The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 683 - Democracy Without The People

00:00:00.460 Yesterday's inauguration was a triumph of democracy. Our democracy has never been more

00:00:06.860 democratic and we can all revel in democracy, democratizing democracy. If you don't believe me,

00:00:15.280 you don't need to take my word for it. You can listen to the mistress of ceremonies,

00:00:19.620 Amy Klobuchar, who began this big triumph with an absolute ode to democracy.

00:00:25.580 Now it falls on all of us, not just the two leaders we are inaugurating today,

00:00:31.420 to take up the torch of our democracy, not as a weapon of political arson, but as an instrument

00:00:39.020 for good. We pledge today never to take our democracy for granted as we celebrate its

00:00:46.240 remarkable strength. We celebrate its resilience, its grit. We celebrate the ordinary people doing

00:00:52.880 extraordinary things for our nation, the doctors and nurses on the front line of this pandemic,

00:00:58.440 the officers in the Capitol, a new generation never giving up hope for justice. And in the end,

00:01:06.600 that is America, our democracy, a country of so much good. And today, on these Capitol steps,

00:01:14.760 and before this glorious field of flags, we rededicate ourselves to its cause. Thank you.

00:01:23.880 There was just one aspect of the impeachment that made Amy Klobuchar's and the rest of them,

00:01:29.320 all of their exaltation of democracy ring a little hollow. Namely, there weren't any people there.

00:01:35.360 The people were not permitted to go to the inauguration. As they were celebrating all the

00:01:42.560 frontline workers and the ordinary Americans, those ordinary Americans were outside because

00:01:46.680 Washington DC looked like Baghdad because there were giant fences and walls everywhere. And the 0.57

00:01:52.160 people were replaced with a little miniature flags all over the mall. So much for democracy.

00:01:57.920 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:52.440 event that the people were prohibited from attending. Amy Klobuchar opened this up and she was the MC for

00:03:59.320 the day. She did basically as good a job as you could do as the MC. But if you were paying close 1.00

00:04:05.880 attention and you'll notice that the cameras on the inauguration, they rarely showed that there weren't

00:04:11.480 any people there, right? It was mostly just on the sort of podium, mostly with the people around Joe

00:04:16.340 Biden, but mostly even on those first few rows where there were some scattered people in the

00:04:21.580 audience. But it was unlike any inauguration we've ever seen because there were just a handful of

00:04:27.360 people for the cameras. Everything else was empty. The people had been replaced with flags and it wasn't

00:04:32.780 just a choice of Amy Klobuchar to focus on this. Joe Biden himself made sure to talk about the importance

00:04:39.660 of democracy. And it's, it was such a bizarre juxtaposition of this word democracy without any

00:04:48.020 people there, not even Joe, who's as slick a politician as they've ever come. Not even he was

00:04:53.220 able to sell it. This is America's day. This is democracy's day, a day of history and hope of renewal and

00:05:04.480 resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the

00:05:12.820 challenge. Today, we celebrate the triumph, not of a candidate, but of a cause, the cause of

00:05:21.480 democracy. The people, the will of the people has been heard and the will of the people has been

00:05:29.700 heeded. We've learned again that democracy is precious. Democracy is fragile. At this hour,

00:05:38.980 my friends, democracy has prevailed. Democracy has prevailed. I don't think he could use the word

00:05:46.860 democracy any more times while still reading grammatical sentences, right? He's packed in as

00:05:51.680 much as possible. Makes me think the lady doth protest too much. All these Democrats going on 1.00

00:05:57.420 about democracy. Does that look like democracy to you? Let me just ask you, compared to the Trump

00:06:04.160 inauguration in 2016, lots and lots of people. I know there was some controversy over the crowd

00:06:08.940 sizes, but I think we can all agree lots and lots of people there versus this inauguration without any

00:06:15.100 people, which one looks like democracy prevailed? If you really believe in the cause of democracy,

00:06:23.200 why would you be so afraid of your own people that you would lock them out, that you would erect

00:06:29.940 giant fences with barbed wire all around Washington, DC? It just doesn't ring true.

00:06:37.460 You'll notice at the end there, Biden says, democracy prevailed. And some people think this

00:06:43.400 is just a typical platitude, some empty Biden slogan. It actually gets to the left's view of democracy.

00:06:50.440 You'll hear them talk about democracy a lot. Well, they didn't seem to like democracy very much in

00:06:54.540 2016 when President Trump won. And then they changed a lot of the election integrity systems

00:07:01.820 in 2020. We'll just leave it right there. Democracy prevails, according to the left, when they win.

00:07:11.120 And democracy fails, according to the left, when they lose. Right? It's, it's only ever democracy when

00:07:19.060 they win. When it's not, they would say, no, it's suppression. It's a voter intimidation. It's

00:07:24.680 something went horribly, horribly wrong. And there's actually something to what they're saying.

