The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 510 - We’re All Going To Die

00:00:00.080 President Trump addresses the coronavirus epidemic from the Oval Office.

00:00:04.480 We will examine how we're all going to die.

00:00:07.200 Then, Bernie refuses to drop out of the race.

00:00:09.880 A mathematically challenged New York Times editorial board member

00:00:12.740 cries racism when people correct her.

00:00:15.600 And AOC says it's racist not to eat lo mein.

00:00:18.800 All that, plus the mailbag.

00:00:20.180 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:21.980 Big speech last night from the Oval Office.

00:00:32.460 President Trump addressed the nation on the coronavirus Wuhan epidemic

00:00:37.140 and what the United States is going to do.

00:00:39.640 It was mostly a normal address.

00:00:41.900 There were some serious measures that were brought up last night.

00:00:45.860 And, of course, typically the left is furious.

00:00:49.420 Before we get into it, a question you've got to ask yourself.

00:00:52.460 What could Trump have done that the left would have approved of?

00:00:56.900 Okay, what actually is possible that they would have said,

00:01:00.240 okay, good job, he's doing great?

00:01:01.700 Probably not very much.

00:01:02.900 So we'll get into the meat of it in just a second.

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00:02:26.220 So President Trump opens up his speech perfectly as you would expect.

00:02:31.860 He says there is this pandemic and we're going to take it very seriously.

00:02:36.420 Tonight, I want to speak with you about our nation's unprecedented response to the coronavirus

00:02:42.700 outbreak that started in China and is now spreading throughout the world.

00:02:48.260 Today, the World Health Organization officially announced that this is a global pandemic.

00:02:54.580 OK, now I bet you could not figure out a way to turn that into a terrible, awful, bigoted

00:03:02.040 speech, right?

00:03:02.800 It's just, what did he say?

00:03:04.280 It was the most basic that we got.

00:03:05.860 There's this virus, all right?

00:03:07.980 It started in China, but now it's all over the world and we're taking it seriously.

00:03:12.420 And the World Health Organization calls it a pandemic.

00:03:15.300 How could you possibly pick that apart?

00:03:17.160 Well, Jim Acosta on CNN certainly can.

00:03:20.600 Immediately, before we get to the rest of the speech, Jim Acosta goes on CNN and says,

00:03:25.880 you know, the opening of that speech sure was racist.

00:03:30.240 At one point during this address, the president referred to the coronavirus as a, quote, foreign

00:03:36.120 virus.

00:03:37.260 That I think was interesting because, as I was talking to sources earlier this evening, one

00:03:41.380 of the points that the president wanted to make tonight, wanted to get across to Americans,

00:03:44.540 is that this virus did not start here, but that they're dealing with it.

00:03:48.820 Now, why the president would go as far as to describe it as a foreign virus, that is something

00:03:53.440 we'll also be asking questions about.

00:03:55.000 But it should be pointed out that Stephen Miller, who is an immigration hardliner, who

00:04:00.000 advises the president, is one of his top domestic policy advisors and speechwriters, was a driving

00:04:05.580 force in writing this speech.

00:04:07.040 And I think it's going to smack, it's going to come across to a lot of Americans as smacking

00:04:11.340 of xenophobia, to use that kind of term in this speech, Chris.

00:04:16.000 Xenophobia to mention where the virus is from, to mention what the name of the virus is?

00:04:20.460 I can't, I don't know if they can hear themselves.

00:04:27.280 It's the, it's the Wuhan virus.

00:04:30.280 President, why, why would President Trump make a point of saying it's a foreign virus?

00:04:33.840 Because it is, because it's true.

00:04:36.240 You can't, you know, the whole point of racism, right?

00:04:39.260 If you say that's racist, that's bigoted, that's, what is implied there is that it's

00:04:43.420 not true, right?

00:04:45.020 That it's unjust, that it's wrong.

00:04:48.400 If you're just making a geographic fact, if you're just stating the obvious, that can't

00:04:54.380 be bigoted or xenophobic or racist or whatever.

00:04:57.160 It's just a fact.

00:04:58.340 And, and moreover, it's not just Donald Trump who's doing it.

00:05:01.320 Jim Acosta made the same point back in, at the end of January, January 23rd.

00:05:05.840 So not that, what, a month and a half ago, he tweets out, CNN international authorities

00:05:10.640 in Beijing have canceled all large scale Chinese New Year celebrations in an effort to contain 0.62

00:05:15.780 the growing spread of Wuhan coronavirus.

00:05:19.920 Was it xenophobic when Jim Acosta said exactly the same thing?

00:05:26.240 Probably not.

00:05:27.320 But it's just, it sets the tone for the night because no matter what President Trump had 0.70

00:05:33.040 said, the CNN people would have come on immediately and said, racist, bigot, terrible, awful, the 0.98

00:05:39.320 worst guy in the world. 0.59

00:05:40.460 So the big news from the speech is that President Trump is suspending all travel from Europe for

00:05:47.880 30 days.

00:05:48.640 This makes a lot of sense.

00:05:50.040 Europe is getting smacked by this virus.

00:05:52.480 And in particular, Italy is getting smacked.

00:05:55.740 Hundreds of deaths.

00:05:57.320 They've quarantined not just their economic powerhouse in Milan and the northern region.

00:06:02.480 They've now quarantined the entire country.

00:06:04.900 So why does, why does Trump have to cut off travel from all of Europe rather than just

00:06:08.560 Italy?

00:06:10.180 This actually gets into a nationalism question.

00:06:12.460 This actually gets into much of what we've been talking about with regard to globalization

00:06:16.220 for the last three years, which is Europe doesn't really have hard borders.

00:06:22.480 Europe, the EU, is this kind of federal entity where people get to go freely from one country

00:06:29.480 into the next one.

00:06:30.540 And so if you've got this total outbreak, you know, they haven't contained it at all in

00:06:35.880 Italy, then it's going to be hard to contain it within the rest of Europe.

00:06:40.920 Interesting about this travel ban, the United Kingdom is exempt.

