The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 656 - Four More Years

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00:00:37.680 President Trump is fighting in court to win another four years.

00:00:42.240 But if that doesn't work out for him, he is not losing hope, and he doesn't want you to lose hope either.

00:00:49.280 It's been an amazing four years. We're trying to win another four years.

00:00:53.360 Otherwise, I'll see you in four years.

00:00:56.980 Otherwise, he'll see us in four years. The show keeps going on.

00:01:01.920 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:11.620 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:12.960 My favorite comment from yesterday is from Haley, who says,

00:01:16.280 If the founding fathers were alive, they would have voted for Trump.

00:01:21.340 Unfortunately, they are dead, so they probably voted for Biden.

00:01:24.120 This is true. That's something that the Biden campaign can brag about.

00:01:27.040 I'm sure every single one of the founding fathers did vote for him.

00:01:30.280 And they all moved to Pennsylvania, actually.

00:01:32.740 I guess some of them were already there.

00:01:33.840 That's where the Constitutional Convention was.

00:01:35.780 You know, Donald Trump is not giving up.

00:01:39.040 I know there are so many questions.

00:01:42.160 Is the Trump campaign going to win these legal battles?

00:01:44.320 Well, they keep getting shot down in court.

00:01:45.760 Well, is it going to go to the Supreme Court?

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00:03:31.360 President Trump is pushing for four more years.

00:03:35.720 He's going to duke this thing out in court, presumably until the electors vote on December 14th.

00:03:40.360 And then if it doesn't work out, he'll run again.

00:03:43.260 That's at least what he said at the White House Christmas party.

00:03:45.160 Maybe he is just putting that out into the world.

00:03:48.620 Maybe he doesn't really mean it.

00:03:49.760 Maybe he's not really prepping a campaign.

00:03:51.140 But this is the right attitude.

00:03:53.880 I think right now, there are conservatives on both sides of this question

00:03:57.220 who are missing the right attitude.

00:04:00.520 Some conservatives are saying, this is it.

00:04:02.100 We're only going to fight for this.

00:04:03.640 If we don't win this race, then we're not going to vote for senators.

00:04:07.100 Then we're not going to vote in four years.

00:04:08.640 Then we're going to basically give up on the political process.

00:04:10.880 That's one side.

00:04:11.600 The other side says, Trump's got to concede now.

00:04:13.860 If he doesn't concede to Joe Biden, he's destroying the norms of our constitution.

00:04:18.760 If he follows the constitutional process, he'll be behaving in such an unconstitutional way.

00:04:23.920 No, both sides, I think, are wrong there.

00:04:27.000 We need to fight.

00:04:29.560 And we need to acknowledge realities.

00:04:32.540 And we need to remain courageous.

00:04:35.000 We need to remain hopeful.

00:04:37.280 Hope is a theological virtue.

00:04:38.820 We need to remain courageous.

00:04:40.760 That is the prerequisite of all the other virtues.

00:04:42.660 We can do all of those things at once.

00:04:45.780 We need to fight this as though this is the battle.

00:04:51.780 Because this is the battle.

00:04:53.080 But we need to recognize there are going to be other battles.

00:04:56.060 We live in time.

00:04:56.820 We live in space.

00:04:57.840 If President Trump is looking ahead at the future and saying,

00:05:01.040 OK, look, I want to win this.

00:05:02.320 I feel we did win this.

00:05:03.180 I feel there was a lot of fraud.

00:05:04.120 I feel there was a lot of cheating.

00:05:05.420 But guess what, buddy?

00:05:06.720 If you guys do manage to win this at the level of the courts,

00:05:10.160 you're not going to keep me down.

00:05:11.440 I'm going to keep running again.

00:05:13.080 That's the right attitude.

00:05:13.840 Some conservatives are getting demoralized,

00:05:16.960 including some of the most vocal defenders of President Trump.

00:05:20.580 Sean Hannity on his program the other day was speaking with the lawyer Sidney Powell.

00:05:25.220 And Sean Hannity suggested that if Biden becomes president,

00:05:29.340 if Donald Trump is on his way out,

00:05:31.120 that he should issue a pardon for himself and for his family.

00:05:36.500 I watched Andrew Weissman come out and literally say,

00:05:39.440 oh, Biden's AG needs to go after Donald Trump.

00:05:42.460 And I'm like, the president out the door needs to pardon his whole family and himself

00:05:46.260 because they want this witch hunt to go on in perpetuity.

00:05:49.780 They're so full of rage and insanity against the president.

00:05:52.840 I mean, can the president, I assume that the power of the pardon is absolute

00:05:58.440 and that he should be able to pardon anybody that he wants to.

00:06:01.740 It is absolute.

00:06:03.120 It's in the Constitution.

00:06:04.260 I don't know about his authority to pardon himself, but it should not be necessary.

00:06:09.940 And aside from that, the president's going to get another four years in office to finish the job he started.

00:06:14.900 So Sidney Powell is still really holding out hope.

00:06:18.060 We'll get in one second to her legal strategy here. 0.95

00:06:22.080 You'll recall that Sidney Powell is not working officially with the Trump legal campaign.

00:06:26.760 While the Trump campaign is focusing on specific matters of election fraud and unconstitutionality in Pennsylvania,

00:06:34.540 Sidney Powell is pursuing this idea that there was a national, very widespread hacking scheme to shift votes.

00:06:43.220 So she's still pursuing that.

00:06:45.140 But to Sean Hannity's point, it seems to me that's not the right attitude to have.

00:06:49.680 Do respect to Sean.

00:06:51.360 I get it.

00:06:52.180 It's true.

00:06:53.080 The Biden legal team is going to try to go after Trump.

