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Sept. 17, 2020 - The Michael Knowles Show

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Ep. 613 - Trump Takes The Lead

Trump beats Biden for the first time in a major poll, Democrats get foreign policy wrong again, and more evidence of voter fraud creeps up in NJ. If you like The Michael Knowles Show, become a member TODAY with promo code: KNOWLES and enjoy the exclusive benefits for 10% off at https://www.dailywire.com/knowles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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	President Trump is beating Joe Biden for the first time in a major poll.
	This coming out from Rasmussen.
	Rasmussen does weekly surveys, found out that President Trump is now getting 47% of the respondents' support compared to Joe Biden at just 46%.
	And President Trump's approval rating among respondents has surged to the highest level this year.
	Additionally, on top of that, according to the Washington Examiner, that approval rating is at 52%.
	Why is it?
	Because you can only ignore the president's competence for so long.
	You can only ignore the Democrats' incompetence for so long.
	This is making headway not just among more voters than Biden's voters, not just among a slim majority of Americans.
	This is making inroads, most notably among groups that the Democrats have taken for granted.
	I'm Michael Knowles.
	It's the Michael Knowles Show.
	My favorite comment from yesterday is from Frosted Ice Pharaoh.
	It says, Yesterday, Trump was questioned about not being presidential.
	If he was presidential, he would not be making Middle East peace deals.
	That's true.
	If you really want to be presidential, then you've got to just start a whole bunch of wars in the Middle East.
	Why?
	I don't know.
	We can probably tell you why.
	But this is a big divide, and actually it's on this issue of Middle East peace that the competence of Trump and the incompetence of the Democrats is really clear, because there have been a lot of promises made by top Democratic establishment politicians, and Trump just proved them all wrong.
	We'll get to that in one second.
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	He's doing well with groups that the Democrats have typically relied on, groups, identity groups that Democrats usually take for granted.
	Most notably in recent days, among gay guys.
	Yes, that's right.
	The homosexual population of the electorate tends to be taken for granted by the Democrats.
	And yet, according to polling from a queer dating app, Right now it looks as though 45% of queer American men.
	Now don't cancel me for saying that.
	That's their word.
	I don't know what word I'm supposed to use.
	They change the words every day.
	But 45% of queer American men are backing President Donald Trump.
	And this is considered a very queer fact because Democrats always believe that they're supposed to get 100% of the gay guys.
	The app is called Hornet.com.
	And 45% of them are going to vote.
	This is 1,200 queer American male respondents say they're going to vote for Trump.
	How did they get to this?
	10,000 men were surveyed by the app.
	12% identified as U.S. citizens.
	51% of those men said they'd be voting for Biden.
	And 45% So it's very, very close, even among gay men.
	And by the way, these are just the gay men who are on these apps.
	Presumably, the more bourgeois, staid, you know, calm gay men who are not on these apps, presumably they're even more conservative than all that.
	So why?
	Why is it?
	Why is President Trump gaining momentum?
	He's gaining momentum because Joe Biden is wrong about everything and his views are unpopular.
	Simple as that, right?
	Because he's gotten things wrong with one or two exceptions for 50 years, a huge political career, and his views that, even if they were at one time popular, are no longer popular.
	One example of this, just one simple example, but it's a central one right now, is China.
	China has not only destroyed the global economy because of the pandemic that they lied about, but China also has helped to destroy the American economy by stealing our jobs.
	And you can't even say that they stole the jobs because a lot of American politicians in both parties decided to outsource them.
	This was considered to be a wonderful thing because GDP might tick up a little bit.
	And who cares if whole towns of people are going to die of opioid overdoses and suicides?
	That's not a big deal because at least we can get slightly cheaper consumer goods.
	The view that was held by the Democratic Party and by, I guess what you would call establishment Republicans, the total unfettered free trader Republicans, was this is a good thing.
	A rising China is good for everybody.
	Yeah, they might poison the whole world with a plague and shut down the entire economy, but, you know, generally speaking, it's a good thing.
	And this was the view explicitly held by Joe Biden.
	There was a debate here in the United States, and quite frankly throughout most of the West, as whether a rising China...
	Was in the interest of the United States and the wider world.
	As a young member of the Foreign Relations Committee, I wrote and I said, and I believed then what I believe now, that a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China, but for America and the world writ large.
	Unambiguous.
	I know that clip wasn't so long ago, but I know it's a little jarring to hear Joe Biden speak clearly.
