The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 675 - Blame The Lockdowns

00:00:00.300 Rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol yesterday, awakening the liberal establishment to the reality

00:00:05.580 that there is a difference between mob violence and mostly peaceful protests.

00:00:10.580 There is plenty of blame to go around, but there is one cause above all the others,

00:00:15.680 and nobody seems to get it.

00:00:17.440 This is all happening, right now, because of the lockdowns.

00:00:21.820 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show.

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00:00:44.080 Ivan, you are not allowed to make that joke.

00:00:45.820 That is a very serious subject.

00:00:47.920 You are not ever allowed to make jokes like that.

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00:02:08.800 I said this six months ago during the BLM riots, which everyone seems to have just miraculously 0.97

00:02:16.400 forgotten about.

00:02:17.580 I said it six months ago during the BLM riots, and it was true then, and it's just as true 1.00

00:02:23.500 today.

00:02:25.080 This is about the lockdowns.

00:02:28.040 There are other long-simmering causes to the political protests and to the riots.

00:02:35.840 There are simmering resentments.

00:02:38.320 There are simmering infringements of rights.

00:02:42.600 There are simmering views of the country that do not make people like it very much.

00:02:48.040 But the most immediate cause is the lockdowns.

00:02:52.280 You cannot lock people away from their jobs, throw them out of work, lock them away from

00:02:59.160 their families, from their kids, from their loved ones, lock them away from just regular

00:03:04.600 socialization, go to a restaurant, go to a bar, put them in their apartment and tell

00:03:09.680 them that the minute you go outside, you're going to die.

00:03:12.400 And you can't keep them away from their church and you can't keep them away from their civil

00:03:16.260 rights.

00:03:16.700 And you can't do that for nine or 10 months and expect that everything is going to be

00:03:20.180 perfectly fine.

00:03:22.280 We saw this within two months of the lockdowns because of the BLM riots.

00:03:27.980 And at the time, I didn't excuse the BLM riots, far from it. 0.98

00:03:31.420 But I said, I think the reason why they're torching every single city in the country right

00:03:35.020 now is, might have something to do with the fact that you've upended society and locked

00:03:39.260 them all in for a couple of months, two, three months, unprecedented.

00:03:43.520 Same thing here, not excusing rioting in the Capitol, but the longer that you keep society

00:03:49.940 totally shut down, it's like a powder keg.

00:03:52.100 It's obviously going to blow.

00:03:53.940 Everybody is on edge.

00:03:56.300 Have you noticed that?

00:03:57.680 Of course you have.

00:03:58.940 Everybody seems to be at each other's throat more than they were before, which was already

00:04:03.500 pretty intense.

00:04:06.420 BLM has been around for a long time.

00:04:08.040 BLM was founded, what, 2013 or something?

00:04:10.760 2050, somewhere around there.

00:04:11.900 It was at least five years ago.

00:04:12.940 I guess probably more like seven, eight years ago.

00:04:16.140 And there have been riots before.

00:04:18.180 Why did they all of a sudden just start torching city after city, week after week in 2020, huh?

00:04:24.200 Conservatives have been marginalized in culture and politics for a long time, many years.

00:04:29.520 Why are they only storming the Capitol now?

00:04:32.520 Well, it's because of Trump.

00:04:34.160 What do you mean it's because of Trump?

00:04:35.440 Because he's saying there was election fraud.

00:04:37.660 Well, a lot of people think there was election fraud.

00:04:39.520 Why do they think there was election fraud?

00:04:42.220 Because you upended the election system three weeks or months at most before the election.

00:04:51.700 You, you go into Pennsylvania where the state constitution says no widespread mail-in voting.

00:04:57.080 It's unconstitutional.

00:04:57.900 What do you do?

00:04:58.420 You replace the system with mail-in voting.

00:05:01.420 What do you do in Georgia?

00:05:03.080 You say, oh, we're not going to finish counting the boats on election night.

00:05:06.400 Poll watchers go home.

00:05:07.420 And then secretly you keep counting the votes.

00:05:09.880 What do you do?

00:05:10.240 Actually back in Philly, you send some of the poll watchers home.

00:05:14.240 When do we get the results?

00:05:15.960 Not on election night.

00:05:16.920 It looks like Trump's winning on election night.

00:05:18.140 So it's days afterward, weeks afterward.

00:05:20.900 It's banana republic stuff.

00:05:22.380 And you know, I have to tell you, I do not, I do not have evidence that the election was stolen.

00:05:28.840 Nobody has evidence of that.

00:05:30.180 Nobody has evidence of widespread fraud.

00:05:33.120 When the mainstream media tell you there's no evidence of widespread fraud, that's true, actually.

00:05:39.120 However, you can't, we have safeguards in elections for a reason.

00:05:45.920 And Democrats used to defend them.

00:05:47.260 Barack Obama said he had worries about mail-in voting.

00:05:50.640 There was a time when Democrats defended voter ID.

00:05:52.980 I guess that's long out the window.

00:05:54.280 There's a reason we have election day, not election season.

00:05:56.660 It's because it's very difficult to secure all the ballot boxes for months at a time.

00:06:01.860 Even one day, it's hard enough.

00:06:04.400 So you, you don't get to go in, take away all the safeguards for election integrity,

00:06:11.180 and then tell me that the burden is on me to provide all the evidence of fraud.

00:06:17.860 You, you don't get to do that.

00:06:19.520 That is unacceptable.

00:06:20.400 And people are absolutely justified in their outrage over that.

00:06:25.340 It is an outrage.

00:06:26.140 It's a national scandal.

00:06:28.880 Well, what was the excuse to take away all of the election integrity measures?

00:06:33.460 Well, there's one excuse.

00:06:34.740 It was the lockdowns because you can't go out because while there's a virus,

00:06:37.760 so we need widespread unsolicited mail-in votes.

00:06:40.360 Oh, there's a virus.

00:06:41.340 So we need to give people more, more days to vote on.

00:06:44.600 Oh, there's a virus.

00:06:45.600 So we can't count them on time.

