The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 943 - Trump Was Right About Another “Conspiracy Theory”

00:00:00.000 A little over a year ago, President Trump sat down for an interview with Leslie Stahl

00:00:05.180 in which he complained that the Democrats and the deep state spied on his presidential campaign.

00:00:12.380 And Leslie Stahl was having none of it. She pushed back. She dismissed the claims.

00:00:18.180 She said the charge was baseless.

00:00:21.700 The biggest scandal was when they spied on my campaign. They spied on my campaign.

00:00:26.900 There's no real evidence of that. Of course there is. It's all over the place.

00:00:31.000 Leslie, they spied on my campaign and they got caught.

00:00:33.760 Can I say something? You know, this is 60 Minutes and we can't put on things we can't verify.

00:00:40.440 You won't put it on because it's bad for Biden.

00:00:42.260 We can't put on things we can't verify. Leslie, they spied on my campaign.

00:00:46.260 Well, we can't verify that. It's been totally verified.

00:00:48.420 No. It's been, just go down and get the papers.

00:00:51.560 They spied on my campaign. They got caught.

00:00:54.140 No. And then they went much further than that.

00:00:56.320 And they got caught. And you will see that, Leslie. And you know that,

00:01:00.100 but you just don't want to put it on the air.

00:01:01.560 No. As a matter of fact, I don't know that.

00:01:04.260 No, no, no. La, la, la, no. This is 60 Minutes. This is totally crazy.

00:01:10.620 You're a conspiracy theorist. How dare you make such a whoops, whoops. Here it is. 0.65

00:01:15.780 Turns out he was totally right. Totally 100% right. As of just a few days ago,

00:01:22.440 we now have firm proof that not only did Hillary Clinton affiliates spy on Donald Trump when he was

00:01:31.040 a candidate, but they even went so far as to spy on him when he was president,

00:01:36.780 all in a desperate effort to frame him for colluding with the Russians,

00:01:42.940 something Democrats have been doing for 100 years. According to special counsel,

00:01:46.940 John Durham's latest DOJ report, quote,

00:01:50.640 the government's evidence at trial will also establish that among the internet data tech

00:01:57.800 executive one and his associates, exploited was domain name system internet traffic pertaining to

00:02:05.880 one, a particular healthcare provider, two, Trump Tower, three, Donald Trump's Central Park West

00:02:13.380 apartment building, and four, the executive office of the president of the United States.

00:02:21.660 Trump reacted to the news in exactly the way you would expect, saying, quote,

00:02:26.960 this is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate,

00:02:30.700 and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal

00:02:35.760 prosecution in a stronger period of time in our country. This crime would have been punishable

00:02:40.780 by death. Classic Trump pushing the window of acceptable speech rightward, getting people to

00:02:48.120 accept prosecution as the moderate position with execution as the further right solution. And by the

00:02:55.060 way, he's right on that front too. Espionage can be a capital offense,

00:02:59.420 and spying on the sitting president is about as serious as it gets. So we now know that the

00:03:06.480 Democrats themselves did basically everything they accused Trump of doing. We know that Trump has

00:03:12.460 been proven right on some of his wildest claims, sitting there with Leslie Stahl, oh no, this is crazy,

00:03:18.260 it's a conspiracy theory. Some of his wildest claims, completely correct. Who knows how many more

00:03:23.520 wild claims he will be vindicated on, especially now that we know the difference between a conspiracy

00:03:28.660 theory and the truth is about six to 18 months. We know this is one of the most egregious abuses of

00:03:35.860 power in U.S. history. And we know that not only are the Democrats not the responsible and patriotic

00:03:43.080 adults in the room that they've made themselves out to be, but their behavior is somehow even more

00:03:48.240 depraved than their most trenchant critics thought. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:05:40.780 info kit now. Not only was Trump right about the spying, he didn't go far enough. The reality was

00:05:50.140 actually even more depraved than what Donald Trump accused his opponents of engaging in.

00:05:58.020 You want to talk about depravity. It's Valentine's Day, so I was hoping we could talk about sort of

00:06:04.220 higher romantic notions of love, mature, deep, rightly ordered notions of love.

00:06:13.820 But we've got to talk about Joe Biden's new energy official who is in charge of nuclear waste in

00:06:22.320 America. You want to talk about, people aren't talking about, and I feel like we should all be

00:06:28.460 talking about the leather daddy dog fetishist that Joe Biden just put in charge of America's

00:06:35.000 nuclear waste. The man's, I don't even want to say his name. Because I don't want to embarrass him

00:06:43.180 personally, except I guess I wouldn't be embarrassing him personally. You know, I wouldn't want to reveal

00:06:48.260 someone's personal sins needlessly. That's not something I want to do. But in this case,

00:06:53.500 it's not a personal sin. It's a very public, very creepy scandal for someone who is not in

00:07:00.260 any way shy about this kind of behavior, who is now in a fairly powerful position in the U.S.

