The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 469 - Donald Trump Is Still Your President

00:00:00.000 Democrats impeach President Trump as Alyssa Milano leads a rally chant that this is what

00:00:06.940 democracy looks like. We examine what happens now and we remember what our founding fathers

00:00:12.980 thought about democracy. Then alleged comedian Michelle Wolf jokes about how killing her child

00:00:19.020 made her feel like God. CNN refuses to believe a CNN poll that's favorable toward President Trump

00:00:24.680 and stick around for the mailbag to get my thoughts on whether or not we should boycott

00:00:29.040 Star Wars, about the Crusades and about the age old question of whether Christians should date

00:00:34.240 non-believers, all that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:45.020 They did it. The Democrats have impeached President Trump. So what happens now at this point? I'm

00:00:53.020 actually half hoping that the Senate convicts just so that President Pence can then institute

00:00:57.800 a full-on Handmaid's Tale style dystopian Puritan tyranny. Not because anybody wants that to happen,

00:01:04.740 least of all Mike Pence, but just because it would totally own the libs. Can you imagine how

00:01:11.960 hilarious that would be? I mean, it would be dystopian, obviously, but it would be absolutely

00:01:15.800 hilarious. They think they impeach Trump and they think because they've never read the Constitution

00:01:20.120 that that means that now Hillary Clinton is going to be president. And then just peeking out from behind 0.92

00:01:24.600 the curtain is Mike Pence there just passing out bonnets left and right. That would make it almost

00:01:29.660 all worthwhile, though I say almost because this actually is sort of a sad thing for our Republic.

00:01:38.020 We've gotten into this habit now of impeaching presidents. The impeachment power should very,

00:01:44.160 very rarely be used. We're now using it a lot because we're prioritizing the Congress and the

00:01:49.080 legislature as somehow a more important branch of government than the executive. And you've heard

00:01:55.500 this a little bit from both parties to diminish the role of the executive. But if you diminish it

00:01:59.220 too much, you totally throw our system out of whack. And that's what's happening all around the

00:02:03.720 country. People are throwing our system of government out of whack. They don't even know what our system of

00:02:08.100 government really is. We don't need to cover very much on impeachment. Obviously, we knew this was going

00:02:14.460 to happen. We've been talking about what it will look like all week. Worth pointing out that two

00:02:20.180 Democrats voted against impeachment and no Republicans voted for impeachment. So that means

00:02:28.660 that the vote against impeachment was bipartisan and the vote for impeachment was not. It was strictly

00:02:34.280 partisan. It was only Democrats. Nancy Pelosi knows that this is bad for her. It does not look good.

00:02:40.780 I mean, it's rallied her base over the past 24 hours. They'll probably be able to fundraise pretty

00:02:45.040 well over the next, I don't know, a couple of weeks or something. Except actually that we're

00:02:50.460 heading into Christmas and New Year's right now. So people are tuning out of politics. If they wanted

00:02:53.780 to fundraise off this, probably should have picked a better time. Still, Nancy Pelosi knows this doesn't

00:02:59.840 really help her looking into 2020. So actually right now she's threatening not even to deliver

00:03:05.440 the impeachment to the Senate, meaning that the house has voted to impeach the president. That's

00:03:11.480 done with. But what would happen now is the house would deliver that to the Senate. The Senate would

00:03:16.860 conduct a trial and then presumably the Senate will acquit President Trump because the Republicans

00:03:21.020 still hold the Senate and this whole impeachment thing is a hoax. So they have no leverage. They're

00:03:25.260 giving away all their leverage. And that's why Nancy Pelosi is saying, well, we're going to vote to

00:03:28.880 impeach him, but maybe we won't give it over to the Senate. And you just see cocaine Mitch there

00:03:32.940 sort of rubbing his fingers together. Like, yes, yeah. Do whatever you want, Nancy. Because right

00:03:38.180 now that the vote has already happened, Republicans hold all of the leverage. Before we move on past

00:03:43.260 impeachment, I do want to give a quick shout out to Republican Representative Bill Johnson. You know,

00:03:50.020 all the congressmen were making these impassioned pleas yesterday on the topic of impeachment,

00:03:55.700 impeachment. But Bill Johnson, more than anyone else, gave a truly powerful oration on the

00:04:03.820 presidency, on the legislature, and on the topic of impeachment. Here is Representative Johnson.

00:04:10.080 Gentlemen, it's recognized for 30 seconds.

00:04:13.420 Thank you, Madam Speaker. In a day heavy in verbal debate, I choose to use my time to enumerate in

00:04:21.660 detail. Every high crime and misdemeanor committed by the president of the United States. I will do so

00:04:27.980 now.

00:04:33.320 Yeah, it's still playing. He's there. He's standing. He's looking around. Wow. See that? That was,

00:04:42.000 this is the best argument I've heard yet. It's so concise. It's so coherent. Where have I heard this

00:04:48.660 before? Gentlemen, time's expired. Feel back. Uh-huh. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. They say

00:04:54.340 that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. That's a quote by Shelley. And I can't

00:05:01.020 help but feel that that's true. I can't help but feel I played a small role in the creation of that

00:05:07.140 powerful speech. And that speech, I think, will go down in the annals of American history as the

00:05:13.540 decisive oration on the topic of President Trump's impeachment. Really, really great. By the way,

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00:05:38.460 congressmen fighting all day. You had pretty much just one funny speech about it, which was from Bill

00:05:43.920 Johnson. Meanwhile, in LA, you had a ton of left-wingers. I mean, congressmen, ex-congressmen,

00:05:50.880 that thruple, derelict Katie Hill flew out and hung out with Alyssa Milano. They were holding a rally 0.96

00:05:57.260 to celebrate the impeachment and to celebrate the attempted overthrow of the 2016 presidential election.

