The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 We have a major update from all of our expert scientists.

00:00:04.040 This is going to put us all at ease, finally get the country moving again.

00:00:08.800 Joe Biden's COVID advisor promises us that we just have to lock down the country for another

00:00:15.880 four to six weeks. And then four to six weeks, we're gonna lock down, we're gonna stay in our

00:00:20.660 pods, we're not gonna go outside, no one's gonna work. And then in four to six weeks,

00:00:24.780 then we will return from this pandemic. I would remind everybody, it is now 241 days

00:00:33.140 since the federal government told us that we had 15 days to slow the spread. That's the science.

00:00:38.980 You got to trust the science, even when the science changes its mind every single day.

00:00:43.500 That's what you can look forward to if Joe Biden wins the race. I'm Michael Knowles,

00:00:46.940 this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:54.780 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from yesterday is from Jacob,

00:01:00.520 who says, oh, this is a quote. This is a quote from Joe Biden, presidential candidate who might

00:01:05.360 consider himself the president elect. We have put together, I think, the most extensive and

00:01:10.560 inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics. That might be the one time

00:01:15.700 Joe Biden has told the truth. I think we found the one time, it's a Freudian slip, which of course is

00:01:20.640 where you say one thing but mean your mother. Joe Biden bragged about this. Now, people came out

00:01:27.140 and said, no, no, Joe Biden, what he really meant was that it's the best voter fraud fighting

00:01:34.300 organization, the most anti-voter fraud. Well, that's not what he said. And the more we learn

00:01:39.000 out of Philadelphia, the more we learn out of Pittsburgh, the more we learn out of Arizona,

00:01:42.240 the more we learn out of Georgia, the more we learn out of Michigan. It seems like Joe might

00:01:46.320 have been telling the truth. We'll get to all of those states in just a second. This election

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00:03:28.760 You're not going to want to miss out on a great job. That's just something we're told all the time

00:03:32.760 about science. What happened when our public health experts, like Dr. Fauci, for instance,

00:03:39.140 told us not to wear masks? Don't wear masks. Masks are bad for you. If you wear a mask,

00:03:43.180 you're being irresponsible. Surgeon General of the United States said the same thing,

00:03:46.680 and we were told trust the science, believe the science, as though the science were some deity that

00:03:51.280 we have to pay obeisance to. Well, then all those guys completely changed their minds.

00:03:55.980 Based on what? Based on new studies? We didn't get really new studies.

00:04:00.140 They changed their minds. Then you got to believe the science there.

00:04:03.100 We were told, believe the science, 15 days to slow the spread, flatten the curve,

00:04:05.920 so that you don't overwhelm the hospital system. Not find a cure, not reduce the number of cases,

00:04:10.240 not even really reduce the number of deaths. Just reduce the number of unnecessary deaths if you

00:04:15.020 were to overwhelm the hospital system. We never came close to overwhelming the hospital system

00:04:18.740 anywhere in the country, including New York. They had the Javits Center. They had that hospital ship.

00:04:23.600 Didn't need either of them. Same thing over in California. Didn't need it. Great. Big success,

00:04:28.060 right? So the lockdowns are over by April 1st, right? No way. Not a chance. We're now 241 days in.

00:04:36.440 People are dying alone. People are not seeing their grandparents. Now we're being told we're not

00:04:41.700 allowed to go home for Thanksgiving. Or if we do go home, you can only have a meal with 10 people.

00:04:47.380 So I've got some Catholic friends of mine. Some of them have just 10 kids, or 11 kids,

00:04:52.520 or 12 kids. So you've got to pick your favorites. You've got to send those other kids outside.

00:04:56.600 Maybe they can come for Christmas. We'll see. We'll see if President-elect Joe Biden will let them.

00:05:03.200 More on him in just a bit. So there's one new machine out of Nebraska,

00:05:07.580 which is it's a new scientific way to circumvent the lockdowns. It allows you to hug.

00:05:13.000 I can't even get through it without laughing. It allows you to hug your relatives by reaching

00:05:20.140 through a plastic sheet and in plastic, wrapping your plastic arms around your beloved grandfather.

00:05:28.780 Take a listen.

00:05:29.320 Is this heartwarming? I don't...

00:05:43.140 It's something kind of heartwarming because you know that these grandparents haven't seen

00:05:51.020 their grandkids in however long. It's also very sad.

00:06:04.840 This is what not the virus has reduced us to. This is what bad policies have reduced us to.

00:06:12.500 This is inhuman.

00:06:13.500 You know, I have friends. I unfortunately haven't been able to travel back to see my grandparents in

00:06:20.180 the last, whatever, five or six months that this has really been going on. But I have friends who

00:06:26.200 have. And in some cases, the parents didn't want to see them. They said, I'm too afraid of the virus.

00:06:33.900 But in most cases, the grandparents said, come on in here, Sonny. This happened to a very good friend

00:06:39.300 of mine just a couple months ago. He said, come on in here. I know I'm 85 years old. I know I'm at

00:06:44.100 risk. But you know, I'm going to die soon anyway. And I don't want to go without seeing my loved ones.

00:06:49.460 There have been petitions in nursing... There was a protest, actually, at a nursing home where people

00:06:53.160 said, the thing we look forward to is getting hugs from our relatives. And you're taking that away from

00:06:57.000 us, you sick politicians. That question of whether or not you can hug your grandparents, that's not a

00:07:03.740 scientific question. Maybe there's some increased risk to the virus. Maybe the risk actually isn't

00:07:08.320 that large compared to other viruses. That's sort of beside the point. There's a political question,

00:07:13.760 a philosophical question, a theological question. What are we here for? How are we to relate to one

00:07:18.620 another? How are we to relate to life? How are we to relate to death? It occurred to me yesterday

00:07:25.580 that COVID is the single craziest thing to ever happen in my lifetime. Ever. Not the virus. I had

00:07:34.840 plenty of viruses in my lifetime. West Nile, Ebola, all those sort of things. Swine flu.

00:07:42.060 The COVID lockdowns. That's the craziest thing to happen in my lifetime. I tweeted this out and a

00:07:46.860 number of people said, well, what about 9-11? You were alive for 9-11. 9-11, I guess, was the most

00:07:51.760 horrific thing to happen in my lifetime. But that's different than crazy. It's not that it was so crazy,

00:08:00.340 so unusual, so unexpected, so unprecedented. There have always been terrorist attacks in history.