	So odd how his childhood stutter that we've heard so much about in this election campaign obviously wasn't there in the clip, because even just a few years ago, Joe Biden was much more with it than he is today.
	He was with it.
	He was just wrong about everything, notably about China.
	But we can clearly see what his views were.
	He's Wrong about other very popular issues.
	Charter schools.
	Charter schools, school choice, give students, particularly underprivileged students, particularly racial minority students, particularly students in the inner cities, basically charter schools give them their only chance to get a better life, to break out of cycles of poverty and misfortune.
	And Joe Biden and the Democratic establishment opposes it.
	Why does Joe Biden oppose school choice?
	I sat down yesterday with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Senator Cruz for our show Verdict.
	We talked a lot about this issue.
	That will be coming out very soon.
	But the long and short of it is...
	Democrats oppose school choice because they're bought off by the teachers' unions, and the teachers' unions don't want that because it threatens their job, even if they're very poor teachers, even if the students are failing, even if the schools are completely underperforming.
	The teachers' unions don't want to get theirs, so they've made this unholy alliance with the Democratic Party.
	Joe Biden puts it in no uncertain terms.
	He does not want poor kids, he does not want kids in bad school districts to be able to get a good education.
	I will not, there will not be no federal dollars.
	I'm not Betsy DeVos nor will my my sector of education be anything like her in terms of her attitudes about public schools.
	No privately funded charter school would receive or private charter school receive a penny of federal money.
	None.
	And any charter school that in fact is worthy of being able to be in education Would have to be accountable to the same exact school boards, the same exact mechanisms that the public school is accountable to.
	Across the board, there has to be transparency.
	And a lot of these charter schools are significantly underperforming.
	Significantly.
	I can see where you can have a school, for example, a specialty school on the arts or for music.
	But if you're going to have a charter school, it cannot come at the expense of the public school.
	So everything he's saying is just complete nonsense.
	It doesn't mean anything.
	He's saying that the charter schools are underperforming.
	That's simply not true.
	Just the example of last year, New York City, which is a very important place for charter schools, the students in public schools underperformed the students in the charter schools, and pretty significantly.
	And we're talking about public dollars and private dollars.
	A lot of these schools were started with private dollars, and then you've got programs that can transfer some public money.
	They're going to the failing schools and get those students to go to the decent schools.
	In New York, you've got tens of thousands of students on that wait list for charter schools.
	Why?
	Because, of course, everyone wants to get into the good schools.
	And what's the rub here?
	Public schools could lose a billion dollars if those students transferred.
	So a lot of money on the line.
	Joe Biden took that side.
	But across the aisle, including groups that Democrats take for granted, charter schools are very popular.
	It's even beyond Biden.
	Don't forget, Biden is nobody.
	Biden is an empty suit.
	He blows around in the wind.
	Now he probably doesn't even know which way the wind is blowing.
	He is a symbol of the Democratic establishment.
	Yesterday, he forgot who was at the top of the ticket.
	He referred to the Harris-Biden ticket, as though Kamala Harris were going to be the president.
	Joe Biden's going to be the vice president.
	He's just a vessel for Democratic policies.
	How are those policies playing out?
	Very poorly.
	We saw two days ago an historic peace deal in D.C.
	I was sitting directly across the street from the White House when that was signed.
	I was in the hotel with the Israeli and the Bahraini delegation.
	It was pretty weird, man.
	We've been told that Middle East peace is a pipe dream.
	Now we're looking at peace deals not just with Israel and Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, but it could include as many as nine additional nations, including Saudi Arabia, who's the big dog in the region.
	And why did this happen?
	Because Donald Trump bucked the establishment foreign policy trend, specifically the democratic foreign policy establishment trend, even though the last democratic secretary of state, John Kerry, told us that kind of a peace deal, a peace deal that dealt with the Arab nations before dealing with the so-called Palestinian state.
	It's not a state, but the Palestinian issue in Israel.
	John Kerry said that would be absolutely impossible to Until it was possible.
	There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world.
	I want to make that very clear to all of you.
	I've heard several prominent politicians in Israel sometimes saying, well, the Arab world's in a different place now.
	We just have to reach out to them and we can work some things with the Arab world and we'll deal with the Palestinians.
	No, no, no, and no.
	I can tell you that reaffirmed even in the last week as I have talked to leaders of the Arab community.
	There will be no advance and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian process and Palestinian peace.
