The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 601 - Saving The World From Cannibals

00:00:00.000 Amid all of our national turmoil at the height of an election year, you know, we can always count

00:00:05.000 on the mainstream media to focus on the important issues, ask the important questions like questions

00:00:11.960 about QAnon. During the pandemic, the QAnon movement has been, appears to be getting a lot

00:00:20.500 of followers. Can you talk about what you think about that and what you have to say to people who

00:00:25.620 are following this movement right now? That's what really is on people's minds. You know,

00:00:30.320 the, the nation is on fire, cities burning, people getting attacked, statues coming down,

00:00:36.900 police departments getting abolished. And you know what we want to hear about is an internet meme.

00:00:41.460 Yeah, that's, that's, that's it. Thank you. Great job, media. An internet meme that, that you in

00:00:46.260 many ways have contrived. Trump brushes it off. Well, I don't know much about the movement other

00:00:53.500 than I understand. They like me very much, uh, which I appreciate, but I don't know much about

00:00:59.680 the movement. Uh, I have heard that it is gaining in popularity. And from what I've hear is these

00:01:06.660 are people that when they watch the streets of Portland, when they watch what happened in New

00:01:13.020 York city in just the last six or seven months, but this was starting even four years ago when I came

00:01:18.260 here, almost four years, can you believe it? Uh, these are people that don't like seeing what's

00:01:24.260 going on in places like Portland and places like Chicago and New York and other cities.

00:01:31.260 Great answer. His answer is basically, yeah, my guys are good. Your guys are bad. Yeah. You,

00:01:36.920 you people are destroying the country. And if you vote for me, we're going to fix the country.

00:01:40.640 Very simple answer. The reporter won't let it go.

00:01:43.420 The crux of the theory is this belief that you are secretly saving the world from this satanic 0.97

00:01:50.700 cult of pedophiles and cannibals. Does that sound like something you are behind? 0.99

00:01:58.140 Does that sound like anything you've heard? Like, uh, you know, I don't know, like the Democrats

00:02:02.480 booing God at their national convention number of years ago, or, uh, flying around with pedophiles 0.72

00:02:07.760 and airplanes to Caribbean islands or literally eating human brains on CNN, which is what 0.58

00:02:13.300 former CNN contributor Risa Aslan did. I don't know. Starting to sound not all that outlandish

00:02:18.560 to me. Uh, we'll put the, the Q thing, whatever that's so that's completely secondary. That's

00:02:23.880 a distraction from what is really going on in the country. We will get to Trump's excellent

00:02:28.460 answer. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.

00:02:31.060 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from no one. That's his name. According

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00:04:20.620 slash Knowles. Maybe I'm your cousin. So this, the QAnon thing again, I mean, I think I thought

00:04:27.840 Trump gave a good answer, which is, yeah, I don't really know that much about this thing. I vaguely

00:04:32.040 heard about it, mostly just from left-wing media trying to turn it into some sort of phenomenon and,

00:04:37.120 and some kind of boogeyman. But, uh, yeah, I'm not, I'm not that concerned. We've got other things to

00:04:43.220 worry about. And then the, the reporter says, yeah, but it's a, it, it, they say that there

00:04:48.440 are Satanists and pedophiles and cannibals running around. And I say, right, that's just 1.00

00:04:53.160 on CNN. Where, where are they hiding? It's what I want. I want to know the ones that are

00:04:56.680 under the cover. So she pushes it and pushes it and pushes it. People are criticizing Trump's

00:05:02.000 answer. I thought he gave an excellent answer. Well, I haven't, I haven't heard that, but, uh,

00:05:08.580 is that supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing? I mean, you know, if, uh, if I can help

00:05:13.920 save the world from problems, I'm willing to do it. I'm willing to put myself out there.

00:05:18.820 And we are actually, we're saving the world from a radical left philosophy that will destroy

00:05:26.160 this country. And when this country is gone, the rest of the world would follow.

00:05:32.740 Beautiful point. See what a number of conservatives have wanted Trump to do. And they're

00:05:37.240 venting their frustration about Trump's answers. They want Trump to say, Oh, it's terrible. I hate

00:05:42.560 everyone. Everyone who has any kind of kooky view. I hate them. They're terrible. There are no good 0.98

00:05:47.520 people. I don't want their support. The whole point of the reporter's question about this

00:05:52.340 non-traversy is to make Trump supporters look like kooks. That's the whole point. They've done 0.65

00:05:57.280 this for decades. It's like a standard Democrat playbook and Trump is not going to play into it.

00:06:02.360 He jokes, he makes a couple of jokes about it, right? He says, Oh, you're telling me I'm saving

00:06:06.120 the world from satanic pedophile cannibals. That's it. Sounds pretty good. Is that, should I not be doing 1.00

00:06:12.240 that? Should I be supporting the satanic? And then he says, look, they're forget about the

00:06:16.840 Satanists or whatever. You're saying that I'm saving the world from problems. Uh, that's what I'm

00:06:21.580 trying to do. That's what we're trying to do in politics. And, uh, and you guys are trying to

00:06:25.700 destroy the country and I'm trying to fix the country. And I, I like it when people support me

00:06:30.280 in that mission to fix up the country a little bit on the broader point of the QAnon thing.

00:06:37.980 I really, I don't even care to address that. I have a message for the Democrats, which is that

00:06:43.740 people who spent the last four years pretending that Donald Trump is a secret KGB spy

00:06:50.640 do not get to lecture conservatives about conspiracy theories. Okay. You don't people

00:06:56.900 who think that there is a grand conspiracy to close mailboxes in democratic districts to steal an

00:07:07.020 election, particularly people who belong to a party that has tried to steal an election and overturn an

00:07:12.600 election for the past four years. Don't get to lecture conservatives about conspiracy theories.

