The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 831 - Biden Lied, People Died

00:00:00.000 Major terror attack rocked Kabul yesterday, hastening the American evacuation even further.

00:00:05.740 At least 12 U.S. servicemen were killed. Many Afghans were killed. And Joe Biden just gave

00:00:11.840 a blurred speech blaming everyone but himself. The attack was perpetrated by ISIS-K, an offshoot

00:00:19.720 of the Islamic State, which is apparently the sworn enemy of the Taliban, which was the sworn

00:00:24.220 enemy of the Afghan National Army, our allies, at least our allies, until it ceased to exist.

00:00:29.420 Against the Taliban, which is now apparently our ally against ISIS. A changing, confusing,

00:00:36.100 infuriating situation, underscoring all the more how little we have to gain from occupying that

00:00:41.960 godforsaken country. Meanwhile, the cop who killed Ashley Babbitt defends his shot. The New York Times

00:00:48.660 claims California Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder only got into college because of

00:00:53.520 affirmative action. They're really heating up the attacks. And the Biden-Harris approval rating

00:00:58.540 plummets. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:01.420 for supporting the show. I have been more than fair to Joe Biden. For the record, compared I think to

00:03:10.980 any other conservative commentator, pundit, talk show host, politician, I have tried to be as

00:03:17.380 charitable as I possibly can be to him. I don't think that it's fair to blame him for everything

00:03:22.120 in Afghanistan or even most things in Afghanistan. I don't think it's fair to blame him that there was

00:03:26.780 any chaos or violence in the withdrawal. I think some chaos and perhaps even some violence were

00:03:32.300 probably inevitable. But he has bungled this as much as possible every single step of the way.

00:03:42.840 To quote Barack Obama, don't underestimate how much Joe can F things up. And he has. And then he

00:03:49.760 finally addressed the nation last night. He was late to the address. And it was, I, it was,

00:03:56.380 it was the worst presidential speech I've ever seen in my lifetime. Haven't been on this earth

00:04:02.020 too long, but 31 years, been paying attention to politics the whole time. It was the worst I've ever

00:04:06.240 seen. It was slurred. It was lethargic. It was meandering. It was weak. It refused to take

00:04:13.480 responsibility. Just the open. Just listen to how he begins the speech. A tough day.

00:04:23.580 This evening in Kabul, as you all know, terrorists attacked that we've been talking about,

00:04:33.260 I'm worried about that the intelligence community has assessed, has undertaken

00:04:40.100 an attack by a group known as ISIS-K. Is he awake? Is he even awake here? Or is he just talking?

00:04:50.020 That's what I sound like when I talk in my sleep.

00:05:01.200 It's not a good way to start. And it does matter. I'm not just taking a cheap shot at him.

00:05:07.320 When the United States is attacked, when US servicemen are killed by terrorists in a completely

00:05:14.120 avoidable and bungled military operation, you need some energy from the commander in chief.

00:05:22.400 You need some clarity. You need some force. And he didn't bring it. Then he confused the whole issue

00:05:29.320 by referring to the distinction between the Taliban and ISIS. And how did ISIS get back here? I thought

00:05:37.060 he'd beat ISIS. And what is the Taliban doing? And what's the relationship? He left more questions

00:05:41.520 than answers. We've been made aware by our intelligence community

00:05:45.780 that the ISIS-K, an arch enemy, the Taliban, people who were freed when both those prisons

00:05:55.900 were opened, has been planning a complex set of attacks on the United States personnel and others.

00:06:03.360 First of all, enough with the Taliban. He calls them the Taliban every single time.

00:06:10.080 Only Democrats do this. The conservatives refer to the Taliban because we speak English.

00:06:15.900 But the Democrats refer to the Taliban and Pakistan and all these other stupid and Muslim, 1.00

00:06:21.260 not Muslim, Muslim, because they want to sound cultured or cosmopolitan. 1.00

00:06:25.100 These are the sort of people who probably go to Italian restaurants and instead of saying,

00:06:31.320 hey, I'll have the spaghetti, you know, could you give me a plate of the spaghetti? They'll say,

00:06:37.020 oh, thank you. I would have spaghetti a la carbonara, per favore. No, actually they don't do that.

00:06:41.480 They just do it with certain words that are non-Western and they think that this makes them

00:06:46.600 more serious and cultured. It does not. Speak English, get the point out there.

00:06:51.880 Now, Taliban, the Taliban and ISIS and their arch enemies and the ISIS guys got out when those 0.60

00:06:58.040 prisons were opened up. Who opened the prisons, Joe? The Taliban opened the prisons. The Taliban 0.88

00:07:03.280 opened the prisons to free the Taliban people, but then the ISIS people got out too. So are they 1.00

00:07:07.460 arch enemies or are they kind of working together? Do they have a common enemy in the United States?