00:06:46.560 We got to send people home.

00:06:48.060 That was the excuse that, that was the cause.

00:06:52.040 You cannot, it is a, it is a simple fact of life.

00:06:56.960 You cannot upend society and expect everything to go along tickety-boo.

00:07:02.660 It was true over the summer.

00:07:04.760 It remains, I guess, even more urgent today because it's gone on longer.

00:07:09.640 Obviously, given what happened over the summer, the left has no credibility on this.

00:07:13.160 I do not want to hear a single lecture from the left about political violence from the

00:07:18.200 right.

00:07:18.440 And I don't want to hear it from guys like Mitt Romney either.

00:07:22.180 The squishy conservatives, quote unquote, the Republicans who pretend to be conservative,

00:07:27.680 but really all they do is serve as stooges for the liberal establishment.

00:07:31.300 I don't want to hear one peep out of Mitt Romney.

00:07:34.520 Mitt Romney marched over the summer with Black Lives Matter, a Marxist organization that torched

00:07:40.200 Washington, D.C., among many other cities.

00:07:42.780 Torched it.

00:07:43.860 There were photos going around yesterday on the internet of all the chaos in Washington,

00:07:47.760 D.C.

00:07:49.120 Buildings on fire, fire all over the streets.

00:07:51.560 You can even see the Washington Monument there, not on fire, but in the midst of the fire.

00:07:56.520 That photo wasn't from the Trump rally yesterday.

00:07:59.880 That photo wasn't from the ride at the Capitol yesterday.

00:08:02.300 That was from BLM.

00:08:04.740 And Mitt Romney marched with that organization.

00:08:08.240 Very sad yesterday.

00:08:09.460 A woman, a woman died.

00:08:10.800 She was a pro-Trump demonstrator and she, she died.

00:08:15.120 And we'll get into that in just a second.

00:08:17.700 And that, that was it.

00:08:18.820 One death.

00:08:19.480 Very, very sad.

00:08:20.300 One death.

00:08:20.860 How many deaths during BLM?

00:08:23.040 How many deaths?

00:08:24.160 What was it?

00:08:24.460 Something like 30?

00:08:26.520 And we have U.S. senators who march with that organization, lecturing conservatives, actual

00:08:33.000 conservatives about political violence.

00:08:36.100 I don't want to hear it.

00:08:36.940 There is now, we can say, political violence all around.

00:08:41.460 Not to the same degree, but there is still some all around.

00:08:44.200 It is, it is a disordered act.

00:08:45.940 It is, it is a violent act to smash windows, to break into a Capitol, to put the Capitol

00:08:50.660 on lockdown.

00:08:51.200 You can't do that.

00:08:53.040 But I do, I do not, do not send me any lectures from Mitt Romney.

00:08:57.480 No, thank you.

00:08:58.740 So what happened?

00:08:59.900 What happened?

00:09:01.040 There's so many conflicting narratives here.

00:09:03.020 Here's what happened.

00:09:03.840 There was a joint session of Congress to certify the electoral college vote.

00:09:08.260 Oh yeah, they certified the vote, by the way.

00:09:09.840 I know it's unbelievable in this news cycle that so many things are happening that the

00:09:14.920 big news that they certified Joe Biden as the president elect, that's like the 10th story.

00:09:19.560 That's not even the most important story, but they did, they ended up doing that.

00:09:22.880 Joint session was there to certify the vote because there were many irregularities in this

00:09:26.940 election.

00:09:27.420 Some representatives objected to certification and they opened up debate, as is absolutely

00:09:33.200 constitutional.

00:09:34.100 Now, I understand the arguments against objecting to the certification.

00:09:38.360 I do.

00:09:39.180 I think there is a perfectly legitimate argument to vote for the certification, to vote against

00:09:45.880 the objections.

00:09:46.700 Okay, I don't think people are turncoats if they do that.

00:09:50.000 Likewise, I think there is a perfectly legitimate argument for objecting to this certification.

00:09:55.920 We are in uncharted territory here, folks.

00:09:59.060 Everybody's just trying to grapple along and some legislators came out there, courageously,

00:10:03.960 I think, and said, we are going to take a stand.

00:10:08.140 We know it's not probably going to affect the outcome of the election, but we want to

00:10:11.620 go on the record in a legal and constitutional way to say this election madness is absolutely

00:10:18.520 unacceptable.

00:10:19.120 So you had a member of Congress stand up and object to the certification of Arizona.

00:10:25.640 Are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of Arizona that the teller

00:10:30.620 has verified appears to be regular, informed, and authentic?

00:10:34.080 President I, Paul Gosar from Arizona.

00:10:35.840 For what purpose does the gentleman from Arizona write?

00:10:38.720 I write for myself and 60 of my colleagues to object to the counting of the electoral ballots

00:10:45.700 from Arizona.

00:10:47.300 Is the objection in writing and signed by a senator?

00:10:51.180 Yes, it is.

00:10:52.660 It is.

00:10:53.120 It is.

00:10:55.140 Thank you.

00:11:01.700 I need the next question.

00:11:04.420 An objection presented in writing and signed by both a representative and a senator complies

00:11:10.820 with the law.

00:11:12.420 Chapter 1 of Title 3 of the United States Code.

00:11:15.700 The clerk will report the objection.

00:11:18.620 Excellent.

00:11:19.440 And that, that is what we wanted, right?

00:11:22.840 That is what, politics is about prudence and in, in certain ways, the, the Republicans

00:11:29.500 here were out, outmatched.

00:11:31.720 It was going to be basically impossible to, through any legal measure, to overturn the apparent

00:11:40.240 results of the election.

00:11:41.600 However, you can go on the record.

00:11:43.420 You can set precedent.

00:11:44.880 You can put other people on the record.

00:11:46.680 That is what Congressman Gosar did.

00:11:49.200 And that's what Ted Cruz did, who stood up and he said, he does have the signature of

00:11:52.080 a senator.

00:11:52.980 Absolutely courageous stuff.

00:11:55.020 Absolutely in accordance with the law.

