The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 445 - The Cult of Self-Love

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00:00:31.660 Emma Watson is self-partnered.

00:00:34.520 That's the new PC term for single.

00:00:36.820 We will examine the left's cult of self-love.

00:00:39.860 Then Kentucky goes blue, sort of, maybe, according to the mainstream media.

00:00:44.360 The real election results are more complicated, so don't expect to hear about them in the press.

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00:01:05.180 All that and more.

00:01:06.120 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:07.880 So much to get to today when the mainstream media are covering up the cover-up of their own cover-ups,

00:01:23.140 when the mainstream media are lying about politics.

00:01:25.460 I just want to tell them, hey, guys, go partner yourself.

00:01:29.060 You know, just go somewhere and go partner yourself.

00:01:31.800 That is the new PC term, self-partnership.

00:01:34.760 That's what Emma Watson is describing as the new way to be single. 1.00

00:01:40.100 You're not single.

00:01:40.860 You're not alone.

00:01:41.760 You are the partner of yourself.

00:01:45.160 I don't mean to make fun of Emma Watson for this.

00:01:47.340 Emma Watson was asked the question in Vogue magazine.

00:01:52.160 She's approaching 30 years old now.

00:01:54.080 She's not married.

00:01:54.940 Doesn't have kids.

00:01:55.900 Doesn't have a house in the suburbs.

00:01:57.040 Doesn't seem settled down.

00:01:58.340 And so they say, how do you feel?

00:02:00.680 And she says, she feels fine.

00:02:04.280 She's not single.

00:02:05.760 She's self-partnered.

00:02:07.040 She said initially, when she turned 29, she felt stressed and anxious due to the bloody

00:02:12.620 influx of subliminal messaging.

00:02:15.460 Quote, if you've not built a home, if you do not have a husband, if you do not have a baby

00:02:19.120 and you are turning 30 and you're not in some incredibly secure, stable place in your career

00:02:24.300 or you're still figuring things out, there's just this incredible amount of anxiety.

00:02:29.260 I was like, this is what she's saying.

00:02:31.600 I'm not saying I was like, she says, I was like, this whole thing about being happy and

00:02:37.480 being single, this is totally spiel.

00:02:40.040 It took me a long time, but I'm very happy being single.

00:02:43.700 I call it being self-partnered.

00:02:46.500 I call it being delusional.

00:02:49.900 We will examine where Emma Watson goes wrong here and where, it's not just Emma Watson,

00:02:54.600 but where the whole culture goes wrong on this cult of self-love.

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00:04:42.920 Emma Watson is partnered to herself.

00:04:46.160 Other words mean she's single.

00:04:47.860 This is delusional language.

00:04:50.240 And I understand why people are using this language, but you really shouldn't because

00:04:53.700 it's going to lead to misery.

00:04:55.260 First of all, I'm not saying marriage is for everyone.

00:04:58.200 Some of the happiest people on earth are unmarried. 0.94

00:05:00.940 There was a survey that went around of the happiest jobs.

00:05:04.760 I think this was in 2007 out of the University of Chicago.

00:05:09.120 The happiest people in the world, the most job-satisfied and fulfilled people, are actually

00:05:13.340 celibate Catholic priests.

00:05:15.100 So marriage is not for everybody.

00:05:16.600 There are plenty of religious people who are unmarried who are very happy.

00:05:20.240 And for people who just happen to be single, they happen to be unmarried.

00:05:25.400 There are ways to promote long-term happiness.

00:05:27.960 There was another study out of Harvard.

00:05:29.680 It's one of the longest studies of adult life ever conducted.

00:05:33.800 It showed that relationships with your family, relationships with friends, relationships with

00:05:38.320 a local community can seriously promote long-term happiness, even if you're unmarried or you've

00:05:42.880 never been married or you're divorced or you're a widow.

00:05:47.680 The difference between all of those things and being self-partnered is the object of your

00:05:54.960 relationships because priests are not self-partnered.

00:05:57.780 Priests are in a relationship with God.

00:06:00.420 People who have long-term happiness and they're unmarried are not self-partnered.

00:06:04.560 They have strong bonds to their communities, their family, to their friends, to going to

00:06:09.060 church, to going to the local PTA, going to the local Lions Club, whatever.

00:06:16.180 Marrying yourself, self-partnership, all different.

00:06:20.460 I mean, we've seen self-marriage crop up in recent years, not just Dennis Rodman.

00:06:24.580 I mean, Dennis Rodman probably started this trend in the 1990s when he declared himself

00:06:29.480 bisexual, put on a wedding dress and said he was going to marry himself.

00:06:32.280 When Dennis Rodman did that, we all laughed about it.

00:06:35.440 We all joked, right? 0.91

00:06:36.640 I mean, this was kind of a ridiculous stunt.

00:06:38.540 Now, years later, it's actually happening.

00:06:40.560 You know, two years ago in 2017, a woman named Adriana Lima married herself.

00:06:45.840 Other women have done this. 1.00

00:06:46.740 There are stories about this crop up all the time.

00:06:48.320 They call it sologamy.

00:06:50.980 13 years ago, so after Rodman, but before Adriana Lima, a woman named Gil, wed herself.

00:06:57.680 And she said, quote, you're the one constant.

00:07:01.840 Your parents will die.

00:07:02.980 Your children will grow up and your friends will move.

00:07:05.360 But you're always there.

00:07:07.580 I'm not looking for the one.

00:07:09.700 I am the one.

00:07:12.120 This is a recipe for misery.

00:07:13.980 It's not just in self-partnership.

00:07:17.440 It's not just in self-marriage.

00:07:18.640 You also see this in sex robots, especially if you read the Drudge Report every day.

00:07:22.120 Because I don't know what Matt Drudge is interested in on the internet, but I do know that every

00:07:27.240 day there's a news story about sex robots.

00:07:29.400 And it's not just Matt Drudge.

00:07:30.580 They're all over the mainstream media because AI has permitted sex robot technology to get

00:07:36.780 really, really advanced.