00:07:17.620 I don't want to hear that phrase again out of the mouth of a Democrat or out of a mouth of a,

00:07:22.360 of a leftist activist, or most of all out of the mouth of the mainstream media. I don't want to hear

00:07:28.380 it. You've lost that privilege. Russiagate was the end of that, especially now that we see that there

00:07:33.840 was a conspiracy with regard to Russiagate, but it wasn't from the Trump campaign. It was from the

00:07:38.080 Obama administration and the press ignored it and covered it up for years. We're finally seeing this

00:07:43.760 come out now with, with charges being brought against various FBI and DOJ officials. Something

00:07:50.320 tells me there's a lot more to come. Not that the mainstream media will ever look into it. And in

00:07:55.160 fact, there was an episode yesterday, totally separate from what you would call practical

00:08:00.220 politics, party politics that, that illustrates just how far the mainstream media have fallen.

00:08:07.940 This involves a former Navy SEAL, this guy, Robert J. O'Neill, guy who killed Osama bin Laden.

00:08:14.180 He tweeted out a picture of himself on an airplane sitting up there without a mask on. And he takes

00:08:20.400 the picture and he says, I'm not a wuss. I'll translate. He used a more colorful word. I'm not a wuss.

00:08:28.420 My man, love that. Looking great. Standing up against this stupid leftist political culture we

00:08:35.600 now have that makes us muzzle ourselves on airplanes. So he posts that picture and immediately 1.00

00:08:41.040 a New York times editor, Dan Solstein tweets out, I don't know this guy, but counterpoint you might

00:08:49.240 just be because you're not willing to sacrifice and be a little uncomfortable for your fellow humans,

00:08:55.140 including that Marine behind you. Now, obviously, uh, obviously this Navy SEAL does know a thing or

00:09:02.300 two about sacrifice and being made a little uncomfortable for the good of his countrymen

00:09:06.780 knows a whole lot more about it than Dan Solstein, whose greatest sacrifice for America is writing for

00:09:12.420 the New York times, which is it, which in fact sacrifices America and it's sacrifice, sacrifices our

00:09:18.740 integrity, journalistic integrity. The issue here isn't the tweet. I don't care about this little

00:09:24.440 Twitter spat between, between O'Neill and Solstein. It's the incompetence. It's the laziness.

00:09:32.680 If, if I had done that, if I had not known who this guy was, that'd be one thing. If your average

00:09:37.680 layman in the street had not known who Robert O'Neill, that would be one thing.

00:09:40.740 An editor of the New York times is supposed to know how to investigate things. An editor of

00:09:48.700 the New York times should at least know to make a Google search before you start lobbying charges

00:09:54.780 like that. But they don't, they don't, you know, the New York times was always left wing and, and

00:10:00.900 often dishonest, but they weren't incompetent. They weren't lazy. Now we have this generation of

00:10:10.540 of New York times, you know, generally journalists, editors, writers who, who are just lazy and 0.88

00:10:17.160 incompetent, don't know the basics of their job. So if a, if a New York time editor can't even get

00:10:21.900 this question right, how are you supposed to trust his reporting on anything else? Drew Klavan always

00:10:26.880 points this out where you're reading the New York times and you don't know about any of the stories.

00:10:31.000 So you're just kind of reading to get filled in. Then you get to one story that you do know about

00:10:34.860 who knows, say it's the New York Yankees. I don't know. Or it's some area of manufacturing.

00:10:39.400 Maybe you know something about it and you read it and you think, gosh, they got this totally wrong.

00:10:43.460 I know that this is wrong because I, I know about this topic, but then you go right along and you

00:10:48.100 believe all the other stories that you don't know anything about. The longest lasting Trump

00:10:53.700 legacy I think will be the complete collapse of the credibility of the mainstream media.

00:11:00.420 Sometimes it's laziness. Sometimes it's incompetence. Other times it's just dishonesty. Like

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00:12:32.800 generally panned convention appearance, decides to defend him because to CNN's credit, they bring up

00:12:40.080 this question. Why is it that in the Me Too era, when everybody's getting taken down for even looking

00:12:46.580 crosswise at a woman 20 years ago, or even not looking crosswise, but they're just kind of crazy 0.84

00:12:51.380 allegations that come up in the case of Brett Kavanaugh, for instance. How is it that Bill

00:12:55.360 Clinton has managed to survive in that culture? And that they've got a one word answer,

00:13:02.460 maybe a two word answer, second chances. How has he survived all of these waves of

00:13:10.080 cancellation when he has been one of the biggest violators of these rules at all these years? I

00:13:15.080 mean, we, we talked last night about the use of character. We talked about, we talked about the use of, listen.

00:13:20.800 There it is. The one word answer is redemption. The two word answer is second chances. And

00:13:26.460 Democrats actually believe in neither of them, right? I'm kind of, I'm more exercised by the

00:13:31.420 second chances thing though, because in cancel culture, you don't get a second chance. I understand

00:13:38.080 maybe you don't want to give someone a third chance or a fourth chance, but you don't get a

00:13:41.300 second chance at all, unless you're a Democrat, unless you're a leftist. Left believes in redemption?

00:13:47.140 How? Show me how the left believes in redemption. They don't. They'll, they'll smack down anybody

00:13:54.320 who comes in their way, whether it's a comedian, whether it's, look, Ellen DeGeneres took a photo 0.50

00:14:00.140 with George W. Bush. They're out for her head, right? Kevin Hart made a, an unpopular comment or

00:14:07.380 something. They go after a joke he, he told 10 years ago, a joke that virtually every other standup

00:14:12.280 comedian in history has made as well. I don't think they're, I don't think they believe in

00:14:17.240 redemption except for their privileged few. This is not some sort of nice principle whereby we say

00:14:24.180 we're going to have grace, we're going to have forgiveness. They don't believe in any of that stuff.

