It’s Flag Day, and it’s the President’s birthday, and we’re getting all the presents: on the economy, foreign affairs, standing among the international community, even sports. We’ll observe something conservatives usually hate to acknowledge: things are getting better! Then, the IG concludes the FBI acted tried to help Hillary and hurt Trump. Then, the godking Jeremy Boreing joins the show. Finally, the Mailbag, and a few favorite American flags!
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And we're the ones getting all the presents for that birthday.
On the economy, foreign affairs, standing among the international community, even sports.
We will observe something that conservatives usually hate to acknowledge, which is that things are getting better.
Then the FBI's inspector general concludes James Comey and the FBI tried to hurt Donald Trump and help Hillary Clinton.
In other news, the sky remains blue and water remains wet.
We will analyze all of those important news stories.
And then the God King Jeremy Boring himself will stop by to explain why soccer is a threat to Western civilization.
Finally, the mailbag and a few of my favorite American flags for Flag Day.
I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
So much to get to today.
I want to recap a little bit on our talk with Tom Arnold yesterday, too.
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Hey, gang.
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So be sure to tune in for that.
Now, some of you might have seen yesterday, I had this interview with Tom Arnold.
And, well, if you missed it, you should go back and listen, because it actually showed a lot of the differences between the left and the right.
But if you just want a quick summary, here is a quick recap of my interview with Tom Arnold yesterday.
Freddy, the question is to a situation.
You do not wish to challenge you one out of what the caliber is just to indicate about the presence of a pool save in your community.
I'm going to tell you, right?
You show your face in the broad daylight.
I'm telling you how I feel.
Going to hurt your mind.
Don't shoot to kill.
Come on, come on.
Lay it on me, all right?
I'm giving you one on the count of three to show you stuff or let it be.
I'm telling you, just watch your mouth.
I know your game.
What about you?
Well, I say the sky's a limit, and to me, that's really true.
But my friend, you see nothing.
Just wait till I get through it because I'm bad, bad.
Come on, come on.
Bad, bad, really, really bad.
You know I'm bad.
I'm bad.
You know it.
You know it.
Bad, really, really bad.
You know I'm bad.
I'm bad.
Come on, come on.
You know it.
Bad, bad, really, really bad.
And the whole world does the answer just right.
Just tell you once again who's bad.
That clip was a little bit slower than the way that Tom and I were talking yesterday.
But you missed it.
You know, I got a lot of mailbag questions about this.
I got a lot of tweets and everything about what the interview was like with Tom.
It was pretty wild.
We were moving pretty fast.
I'll give my thoughts on that in the mailbag because I reacted to it actually differently than I think a lot of people think.
So we'll get to that later.
First, it's President Trump's birthday to celebrate.
We're so lucky on this show.
We get the best guests, folks.
We are going to bring on Marilyn Monroe to sing Donald Trump a happy birthday before an audience of Hillary Clinton supporters.
Marilyn, take it away.
Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday Mr.
President Happy birthday That's incredible footage.
Really well done, beautiful Marilyn, and happy birthday, Mr.
President.
It's Donald Trump's birthday, but we're getting all of the presents, aren't we?
Here's a quick rundown before we bring on the God King to explain, to pour a little cold water on all of our happiness and covfefe, and explain why soccer is a threat to Western civilization.
To begin, on the economy, new jobless claims fell again last week, meaning that the number of Americans on the jobless rolls fell to a 44 and a half year low, because Just imagine this.
The labor market right now is at or close to full employment.
Unemployment right now is under 4%.
It's like 3.8%.
The Fed is predicting it will drop further by the end of the year.
That's why the Fed is finally raising interest rates for a second time this year after not being able to do that because of Barack Obama's stagnant economy.
They're saying the labor market is continuing to strengthen, that job gains are strong.
The Fed says that economic activity is rising at a solid rate.
Layoffs right now are very low.
There are signs of worker shortages across all sectors of the economy.
6.7 million job openings in April.
People are receiving unemployment insurance at the lowest level since 1973.
There are more job openings in the United States than unemployed workers to fill them.
Imagine this.