00:08:05.520 Many of them have come from Islamic radicals. There actually was already a terror attack on the

00:08:09.680 World Trade Center in 1993. The people who did it told us their justification for doing it. So still,

00:08:15.380 obviously, horrific. Crazy is a different thing. And the COVID lockdowns are absolutely crazy because

00:08:22.280 there is no reasoning behind it. They change the reasoning every single day. They extend it

00:08:29.420 indefinitely. There is no end in sight, no matter what these hack politicians tell you. Biden's COVID

00:08:35.240 advisor says four to six weeks. A likely story. I've heard that one before. To quote a former president,

00:08:41.560 fool me once, shame on you. Fooled me twice. The point is you ain't going to fool me again.

00:08:45.400 Again, that's the sort of science that we're talking about here. It's just a power grab.

00:08:54.320 I am not going to wear a mask at Thanksgiving. I would encourage you all not to wear masks on

00:08:59.860 Thanksgiving. I'm not making a scientific point. I'm not saying it's because the masks don't work

00:09:05.560 that well, even though we've quoted many epidemiologists, for instance, from Columbia.

00:09:09.760 We've quoted the CDC. We've quoted Dr. Fauci himself saying that the masks don't work that well.

00:09:13.460 That's not the point I'm making. I'm not going to wear the mask because the masks are disordered.

00:09:18.820 They present a disordered view of the world, a disordered view of germs, a disordered view of

00:09:24.300 society and social relations. They change what we are, social animals. Aristotle calls us the

00:09:29.280 political animal. They change that social nature of us from looking at one another as fellow human

00:09:34.320 beings, fellow citizens, fellow family members, to looking at each other as bags of germs that are

00:09:40.340 going to destroy us, that are out to kill us, that only can be protected by the government and by

00:09:48.480 government lockdowns. I ain't going to do it. It's political control in the name of science. Now,

00:09:52.720 by the way, people have been asking me since the beginning of COVID, some people who are a little

00:09:57.500 more eccentric or excitable, they've said, Michael, this is the end times. COVID is it,

00:10:04.040 heralding the end times, the antichrist and the COVID stuff. It's going to be the mark of the

00:10:09.100 beast. And I said, you know, that seems a little, that seems a little extreme. You know, no one knows

00:10:15.720 the day or the hour, not even the sun, but only the father knows the day or the day. So I'm not

00:10:19.380 going to presume to know that. But then I read stories like this and I say, gosh, this, I don't

00:10:24.080 know, maybe those excitable people have a point. Now that a vaccine is in the works, it looks like it's

00:10:30.160 going to come out. It was announced just a couple of days after the election, conveniently. Now

00:10:35.260 we're being told by Ticketmaster, Ticketmaster may resume live events, but they're going to require

00:10:41.500 you to present a sort of passport to say that you've had the vaccine. That's a very creepy position

00:10:49.820 to be in, where in order to engage in commercial activity, you have to get a certain vaccine. We've

00:10:54.780 never really had that in America. Now Ticketmaster is saying, perhaps you can have a test. And if

00:11:00.960 you can prove that you have the test, fine. What is scientific about that? If I were to get

00:11:07.180 the flu right now, I'd be at a much greater risk of dying, right? Depending on what conditions I've

00:11:11.360 got. But younger people, babies, children, much higher risk from the flu, which we all tolerate,

00:11:17.480 than from coronavirus. How come we don't require that you get your flu shot? Maybe we soon will

00:11:24.000 require that you get your flu shot. That's again, a political question, but it's all being passed

00:11:30.740 off in science. The mayor of Chicago, the failed state of Chicago and the failed mayor who runs it

00:11:35.960 just came out. She's trying her hand at comedy and she's trying her hand at comedy in the name of

00:11:41.140 science to say that she's assuming Joe Biden just got elected president, that science is back.

00:11:54.000 Oh, thank God. Science is back, baby.

00:12:06.740 And the earth is round, not flat.

00:12:12.100 Washing your hands does work. Social distancing does matter. And wearing a face covering does help

00:12:22.480 protect all of us. I do love science.

00:12:27.200 If that is science, give me alchemy. Whatever that is, I don't want that. I oppose whatever

00:12:42.280 that is. That of course is not science and those are not scientists and even our conception of

00:12:46.740 science is pretty flawed. But that's a politician. That's a very corrupt Chicago politician. You ever

00:12:53.880 notice how all the people who promote science to us are, they're all politicians? Andrew Cuomo

00:12:59.300 believes science. This lady believes science. Al Gore wins a Nobel prize for making a PowerPoint

00:13:04.340 about science. They're all politicians. Isn't that a little weird? The reason for that, this goes back

00:13:10.660 to the earliest days of the progressive movement, which coincided with the rise of the social sciences,

00:13:15.300 which then fed data into the administrative state, which took decisions away from the authentically

00:13:20.300 political realm in our constitutional system, gave it to so-called experts to make all our decisions

00:13:24.480 for us. And it was all done in the name of science. Social science, political science, economic

00:13:29.240 science, whatever this kind of science is, epidemiology, all these sorts of sciences so that you can't

00:13:35.080 disagree with it. Right now, we're told that we ought to be able to kill a baby in the womb. Why?

00:13:39.940 Because that's science. That's not a baby. It's an embryo. Okay, well, what's the difference?

00:13:46.620 Well, I don't know. But look, that's not a baby. It's a fetus. Well, okay, do you know what the word

00:13:50.080 fetus means? The word fetus is Latin for offspring. It just means baby. Okay, enough with that etymology

00:13:55.820 buster. I'm no classicist over here. I'm a scientist. And what I'm telling you is that's a zygote. That's

00:14:01.620 not a baby. Okay, you can keep inventing these kind of newfangled jargon. It doesn't change the

00:14:07.400 ontological fact that this is a baby. They say, nope, sorry, that's science. You got to kill the babies.

00:14:12.240 It is a scientific fact, did you know, that men can become women. It's just science. You say,

00:14:18.220 well, I don't know that that's right. No, someone in a lab coat told me that, and they published it

00:14:22.220 in a journal, and it's in the academy. Believe it. But of course, none of this is science.

