The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 512 - Coronavirus vs. the Constitution

00:00:00.160 Major U.S. cities shut down to stop the spread of the Wu flu.

00:00:05.220 But as we rush to save our lives, as coronavirus killing our constitution,

00:00:09.660 we will examine the surprising civics lessons of the pandemic.

00:00:14.300 Then, former future Democrat, governor of Florida, and potential vice president candidate, 0.79

00:00:19.500 Andrew Gillum, is found vomiting in a hotel room with a naked male prostitute and a bunch of meth.

00:00:25.240 We will analyze, as it were, how the press let him off the hook.

00:00:29.100 Finally, DNC chairman Tom Perez illustrates the left's two contradictory takes on religion.

00:00:35.800 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:45.140 All right, what's the latest with our pandemic that we've got running around all of our cities?

00:00:50.860 New guidelines out from the Trump administration.

00:00:53.160 The Trump administration is calling this 15 days to slow the spread.

00:01:00.280 Typical stuff in here. So it says, stay home if you're sick, stay home if you're old, stay home if you're frail.

00:01:06.340 Don't gather in groups of 10 or 20 or 30 people.

00:01:09.860 Don't host any mosh pits. Don't go to any raves.

00:01:12.760 I mean, kind of what you would expect.

00:01:14.320 But all of that is secondary to the most interesting thing in the document, which is the very first line.

00:01:20.440 The very first line says, listen to and follow the directions of your state and local authorities.

00:01:29.280 Now, if there is a silver lining of the Wu flu amid the death and the economic devastation and, worst of all, the closed bars, very frustrating.

00:01:44.180 If there is to be said some sort of silver lining, it is this.

00:01:47.740 People are learning more about federalism.

00:01:51.300 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:03:03.580 They're actually learning more about our federal system of government.

00:03:08.180 Molly Jong-Fast, who is a liberal who is all over Twitter and she writes for the Daily Beast, I think.

00:03:14.660 She writes for the Bulwark.

00:03:16.740 She tweets out, quote,

00:03:19.160 So the states are basically governing themselves because our president doesn't know how to president at all?

00:03:27.760 Are you going to tell her or should I?

00:03:30.120 I think a lot of people actually already told her this on Twitter.

00:03:33.640 The states are basically governing themselves because we have a form of government called federalism.

00:03:40.240 So whether it be during a pandemic or whether it just be during a regular Tuesday, the states, at least theoretically, are supposed to mostly govern themselves because we have a federal system of government.

00:03:56.120 Actually, it looks like the president knows very well how to president because the federal government in Washington, D.C. is not supposed to make every single decision for how we run our lives.

00:04:06.580 Actually, it's supposed to make very, very few of those decisions.

00:04:11.580 It took a worldwide pandemic to get liberals to read the Constitution.

00:04:16.300 So that's what we're seeing.

00:04:18.000 From the federal level, there actually is some drastic action being taken, right?

00:04:22.860 We saw the last couple days.

00:04:25.180 The Federal Reserve is cutting interest rates.

00:04:27.440 There's a program of quantitative easing that's going to go into effect, which is basically just printing money to help stimulate the economy.

00:04:33.540 President Trump is waiving interest on student loans.

00:04:37.180 There are small business administration loans coming out.

00:04:39.920 There is disaster relief coming out.

00:04:42.380 And now we're seeing that the White House and Congress are talking about a potential $850 billion stimulus package.

00:04:51.540 So a lot of, a lot of money.

00:04:54.440 Or is it million dollar?

00:04:55.380 I guess these days, you know, with the liberals, it doesn't really matter.

00:04:57.780 Million, billion, one dollar for, from Mike Bloomberg, a million dollars for Mike Bloomberg.

00:05:01.560 Anyway, some sort of stimulus.

00:05:04.060 It's still, it's still in the works.

00:05:05.360 They're going to be talking about it.

00:05:06.700 It's going to put President Trump in a difficult position though, because he's going to have to attack President Obama's economic policies.

00:05:14.460 And yet, it looks like these might be similar things to what we saw in 2008, 2009.

00:05:19.420 Another very important thing from the federal government, the elimination of the payroll tax.

00:05:23.360 A big boost to employees and to employers.

00:05:26.760 That would be very, very good.

00:05:30.180 But most of the decisions that affect our lives, and they're affecting our lives during this pandemic, are coming from the state and local level.

00:05:38.940 Okay?

00:05:39.380 So we're now seeing in Los Angeles, disaster has finally hit because they closed all the bars.

00:05:44.860 So the bars are closed.

00:05:46.580 Restaurants are closed.

00:05:48.240 Certain shops are closed.

00:05:49.540 I mean, it is, it is pretty weird.

00:05:51.220 That's not what's happening in every town across America.

00:05:53.640 That's just what our schmucky mayor, Eric Garcetti, decided to do.

00:05:58.300 Eric Garcetti, who has not dealt with the homeless problem once.

00:06:01.280 Homelessness increased 16% during his time in office in just one year.

00:06:05.880 But now, all of a sudden, we're going to shut the bars.

00:06:08.380 That's going to slow the spread of the pandemic.

00:06:10.160 San Francisco putting the whole city on lockdown.

00:06:12.740 Ohio canceling the presidential primaries today.

00:06:17.120 And actually, you saw some disagreement between two branches of government there.

00:06:20.460 Because the governor wanted to cancel the primaries and not have people come out and vote.

00:06:25.160 A judge said he did not have the authority to cancel the primaries.

00:06:28.860 And so the governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, decided just not to open the polling places.

00:06:34.360 So he said, okay, judge, you made your decision, but I can decide whether or not to open these places.

00:06:38.880 And if they're not open, then you can't vote.

00:06:41.440 Is this constitutional?

00:06:44.420 Probably.

00:06:45.200 I don't know if it's legal, but it might.

00:06:46.960 It's probably constitutional.

00:06:47.900 In that, not everything hateful or odious is covered by some provision of the Constitution.

00:06:55.740 The Constitution, at least in theory, is supposed to reign in the power of our federal government.

00:07:00.620 But it actually gives the states and localities a lot of leeway to govern.

00:07:04.900 Actually, this is a big, big element of a debate going on on the right right now between the libertarians and the more traditional conservatives.

