The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 951 - The Climate Change Assault Continues On Ukraine

00:00:00.000 As the casualty count mounts in Ukraine, as the Chinese Communist Party begins

00:00:05.360 ratcheting up the aggression in Taiwan, as the post-Cold War world order seems to be on the

00:00:11.960 brink of collapse, the Biden administration wants to make sure that you don't get distracted from

00:00:17.600 the real threat, global warming. Hopefully President Putin would realize that in the

00:00:23.940 northern part of his country, they used to live on 66% of a nation that was over frozen land.

00:00:30.900 Now it's thawing and his infrastructure is at risk and the people of Russia are at risk. And so I hope 1.00

00:00:38.080 President Putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate.

00:00:44.780 Yes, that'll stop Putin. The man currently shelling civilians and killing children in Ukraine,

00:00:50.620 the world leader famous for assassinating journalists and poisoning his political

00:00:55.960 opponents with nerve agents, the ex-KGB spy who openly brags about his ambition to reassemble

00:01:02.500 the Soviet Union, once known as the evil empire, that man is going to call off his soldiers

00:01:08.720 out of fear of Greta Thunberg and the sun monster. So hopes John Kerry and the Biden administration.

00:01:16.600 And the scariest part of all is that John Kerry just might be the most lucid tactician

00:01:23.280 in the entire administration. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:16.460 now. I'm not joking when I say John Kerry, who believes that fear of the sun monster and a Swedish 0.98

00:03:24.300 child yelling at him will stop Vladimir Putin from conquering Ukraine. I'm not exaggerating or lying

00:03:30.780 when I say John Kerry is one of the more reasonable, sane people in the administration when we're talking

00:03:35.920 about tactics on this Russia-Ukraine situation. The Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has been

00:03:43.680 making the rounds. What are we doing? How is diplomacy working? How are the sanctions going to

00:03:49.040 work? And he was asked a very simple question. What sanctions are you placing on Russia? How are

00:03:56.280 you going to squeeze Vladimir Putin and the Russian economy to resolve this situation in Ukraine? And

00:04:02.100 what is that going to mean for Americans? And the Secretary of State wants to reassure everybody

00:04:07.140 that the sanctions are going to do absolutely nothing. Russia's economy is fueled by gas and the U.S. is a

00:04:13.880 consumer. So would the U.S. consider cutting off oil and gas purchases from Russia?

00:04:20.100 Well, what we're doing, Nora, across the board is making sure that we inflict maximum pain on Russia 1.00

00:04:27.180 for what President Putin has done, while minimizing any of the pain to us. We're in full coordination

00:04:32.560 with other countries, both consumers and producers alike, to minimize any impact that this may have on

00:04:37.740 energy prices and on gasoline. Okay, hold on. Hold on a second here. You'll notice Secretary of State

00:04:43.600 Blinken did not answer the question. It was a pretty good question, actually. And he didn't

00:04:48.560 answer it, though I think the fact that he didn't answer it means that he actually did answer it.

00:04:52.580 She asks him, the reporter asks him, are we going to go after Russia's oil and gas?

00:05:00.760 Russia makes all of its money on oil and gas. Now, America consumes a lot of oil and gas. So if you go

00:05:09.220 after Russia's oil and gas, that's going to hurt Putin, but it's going to also hurt the Americans

00:05:14.400 who are filling up their tanks. It's going to disproportionately hurt poor Americans, right?

00:05:19.040 We all need to fill up the tanks of our cars. And so people who have less money, if the price of oil

00:05:24.540 and gas goes up, people who need to not just fill up their tanks, but also heat their homes. We use oil

00:05:29.760 for a whole lot of stuff. All consumer goods are going to go up in price if we see oil and gas prices

00:05:36.680 go up. So it's going to disproportionately hurt poorer Americans, but it's going to hurt all

00:05:40.560 Americans. How are you going to do that, buddy? And he says, well, what we want to do, we want to

00:05:45.900 really hurt Putin, but we don't want to in any way hurt the American oil consumer. Well, that's not

00:05:50.680 possible, right? So how are you going to do it? Well, thankfully, the deputy national security advisor

00:05:56.740 to Joe Biden gives a blunter answer. And it's the answer we all suspected when we heard Blinken run

00:06:01.680 his mealy mouth, which is they're not going to do anything. Targeting the Russian energy industry

00:06:07.600 is totally off the table. Is that what you're saying, Khalid? What I'm saying is that our measures

00:06:12.000 were not designed to disrupt in any way the current flow of energy from Russia to the world. Now,

00:06:18.240 we have also said we are going to cut off Russia's access to cutting edge technology. That technology 0.99

00:06:23.520 can be used across many sectors. And so as it relates to Russia's long-term productive capacity,

00:06:29.860 we are seeking to degrade that capacity, but nothing, nothing in the short term as it relates

00:06:34.640 to energy. No, we want to reassure the world. We are not in any way going to hurt Russia's only

00:06:41.800 industry. You know, the only industry that gives Putin his money with which to wage the war in

00:06:46.540 Ukraine. We're not, we're not going to touch that, but we are going to lever some, some pretty heavy 0.95

00:06:51.240 sanctions on Russian haberdashers. Yeah. Oh yeah, buddy. You're, it's going to be bad. Russian 0.99

00:06:57.940 trinket makers, Russian ice cream parlors. Oh yeah, we're going after them hard, but the oil 1.00

00:07:04.100 and gas industry, which funds the entire country, as John McCain said, one of the few precise things

00:07:10.360 and accurate things that John McCain observed is that Russia is a gas station with a country

00:07:15.120 attached. They're just entirely reliant on oil and gas. Yeah, we're not going to touch that.