00:06:03.620 Alyssa Milano was one of the people leading this rally, this protest. And here is what she had to say.

00:06:13.040 Show me what democracy looks like.

00:06:15.700 This is what democracy looks like.

00:06:17.860 Show me what democracy looks like.

00:06:20.360 This is what democracy looks like.

00:06:22.240 Order, show me what democracy looks like.

00:06:25.240 This is what democracy looks like.

00:06:27.580 Hello, snowflakes.

00:06:29.580 Listen to me very carefully. I am angry.

00:06:38.720 If he thought Greta was angry, he's seen nothing yet. I'm premenopausal and I am angry.

00:06:48.480 Yeah. If that is what democracy looks like, count me out. I'm gone. I'm cashing in my democracy

00:06:55.960 chips. Get me out of here. Maybe she's right, though.

00:06:59.000 Maybe she's right.

00:07:00.560 I think a lot of people see these rallies. They see this hoax impeachment and they say,

00:07:05.660 that's not what democracy is supposed to look like. Maybe that is what democracy looks like.

00:07:09.240 We will examine exactly what democracy looks like and exactly what our founding fathers thought

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00:08:35.360 them. Is that what democracy looks like? If it is, it sends a shiver down my spine. But I think she might be

00:08:43.900 right. She might be. Just look at impeachment. There is a legal basis for impeachment. There's 0.55

00:08:51.140 supposed to be at least. And yet the house Democrats overruled these constitutional safeguards.

00:08:57.260 They overruled the law in favor of political strong arming. They basically said, we've got the

00:09:04.000 votes. We're going to impeach. This is democracy. Who cares that you didn't commit a high crime or

00:09:08.420 misdemeanor? Who cares that you didn't commit bribery? They dropped the bribery charge. Who cares that you

00:09:12.820 didn't commit treason? Doesn't matter. We're going to impeach you anyway because we got the votes and

00:09:17.200 it's going to be strictly partisan. Now, a couple of Democrats with a political conscience

00:09:21.100 actually voted against impeachment, but the whole rest of the caucus voted for impeachment. And they

00:09:27.140 didn't even pretend, by the way, many of them did not even pretend to have a legal basis for this

00:09:32.840 impeachment. Here's a democratic representative, Schakowsky exemplifying that mob rule. She explains

00:09:39.180 her basis of impeachment, which is not constitutional, not high crimes or misdemeanors. It's not even

00:09:45.080 Ukraine, which was the ostensible basis for this version of impeachment. She said that she decided

00:09:51.820 to impeach President Trump because her child told her to. It is my adult son, Ian Schakowsky,

00:09:59.380 whom I will always credit for my decision last June to support an impeachment inquiry.

00:10:05.500 It had never been my goal to impeach a president, but Ian made such a compelling case. He reminded me

00:10:14.040 of the oath I have taken 11 times now to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

00:10:22.380 He said, Mom, this is not about politics. This is not about party. And pushing back against my arguments,

00:10:30.360 he said, this has nothing to do with the final outcome. It's about doing the right thing, even if

00:10:38.920 others don't. He made me see that it was about my legacy, my modest place in history.

00:10:48.520 I want to thank you, my son, for helping me do the right thing today, to vote to impeach the president

00:10:56.760 of the United States, Donald Trump, because no American is above the law.

00:11:02.840 I want to thank you, my son, for helping me to realize that my job isn't to uphold the Constitution,

00:11:08.840 that my job isn't to support the norms of American Republican government. My job is to do what my kid

00:11:15.900 tells me to do so that I get all the good feels. And that's what congressmen are for. They're for having

00:11:21.160 really good feels. So thank you. Thank you so much, my son. This is, this is mob rule. This is government

00:11:28.360 by sentiment. This is government by saccharine feeling rather than government by law or government

00:11:34.440 by our Constitution or even our traditions or our norms. This kind of mob rule has affected so many

00:11:42.280 areas of our government, not, not even just this one Congress, this one Congresswoman. It's come all

00:11:48.600 over the place. And what you've got to remember is that we don't actually have a democratic form of

00:11:55.400 government, or at least we're not supposed to. Everyone seems to forget that little detail.

00:12:00.200 The word democracy appears nowhere in the Declaration of Independence. The word democracy appears

00:12:05.800 nowhere in our Constitution. You know what word shows up? Republic. Republic shows up through so many

00:12:12.280 of our founding documents. The founders were terrified of democracy. They didn't like democracy.

00:12:19.880 Democrats today would have us believe that our government is supposed to be some ever purer

00:12:25.480 democracy, but it's not, at least not as the founding fathers envisioned it. In their great wisdom,

00:12:30.920 the founding fathers knew what democracy looks like. Here's what James Madison, father of our Constitution,

00:12:36.360 here's what he wrote in Federalist 10, quote, democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence

00:12:42.920 and contention, have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property,

00:12:49.880 and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

00:12:57.080 Pretty sharp fella, that James Madison. Our government is not a democracy for that reason. Our government

00:13:03.560 is a republic. And yet, we've become more democratic over time. This has happened indisputably. And in

00:13:11.160 some ways, as the government has become more democratic, we appreciate that extension of various

00:13:16.120 rights to people who ought to have had those rights. But in many ways, the democratization of our

00:13:21.640 government, especially the federal government, has not worked out terribly well for us.

