The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 971 - Economy Gets Hit Harder Than Chris Rock

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden has now been in office for 14 months. Inflation is at 40-year highs.

00:00:06.180 Gas prices have hit all-time highs. We're witnessing the first major war in Europe in

00:00:11.200 70 years. Some people believe we're all on the brink of World War III. And to top it all off,

00:00:17.740 there's not enough food. With regard to food shortage, yes, we did

00:00:21.320 talk about food shortages. And it's going to be real. The price of these sanctions

00:00:28.580 is not just imposed upon Russia. It's imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well,

00:00:34.400 including European countries and our country as well.

00:00:38.040 The food shortages are going to be real, he says, as though that's just a normal thing in America.

00:00:45.560 Food shortages, something that we have not had in this country in what, 90 plus years? I'm thinking,

00:00:51.840 what, the Great Depression? Was that the last time even then? Food shortages in the richest,

00:00:56.400 most powerful country in the history of the world? And a president who just sort of shrugs it off

00:01:01.800 like that's normal? We managed to survive Biden's winter of sickness and death just to find ourselves

00:01:09.240 in the springtime of famine and hunger. Can you even imagine what Biden's got planned for summer?

00:01:15.240 Over the past two years, things that we never thought could happen in this country have become

00:01:20.840 realities seemingly overnight. Full-scale lockdowns, church closures, federally mandated muzzles, 0.92

00:01:29.900 an economy that just stops. Now food shortages as we stare down the barrel of a great power war in

00:01:36.760 Europe. I am no fan of Barack Obama, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Obama was dead on

00:01:44.620 the money. We should never underestimate Joe's ability to F things up. I'm Michael Knowles. This

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00:04:00.180 sent you. We will get to the famine. We will get to World War III. We will get to all of the

00:04:07.980 pressing national and international political issues. But first, I've got to talk about the issue

00:04:14.620 that everyone is most concerned about this morning. That would be the slap heard around the world.

00:04:20.620 No, I did not watch the Oscars last night. No, you did not watch the Oscars last night. No,

00:04:26.580 I don't think anyone watched the Oscars last night. But we all saw this trend. And then we all tuned in

00:04:32.140 for this clip when Chris Rock made a joke about Will Smith's wife's hair. And Will Smith got up

00:04:39.460 and smacked him across the face. Jada, I love you. G.I. Jane 2, can't wait to see it. All right.

00:04:45.800 That was a nice one. Okay. I'm out here. Oh, Richard. Oh, wow. Wow. Will Smith just smacked the

00:05:07.560 shit out of me. Keep my wife's name out your mouth. Wow, dude. Yes. It was a G.I. Jane jump. Keep 1.00

00:05:19.400 my wife's name out your mouth. I'm going to. Okay. Oh, okay. That was a greatest night in the history of

00:05:35.160 television. Okay. Okay. All right. Well, that's fine. The greatest night in the history of TV.

00:05:41.760 Chris Rock recovers pretty well here. Over what? A joke about Jada Smith's hair. So Jada Smith has

00:05:48.000 hair loss. She's losing her hair. Apparently the medical condition is alopecia. Some people have

00:05:53.900 alopecia from a very, very young age and they don't have any hair at all. Jada Smith has had hair her

00:05:57.980 whole life, but she now has hair loss as she's getting older. And Chris Rock made a joke about this.

00:06:03.800 And he said, okay, here's G.I. Jane 2. Because in G.I. Jane, Demi Moore has very short hair. 0.99

00:06:10.800 And Will Smith sort of laughed at this a little bit. And then he decided no. And he gets up and

00:06:14.540 he smacks Chris Rock across the face and then starts screaming. There are so many angles to this

00:06:21.620 story. I think though I have the least conventional take. So some people think it was staged because the

00:06:27.580 Oscars have been losing viewership for a decade now and they wanted to get viewership back up.

00:06:31.940 It doesn't look staged to me. Yes, it's a room full of actors. It could have been staged.

00:06:36.760 It seemed real. So I don't think that's the case. I don't know that Chris Rock would have agreed to

00:06:42.560 it. Maybe he would have. I don't know. So I'm going with the assumption that it was real.

00:06:47.780 The joke itself was pretty mild by Hollywood standards. He was making a joke that now she's

00:06:52.940 got very shortly cropped hair because she's losing her hair. Jada Smith could have turned this into a kind 1.00

00:06:58.360 of strong, yes, I am woman, hear me roar kind of moment. Yeah, I am G.I. Jane. I'm a tough lady.

00:07:03.760 But that didn't happen. She was offended. Okay, that's fine. It's fine to be offended on behalf

00:07:10.280 of your wife. Of course, if your wife is going to be in show business, in public life, at an event 0.58

00:07:16.280 where people make these sorts of jokes, then it seems like that's kind of what you're signing up for.

00:07:20.220 But okay, Will Smith decides that he's going to get up and defend his wife's honor.

00:07:24.060 I actually have no problem, really, with the slap. Is it an overreaction? Probably. Is it a little

00:07:31.740 unconventional? Was it really called for by the joke itself? I'm not so sure. We can debate that.

00:07:38.920 I actually think we would live in a much better culture if every time someone insulted our wives, 1.00

00:07:44.760 even during an awards show, someone got up and just smacked him across the face.

00:07:48.840 Because it didn't look like a punch to me. It looked like a corrective slap.

00:07:52.320 Slap. Sir, I demand satisfaction. Slap. Right across the face. I think that's a good thing.

