Ep. 1571 - The Presidential Debate SUMMARIZED in 3 Mins!
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What do you feel in your body when you hear the term white people? I feel a little cringe about it. White, straight, cisgender, and it's the top of the pile. I'm on the top of the pile. It's me. Can I just propose a toast? Raise a glass if you're racist. To racists.

That was really weird. Don't deny that you're racist. Try not to be racist, but also don't realize that you're... Until we're willing to talk about these things, healing can't really begin. My daughter's four years old. She's still watching Disney movies and choosing a white princess. Have you talked to her about that? All the time. Is racism inherent to whiteness? Yes. Yeah, probably. Well, yeah. Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert. Did race exist as a reality before? We made race exist. Does that make sense? It does make sense.

What do you mean? What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. This is more for you and less for you. Am I racist? In theaters this Friday. Rated PG-13. Last night was the big debate. I'll give you the whole summary. Trump won the first 25 or so minutes. Kamala started to make a comeback by distracting with irrelevant issues.

But the moderators were not willing to leave it in her incapable hands. So they both intervened in the debate, uniformly taking her side and even lying on her behalf. Trump then won the closing statement. So how do you score that? I don't know. I guess a draw. Nothing changes for now, except for one big thing, which we'll get into. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. The Michael Knowles Show.

Thank you.

Welcome back to the show. Vanity Fair is furious that people are converting to Catholicism. You know, I guess the theme of today is going to be the liberal media. The liberal media, they're furious that people are converting. The liberal media, they intervene in the debate, make it a three-on-one debate against Donald Trump. The liberal media completely misrepresenting a huge news story involving the pro-trans crowd,

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That's the debate. You want the 30-second take? What I just said in the intro is the debate. I will give you the highlights. We're going to do this very, very quickly because there was not much substance at the debate. What little substance there was was brought by President Trump, but he had to force that through because Kamala and the moderators were distracting with a lot of nonsense.

The debate was significant. That's the reason we're talking about it right now. But it was not significant because of any particular policy differences between the candidates. The debate was significant because of the way, the most egregious I've seen in my life, the way in which the media came in to bail out Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris, from the opening of the debate, was losing. Here is the very first question and a little bit of Kamala's shaky answer.

When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago? So I was raised as a middle class kid and I am actually the only person on this stage who has a plan that is about lifting up the middle class and working people of America.

I believe in the ambition, the aspirations, the dreams of the American people. And that is why I imagine and have actually a plan to build what I call an opportunity economy. Because here's the thing. We know that we have a shortage of homes and housing. And the cost of housing is too expensive for far too many people. We know that young families need support.

to raise their children, and I intend on extending a tax cut for those families of $6,000, which is the largest child tax credit that we have given in a long time, so that those young families can afford to buy a crib, buy a car seat, buy clothes for their children. Yeah, cool.

Could you answer the question, please? Had there been a competent debate moderator or even just a debate moderator that was not actively working on behalf of Kamala Harris?

The follow up would have been had actually even if it had been a liberal, if had it been a Jake Tapper or Dana Bash from the CNN debate between Trump and Biden, they would have followed up and said, OK, but can you answer the question? Are you are Americans better off now than we were four years ago? You can hear in Kamala's voice. It's not just the complete evasion of the question. It's not just pivoting to I have a plan for I'm going to cut some taxes.

For for I'm going to expand for the child tax credit, which is actually a policy that she stole directly from Trump immediately after the Trump campaign proposed it. But it's even just the quality of her voice is a little bit shaky. There was this little lip smacking thing going on. She was losing her words. She was nervous.

And that did not bode well for her, at least in the first part of the debate, because that first question from David Muir was the most obvious question in probably the whole debate. If Kamala was going to have any pushback whatsoever, it would have been on the present state of the country. She's the vice president. She's been imbued with presidential authority by Joe Biden for three years now on certain issues.

She's sort of running as the incumbent. Okay, how have you done? Is your administration successful? And she didn't even have an answer to that. So the Republicans were feeling really, really good in the first part. Trump was seizing the advantage. He pointed out that in all that gobbledygook about the opportunity and the this and the that, she didn't have any concrete plans.