00:07:05.520 government. So I guess I'll say his name. His name is Sam Brinton. He is the new deputy assistant

00:07:10.660 secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition at the office of nuclear energy at the DOE. So this is a

00:07:17.040 pretty serious position. And, and Sam Brinton identifies as a, and this is in his own public

00:07:23.680 biography, as a non-binary man who is, who engages in something called puppy play, where, which I,

00:07:33.160 I guess is sexual. I guess it's sexual, but I don't, it's sexual in a very strange, like he has men

00:07:42.560 who pretend to be dogs and he pretends to be their owner. And then for much of the, this activity,

00:07:49.140 they're not, it's all sexual, but it's not like explicitly sexual until, until it is. It's really

00:07:56.420 weird. I've, we've sometimes talked about this. People write into this show a lot and say, you know,

00:08:00.940 I look at porn and I don't want to look at porn, but I'm really addicted to this stuff. And, and one

00:08:05.340 of the things that happens is that you, you know, you look at, it's just like naked ladies on the 1.00

00:08:10.200 internet. And by the end, you know, you're looking at, um, you know, two chickens doing calculus and

00:08:15.560 somehow that's sexual, but you don't really know how that's sexual, but it, but it is, it's still

00:08:19.440 part. So that's, that's basically what this guy is into. And he brags about this. He gives classes

00:08:25.100 on this sort of thing, on all various, uh, fetishes and kinks and strange behaviors. He gave an interview

00:08:33.060 to the student newspaper at RPI, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where, uh, Brinton,

00:08:39.560 this is according to the newspaper quote throughout the entire talk. Brinton was open about his

00:08:43.780 experiences, the kinks he partakes in and the nature of his relationships. He left us with 0.98

00:08:48.780 countless anecdotes, like how he enjoys tying up his significant other like a table and eating

00:08:54.860 his dinner on him while he watches Star Trek. Me, I like brunettes, you know, that's kind of one of, 1.00

00:09:05.400 and, and this guy likes to tie up his sexual partners like they're a table and eat sushi off

00:09:10.820 of them while he watches science fiction. In, in the old days, this guy would have been a huge 0.93

00:09:16.340 blackmail risk because he has all these weird sexual behaviors that he's indulging all the time

00:09:22.160 and people would find out about it and then they could blackmail him. Now he's not really,

00:09:26.740 he's not really a blackmail risk because it's all public. So there's nothing to blackmail,

00:09:30.340 but that is really, really degraded. It's really, no one, no, if this man were your father,

00:09:39.100 I don't think that, or you're your grandfather. I don't think somebody would say, you know,

00:09:42.980 you know, my grandfather, I so admire him. He fought in world war two. That's right.

00:09:46.620 And my grandfather, he worked at the coal mines and it was tough work, but he earned a living for

00:09:51.720 our family and he put his sons through school. And, and then here I am today, his grandson is say,

00:09:57.320 oh wow, Michael, that's really interesting. Yeah. My grandfather liked to dress up in leather and

00:10:02.640 whip other extremely perverted men who dressed up like doggies and feed them a bowl of water. 0.61

00:10:08.560 Yeah. So our, you know, our grandfathers, aren't we so proud of them? Grandfathers,

00:10:12.620 right? Aren't they? They're people to look up to. No, you would be extremely embarrassed and ashamed

00:10:16.500 of this because it's very shameful behavior and it's not in any way dignified. And previous,

00:10:24.240 I'm not even saying, I'm not even saying that this guy is so bad because he's got some disordered 0.84

00:10:30.540 sexual desires. It's a fallen world. Lots and lots of people have disordered sexual desires. I'm not, 0.56

00:10:35.640 but in a normal, healthy society, the right, the thing that you would do is repress those desires

00:10:42.300 because they are shameful. To, to quote Norm Macdonald, one of the great ethicists and moral

00:10:49.960 philosophers of our age, sex is a filthy, shameful thing that is obviously only meant for procreation. 0.98

00:10:56.500 Okay. And this is not, when you, when you just spend your time indulging in fantasies and childish 0.98

00:11:04.420 delusions, that's, that's not a distinguished life. Okay. That's not something to write home about.

00:11:12.440 There was, there was a poet, a sort of modern poet who said the thing about sin,

00:11:16.540 even beyond how bad it is. And it, you know, it harms people and harms yourself is just such a waste

00:11:22.720 of time. But that's what we're living in today. We're living in an age where adults, fully grown

00:11:28.280 adults will spend hours and hours and days and days and weeks and weeks dressing up in costumes and

00:11:33.920 playing pretend and doing all sorts of weird, creepy sex stuff. That is childish behavior for a

00:11:39.360 childish society that would appear to be past its prime. You know, what's not past its prime though?

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00:12:47.240 your podcasts. I did not watch a single second of the Super Bowl yesterday. I don't care about

00:12:52.920 football. I really don't care about football ever since they totally caved to BLM and disrespected our 0.99

00:12:58.660 country. It's not my thing. I used to enjoy gambling on the Super Bowl. At least being in a pool was kind

00:13:04.540 of fun. But now the NFL doesn't like our country, unlike the NFL. Simple as that. I did, however,

00:13:11.220 catch clips of the advertisements and the halftime show afterwards. And all that they were selling,

00:13:19.800 the most prominent ads and the halftime show, obviously, all it was selling was nostalgia.

00:13:27.280 Oh, do you remember when you were a kid? Oh, do you remember when everything was just about

00:13:31.960 indulging your own desires and delusions and fantasies? Kind of like this kid working,

00:13:37.160 this kid, he's a fully grown adult, working at the Biden Department of Energy who pretends that he 0.96

00:13:42.700 is a doggy or he pretends that his sexual partners are doggies and it's really creepy and weird and 0.87

00:13:47.740 none of this should be encouraged publicly. But it's the same old, it's just indulging in childish 0.98

00:13:53.980 delusions. And what the Super Bowl was selling was all nostalgia. Nostalgia is history after a few

00:14:00.640 drinks, okay? Nostalgia is all the happy moments that we remember or imagine and none of the tough

00:14:07.260 moments and none of the things we've overcome to become the adults that we are today. The creepiest

00:14:11.600 ad of the entire Super Bowl came from Facebook, which has now renamed itself Meta because it's

00:14:16.500 trying to expand beyond just a regular old social network where you can like people's photos and catch

00:14:22.860 up with old friends. They want to expand into a whole universe, the metaverse, where you put on your

00:14:28.160 you sit in your apartment alone, you put on your goggles and you enter into Candyland where you

00:14:32.960 can do whatever you want. You can fly around. You're not allowed to grope people anymore. That

00:14:36.440 was a problem in the beta testing, but they've gotten rid of that. So if you want to do that,

00:14:40.680 you got to go to the weird doggy dungeon with the Department of Energy guy. But when you're in

00:14:44.300 the metaverse, you can just relive your past as though time has never moved on.