	Everybody needs to understand that.
	That is a hard reality.
	I love how these Democratic politicians, who are 100% wrong on these issues, Joe Biden on China, John Kerry on the Middle East, make themselves so clear so that we can just go back and see how wrong they were.
	In John Kerry's best Thurston Howell III voice, he goes, Let me tell you something, Teresa.
	Let me tell you something, lovies.
	You will not get any Middle East peace.
	You will not.
	I promise you.
	I stake all of my money on the line.
	Oh, what was that?
	You said, well, hold on.
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	So they get this stuff totally wrong on the Democratic side of the aisle.
	What does the press do?
	They ignore it.
	I mean, specifically on this issue, John Kerry, Obama's secretary of state says it is not possible to get this Middle East peace deal.
	Trump does it in his first term.
	That was at the end of the second Obama term that Kerry said that Trump gets it within the first term.
	Do the press ask questions about that?
	No, because they don't want to cover it.
	They just want to downplay it.
	And thankfully, our wonderful press secretary, be still my beating heart, Kayleigh McEnany comes out and right as she's about to leave the stage, she rips him for it.
	What I will weigh into is the Middle East peace deal signed yesterday that I did not receive a single question about.
	That was the first time it's happened in a quarter of a century.
	If Obama and Biden had achieved this, it would look a lot different.
	You wouldn't have Chuck Todd saying he's uncomfortable with the deal that brings peace between the United Arab Emirates and Israel and Bahrain.
	You wouldn't have CBS calling it, quote, a business deal.
	And you wouldn't have Nancy Pelosi calling it a distraction.
	Maybe it's a distraction from her visits to the hair salon, but those were significant agreements.
	First time in a quarter of a century, three peace deals in 29 days.
	Took 26 years for the prior two peace deals.
	So this the Nobel Peace Prize nomination for the president, two of them very well deserved.
	Thank you.
	Kaylee, if he's a law and order president, why does he keep breaking the law?
	Kaylee, no, stop it.
	Stop it.
	Stop hurting me, Kaylee.
	I can't take it.
	I love how she does this.
	Because it's not just that she goes out and smacks the press.
	She lures them in.
	She does this whole press conference.
	She's waiting for them.
	Just okay.
	She knew that they're not going to ask any question about this historic peace deal.
	This peace deal that Trump brokered that was the first normalization of relationships between Israel and an Arab nation in 26 years.
	Last time was 94.
	The time before that was 78.
	You'd think it'd be big news, right?
	They won't ask, so she waits.
	And then the very last point, she goes, okay, and before I leave, you all are a bunch of total hacks.
	You won't cover this because you're nothing but Democratic propagandists.
	Okay, good night, see ya.
	And then what?
	The best they can muster is, Kayleigh, he's mean.
	I don't like the orange man.
	So the left has to ignore these big news stories, ignore how wrong their politicians have been, how shockingly correct Trump has been.
	But then they've got to go a little further than that.
	They've got to censor him.
	So Facebook right now, Facebook, which is just another aspect of this liberal establishment, Facebook censors a...
	It's not a Trump campaign ad, but it's an ad affiliated with the Trump election.
	It's a pro-Trump ad, an anti-Biden ad, about how Joe Biden is going to raise your taxes.
	Joe Biden has been promising explicitly throughout this campaign that he will raise your taxes.
	He's bragged about this.
	We have him on videotape talking about this.
	So this anti-Biden ad just puts Joe Biden's own words on the air and Facebook censors it because they say that it's misleading.
	Take a listen.
	Sometimes politicians accidentally tell the truth.
	Guess what?
	If you elect me, I'm not gonna have you.
	Your taxes are gonna be raised, not cut.
	And it's true.
	The New York Times says Biden's tax increases are more than double Hillary Clinton's plan.
	Even the Tax Policy Center admits taxes would increase on all income groups.
	If you elect me, I'm not gonna have you.
	Your taxes are gonna be raised, not cut.
	Big tax increases crushing our recovery.
	It could go higher.
	America First Action is responsible for the content of this advertising.
	So that is absolutely not permitted on Facebook because then we'd have to listen to what Joe Biden's actually saying and that would be even less popular than the current propaganda around Joe Biden.
	So that's got to be censored.
	Now do you remember?
	Do you remember, this was just a couple of weeks ago, Joe Biden ran an ad that said that Donald Trump called neo-Nazis very fine people at Charlottesville.
	Now, we know that isn't true.
