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Michael Knowles
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But then maybe it's because I was sledding with the little boys yesterday. Maybe. I don't know why. I appear to have contracted bubonic plague, which is why my voice sounds even deeper and more sultry than usual. So I will be doing this show as Barry White because we cannot miss it because there's another left wing riot in Minneapolis because another activist went out and got himself shot by a cop. And everybody is misrepresenting it, including some people on the right, but mostly it's coming from the left. What is really going on? First of all, just want to lay my cards on the table. I think that anybody who is counter signaling law enforcement right now is useless. Just doesn't get it. Any of the people forget about the left. They want to overthrow the whole government. But I'm talking about the people on the right, the people who say they're principled, reasonable conservatives. And they say, well, you know, I mean, look, I want to enforce immigration law, but I don't know. I mean, let's slow down the video to a micro millisecond. I don't know. Maybe those police, maybe they used a little bit too much. I'm done with that. I'm so done with that. If that's your reaction to this, you're not going to make it. Look, we'll take your votes. Thank you, I appreciate it. But you are useless to this political movement. You're just not going to make it. You're just politically useless. You don't understand what time it is. I am much, much more concerned about the ICE in my neighborhood than I am about any supposed misdeeds of ICE and federal law enforcement. Okay, waka waka. Alright. But I mean it. And you should be too. What do we know? We know that the guy who was shot, his name is Alex Preddy, 37 years old. We know that he was violently resisting as the cops were attempting to disarm him. Why were they disarming him? Because he was carrying a gun. Now there's nothing intrinsically wrong, there's nothing illegal about carrying a gun, especially if he had a concealed carry permit. Though we'll come to some complicating factors on that in a moment. Nevertheless, he was being disarmed and he was resisting. Who shot him? Was this some new person? You know they've had to staff up on ice? Border patrol's had to staff up. Maybe this is someone who didn't get enough training. Maybe it was a really young person. Maybe it was a lady cop. No offense to the ladies out there, but sometimes lady cops are a little more trigger happy. No, the man who shot is an eight year border patrol veteran. So this is a guy who is extremely well trained, who has a lot of experience. Now Preddy had a permit to carry, but according to his family, he never did carry. This was totally out of the blue for him to carry. And there's no evidence that he was carrying his identification which would have been able to prove that he was able to carry in any case. Strange, right? I'm all for concealed carry. I don't carry myself generally, but I'm all for it in principle. Why would a guy who has the permit, who never carries show up to a very tense situation which has already led to multiple riots, has already led to officer involved shootings, as in the case of Renee Goode, which was also entirely justified. Why would you show up there with a gun? What do we know about the operation? We know it was a targeted operation. So it wasn't just ICE showing up to round everybody up willy nilly. You know, if you look like you enjoy tacos, you're going to get in the van. No, this was targeted. They were going after someone who was guilty of domestic assault, disorderly conduct and driving without a valid license. Oh, and sneaking into this country Illegally. And this guy, Alex Priddy, decided that it would be a good idea to go obstruct federal law enforcement. To me, the most important little bit of context before we get to the video, which we will, is an interview that his parents gave to cbs. His parents obviously are distraught. We should pray for them. We should pray for him, for the repose of his soul. What the parents said was they had had a recent conversation with their son, 37 years old, he should be an adult, but he was clearly behaving like an overgrown child. And the parents sat him down and said, please don't engage with the federal officers. If you want to go out and protest, you can, but please don't engage. Here's the quote. We had this discussion with him two weeks ago or so. You know, that. Go ahead and protest, but do not engage. Do not do anything stupid. Basically, why did they have this conversation? Because they knew he would do something stupid. Why did they have this conversation? Because they knew that he was going to be a danger to other people and to himself. They knew that he had been radicalized. They knew that he wasn't just going out there to hold a sign and yell. He was looking for a fight. They go on. This is per the parents to CBS News. And he said he knows that. Not to do anything stupid. He knew that. He obviously didn't. Okay, let's take a look at the video of the shooting. So it opens up. There's clearly some scuffle. You see this guy in the middle of the street, which he has no right to do. This reminds us of Renee Goode. Renee Goode, who was just blocking traffic. Even that you're not allowed to do. Even that's a dangerous situation. What if someone needs to get by? What if an ambulance needs to get by? But you certainly can't obstruct law enforcement as they are trying to get violent criminals. They take him down. You hear shot, shot, shot. Then you hear the rest of the shots. And then the most pathetic reaction comes immediately after the shots. You hear the person filming say, what? What? This reminds us of the Renee Goode shooting. What are you. Why did the guns have bullets in them? Do you remember that? I think that was the lesbian partner in the Renee Goode shooting said, why do the guns have bullets in them? She didn't know that guns had bullets in them. She didn't know that the cops aren't there with, like, you know, funny little flag guns that shoot out the word boom like in the cartoons. She thought it was all fun and games. She thought there were no consequences to obstructing law enforcement. What. What did that person expect? I'm not even talking about the victim. I'm talking about the person who was filming. What did that person expect? You have someone in an altercation with the police, resisting arrest with a gun, already obstructing law enforcement, and then what do you know? Five seconds later, the cops shoot him.
