The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 496 - Obama Didn’t Build That

00:00:00.000 Barack Obama claims credit for President Trump's booming economy.

00:00:04.400 Bernie Sanders loses his mic to topless vegans at a campaign rally. 0.98

00:00:08.660 And Mike Bloomberg intends to win the presidency by telling Americans how stupid they are.

00:00:13.080 Then a Democratic Alabama legislator introduces a bill that would require men to get vasectomies.

00:00:19.000 We will examine why I'm skipping Birmingham on this semester's campus speaking tour.

00:00:23.100 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:01:48.880 Barack Obama claiming credit for President Trump's economy.

00:01:54.440 To prepare for today's show, I spent some time watching old videos of Barack Obama, reading old stories about Barack Obama.

00:02:02.220 I actually forgot what a terrible President Obama was.

00:02:05.900 And I bet you did too.

00:02:07.020 You've got to go back and just, we're in such a different moment right now where we've got this energetic president.

00:02:13.840 We've got him pushing conservative policies.

00:02:16.460 We've got him being uncommonly honest with the American people for better or for worse.

00:02:21.640 He's saying things and he's actually doing those things.

00:02:24.660 A great example of this would be the embassy in Jerusalem.

00:02:27.280 Every president for my lifetime has promised to follow American policy, move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

00:02:34.280 No one does it.

00:02:35.000 No one expects him to do it.

00:02:36.680 Trump comes in because he's such a political novice.

00:02:39.180 He actually does it.

00:02:39.980 People are shocked by that.

00:02:41.340 Barack Obama, exactly the opposite.

00:02:42.920 He doesn't do what he says he's going to do.

00:02:45.240 He speaks in these mealy-mouthed words.

00:02:47.640 He flops.

00:02:48.440 He fails.

00:02:49.200 And then he tries to take credit for other people's success.

00:02:51.980 So here's the tweet that Obama sent out.

00:02:53.520 Quote, 11 years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations, I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American history.

00:03:08.340 So it's all thanks to Obama.

00:03:10.740 Trump guy didn't do anything.

00:03:12.280 He's just riding on Obama's success, right?

00:03:14.840 Wrong.

00:03:15.800 The historical record is pretty clear and Obama flopped on the economy.

00:03:19.900 What did Obama do?

00:03:20.920 2009 comes around.

00:03:22.140 He signs the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

00:03:26.140 That was supposed to provide a little under $800 billion in stimulus, so-called stimulus money.

00:03:33.180 It, of course, ran over budget.

00:03:35.040 So the total was $831 billion.

00:03:38.220 And we were supposed to get shovel-ready jobs as a result of this stimulus package, except the shovel-ready jobs didn't materialize.

00:03:46.360 They didn't come.

00:03:46.940 For the first two years of Obama's presidency, the unemployment rate was about 10%.

00:03:53.620 10%.

00:03:54.600 It's hard for us to imagine that now, to even remember our recent past, because we now have basically no unemployment.

00:04:01.780 We're now at record lows of unemployment.

00:04:04.420 But it remained at about 10% for the first two years under Obama.

00:04:08.680 The rate finally began to tick down.

00:04:11.320 But that doesn't even tell the whole story, because part of the reason that the rate ticked down is because Americans just gave up looking for work.

00:04:18.260 So as the rate was ticking down after 2010, 2011, it started to go down a little bit, that was because 8 million Americans who could have been working were not working.

00:04:30.240 And to be fair to Barack Obama, that number was going down already.

00:04:35.640 So there were people who were leaving the workforce anyway, and that was expected to continue.

00:04:39.500 But they were only expecting an additional 3 million Americans to leave the workforce.

00:04:42.760 So you had about 5 million Americans who were of working age, who should have been working, who analysts predicted would be working under a good economy.

00:04:51.080 They were gone.

00:04:52.300 5 million people in the prime of their life who should have been working, gone.

00:04:57.480 So the unemployment rate dropped, sure, but that didn't even tell the story.

00:05:01.960 At the same time, wages flatlined.

00:05:04.800 So people who you would hope would be making a little bit more money were not.

00:05:09.140 At the same time, 300,000 manufacturing jobs disappeared.

00:05:14.640 It was actually a little more than 300,000 manufacturing jobs gone, sent overseas, or automated out of existence, or just disappeared because of the bad economy.

00:05:25.140 Now, Barack Obama, what he tried to do is say, look, this is the result of inevitable technological change, and there's just nothing we can do about it.

00:05:32.480 Those jobs are just going to go away.

00:05:33.860 As late as 2016, so don't labor under the misimpression that this was in those terrible days of the recession, and they didn't know what was happening.

00:05:46.000 This was as late as 2016, the year that President Trump was elected.

00:05:49.380 Barack Obama said the manufacturing jobs, a lot of them just aren't going to come back, and there's nothing we can do about it.

00:05:55.240 At a town hall in June of that year, he was asked by an Indiana steel worker what happened to all the jobs, and the answer he gave was to just throw up his hands.

00:06:03.220 How are you doing, Mr. President?

00:06:04.520 How are you?

00:06:05.140 My name is Eric Cottenham, and I'm representing the Steelworkers Union, Local 1999, and I'm trying to find out what do we have left as far as all of our jobs are leaving.

00:06:14.600 Some of those jobs of the past are just not going to come back.

00:06:17.820 And when somebody says, like the person you just mentioned, who I'm not going to advertise for, that he's going to bring all these jobs back, well, how exactly are you going to do that?

00:06:31.360 What are you going to do?

00:06:33.640 There's no answer to it.

00:06:36.300 He just says, well, I'm going to negotiate a better deal.

00:06:39.120 Well, how exactly are you going to negotiate that?

00:06:42.900 What magic wand do you have?

00:06:46.280 And usually the answer is, he doesn't have an answer.

00:06:50.840 What magic wand do you have?

00:06:52.240 How are you going to bring those jobs back?

00:06:53.920 I don't know if he had a magic wand, but he did bring the jobs back.

00:06:57.740 In the first two years of Donald Trump's administration, more than six times as many manufacturing jobs were created as were created during the last two years of the Obama administration.

00:07:08.900 This was Barack Obama's big mistake.

