The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 365 - Did Trump Just Endorse Collusion？

00:00:00.000 Oil tankers go up in flames in the Middle East. A million people take to the streets in Hong Kong

00:00:05.120 as China tightens its grip over the formerly westernized region. And President Trump appears

00:00:10.180 to endorse campaign collusion and foreign election interference in an interview with

00:00:14.560 George Stepanopoulos. We will examine foreign policy threats and faux pas. Then Jordan Peterson

00:00:20.300 launches a new social media platform. Deep fakes blur the distinction between fiction and reality

00:00:25.860 with serious implications for 2020. And finally, after all that, the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles

00:00:30.820 and this is The Michael Knowles Show. Do we have a busy show today? But first,

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00:02:25.220 Women's World Cup with our Daily Wire 2 sports correspondent, Jeremy, the God King Boring.

00:02:29.880 Yowza, Michael! It's that time of year again. Time for the Federacion of Something Something Soccer

00:02:36.260 of America World Cup. And this time, Michael, there's ladies. For those of you who don't remember

00:02:42.920 because you're American, the World Cup is that special tournament wherein grown adult athletes

00:02:47.780 from every corner of the earth, even terribly poor countries and oppressive countries, gather once a

00:02:52.780 year to determine who has taken soccer, that cute game beloved by toddlers and elementary school

00:02:57.880 children everywhere and have managed somehow against all odds to build a team that can score

00:03:02.680 one to possibly two points more than all of the other teams and thus be declared the very best

00:03:07.580 at something, which for women's teams means being just slightly worse than an above average troop of 0.99

00:03:12.400 15-year-old boys. That's not an exaggeration, Michael. Look it up. It's also that special time of year

00:03:18.160 when Democrats and the news media collude with one another to obstruct justice, that sacred state in

00:03:24.380 which individuals receive exactly that to which they are entitled by demanding that female soccer players 1.00

00:03:29.680 be paid the same as their male counterparts. This despite the fact that no one watches them, buys their 0.70

00:03:35.340 products, attends their events, or even knew their silly little sport existed until they made headlines for

00:03:40.560 whining about their pay and disrespecting our nation's flag. Female soccer players work just as hard as male 1.00

00:03:46.800 soccer players. The pundits shriek as though the level of effort one puts into a task determines the amount other people are

00:03:53.140 willing to trade in return for the service, and as if male soccer players actually work harder than 1.00

00:03:57.880 America's blue-collar laborers who toil in obscurity for less than 75k and just want to be watched, just want 0.99

00:04:04.100 to watch baseball and be left the hell alone. Of course, in the interest of true justice, Michael, we here at

00:04:11.080 The Daily Wire, too, looked into the accusations that there is indeed unfairness in the system, and we have

00:04:16.460 discovered this shocking truth. According to a reporter at our sister network, The Daily Wire, women's soccer

00:04:23.360 brought in $17 million in ad revenue in 2015. Men's soccer, by contrast, generated 31 times that amount. The

00:04:32.520 previous Women's World Cup, which America's Ladies won, generated $73 million in revenue worldwide. The Men's 0.99

00:04:39.460 World Cup, also known as the World Cup, grossed upwards of $6 billion. Yes, Michael, that's billion

00:04:46.360 with a B, a full 82 times more than the more calmly female counterparts. And yet, the women's team received 0.56

00:04:55.320 $10 million for their trouble, 13%, Michael, of the total haul, whereas the men's team only received

00:05:01.960 6% of the $6 billion haul from the Men's World Cup. So you can see, Michael, it's true, foul injustice

00:05:09.600 has occurred. The men are clearly paid less than they deserve. Somebody get me a penis hat. Hey, Michael,

00:05:16.520 hey, Michael, you want a penis hat? Anyway, it probably won't matter much longer, as this is likely 0.99

00:05:23.840 the last World Cup in which players who were born biologically female will ever win the sport. Since

00:05:29.600 they're being replaced, as in all other women's sports, by mediocre male athletes looking for an 1.00

00:05:34.180 easy win and willing to suffer for their craft. This because not a single left-wing politician,

00:05:39.860 media figure, or academic can produce a working definition of the word woman. But how overpaid 0.99

00:05:46.760 female athletes are isn't the only controversy from women's soccer, Michael. Mary Ropes-Pierre or 1.00

00:05:52.200 something, captain of the American national team, has decided to forego the entire premise of a

00:05:57.560 national team, a team that represents a nation in an international competition, and refuses to

00:06:03.580 participate in the national anthem of the nation that her national team represents, which is this

00:06:08.280 nation, America. With a well-practiced resting bitch face that would be a terrible cliche if she 1.00

00:06:14.840 were a lesbian, Mary Rorschach-Test proved that there is, in fact, an I in team, and a couple of other 0.99

00:06:21.660 letters to boot, by glaring into the middle distance, while a 96-year-old veteran of World

00:06:26.680 War II, her Monica Pete, played the star-spangled banner from his wheelchair. Of course, the ride of

00:06:33.560 dour, entitled white women to virtue signal by shunning their nation's banner and heroes before they 1.00

00:06:38.740 engage in a children's sport for money and fame is exactly what the heroes of World War II were fighting

00:06:44.780 for. Right, Michael? Right? Of course it wasn't, Michael! They were fighting for national pride,

00:06:52.000 to avenge those murdered in the vicious sneak attack on our forces at Pearl Harbor, to preserve their