00:07:11.980 All of the above. But now I guess we're told that the Taliban are our allies, which just proves the 0.97

00:07:18.660 point. What the liberal imperialists who have been pushing this endless war in Afghanistan have been

00:07:24.620 telling us is that, look, we've got to go there. There's the good guys. That's the Afghan army. It's

00:07:29.680 the allies. And there's the bad guys. That's the Taliban. We're fighting them. We've got to kill 0.75

00:07:33.080 them all. And then they'll have peace in Afghanistan. And then yesterday we get attacked, not by the 1.00

00:07:38.320 Taliban, but by ISIS. That's another group. And ISIS is against the Taliban. So now we've got to

00:07:43.660 completely switch and say, no, actually the Taliban, they're our allies. They're our friends

00:07:47.180 here. The Afghan army doesn't exist. It's just completely folded within hours. So that doesn't

00:07:52.000 exist anymore. Now we're friends with the Taliban. So what are we doing? What are we doing? Getting 0.58

00:07:56.200 out is what we're doing. Joe Biden meanders through this ridiculous speech longer and longer. I won't 0.97

00:08:02.560 subject you to it. Then he goes and finally takes some questions from the press. So is he taking a

00:08:07.940 rousing round of combative questions for, you know, in real time? No, he actually, you

00:08:14.040 got to, got to give him credit for transparency. He acknowledges that the questions are pre-approved.

00:08:18.960 Ladies and gentlemen, I gave me a list here. The first person I was instructed to call them

00:08:25.880 was Kelly O'Donnell of NBC. You have said leaving Afghanistan is in the national interest of the

00:08:34.400 United States. They gave me a list here. I have been instructed to call on.

00:08:42.460 Instructed by whom? Who are they who tell you to do this? They, the people who instructed you to do

00:08:52.580 this are running the country. You manifestly are not. And you're not even competent enough to hide the

00:09:01.920 fact that all of this is a show and it's all pre-approved. At least the first questions are.

00:09:08.420 He then is asked, uh, actually an excellent reporter here. Uh, it's hard to tell who these

00:09:14.280 reporters are because they've got their masks on, but he's, he, he asks him about Bagram. He says,

00:09:19.320 hold on. This is the question that my wife asked the other day. My wife who says, I'm no foreign

00:09:23.180 policy expert. Okay. I didn't go to West Point, but when you're leaving a country, wouldn't it be smart

00:09:29.240 to get the civilians out before the military leaves? Wouldn't that be a smart idea? I don't know.

00:09:33.600 Maybe I'm crazy. So this reporter asks that question. Did you personally reject a recommendation

00:09:41.420 to hold or to recapture Bagram Air Force Base? Here's what I've done on the, let's ask this,

00:09:49.100 answer the last question first. On the tactical questions of how to conduct an evacuation or a war,

00:09:57.300 I gather up all the major military personnel that are in Afghanistan, the commanders, as well as the

00:10:06.940 Pentagon. And I asked for their best military judgment. What would be the most efficient way

00:10:16.340 to accomplish the mission? They concluded the military, the Bagram was not much value added,

00:10:26.720 that it was much wiser to focus on Kabul. And so I followed that recommendation.

00:10:35.020 Was that, I actually couldn't tell. Was that Wegman? I think it may have been. Excellent question.

00:10:40.300 Really excellent question. Terrible answer, but really good question to ask him. Hold on. Was this

00:10:44.680 your decision? Are you, the buck stops with you? Are you the one who made this call to abandon the air

00:10:49.680 base before, before the air left? Doesn't make sense. And what does Biden do? It's so pathetic.

00:10:54.200 He blames his commanders. He says, no, they, they gave me the advice. And so I did what they wanted 1.00

00:11:01.400 me to do. It's their fault. Don't blame. The buck stops with them. They're the president. It's not my,

00:11:08.680 no, buddy, your, your job is to get advice from a lot of different people and then either choose

00:11:16.640 whose advice you want to go with or come up with a separate answer yourself. You're the decider.

00:11:21.160 Whatever you want to say about George Bush, I think George W. Bush made a lot of mistakes. And I

00:11:24.960 think a lot of the problems in Afghanistan are because of him. And a lot of the confusion in

00:11:28.800 our foreign policy is because of him. But whatever you want to say about George Bush, at least he was

00:11:34.040 the decider. At least he owned his decisions and stood by them. Kind of proof that sometimes a wrong

00:11:40.860 decision even can be better than indecision. Biden won't do that. He's got to blame everybody,

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00:12:29.300 America, a reporter for Fox News, he gets up, asks Biden a question about responsibility.

00:12:37.340 Listen, Mr. President, you've been dancing around and evading responsibility for this whole

00:12:41.940 debacle. Is this, do you take responsibility for any aspect of the collapse of Afghanistan?

00:12:51.180 You set a deadline, you pulled troops out, you sent troops back in, and now 12 Marines are dead. You

00:12:58.380 said the buck stops with you. Do you bear any responsibility for the way that things have

00:13:04.060 unfolded in the last two weeks? I bear responsibility for fundamentally all that's happened

00:13:09.900 of late. But here's the deal. You know, I wish you one day say these things, you know as well as I do

00:13:18.520 that the former president made a deal with the Taliban that he would get all American forces

00:13:27.220 out of Afghanistan by May 1. In return, the commitment was made, and that was a year before.

00:13:35.900 In return, he was given a commitment that the Taliban would continue to attack others, but would not

00:13:43.800 attack any American forces. Look, fundamentally, the problem, it all comes back to me. I'm responsible.

00:13:52.200 But it was Trump's fault. Democrats always do this. They say, I'm taking full responsibility.