I went to the Wharton School of Finance and many of those professors, the top professors, think my plan is a brilliant plan. It's a great plan. It's a plan that's going to bring up our worth, our value as a country. It's going to make people want to be able to go and work and create jobs and create a lot of

good, solid money for our country. And just to finish off, she doesn't have a plan. She copied Biden's plan. And it's like four sentences, like run, spot, run. Four sentences that are just, oh, we'll try and lower taxes. She doesn't have a plan. Take a look at her plan. She doesn't have a plan. This was a good bit. And Trump had a few good jabs in here. I love that he points out that

The parts of her plan that she did not steal from Trump's campaign, she stole from Biden. And we see this. Brett Baier was talking about this two nights ago in the source code of Kamala's issues agenda, which he only recently had to put up on her website because we all pressured her into it. Yeah, it's like I love I love even the way he speaks like a millennial girl because it is relatable and it's funny.

It's like four sentences. OK, it's like run, spot, run. OK, that was a funny line. At one point, he said he was elated to see that she had stolen so much of his platform and he was tempted to send her a MAGA hat. She was becoming so Trumpy. Those were good lines. Debate still going very well for Trump at this point. The moderator is still basically just doing their job.

Then, you know how much I hate to say I told you so, President Trump was asked about the 2020 election. This was obviously going to come up. I predicted that this was going to come up the moment that President Trump said that he lost the 2020 election by a whisker.

He said this recently on the Lex Friedman podcast. Trump has maintained for years that the 2020 election was rigged, and he's used different terms to describe this rigging, and he has focused with greater and lesser specificity on how it was rigged. I think most people can agree it was broadly rigged. The rules were all changed in the days and weeks before the election, in some cases unconstitutionally. So I pointed out this is going to become a big problem because Trump has maintained that

He did not really lose the election. Now, he seemed to say, at least if you look at his verbatim words, that he did lose. I pointed out when he said it on the Lex Friedman podcast, it was clearly sarcastic.

He said, look, I was winning on election night. I had all of the polls had me up. I had all of these votes. And then, what do you know? I lost by a whisker. And he was being pilloried, Trump, not only by the left, but even by people on the right, even by people who supposedly support him. And I pointed out, guys, it doesn't take a literary critic to realize he's using verbal irony here. He's not really believing that. He's being sarcastic. And, you know, I hate to say I told you so, Trump vindicated that view last night.

Mr. President, for three and a half years after you lost the 2020 election, you repeatedly falsely claimed that you won, many times saying you won in a landslide. In the past couple of weeks leading up to this debate, you have said, quote, you lost by a whisker, that you, quote, didn't quite make it, that you came up a little bit short.

I said that. Are you now acknowledging that you lost in 2020? No, I don't acknowledge that at all. But you did say that. I said that sarcastically, you know that. We said, oh, we lost by a whisker. That was said sarcastically. Obviously, because the diction was so wild. People don't use that phrase. It's unusual diction, lost by a whisker.

Norm Macdonald used to do this, the late great Norm Macdonald. I mention him because Trump is speaking comically. He's got a great sense of comic timing. But Norm would use all this kind of funny, old-sounding jargon. Well, you know, on account of all this sort of, you know, there was once a fella by the name, you know, he'd use that kind of talk to give his words a verbal irony. So that's what Trump was doing, and he holds firm, which he had to do.

Had to say, no, that election was rigged. Election integrity is a very important issue. The Democrats are trying to get rid of

voter ID. The Democrats are trying to take away all of our measures that can ensure the integrity and honesty of our elections. He has to do that, one, because it's important and because those sorts of claims are true, but also because if Trump doesn't do that, then he's a liar who's a grave threat to the republic. Then he basically vindicates all of the nonsense Democrats have been saying about him. So did very, very well for the first part of the debate.

Kamala Harris scored one big blow in the debate. Kamala's big blow that she scored was not on any issue. It was not on any historical point. It had no substance whatsoever. And it was almost certainly based on a lie. But it succeeded because it off-footed him. Kamala said that people leave Trump's rallies early. That was it. It was just the newest iteration of saying that Trump doesn't draw big crowds.

And Trump was drawn in to take the debate and it shifted the tone of the debate. And all of a sudden after that, she sounded less nervous and President Trump sounded a little bit angrier. Previously, he was just kind of calm, funny, and light. So that was the one area in which Kamala herself succeeded in the debate. And it was only tactical. It was not substantive. But Kamala, you got to remember, Kamala is good at manipulating men. Kamala launched her political career

By manipulating a married man, Willie Brown. Willie Brown was happy to be manipulated, it sounds like. And I don't even mean this in a provocative way or to cast unnecessary aspersions on Kamala's behavior early in life. I just mean this is her modus operandi. This is the way that she succeeded in politics. She got her political career because of her adulterous relationship with Willie Brown in San Francisco. That's what launched her into politics.