00:14:27.660 These scientific statements are meant to defend policies that people want, namely legal abortion

00:14:33.300 or transgender ideology, letting men use the women's changing room or something to that effect.

00:14:39.420 And that's fine. But the reason they have to pretend it's science is so that you can't debate.

00:14:44.660 Whenever you hear it's science, believe the science, Lori Lightfoot over there in Chicago,

00:14:48.160 science is back. What that really means is there's no more debate. There's no more room to disagree

00:14:52.900 because we are going to define all of our views as beyond the realm of public debate,

00:14:58.800 and you are just going to have to deal with it. These are political questions. Some people get that.

00:15:04.220 You know, I notice the conservative politicians are much less likely to buy into this kind of game,

00:15:10.500 even though it might help them in some cases. Ron DeSantis over in Florida, maybe my favorite

00:15:16.100 governor in the United States. Ron DeSantis is dealing in political questions. So there have been

00:15:22.740 some problems around the country, you know. When people are going out and mobbing and looting and

00:15:28.220 rioting, we are told this doesn't spread the coronavirus. Actually, so-called public health

00:15:34.060 experts told us that it would help stop the coronavirus to protest white supremacy. I kid

00:15:40.440 you not, the 2,000 of them wrote a letter about this. And if you protest white supremacy, because

00:15:44.940 white supremacy exacerbates the virus, it's good, and never mind. But if you go protest any of the

00:15:51.080 lockdowns, or if you go to church, or if you go see your family at Thanksgiving, that will spread the

00:15:54.840 virus. That's just science. So let the marauding leftists loot your stores, burn down your country,

00:16:01.060 steal your stuff, break onto your property in St. Louis, and threaten you with weapons.

00:16:04.820 Don't you dare fight back, Mr. McCloskey. That's just science. And so Ron DeSantis came out and he

00:16:09.920 said, I don't think it's a scientific question. I think it's a political question. And I think I'm

00:16:13.400 going to pass a law that says that if looters and rioters come onto your lawn, you can shoot them.

00:16:19.420 That's a law, a simple law. I can't believe we actually have to make a law about that.

00:16:22.780 Seems to me, if people come into my property, if people are destroying businesses,

00:16:27.720 and then you fight back, that's clearly self-defense, defending your life and your property.

00:16:35.020 But the country has decayed in such a way that people don't see that anymore. So Ron DeSantis

00:16:40.820 taking the lead here. He's expanding the Stand Your Ground law. He is attempting to prevent, quote,

00:16:47.820 violent and disorderly assemblies by permitting violence against anyone involved in the, quote,

00:16:53.080 interruption or impairment of a business, which could include a burglary within 500 feet of, quote,

00:16:59.740 violent or disorderly assembly. Great idea. This is the kind of leadership we need.

00:17:04.520 Stop deferring to these so-called experts. They're not experts. They're just leftist political

00:17:10.360 activists who are telling you to shut up. They're trying to censor everybody now, and sometimes

00:17:15.260 they'll outright lie to do it, getting back to the presidential election. Because there's a lot

00:17:21.280 at stake right now in the presidential election. If Joe Biden pulls this one out, he's going to empower

00:17:26.780 this bureaucratic blob, the deep state, the administrative state. And all these little

00:17:32.800 experts are going to write lots of laws well past the halls of Congress. They're going to write it in

00:17:37.960 the EPA or in the FDA or wherever, in all the alphabet agencies, to run your life for you.

00:17:45.080 And they're going to try to steal it. If they don't win it outright, they'll try to steal it.

00:17:50.320 Maybe you heard this story. Actually, you did, because I mentioned it on the show the other day.

00:17:53.780 The other day, a postal worker comes out and alleges fraud, alleges that his supervisor told him,

00:17:59.740 pick up ballots that are illegal, deliver them to me. So then the Washington Post came out and said,

00:18:05.520 not true. This postal worker has recanted. This is fake news. Don't spread this story.

00:18:12.900 Well, now, I guess that was supposed to be the end of the story, except that the postal worker

00:18:17.260 came out and he said, I absolutely did not recant. And the Washington Post is lying about me.

00:18:22.620 I am right at this very moment looking at a article written, written by Washington Post.

00:18:30.280 It says that I fabricated the allegations of ballot tampering. I'm here to say that I did not recant

00:18:39.180 my statements. That did not happen. That is not what happened. And you will find out tomorrow.

00:18:46.960 So we'll find out. He's gonna release a longer video about this. But it didn't happen. Now,

00:18:52.640 I don't know the entirety of his story. But what I do know is something that I've known for a long

00:18:57.240 time, that the Washington Post is lying about it. The entire establishment press, which is tied into

00:19:03.040 the establishment academy, which is tied into the establishment popular culture, which is tied into

00:19:07.580 the establishment technology, which is tied into the established administrative government and

00:19:11.580 elected politicians. That is what is trying to win this election. It is not about Joe Biden. Joe

00:19:17.380 Biden is nothing. He is totally hollow. If you crack him open, you would find air leaking out. There

00:19:23.900 is nothing inside. He's been in empty suit his whole career. The same goes for Kamala Harris. She's

00:19:28.960 articulated more forcefully certain views. It's only because she's younger. I think she licks her

00:19:34.720 finger, puts it up in the air, figures out which way the wind is blowing. Okay, now there are

00:19:40.000 politicians on the left who have strong views. They will be pulling the strings. Joe Biden has

00:19:46.420 already admitted as much. He's moved so radically to the left just in the issue of abortion. He used

00:19:51.980 to oppose abortion. Now he not only doesn't oppose it, he supports taxpayer-funded abortion with no

00:19:58.620 restrictions. There are these strong-minded characters on the left. One of them would be Stacey Abrams,

00:20:06.080 who is just as much the governor of Georgia as Joe Biden is the president-elect. Stacey Abrams,

00:20:11.780 you remember her, she's come out and said, forget this moderation talk. Forget this talk about the

00:20:17.460 American ideals. What we need is identity politics. Identity politics is exactly who we are, and it's

00:20:24.360 exactly how we won. Identity politics. That's exactly how we won. Identity politics. That's how the left

