The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 605 - Life And Death On The Ballot

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00:00:30.000 The left has a new euphemism.

00:00:32.820 You've heard of mostly peaceful protesters, but have you heard of mostly unarmed criminals?

00:00:40.400 Well, that's, that's the new one from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

00:00:44.600 So they've, they've since changed the headline.

00:00:46.680 The original headline regarded that man, Jacob Blake, who resisted arrest and he had a warrant

00:00:52.140 out for his arrest and he was convicted of sexual assault and domestic violence.

00:00:56.880 And then he reached into his car and finally the police shot him.

00:00:59.660 So the original headline for this incident from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jacob Blake

00:01:05.520 had knife in car, but was otherwise unarmed, Wisconsin DOJ says, as it releases name of

00:01:13.180 Kenosha officer who shot him in the back.

00:01:14.880 Now, everyone knew that there was a weapon in this car.

00:01:17.160 We weren't able to say that because you want to give them the benefit of the doubt in the

00:01:22.720 story, but it was pretty clear he was reaching in for a weapon.

00:01:25.320 Now we know that he was reaching in for a weapon, but other than that, he was, he was mostly

00:01:28.700 otherwise unarmed later.

00:01:30.600 Later they changed the headline because it got so much flack on the internet.

00:01:33.580 So now it is Wisconsin attorney general, Josh Cole says Jacob Blake had knife in car, but

00:01:39.500 would not clarify if responding officers knew about it.

00:01:43.660 Well, they don't have to know about it.

00:01:44.820 It's not that the responding officers are mind readers or that they had already cased his

00:01:47.920 car.

00:01:48.200 The fact is when you're resisting arrest like that and you're a wanted violent criminal and

00:01:52.420 you reach into a car while the cops have guns on you, you can't take that chance.

00:01:57.140 You can use common sense.

00:01:58.700 Common sense is not too common anymore.

00:02:02.360 Meanwhile, while the left is trying to downplay this sort of violence, downplay these sort of

00:02:07.560 threats, they're, they're trying to gin up violence all around the country in the form

00:02:11.700 of riots.

00:02:12.500 We will get into life and death on the ballot.

00:02:14.940 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:15.940 This is the Michael Knowles show.

00:02:18.200 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:25.900 The Democrats and the militant arm of the democratic party, these violent riders in the streets, 0.71

00:02:31.720 they're getting life and death exactly backwards.

00:02:35.020 They are, they are threatening and damaging life.

00:02:38.180 They are celebrating death.

00:02:39.520 The opposite is true at the RNC.

00:02:42.000 The RNC had an amazing couple of nights on questions of life and death on questions of

00:02:47.940 science and on questions of religion and philosophy.

00:02:51.260 It was really, really excellent stuff, which we will get into.

00:02:54.980 First though, my favorite comment from yesterday from Amber says, CNN had to remove violent from

00:03:00.520 the Chiron as the peace intensified.

00:03:03.860 Yes, that's the, uh, I forgot about that one.

00:03:07.060 We just talked about it yesterday, but there are so many of these things that CNN has this

00:03:11.380 line violent protesters in the Chiron and then they have to take it away, bring it back with 0.99

00:03:16.380 no violence at all, no violence at all.

00:03:18.980 Because to use another mainstream media euphemism, when the protests, when the peaceful protests

00:03:24.080 intensify, they become violent.

00:03:27.100 Another example that the left doesn't know how to use English, or maybe they do know how

00:03:30.840 to use English.

00:03:31.380 And that's why they're so interested in twisting it.

00:03:34.420 We will get into that.

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00:05:04.820 The left uses euphemism, right?

00:05:08.500 The austere religious scholar, mostly peaceful protesters.

00:05:12.900 Peaceful protests intensify.

00:05:14.840 Otherwise unarmed criminals.

00:05:16.460 That's what political correctness is, is euphemism, using soft words or outright dishonest words

00:05:24.240 to obscure truths that the left does not want to, to convey to you.

00:05:29.100 That's what jargon is.

00:05:30.260 Whenever you see jargon in the social sciences, most especially, but in any sort of, any field

00:05:36.380 that becomes politicized, they'll use ostensibly technical jargon to sap all the life, all the

00:05:41.320 imagery, all the vividness out of, out of what they're trying to say so that you don't know

00:05:46.680 what they really mean.

00:05:48.760 This is not only done to push narratives on crime and race, although that's what the Milwaukee

00:05:54.300 Journal Sentinel is doing right now.

00:05:55.780 That's what the left has been doing with all of these riots and with, with coronavirus too,

00:05:59.580 which we'll get to in a little bit.

00:06:01.380 Most especially though, when the left uses euphemism like this, they're using it on the issue of

00:06:07.320 abortion, okay? 0.91

00:06:09.360 Because abortion is so, it's a little baby and you've got to defend killing a baby if 0.99

00:06:12.900 you support abortion.

00:06:13.680 So you've got to twist language in this way that is, that is so beyond any realm of reason.

00:06:21.040 The RNC called the Democrats out for this in a way that, that had more teeth, that was

00:06:26.760 more vivid than I've ever seen before at a Republican National Convention, because they

00:06:30.240 had Abby Johnson, who's a former Planned Parenthood employee. 0.92

00:06:33.600 And she was a real, I mean, she wasn't a low level employee.

00:06:36.060 She was being promoted up the chain.

00:06:38.600 She had been given the Margaret Sanger Award, Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood.

00:06:44.300 She had been given lots of accolades.

00:06:47.840 They saw her as a future leader of the organization.

00:06:50.260 And then she realized the reality of abortion.

00:06:52.740 And she left now, she's one of the biggest pro-life advocates in the country. 1.00

00:06:55.920 She's the subject of the movie Unplanned.

00:06:58.060 So she laces into Margaret Sanger.

00:07:00.400 She laces into Planned Parenthood. 0.99

00:07:02.020 And then she spills the beans. 1.00

00:07:03.600 Then she gives a vivid personal account of what abortion actually looks like.

00:07:09.260 Later in August, my supervisor assigned me a new quota to meet, an abortion quota.

00:07:16.380 I was expected to sell double the abortions performed the previous year.

00:07:21.740 When I pushed back, underscoring Planned Parenthood's public-facing goal of decreasing abortions, I was

00:07:28.180 reprimanded and told, abortion is how we make our money.

00:07:33.940 But the tipping point came a month later when a physician asked me to assist with an ultrasound-guided

00:07:40.680 abortion.

00:07:41.960 Nothing prepared me for what I saw on the screen.

00:07:46.560 An unborn baby fighting back, desperate to move away from the suction.

00:07:53.120 And I'll never forget what the doctor said next.