And then fast forward some years, she got the vice presidency by manipulating Joe Biden during one debate. You remember in the 2020 presidential primaries when she was still running, she had the audacity and the cleverness to call Biden a racist and to say that she was a little girl who was being bused to the white school. And because Joe Biden opposed busing, he didn't want her to get an education. And she made this a big, big issue for Biden. She put him into a corner

That forced him to choose a black woman running mate. And at that point, Kamala had the vice presidency because the only three serious contenders for that position were Karen Bass, member of Congress at the time, who was an actual communist. Like she worked with communist groups in her youth. There was Susan Rice. She was the fall man under Obama for Benghazi. It wasn't going to be her.

So it had to be Kamala. That's a clever way to manipulate an individual man to get political power. She completely flopped with the voters, but she advanced her career significantly. And then last night, she was manipulative as well. But the real driving force of the debate

was neither of the candidates. It was the moderators who, after getting a little sick and tired of watching Trump win decisively in the first part of the debate, they decided that they were going to start to cheat. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to stamps.com, use promo code Knowles. In this nonstop world that we're living in,

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the candidates. You'll recall during the CNN debate with liberal Jake Tapper and liberal Dana Bash, they did not fact check the candidates. They allowed the candidates to say their points. And if there was going to be any fact checking, it would come from the other candidates, as it is supposed to be during a one-on-one debate. The tradition of presidential debate says that the moderators are not supposed to play a prominent role. It's supposed to be the candidates sparring. This changed in 2012 when CNN's Candy Crowley

interrupted the debate to fact check Mitt Romney when Mitt Romney claimed that Barack Obama waited several days to call the Benghazi attack a terror attack. And she said, no, Governor Romney, that's not true. He did it the very next day. And then it turned out her fact check, even if it were true, would have been an egregious interruption of a presidential debate. But it turns out she lied. That wasn't true. Mitt Romney was right. Obama was wrong. And Candy Crowley was wrong.

And she corrected herself after everyone had tuned out of the debate. But that was an egregious interruption. What happened last night was far, far more egregious. Both David Muir, I always pronounce his name because it's spelled Muir, but it's pronounced Muir. David Muir and Lindsay Davis, who was his co-host, interjected multiple times. I think it was five so-called fact checks. They were all fact checks of Trump, even though Kamala Harris said, by my count,

more false statements than Trump. In one case, Kamala Harris uttered three false statements basically in one breath. She brought up the very fine people hoax that even Snopes.com, a left-wing or liberal-leaning website, has debunked. She brought up the...

Oh, what is the term? It's totally escaping me. I'm having a Rick Perry moment. No, it was a bloodbath. This was the most egregious one. President Trump was speaking to auto workers and he was describing the economic conditions if

Biden slash Harris won reelection. And he said, yeah, it would be a bloodbath. Well, a bloodbath is an economic term. It returns to complete economic disaster. And immediately afterward, the libs, including Kamala Harris, said, well, he's gonna kill us all. He's threatening to kill all of us. She's repeating all of these lies and no fact check whatsoever. But then President Trump points out, speaking of bloodbath, that if a

Democrats win. They're going to expand abortion that the Democrats don't just support abortion in the case of the first week or three weeks or even the first trimester. They support abortion up until the moment of birth and even after birth. And he referred to the former Democrat governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, who said that if a baby is born and the mom doesn't want it, well, you just put the baby on a table and you have a conversation about what you want to do with it. So Lindsay Davis intervened here and said, Mr. President, that is a lie.

Vice President Harris says that women shouldn't trust you on the issue of abortion because you've changed your position so many times. Therefore, why should they trust you? Well, the reason I'm doing that vote is because the plan is, as you know, the vote is they have abortion in the ninth month. They even have and you can look at the governor of West Virginia, the previous governor of West Virginia, not the current governor, is doing an excellent job.

