The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 585 - A Whole New Ballgame

00:00:00.000 Great news. President Trump has brought back the Corona virus press briefings,

00:00:06.540 which were some of the best shows on TV about three months ago. He stopped doing them.

00:00:12.240 Now they are back. They were great. They were brilliant. They were helping him.

00:00:16.080 And the left tried to shut them down. They tried not to air them.

00:00:20.440 And they were successful at that, just like they tried to shut down our economy.

00:00:24.140 They were successful at that, just like they're trying to shut down the presidential campaign

00:00:27.940 because Joe Biden can't form a coherent English sentence.

00:00:31.340 And so President Trump is not taking it anymore. We are in a whole new ballgame.

00:00:35.920 I hope he keeps doing them a lot. This one went very well. He kept it short and sweet.

00:00:41.560 It was very high energy. It was reassuring. And the best part of all is that there was no Dr. Fauci.

00:00:49.240 Why are your doctors not with you here today? Where's Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx?

00:00:52.580 Well, Dr. Birx is right outside. Yes, please.

00:00:54.960 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:00:55.840 Love that answer. Yeah, Dr. Birx is out there. And who's that other guy? Dr. Who?

00:01:00.620 Dr. What now? That guy who was wrong about everything and took a lot of political power

00:01:03.940 for himself? Yeah, I don't think so. We've all had enough of Dr. Fauci. Obviously,

00:01:08.960 Dr. Fauci has been wrong on a lot of questions, which we will get to. And he took a lot of political

00:01:13.940 power, things that properly should have been in the realm of politics. And then everyone pretended

00:01:18.420 we're in the realm of science. I'm not opposed to having medical advisors at these things generally.

00:01:23.520 But if he wants medical advisors there, he should have economic advisors there. He should have

00:01:27.840 military advisors there. And there should be no question as to who is actually calling the shots.

00:01:32.520 Nobody elected the exalted Dr. Fauci. The president is in control. The more he can show that he is in

00:01:38.700 control, the better off he will be. The better off we will all be, too. The country and, of course,

00:01:43.700 the president for the presidential campaign. Right now, more briefings, more communication. That is the

00:01:49.120 best way to ensure that he remains the president. There's just one thing that President Trump can do

00:01:55.900 to greatly improve those briefings. We'll get into it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles

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00:03:48.220 There was just one thing he got a little wrong. And I know people are going to agree with,

00:03:53.680 disagree with me on this. Probably more people are going to agree with me as days go, go on.

00:03:57.860 The one error he made is he bought the left's premise on the masks and he pushed the masks.

00:04:07.200 And as he pushed the masks, he simultaneously conceded defeat, conceded that he was wrong

00:04:14.520 early on about the masks. We're asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance,

00:04:22.940 wear a mask, get a mask. Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact, they'll have an

00:04:29.760 effect and we need everything we can get. And he went on and talked about how he'll wear the mask

00:04:34.640 sometimes and other people should wear the mask. Before we get into the scientific component of

00:04:39.040 the masks, which we will get into, I've got some info here from the CDC. I just want to talk about

00:04:44.620 the political component because I have been warning the president and campaign about two things that

00:04:52.340 are going to happen if he puts on the mask. One, it's going to project weakness abroad to our

00:04:57.240 adversaries. But two, what it's going to do is grant the left their current premise. Don't forget,

00:05:04.160 they've had, the left had a different tune on masks three months ago. But right now what they're

00:05:07.280 saying is Trump was wrong not to wear the mask early on. He should have told everyone to wear the

00:05:11.180 masks. He should have led by example. He killed people by not wearing the masks. And if you agree,

00:05:18.140 if you believe that the masks really do work and they're super effective, then it's very easy to

00:05:23.260 make the left's argument. So that was the warning I had. Immediately, within two seconds, the left

00:05:28.900 started their victory dance, including Nancy Pelosi on Wolf Blitzer's CNN show.

00:05:34.360 I think with the president's comments today, he recognized the mistakes that he has made by now

00:05:41.560 embracing mask wearing and the recognition. This is not a hoax. It is a pandemic that has gotten worse

00:05:49.700 before it will get better because of his inaction. And in fact, clearly it is the Trump virus.

00:05:58.400 So Pelosi's always got to take it too far because she actually was making a pretty convincing argument,

00:06:04.360 a little more of a subtle argument. And then she goes, this is the Trump virus. So this is what the New

00:06:08.280 York Times had been prattling on about. They never want to blame China. They'll only say nice things

00:06:12.100 about China, which actually started this pandemic, but they'll, they'll implausibly blame it on Trump.

00:06:18.560 However, this first part of, of her argument is going to catch on. It already is. Chuck Todd is

00:06:24.180 repeating these same kinds of things that Trump is admitting that he was wrong. And therefore,

00:06:27.900 if he was wrong and obstinate about it, it cost lives. That, that isn't true. Let's not forget that

00:06:35.820 there were other people talking about not wearing masks early on, but it doesn't matter for Pelosi's

00:06:40.780 polemic. Well, what do you mean when you say the Trump virus? The Trump virus. If they, if he had

00:06:46.460 said months ago, let's wear a mask, let's not, let's socially distance instead of having rallies and

00:06:53.760 political, whatever they were, uh, then more people would have followed his lead as the president

00:07:00.060 of the United States. Instead of being a bad example, making it like a manhood thing, not to

00:07:05.340 wear a mask. The gaslighting here is so tremendous. Pelosi's argument is if Trump a few months ago had

00:07:14.460 just put, put on the mask and told us all to wear masks and socially distanced, then we'd all be okay.

