The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 436 - Pierre Delecto： International Man of Misery

00:00:00.000 The Atlantic magazine has outed Mitt Romney for using a secret Twitter account named Pierre

00:00:06.260 Delecto to criticize President Trump as well as his Republican colleagues in the Senate.

00:00:11.960 Meanwhile, a man named Rhea, who identifies as a woman, files a hate crime report against

00:00:18.300 a pornographer because he refused to have sex with him after learning he isn't a woman.

00:00:23.460 We will examine what Pierre and Rhea tell us about identity in the age of social media.

00:00:28.140 Kanye turns right, Liz Warren turns left, and CBS pushes AOC for VP.

00:00:33.980 All that and more.

00:00:34.720 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:44.500 Pierre Delecto.

00:00:46.400 We are all Pierre Delecto in the age of social media.

00:00:50.320 You know how much I hate being right.

00:00:53.200 You know how much I hate saying I told you so.

00:00:56.460 And just one day after describing what an oily, undignified politician Mitt Romney is, we find

00:01:06.020 out this guy is using a secret burner Twitter account named Pierre Delecto to specifically

00:01:12.640 criticize all of his Republican co-partisans, all of his Republican colleagues and the president

00:01:18.580 of the United States.

00:01:19.380 How do we know he's doing this?

00:01:21.160 They found the Pierre Delecto account.

00:01:23.480 Mitt Romney was kind of alluding to a secret Twitter account.

00:01:25.920 They, the journalists went through and cross-referenced the followers and figured out who this was.

00:01:32.900 How do we know that Mitt Romney was using this to attack his Republican colleagues?

00:01:37.340 Well, here are just some of the tweets that Pierre liked.

00:01:41.560 He didn't tweet a whole lot.

00:01:43.380 He didn't follow a whole lot.

00:01:44.380 But what he did do is like certain tweets.

00:01:46.280 He liked one from the anonymous account, Devin Nunes' cow.

00:01:50.560 This was directed at Newt Gingrich.

00:01:52.800 Quote, you were cheating on your second wife with the woman who is now your third wife,

00:01:56.980 even while impeaching Clinton for cheating on his wife.

00:01:59.800 Show yourself out.

00:02:01.500 Now, obviously, we know Mitt Romney doesn't like Newt Gingrich.

00:02:03.960 They ran against each other in 2012 for the presidential nomination.

00:02:06.940 So, it's not that Mitt Romney or Pierre Delecto wrote that tweet, but he liked that tweet from someone else.

00:02:13.860 Here's another one from Matthew Dowd, who's an ex-Republican and an ABC News political analyst, also liked by Pierre Delecto.

00:02:21.220 Now, watching Rudy Giuliani's transition from America's mayor to what he is today is like watching how a villain comes to be in a Batman movie.

00:02:29.980 This one from Barb McQuaid.

00:02:31.720 This is an MSNBC analyst.

00:02:34.040 You're noticing a theme here, all the mainstream media, left-wing news sources.

00:02:37.600 Barb McQuaid.

00:02:39.560 Quote, this can't be retweeted enough.

00:02:41.860 And what it was, was a retweet of Bill Kristol, who himself was tweeting out an old clip of Lindsey Graham calling for Clinton's impeachment in the 1990s.

00:02:50.360 And this was being used as a case to impeach Donald Trump.

00:02:52.700 Mitt Romney liked that.

00:02:53.900 Scott Conroy, who is a podcast, he has a podcast called Blackout.

00:02:57.260 I hadn't heard of him before, Pierre Delecto.

00:02:59.180 So, thank you, Pierre, for introducing him to me.

00:03:01.100 He tweeted out,

00:03:02.060 I'm not sure there's ever been a photo that sums up a person's essence better than this does.

00:03:07.200 And it was a photo of Marco Rubio sitting in a tiny little chair, which was hilarious.

00:03:12.700 Then you had a tweet from Alapundit, who is great.

00:03:15.620 He's an anti-Trump guy who writes at Hot Air.

00:03:18.180 And he tweeted out,

00:03:21.040 even liked a tweet,

00:03:22.320 oh, he rather liked a tweet criticizing the fellow Utah Senator Mike Lee for supporting troop withdrawal from northern Syria.

00:03:29.960 That was a tweet from Alapundit.

00:03:31.080 Pierre Delecto liked it.

00:03:33.180 Why is this a big deal?

00:03:35.460 I mean, it's not really a big deal.

00:03:36.680 It just proves everything I said about Mitt Romney yesterday.

00:03:39.300 And I really like it when news cycles prove me right within like 20 hours of it.

00:03:44.100 The reason it matters is not because Mitt Romney is throwing some shade at his fellow Republicans.

00:03:50.240 All politicians do that kind of thing.

00:03:52.280 That's sort of what politics is.

00:03:53.980 The reason it matters is that he's not doing it honestly.

00:03:57.760 He's not, he doesn't have the guts to come out and actually like these tweets or tweet these things or say these things to people's faces.

00:04:04.100 You know, if this were President Trump, he would do it from his own Twitter account.

00:04:08.100 That's really the big difference between Mitt Romney and Donald Trump is not even, you know, the use of Twitter and the use of snark and the use of snide comments.

00:04:16.240 It's just that Donald Trump owns up to his and Mitt Romney doesn't.

00:04:20.860 Mitt Romney is the one who's going to like make a little snide remark and then hide behind a building before the guy comes and sees what someone said.

00:04:27.740 Donald Trump would have done it.

00:04:29.020 And he regularly does use his own account with the verified checkmark and his own name and his own picture to throw these kinds of insults.

00:04:36.240 President Trump also has used sort of fake personas before he he got made fun of a little while ago because it came out that he was impersonating his own publicist in the 1980s to get himself more news articles.