	We've played the clip many times.
	We've read the transcript many times.
	He didn't do it.
	He explicitly said...
	I'm not talking about neo-Nazis and white supremacists who should be condemned totally.
	Joe Biden launched his campaign on this lie.
	It was the very first thing in the very first ad that Joe Biden ran on, and he's been running on it throughout the campaign.
	Another lie that he's been running on is that Donald Trump hates the soldiers, and he's been deriding dead soldiers, fallen heroes overseas.
	This is based on Nothing.
	It's based on an Atlantic report from four anonymous sources that was then quote-unquote confirmed by an anonymous source, but you can't confirm a report with an anonymous source.
	Countering that, we have 21 people on the record saying it didn't happen.
	That ad, perfectly fine on social media, because that ad hits Donald Trump based on lies, based on nothing.
	That one's okay, but a video simply playing Joe Biden's own words gets censored.
	We're not even in November yet.
	We're not even in October yet.
	This is only going to get much, much worse.
	The Democrats' only chance at this point, with all the momentum going for Trump, even after they killed the economy with this stupid lockdown, even with all of that, Trump still has the momentum in his favor, so what are they going to do?
	They're going to try to steal the election.
	We're already seeing a lot of evidence and fraud, yet again, in New Jersey.
	We will get to that in one second.
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	Isn't that so weird?
	Ah, gosh, what are the odds that you'd lose 1,600 ballots for a state primary?
	It's just in a bin.
	It's in the wrong bin.
	It was in a secure area, though, in the county election office, according to the New Jersey Herald.
	And listen, they're not going to change the results of the July 7th primary race.
	The Board of Elections is confident that all ballots received have been processed and the security of all ballots has remained in place.
	Now, we know that in New Jersey just this year, we found out there was a huge voter fraud scheme, another voter fraud scheme, to steal an election.
	We know now that in my own town, or my town for right now, Los Angeles, when you get a mail-in ballot, your party identification is on the outside of the envelope.
	Isn't that a little weird?
	What happened to our secret ballot?
	Why is that party identification on the outside of the envelope?
	Do you think that some of those ballots might end up mislabeled in a bin somewhere?
	Yeah, probably.
	Sometimes the left says that there's no evidence of widespread mail-in voter fraud.
	The reason that that, it's sort of true, it's sort of not true.
	The reason it's even plausibly true is we don't have widespread mail-in ballots yet.
	We've never had them before until this year when the left pushed them.
	We can point to lots and lots of examples of voter fraud, specifically with mail-in.
	We have an election day for a reason.
	We have ballot security for a reason.
	We try to have voter ID for a reason.
	The Democrats oppose that because they want people who should not be allowed to vote to vote so that they can steal elections because they can't win elections because they have very bad and unpopular ideas.
	So they are out now.
	They're trying to steal it through censorship.
	They're trying to steal it through journalistic neglect.
	And now they're trying to steal it at the ballot box as well.
	Which brings me to a video that I really enjoyed seeing from a target.
	And this is a Target shopping center.
	Not like a Target, like pew-pew.
	This scene that came from Target gave me a lot of hope.
	I know some conservatives are reacting to it in a negative way, but I think they're missing the point here.
	There was a flash mob that showed up to a Target.
	They walked in.
	They put on a little bit of music.
	Then they took all their masks off and started shopping.
	It was a big stunt to say, hey, everybody, take these muzzles off of your face.
	And I'm not saying that we should always flout rules and regulations, but sometimes we most certainly should.
	Take a listen.
	Here they are, we got some cameras out, got some phones out, got a MAGA hat right there.
	All with their masks, and then they take them off.
	All right, now they're doing this outrageous act of shopping.
	If they were Democrats, they would be looting.
	But they're not looting.
	They're Republicans, so they're shopping.
	And this is considered dangerous, terrible, violent against the public health.
	All of the looting and rioting that we've seen for the last six months by Democrats, that was peaceful.
	Mostly peaceful.
	Fiery, but peaceful.
	But this, these Republicans of all shapes and sizes, all shades, everybody, They're considered a threat because they're happily taking muzzles off of their face.
	There are some conservatives who say, we must respect the rule of law.
	We must respect all of these rules.
	First of all, I don't think that a lot of these mask mandates necessarily qualify as the rule of law.
	I don't think a lot of these lockdowns necessarily qualify as the rule of law or constitutional, even.