00:07:30.340 You know, I think the, I think it's important to recognize that's their view of democracy. So

00:07:33.980 if they lose, you know, Al Gore loses, well then that wasn't democracy or Hillary Clinton loses. Well,

00:07:40.000 that wasn't democracy. You know, it's only, only when they win is it democracy, but

00:07:43.680 prevails, you know, is a complex word. Is it saying democracy did what democracies do? You know,

00:07:52.680 it acted like a democracy or is, or are they saying democracies gave us a good government? Democracy

00:07:57.640 showed how great democracy is. And it's a sort of subtle distinction, but we all actually look at

00:08:05.160 democracy in the latter sense of that word, right? There, first of all, we're not a pure democracy in

00:08:10.280 this country. We're not a direct democracy. We're a Republican government, which is also called a

00:08:15.260 democracy, but we, we have all of these different systems in place to give us our government. The

00:08:20.580 Electoral College is a great example of this. You can win the majority of voters nationwide and still

00:08:26.860 lose the presidency because we have this kind of intricate system of government. There's nothing

00:08:31.880 wonderful about democracy in and of itself, right? If you've got a vicious people who have absolutely

00:08:38.720 no virtue, who elect horrible, terrible leaders who trample on everyone's rights, well, that's not

00:08:46.180 a win for democracy. I mean, democracy is acting as it should, as we would expect it to, but it's still

00:08:52.200 giving us bad governments. There's nothing great in and of itself. And so when Biden's saying democracy

00:08:56.340 prevails, I think what he's also saying is this is how democracy is supposed to work. And in all

00:09:00.800 fairness, I feel the same way. When, when these awful leftists win, I think, gosh, our democracy is not

00:09:06.800 functioning as it should. If we still had a virtuous people, you know, if we still, and, and I know

00:09:13.320 there's all this lamentation all the time about it used to be better in the good old days. And a lot

00:09:17.280 of that is just nostalgia, which is history after a few drinks, as my friend, Father George Rutler says.

00:09:22.720 But, but there actually is something to it. People used to know more about our country. People used to

00:09:28.400 know more about our politics, about our history. They used to have a clearer view. They used to be better

00:09:32.920 educated than they are today. They used to be more capable of liberty than they are today.

00:09:38.120 You can just look at any sort of civic surveys that are given out. There was a famous one from

00:09:42.480 ISI about a dozen years ago, which showed that graduates of very prestigious universities,

00:09:48.900 the, the graduating seniors knew less about civics than the incoming freshmen. They actually got more

00:09:53.360 ignorant over their time in that, in, in that educational environment. So that, that really does 0.94

00:09:57.840 happen. And I, I feel the same way when we're electing these awful people who want to trample on our

00:10:02.340 national traditions and who want to upend our system of government. I think that's bad. I think

00:10:07.740 that's a failure of democracy. You've got to get to the people to have that prevail. But it was so

00:10:14.880 ironic. I mean, I don't think I could ever have the gall to talk about the failures and triumphs of

00:10:19.300 democracy to a crowd of nobody where the people were not permitted. It was, it was a farce of an

00:10:25.780 inauguration, right down to even the swearing in. So Kamala Harris comes up and she does her swearing in. 1.00

00:10:32.040 And Sonia Sotomayor is the justice who's going to administer the oath. And they make a big point,

00:10:36.360 as they always do when they introduce Sotomayor of talking about her racial identity and how she's

00:10:41.260 a woman. This is how she herself sold her nomination. You remember Sonia Sotomayor, when

00:10:45.740 they said, why, how are you qualified to be on the court? You know, her, her resume was a little

00:10:49.240 thinner than some of the other judges on the court. And she said, well, I'm a wise Latino woman.

00:10:53.100 I don't, I don't see that as a particularly compelling qualification where I want to hear

00:11:00.680 about your experience as a judge. I want to hear about your law school education. You know,

00:11:04.700 talk about that. Just don't, don't talk about this identity politics. So she gets up there,

00:11:08.260 she does the oath and Sonia Sotomayor mispronounces Kamala Harris's name.

00:11:13.860 Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I Kamala Davy Harris do solemnly swear.

00:11:23.880 I Kamala Davy Harris do solemnly swear.

00:11:26.540 So embarrassing. Kamala took it in stride. And I know there's, there's always been some debate over

00:11:31.100 what her, how her name is pronounced because it's an unusual name and she's sort of new to the national 0.98

00:11:36.120 political scene relative to some of these other people on stage, Joe Biden or even Donald Trump.

00:11:40.460 But Sotomayor did not even learn how to pronounce her name. I think this does reflect on both of

00:11:46.180 these people. You know, Sotomayor, she's not, she doesn't have a reputation as the sharpest bulb on 1.00

00:11:55.700 the court. Okay. This was true at the time of her, of her nomination. People said, you know,

00:12:00.400 she's no Elena Kagan. She's no Clarence Thomas. She's no Antonin Scalia. Are you sure? You know,

00:12:06.300 and the left seemed to play identity politics a little bit as, as she herself did.

00:12:10.460 But then Kamala Harris too. She's, she's so irrelevant in her own person. Remember she was

00:12:20.940 what the first or one of the first candidates out of the democratic presidential primary.

00:12:24.900 People didn't like her. She, she kind of got in through the back door of, uh, into this

00:12:31.200 administration, but she was, it's not like she was the second person standing, the second to last

00:12:36.940 person standing during the presidential primary. But they, they've sold her and she sells herself 0.99

00:12:44.360 on identity politics. Whenever they say, what's your view of politics? You've seen all the

00:12:47.360 interviews. We've played them on the show before. What's your view of politics? What's your ideology?

