The Michael Knowles Show - August 22, 2019


Ep. 402 - What Ever Happened To AOC？


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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has disappeared faster than a Clinton enemy on suicide watch. Where is she? Conspiracy theories abound as to what could be going on with the missing congresswoman from New York.

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00:00:37.780 I never thought I'd ask this, but here it goes.
00:00:40.560 Where is AOC?
00:00:42.900 The socialist congresswoman from Westchester has disappeared faster than a Clinton enemy on suicide watch.
00:00:48.700 We will examine where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went and what it means for the Democratic Party.
00:00:54.400 Then, President Trump gets promoted from president to chosen one.
00:00:59.720 We will examine the difference between humility and modesty.
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00:01:10.840 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:12.800 I can't believe I'm asking it, but where is AOC?
00:01:23.820 I never thought I would say that question.
00:01:26.540 You don't know what you've got till it's gone.
00:01:29.740 AOC, she's gone.
00:01:31.200 Where is she?
00:01:31.700 For two years.
00:01:32.600 AOC has been the dominant personality in the news.
00:01:36.820 Second only, I guess, to President Trump.
00:01:39.220 And in certain news cycles, she's dominated the news even more than President Trump.
00:01:44.360 Then, three weeks ago, she fired her chief of staff, a guy named Saikot Chagrabarty.
00:01:49.980 And now, she has vanished from the face of the earth.
00:01:53.300 At least, she's vanished from Twitter and from the news headlines. 0.91
00:01:56.720 This fuels a conspiracy theory that has been going on since March.
00:02:01.020 I say conspiracy theory, by the way, now in quotes, because now we know that the fluoride
00:02:07.720 in the water might be hurting people.
00:02:09.280 We know that the frogs actually are turning gay. 0.99
00:02:11.360 We're supposed to believe that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself on suicide watch.
00:02:14.460 So, I think we're all Alex Jones at this point, and the conspiracy theory is just our reality.
00:02:20.020 This particular so-called conspiracy theory was put forward back in March by a guy named
00:02:24.780 Mr. Reagan, who has a popular YouTube channel.
00:02:27.520 And the theory is that AOC is not really a conviction politician who's now in Congress.
00:02:32.880 She's an actress who was cast by progressive Democrats to play a congressional candidate. 0.85
00:02:39.300 Then she won, and now she's sort of acting out the role of a congresswoman. 1.00
00:02:43.360 Here is the theory from Mr. Reagan.
00:02:45.900 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not really the congresswoman of New York's 14th congressional district.
00:02:52.800 She is essentially an actress.
00:02:55.120 She's merely playing the part of a New York congresswoman. 1.00
00:02:59.500 I know this sounds crazy, but bear with me.
00:03:02.300 In 2017, a group called the Justice Democrats held auditions for potential congressional candidates
00:03:08.600 that they would run on their platform for various congressional seats throughout the country.
00:03:14.560 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's brother Gabriel submitted her for the role.
00:03:19.460 Now, I didn't have to go digging for evidence for this, because they freely admit it.
00:03:24.080 They brag about it.
00:03:25.380 Back in 2016, we put out a call for nominations.
00:03:29.660 We got over 10,000 nominations.
00:03:31.960 Out of those 10,000 nominations, we found Alexandria.
00:03:35.500 My brother told me that he had sent my nomination in the summer,
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00:03:42.060 And I was like, there's no way.
00:03:43.820 So, this tells you, not just the conspiracy theory, but what's happened over the last three weeks.
00:03:49.200 This tells you a lot about AOC and the left-wing media, the left generally, the way that they treat conspiracy theories and the real conspiracy.
00:03:57.960 What does it mean for AOC and the Democrats?
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00:05:58.840 Now, this conspiracy theory, so-called, about AOC for Mr. Reagan, is really not much of a conspiracy theory.
00:06:08.980 What does it say?
00:06:09.960 It says the Justice Democrats, a radical left-wing progressive group, recruited candidates to run.
00:06:16.220 We know that happens.
00:06:17.140 They admit that.
00:06:18.020 We know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's brother sent in her tape, nominated her to be cast by this organization.
00:06:24.800 We know that's true.
00:06:25.460 AOC told us it was true.
00:06:26.540 We know that the Justice Democrats picked her because they ran her campaign.
00:06:30.500 We know that they ran her campaign because then she nominated and appointed the head of the Justice Democrats,
00:06:36.100 the co-founder of it, Sycott Chagrabarty, to be her chief of staff.
00:06:39.840 It later came out, by the way, that this guy, Sycott Chagrabarty, had embezzled nearly a million dollars from the campaign
00:06:46.560 and funneled it to his own businesses for his own uses.
00:06:50.240 But then the way that we know that the so-called conspiracy theory is true,
00:06:54.120 that basically these progressive operatives found an empty-headed bartender rather and turned her into a congresswoman 1.00
00:07:03.720 and filled her with their ideas.
00:07:05.640 The way we know that that is very likely true is when she fired the head of the Justice Democrats as her chief of staff,
00:07:12.060 she disappeared.
00:07:13.080 The magic was gone because apparently he was the brains behind the operation.
00:07:16.340 I don't even think I can get through that without laughing a little bit because I said the brains behind AOC,
00:07:22.580 which is a contradiction in terms.
00:07:24.400 But she really did have a great deal of cleverness, a real savvy for the media.
00:07:28.720 That appears to have disappeared immediately when that guy was fired.
00:07:32.040 So what can we learn?
00:07:34.280 Most importantly, it kind of puts the kibosh on conspiracies and conspiracy theories.
00:07:39.920 And this is important for a week that we've learned that fluoride in the water hurts people.
00:07:43.740 We have known for a while now that the frickin' frogs are turning gay. 1.00
00:07:47.320 They're actually turning transgender. 0.96
00:07:49.520 And this AOC incident.
00:07:52.900 What this shows is that, yes, there are puppet masters for puppets.
