The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 414 - Joe Biden： All Bark, No Bite

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00:00:37.800 Last night, the top nine Democratic presidential candidates and Julian Castro met in Houston to debate all the top issues

00:00:45.760 and to promise the American people a future with two cars in every garage, few teeth in every mouth,

00:00:51.860 and a record player in every living room.

00:00:54.280 Joe Biden fared the worst, but no one came out looking good.

00:00:57.940 We will examine the highlights.

00:00:59.760 Then, the Trump administration moves to outlaw vaping for all the wrong reasons.

00:01:05.140 And Hillary Clinton tries out performance art. 0.54

00:01:08.700 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:10.740 Last night's Democratic debate felt like performance art.

00:01:21.000 We got about three hours of performance art.

00:01:23.420 I was on the Crowder live stream for it, so you can check that out too.

00:01:26.680 Lots and lots of fun.

00:01:28.880 Joe Biden probably couldn't have had a worse night than he did.

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00:03:39.560 Joe Biden's no good, terrible, very bad night.

00:03:42.400 He looked old.

00:03:43.320 He looked confused.

00:03:44.560 He looked frail.

00:03:45.760 He couldn't finish, rather, a single sentence and his teeth literally fell out of his mouth.

00:03:51.920 He caught him back right before they totally flopped, but his teeth actually fell out of his mouth.

00:03:56.420 On the bright side, at least his eyeball didn't explode this time.

00:04:00.280 There are silver linings to every storm cloud, so at least you got that.

00:04:04.420 His eyeball didn't fill with blood like it did on the last CNN town hall.

00:04:08.480 But otherwise, just about everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong, including, I know it sounds like I'm joking, but it's not a joke.

00:04:16.720 His teeth literally falling out of his mouth.

00:04:20.560 Here it is.

00:04:21.260 At the time, there was a groundswell in this country to get something done.

00:04:24.700 When President Obama asked you to leave the push for gun control, you have often pointed

00:04:28.880 to your ability to reach across the aisle to get things done.

00:04:32.380 But four months after Sandy Hook, a measure to require expanded background checks died on

00:04:37.120 the Senate floor.

00:04:38.520 If you couldn't get it done after Sandy Hook, why should voters give you another chance?

00:04:42.500 Because I've got it done before.

00:04:44.240 I'm the only one up here who's ever beat the NRA.

00:04:47.220 Only one ever beat the NRA nationally.

00:04:48.880 And then you can see, as he's trying to get that sentence out, he's saying, I got it done

00:04:55.260 before.

00:04:56.040 He uses his tongue to push his dentures back into place in the way that old men do, in 1.00

00:05:02.860 the way that people who wear dentures do.

00:05:04.340 Not just old men, but other people who have dentures.

00:05:07.280 Unmistakable.

00:05:08.620 This is not about the age.

00:05:11.640 This is actually not the age issue.

00:05:13.540 We've known that Joe Biden has fake teeth for a very long time, at least close observers.

00:05:19.280 No, nobody on earth has teeth that big and bright and shiny and white.

00:05:23.020 And certainly not old men who have been in politics for a long time.

00:05:26.900 There is actually a website that went up at least 10 years ago called JoeBidensTeeth.com.

00:05:32.340 And it's just a sort of ode to his teeth.

00:05:34.700 You can go there.

00:05:35.340 I think the website's still up.

00:05:36.740 This is not about the age.

00:05:39.340 What the issue is, is that he looks and acts his age.

00:05:45.580 Ronald Reagan was no spring chicken.

00:05:48.260 He was the oldest president in American history.

00:05:50.720 But he didn't seem like the oldest president.

00:05:53.580 He was sprightly.

00:05:54.560 He was spry.

00:05:55.120 He was full of energy.

00:05:56.040 You know, very famously when he went to meet the Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev.

00:06:01.460 Gorbachev was a younger man than Ronald Reagan.

00:06:03.660 And they were meeting and Gorbachev's limo pulls up and Reagan is waiting in the White House.

00:06:07.720 It's wintertime.

00:06:09.920 And there was a debate going on.

00:06:11.400 Does Reagan wear the coat or does he not wear the coat?

00:06:14.020 If he wears the coat, it's wintertime.

00:06:15.520 That's appropriate.

00:06:16.440 If you don't wear the coat, you look younger and more energetic.

00:06:19.400 Doors open.

00:06:20.040 Reagan doesn't have a coat on.

00:06:21.320 Just his suit jacket.

00:06:22.600 And he goes hopping down those little steps.

00:06:25.020 And he embraces Gorbachev, who's got the big coat on and the big Soviet fur hat.

00:06:29.540 And he looked less energetic.

00:06:31.580 He looked weaker.

00:06:32.540 He looked older.

00:06:33.640 And Gorbachev was actually very upset about this.

00:06:36.060 And at the end of their meeting, he said, so next time, are we going to wear coats or are we not going to wear coats?

00:06:40.860 Because he knew how it looked.

00:06:42.680 Reagan understood the optics of age.

00:06:45.600 He was asked by Walter Mondale, who was running against him in the 84 race.

00:06:52.200 Mondale made some comment about his age.

00:06:54.840 And Ronald Reagan answered in the debate.

00:06:57.200 He said, I will not make age an issue in this campaign.

00:07:00.780 I will not exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

00:07:06.400 And Mondale later commented that that was the moment he knew he lost the election.

00:07:11.240 Because Reagan totally flipped that age issue on its head.

00:07:14.620 Trump does the same thing.

00:07:15.720 You know, Donald Trump is out there hanging out with Kanye West.

00:07:18.900 Donald Trump, for all his age, is the hippest guy in the country.

00:07:23.720 Chris Rock said this about Joan Rivers.