00:20:32.580 went. Now the trouble, of course, with this is the left didn't just win the election. The left,

00:20:38.440 there was supposed to be a blue wave, remember? The left was supposed to take the Senate. Doesn't

00:20:41.540 look like they did that. And the left was supposed to win big seats in the House. Didn't do that. They

00:20:45.540 lost seats in the House. They may have lost a lot of seats in the House. And they were playing those

00:20:51.120 identity politics. Identity politics is fundamentally opposed to the American and broader Western political

00:21:01.940 tradition. Because what identity politics says is we need to set up essentially a sort of caste system

00:21:06.940 in America, and we're going to judge people based on their oppression, their perceived oppression,

00:21:13.700 whether that's real or imagined. And we're going to give people certain privileges. So for instance,

00:21:18.480 we're going to give black people certain privileges in university admissions and job hiring. And they're

00:21:24.300 going to get those privileges because of the legacy of slavery. Now you might ask, what about black

00:21:29.080 people who do not descend from slaves? Like, for instance, Barack Obama or Kamala Harris, both of

00:21:33.800 whom descended not from slaves, but from slave owners. Do they have a disadvantage? Are they oppressed?

00:21:39.760 Neither of those people seem particularly oppressed to me. One was the president. One might possibly

00:21:44.000 become the vice president. She's a sitting U.S. senator. I don't think, how are they oppressed?

00:21:49.620 Well, because of their identity. Not because of the facts of their life, but because of their identity.

00:21:56.500 Pits Americans against one another and pits all Americans against their own history. That's the

00:22:02.480 point. And identity politics, unfortunately, is very effective. And what's interesting is for all the

00:22:07.800 talk of white supremacy and white nationalism, these sorts of things, white people in America have a very,

00:22:12.680 very low racial consciousness. There was a report came out, I think, from Pew Research that showed

00:22:18.180 that for every major ethnic group, racial consciousness ranks above 50%. That is greater than 50% of

00:22:25.520 respondents said that their race is very important to their identity. For black people, this was the

00:22:30.420 strongest, followed by Hispanics and Asians. For white people, racial identity was 15%. It's way,

00:22:38.220 way, way, way, way, way low, which is perfectly fine by me. If you were to ask me, Michael, who are you?

00:22:43.300 What are you? What would I say? I'd say I'm Catholic. I'm American. I'm Sicilian. You know,

00:22:50.140 I get a little of that. I guess I've got some English in there. I'm a cigar smoker. I'm a joker.

00:22:56.220 I'm a smoker. I'm a midnight toker, right? I'd give, and white guy would be somewhere pretty far down

00:23:01.380 on the list. But what Stacey Abrams is saying is, no, you're a white guy, buddy. White is number one.

00:23:08.860 Your racial identity, which she is constructing for us, that has got to be number one.

00:23:15.340 Now, that kind of radical politics didn't win the last election. I mean,

00:23:19.900 when you say identity politics is how we won. How'd you win? The guy that you maybe elected

00:23:23.920 president is the oldest, whitest dude in America, right? So I don't, if that's the identity,

00:23:30.260 I guess, then the Democrats are going back to their roots. But in the future, perhaps it will

00:23:35.460 work. I mean, there is something to this idea. Michael Moore was saying this. Democrats need

00:23:40.340 to become socialists. They need to just admit that they're socialists, stop pretending they're

00:23:43.680 not socialists. And he's been harangued for this. But Michael Moore actually gets politics pretty well.

00:23:48.780 He was one of the few people on the left who called Trump. And there is a phenomenon going on

00:23:52.680 right now. My friend Spencer Clavin over at Claremont and the American Mind, he pointed this out to me

00:23:57.780 the other day. We were discussing the woke people and the red-pilled conservatives and the, you know,

00:24:03.200 the idea that the kind of establishment consensus on both the left and the right are cracking.

00:24:08.000 And he said, well, Michael, isn't it interesting that the two terms that we're using for people

00:24:12.760 who realize that the old consensus is broken and that some new kind of political coalition needs

00:24:17.220 to form, on the left we say they're woke and on the right we say they're red-pilled.

00:24:22.120 And both terms imply a kind of waking up out of a dreamlike state, waking up and seeing reality anew

00:24:30.120 for the first time. And I think there's something to that. I think Democrats have behaved like

00:24:34.360 socialists for a very long time and they just haven't admitted it to themselves. And I think

00:24:38.460 that conservatives have convinced themselves of a lot of sort of slogans and bumper stickers that

00:24:43.220 aren't necessarily true. And they tilt against windmills and they fight battles that no one

00:24:52.040 really cares about. You know, it's perfectly fine. The liberal establishment is perfectly fine to have

00:24:57.240 conservatives arguing for low taxes. Sometimes the liberal establishment doesn't even mind the low

00:25:01.120 taxes. But the minute you bring up culture, the minute you bring up mass migration, the minute you

00:25:05.920 bring up love of country even, all of a sudden that's a little bit too much, a little too red-pilled.

00:25:11.840 Now, we will find out how this election turns out pretty soon. Before we get into the mailbag,

00:25:19.240 there are some election updates. Right now we've found out there will be a hand recount in the

00:25:24.080 state of Georgia. You'll remember on election night, Trump was winning Georgia significantly.

00:25:28.320 And then, you know, just magically in the middle of the night, all those Biden votes came in.

00:25:32.400 So here we have Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, what a name,

00:25:36.520 announcing there will be a by-hand recount in every county in Georgia.

00:25:41.840 The next step in the current election process is getting the final county certifications in.

00:25:47.340 We'll then move to the Risk Limiting Audit, or RLA. At 1 p.m. today, I will make the official

00:25:55.200 designation of which race will be the subject of the RLA. At that time, I will designate that the RLA

00:26:01.240 will be the presidential race. With the margin being so close, it will require a full by-hand recount

00:26:09.480 in each county. This will help build confidence. It will be an audit, a recount, and a re-canvass

00:26:16.820 all at once. It will be a heavy lift, but we will work with the counties to get this done in time

00:26:22.980 for our state certification. Many of these workers will be working plenty of overtime.