00:07:38.160 So there are now sex robot brothels. 1.00

00:07:40.200 There are now sex robots that don't just move their arms and do whatever sort of things you

00:07:45.020 want a sex robot to do. 1.00

00:07:46.040 They actually have chest cavities that can breathe.

00:07:48.240 They're actually simulating human beings.

00:07:52.920 They're really close.

00:07:54.360 I mean, Mashable did a report on this the other day.

00:07:57.280 They said that the robots are just as good as people, but they're not people.

00:08:02.700 They're just hunks of metal and plastic.

00:08:04.560 But people are, I think, mistakenly doing all of these things.

00:08:10.380 These women who are marrying themselves or people who are buying sex robots or people 0.99

00:08:14.360 who are saying, I'm partnered with myself.

00:08:16.860 I don't need anybody.

00:08:18.340 Forget the feminist line from the 70s. 1.00

00:08:20.280 A man, a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. 1.00

00:08:22.800 We can now say, I need anybody else like a fish needs a bicycle.

00:08:27.820 I don't need anybody.

00:08:28.700 I need me.

00:08:29.600 I, all I need is myself.

00:08:31.100 I am perfectly sufficient.

00:08:32.440 Emma Watson had that feminist campaign a few years ago called He for She. 1.00

00:08:36.340 It's now becoming me for me.

00:08:37.960 And the idea here, I understand the idea.

00:08:41.200 There's a loneliness epidemic that's going around this country and around the West generally.

00:08:47.180 Loneliness is way, way up.

00:08:48.900 There was a study that came out of Viceland.

00:08:51.680 It surveyed young people.

00:08:53.420 It found out that millennials are more afraid of being lonely than they are of losing a job

00:09:00.280 or losing a house.

00:09:01.080 That survey showed that 42% of millennial women are more afraid of loneliness than they are

00:09:08.440 of cancer.

00:09:09.900 Stress, anxiety, depression, all up in recent years.

00:09:13.080 Antidepressant pills, all up.

00:09:14.340 People feeling very isolated.

00:09:17.140 And so they turn to these, these comforts, what they think are going to be comforts. 0.79

00:09:21.840 Sex robots or the idea of self-sufficiency or internet porn, which is just the same thing 0.99

00:09:25.600 as sex robots. 0.95

00:09:26.700 It's just, you can't touch it.

00:09:27.780 It's not as tangible, but it's the same idea.

00:09:31.140 And then ironically, when people turn to these things to alleviate their loneliness, they

00:09:35.260 become more isolated.

00:09:36.540 They become more withdrawn.

00:09:38.940 Why?

00:09:39.500 The reason is this culture of self-love, which you see all the time in leftist publications.

00:09:46.920 You see it in Emma Watson talking to Vogue magazine.

00:09:50.660 The cult of self-love has deluded people into confusing the virtue of endurance with the sin

00:09:56.880 of pride.

00:09:58.360 Everybody is going to be lonely sometimes.

00:10:00.240 It happens to every single person multiple times throughout their lives for sometimes

00:10:04.900 extended periods of time.

00:10:09.440 It is a virtue to be able to endure that loneliness.

00:10:13.540 And what we try to do is mitigate the effects of that loneliness by engaging with our community

00:10:18.380 and by praying to God and by involving ourselves in the whole world.

00:10:23.880 Very different from the sin of pride, which tells us that we are sufficient unto ourselves.

00:10:29.880 I don't need a partner.

00:10:30.840 I don't need it.

00:10:31.520 But we're not.

00:10:32.140 Human beings are not self-sufficient.

00:10:34.600 It's even, I think sometimes conservatives want to lean a little too much in this direction

00:10:39.400 of self-reliance and I don't need anybody else.

00:10:42.020 I'll just go it alone.

00:10:42.820 But you actually can't.

00:10:43.860 Human beings are meant to be in society together.

00:10:46.260 There is no such thing as the state of nature where I'm a single individual atom just floating

00:10:51.100 out in the universe.

00:10:51.820 I'm born into a family, in a town, in a society, with customs and traditions.

00:10:58.260 Human beings are social animals.

00:11:00.000 We are meant to be together.

00:11:01.280 We're the political animal.

00:11:02.500 And what is the political animal?

00:11:03.940 Politics is living together with other people and determining how you're going to live and

00:11:07.820 how you're going to govern yourself.

00:11:11.940 We feel that and so we try to replace those social bonds with virtual social bonds.

00:11:19.800 Digital, virtual. 0.84

00:11:20.760 Like partnering with myself or marrying myself or looking at internet porn or buying a sex 0.97

00:11:27.660 robot. 0.84

00:11:29.880 That, I understand the suffering that comes with it.

00:11:32.640 I think the people who are saying these things are really trying hard to make the best of

00:11:36.580 a bad situation.

00:11:37.840 But denial is not going to help anything.

00:11:40.360 It's not compassionate to deny reality.

00:11:42.420 And if we actually want to mitigate this loneliness crisis that is affecting everybody, we have

00:11:48.460 to stop pretending that everything is okay.

00:11:51.080 We have to stop pretending that it's fine to isolate yourself from society and to take

00:11:56.500 yourself away from social bonds.

00:11:58.120 It's not fine.

00:11:59.400 You're not self-sufficient.

00:12:00.800 You're not perfect.

00:12:01.700 That's just the way human nature is.

00:12:04.760 And one way to mitigate that is to work together.

00:12:08.000 And to recognize that romantic love is not the only way to do this, but you need to involve

00:12:14.800 yourself.

00:12:15.280 You are not going to suffice.

00:12:18.060 Not even a Hollywood starlet like Emma Watson.

00:12:21.160 In Emma Watson's defense, by the way, she's a celebrity. 0.94

00:12:25.000 She's a millennial. 0.99

00:12:26.700 And she's a former child star.

00:12:28.340 The fact that she's not completely off her rocker means she's turned out pretty well.

00:12:32.040 She was dealt a very hard spiritual hand here.