00:07:57.780 AOC may very well be a Charlie McCarthy doll, a little marionette who's getting her puppet strings pulled 1.00
00:08:04.480 by more intelligent and more ideologically formed left-wingers like Sykatch Agrabarty and the Justice Democrats.
00:08:12.700 However, once the puppets get into power, they have the power.
00:08:19.920 So the Justice Democrats, they were the puppet masters.
00:08:22.460 They were running the whole show.
00:08:23.420 And AOC was just there like, blah, blah, blah, Green New Deal, blah, blah, blah.
00:08:26.640 And she was just parroting whatever they wanted her to say.
00:08:30.400 But now she's the congresswoman. 1.00
00:08:32.880 And now she is in control.
00:08:34.540 And now she can fire the Justice Democrats. 1.00
00:08:37.840 And it might hurt her.
00:08:38.680 It might be a bad political decision.
00:08:40.400 But she now has the control.
00:08:43.180 The puppet has become the puppet master.
00:08:46.200 And I say it might be a bad political decision.
00:08:48.300 It might be a brilliant political decision.
00:08:50.180 Because she had all that heat on her.
00:08:51.860 I mean, she was saying a lot of things, getting a lot of attention, dominating the conversation.
00:08:55.280 But if she wasn't doing what she wanted to do, if it wasn't serving her political interests, then it was absolutely right to fire them.
00:09:03.160 There might have come a point when the political interests of the Justice Democrats and the political interests of AOC diverge.
00:09:09.740 And at that point, she's going to look out for number one.
00:09:11.740 The second thing that this shows is that the leftist media is just completely dishonest.
00:09:19.240 And in the leftist media, I'm including the so-called fact checkers.
00:09:23.340 Snopes.com, the fact checker, had an article that said, quote,
00:09:30.160 Is Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez an actress playing a congresswoman?
00:09:34.660 False.
00:09:35.280 This is totally false.
00:09:36.740 And what's so dishonest about that is, I guess that that line could be false.
00:09:42.580 Is she an actress playing a congresswoman?
00:09:44.660 Technically, by definition, that's false because she is now a congresswoman. 0.95
00:09:48.720 But if the point of that article is supposed to be, was she simply cast in this role by Justice Democrats who ran everything that she was doing up until very recently?
00:09:58.040 And that is obviously true.
00:10:00.260 She has admitted that that's true.
00:10:01.900 The Justice Democrats have admitted that that's true.
00:10:04.060 We've all seen it with our own eyes.
00:10:05.580 But the media just can't give you that reality.
00:10:08.820 It doesn't go along with their narrative.
00:10:10.400 So they put out an article that is 99.9% a lie in order to serve their narrative.
00:10:18.100 And then the third thing that this shows, this is the most difficult part.
00:10:22.540 The left is much harder to defeat than just one or two politicians.
00:10:27.120 We think, you know, you see AOC or Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib or somebody like that.
00:10:33.380 And you think, I really don't like that person.
00:10:35.440 If I just get them out of Congress, then the country will be better.
00:10:39.800 When it comes to the left, they don't really matter that much.
00:10:43.980 Those individual people.
00:10:45.440 The left and the right have different approaches to politics.
00:10:47.860 And we have different political apparatuses.
00:10:50.020 If you take out one of the right-wing political stars, you have seriously damaged the right.
00:10:55.840 If you take out a left-wing political star, you haven't.
00:10:59.340 Because the left operates in a much more institutional way than the right does.
00:11:04.160 The right is much more individually focused.
00:11:07.100 We have our star politicians.
00:11:09.820 Obviously, we have Trump, for instance.
00:11:11.480 We have our star media figures.
00:11:13.500 Then we have a handful of think tanks, and that's it.
00:11:15.960 That's our political apparatus in the country.
00:11:17.780 It's pretty much just these individual personalities.
00:11:21.640 For the left, it's much more institutionalized.
00:11:26.000 They have some star politicians.
00:11:27.620 That's true.
00:11:28.860 They actually don't have very many star media figures.
00:11:32.120 They don't have a Rush Limbaugh. 0.76
00:11:33.840 They don't have a Sean Hannity.
00:11:35.660 They don't have a Tucker Carlson.
00:11:36.800 And they have a few smaller media figures on MSNBC, like Rachel Maddow, for instance. 0.95
00:11:41.660 That's my second job, obviously, is I put my Warby Parker glasses on.
00:11:45.480 I go over to MSNBC because I need a second income.
00:11:48.380 But their ratings are very low over there at MSNBC.
00:11:51.700 And the same thing is true on they don't really have radio.
00:11:55.360 They tried to do left-wing talk radio.
00:11:56.760 It totally failed.
00:11:57.640 What they have instead of media stars is they have media, quote-unquote, watchdog, media operative groups,
00:12:04.780 whose purpose is not to put out their own content but to get the right-wing content fired because we rely on media personalities on the right.
00:12:12.460 And so they have groups like Media Matters and others whose whole job it is is to watch our shows and then try to get us fired and try to get our advertisers boycotted.
00:12:20.620 So they've got that.
00:12:21.520 Then they've also got the countless astroturf operative organizations such as the Justice Democrats because AOC can rise and fall, but the Justice Democrats are going to stick around.
00:12:33.380 The individual politicians can rise and fall, but the George Soros Open Society Foundation network that funds all of these left-wing astroturf groups,
00:12:42.260 they're not grassroots groups, they're not organic, they are astroturfed in from above, those are going to stick around.
00:12:49.140 And those are much more difficult to defeat.
00:12:53.600 That is a different approach to politics.
00:12:55.920 Maybe the right needs to become a little bit more institutional.
00:12:58.380 You know, the left learned this lesson 50 years ago.
00:13:00.940 They took on what they called the long march through the institutions.
00:13:04.040 So they've hollowed out the universities, most notably.
00:13:07.140 They've hollowed out the news media.
00:13:08.780 They've hollowed out Hollywood.
00:13:10.480 It wasn't always that way.