00:14:50.480 So here you see there's the like little stuffed animals playing old timey songs and then time

00:15:07.460 moved on. The diner is closed. The stuffed animal musicians go to a pawn shop. They grow up. Now

00:15:16.260 they've got, they've been discarded. It's not fun anymore. A little long in the tooth.

00:15:23.040 It was just in a museum. It's sad. So much more boring than their fun youth. They were all

00:15:30.660 playing those old songs from the 80s. Oh, but now they're in the magical metaverse world. They put

00:15:37.520 the goggles on and no one has gotten any older. Everyone's the same young age they were in the 80s.

00:15:45.060 And the diner, well, the diner doesn't exist anymore, but in this imaginary world,

00:15:49.660 the diner does exist. MetaQuest 2. Go back and be a child.

00:15:57.480 Here's my public service announcement for anybody who is tempted to indulge this kind of stuff.

00:16:05.300 Grow up, grow up, grow up, stop being a child and be an adult and accept responsibility and stop being 0.99

00:16:14.940 so freaking selfish and immature. Oh my gosh, people, people, this is so true. It's so it's 0.97

00:16:22.220 clearest on the weird sex stuff, like the weird guy playing around and pretending he's a dog at the 0.54

00:16:26.800 Department of Energy. But it's just, it's true in our whole culture. The fact that now 20 year old

00:16:33.000 college students say they need a safe space with crayons and puppies, it's the same, it's the same

00:16:37.200 problem. The fact that now you have employees at major companies who say they need space to cry.

00:16:43.680 They need crying rooms. They do. They, they, they say this at law school, Georgetown Law School,

00:16:49.360 the dean of the law school said to what, 25, 26, 30 year old students, you need, you need space to cry

00:16:55.320 if your feelings are hurt. This is the, the same thing you're seeing with people refusing to get

00:17:00.500 married among millennials and especially Gen Z. They're still a slightly young for this, but you're 0.75

00:17:05.300 starting to see some of the data. No one wants to get married. And with the millennials, they're now

00:17:09.380 old, even though they all pretend they're still 17 years old, but they're older and they, they still

00:17:13.940 won't get married. And I'm not saying you have to get married. Marriage isn't for everybody, but they, 0.93

00:17:17.580 they're not, they're not consecrating themselves to religious life. They're not, they're not moving

00:17:22.920 forward. They're just remaining in a perpetual adolescence. That meta ad, it was fine. It was a well-produced

00:17:29.380 ad, but frankly, I prefer the original version of that ad.

00:17:34.260 I won't grow up. I don't want to go to school. I don't want to go to school. Just to learn to be a

00:17:40.280 parent. Just to learn to be a parent. And recite a silly rule. And recite a silly rule. If growing up

00:17:46.760 means it would be beneath my dignity to climb up free. I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up.

00:17:55.340 Not me. That's the, that's the song of the millennial generation. I'm a millennial, but

00:18:03.420 that's the, that's what we all sing. I won't grow up. Even this phrase, you know, millennials use this

00:18:09.080 phrase adulting the first time they pay taxes or whatever they say. I'm boy, I'm adulting.

00:18:14.760 Yeah, you're 40. I hope you're adulting. The people who, who refuse to move out of their parents'

00:18:21.360 home. Not because even they have particularly close relationships to their parents, just because

00:18:26.100 they don't want to pay bills. They don't want to go move on. They say, well, I can save money. Yeah.

00:18:30.820 Because you're not paying your bills because you're not acting like an adult. You should act like,

00:18:35.300 this is my PSA. It's, it's, I'm not, I don't want to be overly harsh here. I want to harsh anyone's

00:18:40.640 mellow, but you need to grow up because if you don't grow up, you're going to end up as a 35 year

00:18:45.620 old puppy fetishist. Okay. You are, you are because, because if you think that it's okay

00:18:51.640 in your adulthood during a time when you should be maturing and taking on responsibilities and

00:18:57.320 contributing to your country and leaving your kids who hopefully you're, some, some of us are 1.00

00:19:01.660 having kids. I hope, I hope some people in this generation or the country is just going to

00:19:04.900 completely collapse, but hopefully you're leaving them a better country than you had. Hopefully you're,

00:19:09.880 you got to enjoy a nice little childhood. Now you're going to give back.

00:19:12.740 But if you are living under the delusion that it's okay just to indulge whatever fantasies

00:19:19.660 and whatever delusions and whatever weird desires that you have, then you're going to end up dancing

00:19:25.760 around in weird costumes, pretending that you're six years old, except creepier because it involves 0.68

00:19:31.560 sex stuff. When you're in your thirties or forties, don't do that. It's weird. It's degraded. It's

00:19:37.020 embarrassing. Don't, you can't go back. You can't go back to never, never land.

00:19:42.740 Okay. Don't go. Oh my gosh. You can't go to the hundred acre wood. All right. It's over.