00:14:27.140 It's, it's purely cynical. They'll cover for their guys and they'll attack your guys, even if there's

00:14:32.420 no evidence whatsoever that they did anything wrong. Again, like the case of Brett Kavanaugh, CNN,

00:14:39.000 Van Jones, they go on. You were talking about Bill Clinton's character. And what I admire about

00:14:45.800 Bill Clinton is that he has acknowledged his wrongdoing. He's apologized. He's tried to rebuild

00:14:52.400 his family. And I think apologies don't come as often or as easily from the present White House,

00:14:59.600 even when they should. So I don't, I don't think we can, I don't think we have to say everything

00:15:04.540 that Bill Clinton has done is great. But I do think that when he has made mistakes, he's acknowledged

00:15:08.180 to them. And I admire him for that. Was Van Jones alive in the 1990s? Does, was Van Jones,

00:15:15.120 does he, is he remembering the same Bill Clinton I'm remembering? Mr. Clinton, any response to Van

00:15:20.480 Jones's point that you take responsibility for the things you've done? I want you to listen to me.

00:15:25.780 I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky. 0.99

00:15:33.500 I never told anybody to lie. Not a single time. Never. These allegations are false. And I need to

00:15:42.800 go back to work for the American people. Thank you. Need to go back to the, you can even see at the end

00:15:50.220 of that clip, if you're watching it, he has a little smirk at the end. He's like, I can't believe they

00:15:54.940 believe that. That's so fun. Man, I'm a good actor. I should have been in Hollywood. I should have hung

00:16:01.120 out with Harvey Weinstein. Oh yeah. Bill Clinton, totally not acknowledging what I did. And then

00:16:08.400 later on he, he got caught. And so utterly shamelessly, he goes out on television and says,

00:16:14.940 okay, maybe, well, a little, a little bit, but, and even then, I believe the exact wording was,

00:16:21.620 well, what I said was not technically, well, what I said was technically true. I misled. It's like,

00:16:28.320 well, you lied. You lied. And you're still, you're even when you are forced to acknowledge it,

00:16:33.300 do not acknowledge it. But, but the Democrats believe in redemption, right? As long as you

00:16:37.220 acknowledge what you've done, he's still doing it. You know, I, I grew up a town over from,

00:16:42.100 from Chappaqua where, uh, where Bill Clinton grew up. And one side of me was AOC in Yorktown.

00:16:47.500 Then on the other side of me was, uh, was Bill Clinton and rumors swirled. Let's just, uh, let's

00:16:53.220 put it that way. I don't want to report any rumors, but something tells me that guy did not quite

00:16:57.080 reform himself. And by the way, Bill Clinton was like the good old days. The, the, I would take

00:17:02.380 Bill Clinton's democratic party any day over the democratic party of these current crop of, of

00:17:08.360 radicals. So right now, during the DNC, there was the DNC LGBTQ caucus meeting and a member of this

00:17:17.520 caucus, Jay Mai, don't know who that is, described what their aims are. You know, Democrats in recent

00:17:25.720 days have said, we're not about abolishing the police. We're not about, well, Jay Mai in this

00:17:30.340 open democratic caucus meeting says that is exactly what we are for.

00:17:34.660 We're talking about abolishing the police. We're talking about abolishing ice. We're talking about

00:17:39.740 abolishing prisons. There it is. There it is. And you remember what AOC said when, when the Democrats

00:17:45.200 continued to hear the younger crops say, we're abolishing the police, we're abolishing ice,

00:17:49.820 we're abolishing prisons. They said, well, abolishing the police doesn't really mean abolishing the

00:17:54.380 police. And then AOC came out with a press statement. God bless her. I mean, she, at least she 0.69

00:17:57.660 was honest about it. She goes, no, abolishing the police means abolishing the police. Doesn't mean

00:18:01.640 removing a little bit of funding or moving some funding around. It means actually abolishing,

00:18:05.740 getting rid of the police. So that's the, that's the democratic party. It's so funny. What, what

00:18:11.760 they've been trying to do is hide some of these sessions, but part of the, the issue with them

00:18:17.260 pushing this continued lockdown, needlessly pushing this continued lockdown is these sessions are all

00:18:22.520 on video and it would seem that we've got Republican operatives in every single one of them.

00:18:27.520 And so the video keeps leaking. And then what happens when the video leaks? Well, the Biden

00:18:31.940 campaign has to distance itself, right? Cause the Biden campaign is pretending that this is a

00:18:36.680 moderate Democrat campaign for a moderate Democrat party. Uh, even though we all know that the minute

00:18:41.860 Joe gets into office, if he's even aware that he gets into office, you're going to have this crop

00:18:46.040 of radicals running the country. So the Biden campaign says, I bet the police, the campaign has

00:18:51.880 been very clear when it comes to defunding the police. They do not support defunding the police. And I

00:18:55.360 don't know how many times we have to say this on this network or others, but that is the case. Now

00:18:58.800 at other times the Biden campaign has seemed very open to defunding the police, but neither here nor

00:19:04.060 there. They're, they're denying it now. How about Linda Sarsour? We were talking about Linda Sarsour a

00:19:07.760 little bit yesterday, I believe. Linda Sarsour is this Islamist, radical leftist activist. And she was,

00:19:14.500 she's so radical that she was kicked out of the women's march, but she was permitted to speak at the

00:19:20.380 democratic national convention. So the Biden campaign has to, has to do a little damage control

00:19:25.300 here. Joe Biden has been a strong supporter of Israel and a vehement opponent of antisemitism

00:19:29.560 his entire life. And he obviously condemns Sarsour's views and opposes the boycott divest sanction

00:19:34.560 movement as does the democratic platform says campaign spokesman, Andrew Bates. She has no,

00:19:40.780 no role in the Biden campaign whatsoever. Well, that's strange. If the whole democratic platform and

00:19:45.660 demo, I mean, I suppose that who writes the platform is the party. If the party so despises