00:06:45.600 So if you're in the UK right now, you can travel to the United States still.

00:06:49.800 I guess this makes sense, right?

00:06:51.320 As of a month and a half ago, the UK is not part of Europe.

00:06:55.280 I sat down on the Verdict podcast that I host with Senator Cruz.

00:06:59.180 We sat down with Nigel Farage.

00:07:00.900 Nigel was so happy, talked about all the benefits to it and how the media are constantly railing

00:07:06.020 against Brexit.

00:07:06.800 Well, here's one of the benefits of Brexit, right?

00:07:09.120 You, you can now travel to the United States because you're not part of Europe.

00:07:14.980 Good lesson on nationalism.

00:07:16.340 You know, this whole, this whole pandemic teaches us a little something about nationalism.

00:07:21.140 We were told by the globalization side for decades that there's no downside to globalization,

00:07:26.200 right?

00:07:26.800 There's no downside to open borders.

00:07:28.480 Let anybody come in or leave whenever it's fine.

00:07:30.620 No big deal.

00:07:31.700 There's no downside to outsourcing all of your manufacturing to China.

00:07:36.200 No, you just get cheaper goods.

00:07:37.820 Everybody gets more money.

00:07:38.900 It's more money in your pocket.

00:07:39.880 Even if you lose your job, you know, you'll still be paying less for cheap Chinese goods.

00:07:44.760 So what's the big deal?

00:07:45.900 Well, the big deal is that if China is the epicenter of a pandemic, then it might be a 0.74

00:07:51.780 little difficult to get your goods out of China, right?

00:07:54.860 If Italy had tightened its borders sooner, Italy might not be having this problem.

00:08:00.120 You know, we are now tightening our borders under duress.

00:08:02.760 It's so funny, you know, the, the left is, has been railing on Trump for trying to tighten

00:08:08.300 border security for the last three years.

00:08:10.680 Well, now we're tightening it, right?

00:08:12.400 Now you, we're not letting travelers in from China.

00:08:15.280 We're not letting travelers in from Europe. 0.99

00:08:18.300 So we all agree we got to tighten the border.

00:08:20.400 It's just maybe we should have tightened it a little bit sooner.

00:08:23.120 Maybe the pandemic wouldn't be quite so bad.

00:08:26.140 I also can't wait until the left somehow twists Trump banning travel from Europe to be racism.

00:08:33.800 You know, because that's what they're always saying is that he only wants to keep people

00:08:36.740 out who look different from us, you know, who, who are from Africa or the Middle East.

00:08:41.560 Like, well, what about Europe?

00:08:42.460 Why are you going to do that?

00:08:43.240 He's going to say he's racist against the Italians or something.

00:08:45.560 Other than that, it was a totally normal Oval Office speech.

00:08:47.960 Given the circumstances, you, you get the gist of it, you know, rah, rah, we're America,

00:08:53.540 we'll rally together.

00:08:54.600 Fear not.

00:08:56.020 You've got nothing to fear, but fear itself.

00:08:57.940 The virus will not have a chance against us.

00:09:01.680 No nation is more prepared or more resilient than the United States.

00:09:06.040 We have the best economy, the most advanced health care, and the most talented doctors,

00:09:11.560 scientists, and researchers anywhere in the world.

00:09:14.720 We are all in this together.

00:09:17.620 We must put politics aside, stop the partisanship, and unify together as one nation and one family.

00:09:27.040 As history has proven time and time again, Americans always rise to the challenge and overcome adversity.

00:09:33.920 Our future remains brighter than anyone can imagine.

00:09:38.220 Acting with compassion and love, we will heal the sick, care for those in need, help our fellow citizens,

00:09:45.380 and emerge from this challenge stronger and more unified than ever before.

00:09:50.920 God bless you, and God bless America.

00:09:53.780 Thank you.

00:09:55.120 Great.

00:09:55.640 Totally fine speech, right?

00:09:58.080 Exactly what you would expect, not just of Trump, but really of any president.

00:10:01.820 We're going to be fine.

00:10:02.940 We're going to come together.

00:10:03.940 We're taking all the steps necessary.

00:10:06.040 You'll be safe.

00:10:06.980 Calm down.

00:10:07.840 Please don't crash the markets, right?

00:10:09.640 That's pretty much all he had to do in that speech, and he did it.

00:10:13.240 CNN's Don Lemon, furious, apoplectic, and it was so funny because they brought on a Republican,

00:10:22.420 quote unquote.

00:10:22.880 They brought on John Kasich to talk about it.

00:10:24.900 This is one of Trump's primary opponents.

00:10:26.760 He's a liberal Republican, so I think they figured he was just going to trash Trump,

00:10:30.760 and he would bounce off their criticism of the president.

00:10:34.600 Actually, John Kasich didn't do that, and Don Lemon got even more angry.

00:10:38.600 I want you to go on and deflect and talk about something else because we're here to talk

00:10:43.740 about the president's address, and you said that someone else wrote it.

00:10:47.840 He's the president.

00:10:48.880 Even if someone else wrote it, it should be right.

00:10:50.840 I know he did, and he has to be—Don, Don, he put this thing out because there was some

00:10:56.780 confusion out there, okay?

00:10:59.300 Now there's more confusion, John.

00:11:01.600 And what I'm—look, look, I'm trying to say to you, Don, we've got to move down the

00:11:06.860 road.

00:11:07.220 Looking back doesn't get things fixed.

00:11:09.740 We're not looking back.

00:11:10.940 The president's address—

00:11:12.180 The president's address was tonight.

00:11:16.700 That is the newest information for this.

00:11:18.900 I think it was fine.

00:11:19.100 Is the president's address.

00:11:22.340 I think it was fine.

00:11:23.800 That's what I think.

00:11:25.260 I love angry John Kasich.

00:11:27.360 It is just—he's so fed up with Don Lemon.

00:11:29.440 He goes, okay, you want me to say it?

00:11:30.620 I'll just say it, Don.

00:11:31.660 I can't believe you're making me—I think President Trump's address was fine.