00:26:29.540 We have all worked hard to bring fair and accurate counts to assure that the will of the voters is

00:26:35.140 reflected in the final count, and that every voter will have confidence in the outcome wherever,

00:26:42.120 whether their candidate won or lost.

00:26:44.260 So you heard that term RLA. RLA refers to Risk Limiting Audit. It's not enough to count the votes

00:26:51.560 again. If you've got fraudulent votes in there and you recount the fraudulent votes, you haven't

00:26:55.960 accomplished anything. There are votes in there that maybe weren't sent in by the people who said

00:27:00.800 that they were sending them in. There are votes in there that maybe were not sent in by people who,

00:27:04.820 I don't know, are alive. There are votes maybe in there that were sent in by people who aren't people.

00:27:10.080 You know, maybe they're the family's beloved pet or something. We've heard a few stories about that

00:27:13.700 during this election season. We just don't know. So it's not enough to recount. You've got to audit

00:27:18.700 those votes. Usually, you're going to hear political geniuses tell you that recounts don't matter that

00:27:24.940 much. Yeah, sure, they find fraud. There's always fraud, but it's not going to shift the vote that

00:27:29.060 much. That may be true, but we have never had widespread unsolicited mail-in ballots.

00:27:35.520 We're now talking about what? The numbers that the media are putting out are 74 million votes for

00:27:39.580 Biden. 71, 72 million votes for Trump. Those numbers are unprecedented. Now, maybe it's because

00:27:45.820 of huge voter turnout. Maybe it's because there's fraud. Maybe there was huge voter turnout, but some

00:27:50.840 of those votes were not eligible. We don't know. And so you've got to audit that vote. It's not just

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00:29:41.520 So we got the recounts going on in Georgia. We've also got new numbers coming out of Arizona. So

00:29:46.140 very quickly before we get to mailbag, Joe Biden's lead in Arizona. Remember, Arizona was called for

00:29:52.020 Biden on election night by the ostensibly conservative network. Now, who knows how

00:29:58.540 conservative they are exactly if they're the first ones calling Arizona for Biden. But the Trump team

00:30:02.620 has been very confident from the beginning. We are going to do very, very well in Arizona. It turns

00:30:06.920 out it looks like that's correct. Joe Biden's lead in Arizona has now shrunk below 13,000 after

00:30:12.360 Maricopa County dropped some more ballots. According to Data Orbital, the county's latest report includes

00:30:20.080 50, almost 5,300 votes, 56.4% going to Trump, 41.8% going to Biden. Pinal County also posted some

00:30:27.840 more ballots on Tuesday, shows Trump taking 63.3% of the almost 1,000 ballots counted there.

00:30:34.780 There remain 46,700 ballots in Arizona. 22,400 of them come from Maricopa County. Maricopa is

00:30:44.220 pretty decidedly for Trump. Now, President Trump needs to take 64% in those remaining ballots

00:30:49.240 in order to win Arizona. That's a high number, but it is not outside the realm of possibility.

00:30:54.980 All pretty good news there, and that's why CNN is absolutely freaking out. We are being told now

00:31:01.460 that if President Trump does not concede, never mind the recounts, never mind the hand recount in

00:31:06.400 Georgia, recounts, counts still going on in Arizona, the investigations going on in Philadelphia,

00:31:11.680 never mind all that. Trump's got to concede, these demagogues tell us, because otherwise,

00:31:15.940 Trump will compromise American national security. Yes or no, are the actions that the president is

00:31:23.060 taking now putting this country in danger? Clearly, it's not great for our democracy.

00:31:32.000 Okay. It's fair. Let's put some teeth on that, if we can, for a moment, because there are sitting

00:31:39.060 members of Congress who were around in their positions at the time of 9-11, and the 9-11 Commission

00:31:44.800 report specifically cited the shortened transition after the 2000 election for having an impact

00:31:51.060 on national security. I'm quoting here, it hampered the new administration in identifying, recruiting,

00:31:57.120 clearing, and obtaining Senate confirmation of key appointees. The fact is, we have experience

00:32:03.660 for how shortened transitions make a difference in national security. Why are we hearing from

00:32:10.280 Republicans about that, granting that potential danger? Yeah. Why are these Republicans doing

00:32:18.520 that? I mean, it's just so awful that they're compromising national security. I don't remember

00:32:22.280 CNN raising this concern when Al Gore was dragging the 2000 election out for 38 days, based on nothing,

00:32:29.540 by the way, based on absolutely nothing compared to what we've got now. I guess if Democrats were

00:32:34.100 so concerned about this, maybe they should not have refused to allow Republican poll watchers in

00:32:39.360 Philadelphia. Because if they didn't do that, if they didn't illegally refuse to allow Republican

00:32:45.480 poll watchers and ignore a court order, then maybe we wouldn't have to drag this out so long.

00:32:50.480 Maybe they shouldn't have forced this widespread unsolicited mail-in ballots, which are vulnerable

00:32:55.900 to fraud. Maybe they shouldn't have done that, but they did. So unfortunately,

00:32:58.820 we're not going to unilaterally disarm Democrats. Maybe the most scandalizing aspect of this entire

00:33:06.040 election process, maybe of 2020, is that you have America's enemies around the world

00:33:13.840 parroting Democratic talking points to attack America. When you hear China, when you hear North

00:33:22.680 Korea, when you hear Saudi Arabia, when you hear Russia talking about the United States,

00:33:28.280 they are parroting Democratic talking points. This from the UN Human Rights Council. Don't you love,

00:33:34.360 by the way, that China is on the UN Human Rights Council? China, which kills millions of their own

00:33:41.700 citizens, which forced sterilization, forced abortions on their own citizens. China's on the Human Rights

00:33:48.180 Council at the United Nations, which, as I've mentioned many times before, would make a wonderful

00:33:53.100 luxury Trump apartment building on the East River. For some reason, we still have the UN standing

00:33:57.260 there. But I know that Joe Biden calls himself the president-elect. He's just as much the president-elect

00:34:02.420 as I am. And I promise you, in a Knowles administration, we're getting luxury condos where the UN stands.

00:34:07.600 Here is what China had to say about the United States. It sounds an awful lot like Democrats.