00:19:50.400 Linda Sarsour, why did they give her a slot to speak at the convention? Doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:19:55.000 And frankly, the only reason that the Biden campaign even responded to this is because Trump

00:19:58.940 tweeted about it. This is the big problem here for the Biden campaign. The Biden campaign is behind

00:20:07.040 the ball. They're following their party. They're trying to catch up to their party. The party is leading

00:20:11.820 and the party is now radical. So the, the Biden campaign can come out and say, no, no, no,

00:20:17.980 we, uh, we don't really want to defund the police. No, no, no. We don't really hate the Jews. No,

00:20:21.620 no, no. We don't, we don't really support Linda Sarsour. But the fact that they have to keep playing

00:20:26.800 catch up like this shows they're not the ones in charge. So who cares, who cares what they say or

00:20:32.080 what they think? The Trump campaign on the other hand is going on offense. And this was a move yesterday,

00:20:37.720 again, somewhat controversial among conservatives, mostly among libertarians, but, but some

00:20:42.920 conservatives too got a little, a little frightened by this. The, the Trump, well, first through Trump's

00:20:49.480 Twitter, but then through the Trump administration and Kayleigh McEnany, they came out and said, yeah,

00:20:53.220 we don't like Goodyear anymore. Goodyear tires. We went through their, their slideshow yesterday on

00:20:58.900 this show, but Goodyear showed, seemed to have this policy, which is that it's okay to express views

00:21:03.640 in support of BLM or the LGBTQ movement, but you can't support, uh, any sort of expression for

00:21:11.040 blue lives matter or all lives matter, wearing a hat that says make America great again or anything

00:21:16.140 like that. So you can support left-wing things, but you can't support right-wing things. Trump said,

00:21:19.780 don't buy Goodyear. The left is going to play this game. We'll play it too. Get, stop having Goodyear,

00:21:24.440 right? Stop supporting Goodyear. And Kayleigh McEnany was asked about this at a press briefing.

00:21:30.520 Thought she gave a great answer. Here's the question. Today, the president encouraged Americans

00:21:36.340 not to buy Goodyear tires, suggesting that they had a ban on MAGA hats, but it appears that their

00:21:41.980 policy is just a ban on political speech. It's pretty common for most companies. So why is the

00:21:46.500 president retaliating against a private company for their dress code and potentially jeopardizing

00:21:51.160 American jobs? Okay. I want to pause here for one second because this reporter typifies the 1.00

00:21:57.400 dishonesty of leftism for a hundred years. What the slideshow showed was you, yes, BLM, 0.97

00:22:03.380 yes, LGBTQ, no MAGA, no blue lives matter, no all lives matter. And she says, and at the very end of

00:22:09.500 the unacceptable line, it said no political speech. So what the left is saying is conservative speech

00:22:15.800 that I don't like blue lives matter, all lives matter, make America great again, support the

00:22:20.060 president. That is political and therefore unacceptable. Whereas black lives matter and LGBTQ, 1.00

00:22:29.040 that's not political. That is just the orthodox dogma of the state. You can't, you can't possibly

00:22:37.380 question transgenderism. That's our established church. You can't, that's not political. BLM run by 0.99

00:22:46.120 three avowed Marxists wants to destroy the nuclear family, according to the, the about us page on

00:22:52.680 their website. That's not political. What the left has done here, ironically, is they have made

00:23:01.000 everything political except for politics, right? Everything's political. Now you go out, you buy a

00:23:06.620 cup of coffee, it's political. Anything you wear, anything you say, anywhere you go, the kind of car

00:23:11.840 you drive, what everything has become political. Now the mask is, everything is political except for

00:23:17.400 politics. And this has been the, what the democratic party has pushed for since Woodrow Wilson. They

00:23:22.580 basically want to take all the important questions out of the realm of politics and give it to

00:23:27.180 bureaucrats, give it to administrators so that we can't debate about it anymore. And the government 0.99

00:23:30.900 can just do whatever they want, but they'll, they'll at the same time politicize everything.

00:23:35.860 So we're arguing about absolute diversions. Gets to this QAnon question too. We're arguing about

00:23:42.000 internet memes as though this is really important. Meanwhile, we're told that substantive questions

00:23:46.180 like the Marxist organization, BLM, that's outside the realm of politics. Whether a man can become a

00:23:52.100 woman, LGBTQ, you know, whatever the, the alphabet continues to grow by the day that is outside the 0.67

00:23:58.940 realm of politics. We're not allowed to have opinions about that anymore. I thought Kayleigh McEnany

00:24:02.120 handled the question, you know, in an excellent manner.

00:24:06.560 Goodyear needs to come out and clarify their policy. There was an image.

00:24:10.420 They failed to clear. Yes, I did see their statements, which still, still failed to clarify

00:24:15.000 their policy. What happened is there was an image that was put out that showed that certain speech

00:24:20.120 was acceptable. Black Lives Matter insignia, for instance, but what was not allowed was Blue Lives

00:24:25.540 Matter. What was not allowed was MAGA hats. What was clearly targeted was a certain ideology.

00:24:31.220 They have not denied that that image was presented at one of their facilities and they need to come

00:24:35.560 out.

00:24:35.980 Racial equality, racial justice, that is okay, but not political speech. That's pretty standard

00:24:40.460 across the board right now. That's not that unusual. Did the president even reach out to

00:24:44.080 Goodyear before he tweeted?

00:24:44.880 They came out and said equity issues.

00:24:47.120 There it is. It's, it's just racial justice. It's just sexual equality. That's not political.

00:24:53.880 What do, do these people know what the word politics means? Politics means public things,

00:24:57.840 the things we all do together, how we all live together in the city, in the polis,

00:25:01.800 right? Greek word. That's, that's politics. And they say, no, that's not politics. Politics is

00:25:07.040 like your internet memes and like the MAGA hats and the things I don't like. So that you can't do

00:25:11.680 politics. It's like, they always say this in schools, you can't talk about religion.