00:13:11.480 Hollywood used to make good movies.
00:13:13.060 Wasn't always making radical leftist movies.
00:13:15.060 It's just basically just the last 50 years or so that they really went hardcore.
00:13:19.600 And the advantage to that strategy, it's not as glamorous, it's not as sexy, it takes a long time, but then you've got it.
00:13:26.020 If you've got Hollywood, then you've got the biggest cultural microphone.
00:13:30.580 If you've got the universities, then you are shaping the minds of the entire next generation.
00:13:36.300 The right needs to move into that.
00:13:38.140 It's good to have our stars.
00:13:39.300 It's good to have our Trump.
00:13:40.220 But we have got to establish that institutional presence or else we are at the mercy of, and we're at the whims of fortune, and we're at the mercy of the left, and we're at the whims of the left.
00:13:54.140 So AOC might come back.
00:13:57.200 I hope she does.
00:13:57.920 I miss her.
00:13:58.880 I miss her.
00:14:00.120 I miss reading about her.
00:14:01.100 I miss the stupid things she would say that we could then all make fun of.
00:14:04.860 But there's going to be another AOC because the organization that put AOC in power ain't going away.
00:14:09.280 The New York Times admitted this.
00:14:10.500 The New York Times had a headline back in February that said, I'm paraphrasing the headline, but it was something to the effect of the Justice Democrats helped AOC get elected.
00:14:19.660 They've already got their eyes on other candidates.
00:14:21.520 There's going to be another AOC that pops up, and we've got to be able to match that strategy.
00:14:26.940 Now, enough about Congress.
00:14:29.140 Enough about the Democrats.
00:14:30.860 We've got to talk about our own star politician, President Trump, who just got promoted to the king of Israel, which is this, by the way, this is being totally, obviously, misconstrued by the left intentionally.
00:14:42.860 But even some conservatives are whining and crying and clutching their pearls.
00:14:46.760 We'll get to what was bad about Trump's comments.
00:14:49.300 We'll get to what that actually means, and we'll put it into context of modesty and humility.
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00:16:42.180 Speaking of feeling safe, I feel so much safer now that our president is not only the duly elected
00:16:47.360 president of the United States, but he is the king of Israel and apparently the chosen one,
00:16:51.520 brought to bring balance to the force.
00:16:53.100 That is because of a story that came out from a radio talk show host that President Trump
00:17:00.200 then, of course, retweeted because he couldn't help himself.
00:17:03.720 And this whole hubbub, we'll talk about the hubbub, but the main takeaway from it, I find,
00:17:09.120 that people always misunderstand is the difference between humility and modesty.
00:17:16.000 The difference between false modesty, which we have a lot of in this culture,
00:17:19.700 and true humility, which we don't have a lot of.
00:17:22.020 So, yesterday, King of Israel, Second Coming, and Antichrist were trending on Twitter.
00:17:31.680 This was not because we were in the end times.
00:17:34.800 It's because President Trump tweeted something, which to the left is the end times.
00:17:39.880 So, they can't tell the difference between those two.
00:17:42.660 Trump tweeted out a compliment from the radio host, Wayne Allen Root,
00:17:46.780 in which Root praised President Trump in a really, some might say hyperbolic way,
00:17:53.680 and alluded to him as the king of Israel and the second coming of God.
00:17:58.660 Here is Wayne Allen Root.
00:18:00.300 Don't forget, I don't know, if you haven't watched the show, I happen to be Jewish by birth,
00:18:03.760 and 75% of all Jews vote Democrat, and they don't like Trump.
00:18:07.220 And this is the greatest president for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world,
00:18:12.380 not just America. Trump's the best president for Israel in the history of the world,
00:18:16.840 and the Jewish people love him like he is the king of Israel.
00:18:20.080 They love him like he is the second coming of God.
00:18:23.000 And in America, American Jews don't like him.
00:18:25.120 Okay. So, there's one big issue, before we get to the theological issues,
00:18:33.060 before we get even to the political issues,
00:18:35.400 there is just one thing he said that doesn't strike very strongly,
00:18:40.460 which is the Jews can't think that Trump is the second coming of God
00:18:45.620 because the Jews don't think the first coming of God has happened yet.
00:18:50.000 So, just from a very technical semantic point,
00:18:53.280 it cannot be the case that they think of Trump as the second coming.
00:18:56.500 The political point that this guy is trying to make is correct.
00:19:00.140 Israel really likes Trump. This is undeniable.
00:19:02.680 Israel named an entire town after President Trump,
00:19:06.100 and Israel also named an important train station after President Trump.
00:19:10.300 President Trump moved the embassy, finally, in Israel, from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
00:19:16.000 This has been U.S. policy for over 20 years,
00:19:17.780 and Trump was the first president with the guts to actually do it.
00:19:20.420 Bibi Netanyahu, prime minister, basically campaigned on how he was friends with President Trump.
00:19:26.420 He's, Trump has been better for Israel than any president in U.S. history,
00:19:30.560 and his daughter is a convert to Judaism,
00:19:34.200 and her husband, her Jewish husband, is a senior advisor to the president.
00:19:38.640 So, he is a good president for Jews and a good president for Israel.
00:19:42.220 Now, the theological point somehow managed to offend both Jews and Christians.
00:19:46.600 It offended Protestants and Catholics.
00:19:49.300 It really, really brought people together.
00:19:53.100 Obviously, the Jews don't think he's the second coming because they're waiting on the first coming still. 1.00
00:19:57.080 They don't realize that it already happened.
00:20:00.540 And also, much as we, now speaking from the Christian perspective,
00:20:05.020 much as we conservative Catholics and Protestants love President Trump,
00:20:10.200 comparing him to Christ is a bridge too far.
00:20:13.140 Even for me, it's a bridge too far.
00:20:14.840 You know, we like comparing him to Cyrus, or David, or Samson.
00:20:20.460 I personally see Trump as a sort of Samson figure in the Bible.