	What we're looking at right now It's a situation where the left is not playing by the rules that they want us to play by.
	And when you want rule of law, when you want order in a country, you all need to play by the rules.
	If half of the country with most of the political power is not playing by those rules, then you certainly should not play by those rules.
	And when we're getting into these issues of muzzling yourself wherever you go or of not being able to go to church, for goodness sakes, now you're in an area where a little bit of orderly, clever, humorous resistance is not only permissible, but it's absolutely called for.
	Something has gone really, really wrong with the left establishment, the Democrats, the media, tech, all of this in this country, when prominent Hollywood leftists even are admitting that something's gone wrong.
	Judd Apatow, no conservative, no rock ribbed Republican, no Trumper has come out and he said that Hollywood has sold its soul to China.
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	Even Judd Apatow, Hollywood left winger, comes out and he says, something's gone really wrong here.
	Even we Hollywood left wingers have to in some way censor ourselves.
	Because this liberal establishment has sold itself out to China.
	For me, I think what I perceive as more chilling is a corporate type of censorship that people don't really notice, which is a lot of these giant corporate entities have business with, you know, countries around the world, Saudi Arabia or China, and they're just not going to criticize them, and they're not going to let their shows criticize them, or they're not going to air documentaries that go deep into truthful areas because they just make so much money.
	So while we're all going, you know, can we say this joke or not say that joke?
	On a much bigger level, they have just completely shut down critical content about human rights abuses in China.
	And I think that's much scarier.
	He makes a great point.
	That's obviously happening.
	I mean, specifically with regard to China, you can point to the movies, you can point to the scenes.
	This new version of Top Gun explicitly is taking the flags of China's enemies off of it and just trying to appease them.
	But it's happened in a lot of movies as well.
	So you've got this problem at what you would call the corporate level, right?
	It's not just the political level, it's at the corporate level.
	And it's not even just that kind of cynicism.
	It's at the The ideological level, too.
	There was this piece I mentioned, I think, yesterday on the show from Vox.com that says, How Beethoven's Fifth Symphony put the classism in classical music.
	Beethoven's most famous work changed the way we listen and how we're supposed to listen.
	And it's a long...
	A meandering read about how for people in some groups, women, LGBTQ plus people, people of color, Beethoven's symphony may be predominantly a reminder of classical music's history of exclusion and elitism.
	They're now trying to cancel Beethoven's most famous work.
	You know, it's the one that goes...
	They're trying to cancel that because...
	Because why?
	Because of classism?
	No.
	Because they want to cancel culture.
	We hear about cancel culture.
	Well, what is cancel culture about?
	It's about canceling culture.
	And that is deeply unpopular.
	I mean, that is just one example and one symbol of what the left is doing.
	They are trying to destroy every single thing we cherish in this civilization because their view is that the civilization is rotten to the core and we need to...
	Deconstruct it or dismantle it or destroy it or whatever term that they use of the day.
	And they want to replace it with something else.
	Either their own unfettered imagination or instrumentally some aspect of some other culture that we don't particularly cherish because it's not from our civilization.
	And it's seen as in opposition to the things we hold dear.
	At all of these levels, that is not a recipe for popularity.
	And so the only way that the left can win people over to their side is by taking them, by stealing these things, by cooking the books.
	That's what they're trying to do with this election.
	We've got to get to the mailbag first, though.
	I do want to mention that there is a news story came out a couple of days ago, right when I was about to go on the air to cover President Trump's town hall, which is that the Daily Wire is moving to Nashville.
	Can't you just see me as a southerner?
	Howdy!
	Yeehaw!
	I love Nashville.
	When I moved from New York to LA, the only town that I spent an extra night in was Nashville.
	It's a great town, so we're very excited.
	I like LA too, but LA has become basically unlivable.
	They're killing companies here.
	They're putting outrageous, onerous restrictions on everything.
	Often they won't even let you go to the park or to the beach because of their tyrannical flexes of power.
	The town has now been overrun by crime and homelessness.
	The mayor here, absolutely failed mayor, Eric Garcetti, passed a zillion dollar bond.
	I think it was over a billion dollar bond to fight homelessness.
	And what happened?
	Homelessness spiked in LA County, 12% in one year.
	In the city, 16% in one year.
	They've taken over huge parks, some of the nicest neighborhoods, many, many city blocks.
	And now the state government wants to come in and steal everybody's money and stop us all from doing business.
	So you gotta leave.
	At a certain point, you can't take it anymore.