But the governor before, he said the baby will be born and we will decide what to do with the baby. In other words, we'll execute the baby. And that's why I did that, because that predominates, because they're radical. The Democrats are radical in that. There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born. That is a lie. So first of all,

What President Trump said is true. What he said about Ralph Northam, the governor of Virginia, is true. Kamala's shaking her head, no, no, no. It's on video. I didn't even pull the clip today because everyone's seen this video so many times. That happened. But then furthermore, Lindsay Davis says, there is no state in this nation where it's legal to kill a baby after the baby's been born. Not only is that false, Kamala Harris's own running mate, Tim Walz, within the last couple years, repealed...

the legal requirement that physicians provide medical care to babies who are born after surviving abortions. Previously, even in states where you can kill babies in the womb, when the baby survives, as sometimes happens, then the babies are entitled to the same medical and legal requirements and rights that all other people are entitled to.

The baby's in the doctor's office. The doctors are required to provide medical care. Kamala Harris's running mate, Tim Walz, repealed that legal requirement. So in the state of Kamala Harris's running mate, with that man as governor, a woman can go into a doctor's office,

doctor, a murderer, an abortionist. Go in, the doctor tries to kill the baby. He fails. The baby is born alive. The baby is crying on the table. The doctor's no longer required to provide any medical care. It is legal to kill that baby in Minnesota. A post-birth abortion that is 100%

not only correct what Trump said, but demonstrable. This is something that's happened recently, and it's something as close to home to Kamala Harris as it's possible to be. And that woman, that awful woman, Lindsay Davis, lied about it during the debate, injected herself into the debate to lie on Kamala's behalf. It was the most egregious of the night. There were many, many others. I mentioned that Kamala Harris uttered three lies right in a row

She mentioned the Very Fine People hoax, the Bloodbath hoax, and the Proud Boy hoax that Donald Trump told the Proud Boys to stand by so they could all take over the Capitol or something. Not one fact check from anyone. Nevertheless, there are going to be a lot of people who don't know the facts and who just see the theater that was put up by ABC News last night.

Then by the end of the debate, President Trump comes in. He lands another big punch on Kamala's fecklessness with the power that she has in the current administration.

They sent her to negotiate peace before this war started. Three days later, he went in and he started the war because everything they said was weak and stupid. They said the wrong things. That war should have never started. She was the emissary. They sent her in to negotiate with Zelensky and Putin.

And she did. And the war started three days later. And that's the kind of talent we have with her. She's worse than Biden. Good point. She is worse than Biden. Biden's bad too, but this woman is really, really bad. And she's bad because every time you try to pin her down, she makes the opposite claim. So is Kamala the brand new breath of fresh air? She has nothing to do with the failures of the Biden administration. Okay, she's not qualified to be president.

No, no, she is qualified to be president because she's been helping to run this administration from day one. And this is an equal partnership. And in fact, Biden's imbued her with presidential authority on the border and on high speed Internet in rural America. Oh, OK. She's the last person in the room on the Afghanistan withdrawal. Oh, good. She's really responsible for this administration. OK, she shouldn't be president because this administration has completely failed.

No, don't you try to pin the failures of this administration on her. She's not the president. So any way you try to argue it, they try to slip away. President Trump then really landed it, I felt, with his closing statement. But I just ask one simple question. Why didn't she do it? We're a failing nation.

We're a nation that's in serious decline. We're being laughed at all over the world. All over the world they laugh. I know the leaders very well. They're coming to see me. They call me. We're laughed at all over the world. They don't understand what happened to us as a nation. We're not a leader. We don't have any idea what's going on. We have wars going on in the Middle East. We have wars going on with Russia and Ukraine.

We're going to end up in a third world war and it'll be a war like no other because of nuclear weapons, the power of weaponry. I rebuilt our entire military. She gave a lot of it away to the Taliban. She gave it to Afghanistan. What these people have done to our country and maybe toughest of all is allowing millions of

people to come into our country. Many of them are criminals and they're destroying our country. The worst president, the worst vice president in the history of our country. Very, very strong finish. I suppose we say all's well that ends well. The big takeaway is from the debate. When the debate was one-on-one, Trump was winning pretty clearly. When the debate became three-on-one, even then, three-on-one,

It basically ended a draw. I'm not going to say that it was the greatest night for Donald Trump, but he fended off the attacks pretty well. There were a few missed moments, but that's going to happen in any debate. It was basically a draw. So that's not ideal. However, the silver lining to that storm cloud is now, as a result, the Kamala team thinks she won or they think she did well enough that it merits another debate.