00:06:57.220 They are going to have a lot of encouragement from the base to these frothing jackals of the Democratic base to go after Trump once he leaves office.

00:07:07.000 But I don't think Trump should pardon himself because Trump hasn't done anything illegal.

00:07:12.500 There would be nothing to pardon himself for.

00:07:16.200 And, you know, I think that's sort of Hannity's point.

00:07:18.160 He says whatever they go after Trump for, he should just pardon himself now.

00:07:20.500 I don't think that's how pardons work.

00:07:22.240 We certainly haven't seen that sort of thing in American history.

00:07:24.880 I think if Trump were to do anything of that sort, it would be giving in too much.

00:07:30.960 It would be giving in to despair and discouragement.

00:07:33.580 It would be giving in to fear, servile fear, by saying, I think they're going to come get me, so I exonerate myself.

00:07:39.620 Of what? I don't know.

00:07:40.420 But whatever they accuse me of, I didn't do it.

00:07:42.200 And it would be, in a way, an admission of guilt.

00:07:45.860 Guilt, again, for what?

00:07:47.440 I'm not quite so sure.

00:07:48.640 In America, we do not have a political tradition of jailing our vanquished politicians, at least at the presidential level.

00:07:57.320 And we don't have a tradition of jailing our political opponents in this country, even though some of them probably do deserve jail.

00:08:04.180 For instance, some people who were the former, future first female president four years ago, you know, those sort of people, there is evidence that they've done things that are illegal.

00:08:13.900 We still don't put them in prison because that's what tinpot dictatorships do. 1.00

00:08:17.780 That's what banana republics do, and we don't want to do that. 1.00

00:08:19.760 If President Trump were to pardon himself, as Sean is describing here, it would be a sort of concession that we're now living in the world where we jail our political opponents once they leave the presidency.

00:08:32.920 I don't think that's the right way to play it.

00:08:34.920 I understand why people are reacting with such extremes to this legal process right now, either to saying the whole country is completely over or to saying that Trump's got to give up immediately or the country is over.

00:08:47.720 It's because we don't like tension.

00:08:50.340 I've noticed women especially don't like tension. 1.00

00:08:53.060 They don't like apprehension.

00:08:54.540 But generally, we all don't like uncertainty, and so we want to resolve the uncertainty, even if it resolves in a way that is unpleasant, even if it resolves in a way that we're fearing, even if it resolves to the point that we're now saying we jail our political opponents once they leave the presidency.

00:09:10.600 But they just, because we don't like the apprehension, we just want some conclusion, so we don't need to be in suspense.

00:09:15.580 Life is lived in suspense.

00:09:17.720 You don't know what's going to happen.

00:09:19.320 Patience is a virtue.

00:09:20.900 And if you keep up that sort of attitude where you say, oh, okay, you're going to do your worst to me?

00:09:26.040 You're going to completely vanquish me?

00:09:27.540 You think you've vanquished me?

00:09:28.520 I don't think so.

00:09:29.100 I'll see you in four years.

00:09:30.380 That is a winning strategy.

00:09:32.900 That is courage.

00:09:33.500 Now, you heard Sidney Powell on that clip mention that she is convinced that there is this nationwide election fraud, and not just that there's nationwide election fraud, but that they will prove this in court, and President Trump will get another four years in office, which she's describing a sort of confidence here that I think even President Trump is not necessarily displaying.

00:09:54.460 So what is her evidence?

00:09:56.180 The election fraud we are uncovering is massive, and there were foreign actors involved in our system. 1.00

00:10:04.800 People from Germany and Serbia and China were all in our election the night it happened.

00:10:11.940 So I have no doubt that foreign actors tried to interfere in the election. 0.75

00:10:18.020 I'm not sure exactly how they did it.

00:10:20.240 This was, by the way, our response in 2016.

00:10:23.200 The left said that the Russians tried to interfere in the presidential election.

00:10:27.720 And some conservatives, I guess, deny that.

00:10:29.260 But I don't deny that the Russians tried to interfere.

00:10:32.400 Foreign actors tried to interfere in every single election.

00:10:35.420 The question is how successful were they?

00:10:36.900 With the so-called Russiagate, they bought $100,000 worth of Facebook ads.

00:10:41.020 Media companies spend that in a week on Facebook ads.

00:10:44.380 That doesn't, that's nothing.

00:10:45.460 That's not going to affect it.

00:10:46.620 Now, Sidney Powell's claim is that these foreign actors were actually going and hacking the voting system, shifting the votes.

00:10:51.800 Again, I have no doubt that they would do it if they could.

00:10:54.740 I have no doubt that they are that corrupt and they want to mess up our system.

00:11:01.320 The question is can you prove it?

00:11:04.400 And time is ticking.

00:11:06.100 You know, we have, what, less than 10 days now until, no, I guess about 10 days until,

00:11:11.540 the electors vote.

00:11:12.800 So, how much longer before we, how much longer do we have to wait?

00:11:17.360 How much longer do we have to be in the suspense and apprehension to see this evidence of the hacking?

00:11:21.780 It's not enough to say, I have a hunch that this happened.

00:11:26.160 Sure.

00:11:27.040 It's not enough to say this could have happened.

00:11:29.920 Absolutely it could have happened.

00:11:32.000 You have to prove it with certain, that's just a descriptive fact of our political and judicial system.

00:11:37.820 You've got to prove it with a high degree of persuasion.

00:11:41.440 And so far, we haven't seen that happen.

00:11:44.260 So, I hope that she brings the goods, but as of now, we haven't seen it.

00:11:48.080 Now, there is specific evidence of fraud in certain cases, not even just at the presidential level.