00:13:26.920 Republican Representative Barry Ludermilk, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, he made the rounds on

00:13:31.480 Twitter yesterday because he compared President Trump at his impeachment trial to Jesus. Now,

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00:15:11.800 Republican congressman from Georgia, he made the rounds yesterday. His clip went viral because he

00:15:18.200 compared the impeachment of President Trump to the trial of Jesus Christ. We can all agree,

00:15:25.160 I think, that claims of President Trump's divinity have been exaggerated. However,

00:15:31.480 Congressman Ludermilk makes a very good point about the Democrats here. He makes a very good point

00:15:36.920 about democracy. Before you take this historic vote today, one week before Christmas, I want you

00:15:43.000 to keep this in mind. When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus

00:15:49.560 the opportunity to face his accusers. During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to

00:15:55.640 Jesus than the Democrats have afforded this president in this process. I yield back.

00:16:00.280 Okay. Not a perfect analogy, I suppose we can say. And generally speaking, let's say generally,

00:16:11.160 Trump is not Jesus. Okay. I suppose you could have a sort of St. Paul scenario where he says,

00:16:15.640 it's no longer I who lives, but Christ who lives in me. But I could never presume President Trump's

00:16:19.160 faith. So let's put that part aside for right now. Trump isn't Jesus, but the Democrats are Pontius

00:16:26.120 Pilate. You know, when Christ is talking to Pontius Pilate, Christ tells Pontius Pilate that he has come

00:16:32.920 to bear witness to the truth. Pontius Pilate responds in one of the most famous moments of

00:16:39.320 the entire Bible. He shrugs his shoulders and he says, what is truth? And he walks away. And this isn't

00:16:47.320 just some sloppy moment from Pontius Pilate, just some throwaway line. It's the evidence that Pontius

00:16:55.640 Pilate is a cynic, a cynic in the true sense of the word. He doesn't care for the truth. He is

00:17:02.120 totally indifferent to what the truth is. He doesn't believe in a way that there is objective

00:17:07.240 truth. That cynicism has infected much of our society, but it is especially affected the left, which

00:17:15.480 now denies objective truth. As a matter of course, they'll say there's your truth and my truth, but there's

00:17:21.080 no the truth. Who are you to say that you're a man? If you think that you're a woman, then you can be a 0.96

00:17:26.120 woman. Whatever you want to be, you can be. Who am I to presume your pronouns? There's no objective

00:17:30.440 reality, so I can't presume the truth. The left has demonstrated this, especially in this impeachment

00:17:37.160 trial. I mean, they have been trying to impeach Trump now since before he took office. And the

00:17:41.480 reason has changed. The only thing that has stayed consistent is that they want to impeach him.

00:17:47.080 So initially it was, we're going to impeach him because he conspired with Russia. Two and a half

00:17:52.360 year, $32 million investigation into that. We conclusively can say he did not conspire with

00:17:57.640 Russia. Okay. Then we're going to impeach him because he maybe slept with Stormy Daniels 10,

00:18:02.440 15 years ago. No. Okay. That's not a crime. All right. We're going to get him because he

00:18:07.000 didn't pay taxes. Oh, he did pay taxes. All right. We're going to get him because he conspired with

00:18:11.880 Ukraine. Is that one good? I know Ukraine's at war with Russia, but let's just, let's go with that one 0.67

00:18:15.560 now. Ukraine. Okay. There's no evidence that he committed any crimes with Ukraine. Well,

00:18:19.240 whatever. We're going to get him anyway. Obstruction of Congress and abuse of power.

00:18:22.920 Yeah, that's pretty good. You can't, those are so vague that you can't possibly refute that. Well,

00:18:27.960 we're going to impeach him anyway. That's cynicism. A lot of people are cynical in politics. A lot of

00:18:33.720 politicians don't have very much regard for the truth. However, this is especially brazen. This is

00:18:41.000 especially in your face. This disregard for the truth. Another tough feature about radical

00:18:47.000 democracy. Another really unfortunate feature is that it breaks all constraints on society.

00:18:53.480 All right. It's obviously broken our constitutional constraints. This happens time and time again.

00:18:58.360 It's broken our legal constraints when, when people feel that they can just impose their will

00:19:03.240 regardless of what the framework of our country says. But it also breaks the constraints of the moral

00:19:09.640 order. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in the recent special of the alleged comedian,

00:19:15.080 Michelle Wolf. You'll remember her. She was at the white house correspondence dinner a few years ago

00:19:19.400 and she made fun of Sarah Sanders. And this was something of a controversy. So Michelle Wolf's got

00:19:24.040 a new special on Netflix and she decided to do a whole bit, a whole joke about how killing her child

00:19:29.880 made her feel like God. Here she is. So negatively that you feel like you should have this sense of

00:19:35.720 shame after you get an abortion. Well, you can feel any way you want after you get an abortion.

00:19:41.080 Get one. See how you feel.

00:19:45.720 You know how my abortion made me feel? Very powerful. You know how people say you can't play God?

00:19:51.880 You know, that's pretty ghastly. I think it's pretty repugnant. Most people are, are so shocked 0.81

00:20:10.200 by that joke because it's so real. It's so true. It's actually why it's a, it's a pretty good joke.