00:12:50.920 What's your philosophy? She goes, I'm the daughter of immigrants. I was raised. And she talks about all

00:12:56.200 the identity politics stuff. And so, yep, even the Supreme court justice administering the oath

00:13:01.060 doesn't remember her name because she, she is presenting herself as a stand-in, which, which

00:13:06.600 does a disservice to her, I think. And it does a disservice to our politics. But there was more

00:13:13.080 farce that went on in this inauguration than all of that. I nearly fell asleep during it. Thankfully,

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00:14:36.340 the most farcical moment of the inauguration was the slam poetry portion. I have to tell you,

00:14:44.440 I had very low expectations for this inauguration and somehow the, the reality was even lower because

00:14:52.940 there was a slam poetry, poetry portion of this inauguration. The poet's name, I, I, gosh,

00:15:00.180 I forget her name, Amanda something or other. She's the national youth poet laureate. I didn't

00:15:04.960 know we had one of those and we actually didn't have one before her. They kind of made up this post

00:15:08.380 and get, to give it to her. I will spare you the full poem, but just take a listen to the first

00:15:15.720 minute or so. Mr. President, Dr. Biden, Madam Vice President, Mr. Emhoff, Americans and the world.

00:15:29.400 When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never ending shade?

00:15:36.480 The loss we carry, a sea we must wade. We've braved the belly of the beast. We've learned that quiet

00:15:45.200 isn't always peace. And the norms and notions of what just is, isn't always just is. And yet the dawn

00:15:57.300 is ours before we knew it. Somehow we do it. Somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that

00:16:06.260 isn't broken, but simply unfinished. We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny black 1.00

00:16:14.980 girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president only to find 1.00

00:16:24.100 herself reciting for one. And yes, we are far from polished, far from pastime, but that doesn't mean we

00:16:32.980 are striving to form a union that is perfect. It goes on and on and on and on. It went on for six

00:16:44.960 and a half minutes. All these rhymes. When is justice? When just is, is not justice. Harold Bloom, the famous

00:16:53.980 literary critic, uh, referred to slam poetry as the death of art. And I think he was being charitable

00:17:02.000 actually in his, in his description of it. Compare that. I don't want to fall into nostalgia. I don't

00:17:09.000 want to say, Oh, it was always better in the past. And now it's really, really bad as though

00:17:12.440 that were always true. No, I, sometimes the past was better than the present. Sometimes the past was

00:17:17.580 worse than the present, but, but things actually were a little bit better in the past. JFK's

00:17:25.540 inauguration. He had Robert Frost, one of our nation's greatest poets, uh, come and give the

00:17:30.980 poem. And what's funny is the poem he had actually prepared for the, for the inauguration, uh, blew off

00:17:35.300 the stand. He like couldn't read it that well and part of it flew away. So he ended up reading another

00:17:39.660 poem of his, take a listen to that poem. The land was ours before we were the land.

00:17:48.120 She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people. She was ours in Massachusetts

00:17:56.040 and Virginia, but we were England, still colonial, possessing what we still were unpossessed by,

00:18:04.240 possessed by, possessed by what we now no more possessed. Something we were withholding made

00:18:11.080 us weak until we found out that it was ourselves we were withholding from our land of living

00:18:18.160 and forthwith found salvation and surrender. Such as we were, we gave ourselves outright the

00:18:27.880 deed of gifts with many deeds of war to the land vaguely realizing westward. But still I'm storied,

00:18:37.980 artless, unenhanced, such as she was, such as she would become, has become. And I, and for this

00:18:50.140 occasion, let me change that to what she will become. That poem is a very good poem. I'm partial.

00:18:59.660 I like Robert Frost a lot. This is a poem about America, about a traditional understanding of

00:19:07.040 America. The land was ours before we were the lands. She was ours when we were England still.

00:19:12.860 This is a, a view upholding, uh, and it's not a perfect view. It's saying that deed of gift was

00:19:19.120 many deeds of war. It's not saying this is just this wonderful lala candy land and we've never had

00:19:24.840 any problems in America, but it's, it's taking the side of America and it's taking the side of good

00:19:29.620 art. It's actually a well-crafted poem. The same cannot be said of that ridiculous slam poetry

00:19:35.840 that happened at Biden's inauguration, but it's because this has become a farce. Our view of our 0.76

00:19:42.220 country is farcical. We hate our country, but when the left describes the country, it's always about

00:19:48.080 how terrible it is and bigoted and awful and all the terrible injustices we've committed around

00:19:53.240 the world. And I'm sorry, and I'm sorry, and I'm sorry. And when we, when, when the left discusses

00:19:59.560 art, when they perform art, there is no beauty to it. It's just ugly. It's ugly art. Uh, when,

00:20:07.260 when the left extols the virtues of democracy, there aren't any people there. It's, it's a farce.

00:20:13.200 It was a farce of an inauguration. And then in comes president Joe Biden, who actually took the

00:20:22.640 oath of, uh, I think it was 12 minutes before he was supposed to at noontime, which means that for

00:20:28.180 12 minutes yesterday, we had two presidents. Uh, very strange. It's sort of like having two popes,

00:20:33.300 which we have at the moment, you know, the Pope Emeritus and then the Pope Francis. Uh, Joe Biden

00:20:38.480 comes up there and describes after talking about white supremacy and all the terrible evil people

00:20:45.300 in America that he's been talking about for years and years and years, he talks about the need to

00:20:50.140 unite. And I have to tell you, it was the scariest part of his whole speech. On this January day,

00:20:55.800 my whole soul is in this bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation.

00:21:03.720 And I ask every American to join me in this cause

00:21:07.860 uniting to fight the foes we face, anger, resentment and hatred, extremism, lawlessness,

00:21:20.300 violence, disease, joblessness and hopelessness with unity. We can do great things, important things

00:21:28.660 for without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury.