In October 2016, if somebody told you They said, hey, what do you think the headlines are going to be under a Donald Trump presidency?
Say, I don't know, the Western Hemisphere exploding, and the Eastern Hemisphere exploding, and I don't know, the core of the earth exploding, right?
That is what you would predict, and you get these absurdly good economic data points.
On foreign affairs, the historic Kim Jong-un summit.
It's a big win for the United States.
Michael Goodwin points this out in the New York Post today.
There are plenty of good reasons to be cynical about the Iran deal.
Plenty of good reasons.
The Kims are murderous and deceptive.
There's no reason to believe that this Kim is any better than his father, any less treacherous.
The Kims have backed out of plenty of deals that they said they were going to do before, and they've run right out before the ink is dry.
Also, China might not let North Korea denuclearize.
Fine.
Yep.
I get it.
There are a lot of reasons to be cynical.
Goodwin makes this great point in the Post.
He writes, quote, And this is such an important point.
Conservatives sometimes forget this because we want to, like, frown all the time.
Cynicism is very stupid.
It's very stupid.
Norm Macdonald, one of my favorite voices in the world, the great voice of our age, yesterday he referred to something called the profanity of cynicism in a tweet.
And he's so right.
This is such an astute observation.
Cynicism is profane.
The cynicism is the crutch of anxious people who can't tolerate uncertainty, and they're terrified that they're going to look foolish if they end up being wrong, and so they don't want to have any hope or smiling to begin with.
They just want to frown and say everything's going to be terrible.
But the world is a hopeful place.
There's nothing virtuous about cynicism.
You know, you should be courageous.
You should be prudent, certainly.
You shouldn't be reckless or stupid, but you should be courageous, you should be prudent, you should be manly.
Not Cynical.
That's what the word courage comes from.
Courage comes from cur, from heart, right?
And cynicism is discouraging.
Takes the heart out of everything.
You should take heart.
Could it go wrong?
Of course.
Are we in the early stages of whatever kind of nuclear deal we're trying to work out?
Yes.
What are the odds that it works out?
Who knows?
But there's a good first step.
Take heart.
On foreign affairs also, and this is right before we'll bring in the God King to pour cold water on everything.
We're getting the World Cup in North America.
It's going to be this nice alliance between Canada, the United States, Mexico.
Donald Trump, by the way, has been lobbying since March to bring the World Cup to North America.
Meanwhile, Los Angeles is getting the 2028 Summer Olympics as well.
So we've got two major international sporting events that are coming to the United States because of...
Donald Trump.
Everybody predicted that Trump would hurt these bids because the whole world hates him, right?
He's humiliating and our allies hate us.
And instead, he actually helped.
Now, look, I do not care very much for the Olympics.
I don't watch the Olympics.
Other than curling.
Curling is one of my favorite sports in the world.
But other than curling, I don't like it.
I also think that soccer basically should be outlawed in the United States.
But it is a very good sign, nonetheless, of this global leadership.
The United States has global leadership.
President Trump has picked up two major international sporting events.
That's a good thing.
So say I. Now, I think the God King, the founder of my feasts and the man who signs my checks, disagrees with me on this.
Can we bring on the God King?
Hey look, it's Donald Trump's birthday, it's flag day, I'm feeling so good.
Tell me, bring me down.
Well, what's interesting to me is how everyone who supports the president carries water for the president.
You can't just be a general fan of the guy.
You have to be basically an evangelist for Donald Trump.
Proselytizing.
And so when he says, for example, when he calls Kim Jong-un Rocket Man, all of his fans are like, yes, we have always wanted war on the Korean Peninsula.
And when he says things like, I really trust him, everybody's like, yes, we have always wanted peace on the Korean Peninsula.
And no one ever knows where they stand with you people.
And this is the greatest example.
This is a microcosm of all things Trump that one of the great arguments on behalf of Donald Trump is he's going to be a global leader.
He's going to rebuild America's supremacy.
He's going to salvage Western civilization.
Make America great again.
Make America great again.
He's going to salvage Western civilization.
And now you're crowing that he is bringing this bastard sport...
Of soccer to the United States.
This is Obama-level leading from behind.
You call that global leadership?