00:11:53.040 In one congressional race in New York, involving a congressional candidate that I actually know personally,

00:11:59.640 the two candidates, the Democratic incumbent and the Republican challenger, are separated by 12 votes.

00:12:07.580 I want to talk about your vote mattering.

00:12:09.100 I want to talk about going out there, even if it's a system that's vulnerable to fraud.

00:12:13.540 So, New York's 22nd congressional district, you've got the Republican Claudia Tenney, 0.99

00:12:18.080 has a 12-vote lead over the Democratic incumbent, Anthony Brindisi.

00:12:24.440 And that's good news, right?

00:12:26.560 Because that means Claudia's going to win, the Republican's going to win. 0.99

00:12:29.240 We're all good.

00:12:30.420 It's been almost a month now since the elections.

00:12:34.620 I think we should be able to count our ballots by now.

00:12:38.260 Talk about a tin pot dictatorship. 0.90

00:12:40.440 We can't even count our ballots within a month.

00:12:43.420 Well, no.

00:12:44.580 We have to keep counting the ballots until the Democrat wins.

00:12:47.500 Claudia has a 12-vote lead. 0.99

00:12:49.520 Well, guess what?

00:12:50.620 Conveniently, they just found a batch of 55 ballots.

00:12:55.060 They were hidden.

00:12:55.800 I don't know where they were.

00:12:56.680 They were underneath the mail truck or something.

00:12:58.920 They just found this batch.

00:13:01.080 The Chenango County Attorney, Alan Gordon, said that election officials determined that

00:13:06.400 of these 55 ballots found, 44 of them are valid.

00:13:09.780 Now, the other way to read that is 11 of these votes were fraudulent, were ineligible.

00:13:17.160 How'd they end up there?

00:13:18.360 So, 44 are valid.

00:13:20.240 44 could swing an election easily if the election is right now hanging by 12 votes.

00:13:26.780 So, this county attorney has advised the Board of Elections to secure the ballots, leave

00:13:33.440 them unopened in their offices, and obviously throw out the ones that are illegitimate, but

00:13:38.980 now 44 ballots.

00:13:40.940 I hope they're unopened.

00:13:42.180 I hope that they're legitimate ballots.

00:13:44.140 I hope that they weren't just being held in case they were needed by the Democrats.

00:13:48.300 But when the votes trickle in and trickle in and trickle in until the Democrats win, that

00:13:53.920 does not give us confidence in the system.

00:13:57.320 It discourages us in some way because we feel like we can't win.

00:14:00.800 But they're still fighting.

00:14:01.600 Claudia Tenney is still fighting. 0.88

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00:15:36.640 Now, there is evidence of shenanigans, of irregularities, but I don't think we should

00:15:46.600 just throw up our hands.

00:15:47.400 You know, some people, not President Trump.

00:15:48.900 President Trump is saying, go out, keep up the fight, vote for the Republicans in Georgia,

00:15:53.700 make sure we hold the Georgia Senate seats, so therefore we will hold the Senate majority.

00:15:58.740 He's saying that.

00:15:59.380 There are some people who are saying, don't even vote in Georgia.

00:16:01.700 Georgia don't justify, don't legitimize this fraudulent voting system.

00:16:08.020 I completely sympathize with that point of view.

00:16:10.720 I empathize with it, I guess, because it feels as though in many places where it counts,

00:16:16.200 the system is rigged.

00:16:18.060 Conveniently, a pipe bursts and, oh, we got to stop counting.

00:16:21.300 Go home, poll watchers at 1030.

00:16:23.260 Oh, hey guys, maybe you can keep counting now that those Republicans are gone.

00:16:26.420 Oh, look, it's going to the Democrats in Pennsylvania.

00:16:29.180 Oh, sorry, we're not allowed to have Republican poll watchers here in New York with Claudia's 0.99

00:16:33.600 race.

00:16:33.820 Oh, look, Claudia's winning. 1.00

00:16:35.140 Well, we just found another batch of votes.

00:16:36.400 I get it.

00:16:37.080 It's easy to just throw your hands up in the air.

00:16:41.120 That is not going to be a winning strategy going forward because we are still going to

00:16:47.380 live here and either we're going to have, well, if Joe Biden does become president,

00:16:51.360 either we're going to have bad government or if he becomes president with a Democratic Senate

00:16:56.140 majority, we're going to have really bad government.

00:16:57.760 And if we just check out of the process altogether, we're going to have really, really, really

00:17:00.960 bad government.

00:17:02.540 So you've got to pick the lesser of these two bad situations.

00:17:07.700 Ben is actually going to be talking about this on the show.

00:17:09.440 He's going to be talking about this move to sort of throw up your hands and not vote in

00:17:12.780 Georgia and why it's important that we actually do vote in Georgia.

00:17:16.380 Now, there are other ways to challenge the election, even beyond the Electoral College

00:17:21.840 voting.

00:17:22.180 So the Electoral College votes on December 14th.

00:17:23.760 Then the Congress is going to have the opportunity to challenge that vote.

00:17:30.600 It's another phase in the process.

00:17:32.360 And Alabama Republican Representative Mo Brooks is telling his colleagues that he plans to

00:17:38.020 challenge the results of the Electoral College vote if the body votes to certify Democratic

00:17:44.120 presidential candidate Joe Biden as the next president.

00:17:46.800 Now, how does this work?

00:17:49.940 The Electoral College votes.

00:17:51.740 Then if a member of the House and a member of the Senate raise this objection and challenge

00:17:59.900 the Electoral College vote, this opens up the floor to debate.

00:18:05.540 The floor of the House and the Senate will have to deliberate on this matter.