00:21:35.460 Now, some people are reading this as just typical Biden platitudes. Again, I'd like to look a little

00:21:42.540 bit deeper. People took time to write this speech. Joe Biden certainly didn't write this speech

00:21:46.420 because Joe Biden doesn't write any speeches. Usually Neil Kinnick over in, over in Ireland will

00:21:51.140 write the speeches and Joe Biden will read them. Caused him a little trouble back in the day.

00:21:54.460 Joe Biden is reading a speech that people took real time to parse every word.

00:22:00.920 And he says, without unity, there can be no peace. My friend Alan Estrin pointed out to me yesterday.

00:22:06.980 That can sound a little bit ominous, can't it? You remember during the BLM riots when the left was

00:22:13.020 burning down America, prominent left-wingers egged it on. They encouraged it. Kamala Harris said,

00:22:21.560 this won't stop and this better not stop and it better not stop until the election. Maybe even

00:22:25.580 after the election. You remember Kamala Harris bailed out the rioters, the people who became

00:22:30.160 violent. Biden's staffers, Biden himself didn't bail out the rioters, but Biden's staffers were

00:22:35.920 promoting that same fundraiser to bail out the rioters. And he's saying, we need unity, all you

00:22:41.600 neo-Nazis, all you white supremacists. We need unity, all you 70 million evil, deplorable, terrible, 1.00

00:22:46.720 bitter, clinging, Bible-thumping Americans. We need unity. And without unity, there can be no peace. 0.98

00:22:54.340 Was that saying that the evil, rotten right-wingers are not going to bring peace? Or is it saying, 0.94

00:23:00.380 shape up, fellas, or we are not going to give you peace? Well, who's committed more political

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00:23:11.480 keep focusing on the Capitol riot as though this were, you know, the single worst event in American

00:23:15.800 history. Certainly, certainly it was a pretty ugly event, but it wasn't even close to the BLM riots,

00:23:22.620 which went on for months and destroyed many more lives. I mean, literally killed more people and

00:23:27.700 destroyed many more businesses and many more livelihoods. And it wasn't anything compared to

00:23:33.100 the political violence we've seen from Maxine Waters or Hillary Clinton or people who say,

00:23:38.420 get up in people's faces. Cory Booker said, get up in the faces of some congressman.

00:23:43.320 Not good. You know, when I, when I think about all of this, when I, when I listened to Joe Biden's

00:23:49.560 sort of ominous speech, when I listened to the farcical kind of poetry that was read,

00:23:56.860 especially when I listened to that poem, I thought, I thought of an Ezra Pound poem, which is

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00:25:55.500 The main aspect of this inauguration that struck out to me, it was so short. It was a little,

00:26:03.400 an hour and change. It was like an hour and 15 minutes. Maybe you think they would have wanted

00:26:08.680 to go on longer and longer. Obviously Joe Biden needed a nap. You know, I'm right now in the hospital

00:26:12.860 still with my newborn child. And, uh, I think Joe Biden probably takes more naps than the little

00:26:18.360 baby Knowles does. So maybe that's part of it. That's why in the campaign trail, he would never

00:26:22.300 be out and about for, for very long. But also I think they just felt they had to go out, they give

00:26:28.080 a little show, but there were no people there. It was, it was perfunctory. They had to go out and give

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00:29:03.860 One aspect of the inauguration, more than the others, I think gave us a preview of the Biden

00:29:22.300 administration, which is after the hour, hour, 15-minute ceremony up on the podium with the

00:29:28.400 speakers. Biden goes over to the Lincoln Memorial, and they get a nice photo op of Joe Biden standing,

00:29:35.620 paying his homage to the Lincoln Memorial, our sort of pagan temple to civic religion, which,

00:29:43.240 which is, I'm not, I'm not even using that as a, a kind of a joke or a mockery. That is the purpose

00:29:47.500 of the Lincoln Memorial, is to be a temple to the American civic religion. And that's why Lincoln's

00:29:52.420 sitting there like Zeus, and it's a Greco-Roman temple. So Biden goes in there, pays his respects,

00:29:57.560 there's a cello playing. One aspect of it, though, that you can't help but notice is Joe Biden just

00:30:05.500 issues a mandate that on federal lands, you have to wear a mask, right? This is part of his big push.

00:30:12.280 He wants everyone to wear masks all the time in America. And then, and then after the masks,

00:30:16.040 after a hundred days, presumably he's going to say, okay, you can take your masks off. We beat the

00:30:19.580 virus. It's all thanks to me. Not thanks to Trump, by the way, who handled the virus marvelously,

00:30:24.080 got a vaccine out in six months, uh, really did a great job and did much better than the

00:30:28.500 governors. No, Biden's going to take credit. However, on federal land at the Lincoln Memorial,

00:30:34.580 Joe Biden, not wearing a mask. That is, that is going to be the hallmark, I think, of the Biden

00:30:45.320 administration is there are going to be rules and mandates for thee, but not for me.

