The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 680 - Impotent Impeachment

00:00:00.000 Add another accomplishment to President Trump's record.

00:00:04.220 President Trump becomes the first president in history to be impeached twice.

00:00:11.140 House Democrats seem to think that they are destroying Trump's legacy.

00:00:15.560 If anything, I think the impeachment actually might help it.

00:00:19.520 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:00:20.160 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:28.380 Welcome back to the show.

00:00:29.460 Now, my favorite comment from yesterday is from James Colley,

00:00:33.040 who says the National Guard at Joey's inauguration will be his largest crowd.

00:00:37.140 That is true.

00:00:38.180 Not just his largest crowd, you know, of the day at the inauguration, his largest crowd ever.

00:00:43.900 We sort of forget because now we've certified the election results and Joe Biden's the president

00:00:48.420 elect.

00:00:49.040 We sort of forget that the guy couldn't get more than like 12 people to show up to any

00:00:53.000 of his events for the entire campaign.

00:00:55.360 And now one suspects he's going to have mostly a Zoom inauguration. 0.98

00:01:00.540 It's all going to be virtual, all going to be digital, all, all pretty weird, won't it

00:01:06.700 be?

00:01:07.420 Ties in a little bit to what we're going to be talking about with impeachment.

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00:02:26.580 President Trump has been impeached.

00:02:29.660 Again, this is like Groundhog Day.

00:02:31.940 I feel like I'm Bill Murray.

00:02:33.600 He's been impeached twice in just about two years.

00:02:38.260 A little more, a little more than, no, when was it?

00:02:41.480 It was the end of 2019 and now it's the beginning of 2021.

00:02:43.820 So just a little over a year he's been impeached.

00:02:46.180 Wow.

00:02:46.920 Are we going to impeach him again before he is taken out of office?

00:02:52.460 He won't be convicted.

00:02:53.940 This is the very good news.

00:02:55.140 There was some rumor that Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, was eager for impeachment.

00:02:59.960 Do you remember I read you that New York Times headline just this week?

00:03:03.900 And I said, according to the New York Times, so take that with a boulder-sized grain of salt.

00:03:09.180 Mitch McConnell is looking forward to an impeachment trial so that he can purge the party of Trump and so that he can prevent Trump from running in 2024.

00:03:17.720 I said, you got to take it with a big grain of salt and it turns out you should because Mitch McConnell has said that the Senate will not take up the matter of impeachment before the inauguration, meaning the House impeaches and the Senate holds the trial.

00:03:31.520 But if President Trump is no longer the sitting president, then he cannot be the subject of an impeachment trial.

00:03:38.580 Doesn't work.

00:03:39.660 They lost.

00:03:40.680 The vote yesterday was purely symbolic.

00:03:44.600 One thing that this should remind us, first of all, is, you know, always wait a day when you hear something in the New York Times and, you know, maybe have a little bit more faith in cocaine, Mitch.

00:03:52.720 He's, he's served us better in recent years than perhaps some of us thought he might, but also it reminds us how much power one has if, if we control the Senate.

00:04:04.300 You know, the fact that Republicans for at least a few more days control the Senate means that they can say impeachment trial completely off, completely ridiculous, and Democrats can't do anything about it.

00:04:16.320 There were a handful of Republicans who voted for impeachment in the House.

00:04:20.980 I think it's important to read their names so that we can remember those names.

00:04:25.900 John Katko of New York, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Fred Upton, Jamie Butler, Dan Newhouse, Peter Meijer, Anthony Gonzalez, Tom Rice, and Tom Valadao.

00:04:39.940 Do you recognize any of those names?

00:04:41.600 I don't either.

00:04:42.480 They, they just sound like some GOP backbenchers.

00:04:46.160 Worth remembering, I guess, when they're up for re-election.

00:04:48.840 Obviously, Trump will be gone at that point, but the squishiness and the disloyalty and the ignorance of the law, even just on the, on the objective legal matters of the impeachment, really makes one question their judgment.

00:05:03.960 There is one name, though, that we can recognize here.

00:05:06.700 That would be Liz Cheney. 0.90

00:05:08.700 Liz Cheney, daughter of Dick Cheney.

00:05:11.780 Liz Cheney voted for impeachment.

00:05:14.580 And Liz Cheney is technically in leadership.

00:05:18.020 So she's not, you know, the minority leader or the Republican minority leader in the House or anything like that.

00:05:22.520 She's not chief whip or anything like that.

00:05:25.060 She is the chairman of the GOP conference.

00:05:27.280 And it is a very strange thing that someone who is at least technically in Republican leadership in the House would vote to impeach the Republican president with no real legal basis.

00:05:40.680 The legal, the legal charge here was that Trump incited a mob to attack the Capitol.

00:05:44.860 We played the clip on the show.

00:05:46.460 You might say that Trump's actions in the last month or two have been imprudent, unwise, irresponsible, reckless.

00:05:53.900 Okay, we'll use whatever adjective you want.

00:05:55.620 They haven't been illegal.

00:05:56.820 He did not incite the mob to commit violence at the Capitol.

00:06:00.520 He explicitly said, be peaceful.

00:06:03.140 So whatever you want to say about Trump, it's a frivolous charge.

00:06:06.180 Dan Crenshaw pointed that out just a couple of days ago.

00:06:10.620 And yet Liz Cheney voted for.

00:06:11.960 Very strange to have that kind of a person in GOP leadership.

00:06:15.100 Really, really don't have a ton of faith in her judgment.

00:06:18.380 And I don't have faith in the judgment of GOP leadership if they're going to have a person like that there.

00:06:24.480 Just worth remembering.

00:06:26.780 Now, all of this is symbolic, but that's all they, all they can voice on Trump right now is this kind of symbolism.

00:06:35.860 And what the Democrats and the never Trumpers want to do is they want to say Trump is historically bad and evil.

00:06:44.900 They were hoping they could prevent him from running in 2024.

00:06:47.900 They failed to do that, but they just want to destroy his legacy.

00:06:51.180 I think they've done exactly the opposite.

00:06:53.760 I want to put aside for a second anything about the Capitol.