00:20:18.040 If not for all the suffering, if not for all the dead babies, if not for the reality of it,

00:20:23.000 because she actually killed her child, it would be a very funny joke. If not for the victims,

00:20:28.840 why would it be a funny joke? Because it's so true. She's right. I'm sure she did feel very

00:20:36.840 powerful. The ability to snuff out innocent life makes one feel powerful. It makes one take on the,

00:20:42.920 the, to presume to have the authority of God. Yeah, that she's right. That's not a good thing.

00:20:50.200 That's a very bad thing. The impulse of radical egalitarian democracy is to make each man a God.

00:20:59.320 That's the trouble. And what is the result of that? Is the result of that a good thriving,

00:21:03.960 wonderful society where we all love each other and we're all very nice to each other? No,

00:21:07.480 the result of that is a society that is coarse and capricious and miserable and murderous. 0.95

00:21:14.840 That's what happens. Does any of us want that? The framers did not want that. The current democratic

00:21:21.640 party does. I mean, you saw this even in the decision of justice Kennedy and Planned Parenthood

00:21:26.040 V Casey, where he famously said in the early nineties that we each have the right to define our own

00:21:32.600 reality, our own, our own objective reality will have to subdue itself to our own subjective whims.

00:21:40.920 Each of us will be gods in this kind of radical democracy. That is a pretty new idea. And that is

00:21:46.840 a consequence of saying that we're all absolutely equal as we will presume equality, even with God,

00:21:52.520 which is absurd and has pretty disastrous consequences, both on the individual and on

00:21:57.640 society. Now blending the two, blending the cultural realm and the political realm, we see the near

00:22:03.240 effects of this radical democracy now in the most cringe inducing video from Elizabeth Warren in the 0.91

00:22:10.600 past 24 hours. It seems like every three or four days you get a really cringe inducing video from her.

00:22:15.000 We'll get to that in a second. First, Christmas is coming up guys. Christmas, the holiday season,

00:22:20.200 New Year's Eve, especially people want to go out, get a little bibulous, have a couple adult beverages,

00:22:25.320 one or two Coca-Cola's stay off the road. Because even if you're not just drinking,

00:22:31.720 even if maybe you want to puff on that Haitian oregano, something like that,

00:22:35.720 stay off the road. I know you think that one is okay to smoke marijuana is okay. And then you get

00:22:40.520 in a car, but driving drunk is not okay. We all know that the risks of drunk driving,

00:22:44.920 you get in a car crash, people get hurt or killed. Almost 29 people in the U.S. die every single day

00:22:50.520 in alcohol impaired vehicle crashes. What's that equal? One person every 50 minutes.

00:22:56.120 But even though drunk driving fatalities have fallen by a third in the past three decades,

00:23:00.200 drunk driving crashes still claim more than 10,000 lives each year. And many people don't

00:23:05.880 realize driving while high can be just as dangerous. In 2015, 42% of drivers killed in

00:23:10.840 crashes tested positive for drugs. All right. From 2007 to 2015, marijuana use among drivers killed in

00:23:17.720 crashes doubled. Driving while high is deadly. So don't kid yourself. If you're impaired from

00:23:23.480 alcohol or drugs, do not get behind the wheel. You can call a ride share. It takes two seconds,

00:23:29.080 cost you less than 10 bucks usually. Don't do it. Okay. If you feel different, you drive different.

00:23:34.520 Drive high, get a DUI, drive sober or get pulled over. A little Christmas PSA as we get ready for the holiday

00:23:41.400 season. When you want to blend the effects, when you want to see the blend of effects of radical

00:23:48.520 democracy and culture and politics, look no further than Elizabeth Warren, Liawatha herself.

00:23:54.280 Okay. In anticipation of tonight's democratic debate, Elizabeth Warren appeared in another 1.00

00:23:59.400 super awkward video with the Queer Eye star, Jonathan Van Ness. This was posted on social media and the

00:24:08.120 two of them give away the game on this radical egalitarian democracy.

00:24:12.360 Senator Warren, who gave me permission to call her, Elizabeth. You'll hear me do that a lot of

00:24:17.160 times. No, but I should've asked you to do it. You don't. Get it together, Jonathan. But

00:24:23.080 Elizabeth is on this episode of Getting Curious and tomorrow's a big day. Oh, it is. The debates.

00:24:28.760 The debates. And what do you want people to take away from it? So they can go to ElizabethWarren.com and

00:24:34.040 follow the debates live and also engage in a lot of conversation around it because this is about

00:24:39.960 making democracy work, not just for the rich folks. It's about making democracy work for

00:24:44.920 all of us. We have such an opportunity. Kind of restructure this power and like give this little

00:24:48.920 classic moment. Structural change. A big moment. And so much structural change. Yes, yes, yes.

00:24:54.440 Everybody's making that orange out of there. She was out of frame when it was nice to cuss. Thank you so much.

00:25:00.440 Okay. If this is what democracy looks like, I am cashing in my chips. Okay. Could you imagine

00:25:09.560 the founding fathers? They're writing the constitution. They're writing the federalist

00:25:13.560 papers. These are some of the most brilliant men that have ever graced this continent.

00:25:18.200 They're contemplating how to balance perfectly our federal government and all the powers there that we

00:25:24.600 know that men are not governed by angels. We know that men are not angels. And so we need this

00:25:28.680 government to be rightly balanced to get our individual rights and our community rights and

00:25:32.680 our state rights. And the federal government has some power. And wow, we have this great,

00:25:36.760 great blend. I don't think that they were dancing around on Instagram. I don't think

00:25:42.120 president Washington was saying, oh, call me Georgie, please. No, he wasn't. There was a certain

00:25:48.440 formality. You see the problem at the very top of this video.

