The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 602 - Democracy On The Guillotine

00:00:00.000 Did you know that over 85% of grass-fed beef sold in U.S. grocery stores is imported?

00:00:05.260 That's why I buy all my meat from GoodRanchers.com instead.

00:00:08.900 Good Ranchers products are 100% born, raised, and harvested right here in the USA from local family farms.

00:00:14.600 Plus, there's no antibiotics ever, no added hormones, and no seed oils.

00:00:18.820 Just one simple ingredient.

00:00:20.360 That's meat.

00:00:21.280 Best of all, Good Ranchers delivers straight to your door for added convenience.

00:00:24.760 So lock in a secure supply of American meat today.

00:00:26.980 Subscribe now at GoodRanchers.com and get free meat for life and $40 off with code DAILYWIRE.

00:00:32.420 That's $40 off and free meat for life with code DAILYWIRE.

00:00:35.700 Good Ranchers, American meat delivered.

00:00:37.740 You thought this election was going to be between Trump and Biden. 1.00

00:00:43.000 Oh, you fool. 0.99

00:00:44.260 You didn't realize that there's a third option on that ballot. 0.99

00:00:48.320 That this election, democracy, is going to be on the ballot.

00:00:51.760 This, in the words of every single Democratic official, up to and including Joe Biden.

00:00:58.700 Character is on the ballot.

00:01:00.800 Compassion is on the ballot.

00:01:02.580 Decency, science, democracy, they're all on the ballot.

00:01:08.140 Who we are as a nation, what we stand for, and most importantly, who we want to be, that's all on the ballot.

00:01:16.240 And the choice could not be more clear.

00:01:18.220 Democracy is on the ballot, and you only have one choice.

00:01:25.920 That doesn't sound like democracy to me.

00:01:27.700 I don't think democracy is on the ballot.

00:01:29.900 I think democracy is on the guillotine.

00:01:32.540 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:33.280 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:34.300 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:44.120 My favorite comment from Thursday comes from Justin, who says,

00:01:48.580 Stacey Abrams has had a long and storied political career. 0.99

00:01:52.580 Emphasis on the storied part.

00:01:55.080 Which is true.

00:01:56.420 Because, as you know, Stacey Abrams is the governor of Georgia, 0.99

00:02:00.420 and then she became the running mate for Joe Biden. 0.52

00:02:03.160 And I think, actually, she's just already been elected president.

00:02:06.020 So, good for her.

00:02:06.760 Pretty soon, she's going to be the head of the UN.

00:02:09.840 Then maybe she'll go over.

00:02:11.140 She can become the prime minister of Britain.

00:02:14.080 Then, who knows?

00:02:15.220 I mean, the world is her oyster in make-believe land.

00:02:18.060 Actually, that has a lot of bearing on what we're talking about today.

00:02:21.240 Because we keep talking about democracy, democracy being on the ballot,

00:02:25.840 our self-government, we the people.

00:02:28.060 And increasingly, it's all pretend.

00:02:31.440 Increasingly, we're just sort of play-acting self-government.

00:02:34.440 But actually, all the government happens somewhere else,

00:02:37.280 far away from democratic control.

00:02:39.300 And even our elections, we're told, only have one legitimate answer to them.

00:02:43.820 Which, last time I checked, is not how democracy works.

00:02:46.820 We'll get to that in one second.

00:02:48.000 First, though, oh my gosh.

00:02:49.960 Do I get to thank my friends over at Buttercloth.

00:02:53.840 So, I think the first time I did a read for Buttercloth,

00:02:56.160 I hadn't gotten the shirt yet.

00:02:57.600 So, I said, okay.

00:02:58.460 Well, you know, here's what they say about, okay, fine.

00:03:01.120 But I don't know.

00:03:01.660 You know in marketing pitches, sometimes people are a little hyperbolic, aren't they?

00:03:05.840 So, I get my Buttercloth shirt.

00:03:07.480 I try this thing on.

00:03:08.560 This is the single softest shirt I have ever tried on.

00:03:12.040 I said, oh, this must be some kind of crazy synthetic fabric.

00:03:14.280 No, it's cotton.

00:03:15.960 Just cotton.

00:03:16.860 But I don't know how they did it.

00:03:18.040 It is the single softest shirt I've ever worn.

00:03:19.900 I kid you not, I'm probably going to get an HR violation.

00:03:22.680 Because I try on my Buttercloth shirt.

00:03:24.280 I run around the office telling people to feel me.

00:03:26.520 Feel my shirt.

00:03:27.220 Feel.

00:03:27.420 Grab my arm.

00:03:28.020 Grab my chest.

00:03:28.640 I don't.

00:03:29.220 I hope HR is not watching the show.

00:03:31.340 This thing is unbelievable.

00:03:32.360 And then they have one kind of shirt, which has these mint fibers in it,

00:03:35.920 where the minute you put it on, it cools your skin down.

00:03:38.420 Very important now, as we're in a heat wave in LA,

00:03:40.720 and I guess in DC, and everywhere else I travel.

00:03:43.000 So you've got to head on over right now.

00:03:44.820 Buttercloth is offering our listeners 20% off your first purchase.

00:03:48.640 Go to buttercloth.com slash Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S. 0.96

00:03:53.100 You will receive 20% off your first full price order.

00:03:56.320 That is buttercloth.com slash Knowles.

00:04:00.060 You will thank me, I assure you.

00:04:02.540 I don't think that this election is about democracy so much.

00:04:08.340 I mean, maybe it is.

00:04:09.100 In a sense, democracy is on the ballot because you've got one candidate,

00:04:12.520 President Trump, who is running and saying,

00:04:14.560 look, the government bureaucracy, the establishment has taken way too much power.

00:04:19.360 We're going to put it back in your hands.

00:04:21.000 Then you've got another party that says, absolutely not.

00:04:23.520 Any election that we lose is illegitimate.

00:04:25.700 We're going to take away choice from you.

00:04:28.200 I think that Black Lives Matter is actually much more honest than Joe Biden.

00:04:34.180 Joe Biden says democracy is on the ballot. 0.98

00:04:36.160 Black Lives Matter says that if you don't vote for us, we're going to kill you. 0.94

00:04:39.520 Here is a Black Lives Matter activist explaining her demands. 0.99

00:04:43.600 This is our city, our city, and we're taking this s**t back, point blank, period.

00:04:50.400 End of discussion.

00:04:51.480 We have demands and they need to be met.

00:04:54.680 And I feel like I've been saying this too much.

00:04:57.120 We're not asking you anything.

00:04:59.420 We're telling you what's about to happen with your permission or not.

00:05:06.040 I don't want to come out here again.

00:05:08.480 I don't want to have to do this again.

00:05:10.420 I don't want to take a day.

00:05:11.640 I unfortunately was not at the action yesterday.

00:05:14.120 I was actually taking a day between this organizing because it's taxing work, because we are kids

00:05:20.180 trying to grow up.

00:05:21.660 And I took a day to myself to wake up to find out that my friends are being abused by the 0.99

00:05:27.960 f**king police. 0.99

00:05:29.340 You can listen to us or you can get ran over. 1.00

00:05:36.080 And that's all I have to say.

