The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 391 - Trump's Crystal Ball

00:00:00.000 A Manhattan art gallery owner was apparently beaten for walking down the streets of New York

00:00:04.560 in a MAGA hat. The news networks black out the story, but they make sure to spend lots of time

00:00:09.220 covering the possibility that Trump supporters at a Trump rally might chant, send her back.

00:00:15.120 We examine why people hate the press. Then Elijah Cummings has his house broken into just hours

00:00:20.500 before Trump tweets about the dangers of living in Baltimore. Is Trump summoning some sort of dark,

00:00:26.280 psychic force to predict the future? No, but we'll examine his simple trick for prediction.

00:00:32.120 Finally, the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:42.060 By the way, we have breaking news coming out. The American rapper A$AP Rocky, who is being held in a

00:00:48.080 Swedish jail, has now been released. He's on his way back to the United States. President Trump just

00:00:53.640 tweeted about it. Quote, A$AP Rocky released from prison and on his way home to the U.S.

00:00:57.920 from Sweden. It was a rocky week. Get home A$AP. A$AP. He tweeted about this. Trump has been central

00:01:06.360 in this story because when A$AP Rocky was first held in this jail, he had some of his pals, his

00:01:12.980 mutual friends with the president, like Kanye West, call up Trump and say, please help get A$AP Rocky out 0.55

00:01:18.240 out of the jail. Trump made a big issue about this behind the scenes to the Swedish government. Then

00:01:23.840 he tweeted about it to the Swedish prime minister. Then he had a phone call with the Swedish prime

00:01:27.260 minister. The Swedish prime minister said no. Trump didn't take no for an answer. Now A$AP Rocky is

00:01:32.960 coming home. This is a great story all around. And because I think I can predict the future,

00:01:38.260 or at least it seems that way, it ties in perfectly with our theme today. President Trump's crystal ball,

00:01:46.120 why it seems like he can just predict the future. He says that Elijah Cummings and Baltimore is a

00:01:54.680 terrible place. He says, you know, it's rat infested. It's ridden with crime. And unbeknownst to 0.84

00:02:00.280 anybody, just hours earlier, Elijah Cummings' house had been broken into in Baltimore. What is that about?

00:02:07.000 It all has to do with ideology. That's what it all boils down to. We'll get to that in a second. But

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00:03:48.160 he have a Marianne Williamson-esque crystal ball where he summons the dark psychic forces and sees

00:03:53.040 into the future? No, but it sometimes seems like it is. And there's a very simple reason for this.

00:03:59.020 The reason is ideology. A great, here's a great example of it that actually doesn't directly

00:04:04.340 involve Trump. The mainstream media. So the mainstream media, they're like the counter example.

00:04:11.040 Trump can, looks like he can predict the future. The mainstream media can't see the present. They

00:04:15.260 can't even see the past. They distort history. They distort what's going on in the present.

00:04:19.100 They're totally blind to what's going on because of ideology. Here's the story. A Manhattan art

00:04:24.540 gallery owner says that he was beaten by a bunch of thugs in the streets for wearing a MAGA hat.

00:04:32.040 So he's got his red hat on, make America great again. Because I know the mainstream media will

00:04:36.740 immediately assume it was a white guy, not a white guy. I don't know what his ethnicity is,

00:04:40.360 but he certainly isn't a white guy. He's walking around Chinatown and this guy has a big

00:04:44.620 shiner on his eye. Here's his side of the story.

00:04:49.060 Wearing this hat, he started cursing at me. Trump hat, blah, blah, blah. And basically,

00:04:58.120 one kid took my head and bashed it against the scaffolding pole. It all happened within

00:05:04.600 10 seconds. I jumped out, crossed the street, and I called the cops. This is my situation right now.

00:05:13.180 Okay. No reason not to believe this guy. He's got a pretty brutal, gory shiner on his eye and his

00:05:20.400 cheek. His whole left side of his face is swollen up with blood. His eye is basically swollen shut.

00:05:26.940 And I'm not surprised we've seen attacks like this before in the US. I mean, now, look, even I,

00:05:33.680 when I go out and if I've got my MAGA hat on, I look around me because the left can be extremely

00:05:38.560 violent. I was assaulted at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Andy Ngo actually got

00:05:43.980 really physically hurt. People were throwing things at him, punching him. So this thing does

00:05:50.140 happen. We've seen it happen on camera before. It looks like we're seeing it happen on camera again.

00:05:54.940 Two law enforcement sources said that they're a little skeptical that it was a huge group of people

00:05:59.620 doing it. They think it might've just been a one-on-one brawl and the guy declined medical

00:06:04.820 attention on the scene. He went later to get medical attention. He was diagnosed with a bone

00:06:08.960 fracture. So the guy's kind of broke his face up a little bit. Guess how much coverage this got

00:06:14.640 on the network news? Boop. Zero. None. None whatsoever. And the reason I keep using this term

00:06:23.240 allegedly, apparently, it looks like is, I don't know, I guess there's a small possibility that this

00:06:28.440 was a hoax. I don't know what kind of hoax it would be where a guy breaks half of his face,

00:06:32.020 but let's say it is. Compare this to an actual hoax in the case of Jussie Smollett, right? Jussie

00:06:38.660 Smollett had exactly the opposite story that he was walking down the street and two guys in MAGA

00:06:43.940 hats came up to him and said, hey, Empire, because someone's going to recognize Jussie Smollett on the 1.00

00:06:49.820 street. Give me a break. He said, hey, Empire, this is MAGA country in South Central Chicago. Yeah, okay.

