The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 888 - All Gather For The Finale Of The Rittenhouse Trial

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00:00:30.320 As the jury in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse deliberated and prepared to issue a verdict

00:00:35.240 in keeping with our system of law, Black Lives Matter members decided to put their finger 1.00

00:00:40.220 on the scales of justice if the jurors refused to sacrifice the obviously innocent teenager to the mob.

00:00:48.020 If you know she's not getting it, if you know she's not getting it,

00:00:53.720 if you know she's not getting it, then it's not in effect.

00:00:59.720 Seven shots in the back! 1.00

00:01:03.460 Seven shots in the back! 1.00

00:01:06.160 Seven shots in the back! 1.00

00:01:08.780 Seven shots in the back! 1.00

00:01:11.740 If Kenosha don't get it, shut it down.

00:01:14.460 So this is about Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:01:16.000 This is outside the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

00:01:17.900 But then they start referencing Jacob Blake.

00:01:20.380 Seven shots in the back. 0.97

00:01:21.940 Seven shots in the back. 0.97

00:01:23.040 Which he deserved.

00:01:24.300 He deserved more than that, frankly.

00:01:25.520 And the cops, I think, were lenient with Jacob Blake.

00:01:28.620 But what does this have to do with that?

00:01:31.080 We're talking about a completely separate incident.

00:01:33.360 I suppose the only thing it has to do with it is that Kyle Rittenhouse was present at the riots

00:01:38.000 that began after the Jacob Blake arrest.

00:01:41.880 There are two trials going on here.

00:01:44.800 The trial in the court of law and then this completely unrelated trial in the court of public opinion.

00:01:50.160 The prosecution already lost on the evidence and by all rights should lose in the court of law

00:01:55.600 with regard to Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:01:57.380 And so the media and its activists on the ground are going into overdrive to salvage the case on the streets.

00:02:02.940 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:04.000 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:04.800 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:13.600 My favorite comment yesterday is from Tyler, who says,

00:02:17.140 If we weren't already sure, we damn sure know now, quote,

00:02:21.020 The good news is we're now the counterculture.

00:02:23.500 When you're in the counterculture, you can't afford to be lazy, says Jeremy Boring.

00:02:27.720 This is very true.

00:02:28.600 And this is why, I think, on the left, that very often the news media, the prosecutors,

00:02:35.580 like in the Rittenhouse case, the politicians, they get caught with their pants down.

00:02:39.220 They get caught unable to answer basic questions.

00:02:42.320 They get caught in foolish errors because there's no pressure on them.

00:02:46.940 Whereas for the right, if you are the counterculture, if you're opposing the ruling class,

00:02:51.760 you've got to have everything absolutely right.

00:02:53.900 If you're Kyle Rittenhouse, you need to make sure every shot you take is totally justifiable.

00:02:59.340 Every move you make is totally within the realm of self-defense.

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00:04:40.520 We have a Daily Wire reporter on the ground right now in Kenosha, our friend Georgia Howe.

00:04:45.600 So she showed up to the courthouse. 1.00

00:04:47.940 She's interviewing people about these two somewhat related but really quite different cases.

00:04:54.260 There's the trial that's going on of Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:04:56.820 And then there are people protesting about Jacob Blake.

00:04:59.620 Jacob Blake was that degenerate accused rapist who was reaching into a car with a weapon, refusing, resisting arrest, reaching into a car with kids, with a weapon, about to drive off with these kids.

00:05:10.840 And finally, and only then, did the cops shoot him in the back.

00:05:14.200 And so there are protests going on about that incident because that incident sparked these leftist terrorists to go out into the street and riot.

00:05:22.620 And then Kyle Rittenhouse shows up to protect property, to go to this community that he works in, that his father lives in.

00:05:28.220 And there, Antifa, who were showing up on behalf of the BLM people, threatened Kyle Rittenhouse's life and then Kyle Rittenhouse fights back.

00:05:37.420 So it's these two really distinct stories, but they are kind of interwoven.

00:05:41.900 So Georgia interviewed Jacob Blake's uncle who says that this entire case is all about race.

00:05:49.640 Now, a lot of people have been making this about race, and I notice we have some Black Lives Matter protesters here.

00:05:56.840 Do you think this case is about race?

00:05:58.740 Of course.

00:05:59.780 I'm going to be just cold-blooded honest with you.

00:06:01.920 Of course it is.

00:06:02.860 A young Black man was shot seven times in the back, who was never charged with any crime, who was not being aggressive, and who had his back turned on a police officer.

00:06:12.680 Now, but when it comes to the Kyle Rittenhouse case, all of the men that he shot were white.

00:06:17.640 So how is the Kyle Rittenhouse case about race?

00:06:20.380 So to be blunt with you, back in the 50s, 40s, and 60s, they were referred to them as n***a lovers.

00:06:26.800 So they were sacrificed.

00:06:29.040 They were sacrificed, and this young man was used.

00:06:32.900 So if they can, what was the tone that we're setting today is that I don't believe our Caucasian counterparts are willing to give up the lives of their young people on the street.

00:06:44.060 This is no different than the shooting in Colorado, the shooting in Florida.

00:06:48.240 It was a young person because he would have been in high school or just out of high school, and he shouldn't have had a gun.