00:11:35.000 I didn't want to have to come on TV and compliment the president, but I thought it was fine.

00:11:41.020 When you've got John Kasich complimenting President Trump, then you know, really, really, the address

00:11:46.760 was perfectly fine.

00:11:48.160 What Don Lemon's talking about there is this question of whether or not the government is going to pay for treatment of coronavirus or they're going to pay for tests of coronavirus or rather if the government had gotten the insurance companies to pay for that.

00:12:04.740 This is a fairly minor point. 0.96

00:12:07.120 It shows you that Trump is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. 0.96

00:12:10.500 When he banned travel from China, they attacked him for overreacting. 0.97

00:12:15.060 Then, for a couple weeks, they banned him—or they attacked him for underreacting.

00:12:20.080 Then he bans travel from Europe.

00:12:21.600 They attack him for overreacting.

00:12:23.040 Again, there's nothing the guy can do whatsoever.

00:12:26.000 And there was a funny moment, actually, when the address ended.

00:12:29.700 CNN accidentally left the cameras rolling, and so you got to see President Trump's reaction at the end of it.

00:12:35.280 I think watching CNN, watching all of the hysteria and the alarmism, I think he summed up what we were all thinking.

00:12:43.360 We're clear.

00:12:44.220 Okay.

00:12:46.100 Okay.

00:12:46.620 We will come together.

00:12:52.180 We will come together as Americans.

00:12:54.820 Thank you.

00:12:55.540 God bless America.

00:12:57.400 Okay.

00:12:58.280 What are we doing now?

00:12:59.560 That's exactly how I feel.

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00:14:10.420 What's the big takeaway?

00:14:11.600 Big takeaway is WooFlu is getting real.

00:14:14.760 The stock market is taking a pounding.

00:14:16.520 They suspended trading again today.

00:14:18.520 I mean, we're now in a bear market, so meaning this market has turned south.

00:14:24.260 People are very worried.

00:14:26.740 Warren Buffett just came out, by the way, and said, you know, this is a one-two punch to the market.

00:14:30.940 The coronavirus and the Saudi oil price war that we're in right now, but it's not even close to 2008.

00:14:40.960 So this might just be a temporary blip, maybe an opportunity for investors to take advantage, but maybe not.

00:14:48.560 We don't know.

00:14:49.120 You know, obviously the market is pretty uncertain.

00:14:51.660 Tom Hanks now has Wuhan virus.

00:14:54.400 That came out last night.

00:14:55.900 Some NBA player who I've never heard of has Wuhan virus.

00:15:00.120 The entire NBA has suspended its season.

00:15:02.900 There's actually now a website called isitcancelledyet.com to figure out what has been canceled because of Wuhan virus.

00:15:10.820 So far, they've got South by Southwest, Pope Francis' public appearances, the Bernie and Biden rallies.

00:15:17.540 Who was going to go to those?

00:15:18.440 Anybody, like five people.

00:15:19.400 A Google conference, Minecraft festival, Coachella, Harvard and Princeton and lots of other schools canceling classes, telling kids to stay home.

00:15:28.220 They're going to do online teaching.

00:15:30.140 A conference about coronavirus was canceled.

00:15:33.380 That was, they should have seen that one coming.

00:15:35.080 That's, that wasn't the Council on Foreign Relations.

00:15:37.020 Come on, guys.

00:15:38.780 You set yourselves up for that, I would say.

00:15:41.900 Also, by the way, as long as we're canceling things, I just want to put my suggestion out there.

00:15:45.320 I think in this time of great pandemic, the only responsible thing to do would be to cancel the presidential election and postpone it until maybe like 2036 or maybe 2040.

00:15:58.780 That just, that would be responsible.

00:16:01.140 I think we got to put partisanship aside here, folks.

00:16:03.640 Take the public health really seriously and postpone the presidential election by about 16 or 20 years.

00:16:10.380 Let's, let's come together, America, and let's, let's get this done.

00:16:13.380 As far as global pandemics go, worth keeping in mind, I know that it's very unpopular now to tell people to be calm, but this is not the bubonic plague.

00:16:24.660 This is not SARS in terms of the death rate.

00:16:27.280 It's not Ebola in terms of melting your organs.

00:16:31.260 32 people have died so far in the United States.

00:16:34.980 It's not good, and the number is going to get higher, so no reason to be complacent.

00:16:40.020 However, compared to the 12,500 people who died in the U.S. from swine flu, so far, things are okay.

00:16:48.540 Things are more manageable.

00:16:50.740 To put, 32 people have died, you know, in two weeks or so, two weeks or a month maybe from coronavirus.

00:16:58.840 90 people die each day in the United States from car accidents.

00:17:02.300 One person dies every 37 seconds from heart disease, and the average age of death from Wuhan virus is 80.

00:17:10.760 I am not saying that it's not a pandemic.

00:17:13.900 I'm not saying we shouldn't take precautions.

00:17:16.640 I'm simply saying that people are not dropping like flies, as I think many in the media would have you believe.

00:17:24.900 Glad that the government and people are taking this seriously, but there's a big difference between taking things swiftly and seriously and panicking.

00:17:33.460 There's no reason to panic.

00:17:36.180 Panicking doesn't do anybody any good, and I actually think there's a reason that people panic that has nothing to do with the Wuhan virus, which we'll get to in just a little bit.

00:17:44.120 I've got to turn to some political news.

00:17:46.460 Bernie Sanders, after getting shellacked by Joe Biden on the second Super Tuesday, is staying in the race.

00:17:52.980 Here is Bernie announcing why he's got no intention of going anywhere.

00:17:56.720 What became even more apparent yesterday is that while we are currently losing the delegate count,

00:18:05.440 approximately 800 delegates for Joe Biden and 660 for us,

00:18:11.360 we are strongly winning in two enormously important areas which will determine the future of our country.

00:18:23.220 Typical BS.

00:18:24.560 You hear this from these Bolsheviks every single time. 0.99

00:18:29.280 Actually, they're winning.