The Trump team thinks he did well enough that that would merit another debate. And so Kamala has proposed another debate between the two. That was unclear before this debate. I think Trump should take it. I think that even if it's on a liberal network like NBC or something, there's no way they'll be more –

liberal and biased than ABC, which is the absolute worst of the worst and has been for many years. The chief political anchor on ABC is the former hatchet man, head of Bill Clinton's White House communications office. Okay, so even NBC would be better. Fox News would certainly be better. Who knows? They should do a Daily Wire debate. In any case, it doesn't change the fundamentals of the race. It just actually gives another opportunity for a turning point if the two of them meet again. Now,

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I saw a headline pop up yesterday that interested me in part. The headline itself would have interested me just generally, but it also concerned me in particular. So I gave it special attention. And I was confused because just reading the headline, I wouldn't have had any guess that this story concerned me at all. This is from the Pittsburgh Tribune, I guess, Trib Live headline. I recognize this scene here in the picture because I was present at it.

The headline is, Husband Wife Plead Guilty to Acts That Disrupted Transgender Rights Program at Pitt. Now, I don't know, they may have even updated that headline there, because if you look in the URL and what I read yesterday, it previously said, Husband Wife Plead Guilty to Acts That Disrupted Transgender Rights Protest at Pitt. But neither of those headlines are true, because what really happened is that

Two anarchists, two Antifa anarchists who are members of an actual anarchist cell, showed up to a campus speaking event that I had last year at the University of Pittsburgh. And the protesters at this event were all pro-trans protesters, including the husband and wife anarchist duo here. They, in anticipation of my appearance, lit the street on fire,

then burned me in effigy on the street, and then threw an explosive at the building right as I was about to walk on stage. And in so doing, they injured multiple police officers. And I suspect the reason that they were arrested is because they injured the police officers, which is fine. I'm glad they're being arrested. Now they're facing pretty serious charges, and I guess they pled guilty. But does that sound like husband-wife plead guilty to acts that disrupted transgender rights protest at Pitt? You're saying...

You're saying that the real crime that they committed was disrupting the other protesters who were setting the street on fire and burning me in effigy. That's the real problem. It wasn't that they were trying to blow me up, that they were trying to turn my figurative immolation into a literal immolation as I walked on stage. The real crime wasn't that they injured police officers. The real crime wasn't that they damaged a university building.

No, no, no. The real crime was that they took too much attention away from the other pro-trans protesters who were setting other things on fire. That's the media. Local, regional, national, Pittsburgh, Trib Live writers, up to David Muir. So thoroughly corrupt. That's how they'll frame anything. I'm glad to see they pled guilty. I hope they didn't get some sweet plea deal.

These are people who tried to injure me and many others and did succeed at injuring at least a handful of people. All because I showed up to a university and said men and women are different and then debated that matter with a left-wing sparring partner.

I should say a classically liberal sparring partner. The full-on leftist sparring partner I was supposed to debate, who was a professor with a Harvard pedigree, decided that he was not able to do that. He didn't think it would go well for him. All because of that, you get an explosion in a building.

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whined and screamed and very nearly cried because Republicans were posting cat memes. What in the hell is this? The chairman tweets protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio because he goes down some crazy rabbit hole, completely debunked that aliens are eating pets. My God.

Are you okay, Mr. Chairman? Because last year for a very long time, you tweeted and promoted Kanye West as he was calling for genocide against the Jews and you kept it up. And now when we have victims coming here, you're tweeting this nonsense. I don't know why you would do this. I hope you're okay.

I don't know if the aliens who are eating your ducks are in the room with us right now. But Mr. Chairman, this is a serious issue. These people have loved ones who have been lost. And you tweeted this. And the Oscar goes to, I don't think the Oscar goes to Eric Swalwell. Let me just try to make sense of how everything happened here. Democrats imported

hundreds of thousands of unvetted people from a cannibal failed state, then sent them to these little small towns where the people didn't really want this invasion of foreigners and didn't really know what to do with it. And now ducks are going missing at the public park. The Democrats bring in these hundreds of thousands of unvetted people from the failed cannibal state. Then Republicans make some cat memes

And then the Democrats scream and cry and whine and clutch their pearls and say this is the end of democracy. Is that, do I have that right? Seems to me...

making some funny cat memes is a less grievous events and poses a less serious threat to our democracy than bringing in hundreds of thousands. By the way, I'm just talking about what the Biden-Harris administration has done specifically with regard to the Haitian migrants. But of course, Biden and Harris have also brought in millions and millions and millions of other unvetted illegal aliens.

to invade our country and go to all these small towns where the people don't like it. Republicans, independents, Democrats, too, don't really like it. New York City, the Democrat mayor of New York City saying that illegal immigration, this mass, not even just illegal immigration, this mass migration is destroying New York City. It seems to me that's the greater threat. But no, are you crazy, Mr. Chairman?