00:12:35.060 But it's a lesson for all of us because we're all millennials here, right?

00:12:39.340 We're all living in 2019.

00:12:41.600 We're all celebrities because we all have social media.

00:12:45.440 The problems that are being faced at the pop culture level are problems that are bleeding

00:12:51.820 down into the rest of us because we've had this huge leveling out of celebrity.

00:12:58.640 We've had this huge leveling out of fame.

00:13:00.840 In 2006, the Time Magazine person of the year was you because of YouTube.

00:13:05.340 That's one of the defining features of the era that we're in.

00:13:09.240 And we need to make sure that we don't fall into the same pitfalls of celebrity, which

00:13:12.520 unfortunately it seems that we are doing.

00:13:15.180 You know, the cult of self doesn't just show itself in how we interact with ourselves.

00:13:21.060 It even creeps out into the scientific literature.

00:13:24.500 You know, there is a group of 11,000 scientists right now who've signed a petition demanding

00:13:31.640 population control, demanding that we stop having babies, that we curb population growth

00:13:37.620 for allegedly scientific reasons.

00:13:40.540 We've seen this before.

00:13:41.540 It comes from that same cult of self.

00:13:42.760 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:16:11.460 To secure a sustainable future, we must change how we live in ways that improve the vital

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00:16:27.820 Therefore, we need bold and drastic transformations regarding economic and population policies.

00:16:33.380 Still increasing by roughly 80 million people per year or more than 200,000 per day, the world

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00:16:57.660 These policies make family planning services available to all people.

00:17:02.380 It goes on.

00:17:03.200 You get the point.

00:17:04.420 Stop having babies. 0.92

00:17:05.660 Start using condoms and maybe abortion too. 0.97

00:17:08.640 To stop the weather or something.

00:17:10.440 This isn't the first time we heard this.

00:17:14.000 In 1970, Paul Ehrlich, who is currently a professor at Stanford, predicted that within 10 years,

00:17:23.920 you would see mass starvation unless we curbed the population.

00:17:27.820 And this was going to be caused by not just the changing climate, but by the Earth not being

00:17:33.740 able to sustain all those people.

00:17:36.180 He said within 10 years, we'll have 100 to 200 million people dying regularly, starving

00:17:41.960 to death because of overpopulation.

00:17:44.640 Therefore, you need to cut your population.

00:17:46.640 In 1970, the population was 3.7 billion on Earth.

00:17:50.460 The population today is twice that.

00:17:52.680 We are better fed.

00:17:53.520 We are healthier than ever before.

00:17:57.260 It just didn't happen.

00:17:59.140 Was there any consequence to this leading scientist at Stanford University?

00:18:03.000 No, of course not.

00:18:03.800 The scientists also in 1970 were predicting global cooling.

00:18:08.980 They said our warm epoch is undoubtedly over.

00:18:11.340 There was a scientific consensus about this.

00:18:13.300 Then the consensus was wrong.

00:18:16.740 One thing I notice about all these disparate political issues, and these are political issues

00:18:22.680 by the way, is that they come together to thwart human flourishing.

00:18:28.420 Have fewer babies. 1.00

00:18:30.280 Kill the babies that you've got. 1.00

00:18:31.440 Don't drive this. 1.00

00:18:33.420 Don't fly here.

00:18:34.360 Don't build that.

00:18:35.260 Don't do anything.

00:18:37.120 Stop flourishing.

00:18:41.960 For no reason.

00:18:43.600 They put it in the name of science, but they're using science as though it were a religion.

00:18:48.640 And like many religions, it's had many false prophecies and false prophets, even on this issue. 0.99

00:18:54.500 That's a pretty wicked religion that tells you to stop having babies, to kill the babies 0.99

00:19:00.360 that you have, to stop flourishing. 0.98

00:19:02.320 When you examine religions, whenever you see that, that's just a little mark that tells 1.00

00:19:06.020 you, hmm, maybe this is not the way to go.

00:19:09.820 It's part of that same cult of self that says we need to prioritize us.

00:19:13.740 We can't pass life along.

00:19:15.100 I know that we receive life as a gift, but we can't pass it along because the weather

00:19:18.880 gods will be really angry.

00:19:20.080 So let's just live for us right now and nobody else.

00:19:22.800 That is a pathway to misery.

00:19:24.480 You will not be happy if you live only for yourself.

00:19:27.700 You will be much happier if you live for someone else.

00:19:29.720 I'm very skeptical of the social science of happiness, but all the surveys, all the studies

00:19:35.400 we've got say that that is the case.

00:19:37.800 There was one study that tried to refute it, said that single childless women are the happiest

00:19:43.800 people on earth.

00:19:44.680 This was immediately debunked when the story came out this year.

00:19:47.880 There's really no evidence of that.

00:19:49.700 We are happy when we involve ourselves, when we encourage life, when we encourage flourishing.

00:19:54.320 And don't believe anybody who tells you otherwise, whether it's a Hollywood celebrity or a politician

00:19:58.540 masquerading as a scientist.

00:20:00.380 Speaking of politicians, let's get to election night 2019.

00:20:03.440 Kentucky goes blue, sort of, maybe.

00:20:06.420 The Democratic candidate for governor of Kentucky is declaring victory.

00:20:10.180 Here he is.

00:20:10.700 Tonight, voters in Kentucky sent a message loud and clear for everyone to hear.

00:20:18.720 It's a message that says our elections don't have to be about right versus left.

00:20:25.600 They are still about right versus wrong.

00:20:30.420 That our values and how we treat each other is still more important than our party.

00:20:37.340 That what unites us as Kentuckians is still stronger than any national divisions.

00:20:44.000 That is Andy Beshear, who's declared victory as the governor of Kentucky, apparently doing

00:20:51.480 the worst impression of a politician I've ever seen.

00:20:55.060 Did that guy say anything that could not just be in a cartoon of a politician?

00:20:59.260 Our politics is not about right versus left, but right versus wrong, huh?

00:21:06.160 Am I right?

00:21:07.760 Am I right?