00:07:20.620 That'll show you Putin. No, no, no, don't worry. It's okay. Greta Thunberg and John Kerry are going

00:07:25.440 to yell at Putin. So that's going to stop the war. Okay. Okay, buddy. Oh my gosh. How do these people,

00:07:31.800 how do these people make it to such positions of power? It's a, it's a simple problem actually

00:07:39.980 that they're dealing with, which is they don't want to make any decisions. They know that any

00:07:46.140 decision you make, especially when you're talking about the presidential level of politics, any decision

00:07:51.480 that you make is going to help some people and hurt other people. There are, there are no easy

00:07:55.660 decisions that make it to the presidential level. If it goes all the way up there, you're dealing with

00:07:59.980 really, really difficult problems and they don't want to deal with that because they're extremely

00:08:04.700 immature and irresponsible and living in a fantasy world. These are the kind of people who can't tell

00:08:09.680 the difference between men and women. They don't think you even have to make a decision there.

00:08:14.240 They don't think that you, no, it's, listen, if you're a man, maybe you can be a woman. If you're a 0.68

00:08:19.020 woman, maybe you can be a man. Actually, actually you don't even need to be a man or a woman. You 0.98

00:08:22.320 can be any of the other 57 genders. That's fine. Is it any wonder that these people can't make the 1.00

00:08:26.620 simple decision? No, we're going to sanction, if we're going to sanction Russia, we're going to 0.85

00:08:30.460 sanction Russia. When Donald Trump sanctioned Russia, what did he do? Did he go after the,

00:08:35.720 the Russian, Russian garments association? No, he went after the pipeline. He went after Nord Stream

00:08:41.320 too. And it worked by the way, Russia did not launch a full invasion of Ukraine during the

00:08:46.340 Trump administration. And does that lead to some problems at home? Maybe not if you catch it early

00:08:54.820 enough, by the way, does that cause some consternation in Europe? Yeah, maybe it does.

00:08:59.260 But Donald Trump, Donald Trump laid it out for Europe. He said, hold on, we're paying for your

00:09:03.840 military so that you can go pay Russia to go give you your energy. We're paying for your military 0.82

00:09:10.600 specifically because you're afraid that Russia is going to invade you. And then what are you doing?

00:09:17.860 You're taking all those savings, all that money that we're allowing you to save by paying for your

00:09:21.960 military and you're giving it to Russia to get your energy. That's not going to work. We're not

00:09:24.960 going to do that. Okay. We're protecting Germany. We're protecting France. We're protecting all of 0.59

00:09:30.480 these countries. And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where

00:09:36.660 they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia. So we're supposed to protect you

00:09:42.660 against Russia, but they're paying billions of dollars to Russia. And I think that's very

00:09:47.140 inappropriate. And the former chancellor of Germany is the head of the pipeline company

00:09:51.760 that's supplying the gas. Ultimately, Germany will have almost 70 percent of their country

00:09:58.740 controlled by Russia with natural gas. So you tell me, is that appropriate? I mean,

00:10:05.380 I've been complaining about this from the time I got in. It should have never been allowed to have

00:10:10.140 happened. But Germany is totally controlled by Russia because they were getting from 60 to 70 0.72

00:10:15.900 percent of their energy from Russia and a new pipeline. And you tell me if that's appropriate,

00:10:21.800 because I think it's not. And I think it's a very bad thing for NATO. And I don't think it should

00:10:26.320 have happened. What happened when Donald Trump posed that problem to Russia? The mainstream media in the

00:10:34.700 United States said, he's undermining NATO. Donald Trump is undermining NATO. Not at all. He was

00:10:43.200 strengthening NATO. He was strengthening NATO by weakening Russia. But now we've got the worst of

00:10:49.340 all worlds because this administration doesn't want to make any choices. No one does. No one is

00:10:55.340 thinking about the broader strategic picture or the common good. They're all just thinking about

00:10:59.240 themselves. Summed up perfectly by Joy Behar on The View, who said, you know, the worst part of this

00:11:04.520 whole Ukraine issue, what's going to happen to my Roman holiday? Estimates are 50,000 Ukrainians will

00:11:11.340 be dead or wounded. Yeah. And that this is going to start a humanitarian crisis, a refugee crisis in

00:11:17.860 Europe. We're talking about 5 million people that are going to be displaced. I mean, it's heartbreaking

00:11:24.500 to hear what is going to happen. Yeah. Well, I'm scared of what's going to happen in Western Europe

00:11:30.360 too. Yeah. You know, you just, you plan a trip. You want to go there. I want to go to Italy for

00:11:34.780 four years. I haven't been able to make it because of the pandemic. And now this, you know, it's like,

00:11:40.600 who's going to, what's going to happen there? When Joy Behar started saying this, I thought it was the

00:11:46.180 setup to a joke. You know, yeah. And you know, the real problem is I don't get to stay at my Tuscan

00:11:51.540 Villa this summer. And I didn't even get to last year either, but it wasn't. She was dead serious.

00:11:57.520 She was 100% serious. And this is instructive. This is how our elites think. I'm not just talking

00:12:07.040 about the elites in government. I'm talking about the elites in government, media like Joy Behar,

00:12:10.580 the elites in private industry. They're not thinking about the national good. They're not even thinking

00:12:16.520 about the global humanitarian good. They're just thinking about numero uno. You know, you know,

00:12:22.940 gosh, this really teaches me about suffering because I feel, I feel bad for those children

00:12:27.220 being shelled in Kiev right now. But, but I might not even get to go to the Uffizi this summer.

00:12:32.880 Can you, you know, it's suffering, right? Ain't that, ain't that just the way suffering works?

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00:13:57.140 Forget Joe Biden's fake sanctions that aren't actually going to stop any industry in Russia or squeeze

00:14:03.880 Putin at all. The left has one more strategy here to stop Vladimir Putin. This one I think actually

00:14:12.520 has the best chance of doing it. Slam poetry. Dear President Vladimir Putin, I'm so sorry that I was

00:14:21.600 not your mother. If I was your mother, you would have been so loved, held in the arms of joyous light.