00:07:57.300 I think we lived in a better culture. Now we live in this culture where we're told

00:08:00.540 that anyone's allowed to say anything they want. They can talk about your wife. They can talk about

00:08:04.360 your mother. They can talk about your God. They can say whatever they want. And you're never allowed

00:08:08.640 to go up and have a corrective smack across the face. And it's because we've made an ideology

00:08:13.560 out of a complete distortion of what free speech really is. The founding fathers were the great

00:08:19.740 defenders of free speech and history, but they would not have tolerated someone insulting their

00:08:23.580 wife or daughter or mother. They would have gotten up and smacked them across the face and probably 1.00

00:08:27.520 dueled them to the death. Okay. So that, I actually think we would live in a culture that was more 0.97

00:08:32.740 dignified, more focused on honor if we could do the smack. What Will Smith got wrong here is that he then

00:08:41.120 sat down in the chair and started screaming profanities like a lunatic.

00:08:44.560 Keep my wife's name. That's very uncivilized. That is very, and the poor man, I don't think 0.96

00:08:52.040 it had anything to do with Chris Rock's joke. I think Will Smith has been publicly humiliated

00:08:58.540 for years now by his wife who is boasting on television about how Will Smith is the biggest 0.83

00:09:05.400 cuckold in America. And Will Smith has to just sit there and take it. I don't, I don't think it was

00:09:11.120 the joke about his wife that set Will Smith off. I think that was the straw that broke the cuckold's

00:09:17.380 back and he went out and he took out all of his rage on the, on the men that his wife is bragging 0.73

00:09:23.220 about sleeping with. He took it all out on poor old Chris Rock. Chris Rock, total showbiz professional.

00:09:29.020 One, it takes the smack like a man, barely even flinches, then goes on, makes a couple jokes.

00:09:34.180 This is the greatest night in the history of TV and moves on. Good for the Oscars. It finally got them

00:09:39.920 a little, a little play, but don't, don't take the wrong lesson. Don't take the wrong lesson from

00:09:47.360 this incident. The right lesson is if someone insults our wives and our mothers and our daughters

00:09:51.860 or whatever, and you give them a little corrective smack, I like that. That's a good call. We should, 1.00

00:09:55.460 we should develop that culture, but don't lose your cool. Don't lose your temper, temper and start

00:10:00.440 screaming like a maniac and using all sort of profanity and make them bleep you out. That not very

00:10:06.020 manly at all. That's the most important pressing issue today. If you look at Twitter, if you look

00:10:10.960 at the news, if you look at what everyone's talking about and in a way it is, we need it. We want a

00:10:15.920 dignified culture of honor. The rest of the Oscars night was not so engaging. The rest of it was kind

00:10:24.320 of a joke because Hollywood is not a serious place and America doesn't seem any longer to be much of a

00:10:29.300 serious country. They opened the Oscar show with Wanda Sykes and Amy Schumer and some other chick.

00:10:35.660 I don't know who she is. And they got out there and they were going to make a stand,

00:10:40.420 a stand against the oppressive system. And they were just going to say gay a lot. 0.96

00:10:45.340 Well, we're going to have a great night tonight. And for you people in Florida, 0.62

00:10:49.680 we're going to have a gay night. Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. 1.00

00:11:02.600 Wow. That's so brave and insightful. Wow. Did you just said gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, 0.98

00:11:07.800 gay a lot? Oh, you, some of the wealthiest, most influential people in the world. Wow. You, 0.98

00:11:14.000 you said that word, that sort of sexual preference that everyone's allowed to say and

00:11:19.460 encouraged to say, and frankly, forced to say a lot of the time. And you're defending a political

00:11:24.140 ideology that every power center in America enforces. Wow. So brave. You, you tell those

00:11:31.680 parents in Florida, yeah, Wanda Sykes and Amy Schumer, you rich, powerful, influential, famous

00:11:39.300 people. You tell those parents who don't want their kids to get transed by radical teachers.

00:11:44.700 You tell those parents who don't think five-year-olds need to be taught about weird sex 0.89

00:11:49.120 stuff in their kindergarten math class. Yeah. Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. Wow. So smart. So,

00:11:56.960 so smart. During the, during the awards show about an industry that's supposed to entertain

00:12:00.860 us, that's supposed to be about the customer, entertaining the customer, the viewer, edifying

00:12:06.620 us, teaching us, showing us some other aspect of life. Yeah. You tell them gay, gay, gay, gay,

00:12:13.620 gay, gay, gay. We're not a serious country. We're a country that has food shortages. We're 1.00

00:12:20.620 a country that doesn't respect our constitutional rights anymore. We're a country that is potentially

00:12:26.780 in the brink of World War III. And the best that our elites can muster is gay, gay, gay, 0.99

00:12:30.880 gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. That's what they're shouting. By the way, one thing, 0.99

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00:13:37.600 loved ones, or maybe your liberal ones too. We're not a serious country anymore. Speaking of hair

00:13:44.900 and speaking because for, for Will Smith and Chris Rock, speaking of hair, speaking of unserious

00:13:52.620 political issues, while we have a failing economy, while we have food shortages, while we have potential

00:13:59.780 war overseas, our geniuses in Congress are focused on the real issues, namely banning hair discrimination.

00:14:07.940 You know, on the list of national problems, a record high inflation, record high, you know,

00:14:13.540 where does hair discrimination fall on the list? I would say somewhere around 17 gazillion,

00:14:19.600 number 17 gazillion. No, according to our Congress, it's right up there at the top.