Global leadership is called baseball.
Yes, that's true.
Baseball.
Maybe football.
Maybe football.
Global leading from behind is called soccer.
I have to say, when I was reading all the good news today, well, we'll get to the great explanation, because I have to say, this is the best Never Trump argument that really sort of compels me.
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What's so bad about soccer?
What's so bad about soccer?
It's like saying, Jeremy, everything was going really well, I noticed, in world history until like the late 1930s.
What went wrong?
Soccer is...
Listen, I actually don't hate soccer.
You know, I... I think that soccer is a perfectly good sport for the third world.
And that's what it is.
It's the sport of the third world.
Because all you need is something roughly the size of a ball.
Doesn't have to be a ball.
A human head would work.
And I think that's probably how it all started.
And you need a patch of relatively flat earth.
And then you need a bunch of people to chase after the rolling object and occasionally fall down as though they had been hit.
Yeah.
Pretend it hurts.
Pretend it hurts.
That is soccer.
And that's fine because everyone needs sports.
Yes.
Sports teach children about competition.
They teach children about work ethic.
They teach children a set of rules and how to succeed within those rules.
And sports help adults, too, because they give us an opportunity to play out competitive aggression in a controlled way that doesn't result in violence.
Although sometimes at soccer games, the fans actually participate in a greater contact sport than the players.
Those hooligans.
Yeah.
But, you know, they bring us together.
They give us a sense of pride.
It's a nice distraction from the hardship of life.
Everyone needs that.
And so I am glad that Ghana has a soccer team.
That's good, yeah.
I'm glad that the Ivory Coast...
Has a soccer team.
I am offended, however, that Great Britain also participates in this.
And I am mortally offended that the United States would condescend to have a soccer team.
I tend to agree with you on this.
Except for six-year-old children and under.
It's good.
Yeah, well, it's really good.
I wonder at the World Cup, because it's going to be hosted by Canada, the United States, and Mexico, who is going to provide the minivans to pick up the players afterward and give them juice boxes and little cracker snacks?
Exactly.
Tell him, good boy.
Listen, it matters.
When Great Britain was in her ascendancy, the height of the British Empire, she had the most complex sport in the world, cricket.
Cricket.
It would take days to play.
That's right.
No one understands it.
The smartest guy on the block doesn't understand it.
That is the sport of an ascendant power.
America, in her ascendancy, had baseball, a complex sport.
The defense has possession of the ball.
Infield fly rule.
Infield fly rule, yeah.
Those are the sports of an ascendant nation.
They're complicated.
They're intelligent.
More importantly, they're expensive.
Because our sports reflect something about us.
You can't play baseball with just a ball and a piece of flat earth.
Right.
The reason little children play soccer is because it's the simplest sport.
You basically chase the moving ball.
That's all that's required.
It doesn't require a ton of training and specialized this and that.
That's right.
And doesn't require money.
Now America as a superpower, our sport really, we don't have to like it, but the truth is it's football.
Right.
That is the national pastime.
That is the national pastime of our generation.
It is the most complex and expensive sport ever conceived.
The pads alone would break the GDP of many nations that have perfectly serviceable soccer teams.
That's true.
And that's not bad.
Again, I'm not against third world nations having soccer.
I'm against us saying that that's as good as baseball or football.
And I'm against the idea that we need to reach down and play the sport of the world instead of showing actual global leadership and saying, no, the entire world needs to be rich enough and powerful enough to play sports that require you not only to chase something, but to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars preventing brain damage.
That's true.
And, you know, maybe we need like a new Marshall Plan.
I would be perfectly willing.
I'm a fiscal conservative.
So are you.
If we could invest in the infrastructure required to create booming economies such that these third world countries can buy very expensive and elaborate equipment to play real sports that are civilized.
Absolutely.
I would do it in a second.
I think that absolutely.
- Absolutely, I agree.
If Trump were to scratch his infrastructure plan and instead support the world becoming baseball and football players, I'd vote for him for sure for re-election.
What I don't like though is this game of equality being sort of the Thatcher view of equality that the left, you can be here and poor people can be here and the left thinks the world is a better place if everyone's down here.