00:18:31.200 Every time these Bolsheviks, including the original Bolsheviks, 0.97

00:18:34.360 every time they would lose, they would say that they won.

00:18:37.100 And this is true all the way up to modern leftist politicians.

00:18:42.220 We may be losing, but we're secretly winning.

00:18:44.600 How are we secretly winning, Bernie?

00:18:46.320 You tell me.

00:18:47.260 He says they might not be winning in terms of the delegates or the voters or those minor issues,

00:18:51.980 but they're winning the ideological debate.

00:18:54.880 Strong majority of the American people support our progressive agenda.

00:19:00.100 While our campaign has won the ideological debate,

00:19:04.380 we are losing the debate over electability.

00:19:10.260 If you are losing the debate over electability,

00:19:14.280 which is to say if you are losing the electoral battle,

00:19:17.700 then you are losing the ideological debate.

00:19:20.960 If a large majority of the American people support Bernie Sanders' agenda,

00:19:26.660 then Bernie Sanders would be winning.

00:19:28.280 But he's not winning.

00:19:31.520 Now, what Bernie might say is, no, it's about the candidates too.

00:19:34.760 So they support what I believe, but they do not support who I am.

00:19:39.240 And me, Bernie Sanders, 78 years old.

00:19:43.400 And they do support Joe Biden's personality,

00:19:46.460 but they don't support what he believes.

00:19:50.660 That is not true.

00:19:52.640 How do I know that's not true?

00:19:53.900 Because just physically, Bernie and Biden are the same candidate.

00:19:59.620 They're two white guys.

00:20:02.080 One is 77 and a half and one is 78.

00:20:06.220 They are all things being equal, right?

00:20:09.640 The only thing that differs is their ideology.

00:20:13.120 And Biden is winning and Bernie is losing.

00:20:15.240 They insist on it, though.

00:20:18.220 The left constantly.

00:20:19.260 People really believe what we're selling.

00:20:21.380 They really, there's just for some reason,

00:20:23.100 there's one weird trick that explains why we're not actually winning at the polls.

00:20:28.220 Bernie, Bernie has one excuse for it.

00:20:30.480 He says he's winning among the young voters.

00:20:33.920 He's winning the next generation of Americans.

00:20:35.760 You need to win the voters who represent the future of our country.

00:20:42.640 And you must speak to the issues of concern to them.

00:20:48.360 You cannot simply be satisfied by winning the votes of people who are older.

00:20:55.300 But Bernie is not winning the youths.

00:20:57.840 And he's not winning the youths because the youths aren't showing up.

00:21:01.020 So they might tweet for you and they might go on different message boards and say they

00:21:06.940 really like you.

00:21:07.800 But if they don't show up to the polls, then you're not winning the youths.

00:21:12.780 The left always does this.

00:21:15.900 They can't lose.

00:21:17.320 They're always winning.

00:21:18.740 And the more left they are, the more certain they are that they are winning.

00:21:23.020 Hillary Clinton, she secretly won 2016.

00:21:25.360 Stacey Abrams, she's secretly the governor of Georgia. 0.95

00:21:27.820 Al Gore, that guy secretly won the presidential election just for some reason.

00:21:31.020 It looked like George Bush won.

00:21:33.260 They insist they won, they insist they won rather, even when they lost.

00:21:38.200 The reason is they can't lose.

00:21:39.680 They can't lose because they are the future, right?

00:21:41.540 They know what the future is.

00:21:42.580 Everything Bernie just said.

00:21:44.040 We are winning the ideological battle.

00:21:45.900 The majority of people support our ideology.

00:21:49.040 We're winning the youths.

00:21:50.060 We're winning the future.

00:21:51.480 You're not, right?

00:21:52.680 You're obviously not.

00:21:53.980 But you are so convinced.

00:21:55.780 You begin with the premise that you are the future.

00:21:58.440 And so you can't possibly lose.

00:22:00.000 Anytime you lose, something had to go wrong.

00:22:03.240 This is the problem.

00:22:04.560 There are many problems.

00:22:05.460 This is one of the problems with progressivism, with progress as an ideology is you are the

00:22:11.080 future.

00:22:12.280 It's not even a question.

00:22:13.520 We all know that for certain.

00:22:15.540 The only question is, are people going to rob you of bringing about the future now?

00:22:20.680 Are they going to steal it from you illegitimately?

00:22:22.820 This is why when leftists, particularly hard leftists, lose elections, it's always got to

00:22:27.440 be illegitimate.

00:22:28.120 It could simply not be the case that people have rejected their ideology because their

00:22:33.280 ideology is not merely a political view among many.

00:22:36.020 It is the science of the future.

00:22:38.560 And if people are stopping the future from happening, that is wrong.

00:22:43.280 It's immoral.

00:22:43.960 It's unjust.

00:22:44.740 And it's illegitimate.

00:22:45.760 That's the philosophical basis for Bernie staying in.

00:22:47.840 The PR basis is this is his last shot and he wants to figure it out.

00:22:53.060 He wants to just like finally get his ideology over the finish line as long as he's got breath

00:22:58.840 in his lungs.

00:23:00.300 Then there's a practical basis, which is that Joe Biden might not make it.

00:23:06.740 Look, I don't, I mean, I, when I say, I'm not saying he's going to croak or something

00:23:10.400 necessarily.

00:23:10.880 I'm just saying he doesn't have physical stamina.

00:23:13.480 He's now asking for the next debate to have chairs so that he doesn't have to stand up

00:23:17.720 the whole time.

00:23:18.360 Okay.

00:23:19.280 He is not a vigorous man.

00:23:21.200 And so right now, I think what Bernie's looking at is, gosh, if something takes Joe Biden out

00:23:25.980 of this race and I have many, many more delegates than I do right now, then it will be very hard

00:23:30.600 for the Democrats to steal it from me at the convention.

00:23:33.360 It's a small chance that that actually plays out in the end, but I think that's the practical

00:23:37.160 basis Bernie is thinking about.

00:23:39.120 Turning our attention to the news media.