00:06:56.460 uniquely Christian and unregulated and free way of life, to defend our allies, to stop the Germans

00:07:01.860 from their second attempt in half a century to dominate the entire globe, and for their brothers

00:07:06.540 beside them doing the same. Are you kidding? If these guys could have seen the disgrace that is

00:07:11.380 Mary Robocop, snarling at Harmonica Pete 75 years after they stormed the beaches of Normandy,

00:07:17.460 and the praise she received from our national media for the insult to their honor, they probably would 0.96

00:07:21.980 have called the whole thing off and told us, their grandchildren and great-grandchildren,

00:07:26.000 enjoy speaking German, kids, and playing soccer, like the Germans. The Nazis love soccer. 0.60

00:07:33.400 Yowza, Michael! Back to you! Jeremy, a very thorough report. I have only one question that you didn't

00:07:38.660 cover. When it is the ladies who are playing the soccer game themselves, who drives the minivans 1.00

00:07:45.040 to pick them up when the practice and the games are over? Michael, in this day and age in which men 0.97

00:07:49.920 have completely forfeited their role in society and in the family, you can bet that beta men all over

00:07:55.680 this country will happily pick up their ladies in minivans and SUVs. I look forward to going out and 0.99

00:08:02.220 buying the juice boxes later. Jeremy, the God King Boring, the sports correspondent for our sister

00:08:06.560 network daily. Yowza! A really thorough report. That was, that was terrific. I can't wait for the

00:08:14.700 World Cup to happen again next year. This is going to be just terrific. We've got to talk about less

00:08:20.080 dangerous threats from abroad to our country. I speak, of course, of oil tankers blowing up in the

00:08:26.760 Middle East and riots happening in Hong Kong. In the Middle East right now, two oil tankers have been hit

00:08:34.440 by shells or torpedoes. We don't know which. This left one of the tankers on fire. This left one of

00:08:39.740 them just sort of floating adrift. This is one month after four oil tankers in the region were

00:08:45.420 sabotaged in port. And this, this attack today happened in the Gulf of Oman, which I've actually

00:08:51.640 visited. I was seeing a friend in Dubai and we rented a car and drove down to Muscat Oman, which is

00:08:56.760 right on the Gulf of Oman. And I can tell you from just firsthand experience, this is not a place that

00:09:04.220 you want to be. It's a very nice country, Oman, but it's surrounded by very dangerous countries. You

00:09:10.380 have on the one side, Saudi Arabia, which is a U.S. ally. On the other side, you have the United Arab

00:09:16.740 Emirates, which is another U.S. ally. Across the water, you've got Iran. That is not a U.S. ally.

00:09:22.780 That's a U.S. foe. And then on the last part of the border with Oman, you have Yemen, which is now 0.98

00:09:28.740 in a civil war. And the civil war is actually just a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran

00:09:34.620 backing different sides. This is where Oman is smushed in the world. And so everyone is suspecting

00:09:42.860 that this oil tanker was blown up by Iran. We don't know. We're not sure. The foreign minister of

00:09:49.540 Iran, John Kerry's good buddy, Javad Sharif, I think his name is, something like that. He says it's

00:09:56.060 very suspicious. It's very curious. Of course it is. If it were Iran, that wouldn't make a ton of 1.00

00:10:03.240 sense right now. The reason for that is that one of the tankers that got blown up was a Japanese 0.86

00:10:08.440 tanker. And the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, just landed in Iran. It's the first time a

00:10:15.320 Japanese prime minister has gone to Iran since 1979. So this is supposed to be a big moment for 1.00

00:10:21.160 peace and progress in the region. Wouldn't make a whole lot of sense for Iran to do it. However, 0.86

00:10:26.460 on the other hand, it maybe would make the most sense because it gives Iran a lot of cover.

00:10:31.540 No one would be expecting them to do that at this time. So perhaps that's exactly when they

00:10:36.120 would strike. So you have Iran saying that the timing benefits us, the United States and Saudi

00:10:41.700 Arabia and the American allies, because it gives us leverage in these heightened tensions in the

00:10:49.640 region. Then you have, on the other hand, we say the timing benefits Iran because it gives them 0.98

00:10:54.000 cover. The broader context of this is there's been talk of the United States going to war with Iran

00:10:59.700 for some months now. There's been talk about this for years because Iran is developing a nuclear

00:11:05.120 weapon. And the national security advisor to Donald Trump has advocated war with Iran for a long time.

00:11:13.200 I love the guy, John Bolton. But when they were negotiating the so-called Iran deal, John Bolton

00:11:17.820 had an op-ed, I think in the New York Times that said, to stop Iran's bomb, bomb Iran. And so every

00:11:25.720 aspect of this looks suspicious. This is, there is no conclusion. Anyone who tells you there's an easy

00:11:34.340 conclusion from what's going on right now in the Middle East is, is lying to you. We don't know

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00:11:44.440 an anti-war candidate. He doesn't want to go to war with Iran. He's been resisting advisors who have

00:11:49.760 been trying to get him to go to war with Iran. And so we'll see if this puts him over the edge

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00:13:55.260 On the other side of the world right now, over in Hong Kong, upwards of a million people

00:14:00.160 have taken to the streets to protest a new bill that would allow extraditions to mainland

00:14:05.880 China. So ostensibly what this is about is if someone commits a crime in China, they can

00:14:12.620 go away to run to Hong Kong, and then they won't be extradited. That's not really what this is

00:14:17.180 about. What this is really about is China tightening its grip over a semi-autonomous

00:14:22.340 region known as Hong Kong. Hong Kong is, is the fourth most densely populated region in the world.