That's right.
That's not me.
I think that we should set an example in the world and give people something to rise up to and that thing is not chasing a rolling human head across a flat patch of earth.
That is exactly right.
And it is this degrading, going back, and oh, it's bad for us that we...
Yeah, and it's not as violent.
There's that other aspect.
If you're a rich, powerful, ascendant company, you can take some hits, you can weather some...
You can pay for expensive hospitals.
That's right.
They used to flood the Colosseum and play out naval battles from antiquity at the height of the decadence of Rome.
I feel like we can do much the same.
That's right.
And we should.
Not only that, but I think that part of the problem with the rise of soccer in America is that you can trace it one-to-one to the decline of our culture.
Right?
When America was putting a man on the moon, were grown adults in the freest country on earth playing soccer?
Michael, no they were not.
They were not, because all that scrap metal was going to the space shuttle and not to make more minivans to people of the field.
That's exactly right.
And by the way, ever since women started to enter the workforce, Right?
That's right.
More women in the workforce, more soccer fields in the United States of America.
Look at that.
It's just science.
That's a correlation.
That's right.
Do you even study science?
Do you even study?
It correlates with divorce rates.
Yeah, I'm sure it does.
Someone do the math.
You know, you've made a really compelling argument.
It is the first anti-Trump argument that has really started to convince me.
And listen, I'm not anti-Trump.
I'm a Trump skeptic.
Trump has done a lot of things that make me very, very happy.
This is not one of them.
I feel like if previous Jeremy, that's Jeremy from 2016, who was busy expressing all his concerns about the worst case, what will happen if Donald Trump becomes president?
I was worried the Republican Party would fracture.
I was worried we would lose credibility with millennials who are becoming the largest voting bloc.
I was worried that we would lose our principles in service only of our...
Victories.
Yeah, yeah.
I never thought that I would see the President of the United States cheering the ascendancy of soccer.
Yeah, no, I'm sorry.
You make a great point.
Mr.
President, I hope you're watching.
It's been such a good, you know, it's been such a good year and a half.
But please, you've got to rethink this.
You've got to rethink what you're doing.
Mr.
Godking, thank you for being here.
Thank you.
We've got to get to the mailbag.
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I don't know if anybody got to see him.
Oh, the CED. Is there any way to lift him up, get him on camera a little bit?
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He got himself stuck back here.
Because this is my real boss right here.
This would be the chief executive.
The guy who runs the show.
Yeah.
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He does too.
Because we're a wealthy, ascendant, decadent country.
Thank you, sir.
Always good to see the God King.
All right, we've got a little bit of time to wrap up on the FBI before we have to get to the mailbag.
Okay, the Investigator General, Michael Horowitz, who's the FBI watchdog, he has concluded that James Comey has deviated from Bureau and Justice Department procedures in handling the Clinton probe, which damaged the agency's image.
I know you're shocked.
Aren't you sure?
We didn't think.
We thought they did everything just right.
We thought James Comey, totally above board, not political at all.
Turns out that was all a lie.
They wrote, quote, this is from the IG report.
By departing so clearly and dramatically from FBI and department norms, the decisions negatively impacted the perception of the FBI and the department as fair administrators of justice.
Now they say that there's no evidence this was politically motivated.
What does that mean?
What we know is that James Comey treated Hillary Clinton differently than he would have treated other people.
And we know that they were trying to, this was during a presidential election.
What is not political about that?
Anything involving Hillary Clinton is political.
That's absolutely absurd.
The report also, by the way, uncovered previously hidden text messages that the FBI was just not releasing.
It was just totally covering up between disgraced FBI agents and saucy lovers, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
Page writes, quote, Trump's not ever going to become president, right?
Right!
To which Strzok responds, no.
No, he won't.
We'll stop it.
It's like the worst, saddest soy boy flirting I've ever heard.
Also, also probably criminal and anti-American and anti-constitutional.
He said, Peter Strzok of the FBI, key investigator, saying we will stop Donald Trump from becoming president.
What more evidence do you need?
What more evidence do you people need?
Now, right now at this moment, the left and the anti-Trump right are trying to lionize the FBI and demonize the president.