00:23:42.080 You remember the other day when Mara Gay, she's this New York Times editorial board member.

00:23:47.940 She was on the Brian Williams show on MSNBC and they were talking about how Mike Bloomberg

00:23:52.340 had spent $500 million on his campaign and there's 320 million Americans, which means

00:23:57.220 that Mike Bloomberg could have, instead of running his campaign, just simply given each

00:24:01.800 American $1 million.

00:24:03.960 And they talked about this without understanding how zeros work, how orders of magnitude work in

00:24:09.560 mathematics or they are actually with the money he spent, he could have given every American

00:24:13.420 a million dollars.

00:24:14.860 I've got it.

00:24:15.000 Let's put it up on the screen.

00:24:16.580 When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear.

00:24:22.180 Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads, U.S. population $327 million.

00:24:27.000 Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math.

00:24:29.000 He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over.

00:24:35.100 It's an incredible way of putting it.

00:24:37.160 It's an incredible way of putting it.

00:24:39.180 It's true.

00:24:39.980 It's disturbing.

00:24:40.740 It does, it does suggest, you know, what we're talking about here, which is there, there's

00:24:45.320 too much money in politics.

00:24:46.720 That's it.

00:24:47.320 That's what it suggests, right?

00:24:48.640 Isn't it?

00:24:49.120 Not at all.

00:24:50.380 So some people called her out for this, obviously.

00:24:53.280 And now do you think Mara Gay, New York Times editorial board member, or Brian Williams for

00:24:58.060 that matter, but Mara Gay is the one who, who has been complaining about this. 0.99

00:25:01.640 Do you think she apologized, corrected her mistake, said, gosh, you know, I should think

00:25:05.820 before I speak, I should figure out basic mathematical concepts, I, or arithmetical concepts.

00:25:13.160 I should have a little humility.

00:25:15.680 Whoops, whoopsie, my bad.

00:25:17.300 I'll get you next time.

00:25:18.240 Oh no, she's complaining and she's crying racism. 1.00

00:25:23.660 She's saying, look, I got mean messages on email and on Twitter after I made that comment.

00:25:30.880 Look, it was racism.

00:25:32.680 And frankly, I just made a trivial math error.

00:25:38.000 That's her direct quote, trivial math error. 0.97

00:25:40.300 So I guess that would be her second math error because getting your figures off by six orders

00:25:46.420 of magnitude is not a trivial math error, right?

00:25:49.560 It's like, I, it is a common math error among leftists, which is, yeah, a million, a billion,

00:25:55.480 what, trillion.

00:25:56.240 It's all, it's all the same.

00:25:57.360 It ends in illion, right?

00:25:58.860 We'll spend all the money.

00:25:59.780 Uh, however, it's a pretty significant, uh, error.

00:26:03.980 Also, it doesn't look good when you're a public figure who complains about people being mean to

00:26:09.520 you.

00:26:11.140 Mara Gay, I have no doubt that she got racist messages. 1.00

00:26:13.440 She probably did. 0.98

00:26:14.960 I don't know that she got racist messages because people hate black people.

00:26:19.320 I think she got racist messages because people don't like her and people don't like her because 0.88

00:26:24.440 she talks politics on TV and everybody who talks politics on TV gets vile, vile. 1.00

00:26:30.680 Messages, a lot of them, all the time.

00:26:34.360 And what they do is they attack you for various things.

00:26:38.020 Look, it happens to everybody.

00:26:40.320 They'll attack you for the way you look.

00:26:41.800 They'll attack you for the way you talk.

00:26:43.320 They'll attack you for the way your family and friends look.

00:26:46.720 They'll attack for all these things, right?

00:26:48.820 However, I think 99 times out of 100, that's not expressing some deep-seated hatred for

00:26:55.960 some category that you might fall into.

00:26:57.920 They just don't like you.

00:26:59.580 That's how people are mean, right?

00:27:01.760 That's how, that's how people bully you.

00:27:03.380 That's what the internet is, all right?

00:27:05.040 I'm, I'm not saying I enjoy that.

00:27:06.960 I don't like getting mean messages, but if you are going to put yourself out on national

00:27:10.820 television and talk about contentious issues, you are going to have to take some heat.

00:27:16.320 You're going to have to get some mean, vile, vicious, unforgivable, unsupportable, indefensible

00:27:21.560 messages.

00:27:22.380 That goes with the territory and you can either complain about that and play the victim or

00:27:26.700 you can say, Hey, look, I've got a pretty prominent position.

00:27:29.120 I'm on the New York times editorial board.

00:27:30.660 I made an egregious and hilarious mistake.

00:27:32.900 Whoops.

00:27:33.300 My bad.

00:27:34.320 Maybe I'll sit, sit out the next few rounds and think, think a little bit more next time.

00:27:38.800 Certainly Maragay cannot do that.

00:27:41.340 The left in general can't do that.

00:27:43.200 Before we get into the mailbag, AOC has some comments on racism.

00:27:48.100 She wants you to know that if you are so afraid of the Wuhan virus that you don't eat

00:27:52.800 lo mein, that you're a racist. 0.89

00:27:55.160 Honestly, it sounds almost so silly to say, but there's a lot of restaurants that are feeling 0.96

00:28:01.520 the pain of racism, where people are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants.

00:28:07.820 They're not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight up racism around the coronavirus.

00:28:14.080 They're not patroning them.

00:28:15.840 All right.

00:28:16.300 And you better not patron me.

00:28:18.820 And we certainly, we shouldn't patron each other.

00:28:21.960 I think the word AOC was looking for was patronize.

00:28:25.920 But we'll just let that go for, you know, in the spirit of charity and national unity,

00:28:31.720 we'll let that one slide.

00:28:33.420 We will focus on the point that she's making.

00:28:35.940 If you don't want to eat chicken, Kung Pao chicken during Wuhan virus time, that you're

00:28:42.460 somehow a racist, it's not racist to point out where a disease comes from.

00:28:49.020 It's not racist to point out where the epicenter of a global pandemic is.

00:28:53.760 Okay.