00:25:16.680 You can talk about how a man is really a woman. You can talk about that, which is called Gnostic 0.84

00:25:21.900 Dualism, by the way. That's a religious concept, but you can't talk about Christianity. You're not,

00:25:27.020 you can't, you can't do that. You can talk about equality and justice and the 1619 project in BLM,

00:25:32.580 but you can't talk about politics. Even though the author of BLM says this is not a history that's

00:25:38.700 being taught, it's activism. But they say, no, no, that's not, it's not, the things I like are not

00:25:44.220 politics and therefore we, we should just all accept it. And the things I do not like, that is

00:25:49.340 politics and we've got to get it out of what we need. So much of the Trump movement has been,

00:25:55.080 forget about the judges, forget even about breaking down the media. It's been about expanding the realm

00:25:59.840 of politics in an authentic way, in a proper way, because we had been told for decades, look,

00:26:07.380 you're not allowed to have an opinion about outsourcing. You're not allowed to have an

00:26:09.980 opinion about immigration. You're not allowed to have an opinion about the loss of American

00:26:13.700 manufacturing. You're not allowed to have an opinion about our role in transnational

00:26:17.320 institutions. You're barely allowed to have an opinion about international interventions and

00:26:21.220 foreign wars. You're just not allowed. That is separate. That's being run by the brilliant people

00:26:25.660 at the state department or in the bureaucracy elsewhere. And that's not in the realm of politics.

00:26:30.440 And what Trump came in and says, nah, I think it is. I think we're going to rip up trade deals.

00:26:34.100 We're going to build a wall on the border and you stupid bureaucrats aren't going to have a damn 1.00

00:26:37.960 thing to say about it. And that's what we're seeing here. Now, I think I am allowed to have an 1.00

00:26:42.740 opinion about the BLM organization. I think I am allowed to have an opinion about Marxist

00:26:47.280 propaganda being taught in our schools. I am going to have an opinion about that. And if

00:26:52.920 Goodyear doesn't like it, you know what we're going to do? We're going to boycott Goodyear.

00:26:55.900 I think it's a great idea. It's a great idea. For too long, Republicans have allowed

00:27:00.360 corporate America to push America further to the left. They've given them a free pass.

00:27:05.240 No longer, my friends. By the way, this is playing well for Republicans. This is not playing well

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00:28:31.580 Kamala Harris as his VP. That's a bad sign. You pick a VP so that your numbers go up. 1.00

00:28:36.080 Same thing. We don't, obviously, we don't have numbers from the end of the convention yet because

00:28:39.080 the convention just ended last night. But it, there's no evidence yet that, that Biden is

00:28:44.080 getting any kind of boost like, like you hope for out of a convention. That's the whole point of a

00:28:48.160 convention. Not good news for Biden. I mean, it's going to be, there's now going to be more pressure

00:28:54.140 for him not to debate, not to show up. It just didn't work. Why didn't it work?

00:28:58.540 The convention was more boring than usual. These conventions are usually pretty boring,

00:29:03.840 but it was more boring than usual. There weren't any kind of spontaneous moments because,

00:29:09.020 you know, that's, this is all pre-planned. This is basically just a Zoom meeting. Do you remember 0.82

00:29:13.580 back in 2012, you had, you had Clint Eastwood come out for Mitt Romney and he clearly didn't

00:29:19.960 prepare anything. He walked on stage at the last minute and talked to an empty chair. And it was

00:29:24.460 great. It was the best moment in any political convention, certainly in my lifetime, but because

00:29:30.480 it was unscripted. It was, you didn't know what was going to happen. It was, it was entertaining.

00:29:34.540 You didn't get that. Republicans need some of those moments here. Luckily, Trump always seems to give

00:29:39.000 it to them, but you're going to need that in, in the next convention. You know, the, the ratings for

00:29:45.060 the DNC this year plummeted. I mean, they were so, so bad. Trump is much better on television,

00:29:49.880 obviously, but the RNC needs to keep this thing loose, entertaining, bigger, faster, funnier. 1.00

00:29:56.120 Maybe you get Clint up there with an empty chair, certainly get Trump on screen as much as you can.

00:30:01.540 I want to bring this back to what we started with at the top of the show, this Q thing,

00:30:07.100 Q Anon, which is what the, all, that's all the Democrats in the media want to talk about.

00:30:11.840 I think most conservatives don't even know what this is. They haven't even heard of this.

00:30:15.260 This is an internet meme, right? But the press, they're writing about it all the time. Like,

00:30:19.760 this is the end of the world. So what is, what is the Q thing? I, like President Trump,

00:30:24.300 also don't, don't really know much about it. But unlike Democrats, I, I do think we should take

00:30:29.520 the, the fact that this movement exists seriously. I don't, I don't think we need to worry about

00:30:34.780 anything. I don't think it's the end of the world, but the fact that there is such an internet

00:30:39.100 meme that's become, you know, something of an activist movement, what does it mean? You know,

00:30:44.540 I take BLM seriously. I don't take BLM's claims seriously, but I take BLM seriously and I wonder

00:30:50.680 why did this rise up? So same thing with Q. The, the reporter brought up three things, religion,

00:30:55.760 weird sex, and cannibalism, right? Satan, Satanism, and then pedophilia, and then cannibalism. 0.92

00:31:02.400 What does that mean? Well, as I mentioned earlier at the, was it the 2012 DNC, you had

00:31:09.340 the Democrats booing God. You now have BLM top leftist activists calling for churches to be 0.64

00:31:17.380 smashed, images of Christ and the Virgin Mary to be smashed. You have statues of St. Junipero Sarah

00:31:24.280 being torn down. It, it seems pretty clear that there is a religious battle going on,

00:31:30.760 as Henry Edward Cardinal Manning said, at bottom, all human conflict ultimately is theological.