00:18:09.540 Okay, fine.

00:18:10.240 That's a great last ditch effort.

00:18:11.280 But if it comes to that, then that last ditch effort and $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee.

00:18:17.180 The House is in Democratic control.

00:18:20.080 The Senate, I hope, remains in Republican control.

00:18:22.680 We'll see in January.

00:18:24.720 It would be a strong way to basically scream against the wind, but it probably would not

00:18:30.980 accomplish very much.

00:18:32.140 And right now, we need to keep up the fight for the presidency and for the Senate, but

00:18:39.160 we also have to look at probabilities and realities so that we can make the most of our

00:18:43.940 time right now.

00:18:44.480 This is something that Bill Barr is doing.

00:18:45.920 So we mentioned yesterday that Bill Barr came out and said so far he hasn't seen evidence

00:18:49.620 of widespread hacking, sort of the fraud that Sidney Powell's talking about.

00:18:54.720 He since came out, by the way, and tempered that statement.

00:18:56.740 He said, I'm not saying there's no fraud that went on.

00:18:59.200 I'm not even saying there's not enough fraud to overturn the election.

00:19:02.660 I'm just saying we have not seen it yet.

00:19:06.380 Bring it to me.

00:19:07.300 Bring it on.

00:19:07.960 Please, please.

00:19:08.860 But in the meantime, Bill Barr did something behind the scenes that I think is very important.

00:19:12.340 You've heard of the John Durham investigation.

00:19:14.900 This is a criminal investigation into the origins of the Russia hoax and into wrongdoing at the

00:19:21.080 FBI and the DOJ and the deep state, the blob, right?

00:19:24.460 And there's a big worry here that if Joe Biden becomes president, there goes John Durham.

00:19:30.380 There goes the investigation.

00:19:31.560 We're not going to find out how the Russia hoax started.

00:19:33.860 We're not going to find out if Joe Biden was involved in that because there's a lot of evidence

00:19:36.780 that he was or that Susan Rice was involved in that or that Barack Obama was involved in

00:19:41.260 that, that they had direct knowledge.

00:19:43.800 So what Bill Barr just did, and he did it surreptitiously, is he made John Durham a special counsel.

00:19:50.520 You remember special counsel.

00:19:52.000 It's the same procedure that created the Mueller investigation.

00:19:56.780 The special counsel has much more latitude to conduct an investigation.

00:20:02.380 What this means is that if Joe Biden does become president, he's not going to be able

00:20:06.700 to fire John Durham so easily.

00:20:08.940 So there's a greater chance that we'll get some results.

00:20:11.700 Again, I don't have a great deal of faith.

00:20:14.380 We're always told that these investigations are going to uncover corruption and all these

00:20:18.780 guys are getting holed off to jail, which probably is not even a great idea anyway, but you do

00:20:22.280 want them to face consequences.

00:20:23.520 You do want them to face justice, especially these lower level guys, John Brennan, Clapper.

00:20:29.040 These guys actually probably should see an orange jumpsuit.

00:20:32.280 And then it just doesn't turn out that way.

00:20:34.020 Then they come up with nothing.

00:20:35.520 When it's Democrats alleging that they come up with nothing, even when it's Republicans,

00:20:38.220 they come up with nothing.

00:20:39.340 But at the very least, this gives us a chance.

00:20:42.000 We're in this state of anticipation.

00:20:44.940 We're in this state of not knowing.

00:20:46.160 OK, fine, we've got to drag that out when that is the best option that we have.

00:20:53.740 We can also take an important opportunity right now to break up the left wing educational

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00:21:01.900 This is something that Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, has been working on.

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00:22:54.040 Right now, amid all of the unfair things going on, the lockdown, we're locking down again,

00:22:59.820 aren't we?

00:23:00.320 And the people who are locking down, these Democratic governors and mayors, aren't abiding

00:23:04.720 their own lockdown orders.

00:23:06.060 Gavin Newsom is having Michelin-rated meals at the French Laundry.

00:23:09.440 You have the LA County Supervisor saying, we need to shut down.

00:23:12.100 It's not safe.

00:23:12.580 And then two hours later, she goes and has dinner in Santa Monica.

00:23:15.520 It's very, very frustrating.

00:23:18.560 But don't get demoralized.

00:23:19.960 There are opportunities in crisis.

00:23:21.680 There are silver linings even to storm clouds.

00:23:23.780 Betsy DeVos pointed out that higher education, lower education too though right now, amount 1.00

00:23:30.780 basically to socialist indoctrination.

00:23:34.000 And that what the government is attempting to do, if there is a Biden administration,

00:23:39.980 is not just, we're not just talking about what is being taught in schools, left-wing

00:23:43.940 ideology, but the actual move by the government to install a socialized takeover of the educational

00:23:52.020 system.

00:23:53.160 Policy should never entice students into greater debt, nor should they put taxpayer dollars at

00:23:58.720 greater risk.

00:23:59.520 There are too many politicians today who support policy that does both.

00:24:05.860 Still more advanced the truly insidious notion of government gift-giving.

00:24:11.140 We've heard shrill calls to cancel, to forgive, to make it all free.

00:24:17.100 Any innocuous label out there can't obfuscate what it really is.

00:24:21.540 Wrong.

00:24:23.020 The campaign for free college is a matter of total government control.

00:24:27.060 Make no mistake, it is a socialist takeover of higher education.

00:24:33.480 Now depending on your personal politics, some of you might not find that notion as scary

00:24:38.400 as I do.

00:24:39.740 But mark my words, none of you would like the way it will work.

00:24:44.820 Absolutely right.