00:04:50.860 President Trump or a person who sounds a whole lot like President Trump was pretending to be a publicist named John Barron.

00:04:59.160 And this is what he sounded like in 1984.

00:05:02.340 Make up your own mind.

00:05:03.660 OK, what's your first name?

00:05:05.160 John.

00:05:05.760 John.

00:05:06.160 John Barron.

00:05:06.800 Well, let me tell you what the deal is just so you understand.

00:05:11.580 OK.

00:05:11.800 Mr. Trump bought, first of all, most of the assets have been consolidated to Mr. Trump, you know, because you have down Fred Trump.

00:05:17.800 And I'd like to talk to you off the record if I can just to make your thing easier.

00:05:21.180 OK, sure.

00:05:21.840 Is that all right?

00:05:22.360 Yeah, that's fine.

00:05:23.040 All right.

00:05:23.440 But I think you can really use Donald Trump now and you can just consolidate.

00:05:27.580 I think last year somebody showed me the article and I think you had 200 and 200.

00:05:31.780 And really it's been pretty well consolidated now for the most part.

00:05:34.440 There's as I also think somebody had mentioned that you had asked about that or somebody had and it's been pretty well consolidated.

00:05:40.640 OK.

00:05:41.620 So that's obviously just Donald Trump, right?

00:05:44.580 OK, look, this Donald Trump guy, he's great.

00:05:47.040 OK, he's one of the great people.

00:05:48.420 This deal is totally consolidated.

00:05:50.040 All right.

00:05:50.360 My name's John Barron.

00:05:51.400 Also, President Trump named his son Barron.

00:05:53.260 So he's got a kind of fascination with this name anyway.

00:05:57.000 Again, this is not even a knock on false identities in the realm of politics, in the realm of show business, in the realm of theater.

00:06:03.240 People put on a lot of false identities.

00:06:05.580 The question is, what are you using it for?

00:06:08.580 In the case of John Barron, the fictitious publicist, Trump was using it to build himself up, build up his brand.

00:06:15.600 In the case of Pierre Delecto, Mitt Romney was using it to vent his frustration, to tear down his colleagues, to tear down the president because he didn't have the guts to do it publicly himself.

00:06:26.340 It seems like a side news story.

00:06:28.940 It seems like an unimportant news story.

00:06:30.600 I think it actually tells us a lot about identity in the age of social media, identity in this age that we're all living in right now.

00:06:40.440 Because speaking of false identities, you have a transgender woman, so a man who identifies as a woman, now filing a hate crime report against a pornographer who he was working with because the pornographer wanted to sleep with him when he thought that he was a she. 0.83

00:06:59.740 But then when he found out that he didn't want to sleep with him anymore, and this apparently constitutes a hate crime.

00:07:05.560 This has many layers of identity, but it tells us a lot about our culture.

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00:09:04.060 So you've got Pierre Delecto, which is actually not the most absurd false identity story of the day because we have this transgender model in Britain who is suing a pornographer because he won't have sex with him who identifies as her.

00:09:21.180 The model is 25 years old.

00:09:23.380 The model's name is Rhea Cooper, and Rhea Cooper was contacted by this photographer who asked if she wanted to appear in porn, and they're kind of flirting.

00:09:35.260 They're going back and forth.

00:09:36.320 It's this highly sexually charged conversation, and then the pornographer finds out that Rhea is a man who looks like a woman, and he went back on the offer, and the transgender model said, 0.79

00:09:50.000 well, why don't you want to work together anymore, and the pornographer said, well, we can't sleep together because you have a, and then he used a vulgar term, but to refer to male genitalia.

00:10:03.680 And Rhea, the transgender model, was shocked and terribly offended by this, said that it was transphobic behavior, and contacted the Humberside police.

00:10:12.360 This was in the United Kingdom, and the police are actually looking into the matter as a hate incident.

00:10:17.720 How on earth does this happen?

00:10:19.700 How does someone become so deluded that you think that if you're a man, and a man doesn't want to have sex with you, that you're the victim of a hate crime?

00:10:27.840 Well, Rhea Cooper, a while ago, became Britain's youngest person ever to transition.

00:10:35.220 Rhea Cooper is now 25 years old.

00:10:37.160 He transitioned 10 years ago.

00:10:39.040 So he was 15 years old, and some sick perverts were preying on this 15-year-old boy and told him to transform his body and take hormones and go through this identity transition so that he could appear to be a woman.

00:10:54.580 Obviously, this is incredible medical malpractice.

00:10:58.480 There's nothing rooted in science or medicine here.

00:11:01.440 This is a social experiment that is being conducted on a child, and not just one child.

00:11:05.240 This is happening all throughout the West, so I can sort of understand why Rhea Cooper is confused here, but this is lunacy. 0.99

00:11:15.860 Where does it come from?

00:11:17.620 Where does this idea that we need to hide behind these false identities come from?

00:11:25.100 This is basically the inevitable consequence of a selfish culture and high-speed internet.

00:11:31.140 This is what happens, because on the internet, you can go into your own little corner in your own little room where you can be whatever you want to be in your own fantasies.

00:11:44.160 Look, Mitt Romney, he's a really stern, dignified guy.

00:11:50.340 He's so genial.

00:11:51.360 He's so nice.

00:11:52.120 He doesn't even drink caffeine.

00:11:53.280 He's as American pie as they come until he gets on his little troll Pierre D'Electo account, and then he's throwing stones at Trump, and he's making fun of Newt Gingrich for having multiple wives, and he's going after Marco Rubio for being little Marco.

00:12:09.720 I mean, he's actually hurling the same insults at Marco Rubio that Donald Trump hurled at Marco Rubio, and then all of the genteel Republicans like Mitt Romney say it's so awful for Trump to say that.