00:13:58.100 But really, we all know it was someone else's fault. So they're trying to get credit for taking

00:14:02.300 responsibility, but they evade responsibility entirely. By the way, this raises a question.

00:14:06.380 A lot of this debacle is because we're pushing down to the end of August or maybe even later.

00:14:11.680 If the whole point was that they were going to get the troops out by early May, why didn't they do

00:14:16.200 that? If what Biden is saying is, yeah, you know, a lot of the reason that this is so violent and

00:14:21.620 there are attacks and everything is because we stayed longer and that's why the Taliban's not

00:14:26.620 going to give us another extension. Well, why didn't you just get out when the United States

00:14:29.800 said we would then? Wouldn't we have avoided this then? If you're saying that a lot of the reason that

00:14:35.040 the Taliban had not been attacking American troops is because of Trump's deal, then why wouldn't you 0.99

00:14:39.820 continue with that? And then the worst moment of the press conference, then we can move on,

00:14:45.300 but the worst moment of the press conference, do not let the left spin this, they're already

00:14:48.520 spinning this, is he was asked to follow up by Peter Doocy and Biden was so defeated that he just

00:14:54.000 put his head down on his hands. Because before, no, no, no, wait a minute. I'm asking you a question.

00:15:00.220 Is that accurate? But Mr. President, respectfully, I don't think that the issue that, do you think

00:15:07.280 that people have an issue with pulling out of Afghanistan for just a wave of things that happen? 0.96

00:15:12.140 So pathetic. He can't, he can't even keep his head up. He can't even keep his eyes open. I mean, 1.00

00:15:17.160 he was struggling to do that during the speech itself. And now Doocy pushes back at all, very

00:15:20.980 simple question. And he puts his head down on his hands. The left is spinning this image. This is a

00:15:25.480 devastating image for the Biden administration. And the left is already spinning it and saying that

00:15:29.440 he was praying for our troops. That's not what happened. You just heard the clip. He was not,

00:15:34.760 he was struggling and failing to answer a simple question by a reporter. Earlier in the speech,

00:15:41.220 he said, let's have a moment of silence. But he did. That's not what that image is from. Don't let

00:15:44.860 that, I had a blue check mark yesterday. Tell me, oh, no, Michael, you're so callous to make fun of

00:15:50.540 this moment. He's praying for the fallen servicemen. He's not. He's praying that the reporter will stop

00:15:56.020 asking him tough questions and he's praying that he can get an answer to it. But he can't because there

00:15:59.840 is no answer. The chances that this guy gets reelected are collapsing day and day after day

00:16:07.360 after day after day, unless there's widespread voter fraud in 2024. If he even runs, there's a

00:16:12.700 headline from Yahoo, Yahoo News right now, Yahoo Finance. 2024 odds slide for Biden Harris. Harris leads

00:16:20.720 Trump by two percent. Notice anything weird about that headline? Notice anything? The odds slide for

00:16:29.480 Biden Harris. Okay, that makes sense. Harris leads Trump by two percent. So they're assuming, first of

00:16:35.220 all, that Trump is going to run and that he's going to do very well, actually, right? Because it's neck and

00:16:43.020 neck. And they're assuming that Biden will not run for reelection because nobody can listen to that

00:16:48.100 speech and think that this guy is even half sentient at this point. He's not. I don't even just mean to

00:16:55.120 make fun of him. It's a tough job. Can you imagine? We all have tough jobs, right? I'm sure you, in

00:16:59.840 whatever you do in your job, I'm sure you're a good listener to the Michael Knowles show. You've got

00:17:05.600 your priorities in order. You probably work very hard. I bet you're tired at the end of the day. I'm tired

00:17:09.800 at the end of the day. We all are. And we're not running the world. I guess Joe Biden's not running

00:17:15.320 the world either. It's a lot of stress and he just is not living up to it. The only person I've ever

00:17:20.260 seen not age in the presidency is Donald Trump. It might've been all of the aspartame from the

00:17:26.440 Diet Coke or all the preservatives from the fast food, but the guy looked the same after the

00:17:31.580 presidency as he did when he got in. And that's just not true. It wasn't true for Obama. It wasn't

00:17:35.040 true for Bush. Certainly isn't true for Biden, who entered the presidency at 102 years old and now

00:17:39.960 seems to be 150. Really bad news for them because Biden ain't looking so hot and Harris is profoundly

00:17:46.520 unlikable. Trump, speaking of the shadow president, Trump also gave a speech last night. Take a listen.

00:17:55.800 As one nation, America mourns the loss of our brave and brilliant American service members

00:18:00.940 in a savage and barbaric terrorist attack in Afghanistan. These noble American warriors laid

00:18:08.360 down their lives in the line of duty. They sacrificed themselves for the country that they loved,

00:18:14.600 racing against time to rescue their fellow citizens from harm's way. They died as American heroes,

00:18:22.040 and our nation will honor their memory forever. I want to express my deepest condolences to the

00:18:28.200 families of those we have lost. Today, all Americans grieve alongside you. Together, we also pray that God

00:18:36.280 will heal the other courageous American service members who were wounded in this heinous attack.