00:14:28.540 Never would this story's plight the world unfurled before our eyes, a pure demise of nations sitting

00:14:35.760 peaceful under a night sky. If I was your mother, the world would have been warm. So much laughter and

00:14:42.780 joy and nothing would harm. I can't imagine the stain, the soul-stealing pain that the little boy you

00:14:49.480 must have seen and believed and the formulation of thought quickly taught that you lived in a cruel,

00:14:55.660 unjust world. Is this why you now decide no one will get the best of you? Is this why you do not

00:15:05.860 hide nor away shy from taking back the world? Was it because so early in life, all that strife

00:15:12.440 wrapped your little body with fear? Two more minutes of this, I would be willing to turn over my family.

00:15:18.960 I would surrender my entire country. This is psychological warfare. I believe this is prohibited

00:15:23.560 by the Geneva Convention. So torturous is it? People are making fun of this actress, Anna Lynn

00:15:30.960 McCord. If Putin were actually strapped down to a gurney and made to watch this, I promise you he

00:15:37.860 would stop the war in Ukraine. So painful is it? In the words of Harold Bloom, the late, great literary

00:15:45.460 critic, slam poetry is the death of art. The death of art, the death of foreign policy apparently as well.

00:15:53.220 The saddest thing about this little viral clip of this actress reading her slam poem to Vladimir

00:15:58.620 Putin. Her strategy is no less effective than John Kerry's. What her strategy is, hey, hey, Vlad,

00:16:11.340 I think you're acting really bad and you need to stop being so mad and invade Ukraine. It's insane. 0.97

00:16:17.860 Maine. Maine, right? So that's her strategy. Here's John Kerry's strategy.

00:16:25.320 It's going to get really hot, Vladimir. No, not because of our weapons. We're not going to fire

00:16:30.180 any weapons or anything, but because of the sun. So stop, please, because of the sun monster.

00:16:35.420 And here's Joe Biden's actual official strategy from the White House. Hey, Vladimir Putin,

00:16:40.700 we're going to, we're not going to let people buy Russian toy dolls anymore. You know, those stacking 0.99

00:16:47.060 dolls where it's the doll and you open, there's like 10 more dolls inside the doll. We're not going

00:16:50.600 to let people, they can still buy your oil, but we're not going to let them buy those dolls anymore.

00:16:54.680 The, all of those strategies are equally effective. They don't do anything.

00:16:57.720 We are, our, our nation is being led by the slam poetry actress lady. It's, it's just, it's just a

00:17:07.520 lot of the slam poetry actress lady wearing suits with really serious faces and, and, you know,

00:17:12.780 really prim and proper haircuts, but it's exactly as effective. There, we have been so hollowed out

00:17:22.300 morally, intellectually, politically, economic, we've been so hollowed out. I don't know that we are,

00:17:30.620 we are capable of serious international action anymore. We had a reprieve during the Trump

00:17:37.400 administration. He actually was, was pretty good on the international front.

00:17:44.300 But Donald Trump was the, was the bull in the China shopper. Donald Trump is in no way the foreign

00:17:49.180 policy establishment that generally speaking runs our foreign policy. And by the way,

00:17:54.780 he ended up getting run out by the deep state anyway. So he was the exception, not the rule.

00:17:59.540 The rule is really pathetic. How did we get so hollowed out? In part, I think I've, I've said 0.99

00:18:05.500 this before about Tik TOK. You know, we always play Tik TOK videos here to show you what the youths

00:18:09.560 are listening to. I would not be surprised if I discovered that Tik TOK were just a Russian 1.00

00:18:16.860 psychological, or Russian, a Chinese psychological operation to hollow out America. I would not be

00:18:21.900 surprised at all. I feel that way about a lot of social media. Well, there was a really brilliant

00:18:26.520 idea just came up in the wall street journal. Saw this article yesterday. I think it's great. And

00:18:30.820 in an article by Thomas Lehrman and Brad Wilcox, the idea is no Instagram or Tik TOK without parental

00:18:36.920 consent. Okay. Now what does that mean? Well, look, if, if, if I want to go on a, if I want,

00:18:44.860 if I'm a teacher and I want to take my students on a field trip, what do I have to do? I need to

00:18:48.580 give a permission slip out and the parents or guardian need to sign the permission slip and

00:18:52.380 say, okay, my kid can go on the field trip. There are a whole host of activities for which

00:18:58.120 you need a little permission slip. If you want a kid to be able to do it. And then there are a lot

00:19:01.680 of activities that kids are not even permitted to engage in. Well, how come they're allowed to go on

00:19:07.720 Instagram and Tik TOK? This just gaping whole old pathway straight to hell where there is all sorts

00:19:14.380 of insane content. I'm not just talking about the obscenity and the porn that's on these, 0.84

00:19:17.580 on these channels. I'm talking about the, the weird, creepy ideological stuff. That's going to

00:19:24.400 convince your kid, little Johnny, that he's really a little Jane and convince him that he,

00:19:29.520 his country is evil and all sorts of really wacky ideology. Obviously there should be a permission

00:19:36.380 slip. Now this seems to me to be a pretty fair middle ground compromise between on the one hand,

00:19:42.320 the licentious animals who think that little kids need to be able to do whatever they want.

00:19:46.880 They should go to drag queen story hour and that's a blessing of Liberty. And then on the other hand, 0.51

00:19:50.620 the conservatives who think this stuff should just be banned and Tik TOK should just be banned and

00:19:55.540 pornography should not even just be age limited, but just ban, just, just get rid of it. That's what

00:20:01.000 we did for most of American history. Let's just go back to that, right? That would be, that'd be much

00:20:04.980 more what I'm interested in, right? I'm just saying this, let's, let's get back to a

00:20:08.920 semi-reasonable kind of national policy. Nobody benefits from allowing creepy grooming drag queens 1.00

00:20:17.940 to go on Tik TOK and pervert your kid's mind. So let's just get rid of it. Okay. But let's,

00:20:22.520 we're not ready for that. Let's have a middle ground. You need a permission slip for this stuff.

