The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 494 - Berning Down New Hampshire

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00:00:30.360 Bernie comes out on top.

00:00:32.020 Biden and Warren collapse and Bloomberg lurks in the shadows waiting to buy the Democratic nomination.

00:00:38.880 But the biggest winner of all in the New Hampshire presidential primaries was Donald Trump.

00:00:43.380 Don't take my word for it.

00:00:44.980 We look past the top line numbers to the hidden lessons of last night's vote.

00:00:49.600 Then Jussie Smollett's attacker is finally brought to justice.

00:00:53.640 About time.

00:00:54.600 And an injustice is corrected in the sentencing of GOP operative Roger Stone

00:00:58.760 for the unforgivable crime of working for President Trump.

00:01:02.500 All that and more.

00:01:03.180 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:05.240 Hooboy, do we have a lot to get to out of New Hampshire last night.

00:01:16.900 I feel we could do seven or eight hours on New Hampshire, but we don't have that much time.

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00:02:40.600 Lots of news out of New Hampshire last night.

00:02:43.300 The final count.

00:02:45.240 Who knows if it's really the final count?

00:02:46.640 They change these things all the time.

00:02:48.260 Bernie is on top.

00:02:49.420 Bernie Sanders, followed by Pete Buttigieg, followed by Amy Klobuchar, who got a ton of

00:02:56.980 momentum coming out of Iowa and out of the last debate, followed by poor Elizabeth Warren, 1.00

00:03:03.360 followed pathetically by Joe Biden, who is only slightly above Tom Steyer, a guy whose 0.92

00:03:09.140 name you probably haven't heard of and you might remember him from his silly ties from 0.85

00:03:12.220 the debates, followed by Tulsi Gabbard, who's currently suing Hillary Clinton. 0.68

00:03:15.760 So not a good place for Biden.

00:03:19.320 And that doesn't even tell the whole story.

00:03:22.000 Obviously, all those people got some votes, but all we really care about are the delegates

00:03:27.380 because determined by the number of votes you get in the primary, you then get a certain

00:03:32.600 number of delegates and the delegates are what you bring with you to the convention to

00:03:36.120 figure out who the nominee is going to be.

00:03:37.580 By the delegate count, Bernie and Pete Buttigieg probably are going to get the same number of

00:03:43.500 delegates. Looks like they both got nine delegates and Amy Klobuchar is getting six delegates and 0.99

00:03:48.380 then Elizabeth Warren, zero delegates, Biden, zero delegates, Steyer, Tulsi, zero delegates,

00:03:53.800 right? So these things can change as the final numbers come in. Let's get to a deeper level of

00:04:00.700 analysis than that. That's like the top line analysis, right? On the top level, Bernie Sanders

00:04:04.880 won and his supporters are radicals and that is scary, right? That's the top line.

00:04:11.780 Bernie voters are on another level. Bernie campaign supporters are on another level.

00:04:19.160 Bernie Sanders honeymooned in the Soviet Union, okay? When it looked like Bernie won,

00:04:24.920 his supporters all came out in New Hampshire and they chanted about how a whole nother world

00:04:29.760 is possible.

00:04:31.200 We are unstoppable. Another world is possible.

00:04:35.240 We are unstoppable. Another world is possible. This is what leftist radicals chant all the time.

00:04:40.620 They chanted it at Occupy Wall Street. They chanted it at all of the radical movements that we've seen

00:04:45.500 in recent years. And that's a scary thing because it's telling you that they are these utopians,

00:04:53.160 these revolutionaries, these radicals. Another world is not possible. We're not going to overturn

00:04:57.720 human nature. We're not going to go back to the Garden of Eden. We're not going to have heaven on

00:05:01.460 earth. It's just not going to happen. And when people try to pursue those goals through politics,

00:05:07.120 usually that leads to widespread human suffering. So that's very scary.

00:05:11.880 Also scary is that Bernie's campaign volunteers want to throw all of us into gulags.

00:05:16.080 What are we going to do with them?

00:05:18.140 Gulag. 0.99

00:05:21.380 Liberals get the f***ing wall first. 1.00

00:05:23.380 What are we going to do with those people that resist the change? 0.96

00:05:27.760 Because that's a big deal.

00:05:30.300 Well, I'll tell you what. In Cuba, what do they do to reactionaries?

00:05:35.420 They shot them on the beach.

00:05:36.660 Do you want to fight against the revolution? You're going to die for it. 0.72

00:05:45.880 There it is. That's a guy who works for the Bernie Sanders campaign and apparently still

00:05:53.860 works for the Bernie Sanders campaign. James O'Keefe released that video of the guy saying,

00:05:58.240 yeah, they're getting the gulag, they're getting the wall. And apparently he still works for them.

00:06:02.820 So that's pretty scary that a campaign of that kind of radicalism won. Okay.