00:07:25.400 When Joan Rivers died, she was 80 years old.

00:07:27.380 She was making jokes about Beyonce. 0.88

00:07:29.040 She was so hip. 0.97

00:07:30.080 There are much younger comedians who are out there making jokes about Bill Clinton.

00:07:34.240 You know, who aren't hip at all, even though they're 30 or 40 years old.

00:07:38.620 Trump is hip.

00:07:40.300 If you look at his Twitter picture, that Twitter picture that you see that he hasn't changed in a long time, that's from 2005.

00:07:47.760 That was from when he was doing The Apprentice.

00:07:50.540 And he hasn't changed it, but you probably haven't noticed because the guy doesn't really age.

00:07:54.680 I think it's all that fast food and all that Diet Coke has sort of preserved him in this eternal form.

00:08:01.120 Same thing with his hair.

00:08:02.100 He obviously colors his hair.

00:08:03.740 Ronald Reagan colored his hair, too.

00:08:06.040 They just seem young.

00:08:07.220 And Joe Biden doesn't seem young.

00:08:09.500 He seems old.

00:08:11.900 Biden also talks like someone who isn't with it.

00:08:15.000 So it's not even just the way he acts and the teeth falling out and the cadence of his voice.

00:08:20.860 It's also what he's saying.

00:08:22.720 So if Trump is out hanging out with Kanye, Trump is hosting Saturday Night Live, Joe Biden is talking about how we need a record player, a gramophone in every home.

00:08:32.900 That's not an exaggeration.

00:08:34.040 Here is Joe Biden's answer to a question about the legacy of slavery.

00:08:39.780 We make sure that every single child does, in fact, have three, four and five year olds go to school, school, not daycare, school.

00:08:47.580 We bring social workers into homes of parents to help them deal with how to raise their children.

00:08:53.240 It's not that they don't want to help.

00:08:54.620 They don't want they don't know quite what to do.

00:08:57.020 Play the radio.

00:08:58.240 Make sure the television, excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night.

00:09:02.720 The phone, make sure the kids hear words.

00:09:05.900 A kid coming from a very poor school, a very poor background will hear four million words, fewer spoken by the time they get there.

00:09:13.100 There are two incredible aspects of this clip.

00:09:15.960 One, he corrects himself.

00:09:18.000 He says, make sure the television's on at night, which these days is actually a little bit outdated because people don't have regular TV.

00:09:24.740 They pretty much just watch everything digitally or on online or streaming services.

00:09:29.240 But he could have gotten away with that.

00:09:30.460 He corrected himself, though.

00:09:32.000 So he said, make sure the television is, I mean, the record player.

00:09:36.560 Put the record player.

00:09:37.540 No, I didn't mean that.

00:09:38.940 I mean, have ancient Greek orators singing comedies in your house.

00:09:43.120 I don't know how much older you can get than that.

00:09:45.140 But he is regressing to this older technology.

00:09:50.120 And that's not even the worst part of his answer.

00:09:52.780 That's the first amazing aspect of it.

00:09:55.380 The second amazing aspect of this answer is he's basically insulting the core voter group that he needs to get through this primary and then also to get through the general election. 0.93

00:10:09.840 What he said in his answer is we need the government to come in to the homes of black parents because black parents don't know how to raise their kids. 0.80

00:10:22.020 That's what he's saying. 0.94

00:10:22.840 He's saying, oh, the problem is, you know, we need we need to take those kids out of the home at age three, make sure they go into a state institution.

00:10:30.800 We need social workers to go in the home because the parents, they don't know what they're doing. 1.00

00:10:34.020 They don't know how to raise their own kids.

00:10:35.380 And it's not even just a general comment about Americans.

00:10:39.340 It's not a class comment.

00:10:40.780 It's not a socioeconomic comment.

00:10:42.340 It's specifically a race comment because he's answering a question about the legacy of slavery.

00:10:48.980 Joe Biden, his main argument here is electability.

00:10:53.100 That's really the only reason he's at the center podium.

00:10:55.580 It's the only reason he's leading in the polls.

00:10:58.640 Part of the reason he's electable is, one, he seems a little more moderate than some of the other candidates.

00:11:02.740 But the other one is, the other candidates are polling at like zero percent among black voters.

00:11:09.000 And Democrats need black voters in order to win. 0.94

00:11:12.820 Joe Biden is going out there and specifically insulting black voters.

00:11:18.260 And then just when I was wondering, I was watching the debate, I thought, why is Julian Castro on this stage?

00:11:23.340 Why is this nothing, empty suit, joke of a candidate on this stage?

00:11:27.560 Just when I thought that, he showed me why he was on that stage.

00:11:30.800 He made the most vicious attack against Joe Biden of the entire night.

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00:13:12.800 So I'm wondering what Julian Castro is still doing on that stage.

00:13:16.200 He should have gotten off weeks and weeks ago.

00:13:18.580 I was actually on Leland Vittert's show on Fox News when the news broke that Julian Castro was going to run for president.

00:13:26.880 And Leland turned to me and said, Michael, I want to get your reaction just right off the top here to Julian Castro making this big announcement.

00:13:33.520 I said, I've got a big announcement, Leland.

00:13:35.180 I had a ham and cheese omelet for breakfast.

00:13:37.400 Both of those announcements are of equal relevance to the 2020 presidential contest.

00:13:43.480 Julian Castro is going nowhere.

00:13:45.180 But before he goes nowhere, he can just shiv Joe Biden right in the side.

00:13:51.100 He comes out there and he just flatly accused Joe Biden of being completely senile.

00:13:59.900 Here he is.

00:14:00.880 Barack Obama's vision was not to leave 10 million people uncovered.

00:14:04.700 He wanted every single person in this country covered.