00:07:11.440 This was his fatal flaw.

00:07:13.300 He was a pretty good rhetorician, meaning he was pretty good at using slick talking points to kind of get around his bad legacy and his bad record.

00:07:23.760 But he took it a little bit too far.

00:07:25.580 So the, this big recession allowed Barack Obama to make excuses.

00:07:29.800 All we ever heard for years and years was, this was the worst recession since the Great Depression.

00:07:34.860 We pulled the country back from the brink.

00:07:37.620 This country was heading off the cliff and we pulled it back from the cliff.

00:07:41.500 Republicans drove this country, put their feet on the accelerator, driving right off the cliff, right?

00:07:45.660 He just kept blaming everything on the economy that he inherited from George W. Bush.

00:07:49.640 But he made this one fatal error, which was that he made predictions.

00:07:55.580 And one of those predictions is the manufacturing jobs aren't coming back, like he just told that Indiana steel worker, except they did come back.

00:08:02.440 And so when the predictions are proven wrong, then you begin to see that his grasp of the economy isn't so great.

00:08:09.400 The best case that Barack Obama could make for his administration's handling of the economy was that he, quote, saved us from a Great Depression.

00:08:17.800 That's what you heard all of his defenders say, too.

00:08:19.540 The trouble is, that's an unfalsifiable historical hypothetical, right?

00:08:25.020 There's no way for me to prove or disprove that Barack Obama saved us from a Great Depression because the Great Depression didn't happen.

00:08:33.200 And so he got a lot of credit for these unfalsifiable claims about what would have happened if Barack Obama hadn't come along.

00:08:40.340 You can falsify, however, his predictions.

00:08:45.280 And we did falsify his predictions.

00:08:47.400 And as a result of that, because he was wrong about such a key aspect of his economic policy, we begin to realize that his entire economic policy was that weak.

00:08:57.740 We begin to realize that the claims he's making that are hypothetical about saving us from a Great Depression, there's no evidence for that either.

00:09:04.160 President Trump responded to this yesterday because, of course, he did.

00:09:07.020 Do you think there was going to be a tweet claiming credit for what he has done, a tweet from a former president that Trump is now going to respond to?

00:09:15.400 Of course he did.

00:09:16.400 And his response was really, really, really politically shrewd.

00:09:23.440 Some people don't want to give him credit for it, but it was a really great response.

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00:10:33.020 Obama makes this claim, tries to take credit for the Trump economy.

00:10:35.960 President Trump responds.

00:10:37.020 Here's what he says.

00:10:37.680 Quote, did you hear the latest con job?

00:10:40.880 President Obama is now trying to take credit for the economic boom taking place under the Trump administration.

00:10:45.900 He had the weakest recovery since the Great Depression, despite zero Fed rate and massive quantitative easing.

00:10:52.680 So there were low interest rates and the government was printing money.

00:10:56.080 Now, best jobs numbers ever.

00:10:58.640 Had to rebuild our military, which was totally depleted.

00:11:01.760 Fed rate up, taxes and regulations way down.

00:11:05.380 If Dems won in 2016, the USA would be in big economic depression and military trouble right now.

00:11:13.500 All caps, the best is yet to come.

00:11:15.040 Keep America great.

00:11:15.780 Now, it's hard to hear that because it's written in this kind of crazy looking syntax.

00:11:22.040 But it's that third to last line here, which is the key.

00:11:26.520 It's this hypothetical.

00:11:28.040 If Dems won in 2016.

00:11:29.940 Now, if you read it without the parentheses, he says, if Dems won in 2016, the USA would be in big economic and military trouble right now.

00:11:37.580 But then right after economic, he puts in parentheses depression.

00:11:41.220 What he's doing is inverting the Obama hypothetical strategy.

00:11:45.940 Because Obama's only claim for his legacy is I saved us from a Great Depression, which you can't prove or disprove because it's hypothetical.

00:11:52.800 What Trump is doing is he's going right at that legacy claim and saying, if the Democrats had won in 2016, we might have a depression.

00:12:04.080 Would we?

00:12:04.660 I don't know.

00:12:05.400 It's a question.

00:12:07.160 Thank goodness we didn't have to find out, though.

00:12:09.180 If Obama hadn't won in 2008, would we have gone into oppression?

00:12:12.260 Gosh, I don't know.

00:12:13.000 Really glad Obama won.

00:12:14.520 Trump is using the exact same thing, going right at their only claim.

00:12:17.860 It's really smart.

00:12:18.820 But lest you accuse me of saying the president is playing 4D chess here, I don't know what dimension of chess he is playing.

00:12:26.560 But I do know that he's very good at PR.

00:12:29.320 He's very good at playing the media.

00:12:30.580 He sees the tactic that the Democrats are using, and he just clobbers it right back on top of them.

00:12:36.220 Really smart response.

00:12:37.560 And it's not going unnoticed.

00:12:40.440 The mainstream media are noticing the economic boom, even the mainstream media, even the networks, even ABC News.

00:12:46.400 And so Martha Raddatz on ABC just had Tom Steyer, who I guess is running for president. 0.94

00:12:51.340 He's that billionaire climate change guy who, for some reason, is still on the Democratic debate stages.

00:12:55.760 He goes on the show and is asked about this.

00:12:58.800 Martha Raddatz says 70% of Americans think the economy is doing well.

00:13:04.060 How are you going to convince them that it's not?

00:13:06.440 Mr. Steyer, you say that you can take on Donald Trump on the economy.

00:13:09.980 But the latest Quinnipiac national poll, again, released just this week, says 70% of voters describe the nation's economy as excellent or good.

00:13:21.220 So how do you convince them that a change is needed when they think they're doing so well under Donald Trump?

00:13:26.660 I think if you take a look at what he says, everything he says superficially sounds right but is actually a lie.

00:13:33.940 So when he says the economy is growing, I can show that, in fact, all the money is going to rich people.

00:13:40.220 But I want to go back to that 70% number.

00:13:42.700 You talk about the wealthy.

00:13:44.580 They're not all wealthy people.

00:13:46.660 70% say the economy is good and they're doing well.

00:13:50.420 Well, I'm just saying, here we are on a show and you're standing up for Mr. Trump's version of the economy.