00:07:18.900 Where was Nancy Pelosi a few months ago? Well, luckily we've got the tape, even though I'm sure this

00:07:23.440 is going to be sent down the memory hole. Nancy Pelosi was in Chinatown in San Francisco, not wearing 1.00

00:07:30.360 a mask surrounded by zillions of people as the virus was exploding in the United States. And she,

00:07:36.600 she acknowledged that there was a virus. And then she told people that don't worry about that. Come

00:07:40.960 on down to Chinatown. It's exciting to be here, especially at this time, uh, to be able to be

00:07:47.720 unified with our community. Uh, we want to be vigilant about what it might be on, uh, what is

00:07:54.720 out there in other places. We want to be careful about how we deal with it. But we do want to say

00:08:00.120 to people, come to Chinatown. Here we are. We're again, careful, safe, and come join us.

00:08:08.840 You know, especially with this virus, even if she had said, come on to little Tokyo, come on to little

00:08:13.680 Italy. Come on. But the fact that it was Chinatown, Chinatown, China, the country that started the

00:08:20.580 whole pandemic, it's hilarious. And yet now we're three months later, nobody remembers that, right?

00:08:30.180 I guess we're more than three months later. This thing has been going on so long,

00:08:33.400 but we're now, gosh, when did this, this all really started in March, April, May, June. Now we're in July.

00:08:39.040 Oh my gosh, five months later. And no one remembers that. No one remembers that Nancy Pelosi,

00:08:45.380 that the Democrats, that Joe, Joe Biden in particular, were saying that we shouldn't shut

00:08:50.180 down. We shouldn't cut off travel from China. We shouldn't, we shouldn't change what's going on

00:08:54.340 when it suits them. Then when it suits their political agenda, they say the opposite and they

00:08:58.780 blame Trump. It wasn't just Nancy Pelosi and all the other Democrats though. It wasn't just Eric

00:09:03.520 Swalwell, the first while presidential candidate who tweeted out to stop buying masks. It was Dr.

00:09:12.260 Fauci himself. Right now in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks.

00:09:20.860 You're sure of it because people are listening really closely to this.

00:09:24.080 Right now, people should not be walking. There's no reason to be walking around with a mask.

00:09:27.580 When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better

00:09:35.020 and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people

00:09:41.680 think that it is. And often there are unintended consequences. People keep fiddling with the mask

00:09:48.480 and they keep touching their face.

00:09:50.180 And can you get some schmutz sort of staying inside there? 0.88

00:09:53.600 Of course, of course. But when you think masks, you should think of healthcare providers needing

00:09:58.100 them and people who are ill. Right, right. Are we going to call it the Fauci virus? Are we going

00:10:05.540 to call it the Pelosi virus? Are we going to call it the Swalwell virus? No, but Fauci here makes a

00:10:10.840 great point. There are two ways. There are two ways to read what Fauci said then compared to what all

00:10:17.220 the Democrats and Fauci are saying now, which is he was being honest then and the Democrats are not

00:10:23.580 being honest now. He was being honest then when he said these masks aren't that effective.

00:10:26.900 And now the Democrats are being dishonest about it because they want to virtue signal and turn it

00:10:31.520 into a political symbol, which Joe Biden did very early on. He would wear it dangling from his ear.

00:10:35.480 It wasn't even covering his mouth. He'd just wear it dangling to show his political affiliation.

00:10:40.620 And they're just a way to kind of make people feel better, which Fauci also talks about there.

00:10:44.600 So that's one way to read it. The other way to read it is he was being dishonest then because he

00:10:47.920 wanted to preserve all of the masks for the healthcare workers. And now he's being honest.

00:10:52.180 I think there's actually a little bit of truth to both of them. There's a lot of truth to the first

00:10:56.020 part. And there's a little bit of truth to the second one too, which is that they didn't want

00:10:59.960 to run on masks that are of high, high quality, you know, the N95 or whatever, even the more

00:11:06.460 sophisticated masks because they wanted to preserve those for healthcare workers. But now that we know

00:11:11.600 that it's okay and we never even came close to overwhelming the hospital system. Now everybody can

00:11:15.640 go by the masks, but the masks still don't do very much, especially the way people wear them in public,

00:11:19.600 especially those cloth masks, which people are not wearing correctly. And actually they might hurt

00:11:23.220 because people are touching their faces all the time. I think that's probably true. 0.92

00:11:26.460 You don't need to take my word for it. Got a review piece printed out from the CDC.

00:11:32.520 This is not some old piece. This is a new piece. This is from May, 2020. Non-pharmaceutical

00:11:39.440 measures for pandemic influenza in non-healthcare settings, personal protective and environmental

00:11:44.100 measures. Lots of jargon, like you always see in these. Just a quick line from the abstract.

00:11:48.840 We will not go in and read the whole paper. This is on the efficacy of masks and of hand-washing,

00:11:56.240 by the way, to slow the spread of a lab-confirmed influenza, which is a virus, a virus like this virus.