00:14:07.700 My plan would do that.

00:14:08.940 Your plan would not.

00:14:09.600 They do not have to buy in.

00:14:11.360 They do not have to buy in.

00:14:12.780 You just said that.

00:14:13.680 You just said that two minutes ago.

00:14:15.400 You just said two minutes ago that they would have to buy in.

00:14:18.360 You said they would have to buy in.

00:14:20.140 Your grandmother would not have to buy in.

00:14:20.820 If she qualified for Medicaid, she would automatically be in for it.

00:14:24.800 Are you forgetting already what you said just two minutes ago?

00:14:28.880 I mean, I can't believe that you said two minutes ago that they had to buy in.

00:14:33.420 And now you're saying they don't have to buy in.

00:14:34.800 You're forgetting that.

00:14:35.580 You said anyone like your grandmother who has no money, you're automatically enrolled.

00:14:42.080 This was a pretty ugly exchange, a pretty brutal attack from Castro.

00:14:46.180 I think the attack actually made Castro look even worse than he already did.

00:14:50.420 I mean, it's so nasty.

00:14:51.560 It's so disrespectful.

00:14:52.900 Also, it wasn't true.

00:14:54.320 Joe Biden, I'm happy to criticize Joe Biden, but Joe Biden had said, if you don't have enough

00:14:58.720 money, you are automatically enrolled.

00:15:00.520 So even the charge that Castro was making simply wasn't true.

00:15:04.620 Nevertheless, it looked really bad for both these guys, which is fine for me because Joe

00:15:09.800 Biden is currently the front runner.

00:15:11.400 And what's wild is when Castro decides he's going to turn the attack from you're lying

00:15:15.520 to you're an old man who's senile, said, are you forgetting what you said two minutes

00:15:19.860 ago?

00:15:20.480 Biden is so visibly disgusted, he turns away from Castro.

00:15:24.520 But then, because Bernie is to his right, he just starts talking to Bernie and it looks

00:15:29.440 like those two old Muppets, like, you know, the ones up in the, up in the balcony, the

00:15:33.000 and the big white hair and the mustaches and everything.

00:15:36.300 So it really, truly was a bad look for everybody all around.

00:15:43.200 The, uh, look, obviously it's not going to help Castro.

00:15:46.460 Castro is going nowhere.

00:15:47.380 But Joe's troubles keep multiplying because Biden's actual answers were terrible too.

00:15:54.380 It's not just the way other people made him look or his dentures slide around.

00:15:58.260 It was his own answers.

00:16:00.580 They were rambling.

00:16:01.800 He was unable to finish a sentence.

00:16:03.840 He did sometimes contradict himself.

00:16:06.440 Worst of all, because he could get past all of that, that's built into Joe Biden.

00:16:10.100 Worst of all, the answers were radical and he can't survive that.

00:16:15.060 But he keeps going back and forth.

00:16:18.800 He keeps vacillating.

00:16:20.640 Is he the moderate elder statesman or is he the leftist radical?

00:16:25.660 He keeps, every day he goes back and forth.

00:16:28.140 One day he's just going to preserve in a more moderate way the legacy of Obama.

00:16:33.160 He's, he's been in the Senate for 50 years.

00:16:35.920 The next day he wants to repeal the Hyde Amendment and he's sorry he ever did that.

00:16:39.300 And he's sorry that he passed criminal justice reform, the, the 1994 crime bill.

00:16:43.720 But he can't decide which he's going to be.

00:16:47.220 The reason he can't decide is not even that he's desperate and he is just trying to be cynical.

00:16:53.120 It's that he doesn't have any actual beliefs.

00:16:56.560 He is the definition of an empty suit.

00:17:00.500 He always has been.

00:17:02.240 He had to drop out of the race in 1988 because he was stealing other people's words.

00:17:07.860 He doesn't even have his own words to say.

00:17:10.560 He is nothing.

00:17:11.620 He will be anything and everything to everybody.

00:17:15.500 He just wants to smile and get elected and be applauded.

00:17:20.160 He is the definition, the prototype, the archetype rather, of a glad handing empty politician.

00:17:27.880 So that's why he can't decide how to handle these questions.

00:17:31.280 He actually can't even decide how to handle his main legislative achievement, which was the 1994 crime bill.

00:17:37.240 Actually a very good crime bill.

00:17:38.380 So the 1994 crime bill is a bill that led to what some people would call mass incarceration.

00:17:44.740 I would call it getting tough on crime and jailing criminals, which is a good thing.

00:17:48.880 And the crime rates dropped dramatically.

00:17:50.880 They went way, way down.

00:17:52.180 Now he was asked a question about criminal justice reform.

00:17:54.720 He goes full radical.

00:17:56.000 He says we should barely put anybody in jail.

00:17:58.540 Nobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime.

00:18:01.360 As when we were in the White House, we released 36,000 people from the federal prison system.

00:18:06.520 Nobody should be in jail for nonviolent crime.

00:18:10.440 You are the architect of mass incarceration.

00:18:14.940 You personally, you're the guy.

00:18:17.040 And it was a good idea.

00:18:18.280 And it helped and it worked and you could run on that record.

00:18:21.640 Now you're saying nobody but violent criminals should be in jail, period. 1.00

00:18:27.240 This is probably the single stupidest answer Joe Biden could possibly give. 1.00

00:18:33.820 And what he thinks he's doing, what he thinks he's doing is pandering to the black voters 1.00

00:18:37.860 that he needs that are sort of his superpower against Bernie and Elizabeth Warren.

00:18:42.820 Actually, though, it's the opposite.

00:18:44.920 It's not pandering to black voters. 0.68

00:18:46.580 It's a betrayal of black voters or it will be perceived that way at least.