00:06:10.040 The good news is that this probably finished off the other radical who was in the race,

00:06:15.020 which is Elizabeth Warren. Liz Warren needed to do well in New Hampshire. Liz Warren is from 1.00

00:06:20.120 Massachusetts. Massachusetts candidates need to do well in New Hampshire, right over there,

00:06:24.680 their neighbor in the Northeast. And she didn't. She did really badly in New Hampshire.

00:06:29.920 She bombed in Iowa. She bombed in New Hampshire. It's not looking good in upcoming states. At this

00:06:37.480 point, probably Liz Warren is running a zombie campaign and Trump took the opportunity to spike 1.00

00:06:43.100 the football. I love that. Of all the tweets he sent out yesterday, he sent out a lot of really

00:06:47.180 funny tweets. This is my favorite one. Quote, Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas,

00:06:54.140 is having a really bad night. I think she is sending signals that she wants out. 0.57

00:06:59.300 But calling for unity is her way of getting there, going home and having a nice cold beer with her

00:07:04.800 husband. He's referring to that really cringe-inducing social media video where Liz Warren

00:07:12.160 pretended to be a regular old gal and she had what I assume was her first sip of beer ever.

00:07:17.120 And then she very awkwardly hugged her husband and said, thank you for being here in their own home.

00:07:22.660 Everything about it was very, very bizarre. And of course, Trump is just absolutely rubbing salt

00:07:29.580 into that wound. He's saying Liz Warren is sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, mostly by him. And he's

00:07:36.760 got these little puns in here. She's sending signals like she's sending smoke signals. And it's 1.00

00:07:42.080 just a really, really funny way of enjoying the last days of her campaign. The other good news

00:07:46.720 is that the fake moderate, he's not really a moderate, but at least he's running right now as a

00:08:14.440 moderate. Pete Buttigieg basically tied Bernie Sanders. He won slightly fewer votes, probably

00:08:21.800 won the same number of delegates. This happened in Iowa. In Iowa, Bernie Sanders got more votes than

00:08:26.700 Pete Buttigieg and yet Pete Buttigieg got more delegates. That's just the way the nominating

00:08:30.620 process works. The other good news about that, that you've now got this radical and this fake

00:08:37.760 moderate who are pretty much tied. The good news about that is that fake moderate Pete Buttigieg

00:08:41.960 has a zero percent chance of beating Donald Trump in November. Zero percent, not, not 10%,

00:08:50.060 not 5%, a zero percent chance. Pete Buttigieg is a small town mayor. He has zero accomplishments.

00:08:58.740 He's never done anything. He has crucially a bad reputation on racial issues, which will kill you 0.65

00:09:04.720 in any party, but certainly in the identity politics obsessed Democratic Party today, having any whiff

00:09:11.640 of a bad reputation on race politics, not very good. And this is the politically incorrect thing

00:09:17.360 to say. His sexual preferences are going to hurt him, if not make him unelectable as a Democrat in

00:09:23.860 2020. You're not supposed to point that out and yet it's true. Don't take my word for it. Even the New

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00:10:52.640 You're not allowed to say it, except even the New York Times admits it. Pete Buttigieg's sexual

00:10:56.460 preferences are going to hurt him specifically within the Democratic Party. Now, that seems odd,

00:11:01.980 doesn't it? Because the Democratic Party seems so progressive on sexual questions. Yes and no.

00:11:07.580 What the New York Times pointed out in October is, quote, as Pete Buttigieg courts black voters,

00:11:12.720 his sexuality is a hurdle for some. Because historically, specifically among black voters,

00:11:21.060 sexual revolutionary politics, you know, kind of the sexual liberation movement of the 1960s,

00:11:25.940 which includes homosexuality, is not particularly popular. The Buttigieg campaign acknowledged this

00:11:32.000 too, circulated a memo saying that homosexuality was going to hurt him in South Carolina. The reason

00:11:36.980 it's going to hurt him in South Carolina is because that's really the first state where any

00:11:41.000 of these candidates have to win over black voters. It's why Joe Biden is trying to hang on to his

00:11:45.780 campaign until South Carolina is because he's the only candidate who does well with black voters.

00:11:50.260 Regardless of your feelings on this matter, that is what it means politically. And so he's got a number

00:11:59.860 of flaws. I mean, if he had a huge name, if he had a huge list of accomplishments, maybe that would be

00:12:05.660 able to overcome some of those other political flaws. But right now, probably not the case. So for the

00:12:12.160 candidates who still have a pulse, the leading moderate candidate has fundamental political flaws.