00:28:54.160 It wasn't racist to call the Spanish flu, the Spanish flu, though probably all of the woke 1.00

00:29:00.520 people like AOC, they want to rename that like Latinx flu.

00:29:04.220 I don't even know how to pronounce that word where they go Latinx instead of Latino, Latinx. 0.91

00:29:08.420 It's the Latinx flu.

00:29:10.040 All right.

00:29:10.200 It's not racist to point out that the Ebola virus comes from the Ebola river.

00:29:16.420 It's not racist to refer to West Nile virus, right?

00:29:20.440 It's not all of these different things.

00:29:22.700 Actually, there's some evidence that it's just a part of communist propaganda in China 0.99

00:29:27.640 to convince gullible idiot Westerners that it's racist to point out that the virus came 1.00

00:29:32.700 from China. 1.00

00:29:33.360 We're getting some evidence that it's actually a conscious effort by the communications apparatus

00:29:38.380 of the Chinese government to convince people of this.

00:29:41.680 And of course, the gullible self-hating leftists in America just eaten that whole hog.

00:29:48.960 Why are you so afraid of coronavirus?

00:29:50.440 That's the point I want to leave on today before we get to the mailbag.

00:29:55.440 Why are you so afraid of it?

00:29:56.780 I suspect it has something to do with death.

00:30:01.280 You're afraid of dying, right?

00:30:02.940 Nobody wants to die.

00:30:04.580 However, at different periods of time, the fear of death has ebbed and flowed.

00:30:09.340 You know, people have been much more intensely afraid of death or much less afraid of death.

00:30:13.340 I think that the fear of death in our culture has gotten a lot worse.

00:30:16.560 I think the evidence of this is all around us.

00:30:18.480 Levels of stress are going through the roof.

00:30:20.240 Anxiety is going through the roof.

00:30:22.400 Depression drugs going through the roof.

00:30:24.920 This is especially true among young people who are experiencing stress and anxiety at

00:30:28.700 a much higher rate.

00:30:30.400 You see it even with kids now.

00:30:31.920 There was a BBC survey that showed that children are having disturbed sleep, are getting eating

00:30:39.280 disorders now because they're so afraid of death from climate change.

00:30:43.240 Why are people so afraid of death?

00:30:46.060 I have to imagine it has something to do with the precipitous decline in religiosity, particularly

00:30:53.320 among young people.

00:30:54.580 I mean, the groups that are experiencing the greatest religious decline growing up without

00:30:58.420 any kind of religious worldview are the ones who are most stressed and most anxious.

00:31:02.120 An important takeaway from coronavirus, you are going to die.

00:31:09.080 I can guarantee you that with 100% certainty. 0.99

00:31:12.700 You are going to die.

00:31:15.460 Coincidentally, the coronavirus scare that really took hold during the same time as Lent.

00:31:20.340 At the beginning of Lent is when Christians get ashes on their forehead and you hear, remember 1.00

00:31:26.820 man, you are dust and to dust you shall return.

00:31:30.440 Statistically, you're not going to die from the Wuhan virus. 0.99

00:31:33.640 Also statistically, you are going to die.

00:31:38.440 Probably better when you think of that.

00:31:40.880 Instead of just running out to the store and buying up all the toilet paper and canned tomatoes

00:31:45.620 that you possibly can, it's probably a better use of your time to think ahead to that certainty

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00:33:44.720 First question from Dave.

00:33:47.380 Michael, if Eric Swalwell gets the coronavirus, does that mean we all have the coronavirus?

00:33:52.740 It does.

00:33:53.920 This is through the Swalwell transitive property, whereby Eric Swalwell is us.

00:34:01.700 We are Eric Swalwell, and so if he goes, we all go.

00:34:06.840 From Katie.

00:34:07.580 Hi, Michael.

00:34:08.380 What would happen if Biden won the nomination, but his mental decline made him an impossibility

00:34:13.400 come November?

00:34:14.500 Would Bernie claim it?

00:34:15.500 Would Hillary swoop in? 1.00

00:34:16.520 Would Michelle Obama reconsider?

00:34:17.940 Would chaos ensue?

00:34:19.500 I guess it doesn't matter, since we'll all be dead from the Wuhan flu.

00:34:22.100 Great question.

00:34:24.160 It depends when Biden gets out.

00:34:29.020 So I think there's a chance right now that, and that's what Bernie's banking on, that Biden

00:34:33.860 just collapses.

00:34:34.860 If Bernie really forces debates, forces campaigning, that Biden just collapses before the nomination.

00:34:43.240 Let's assume he gets the nomination.

00:34:45.040 And let's assume worst case, absolutely unthinkable scenario, that something happens to the guy.

00:34:49.500 The mental decline continues, or, you know, look, we are in the midst of a global pandemic

00:34:53.020 that affects specifically people in Joe Biden's age group.

00:34:56.360 So, you know, it's an ugly thing to think about, but one does have to consider these possibilities.

00:35:02.160 Then it would be up to the Democratic Party.

00:35:04.120 We really don't know.

00:35:05.080 That would be unprecedented territory in our political era.

00:35:09.160 And so I think Hillary would certainly want to sweep in. 1.00

00:35:13.380 I think that Nancy Pelosi has left open this door.

00:35:18.060 I think Maxine Waters has left open this door.

00:35:20.440 That there would have to, not for themselves, but that there would be another candidate coming in.

00:35:24.620 No one has really fully settled on Joe Biden yet.

00:35:28.840 I know he's running away with the delegate count, so it's probably his.

00:35:32.520 But listening to the way that the party elites talk, they're not so happy with him.

00:35:36.380 So, frankly, even if he doesn't have a health problem, I wouldn't be surprised if the Democrats tried to pull some shenanigans.

00:35:41.880 Anyway, from Christina, dear Mr. Knowles, I love your show.

00:35:44.800 Thank you.

00:35:45.860 I'm having quite a rough time.

00:35:47.220 Recently, I discovered my boyfriend, now ex, cheated on me.

00:35:50.800 We are both conservative Christians.