00:30:50.020 There are going to be rules that all the deplorable bitter clingers have to play by, 1.00

00:30:55.220 but that the elites will not play by. You know, Angelo Cotevilla, who's a, uh, Claremont Institute

00:31:01.740 fellow, really brilliant writer. He had a piece in the American greatness where he described the

00:31:07.480 kind of cycle of regimes and how America more and more resembles an oligarchy. That the idea of the

00:31:13.680 cycle of regimes is that you have democracy and then it, it can decay into oligarchy and then

00:31:18.720 oligarchy can transform into monarchy and then monarchy can be overturned and turned into

00:31:23.380 democracy. And this is kind of a classical cycle of regimes. Looking up at the people extolling the

00:31:29.900 virtues of democracy yesterday, it looks a lot like an oligarchy. It does. You see all the same

00:31:37.020 familiar faces and you don't see very many representatives of the people there. And you see

00:31:43.840 all these elites playing by one set of rules that they, that they then foist another set of rules

00:31:49.320 on the people that we're going to get a whole lot more of that. And nobody, nobody is going to hold

00:31:56.980 Biden and company to account. We had our first press briefing yesterday. You remember what the press was

00:32:03.340 like to Sarah Sanders or to Kayleigh McEnany or to Sean Spicer for that matter. During the Trump

00:32:10.640 administration, it was vile. I mean, it was really unseemly, even by the standards of the press.

00:32:17.120 Yesterday, it was a little bit of a different tone with all that's going on.

00:32:22.340 The press decides to ask Jen Psaki. I don't know how to pronounce her name. It's P-S-A-K-I. Is it

00:32:29.000 Psaki? I'll say the P is silent. Jen Psaki. They ask her the most important questions on everybody's

00:32:36.260 mind. And, you know, she thinks they're really brilliant. She gives them a very serious answer.

00:32:40.640 On a lighter note, will he keep Donald Trump's Air Force One color scheme change?

00:32:45.980 This is such a good question. I have not had the opportunity to dig into that today,

00:32:50.140 given the number of executive actions, orders, the inauguration, a few things happening. I will

00:32:56.060 venture to get you an answer on that. And maybe we can talk about it in here tomorrow.

00:32:59.920 That is such a good question, because we're all wondering now that Joe Biden is issuing all these

00:33:04.580 executive orders, he ditches his inauguration as quickly as he possibly can so he can get back to the

00:33:08.900 business of governing and implementing his, not even, I'm not even saying Joe Biden himself is

00:33:13.980 some personal radical leftist. He's just nothing. He's a vessel. He's a vessel for the liberal

00:33:18.120 establishment. And the entire liberal establishment has gone radically quite left. So he's just there

00:33:22.800 signing, signing, signing executive orders. And yeah, so Jen hasn't been able to get that answer, 0.99

00:33:27.200 but you know, it's a great question. We'll get to it tomorrow. Okay, guys, now we're all going to head

00:33:31.460 over and have drinks, right? Because we're all really good friends because we're all exactly the

00:33:36.100 same. Because the press and the press secretary and the administration and big technology and every,

00:33:44.220 it's all part of the same thing. It's all part of the liberal establishment. There was one

00:33:49.740 almost kind of tough question, not really a tough question, but they pushed a little bit.

00:33:55.420 They said, you know, Joe Biden is making it a priority number one to undo most of President

00:34:04.820 Trump's pro-life accomplishments. Why? Why is that? Isn't that kind of weird for that to be

00:34:10.340 priority number one? How can you, can you please comment, Jen Psaki, on Joe Biden's bizarre obsession

00:34:17.460 with killing all these babies? Two big concerns for pro-life American, the Hyde Amendment, which of

00:34:24.860 course, keeps taxpayer dollars, as you know, from paying for abortions, Medicaid abortions,

00:34:30.880 and the Mexico City policy, which under the previous administration, they expanded to keep

00:34:36.420 tax dollars from overseas paying for abortions. So what are President, what is President Biden

00:34:41.120 planning on doing on those two items right now? Well, I think we'll have more to say on the Mexico

00:34:46.880 City policy in the coming days. But I will just take the opportunity to remind all of you that he

00:34:54.300 is a devout Catholic and somebody who attends church regularly. He started his day attending

00:34:59.860 church with his family this morning. But I don't have anything more for you on that.

00:35:06.180 What an answer. And Joe Biden leaned into this a little bit during his inauguration. He invoked

00:35:10.700 St. Augustine. Outrageously, he invoked St. Augustine. And so he's been talking about how he's so,

00:35:17.960 he's a wonderful, devout Catholic. Joe Biden, it goes without saying, is not a devout Catholic.

00:35:24.000 Joe Biden is in a state of grave mortal sin because he is in public office and he is supporting abortion.

00:35:31.600 And more than that, he is forcing taxpayers, he's trying to force taxpayers to fund abortion and to

00:35:38.600 subsidize abortion. This is a grave mortal sin. This is why he was denied the Eucharist at a mass,

00:35:43.720 I believe in North Carolina, though other more politicized members of the episcopacy have let

00:35:51.940 him get away with it. Joe Biden is not only committing that sin, he's committing the sin of

00:35:57.860 scandal because you've got this very high profile Catholic who is violating a very important teaching

00:36:03.220 of the church. Now, you might say, Michael, look, there are some people who are conservative Catholics

00:36:07.760 who violate other teachings of the church. And usually they leave it kind of vague like that,

00:36:13.420 but they'll try to say, well, you know, they don't give enough money to the poor. You say,

00:36:16.620 well, actually conservatives donate more money to charity than liberals do. Say, well, no,

00:36:20.080 but their public policy, it's not totally in line with Catholic social teaching. Well,

00:36:23.660 often it's pretty close, but putting all of that aside, we must remember life is not just one issue

00:36:31.120 among many. It's not like abortion and tax policy are on the same level. Life is the

00:36:36.940 fundamental right without which you can't have any of the other rights. And it is a grave, grave sin