00:06:52.620 Not the most coherent or eloquent or intelligent fellow in the world, but Jacob Blake's uncle is saying, look, it's true that the people who were killed in the Kyle Rittenhouse incident were white, but they were really only killed because they're white people who like black people.

00:07:10.640 You know, if Larry Elder is the black face of white supremacy, then that pedophile and the other people who were killed attacking Kyle Rittenhouse, they're the white face of black victimhood, I guess. 0.84

00:07:21.280 It's all, anything that works with our left-wing narrative, that's all about, you know, we're the wonderful black victims.

00:07:30.160 Anything that supports the right in America, they are white supremacists, even if they're black.

00:07:38.100 The argument he makes here, by the way, about his nephew, Jacob Blake, that, look, he wasn't even charged with a crime.

00:07:45.180 That is not an argument for letting Jacob Blake off the hook.

00:07:47.960 That's an argument for charging Jacob Blake with a crime.

00:07:49.920 He should have been charged.

00:07:51.740 He got off easy.

00:07:53.360 He was shot with his back turned to the cops.

00:07:55.260 Yeah, his back was turned to the cops because he was reaching into a car with kids and a weapon and resisting arrest after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman, the mother of the kids.

00:08:05.880 We have a serious problem in this.

00:08:07.860 We talk about how we need criminal justice reform.

00:08:09.900 We do need criminal justice reform.

00:08:11.680 We have a very serious problem in this country with police leniency and under-incarceration.

00:08:17.360 Jacob Blake should never get outside of a jail, okay?

00:08:21.800 He's a bad dude who is committing bad crimes and he is now going to get a, he did receive a payment from the state because of this kind of grievance politics.

00:08:34.940 Because no one wants to touch this third rail in American politics.

00:08:39.760 No one wants to touch race and the left is using race and exploiting race to their own evil ends.

00:08:46.540 Just tune into MSNBC.

00:08:47.960 Joy Reid, Joy Reid, one of the most honest people on MSNBC in, in that she is honest about her radicalism. 0.65

00:08:55.660 She just posted a TikTok where she made clear the facts of the Kyle Rittenhouse case or Jacob Blake or whatever, none of that matters.

00:09:03.760 She hates white men and whatever white men do is evil.

00:09:08.320 It's Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

00:09:11.540 It reminded a lot of people of something, something, I just can't remember what it was.

00:09:15.920 Oh, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, in which Brett Kavanaugh, who had been accused by a high school friend of committing sexual abuse of her, cried his way through the hearings to make him a permanent member and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.

00:09:35.460 And his tears turned out to be more powerful than the tears of Christine Blasey Ford, which were the tears of an alleged victim.

00:09:45.500 But in America, there's a thing about both white vigilantism and white tears, particularly male white tears.

00:09:56.700 Really white tears in general, because that's what carrots are, right?

00:10:00.200 They carrot out and then as soon as they get caught, it's like, bring waterworks.

00:10:05.460 White men can get away with that, too. 0.96

00:10:07.400 And it has the same effect.

00:10:09.260 Even as the right tries to politicize the idea that masculinity is being robbed from American men by multiculturalism and wokeism, they still want to be able to have their tears.

00:10:22.080 You white men with your white tears. 0.78

00:10:24.540 Now, Joy Reid, again, because I'm not sure the IQ is popping past double digits, Joy Reid undermines her own argument.

00:10:34.860 She says, white male tears are bad.

00:10:36.980 And you saw this with the Brett Kavanaugh case.

00:10:39.180 And his tears mattered more than white women's tears. 0.50

00:10:42.000 In that case, Christine Blasey Ford, who was accusing Brett Kavanaugh of all sorts of terrible things, even though Christine Blasey Ford couldn't even prove that she ever met the guy.

00:10:51.660 But then, two seconds later, she says, but white women's tears are terrible, too.

00:10:54.740 Oh, okay.

00:10:55.060 Well, then who cares about Christine Blasey Ford?

00:10:56.660 It's pretty clear that Joy Reid just hates white people and she hates men. 1.00

00:11:03.740 And so, she specifically hates white men.

00:11:07.080 And so, in this case, in Brett Kavanaugh's case, there was no evidence against him whatsoever.

00:11:12.960 None of them.

00:11:13.420 And some of the charges were so outlandish that now the left doesn't even bring them up.

00:11:17.160 Like that woman who said that he gang raped her. 0.80

00:11:19.140 And she was the client of Michael Avenatti and they were both disgraced very quickly.

00:11:24.040 So, then they sort of went away.

00:11:25.340 But even Christine Blasey Ford, her story fell apart.

00:11:27.600 She had no evidence whatsoever.

00:11:29.920 Doesn't matter.

00:11:31.320 Brett Kavanaugh faces a completely unsubstantiated, serious allegation.

00:11:37.300 And then the minute he defends himself, the left attacks him even more and makes fun of him for that.

00:11:42.200 Same thing here with Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:11:44.380 The state, the prosecutors have no evidence against him whatsoever.

00:11:47.100 They push a bunch of lies, actually.

00:11:49.240 The media push a bunch of lies about him.

00:11:50.920 Then, when the defense knocks down those lies and shows that all the evidence is on his side,

00:11:54.780 he gets really worked up reliving the trauma of this night.

00:11:58.880 And then they make fun of him for that.

00:12:00.460 And what it is, is just scapegoating, right?