00:14:29.720 This is a, an international city, a center of global finance, very westernized city, and it's

00:14:35.820 separate. It's a separate administrative region of China, which has its own governing and economic

00:14:41.120 systems for now. But China is encroaching on that. The people there don't identify as Chinese,

00:14:46.440 they identify as Hong Kongers. And how did Hong Kong get to be so great? While China is a terrible 1.00

00:14:52.060 country, it got to be so great because the British ruled it for 150 years. So this was from the end of

00:14:58.780 the first Opian War in 1842 through 1997, not that long ago, Britain controlled Hong Kong. And it was 0.60

00:15:07.760 great. It was awesome. By the end of the 19th century, I guess 1898, Britain signed a 99-year

00:15:16.040 lease with China for Hong Kong. So they said, in 99 years, we're going to give this region back.

00:15:22.140 Unfortunately, during that time period, you had the communist revolution, you had Mao destroy the

00:15:27.240 entire country. And for some reason, Britain still honored the treaty and gave Hong Kong back,

00:15:32.120 which it probably shouldn't have done. So you have this essentially Western city that is crumbling

00:15:38.580 under Chinese rule. Now China is clamping down even more on this. And obviously, this has a lot to do

00:15:46.500 with the United States trade war with China. I mean, you can't take out this fully, largely Westernized 0.99

00:15:52.940 global financial center right there in China. It's kind of between the East and the West,

00:15:57.720 China tightening its grip. You can't take that out of the context of the major trade war,

00:16:01.940 that the United States is finally admitting we're already in with China. China stealing our IP, 0.57

00:16:08.400 illegally subsidizing steel and aluminum, violating WTO treaties, spying on us, putting

00:16:15.440 spyware in the technology that they produce for us. This is a major issue. And so they're clamping down

00:16:23.420 on Hong Kong. What does this have to do with the United States? What this has to do with the United

00:16:30.980 States is that you've got tankers going up in flames in the Middle East. You've got a clamping

00:16:37.580 down on a westernized and important financial city just outside of China, outside of mainland China.

00:16:43.560 And then you've got President Trump, for some reason, agreeing to do an interview with former

00:16:47.760 Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos in the Oval Office. And he totally puts his foot in his

00:16:54.580 mouth on foreign policy. Here's what he said. Don Jr. is up before the Senate Intelligence Committee

00:16:59.600 today. And again, he was not charged with anything. In retrospect, though, not only wasn't he charged,

00:17:04.780 if you read it with all of the horrible fake news. I mean, I was reading that my son was going to go to

00:17:11.000 jail. This is a good young man that he was going to go to jail. Don Jr. had been caught up in the

00:17:15.500 Russia investigation because of that Trump Tower meeting in 2016, which he set up expecting to get

00:17:21.020 dirt on Hillary Clinton from the Russian government. Okay, let's put yourself in a position. You're a

00:17:25.960 congressman. Somebody comes up and says, hey, I have information on your opponent. Do you call the FBI?

00:17:31.760 I don't think... I'll tell you what, I've seen a lot of things over my life. I don't think in my whole

00:17:35.700 life I've ever called the FBI. In my whole life. I don't... You don't call the FBI. Life doesn't work

00:17:40.700 that way. The FBI director says that's what should happen. The FBI director is wrong because,

00:17:45.120 frankly, it doesn't happen like that. Okay, so, so far, you see what Stephanopoulos is doing.

00:17:50.260 He's setting it up and he's talking... He's getting Donald Trump into this personal territory

00:17:54.160 because Don Jr. ostensibly set up that Russia meeting at Trump Tower. And so there were all

00:17:59.500 these threats that they're going to throw Don Jr. in prison. So Stephanopoulos gets Trump on this

00:18:04.180 very defensive, very personal ground. Should your son go to prison? Did your son break the law? Did he do

00:18:10.240 something wrong? So Trump, obviously, very loyal especially to his kids, he says, no way, they

00:18:16.020 didn't do anything wrong. This is completely fine. If someone came up to you and said, we've got dirt on

00:18:21.080 your opponent, obviously you'd take the meeting. And by the way, everybody in the country would take

00:18:25.680 that meeting. It's not just Donald Trump. If someone says, I got dirt on your opponent, you're

00:18:29.580 running for office. You take it. Of course you take the meeting. Now, he veers off into bad territory

00:18:38.200 when he says, the FBI director is wrong. Absolutely. No, I wouldn't have called the FBI. Maybe you need a

00:18:43.560 more delicate answer here. He's saying no campaign would have called the FBI. Maybe that's true. I mean, 0.77

00:18:48.340 in the case of the Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign, not only... It's not that she was offered dirt and she

00:18:53.620 called the FBI to report it. The Clinton campaign worked with the FBI through proxies to spy on the

00:19:00.060 Trump campaign. The Hillary Clinton campaign paid for the Steele dossier, which was used as the bogus

00:19:06.800 evidence to get the Obama administration to spy on the Trump campaign. It's almost like an inverse of

00:19:13.040 what they're accusing Trump of doing here. But even so far, what Trump is saying is sort of

00:19:18.140 defensible. Then he goes too far. Your campaign this time around, if foreigners, if Russia, if China, 0.93

00:19:24.580 if someone else offers you information on an opponent, should they accept it or should they

00:19:27.560 call the FBI? I think maybe you do both. I think you might want to listen. I don't... There's nothing

00:19:33.380 wrong with listening. If somebody called from a country, Norway, we have information on your opponent.