And now this is the story we're getting. The story we're getting is J.D. Vance and Trump. Now Trump mentioned the Haitians and the dogs and the cats and the ducks during the debate last night. And all these Republicans, Jim Jordan and the House Judiciary, they're passing off this fake news story.

that the many, many tens of thousands, at least, if not more Haitians who have shown up to this town are eating animals that they shouldn't be eating. This is fake news. It's debunked. The fact checkers are just like David Muir and Lindsay Davis, all these super duper fact checkers who lie a lot of the time, but nevermind that. They've proven that it's been debunked and well, hold on. Okay, I saw all those headlines about how thoroughly debunked all this is. But then I checked in with an actual

Springfield, Ohio resident. Here is what he had to say. I think it's kind of odd that a guy like me has to come out from doing what I do on a daily basis to have fun. Cuz I see what's going on in these streets and I see you guys just sitting up there in them comfy chairs and suits. And I'm getting out here every day and I'm broadcasting this and you guys are just sitting up there in suits or something. I really challenge you guys to get out here and do something. These patients are running into trash cans. They're running into buildings. They're running into

They flipping cars in the middle of the street. I don't know how like y'all can be comfortable with this. Like, I don't know, like who's getting paid from it. I feel like I honestly feel like someone's getting paid from it in the background. They dropping that you got a bunch of people on a bus getting dropped off at a gas station to come down here. I know a single mom that FaceTime me tonight. FaceTime me this morning at the welfare office that really need like that really need something.

And it's nothing but immigrants over there. And I don't even wanna seem like I'm coming down on the immigrants cuz it's the people that's bringing them down here. Cuz wherever they're at, that's what they're used to, bro. They're in the park, grabbing up ducks by the neck and cutting their head off and walking off with them and eating them. Pretty crazy, huh? So who am I supposed to believe?

The Washington liberal journalists who have never visited Springfield, Ohio, who would break out in hives if they ever had to walk into any normal town in America, up to and including Springfield, Ohio. Am I supposed to believe them or am I supposed to believe people in Springfield, Ohio? We're just describing their lived experience. Isn't that what the libs are all about? The lived experience? Well, this guy's telling us his lived experience.

And he's saying that the migrants who were foisted upon people in these small towns from a failed cannibal state are doing weird stuff when it comes to laws and dietary, gustatory behaviors and preferences. Isn't that seems like I'm more likely to believe that guy than some liberal hack journalist in Washington, D.C. But no, we're told if you raise any questions about the behaviors of these people,

That you were a racist. Oh, is that guy a racist? If you're just listening to the show, perhaps you could hear it in his voice. He's not the whitest guy in the world. You know, that's a black guy. Is he supposed to be an anti-black racist? I know. Listen, I understand that.

That the people who are like David Muir and Lindsay Davis and who lie for a living tell us that the story about the ducks and the other animals that the Haitians are eating is debunked and fake news and it's a hoax and it's a conspiracy. I don't know. What about that guy? That guy said it's real. And furthermore, what are we supposed to think about all this? You know, I know the squishes and the establishment types and the really nice people even. Now forget about the squishes, even like just the really nice Republicans.

They're saying, why are Republicans talking about the Haitian migrants? And why are they using all these evocative images of dogs and cats and ducks? Why did Trump have to bring up those images last night at the debate? Because they're evocative. Because you can talk about

mass migration, like some boring professor. Ah, well, you understand there are several thousand illegal aliens every day across the way. They have encounters with Border Patrol and then they are given a court date, but they often don't show up to the court date and they're caught and released sometimes into the country. This leads to

11 million, 12 million, 13 million people who commit crimes at X rate. And they also use the welfare programs at the X percent. Give me a break. I'm half asleep and I'm the one speaking. Or you can say, yeah, a bunch of crazy Haitians are eating ducks in Ohio and eating people's cats and stuff, maybe.

That's the question. One is using the language of poetry and myth even, and one is using the language of technocracy and models and statistics and sophistry and economics and calculation. And the former is more politically salient. They both convey true things, which is to say the social disorder brought about by mass migration. They're both conveying true things. They're just doing it in different ways.