00:12:18.800 Mitt Romney's doing exactly the same thing.

00:12:20.380 He just doesn't have the guts to come out and do it in his own identity.

00:12:24.020 He has to do it behind this little secret account, Pierre D'Electo.

00:12:28.120 That's the internet, though.

00:12:29.380 You can be whatever you want to be in your own fantasies.

00:12:31.700 The things that some people say on Twitter or in the comment sections are heinous.

00:12:37.180 I mean, you know, anybody who has any sort of public profile on the internet, close your eyes and picture their email inbox,

00:12:46.180 and then imagine it's 300 times more disgusting, 300 times more vicious and wicked.

00:12:55.540 I mean, just the death threats and the awful wishes and these sort of things that come in every day.

00:13:01.640 Look, I'm not complaining about it.

00:13:02.940 That's what the internet is.

00:13:03.880 That's what you sign up for.

00:13:04.920 But you do wonder, if you saw any of these people in person, if they actually had to stand behind their own identity, would any of them say these things?

00:13:14.960 Would any of them do this?

00:13:17.160 No, of course not.

00:13:18.220 Even in the case of Rhea Cooper, this transgender model in Britain, it is identity under several layers because it's a man who is trying to hide behind this false identity of a woman. 0.94

00:13:30.240 But the interaction that took place with the pornographer also took place on social media.

00:13:34.780 So you're another level removed from an actual human interaction.

00:13:39.760 I suspect, I obviously don't know this transgender model, but I suspect if you got to know him in real life and you said, listen, I'm a man and I don't want to sleep with you. 1.00

00:13:50.020 It's nothing against you, but you're a man and I'm not attracted to men.

00:13:54.540 And, you know, that's kind of like one of the top reasons why this isn't going to work out.

00:13:58.800 I suspect he wouldn't run out and file a police report.

00:14:02.300 But because there's another level of removal from identity, this allows people to just indulge all of their worst inclinations, all of their own delusions.

00:14:13.280 I mean, this actually, speaking of pornography, this is the illusion of pornography.

00:14:17.480 In porn, you can live out any fantasy that you want.

00:14:21.280 This is why it's so pervasive, especially with high speed Internet, because you can do whatever you want.

00:14:26.300 If you if you can imagine it, there's a porn for it.

00:14:29.320 OK, there was a liberal writer, Kurt Eichenwald, who he got caught.

00:14:33.360 He posted a screenshot of something and then the Internet made fun of him because there was a tab of tentacle porn, which I have not researched since that news story came out.

00:14:42.680 And I don't want to research.

00:14:43.800 But, you know, look, there's a porn for everything.

00:14:45.580 And I guess that's what he was looking at.

00:14:46.980 Anything you can imagine, there is some kind of titillating image for on the Internet.

00:14:53.800 And so you can live out that fantasy.

00:14:55.640 But what's the reality?

00:14:56.520 The reality of porn is that you're alone in a room with the blinds shut.

00:15:01.120 That's the reality.

00:15:02.100 The illusion, the fantasy of this transgender model in the UK is that he's this beautiful woman, glamorous, hot. 0.98

00:15:11.880 All the men want to sleep with him. 0.98

00:15:13.660 But the reality is he's a very, very confused man.

00:15:17.600 And statistically, the reality is he's much more likely to be depressed and anxious and even suicidal.

00:15:23.660 Right.

00:15:24.240 Those are all of the underlying conditions that go along with this gender dysphoria.

00:15:29.020 That's the reality of it.

00:15:30.560 And the reality and the illusion are very far apart on social media.

00:15:34.980 You can anonymously attack anybody.

00:15:36.680 But in reality, you're just a coward.

00:15:38.560 The illusion of Pierre Delecto is he's this guy.

00:15:41.340 He's just throw he's thrown whatever bombs he wants on social media.

00:15:44.540 But what's the reality?

00:15:46.320 Mitt Romney getting his lunch eaten by Donald Trump when they're at that little dinner and Trump is smiling.

00:15:51.980 And Mitt Romney is so uncomfortably sucking up to him to try to get any appointment in the administration,

00:15:56.480 trying to be appointed the the secretary of state or trying to get any other appointment.

00:16:02.500 That's the reality is this kind of quizzling, weakling.

00:16:06.100 And because we're uncomfortable with that reality, we want to live out these fantasies online.

00:16:10.940 Most of all, what does it tell us about identity in the age of social media?

00:16:14.060 That it's all about you.

00:16:16.240 You, the time 2006 person of the year.

00:16:20.000 You remember you.

00:16:22.260 And so it becomes just about satisfying our own appetites or feeding our own appetites.

00:16:29.220 I'm not exactly defending this British pornographer who is trying to lure this 25 year old transgender model into porn. 0.80

00:16:35.820 But.

00:16:38.200 At the very least, what we can say is.

00:16:40.400 Rhea Cooper, the model who's filing the police report, isn't paying attention to any other person. 0.54

00:16:47.520 Is it all he is concerned with is satisfying his own ego to the point that now he wants to criminalize it.

00:16:54.720 If you're a man and you don't want to sleep with another man.

00:16:58.480 It's all just about you.

00:17:00.140 Even Mitt Romney, he goes in before the public and he's got these preening and he's preaching and he's moralizing and talking about all the terrible things Trump does.

00:17:09.280 And then he does exactly the same things behind closed doors, behind an anonymous Twitter account.

00:17:14.520 But it's okay for Mitt Romney because he wants to do them.

00:17:16.700 So it's no big deal.

00:17:17.420 There's no issue here.

00:17:19.440 What's the trouble with this?

00:17:21.380 The trouble with this is feeding our appetites does not satisfy us.

00:17:27.380 And listen, decadence is really fun.

00:17:30.260 Okay.

