The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 623 - Don’t Be Afraid

00:00:00.000 While bandana clad millennials cower at home in fear, our 74 year old fast food chomping,

00:00:08.700 physical exercise issuing president just beat the China virus in three days. He has now been

00:00:15.160 discharged from Walter Reed Medical Center. He has returned to the White House. He has walked out

00:00:21.460 onto that front portico of the White House to show everybody that he is fit as a fiddle,

00:00:26.920 that he is strong. He took his mask off while he was far away from people just to show everyone

00:00:32.660 he was doing all right. And the mainstream media could not be more upset.

00:00:37.020 This is obviously a very different, an incorrect message. And you see him here. He takes it off

00:00:44.960 and he's getting ready for his pictures. The flags flank him. Right, Caitlin? This is what he did.

00:00:50.660 This is the moment. This is what he produced it for. He wants the image to be. I'm strong.

00:00:57.420 This virus is nothing. His tweet today, feeling better than I did 20 years ago. Don't be afraid

00:01:02.860 of COVID. Don't let it dominate your life. There he is. This is the image he wants.

00:01:09.060 Yeah. And let us remind viewers now that the president is on steroids and a drug that fewer

00:01:14.920 more than 10 people outside of clinical trials have gotten inside the United States to deal

00:01:19.420 with coronavirus. He had a level of treatment and a level of care that most Americans would

00:01:24.020 not get. Don't sound so happy about it. He is the president of the United States. Obviously,

00:01:28.020 everyone expects that. But what the president is portraying by taking his mask off when he

00:01:33.760 gets back to the Truman balcony to give this, this grand return to the White House is that

00:01:39.580 everything is fine. And as he said, don't let coronavirus control your life. But that is very

00:01:44.420 much still a president who has coronavirus. Yeah, it is. And he's not letting it control his life.

00:01:50.040 And he's projecting strength and telling people not to be afraid as he should. Sorry, ghouls. I'm sorry

00:01:55.800 that the president has recovered. And that's so hard for you. Sorry that the president is telling not

00:02:00.760 just the American people, but the whole world that he's strong and he's not going to let this thing

00:02:05.060 destroy him. I know you thought you had him, but you didn't. And not only was that scene important

00:02:11.500 to emerge from the balcony, take the mask off, project strength, but he explained exactly why he

00:02:17.340 did it for all those cowards and fear mongers in the mainstream media who just couldn't get it.

00:02:24.360 I learned so much about coronavirus. And one thing that's for certain, don't let it dominate you.

00:02:32.220 Don't be afraid of it. You're going to beat it. We have the best medical equipment. We have the best

00:02:38.720 medicines all developed recently and you're going to beat it. I went, I didn't feel so good.

00:02:45.200 And two days ago, I could have left two days ago, two days ago, I felt great, like better than I have

00:02:49.740 in a long time. I said just recently, better than 20 years ago. Don't let it dominate. Don't let it

00:02:56.200 take over your lives. Don't let that happen. We have the greatest country in the world. We're going back.

00:03:01.920 We're going back to work. We're going to be out front. As your leader, I had to do that. I knew

00:03:06.320 there's danger to it, but I had to do it. I stood out front. I led. Nobody that's a leader would not

00:03:14.080 do what I did. And I know there's a risk, there's a danger, but that's okay. And now I'm better and

00:03:20.580 maybe I'm immune. I don't know. But don't let it dominate your lives. Get out there. Be careful.

00:03:26.480 We have the best medicines in the world. Go on out there. Do not be afraid. Do not live

00:03:32.800 your lives in fear. All the mainstream media don't want to hear that. They do want you to

00:03:36.780 cower in fear. Those are two different views of the country. Those are two different views of

00:03:42.060 politics. Those are two different views of life. We will take the Trump view. We will encourage you

00:03:48.940 because there's a whole lot of reason to be encouraged. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael

00:03:52.420 Knowles show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Connor Adams.

00:04:06.540 Connor says, even the virus chooses Trump over Biden. That's true. And there's a lot of evidence,

00:04:11.860 by the way, that more and more people around this country are choosing Trump over Biden, despite what

00:04:18.240 some of the polls say. And actually, if you look a little more closely into those polls,

00:04:22.220 they actually tell that story. We will go through all of it. You know, you've got to not just read

00:04:28.440 the polls. You've got to listen to what people in the country are saying. Because of course,

00:04:34.200 some pollster calls you, some stranger says, are you going to vote for the mango Mussolini that 0.91

00:04:37.900 everyone's been telling us is Hitler for the last four years? You're probably not going to be willing

00:04:41.720 to do that. You've got to listen very carefully. And one of the best ways to listen carefully is to

00:04:46.360 use Raycon wireless earbuds. Using a pair of premium wireless earbuds, it is the best way

00:04:51.900 to listen to anything, especially if you can get them at less than half the price of the other guys,

00:04:56.660 which is why you got to check out Raycon. Raycon's newest model, the everyday E25 earbuds,

00:05:02.060 are their best ones yet. Six hours of playtime, seamless Bluetooth pairing, more bass and more

00:05:07.800 compact design and noise isolating fit. Raycon earbuds, they are stylish. They are discreet,

00:05:12.320 no dangling wires or stems. I have another pair of wireless earbuds as well. And sometimes I'll

00:05:18.780 switch them on or off just to try, just to see what it's like. The Raycon are better. Okay. And

00:05:22.980 I think we all know what the other ones are. The Raycon are better. They are. That's just the way it 1.00

00:05:26.240 is. Give them a try. Raycon has a 45 day free return policy. So you can make sure they are the

00:05:31.740 wireless earbuds that are for you. Total game changer. And right now for a limited time,

00:05:36.740 you get 15% off your order at buyraycon.com slash Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S. That is buyraycon.com

00:05:43.080 slash Knowles for a special 15% discount on Raycon wireless earbuds. Make sure to check it out now

00:05:49.900 while the deal is running. You're going to be like me. You can try them out. You can compare them

00:05:53.660 to the other one. I'm telling you the Raycon ones are going to be better. Buyraycon.com slash Knowles,

00:05:58.480 K-N-A-W-L-E-S. Trump says, don't be afraid. The media say, do be afraid. Jake Tapper,

00:06:06.520 on CNN. I think he typified his entire profession when he watched that scene of President Trump,

00:06:13.480 when he listened to him say, do not be afraid. And he couldn't have been angrier.