00:06:59.080 I want to put aside for a second anything about Trump's tweets.

00:07:01.880 I want to put aside for a second anything about how you don't like the cut of his jib.

00:07:06.480 I want you to focus on the impeachers.

00:07:09.100 I want you to focus on not just the House Democrats and the handful of squishy Republicans.

00:07:15.020 I want you to focus on the broader ruling class, guys like Jack Dorsey, these Silicon Valley oligarchs, you know, hipster Rasputin, who decides that he ought to be able to censor the duly elected sitting president of the United States.

00:07:31.820 I want you to think about guys like Mark Zuckerberg, another zillionaire master of the universe, who decides he can censor the duly elected president of the United States.

00:07:40.140 I want you to think about everybody over YouTube and Google decides they can censor, they decide they can censor the duly elected president of the United States.

00:07:50.380 When you think of that ruling class, and then you add the corporate class to that, and then you add the higher education part to that, then you add Hollywood, then you add the corrupt mainstream media.

00:08:00.200 The ruling liberal class has come after Trump in a way that I've never seen them come after any Republican in my lifetime.

00:08:07.300 They hated Bush, they hated Romney, even though now they love Romney.

00:08:12.000 They hated McCain, even though other times they loved McCain.

00:08:15.980 We know, you know, way back in the olden days, they hated Reagan in particular.

00:08:21.700 They went after Reagan in a fairly similar way to how they've gone after Trump.

00:08:26.060 But they just, it's, Trump is like singular.

00:08:28.160 If you have faith in that ruling elite right now, then they're impeaching Trump twice is a knock on his legacy.

00:08:41.060 There's no question. 1.00

00:08:41.760 But if you think that that ruling elite is corrupt, wrongheaded, idiotic, malevolent in some cases, certainly malignant. 1.00

00:08:53.920 If you think that that ruling elite is a rotting oligarchy that deserves none of our admiration or respect, 1.00

00:09:03.700 then their second impeachment of Trump is a badge of honor.

00:09:07.180 Taking away any argument that they made for the impeachment, the fact that they've come after this guy again and again and again.

00:09:14.780 They were so threatened by this guy that when he was running for president the first time,

00:09:18.940 the ruling regime decided they had to spy on him to try to undermine his campaign.

00:09:23.440 Then the minute he gets inaugurated, you had Democratic representatives saying,

00:09:27.260 we've got to impeach him because otherwise he might win re-election.

00:09:31.220 Then they try to impeach him for this.

00:09:33.060 Then they try to impeach him for that.

00:09:34.340 Then they try to impeach him for the other thing.

00:09:35.640 And then they finally do impeach him for some bogus nonsense.

00:09:38.380 He gets, he gets acquitted.

00:09:40.400 He isn't convicted in the Senate.

00:09:42.020 Then they go after him again and again and again.

00:09:45.000 They rewrite the election laws in the weeks and months before the election.

00:09:50.480 In some cases, explicitly violating state constitutions like in Pennsylvania.

00:09:56.260 They're so threatened by this guy.

00:10:00.040 And then they impeach him again.

00:10:01.580 I don't know, they'll probably try to impeach him a couple more times.

00:10:03.220 Is that a knock on his legacy or is that a defense of his legacy?

00:10:07.220 I think in the long run, it's going to be the latter.

00:10:11.280 Consider the people who are doing this.

00:10:14.740 Nancy Pelosi.

00:10:17.140 Nancy Pelosi.

00:10:18.780 And, and, and all the rest of them, by the way.

00:10:20.900 Maxine, think about Maxine Waters, who explicitly called for violence against Republicans.

00:10:24.760 Think about Hillary Clinton, who said you can't be civil with Republicans. 0.66

00:10:27.800 Think about all of these other people.

00:10:30.300 But Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, she decides that the people's business, 0.99

00:10:36.320 it's very, very important that House Democrats pass a resolution

00:10:40.320 such that the House rules will no longer include gendered language.

00:10:46.440 All the troubles we face right now, the draconian lockdowns, people losing their livelihoods,

00:10:51.560 threats from abroad, rising China, all of these issues.

00:10:55.760 Nancy Pelosi says, very, very important.

00:10:59.060 We pass this resolution such that the House rules will not include gendered language.

00:11:03.020 Listen to the arguments she makes for that resolution.

00:11:06.220 This is not theoretical.

00:11:08.800 And this is not motivated by partisanship.

00:11:12.020 I stand before you today as an officer of the Constitution,

00:11:16.120 a speaker of the House of Representatives.

00:11:18.780 I stand before you as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a daughter.

00:11:23.260 Hold on.

00:11:26.940 She wants to pass a resolution getting rid of gendered language in the House rules. 1.00

00:11:32.000 And to defend that, she says, I stand before you as a wife, a mother, a grandmother.

00:11:40.100 Would you call that gendered language?

00:11:42.620 I think I would.

00:11:43.600 That sounds like the most gendered language you can use, 0.95

00:11:46.760 which is hilarious and it shows their sort of frivolity and ignorance.

00:11:51.300 But it also shows something a little bit deeper about all these

00:11:54.620 moral claims that they're making.

00:11:57.440 Namely, they will not hold themselves to those standards.

00:12:01.200 They will hold you to those standards.

00:12:03.080 They won't hold themselves to those standards.

00:12:05.720 President Trump says, go peacefully protest at the Capitol.

00:12:09.260 And then some violence occurs. 0.67

00:12:10.940 They say off with his head, basically.

00:12:12.820 But they explicitly encourage violence.

00:12:18.060 Maxine Waters, right?

00:12:19.900 Hillary Clinton, don't be civil. 1.00

00:12:21.960 Chris Cuomo comes out and says, protests don't need to be peaceful.

00:12:25.660 They encourage the quote unquote peaceful protests that seem inevitably to turn into these riots.

00:12:32.340 They go on television.

00:12:33.520 They say with buildings on fire, this is a mostly peaceful protest.

00:12:37.120 They bail out the rioters like Kamala Harris did. 1.00

00:12:41.760 And then they try to impeach Trump.

00:12:43.460 And some squishy Republicans still don't get it.