00:11:57.300 Great American tradition.

00:11:58.600 And, and I think, I, I do wish that there, there were more, more spines around, you know,

00:12:03.880 among people to, to stand up on these sorts of things.

00:12:06.860 I, I understand the arguments against it too.

00:12:11.180 Uncharted territory.

00:12:12.340 But at least at this point, everybody, I think, playing fairly, everybody playing in good faith,

00:12:20.620 everybody playing according to the rule of law and following the constitutional process.

00:12:28.280 Still very unlikely to change the result, but there would be then at least two hours for

00:12:33.480 debate and you could air these sorts of arguments that we're making on this show that we've all

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00:13:59.600 So after this legal process begins to play out, it all goes crazy.

00:14:09.120 People storm into the Capitol.

00:14:11.980 So people breaking through police lines, breaking through, breaking windows, going into the Capitol.

00:14:17.580 They find a pipe bomb at the Capitol.

00:14:22.100 They find a pipe bomb at the Republican National Committee headquarters.

00:14:25.920 Very interesting.

00:14:27.740 You would expect with all these right wingers that the pipe bomb might be at the Democratic National Committee headquarters,

00:14:33.420 but it wasn't.

00:14:34.040 It was at the RNC.

00:14:36.600 Just increases the confusion of the day.

00:14:40.460 Then, as people are breaking in, you know, running roughshod all over the Capitol,

00:14:45.480 there's a woman trying to break into a particularly secured area, and she gets shot.

00:14:51.800 This woman's name was Ashley Babbitt. 1.00

00:14:54.460 She's a U.S. Air Force veteran.

00:14:56.320 She served four tours with the Air Force.

00:14:59.160 Obviously, very patriotic American.

00:15:00.740 She tried to break into the secure area. 0.96

00:15:04.120 She was shot.

00:15:04.740 There's a firsthand account, actually, by somebody who saw it,

00:15:06.980 who spoke to reporters on the ground right afterward.

00:15:09.640 Well, we had stormed into the chambers inside,

00:15:12.840 and there was a young lady who rushed through the windows. 0.99

00:15:15.980 A number of police and Secret Service were saying,

00:15:18.020 get back, get down, get out of the way. 0.90

00:15:20.420 She didn't heed the call, and as we kind of raced up to grab people and pull them back, 0.90

00:15:24.220 they shot her in the neck, and she fell back on me 1.00

00:15:26.640 and started saying she was fine, it's cool.

00:15:28.660 And then she started kind of like moving weird,

00:15:31.600 and blood was coming out of her mouth and neck and nose,

00:15:33.620 and I don't know if she's alive or dead anymore.

00:15:36.960 Awful, awful scene.

00:15:38.740 She died later on that day, very sadly.

00:15:43.020 It looked, you know, you can, there are videos of it.

00:15:45.880 I'm not going to play the video on the show.

00:15:48.020 If you looked at the video, it seemed clear she was not going to survive.

00:15:51.740 And when you hear the left going on about all, all of the political violence,

00:15:59.320 one person died, and that person was one of the pro-Trump demonstrators

00:16:04.220 who was breaking into the Capitol and trying to go into a secured area.

00:16:07.940 Very, very sad stuff.

00:16:11.940 I'm noticing a lot of people on social media are saying that this wasn't really Trump supporters.

00:16:16.780 This was Antifa.

00:16:19.940 I have no doubt that there were some Antifa people in there.

00:16:23.400 Sure, I mean, I'm sure there were a lot of people in there who just wanted to make a mess of things.

00:16:28.540 This was not organized by Antifa.

00:16:30.580 This was not led by Antifa.

00:16:33.420 It's mostly boomers.

00:16:34.520 I'm noticing, not to call out the boomers, 1.00

00:16:35.940 but it's mostly boomers saying this was Antifa.

00:16:37.560 It's not, I mean, there are well-known Trump supporters

00:16:39.280 who were live streaming from inside the Capitol.

00:16:42.880 And most of what they were doing was just, there was actually a sort of a funny picture of a guy

00:16:48.640 just walking out, smiling, waving his hand, carrying a podium with the Capitol sort of on it,

00:16:54.940 you know, with the House of Representatives seal on it, you know, kind of dark humor.

00:17:00.980 Then you saw other photos of people sitting in Nancy Pelosi's office, you know,

00:17:04.700 shuffling around her papers, putting their foot on her desk.

00:17:06.720 All, I guess, sort of amusing, if it weren't so serious, if people weren't dying,

00:17:13.800 if one of the demonstrators wasn't killed because of this.

00:17:16.880 Watching the scene, I just, I was, it was a mixture of horror, but not even,

00:17:25.140 just sort of bemusement, bewilderment.

00:17:29.000 And I thought, what was the point of this?

00:17:34.880 What was the point?

00:17:36.100 What was it all for?

00:17:38.280 The tactics are bad enough.

00:17:41.040 It is never good, unless you are overthrowing the government for a just reason,

00:17:48.040 it is never good to break into and invade a legislative body.

00:17:57.400 That's not, that's not good.

00:17:58.520 That's banana republic stuff.

00:18:00.400 But beyond the tactics, what was the strategy?

00:18:04.840 What were they going to do?

00:18:07.700 When this typically happens, when this happens in actual revolutions,

00:18:11.680 people go in, you know, Cuba or something, and they, they chase out all the elected representatives. 0.86

00:18:17.100 Actually, that's what happened yesterday.

00:18:18.140 The elected representatives all ran out.

00:18:19.540 They all ran away.

00:18:20.900 And then during actual revolutions, what happens is they declare a new government

00:18:25.340 government and they say, now I'm the, I'm the captain now.

00:18:28.100 And here's the new law and here's the new constitution, right?

00:18:30.480 That's how it really, these guys didn't want to do that.

00:18:34.060 It was all just, it was all just pretend.

00:18:38.080 It was all just LARPing, live action role play.

00:18:41.720 It was like a big, it was like a video game.

00:18:46.160 What, what did they think would happen?