00:20:24.420 Christ comparisons, still quite frowned upon.
00:20:27.880 Not great.
00:20:29.740 Somehow manages to offend Jews and Christians. 1.00
00:20:32.860 King of Israel is fine.
00:20:34.080 King of Jews, not fine. 1.00
00:20:36.580 King of Israel is great, though.
00:20:38.140 I really like this idea because President Trump is about to become the Conunger of Greenland.
00:20:43.900 That's the old Norse word for King.
00:20:47.820 Conunger, that's what he's going to be after the shock and awe campaign,
00:20:50.360 where we finally take Greenland back.
00:20:52.300 So, I like the King of Israel idea.
00:20:54.700 But I want to put this in context.
00:20:57.200 If Barack Obama had done this, if he had retweeted some radio host saying all these things about him,
00:21:04.320 we would have totally freaked out about it because we all suspected Barack Obama was the Antichrist or close to it.
00:21:12.260 And we would have freaked out about it.
00:21:14.460 That's not evidence of hypocrisy.
00:21:17.180 Politics is about context.
00:21:19.140 Politics is about circumstance.
00:21:21.140 Politics does not live in some total abstraction in the air.
00:21:24.140 Or politics is about what's really happening in real time to real people.
00:21:27.600 The difference here is that Barack Obama actually thought he was the chosen one.
00:21:33.080 He really did.
00:21:34.120 He actually said that his election would be the moment that the planet began to heal.
00:21:39.160 He said that the sea levels would begin to reduce, like he's Moses parting the Red Sea.
00:21:45.300 He talked about calming the oceans.
00:21:47.220 He really thought he was the chosen one.
00:21:49.300 Trump is joking.
00:21:51.280 He is.
00:21:51.840 There is evidence that he's joking.
00:21:53.060 Here's the evidence.
00:21:54.520 After this whole blow up, Trump was asked a completely unrelated question about his China trade war.
00:21:59.600 And he joked about the whole hubbub of king of Israel and everything by alluding to himself,
00:22:05.200 completely out of context, as the chosen one.
00:22:08.100 Over the last five or six years, China's made $500 billion.
00:22:15.040 $500 billion.
00:22:16.500 Ripped it out of the United States. 0.93
00:22:18.220 And not only that, if you take a look, intellectual property theft, add that to it, and add a lot of other things to it.
00:22:26.820 So somebody, excuse me, somebody had to do it.
00:22:30.520 I am the chosen one.
00:22:32.660 Somebody had to do it.
00:22:34.080 So I'm taking on China. 0.97
00:22:35.700 I'm taking on China on trade.
00:22:38.060 And you know what?
00:22:38.980 We're winning.
00:22:39.660 I love this guy because he, this is the evidence that he knows it's a joke because he immediately makes a joke about it.
00:22:46.720 But if, if Donald Trump really believed what the radio host was saying, if he really believed that he's the king of Israel,
00:22:53.480 the second coming of God, or he's perceived as the second coming of God and the chosen one,
00:22:57.780 then he would treat that seriously instead of immediately making a joke about it because he's talking about the China trade war.
00:23:06.320 And by the way, he's right about the China trade war.
00:23:08.260 You know, politicians and presidents of both parties kicked that can down the road for 18 years.
00:23:14.060 After China entered the WTO, the World Trade Organization, in 2001, the troubles really began in earnest.
00:23:20.420 They were illegally devaluing their currency.
00:23:23.100 They were illegally subsidizing steel and aluminum.
00:23:25.200 They were illegally stealing our property.
00:23:27.240 They were illegally forcing American businesses to work with local banks, which was really just a secret tax.
00:23:34.160 They were illegally spying on us.
00:23:35.720 They were doing all sorts of stuff, challenging our interests in the region.
00:23:39.620 And we did nothing because we just, we got so hooked on cheap electronics that we didn't want to stop that from coming.
00:23:45.640 They were stealing our jobs and not just in the regular flow of goods and services from country to country.
00:23:51.360 They were stealing our jobs by cheating on trade.
00:23:54.240 And this was acknowledged by both parties, President Trump and Chuck Schumer.
00:23:59.500 Chuck Schumer even recently said, President Trump, don't go weak with China because someone has to take it on.
00:24:05.420 So he's saying, I'm the guy, I'm the guy, the buck got passed to me.
00:24:08.240 I'm going to take it on.
00:24:09.420 Why?
00:24:09.880 Because I'm the chosen one.
00:24:11.080 Yeah, that's why.
00:24:11.680 And he's looking up at the sky, right?
00:24:13.300 He's joking about it.
00:24:14.900 This is the difference between humility and false modesty.
00:24:20.020 Trump has an ego.
00:24:21.320 Nobody is denying that.
00:24:22.280 He puts his name on all the buildings.
00:24:23.960 Anyone who's in politics or anyone who's in TV has an ego.
00:24:27.780 But at least he's got a sense of humor about it.
00:24:29.600 He talked about how he doesn't drink a little while ago.
00:24:32.660 He said, I think I'm the only president who's never had a beer.
00:24:36.660 That's actually my only good quality.
00:24:39.160 Could you imagine if I had a beer?
00:24:41.000 If I were a drunk, I'd be the worst.
00:24:43.540 That's what he sees joking.
00:24:44.520 He says, my only good quality is I don't have a drink.
00:24:46.720 He's self-aware.
00:24:47.660 He knows how he comes off.
00:24:50.300 He quotes a guy calling him the second coming because it's funny. 0.66
00:24:55.000 And then he jokes about it because it's funny.
00:24:57.540 Trump has no false modesty.
00:24:59.220 I don't think he has any modesty whatsoever.
00:25:01.040 I'm not saying he's got any modesty.
00:25:03.820 But he does exhibit pretty regularly a certain humility.
00:25:08.040 Conservatives generally have humility by definition.
00:25:10.580 You need a humility to be a conservative because to be a conservative is to acknowledge
00:25:14.300 that human nature is broken.