00:12:04.260 And the thing about scapegoating is, you never realize that you're the one doing the scapegoating.

00:12:09.760 No one throughout all of human history has ever thought, we are scapegoating people right now.

00:12:14.020 The people who scapegoat others always think they're on the side of justice.

00:12:18.540 And so, in this case, what the left does in this country, and the left is the dominant regime in this country,

00:12:23.880 they scapegoat, specifically, straight white men.

00:12:27.620 It is the only group of people that you are allowed, that it is socially acceptable to discriminate against,

00:12:35.100 that it is legal to discriminate against, and actually that it is encouraged to discriminate against.

00:12:40.080 If Joy Reid or someone like Joy Reid went on TV and started talking about how awful black women are 1.00

00:12:46.060 and how black men are the bane of existence, then she would be ostracized or face charges of hate speech. 0.71

00:12:53.860 But the only group you're allowed to scapegoat are straight white men.

00:12:57.380 And you're seeing this play out in Brett Kavanaugh, in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

00:13:03.200 It's much bigger.

00:13:04.480 Even, we say that self-defense is on trial here.

00:13:07.180 Sure, yeah.

00:13:07.760 They say the Second Amendment's on trial here.

00:13:09.260 Sure.

00:13:09.680 But there's actually this much bigger social problem, which is the increasing scapegoating of one specific group of people.

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00:14:38.140 The scapegoating of straight white men here and the irrational rage, the phobia, if you will, against straight white men,

00:14:45.880 is something that is just part of human culture.

00:14:49.380 You know, my great friend Spencer Clavin just did a terrific episode of his podcast, Young Heretics, about this,

00:14:55.780 specifically about the author Rene Girard, and this idea that scapegoating is at the heart of human culture.

00:15:03.700 That our desires are such that, the term is mimetic desire, that we desire things, not because we,

00:15:10.520 I don't desire the Leftist Tears Tumblr merely because it's such a great Tumblr.

00:15:14.540 I desire it because other people desire it as well.

00:15:16.700 We mimic one another's desires, and this leads to rivalries, and I want this, and no, I want this,

00:15:23.020 and it leads to a war of all against all, and the only way to resolve that is with a scapegoat.

00:15:27.220 That's what you're seeing play.

00:15:28.220 That's the deeper level of what's going on here in the country.

00:15:31.160 When you see the BLM riots in the streets, when you see Antifa hitting the streets, 0.53

00:15:35.180 when you see the outrage about Brett Kavanaugh or about Kyle Rittenhouse or whatever,

00:15:40.320 the deeper thing here is this issue of scapegoating, and the woke are the people doing the scapegoating.

00:15:48.600 Some of us who are not woke can see that happening, but the woke can't see it happening

00:15:53.440 because the people who scapegoat never realize they're the ones doing it.

00:15:56.680 They're always acting in what they believe to be the name of justice, and so because this victim

00:16:05.900 mentality is so strong, many activists on the ground right now are demanding special privileges.

00:16:12.940 The co-founder of the Portland Resistance, Gregory McKelvey, he just tweeted out, quote,

00:16:18.420 employers, consider giving your black employees a day or two off after the Rittenhouse verdict.

00:16:23.520 Regardless of the outcome, it's going to be hard for black people to work, and it isn't fair to

00:16:28.760 expect them to. It's going to be hard for black people to work? All right, cool it with the racism

00:16:34.400 there, David Duke. Whoa, I didn't realize Richard Spencer was in the house. Black people can't work, 1.00

00:16:40.260 and we shouldn't expect black people to work? Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations.

00:16:45.360 And talk about mob violence and the rumblings of potential mob violence totally divorced from

00:16:57.180 reality. No black people are involved in the Kyle Rittenhouse case. None. If any of the people that 0.56

00:17:09.320 Kyle Rittenhouse defended himself against that night were black, Kyle would probably be in Guantanamo 1.00

00:17:13.460 Bay right now. Okay, but they're not. They were all white people. And yet, if you talk to the 0.93

00:17:18.560 average person about the Kyle Rittenhouse case, just the average CNN viewer or MSNBC viewer,

00:17:24.380 person who's not paying that close attention, average person on the ground in Kenosha, I bet you

00:17:29.940 nine out of ten people would tell you that this was a case about race, that there were black people

00:17:33.660 involved. It was a white supremacist who killed a black guy. The mob violence, the narrative,

00:17:40.240 the emotion, the scapegoating, has basically nothing to do with the reality of what actually

00:17:48.520 happened with that night in Kenosha or with Kyle Rittenhouse himself. And now we're being told

00:17:56.680 black people can't go to work because of the trauma of something that has nothing to do with 0.98

00:17:59.780 black people. Even if it did, by the way, this isn't the sort of thing we should be indulging. 1.00

00:18:05.740 Okay? Unless you think that black people are subhuman and they can't deal with the suffering

00:18:11.420 of this world like everyone else does, unless you really believe that, then we need to stop

00:18:16.200 indulging this stuff. It's not compassionate to anybody. It's not compassionate to black people. 1.00

00:18:20.200 It's not compassionate for society at large. It's not compassionate to individuals. Cut it out.