00:20:25.860 How do you do it? Instagram's not going to do it by itself. Instagram, Tik TOK, all of these social

00:20:31.500 media companies are preying on your child. They're finding the most, the, the weakest parts of your

00:20:37.680 child's psychology, the most vulnerable aspects of their mind. And they're gunning for those and

00:20:42.820 their algorithms are feeding those. And there have been huge reports on this, feeding eating disorders,

00:20:47.680 feeding all sorts of psychological disorders and pathologies because it gets more clicks.

00:20:51.720 It keeps the eyeballs on the screen longer. And that way they get to sell you more things from

00:20:55.480 their advertisers and they get to collect more data from your kids. So that's, that's what the media

00:21:00.200 companies are going to keep doing. How about we use our political power and our elected representatives

00:21:04.800 to go in and say, no, you can't do that. Sorry. You need a permission slip. Fine by me. It's a

00:21:09.140 middle ground compromise. I would much rather go in with a wrecking ball, knock down these woke big

00:21:14.020 tech companies servers, and then plow the ground with salt where they once stood. But if, if you think

00:21:19.540 that's a little too far right wing for right now, okay, I'm willing to grant, maybe that's the case.

00:21:23.760 At the very least we need the permission slips. We need limits. Okay. This gets to something I talked

00:21:29.080 about yesterday. I got to it at the very end of the show, but I don't want to, I don't want to just

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00:21:37.560 studies. The United States population of legal and illegal immigrants has now reached an all time

00:21:46.100 high. That's 46.6 million immigrants in the United States. This is up 1.6 million since Joe Biden was

00:21:54.720 inaugurated. It's a huge increase and it's just a huge percentage and it's just too many immigrants. 1.00

00:22:00.320 Okay. Part of my family were immigrants. The Italian side, part of the family came on the

00:22:06.500 Mayflower and they were here from the very beginning, but part of my family came basically

00:22:09.620 on a sardine boat from Sicily and they were immigrants. So I'm not, I don't have a problem

00:22:13.040 with immigrants per se. I'm sure lots of these immigrants, legal ones, and frankly, some of the

00:22:18.140 illegal ones, I'm sure they're very nice people, but you can't just replace the population of a country 1.00

00:22:25.220 with lots of foreigners who have no connection to your national rituals, your beliefs, your 1.00

00:22:30.580 traditions, your language, who are not part of the people of the country and expect to have the 1.00

00:22:37.200 same country. It's not possible. You can't assimilate 50 million people overnight, period. 1.00

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00:24:32.900 than ever. I love immigration, but it's got to be done the legal way. No, that's wrong. That's the

00:24:38.540 wrong line. Okay. I don't, I don't besmirch anybody's reputation. I don't, I don't think

00:24:45.700 that people engaged in this kind of talk necessarily with bad intentions, but it's crazy. If there's no

00:24:51.720 limit, then what? Okay. We've got 330 million people in America. What, let's just bring in 330

00:24:56.060 million people next year. We've already got 46. So let's say the majority of America is just

00:25:01.680 foreigners with no real connection to American history or tradition. Would that be a good idea? 1.00

00:25:06.420 Would you support that? No, of course not. You, you wouldn't help the immigrants exactly. In some 1.00

00:25:11.020 ways you would, I guess, but you would completely destroy America. So the place they're coming to

00:25:14.720 wouldn't really exist anymore because America is not just an idea. It's a place and it's a people

00:25:20.260 with traditions and connections and rituals and a language. So you can't do that. You've got to have

00:25:25.540 some kind of limit. The limitless immigration thing. It's, it's the same as the Joy Behar problem.

00:25:31.120 The problem is that the ruling elite have been governing without any thought toward the common

00:25:37.520 good, without any thought toward the national good. They've been thinking about the good of

00:25:42.160 their own pockets and their own success at the ballot box. The Democrats support limitless

00:25:47.400 immigration, legal and illegal, because immigrants broadly, not just illegal, but legal too,

00:25:53.140 are likely to vote for Democrats. So the Democrats like that more immigration, please. 0.90

00:25:58.940 And the Democrats are opposed generally to a lot of traditions in America. So if you flood the country

00:26:04.120 with people who have no connection to those traditions, you're going to weaken those traditions.

00:26:06.660 Okay. That's why they like it. Why do the Republicans like it? Because for a long time,

00:26:09.700 we were the party of the chamber of commerce and the chamber of commerce likes cheap labor.

00:26:12.960 And they know that when you flood the country with immigrants, the, the cost of labor 1.00

00:26:16.760 decreases. And so they get to fill their pockets. Right. So that's both purely selfish motives without

00:26:25.360 any thought to the common good. Actually it harms the common good. And what do we have? We have a

00:26:30.620 country that's falling apart with little faith in our institutions, little connection to our past,

00:26:34.160 toppling our statues. We barely feels like a country anymore. It's very difficult to project our

00:26:39.920 influence overseas right now, for instance, because we don't, what are we projecting? We don't even

00:26:45.380 know what we're projecting. This immigration issue is an important one. It's not hateful. It's not

00:26:52.740 bigoted. It's not even xenophobic or nativist, these kinds of silly terms to say that a country needs to 0.69

00:26:58.780 have limits. Country needs to have borders. Country needs to have a people that, that do things together,

00:27:03.560 that have a national memory, a national history, national ritual and practice means you can't let

00:27:10.000 everybody in. And the, it's going to be basically impossible to teach Democrats that lesson. At least

00:27:16.180 the Republicans that need to figure it out. There are shifting political winds. I will tell you that