00:25:16.840 It's fallen.
00:25:17.840 It's imperfect and imperfectible.
00:25:19.800 And that means there's a limit to what politics can accomplish.
00:25:22.900 The left doesn't have that false modesty.
00:25:25.160 Or the left rather doesn't have that humility.
00:25:26.880 What they do have is false modesty.
00:25:28.800 Barack Obama was all false modesty.
00:25:31.960 The guy had no humility.
00:25:33.280 He never did any self-effacing jokes.
00:25:36.260 He never could take a joke.
00:25:37.840 He never could doubt his own abilities or the possibilities of politics.
00:25:41.340 He was heading toward utopia.
00:25:42.900 He was going to make the sea levels reduce.
00:25:46.400 Not as if he wasn't joking about it.
00:25:47.940 He really thought that.
00:25:49.620 We are the ones we've been waiting for.
00:25:51.280 This religious language presenting himself as the Messiah.
00:25:53.900 This is true pride.
00:25:57.220 This is people who can't laugh at themselves.
00:26:00.440 Beware people who cannot laugh at themselves.
00:26:03.080 G.K. Chesterton said this.
00:26:04.740 He said the angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
00:26:08.520 Not that they always take themselves lightly, but they can.
00:26:12.380 Beware people who can't tell a self-effacing joke or take a self-effacing joke.
00:26:17.520 That is pride.
00:26:19.540 The difference here is key.
00:26:21.700 And that difference can even make the king of Israel humble.
00:26:26.940 Speaking of laughing, we have to get to this stupid Gillette ad.
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00:27:27.640 Gillette got woke about seven months ago.
00:27:30.040 Seven months ago, Gillette launched an ad against toxic masculinity.
00:27:36.400 Gillette, a razor company for men.
00:27:38.580 That's what they do.
00:27:39.260 They sell ads to men, decided to launch an ad about how terrible men are.
00:27:43.760 Here's just a little snippet of it.
00:27:47.100 What I actually think she's trying to say.
00:27:51.720 Making the same old excuses.
00:27:53.680 Boys will be boys.
00:27:55.040 Boys will be boys.
00:27:56.080 Boys will be boys.
00:27:57.080 But something finally changed.
00:27:58.880 So you may have a conversation about this ad in your workplace or among your friends today.
00:28:05.860 It's certainly getting a lot of attention online.
00:28:08.300 It's an ad from Gillette just out.
00:28:10.800 So this ad goes on and talks.
00:28:13.160 Boys will be boys.
00:28:14.000 How awful men are.
00:28:15.880 How terrible they are.
00:28:18.060 Grabbing women. 0.99
00:28:19.200 They're so awful.
00:28:20.020 And then Gillette got woke.
00:28:21.840 And now the men are going to be better.
00:28:23.380 Be the best a man can be.
00:28:24.720 Be better.
00:28:25.100 And it had all the PC stuff in it.
00:28:26.980 Like, for instance, all the bad guys in the beginning, virtually all of them are white guys. 0.85
00:28:31.380 And then after, once you get to the good guys, virtually all the good guys are not white guys. 0.64
00:28:35.940 And they're just totally leaning in to the politics of race and the politics of gender and the politics of leftism.
00:28:42.500 They didn't just stop there.
00:28:43.580 They followed with an ad about fat acceptance.
00:28:46.160 And then they followed with an ad about a guy teaching his daughter to shave her face after she decided to pretend to be a man.
00:28:53.960 Here's the Gillette transgender ad.
00:28:56.840 Growing up, I was always trying to figure out what kind of man I wanted to become.
00:28:59.920 And I'm still trying to figure out what kind of man that I want to become.
00:29:03.220 I always knew I was different.
00:29:05.080 I didn't know that there was a term for the type of person that I was.
00:29:09.420 I went into my transition just wanting to be happy.
00:29:13.760 I'm glad I'm at the point where I'm able to shave.
00:29:17.220 South, south, north, north, east, west, never in a hurry.
00:29:23.300 South, right, war.
00:29:27.780 Okay, so this is about as woke as you can get where a company that sells men's razors is now telling girls to shave to think that they're boys.
00:29:38.380 Gillette has decided now to change course seven months later.
00:29:41.420 They have, quote, decided to shift the spotlight from social issues to local heroes.
00:29:47.480 Why is that?
00:29:48.460 It's basically saying we've decided to shift the focus 180 degrees from what we've been
00:29:52.720 doing, which is failing to what we should have been, what we had been doing before that
00:29:56.760 and what we should be doing again.
00:29:57.980 Why?
00:29:58.360 Because there's information out that Gillette's parent company, Procter & Gamble, took an
00:30:03.740 $8 billion write down for the brand since that ad aired, $8 billion with a B, because
00:30:12.820 they've alienated their whole customer base.
00:30:15.020 This is their problem, and there's an important lesson here to be learned, not just for corporations,
00:30:20.240 but for politicians and for all of us.
00:30:22.260 Some companies survived going woke.
00:30:24.120 Nike went woke, but they decided that their whole base was basically going to be people
00:30:28.760 who are open to racial politics, particularly in urban areas, particularly people who are
00:30:34.160 leftist, and that seemed to work well enough for them with Colin Kaepernick.
00:30:39.120 Same is not true of Gillette or other companies.
00:30:41.200 Same is not true of politicians.
00:30:42.380 You don't win by insulting your supporters.
00:30:46.380 Democrats have learned this lesson for 50 years now.
00:30:48.760 They've constantly alienated more and more of their base.
00:30:51.120 That's why they've actually got to import new voters in the form of illegal immigration 0.90
00:30:54.700 to the tune of a million a year.
00:30:56.020 It's because they're alienating the base of Americans.
00:30:59.240 Conservatives do this often, too.
00:31:02.080 Conservatives, many conservatives that I've seen, hate their own supporters, and they are
00:31:07.740 uncomfortable with their supporters, at least, or at least they look down on their supporters.