00:18:25.980 Shut up. Stop grumbling. Everybody needs to go back to work. Everybody needs to stop focusing

00:18:31.280 on everyone else's sins. Everyone needs to stop focusing on the worst, terrible other person in

00:18:39.620 society. In this case, in our society, it would be the straight white male. We all do it. I'm not 0.87

00:18:44.360 even exempting myself from it. This is a basic part of human nature. It's part of the fall. Okay? We live

00:18:50.000 in an imperfect world. But we are not going to resolve that by telling everyone to take days off of

00:18:54.720 work and go hit the streets and go scream and yell about everybody and go perpetrate mob violence and

00:18:59.520 say no justice, no peace. That's not going to do it. To quote a great African-American who then,

00:19:07.360 I guess, kind of became a white American, Michael Jackson, how about you take a look at the man in

00:19:11.320 the mirror and how about you ask him to change his ways? It's like my friend Andrew Klavan makes this

00:19:16.660 point. He says, the bigot is not necessarily wrong about the other guy. Okay? He's not. Maybe your

00:19:22.540 complaint about the Polish or the Italians or the black people or the whoever, the white people,

00:19:28.040 maybe your complaint has some basis in reality. But the thing about the bigots is they're never

00:19:32.720 right about themselves. They don't see that they have many of the same problems that they accuse

00:19:37.520 other people of having. Now, speaking of racial politics and employment, there's a spat going on

00:19:43.980 at the White House between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and it centers around aides to Kamala Harris

00:19:50.160 accusing Joe Biden of racism. It goes all the way back to Kamala Harris herself accusing Joe Biden

00:19:55.780 of racism. So, Peter Doocy, one of the few right-leaning journalists in the White House briefing

00:20:02.520 room, he asked Jen Psaki about this and said, because there are all these spats going on and 1.00

00:20:07.600 accusations of racism, would Joe Biden back Kamala Harris for president in 2024 or 2028? Here's her 0.84

00:20:15.400 non-answer. There are a few reports from over the weekend that the vice president is unhappy.

00:20:23.180 Can she expect the president's automatic endorsement if she decides to run herself in either 2024 or 0.66

00:20:30.140 2028? Well, first of all, the president selected the vice president to service his running mate because

00:20:37.020 he felt she was exactly the person he wanted to have by his side to govern the country. She's a key

00:20:42.960 partner. She's a bold leader. And she is somebody who has taken on incredibly important assignments,

00:20:48.520 whether it is addressing the root causes of migration at the Northern Triangle or taking on

00:20:53.740 a core cause of democracy in voting rights. So that is who the president selected. I don't have any

00:21:00.840 predictions of whether she will run, when she will run. I will leave that to her. But I can tell you that

00:21:06.520 there's been a lot of reports out there and they don't reflect his view or our experience with the

00:21:11.160 vice president. So speaking of racial politics, don't forget, Joe Biden did not pick Kamala Harris

00:21:17.440 because of her unique individual attributes. He picked her because of her genitals and the color 0.99

00:21:21.860 of her skin. And he admitted that. He said before he ever picked her, I am going to pick a black woman. 0.99

00:21:27.760 I don't care which black woman. I'm just going to pick a black woman. So the primary deciding factor 1.00

00:21:34.060 for Kamala Harris's vice president was nothing unique to her or anything she had accomplished. It was just

00:21:39.440 her skin and her sex. And then he had three prominent choices. Karen Bass, who's an actual 1.00

00:21:45.940 communist and member of Congress. Susan Rice, who was the fall man for Benghazi, very unlikable 0.89

00:21:53.000 candidate. And Kamala Harris, who had at least run, even though she was so unpopular, she dropped out 0.99

00:21:57.020 before anybody else in 2020. And so he had to pick Kamala Harris. And now, and he obviously detests

00:22:03.140 Kamala Harris. She launched her campaign calling him a racist. And so there's no love lost between these

00:22:07.520 guys. And notice the question Jen Psaki didn't answer. Namely, will Joe Biden support Kamala

00:22:15.980 Harris either in 2024 or 2028? Jen Psaki gives this very scripted answer. Kamala Harris is a bold

00:22:23.220 leader. You know, you're not, you can be bold and terrible. You don't need to, Stalin was a bold

00:22:29.260 leader, but, but she never says she's a good leader. Never says she's particularly effective. Never

00:22:37.100 says that Joe Biden likes what she's doing and never says that he will support her. Very, this,

00:22:45.060 this is that great schadenfreude of watching the Democrats hoist themselves on their own petard.

00:22:52.380 Identity politics is poison. None of us likes it. We on the right fight against it a lot. The left

00:22:57.800 uses it cynically because they think it will help them politically. And then sometimes they get caught up

00:23:02.400 in that, that vicious cycle of identity politics where everyone's a racist and they all just

00:23:07.460 keep hurling that word at one another. Now, speaking of racial politics, there is a, a parent,

00:23:14.860 a father who just stood up at a school board meeting and threatened other parents who opposed

00:23:22.600 critical race theory in schools. So you can see finally the cops lead this lunatic out of the room,

00:23:48.320 but you heard that first line there. He goes, I got a thousand soldiers. I got a thousand soldiers. If

00:23:52.200 you oppose critical race theory in schools and he's conflating critical race theory with just

00:23:57.540 talking about slavery or Jim Crow or race in America, which is, which is a mistake that a lot

00:24:04.760 of uneducated people make, but that's not what critical race theory is. That guy should be arrested.