00:05:38.940 Listen to us or get ran over.

00:05:41.480 It's run over, but that's sort of a side point.

00:05:44.840 I think actually what she's saying, though ungrammatical, is completely honest.

00:05:49.440 And it's actually the same thing that Democrats are saying.

00:05:52.080 I think right now what the Democratic Party, especially the Biden part of the party, wants

00:05:55.780 to say is those BLM people, they're radical. 0.96

00:05:58.340 They're not us.

00:05:58.960 We're the more moderate.

00:05:59.780 We're the adults in the room.

00:06:00.960 Actually, they're saying the same thing.

00:06:02.480 They're saying, give us exactly what we want or we're just going to take it from you.

00:06:07.400 We're going to pretend that this is democratic choice.

00:06:09.940 We're going to pretend that you can go and actually voice your opinion on politics.

00:06:13.780 But not really.

00:06:14.660 Because if you vote for Trump, if accidentally Trump gets elected, we're just going to spend

00:06:18.840 four years trying to oust him.

00:06:20.440 We're going to use the administrative government to undermine him.

00:06:22.720 Then we're going to try to impeach him.

00:06:24.100 We're going to impeach him over Russia or we're going to impeach him over taxes or we're

00:06:27.100 going to impeach him over Ukraine, which is a war with Russia.

00:06:29.380 We're just, give us what we want or get run over.

00:06:33.880 This is what children say.

00:06:35.440 Actually, that woman in the clip says, we're kids.

00:06:37.520 She doesn't look like a kid to me.

00:06:38.740 She looks fairly grown.

00:06:40.160 She's behaving like a kid, but she looks grown up.

00:06:42.740 And the Democrats are doing the same thing.

00:06:44.420 Joe Biden certainly doesn't look like a kid, but he's behaving like one.

00:06:47.700 Hillary Clinton doesn't look like a kid, but she's behaving like one. 0.99

00:06:51.400 The issue here is whether or not we can have self-government.

00:06:55.240 To have self-government, you have to be willing to lose sometimes.

00:06:59.800 You have to be willing to give some power to the people.

00:07:03.480 This is why, if you go back to the Civil War, right, the issue with, there are many issues

00:07:07.800 in the Civil War, but the reason why secession actually happened, why the war kicked off is

00:07:12.340 because you had one side saying we cannot have self-government.

00:07:17.820 If you can have secession, then you can't have self-government because it means that as long

00:07:21.840 as you win, as long as you get everything you want, then you'll stay part of the union.

00:07:25.420 But if not, you'll take your ball and go home.

00:07:28.020 And there's no way a free government can exist that way.

00:07:31.220 People are trying to make the case that Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are very different,

00:07:35.140 right?

00:07:35.600 That's it.

00:07:36.200 This is the case we've heard.

00:07:37.220 You've got the Biden side of the party and the Sanders side of the party.

00:07:39.760 Well, I don't think they're so different.

00:07:41.880 Barack Obama made this point, and I think he's right.

00:07:44.400 If you look at Joe Biden's goals and Bernie Sanders's goals, they're not that different from

00:07:48.520 a 40,000-foot level, said Barack Obama to the New Yorker.

00:07:53.260 They both want to make sure—I'll do it in my Obama voice—they both want to make sure

00:07:56.880 everybody has health care.

00:07:58.680 They want to make sure everybody can get a job that pays a living wage.

00:08:01.980 They want to make sure every child gets a good education.

00:08:04.760 Okay, I think he's putting a little bit of a gloss on what they both want, but the fact

00:08:11.100 that he's saying from a 40,000-foot level it's the same thing is absolutely correct.

00:08:15.340 From a 40,000-foot level, what the Democratic Party wants and BLM wants is the same thing. 0.86

00:08:19.320 Why?

00:08:19.780 Because they both share the same vision of politics and history.

00:08:23.180 They both—and it's the same vision Obama shares, which is the arc of history bends

00:08:26.940 toward justice.

00:08:28.180 You can be on the right side of history or the wrong side of history.

00:08:30.660 Look, we're all going to move toward a socialist utopia eventually where we diminish the role

00:08:35.860 of national governments and sovereignty and move toward a larger international government.

00:08:40.040 That's eventually—we know that's going to happen.

00:08:42.440 That is the future.

00:08:44.040 The only question is, do you do it quickly like Bernie Sanders wants?

00:08:47.080 Do you do it quickly like BLM wants?

00:08:48.880 Or do you do it a little more slowly like Joe Biden wants?

00:08:52.040 Or do you do it a little bit more slowly than that like most Republicans want?

00:08:56.380 That's the—it seems like everybody agrees.

00:08:58.980 Okay, you say democracy is on the ballot?

00:09:02.680 I say it's Donald Trump against the world.

00:09:04.840 I say that actually the entire left and a segment of the right don't really believe in

00:09:11.100 democratic choice whatsoever.

00:09:13.100 And one of the few weirdos who does is Donald Trump, who doesn't just go along to get along

00:09:18.340 with the administrative government, with this view of history that is always progressing

00:09:24.020 in one direction.

00:09:26.520 All right, what about actual politics?

00:09:28.380 What about actual democratic choice?

00:09:30.900 What about actual political change?

00:09:33.200 Trump tries that every so often, right?

00:09:35.560 So we're in this COVID lockdown.

00:09:38.040 We're in the dictatorship of the lab coats here, where all of our political rights are 0.94

00:09:41.820 now being dictated to us by people that we didn't elect, like the exalted Dr. Fauci.

00:09:45.780 Peace be upon him.

00:09:47.600 So yesterday, President Trump tweets out.

00:09:49.240 He says, I've got a big announcement coming at 530.

00:09:51.500 The announcement is that there's a breakthrough in COVID treatment.

00:09:54.800 That's sort of a separate issue.

00:09:57.480 Maybe we'll get into that later in the week.

00:09:58.820 I actually think that's the secondary.

00:10:00.120 That's what the part everyone's talking about.

00:10:01.520 But I think it's of secondary importance to how this breakthrough was arrived at.

00:10:07.400 Here's President Trump thanking his FDA.

00:10:10.120 The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization, and that's such a powerful term, emergency use

00:10:22.520 authorization for a treatment known as convalescent plasma.

00:10:26.440 This is a powerful therapy that transfuses very, very strong antibodies from the blood of recovered patients to help treat patients battling a current infection.

00:10:40.880 It's at an incredible rate of success.

00:10:43.280 Today's action will dramatically expand access to this treatment.

00:10:47.340 And I want to thank Dr. Hahn and Secretary Azar.

00:10:53.760 I want to thank the FDA, all of the people that have been working very hard on this.

00:10:57.400 It showed tremendous potential.

00:10:59.680 So this is great news on COVID, right?

00:11:03.140 But what about on our government?

00:11:05.160 You have the duly elected president of the United States announcing with glee an announcement that one of his administrative agencies has made.

00:11:15.180 He's so excited that an administrative agency has made this breakthrough.

00:11:21.420 But why doesn't he have more control over that administrative agency?