00:14:23.800 The House passed a week or so ago, the Crown Act, H.R. 2116, passed in a party line vote by the

00:14:33.660 Democrats that would ban hair related discrimination. Crown stands for creating a respectful and open

00:14:41.340 world for natural hair and prohibits, quote, discrimination based on an individual's texture

00:14:47.060 or style of hair. And the, the reason for this, this was a totally foreign concept to me, but they

00:14:53.960 say that, quote, routinely people of African descent are deprived of educational and employment opportunities

00:14:59.880 for wearing their hair in natural or protective styles, such as locks, cornrows, twists, braids,

00:15:06.220 bantu knots, or afros. And now we need to stand up and ban hair discrimination.

00:15:13.720 Is this a, is this a very serious problem in America? No, it's not. One, sometimes you need

00:15:23.140 to discriminate against certain styles of hair. Not, you're not discriminating on race or to attack

00:15:30.720 someone because, but you, in certain industries, you need to protect hair from getting into food,

00:15:37.000 for instance, or from getting into mechanical equipment. And you actually can't allow people

00:15:41.060 to wear their hair in certain ways. The military is clear, but you need to have your hair cut nice

00:15:45.160 and short in most parts of the armed services because that's what the job requires. So you just

00:15:52.920 need, sometimes you actually do need to discriminate on hair, not because of someone's race, not because

00:15:58.320 of someone's religion or background or just because of the hair itself, certain jobs require that.

00:16:03.560 And that's fine. And, and if you need to wear your hair up in a net or you have to cut your hair

00:16:07.920 short for certain jobs, you know what you can do? Deal with it. Just deal with it and suck it up and

00:16:12.460 stop making everything about you and stop taking every requirement of put on you by your job or your

00:16:19.800 society as some kind of personal affront. It's not just deal with it and suck it up because people

00:16:24.840 have real problems like food shortages. We're living in a world where we're on the precipice of

00:16:30.140 World War III and where people are going to starve, according to the president of the United States,

00:16:34.500 and you're complaining that you don't get to wear whatever fun hairstyle you want to wear.

00:16:39.360 Stop it. Stop it. Not everything is about you. Not everything is about your desires.

00:16:47.620 Be they, well, the one we mostly hear about is sexual desires, which is why the left has to just 0.97

00:16:53.960 say gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. All the legislators in Florida marching down the hallways saying gay, 0.99

00:16:57.720 gay, gay, gay, gay. The people at the Oscars, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. Or, but it's not a gay 0.99

00:17:01.960 to me now seems so antiquated, so traditional because now it's not the G or the L or even the

00:17:07.540 B. It's the T and the L and the Q and the seven and the ampersand and everything else. But it's

00:17:14.020 cut it out. It's not about you. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask not what your employer

00:17:20.000 can do for your hairstyle. Ask not what, what, how you can fulfill your own desires. Ask what is

00:17:26.560 required of you. Stop living in a society that's based primarily on rights, most of which are fictional

00:17:31.540 at this point. And start asking, what, what duty do I have? What obligation? How can I make my

00:17:36.580 society better? That's what a serious country would do. But we are no longer a serious country.

00:17:43.340 In a serious country, people deal with issues of justice, of law, of order. This story just comes

00:17:48.700 out in New Orleans. A group of teens with a criminal record just stole the car of a 73-year-old

00:17:54.280 grandmother and drove it off while she was still attached. This is a little bit gory. Obviously,

00:17:58.760 there's video of this sort of thing, which thankfully has been blurred. But as they steal

00:18:04.840 the car, the woman falls out of the car, her arm is ripped off, and then she dies. 73-year-old

00:18:09.920 grandmother, because these criminal teens were not dealt with by the criminal justice system. 0.97

00:18:15.180 And so they were free to wander around. And then they killed this woman. The superintendent of

00:18:22.520 police in New Orleans, Sean Ferguson, describes the incident. Ferguson did say he wants the teens

00:18:30.020 charged as adults. Brazeness, broad daylight, with no regards to this woman hanging from the vehicle.

00:18:39.260 So I mean, I think at some point in time, we have to step up and say we're going to hold individuals

00:18:45.060 accountable. Yes. Sean Ferguson, the New Orleans Police Department, they got it right. We've got to

00:18:51.140 hold people accountable. These kids should not have been allowed back on the street. They had this

00:18:54.740 criminal record. You're seeing this not just in New Orleans, not just with teens, but with everyone.

00:19:00.800 There's a movement to let criminals off the hook. And it's being pushed explicitly by Democrats who

00:19:05.740 explicitly want to defund the police, who want to abolish police departments, who want to abolish

00:19:10.160 federal prisons. There's congressional Democrats, very prominent ones, who are trying to abolish prisons

00:19:16.060 entirely at the federal level. Now, this police officer says, this is bad. We got to hold people

00:19:22.120 accountable. But the poor woman who was killed here, her boss was asked what he thought about the

00:19:29.600 incident, what he thought should happen to the kids. And obviously, he agrees with the police officer

00:19:33.860 that they should be punished. He just doesn't have any faith in the system.

00:19:37.720 I have virtually no confidence in the system right now.