00:27:19.980 CPAC is going on right now. I was really hoping that I could be able to get down there. I was planning

00:27:23.820 on going. Very grateful to CPAC for the invitation. We couldn't make the logistics work. So maybe next

00:27:29.300 year, you know who is going to CPAC though? Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi Gabbard. Who is Tulsi Gabbard? Well,

00:27:35.660 you might remember her as a Democrat candidate for president in 2020. But Tulsi wasn't your usual

00:27:42.940 Democrat candidate for president. She's a Democrat. She's a liberal. Make no mistake about that. She 1.00

00:27:47.760 supports abortion, not in all cases, but in a lot of cases. She supports all sorts of Democrat policies,

00:27:54.360 policies, but she broke with the Democrats over their kind of desiccated, corrupt ruling 1.00

00:28:02.640 establishment. She was very anti-Clinton. She was very anti-war machine, even though Tulsi Gabbard 0.96

00:28:08.340 served in the military. So she's got a lot of credibility here when we're talking about war and

00:28:12.900 foreign policy. So why is Tulsi a Republican now? It's not really even the issues so much. I think

00:28:20.560 it's a little bit generational. It's a little bit generational. I saw, this is going to seem like

00:28:27.640 it's not connected, but it actually is. On President's Day, on Washington's birthday, the GOP

00:28:33.500 account posted on Instagram a picture of presidents that it liked. And it had all the hits for the

00:28:41.020 Republicans. It had Ronald Reagan. And it said, you know, thank you to all of our not you presidents

00:28:48.140 who've made America great, right? And the not you was Joe Biden. And then all the rest were these

00:28:52.160 Republican presidents. But which Republican presidents did they pick? They picked people

00:28:57.720 like Ronald Reagan. Yeah, we all like Reagan. Picked people like Donald Trump. Yeah, we all

00:29:03.140 like Trump. They picked the Bushes. They thought, you know, the Bushes, that's great. And they left out

00:29:09.060 presidents like Teddy Roosevelt. He's a Republican, right? And that had been the view of the Republican

00:29:14.420 Party. We're the party of the Bushes. We're the part. We hate Teddy Roosevelt. He was sort of a

00:29:20.300 progressive. He was a conservationist. He didn't want to just destroy all of the natural parks and

00:29:25.700 environments and just, I don't know, create more industry there. We're the Bush Party. And if you 0.50

00:29:31.600 looked in the comments on Instagram, it was all these Republicans saying, what? Wait, hold on,

00:29:34.440 the Bushes? Hold on, you have the Bushes over Teddy Roosevelt? What are you talking about?

00:29:37.720 Seems like a minor point. But it's more and more evidence of something we've seen since Trump.

00:29:44.580 The Republican Party is reimagining itself. During the Bush years, the Republican Party was the party

00:29:48.860 of the plutocrats and the big business. And they hate the environment. And they're super pro-immigration.

00:29:54.120 And they love bombing the Middle East. And they never saw a war they didn't want to start 1.00

00:29:58.760 or at least ratchet up. And the Republican Party of Trump is not that.

00:30:04.800 We were told that Donald Trump was completely changing the Republican Party. He was making

00:30:11.580 it into something that's not. The opposite is true. The opposite is true. Donald Trump was in

00:30:16.540 many ways returning the Republican Party to what it was when it was founded, the party of Lincoln,

00:30:20.860 the party up through Teddy Roosevelt, the party really up through the 1970s or 80s even,

00:30:27.960 who's returning it to something more traditional. Now, before we get to the mailbag, there is some

00:30:32.220 breaking news, which is that Joe Biden has made his pick reportedly for the Supreme Court.

00:30:39.560 So his pick, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal, I'll pull it up right now. I just

00:30:43.280 got it. I got the notification on my phone. Biden plans to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to the

00:30:49.080 Supreme Court. She's ostensibly the more qualified candidate for the Supreme Court. There were a few 1.00

00:30:54.200 other people being considered. There was a lot of political pressure from close Biden allies to go

00:30:58.760 with someone else. Ketanji Brown's got a sterling resume. She's probably a complete lunatic, 1.00

00:31:03.200 so that's too bad. The reason I mention it, though, as well is there was a news report yesterday that 0.99

00:31:08.400 the George Floyd family lawyer was really pushing for Ketanji Brown. And I thought, okay, I don't

00:31:16.460 really care who the nominee is. Any nominee from Biden is going to be terrible. I thought, why do I care

00:31:21.980 what the George Floyd family lawyer thinks about the Supreme Court? Why do I care what the lawyer

00:31:29.860 for the family of this career criminal who has been turned into the greatest saint in American history

00:31:34.640 because he was killed while resisting arrest in a police altercation while committing a crime?

00:31:40.420 Why do I care? How perverse has our judicial process become and our process of government,

00:31:48.140 even when we're talking about naming the judges, that that sort of thing is important. This nomination

00:31:55.380 for the Supreme Court has been sort of poisoned from the beginning because Joe Biden said he's not

00:31:59.480 going to pick the most qualified candidate. He's really only looking at race and sex, which is

00:32:04.940 ugly to most Americans. It's repulsive to most Americans. More and more evidence. So he picked 0.99

00:32:10.380 the candidate who's probably most qualified. Okay, I can only imagine. In a way, I don't want the most

00:32:16.320 qualified candidate from Joe Biden because it means that that person's going to be extremely intelligent

00:32:20.600 and capable and clever and probably better at getting her way. But that's the news. You know,

00:32:24.940 it's more important than ever to understand just how insidious the foreign threats are within our 0.99

00:32:29.500 own country. We have just the way for you to do it. Our new show, The Enemy Within, is a docu-series

00:32:34.880 featuring acclaimed journalist and expert in national threats, Lee Smith. In the fourth episode, Lee

00:32:39.620 describes how the NBA has come to depend on China for much of its profit and as a result, how the NBA and its

00:32:45.540 players have become a mouthpiece for CCP propaganda. Also, you got to make sure to check out Ben Shapiro's

00:32:51.520 new show, The Search. His second episode features his good friend and highly lauded historian,

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00:33:26.280 to check it all out. We'll be right back with The Mailbag.