00:11:25.020 You know, this announcement comes just a day or so after President Trump announces on Twitter that the deep state at the FDA is not allowing him to pursue progress on this issue

00:11:37.620 because they want to basically keep the country locked down until November.

00:11:41.700 That was the claim that was made.

00:11:43.140 Regardless of the merits of that, of the actual scientific discoveries that are being undertaken, the question is one of political power.

00:11:53.880 Why is there such a gap between the FDA and Trump, who's theoretically the boss of the FDA?

00:11:59.480 The White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, explains exactly what's going on.

00:12:03.060 It ties right in with what the Democrats are telling you.

00:12:05.060 We'll get to that in one second.

00:12:06.100 First, though, I've got to thank our friends over at Eero.

00:12:08.860 These days, your house is not just your home, is it?

00:12:11.460 In some ways, it's not your home anymore because it's your office.

00:12:15.300 It's the place you never leave.

00:12:16.560 It's the place where you do every single thing that you do.

00:12:19.320 It's a school.

00:12:20.380 It's a movie theater.

00:12:21.900 It's everything.

00:12:23.120 You can't leave.

00:12:23.620 So you know what?

00:12:24.100 I've got to tell you, you've got to make sure your Wi-Fi works, okay?

00:12:27.080 That is now a prerequisite in the year 2020.

00:12:31.080 So Eero is an Amazon company.

00:12:33.520 It covers your whole home with fast, reliable Wi-Fi inside and out.

00:12:37.780 Have you ever had this in your home?

00:12:39.040 Maybe it's just the bad houses that I've lived in.

00:12:41.700 You'll just have dead spots for your Wi-Fi.

00:12:44.080 And I don't know why.

00:12:45.000 I don't have the scientific knowledge as to why that is, but it happens.

00:12:48.600 Eero totally fixes it, okay?

00:12:51.180 Eero, it's amazing.

00:12:53.100 They set it up.

00:12:53.900 You do not drop your Wi-Fi anywhere.

00:12:56.160 And my favorite part about Eero, as you know, I'm not exactly technologically savvy.

00:13:00.780 Eero is so simple, even I can set it up.

00:13:03.040 And it takes no time.

00:13:04.640 The ease of use is really unbelievable.

00:13:07.920 Check it out right now.

00:13:08.760 We're asking a lot of our Wi-Fi.

00:13:10.180 Eero can help yours do more.

00:13:11.900 Go to Eero.com slash Knowles.

00:13:13.620 K-N-O-W-L-E-S. 1.00

00:13:14.920 Enter code Knowles.

00:13:16.140 Easy to remember.

00:13:17.100 K-N-O-W-L-E-S. 1.00

00:13:18.460 You will get free next day shipping with your order.

00:13:21.420 E-E-R-O.com slash Knowles.

00:13:23.740 Code Knowles at checkout.

00:13:25.300 To get your Eero delivered with free next day shipping.

00:13:28.320 Go to Eero.

00:13:29.040 E-E-R-O.com slash Knowles.

00:13:31.800 Code Knowles.

00:13:33.060 Go check it out.

00:13:34.000 Mark Meadows explains why it's been so hard to wrangle the administrative agencies.

00:13:41.260 He explains on George Stephanopoulos' show that there is a deep state in the government.

00:13:48.260 What evidence does the president have that the FDA is manipulating this process, this

00:13:53.360 approval process, for political reasons?

00:13:55.760 Well, your words are manipulating it, George.

00:13:58.880 I don't think he said they were manipulating it.

00:14:01.340 But I can't tell you.

00:14:02.080 Well, hold on, I can help you.

00:14:04.660 I've been personally involved in this, so I'll be glad to tell you.

00:14:08.000 Here's what we continue to look at.

00:14:10.060 And it's not just the FDA.

00:14:11.580 It's NIH and others.

00:14:12.900 As we look at the protocols, and Dr. Hahn was very right to say we're not going to cut

00:14:18.240 any corners because we're not cutting any corners.

00:14:20.980 But what we have is we have a China virus that came here.

00:14:24.660 We've got to deliver answers.

00:14:26.420 And the president, each and every day, is saying, why don't we have an answer today?

00:14:30.120 Why don't we have an answer tomorrow?

00:14:32.440 And so what happens is that we continue to look at some of the trials and what's happening.

00:14:38.220 And we want to wear a belt and suspenders the way that some of these bureaucrats want

00:14:42.940 to look at it.

00:14:43.380 They want to do things the way they've always done it.

00:14:45.900 This president is about cutting red tape.

00:14:48.020 That's what the tweet was all about.

00:14:49.800 That's what the tweet was all about.

00:14:51.140 What was the tweet?

00:14:51.840 What did it say?

00:14:52.400 Trump tweets out, quote, the deep state or whoever over at the FDA is making it very difficult

00:14:58.200 for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics.

00:15:02.580 Obviously, they're hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd.

00:15:05.800 My focus on speed and saving lives, or we must focus on speed and saving lives.

00:15:09.760 And then he tags the FDA guy.

00:15:12.260 This is obviously true.

00:15:13.880 There are bureaucrats right now who are trying to delay things until November 3rd. 0.98

00:15:18.320 You have whole school districts that say they're going to open on November 6th, right? 0.98

00:15:22.080 Basically, they're going to keep this whole shit down until the election, make everybody 0.99

00:15:25.040 miserable. 0.99

00:15:25.700 Other places around the world opening up, it's just not an issue anymore in this politicized

00:15:32.060 sense.

00:15:32.580 But other countries around the world don't have a very important presidential election coming

00:15:36.060 up.

00:15:36.460 So that's what's going on.

00:15:37.620 There's a huge political incentive to keep the country locked down.

00:15:40.940 Trump is trying to wrangle them.

00:15:42.680 But Stephanopoulos then asks what I think is a perfectly natural follow-up question if you're not that

00:15:47.740 familiar with the government.

00:15:49.580 Stephanopoulos is familiar with the government.

00:15:51.240 So I think from him, it's a little disingenuous.

00:15:52.800 But the question is, if Trump's not happy with the FDA, why doesn't he just fire them?

00:15:57.060 Why doesn't he fire the head of the FDA?

00:15:59.060 Why doesn't he fire other people?

00:16:01.320 First of all, well, there are a few reasons.

00:16:04.340 One, even if you fire the head of the FDA, you've still got the whole entity.

00:16:09.540 You've still got the whole administration here.

00:16:11.740 And the simple fact is, the president can barely fire federal employees.

00:16:18.880 It's extraordinarily difficult to fire federal employees, even though they work for Trump.

00:16:24.860 That's the way our government works now.

00:16:27.540 It is almost impossible.

00:16:30.300 Isn't that a little weird?

00:16:31.620 No.

00:16:32.080 This is a process that's been building for 100 years now.

00:16:35.280 It was envisioned by Woodrow Wilson.

00:16:37.000 It was sort of laid out.

00:16:37.980 The architecture was built.

00:16:39.460 FDR implemented it.

00:16:41.060 It was expanded under LBJ.

00:16:42.980 And now we have a shadow government.

