The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 70 - Embassy In Jerusalem, Fire Destroying Hollywood： Are These The End Times？

00:00:00.000 With President Trump officially recognizing Jerusalem as the ancient capital of Israel

00:00:04.500 and the Jewish people, and my beloved city Hollywood literally burning to the ground, 1.00

00:00:08.840 we must ask ourselves, are these the end times? We will analyze the apocalypse from the Christmas

00:00:14.320 war rooms. Then Lauren Cooley of the Washington Examiner and Amanda Prestigiacomo of the Daily

00:00:19.460 Wire will join the panel of deplorables to discuss President Trump's once again accidentally

00:00:24.860 accurate prediction over Islamist threats to the UK, a woman marrying her chandelier, 0.73

00:00:30.400 and human-mouse hybrids. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:41.220 You know, so I have to correct myself. Apparently that was wishful thinking.

00:00:45.320 I was really hoping it was Amanda on the show today. It's not. It's Jacob Airy. That's fine.

00:00:50.460 We'll make do. You'll notice I'm coming to you right now from the Christmas war rooms 0.77

00:00:55.160 because I woke up this morning and my city is on fire. And now while most of the people at the

00:01:01.360 Daily Wire live on the other side of the hill or they live a little east or whatever, I am directly

00:01:06.780 in line with where the fire is just raining down like Sodom and Gomorrah on Hollywood. And so I

00:01:13.420 sent out a couple of tweets this morning. You know, basically, I think the images of LA burning

00:01:19.780 are what people think it's like to commute to the Daily Wire, just going down into the infernos and

00:01:25.080 to hell, you know, abandon all hope ye who enter here. I also pointed out that God does not paint

00:01:30.800 with a terribly subtle brush because people got very angry about this on Twitter. They said that it was

00:01:37.080 similar to when lefties claimed the hurricanes were divine vengeance for Trump. But it actually

00:01:43.760 is a completely different joke. The point here is that Hollywood is figuratively burning itself to

00:01:50.200 the ground. You've seen Harvey Weinstein. You've seen all of these major actors, celebrities, Kevin

00:01:55.120 Spacey, heads of studios, agents. Everybody is being accused of sexual harassment. Ben Affleck,

00:02:00.900 although you don't hear about that anymore because he's too valuable to Hollywood. And so it's all

00:02:05.060 figuratively burning. And then God with that little, you know, little brush stroke, it makes

00:02:10.100 it much more vivid because now it's literally burning to the ground. That's quite a relation

00:02:14.500 between the symbol and the symbolized. So we'll get into all of that. And, you know, they say that

00:02:19.620 politics is show business for ugly people, which is true that DC is Hollywood for ugly people. 0.94

00:02:25.720 And if there's one ugly person who's succeeded in both, that would be Democratic Senator Al Franken of 0.97

00:02:30.800 New Jersey. He, you remember he was on Saturday Night Live and now he is professionally groping

00:02:37.020 women in our nation's capital in the swampland. And so there have been these accusations bubbling

00:02:42.520 for a few weeks now. As people have been harping on Roy Moore in Alabama, they've said, what about

00:02:48.200 Al Franken? Al Franken posed for photos, groping women, groping troops, grabbing people's derriere at 0.97

00:02:55.440 state fairs, that sort of thing. And he's denied it. He said he's reflecting over Thanksgiving, 0.71

00:03:00.340 whatever. But they haven't gotten him yet. Just today, that all changed. There are now 28 Democratic

00:03:06.460 senators, his colleagues, people from his caucus who are calling on him to resign. This is one day

00:03:12.020 after John Conyers, who has been a United States representative since, I think, 1751. He's been

00:03:18.080 around. He's been there since the Johnson administration. 15 men, 13 women who are his

00:03:23.560 colleagues in the Senate are calling on him to resign. And so here is a live feed from Senator

00:03:28.580 Franken's office this morning. I deserve good things. I am entitled to my share of happiness.

00:03:36.380 I refuse to beat myself up. I am an attractive person. I am fun to be with.

00:03:46.040 Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley.

00:03:49.000 Stuart Smalley is a caring nurturer, a member of several 12-step programs, but not a licensed

00:03:59.280 therapist.

00:04:00.900 I'm going to do a terrific show today, and I'm going to help people, because I'm good

00:04:06.720 enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.

00:04:11.680 Turns out that's fake news, because people don't like Al Franken, because he gropes women,

00:04:16.760 I guess. And it isn't just that. I actually, I was showing this clip around today. People

00:04:21.960 forget that he was on Saturday Night Live. They forget. Whenever I see Senator Franken trying

00:04:26.340 to grill someone during Senate testimony or whatever, all I can see is Stuart Smalley.