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Amy Klobuchar
What?
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Michael Knowles
That is what happens. That is what. So what do we know? What do we not know? People on both sides are trying to jump to conclusions. Here's what we don't know. We don't know who shot first. There's all sorts of information flying around that is contradictory. Had the cops disarmed him before the shots ran out? Was this perp, this kid, the outmap kid, he's 37 years old, Alex Pretty. Was it his gun that went off first, whether in his hand or in a cop's hand? There's an account that's been going viral on Twitter, Green Beret, Naptime, who is arguing that the first shot came from the suspect, and then you can. You can see action on the ground after the second shot. I don't know. It's kind of blurry. It's hard to see. I'm sure there will be plenty of other video evidence there. He's arguing, though. And I guess the timeline does make sense. If you listen to the shots, it's boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. So there's a. There is a pause. Now. What could that be? The gun that they apparently retrieved from this guy was a Sig Sauer. There were reports he had multiple mags on him. Again, not the sort of thing you would need to do if you were just walking around with your regular CCW to protect yourself. But even the fact that it was a Sig Sauer, this particular kind of Sig Sauer, according to reports, has a hair trigger, has a history. The New York Post reported on this. A history of accidentally firing. So we don't know. Obviously, if the guy shoots first, there's no question, other than in the minds of leftists and Democrat politicians, there's no question that it's justified. But what if he didn't shoot first? What if he accidentally shot his gun? What if his gun in his possession accidentally discharged? Or what if the cop did retrieve the gun from him, but it accidentally fired while the cop was retrieving the gun, and it was all just a big misunderstanding? What then? Either way, deadly force was entirely justified. Here. What does the law say? The law going Back to Supreme Court precedent. Now what? 35 years, 36 years says there is really no question about the justification. We'll get to that in one moment. First though, I want to tell you about Policygenius. Go to policygenius.com knowles you have a good life, huh? You got good stuff in your life. You're doing fun stuff. You got loved ones. Well, you might have a nagging problem if you haven't taken care of life insurance. That is why you've got to go check out policygenius. A lot of people overestimate how much life insurance costs and we push it off and we're lazy and we procrastinate. I know, I know, I know. We have been with policygenius for years at this point. They make it so, so easy to get the best deal on life insurance coverage. And that will be the best for your family. Be that little peace of mind. You don't need to worry about it. Okay? The perfect time to lock in these great rates and start 2026 with real peace of mind is right now. 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So obviously the cops here who are already seeing the activists run them over with cars, who are already seeing the activists. In one case, one of the activists bit a cop's finger off. Minneapolis I don't know if we have a picture of that. I don't know if you want to see a picture of that. I mean, we're talking about savage revolutionary behavior here. So it's not even about what happened on video. It's about did the cops reasonably perceive in the moment that they were under real threat. What else comes into play? The severity of the crime, Whether the suspect poses an immediate threat to the officers, whether the suspect is actively resisting on basically every front. The cops are in the clear. The cops had tried to reason with him. They issued verbal commands. They used pepper spray. They tackled him. It's justified, just about any way you slice it, whether or not he even had the gun in his possession at the time. So I have a message to the libs getting past all of the details here, because I'm not, like, celebrating that this guy's dead. It's very sad. I said the same thing about Renee Goode. It's very sad that this guy put himself in this situation. The cops were entirely in the right according to all available evidence. The guy who got shot was entirely in the wrong by all available evidence. And yet it's sad because no man is an island entire unto himself. And it's sad when people die. Here's my message to the libs, and I guess we've forgotten this. Not getting shot by the cops is like the easiest thing to do in America. Not everywhere else in the world, but in America. Not getting shot by the cops is easier than tic tac toe. It is easier than checkers. It is easier than getting a bellyache after McDonald's. Okay, it's real easy not to get shot by the cops. I've been doing it my whole life. So have you. This guy rolls up to a very provocative situation where you already have activity tantamount to insurrection called for by the political leaders of Minnesota, which we'll get to momentarily, where there's already been violence, officer involved shootings because there's been civilian involved SUV rammings amid a massive federal law enforcement operation to deport dangerous foreign criminals. And you're going to show up, block traffic, obstruct law enforcement, fight with cops while carrying a gun, a gun that has a hair trigger on top of it. What do you expect to happen? These people, I think, I don't know if it's because they lack any real meaning in their lives or because they're just deranged or they have delusions of grandeur or they don't understand that consequences follow from certain actions. The gun has bullets. What. What. What's happening? But these people are like, they're kamikazes. They're lib kamikazes. They're lib jihadis. They're going in there, it seems to me, seeking a kind of perverse martyrdom. Suicide by cops. At least give their lives a little bit of meaning for what? To protect child rapists and drug traffickers and and murderers from law enforcement. To subvert the political order, the government of which is currently in power because most Americans voted for it, because the guy won the popular vote. Pathetic. It's very, very, very easy not to get shot by a cop. If you do get shot by a cop. 999,999 times out of a million, there are 15 things that you could have avoided in the lead up that would have saved your life. How is the administration reacting? SCOTT bessant, Treasury Secretary Absolutely killing. It goes on CNN and points out that this is occurring in Minneapolis. And this is the question I asked at the top of the show, and I haven't seen a lot of commentary on it. Why is this only happening in Minneapolis? There's federal law enforcement operations going on all over the country. There are illegal aliens all over the country. Why is this unrest, this insurrection, this discord, this violence in the streets? Why is it only happening in Minneapolis? Why is it always only happening in Minneapolis, not just with the ICE raids. Think about the George Floyd riots. What is it about Minneapolis? This is something I don't think we can really blame on the Somalis. We can blame a lot of stuff on the Somalis. I don't think this it's not really the Somalis who are involved here. It's regular leftist Minnesotans, people moving to Minnesota, people who look and act and talk just like everybody else around the country. And yet Minneapolis goes up in flames multiple times now for different reasons over the last five, six years. Why? The only conclusion we can draw is because of the political order in Minneapolis and Minnesota. It's the politicians, as Scott Besant makes clear.
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Scott Bessant
JONATHAN it's a tragedy when anyone dies, but I can tell you the situation on the ground there is being stirred up by Governor Waltz. I was out there two weeks ago. Governor Waltz declined to provide a security detail for me to go into the Minnesota Capitol with the state police. So he is fomenting the he is fomenting chaos because there is substantial waste, fraud and abuse. My job as Treasury Secretary is to investigate that. And I think that this chaos that's going out there, and again, I am sorry that this gentleman is dead, but he did bring a 9 millimeter semiautomatic weapon with two cartridges to what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. I think that there are a lot of paid agitators who are ginning things up, and the governor has not done a good job at tamping this Down.
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Michael Knowles
Unbelievable that the Treasury Secretary of the United States would go to Minnesota to the state Capitol to investigate fraud, which is part of his job. And the Governor is so corrupt that amid all of this political violence, which we've seen for years, he would not give the Treasury Secretary of security detail. Now, I have to. I used to think that Tim Walls, he just wasn't the brightest bulb in the pack. I used to just think he had a lot of whistling going on between the ears. He was feckless. He was a knucklehead. You remember that from the campaign. Sometimes I'm just a little knucklehead. Now I think it's a little more corrupt than that. This man would have the Treasury Secretary be killed rather than allow the Treasury Secretary to go in and investigate his own corruption. But then Bessett really sticks it to John Carl on ABC News on the point of the gun for the Veterans Administration.
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Scott Bessant
And there's no evidence that he brandished the gun whatsoever. The fact that he brought a gun before he brought a gun. Have you ever gone to a protest, Jonathan? I mean, we do have a Second Amendment in this country that. Jonathan, have you ever gone to a protest? I mean, have you gone to a protest? I mean, I've. I've no, actually, as a reporter covering it. Okay, I've been to a protest. Guess what? I didn't bring a gun. I brought a billboard. Okay, Secretary Bessant, thank you.
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Michael Knowles
I love this point. Scott Besant could have pulled out the guitar right there on stage. Could have been old Johnny Cash. What does Johnny Cash tell us? We'll get to the Constitution and the civil law and all the rest. What does Johnny Cash tell us? I actually, because of my deeper sick voice today, I think I sound a little more like Johnny Cash. What does he say? He says, don't take your guns to town, son. Leave your guns at home. Bill. Alex, don't take your guns to town. The point is that civil and legal rights go hand in hand with prudence. I support the Second Amendment. I'm a gun owner. I'm a lifetime member of the nra. Obviously, I support the Second Amendment quite a lot. But as I make clear in my book, speechless, controlling words, controlling minds. I don't know. Do we have the bill even though we're doing a pre tape? I don't know. One area where I do agree with the libs is all rights are circumscribed by realities, by the circumstances that we live in. We see this when it comes to the First Amendment because we don't allow speech like fraud and obscenity and fighting words and direct threats and all the rest. Actions that are being undertaken by the supposed civilians, by the left wing insurrectionists in Minneapolis for which they should be prosecuted. But then even the second Amendment would we give, would we encourage we right wing second amendment gun tote and love our liberty kind of guys, among whom I count myself, would we encourage jihadis to carry a lot of firearms all around? I don't know about you, I would not. Maybe there's some radical libertarian activist out there who says, absolutely, if we really believe in freedom and the second Amendment, we gotta arm those jihadis. I don't think so. I think we can exclude the jihadis. How about transvestites and other sexually deviant people, the kind who have been attempting to and succeeding at murdering conservative speakers over the years, including Charlie Kirk just in September? People who have obvious severe mental illnesses, who appear to be prone to violence. Do we think we should just arm them to the hilt? I don't think so. I don't think so. Prudence is required when one speaks of any civil or legal right. The fact that the parents admit, yeah, he had the concealed carry permit but he never used it. Only this time when he was going to go mess around in a very provocative situation, get in the face of cops and obstruct law enforcement. That's the first time he decided to use his concealed carry. Not smart. Listen to the founding fathers, listen to the wise statesmen throughout history. Listen to Johnny Cash Besant's analysis by the way, Spot on when it comes to Tim Wolves. Here is Tim Wolves speaking to the protesters from behind the gigantic gate at his mansion.
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Unidentified Speaker (possibly a political figure or commentator)
Served on the China Commission in Congress, ironically enough, as co chair with Marco Rubio.
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Michael Knowles
We used to bring in Chinese political.
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Unidentified Speaker (possibly a political figure or commentator)
Prisoners and we would ask them, when we speak up and call out your.
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Michael Knowles
Government, is it bad?
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Unidentified Speaker (possibly a political figure or commentator)
And they said, well in the short run it's bad because they torture us. But if you don't speak up, they will torture us and forget about us. The idea is right now is we have to be speaking up. You are doing everything and our neighbors are doing everything. And I can't stress enough on this. We're winning it because we're doing it with Minnesota grit, Minnesota Gilbert, Minnesota decency. Yes, oftentimes talk about this and I know people are discussing this a lot. I spent a lot of time with John Lewis on non violent resistance. The resistance matters. We're not telling people to be silent, but we're not telling people to go out and cause problems. We're going to cause good trouble.
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Michael Knowles
I love. I love that he's addressing them from behind the gate. He doesn't want these lunatics anywhere near him. He knows what they're capable of. He's not going to get in front of their SUVs. But from Maya Negate, he says, yeah, hey, go out there. Yeah, go attack federal law enforcement. That's right. Distract from my fraud investigation. Yeah, that's good. Some of you might get shot, but who cares? Whatever. Fewer of you to come and pillage my home. Yeah, go get them, guys. Go make trouble. It is ironic, of course, because the libs tried to pretend that Midwestern granny is taking selfies at The Capitol on January 6th was the worst insurrection in American history. This is insurrection. It's not insurrection when some guy goes out, says, I hate my government. It's not insurrection. Even when some band of ne' er do wells gets out in the street, starts making trouble. When the governor of a state, repeatedly for weeks, defies federal law, invokes the National Guard to fight against federal troops, and explicitly refers to Civil War 1863, as Tim Walsh did. That is insurrection, any way you slice it. Now he says, go make trouble. Go obstruct federal. I'm willing to sacrifice any of you people, you guys who are radical and not that smart and all ginned up, and I'm firing up your passions. Yeah, you go get yourselves killed by federal law enforcement. That might help me. Politically disgusting. He's not the only one. Amy Klobuchar, the US Senator from Minnesota, said this.
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Amy Klobuchar
Our message is really clear and straightforward. We need ICE out of Minnesota. They are not making us more safe. As the tragic, tragic killing this morning, as people saw it viscerally on that video, shows us they are making us less safe. With 3,000 agents, which of course includes border control, outnumbering the sworn police officers in Minneapolis and St. Paul by three to one. And even larger than the 10 metropolitan police departments. This is.
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Michael Knowles
We need ice out. No, there's something called the Supremacy Clause. We have a federal government. You love the federal government. When you guys are in power, you insist on obliterating federalism and subsidiarity when you guys are in power. But now we're in power because the people put us in power. We need isat there's going to be a temptation. You're going to hear all these squishy conservatives and Republicans. We need to pull out of Minneapolis. Maybe we just need to pull out. Whatever. Let Minneapolis burn. Nah, I think that's the wrong approach. This is a test of authority. This is a test of legitimacy, especially because it is coming from Walz and Klobuchar, a vice presidential candidate and a presidential candidate, by the way, these are actual established political figures in office in Minnesota saying, hey, federal government under Trump, you have no authority, you have no legitimacy. What is Trump going to say? Is he going to say, okay, we back down? Okay, okay, I guess you're right. Or is he going to go in there and just bring the strong arm of justice? As far as I'm concerned, he doesn't have a choice. Because by the way, what Tim Walls and Amy Klobuchar are doing in the case of Tim Walls, legitimately treasonous Amy Klobuchar, it's a little less significant, but it's getting there. Let's turn to Minnesota State Representative Alex Falconer, who is actively conspiring with insurrectionists, a resistance network to oppose federal law enforcement.
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Alex Falconer
You know, yesterday we had the young man, 13 year old, handcuffed by ICE, his father taken away. I arrived there as soon as I could. I talked to some of the family members. It was devastating and I don't know, just going home and talking to my kids about what happened and how this is affecting our community. These are terrible times, but we will get through it, we'll get stronger for it and we will look out for one another. Before coming to the state legislature, I'm a community organizer at heart and that's part of what I'm trying to bring to the legislature. I'm helping to lead the community response rapid response network that we have given any ICE situations. I have a couple cards here. I'm willing to stop in to stay around and talk with anybody that wants any more information. We've got a couple groups on the app signal that we would love for you to join. Whether or not you want to be a part of the resistance network, I fully understand you may not be comfortable with that. But you can help us in a lot of ways by sending an alert that if you see any suspicious vehicles, any traffic, if you know of anybody that is being targeted, that's being detained, we have resources immediately available that we can send to you. Send to their family, get them legal help, help the families if they need food, if people are afraid to leave their homes to get food, we're working with the food shelves to try to figure out a way to deliver groceries. I know yesterday apartment complexes needed their parking lots place and people were being taken as they were moving their cars. We can move your car for you. Just please, anything small, large. We are here for you and we will stand with you. We will stand for you. So please do not hesitate to reach out. Reach out for the information to join these groups so that we can all work together to protect one another. This is Minnesota. We value you. We love you. You are welcome here. And thank you for being here.
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Michael Knowles
Doxxing ICE members. ICE officers giving live accounts of where they are. Offering free legal help to the illegal aliens. Getting people to bring groceries to the illegal aliens. Hey, the roads are pretty icy around here, Mr. Falconer. Representative Falconer, can you send me some groceries, please? I'm running low on Fruity Seltzers. Can you please. This is outrageous. These people going all the way up to the top in Minnesota, comparing ICE to the ccp, to the secret police of the Chinese Communist Party. This is traitorous, treasonous stuff. And then you have a Minnesota state representative, it appears, actively conspiring. Obviously, we need ICE to continue the raids. And if libs want to commit suicide by cop, I guess that's their prerogative. It's very sad, but I guess that's their prerogative. But it has to continue. We have to put down the actual insurrection. Which, by the way, gotta give a hat tip to Cam Higbee. He infiltrated one of these signal chats. 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I'm in more than one right wing group chat. I basically never text. It's funny, some people on the right, they love releasing all these text messages. Oh, I got the salty text message from so and so and so. That is one scandal I'm never gonna have to deal with because I don't text anybody. I don't text anybody. It's so great. I barely text my wife. Anyway, I'm in group chats. And you know what a right wing group chat is? It's people sending edgy memes. That's a right wing group chat. It's hey, here's some edgy memes. Hey, you guys want to get a drink later? Tee hee hee. This is fun. That's a right wing group chat. Left wing group chats are full of leftists conspiring to assault people, both civilians and law enforcement. That's the difference. We're not the same. I have never been, I can say hand in the air. I have never been in a group chat. And I've been in plenty of right wing group chats full of prominent people, full of private citizens. I've been in plenty of them. They've never involved conspiring to assault people. These left wing group chats, which they're shutting down by the day, they're trying to evade law enforcement. Some of us have been the target of these people. Antifa and related groups. I mean, in my case, when a couple antifa operatives showed up to throw an explosive at me, one of them is in federal prison right now. This is a little bit of a wake up for the right. If Charlie's assassination was not sufficient. But just like the lesbian partner of Renee Goode said, why do the guns have bullets? Just like the bystander watching this guy in the altercation with the cop get shot. Wow. What, what, what's happening? So too the right needs to realize that the Radical left is serious. They mean business. They want to hurt us. They are hurting us. They're undermining the civil society. They're doxing law enforcement and civilians. They're harassing people. They're shutting down the streets. That's real. No naivete. We cannot have any naivete. All right, now let's get out of Minneapolis just for a second, please. I need some good news outside of Minneapolis. Things are looking up right now. There's a story, CBS News published it. The murder rate plummeted in 2025. I had mentioned that there were some signs of that at the end of the year last year. Now we find that the murder rate might be the lowest it's been since 1900. 125 year low. Weird, huh? Weird. What changed? Look at Minneapolis. It seems like the country's burning because Minnesota is the most left wing state. It's the only state that didn't vote for Ronald Reagan in 1984. He won 49 states. Minnesota was the holdout. Minnesota, the ground zero of welfare fraud. Funding Islamic terror organizations overseas. The Minnesota taxpayer, the biggest sponsor of Al Shabaab. The governor and senators and state senators in Minneapolis calling for insurrection. Well, outside of Minnesota, things are looking good. Why? Because government isn't that complicated. This is something I've concluded over the year. Government is very hard. It's a very unpleasant thing. Working in the government is ugly, it's nasty. They try to ruin your life. It's very difficult to get anything done. There's all this kind of chicanery and deceit and it's ugly. It's not glamorous, but it's not complicated. It turns out that you can close the border. You remember this, in the end of the Biden term, he said, we need a new law to close the border, man. Come on, Jack. Trump, he won't let us close the border. Come on, come on, man. We need a new. He's calling up. Congress won't let me pass my new bill, man. Now, of course, the bill would have just given amnesty to illegals, would have made the problem worse. But the claim was, you can't close the border without this new bill. And then Trump comes in, he closes it immediately. Oh, that was easy. Well, what can we do? I remember this. Even as a kid, you said, there are 10 million illegals here. Now it's probably closer to 20 million or more. There are 10 million illegals. What are we going to do? What can we do? Get rid of them. I don't, like, enforce the law in some cases. Maybe let them live in the shadows if it's too difficult to get to them or they're not bothering people generally. But for a lot of them, most of them just get them out. We can't do that. What? Enforce the law. Ah, murder's