00:16:45.480 Except it's not really shadow in that we know it exists.

00:16:48.320 It's all these alphabet agencies.

00:16:50.540 But they govern in the shadows.

00:16:52.600 And even the president of the United States, the leader of the free world, can't get total control over it.

00:16:57.200 So he's got to pressure them on Twitter.

00:16:58.920 You know, people always say, Trump's got to get off Twitter.

00:17:01.080 Why is he always tweeting?

00:17:02.080 Why are, if you even look outside of Trump, why are all these congressmen and senators and governors,

00:17:06.740 why do they go on television all the time instead of doing their job?

00:17:10.560 Well, it's because actually communicating is pretty much the only tool left to them.

00:17:17.820 Because so much of government has been outsourced to the administrative state.

00:17:21.720 You want to hear how crazy it is?

00:17:23.360 Because the duly elected president of the United States can barely change his garden without people losing their minds that he's usurping power.

00:17:36.640 The rose garden.

00:17:37.900 Melania Trump redesigned the rose garden.

00:17:41.340 Sort of.

00:17:41.980 What did she do? 0.80

00:17:42.660 She took 10 crabapple trees that were part of Jackie Kennedy's design back in the 60s.

00:17:48.820 And she moved them from the garden to another part of the White House grounds.

00:17:52.960 And she did this because the trees had grown so much that they were casting too much shadow on other parts and it was messing up part of the garden.

00:18:00.180 This is not exactly, you know, World War III here, right?

00:18:03.760 This is not exactly nuclear negotiations with North Korea.

00:18:08.420 And yet, Twitter went crazy.

00:18:11.460 The mainstream media went crazy.

00:18:13.780 The journalists went crazy.

00:18:16.420 Because she moved some crabapple trees. 0.99

00:18:19.460 Think about how desiccated our view of politics is.

00:18:23.980 You know, one issue we get into as conservatives is we always say we want more limited government.

00:18:28.560 We want government to do less.

00:18:30.060 But that's a little bit imprecise.

00:18:32.660 Because we've got our political process and then we've got this kind of government that actually isn't that open to the political process.

00:18:40.200 And I think we should be more specific.

00:18:41.940 We want that government that's not at all accountable.

00:18:44.140 We want them to do less and stop regulating every single little aspect of our lives.

00:18:48.180 But we do want an authentic politics.

00:18:50.300 We do want to be able to voice our opinion and have that opinion actually matter in politics.

00:18:55.180 I think a lot of the Donald Trump election in 2016 is people saying our voice is not being heard in politics.

00:19:01.540 Even when we elect the people who are running ostensibly on our program, they get into office, they don't do anything.

00:19:06.740 And they don't do anything not just because they're lazy, though never underestimate the laziness of politicians.

00:19:11.220 They don't do anything because they actually can't do anything.

00:19:13.240 There's nothing for them to do.

00:19:15.080 And so people get a little frustrated and want to work outside of the main framework.

00:19:20.300 Frankly, I think this is true in some ways of Black Lives Matter. 0.65

00:19:23.800 Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization that is utterly antithetical to America, which we'll get into in just one second.

00:19:31.360 But they are expressing that same kind of frustration.

00:19:34.760 And all I know is there are historical parallels here to very difficult times in American history where you see the country kind of unraveling.

00:19:42.920 And the only way that you're going to be able to let some of the steam out of that is to give people more of a say in their government.

00:19:50.600 Because now on both sides of the aisle, people feel that they have no say.

00:19:54.860 And they're turning against the system itself.

00:19:56.760 You want to hear that democracy is on the ballot.

00:19:58.960 Democracy is on the guillotine, quite literally on the guillotine in Portland.

00:20:03.000 The Portland riots still going on, still causing absolute mayhem.

00:20:07.600 Portland is at this point essentially a failed state.

00:20:10.960 So the protesters now, again, I've got to give them credit, like BLM, like some more radical parts of the Democratic coalition, they're being honest about their views.

00:20:20.140 They're now wheeling a guillotine into the middle of their demonstration.

00:20:24.380 We've been calling them these Jacobin revolutionaries for a while now.

00:20:27.780 So they've got the mechanism of radical revolution.

00:20:29.980 They've got a guillotine.

00:20:30.920 What do they put in the guillotine?

00:20:32.100 An American flag, which they set on fire and then they guillotined, which seems like overkill to me.

00:20:37.880 But you can watch it happening now.

00:20:40.920 You can see someone walking over.

00:20:44.220 Sets the fire.

00:20:46.520 The crowd cheers.

00:20:53.860 Black Lives Matter, they chant.

00:20:56.860 There it is.

00:20:58.420 You can hear it.

00:21:00.080 You can't deny it.

00:21:02.100 Once you see it, once you hear it.

00:21:04.880 Black Lives Matter is the chant of burning the American flag.

00:21:08.200 And of course it is. 0.85

00:21:08.800 Because the premise of Black Lives Matter is on the most shallow level that America is an evil country that's hopelessly racist that can never be redeemed.

00:21:17.660 And we need to overthrow the government and overthrow the traditional society.

00:21:20.600 And then when you look a little bit more deeply into it, you see the founders actually say, we are trained Marxists.

00:21:26.880 We want to obliterate the nuclear family. 0.98

00:21:29.920 We want to obliterate all of the American institutions.

00:21:32.580 And then the flag is a symbol of the whole country.

00:21:37.500 This is why it was so egregious when Colin Kaepernick decided to protest the flag.

00:21:41.780 Because he's not just protesting some aspect of America. 0.97

00:21:44.280 He's protesting the whole damn thing, which they're now doing. 0.97

00:21:47.220 Setting it ablaze, putting it on the chopping block in Portland. 0.99

00:21:51.800 And I think they're expressing the view throughout the entire country.

00:21:57.160 Does the press cover that?

00:21:58.360 No.

00:21:58.720 Probably the only place that you're hearing about what's actually going on in Portland is perhaps on this show.

00:22:04.140 Maybe on Andy Ngo's Twitter feed.

00:22:06.060 In very limited segments here.

00:22:07.960 But that's the debate.

00:22:09.260 And the reason the Colin Kaepernick protest, it bothered me because I love my country.

00:22:14.740 But it also bothered me because it was so incoherent.

00:22:17.160 Colin Kaepernick said, I have a First Amendment right in America granted to me in this Constitution.

00:22:22.840 And so I'm going to use that right to burn the symbol of the country that gives me that First Amendment right.

00:22:27.620 That doesn't make any sense.

00:22:29.840 Doesn't make any sense.

00:22:31.380 Same thing with putting the flag in a guillotine, right?

00:22:36.300 You can't say, I'm using my free expression to burn the flag.

00:22:41.200 To torch the flag.

00:22:42.220 Well, then you don't get the free expression.

00:22:44.180 That is an incoherent protest.

00:22:47.580 And the press don't cover it at all.

00:22:48.840 We'll get to Trump calling out the press in just one second.

00:22:51.600 First, though, I've got to thank our friends over at NetSuite by Oracle.

00:22:54.640 The world's number one cloud business system.