00:17:30.460 You're talking to someone who feeds a lot of his own appetites.

00:17:32.520 But ultimately what you realize is if you eat too much food, you feel sick.

00:17:36.660 If you drink too much booze, you get hung over.

00:17:39.720 If you smoke too many cigars, you cough the next day.

00:17:42.940 Feeding your appetites.

00:17:44.440 You don't leave and say, gosh, I'm really glad I glutted myself last night.

00:17:48.740 Boy, oh boy.

00:17:49.700 What a good use of my time.

00:17:51.000 No, of course not.

00:17:52.360 This is true in all appetites.

00:17:53.780 It's true in your stomach.

00:17:55.920 It's true sexually.

00:17:57.260 It's true even in other ambitions that you have.

00:17:59.820 If they're just feeding yourself, they don't satisfy you.

00:18:02.720 We are actually and ironically only satisfied when we serve others.

00:18:07.540 Fantasy doesn't satisfy us.

00:18:09.880 Reality does.

00:18:10.840 You know, we talked to that trans ex-transgender guy, Peter Benjamin on the show the other day.

00:18:15.760 And he said what was so heartbreaking is he was so excited to finally live in what had been a very compelling fantasy for decades of his life, which is that he would become a woman.

00:18:27.220 And then he became a woman and he had this moment of euphoria.

00:18:30.400 And then he realized he wasn't really a woman.

00:18:33.620 He had the fantasy being lived out almost as perfectly as possible, but it was still a fantasy.

00:18:41.160 It wasn't the reality.

00:18:42.480 And the difference between the two left him really feeling hollow.

00:18:45.900 I think this has a lot to do with the skyrocketing rates of depression and anxiety in this country.

00:18:52.300 You know, depression diagnoses are up in this country about 33%.

00:18:56.220 Among millennials, they're up 45%.

00:18:58.620 Rates of suicide are way up among the general population, but over a 10-year period, 2006 to 2016, they're up 70% among white children, 10 to 17 years old.

00:19:14.080 Among black and other minority children, they're up 77%, which is wild because black and minority children kill themselves at a lower rate than white children.

00:19:23.080 But they're up even more among the minority children.

00:19:25.440 This is not a single demographic problem.

00:19:27.740 This is happening across the culture.

00:19:30.520 What is that?

00:19:31.380 That's not going to be just a racial issue.

00:19:33.580 That's not going to be even just a single age issue or single geographic area issue.

00:19:39.180 It would seem that it has a lot to do with technology.

00:19:42.860 And you can see people using technology at different rates based on their age.

00:19:46.060 But it has to do broadly with the culture.

00:19:48.780 This is increasing rapidly.

00:19:52.740 It should be a warning cry.

00:19:54.140 We do not want to be Pierre Delecto.

00:19:56.140 Pierre Delecto, international man of mystery.

00:19:58.820 Pierre Delecto is an international man of misery.

00:20:01.340 You don't want to be forcing your fantasies on other people and criminalizing those who don't want to have sex with you.

00:20:09.700 You don't want to force your fantasies on yourself either.

00:20:12.420 They won't satisfy you either.

00:20:14.040 And what's so amazing about this is you see somebody like Mitt Romney, who you expect to be the most prim and proper, put-together, stable guy.

00:20:26.700 You see him hiding and sniping behind this anonymous Twitter account.

00:20:30.680 And then you see a guy like Kanye West.

00:20:33.580 Kanye West, who embodies in many ways everything about our technological, postmodern, narcissistic age.

00:20:42.500 And while Mitt Romney is running in the direction of that fantasy, while Mitt Romney is running in the direction of that anonymity and those petty snipes, Kanye West is running in exactly the other direction.

00:20:52.960 He apparently nearly quit rap when he had this conversion experience to Christianity.

00:20:58.620 There was a friend of his, Adam Tyson, who is the head pastor of the Placerita Bible Church, apparently knows Kanye West.

00:21:04.820 And Kanye came to him and said, I don't even want to rap anymore.

00:21:08.240 And Adam Tyson, I guess, talked him out of that.

00:21:10.580 But that's how serious, that's how profound Kanye's conversion or reversion experience was.

00:21:15.900 Here he is.

00:21:16.480 One time he told me that he wasn't going to rap.

00:21:18.760 I said, why not?

00:21:20.200 He said, well, that's the devil's music.

00:21:22.440 And I said, hey, man, rap is a genre.

00:21:24.520 That's right.

00:21:25.160 You can rap for God.

00:21:26.620 Yeah.

00:21:27.220 I think he was already thinking about it a little bit, but I just definitely said, hey, bro, I think you need to use your talents that God's given you and use that platform for God.

00:21:35.320 I am so glad you said that.

00:21:37.640 Man, I'm glad you said that.

00:21:38.640 He was already thinking about it.

00:21:39.700 I'm not going to take any credit for that, but I definitely was pushing him hard in that direction.

00:21:43.900 In fact, I asked him, I'm like, hey, man, have you heard of Lecrae?

00:21:46.460 Yeah.

00:21:46.700 He's like, no.

00:21:47.500 You heard of Flame?

00:21:48.600 Nope.

00:21:49.160 Tadashi?

00:21:49.660 Nope.

00:21:50.020 Trip Lee?

00:21:50.620 Nope.

00:21:51.000 Seven?

00:21:51.420 He didn't hear of any of those guys.

00:21:52.420 No.

00:21:53.640 I mean, I'm sure he's heard of them now.

00:21:55.240 I was going to connect them with some of those guys, but he kind of likes doing his own thing, man.

00:21:59.440 He's like, he's like, you know, he just does what he does.

00:22:02.840 And all I'm trying to do is help him be rooted and grounded in God's word.