00:24:10.340 That guy should not be permitted in society. You've got some parents showing up saying, keep CRT out of

00:24:16.840 schools, keep radical gender theory out of schools. They're being very polite. They're working within the 0.97

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00:24:28.720 labeled a terrorist. He would be brought up on charges. There would be a trial and the media would

00:24:32.940 dox him and his whole family. But because he's not in the scapegoated class, because he's not in

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00:26:14.680 Welcome back to the show. Speaking of murder, murder has been on our minds a lot recently.

00:26:36.080 Obviously, the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse from the BLM riots that were

00:26:42.100 provoked by the shooting of Jacob Blake and the BLM before that. And so we've been talking about

00:26:47.740 murder. And speaking of murder, Ted Cruz, old Zodiac himself, has struck again. We're all focused on

00:26:54.860 Kenosha. Meanwhile, we are letting this serial killer senator just slaughter the Secretary of

00:27:02.060 Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, during testimony yesterday.

00:27:05.380 How many children have been in the Biden cages in calendar year 2021?

00:27:12.020 Senator, I respectfully disagree with your use of the term cages.

00:27:18.020 Fine. You can disagree with it. How many children have been in the Biden cages? I've been to the

00:27:21.620 Biden cages. I've seen the Biden cages. How many children have you detained at the Donna Tent facility

00:27:27.360 in the cages you built, told kids? How many children have been in those cages?

00:27:31.280 Senator, I can provide to you the following figure that when and let me let me say that

00:27:39.200 when a child. I don't. It's a simple question. How many children have been in those cages?

00:27:44.580 I respectfully am not familiar with the term cages and to what you are referring.

00:27:50.380 There are enclosures in which they are locked in, in which I took photographs and put them out

00:27:55.220 because you blocked the press and didn't want people to see the Biden cages.

00:27:58.520 Stop it. Stop it, Senator. He's already dead. Don't do it anymore. This is a masterclass

00:28:06.500 in rhetoric. Is anything going to come of this? One of the criticisms of Senate testimony is not

00:28:12.700 a lot comes of it. And that's probably true. The way our government works now is that our legislators

00:28:17.620 don't have a ton of power other than to expose what's going on in the government. And then it's up to

00:28:24.620 us through the elections, through winning the presidency, and then hopefully transforming

00:28:29.580 the administrative state through all of those things. But what the senators can do here is

00:28:34.920 expose through testimony what these swamp creatures are doing and what they're not doing.

00:28:43.120 And so the reason I bring this up is not even to focus on the kids in cages or immigration policy.

00:28:47.140 It's to focus on how Cruz does not let Mayorkas set the terms of the debate.

00:28:54.600 He is taking this term that the left promoted, the kids in cages, that they never stopped talking

00:28:59.880 about during the Trump administration, and he is using it against them. He is hoisting them on their

00:29:05.120 own petard. And Mayorkas has the temerity to say, well, I'm not familiar with that term. You're not

00:29:11.880 familiar with the phrase kids in cages, the one that your side never shut up about for four years.

00:29:16.560 You never heard that? You don't know exactly what we're referring to? Well, Senator, I just

00:29:20.880 disagree with that term. Okay, you can disagree with it. I don't care. What's the number? And then

00:29:24.840 Mayorkas basically just tries to filibuster and tries to say, well, you know, look, it's a complicated

00:29:29.200 and this, and well, let me back up. And Cruz won't let him do it. And he cuts him off and says,

00:29:34.420 give me the number. This is not complicated. Now, Cruz knows that Mayorkas is never going to give him

00:29:41.400 the number. Cruz knows that Mayorkas is not going to feel any shame here. Cruz knows that Mayorkas is

00:29:47.340 going to continue his same policy. So what he realizes is the only thing that Republicans can

00:29:53.000 get here is to back the Democrat into a corner, to expose him for what he is, expose what they're

00:30:02.780 doing for what it is. And then to use that, that clip, that rhetoric is going to be the best thing

00:30:11.620 we can get out of this Biden administration before the next elections. And just while he's on the

00:30:17.720 rope, Cruz finishes him off. Secretary Mayorkas, you're not answering my question. So let me ask you

00:30:22.820 this. In the past year, has Joe Biden been down to see firsthand the Biden cages?

00:30:29.280 Senator, I will again. Has Joe Biden been down to see this facility? Yes or no? The president has

00:30:36.080 not been down to. OK, no. Yes or no. Has Kamala Harris been down to see these detention facilities?

00:30:43.560 She has not been down. Has any Democratic senator on this committee been down to see the Biden cages?

00:30:49.420 I will once again disagree with your use of terminology.

00:30:52.440 These facilities, has any Democratic member of this committee given a damn enough to see

00:30:57.700 the children being locked up by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris because of your failed immigration

00:31:02.600 policies? Senator, I cannot speak to the members of this committee. You don't know if any Democrats

00:31:09.620 have been down there? To, to, oh, I believe, Democrats have been down. To see this facility,

00:31:15.340 yes or no? On a facility, whether they are members of this committee, I do not know.