00:06:18.960 President Trump wrote on Twitter, don't be afraid of COVID. Don't let it dominate your life.

00:06:24.940 Almost 210,000 Americans are dead from this disease, meaning hundreds of thousands of people

00:06:31.120 in this country are mourning. We just reached, look at that, we just reached 210,000 since I've

00:06:37.740 been on air. 210,000 Americans dead, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Americans mourning

00:06:43.680 them. 7.4 million Americans have contracted the disease. Many of them are going to have health

00:06:49.320 problems for the rest of their life. For President Trump, who gets the best medical care of anybody

00:06:53.400 in the world to say, don't be afraid of COVID. Don't let it dominate your life. There are children

00:06:58.960 who don't have parents now because of this virus. Don't let it dominate your life.

00:07:04.860 I mean, Jake, this is, this is so disrespectful. I'm not even sure I can, I can speak about this in

00:07:09.520 some sort of cogent way here. It is disrespectful. This segment on Jake Tapper's show is very,

00:07:17.980 very, very disrespectful. Nothing Trump said is disrespectful. It's, it's amazing. If President

00:07:24.480 Trump were a Democrat and he gave this speech, they'd be hailing it as the greatest speech since

00:07:27.860 FDR said that there is nothing to fear, but fear itself. Should FDR not have said that? FDR should

00:07:32.740 have come out and said in the depths of the depression, there's a lot to fear. You got to be

00:07:36.420 afraid, man. People are losing their whole livelihoods. People are killing themselves.

00:07:40.860 Children don't have parents now. Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. That's what the media want to tell you.

00:07:46.640 How ghoulish is it that CNN has a clock of people who die from coronavirus? Did you see Jake Tapper

00:07:54.040 there? That hack? Did you see what he said sitting there? Uh, the president is his, he's recovered

00:07:59.120 and he's strong and, but people are dying. Oh, look, look, yes. 210,000 people now. Yes. Be afraid.

00:08:07.000 Don't look so happy, Jake. Don't look so happy. I was speaking yesterday when I was hosting Ben's show

00:08:13.440 to Dr. Marty McCary. I said, what are we going to make of this in light of other epidemics? And he

00:08:18.000 said, well, it's very selective how the mainstream media are talking about this because of course,

00:08:24.260 what was it? Just a few years ago, we had almost 80,000 deaths from the seasonal flu.

00:08:28.440 Should the president come out and say, be afraid of the flu? Be very afraid. Stay at home because of

00:08:33.260 the flu. Children don't have parents because of the flu. Of course, that's true. Should we,

00:08:37.560 should we fear monger over that? No, no, you cannot live in fear. What the media are trying

00:08:43.140 to say that Trump said is that the disease poses no danger at all. That isn't what he said. That

00:08:48.200 isn't what we conservatives are saying either. I made this point yesterday. We're not saying don't

00:08:54.080 be afraid because the virus can't infect you or because there won't be negative consequences from

00:08:59.940 the virus. We're saying don't be afraid because we have to live our lives. This does get, I suppose,

00:09:07.240 to a bottom religious difference, which is that if you are a Christian, at least a Christian,

00:09:13.940 I suppose if you're religious in other ways as well, or you're an adherent to other religions too,

00:09:19.900 you often, you don't believe that this is all there is. I'm no expert on Judaism and Islam,

00:09:27.540 but I think that they have views that are a little bit bigger than this material world. Certainly

00:09:31.660 Christians do. This isn't the end of the story. There are more important things to life

00:09:36.960 than, than just our physical selves. Okay. There are more important, by the way,

00:09:43.220 even if you're just a total stone cold atheist, let's say you're just a stoic. Let's say that you,

00:09:49.220 you're not focused on the, the life after death. Still, you can have courage. Still, you can say,

00:09:56.780 I'm being confronted with this challenge and I'm going to face it head on like a man with toughness.

00:10:01.260 We used to say that in this country. And then the whiny, sniveling mainstream media come out and

00:10:07.960 tell us to be afraid. How dare they? How dare they do that? It's a horrible thing to do. Terrible way

00:10:13.160 to, to tell people to live their lives. And by the way, Jake Tapper wasn't incredibly the most

00:10:18.900 hysterical person on this yesterday. That honor went to the CBS, a White House correspondent who wished

00:10:25.700 that he were in North Korea because he would feel safer. You know, safety at, at the White House

00:10:31.900 compared to other places around the world is I think a little bit higher for most journalists. I

00:10:37.700 think a lot of journalists when they go at North Korea or other tyrannical regimes, they're in much

00:10:43.880 greater danger. And obviously there are dangers in this country, one of which is distracted driving.

00:10:49.820 It's a serious problem on our roadways that leads to the deaths of thousands of people and injuries

00:10:54.120 in the hundreds of thousands each year. So when you take your eyes and your focus off the road,

00:10:58.500 even for just a second, it can be deadly, not just for you, but for other drivers,

00:11:02.160 pedestrians, and bicyclists. Sadly, many Americans are using their cell phones while driving,

00:11:07.140 whether it's texting, checking emails, scrolling, media feeds, or any other form of distraction.