00:18:50.240 Because what he is saying would disproportionately help wealthy white people 0.90

00:18:56.060 and it would disproportionately hurt poorer black people.

00:19:00.360 How so?

00:19:01.400 Because even beyond the racial element, there is a class element here.

00:19:06.080 Just even just look at the money.

00:19:07.980 You know, so much of the debate last night was about the wealth gap between white and black.

00:19:12.740 So much of the discussion of criminal justice was about this wealth gap.

00:19:16.140 How white people on average are wealthier and black people on average are poorer 0.90

00:19:19.320 and therefore there's no justice in America.

00:19:21.840 There are two different Americas.

00:19:23.180 Consider the effect of Joe Biden's answer.

00:19:27.660 If nonviolent criminals are not in jail, that means that investment bankers

00:19:33.640 who commit financial crimes, disproportionately very wealthy, disproportionately white,

00:19:40.160 get off scot-free. 1.00

00:19:42.500 You're a fraudster. 0.99

00:19:43.920 You're running a Ponzi scheme. 1.00

00:19:45.420 You're doing any of that.

00:19:46.120 You get off scot-free.

00:19:47.720 But a guy who robs a liquor store goes to prison.

00:19:54.160 The wealthy white guy isn't robbing the liquor store.

00:19:57.340 This is just a terrible answer.

00:19:59.340 And by the way, you know, I have family members who were victims of nonviolent crimes.

00:20:04.760 Fraud, that sort of thing, has devastating effects on families.

00:20:09.800 Can lead to death.

00:20:10.800 I mean, it can really lead to just awful.

00:20:14.140 I mean, fraud is the worst crime.

00:20:17.200 Fraud is the worst crime.

00:20:18.900 It is the worst sin. 0.87

00:20:20.260 It is what Dante puts in the very center of hell with Satan in his three-headed mouth, 0.85

00:20:27.860 or his three-mouthed head, I guess, chomping on the fraudsters.

00:20:32.400 There is nothing worse than fraud.

00:20:33.920 And what Joe Biden is saying is, yeah, if you commit fraud, that's fine.

00:20:36.880 You go free.

00:20:37.480 You shouldn't go to jail for that.

00:20:39.460 Just absurd. 0.98

00:20:42.500 I mean, really a disgusting answer. 0.68

00:20:45.400 And practically speaking, unfortunate and counterproductive for what Biden's trying to do. 0.79

00:20:53.000 Absurd and radical.

00:20:55.260 What about immigration crimes?

00:20:57.180 They don't go to jail.

00:20:57.940 What about, he's basically saying nonviolent drug crimes don't go to jail.

00:21:01.480 But that's just one sort of nonviolent crime.

00:21:03.200 Even the possession of illegal weapons.

00:21:05.560 Let's say you've got a whole slew of illegal weapons in your house.

00:21:08.440 That's not a violent crime, right?

00:21:09.780 You don't go to jail.

00:21:11.600 So that's the absurd and the radical answer.

00:21:13.780 If voters want absurd and radical, they are going to vote for Bernie Sanders or Julian Castro

00:21:18.040 or somebody like that.

00:21:18.960 They're not going to vote for Joe Biden.

00:21:20.340 This is a losing battle for him.

00:21:22.640 And if Biden doesn't change course, he's going to lose this bigger fight as well.

00:21:26.800 But Biden was not the wrongest candidate of the night.

00:21:29.880 There are wronger candidates on that stage.

00:21:34.600 The wrongest candidate of the night award actually goes to a candidate that some conservatives

00:21:39.180 like or at least pretend to like, which is Andrew Yang.

00:21:42.980 Here is Andrew Yang's opening statement in which he tries to revive his struggling campaign

00:21:48.460 by literally buying votes.

00:21:51.360 In America today, everything revolves around the almighty dollar.

00:21:55.960 Our schools, our hospitals, our media, even our government.

00:21:59.820 It's why we don't trust our institutions anymore.

00:22:02.220 We have to get our country working for us again instead of the other way around.

00:22:06.540 We have to see ourselves as the owners and shareholders of this democracy rather than inputs into a giant

00:22:12.220 machine.

00:22:12.640 When you donate money to a presidential campaign, what happens?

00:22:17.760 The politician spends the money on TV ads and consultants, and you hope it works out.

00:22:22.540 It's time to trust ourselves more than our politicians.

00:22:26.060 That's why I'm going to do something unprecedented tonight.

00:22:29.380 My campaign will now give a freedom dividend of $1,000 a month for an entire year to 10 American

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00:22:38.420 If you believe that you can solve your own problems better than any politician,

00:22:42.820 go to yang2020.com and tell us how $1,000 a month will help you do just that.

00:22:48.140 This is how we will get our country working for us again, the American people.

00:22:53.020 Politicians buying votes, totally unprecedented.

00:22:55.640 Never happened before, right?

00:22:56.760 We'll get to why that's the wrongest answer.

00:22:58.580 We'll get to the most frivolous answer.

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00:25:12.180 So, Andrew Yang's big idea is he's going to buy votes, and he says this is unprecedented.

00:25:20.680 This is not only precedented, this is the oldest idea in politics.

00:25:24.240 The very first politician walking out of the cave realized that there were two easy ways

00:25:29.620 to win political support.

00:25:31.600 Threaten somebody with the club and buy them with goods and services and money, and that's

00:25:37.460 what this guy is promising.

00:25:39.180 It's an old idea, it's a cynical idea, and it's a wicked idea to pay people to go away

00:25:43.680 and to get the entire middle class hooked on welfare.

00:25:46.340 It's bad, it's wicked.