00:12:46.100 Those handful of people led by Liz Cheney that we named.

00:12:49.480 Maybe they do get it.

00:12:50.340 Maybe they're just not on the right side.

00:12:53.740 That's the leadership that we're talking about.

00:12:57.520 House Democrats, so serious, such an important body.

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00:14:21.540 House Democrats are proposing a new rule demanding that members of Congress wear a mask while they

00:14:32.920 are on the House floor or have to pay a $500 fine.

00:14:37.260 The rule comes after three Democrats, Bonnie Coleman, Brad Schneider, and Pramila Jayapal

00:14:45.980 claim they contracted COVID-19 while sheltering in place with Republican lawmakers during

00:14:51.220 the Capitol Hill riot.

00:14:53.500 They say they were forced to share space with members of the GOP who refused to wear masks.

00:14:57.080 Now, what's funny about some of these claims, you've heard other Democratic lawmakers claim,

00:15:00.600 make these sorts of claims before and make a big deal out of the masks.

00:15:03.360 And then some of them have been caught on camera not wearing the masks all the time.

00:15:07.500 This is true of almost everybody who demands that people wear masks.

00:15:12.020 Dr. Fauci, not least among them.

00:15:13.420 Dr. Fauci, remember he threw out, he tried to throw out the baseball at the Nationals game

00:15:16.800 and he had the mask on even though he's standing in the middle of a baseball diamond in an empty

00:15:21.520 stadium.

00:15:22.260 Nobody's around him anywhere, but he makes a big show.

00:15:24.820 He's got the mask on.

00:15:25.740 Then he goes back up to his seat and he's sitting with some of his friends right next to them

00:15:31.500 and he takes the mask off.

00:15:32.480 Because he doesn't really care.

00:15:34.760 He's not worried about it.

00:15:36.340 He's just making a big show.

00:15:37.700 And I suspect that's true of many of these Democratic legislators as well.

00:15:42.700 Shows you what happens though when you can control the House and the Senate.

00:15:46.700 So much of it is about how you can set the rules, how you can put off certain things.

00:15:52.760 These masks, it would seem to me, are here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future.

00:15:57.120 And that's a really bad thing.

00:15:59.060 That's a really bad thing.

00:16:00.020 The Democrats are saying, it's very important.

00:16:02.040 It will help us get back to normal.

00:16:03.300 It hasn't helped us get back to normal.

00:16:04.780 How long are you going to believe this, folks?

00:16:06.940 15 days to slow the spread.

00:16:09.080 Just comply.

00:16:09.920 Just comply.

00:16:10.660 Just comply.

00:16:11.360 Just another couple weeks.

00:16:13.080 Just another couple weeks.

00:16:14.960 We're coming up on a year.

00:16:17.480 Seems like a very, very bad idea.

00:16:20.420 We're going to be talking about this two months from now, I bet.

00:16:22.660 People are still going to be wearing these masks.

00:16:24.880 On airplanes, they're going to be wearing them for a while.

00:16:26.380 I've spoken personally to public health experts who have told me.

00:16:30.400 I say, when are we going to get rid of the masks?

00:16:32.020 I say, well, you know, maybe, maybe we should just keep wearing the masks.

00:16:35.960 You know, it was so crazy of us before.

00:16:38.240 We used to be all these germs and we wouldn't wear them.

00:16:40.480 Put on the mask.

00:16:41.380 Comply, comply, comply.

00:16:43.400 Seems like a bad idea.

00:16:45.120 These are the sort of frivolous people who impeach the president.

00:16:47.500 Led by the most frivolous of all of them, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who just went on a long rant that is both hilarious, but I think insightful.

00:16:58.800 She did not realize it was insightful, but she unwittingly gave a lot of insight into the way the left is thinking.

00:17:03.340 So she opens up in this rant describing the tragedy of the scourge that we've been talking about all week.

00:17:10.860 You know, this is the incarnation of evil in America.

00:17:13.660 It's a pervasive problem. 0.97

00:17:15.280 White supremacy.

00:17:16.280 You know, don't you feel you're walking around? 0.93

00:17:18.340 It's like you're surrounded by skinheads wherever you go, right?

00:17:21.200 Right?

00:17:21.720 Well, no, maybe you don't know any skinheads. 0.78

00:17:23.840 Maybe you don't know any neo-Nazis, but I am reliably informed by the Democratic Party that this country is teeming with skinheads. 0.93

00:17:32.740 75 million of them, at least, right?

00:17:35.480 Doesn't matter that you don't know any of them.

00:17:37.780 Trust me, that Trump supporter that you don't talk to very much, but maybe you saw him across the street. 0.90

00:17:41.840 That guy is a neo-Nazi. 0.99

00:17:43.440 That's the white supremacy. 0.98

00:17:44.240 So AOC goes on to describe the tragedy of white supremacy. 0.60

00:17:47.640 They would rather see our country burn than to see them be shoulder to shoulder equal to others. 0.90

00:18:00.520 That is the tragedy of white supremacy. 0.91

00:18:08.920 The tragedy of white supremacy is that it is doomed to fail. 0.98

00:18:14.980 It's doomed to fail. 0.99

00:18:19.380 White supremacists will never, ever, ever live in a world where they will see their fantasies come true. 0.65

00:18:31.820 Ever. 0.72

00:18:32.580 Hold on a second here.

00:18:36.100 I think I was listening to what she said.

00:18:39.240 Did AOC said the tragedy of white supremacy is that it will fail?

00:18:45.020 That, is AOC a white supremacist?

00:18:48.180 Did I miss something?

00:18:49.040 I know politics is changing a lot, minute by minute.

00:18:51.920 But am I to understand that AOC considers it a tragedy that white supremacy will fail?

00:18:59.420 And I was trying to think, I thought, is it, is she describing tragedy in a sort of Shakespearean,

00:19:04.480 a literary sense?

00:19:05.540 You know, someone who starts off like really great and everything's working out really,

00:19:09.980 really well and then it completely collapses?

00:19:11.520 No, I don't think she would say that about white supremacists.

00:19:13.820 I don't think she considers skinheads to be these sorts of, you know,

00:19:17.400 people where they're heroes and everything's going great.