00:07:58.280 Beam me up, Scotty.

00:08:00.920 The last thing I saw was a spine twirling around in the mother's womb before succumbing to the force of the suction. 0.57

00:08:10.080 Very difficult to listen to that.

00:08:14.360 And when Abby Johnson says that, or when a pro-life advocate says something like that, that is merely describing what happens in an abortion.

00:08:23.940 Just describing the physical process of it.

00:08:26.360 Or describing a conversation that someone has with a physician from Planned Parenthood, or with an executive from Planned Parenthood.

00:08:31.780 But we're told, oh, that's, that's offensive.

00:08:35.320 You can't do that.

00:08:35.880 You can't talk about that.

00:08:37.000 That's offensive.

00:08:37.960 Don't, it's going to make people feel, feel the bads.

00:08:41.060 You know, it's not going to make them feel, feel good.

00:08:44.200 So it's offensive to describe what people are actually doing to the tune of a million babies a year.

00:08:49.000 But it's inoffensive to lie about it.

00:08:51.920 To say it's women's health. 1.00

00:08:53.900 It's the opposite of women's health. 1.00

00:08:55.180 It's reproductive health. 1.00

00:08:56.480 It's certainly the opposite of reproductive health. 1.00

00:08:59.720 It's the right to choose.

00:09:01.820 Right to choose what?

00:09:03.420 Having slavery in the country is the right to choose, right? 0.96

00:09:05.440 Committing a genocide is the right to choose.

00:09:07.220 Someone's choosing it.

00:09:08.580 What's the choice?

00:09:09.860 Who cares about the fact that it is a choice?

00:09:13.220 We're always making choices all the time.

00:09:14.820 What are you choosing to do?

00:09:16.220 That's the question.

00:09:17.680 But this is how the left manipulates language effectively.

00:09:20.840 It's because people don't want to hear ugly truths.

00:09:23.160 That's the point of euphemism is to use a word that is, that's good. 0.72

00:09:26.820 That sounds, that sounds gooder.

00:09:28.880 It sounds more pleasant.

00:09:30.260 But the reality is what's key here.

00:09:33.340 And Abby Johnson obviously has so much stature and credibility because she actually saw it.

00:09:38.960 The left, they always say they love science, right?

00:09:41.780 They always love listening to the scientists.

00:09:44.040 What if the scientists have a hard truth to say?

00:09:47.480 What if people who have seen these scientific processes have a hard truth to say?

00:09:51.120 What about when the science is not convenient, moving off the subject of abortion onto the

00:09:56.380 subject of coronavirus?

00:09:57.880 The left-wing governors, most especially Andrew Cuomo, worst governor on this subject in the

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00:10:07.800 We'll get into that in one second.

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00:11:36.820 So, Andrew Cuomo right now, worst governor in America on this issue of coronavirus and

00:11:43.180 the lockdowns, he insisted on a 14-day quarantine if people come in from other states where he

00:11:49.700 thinks coronavirus is exploding.

00:11:51.480 This is very frustrating to me because I've got a lot of relatives and friends in New York.

00:11:55.720 I'm not able to go see them because I'm certainly not going to quarantine for 14 days.

00:11:59.020 I don't have that kind of time.

00:11:59.960 Nobody does.

00:12:01.320 So, all of this was based on the CDC guidelines.

00:12:04.880 Listen to the scientists.

00:12:06.360 Except, the CDC has now lifted that guideline.

00:12:10.480 The CDC says you no longer need to quarantine.

00:12:13.020 It doesn't recommend quarantining.

00:12:14.880 Here's Andrew Cuomo's response.

00:12:16.120 The CDC reversed its guidance to say people in close contact with a COVID-positive person

00:12:20.600 don't need to get tested.

00:12:22.340 This is not science.

00:12:23.640 It's politics.

00:12:25.280 Politics that are dangerous to public health.

00:12:28.300 It's indefensible.

00:12:29.320 So, Andrew Cuomo, expert scientist, is now going to lecture the CDC on science because he says

00:12:37.180 the CDC has become political.

00:12:38.640 So, he, a lifelong politician who's never done anything other than politics, knows much

00:12:42.440 more about science and is certainly not political.

00:12:44.460 Is that it?

00:12:44.860 That's the argument he's making?

00:12:45.960 Not a very convincing one.

00:12:47.660 Also, he doesn't know the meaning of these words.

00:12:49.940 Public health is political science.

00:12:52.880 Not political science like this kind of useless subject you study in college, but political

00:12:58.300 science meaning it is science that has a political dimension to it.

00:13:01.800 Public and political are synonyms.

00:13:04.940 They mean the same thing when we're talking about how we work together, how we apply certain

00:13:10.560 methods, certain other academic fields to the public.

00:13:15.480 That makes it political.

00:13:17.840 So, obviously, the CDC has a political dimension.

00:13:20.380 It's a government agency.

00:13:21.240 But how come when they issue guidelines that you like, it's not political, and when they

00:13:26.640 issue guidelines that you don't like, it is political?

00:13:28.720 Because what the left is saying is that politics is a bad word.

00:13:31.380 We have to reduce politics.

00:13:33.880 And what they want to assume is just that their political views are objective, they're

00:13:39.600 true, they're always good, there's no debate.

00:13:42.240 They're actually taking their politics outside the realm of politics so they don't have to 1.00

00:13:46.920 debate about their stupid policies. 0.99

00:13:48.500 They can just do it, and then it's only the other guy's views. 1.00

00:13:51.820 That's politics, and not only is that up for debate, but really, you should just reject

00:13:56.540 it outright.

00:13:59.220 You know, the knee-jerk reaction from the left is listen to the scientists.

00:14:04.100 You know, the right sometimes responds to that too.

00:14:06.860 So they'll say, okay, the left wanted to listen to science two weeks ago, but now they don't.

00:14:11.780 Well, we're sticking strong and saying, you should listen to the scientists.

00:14:14.940 I think that plays into the left's hands.

00:14:17.260 I actually think that it's perfectly right to listen to the scientists, and listen to

00:14:22.220 the politicians, and listen to the economists, and listen to the military advisors, and listen

00:14:28.660 to the spiritual advisors.

00:14:30.420 Listen to religion.

00:14:32.260 Listen to philosophy.

00:14:33.240 But more especially, listen to religion.

00:14:36.160 The left's head would explode if you were to say something like that.

00:14:38.780 This was Trump's big mistake early on, by the way.

00:14:41.900 When he would have these coronavirus briefings, he would only have a couple of scientists

00:14:46.020 there.