00:12:18.220 Buttigieg is such a weak, moderate front runner that Amy Klobuchar in New Hampshire jumped to third 0.99

00:12:25.840 place simply by not being completely insane, which is high praise in the 2020 Democratic primary. Simply by

00:12:33.620 saying on the debate stage that maybe we shouldn't kill all the babies. Simply by saying on the debate 0.53

00:12:39.240 stage, maybe, maybe the Democratic nominee shouldn't be an open, avowed socialist. Simply by doing that,

00:12:46.640 she jumped from nothing to third place. Amy Klobuchar, if you just look at her and listen to her, 0.71

00:12:53.420 is a terrible retail candidate. She's awkward on the campaign trail. She's stiff. She repeats the 1.00

00:13:00.140 same awkward jokes. She's not a good candidate, okay? Somebody like a Barack Obama or a Ronald Reagan, 0.99

00:13:06.420 these really great campaigners, she is not. And yet she's jumping up that moderate lane. 0.99

00:13:11.260 The reason she's spiking up is because Buttigieg just doesn't have it. So who's going to stop

00:13:17.940 Bernie? The only person left in the New Hampshire field who can stop Bernie is Joe Biden. But the

00:13:24.540 Biden campaign collapsed last night. The Biden campaign came in fifth. Humiliating. He didn't

00:13:31.480 need to win New Hampshire, but he needed a second or at least a third place finish. And he came in

00:13:38.380 fifth. Absolutely pathetic. His campaign is trying to spin it. Probably right now it's over. Here's Joe 1.00

00:13:46.260 Biden trying to protest, trying to explain why his absolutely empty campaign is still going to hobble

00:13:54.040 along. We just heard from the first two of 50 states. Two of them. Not all the nation. Not half

00:14:02.400 the nation. Not a quarter of the nation. Not 10%. Two. Two. Now where I come from, that's the opening

00:14:10.080 bell. Not the closing bell. So when you hear all these pundits and experts, cable TV talkers talked

00:14:17.200 about the race. Tell them it ain't over, man. We're just getting started. It ain't over, man. Who

00:14:25.860 are you trying to convince Joe Biden? This is the telltale sign of a weak campaign is when they go out

00:14:31.580 there and say, hey, look, we just heard from two random states. Okay. Look, just two random states.

00:14:36.720 Oh, you mean the two, perhaps the two most important states to determining who the party nominee is going

00:14:42.540 to be Iowa and New Hampshire. I mean, not the only two important states to determine that, but two

00:14:48.140 very important ones. So the radical is winning and the moderates are too weak to stop him.

00:14:54.760 And the only guy out here who might win the general election got clobbered the hardest. This is

00:15:00.540 just terrible news for the democratic party, but it's great news for the secret moderate who all the

00:15:07.780 democratic elites are rallying behind now. And that is Mike Bloomberg. Mike Bloomberg wasn't on

00:15:13.100 the ballot in New Hampshire. He got into the race too late to do that. He's not, I don't think he's

00:15:17.980 going to be on the ballot in Nevada or South Carolina. So the first four states, the really

00:15:21.420 important ones, he's not even going to be there. But Mike Bloomberg has infinite money. He has all of

00:15:28.440 the money. He's already spent three or $400 million getting into this race. That's why his numbers have

00:15:33.680 shot through the roof. He already spent money buying off the DNC. He made max contributions to the

00:15:38.200 Democratic National Committee right before he got in. That's why they changed the debate rules to let

00:15:42.540 him into the next debate. This guy is now laying low and waiting. And because of the flaws of every

00:15:49.200 single moderate, so-called moderate candidate in the race, Buttigieg, Biden, Klobuchar, because of that,

00:15:56.440 he has a chance to enter the race late. But Mike Bloomberg can't beat Trump. He can't do it.

00:16:02.320 If given the choice between two New York billionaires, you got one New York billionaire

00:16:07.220 who is a soda-stealing, gun-grabbing, Chardonnay-sipping, cigarette-stopping, nanny state 0.56

00:16:15.120 scold, and a successful, funny TV host, who are you going to pick? Who are Americans going to want

00:16:23.520 to see for the next season of the White House? It's probably going to be President Trump.

00:16:28.920 The other reason, it's actually two more reasons why Trump beats Bloomberg. The two reasons are,

00:16:35.400 one, Bloomberg will be viewed by the progressive base as having stolen the election, regardless of

00:16:41.540 what really happens. You saw the progressives get their election stolen in 2016 through Bernie Sanders.

00:16:48.560 You're seeing it happen again now in Iowa and New Hampshire. So they're going to see Bloomberg as this

00:16:52.540 guy parachuting in, stealing the election from him. The second reason that Bloomberg doesn't beat Trump

00:16:59.760 is that Bloomberg cannot convincingly make the case that Trump is scary or dangerous. And I'll show you

00:17:06.060 how. Trump actually, he sent out a tweet where he gave Mike Bloomberg his new mean nickname called

00:17:11.940 Mini Mike, and that's what everyone's focusing on. They're not focusing on the second part of the

00:17:15.740 tweet, which is a photo of Trump and Bloomberg on the golf course. And that's actually the whole,

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00:18:40.560 doesn't beat Trump. And you need both of them at the same time. One is Bloomberg is just going to

00:18:44.880 be viewed so suspiciously as having stolen it from the progressives. But two, he can't make the case

00:18:50.280 that Trump is scary. Trump sends out this tweet. It says, quote, Mini Mike is a short ball, very

00:18:55.440 hitter. I love the syntax, the grammar. It doesn't, it doesn't seem grammatical, but it does work in a

00:19:00.920 tweet. He's a short ball hitter, meaning when he golfs, but he's also saying he's short, very short.