00:07:12.600 The libertarians are saying, you know, the government can never pass any kind of regulations ever.

00:07:17.940 It's always terrible.

00:07:18.760 It's always unconstitutional.

00:07:20.600 And what the traditional conservatives are looking at is saying, well, actually, maybe the federal government doesn't have the authority to do that.

00:07:27.900 But state and local governments have always had the authority to do that.

00:07:31.080 I mean, we think about, just think about the First Amendment.

00:07:33.660 First Amendment says there cannot be an established church in America, right, for the federal government of America.

00:07:41.140 So, the liberals interpret that to be a total separation of church and state.

00:07:46.820 But that's not what the framers intended at all.

00:07:48.940 That's not what they meant.

00:07:50.220 How do we know that?

00:07:51.000 Because we know that states had established churches.

00:07:54.960 The federal government was not allowed to, but the states were allowed to.

00:07:57.820 And actually, the reason that the federal government was not allowed to is to permit the states to do just that.

00:08:03.340 So, you might agree or disagree with the decisions of the states here, but that's not really a constitutional question.

00:08:13.740 That's more a question of the law of your state or the elected officials that you have put into office.

00:08:19.480 So, we got the political update.

00:08:20.960 That's what's going on.

00:08:21.620 It's changing by the minute.

00:08:22.440 We'll keep you posted.

00:08:23.000 The economic update.

00:08:25.160 The global economy could lose between $1.1 and $2.7 trillion as a result of Lung Pao Sikkim. 0.96

00:08:34.140 That is a lot of money.

00:08:37.000 $1.1 and $2.7 trillion.

00:08:39.980 Okay, and those aren't just numbers floating in the air.

00:08:43.760 That actually affects the lives of people.

00:08:47.060 $2.7 trillion.

00:08:48.440 What's the economy of the United States?

00:08:49.900 I mean, I think the federal budget of the United States is $3.5, $4 trillion, something like that.

00:08:57.200 So, you're talking about a huge portion of that.

00:09:02.520 Or maybe the budget is a little higher than that because we're always running a deficit.

00:09:06.400 That's another problem with our federal government.

00:09:08.500 But still, you're talking about a huge amount of money with regard to our economy, and that could be gone.

00:09:13.480 I just got a letter in from a listener to the show from Jennifer.

00:09:16.500 Hi, Michael.

00:09:17.500 I'm a huge fan and wait impatiently for your show.

00:09:20.560 I keep hearing about this mandatory two-week paid leave by companies employing 50 or more.

00:09:24.900 I work at a hotel on I-40 in Amarillo, Texas.

00:09:29.600 We deal with travelers coming and going literally across our nation.

00:09:33.960 Most hotels, motels do not employ 50 people, and my employer does not offer any paid leave.

00:09:39.020 I, among others, can't afford even one day off.

00:09:41.860 We are at extremely high risk to coronavirus.

00:09:44.820 We Clorox wipe as often as possible and use hand sanitizer.

00:09:47.980 What else do you think we can do that wouldn't be off-putting or give guests the wrong idea?

00:09:52.700 Also, what do you think, if anything, should be done to help us during this time?

00:09:58.520 A couple questions in there, so let's get the easy one first.

00:10:01.220 First, I think that by Cloroxing everything, by having those hotel and motel rooms reek of cleaning supplies, you will put your customers at ease.

00:10:13.560 Okay, nobody, I know sometimes cleaning supplies smell, you don't want that when you get into a hotel.

00:10:19.460 During a pandemic, you do.

00:10:20.980 That's like the sweetest perfume you can smell.

00:10:23.160 So I think probably that would put the customers at ease.

00:10:27.180 What can be done for people who can't afford to miss work? 1.00

00:10:30.220 You are far from alone.

00:10:33.000 This is true for the vast majority of people in this country.

00:10:35.600 They can't afford to miss work.

00:10:38.180 And that's the consequence here that nobody is talking about when it comes to the response to this virus.

00:10:46.300 There are real consequences to hysteria.

00:10:50.300 Everyone's saying better to overreact than underreact.

00:10:53.760 Is that true?

00:10:55.760 Maybe it's true.

00:10:56.940 I'm not so sure about that.

00:10:58.260 Okay, so what's the first consequence of hysteria?

00:11:03.100 People's nerves.

00:11:03.980 People are losing it, man.

00:11:05.120 People are on edge, especially if you look on Twitter, which I don't recommend.

00:11:08.720 People are losing their minds.

00:11:10.780 Also, there are some businesses that are closed now that don't need to be closed.

00:11:15.560 I just saw Pennsylvania is going to close liquor stores.

00:11:18.320 Why are you going to close liquor stores?

00:11:21.160 That doesn't make any sense.

00:11:24.120 Liquor stores are not places where people congregate all the time.

00:11:28.340 This is, it doesn't add up.

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00:12:40.820 So, you've got businesses closing now that don't need to close.

00:12:47.520 There is a cost to that, okay?

00:12:51.460 You know, we're going to lose $1.1 to $2.7 trillion out of the global economy.

00:12:58.660 That's gone.

00:12:59.900 That just disappears.

00:13:01.200 It's not like you get to bring that back later.

00:13:03.360 Okay, that's gone.

00:13:04.180 All this wealth that we have in this country comes from our ability to produce things.

00:13:11.340 Countries that are very prosperous are prosperous because people are working a lot.

00:13:14.940 They're producing a lot of things.

00:13:16.860 Countries that are not prosperous, it's not just some luck of the draw whoopsie-daisy most of the time.

00:13:24.140 The reason that they're not prosperous is because they don't have systems in place that allow people to produce things and to work and to make a lot of money.

00:13:30.540 So, when you're just sitting on the couch for two weeks, there's no way to fix that.

00:13:34.020 There's no magic pill to make that all better.

00:13:36.820 You've got to be producing things.

00:13:40.440 So, just to use an easy example in L.A., I have friends who are waiters and waitresses.

00:13:46.620 They're not going to be able to pay their bills.

00:13:49.380 Maybe they'll get the payroll tax.

00:13:50.880 Maybe that'll help.

00:13:51.420 Maybe they'll get unemployment.

00:13:52.660 But it's going to be very difficult to pay their bills.

00:13:56.220 There are two popular opinions on this, both of which are wrong and demagogic, but they're very popular.