00:06:55.740 Definitely, guys, for sure. And it turns out the story totally fell apart. He paid his two

00:07:00.740 trainers to come and beat him up. They were two Nigerian white supremacists, I guess. 0.98

00:07:04.960 And it was just total nonsense and he didn't have any actual injuries.

00:07:08.200 The mainstream media, the network news covered that story breathlessly. So the total fake story

00:07:16.660 gets weeks of coverage. The apparently, from all we know, from all we can see, real story of an attack

00:07:24.740 from leftists on a Trump supporter, no network news coverage at all. Why is that? It's because

00:07:32.600 the fake story fit their fake ideological narrative and the real story didn't fit their narrative.

00:07:41.360 And because the real story didn't fit their narrative, they didn't cover it because they

00:07:45.620 privilege their ideology over the reality of what is in front of them. If you went to the mainstream

00:07:51.180 media and left-wing politicians and you said, hey, what are you going to believe?

00:07:58.440 The leftist narrative, the story that has been circulating all around the mainstream press for

00:08:05.060 the last two weeks, or your own lion eyes, what are you going to believe? What is right in front of

00:08:11.380 you or the stories that you've all been telling each other? You know that they would pick the stories.

00:08:16.360 They privilege their ideology over reality. Nowhere is this clearer than in the transgender debate. 1.00

00:08:23.000 I mean, the transgender debate, which affects very few people in a physical and psychological way,

00:08:27.640 has become this dominant major political story. A very prominent TV host might lose his job

00:08:33.780 because he said that we shouldn't pump three-year-olds full of hormones and mutilate their bodies.

00:08:39.600 We'll get to that story by the end of the show, but I bring it up now to point out

00:08:43.660 between the ideology of transgenderism and the physical reality of, obviously, this man is a man,

00:08:50.720 obviously, this woman is a woman. The left is choosing the ideology, the fantasy, the delusion, 0.99

00:08:56.480 the narrative. So instead of covering the actual attack that happened, the networks were covering

00:09:04.540 the possibility that Trump supporters might chant, send her back at the rally last night. So Trump was

00:09:12.580 holding this rally last night. NBC goes out. They ask the president, what will happen if your supporters

00:09:19.360 chant, send her back? No evidence that it's going to happen. Trump disavowed it after the last time,

00:09:24.480 the first time that it happened. There's no evidence of that, but that's the story they're

00:09:28.240 covering. Here's NBC. Here's Trump's response.

00:09:30.640 Mr. President, in Cincinnati, at your rally tonight, are you prepared to tell your supporters to stop if they

00:09:36.560 begin chanting something problematic? I don't know what's going to happen. I can tell you this.

00:09:41.480 I'm going to Cincinnati. The arena is a very large one, and we've sold it out. We could sell it out

00:09:47.520 probably 10 times from what I hear. The applications for seats, as you know, never had an empty seat.

00:09:55.240 The applications are very big. I have no idea. We have a great group of people. They love our country.

00:10:00.520 They love the job we're doing. There it is, right? It's all hypothetical. Will this happen tonight?

00:10:08.000 What will you do if this does happen? What would it be like if this were to happen? They're not

00:10:13.520 covering a real story. They covered the real story last time at that one rally where some people

00:10:19.120 briefly chanted, send her back, send her back. They covered it the next day. Trump said, I didn't

00:10:23.380 like it. I wish they didn't do it. I don't think it's a good thing. I hope they don't do it again.

00:10:27.200 So, perfectly legitimate for them to cover it then. Great response from Trump. That's it.

00:10:32.900 Now they're covering a hypothetical story to President Trump, and they keep hammering it.

00:10:39.360 They keep asking, well, do you have a message? What are you going to say to them? What do you

00:10:42.140 think? And Trump has an excellent answer here. Do you have a message for them now, like before they

00:10:49.320 go in? I do have a message. My message is for the people I'm going to. So we had over 100,000

00:10:54.180 applications for whatever the size of the, I think it's a 14,000 seat arena, but we're

00:11:00.280 way over 100 and I think 122,000 applications for those seats. You know what my message is?

00:11:07.200 I love them. And I think they love me. I actually think they love me.

00:11:12.720 Nailed it. Totally nailed it. That's the answer. I love, that's my message for them. I love them.

00:11:18.180 This is the difference in the campaign. This is actually the Marianne Williams in principle.

00:11:23.960 Marianne talking about love and the battlefield of love. She actually gets this. Love is an

00:11:29.740 important part of politics. Love really is the basis of politics. Love of country, love of your

00:11:37.520 community, love of your family, love of your extended national family. That's the basis of

00:11:43.700 politics. Love of your ancestors, love of your children, love of your traditions, love of what's

00:11:51.320 going to come in a few generations. This sums up different approaches of the left and the right

00:11:56.460 to politics. You know, the left leaps to condemn. The left would always just, I condemn this. I

00:12:03.480 disavow this. I hate this. I hate the past. I hate the future. I hate the present. I hate George

00:12:08.360 Washington. I hate America. I hate all of it. I condemn everything. I want to tear down statues. 0.99

00:12:15.100 The right doesn't leap to condemn. The right wants to improve. We all want to improve. Obviously,

00:12:20.120 there are plenty of imperfect things. This is an imperfect world. You want to improve, but you

00:12:24.220 want to start it from a place of love. You can see this in the academy, in the universities.