00:21:08.360 Do you get it?

00:21:09.260 We need to prioritize principles, not party.

00:21:14.940 Huh?

00:21:15.580 Am I right?

00:21:16.420 We need to speak in platitudes, not serious statements.

00:21:20.360 I mean, just the most empty suit impression of a politician I've ever seen.

00:21:26.060 The guy makes Mitt Romney look like Winston Churchill.

00:21:28.500 Goodness gracious me.

00:21:30.040 He's declaring victory now.

00:21:32.380 The mainstream media, of course, are declaring him the victor.

00:21:35.260 The Republican is not conceding.

00:21:36.760 Why?

00:21:37.060 Because at last count, the two candidates were separated by between 5,000 and 10,000 votes.

00:21:42.080 So, so close.

00:21:43.720 That's with 99% of precincts reporting.

00:21:45.700 You have Bashar leading with about 49.4%.

00:21:49.160 Bevin, Matt Bevin, who was the Republican governor, has 48.7%.

00:21:55.340 So, very, very close election.

00:21:58.780 And Bevin is going to, going to try to hold on.

00:22:00.920 This is being reported on as a major loss for Trump.

00:22:05.600 Kentucky, of all places, goes blue.

00:22:08.900 Turnout in this election was higher than expected.

00:22:11.460 It's estimated to have been around 1.4 million.

00:22:13.860 So, that's roughly 400,000 more than the last governor's race in 2015.

00:22:19.840 There are some lessons here for 2020.

00:22:21.900 The silver lining is that Matt Bevin, the current governor of Kentucky, is one of the least popular governors in the country.

00:22:30.020 That was according to a morning consult poll.

00:22:32.360 This is in part because of his history of incendiary comments and big fights over public teacher unions and healthcare.

00:22:39.600 The bad news for Trump is, because Bevin was such an unpopular governor, they called in the president to try to help him eke out an election victory the night before the election.

00:22:49.620 And it looks like he's still lost.

00:22:51.540 So, this is reflecting very poorly on President Trump.

00:22:53.980 Trump predicted it.

00:22:54.680 He said, don't, don't let me lose tomorrow.

00:22:57.580 Don't let Bevin lose.

00:22:58.500 And then the media is going to say it's a big loss for, for the Trump administration.

00:23:02.360 Now, obviously both sides are going to spin this.

00:23:07.340 Democrats are going to say this is a bellwether.

00:23:09.120 This is showing a blue wave for 2020.

00:23:11.080 The Republicans are going to say Bevin was a terribly unpopular governor.

00:23:13.940 That's why Trump had to come out in the first place.

00:23:15.620 And they're still going to be debating who won the election.

00:23:17.800 Anyway, that's going to go on for weeks.

00:23:19.160 The good news here is the Republican, Daniel Cameron, was elected the attorney general.

00:23:25.380 He's also Kentucky's first black attorney general.

00:23:28.560 So, he's a much better politician.

00:23:31.380 He looks better.

00:23:31.900 He talks better.

00:23:32.740 He's got a lot less baggage.

00:23:34.100 So, that's some good news.

00:23:35.000 Shows it's not a blue wave in Kentucky or anything like that.

00:23:38.520 Cameron is a 33-year-old first-time candidate.

00:23:41.380 He's from Louisville.

00:23:42.240 He got 57% of the vote when the AP first called the race in his favor.

00:23:47.600 He beat the Democrat, Greg Stumbo.

00:23:50.540 Outside of Kentucky, if you look at Virginia, bad news for the GOP.

00:23:54.200 In Virginia, the GOP lost the Virginia State Senate.

00:23:58.980 So, the GOP was holding the State Senate by one vote.

00:24:02.180 Then the Democrats flipped the State Senate.

00:24:04.500 Still, there's some good news in Virginia as well.

00:24:06.560 Nick Fritas, who is a member of the Virginia House of Delicates,

00:24:10.880 he won his election as a write-in candidate.

00:24:14.520 So, he withdrew from the election formally in July

00:24:17.120 because he failed to submit the required paperwork.

00:24:19.940 And then he ran a write-in campaign.

00:24:22.120 And as a write-in campaign, he beat the Democrat by 14 percentage points at the last count.

00:24:28.620 So, this brings up a question.

00:24:31.360 Was it a good night or bad night for Republicans?

00:24:33.920 Was it a good night, bad night for Trump?

00:24:36.820 Should Trump have laid off?

00:24:39.500 Was Trump a political asset or a political liability in this election?

00:24:44.880 You're going to hear over the next few days, a lot of people say Trump was a huge liability.

00:24:48.520 He dragged down the Kentucky governor's race.

00:24:50.780 I think that's BS.

00:24:51.720 I think the Kentucky governor was headed for a defeat and Trump went in to try to stop the bleeding.

00:24:58.200 But, fair question.

00:24:59.540 When Trump involves himself in races, does that help or hurt the candidates?

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00:27:04.700 Is Trump a political asset or a political liability in these races?

00:27:10.120 And what's that going to mean for 2020?

00:27:11.980 I think, generally speaking, he's an asset.

00:27:16.720 And Scott Adams, the Dilbert guy, tends to agree.

00:27:20.420 He thinks that the conventional wisdom, the wisdom that we hear from the prognosticators

00:27:25.600 on TV, who almost always get their predictions wrong, who were completely wrong about the

00:27:30.440 2016 election, the wisdom they espouse that President Trump needs to just shut up and stop

00:27:36.660 interfering in politics, that that's all BS because the people feel a personal connection

00:27:42.180 to their president.

00:27:43.080 Here's Scott Adams.

00:27:44.380 The funny thing about it is when he first started tweeting during, you know, when he was running

00:27:48.060 for president, people said, ah, it's too much tweeting, too much tweeting.

00:27:50.920 You'll never get, okay, you got elected president, but now you need to stop.

00:27:54.620 And then he just increases his tweeting.

00:27:56.980 And I think historians are going to say, okay, that tweeting was a really good idea.