00:25:47.880 It's like the logical end of neoliberalism, of this idea that all that matters is getting

00:25:54.460 GDP to go higher and higher and higher and really not pay attention to any other aspect

00:25:59.340 of society, but it is not a serious solution, and it would have disastrous consequences.

00:26:05.500 It also, the way you know it's a really bad idea is it relies on silly euphemisms.

00:26:11.240 I mean, that's what political correctness is, is just relying on deceptive euphemisms.

00:26:15.200 He says you're getting a freedom dividend.

00:26:18.020 A freedom dividend?

00:26:21.140 Freedom dividend, which is the product of coercing people, taking their money away, and then giving

00:26:25.140 it to you so that you get hooked on the government teat?

00:26:28.120 It doesn't sound like a freedom dividend to me.

00:26:31.320 It's a very bad idea.

00:26:32.500 It's a way to get people hooked on government, hooked on dependency, and to pay them to shut 0.90

00:26:37.360 up and stay home and shoot up opioids, and if they kill themselves, too bad. 0.91

00:26:41.500 That's what it is.

00:26:42.080 It's not a real solution to the problems plaguing our country.

00:26:47.300 It's just a way to make it look like it's going away.

00:26:50.340 So Yang was the wrongest candidate.

00:26:51.800 The most frivolous candidate of the night was going to go to Julian Castro, but then

00:26:56.740 he got that knock in at Biden, so okay, he actually did something.

00:26:59.840 He had some use.

00:27:00.840 The most frivolous award goes to, drum roll please, Cory Booker.

00:27:07.000 Cory Booker, we don't need to really get into the substance of his answers because it's Cory

00:27:11.860 Booker, you know, it's not going to be all that relevant pretty soon, but he repeated

00:27:17.160 one canard that he just can't drop and that takes away a lot of his credibility.

00:27:21.300 He called Trump a racist.

00:27:22.820 They all call Trump racist, but then he got specific, and where you get specific is where

00:27:27.480 you can be proven wrong.

00:27:28.840 He said that Trump is not able to condemn white supremacy.

00:27:34.380 Here he is.

00:27:35.140 It's not just an issue that we hear a president that can't condemn white supremacy.

00:27:39.760 He can't condemn white supremacy, right?

00:27:41.740 He can't do it.

00:27:42.860 Trump could never condemn white supremacy or racism or bigotry except, oh, hold on, wait

00:27:48.560 a second.

00:27:48.920 He's done it repeatedly for years.

00:27:52.100 To refresh your memory.

00:27:53.940 Racism is evil. 0.99

00:27:55.640 And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, 1.00

00:28:03.740 white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear 1.00

00:28:10.660 as Americans. 0.99

00:28:11.460 And I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should 0.95

00:28:15.880 be condemned totally.

00:28:17.640 We are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal.

00:28:23.720 We are equal in the eyes of our creator.

00:28:26.480 We are equal under the law.

00:28:29.100 And we are equal under our constitution.

00:28:34.060 Those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America.

00:28:40.140 How many times do I have to reject?

00:28:43.160 I've rejected David Duke, rejected David Duke.

00:28:46.320 I've rejected the KKK, the Ku Klux Klan.

00:28:50.520 From the time I'm five years old, I rejected them.

00:28:53.500 I put it on Twitter last week.

00:28:55.860 Now, I have been asked this question so many times.

00:28:58.360 I have rejected it so many times.

00:29:00.580 Nah, I'm not buying it, Mr. President.

00:29:03.160 Okay, Cory Booker says you can't condemn white supremacy.

00:29:05.840 So, I mean, you only condemned it there like, what, like 200 times or something?

00:29:09.880 So, anyway, that's Cory Booker.

00:29:12.600 This hurts him to say this kind of stuff.

00:29:14.680 He just seems shrill, which is his vocal problem.

00:29:18.520 And the shrillness goes to the content of what he's saying, too.

00:29:22.100 Nobody, not even the Democratic voters, believe that.

00:29:26.460 They don't believe that he can't condemn white supremacy, that Trump can't condemn white

00:29:29.420 supremacy.

00:29:30.260 He does.

00:29:30.760 They know he has.

00:29:31.920 Now, what Booker could say is, and Trump, he's using whistle, dog whistles.

00:29:38.460 He's using rhetoric that is actually giving cover to white supremacists, even though he's

00:29:43.540 explicitly condemning them.

00:29:44.540 I mean, he could come up with some kind of twisted logic to still call Trump a racist while

00:29:49.940 acknowledging reality.

00:29:51.020 But if Booker's not going to acknowledge reality, reality ain't going to acknowledge him.

00:29:56.480 We will get to what I think is the most important part of the debate.

00:30:00.140 The difference between the serious candidate and the frivolous candidates.

00:30:04.180 We'll get to that in a second.

00:30:05.360 Then we'll get to vaping and Hillary Clinton performance art.

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00:30:59.340 The main thing that became clear in this debate is that we are now in a three-way race.

00:31:04.800 You know, anything could happen, but what it's looking like now is we have a three-way race.

00:31:10.360 That three-way race is between Biden, Bernie, and Elizabeth Warren.

00:31:14.360 The difference between the serious and the unserious candidates became pretty clear in

00:31:20.400 this debate.

00:31:21.480 And you could tell this most clearly by their answers on guns.

00:31:25.060 So other than maybe Bernie, every single one of these candidates wants to take away all

00:31:28.560 of your guns, but listen to how they go about it.

00:31:31.940 There's the desperate way, the Beto way, which is to say, hell yeah, yeah, hey man, and to

00:31:38.300 promise to steal the most popular guns in America.

00:31:42.580 Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.

00:31:47.020 We're not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore.

00:31:51.720 Yeah, we're going to take away the most popular gun in America, and we're going to take away

00:31:55.460 your Second Amendment rights.

00:31:57.380 It's the second most important one.