00:13:57.200 And I'm telling you.

00:13:58.100 I'm telling you about a national poll.

00:14:00.280 I'm not standing up for anybody.

00:14:01.540 I'm telling you about a national poll.

00:14:04.400 You know, every so often these news networks get one bit of unbiased journalism out there.

00:14:10.660 And surely that's what we just saw from Martha Raddatz.

00:14:13.280 That we actually had to edit out the awkward pauses because we don't have time.

00:14:16.580 But she asks him these questions.

00:14:18.580 She says, what are you going to say to that?

00:14:19.960 I mean, 70% of Americans, those aren't just the super rich.

00:14:22.720 It's 70% of people.

00:14:23.820 And he just kind of stammers.

00:14:25.220 He goes, uh, but it's bad.

00:14:27.540 It's really bad.

00:14:28.180 People know that it's not bad.

00:14:29.240 The polls show it.

00:14:30.360 Even the mainstream media want to admit it.

00:14:32.000 It puts the Dems in a very bad situation.

00:14:35.420 Uh, one of those Democrats who is in a bad situation is the current leading contender for president.

00:14:41.780 That is Bernie Sanders.

00:14:44.020 Bernie Sanders was recently at a campaign rally.

00:14:47.220 There's, there's, uh, I think five or six days left for the, uh, Nevada caucuses.

00:14:52.620 Actually, it's even, even less than that now.

00:14:54.220 I think we're now down to four days left.

00:14:56.240 But Bernie Sanders is out there giving a campaign rally and some radical environmental activists

00:15:01.920 jumps on the stage.

00:15:03.340 Some of whom were topless jumps on the stage, grabs his microphone and starts screaming about

00:15:10.680 milk.

00:15:14.500 Bernie, I'm your biggest supporter.

00:15:16.280 Bernie, I'm your biggest supporter.

00:15:17.940 And I'm here to ask you to stop propping up the dairy industry and to stop propping up animal

00:15:23.380 agriculture.

00:15:24.420 I believe in you.

00:15:26.300 I believe in you, Bernie, but I don't believe in yogurt or cheese or milk.

00:15:30.840 Please, Bernie, stop.

00:15:31.920 This is the pressing issue of our time.

00:15:34.440 That woman was not topless, but there have been some activists.

00:15:37.860 I don't really know what the relation of being nude to the dairy industry is.

00:15:41.660 But anyway, I don't know.

00:15:42.540 There's, there's some connection because they keep doing that.

00:15:44.320 Or they're just obviously lunatics.

00:15:47.080 And that is certainly the case with this woman, right?

00:15:49.820 This group of activists with the Animal Rights Network, Direct Action, everywhere are, are

00:15:55.800 doing this.

00:15:56.480 They're jumping on stage.

00:15:57.560 They're following Bernie Sanders around.

00:15:59.180 They're becoming hysterical over the cruelty of drinking milk, how awful that is to animals.

00:16:06.060 Now, mind you, they're pretty quiet on the issue of abortion.

00:16:09.220 Taking milk from a cow is the gravest cruelty and evil in the world.

00:16:12.200 But killing an unborn baby, that's totally fine. 1.00

00:16:14.420 Killing a million of them a year, no problem.

00:16:16.440 They don't really talk about it.

00:16:17.660 Something tells me if they did talk about it, they would very likely be in support of it.

00:16:23.200 The fact that Bernie Sanders' rallies attracts these kind of people tells you a lot about

00:16:29.200 the candidate, tells you a lot about the people who go to the Bernie rallies.

00:16:33.280 But people are saying this is not good for him.

00:16:36.720 He's got to get this under control.

00:16:38.080 I don't think so.

00:16:39.000 I think it's exactly the opposite.

00:16:40.220 I think these videos, these incidents, these crazy activist moments actually help Bernie

00:16:46.700 Sanders.

00:16:47.220 And if we get enough of them, he's going to win the nomination.

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00:17:58.360 I think these crazy moments help Bernie.

00:18:04.700 Okay, Bernie's biggest advantage in this race is his lifelong impotence.

00:18:09.960 His lifelong incompetence.

00:18:12.580 He hasn't done anything.

00:18:13.660 He hasn't really shown specific political power.

00:18:17.500 He hasn't passed big legislation.

00:18:19.900 He, this is, this is why his career is taking off in his mid to late 70s.

00:18:25.820 Why, why wasn't he a big success when he was a young man?

00:18:31.540 The advantage he has here is he's cultivated this kind of hapless grandpa image.

00:18:37.300 He's cultivated this Larry David.

00:18:39.280 I don't know.

00:18:39.880 What could I, they took my microphone.

00:18:41.340 What can I do?

00:18:41.960 And it makes him seem harmless.

00:18:44.100 But the ideas that he's peddling are not harmless.

00:18:46.520 This guy, in political ideology, is a stone cold commie thug.

00:18:52.240 Okay, you, you, well, we've played the clips on this show many times.

00:18:56.420 He has defended Fidel Castro long after the Cuban revolution.

00:19:01.240 He said that American opposition to commies in Cuba made him want to puke.

00:19:05.440 And he defended that thug, that, that animal, Fidel Castro, for his whole life.

00:19:10.380 He defends Venezuela.

00:19:13.020 He defends the dictator of Venezuela right now.

00:19:15.860 He defended some of the worst regimes in history.

00:19:19.180 He defended the Soviet Union.

00:19:21.780 He didn't just defend the Soviet Union.

00:19:24.180 He honeymooned in the Soviet Union.

00:19:26.480 He didn't just honeymoon in the Soviet Union.

00:19:28.360 He sat shirtless, swilling vodka, singing commie folk songs with the Ruskies in the Soviet Union.

00:19:35.100 This guy defends stone cold killer regimes.

00:19:39.220 Now, in a younger man, this would be very off-putting.

00:19:42.820 In a man who seemed virile and potent and tough, this would be very scary.

00:19:48.320 We would reject it outright.

00:19:49.600 But because Bernie is this sort of lovable old coot, or at least he looks that way,

00:19:53.920 it, it helps him.

00:19:55.080 It helps him to mainstream his ideas.

00:19:57.920 All right.

00:19:58.560 If it were a young guy cheering on bread lines, bread lines are actually good.