00:19:40.780 Does anybody? I would love to see him be prosecuted as adults, send a message, not only to

00:19:47.840 somebody who would be thinking about doing that, but what is the purpose in it? What purpose was

00:19:53.400 this? It's a senseless murder. He has no faith in the system, nor do we, nor do we, because crime is

00:20:02.020 not punished because criminals are let off the hook. Criminals have been recast by Democrats as the real

00:20:07.900 victims. And the victims are somehow the perpetrators of the crime because of society. Those poor teens,

00:20:14.140 they've been failed by society. It's not their fault. But of course, it is their fault. They made a

00:20:19.360 decision. Even teenagers can make decisions sometimes. Even teenagers have to be held

00:20:25.220 accountable or at least rehabilitated. But no, we live in a country where up is down and left is right and

00:20:32.320 right is wrong and true is false. We live in this country where the elites, the ruling elites have

00:20:37.920 upended everything, where now the best woman swimmer is a man, right? Where the criminals are the 0.99

00:20:46.460 victims, where everything is upside down and the elites don't need to deal with the consequences of

00:20:52.880 that. This is the key. This is how it's allowed to go on. Because if the elites, if the people who

00:21:00.020 were setting the society, people making the laws, the people forming the culture in Hollywood, the

00:21:06.280 people deciding what information gets out there through big technology, through the media, if those

00:21:12.520 people had to deal with crime on the street like that 73-year-old grandma were, mark my words, those 1.00

00:21:19.260 teens would be rotting away in prison for life at best. That would be the luckiest case scenario for

00:21:26.520 the teens, okay? If the elites were dealing with crime throughout our cities, there wouldn't be

00:21:34.240 crime for very long. They wouldn't be talking about abolishing the police or defunding the police. They

00:21:37.780 would be privately funding police departments and jails to incarcerate these people forever. But they 0.94

00:21:44.100 don't deal, if beyond crime, if the elites were dealing with the negative consequences of say

00:21:50.540 immigration, you bet your bottom dollar that southern border would be sealed tomorrow. If the elites were 0.99

00:21:58.400 dealing with the consequences, even of the crazy sexual ideologies, even of all the other, of the

00:22:03.840 food shortages, of the high gas prices, if they were dealing with that, then we would have national

00:22:10.380 policies to mitigate those problems, not exacerbate them, which is what we're getting.

00:22:14.100 But they don't have to deal with the consequences of it. And so now there's a backlash. And we talk

00:22:20.540 about Republican versus Democrat and left versus right. And those distinctions do still matter,

00:22:25.880 the partisan and ideological ones. But there is a class movement that's come up now, the people

00:22:34.240 versus the ruling elites. And the ruling elites, sometimes they're Democrat, usually they're Democrat,

00:22:39.040 but sometimes they're Republican. And yet no matter who wins and whoever who's in control,

00:22:43.520 the border gets worse, crime gets worse. All these issues get worse and worse and worse.

00:22:49.840 This is what is meant by populism, the populist uprising. This is what is meant by the deplorables,

00:22:56.440 the irredeemables versus the deep state, right? The idea of the deep state, the administrative state,

00:23:00.620 the permanent government is that no matter who wins the election, the policies remain the same.

00:23:04.440 The deplorables, the irredeemables, the bitter clingers. They're not all Republicans. Some are

00:23:10.260 independents, some are Democrats. That what distinguishes them is that they're not on board

00:23:14.780 with the elites agenda. And the elites agenda has really royally screwed up our country. This is not

00:23:20.540 just true in America. You're seeing this reverberate throughout the West. Immigration is probably the 1.00

00:23:24.560 clearest issue on this because it's the one where the vast majority of Americans want to drastically

00:23:29.200 reduce immigration. Illegal, yes, but legal too. That includes a lot of Democrats and a lot of

00:23:35.400 independents and a lot of centrists want to drastically. We're taking in something like

00:23:39.780 3 million people a year now, okay? 2 million illegally and then another million legally.

00:23:45.560 That's just too many people. You can't maintain a coherent country that way. So the majority of

00:23:49.500 Americans want to reduce that. The vast majority of politicians in both parties, even if they would

00:23:55.140 say we want to stop illegal immigration, they would almost never say we want to reduce legal

00:23:59.100 immigration. That's a bridge too far. That's bigoted somehow. How? I don't know. That's

00:24:03.600 nativist. That's xenophobic. And that's why this immigration issue, it's such a basic one. If you 0.71

00:24:11.220 don't have a border, you don't have a country. This is reverberating all around the world.

00:24:14.480 Major French poll showing that 66% of the French support the re-migration of bad immigrants.

00:24:22.900 Not migration into France, migration out of France to kick out the bad ones. 0.96

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00:25:53.560 There is major pushback worldwide against the ruling elites. This is not neatly ideological.

00:26:12.540 This is not neatly partisan. This is not neatly Republican versus Democrat or left versus right.

00:26:17.580 It's just the elites, the people running the country who seem to be able to push their policies

00:26:21.960 no matter who wins the elections. That's where the pushback is. And you see it most clearly on

00:26:26.400 crime and especially immigration. And you're seeing it around the world, including in France. 0.99

00:26:32.140 A poll found 66% of the French support the mass re-migration, meaning kicking people out of the

00:26:39.540 country, of illegal immigrants, foreigners on terror watch lists, and foreign criminals out of France.

00:26:47.440 The poll was released by IFOP on behalf of Sud Radio. And it showed that two thirds of the country

00:26:54.440 supports this kind of thing. And a presidential candidate on the conservative side who is causing,

00:27:00.880 who has created a lot of energy and a lot of support, Eric Zemmour, who's running on a

00:27:05.080 defend France, stop letting the crazy globalist libs destroy our country. He is actually taking this on

00:27:12.240 as a policy. He's proposing a ministry of re-migration that would send large numbers of 0.84

00:27:18.580 migrants back to their home countries. He's saying he would deport as many as a million immigrants

00:27:24.260 within the span of five years. Would he actually be able to do this? I don't know. It would be an

00:27:28.820 uphill battle. But is this a good idea? Yes, this is a great idea. A ministry of re-migration. You will 1.00

00:27:34.620 never hear me say that we need to emulate the French. I don't think I've ever said it before in my life.