00:04:31.220 I'm good enough. I'm smart enough. I grope enough. And gosh darn it. But anyway, he very likely

00:04:38.460 will have to resign now. And this is a trade. Do not think for one second that the Democrats

00:04:44.380 have woken up and they said, oh, you know, we were wrong about sexual assault for so long.

00:04:48.440 And coincidentally, we'll do it at exactly the moment when it isn't politically advantageous

00:04:53.120 for us anymore to support sexual assailants. So there's nothing organic about this. This

00:04:59.100 began because Bill Clinton is no longer useful, because Hillary Clinton will never be president.

00:05:03.880 And there have been these allegations bubbling up, but they know they can only go after Roy

00:05:08.600 Moore. And Roy Moore, by the way, it's not about Roy Moore. It's not about this Alabama

00:05:12.800 Senate seat. This is all a proxy for Donald Trump. If we can get Roy Moore on these decades

00:05:18.560 old allegations about bad things with women, then we can we can bring it all the way up to

00:05:23.460 Donald Trump. If we can get them to crack on Roy Moore, we can get them to crack on Donald

00:05:27.020 Trump. But oops, we can't have any credibility on those issues if we don't get rid of John

00:05:32.660 Conyers, if we don't get rid of Bob Medendez, if we don't get rid of Al Franken. They've

00:05:36.920 already had to deal with Anthony Weiner and the myriad other politicians who have been

00:05:42.460 accused of improprieties with women. Now, there is a trade that's going on. So John

00:05:47.680 Conyers, Nancy Pelosi initially stood up for the guy, said he shouldn't resign. And then 0.95

00:05:51.540 eventually she caved and said, OK, get rid of him. Why? Because he's politically useless

00:05:55.940 now. He's about 150 years old. He's in a totally safe Democrat seat. He's endorsed his 0.65

00:06:01.140 son to take over the seat. His son, by the way, who we've just learned, has rapped about

00:06:06.440 how his dad is a womanizer and he's a player and all this and that, and how his mother went

00:06:11.100 to prison. So they know it's a safe seat. The kid might actually win it. Who knows? Al Franken

00:06:18.140 is another one. We have a governor of Minnesota who is a Democrat. His name is Mark Dayton.

00:06:23.640 So if Franken resigns, they'll be able to appoint another Democrat senator. Nothing ventured, nothing

00:06:29.520 gained, right? No harm, no foul. It's OK. Their Senate numbers are still doing just fine.

00:06:34.740 Bob Menendez is where the rubber meets the road. And it's how you know that these guys

00:06:38.200 are totally full of it because they're willing to throw people who are useless to them under 0.99

00:06:43.020 the bus. Began with Donna Brazile, who threw Hillary Clinton, the House of Clinton under 1.00

00:06:46.900 the bus. They threw now Franken and before that, John Conyers. But Bob Menendez can't go.

00:06:52.660 Now, what is Bob Menendez accused of? If you listen to the mainstream media tell it, he's accused

00:06:56.580 of nothing. There are these old, discredited allegations that in the Dominican Republic,

00:07:02.160 he had a few dalliances with underaged prostitutes. But that's totally discredited. It was run

00:07:09.240 on one of those fake news right-wing websites. Not so. Bob Menendez is on trial for corruption.

00:07:15.260 A lot of slick dealings from Bob Menendez in New Jersey, not terribly surprising. But federal

00:07:21.720 prosecutors made a point of saying on Monday that they are not convinced that the underage

00:07:27.060 prostitute allegations are false. They're not sure. It's not saying he certainly did it,

00:07:31.860 but it totally undercuts the mainstream media narrative that these are discredited,

00:07:36.060 that it isn't true. So we're seeing this all burning down. But until we get Bob Menendez,

00:07:42.900 until they offer one of their own, one of the own Democrats who's accused of these things,

00:07:48.420 where it actually has a political cost to them, I just don't believe it. And you shouldn't believe

00:07:52.600 it either. Now, before we move on, there is so much more apocalypse to talk about. There is so

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00:11:20.340 Now, there was a lot of hand wringing, especially on the right, when we were going to hire a president

00:11:26.940 in November of 2016. And we were all very nervous that President Trump would not keep any of his

00:11:32.500 promises. He wasn't a real conservative. We hadn't seen him exhibit conservatism or right-wing views in

00:11:38.720 his life. One of the promises that he made, he was very insistent on this, was to move the capital

00:11:45.880 of Israel, or rather to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to move the U.S. embassy

00:11:52.180 to Jerusalem. Now, you know, with Gomorrah on the sea by fire, with Washington, D.C. and the slump

00:11:59.260 imploding, the most prophetic news of the day is that Donald Trump made good on that promise.

00:12:05.260 Here is President Trump on the campaign trail. We will move the American embassy to the eternal

00:12:12.480 capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem. When he said it, I didn't believe it either,

00:12:19.440 by the way. I didn't think it would happen because Republicans have campaigned on this for years.

00:12:23.140 Ever since, after the Gingrich revolution, after the big Republican wins in the House in 1995,

00:12:27.580 they passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act. What does it mean? It means what it says. They decided that

00:12:32.940 they would move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv, where all of the embassies practically are in

00:12:36.920 Israel, to Jerusalem to recognize Jerusalem as the eternal city and capital of the Jewish people

00:12:43.280 and of Israel. Now, the problem with this is that Palestinian Arabs claim the city for themselves, 0.90

00:12:48.760 and that's where we see the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. What did President Clinton do when this

00:12:54.420 law was passed? He signed a waiver and said, no, they couldn't do it. Same with President Bush,

00:12:58.320 same with President Obama. They all cited national security concerns. We can't do it. It'll basically

00:13:03.700 piss off our neighbors too much, and we don't want to have to deal with that. So what does President

00:13:09.700 Trump do? Does he do what three of his predecessors did in violation of the law and contravention of

00:13:13.840 the law? Here is President Trump this morning. Therefore, I have determined that it is time

00:13:19.980 to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. While previous presidents have made this

00:13:31.420 a major campaign promise, they failed to deliver. Today, I am delivering.

00:13:40.000 He's delivering. That's what he does. He's the deliverer. And not just that. There were some reports

00:13:44.500 before that Donald Trump would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,

00:13:48.440 but not move the U.S. embassy. So you kind of get all the nice press releases,

00:13:52.400 but it doesn't have much of an effect. Even that, by the way, would have been an act of moral courage,

00:13:57.080 but he didn't do that. He followed through with the concrete action. You would always hear on the

00:14:02.820 campaign trail, Donald Trump say, well, I build things. I'll build a wall. I'm very good at building

00:14:07.780 things. He would always use concrete examples, low energy Jeb, Lion Ted, Crooked Hillary,

00:14:13.420 these graphic, vivid examples. And it's how he makes his rhetoric so effective, even make America

00:14:19.700 great again. It's very concrete. It creates an image in your mind. And that's what he's doing here.

00:14:25.380 It would be very un-Trumpy. It would be anti-Trumpian to say, Jerusalem is the capital of

00:14:30.560 Israel, but we're not going to move the embassy. He has to follow through with that concrete action.

00:14:35.140 And that's what he did. More than I expected, more than a lot of commentators expected. This is an act of

00:14:40.540 real political courage and moral clarity. For people say that Donald Trump has no moral vision

00:14:45.500 or no ideological vision of the world. It's hard to say that now. This was a difficult act. There

00:14:51.440 was no reason he had to do it. He easily could have gotten away without doing it. It runs a lot

00:14:55.720 of risks by moving the embassy to Jerusalem, but he understood that it's the right thing to do.

00:15:01.700 And it sends a clear moral message to the world. And it's a reassumption for the world of American

00:15:06.620 moral leadership. So much of what you heard during Barack Obama's era was the United States

00:15:11.720 apologizing for crimes that it didn't commit and that the West, by the way, didn't even commit. 0.60

00:15:15.780 As he's talking about Islamic terrorism, he starts talking about the Crusades. One, as if the first 0.96

00:15:20.880 crusade were some bad war that the West should apologize for, which it wasn't. And two, as though

00:15:28.100 a war that happened a thousand years ago or 800 years ago is morally equivalent to what's happening

00:15:33.900 today, that it's as politically relevant as it is today. And Donald Trump isn't doing that.

00:15:38.920 So I guess the real sign of the apocalypse, we have Hollywood burning. That might be it.

00:15:44.200 We have the American embassy being reconstructed in Jerusalem. Maybe that's it. But Donald Trump being

00:15:50.800 the voice of moral clarity in the world is probably the primest example that we're in the end times.

00:15:55.460 And bring it on. That's not so bad. With that, I think we should bring on our panel. But before,

00:16:01.100 by the way, before we bring on our panel, I've got to tell you, and we have a good panel today.

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00:18:01.260 Cooley from the Washington Examiner. Thank you for being here. And Jacob, Jacob, are you sitting in my

00:18:05.700 office? Are you sitting in my studio? I escaped from the sane asylum and ended up in the basement of

00:18:10.720 the Daily Wire. I don't know how that happened. It's very fitting. There's something very fitting

00:18:14.500 about that. Well, that's okay. I would be upset that you're sitting in my studio, but I am coming

00:18:19.560 from war on Christmas Central right now with a hot cup of cocoa faffa, so that's okay. I can get over

00:18:24.360 it. There is insane news. This is why we couldn't just cancel the show today. This is unbelievable.

00:18:30.360 I was watching this morning as I should have been commuting to the Daily Wire, watching that incredible

00:18:35.100 press conference from President Trump. Lauren, let's begin with you.

00:18:38.420 This has been promised for a long time. There have been a lot of national security risks.

00:18:45.220 Was this the right thing to do for President Trump with regard to all of the national security risks

00:18:51.020 it entails? Yeah, absolutely. So like you said, this is something that not everyone expected,

00:18:57.100 but I'm starting to believe that if we can expect one thing from Donald Trump, it's that he's going to

00:19:02.580 do what he says he's going to do. There's been many different campaign promises that he's followed

00:19:09.540 through on. And that's not your typical politician by any means. Obviously, President Trump is not our

00:19:14.660 typical politician. But the interesting thing here is, like you said, he didn't have to follow through

00:19:20.520 on this in the sense that other presidents haven't followed through on this. And there's a lot of risk

00:19:25.780 involved. But I think sometimes doing the right thing is risky. Otherwise, everyone would be doing the

00:19:32.880 right thing. So when it comes to moral clarity, it's exciting to see that we have a president that isn't

00:19:39.720 just going to do what's politically expedient, isn't going to do necessarily the easiest thing, the path of

00:19:46.060 least resistance. But he's actually doing something that takes a lot of guts. And we may have some pushback

00:19:51.220 for, but it's the right thing to do. And we've got a guy in office that's willing to do the right thing.

00:19:56.200 Jacob, why did he do this? Is this, by the way, going to be the beginning of the much promised

00:20:00.560 Trump World War III? He causes World War III by making our friends over in the Middle East very

00:20:08.040 angry at us. Or is there some political motive that's going on here? Why this move? Why now?

00:20:15.280 Why is he the president to do it after 20 years?

00:20:17.760 I think he wants to make history. That's why I think he's doing it. I'm not saying that his

00:20:22.980 motivations are bad. I think they're very well-intentioned. But I honestly do think that

00:20:28.340 he's doing this because, hey, I'm going to be that president, that Republican president who actually

00:20:33.560 kept that promise. And now he's in the history books. He's the first U.S. president to recognize

00:20:39.380 Jerusalem as the true capital of Israel. Now, as far as the starting World War III, I think we're going 0.99

00:20:45.260 to see a lot of virtue signaling from the left. And we might get some blowback from radical Islamists.

00:20:52.340 But I honestly think that as far as World War III is concerned, I don't think that's going to happen.

00:20:58.640 I think we're going to see a lot of pushback. But outside of that, no real international damage

00:21:06.000 outside of some U.N. delegates just grandstanding on it.

00:21:09.920 That's the only reason the U.N. exists anyway, is just for bad people to grandstand.

00:21:15.480 But I do think also these stories are related. Maybe not the fire. The fire might just be

00:21:21.240 unrelated. But all of the sexual assault reckoning happening on the left and President Trump doing

00:21:29.420 very well in office, I think there's no coincidence that the reason they're ramping this up, the reason

00:21:34.720 they're willing to claim Al Franken's scalp and John Conyers' scalp and really reckon with these

00:21:40.540 issues is that they have to run on this in 2018 and 2020. Donald Trump is doing too well. I think

00:21:46.860 they were banking on running on Trump doing a terrible job, crashing the economy, starting trade

00:21:51.680 wars, starting World War III. But it just isn't happening. The economy is growing very strongly. He was

00:21:58.400 able to get this major legislative win with tax reform. He's ably handled foreign policy. He's

00:22:04.080 really had political courage even as a Republican. Obviously, we see this with the Jerusalem embassy

00:22:12.560 move. But he's done a decent job of wrangling, massive deregulation, kept his promise on originalist

00:22:18.000 judges, is packing the courts with his judges. So they're not going to be able to run on that.

00:22:23.020 They just have to hit him on sexual assault claims or whatever. Lauren, is that going to work? Are

00:22:29.420 they going to be able to drag these girls from 30 years ago back up? Are these allegations, if they

00:22:36.640 fire Franken and they fire Conyers and reclaim the moral high ground, are these allegations enough to

00:22:42.580 win in 2018 and 2020? I don't think they are, and here's why. I'm going to tie the Israel embassy move 0.96

00:22:50.700 into this sexual assault conversation. So the left has done a great job trying to say that

00:22:57.880 Republicans and conservatives have lost the moral high ground. And they keep hammering an issue long

00:23:02.880 enough. Some of the religious conservative base may start to believe it, may start to lose faith in

00:23:08.100 the president. But by actually doing something so bold with Israel, with our foreign policy, when it comes

00:23:14.420 to, you know, our greatest ally, which has a lot of historical and biblical context and means a lot

00:23:20.660 to social conservatives, I think this foreign policy move and win actually helps him regain moral

00:23:26.740 high ground, despite all the claims with sexual assault, having to deal with President Trump and his

00:23:31.520 past. Because there is also a world in which I can totally believe voters saying,

00:23:36.400 you're throwing out these allegations from 40 years ago. And they might be true, they may not be true.

00:23:44.660 If they're true, I feel bad for the victims. But my political priorities are bigger than unsubstantiated

00:23:52.300 allegations. I could see that happening. It might be their best shot, though. Jacob, where does this

00:23:58.320 end? Does it end? Are they going to end right before they get Bob Menendez? Is it going to topple over

00:24:03.960 into Bob Menendez? Is it going to bring down the entire United States Senate? Sexual impropriety is

00:24:10.260 a job requirement of politics, basically. What is the end game here? Is it just, are we all going to

00:24:17.360 be sitting around looking like the disgusting fallen sinners that we are? Well, I think so. And quite 0.94

00:24:23.700 frankly, here's what's happened. All this finger pointing, like, oh, this Republican did this, but this

00:24:28.040 Democrat did this. Just wait, they're going to go into Christmas recess. And all of a sudden,

00:24:32.720 the finger pointing stops if Al Franken and John Connors resigns. Now, if they don't,

00:24:37.920 that might be a different story. But I think that, or if Moore gets elected and he doesn't get

00:24:44.620 censured, then the finger pointing will continue. Those three. But if those three things become

00:24:48.840 unraveled, then I think all of a sudden it'll just die down. And all the sexual harassment finger

00:24:54.240 pointing that's done by these politicians, we won't hear about it anymore. Because like you said,

00:24:58.200 it's almost a job requirement for a senator to have some weird fetish that we have to hear about.

00:25:05.280 That is true. And I don't want to hear about them. Nope. Let's hope it dies out after Christmas

00:25:09.960 and the bad guys just resign or go away. I do not want to hear about it. Okay. We have much more to

00:25:15.220 talk about. Speaking of President Trump being right and surprising all of us, turns out he was

00:25:19.560 coincidentally right about terror threats in the United Kingdom against the government of Theresa May.

00:25:24.740 We also need to talk about a woman marrying her chandelier and the future super race of human 0.94

00:25:31.260 mice. But before we can get to any of that, I have to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube. You're

00:25:35.880 going to have to leave my living room, the Christmas war rooms and headquarters for the

00:25:40.680 war on Christmas. You can't sip on any more cups of Coco Fefe unless you go to dailywire.com right now.

00:25:47.500 Now, what do you get if you go to dailywire.com? Well, one, you can listen to the conversation with

00:25:52.560 our very own super big boss man, Ben Shapiro. That conversation will be happening on December 12th,

00:25:59.780 December 12th. That's next week at 5 p.m. Eastern, 2 p.m. Pacific. If you subscribe to

00:26:05.060 The Daily Wire right now, you can ask him any question you want. You know, frequently Ben fires

00:26:11.180 me. And today was a very graphic version of that as the whole place burned up. And I'm going to log

00:26:17.340 in. I'm going to ask him questions. I think you should, too. It's a great opportunity. He's just

00:26:20.740 going to sit there and take them basically as they come in. So if you want to be able to talk to Ben

00:26:24.840 and get the answers to change your life, do that. What else do you get? You get me. You get the

00:26:29.720 Andrew Klavan show. You get the Ben Shapiro show. Blah, blah, blah. You also get the Leftist Tears

00:26:35.500 Tumblr. I'm feeling very deprived right now. I accidentally left my Leftist Tears Tumblr at the

00:26:41.000 office yesterday. I figured I would be in the studio today. So I've had to drink my hot cocoa

00:26:47.240 fefe out of these very inferior, very subpar devices. They certainly couldn't store a single

00:26:54.400 drop of Leftist Tears. And by the way, they are going to be flowing. They're going to be flowing

00:26:59.020 from the four corners of the earth now that Donald Trump has moved the Jerusalem embassy

00:27:03.060 or moved the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem. They're going to be pouring out everywhere.

00:27:07.380 It is going to be really dangerous. You're going to be wiped away in a flood.

00:27:10.700 So make sure you get the Leftist Tears Tumblr. You can serve those tears hot or cold,

00:27:15.520 always salty and delicious. Go to dailywire.com right now. We'll be right back.

00:27:30.300 More great news. There is more great news coming out of this news cycle somehow. So you might have

00:27:35.620 remembered a week or two ago, Donald Trump retweeted Britain First, this very far right 0.90

00:27:41.620 group, tweet Muslim videos, videos of Muslims doing bad sorts of things. And he got in a lot

00:27:47.040 of trouble for this. And actually, the Tory prime minister of the UK, Theresa May, criticized Donald

00:27:53.580 Trump for doing it, said he shouldn't have done it. And it was bad and unhelpful. So Donald Trump

00:27:57.300 responded to her and said, Theresa May, don't focus on me. Focus on the destructive, radical Islamic terrorism 1.00

00:28:03.500 that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine. Now, at the time, why are you

00:28:10.280 antagonizing an ally? There's no reason for this. We've just learned that Theresa May was almost 1.00

00:28:15.320 assassinated by Islamic terrorists recently. An Islamist man was planning to blow up 10 Downing

00:28:21.020 Street, the center of the UK government, before his plot was foiled by British intelligence.

00:28:27.320 Lauren, does Donald Trump just keep accidentally being right about these things? What can you tell me

00:28:32.840 about this plot? So I think Donald Trump, in a sense, is accidentally right, in the sense that

00:28:39.440 he knows there's a threat in the UK, specifically when it comes to Islamic terrorists. So is the video

00:28:46.960 accurate of what it was reported was depicted? A lot of people said no. President Trump watched it. He

00:28:54.160 thought that it depicted a broader issue going on in Europe. Obviously, he has his finger on the pulse.

00:29:00.140 He understands that there is an issue going on there. So I actually equate this kind of to liberal

00:29:05.340 journalists. Their worldview is that President Trump is absolutely terrible. And so they'll jump 0.71

00:29:11.100 to conclusions and report fake news because they hear a rumor and they're like, that makes sense to

00:29:16.820 my worldview. That makes sense. I'm going to publish it. It has to be true. And it's not.

00:29:21.020 So in the same way, these videos, not necessarily accurate, not necessarily factual, but it meets

00:29:26.880 Donald Trump's worldview. And that's that Islamic terrorism is becoming more and more rampant in the 0.97

00:29:33.280 UK. And so when he retweeted those videos and that information, it may not have specifically been

00:29:38.840 accurate, but it fits the worldview of Donald Trump. And I think his worldview is very accurate

00:29:44.400 in the broad scheme of things. This does happen on both sides, both sides, the left and the right.

00:29:50.740 I'm perfectly willing to admit when we hear some information that confirms our suspicions about

00:29:55.260 the world, we're more likely to run with it. Even if the evidence isn't there, we're more likely to

00:29:59.720 say, well, this isn't true, but it confirms the greater truth. I see that happening on the left all

00:30:04.400 the time. It does happen on the right as well. Jacob, what is the threat here? How does Europe deal

00:30:11.680 with this? Obviously, Europe is going to deal with Islamic terrorism and has Islamic threats that 1.00

00:30:16.280 are different than the United States does. How do they mitigate the risk? And what does this have

00:30:22.600 to do with with all of the other European politics we've seen this year, the Brexit, the pushing back

00:30:28.060 against diversity throughout the United Kingdom? Well, first of all, I think they need to get a handle

00:30:33.340 on their immigration crisis, because right now, especially you see in Germany and France, they're trying

00:30:39.500 to censure places like Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland that are putting in place stricter migration

00:30:46.760 policies. And so they need to deal with that first, because that is where the right is coming from.

00:30:52.120 They're just having open borders. And so they're not vetting any of the immigrants. And there are 0.88

00:30:56.380 good immigrants coming in. But there's also, as we see with some of the incidents in Paris and in

00:31:03.760 Belgium, we're seeing, or excuse me, Brussels, we're seeing these terrorists slip in. And so that's what

00:31:10.040 they need to do right off the bat. Now, are they willing to do it? Well, Angela Merkel seemed to

00:31:15.140 hint that she might be realizing, oh, maybe this was a bad idea. So I think that's where they got,

00:31:20.340 they want to start. And I think as far as Brexit was concerned, I think that was more of a reaction to

00:31:25.800 the British wanted to stay British. They didn't, the British don't want to be French. 1.00

00:31:30.600 They're always terrible racists. I can't believe the English want to stay English. 0.94

00:31:33.640 Yeah, exactly. Exactly. They're like, we don't want to be, we don't want to be French. We don't 1.00

00:31:37.300 want to be Germans. We want to be English. So I think that was, that was more of a reaction to,

00:31:42.120 we want to keep our culture as opposed to reaction with how the EU is handling

00:31:47.060 Islamic immigration into the, into the continent.

00:31:51.260 Absolutely. And I actually want to talk about this a little more, but we might have to do a separate

00:31:55.940 show on it because there's much more important news and another sign of the apocalypse.

00:31:58.920 A woman is marrying her chandelier, a woman named Amanda Liberty, well-named 33 years old,

00:32:05.280 says she will soon marry a chandelier that she bought online. She described how she kisses and

00:32:11.240 cuddles the antique, which is 57 years older than she is. She says that she is emotionally and get

00:32:17.920 ready to cringe sexually gratified by the chandelier. Lauren, isn't this illegal? Isn't this an example

00:32:25.000 of prostitution? Isn't this trafficking? She purchased her soon-to-be spouse. 1.00

00:32:30.880 Yeah, well, I don't know how that works with an inanimate object, but what I will say is this,

00:32:37.840 the fact that we validate this and say, you know, congratulations on your, you know,

00:32:43.300 upcoming nuptials to a chandelier just shows that we're starting to really accept mental health issues

00:32:51.640 as not only the norm, but as like something to celebrate and encourage. This is not the only

00:32:57.480 example that I've seen in the news recently about women or men becoming, you know, attracted to random

00:33:04.900 objects. There's a woman who wants to marry a Ferris wheel and another one, I think, who married a

00:33:10.740 bridge. I mean, it's just bizarre. And with the lady in the chandelier, I read that she actually has

00:33:16.560 multiple other chandeliers that she also loves, but she's only going to marry the one. And so

00:33:21.380 I just feel bad for the chandelier she's marrying. I mean, if I was the chandelier, I would want,

00:33:26.860 you know, a monogamous relationship.

00:33:29.520 That, I guess she's polyamorous. I guess she has a whole harem of lamps and like flashbulbs and 1.00

00:33:34.100 things like that. We actually do have a clip of the woman with her beloved.

00:33:37.280 That looks like sexual assault to me. She was clearly saying, Oh no. And he said, Oh yes. Oh no.

00:33:53.120 Oh yeah. That is no good. That's going to be the next Hollywood story to follow is Lumiere from

00:33:57.960 Beauty and the Beast. Really awful. Now, Lauren pointed out, we are indulging these delusions and

00:34:03.640 these mental illnesses. But Jacob, how far back does this go? It seems to me that the purpose of

00:34:09.980 indulging a woman who has a sexual fetish to be sexual with inanimate objects, which I believe 0.98

00:34:16.660 qualifies her to be a U.S. Senator. If we indulge that, that only mainstreams the problem. It only 0.98

00:34:23.400 enhances the problem. There was a woman earlier this year who married herself. She had a ceremony

00:34:28.940 with a mirror and she married herself in front of friends and family. How far does this go? If we're

00:34:34.700 going to say, no, clearly it is not marriage. If you are hugging your light bulb, that is clearly

00:34:41.960 not marriage. Then aren't we just hateful bigots? Doesn't that undo so much of the argumentation and 0.88

00:34:48.580 so much of the logic behind redefining marriage, not just to include same-sex monogamous couples,

00:34:54.100 but to include polygamous couples, polyamorous couples, incestual relationships? If we yell at

00:35:01.320 the lady and we tell the lady who's marrying her Lumiere that it isn't marriage, doesn't that undo

00:35:06.320 all of the logic of our progressive period? Yes, and I think that's why you see some of these far-left

00:35:12.360 hacks going for it. And I want to know who these ministers are that are marrying these people. I mean, 1.00

00:35:17.860 they should be defrocked immediately. They're just as crazy as this woman marrying her lantern 1.00

00:35:23.900 or her chandelier or whatever this is. I'm sure they're Unitarians or Jesuits or something. 0.99

00:35:29.120 Could be. To your broader point, yes, I think that this thread, because they've realized, the left

00:35:35.060 has realized, they've opened this Pandora's box and they don't know where it's going to end, because

00:35:40.120 right after the Supreme Court declared that homosexual marriage was legal, the first thing was the 0.99

00:35:46.680 radical Mormon said, hey, we're next. We want to have our marriages to our five, four wives. So I think 0.67

00:35:53.780 that, I do think that that's why we're not seeing as much of a pushback. That's why, you know,

00:35:59.380 there used to be when people would do this crazy stuff, it would be all over the news. Now, now you

00:36:05.400 barely hear about it. It's, you know, you might hear it on some, some oddball news outlet, but now

00:36:12.000 it's been kind of quiet because they know once they pull that string, they have to close the Pandora's

00:36:16.420 box. Plus, the left has made all of these things so unfunny. This is obviously hilarious. A woman is 1.00

00:36:23.220 marrying her chandelier. I feel bad for her. She clearly has some mental illness, but the act

00:36:27.580 itself is very funny. Drag queens are funny, but the left makes them so solemn and so unfunny. 1.00

00:36:33.280 We have to treat it very seriously and, you know, oh yes, I feel my heart is bleeding or whatever.

00:36:38.920 Lauren, is there going to be any sort of cultural shift backward? We've seen Donald Trump using humor

00:36:45.480 to point out the absurdities of political correctness, the absurdities of the culture warrior

00:36:50.540 left. Is there going to be any push backward when it comes to marriage or sexual morality,

00:36:56.000 or are we just living in decadent times here to stay? Actually, you know, I think that it used to

00:37:02.540 be the left was so progressive and pushing the boundaries. But today, the real like rebellious

00:37:09.220 counterculture is the right. It's conservatives. And so studies actually show that generations even

00:37:15.920 younger than millennials, so kids that are in high school and starting college now, actually kind of

00:37:21.440 find an appeal to conservative values, traditional social values in a sense, because it's cool to be

00:37:27.940 different. It's cool to push the boundaries. And obviously the Hollywood left, the culture across,

00:37:33.120 really across the globe at this point, is so liberal in, not in just the sense of freedom and

00:37:38.960 the ability to do things, but liberal in the sense of just wacky craziness, accepting mental illness, 0.69

00:37:44.440 these things. I think we will see a shift back, not necessarily for the morality of it, but I think

00:37:49.360 just because if you push too far, you almost push into the other side. Nothing says cool guy like

00:37:55.220 cardigan sweaters and parted hair and sockless loafers. I know I'm with you. We're the new punk man.

00:38:00.680 It's great. So the speaking of mental illness and the future of humanity and the apocalypse, 0.99

00:38:08.780 I think we've reached the end. We've officially reached the end, which is that the National

00:38:12.200 Institutes of Health have now used your taxpayer dollars to create, quote, humanized mice,

00:38:18.820 mice implanted with tissues taken from aborted babies. Jacob, my first question, is there any

00:38:25.200 way to make that more horrifying? That's like the most horrifying thing I've ever heard.

00:38:29.220 Well, I want to know why they didn't use turtles, because I would like to see a real incarnation of

00:38:33.300 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But to your point, no, this is the humans playing God. And

00:38:41.640 whenever humans play God, we always screw it up. It always leads to chaos. And so I think that,

00:38:49.140 I think they, for one thing, I want a refund. I want all the money back that they spent on this

00:38:54.420 ridiculous project. It's not worth it. And it's going to have dire consequences. Because then, 0.98

00:39:00.020 right now, they're using aborted fetuses, right? Well, next, what if it's a live person? What if

00:39:06.580 it's a person in a coma who could potentially wake up? I mean, when are we going to draw the line of

00:39:11.360 when can we farm these parts, these human body parts?

00:39:16.760 I donate, Marshall. If it is for science, and I have to, I am willing to donate my producer,

00:39:22.320 Marshall. It will further the human race. It will further scientific progress. And thank you for

00:39:26.860 your sacrifice, Marshall. They are using human bone marrow, liver and thymus in these animals. So

00:39:33.380 it's not the brain yet. It isn't like a poor little human brain and a rat saying, like, kill me, kill 1.00

00:39:38.300 me. But for decades and decades, the primary battle in bioethical debates has been abortion. And 0.99

00:39:45.860 obviously, we've made great strides toward a reasonable, the reasonable side of life. We've made

00:39:52.440 great strides on pro-life for 40 years. Leon Cass, the president's philosopher, the head of President

00:39:58.360 Bush's Council on Bioethical Inquiry, is a bioconservative. And he's predicted these things,

00:40:03.780 that cloning would become the next great debate, that hybrids and chimeras would be the next great 1.00

00:40:08.720 debate. Lauren, I noticed we've missed the debate. They're just funding this stuff with taxpayer money

00:40:13.580 without asking us. Is this now going to take over abortion as the real bioethical issue? Or are

00:40:21.160 Americans going to say, oh, well, who cares? You can keep funding it. I don't really understand what

00:40:25.060 it is anyway. Well, I think if you ask most Americans, they would say humans are humans and

00:40:32.440 God is God. Humans are not God. And so why would we be dabbling in this? But I do think it's a little

00:40:38.300 more tricky. It's a little more difficult to understand than the concept just of abortion.

00:40:44.060 So it may take a while for people to wake up to it. But I kind of equate this with the artificial

00:40:49.040 intelligence debate. Obviously, our supercomputers aren't being hybrid meshed with humans. And there's

00:40:57.220 not that debate of when do you take human DNA away from someone, whether they're an organ donor or if

00:41:04.100 there's somebody who is just in a coma. There's not that debate. But at the same time, these are

00:41:09.140 the things where we have to actually think about it and say, are we going to be successful bridging

00:41:14.980 these mice humans? And are they going to become superheroes or super villains? I mean, it's something

00:41:20.580 far down the line, but it's not ridiculous to be talking about. But I do think we've missed the

00:41:25.080 debate. We're already paying for it, whether we like it or not. It does sound ridiculous, though,

00:41:29.020 when you think of like an evil mouse with a mustache and a cape flying around with a human brain or 0.99

00:41:33.180 something. But it's around the corner. Yeah, the brave new world has arrived. And it does seem a

00:41:40.040 little bit apocalyptic. All right, panel, thank you for being here. We have Lauren Cooley from the

00:41:43.680 Washington Examiner. We have Jacob Airy from my desk, apparently, for some reason. That is our show.

00:41:49.300 We will be talking much more. This is a little preview in in the Christmas war rooms here. We will

00:41:54.480 be talking about the war on Christmas. I feel passionately about this subject. And I think some of my

00:41:59.920 fellow conservatives do not appreciate the importance of it. So we will be down in the bunkers discussing

00:42:05.380 that. Get your mailbag questions in. We'll be changing your lives for the better, hopefully, tomorrow.

00:42:10.740 Be sure to do that. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. Come back

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