00:25:52.600 When Elizabeth Warren says, I insist, call me Liz. Don't call me Senator. Call me Liz. Come on.

00:25:59.320 I'm just your chum. I'm just your pal. We need to make democracy work for everybody,

00:26:03.720 not just the super rich. What does that mean? First of all, we're not a democracy. We're a

00:26:07.400 republic. We're supposed to be a republic. What does that mean? Make it work for everybody.

00:26:10.520 You mean steal their property. That's all you mean. The founding fathers knew this would happen.

00:26:13.880 We've all known this would happen. If you have government by mob rule, guess what?

00:26:17.240 Guess what will happen? You'll see those 620 billionaires, some odd, 620 some odd billionaires

00:26:22.600 in the US, and we're just going to take their money. And that's, that's no longer merely

00:26:27.400 theoretical. Elizabeth Warren is promising to do that, not just to take their income, 1.00

00:26:31.080 but to go in and take their actual wealth that they've stored up, more or less go in,

00:26:35.400 kick down their door and take their property away. All in the name of democracy, which is not

00:26:41.320 supposed to be our form of government. Is this what democracy looks like? I think it very well

00:26:48.520 might be, you know, even, even take this to CNN. It's a clip that I actually like, but it shows you

00:26:54.040 the same kind of pernicious effects. CNN conducted a poll on impeachment, and it turns out that the

00:27:00.120 people, the, the majority of the people polled do not want to remove president Trump from office.

00:27:08.760 Now it depends which poll you're looking at, but that's, those are the polls we've seen.

00:27:12.360 So CNN drills down. CNN looks at just the Democrat opinion on impeachment. And they found out that

00:27:18.680 during the impeachment process, it dropped from 90% support of impeachment and removal

00:27:23.000 down to 77%. So they've mentioned this on CNN and the CNN contributor refuses to believe the poll.

00:27:28.600 Here he is. By party, Allison, you're right. You see a decline from our last poll in democratic

00:27:34.440 support from 90% down to 77%. You see independence holding roughly steady there in a slight decline

00:27:41.160 among Republicans. I would just note that that November poll was taken right on the heels of

00:27:45.400 that house intelligence committee hearings. I don't believe that poll for one second.

00:27:50.040 What part? The 90 to 77%. I, I, you know, it's just, I don't believe it. Well,

00:27:55.480 like it makes no sense that that number would change like that.

00:27:57.880 It's a subset. It's a subset of the poll and the margin of error. When you look at just Democrats

00:28:02.680 is like 6.7% in here. It's not a wild swing. It's just where the movement is in the poll. I don't

00:28:09.560 know what's not to believe. That's what, you know, you call people up on the telephone. You get their

00:28:13.960 information. You pump out a survey. This is what those that we hold. I get it. But, but I mean,

00:28:19.480 you know, life means life has shown us that polls are sometimes wrong and David, that poll is wrong.

00:28:28.200 Kind of like is brazen. I don't care what reality says because even I, I should be clear about this

00:28:36.120 poll CNN. I don't believe the CNN poll found that the majority of Americans oppose impeachment and

00:28:41.560 removal. We've seen some polls like that. And so people are just picking and choosing the polls that

00:28:45.320 they like. But the CNN poll does show that Democrats are moving in the direction of opposing

00:28:51.000 impeachment or removal during this process. And the CNN contributor says, no, I'm just going to

00:28:55.080 choose not to believe that. Why? Because I said so. It's a funny example, but it shows you the impulse

00:29:00.120 of radical democracy, which is cynicism, which is to disregard the truth, to disregard reality,

00:29:06.200 to elevate ourselves, to presume that we have the right to dictate reality to everybody else. You're

00:29:12.120 seeing it happen on the political front. You're seeing it happen in Congress. You're seeing it

00:29:15.320 happen on the presidential campaign trail. You're seeing it happen in the culture while

00:29:20.840 comedians are cackling and making jokes about killing their own children. And the audience is

00:29:25.800 huffing and hooing and laughing and cheering. That is the conclusion of radical democracy. Maybe

00:29:32.120 the founders were right. Maybe the founders had a point, just my modest suggestion.

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00:30:24.040 All right. I'm going to be running out and catching a flight because surprise, surprise,

00:30:40.200 I'm going to be heading to TPUSA's student action summit over in Palm Beach just this evening. I'm

00:30:46.840 going to fly out. I'm going to be speaking with Andy Ngo tomorrow on leftist violence. As you know,

00:30:52.620 I was the target of leftist violence when at University of Missouri, Kansas City, some masked

00:30:59.180 Antifa weirdo came in and sprayed me with a bunch of creepy goop. And that was fine. I had to get a

00:31:05.020 new blazer, but life goes on. Andy Ngo had all sorts of awful things thrown at him. He was being

00:31:11.020 punched. He was really, really violently attacked by Antifa. So we're going to be taking that on in

00:31:15.980 Palm Beach at the student action summit. That will be tomorrow afternoon. So Friday afternoon,

00:31:22.540 Eastern time, early afternoon. If you happen to be in the area, come on by and say hello.

00:31:26.700 Before then, let's answer all of your burning questions in the mailbag from Grant.