00:14:03.540 There's one view.

00:14:04.620 We can call it the political viewpoint.

00:14:06.740 That view is we should pay no attention to any economic questions.

00:14:13.060 We should be willing to shut down everything, grind the entire global economy to a complete halt.

00:14:19.640 If it means that it increases our chances of making people healthier by 1% or half a percent or half of a half a percent.

00:14:28.260 Forget the economic questions.

00:14:29.960 What monster are you that you would consider economic questions during a natural disaster, during a time of pandemic?

00:14:37.820 Okay, that's the political viewpoint.

00:14:39.880 You're hearing this especially by the people who are getting hysterical online.

00:14:43.820 Then, on the other side, there's what you might call the economic viewpoint.

00:14:48.560 And the economic viewpoint, it basically says, hey, guys, look, some people are going to get sick, especially old people, especially frail people, but who needs them anyway? 0.99

00:14:56.160 Let's not stop the economy at all.

00:14:58.160 Let's just keep things going as usual, and we'll figure it out.

00:15:01.440 It'll be okay.

00:15:02.300 This is what you're seeing happen in places like the Netherlands, where they're basically pursuing the strategy of herd immunity and saying, keep everything going.

00:15:12.600 You'll figure it out.

00:15:13.240 Some people are going to get sick, whatever, too bad.

00:15:15.180 Some people are going to die, even worse, but hey, that's life.

00:15:18.300 We'll figure it out.

00:15:18.900 At least we won't stop producing things.

00:15:21.300 This, you might call the economic model, doesn't view people exactly like people.

00:15:25.160 It views them more as cogs in a machine.

00:15:27.940 No responsibility here to take care of people.

00:15:31.800 Both of those views get it wrong.

00:15:35.860 Why?

00:15:36.420 Because politics is not just politics.

00:15:40.140 Economics is not just economics.

00:15:42.140 This is the problem, especially you see this when you have experts running the economy, experts running our government, is they only focus on their one area of expertise.

00:15:53.020 They miss the forest for the trees.

00:15:55.240 Politics and economics and other viewpoints tell us about society, about real things, about real men and women.

00:16:02.680 So, we want a civilization that views human beings as human beings, full human beings, men and women with dignity, whose lives matter, whose lives cannot just be expended by some cold calculation.

00:16:17.560 Right?

00:16:17.780 We also want a civilization.

00:16:21.280 We don't want a descendant to chaos.

00:16:23.200 What's going to happen?

00:16:24.400 Let's say they shut down Los Angeles.

00:16:26.660 They completely lock it down.

00:16:27.820 Business is shut down.

00:16:28.980 You're supposed to stay home.

00:16:30.020 How long is that going to last before people start losing it?

00:16:34.300 This is Los Angeles, okay?

00:16:36.760 When the roads get a little wet, you know, when it rains once or twice a year, people lose their minds.

00:16:42.940 There's like violence in the streets, basically.

00:16:45.000 What's going to happen when that city is completely shut down for a week or two weeks or three weeks?

00:16:51.680 I think people are just going to, okay, that's fine.

00:16:53.640 We'll just stay at home.

00:16:54.820 We'll just watch Netflix.

00:16:56.560 I don't think so.

00:16:57.860 Other cities, too.

00:16:59.320 San Francisco.

00:16:59.920 You think it's going to be like that? 0.74

00:17:00.760 San Francisco's got public defecation on the best of days.

00:17:05.140 What's going to happen when things start to go haywire?

00:17:07.080 What's going to happen when people can't go to establishments, can't go to coffee shops, can't go to bars, can't go to restaurants, can't go anywhere?

00:17:15.120 They're going to get restless.

00:17:16.480 Idle hands are the devil's playground, all right?

00:17:18.160 And especially in places that already are not the most peaceful all the time.

00:17:22.380 And that's not a great thing.

00:17:24.000 So you've got to take that into consideration.

00:17:27.160 And by the way, Europe is not a guarantee of what's going to happen in the United States.

00:17:32.900 I got into a lot of trouble with left-wing blue checkmark Twitter the other day because I said that the United States is not Italy.

00:17:40.240 That's not saying we shouldn't take the Wuhan virus seriously.

00:17:43.040 But it is to say Italy has the oldest population in Europe.

00:17:46.380 They kiss each other when they greet one another.

00:17:48.880 And they haven't had a functioning government since Octavian.

00:17:50.960 It's kind of a flippant way of pointing out there are big cultural differences here.

00:17:55.420 Well, here's another big difference.

00:17:57.820 Europeans are used to being absolutely subservient to their governments, okay?

00:18:03.500 There is at least continental Europe, maybe not the UK.

00:18:06.420 The Anglo-American tradition of liberty, the Anglo-American tradition of not letting the government push you around, tell you what to do all the time, is a very real thing.

00:18:17.760 You don't see that in continental Europe.

00:18:19.260 You do see it here.

00:18:20.080 However, how long are we going to be on lockdown before some American says like, no, I don't think so.

00:18:29.540 I think I'm going to go out there.

00:18:31.000 Sir, where's your license to walk outside?

00:18:32.740 Yeah, here's my license.

00:18:33.920 Probably lift up one of their fingers. 0.89

00:18:35.560 Okay.

00:18:35.900 There is a, there is an attitude in the United States that does not like to be pushed around by our government.

00:18:42.440 You've got to take that into consideration as well, okay?

00:18:46.660 Right now, it's considered impolite to talk about economics.

00:18:53.100 The reason for that is there is no political cost to overreaction.

00:19:00.040 There's going to be a massive cost, right?

00:19:02.960 People are going to lose their jobs.

00:19:04.120 They're going to lose their livelihoods.

00:19:05.620 Who knows?

00:19:06.540 They're very easily someone could be harmed or die as a result of this.

00:19:11.120 Perfectly simple to consider.

00:19:12.620 Someone can't get the services that they need that they rely on every single day,

00:19:16.940 but because of the disruption of the global economy, they're not able to get it.

00:19:20.260 So even just in terms of life or death, certainly that could be a consequence,

00:19:23.460 but there will be no political cost to that.

00:19:25.520 If you are a mayor or a governor of a state or the president of the United States for that matter,

00:19:31.080 all the political cost is on underreaction because you get all the negative headlines of 20,000 people died.