00:31:59.180 They put it as number two.

00:32:00.380 It's in the Constitution.

00:32:02.240 Yeah, we're going to do that.

00:32:03.160 That's not a serious candidate.

00:32:04.620 That's not a serious general election candidate.

00:32:06.680 It also reveals to you something that I have long said, which is when Democrats tell you

00:32:10.580 that they're not going to take away your guns, don't believe them, they will take away your

00:32:14.240 guns.

00:32:14.520 Here's Beto O'Rourke.

00:32:15.980 I think like three weeks ago, not very long ago, Beto O'Rourke on a CNN town hall is asked,

00:32:21.980 are you going to take away our guns?

00:32:24.080 He says no.

00:32:25.180 I strongly support the Second Amendment.

00:32:27.800 I don't want to take yours or anyone else's guns.

00:32:30.960 Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.

00:32:33.980 We're not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore.

00:32:39.100 Three weeks.

00:32:40.360 That's what a difference that little bit of time makes.

00:32:42.900 So, of course, and I think all of them are disingenuous on guns.

00:32:45.800 I think they all want to take away your guns.

00:32:47.600 Maybe Bernie slightly accepted.

00:32:50.560 But that's it. 0.86

00:32:51.200 If you're going to take people's guns, as is a really dumb way to go about it, you're 0.76

00:32:55.120 clearly not thinking that you are going to be a top-tier presidential candidate.

00:32:58.820 The smarter way to grab guns is the Elizabeth Warren way, which is to put the issue into 1.00

00:33:03.320 real context.

00:33:04.840 We've actually said in recent days that there are things you can get done with Republicans

00:33:08.900 in the Senate.

00:33:10.040 What can you get done on gun control?

00:33:11.900 So, let's start by framing the problem the right way.

00:33:14.940 We have a gun violence problem in this country.

00:33:18.340 The mass shootings are terrible, but they get all the headlines.

00:33:22.300 Children die every day on streets, in neighborhoods, on playgrounds.

00:33:27.460 People die from violence, from suicide and domestic abuse.

00:33:32.500 We have a gun violence problem in this country, and we agree on many steps we could take to

00:33:40.140 fix it.

00:33:40.980 My view on this is we're going to not, it's not going to be one and done on this.

00:33:44.620 We're going to do it, and we're going to have to do it again, and we're going to have

00:33:47.260 to come back some more until we cut the number of gun deaths in this country significantly.

00:33:54.620 This is how you know she's running to win.

00:33:56.420 This is how you know that she is getting serious.

00:34:00.160 She's not just demagoguing this ridiculous issue about the AR-15s.

00:34:04.880 The AR-15 is involved in very, very, very few gun deaths or homicides each year.

00:34:12.460 Very few.

00:34:13.360 More people are killed by hands and knives and hammers and baseball bats than all rifles combined,

00:34:20.540 including the AR-15 and the AK-47.

00:34:23.940 You are 22 or 23 times more likely to be killed with a handgun, a pistol, than you are with

00:34:30.580 any kind of rifle, including the AR-15.

00:34:32.920 The AR-15 is a total red herring.

00:34:35.920 It's a complete, complete mislead on the issue.

00:34:40.000 The real issue is suicides and handgun homicides and gang violence.

00:34:47.540 And Liz Warren gives what's actually a pretty good answer on the gun question, especially

00:34:52.240 if you're of the opinion that we can regulate guns or we should regulate guns more.

00:34:56.380 Not my opinion, but it certainly is the opinion of the Democratic Party and even many independent

00:35:01.460 minded Americans.

00:35:02.540 This was a great answer on guns.

00:35:05.720 Really sharp, really well done.

00:35:07.920 You know, she's in it.

00:35:11.300 I mean, she thinks she's going to get it and the polls seem to be reflecting that.

00:35:15.180 And I think overall, she helped herself last night.

00:35:18.040 She didn't help herself a lot, but she helped herself show she's the stable one.

00:35:21.700 She's not too old.

00:35:22.420 She's not too crazy.

00:35:23.700 I think she's going to play this slow and steady wins the race kind of strategy and it 1.00

00:35:28.020 appears so far to be working.

00:35:29.400 Honorable mention for the night before we get to vaping.

00:35:31.320 And before we get to Hillary Clinton, performance art is the nearest to moderation. 1.00

00:35:38.560 That's the honorable mention to Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota.

00:35:41.420 She was asked about health care.

00:35:42.860 She said, maybe, just maybe we shouldn't take away health care from 149 million Americans. 0.75

00:35:48.700 And believe it or not, this was the closest thing to moderation all night.

00:35:52.840 I think you know that I don't agree with some of these proposals up here, George.

00:35:57.000 So I'm talking about if I could, if I could respond to some of the proposals.

00:36:01.260 But when it comes to our health care and when it comes to our premiums, I go with the doctor's

00:36:07.480 creed, which is do no harm.

00:36:09.800 And while Bernie wrote the bill, I read the bill.

00:36:12.680 And on page 8, on page 8 of the bill, it says that we will no longer have private insurance as we know it.

00:36:23.740 And that means that 149 million Americans will no longer be able to have their current insurance.

00:36:31.740 That's in four years.

00:36:33.620 I don't think that's a bold idea.

00:36:35.960 I think it's a bad idea.

00:36:37.960 Well said.

00:36:39.060 That's, she's clearly learned the lessons of Obamacare.

00:36:42.160 Pretty decent answer.

00:36:43.420 It's why she's going nowhere. 0.98

00:36:46.120 Enough of the lunatics. 0.99

00:36:47.320 Enough of them. 0.96

00:36:47.840 There will be nine more of these debates, which is just absolutely mind boggling that this will go on another nine times.