00:12:28.380 The universities are a crystal ball. They're the future of the country. You look at the university

00:12:32.860 20 years from now, that's what you're going to get as your country. And the universities did this

00:12:36.860 in the 1970s. It's really coming to fruition now. They began indoctrinating students in curricula of

00:12:45.980 critical theory, is what it's called. What Harold Bloom, the literary critic, called it is

00:12:50.940 the school of resentment. So the prior approach to reading a piece of literature or looking at some

00:12:58.940 text is you come from it loving it. You enjoy it. You want to learn from it. You want to gain

00:13:06.440 wisdom from it. You want it to maybe entertain you, maybe edify you, maybe enlighten you. But that's

00:13:12.640 the act of reading is, comes from that place of love. It's an enjoyment. It's a pleasure.

00:13:18.780 What the school of resentment does is you totally flip that on its head. So instead of opening up,

00:13:26.500 I don't know, I'll use an example actually from that literary critic, Harold Bloom. Instead of opening

00:13:31.380 up Walt Whitman, great American poet, kind of the American poet, one of them, you open up

00:13:38.120 leaves of grass and you say, what can I learn from Walt Whitman? What does this poem tell me about

00:13:42.440 America? Instead, you open it up and you say, how is this guy a racist? How is this guy a sexist? How

00:13:48.660 much better am I than this guy? I hate this guy. How wrong was he? That's the school of resentment. 0.99

00:13:54.000 Harold Bloom actually one time in an interview, I believe with the Paris Review,

00:13:57.140 said that a graduate student came into his class and said, we just had an American studies lecture

00:14:02.520 for two hours about how Walt Whitman is a racist. That is the different approach. You can approach it

00:14:09.440 from love or you can approach it from resentment. The left approaches from resentment. And I think

00:14:16.240 that's fueling a lot of the backlash against elites in the media and elites in politics. And what it's

00:14:22.060 really fueling is President Trump's crystal ball. What it's really fueling is President Trump's

00:14:29.440 uncanny ability to predict things. He's not predicting anything. It's just that the resentful

00:14:34.680 left is getting it all wrong. The ideological left is getting it all wrong. We'll see how that plays

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00:16:03.520 This is what is fueling a lot of the resentment against the elites of both parties and the media,

00:16:10.780 et cetera. It's this feeling that they hate the American people. You know, my friend Elena Plott

00:16:18.300 over at the Atlantic just has a piece out today and she was covering this Trump rally and she said,

00:16:23.560 the big takeaway is these Americans don't want to be called racist all the time. They don't want to

00:16:28.940 be called deplorable. They don't want to be called irredeemable. They're not racist. You know,

00:16:33.360 she interviews one grandmother who said, she goes, look, I have 10 grandkids. Two of them are black.

00:16:37.900 One of them's biracial. One of them's this, one's that. You know, I don't, I'm not a racist. I just 0.98

00:16:42.080 like my country. I love my country and I don't, I don't want to be smeared all the time by people

00:16:47.440 in office and people who are in the media. Perfectly fair point. But the, the, because the left,

00:16:55.180 because the media really are filled with this resentment at the people of this country, at the

00:17:00.120 country itself, at the history of this country, at the institutions in this country, they have to

00:17:05.980 cover the hypothetical mean chant over the actual attack on a Trump supporter. They have to cover

00:17:13.220 it. They, they, they would much rather cover that because that confirms their narrative that America's

00:17:19.880 really xenophobic, nativist, bigoted, awful, terrible place. They would much rather cover that 0.68

00:17:28.000 than an attack on a Trump supporter. What is the, what is the story of the attack on the Trump

00:17:34.500 supporter show? Now maybe the conservatives aren't fascists. Maybe the conservatives aren't hopelessly

00:17:40.380 racist. Maybe actually they've been misrepresented by the media. Maybe they just want to, as the hat

00:17:46.480 says, make America great again. Maybe there's a little violence from the left. Maybe the left is

00:17:53.380 fueled by violence. Maybe some Trump supporters are being attacked. Maybe everybody needs to calm down

00:17:59.760 a little bit. Maybe people need to stop portraying Trump as Hitler. That can't be the case because they have

00:18:06.400 their narrative in their head. So instead it's all the hypothetical, hypothetical. Trump is the force of

00:18:11.220 darkness. He's evil. He's wicked. And the leftists are going to bring us out of that awful, awful America 1.00

00:18:18.100 that we all know into that new utopia. They're going to, as President Obama used to say, fundamentally

00:18:24.420 transform America. And why do they have to fundamentally transform it? Because America's 0.80

00:18:28.400 rotten to the core. And so you've got to fundamentally transform it if you want to have

00:18:32.160 a good country. Look, politics is a contact sport. Okay. And conservatives were very hard on Obama.

00:18:39.460 I'm not saying they were, were not hard on Obama, but there is something different in the quality of

00:18:44.560 the left's attacks on Trump and Trump supporters than there was in the attacks on conservatives,

00:18:49.560 from conservatives toward Obama. Listen to how Morning Joe describes President Trump at his rally.

00:18:55.980 He actually reminded me, you see the Austin Powers movies? Oh yeah. Did you see the Austin Powers?