00:18:43.720 So he goes on and on and on in a forceful, energetic, clear, actually concise way. When I say he goes on

00:18:50.920 and on and on, I'm not, I don't mean he's droning. He's not. Everything he's saying here is clear. It

00:18:55.480 serves a purpose and he's got energy. This in itself is devastating. People are probably not going to show you

00:19:01.460 this video that he released because he's been deplatformed by the liberal establishment because

00:19:05.540 they can't tolerate that threat. You know, Donald Trump, he's so unpopular. He lost by more votes in

00:19:11.460 American history, and that's why we can't ever let any of you hear from him at all or ever let him 0.94

00:19:15.740 appear on a ballot again because of how unpopular he is, right? Right? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

00:19:21.420 That's what a president sounds like. I'm not saying he's, Trump is the only president. I think there are a lot

00:19:24.620 of people who could have given a speech last night. I think there are a lot of people who could have

00:19:27.420 actually handled the withdrawal from Kabul. Biden could not. On top of this, we found out the Biden

00:19:32.820 administration apparently gave the Taliban a list of US citizens, green card holders, and Afghan

00:19:37.580 allies. This is being reported today. Biden refused to answer. Ducey asked him that question. Biden

00:19:43.120 refused to give an answer. Now, perhaps that's because he doesn't know what the answer is. This

00:19:48.800 is insanity. The argument for it is if you give the Taliban a list of the US citizens, green card 0.75

00:19:53.580 holders, and crucially Afghan allies in the region, then the Taliban will let them get to the airport,

00:19:59.280 right? Or that's sort of the rosy optimistic view. Or you just gave the Taliban a kill list.

00:20:07.220 What do you think it is? Knowing what you know about the Taliban, which do you think it is?

00:20:12.320 Criminal incompetence or strategic? This was a question that was raised. Was this pure incompetence

00:20:21.400 or was it subversion? Or was it sabotage? Or is the foreign policy establishment trying to stay

00:20:30.600 in Afghanistan? I don't know. I don't want to ascribe to malice that which is equally explained

00:20:33.940 by stupidity. But either this is the most historically incompetent withdrawal ever in US history, 1.00

00:20:41.100 or there were competing interests going on by the bureaucracy. We were debating this last night

00:20:45.360 backstage. Ben made the point that the people don't control foreign policy. The foreign policy is

00:20:50.240 controlled by the blob and has been for decades, which then raises the questions. The blob didn't

00:20:54.900 want to leave Afghanistan. The withdrawal has been so bunged. We left an army's worth of equipment there

00:20:59.900 without any explanation. Is that just the first step in going back in? It's a real question to answer.

00:21:07.860 Meanwhile, we've got a lot of violence going on here in the United States. We got a lot of national

00:21:13.440 disintegration here in the United States. The cop who killed Ashley Babbitt, the Trump supporter from the

00:21:17.360 Capitol. He's speaking out for the first time. So this cop goes on NBC News. This is the cop who

00:21:26.360 killed Ashley Babbitt, a Trump supporter in the Capitol. She went into an area she wasn't supposed

00:21:31.180 to and she gets shot and killed. We were told that the Trump supporters were violent, terrible. They 0.97

00:21:36.260 were killing cops. That just none of that was true. None of that was true. Even the New York Times and

00:21:40.200 Washington Post had to admit it. The only person who was killed in the political violence of that day

00:21:43.980 was Ashley Babbitt, a Trump supporter. Here is the cop's defense.

00:21:48.620 I followed my training and I spent countless years and preparing for such a moment. You ultimately hope

00:21:58.800 that moment never occurs, but you prepare as best you can. I know that day I saved countless lives.

00:22:05.980 I know members of Congress as well as my fellow officers and staff were in jeopardy

00:22:10.980 and in serious danger. And that's my job.

00:22:16.440 I don't think he killed countless lives, regardless that he saved countless lives. I don't

00:22:20.980 know about his claim, about his training, and he did what he was supposed to do. And maybe it was a

00:22:26.340 fair shot. I don't know. I mean, an investigation or a trial actually would determine that.

00:22:31.440 But I don't think he saved countless lives. Do you know why? Because no one was killed that day

00:22:36.540 except for Ashley Babbitt. So you're telling me of all the people that were in the Capitol,

00:22:40.260 of all the people in all the places, the only one who was supposed to deadly threat

00:22:44.500 was Ashley Babbitt. She was going to kill people. No one else, not the horn guy, not the lectern guy, 0.86

00:22:50.480 not any of the other people, just Ashley Babbitt. And that's why this unarmed woman was shot to death

00:22:55.520 by this cop. And no one's asking questions. I'm not even saying the guy should go to jail.

00:23:01.960 It is certainly the case that if it was a white cop killing a black woman 0.97

00:23:06.360 or a pro-Trump cop killing a Democrat woman, the guy would be in Guantanamo Bay. 0.98

00:23:12.320 The guy would have had his life, he would have been doxxed. We would have heard from him much

00:23:16.140 sooner than this. His family would be threatened. He would certainly be in jail at least, if not

00:23:20.720 executed. But it's a black cop defending the Democrats, killing a Trump supporter. So 1.00

00:23:28.620 totally fine. There won't, there won't be a thorough investigation of this. And there should

00:23:33.580 be. There certainly should be. He references his training. Speaking of training, the New York Times

00:23:38.120 is really descending to a new low against Larry Elder. You know, Larry Elder, the libertarian,

00:23:43.300 somewhat conservative candidate who's doing very, very well, friend of ours and doing very,

00:23:47.320 very well running in the recall for California. So you remember LA Times called him the black face of

00:23:53.340 white supremacy. Then the LA Times came out and said, because he cleaned his gun six years ago, 0.82

00:23:58.620 that he's actually like a wife beater, he's a threat to America or something like that.

