the Reagan administration.

00:16:51.500 When we look back at the Reagan administration, we think booming economy, defeat the Soviet Union.

00:16:58.700 Those are the two things.

00:17:00.620 I mean, the man has basically been deified 30 years after he left office,

00:17:05.380 or now, I guess, approaching 40 years after he entered office.

00:17:08.740 And he's become better and better and better every year.

00:17:13.120 So what will it be for Donald Trump?

00:17:14.840 Is it going to be Russia?

00:17:15.840 No.

00:17:16.220 The Russia thing is nothing.

00:17:17.660 Is it going to be Paul Manafort did a deal with a pro-Russian Ukraine?

00:17:24.420 No.

00:17:25.480 Is it going to be Stormy Daniels got it?

00:17:27.840 No.

00:17:28.720 Nobody will remember her name in like five years.

00:17:33.020 That is going to go away.

00:17:34.760 I think what the legacy is going to be is the economy and judges.

00:17:38.780 Now, who knows?

00:17:39.900 The economy could tank.

00:17:41.080 You could have anything could happen.

00:17:43.140 If he has a second term, then you could have, obviously, anything could happen.

00:17:49.100 But just right now, if this were the Trump administration, if he were leaving office today,

00:17:53.580 what would that legacy be?

00:17:54.720 It would be the economy and the judges.

00:17:56.320 And the judges are so important.

00:17:58.020 Because you look, 1987, Ronald Reagan appoints Judge Ellis to the court.

00:18:05.400 Say, okay, well, who cares about the judges?

00:18:07.500 Because at moments like this, when real battles are happening, where real overreach is happening,

00:18:15.980 like this Russia investigation, real constitutional questions are being raised,

00:18:21.260 we have that Reagan-era judge to stand up for the Constitution, to stand up for law,

00:18:26.560 and to stand up for justice.

00:18:28.740 And Donald Trump has filled the courts with judges.

00:18:31.800 This is a pretty good thing.

00:18:34.620 What does the future, then, look like for the right and the left?

00:18:37.840 Because you hear all this talk of anti-Semitism on the left.

00:18:40.700 You hear all this talk of nationalism on the right.

00:18:44.300 And looking into the future, I think people have a sort of bleak view of it.

00:18:49.680 Here's Thomas Sowell, the great economist Thomas Sowell,

00:18:53.920 giving his unfortunate view of socialism coming to America.

00:18:58.020 The future of America.

00:18:59.720 I mean, do you think that we are destined to go through a period of socialism,

00:19:05.280 a period where these ideas that have not worked, no matter where they've been tried,

00:19:09.220 and certainly wouldn't work here, will be tried here and could bring down our country?

00:19:14.220 Well, the predictions of economists do not encourage me to go far in that direction.

00:19:23.580 But I do have a great fear that in the long run, we may not make it.

00:19:30.580 And I hate to say that, but, and the one thing that keeps me from being despairing is, of course, we don't know.

00:19:37.940 There's so many things we can't possibly know.

00:19:40.220 And so we may make it.

00:19:42.480 But I wouldn't bet on it.

00:19:45.860 Thomas Sowell wouldn't bet on it.

00:19:47.440 Very intelligent guy.

00:19:48.880 Very good observer of culture and politics.

00:19:51.000 Obviously, great economist.

00:19:52.920 Economics is a dismal science.

00:19:54.980 And I'm reminded, though, of John Maynard Keynes, another great economist,

00:19:59.980 who said, in the long run, we're all dead.

00:20:02.060 So what Thomas Sowell is seeing is that America is careening towards socialism.

00:20:07.300 That may well be true.

00:20:09.040 It certainly was careening towards socialism in the 60s and 70s.

00:20:12.540 And then Reagan came in and changed all of that.

00:20:14.980 Now it seems to be careening towards socialism again.

00:20:17.260 Can we stop it now?

00:20:18.040 President Trump says America will never be a socialist nation.

00:20:20.540 The way I'm seeing the future, though, is that the right and the left are beginning to look a lot more in America like they do in Europe.

00:20:33.260 We're told this is a very terrible thing.

00:20:35.280 Oh, no, no.

00:20:35.860 American right wing is totally different, way better than the European right wing.