00:19:02.480 Oh yeah. Yeah. He sort of reminded me at times like a fat bastard. At times he was like looking at the

00:19:07.640 audience who made the character. It's a character. Yeah. It's a character in Austin Powers and he's

00:19:12.960 sniffing and he's looking around. He's like, thank you. I thought he was going to say, get into my

00:19:16.620 stomach at one point. Um, this is a guy he is, as David Brooks said this morning in the New York

00:19:21.920 Times, this is a guy is a force. Uh, and the only way the Democrats are going to beat him

00:19:28.320 is with an equal force. The thing that the last night's rally showed, and it was a great,

00:19:35.360 I think, I think it was a, uh, a great comparison with what the Democrats were doing. It showed that

00:19:41.120 here was a guy that strutted across the stage. He, he was at being, he was being a demagogue.

00:19:47.620 I would say Mussolini-like, uh, just, just picking at racial resentments constantly. 1.00

00:19:54.880 He's a fat bastard, racist, fascist Mussolini. That's what he is. According to the very serious, 1.00

00:20:02.640 very reasonable and very civil voices who wear suits and ties over at MSNBC. That's what he is.

00:20:08.940 He's a fat bastard, right? Imagine, imagine if a conservative on television, on Fox News 1.00

00:20:16.460 had made fun of Barack Obama's appearance. I don't know if Obama wasn't fat, but I don't know,

00:20:23.900 made fun of his appearance in some way. Could you imagine the outcry? First of all,

00:20:27.540 they'd be fired immediately, whichever commentator said that. Imagine, look, there was one time at a,

00:20:32.460 at a rodeo in 2013 when a rodeo clown wore a mask of Obama and kind of danced around out there in

00:20:39.320 the rodeo. He was instantly fired. Why? I still couldn't tell you. I don't know. You just weren't

00:20:45.060 really allowed to make fun of Obama. Cause anytime you said anything about Obama, you were called a

00:20:49.700 racist and a bigot, even though it didn't have any basis in reality. This we've talked in the last

00:20:55.460 week and a half or two weeks, we've talked a lot about fantasy versus reality. Okay. And this is

00:21:01.420 where, this is where you see in the media's awful behavior and the left's awful behavior, you see why

00:21:07.520 it appears that Donald Trump can predict the future because the fantasy is, the fantasy is that America 0.93

00:21:13.140 is a terrible place populated by bigots and fascists that has only ever wrought evil in the world.

00:21:20.180 In reality, the opposite is true. America is the most tolerant, the most equitable, the most just, 0.65

00:21:29.120 the most prosperous, the most free country in history. That's not sentiment. That's not just

00:21:35.740 my preference and love of America speaking. It's just a fact.

00:21:42.860 Multi-ethnic, multi-ideological, all sorts of people, multi-religious, all together,

00:21:48.860 we've become the biggest economy in the world. The only superpower left on earth.

00:21:53.700 We've more or less still got self-government, more or less still are a republic, more or less still

00:22:00.000 encourage freedom, personal freedom, freedom of property, freedom of movement.

00:22:06.460 The reality is that America, like all countries is imperfect, but it's a great place and, and

00:22:12.020 Americans are great people and that's something to feel good about. So that's something to love

00:22:15.680 about it. And that is why Trump keeps getting stuff right. Because he's not blinded by this

00:22:23.960 ridiculous ideology of the left that tells them to believe their own narrative over their lion eyes. 0.70

00:22:31.380 Frankly, he's not even blinded by the various ideologies that have cropped up on the right. I 0.95

00:22:35.920 mean, this was the big argument against him in 2016 is that he's not ideologically conservative.

00:22:41.040 I don't know that he's philosophically conservative. I doubt that he's ever read Edmund Burke or Michael

00:22:47.000 Oakshot or Russell Kirk. He hasn't been steeped in the conservative movement. He didn't spend

00:22:52.100 all of the nineties and two thousands going to lunches at the various think tanks in Washington,

00:22:56.840 DC. He just sees what's in front of him. He can just see it. And that's why he tends to get things

00:23:03.920 right. It's not that complicated. It's not 25 degree chess. He just has his eyes open and he's

00:23:09.600 looking in front of him. And all of these other fools, some to the right of him, most of them to 0.99

00:23:14.680 the left, are just totally blinded. They've got the blinders of their ideology and the blinders of 1.00

00:23:19.500 their narrative on. And so they can't see what's right in front of them. So some people think he's

00:23:23.820 Nostradamus. He's not. He just isn't blinding himself. And this cuts two ways, by the way.

00:23:28.940 There's a mostly good side to this. There is some downside. There is some unpleasantness

00:23:33.600 that comes from his lack of a sort of philosophical or ideological formation.

00:23:40.180 So the good side is it looks like he can predict the future. You saw this in Baltimore, right? He

00:23:45.820 points out how awful Baltimore is. Not that it's intrinsically awful, but it's been just destroyed

00:23:53.040 by political corruption, Democrat-led corruption in that city. It's been neglected. They've gone

00:23:58.840 through, what, three mayors in two years or something. And so Trump makes these comments.

00:24:04.040 And then a few days later, it comes out that Congressman Elijah Cummings, who was the object

00:24:11.100 of Trump's ire there, he's the Baltimore congressman, had his house broken into. And his house wasn't

00:24:17.180 broken into because Trump talked about him. His house had been broken into hours before Trump talked

00:24:22.560 about him. The Baltimore PD came out and said this burglary took place at 3.40 a.m. on Saturday.

00:24:29.200 Just hours later, Trump tweets about it. Is it because Trump is Nostradamus? No. It's because

00:24:34.700 everyone knows how rundown Baltimore is, and they're all just now pretending it isn't because Trump

00:24:39.020 talked about how it is rundown. Elijah Cummings himself used the same language to talk about Baltimore

00:24:45.100 20 years ago in 1999. Here he is.