00:12:05.820 Although mechanistic studies support the potential effect of hand hygiene or face masks,

00:12:11.100 so those are, those are just some mechanistic studies. Evidence from 14 randomized control

00:12:18.500 trials of these measures did not support a substantial effect on transmission of laboratory-confirmed

00:12:26.260 influenza. They don't do very much. Even the hand-washing apparently doesn't do very much,

00:12:34.300 but certainly these masks that people are not even wearing properly don't do very much. There is

00:12:41.260 no evidence, very, very little evidence that they do much of anything at all. There is lots of

00:12:45.820 evidence that they don't do much of anything at all. It is, as I have been saying for many weeks now,

00:12:51.540 a political symbol, primarily. Are there uses for masks? Sure, there are some uses for masks,

00:12:58.100 but the way that they are being used right now, the way that they are being pushed, the way that

00:13:03.380 people are being bullied into wearing them everywhere, does not have a scientific basis.

00:13:09.240 It is a political symbol, and I think it's counterproductive for the president to play into

00:13:15.560 this because what the mask says is we can't reopen the economy. What the mask says is we shouldn't go

00:13:23.800 vote in person. We should have mail-in votes all around the country. Hope that'll turn out fine.

00:13:29.320 What the mask says is Trump was wrong from the beginning. People aren't going to remember what

00:13:33.100 Fauci said. They're not going to remember what Swalwell said. They're not going to remember what

00:13:35.420 Pelosi said. They're going to remember Trump. Trump's the biggest guy in the room. Trump's the

00:13:39.040 president of the United States. They're going to say Trump was wrong, and people are dead because of

00:13:42.360 Trump. That's what the mask conveys. How does the mask slow down the spread of the virus in the

00:13:50.720 vast majority of cases? Not very well at all. So they call it the Trump virus. That's what

00:13:56.100 they're going to keep calling it. Meanwhile, the Democrats are going to defend China, and they're

00:14:00.140 not just going to defend China in an offhanded comment here or there. They're going to rise on

00:14:05.400 the floor of the House of Representatives, and they are going to defend the decision of China to lie

00:14:13.820 about the pandemic. Let's not forget there was a study from the University of Southampton early on in

00:14:18.160 this spread. It said that if China had stopped lying just one week, one week earlier than they

00:14:24.320 did, they would have reduced the spread by 66 percent. Two weeks, 86 percent. Three weeks,

00:14:30.460 over 90 percent. Here is Democratic Representative Adam Smith defending China.

00:14:36.540 This puts us in the very risky position of passing really bad legislation at the last second for no good

00:14:43.200 reason. And I would urge members to vote now. Now, let me be clear. We absolutely need to hold

00:14:48.920 accountable Russia, China, whoever wants to interfere with our process of developing a vaccine or cyber

00:14:54.800 hack us in any other way. And there are an enormous number of tools to do so. I do want to point out

00:15:00.420 and just simply make an urgent plea. One of the gentleman's arguments was that China hid the true risk

00:15:07.880 of the virus from the American people. And yes, that is terrible that China did that. 0.93

00:15:14.380 It's not actually their job to warn the American people. It's the president's job to warn the American

00:15:20.360 people. Unbelievable. He this is such a this is such a leftist dude thing to do is you make a point

00:15:29.840 that's like somewhat mainstream and then you totally undercut that point with a snarky comment.

00:15:34.980 You know, it's like not really my job to do that. OK, but anyway, it's fine. I'm not going to complain

00:15:39.820 about it or anything. That's not good. It's so lame. And in this case, also just incorrect,

00:15:45.780 because the way that China covered up this virus was they bought off the World Health Organization

00:15:50.680 and then they got the World Health Organization to lie on their behalf. But it very much is the

00:15:55.260 responsibility of the World Health Organization to tell everybody when there's an epidemic brewing

00:15:59.600 in some country. And the reason that the WHO didn't do that is because it was invaded and it was it was

00:16:07.400 hollowed out from within by China. Imagine that, though. Imagine taking the side of an international 0.95

00:16:14.800 foe over your duly elected president. You know, Ronald Reagan used to have this this dichotomy he would

00:16:22.660 refer to and say we don't have enemies in American politics, only opponents. You know, we only it seems

00:16:28.860 like a distinction without a difference. But what he's saying there is we are not the enemies of

00:16:34.520 each other. Democrats are not our enemies. Republicans are not the Democrats enemies.

00:16:38.300 We were fighting political battles, but our real enemies are abroad and we need to be united in the

00:16:43.620 face of them. And the Democrats have totally given that up. Maybe they never believed that to begin

00:16:48.860 with. Maybe it was only Republicans who believed that. But but we're seeing it now. And

00:16:53.740 the Democrats have been defending China for a very, very long time. That's the kind of hatred that they

00:17:02.260 have for this president, that they will defend China, for goodness sakes. So what is President

00:17:08.840 Trump going to do? The only thing he can do, the only campaign he has left available to him

00:17:12.080 are these briefings. That's what he's got to communicate directly to the people. And what you're

00:17:18.720 going to see the left trying to do the whole time is just distracting with all these sorts of little

00:17:22.400 side issues or kind of, you know, gossip stories or. So one of them in particular is the arrest of

00:17:29.460 Ghislaine Maxwell. Ghislaine Maxwell was the the associate of Jeffrey Epstein, even though Ghislaine

00:17:37.340 Maxwell is extraordinarily closely tied to major Democrats, most notably Bill Clinton, because she's been 0.78

00:17:45.780 photographed with Donald Trump when she was, you know, she and Jeffrey Epstein were at Mar-a-Lago and

00:17:51.460 various other places like that. They're trying to tie Trump much more to Ghislaine Maxwell than Bill

00:17:57.400 Clinton, who actually flew on that jet something like 27 times. They're trying to if you if you watch

00:18:02.800 any of the documentaries about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, they more or less erase Bill Clinton from

00:18:08.200 them and they only focus on Donald Trump. So so I'm interested in the Ghislaine Maxwell story as a story in

00:18:14.920 itself, because obviously there's this international pedophile ring of extremely wealthy and influential

00:18:19.800 people, notably Prince Andrew or Bill Clinton or whoever. I'm interested in that story. That's not

00:18:26.100 what is being asked of President Trump in these press briefings. They're trying to pull him back into it.