00:24:45.760 I know that people bandy about the word socialism and sometimes they use it incorrectly.

00:24:50.480 Maybe often they use it incorrectly.

00:24:52.060 Betsy DeVos is not using it incorrectly here.

00:24:54.260 What the government is talking about, the government already has a role in education.

00:24:57.900 There are public schools and obviously public state colleges.

00:25:01.320 What the government is talking about now, what the Biden team is talking about, is giving

00:25:06.260 out free education.

00:25:08.600 What does free education mean?

00:25:10.460 Free education means that the government will control the entire higher education system.

00:25:17.400 And it might be through a few layers, so it might not seem direct, but he who pays the

00:25:22.020 piper calls the tune.

00:25:23.260 And if the government does get involved in that, that is a full-on government takeover

00:25:28.600 of education.

00:25:29.360 That is a socialist power grab.

00:25:32.920 What can we do now to prevent that?

00:25:35.060 Well, we can keep fighting in court.

00:25:36.320 Hopefully, we prevent the Biden administration.

00:25:38.280 Well, we can keep fighting, hopefully prevent a Democratic Senate so that they don't have the 0.59

00:25:43.080 ability to pass this kind of radical legislation.

00:25:45.600 They'll just do it from the bureaucratic level, but they'll be more hampered that way.

00:25:48.760 What else can we do?

00:25:49.600 We can vote with our feet, or I suppose vote with our wallets, and break up this educational

00:25:57.640 cartel.

00:25:58.440 You are seeing this right now.

00:25:59.400 I said it was the silver lining of the lockdowns that public school attendance is down.

00:26:03.720 Everybody's complaining about this.

00:26:04.860 The students are falling behind.

00:26:06.160 Yeah, that's true.

00:26:06.760 They might not be learning their arithmetic, although if it's common core math, then maybe

00:26:09.980 it's good they don't learn that.

00:26:11.100 It also means they're not going to be learning their radical left ideology.

00:26:14.760 It also means they're not going to be learning the 1619 Project that teaches them to hate

00:26:18.180 their country.

00:26:19.340 It also means that you're going to see new educational opportunities, homeschooling, different

00:26:24.380 pod learning communities, parochial schools growing, private schools, charter schools.

00:26:29.080 That's what we need to do.

00:26:29.960 We need to take that up to the college level as well.

00:26:33.540 I understand that people still feel that going to college is always 100% of the time the way

00:26:39.820 to get a good credential, to get you a better job.

00:26:41.700 I think that is becoming less and less true every day.

00:26:45.740 I'm a defender of liberal education.

00:26:47.680 I know there are a lot of conservatives who say, don't worry about education.

00:26:51.640 You know, if you're going to go to school, major in engineering or something.

00:26:54.780 I'm not one of those guys.

00:26:55.780 I think if you go to school, you should very likely major in English or history or philosophy.

00:27:00.720 I am a total defender of liberal education and the liberal arts.

00:27:04.820 But that's not what you're getting at most of these colleges, and the price tag is way

00:27:08.440 too high to justify it.

00:27:09.440 I don't think the point of college is to go out and get a job.

00:27:12.080 It's actually the opposite.

00:27:13.000 It's to learn things that are not practically useful at all.

00:27:15.700 They're just useful in helping you make sense of your freedom.

00:27:17.800 That's why it's called the liberal arts.

00:27:20.160 But you're not getting that.

00:27:21.200 You should at the very least get that.

00:27:22.940 And you're not.

00:27:23.760 You're not getting that at all.

00:27:25.000 So break it up.

00:27:26.080 Break it up.

00:27:26.580 What's the point?

00:27:27.220 More and more employers, I'm seeing, don't care if you have a certain special college

00:27:34.180 degree.

00:27:35.280 More and more, I'm not.

00:27:36.320 Because those college degrees are increasingly not reflecting the skill set that they were

00:27:40.660 supposed to reflect.

00:27:42.340 So that is falling apart.

00:27:43.700 This is an opportunity to break that down.

00:27:46.320 You know, it's very difficult to break away from an old system.

00:27:51.040 But that is what's happening.

00:27:53.040 There's an old system crumbling around us.

00:27:54.560 We need to have courage.

00:27:55.560 We need to have perseverance, even if it looks like the empire strikes back.

00:27:58.700 We need to fight back against this.

00:28:00.680 We need new, maybe self-directed educational opportunities, such as the ones with my friends

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00:29:08.580 We have got a lot more to get to here.

00:29:11.780 There have been fears of a great reset with the lockdowns, with the way that the establishment

00:29:17.060 is trying to build back better and all these kind of creepy slogans.

00:29:20.500 Well, we're starting to see that come to fruition with the notion of vaccine passports.

00:29:25.820 That is no longer just a tinfoil hat fear.

00:29:29.500 That is no longer the stuff of dystopian science fiction novels.

00:29:33.520 That would appear to be implemented now in parts of the United Kingdom.

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00:30:12.080 They are going very, very fast.

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00:30:14.740 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:30:15.780 We're back.

00:30:30.060 Let's reset and let's get ready for the great reset that our elites are trying to foist upon us.

00:30:36.760 This term, reset, is not just the stuff of fevered conspiracy theories.

00:30:43.180 You have heard leaders around the world use this phrase with regard to the lockdown.

00:30:48.060 It did occur to me early on in the lockdown that as the rules were always changing and the justification was always changing,

00:30:54.660 we needed a lockdown to slow the spread or flatten the curve.

00:30:58.020 Then we did flatten the curve.

00:30:59.040 And they said, no, we need to find a cure.

00:31:00.400 Now, we do have a cure, I guess, with these vaccines, 95% effective.

00:31:03.380 But we're still locking down again.