	I do want to point out, though, that Well, Tennessee is a great red state.
	The governor very kindly welcomed us.
	Some members of Congress in Tennessee welcomed us coming there.
	A lot of wonderful people in Nashville have welcomed us.
	There is one author from, I guess, the left-wing paper in Nashville, Stephen Hale from the Nashville scene.
	I guess I'll censor this with my thumb here.
	A-hole moving to town.
	Ben Shapiro announced he and the Daily Wire are coming to Nashville.
	Thanks.
	We hate it.
	And then, you know, he calls us all sorts of names and everything.
	All I can say to that as we get ready to make this move is, see you soon, neighbor.
	Can't wait.
	Can't wait to see you there in Nashville.
	We're going to have a great time.
	Lots and lots of changes.
	Don't forget, as we look at all this madness around us, People can despair.
	They say, oh my gosh, they're taking away all of our rights.
	They're taking away our ability to go to church.
	They're taking away all these wonderful things that we hold dear.
	Our education, our statues, our traditions.
	Sure.
	True.
	I don't mean to underplay that at all.
	But chaos can breed opportunity if you know how to play it.
	And that's how conservatives should be looking to do these things.
	things because you know, the world is all going to go up in flames eventually, but what can we do in the meantime to try to make it work, try to make it just a little bit better?
	How can you make your sleep a little bit better?
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	All right.
	We are getting into the mailbag.
	Don't forget, on September 28th, we're going to start broadcasting this show on the Michael Knowles Show YouTube channel rather than the Daily Wire channel, so make sure you subscribe to the Michael Knowles Show YouTube channel, and we will get into the mailbag.
	Stick around.
	around.
	We'll be right back.
	First question from Carter.
	Michael, over the weekend I watched The Godfather and The Godfather Part 2 for the first time.
	I thought they were terrific and I wanted to say that you were amazing as Michael Corleone.
	You haven't aged a bit.
	In your opinion, should I watch The Godfather Part 3?
	I've heard it is not as good, but wanted your opinion.
	Thanks.
	You want to know something?
	I've seen The Godfather Part 1, I don't know, 50 times.
	I've seen The Godfather Part 2, I don't know, 50 times.
	I've never seen Part 3.
	I haven't wanted to do it.
	You've got two of the greatest movies ever made.
	So I haven't seen it yet.
	And I don't intend to.
	If you see it, let me know.
	But I'm so deeply in love with the Godfather films that I don't want something to be less than wonderful.
	So I'm going to reverse this.
	You tell me if I should watch it, and then maybe I will.
	Because just, just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in!
	From Anonymous.
	Dear Michael, in my early 20s and for the past couple of years, I've been occasionally but intensely drawn to Christianity.
	Great.
	I've been slowly reading the Gospels and find that many of the ways I see the world are just clicking into place.
	However, I'm fiercely proud of my Jewish identity, the state of Israel, and love celebrating the major Jewish holidays.
	Not to mention there is not one non-Jew in my entire immediate or extended family, so I feel incredibly conflicted about potentially betraying them if I ever decided to leave.
	What do I do?
	Thank you.
	Well, I can name some other prominent Jews in the history of Christianity, if you like.
	Namely, Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Peter, Paul, I guess all of the apostles, and so many of the early Christians, and later Christians too, wonderful recent saints, Jewish.
	I understand this is a real problem, because you feel as though if you...
	Leave a religious group, especially a religious group that also happens to be an ethnic group, that you're somehow betraying people.
	But you're not.
	The ultimate responsibility you have is to God.
	Okay?
	And so, one would hope that your family will come around and understand and realize that you have to be responsible to your God.
	But even if they don't, too bad.
	Christ says this.
	He says, if you do not hate your brother and sister and father and mother, you can't follow me.
	Now, he also says, love your neighbor as yourself, and he obviously is love himself.
	But what does he mean by that?
	What he means is, if you are prioritizing something of this world, even something as wonderful and loyal and deep and profound and important as family, over God, Then you're doing it wrong.
	And this is obviously perfectly in line with what you would read in the Old Testament as well.
	You can't prioritize anything over God.
	So I would welcome you to the body of Christ.
	It's a wonderful thing.
	I'm not trivializing it.
	I understand that it is difficult.
	I would recommend reading Andrew Clavin, another...
	Jew who is a Christian, ethnic Jew, former, you know, he was raised Jewish, and who is also a Christian.