00:33:28.560 First question in The Mailbag from Lydia. Hey, Michael. You keep talking about how Putin did

00:33:46.100 not invade any sovereign nations while Trump was in office, because Trump was too unpredictable.

00:33:51.060 And while I agree with that, I've been struggling with the fact that China invaded Hong Kong in 2020,

00:33:56.080 despite Trump being in office. Is there a serious difference here? Sincerely,

00:34:00.300 Sen Bapira. Well, there is a difference. First of all, China already had Hong Kong.

00:34:06.320 The British gave Hong Kong back to China over 20 years ago, what, 1999? I think something like that.

00:34:11.540 So they already had it. That's a categorically different situation than what you have in Taiwan,

00:34:18.360 which is ostensibly still independent and free, at least more so than Hong Kong has been.

00:34:23.000 The encroachment into Hong Kong has been more gradual. But let's even grant the premise for a second.

00:34:29.900 Let's say that the situations were comparable. I never suggested that no one was ever going to test

00:34:37.840 Donald Trump because Donald Trump was so scary that he completely intimidated every threat around the world.

00:34:45.240 He was unpredictable. And so these foreign hostile leaders had to make their own risk calculation.

00:34:54.700 I'm sure a lot of people thought that Donald Trump was not really going to deploy forces. In fact,

00:35:00.020 Donald Trump ran as one of the most anti-war candidates in recent history, certainly as the

00:35:05.720 most anti-war Republican we've had in a long time. Right? He said the Iraq war was terrible. He didn't want

00:35:10.580 to send our kids overseas. He wanted to focus on America first and wanted to give up global empire.

00:35:15.280 So if you just heard that, if you were Putin or Xi Jinping, you would say, okay, well, it's time for

00:35:21.420 me to go in and I'll take Ukraine and I'll take Taiwan respectively. But the thing about Trump is

00:35:27.000 every so often he just shoots some missiles into Syria or into Afghanistan or every so often you'd have

00:35:35.380 little rocket man, a name given to Kim Jong-un by, by Donald Trump. You'd have him say, you know,

00:35:42.900 I've got a nuclear button. I keep the nuclear button on my desk at all times. And, and then what does,

00:35:48.840 what does Donald Trump do? Does he go to a podium? He says, listen, we should not use this kind of

00:35:53.360 rhetoric. We need to tone down here. And no, he sends out a tweet. He says, yeah, little rocket man's

00:35:58.560 got a button on his desk. Well, he should know that I've got a button too. And mine's a lot bigger

00:36:02.680 and mine's a lot more effective and mine actually works. And the international community says,

00:36:10.080 what is this maniac doing? He's going to start a nuclear war on Twitter. And if you're Vladimir 0.89

00:36:15.280 Putin, when you hear that, you say, you know, maybe I'll hold off on Kiev. Maybe I'll just stay

00:36:22.780 in Crimea for now because this guy, this game show host, reality TV star, real estate mogul tweeting

00:36:31.380 maniac. He might just do it. He might just freaking do it. Xi Jinping, he says, well, look,

00:36:39.060 maybe I'll go a little further into Hong Kong. And then what does Trump do? Trump starts clobbering

00:36:42.760 him with tariffs, starts a massive trade war that poses huge risks to the United States.

00:36:47.720 Xi Jinping thought that would never happen. They thought, because for 20 years you had people,

00:36:52.620 including Joe Biden, especially Joe Biden, saying, we want China in the international community. We want

00:36:57.260 a rising China is good for everybody. Let them into the World Trade Organization. Who cares if 1.00

00:37:01.320 they violate the treaties? Who cares if they steal our IP? Who cares if they illegally subsidize steel

00:37:06.160 aluminum? That's okay. We want a rising China. Trump says no. Trump used a lot of salty language

00:37:11.640 that this is a family show, so I'm not going to repeat. And he goes in and he starts a massive

00:37:14.920 trade war. It's very unpredictable. And it's an example of China calls Trump's bluff. It turns out

00:37:21.860 it's not a bluff. And then what happens? China releases a virus that shuts down the world for 0.94

00:37:27.040 a couple of years. Perhaps accidentally, perhaps not accidentally. But people forget this because

00:37:33.900 we all focus only on COVID. Don't forget, we were winning that trade war with China before COVID

00:37:38.840 happened. So anyway, these leaders are making their risk calculations. And the key here is not

00:37:43.880 even to be the most aggressive or on the flip side to be the most dovish. The key here is be

00:37:48.760 unpredictable. From Matthew, dear Mr. Knowles, you seem to be an educated and very well read man.

00:37:54.400 Thank you, Matthew. I'm handsome too. I'm so well, we're complimenting me. I'll take everything you

00:37:58.520 got. As such, my questions relate to some of the founding texts of Western literature,

00:38:03.200 namely the Trojan epics. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid. First, which one is your

00:38:10.380 favorite and why? Second, how should one go about reading them? Just dive in with the Iliad or read

00:38:15.860 some other sources to gain some context. Love the show. Keep up the good work. Well, I'm partial to

00:38:20.400 the Aeneid because the Aeneid inspired my favorite poem, which is The Divine Comedy by Dante. But if

00:38:26.140 you told me just right now you're going to sit down and read all of these, what's your favorite? I would

00:38:29.160 probably say The Odyssey is my favorite. It includes one of my favorite lines from Telemachus, who says

00:38:37.180 it's a wise man who knows his own father. It's just a really salty, funny line. And it's just a

00:38:42.780 wonderful story. So how would I dive into reading them? I would pick up an annotated copy and I would

00:38:49.040 read it and I would read all the notes. This is really important. Speaking of Dante, when you're

00:38:54.000 reading Dante, one problem that people have with reading Dante is he has so many literary and

00:38:59.340 political allusions that people just don't get these days. Unless you're a medieval Florentine, 0.97

00:39:04.440 you're not going to get some of them. So you need an annotated copy. So get a good, nice,

00:39:09.840 thick one. For Dante, it's the Durling Martinez. There are other good translations and annotated

00:39:14.980 versions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid. I like The Fagels, but there are others.