00:19:37.220 25,000 people died.

00:19:38.500 And it doesn't matter if you could point to it and say, that's fewer people than died from the flu.

00:19:43.040 That won't matter.

00:19:44.020 The headlines will be there.

00:19:45.020 And so you've got every incentive to overreact.

00:19:47.680 But the headline will never be the economy ground to a halt because guess what?

00:19:51.500 The economy around the world ground to a halt.

00:19:52.940 You say, of course, we had to do that to save lives and you can't prove a negative.

00:19:58.480 So that will be a successful political argument.

00:20:01.240 But just as we should avoid an emotional response when it comes to panicking or not panicking,

00:20:10.180 that was our show yesterday, hysterics aren't helping.

00:20:12.740 Just as we avoid an emotional response there, so too we should avoid an emotional response

00:20:18.100 when it comes to simplistic answers here.

00:20:20.260 All right, these are very complex questions and we should not entirely ignore the political side.

00:20:25.620 We should not entirely ignore the economic side of things.

00:20:28.040 We've got to take them as a whole because they're all part of the same question, which is of society.

00:20:33.860 Now, there is one simple question in all this.

00:20:38.020 The question is, what do we call this virus?

00:20:43.100 What do we call it?

00:20:44.080 President Trump had an answer yesterday.

00:20:46.580 He tweeted out a reference to the Chinese coronavirus.

00:20:51.640 Okay, Trump has been doing this the whole time.

00:20:54.720 See, yesterday he tweets,

00:20:55.500 The United States will be powerfully supporting those industries like airlines and others

00:20:59.720 that are particularly affected by the Chinese virus.

00:21:02.760 We will be stronger than ever before.

00:21:05.580 And the left, they're furious about this.

00:21:08.160 You say, how dare you call it the Chinese virus? 0.84

00:21:10.380 What, just because it's a virus that comes from China, it's all of a sudden it's Chinese? 0.99

00:21:14.860 Yeah.

00:21:16.140 Uh-huh, that's true.

00:21:17.080 They say that's racist.

00:21:18.480 That's xenophobic.

00:21:19.580 Oh, the letters, I'll show you, the tweets, the messages, the emails that I've gotten from left-wingers

00:21:25.400 who are irate that I would refer to the Chinese virus or the Wuhan virus

00:21:30.480 or anything that talks about the origin of this illness.

00:21:36.660 They have short memories because if they could remember even back a week ago or two weeks ago,

00:21:43.020 they would see that President Trump and I are simply taking our cues from the mainstream media.

00:21:48.640 At least six people have died from the Wuhan coronavirus.

00:21:53.920 The Wuhan coronavirus has now surpassed the 2003 SARS outbreak and the number of lives it's claimed.

00:21:59.780 They're under quarantine out of concern that passengers and crew were exposed to the Wuhan coronavirus.

00:22:05.060 And this breaking news just into CNN, the official death toll from the Wuhan coronavirus in China's Hubei province has now risen to 780.

00:22:14.780 Having to deal with it, the total number of deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus,

00:22:18.500 it's now surpassed the SARS outbreak from 2002, 2003.

00:22:24.140 Spreading fast as the number of confirmed cases of the Wuhan virus continue to surge.

00:22:28.900 In a matter of days, Dr. Li Wenliang went from treating patients to becoming one.

00:22:33.360 The 34-year-old ophthalmologist diagnosed Saturday with the Wuhan coronavirus.

00:22:38.280 We have new information about how the Wuhan coronavirus is spread.

00:22:42.200 The Wuhan virus, which originated, as we know, in Wuhan, China.

00:22:48.100 Just in case the name Wuhan virus didn't give you an idea of where it's from, it's from Wuhan, China.

00:22:53.280 I could play another 10 minutes of that montage, okay?

00:22:57.500 That's just like 50 or 55 seconds.

00:22:59.440 I could go on and on and on.

00:23:00.860 Everybody was calling this the Wuhan virus.

00:23:02.820 The Chinese virus, the whole mainstream media.

00:23:05.560 And then a bunch of cynical leftists decided, wait a second, this might be an almost plausible opportunity

00:23:13.720 to baselessly smear our opponents as racists like we usually do.

00:23:18.840 You know, because it's almost plausible because it involves a location and locations can sometimes imply race. 0.98

00:23:26.300 And so anyway, you're all a bunch of racists.

00:23:28.160 They don't even remember that two weeks ago they were all doing this. 0.98

00:23:31.240 Forget the Spanish flu, the Ebola, the West Nile virus.

00:23:35.140 Forget all of that.

00:23:37.340 They themselves on CNN, on NPR and all of these stations were doing it just a couple weeks ago.

00:23:42.440 New York Times and now those very same outlets are saying it's racist and bigoted and terrible. 0.99

00:23:48.500 Really pathetic stuff, guys. 0.98

00:23:50.340 It shows you how the left is willing to exploit any little thing. 0.96

00:23:56.060 And when they tell you that Trump and conservatives are not taking this seriously, play them that clip.

00:24:01.980 Who's not taking this seriously?

00:24:03.500 I think we're taking it very seriously.

00:24:05.620 I think we're taking it much more seriously than the left.

00:24:08.540 We've got to get to Andrew Gillum. 0.60

00:24:12.700 Speaking of unserious people and speaking of sick, sick stuff. 0.98

00:24:19.160 We'll get to Andrew Gillum who was found hurling in a hotel room next to a naked male prostitute surrounded by a bunch of meth. 0.98

00:24:28.680 Probably just a coincidence. 0.91

00:24:29.720 Probably just an accident.

00:24:30.960 We'll get to that in one second.

00:24:32.020 First, take one quick question from a listener from KC.

00:24:35.420 Michael, can you do an impression of your sweet little Elisa?

00:24:39.900 I need to smile this morning.

00:24:42.140 Now!

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00:25:32.020 All right, Andrew Gillum, poor Andrew Gillum.

00:25:47.260 What happened?

00:25:48.020 The former future governor of Florida, Andrew Gillum, found vomiting in a hotel room surrounded 0.82

00:25:53.940 by a bunch of meth and a naked male prostitute who worked for RentMen.com. 0.96

00:26:01.280 It's like, you might as well be from IllegalSex.com. 0.99

00:26:06.260 I am committing a crime.com.