00:24:47.420 I left my community of Baltimore, a drug-infested area, where a lot of the drugs that we're talking

00:24:54.720 about today have already taken the lives of so many children. The same children that I watched

00:25:04.040 14 or 15 years ago as they grew up, now walking around like zombies. This is only 40 miles away

00:25:13.560 from here. So Sanders, Bernie Sanders used the same language about Baltimore. Mayor of Baltimore,

00:25:19.340 Catherine Pugh used the same language. Congressman from Baltimore, Elijah Cummings used the same

00:25:23.480 language. Now, President Trump uses the same language. And so the left has to oppose him,

00:25:30.040 but Trump got it right. Because guess what? They were all right about Baltimore. If you predict

00:25:34.120 that somebody is going to get their house broken into in Baltimore, you're probably going to be right.

00:25:38.020 Right? This is not, it's, it's a crime ridden city. So yeah, obviously you're going to be right.

00:25:44.280 So, and this is the, this is the politically beneficial side for Trump not really having

00:25:48.560 much ideology. I mean, the other, ASAP Rocky is another example. The more ideological or

00:25:54.120 philosophically formed presidents might say, well, we need to let the justice system play out there in 0.68

00:25:58.740 Sweden. We can't use the bully pulpit of the United States to pressure a prime minister in Sweden

00:26:03.160 to release ASAP Rocky. And Trump just says, yeah, okay, forget about all that. Hey, Sweden,

00:26:08.020 let my guy go, let him go right now or there's going to be hell to pay. Guess what happens?

00:26:11.780 Within a week or two, they let the guy go. That's the plus side of not having that philosophical

00:26:16.320 foundation. There is an ugly side to it. There is genuinely an ugly side. We'll get to that in a

00:26:22.320 second. First, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube. Then we'll get to the mailbag too,

00:26:27.040 by the way. So go over to dailywire.com. 10 bucks a month, $100 for an annual membership. You get me,

00:26:31.940 you get the Andrew Klavan show, you get the Ben Shapiro show, you get the Matt Walsh show. You get,

00:26:35.100 gosh, you get so much. You get another kingdom. You get to ask questions in the mailbag. You get

00:26:40.060 backstage. You get the leftist tears tumbler. This is really good. This is a nice accompaniment to

00:26:50.500 Trump's crystal ball because when you have those leftist tears, you can predict how things are

00:26:55.540 going to go. It opens your mind, man. It's like some Marianne Williamson secret potion. I mean,

00:27:01.400 it really opens your mind to the field of love. Make sure you go over there, get those leftist

00:27:05.880 tears. We'll be right back with a lot more. Here's the ugly side to not having that philosophical

00:27:22.100 and, or, or even perhaps ideological formation. Here's the, uh, the, the ugly side to just kind

00:27:28.800 of seeing what's in front of you. President Trump just tweeted out, not an hour ago, quote,

00:27:33.600 Kim Jong-un in North Korea tested three short range missiles over the last number of days.

00:27:38.060 These missile tests are not a violation of our signed Singapore agreement, nor was there discussion

00:27:43.480 of short range missiles when we shook hands. There may be a UN violation, but chairman Kim does not

00:27:50.260 want to disappoint me with a violation of trust. There is far too much for North Korea to gain. 0.82

00:27:55.060 The potential as a country under Kim Jong-un's leadership is unlimited. Also, there is far

00:28:00.240 too much to lose. I may be wrong, but I believe that chairman Kim has a great and beautiful vision

00:28:04.900 for his country and only the United States with me as president can make that vision come true.

00:28:10.200 He will do the right thing because he is far too smart not to, and he does not want to disappoint

00:28:14.980 his friend, President Trump. Where do I begin? Obviously, most of this tweet, objectively speaking,

00:28:27.580 is not true. I don't think Kim Jong-un has a beautiful vision for his country. I don't,

00:28:34.320 he actually is probably pretty smart. He's been able to hold power in that country pretty well,

00:28:37.820 even though he got power very young. So I guess he is pretty smart. I don't think he cares really

00:28:42.380 about the friendship with Donald Trump. He may not want to disappoint Trump because he fears

00:28:46.840 nuclear missiles landing in North Korea. But what is this about? It's actually about the exact same

00:28:55.560 thing. It's about seeing what's in front of you. President Trump is looking in front of him and he's

00:29:01.620 seeing an ongoing negotiation with North Korea to get them to denuclearize. And he's saying, okay,

00:29:08.240 what can I do today that will make it more likely for Kim to denuclearize? Kim shot off a few short

00:29:13.340 range missiles. What can I do? Can I scream and yell about it? Is that going to help the negotiation?

00:29:19.260 Can I not say anything about it? Is that going to help the negotiation? Or can I try to flatter Kim?

00:29:24.780 Flatter and kind of threaten Kim. Is that going to help the negotiation? That's what this is about.

00:29:31.860 Trump concluded, rightly or wrongly, that it was the latter course, that by flattering,

00:29:36.260 by reminding Kim that they've got a good thing going on and that Trump is the only one who's

00:29:41.600 given Kim an opening, that that is going to help the negotiation. He has one good point here.