00:39:20.180 So get a critical edition. Just read all the notes and you'll get it. And it's going to be

00:39:22.880 plotting and plotting and plotting. And the first time, you're going to need all the notes. And

00:39:25.920 maybe even the second time you read it, you're going to need all the notes. And then you're going

00:39:28.420 to be able to really, really enjoy it. So that's what I would do. I don't think you need to go

00:39:32.340 necessarily take a course or read it in any particular order. Just jump in, whatever grabs you.

00:39:36.640 I don't really care for The Iliad as much as The Odyssey. So The Odyssey comes after The

00:39:41.040 Iliad. But for me, I would go for The Odyssey first. Your mileage may vary. Part of reading

00:39:47.020 is erotic. You know, sometimes people say old books are sexy. Books actually are sexy. And this

00:39:54.260 is an important thought on how to pursue education. Alan Bloom in The Closing the American Mind says that

00:40:02.260 education is so sterile, kind of like our relationships. We don't have love affairs anymore.

00:40:05.980 We have relationships. I'm in a relationship with my partner. Oh, that sounds hot. That's

00:40:10.380 about as hot as an accounting firm. No, you're supposed to be in love. You're supposed to be

00:40:13.540 drawn. Dante talks about this. Where we are drawn to grow in wisdom and maturity should be a sort of

00:40:21.160 erotic thing. We turn our loves, our natural desires toward the good. We perfect our loves and then we

00:40:28.200 grow. So if you have an attraction to a story, let's say it's The Odyssey, you should pursue that.

00:40:34.580 If you have an attraction toward adventure stories, you could either waste all your time 0.85

00:40:38.320 watching stupid Marvel movies or you could turn it towards something that will be a little bit 0.98

00:40:42.280 more edifying. So do that. Don't suppress your desire. Don't deny your desire. But turn your 1.00

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00:41:18.620 dailywire to ensure your title is still in your name. From Kelsey, I need the love guru. Speaking of

00:41:25.040 Eros, I'm a 29-year-old woman with a beautiful eight-year-old son. When my son was four,

00:41:30.580 I met my boyfriend. Before things got serious, I said I wanted what I wanted, which consisted of

00:41:35.160 marriage, kids, and to follow God. He also wanted these things, so it was a great match. I love him

00:41:40.000 to pieces, and he's been amazing. He stepped up and became the father my son did not have.

00:41:45.300 He's raising him to be a good Christian and a good patriot. However, we've been together four years,

00:41:50.060 and he doesn't seem to have any future plans of marriage, which in turn means children as well.

00:41:54.240 As I said, I'm 29, so the clock is ticking, and he is 44 years old, so I feel the time is not on

00:42:00.000 our side. Any thoughts? I do have some thoughts. I need to know a little bit more detail about your

00:42:05.720 situation. Are you a widow? Were you previously married to maybe the father of your son? Was that

00:42:15.420 like a real marriage? Were you not married? Was it more impregnated by this guy, and then he was a

00:42:22.880 deadbeat, and he ran off? Those things are going to matter a little bit in terms of what you should do

00:42:28.920 now, but all things being equal, let's say the first boyfriend who gave you your child. Even bad

00:42:37.840 things can result in good things. Let's say he was a total deadbeat. He ran off. You meet this guy.

00:42:43.300 He really is the father figure to your son. He's been dating four years now. I would tell him

00:42:47.860 to piss or get off the pot. That's what I would tell him to do, because it's not going to get any 0.80

00:42:54.320 easier. Men sometimes need a good kick in the rear, and four years is long enough, and if he doesn't

00:43:00.820 want to marry you, and he doesn't want to have more children, and he wants to keep his options open,

00:43:06.360 and maybe he wants to be able to run off at some point, then that's no good. Better to rip that

00:43:10.680 band-aid now, but maybe he's a good guy, and he just needs a little encouragement, and you should give

00:43:14.260 him that encouragement, and you can point him to this clip and say, you know, my friend Michael gave me

00:43:19.020 to give you that encouragement, too. From James, hello, Michael. I'm a 21-year-old black guy who's

00:43:24.440 spent the last couple of years listening to your show because I realized how important having some

00:43:28.520 political knowledge is. I find your show to be a trustworthy source of it. My 16-year-old sister

00:43:33.940 has also recently dove into politics, but for a different reason. Her woke CRT-teaching English

00:43:40.700 teacher has instilled all the horrors of America bad and racist ideology into her. She informed me that

00:43:46.840 she doesn't believe that cracker is a slur against white people because white people are the oppressors,

00:43:51.860 not the oppressed. She told me I wouldn't want to vote for a Republican unless they have my values

00:43:56.340 and are not a racist piece of garbage, which is highly unlikely, okay? I've challenged her views 0.99

00:44:01.500 a couple of times, but I never pushed too hard for fear of pushing her away since we used to be very

00:44:05.840 close. I'm just unsure how I should speak to her or what I should say to convince her that she and all

00:44:11.420 her friends have been misled. I just don't want to see my sister turn into the average Twitter user.

00:44:16.840 There's two problems here and they both come back to the same thing. They both come back to religion.