00:31:19.040 Ted Cruz did not need Mayorkas there to give this speech. Ted Cruz, and this is something that

00:31:26.360 Republicans should take notes about. Ted Cruz knew exactly what he was going to say before he walked

00:31:32.140 in. Mayorkas was there as a prop, as a toy, like a cat with a ball of yarn, Ted the cat, Mayorkas the

00:31:41.840 ball of yarn, because he knew where he was going, he knew the point, and he hit it. And all too often,

00:31:51.400 Republicans play defense. They think that they're playing with opponents who are engaging in good

00:31:58.200 faith, and they're not. And I think Cruz, we haven't, I'm not, I haven't talked to him about

00:32:02.340 this point, so I'm not, I don't have insider knowledge here, but it would seem pretty clear

00:32:06.920 to me. Cruz knows Mayorkas is not dealing in good faith. This is not an actual open exchange where

00:32:12.620 you're going to get useful information. He's just going to stonewall. So Cruz is going to make his 0.56

00:32:17.200 point, and then Mayorkas is going to fumble all around. Don't let them set the terms of engagement.

00:32:26.580 You want to talk about abused terms. Here's an abused term. Probably the most abused term in the

00:32:30.640 country. Science. It's the most abused term in our vocabulary. And Pfizer just tweeted out about

00:32:40.620 science. Pfizer, which is one of the biggest, one of the biggest companies in the world,

00:32:44.900 and it's the company pushing the COVID vax, tweeted out a picture of an airplane with a little message

00:32:50.700 behind the airplane, said, know who's good at science? Scientists. And Pfizer tweets that says,

00:32:58.020 get on board. You know who's good at science? Scientists. You know who's good at lobbying and

00:33:03.520 propaganda? Multinational corporations worth hundreds of millions of dollars. That's who's

00:33:08.940 good at propaganda and lobbying. You've, what the left has been telling us from the beginning of

00:33:16.620 the lockdown. And even before that is, we need to just trust the scientists. There are no scientists.

00:33:22.700 The scientists are an illusion. What I see in that tweet is a multinational corporation with a huge

00:33:29.340 amount of power and a huge financial interest in getting us to take one side of a public health

00:33:33.860 question. When I look at Dr. Fauci, I don't see a scientist. I see a guy who does some science,

00:33:38.240 but who is a politician who's taken his paycheck from the government for his whole career,

00:33:41.820 highest paid member of the federal government. When I look at Al Gore or Joe Biden or Prince Charles

00:33:48.320 or any of the other politicians, public figures who are pushing for science, I don't, they're actually

00:33:55.700 not scientists. They're just, they're just politicians. When I see public health, I recognize

00:34:02.100 there's a scientific aspect, but there's also a political aspect. That's what public means.

00:34:06.820 Science. Don't let them set those terms. Someday, if King Knowles rules over the country,

00:34:15.100 I think I may ban that word science from the discourse. Okay. And who's the master of politicized

00:34:21.900 science? Who's the master of it? Dr. Fauci dressed up like a James Bond villain in a black turtleneck

00:34:31.080 with an Oxford button down and a tweed jacket over it, opining from his garden about how the American

00:34:38.560 people are just too, too desirous of their own individual rights. One of the things that to me

00:34:46.440 was most difficult to accept is that we put together a good plan for how we were going to try and dampen

00:34:54.400 down the spread of infection early on, thinking that that was accepted by everybody. And then

00:35:00.700 the next day, the president saying free Michigan, free Virginia. I didn't quite understand what the

00:35:09.680 purpose of that was, except to put this misplaced perception about people's individual right to make

00:35:17.480 a decision that supersedes the societal safety. That to me is one of the things that I think went

00:35:26.380 awry in all of this. Did you ever raise that with President Trump? You know, I didn't have the

00:35:31.880 opportunity to raise it. I was sort of like shocked. And then I didn't speak to him for some time after

00:35:37.600 that. But it was at that point that I realized that I would have to just get out there myself

00:35:46.360 and say things that clearly were going to be contradictory. The only thing that's missing

00:35:52.300 from this clip is Dr. Fauci stroking a fluffy white cat on his lap. These people, they have their liberty,

00:36:00.500 their rights. They talk about their rights. They don't realize that Dr. Fauci is their rights.

00:36:05.660 Dr. Fauci is their true liberty. Yeah, yeah. He also admits that he's a coward, by the way,

00:36:11.460 because he says, I gave my advice to the president and then the president didn't take it. And that was

00:36:16.740 very bad. And so the interviewer says, well, did you tell the president that? No, no, I wouldn't.

00:36:21.560 No, I would never confront him face to face, man to man. No, I would just stab him in the back on TV

00:36:27.060 when he's not looking. That's what I would do. That's the right, because he's a coward and he has a

00:36:33.100 huge misconception, a misperception of his own political power.

00:36:38.240 The point he's making about individual rights has a grain of truth in it.

00:36:42.540 It has a grain of truth in this. If there were, forget COVID, let's talk about a real, serious,

00:36:50.440 going to kill 90% of the people that get infected with it type of super duper virus,

00:36:54.780 not a virus where the vast majority of people face basically no threat from it. And for huge

00:37:03.420 swaths of people, the infection fatality rate is 0.003%. But let's talk about one. Let's say that

00:37:10.120 70% of people who got infected with a virus would die from it and it were spreading like wildfire

00:37:16.520 throughout the country. Would you support a vaccine mandate? Yes, you would. Yes, you would. Of course

00:37:23.580 you would. Would there be a legal basis for that kind of a vaccine mandate? Yes, there would be.