00:18:31.280 How does President Trump respond to the Ghislaine Maxwell question? I thought it was one of the most

00:18:34.920 entertaining responses of the whole briefing. I haven't really been following it too much. I just wish her

00:18:40.700 well, frankly. I've met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach and

00:18:46.260 I guess they lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her well, whatever it is. I don't know the situation

00:18:52.200 with Prince Andrew. Just don't know. Not aware of it. Great answer. It's a very funny answer. I wish

00:18:58.460 her well. He's not he's not covering anything up here. He's not trying to give this really perfectly

00:19:03.760 manicured political answer. He goes, oh, yeah, I hope she does. I wish her well. Yeah, I knew her over the

00:19:08.400 years. I saw her in Palm Beach a number of times. And you'll remember, I think it was in 2015,

00:19:13.800 President Trump predicted that the Epstein relationship was going to be particularly

00:19:18.100 tough for the Clintons. Trump has always been open about his Epstein relationship. The Clintons

00:19:24.580 have tried to cover up their Epstein relationship. So he's just putting on the table. Yeah, I hope she's

00:19:29.080 doing well. I don't know. See what happens. But but that's that's not on me. Don't worry about you

00:19:35.040 guys. Moving on. We're going to talk about what really matters in this campaign. And that's got

00:19:40.580 to be the attitude for all of these briefings. I hope he does one almost every single day.

00:19:44.960 That is going to be one of the only way that he can win this election, probably. And two,

00:19:51.040 it's probably the only entertainment we've got because TV is shut down, right? Hollywood is shut

00:19:56.560 down. And even our sports, which are slowly starting back up again, are totally selling out.

00:20:02.320 You know, the NFL is unwatchable now is they hate America and they encourage players to disrespect

00:20:09.440 the American flag. NBA is encouraging players to wear this Marxist slogan, BLM. The one holdout was

00:20:19.620 baseball, America's favorite pastime. It was the one holdout. There had only been one player who was

00:20:25.320 some no name loser a few years ago who took a knee during the national anthem. All the rest of them,

00:20:31.200 good patriotic Americans. But BLM, disrespect for the American flag, has come to baseball.

00:20:40.660 The players are now kneeling to an empty stadium. And somebody tells me the stadiums are going to

00:20:46.040 empty even when they remain open. People don't like this kind of stuff. Major League Baseball not

00:20:52.560 only tolerated this, they tweeted out a photo of the Giants kneeling down. It said members of the San

00:20:59.320 Francisco Giants kneel during the national anthem. Hashtag Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter,

00:21:05.660 a very particular organization run by self-avowed Marxists seeking to destroy, quote, the Western

00:21:12.020 prescribed nuclear family. That's baseball for you. You know, I think the whole point of baseball is you

00:21:17.080 go there with your son, right? You take your kid down to the ballpark and have a hot dog and a beer and

00:21:21.840 you watch the ball game. And so much of baseball is about the nuclear family. Now they're embracing

00:21:27.560 people who want to destroy the nuclear family. Doesn't make a lot of sense. I canceled my MLB TV

00:21:33.980 subscription. I would encourage other people to do that as well. I don't think it really matters

00:21:39.140 very much. You know, I don't think people exercising their free choice with their wallets

00:21:45.500 is going to matter as much as just the, this is a symbol of how the sport has been hollowed out.

00:21:53.960 MLB's problems have been going on for a long time. Viewership has been declining. It's just,

00:22:00.020 I don't know, I think the caving into this political pressure is more a consequence of the

00:22:05.420 collapse of baseball than a cause of it. And of course, you know, some people are accusing

00:22:11.820 conservatives of being hypocritical here for being part of cancel culture because we don't like the

00:22:15.660 political message. Cancel culture is leftist by definition because cancel culture requires you to

00:22:22.440 have what an early Marxist political philosopher would have called cultural hegemony, what we call

00:22:29.460 institutional power. They're the ones who control the institutions. It's kind of a flip of the leftist

00:22:34.600 argument on institutional racism or something, something like that, institutional oppression.

00:22:39.500 Conservatives can go along with cancel culture. They can go along, you know, jump on a bandwagon, 0.98

00:22:44.280 but they don't actually control the cancel culture. It is a strictly leftist phenomenon.

00:22:50.480 And there's another point on this, which I think the term cancel culture is so wishy-washy. It's so

00:22:56.720 ambiguous sometimes. I think a way to consider it for all the various ways that we could define

00:23:03.100 cancel culture is the way Chesterton described thought. He said, there's a thought that stops thought,

00:23:07.920 and that's the only thought that ought to be stopped. Well, there is a culture that cancels

00:23:11.600 culture, and that is the only culture that ought to be canceled. There is a culture, and it's, I'm not

00:23:15.900 just saying cancel, cancel culture, which has become a slogan. I'm actually going a little bit further

00:23:20.140 than that. Any culture, such as say the BLM Marxists who want to destroy our American flag, who want to 0.93

00:23:29.400 disrespect the American flag, dismantle the nuclear family. That is the, that is the destruction of 0.99