	I would read his memoir, The Great Good Thing.
	It's a good way to navigate that.
	And there's so many others as well.
	But I welcome you and wish you all the best and look forward to seeing you in heaven someday, hopefully.
	Knock on wood.
	From Joshua.
	Michael, why do progressives think everything is a fundamental human right?
	Healthcare voting and now clean air and water.
	Isn't it more accurate to say everything they want should be a right?
	You mean like a civil right or something, you know, or like just a law that you pass.
	The reason they say this, that everything is a human right, coffee is a human right now, is because they don't really mean the same thing by right that we mean by right, because they don't really believe in rights at all.
	Where would a right come from?
	Well, it would come from, I guess, the natural law.
	And the natural law implies a natural lawmaker.
	It ties back into the religious question we had earlier.
	And they don't believe in any of that stuff.
	They don't believe in this eternal stuff.
	They don't believe that nature is even set by fixed laws.
	That human nature is.
	They believe that human nature is on a continuum.
	They think that Newton was replaced by Darwin.
	And they...
	Even those phrases are rife for abuse because they don't really understand even what that means.
	But the gist of it is they think that everything is always sort of changing.
	And so when we talk about human rights, we're just talking about the things that we really want.
	We really want.
	It would be nice to have healthcare.
	So it's a human right.
	Modern medical technology is a human right.
	So that means that virtually everyone who ever lived before us without modern medical technology was deprived of their human right.
	And we will be considered to have been deprived of our human right when medical technology advances.
	So then what does that right even mean?
	It doesn't mean anything.
	It's just an expression of their will.
	And that's really what you're seeing with most liberal arguments, is it's not even an argument from reason or from eternal law.
	It's an argument from the will, and that's no argument at all.
	It's just saying, gimme, gimme, gimme.
	From Thomas.
	Hey, Michael, with all the identity politics going around these days and the left's fascination with men being able to identify as and be treated as women, when do you think it will become a common leftist ideology for people to identify as and be treated by the left as another race?
	I ask because despite being a straight white male, I would certainly love to convince leftists that I'm actually a lesbian black woman and get them to pay me reparations.
	Since, of course, it was Democrats who kept slavery and racial bigotry alive.
	Love to hear your thoughts.
	Well, you're already seeing this a little bit with the Rachel Dolezals and there was that professor recently because there are certain legal advantages associated with race.
	Now, they say, they pretend that there are legal advantages associated with being white, but there aren't, right?
	The only legal racism or racial discrimination we have in the country is affirmative action.
	It gives you a privilege, an advantage, if you are black or Hispanic, for example, and it gives you a disadvantage if you are white or Asian.
	And so, no surprise that there are white people, a number of them now, very prominently, who have pretended to be black so that they can get certain legal and social advantages.
	This, I don't think, will be accepted at a broad level, however, because...
	The left does not care about any of these issues per se.
	They don't care about one race over another because of that race or because, as we were just saying, because of some eternal principle.
	They're doing it instrumentally to gain power.
	And you don't need to take my word for it.
	I mean, the theorists and the political philosophers who plotted out this kind of regime, especially in the 20th century, said this explicitly.
	And the organizers who did it, too.
	Saul Alinsky was very prominent in this.
	You've got to divvy up the electorate in this way, create new identity groups, give them some special privileges, buy them off, and then they will vote for you and you will get more power.
	I mean, this was explicitly the argument for creating lots of new racial identity groups that previously had not existed.
	And people were even slow sometimes to identify with those groups until the left decided to start offering them money and privileges for it.
	So I don't think that's going to be mainstreamed because the very point of it is to keep the people that they want to keep out of it out.
	And the people that they want to bribe, bribed.
	From Gabriel.
	Hey, Michael.
	I was talking with a friend today about our country, and one of the things he said was that he believed that our country was mostly being run by white supremacists.
	What is your take on this, and how would you refute it?
	Thank you for all that you do and love your show.
	I think that's probably why I couldn't even read that question is because I've already refuted it.
	That was the premise of the last one.
	There are legal advantages.
	Based on race in this country, but it's not based on white supremacy.
	From Patrick, Dear fiery but mostly peaceful Knowles, many on the right believe that the 1960s were the turning point in the decay of our society due to the sexual revolution, increased secularization, second wave feminism, fading of American exceptionalism, etc.
	How can you convince someone on the left that this has led to a lot of the chaos we're living through when they think most of those things are net benefits to society and Trump is the source of all of the chaos?