00:19:41.420 Oh, I think I'd want to hear it. You want that kind of interference in our elections? It's not an

00:19:45.420 interference. They have information. I think I'd take it. This was a total setup question. I mean,

00:19:51.780 a really tough question to be in from Stephanopoulos and President Trump blew it. It's a bad look to say,

00:19:58.080 yeah, I want foreign governments to give me dirt on my opponents. You don't want to encourage them to

00:20:03.540 give you dirt on your opponents because then you owe the foreign governments. And by the way, Trump didn't

00:20:08.880 do this. He's putting himself into this hypothetical situation that he's going to be criticized for

00:20:14.220 that he didn't even do. It's just a bad political look because now the left and the anti-Trump right

00:20:21.400 are in hysterics and they're saying he's not a patriot and he's a traitor to his country.

00:20:25.780 That's not the issue. The actual thing he's talking about isn't even the issue. Every country

00:20:32.340 interferes in every other country's elections. Countries interfere with each other. They do it

00:20:36.720 all the time. During the Obama administration, Barack Obama sent his senior campaign aides to Israel

00:20:43.040 to try to oust Benjamin Netanyahu from power. He sent $350,000 of U.S. taxpayer money to a front

00:20:51.680 organization to oust Bibi Netanyahu from power in Israel. We all interfere in each other's elections.

00:20:59.160 Still, what you don't want is for the President of the United States to accept this sort of thing

00:21:04.980 publicly, to accept these premises publicly, because what it does invariably is create the impression

00:21:11.540 of disloyalty to your country. That's the impression that President Trump is giving off.

00:21:16.600 He's saying, yeah, I would totally accept the help of foreign governments. I would incentivize

00:21:21.080 foreign governments to give me dirt on American politicians. Now, he's not actually doing it.

00:21:28.520 And actually, Democrat politicians have done this. They have gone and colluded with foreign

00:21:33.840 governments to try to win elections. Ted Kennedy colluded with the Soviet Union

00:21:38.520 to try to win the presidency. This is how he was negotiating with the Soviet Union to help him

00:21:45.240 get elected. So it does happen. But so why don't you say it? You don't say it because hypocrisy

00:21:50.740 is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. Because you don't, you also don't want to create incentives,

00:21:58.860 publicly speaking. You don't want to put out on your bullhorn and say, hey, foreign governments of

00:22:02.700 the world, give me dirt on my opponents. Please spy on American citizens, spy on American politicians.

00:22:08.020 It's just a bad look. The good thing you can say for President Trump in this interaction is something

00:22:13.860 that I've said for a long time, which is that President Trump is the most honest president that

00:22:18.340 we've ever had. He is. He's, call him honest Donald. You have honest Abe, now you can have honest

00:22:25.680 Donald. Why is he the most honest president? Because President Trump brags about doing all

00:22:32.960 the bad things and thinking all the bad things that all the other presidents have also done,

00:22:37.880 but they've hidden. He's open about it. He's honest about it. Obviously any, any politician,

00:22:44.000 what he said is practically true. If you're even the president or you're running a campaign

00:22:49.720 and someone comes up to you and says, we got dirt on your opponent. Let's say it's some Norwegian 1.00

00:22:54.380 lawyer. Maybe he's got ties to the Norwegian government. He says, I got a ton of dirt on

00:22:57.840 your opponent. 100% of political campaigns take that meeting and take the dirt. They hear him out.

00:23:05.420 As Trump said, maybe they call the FBI after, maybe they don't, who knows? 100% of campaigns do it.

00:23:11.960 Only this guy would actually admit to wanting to do that or to actually doing that. In some ways,

00:23:18.080 this is refreshing. I actually do think this has some positive effect on our political discourse

00:23:22.880 because it just knocks away so much BS, so much preening falsehood. However, what this also means

00:23:29.820 is then we need to articulate that it's bad. You don't want to incentivize foreign governments to

00:23:35.440 spy on American citizens, even if they're awful American citizens like Hillary Clinton. You don't

00:23:40.180 want to incentivize that. You don't want it to seem like the president of the United States is

00:23:44.380 encouraging you to do that or offering you something in return. That's not a good idea. It's

00:23:48.660 refreshing to hear a guy speak honestly, but then it's incumbent on all the rest of us to say,

00:23:53.200 right, true. That is honest. We shouldn't do that. Don't do it. Moving on to some good news

00:23:59.900 happening domestically. Jordan B. Peterson, you know, the lobster king himself, is announcing a new

00:24:06.780 social media platform. This is going to be a censorship-free platform. This is going to be a

00:24:14.860 platform that conservatives are welcome to. He announced the name of it. It is called ThinkSpot.

00:24:20.520 Now, what does it do? It will allow creators to monetize their content. It will be radically pro-free

00:24:27.900 speech. They say the only way they're going to take someone off is if a court orders them to.

00:24:31.380 And so this creates some problems. Because the trouble with these is the minute that you

00:24:40.780 set up a social media platform, a new one, and you say it's going to be pro-free speech,

00:24:46.060 you just get flooded with the Nazis. And so it becomes the Nazi platform. Now, 0.68

00:24:50.220 one way they're working on this is the platform is going to require a minimum of 50 words per post.