00:20:03.320 Direct quote.

00:20:04.060 But if he, if he were a guy who seemed dangerous to us, we would reject it.

00:20:09.280 But because he seems helpless, it's going to allow those ideas to go on.

00:20:12.520 That's why Bernie Sanders should be praying that more people steal his microphone.

00:20:16.160 It softens him and it, it like provides the sugar that will coat the, the poison that they're

00:20:23.140 trying to shove down the throats of Americans.

00:20:25.440 Now, we also have to get to the other old rich guy in the white democratic race. 0.96

00:20:30.280 I'm talking, of course, of Mike Bloomberg.

00:20:32.640 And I hate to do it.

00:20:34.400 I have to sort of defend Mike Bloomberg a little bit.

00:20:37.820 I'll attack him in a second, but I have to, I have to sort of defend him because I think

00:20:41.540 there are some unfair attacks against Mike Bloomberg in that people are calling him a

00:20:45.440 racist or a bigot or some evil guy.

00:20:47.920 I don't think that's the case.

00:20:49.640 There are plenty of good reasons to attack Mike Bloomberg, which we'll get to in a second.

00:20:53.280 His presidency, if it ever occurred, heaven forfend would be terrible, but I don't think

00:20:59.780 the guy's a racial bigot.

00:21:01.460 So there's more footage has surfaced of Mike Bloomberg saying very un-PC things on the issue

00:21:07.160 of race.

00:21:08.440 Here's the new video from years ago that's come up.

00:21:11.560 Black and Latino males aged, let's say 16 to 25 that don't have jobs, don't have any 1.00

00:21:18.740 prospects, don't know how to find jobs, don't know, uh, that they, what their skill sets

00:21:24.660 are, don't know how to behave in the workplace where they have to work collaboratively.

00:21:29.700 All right.

00:21:30.100 So this clip, which was taken a little bit out of context, but it's from an interview

00:21:33.460 he gave years ago where Bloomberg describes people who are more at risk of committing

00:21:39.040 crime.

00:21:39.640 In the same interview, he went on to say, a lot of statistics show that if the father is

00:21:43.860 engaged, it gives the kids some understanding that he's heading down the wrong path.

00:21:47.060 And then assign mentors to them on one-on-one basis so that there is somebody who has been

00:21:51.600 successful, has a job, has a family, fits in society, and that they can go to, you know,

00:21:56.820 a lot of these kids, it isn't that they're bad kids.

00:21:58.900 It's that once they've made a mistake, it's very difficult to recover from that.

00:22:02.280 But we have an obligation to them, if not for compassionate reasons, just for selfish

00:22:05.940 reasons, three quarters of all kids in New York city that go to jail, serve a period

00:22:10.020 and come out, go right back to the jail.

00:22:12.780 Now, Bloomberg's critics, especially on the, on the left, I think these clips are all being

00:22:18.380 leaked by left-wing democratic campaigns.

00:22:20.440 They're saying that this is evidence of Bloomberg's racism.

00:22:24.000 That is not racism.

00:22:27.140 It just isn't.

00:22:28.580 I mean, racism doesn't have to be this subjective thing that's based on our feelings.

00:22:33.140 There are objective measures, right?

00:22:34.660 Is he talking about race?

00:22:36.380 Is he making these categorical statements about race that are discriminatory and demeaning?

00:22:40.660 And no, he's not saying that all black and Hispanic people are destined to a future of

00:22:47.220 violence and failure.

00:22:48.540 He doesn't say that at all.

00:22:50.060 He's not making any categorical claims about people on the basis of their race.

00:22:54.760 If we're talking about his categories, he's talking also about sex.

00:22:58.700 He's talking also about age.

00:23:00.860 He's talking also about family structure, right?

00:23:04.380 It's specifically the age comments show that he's not making a racist or a sexist argument.

00:23:09.880 If he's saying young, young people in this demographic from the age of 18 to 25 are very

00:23:14.700 likely to commit crime, but not people at age 26, the people at age 26 are the same race

00:23:19.680 as the people at age 25.

00:23:21.560 So what he's saying is there are a lot of factors here.

00:23:25.020 Mike Bloomberg would be a terrible president.

00:23:27.500 So it really pains me to defend him in any way.

00:23:29.740 He would be a terrible president and there are many reasons to attack him.

00:23:34.340 For one, he hates the constitution and he gaslights people who defend the constitution.

00:23:39.020 Mike Bloomberg, when he was mayor and after he was mayor, started an organization called

00:23:44.620 Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

00:23:47.760 And this was his anti-Second Amendment group and he wants to get rid of the Second Amendment.

00:23:51.760 But he called it Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

00:23:54.060 Let me ask you a question.

00:23:56.460 How many mayors support illegal guns?

00:23:59.680 Where's the group that's mayors for illegal guns?

00:24:02.460 Nobody's for illegal guns.

00:24:04.440 But he knew that if he actually named the group what he wanted to, which is Mayors Against

00:24:08.800 Guns, he would be rightly accused of opposing our constitution, which he does. 0.73

00:24:14.740 So he had to call it Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

00:24:16.600 Totally dishonest.

00:24:18.800 On a related note, actually, Mike Bloomberg has no regard for the rule of law.

00:24:22.620 So Mike Bloomberg, when he ran for mayor the first time, right after Rudy Giuliani, remember

00:24:28.100 this was right after 9-11, Giuliani suggested maybe we make a third term for mayor so that

00:24:33.100 he, America's mayor, could get the city through that awful experience.

00:24:38.220 You know, the worst crisis New York has ever faced probably.

00:24:40.980 And Bloomberg said, no, absolutely not.

00:24:42.660 The rule of law has to stick.

00:24:43.980 No third term for Giuliani.

00:24:45.900 So no extra term.

00:24:48.260 So Mike Bloomberg wins and then he immediately adds a third term.

00:24:51.980 So Mike Bloomberg adds a third term.

00:24:55.280 And then immediately after he wins the third term, says we got to get rid of the third term

00:24:59.520 again.

00:24:59.800 He's just flagrant, flagrantly violating the law or changing the law to suit his own preferences.

00:25:06.820 He's also a nanny state liberal who wants to take away even the most trivial choices from

00:25:13.440 people.