00:31:35.980 So you've got this religious battle brewing. I mean, the people leading the BLM riots, right?

00:31:40.140 The founders of that organization are Marxists. They're atheists. Again, and you, you see this

00:31:45.740 constant sort of attack on religious Americans, the bitter clingers clinging to their Bibles. 1.00

00:31:51.220 That image that, that irritated the left so much was Trump holding up a Bible outside a church,

00:31:55.160 a church that they were trying to burn down. So there's a, there is clearly a religious issue

00:32:00.220 going on. How about the weird sex? There's plenty of weird sex going on. Obviously there's the

00:32:03.660 Jeffrey Epstein thing that seems to involve every prominent leftist in America, but even,

00:32:08.020 you know, there's a show now on Netflix. It's called Cuties. My wife showed me this last night.

00:32:13.380 She showed me the trailer for it. It's called, it's about 11 year old, like go-go dancers or

00:32:19.320 something. This is, listen to this description. This is just a, from the Netflix website. Cuties,

00:32:23.860 Amy, age 11, becomes fascinated with a twerking dance crew, hoping to join them. She starts to

00:32:30.760 explore her femininity, defying her family's traditions. That, that is like pedophile catnip. 1.00

00:32:40.140 How on earth, what sicko executive at Netflix allowed this thing to go up? Like I, I know, 0.98

00:32:48.420 you know, sometimes we hear all these crazy people on the internet. They talk about how there's

00:32:52.420 pedophilia going on all over the place. Well, what do you, how do you explain that? That's pretty

00:32:57.500 weird, isn't it? There's like a show about 11 year olds twerking and exploring their femininity 0.91

00:33:01.940 against their family's wishes. That's, that's weird. Like, you know, Jeffrey Epstein flying

00:33:07.720 around on an airplane with Prince Andrew and all these top, mostly left-wing politicians. He was a

00:33:12.980 member of Mar-a-Lago, so there were photos of him with Trump too, but Bill Clinton apparently flew

00:33:17.120 on his plane like 27 times. That's weird. Isn't that weird? That's a little weird, isn't it?

00:33:21.860 So clearly there's some weird sex thing going on. And by the way, the only thing anyone talks

00:33:25.280 about these days is sex. That's why LGBTQ can, you know, goes now 26 alphabet letters 1.00

00:33:30.460 long. Because people, beyond this question of, of pedophilia, people are just obsessed

00:33:35.480 with sex. They're talking about sex all the time. So there's, there's that aspect going

00:33:38.840 on. And then cannibalism. There are some real cannibals like Reza Aslan, formerly of CNN, 0.65

00:33:44.080 who ate human brains on television. Actually did that. Isn't that weird? That's a little weird

00:33:48.460 too. But there's this issue of cannibalism at a cultural level, which I, which I think

00:33:53.060 is actually what's going on here. We are eating ourselves alive. We are, we are devouring

00:33:57.760 our own culture, right? Cannibalism has a, has a kind of metaphorical meaning as well.

00:34:05.220 People are just devouring themselves because they've, they've run out of other things to

00:34:09.400 consume. What is, I mean, obviously we see that now we're tearing down our own history.

00:34:14.020 We're tearing down our own art. We're covering up our own art. We're, we're destroying our

00:34:19.460 own politics, destroying our own institutions. Frankly, Reza Aslan aside, there's much more 0.63

00:34:24.760 evidence of a cultural cannibalism, a civilizational cannibalism than of a personal cannibalism.

00:34:29.460 Those things are all real. Okay. And the media right now are asking about the QAnon thing.

00:34:35.940 They're asking about a bunch of internet memes. They should be asking themselves about what

00:34:39.860 the phenomenon means. The fact that people are worried about Satanism and pedophilia and

00:34:47.420 cannibalism. Why, why, what does that tell you about your culture? If these mainstream media

00:34:52.440 journalists had two brain cells to rub together, they would be able to see some, some real insight

00:34:57.380 in, in the very fact of these phenomenons. Just like I encourage the left, consider the fact of BLM.

00:35:03.080 Why has this thing risen up? So too, I would encourage the left, consider why these things

00:35:09.020 that you, you're so obsessed with, consider why they've risen up, but that would require

00:35:14.080 introspection. And of course they're not capable of that. Um, by the way, there's one thing I know

00:35:20.060 I'm running late on the mailbag, but I don't care. I've got to, I've got to mention my friend,

00:35:22.940 Amanda Milius, a great, great young filmmaker. You might've heard the name Milius because her,

00:35:28.280 her father is one of the most legendary filmmakers in Hollywood. John Milius wrote Apocalypse Now.

00:35:32.820 Did the Dirty Harry movies, Conan the Barbarian, Red Donald. He's a great, great guy. And she's a

00:35:37.820 terrific young filmmaker. She's got a movie she's been working on secretly called Plot Against the

00:35:42.160 President. This, this is coming out now. It's coming out very, not, not right now, but it's

00:35:47.280 coming out very soon. It details the Russia hoax, the attempted coup d'etat to overthrow a duly elected

00:35:53.540 president. Take a look at just a little bit of the trailer. I recently confirmed that on numerous

00:35:58.100 occasions, the intelligence community incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens

00:36:03.100 involved in the Trump transition. It was shocking to see some of the overclassification that was done

00:36:08.560 to hide either corruption or abuse of authority and just to make sure certain agencies didn't look bad.

00:36:16.360 We have a peaceful transition of power process. That's not what happened. There were more meetings,

00:36:21.820 there were more leaks, there were more attacks. The thing that they were investigating the Trump

00:36:26.620 campaign for is what they themselves were doing. Not just the Democratic Party and their operatives,

00:36:33.100 but also the FBI. If I were writing about the time frame that we lived in and that we're living in

00:36:38.600 now, I would say it wasn't supposed to happen. They weren't supposed to know. The entire time this

00:36:44.180 was going on, they thought this was going to be what sunk the Donald Trump presidency. And they were

00:36:49.320 just looking for the golden goose and they still haven't found it because it doesn't exist.