00:24:02.560 Now, New York Times is upping the ante here by calling him an affirmative action case.

00:24:10.580 That's the line. The New York Times writes, quote, admitted to Brown University under an early

00:24:16.620 affirmative action program. Mr. Elder, the second of three sons, stayed away from California for years,

00:24:21.140 moving to the University of Michigan Law School and becoming a lawyer and legal recruiter in Ohio.

00:24:25.000 He's an affirmative action case. He wouldn't have gotten into Brown otherwise. You see, 0.73

00:24:27.480 he only got in because he was black. So says the New York Times. 0.90

00:24:33.120 By that logic, every single black person who gets admitted to any college in America,

00:24:41.280 just about, is an affirmative action case. But they don't refer to all the other lawyers that way,

00:24:48.020 do they? You don't hear them refer to, forget even the lawyers, anyone who gets into any

00:24:55.580 college in the country. Affirmative action case, Nicole Hannah-Jones. Affirmative action case,

00:25:02.100 Joy Reid. Affirmative action case, Maxine Waters. No. In fact, we're told that you're a horrible racist 0.99

00:25:09.120 if you suggest that black people get into college because of affirmative action. Now, we know that 1.00

00:25:13.180 affirmative action gives an advantage to black students. They don't need test scores that are

00:25:17.540 as high. They don't need grades that are as high as white students or Asian students. So that seems 0.94

00:25:21.680 unjust in and of itself. But we are told if you ever call a black person an affirmative action case,

00:25:26.460 you're a vicious, vile racist. Unless you're the New York Times doing it against Larry Elder, 0.97

00:25:30.280 in which case this completely cheap shot. Larry Elder is a very intelligent guy. I suspect he

00:25:34.560 could have gotten into a good school on his own. But Clarence Thomas made this point in his memoir.

00:25:38.700 He said he, Clarence Thomas, one of the greatest jurists in the country, extraordinarily intelligent

00:25:42.640 guy. He graduated Yale Law School, top law school in the country, and he had trouble getting a job

00:25:47.700 because people thought he was affirmative action case. And that's one of the reasons he hates 0.76

00:25:50.840 affirmative action. Because he says, I could have done it on my own. New York Times, using that,

00:25:57.120 using their own programs, which they say are compassionate, using it as a way to undermine 0.86

00:26:02.720 this black guy on the basis of his skin. Speaking of black men who need no affirmative action, 0.99

00:26:09.040 Kanye West, baby. I haven't listened to the album yet, but he's got a new album coming out. It's called 0.93

00:26:12.580 Donda. And I'm not, maybe we'll do an analysis of the album at some point. He's got a cool new gadget

00:26:18.820 that he uses to mix the album. It's like this very innovative gadget that coincidentally a friend of

00:26:24.700 mine built. So that's cool in and of itself. But what I want to focus on here is, he had a listening

00:26:30.640 party for this last night. And the central set piece was a chapel with a big cross. And the action

00:26:37.720 on stage, he actually had Marilyn Manson there, kind of representing the devil. Because Marilyn Manson is

00:26:42.180 probably the most famous Satanist in the country. And it was representing spiritual warfare. And I just

00:26:46.920 thought, amid all the crazy madness that's going on right now, there is a little glimmer of hope. There's

00:26:54.100 always a little glimmer of hope, even as the world decays, which is that the most famous popular musician

00:26:58.720 in the world is an outspoken Christian. And some people are saying that Kanye is just pretending to be a

00:27:05.280 Christian, just to be weird, just to be eccentric, just to keep people guessing. I mentioned I have at least 0.99

00:27:09.660 one mutual friend with Kanye West, others as well. What they tell me is he's 100% serious. He's 100%

00:27:16.680 sincere. And that is a wonderful thing. We can't even omit all this craziness. We can't lose sight

00:27:20.900 of genuinely inspiring, encouraging moments. Speaking of which, though, I can't leave on that

00:27:26.240 high a note. We will get to the mailbag in a second, but I have to note this. Harvard, Harvard

00:27:30.800 University just hired a new chaplain. You know, the chaplain is the pastor, the sort of religious leader

00:27:35.780 at a university, in the military, wherever, in a prison. The new chaplain at Harvard is an atheist.

00:27:44.400 They just hired this guy, Greg Epstein, is a 44-year-old writer of Good Without God.

00:27:48.680 He is the new chaplain. He's going to coordinate the religious life of Harvard. He, who is an atheist.

00:27:56.980 And a lot of people are saying this is insane. You know, the conservatives are saying this is insane.

00:28:01.200 The liberals are saying it's very clever. It's so subversive. It's so clever. I think it's just

00:28:05.320 common sense. I think it's totally ordinary because everybody's got to serve somebody.

00:28:10.920 The absence of religion, what people think is the absence of religion, is a religion of itself.