00:28:01.040 It bonded the public to him without the middleman.

00:28:04.240 And I think even the typos end up working in his favor because you know he wrote it.

00:28:10.760 That makes it feel personal.

00:28:13.180 And it feels that you feel connected to your leader in a way we never have before.

00:28:16.820 Yeah, it's being reported that some of his staff wanted to restrain him.

00:28:19.620 They wanted to read the tweets before.

00:28:21.660 15 minutes, 15 minutes away.

00:28:23.180 Exactly, exactly.

00:28:24.120 That would have ruined everything.

00:28:25.480 Because I think you could tell a massaged tweet versus an original.

00:28:29.660 You look at it, you go, oh yeah, he wrote that one.

00:28:32.120 So Scott Adams has, who's one of the few people who predicted the Trump victory in 2016.

00:28:40.020 And he predicted it by, not because he's this rock-ribbed conservative, but because he's spent

00:28:46.120 a lot of his life studying the art of persuasion and he felt that Trump was doing a good job

00:28:49.640 at persuading people.

00:28:50.840 I love the point he's making here because I hear this all the time, especially from the

00:28:56.040 really smart people who wear suits and ties and go on television and predict politics and

00:29:01.440 who usually get politics wrong, but who still get invited on and predict more about politics.

00:29:06.380 These are people who said Trump was going to lose, who said his candidacy was awful, who said he'd

00:29:13.820 never connect with voters, and then he won.

00:29:16.000 And he won by being Donald Trump and by tweeting and by talking and by being who he is.

00:29:21.460 And then the people who were completely wrong about the election say, okay, yeah, we were wrong and he

00:29:25.980 won, but now he's got to do what we say.

00:29:27.560 I know that he won the presidency by not doing what we say he should do, and other candidates

00:29:32.040 have lost the presidency by doing what we say that he should do.

00:29:34.240 But now, because we're smart and we wear suits and ties, he's got to do what we say.

00:29:40.220 No, I don't think so. 1.00

00:29:41.880 This whole idea that Trump is some bumbling, fumbling idiot who's never done anything right, 1.00

00:29:47.040 who just by happenstance was able to succeed in every single thing he's ever tried, is so 1.00

00:29:54.240 presumptuous, it's such an arrogant point of view.

00:29:58.200 Here's my view of Trump, and here's my view looking at the 2020 election.

00:30:04.820 Maybe the guy who became a billionaire real estate developer, who's been famous since the

00:30:10.820 1980s, who's been at the top of the pop culture since the 1980s, who branded his name on everything

00:30:17.220 in the world, who was a casino mogul, who was a merchandising mogul, who became the number

00:30:22.560 one star of network television for 15 years, and who became the leader of the free world,

00:30:26.980 elected president of the United States on his first actual run for political office.

00:30:32.840 Maybe that guy has some idea what he's doing.

00:30:36.340 That's it.

00:30:37.140 That's my, in my humble opinion, that's my modest suggestion here.

00:30:41.600 Maybe he knows what he's doing, and maybe all these other people who are wrong all the

00:30:45.360 time, maybe they're not quite as certain as they seem to be.

00:30:49.160 Maybe they aren't all that much smarter than the president.

00:30:54.340 That's what 2020 looks like to me.

00:30:56.040 I think election night 2019 tells us very little.

00:31:00.680 Republicans won some things.

00:31:01.980 Democrats won some things.

00:31:03.460 Democrats won the Kentucky governorship.

00:31:05.060 That's bad.

00:31:06.260 That's too bad.

00:31:07.000 Kentucky's a conservative state, but the governor candidate was a really weak candidate.

00:31:10.860 That's why he had to call in the president of the United States day before the election

00:31:13.600 in the first place.

00:31:14.260 I don't think it tells us very much, and so much is going to change as we move forward

00:31:20.500 into 2020.

00:31:22.080 One big thing is impeachment.

00:31:25.360 Not just impeachment, but the IG report, the John Durham investigation, questions about

00:31:33.320 interference in the 2016 election, and collusion between Democrats, the federal bureaucracy,

00:31:38.540 and foreign intelligence sources.

00:31:39.820 So many more questions are going to come up, and the people who are saying, President Trump,

00:31:46.900 shut up, don't interfere, don't speak, I think they're missing an essential point, which is

00:31:51.420 that the mainstream media are the problem. 0.79

00:31:54.580 The leftist establishment are the problem, and if Trump hadn't spoken up and cut through

00:31:58.880 all that, they would have succeeded in rigging the 2016 election.

00:32:02.140 I think that's got to be our guiding light here.

00:32:07.800 Not these little races in Kentucky or Virginia, and the Republicans win some, and the Democrats

00:32:12.020 win some in 2019, but the 2016 presidential election.

00:32:15.680 That's going to be the guiding light for the 2020 election.

00:32:19.760 So how should Trump run it?

00:32:21.800 Is he going to run it as Mitt Romney?

00:32:23.500 Is he going to run it as a quiet, mild-mannered candidate?

00:32:25.780 No, of course not.

00:32:26.920 He would never get elected that way.

00:32:28.640 And we've run candidates like that before, and they've lost.

00:32:30.500 He's got to run, for better or worse, as Donald Trump.

00:32:35.160 That's the guy who got elected.

00:32:36.720 That's the guy he is.

00:32:37.840 He's not going to be anybody else.

00:32:41.060 And I think it's going to bring people along.

00:32:43.220 The idea that it just turns off everybody, that he's brash, and that he says crude things,

00:32:48.000 and that he makes crude remarks about women sometimes, is, I think, myopic.

00:32:53.620 It doesn't give enough respect to the American people.

00:32:55.320 I mean, even people who personally really don't like Trump are defending him right now.

00:33:00.100 You see this in punditry.

00:33:01.380 You see this in politics.

00:33:02.960 You see this even with family members, I bet.

00:33:07.420 Rand Paul, Senator Rand Paul, no love lost, is now defending President Trump more than just

00:33:12.080 about anybody.

00:33:12.600 We'll get to that in a second.