There are all of these distractions right there.
You're looking at this.
You're seeing a text from Peter Strzok and a key investigator at the FBI that says we're going to stop Trump from being president.
They say, look at Stormy Daniels.
What?
What do I care about some porn star?
They say, look, he said naughty words on a videotape.
The FBI is saying he's going to stop interfering in a presidential election.
Beyond the smoke and mirrors, who has the better track record here?
Who looks better?
Who looks good?
Who looks dirty?
Between Donald Trump And the FBI. It's no question.
It's no question, and so it's a happy birthday.
Soccer notwithstanding, I guess it's good we nabbed these international sporting events, and I use sporting loosely, but, you know, we've got to be careful here, folks.
We can't let our exuberance get away with us and do things like try to elevate soccer as a sport.
Okay, we've got a lot of mailbag to get to.
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From Tyler...
Dear Knowles, the smoking jacket in combination with the bow tie was truly a sight to see.
My question is, how do you explain the irony of the all-powerful argument in relation to God?
For example, can God create an object too heavy for him to lift, or can he lift anything, meaning he's not powerful enough to create that object from Tyler?
Yeah, this stupid question.
Ha!
Sorry, I don't mean to insult you, Tyler.
This question is so stupid.
So the question is, can God create an object so heavy that he can't lift it?
This was asked in the Father's Day video.
The God King said, Jeremy Boring, lowercase g, lowercase k, said that yes, God can create an object so big that he can't lift it, and then he would create a mechanism to lift it.
That's an interesting explanation of Christianity.
I would put it differently, though, basically the same point.
And this is a big difference between Christianity and Islam.
In the Christian religion, the Christian God submits himself to logic.
He is not a God of infinite, pure, irrational wrath.
He's a God of logic.
In the beginning was the Word, the Logos, and the Logos was with God and the Logos was God.
The Logos being the divine logic of the universe.
It is a perfectly...
a logical God, a God who submits himself to the own logic that he creates.
And so the question, can God create a rock so heavy that he can't lift it, is basically akin to saying, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's like saying parrot, yellow, elephant, banana, four times green.
It is words, like there are words together, but it doesn't have any meaning.
It doesn't have any internal logic.
So, in short answer to your question...
This god is a god of logic.
That's not true of other religions.
The god of Islam is not a god that is bound by logic.
It is a god that can act very capriciously and do whatever he likes.
That's a different god.
It's a different object of worship and it's a different culture that comes out of those things.
But ours is a god of logic and there is a mechanism By which God lifts that rock that seems so heavy that he can't lift it.
And it's God giving his only begotten son to be incarnate and to die for the sins of man.
That's a pretty beautiful, logical way to solve that problem.
From Lynn, Dear Michael, I'm listening to your interview with Tom Arnold right now.
You deserve an Emmy for keeping your composure.
How do you do it?
Thanks, Lynn.
If you didn't see the interview, it was pretty wild, as Tom Arnold famously is.
He's a pretty wild guy.
I gotta say, though, because some people kind of got it, I think, and some people were saying pretty mean things about Tom.
I genuinely like Tom Arnold.
I really like the guy.
I think he's a nice guy.
I think he's a genuine guy.
He's really not rude, regardless of what you saw in that interview.
I think he's a really nice guy who's a little out there on some of his premises.
So he said something very important yesterday about the difference between the left and the right right now.
He was so honest in his answer.
Because I said, Tom, here are the facts.
And he said, yeah, I don't care about that.
I don't care.
And I said, but Tom, there's just one reality.
Because he said, well, this is how I feel, and this is what it seems to me, and if you're a this and a that.
And I said, but there's one reality.
He said, no, there isn't.
There are multiple realities.
Reality is subjective.
There's no such thing as objective truth.
And that is the disagreement between the left and the right.
That's the underlying premise that is why the left and the right just talk past each other, is the right is saying there is an objective reality.
Without an objective reality, we couldn't Communicate.
There's no way to communicate between people.
There's no way to do anything.
There's no way to understand any aspect of the world.
And the left says, da-da-da-da-da-da-da, right?