00:31:11.440 These are the people I call conservative, but not that kind of conservatives.
00:31:15.180 I'm a conservative.
00:31:15.960 They're willing to admit I'm a conservative, but I'm not that kind.
00:31:18.300 I'm not the kind that's bad.
00:31:19.640 Please love me, New York Times.
00:31:21.040 Love me.
00:31:21.660 I hate Trump.
00:31:22.300 I hate his tweets.
00:31:22.980 No, help me.
00:31:23.680 Oh, no, please.
00:31:24.620 I'm clutching my pearls.
00:31:25.880 I'm almost going to choke my pearls around my neck.
00:31:28.960 These are people who are uncomfortable with their own base.
00:31:32.080 We've seen this in some presidential campaigns.
00:31:34.460 It's not a winning strategy.
00:31:35.880 You don't win that way.
00:31:36.940 It's not good to do it.
00:31:38.260 It's not moral to do it.
00:31:39.540 It's not nice.
00:31:40.460 It's not compassionate.
00:31:41.800 And politically, it's pretty stupid.
00:31:43.260 Gillette is learning that lesson, and hopefully many other conservatives will learn that lesson
00:31:47.200 as well.
00:31:47.540 Let's get to the mailbag before we got to go.
00:31:49.640 First question from Evan.
00:31:53.740 Dear Michael, I need an answer to a very controversial question that only you can answer.
00:31:59.680 What is the best place to get pizza in New York City, and what are your favorite topics?
00:32:06.120 I know that your answer will get another hit piece on you from Media Matters.
00:32:09.680 Thanks, Evan.
00:32:11.820 There is a correct answer to this.
00:32:14.380 It's a correct answer that very few people know.
00:32:16.480 The answer is Cafe Al Mercato in the meat market by Arthur Avenue in the Bronx.
00:32:23.700 That is the best pizza in New York.
00:32:25.980 It's a little out of the way.
00:32:26.820 If you're in Manhattan, look, you get pizza, pretty good pizza just about anywhere in New
00:32:30.060 York.
00:32:30.460 You want the best pizza.
00:32:31.680 Go to Arthur Avenue in the meat market, Cafe Al Mercato.
00:32:34.960 They have great pizza.
00:32:35.860 They got broccoli rabe on it.
00:32:36.840 It's very good.
00:32:38.220 For normal pizza that's not as good, my favorite toppings all the time, sausage and onions.
00:32:43.980 A little sweet, a little salty.
00:32:45.980 It's by far the best pizza.
00:32:47.840 This is not just my subjective preference.
00:32:50.440 This is objectively true.
00:32:53.220 Next question from Drew.
00:32:54.380 Drew, I have a student who just received a scholarship to Yale to play football, and he's
00:33:00.900 a religious conservative.
00:33:02.180 What advice would you give him to prepare him for being in that environment?
00:33:06.620 He should join an organization called the Tory party, which is one of the constituent parties
00:33:10.760 of the Yale political union.
00:33:12.920 Join the Tory party.
00:33:13.880 He'll have a great time.
00:33:14.620 Actually, one of my good friends from the Tory party got recruited to Yale to play football.
00:33:19.380 He was a very religious conservative, and he joined the Tory party.
00:33:21.540 He's one of the smartest guys I met there.
00:33:24.160 Do that.
00:33:25.060 Yale is a great place to be if you're a religious conservative, because there were like four
00:33:30.420 people there who are religious conservatives.
00:33:32.400 But it exposes you to the best arguments from the other side, the atheists and the leftists
00:33:37.420 and all of that.
00:33:37.880 You get all these arguments coming in, and you really get to hone your beliefs.
00:33:41.320 You get to figure out what you think.
00:33:42.700 And I know I'm a member of the Tory party, an alumnus of it, and that organization in
00:33:47.460 particular really helped me to hone what I think and talk to other conservatives and
00:33:53.380 figure out, discard some old ideas, get some other ideas.
00:33:57.040 I went into Yale as a somewhat conservative atheist, and I left believing that God exists
00:34:03.560 and far more conservative.
00:34:05.000 So I would take advantage of that opportunity.
00:34:06.940 Embrace the culture battle.
00:34:11.080 Embrace the fact that everyone is opposed to what you think.
00:34:14.040 That can really be a great advantage.
00:34:16.320 From Emma, I'm 30 years old, and I've decided that it's finally time to come out to my high
00:34:21.800 school friends.
00:34:23.220 You're going to tell them you're a lesbian, right? 0.95
00:34:24.560 No.
00:34:25.860 You're going to tell them that you're a conservative.
00:34:28.720 She goes on, quote,
00:34:29.600 But politics has never been a main talking point for us, but with media making politics
00:34:34.580 so trendy, it's been coming up more and more, and I now worry that they will be upset with
00:34:39.640 me when they find out that I voted for President Trump and have conservative values.
00:34:44.540 Do you have any suggestions or words of advice on how to approach this?
00:34:49.020 Yes.
00:34:50.820 Be confident and be funny.
00:34:54.880 Bigger, faster, funnier.
00:34:56.360 Good advice in show business, good advice in politics.
00:34:59.520 When you tell your friends that you're a conservative, let's say you're all sitting
00:35:02.180 around and they say, oh, oh, this Trump, he's so awful.
00:35:08.400 He's going to buy Greenland.
00:35:11.020 He wants to buy Greenland.
00:35:11.860 He's so awful.
00:35:12.460 He's so terrible.
00:35:13.080 That's so stupid.
00:35:13.660 That's so bad.
00:35:14.660 There are two ways that you can respond to that if you want to let people know that you
00:35:17.840 kind of like Trump and you are a conservative.
00:35:19.740 You can either take this kind of timid, nice, moderate Mitt Romney approach and say, well,
00:35:23.800 you know, I don't think it's a totally bad idea.
00:35:26.280 I mean, look, I don't really like his tweets that much.
00:35:28.580 And he really is bad.
00:35:30.040 And yeah, he's bad.