00:28:15.420 You can't help but make certain ethical, metaphysical claims about the world. And the

00:28:20.060 official religion of Harvard is atheism. And the official religion of our country right now is

00:28:23.860 atheism, by the way. And so it stands to reason that the chaplain of Harvard and chaplain of other

00:28:30.140 influential institutions in America would be an atheist too. He's a lapsed Jew, but he's now, 0.89

00:28:35.860 that's gone. He's just an atheist. Not surprising at all. That's the most popular religion in America. 0.59

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00:29:17.800 Hurry, the deal won't last much longer. We'll be right back with The Mailbag.

00:29:33.480 Welcome back to my favorite time of the week, The Mailbag. First question from Christina. Hi there.

00:29:37.780 Hi, Christina. My husband and I were debating this morning whether or not women should be allowed to

00:29:43.680 breastfeed in public without a cover and wanted to know your opinion on the subject. He said it

00:29:49.380 should be allowed. It should, I'm sorry, it should not be allowed because it's public nudity and it

00:29:53.540 makes people uncomfortable and it's not necessary as you could use a cover or a washroom. I say it

00:29:58.420 should be allowed because while there may be partial nudity, it's not a sexual act in any way and is

00:30:04.280 necessary for the baby. And if it makes people uncomfortable, they can just look away. Thanks.

00:30:07.780 We love the show. Your husband's right. It's a simple answer because your argument is that yes,

00:30:17.300 men are attracted to boobs, but the act of breastfeeding is not a particularly sexy act 0.93

00:30:25.560 and it is not presenting said boob in a sexual way. Right. But the boob is still sexually attractive 1.00

00:30:37.680 to men. It doesn't change the nature of the thing. It's not as though men are attracted to the female 0.89

00:30:43.920 body only in certain circumstances. We find the female body attractive in itself. So this is like 0.96

00:30:50.680 sometimes you'll hear people say, we don't need to teach women to be more careful when they go out, 1.00

00:30:56.460 you know, in a dark alley late at night. We just teach, need to teach men not to be sexual predators.

00:31:01.700 It's like, yeah, sure. That that's a good idea, but you also need to teach people to be prudent and

00:31:06.920 careful. Like we don't need to teach, we don't need to teach people to bring an umbrella outside when

00:31:15.000 it rains. We need to teach the sky not to rain. Yeah, no, I, yeah, you, people should have an umbrella

00:31:20.600 and yes, you should be in, you know, you should take note of the weather, but things are going to

00:31:27.180 happen. This is a fallen world and there are going to be, I'm not saying all men are sexual predators,

00:31:31.280 but there are going to be predators, not even sexual. There are going to be predators out trying to steal

00:31:35.200 your wallet. There are going to be people trying to steal your pocketbook in a dark alley. So you still need to

00:31:38.420 take caution when you go down the dark alleyway and you are going to be, it is, it is a sort of

00:31:45.780 sexual thing anytime any woman takes any part of her top off in public. So I would just recommend 1.00

00:31:50.440 those little cover-ups. They're fine. I'm not saying you need to wear a burqa, just a little 1.00

00:31:53.140 cover-up there. I think it's good. Obviously women should breastfeed their kids, but I don't think we 1.00

00:31:57.500 should tolerate public nudity because of that. We can, we can take care of lots of different aspects of

00:32:03.160 society all at once. From Max, hi Michael, listening to your argument for leaving Afghanistan, 0.58

00:32:07.800 I'd like to hear your response to a counter. You say, because we have our problems at home,

00:32:12.800 we should focus on those instead of problems elsewhere. But isn't that the equivalent of

00:32:16.320 arguing that because of all the problems in the church today, we should not focus on evangelization

00:32:20.320 and spreading the faith to others? What are your thoughts on this counter? Thanks and love the show.

00:32:24.260 Deus vult. No, I don't think it's a fair comparison because when we say evangelize, we're saying spread the

00:32:29.340 good news of the gospel and the church, whatever her problems are, and there are many problems,

00:32:34.020 the church still has the basic truth of the gospel to evangelize, right? I believe in God,

00:32:41.380 the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth, and Jesus Christ has only sent our Lord who we

00:32:44.060 could recite the creed. We know what the good news is, and so we can spread that even if our bishops

00:32:49.160 are jerks and even if our episcopacy is falling apart and even if Sue from the parish council is 0.99

00:32:55.200 ruining things. We still have the message to spread. When it comes to America spreading her values to the 0.99

00:33:00.780 world, what are the values? Truth, justice, and the American way? You're not even allowed to say

00:33:05.880 that in a Superman movie anymore. You haven't for 15 years. What is the American value? Is it the

00:33:12.520 pride flag? I bet a lot of people would say that's the American value. We hang it up at our embassies

00:33:17.620 all over the world, including in the Vatican, including in Kabul. I don't feel that that represents

00:33:24.780 me. I don't think trans pride or something is a value that I want to spread, but a lot of people

00:33:29.640 believe that's what it is. We don't know what the values are to evangelize anymore, and so when I

00:33:37.240 make this point on Afghanistan, I'm not making a prescriptive argument that we should and we must

00:33:45.060 get out of Afghanistan right now, and it's the eternally perpetually moral thing to always be 0.89

00:33:49.100 out of Afghanistan. I'm not saying that, or out of meddling in other countries' affairs. I'm making 0.73

00:33:54.660 the descriptive observation that we don't know what we stand for anymore. We don't know what

00:33:59.960 we're doing there. That's why the people want to get out, and until we figure out what it is that

00:34:04.900 we stand for, we are simply not going to be able to project power overseas, which is what happened

00:34:10.400 in Afghanistan. From Alex, hi, Michael. Please advise. I've been eating an apple a day, and Dr. Fauci has

00:34:15.560 not gone away. Am I buying the wrong brand? What's with Dem apples? Thanks.