00:35:52.380 And quite frankly, I do not know how he claims to be such and then be unfaithful.

00:35:56.840 But that's besides the point.

00:35:58.560 This said ex-boyfriend of almost five years had put many thoughts in my head,

00:36:03.160 seeds of insecurities that I'm not good enough in any sense.

00:36:06.380 I'm trying to put my trust in God to help guide me on my journey of healing.

00:36:09.860 Do you have any advice?

00:36:10.780 Thanks.

00:36:11.300 Yes, I do.

00:36:11.840 I have a lot of advice, actually.

00:36:14.260 I see a little bit of a problem in your question,

00:36:17.220 which is you say you don't understand how your ex-boyfriend could claim to be a Christian

00:36:23.520 and yet commit this sin.

00:36:26.800 But isn't it one of the keen insights of Christianity that we all sin? 0.96

00:36:32.420 All of us fall short of the glory of God and none of us is righteous in ourselves.

00:36:36.220 And so it just seems to me, of course people sin.

00:36:41.240 It doesn't excuse what your boyfriend did.

00:36:42.740 It doesn't mean you should get back with him. 1.00

00:36:43.820 He sounds like a real schmuck. 0.99

00:36:44.740 But I'm just saying the idea that somebody would sin, 1.00

00:36:48.780 even something as serious as cheating on your girlfriend or something.

00:36:52.200 Yeah, of course.

00:36:53.520 The man's heart is evil from the very beginning, as we learn from the story of Noah, right?

00:36:58.520 I mean, this is something we see throughout the Bible and that Christianity affirms at all times.

00:37:04.220 The reason that your boyfriend seems like a terrible boyfriend, beyond cheating on you,

00:37:10.580 probably even more egregiously than cheating on you, it depends the nature of that.

00:37:15.180 If he was like going out every single night and, you know, had this double life, that's even worse.

00:37:20.120 But the real problem is you say he planted these seeds of insecurity and he was kind of mean to you.

00:37:24.580 And I mean, that's the real problem.

00:37:26.540 That can't just be explained away as Andrew Klavan says that every man is two drinks and a wink away from burning down his life.

00:37:33.340 You can't explain being a rotten guy who's cruel to his girlfriend away with two drinks and a wink. 0.95

00:37:40.620 So what I would do is get rid of him. 0.95

00:37:44.440 He sounds like a terrible boyfriend, so he's done.

00:37:46.560 That's over.

00:37:47.240 Doesn't sound remorseful.

00:37:48.140 Doesn't sound like a good guy anyway.

00:37:49.400 Maybe it was a blessing in disguise that you found out he was cheating on you so you could get rid of him.

00:37:53.800 And move on.

00:37:56.040 Ovid, the ancient writer, not Christian, he wrote a very famous work called The Cure for Love. 0.73

00:38:02.480 I don't necessarily recommend you take all of the advice, but a lot of it, if I could sort of sanitize Ovid, it was get rid of all your boyfriend's photos, delete all his photos, get him out of your phone, don't think about him, start seeing other people.

00:38:18.440 Ovid had a little more lurid advice than that.

00:38:20.840 But, you know, go on some dates, put yourself out there and forget it.

00:38:24.580 Make a clean break and move on with your life and you'll probably have a better life that way.

00:38:28.580 From Mike.

00:38:30.340 Hi, Michael.

00:38:30.820 I'm in a sales job, which requires that I speak to customers for most of the day, as most sales jobs do.

00:38:36.200 But I find that I stumble over my words and overall have poor verbal fluency.

00:38:40.200 As an actor and someone who spends a lot of time speaking, do you have any advice for speaking more clearly and less like Joe Biden?

00:38:46.480 Thanks for all that you do.

00:38:47.880 Big fan.

00:38:48.660 Yes, I do.

00:38:50.260 First, slow down.

00:38:51.880 People get nervous, especially if you're working a sales job, and so they want to start speaking more quickly.

00:38:58.900 But when you speak more quickly, first of all, that's very off-putting and it gets you more nervous as well because you feel you're kind of losing the audience.

00:39:08.860 That's the first thing I would do.

00:39:09.720 Slow down.

00:39:10.460 People prefer it when you slow down.

00:39:11.960 When you say things slowly, they seem more emphatic and they seem more persuasive.

00:39:16.520 The next thing to do is get rid of ums and uhs and likes. 0.99

00:39:19.900 Get them out of your vocabulary.

00:39:23.140 It is going to be very difficult.

00:39:25.440 You are going to still get a few in there.

00:39:28.200 I get some in there every single day.

00:39:30.160 And I've been working on this for a decade.

00:39:32.200 But get them out.

00:39:33.120 Um, uh, like, you know, it is like nails on a chalkboard to people.

00:39:38.280 And some people do it constantly.

00:39:39.780 I mean, I've heard people start speaking and they'll say, uh, um.

00:39:44.080 So look, the thing that I believe is, uh, that we need to answer the question directly.

00:39:49.900 Uh, and then it's a tick for them.

00:39:52.860 They cannot stand silence.

00:39:54.700 But if you are a public speaker, silence is a very helpful tool.

00:39:59.620 It allows you to give weight to what you've just said.

00:40:03.340 It allows you to give people space to think about what you've just said.

00:40:06.460 And it doesn't make you seem quite so nervous.

00:40:08.880 That would be my advice at first.

00:40:11.600 Then I would memorize poetry.

00:40:14.860 I would maybe take an acting class.

00:40:16.800 I would do things that will just get, get that muscle moving.

00:40:20.880 One of the tricks that actors have, you know, they memorize things very quickly and very well.

00:40:26.740 People wonder how this is.

00:40:28.000 The key to it is just muscle memory.

00:40:29.460 When you're memorizing, most people think you just read it in your head and then you remember it.

00:40:32.500 No, you get it into your mouth.

00:40:34.580 And so your mouth, your muscles will remember how to, to say what you're saying.

00:40:38.860 They'll, they'll practice it just like any other skill.

00:40:41.080 You will need some practice.