00:31:31.340 Michael, my ex-girlfriend and I of five years broke up in early November. We're still talking daily and

00:31:39.100 see each other once a week. And she says we should grow together before we get back together. She's

00:31:44.460 unsure about having kids and she's unsure about my Christian religion. We're both 25 years old. Do

00:31:49.460 you think it is worth pursuing the relationship still or better to let her go? She is my best 0.68

00:31:55.080 friend as well as the woman I want to spend my life with. Would love some advice. P.S. Thank you for

00:32:00.380 all you do. Haven't missed an episode in two years. Well, thank you very much, Grant. Since you're a

00:32:05.420 regular listener to the show then, and I really appreciate you sticking around for two years,

00:32:08.780 I'm going to give you some tough love. Drop her like a hot potato. I know you, you really love

00:32:19.100 her. You want to spend the rest of your life with her. She's your best friend. There's your first

00:32:24.660 problem. I, I could not possibly love a human being more than I love sweet little Elisa. She's not my

00:32:33.360 best friend because friendship is a different thing than, than romantic and marital love.

00:32:39.000 They're just, they should be different categories, but we in our modern culture have confused all of

00:32:43.500 this and we think that sex is basically at the bottom of all human relationships. That isn't true.

00:32:49.460 You should have strong friendships outside of your romantic relationship or your marital relationship

00:32:56.060 or whatever. That's the first problem. And I think that might be confusing you a little bit here.

00:33:00.220 Second, you're not, I mean, you're young, you're very young, 25, but you're not 15 or 16. So if these

00:33:07.660 views are starting to harden, she doesn't like Christianity, she doesn't want to have kids,

00:33:11.200 especially, that's not a good place to be at, especially if you've had five years together

00:33:16.520 already. It's not like you're just getting through the first six months of your relationship.

00:33:22.660 And then there's this issue of she seems to be stringing you along. So you break up,

00:33:29.360 but you really love her. You want to spend your life with her. She's the one who's pulling back.

00:33:32.680 Let her go. Let her go. Are you kidding me? You're not, you got to be a man. I mean,

00:33:36.980 I'm going to, I'm going to give you the advice that, that Don Corleone gives to Johnny Fontaine

00:33:40.900 and the Godfather. When Johnny Fontaine is complaining about how he doesn't know how to

00:33:45.320 get out of his contract, Don Corleone shakes him. He goes, you're going to act like a man.

00:33:50.180 What's the matter with you? You got to act like a man. I mean, that's frankly,

00:33:52.740 if you want any hope of hurry coming back to you, you got a man up here and just say, nope,

00:33:56.900 you don't want to do this. That's fine. I'm going to go see some other people. And that's just the

00:34:00.900 way that it's going to go. There's a chance you end up together, I suppose, but you're not going

00:34:06.040 to end up together. If you, if you continue down this path of saying, you're my best friend,

00:34:10.720 please let's see each other as much as we can. Please let's get back together. I'm not saying

00:34:15.920 that you shouldn't pursue her, but if you're going to pursue her, you got to draw some lines here.

00:34:22.580 You can't just let her lead the way and dictate all the rules of the game. You got to put some

00:34:27.680 boundaries on that and make it clear that you want to date her again, and you're not going to accept

00:34:32.340 being the best friend who hangs around and sees her once a week, whenever she's willing to spare

00:34:38.540 you the time of day. That is ridiculous. There's a good book on this by Ovid called The Cure for Love, 0.98

00:34:43.720 Remedia Amoris. It's a little, a little on the pagan side. So, you know, take it with a grain of salt 0.76

00:34:49.380 when you approach it from your faithful Christian position, but it's a very good book on the cure

00:34:55.320 for love. And I think it'll give you some good ideas in getting over this and playing the field

00:35:00.220 a little bit. And then if it's meant to be, it's meant to be, and she'll come running back. And I

00:35:04.080 hope that works out for you, but if not, maybe you'll have a better life with another lady.

00:35:08.060 From Chris, after Matt Fradd posted his Daily Wire article on porn, people lost their minds and went

00:35:14.260 full bore to the, the tyrannical government is going to take away my rights. I couldn't help but notice

00:35:18.940 that the arguments ultimately redounded to my body, my choice. Don't put your religion on me.

00:35:24.720 And think of the financial situation of the woman, meaning the performer, not the woman getting an

00:35:30.000 abortion, but the woman who's in the porn video. What is the deal here? Is porn to become the sacrament

00:35:35.220 of libertarians and some conservatives? What is it going to take for people to realize the leftist

00:35:40.320 undertones to these arguments? Yes, that is starting to happen. And it's because of the

00:35:45.000 misunderstanding of liberty, just like we have a misunderstanding of democracy.

00:35:47.860 In our country, from the very beginning, we have adopted certain democratic principles,

00:35:54.220 which is a good thing. That's wonderful. But we're not a pure democracy. In the same way,

00:35:59.400 from the very beginning of our country, more importantly, we have preserved liberty.

00:36:05.300 But we haven't, we haven't exalted licentiousness. That wasn't the point. We haven't exalted sort of

00:36:12.020 anarchistic liberty to do whatever we please at any given time. That was never the, the idea of the

00:36:17.260 founding fathers. That was never the idea of this country. What we preserved was ordered liberty.

00:36:22.520 And as Madison spells out importantly in Federalist 51, the end of government is justice. And Edmund Burke

00:36:28.680 describes justice as ordered liberty. A liberty that is far higher, far more exalted than just being

00:36:35.840 able to shoot up heroin in the street whenever you want. Like that's some kind of liberty. It's just a

00:36:40.440 misunderstanding of it. And when you see that throughout all of our history, we've had obscenity laws.