00:14:46.640 He wouldn't bring in all of the other aspects of politics and government, and certainly

00:14:51.740 there's not a chance that you would see a presidential press conference where a priest

00:14:55.820 or a nun or somebody came up and spoke, because as modern science has developed, questions

00:15:02.120 of philosophy, the eternal questions, and certainly religious questions have been relegated

00:15:06.740 away.

00:15:07.460 But the only way that we are going to come to a sensible understanding of our society

00:15:12.120 is if we incorporate those fields.

00:15:15.260 The founders of America knew that.

00:15:17.440 We knew that in this country until 50 years ago at most, and now we seem to have forgotten

00:15:23.500 it.

00:15:23.640 Well, one person didn't forget it.

00:15:25.540 And this was the moment of the Republican National Convention.

00:15:28.760 It's probably the greatest moment I've ever seen at a political party convention.

00:15:33.400 A woman, a nun, Sister D.D. Byrd, Sister Dr. D.D. Byrd, completely stole the show. 1.00

00:15:41.780 She is with Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts.

00:15:45.100 She's not only a sister, she's not only a nun, she's a medical doctor.

00:15:50.620 She's not only a medical doctor, she's an army surgeon, and she worked with refugees for many,

00:15:56.980 many years.

00:15:57.780 She actually, this nun in a habit, is actually embodying a broader scope of politics, a broader

00:16:06.220 scope of science, of whatever sector you want to talk about, than just about anybody I've

00:16:11.960 seen in the government, right?

00:16:13.500 She checks the box of religious, she checks the box of military, she checks the box of 0.56

00:16:18.040 scientists, she checks the box of practical scientists, because she's a surgeon, she checks 1.00

00:16:23.660 the box of patriot, all of these things.

00:16:27.680 The left would look at this woman wearing a traditional habit and say, oh my gosh, she's 1.00

00:16:32.000 the most fringe sector of society.

00:16:33.660 No, she's more mainstream than any of you people.

00:16:35.920 And she gave a much broader view of this issue that Abby Johnson was just talking about,

00:16:41.260 of this issue of life and death, on the question of abortion.

00:16:46.060 She acknowledges the most marginalized people on earth.

00:16:49.880 Those refugees all share a common experience.

00:16:53.800 They have been all marginalized, viewed as insignificant, powerless, and voiceless.

00:17:00.440 And while we tend to think of the marginalized as living beyond our borders, the truth is,

00:17:06.040 the largest marginalized group in the world can be found here in the United States.

00:17:11.260 They are the unborn.

00:17:14.160 There it is.

00:17:15.160 The left is always talking about the marginalized and the oppressed and the vulnerable.

00:17:20.680 Nobody is more marginalized and oppressed and vulnerable than babies who are killed

00:17:25.820 in the womb, who have absolutely no means of defending themselves, who are totally,

00:17:31.260 and they're killed with, at least with the consent of the government and their own mothers.

00:17:39.480 There's no more oppressed group on earth.

00:17:43.220 And I love how Sister Byrne, she just says these things matter-of-factly.

00:17:48.600 She explains it.

00:17:49.260 Not a big performance and arms flailing everywhere. 0.59

00:17:52.160 Just very simple.

00:17:53.040 She's just telling you the truth.

00:17:54.940 Now, what the left would say, if they didn't know her biographies, they would say,

00:17:59.120 oh, who cares?

00:18:00.220 What does this nun know about anything? 1.00

00:18:02.000 I want to hear from the scientists.

00:18:03.240 Well, she gives you the science.

00:18:05.680 As a physician, I can say without hesitation, life begins at conception.

00:18:12.280 While what I have to say may be difficult for some to hear, I am saying it because I'm

00:18:17.180 not just pro-life.

00:18:18.400 I'm pro-eternal life, and I want all of us to end up in heaven together someday.

00:18:25.420 Preach, sister.

00:18:26.440 Yes.

00:18:26.980 Oh, my gosh.

00:18:27.780 If we could elect this woman president, it would be so great.

00:18:30.980 She's got this view that she has the expertise, right?

00:18:35.340 She obviously has medical expertise. 0.99

00:18:37.940 She's a doctor.

00:18:38.580 She's got this practical expertise.

00:18:40.200 She's a surgeon, so she can speak to, but she's not locked into her field of expertise.

00:18:44.940 She's not, she doesn't have blinders on. 0.78

00:18:47.260 You know, one of the problems with public health officials is they might know some, usually

00:18:51.220 they don't know anything about public health, but sometimes they do.

00:18:53.460 The trouble is society and politics is about more than just making sure people never get

00:18:57.920 the sniffles.

00:18:59.260 There actually are other dimensions you have to weigh, and she's weighing those things.

00:19:01.940 She goes, look, I'm telling you about life as a physical process.

00:19:05.540 I'm also telling you about eternal life as a spiritual process, and you have to think

00:19:10.140 about those things because we're not just flesh.

00:19:12.000 We're not just meat puppets.

00:19:13.060 We have a soul.

00:19:14.040 We have an immaterial dimension to us.

00:19:15.980 Everything we love and care about, love itself, is immaterial, right?

00:19:21.000 Our dreams, our hopes, our loves, our joys, our ambitions, all of these things, they're

00:19:24.840 not physical.

00:19:25.620 They can't be measured under a microscope.

00:19:27.780 Someone has to speak to those as well.

00:19:30.160 And then Sister Byrne goes a step further.

00:19:33.360 She goes even beyond the fields of science and religion, which are complementary to one

00:19:38.160 another.

00:19:38.600 She goes further.

00:19:39.880 She gets into politics.

00:19:40.860 Donald Trump is the most pro-life president that this nation has ever had, defending life

00:19:48.180 at all stages.

00:19:49.860 His belief in the sanctity of life transcends politics.

00:19:54.400 President Trump will stand up against Biden-Harris, who are the most anti-life presidential ticket

00:20:00.420 ever, even supporting the horrors of late-term abortion and infanticide.

00:20:06.900 Because of his courage and conviction, President Trump has earned the support of America's pro-life

00:20:12.540 community.

00:20:14.400 Moreover, he has a nationwide of religious standing behind him.

00:20:18.540 You'll find us here with our weapon of choice, the rosary.

00:20:21.720 So thank you, Mr. President.

00:20:24.280 We are all praying for you.

00:20:26.400 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:20:27.840 Thank you, Sister Byrne.

00:20:31.280 Yes, Donald Trump is the most pro-life president in American history.

00:20:36.220 And I know a lot of people, a lot of religious people, they don't want to say that.

00:20:41.100 The American religious life has been utterly castrated since the Johnson Amendment, since 0.97

00:20:47.060 we're not now not allowed to speak about any matters that have any practical bearing on

00:20:51.300 politics in churches, lest they lose their tax-exempt status.