00:24:55.920 And I love this idea. Because what that means is, even if you're just going to troll

00:24:59.900 in Jordan Peterson's words, you have to be a witty troll. You have to use your brain. You have 0.95

00:25:06.040 to use words. You have to offer some even sort of vaguely substantive idea. I like that. So is it

00:25:11.900 going to work? If anybody can make this work, it's Jordan Peterson, because he's just a superstar

00:25:17.740 right now. He is acceptable to conservatives and liberals, not the hard left, but some liberals.

00:25:24.240 He's acceptable to religious people and secular people. I mean, he's embraced by Bishop Barron,

00:25:30.300 a Catholic bishop. He's also embraced by the whole materialist, new agey, secular crowd.

00:25:37.820 And he infuriates the censorship crowd. So he's got the right enemies. For that big problem that we

00:25:43.240 mentioned, Nazis, he does have a system for this. The system is that if you, if you basically, if you

00:25:49.160 get ratioed, then your posts are hidden and people can click on it and see them, but they're not,

00:25:54.520 they don't automatically pop up. And so the New York Times, or New York Magazine rather,

00:26:00.360 is referring to this as shadow banning. They say, Jordan Peterson's pro-free speech platform is going

00:26:06.980 to be just as bad on shadow banning as Twitter and all the others are. That's not true. That's

00:26:12.540 completely dishonest. What Jordan is describing is not shadow banning. What he's saying is,

00:26:19.020 if you get downvoted too many times, more than 50% of the time, your post isn't going to show up.

00:26:24.460 That's kind of like Reddit. That's not shadow banning. We all know the rules. We all know what's

00:26:28.160 happening. You, the user, you, the content creator can see that. What shadow banning is, is when they

00:26:33.980 don't tell you that you're not showing up in timelines. When some arbitrary editor over at Twitter

00:26:40.220 just says, we don't really like Ted Cruz. We don't really like Michael. We don't like

00:26:45.020 Clavin. And so they, they reduce our reach without telling us, without telling us how to do it.

00:26:50.420 Totally arbitrary. This, as Jordan has presented it, is totally transparent. Seems like a good idea.

00:26:56.440 We'll see if it works. Uh, I'm, I'm hoping that it works. I'm skeptical that it will, because just

00:27:02.080 you, you need a lot of people there. And, and the, the fact that it has any political agenda,

00:27:08.480 even if it's pro free speech, even if it's pro first amendment, very possibly could ghettoize

00:27:14.020 this platform. But if anyone can do it, it's Jordan. So let's hope that it works. Other great

00:27:19.140 news in social media. There is a story that people are reporting as bad news for our politics and

00:27:25.580 culture and social media. I think this is great news. And it is the rise of deep fake videos. This

00:27:32.380 is videos that look like somebody who's recognizable as speaking, but it's just totally made on a

00:27:37.700 computer. Uh, listen to this video that looks exactly like Mark Zuckerberg. Imagine this for a

00:27:45.300 second. One man with total control of billions of people's stolen data, all their secrets, their

00:27:52.080 lives, their futures. I owe it all to Spectre. Spectre showed me that whoever controls the data

00:27:59.480 controls the future. So Spectre is the, the James Bond villainous organization, criminal organization.

00:28:06.400 Obviously that's not Mark Zuckerberg, but it, if you haven't seen this video, it looks exactly

00:28:12.820 like him. And so people are saying this is so dangerous. This is going to totally lead to all

00:28:19.860 this deception and all of this awful stuff. I don't think, I think it's exactly the opposite.

00:28:23.920 I think that this is going to force people to not believe everything they see on the internet

00:28:28.420 because the, the left already twists video on the internet. They twist it outrageously.

00:28:35.120 You remember those Covington kids, those kids, the nice kid with the MAGA hat on, and he was standing

00:28:40.180 at the memorials in DC and the media played a 20 second clip of it. And they said, these kids were

00:28:47.100 attacking an elderly Indian. They were accosting him. They were accosting black demonstrators,

00:28:53.900 civil rights demonstrators. And then what happened? We saw the whole video and it was exactly the

00:28:57.920 opposite, but the media used that video and spun a narrative. That's how the media can do that. 0.81

00:29:02.980 How about, how about Planned Parenthood videos? Not only do the media and the left take a video

00:29:07.900 and, and twist it to say that it's the opposite of what it is. They'll take a video where we can

00:29:13.460 see exactly what's happening and tell us that we can't believe our own lying eyes. They did this

00:29:17.600 with an investigation into Planned Parenthood that showed Planned Parenthood was selling baby

00:29:21.820 parts. Here's the video.

00:29:22.600 A lot of people want to attack parts these days because they're looking for specific

00:29:27.480 nodes, baby nodes. I was like, wow, I didn't even know. Good for them. Yesterday was the

00:29:33.240 first time she said people wanted longer. And then, but like I said, always as many

00:29:39.020 attack livers as possible. People just want them. 0.94

00:29:40.660 Yeah, livers.

00:29:41.660 People want lower subsidies too. That's, that's simple. I mean, that's easy. I don't know what

00:29:45.660 they're doing with it because they want muscle. 0.99

00:29:47.660 Yeah, a dime it doesn't.

00:29:49.660 What would you expect for intact tissue? What, what sort of compensation? What sort of...

00:29:59.660 Well, why don't you start by telling me what you're used to paying?

00:30:02.660 It's been years since I've talked about compensation. So let me just figure out what others are getting

00:30:08.660 and if this is in the ballpark, then that's fine. If it's still low, then we can talk about that.