00:19:19.600 But then, ah, some character flaw makes it, makes it not work.

00:19:23.940 She's saying it, the tragedy is that they're, they're doomed to fail.

00:19:27.360 Because AOC, not, not the brightest bulb in the pack.

00:19:30.560 However, however, she is very effective.

00:19:34.700 She is very effective at communicating her views to rile up her base and to rile up our base too. 0.98

00:19:41.520 Right?

00:19:41.960 She's, she is singularly talented at getting her radicals riled up, but also triggering all of us. 0.99

00:19:50.120 Right?

00:19:50.340 I mean, that is, that is kind of her, her singular feature.

00:19:54.100 And then she gets a lot of headlines in conservative media and that helps her become more popular

00:19:57.540 and that helps her amass more influence within the Democratic Party. 1.00

00:20:00.380 And it really, really has worked out for her pretty well.

00:20:03.960 So AOC spins a good yarn.

00:20:06.220 AOC, during this, during this rant,

00:20:09.580 it was part of a larger riff about how she feared for her life during the Capitol riot.

00:20:14.980 Listen to her harrowing tale.

00:20:16.800 As for myself, I had a pretty traumatizing event happen to me.

00:20:24.260 Um, and I do not know if I can even disclose the full details of that event due to security concerns,

00:20:36.500 but I can tell you that I had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die.

00:20:43.460 Um, and you have all of those thoughts, um, where, you know, at the end of your life

00:20:53.620 and all of these thoughts come rushing to you.

00:20:57.420 And, um, that's what happened to a lot of us on Wednesday.

00:21:02.460 Um, and I thought I, I, I did not think, I did not know if I was going to make it to the end of that day alive.

00:21:14.040 A harrowing tale.

00:21:15.420 You remember AOC the other day said that almost half of Congress died.

00:21:19.020 And of course that isn't true.

00:21:20.440 No member of Congress died and doesn't, doesn't appear that any member of Congress came even close to dying

00:21:25.220 or really got so much as a scratch, uh, which is good, right?

00:21:28.740 We're, we're very glad no member of Congress was injured in, in the riot.

00:21:32.840 And I have no doubt it was very scary.

00:21:34.540 If you were a member of Congress, I'm sure it was terrifying.

00:21:37.020 You don't, you don't want to experience that sort of thing.

00:21:38.640 Now they're taking riots really, really seriously.

00:21:41.920 However, where was AOC's concern when businesses were being burned,

00:21:48.380 people's houses were being burned, when people's lives were being threatened and ended

00:21:52.860 in city upon city upon city this summer during the BLM riots?

00:21:58.580 Where was AOC?

00:21:59.480 Where was her concern then?

00:22:01.120 Well, that was good, wasn't it?

00:22:02.860 That was the, the cry of the oppressed masses.

00:22:05.640 That was a wonderful thing that we had to encourage in our words.

00:22:08.760 And for some lawmakers with our money, Kamala Harris bailing the rioters out of jail so they

00:22:15.240 could go burn more businesses down.

00:22:17.020 I bet those business owners were pretty afraid.

00:22:19.540 I bet some of them feared for their lives.

00:22:22.800 Some innocent people lost their lives.

00:22:25.900 Many innocent people lost their lives during the riots.

00:22:27.900 That the Democrats encouraged and, and, and made excuses for and said, we're mostly peaceful.

00:22:34.860 They weren't mostly peaceful.

00:22:37.000 If the riot on Capitol Hill was a riot, if the riot on Capitol Hill was not mostly peaceful,

00:22:42.100 certainly the destruction we saw around the country during BLM was not mostly peaceful.

00:22:47.560 It's amazing.

00:22:48.560 These democratic lawmakers, they only seem to really worry when it affects them.

00:22:53.020 But then AOC goes on and unwittingly gives a very important insight into the left-wing ideology.

00:22:59.760 She said that the South is the Democrats for the taking.

00:23:03.880 That's what we got to do.

00:23:05.640 We got to organize.

00:23:06.820 And I think what we saw in Georgia is a really good example with black women leading the way with multiracial and multicultural organizations leading the way.

00:23:23.560 We, they proved that Southern states are not red states.

00:23:31.300 They are suppressed states, which means the only way that our country is going to heal is through the actual liberation of Southern states, the actual liberation of the poor, the actual liberation of working people from economic, social and racial oppression.

00:23:53.580 That's the only way.

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00:26:08.580 AOC said something very important during her rambly social media rant.

00:26:14.260 She said that it is her view that Southern states are not red states.

00:26:18.820 They are suppressed states.

00:26:20.520 Meaning that when you go in there and you completely change the election laws

00:26:26.700 and you get rid of election day and make it election season

00:26:30.140 and you have widespread mail-in ballots

00:26:33.420 and you take away the election integrity measures that have been in place for decades,

00:26:38.220 then all of a sudden Democrats win.

00:26:41.660 And, you know, maybe it takes a few extra days to count the votes,

00:26:43.700 but don't worry, Democrats win.

00:26:45.640 Now, I'm not saying Democrats are alone in questioning election results.

00:26:49.260 Obviously, Republicans have been questioning election results for months at this point.

00:26:53.720 But they are different arguments.

00:26:56.340 Seems to me the Republican arguments for election integrity were,

00:27:02.840 hey, guys, we've got these election integrity measures in place.

00:27:05.880 Namely, you've got to, ideally, you show an ID

00:27:08.180 so you can prove that you are who you say you are.

00:27:10.960 You have to show up on election day where there are going to be poll watchers.

00:27:14.200 You need to count the ballots on election day too

00:27:16.240 while there are poll watchers from the Democrats and the Republicans

00:27:18.920 to make sure it's all good.

00:27:20.500 You need to make sure that the election laws are followed.

00:27:25.300 Like, for instance, in Pennsylvania, the Constitution was violated during this recent election.

00:27:30.000 You need to do all sorts of these things.

00:27:33.380 And if you don't do that,

00:27:36.060 one has to ask the question,

00:27:38.020 why are you getting rid of all of these election integrity efforts?

00:27:41.340 Right?