00:22:06.820 Now, probably that head pastor should have just told him not to rap because rap is the devil's music.

00:22:11.540 So he got, I think he got that one wrong.

00:22:13.420 But even if he didn't, this guy, he sounds like a really nice, like cool pastor guy.

00:22:17.800 So whatever, that's fine.

00:22:19.040 Hopefully Kanye's new album will be good and give glory to God and try to elevate the culture in some way.

00:22:23.920 But even Kanye's, Kanye was right.

00:22:27.260 I mean, Kanye was right.

00:22:28.060 And this pastor was largely wrong, I think, on the question, which is Kanye appears to be experiencing a submission of the ego or a restraining of the ego.

00:22:39.340 And for somebody like Kanye West, that's got to be on the one hand kind of easy because he's got ample ego to restrain.

00:22:46.020 But on the other hand, really hard.

00:22:49.060 He's the top of the heap.

00:22:50.700 He's like the biggest celebrity in the world other than Donald Trump.

00:22:54.160 And so he's getting all of these plaudits, all of these accolades for anybody that's very difficult.

00:22:59.260 And he's a hip hop star.

00:23:00.880 He's a rap star.

00:23:01.840 And rap is the most boastful genre of music, probably.

00:23:05.880 So it is very difficult.

00:23:07.240 And yet he awoke to it and he said, oh, none of this stuff is making me happy.

00:23:11.360 Yeah, I'll just quit rap music.

00:23:12.340 Who cares?

00:23:13.480 That's actually the right attitude.

00:23:14.760 Now, if he can reach more people by rapping and sort of elevate the culture, like, fine, I guess that's OK.

00:23:24.020 But I'm actually more with Kanye's first impulse here.

00:23:25.980 I think that's I think it's terrific that he had that idea.

00:23:28.100 He said, oh, yeah, this is bad.

00:23:28.920 I'll do something else.

00:23:29.600 Those are two choices that we have in the culture.

00:23:34.280 And it does come down to identity.

00:23:36.820 What it comes down to is where you find your identity.

00:23:40.080 When God is asked in the Bible, who are you?

00:23:44.320 He says, I am that I am true in the Old Testament, true in the New Testament.

00:23:51.000 Moses says to God, who shall I tell them you are?

00:23:53.400 And he says, tell them I am that I am.

00:23:56.800 Christ says in the in the Gospels before Abraham was I am.

00:24:01.980 I am the essence of being and sane cultures root their identity in God.

00:24:07.660 God, it's not even that difficult to understand that concept because these things of this world are fleeting.

00:24:15.000 If I root my if I root my identity in having a podcast and then someday I lose my podcast, I've lost my identity.

00:24:21.980 If I root my identity in having nice, nice bushy head of brown hair, then one day I lose my hair.

00:24:28.640 My hair turns gray.

00:24:30.000 I lose my identity.

00:24:32.360 If you root your identity in temporal things, you're going to lose it eventually.

00:24:35.340 If you root your identity in permanent things, you won't.

00:24:39.140 And the the permanent thing, the essence of being is God himself.

00:24:45.040 So that's what you have to do when you don't do that.

00:24:48.120 You are left with a pathetic question.

00:24:50.080 The pathetic question is, who am I?

00:24:53.500 And this is why you see people losing their mind in identity politics because they're grasping for something that's bigger than them, something that will give them some sort of permanence.

00:25:03.700 And that might be racial solidarity or sexual solidarity or class solidarity.

00:25:10.240 But those things don't give permanence either because even those are social creatures.

00:25:16.720 Even those are things that change.

00:25:18.540 Even those are things of this world that will pass away.

00:25:20.780 Very difficult time to live in when Kanye West has greater clarity about the culture and about religion and about identity itself than the 2012 Republican nominee for president.

00:25:35.580 That's very difficult time for the culture when the 2012 Republican nominee for president has more in common with a UK transgender model than he does with with a sort of a stable person, a very stable genius, you might say.

00:25:51.240 Those are the times we're living in, though.

00:25:52.680 So we've got to get to the 2020 election because Liz Warren, who was running on the one hand to moderate in recent weeks, is now running back to the left and the mainstream media is following her.

00:26:04.340 The mainstream media has a great idea for the vice president if Bernie Sanders is nominated by the Democratic Party.

00:26:11.880 And all of this is having an effect on President Trump, though it's probably not the effect that they want.

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00:27:43.820 Liz Warren is making that same Mitt Romney mistake. 1.00

00:27:59.900 Liz Warren is making that same wishy-washy, I don't know what my identity is mistake.

00:28:05.280 For much of her career, she was a pretty establishment figure, pretty normal, pretty centrist.

00:28:12.520 Then she became a hard-charging leftist in the late 2000s. 0.85

00:28:17.260 She was the progressive champion.

00:28:19.920 Then she, well, she had a lot of identity issues, by the way, because she pretended to 1.00

00:28:24.420 be a Native American for her entire career.

00:28:26.060 But that's a story for another time.

00:28:27.860 I guess the identity issues go down pretty deep.

00:28:29.920 Then, in recent weeks, Liz Warren has tried to moderate a little bit.

00:28:33.900 For instance, she was, during the Democratic presidential debate, Kamala Harris asked her

00:28:38.680 if she thinks Trump should be kicked off of Twitter.

00:28:41.000 Should one of the largest media platforms in the world kick off the president of the

00:28:44.080 United States?

00:28:44.900 And Liz Warren held herself back.

00:28:47.200 She said, I don't know that I'd go that far.

00:28:49.100 Because she knows that's not going to win over any voters in Peoria.

00:28:51.460 Well, Liz Warren is going back to the left again. 1.00

00:28:55.060 She, just recently, in an impromptu press session, said that she would consider cutting

00:29:01.980 off aid to Israel if they don't surrender and follow leftist policies.