00:36:53.920 This movie is going to be great. It's going to be explosive. Go check it out. The plot against

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00:37:47.540 There's too much good stuff to talk about today. Well, we got to get to the mailbag. I will speed

00:37:57.400 through it. We will get through as many questions as possible from Alejandro, dear future vice

00:38:01.780 president, Michael Knowles. If you were selected to be the Republican vice president for the 2020

00:38:06.040 election, what would your opening statement be at the vice presidential debate? I would get up there

00:38:12.920 and I would say, uh, uh, thank you so much. Uh, it's such an honor to be here. I would especially

00:38:19.620 like to thank the democratic party for not reading the constitution because you don't realize that

00:38:24.180 right now I am still just a little bit too young to be vice president. Uh, but since the Democrats

00:38:28.600 don't read the constitution, that's perfectly well and good. Let's get to the questions. That would be

00:38:32.720 my opening statement. You know, it's unfortunate that Democrats don't know anything about the

00:38:36.440 constitution, but there can be a little silver lining that storm cloud. We can, we can use it to turn

00:38:41.140 lemons into lemonade. And part of that would be, would be my selection as vice president. It's

00:38:45.380 great. I'll take it even before the age of 35 from Catalina. What a great name. Catalina. It's a

00:38:50.940 nice Island off the coast of California. Hi, Michael skinny boy and master of covfefe. I'm a rising high

00:38:56.120 school senior. My college search came to a grinding halt recently when I fully realized that the

00:39:00.540 environment at the Ivy league schools is overwhelmingly liberal. I was really interested in applying to

00:39:04.760 Princeton, Dartmouth and Harvard, but after seeing so much leftism at the admissions sessions and in

00:39:09.160 their promotions, I'm reconsidering like you, I'm Catholic and conservative. What was your experience

00:39:13.680 in the political environment, political environment of Yale? What should I do? I don't want to be

00:39:18.480 universally hated on my college campus for being conservative. Thanks so much. I love this show.

00:39:22.480 Listen in every day. God bless. Depends what you, what you want. You know, uh, there are some colleges

00:39:27.320 where you can get a magnificent, uh, classical education, liberal education, even, uh, Thomas Aquinas

00:39:34.120 College, Franciscan of Steubenville, Hillsdale, you know, very famously offers a more classical

00:39:40.580 and rigorous education. Um, but if you want a big brand name school, you know, let's say you want to

00:39:45.200 go work in banking or consulting or, you know, get into a really top law school or something like that.

00:39:51.260 If you, if you do want to kind of go down that route, which, which has, uh, increasingly

00:39:56.400 diminishing returns because now people are beginning to realize that the Yale of 2020 is

00:40:03.400 not the Yale of 1920. And frankly, it's not even the Yale of 10 years ago. Um, so, but if you want

00:40:09.620 to do that, Yale has a pretty robust area for conservatives. They've got the William F. Buckley

00:40:15.820 Jr. program. They've got the Tory party, which is a great organization at Yale. Uh, they, they do,

00:40:20.500 they do have a number of conservatives that have come through there. Uh, the campus has gotten very

00:40:24.840 left-wing even since I was there. And even when I was there, you know, I got along just fine,

00:40:29.420 had a great time, you know, but, but whenever a political activity that I was working on got a

00:40:33.940 little too hot, I was absolutely persona non grata on campus for at least a month or two.

00:40:38.880 And then people would kind of forget, you know, and I'd get to go back to parties and things again,

00:40:42.940 and it was all fine until, but if you do things that are effective in politics, then you're, you're

00:40:48.360 going to have a lot of people dislike you for that. And that's just, uh, that's just the cost of doing

00:40:53.200 business. That's the cost of doing politics rather. You've really got to ask yourself,

00:40:56.880 what do I want? If you want a kind of classical education, that's, that's not, uh, you know,

00:41:03.500 going to have all the trappings of, of maybe an Ivy league school, then I would say go to one of those

00:41:07.560 other colleges. If you want to get that big brand name, just know you're, you're going to be in a

00:41:13.520 decidedly leftist institution for a long time. And, uh, and you're going to have to make your way.

00:41:18.900 Sometimes that'll be easy. Sometimes that'll be hard, but conservative insight is nothing in life is free.

00:41:23.200 From anonymous. Hi, Michael. I'm going to be married 10 years this October together for 12 and my wife

00:41:28.660 and I have a three-year-old son. Earlier this year, I found out she accumulated over 40 grand of credit

00:41:32.820 card debt and we had to refinance the house to pay it off. Further, she recently became pregnant.

00:41:37.340 And besides me begging and pleading, she went ahead to planned parenthood and took an abortion pill. 0.92

00:41:41.260 Oh my gosh. Uh, she's also been nasty to me and has said I'm needy and is threatening to leave me 1.00

00:41:45.660 when I've been victim here. I want to stay together for our son and to work through the issues we've had.

00:41:50.520 Uh, we've had many good years together. I'm simply at a loss at what to do here. I don't want to give

00:41:54.660 up on my son and family, but I've been hurt, wronged, and I've been blamed for the marriage failing.