00:27:41.560 It's not incumbent on me to prove every instance of fraud.

00:27:45.180 Fraud happens in every single election.

00:27:46.420 The question is, was it enough to sway an election?

00:27:48.760 But I think the best Republican argument, at least,

00:27:52.760 was it's not incumbent on me to prove every single instance of fraud.

00:27:58.020 I'm noticing that you're getting rid of all the election integrity measures.

00:28:02.040 Why is that?

00:28:02.900 That would seem to me evidence of some shenanigans.

00:28:05.200 Now, there were some more eccentric election arguments saying,

00:28:08.380 you know, the CIA was involved and Germany was involved

00:28:11.020 and the computers and all that.

00:28:13.560 Fine, I guess worth hearing the map.

00:28:14.940 But we didn't see a ton of evidence for widespread fraud in that way.

00:28:18.320 But I think the election integrity measures, totally legitimate argument.

00:28:22.880 Democrats make a different argument.

00:28:24.900 Their arguments on the legitimacy or illegitimacy of elections

00:28:28.600 do not focus in on those kind of practical, tangible measures.

00:28:33.820 Their arguments are much broader.

00:28:36.940 For Democrats, if they lose an election,

00:28:42.000 that is sufficient evidence that the election was rigged.

00:28:46.280 Okay, Republicans questioned the results of this election.

00:28:49.560 This was an unprecedented election in American history.

00:28:52.140 The entire system was upended in the weeks and months before it happened.

00:28:55.180 So I understand why that happened.

00:28:57.460 Republicans did not contest the election in 2012, did we?

00:29:03.040 No, when we lost.

00:29:04.140 We didn't contest the election in 2008 when we lost.

00:29:07.000 No, we didn't contest the election in 1996 when we lost.

00:29:10.000 No, didn't contest the election in 1992 when we lost.

00:29:12.740 Hadn't really contested any election in modern memory.

00:29:15.920 What about the Democrats?

00:29:17.700 They lost in 2000.

00:29:19.060 They contested the election.

00:29:20.640 They lost in 2004.

00:29:22.160 Elected Democrats contested the certification of the electoral votes,

00:29:26.080 which we were told was unprecedented a few weeks ago.

00:29:28.940 They did it in 2004.

00:29:31.800 Democrats contested the election in 2016, refused to give it up.

00:29:36.300 Hillary Clinton still insists that she was rightly going to be the president

00:29:41.340 and then Russia interfered or some other.

00:29:43.360 Macedonian click farms.

00:29:45.820 Democrats, Stacey Abrams still appears to contend that she's the governor of Georgia. 0.99

00:29:52.380 Democrats always contest these elections,

00:29:55.080 regardless of any that doesn't matter if there's no change to the voter laws.

00:29:59.000 And the reason they do that is for Democrats, evidence of democracy is their winning.

00:30:05.660 And this has, this has actual intellectual basis, which is during the past century or so.

00:30:13.020 You heard from the second wave feminists, this idea of a false consciousness. 1.00

00:30:16.500 That idea is also articulated by the father of the new left, Herbert Marcuse.

00:30:21.280 Herbert Marcuse, who came to prominence as a thinker with the Frankfurt School.

00:30:25.680 This is an idea that you've heard from Antonio Gramsci, one of the great thinkers of Western Marxism.

00:30:32.540 It comes from Marx himself, who describes this idea of a false consciousness.

00:30:37.380 What is a false consciousness?

00:30:38.240 It's when the oppressed people don't realize that they're oppressed.

00:30:43.160 And so they need consciousness raising.

00:30:46.080 This was the slogan used by the feminists in the 1970s. 1.00

00:30:49.780 The version of it that we use today is called raising awareness.

00:30:52.560 We need to raise awareness.

00:30:53.640 Well, it's the same concept.

00:30:54.380 But the idea is that oppressed people, maybe, you know, a black person or a homosexual or an immigrant votes for a Republican.

00:31:04.840 They might do it, but that's not legitimate because they are, are laboring under a false consciousness.

00:31:12.060 If they were fully conscious of their own oppression, they would realize how bad the Republicans are.

00:31:16.780 They would vote for Democrats.

00:31:17.680 And that is the subtle premise, sometimes not so subtle premise, of all of these democratic challenges to elections.

00:31:28.840 And that is what AOC is saying.

00:31:30.600 And she even goes into it further.

00:31:32.060 She's saying it's not just the southern states.

00:31:33.660 It's people on the basis of social status and economic status and race and this and that and the other thing.

00:31:40.420 They need to have their consciousness raised.

00:31:43.800 They need to stop being suppressed and they need to be, to use her words, liberated.

00:31:49.440 And you can't be liberated by the forces, the illiberal forces of Republicans or conservatives.

00:31:56.120 We cannot tolerate the intolerance of conservatives or Republicans.

00:32:03.640 This also comes from Herbert Marcuse, this very influential thinker of the new left.

00:32:07.940 Or I suppose earlier than the new left, but he kind of gave birth to the new left.

00:32:12.100 Herbert Marcuse wrote this very famous essay called Repressive Tolerance, in which he said that what we need for a liberating tolerance, we need to suppress and censor views from the right and we need to encourage views from the left.

00:32:28.080 We need to have a new standard.

00:32:29.720 The old standards are suppressing radicalism, so we need a new standard and that's going to suppress conservatism.

00:32:35.800 That is what they mean by democracy.

00:32:38.180 I don't think AOC understands that's what she means.

00:32:40.100 I don't think she's a particularly sophisticated thinker, but she has been steeped in this kind of ideology and that's what she's, that's what she's communicating.

00:32:49.800 Shows you how naive these Republicans are who would ever side with them, who would vote to impeach without a legal basis.

00:32:57.060 Naive or playing for the other side. 0.98

00:32:59.500 These are nasty guys on the other side. 0.99

00:33:01.420 You think Trump is nasty? 0.95

00:33:02.420 Wait until you hear the guys on the other side.

00:33:04.680 Jake Tapper, you know, straight-laced Jake Tapper, calls it like he sees it.

00:33:09.120 You know, he's, he's fair, he's old school, he's the last journalist in America, Jake Tapper.