00:37:29.720 I think so. In American history, it goes back to that case, Jacobson versus Massachusetts in 1905.

00:37:35.300 There is a basis even before the official founding of the country, before the constitution,

00:37:40.880 George Washington inoculating the Continental Army against smallpox. And the inoculation actually

00:37:45.780 killed a lot of people. Yeah, I think we all would. If there were a virus that were really going to

00:37:50.780 kill 90% of Americans that were spreading, we would support those kinds of mandates. 0.91

00:37:55.640 But that's not this virus. And this vaccine, by the way, is not nearly as effective as they all told

00:38:00.540 us it was. So the particulars here, I think, are being misperceived and being misrepresented by people

00:38:07.780 like Dr. Fauci. And the biggest misperception is his role in the American government. Because

00:38:15.000 according to Dr. Fauci's perception, he should have ultimate power. He's the one who decides

00:38:20.420 everything. And your individual rights and your state rights and your rights through your

00:38:24.020 duly elected people, even the rights of the president, all are less important than doing

00:38:30.360 whatever Dr. Fauci says. Which is why he took it upon himself and presumed to go on TV and undermine

00:38:35.560 the duly elected president, left and right, to say nothing of undermining your individual liberty.

00:38:41.520 Politicians are always trying to exploit science for their own political ends. There was a clip.

00:38:47.200 Oh my gosh. The hits keep on coming with Kamala Harris. You think that you have seen the most

00:38:53.440 cringe-inducing clip of Kamala Harris. And then right behind it, there is another one. So Kamala

00:38:57.900 Harris is at NASA. She's in a meeting at NASA. And she interrupts the meeting to ask if there are super

00:39:03.980 cool satellites in outer space that are being used on all these amazing experiments and for all these

00:39:09.820 amazing scientific purposes, if they can be used to spy on neighborhoods to promote tree equity.

00:39:19.340 Climate adaptation strategies.

00:39:21.240 Can you measure trees? Because part of that data that you're referring to in EJ is environmental

00:39:29.640 justice. But you can also track by race their averages in terms of the number of trees in the

00:39:36.380 neighborhood where people live.

00:39:38.160 Yeah. Forget about going back to the moon. Forget about heading on up to Mars and exploring the rest

00:39:44.260 of the solar system. And no, what we need to do is use these satellites in the sky to spy on

00:39:51.380 neighborhoods to see how the trees are spread out in the neighborhoods. That's going to be the use of

00:39:58.980 NASA, the space agency. This is a part of the Biden budget, by the way, is tree equity. And of all the

00:40:05.300 stupid programs in the budget, I actually have the least problem probably with tree equity. I like

00:40:09.720 trees. I like beautiful neighborhoods. I don't mind that we're, of all the ways to spend money,

00:40:13.840 I don't mind planting trees in poor neighborhoods. But this just shows you, you make a scientific

00:40:17.820 advance, you have the scientific agency, and the government immediately says, oh, we're going to

00:40:21.520 use that to spy on people. We're going to use that to redistribute wealth. We're going to use that

00:40:26.500 for our own, obviously, political purposes.

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00:40:59.320 MasterCard International Incorporated. There's bad news for people who don't like Kamala Harris,

00:41:05.880 which would be most people. According to a new poll out from Hill and Harris X,

00:41:12.400 a majority of voters do not want Joe Biden to run for re-election in 2024. 61% of registered voters

00:41:21.380 in a survey conducted November 9th through the 10th said that Joe Biden should not run for president

00:41:26.700 in 2024. Devastating, devastating numbers for a sitting president. The only people who think that

00:41:35.140 Biden should run again, 24%. And there's another 15% who say that they're unsure. But even if all of

00:41:43.120 the ones who are unsure side with the ones who are sure and they all want him to run again, still the

00:41:49.760 overwhelming majority say that Joe Biden shouldn't run again. So then you've got a big political problem

00:41:55.760 on your hands if you're a Democrat. Because your vice president is the least popular vice president in

00:42:00.240 many decades, if not ever. She's got a 28% approval rating right now. Lower than Dick Cheney at the end of 0.66

00:42:07.940 his tenure as vice president after the Iraq war and after he shot a guy in the face. And after he was

00:42:14.360 called Darth Vader for years and she is still measurably less popular than he is. So who's it going to be?

00:42:23.960 As this heats up, as people get more and more disenchanted with Joe Biden, as Kamala gets less and less

00:42:29.380 popular, you're going to see Biden and Kamala continue to snap at each other. And you're going to see more

00:42:35.120 accusations of racism from the Kamala Harris camp at Joe Biden. And you're going to see more mockery and derision

00:42:41.880 hurled at Kamala Harris from the Biden camp. It's happening right now. It has to. They're in a

00:42:47.600 blood match against one another. And the more they fight, talk about mimetic rivalry and a war of all

00:42:55.500 against all. You're seeing that right now. They're just at a war with one another, eating each other

00:43:00.080 alive. And then the question is, if it's not going to be the president, if it's not going to be the

00:43:03.280 vice president, who on earth is going to step up and be the nominee? Is it going to be the secretary of

00:43:10.860 state, Antony Blinken, not after Afghanistan? Is it going to be, who else? Pete Buttigieg? I don't

00:43:17.820 know. Is it going to be the transportation secretary? He's probably going to be on paternity

00:43:20.800 leave for his presidential campaign. Who's it going to be? Who's it going to be? This is the one silver

00:43:26.980 lining here of these, this awful, ugly kind of politics of destruction that you're seeing on the

00:43:35.620 left is you're, you're watching them destroy themselves. There is no way that Joe Biden can

00:43:44.020 count on any kind of popularity. If he runs again, he was just in New Hampshire trying to sell his

00:43:48.680 infrastructure bill. So he walks up to a huge crowd with thunderous applause, a stadium, just like

00:43:55.420 Donald. Is that what happened? No. Take a listen to the reception for the president.