00:19:48.820 You know, do you know that song back in poo corner? Can't help me if you can. I want to go

00:19:54.680 back. Kenny Loggins, right? This song is about, he's graduating high school and he says, I want to

00:19:58.700 go back to my childhood, but I know I can't, it's not possible. So that's the way it goes. Well,

00:20:02.260 when he rewrote the song later on in life, he said he got to go back to poo corner. He got to go

00:20:07.000 back to his childhood by participating in his own children's childhood. So now he's in a different

00:20:12.880 role. Okay. It's not that you can never have these similar joys or imagination or, but you have to do

00:20:19.700 it in the role that is appropriate to you. And that is not in leather smacking around grown men who are

00:20:24.380 barking. If you won't grow up, you can't be free. That's the, if you won't mature and grow and be

00:20:32.380 educated, then you can't be a free person. All right. And, and that's what the ruling class is 0.92

00:20:36.840 banking on. The liberal establishment is consistently undermining our freedoms, our political freedoms

00:20:44.000 to make our own choices about how we want to live and to set our own standards. For sure,

00:20:47.920 they're undermining that. And they're, they're often doing it in the name of individual freedoms.

00:20:51.860 Well, the people of Tennessee can't pass a law outlawing the weird, creepy, leather daddy puppy 0.96

00:20:57.460 stuff because, you know, that would undermine the natural right that people have to act like

00:21:03.680 weirdos. No, you don't have that right. But, but by the way, the, the ruling class is taking away 0.99

00:21:09.540 your individual freedoms too. Joe Biden just laughed at the very notion of individual freedom.

00:21:15.560 You were interviewed a year ago about the Superbowl and you expressed hope that come this year,

00:21:21.540 that they'd be able to fill the stands again with people. And that apparently is going to be the

00:21:26.620 case. However, many of those people won't be wearing masks despite the local law in Los Angeles.

00:21:32.300 What is your message to people who want desperately for this to be over and to be able to resume the

00:21:37.940 lives that they remember? Well, look, um, I love how people talk about personal freedom.

00:21:48.400 If you're exercising personal freedom, put someone else in jeopardy, their health in jeopardy.

00:21:54.680 I don't consider that being very damn with freedom.

00:21:58.900 I love how people, if you were scripting this in some science fiction movie, you were writing Star

00:22:06.680 Wars port 75, you would have the bad guy sound like this and have that voice and say these things.

00:22:12.380 Ha ha ha, you're, you're a personal freedom. Oh, and I hear about your personal freedom.

00:22:18.780 They don't like it. They don't like it. The Democrats never liked it. I know that some people

00:22:22.200 are going to respond and say, but, but I thought the liberals were all for personal freedom. I thought

00:22:27.000 the Democrats were all the party of personal freedom. No, they never were. They never were.

00:22:32.920 That was always an instrument to control people. Oh yeah. You've got the freedom to search for

00:22:38.720 whatever you want on the internet, but we're going to be spying on you and we're going to see all that

00:22:42.220 data and we're going to use it to try to undermine you. Oh yeah. You're free to do whatever creepy

00:22:46.540 stuff you want to do on your own. Oh yeah. You're free to do, you're free to indulge all of your

00:22:50.360 basest appetites and then become slaves to those appetites. Yeah. You're free to smoke crack here.

00:22:55.020 We're even going to send you a crack pipe, but then that'll make you a free person, right? No,

00:22:59.220 it'll make you completely incapable of self-government, which is exactly what they want.

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00:24:40.020 Democrats are beginning to lift the mask mandates. Not because the public health officials have observed

00:24:47.780 that the masks are mostly useless. They've been doing that since the beginning. Fauci admitted

00:24:51.480 they don't do very much. Sometimes they hurt during an epidemic, but Democrats still pushed

00:24:56.240 for it. The CNN medical expert, Leanna Wu, said weeks ago that the cloth masks are nothing more

00:25:03.560 than facial decorations. Still, the Democrats kept up on the face masks, but now they're getting their

00:25:09.060 poll numbers. And the poll numbers on these mask mandates are really, really bad. And the Democrats

00:25:13.360 are looking like they're going to get clobbered in November. So all of a sudden, Democrat governors,

00:25:17.560 are saying, no, we're not the party of mask mandates. No, we, no, we hate mask mandates.

00:25:21.900 We're actually, we're going to get rid of the mask mandates because of how successful our policies

00:25:26.080 have been. And the only problem with this pivot, with this strategy is that Joe Biden is,

00:25:32.580 he's lost a few steps. He's not really with it. He's not keeping up with the new talking points.

00:25:37.300 And so Joe Biden goes on Lester Holt's show on NBC, and he's still pushing the old talking points.

00:25:42.800 He's saying, hold up, hold up, hold up. I still like the mask mandates.

00:25:47.560 Are you afraid, though, that some states and cities are moving too quickly to

00:25:51.780 loosen indoor mask mandates?

00:25:54.660 Well, you know, it's, I've, I committed that I would follow the science, the science as

00:26:01.120 put forward by the CDC and the federal people. And I think it's probably premature, but it's,

00:26:08.940 you know, it's a tough call.

00:26:10.120 It's probably premature. I followed, I followed the science. Now he doesn't follow the science.

00:26:15.280 The science is not to be followed, but he's not, he's clearly not following it anyway,

00:26:19.300 because now all of those hacks in the public health bureaucracy are saying, okay, yeah,

00:26:23.600 you can move on. You can move on because they're basically indistinguishable from the Democrat

00:26:27.920 politicians and from the liberal media. They're all working in concert together.