00:11:11.740 Drivers are putting themselves and others around them at greater risk, which is why it's important

00:11:15.480 to know that 48 states ban texting and driving. Also, also 21 states prohibit all drivers from using

00:11:22.240 cell phones while driving. Distracted drivers are not only putting people at risk, they're also

00:11:26.900 breaking the law. It's dangerous to use your cell phone behind the wheel. That's why law enforcement

00:11:30.760 officers write tickets and enforce hands-free and anti-texting and driving laws. You gotta,

00:11:37.700 when you are driving, you gotta put down your phone. You've gotta keep your hands on the wheel.

00:11:41.780 You've gotta keep your eyes on the road and your mind on the task of driving.

00:11:45.780 You drive, you text, you pay, brought to you by NHTSA. That may have been my smoothest transition

00:11:53.460 I've ever had. Even I, I said, oh my gosh, we're talking about the journalist and then we're in.

00:11:57.880 This journalist at CBS News, he's the, he's the White House guy there. He tweets out, quote,

00:12:03.320 I felt safer reporting in North Korea than I currently do reporting at the White House. This is

00:12:07.560 just crazy. This is in fact crazy. This statement is crazy. Maybe this journalist felt safer in North

00:12:16.820 Korea because he had a little bit more in common ideologically with the government of North Korea

00:12:21.980 than he does with the government of the United States. But in reality, he certainly was not safer.

00:12:28.940 It's, it's this attempt to make you believe that a disease where you have a greater than 99%

00:12:36.720 chance of survival is worse than the black death, worse than the bubonic plague. Why are they trying

00:12:43.340 to do this? To keep you from going to work, to keep you from going out, to keep the economy depressed.

00:12:49.200 Major prominent leftists told us before the disease, they told us that they were hoping for a

00:12:55.440 recession because even though it would hurt people, it would hurt Trump's chances of winning

00:13:01.540 reelection. Bill Maher came out and say it explicitly on television. There, there is a huge

00:13:07.640 political incentive for the left to keep you afraid, but leaders don't do that. It's a very,

00:13:14.180 very terrible thing to do to make people be afraid. Courage, courage is a virtue. Courage is actually a

00:13:22.700 prerequisite virtue. You, you need courage to enact all of the other virtues. And that's what the

00:13:30.320 president is saying. And we need to see that. This is why the, the left has never understood

00:13:34.380 strength, peace through strength. They never understood Reagan. They never understood Trump

00:13:38.620 on this point. In order to have peace, you need to project strength because that deters aggression.

00:13:45.940 Trump was doing that explicitly the other night or last night rather at the White House.

00:13:50.660 But in anything in life, if you come off strong,

00:13:53.800 then you will not hopefully as much need to use force. You will not invite aggression.

00:14:03.260 Strength is a good thing. I said yesterday on the show, I said that the, the liberals are,

00:14:09.940 are misunderstanding us because they think that we're not wearing the masks or whatever,

00:14:14.600 not wearing the masks all the time alone in our cars, or we're not, uh, in favor of all these

00:14:19.680 draconian lockdown measures because we think we can never get the virus. When in fact we oppose all

00:14:25.340 those things because we know that we're all going to get the virus because this new virus is here to

00:14:30.060 stay. And if we don't get it now, we'll get it later. And if we don't get it later, we'll get it even

00:14:34.820 later than that. But it is out there. It's, it's around, it's going to come back. Well, the World

00:14:39.160 Health Organization seems to be backing up my point. The World Health Organization said on Monday

00:14:45.340 that it's best estimates indicate that up to 10% of the global population has already been infected

00:14:51.700 with COVID-19 already. The virus has only existed for what? Eight or nine months and already 10% of

00:14:58.740 earth has gotten it. We quoted other doctors yesterday, an expert from Columbia who told NPR

00:15:06.380 that in, in studies, the masks fail, not even necessarily because of the masks themselves,

00:15:11.620 but because people don't use them correctly and they touch their face and they move it all over

00:15:14.880 themselves. Dr. Fauci says the vaccine in a perfect world is going to give us herd immunity,

00:15:19.880 but we don't live in a perfect world and some people aren't going to get it. So then we're not

00:15:23.960 going to get herd immunity. So the virus, believe it or not, there is a limit to politics and the virus

00:15:31.220 cannot be abolished through a really smart social policy. The virus is here and either we can live

00:15:39.500 the rest of our lives in fear or we can man up and deal with it. The left doesn't want to do that.

00:15:48.140 The left really believes there's no limit to politics. The left really believes this is,

00:15:54.060 this is a matter of life and death, truly a matter of life and death for all of us.

00:15:58.720 And they can save the whole world if we just follow their policies. This is not just true of the

00:16:03.920 elite politicians who occupy the Senate or when Democrats win, occupy the White House or occupy

00:16:09.180 the bureaucracy. This is true all the way down the line, all the way to elementary school teachers,

00:16:15.260 middle school teachers. There's a teacher in Seattle, our pal Jason Rance up in Seattle found

00:16:19.700 this one. There's a teacher up in Seattle who kicked a child out of her classroom, now her virtual

00:16:27.400 classroom because they don't have real classrooms, kicked the kid out for saying that he admires Donald

00:16:33.280 Trump. The teacher was in a, in a group chat with, with his students. And he said, who is a role model?