And it seems to me that the language of poetry, the language of myth, the language of pathos, the language of democratic politics, lowercase d, is the more effective language to use. And that's the language that Donald Trump succeeds in. Folks, on Friday, I will be taking your questions in the written mailbag and the voicemail bag. And some people don't know how to submit the questions. You go to dailywire.com. You click on the watch page. You click on the Michael Knowles show. You click on submit a mailbag question. That's going to open up an email address.

And when whatever email app you use, you can then write your question, keep it pithy. If you don't mind, keep it short.

Or you can attach an audio file. You just record it on whatever app you use to record your audio files. Keep it to under a minute. Some people want to give me their whole life story. We don't have time for that. I want to get your question on the show. So submit that by Friday. I will hear from you then. My favorite comment yesterday is from FamilyGash7500, who writes, if Springfield's pets really are being abducted and eaten, then I just hope that they don't get Santa's Little Helper or Snowball 2. So true. So true. I'm really concerned about Springfield.

We need to not only throw out Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, we need to throw out Mayor Quimby. There's no question about it. Okay, speaking of black guys, Willie Brown is back in the news. I mentioned him. He was the former San Francisco mayor who helped launch Kamala Harris's career. Let's put it that way. This clip has resurfaced, hat tip to my friend and colleague, Mary Margaret Olihan, who pulled this up yesterday.

This is from 1996, I believe. Prime Time Live, describing Willie Brown's rise and giving a little mention and camera appearance to Kamala Harris. See if you can spot her. Prime Time continues. Once again, Diane Sawyer.

Fasten your seatbelts. If you haven't met Willie Brown yet, you're in for a lively ride. He is about to become the first black mayor of San Francisco. And while so many members of Congress are fleeing politics in droves, he wants to tell you why he still loves the game and plays it the old-fashioned way. Eight out of the ten voters I meet are absolutely persuaded that I know what I'm doing, that I'm

pretty smart, that I can get the job done, and that I may be a rogue, but I'm their kind of rogue. He's a rogue, all right. Notorious for his flamboyant lifestyle. Flashy clothes, fancy parties, fine women. Wait a second. I recognize that lady.

fancy clothes, party and lifestyle, fine women. And who's that fine woman? It's Kamala Harris. And then what's the question asked, I guess, by the journalist is, are you his daughter? And she turns and she smiles. She says, no, I'm not. No, I'm not his daughter. I'm his mistress. I don't just bring up the clip to insult Kamala or dredge up her indiscretions and past sins. It's

Look, it shows you something that I mentioned at the top of the show, which is that this woman's pretty good at manipulating men and working men to advance herself politically. That was the beginning of Kamala Harris's political career. But that's why I bring it up. That's why I bring up this clip now. That clip is from 1996.

Kamala Harris has been at this for a long time. We think of Kamala Harris as this new politician, a new crop of Democrat Paul who just pops up. Now we're going to see if she's ready for primetime. Joe Biden introduced us to her a few years ago. No. Or we think, oh, well, she was in the U.S. Senate, not for very long, but she was there. Okay, she's kind of new to politics. No.

Before that, she was the Attorney General of California. She was there for a little bit. She prosecuted some friends of mine. She prosecuted pro-lifers. No, it goes back way further. Willie Brown is the start of Kamala Harris's political career. He gets her her first political job in California. That was back in the 90s. We're talking about almost 30 years ago this clip is from.

She's been working this a long time, and it vindicates a view that I held back in 2020. I was talking to Ben, and I said, watch out for Kamala Harris. I think Kamala's the sleeper candidate in this race. I think she's got real political chops. And then when she was one of the first people to drop out before the first primary even took place, everyone made fun of me. They said, oh, so much for watch out for Kamala Harris. But then...

She finagled her way into becoming the running mate. Now she's finagled her way into out it, ousting the president and to making herself the nominee. And she might, she might make herself president. She's got those political chops. She doesn't have retail chops. She's not good at that. She's not good at kissing babies and slapping back. She descends into that weird cackle and it's off-putting. She's not good at debating other than trying to manipulate her debate opponent if it's a man.