00:29:08.060 A question about Israel.

00:29:09.900 Will you make American aid conditional in a freeze-to-settlement building?

00:29:13.280 Right now, Netanyahu says that he is going to take Israel in a direction of increasing

00:29:24.980 settlements.

00:29:26.280 That does not move us toward a two-state solution.

00:29:30.120 It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution.

00:29:35.920 And if Israel is moving in the opposite direction, then everything is on the table. 0.58

00:29:39.720 And you would be prepared to...

00:29:40.460 Everything is on the table.

00:29:41.680 Everything is on the table.

00:29:43.480 I'm a good progressive, and I hate Israel. 1.00

00:29:45.800 And I'll cut off aid to Israel.

00:29:47.540 Why does Israel matter in all of this? 0.97

00:29:49.520 Israel is an obsession for the left.

00:29:54.020 They hate Israel.

00:29:55.920 They hate it.

00:29:57.500 Why do they hate it?

00:29:59.360 Because you've got a pretty decently functioning liberal Western democracy in the Middle East, 0.99

00:30:07.000 in a region that is just characterized by sectarian bloodshed and illegitimate governments and totally

00:30:16.800 foreign policies that we don't really like in the West.

00:30:20.100 And then you've got Israel, which is this beacon of relative peace, relative stability,

00:30:24.800 lots of prosperity.

00:30:26.020 And the left hates that.

00:30:27.200 They hate that because it suggests, hmm, maybe some cultures are more conducive to flourishing

00:30:31.920 than other cultures.

00:30:33.440 They just hate Israel.

00:30:35.560 And so it's not even that Liz Warren is saying she might cut aid to a country.

00:30:40.300 The United States can cut aid to whatever country wants to.

00:30:43.460 It's the singling out of Israel is a pandering to the left.

00:30:47.700 And she's got to pander to the left because she doesn't know which way she's going to go.

00:30:51.580 Is she going to try to take the Biden voters? 1.00

00:30:53.560 Is she going to try to take the Bernie voters? 1.00

00:30:55.280 Is she going to try to be Elizabeth Warren, very moderate, very serious Harvard law professor? 0.98

00:31:00.700 Or is she going to try to be rah-rah class warrior? 1.00

00:31:04.020 She just hasn't picked a lane.

00:31:06.340 And so she's going to blow with the wind.

00:31:07.820 She's going to blow like Mitt Romney blows with the wind. 1.00

00:31:09.640 She's going to blow like Joe Biden blows with the wind.

00:31:11.800 Here's just a little exercise for you as to why this is a bad idea.

00:31:18.300 Name the great moderates of history.

00:31:20.920 My friend Patrick Coffin, the radio host, posted this on Twitter the other day.

00:31:24.400 Name the great moderates in history.

00:31:29.720 Name the great moderates of the 20th century.

00:31:34.820 When I think of the great figures of the 20th century, I've got Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill, maybe Margaret Thatcher, John Paul II.

00:31:45.740 None of those people were moderate.

00:31:47.460 Those people were pretty clear in what they believed and what they were fighting for.

00:31:53.100 What about Lloyd George?

00:31:55.520 Is he going to go down well?

00:31:57.140 How about Neville Chamberlain?

00:31:58.720 Does anybody aspire to be Neville Chamberlain?

00:32:00.780 No.

00:32:02.140 Those squishes don't go down in history. 0.77

00:32:04.360 People who are facing an identity crisis don't go down in history.

00:32:08.500 Who say one thing but believe another and they're too timid to really do what they want to do.

00:32:12.560 And those people are forgotten.

00:32:14.820 Those people have made a big mistake.

00:32:16.240 If you stand in the middle of the road, you are going to get hit by a truck.

00:32:20.160 Now, the mainstream media understand this.

00:32:24.040 That's why the mainstream media are just running as far to the left as they possibly can.

00:32:27.560 Even if it means that they disregard the Constitution, most of them probably haven't read the Constitution in the first place.

00:32:34.220 You saw this when recently Bernie Sanders was doing an interview alongside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who just endorsed Bernie Sanders for president.

00:32:43.340 And CBS News asks Bernie and AOC if they would ever consider running as a ticket.

00:32:50.200 If AOC could possibly be the vice presidential candidate for Bernie Sanders in 2020.

00:32:55.860 There's just one problem, of course.

00:32:58.060 AOC is much too young to be his vice president.

00:33:02.340 No matter, CBS persists anyway.

00:33:05.300 If you are the nominee, Senator, would you consider the Congresswoman as your running mate?

00:33:11.400 I think I'm too young for that.

00:33:14.220 When you are being lectured on the Constitution by AOC, you're in a bad place.

00:33:19.860 You've gone down a bad path.

00:33:23.140 AOC doesn't know very much about the Constitution, although I bet she sure knows when she's eligible to run for president. 1.00

00:33:28.820 You know, she might have only read the spark notes on the Constitution,

00:33:31.560 but I'm pretty sure she looked for that section. 0.97

00:33:34.120 And she's correcting CBS News here.

00:33:36.260 Now, this is absurd for a few reasons.

00:33:39.080 CBS News is network news.

00:33:41.320 It's not even just some cable network.

00:33:43.400 It's not.

00:33:43.900 This is supposed to be serious news.

00:33:46.020 These are supposed to be objective people who at least have once read the Constitution.

00:33:50.360 They don't even realize that there is an age requirement to be the president.

00:33:56.720 They're being corrected on that by a 29-year-old woman who was a bartender until a year ago. 1.00

00:34:04.020 That shows you the state of the mainstream media, but also just the absurdity of it all.

00:34:07.860 You've got a socialist, the furthest left prominent politician in the entire United States,

00:34:12.880 being asked if he would run with the next furthest left politician in the United States.

