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A French court has just barred the country's leading right wing politician, Marine Le Pen, from running for office. The court sentenced her to four years in prison as well. The French ruling comes just months after Romania's Constitutional Court overturned the results of that nation's presidential election, which also coincidentally was won by the right wing candidate. And both rulings, of course, come shortly after Democrats in the US tried, but happily failed to preempt our nation's leading right winger from winning his second term by kicking him off the ballot, as well as by trying to imprison him four different ways, as well as by nearly blowing his head off. Now, this is not how democracies are supposed to operate. In democracies, the people are supposed to be able to elect the candidates they want. In practice, however, many nations of the west are allowed to elect whomever they please, except for the candidates that liberal elites don't like, which tells us a lot about the actual regimes that rule us. Because, and I'm not the first to observe it, sovereign is he who decides the exception. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Kanye west has just conducted an interview in a full Ku Klux Klan outfit, though the Ku Klux Klan outfit is not white. It's black, but he's got the pointy hat on. And anyway, we'll get to that in a moment. First though, go to three. The number three. Dave Lyons.comKnowles I only really understood low quality blinds for much of my life. You know the ones that get all like tangled and messed up and they break. And then it was not until moving into my house, first house I ever bought here in Nashville, that I saw what really good window treatments can look like. That's why I'm so excited about Three Day Blinds. 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Go to three day blinds.com knowles for their buy one, get one 50% off deal on custom blinds, shades, shutters and drapery for free. No charge, no obligation consultation. Go to three. The number three day blinds.com knowles k n o W L E S Before we get to Kanye West's neo Nazism, I want to talk about another Nazi. That would be the Nazi jurist, Carl Schmidt, who is a political philosopher. And so just because he's a Nazi doesn't mean he never got anything correct. You know, it's sort of like Hitler drank water too. Okay, it's not. Heidegger was rehabilitated, wasn't he? So anyway, Schmidt was this political philosopher who had the misfortune of being associated with the Nazis. So, you know, that's a bad mark on your resume. However, he came to some serious philosophical conclusions. He's probably most famous for the friend, enemy distinction, which he says the politics all basically comes down to friend and enemy. And another one of his famous observations is that the sovereign is he who decides the exception. And this is obviously true here. It's true not just in Nazi Germany. It's true not just in fascist Italy. It's true in modern France and modern Romania and America and pretty much any society. The sovereign is the one who decides the exception. The people will elect the candidate that the people want. Well, except for Donald Trump, except for Marine Le Pen, except for Giorgescu in Romania. And why? Well, okay, what does France say? This Judge, Benedict de Partuis, my French, is a little weak. He has ruled that Marine Le Pen and some other members of her party committed embezzlement. They weren't just making administrative errors, but they embezzled some money like every other French politician, I guess. I don't know. I don't know the merit of the charges. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. One thing I can promise you is Marine Le Pen is not being imprisoned and barred from running for president because she embezzled some money. She is being barred from doing those things because she keeps getting closer and closer to actually winning elections. And the elites in France won't let that same thing in Romania. In Romania, Colin Giorgescu, the right wing candidate, won the presidential election. And the Constitutional Court of Romania annulled that election in early December. They annulled it because they said that this party took money from the Russians or they broke some rule or some law or so anyway, they're going to overturn the results. But they didn't really overturn the results because the party took money or did not take money from some group or because the party violated some regulation or other. They annulled it because they didn't like the candidate and they didn't want Georgescu, the right winger, to take over in Romania. Same thing with Trump. Do you really think that President Trump that. Well, happily, Trump actually beat the liberals who were trying to do this to him, but do you really think that the liberals were trying to take Trump off the ballot or else imprison Trump, convict him on at least one of four counts, because they don't like that he maybe slept with a porn star. Remember? That was one of the charges. He slept with a porn star and covered it up? I don't think so. I don't think the party of Bill Clinton or really any. I mean, they're all sex freaks in Washington, D.C. and especially the Democrats. I don't think it had anything to do with the sex scandal. Is it because Trump was holding classified documents in an unsecured location? I don't think so. Biden was holding, I think, more documents in a much less secure location in a place that his crackhead son had access to. His crackhead son who was peddling American influence overseas to the highest bidder. No. Wasn't that. It's because they didn't want Trump to win. And so all of the attempts to take him off the ballot or the attempts to imprison him, all of those were just procedures that were serving a predetermined conclusion, namely, that Trump could not be the president. Because certainly in many countries in the west and in our own country, until recently, the sovereign was the liberal elite, which is why the transfer of power to Trump has been violent. It's why you didn't really see it on the establishment media. But it's why when Trump was elected in 2016, the Liberals were setting cars on fire in Washington, D.C. it's why agencies of the state were being turned to subvert that election and then to overturn it when he actually won in 2016. It's why the libs changed all the election rules in 2020 to stop Trump from winning a second term. It's why they justified his assassination in 2024, because that's an actual change in regime. So we're seeing this throughout the West. This is a seismic political shift, not just in one office or one party taking over for another party. It's a shift in the way that our political order operates. And it's why the agents of the state are doing their best to suppress what the people want. You're seeing this in the UK right now too, by the way. The United Kingdom. I teased this on the show yesterday. We didn't have time to get to it. The United Kingdom in the courts. Notice how the courts seem to be playing a huge role in this because the people don't like these kinds of far liberal policies. So the courts have to step in to undermine what the people want. The courts have decided that white men need to serve longer and harsher prison sentences than any other group of people for committing the same crimes. That's it. Sometimes when you read these stories it sounds like we're being hyperbolic or partisan and polemical. No, that's just what's happening. Even the liberal politicians in the UK are admitting that this is completely insane. Of course. Cause they don't wanna stand election defending, sentencing white men to harsher prison sentences on the basis of their sex and their race. But this is supposed to come into effect today. And magistrates and judges according to this ruling would have to consult a pre sentence report determining whether to imprison someone of an ethnic or religious minority. All sorts of people. So Keir Starmer, this awful lib prime minister, he said he's prepared to fight the courts on this to stop the introduction of a two tier system of justice. He said all options are on the table to stop it from being implemented. But what I have to ask the liberal politicians is why isn't this the logical conclusion of dei? If you say that the goal of the state is diversity and equity, some type of equality of outcome and inclusion, then don't you need to have a two tier system of justice? You're saying that people are not beginning from the same starting place. So the only way to institute justice is to treat people differently according to the metrics that you deem important. DEI deems race very important. It deems sex important when it's convenient. Then it denies sexual reality when it's convenient alternately. But what it comes down to, if we're talking about friend and enemy of the political left, comes down to punishing white people to give an advantage to non white people and punishing men to give an advantage to women and people who don't know what sex they are. And it's just a basic principle. If DEI says that you are going to artificially elevate certain favored groups, then the only way you can do that is by artificially suppressing other groups. What else are you gonna do? If you say we need through some artificial process that we've come up with to forget about prison sentences. Just look at affirmative action. If you say we need more black people or Hispanic people in the universities right now, we have too many white people and Asian people in the universities, then that means in order to achieve your DEI goal, you're gonna have to take those university spots away from white people and away from Asian people. You're just gonna have to suppress them. So, yeah, why wouldn't that apply to prison sentences too? I agree with the libs who are recognizing that this is really wicked and bad and not preferable and they don't want it. They're gonna vote against it at the ballot box. But my question to them is, where have you been for the last 20 years, the last 50 years, where have you been? It hadn't occurred to them kind of like how trans sports was what finally opened people's eyes to the preposterous nature of the sexual revolution. They said, oh, okay, this is crazy. And my question on the trans sports is, oh, where have you been? We've had gender dysphoria since feminism. You know, feminism which says that women should just be men, then they redefine marriage. They have all the weird pride stuff in the streets. They. But, so, okay, all right. It took Husky Hank giving some girl a concussion in a volleyball game to wake you up. Okay, well, I guess the same is true of DEI here. It takes a two tier system of justice that sentences white men to longer and harsher prison sentences for you to realize that DEI is bad news. Okay, great, so now the people are against that. But you think that the liberal elite are just gonna give up political power? I don't think so. If you believe that, you are really politically naive, I've got a bridge in the United Kingdom to sell you. I got a bridge in London to sell you. Okay, they're gonna hold on. So what you can expect as this shift takes place is more elections overturned, more conservative politicians being imprisoned. 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I don't think he's going to win the competition. Now, speaking of racial identity politics, Kanye west is doing Nazi stuff again. There's a lot of Nazi stuff in the show today, isn't there? Well, anyway, Kanye west is doing Nazi stuff, Neo Nazi stuff, I guess he's wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit, but it's not a white one. One, it's a black one. Now, there have been this kind of outfit, the Ku Klux Klan outfit. It didn't begin with the Ku Klux Klan, okay? You'll still see religious groups in Spain wearing this outfit. It's kind of a medieval outfit, the conical shape. But I don't think that Kanye west is doing his best impression of a medieval Spanish religious order here. I think he's given his recent statements, and by recent, I mean his consistent statements of the last five years or so. I think he's doing this to be provocative and to look like a neo Nazi. The funniest part of it, though, is while wearing the Ku Klux Klan outfit, he's doing an interview with DJ academics and he just talks about totally mundane pop music stuff.