00:30:12.660 You would. What would you do?

00:30:13.660 Yes.

00:30:14.660 I want a Lamborghini.

00:30:15.660 What?

00:30:16.660 I thought I want a Lamborghini.

00:30:18.660 Don't we all, right?

00:30:21.660 They're all haggling over the price of dead baby organs that they've butchered. And then

00:30:26.660 she jokes, I want a Lamborghini. Ha ha ha. You can see it. You can see hours of this video.

00:30:30.660 The mainstream media and the left said it was selectively edited. It's don't believe

00:30:34.660 your eyes. Don't believe your lying eyes. I think deep fakes are great. It will refocus 1.00

00:30:39.660 people away from scandal. It will make you more skeptical. It will refocus people away from scandal.

00:30:46.660 I mean, a good example is with Trump. You catch a politician in some decade old video

00:30:51.660 doing or saying something that he shouldn't be doing and this is supposed to end his career.

00:30:56.660 No one cares about that. No one cares what Trump said on a bus to Billy Bush when he thought

00:31:01.660 he was having a private conversation and having locker room talk with a guy off, you know,

00:31:06.660 without being mic'd up. No one cares. That doesn't affect the presidential administration.

00:31:10.660 Now with deep fakes, what's going to happen is everyone's going to say this isn't real

00:31:14.660 or you can't believe that it's real. What it actually does by saying, by taking away the

00:31:21.660 credibility of video, we're in this video culture where everyone's being videoed all the time.

00:31:25.660 By taking away the hardened credibility of that, it focuses you on issues, on the present,

00:31:31.660 on what's happening now. What effect will this have on 2020? Clearly the technology is already

00:31:35.660 pretty good. So we'll have to see. And I can't wait for deep fake videos of Eric Swalwell.

00:31:40.660 Something tells me they couldn't be more ridiculous than Eric Swalwell himself. We'll see about that. 0.97

00:31:45.660 Got more to get to, but we got to get to the mailbag. So go to dailywire.com.

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00:31:51.660 You get all the shows. You get another kingdom. You get the leftist tears tumbler.

00:31:56.660 I can't wait to have a deep fake of Joe Biden sipping out of a delicious leftist tears tumbler.

00:32:02.660 Oh, they'll be, they'll be his own tears. They'll be his own tears when, when that commanding lead he has

00:32:09.660 starts to slip and candidates like Liz Warren and Bernie Sanders jump above him. But we'll see.

00:32:13.660 We'll have to see what happens. Go to dailywire.com. We'll be right back with the mailbag.

00:32:16.660 The first question from Joshua. Michael, why do some churches refer to God as a she or it when he has clearly stated his preferred pronouns are he, him, and his?

00:32:40.660 What are your thoughts on suing those churches and other organizations for purposefully misgendering God?

00:32:48.660 This is a great point. There are some places now, Canada I think is one of these places, where you can be punished for not using someone's preferred pronouns.

00:32:58.660 So even if a man, it's a man, and the man dresses up like a woman, if you don't call him a her, you can be punished for that.

00:33:05.660 In some companies and universities, this is true as well. So why doesn't this apply to God? That's a great question.

00:33:12.660 Intersectionality has all of these contradictions within it. You have homosexuality and transgenderism. 1.00

00:33:18.660 Homosexuality relies on the belief that there is such a thing as biological sex, and men are attracted to men and women are attracted to women. 0.73

00:33:25.660 Transgenderism says sex doesn't really mean anything. It's socially constructed, and men can be women and women can be men.

00:33:32.660 Those two views don't go together. They don't make any sense. And yet, they're all together in intersectionality.

00:33:39.660 Transgenderism and feminism. Feminism says that women are a distinct category. They're oppressed by men. 0.96

00:33:46.660 Women need to define what femininity is, and they need equality with men. 1.00

00:33:50.660 Transgenderism says there's no such thing as men or women. How do those go together in the LGBTQLMNOP acronym in the left gender movement?

00:33:57.660 It doesn't make sense. They just unite against the oppressor, the straight white male, the straight white male who thinks that he's a male.

00:34:05.660 And so, you can have racial identity politics for everybody but white people. You can have gender politics except for straight men. 0.53

00:34:13.660 And I think it's the same thing. Everyone gets to pick his own gender except for God. 0.93

00:34:18.660 Because what this is ultimately about, I mean, when we're talking about the patriarchy, when we're talking about these kind of daddy issues,

00:34:24.660 ultimately I think it redounds to religious and metaphysical questions and our big daddy up in the sky.

00:34:30.660 From Donald. I hope it's the president.

00:34:33.660 Hello, Michael. I'm a big fan of the show.

00:34:35.660 Why is it that through the eyes of the left, this country has become more intolerant, racist, and evil in spite of all efforts on both sides of the aisle to achieve the opposite?

00:34:45.660 When did this society of intersectional victimhood begin?

00:34:49.660 Yes, that's true. If you look around the country, we no longer have whites only water fountains.

00:34:54.660 We no longer have segregation. We don't have redlining. We don't have Jim Crow. We don't have lynchings.

00:34:59.660 And so, by every objective measure, the country is more racially tolerant, more racially equitable than it was in the past.

00:35:10.660 And yet, people are so crazed about this, they say it's more racist now than ever.

00:35:15.660 The way that this happened began in the 1960s, as so many evils did.

00:35:20.660 And I think what's really to blame is not the left embracing a particular racial ideology or the left embracing some particular activist tactics.