00:25:13.920 So you saw this, especially in soda and cigarettes.

00:25:16.620 He wouldn't let you smoke anywhere.

00:25:17.920 He wouldn't even let you smoke in the parks.

00:25:19.120 And he made it illegal to buy big gulps at 7-11.

00:25:24.120 You couldn't buy a large cup of Mountain Dew.

00:25:27.100 You could buy two small cups of Mountain Dew, but not one large one.

00:25:30.240 I'm not saying cigarettes are good.

00:25:31.740 I'm not saying big gulps are good.

00:25:32.880 I'm saying that these kind of indulgences are a small comfort and consolation to people.

00:25:40.160 They kind of like them.

00:25:41.280 It's not the biggest deal in the world.

00:25:42.660 And yet, Mike Bloomberg went after them.

00:25:45.380 He made it a top priority of his administration in New York.

00:25:48.020 Proof of H.L. Mencken's assertion that puritanism is the haunting fear that someone somewhere might

00:25:54.980 be happy.

00:25:55.540 That's what a Bloomberg presidency would look like.

00:25:58.140 On top of all that, Bloomberg seems to have zero connection to people.

00:26:03.020 Okay, he wants to tell people what to do, but he doesn't seem to enjoy spending any time

00:26:07.620 with them.

00:26:07.920 And you saw this in another clip that is actually worth going after Bloomberg for.

00:26:12.940 You know, the clip where they pull up something from 20 years ago and he made some comment

00:26:16.580 about crime.

00:26:17.860 That's not why you should go after Bloomberg, all right?

00:26:20.040 And I don't think it's evidence of racial bigotry.

00:26:21.940 You should go after Bloomberg because he seems not really to respect people.

00:26:24.980 You just saw this come out where he made the claim that farmers are just a bunch of idiots.

00:26:31.620 Anybody, even people in this room, so no offense intended, to be a farmer.

00:26:36.260 It's a process.

00:26:37.200 You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.

00:26:41.380 Then we had 300, you could learn that.

00:26:43.300 Then you have 300 years of the industrial society.

00:26:46.800 You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow,

00:26:51.060 and you can have a job.

00:26:52.180 And we created a lot of jobs.

00:26:54.000 1.98% of the world worked in agriculture today.

00:26:59.540 It's 2% in the United States.

00:27:01.760 Now comes the information economy.

00:27:04.960 And the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing

00:27:10.640 people with technology.

00:27:14.460 And the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze.

00:27:19.360 And that is a whole degree level different.

00:27:25.060 You have to have a different skill set.

00:27:27.280 You have to have a lot more gray matter.

00:27:28.800 You have to have a lot more gray matter.

00:27:31.280 You know, you got to have a lot more brains.

00:27:33.300 Not like those idiot farmers.

00:27:35.280 You got to be able to think and analyze.

00:27:38.640 You see, look, what you don't understand, you, you plebes, you peasants. 0.64

00:27:43.700 What you don't understand is that if you want to be a middle manager in the HR department of the

00:27:50.280 widget factory, you need to use these really highly developed analytical skills.

00:27:54.980 But if you want to make food grow out of the ground, if you want to manage seed, soil, climate,

00:28:07.560 the, the changing weather, changing temperatures, if you want to manage all of that, well, you

00:28:12.600 don't need a brain.

00:28:13.260 You just, you're basically a mule, right?

00:28:15.140 You don't need to, if you want to farm or if you want to raise animals, right?

00:28:19.640 You want to raise cattle.

00:28:20.460 You don't need to analyze anything.

00:28:22.120 You just kind of walk out every day and say, duh, I think it's, it's warm today.

00:28:26.300 I hope it grows, right?

00:28:28.040 That's how it works, right?

00:28:28.740 Of course, it's not.

00:28:29.580 Of course, it's the opposite of that.

00:28:31.320 Of course, it requires many, many more analytical skills.

00:28:34.720 It requires a lot more gray matter to make something grow out of the ground or to raise

00:28:40.240 animals or to manage the whole economy of agriculture than it does to be some pencil

00:28:46.400 pusher in some random department of the widget factory.

00:28:49.880 But that is the bias of Mike Bloomberg because Mike Bloomberg doesn't have a whole lot of

00:28:55.440 respect for people, doesn't have a whole lot of respect for his fellow countrymen.

00:28:59.620 That's why he's willing to deprive them of their basic civil rights under the constitution,

00:29:03.820 like the second amendment.

00:29:05.440 And that's why he mocks farmers as not having a whole lot of gray matter.

00:29:10.020 That's why we should go after Mike Bloomberg.

00:29:12.380 Okay.

00:29:12.660 Those are good arguments for it.

00:29:13.900 But these, taking these kind of cheap shots from the far left against him on crime or something,

00:29:18.240 I don't think that's a particularly winning strategy.

00:29:21.240 And we've also got to get to the other really, really old guy in the democratic race,

00:29:26.520 Joe Biden, because he is, speaking of far leftism, he is now running as far to the left

00:29:31.880 as he possibly can.

00:29:33.540 And this is not winning him left wingers, but this is turning off a lot of moderates.

00:29:38.940 He made a claim that you hear the left make a lot about immigration.

00:29:43.100 We will examine why that's just totally bogus.

00:29:46.440 Then there is a failed democratic gubernatorial candidate who is now going to accept the vice

00:29:55.260 presidential nomination.

00:29:56.600 Nobody's asked her, but she's going to accept it anyway.

00:29:58.820 We'll get to that in a second.

00:29:59.780 And we'll get to why I'm not speaking on campus in Alabama this year, because I don't want,

00:30:06.480 don't want to get a forced vasectomy. 0.92

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00:31:31.440 We hit Bernie.

00:31:32.820 We hit Bloomberg.

00:31:33.740 We got to get to Joe Biden.

00:31:35.080 Of those three guys, Joe Biden may be saying the most radical thing of all of them right

00:31:40.720 now, which you wouldn't imagine, right?

00:31:42.920 You got this old, crazy old communist.

00:31:44.860 You got a guy who, who as mayor, all he wanted to do was steal people's Second Amendment civil

00:31:50.140 liberties and steal their sodas and steal their cigarettes.