00:34:13.040 Madam President, the Chinese delegation wishes to recommend to the US, one, root out the systematic

00:34:19.320 racism, address widespread police brutality, and combat discrimination against African and Asian

00:34:24.880 Americans. Second, urge politicians to respect people's rights to life and health, and stop

00:34:30.080 politicizing and stigmatizing COVID-19 pandemic. Three, take holistic measures to eliminate rich,

00:34:36.160 poor, politicalization, and social inequality. Four, combat the increasingly severe religious

00:34:40.320 intolerant and xenophobic violence. Five, stop incarcerating migrants, including migrant children,

00:34:45.700 and guarantee the rights of migrants. Six, address proliferation of guns and guarantee people's

00:34:49.860 rights to life. Seven, coercive unilateral benefits. And eight, stop torture and to opposite

00:34:59.080 military intervention in other countries and stop killing civilians. Nine, stop interfering for

00:35:05.080 political reasons in other countries' international affairs under the pretext of human rights.

00:35:08.560 Thank you, Madam President. Listening to that cynical enemy of the United States,

00:35:14.680 reading the litany of offenses that the United States is allegedly committing, not committing in

00:35:20.660 reality, but is allegedly committing, you would think that that guy were running for the Democratic

00:35:25.060 nomination for president. And this is a sad fact about our politics right now that one cannot ignore.

00:35:32.020 I mentioned this before the election. The difference in the election is that Trump supporters wave the

00:35:37.940 American flag and Biden supporters burn the American flag. Well, but Michael, some Biden supporters

00:35:43.540 aren't burning the flag. Sure. First of all, all the people burning the flag support Biden over Trump.

00:35:48.340 But beyond that, the people who are disrespecting the American flag, many more people than who are

00:35:54.860 burning them, the people who won't stand for the national anthem, the people who will not give reverence to the

00:36:01.360 flag, star-spangled banner. They're Democrats. They're people who support Joe Biden. The people

00:36:07.160 who read the 1619 Project and say our country is rotten to the core, rotten from the very beginning.

00:36:11.860 They support Joe Biden. That's a big difference. And that, to me, is a real national security problem.

00:36:17.880 When you have half the country that despises the country itself, that is a real security problem.

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00:38:36.140 Welcome back. I'm always running late on the mailbag. So first question from Sarah. Hello,

00:38:53.340 Mr. Knowles. Recently, my boyfriend and I got in a fight about me getting a COVID test.

00:38:59.380 Okay. I like where this is going. I had just a stuffy nose and felt like it wasn't necessary to

00:39:04.580 get one for a few reasons. One, I always get a small cold during the change of seasons. Yeah,

00:39:08.080 true for most of us. Two, if I went and got a test, I would have had to stay out of work for

00:39:12.140 however long it would take for results to come back, which means that I wouldn't get paid for

00:39:16.700 those days of missing work. Three, I haven't been in contact with anyone sick and don't want to get

00:39:21.740 on some sort of watch list. Fair enough. Was it irresponsible to not get a test or is COVID

00:39:27.100 something that has to be accepted and lived with? Any of your thoughts would be appreciated. This is a

00:39:30.720 topic of frustration for me and my boyfriend. Thanks. Tell your boyfriend to man up. This is

00:39:36.360 so pathetic. It is so pathetic that you have to be the voice of reason. Typically when there are

00:39:43.400 arguments between boyfriends and girlfriends, I don't want to sound sexist or anything here,

00:39:47.900 but typically the more emotional party to that argument tends sometimes to be the female part and

00:39:56.520 the men tend to be a little more grounded, but here it's completely reversed because leftism has

00:40:02.860 thrown our culture upside down. Of course you shouldn't have to get a COVID test because you've

00:40:08.840 got a stuffy nose. First of all, see if you've got the symptoms of COVID. Second of all, see if you're

00:40:13.460 at risk or you're around people who are at risk. Third of all, you don't need to end your life because

00:40:18.640 of what amounts to a very, very virulent flu just about, right? Especially for people who are in

00:40:26.020 what I imagine to be your age range. Second, tell your boyfriend if he wants to boss you around,

00:40:31.380 he's got to become your husband. No, don't tell him that. That's not, that's not a good way to

00:40:35.500 start a marriage, but tell him to, you know, grow a spine and stop living in fear of this virus.

00:40:42.000 Be prudent. Fine. Don't go, you know, maybe don't like go lick your, your elderly sick grandfather.

00:40:48.540 Okay. Use some caution here, but you don't need to leave, live your life in constant fear of a virus

00:40:54.940 that has been extraordinarily politicized and which by the way, is going to be with us

00:40:58.800 in perpetuity, right? That's how these viruses work. The World Health Organization estimates,

00:41:03.900 and this is a month old estimate at this point, World Health Organization estimates that one in

00:41:07.640 10 people on planet earth have already gotten COVID on earth. The virus has only been around

00:41:14.360 for something like nine or 10 months. We're all going to get it. We're going to get it. It's going

00:41:20.460 to be around. Maybe there's a vaccine. Maybe the vaccine will work. Maybe people won't take it.

00:41:24.260 It's going to be around. Have you ever gotten the flu? Do you get the flu shot? It's here.

00:41:28.460 There was a study out of Chicago showed one in five Chicagoans, one in five, 20% got COVID within the

00:41:35.260 first, you know, nine, 10 months of it existing. It's going around. Learn to live with it. Tell your

00:41:40.640 boyfriend to stop living in fear or get a new boyfriend. I don't know. I don't want to go that

00:41:45.900 far. Maybe he's a nice guy, but come on, tell him to quote Don Corleone when he's talking to

00:41:52.520 Johnny Fontaine in his office. You're going to act like a man. What's the matter with you?

00:41:57.260 From Genevieve Hacker, dear Michael, for months now, the media has been predicting that Trump will

00:42:02.120 not allow the peaceful transfer of power after the election. Has Trump painted himself into a corner

00:42:07.460 now that he is, by their standards, refusing to concede the election and fulfilling their predictions?