00:33:14.360 Or he's a Democrat hack, which is, I think it's maybe the latter.

00:33:17.380 Jake Tapper was just describing a, a congressman, member of Congress, who he doesn't like.

00:33:24.280 And he, he used the most disrespectful language I've heard from CNN in at least several hours.

00:33:31.820 The reams of evidence that we have.

00:33:34.460 There's one other thing I want to share.

00:33:35.720 But just one other thing, just, that's relevant, what you're saying right now is relevant.

00:33:38.920 Because Congressman Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida, who lost his legs, by the way, fighting for democracy abroad.

00:33:45.520 Although, I don't know what his, I don't know about his commitment to it here in the United States.

00:33:50.500 He said, did anybody say that?

00:33:52.300 Yes.

00:33:52.620 Yeah, we heard him.

00:33:53.380 The answer is yes.

00:33:54.220 Yes, yes.

00:33:55.660 Brian Mast, who lost his legs fighting for democracy abroad.

00:34:01.520 Huh, I, I don't think he cares too much about democracy here.

00:34:05.500 What do you mean he doesn't care about democracy here?

00:34:08.560 First of all, very, very disrespectful thing.

00:34:10.600 You can tell Jake Tapper knows that he's crossed a line because he hesitates when he says it.

00:34:14.040 And usually Jake Tapper is good at keeping a straight face.

00:34:16.880 But even that, he thought, oh, yikes, that's, well, whatever.

00:34:20.880 I'm just going to make the nasty comment.

00:34:22.580 But he's using democracy in exactly the same way AOC is.

00:34:26.280 There is nothing undemocratic about pursuing legal challenges to an election.

00:34:31.780 Nothing undemocratic about it at all.

00:34:34.760 There is nothing undemocratic about objecting to the certification of certain electoral votes.

00:34:40.060 Now, if, for instance, Mike Pence had come out and unilaterally declared that he was going

00:34:48.920 to reject the electoral votes, that would have raised some issues.

00:34:52.760 That would have thrust us into a constitutional crisis.

00:34:55.220 We've actually seen that, that constitutional crisis happened before.

00:34:58.820 That would have happened in 1876 and 1877.

00:35:04.600 But still, that would have been a crisis.

00:35:07.520 But to go out and follow the procedures that are available to you in a democracy as the

00:35:12.600 people's representative and object to certain votes, that's not anti-democratic.

00:35:16.560 The reason Jake Tapper thinks it's anti-democratic is because it's a guy on the other side.

00:35:22.260 I don't remember Jake Tapper ever referring to the many, many democratic lawmakers who have

00:35:27.280 objected to electoral votes as anti-democratic.

00:35:30.840 Did he?

00:35:31.080 No, of course not.

00:35:33.820 Because if you support the Democratic Party, you support democracy. 0.99

00:35:37.540 And if you support the Republican Party, you're a neo-Nazi skinhead fascist who should be 0.97

00:35:42.280 deplatformed, who should be ostracized from society, who should not be able to engage in commerce. 0.97

00:35:49.420 That's ramping up too.

00:35:50.520 We went through it yesterday on the show.

00:35:52.880 President Trump can't even use his bank accounts in certain places now.

00:35:56.420 Parler, build your own Twitter, the left told us.

00:36:01.160 Okay, we built our own Twitter.

00:36:02.200 They said, you can't do that.

00:36:03.040 Can't engage in commerce.

00:36:04.160 Can't engage in society.

00:36:07.300 Republicans need to wise up to this sort of thing.

00:36:10.340 Conservatives need to wise up.

00:36:11.580 I can't believe we've allowed ourselves to be duped.

00:36:14.140 I can't believe those extraordinarily naive or cynical Republicans who voted for impeachment

00:36:20.960 would allow themselves to be duped like this.

00:36:23.200 I can't believe a member of the Republican leadership would either fall for something

00:36:28.120 like that or ally herself with something like that. 0.99

00:36:30.700 Really, really pathetic, really concerning stuff. 0.97

00:36:34.880 You know, AOC was talking about allegedly aggrieved minorities. 0.97

00:36:39.100 And the left is always talking about allegedly aggrieved minorities.

00:36:42.780 When they can't find an aggrieved minority, they'll just invent one. 0.98

00:36:45.660 Well, we did get some good news recently for an actually aggrieved minority.

00:36:50.760 You know, there's a real problem in this country whereby people will abort babies on the basis

00:37:01.660 of what they consider to be defects.

00:37:05.460 This is specifically true of babies with Down syndrome.

00:37:09.660 And it's disgusting, but it happens all over the place.

00:37:14.220 You'll go in.

00:37:15.320 I mean, when you're about to have a baby, you go into the doctor.

00:37:17.880 They say, okay, we're going to do a screening, you know, and, uh, you know, then we're going

00:37:21.600 to, we're going to figure out if, you know, if they have Down syndrome or something like

00:37:24.320 that, then we can discuss our options.

00:37:27.540 What options?

00:37:28.320 What do you mean options? 1.00

00:37:29.320 Oh, the option is, do you have the baby or do you kill the baby? 1.00

00:37:31.980 Do you kill the baby because you don't think he's perfect because he's got Down syndrome 1.00

00:37:35.200 or he's got some other condition? 0.98

00:37:37.360 That's the real thinking that goes on.

00:37:39.200 And it's led to extraordinarily high rates of abortion, of killing Down syndrome babies.

00:37:44.940 And some countries boast about it.

00:37:46.620 You know, in Iceland, a few years ago, there was a big press release.

00:37:50.480 They said, Iceland has eradicated Down syndrome as if they cured a disease.

00:37:57.120 But there's no cure for Down syndrome.

00:37:59.100 It's not like they figured out some kind of gene therapy that would fix Down syndrome. 0.97

00:38:03.720 They just kill them all. 0.93

00:38:06.940 How ghastly is that? 1.00

00:38:09.240 And the left cheering this on. 1.00

00:38:10.720 Yes, we kill babies because they have intellectual deficiencies. 1.00

00:38:15.940 Aren't we wonderful? 0.99

00:38:17.820 Well, uh, governor, Christy Noem in South Dakota has just, uh, just, uh, come out against this

00:38:26.000 process.