00:31:04.740 It just seemed like the justification was always changing.

00:31:07.240 It occurred to me the coronavirus lockdowns basically gave the left the Green New Deal.

00:31:16.120 Isn't that strange?

00:31:17.680 Cut down emissions by a whole lot.

00:31:20.320 Gave the government much more control than it had.

00:31:23.340 Set up massive spending schemes, massive redistribution of wealth, all in the name of this global threat that we're all going to die from,

00:31:32.760 even though it has a very, very, very, very high survival rate.

00:31:36.700 We're all going to die unless you give us a lot of power, unprecedented power from the perspective of the United States and a lot of money.

00:31:46.380 This is the same argument for the Green New Deal.

00:31:48.000 The world is going to end if you don't give us all the power and all the money.

00:31:50.500 And when's it going to end?

00:31:51.940 I don't know.

00:31:52.340 It's going to end in, what did she say?

00:31:53.340 She said 12 years, AOC.

00:31:55.120 But that was a couple years ago.

00:31:56.100 So now it's 10 years, I guess.

00:31:58.240 I promise you the world is not going to end in 10 years.

00:32:01.020 I think it's very unlikely.

00:32:02.580 If it is, I'll owe you each 100 bucks or something.

00:32:05.640 Prince Charles, who's hysteric when it comes to the global warming alarmism,

00:32:12.020 he said a number of years ago that the world was going to end in 18 months and still here as far as we can tell.

00:32:19.820 But it's the same argument.

00:32:20.840 It's fundamentally the same argument.

00:32:22.360 And now these fears are becoming even more real for this so-called reset.

00:32:27.340 Wales and the United Kingdom is implementing something akin to a vaccine passport.

00:32:32.880 From the Welsh health minister, Von Githing, he says,

00:32:37.680 Those receiving a COVID-19 vaccination will be given a credit card-sized National Health Service Wales immunization card,

00:32:45.460 which will have the vaccine name, date of immunization, and batch number of each of the doses given handwritten on them.

00:32:52.920 Huh? What? Why am I getting an identification card to tell me that I've had this vaccine that has just come out?

00:33:01.780 It's not even available to the public yet.

00:33:05.040 What would I need that for?

00:33:06.580 Now, of course, the health minister here says,

00:33:08.460 Oh, it's just for your own good.

00:33:09.780 It's just to remind you.

00:33:11.240 He says, These cards will act as a reminder for the second dose and for the type of vaccine.

00:33:16.400 It will also give information about how to report side effects.

00:33:19.020 Okay, well, I don't need to carry a card around to have a phone number.

00:33:21.180 I can just put that on my phone.

00:33:22.920 This comes amid concerns, though, that British businesses, not even just the government,

00:33:28.380 but businesses, will start to require proof of vaccination as a condition of entering their businesses.

00:33:35.420 This has been suggested a lot before.

00:33:38.540 Now, you're going to see a lot of arguments crop back here,

00:33:41.480 because notice that it won't be the government leading the mandates for the vaccine passport.

00:33:48.180 It will be businesses, and there will be some maybe more libertarian-minded conservatives

00:33:52.180 who will say, Oh, well, it's just business.

00:33:55.440 Businesses are free to do whatever they want.

00:33:56.860 As long as it's not the government forcing me to take this vaccine and carry around proof of it all the time.

00:34:01.960 As long as it's not the government, it's totally fine.

00:34:03.640 And you will have conservatives saying, No, I don't think so.

00:34:08.380 I don't care if my life is being upended and my civil rights taken away and my traditions destroyed and my society wrecked and my family broken up.

00:34:19.740 I don't care if it's the government doing that or big business doing that or anyone else doing that.

00:34:24.560 I don't want that to happen.

00:34:27.120 I don't want to.

00:34:28.140 If I am prevented from engaging in our society without this vaccine or a proof of the vaccine by business or the government,

00:34:37.940 the end result is the same.

00:34:40.260 And I don't really care the mechanism.

00:34:42.200 I don't really care about the procedure.

00:34:44.060 I don't want that to happen.

00:34:45.300 I do not deny, I think conservatives actually go a little bit wrong when they deny that the government has the right to make you do extraordinary things in the name of emergencies.

00:34:54.160 That's what the police power is for.

00:34:56.100 That's how we had this whole lockdown foisted on us in the first place because the government does have the legitimate police power.

00:35:01.660 The government has the right to force you to take a vaccine, for goodness sakes.

00:35:04.800 It seems extreme, but there have been court cases to this effect.

00:35:07.680 So I think we need to stop arguing from this abstract perspective and just say it's rights.

00:35:16.560 They have no right to do that.

00:35:17.500 It's the government's bad.

00:35:18.400 Business is good.

00:35:19.080 Whatever this abstraction is and get down into the particulars.

00:35:23.660 I know that that involves more apprehension or involves more uncertainty.

00:35:27.400 Okay, that's where battles are fought and won.

00:35:29.160 That's where life is lived.

00:35:31.200 The government has the right to certain police powers?

00:35:34.060 Yeah, totally grant that.

00:35:35.020 Government even has the right to force someone to be vaccinated during an epidemic?

00:35:38.560 Okay, sure.

00:35:39.320 Fine.

00:35:39.660 I'm not even going to fight that.

00:35:41.740 I don't want this.

00:35:43.680 I don't want the government to force everybody to take this vaccine.

00:35:47.540 I don't want big business to force everybody to take this vaccine.

00:35:51.100 I don't want to be required to carry a vaccine passport. 1.00

00:35:54.480 I'm not making an abstract argument about that.

00:35:57.100 I'm making a narrow political argument.