00:27:41.020 But you're going to, now you will hear it. I am on this one idea. A ministry of re-migration. 0.95

00:27:47.280 I'm not saying, I'm not saying that we should just kick out anyone we don't like in the country.

00:27:53.280 I'm not saying we need the mass deportation of people on the basis of their, I don't know,

00:27:57.700 race, religion, any of the sex, or I'm not, certainly not saying that. I'm saying what the 0.77

00:28:06.420 French people are saying here, that on very narrowly tailored lines, we should be able to kick people 1.00

00:28:10.580 up. Namely, illegal immigrants, foreigners on terror watch lists, foreign criminals, kick them 1.00

00:28:19.800 out. Of course, they never should have gotten here in the first place. And the longer we allow them to 0.63

00:28:26.960 stay and commit crimes, the more we're going to get. Because it shows us that we're not going to

00:28:32.920 enforce our laws. This stuff is already against the law. But Michael, it cannot be done. Well,

00:28:38.720 maybe it can, maybe it can't. Maybe there's just a failure of political imagination. Did you ever

00:28:44.300 think that we would get to a place in America where the best female college swimmer was a dude 1.00

00:28:49.060 and we all were forced by our employers, by our schools, by big tech to pretend that that dude is

00:28:55.340 a chick? Did you ever, no, that's a Monty Python sketch. That would have been unthinkable even 10 years

00:29:01.140 ago, frankly, even five years ago, probably. And now it's happening. Why? Because the left,

00:29:07.600 whatever their failures are, they don't have a failure of imagination. They just do whatever.

00:29:12.140 Did you think we would get to a point in this country where if you say, maybe we shouldn't

00:29:16.940 slightly enforce our immigration laws on the Southern border, you couldn't win a Democrat 0.99

00:29:20.800 primary. This is the party of Bill Clinton saying illegal immigration is a terrible, horrible thing.

00:29:25.380 We've got to stop it. Chuck Schumer, who's still the Senate majority leader, same thing.

00:29:29.700 We've got to stop illegal immigration. Then 10, 20 years later, you have to support illegal 0.98

00:29:35.860 immigration to be a Democrat. They went from a place of abortion is horrible, it's a terrible 1.00

00:29:41.860 thing, but I guess we should allow it to be legal for whatever reason in some cases, to abortion,

00:29:46.660 it should be on demand for that apology. We should be able to kill babies up until the moment of birth 0.98

00:29:50.920 and we're all going to cheer and applaud that. You ever think we'd get to that point? The left did 0.98

00:29:55.120 because they did not have a failure of political imagination. We should not either. Then I totally

00:30:01.820 support emulating. This would be such a popular policy. If a Republican running for president said,

00:30:07.320 we're going to have a department of remigration for illegals, for foreign criminals, for terrorists,

00:30:14.980 foreign terrorists who are in America, we're just going to, we're going to remigrate that. Well, 0.99

00:30:18.880 you don't say deport. That sounds too harsh. No, we're going to remigrate. Migration's good, 0.61

00:30:22.680 so we're going to remigrate them. Immigration's so good, we're going to do it twice. That would be 1.00

00:30:28.100 so popular. All of the TV stations would scream and shout and call everyone Hitler and, and I don't

00:30:34.600 know, every bad thing in the world is Hitler, according to those people. So they'd say it's 0.97

00:30:37.940 racist, right? That's the, that's the synonym for bad. They'd call every, the worst things you could

00:30:42.620 possibly be called. That's what you'd hear from NBC, CBS, ABC, New York Times, Washington Post. And you

00:30:47.880 know what the voters would say? They would love it. The vast majority of voters.

00:30:52.680 Of both parties. I'm not saying the vast majority of Democrats, but you'd get a lot of Democrats,

00:30:58.160 you'd get a lot of independents, and you'd obviously get the vast majority of Republicans. It would be

00:31:02.000 very, very popular. Because it's common sense. Because it's common sense. Why would we allow

00:31:08.720 people who are legally not allowed to be in this country and who are committing crimes in this,

00:31:12.940 why would we allow them to stay? You would have to be an elite to think that was a good idea.

00:31:18.420 You would have to be, you would have to have multiple degrees from Harvard and Princeton. 1.00

00:31:24.400 You would have to have a very high IQ to be so stupid to think that that's a good idea. 1.00

00:31:29.640 That's, that's the sort of thing only, only the elites could do. 1.00

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00:32:00.120 shipping. Limited time only, exclusions do apply. Speaking of the rest of the world, by the way,

00:32:05.740 America may soon find itself even more enmeshed with the rest of the world because Joe Biden just

00:32:10.680 promised the troops that they were, they were about to go, go see the inside of Ukraine.

00:32:16.400 And you're going to see when you're there, sometimes you've been there, you're going to see, 0.98

00:32:20.880 you're going to see women, young people standing, standing in the middle of the front of a damn 1.00

00:32:25.460 tank. It's just saying, I'm not leaving. I'm holding my ground. They're incredible. 0.99

00:32:32.660 You're going to see that when you go to Ukraine. Oops. I mean, Biden didn't even catch himself

00:32:37.320 there. Biden just said to American troops, you're going to Ukraine that, you know, that war in

00:32:42.400 Ukraine that's happening right now, where I've said, we're not going to get involved in that war.