00:34:20.580 Does anybody think that that ticket would get elected?

00:34:24.000 Do you understand the delusion that is required to believe that Bernie Sanders and AOC is a winning presidential ticket?

00:34:33.780 That is a crazy idea.

00:34:35.420 Typically, tickets try to balance each other out.

00:34:37.680 So you have Reagan, right?

00:34:38.780 Reagan's the rock-ribbed conservative.

00:34:40.680 And you have Bush.

00:34:41.620 Bush is the establishment kind of liberal Republican figure, and they balance each other out.

00:34:47.220 You know, in 2016, you have Hillary Clinton could be the first woman president. 0.98

00:34:51.140 You have Tim Kaine, who could be the second woman president.

00:34:53.160 That's not nice.

00:34:54.160 I didn't mean that.

00:34:54.920 It was an easy shot to take, and I took it.

00:34:57.320 But you have a woman.

00:35:00.160 You have a man.

00:35:01.420 You have an older person.

00:35:03.220 You have a younger person.

00:35:03.880 You have John McCain, an older man.

00:35:05.120 You have Sarah Palin, a younger woman.

00:35:07.720 John McCain, a kind of liberal Republican.

00:35:09.960 Sarah Palin, the rock-ribbed conservative.

00:35:12.100 You do have age and gender differences with Bernie and AOC, but they think exactly the same thing.

00:35:18.280 AOC more or less said that she got all of her ideas to run for politics from Bernie Sanders.

00:35:23.960 There's no balance to that at all.

00:35:25.400 And if the mainstream media and the left are going to persist in believing that's going to give them the White House, they are in for a rude awakening.

00:35:31.260 How do I know that?

00:35:32.960 Not from watching CNN, not from watching CBS, but from looking at the fundraising numbers.

00:35:38.160 President Trump is enjoying this Democratic primary like no one else.

00:35:43.880 President Trump is enjoying this impeachment inquiry like no one else.

00:35:47.700 The news stories won't tell you that, but Trump is enjoying it because he is raking in cash from all of this.

00:35:55.660 Trump and the RNC, which are now a joint venture, have raised more than $300 million.

00:36:02.640 And the president alone, just the president, has $158 million in campaign cash on hand to start his re-election bid.

00:36:11.060 That is more than any other sitting president in history at this point in the campaign.

00:36:16.680 Now, the flip side to that is the Democrats have outraised Trump collectively, all together.

00:36:23.700 But you're talking about like 25 Democratic candidates.

00:36:26.440 Collectively, they've outraised Trump.

00:36:27.780 Even a lot of Democratic strategists, though, are pointing out that money is all going to go to cross-purposes.

00:36:33.080 They're running a primary campaign, which Trump doesn't need to do.

00:36:36.740 And they're going to spend that money tearing each other down.

00:36:40.260 Joe Biden, who is theoretically the frontrunner, is burning through his campaign funds at a rate that is simply too fast to sustain a general election campaign.

00:36:48.840 He is spending 12% more than he's taking in.

00:36:51.780 Why is he spending it?

00:36:52.540 Because he knows his campaign might not be long for this world.

00:36:54.800 So he's trying to burn that cash now to at least keep his head above water, because the minute that he really falls down in those polls, he's over.

00:37:02.560 Joe Biden is spending 30% more than the Liz Warren campaign, and Liz Warren is the one nipping at his heels. 0.98

00:37:08.420 But even Warren is not fine on that front, because Warren is cutting herself off from high-dollar donors, and she's refusing to appear at big-money fundraisers.

00:37:17.660 Why is she doing that? 1.00

00:37:18.460 Because she's having this identity crisis, and she needs to figure out if she's going to be the big establishment heir to Hillary Clinton, or if she's going to be the heir to Bernie Sanders, and she's going to be the small-dollar donations, and she's going to be a woman of the people. 0.87

00:37:30.620 So she's going to try to win some fans among the Democratic primary voters, but it's going to starve her campaign of money that she needs. 1.00

00:37:36.480 And what about Bernie Sanders?

00:37:37.660 He's the third big person in that race.

00:37:39.740 Bernie Sanders raises a lot of money.

00:37:41.740 Bernie, he raises a lot of small-dollar donations.

00:37:45.100 Bernie has a problem, too, though, which is that one of Bernie's biggest donors is the Democratic billionaire Tom Steyer, and Tom Steyer is now running for president himself.

00:37:54.100 So there goes Bernie's biggest donor.

00:37:57.200 Trump enjoying all of this, raising a whole lot of cash.

00:38:00.800 We all remember how the mainstream media got the 2016 election completely wrong, so I'm very skeptical of polls.

00:38:08.180 You know, there was that Fox News poll the other day that came out and showed the majority of Americans support impeachment and removal from office.

00:38:14.760 And I saw that poll, and I said, I just don't believe that.

00:38:18.840 And it wasn't wishful thinking.

00:38:20.460 I think I have a pretty clear eye when it comes to these things, or I certainly try to have a clear eye when it comes to these things.

00:38:26.220 And I thought, that just doesn't sound right to me.

00:38:28.280 I don't think that after three years of all these BS attempts to overturn the 2016 election, that right now the majority of Americans want to throw the president out of office because he made a long-distance phone call to Ukraine or something.

00:38:42.440 I don't even think most people have any idea what this non-troversy is about.

00:38:46.220 And it turned out that I was right.

00:38:48.980 It later came out that that poll grossly oversampled Democrats, so it skewed the poll very much in the favor of impeachment and removal from office.

00:38:56.520 This is why I'm much more interested in hard dollars, intangible indicators of how this election is going.

00:39:05.900 And there might be some red outlets.

00:39:09.860 There might be some blue outlets.