00:31:52.920 And then you got Joe Biden, allegedly the moderate in this race, but he's running so far

00:31:56.700 to the left now because he's flailing.

00:31:58.200 He sees the nomination running away from him.

00:32:00.320 It's not working.

00:32:01.920 Polls are showing it's not winning him some massive new left-wing support.

00:32:05.260 It's just killing his support among the moderates.

00:32:07.780 The comment that, that Biden made, which I find so offensive, both intellectually and

00:32:14.540 nationally offensive, is he said that illegal aliens who are here, who are young, they call

00:32:21.760 them dreamers or DACA.

00:32:23.520 Mind you, some of these guys are in their forties at this point, but they're still, we all are

00:32:26.940 supposed to imagine these like five-year-olds looking up with these big cute eyes or something.

00:32:31.200 All right.

00:32:31.360 Some of the, some of these people are fully grown adults.

00:32:34.660 Joe Biden says that DACA dreamers, illegal aliens are more American than many Americans.

00:32:41.980 These DACA students are more Americans than most Americans are.

00:32:45.620 No, I'm serious.

00:32:46.640 Think about it.

00:32:47.980 No, I'm serious.

00:32:49.240 Think about it.

00:32:50.020 They're not people who are not Americans cannot be more American than Americans.

00:32:59.300 Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

00:33:01.720 I hope my argument has been convincing.

00:33:03.940 Let me, I'll take you through it again.

00:33:06.060 People who are not Americans, people who do not have the quality of being American cannot 0.99

00:33:12.780 be more American than Americans. 0.85

00:33:15.400 That's the whole argument.

00:33:16.640 This is one of these dumb talking points that comes up on the left a lot.

00:33:21.200 And it, it, they're always of the, if you really think about it, variety, right?

00:33:25.920 That's what they always, they'll say something that's just patently untrue and absurd.

00:33:31.120 And then they'll say, but if you really think about it, actually, Joe Biden literally said

00:33:34.880 that, right?

00:33:35.180 He goes, these DACA students are more American than most Americans.

00:33:38.440 I mean, think about it.

00:33:39.540 Okay.

00:33:39.860 Well, I have thought about it and that doesn't make any sense.

00:33:42.660 Part of what's going on here is because just on a philosophical level, the left has lost

00:33:50.880 its grasp of objective reality because the left now tells us that men are not really men

00:33:55.720 and women are not really women. 1.00

00:33:56.820 And we can't really know anything.

00:33:58.200 And there's your truth and my truth, but no, the truth.

00:34:00.820 Because of that, they will make absurd statements, but if they say them emphatically and repeatedly,

00:34:07.580 then they think that that is enough to make those false statements true, which they're

00:34:12.600 not.

00:34:13.120 The other error they're falling into here is they're trying to make American-ness something

00:34:18.080 more than it is.

00:34:20.240 Somebody responded when I pointed this out on Twitter, they said, oh, Michael, the question

00:34:24.420 is what does it mean to be American?

00:34:25.980 You know, is it just merely having American citizenship?

00:34:30.660 Yes.

00:34:32.160 Yep.

00:34:33.820 There are, there are, there are things that are like Americans do or like Americans are. 0.57

00:34:41.500 There are certain qualities that Americans have, right?

00:34:44.900 Grit, determination, independence, religiosity, right?

00:34:49.280 Those are all qualities of Americans, but those are not synonymous with being American.

00:34:53.500 The only thing that makes you an American is being a citizen of America.

00:34:58.260 That's it.

00:34:59.660 That's the whole story.

00:35:01.100 There are plenty of non-Americans, there are plenty of foreigners, plenty of illegal aliens

00:35:06.720 who are wonderful people.

00:35:09.400 There are, there are also plenty of Americans who are rotten, no good people.

00:35:14.160 American is not a synonym for perfect, wonderful.

00:35:18.120 There, there are qualities that these things have, but American refers to Americans.

00:35:26.280 They, they want to confuse this issue because what the left really wants to say is there's

00:35:30.360 no such thing as citizenship.

00:35:33.040 Citizenship doesn't mean anything.

00:35:34.760 That's why they, they use these, they went from illegal alien, which is the precise term,

00:35:38.780 to illegal immigrant, to undocumented immigrant, to future American.

00:35:43.840 As though the, the only distinction between Americans and non-Americans is some documents.

00:35:49.520 No, it's whether, it's a specific document, namely if you are a, are a citizen or not.

00:35:54.100 The only difference between illegal aliens and Americans is Americans are current Americans 0.97

00:35:59.240 and illegal aliens are future Americans.

00:36:01.740 No, they're not entitled to American citizenship. 0.82

00:36:03.720 Just like I'm not entitled to Danish citizenship or Chinese citizenship.

00:36:08.080 I'm not a future Chinese person.

00:36:10.880 American, I'm an American, I'm something different, okay?

00:36:16.220 This substitution of, of American for just goodness is very tempting to conservatives

00:36:22.000 because we love our country and we know that we have a very good country.

00:36:24.520 We should not fall into that.

00:36:25.860 We got to be very, very precise about our language because the way that the left wins the culture,

00:36:31.400 I've talked about this ad nauseum.

00:36:32.660 I did a Prager video on it.

00:36:33.900 I've done speeches on it.

00:36:35.300 I'm writing a book on it.

00:36:36.240 But the way that the left wins the culture is by using vague language, using tempting

00:36:44.460 language, intoxicating language.

00:36:46.980 American, yeah, American just means good and some of these illegal aliens are good. 0.99

00:36:50.920 No, be very specific because what they would have us do by using that kind of vague, tempting

00:36:55.240 language is totally subvert the country, undermine any kind of American identity. 0.97

00:36:59.980 I mean, what they're saying is that a country has nothing to do with the people of that country.

00:37:04.280 They've already said that country has nothing to do with borders, right?

00:37:08.020 They want to get rid of borders.

00:37:09.100 They say this is stolen land, occupied land.

00:37:11.040 It's not legitimate.

00:37:12.500 But now they're saying that even the people of the country have nothing to do with the

00:37:17.100 country.

00:37:17.480 In other words, if you, how many million Americans, 320 million just about, that if you took all

00:37:22.420 320 million Americans, removed them from the country and then replaced them with foreigners 1.00

00:37:27.640 who share these abstract, vague qualities of American-ness, that you would have the same

00:37:33.900 country.

00:37:35.840 No country in the history of the world has ever believed that.

00:37:38.400 And America has never believed that.

00:37:40.540 And I don't think America believes that currently, which is why Joe Biden is collapsing and why

00:37:45.680 the flailing is only getting worse.

00:37:47.900 Got to pay attention to that though, because when the Democrats, when the left has no mooring

00:37:53.400 and that objective reality, when they're just putting up these kind of spineless, flattering,

00:37:58.880 oily politicians like Joe Biden, then all of a sudden the most moderate guy in the race,

00:38:03.000 all of a sudden can become one of the most radical.

00:38:06.480 Speaking of radical Democratic candidates, speaking of having no regard for truth, Stacey

00:38:12.140 Abrams, failed candidate for governor of Georgia, has accepted the vice presidential nomination

00:38:17.720 in 2020.

00:38:18.780 She hasn't been offered it, but she's accepted it.

00:38:21.720 For those of you who don't remember Stacey Abrams, which I suspect is most of you, Stacey

00:38:25.380 Abrams ran for governor of Georgia in 2018 and she lost.

00:38:30.960 Then she claimed without any evidence whatsoever that the election was stolen.

00:38:34.920 Now she goes on TV as if she won the election.

00:38:37.640 So it is no surprise that in a recent appearance on The View, Abrams said that she would accept

00:38:44.420 vice presidential nomination, which she of course has not received.

00:38:48.000 The first time I was on here, I got the question about running as VP during the primary and

00:38:54.560 I very apparently famously said, no, because you don't run for second in a primary.

00:39:00.740 However, because that conversation started, I'm now getting the question a lot from folks

00:39:06.120 and the answer is, of course, I would be honored to run for vice president with the nominee.

00:39:11.020 And I mean, it's a bit disconcerting because it seems really obnoxious for me to say that

00:39:19.980 out loud since I'm not, you know, no one's asked me.

00:39:22.680 But what I want people to understand is that in the media.

00:39:25.640 Yeah, exactly.

00:39:26.380 The issue is as a woman of color, especially as a black woman, this is an unusual position 0.63

00:39:31.120 to be in for someone to be considered possibly the next vice president.

00:39:35.240 This is a very unusual position.

00:39:37.760 It's just unimaginable that anyone would say that a woman or a person of color or a black

00:39:44.020 person could ever be the vice president, right?

00:39:48.740 I mean, certainly not the president.

00:39:50.360 There's no, except the very last Democratic nominee for president was a woman. 0.82

00:39:57.240 And the, uh, a couple of times ago, the vice presidential nominee for the Republicans was

00:40:06.000 a woman and the last president himself, the very last president was a black guy.

00:40:10.760 This isn't unimaginable at all.

00:40:12.380 This is very imaginable.

00:40:13.480 This is eminently imaginable.

00:40:15.020 This has become routine as a matter of fact.

00:40:17.820 What is unimaginable is that somebody who is a virtual unknown in American politics who

00:40:23.320 ran for a race in Georgia and lost would then try to fail upward by elevating herself to 1.00

00:40:29.600 become the, uh, vice president.

00:40:33.000 That is unimaginable.

00:40:36.840 Stacey Abrams is doing this thing that Democrats keep doing. 1.00

00:40:42.440 They can't, you see it all the way back to Barack Obama trying to take credit for the economy.

00:40:47.060 They can't point to their own accomplishments.

00:40:50.440 They can't point to anything concrete that they've done.

00:40:57.200 So they just fall into imagination land.

00:41:01.240 I wonder if this is a result of the self-esteem movement.

00:41:04.040 I wonder if this is a result of participation trophies that, that these candidates, these

00:41:08.960 politicians just cannot fathom that they lost, that they failed, that they didn't do something.

00:41:15.120 That's not possible.

00:41:16.080 They have to get the trophy.

00:41:17.060 Even if president Trump won the trophy on his economy, even if your opponent in the Georgia

00:41:23.500 governor election won, you got to take the trophy yourself.

00:41:26.380 You have to win as well, but that isn't the case.

00:41:32.060 And nobody believes it.

00:41:34.100 When people see Obama trying to take credit for Trump's economy, they laugh.

00:41:37.120 Sure.

00:41:37.300 There are some hard partisans who buy anything that they say, but most people, I think they

00:41:41.800 kind of laugh about it.

00:41:42.620 Most people, when they see this failed governor candidate go on television and say, okay,

00:41:46.960 I will be the vice president.

00:41:49.140 They laugh about that.

00:41:50.220 Who are you?

00:41:51.020 You lost.

00:41:52.520 Beto O'Rourke lost a Senate race.

00:41:54.000 Then he thought he could run for president because it's not possible for the Democrats

00:41:56.880 to lose.

00:41:58.880 It's not, reality is not binding on Democrats.

00:42:01.340 Reality is not binding on the left, except eventually it is.

00:42:04.020 This is the great conservative consolation.

00:42:06.560 Russell Kirk, who wrote a great book, The Conservative Mind, said that one of the great

00:42:12.580 conservative consolations is that reality eventually reasserts itself.

00:42:16.300 And so you can go off in fantasy for a little while, but eventually reality comes crashing

00:42:20.120 down.

00:42:21.260 It's one of the reasons why conservatives don't get totally routed.

00:42:24.460 Initially, that book was going to be called The Conservative Route.

00:42:26.960 The conservatives just keep losing everything, except every so often they come back because

00:42:31.140 reality reasserts itself in the end.

00:42:33.420 It's reasserting itself on Stacey Abrams, reasserting itself on Joe Biden, it's reasserting

00:42:38.400 itself on Barack Obama.

00:42:41.660 And I can't wait until reality reasserts itself in Alabama.

00:42:45.980 Actually, speaking of The View, you see another clip on this same topic from Joy Behar on The

00:42:50.840 View.

00:42:51.540 There is a new bill in Alabama, in the Alabama legislature that would require men to get

00:42:57.320 vasectomies.

00:42:58.380 This is seriously making me rethink my plans to retire to Mobile, Alabama someday.

00:43:06.080 Mobile is my favorite town in the country.

00:43:08.360 And now it's looking a little less appealing if that law goes through.

00:43:12.980 State Representative Rolanda Hillis, Democrat from Birmingham, filed a bill last Thursday that

00:43:18.340 would mandate every Alabama man to undergo a vasectomy. 1.00

00:43:22.020 Snip, snip, snip, within one month of his 50th birthday or the birth of his third biological

00:43:28.220 child, whichever comes first.

00:43:30.340 No one's allowed to.

00:43:31.260 These Democrats really, really don't like babies.

00:43:34.500 You notice that?

00:43:35.500 They want to get them in the womb. 1.00

00:43:37.840 They want to get them before the womb. 0.99

00:43:39.380 They want to get them on your third kid.

00:43:41.300 Uh, this, this is, uh, HB 314 that this, this woman is responding to. 0.52

00:43:48.460 And HB 314 is the Human Life Protection Act.

00:43:51.360 So this is basically to say you can't kill babies in the womb.

00:43:54.220 Now this woman is going to respond and say, okay, well, men have to get vasectomies. 1.00

00:43:57.680 She says, under existing law, there are no restrictions on the reproductive rights of

00:44:01.940 men.

00:44:02.320 And you know, we've heard this before from the left.

00:44:03.860 We hear it all the time.

00:44:04.640 Joy Behar on The View made the same dumb point.

00:44:07.500 The, uh, panel of, uh, of men who did this.

00:44:10.940 In Alabama?

00:44:11.500 There it is.

00:44:12.360 Yeah.

00:44:12.980 What are the, gee, what do they have in common?

00:44:15.700 Well, I think there were, weren't there four women? 1.00

00:44:18.200 All white guys. 0.94

00:44:18.600 There were four women on there? 1.00

00:44:20.260 Not here.

00:44:21.880 They are.

00:44:22.560 All white guys. 0.94

00:44:23.900 Maybe it should make up a law that they should all be required to get a vasectomy. 1.00

00:44:27.380 That group in particular.

00:44:34.180 Yeah.

00:44:34.860 Woo.

00:44:35.460 How clever.

00:44:36.560 How, you got her.

00:44:37.500 You got him.

00:44:38.500 How, how funny.

00:44:39.520 I've never heard that.

00:44:40.360 Of course, that totally avoids the issue.

00:44:44.720 Conservatives don't want to avoid the issue.

00:44:46.340 The left does want to avoid the issue.

00:44:47.720 What's the issue?

00:44:48.280 And we're talking about abortion, which is what this whole thing is about.

00:44:50.540 They're not really going to mandate vasectomies in Alabama.

00:44:54.080 We're talking about abortion.

00:44:55.200 What's the question?

00:44:57.260 Is the baby a baby?

00:44:59.740 Should we be allowed to kill the baby or a million babies a year without any legal protection? 0.61

00:45:05.940 That's the question.

00:45:06.720 It would seem that the evidence that the baby is a baby is pretty strong.

00:45:10.400 The baby is human.

00:45:11.640 Nobody suggests the baby is not human.

00:45:13.720 The baby is alive.

00:45:16.420 Nobody suggests the baby is dead.

00:45:18.940 That's a miscarriage or an abortion, right? 0.99

00:45:20.980 The point of an abortion is to take the baby from alive to dead. 0.71

00:45:25.300 The baby, if left alone, will grow up to be a toddler and then an adult and then an old person, right?

00:45:30.460 It is a human life.

00:45:32.200 And so we're saying you shouldn't kill that.

00:45:33.920 It has nothing to do with the reproductive rights of women. 0.99

00:45:36.860 It's saying mothers shouldn't be able to kill their kids.

00:45:38.640 And the left wants to avoid that issue and say, you're just trying to control women's ovaries. 1.00

00:45:43.400 No, we don't.

00:45:44.120 I don't care about women's ovaries. 1.00

00:45:45.740 I care about if we're killing babies.

00:45:47.420 Yeah, we're going to give you vasectomies. 1.00

00:45:48.820 Totally misses the point.

00:45:51.340 Conservatives like to talk about the issue.

00:45:53.700 The left wants to avoid the issue.

00:45:55.200 Not just on this issue, but on many issues.

00:45:56.940 That's why, by the way, conservatives are always arguing with ourselves.

00:46:00.940 You'll notice there are always these fights on the right.

00:46:03.100 All these different segments of the right.

00:46:04.660 The libertarians versus the traditionalists versus the neocons versus the religious right versus right there.

00:46:10.300 You could go on and on and on between all these segments.

00:46:12.560 And they're always arguing about each other, trying to get to the heart of the issue.

00:46:16.240 That doesn't happen on the left.

00:46:17.880 On the left, there is just progressivism.

00:46:20.160 There are the progressives and also the progressives.

00:46:23.720 That's it.

00:46:24.920 The left can't argue with itself.

00:46:27.160 For many reasons, but the left can't form these arguments.

00:46:30.220 The left doesn't understand what arguments are being made.

00:46:32.420 And the left, most importantly, has divorced itself from objective reality.

00:46:36.000 So the left is saying there is no truth.

00:46:37.720 It's your truth and his truth, but not the truth. 0.97

00:46:40.220 The left is saying that you can't say that a man is a man or a woman is a woman.

00:46:43.320 It's all very subjective.

00:46:44.360 It's all just a bunch of different interest groups.

00:46:46.380 I mean, literally, if you accept that premise, it's not capable of argument.

00:46:51.140 That's why the left goes off the rails.

00:46:53.660 That's why the right reigns itself in through that kind of argumentation.

00:46:56.940 That's why you see the left claiming credit for things it never did, accepting vice presidential

00:47:00.460 nominations that it never got, making claims that are just philosophically impossible.

00:47:07.000 That's why you see it spinning off into absurdity.

00:47:09.700 That's why you see the right grounded in reality.

00:47:12.080 Now, absurdity and fantasy wins for a while, but the reality reasserts itself in the end.

00:47:17.440 And that's a nice consolation for those of us who are right and who are on the right.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 18, 2020

Ep. 496 - Obama Didn’t Build That

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