00:26:32.000 Joe Biden just hasn't caught up to the latest political talking points,

00:26:34.940 which is, it's a beautiful thing because he's not going to let the Democrats

00:26:38.880 get away with their, their attempted deception. They're trying to pretend that they are not now

00:26:45.460 and really never were the party that wanted mask mandates. They grudgingly accepted them,

00:26:51.620 but they never wanted them. And Biden is saying, no, we do. We do. Don't get rid of the mask

00:26:56.160 mandates. That's a Republican thing. The Republic, he's really giving you a choice. He's saying the

00:27:00.580 Republicans don't want the mask mandates. The Democrats do. Good. I hope that's on the ballot

00:27:04.620 in November. We're going to take every single seat. It's not, this is not the only place where

00:27:09.560 Democrats are undermining their own message for two, three years now. What has been one of the most

00:27:18.400 prominent animating principles of the democratic party, including especially the BLM riots and all the

00:27:27.680 criminal justice reform of recent years. It's been abolish the police, defund the police, abolish

00:27:32.360 prisons. Remember that we've heard this ad nauseum for years now. And then the Democrats got their poll

00:27:39.860 numbers back and it turns out abolish the police is not all that popular during a crime wave in a

00:27:45.960 midterm election year. And so Nancy Pelosi goes on ABC news. She tries to use all of her Jedi mind 1.00

00:27:51.240 tricks. She says, no, no, we don't, we don't want to defund the police. These are not the droids

00:27:57.400 that you're looking for. And because the Democrats control the media, she thinks it's going to be very

00:28:05.120 effective. The other thing that's weighing on people right now is rising crime. And there appear

00:28:10.900 to be some divisions among Democrats about how to handle it. Your colleague, Karen Bass, running for

00:28:15.120 mayor of Los Angeles, is trying to increase the police force in LA. Cori Bush, congresswoman from

00:28:20.100 Missouri, is saying it's time to defund the police. He's sticking by that. You're the speaker.

00:28:24.460 How do you think Democrats should address rising crime? Well, with all the respect in the world for

00:28:28.340 Cori Bush, that is not the position of the Democratic Party. Community safety to protect and defend in

00:28:35.840 every way is our oath of office. And I have sympathy. We're all concerned about mistreatment of people.

00:28:44.260 And that's why Karen Bass had the Justice in Policing Act. And we would hope to get some of 0.99

00:28:50.080 that done, whether it's no knock or joke hold or some of those issues, even if we can't get it all

00:28:56.100 done. But make no mistake, community safety is our responsibility.

00:29:04.140 Nice try, Nancy, but I don't think you're really persuading me. Notice she gets tripped up on her 0.98

00:29:07.920 words. She goes, look, we're all really sympathetic to defund the police. I mean, no, we're all,

00:29:13.140 we're not, gosh, we are really sympathetic. And we've all been pushing this thing for a long time.

00:29:17.120 But, uh, no, but, and then the way that George Stephanopoulos frames it is he says, look,

00:29:22.620 you got Cori Bush on one hand, who is still pushing to abolish the police, defund the police. 0.99

00:29:26.960 But then you've got Karen Bass on the other hand, Karen Bass, who's a Democrat congressman. 1.00

00:29:31.100 She is a communist. She's like an actual communist who was a member for a long time of the actual

00:29:35.960 communist organizations. And Karen Bass is now running for mayor of LA. Karen Bass wants to 1.00

00:29:41.640 increase police funding. Uh, does she, I don't, I don't buy that for one second. And Nancy Pelosi

00:29:47.780 apparently doesn't either because she points out that Karen Bass has previously supported soft on

00:29:53.060 crime bills to make it harder to prosecute criminals, to make it harder to arrest criminals.

00:29:57.300 So that the two polls here, the pro crime and the weak on crime Democrats, they're both extremely weak

00:30:02.920 on crime. They both wanted to defund the police. They both wanted to make it harder to arrest people.

00:30:07.380 And Nancy Pelosi went along with this for a long time. And, and so did other very prominent

00:30:12.880 Democrats. AOC, what did she say? She said, defund the police means defund the police.

00:30:19.040 Abolish the police means abolish the police. It doesn't mean move a little funding around here

00:30:23.540 or there. It means get rid of that funding. Rashida Tlaib, the George Harrison of the squad.

00:30:30.360 You've got AOC is Paul McCartney. She's the most mainstream. Ilhan Omar is a little more radical.

00:30:35.200 She's John Lennon. Ayanna Pressley, everyone forgets about. She's Ringo. So you got Rashida,

00:30:39.200 who is George Harrison. And Rashida Tlaib comes out in an interview with Axios just a few months ago

00:30:44.680 and said, yes, I want to abolish all prisons. And the, the reporter couldn't, he said, well,

00:30:50.620 you want to, you want to abolish all federal prisons? You want to let all murderers, rapists, 0.69

00:30:56.060 serial killers out? And she said, well, uh, uh, basically, hummina, hummina, hummina. Yes.

00:31:00.360 Yes. Yes, I do. And they know that this is destroying their poll numbers. And so they're

00:31:06.560 trying to run away from it. And Nancy Pelosi is saying, don't believe you're lying on. She says,

00:31:10.820 it's not the position of the Democrat party. Well, I don't know, darling, when it's the position of a

00:31:14.720 huge number of very prominent congressmen, when it's the position of major Democrat mayors and

00:31:20.920 governors all around the country, then I think it is the position of the party. And you're going to try

00:31:24.740 to lie through your teeth and just hope that people aren't paying attention in an election year.