00:20:42.000 They're not comparable at all.

00:20:43.500 And the American left wing used to be very different than the European left wing.

00:20:47.600 Now we're seeing a little bit more similarity.

00:20:52.080 What is the European left wing?

00:20:55.640 It's anti-Semitic and socialist. 0.88

00:20:57.820 That's it.

00:20:58.600 I can describe it in two categories.

00:21:01.180 And you're seeing that turn with the new fresh faces of Congress.

00:21:04.940 You're seeing them say no to the party leadership.

00:21:08.080 They say, this is the direction that we want to go in.

00:21:10.280 We don't like Israel. 0.99

00:21:11.480 We don't really like the Jews that much. 1.00

00:21:13.000 And we love socialism.

00:21:15.380 Okay, that's a lot.

00:21:16.100 And the American right, a little bit, is heading in that European direction of embracing nationalism, of saying, listen, we like our country.

00:21:24.880 We like our culture.

00:21:26.700 We want to talk a little bit more about our country and our culture and securing our borders and not just saying that anybody can come in whenever they want, do whatever they want.

00:21:36.040 We're going to focus a little bit more on the nation and the nation state, the Westphalian system that has governed the world for 400 years.

00:21:43.700 Now, President Trump has made this point pretty clear.

00:21:51.480 He was at it before he was getting on an airplane today to go look at the crisis in Alabama.

00:21:57.060 He called out the Democrats as they are in typical Trumpian, no uncertain terms.

00:22:04.900 I thought yesterday's vote by the House was disgraceful because it's become the Democrats have become an anti-Israel party.

00:22:14.700 They've become an anti-Jewish party.

00:22:17.840 True.

00:22:18.220 That's true.

00:22:18.660 And he could say, he could take it even further and say they've become the European left.

00:22:24.440 But I'm not sure that this is a terrible thing.

00:22:27.560 I mean, it's obviously, I don't want socialism and I don't hate Jews, but I don't like the left either. 0.83

00:22:33.320 So, you know, where are we?

00:22:35.020 But I don't think it's such a terrible thing that clearer distinctions are being made.

00:22:39.120 Because I think when people say, well, the European form of politics and the American form of politics are totally different, they're incomparable, they have nothing to do with one another, that's obviously ridiculous.

00:22:50.680 We come from Europe.

00:22:52.320 Our country comes from Europe.

00:22:54.300 Our laws come from Europe.

00:22:56.480 Our political philosophy comes from Europe.

00:22:58.560 Our culture comes from Europe.

00:23:00.140 Our religion comes from the religion that built Europe.

00:23:03.260 That's where our ideas come from.

00:23:06.060 And so it's not surprising that our politics might have some similarity to European politics as well.

00:23:13.740 Maybe there was a divergence for a period after the war, the Second World War, where Europe was so decimated, America was unchallenged in the West, that there might have been some divergence.

00:23:26.280 The sort of liberal consensus, the American hegemony throughout all of the West.

00:23:31.980 But those days were obviously numbered.

00:23:35.140 At a certain point, the West is going to rebuild.

00:23:38.360 Europe is going to rebuild.

00:23:39.500 And things are going to change.

00:23:40.680 Certainly after the fall of the Soviet Union, those two superpowers dividing the world up amongst them changed. 0.85

00:23:47.060 Then there was American hegemony.

00:23:48.900 There was the American superpower.

00:23:50.520 Now you have other powers rising as well.

00:23:52.080 And those old eternal political questions come back.

00:23:55.300 And I think the future looks not, it doesn't look exactly like our past.

00:24:01.420 But by looking at our past, we can learn about our future.

00:24:04.040 This is the trouble in the United States where we don't study history.

00:24:08.100 People don't study history.

00:24:09.240 They don't study history in elementary school, middle school, high school.

00:24:13.140 They don't study it in college.

00:24:14.240 What they study is ideology.

00:24:15.760 And that's a very poor substitute.

00:24:17.120 And if people want to see where the politics is going, it would probably behoove them to look into our history, to look into our past.