00:19:05.760 Tiny clubhead speed. Keep America great. So the tweet is just unsubtly calling Mike Bloomberg short.

00:19:13.540 And Mike Bloomberg is very short. I've been in rooms and at events with Mike Bloomberg.

00:19:19.560 They're saying on the internet that he's 5'8 or 5'10 or something. Not even close.

00:19:23.920 Not even close. Like he's a, he's a petite man, much smaller than people even realize right now.

00:19:29.460 So that's the tweet, right? Tweet is that he's short. The genius of this tweet is not calling

00:19:37.080 him short. President Trump does this. He makes fun of people and their physical attributes and it

00:19:41.440 works. It's distasteful. We don't like it, but it totally, totally works. Okay. And maybe that's

00:19:47.720 just where we are in 2020. That's not the genius though. Giving him a nickname. Okay. He was obviously

00:19:53.300 going to do that. The genius of the tweet is showing that Mike Bloomberg and President Trump have

00:19:58.440 golfed together. I think on multiple occasions, the genius of the tweet is showing that Mike

00:20:05.080 Bloomberg doesn't really think Trump is scary. Mike Bloomberg was palling around with Trump

00:20:09.060 just a little while ago. It's actually one of the reasons that Hillary Clinton couldn't really make 1.00

00:20:14.540 the case that Trump is so scary is because Hillary Clinton went to his wedding, right? It's that they

00:20:21.120 were, they kind of palled around. She asked him for donations. It's just, it totally blunted the attack

00:20:26.320 that Trump is Hitler. Trump is a Nazi. Trump is a fascist, right? Well, if he's a fascist, 1.00

00:20:31.880 why are you playing golf with him? Why are you going to his wedding? It's one of the real advantages 0.84

00:20:36.580 to having this celebrity guy, this pop culture figure in running for your nomination is everyone

00:20:45.500 knows him. We all know him, the voters, and even the people who are running against him have palled

00:20:50.300 around with him before. So I think it's a really smart way to keep getting that in there. It's like,

00:20:54.380 look, I know these people. All right. They're all BSing you right now that I'm such a scary guy.

00:21:00.100 So that pretty much damages all of the candidates who were in New Hampshire and even a candidate who

00:21:06.740 wasn't in New Hampshire. Who won? Bernie did fine, but he effectively tied with Buttigieg.

00:21:11.820 Buttigieg, Warren, and Klobuchar can't win a general election. Joe Biden can't win the primary.

00:21:16.600 Bloomberg, I strongly suspect, cannot rally that progressive Bernie base around him or beat Trump.

00:21:22.120 So it looks pretty good. Looks like President Trump did very well in New Hampshire,

00:21:26.720 but you don't need to take my word for it. Obviously, look, I think the president's doing

00:21:30.040 a good job. I support him. So I want to make sure that I'm not just looking at this through the lens

00:21:34.860 of my preferences or wishful thinking, but you can look at the exit polls and it all seems to back

00:21:39.080 this up. Okay. The numbers from the exit polling showed that turnout was down from 2016.

00:21:44.780 Like in some cases, significantly down, but Trump won in 2016. So if the, the way that Democrats win

00:21:52.160 this time is for turnout to be way up and enthusiasm to be way up and all those people who stayed home

00:21:57.680 in 2016 because they hated Hillary Clinton, they're going to turn out to the polls this time,

00:22:02.080 right? Because they hate Trump so much, except that's not what we're seeing. If this is a referendum

00:22:06.900 on Donald Trump, Donald Trump's going to win. The Democrats are less excited this time than they

00:22:13.460 were last time, according to the exit polls. That, that ends the election. If that, if that keeps

00:22:20.900 up even worse for Democrats, even worse, turnout is especially down among young voters. So one of

00:22:28.220 the arguments you hear from people who say that Trump isn't going to get reelected or they're

00:22:32.700 Democrats and they don't like Trump, they'll say, look, the reason Trump's going to lose this time

00:22:36.620 is because all the young people are going to turn out. There's going to be so many more young voters

00:22:40.880 this year, just in terms of voter eligibility and enthusiasm to go vote that Trump's going to get

00:22:46.740 clobbered. Well, that doesn't seem to be what's borne out by the exit polls. What the exit polls are

00:22:52.780 showing is not only are there not more young voters this time, there are fewer. They're actually less