00:36:54.260 So let's not spend any more time on this one.

00:36:56.260 We have to get to the much more important issue, which is vaping.

00:37:01.280 Yes, vaping.

00:37:02.540 The Trump administration is reportedly moving to ban flavored e-cigarettes or vapes.

00:37:11.040 Listen, you've seen the vapes, you know, a little electronic pack and people suck in out of them and then they breathe out water vapor kind of smoke.

00:37:18.820 I'm not a fan of electronic cigarettes.

00:37:22.400 I'm not a proponent of them at all.

00:37:24.600 If you are going to ban them, ban them because they are super lame.

00:37:30.160 Don't ban them for these kind of silly reasons that they're coming up with.

00:37:34.500 Ban them because real tobacco is much more delicious than that fake, weird, vapey stuff.

00:37:40.220 Don't ban them because of some dubious health claims.

00:37:43.520 There have been a few deaths and there have been a few illnesses related to vaping broadly.

00:37:48.420 But they're not related to e-cigarettes.

00:37:52.280 The deaths have not been specifically tied to e-cigarettes.

00:37:55.620 They have been, however, tied to the weed pens, the vape that has THC in it and the marijuana substance.

00:38:05.160 Which brings up a very strange aspect of our culture.

00:38:08.900 I've clearly been vaping a little too much myself.

00:38:11.900 The strange aspect is the culture is increasingly anti-tobacco, but it's also increasingly pro-weed.

00:38:20.580 Like, very much so.

00:38:22.780 Even though marijuana is in many ways much worse for you than tobacco.

00:38:27.060 You won't, you won't, I know all the potheads are going to like tweet at me all angrily now, but it is, it is.

00:38:33.440 Marijuana smoke deposits four times as much tar into your lungs as tobacco smoke does.

00:38:38.820 Now, you might say, okay, but people smoke a lot more cigarettes than they do joints.

00:38:42.480 Maybe, you haven't met my friends in the music industry.

00:38:44.960 People can really smoke a lot of pot.

00:38:46.620 I've smoked pot a number of times in my life.

00:38:49.580 It's not like I'm unfamiliar with the substance.

00:38:53.740 It's just really weird to me.

00:38:55.420 I don't really care for pot.

00:38:56.560 I much prefer alcohol and tobacco.

00:39:00.000 It's very strange to me, though, that at the same time we are vilifying tobacco as the greatest evil on earth, we are making weed into this great cure-all.

00:39:09.840 You know, it's kind of the caricature of Joe Rogan.

00:39:12.360 It's like, yeah, man, weed just solves every problem, makes everything way better.

00:39:16.180 And I just don't believe that at all.

00:39:18.760 I have a pothead friend who was at a concert at Madison Square Garden.

00:39:22.900 And I think it was like Fish or something.

00:39:26.180 It was one of these pothead bands.

00:39:29.000 And he pulls out a joint, and he's smoking it.

00:39:32.660 And the security guards come up, and they're like, you have to put that out right now.

00:39:36.780 You could get arrested.

00:39:37.500 You have to put that out.

00:39:38.980 But he looked around him, and people all around him were passing joints.

00:39:43.600 So he said, well, no, they're all smoking joints, too.

00:39:47.080 And this was actually back before it was decriminalized.

00:39:48.960 This was probably a number of years ago at this point.

00:39:51.240 And they said, no, no, no, it's not the pot.

00:39:54.600 It's that you're smoking a cigarette.

00:39:57.500 And apparently his marijuana was of such poor quality that they thought it was tobacco.

00:40:02.060 It didn't have the classic smell.

00:40:04.160 So he said, no, really, this is weed.

00:40:08.380 And they said, no, buddy, you've got to put that cigarette out.

00:40:11.760 It's one thing if it's pot. 0.56

00:40:13.000 You're allowed to smoke that, but not marijuana.

00:40:15.400 So what is this vape band really about?

00:40:19.420 It's not about health.

00:40:20.460 I mean, all of the headlines are about e-cigarettes.

00:40:23.540 Really, what it should be about is, hey, maybe let's not look at all the, let's watch out on these weed pens.

00:40:29.220 One of the reports is that it has to do specifically with the vitamin E acetate that's in the weed pens,

00:40:35.400 or in cheaper versions of the weed pens, or in Chinese imports of the weed pens,

00:40:39.260 or some other chemicals involved there, too.

00:40:41.360 What this vape pen is about is not health.

00:40:43.900 It's about the government enforcing a new secular morality.

00:40:48.800 Actually, regardless of your views on pot or tobacco or whatever, I don't really care your views about any of those things.

00:40:54.300 And the government doesn't care your views about it either.

00:40:56.500 What they want to do is force their secular morality on you.

00:41:01.160 So in that new secular morality, tobacco and tobacco-related products are simply evil and they must go,

00:41:09.100 even if they're vape pens, even if they're significantly better for you than smoking cigarettes.

00:41:14.140 I don't think this is a Trump administration thing.

00:41:16.320 I think it's a government thing.

00:41:17.240 I think this would have happened if Hillary won in 2016.

00:41:20.260 It would have happened under Obama.

00:41:21.860 This has been a long time coming.

00:41:24.020 They've been trying to ban the vapes since they first hit the scene.

00:41:27.720 You know, I remember in bars in New York, right when the vapes came out,

00:41:31.060 almost, the vape is just water vapor that comes out of your mouth.

00:41:33.800 Almost immediately signs, no vaping.

00:41:36.320 Why no vaping?

00:41:37.100 It's not, even the arguments for secondhand smoke, which are dubious arguments to begin with,

00:41:40.880 but even that, you know, you say, okay, I don't want to breathe in that smoke.

00:41:43.480 But the vape is just water vapor.

