The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 36 - #ThoughtsAndPrayers in Las Vegas

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00:00:38.080 A suspected lone gunman identified as Stephen Craig Paddock committed the largest mass shooting in American history last night,

00:00:45.620 killing at least 58 and injuring at least 515.

00:00:49.260 This is still developing. Those numbers are changing.

00:00:51.660 Within hours, the hashtag thoughts and prayers began trending on Twitter.

00:00:55.300 We'll discuss why, of all things, thoughts and prayers are controversial and under attack.

00:01:00.740 Then, finally, we will talk to journalist Mary Lane about the relation between the take-a-knee football movement

00:01:08.660 and the right-wing winning that we're seeing all around us.

00:01:11.680 Finally, Amber Athe, Amanda Prestigiacomo, and Jacob Berry join the panel of deplorables

00:01:15.800 to talk about John Kasich leaving the Republican Party.

00:01:19.820 He's a Republican. I didn't know that.

00:01:21.740 U.S. manufacturing soaring and U.K. schools removing B.C. and A.D. dating so as not to offend non-Christians.

00:01:29.340 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:31.380 It's a rough way to start the week, the largest mass shooting in American history.

00:01:43.380 I don't think that we need to go into the details of what happened, how it happened, who did this and who did that.

00:01:49.500 I think plenty of other people are going to cover that.

00:01:51.420 I want to focus much more on the response, what the response says about our culture,

00:01:55.760 what it says about how we see ourselves.

00:01:57.400 Obviously, there are a lot of questions.

00:01:59.360 How did he come to possess fully automatic weapons?

00:02:01.940 Those have been practically outlawed for about 80 years, although there are ways to get them.

00:02:07.460 It's just very difficult.

00:02:09.260 Were mental illness signs ignored?

00:02:11.080 Did he just snap?

00:02:12.700 All worth talking about.

00:02:14.460 But I am more interested in how the cultural response represents a conflict of visions between the left and the right.

00:02:21.320 There was this hashtag that started trending, thoughts and prayers,

00:02:24.220 but it wasn't earnestly people saying, we give you our thoughts and prayers.

00:02:27.860 It was people mocking the people who were offering thoughts and prayers.

00:02:32.000 The first crazy Twitter response was from Hillary Clinton.

00:02:35.640 Surprise, surprise, my dear old cousin Hillary. 1.00

00:02:38.040 Hillary said, 0.79

00:02:39.500 The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots.

00:02:43.620 Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.

00:02:49.060 But, cousin, cousin Hillary, what, come on, girl, what are you doing?

00:02:54.300 Obviously, a silencer does not silence a gun.

00:02:57.140 You can't shoot off a .223 or a .556.

00:03:00.340 It's still extremely loud.

00:03:01.540 It lowers it a few decibels, but it's still pretty loud.

00:03:04.860 So, Hillary just exemplifying how little the people who want to take away all of our guns know about guns whatsoever. 1.00

00:03:11.920 She then tweeted and said, and this is what leads into the thoughts and prayers.

00:03:16.680 She says,

00:03:17.400 Our grief isn't enough.

00:03:19.400 We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.

00:03:26.400 It's just, the Clintons, the thing that defines them is having absolutely no shame, no sense of shame whatsoever.

00:03:33.540 The bodies aren't even cool yet before Hillary Clinton tries to score cheap points on the NRA. 1.00

00:03:38.360 But consider this statement, we must put politics aside and stand up to the NRA.

00:03:45.540 You just said to put politics aside, and now you're pushing gun control, and you're offending one of the largest, most popular civil rights lobbies in the entire country, the NRA, which defends our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

00:03:59.200 That's Hillary, totally expected. 1.00

00:04:02.940 I mean, you know, perhaps a little much even for her, but again, the Clintons have no sense of shame, so who's surprised?

00:04:09.860 The hashtag continued.

00:04:11.920 Cara Calavera says,

00:04:13.960 F your thoughts and prayers.

00:04:15.860 They mean nothing. 1.00

00:04:17.180 They're as worthless as you are. 0.99

00:04:18.840 Now, this woman, I don't know who she is, describes herself as a marginally talented writer, unintentional comedian, and future corpse. 1.00

00:04:26.440 And that last one, I mean, she's making a sort of joke, I guess, but that actually does get to the point because she's saying she's a future corpse.

00:04:34.000 She's not a future heavenly spirit.

00:04:36.460 She's not a future reincarnated spirit or whatever. 0.84

00:04:39.400 She's a corpse. 0.99

00:04:40.140 Her view of the world is a materialist view. 1.00

00:04:41.980 And so for her, the thoughts and prayers are meaningless, and people who offer them are jerks. 0.99

00:04:47.660 From the Twitter account, Progress of a Kind. 0.99

00:04:50.040 And all of these accounts have a lot of followers.