00:31:29.100 But I think the people probably know better. They're, they're flipping on all their policies

00:31:34.060 now because of how unpopular they are. Beto O'Rourke, he's my favorite one. He's running for

00:31:38.340 office for, I think the 75th time in 18 months. He's, remember he, he ran for president. He ran for

00:31:47.780 Senate, lost, ran for president, lost. Now he's running for governor of Texas. He's probably going

00:31:52.580 to lose. Beto O'Rourke, what did he say a few years ago? It was very clear. They said, are you going to

00:31:58.160 try to take away people's AR-15s? And he said, hell, hell yes, I'm going to take your guns.

00:32:06.340 Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47. We're not going to allow it to be used

00:32:11.540 against our fellow Americans anymore. I'm not interested in taking anything from anyone.

00:32:17.080 What I want to make sure that we do is defend the second amendment. I want to make sure that

00:32:21.320 we protect our fellow Texans far better than we're doing right now. And that we listen to law

00:32:25.620 enforcement. Hmm. Is that the same, is that the same guy? He went, so 2019, you say, hell yes,

00:32:33.400 I'm taking your guns. Then 2022, he says, we're not taking guns from anybody. I want to, I want to

00:32:37.880 defend the second amendment. I'm a pro second amendment guy because now I'm running for governor

00:32:41.700 of Texas, not the Democrat nomination for president. I'm pro. Okay. So listen, maybe he changed his mind.

00:32:47.560 People can grow. People can change. People can mature. They don't usually do that these days,

00:32:52.200 but maybe they can. Except that just, just one year ago, back in, not even one year, even less

00:33:00.060 than one year ago, in, in just a few months ago, Beto O'Rourke was saying that he stood by his call

00:33:08.060 to take away people's guns. Look, we, we are a state that has a long, proud tradition of responsible gun

00:33:16.940 ownership. And most of us here in Texas do want, do not want to see our friends, our family members,

00:33:23.260 our neighbors shot up with these weapons of war. So yes, I still hold this view. 0.95

00:33:29.360 Yes. Yes. I still hold this view. Hell yes. We're going to take away your AR-15s. And he's trying to

00:33:33.280 have it both ways. So he, he started the shift it back in November. So he said, I love the second

00:33:39.840 amendment. I just hate the most popular gun in America. So yeah, we're going to defend your

00:33:47.600 abstract second amendment right in principle, but in practice, we're going to take away the most

00:33:51.960 popular basic gun in America. So the issue here is not that he changed his views. I'm happy when

00:33:59.880 politicians flip-flop from the wrong side of an issue to the right side of an issue. I'm basically

00:34:04.740 pretty happy about that. The issue here is that Beto is obviously insincere. And if he somehow

00:34:11.020 became governor of Texas, he would obviously push for strong gun grabbing legislation.

00:34:18.600 And I think the people see through that, especially with him. I mean, he's just such a joke.

00:34:23.000 That guy, you know, he can go back to skateboarding around the Whataburger. He does not,

00:34:26.900 he looks like a child. He looks, gets back to what we were talking about at the top of the show.

00:34:31.240 It gets back to people wanting to go back to their nightclub in the 1980s. People wanting to go

00:34:37.000 back to childhood and play around and pretend they're puppies, except in a much, much creepier

00:34:42.380 way, I hope, than they did when they were kids. It goes back to that nostalgia. I won't grow up,

00:34:48.800 I won't grow up. Beto O'Rourke is the Never Neverland candidate, running for governor of Never

00:34:55.040 Neverland. Texas ain't Never Neverland, at least not now, at least I hope. People want politicians 0.94

00:35:00.460 who will toughen up on criminals and not toughen up on law abiding citizens. What the Democrats have

00:35:08.500 been offering, especially in this gun issue, is we're going to go really hard after law abiding

00:35:13.400 gun owners and we're going to let criminals who are using illegal guns out of prison. And then we're

00:35:18.440 going to abolish prisons altogether. That seems backwards, doesn't it? Which is why Republicans

00:35:23.240 have just introduced, I would say, my favorite law ever. Well, that's not true. My favorite bill

00:35:31.500 that has been introduced in Congress recently is the Michael Knowles Public Health Protection

00:35:35.960 Pledge, which was just introduced as a House resolution by Representative Paul Gosar. It's a

00:35:41.080 pledge to investigate, subpoena, investigate, and then defund Dr. Fauci. It's a great pledge.

00:35:47.360 Your congressmen, your senators can sign on right now as co-sponsors. Tell them to, write them,

00:35:53.160 tag them, say sign on to the Michael Knowles Public Health Protection Pledge, sign on to Paul

00:35:57.560 Gosar's pledge that he's put into Congress and make sure that we get rid of Fauci. That's a little bit

00:36:02.400 of a sidebar. But other than the Michael Knowles Public Health Protection Pledge, my favorite bill

00:36:07.860 that has been introduced into Congress, possibly ever, is a bill to ban the government from paying for

00:36:16.260 crack pipes for drug addicts. The bill is called the Halting the Use, see if you can follow this one,

00:36:23.920 Halting the Use of Narcotics Through Effective Recovery Act of 2022, also known as the Hunter Act

00:36:34.940 to ban crack pipes. Really, really great stuff. Politicians love a good acronym. This one,

00:36:42.400 as good as they get, absolutely hilarious, but also a good law. Also a good law.

00:36:50.120 The Democrat theory of justice that is very prominent today, not just among the Democrat

00:36:57.040 party proper, but among the whole American left, which now controls all the institutions,

00:37:01.740 is that the way to have a good society is to let people do whatever they want.

00:37:07.180 That's not true. You're not really allowed to start businesses. You're not really allowed to

00:37:12.620 go to church. You're not allowed to walk around without a mask. You're not allowed to avoid getting

00:37:16.360 17 jabs of an experimental drug. So it's not that you're allowed to do absolutely whatever you want.