00:35:30.820 I really don't like him.
00:35:31.800 But, but I kind of like, and they're going to crush you if you say that, because that
00:35:37.280 approach is the I'm a conservative, but not that kind of conservative approach.
00:35:40.480 You're timid.
00:35:41.240 You don't seem confident in your views.
00:35:42.620 You're a little too earnest.
00:35:43.500 You're a little too serious.
00:35:44.480 It's very off-putting and it's going to have them pounce on you.
00:35:48.540 The alternative to that is, oh, I think Trump's hilarious.
00:35:51.940 I think we should totally take Greenland.
00:35:53.980 There's no reason that Denmark, that little tiny country all the ways away gets to own
00:35:57.800 Greenland.
00:35:58.280 I think we should take it.
00:35:59.380 We should build a giant Trump tower on Greenland.
00:36:01.500 We should make it a launching site for not only our trade, but for our military.
00:36:07.580 I'm all for it.
00:36:08.700 Make America Greenland again. 0.99
00:36:10.980 And if you take that approach, it's hard for them to respond because you're clobbering them.
00:36:15.840 You're putting them on the defensive.
00:36:18.000 And the best defense is a good offense.
00:36:20.180 Also, you're funny and it's hard to argue with funny.
00:36:22.900 It shows that you're confident.
00:36:24.080 You're not taking yourself so super seriously.
00:36:26.760 And you'll probably get them to laugh because humor cuts through a lot of BS, especially
00:36:31.120 the BS world of leftist politics.
00:36:33.600 I would go bold and I would be funny about it.
00:36:37.180 It's actually kind of the way that guys should approach girls.
00:36:39.880 You can either approach girl kind of creepy and timid and weird and earnest.
00:36:42.680 I really like you and please, here's a bunch of flowers.
00:36:44.820 Do you like me?
00:36:45.500 Or you can kind of joke about it and say, hey, you're really cute.
00:36:48.320 Let's go get a drink tonight.
00:36:50.420 What?
00:36:50.820 What was that?
00:36:51.320 Oh, I think you're cute.
00:36:52.840 And therefore, I would like to get a drink with you tonight.
00:36:55.300 Would you like to go get a drink?
00:36:57.580 It's kind of funny.
00:36:58.440 It's light.
00:36:58.880 It's not making a big deal out of it.
00:37:00.240 That's what I would do in politics and romance.
00:37:05.200 And, you know, look, in these days, I find politics very romantic anyway.
00:37:10.000 And conservatives are much more romantic in their politics than the left, which is eggheads
00:37:14.800 and doer and upset all the time.
00:37:17.660 Go for that.
00:37:18.380 Be a bold conservative.
00:37:19.780 From Suriel.
00:37:21.540 Mr. Knowles.
00:37:22.500 I'm a Democrat and love your show.
00:37:24.440 Thank you.
00:37:24.860 That's very kind.
00:37:25.780 My mother is a Democrat as well and grew up in the 40s and 50s.
00:37:29.280 And she said she experienced racism then.
00:37:32.740 And she makes it clear it is not what we are experiencing now.
00:37:36.080 I don't think President Trump and others are racist, but the media say that he is.
00:37:41.280 Has the definition of racism changed?
00:37:44.540 Well, the left has not only tried to change the definition of racism, they've tried to
00:37:48.980 change the definition of all sorts of words.
00:37:51.520 They've changed the definition of justice to not justice, right?
00:37:55.420 It used to be justice, getting what you deserve without favor.
00:37:57.980 Now we have their version of justice, social justice, economic justice, reproductive justice.
00:38:02.680 But broadly, all their new definitions of justice means getting what you don't deserve
00:38:06.660 because you are favored.
00:38:08.340 That's the inversion of political correctness.
00:38:10.840 I mean, the politically correct left has redefined man to mean not a man.
00:38:14.840 Now man means woman. 0.74
00:38:15.980 Woman means man. 0.99
00:38:16.840 Totally backwards.
00:38:17.760 And they've done this with racism as well.
00:38:20.200 So they'll say, if a white person doesn't discriminate against black people, he is a racist.
00:38:28.280 Even though he's the opposite of a racist, they say, because he is white, he is by definition 0.59
00:38:32.640 a racist.
00:38:33.600 There have been, this has been written about in academic literature from the left.
00:38:37.580 And yet they'll say, if a black person despises white people just on the basis of their skin,
00:38:43.300 call them the white devils, that person is not a racist.
00:38:47.580 Even though he holds racially bigoted views, he can't be a racist because he is black.
00:38:52.580 Because black people are somehow, I guess they're incapable of, of the same kind of things that 1.00
00:39:00.280 we would expect of other people.
00:39:01.480 That's the racially bigoted view of the left.
00:39:05.300 It's exactly flipping that word.
00:39:07.280 I'm not surprised.
00:39:08.200 I mean, I'm glad to hear that I've got at least one Democrat listener to the show, but
00:39:11.160 I'm not surprised.
00:39:11.820 I suspect there are actually a lot of Democrat listeners to the show.
00:39:14.560 Why?
00:39:14.980 Not because we agree on everything.
00:39:16.580 We probably don't agree on everything.
00:39:17.820 But because this approach from the left of demonizing half of your countrymen is deplorable
00:39:24.040 and irredeemable and saying that people who are not bigots are bigots and people who are
00:39:27.660 bigots are not bigots and saying that up is down and left is right and men are women
00:39:30.940 is so offensive to people because you're just being lied to.
00:39:36.200 You're being told by the left and increasingly because the left took over the Democratic Party
00:39:40.160 by the Democratic Party, you're being told, don't believe your eyes.
00:39:43.600 Believe what I'm telling you.
00:39:44.940 Don't believe what you see yourself.
00:39:46.640 Don't think for yourself.
00:39:47.580 Just repeat what I say.
00:39:49.100 And I think it's turned off a lot of people.
00:39:50.600 I think it helped get President Trump elected.