00:16:40.480 Who is someone that you want to follow? And the kid said, quote, his 10 year old kid in Tacoma,

00:16:45.960 I admired Donald J. Trump because he is making America great again. And because he is the best

00:16:50.780 president the United States could ever, ever have. And he built the wall so terrorists couldn't come

00:16:54.640 into the US. Trump is the best person in the world. And that's why I admire him. This teacher

00:17:01.380 kicked the child out of the classroom for saying he admires the president, the president who now just

00:17:09.680 recovered from the coronavirus and showed, showed us all strength. The teacher, once the teacher kicked

00:17:15.160 the kid out, the, the kid's mother who was looking over and seeing the screen started to record it. 1.00

00:17:20.460 Listen to this whiny, morally idiotic teacher. 0.99

00:17:26.760 Positive things and role models that we should admire. Again, the example that was shared in the 1.00

00:17:33.520 chat, which I went ahead and erased for us, was not appropriate, right? Especially as that individual

00:17:40.960 has created so much division and hatred between people and specifically spoken hatred to many different

00:17:49.600 individuals. Okay. Um, so I do apologize for, um, kicking out of the conference as I went ahead and

00:17:56.260 adjusted our settings. Um, but the settings should be adjusted now. Um, the chat should be locked for

00:18:04.620 today just because I realized that maybe that question, uh, wasn't clear enough. Um, so we'll go ahead

00:18:11.300 and, uh, skip on that for today. Okay. Again, um, that individual has spoken, um, hate to many individuals

00:18:21.460 and I don't think is, um, an appropriate example for a role model. Um, we should be admiring.

00:18:30.120 You say who? Donald J. Trump.

00:18:32.020 Who did you say? Donald J. Trump. And the, this teacher, this little wuss, this, this sniveling

00:18:41.840 little teacher comes out and kicks the kid out and he wouldn't even accept responsibility for it. 0.94

00:18:47.280 He says, well, and I went in and I adjusted the settings and I'm sorry if the student got kicked

00:18:52.400 out or I adjusted the settings and you can't say that you like the president. He's a mean guy.

00:18:57.000 I hate the president. This is obviously a teacher who does not understand the virtues of courage, 0.90

00:19:03.340 the virtues of strength, the virtue of manliness. Harvey Mansfield, professor at Harvard,

00:19:08.780 wrote a great book called Manliness a number of years ago about this virtue. The word virtue,

00:19:13.420 by the way, relates to manliness. It comes from the Latin word ver, which means man, ver to manliness.

00:19:19.780 But now we're told in our culture that manliness is toxic and we all need to be effeminate. 0.88

00:19:25.380 And when, when women are effeminate, that's a perfectly fine thing. But when men are, 1.00

00:19:31.820 it's not a fine thing. When, you know, there's a difference in words. You say womanly

00:19:35.560 to refer to a woman and you say womanish to refer to a man who is being effeminate.

00:19:41.720 What's the difference? One is positive. One is negative. One is proper. The other is bizarre,

00:19:48.080 off kilter. And that's what we're seeing here. We're being told that, that manliness itself

00:19:52.860 is toxic. So is it any surprise that the media react negatively when the president shows some

00:19:57.980 strength? But it turns out all those people are completely wrong. It is important, particularly

00:20:02.980 in times of trial, particularly in times of danger to show some strength and some duty and some

00:20:09.100 responsibility. I'm sure Trump wanted nothing more than to go lie down in the East wing of the White

00:20:13.420 House and fluff up a pillow and relax because I'm sure he's not feeling very well right now.

00:20:20.500 But he came out anyway because that is his responsibility. And sniveling teachers in the

00:20:28.360 mainstream media don't get it. Some people are openly calling for his death. They're going out

00:20:34.340 on the internet. They are, and these are sometimes even, even people who are going out into the streets

00:20:39.320 as well. But then they take to the internet and they call for the president's death. And that is

00:20:44.780 not a good use of the internet. When you're on the internet, you should instead use it to buy auto

00:20:49.060 parts at rockauto.com. Now look, me, I obviously don't know very much about cars. So when I go into

00:20:54.340 a brick and mortar store, what happens? I don't know anything about the parts that I need. They don't

00:20:58.340 have the part that I need. They go online, probably to rock auto. They get the part in and then I have

00:21:03.200 to pay twice as much as I would if I had just gone to rockauto.com. So much easier. Just do that.

00:21:08.480 They're a family company. They've been serving auto parts customers online for 20 years. They

00:21:13.860 don't have all these crazy gimmicks with pricing and it goes up one day and down another day and

00:21:17.560 it's just always reliably low prices. Best for me, most important thing, the website is simple enough.

00:21:25.080 Even I can navigate it. Even I, I don't know, I can barely tell you the difference between brands of

00:21:29.040 cars, but even I can navigate this website. Very useful, especially these days when the in-store

00:21:37.060 shopping experience is not exactly pleasant. Go to rockauto.com to shop for auto and body parts

00:21:42.480 from hundreds of manufacturers. Rockauto.com. You go there right now, you see all the parts

00:21:47.340 available for your car or truck and then you write Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S in there. How did you hear

00:21:52.800 about us box so that they know that we sent you? The people who are openly calling for the death of

00:22:02.900 the president right now on the internet, which is a lot of people, should be arrested and charged with

00:22:09.380 sedition. Sedition. Now, some people say, I tweeted this yesterday. They say, Michael, the first amendment,

00:22:17.080 it's a free country. You're allowed to be seditious. You're not. You're not. Sedition has never been

00:22:21.940 protected by the first amendment. It has never been considered to be protected by the first

00:22:25.880 amendment. And today it is not protected by the first amendment. Now we have to get a little bit

00:22:29.840 more specific. It's not just everyone who tweets something stupid on the internet that should be 0.98

00:22:33.780 arrested and charged with sedition. The statutory definition is pretty clear. 18 U.S. Code, section 2384. 0.97

00:22:40.920 According to the statutory definition of sedition, it is a crime for two or more people within the

00:22:45.980 jurisdiction of the United States to conspire to overthrow or destroy by force the government of the

00:22:50.660 United States or to level war against them, to oppose by force the authority of the United States

00:22:54.440 government, to prevent, hinder, or delay by force and execution of any law of the United States, or to

00:23:00.560 take, seize, or possess by force any property of the United States, contrary to the authority thereof.