00:37:21.340 I guess the theory on the left and among Democrats is that you have some kind of right to engage in any

00:37:27.700 destructive behaviors that you want, whether they're destructive on drugs, whether they're

00:37:33.220 destructive on weird sex stuff, whether they're destructive on, even in your local community,

00:37:40.780 looting, going and stealing Nike shoes, not prosecuting a lot of these crimes. They're all

00:37:47.020 for that. The Democrats think that's how you're going to have a flourishing society.

00:37:52.640 The Never Never Land party. Imagine if kids were allowed to do that. Kids are not allowed to do that.

00:37:58.360 Kids are told, don't do the bad thing. Naughty, naughty. Do the good thing. Good job. Good job,

00:38:02.680 little boy. And then you grow up and then hopefully you can govern yourself. But something

00:38:06.520 about this generation or a lot of recent generations, they never learned that. They

00:38:11.300 never agreed to grow up. And if we want to hold on to whatever tenuous little thread of a country

00:38:18.140 that we have left, we're going to need to grow up and we're going to need to say, no, don't smoke

00:38:22.960 crack. No, we're not. We can't mail out people crack pipes. We've got to say, no, naughty,

00:38:28.980 naughty, naughty crackhead. Don't smoke that crack. Don't know. Don't dress up like a puppy and prance 0.99

00:38:35.420 around and then take over America's nuclear waste. No, you've got to grow up. You've got,

00:38:40.660 I hate to be the bad guy. I don't want to sound like, I don't want to sound like mean old daddy here,

00:38:44.660 but not daddy like in the sense of what the puppy guy is, would say daddy. I'm talking about like

00:38:49.760 actually like father knows best. There is such a thing as reason and moral conscience and justice

00:38:54.900 and virtue. And you got to pursue that if you want to have a real society. Speaking of Republican

00:39:01.960 legislators, Republican legislators are weighing in now on an important international issue. I'm not

00:39:08.780 talking about Ukraine, which is an extremely overhyped issue. I'm not talking about other 0.99

00:39:14.100 places where the state department wants to go intervene around the world. I'm talking about the

00:39:18.680 one international issue that the liberal establishment, the ruling class doesn't want to talk about at all.

00:39:23.660 I'm talking about that international issue going on up in America's hat. I'm talking about the most

00:39:29.800 important worker protest of not just our lifetimes, probably the most important worker protest of the

00:39:35.160 last hundred years. I'm talking about the Canadian truckers. Senator Rand Paul, very libertarian,

00:39:44.980 defender of individual liberty, unsurprisingly. Now it's funny because Rand Paul being extremely

00:39:51.960 libertarian. He doesn't like to get involved in foreign countries and he always votes against

00:39:56.000 sanctions. He always votes against foreign intervention. But in this case, he is speaking

00:40:00.060 out and he's saying those Canadian truckers are doing great work and they're standing up for liberty.

00:40:06.960 I'm all for it. Civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country

00:40:11.940 from slavery to civil rights to you name it. Peaceful protest, clog things up, make people think about

00:40:19.480 the mandates. So he's saying this is great stuff. This is civil disobedience. And some people on the

00:40:26.900 left and in the center are accusing Rand Paul and other conservatives who really like the Canadian

00:40:33.200 trucker protest. They're saying honk, honk, honk, and they're sending their support. They're accusing

00:40:38.220 us of hypocrisy because they're saying, hold on a second. Hold on a second, you hypocrites. 1.00

00:40:44.280 Back a year or two ago during the BLM riots, you were against those. You were against that sort of 0.99

00:40:49.700 civil disobedience. Pretty uncivil disobedience, by the way, when you're throwing Molotov cocktails at

00:40:55.220 federal buildings and looting Nike sneakers. But let's even grant the premise. You were against

00:41:00.300 BLM taking to the streets, but you're for the Canadian truckers. There's a guy, he writes for a 0.98

00:41:08.400 libertarian magazine. I don't even want to use that term libertarian because libertarianism has a sort

00:41:15.580 of strain of a serious tradition. And a lot of the people today who call themselves libertarians are

00:41:20.540 just not that. They call them lullbertarians sometimes because they're really incoherent and

00:41:25.200 really kind of squishy. So I do want to make that distinction. But anyway, he's a nice guy. I don't

00:41:29.480 want to go after him personally, but he made a really dumb point, which is he tweeted out, quote, 0.94

00:41:34.000 from conservatives cheering for an economically crippling worker-led blockade to liberals 0.73

00:41:40.040 essentially plagiarizing Tom Cotton's send in the troops op-ed. The trucker protests are turning

00:41:45.580 basically everyone into hypocrites. And it is hilarious. The conservatives say it's beautiful to 0.98

00:41:52.360 see people fighting injustice and standing up against mistreatment. And if they disrupt the economy

00:41:56.040 and occupy public roads, so be it. The liberals are saying, arrest them, jail the dissenters, blow up

00:42:00.100 the trucks, could not have scripted this better. You can retort, now do BLM at both groups and it 0.52

00:42:05.080 works. Amazing. And then he goes on to conclude, I think all the mandates should end and the truckers

00:42:10.160 should disperse. In the previous scenario, I thought we should end no-knock raids and also

00:42:14.720 people should stop rioting. See, I'm a good one. I'm one of the good ones. I'm, listen, I'm much

00:42:21.460 smarter than all of the conservatives talking about the vaccine mandates. And I'm much smarter than all of

00:42:25.880 the liberals talking about abolish the police. I'm, they're, you're just hypocrites. Because if you, 1.00

00:42:32.800 if you support BLM, then you should support the truckers and vice versa. If you support the truckers,

00:42:38.700 then you should support the violent mobs roving through the streets, right? Wrong. No. Do you know

00:42:46.440 what I find hilarious? I don't find this hilarious. I don't think it's hypocritical at all. What I find

00:42:50.440 hilarious is that some people are only now figuring out that politics is not merely about procedural

00:42:58.740 norms, but also about substantive ends. I'll bring that down to earth. What I mean is, yes, BLM 0.92

00:43:08.680 and the Canadian truckers both protested. That's true. They were both protesting.