00:22:59.040 interested in this election than they were last time. In, in 2016, young voters made up 19% of the

00:23:06.720 New Hampshire Democratic primary vote. That's down to 11% this year. It's a major cut. It's a major

00:23:14.140 reduction. Adding to that, you've got some polls showing President Trump making inroads with black 0.90

00:23:21.060 and Hispanic voters. And it's not just one or two polls. It's three polls, four polls showing big

00:23:26.340 inroads with, with black voters, especially. Who knows if those polls are, are right or not. But if he

00:23:31.940 makes any inroads with them, then the Democratic Party is in a bad place. The Democratic Party needs

00:23:38.160 to have a lock, especially in the black vote, but they need to do very, very well with Hispanics as

00:23:41.940 well in order to win. And it looks like all the numbers are going the other direction. So what are

00:23:46.540 the takeaways from New Hampshire? Weak front runner and division among the moderate wing, moderate wing.

00:23:53.180 Lower voter enthusiasm, lower youth enthusiasm, and a possible loss of critical minority support.

00:24:03.240 Those are all bad headlines for Democrats coming out of New Hampshire. All great headlines

00:24:08.520 for Trump and Republicans. MSNBC accidentally showed some evidence of this, that 2020 might not

00:24:18.440 be going the way they wanted. They accidentally showed it when they were in New Hampshire. They're

00:24:21.980 trying to interview all these Democratic primary voters. So they actually forgot that there was a

00:24:26.840 Republican primary. You forget it because the incumbent is going to win the primary, but they're

00:24:31.920 out there talking and say, Oh, Hey, which of these fun candidates, Bernie or Klobuchar, which one did

00:24:37.560 you vote for, sir? And they didn't like his answer. We have a voter out here. Sir, you're going, you were

00:24:43.320 watching, so you're going to be on television now. Can you tell us who you voted for? Donald John Trump.

00:24:47.980 You voted for Donald John Trump. Yeah. Look at that. Bernie Sanders is not appealing to you.

00:24:54.620 The whole ideology would be destructive to the country. It's anti-growth. It's anti-family.

00:25:04.920 It's anti-American. And as a Roman Catholic, it's anti-life. 0.92

00:25:11.480 Anti-life. Oh man, that guy totally nailed them. And I loved the look on her face. You voted for 0.99

00:25:20.740 Trump? What? Excuse me? What was that? This opens up the second side of New Hampshire,

00:25:27.480 which nobody's talking about, which is there was a New Hampshire Republican primary. We all knew who

00:25:31.500 was going to win that one. I mean, it's sort of like the election of Saddam Hussein. The question is,

00:25:34.980 is he going to get 99% of the voter? You know, 89% of the vote, he's still going to win by a landslide.

00:25:39.820 But the Republican side actually shows us something because it shows historic popularity,

00:25:46.140 like truly historic popularity. We'll get to that in a second. First,

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00:27:06.900 being covered in the news because there's really only one candidate, but it's big. You know,

00:27:12.560 Trump technically had primary candidates in the Republican party. It's just nobody remembers them

00:27:16.920 because they never had a shot. On the Republican side of the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump

00:27:22.820 outperformed all of his predecessors, all of them in terms of numbers. He outperformed

00:27:31.420 his predecessors in terms of the share of the vote. Last night when there were about 54% of

00:27:38.580 precincts reporting, so just over half of the votes were in, President Trump had already received more

00:27:45.280 raw votes than Barack Obama, George Bush, and Ronald Reagan in their reelection campaigns in New

00:27:53.440 Hampshire. Half the vote was in and he had gotten more votes. Now, Bill Clinton had also done pretty

00:28:01.580 well in his reelection campaign, but by the time 62% of the vote was in, Trump beat Bill Clinton in terms

00:28:09.620 of raw votes. He likely beat the voting percentages of the last three incumbent presidents who won

00:28:20.900 reelection. That is a big number. It shows enthusiasm, right? You had a night where Democratic

00:28:29.980 enthusiasm was down, key constituencies among the Democrats' enthusiasm were down, and enthusiasm to

00:28:36.580 go to a poll that you don't need to go to, right? The president is the incumbent, he's going to win

00:28:41.480 the primary. Enthusiasm to go to even that primary poll, way up. I mean, you see it at these rallies.

00:28:48.220 You look at a Joe Biden rally, he's got like five people at it, and half of them are asleep.

00:28:52.260 You look at a Trump rally, it's stadiums full of people. And I know that that's not data, right?

00:28:56.860 Those are just anecdotes because it's one event here, one event there, one event there. But you just

00:29:01.180 look at the enthusiasm. Maybe you can't measure that, but you can see it. It's real.