00:42:12.440 Also, do you think there's a chance the courts will rule in favor of Biden,

00:42:15.500 even if there is evidence that Trump actually won, just to avoid the inevitable rioting if

00:42:20.160 they declare Trump won? Thanks. Love the show. Of course, the media painted this picture. They

00:42:26.080 try to do it all the time. You remember they did this in 2016. They said, there is evidence of

00:42:31.040 Russian interference. Russia wants Trump to win and then Trump wins. And they say, see, because

00:42:36.880 we made those predictions before, now we're going to use that as a predicate to investigate him and

00:42:41.680 try to stage a coup d'etat and throw him out of office. Of course, that was the plan the whole time.

00:42:45.320 And they're doing that now. They're saying, if Trump wins, then it's not democracy. You know,

00:42:49.280 it's amazing with Democrats. Whenever the people go out and vote and they don't vote for the

00:42:54.460 Democrats, that's not democracy. That's a threat to democracy. But when they go out and they vote

00:42:59.000 for Democrats, that is democracy. Seems like kind of a loaded game. Who cares what their standards are?

00:43:04.780 I don't care. I don't care. I don't care what CNN says. I don't care what Fox News says for that

00:43:08.500 matter. You know, Fox historically has been better than CNN. But if people are going to push a narrative

00:43:16.360 that is politically slanted and untrue, what do I care? It doesn't affect me at all. There is a

00:43:23.060 legal process in this country for conducting elections. President Trump is engaging in that

00:43:27.620 legal process. And you may well be right. There may be a world in which they uncover lots of voter

00:43:32.420 fraud, but either they can't prove it because it's very difficult to prove, or they do prove it. And

00:43:36.320 the courts go squishy and say, well, I just, we don't want to have more riots. So sorry, Biden's

00:43:42.100 the president. That might happen. That's, I guess that's the legal process. We're going to let that

00:43:46.100 legal process play out. And I don't, I don't give two wits what CNN says about it from, from Whitney.

00:43:53.160 How's that for Providence? That's see, all nature is, but art unknown to thee, all chance direction,

00:43:59.400 which thou canst not see. Whitney says, Michael, as a practicing Catholic, I am dismayed

00:44:03.740 by the USCCB, that's Council of Catholic Bishops, their ringing endorsement of President-elect Joe

00:44:10.440 Biden. According to canon law, he's already subject to automatic excommunication,

00:44:15.180 lighte sententiae, due to his stance on abortion legislation alone, to say nothing of the legal

00:44:20.960 pressures put on the faithful by his policies and those of his political affiliates. Oh, you mean

00:44:24.600 how he sued nuns because they wouldn't fund abortion drugs and already promises to sue

00:44:29.120 nuns again? Yeah, yeah, that's, that's some pressure. That's not very Catholic to me, no

00:44:34.300 matter how devout people say that he is. However, due to the public nature of his office and the

00:44:38.600 confusion his professed Catholicism causes the faithful, propriety would suggest that public

00:44:43.100 and official excommunication is necessary. As stated in the code of canon law, it is a prescribed

00:44:47.980 medicinal penalty with the ultimate goal of repentance on the part of Mr. Biden and reconciliation

00:44:52.600 with the Holy Catholic Church. My, my question is twofold. That was a long introduction to your

00:44:56.380 question, but all good points. First, what do you think the chances are of this happening? Second,

00:45:00.680 what methods would increase the chances of this happening? It should happen. Absolutely. Joe Biden

00:45:04.860 is in a state of grave sin. The, well, the sin of supporting abortion in the way that he is

00:45:10.520 and the sin of scandal for doing it. That's why he was denied communion. The, he was denied the

00:45:15.800 Eucharist at a church in, I believe, North Carolina. And no matter what the USCCB says,

00:45:21.060 Joe Biden is in a very grave state and, and support for Joe Biden and his political activities

00:45:29.680 imperils the souls of people who support him. That's just the way it is. I once spoke to a

00:45:35.200 wonderfully erudite priest and I mentioned my blank book, Reasons to Vote for Democrats,

00:45:40.060 a comprehensive guide. And he said, Michael, I think I'm going to plagiarize you and title it

00:45:43.820 the wisdom of the US Council of Catholic Bishops, a comprehensive guide. And I think

00:45:48.160 it would be much the same content. What are the chances that they are going to excommunicate

00:45:53.280 him? Zero. I mean, hope springs eternal in the human breast, but not great. And how can we

00:46:00.040 pressure this to happen? I once had another priest friend of mine tell me the best way to pressure

00:46:04.840 bishops is not to write them sternly worded letters. They don't care not to even, you know,

00:46:09.200 and there's something sort of, you can, you can publicly criticize and publicly, publicly challenge

00:46:14.020 a bishop, but you don't want to do it in a way that is disrespectful of the office because, you know,

00:46:18.300 we are, we are governed in a particular structure in the Catholic church. But you can, of course you

00:46:24.100 can criticize them. I mean, you know, Dante Alighieri put two popes in hell face down with flames burning

00:46:30.520 the souls of their feet for eternity. So, you know, you can make criticisms. However, what's more

00:46:35.400 effective? Stop giving money to their charities. The bishops have lots of charities, some of which have

00:46:39.940 been used as slush funds for lots of nefarious activities. Don't give them money. I, I no longer

00:46:44.120 give money to bishops funds and bishops charities. I give to my church. I'll give to other Catholic

00:46:50.740 charities, but the ones that are run by the bishops, I don't give to because unfortunately the USCCB

00:46:55.740 doesn't seem to serve its flock very well. From Julie, perhaps a dumb question. You know, I was once

00:47:01.100 told by South Park that there are no dumb questions, only dumb people. But I suspect that your question

00:47:06.320 involves neither of those things. Why do we have any reason to believe that a recount would yield

00:47:11.000 a more honest vote tally than the original tally, considering the entities that are storing the

00:47:15.480 ballots are the same entities that counted the first time? Aren't the physical ballots in question

00:47:19.640 vulnerable to tampering or tossing between last week and the recount activities? Yes, that's a big

00:47:23.780 worry. This is why you need to audit those votes. It takes much longer, but at least you're seeing

00:47:28.280 Georgia do that. Hopefully the other places will too. The other issue is glitches on the voting

00:47:33.040 systems, the ones that are electronic. You saw this in Michigan. There was a glitch that sent a

00:47:38.960 lot of votes over to Joe Biden, thousands of them. Now this glitch was caught beforehand, but that

00:47:44.580 software is used in 47 counties. So how many other glitches were there? That's another area that will

00:47:51.360 need to be audited, and I hope that we have the opportunity to do that. Still, you know, there could be

00:47:56.380 a lot of issues. During the Florida recount, during Bush v. Gore, one of the issues was hanging chads. So

00:48:01.800 you would punch the ticket, you'd punch the ballot, and the chad had to come all the way out. If the

00:48:06.360 chad was hanging, you were not allowed to count that ballot. And so you would have poll workers.