00:34:21.560 I have nothing to add to that. That was really beautiful. Beautiful. From Camille.

00:34:30.180 Good morning, Michael. Camille, hello. I recently was discussing dreams and lucid dreaming with some

00:34:35.480 friends. A few of the more hippie friends were saying that dreams are premonitions a lot of the

00:34:39.760 time and can reveal the true inner workings of your psyche. What are your thoughts on dreams in general

00:34:45.520 and lucid dreaming? Thank you, as always. Is this what dreams are made of? Well, dreams can

00:34:52.900 tell you something about the world. This happens in the Bible. This happens through mythology. You see

00:35:01.760 this in myths, and probably some of us have experienced this in our own lives, and whether

00:35:06.840 that is because you're getting a direct message from God about what's going to happen, or whether it's

00:35:12.740 because you're just intuiting something about the world that is then you're working it out in your

00:35:17.420 dreams, in the same way that prophets are not exactly people who predict the future. They're

00:35:21.280 just people who preach the truth because they can see the truth in a world that doesn't.

00:35:25.520 That can happen in dreams, no question about it. But then you bring up lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming,

00:35:30.740 probably everyone has had a lucid dream at some point. It's a dream where you can control what you do,

00:35:36.940 right? It's a dream where, like, you realize you're dreaming, and you're like, oh, cool,

00:35:39.900 I'm going to fly. Oh, cool, now I'm going to fly, or whatever, you know. In those dreams, I think it's

00:35:46.940 hard to say that's a premonition or something, I mean, because you're controlling the action.

00:35:53.420 So they can be kind of fun, I guess, if you want to fly or whatever, but yeah, I wouldn't take too

00:36:00.340 much stock of that. Probably those dreams will just tell you more about yourself and your own desires,

00:36:05.060 and what you would do when you think no one is watching. From Matthew,

00:36:08.360 Dear Mr. Knowledge, I mean Knowles, after 20 years of U.S. and allied presence in Afghanistan,

00:36:13.940 how is it possible that the Taliban is still so well-armed? Guns, ammo, grenades, etc. In the U.S.,

00:36:21.120 we can't even get reasonably priced ammo, and Biden's attack on the Second Amendment is getting

00:36:24.640 worse. Sincerely, one round shy of a clip. It's a good name. Well, right now the Taliban is so well-armed 0.71

00:36:31.660 because we gave them an army's worth of stuff. So it's true, you can't get ammo right now, but

00:36:35.560 Mohammed, Mahar, Mohammed, Al, whatever, you know, has all of your ammo that you paid for

00:36:41.860 with your tax dollars, or actually that your government just borrowed from China to send

00:36:46.120 over there, and you're going to pay the interest on the debt. I think getting to the heart of your

00:36:52.800 question, which is why have we not completely wiped out the Taliban, or why have we not completely wiped

00:36:58.820 out ISIS? Really, the only president who went hard to completely destroy ISIS was Trump. And he did a

00:37:07.160 very good job. Obviously, there are these little offshoots that keep cropping up. But Obama, you'll

00:37:11.460 remember, didn't just try to totally kill ISIS. And I think the reason for that is we no longer in this

00:37:18.140 country try to win wars. We just try to manage conflicts. So I strongly suspect the foreign policy

00:37:24.600 establishment does not want to totally wipe out ISIS, and does not want to totally wipe out the

00:37:28.520 Taliban, and does not want to totally wipe out any of these groups. They want to just kind of keep a 0.85

00:37:33.020 balance of power going on so that they all keep sort of killing each other, and no one's ever in

00:37:37.000 control, and it's always in a state of managed chaos. That has been a major aspect of American grand

00:37:44.600 strategy for decades now. And I think the American people are questioning that because we'd prefer to

00:37:49.320 win wars than just kind of manage declines. But there's a big gap between the people who run our

00:37:55.600 foreign policy and the American people themselves. From Nick. Hey, Michael, me again. Oh, no, Nick.

00:38:03.460 Hey, Michael, me again. So my relationship with my above average girlfriend fizzled out. And let's be

00:38:09.060 real. It's not me. It's her. Uh-huh. Now, normally after a breakup, I feel like a phoenix rising from

00:38:14.840 the ashes, ready to dive back into all the babes' DMs. However, I've been thinking of trying 0.99

00:38:21.200 something new. Oh, yeah, you think? Rather than the tried and true dating cycle of swipe right,

00:38:26.220 spit game, meet up, talk sexy, get sexy, and finally weeks later answer this so what are we question,

00:38:32.180 I was thinking of getting more serious with a friend of mine who I've been close with but never

00:38:36.560 close with, if you know what I mean. Do you think this is a better strategy for finding a long-term

00:38:42.120 ride-or-die-bay? Sincerely, by close, I mean we never hooked up but she totally wanted to.