00:24:23.360 Unfortunately, though, today, the left is so busy trying to erase our past, censor our past, knock down statues, turn away murals, turn away depictions, 0.94

00:24:33.200 that they're not going to be able to learn very much, which is where you get childish idiocy and activism, such as the global climate strike, which is being led by actual children. 0.85

00:24:49.100 And the left believes this is a very beautiful and profound thing. 0.96

00:24:52.360 We'll get to that.

00:24:52.880 We'll also obviously get to International Women's Day, one of the worst days in the history of the world. 1.00

00:24:58.900 Not because, look, I love women. 1.00

00:25:00.500 You know I love women. 1.00

00:25:01.240 But International Women's Day is just a communist contrivance that destroyed Russia and much of the 20th century. 0.78

00:25:10.460 We'll explain how.

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00:25:45.320 The global climate strike.

00:25:59.140 So there was a story that came out.

00:26:01.820 Set your calendars.

00:26:02.820 March 15th.

00:26:04.960 All the kids are going on strike.

00:26:07.360 This was the headline, quote, Adults won't take climate change seriously, so we, the youth,

00:26:15.180 are forced to go on strike.

00:26:18.580 March 15th.

00:26:19.640 Global climate strike inspired by a 15-year-old Swedish girl who would cut class once a week

00:26:25.540 and called it a strike for global warming.

00:26:27.700 And now there's going to be a big day where all the kids do this.

00:26:31.640 I see a couple problems with all the kids going on strike.

00:26:35.020 The first is that kids don't produce anything.

00:26:39.520 Kids, all they do is consume.

00:26:42.340 At school, they consume knowledge.

00:26:44.120 At home, they consume food.

00:26:45.940 They consume clothing.

00:26:47.080 They consume money.

00:26:48.020 So if they go on strike, I don't know that anyone's going to complain.

00:26:52.220 I don't think anybody's going to be harmed by the kids going on strike.

00:26:57.960 I don't think that it's going to mess up anybody's day or anybody's schedule.

00:27:02.200 The other problem that I see is that kids, being kids, can be grounded.

00:27:09.700 So if they all cut class, their parents can ground them.

00:27:13.940 The parents can actually strike the kids.

00:27:16.100 I don't mean physically.

00:27:17.280 I guess they can do that too. 0.94

00:27:18.440 I mean they can strike them.

00:27:19.720 They can prevent the kids from doing activities.

00:27:22.240 They can prevent them from going out with their friends.

00:27:24.500 They can prevent them from going to the movies on Friday night.

00:27:28.080 They can prevent them from using their cell phones and they can prevent them from striking

00:27:32.660 because they are kids and they have parents.

00:27:38.460 So I don't think the strike is going to go very well, but I love the language of it.

00:27:41.620 I don't really mean to beat up on these kids.

00:27:43.360 I mean to beat up on the Democrat Party, which is just as childish.

00:27:46.720 They write, quote,

00:27:47.440 We, the youth of America, are fed up with decades of inaction on climate change.

00:27:54.760 On Friday, March 15th, young people like us across the United States will strike from school.

00:28:02.140 Okay.

00:28:03.300 All right.

00:28:05.600 Breaking news.

00:28:06.760 Teenagers cut class.

00:28:08.040 Okay, fine.

00:28:09.220 The story goes on.

00:28:10.580 For decades, the fossil fuel industry has pumped greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere.

00:28:18.220 This is not true.

00:28:19.880 That's not true.

00:28:21.380 For decades, you have pumped greenhouse gases into our atmosphere.

00:28:27.140 For decades, I have pumped greenhouse gases into our atmosphere.

00:28:30.780 The fossil fuel industry is not an evil gangster cabal.

00:28:35.820 The fossil fuel industry gives us a product that we all buy and want and need for our lives.

00:28:45.040 They don't put the gas into your car and then drive your car around.

00:28:50.640 They don't.

00:28:51.160 You do that.

00:28:52.800 You're the one doing it.

00:28:53.580 I mean, this is the problem with climate change.

00:28:56.620 They want to put the villainy off on somebody else.

00:29:01.520 They say, oh, it's the man.

00:29:02.560 It's the wicked capitalist who's polluting our...

00:29:07.240 No, you're doing it.

00:29:08.440 Do you like your cell phone?

00:29:10.300 Well, you've got to mine cobalt.

00:29:12.780 You've got to make plastics.