00:18:48.620 At the, you get in, you get in, you get the pictures in Pelosi's office.

00:18:52.040 Was it just blowing off steam?

00:18:54.380 Well, there are easier ways to blow off steam guys, because do you think, maybe, maybe people

00:19:00.060 thought that because basically everyone who participated in the BLM riots got off the hook,

00:19:04.520 didn't have to deal with any legal consequences.

00:19:06.680 They thought, well, same is going to be true for me.

00:19:08.300 It's not, it's not.

00:19:10.700 Anybody who can be identified in the mob yesterday is going to face serious, serious legal consequences.

00:19:17.780 It's not going to help Trump stay in office.

00:19:21.740 President Trump just came out and said, there will be a peaceful transition.

00:19:25.200 He was telling them throughout the whole ordeal.

00:19:28.000 He said, go home, be peaceful, go home, don't do this.

00:19:31.880 What did it accomplish?

00:19:33.240 Beyond, let's put the, let's put the tactic aside for a second.

00:19:37.380 Some people might say, darn it, I think this justifies breaking into the Capitol or, I don't think that.

00:19:44.100 But, but what's the strategy? 0.79

00:19:48.500 What's the point?

00:19:50.440 It's so decadent.

00:19:52.700 It's just so decadent.

00:19:54.520 I don't know how else to put it.

00:19:56.620 It reminds me of the beginning of the epidemic of the lockdowns.

00:20:01.440 Do you, people don't really remember this now because we all hate the lockdown so much.

00:20:04.460 During the first week or so of the lockdowns, people kind of liked it.

00:20:08.680 People got a kick out of it.

00:20:09.720 You got a few days off work.

00:20:11.040 It was sort of like a snow day when you're, when you're a little kid in school.

00:20:15.220 Oh, we're all like, we're all kind of in this together.

00:20:16.820 It's like when the power goes out in the apartment building and you're all kind of talking to your neighbors.

00:20:20.420 And it was kind of, kind of fun.

00:20:22.300 It was a little excitement, wasn't it?

00:20:23.700 Not for very long.

00:20:25.200 A couple of days of that, you know, a week later, we thought, okay, we've had enough.

00:20:30.780 But we didn't need to lockdown.

00:20:32.920 We faced far more difficult epidemics in American history.

00:20:36.720 Never lockdown like this.

00:20:37.740 We were all, it was like we were play acting the Black Plague.

00:20:42.480 It was, it was, it was LARPing.

00:20:45.720 It was, it was so, so decadent.

00:20:51.060 And now what has been accomplished?

00:20:53.200 I think very little.

00:20:54.280 I think there, I think there was something accomplished by the people who went out,

00:20:58.180 who didn't bring it to the Capitol.

00:20:59.260 The people who were out demonstrating so many people there saying this is outrageous.

00:21:03.340 We're not going to accept this kind of, kind of irregularity in our elections.

00:21:08.040 We want to have integrity in our elections.

00:21:09.480 We support Trump.

00:21:10.140 I think that was very important.

00:21:12.220 That was terrific.

00:21:12.780 I think it was important to go out and pursue legal remedies, at least the legal process

00:21:19.220 to say, I am going on the record and objecting to this, even though it's not going to do

00:21:22.580 anything.

00:21:24.280 However, breaking into the Capitol, I guess, basically undermined all of that in the same

00:21:30.720 way that the rioters undermined whatever point the BLM protesters were trying to make over

00:21:34.280 the summer.

00:21:35.720 And so Joe Biden, I guess now, I guess now we have to say president elect.

00:21:41.060 He is, he is, whether, however he got elected, he is the president elect.

00:21:46.860 Biden comes out and says that he's calling on president Trump to address the mob.

00:21:53.900 And this is not who we are.

00:21:56.020 At this hour, our democracy is under unprecedented assault.

00:22:01.440 Unlike anything we've seen in modern times, an assault on the Citadel of Liberty, the Capitol

00:22:11.660 itself, an assault on the people's representatives and the Capitol Hill police sworn to protect

00:22:21.300 them and the public servants who work at the heart of our republic, an assault on the rule of law

00:22:33.240 like few times we've ever seen it, an assault on most sacred of American undertakings, the doing

00:22:43.780 of the people's business.

00:22:47.660 Let me be very clear.

00:22:50.340 The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are.

00:23:01.180 A typical kind of vacuous Joe Biden speech that is contradicted by a lot of his career.

00:23:07.400 But I want to focus on that part at the end where he says that is not who we are.

00:23:10.380 Kind of an Obama line.

00:23:13.380 I think it kind of is who we are, right?

00:23:16.560 We, we have right wingers coming in and breaking into the Capitol and making a ruckus.

00:23:22.300 We had six months of left wingers burning down the country with the applause, by the way,

00:23:28.040 of elected Democrats, with the applause of CNN.

00:23:30.720 Remember CNN came out, Chris Cuomo came out over the summer when BLM was torching the country 1.00

00:23:34.960 and killing people. 0.78

00:23:35.860 And they said, Hey, Chris Cuomo says, tell me where it says the protests need to be polite

00:23:40.020 and peaceful.

00:23:41.120 First amendment, by the way, is where it says you have the right to peaceably assemble, neither

00:23:44.660 here nor there.

00:23:45.960 If we're doing that, if both sides of the aisle are coming out and they're making a ruckus,

00:23:50.500 I guess the left much more so than the right, but the right a little bit too, then that is

00:23:53.720 who we are, right?

00:23:54.960 It is who we are now.

00:23:56.320 Maybe, I don't know.

00:23:56.900 Maybe if you let people go back to work, let people go out and go to church, let people go

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00:24:01.280 Maybe it won't be, but as of right now, buddy, that is what it appears to be.

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00:26:29.560 Now, contrary to what the media will tell you, President Trump, as this is going on, is tweeting

00:26:34.740 out.

00:26:35.000 He's saying, please go home, be safe, be peaceable.

00:26:37.660 He then put out a video.

00:26:38.700 He said, hey, guys, look, I share all of your concerns about the election.

