Ep. 1829 - Democrats Formally Admit They Want You And Your Kids Dead - The Michael Knowles Show

Summary

The Michael Knowles Show – Episode 1829 Summary
“Democrats Formally Admit They Want You And Your Kids Dead” – October 6, 2025

Episode Overview

In this intense and unapologetic episode, Michael Knowles delivers a blistering critique of several top Democrats and party organizations, alleging that recent events—including leftist political violence, the lack of accountability for violent rhetoric among Democratic candidates, and cultural moments such as Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl gig—demonstrate the mainstreaming of radical, anti-conservative hostility in American politics. Knowles argues that not only are Democratic leaders failing to condemn calls for violence, but their ongoing endorsements amount to implicit support for the most extreme acts against Republicans and their families.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Jay Jones Scandal and Endorsements

(Begins ~01:00)

Background: Jay Jones, Democratic candidate for Attorney General in Virginia, was exposed for sending texts in 2022 wishing for the murder of GOP House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his children.
Content of Messages: Jones fantasized about killing Gilbert ("Gilbert gets two bullets to the head") and expressed a wish that his children would die in his wife's arms—all to sway political stances.
Reaction and “Apology”:
- Jones issues a statement lacking any explicit apology or genuine remorse.
- Quote:
  
  “Like all people, I’ve sent text messages that I regret…” (~06:22)
  - Knowles dissects this, pointing out the complete absence of words like “sorry” or “apologize”.
Democratic Endorsements Remain:
- Virginia Beach Democratic Committee publicly stands by Jones even after revelations.
- Quote from the committee:
  
  "Let those without sin cast the first stone." (~10:17)
- Knowles interprets this as evidence that many Democrats tacitly support such extreme rhetoric against Republicans.
- “This is institutional endorsement of the murder of Republicans and our children. That’s what this is.” (~13:10)

2. Mainstream Democrats’ Continued Support

(~15:30)

Key Individuals Mentioned:
- Abigail Spanberger: Refuses to disavow endorsement.
- Cory Booker: Maintains his endorsement for Jones; Knowles encourages listeners to call Booker’s Senate office and demand answers:
  - “You can't simultaneously endorse Jay Jones for Attorney General of Virginia and say you don't want to murder Republicans and their children.” (~17:59)
- Bobby Scott: Similarly, still supports Jones, with Knowles again recommending audience members contact the Congressman’s office.
Wider Organizational Endorsements:
- Planned Parenthood, multiple unions—Knowles calls on union members to check their organizations’ endorsements and push back.

3. Video Mockery & Cultural Moments

(Tim McBride segment – ~21:42)

Congressman Tim McBride:
- The Democratic Delaware representative, a biological male who identifies and presents as a woman, posts a video searching for missing Republicans amid a government shutdown.
- Knowles critiques both the content and optics:
  - “If I were a Democrat political advisor, I would recommend to him not to post these kind of videos even more than I would recommend that to other legislators, because it’s crazy.” (~23:08)
- Suggests the “cringe” reflects broader Democratic loss of touch with mainstream America.

4. Rising Theatricality and Radicalism among Democrats

(~27:00)

Zoran Mamdani:
- NYC Mayoral candidate, described as a “Muslim Communist,” called out for theatrically berating a federal deportation official.
- Knowles argues this isn’t just performance; such Democrats genuinely hold radical leftist beliefs, endangering American political stability.
ICE Crackdowns & Federal Response:
- Applauds ICE actions against Antifa; predicts increasing government intervention in lawless “blue cities,” framing this as a necessary defense of national order.

5. Language, Immigration, and Cultural Division

(Bad Bunny/Super Bowl – ~35:00)

Bad Bunny’s SNL Appearance:
- Bad Bunny, set to perform at the Super Bowl, delivers a message in Spanish on SNL, then follows up in English:
  
  “And if you didn’t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn.” (~36:50)
- Knowles reads this as an explicit refusal to assimilate and a symbolic attack on American unity:
  - “The disrespect is the problem. Because English is one of the symbols of America.” (~40:02)
- Argues that when national unity via ethnicity, religion, and shared borders have been eroded, English remains the last tie that binds Americans.

Memorable Quotes & Moments

On Jay Jones’ Non-Apology:

“Like all people, I’ve sent text messages that I regret. No, not like all. I never sent those text messages. Did you ever send those text messages?”
— Michael Knowles (~07:39)

On Endorsements Post-Scandal:

“This is institutional endorsement of the murder of Republicans and our children. That’s what this is.”
— Michael Knowles (~13:10)

On Democrats’ Attitude Toward Political Violence:

“You can’t simultaneously endorse Jay Jones for Attorney General of Virginia and say that you don’t want to murder Republicans and their children. Those two things don’t go together. That violates the law of non contradiction.”
— Michael Knowles (~17:59)

On Democratic Theatrics & Identity Politics:

“They are off the reservation. It is no longer just we, you know, we oppose our opponents and we have a different way of doing things here for the good of the country. It is like, we explicitly endorse murdering half the country and their kids.”
— Michael Knowles (~25:32)

On Bad Bunny’s SNL Appearance:

“The disrespect is the problem. Because English is one of the symbols of America.”
— Michael Knowles (~40:02)

Notable Timestamps for Segments

01:00 – Introduction of Jay Jones scandal
06:22 – Dissection of Jones’ statement
10:17 – Virginia Beach Democrats’ endorsement response
13:10 – Institutional endorsement analysis
15:30 – Mainstream Democrats still endorse Jones
17:59 – Logical inconsistency of support for Jones
21:42 – Tim McBride’s Capitol video; critique on Democratic theatrics
27:00 – NYC’s Zoran Mamdani and the rise of radical theatrics
29:00 – ICE actions against Antifa; “showdown” in blue cities
35:00 – SNL/Bad Bunny, language, and cultural subversion
40:02 – Argument for English as essential to national identity

Tone and Style

Michael Knowles maintains a provocative, confrontational, and often sarcastic tone, intertwining sharp political critique with cultural commentary. He uses rhetorical questions, direct calls to action (encouraging listeners to contact Democratic officials), and vivid metaphors to argue that Democrats are not only politically opposed to the right, but are cultivating an environment where violence against opponents is tacitly approved.

For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode is a fiery polemic warning of the normalization of radicalism and political violence in mainstream Democratic circles. Knowles’ evidence is threaded through real-time examples, direct quotes, and painstaking analysis of party responses (or lack thereof) to egregious acts and statements. He illustrates a broader point: the collapse of political moderacy and civility, the abandonment of apology and accountability, and the erosion of core American cultural symbols—culminating in calls for strong, decisive (and in his view, justifiable) political action to restore order.

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Three days ago and three weeks after a leftist assassinated Charlie Kirk to the cheers of mainstream Democrats, the Democrat candidate for Attorney General of Virginia has been caught on record wishing for the murder of a Republican opponent and the Republicans children. He still has not properly apologized. He has not dropped out of the race. As far as I can tell, he has not lost a single endorsement, which, especially amid the current indisputable epidemic of leftist political violence, means that every single politician and organization that continues to endorse him supports murdering you and your kids too. We will name the names. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Foreign welcome back to the show. Bad Bunny has spoken out on SNL but not bad baby. Bad baby is from Dr. Phil. This is Bad Bunny who's the cross dressing Puerto Rican who's apparently going to perform at the Super Bowl. He spoke on SNL en Espanol. We'll get to what it all means. 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It's not as though these texts came out in 2006 or something. And he said he's a different person now than he was then. This is very, very recent. This is amid the recent upswing in leftist political violence that really begins around BLM in earnest. He specifically fantasized about putting two bullets into the then Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert's head. He suggested that he wished that Gil Gilbert's wife could watch her own child die in her arms so that perhaps Gilbert might reconsider his political views. And he accused the Republicans of breeding little fascists. So he said the kids are little fascists. This name fascist bandied about as a way to justify murdering someone, as you saw on the bullets written by the assassin of Charlie Kirk. So just so that I'm not accused of taking anything out of context or being hyperbolic or anything like that, here are the texts. This was Jay Jones writing to a fellow state legislator. He says, if those guys dine before me, I will go to their funerals to piss on their graves, send them out a wash and something. And then this interlocutor says, Jay Jones. Like Jay, come on, come on Jay. He responds, three people, two bullets. Gilbert, the Republican speaker of the House, Gilbert Hitler And Pol Pot Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. Spoiler put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know. And he receives both bullets every time. The man who wants to be Attorney General of Virginia. Jay, please stop. Says the interlocutor. Lol. Okay, okay. It really bothers me when you talk about hurting people or wishing death on them. You weren't simply asking questions and you know, it goes on few exchanges. You were talking about hoping Jennifer Gilbert's children would die. Yes, yes, he admits. Yes, I've told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy. I disagree with a state legislator on a matter of public policy. So I want his children to be murdered and I want them to be murdered in, in his wife's arms because then he might agree with me on some other policy. This is explicitly what he's saying. I won't read everything, but he says I point blank asked you more than three times you dug in that you meant it. I honestly am questioning a lot today. He responds. I mean, do I think Todd and Jennifer, the Republicans are evil and that they're breeding little fascists? Yes. Okay. Obviously this is totally disqualifying on every count. Wishing murder on a Republican at any time is disqualifying. Wishing murder on the Republican legislators children is particularly disqualifying. The fact that this all happened relatively recently is completely disqualifying. So he's disqualified on three fronts. Except he's still in the race. He's still in the race. Now at this point you'd assume he would have lost half of his endorsements, right? Not quite. You would at least expect him to have issued an apology, right? To try to keep his endorsements? I don't know. You tell me. Is this an apology? This is his statement. Like all people, I've sent text messages that I regret and I believe that violent rhetoric has no place in our politics. Let's be clear about what's happening right now in the Attorney General race. Jason Meares, the Republican, is dropping smears through Trump controlled media organizations to assault my character, my great, my great character. I'm wishing death upon my opponent's children, my great character. And rescue his desperate campaign. This is a strategy that ensures Jason Mearez will continue to be accountable to Donald Trump, not the people of Virginia. This race is about whether Trump can control Virginia or Virginians control Virginia. Okay, so I'm just looking at this now. I'm looking for the word sorry. How many times does the word sorry come up? Nowhere. How many times does the word apologize or apology, how many times do those? They don't. How many times does the word trump come up? Three times. So in this non apology apology, there's no word sorry. There's no appearance of the words sorry, shame, guilt, apology. He does say regret once. In general. He doesn't even say, I regret these text messages. He says, like all people, we're all the same. I didn't do anything particularly wrong. You're just as bad as I am. You're just as bad as he probably does think that this is what happens when people are very perverse like Jay Jones and Virginia's. When people are sick like Jay Jones, they think that everyone is as disgusting as they are. Like all people, I've sent text messages that I regret. No, not like all. I never sent those text messages. Did you ever send those text messages? No. You didn't wish death on your political opponents and their children and that their children would die in their wife's arms so that your opponent might come over to your side on some policy issue? You never did that? Okay, so I guess it's not like all people, J. Jones. So, you know, I've sent text messages in general. He doesn't even say he regrets these. Vile, vile person. So let's look at the endorsements he's lost. Virginia Beach Democrats. Here you go. This is an organization. This is not even a single individual. This is not a personal friend of his. This is the Democratic Party headline, Virginia Beach Democratic Committee stands firmly behind Jay Jones for Attorney General. I know this is jaw dropping. Maybe it's not. Maybe people have such low expectations of Democrats these days, especially after all those polls that came out in recent weeks showing how much Democrats support political violence. But to me, this is still somewhat surprising. To me, still somewhat shocking, at least, if not surprising. This came out after the text messages. Stands firmly behind Jay Jones. The Virginia Beach Democratic Committee reaffirms its full support of Jay Jones for attorney general. We are lined up, 10 toes down, ready to organize, mobilize and deliver voters for Jay and our entire Democratic ticket. They acknowledge, they say, recent press may have spotlighted past mistakes. We say, let those without sin cast the first stone. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. I don't. I don't think that I'm better in some absolute sense than Jay Jones. I would point out that Jay Jones is a very, very bad man. A very bad man who is particularly unqualified for the job that he is seeking, namely the top law enforcement officer in a commonwealth. He is particularly bad for that. But he's a fellow human being. We have charity for him. He should go to confession. He should repent. He should probably go to private life for a little while. Maybe go just work some job as a county lawyer somewhere. Go work at some firm. Do whatever you want to do. Get out of politics for a little bit because you're sick. Okay? To point that out is not to say we are the holiest people in the world. It's to say we recognize that public office requires someone who has even a modicum of a sense of justice and who doesn't want to murder half of his constituents. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. Furthermore, this is obviously a reference to Christ who defends the woman who is about to be stoned for adultery. When the woman is about to be stoned for adultery, he points out to the men, he says, well, let him who is without sin cast the first stone. Then the crowd goes away. But then what does Christ always say to the people, to the sinners that he defends? He says, go and sin no more. He doesn't say, and now you are attorney General of Virginia. So they double down on it. We firmly, oh, we love this. Probably increased Jay Jones support among the Democratic Party because there is no conclusion that we can reach other than many, many, many Democrats agree with J. Jones. Many, many, many Democrats. And not just individuals, whole organizations, this is a party committee. They won't pull their endorsement from him because they agree with him. Because they do want to murder Republicans and they do want to murder Republicans kids and they want Republicans kids to be killed in their mother's arms because they hate you and want you dead. That's the only way. That is the only way to read this press release. This is institutional endorsement of the murder of Republicans and our children. That's what this is. Not from some lunatic, not from some freak on Twitter, not from the Democratic Party. That's what this is. After we see these poll after poll, Democrats, people who identify as very liberal, eight times as likely to endorse political violence as people who consider themselves very Republican, young liberals in particular, almost 30% believe political violence can be justified. Compared to What? Something like 7% among conservatives? How many? After the widespread reaction among Democrats to the assassination of Charlie Kirk that minimized, excused and even celebrated it at all levels, the media, in government, in business, and your co worker and your cousin and that person who lives down your street and that person you went to high school with. Across the spectrum, there are top Democrats today who continue to endorse Jay Jones and continue to endorse your murder. We'll get to that in one second because I have a recommendation of what you can do to help this situation. First, though, I want to tell you about Helix sleep. Go to helixsleep.com knowles I want to invite you onto my bed. 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He issued a second statement after cuz he realized this one kind of flopped. But show me a proper apology. I haven't seen one. Cory Booker. Cory Booker who is Spartacus. Remember Spartacus is the New Jersey senator. Oh, good. Moderate, mild, virtuous. Cory Booker runs into burning buildings to save People, Cory Booker endorsed this guy. Cory Booker's endorsement of J. Jones is still on the J. Jones website. Cory Booker has not pulled his endorsement. So I cannot help but conclude that Cory Booker endorses the murder of Republicans and our children. How else am I supposed to think about this? If he pulled his endorsement from J. Jones, then I might say, okay, that's a bridge too far. Cory Booker is not one of those guys. He doesn't. He, unlike the Virginia Beach Democratic Committee, he doesn't want to murder me and my kids. But as long as he keeps the endorsement there, he supports that. I think we should ask Cory Booker if he supports that. Cory Booker's phone number is 202-224-3224. If you have a pen, if you're driving, pull over, write it down. 202. 224. 3224. That's Cory Booker's Senate number. I would call Senator Booker's office. I'm really curious. I would say, hello, Senator Booker. Oh, hello, assistant to Senator Booker. Hi. Yeah. Why does Senator Booker support the murder of me and my children? Oh, he doesn't. Well, he's still endorsing Jay Jones. Jay Jones, who repeatedly has endorsed such murder. So is Cory Booker going to. Going to pull his endorsement? And you know what they're gonna say in the other line? They're probably gonna say, no, no, he's not gonna pull it. But he really. Well, the talk is cheap. Talk is really cheap. And you can't simultaneously have both things. You can't simultaneously endorse Jay Jones for Attorney General of Virginia and say that you don't want to murder Republicans and their children. Those two things don't go together. That violates the law of non contradiction. So I would call Senator Booker's office that number again, 202-224-3224. And I would ask him, I'd say, hey, excuse me, why do you support the murder of Republicans and our kids? And why do you want their kids to die in their mother's arms? And if you don't get a good answer, if you don't get a satisfactory answer, I would consider calling back and trying to get a real answer out of this top Democrat senator. This guy ran for president. How about Bobby Scott? Congressman Bobby Scott. Phone number 202-225-8351. That number again, 202-225-8351. Do you know Bobby? I don't know Bobby Scott. Apparently he's a congressman. He endorses Jay Jones. There are a Lot of people who endorse Jay Jones, their phone numbers are all online. Their office phone numbers. I would call their offices. I would try to get some clarity on this. This is pretty shocking stuff. This would have been unimaginable even five years ago. Even five years ago. I'm not saying 20, 30, 40 years ago. Five years ago comes out. Forget about the fact that this is all coming out after the. The left murdered a leftist assassin, murdered the most prominent civil debater on the right, and then much of the rest of the Democratic Party celebrated it or at least excused it. Forget about that circumstance. Put that aside for a second. Just the fact that this text message could come out and this guy would not drop out of the race the very next day shows you that something has dangerously cracked in our politics. And I would make sure you call up some of those top. There are other organizations. Planned Parenthood endorsed them. That's no surprise. Obviously. That's actually probably par for the course for Planned Parenthood. That's probably the reason they endorsed, frankly. Oh, you support the murder of our opponent's children? Yeah. Yeah. Great. Okay, perfect. Where do we write the check? A lot of unions. A lot of unions. Are you a member of a union? A lot of unions support J. Jones. I would look on jjones.com endorsements. I would look up to see if my union had endorsed. I'd probably call my union leadership. Okay, enough on Jay Jones. You get the point? 202-224-3224. That's Senator Booker's office, in case you forgot. Speaking of unhinged Democrats, Tim McBride. Tim McBride is a Democrat representative from Delaware and he thinks that he's a woman. So he dresses like a woman. And I think he was gonna try to use the women's bathroom in the Capitol. I believe that Speaker Mike Johnson shut that down. Anyway. It's a big embarrassment. It's a big national embarrassment. I'm sure the guy is completely nuts and we have sympathy for him and we hope he gets well, but the whole thing is a national embarrassment. And our adversaries look at us and they laugh. So Tim McBride decides to make a cringe video about the government shutdown. Searching for the Republicans in Congress.