00:40:42.820 From Corey.

00:40:43.700 How and when did you meet Ben Shapiro?

00:40:45.860 Ben was actually one of the first guys I met in LA.

00:40:48.400 I had just moved out here years ago.

00:40:50.920 What now?

00:40:51.460 Maybe six years ago or something like that.

00:40:54.040 A little more.

00:40:54.480 And one of the first dinners I had was at Drew's house, at Andrew Klavan's house.

00:40:59.660 And it was me, Drew, Ben, another friend of ours, and our wives, and at the time, my girlfriend.

00:41:07.800 And that was the first time I met him.

00:41:09.200 The only place I knew him from was that viral clip on Piers Morgan's show.

00:41:14.540 I thought, oh, you're Ben Shapiro.

00:41:15.500 I know that guy.

00:41:16.620 And, and it was love at first sight.

00:41:18.980 I think mostly on Ben's part toward me.

00:41:20.800 It was just, he fell in love.

00:41:21.720 He went gaga afterward.

00:41:23.300 And here we are now.

00:41:24.060 From William.

00:41:25.260 My question is regarding your comments on the rally in front of the Supreme Court where Rashida Tlaib was yelling into the microphone.

00:41:32.000 She mentioned not having sex.

00:41:33.340 And I think she makes an excellent point.

00:41:34.960 Sex creates babies. 0.74

00:41:35.840 And the best way to avoid not being ready for a child is to wait until marriage.

00:41:39.340 If the left wants to empower women, why then do they not talk more about women refusing sex and pushing for marriage prior to intercourse?

00:41:47.700 Thank you kindly.

00:41:48.320 God bless.

00:41:49.300 Because the left doesn't really care about women.

00:41:51.460 And they don't really care about any of us, any of the groups they pretend to care about.

00:41:54.740 However, in their defense, I'll give the philosophical basis for it, which you see a little bit on the right as well.

00:42:02.560 The philosophical basis for leftism is a hyper-individualism.

00:42:06.400 I know that seems crazy because leftism taken to its logical conclusion brings a kind of collectivism about where the individual doesn't matter very much.

00:42:14.740 But it begins with this hyper-individualism.

00:42:17.500 I get to do whatever I want at all times.

00:42:20.060 I, the individual in the basic unit of society.

00:42:23.020 In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Justice Kennedy decided that people have a right, a constitutional human right, to define reality for themselves.

00:42:33.700 I mean, that's the kind of radical individualism.

00:42:35.700 And so that expresses itself in sex because sex is one of our most basic and fundamental desires and lusts.

00:42:43.980 And so any sexual choice, any sexual preference, any sexual desire, any sexual act needs to be available to people.

00:42:51.020 And then there will be consequences of that.

00:42:52.780 And through a radical individualism, which we would also call selfishness, you can even convince a mother to kill her own child.

00:42:59.920 From Dillian, dear Michael, when it comes to abortion, we know that the majority of all abortions are based on inconveniences and a very, very small number are based on rape and or the health of the mother, baby are at risk.

00:43:12.000 My question to you, would you accept a new law to allow abortions for rape and or the health of the mother and baby being at risk while banning all the rest nationwide? 0.80

00:43:20.980 Thanks.

00:43:21.240 Yeah, sure.

00:43:22.140 If I could get rid of 99% of abortions, I would do it. 1.00

00:43:24.440 But it wouldn't really work that way because, as has happened elsewhere, the rule about the health of the mother would be expanded to mean if the mother feels inconvenienced and gets a migraine because she doesn't want to have a kid, then you're allowed to kill the baby.

00:43:38.940 There are virtually no health conditions where the cure is abortion.

00:43:43.820 Even ectopic pregnancy, there is, you can treat the ectopic pregnancy without having the explicit intention of killing the baby.

00:43:54.340 This would be the rule of double effect and we can get into that in a later episode.

00:43:58.540 So, always these things are going to be abused and they're going to just expand abortion through the back door. 1.00

00:44:06.400 I would much rather be honest about the issue of abortion.

00:44:08.860 That's the debate we're having right now.

00:44:09.940 But if you put a bill on my desk and said, you can right now today get rid of 99% of abortions, yeah, of course I would do it.

00:44:16.100 Last question from Charles.

00:44:17.100 This is the untalked about fact of this primary season.

00:44:35.380 The turnout to the primaries to re-nominate the incumbent Republican president is through the roof.

00:44:43.020 It blows historical precedent out of the water.

00:44:48.580 Great news for Republicans.

00:44:51.540 Of course, the media aren't going to report on that, but it shows you that Bernie's turnout lower than expected.

00:44:56.740 Youth turnout lower than expected.

00:44:59.020 Joe Biden has done significantly better than Bernie Sanders, so we do have to worry about that a little bit.

00:45:05.180 But there is a silent plurality, at least.

00:45:08.500 I think it's a silent majority of Americans who support President Trump.

00:45:12.180 Now, if the election were held two weeks ago, I think Trump would have won 58 states plus Greenland plus American Samoa.

00:45:20.880 But now we've got this coronavirus problem.

00:45:23.600 We've got the Dow dropping thousands of points.

00:45:25.660 We've got a bear market.

00:45:27.220 I mean, it's a whole new ballgame here.

00:45:29.220 And so the bigger threat, I think, is not from any of the Democrats. 0.99

00:45:33.080 I think the bigger threat is from that damned little virus that came out of Wuhan. 0.99

00:45:37.140 All right, that's our show. 0.99

00:45:38.240 I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:46:39.740 You know, the Matt Wall Show, it's not just another show about politics.

00:46:43.300 I think there are enough of those already out there.

00:46:45.220 We talk about culture because culture drives politics and it drives everything else.

00:46:49.960 So my main focuses are life, family, faith.

00:46:54.520 Those are fundamental.

00:46:55.900 And that's what this show is about.

00:46:57.320 I hope you'll give it a listen.

00:46:58.660 Thank you.

The Michael Knowles Show - March 12, 2020

Ep. 510 - We’re All Going To Die

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