00:38:26.520 She says, children with Down syndrome are a gift to us all.

00:38:29.080 I'm asking the South Dakota legislature to pass a law that bans the abortion of a pre-born

00:38:33.620 child just because that child is diagnosed with Down syndrome.

00:38:36.660 We must stand for the right to life of every pre-born child.

00:38:39.700 Absolutely right stuff.

00:38:41.480 And a good way, by the way, to, to go after this issue.

00:38:46.280 You know, they're, what conservatives really want to do is get rid of legal abortion.

00:38:51.460 And some, sometimes conservatives are honest about that.

00:38:54.560 I try to be honest about that.

00:38:56.560 Sometimes conservatives make these really frivolous arguments where they say, you know,

00:38:59.540 abortion, we want to get rid of abortion because it's bad for the mother. 1.00

00:39:02.840 Or it's, it's harmful.

00:39:05.040 We want to protect mothers.

00:39:06.460 And in a way, I mean, psychologically, spiritually, I guess that's true, but no, you want to protect

00:39:10.040 the baby that's being killed.

00:39:11.360 They'll say, we, you know, we want to, uh, we want to only have safe abortions. 0.70

00:39:16.600 And that's why we're going to shut down the abortion clinics because they're not safe. 1.00

00:39:20.340 Well, no, it's no abortion is safe.

00:39:22.140 It kills a baby.

00:39:22.820 Obviously that's not, you know, they're all kind of somewhat disingenuous arguments, but

00:39:26.040 they're tactical and they think it's going to chip away at the edges here and there.

00:39:29.100 Fine by me.

00:39:29.560 This is a good way to do it.

00:39:32.260 This is actually a good way to do it because you are appealing to the moral standard that

00:39:37.660 the left at least pretends to have, namely that they oppose racism or sexism or ableism,

00:39:44.400 ableism being discrimination and bigotry against people with handicaps.

00:39:48.720 What if, what if we passed a law and said, you can't abort a baby just because he's black?

00:39:57.260 Do you think the left would object to that?

00:39:58.860 I'm sure they'd find some way to object to that, but it'd be very difficult for them to.

00:40:02.060 What if we had a law that said, you can't, you can't abort a baby just because she's a girl? 0.80

00:40:06.160 And that sort of thing does happen.

00:40:07.620 Not, maybe not so much in the United States yet, but certainly around the world.

00:40:10.260 I mean, we saw that happen in China, which is why there's a lopsided population now.

00:40:13.500 People were choosing boys and then aborting the girls. 1.00

00:40:17.920 What if we passed a law, like Christy Noem says, to

00:40:21.360 ban abortions of babies just because they have intellectual deficiencies?

00:40:26.640 I'm sure the left would find a way to argue against it, but it would be a very difficult

00:40:29.900 argument.

00:40:30.420 It would make them look very, very ugly.

00:40:31.920 I think it would move the needle.

00:40:34.480 And as Christy Noem has this kind of solid spine and I think real evidence of political acumen,

00:40:41.180 she is positioning herself very well for 2024, which a lot of people have been talking about.

00:40:47.560 You know, I'm, I'm noticing, uh, there have been some people coming out.

00:40:51.960 There was actually a very prominent professor who came out against Christy Noem who said,

00:40:55.780 Christy Noem, your, your state has one of the highest levels of COVID and COVID death and

00:41:02.140 COVID hospitalization in the country.

00:41:04.760 And I say, that's true.

00:41:05.740 It's up in like the top five or top 10 or something.

00:41:07.980 It's way below New York though.

00:41:09.100 And you know, you know, Andy Cuomo is being hailed by all of the left.

00:41:13.700 Christy Noem put herself in a very, very good position and seems to have a lot of moral

00:41:17.760 clarity.

00:41:18.980 We don't get a lot of wins these days on the right.

00:41:22.300 However, we did just get a win at the Supreme Court.

00:41:25.700 And this actually ties into everything we were talking about, about democracy and the legitimacy

00:41:29.880 of elections and, and how Republicans are going to be able to win moving forward.

00:41:36.880 Right now in Texas, there's a law.

00:41:39.100 That says that you can't have universal widespread mail-in ballots, that you've got to request

00:41:43.700 it and you've got to meet certain criteria to get a, a mail-in ballot.

00:41:49.400 Democrats in Texas challenged this law.

00:41:52.520 They wanted to invent a constitutional right to universal mail-in ballots, which is ironic

00:41:59.600 because as we have noted many times on this show, there, there are states where the constitution

00:42:03.760 explicitly forbids widespread mail-in ballots.

00:42:07.080 But Democrats challenge it anyway.

00:42:08.620 It goes all the way up to the Supreme Court.

00:42:12.420 The Supreme Court rejected that bid.

00:42:15.140 The Supreme Court rejected a Democratic bid for universal vote by mail in Texas, leaving

00:42:20.480 intact a state law.

00:42:21.820 Now, if Democrats take Texas, they can just get rid of the law and then they'll have universal 0.68

00:42:24.980 widespread mail-in ballots.

00:42:25.900 This is going to be a very important issue.

00:42:30.120 I think if Republicans do not fight this thing, the universal widespread mail-in, it's going

00:42:35.560 to be virtually impossible for us to win important elections in the future.

00:42:40.780 City machines, Democratic machines have long engaged in shenanigans with elections. 0.53

00:42:47.160 They've long stuffed ballot boxes.

00:42:48.560 They stuffed the ballot box in Texas in 1948, gave us Lyndon Johnson.

00:42:52.680 Okay, I don't, I, I look forward to fact checkers coming after me on, on this notion and defending

00:42:59.880 Democratic political machines because they've been going on a very long time, okay?

00:43:04.660 And the way that they function is by getting rid of ballot integrity measures.

00:43:10.340 If you have universal widespread mail-in, one, you can't check to make sure that the person

00:43:14.680 who's voting really is the person who says they're voting, and two, you won't have people

00:43:20.880 tallying the results on election day.

00:43:23.060 You're going to have it dragged out and out and out.