00:36:44.200 for Joe Biden to be supporting these policies and for him to be doing so publicly and for him to be

00:36:50.980 blasphemously invoking his religion to do so. That is a grave, grave, grave mortal sin. And that's all 0.95

00:36:57.900 we're going to hear from Jen Psaki. You notice she didn't answer the question. She didn't say, hey, you

00:37:01.300 know, pro-life Americans are worried that your lunatic boss is trying to make all of them fund 0.89

00:37:06.080 abortions overseas. And not only in America, but overseas too. And she says, well, he's a devout 0.61

00:37:14.100 Catholic. He goes to church. Does he now? Okay. I hope he's not receiving the Eucharist at church

00:37:20.740 because that's a sin too. If you're in the state that Joe Biden is very obviously in,

00:37:27.120 there's not going to be any pushback. That's just, we are going to be gaslit and gaslit and gaslit.

00:37:32.600 And it is very sad on this issue of the abortion policies and other policies.

00:37:36.500 Joe Biden is rolling back a great many of President Trump's accomplishments.

00:37:41.700 He's doing that because many of those accomplishments were made through executive

00:37:45.260 order. And so Joe Biden comes in with his executive orders and he undoes them.

00:37:49.640 I am not as opposed to executive orders as many of my conservative friends, as many people on the

00:37:55.780 right. You'll hear the right complaining about executive orders all the time. I think there's

00:37:59.220 actually a good argument for executive orders. Namely, the legislature doesn't want to legislate

00:38:04.600 ever. Even when they've got unified government, they don't want to legislate because they don't

00:38:07.440 want to go on the record because they're cowards. So obviously there's an incentive there for the,

00:38:13.360 the executive branch wants to do anything. They got to do it through EOs. But also, also our government

00:38:18.460 is not run in the way that the constitution describes. It has grown and changed over time,

00:38:24.060 specifically during the 20th century, such that now it's not really the legislature that makes the

00:38:28.480 laws. It's the administrative state. It's the federal bureaucracies is making most of the laws

00:38:34.160 that actually affect our lives. And so if it's the executive agencies that are actually passing the

00:38:40.520 laws, then the most direct way to influence the laws is through executive orders. That's the only way

00:38:46.620 you even have a chance at doing it. And the trouble with this is when the left writes an executive order,

00:38:51.260 it goes into effect because the bureaucracy is left wing. When a conservative writes an executive

00:38:57.240 order, it doesn't go into effect because the, the bureaucracy is left wing. So you're already at a

00:39:02.660 disadvantage. And it does remind you, if you can get some legislative achievements, that can be very,

00:39:07.760 very helpful because if you govern through executive order, then the minute you got a new administration,

00:39:13.500 the executive order, the executive orders will be overturned. The Biden administration,

00:39:17.260 according to NBC is going to roll back title 10 funding for Planned Parenthood. So Donald Trump

00:39:24.600 went in and he did defund Planned Parenthood partially. I think it was only, only a fraction,

00:39:29.680 you know, of Planned Parenthood's funding, but it was still pretty good. He took away federal funding

00:39:32.820 through title 10. Biden's going to bring that back. Uh, Biden is going to expand taxpayer funded

00:39:37.220 abortion abroad. He's going to eliminate protections for religious employers who don't want to pay for

00:39:41.660 employees, contraceptives and abortifacient drugs. And there's going to be more debate over what

00:39:46.500 constitutes an abortion drug. The left is going to say that, that plan B is not an abortion drug

00:39:52.120 because it, it doesn't always result in abortion. Sometimes it can result in abortion. They're going 0.84

00:39:57.400 to say that it's not abortion because it stops the fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus.

00:40:03.680 And conservatives are going to say rightly that is abortion because life begins at conception, 0.99

00:40:08.240 not at implantation. Uh, Biden is going to roll back protections, uh, uh, for the height amendment,

00:40:13.880 right? Uh, which protects Americans from directly paying for abortion, even though money is fungible. 1.00

00:40:19.060 So we already do pay for abortion. All of this to say, I hope that the quote unquote evangelicals 1.00

00:40:26.140 for Biden are happy. There are some prominent people in this country who used to call themselves

00:40:31.520 conservatives and they still sort of pretend to call themselves conservative who say that they're

00:40:35.320 devout Christians who supported Joe Biden last cycle. And now this is on their hands. This, 0.78

00:40:42.000 they, they are guilty of enabling this. Life is not one issue among many. Life is the paramount right

00:40:49.840 from which the other rights flow. And, and they bear some responsibility for this.

00:40:58.300 You know, we're told Joe Biden's a moderate. He's a totally moderate guy. This bloodthirsty

00:41:03.160 lunatic went for abortion right away. Day one, the inauguration was barely over. And he starts going 1.00

00:41:09.480 for this stuff. A hint of the radicalism we're going to see. It's very unfortunate to see so many

00:41:16.560 Trump accomplishments rolled back. You know, the other day during president Trump's farewell speech,

00:41:20.240 which I thought was a very good speech, he described his legacy and it gave me a little

00:41:25.240 happiness, a little bit of hope when he described it.

00:41:28.080 As a result of our bold diplomacy and principled realism, we achieved a series of historic peace

00:41:35.640 deals in the Middle East. Nobody believed it could happen. The Abraham Accords opened the doors to a 1.00

00:41:42.620 future of peace and harmony, not violence and bloodshed. It is the dawn of a new Middle East and

00:41:49.700 we are bringing our soldiers home. I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has

00:41:56.080 started no new wars. Above all, we have reasserted the sacred idea that in America, the government

00:42:03.860 answers to the people. Our guiding light, our North Star, our unwavering conviction has been that we are

00:42:12.140 here to serve the noble everyday citizens of America. Our allegiance is not to the special interests,

00:42:19.180 corporations or global entities. It's to our children, our citizens and to our nation itself.

00:42:26.080 I love that. I loved every part of that. That was a wonderful description. And unfortunately,

00:42:31.560 a lot of it's going to be undone. I hope some of the peace deals last, but the trouble is that Biden

00:42:35.980 is very likely going to reenter the awful Iran deal. And that's probably going to destabilize

00:42:41.240 the region further. Joe Biden utterly, utterly beholden to the foreign policy establishment,

00:42:46.140 which is probably going to be, want to be more provocative in the Middle East. President Trump,

00:42:49.940 one of his great accomplishments was sort of routing the foreign policy establishment.

00:42:53.180 That probably gone. The abortion policy obviously gone. Many, many, many of the executive orders

00:42:59.760 going to be gone. A lot of that is about to be undone. Even down to the White House website. I was

00:43:07.860 looking yesterday online, sort of sitting in the hospital room with my newborn child. Let's see,

00:43:14.340 is it all crazy already? On the White House website, they've already gotten rid of the 1776

00:43:19.780 commission, which was an answer to the 1619 project. 1619 project says America's evil and

00:43:25.180 awful and terrible. Trump comes in and says, we need a 1776 commission. Biden already got rid of

00:43:29.360 that. He said, we need to, we need to keep people thinking America's rotten and terrible. First thing.

00:43:34.440 Second thing on the White House website, you now have to insert your pronouns when you contact the

00:43:42.020 White House. You can say she, her, he, him, they, them, other. You can say that you prefer not to

00:43:49.160 share your pronouns. Still a choice on the list. They don't unfortunately have she, him. What if in

00:43:55.960 the nominative, I want to be a woman, but in the accusative, I want to be a man. They don't permit

00:43:59.500 that. Hopefully equality will prevail and we'll get more pronouns. When we're all told Biden's a

00:44:05.980 moderate, he's going to unify the country. Joe Biden on the White House website on day one

00:44:09.700 is buying into the most radical sexual ideology we've ever seen. Gender ideology. 0.95

00:44:16.280 Buckle up folks. And I hope you have nothing but scorn for the fake conservatives who endorsed this 0.94

00:44:21.960 guy. Beyond the website, Joe Biden is showing you what his administration is going to look like

00:44:31.680 through subtle things. You remember, you remember this in the early days of the Trump administration,

00:44:35.740 there was a report that went out that Donald Trump removed a bust of Martin Luther

00:44:39.480 King from the Oval Office. And this was evidence of his racism. First of all, I, I don't know. I

00:44:45.380 like Martin Luther King, I guess as much as the next guy, but you know, there are a lot of great

00:44:49.440 Americans. I don't, if, if, if one were to move the Martin Luther King bust from the Oval Office to

00:44:54.560 some other room in the White House, I don't think that would be the crime of the century. And by the

00:44:58.280 way, Trump didn't even move the bust of Martin Luther King was completely fake news.

00:45:02.860 But these little things, how you rearrange the Oval Office, it can tell you actually a lot about the

00:45:07.460 direction of the presidency. So president Trump had this portrait of Andrew Jackson hanging in

00:45:11.800 the Oval Office. And this was seen to be significant because Jackson was something of a populist,

00:45:15.900 right? He, he deferred to the people, not to the kind of crooked established elite.

00:45:20.460 It's not that elites always have to be crooked, but sometimes they are. And right now it certainly

00:45:26.320 seems they are. So, so he had this picture of Jackson. Joe Biden got rid of that Jackson portrait.

00:45:31.480 He replaced it with Benjamin Franklin. I suspect some of this has to do with the fact that Benjamin

00:45:37.740 Franklin was the oldest founding father and Joe Biden is about 500 years older than Benjamin

00:45:43.580 Franklin. There are a lot of ways to read it. You know, you could read it one that way.

00:45:47.780 I think the left could read this as evidence of their thesis that the parties switched. You know,

00:45:53.760 that the left will say this a lot. They'll say, you know, yeah, the Democrats used to be bad and

00:45:57.080 they defended slavery and Jim Crow and all that stuff. But then the party switched. One day they,

00:46:01.180 all the Democrats said, you're going to be Republican. We're going to be Republicans now

00:46:03.760 and you Republicans, you're going to be Democrats now. And it, it doesn't really make a lot of sense,

00:46:07.620 but Andrew Jackson's the founder of the democratic party. So the idea that the Republican president

00:46:14.400 would embrace him and the democratic president would shun him is some evidence that the parties

00:46:20.400 switched. And I, and my take on this is not to say it's just completely preposterous. It's,

00:46:25.320 it's preposterous to think that the party switched. That just didn't happen, but it's not preposterous

00:46:30.260 to say that parties have changed over time. Of course, parties are going to change over time.

00:46:34.120 And as different political circumstances change, they're going to focus more on one issue or another

00:46:38.780 issue that might change their views on something. So sure that happens. I think the deeper reading

00:46:42.580 here though is just to focus on the democratic party and show that the democratic president in 2021

00:46:48.820 is shunning the founder of the democratic party for the same reason that he's shunning the 1776

00:46:57.480 commission and supporting the 1619 project. Because for the left, the past always has to be bad.

00:47:05.880 You have to always kill your father. It's, it's a patricidal sort of ideology. You always have to go 0.99

00:47:13.240 back and kill your forefathers, the people who came before you, the people who gave you your country. 0.99

00:47:17.500 You know, the conservative view of the country is, yeah, our forefathers weren't perfect. We're not 1.00

00:47:21.500 perfect either, right? It's a fallen world and we have a broken human nature, but we're so grateful

00:47:25.140 to our forefathers for giving us this great inheritance of this wonderful country. And

00:47:29.860 we're going to, you know, work to do our part to preserve it for our children. It would be so

00:47:34.280 wonderful if we could do as great a job as they did. Thank you so much. We're standing on the

00:47:37.440 shoulders of giants and, and some people think we're flying, but we know we're not. We know we're on

00:47:41.340 the shoulders of giants. And for the left, they say, no, we're so much better. We in the present

00:47:46.580 are so much better than them. They were evil. They were racist. They were bigoted. And we are

00:47:50.420 pure as the freshly newly driven snow. And they've got to destroy not, not only the forebears that

00:47:57.340 they don't identify with, but even the founder of their own party. Notice Jack, you know, the choice

00:48:03.160 to replace him with Franklin is interesting also because Franklin was never president, right?

00:48:08.140 Franklin was just this wonderful, eccentric American, brilliant figure who was an inventor and he was a

00:48:13.220 founding father. And, but he never had to be really on the record as a president of the United States.

00:48:20.300 There's no real record of, of national leadership that he has to answer for. It's a way of sort of

00:48:28.240 evading that kind of historical responsibility. I think it tells you a lot. I don't think I'm,

00:48:34.960 you know, reading too deeply into these things. All of, especially on day one, what the president

00:48:40.100 start to do really, really matters. And all the signs we got from that farce of an inauguration

00:48:45.400 are really, really bad. Now, even though we're told we're going to get unity and peace and it's

00:48:50.980 wonderful and Joe's going to bring the temperature down, it seems like they're ramping the temperature

00:48:54.000 up. They were ramping up censorship of conservatives even before the inauguration,

00:48:59.460 even while president Trump was still in office. Now there were calls, not just to censor

00:49:04.760 the president or I'm sorry, the former president, Donald Trump, but there are calls to censor

00:49:10.060 conservatives generally on CNN. You have a CNN guest coming on saying enough is enough. We have

00:49:16.840 got to kick these guys out of the public sphere. We have to turn down the capability of these

00:49:23.140 conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences. There are people on YouTube, for example,

00:49:28.140 that have a larger daytime, a larger audience than daytime CNN. And they are extremely radical and

00:49:33.640 pushing extremely radical views. And so it's up to the Facebooks and YouTubes in particular

00:49:38.620 to think about whether or not they want to be effectively cable networks for disinformation.

00:49:43.240 And then we're going to have to figure out the OANN and Newsmax problem, you know, that these

00:49:47.040 companies have freedom of speech, but I'm not sure we need Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and such to be

00:49:53.540 bringing them into tens of millions of homes. This is, you know, allowing people to seek out

00:49:59.080 information if they really want to, but not pushing it into their faces, I think is where we're going to have to go here.

00:50:04.360 We're going to have to shut down conservative outlets. First of all, buddy, I don't know what

00:50:08.260 this guy's name is, but say my name. If you're going to talk about me like that, say my name.

00:50:12.640 If you're going to say, there are some people on YouTube who, you know, generally have a bigger

00:50:17.100 audience than daytime CNN. Say my name, you coward. You want to kick me off. You look me in the eye 1.00

00:50:23.400 when you try to do it. But even beyond that, he's not even just saying, let's kick off the YouTube guys.

00:50:28.260 He's saying, let's kick off people in OAN and Newsmax. OAN and Newsmax, two TV stations that I

00:50:35.520 go on a fair bit. It's not like they're channel five, right? It's not like they're on your basic

00:50:41.780 television, on network television. They're kind of higher up in the cable channels. You have to go

00:50:47.200 there. You have to request this kind of stuff to see. And he's saying now, and it's too much.

00:50:52.180 We, the way he's phrasing it is, we don't want to shove that kind of right-wing television in

00:50:57.720 their face. It's not being shoved in their face. You have to go, you have to sign up for it. You

00:51:00.600 got to go up to the channel, right? And what he's really saying is, no, we can't even give people

00:51:05.100 the option. The YouTube is, look, YouTube is not just shoving it in your face. YouTube, you have to

00:51:10.400 go, you subscribe to a channel, you search for it. Say, no, people can't have that option.

00:51:16.820 We need peace. We need unity. And if you don't have unity, you're not going to have peace.

00:51:22.180 If you don't have people, you don't have a democracy, buddy. Lots of contradictions

00:51:26.320 in this inauguration. Unfortunately, lots to dread from Joe Biden. If I weren't a conservative and I

00:51:34.060 didn't have a deep abiding faith that this world is broken and a deep and abiding hope in the world

00:51:39.960 here to come, I would not be feeling good after that inauguration. But hope springs eternal.

00:51:45.960 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

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00:52:42.060 Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, President Biden gives his inaugural address and unleashes his

00:52:47.100 early policy. So is it all about unity or is it about compliance? That's today on The Ben

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 21, 2021

Ep. 683 - Democracy Without The People

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