00:36:44.460 We've had certain laws about drugs and alcohol. We still have all of those laws. You realize that

00:36:49.840 this kind of radical libertarian idea that we ought to be able to access any kind of creepy porn at any

00:36:56.200 given time and do whatever we want to ourselves and to our brains. Because as many have pointed out,

00:37:02.000 the scientific evidence is pretty clear that high speed video internet pornography is wreaking havoc

00:37:08.880 on our brains, specifically on the brains of young men. When you realize that, when you realize that

00:37:15.020 society is about more than just this narrow licentiousness, then you can see we like to have

00:37:21.400 democratic principles. We like to have liberty, but we don't need radical, totally perverted views

00:37:29.140 of either of those things. From Nathan. Hey Michael, speaker of millennials and lord of the hair.

00:37:35.180 Do you think that when president Trump is reelected that he will win the popular vote as well? Thanks,

00:37:41.220 came for Ben, stayed for Michael. I think it very likely could happen. You know, George W. Bush lost

00:37:45.480 the popular vote in 2000 and he won the popular vote in 2004. President Trump lost the popular vote in

00:37:52.200 2016. It would appear he's picked up a lot of support since then. I mean, you can just look at the

00:37:57.640 numbers in the, among black voters or among Hispanic voters. Those, those numbers have increased pretty

00:38:03.760 dramatically and this is according to multiple polls. Now listen, the only poll that matters is,

00:38:08.060 is on election day, but we're not just talking about one outlier poll here anymore. We're talking

00:38:13.120 about multiple polls that shows Trump's black support could have doubled or even, even tripled,

00:38:17.340 or in some cases even more. That is a pretty good sign that the president Trump could see history

00:38:23.840 repeat itself and that he could win the popular vote in 2020. From Sam. Anytime a debate starts about

00:38:28.760 religion versus another religion historically, Islam versus Christianity. Christians are always hit 1.00

00:38:33.760 with the, but what about the crusades and the Spanish inquisition? What is the best way to respond to

00:38:39.040 these? Thanks. There's a lot of history that you should read on them, but the kind of 30,000 foot view

00:38:46.700 is that the crusades were a defensive war to stop the, the Muslim persecution of Christians in the Holy

00:38:52.060 land in the Holy land to which the Muslim conquerors had no historical or religious right in the first 0.98

00:39:01.620 place. They, you know, sort of made sense for them to be around Mecca, but it, it didn't make sense for

00:39:07.560 them to conquer Jerusalem, to conquer the Holy land. And then when it comes to the inquisition,

00:39:12.080 let's not forget there were several different inquisitions. There was the Cather inquisition,

00:39:18.160 the middle ages that was in the 11th and 12th century. That was to, to weed out the Albigensian 1.00

00:39:25.420 heresy, which would have absolutely destroyed civilization. It was encouraging people not to

00:39:29.900 get married. It was encouraging people to hate material. We, there would not be such a thing

00:39:33.800 as the West today if the Cathars had been allowed to, to take over the culture. And so there was that 0.92

00:39:38.880 inquisition. And then the Spanish inquisition was to find out if people who were pretending to be

00:39:45.700 Christian actually were Christian and to root out heretics as well, which has a long history and

00:39:50.300 Christian tradition. And, and Thomas Aquinas defended it pretty well. I am not defending

00:39:54.400 the Spanish inquisition. I want to be perfectly clear about this for when media matters puts their

00:39:59.160 next video out on me. What I am saying though, is that the Spanish inquisition was a much more

00:40:07.220 complicated event than, than some people would say. And the people who throw it around as though this

00:40:12.500 negates the whole of Christendom and is somehow negates all of Christianity or just don't know

00:40:17.400 very much about it. Another thing to point out here is that the Spanish inquisition was led by

00:40:22.980 the crown. It was led by Spain, not by the church. And when it comes, I highly recommend you, you read

00:40:29.800 up on the crusades because so often I hear the rhetoric that we have to go into Libya, you know,

00:40:36.200 because of a humanitarian crisis. We have to go into Syria because of a humanitarian crisis. We have to go

00:40:40.980 into any other country around the world because of a humanitarian crisis. That's the argument for

00:40:46.560 the crusades. The argument for the crusades is that there was a humanitarian crisis and the Muslim 1.00

00:40:54.140 invaders were persecuting Christians. It's the same exact argument. Now there were many crusades,

00:41:00.420 some better than others. So as in all things, I just think the real history is much more interesting

00:41:05.500 than the sort of ideological revisionist slogan view of things. And it's best to approach these

00:41:14.200 historical questions with some humility and with an air of curiosity rather than sitting up on your

00:41:20.120 high horse, standing on the shoulders of giants and thinking that you're flying because you're not.

00:41:25.080 From Miles, I subscribed just to ask this question. I hope I have a good answer.

00:41:30.300 Do you have a list, you can say, of books to relearn American history as well as history in general?

00:41:36.560 Now that I have kids, I want to reestablish my American roots and do away with what little I remember 1.00

00:41:40.900 of my public school education of America. But I find it daunting once I start looking for a non-revisionist 0.97

00:41:46.940 history book. Sure, I actually, I don't think you need to go for the most intense conservative sources

00:41:52.760 and you should only read books written by conservative political commentators or something.

00:41:57.460 But there are plenty of popular historical books, even of the last 20 or 30 years,

00:42:01.380 that are not revisionist history. For instance, the books by Nathaniel Philbrick. Nathaniel Philbrick

00:42:07.060 wrote The Mayflower. I don't think that's a revisionist history book. I think it'll give you a pretty good

00:42:11.020 overview of the pilgrims. And I don't know what his politics are, but that's probably a good thing

00:42:15.840 in a historian. Same thing with David McCulloch. His books are really terrific. Very popular.