00:20:55.120 We're not allowed to discuss religious matters in schools.

00:20:57.940 We're not allowed to pray in schools, which we were in the United States from the founding,

00:21:01.720 since before the founding, all the way up until not so long ago.

00:21:05.140 We're not even allowed to read the Bible in schools anymore.

00:21:08.000 Doesn't make any sense, does it?

00:21:09.820 Sister Byrne, however, is not going to be neutered like that. 0.98

00:21:13.900 She's going to come right out and say it.

00:21:15.940 It's not just that Trump is the most pro-life, it's that Biden and Harris are the most anti-life

00:21:20.320 candidates in American history on a mainstream level.

00:21:24.900 They want to force taxpayers to pay for abortions.

00:21:28.360 Should there be any limits on abortions?

00:21:29.780 No, none, according to the Biden-Harris ticket.

00:21:32.900 And she's out there to say it.

00:21:34.120 And I think we should all learn something from that.

00:21:36.560 It's this, it's this intersection.

00:21:39.060 It's this coming together of all these various fields that's so wonderful here.

00:21:42.300 It's this integrity of her thought that the science informs the religion.

00:21:45.940 Religion informs the science.

00:21:47.160 Both the religion and the science inform the political.

00:21:50.640 I'm sure you could expand that further.

00:21:52.360 She obviously has a powerful mind and spirit. 0.75

00:21:56.420 So I'm sure this brings, comes out into other fields and then brings it back together in an

00:22:00.700 integrity of thought.

00:22:01.720 That's something, that's something that we could all learn from.

00:22:04.520 You can tell I'm very excited by this speech.

00:22:06.580 It was a wonderful speech.

00:22:07.400 And it, it threw into stark contrast that there's issues of life and death.

00:22:11.820 So the left will burn down the country if a criminal dies while resisting arrest.

00:22:16.920 And we've seen multiple examples of this in recent months, but the left will cheer on the

00:22:23.140 slaughter of 1 million innocent babies per year.

00:22:25.460 It's a little odd, isn't it?

00:22:29.140 And I don't even, I don't mean just to castigate them and say the left is, they're all just

00:22:33.380 terribly malicious.

00:22:34.680 I'm saying to be charitable about it, their view of life and death is, is completely backwards.

00:22:40.600 They've got some things off in their perspective.

00:22:43.940 I'll give you another example of this misunderstanding life and death.

00:22:46.460 There are new court documents that are out right now, dated May 26th and June 1st, relating

00:22:51.840 to George Floyd, George Floyd, the man who died in police custody in Minneapolis.

00:22:58.320 He wasn't in, I mean, he was on the ground.

00:23:00.080 The police were arresting him.

00:23:01.260 He had been resisting arrest.

00:23:02.360 Then he was on the ground and, and very sadly he died.

00:23:05.780 And this sparked all of these riots, you know, that we've been dealing with for the past several

00:23:09.980 months.

00:23:10.520 So the question is, was George Floyd asphyxiated to death?

00:23:14.360 Was he choked to death?

00:23:15.320 You know, they always talked about the police officer's knee on his neck and George Floyd

00:23:19.420 said, I can't breathe.

00:23:20.180 I can't breathe.

00:23:20.780 Now, meanwhile, let's not forget George Floyd also was yelling.

00:23:23.200 I can't breathe even before the officers really touched him when he was resisting arrest earlier

00:23:28.640 in and around his own car.

00:23:30.900 So that this, it was, it was difficult to believe it at the moment because he had already

00:23:35.820 been saying it for a long time, but the chief Hennepin County medical examiner, Dr. Andrew

00:23:41.000 Baker, now, according to these new documents concluded that George Floyd likely

00:23:45.180 died from a fentanyl overdose and found, quote, no physical evidence suggesting that he died

00:23:50.840 of asphyxiation.

00:23:52.760 They said that if Mr. Floyd had been found dead in his home or anywhere else, and there

00:23:57.400 were no other contributing factors, he would conclude that it was an overdose death.

00:24:01.380 We'd been hearing about this for a while.

00:24:02.980 George Floyd, despite the mainstream media's whitewashing to the contrary, had been there

00:24:08.120 not only resisting arrest, but was also on an insanely high dosage of illegal drugs, very

00:24:16.260 powerful drugs that people die from every single day in this country.

00:24:19.840 Now, because he was obviously under this intense stress, you could see his behavior was so erratic,

00:24:27.400 even from the moment that the cops came and knocked on his window.

00:24:29.520 It was so intense and erratic that that may have contributed some to his death.

00:24:33.380 The fact that he was on the ground and the cop had his knee on his neck, that may have

00:24:36.360 contributed to some of the stress that then caused his death.

00:24:40.160 You can't take out of that the fact that he was on apparently, possibly a lethal dose of

00:24:46.700 fentanyl already.

00:24:47.900 Doesn't matter.

00:24:48.620 The left doesn't want to hear that.

00:24:49.740 They're going to erase it.

00:24:50.440 They're going to force the medical examiner to change his conclusions, which is what has

00:24:54.860 happened here.

00:24:55.460 The medical examiner did now conclude otherwise.

00:24:57.780 Otherwise, the left is out for blood, despite the scientists, right?

00:25:04.200 This guy, the medical examiner is obviously a scientist.

00:25:06.140 The left is out for blood and they're attacking anybody that they can to vent their rage.

00:25:11.600 An elderly man, elderly man who was just defending a business in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

00:25:16.500 That's the new state that the Democrats set on fire.

00:25:18.880 He was attacked during a BLM riot.

00:25:21.780 He was trying to stop a mattress store from being burned to the ground.

00:25:24.980 This man is in his 70s and take a listen.

00:25:28.280 What you can hear on this cut is when the riots go from the LARPing, you know, the live

00:25:36.980 action role play, the apparent euphoria among these riders of just burning things to the

00:25:43.560 ground to realizing, wait a second, innocent people might be hurt here to a real terror

00:25:50.140 when this innocent man is hurt, when they go and knock him out.

00:25:52.640 Take a listen.

00:25:54.440 This poor man got his business caught on fire.

00:26:03.340 So you can hear this.

00:26:04.440 I'm sorry, sir.

00:26:05.880 I'm very sorry about that, man.

00:26:07.540 Yeah, really.

00:26:08.600 This person's pretty concerned. 0.99

00:26:09.940 I'm trying to stop this shit here. 0.99

00:26:12.880 Dude, I'm going to help this guy. 0.99

00:26:14.060 I don't give a fuck if I get beat up. 0.99

00:26:15.260 So she realized, gosh, this isn't a good situation. 0.99

00:26:19.460 She walks over there.

00:26:21.460 This guy's got a fire extinguisher and he just starts spraying the rioters.

00:26:25.700 The rioters start throwing things at this 70-year-old man.

00:26:28.820 They just threw a bottle at this guy.

00:26:31.820 But he's got the fire extinguisher there.

00:26:33.160 One, because they're trying to set the place on fire.

00:26:34.560 Now he's spraying the rioters there.

00:26:40.080 And one goes over.

00:26:43.980 Knocks this guy out. 0.58

00:26:45.460 Knocks him down on the ground. 0.93

00:26:46.420 70-year-old man. 0.63

00:26:47.700 Or in his 70s.

00:26:48.440 He might be older. 1.00

00:26:50.280 And this young, criminal, thug, degenerate comes over. 1.00

00:26:56.340 Knocks him out. 1.00

00:27:00.420 Very hard to watch that.

00:27:01.520 They broke his jaw.

00:27:02.400 He had lacerations to his head.

00:27:04.680 What did he do?

00:27:05.180 He was trying to defend a business that they were looting and burning to the ground.

00:27:08.540 And yet we're told by the left that those criminals, those people who have no place in

00:27:15.440 a civilized society, they're the good guys.

00:27:18.200 And that 70-year-old man trying to preserve business, society, law and order, civilization,

00:27:25.440 that that man, he's the bad guy.

00:27:27.240 They could have killed that guy. 0.93

00:27:28.280 Maybe they did. 0.97

00:27:28.900 I don't know.

00:27:29.340 I mean, we know they broke his jaw.

00:27:30.580 You know he didn't look like he was in good shape.

00:27:33.160 Seems to still be alive, though.

00:27:35.280 That's how upside down it gets.

00:27:36.340 Sean King, BLM activist, very prominent BLM activist.

00:27:40.480 He's now threatening the lives of police officers here.

00:27:46.220 He writes on Twitter,

00:27:47.040 To the Kenosha Police Department, if you do not name the officer who brutally shot Jacob

00:27:51.660 Blake on Sunday, we will simply begin naming officers from your department who may or may

00:27:56.000 not be him.

00:27:56.980 F it.

00:27:57.580 Your protection of his identity is unethical.

00:27:59.820 What's his name?

00:28:00.940 So he's saying, basically, we're going to dox all of the cops and encourage people to 0.88

00:28:05.440 go attack them, right?

00:28:06.400 I don't think, I don't think he's going to name the cops so that people can throw them 0.96

00:28:09.920 a birthday party so that they can do them violence. 0.75

00:28:14.300 Even though from all of the evidence that we have, the use of force on Jacob Blake was

00:28:19.340 completely justified, completely justified.

00:28:21.660 This isn't the first time Sean King has done something like this.

00:28:26.220 He has a history of making false accusations.

00:28:28.580 In April 2019, he linked Robert Paul Cantrell, who was being held in jail on roberty charges,

00:28:34.060 to the murder of a seven-year-old black girl, Jasmine Barnes, called him a racist, violent 0.93

00:28:38.980 a-hole, his words. 0.94

00:28:41.280 Cantrell then later committed suicide in his jail cell after his family received a torrent

00:28:45.960 of awful, hateful messages that were sparked by Sean King's accusation.

00:28:51.300 He doesn't care. 0.99

00:28:52.100 What a sociopath this guy is. 0.99

00:28:54.100 All of these people. 0.99

00:28:56.120 Imagine knocking out a 70-year-old man because he's trying to defend a store.

00:29:01.480 Not even using, he doesn't even have a weapon, he's got a fire extinguisher.

00:29:04.780 Imagine that kind of stuff.

00:29:06.760 Of course, I mean, if you're a member of a political party that is defending the wholesale

00:29:12.120 slaughter of innocents, one million per year, babies, little babies in their mother's wombs,

00:29:17.040 how could you not engage in a sociopathic politics?

00:29:19.960 But we're not supposed to say that.

00:29:21.840 We're supposed to use euphemisms.

00:29:23.800 Really, really nice.

00:29:24.960 Otherwise unarmed.

00:29:27.280 The guy who knocked out the, threw a bottle at the 70-year-old man.

00:29:33.600 Otherwise unarmed.

00:29:34.540 Knocked him out, but otherwise unarmed.

00:29:36.480 This gets to a question of white guilt because, you know, the unifying message of the riots

00:29:44.900 has been race.

00:29:46.120 Black lives matter and we have to be anti-racist. 0.98

00:29:49.640 But what that really means is that all white people are racist. 0.88

00:29:52.160 Someone's summed this up very well. 1.00

00:29:53.500 A prominent Twitter account said, if you're white and not ashamed, you're a racist. 0.74

00:29:57.760 And I think that actually sums up, in a pithy way, the view of the left. 1.00

00:30:03.440 Obviously, that is ridiculous. 1.00

00:30:05.700 If you're white and you're not ashamed, you're a racist. 1.00

00:30:08.560 Why would I be ashamed of the color of my skin? 0.98

00:30:10.880 I actually, I'm, you know, a little bit swarthy.

00:30:12.640 So I don't know.

00:30:13.320 Sort of like, if you're beige and not, if you're taupe, if you're off-white, 0.98

00:30:17.340 if you're a little Sicilian and you're not ashamed, you're a racist. 1.00

00:30:19.540 Obviously, that's ridiculous. 1.00

00:30:20.340 The response to this, though, is not, I think, to shame white people less. 0.99

00:30:27.380 I think it's to shame all the other people more, right?

00:30:30.980 I don't, I don't think the problem in our culture is that we have too much shame. 0.99

00:30:35.500 Obviously, people are, are very ignorant. 0.92

00:30:37.860 People are ashamed of America and of Western civilization and of the color of their skin. 1.00

00:30:42.180 I mean, that's obviously stupid and people should not do that. 0.99

00:30:45.200 But we, we don't have a super abundance of shame in this culture. 0.99

00:30:48.460 That's, that's certainly the case. 0.99

00:30:50.340 I think the kind of, the kind of dumbest view on this whole issue is that white people should 0.99

00:30:56.160 feel guilt because they're white. 1.00

00:30:57.760 That's extremely dumb and stupid. 1.00

00:30:59.680 I think that a slightly more enlightened view here is that all people should feel ashamed 1.00

00:31:09.240 because we all have a broken human nature and all have fallen short of the glory of God

00:31:13.660 and all men sin because we, we're broken and we're not going back to the Garden of Eden anytime soon.

00:31:17.440 But I think the best view here, and this is the view that has animated our entire Western civilization is to quote St. Paul,

00:31:25.920 as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man's act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men.

00:31:34.800 That's the happy ending.

00:31:36.800 That's the happy ending.

00:31:38.120 That's the good news.

00:31:39.780 Redemption.

00:31:41.820 You know, the left actually intuits something when they, when they think of white guilt.

00:31:47.000 They, they, it's in this very narrow way, the left realizes that some people have a flawed human nature.

00:31:57.140 I, right, I guess that's the most, that's the most basic, some people have a flawed nature.

00:32:02.100 They're born broken.

00:32:04.560 Now, what their view is wrong because they don't realize that, that this is true of all people, right?

00:32:10.280 And then the view is especially wrong because they don't realize there's such a thing as redemption.

00:32:13.800 There's no redemption in leftism.

00:32:15.300 There's no, there, there's no way out other than to, to burn down the cities.

00:32:21.720 There's, because there's no way to be redeemed, you've just got to tear everything to the ground.

00:32:27.280 And that's what we're seeing happen all around us.

00:32:29.720 What do we do about it?

00:32:30.520 I will get into, before we get to the mailbag, I will get into this case of Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:32:34.220 He's a 17-year-old teenager who defended himself in these riots and is now going to be charged with murder if he hasn't already.

00:32:42.460 I think both sides are kind of getting this issue wrong, so we'll get into that in one second.

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00:33:32.500 I've got to get to this Kyle Rittenhouse story because it's kind of taken over the internet and the public discourse about these riots in Wisconsin right now.

00:33:53.360 So, Kyle Rittenhouse, 17-year-old kid, you know, teenager, has been arrested by police for first-degree murder.

00:34:03.300 He turned himself into the police yesterday.

00:34:08.100 Why?

00:34:08.560 We actually played a little bit of this clip just sort of offhand yesterday.

00:34:12.360 Kyle Rittenhouse was walking around during these riots and he had an AR-15.

00:34:17.800 And a group of these rioters came up and started really attacking him and he defended himself.

00:34:24.640 Take a listen.

00:34:28.140 You see one guy kick him in the head. 0.95

00:34:31.520 So then Rittenhouse takes out his gun and starts shooting people.

00:34:39.800 And then the mobsters who are trying to attack him go away.

00:34:45.100 That's the purpose of a firearm.

00:34:46.540 That is the purpose of self-defense.

00:34:50.160 We have firearms, a right to firearms in this country because of self-defense.

00:34:57.200 So he shot at least two BLM rioters.

00:35:00.500 One of those rioters, by the way, you're probably not going to see this on the mainstream media.

00:35:03.560 One of those rioters attacking him had a gun and is a convicted felon.

00:35:08.260 So this is, you forget about mostly otherwise unarmed.

00:35:11.520 This is as clear an example as possible that this kid used his gun right.

00:35:14.620 By the way, the kid's a good shot.

00:35:16.500 So the kid was, he didn't have, he wasn't shooting 10,000 bullets all over the place.

00:35:21.640 He wasn't, he was very precise and he was able to get his attackers away from him.

00:35:27.080 So the basic take on this, I think, is self-defense.

00:35:29.620 It's very clearly self-defense here.

00:35:30.900 But it's not quite as simple as all that.

00:35:34.740 There's, there, apparently he may have shot his gun earlier and then people are reacting to that.

00:35:41.180 So we don't, we don't have a great video from, from that.

00:35:44.580 We don't know exactly, was that in self-defense too?

00:35:46.740 This clearly was, was that, was he just out looking to snipe people?

00:35:49.480 From this video, that seems unlikely because he's got such good discipline with his gun.

00:35:53.680 However, I think the self-defense argument is, it's not quite as simple because this guy walked into a provocative situation with a gun.

00:36:02.200 He, he came here to this riot with a gun.

00:36:06.020 Now he says he wanted to protect people, right?

00:36:08.380 But other people might say he was looking for trouble.

00:36:10.780 If you, you know, leave your guns at home, son.

00:36:13.560 Don't take your guns to town, boy.

00:36:15.160 Don't take your guns to town.

00:36:16.820 Very wise words.

00:36:19.160 But it's not quite as simple as all that.

00:36:21.520 That he was looking for trouble and he should have left his gun at home and stay home and played video games.

00:36:25.400 Because no longer can we rely in many places on the civil authority.

00:36:31.120 The civil authority is telling the police to stand down.

00:36:34.240 They've lost control of multiple cities in the country.

00:36:36.780 Anarchy is raging everywhere.

00:36:40.460 So if, I'm more than happy to let the cops take care of things and I, I don't have to pick up my gun.

00:36:45.460 But if the cops can't take care of things, if the civil government is not going to ensure law and order and protect our lives and property,

00:36:52.720 then we have to protect them ourselves.

00:36:54.820 It's just how it works.

00:36:56.540 Another, another good reason for the second amendment. 0.97

00:37:00.280 So what's the answer here?

00:37:02.240 What's the answer?

00:37:03.040 It seems to me it was a bad idea for this kid to take the gun out and go to this place.

00:37:08.760 It's ruined his life, right?

00:37:10.060 He's going to be charged with murder.

00:37:11.200 He might well be convicted.

00:37:12.180 17, 17 years old.

00:37:15.580 As a political matter now, this is all anyone's going to talk about.

00:37:18.480 They're not going to talk about the actual marauding criminals who started the whole thing and were burning the city to the ground over nothing.

00:37:23.940 Over cops doing their job when a violent criminal, sexual assailant, domestic abuser was resisting arrest and then reaching into a car that had a weapon in it, but otherwise was mostly unarmed. 1.00

00:37:41.600 It, it, from a personal standpoint, it was stupid. 1.00

00:37:45.180 From a political standpoint, it was stupid. 1.00

00:37:47.740 It may have been somewhat courageous, but the line between courage and recklessness is a little bit blurry sometimes. 1.00

00:37:54.000 One has to have prudence.

00:37:55.980 And I just, I, I hope we, we should defend this kid for, from what, the evidence that we have, we should defend him because it was clearly self-defense in that video.

00:38:04.460 But on the other side, we should not encourage people to be doing this sort of thing.

00:38:07.880 It's completely counterproductive.

00:38:09.720 It's what the left wants.

00:38:10.780 It's what the left is trying to provoke.

00:38:12.700 They're trying to provoke any kind of right-wing violence here so that they can focus on that through the election, which is what all of this is about.

00:38:20.180 This is all about the election.

00:38:22.560 They're, they're willing to see people die for the election.

00:38:25.740 They're willing to keep the economy completely shut down, which will cause suicides and overdose deaths, it already has, to win an election.

00:38:34.140 What will that election, what's, what's the sacred right of that election?

00:38:37.060 What is the issue that the left holds more sacred than anything?