00:22:58.260 So I've worked on a number of startup companies, smaller companies.

00:23:01.680 Some have grown into bigger companies.

00:23:03.700 The number one thing I notice that stops companies from growing is they don't know their numbers.

00:23:07.760 They can't keep track.

00:23:08.520 They've got a whole different hodgepodge of systems.

00:23:11.040 And the systems are not speaking to one another.

00:23:13.300 And I promise you, if you lose sight of some of your numbers, that can have huge consequences.

00:23:18.940 It can cost you your business down the line.

00:23:20.900 With NetSuite, you can keep track of finance.

00:23:23.700 You can keep track of HR.

00:23:25.440 You can keep track of e-commerce.

00:23:27.060 Everything you need all in one place so you save time, money, and headaches.

00:23:31.180 Doesn't matter if you're doing tens of millions in sales, hundreds of millions in sales.

00:23:34.880 NetSuite gives you visibility and control.

00:23:37.200 Maybe you're doing a million dollars.

00:23:38.960 Doesn't matter.

00:23:39.740 You can manage every penny with precision.

00:23:42.740 20,000 customers trust NetSuite to go faster with confidence.

00:23:46.040 So right now, they've got a free guide for you.

00:23:48.320 Obviously, this is a good time to pay a lot of attention to your business.

00:23:51.560 They've got this free guide.

00:23:52.280 That's seven actions businesses need to take now.

00:23:54.720 You can also schedule your product tour at netsuite.com slash Knowles.

00:23:59.160 K-N-W-L-E-S. 1.00

00:24:00.440 Get your free guide.

00:24:01.780 Schedule your free product tour.

00:24:03.160 Netsuite.com slash Knowles.

00:24:06.140 What is that address?

00:24:07.100 Very simple.

00:24:07.720 Netsuite.com slash Knowles.

00:24:10.840 The press aren't covering any of this.

00:24:13.140 Remember the press, the great defenders of democracy?

00:24:15.560 No, they're not.

00:24:16.220 They agree with Joe Biden.

00:24:17.780 They agree with Antifa.

00:24:18.740 They agree with BLM, which is that our democracy is at stake and you only have one choice.

00:24:24.000 So President Trump jokes with them.

00:24:25.660 He comes out at the press briefing and he wishes them well on the convention that they just had.

00:24:32.680 Good to see you all.

00:24:33.760 Hope you had a great weekend at your convention.

00:24:38.460 That is their convention.

00:24:40.520 The DNC is the press's convention.

00:24:42.380 You heard Ryan Lizza, this left-wing journalist who said, Barack Obama's convention speech is the greatest convention speech ever since his last one, which was so great.

00:24:52.840 It wasn't great.

00:24:53.560 It was a bad speech.

00:24:54.760 And his first convention speech wasn't that great either.

00:24:57.320 Do you remember the first one that gave Barack Obama a national political career?

00:25:01.980 This is the most brilliant Periclean line in the whole speech.

00:25:06.840 He goes, there's not a red America. 0.79

00:25:08.620 There's not a blue America.

00:25:09.940 There's a United States of America.

00:25:11.340 There's not a white America. 0.65

00:25:14.840 There's not a black America. 1.00

00:25:15.740 There's a United States of America.

00:25:17.520 Wow.

00:25:18.800 Stirring rhetoric.

00:25:20.240 I'd never considered that.

00:25:22.380 You're saying we're one country?

00:25:23.820 Wow.

00:25:24.220 Oh my gosh.

00:25:24.940 It's like I'm listening to Abraham Lincoln or something.

00:25:27.180 No, it's not.

00:25:27.940 It's a very weak sauce.

00:25:29.300 But they fell in love with Obama.

00:25:30.960 They loved the guy.

00:25:32.220 And the same thing happened at this Democratic National Convention.

00:25:36.680 Trump's longest lasting legacy.

00:25:39.240 I think I mentioned this on the show last week.

00:25:41.340 It's not going to be the judges.

00:25:42.380 It's not going to be the executive orders.

00:25:43.480 It's not going to be tax reform or anything like that.

00:25:46.240 It's going to be exposing the press as part of the Democratic Party.

00:25:52.640 And even beyond, the Democratic Party even is just one constituency of it.

00:25:55.740 What we're really talking about is a liberal establishment that includes the Democratic Party.

00:25:59.620 It includes these terrorists on the street, BLM and Antifa.

00:26:04.420 That's the military wing of the liberal establishment.

00:26:07.580 You've got the administrative government of the liberal establishment.

00:26:10.200 They're the ones actually passing all of the laws, totally unaccountable.

00:26:15.280 And then you've got the media, which is the propaganda wing of the liberal establishment.

00:26:18.220 But it's all working in tandem.

00:26:21.640 The communications director of the DNC is not the propaganda wing of the liberal establishment.

00:26:26.600 It's the whole mainstream media.

00:26:28.780 That's the propaganda wing.

00:26:31.120 And so when you look at that, in a way you see democracy is on the ballot because you've got this one guy, Donald Trump.

00:26:37.740 A few other candidates, but obviously Trump is the most prominent and successful in my lifetime, who stand up against this thing.

00:26:46.000 And against even the squishy Republicans who really just want to go along with that establishment, albeit a little bit slower.

00:26:53.720 They won't cover anything.

00:26:56.380 You know, there's a little story.

00:26:58.100 Probably the only place you would have heard about it is on Donald Trump's Twitter feed.

00:27:01.420 During the DNC, during the convention, during two caucus meetings, they said the Pledge of Allegiance.

00:27:08.500 Well, good for them.

00:27:09.220 I'm shocked they even did that.

00:27:11.220 But these leaders of the caucus meetings left out the phrase, under God.

00:27:16.220 Pledge of Allegiance.

00:27:17.060 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands.

00:27:20.400 One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

00:27:23.540 We used to learn that as school children.

00:27:25.100 Probably they don't learn that now.

00:27:26.920 The Democrats, because they're still catering to an older generation, they say it.

00:27:30.300 But they take out under God.

00:27:32.560 Now, I've been told reliably by USA Today, fact check, DNC did not omit under God from the Pledge of Allegiance.

00:27:39.280 Snopes says this is mostly false.

00:27:42.080 All the other mainstream media, misleading, not true, false.

00:27:46.220 Take a listen to the opening of the Muslim caucus of the Democratic National Convention.

00:27:52.140 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

00:28:04.360 Take a listen to the opening of the LGBT caucus of the Democratic National Convention.

00:28:09.140 Hello, everybody.

00:28:11.540 If you don't have a flag, I have flags here right in front of me.

00:28:16.720 Please place your hand over your heart.

00:28:19.880 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

00:28:35.940 Now, we have them on video.

00:28:39.640 We have the audio.

00:28:41.620 We have the receipts.

00:28:43.520 And this lying, dishonest mainstream media are going to look us right in the face and say, no, you didn't hear that.

00:28:52.220 No, you didn't hear that.

00:28:53.240 That didn't happen.