00:35:30.660 I think it comes down to this idea that they said in the 60s, which is the personal is the political.

00:35:36.660 So before that, you had a public realm, you had the political being the political, and then you had the personal realm.

00:35:42.660 And so, often, the media wouldn't report on certain politicians' dalliances and extramarital affairs or whatever sort of shenanigans they were up to,

00:35:53.660 because they said there's a difference between the public and the private.

00:35:57.660 You would have people who were friends with people of opposite political ideologies or of opposite political parties.

00:36:03.660 They could go and have fun together, even though they held their own different views, because there was a difference between the public ideas and personalities and the personal.

00:36:15.660 Personal was a little different.

00:36:16.660 The left shattered that in the 60s.

00:36:18.660 I mean, this was a slogan of theirs.

00:36:19.660 The personal is the political.

00:36:20.660 And so now the left is not friends with conservatives very often.

00:36:25.660 We see this on social media.

00:36:27.660 The left is much more likely to unfriend somebody who is of a different political point of view than conservatives are,

00:36:33.660 because we still believe in that distinction between the personal and the public or the political, and the left doesn't.

00:36:39.660 Our country is never going to resolve its political problems if we don't reestablish that difference.

00:36:44.660 The left isn't going to do it, and so now it's all personal. 0.97

00:36:47.660 You're a racist. 1.00

00:36:48.660 You're a bigot. 1.00

00:36:49.660 You're an evil, wicked person, which you don't really see so much from the right. 1.00

00:36:52.660 From Alan. 1.00

00:36:53.660 Hey, Michael.

00:36:54.660 Love the show.

00:36:55.660 What do you think of the progressive infantilization in the United States of the 18 to 21-year-old age group?

00:37:01.660 The great state of Texas, greatest perhaps, recently raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21,

00:37:09.660 and this new law to current alcohol and gun laws. 0.94

00:37:13.660 Regardless of the possible health benefits of these laws, how long until 18-year-olds are only seen as adults when referencing war or legal consequences? 0.95

00:37:22.660 Yeah, it's ridiculous. 0.99

00:37:23.660 It's ridiculous. 0.99

00:37:24.660 I don't like cigarettes. 0.99

00:37:25.660 I hate cigarettes, as a matter of fact.

00:37:26.660 You know I love cigars very much.

00:37:28.660 If you can go fight and die for your country, you ought to be able to buy a smoke.

00:37:32.660 This is very simple.

00:37:34.660 It's almost become a cliché argument, but it's so simple.

00:37:36.660 But now we want to infantilize these, not even late teenagers, even people who are in their 20s.

00:37:42.660 You see this in the criminal justice realm as well.

00:37:45.660 There is a movement now among criminal psychologists to try to push up the age at which you can be tried as a child or some sort of child.

00:37:55.660 They now call your early 20s emerging adulthood.

00:37:58.660 They say your brain hasn't fully developed until you're 25.

00:38:02.660 Your brain is never fully developed.

00:38:04.660 You're always developing your own brain.

00:38:06.660 But they say this because they don't want 25-year-olds who commit a lot of crimes to be tried as adults.

00:38:11.660 They want them to be tried as children because ultimately they want to take away consequences.

00:38:15.660 They don't want to be in a mean culture of justice.

00:38:18.660 They want to infantilize you.

00:38:20.660 They want to treat you and coddle you forever.

00:38:23.660 And this has a lot of political consequence to it as well because the government that can coddle you can treat you like a child in other ways.

00:38:32.660 I think this is only getting worse and pretty soon you're going to have 35-year-olds who are not being tried in certain courts and who probably aren't able to buy a pack of smokes either.

00:38:41.660 From Victoria.

00:38:42.660 Hi, Michael.

00:38:43.660 I'm a new subscriber and I love the show.

00:38:45.660 I've been listening to the different Daily Wire shows since January and I noticed you're always the butt of the joke.

00:38:50.660 I've noticed that too.

00:38:51.660 I've been trying to figure out why and the best I can come up with is that Ben is just jealous of your best-selling blank book.

00:38:58.660 Care to comment?

00:38:59.660 Thanks for all you do.

00:39:00.660 Hashtag came for Ben, stayed for Michael.

00:39:02.660 Thanks.

00:39:03.660 Very nice of you to say.

00:39:04.660 Yes, I think that is part of it.

00:39:05.660 Ben has written about a dozen books in his life, all with words.

00:39:08.660 I don't know what he was thinking doing that.

00:39:10.660 And then I wrote a book without words and I outsold most of his.

00:39:13.660 But the other reason, I think I have it here, is that framed check because I bet Ben that Trump would win in 2016 and I won.

00:39:21.660 So I think, you know, if I were Ben, I'd be pretty upset about that too.

00:39:25.660 From Lorelei.

00:39:27.660 Hey, Michael, I love your show and listen daily.

00:39:31.660 I'm so disgusted by the news that Pinterest has banned live action and the deceitful means by which they tried to suppress its pro-life message.

00:39:39.660 I completely deleted my account because they've made it clear that they can't be trusted to provide a simple service to me in an honest way.

00:39:46.660 Do you think this is the best way to send a message to these companies?

00:39:49.660 It is, you also have to call customer service.

00:39:53.660 A lot of these companies don't have customer service lines.

00:39:55.660 You need to write into them.

00:39:56.660 What you need to do, not just delete your account, you need to make it public what you're doing.