00:41:59.140 She claims I'm controlling and wants to leave as I'm holding her back from achieving her career 0.94

00:42:02.640 dreams. I would appreciate your thoughts. Yeah. You need to get your wife in line. I'm very sorry that 0.94

00:42:06.620 you've gone through this. I mean, obviously the things you've described are, are horrific. Um,

00:42:13.020 you, you need to get your wife in line. Uh, you know, you, you've got to, you've got to lead the 0.98

00:42:19.660 family. I know that, I know that modern feminism and all this stuff might make this confusing, but, 0.97

00:42:25.820 uh, the, the, the idea that your wife could even get the thought of, I've got to, I've got to leave 0.99

00:42:31.480 my family because you're holding me back from whatever, making widgets at the widget factory

00:42:36.180 is, is preposterous in itself. And, uh, I don't know, either you've got to be persuasive,

00:42:43.040 you know, and, and show her why that's so wrong. I would certainly go into marriage counseling. I 0.87

00:42:47.140 mean, that, you know, she killed your child. You know what I mean? That, that is, uh,

00:42:54.120 it's, it's unthinkable. It's unthinkable that that sort of thing would happen. So you, you need to put

00:42:59.940 measures in place to make sure that doesn't, that that can't happen again. You, you know,

00:43:04.480 I'll, uh, taking that example aside, I mean, that's just so horrific. Let's just use the

00:43:09.300 credit card example. How did she run up 40 grand in credit card debt without you knowing 0.94

00:43:14.260 you, you should be seeing these financial statements. You, if, if she has a separate

00:43:19.700 credit card, that's obviously a bad idea for someone who's going to run up 40 grand in credit

00:43:23.860 card debt. She should not be permitted to have a separate credit card. You, you're, you're one flesh, 0.60

00:43:28.480 your finances should be the same anyway. So I would take control. I would just take control of the

00:43:33.960 situation. Ironically, what seems to, what, what she seems to think as, as you write in your note

00:43:39.840 is that, you know, you're, you're too controlling, but I would imagine if you are not even looking at

00:43:45.660 her credit card statements, you're not controlling enough, not nearly controlling enough. Uh, and,

00:43:50.280 and I would, uh, I don't know, the problem would appear to be this kind of modern idea of

00:43:57.180 feminism or how that relates to marriage. I think you've got to get a little bit more old school 1.00

00:44:02.620 here in traditional. Probably the first step would be, would be marriage therapy. And I would 0.55

00:44:07.140 just make sure that you go to a marriage therapist who isn't some lunatic feminist. You pick it, 1.00

00:44:13.660 you call the shots, you're the head of the household. Uh, and, uh, if, if she leaves you,

00:44:19.000 I hope she doesn't. Uh, that's on her. And, and, uh, you, you, you know, divorce is a horrible,

00:44:28.960 horrible thing for a child. So I would not, I don't think you should leave. Um, but you need

00:44:34.040 to lead your family. You can't, you can't let her do these sorts of horrible things. And you need to

00:44:38.300 also acknowledge anything maybe that you have done that has led to this. You know, obviously you,

00:44:43.560 generally speaking, it takes two to tango. So marriage therapy would be the place to start, 1.00

00:44:47.600 but, but you need to lead, you need to take charge. And I, I don't think if, if your situation

00:44:54.480 gets worse, I don't think it's going to get worse because you took too much control. You took too

00:44:59.640 much of the lead. I think it will get worse because you've taken a back seat and you've,

00:45:03.500 you've allowed her to, to, uh, to take the lead too much without knowing more details. That's,

00:45:08.760 that's about the best I can give you. But, uh, very, very terrible situation. Sorry to hear that

00:45:13.100 you're in it from Aaron. One question I've always struggled with is Romans chapter 13 and the

00:45:19.420 submission to the governing authorities. As a conservative, I've always struggled with being

00:45:23.400 submissive to the governing authorities, mainly when thinking about the revolutionary war.

00:45:27.780 I want to believe in a good argument for the colonies rebelling against the crown,

00:45:31.100 but I do not believe that the Catholic or other confessional churches would have supported the

00:45:34.580 overthrowing of that authority. Historically speaking, can a conservative have been a supporter

00:45:38.780 of the American revolution and how? Thanks. This question comes up from time to time,

00:45:44.300 even beyond, uh, just a Catholic question, even some conservative Protestants say, I don't,

00:45:48.360 I wouldn't support the American revolution. Uh, St. Thomas Aquinas is pretty clear that there is a,

00:45:53.400 there is a right of, of revolution in very limited circumstances. So the question is, does, uh,

00:45:59.800 does the American revolution meet those circumstances? There's also a question of the

00:46:03.200 nature of the American revolution. The American revolution didn't overthrow the King of England,

00:46:07.760 right? It didn't, it didn't depose King George. It separated the United States from Great Britain.

00:46:14.100 It, in the revolutionary's words, it acknowledged that there was the separation, that these political

00:46:19.220 bonds had been dissolved. And now you've got the separate country that already had its own governing

00:46:23.540 institutions that already had its own culture for at that point over a century, a century and a half

00:46:28.980 or so. I, I think there is a conservative and Christian case for the American revolution. I,

00:46:35.820 I don't care particularly to come down decisively on that issue. I think there's a good argument also

00:46:40.280 that the revolution was not justified. And you, you, you could, I've heard both of those arguments.

00:46:44.340 That's fine. I think the more pertinent question though, is today, what is your view of the American

00:46:49.260 revolution? Where no one's going to get in a time machine and go back to 1776. So how do you look

00:46:53.960 at it now? And I think it's very clear that, uh, in our, in our due submission to the, the civil

00:46:59.860 authority, uh, we certainly should respect the regime that was established in 1776. And that, that has

00:47:06.160 been a, generally speaking, a wonderful, uh, political event in the history of the world. So I, I would,

00:47:12.440 I would even kind of remove yourself from the historical question though. It's fun to kick

00:47:16.200 it around. I think there is an argument for it and, and just think about the present political

00:47:20.060 question. All right. I wish we could get to more, but typically I ran late. So we'll just have to

00:47:25.300 wait until next week, or maybe we'll be able to chat on all access, or maybe we'll be able to chat

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00:48:30.340 2020. Hey everyone, I'm Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan show. Oh, oh, oh, oh, that was the

00:48:36.740 sound the media made yesterday as Barack Obama gave his speech at the Democratic National Convention.

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