00:28:55.360 Who are you going to believe? 0.58

00:28:56.720 Us or your lying ears? 1.00

00:28:58.120 I think even conservatives don't appreciate how thoroughly dishonest the press is. 0.68

00:29:06.240 It's not just that George Stephanopoulos works for Bill Clinton for many years and then he becomes a fake journalist.

00:29:12.940 And, oh, he's obviously got a bias.

00:29:14.240 It's that this entire apparatus exists to, not only to lie to you, not only, it exists to help the liberal establishment.

00:29:28.080 And so if it helps the liberal establishment to tell the truth, they'll do it.

00:29:31.560 But if it helps the liberal establishment to obscure the truth, they'll do it.

00:29:34.460 And if it helps the liberal establishment to outright lie, even when we've got the audio, they will do that.

00:29:41.000 It's pure cynicism.

00:29:43.600 And self-government cannot operate that way.

00:29:46.420 Self-government requires an understanding of objective truth.

00:29:50.720 Self-government requires that we be able to communicate with one another.

00:29:54.380 Self-government requires a legitimate choice.

00:29:57.360 And we are being denied that choice by that liberal establishment.

00:30:04.200 And what do they do?

00:30:05.120 You know, the left always projects. 0.99

00:30:07.100 So they always say, Trump's a fascist. 0.99

00:30:09.100 Trump's an authoritarian. 0.94

00:30:10.420 Trump is the most democratic candidate that we have had in this government, maybe in 100 years.

00:30:16.000 Certainly in 30 years.

00:30:18.280 But, I don't know, maybe in 100 years.

00:30:20.080 You're getting a legitimate choice here.

00:30:24.520 And they're denying that to you.

00:30:27.220 They're telling you that it is exactly the opposite.

00:30:30.360 We'll get to another.

00:30:31.300 This is the craziest story.

00:30:33.280 Because, you know, the left always talks about science.

00:30:34.900 We'll get to a real science-denying story.

00:30:37.520 We'll get to some double standards.

00:30:39.880 First, though, I've got to tell you to head on over to my YouTube channel.

00:30:43.620 Thank you so much to everyone who has done that.

00:30:45.160 We have exclusive content up there that you're not going to get elsewhere.

00:30:48.200 I just did an interview with my friend Paul Kenger, who has a book out called The Devil and Karl Marx.

00:30:53.520 And I actually wrote the foreword to that book.

00:30:55.300 I don't get a royalty, though, so I'm only telling you to go buy it because it is an excellent book.

00:30:59.900 So many people focus on the economic and political side of Marx.

00:31:03.040 This book focuses on Marx's spiritual life.

00:31:05.600 And it is dark and scary and very, very bad.

00:31:08.360 But you should know it because nobody's going to tell you about it.

00:31:10.560 You're not going to learn about this in school.

00:31:12.240 I head on over there.

00:31:12.760 We did an interview about that.

00:31:13.860 It got pretty graphic, I've got to tell you.

00:31:15.640 I didn't know Paul would get so...

00:31:18.200 Well, anyway, you'll have to go check out the interview yourself.

00:31:20.580 Then head on over.

00:31:21.440 We're going to have a backstage coming up at the end of the week to talk about the RNC. 1.00

00:31:25.540 And also, you should go to All Access.

00:31:27.100 This is our elite tier of membership.

00:31:29.540 This is where you get to participate in All Access Hangouts with the other members of the website in All Access

00:31:34.700 and with the hosts and with the writers.

00:31:37.020 Go to dailywire.com slash knolls right now.

00:31:39.980 You can get 20% off and not one but two.

00:31:43.180 Two leftist-steers tumblers.

00:31:44.580 How's that?

00:31:45.940 Using access code access.

00:31:49.760 Access code access.

00:31:51.000 Go to dailywire.com slash knolls.

00:31:52.800 Use the code access.

00:31:54.420 You'll get 20% off and two tumblers.

00:31:57.520 And then stay right there.

00:31:58.740 We'll be back with a lot more.

00:32:04.700 To show you, you know, pulling back a little bit from the outright lies that the press tells you

00:32:17.620 where you can actually listen to the audio and then they deny it exists,

00:32:21.240 I'll give you a more typical example of how they do these things.

00:32:26.860 This is from ABC News.

00:32:28.740 State Department fighting to deny U.S. citizenship to gay couples' child.

00:32:36.220 That's terrible, isn't it?

00:32:37.640 You got this American couple who I guess they're being discriminated against because they're gay

00:32:43.440 and they've got their child and the child is being denied citizenship.

00:32:47.620 That's just so...

00:32:48.220 Wait, hold on a second here.

00:32:49.880 Wait, hold on.

00:32:50.380 Wait, what was that headline?

00:32:51.320 State Department fighting to deny U.S. citizenship to gay couples' child. 0.64

00:32:56.640 Gay couples' child. 1.00

00:32:57.840 I'm no biologist, okay?

00:33:01.200 I'm an expert scientist, but I'm not specifically a biologist.

00:33:05.760 But it seems to me, if I go back to my elementary learning of how children are made, where babies

00:33:11.340 come from, gay couples can't have children by themselves, right? 1.00

00:33:16.060 That doesn't work that way.

00:33:19.420 So wait a second.

00:33:20.320 Maybe there's more to this headline.

00:33:22.560 Maybe there's more to this story than meets the eye.

00:33:24.700 Well, of course there is.

00:33:25.780 Two gentlemen by the name of Rowey Kavidi and Adiel Kavidi, living in Chevy Chase, Maryland,

00:33:34.060 are legally married under the new definition of marriage.

00:33:37.180 They're both U.S. citizens.

00:33:39.780 Their daughter, Kassem, was born in Canada via a surrogate.

00:33:45.800 So the State Department has argued in federal court that she's born out of wedlock and not

00:33:49.660 entitled to birthright citizenship.

00:33:51.080 There are so many things wrong with this story.

00:33:53.880 First of all, we talked about this issue last week when we were discussing Kamala Harris's

00:33:57.600 eligibility for vice president.

00:33:59.260 The question of birthright citizenship as granted by the 14th Amendment is very much an

00:34:03.480 open legal question.

00:34:04.480 The Supreme Court has never held that there is blanket birthright citizenship for anybody

00:34:09.800 who happens to be born on U.S. soil.

00:34:12.360 So that's one issue that's wrong with it.

00:34:15.080 Then the child was born out of wedlock.

00:34:18.440 Well, of course the child was born out of wedlock, first of all, given the definition of marriage.

00:34:23.620 But even under the new definition of marriage that has come about, not through Democratic choice,

00:34:28.440 whenever this was put on the ballot, even in very Democratic states, people rejected radically

00:34:32.240 redefining marriage because it's the bedrock institution of society, but even using the

00:34:36.480 new definition of marriage, these two men obviously can't have a child together.

00:34:42.700 So the actual parents of this child are one of these men and this woman, and the child is

00:34:49.580 being denied her natural mother, intentionally.

00:34:53.380 How insane a legal system do we have that a child can intentionally be denied her natural

00:35:00.000 mother?

00:35:00.340 Awful stuff. 0.99

00:35:03.060 You know, the focus is only put in this political issue on how this gay couple really wants to

00:35:08.720 have a child, but because of nature, they can't have a child together.