00:29:48.740 The one good point is what C.S. Lewis writes about in Screwtape Letters, which is that you can only act

00:29:54.420 in the present. In the Screwtape Letters, which is this book, you know, it's a series of letters

00:30:00.040 written from one demon to his nephew about destroying a human soul. And the advice that the demon gives to

00:30:08.400 his nephew is always get people thinking about the future and always get people thinking about the

00:30:14.860 past. Don't let them think about the present because the present is the only place where you

00:30:19.640 can actually act. It's the only place where you can make moral decisions. And it's a really good

00:30:24.680 insight. People, they harp so much on the future. We're not owed the future. The future is not,

00:30:28.820 the future that we envision almost certainly will not be what the future really looks like.

00:30:33.060 And we can't change the past. And people are mired in regret or they're mired in

00:30:37.280 optimism for the future or daydreaming about the future or preparing to be disappointed about the

00:30:44.700 future. Only in the present can you act, which is true. That's an important aspect. So

00:30:51.040 President Trump is saying, we're in the present. I don't care what this is going to look like in

00:30:55.620 history. I don't care what this means for the future. I'm just trying to move the ball down

00:31:00.080 the field. However, this tactic strikes our ears as absolutely egregious because it's untrue. I mean,

00:31:07.600 you know, Kim Jong-un is like one of the worst people on the face of the earth, maybe one of the 0.93

00:31:11.800 worst people in history. So ideally, what we would like is for you to be able to act in the present

00:31:17.540 without this kind of flattery, without this kind of dishonesty, and without this kind of wishful

00:31:21.840 thinking about Kim. This is the first time since Reagan that we've seen anything resembling this

00:31:28.640 sort of behavior. And as always, Trump turns it up to 11. So with Reagan, you saw major overtures

00:31:33.960 to the dictator of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev, who himself positioned himself as a reformer.

00:31:40.420 And they'd go over there. I mean, at the Reykjavik summit, Reagan and Gorbachev were talking about

00:31:44.600 abolishing all nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, Reagan's advisors are saying, what are you doing? Stop,

00:31:48.880 don't talk about that. But you saw a similar kind of impulse from Reagan. Reagan was working in the

00:31:55.120 present. When that summit broke down, according to sources in the room, Reagan said to Gorbachev,

00:32:01.600 how could you do this to me? Very personal. You know, this is a personal relationship here.

00:32:07.040 Trump is trying to establish that personal relationship. It's ugly to us. We don't want

00:32:13.220 our president to have a personal relationship with Kim Jong-un because Kim Jong-un is one of the worst 0.98

00:32:17.160 people on earth. Will this pay off? I don't know. I don't think it's high risk for the reputation of

00:32:23.240 the United States. I think whoever the next president is can do whatever he wants and change

00:32:26.460 that relationship. It's very high risk for Trump. I mean, he'll look like a real schmuck if nothing

00:32:31.860 happens on this Korea thing. It's high risk to his reputation. But he's willing to do it because he 0.99

00:32:37.220 lives in the present. That is the advantage of his not being very ideological. And that is the

00:32:42.880 sometimes ugly and unpleasant disadvantage of his not being ideological. But that's what it is. And

00:32:48.460 that's why it looks like he can read into the future. I really wanted to get to this Mario Lopez

00:32:53.900 story. This Mario Lopez story, the guy from Extra and Access Hollywood. He came out and said that we

00:33:02.920 shouldn't, we'll just get to it. We'll narrow the mailbag down. I can't let this go. This story is so

00:33:08.540 important. Here's Mario Lopez on the Candace Owens show talking about transgender children. So

00:33:15.820 transgender three-year-olds. I'm never one to tell anyone how to parent their kids, obviously. And I

00:33:21.220 think if you come from a place- Maybe you should, though, because you seem to be doing something

00:33:23.840 right. Well, thanks. You know, and I always say if you come from a place of love, you know, you really

00:33:27.420 can't go wrong. But at the same time, my God, if you're three years old and you're saying you're

00:33:31.120 feeling a certain way or you think you're a boy or a girl, whatever the case may be,

00:33:35.780 I just think it's dangerous as a parent to make that determination then, okay, well,

00:33:42.040 then you're going to be a boy or a girl, whatever the case may be. And it's sort of alarming. And

00:33:47.240 my gosh, I just think about the repercussions later on. You don't know anything about sexuality yet.

00:33:51.820 You're just a kid. Right. That is the most obvious and simple and restrained and moderate statement

00:33:59.860 that you could possibly make on the subject. This is, well, I just think it's sort of like a little

00:34:04.540 dangerous, you know, to mutilate your three-year-old child's genitals and put them on puberty-blocking 0.84

00:34:09.720 hormones and shoot them full of chemicals that will fundamentally change their biochemistry. 1.00

00:34:14.800 I just think maybe it's not a great idea. I just think maybe three-year-olds don't fully understand

00:34:20.500 their sexuality. Three-year-olds, you sick perverts. Three-year-olds, they're doing this. 1.00

00:34:25.980 And Mario Lopez says, you know, hey, maybe we shouldn't sexualize three-year-olds.

00:34:31.720 Yes. Most moderate statement in the world. Guess what? They're trying to fire him now.

00:34:37.700 So big meetings at NBC, I guess it is, to try to get him to lose his show.

00:34:43.560 He issued an apology. It's really pathetic, but I guess, look, he's got a lot of kids, 0.97

00:34:48.280 got to raise his family, don't want to lose all his money. Here's what Mario Lopez then said later, 0.97

00:34:52.760 quote, the comments I made were ignorant and insensitive. And now I have a deeper understanding 0.83

00:34:57.400 of how hurtful they were. I have been and always will be an ardent supporter of the LGBTQ community.