00:26:09.920 Not a great look if you are in politics or even if you're not in politics. 1.00

00:26:14.100 You don't want to be found hurling by the police surrounded by a naked gay prostitute and drugs. 1.00

00:26:22.360 Gillum's story is that he went to a wedding, okay, he had a little bit too much to drink. 1.00

00:26:27.520 Look, you and I, we know this.

00:26:30.040 We know what happens.

00:26:31.260 You go to a wedding, right?

00:26:33.100 You have one or two, a few too many drinks maybe. 0.99

00:26:37.280 And then next thing you know, you wake up in a hotel room next to a naked male prostitute 0.99

00:26:42.640 and a bunch of meth. 0.91

00:26:43.620 How many times has that happened to us?

00:26:46.700 So that's the story.

00:26:48.520 Never touched the meth.

00:26:49.660 Who was that guy? 1.00

00:26:50.400 I don't know who that naked male prostitute is. 0.99

00:26:52.960 Mind you, Andrew Gillum is married with three kids. 1.00

00:26:55.740 Married to a woman.

00:26:56.500 I know that these days you have to specify that.

00:26:58.620 Married to a woman with three kids.

00:26:59.840 So really, really bad look.

00:27:00.960 The guy just signed on as a CNN contributor.

00:27:04.220 Unfortunate.

00:27:04.820 I'm not bringing this up to a dunk on Andrew Gillum.

00:27:08.500 At least that's not the only reason I'm doing it.

00:27:10.660 He was a really unlikable candidate for governor.

00:27:15.400 He was one of these people who was insinuating that the election might be rigged and fixed.

00:27:20.000 He was really awful and I'm glad he lost his election, especially now, now that we know

00:27:23.980 who he is.

00:27:24.660 The reason I bring it up is this guy was still being talked about as a potential vice presidential

00:27:30.840 candidate because Democrats always do this.

00:27:34.320 If you lose, you win somehow.

00:27:37.940 I don't know.

00:27:38.220 You lose up.

00:27:39.760 Stacey Abrams lost the Georgia governor race. 0.88

00:27:42.820 Now she is still seriously being considered as a vice presidential candidate. 0.99

00:27:46.460 She's like a top tier vice presidential candidate. 1.00

00:27:49.420 Beto O'Rourke loses the Texas Senate race.

00:27:51.820 Then all of a sudden, he's the Vanity Fair cover glossy photo candidate for president.

00:27:58.320 Andrew Gillum, same thing.

00:28:00.000 Politico ran this story.

00:28:01.600 Another Democrat gets a 2020 look.

00:28:04.320 Andrew Gillum.

00:28:04.940 This was just about a year ago they ran it.

00:28:06.800 The Florida Democrat got a standing ovation at a closed door DNC meeting.

00:28:11.160 Even in defeat, Democrat Andrew Gillum is proving to be one of the winners of 2018.

00:28:16.120 The former Tallahassee mayor is parlaying his razor-thin loss in the Florida governor's race

00:28:22.500 into a role in the 2020 presidential primary as a kingmaker or perhaps even a candidate himself.

00:28:32.260 Wow.

00:28:33.160 Man, that guy is going to go places.

00:28:35.280 Daily Beast.

00:28:36.880 Daily Beast reported that Elizabeth Warren, remember her, she was considering Andrew Gillum

00:28:42.460 to be her vice presidential running mate.

00:28:46.220 Probably not anymore.

00:28:48.260 Here is the Andrew Gillum statement. 1.00

00:28:51.220 Just think, if you were found in a hotel room, puking, naked prostitute next to you, 1.00

00:28:58.480 male prostitute, meth on the floor, what would you say? 1.00

00:29:01.820 Probably nothing is what you would say. 0.98

00:29:03.300 Gillum releases a statement, quote,

00:29:04.640 This has been a wake-up call for me.

00:29:07.880 Since my race for governor ended, I fell into a depression that has led to alcohol abuse.

00:29:13.040 I witnessed my father suffer from alcoholism and I know the damaging effects it can have

00:29:17.080 when untreated.

00:29:18.340 I also know that alcoholism is often a symptom of deeper struggles.

00:29:22.440 I will be stepping down from all public-facing roles for the foreseeable future.

00:29:27.240 He apologized and asked for privacy.

00:29:29.760 What a terrible statement. 1.00

00:29:31.140 What a garbage, shameful statement. 1.00

00:29:32.880 I would be more than happy, frankly, I'd be more than happy to skip over the story 0.99

00:29:39.500 if the guy's statement took any responsibility whatsoever for his actions

00:29:46.920 or owned up to the fact that he did these things 0.87

00:29:50.580 or acknowledged the naked prostitute next to him 0.55

00:29:54.140 or owned up to the fact that maybe he had something to do with the meth that was on the floor.

00:29:58.460 He insists, I had nothing to do, I never done meth in my life.

00:30:01.460 I don't know what meth looks like.

00:30:02.500 I don't know what it is.

00:30:04.680 Instead, he refuses any and all responsibility.

00:30:08.680 Look at the, this has been a wake-up call for me.

00:30:11.200 Oh, good, you got a wake-up call.

00:30:12.440 That's a good thing.

00:30:13.400 Wow, you're so observant.

00:30:15.040 You're so self-aware.

00:30:17.040 I'm, wow, you're taking responsibility, right?

00:30:19.320 Because you're, it's a wake-up call, so you're waking up.

00:30:22.120 Since my race for governor ended, I fell into a depression that's led to alcohol abuse.

00:30:27.020 It's not that he went and hit the bottle.

00:30:29.440 It's not that he betrayed his wife and kids.

00:30:32.240 No, no, no.

00:30:33.520 He's a victim.

00:30:34.780 He's a victim of losing the race for governor.

00:30:37.320 And he fell.

00:30:38.080 He just fell.

00:30:38.700 Whoops, I tripped into alcohol abuse.

00:30:40.840 I witnessed my father suffer from alcohol abuse.

00:30:44.560 Oh, he had a bad childhood, I bet.

00:30:46.940 That's another, that's another reason he's a victim.

00:30:49.120 Total victim, no responsibility.

00:30:51.480 He knows the damaging effects alcohol can have, but he fell into it.