00:32:45.400 You're going and you're going to see it when you're there. Why are they going to see it? Oh,

00:32:50.360 because you're going to send them there. The vast majority of Americans do not want America

00:32:55.620 to be more involved in the war, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war that's going on

00:33:00.040 now. And yet the elites are pushing for greater American involvement. Almost all the elites,

00:33:06.720 almost all the media apparatus, almost all of big tech, almost all of the liberal establishment

00:33:13.160 is pushing for that. Joe Biden is pushing for that. No one's beating the war drums harder than Joe

00:33:18.340 Biden. During a speech in Warsaw, Biden did not merely call for an end to the conflict.

00:33:23.860 He did not merely call for punishing Putin. He did not merely call for peace. He called for regime

00:33:29.140 change in Russia. For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power. God bless you all. And may God

00:33:38.720 defend our freedom and may God protect our troops. Thank you for your patience. Thank you.

00:33:45.260 He says, this man cannot remain in power, which means he's calling for regime change.

00:33:50.300 Joe Biden, the head of the most powerful country on earth is calling for regime change in Russia.

00:33:55.760 Russia, a nuclear power. How did regime change go in Iraq? Not great. How did regime change go in

00:34:01.860 Afghanistan? Not great. 20 years later, we just brought the old regime back. How did regime change

00:34:07.180 go in Libya? Not great. How did regime change go in Egypt? Not great. All of these places,

00:34:14.400 not the most developed countries in the world. The risks, not so huge. Now we're talking about

00:34:21.200 Russia. Russia is not Libya. Russia is a former superpower with nuclear weapons pointed at us.

00:34:29.760 Russia, the stakes are much, much higher. And Biden says, ah, didn't work the first five times.

00:34:34.380 Let's try it now with Putin. Russia, by the way, where there's no opposition,

00:34:39.620 almost everything Biden has done is a unify Russia behind Putin. Putin was not particularly popular

00:34:46.000 in Russia. And yet the crushing sanctions, the attack on the central bank has galvanized support

00:34:52.040 for Putin. And there's no opposition leader. The closest one is Alexei Navalny, who has been

00:34:57.300 imprisoned by Vladimir Putin. But even Alexei Navalny is deeply unpopular in Russia. He's a good

00:35:02.900 looking guy. He's pro-Western. He's not exactly the most democratic liberal leader in the world,

00:35:10.640 but he's, he's, it seems better than Putin. And yet, if you look at the Levada Center,

00:35:15.500 for instance, which is an anti-Putin, anti-Kremlin think tank, they are showing that the approval for

00:35:21.900 the opposition leader is 25%. The disapproval is 75%. So who's going to take over Russia?

00:35:26.540 This is, the liberals don't understand this. The progressives, they're so utopian. They think

00:35:32.380 things are always going to be better. We're going to go in and everything's going to be roses. What

00:35:36.140 are we going to do? We're going to decapitate the government and then it'll all just be great. 0.99

00:35:40.360 What's going to happen next? Conservatives understand that sometimes the devil you know

00:35:45.480 is better than the devil that you don't. The White House, even the White House, not Joe Biden,

00:35:51.920 because he doesn't really speak for the White House, the rest of the White House apparatus,

00:35:55.100 they realized, wow, this is really dangerous stuff. So they just came out. They said,

00:35:59.300 the president's point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or

00:36:02.360 the region. He was not discussing Putin's power in Russia or regime change, but he obviously was.

00:36:09.060 They're telling us now, don't believe your lying ears. Don't believe your lying eyes. Biden said 0.99

00:36:14.740 Putin should not be allowed to remain in power. In power means in power. It doesn't mean Putin

00:36:21.580 should not be allowed to invade Ukraine. That's not what he said. He said, Putin should not be

00:36:24.360 allowed to remain in power. He was talking about regime change. And then even the White House came

00:36:27.600 out and said, no, no, he wasn't. And then Biden was asked about this later on by a reporter. And he

00:36:32.400 said, oh, no, I wasn't talking about that. So even Biden can't make up his mind. So now even this show

00:36:36.860 of American strength becomes a show of American weakness. Then Joe Biden, in this disastrous few days

00:36:44.440 regarding the war in Ukraine, said that if Russia uses chemical weapons, not only are we going to start

00:36:49.520 fighting harder, not only are we going to push for regime change, we're going to use chemical weapons 0.65

00:36:53.500 ourselves. And to clarify on chemical weapons, if chemical weapons were used in Ukraine, would that

00:37:00.640 trigger a military response from NATO? It would trigger a response in kind, whether or not you're

00:37:09.480 asking whether NATO would cross, we'd make that decision at the time. It would trigger a response

00:37:16.220 in kind. And so what does the White House say? Well, the national security advisor was asked about

00:37:23.440 this, said, President Biden at the conference yesterday said that if Russia uses chemical

00:37:27.420 weapons in Ukraine, the US and NATO will respond in kind, which would seem to imply using chemical

00:37:32.140 weapons back. Is that what he meant by in kind? Or what was he trying to say here? Jake Sullivan says,

00:37:36.300 no, no, you heard him in another answer say we'll respond accordingly. Meaning, you know, we will

00:37:41.060 select the form and nature of our response based on the nature of the action Russia takes,

00:37:44.780 and we will do so. I won't go beyond that other than to say the US has no intention of using chemical

00:37:52.220 weapons, period, under any circumstances. So he, Sullivan just tries to rewrite what Biden said.