00:26:43.020 I think this was BS, but go home, be peaceful.

00:26:47.360 I know you're pain.

00:26:48.600 I know you're hurt.

00:26:50.300 We had an election that was stolen from us.

00:26:54.420 It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side.

00:26:59.720 But you have to go home now.

00:27:02.600 We have to have peace.

00:27:04.260 We have to have law and order.

00:27:05.640 We have to respect our great people in law and order.

00:27:09.820 We don't want anybody hurt.

00:27:11.660 It's a very tough period of time.

00:27:13.920 There's never been a time like this where such a thing happened, where they could take

00:27:18.880 it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country. 0.99

00:27:22.480 This was a fraudulent election, but we can't play into the hands of these people.

00:27:30.200 We have to have peace.

00:27:32.320 So go home.

00:27:33.840 We love you.

00:27:35.160 You're very special.

00:27:36.780 You've seen what happens.

00:27:38.320 You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil.

00:27:42.600 I know how you feel, but go home and go home in peace.

00:27:48.580 People are very upset, of course, because President Trump says this is a fraudulent election.

00:27:53.240 And they're saying there is no evidence of the Dominion voting machine hacks, or there's

00:27:58.280 no evidence of some of the sort of more elaborate theories of what happened.

00:28:03.820 And fair enough.

00:28:04.340 I guess there's no evidence of that.

00:28:06.700 The very upending of the election system, the very upending of the way in which the election

00:28:11.840 is conducted, the collapse of safeguards around election integrity, to me, that is enough

00:28:19.480 to justify the concerns of the president and the concerns of his supporters, his voters,

00:28:27.500 guys who voted for him, like me, like myself.

00:28:30.880 We've seen it, especially if you've ever worked on a campaign, if you've ever been at a local

00:28:35.460 campaign or whatever, you know the focus that is put on ballot security.

00:28:42.180 And all that went out the window.

00:28:43.140 So I just think the way that fraudulent election is being twisted by the mainstream media is

00:28:48.440 they're saying it's all with Sidney Powell and Lin Wood are talking about.

00:28:51.800 It doesn't need to be that.

00:28:53.020 It doesn't need to be that.

00:28:53.820 I'm talking about much more granular stuff.

00:28:57.100 I guess much, much more sort of quotidian sort of aspects of the election, how you vote,

00:29:05.340 how you prove that you're the real voter, how voters get mail-in ballots, even if they

00:29:09.240 are going to get mail-in ballots.

00:29:11.380 The overall message, very clear from beginning to end of that, of that video is go home, be

00:29:19.040 peaceful.

00:29:21.040 And Twitter deleted the video.

00:29:22.580 Twitter deleted the video and Twitter suspended the president of the United States, took his

00:29:31.420 account away from it so that he can no longer communicate.

00:29:35.880 Twitter writes, quote, as a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violence situation

00:29:40.140 in Washington, D.C., unprecedented, they burned down the city four months ago.

00:29:43.860 What do you mean unprecedented?

00:29:45.360 Unprecedented, I guess, because they were in the Capitol.

00:29:47.780 We have required the removal of three real Donald Trump tweets that were posted earlier today

00:29:52.420 for repeated and severe violations of our civic integrity policy.

00:29:55.820 This means that the account of real Donald Trump will be locked for 12 hours following

00:29:59.180 the removal of these tweets.

00:30:00.160 If the tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked.

00:30:02.400 So it remained locked during the certification vote for Joe Biden.

00:30:05.700 Future violations of the Twitter rules, including our civic integrity or violent threats policies,

00:30:09.180 will result in permanent suspension of the real Donald Trump account.

00:30:12.300 Our public interest policy, which has guided our enforcement actions in this area for years,

00:30:15.900 ends where we believe the risk of harm is higher and or more severe.

00:30:19.600 Get ready for a clampdown on all of your accounts, friends.

00:30:24.060 Get ready.

00:30:24.680 Because they'll just use, they'll say, well, if he's allowed to post a link to any conservative

00:30:29.980 opinion, well, that, that there's a real risk of harm.

00:30:34.080 We'll continue to evaluate the situation in real time, including examining activity on the

00:30:37.860 ground and statements made off Twitter.

00:30:39.420 We'll keep the public informed, including a further escalation in our enforcement approach

00:30:43.020 as necessary.

00:30:43.740 Further escalation.

00:30:44.500 What are they going to do?

00:30:45.020 They're going to go in and kidnap the president?

00:30:46.220 They already took away his account.

00:30:49.260 Very, you want to talk about this very scary situation.

00:30:53.140 It's the idea that hipster Rasputin over there in Silicon Valley, Jack Dorsey, has the ability

00:30:59.980 to silence the president of the United States, which he does, because it's all one edifice.

00:31:04.680 It's all, it's all the same liberal establishment.

00:31:07.120 Big tech and the mainstream news media and the newspapers and the cable channel.

00:31:12.080 It's, it's kind of all the same thing.

00:31:14.960 And they're all shutting out the duly elected president of the United States.

00:31:21.600 He is the duly elected president, at least for another 15 days or however long it is, right?

00:31:27.660 He is the duly elected president.

00:31:28.840 That is, should be very worrisome for all of us, because it means that this will be used

00:31:36.000 as an excuse to clamp down on all of our free speech.

00:31:41.520 And we can huff and puff all day long and say, look, BLM, look at what they did.

00:31:45.220 They killed all these people and they burned all these cities and you didn't do anything. 0.65

00:31:47.900 And you actually still allow the BLM account to be up there, but you're taking down the

00:31:50.860 duly elected president.

00:31:51.860 They don't care.

00:31:53.020 They don't care.

00:31:53.720 It's going to be an excuse and I don't think the tensions are going to go down at all.

00:31:59.520 I think that the left has no interest in bringing the temperature down.

00:32:02.820 I think the left wants to keep the temperature up and up and up.

00:32:05.520 You saw this, by the way, at Nancy Pelosi's home the other day.

00:32:10.060 There was violence, vandalism, but it wasn't from conservatives, it would appear.