00:41:46.260 Why can't I breathe that out?

00:41:47.460 There's nothing that you're breathing in other than water vapor.

00:41:50.560 Because it's not about anyone's health.

00:41:52.360 It's about controlling what you do.

00:41:55.160 Same thing on the airplanes.

00:41:56.100 Why can't you vape on an airplane?

00:41:58.260 It's just water vapor.

00:41:59.960 Because the government needs to be able to tell you exactly what to do.

00:42:04.040 It's a lot like the environment.

00:42:05.520 You know, there are a lot of these environmental regulations that in no way help the environment.

00:42:11.400 They're not about the environment.

00:42:12.800 They're about regulation.

00:42:13.940 The health regulations aren't about health.

00:42:15.400 They're about regulation.

00:42:16.780 So we have a ban on plastic one-use shopping bags in Los Angeles.

00:42:20.780 You can't use the plastic shopping bags.

00:42:23.240 Instead, you have to use paper shopping bags.

00:42:25.160 The paper shopping bags are much worse for the environment.

00:42:27.440 It takes a lot more energy.

00:42:29.000 It harms the natural environment much more to make those shopping bags.

00:42:33.100 And you have to reuse the paper shopping bags three times in order to bring down the environmental impact to the level of the plastic single-use shopping bag,

00:42:41.820 which people already use multiple times anyway because they use them as trash bags.

00:42:45.400 Ever since they banned those, the purchase of the much heavier, much more environmentally damaging thick plastic bags has shot through the roof.

00:42:53.340 But it's not about the environment.

00:42:54.700 How about those cotton bags that they make you buy at the store?

00:42:57.840 If you buy an organic cotton shopping bag, you would need to use that thing 20,000 times before you bring its environmental impact down to the level of a single-use plastic bag.

00:43:07.820 They don't care.

00:43:09.160 When they find this out, when the studies come out, they don't say, okay, we're going to pull back that environmental regulation.

00:43:14.200 It's not about the environment.

00:43:15.640 It's about regulating you, controlling your life.

00:43:19.160 And that is why I don't like vape pens.

00:43:20.960 I don't like pot.

00:43:22.380 I fight these kind of restrictions as hard as I can because they're not—it'd be one thing if you want to keep marijuana criminalized.

00:43:33.560 I think that's probably a good idea, mostly because it'll irritate the potheads and I get a kick out of it.

00:43:37.120 But when it comes to something like vaping, a new technology, if you are just trying to regulate it just to regulate it, I resist that kind of rule as hard as I can.

00:43:47.860 Government should not be able to tell me what to do as a simple, arbitrary, random exercise in their own massive power.

00:43:57.200 Speaking of power-hungry government officials, Hillary Clinton, the sort of desiccated cadaver of Hillary Clinton wandering around the woods of Chappaqua, 0.86

00:44:09.660 has made it all the way to Italy, has made it to the Venetian Teatro Italia to participate in performance art.

00:44:17.740 She is now in an exhibit where she is sitting at a perfect replica of the Resolute desk in the Oval Office reading through her emails or, you know, pages that are made to look like her emails, 60,000 of them.

00:44:30.520 She sat there for hours, truly her, not an impersonator, reading an exhibit titled Hillary, the Hillary Clinton emails created by the artist Kenneth Goldsmith.

00:44:40.660 This is art somehow. It's performance art.

00:44:43.760 The reason I find this interesting is, one, it's pathetic. 0.98

00:44:46.920 It's pathetic that this woman who wanted to be president is so ruined by this that she now needs to sit and play pretend at a replica of the Resolute desk 1.00

00:44:54.980 because, I don't know, I guess they take her straight jacket off for a few hours a day so she can participate in this performance art. 0.94

00:45:00.260 But also because she's not the first very prominent government official to dabble in art after she leaves office.

00:45:08.820 George W. Bush, after he left the presidency, became an artist, I believe at the urging of the historian John Gattis, who is actually a professor of mine.

00:45:19.620 He handed Bush an essay about how Winston Churchill became a painter after he left office.

00:45:25.280 And so Bush read this and he became a painter.

00:45:27.320 And he became actually a pretty good painter.

00:45:28.880 Even the left-wing New York magazine said he did a good job.

00:45:31.440 And he would paint portraits of wounded warriors and the soldiers.

00:45:35.220 And he would sell these as fundraisers or he'd give them to people.

00:45:38.960 He published a book of his art.

00:45:41.220 It's really about other people.

00:45:42.880 And it's about whether you like his art or not.

00:45:45.400 It's about bringing together different artistic styles into a beautiful composition to do honor to great warriors.

00:45:55.840 That's real art.

00:45:57.320 For the left, however, they don't have any sense of real art because they don't have any sense of beauty.

00:46:02.840 So it's all deconstruction.

00:46:04.160 It's all dada.

00:46:04.920 It's all absurdism. 0.97

00:46:06.240 It's all ugly. 0.73

00:46:07.600 It's all bizarre. 0.52

00:46:09.260 It's all surreal.

00:46:10.000 It's all this kind of performance art.

00:46:12.100 You know, the right loves good art and the left loves terrible art like this sort of performance art or slam poetry, which the literary critic Harold Bloom rightly called the death of art.

00:46:23.860 And this really highlights it.

00:46:25.520 And these two prominent politicians, you've got the one going toward the beautiful and the one going toward the grotesque and the absurd and the obscene.

00:46:32.500 And that's Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:46:33.520 No better way to describe her.

00:46:35.160 And I'm not at all surprised that the artistic preferences of she and her comrades reflect their own bizarre views of the world.

00:46:42.380 That's our show.

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00:46:44.140 We'll do it on Monday.

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 13, 2019

Ep. 414 - Joe Biden： All Bark, No Bite

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