00:37:57.100 Says, no, no, forget about in kind. We'll just respond accordingly. But Joe Biden said in kind. In

00:38:02.660 kind means the same way. So now Joe Biden is saying, if Russia uses chemical weapons, we, who, and by the

00:38:09.700 way, we have said that we've destroyed almost all of our chemical weapons and that we'll never use chemical

00:38:13.600 weapons and it's a violation of international law. Biden says, yeah, we're going to do that. We're going to use

00:38:17.420 chemical weapons in Ukraine. What would that do? Pushing us further and further toward World War 0.60

00:38:23.800 Three. And why? Because Joe Biden says that the war in Ukraine is, is a battle between freedom and

00:38:28.640 autocracy. He says, quote, we're engaged anew in a great battle for freedom, a battle between democracy

00:38:34.160 and autocracy, between liberty and repression. This battle will not be won in days or months either. We need

00:38:39.600 to steel ourselves for the long fight ahead. He is saying, all but saying, we are going to send

00:38:44.640 troops into Ukraine. We are in World War Three. We are going to launch a, or, or escalate toward a global 0.58

00:38:52.580 military conflict over Ukraine. But this is not a battle for, for freedom. Exactly. This is not a battle

00:39:04.020 between democracy and autocracy, between liberty and repression. This is a battle between two

00:39:11.120 oligarchies, the oligarchy in Ukraine and the oligarchy in Russia. That's not a justification of

00:39:18.100 Russia's invasion. I don't think it was a justified invasion. That's not to say that the two sides are the 0.70

00:39:22.420 same. That's not to say that there's a moral equivalence. In the conflict, Ukraine is the victim 0.97

00:39:28.500 here. Russia is the aggressor. It's a, it's a nuanced, complicated matter, but sure, Ukraine is 0.70

00:39:34.400 the victim. Russia is the aggressor, but not every single geopolitical conflict is a familiar

00:39:42.620 ideological battle. This battle is not between democracy and autocracy. It's between two oligarchies

00:39:49.060 fighting over land, a land conflict that has been going on for over a thousand years.

00:39:54.620 Is that really what we're going to launch World War III over? Not every battle is World War II.

00:40:05.060 The only historical comparisons that liberals ever make are to World War II or maybe the fall of Rome.

00:40:13.640 But usually just World War II because it's the only conflict that they think they know anything about.

00:40:17.820 There are other battles throughout history. There are other fights throughout history.

00:40:20.780 Some nuance is required. Some responsibility is required. Some, some sophisticated thinking is

00:40:28.660 required here. And we don't have any of that. We have a really, really degraded country that is

00:40:35.620 causing food shortages, that is now dealing with mass inflation because we just keep printing money

00:40:41.480 because we think that's the answer to our problems. That's dealing with all, that all,

00:40:45.660 all we can ever muster is gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. It's all we've got. 0.99

00:40:51.400 Okay. Even if you are, even if you think that it would be a great idea to go and actually escalate

00:40:59.360 this conflict to deescalate it with Russia, say, we need a big show of strength. The Ukrainians

00:41:04.060 actually are the victims here and the Russians actually are the aggressors. We, we agree on that. 1.00

00:41:07.280 And the best thing to do is just punch Vladimir Putin in the nose. Do you trust this guy to do it? 0.99

00:41:11.320 This incompetent idiot, Joe Biden, and this liberal establishment that screwed everything 1.00

00:41:17.520 up to the point that we now don't have enough food to feed ourselves? Do you trust this guy 1.00

00:41:21.760 to lead World War III for America? I don't. I do not. Something that Donald Trump got really,

00:41:31.260 really right, more, much more than the Democrats and frankly, much more than other Republicans

00:41:35.980 is that he was not particularly ideological. Not every single issue for Trump was a fight between

00:41:43.040 freedom and tyranny, between democracy and autocracy, between freedom and repression. No,

00:41:50.720 Donald Trump almost didn't view any issue in those stark black and white ideological terms.

00:41:57.120 He viewed a lot of it as a deal, as a, as a little conflict that we got to work out and you get

00:42:02.840 this and I'll get this. The art of the deal, call it. Yeah, well, Russia did this. We've done some 0.84

00:42:08.380 bad things too. Yeah. Okay. Frankly, maybe Trump went a little too far in this regard, but it allowed

00:42:13.200 him much more space to operate in his foreign policy, which is why his foreign policy was so

00:42:18.720 successful. Trump just came out. He was giving a rally. He said, people always blamed my crazy

00:42:24.620 personality for almost getting us into war. He said, it almost kept us out of war.

00:42:27.920 And you remember this, the fake news media said my personality would get us into war.

00:42:36.860 But actually, as it turned out, it was my personality that kept us the hell out of war.

00:42:43.060 And it has been accurately reported. I was the only president in four decades who did not get

00:42:54.880 America into any new conflicts. Instead, I brought our troops back home from Syria, Iraq, Somalia and

00:43:02.880 many other places and would have done it and would have done it very quickly from Afghanistan. We were all

00:43:09.280 set. And you know, we didn't lose one soldier in Afghanistan for 18 months. I spoke to Abdul,

00:43:15.100 the leader of the Taliban. I said, Abdul, don't do it, Abdul. And the fake news said,

00:43:21.920 oh, he's speaking to the Taliban. Who the hell else am I supposed to speak to? 0.69

00:43:27.360 Who the hell else am I supposed to speak to? I kept him out of war. That's so true because 0.99

00:43:30.920 Trump did not use these terms, these flow, these gigantic, grandiose ideas, freedom versus autocracy.

00:43:37.540 Putin must be removed from power without even thinking about what the consequences of that

00:43:42.100 could be. He didn't, he actually didn't escalate those conflicts. He's, when little rocket man

00:43:46.980 over there in Korea says, I'm, I'm going to use my nuclear weapons. What does Trump say? He says,

00:43:51.680 I got a bigger button and my button works. Watch it, little rocket man. And you don't know,

00:43:56.160 he's unpredictable and he's giving people off ramps and he's making jokes and he's not,

00:44:04.720 he's, he's not escalating the conflict steadily and steadily and steadily.