00:32:14.860 It was from the left.

00:32:17.540 The, you saw there was red paint there and a pig head on the ground.

00:32:21.080 And then you saw spray paint said, uh, cancel rent.

00:32:24.280 We want everything with an anarchist symbol.

00:32:27.400 This was all, all taken.

00:32:29.080 But it was going around the internet, uh, for, for a while.

00:32:31.920 Uh, could be a hoax, I guess.

00:32:33.240 Who knows?

00:32:33.800 It's so, so difficult these days to tell if things are hoaxes, but we've, we've seen

00:32:37.060 similar sorts of attacks from the far left on the establishment left.

00:32:43.360 And, uh, you know, there's not, there's not much of a reason for it because the far left

00:32:48.580 and the establishment left have the same goals.

00:32:51.080 It's just, they've got different timetables.

00:32:52.920 This is why AOC, who's ostensibly the leader of the radical left in the house, you know,

00:32:57.700 and she's opposing Nancy Pelosi, who's the leader of the establishment left. 0.99

00:33:01.300 Well, AOC just voted for Pelosi to be speaker.

00:33:03.880 So did the whole squad.

00:33:04.720 They did because they have the same goals.

00:33:06.500 They just have different timeframes.

00:33:08.280 AOC wants it to be a little bit faster.

00:33:09.860 However, you are seeing this kind of violence ramp up.

00:33:13.800 The media don't want to admit it, but Antifa is more than an idea.

00:33:17.740 Antifa is a real thing.

00:33:19.100 And Antifa has really been burning cities and attacking people and killing people.

00:33:23.320 BLM, real thing. 0.99

00:33:24.560 And they really do get violent.

00:33:26.760 And if the, I don't know if the right-wingers want to admit this or not, but it really was

00:33:29.760 right-wingers yesterday in the Capitol.

00:33:32.240 Didn't burn the place to the ground.

00:33:33.860 Didn't kill 30 people.

00:33:35.280 Well, that's good.

00:33:37.340 But it, it is a, it is a violent act.

00:33:39.460 It is an act of political violence to go in, smash windows, go break into people's offices.

00:33:44.840 That is a violent act, which means that we now have a, a normalized system of political

00:33:50.900 violence.

00:33:52.860 This is, in a way, I think, becoming the norm.

00:33:59.420 We talked about this a little bit on the show in recent days, which is, this is a very

00:34:03.800 young country.

00:34:05.820 And the way we know it's a young country is because last month, the widow of a civil

00:34:10.000 war veteran died.

00:34:11.300 Civil war vet, how old, man, she must've been sold. 1.00

00:34:13.620 In fact, it was because the civil war veteran was 93 when he married her and she was 17.

00:34:17.880 So good on him.

00:34:19.300 Really?

00:34:19.780 Wow, man, that guy must've been a charmer.

00:34:21.940 We also know that three months ago, we were in a situation where the, the grandson of the

00:34:30.020 10th U.S. president died.

00:34:33.080 Huh?

00:34:33.400 How's that possible?

00:34:34.460 Well, obviously the, John Tyler, the 10th president was much older, you know, when he

00:34:39.740 had his son and then the same thing for his son.

00:34:41.320 And then still, when you got the grandkid of the 10th president, that's a young country.

00:34:45.560 And you're going to hear a lot of demagogues on both sides of the aisle, uh, prattling

00:34:52.660 on about, uh, this upsetting of norms.

00:34:55.140 And we've never seen this before.

00:34:56.360 And when I say demagogue, by the way, I think a lot of people think I'm referring to Donald

00:34:59.780 Trump because he's got these, some of these characteristics.

00:35:02.720 I'm talking about guys like Mitt Romney too.

00:35:04.840 I'm talking about these preening moral cynics who one day go out and march with the people

00:35:13.800 who torch cities and commit political violence.

00:35:16.060 And then the next day shake their heads and wring their hands.

00:35:20.020 We've never seen anything like this. 0.99

00:35:21.660 Trump is so terrible.

00:35:23.080 I'm the dignified Mitt Romney. 0.99

00:35:25.160 Give me a break.

00:35:27.200 You're going to see this a lot, but you're going to hear Joe Biden say, this is not who

00:35:31.560 we are.

00:35:31.880 Well, it kind of looks like it's who we are right now.

00:35:33.640 And I hope we cool it.

00:35:36.540 Hope we take it down.

00:35:37.820 Hope we like our countrymen again.

00:35:40.160 But right now it doesn't appear to be this way.

00:35:42.980 And we've gone through periods like this before.

00:35:44.780 Happened in the 1960s.

00:35:46.880 I was not alive in the 1960s.

00:35:48.780 Was barely a glint in my father's eye.

00:35:50.560 However, they killed the president.

00:35:54.380 The president was assassinated in the 60s.

00:35:57.780 Then they killed his brother when he was running for president.

00:36:02.080 Then they killed the major civil rights leader.

00:36:08.240 There was violence in the street.

00:36:09.500 There were domestic terror groups like the Weather Underground.

00:36:13.300 Radical left-wing group that set off bombs that committed acts of domestic terror.

00:36:19.580 That was not that long ago.

00:36:21.080 Was that 60 years ago?

00:36:22.120 Before that, people, everyone at least remembers the 60s, I guess.

00:36:28.180 Before that, though, we went through periods in the 19-teens, 1920s, when you had anarchists

00:36:32.520 in the streets, communists in the street too, setting off bombs, engaging in political violence.

00:36:39.140 The one sort of couple of the names that you might hear in school is Sacco and Vanzetti,

00:36:43.680 these Italian guys who were committing political violence in the country.

00:36:48.000 But there were other sorts of attacks like this.

00:36:51.740 Happened before that too.

00:36:54.060 1912, there was an attempted assassination of our president, President Teddy Roosevelt.

00:37:01.700 1901, you had an assassination.

00:37:05.620 In the 1880s, you had a presidential assassination.

00:37:09.540 In the 1860s, you had a presidential assassination.