It's this radical subjectivism, this radical willfulness that's born into this modern era that largely comes from Nietzsche.
But it goes back further than that.
It goes back...
To the early parts of the modern era, all the way to the 16th century or prior.
It could go back to the 14th century.
This rejection of reality.
And Tom beautifully and honestly showed that.
That the right is living in reality and the left, at its extremes and in its craziness, is denying reality.
And when you deny reality, things don't turn out very well.
From Laurie.
Hi, Michael.
I think it should be used.
I support the death penalty.
I think there are medical and health benefits to capital punishment.
People don't talk about this enough.
Father Rutler, my friend and priest in New York, wrote a wonderful piece on this.
I'm quoting Dr.
Johnson, who says, You can depend upon it, sir.
When a man knows that he's going to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
People should be hanged for crimes.
There is justice.
This is not an anti-Christian suggestion.
It's not anti-Catholic.
It's quite clear from the scriptures that capital punishment is a right of the civil authority.
And we...
So, as a result, there is something that's cruel and unusual, I think, about our criminal justice system, which is that people can languish in prison for decades and decades and decades, losing their mind.
I think that's cruel and unusual.
I think that's not humane.
In the old days, you could sleep it off at night, or you could be in jail for a short period of time, or you could be in jail turning big rocks into small rocks for five years, or you would be hanged.
This, to me, is...
Much more humane, probably, than letting someone languish in isolation for decades upon decades, slowly depriving them of their liberty and their humanity.
And as for the methods, yeah, they should be clean and easy.
I think it was Henry VIII who ordered a special guillotine from France that would be extra sharp for his wives.
Never let it be said that he was a bad husband, huh?
That's in short.
This is unpopular today among the touchy-feely people and the people who want to pervert religion to advance their sentimental points of view, but there are plenty of good arguments for capital punishment, and when you let criminals run free, there are plenty of bad things that happen to society.
From Jacob.
Hey, Michael.
I guess we'll probably have to end on this one.
We've got a couple minutes left.
Hey, Jacob.
Hey, Michael.
Am I just having a conversation with my mailbag right now?
Hey, Michael.
As a conservative college student studying neuroscience and political science, what advice do you have to make sure I balance my time between schoolwork, fun, confronting leftist campus lies, and also looking into the future for my career?
I love the show and hope to see you at UMichigan soon.
That's right.
I think I'm coming to UMichigan soon.
We'll have to hash that out.
So...
There are three things you can do in college.
I frequently said there's a time and a place for everything, and that place is college.
There are three things you can do.
Work, play, sleep.
And you can pick two.
I think basically you can pick two.
This is what we were told when I was in college.
This is basically how I lived in college.
I slept, I remember my sophomore year, I slept no more than four hours a night every single night for at least a full semester.
I was taking five classes, some of which met every day.
I was doing, I think, five plays.
I was directing an opera.
I was doing a lot of political work, running a campaign, starting a new campaign.
I was going out of my mind.
I did not sleep.
I was going out frequently, you know, going to parties and things like that, and I don't regret it at all.
It's very important.
The social aspect of college is very, very important.
Don't let anybody tell you otherwise.
And the academic aspect is very important.
And the academic aspect is highlighted by the social aspect, because you'll learn something or you'll read something, and then you'll talk to your friends and you'll have to argue about that.
Or, if your classes are total left-wing nonsense, then your friends might say, hey, read this little book.
This isn't being taught in your political philosophy class, but read this one.
This might change your thoughts.
So don't disregard the play at all.
You might have to disregard some sleep.
Don't be unhealthy about it, but college is a tough time, and it's very compact.
You're trying to fit in your education into four years.
I'm not one of these guys who's anti-college, really.
I mean, colleges have been so corrupted and hollowed out by the left that it's very frustrating, but I really believe in liberal education.
I don't think you should just do some trade, you know, and say, okay, if you don't study engineering, it's not worth getting an education.
I don't believe that for one second.
The humanities are basically the essence of...
They create the stuff of our consciousness and will really help us to come closer to our politics and to know ourselves and to know God better.
So you've got to really dive into it.
Don't disregard the party part either.
There's a time and a place for everything, pal.