00:33:13.600 We'll get to what it means.

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00:33:21.120 And finally, the journalistic standards of ABC in the cover-up of the cover-up of the

00:33:26.380 cover-up of the Jeffrey Epstein story.

00:33:28.140 Jeffrey Epstein, by the way, he's that guy who definitely didn't kill himself.

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00:34:03.700 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:34:04.760 So, you've got impeachment is the backdrop to the 2020 presidential election.

00:34:22.560 Nobody really understands why Trump is being impeached in the first place.

00:34:26.260 Nobody really.

00:34:26.760 It's not Russia. 0.79

00:34:27.480 It's not Stormy Daniels.

00:34:28.440 It's not the taxes.

00:34:29.180 I guess it's Ukraine.

00:34:30.000 What did he do in Ukraine?

00:34:30.920 They're accusing him of engaging in a quid pro quo because he asked Ukraine to investigate

00:34:35.660 Joe Biden, who's the leading Democrat, former vice president, who apparently engaged in a

00:34:41.260 quid pro quo to get his son off the hook for corruption because he was being paid $600,000

00:34:46.100 a year with no experience whatsoever to sit on the board of a Ukrainian energy company,

00:34:52.200 which was a major talking point at the State Department.

00:34:55.480 We just saw in leaked emails.

00:34:58.020 Wow, that's pretty complicated.

00:35:00.920 We need to impeach Trump because he did what Vice President Biden did.

00:35:05.540 Biden, who's now the leading Democratic candidate for president.

00:35:09.160 That doesn't hold up very well.

00:35:12.560 Rand Paul is cutting through all of the BS because at the bottom of this impeachment inquiry

00:35:19.300 is a whistleblower, a so-called whistleblower, who is creating the pretext for impeachment in

00:35:25.140 the first place.

00:35:25.860 And Rand Paul is demanding that we find out the identity of this whistleblower, we bring

00:35:31.820 it into the light of public discourse, and we see if there are any political motivations

00:35:37.240 behind the very root cause of impeachment in the first place.

00:35:41.480 Whistleblower laws, though, they protect a whistleblower.

00:35:44.740 You know it's illegal to out a whistleblower.

00:35:46.420 Actually, you see, you got that wrong, too.

00:35:48.160 I mean, you should work on the facts.

00:35:49.980 Here's the thing is, the whistleblower statute protects the whistleblower from having his name

00:35:54.540 revealed by the inspector general.

00:35:56.400 Even the New York Times admits that no one else is under any legal obligation.

00:36:00.820 The other point, and you need to be very careful if you really are interested in the news,

00:36:04.540 is that the whistleblower actually is a material witness completely separate from being the whistleblower

00:36:11.100 because he worked for Joe Biden.

00:36:13.100 He worked for Joe Biden at the same time Hunter Biden was receiving $50,000 a month.

00:36:17.600 So the investigation into the corruption of Hunter Biden involves this whistleblower because

00:36:23.000 he was there at the time.

00:36:24.300 Did he bring up the conflict of interest?

00:36:26.360 Was there discussion of this?

00:36:27.680 What was his involvement with the relationship between Joe Biden and the prosecutor?

00:36:31.460 There's a lot of questions that the whistleblower needs to answer.

00:36:33.580 Boom, even if they don't totally unmask the whistleblower, Rand Paul has just unmasked the

00:36:41.160 key feature here, which is that the whistleblower, who I think he's a 2008 Yale grad named Eric

00:36:46.920 Charamella, and he worked for John Brennan, who hates Trump.

00:36:52.680 He worked for the CIA, and crucially, he worked for Joe Biden at the time that all these shenanigans

00:36:57.820 were going on in the Ukraine.

00:36:59.260 Not only is he not a whistleblower, not only is he obviously a Democrat hack, this was not

00:37:06.840 just my conclusion, it was the conclusion of the inspector general for the intelligence

00:37:09.860 community who found three pieces of evidence that he was biased against President Trump,

00:37:15.280 but he actually would be a witness in the case here.

00:37:19.120 What he's doing is he's blowing the whistle on President Trump for trying to investigate

00:37:23.760 potential crimes that Joe Biden engaged in, a quid pro quo in Ukraine.

00:37:28.380 So he's actually participating in this at the same time.

00:37:31.160 Of course, his identity should be revealed.

00:37:33.220 Of course, he should be called to account.

00:37:36.700 Of course, President Trump should be able to face his accuser.

00:37:40.560 This is from Rand Paul.

00:37:41.580 Rand Paul is not some guy who carries water for Donald Trump.

00:37:44.740 Rand Paul, personally, it would seem, despises Donald Trump.

00:37:47.900 They had an incredibly acrimonious relationship during the 2016 campaign.

00:37:52.240 Just to refresh your memory, here is, I think, a second GOP primary debate in 2016.

00:37:58.900 When Donald Trump insulted Rand Paul's face.

00:38:03.940 First of all, Rand Paul shouldn't even be on this stage.

00:38:06.480 He's number 11.

00:38:07.440 He's got 1% in the polls.

00:38:09.420 And how he got up here, there's far too many people.

00:38:11.760 Anyway, as far as temperament, and we all know that.

00:38:14.560 I kind of have to laugh when I think, hmm, sounds like a non-secretor.

00:38:19.140 He was asked whether or not he would be capable and it would be in good hands to be in charge

00:38:23.340 of the nuclear weapons and all of a sudden there's a sideways attack at me.

00:38:27.060 I think that really goes to really the judgment.

00:38:29.740 Do we want someone with that kind of character, that kind of careless language, to be negotiating

00:38:34.880 with Putin?

00:38:35.600 Do we want someone like that to be negotiating with Iran?

00:38:37.880 I think, really, there's a sophomore quality that is entertaining about Mr. Trump, but

00:38:43.640 I am worried.

00:38:44.400 I'm very concerned about having him in charge of the nuclear weapons because I think his

00:38:48.880 response, his visceral response to attack people on their appearance, short, tall, fat, 0.98

00:38:55.840 ugly. 0.97

00:38:56.720 My goodness, that happened in junior high.