00:23:05.300 So now you might say, under that definition of sedition, these people calling for the death of the

00:23:09.900 president are not culpable. Well, some of them are. Because I bet you, if you were to look at the group of

00:23:18.200 people that is currently burning down American cities in the name of overthrowing the system

00:23:24.120 of law enforcement, in the name of taking federal properties and federal courthouses by force, and you

00:23:31.580 look at the group of people who are calling for the death of the president on the internet, and you

00:23:36.020 made a Venn diagram, I bet that that group in the middle would be pretty significant. Just a hunch.

00:23:42.100 I don't know. Maybe we'd need to investigate. And what I'm saying is, it is not conducive to our

00:23:49.700 national happiness for people openly to call for the death of our duly elected president.

00:23:55.340 It is not conducive to our national happiness to burn down American cities. That's not a grassroots

00:24:01.260 movement. That is a highly organized, radical, subversive insurrection, and we shouldn't tolerate it.

00:24:10.420 Certainly not in the name of the first amendment, which in no way protects those sorts of things.

00:24:17.560 You know, right now, it looks as though coronavirus is helping president Trump in the polls. But why is

00:24:25.460 that? How on earth could it help president Trump in the polls? Well, you've got to look at Joe Biden

00:24:31.420 and the Democrats, because I'm not just talking about the radical democratic people on the streets

00:24:36.100 who are burning down the cities. I'm talking about all the way to the top, Joe Biden.

00:24:38.960 Joe Biden, even old, good old Scranton Joe, considers Trump supporters and conservatives to be

00:24:45.100 the dregs of society. He recently said this at a human rights campaign fundraiser. Take a listen.

00:24:51.080 Despite losing in the courts and in the court of public opinion, these forces of intolerance

00:24:58.380 remain determined to undermine and roll back the progress you all have made.

00:25:02.860 And this time, they, not you, have an ally in the White House. This time, they have an ally.

00:25:12.660 They're a small percentage of the American people, virulent people, some of them the dregs of society. 1.00

00:25:19.440 And instead of using the full might of the executive branch to secure justice, dignity, safety for all,

00:25:29.220 the president uses the White House as a literal, literal bully pulpit, callously,

00:25:35.920 callously exerting his power over those who have little or none.

00:25:40.840 Those who have little or none, he says of the human rights campaign, one of the best funded

00:25:47.200 organizations in politics. Human rights campaign is the ridiculously named group that radically

00:25:54.320 redefined marriage for the, for the first time in human history, radically redefined marriage.

00:25:59.040 They were the ones behind that. That's the equal sign sticker. Human rights campaign,

00:26:02.660 it's the group that was found, co-founded by this guy named Terry Bean, who has been indicted for

00:26:08.060 sexually abusing a minor boy twice. That, them, no power at all. Somehow he's managed to get off

00:26:14.980 the hook though, but they've got, they've got no power. They only managed to, for the first time in

00:26:18.800 human history, radically redefine sexual difference out of marriage because they have no power, right? 0.51

00:26:24.360 Of course not. This is Joe Biden's deplorables moment. The mainstream media probably aren't going

00:26:29.540 to cover it, but we'll cover it. We'll make, we'll make sure this one goes around. He says that

00:26:33.580 Trump supporters are the dregs of society and specifically what he's talking about are Christians 1.00

00:26:40.200 because he's, he's speaking at this HRC fundraiser and he's saying, look, if you oppose radically 0.95

00:26:47.080 redefining marriage away from including sexual difference, if you are a Christian or a Jew or a

00:26:56.400 Muslim, but he's not going to mention them. But if you're a, if you're a Christian who opposes

00:27:00.460 redefining marriage, you are the dregs of society. You are, you are hopelessly bigoted. 0.99

00:27:06.260 This of course is very religiously intolerant of Joe Biden, but it does help to explain

00:27:11.800 why below the surface of these polls, President Trump seems to be doing well. I'll give, I'll give

00:27:16.800 you an example. So COVID appears to be helping Trump in the polls. Uh, there's only one poll that's,

00:27:22.700 that's been put out since President Trump contracted the virus. This is a poll by John Zogby

00:27:27.440 strategies. And it showed that, uh, right now Biden is only leading Trump by two points, 49 to 47.

00:27:35.480 Now compared to this older poll from Zogby, which is July 8th, Biden was leading Trump by seven points,

00:27:41.840 48 to 42. And then in August, August 29th, Biden was leading Trump 48 to 42. But then after Trump had

00:27:50.620 coronavirus, that lead shrunk dramatically such that now, now they, they appear to be within two

00:27:56.920 points, but there's a more interesting poll that came out. There's a more interesting poll that shows

00:28:02.760 it doesn't ask people what they think about the presidential election. It asks people what they

00:28:08.280 think their neighbors are thinking about the presidential election. And that distance is giving

00:28:14.860 Trump a clear edge. Well, why is it? Cause we live in a culture of fear. We live in a culture where

00:28:20.740 you're not allowed to say what you think that poll may be the most important poll that's come out

00:28:25.640 in the past several weeks. We'll dig into it. But if you didn't get enough politics last week,

00:28:31.580 this Wednesday, October 7th will be the vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and

00:28:36.120 Kamala Harris and daily wires, Matt Walsh will be live reacting to the debate as part of a special

00:28:41.580 edition of all access live members. Join Matt Wednesday night at 8 45 PM Eastern 545 Pacific

00:28:47.860 at dailywire.com to chat live with him on the stream and in the comments. If you're not part

00:28:53.920 of daily wire already join now as an all access member, get 20% off with code debate. So you can

00:28:58.500 watch all of our upcoming debate coverage live at dailywire.com on Apple TV or on the Roku app and

00:29:04.700 join us on all access live every night for online and live stream discussions. You also get not one,

00:29:10.700 but two leftist years tumblers with your membership as well as early and sometimes exclusive access

00:29:15.800 to new daily wire products. That is this Wednesday, October 7th at 8 45 Eastern 545 Pacific. Join us

00:29:20.980 get 20% off your all access membership with code debate when you sign up today. We'll be right back

00:29:25.540 with a lot more. A new Harvard Harris survey shows that a plurality of registered voters believe that

00:29:44.660 their neighbors are voting for president Trump. That's weird. Why would you ask people how they

00:29:50.840 think their neighbors are voting? Well, it's to avoid this problem that we're hearing from people

00:29:57.040 who we now have been told that president Trump is the mango Mussolini. He's Hitler. He's literally a

00:30:02.500 Nazi. And if you vote for him, you're the scum of the earth and you should be run out of polite 1.00

00:30:07.300 society. So when pollsters, when strangers call you and say, who are you voting for? You might be a 0.99

00:30:12.480 little more reticent to give your answer. A way to give a little distance here is to say,

00:30:17.080 hey, who do you think your neighbors are voting for? What's your sense of what's going on?