00:38:40.260 You see this in the court judicial confirmation hearings.

00:38:43.120 You see it in, in all of the debates. 0.98

00:38:46.840 The right to kill a baby in the womb. 0.95

00:38:50.040 They're all connected. 0.79

00:38:51.100 There is an integrity of thought.

00:38:52.160 We talked about integrity of thought with Sister Byrne.

00:38:53.900 There is an integrity of thought here.

00:38:55.360 If you're willing to let cities burn to the ground, if you're willing to steal people's property, whether through violent thugs or, or the government coming to your door. 0.95

00:39:03.300 If you're willing to allow people to die, break a few eggs to make an omelet, if you're willing to kill babies in the womb. 0.97

00:39:09.540 There is an integrity of thought that presents a worldview that is, that in a certain sense is coherent. 0.93

00:39:16.420 It all fits together.

00:39:17.440 But when you look at human nature, when you look at who we are, what we're here for, how we got here, it's completely incoherent.

00:39:25.080 Those are the choices.

00:39:26.680 Those are, not every election, not every political situation presents choices on life and death, as clear as that.

00:39:33.800 But the choice is clear.

00:39:34.940 Let's get into the mailbag in our remaining few moments that I have, I have pushed to the very limit.

00:39:40.220 From Thomas.

00:39:41.320 Besides abortion, what other reason should prevent Catholics or religious people from voting for Biden-Harris?

00:39:46.320 Thank you and love the show.

00:39:47.740 Well, another big issue, obviously abortion's a big one. 1.00

00:39:50.680 You're talking about killing a baby in the womb.

00:39:52.020 We've been talking about it for a lot of the show.

00:39:53.300 Another big issue is socialism.

00:39:55.940 Now, I don't think Joe Biden would call himself a socialist.

00:39:58.220 I don't think Harris would call herself a socialist.

00:40:01.400 But Biden and Harris are not real people in the sense that they're not, they weren't chosen because they've got some distinct personality and a distinct point of view.

00:40:12.780 They are empty suits blowing in the wind who were chosen to be the vessels of progressivism.

00:40:19.860 And progressivism clearly has trended toward socialism.

00:40:24.060 AOC, right, is the most prominent socialist in the country.

00:40:27.840 And the head of the Democratic Party, Tom Perez, chairman of the DNC, said that AOC is the future of the Democratic Party.

00:40:34.920 And Catholics cannot vote for socialism. 0.59

00:40:38.840 They can't.

00:40:39.620 You know, you know, you can read many papal writings on this.

00:40:43.140 Rerum, Novarum, Quod Apostolici, Muneris.

00:40:46.640 You can read the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

00:40:50.040 Socialism is not tolerable for Catholics. 0.96

00:40:54.860 I think it was Pope Leo XIII who referred to socialists as a pest, a plague, a wicked confederacy that seeks to steal the gospel itself. 0.99

00:41:06.620 It's a false religion. 0.99

00:41:08.200 It's a parallel and false religion based on a false anthropology, a false understanding of man and God that Catholics cannot support. 1.00

00:41:16.680 And if they do, they will be imperiling their own lives.

00:41:19.420 And, you know, we're pro-life and we're also pro-eternal life.

00:41:21.940 From Dan, Michael, long-time fan, recent cigar enthusiast.

00:41:25.580 Was wondering if you had any barber pole-wrapped cigars.

00:41:29.820 And if so, what are your favorites and thoughts on them?

00:41:33.460 I recently had the Dirty Hooligan by Alec Bradley and thought it was a great, mild treat.

00:41:38.340 Love the show, despite what Clavin may say about you.

00:41:40.740 Keep your head up.

00:41:41.940 He spelled Clavin with an E.

00:41:43.180 I actually, I spell Clavin E-E-E-E-E-E.

00:41:45.420 Um, I have, I love, so I, every Christmas I buy a barber pole cigar.

00:41:50.100 It looks, it looks like a candy cane, like a delicious tobacco candy cane, but I, I don't order them.

00:41:55.020 That's one cigar that I don't order from kind of the big companies because I've, I don't know,

00:42:00.780 I've found some of the more mass produced ones are, are not as great.

00:42:03.600 Like if I'm going to, if I'm, if I'm going to go to my favorite cigar website, Thompson,

00:42:08.080 you know, I'm going to, I'm going to get just the more kind of standard cigars and, you know,

00:42:13.000 anything from the kind of more inexpensive end all the way up to the really top shelf stuff.

00:42:19.320 The, the barber pole ones are a little more novelty.

00:42:21.100 I get them in the Bronx where, you know, when I was growing up, we would do all of our grocery

00:42:24.900 shopping in the Italian neighborhood of the Bronx called Arthur Avenue, best neighborhood

00:42:28.560 left in New York.

00:42:29.720 And, uh, you, they would have in there, uh, a store called La Casa Grande cigars, which

00:42:35.760 is in the Arthur Avenue meat market.

00:42:37.460 I've been smoking cigars there since I was 15.

00:42:40.100 When I was under 18, they obviously couldn't sell them to me.

00:42:42.760 So they just like give them to me right off the table and they're great.

00:42:45.500 And they make a really good one.

00:42:47.000 So I'd recommend if you do find yourself in the Bronx anytime, especially around Christmas,

00:42:50.960 go try that one out from Sarah.

00:42:53.140 I have a question that seems to be getting more and more serious.

00:42:55.520 If I were confronted or assaulted and I fight back or fire shots at the attacker, I may

00:43:00.200 be the person who goes to jail.

00:43:01.560 Is it better to roll over and hope the attackers show mercy or should I defend myself and hope

00:43:05.500 the judge isn't a progressive criminal who will face fire on his own judgment day?

00:43:09.180 It's funny.

00:43:09.540 We were just talking about that.

00:43:11.620 If you've got to defend yourself, defend yourself.

00:43:13.720 I wouldn't think too much about this.

00:43:15.340 I wouldn't let the left make you roll over and hand over your life, uh, to violent marauders,

00:43:22.000 unless there can be some spiritual benefit to that, you know, turning the other cheek in

00:43:25.920 a defiant and personal way.

00:43:27.560 Sure.

00:43:28.980 Maybe doing some productive good.

00:43:31.340 Uh, but as a general rule, it is a well-established moral principle that you have the right to

00:43:37.360 defend yourself.

00:43:39.300 And I would defend yourself if you're really at risk, but I wouldn't go looking for it.

00:43:44.300 I wouldn't put yourself in that kind of a provocative situation necessarily because you, you know

00:43:50.360 that the, the establishment is stacked against you.

00:43:53.260 The whole establishment, the media, the universities, the government, the, the judiciary, the, all

00:44:01.000 of it, big tech, which is going to control the flow of information.