00:29:05.540 Well, that's what we saw last night in New Hampshire. So it was a big night for Bernie in

00:29:10.520 that it showed that there was this committed progressive base. He did win the state. But

00:29:15.660 the division among the Democrats, and then further division among the moderates, and then the total

00:29:21.800 suppression of enthusiasm compared with Trump gives the state, I think, gives the night to

00:29:27.200 President Trump. There was a really sad moment too last night. Andrew Yang dropped out of the race,

00:29:32.500 another one bites the dust. Another candidate dropped out too, actually, Senator Michael Bennett,

00:29:36.920 who none of you knew was even running, so that doesn't matter. But Andrew Yang dropped out. He

00:29:40.280 was a kind of interesting candidate, at least on Twitter. At least he made people interested

00:29:44.280 on the internet. Some conservatives are lamenting the end of his campaign. I am not. I think he

00:29:51.640 proposed one of the worst, most destructive, most degrading ideas that any candidate has floated

00:29:56.100 in the entire race. That would be the thousand dollars a month, the universal basic income.

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00:31:11.220 you need for 2020. Dailywire.com. We'll be right back. Andrew Yang dropped out. The Yang gang is over.

00:31:29.540 We knew it would happen. It was inevitable. He was a sort of amusing candidate, but I, I wanted to take

00:31:34.780 a moment to stomp on the grave of the Yang campaign because I think some conservatives are taking their

00:31:42.140 amusement with the Yang campaign too far or their, their pleasure that he's a sort of nice, nice seeming

00:31:49.000 guy too far. He might be a nice guy. I don't, I don't know Andrew Yang. I don't particularly care if

00:31:55.220 he's a nice guy. What he was proposing as a candidate was one of the worst ideas that any candidate was

00:32:01.120 floating in the race. His idea, the only actual idea that his campaign had was to buy votes.

00:32:07.720 It was to pay people a thousand dollars a month, pay everybody a thousand dollars a month, buy their

00:32:11.760 vote, and that's it. It's so insidious. It's such a wicked, anti-American, anti-human, and degrading

00:32:18.720 idea that I just want to stomp it out. It's called the universal basic income. There are different

00:32:23.780 versions of this. He called his the freedom dividend. The idea being we're a really rich country,

00:32:29.580 so let's take money from some people and give everyone a thousand dollars a month.

00:32:33.680 Now, the good version, or the better version of this proposal is that you're going to eliminate

00:32:38.880 the entire welfare state. All the entitlement programs are gone, and then you're going to pay

00:32:43.080 people a thousand dollars a month, and then that'll be really good. You'll save money, people get to

00:32:47.260 choose how to spend their money, and everybody wins, right? No, everybody doesn't win, everybody

00:32:52.080 loses. First of all, the numbers don't work. You can't actually eliminate the welfare state

00:32:56.440 and offset that by paying people a thousand dollars a month. Even if you could, it's politically

00:33:01.940 impossible, because the whole point of the welfare state is that we're not going to have people dying

00:33:05.800 in the streets in a civilized country. So you give everybody a thousand dollars a month, we know that

00:33:12.560 the poor will always be with us. We know that people will always make irresponsible decisions with

00:33:16.620 their money, at least some portion of people. And so some people are going to blow through that

00:33:19.900 thousand dollars a month. Then what? They're going to need more assistance. Are we going to tell

00:33:23.180 them tough luck, too bad, live on the street, hope you do well? No, nobody's going to do that. Only

00:33:27.980 in the wildest fever dreams of libertarian teenagers does anybody actually say, sorry, buster, you're out

00:33:36.040 of luck. So what you would really get is you pay everybody a thousand dollars a month, and you still

00:33:39.900 have the welfare and entitlement state. Politically, it's impossible to change that. Even if you could,

00:33:45.680 it would still be a wicked, evil, degrading, destructive system, because you are then making

00:33:53.100 welfare dependence out of every single American. You are getting every single American hooked on the

00:33:59.160 government dole. You are degrading them. You are making those people unable to stand on their own

00:34:06.980 two feet. It'd be like getting them hooked on a drug. You're just slowly getting them hooked on that

00:34:12.140 drug. And the government, as Ronald Reagan said, very rightly, the government that is big enough to

00:34:16.500 give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have. When the government is

00:34:20.820 giving you a lot of money, that's not just a gift outright. That's not just a wonderful grace or manna

00:34:25.760 from heaven. That is a means of political control. Because once you get comfortable with that 12 grand a

00:34:33.160 year, then you're not going to want to lose it. When the government starts making demands of you

00:34:39.460 in exchange for that 12 grand a year, you're going to have to do them. A horrible idea. I hope it's

00:34:45.800 an idea that is dead. I hope it never comes back. And I'm very glad that the Andrew Yang campaign is

00:34:51.760 over, even though I will miss the memes. The memes were very funny. When Andrew Yang dropped out,

00:34:58.260 he made a very nice statement. Doesn't cover up for this terrible idea he had. Michael Bennett also