00:39:11.080 But green is a pretty reliable color.

00:39:13.740 And a lot of that green, most of that green, is going to President Trump right now.

00:39:19.420 I also need to point out, before we leave this topic of identity,

00:39:25.500 this is not just affecting politics.

00:39:27.960 This is not even just affecting pop culture.

00:39:30.000 This is affecting increasingly young people.

00:39:33.720 So the transgender activist or the transgender model in the United Kingdom was 15 years old when medical malpractitioners and a confused culture convinced him to live the rest of his life as a woman and possibly make permanent alterations to his body because of that. 0.89

00:39:53.380 So that's really bad.

00:39:54.880 But it's going down and it's affecting colleges and high schools and elementary schools and all these sorts of things.

00:40:02.820 Boise State, Boise State University, hosted an event last week called Inclusive Teaching Means Inclusive Grading 2.

00:40:14.240 What is inclusive grading?

00:40:17.140 It means that we are not, not only are we going to erase standards of truth and reality from our curricula, which has been happening for decades now, it's just perspectives.

00:40:28.200 There's no truth.

00:40:29.180 It's your truth and my truth.

00:40:30.260 But they're going to follow that idea to its logical conclusion and erase standards from grading as well.

00:40:35.840 This was not a one-off workshop at Boise State.

00:40:39.060 The same event was hosted at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

00:40:43.620 This event was aimed to, quote, engage instructors in conversations and activities designed to foreground diversity and inclusion in considerations of assessment and grading practices.

00:40:56.800 Have you made your way swimming through all that jargon yet?

00:40:59.820 What it means is you're going to grade different people, not based on the quality of their work, but on the color of their skin and on their sex and on their sexual preferences.

00:41:09.980 There's a similar event at American University.

00:41:12.400 This is how the event at American University built itself.

00:41:15.460 How to assess writing without judging its quality.

00:41:21.140 Oh, my gosh.

00:41:22.420 How to assess without judging.

00:41:24.920 You can't assess without judging.

00:41:29.640 To make an assessment is to make a judgment.

00:41:31.620 What do you make judgments on?

00:41:33.380 Quality.

00:41:35.960 This workshop warned that, quote, the practices of grading writing maintained white language supremacy.

00:41:46.260 That to use correct language is racist somehow.

00:41:51.520 Another workshop was called Why Are You Reacting That Way?

00:41:54.920 And it promised to, quote, give participants opportunities to examine the lens they use to interact with others and understand why there is resistance.

00:42:02.720 What this means is it was going to teach teachers not how to deal with bad students who were disrupting class and causing problems,

00:42:11.820 but to teach teachers not to discipline those students, just to learn from them.

00:42:18.140 And when the student acts up, realize that it's probably your fault and to figure out what you're going to learn from the student that way.

00:42:24.160 Everything about this is backwards.

00:42:26.220 And everything about this comes from the exact same identity crisis that affects Rhea Cooper and Pierre Delecto and all the rest of us in the me, me, me social media era.

00:42:38.720 All the rest of us in the era of being one and all the Time Magazine person of the year.

00:42:44.140 With the writing quality, writing expresses and reflects your thoughts.

00:42:51.300 To write well is to think clearly, which is why it's so hard.

00:42:54.200 That's what the great historian and writer David McCullough said.

00:42:58.420 Writing is a reflection of the brain.

00:43:00.100 Dennis Prager says that.

00:43:01.600 Writing is the way that we communicate with one another.

00:43:04.360 And the only way that we can communicate with one another is if there is an objective reality outside of us, outside of me, me, me.

00:43:11.880 An identity crisis society, a society that is totally obsessed with the self, can never admit that objective reality.

00:43:20.200 It can't admit to grades.

00:43:21.280 It can't admit to writing standards.

00:43:23.180 It can't admit to grammar.

00:43:24.680 It can't admit to any of that because that would contradict the self.

00:43:27.660 So, if you are really bad at writing and you put out some bad writing, it couldn't possibly be that you're bad at writing.

00:43:34.500 The premise is I'm perfect at everything and all of my desires must be satisfied.

00:43:40.320 So, then the only other option is writing itself is not objective.

00:43:45.260 It couldn't possibly be that you got a bad grade because you're a little slow or you didn't do the work or you're a little bit lazy or you stayed up too late going to a party.

00:43:53.580 Couldn't be that.

00:43:54.360 It's that the work itself can't be objective or that the teacher is missing something.

00:44:01.620 It can't be that you acted up because you're poorly raised and badly behaved and you have no discipline.

00:44:07.100 It couldn't be that.

00:44:07.800 It could be it's the teacher's fault.

00:44:09.180 It's always somebody else's fault.

00:44:11.840 That way lies misery.

00:44:14.400 That identity crisis lies misery.

00:44:16.120 It comes right down to the central problem of preferring fantasy to reality, to preferring the indulgence of our own appetites, to the satisfaction of eternal longings, bigger longings than ourselves.

00:44:29.180 And it comes down to the identity question.

00:44:33.600 Who are you in a sane society?

00:44:37.360 It's the simplest question in the world in a in a society that's lost its way, that's lost its mooring.

00:44:44.320 It's the most pitiful question that few people, if any, can answer.

00:44:48.720 That's our show.

00:44:50.200 I hope you can answer that show.

00:44:51.880 I don't have much of an identity crisis.

00:44:53.540 I know that I am Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles show.

00:44:56.020 Get your mailbag questions in for Thursday.

00:44:57.500 I'm heading over to the University of Florida at Gainesville.

00:45:00.720 So we're going to be doing a speech there for the rest of my YAF tour.

00:45:03.880 And we'll be talking about even more uncomfortable truths in this culture of fantasy.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 22, 2019

Ep. 436 - Pierre Delecto： International Man of Misery

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