Okay, can we get one more question in?
Do we have time for one more?
One more, she says.
Okay, from Dean.
Hey Knowles, I was curious about what your thoughts were on the Republican Party's Stance on things that are objectively bad for the environment, like the keystone pipeline and expansion of offshore drilling.
Just because things are hard to conserve, does that mean we should not do it?
Furthermore, if you do not believe these things are harmful to the environment and surrounding ecosystems, can you provide information as to why?
Many thanks for what you do.
My mom and I love your show.
Thank you to both of you for watching.
Even that phrase is giving away the whole premise to the left.
Harm the environment.
Because what environmentalists do is they make the environment, the rocks and the trees and the water, seem like morally conscious actors.
So they anthropomorphize things that are not meant, that don't have moral qualities to them.
They say, oh, you're harming the environment.
What am I harming?
The earth is a rock.
I'm not going to harm a rock.
The rock isn't going to start crying because I harmed it.
Mother Nature isn't going to weep.
That is crazy nonsense.
We are here and we have dominion over the earth and over the birds of the air and the fish of the sea and the animals that prowl around the ground and everything else around there.
We have dominion over that.
We need to take care of it.
Why do we have to take care of it?
So that we can enjoy it.
Not because it has some right.
Not because, you know, it is deserving of some natural right or something.
It's for us.
We should be good stewards because we love the earth and we love our civilization and our society.
I don't see evidence that the advantages to all of humanity and to civilization and lifting people out of poverty and allowing people to do new things and create more wealth and have more opportunity to explore their interests and to explore culture and to explore their God and to have a relationship with their God.
I don't think that, which all comes out of the ground in a beautiful little liquid called oil and natural gas, when...
I don't think that the harming a few delta smelt or something is a reason not to have any of those things.
You have to ask yourself, what is the purpose of the environment?
What is the purpose of these things?
Is it because it's a moral actor with just as many rights as I have and just the same points of life as I have?
No, of course not.
Absolutely not.
So you have to ask yourself, if the costs...
Do outweigh the benefits, then you don't do something.
But I see no evidence of that with an oil pipeline or pumping more oil out of the ground.
Drill baby drill because we're making America great again and that's a good thing.
It's a good thing that we'll be more prosperous and we'll be able to give more to charity and we'll be able to live fuller lives and to explore both our physical enjoyments and our metaphysical enjoyments.
Okay, that's it.
We've got a lot of good questions.
I had a really good one that someone was going to ask me about why Ben and I disagree on the values of partisanship.
We'll just have to get to that next time.
We'll have to get to that now.
I'll be a team player.
It's Flag Day.
Very briefly, some early American flags.
Everybody remembers this one.
This is the Betsy Ross flag with the circle of stars.
That's good.
They say this is the first American flag.
That isn't true.
The first flag that we know was used by George Washington is this flag.
An appeal to heaven.
It's the pine tree flag, and on top it says an appeal to heaven.
This is referencing John Locke.
It's a refutation of the divine right of kings, and it's saying we're not going to accept the divine right of kings if they're doing a bad job.
We're going to appeal to his king, which is an appeal to heaven.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Get out of here, pal.
Don't you F with me kind of spirit.
That's a good one.
But my favorite one is the Grand Union flag.
This was the first national flag of the United States.
It looks like an American flag with the stripes, but it's got the Union flag in there, the British flag.
In that top corner where the stars are.
And I really like this one.
And I'm glad it was the first national flag of the United States because it shows that we're not these radical revolutionaries who are cutting ourselves off from tradition.
We're inheriting a tradition from the old world and from the country that helped establish this country.
And there's a long institutional history that goes back.
And I think it really grounds the American Revolution in something that's different than the French Revolution.
We don't start cutting off people's heads or cutting off our king's head and trying to undo everything and Burning down churches and creating new cults of reason.
What we do instead is we take from the tradition and we keep what is so valuable about it.
We have a continuity with our forebears who were pretty good guys and great guys.
Okay, that's our show today.
We're out of time.
I'm sorry, folks.
I've got to go and get out of here.
So I will see you on Monday.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is The Michael Knowles Show.
Have a good weekend.
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