00:43:59.660 So he's walking up. That's not, what you're hearing is not just droplets of water hitting

00:44:09.520 stone. You're hearing just like one person clapping.

00:44:16.360 Okay. Now you're hearing like four people clapping.

00:44:20.520 Whoever did the advance for these guys was not, not great at stagecraft because they have a long way

00:44:25.340 to walk up to the podium. I'm counting the people applauding. It's, it's, it's three people.

00:44:36.200 The leader of the free world, the most popular president ever got a gazillion votes. Remember

00:44:39.880 still walking takes, takes a while when you're, when you're Joe's age.

00:44:49.600 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to both of you for being here. This is the president of the United

00:45:01.860 States. Now you might say, well, he's in, you know, some far flung part of New Hampshire.

00:45:06.500 He's the president of the United States. He's the president of the United States. You would,

00:45:10.040 if he did not have approval ratings in the thirties at best, he would have a lot of people there to

00:45:16.760 welcome him. Absolutely pathetic. That's the most, the most popular president ever who got the most

00:45:23.780 votes. He got 80 bazillion votes in 2020. And if you suggest he got even one vote fewer, you're an

00:45:28.920 insurrectionist, terrorist. Okay. I don't think he's that popular. I don't think, and putting the

00:45:35.440 previous election aside, I don't think if he runs again, he's going to get 80 gazillion, bazillion

00:45:39.620 votes unless, unless some more water pipes burst at three in the morning at the poll counting places in

00:45:44.760 Georgia. Speaking of the future, speaking of infrastructure, Jeff Bezos has a prediction.

00:45:51.140 The eccentric billionaire Amazon founder just said at a recent event that he believes that in the

00:45:57.100 future, most humans will not live on earth and they will think of planet earth as a protected

00:46:02.360 national park that they will only visit as a tourist attraction. He said, quote, over centuries,

00:46:07.660 most or many of the people will be born in space. It will be their first home. They will be born on

00:46:12.980 these colonies. They will live on these colonies. They may visit earth the way you would visit

00:46:17.020 Yellowstone National Park. My question, reading that quote and observing the behavior of people

00:46:26.320 like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and the rest of them, do money and power inevitably make people dumber?

00:46:34.220 Why is it that the richest and most powerful people in history seem so stupid? First of all, what he's

00:46:43.560 saying is just preposterous. The idea that we're all, we're all just going to leave earth, whether it's

00:46:47.960 because of the sun monster, you know, threatening us or whatever, or overpopulation or global cooling or

00:46:54.840 global warming or whatever they make up next. We're all going to leave earth. We're all going to go to Mars

00:46:59.220 or some other place, a much, much less hospitable, incomparably less hospitable place. And then,

00:47:06.400 but, but I guess actually the sun monster didn't destroy earth because we'll still go back as a

00:47:10.000 tourist attraction or something. Why is this? It's not just these tech billionaire oligarchs. It goes back

00:47:15.500 to the ancient pharaohs, to rulers since time immemorial who, who just searched desperately for

00:47:22.160 immortality, the elixir of life. All of these fools errands. Why is, I think the answer is pride. I

00:47:31.480 think it just comes down to pride. When you have everything, when you have every earthly desire

00:47:35.940 satisfied, when you have your mistresses and you've got your harem and you've got your yachts and you've

00:47:41.420 got your plane and you get to go to outer space on a little tourist voyage, when you've got everything

00:47:45.740 being titillated and satisfied, you just, you, you indulge in fantasy, the fantasies that you will

00:47:53.880 break these surly bonds of earth and your, your mortal bonds and your natural bonds. And that's

00:47:59.080 not going to happen. But this is what takes people down. This is why the left doesn't see what they're

00:48:04.500 doing when they scapegoat people. This is why the left doesn't see how unpopular their, their agenda is,

00:48:09.540 whether it's crazy racial theories or gender theories or just the regular old Biden budget.

00:48:13.800 They don't see it. They're trapped in their own bubble. They're trapped in a system of pride,

00:48:17.960 which is why we say pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. I'm Michael

00:48:24.180 Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

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00:49:18.020 Today on the Ben Shapiro Show, a blockbuster report claims the FBI flagged all harassment

00:49:22.580 in school officials. Kindergarteners learn about transgenderism and the Rittenhouse

00:49:26.260 jury continues its deliberation. That's today on the Ben Shapiro Show. Give it a listen.

00:49:29.560 Let's do it.

The Michael Knowles Show - November 17, 2021

Ep. 888 - All Gather For The Finale Of The Rittenhouse Trial

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