00:30:54.460 Just happened. 0.99

00:30:55.140 He fell into the naked male prostitute on the floor. 0.99

00:30:57.360 He fell into the bag of meth on the floor. 0.99

00:30:58.940 Oh, whoops.

00:30:59.720 Whoopsie-daisy.

00:31:00.980 Could happen to anybody.

00:31:01.880 I know that alcoholism is often a symptom of deeper struggles.

00:31:06.560 Oh my God, he's got deeper struggles and you have the audacity to even read about this story?

00:31:13.480 How awful.

00:31:15.300 I know people, I've got family members and friends who have struggled with addiction and alcohol.

00:31:19.980 It is a disease, right?

00:31:21.640 There is, that aspect of it is true.

00:31:23.600 It is something that at a certain point you really don't have a lot of control over,

00:31:27.840 that you're being pulled by this compulsion.

00:31:29.520 It's very hard to get out of it, right?

00:31:33.380 That doesn't mean that you have no responsibility.

00:31:39.120 And I don't, I don't know if Andrew Gillum's an alcoholic.

00:31:41.720 He might've just picked up a, was he an alcoholic when he called up rentmen.com?

00:31:45.840 Was he in a drunken stupor when he did that?

00:31:48.900 Or did he pre-plan that?

00:31:51.040 Was he, was that maybe a little more thought out?

00:31:53.400 Was that a little more myth, methodical?

00:31:55.100 You can't just like blame all of your problems on somebody else.

00:32:01.660 You have to take some responsibility.

00:32:04.140 This is what we want in our public servants, right?

00:32:05.900 The buck stops here.

00:32:07.600 The guy ran for governor of Florida and, and he is caught in about as bad a sex scandal as you can be caught in.

00:32:15.180 And he just tries, it was my father's fault.

00:32:18.580 It was the alcohol's fault.

00:32:20.680 It was, I'm struggling.

00:32:21.740 It was my struggle's fault.

00:32:22.920 Give me a break, dude.

00:32:24.260 Good grief.

00:32:26.080 So the other side of this, by the way, is the mainstream media won't talk about it.

00:32:31.740 Have you heard of the Andrew Gillum story?

00:32:33.320 Maybe you saw something passing on the internet, Facebook or Twitter or something, but not a lot.

00:32:37.560 This is not getting wall-to-wall coverage.

00:32:39.040 If that had been a Republican, could you imagine?

00:32:41.660 And if a Republican had given that kind of statement, if a Republican gave that kind of statement, I would, I would be attacking him just as much as I'm attacking Andrew Gillum.

00:32:49.040 So repulsive not to take any responsibility for your actions.

00:32:54.160 But I guess that's the left.

00:32:55.160 Being a leftist means never having to say you're sorry.

00:32:57.560 Another left-winger who is playing some really cynical politics is Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

00:33:07.100 And I bring it up because it shows you something.

00:33:09.120 I don't think he meant to show us this.

00:33:10.780 But it shows you two contradictory strategies that the left has right now on religion.

00:33:18.080 Religion is a really tough topic for the left because the left ideologically is atheistic.

00:33:22.740 I'm not saying everyone who calls himself a left-winger is necessarily an atheist.

00:33:27.220 I'm not saying every Democrat is necessarily an atheist.

00:33:30.180 But the logical conclusion of leftism is atheism.

00:33:34.120 That's what we're seeing today.

00:33:35.540 So you see this in particular on an issue like abortion.

00:33:40.180 For years and years, the Democratic Party had a lot of pro-life people in it.

00:33:45.020 Then starting a few decades ago with Mario Cuomo, the governor of New York, whose son is now the governor of New York,

00:33:52.740 Mario Cuomo came up with this really, really cynical but brilliant strategy for Catholics and other faithful people on the question of abortion.

00:34:03.880 When really their religion is leftism, but they want to at least pretend to be Catholics in public.

00:34:09.940 So how do you do that on the issue of abortion?

00:34:12.620 Abortion is kind of the dividing line.

00:34:15.120 If you support abortion, you can't be a Catholic. 0.97

00:34:19.560 We'll get to that in a second.

00:34:20.440 But if you oppose abortion, you can't be a leftist.

00:34:24.120 And this has been building for a long time.

00:34:26.400 So what Mario Cuomo came up with was, he said, listen, I am personally against abortion.

00:34:34.240 But publicly, I'm for abortion.

00:34:38.580 He said, what?

00:34:39.940 Like you're two different people?

00:34:41.400 What does that mean?

00:34:41.920 Now, personally, I oppose abortion in my secret heart.

00:34:47.780 But in everything that I do and in my role as governor, I'm very pro-abortion.

00:34:53.160 Say, well, then I don't, doesn't really matter a lot to me if you're personally against abortion because it doesn't have any effect in the real world.

00:35:00.520 But anyway, they got away with this for a long time.

00:35:02.660 That led to then the next stage of the Democrat relationship to abortion, which was Hillary Clinton, who said, I think abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. 0.93

00:35:14.980 So wait a second, that doesn't make any sense.

00:35:18.260 Safe?

00:35:19.040 Abortion is never safe because it always kills somebody.

00:35:21.060 So that's off the table.

00:35:24.000 Legal.

00:35:24.460 Why should it be legal?

00:35:25.900 Well, I guess the only reason it should be legal is if it's not morally similar to killing somebody, which we've, by the way, already established that it is.

00:35:34.400 But if it's, let's, let's say that it's not.

00:35:38.060 Somehow abortion is not what abortion is.

00:35:40.000 Then, okay, I guess it can be legal because it's not morally similar to killing somebody.

00:35:45.580 But then why should it be rare?

00:35:46.840 So if it doesn't have moral gravity to it, if it's just like getting your tonsils out, then it should be legal and it, there's no reason for it to be rare.

00:35:55.560 If it should be rare, then it shouldn't be legal because the reason it should be rare is that it's killing somebody.

00:36:00.780 This, it never made any sense.

00:36:02.440 But anyway, it got a lot of approval from the chattering class.

00:36:06.020 It allowed left-wingers who struggled with this religion question to convince themselves that it was possible to be, say, Christian and support abortion, which it is not.

00:36:14.940 Which we will get to.

00:36:16.840 Now, they're past that.

00:36:18.800 2017, Tom Perez said, supporting abortion as a Democrat is non-negotiable.