00:23:33.980 culture. That culture has to be canceled. Any, this is kind of my argument on, on why it's incoherent to

00:23:40.780 burn the American flag. You're using your First Amendment rights to burn the symbol of the country

00:23:45.340 that gives you your First Amendment rights. It doesn't make any sense. That's why I would advocate,

00:23:50.760 as many Republicans have, an interpretation of the laws or a constitutional amendment that would

00:23:55.660 prohibit such acts of desecration. Which, which conservatives argued, by the way, until not so long ago,

00:24:02.620 when Justice Scalia sided with the more liberal-minded members of the court and reinterpreted the laws,

00:24:08.060 but even, even granted that. You could always have a constitutional amendment. You, it is insufficient

00:24:15.660 just to say the battlefield is neutral. It's not neutral. Oh, leave our hands, you do whatever you

00:24:22.140 want to do, I'll do whatever I want to do, and we're fine. That's not how society works. We actually

00:24:26.920 do have an effect on one another. The left has a form and a substance to their politics.

00:24:33.440 They have the form of like the rioting and the burning down the cities and the slogans and all

00:24:36.560 that stuff, and the substance. They actually want to accomplish something. Conservatives have convinced

00:24:41.400 ourselves in the last 30 years that, that it should only have form, that we should only, only stand for

00:24:47.580 free speech, but not stand for any speech in particular. You have to have both. You have to have both

00:24:52.780 the form and the substance. Conservatives need to wake on up to that. I think some conservatives are

00:24:58.660 lulling themselves into complacency because they believe that Joe Biden is a kind of moderate guy.

00:25:05.440 He's not Bill de Blasio. He's not Elizabeth Warren. He's not Bernie Sanders. He's just a kind of moderate

00:25:11.500 guy, right? Therefore, it doesn't really matter if Trump wins. Joe Biden is not awake. Joe Biden

00:25:19.260 doesn't remember his name sometimes. Joe Biden's campaign is being run by radicals. Don't take

00:25:26.780 my word for it. Campaign just issued its spending plan. You know how expensive the Joe Biden campaign

00:25:32.520 spending plan is? The moderate campaign spending plan? $10 trillion. $10 trillion with a T. $2 trillion

00:25:43.520 to fight climate change. So 20%, $2 trillion of that price tag is going to be spent launching a battle

00:25:53.440 against the sun monster. $1.3 trillion for infrastructure. I can actually get behind infrastructure

00:25:59.120 in theory, except that usually that money is just completely wasted. You know, you're driving on the

00:26:04.240 highway and you see 15 guys standing around doing nothing and then one guy maybe swinging a hammer.

00:26:09.500 And you say, that's the government union job. There it is. So in theory, it's maybe it's okay,

00:26:15.180 but in practice, probably not. $750 billion for healthcare. I thought, I thought Barack Obama and

00:26:20.800 Joe Biden solved the healthcare problem. What was it now? 10 years ago? 11 years ago? Remember Joe Biden

00:26:29.920 himself said, this is a big effing deal. Why, how come we need to spend three quarters of a trillion

00:26:35.680 dollars on healthcare if you already solved it 10, 11 years ago? Because there's no end to it.

00:26:39.220 There's no solving it. There's no solving it with, it's just going to be more and more and more

00:26:43.000 money. $750 billion for higher education. That's what we need. We need to send three quarters of a

00:26:49.900 trillion dollars to our modern day madrasas, the madrasas of liberalism to, to borrow a phrase

00:26:55.880 from my friend, Josh Hammer, who these schools, all they do is indoctrinate people in leftist ideology.

00:27:03.800 A lot of money for that. $700 billion for Biden's Buy American plan, which apparently he stole from

00:27:08.220 Bernie Sanders. $640 billion for housing, $125 billion for Biden's opioid plan. What is the

00:27:14.700 Biden's, what is the opioid plan? Last time I could tell, all the left is trying to do is legalize more

00:27:20.080 and more drugs. Maybe they're going to, maybe it's $125 billion to legalize them. $30 billion for

00:27:24.240 criminal justice reform means springing, springing inmates out of prisons. Although frankly, Republicans

00:27:29.260 aren't any better on that. And $750 billion for preschool and K through 12, which is where most of the

00:27:35.840 educational battles are really fought. It happens that the indoctrination happens long before college.

00:27:41.060 So three quarters of a trillion for that. And then more than three quarters of a trillion for universal

00:27:46.140 preschool, expanded childcare, you know, get those kids out of the home as soon as possible,

00:27:51.680 get them into state sponsored education camps, 10 trillion on all sorts of bad stuff.

00:27:59.780 Those are the stakes. Don't let anybody tell you that Joe Biden is going to be the moderate guy.

00:28:05.580 That's not moderate. The moderation is gone. Joe Biden is a guy who doesn't want to do anything

00:28:09.520 as president. He wants to be president. He wants bridges to be named after him and highways to be

00:28:13.840 named after him. He's going to let all the policymaking be done by the younger people who are much, 0.52

00:28:18.720 much more radical. Speaking of radical, you know, one of the few voices of reason recently

00:28:25.980 in politics is Kanye West. I know that sounds crazy. I never expected that to happen.

00:28:31.980 Kanye West, who's always been a little kooky in his career, is saying things in politics now

00:28:37.200 that are extraordinarily wise. He's against abortion. He's pro-God. He supports America. So we wore the

00:28:47.700 Make America Great Again hat. He realizes that politics is about more than just technocratic policies.

00:28:54.480 It's about a view of the human person in the world. He's been saying a lot of great things.