00:44:22.660 One, your sister is obviously steeped in this CRT ideology, critical race theory. Critical race 0.70

00:44:30.220 theory derives from critical theory. Critical theory derives from cultural Marxism. Cultural

00:44:34.220 Marxism derives from Marx. There are obviously lots of distinctions along the way, but to quote

00:44:40.040 Whitaker Chambers, the ex-communist turned conservative, Marxism is not the newest ideology in the world.

00:44:45.280 It's the second oldest. It began in the Garden of Eden when the serpent told Eve,

00:44:49.100 ye shall be as gods. It is a vision of the world without God. It's an anti-Christian vision of the 0.95

00:44:57.160 world. So if you view the world in this way, with the oppressor and the oppressed and this whole sort

00:45:01.080 of dialectical view, then you're going to have problems. The second part is, your sister is viewing 0.89

00:45:09.580 herself primarily through the lens of race. Through this religious lens, first of all, and then she's

00:45:17.220 grounding her identity primarily in race. That's a big problem too. Not to say that race does not 1.00

00:45:23.300 exist. Not to say that race doesn't have some effects in the world. But if your identity is

00:45:28.100 primarily in race, you're going to have a lot of problems. I do not think of myself primarily as white.

00:45:34.620 Well, I guess I'm not, I'm sort of swarthy. I do not think of myself primarily as swarthy. I do not

00:45:40.400 think of myself primarily as Italian, primarily as waspish, primarily as English or Irish or Welsh

00:45:46.440 or anything like that. I think of myself, I don't even think of myself primarily as an American. I'm

00:45:51.600 very patriotic. I love my country deeply. I certainly love my American identity, but primarily I view

00:45:57.660 myself as Christian. I'm a Catholic. I view myself as a child of God, someone made in the image of God.

00:46:06.820 I, I grant my identity in the God who says my name is I am that I am being itself. And so I don't get

00:46:14.300 too hung up on the race stuff or the this or the that or the other thing. I don't know about your views,

00:46:19.740 but it sounds like you don't view yourself primarily as a black man. I'm a black, you say I'm a black guy,

00:46:24.800 but you say that sort of incidentally. You don't say I'm a black man. Forget my nation. Forget my

00:46:29.500 creator. Forget my, I'm a black. No, of course, it's very silly, very silly thing to do. So both 1.00

00:46:34.500 of those issues are religious problems and your sister's going to have to sort that out before

00:46:38.380 she can figure out how completely wrong she is. Maybe she could listen to this show. Maybe you

00:46:42.580 throw a couple episodes of the show into your sister's queue and she figures it out. I hope so.

00:46:48.220 Or you can just talk to her from Maria. Hey, Michael, first off, I would love to like to say I love

00:46:52.980 the show. Thank you. But for business at hand, I'm in a predicament. I've been with my boyfriend

00:46:57.300 for four years and counting. He's the person I want to marry and spend my life with. What is it

00:47:01.000 with this dating for four years? This is, I'm seeing a theme here. This is what millennials do, 0.92

00:47:04.560 I guess. I have certain fantasies and desires that I don't want to indulge in, but he wants to talk

00:47:11.140 with me about them. But I feel ashamed for having these thoughts and feelings to begin with.

00:47:16.260 Is this something I should open up to him about or should I keep this part of myself locked away?

00:47:21.120 Sincerely, a lady who wants to lead a virtuous life. Wow, great question. So what you're saying 0.94

00:47:26.060 is I have these presumably sexual desires that are disordered, that I don't, I want, at the lower

00:47:32.920 level of my will, I want to indulge in them. You've got some weird sort of kink or something. But at the 1.00

00:47:37.400 rational level, I don't want to indulge in them because they're weird and they're not virtuous and

00:47:40.820 so I don't want to do it. And he, who's a curious little chap, says, no, come on, tell me about all

00:47:46.620 your weird sexual desires. You're like, no, I don't want to do that. I don't want to indulge in that.

00:47:49.760 I'd rather push it to the side. You are right and he is wrong. He is channeling the wisdom of our age,

00:47:59.120 which is you should never repress anything, especially not a sexual desire. But you are

00:48:02.840 right. You should. You should. First of all, virtue is a habit. So if you, the more you indulge these

00:48:08.280 things, the worse they get. And the more you practice the virtues, the easier it becomes to

00:48:12.300 practice the virtues. It's like anything, you know, the more you smoke cigarettes, the easier

00:48:18.280 it is to smoke cigarettes, the harder it is to stop smoking cigarettes. Okay. And the same thing

00:48:21.940 when you try to quit. The longer it's been since you quit, the easier it is to go without having a

00:48:26.300 cigarette. But this gets back to something we talked about a few questions ago, which is your

00:48:31.460 desires. You've got these disordered desires. We all do. It's a fallen world. Everybody's got

00:48:36.240 disordered desires. Disordered sexual desires, disordered political desires, disordered economic,

00:48:41.060 everybody's got disordered desires. The key to really overcoming something like this

00:48:46.440 or at least improving your situation is not to completely suppress desire, but to perfect desire,

00:48:57.340 to reorder it. So all desire is pointing towards something. All desire is evidence of something

00:49:06.040 good. It wants something good, but the aim sometimes gets a little bit off. Okay. And all

00:49:12.260 desire ultimately should lead back to God. So you see this with Dante. Dante has a crush on this girl,

00:49:18.900 Beatrice, that he met twice. And he's married to someone else, but he just has this crush on this

00:49:24.440 girl, Beatrice. And that's not necessarily evil and awful and adulterous. If Beatrice, as she does

00:49:29.920 in the Divine Comedy, leads Dante, channels his erotic love for her, channels that to bring him to

00:49:36.660 God. That's what you've got to do. It's a little bit pie in the sky. It's a little bit out there,

00:49:40.920 but I think it's also quite practical as well. Take those desires that you've got, even if they're a

00:49:45.440 little bit off, and turn them and work on turning them and allow grace to allow them to turn toward the 0.83

00:49:52.200 love that moves the sun and the other stars. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles

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