00:38:48.860 Nick, you've written into this show many times now. And I actually think that your

00:38:56.160 colorful relationship life is representative of many millennials and Gen Zers.

00:39:04.300 You need to get married, Nick. You need to marry this girl. I strongly recommend marrying people who 0.98

00:39:10.480 you're friends with and who you like and who you have shared experience with. I think that's a good

00:39:13.660 idea. I think it's probably better than the swipe culture. But in your case, Nick, even if it's not

00:39:19.700 this girl, I think you should walk outside, pick up a stick, and throw it. And then the first woman 1.00

00:39:27.700 that it hits, frankly the first person that it hits at this point, we live in a brave new world,

00:39:31.260 marry that person. And then stop dating and stop swiping. And I'm not saying stop writing into the

00:39:37.080 show because I do get a kick out of your questions and I think they're illuminating. But you gotta

00:39:42.980 get your life in order, Nick, okay? All right? Millennials, you gotta get your life in order, 1.00

00:39:50.580 generally. From Jacob, dear Michael, I just moved to a new city to go to college and I would like to

00:39:55.520 go to some bars and restaurants to try to meet new people, particularly women. However, my extreme

00:39:59.660 social anxiety makes me terrified to go and talk to people directly, especially girls. Do you have any

00:40:03.700 tips for me to get over my social anxiety and fear of rejection? Thank you, Jacob. Yes, I do. I don't

00:40:09.260 think it's just you. I think everyone feels this way. Frankly, look, I'm a pretty social guy. Even

00:40:14.600 if I showed up to a new city and I'm going to a restaurant or a bar just to meet people, not just

00:40:20.820 to sit by myself and smoke a cigar and read a book, but to actually go meet people, I would be nervous

00:40:24.600 too. That's an anxiety-inducing experience. So what I would recommend since you're starting college

00:40:28.900 is rather than just show up to a bar and say, hey, ladies, come on, hit me up, I would recommend 1.00

00:40:35.400 joining a club. I would recommend joining some kind of activity, extracurricular or curricular,

00:40:40.480 and meeting people that way in a little more organic way and then sort of hanging out a little

00:40:46.640 bit. So you're in a more structured environment and then that, I think, would lead more to being

00:40:52.980 able to say, hey, you want to go get a drink? Hey, you want to get a cup of coffee? Now, you can just

00:40:56.620 show up to a bar and get a drink, but I wouldn't go there just with the hope and expectation of

00:41:04.940 meeting women and picking up a woman because you'll be really nervous. You won't come across

00:41:09.420 as confident. You might come across as overeager. I just don't think it's going to work. So I would

00:41:15.060 do it in a little bit more of an organic way. And you don't even need to go find the chickies first.

00:41:19.260 I mean, maybe you join a club. Maybe it's a political club. Maybe it's a game sort of club. I don't

00:41:24.140 know. Whatever it is. And just meet people and just hang out and just keep it cool. Keep it cool,

00:41:31.120 man. Keep it light. Build up a little confidence that way. And then I think it'll happen more

00:41:36.020 naturally. From Daniel. Michael, if language doesn't matter anymore, and definitions used

00:41:40.880 since the first dictionaries are not properly used anymore, why are conservatives so worried

00:41:44.660 about being called racist, homophobic, xenophobic, or any of the phobes? What if we just treated them

00:41:49.240 as children? These things are only as damaging as the person being called them allows them to be,

00:41:53.780 especially if they're founded in no truth at all. Yeah, I think it's true. I think there's a lot of

00:41:57.740 truth to that. We should not worry about being called racist or whatever. The left doesn't,

00:42:03.380 you know, don't be a jerk. You know, don't hate people on the basis of their skin. But knowing that, 1.00

00:42:08.560 yeah, don't care what people call you. It doesn't bother me. I don't try to prove to media

00:42:13.640 matters or whoever that I'm not a racist or whatever. I just don't care. I mean, it doesn't interest me.

00:42:17.580 The fact is, though, it is the worst thing you can be called in American society today,

00:42:21.120 so it does still carry power. But I do agree we should try to rob them of that power. One quick

00:42:25.220 question before we go from Jessica Michael. I'm a single 20-something woman. I've got both girl and

00:42:29.420 guy friends. I don't try to be or act like a guy at all, but have always had a lot of guy friends

00:42:34.320 in addition to my girlfriends. I have sometimes been referred to as one of the guys. Don't love that.

00:42:38.740 I never call myself that. However, I'm still single. I wonder if being seen as one of the guys is

00:42:42.260 inhibiting my dating life. If so, what can I do without completely being someone I'm not?

00:42:46.320 Sincerely, one of those bros is not like the others. Yes, this will inhibit your dating life.

00:42:51.340 I'm sorry. Maybe you do like hanging out with the boys more than the girls, but if you want to no

00:42:55.620 longer be seen in that way, you need to hang out with the girls a little bit more. I'm not saying

00:42:59.760 ditch your guy friends, but you are a girl, and you got to do girl things with girls, and that will 1.00

00:43:06.600 help you do girl things with guys. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you Monday.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 27, 2021

Ep. 831 - Biden Lied, People Died

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