00:44:03.260 All of that is stacked against you.

00:44:04.980 And so, you know, it's very important to be wise as a serpent and innocent as a dove.

00:44:11.600 You've got it. 0.97

00:44:12.320 There's, there's nothing, uh, there's nothing moral about being foolish. 0.96

00:44:15.940 You want, you want to be a little clever about it. 0.89

00:44:18.460 You want to, you want to be prudent.

00:44:19.440 From Alona, dear Mr. Knowles, can you please explain to a non-Christian how you're supposed 1.00

00:44:24.060 to love your enemy?

00:44:25.140 Is it possible to love your enemy if you don't believe in Jesus?

00:44:28.240 Thanks.

00:44:28.820 You're my favorite daily wire host.

00:44:29.940 That's very kind.

00:44:30.960 I don't know if it's possible to love your enemy if you don't believe in gene, in Jesus.

00:44:36.000 Probably not, but I'm, I'm sure some people who think they don't believe in Jesus or who

00:44:41.700 don't explicitly believe in Jesus would say that they can love their enemies and they'll

00:44:45.920 use some kind of vague humanitarian language.

00:44:48.260 But what they don't realize is that vague humanitarian language comes directly from Christianity and

00:44:53.500 it's just been watered down and made less coherent over the centuries.

00:44:57.600 So, you know, that, that case I think is just an example of very, very watered down Christianity 1.00

00:45:01.580 where people don't know why they do the things that they do.

00:45:04.800 The reason to love your enemy is because one, because of human solidarity and human dignity,

00:45:10.320 all men are made in the image of God, all men.

00:45:13.040 You can think about the Declaration of Independence, the equality principle.

00:45:15.480 All men are created equal in that all men are equally men, right?

00:45:19.980 We're all made in the image of God.

00:45:22.740 So that would be one reason.

00:45:24.820 You are part of humanity.

00:45:26.300 You're not just a floating atom out there.

00:45:28.340 So you are part of humanity.

00:45:29.900 And so you, you can love your enemy in as much as he is part of the humanity that you share.

00:45:35.600 And because there, but for the grace of God, go you, right?

00:45:41.760 All men are fallen.

00:45:42.980 We do, no one has a perfect nature walking around earth right now and all sin and fall

00:45:48.280 short of the glory of God.

00:45:49.760 So, because I know that I sin and the consequence of sin is death.

00:45:54.880 And I'm not even making a prescriptive statement here, though I suppose I am as well, but I'm

00:45:59.860 making a descriptive statement.

00:46:01.060 We have death in the world.

00:46:02.220 Sin and death have pervaded the world as a result of the fall.

00:46:04.780 So, because sin is deserving of death, we recognize that we have something in common

00:46:13.400 with this enemy.

00:46:14.960 Now, the good news is there is redemption here because you, because one man sinned and

00:46:21.200 then all men died and then one man died so that all men could live, Jesus.

00:46:26.360 And we should be very wonderful.

00:46:28.440 We should be very happy about this.

00:46:29.700 This is wonderful news.

00:46:30.880 And we should extend that same grace that we were given.

00:46:35.400 To the people who offend us.

00:46:38.060 We have offended God.

00:46:39.040 We owe a debt to God.

00:46:40.300 He has forgiven us, but he will only forgive us in as much as we forgive others.

00:46:44.200 This is the Lord's Prayer.

00:46:46.240 Right.

00:46:46.440 Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

00:46:47.880 The kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

00:46:49.720 Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass

00:46:53.720 against us.

00:46:54.340 This is a matter that should come obviously as a fruit of the spirit, but also it should

00:47:00.740 just come rationally because we know that we have been forgiven a much larger debt against

00:47:04.820 a much more perfect being than, than we will have to forgive.

00:47:08.900 We imperfect beings.

00:47:11.180 Maybe that, I hope that sums it up.

00:47:12.500 Let me know.

00:47:12.980 I can try to go in.

00:47:13.760 You know, we can talk about this for a very long time, but I hope that clears it up.

00:47:17.040 If not, right back in again, we'll, we'll get into a bit more.

00:47:19.240 So final question, Andy, Hey Michael, you know, quite a bit about theology.

00:47:23.740 So you probably picked up on this.

00:47:25.500 Trump mentioned in a fairly funny remark the other day that Biden is hurting God.

00:47:29.640 We all know that Biden and the other Catholic or otherwise Christian Democrats definitely

00:47:35.000 advocate against many core teachings of the church.

00:47:37.500 Now, during the DNC, the media and other Democrats are referring to Biden as a light bringer.

00:47:42.060 I seem to remember a certain fallen angel whose name means light bringer.

00:47:46.020 I don't believe that Joe Biden is the devil or anything like that.

00:47:49.060 It's simply astounding how the Democrats can unintentionally parody themselves so precisely.

00:47:53.000 Keep owning those lips.

00:47:53.880 Well, great point.

00:47:54.620 And you know, it's funny this, I didn't really intend for it to be this way, but it's obviously

00:47:57.360 a very religious show, but I hope, I like to think there's some integrity of thought

00:48:00.860 going from the political and the cultural, scientific, whatever, up to the religious.

00:48:05.300 That's a very funny coincidence.

00:48:08.420 They're all referring to him as the light bringer.

00:48:10.080 He's going to bring light and light bringer is another name for Lucifer, for Satan.

00:48:16.000 This is the thing about a religious view of the world.

00:48:18.580 I mean, I would say specifically a Catholic view of the world.

00:48:20.940 You could say Christian more broadly.

00:48:22.920 And in this desiccated culture, even if you have any religious sense, you will see this. 1.00

00:48:27.880 The world becomes very symbolic.

00:48:29.740 You see symbols in places.

00:48:31.820 You realize, because you're talking about the deeper meaning of the world, of the physical

00:48:38.440 world, you can see in physical objects symbols of other things.

00:48:43.060 You can see coincidences all around the world.

00:48:45.160 There's a great line from Alexander Pope, which is used as a blurb on my friend, Father George

00:48:53.900 Rutler's excellent book, Coincidentally.

00:48:55.900 And the line is, all nature is but art unknown to thee.

00:48:59.980 All chance, direction, which thou canst not see.

00:49:04.480 And when you see a coincidence like that, where the Democrats are basically admitting,

00:49:07.820 we're doing the devil's work.

00:49:09.300 You should not ignore that because I think it's probably telling you something.

00:49:12.980 All right, I'll see you tonight.

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00:49:16.840 I'll see you tomorrow on Backstage.

00:49:18.920 And I'll see you Monday.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 27, 2020

Ep. 605 - Life And Death On The Ballot

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