00:29:15.040 And those plastics aren't going to break down.

00:29:16.700 And then when you throw out your cell phone after two years, it's going to end up in the Pacific Ocean.

00:29:20.260 Because of you.

00:29:21.180 Because you want it.

00:29:22.100 Do you like your cheap consumer goods from China?

00:29:24.540 Do you like your cheap electronic goods?

00:29:26.160 Do you like getting around?

00:29:27.160 Do you like having heating during the winter?

00:29:29.420 Do you like air conditioning during the summer?

00:29:31.300 Or because you are the one releasing all of that carbon emission.

00:29:36.300 By the way, the world isn't going to end in 12 years.

00:29:38.660 It's not.

00:29:39.100 I'll bet every single penny that I have to my name that the world doesn't end in 12 years.

00:29:44.240 Please, someone take me up on that bet.

00:29:46.160 Nobody seriously even believes it.

00:29:48.000 All they want to do is hate someone else.

00:29:52.060 All they want to do is blame someone else for their problems, which aren't even real problems.

00:29:55.940 You see this even beyond climate change.

00:30:00.220 We talk about our society.

00:30:02.380 We talk about our history.

00:30:04.220 There's always the mean, terrible guy.

00:30:07.540 The old big daddy. 0.98

00:30:08.420 The patriarchy.

00:30:09.360 No, it's you.

00:30:10.680 You.

00:30:11.020 You have a say.

00:30:12.200 You have free will.

00:30:13.120 You are in this society.

00:30:15.640 You don't have to.

00:30:16.380 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez taking a thousand Ubers during her campaign.

00:30:20.880 Flying across the country 66 times for a congressional race where you are in a district.

00:30:25.700 You don't need to fly even once.

00:30:27.560 Spending 30 grand on car ride services.

00:30:30.840 Spending 25 grand on flights.

00:30:33.180 And then complaining because of the polluters. 0.59

00:30:35.060 You're the polluters.

00:30:35.960 Stop flying.

00:30:38.060 Or stop complaining about a fake problem.

00:30:40.640 It's all this fantasy.

00:30:44.500 And it's all this shirking responsibility.

00:30:47.200 And it's everybody's fault except for my own.

00:30:50.420 And the Macedonians stole the election. 1.00

00:30:52.380 And the Russians stole the election. 0.84

00:30:53.900 And James Comey, it's everybody's fault except Hillary Clinton that she lost.

00:30:57.740 It's everybody's fault except for you. 1.00

00:31:01.040 And it's pathetic. 0.99

00:31:02.420 But I think it is endemic to the leftist activism these days. 0.98

00:31:08.700 And I like to bring up the kids because this is what kids do.

00:31:13.620 The kids, you know, they've got the, they're reaching into the cookie jar.

00:31:17.260 They're reaching into the leftist tiers cookie jar.

00:31:19.160 And they've got their hand in there.

00:31:20.420 And then mom comes in the room and says, 0.96

00:31:21.740 Michael, do you have your hand?

00:31:24.940 No.

00:31:25.700 No, no.

00:31:27.140 Someone made me do it.

00:31:28.280 No, I, no, I don't have, no.

00:31:29.960 Okay, that's how children behave.

00:31:31.300 Okay.

00:31:32.100 Sort of cute or at least understandable when children do it.

00:31:35.760 But now we have an entire political party doing it. 0.72

00:31:38.160 Now we have half of the country doing it.

00:31:40.080 We have presidential candidates doing it. 0.89

00:31:42.180 Take some responsibility.

00:31:45.060 Stop behaving like children.

00:31:46.860 I can't imagine that that's going to play very well in 2020.

00:31:51.240 But then the story goes on.

00:31:53.400 The kids say, quote,

00:31:54.200 The alarming symptoms of climate denialism, a serious condition affecting the whole ways of government and the general population, mark our current historical crossroads of make it or break it action on climate change.

00:32:09.760 Apparently, the kids never learned not to mix metaphors in their English class.

00:32:15.100 Maybe they should walk out of English class.

00:32:16.600 I don't mean to make fun of their writing, but it's not good writing.

00:32:20.680 And I'll defend them in the sense that I don't think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could put together a more coherent sentence.

00:32:27.020 Listen to what they say.

00:32:28.480 The alarming symptoms of climate denialism.

00:32:31.540 So what they mean by denialism, first of all, they're comparing normal people to Holocaust deniers.

00:32:38.240 But they're saying, if you don't believe that the world is going to end in 12 years, you are a denialist.

00:32:44.200 And you have a symptom.

00:32:45.700 It's a symptom of a psychological condition called climate denialism.

00:32:49.560 You're not in your right mind.

00:32:51.860 This is not... 1.00

00:32:53.540 You are insane. 1.00

00:32:54.940 You are a lunatic if you don't think that the world is going to end in 12 years. 1.00

00:32:58.480 That's the symptom. 0.99

00:32:59.920 They're talking in psychological terms because our culture is so materialistic these days.

00:33:07.400 It's so scientistic that we can only talk about our minds and our souls in physical terms.

00:33:13.220 So we say, oh, different chemicals are firing off.

00:33:15.840 Different neurons are firing when we fall in love or feel joy or feel fear.

00:33:19.620 And that's what they're saying here.

00:33:22.420 Then they say it's a serious condition.

00:33:24.760 How do you cure the condition?

00:33:26.180 Through force, I suppose.

00:33:28.480 It's just agitating for socialism.

00:33:31.340 That's all it is.

00:33:33.540 Now, it's noteworthy, by the way, that these socialists...

00:33:38.060 Because that's all it is.

00:33:38.880 The Green New Deal is just socialism. 0.89

00:33:40.620 It is noteworthy that these socialists always go after kids and women.

00:33:45.980 They always go after the International Union of Students was put up by the Soviet Union.

00:33:52.040 The World Federation of Democratic Youth put up by the Soviet Union.

00:33:56.580 They're always going after kids and women. 1.00

00:33:59.100 And nowhere is this more apparent than today, on March 8th, on International Women's Day.

00:34:07.100 The Google Doodle today for International Women's Day was that little, you know, the women's sign.

00:34:12.560 I think a lot of women in this country think that International Women's Day is about women. 0.90

00:34:17.140 But it's not.

00:34:18.980 International Women's Day is the launch of communism in the West. 0.88

00:34:23.300 Google Doodle today.

00:34:25.120 International Women's Day.

00:34:26.220 They don't have a hammer and sickle on the Google Doodle.

00:34:28.400 The New York Times says, quote, International Women's Day isn't going anywhere.

00:34:34.560 What's the history?

00:34:35.620 I don't know.

00:34:35.840 They don't say.

00:34:36.540 NBC says, International Women's Day 2019.

00:34:40.380 History, theme, and importance.

00:34:42.620 What is the history theme and importance?

00:34:45.100 The day isn't simply a celebration.

00:34:46.940 It's a call to action for everyone to continue to push for complete gender equality.

00:34:54.360 Okay, but what's the history?

00:34:56.020 What's it about?

00:34:56.520 Okay, they say, the early 20th century was a time when women were becoming more active

00:35:02.600 in their protests against oppression and gender equality, leading marches and campaigns to demand

00:35:08.220 equal rights.

00:35:09.480 According to the official International Women's Day website, during the International Conference

00:35:13.600 of Working Women in 1910, Clara Zetkin of Germany's Social Democratic Party proposed 0.99

00:35:19.180 that a day be set aside every year across the world to celebrate women and reinforce their

00:35:24.920 demands.

00:35:26.520 That's half true, but that misses the whole point because it actually didn't start in

00:35:32.720 1910.

00:35:33.920 The first International Women's Day started a year before that, in 1909.

00:35:38.440 And it didn't start because of the Social Democratic Party.

00:35:41.040 It started because of the Socialist Party and the Communist Parties.

00:35:44.820 The first one ever was held in New York, 1909, organized by the Socialist Party of America.

00:35:50.100 Then, in 1910, the International Socialist Women's Conference created International Women's Day.

00:35:57.140 So, okay, that's the first two years of it.

00:35:59.960 Fast forward seven years.

00:36:02.840 You've got the October Revolution in 1917 happens.

00:36:06.440 After the October Revolution, Vladimir Lenin made International Women's Day a national holiday

00:36:13.000 in the Soviet Union.

00:36:13.960 It's one of the first things he did.

00:36:15.700 Why?

00:36:16.220 Why did he prioritize this day so much?

00:36:18.580 He prioritized it because on International Women's Day, March 8th, 1917, an International

00:36:26.900 Women's Day demonstration actually started the Russian Revolution.

00:36:31.020 This is, you can blame International Women's Day for killing 100 million people in the 20th

00:36:37.120 century.

00:36:37.680 I wish it weren't true.

00:36:39.620 But it is just a communist contrivance.

00:36:42.540 Whenever you hear things with international in it, usually you're talking about communist

00:36:46.060 contrivances.

00:36:48.000 The protest started because women textile workers who were in Petrograd decided that they were 1.00

00:36:53.560 going to have a demonstration.

00:36:55.000 This had been whipped up by communist agitators.

00:36:57.100 Leon Trotsky knew about this.

00:36:59.080 And Trotsky said of the demonstration, quote, meetings and actions were foreseen, but we

00:37:07.280 did not imagine that this Women's Day would inaugurate the revolution.

00:37:13.320 So they planned some meetings, some demonstrations.

00:37:17.440 This thing kicked off the whole revolution.

00:37:20.320 This International Women's Day was celebrated almost exclusively by communist countries and

00:37:25.320 socialist activists until 1975 when the U.N. adopted it.

00:37:30.620 So, you know, not much of a change exactly.

00:37:33.340 And now, to prove Thomas Sowell's point, unfortunately, it seems that as America is becoming more socialistic,

00:37:40.300 more left-wing, they're adopting this day too.

00:37:43.800 It's a terrible day.

00:37:44.520 We need a National Women's Day. 1.00

00:37:46.320 I'd take a National Women's Day, celebrate American women.

00:37:49.180 That's very good.

00:37:50.060 But International Women's Day, just like all of these internationalist schemes, they're 0.77

00:37:54.780 trying to divvy up all of society along certain demographic lines, class lines, gender lines,

00:38:01.860 racial lines, whatever.

00:38:03.780 Women of the world unite.

00:38:05.060 Workers of the world unite and break down national boundaries.

00:38:08.080 We shouldn't do that.

00:38:08.780 We should have National Women's Day. 0.98

00:38:10.220 I don't know what day that would be.

00:38:11.260 I guess it could be Abigail Adams' birthday or something.

00:38:15.340 We'll have to think about this.

00:38:16.280 This is very important.

00:38:17.040 All of this sort of navel-gazing, which is what you see on International Women's Day. 0.99

00:38:24.220 Obviously, they hide the communist origins of it.

00:38:26.600 They try now to just celebrate it as girl power. 0.75

00:38:29.600 Look at me.

00:38:30.100 Look at how great we are.

00:38:31.500 Captain Marvel's really a great movie.

00:38:33.140 It's only sexism that is having all of the male and female reviewers say that it's terrible.

00:38:37.500 It's, hey, it's us, us, us.

00:38:39.620 This is a culture of just celebrating yourself all the time.

00:38:43.420 This is a culture that has pride parades.

00:38:45.800 This is a culture that is insistent on that sort of thing.

00:38:51.780 There was a really negative outcome of that sort of culture.

00:38:56.300 And it's like, it's a funny headline, but I do feel bad for the guy. 0.56

00:38:59.640 A billionaire named Ehud Arie Laniato died this week during penis enlargement surgery at the age of 65 in a posh Paris clinic. 0.71

00:39:11.840 People giggle at the headline.

00:39:14.340 It's really, the man died.

00:39:15.540 This is a billionaire.

00:39:16.860 You got all the money in the world. 1.00

00:39:20.260 You die on a penis enlargement surgery. 1.00

00:39:23.780 His friends say that he was always obsessed with his appearance. 1.00

00:39:27.580 I guess he wasn't that tall.

00:39:29.620 He obviously had some other physical issues that he was dealing with.

00:39:33.480 And he was insecure about these things.

00:39:36.600 He would have his accountant read out his bank account statement multiple times a day.

00:39:41.720 Man has all the money in the world.

00:39:43.760 Could live a very long life.

00:39:46.240 And he dies because of this sort of frivolous surgery.

00:39:50.520 There's an important lesson here for a perverse culture. 0.99

00:39:53.020 You know, when scripture talks about how the rich will be made to look like fools, the proud will be made to look like fools, folly, folly, all is folly. 0.96

00:40:01.740 Those are not just empty words. 0.91

00:40:03.520 You can see that happen in something like this.

00:40:07.740 You can see it even broadening the sense of just self-gratification and constantly needing self-gratification.

00:40:15.700 You've got the owner of the New England Patriots.

00:40:18.160 Guy has everything in the world.

00:40:19.600 And he says, well, I think I'm willing to risk it all for a $50 rub-and-tug massage at a parlor in Jupiter, Florida.

00:40:31.220 He goes into a sketchy massage parlor to throw away all of this.

00:40:36.080 This is very, I mean, it is funny.

00:40:38.800 In a very dark way, it's funny.

00:40:40.980 That the heart of man is so perverse that you could have everything.

00:40:45.080 Billions of dollars, winningest football team in all of history, and be willing to throw it all away for nothing, for some cosmetic surgery or for a rough lower body massage at a massage parlor in Jupiter, Florida.

00:41:01.040 That is funny in a very dark way.

00:41:03.180 But there is a real effect to that.

00:41:05.120 And it reminds me that joy has to always be closely guarded.

00:41:09.400 You know, we're in Lent now.

00:41:11.880 We're in Lenten period where Christians traditionally fast.

00:41:19.480 They abstain from meat.

00:41:20.820 They're contemplating their mortality.

00:41:23.920 On Ash Wednesday, the priest puts ashes on your forehead and says, remember, man, that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return.

00:41:31.040 You think about these things.

00:41:32.340 And you try to take stock of this life and this mortality.

00:41:38.880 You realize you only have so much time in this world, and you want to make the most of it.

00:41:42.260 You realize that you behave badly very often.

00:41:46.600 You want to minimize that.

00:41:48.040 You feel sorry for that.

00:41:49.500 You regret that.

00:41:51.480 You confess those sins.

00:41:53.380 You really take stock, and you have, hopefully, a sense of humility.

00:41:57.520 This Lenten period is a great antidote, rather, for pride. 0.78

00:42:03.800 It doesn't mean we need false modesty.

00:42:06.540 False modesty is just another form of pride.

00:42:08.720 But true humility does away with false modesty.

00:42:11.520 And when you think of stories like this, you think, gosh, a billionaire.

00:42:15.120 He's got everything in the world.

00:42:17.540 He's a diamond billionaire.

00:42:19.160 So he made his billions in really valuable diamonds.

00:42:24.060 And he's got everything, yachts, girls, this, that.

00:42:28.800 And he throws it all away for some little insecurity, for some little pride.

00:42:32.740 Some guy who owns the New England Patriots throws it all away for just a little more gratification.

00:42:41.040 If it can happen to them, it can happen to you, it can happen to me.

00:42:43.880 You've got to really guard that.

00:42:45.580 You've really got to guard something.

00:42:47.680 That anxiety Thomas Sowell feels, this country is going to throw itself away for socialism.

00:42:51.840 You've got to really guard that precious thing that we've got.

00:42:54.580 You've got to really cherish it, really, really protect it.

00:42:59.100 That's our show.

00:42:59.900 This is nice to have a Friday show today.

00:43:01.720 I've got to get out of here because we're running late as usual.

00:43:04.000 But I will see you all on Monday.

00:43:05.160 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:43:35.740 Hey guys, over on The Matt Walsh Show today, we're going to talk about the Democrats

00:43:39.040 and their reluctance to condemn anti-Semitism.

00:43:42.660 Why are they so reluctant?

00:43:43.600 Well, it has to do with the left's victimization flow chart.

00:43:48.800 Their equation of victimization.

00:43:51.180 Very complicated.

00:43:51.980 We'll try to sort through it today.

00:43:53.200 Also, AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, thrives on false narratives.

00:44:00.060 And she was pushing another false narrative yesterday.

00:44:02.020 A pretty absurd one we'll discuss.

00:44:04.180 Finally, I'll answer some interesting listener-submitted emails today as well over on The Matt Walsh Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 08, 2019

Ep. 310 - What Will Be Trump’s Legacy？

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