00:35:59.900 As far as I can tell, we the people still have some voice in our government.

00:36:04.500 That hasn't totally been taken away.

00:36:07.020 John Ossoff, who's running for the Senate in Georgia, espoused the view of the Democrats

00:36:11.180 if they get power, which is we need to take more power away from we the people,

00:36:14.100 need to give it over to experts who know so much better than we know ourselves.

00:36:17.300 Uh-uh.

00:36:18.000 Not yet.

00:36:18.580 I'm not willing to concede that yet.

00:36:21.420 We still have a right to express the way that we want to live in our politics, in our society.

00:36:28.020 And I don't want that.

00:36:29.700 I think we need to push back against that.

00:36:31.400 You are starting to see this, by the way.

00:36:33.100 You're seeing business owners push back against this.

00:36:35.240 You're seeing people go out in the streets and show up to bars and show up to restaurants.

00:36:40.720 And they're not, it's not like BLM.

00:36:43.060 They're not going in and, you know, peacefully stealing Gucci handbags and Nike sneakers.

00:36:47.260 They're going and they want to keep their businesses open.

00:36:50.140 And they want to frequent their favorite businesses.

00:36:52.680 And they want to see their family.

00:36:53.540 And they want to see their friends.

00:36:55.060 The Great Reset, such as it is, will not come out overnight as some total dystopian overturning of society.

00:37:06.660 It will be a gradual process like the frog in the boiling water.

00:37:10.660 The temperature goes up and up and up and you don't realize how much danger you're in until it's boiling.

00:37:14.940 But the Great Reset, whatever that means, is going to be a reframing of the country.

00:37:21.200 The country right now is broadly considered a center-right country and has been for some time.

00:37:26.760 It seems less and less true each day as we radically redefine reality, marriage, sexuality itself,

00:37:36.180 as we redefine the family, as we redefine our relationship to the government.

00:37:39.300 It's seeming less and less that way all the time.

00:37:42.320 But if we were a center-right country, the way that we're going to reframe it is

00:37:46.640 we're going to continue to say we're a center-right country, but the politics is going to move far to the left.

00:37:51.660 Jennifer Rubin, one of the most dishonest columnists in America.

00:37:56.600 Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post who pretends to be a conservative.

00:37:59.680 She's a far-left radical liberal and she actually calls herself a conservative.

00:38:04.340 Jennifer Rubin says that the country is center-right and the Biden administration,

00:38:11.320 if it ascends to the presidency, will be center-right.

00:38:14.640 Headline of her piece, Joe Biden's personnel picks engender no legitimate GOP gripes.

00:38:22.440 She writes, I kid you not, President-elect Joe Biden has selected a flock of experienced

00:38:27.640 center-right nominees for top positions, progressive enough to reassure most Democrats

00:38:34.200 and reasonable enough to impress conservative policy wonks.

00:38:38.300 When it looks more certain how this presidential race will play out, you know, it is getting more

00:38:45.480 certain by the day, unfortunately.

00:38:47.360 We can go through all of the Biden picks.

00:38:49.920 He hasn't named too many yet, I think because he doesn't want to spook people.

00:38:53.540 I think he wants it, he wants to just put out a few picks and then wait and see when it looks

00:38:59.260 like he's going to win the court cases for sure, when it looks like he's going to win

00:39:03.300 the Electoral College for sure, then I think he'll come out and be honest about how radical

00:39:07.260 these guys are.

00:39:07.940 But already, you see pictures with some of his personnel picks wearing hammer and sickle

00:39:11.760 hats, I kid you not, wearing a hammer and sickle.

00:39:15.020 Or some of his picks now, for instance, his pick for the Office of Management and Budget.

00:39:19.440 But radical left, very, very far left, these are not center right people.

00:39:25.300 But they could be center right if you take the framing from, say, Barack Obama on the

00:39:31.560 left to Donald Trump on the right, then these Joe Biden picks are radical left.

00:39:39.780 But if you take the framing from, let's say, Donald Trump on the right and Karl Marx on the

00:39:45.860 left, or AOC, or Lenin, or I don't know, Che Guevara on the left, then all of a sudden

00:39:52.840 the picks do seem center right because you've moved the extremes.

00:39:56.920 You've moved, excuse me, you've moved the edges so, so far that now the Biden picks seem

00:40:04.800 legitimate.

00:40:06.120 You're seeing this on Wikipedia actually too.

00:40:08.640 So there was an article on Wikipedia put up by one of their editors called Rewriting

00:40:12.080 Wikipedia, this went up by one of their pseudonymous editors, News Slinger, talking about how Wikipedia

00:40:18.340 is anti-conservative.

00:40:20.040 We all know this.

00:40:20.780 If you ever looked at most conservatives, I would say at this point, who are given a

00:40:24.660 Wikipedia page, they're called conspiracy theorists.

00:40:27.220 They're called spreaders of fake news.

00:40:28.940 They always, they attack my page, they attack Daily Wire's page, they attack every, Charlie

00:40:32.940 Kirk, whoever, all these guys.

00:40:35.460 And so people have been complaining about this and we've said Wikipedia is a left-wing news

00:40:39.520 source.

00:40:39.700 And well, Wikipedia comes out and they said, no, actually Wikipedia is center right because

00:40:43.880 of some study from a Harvard center, the Berkman Klein Center report identified Wikipedia as

00:40:48.000 a center right website on the candidate valence scale throughout the 2016 US elections.

00:40:53.420 And I'm sure that there are going to be other arguments that you hear.

00:40:58.300 Oh yes, according to PolitiFact, Wikipedia is center right.

00:41:01.900 Oh yes, according to AOC, Wikipedia is center right.