00:43:15.400 That's the procedural similarity. But they were protesting for very, very different things.

00:43:25.180 BLM was protesting to abolish the police. BLM was protesting to let criminals run roughshod over 0.88

00:43:31.720 our society. BLM was protesting to make it harder to arrest criminals. The Canadian truckers are protesting

00:43:40.080 because they don't want to be forced to take an experimental drug with noted recorded side effects

00:43:46.360 to maybe sort of, but probably not protect against a virus that doesn't pose a grave threat to most

00:43:52.400 people. Those are different things. And it met, this is, I sometimes hear this whenever you talk

00:44:00.000 about religion and politics, which you inevitably have to do because all politics ultimately comes

00:44:04.580 back to religion, whether you want to admit it or not. All politics comes back to these moral

00:44:08.440 questions. Sometimes they'll say, wait a second, Michael, hold on. If you, if you apply religious

00:44:16.160 and moral thinking to, to politics, if you apply your Christian worldview to politics, well, you're

00:44:23.400 no different than ISIS because ISIS also applies their religious worldview to politics. So yeah, that's,

00:44:31.520 yes, that's true. Now let's go a step further. It's right. You're, you're right. All people have

00:44:37.080 some kind of religion. Even if you think you don't have a religion, you do have a religion. You talk

00:44:40.520 about things like human rights and free will and the relationship of man to the, you always have

00:44:45.200 some kind of religious view. Yeah. So people talk about religion, but the religions are different.

00:44:52.520 They're different. They have different views of the world and they have different implications for

00:44:56.100 politics and society. Yeah, you're right. And Christianity and Islam are different and Christianity and 1.00

00:45:02.320 Islam and leftism are very, very different. And it matters. The substance matters too. 0.99

00:45:08.740 This is so hilarious that some people would support the truckers, but not BLM. No, it's,

00:45:12.780 it's just to be expected because those are different groups with different aims,

00:45:16.800 with different views of society. That's why it's perfectly ordinary and normal to support one

00:45:21.300 and not the others. It's very, don't, it's very shallow view of politics, my friends.

00:45:27.560 And it's not, you are seeing a kind of shifting of some political alliances right now, for instance,

00:45:33.760 you're seeing the liberal establishment really push for war in Ukraine, but it's not just

00:45:38.280 conservatives pushing for war in you or pushing against the war in Ukraine. It's, it's some liberal

00:45:44.440 media figures too. Jake Tapper was just pushing back on the national security advisor, Jake Sullivan.

00:45:49.440 You've been warning about the Russians using a false flag operation to justify invading Ukraine.

00:45:54.380 That's a strong claim to make without presenting a shred of evidence. Is there anything more

00:45:57.980 you can tell the public, a public that might be justifiably rather skeptical of claims about

00:46:04.260 intelligence? Well, let me make three points on this. First, we're not putting forward this

00:46:10.960 intelligence to start a war, which has happened in the past, Jake. We are putting forward this

00:46:15.580 intelligence to stop a war. And I think that fundamentally gives it at the outset, a different

00:46:20.900 level of credibility. Okay. We've, we've seen them do this before. Okay. And, but Jake Tapper's

00:46:25.880 just sitting there. He's saying, what evidence do you have? You're not presenting any evidence.

00:46:31.580 So who knows? Maybe Putin invades Ukraine. Maybe he doesn't. Well, but that's sort of beside the

00:46:37.500 point. The issue is that the deep state has lost all credibility. That's why people don't believe

00:46:41.620 the state department briefings. That's why people don't believe when the Pentagon says, we got to go in

00:46:45.760 there, we got to send in the troops. It's because they've lied. They've bungled a whole lot of foreign 0.61

00:46:50.080 interventions and they've lied. And now it's just a group of, of puppy fetishists and domestic spies 0.70

00:46:56.120 who are undermining the sitting president. That's not our fault. You guys squandered your credibility.

00:47:00.840 That's why the people are making what might be a last stand at self-government. That's, that's what

00:47:06.800 all of this political pushback is about, whether it's the Canadian truckers or whether it's what you're

00:47:12.520 seeing going on ahead of the 2022 elections. What country are we going to be? Are we going

00:47:16.860 to regress to perpetual childhood? I won't grow up. I won't grow up. Or are we going to decide to

00:47:21.060 mature, grow up and take back control of our country? I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael

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00:48:17.760 Today on the Matt Walsh show, the Super Bowl last night was one long parade of leftist hypocrisy.

00:48:22.440 We'll count the waves today. Also, we'll review some of the weird and woke commercials that companies

00:48:26.400 spent millions of dollars to air during the broadcast. Plus, Nancy Pelosi officially slams the 1.00

00:48:30.220 doors shut on the defund the police movement. And Joe Biden speaks out against racism in the NFL.

00:48:35.800 At least, I think that's what he was doing. It's hard to tell anymore. And our daily cancellation,

00:48:38.960 we'll deal with the latest leftist innovation. It's called platonic conscious co-parenting.

00:48:44.960 All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh show.

The Michael Knowles Show - February 14, 2022

Ep. 943 - Trump Was Right About Another “Conspiracy Theory”

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