00:38:59.060 Are we not way above that?

00:39:00.440 Would we not all be worried to have someone like that in charge of the nuclear arsenal?

00:39:04.260 Jake, Mr. Trump, I never attack him on his look and believe me, there's plenty of subject

00:39:10.300 matter right there, that I can tell you.

00:39:12.380 But Jake, all right, he opens up his statement in 2016 and he says, Rand Paul shouldn't even

00:39:18.380 be on this stage.

00:39:19.460 Rand Paul says, what are you attacking me for? 0.96

00:39:21.080 He goes, well, at least I'm not attacking how ugly you are. 1.00

00:39:23.340 These are guys who don't have a great personal relationship necessarily and even Rand Paul is

00:39:28.300 defending him because the deck is so absurdly stacked against Trump right now from the federal

00:39:33.880 bureaucracy, from the Obama administration, from the left-wing media.

00:39:38.320 All of these guys are stacking the deck against Trump.

00:39:41.600 So you're going to hear a lot of think pieces, ironically named think pieces.

00:39:46.580 They're not very thoughtful in the next few days about how the election night 2019 is evidence

00:39:50.760 of a blue wave.

00:39:51.680 I just wouldn't believe it.

00:39:52.800 I don't think it's evidence that Trump is going to win either.

00:39:55.560 I don't think it's evidence of very much at all.

00:39:57.660 It's going to come down to Trump.

00:40:01.020 It's going to come down to Trump himself, not some guy in Kentucky, not some guy in Virginia.

00:40:06.100 It's going to come down to do people like how Trump is governing?

00:40:09.780 Are people willing to ignore some of the personal flaws that they find in the guy?

00:40:16.840 He's not going to win by pretending to be somebody else.

00:40:19.040 He's not going to win by not being himself.

00:40:21.520 It's going to be an election about Donald Trump.

00:40:24.440 And I just think as a little bit of evidence that people are going to come around on him,

00:40:28.300 that people are more nuanced in their thinking than a lot of pundits give them credit for.

00:40:33.600 I hear it not just from Rand Paul, who more or less says, I don't really like the guy,

00:40:38.400 but he's getting a raw deal and he's a good president.

00:40:40.060 I hear it from members of my family.

00:40:42.040 I hear it from friends who say, yeah, the tweets, you know, great, whatever, the way he talks,

00:40:47.380 but he's doing a good job.

00:40:48.820 I hear it from Uber drivers.

00:40:49.960 I hear it from people on the street.

00:40:50.980 I suspect that's going to be the calculus in 2020 and it's not going to come down to Kentucky

00:40:57.920 and it's not going to come down to what the mainstream media tell you.

00:41:02.640 There is, and we talked about this a little bit yesterday.

00:41:06.180 This is switching gears from the national to the local level, back to La La Land where I live

00:41:10.260 in Tent City, USA.

00:41:12.580 The mayor of Los Angeles said yesterday, or we played the clip yesterday,

00:41:16.840 he said it a few days earlier.

00:41:17.720 With a straight face, he said that Los Angeles is the model city for dealing with homelessness,

00:41:23.660 which is absurd.

00:41:26.040 Homelessness increased in LA County 13% from 2017 to 2018, increased in LA City 16%.

00:41:33.240 The homeless are everywhere here.

00:41:35.220 They're on the street.

00:41:35.900 There are whole tent, like actual tent cities cropping up all around Los Angeles,

00:41:39.980 which are full of drugs, which are full of violence, which are full of sexual assault.

00:41:44.340 They're just hideous, hideous, awful places that no one should be permitted to live in and no one

00:41:49.580 should be expected to live in.

00:41:52.520 How did we get here?

00:41:54.400 The way we got here in many ways was because of the closing of the insane asylums. 0.99

00:42:01.580 Huge numbers of these homeless people have mental health problems or drug addiction or both,

00:42:07.580 and they're dealing with the mental health problems with drug addiction.

00:42:09.900 A lot of this came because we closed the mental hospitals.

00:42:13.380 There's actually a new study, a study of a study that came out just last week, 0.98

00:42:18.480 which shows that the science behind closing the mental health hospitals was bunk, was garbage.

00:42:26.380 1973, David Rosenhan, psychologist, published a paper called On Being Sane in Insane Places.

00:42:33.660 This was in the prestigious journal Science, and it made a huge splash.

00:42:37.940 The study showed eight healthy volunteers going undercover as fake patients in 12 psychiatric

00:42:45.180 hospitals around the country, and it showed the awful conditions that they were in,

00:42:49.160 and it showed how easy it was for sane people to be locked up, and it helped push along this

00:42:54.300 idea that we need to close all the mental hospitals.

00:42:56.700 People blame Ronald Reagan for this because Reagan was the governor of California, and Reagan

00:43:00.720 did help this along, but this was a liberal policy.

00:43:03.340 This was always a left-wing policy that Reagan encouraged.

00:43:07.760 I mean, Reagan also made no-fault divorce easier and liberalized abortion laws while he

00:43:11.640 was governor of California.

00:43:12.920 Nobody considers those conservative policies.

00:43:16.340 Now it turns out that the study that led to the closing of these mental hospitals was just BS.

00:43:23.400 It turns out that a lot of Rosenhan's work was falsified, that he misrepresented and outright

00:43:29.520 lied about some of what he did, that he actually kind of masqueraded as a patient himself and

00:43:34.560 covered up all of the other symptoms that these guys were describing to the doctors at these

00:43:40.860 mental hospitals to get themselves admitted to it.

00:43:43.840 It was bunk.

00:43:44.520 Now we closed the mental hospitals, and now we have a major homelessness problem.

00:43:49.060 This, too, gets back to the cult of self-love.

00:43:52.020 No serious society, no respectable society should permit 60,000 people on the streets of L.A.

00:43:59.360 to live in squalor and addiction and filth and crime.

00:44:02.900 It is barbarous.