00:35:02.860 dropped out, but nobody knows. So that's fine. There was some good news before we go. I have to talk

00:35:08.500 about some good news for our criminal justice system, moving away from 2020 politics into the

00:35:15.760 nuts and bolts of law and order. Finally, after months and months of investigations, of great crack

00:35:25.180 police work, we have caught Jussie Smollett's attacker. We caught him. Jussie Smollett's attacker

00:35:34.600 is being brought to justice. And of course, Jussie Smollett's attacker is Jussie Smollett. Jussie Smollett

00:35:41.460 is that actor from that show who pretended to get attacked in Chicago in the middle of the night

00:35:46.020 by two MAGA hat wearing Trump supporters while he was holding his Subway sandwich. And the Trump

00:35:53.840 supporters came up behind him and beat him up and put a noose around his neck and said, this is MAGA

00:35:57.940 country. Because nothing says MAGA country like the South side of Chicago. And nothing about this

00:36:03.220 made any sense. For some reason, he still had the noose around his neck when the cops got there

00:36:06.940 later. And for some reason, he was holding his Subway sandwich the entire time. So Smollett,

00:36:12.720 oh, then it turned out that it was actually Smollett's friends and trainers who he had paid

00:36:16.300 off to stage the attack. And it turned out that they were Nigerian men, so probably not white 0.71

00:36:21.300 supremacists. Trouble with this whole case is it just got swept under the rug. It looked like there

00:36:26.840 were political favors called in. Jussie Smollett was a favorite of certain prominent Democratic

00:36:31.480 politicians, and it was just going to go away. Luckily, a special Cook County grand jury handed

00:36:38.260 down a new indictment on Tuesday. This was after a six-month investigation by special prosecutor

00:36:43.140 Dan Webb. The special prosecutor said in a statement that Smollett had filed four false police reports

00:36:51.860 claiming that he was the victim of a hate crime. And that is certainly what happened. Quote, 0.79

00:36:55.880 the grand jury's investigation revealed that Smollett planned and participated in a staged

00:36:59.600 hate crime attack and thereafter made numerous false statements to Chicago Police Department

00:37:03.260 officers on multiple occasions, reporting a heinous hate crime that he, in fact, knew had not occurred.

00:37:08.440 I'm very glad he's being brought to justice. It's very important. You know, in any criminal justice

00:37:12.620 system, you need to have justice. We don't think about that anymore. We think that the whole purpose of

00:37:19.560 the criminal justice system is to rehabilitate people. It's like therapy, basically. It's just

00:37:25.020 another form of therapy that involves handcuffs. Or we think that the secondary purpose of the

00:37:30.700 criminal justice system is to deter crime. Also a worthwhile goal. But the primary purpose

00:37:38.020 is justice. Justice involves some punishment. Not excessive punishment. I don't want to lock away

00:37:47.340 Jussie Smollett and throw away the key. I don't think he should get capital punishment, right? That would be

00:37:51.860 so excessive. That wouldn't be justice. But likewise, he should not get off the hook. Justice

00:37:57.060 is the key. And we forget this. In the Federalist Papers, you know, I'm going to be covering the

00:38:00.720 Federalist Papers on the book club show, in the show that I have at PragerU. That's going to be

00:38:06.100 coming up in a little bit. I was just rereading them. And the Federalist Papers, the people who

00:38:11.800 designed our constitution, made it very clear that the end of government is justice. It's not

00:38:19.280 unfettered individual liberty. It's not equality. It's not redistributing everybody's property. It's

00:38:24.480 justice. So what is justice? Well, it's giving to everybody what they deserve. It's a tricky

00:38:33.360 balance. In this case, justice had been too lenient. Okay, that was why it was an injustice. And now,

00:38:40.980 luckily, we're coming back to something that is more reasonable. There's another case in our criminal

00:38:45.180 justice system that was in the other direction. Roger Stone, a longtime GOP operative. He's kind

00:38:51.760 of fashioned this image for himself as a dirty trickster. That's kind of his media personality. 0.78

00:38:57.580 But he's a GOP political consultant. He's worked on a zillion campaigns. He worked for Richard Nixon.

00:39:03.720 He worked for Ronald Reagan. Worked for a lot of other candidates. Roger Stone, longtime advisor

00:39:09.680 to Donald Trump. Longtime friend of Donald Trump. So when Donald Trump runs for president, Stone is

00:39:16.580 involved in the early stages. Although Trump ended up firing Stone early on, he felt that Stone was

00:39:23.260 just trying to get attention and he was more of a media figure than a real political operative at

00:39:27.680 the national level. That was the statement Trump gave. So he fired him. Because Stone has this

00:39:33.960 reputation, this public persona, and because he had committed the unforgivable crime of working for

00:39:39.040 Donald Trump at any point. Roger Stone gets brought in by the Mueller investigation, that hoax, that sham,

00:39:45.700 that found nothing. And he gets charged for lying to Congress, for making false statements. Not charged

00:39:54.620 with selling the country to Russia. Not charged with treason. Not charged with bribery. Not charged with

00:40:00.540 really serious crimes. Not charged with lying to Congress and witness tampering and obstruction of

00:40:09.340 a proceeding. So look, these are real offenses, but they're not high crimes and misdemeanors, right?