00:36:26.460 He said pro-lifers are not welcome in the Democratic Party.

00:36:30.540 So Cardinal Dolan, who is the cardinal in New York, who tries to have a nice relationship with people of both parties.

00:36:41.160 He's not a bomb thrower.

00:36:43.220 He's not an arch-conservative, to put it mildly.

00:36:46.200 Cardinal Dolan comes out and says, quote, it saddens me that Democrats are considering this non-negotiable.

00:36:53.480 It saddens me and weakens the democracy millions of Americans cherish when the party that once embraced Catholics now slams the door on us. 0.98

00:37:03.580 Right?

00:37:03.760 Dolan's saying you can't.

00:37:04.680 Even Cardinal Dolan is saying you can't be Catholic and support abortion.

00:37:11.200 So then Tom Perez comes back with a zinger.

00:37:13.160 He just says, quote, well, actually, the majority of Catholics voted for Democrats in 2016.

00:37:18.620 So apparently the cardinal may not understand that Matthew 25 is a pretty important teaching.

00:37:22.700 And Matthew 25 says, you know, when you were hungry, I fed you.

00:37:25.300 When you were naked, I provided you with clothing.

00:37:27.300 When you were an immigrant, I welcomed you.

00:37:29.020 I think one of the reasons why so many people are moving away from Donald Trump is that he's abandoned all those values.

00:37:35.140 First of all, Catholics didn't vote for Hillary in 2016.

00:37:37.660 The vote was split.

00:37:38.780 It's 50-50.

00:37:39.720 I'm ashamed to say that too, but she didn't win Catholics.

00:37:43.800 Second of all, it's kind of a loose translation of Matthew 25.

00:37:46.780 That might be the authorized Tom Perez version of Matthew 25.

00:37:51.580 But he leaves out the very next line.

00:37:54.200 And so also in Matthew 25, what he leaves out is,

00:37:58.680 And the king will answer them,

00:38:00.780 Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these, my brethren, you did it to me.

00:38:09.000 That could be the abortion line of all of scripture.

00:38:13.860 As you did it to the least of these, my brethren, the smallest, the quietest, the ones without a voice, the most vulnerable.

00:38:25.220 You did it to me.

00:38:29.300 It's almost comical.

00:38:31.500 If it weren't so dark, it would be really funny that the chapter of scripture that Tom Perez chooses to cite as evidence that abortion doesn't matter.

00:38:39.940 And, you know, you can be pro-abortion and really Democrats are super, super Christian or something.

00:38:45.080 Is the chapter that includes that verse.

00:38:49.140 As you did it to the least of these, my brethren, you did it to me.

00:38:53.660 It shows you two different ways to go.

00:38:56.220 Two different ways that the Democrats are trying to deal with religion.

00:38:59.760 Democrats have become more brazenly leftist and atheist over the last couple decades.

00:39:03.960 And the two responses to this are the boo strategy and the boo-to-jedge strategy.

00:39:12.960 Those are the two responses to religion.

00:39:15.380 The boo strategy is actually the honest one. 0.87

00:39:20.000 That one is being honest about atheism.

00:39:22.960 And it comes from when the Democrats booed God at their national convention.

00:39:27.980 So Antonio Villargoza was chairing the session at the Democratic National Convention.

00:39:33.160 They were going to add in an amendment that referred to people's God-given potential.

00:39:38.380 And this was controversial because they had previously taken out the phrase God-given.

00:39:42.920 Then that was a big hullabaloo.

00:39:44.080 Didn't play very well in Peoria.

00:39:45.440 So the Democrats added back in the language God-given.

00:39:49.160 Antonio Villargoza at the DNC says, all right, we're going to add it in.

00:39:52.040 This is going to be a simple voice vote.

00:39:53.320 Say, say, yay, yay.

00:39:56.780 Say, nay.

00:39:57.880 Nobody was going to say nay. 0.97

00:39:58.780 It was going to be easy to put in.

00:39:59.700 Except, the Democrats at their convention did not want to add in God.

00:40:06.860 Is there any further discussion?

00:40:08.980 Hearing none, the matter requires a two-thirds vote in the affirmative.

00:40:13.220 All those delegates in favor, say aye.

00:40:16.640 Aye.

00:40:17.660 All those delegates opposed, say no.

00:40:21.040 No.

00:40:21.560 Okay, so it's a little awkward, isn't it?

00:40:41.980 Because he thought this was going to be very easy.

00:40:44.500 And Antonio Villargoza, I actually know him.

00:40:47.380 He and I did a TV show together here in Los Angeles.

00:40:51.500 And he's a nice guy.

00:40:53.780 He's a kind of normal Democrat, as much as a Democrat can be normal at the party leadership in this day and age.

00:41:00.880 But he's kind of, look, he wanted, I know.

00:41:03.440 He went in there thinking, all right, this will be two seconds.

00:41:06.500 This will be really easy.

00:41:07.260 We'll get out of there.

00:41:08.000 Okay.

00:41:09.440 I know.

00:41:10.500 Okay.

00:41:10.820 We're good to go.

00:41:11.420 No, except that's not what happened.

00:41:13.280 The no's seemed to carry it.

00:41:15.220 So he doesn't know what to do.

00:41:17.280 So he goes again to the vote.

00:41:19.700 I, um, I guess.

00:41:25.840 You've got to let them do what they're going to do.

00:41:30.680 I'll do that one more time.

00:41:34.220 All those delegates in favor, say aye.

00:41:37.420 Aye.

00:41:38.740 All those delegates opposed, say no.

00:41:41.780 No.

00:41:42.940 In the opinion of the chair, two thirds have voted in the affirmative.

00:41:46.500 The motion is adopted and the platform has been amended as shown on the screen.

00:41:53.220 Thank you very much.

00:41:55.220 And there's the boo.

00:41:56.440 You can hear it because, I mean, it's obviously hard to pick up on these microphones, regardless of whether you think the eyes have it or the nose have it.

00:42:03.480 Certainly, it was not the case that two thirds of people voted to pass that amendment.

00:42:08.680 And what was the amendment?

00:42:09.580 The amendment was to add God back into the Democratic Party platform.

00:42:13.080 They didn't get their way.

00:42:14.000 And they booed.