00:39:52.780 And I think it's the reason that a fair number of Democrats and centrists and left-wingers
00:39:56.540 listen to conservative shows because at least we're talking about the issues and trying
00:40:01.000 to work them out as best we can and not just regurgitating BS inverted politically correct
00:40:06.240 lies.
00:40:07.280 From Joshua.
00:40:09.260 Michael, I know you've mentioned you were in acting and with that line of work, you must
00:40:13.900 be able to memorize many lines for your performance.
00:40:16.100 My question is, what methods do you use to remember a vast amount of lines for your performances
00:40:21.500 or are you one of those people that can remember almost anything after reading it once?
00:40:25.760 Thanks for everything you do and the Daily Wire group.
00:40:28.520 There are different ways to memorize.
00:40:32.200 If you want to memorize something and have it in your head for the next hour, you can train
00:40:38.140 yourself to do that.
00:40:39.340 I can do that, for instance.
00:40:40.400 I can look at a sheet of paper pretty much just once and have it memorized for the next
00:40:44.020 hour and then I'm going to forget it.
00:40:45.220 If you want to memorize something and have it with you for 10 years or 20 years, I mean,
00:40:50.500 there are monologues, poems, Shakespeare, Dante, all these sort of things that I memorized
00:40:56.420 when I was 16 years old that I can still remember word perfectly.
00:40:59.880 And the reason is because that technique, if you really want to get something memorized,
00:41:04.000 is you have to say it out loud and you have to not just read it in your head and try to
00:41:09.380 remember it.
00:41:09.820 Say it out loud and use your muscles in an exaggerated way.
00:41:13.520 So if I were trying to memorize, I don't know, a Robert Frost poem, two roads diverged
00:41:19.640 in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler long I stood on and
00:41:23.260 on and on.
00:41:23.920 I wouldn't just even say it like that.
00:41:25.700 I would make my mouth really big and I would use all my muscles and say two roads diverged
00:41:30.500 in a yellow wood and sorry I could on and on.
00:41:33.360 And the reason I would do that is because of muscle memory.
00:41:37.040 So when you memorize in that way, you kind of remember how your mouth moves.
00:41:41.600 You kind of remember how your speech is physically and it helps you to remember the lines.
00:41:48.300 This is important advice, not just in memorizing a script or a speech or a presentation.
00:41:53.260 It's important advice for life because what it tells you is the importance of habit.
00:41:59.720 We think of virtue as doing one good thing one time.
00:42:03.080 That's not what virtue is.
00:42:04.940 Virtue is a habit.
00:42:05.920 You train in it.
00:42:07.400 It's a discipline.
00:42:09.080 If you practice the virtues long enough, they become habitual.
00:42:13.900 If you practice sin and vice long enough, that becomes habitual too.
00:42:17.900 And then it becomes addiction.
00:42:19.140 The same is true of virtue.
00:42:20.380 And so you've got to put it into your body.
00:42:22.080 It's true of politics.
00:42:22.980 You can't just think about politics.
00:42:24.400 You can't just pontificate and talk about your imaginary abstract world.
00:42:28.640 You've got to do it.
00:42:29.320 You've got to be in the fight.
00:42:30.920 You've got to have the strenuous life.
00:42:32.600 You've got to actually put it in your body.
00:42:34.100 We're in the real world.
00:42:34.880 We're not just floating brains in the abstract.
00:42:37.280 We've got real bodies.
00:42:38.260 We're living in time and space.
00:42:39.520 And you have to do.
00:42:40.820 You have to act.
00:42:42.860 All right.
00:42:43.180 One more question.
00:42:43.820 Then we're at.
00:42:44.420 Michael, happy 400th show.
00:42:46.040 Another 400 more.
00:42:47.100 Your mouth to God's ears.
00:42:48.360 My question relates to politics in the workplace.
00:42:50.940 Lately, my company has been pushing for all employees to go to a climate change march.
00:42:55.100 For obvious reasons, this sounds like a terrible idea.
00:42:57.660 I'm extremely worried about getting fired for being conservative and have been tight-lipped
00:43:02.620 about other issues at work.
00:43:05.020 Besides showing up to the march with I hate AOC signs, how would you handle the situation?
00:43:10.640 Obviously, in my current line of work, I'm pretty open about my political views.
00:43:16.880 But I have been an actor, as we just talked about in the last question.
00:43:20.080 I've worked in other places where I've been a little quieter about my political views because
00:43:24.220 if you open up about your political views, you don't work.
00:43:26.980 And that's, look, that's a choice you can make.
00:43:28.900 I've made that choice now.
00:43:30.020 But if you want to work in something and you know that your political views are going to
00:43:33.920 get you fired for it, sometimes you need to be a little bit cleverer about it.
00:43:38.640 I certainly would not go to the march.
00:43:40.120 I wouldn't violate your beliefs and your views and your vision of morality.
00:43:47.200 However, you don't need to walk in and have like two AR-15s in your hand and say like,
00:43:51.180 woohoo, America, baby, I love Trump.
00:43:53.540 Go, go, go, go, go, go.
00:43:54.280 You don't need to do that.
00:43:56.040 You can be a little cleverer.
00:43:58.260 You can be a little sly about it.
00:44:00.680 What I would do is make some plans on the day of that climate march.
00:44:05.020 And then when they say, you're going to come to the climate march, you say, oh, I already
00:44:07.440 have plans.
00:44:08.460 I got to go to my sister's lunch or whatever, whatever plans you make.
00:44:12.400 That way you're not lying.
00:44:13.780 You're not violating your moral principles and you live to fight another day at your job.
00:44:18.280 And then when the time comes for you to really make that difference, you'll be able to do it
00:44:22.480 as long as you make sure you don't violate what your beliefs and you stay true and you keep
00:44:27.180 integrity.
00:44:27.860 All right, that's our show.
00:44:28.920 We have another show tomorrow because we skipped the show yesterday.
00:44:30.940 So in the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
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