00:40:16.900 So the prosecutors who were going after Roger Stone, who maybe had some political views of their own

00:40:23.320 that were opposed to Roger Stone, they wanted to sentence this 70-year-old man to nine years in prison.

00:40:30.540 Because he worked for Trump, then he got caught up in this bogus, hoax, criminal investigation. I mean,

00:40:38.260 when I say criminal investigation, I mean it was a crime that the damn investigation happened in the 0.99

00:40:42.180 first place. This Mueller investigation, this Russia hoax, he gets caught up in that because he 0.99

00:40:47.080 worked for Trump. And then he makes false statements during that investigation. And then they want to

00:40:52.620 throw him in jail for nine years, which is effectively the rest of his life, right? When you're 70 years old

00:40:58.560 and you're going to prison for nine years, that's it. Not a whole lot after that because,

00:41:05.160 because they don't like him. I mean, that's really what this was about. So that's what the

00:41:09.840 prosecutors wanted to do. The DOJ intervened. They said, this is ridiculous. What are you talking

00:41:13.740 about? Nine years in prison? No way. So they said, you've got to reduce that sentencing,

00:41:17.720 what you're asking for. And four prosecutors quit. And, and it's being portrayed in the mainstream

00:41:22.060 media as though these prosecutors, the great defenders of law and order,

00:41:24.620 those prosecutors, good. I'm glad they quit. Could you, if any other prosecutors agree with

00:41:30.420 them, they should quit too. Because that, that would, would have been a miscarriage of justice

00:41:34.680 to throw Roger Stone in the clink for nine years, for the rest of his life. You're effectively

00:41:38.980 sentencing him to life in prison because of your bureaucratic hoax investigation that got him

00:41:49.160 caught up in it. And then he made false statements. I'm not saying Roger Stone should get off the

00:41:52.020 hook completely. All right. He did commit some offenses here. He did make these false statements.

00:41:57.400 So the only way he should get off the hook completely is if he gets a presidential pardon.

00:42:01.420 I'm not saying the prosecutor should totally drop everything, but nine years is excessive.

00:42:06.340 Justice requires some balance. Justice requires understanding what people really deserve,

00:42:14.080 not being too harsh and excessive, but not being too lenient either. Also in the Federalist,

00:42:19.200 I was reading one of the great lines of the whole Federalist papers, you know, the key document to

00:42:24.900 understanding our constitution. In it, the author writes, nothing can be, I'm paraphrasing, but roughly

00:42:32.700 it says, nothing can be more foolish than founding our politics on arithmetical principles. Meaning you

00:42:41.960 can't just have a completely hard and fast scientific rule when we're talking about politics and government.

00:42:47.940 You need to, it just requires too much understanding for that kind of rigid ideological precision.

00:42:55.280 And in this case, if you stick to some rigid, the max sentence you can get for the guy,

00:43:00.480 it's just as clearly unjust. And the DOJ recognized that. I think the whole Trump administration has,

00:43:07.720 has kind of been realizing that. And I think it's terrific. Harsher sentence for Smollett,

00:43:12.200 a lighter sentence for Roger Stone. Make sure justice is served in both, but make sure it's

00:43:18.180 justice and not just political revenge. Before we get out of here, I've got to,

00:43:23.580 I've got to drive the point home about New Hampshire. Because I know, I, I just want to make

00:43:29.060 sure that I'm not overstating the case here, that it was such a bad night for Democrats.

00:43:33.120 But I, I realized I'm not, not just because of the exit polling, not just because of that Trump

00:43:39.380 voter that MSNBC accidentally found, not just because of the relative voter enthusiasm, but

00:43:44.880 also on MSNBC, Chris Matthews, he came out and he said what, what I think a lot of Democrats are

00:43:52.240 thinking, which is if this is how it all keeps up, Democrats are not going to win in 2020.

00:43:57.060 They're regular center left Democrats who are not angry about the rich. They just want to be secure

00:44:02.960 in their own economy and their own lives and see their kids once in a while. If that's the case,

00:44:08.740 Trump is going to be tough to beat. So I don't know. I think in either case, I think it's going

00:44:13.740 to be tough to beat Trump. I don't know where the democratic parties ideologically shifted as far

00:44:18.060 to the progressive side as Bernie believes, I think it will. And I think that's the big question.

00:44:23.360 You heard it from Chris Matthews, you heard it from New Hampshire voters,

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 12, 2020

Ep. 494 - Berning Down New Hampshire

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