00:44:04.540 It is completely uncivilized.

00:44:07.280 How do you stop that?

00:44:09.020 The way you stop it is by dragging homeless people to homeless shelters.

00:44:16.760 More than half of the homeless shelters in L.A. are not filled every single night.

00:44:20.980 There was a study about that just recently.

00:44:25.360 Well over half of them, not filled.

00:44:27.860 The homeless shelters in L.A. are supposed to be at 90% capacity.

00:44:31.780 They're at average 78% capacity.

00:44:35.120 They're not being filled.

00:44:38.160 For the homeless people who won't go to the shelters, they should be dragged to either addiction 1.00

00:44:44.620 recovery places, or they should be dragged to insane asylums, and they should be committed 0.92

00:44:49.160 involuntarily.

00:44:49.980 It's very hard to do that now because of the laws, but they should, and they should have

00:44:55.220 that happen because that's much more compassionate than letting people live on the street.

00:44:59.800 By the way, if they won't do any of those things, they should be thrown in jail because

00:45:03.140 even that is more compassionate than letting people live in squalor and filth on the street

00:45:06.540 and crime and allow crime to spread throughout the city and filth and ugliness.

00:45:11.000 The way that we came to the conclusion that it was more compassionate to let people live

00:45:17.600 on the street is because we atomized ourselves.

00:45:20.100 It actually gets back to that cult of self-love.

00:45:22.780 We thought, hmm, people should just be allowed to do whatever they want.

00:45:28.020 Not my problem.

00:45:29.100 I feel icky forcing addicts and unwell people into these insane asylums, so we'll just let 1.00

00:45:35.260 them out.

00:45:35.860 And not my problem.

00:45:37.240 It's their problem.

00:45:38.180 I'll look away when I see them on the street.

00:45:39.840 I don't need to give them money.

00:45:40.900 Look, I pay my taxes.

00:45:41.820 I don't need to give them charity.

00:45:43.240 And that's fine.

00:45:45.080 It's not fine.

00:45:46.140 It's not compassionate.

00:45:48.340 It's only considered compassionate in this highly individualized, highly atomistic society

00:45:53.780 that says, I'm an island unto myself.

00:45:56.260 I am not my brother's keeper.

00:45:57.580 But of course we are.

00:45:58.640 We are social beings.

00:46:00.240 We live with one another.

00:46:01.160 We cannot tolerate this to persist.

00:46:04.220 There's nothing conservative.

00:46:05.440 There's nothing compassionate.

00:46:06.440 There's nothing liberal about letting that happen.

00:46:08.000 But we need to take a much more serious understanding of compassion, of love, of self-care, of all

00:46:19.660 of these things.

00:46:20.500 That is the only way that we are going to move ahead.

00:46:25.560 It's the only way that we are going to ameliorate our situation, not just for the people who are

00:46:29.980 on the street, but for ourselves as well.

00:46:31.860 The only way that we're going to mitigate this loneliness epidemic, the stress epidemic,

00:46:35.560 the depression, the anxiety, the only way we're going to turn this around is by thinking

00:46:41.720 not less of ourselves, but thinking of ourselves less, to quote C.S. Lewis.

00:46:48.360 That's going to be a real way to engage in self-love and self-care.

00:46:52.500 And it's through not selfishness, but selflessness.

00:46:54.980 Before we go, I just have to point out, we talked about the Jeffrey Epstein story yesterday.

00:46:59.780 Jeffrey Epstein is a financier and a sex criminal who definitely didn't kill himself.

00:47:03.180 So there was that bombshell video from James O'Keefe, which showed that ABC News buried

00:47:08.140 the Jeffrey Epstein story for three years, would not let any of it be reported for three

00:47:13.340 years.

00:47:14.420 Once this undercover video came out, ABC released a statement.

00:47:17.740 It said, at the time, not all of our reporting met our standards to air, but we never stopped

00:47:21.820 investigating.

00:47:23.280 Ever since we've had a team on this investigation and substantial resources dedicated to it, didn't

00:47:28.200 meet our journalistic standards.

00:47:29.520 This is ABC News, which aired baseless smears based on nothing against Brett Kavanaugh.

00:47:36.480 This is ABC News, which ran footage from a 2017 Kentucky gun show and pretended that it

00:47:41.180 was currently occurring in Syria from the Turkish forces against the Kurds.

00:47:46.260 That happened just a few weeks ago.

00:47:47.940 ABC News, which has no journalistic standards whatsoever, is trying to cover up their cover

00:47:53.200 up of Jeffrey Epstein by saying the Epstein story didn't meet their journalistic standards.

00:47:58.540 B.S.

00:47:59.580 Call them out for it.

00:48:01.640 They're not, they didn't air any, any word about this on their ABC Evening News.

00:48:05.500 They're trying to cover it up again.

00:48:07.440 The only way you cut through that is through the memes.

00:48:11.440 It's through the new media.

00:48:12.540 It's through that internet culture.

00:48:14.180 That's the way to do it.

00:48:15.400 You've got to try to keep this story alive about Jeffrey Epstein, who is not alive because

00:48:20.800 he didn't kill himself, but was obviously killed intentionally.

00:48:23.880 That's the meme.

00:48:24.880 That's the show.

00:48:26.440 Go engage in a little self-love, but not by self-partnering.

00:48:30.640 Go engage in a little self-love by involving yourself in the world, and then come back, and

00:48:35.820 I'll see you tomorrow.

00:48:36.560 Get your mailbag questions in.

00:48:37.720 I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:49:36.940 Hey everyone, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:49:40.500 I had a near riot at my Boston speech last night, and I was watching what the left does

00:49:45.080 to our women and our children.

00:49:46.600 I think we've got to get them off the leftist sinking ship and build an arc of our own.

00:49:51.460 I'll talk about it on The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:49:53.380 I'm Andrew Klavan.

00:49:54.460 I'm Andrew Klavan.

The Michael Knowles Show - November 06, 2019

Ep. 445 - The Cult of Self-Love

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