00:35:12.340 No thought is put on this little girl who will never be able to know her mother, her natural

00:35:17.920 mother, who will be created in a legal regime that only prioritizes the desires of the parents

00:35:23.720 to overcome the limitations of nature, and will never be directed toward the natural needs

00:35:29.980 of the child.

00:35:31.980 That's the second part.

00:35:34.160 The third part is, this happened in Canada.

00:35:38.360 And yet, so, there are so many layers here of why this shouldn't even be a headline.

00:35:45.700 Child is born out of wedlock in Canada and is not a U.S. citizen.

00:35:51.100 Yeah, duh.

00:35:53.800 Shouldn't even be a headline.

00:35:54.900 But it serves so many aspects of the liberal establishment's goals.

00:36:00.180 Namely, to radically redefine every institution that threatens any of the political power of

00:36:06.060 the growing liberal state, most notably, most importantly, the family, which the left and

00:36:12.020 the progressive establishment has been after, explicitly, you can read it in their writings

00:36:16.760 for well over 100 years.

00:36:19.060 It goes back further to that fellow I was just mentioning, Mr. Karl Marx.

00:36:23.080 Then, you have another priority here, which is open borders, right?

00:36:28.520 The liberal establishment wants open borders because it diminishes the political sovereignty

00:36:33.220 of the people, the ability of the people to determine their own politics and government.

00:36:38.600 And it encourages trade.

00:36:40.780 It encourages keeping wages down.

00:36:44.060 It encourages everything that this group of people wants.

00:36:49.580 And that's the way the story is presented.

00:36:51.740 That if you just, if you, just any normal person just looks at that headline, State Department

00:36:55.380 denying U.S. citizenship to gay couples child, you'd say, oh, that's wrong, right?

00:36:58.920 That sounds wrong.

00:36:59.720 And then you read the story, you realize how wrong it is.

00:37:05.280 Same, you know, you can even see this in the stories they don't run.

00:37:07.560 So the NBA, the NBA, which I don't watch, has these two players, Montrezl Harrell and Luka

00:37:14.100 Doncic.

00:37:15.020 I'm certain I didn't pronounce this correctly, but sort of secondary to my point.

00:37:19.500 So they were playing a basketball game.

00:37:21.180 And Mr. Harrell made a good shot or something.

00:37:26.840 And so as he was walking away after this great play, you can see him mouth on camera into 1.00

00:37:33.660 close-up the phrase, well, bleep me if I, I think I'm allowed to say, bitch-ass white 1.00

00:37:39.640 boy. 1.00

00:37:39.920 That was the phrase that he said.

00:37:41.420 I don't know if, I don't know if I'm allowed to say that on the air, but if I'm not, you

00:37:43.840 know, just bleep me.

00:37:45.080 That's what he says.

00:37:46.500 It's like, it's like WAP, but another, but that's a variation of that phrase.

00:37:51.200 Now, people in the heat of sports, these are obviously top athletes, these are intense

00:37:57.440 competitors, you're going to say things.

00:38:00.440 You're going to say rude things, mean things, get in each other's heads.

00:38:03.080 So I don't really blame this guy.

00:38:05.040 However, imagine if it were reversed.

00:38:07.860 Imagine if it weren't a black athlete saying that to a white athlete, but a white athlete 0.91

00:38:11.560 making a similar comment to a black athlete.

00:38:14.580 You would have wall-to-wall coverage, 24-7 news.

00:38:18.480 Not only would the team be shut down, the league would be shut down.

00:38:20.880 Maybe the country would be shut down with protests.

00:38:24.660 But the reason that the media and the liberal establishment would encourage that is because

00:38:31.260 it would serve their ends of sowing discord, diminishing American political unity, diminishing

00:38:37.420 the ability of the American citizens to speak to one another, to communicate, to determine

00:38:44.060 in our own deliberative bodies how to govern ourselves.

00:38:47.420 And by pushing, or by ignoring this story, they move right along.

00:38:55.200 They continue to stoke the flames of racial division when it comes to BLM.

00:38:59.320 Never, never any story on the other way.

00:39:01.260 There is a degree of victimhood that has now, it's taken on such status, it's taken on such

00:39:11.100 prestige, it confers such privilege, that you now have candidates for political office not

00:39:16.680 making keen logical arguments for what they want to do and why their set of policies is

00:39:21.320 better than their opponent's set of policies.

00:39:22.720 They're faking their own kidnappings to give themselves the illusion of that privilege.

00:39:31.080 And they'll hope that that wins.

00:39:31.980 There's a woman in Sumter, South Carolina, 29 years old, Sabrina Belcher, who ran as not

00:39:39.420 the candidate who believes this or that, not the candidate who's going to push for this

00:39:43.560 or that policy.

00:39:44.240 She fashioned herself, quote, the first black female candidate ever to run, which is something 0.97

00:39:51.140 I don't care about.

00:39:52.240 I don't care if she's the first female black candidate. 1.00

00:39:56.180 I care about what she's going to do, right?

00:39:58.460 I mean, I don't live in Sumter, South Carolina, but if I were a citizen there, or if I were voting

00:40:03.880 for a candidate in my own jurisdiction, I would care about what they are going to do, what

00:40:08.920 they believe, what they represent, is a matter of policy and politics.

00:40:15.500 But that doesn't matter anymore.

00:40:17.120 Now people are only running on identity and through identity, victimhood.

00:40:22.200 So this woman was apparently assaulted and kidnapped by 34-year-old Christopher Eadie.

00:40:30.900 Take a listen to the video that for some reason, conspicuously and coincidentally, all of this

00:40:36.160 was caught on video.

00:40:36.980 All right, looks like it's, looks like everything's fine. 0.78

00:41:02.320 You're right and I'll f***ing stop it.

00:41:05.160 Hmm? 0.99

00:41:06.440 Tell you about f***ing with my motherf***ing people. 1.00

00:41:10.000 And he starts hitting her. 1.00

00:41:11.040 Hmm? 1.00

00:41:12.900 The f*** you want? 1.00

00:41:20.740 Oh gosh, this is getting even worse. 0.99

00:41:23.000 This is some...

00:41:24.320 She's so afraid.

00:41:27.780 With Hollywood shut down, obviously someone's got to create content for the public, and I

00:41:35.460 guess now it's mayoral candidates in Sumter, South Carolina, because every single second

00:41:40.140 of that was completely faked.

00:41:42.200 This woman planned it all out with Mr. Eadie beforehand. 0.90

00:41:47.000 This is not the first time we've seen this.

00:41:49.340 This is just the latest in a line of actors, some professional, like Jesse Smollett walking

00:41:55.480 through MAGA country in Chicago, and some amateur like Ms. Belcher, who are putting on these

00:42:04.180 kinds of performances.

00:42:05.140 Because they see that the fastest way to political cachet, the fastest way to political change, is not by making honest arguments.

00:42:15.740 It's by putting on dishonest performances.

00:42:19.480 It's by tricking the public.

00:42:21.940 It's through smoke and mirrors.

00:42:24.820 Now why is this?