00:30:22.420 And a plurality, according to this survey, which was taken September 22nd to the 24th of 1,314

00:30:28.180 registered voters, a plurality, 43% say that their neighbors are going to vote for Trump.

00:30:34.160 Then only 36% say their neighbors are going to vote for Biden. 21% remain unsure.

00:30:40.600 That tells you something that tells you not only that they think that president Trump has a better

00:30:50.380 shot than Joe Biden. It tells you that they think that people are afraid of the mainstream media,

00:30:55.700 right? Because if the mainstream media and the democratic party and the liberal establishment

00:31:03.720 generally and big tech, if they were not so viciously left wing, vindictively left wing,

00:31:10.740 people would be more likely to say, yeah, I think I'm going to, here's who I'm going to vote for.

00:31:15.880 But the fact that there's such a discrepancy between who they say they're going to vote for

00:31:20.160 and who they say their neighbors are going to vote for shows you that there is a real sense of

00:31:24.560 repression. There's a real sense of having to keep your Trump support quiet. This was true in 2016.

00:31:30.100 It is certainly true today. And it's because of Joe Biden's religious language. I mean,

00:31:37.140 the left generally, Joe Biden's just adopted it. There's dregs of society, the deplorables and the

00:31:44.380 irredeemables, the bitter clingers clinging to their guns and religion, as Barack Obama put it.

00:31:51.180 It's because leftism is a totalizing religion. It is different than Christianity. It is in some

00:31:58.960 ways an inversion of Christianity. And people get very, very protective of their religion. There 0.61

00:32:07.140 are religious wars that are going on. Not just Joe Biden, you know, suing nuns, for instance,

00:32:13.600 promising to sue nuns again if they don't give out abortion drugs, if he gets into the White House.

00:32:19.380 Not just Bill de Blasio saying he's going to shut down synagogues and churches. Andrew Cuomo,

00:32:25.040 governor of New York, is threatening to shut down synagogues if the Jews don't get in line with 1.00

00:32:32.260 his COVID policies. I have to say to the Orthodox community tomorrow, if you're not willing to live 1.00

00:32:38.340 with these rules, then I'm going to close the synagogues. I have had a 30-year relationship 1.00

00:32:49.300 with the Orthodox community. It goes back to my father. I have a very close personal relationship

00:32:57.480 with them. This is the last thing I want to do. Forget the politics. I don't care about that anymore.

00:33:07.300 Personally, I don't want to have this conversation. It's a difficult conversation. And you're right on

00:33:13.220 the line of government intrusion on religion. So it's hard. I didn't want to close down

00:33:22.760 1,000 bars, put people out of work. You know, it's hard.

00:33:28.920 It's hard, you know. First of all, listen to that dichotomy there. You've got the synagogues and 1.00

00:33:38.860 you've got the bars. And he's saying, yeah, they're kind of the same thing. But they're not. We

00:33:43.900 obviously have much stronger protections in this country for religion than we do for drinking.

00:33:48.820 And I'm a guy who, I enjoy going to bars. But for Cuomo, it's all the same. Because really what

00:33:55.820 they're talking about is a protection of their religion, the religion of leftism, the religion

00:33:59.860 of administrative government, the religion of rule by experts, the religion of we know what's

00:34:04.640 better for you than you do. He says, look, I wish I didn't have to do this, but I'm going to close

00:34:09.320 down your synagogues if you don't take a knee, if you don't do what I tell you to do on COVID. 0.98

00:34:16.620 What are we so afraid of? If you say to me right now, Michael, you can sit at home

00:34:23.440 and your chances of getting COVID are going to be way, way lower. And let's say COVID were even

00:34:29.840 much more dangerous than it is. Let's say that I could extend my life by 10 years if I just stayed

00:34:37.780 home and never went to church again. Or I could reduce my lifespan by 10 years and go to church.

00:34:43.900 I would go to church. Of course. Of course I would. Because of the Christian view of life.

00:34:52.980 And I bet if you ask Jews that, which if you could either extend your life 10 years by never going to 1.00

00:34:57.640 synagogue again, never celebrating the high holy days, or you could reduce your lifespan 10 years, 0.60

00:35:02.800 but go to synagogue. I bet they would say they'd go to synagogue. I bet the Muslims would say they'd go 1.00

00:35:08.260 to the mosque. The left can't understand that because they're making philosophical and theological

00:35:15.220 arguments and they're pretending they're scientific arguments. But they're not. Science, as we think

00:35:21.600 about it today, is a motive of material inquiry. It's just saying we're going to investigate these

00:35:26.600 physical phenomena. But what undergirds that is philosophical and theological. I would rather go to

00:35:35.240 church. And this, even outside of the religious context, is true of a lot of people who, you know,

00:35:40.660 it would just be more philosophical. They would say, look, I'm, yeah, maybe this life is the only

00:35:46.120 life we have, but I'd rather go live it than cower at home in fear. I'd rather go live my life and take

00:35:51.400 a risk and maybe reduce my lifespan than not live my life and turn into a couch potato and cower in fear.

00:35:58.280 I'd rather show some courage. I'd rather show some virtue. These are competing religions, 1.00

00:36:04.080 competing religious creeds. You might've seen the new religious creed of the left.

00:36:07.640 You might've seen it if you were driving by. You don't see a lot of Joe Biden on signs because no

00:36:11.940 one's excited about Joe Biden, but there is a one sign that the left has adopted. It's the we believe

00:36:17.080 lawn sign. We believe, which is like in Christianity, you have the credo, which is, I believe, I believe in

00:36:22.200 God, the father almighty. And in leftism, you have, we believe. And the sign says, we believe black

00:36:29.600 lives matter. No human is illegal. Love is love. Women's rights are human rights. Science is real.

00:36:35.260 Water is life. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. It's kind of weird. Why are

00:36:41.300 you putting all that on a sign? What does that mean? Most people probably would have, could agree at

00:36:47.220 least with the individual slogans here, but this is why slogans are so dangerous. So you got to look

00:36:51.760 down a little more deeply at what this means. And what it means is, though it seems to be affirmative and

00:36:57.280 positive. It's actually purely negative. We believe black lives matter. Well, what does black 1.00

00:37:02.440 lives matter mean? Black lives matter is an avowedly Marxist organization that seeks in public policy 0.53

00:37:08.340 most directly to abolish the police, right? That's the, that's what we've seen at all of these BLM 1.00

00:37:14.740 rallies that are highly organized, highly funded, have founders who admit that it's an avowedly Marxist

00:37:19.620 organization. So that's the first one. Abolish the philosophical underpinnings of our country and

00:37:24.520 abolish the police. No human being is illegal. What does that mean? It means erase national

00:37:29.040 borders. It means there's no such thing as illegal immigration. Everyone has a right to come into the

00:37:32.700 country, but only our country. We don't have a right to go into other people's countries. 0.99

00:37:36.140 Love is love. What does that mean? That means abolish traditional sexual morality because only those

00:37:40.860 awful Christians and Jews and Muslims would ever believe that there is such a thing as a sexual 1.00

00:37:45.540 morality and there could be sexual violations. Only those dregs of society would believe that. So abolish 1.00

00:37:50.460 that. Women's rights are human rights. That means there is a patriarchy. We need to overthrow that 1.00

00:37:56.180 patriarchy. And ultimately the way it was used when that phrase became popular, particularly during

00:38:00.920 second wave feminism, is we need to abolish the, the normal normality of the nuclear family. We need to 1.00

00:38:09.200 get rid of that and break it up and have all different sorts of kinds of families. Water is life. This one

00:38:15.460 fooled me. This one, I had no idea what this was. Water is life. What kind of weird stuff is it? So I

00:38:19.620 Googled it. Turns out that is an anti-fossil fuel slogan. It's a slogan by environmental people who

00:38:26.440 want us to give up our entire energy system. And then injustice anywhere is a threat to justice

00:38:33.160 everywhere. Now that obviously isn't true. You know, injustice in Pakistan is, is not a threat to

00:38:42.300 justice in the United States, except in as much as we live in a fallen world. And, and while there

00:38:49.560 is sin in the world, sin and death will pervade the world, but we're not going to fix that through

00:38:53.260 politics anyway. So put that aside. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

00:38:57.780 What does that mean? Means abolish the whole damn system. Justice, right? That's the end of 0.99

00:39:02.500 government. As James Madison famously said, it's the whole point of the system is justice. So if,

00:39:08.940 if the system is in any way unjust, we need to get rid of it and start over. That's a left-wing

00:39:16.260 creed. They just don't recognize it as such. This point of science is real. That's a, that's part of

00:39:23.500 a creed. They just don't recognize it as such. They don't, they don't realize that when they say

00:39:28.840 we want to live in fear, we want to shut down society in perpetuity. All we value is our physical

00:39:37.980 health, whatever that means, such as it is. They don't realize that that cowardly language does not

00:39:43.820 speak for the rest of us. That believe it or not, there are people out there who value courage.

00:39:49.020 That there are people out there who are willing to take risk. That there are people out there who

00:39:54.200 realize that there is risk inherent in anything we do in life, even sitting at home. And we're going

00:40:00.820 to take our chances and pursue the good and do what we can. They don't realize that there's even

00:40:07.780 really an alternative beyond the bigoted musings of the dregs of society. They don't see the other 0.67

00:40:14.860 side of that. Speaking of Black Lives Matter, which is, you know, the first line on the sign,

00:40:22.920 Black Lives Matter is kind of the, it's the gateway into this whole idea of what the founders would call

00:40:28.260 Marxism. Speaking of Black Lives Matter, there's a great video going around right now. The daughter of

00:40:33.820 an ambushed cop just spoke at a Blue Lives Matter event. This woman just spoke about risk and courage

00:40:43.020 and not being afraid because her mother was ambushed on the job and she was killed by a career criminal

00:40:49.580 at the age of 48. This is Genesis Familia. Her, her mother was Neosotis Familia. Take a listen.

00:40:59.180 My mom was a true patriot and she loved this country and was proud to be an American.

00:41:06.420 Detective Yosotis Familia was an amazing daughter to my ugly grandmother who she took care of. 1.00

00:41:13.500 An awesome and loving sister to all of my uncles and aunts. And she was a fun aunt herself to my own

00:41:21.260 cousins. And most importantly, she was a mom to me and to my younger brother and sister who I now have to be a

00:41:28.980 mom too. And I raised on my own. My mom, like every other police officer on the job who sacrifices so much

00:41:38.700 time from their friends and their family to protect all New Yorkers, put her life on the line every day

00:41:47.060 to make New York City a better place. And she truly felt that. She was an amazing human being and she was taken from me

00:41:56.400 and those that loved her just for the blue uniform next to me. Heartbreaking stuff to listen to. This woman

00:42:04.340 very, uh, puts it all into perspective, I suppose, particularly on this point of courage. The left,

00:42:11.960 they don't seem to understand why anyone would join up in the police, why anyone would enlist in the army.

00:42:18.100 They seem to think it's crazy. I mean, this, this really began in the modern era in the 1960s when

00:42:26.500 cowardly university students didn't want to serve their country. So they dodged the draft. One of

00:42:31.500 those guys who dodged the draft became president actually in the 1990s. One of those Democrats.

00:42:36.340 They don't get it. Why would you, why would you do it? Their only view of cops is that cops just join

00:42:42.300 the force so they can kill black people, right? Obviously, I don't think, don't think this woman's 1.00

00:42:46.140 mother was out there because she hated black people being black herself, but there is something 0.54

00:42:52.120 higher, believe it or not. Maybe we've just got to show this to our friends on the left. 0.93

00:42:56.840 There is a higher calling than just protecting your physical self at all times. And courage takes

00:43:02.640 different forms, by the way. There's, there's one issue I've got to touch on. A lot of people

00:43:05.920 aren't covering it. It's a Vatican scandal. It's not a sex scandal though. People, people only ever

00:43:11.400 focus on the sex scandal, which obviously was horrific. It came out in the 2000s, but it mostly

00:43:16.360 took place in the seventies and eighties and a little bit in the nineties. That was where the

00:43:21.400 bulk of these things took place right after the spirit of the 1960s, the spirit of Vatican II,

00:43:26.100 whatever you want to call it, spirit of 68. And sure. I mean, those were horrific. You can read the

00:43:32.540 Pennsylvania grand jury report. It's really horrific, but very often those scandals distract from

00:43:37.920 scandals that are ongoing at the Vatican, which is in Vatican finances, which is at the Vatican bank.

00:43:44.880 And sometimes the sex scandals are used explicitly to cover those up. There was a case of, of an

00:43:50.100 Australian cardinal, Cardinal Pell, who was accused of, of sexual abuse. And the allegations never made

00:43:59.360 any sense. They didn't add up. The timelines didn't add up. His relationship to the individuals didn't add up.

00:44:05.020 A lot of people didn't believe it. And he was convicted. And then this was overturned.

00:44:11.100 Now it is coming out that another cardinal, Cardinal Betchu, it sounds like you sneezed.

00:44:17.220 Cardinal Betchu, the former head of the congregation for the causes of saints,

00:44:21.780 is now being investigated for bribing the individuals in the Cardinal Pell case to accuse

00:44:31.200 Cardinal Pell of sexual abuse. Why would he do this? Because Cardinal Pell was trying to clean up the

00:44:39.020 Vatican bank. Everyone who tries to clean up the Vatican bank, everyone who tries to go to the heart,

00:44:47.220 the, the, the still beating heart of the corruption at the Vatican, always winds up in trouble.

00:44:53.480 Somehow those forces, those dark forces at the Vatican, somehow the bad guys in the Vatican always

00:45:00.260 seem to get them. Now this is a, in a, in a way, it's the same kind of courage, but in a very different

00:45:07.180 realm from someone say, joining the police or someone enlisting in the military. When you go

00:45:14.360 after corruption in the political realm or in a, or even in a, especially in a spiritual realm,

00:45:20.320 you are opening yourself up to attack. You are opening yourself up to big, big trouble.

00:45:26.360 A lot of people, when they see that everyone who tries to clean up the Vatican bank gets

00:45:30.440 their lives ruined, they would probably say, you know what, let's lay off this one for a while.

00:45:35.260 Maybe I don't need to go after this. That's not the right attitude to draw. That's not the right

00:45:40.240 conclusion to draw rather, not the right attitude to have. The left would say so. The left would say,

00:45:44.280 let's just back away. Well, of course, the mainstream media, these, they're, they're part of the

00:45:51.080 corruption of this liberal establishment. They are the corruption in many ways. Only corrupt, truly

00:45:58.840 thoroughly corrupt people would discourage you, meaning to take away your courage. What does courage

00:46:05.920 mean? It means to, to have heart, to take heart from core. That is what corruption does. Virtue tells you

00:46:15.120 to have heart, to be encouraged, to, to recognize. I mean, Christ says this in the gospels, right? He

00:46:22.720 says, you'll have troubles in this world. You will have trouble. Not, not if you elect the right

00:46:27.800 politicians, they'll solve all the problems in this world. Not if you just have the right social policy,

00:46:33.860 then all the problems will go away. He says, no, you will have trouble in this world, but take heart.

00:46:39.180 I have overcome the world. That is the view that built our civilization. That is the view that will

00:46:46.240 forge your souls. That is the view that the president of the United States is giving out to

00:46:50.840 us. Don't be afraid, take heart. And for all those thoroughly corrupt people trying to discourage you,

00:47:00.560 tune them out. They're just another trouble you'll have in this world, but take heart

00:47:03.800 and don't be afraid. That's our show. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

00:47:09.180 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Ben Davies.

00:47:39.180 Executive Producer, Jeremy Boring. Our Technical Director is Austin Stevens.

00:47:44.300 Supervising Producers, Mathis Glover and Robert Sterling.

00:47:47.740 Assistant Director, Pavel Wadowski. Editor and Associate Producer, Danny D'Amico.

00:47:52.800 Audio Mixer, Robin Fenderson. Hair and Makeup, Nika Geneva. And Production Assistant, Ryan Love.

00:47:59.360 The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production. Copyright Daily Wire 2020.

00:48:02.780 You know, the Matt Wall Show, it's not just another show about politics. I think there are enough of

00:48:07.980 those already out there. We talk about culture because culture drives politics and it drives

00:48:13.020 everything else. So my main focuses are life, family, faith. Those are fundamental. And that's

00:48:20.340 what this show is about. I hope you'll give it a listen.

The Michael Knowles Show - October 06, 2020

Ep. 623 - Don’t Be Afraid

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript