The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 830 - Biden Leaves Guns, Lots Of Guns For Terrorist Maniacs

00:00:00.000 As our withdrawal from Afghanistan comes to an end, we are finally getting an idea of just how

00:00:05.180 much we're leaving behind. According to a government watchdog group, the government

00:00:10.140 won't give us these numbers, but the watchdog group will, the United States is leaving behind

00:00:14.620 75,000 vehicles, 600,000 weapons, 208 aircrafts, and very likely 1,000 Americans that the government

00:00:28.580 just can't evacuate. Biden continues to stonewall the press, which is hard to trust to begin with

00:00:34.980 in light of a new study showing that just 22% of cable news is actually news. But the word is

00:00:41.160 getting out and people seem to trust the liberal gatekeepers less and less each day, which is how

00:00:47.220 a conservative Fox News host has become the new king of late night, top ratings among all of late

00:00:54.020 night, and how a conservative radio host may very well become the next governor of California.

00:00:59.260 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:08.640 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Old Schooled, who says,

00:01:12.900 little do the Afghan refugees know that they are simply fleeing one radical dictatorship

00:01:17.400 to enter another. That is true. They will be going from the Taliban-run country into the country run 1.00

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00:02:55.440 meat comes from with GoodRanchers.com. How much are we leaving behind in Afghanistan?

00:03:00.280 I think when people hear that we left some military equipment in Afghanistan, they're thinking,

00:03:08.080 oh yeah, we left a crate of guns. Oh yeah, we left some uniforms. Probably left maybe a helicopter or

00:03:13.240 two. Maybe we left some trucks and Humvees and stuff. No, we left an army's worth of extremely powerful

00:03:22.500 weaponry, the most powerful weaponry on earth. 75,000 vehicles, 600,000 weapons, 208 aircraft.

00:03:30.280 That is a lot. Since 2001, the United States has spent $83 billion on Afghan security forces

00:03:43.820 and training and equipment for the alleged Afghan nation and the Afghan national security that folded

00:03:51.460 instantly. Like the very second that we said we were going to leave, they just completely folded,

00:03:58.140 which is really insult to injury. It is really salt in the wound because not only did we invade to

00:04:04.420 get rid of the Taliban and now the Taliban is right back, but all we've really accomplished,

00:04:09.820 sure, we killed bin Laden in Pakistan. We killed a bunch of other terrorists in the meantime, 0.98

00:04:14.320 but today as a matter of geopolitics, who's running what nations, all we really managed to accomplish

00:04:21.000 is give billions of dollars of arms to the government that we said we were going to kick out because

00:04:26.580 they harbored the terrorists that perpetrated 9-11. That is the sort of incompetence that it is very

00:04:33.680 difficult to wrap your head around until you hear those numbers. According to this watchdog group,

00:04:39.220 they said, we found a federal audit that detailed up to $200 million worth of drones that had disappeared,

00:04:45.440 just gone. We don't know where the 600,000 weapons are within the country. And then beyond this stuff,

00:04:50.980 I just got an alert yesterday on my phone, popped up from the Wall Street Journal, alert,

00:04:57.020 the US believes that 1,500 Americans are still in Afghanistan and is actively in touch with and

00:05:03.040 trying to evacuate 500 of them, Secretary of State Blinken said. Go on, give me more. It seems a natural

00:05:14.080 question would be, what about the other 1,000? So you're saying there's 1,500 Americans still in

00:05:19.820 Afghanistan for some reason. And the State Department is in touch with 500 of them. So

00:05:25.300 you're in touch with one third of the Americans stuck in Afghanistan. You're not even in touch

00:05:29.200 with the other 1,000, let alone you're going to be able to get them out. How do you, I was talking

00:05:35.260 to my wife last night, sweet little Elisa, very perceptive young woman, doesn't work in politics 1.00

00:05:41.320 professionally, doesn't study international relations, military, statecraft. And yet she had

00:05:49.120 a very good question, which is, you know, we've been planning this evacuation for years at this

00:05:54.360 point, for many years at this point. And you got the military there and you got the civilians there.

00:06:01.140 Wouldn't, and forgive my ignorance, wouldn't it have maybe made more sense to get the American

00:06:06.480 civilians out first? I don't know. I'm not Klaus Fitz, I'm not Metternich, but it seems to me

00:06:12.360 that might've been smart. A little too smart, it turns out, for our federal government.

00:06:18.280 Biden was asked about this. He gave a press conference, again, about build back better and

00:06:22.140 we're going to, you know, we're going to fund pre-K. And so please don't ask me about Afghanistan.

00:06:27.160 He gave this statement. I can't even say it's a press conference because he doesn't take

00:06:31.160 questions from the press. He is asked at the very end of it, what about the other Americans?

00:06:34.740 He's got nothing. Thank you all very much. And thank the press for being here. We're going to

00:06:40.800 go private now. We're going to go private. What's the difference? What have you been doing?

00:06:52.780 There's that smirk. Mr. President, what about the Americans? What are the Americans still there?

00:06:57.680 The smirk. And then you hear that? The clip is still going on, but they cut the, it's still,

00:07:02.620 he's still playing right now, but the White House cut the microphone because the White House,

00:07:09.640 one, they've, they've clearly told Joe Biden, do not answer any questions about the Americans that

00:07:14.060 you are stranding in Afghanistan. But two, they don't even trust him to be able to resist. So

00:07:21.140 maybe he doesn't turn his back and run away this time. Maybe he does accidentally give the press an

00:07:25.520 answer. And so they actually cut his microphone. Disrespectful, not only to the press, disrespectful,

00:07:32.880 not only to the American people, obviously very disrespectful to the Americans stuck in Afghanistan,

00:07:38.360 disrespectful to the president. They're just going to, uh, can't let Joe answer an urgent question

00:07:44.180 from the press, by the way. So the, the current estimate is that they're, the Americans are only

00:07:49.620 going to strand a thousand of their own people in Afghanistan, only a thousand. But we just had a 0.52

00:07:55.300 report. There's apparently a serious threat of a terror attack at the Kabul airport. This is where

00:08:00.320 all of the Americans are now. This is, this is the epicenter of the, of the withdrawal because we gave 0.75

00:08:05.100 up the air base for some stupid reason. So we've got just the Kabul airport now is, is how we're going

00:08:09.860 to get people out of Afghanistan. And ISIS-K, this is the new ISIS, ISIS-2 electric boogaloo has come back. 0.88

00:08:16.460 They are apparently warring with the Taliban because let's not forget, well, we've pretended that we've

00:08:21.040 just been building up a country all these years and only fighting the Taliban. Afghanistan is in the

00:08:25.840 midst of a civil war and sure we're backing certain forces there, but there are a lot of forces at play.

00:08:30.400 One of which is this offshoot of ISIS. And so ISIS is threatening to attack the airport. So now the

00:08:35.180 Taliban and the U S are saying, get away from the airport, do not come there. So it's slowing the

00:08:39.120 evacuation even more, but the, the withdrawal date is still firm. The Taliban won't back down and Joe Biden

00:08:44.720 doesn't have a spine. So August 31st, we've got to be completely out of there. The number of

00:08:48.660 Americans we strand could be much, much higher. Mr. President, what about them? He just smirks.

00:08:55.100 He smirks in part because he doesn't have an answer. This is the joke, classic Joe Biden tactic.

00:08:59.040 When he doesn't have an answer for something, he just kind of laughs and giggles and smiles.

00:09:02.720 He used it on Paul Ryan in the 2012 vice presidential debates. It's, it's really infuriating,

00:09:07.700 but it's all he's got because there's not too much going on between his ears.

00:09:10.040 Speaking of questionable air travel practices, as that for a segue, Delta airlines is going to be

00:09:19.660 charging unvaccinated employees, $200 per month extra on their healthcare bills. If they refuse

00:09:27.320 to take the jab, the reason is they say that the hospitalizations for the unvaccinated employees,

00:09:34.000 they're very high. And so quote, this surcharge will be necessary to address the financial risk.

00:09:38.840 The decision to not vaccinate is creating for our company. In recent weeks, since the rise of the

00:09:44.220 B.1.617.2 variant, all Delta employees who have been hospitalized with COVID were not fully vaccinated.

00:09:52.980 Okay, fine, whatever. I under, the policy, we don't even need to get into that. I'm just curious,

00:09:58.580 and maybe you've heard about this and I just haven't. The B.1.617.2 variant of COVID,

00:10:07.840 oh, you mean the Delta variant? Delta Airlines doesn't want to use the new politically correct

00:10:18.640 term Delta for the COVID variant, because that doesn't make them look good. It's just bad PR.

00:10:25.320 But they also don't want to use the term Indian variant, which is what it was called in the first

00:10:30.600 place. But then it was deemed politically incorrect because you're not allowed to refer to

00:10:34.580 non-Western countries that create viruses. You're allowed to refer to them by Western countries, 0.76

00:10:41.420 like the UK variant, for instance, or even the South African variant. We called that for a while

00:10:46.060 because that's like sort of a, you know, obviously there's a complicated racial history to South

00:10:50.160 Africa. But the Indian variant, you're not allowed to say. China virus, you're not allowed to say.

00:10:54.580 So Delta, as a very politically correct airline, is really, really stuck between a rock and a hard

00:10:59.980 place. This is where we're going as society. I mean, forget COVID for a second, forget Delta 1.00

00:11:04.720 Airlines. This to me is the height of scientism, jargon, political correctness. We've just got to

00:11:11.740 refer to everything in the most clinical way possible. B.1.617.2. So it's just jargon that does

00:11:18.280 not actually convey any information, anything that we're actually talking about. But even if,

00:11:24.300 by the way, even if these, these employees get the vaccine, it turns out that the vaccines

00:11:30.740 just aren't that good. So you actually are going to need a booster shot from the vaccine. Even if

00:11:35.540 you just got the vaccine a couple of months ago, this being pushed by Pfizer, by Johnson & Johnson,

00:11:41.960 by the whole blob, just one more, just 15 more days, just 15 more jabs, just 27 more boosters.

00:11:48.400 Johnson & Johnson is the latest vaccine company to come out and say that people who took it are

00:11:56.260 going to need a booster joining Pfizer. Pfizer was the two shot vaccine. You remember you got the

00:12:00.980 first one, you wait a few weeks, you get the second one, then you're good. 99.99, 127%

00:12:07.600 protection from the virus. It's the greatest vaccine ever made. It wasn't rushed. I mean,

00:12:13.280 I know they made it in like five minutes, but it's not hasty. It's not rushed. It's totally,

00:12:17.060 there's no side effects. Well, okay, maybe there's myocarditis and periocarditis and it's

00:12:21.060 happening in young, healthy people, but there's no Johnson & Johnson one, one and done. It was

00:12:25.840 Johnson & Johnson. You don't even need two shots and there's zero side effects except for the blood

00:12:29.500 clots that killed some of those women, but there's otherwise there's no, well, they did actually have

00:12:33.080 to pause it because it was that scary, but it's fine. Now get your booster. It's so effective that

00:12:39.520 you need a booster within a few months. What a joke. What vaccine have you ever taken

00:12:49.140 where you need a booster shot? Not just it's part of the series of vaccines, but you need

00:12:55.000 an unaccounted for unexpected booster shot a few months later. I've never heard of that.

00:13:02.780 You've never heard of that because the public health bureaucracy is just making this up as they

00:13:11.660 go along. Caught with their pants down, making it up as they go along. Do you know what I think

00:13:16.380 this is about? I think, I think there are broader economic and political implications here. I think

00:13:22.620 just everything's moving toward a subscription model. You know, I think your, your TV obviously

00:13:27.760 is a subscription model. Now, uh, movies, books are on subscription. Your, your software, you know,

00:13:34.400 Microsoft Word, that's a subscription model. Now everything, your, your razors are a subscription,

00:13:39.020 everything, including now your vaccines are just, it's okay. It's cool. You sign up for dollar,

00:13:45.920 dollar vax club, you know, and every month you get another booster that you can shoot up

00:13:50.680 to protect you from the Wuhan cough that poses a grave risk to very, very few people.

00:13:59.000 Strange stuff. Strange how that would happen. I wonder how many, we're going to, you know,

00:14:01.900 what we're going to hear, by the way, we're going to, in, in six months, a year, we're going to say,

00:14:05.640 look, it's just, just take your fourth booster. It's just the fourth booster and we can get back

00:14:09.660 to normal life. And then, you know what the conservatives are going to say? They're going to

00:14:13.040 say, hey guys, you shouldn't take your fourth booster. Look, maybe your third booster is fine,

00:14:18.640 but you shouldn't take your fourth one. Hey, they're going to say, you know, you need to wear

00:14:22.740 15 masks whenever you go outside and your kids need to wear 20 masks. And you know what the

00:14:27.640 conservatives are going to say? They're going to say, hey, hey, that's crazy. 19 at most.

00:14:33.760 That's what they're going to do. That's, that's been the effectiveness of the conservative movement

00:14:38.680 for many years. Now there, there are inducements to get you to take the shots and the boosters and

00:14:43.540 everything. You remember Bill de Blasio, that slob, a disgusting man, the mayor of New York would go 0.99

00:14:50.660 out and he had, he had, seriously, in public, he had a cheeseburger and French fries. And he, like an 0.99

00:14:57.100 animal, and to us, who he certainly considers to be animals, he starts chewing on the burgers,

00:15:02.580 good burger. Take the experimental drug. Let me shoot you up. Then you get free burger. 0.65

00:15:08.500 Yes. Hogs will give you extra slop. If you let us inject you with these chemicals and French fries, 1.00

00:15:15.680 you know? So de Blasio pioneered this, this method, but, but different companies have been following

00:15:23.200 suit, including Krispy Kreme. And I love, look, I love Krispy Kreme. I love the burgers that de

00:15:27.860 Blasio was talking about. Krispy Kreme has been offering people a free donut. If they show their

00:15:35.040 vaccine card, anytime, any Krispy Kreme, you show your vaccine card, you get a free donut.

00:15:40.740 Pretty good. That's, that's great. I, I, I would love a free donut. That's not attracting enough

00:15:46.880 people to get the vaccine. So now Krispy Kreme is offering two free donuts. That's how you know our

00:15:55.400 society has become extraordinarily decadent. One free Krispy Kreme is, is not enough to bribe us into

00:16:01.320 taking the chemicals. You need two, you need two Krispy Kreme. Who eats two Krispy Kremes at a time?

00:16:05.720 That's too much. Now the Daily Caller pointed this out. There is an irony to Krispy Kreme's campaign.

00:16:13.040 Namely, 78% of COVID hospitalizations have been of obese people. One of the, you'll, you'll hear very

00:16:23.140 often that there are disparities in the people who are going to the hospitals. One was that black people

00:16:30.320 are being affected. People of communities of color are being affected much, much more than white

00:16:37.440 community. Is it because the virus is racist? The virus is, it's a white supremacist virus from

00:16:42.640 China. It's a Chinese white supremacist virus. No, it's because the actual criterion that will determine 1.00

00:16:51.900 what, how severe the infection will be. One of the most severe ones is obesity. And black people are much 1.00

00:17:00.100 more likely to be obese, especially black women. So in order to solve this problem of public health, 1.00

00:17:07.860 Krispy Kreme giving out some of the fattiest, sugary donuts on earth, people stuffing their

00:17:12.720 faces. I'm sure that'll fix it, right? Right. The CDC is pushing it to carrot and stick. You know,

00:17:20.100 there's the carrot of the Krispy Kreme, and then there's the stick of the government. And the government

00:17:24.040 is coming out and demanding that people take their vax boosters. We are told by the CDC, quote,

00:17:30.240 the vaccines remain highly effective against hospitalizations. The bulwark they provide

00:17:33.820 against infection with the virus is weakened. So the vaccine, they're trying to have their cake and

00:17:39.900 eat it too. The vaccine's very, very effective. Very effective. They're really good. They, they're,

00:17:44.600 they stop, you know, the hospital, but the, but the infection is bad. Well, okay. Well, if, if,

00:17:50.940 if it does not prevent infection, but it does prevent any severe complications from infection,

00:17:56.640 then you're good, right? Why do I need, why do I need the booster? Well, no, it's really,

00:18:01.600 it's a great vaccine, but you need, you need to shoot it up again because it's not working. Okay.

00:18:06.560 If you want more information on the vaccines, I've got even worse news for you.

00:18:10.880 But the federal government does not have its act together there either. Joe Biden,

00:18:16.020 President Biden, trying to avoid talking about Afghanistan, trying to exclusively talk about

00:18:19.940 COVID because according to a daily wire poll, we just put out, people are blaming him for

00:18:24.820 Afghanistan. It's really hurting his poll numbers, but the only positive he's got going is his handling 1.00

00:18:28.720 of COVID. So he says, if you want information, go to vaccines.com. If you go to vaccines.com,

00:18:37.320 vaccines.com or text your zip code to four, three, eight, eight, two, nine. Now, for those of you who

00:18:45.680 are listening to that rather than watching it, you will have missed that Joe Biden is standing in front

00:18:51.420 of a giant backdrop on which is written at least five times, vaccines.gov, not vaccines.com.

00:19:02.440 Go to Joe 30330303030. Not, not totally with it. Maybe he should not be the main spokesman here.

00:19:11.260 Meanwhile, we sort of alluded to this with the Krispy Kreme mention.

00:19:15.460 There are negative side effects, unintended consequences of the COVID lockdowns and all

00:19:23.840 the COVID measures. So you see it very clearly, Krispy Kreme. Here, show your Vax card. Oh,

00:19:30.340 you're healthy. Good. We're going to stuff you full of donuts and put you at a far greater risk of

00:19:34.160 severe complications of coronavirus. In Australia, it's much worse than that. It's much sadder than

00:19:40.480 that. Four newborn babies just died in Australia because of the COVID restrictions. So four newborn

00:19:47.980 babies in Adelaide needed heart surgery when they were born. A great number of newborns who need

00:19:54.220 heart surgery. And thanks to modern medicine, they can get it taken care of. But they were not able to

00:20:01.560 get it taken care of because in Adelaide, they did not have the resources to perform the heart surgery

00:20:06.400 and they could not be transferred interstate because of travel restrictions that are keeping

00:20:10.440 people locked in their homes. So in order to prevent people from getting the cough,

00:20:19.080 in order to prevent, because there were one or two cases in Australia and because of that,

00:20:23.320 they locked down everything. We're not even talking about lots of deaths or even lots of hospitalizations,

00:20:29.400 just, you know, some cases of the virus that doesn't pose a grave threat to most people.

00:20:34.260 Four newborn cute little babies died. And their parents are going to have to deal with that for

00:20:41.940 the rest of their lives. And a cute little baby whom they carried for nine months, cute little

00:20:46.240 helpless vulnerable baby, was sacrificed on the altar of neurotic public health fears over a cough,

00:20:55.020 over something that for most people feels like a bad flu. Actually, for a lot of people,

00:20:59.640 it doesn't even feel as bad as the flu. That's, that's bad stuff. That's, that's not, not a good

00:21:08.240 situation for anybody. If it only saves one life, it's worth it. That's what Andrew Cuomo told us

00:21:15.440 during the COVID lockdown. If it only saves one life, and this is, this is the fear, forget even

00:21:19.660 a second about the virus itself. Forget even just dunking on Democrats or Republicans or left or right.

00:21:25.440 This is what happens when society loses its sense of balance, its sense of, of the broader picture

00:21:34.120 when it misses the forest for the trees. During even the Trump coronavirus briefings, the only

00:21:39.600 people who would speak were Fauci and Dr. Scarf. What about the military? We didn't hear. What about

00:21:45.440 the economics advisors? We didn't hear. What about, it was, it was almost exclusively Fauci and Dr.

00:21:50.620 Scarf. They focused only on public health and the rest of the country went to pot. That's going on

00:21:55.880 around the world as well. And we still haven't learned our lesson. You know, speaking of economics,

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00:22:48.800 hear, we'll be right back with a lot more. A lot of death on the mind these days. So kind of a morbid

00:23:05.660 thing when we've got hearing about Afghanistan, we're hearing about the coronavirus, we're hearing

00:23:10.000 about the victims of the COVID lockdowns. But sometimes when you find out people are going to

00:23:15.220 die, it's not the worst thing in the world. Like for instance, Dylann Roof. Dylann Roof is the guy

00:23:20.100 who murdered a bunch of black people in a church in cold blood. He knew some of these people, but he 0.91

00:23:27.860 had these sort of racial theories that he was a white supremacist type guy. And so he just goes in

00:23:33.800 cold blood, murders them all. And he is convicted of this and then he's sentenced to death. Then he 0.98

00:23:40.580 appealed his death sentence and then it was affirmed yesterday. He will be placed on death

00:23:46.040 row and ultimately executed by the state. Now I noticed something. There were some people

00:23:51.980 who said, I oppose the death penalty and I oppose the death penalty even for Dylann Roof. But for most

00:23:57.460 people, when I was seeing most of the commentary on this, popular and otherwise, it was people saying

00:24:01.980 something to the effect of, look, I oppose the death penalty. But there are exceptions. Yeah,

00:24:08.340 we're getting, yeah. I oppose the death penalty except for this guy. Yeah, I'm not going to miss

00:24:12.740 this guy. And I just think they're missing the point entirely. That's actually the worst take you

00:24:19.620 can possibly have on the death penalty in my view. Because I'm very pro-death penalty. I'm pro-death

00:24:26.860 penalty for the people who are convicted of their capital offenses and sentenced to it.

00:24:32.420 Including Dylann Roof. I'm pro-death penalty because I think that it's good for the question 0.77

00:24:38.580 of justice. I think it helps society to understand justice. I think it meets out the just retribution

00:24:44.660 for the people who have committed the offenses. I think it offers a deterrent effect, especially

00:24:49.540 when it is carried through. And I think, by the way, it's rehabilitative because hanging concentrates

00:24:54.420 the mind. I think that the death penalty, when it is just in a just system, is totally right. I am

00:25:03.040 in agreement here with the Bible. I am in agreement here with St. Paul, with the great doctors of the

00:25:10.340 church, St. Thomas Aquinas, among many others. And I am in agreement with many, many, many popes

00:25:16.020 throughout history if that sort of thing is persuasive to you. Including the popes, saints,

00:25:21.380 and including a beatified pope who carried out the death penalty, ordered the death penalty himself

00:25:26.780 in the papal states. I think it is totally a hard-locked case for the death penalty.

00:25:31.540 And yet, the argument against the death penalty is it's just revenge. I don't think it's revenge.

00:25:39.040 I don't think it's vengeance. I think it's just punishment. I think the state does not carry the

00:25:42.760 sword in vain. But the people who say, I oppose the death penalty, except for this guy, they are

00:25:51.320 engaging in revenge, right? I mean, they are actually proving their own point on the death penalty, at least

00:25:57.220 as regards their view of it. The reason that they are especially upset with Dylann Roof is because

00:26:04.400 he's committed this special crime of white supremacy. But if the situation were reversed,

00:26:08.180 if it were a black supremacist or something who killed a bunch of white people, I strongly suspect 0.99

00:26:12.240 they wouldn't make a big deal. And actually, I know that because in the capital offenses that 0.98

00:26:16.840 do fall closer to those lines, they usually stay mum. This is very bad. We either need to have a

00:26:23.100 standard of justice or we're just going to descend into various interest groups clamoring for revenge.

00:26:29.260 Not a very good situation for society, which unfortunately is the way that we're going.

00:26:33.960 Which brings me to, brings me to the news. The news. What you are getting on the news. There is a new

00:26:42.180 study out, allegedly a damning study, that shows that 22% of cable news is news. The study finds that

00:26:50.720 hard news in terms of the statement of facts and on the spot reporting amounts to just 22.3%

00:26:56.940 of what goes on in cable news. That's nine minutes and 15 seconds of hard news for every single hour

00:27:01.920 of broadcasting. There is nearly twice as much commercial time, time for advertisements, as there

00:27:08.620 is for hard news. Then interviews with newsmakers account for another 16% of broadcast time. And then

00:27:15.420 the rest, the vast majority of cable news time, 60% is commentary from a host or panel discussions or

00:27:23.180 analysis from a panel of talking heads. Everyone is on the left and the right. They're reacting to

00:27:30.560 this as though this is an indictment of cable news. It's only 22% news. 60% is just opinion.

00:27:36.940 That sounds about right, actually. I think that's probably about right. Norm Macdonald,

00:27:43.300 the great, the great political philosopher, Norm Macdonald did this bit where he said that back

00:27:47.020 in the day, you only had half an hour of news per day. You know, you just turn on the nightly news,

00:27:51.800 it was half an hour of news. And even then they'd have some fluff story. And now it's 24 hours of news,

00:27:56.520 but actually half an hour is about right. So they just fill it up with a bunch of other nonsense.

00:28:00.780 There's only so much news and there are only so many facts. But even though I know, I know around

00:28:08.880 here, we like to say facts don't care about your feelings and facts are really important. And I'm

00:28:12.300 not, I'm not in any way casting aspersions on facts, but there is more to life than just plain,

00:28:19.360 shallow, narrow facts. We also need to know what those facts mean, which is where that other 60% 0.94

00:28:28.220 comes in and actually the 16% of the interviews too. It's not enough to know that I am, you know,

00:28:38.000 I'm a, I'm, I'm two hands, I'm two feet, I'm a head, shoulders, I'm blood and lungs and kidneys and

00:28:45.120 organs and guts and gore. It's not enough to know just the kind of plain physical facts.

00:28:51.740 If I don't know that I'm also a person and if I don't know that I also have some meaning and a

00:28:57.500 place in the world and what that, and, and some purpose and context. All right. It's not enough

00:29:03.780 to know that there was an explosion in Kabul or even that the explosion was perpetrated by

00:29:11.480 the new ISIS group. It's also helpful to know the context of that, what that means. I actually think

00:29:18.480 the right is pretty bad about this because the left has gone totally into the realm of feelings.

00:29:23.800 The left has gone into this crazy realm of just everything subjective. And if I say that I'm a

00:29:28.440 purple spotted elephant, then I really am, even if I'm just a dude. And so I get that the right has

00:29:33.940 reacted to that by focusing in on facts. You know, we're just going to talk about the physical,

00:29:38.640 plain, incontrable facts of the world, but that's not politics. That's not philosophy. That's not human

00:29:44.960 life. That's not actually how we experience the world. There's the physical stuff, but then we need to

00:29:49.100 know what it means. And I think if the right would, would, sure, keep your focus on facts,

00:29:54.760 enjoy your facts, but then go a little further than that. And if we would recognize that it's

00:29:59.940 actually, it is important to know how these things make us feel one, but also what they mean in the

00:30:05.640 broader philosophical, theological context, I think that would serve us a lot better. I'm glad,

00:30:09.820 good job cable news for not having so much news. Speaking of cable news, shocking story,

00:30:14.860 Greg Gutfeld is the king of late night comedy. Greg Gutfeld, a Fox News host of many years at this

00:30:22.240 point, now has a late night comedy show. He has a larger audience than Jimmy Fallon,

00:30:27.380 Jimmy Kimmel, and Stephen Colbert, which is even more shocking because he's on cable and they're

00:30:33.920 on network. And many, many, many, many more people have network TV than have cable TV. It's also

00:30:41.360 shocking because they're hosting traditional comedy shows. He's on the conservative news channel,

00:30:46.980 but he's crushing them. He's crushing them because people, I think, are beginning to tune out. I think

00:30:56.560 the gatekeepers lost their stranglehold, especially with the advent of the internet. They tried to grab

00:31:01.020 it again with big tech, even that it's not totally working out for them. And so they're nervous. Gavin

00:31:06.960 Newsom right now in California, New Salini. He's very nervous. He faces a recall election.

00:31:13.700 Now it's going on right now. It's a yes or no vote. And then if they vote yes to recall him,

00:31:20.060 then the top vote getter on, on the list of candidates is going to become the new governor

00:31:24.940 of California. Gavin Newsom was playing it cool for a number of weeks. Now he's losing it. He had just

00:31:30.280 had an interview with my friend, Alex Michelson, and he's turning the fear mongering up to 11.

00:31:34.600 We're going to win overwhelmingly. We just have to remind people the imperative to vote no on the

00:31:41.160 question that is in front of them. And you say that Larry Elder is the clear favorite on the other

00:31:46.220 side. Yeah. So I think there are a lot of people that have asked me, how much can a governor really

00:31:51.660 do in a year with a Democratic supermajority? What's the answer to that? I mean, you can lie down

00:31:57.820 and veto everything coming out of the legislature. You can veto everything that comes from the legislature.

00:32:01.380 But there's a veto proof majority, right? There is and there isn't. A lot of things

00:32:05.380 are stubborn. There's a lot of diversity, even within the Democratic caucus. At the end of the

00:32:08.940 day, you could start to vandalize all the executive orders. You can eliminate the masking requirement

00:32:13.100 for public schools. You can eliminate the vaccine requirements for public health care workers.

00:32:17.100 So many of the things that I signed through executive order can be done overnight. You can

00:32:20.700 appoint judges without any oversight and consideration. That's going to have an impact for years and years

00:32:25.780 and years. So it is a profound consequence. And also you have the bully pulpit of the fifth largest

00:32:30.600 economy in the world. And you have a midterm election coming up with another California who

00:32:37.100 wants to take out Nancy Pelosi. Consequences are pretty extraordinary. Pretty, pretty extraordinary.

00:32:42.600 Man, good on Alex Michelson. I don't think Alex is particularly conservative. In fact, I think

00:32:48.460 he's a liberal, sort of like a more sane, moderate liberal, but he's pretty fair. He pushes pretty

00:32:55.020 hard. Did you see that? He said, hey, so the guy who wins the recall is just going to serve out the

00:33:01.200 remainder of your term. That's not a lot of time. And you've got a ton of Democrats in the legislature.

00:33:05.360 So what's the big deal? Well, there's a, well, you know, it's a really big deal because he could

00:33:10.300 veto stuff. Yeah, but you've got a veto proof majority. The Democrats do in the legislature. Yeah,

00:33:15.820 well, but he's got the bully pulpit. Okay. This is, this is really weak stuff from, from Newsom and

00:33:21.740 Newsom is a slick politician, but what this is about is Gavin Newsom trying to hold onto his

00:33:27.260 political career. There won't be a ton of consequences for Democrats. There'll be some,

00:33:30.740 but there won't be a ton of consequences for Democrats if Larry Elder or whoever wins the

00:33:37.020 election. But Newsom's political career almost certainly will be over. And that's what they're

00:33:41.540 really worried about, which is why they're going hard at Larry. Larry is the front runner. If not

00:33:47.460 for Larry Elder in this race, probably the recall would not be going as well for Republicans as it

00:33:52.000 is right now. And so here it is. Here's the sex scandal. Here we go. LA Times, Larry Elder's ex-fiance

00:33:59.820 reports an alleged 2015 gun incident to the LAPD. So we found out too, Larry Elder's ex-girlfriend is

00:34:08.220 supporting one of Larry Elder's rivals in the contest, Kevin Faulconer down in San Diego, I believe

00:34:14.020 it was reported. So this is the same paper that called Larry Elder the black face of white supremacy,

00:34:19.720 just for starters. This is not real. This is fake. I'm willing to say with almost 100% certainty this

00:34:26.340 is fake. I'm not saying Larry, the accusation is that they were having an argument and Larry Elder

00:34:31.200 was cleaning his gun and this was threatening and this was abusive. So I don't know, maybe Larry Elder

00:34:35.520 was cleaning his gun or something. I don't think Larry Elder has ever threatened his girlfriend or

00:34:39.960 anyone really with a gun in any kind of altercation. If this were real, she would have done this sooner.

00:34:49.240 This was six years ago. If this were a real thing, she would have done this six years ago,

00:34:55.440 five years ago, four years ago, three, two, or even one year ago. If this were real and she said,

00:35:02.080 well, look, I didn't want to do it at the time, he was just a private citizen then, which is BS by the

00:35:06.100 way. He was an extremely influential national radio host, but it's beside the point. Huge name

00:35:11.080 recognition, go on TV a lot. She certainly would have done this when he got into the race, right?

00:35:17.960 Shouldn't this have come out at least when he got into the race? No, it's just coming out now

00:35:21.060 because it's getting close. This is BS. This happens in so many races, especially when, 0.64

00:35:26.340 it doesn't happen to Democrats a whole lot, but it happens to Republicans when they're threatening

00:35:29.200 the status quo. Well, you know, I actually, I have a message to all of my ex-girlfriends,

00:35:33.960 every ex-girlfriend out there. I don't, I'm not intending to run for, you know, governor of

00:35:37.660 California or anything like that, but if I do right now, here's your chance. Get all your grievances out,

00:35:43.400 whatever. I didn't pick up the tab for dinner one night, whatever you're upset. Now's the time

00:35:47.360 because I don't want to hear it when we're a few weeks from an election. Okay. Such, such BS. I don't

00:35:54.640 think it's going to work on Larry Elder. I think that, look, the Larry Elder campaign of it all,

00:36:01.220 it's getting some enthusiasm up there, but this is all going to come down to one question. It's not

00:36:04.660 any Republican. It's Gavin Newsom. Should we kick out Gavin Newsom or should we not? And the fact that

00:36:09.900 it's this close tells you California does not like their Democrat governor. Speaking of bias against

00:36:18.240 conservatives, the Federal Communications Commission is now threatening a $5.1 million

00:36:27.660 fine against two conservative dirty trickster types. Their names are Jacob Wohl and John Berkman

00:36:35.720 and their kind of company, John J.M. Berkman and Associates. Over a $5 million fine from the FCC. Why?

00:36:44.220 Because Wohl and Berkman pulled a political dirty trick. They made 1,141 unlawful robocalls

00:36:55.040 that made false claims about mail-in voting. This was what their robocall said. Quote,

00:37:03.040 did you know that if you vote by mail, your personal information will be part of a public

00:37:06.480 database that will be used by police departments to track down old warrants and be used by credit

00:37:10.100 card companies to collect outstanding debts? They also claimed that the CDC might use these

00:37:16.860 data to enforce vaccinations. So first of all, I don't put anything past the federal government

00:37:25.000 at this point because they do a lot of things that they tell us that they will not do and cannot do,

00:37:29.280 for instance, spying on Tucker Carlson. But even let's say that it's all bogus and this was a dirty

00:37:35.340 trick. It was supposed to suppress some votes. Sure. People are saying it was intended to suppress

00:37:41.520 the black vote. Okay, maybe. I don't know. I don't know the details of this. Regardless, 0.92

00:37:47.000 $5 million for some dirty tricks on robocalls? Democrats do this stuff too. Democrats go further

00:37:56.300 actually and they just upend our election process and they actually violate the state constitution in

00:38:00.840 the state of Pennsylvania, for instance, when they're conducting that election process.

00:38:03.860 But in terms of these calls or the motor voter, the mail-in or the ballot harvesting or whatever,

00:38:09.100 they do a lot of this stuff too. And they don't get very public $5 million fines.

00:38:16.460 I'm not defending the dirty tricks of the Republicans. I'm criticizing the double standard.

00:38:27.180 And that, it's a distinction that you're not really allowed to make anymore. Because now,

00:38:31.980 if you defend these guys, or if you in any way think this is wrong, you're going to say,

00:38:36.520 well, you want to suppress the black vote? You're a racist. You support illegal activities? No. 1.00

00:38:43.380 I support selective prosecutions. You remember some years back, Dinesh D'Souza was thrown in the clink.

00:38:49.840 Dinesh D'Souza, the perfectly calm, nice, scholarly commentator and author and filmmaker,

00:38:56.980 he was thrown into a halfway house because he gave a little extra money to a friend of his from

00:39:03.140 college who was running in a doomed Senate race in New York. And he gave her a little extra money

00:39:07.600 beyond the limits of the federal government. And he had to go to the clink. And at the time he said,

00:39:13.540 no, no, I don't, I'm not saying what I did was right. I'm saying that I was selectively prosecuted.

00:39:19.760 Because Democrats do this stuff all, all the time. And they get away with it.

00:39:27.080 It's, I don't even want to call it hypocrisy. It's just a hierarchy. It's just that the Democrats

00:39:31.080 have one set of permissions and the Republicans have another. And speaking of these kinds of

00:39:37.400 comparisons, it's a little bit of a vague transition, but speaking of these kinds of

00:39:42.020 comparisons, I've got to get to Tony Hawk. Tony Hawk, a figure from the childhood of many

00:39:48.640 millennials, Tony Hawk, skateboarding star, video game skateboarding star. Tony Hawk's releasing a

00:39:56.960 skateboard that includes some of his own blood in it. It's weird and a little bit creepy. I guess

00:40:03.660 the idea is, you know, I put my blood, sweat and tears into skateboarding. You know, you can have

00:40:07.340 some of that too. Okay, whatever. I think it's, it's kind of weird and creepy, but Lil Nas X, who is

00:40:12.020 that Satanist rapper. He came out and he said, quote, now that Tony Hawk has released skateboards

00:40:19.280 with his blood painted on them and there was no public outrage, are y'all ready to admit y'all were

00:40:24.260 never actually upset over the blood in the shoes? And maybe you were mad for some other reason.

00:40:29.640 Lil Nas X, you'll recall, when he released his Satanist music video, where he's literally twerking

00:40:34.680 on Satan and saying like, hell's maybe not the worst place in the world and we can make ourselves

00:40:38.080 into the king of hell. I did a, did a long exegesis, a long reading and analysis of that

00:40:46.280 music video, which you can check out elsewhere. Lil Nas X released these Nike sneakers that included

00:40:51.860 pentagrams and scriptural references to Lucifer, to Satan, and allegedly a drop of human blood.

00:41:00.920 And people were up in arms over this. He says, well, Tony Hawk used blood too. So this is, it's,

00:41:06.660 you're just coming after me because I'm gay. You're just coming after me because I'm black. I don't 0.99

00:41:11.000 know. You're just, because I'm oppressed. It wasn't the blood per se that people were upset about

00:41:19.260 necessarily, or that wasn't a big part of it. It was what the blood represented. For Tony Hawk,

00:41:26.940 he doesn't have pentagrams. He doesn't have numerical and scriptural references to Satan.

00:41:32.740 It's just like a weird marketing ploy. You did. It was about, I think, at least for me,

00:41:41.840 the outrage was about the overt Satanism. But you hear this all the time. And this is a broader

00:41:47.380 problem that you hear in politics. They'll say, Michael, if you think that we should regulate

00:41:53.680 pornography, then you're no better than the left, which says that we should censor conservatives on the

00:41:58.900 internet. You're no different, Michael. No, I think I'm very different because pornography and

00:42:05.880 First Amendment protected political speech are different. Yes, the form censorship is the same,

00:42:12.140 but the substance of what you're censoring is different. Yes, the symbol here, the blood is the

00:42:20.160 same, but the significance of that is different. And I think we just need to be able to talk more about

00:42:26.940 substantive matters. This was David French's big problem when he said, if we ban drag queen story

00:42:33.240 hour, then they're going to ban us from going to church. That was the implication, at least,

00:42:35.960 of what he was saying. We can know the difference. We can. I promise you. We possess the faculties of

00:42:42.360 reason and the moral conscience sufficient to tell the difference between drag queen story hour and

00:42:47.220 going to church on Sunday. Sufficient to tell the difference between a skateboard marketing gimmick

00:42:52.080 and an overt satanic liturgy. We can do that. We actually possess those faculties. For now,

00:42:59.760 we do. For now. I actually don't. Maybe not for much longer. What are we doing? It all comes back

00:43:08.380 to Afghanistan. I think this is why Afghanistan is such a lightning rod. You can't build up another 1.00

00:43:14.860 country, another civilization, another set of principles and practices and another way of life

00:43:19.360 if you do not possess one yourself or if the one that you once did possess is disintegrating all

00:43:25.460 around you. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you tomorrow.

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