00:29:01.020 And so everyone's calling him crazy. Everybody's calling him crazy. Now, Kanye has certain issues,

00:29:09.140 psychological issues. But listen to the note. This is from Kanye's wife, Kim Kardashian,

00:29:14.440 Kim Kardashian West, who posted this to social media just yesterday. As many of you know, Kanye has

00:29:20.200 bipolar disorder. Anyone who has this or has a loved one in their life who does this,

00:29:24.140 knows how incredibly complicated and painful it is to understand. Then she goes on and says all

00:29:27.900 sorts of nice things about Kanye. We as a society talk about giving grace to the issue of mental

00:29:31.820 health as a whole. However, we should also give it to the individuals who are living with it

00:29:35.660 in times when they need it the most. Sure, totally agree with that. That's fine. I'm not questioning

00:29:40.800 Kim Kardashian West's care for her husband. And I'm not questioning that Kanye has had very public

00:29:49.360 psychological issues in the past. However, in the past, when Kanye has done or said actually crazy

00:29:57.120 things, people are pretty quiet about it. You know, they'll laugh about it or maybe they'll

00:30:03.480 criticize him. They won't concern troll him. But when Kanye West says basic things like babies are

00:30:10.040 babies and we shouldn't kill them or God exists and we should, we should do good things and not do bad

00:30:15.780 things. Or when he says, I like America, I love America, pretty basic things. Then everyone goes

00:30:24.780 out and says, he's insane. You got to lock him up. You got to shut him up. That is the sign not of an 0.98

00:30:30.760 insane Kanye. Whether, whether or not Kanye is sane or insane or how sane he is or how insane he is. 0.98

00:30:37.520 That is a, that's the baseline. What's changed here is he's saying things that are true. That is the sign

00:30:45.540 of an insane culture. And, uh, I, I think we should, of course, encourage Kanye to live a wonderful,

00:30:52.980 good life and take care of himself and his family. And we should also encourage him to continue saying

00:30:58.280 the basic true things that not that long ago, everyone would have agreed on. But in this lunatic 0.96

00:31:03.740 culture, people seem to think is crazy. We have got to get to the mailbag first though. I've got to 0.91

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00:32:10.600 Some people are saying that the Daily Wire Reader's Pass is more expensive than this cup

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00:32:33.520 People forget about all these sorts of hidden costs in life. But you, you can get such important,

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00:32:43.720 this week's mailbag is sponsored by the Benham Brothers. You can learn how to own a business

00:32:48.220 without it owning you. Get a 15% discount on the Benham Brothers new course,

00:32:53.440 Expert Ownership at BenhamBrothers.com slash Knowles. First question from Giovanna. What a beautiful name,

00:32:59.560 Giovanna. Michael, if history repeats itself, what portion of history are we seeing play out right now?

00:33:05.500 The French Revolution, the Civil War era, the rise of the Soviet Union. Looking forward 0.96

00:33:09.600 to hearing your thoughts. Thank you for all you do. Yes, we are seeing those things play out right

00:33:15.360 now. You're right that history can repeat itself, especially if people don't learn their history

00:33:22.780 and Americans don't read a lot of history anymore. And Marx and Engels were actually right when they

00:33:28.180 said history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce. And we're seeing the kind of farcical

00:33:33.220 version of all of those terrible events now. But farce can be pretty dangerous too on the political

00:33:37.600 stage. We're seeing a little bit of the French Revolution with the overthrowing of tradition

00:33:42.520 and the intense hatred of the leader of the country, Donald Trump, and with actual explicit

00:33:49.380 calls for the guillotine. And they renamed that autonomous zone CHOP. That's not a great sign.

00:33:53.420 We're seeing some aspects of the rise of the Soviet Union in the sense that we've got no faith really

00:33:59.380 in our government institutions or declining faith. And some people are calling for out and out

00:34:03.280 communist revolution, including the leaders of BLM, who are trained Marxists, to use their

00:34:07.880 own words. We're seeing some signs of the Civil War, right? People just really in America really

00:34:12.920 hate one another. We're seeing some signs of the fall of Rome. This is one issue with people who

00:34:19.420 don't know much about history, is they compare everything to the fall of Rome. However, I got to

00:34:24.260 tell you, as someone who is a history buff, there are some similarities to the fall of Rome.

00:34:29.180 You're not going to look at any particular historical event and say, this is what's

00:34:33.760 playing out again. This is why we need to read broadly into history. It's because you can see

00:34:37.640 the individual aspects that we're being reminded of now. If history actually just repeated itself

00:34:46.600 perfectly, we could predict it and prevent it. But that's not quite what happens. That's why it

00:34:51.560 surprises us a lot of the time. And that's why a broader reading, a broad and a deep reading into

00:34:56.760 history will give you a better sense of what's going on. It'll also calm you down. I have friends

00:35:00.720 who, you know, they pull their hair out because Trump did this or Hillary did that. And they're

00:35:05.500 just, they get so angry about it. And they're so, and a lot of that is because they're scared about

00:35:09.700 what's going to happen in the future. And they'll say, this has never happened. It's unprecedented.

00:35:13.540 But if you have a reading of history, you will know that there's very little that is actually

00:35:19.660 unprecedented. And you can see the consequences of when similar things play out. And just from a

00:35:25.400 personal standpoint, it will keep you a little calmer. It will keep more hair on your head.

00:35:29.120 It will, it will make you, make you feel a little better. Even, even as we plunge into the abyss

00:35:34.780 from Sam. Hey, Michael, I'm a huge fan. And I think you definitely have the best show on the

00:35:38.780 daily wire. Thank you, Sam. Due to my being busy with schooling and military life, I have a couple

00:35:43.460 different dating apps in my profiles. I explicitly state how I am in the national guard. I'm a gun

00:35:48.240 enthusiast because those things are important to me. However, I think it's having a negative impact on who I

00:35:52.840 match with. I've gotten many nasty messages about how I'm pro-fascism or I'm pro-shootings because of

00:35:58.120 my interests. I'm dating to marry. So I would like whoever I date to be on board with my lifestyle.

00:36:02.900 What should I do? Do I take those things off my dating profiles and tell whoever I go out with

00:36:07.380 that I'm pro-gun later? Or should I just leave it on and hope for the best? It sort of depends on

00:36:14.160 your age and your timeline. Because when you're, when you're dating in middle school or high school,

00:36:20.020 and then let's say you end up getting married later on, just, just to use a hypothetical example,

00:36:26.540 then not only will the views of your beloved change, but your own views are going to change

00:36:31.380 as well. And you're going to grow together with a person. And so I just think putting all your cards

00:36:35.720 on the table, it's not always necessary. The older you are and the tighter the timescale of getting

00:36:41.240 married, the less you're likely to change and the more you need to kind of be on the same page from

00:36:48.440 the beginning. So it depends. If you're, if you're 18 years old, maybe downplay it a little bit,

00:36:54.240 possibly. If you're 25 years old, 20, 27 years old, then I would maybe be more likely to put it

00:37:01.480 on the table because I would lean in the direction of putting everything on the table. You don't want

00:37:05.880 there to be too much confusion. You don't want to waste time. You don't want to waste money on dates

00:37:09.120 that aren't going to go anywhere. However, one issue with the left is they actually don't understand

00:37:16.240 what the right thinks. So if you downplay it a little bit, you might be able to get past the kind

00:37:23.220 of prejudices that leftists have. So they get to know you as a person. They realize you're not a

00:37:27.260 terrible, awful fascist, Nazi, whatever. And then they will come around to realize, oh, maybe I've been 0.96

00:37:32.340 lied to about these points of view. As all things in, in human interactions, circumstance plays a large

00:37:39.460 role here. But I would, I would lean more on the side of being forthright than, than hiding things.

00:37:45.620 Just remember, you're supposed to be innocent as a serpent, wise as a dove and innocent as a serpent.

00:37:51.860 From Michael, greetings, Michael Knowles, mostly peaceful, austere religious scholar. My question

00:37:56.920 concerns the Bible. In Matthew, Jesus reinforces and specifies the rules for man to live by. He talks

00:38:01.740 about divorce. It says any man who marries a divorced woman is committing adultery. Can you talk about why he

00:38:06.440 might have said that or why that is the case? Thanks for all you do. P.S. Ghislaine Maxwell did

00:38:10.800 not suicide herself in the back of the head twice. Not yet, not yet. This is a hard saying

00:38:16.560 from Christ. And so a lot of people don't want to believe that he means what he says he did, but I

00:38:22.400 think he does mean that. And there are a lot of hard sayings and Christ talks about how there are hard

00:38:26.560 sayings. This is one of the few times in the gospels where Christ explicitly gives a point of view on a very

00:38:33.580 human matter, on a very practical human matter, in very blunt terms. Often Christ is speaking in

00:38:41.760 parables and here he's being very direct. And he says, man and woman, they were made to leave their

00:38:50.500 families and join together. And what God has joined, let no man separate and don't get divorced.

00:38:56.500 And he responds to people who say, but the law of Moses says we can get divorced. And he says, right, 1.00

00:39:00.320 because of the hardness of your heart, God gave you that law, but it was not so from the beginning.

00:39:04.460 Don't get divorced. And so you shouldn't get divorced. Now there, there are some questions

00:39:09.400 here. First of all, in the case of certain marriages, a separation can be beneficial or even

00:39:17.860 required. You know, in the case of abuse or something, endangering the kids, you might have

00:39:22.320 to separate. That's not the same as divorce necessarily. And there are implications for how you

00:39:28.320 live your life after that kind of a separation. In some cases, marriages are not valid from the

00:39:33.400 beginning. This is why there is the process of annulment. What annulment is recognizing is not

00:39:38.000 that something's gone wrong in your marriage later on, but that something was illegitimate about it

00:39:43.440 before the marriage actually took place. So there is that process in the church as well.

00:39:48.380 In some cases, people say they're getting married, but it's not, it isn't a marriage. The thing that they

00:39:53.600 are talking about is not really a marriage in the sacramental sense and in the sense that Christ

00:39:59.420 is talking about. You know, I'm speaking about this from the perspective of, you know, 2,000 years

00:40:07.000 of the Catholic church getting down very into the specifics on this sort of thing. Other varietals

00:40:13.880 of Christian profession have, have different views on this sort of thing. I would encourage you,

00:40:19.580 even if you're not Catholic, explore the Catholic view on this because there is, you know, 2,000

00:40:25.140 years of literature on it to help explain what is a hard saying. From Alice, hi, Michael, what do

00:40:30.560 conservatives need to do to make sure that we don't turn into everything we dislike about the radical

00:40:33.980 left, assuming the country is eventually mended and the leftist movement dies down? We need to stop

00:40:39.360 worrying about that question so much. And what I mean by that is what we've convinced ourselves,

00:40:44.460 I mentioned this earlier in the show, is that politics only has form. It doesn't have substance.

00:40:49.660 So we've said, you know, for instance, we don't like it when the left tells us that evil things

00:40:53.820 are good and tries to make the government shove that down our throats. So therefore, we should

00:40:58.900 not say that good things are good and recognize that all law has a moral quality to it and therefore

00:41:06.080 assume our roles as legislators when we win elections. That doesn't follow. That doesn't make any sense at

00:41:12.380 all. When you say that, for instance, you can't legislate morality, which is a nonsense,

00:41:16.460 right? All laws legislate morality. Or when you say, I can't tell people what a good thing is,

00:41:20.800 which is what the government does, right? Even if you're trying not to, even if you're saying the

00:41:25.720 government should not say what the good thing is, you are saying what a good thing is, right? You are

00:41:29.640 making a moral claim and a claim about politics. All that does is cede the ground to the left.

00:41:35.960 We need to have the courage to exercise political power when it is given to us by the people.

00:41:41.660 And I think sometimes conservatives forget that courage is a virtue. It's actually a prerequisite

00:41:47.660 of all the other virtues. From Peter. Dear Novenophobic Covfefe, while I generally agree 1.00

00:41:52.680 with your take on current topics, I must say your opinion on the nude Portland protester is lacking

00:41:57.440 something. Wokeness. You repeatedly refer to this protester as she and woman and female and refer to

00:42:04.080 her genitalia. Now, I didn't see the frontal view of this protester, but can we really be certain this

00:42:09.340 wasn't a man showing his genitals and his breasts to officers in protest of whatever it is he was 0.92

00:42:14.240 protesting? Maybe this person identifies as a man. I stand corrected. Thank you for that, that 0.98

00:42:22.440 brotherly, that fraternal correction. I am sorry and I apologize to all the great deities of wokeness.

00:42:30.260 From Jared. Hi, Michael. The other day, Clavin mentioned that he did not believe that Jesus

00:42:33.900 Christ was perfect, was a perfect human being, which really took me by surprise, but maybe shouldn't

00:42:38.920 have. What is your take on Christ's humanity and divinity? Appreciate your time and consistent

00:42:42.580 effort. Looking forward to your response. God bless. So I went back and listened to Drew's

00:42:46.420 bid on this because I had heard from a couple people that he had said this. And because we

00:42:52.720 got to save the Clavin, I actually haven't gotten to have a stogie with Drew in a few days.

00:42:56.780 What Drew was not saying is that Christ committed sin. He was not saying that. Christ is sinless and

00:43:02.840 Drew is acknowledging that. Really, this was a bit of a semantic quibble about the meaning of the word

00:43:07.080 perfect. Christ is exactly who he is to be. And Drew acknowledges that as well, which I would

00:43:16.880 describe as perfect and which traditionally I think is described as perfect. What the point

00:43:22.160 Drew was making is that Christ in his humanity had to learn things. And so he, and Drew actually went

00:43:30.600 further on this point than I would go. However, that's kind of neither here nor there. You can go

00:43:36.000 listen to what Drew said. But in as much as Drew was saying Christ in his humanity had to learn

00:43:41.080 things, that is obviously the case. We know that he grows in wisdom as he matures and grows up. He's

00:43:49.640 subject to all of humanity. That is the essence of the incarnation. He is also fully divine. What

00:43:56.020 we're discussing here is a mystery called the hypostatic union. This is the union of Christ's

00:44:02.680 divine nature and his human nature. There were many debates in the early church about this.

00:44:09.160 And there were many heretics like the Arian heretics, Arius being the Heresiarch who got 1.00

00:44:13.060 punched by Santa Claus at the Council of Nicaea because he denied Christ's divinity. Some people

00:44:18.800 said Christ is fully God and not human. It's only an illusion that he's human. And some people said

00:44:24.600 Christ is fully human and not God. He's just, you know, really holy or something like Arius.

00:44:29.900 Actually, he is fully God and fully man. And so he is perfect and he is sinless and he is fully human

00:44:40.360 in his human nature and subject to all of that which we are subject to as humans. It would be

00:44:48.020 difficult to sum all of that up in 30 seconds or so. Impossible, you might say. One cannot comprehend it

00:44:53.700 because we are comprehended by God himself, right? So we, in our finite minds, we cannot comprehend

00:44:59.760 infinity. But we can say, and I think this is the point that's trying to make, that Drew was making

00:45:05.840 on his show. Christ in his human nature was subject to finitude while Christ in his divine nature, of

00:45:14.640 course, is not. Last question from Nick. Dear Michael, we usually are so aligned in our beliefs,

00:45:21.800 but I really think you got it wrong when you scolded Joe Biden for pushing Islam in our public

00:45:27.020 schools. You may disagree, but I for one believe that Islam is right about women. I long for a

00:45:32.500 society where women must ask my permission before leaving the house with only one simple outfit to 1.00

00:45:37.740 choose from. My wife's credit card bill would fall to nearly zero, not to mention how much we would 0.99

00:45:43.080 save on makeup. And just think of how much faster my morning commute will be once we've revoked all of

00:45:48.180 their driver's licenses. Don't you see now why we need Joe in 2020? You know what, Nick? I can't

00:45:54.340 argue with that. He makes, he's making a better argument than, than much of the democratic campaign

00:45:59.800 apparatus. That is our show. On that, on that very sophisticated point, we will leave it there. I will

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Ep. 585 - A Whole New Ballgame

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