00:35:05.740 I'm going to use this opportunity to better educate myself. Moving forward, I will be more

00:35:10.300 informed and more thoughtful. Oh my gosh, this guy, this guy. Look, he had to do it. I'm sure he didn't

00:35:18.540 write a word of that. I assume his agents at CAA or WME or wherever he's represented,

00:35:23.580 all his lawyers probably wrote that up. Well, what trash, I mean, what a trash statement 1.00

00:35:28.100 and what a trash culture that would pillory him for this. And they're still probably going to 1.00

00:35:33.160 make him lose his show because the left is vindictive. They don't forgive. He shouldn't

00:35:37.240 have backed down from this. From a moral standpoint, he shouldn't have backed down. But just from a

00:35:42.300 practical standpoint, it's never enough. Appeasement doesn't work with these sick leftists. 0.99

00:35:47.500 These sick perverts are abusing children and are shooting them full of chemicals at age three 1.00

00:35:54.160 and sexualizing them and changing their body chemistry and mutilating their bodies. They're 1.00

00:35:59.100 sick perverts who should be locked up for life at least. And that's how we should talk about it. 1.00

00:36:05.120 There's no end to this. This is gender ideology. And we, conservatives want to talk about this for

00:36:12.780 the actual small, very small number of people who suffer from a psychological condition where

00:36:17.360 they're confused about their biological sex. And we just want to be really nice and compassionate.

00:36:21.400 Some people even want to indulge that delusion because it's sort of easier and seems polite.

00:36:26.420 It's not about them. It actually isn't. The left isn't making this an issue because of them.

00:36:30.960 The left is making this an issue because it is a radical power grab. It is not just a grab for

00:36:38.080 political control or economic control or even cultural control. It is a power grab for

00:36:42.140 ontological control. The control, the power to redefine reality itself. And these guys are

00:36:49.800 vicious and vindictive. It's coming to a big tech platform near you. They are going to try to pass

00:36:55.040 policies whereby if you call a man a man and that man thinks he's a woman, you will be kicked off.

00:37:01.720 You will be censored. If you say that a parent shouldn't pump their poor little kid full of

00:37:08.340 hormones and mutilate their body, that you are some sort of bigot. It is, it is so perverse.

00:37:16.000 It is so sick and disgusting. And there's no middle ground. There's no moderate. I know 0.97

00:37:21.780 conservatives want to be conciliatory. I know Mario Lopez wants to keep his job. Sometimes the rubber

00:37:28.880 meets the road, guys. You know, sometimes there's just a bridge too far. And this, it's not about

00:37:34.040 some sexual confusion in a small number of people. This is about a full on onslaught attempt to

00:37:41.660 redefine reality. And if conservatives don't stand for this, we don't stand for anything.

00:37:45.640 Let's get to the mailbag in our remaining five or six minutes. From Eli. Hey, Michael,

00:37:50.700 I love your show. Thank you. Do you think it's possible to be a conservative and an atheist?

00:37:55.420 Yes, I do think it's possible. I was a conservative and an atheist for about 10 years,

00:38:03.380 varying degrees of conservative, libertarian or this or that. I just don't think it's possible to

00:38:08.880 be really coherently conservative and an atheist because politics is downstream of culture and

00:38:16.100 culture is downstream of religion. And that which we are conserving is Christian civilization.

00:38:20.180 So I don't think that makes a whole lot of sense. The one, just as a practical matter,

00:38:26.760 I think the way it breaks down is, I think if you are a hardcore evangelical atheist,

00:38:33.320 I think if you're the sort of atheist who probably has a neckbeard and like thinks that Richard Dawkins

00:38:40.020 is a really smart philosopher and theologian and, you know, you read a couple Christopher Hitchens

00:38:45.500 columns once and you think you know anything. If you're the sort of person who refers to the

00:38:49.960 Bible as a series of fairy tales, if you, I don't think then really you can be a conservative 0.98

00:38:54.020 because conservatives need to have a respect and a reverence for our tradition. Conservatives need

00:39:01.220 to have a sense of the sacred, you know, even look, our national monuments in the United States,

00:39:06.100 in Washington DC, I was just there last week. They're not just statues of Washington. They're not

00:39:11.180 just a statue of, of Lincoln. They are full on religious temples. The Washington monument is an

00:39:17.240 Egyptian religious obelisk. The, the Lincoln memorial is a Greco-Roman temple, right? With, 0.88

00:39:24.320 with Lincoln there as Zeus sitting in a chair. That is, the reason that we do that is because

00:39:31.800 nations need to have a sense of the sacred. If you want to conserve something, you need to have a

00:39:35.520 sense of the sacred. So if you are a sort of amiable atheist, if you're the kind of guy who has a

00:39:41.720 respect for religious traditions, but you just can't bring yourself to believe, which by the way,

00:39:45.780 I think is like most of the culture right now, I think of course you can be a conservative and I

00:39:50.680 think you're going to be on your way to maybe not being an atheist anymore. But if you're that

00:39:54.960 kind of hardcore, it's just, it's all completely wrong and bogus and everyone who ever lived before 0.99

00:40:00.720 me is an idiot and I'm much smarter than Thomas Aquinas or Aristotle or somebody, if you believe 0.97

00:40:05.720 that, I just, I don't think you could ever have the humility or, or at the present, you couldn't have 1.00

00:40:10.960 the humility to, to be a conservative because the left is defined by pride and, and conservative

00:40:17.260 thought is defined by humility. From Blake, can you name all the Democrat candidates without linking?