00:42:26.100 One, people are emotional.

00:42:27.740 And if you play on people's emotions and appetites and hysteria, you're likely to get a reaction.

00:42:32.320 But in the long run, what does that lead to?

00:42:35.140 It leads to the collapse of your physical country that we can see all around us, and it leads to the collapse of your politics.

00:42:41.220 Bill de Blasio was just asked in New York, when the city is going to open back up, what the plan is.

00:42:48.180 You know, 15 days to slow the spread.

00:42:50.320 Do you remember that?

00:42:50.860 It was about 160 days ago at this point.

00:42:53.800 And now it's, I don't know, when are we going to reopen?

00:42:56.380 Maybe sometime in 2024 or something.

00:42:58.020 I don't know.

00:42:59.140 So de Blasio's asked, when are you going to open up indoor dining?

00:43:02.500 At least, what is the plan?

00:43:04.280 You know what his plan is?

00:43:05.640 He has no plan.

00:43:07.060 There's not a context for indoor dining.

00:43:09.340 We're never saying it's impossible.

00:43:11.780 But we do not, based on what we've seen around the world, do not have a plan for reopening indoor dining in the near term.

00:43:19.720 Of course they don't have a plan.

00:43:21.660 They don't need a plan.

00:43:22.880 They don't need to tell the American people what they're going to do, because they have the right to rule.

00:43:28.640 Because it's not even about Democrat or Republican or left or right.

00:43:31.420 I mean, they do happen to be mostly Democrats.

00:43:34.720 They do happen to be left wing.

00:43:37.160 But they feel, ultimately, that they are the ruling class.

00:43:40.740 And they are.

00:43:41.540 They are the ruling class. 0.68

00:43:42.740 And they will make whatever decision they want.

00:43:45.200 And they'll tell you whatever they think you need to hear to make it go down a little easier.

00:43:50.120 But ultimately, they're going to do whatever they want to do.

00:43:55.300 That is not Democratic government.

00:43:59.400 You know, blue-checked Twitter went crazy yesterday.

00:44:01.720 Because President Trump announced the Republican Party is not going to have a real platform this year.

00:44:06.820 You know, the parties go to the conventions.

00:44:08.180 They write these platforms.

00:44:09.380 But it doesn't really matter, because at least for the last, you know, 100 or so years,

00:44:13.740 the president and the presidential nominee is the platform.

00:44:17.500 He is the leader of the party.

00:44:18.920 This was also envisioned by Woodrow Wilson, that the president would become the leader of the party.

00:44:23.600 So Trump says, okay, we're not going to waste time on this platform.

00:44:27.600 I'm just going to give you my second-term agenda.

00:44:30.000 And we can get into the second-term agenda a little bit later in the week.

00:44:32.760 There's just one part that made the commentariat, the Twitterati, go crazy.

00:44:37.320 And it was that he said, as part of his education plan, he's going to teach American exceptionalism.

00:44:44.300 Very simple.

00:44:45.360 This would have been not only non-controversial.

00:44:49.700 This would have been understood, expected, until very recently.

00:44:54.660 And the left went nuts.

00:44:55.860 And a lot of teachers on Twitter said, I'm a teacher.

00:44:57.260 I'm not teaching American exceptionalism.

00:44:58.680 America's terrible. 0.73

00:44:59.340 America's an awful place.

00:45:01.080 What is American exceptionalism?

00:45:02.560 Some people interpret this to mean that America's the single greatest perfect nation ever, and it doesn't do anything wrong.

00:45:08.780 That's not what American exceptionalism means.

00:45:10.900 It means because of America's unique history and founding, it's different than other countries, which is obviously true. 1.00

00:45:19.360 America is a country that was founded in a new world with very distinct, highly conscious political principles.

00:45:26.300 In a period of time when people were focusing in on the mechanisms of government in a more abstracted way than many people had in the past.

00:45:38.660 That is by definition true.

00:45:40.940 What is an aspect of American exceptionalism?

00:45:43.080 This focus on a particularly 18th century conception of liberty that does, in fact, draw on the ancients.

00:45:51.340 This conception of liberty and self-government and how we rule our own country.

00:45:56.720 That is American exceptionalism.

00:46:00.420 And it should come as no surprise that the left laughs at it and mocks it.

00:46:04.760 But it's not just that the left, you know, sort of hates the country and they're burning the American flag.

00:46:14.780 They don't believe in this.

00:46:16.960 And they have been saying, at least since Woodrow Wilson, that they want to get rid of that.

00:46:21.020 They openly mock it.

00:46:22.220 They say, I mean, if you read the writings of Wilson, he'll say, look, the American Constitution was founded on the principles of Isaac Newton.

00:46:28.600 You know, these kind of eternal laws that balance power against each other.

00:46:32.500 But that's all BS.

00:46:33.280 We've had a new scientific achievement.

00:46:34.940 We've got Charles Darwin.

00:46:36.840 And Charles Darwin shows us that nothing is objective.

00:46:42.060 Everything is on a continuum.

00:46:44.540 Everything is progressing and evolving.

00:46:46.520 So we just need power, like an organism, to do whatever we want.

00:46:51.520 Those are opposing views of America.

00:46:53.300 That's why it's important to overturn and rewrite the history of America and pull down the statues of America and tear down what we would call the traditional American nation.

00:47:01.400 To enact that kind of politics.

00:47:03.900 And most importantly, they've got to blot out democracy, Republican government, self-rule.

00:47:10.280 Because that presumes that people have enduring rights that aren't just going to go away as the organism evolves.

00:47:19.480 That's what the left is trying to impose on us.

00:47:22.740 Democracy is on the ballot. 0.98

00:47:24.320 Damn right. 0.97

00:47:24.900 I guess it is. 0.91

00:47:25.560 And when they tell you there's only one legitimate choice you can make, then you know they've taken it and put it on the ballot, perhaps.

00:47:32.020 But they're not going to read your ballots because they're going to put it first on the guillotine.

00:47:36.200 That's our show.

00:47:36.740 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:47:37.260 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:47:38.280 See you tomorrow.

00:47:38.720 The Michael Knowles Show.

00:48:08.720 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Ben Davies, executive producer Jeremy Boren, supervising producers Mathis Glover and Robert Sterling, technical producer Austin Stevens, assistant director Pavel Widowski, editor and associate producer Danny D'Amico, audio mixer Robin Fenderson, hair and makeup Nika Geneva, production assistant Ryan Love.

00:48:31.280 The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production.

00:48:33.740 Copyright Daily Wire 2020.

00:48:35.320 You know, The Matt Walsh Show, it's not just another show about politics.

00:48:39.720 I think there are enough of those already out there.

00:48:41.620 We talk about culture because culture drives politics and it drives everything else.

00:48:46.380 So my main focuses are life, family, faith.

00:48:50.900 Those are fundamental.

00:48:52.300 And that's what this show is about.

00:48:53.720 I hope you'll give it a listen.

00:48:55.040 We'll give it a listen.

The Michael Knowles Show - August 24, 2020

Ep. 602 - Democracy On The Guillotine

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript