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Michael Knowles
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Michael Knowles
It's been 90 days since the start of the war in Iran and now that both sides say we're on the brink of a peace deal, the pro war crowd is furious. Three months in, what is the war really for and is it going to end? Then Eugene Carroll, the woman who accused President Trump of raping her in a department store decades after the supposed fact, has just been indicted for perjury. You come at the king, you best not miss. Finally, a man is arrested for threatening to kill Erica Kirk and an entire TPUSA lineup. And the identity of this person might surprise you. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. I need to start paying a royalty to James Talarico, the Democrat candidate for for Senate in Texas. James Tallarico, just an endless font of opposition research and clips this guy. Every day three or four new clips come out of this guy being the worst candidate for Senate in Texas ever. There's a lot more to say. 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So technically speaking, when Trump said that the hostilities are gonna be about four to six weeks, weirdly enough, that was technically true. But now we're in this ceasefire where the Strait of Hormuz is closed. Cuz Iran has a blockade and then the US has a double reverse UNO card blockade, and then 20% of the world's oil can't really get through. And so we've just been in this stalemate for a while. We are now hearing from both sides. I spoke to a senior administration official at the White House on Sunday, but now we're even hearing from the Iranians that it looks like they are close to a peace deal, but the details of that are still a little bit unclear. So the Iranians few days ago come out, they say, yeah, okay, it's part of this peace deal. The Strait of Hormuz will be opened, but you won't have to pay a toll, but you might still have to pay a little bit of something. He says it is natural that in this process, the services provided, navigation services, in addition to the necessary measures to protect the environment of the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman. These require the collection of fees. Therefore, these should not be referred to as tolls. Okay, Iran and Oman are responsibly working on this path. We hope to reach a final agreement as soon as possible. Okay, they hope to reach this agreement as soon as possible. But look, there are certain services that are required to navigate these waters and even just to protect the environment. That's one of the excuses. And it's starting to make me think maybe the Iranians really are a primitive people. I didn't think the Iranians are a primitive people. They have a real country, a real civilization, a real culture. But they've arrived at something that liberals in America arrived at many years ago, which is that when you wanna charge people taxes and fees, they don't like that usually. So you have to just call it something else. So with Obamacare, they said, no, no, no, it's not really a tax, it's a penalty. I mean, it's a tax for this purpose of the law, but a penalty for this other purpose of the law. That's how they got Obamacare through the Supreme Court. Or often they'll say, no, no, it's not a tax, it's an environmental fee to protect the environment. And so Iran comes out and they say, yeah, we're going to stop charging you a fee to go. We're going to stop charging you at toll. This will just be a little payment to protect the environment. Yes, Directly payable to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. It's really tricky because we don't exactly know who's in charge here in Iran. So the government comes out and says one thing. The foreign minister might come out and say one thing, but then the IRGC will come out and say a totally different thing. So I'm a little bit skeptical that we're gonna get the deal. Both sides are saying they're close to it right now. And then of course, you get down to this question, which is, is the deal going to be the same or worse than the Obama deal with Iran, the jcpoa? Because if it's the same or worse as the jcpoa, then the obvious next question is, well, why did we go into Iran at all? If we already had some deal that we then ripped up and the Strait of Hormuz was already opened and the Iranian regime was in place, as it remains in place today, then the question is, what will we have achieved. And this was always my fear at the beginning of the hostilities in Iran. The reason that I argued against strikes in Iran this go around and why I've continued to express a little caution and skepticism of the efficacy of the strikes is not because I don't think the Iranian regime deserves it. It's because when I consider those two criteria of just war, reasonable probability of success and proportionality, I just don't know that the juice is really worth the squeeze. And you might end up in a position that's roughly the same or worse than where you started. So Marco Rubio is addressing this concern. He was addressing this from a State Department airplane where he said, well, yeah, look, if the deal is as bad as or worse than the Obama deal, we're not going to have a deal.
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Senior Administration Official
Well, look, I think our position is well stated. The president had a very important, I think historic call just a couple days ago with a number of leaders from the region. I think there's strong alignment and agreement on what a preliminary draft should look like. I think like anything with something like this, it's going to take a couple days to settle on, even down to the disagreements over a word sentence. So we'll have to work through that. If there's going to be a deal, we're going to have to work through that. But this is, you know, it's either going to be a good deal or there isn't going to be one.
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Michael Knowles
It's going to be a good deal or it's not going to be any kind of deal. I was speaking to, as I mentioned, a senior admin official over the weekend. I heard this same line from that person. It's either going to be a good deal or there's going to be no deal. And so now you're, I hate to say I told you so. I think my analysis of the war in Iran has been absolutely 100% precisely correct the whole time. So now you're in this position where, okay, either you take a deal, the admin says it's gonna be a good deal. I hope it's a good deal. We'll see. Trump pulls a lot of rabbits out of his hat, so maybe we can do that. But it's gonna be some kind of deal which a lot of people aren't gonna be happy with, or ground invasion and regime change and it's the Bush era all over again. Seems to me those are the two options. Cuz right now Iran has played its biggest weapon, its toughest weapon, a much more serious weapon than a nuclear weapon, which is closing the Strait of Hormuz and holding global energy markets among other markets hostage. That said, you're go a big fight breakout between the war hawk people, the more neocon side which just wants to bomb the Middle east and control the whole region, the whole world, and the people who advocate for more restrained foreign policy. And I think here, if you've got a deal that's even slightly plausible, workable on the table, I think you gotta go for the deal. I'm very firmly on the deal side here because I think that you're not gonna topple the Iranian regime. It's too strong. They will hold on for a very long time. There's no appetite for escalating the war in the United States. There's no appetite for some kind of ground invasion or a war of regime change. There's just no appetite for it. And this could, this digression, this move into Iran, which President Trump sees as a little sort of side quest that he thinks is very important cuz Iran can have a nuclear weapon. But you can't have the side quest overwhelm the whole Trump agenda. Don't forget George W. Bush ran against nation building in 2000 and his entire presidency was defined by nation building. Furthermore, the presidents who are most associated with American strength, the one that comes to mind first of course is Ronald Reagan. Let's not forget that Ronald Reagan, when push came to shove on foreign policy, Ronald Reagan was a lot more restrained than a lot of the presidents who came after him. He was a lot more restrained than George H.W. bush, the then George W. Bush and then Barack Obama for that matter. Truman, the guy who dropped the nuke. He was actually relatively restrained when it came to Korea. Eisenhower, one of the men who won World War II, was actually pretty restrained as president when it came to the war in Vietnam. So it seems to me, look, I hope there is some kind of deal, I hope it's navigated soon cause this really, really could threaten to derail the agenda. And so I say we take the deal. I'm on the side of restraint and I think my analysis has been pretty good on the Iran war thus far. Okay, speaking of irrational people, we turn from the Iranian regime to E. Jean Carroll. This story is magnificent. The DOJ is going after E. Jean Carroll. She was one of the left wing accusers of President Trump. She claimed, I think it was in 2019 that President Trump raped her. And when you asked her about the details on this, they got a little fuzzy. E. Jean Carroll could not remember the year that the alleged Rape occurred. She said it occurred in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman. And she said that it occurred sometime in the 90s. She couldn't even remember the year. Best she could say was it was about 25 years prior. She didn't really bring it up until Trump was on the ropes, running for president. She won an $88 million judgment, two judgments that came to a total of $88 million in New York, as New York was trying to destroy Donald Trump, keep him from running for president again, lob all sorts of judgments against him as he was facing indictments, potential jail time, all of this. E. Jean Carroll then goes on CNN with Anderson Cooper and, and as she's making this claim that she was raped by the president, also at the same time describes rape as sexy. Don't feel like a victim.
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E. Jean Carroll
I was not thrown on the ground and ravished, which. The word raped carries so many sexual connotations. This was not, this was not sexual. It just, it hurt. It just, it just, you know, But
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Michael Knowles
I think most people think of rape as a, I mean, it is a violent assault. It is not.
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E. Jean Carroll
I think most people think of rape as being sexy.
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Michael Knowles
Let's take a short break.
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E. Jean Carroll
Think of the fantasies.
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Michael Knowles
We're going to take a quick break. If you can stick around, we'll talk more on the other side.
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E. Jean Carroll
You're fascinating to talk to.
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Michael Knowles
You're fascinating to talk to. Poor Anderson Cooper says this is the best we got. This woman who's obviously nuttier than an Almond Joy. This is the best woman we got. And this was always a sign to me that Trump, having publicly lived such a colorful life, he was weirdly kind of squeaky clean. Because the best people, the most convincing, credible people that they could get to go after him are this lady. By the way, here's a more recent video from this lady, just to show you that the Anderson Cooper video wasn't a one off. Here's a more recent video from Egene Carroll.
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E. Jean Carroll
I call it the Mouse House because some very distinguished mice live here. Kahneman lives in the kitchen. Tversky lives in the bedroom. This is my shed. And on that side are the books that most influenced me growing up. On the door are the lists of my dogs, Marky, Fortuna, de la Spunky, Heidi, Tits, Bloody and Hepburn. The streams and the rivers were dry. And it so horrified me that I came out and started painting the rocks blue to indicate that there was once a river here. And then after I got done painting the rocks, I just sort of walked over here and then did that tree and then did that tree, and then I did this tree.
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Michael Knowles
So for those of you only listening, E. Jean Carroll walks out in a Jolly Rancher, red bob, crazy dyed hair. She then shows us around her property where she writes random author names all over a shed like a complete schizo. And then she said she decided to paint the rocks and the river to make it clear that there's water there. So she painted the rocks blue. Then she started painting the trees blue. This is like the craziest woman you've ever seen in your entire life. And on top of that, in the intervening years, between her supposed rape by Donald Trump and her campaign to go after him, call him a rapist, she posted On Facebook in 2012, she goes, Too many good TV shows on Sunday night. My goodness, what do you watch? I'm a massive Apprentice fan. He goes, I just love that show by the guy who raped me. Sorry, not sure that I believe that. So why is she being indicted now? Because she perjured herself. Allegedly. She, in a testimony, said that she was not being funded by any left wingers. She was lobbying this legal campaign against Trump all by herself. Turns out that isn't true. She was being funded by this billionaire, Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn guy, liberal funder. So she lied and now the DOJ is going after her cuz perjury is a serious crime. All of this to say one, Democrats, you had 10 years to do this. You couldn't do it. You couldn't find a single credible accuser against Donald Trump. Two, you come at the King, you best not miss. This is the political advice from the wire. They threw everything they had at Trump. It didn't work. They look ridiculous, really ridiculous, like they have Jolly Rancher red bobs on and they're painting trees blue in their backyard. And two, if you are going to go after a guy like this and commit crimes in the process and you fail, this is political advice that goes back to Ralph Waldo Emerson, goes back to Machiavelli, goes back to the guy on the wire. If you come at the King, you best not miss is what E. Jean Carroll did here and what the Democrats did, what the big funders like Reid Hoffman did and the party did by pushing her, is they didn't just try a tactic and it didn't work. They made a very serious claim. They committed a crime and they nearly undermined our whole constitutional system. You're not allowed to do that. So this is great. They're getting exactly what they deserve and I suspect they're probably regretting Putting all of their eggs in the E. Jean Carroll basket. Colored, wacky colors, like her hair and the trees and the rocks in her yard. Okay, speaking of Democrat attacks, I want to get to this, the Epstein issue, which I think you're gonna see Democrats pushing more and more as we get into the midterms of what the Epstein issue really means. There's a lot more to say. First, though, go to expressvpn.com knowles k n w L E S One of the strange assumptions of modern life is that privacy is somehow suspicious. 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It's better to be safe than to be sorry. Would you take your head off, your fur head off? Tell the world who you really are. Or no, you want to remain anonymous as a furry? Watch the full episode two years in the making at 9am Central on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel. That is tomorrow for the uncensored ad free version, you have to subscribe to Daily Wire. Plus, the Democrats yesterday posted a response to a kind of random story in the Washington Post talking about how the Trump administration is pushing for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design a $250bill featuring President Trump's face. So they say, we have a new $250 bill for the 250th anniversary of America. It's gonna have Trump's head on it. It's kind of an innocuous side story. Democrats respond and they post a picture of a $250 bill with Trump and Epstein on it. Jeffrey Epstein, remember him? They say, fixed it. And this tells you a lot about what the Democrats are looking at into the midterms and how to think about the Epstein issue and other issues, some related, some not related. I want to remind you, taking a trip down memory lane, that when the Epstein issue really hit the fore in 2015 or so, it was a Democrat scandal because virtually all of the top people that Epstein was palling around with were Democrats, not Republicans. It was Bill Clinton flying all over on the Lolita Express. It was Bill Gates that he was palling around with. It was liberal heads of state, prime ministers, royalty, business leaders. They were overwhelmingly liberal Democrats. Epstein was pals with Trump. He was a member at Mar a Lago. They had a falling out years prior. But this was a Democrat scandal. How did it then become a Trump scandal? Let's not forget that Trump is the one who was prosecuting Epstein. Trump is the one who prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell, who arrested Ghislaine Maxwell. Before that, the president who arrested Epstein was George W. Bush. It was the Republicans who were prosecuting Epstein. It was the Democrats almost entirely who were palling around with Epstein. How did Epstein become a Trump scandal? The Epstein issue? I've talked about Epstein ad nauseam over 10 years now. I think There are a lot of really interesting angles to the Epstein story, but it is simply a fact that today Jeffrey Epstein is a Democrat talking point. When you look on social media, it is the pro Democrat bots and operatives and in this case, the formal accounts of The Democrat Party that are talking about Jeffrey Epstein, they're trying to insinuate that Trump is a pedophile or that he committed some crimes or that he didn't declassify Epstein information. Even though Trump's declassification of the Epstein files is the single largest declassification ever in American history. The arrests and prosecutions in the Epstein case were brought by Republicans, were brought by Donald Trump. How did this become a Democrat talking point? In part, it's because the Dems really don't have much of anything. You know, the best stuff they had to go against Trump with was like the, the babbling lunacy of E. Jean Carroll. They didn't have very much and ideologically the Democrats are on the wrong side of the American people on virtually every issue. And wokeism may have killed their electoral chances for a generation. So they come back to that. I want you to hear very clearly what I'm saying. I'm not saying that there's nothing interesting in the Epstein case. I'm not saying that we shouldn't at the very least investigate the rumors that Alex Acosta, when he was being interviewed for a job in the first Trump administration, didn't say that when he was prosecuting Epstein back during the Bush administration, that Epstein belonged to intelligence. I'm not saying we shouldn't investigate that. I'm not saying that the Epstein island and all the connections, the political connections, I'm not saying all of that's not weird. I'm not saying that there isn't all sorts of evidence of lots of weird, creepy political stuff. What I'm saying is that practically as a political matter, Epstein is just a slogan being used against Trump right now for no reason, by the way, because whenever the Democrats bring up this slogan like the Democrat party did right there, notice it's never accompanied by any specific accusations. This happens. Some left wing guy came up when I was doing the TPUSA event with Matt Walsh at Idaho. So now the Epstein and Epstein. Epstein. I said, oh, okay, you think that Trump did something wrong with Epstein? Okay, what is your specific accusation? What are you accusing him of? The guy had no answer. Do you? If you're interested, as I am, if you're interested in the Epstein story, can you think of a specific accusation to make against Trump? Some specific evidence of wrongdoing? When you say, well, we need prosecutions, who should be prosecuted and for what and on what basis? Cuz prosecutions were brought largely by Trump and in some cases by George Bush, but against whom and for what? Can anyone answer that question. Well, we don't have the files. Yes, you do. You have three and a half million of these files. We've talked about this guy for 10 years. What is the accusation? They all come up short. I'm totally open. I'd love to hear it. Tell me what the accusation is. Tell me what the prosecution is. I don't hear it. So it is just the case that the Epstein issue, there are two things. There's the sign, there's the slogan, there's the word Epstein, and there is the signified. What that is pointing to, what the deeper meaning of that is, those are different things. What Epstein really means, what he was really up to, how he was palling around with all these foreign leaders and domestic leaders and all. That's one issue. I'm just saying the sign, the slogan is just a Democrat cudgel to try to beat Trump. The same thing goes for the pro Palestine activism. I've noticed it is not the case that there is nothing interesting and worth talking about and nuanced, complex discussions about the Middle east, the Holy Land, the thorniest political issue in geopolitics. I'm not saying there's nothing interesting there. I have a pretty moderate view. I have a pretty nuanced, complex view of Israel, Palestine, the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, counterbalanced with the real establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 with a war of conquest and independence, with UN declarations, with the Balfour Declaration. That's all like, really, really interesting. I'm just pointing out that as a sign, not as a signified, As a sign. When you see someone out there with the kefiyeh ranting and raving about river to the sea, pro Gaza, whatever, as a sign. That is a left wing cudgel. That is a left wing talking point. It's Greta Thunberg. It is used simply as a cudgel against the west, against the United States, against the Trump administration. The same thing goes for affordability. There's the signified, which is that, yeah, there are actually real questions about how Americans can afford things and how our political economy is set up. And maybe we need to reshore some of our industrial base and maybe we need to focus more on blue collar issues. Yeah, duh. Of course, Republicans have been talking about that for a while. In fact, it was Trump himself who mainstreamed that within the Republican Party within our lifetimes. But the sign, affordability is just some random Democrat talking point. That's why you're hearing it from people like AOC and Bernie Sanders and Zoran Mamdani, who have never done anything to improve actual affordability for Americans and have only made things more expensive and have ironically only ever punished the working class and who sneer and look down upon the actual working class and think of them as bitter clinging rube idiots to be manipulated. A kind of unwashed mass of hoi polloi that can maybe be used to garner some votes. This is same thing you're seeing people right now turn against prediction markets, the Kalshi and poly market. There's a distinction here between that as a political issue and what it really means. I'm pretty anti gambling generally. I don't think that we should be legalizing gambling and commoditizing everything and financializing everything. I think that's a really interesting debate. But the reason that the Democrats are making that into a slogan right now is because some of the prediction markets are tied to people like Don Jr. Because often the prediction markets aren't looking very good for the Democrats. That's why there's a total chasm between the issues as they should be in themselves and how they are being used in politics. And that is the caution that I'm offering to people right now. Because politics operates on manipulation of signs and symbols and slogans. That's what a political campaign is. And the Democrats are so bereft of really strong meaty issues that they can run on that they are simply trying to manipulate you. And what they're playing on is Republicans goodwill and sense of fairness where they say, oh yeah, the Epstein issue is really serious. Yeah, I agree, it's a Democrat scandal. That's why we brought it up 10 years ago. But the way it's being talked about right now, the way that geopolitics is being talked about right now, the way that affordability is being talked about right now is really in this political environment just being used as a cynical political cudgel very unfairly against Republicans. There's a lot more to say. First though, go to CatholicMatch.com one of the real problems in modern life is people increasingly approach dating as a form of entertainment instead of as preparation for marriage. If you're Catholic, marriage is not just a lifestyle preference or social arrangement. It's a sacrament. It's a vocation. Which means the stakes are a little bit higher than simply finding someone who shares your taste in television shows. One of the reasons Catholic Match exists. Catholic Match is the largest and most trusted Catholic dating app, specifically focused on helping faithful Catholics build relationships ordered towards sacramental marriage. 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One of our neighbors with a uterus to be able to control their own body. Neighbors with a uterus, that's a new euphemism. Hadn't heard that one before. Neighbors with a uterus because he can't say women because Talarico's ideology embraces transgenderism. So according to James Talarico, some women don't have a uterus, some women don't have two X chromosomes. He has to degrade women from women like, you know, sugar, spice and everything nice women composite of body and soul. Women like a real thing to just their sexual parts. And he's not gonna walk it back. That's the weird sex stuff. Then let's move on to race. Here's James Tallarico in 2020. White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus of racism. But we spread it wherever we go through our words, our actions and our systems. We don't have to be showing symptoms like a white H, a Confederate flag to be contagious. Vote for me, you leprous racists. You infected, disgusting, disease ridden mongrels. Vote for me, you white scum. You white trash. Vote for me. I'm one of the good whites that is Talarico on race. Here's Talarico speaking to the Secretary of War before he was Secretary of War. Pete Hegseth about voter id. Are you okay with voter id? So voter ID is currently required in the state of Texas. I opposed having to. How about for mail in ballots? How about having to send your ballot in should you have to prove who you are? Because that's what Democrats are opposing. Pete, I just Said I oppose voter ID currently. It's a law in Texas. But I oppose that law because I think you don't need voter id. You don't think the most sacred obligation of our republic, you should have to prove who you are in order to vote. So there are a lot of Texans, actually hundreds of thousands who don't have a driver's license. So yeah, I oppose voter ID. Voter ID is a 9010 issue. The majority of Democrats. Forget Republicans, the majority of Democrats support voter id. Talarico comes out, no, absolutely, I oppose voter id. They oppose voter id, of course, because they're relying on foreigners to give them elections. There's no end to this. The APO is endless, okay? And so the Democrats are in this really tough position because they're pretending that Talarico is this great candidate. I said from the very beginning, Talarico is Buttigieg. He's the gay Pete Buttigieg. Or he's Beto o'. Rourke. He's another one of these guys where the libs say, we hate white people, we hate men, we hate straight people, or at least nominally straight people. We hate all of them. But you know what? We can convince those rubes, those dumb idiot voters that we're gonna, but we're gonna put someone who appears to be a straight white male up and we're gonna say that makes him look really moderate, but he's gonna have all the most extreme woke ideology and that'll fool him. This is one of the defining features I think of the Dems is they have no respect whatsoever for voters. No respect at all. Rodney Dangerfield. No respect, no respect they give them. So they really believe this guy is the future of the Democrat Party. And I think he's pretty weak. I mean, we gotta make sure that we run good campaigns to beat him. Paxton needs to run a good campaign, but I think he's relatively weak. And so because on all of these issues, the Dems are so out of step with the American people. Just look at voter ID 90 10. They oppose the vast majority of Americans. Because of that, you're gonna see an increased focus on these kind of digressions, these insinuations, these side quests that don't even really in any way seriously implicate Republicans. If they did, they implicate the Democrats way more. But you're gonna see a big focus on that. And my big warning is just don't be a sucker for it. Don't allow yourself to be manipulated by Democrat propaganda or in some cases, foreign propaganda. Now speaking of campaign, campaign activism. Really, really scary story that, thank God, turned out okay. A guy was arrested yesterday for threatening to murder Erica Kirk. And a whole slate of speakers at tpusa. Not gonna say this guy's name. He's from San Antonio. Basically a white looking guy, almost combed hair. You might say, well, hold on, is this guy, is he on the left or on the right? There are freaks and weirdos all across the political spectrum. And Erica has been attacked on all fronts in a horrific, just terrible way. So where does this guy come from? What did he say? He said, death to Erica Kirk and every single speaker there. America will live on without these scum on the earth. Then he says, every Christian nationalist shall perish in the bombing that will take place at every single Turning point rally. And eventually, really horrifying. This is especially horrifying because Erica has experienced just about the worst thing you can possibly experience. And she's gone through it all with an immense amount of grace, a heroic amount of grace. And it's really a model for everybody, I think. And because obviously of what happened to Charlie. However, there have been threats and even assassination attempts against a lot of conservative speakers, TPUSA speakers, YAF speakers, ISI speakers, speakers for years and years and years now. We have been dealing with these kinds of threats for well over a decade. Where is this guy coming from? He's coming from the left. All of the attacks on Erica Kirk are awful, terrible, horrifying in every single way. But when we're trying to focus in on where the real threat lies, where the real problem lies, Is it some conspiracy theorists? Is it freaks on the right? Is it some horseshoe theory thing? Is it Christian nationalism? Is it neo Nazism? Is it this? Is it that? Is it? This? Is it that it is undeniable that the chief, most urgent, most real political threat comes from the left. The guy who threatened to kill Erica Kirk and this whole slate of TPOSA speakers is from the same place as the person who murdered Charlie Kirk. He's from the left. He's inveighing against the Christian nationalists here. His attack is from the left. That is where the real threat is. That is where the real threat has always been. That is why we need to focus our political attention and our political muscle to make sure that these people never get any political power. Okay, speaking of real threats, Brandon Gill, rising star in Congress, just came out and he was warning that Islam will destroy America if we don't stop it.
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Brandon T. Gill
Why are we seeing terrorist attacks from radical Islam within our own borders? Where did this come from? Islam is largely alien to American history. It certainly didn't come into the, into the United States on the Mayflower. It's something that we deliberately imported as a matter of immigration policy into our country. And it's going to destroy us just like it's destroying Europe right now. It's our job to stand up to that, to stand up for our values and to prohibit alien cultures and alien ideologies that do not comport with our own government governing frameworks. And that's why I'm proud to be part of the Sharia Free America Caucus.
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Michael Knowles
Okay, so Brandon Gill coming out saying Islam is a major, major threat. What's really interesting about this, cuz Brandon Gill is one of the real rising star Republican politicians of our generation. What's interesting is that a segment of the very online right has gone a little bit soft on Islam. It's gone a little bit soft on Islam. The very, very online, very avant garde kind of right has gone a little bit soft on Islam, has suggested maybe there's some to work with Islam to accommodate Islam. And in part this is because they see Islam as anti Islam, rather anti Islam activism as pro Israel and they really don't like Israel. And my warning to some of these people is don't ever become so anti Semitic that you go soft on Islam. Okay, I would say don't become anti Semitic at all. That was just my general historical and religious and spiritual advice. But certainly do not do that in such a way that you go soft on Islam. That's really crazy. That too, I think is a little bit of a knob. Getting back to what we were talking about at the top, how these political issues shade how they code, what they signify from one side to the next. Yes, there are all sorts of interesting questions about, about the nation state of Israel and all sorts of different ways that people try to justify it. Based on the theology of Christian Zionism, this kind of more novel niche Protestant theology, which I obviously don't believe in, or on the nationalist ideology of Zionism, even a secular kind of nationalist ideology, which a lot of people are nationalists these days. I however, am very conservative and traditional. So I think 1848 was a bad turn actually. I think even the rise of nationalism as a modern ideology isn't quite right politically. You can defend the state of Israel on the basis of UN charters and wars of conquest and the Balfour Declaration, all political alliances. That I think is much more solid ground. But it is simply the case, despite anyone's problems with the state of Israel, obviously That's a big talk on the very online right. It is simply the case today that pro Israel maps maps right wing, anti Israel maps left wing, Pro Islam maps left wing, anti Islam maps right wing. I'm not even like the most anti Muslim person in the world. Certainly not. I've said for many, many years I can have a conversation with a Muslim in many ways, much more easily than I can with a secular liberal atheist. Much more easily. I think they have a mistaken conception of God. I think they should not deny the crucifixion, for instance. They should not deny the Incarnation as they do. I think their conception of God is voluntarist. So it makes a God who is perfectly transcendent, who is not identified as the Christian. God is with the Logos, with the divine logic. There are all sorts of interesting conversations to be had there. However, let's not be betraying the legacy of Charles Martel and John of Austria and all the rest of them. You know, Battle of Poitiers, Battle of Lepanto, Battle of Vienna. Islam really has posed a threat to the west for 1400 years. That dynamic has not changed. And I do think some people are getting a little bit manipulated as happens. Okay, speaking of dissident and alternate views on the right, I guess I should address. I was told this by my producers that the libertarian comedian podcaster Dave Smith has responded to my response to his response to my political prediction. I think all of this started because I said I thought Thomas Massie was gonna lose cuz he broke with the GOP and the GOP was gonna come after him. And then Dave came out, if I think, if I'm having this correctly, Dave came out and said he thought Thomas Massie was gonna win. And he looked forward to my reaction when Thomas Massie won his primary campaign. And I said, look, I'm not even saying anything against Massey here. I just, I think he's gonna lose. And so I guess you're never gonna get my reaction because I was right. And then he responded to that response and then I responded. So now here is Dave Smith's response. Cuz we invited him on one of our shows, the bar fight show. I said, oh, it'd be kind of interesting. I'm the conservative, he'll be the libertarian and we'll get some left winger and it's a show mostly on the daily wire platform, but I said that'd be a good venue to have Dave on and we could talk about these issues between the ideologies. Anyway, here's Dave's response to My response to Dave's response to me, it's.
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Dave Smith
It's a little bit weird when Michael Knowles knows full well that there's like an open invite to like, let's have a conversation, which we could both jump on tomorrow for him to go. You know, I would maybe like to get Dave on a fight night because it'd be like a cool dynamic with the left and the right. If you're doing a video about me, let's just talk about this. Why is it that your side is so averse to this very simple idea of having a conversation about this? Like, we can do it tomorrow. I literally mean this, Michael. You can sit in your home studio and I can sit in my home studio and we can talk about this issue. Why is it like, I have to fly to DC for no money on 24 hours notice for no audience? Doesn't seem reasonable to me.
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Michael Knowles
Maybe Dave misunderstood what the invite was. I don't know. I'm not really all that involved in booking the shows. But we don't shoot in dc, we shoot in Nashville. And I don't know, I thought I was trying to be nice. I don't know, I thought it'd be interesting. You have this bar fight show which does have quite an. It has a live audience and it has a virtual audience. It's mostly on the Daily Wire platform, but it's a good audience between a conservative and a libertarian and a leftist to find the nuances of all those sorts of shades of political identity. So I don't know. No good deed goes unpunished. I don't know. He doesn't wanna come on the show, that's fine. But the reason that I even entertained responding to Dave Smith's response to my response to Dave Smith's response to my observation about Dave Smith's prediction, the reason that I find it even worth commenting on is I'm very glad that Dave wants to sit down and have a conversation. That could be great, I guess. But what would we be debating? That's my question. What is the question is that we're gonna talk about? What are these things? What are the things we're gonna be debating that I don't really understand? That's kinda why I thought he would be good on the bar fight show. Cause there's a lane for a conservative, a lane for a more libertarian guy, and a lane for a leftist guy. But what exactly are we debating? Are we debating. I don't know. I actually don't know what it is. Are we debating Thomas Massie? I don't hate Thomas Massie. I just thought he was gonna lose and he thought he was gonna win, and I was right. I don't know what we would be debating there. Are we debating the Trump administration? I guess. Are we debating the war in Iran? I argued against the war in Iran, as did he. So I don't know what the. Are we debating? What are we debating? I don't know what we're debating. And I guess this is my broader question about a lot of the podcast babble, where just like the same seven people go on each other's shows all the time, is what. I guess the reason I thought it'd be good to have Dave on the show is I think it's really interesting to find those real lanes between. Here's what a conservative believes about all these issues. Here's what a libertarian believes about all these issues. Here's what a leftist believes about all these issues. But, but so much of the political media now, it's just people talking in circles. About what? It's all just personal stuff. It's all just. He's responding to him. Who's responding to him? Responding to him about what? What are we actually talking about? That's my broader political advice as we head into the midterms. As we have left wingers who are actually trying to murder us, as we have very radical people on the left who are seriously trying to. To subvert our constitutional order, I think we need to stay focused on the things that matter. So anyway, again, open invitation. If there's an issue to debate, I'm looking forward to debating it. I thought a debate show would be a good way to do that. I don't know, but it seems like people wanna get very, very distracted by all sorts of nonsense. Okay, we have to get so much more to get to. There's so much more to get to. First though, go to Hillsdale. Edu Revolution. How much are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness worth to you? This is the question America's founding fathers had to answer. For More than 150 years, America's 13 colonies governed themselves until Britain declared they had no right to self rule. So ordinary people had to make extraordinary choices and risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to fight for independence. Against all odds, they won. And in victory, they built one of the most stable and lasting republics in history. 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That is Hillsdale Edu Revolution. All right, my favorite comment yesterday. Now, I didn't pick this out. This was the producers. Let's see if they did a good job. PNWVIBE says Michael Knowles is my favorite. Big Mike. Thank you. I appreciate that. Our mailbag is sponsored by purertalk. Go to peertalk.com knowlescanna w l e s to claim unlimited high speed dash for just $34.99. Take it away.
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Bibi Netanyahu
Hey, Michael, this is Bibi Netanyahu. I heard you were being mean to the maga. Professor Jacob. Do not do this. Jacob is one of the greatest Jews to ever live with the IQ of Albert Einstein to the sense of humor of Adam Sandler, to the political knowledge of Ben Shapiro. He has it all. You should also give him a raise. Anyway, my question is, what is your favorite Jewish dish to eat? I know the Arabs say hummus is theirs, but it is not. So you can say that too. Love the show. Thank you.
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Michael Knowles
Wow. Really incisive question, Mr. Prime Minister. Thank you for. I didn't know you watched the show, but I appreciate you dialing in. I'll take your thoughts on Professor Jacob into consideration. My favorite Jewish dish, that's very simple. My favorite Jewish dish would be pastrami and mustard on rye bread. Some Jewish food is very good. Some of it's very bad. Some of it's very, very bad. What's the shakshuka? Is very bad. I don't like that. Sweet kugel is very bad. I don't want sugar in my macaroni and cheese. That's very bad. But some Jewish dishes are very, very delicious. Like rugela. Like all the deli sandwiches are really, really good. Matzo ball soup, of course, is good. It's a little overrated but it's good. My absolute favorite Jewish gefilte fish is absolutely unbearable. A lot of the kosher wine is pretty bad, but basically all of the sweets are good. What's my favorite Jewish dish? Well, I guess the basic one is just like a bagel. Like a bagel with lox and cream cheese is probably the best. This maps onto my very moderate view on geopolitics in the state of Israel. I guess I have a moderate view on Jewish food too. There's very, very good stuff, very good stuff. But there's some weak stuff too. I'm not giving Jacob a raise. Next one.
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Arun
Good morning, Michael. This is Arun. So since you've talked often about the importance of Americans having our founding myths, I'm curious as to your opinion on what Matt Walsh is is doing with his analysis on civil rights figures like John Brown, MLK and Rosa Parks, because I don't disagree with him on any of the facts. But a nation does need its heroes and I'm concerned that if we tear down mlk, well, we both know who's going to replace him. What is your take on the matter?
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Michael Knowles
Oh, really thoughtful question, Arun. This is a great point. Obviously Walsh's Real history series is doing very, very well. I encourage you all to go watch it, go check it out on Daily Wire. It's doing great. But you raise a really good point, which is, well, should we really be tearing down the heroes of the left? Should we always be tearing down the heroes of the left? Is that always prudent, even if they kind of deserve it sometimes? Does that put us in a similar position as the left is in when they tear down statues of George Washington? Could the destruction of left wing heroes end up being a Pyrrhic victory because it causes more political turmoil than it actually improves? I think that's a really thoughtful point because you think of someone like mlk, you can say lots of terrible things about mlk. He was apparently present for the rape of a woman. He was a womanizer. All this stuff is public. But even politically speaking, we read MLK based on one line of one speech, which is I have a dream that one day it won't matter if you're black or white, and we'll all get along. That's basically what 99.999% of people think MLK is. But you could also read MLK as an identitarian who was very specifically focused on his race, on black people as such, who was open to some communists and socialists, who was pushing for the massive growth of government who was, like, opposing a lot of stuff that we conservatives would support. So what do we do? Do we tear down MLK for his personal failings and the radical parts of his ideology? No. I think probably the more prudent political path is to pull out of MLK the good stuff that we can, Namely, I have a dream, that's the one. And then we don't want to lie about who MLK is. But if we're gonna create a political myth, if we're gonna have a sort of demigod added to the pantheon of American great men, we wanna make sure that his defining characteristics are the good ones, the ones that we actually want people to emulate. A diplomat friend of mine once pointed this out. He said, michael, do you know the difference between a flatterer and a diplomat? A flatterer lies to you to ingratiate himself to you. A diplomat only focuses on the good things, which is not a lie. It's a little selective, but it's much more politically effective. That's how I feel. With most of the left wing icons, some of them really do need to be torn down. Angela Davis, a terrorist, she needs to be torn down. Some of the foreign idols of the left, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, obviously those guys, we gotta displace them. But some of the more liberal figures in American history, like Martin Luther King, let's pull out the good things. Like Franklin Roosevelt, who was a radical leftist in so many ways, almost destroyed and maybe did destroy our system of government. Well, he also curtailed the radical predations of the socialists and the communists. Some would say he actually preserved our capitalist system. Woodrow Wilson was a radical leftist who destroyed our system of government in many ways, was the architect of the administrative state, but also he put Eugene Debs the socialist in prison. Also, he really persecuted, brought the heavy hand of the law down on radical leftists in the government. So I would say maybe you focus on the good things there. Yes, we wanna tell the truth, but we also wanna tell the truth in a way that is politically prudent and actually edifying and helps build up our republic. We don't want to be a nation of debunkers. Debunking is purely critical. It's purely destructive, and it will not redound to our benefit. Okay. In the latest episode of Be a man, Pavel spends 24 hours with the heroes of Halo Flights, the helicopter ambulance team that flies into the remote wilderness of South Texas to save lives. Check out this teaser. My name is Paavo and BMN with me. After 16 hour drive we made it to Corpus Christi, Texas and today we're gonna spend some time with Halo flight team Non profit volunteer founded Air ambulance in translation they fly cool helicopters and rescue people. Today they are going to give me some hands on experience being a helicopter paramedic so that I can learn how a real man supports people in need.
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Brandon T. Gill
Colton, I know nobody loves you, but
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Michael Knowles
do you want me to call someone?
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Brandon T. Gill
No. Okay, just leave me here.
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Michael Knowles
I'd just rather die.
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Brandon T. Gill
At this point.
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Michael Knowles
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