	I appreciate your thoughts.
	Yeah, I suppose you just have to go further back than the 60s.
	I agree with you that the 60s were a turning point.
	But what some of those people, I think, fail to do is connect the premises of the 1960s and their rose-colored glass version of the 1960s with the mayhem we're seeing now.
	You know, the sort of...
	The idealism of the 1960s compared to the decay of the 1970s even.
	You saw, you know, I guess to use a good example from the 1960s, you take a bunch of drugs and you get really high and you feel euphoric for a period of time.
	And then you have a hangover or you have withdrawal or you have addiction or you have misery.
	All of that is because of the drugs.
	But if you only remember the euphoria, then you're still going to be pro-drug, even though you see what happened afterwards.
	Same thing with the free love.
	Free love is pretty good for a short period of time.
	At least it feels pretty good.
	But then you have...
	Disease.
	Then you have heartbreak.
	Then you have sexual assault.
	Then you have unwanted pregnancy that can lead to children being abused.
	Then you have all of these kinds of awful social consequences.
	But if all you remember is the heat of the moment, then you say, oh, that was pretty good.
	So you have to show that connection.
	Obviously, Trump couldn't have started the decay.
	The decay And the chaos has been going on long before Donald Trump.
	But what you have to do is show the connection between cause and effect.
	And you have to show people that there's no such thing as a free lunch or free love or a free high without any consequences.
	From Andrew.
	Hey Michael, I never voted before and I want to.
	I'm just confused as to why I should.
	Hillary claimed that she won the popular vote by 3 million votes, which seems to me that that means the popular vote doesn't do anything because she lost.
	That's true.
	The popular vote has nothing to do with the election.
	Could you explain to me why we have a popular vote or what I'm missing as to why I should vote?
	Well, sure.
	You should vote because...
	Because if you're listening to this show, you probably have a fairly decent political point of view, and we want that view to be expressed at the ballot box.
	But yeah, the president has never been selected by popular vote.
	That is a myth that the Democrats try to drag out every time they lose the election, but they win the popular vote.
	Then they try to change the rules.
	But the rules, even that come down to why we would campaign in certain states, are based on trying to win the election the way the Constitution is set up, not based on the popular vote or whatever.
	By the way, if the election were about winning the popular vote, I bet Donald Trump would have won the popular vote because he would have gone to the places with big populations instead of focusing on the places where the electoral vote matters.
	So you should vote for that.
	One, because if the Democrats do win the popular vote, you want to be able to mitigate their bragging about how they won the popular vote.
	But you should vote because we have a self-governing republic, and that's the way the system works right now, and we want the good guys to vote more than the less good guys to vote.
	All right.
	Take one more question from Dave.
	Hey, Michael, when the infamous NBC tape came out, Trump was quoted as saying that when you're a star, women will let you do anything, including grabbing them in their private parts.
	How has no one made the connection that this is exactly what Joe Biden is accused of doing, actually doing, with Tara Reid?
	Trump didn't say he actually did that, although no one would be surprised if he did.
	But Joe Biden is actually accused of this very act.
	Actually, no.
	Actually, it's a little bit different than that.
	Because what Trump is saying is when you're a star, they let you do it.
	Right?
	And so when people say that he's bragging about sexual assault, by definition, he's not.
	Right?
	Really, what he's doing is just telling a locker room joke to Billy Bush.
	But in his very language, by definition, he's saying they let you do it, so it's not an assault.
	Right?
	What Joe Biden is accused of actually doing, she did not let him do.
	And Joe Biden was not a star, by the way.
	He was a politician in D.C. Okay, so it doesn't even qualify on the premise of what Trump is saying.
	But the key here is the consent, right?
	The premise of Trump's joke is that there is consent.
	The premise of what Joe Biden is actually being accused of doing is no consent.
	I'm just going to do it.
	But why are they not focusing on this, this blatant hypocrisy?
	Because they don't have to.
	Because they don't have to.
	Because nobody's going to hold them to account to do that.
	And because of projection.
	Projection where the Democrats accuse their opponents of doing the very things that they do.
	Democrats accuse Republicans of being soft on Russia.
	Democrats have just spent 100 years being soft on Russia in this country.
	But all of a sudden, they flip it.
	They're not going to be held to account.
	That's why we're in a less deliberative time.
	That's why we've got to be a little bit clever and take all of this chaos and try to breed some opportunity.
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