00:44:11.040 The proof of the pudding is in the tasting. During the Trump presidency, we had relative peace.

00:44:17.060 You cannot say the same, certainly not for Joe Biden or Obama or Bush. Clinton, maybe you had

00:44:27.400 the dividend of the cold, the cold war had just ended. So you had this little period of relative

00:44:31.540 peace. Maybe Clinton deserves some credit for that. Maybe not. But certainly the most recent

00:44:37.220 presidents, you can't say that Trump had the better record because he was not, he was not fighting

00:44:46.140 some abstract ideological battle. He was not caught up in the stupidity of the intellectual elite. 1.00

00:44:51.620 You're just saying, no, look, you come after me, I go after you. He told Vladimir Putin, he said, 1.00

00:44:56.600 if you invade Ukraine, I'm going to bomb Moscow. I'll reduce the Kremlin to ash. Did he mean it? No, 0.99

00:45:03.180 Trump actually said later on in a phone call, he said, Putin only believed me five to 10%. That's all

00:45:06.640 he needed to believe me. That's all he needed to believe me. And all the intellectuals clutch their

00:45:12.600 pearls. And what do we get? We got relative peace and we got relative prosperity and we

00:45:16.100 got a booming economy and we didn't have food shortages. Speaking of big personalities and

00:45:21.320 comedians, Crowder, Stephen Crowder, our pal has just hit it out of the park. Crowder has gone

00:45:27.040 undercover to investigate a new trend, a new important area of study in academia, fat studies.

00:45:34.640 It turns out that there is an entire academic discipline known as fat studies, home to peer

00:45:40.580 reviewed think pieces such as overcoming fear of fat and queering fat embodiment. Now I decided to

00:45:46.800 write and submit my very own fat studies paper for presentation. And with the help of my brilliant

00:45:52.200 researcher, I wrote an entire essay titled embracing fatness as self care in the era of Trump.

00:45:58.880 I then submitted the abstract to the conference. And oh, did I say that I wrote the essay? I meant to

00:46:05.420 say it was submitted by C Matheson, a wonderful and totally academically legitimate gender queer

00:46:11.280 fat pride activist. Hello, I am C Matheson. I'm an activist based out of Austin, Texas, specifically

00:46:18.560 working with the non-binary and fat community to help increase presence of intersectional and non-binary

00:46:27.760 people with such events in Austin as a women's march, march for our lives. Most recently, the global

00:46:34.260 climate strikes. My preferred pronouns are she and her. And my paper, embracing fatness as self care

00:46:43.000 in the era of Donald Trump is something I'm thrilled to be presenting and has been accepted here at the

00:46:49.800 New Zealand Fat Studies Conference 2020. He's just, he's just a genius. He just, Stephen Crowder,

00:47:00.020 he's a genius. He's an intellectual. He's a scholar, according to the Fat Studies Department.

00:47:08.860 Fat Studies got me thinking of so many of our problems with the ruling elite. It's got me thinking

00:47:14.980 of Ketanji Jackson Brown or Ketanji Brown Jackson. I don't trust women that have three names. Okay, 1.00

00:47:19.340 pick two. You get a first name and a last name. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, frankly, even Amy Coney Barrett, 0.92

00:47:24.460 certainly Christine Blasey Ford. No, you get two names. It's a slight digression. Ketanji Jackson was

00:47:31.280 asked, do, can you tell me what a woman is? And Ketanji Jackson, who has two degrees from Harvard, 0.98

00:47:38.600 said, of course not. Of course I can't tell you what a woman is. I only have two degrees from Harvard. 1.00

00:47:45.140 Only an intellectual could be that stupid. We've got our genius ruling class. The adults are back 1.00

00:47:51.040 in town. Finally, we've got responsible people in the room running foreign policy, running domestic

00:47:55.740 policy. Thank goodness that cowboy Trump is gone. That clown. Now we've got the intellectuals back in

00:48:02.280 charge and we don't have enough food. We have the breakout of World War III and we don't have enough

00:48:08.020 food. Only an intellectual could be that stupid. Sir Roger Scruton, the late great conservative 1.00

00:48:12.740 philosopher, he said that the job of a conservative intellectual is to articulate in a high-minded way

00:48:20.560 what common people already know and to articulate for them what they know intuitively. That the

00:48:26.940 geniuses and the ruling elite and the intellectuals, what they do not understand. This stuff doesn't need

00:48:35.200 to be so complicated. What is a woman? If you don't know, it's hard for me to tell you. But we're

00:48:42.240 living the consequences of that right now. And as we're looking down the barrel at war, as we're

00:48:47.540 looking down the barrel at food shortages, as the best our ruling class can tell us is gay, gay, gay, 0.99

00:48:51.540 gay, gay. I think a lot of people wish that our ruling elite were just, were a little bit less 0.99

00:48:57.560 educated, a little less high-minded, a little less ideological, and just defended the basic things

00:49:04.340 that we all know are true and good for society. I guess, I guess we'll have to keep hoping through

00:49:11.220 our, our springtime of famine and hunger as we get into Joe Biden's summer. God help us all.

00:49:18.000 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

00:49:48.000 Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, Will Smith smacks Chris Rock upside the head at the Oscars.

00:50:14.320 President Biden visits Europe, where he proceeds to gaffe all over himself.

00:50:18.000 That's today on The Ben Shapiro Show. Give it a listen.

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