00:41:03.820 Okay, it's not center right according to me.

00:41:05.600 That's going to be a reframing.

00:41:07.600 And it doesn't feel quite as satisfying to just gradually try to pull the country back

00:41:13.240 to the right.

00:41:14.520 But that is what conservatives do.

00:41:17.160 We are not radicals.

00:41:19.100 We are not even revolutionaries.

00:41:21.680 We are conservatives.

00:41:23.780 We want gradual change because gradual change will be lasting change.

00:41:28.840 And that's where life exists.

00:41:32.640 The left did not just win an election and thereby take the culture.

00:41:37.200 The left embarked on a decades-long march through the institutions, took over higher education,

00:41:44.980 took over the media, took over Hollywood, took over technology.

00:41:50.400 The big tech, as we know it today, is really, what, about 30 years old?

00:41:54.380 They took it over completely.

00:41:57.240 All of these institutions, they went in, they worked, they did this grunt work.

00:42:03.140 We don't know many of the names of these radicals who took it over because they just were nobody,

00:42:07.800 right?

00:42:07.900 They were just functionaries of the left-wing cause.

00:42:11.040 And all of a sudden you wake up and the country is much, much further to the left.

00:42:14.800 Well, we have to do a similar sort of thing.

00:42:18.180 Occasionally, occasionally, we can push back on these guys.

00:42:22.180 And it's not always going to be successful.

00:42:24.380 Sometimes it is, though.

00:42:25.200 Candace Owens just got this, actually.

00:42:26.880 Candace Owens made the perfectly accurate statement the other day on Facebook that Joe

00:42:32.640 Biden is not the president-elect.

00:42:35.660 I've made this statement, too.

00:42:37.300 People excoriate me for it.

00:42:38.380 It is simply a fact that Joe Biden is not the president-elect.

00:42:42.780 Well, she was censored. 0.97

00:42:44.160 She was called a liar by PolitiFact.

00:42:47.280 PolitiFact, the objective, neutral, probably center-right fact-checking.

00:42:50.500 Right now, it's left-wing.

00:42:51.240 Why did they call her a liar?

00:42:54.460 I don't know.

00:42:55.160 Because they said, oh, the media called the race.

00:42:57.520 And, oh, it looks like he's going to get all these votes.

00:43:00.060 Candace did not just roll over. 0.66

00:43:02.460 Candace lawyered up, threatened to sue them. 0.99

00:43:05.320 And PolitiFact offered a rare correction.

00:43:08.920 She offered this correction.

00:43:09.980 They offered this correction.

00:43:10.900 They said, whoopsie-daisy.

00:43:11.980 We've gone back and looked and said, oh, yes, we've now corrected this.

00:43:15.580 Well, this is important because these fact-checking websites, quote-unquote, left-wing websites like PolitiFact, are involved in determining what gets censored on social media platforms.

00:43:25.960 So social media platforms pretend that they've got these neutral fact-checkers who are, you know, and they throw their hands up in the air.

00:43:33.040 But no, they partner with these left-wing organizations.

00:43:36.420 And so we've got to push back.

00:43:37.440 And you know what?

00:43:38.280 If you push back against them, you are going to fail not just 9 out of 10 times.

00:43:42.300 You're probably going to fail 99 out of 100 times.

00:43:44.960 But if you just keep it up, eventually, eventually, you might succeed.

00:43:50.580 You can also vote with your feet.

00:43:51.940 Right now we've learned that Hewlett-Packard is leaving California.

00:43:56.200 They announced this on Tuesday.

00:43:59.260 Hewlett-Packard is currently located in San Jose, California.

00:44:02.540 They are going to move to Texas.

00:44:04.380 Why?

00:44:04.740 Because Texas imposes a 0.75% franchise tax on business margins.

00:44:09.040 California imposes an 8.85% corporate tax.

00:44:12.940 8.85%.

00:44:13.900 Not to mention that Texas has no individual income tax compared to California's current top rate of 13.3%,

00:44:20.640 which is now expected to rise to 16.3% very soon.

00:44:24.880 It's a state tax.

00:44:25.720 You know, we moved to Tennessee.

00:44:27.540 Right now I'm in Washington, D.C. because we shot some episodes of Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:44:31.900 But when I go back to Tennessee, I will not be paying any state income taxes.

00:44:38.280 Very important stuff because there are a lot of people fleeing California now.

00:44:42.540 I mean, these states, Tennessee, Texas, they're filling up because you can vote with your feet.

00:44:46.280 Now, is that going to change the culture overnight?

00:44:47.540 No, but there are these modest gains that you can make.

00:44:51.380 And if you just show that you're not going to back down, that will have a far greater effect maybe than you expect.

00:44:57.900 If you look these crooks in the eye and you say, I think I won this election.

00:45:03.340 I think that the system, for a number of reasons, was made vulnerable to fraud.

00:45:07.760 And not just that, but it was illegitimate.

00:45:09.640 And in some cases in Pennsylvania, it was unconstitutional the way it was set up.

00:45:13.960 And I think that we need to challenge this election in the courts.

00:45:17.320 And you keep that up.

00:45:18.280 And you look and they say, no, we're going to take it from you.

00:45:20.100 No, Biden's going to win.

00:45:21.320 No, according to the system.

00:45:22.340 And you look and you say, okay, I'm going to keep fighting you.

00:45:24.720 But you know what?

00:45:25.260 If you beat me on this bet, I'll see you again in four years.

00:45:28.180 I'm not giving up.

00:45:29.300 Do not give up, no matter how daunting the odds.

00:45:32.120 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:45:33.180 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 03, 2020

Ep. 656 - Four More Years

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