00:42:20.120 They're pretty easy read. Very interesting. He's a good writer. Ron Chernow wrote some great

00:42:26.200 biographies. Hamilton, which is what the musical is based on. Washington. A number of others. And

00:42:33.080 if you want a good history of the West, a really good intellectual history of all of the West from

00:42:37.600 the modern era, you know, 1500 to the present, you know, the Protestant revolution basically through

00:42:43.440 the late 20th century. I highly recommend Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun. He was, I think,

00:42:49.680 approaching 100 when he wrote the book, so he'd lived through a fifth of it. And again, it's really good.

00:42:53.740 I don't know exactly what his politics were, but it's a great history. And from Joshua,

00:42:58.360 Michael, do you think we will ever again have a presidential candidate run on balancing a budget

00:43:03.720 and actually win? If so, can they win while being honest that there needs to be some entitlement

00:43:08.780 program reforms to accomplish a balanced budget? No, not yet. I guess in the distant future,

00:43:14.620 who knows? We can't predict the future. I actually have a little bit of insight into this because I

00:43:19.140 worked on some presidential campaigns that were trying to put entitlement reform at the top of the

00:43:23.660 ticket. And even, I love Mitch Daniels, who's now the president of Purdue. And he had this idea of a

00:43:28.740 social truce, not a social surrender, but a social truce. We're going to pause talking about social

00:43:33.100 issues to get our fiscal house in order to then be able to tackle the cultural issues again.

00:43:39.900 And there's no appetite for it. Paul Ryan tried to pass the path to prosperity and entitlement reform

00:43:45.120 plan. It just didn't work. It didn't happen. Why? What, what did we see proven wrong by that

00:43:52.300 approach, which a lot of us embraced? What we saw was that the culture has to come first. I mean,

00:43:59.420 in many ways, it's the Andrew Breitbart model. You cannot deal first with the economic question

00:44:07.740 because the economics is just bean counting. The economics is just a question for calculators

00:44:14.000 and economists, like Edmund Burke would say. You first have to move the culture in questions like

00:44:18.800 immigration, questions like our view on life, questions like our view on marriage, questions

00:44:22.520 like our view on who gets to decide questions about life and marriage. That is going to come

00:44:27.960 before we can get to the economic question. I remember once Ann Coulter came when I was in college

00:44:33.360 to give a talk and she was speaking to us and she knew that there were a lot of pro-abortion

00:44:37.440 young conservatives. That's just the way college kids are, at least at that time. And so she said,

00:44:42.400 look, if you're debating between voting for two candidates, one of whom is pro-life, one of whom

00:44:47.300 is pro-abortion, they both promise to cut your taxes and all you care about is low taxes.

00:44:53.000 Vote for the pro-life politician. He will cut your taxes more. What did she mean by that? She meant that

00:44:59.600 the pro-life politician will have a coherent worldview. He will have an understanding of our

00:45:06.160 right to life and our right to property and he will have a philosophy that's consistent. Whereas

00:45:12.340 the pro-abortion tax-cutting politician does not have a consistent ideology and so he's more likely

00:45:19.000 to lose his stomach and to lose his spine. Once we get past those cultural questions,

00:45:26.000 then we can get to those economic questions. It's a little bit of an inversion of the common

00:45:30.060 conventional view, but it's right. From Nick, last question. Do we think that as conservatives,

00:45:39.040 we should unite and boycott the new Star Wars movie? Is it our moral obligation to deprive the

00:45:45.200 studios of money after The Last Jedi was the most Marxist, anti-capitalist, third-wave feminism 0.97

00:45:51.160 infested piece of blasphemous propaganda garbage ever put to screen? Thanks for your wisdom. And yes, 0.94

00:45:56.400 Jingle All the Way is the best Christmas movie of all time.

00:46:00.060 I don't think we need to push for a boycott of the new Star Wars movie. I think that there will

00:46:05.140 naturally be a sort of boycott of the new Star Wars movie because it's getting terrible reviews

00:46:09.640 and all of the recent Star Wars movies since Return of the Jedi, with the possible exception of Rogue

00:46:15.860 One, which was fine, have been absolutely terrible. So I plan on boycotting the movie,

00:46:21.280 not because of the politics, but because it's a terrible movie. Because the other ones have been

00:46:25.620 terrible and I bet this one will be too. And I don't think that those two questions are

00:46:30.540 unrelated. I think them shoehorning in all these stupid, woke leftist politics have really, 0.99

00:46:35.500 really damaged the movies. But also the fact that they've lost the sense of good and evil. 1.00

00:46:41.980 They've lost the sense of simple storytelling. They've lost what made the first Star Wars a good

00:46:46.600 movie and what made Empire Strikes Back a pretty good movie. And even what made Return of the Jedi with

00:46:51.980 all of those little teddy bears dancing around, even that was a fine movie. And then they've lost

00:46:57.080 that sense and they've lost that worldview. And that comes out in their politics, but it also comes

00:47:01.520 out in their crappy movies. That is our show. I'm going to be in Palm Beach at TPUSA tomorrow. So be 0.97

00:47:07.820 sure to come over and say hello if you're there. Otherwise, we'll have another show before Christmas

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 19, 2019

Ep. 469 - Donald Trump Is Still Your President

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