skyrocketing. There's civil disorder. What are we going to do? What if you put all the criminals in prison? We can't do that. I remember hearing this 10, 15 years ago. We have an over incarceration problem in America. If the murder rate's going up, it sounds like we have an under incarceration problem, don't we? So it turns out when you arrest all these guys, the murder rate, it's simple stuff. It's not rocket science. It's not literary criticism. It's not. It's not poetry. I don't know. I'm trying to think. It's not the didgeridoo. I assume the didgeridoo is kind of complicated. I don't know. I've never played the didgeridoo. But it's a lot easier than all that stuff. It's about as easy as not getting shot by the cops. And they're related things. If you suppress the bad stuff and encourage the good stuff, you're going to have a better country. Turns out when you're tougher on the murderers, the murder rate goes down. Wow. Shocking. Folks. It is here. Rise of the Merlin is here. You have to subscribe to Daily Wire. Plus Pendragon is getting rave reviews from everybody. I love it. It's not my genre. I don't watch a lot of tv. I love it. It was riveted. But the moment I started watching it, even people, this is true. Friends of mine who, for whatever reason, politics this or that, even people who don't like Daily Wire have come out. They said they love it. It is so, so good. So ambitious. Spans multiple continents. It's just phenomenal. Now's the time to subscribe. DailyWire.com head on over right now. Get the Pendragon pass, get that premium subscription and watch finally, finally, finally some good entertainment. Now I want to turn to some more objects of left wing confusion. This is making the rounds. I didn't discover them, but this, this icy patch that we're dealing with has reminded me that the doomsday clock is ticking. We are. There's a clip here from 2009 of Al Gore, the patron, patron saint of the polar bears, Al Gore claiming that the world is on the brink of imminent destruction. Some of the models suggest to Dr. Maslowski, that there is a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap during summer, during some of the summer months could be completely ice free within the next five to seven years. Okay, all right. Now I'm not, I'm no meteorologist. The meteorologists often don't know what they're predicting. Let's just see. Was it just Al Gordon? No, let's. John Kerry, also in 2009, in five.
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Unidentified Speaker (possibly a political figure or commentator)
Years, scientists predict we will have the first ice free Arctic summer that exposes more ocean to sunlight. Ocean is dark and it consumes more of the heat from the sunlight, which then accelerates the rate of the melting and warming rather than the ice sheet and the snow that used to reflect it back up into the atmosphere.
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Michael Knowles
Okay, so 2009, five years, the Arctic will be gone. No ice in the Arctic. So that means that the Arctic has been gone for a dozen years now. Isn't that amazing? I guess we don't have to fight over Greenland. I guess Greenland's no longer an issue. It's cheap. It's cheap to make these points. These people are totally ridiculous. Al Gore just made himself look like a complete clown. Even more so at the World Economic Forum. John Kerry too, though. These guys are total jokes. But we have to bring it up because I was there. Some of my younger Zoomer listeners, they weren't there. They don't remember. But if you did not believe that the world was warming, it was going to be catastrophic, New York City was going to be underwater by 2015, that the polar ice caps were going to disappear by 2014. If you didn't believe, if you question that at all, they called you retarded. That's the word. I mean that. It's not just that you were a bit dim, you were. There was something seriously wrong with you. And now these people, they'll get away with it because you're only going to hear these old predictions that were so silly on shows like mine. Now look, we have a big audience. We have very smart, beautiful, influential people. Maybe we can remind. But this is the point and it brings us back to the top of the show. Anytime anything happens, the libs blast out their narrative on a megaphone. Massive, massive story. The ice has gone too far. Yes, ice. Beep, beep, beep, boop, beep, boop. Ice has gone too far. The suspect was already disarmed. Beep boop. Yes. Beep, beep, beep, boop. The suspect was already disarmed. They have. Beep boop. The polar ice caps will disappear in Five years, the polar ice cap. What will happen to the polar bears? Beep, beep, boop. And get the COVID vaccine. It will stop you from getting the virus. Oh, yes, yes, sir, Dr. Fauci, of course. And then we look back and we make fun of it. But then we fall for the same issues again, again and again and again. Before I go, I'm probably running late today because I don't, you know, I don't have my producers, I don't have my clock. This is nice. Maybe I'll shoot my show on a cell phone from, from now on, Al Gore at the World Economic Forum. This was a man who was 500 votes away from being president, 500 hanging chads away from being president. Al Gore has been reduced from the Academy Award winning prophet of climate apocalypse to just booing Howard Lutnick from the side of the World Economic Forum.
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Unidentified Speaker (possibly a commentator or author)
So I wrote an op ed in the ft and it basically said that globalists offshoring all our manufacturing to cheap, cheap labor around the world had failed and that the world economic fail. World Economic Forum was a failure. But I wrote that op ed. And so at the end of this lefty, basically a very left set of talks where someone said we need a new form of capitalism, which I think is another way to say communism. And then they let me speak at the end. Then I gave a three minute talk and I just talked about my op ed. And at the end of my talk, one person out of the 200 yelled out, Boo. So I look over and I'm like, who booed? And it's Al Gore. And I go to, I look at him, I go, really? And he goes, boo. And I'm like, it was the greatest honor of my trip to Davos.
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Michael Knowles
That sums it up to me. Al Gore, high priest of global liberalism, not just of climate change, but climate change as the animating spirit, as the religion of liberal globalism reduced from being the main stage speaker with all the accolades, nearly president, to being a heckler in the crowd, the lone boo in the crowd, that sums it up for me. They lost. They look ridiculous. Enough people figured it out to elect Donald Trump with the popular vote this time. And what you're seeing, Al Gore booing in Davos or these maniacs on the streets of Minneapolis, what you're seeing is the last gasp of that dying political order. It's why you can't give up now. You can't give them any quarter. You have to enforce the law. It's the right thing to do. It's the just thing to do, by the way. It's the charitable thing to do. Law enforcement should be tough enough that no one ever again asks the question, why did the guns have bullets in them? No one ever again. After a guy who's tussling with law enforcement while carrying a gun after he's shot, they say, what? That should never happen again. The charitable thing to do is to enforce the law, set the right expectations, get these lunatics off the street where they're a threat to other people and they're a threat to themselves. All right, that's their show. Hopefully tomorrow we'll be back. Maybe I'll sound a little. I actually think I sound pretty good right now. But maybe I'll have a little higher pitched voice tomorrow, have a little nice soothing tea. A couple of Mayflowers would be nice right now. Hopefully we'll have lights again. Maybe we'll be in the studio. I don't know. In any case, I will stick around and be monitoring the ice outside my whole neighborhood. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
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Fictional Character from Pendragon
What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God? Is that who you think I was alone with? Maradin?
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Michael Knowles
I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was.
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Fictional Character from Pendragon
Not of this world or all men know of the great Taliesin.
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Michael Knowles
Who are my father that the gods.
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Fictional Character from Pendragon
Should war for my soul. Princess Garris, savior of our people. I know what the bull God offered you. I was offered the same. And there is a new power at.
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Michael Knowles
Work in the world.
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Fictional Character from Pendragon
I've seen it. A God who sacrifices what he loves for us. We are each given only one life, Singer.
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Michael Knowles
No. We're given another. Another?
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Fictional Character from Pendragon
I learned of Yazu the Christ and I have become his follower.
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Scott Bessant
He's waiting on a miracle.
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Michael Knowles
And I think you can give him one.
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Fictional Character from Pendragon
Trust in Yuzu. He is the only hope for men like us. Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the great light. Great light. Great darkness. Such things mattered to me then. What matters to you now, mistress of lies? You, nephew. The sword of a high king. How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield? Still clinging to the promises of a God who has abandoned you. I cannot take up that sword again. You know what you must do. Great light, forgive me. The time has to be reborn.