00:04:52.800 F your thoughts and prayers.

00:04:54.100 Seriously, there is no more insincere, meaningless comment in American history.

00:04:59.660 It's a disgusting cliche.

00:05:00.940 Now, I can think of a few insincere ones.

00:05:02.620 We are the ones we've been waiting for.

00:05:04.920 You can keep your doctor if you like your doctor.

00:05:07.000 They go on and on and on. 0.77

00:05:08.140 I did not have sex with that woman. 1.00

00:05:09.400 There are a lot of empty statements that have been made in recent political history.

00:05:14.020 But thoughts and prayers, perhaps this person really does think that they're empty.

00:05:17.580 Obviously, they're not empty.

00:05:19.000 But to someone with a materialist view, perhaps that's the case.

00:05:22.600 Then the Democratic senator from Connecticut, my former senator, says, quote,

00:05:28.500 This must stop.

00:05:30.120 It is positively infuriating that my colleagues in Congress are so afraid of the gun industry that they pretend there aren't public policy responses to this epidemic.

00:05:39.400 There are, and the thoughts and prayers of politicians are cruelly hollow if they are paired with continued legislative indifference. 0.99

00:05:46.780 It's time for Congress to get off its ass and do something. 1.00

00:05:50.440 There's a lot of stupidity in that statement, obviously, the standing up to the NRA. 1.00

00:05:55.780 The NRA represents the 100 million Americans who have guns. 1.00

00:06:00.280 The huge portion of this country that uses its Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and a larger percentage of the country that supports that right, that supports that important civil right. 0.98

00:06:13.540 But for Congress to get off its ass, that's the statement that's going around. 0.96

00:06:20.000 And for the thoughts and prayers to be cruelly hollow, why are they cruelly hollow? 0.99

00:06:24.920 Now, I think the reason that they think it's cruelly hollow is because they don't believe in God.

00:06:29.880 If you believe in God, then your prayers aren't hollow.

00:06:32.420 They're prayers.

00:06:33.040 That's everybody for all of history has prayed to God, and they aren't hollow in traditional religious observance.

00:06:40.540 If you think there isn't a God, then they are hollow.

00:06:43.720 They actually are cruel because to those people, there is a public policy solution.

00:06:48.440 That's what Chris Murphy says.

00:06:49.620 There's a policy solution.

00:06:50.780 It's so easy.

00:06:51.920 Let's just take away all your guns. 1.00

00:06:53.300 That's the subtext.

00:06:54.420 We take away all the guns.

00:06:55.420 We get rid of the Second Amendment.

00:06:56.860 We undo federalism.

00:06:58.700 And then it's so easy.

00:07:00.200 And then these events won't occur.

00:07:02.040 These highly emotional, disastrous events won't occur.

00:07:05.720 Now, what they're presuming is that something can be done.

00:07:08.540 There are about 30,000 gun deaths a year in the United States.

00:07:11.540 Two-thirds of them are suicide.

00:07:13.960 They're predominantly middle-aged men who are killing themselves.

00:07:17.860 If we get rid of the guns, those guys aren't going to kill themselves?

00:07:21.500 There's more than one way to do it.

00:07:23.000 Dorothy Parker wrote a poem about it.

00:07:24.900 What about mental illness?

00:07:26.100 What about despair?

00:07:27.000 Which law is going to fix despair?

00:07:28.880 Which public policy solution?

00:07:30.660 Which technocratic advancement is going to stop people from viewing their culture and their life as meaningless?

00:07:38.540 Now, if we could reduce these gun deaths by getting rid of the Second Amendment, getting rid of the federalist system, coming state to state, town to town, house to house, and taking everybody's guns, what would that do to other crime?

00:07:50.560 What would that do to rape, burglary, assault?

00:07:54.040 Would those numbers remain the same if only the bad guys had guns?

00:07:57.280 What would that mean for our relationship to the government?

00:07:59.820 What would that mean about how we view ourselves, about how we view ourselves as citizens, as individuals with dignity?

00:08:07.280 I have some thoughts on all of this, but I will save it for the final thought because right now we have to cover something obviously much more important than how we view ourselves as a nation in this tragedy. 0.99

00:08:17.380 We have to talk about these stupid football players getting on their knee again this weekend. 1.00

00:08:21.120 We actually have to cover it because for some reason this is a major news story. 1.00

00:08:26.160 And it does say something about our culture.

00:08:27.980 Now, I have tried to get this interview with Mary Lane who has an interesting perspective and who thinks that the football protests in Germany played a large role in the right-wing electoral winning in that country.

00:08:42.520 We finally got the interview.

00:08:43.800 We had to do it offline.

00:08:45.440 But we'll cut to it now and hear her take. 0.99

00:08:47.640 Now, we finally have to turn our attention to Mary Lane.

00:08:52.740 Mary is an excellent journalist.

00:08:54.460 She's been with Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Associated Press.

00:08:58.600 She's now writing a book about Nazi art.

00:09:01.460 And yesterday we tried to interview Mary because she has an interesting perspective from Germany on the relation between football protests and national politics and nationalism.

00:09:12.700 Apparently, America isn't the first country to deal with this.

00:09:15.540 Obviously, there was some Zuckerbergian conspiracy to keep us apart that would not allow us to discuss this hot-button social issue.

00:09:24.600 But so what?

00:09:25.500 We've got you back today.

00:09:26.900 Mary, explain the entire situation to us and give us some context on how take a knee relates to politics.

00:09:34.580 Yeah, so I think, as with many things, Americans think they invented things.

00:09:39.740 But actually, this whole politicizing of sports and the fact that it has to do with national pride and something that should be a system of unity.

00:09:48.580 And even the word Antifa actually originated in Germany.

00:09:52.200 That's so interesting.

00:09:53.220 So you saw this happen.

00:09:54.620 That is really funny.

00:09:55.580 Those Germans are so efficient.

00:09:57.000 I guess they just do all these terrible things first.

00:09:59.000 So Antifa started there, anti-fascistische in Germany.

00:10:04.160 Then now we have Antifa.

00:10:05.600 And the politicizing of sports started in Germany.

00:10:08.340 And now we have it here.

00:10:09.400 What happened in Germany?

00:10:10.660 How did the sports issue come up?

00:10:13.660 Yeah.

00:10:14.160 So essentially, this started in, I mean, a little bit of background.

00:10:19.500 So in 2006, Germany got this chance to host the World Cup.

00:10:25.520 And they were so excited, obviously.

00:10:27.140 They're really into soccer.

00:10:28.460 They call it football.

00:10:30.040 But it also brought up this problem because every other country that's hosted the World Cup has seen it as this triumph of their national pride.

00:10:40.000 And they're so, like, the ultimate dream of a football player in any country, soccer player, is to sing the national anthem for the World Cup on their own soil.

00:10:50.660 And this was never a problem before.

00:10:52.660 But in Germany, the national anthem since World War II was so associated with Nazis and the IQ.

00:11:01.000 That's Deutschland über alles, right?

00:11:03.020 Yeah.

00:11:03.460 Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

00:11:05.920 Exactly.

00:11:06.320 So after World War I, they came up with the Deutschland über alles song.

00:11:10.120 And then after World War II, they decided to keep the song.

00:11:12.860 We used the third verse, which is about unity and freedom and justice, which sounds anodymed.

00:11:19.600 But the fact that they kept the same tune was, like, really awkward. 0.73

00:11:23.320 And at least they took out the verse about just killing everybody in the world, especially the Jews, which is really good. 1.00

00:11:29.000 That's a lyrical improvement. 0.97

00:11:30.340 It's progress.

00:11:30.920 But a big problem in 2006 was that in every other country, a politician would have said, like, I'm so proud to be South African and that the World Cup is in South Africa.

00:11:42.840 But in Germany, even Angela Merkel, who has been the chancellor for 12 years, to this day will never be caught dead saying the sentence, I'm proud to be German.

00:11:52.900 Of course, yeah.

00:11:54.200 And even the phrase, like, so I've been in Germany nine and a half years.

00:11:57.340 I could technically become German.

00:11:59.160 But you would never say in German, say I get a German passport.

00:12:02.560 I would never say to, and I would have to give up my American one, so I'd be full German. 0.80

00:12:05.900 You would never linguistically say in German, I have become German.

00:12:10.600 Ich bin Deutsch geworden.

00:12:11.880 Well, this raises an interesting point about American exceptionalism, too.

00:12:16.100 One can become an American because the country was settled by my dearest ancestors, my religious extremist ancestors, who came from the U.K. through Leiden to America.

00:12:27.200 Then there came the Scots-Irish, the Irish. 0.96

00:12:29.960 There were American Indians who integrated.

00:12:31.920 The first people we saw were Samoset and, what's the other guy's name, Squanto.

00:12:37.940 And obviously there were black slaves who came over. 0.99

00:12:40.560 So it's a country that doesn't really have an ethnic identity per se, whereas Germany, when you think of a German, you get an image in your mind. 0.91

00:12:48.760 When you think of a Frenchman, you get a much more pathetic image in your mind, and so on and so forth. 0.99

00:12:54.200 In 2010, there were problems because so, and this is where we get to Antifa, Antifascismus, they call it Antifa, is that this Turkish family in Germany, in Berlin, in an area where people with Turkish backgrounds and annoying students and tourists have been together since the 1950s,

00:13:15.580 they saved up and got a 22-meter, so what is that, like 60-foot flag, and put it over their entire-

00:13:21.600 I don't know, I'm completely unfamiliar with the metric system, but sure, I'll take your word for it, 60-foot, sure.

00:13:25.220 So they put it over, like, all four stories of their house, this German flag, and they were, they were, they'd been from Lebanon, and they had become German citizens, and they were so proud.

00:13:36.280 Right.

00:13:36.820 And it got torn, it became this national show, sorry, because they had, people were tearing it down, but it wasn't Nazis or far-right people tearing it down, it was Antifa.

00:13:48.480 It was the left, the left was upset that the immigrants were grateful toward the country that had taken them in.

00:13:54.220 So essentially, that's what bled over, because, you know, people saw this brutal in 2010, and that's when the far-right party, and obviously Antifa in Germany, started blooming.

00:14:05.520 But then in 2013, the AFD, the far-right party, only got 4.7% of the vote, and everyone was like, phew, because you have to get 5% to do parliamentary representation.

00:14:16.700 But AFD was like, hey, like, we're a really new party, and we got 4.5% with no funding, like, watch out, guys, because 2017 is coming.

00:14:25.700 And then, lo and behold, the World Cup happens in 2014, and then Germany pummels Brazil 7-1, and Brazil was the home country.

00:14:36.520 And, you know, no one, there were no, like, foul play going on, it was just like Germany was the better team, and normally you would be, like, so excited to be beating the home country.

00:14:46.560 I mean, they would be bummed out, but Brazil was bummed out, but they weren't saying, like, oh, you're racist or something.

00:14:51.820 And besides, they were colonized by the Portuguese anyway, you know.

00:14:54.680 And Germans in the bar were depressed.

00:14:59.620 They were, like, like, they wanted to win, but they were, like, like, once I got to about 4-1, they were, like, oh, my God.

00:15:06.120 Oh, my God.

00:15:07.100 Like, it's just so militaristic.

00:15:07.820 This is almost the worst colonization that we've engaged in in hundreds of years.

00:15:13.580 I know.

00:15:14.140 Oh, my gosh.

00:15:16.320 And then the next, and I thought, you know, trying to be a reasonable person, I was, like, you know, like, anecdotal evidence is not pure evidence.

00:15:23.080 But the plural of anecdote is data.

00:15:25.640 It is true.

00:15:26.540 And then the next day I go in the newspapers.

00:15:28.620 Germany has a very wide newspaper industry.

00:15:31.380 So every major city's newspaper is widely distributed.

00:15:34.720 And every single one was, like, ashamed of the fact that they beat them so badly.

00:15:40.520 The Western self-flagellation is endlessly stunning.

00:15:44.640 It never ceases to amaze me.

00:15:46.780 But now, if this is all happening there, if politics is downstream of culture, we see this happening in Germany 10 years later, 11 years later, what can we look forward to in the United States?

00:15:56.260 For conservatives, there's a lot of good news.

00:15:58.540 But there's also some, you know, interesting, if you look, say, yeah, down the road, consequences of culture.

00:16:04.240 So basically, the establishment parties that didn't want to take a side on either of the anthem problems, they had their worst results.

00:16:16.940 And that meant that the Miracles Party is still reigning.

00:16:21.260 She's going to be having 16 years of consecutive power now. 1.00

00:16:24.280 But she has to team up with these kind of smaller parties, the FDP and the Greens.

00:16:31.240 And what's good for America out of that is that the Greens are really big Russia hawks. 0.85

00:16:39.620 And they're going to be less oppositional to the idea of spending money on NATO and, like, really stepping up their game for that.

00:16:47.720 The FDP is really good news for America because they are for small businesses.

00:16:54.460 And they are for less regulation.

00:16:57.260 But the problem is, is that since so many people are divided, there might be so much internal gridlock that getting into these great benefits for America may not happen.

00:17:07.840 Mary, thank you so much for being here.

00:17:10.040 That's a really interesting perspective.

00:17:11.740 And nobody's talking about it, but it's pretty scary to think about.

00:17:14.640 It is pretty strange, the analogy, too, when you think about the crazy leftist culture, the lefties ripping down symbols of national pride, and the push rightward that then the culture engages in, and how perhaps internal gridlock makes it difficult to do anything.

00:17:34.820 Something to watch out for.

00:17:36.240 I guess it's just things that are coming up in the United States.

00:17:38.920 Maybe it won't take as long as Germany did. 0.89

00:17:40.620 Okay, now it is time to move to our panel of deplorables.

00:17:44.440 And do we have an excellent one today?

00:17:46.140 We have, from the Daily Wire, Amanda Presto Giacomo.

00:17:49.240 Also from the Daily Wire, we have Jacob Berry.

00:17:51.280 And from the Daily Caller, we have Amber Athe.

00:17:54.200 Now, our first question is going to you, Amanda.

00:17:58.180 I don't want to harp on this too much, but we're talking about political gridlock.

00:18:02.180 We're talking about Hillary Clinton moving in on this issue immediately, trying to politicize this tragedy immediately. 0.74

00:18:10.500 President Trump is not exactly an orthodox political player.

00:18:13.740 Could we see any gun control coming out of this White House?

00:18:18.440 I mean, yes, he's not politically orthodox in any way.

00:18:21.800 But the thing is, is that the NRA backed President Trump really early on, and they poured millions of dollars into his campaign.

00:18:29.860 This is, like, in the primary.

00:18:32.360 And they're still pushing out a lot of ads for President Trump against the protests against him, et cetera.

00:18:38.400 So, sure, I never know what President Trump is going to do.

00:18:43.180 I know there are a lot of calls on the left for crackdowns on this.

00:18:46.000 They're going to exploit the heck out of this tragedy.

00:18:47.460 But the NRA has really been there for President Trump, so it would be pretty surprising to me if he does kind of crack down on this.

00:18:56.320 Let's hope.

00:18:56.820 And, you know, it is true that he's not an orthodox political player, but he's been pretty good and in some ways more conservative than I think many of the ostensibly more conservative candidates would have been in office.

00:19:09.580 All right, enough about this tragedy.

00:19:11.060 Sorry, your last point, Amanda.

00:19:13.580 Oh, yeah, I was just going to say, I mean, DACA kind of threw me for a loop.

00:19:16.060 That's the only reason why I, like, hold some reservation.

00:19:18.500 I thought he was going to use that at least to get, like, funding for the wall, but that didn't happen.

00:19:22.280 He just kind of tossed it to Congress.

00:19:23.900 So I have a little hesitation, but it wouldn't really make sense for him to go at this gun control.

00:19:28.980 Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

00:19:30.920 Okay, on to news.

00:19:32.020 John Kasich announced that he might leave the Republican Party.

00:19:36.340 He was sucking up to Jake Tapper and explained, quote,

00:19:39.600 If the party can't be fixed, Jake, then I'm not going to be able to support the party. 0.75

00:19:45.480 Period.

00:19:46.440 That's the end of it.

00:19:47.740 Amanda, this, of course, raises one question.

00:19:50.220 John Kasich's a Republican?

00:19:52.340 Yeah.

00:19:53.700 That's news to me.

00:19:55.480 We're all learning this for the first time.

00:19:57.700 The best part about this is that in that interview, he was talking about how, you know,

00:20:02.140 basically how Trumpism has taken over the Republican Party.

00:20:05.000 And, you know, we're anti-immigrant now.

00:20:06.860 Oh, let me clutch my pearls.

00:20:08.620 The thing is, during the primary, John Kasich stayed in the race to basically, you know,

00:20:13.580 essentially give Donald Trump that nomination.

00:20:15.920 He killed Cruz.

00:20:16.340 He stayed in when there was no path.

00:20:18.200 What was that?

00:20:18.780 He killed Cruz.

00:20:19.600 He stayed in so long that he totally destroyed Cruz's chances.

00:20:22.740 One hundred percent.

00:20:24.700 And he basically gave President Trump the nomination.

00:20:27.160 So this is it's all about John Kasich.

00:20:29.180 I don't believe anything he says.

00:20:30.560 He clutches his pearls when he knows it bodes well with his Ohio constituents.

00:20:34.860 But he doesn't really care.

00:20:36.240 If he did care about this, he wouldn't have basically clinched a nomination for President

00:20:39.680 Trump during the primary. 0.87

00:20:41.060 It's a bunch of nonsense. 0.80

00:20:41.840 Amber, this seems to me like a classic example of I'm a conservative, but I'm not that kind

00:20:47.640 of a conservative ism, which is very prevalent.

00:20:50.680 I've noticed it on campuses.

00:20:52.300 I've noticed it in polite conversation.

00:20:55.520 People say, well, I'm a conservative, but I don't support President Trump.

00:20:58.900 Please like New York Times.

00:21:00.260 Please, please like me.

00:21:01.660 How prevalent is this phenomenon on the right?

00:21:05.100 Well, it's definitely prevalent enough to pose a problem to President Trump.

00:21:08.880 As we saw with the repeal and replace of Obamacare, it really only took three or four

00:21:13.440 of those so-called not that kind of conservatives to kill the repeal and replace effort.

00:21:18.720 And then when you look at the media, it's the same exact thing.

00:21:20.880 You'll have former Bush staffers getting their cushy gigs at MSNBC and CNN where all they

00:21:26.200 have to do is trash Trump and they get their little six-figure salary after they got out

00:21:32.680 of the Bush administration.

00:21:33.860 So then you have not only the liberals posing a media challenge to Trump, but also these

00:21:38.600 so-called Republicans, including John Kasich, who are just trying to oppose anything Trump

00:21:45.320 does.

00:21:45.580 It doesn't matter what it is, just so that they can be accepted by the mainstream media.

00:21:50.920 Yeah, there's a woman named Anna Navarro who goes on these channels, you know her, and

00:21:56.240 she says that she's a Republican strategist.

00:21:59.900 That's just the term, by the way, if you don't do anything but you want to blab about politics.

00:22:03.680 She worked for McCain, by the way.

00:22:04.360 Yeah.

00:22:04.860 I mean, she has been associated with these more left-wing campaigns, John Huntsman, John

00:22:10.960 McCain, that sort of thing.

00:22:12.100 I'm actually surrounded by the man who's advising John Weaver as well.

00:22:16.740 But, you know, someone like Anna Navarro, it seems like her only job is to attack Republicans 0.99

00:22:22.020 while nominally being a Republican.

00:22:24.960 Jacob, is there any place for these squishy liberal moderates in the Republican Party?

00:22:30.320 Yes, it's called a primary.

00:22:33.400 My wife described John Kasich the best during the 2016 GOP primary.

00:22:39.620 She said, he's the guy who showed up to the party uninvited and then refused to leave.

00:22:45.580 That's exactly John Kasich.

00:22:48.040 And for him to just go on this virtue signaling and, look, I'm not Trump's biggest fan.

00:22:54.380 I think he's doing a great job so far.

00:22:55.420 I know I am Trump's biggest fan.

00:22:56.640 You couldn't possibly be Trump's biggest fan.

00:22:58.520 Well, maybe you and John Nolte are tied.

00:23:01.040 But seriously, John Kasich and people like Anna Navarro, they make me ashamed of being

00:23:08.460 a non-Trump advocate. 0.99

00:23:10.600 You know, it's kind of like, oh, guys, just sit down and shut up. 0.99

00:23:13.960 They do. 0.98

00:23:14.460 They make you want to.

00:23:16.080 You don't want to defend Trump because of Trump.

00:23:17.780 You want to defend it because his critics are so shrieky and frustrating.

00:23:21.780 And they make us who are against Trump from a conservative angle think, oh, maybe we should

00:23:26.440 back Trump.

00:23:27.160 Right.

00:23:27.600 Absolutely right.

00:23:28.360 In other news, U.S. manufacturing activity has hit a 13-year high, covfefe, covfefe.

00:23:34.280 Construction spending is up.

00:23:35.600 Reuters is reporting that in September there is strong gains in new orders, raw material prices,

00:23:42.660 and points to the underlying strength in the economy, even as Hurricane Harvey and Irma

00:23:48.640 are expected to dent growth in the third quarter.

00:23:52.020 So, Amber, is this the winning that Trump promised us?

00:23:55.920 Are you sick and tired of winning?

00:23:58.240 Yeah.

00:23:59.360 Definitely not sick and tired of winning.

00:24:01.020 We'll never get sick and tired of it.

00:24:02.780 But it definitely does sound like winning in terms of what Trump campaigned on and what

00:24:06.740 a lot of his supporters were hoping for when they voted for him.

00:24:09.920 As we know, a lot of Trump supporters were those blue-collar, blue-dog Democrats who previously

00:24:15.720 voted for Barack Obama and then switched to vote for Trump because they were hoping that

00:24:20.580 he was able to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States.

00:24:23.760 So this is a really good win for those people who said, maybe we don't love Trump's personality,

00:24:30.700 but we really like the fact that he's sort of campaigning for this forgotten man in middle

00:24:35.140 America.

00:24:35.620 Yeah, for this forgotten man, you know, between Los Angeles and New York, you know, a little 0.85

00:24:40.040 sliver of America.

00:24:41.980 This forgotten subject called the economy.

00:24:44.460 You're absolutely right.

00:24:45.760 But what about the trans bathrooms that we all care about? 0.98

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00:25:50.540 Jacob, some are saying that the reason that the manufacturing growth has surged is because

00:26:03.080 of these hurricanes, as a response to the hurricanes.

00:26:05.760 Is that true?

00:26:06.660 Are the hurricanes playing a role?

00:26:08.020 Or are they just trying to take away the White House's credit?

00:26:10.700 I think they're trying to take away the White House's credit, honestly.

00:26:14.720 And of course, you'll always see an uptick in manufacturing after some sort of disaster.

00:26:19.400 I know war is really good for manufacturing. 0.99

00:26:21.920 But in all honesty, I think that this is just an attempt to take credit away from Trump's

00:26:27.680 economic policies, which you have to admit are doing some good for our economic situation.

00:26:35.580 I'm almost sick and tired of winning.

00:26:37.100 But enough about that. 0.67

00:26:37.960 Let's talk about ridiculous things that don't really seem to matter and little trivialities

00:26:42.480 on campuses.

00:26:43.440 Schools across the UK are doing away with the terms BC and AD in favor of BCE, before the

00:26:52.160 common era, and CE, common era, to denote precisely the same thing, same dates.

00:26:56.660 The Archbishop of Canterbury has blasted the move as shameful, and reporting has made it

00:27:01.920 clear that Muslim and Jewish leaders, quote, were also mystified, saying that they were

00:27:06.760 not offended by the familiar terms.

00:27:09.600 The familiar terms meaning anno domini, the year of our Lord.

00:27:13.240 Now, this was happening even when I was in high school, and this gets to the heart of

00:27:18.060 my theory of leftism, which is that leftists want the form of the thing, but they don't

00:27:22.820 want the essence of it.

00:27:24.180 So they want the form of Western civilization.

00:27:26.000 They literally want its mode of dating itself, but they don't want the heart of it, which

00:27:29.760 is Christianity, anno domini.

00:27:31.840 The year zero denotes the year that a man named Jesus Christ was born.

00:27:38.620 So does this matter?

00:27:41.300 Amanda, is it just a minor thing?

00:27:42.900 A couple of letters, no big deal.

00:27:44.840 It's no big deal, right?

00:27:48.260 Yeah.

00:27:48.840 So this is kind of what the left does.

00:27:50.940 I mean, they always push these, this kind of reminds me of like when there's a monument

00:27:55.900 of the Ten Commandments and nobody complains about it except some random liberal activist

00:28:00.140 group, you know, six states away, and then they take it down.

00:28:03.480 I mean, they want to disassemble any semblance or anything resembling Judeo-Christian values

00:28:09.480 that basically built Western civilization.

00:28:11.140 They want it gone.

00:28:12.380 And as we saw just recently with the whole debate over Civil War monuments, it's always 0.51

00:28:19.440 going to go way too far.

00:28:22.340 I mean, they were talking about taking down statues of Robert E. Lee, and then two days

00:28:26.580 later, an Asian guy from ESPN was losing gigs.

00:28:29.340 I mean, it's never going to stop.

00:28:31.660 Poor Mr. Robert Lee. 0.88

00:28:32.540 Yeah, so I mean, this is just step one, which is ridiculous, and it's going to keep on going.

00:28:39.000 Amber, nobody in the Jewish or Muslim communities in the UK seems to be offended by the terms 0.65

00:28:46.680 with which we date our civilization.

00:28:49.660 Is anybody actually offended by this?

00:28:52.260 Who is offended by this?

00:28:53.320 Or is this another classic example of people pretending to be offended on other people's

00:28:58.480 behalf?

00:28:58.920 Yeah, I think most of it is just classic virtue signaling from, as Amanda said, these sort

00:29:05.200 of small, fringe, liberal groups.

00:29:08.200 And I know this is true because these groups will attack people who are supposed to be offended

00:29:13.220 but aren't offended.

00:29:15.060 A great example of this, when I was in college, someone actually made a sandwich joke about

00:29:19.920 women on Facebook, and I thought it was hilarious. 1.00

00:29:23.080 I laughed at it.

00:29:24.220 Do you remember the joke?

00:29:25.720 No, you don't have to tell me.

00:29:26.660 Not specifically, but it was funny.

00:29:30.400 And someone accused me of having internalized misogyny because I laughed at the joke.

00:29:35.440 So it's all about these people getting mad because they're like, oh, well, how dare you

00:29:40.520 for not being so happy that I'm offended for you?

00:29:42.880 Can't you see how good of a person I'm being?

00:29:45.680 It's true.

00:29:46.380 And it's actually harder for us men, by the way, because we eat the sandwiches and then

00:29:50.620 further internalize the misogyny.

00:29:52.480 It's a vicious, vicious cycle.

00:29:55.120 Jacob, what about the separation of church and state?

00:29:58.040 Come on, man.

00:29:59.020 Aren't we supposed to keep church and state separate? 0.98

00:30:01.000 Freedom of religion?

00:30:02.480 Is it really right for us to be dating our calendars by the name of Jesus?

00:30:08.000 Well, if it wasn't for Christians or the church, there would be no calendar. 1.00

00:30:12.740 The Julian calendar was off, I think, something by three weeks, which is what they had before

00:30:16.960 the Gregorian calendar.

00:30:18.360 So you're welcome.

00:30:19.880 But, you know, as far as that's...

00:30:20.740 Thank you, Jacob.

00:30:21.380 I appreciate it.

00:30:22.340 It's very kind of you.

00:30:23.920 But I just think that it's just virtue signaling.

00:30:27.260 It's nothing but showboating.

00:30:29.760 Personally, you should see some of the alternative calendars they've been suggesting.

00:30:34.360 And BCE and CE is just kind of the easiest ones. 0.66

00:30:37.700 But they've been suggesting ones where they start marking the years by 10,000.

00:30:41.400 So this year would actually be 1,217.

00:30:44.900 I mean, they're just...

00:30:46.740 Or 12,017. 0.98

00:30:47.920 I mean, they're just ridiculous. 0.92

00:30:49.120 Yeah. 0.94

00:30:49.340 And you have to date it by Lord Zinu.

00:30:51.160 And there are a lot of competing metrics.

00:30:53.240 And you bring up another good point.

00:30:55.020 So you bring up the point that without Christianity, without the church, we wouldn't have this calendar. 0.84

00:30:59.700 Exactly.

00:31:00.320 But we also wouldn't have separation of church and state.

00:31:03.040 We also...

00:31:04.120 Christ says, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, that to God that which is God's.

00:31:08.620 And obviously, our civilization is Christian.

00:31:11.580 It's been formed by Christianity.

00:31:13.120 Our country is Christian.

00:31:14.540 And it was formed by Christian ideals of natural law and natural rights.

00:31:18.380 So without that, we simply wouldn't have anything to be arguing about in the first place.

00:31:24.320 Okay, panel. 0.85

00:31:25.120 Get out of here, you. 0.99

00:31:26.040 It's been very fun having you.

00:31:27.660 Amber Athe, Amanda Prestigiacomo, and Jacob Berry.

00:31:30.880 Now it is time to put on my smart glasses for the final thought.

00:31:34.020 Ben had a good piece up on Daily Wire today called, Where Does Evil Come From?

00:31:43.460 In it, he describes psychologist Roy Baumeister's four categories of evil.

00:31:49.180 Instrumentality, threatened egotism, idealism, and sadism. 0.84

00:31:52.880 And he adds his own mental illness.

00:31:55.680 What does evil look like? 0.98

00:31:56.720 What form does evil take?

00:31:58.140 How does evil express itself in the mind are important psychological questions that emotionally

00:32:04.560 manipulative Democrat politicians willfully ignore when they capitalize on human tragedy

00:32:09.240 to push largely unconnected policy agendas.

00:32:11.760 But it's a good question, too.

00:32:13.760 Where does evil come from?

00:32:15.880 That question is not ultimately a psychological problem.

00:32:19.160 It's a philosophical problem.

00:32:20.980 And the answer to that question lies at the heart of the political debates that began seconds

00:32:25.300 after the news of the Las Vegas tragedy were reported.

00:32:28.580 For utopians on the left, evil comes from bad public policy.

00:32:32.760 Tweak a few laws here, give the government some more power there, and we'll be right back

00:32:37.000 in paradise, they say.

00:32:38.480 Imagine all the people.

00:32:39.620 You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

00:32:42.560 The rest of us know that this is nonsense, that the imagination of man's heart is evil

00:32:47.120 from his youth.

00:32:48.320 We are fallen and banished from earthly paradise, and wherever there are men, there will be evil.

00:32:54.320 No government policy or agency can redeem mankind.

00:32:58.260 But idealists persist in their delusion because it's far nicer to delude ourselves into thinking

00:33:03.480 that a law can eradicate all evil than it is to face the grotesqueries that we glimpse

00:33:08.820 in the mirror.

00:33:09.900 On that, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:33:11.180 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:33:12.540 Come back next time.

00:33:13.220 We'll do it all again.

00:33:13.740 We'll do it all again.

The Michael Knowles Show - October 02, 2017

Ep. 36 - #ThoughtsAndPrayers in Las Vegas

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