00:48:10.680 I was speaking to Senator Cruz, who was actually a lawyer during the Florida recount, and he was

00:48:15.160 saying you'd see people there poking the chads out with their fingers. You know, I mean, this became

00:48:19.540 a big issue. So obviously there can be some issues during the counting itself, but the Trump campaign

00:48:24.820 needs to fight as hard as they can. And there are ways to get at least a more accurate count, if not a

00:48:29.760 perfect count. From Bennett, good morning, Michael. In these hectic times, I have recently begun

00:48:35.360 reconnecting with my Christian faith. I was raised Christian, but I'm now non-denominational. However,

00:48:39.640 I've been surprised to find that in my hiatus, the faith-based online world has been hijacked by

00:48:45.380 left-leaning megachurches who seem to lack a certain theological depth. Who are some conservative

00:48:51.060 voices in the church that I might find to follow online? I preferably am looking for churches that

00:48:56.320 hold true on issues like abortion and eternal conscious torment, as well as not catering to

00:49:01.580 the whims of social justice movements like BLM. Yes, I too long for those eternal conscious

00:49:07.880 torments. No, I'm joking. I'm actually very pleased to hear that you are taking hell seriously. People

00:49:13.320 don't take hell seriously at all anymore. And they imagine a God without wrath leading a people

00:49:19.120 without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

00:49:23.860 Not my own words, but those of a more sophisticated theologian. I would recommend

00:49:28.640 my favorite priest that I recommend you read and listen to his homilies every week is Father George

00:49:34.680 Rutler. He's a friend of mine. He's my priest. He did my wedding. And he's just brilliant. I think

00:49:40.140 he's just the most brilliant priest alive today. He's written about a zillion books. That name is

00:49:45.260 George W. Rutler. And I think you can find his homilies on Apple Podcasts. Strongly recommend him.

00:49:51.200 Who else do I like? I love Patrick Madrid. He has a daily radio show on Relevant Radio. It's a call-in

00:49:57.640 show. It's great. He's super smart. Really, really good to, you know, he's really accessible in terms

00:50:05.440 of popular apologetics. He's really smart. Scott Hahn writes a lot of great books. Gosh, there's so many.

00:50:12.020 Maybe I'll tweet a list or something. Those three are good to start with, though.

00:50:14.480 Okay, let's see. I'll try to take one more. From Alexa.

00:50:18.720 Michael, after listening to your show today, I want to get your take on something.

00:50:22.100 My boyfriend, this is, I see a theme today. And now I feel like I'm going to be interfering in

00:50:27.360 people's relationships. And I'm going to have some angry boyfriend come and punch me in the

00:50:31.140 street somewhere. Fortunately, I'll be in Nashville, though. So we'll at least be well-armed.

00:50:35.820 Back to your question. My boyfriend and I were recently discussing the left-slash-mainstream

00:50:39.920 media's outright dismissal of the lawsuits the Trump campaign filed in several states.

00:50:45.440 We're both attorneys, and we found it comical and frustrating that the MSM's legal analysts

00:50:50.220 have been preaching that there is no evidence contained in the Trump campaign's declaratory

00:50:54.740 judgment petitions, only allegations. If we made those arguments to a judge, we would be

00:50:59.760 laughed out of the courtroom. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how the MSM can grossly misrepresent

00:51:05.680 how litigation and the law work and get away with it. Thanks and love the show.

00:51:09.420 They can get away with it in the realm of law because they get away with it with every

00:51:14.080 other realm, too. The mainstream media misrepresent everything. Everything. That is why they are the

00:51:22.460 fake news. It is not because they don't sometimes get a story right. It's not because some reporter

00:51:28.140 doesn't sometimes do something right. It's because they are not the news. They are not doing what they

00:51:32.480 say that they're doing. Drew Clavin always brings up this point where you're reading the newspaper

00:51:37.460 and you think, oh, that's an interesting story about Iraq. Oh, that's an interesting story about

00:51:42.780 business taxes. Oh, that's an interesting story about the Yankees. Wait a second. I know about the

00:51:48.120 Yankees, and that story is complete BS. Oh, well, on to the next one. And so, you know, the one thing you

00:51:53.760 know about that they're writing about, you say, that's not true. But then you take their word for it on

00:51:57.240 so many other issues. This is what happens on law. This is what happens in science, right?

00:52:02.680 How does the MSM pontificate about science, and they say one thing one day, they say completely

00:52:07.840 the opposite the next day? It's because their goal is not to talk about science. Same thing with

00:52:12.000 politics. They get everything about politics wrong. You know I hate to brag. You know I hate to say I

00:52:16.320 told you so. I was asked a month before the election to give my predictions. And I don't give

00:52:21.100 predictions generally, but it was the end of a long interview, and my friend Matt Fradd asked me about

00:52:25.700 this. And I said, okay, off the top of my head, here's what I think. 60-40 chance Trump probably

00:52:30.840 gets it, but it's going to be contested. And, you know, there's going to be this issue where

00:52:34.660 you're going to have Bush v. Gore times three or times five, and you're going to get recounts in

00:52:38.140 those states. And, you know, it'll be decided by the courts. All right. And I don't think I'm

00:52:41.840 Nostradamus. I just think it was pretty clear if you looked at how the Democrats were following the

00:52:46.860 legal process. And Nate Silver and all the other genius pollsters in the mainstream media and the

00:52:53.880 Fox News decision desk and CNN. They all made all these crazy predictions, none of which were true.

00:52:59.320 They were all completely off. Even if Biden wins, they were completely off. Because they exist to

00:53:05.140 preserve the progressive establishment, which increasingly has not very much to do with reality.

00:53:14.340 We'll see how that legal process plays out. Either way, I think that system is coming down.

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