00:40:25.380 There is a dopey and sleepy and Eric Swalwell and Donner and Cupid and Blitzen. I don't, I don't think

00:40:31.900 I could. I, I, frankly, I don't think the other candidates could as well. During the last debate,

00:40:37.400 there was a guy named Steve Bullock from Montana. I guess that guy's running for president.

00:40:43.240 There's another guy, John Delaney. I guess he's running for president. What I'm doing,

00:40:46.920 my favorite of the three edible candidates, his name is Tim Ryan and he's just like, just the

00:40:51.480 most pitiable, he's just obviously not going anywhere. I'm referring to all the candidates

00:40:56.820 that I've never heard of as Tim Ryan and it just really limits the field down. So you only need to

00:41:01.680 remember about seven names and just call everyone else Tim Ryan. That's, that's what I would

00:41:05.540 recommend, uh, for, for you going forward because it's not worth memorizing all of those names when

00:41:12.160 most of them are going to be gone by the next debate. From Texas fan, why isn't anyone talking

00:41:17.780 about how Marianne Williamson has led many people astray with her promotion of the heretical course

00:41:22.180 in miracles? Funny you should ask Texas fan. I did that just yesterday. I think these mailbag

00:41:27.040 questions came in yesterday. Uh, so check out my episode yesterday on dark psychic Democrats to

00:41:31.960 get a better take on that for Mandy. Hey, Michael, as a woman of faith who has spent her entire

00:41:38.540 marriage trying to start a family, there is something I have really been struggling to

00:41:42.860 understand. Why do you think God allows so many women to conceive children who are just going to 1.00

00:41:48.500 abort them? And I suspect the other side of that is why, why are so many women not able to conceive 1.00

00:41:55.000 or not able to conceive at the time that they want to conceive? What you're really asking is a very,

00:42:01.740 very basic problem, which is why does God permit evil to exist? And the answer is because of the

00:42:09.160 fall of man, because God gave man free will and man chose to disobey God's will and to, to follow

00:42:17.400 his own will in contravention of God's desires. And therefore sin pervaded the world and death pervaded

00:42:25.540 the world and evil as a foothold in this world. And the devil is the prince of this world. And so

00:42:31.680 the question you asked over why all these women can conceive just to abort the kids and why women 0.99

00:42:36.980 who don't want to abort the kids can't conceive. And I mean, it's the same question as why does a 0.72

00:42:42.520 three-year-old get leukemia? It's the same question as why, why do bad things happen to good people?

00:42:48.500 Why do bad things happen at all? Obviously we don't have time to go into the full topic of

00:42:54.960 theodicy or the problem of evil. Good book on it is C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain or Lewis,

00:43:01.400 again, A Grief Observed. And those are just really good kind of lay books that can introduce you to

00:43:06.880 the question and there are more advanced books on it. But the, the simple answer, the Christian answer

00:43:12.200 is what we say at Easter, which is, if this is the greatest possible world, which I suspect it is,

00:43:19.920 then what it means is that a world in which there is no free will is not as good as a world in which

00:43:27.500 there is free will and incarnation and atonement and the resurrection. So it seems to me if we didn't

00:43:35.720 have free will, if we didn't genuinely have the ability to deny God and therefore allow sin and death

00:43:41.520 to pervade the world, then we, what world would it be? You wouldn't even be conscious. I mean,

00:43:46.900 it would just be a robot world. It would be like a computer simulation or something. But you do have

00:43:53.300 free will. Freedom is a wonderful thing. And what you say on Easter is you, you celebrate the fall of

00:43:59.100 man in a way. You say, oh great, oh happy fault that gave to us, that won for us so great and glorious

00:44:07.400 a redeemer. Oh happy fault. Oh felix culpa. We fell. We disobeyed God. That's awful. But it won for us

00:44:17.700 so great and glorious a redeemer in the resurrection. That is the way to think of it. It doesn't deny the

00:44:23.340 reality of suffering. It's, but it is a comfort. Comfort meaning it gives you strength and allows

00:44:30.060 you to see the glory up ahead. Last question from GRVM. What is the origin of Ben Shapiro constantly

00:44:38.960 ripping on you? That's a great question. And you'll have to tune into this week's Sunday special.

00:44:45.720 Going to be the greatest Sunday special in the history of the Ben Shapiro show Sunday special

00:44:49.440 because it's going to feature little old me. So tune in then. And I think we'll get the story of

00:44:54.480 it there. All right. That's our show. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael

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00:45:29.700 Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall show today, we're going to hit on some of the stories we missed,

00:45:33.580 uh, this past week, starting with Mario Lopez. He said, uh, as you may have heard that three-year-olds

00:45:38.080 can't choose their own gender and, but he since almost immediately cowardly apologized for that.

00:45:44.220 So we'll discuss the need in our culture for not just sanity, but also courage, which is,

00:45:49.700 which is so sorely lacking. Also, is it racist for robots to be white? CNN has posed that very

00:45:57.300 important question. And finally, scientists are trying to create human monkey hybrids. We'll talk

00:46:02.880 about the many moral problems with something like that today over on the Matt Wall show.

The Michael Knowles Show - August 02, 2019

Ep. 391 - Trump's Crystal Ball

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