Michael Knowles Reads His Reddit Hater Threads
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Summary
On today's show, host Alex Blumberg is joined by Michael Knowles ( ) to discuss a variety of topics, including whether or not he would consider self-immolation as a means of protest, whether he's a supporter of President Trump, and whether he thinks he should be classified as a level 3 domestic terrorist.
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Not like I do Reddit, like post Reddit stuff, but I'm apparently a subject of Reddit.
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You can tell I'm not a Reddit poster because I don't have the fedora and I'm not a cringe atheist.
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But I have apparently made it to the big leagues, folks.
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So my producers thought it would be amusing if I read some of the fan mail from one of the sewers of the internet.
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Michael Knowles is classified as a level three domestic terrorist.
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You must avoid domestic terrorists at all costs.
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What is level one higher than level three, like in terms of importance?
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No explanation of what terrorism I've engaged in.
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But what if it goes to 10 and I'm just a level three one?
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Like I don't even make the big leagues as a domestic terrorist.
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Which is when you target civilians with violence to achieve political ends.
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Which to my knowledge, I don't think I've ever done.
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It's very strange because the kind of people who would say this would also sympathize with actual terrorists.
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Because I just don't know where the numbers are supposed to go.
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Bro literally looks like an edgy middle schooler.
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They're telling me that I'm a little fountain of youth.
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Because the other knock that I get a lot is people think I'm older than I am.
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People sometimes think I'm 40 or something or older.
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Now they're saying I look like an edgy middle schooler.
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Or am I a mature, wizened example of, I don't know, elder statesmanship?
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Michael, you ever consider self-immolation as a show of your support?
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Because I tweeted out, I said, I voted for Trump in 2016.
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I voted for Trump with even greater enthusiasm in 2020.
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I will crawl over broken glass to vote for Trump in 2024.
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He says, Michael, you ever consider self-immolation?
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You know, like sometimes a monk, like a Buddhist monk will light himself on fire.
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Or other, sometimes other unhinged people will just.
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He's telling me, in case you didn't hear, he's telling me to kill myself.
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So this is in response to some post, some tweet I had made.
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Corpus Christi, an important feast that dates back over 750 years.
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Juneteenth, a fake thing the libs invented five minutes ago.
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Response to that was, I know two things are for certain about Michael.
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He too is a religious fascist and he hates black people.
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This is a good teachable opportunity for the user is deleted.
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Which, unless that's some kind of esoteric thing, I guess doesn't exist anymore.
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Fascism is a political philosophy, ideology, that was developed by a number of people.
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But notably, Mussolini, Giovanni Gentile, other people.
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The ideology of fascism is grounded on making an idol of the state.
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Ideologies tend to exalt one thing over another.
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Those of us who want a more religious kind of political order, we would be exalting God.
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And then I hate black people because I don't want Juneteenth.
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There are like five black people who had ever heard of Juneteenth before five years ago.
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Doesn't celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation because that was put out by an evil white man.
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It doesn't celebrate the 13th Amendment, which was ratified by those evil white men, which actually freed the slaves.
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It celebrates the day that the mailman made it to Texas and told some town in Texas that the Civil War was over and the slaves were free.
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Would make much more sense for a feast like Corpus Christi or any other number of religious feasts.
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Of all the Daily Wire folks, Matt Walsh is a dumb ASS, and Shapiro has stupid religious beliefs and his audience captured to hell.
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But Knowles, I swear to our Lord, killed squirrels in his backyard as a kid.
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Because usually, whenever people are throwing stones at DW, they'll hit Ben for something he believes or for his voice or something.
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And then they'll, or for some issue he got wrong, like Trump or something.
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And then they'll hit Matt for, I don't know, sure, they could insult his intelligence or they'll insult his look or so.
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But they, usually the way they attack me is they say, oh, Michael's nice, you know, he's like, he's too nice.
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Like, he's got to be like brutal, like mad, or, you know, just like slicing his backs like Ben or something.
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Like, they'll compare me unfavorably to my colleagues.
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And they're saying Ben and Matt are the nice ones, which I guess I should be honored about.
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Michael Knowles has no authority on telling who is and who isn't a white supremacist.
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He literally advocated Arbeit macht frei talking points in the political compass video on the question about inflation versus unemployment.
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Arbeit macht frei means work makes you free, which was over Auschwitz.
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And I said, I'm trying to, I don't want to be fair to this person.
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But my view of freedom is that freedom involves doing things.
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And it's not just, you know, like loafing around.
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I sort of, he's wrong in as much as I'm not a Nazi.
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I didn't, you know, I wasn't rejected from art school.
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But he probably is like getting onto something about how I understand freedom.
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Anyway, fascists do sure love trying to dictate who is and isn't fascist.
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I know he said white supremacist, but the point still remains.
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Also, there's not, those aren't the same thing.
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I'm not, I'm, I'm not, not a skinhead, not a fascist.
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I bet my life savings on all my organs that Michael Knowles is a racial essentialist of some kind.
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A racial, like the races are pure, pure essence.
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Southern Italian, Anglo-Irish American, whose forebears go back to the Mayflower, which is a great cigar company, by the way.
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I don't know anyone who would seriously dispute that.
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That's the Libs are all about like, we got to protect the race.
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So the, this, so I posted this picture from AI.
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But it was, remember Chris Van Hollen is this Maryland Democrat senator?
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And he got all upset because of this illegal gangster that got deported to El Salvador.
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And this Kilmar, you know, he goes down as this like lunch with Kilmar.
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He's just got this, his heart beating out of his chest for a face tattooed gangster.
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And so I tweeted, I said, Senator Van Hollen's heart wants what his heart wants.
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It's a nice little picnic, romantic picnic, some flowers, some wine.
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Personally, I'd much rather be gay than be Michael Knowles.
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Okay, I'd rather take part in a gay T4T sex pile.
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I'm gay AF and Michael is a total see you next Tuesday as usual.
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It's funny because often my beloved fans like this, usually they'll call me gay.
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Like Michael, you know, he drinks the martini, tap dances on the desk.
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He wears his, his sweaters and jackets are a little too nice.
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But this one, he's saying, no, the guy says, I'd rather be gay than be Michael.
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So he's calling me, so I don't actually, these letters aren't that bad.
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I go on Twitter and it's, I just get pummeled all day.
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Or it depends on if I'm featured on someone else's YouTube channel.
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Or I get these nasty emails, sometimes threatening to kill me.
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But they think they're being mean, but they're actually being nice.
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Forget about YouTube and Facebook and Twitter and TV.