00:43:24.860 It takes us a long time to conduct elections in this country now, doesn't it?

00:43:27.840 Didn't used to take us this long.

00:43:30.260 Gives a lot of opportunity for abuse.

00:43:33.280 A big win at the court.

00:43:34.160 We got to follow it up though with legislative achievements.

00:43:37.660 Speaking of dubious legal doctrines like the right to a universal widespread mail-in,

00:43:42.000 Mayor Bill de Bolshevik in New York, de Blasio comes out.

00:43:47.900 He is severing the city's ties with the Trump Organization.

00:43:50.980 Obviously, Donald Trump has had a longstanding relationship with the city of New York.

00:43:54.700 Now, the radical mayor there is going to get rid of that relationship.

00:43:58.980 According to a doctrine of the law that doesn't seem to hold up to me.

00:44:03.240 The city of New York is severing all contracts with the Trump Organization.

00:44:08.640 Our legal team has done the assessment and the contracts make very clear.

00:44:13.760 If a company, the leadership of that company is engaged in criminal activity,

00:44:19.500 we have the right to sever the contract.

00:44:23.060 Inciting an insurrection.

00:44:24.960 Let's be clear.

00:44:25.660 I'm going to say these words again.

00:44:26.800 Inciting an insurrection against the United States government clearly constitutes criminal activity.

00:44:31.380 So, the city of New York will no longer have anything to do with the Trump Organization.

00:44:37.360 They have profited from these contracts.

00:44:39.600 They will profit no longer.

00:44:41.880 So, here is Bill de Blasio's argument.

00:44:45.480 The Trump Organization has a contract, has multiple contracts with the city of New York.

00:44:50.420 And there are rules around these contracts.

00:44:52.180 You can't just pull out willy-nilly.

00:44:53.380 But you can pull out if someone is engaging in criminal activity and therefore Trump's engaging

00:44:59.840 in criminal activity, therefore we can sever the contract.

00:45:03.300 What's the criminal activity, Bill?

00:45:05.340 Well, the criminal activity is inciting an insurrection.

00:45:09.460 Okay.

00:45:10.880 When was Trump convicted of inciting an insurrection?

00:45:15.200 Well, he, well, he was impeached, wasn't he?

00:45:17.900 Yes, he was impeached.

00:45:18.880 When was he convicted?

00:45:20.460 Impeachment is just a vote by the House.

00:45:22.500 That then sets up a trial and then the senators at that trial convict or acquit.

00:45:29.540 Donald Trump was never convicted of inciting an insurrection.

00:45:33.300 Donald Trump was never convicted of inciting an insurrection, in part because he never incited

00:45:38.100 an insurrection.

00:45:39.240 He behaved recklessly.

00:45:40.840 He behaved irresponsibly.

00:45:42.160 He shouldn't have done that.

00:45:43.000 Okay, fine.

00:45:43.580 Sure, maybe, whatever.

00:45:46.120 He obviously did not incite the insurrection.

00:45:49.500 He said explicitly, be peaceful.

00:45:53.580 He said it before they went to the Capitol.

00:45:55.780 He said, be peaceful.

00:45:57.200 Then he said it while they were at the Capitol.

00:46:00.080 Then he said it after they were at the Capitol.

00:46:03.060 Be peaceful.

00:46:05.720 Same can't be said of Maxine Waters, who said, get up in Republicans' faces, go to their homes, 0.99

00:46:10.360 where their children sleep.

00:46:11.320 Get up, get up on them.

00:46:12.560 Is the city of New York going to sever ties with the Waters organization?

00:46:17.360 I guess there isn't one.

00:46:19.680 Is it enough now to just accuse somebody of a crime and that has the full force of law?

00:46:26.600 Well, apparently it is, right?

00:46:28.640 If I go out there and I say, Bill de Blasio is a communist. 0.97

00:46:31.720 This guy is a red, he is a pinko, he's a subversive. 0.99

00:46:37.040 He's seditious.

00:46:40.620 Does that now have the weight of law?

00:46:42.160 Have I convicted him of that crime?

00:46:44.240 No, I obviously can't do that.

00:46:45.800 One, because it would violate the law, but two, because I'm a conservative.

00:46:48.660 But the left can do that.

00:46:49.840 And that is what they're doing and that's what they're about to do.

00:46:52.600 They're going to say, you can't do business.

00:46:56.680 You can't bank.

00:46:57.700 You can't have your contracts.

00:46:59.320 You can't go to certain places.

00:47:01.000 They're going to try to continue this impeachment after Trump's out of office.

00:47:06.360 It's not possible, so I suspect it'll fizzle pretty quickly.

00:47:09.200 But there will be a movement, at least, among Democrats to do that.

00:47:13.060 Then, I strongly suspect, there are going to be all sorts of investigations into Trump's

00:47:16.780 personal life.

00:47:17.440 You can indict a ham sandwich, so they'll try to find something.

00:47:21.360 Then, I strongly suspect, there's going to be a movement among legislators to try to pass

00:47:27.100 a law saying Trump can never run for office again, because they're so afraid of him.

00:47:29.780 Now, that would violate the 14th Amendment, so I don't think it would work.

00:47:33.320 But who knows?

00:47:34.060 We're in a lawless era.

00:47:35.280 We're in a lawless era now, where a baker can be sent out of business for not engaging

00:47:41.420 in a gay wedding that violates his religious beliefs.

00:47:45.240 But social media companies, web companies can censor outright based on any reason they

00:47:51.140 want, can refuse to engage in business with anybody, because a mere accusation carries

00:47:57.980 effectively the force of law.

00:48:00.440 Someone goes out there and says, 75 million Americans are Nazis.

00:48:03.240 That would seem to be sufficient to begin to silence them, to begin to ostracize them,

00:48:08.740 to begin to exile them.

00:48:11.040 We're in the beginning stages of that.

00:48:12.580 Trump is still the president.

00:48:14.520 Imagine how ramped up that is going to get.

00:48:17.100 What a corrupt ruling elite would do that sort of a thing. 0.98

00:48:20.380 And to incur their ire seems to me a badge of honor.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 14, 2021

Ep. 680 - Impotent Impeachment

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