She's not that good at debating on substance. She doesn't really know issues. She's not a policy wonk. She's not a negotiator. But she does have behind-the-scenes policy chops, or behind-the-scenes political chops, rather, that have advanced her career. She is no slouch. She's not to be underestimated. This woman has been at this game for a very long time. Now, speaking of Kamala, there was an issue I really wish came up in the debate last night. The moderators weren't going to bring it up. Maybe Trump can bring it up at the next debate.

The issue is the drug crisis. We have now the worst drug crisis in the history of our country. The drugs in question here are all coming across the border from Mexico, so it has to do with Kamala's failure as the borders are and the mass migration crisis.

But when Kamala was running for president in 2020, she had to fill out candidate questionnaires. This is how organizations and political groups are able to vet candidates. They send them questionnaires and all the candidates fill them out. So the ACLU sends out a questionnaire in 2019 asking her view on drugs. And Kamala Harris said that she wanted to decriminalize drugs. And I'm not just talking about the devil's lettuce. And I'm not just talking about even cocaine.

Kamala said she wants to decriminalize fentanyl, which is just a poison that's killing upwards of 100,000 Americans every single year. She wants to decriminalize fentanyl. She wants to decriminalize heroin. She wants to decriminalize, quote, all drug possession for personal use. This is the worst drug crisis in American history.

If you live anywhere in the country, we're not just talking about the middle of the country, I'm talking about the cities, I'm talking about the coasts, I'm talking about anywhere. At this point, with this drug crisis going on for so long, you very likely know someone who has been affected by this and who has died. I do. I bet you actually might know multiple people. At the very least, you know someone who knows someone. This is the worst drug crisis in American history. It amounts to a poisoning.

Of much of a generation of Americans, 2023, 74,702 people died from fentanyl deaths. Overall drug overdose deaths, about 108,000. So the vast majority of those coming from this one drug that Kamala wants to decriminalize. The year before, even more, 76,226 deaths from fentanyl.

Overall overdose deaths, about 111,000. The vast majority is still there. This has been going on for years and years and years. How many hundreds of thousands? Over a million, maybe, at this point, from fentanyl. She wants to decriminalize it. You think, well, it must have been a mistake on the questionnaire, right? Okay, let's talk to Kamala's spokesman. This was just last night, ABC News. The reporters on ABC seem to be better than the debate moderators. At the very least, they give a little pushback. Hey, Kamala's spokesman, there's no way she really believes this, right?

I do want to ask you about this CNN report. It shows Harris voiced support for cutting funding for ICE and for using taxpayer money to fund transgender surgery for detained migrants in 2019. Does the vice president still support those positions and do you expect her to address them tonight?

Listen, I think, you know, these old questionnaires are a complete distraction from the task at hand right now. I think the vice president, frankly, what the American people are actually asking about, right? What the American people are concerned about and what they're asking about is who's going to solve for border security. So he can't just say she doesn't believe it anymore. These old questionnaires, the only time Kamala Harris has run in a Democrat primary, she said this is what she believes. And that happens to have been some three years ago.

So, okay, she's changed her views. Politicians flip-flop all the time, especially the empty suit types, say, listen, that does not reflect her views. She's been very clear. She's a prosecutor. But he doesn't. He says, oh, forget about that. Oh, the opioid crisis? That doesn't matter. Oh, the border crisis? That doesn't matter. Now, forget about that. We got to talk about the important issues, like Venn diagrams and yellow school buses. This is a major scandal. One could reasonably conclude Kamala Harris just wants us dead.

If she's the border czar and she wants all these murderers, these criminals to cross the border and kill people, and furthermore, she wants all of this poison to cross the border, and then once the poison gets here, she wants to decriminalize the poison, one could reasonably conclude she just wants to kill us. The most charitable interpretation I can imagine is she doesn't understand the law.

She doesn't understand how law works. She thinks that when you decriminalize something, you get less of it. That's not what happens. That's a liberal and a libertarian fantasy. But even reasonable libertarians know that's bogus. That's at the time of the worst drug crisis in American history. And to this day, this isn't an old issue. That spokesman made sure this is not some old issue. This is a today issue. Sure hope that comes up at the next debate. I mentioned

Just to tie it all back into the media, I mentioned that Vanity Fair is furious that people are converting to Catholicism. We will get into that story tomorrow because we've run out of time. You know that I'm such a tease, but it's a very important story and the media are absolute garbage. So we'll get to that tomorrow. For today, though, it's Woke Wednesday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code NOLSKIND to be released. So check out for two months free on all annual plans.

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