00:42:15.360 They booed God.

00:42:16.080 The boo strategy is honesty.

00:42:18.880 Okay.

00:42:19.100 The boo strategy is, yeah, we're atheists.

00:42:22.640 We might have vague notions of the supernatural.

00:42:26.260 Because, listen, people think that the religious are the most superstitious people on earth.

00:42:31.180 Actually, the religious are the least superstitious people.

00:42:34.200 It's the people who pretend they don't have religion.

00:42:35.940 They're the most superstitious.

00:42:36.960 They got the chakras and the crystals and the astrology and they go into all sorts of weird stuff.

00:42:42.160 So, it's just a matter of practical religion, traditional religion.

00:42:48.180 The boo strategy is, we don't have that anymore.

00:42:50.460 The other strategy is the Buttigieg strategy.

00:42:53.140 The Buttigieg strategy is where you pretend to be a believer, but you actually openly contradict orthodoxy and scripture at every single turn.

00:43:04.580 You constantly warp scripture to mean the opposite of what it plainly says and what people have said that it says for all of human history.

00:43:13.240 He did this, again, on the issue of abortion.

00:43:15.800 Pete Buttigieg was on a radio show called The Breakfast Club.

00:43:18.060 And they said, you know, man, how are you going to square the abortion issue with how you're always prattling on about faith? 0.98

00:43:23.560 And he goes, well, actually, you know, there's a lot in scripture that says we should kill a lot of babies.

00:43:29.080 Now, right now, they hold everybody in line with this one kind of piece of doctrine about abortion, right? 0.95

00:43:36.860 Which is obviously a tough issue for a lot of people to think through morally.

00:43:40.540 Then again, you know, there's a lot of parts of the Bible that talk about how life begins with breath.

00:43:47.040 And so even that is something that we can interpret differently and take up me, too.

00:43:54.060 But I think no matter where you think about the kind of cosmic question of how life begins, most Americans can get on the board with the idea of, all right, I might draw the line here.

00:44:04.380 You might draw the line there.

00:44:05.340 But the most important thing is the person who should be drawing the line is the woman making the decision.

00:44:09.480 Absolutely.

00:44:10.660 Wow.

00:44:11.260 What?

00:44:11.720 I'm so glad that guy went nowhere.

00:44:13.680 I'm so glad he's out of the race.

00:44:15.360 I love he says, look, what we might disagree on abortion, but what we should at least agree on is that we should have abortion.

00:44:21.360 We can all agree on that we should have abortion, even if we disagree on abortion.

00:44:24.440 Look, there's lots of parts of the Bible that say that it's great to kill babies.

00:44:27.480 No, there aren't, Buster.

00:44:28.720 Maybe crack that spine open again and give it another read.

00:44:32.500 So anyway, that's what Tom Perez is doing here.

00:44:34.500 He's twisting a chapter of gospel to pretend that it supports his modernist, atheist political ideology.

00:44:41.540 And then he leaves out the punchline because it contradicts the very point that he's trying to make.

00:44:47.020 Let's make this very simple.

00:44:49.260 Some questions are very complicated, like questions of public health and the global economy and pandemics.

00:44:55.560 Some questions are very simple.

00:44:57.020 A Christian cannot support abortion.

00:44:58.540 It is not possible.

00:44:59.660 Cannot do it.

00:45:00.620 A Christian cannot vote for a political candidate who supports abortion if there is an alternative. 0.83

00:45:07.000 It's a sin to do so.

00:45:09.660 The Catholic Church has always been very clear about this and most other churches have too.

00:45:13.600 Most other denominations, most other groups of believers have felt that way.

00:45:18.500 The Buttigieg-Perez strategy is to just confuse the issue, right?

00:45:23.040 To say, well, it's really complicated.

00:45:24.560 It's not.

00:45:25.000 Some issues are complicated.

00:45:26.220 Some issues are simple.

00:45:27.020 Actually, by the way, by the way, before we go, the same is true of socialism.

00:45:30.880 I know now that's considered very complicated.

00:45:33.980 At least I speak as a Catholic.

00:45:35.820 The Catholic Church has always been very clear that socialism must be completely rejected.

00:45:42.060 Okay?

00:45:42.400 The Catechism of the Catholic Church says,

00:45:44.280 The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modern times with communism or socialism.

00:45:50.400 Regulating the economy solely by centralized planning perverts the basis of social bonds.

00:45:54.620 It doesn't mean the Church wants no regulation at all, but nobody is supporting no regulation at all in mainstream politics.

00:46:01.880 There are people openly supporting socialism, some of whom are still running for president.

00:46:06.140 That's what the left is doing here.

00:46:07.640 For over a century, popes have called socialism a wicked confederacy, a pest, a plague that must be utterly opposed and rejected.

00:46:16.880 Democrats try to confuse this issue.

00:46:18.660 They take one or two verses out of context.

00:46:20.900 It is not unclear.

00:46:22.680 It is a simple question.

00:46:25.200 Christians cannot be socialists. 0.93

00:46:27.060 All right?

00:46:27.700 The left is going to try to confuse a lot of things.

00:46:30.700 They do this all of the time.

00:46:32.420 This is why it's very important to look at these issues clearly, not to be pulled away with emotion.

00:46:38.780 I think this is the big theme of coronavirus.

00:46:41.620 Forget about the theme of the 2020 campaign.

00:46:43.780 It's the theme of this pandemic.

00:46:45.280 It's the theme of the times we're living in right now.

00:46:47.120 There are a lot of people who are trying to emotionally manipulate you into making bad decisions, into panicking, into becoming hysterical, into sentimentality.

00:46:56.720 Don't do it.

00:46:58.260 This is not the time.

00:46:59.600 An important election or a global pandemic.

00:47:02.140 This is not the time to abandon your faculties of reason.

00:47:06.260 This is when you must be most vigilant in using those faculties that you've got.

00:47:10.820 Okay.

00:47:11.140 We've got a lot more to get to.

00:47:12.220 We'll have to do it tomorrow.

00:47:13.780 Hopefully, we won't be quarantined tomorrow.

00:47:15.620 Because until Mayor Garcetti drags me out of my studio, I will be here with you.

00:47:20.240 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 17, 2020

Ep. 512 - Coronavirus vs. the Constitution

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