00:37:12.280 Obviously, that presidential assassination was only at the end of, apparently, a very bad play,

00:37:18.960 but also a five-year civil war.

00:37:22.680 Constant political violence and bloodshed for five years.

00:37:25.600 How many people?

00:37:26.380 700,000 Americans died, if you include the Confederate and the Union soldiers together.

00:37:33.400 There has been political violence, and there could be political violence again.

00:37:38.260 And I think we have just, because we're so freaking decadent, because we are so

00:37:44.580 bored, because we are so frivolous as a matter of culture and society, we convince ourselves that

00:37:54.420 can't happen.

00:37:55.180 Nah, it's not a big deal.

00:37:56.300 Nah, don't worry.

00:37:56.780 Come on, it's America.

00:37:58.520 That sort of stuff doesn't happen.

00:38:00.560 We're a young country.

00:38:02.020 We're a young country that's had a lot of political violence in its past.

00:38:04.840 Just anything could happen.

00:38:08.440 And I just, I wish, I wish that the people who stormed the Capitol, for their own sake,

00:38:14.200 would have just thought through this a little bit and said, what's the end of this?

00:38:17.100 Is the end of storming the Capitol that I'm going to throw, you know, a garbage can through

00:38:21.640 the window and break in and then go into Pelosi's office and take some funny pictures, which I'll

00:38:25.660 definitely post to Instagram later.

00:38:28.080 And I'm going to live stream it to my account.

00:38:30.380 It's going to be so hilarious and it's going to be so funny.

00:38:32.240 And then at the end of it, what, I'm going to, I'm going to beat the level of the video

00:38:36.220 game and then I'm going to be back home on my couch.

00:38:40.460 I don't know what other outcome they thought was going to happen unless they thought they

00:38:45.940 were going to overthrow the government, which they, I guess they actually had a chance to

00:38:49.400 do because they ran out all the, all the legislators, but they didn't want to do that.

00:38:53.940 Nobody, nobody seriously wanted to do that.

00:38:57.280 So what?

00:38:58.480 It was, it was just all so frivolous.

00:39:06.420 And, and now people's lives are going to be ruined.

00:39:09.440 One woman was killed.

00:39:11.380 Was it worth it?

00:39:13.300 Do you, do you think, I don't think it was worth it for her to die.

00:39:16.480 She had lived a great life, served her country, U.S. Air Force veteran, patriotic American

00:39:22.640 to throw it away for, to put, now you might say, well, she didn't think that the cops were

00:39:28.520 going to shoot her.

00:39:30.840 Yeah, I guess I was surprised too. 0.98

00:39:32.780 And maybe after the way that the cops did not really go after the BLM rioters, maybe you

00:39:38.640 think, okay, that's fine.

00:39:39.580 But I got to tell you, I, I would not break into a federal government building thinking

00:39:46.060 that I could do whatever I wanted, even as cops were telling me, go away, go away, don't

00:39:52.080 do this, don't do this.

00:39:54.000 Was it worth it?

00:39:55.580 Was it for the people who are going to go to jail?

00:39:58.400 Was it worth it?

00:40:01.040 Trump doesn't think so.

00:40:03.860 Obviously not.

00:40:04.720 What, what Trump said was we need to have a big, peaceful rally, big, peaceful demonstration.

00:40:08.580 I don't think it was irresponsible of him to call for a big, peaceful demonstration.

00:40:13.620 Conservatives are always much, much, much more peaceful than the left.

00:40:17.420 Just, just look at the last six months.

00:40:20.740 But that, I guess that could have sent a message.

00:40:26.020 Getting on the record in the legislative chambers, that at least goes on the record, sends a message.

00:40:31.600 I guess you send a bigger message when you drop pipe bombs at the Capitol or whatever,

00:40:35.260 you go ransacking through the Capitol.

00:40:39.140 But what did you think would happen?

00:40:40.880 Now, what if you say, well, look, they were allowed into the Capitol even.

00:40:43.700 Some of the cops were standing down, just letting them in.

00:40:46.220 What was going to happen when you break into the Speaker of the House's office and start

00:40:52.080 ransacking her desk?

00:40:55.940 All right.

00:40:56.560 That's enough, that's enough of my rant.

00:40:57.800 It's just, it's very, it's, it's very dispiriting because I think,

00:41:03.420 obviously 99% of people who showed up for the rally yesterday in DC

00:41:07.400 had the absolute best of intentions, absolute heart in the right place.

00:41:12.700 President Trump saying, be, be peaceful, be, and they were doing a great job.

00:41:16.600 And then for some people to get carried away and to ruin their lives,

00:41:22.700 it's very, very dispiriting.

00:41:25.020 And it makes you wonder what, where's the future of the country going to go?

00:41:29.280 Now, we do have a little bit of insight into this in the Joe Biden picks.

00:41:35.780 So Joe Biden now, I guess, officially the president elect is coming out and naming

00:41:43.240 his picks for, he had leaked a few of his picks for some cabinet positions and they're really bad.

00:41:49.220 They're really radical people.

00:41:51.020 You know, his deputy chief of staff, who was his campaign manager, came out and said

00:41:53.920 that Republicans are all a bunch of effers, but we'll try to work with them anyway.

00:41:58.640 So people were not exactly looking forward to the Biden administration.

00:42:04.080 However, yesterday he announced, or it was leaked, I guess he didn't officially announce it,

00:42:07.680 but it was leaked that Joe Biden was going to pick Merrick Garland for attorney general.

00:42:14.480 Now there's a meme that, that after Merrick Garland didn't, didn't get chosen for the Supreme

00:42:19.880 Court, you know, to replace Scalia. He sort of just floated up to heaven and he's up there with

00:42:24.040 Harambe and may he rest in peace and, you know, praise be upon him and all that. But Merrick Garland

00:42:28.960 is still a judge in DC and he had been floated a little earlier and people said, no, Biden's not

00:42:34.460 going to pick him for AG because then you'd have a confirmation battle for the judge. You don't want

00:42:41.180 to lose a federal judge if the Republicans control the Senate. Well, the minute, the minute that

00:42:46.440 Democrats were declared the winners in those Senate races, all of a sudden that's not a big deal

00:42:51.980 because they'll easily be able to confirm the Democratic judges. And so Merrick Garland might

00:42:57.800 be the attorney general. And I, I have to say to just to give a little bit of political hope,

00:43:02.400 everything is looking so bleak and conservatives are headed for just a world of pain, unfortunately.