00:40:01.660 This is how the left makes boycotts work.

00:40:03.660 No one actually boycotts anything.

00:40:05.660 What they do, like Media Matters and other left-wing activist groups, is they get a group of 20 people to call a company called Pepsi and say,

00:40:14.660 we're never going to drink Pepsi again because you advertised on Michael's show or something like that.

00:40:19.660 And then they panic at Pepsi and then they pull their advertising and they change their behavior.

00:40:26.660 You're only talking about 10 or 20 people calling them, but that makes the difference.

00:40:30.660 It makes more of a difference than if 200 people stopped drinking Pepsi.

00:40:34.660 So I think you're right to stop using that platform.

00:40:39.660 But even if you keep using the platform or you go back to it sometimes or whatever, the key here is to make public how you're dropping them.

00:40:47.660 If you drop Netflix over its abortion activism, more important than cutting Netflix, more important than deleting your account,

00:40:55.660 because I think there are only seven people in America who actually pay for Netflix and all the rest of us are just stealing their passwords.

00:41:00.660 More important than that is you have to call customer service and let them know how upset you are with how they're treating conservatives.

00:41:07.660 From Ashley, hey Michael, on the conversation of gender equality differences and religion.

00:41:13.660 Do you think there's a moral difference between male and female promiscuity?

00:41:17.660 A lot of people, especially parents, seem more concerned with female promiscuity. Thanks. 0.87

00:41:22.660 I don't think there's a moral difference between male and female promiscuity, but there is a difference, especially in the case of cheating, for instance.

00:41:33.660 There's a difference in the sense that men view sex differently than women.

00:41:38.660 Men view sex in a more physical, gratifying way.

00:41:42.660 It is certainly the case that men can have casual sex more casually than women do because women tend to attach some emotional significance to sex. 0.94

00:41:52.660 Part of this is biological because women have a lot more to lose. 1.00

00:41:56.660 Part of this is spiritual or even just practical.

00:42:01.660 Women have a lot more to lose from sex than men do. 1.00

00:42:04.660 Maybe men develop some sort of ailment and they need to go get a cream from their doctor or something. 0.91

00:42:08.660 Women can become pregnant and also because women are the weaker sex. 1.00

00:42:13.660 Physically, they are weaker.

00:42:15.660 There are certain protections that they need that men don't need, whether those are social or political or a matter of regulation.

00:42:24.660 So I do think there is a physical difference, and this is why, as a society, we treat male and female promiscuity differently.

00:42:31.660 But I think when we all get up to St. Peter's Gate, we're probably all going to have to answer for it equally.

00:42:37.660 From Ryan,

00:42:39.660 Greetings, Michael.

00:42:40.660 I hope that this message won't hurt your YouTube video.

00:42:44.660 Do you think the reason for this crackdown on YouTube started by the Vox adpocalypse is because of how successful the Daily Wire,

00:42:51.660 Ladder with Crowder, Blaze TV, and PragerU have become compared to left-wing groups like the Young Turks, Vox, and Huffington Post?

00:42:58.660 I remember Crowder saying something about how YouTube actually helps the Young Turks advertise and produce or something along those lines to help make their show less terrible.

00:43:06.660 Why don't more people talk about how YouTube has tried to promote the Young Turks over the Daily Wire?

00:43:11.660 Yes, that is largely what this is about.

00:43:14.660 So the right is just better at the Internet.

00:43:19.660 We're much better at it.

00:43:20.660 We're more popular on the Internet.

00:43:21.660 We're funnier at it.

00:43:22.660 The reason is we were kept out of the mainstream, mainstream Hollywood, mainstream news media.

00:43:26.660 And so you've got a whole buildup of talent and ideas and strategies.

00:43:31.660 And we've worked and figured out how to get our message out there.

00:43:33.660 And we're just better at it.

00:43:35.660 The Young Turks has produced their show in YouTube's own studios.

00:43:40.660 And their show is still terrible.

00:43:42.660 And YouTube itself is giving them support.

00:43:45.660 And it's still absolutely terrible.

00:43:47.660 So a lot of what you're seeing now from the left lobbying YouTube and other tech companies is they say you need to suppress provocative, unreliable, fake news sites.

00:43:59.660 And by that they just mean conservatives.

00:44:01.660 And you need to boost authoritative sources.

00:44:04.660 And, of course, the authoritative sources are they themselves.

00:44:07.660 So there's an ideological struggle here.

00:44:11.660 But then it's just a matter of economics.

00:44:14.660 They can't compete with us in the open market because we're much better at this than they are.

00:44:19.660 So they're trying to get the corporations themselves to go in, suppress us, kill off their competition, and unfairly boost them.

00:44:26.660 And that's part of the illogical.

00:44:27.660 Part of it is cold, hard cash.

00:44:29.660 That's our show.

00:44:30.660 Have a good weekend.

00:44:31.660 More to get to.

00:44:32.660 We'll get to it on Monday.

00:44:33.660 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:45:06.660 Hey everyone, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:45:09.660 The mainstream media and social media aren't labeling Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin alt-right extremists by accident.

00:45:15.660 It's part of a strategy to silence conservative voices and ensure Donald Trump's 2020 defeat.

00:45:20.660 I told you it was going to happen.

00:45:22.660 I'm telling you it's happening.

00:45:23.660 And I'll tell you more about it on The Andrew Klavan Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 13, 2019

Ep. 365 - Did Trump Just Endorse Collusion？

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