00:43:09.340 But the one, one little glimmer of hope here is I do think of all the people that Joe Biden could

00:43:15.440 have picked for AG. They were all going to be absolutely terrible. Garland may be one of the

00:43:21.100 least bad people to pick. The reason I say that is his career as a judge does not make him seem

00:43:28.500 particularly radical. This was actually the strategy for Obama to nominate him in, when,

00:43:34.980 when Antonin Scalia died in 2016. He nominated Garland because he said, look, Garland is a relatively

00:43:41.200 moderate guy. Lots of conservatives have said nice things about Merrick Garland before. So no big

00:43:45.880 deal, right? You've got to confirm him. And obviously the Republicans were not going to

00:43:49.040 confirm Garland. They were going to wait until the presidential election and Mitch McConnell held

00:43:53.120 firm on that. And then after the, after the election, you know, you got the Republicans win,

00:43:57.760 we nominate our judge, we replace Scalia. So now Garland has become this kind of mythical figure on the

00:44:04.040 left, even though it's ironic because I, I don't think he's like wearing the pink hat. You know,

00:44:08.960 I don't think he's going around to biker bars with Antifa or something like that. And so,

00:44:14.700 so in any case, if he were to be selected, that would be, I guess, better than the alternatives.

00:44:21.520 James Comey came out the other day, said he, as, as now many Democrats are saying,

00:44:26.420 Trump needs to be prosecuted. Trump needs to go to jail. They need to take away all his money.

00:44:31.380 They need to ruin his family. James Comey of all people came out and said, no,

00:44:34.060 the former president should not be prosecuted. And of course that, what would he be prosecuted?

00:44:38.960 Four, first of all, they'd have to invent some ridiculous charge, though they, they do say that

00:44:44.300 you can, you can indict a ham sandwich. But it would be, that would be, that would be a further

00:44:50.620 evolution of our descent into banana republic dictatorship. If we were to put our former 0.67

00:45:01.260 presidents in orange jumpsuits, that would be the next stage of degradation. I hope it doesn't happen.

00:45:08.800 I think even for people like, like who I think have pretty clearly committed crimes

00:45:12.820 who are Democrats, I still think it is unsavory in this country for us to put former presidents.

00:45:20.720 You can put, you can put other people, other staffers and things like that, but there is

00:45:24.320 something unsavory about putting former presidents in orange jumpsuits. And so I was pleased at least to

00:45:29.800 see that some other people around Biden have said, not a good idea to, to do that. We have a very

00:45:36.060 strange concept of justice in this country. You, you, you hear the left, which is going on and on

00:45:43.620 about how, I mean, the former vice, I guess the future vice president, Kamala Harris was, was posting

00:45:49.920 fundraising links for bail for the BLM and Antifa rioters over the summer, posting, posting

00:45:57.720 fundraisers for springing them from the clink. And yet we're hearing from Democrats. Now we got to

00:46:04.900 arrest every right-wing rioter who broke into the Capitol yesterday. Obviously a little bit of a

00:46:11.960 double standard here. We're told by the left, it's very good to kill a million babies a year through 0.99

00:46:15.820 abortion, but we need to let the worst killers in the world off the hook. And you're going to hear 0.98

00:46:20.120 this in the final, in the final days of what, what it would appear to be the final days of the Trump

00:46:23.720 administration. You've got a number of executions that Trump has sped up because hanging concentrates

00:46:31.700 the mind wonderfully. And there were people who have been languishing on death row for decades.

00:46:35.480 And finally they're going to get their just desserts. And the left is very upset. So the,

00:46:40.020 the most recent one who's scheduled to be killed is a Lisa Montgomery. Lisa Montgomery is the 1.00

00:46:45.200 so-called womb raider. She's facing the death penalty because she was convicted in 2007. 1.00

00:46:51.960 She befriended a pregnant woman online and posed as pregnant herself. She then drove to this woman's 0.58

00:46:57.880 house. It pretended to be somebody else, but she got the information, figured out where she was,

00:47:02.380 and then strangled the pregnant woman, took the baby, cut the baby out of the mother and took the baby 0.98

00:47:08.060 away. And it was finally then arrested. This is as gruesome, horrific, heinous a crime as,

00:47:14.340 as anybody can imagine. And, uh, you, you hear left-wingers still saying, and even some of the

00:47:20.320 squishy right-wing people saying, oh, you have to, it's a matter of justice. You've got a letter off

00:47:24.960 the hook. I don't think so. I think one of the big, one of the big, big problems in this country

00:47:29.680 is that our sense of justice has been totally skewed. It has been perverted. And the way it was

00:47:37.580 perverted actually is by this new standard that was foisted on us, which you can call it political

00:47:41.900 correctness. You can call it wokeism. You can call whatever, there are different names that it goes,

00:47:46.740 but what, what it represents is a new standard that replaces the old standard. And according to this

00:47:53.460 new standard, uh, men can become women and babies are not really human and mass murderers and rapists

00:48:01.040 and, and people like that need to get off the hook. But, uh, people who commit lesser crimes need

00:48:06.660 to be thrown in prison and they throw away the key that that's going to be a really tough one as

00:48:13.920 well. And as long as we're living through the looking glass right now in this world where

00:48:17.040 we're stuck in our homes, largely, we can't go see our loved ones. We are losing civil rights.

00:48:23.060 We are not permitted to go to church. Even, even that kind of basic consolation of life. Uh,

00:48:29.180 we're not going to be able to write the ship. We're all going to be in this distorted,

00:48:32.820 tense perspective. Hope things get better, but I suppose we have to prepare for them to get worse.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 07, 2021

Ep. 675 - Blame The Lockdowns

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