Ep. 1575 - Shocking New Details on the Second Assassination Attempt
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Kamala Harris wants you to know how upset she is that people keep trying to kill the man she calls an existential Nazi threat to our country. "I am deeply disturbed," she writes, "by the possible assassination attempt of former President Trump today. As we gather the facts, I will be clear. I condemn political violence. We all must do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more violence." Why? Why is she disturbed? Because it failed?

Why? If she's deeply disturbed by the near assassination of a man she believes poses an existential threat to our country, then she's completely unfit to be president. She could never possibly keep us safe. If, on the other hand, she's deeply disturbed because she knows that Trump is not really an existential threat,

then she's completely unfit to be president because she's so personally ambitious and dishonest that she would justify and inspire her opponent's murder. Why exactly is Kamala Harris disturbed? And why aren't more people disturbed by her? I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

Welcome back to the show. They're still calling Trump Hitler. Lots of libs, some gal on MSNBC. Oh, the libs are still calling him Hitler. Which we'll get to in one second. First, though, this really ties in with a thesis that I advanced in my magnum opus now seven years ago, a book endorsed by President Donald John Trump.

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At the very last moment, he turned his head about 20 degrees, which is why the bullet went through his ear instead of blasting through the back of his skull. It seems like there was another coincidence, a little wink of providence in there. This time around, too, the New York Post is reporting the shooter, or the would-be shooter, allegedly, Routh,

He had a cell phone ping to the spot that he was sitting, this little sniper's nest at the edge of Trump International West Palm Beach golf course at 1.59 a.m. His gun barrel was spotted by the Secret Service at 1.30 p.m.

So this guy was, was just sitting there for like 12 hours. Trump was on the links. They say 300 to 500 yards away, but I think that's 300, 500 yards as you would walk or drive in a cart. As the crow flies, I think it was much closer. So how did they catch this guy? Well, uh,

It would seem that a passerby saw when the man ran out of the bushes, saw him get into the car and snapped a photo of his license plate, then called in the photo. And according to the reports we're getting, they alerted cameras on roads and highways and the camera was able to spot the car and they were able to shut him down. So just because a passerby had the presence of mind to take a picture of a guy running out of the bushes and getting in a car and catch the license plate,

They were able to arrest this guy. Had they not arrested him, he might have shown up the next day or he might have gone to some other property of Trump's. Donald Trump has nine lives. That's the superstitious kind of take on it. Trump has nine lives. Or you might say it just isn't Trump's time. However implausibly he's managed to escape death now twice, someone's looking out for him. The FBI, for their part, has confirmed something that has people putting their head in their hands.

because we've heard this so many times before, the FBI has acknowledged that the would-be assassin was previously known to law enforcement. I can also share with you that he was the subject of a previously closed 2019 tip to the FBI where it was alleged he was a felon in possession of a firearm. And following up on the tip, the alleged complainant interviewed

was interviewed and did not verify, I repeat, did not verify providing the initial information. The FBI passed that information to local law enforcement in Honolulu.

So the FBI is now being excoriated. People are saying, why didn't you do something about this? We hear this a lot when there's a mass shooting. Very often, actually in one of the recent mass shootings at a school, the assailant was known to law enforcement. Often you'll hear the assailant was known to the FBI. So why didn't the FBI do anything about it? And I'm as critical of the FBI as just about anyone.

And there is so much that the FBI has to answer for. I mean, they've been breaking the law specifically with regard to Trump since 2015.

Don't forget the DOJ was spying on Trump's campaign in 2015. Then they were cooking up all sorts of information with the Democrats and the Russians, ironically, to frame Trump and his administration for colluding with the Russians and then undermine Trump's administration with that ridiculous special counsel. And then continued to attack Trump, including the raid on Mar-a-Lago, which was absolutely disgusting and an upending of our law. So I think the FBI needs to be shaken up root to branch.

But actually, ironically, this is the one area where I'm not really angry with the FBI. Of course, this guy was known to law enforcement. First of all, many people are known to law enforcement now because we're spied on all the time. I'm on the road here. I gave a speech last night at Washington and Lee. There are probably like 10 cameras in this room spying on me. Well, there are some cameras that we've set up actually in this room. But of course, all of our phones can spy on us, all of our iPads, all of our, I mean, people's refrigerators can spy on them now.

So we live in a surveillance state. And also the people who commit these kinds of crimes tend to have a little bit of a rap sheet. This guy certainly did. But what do you want? Do you want the FBI to just throw these people in prison forever?

If a guy gets pinched for making some threat or for robbing a liquor store or whatever it is, making some weird search on the internet, do we then want the FBI to arrest them and throw them in a federal prison forever? No, the right would be up in arms about that. And civil libertarians would be up in arms about that. So what can you do? Is the argument that the FBI needs to keep closer tabs? I mean, there are so many of these people. I don't know. I don't

That's the one area where I probably wouldn't really criticize them. Yeah, he was known to law enforcement, but what were we supposed to do? I'm curious about this guy's connection to Ukraine. According to news reports in the New York Times, he was working with the Ukraine Foreign Legion. And Ukraine is a US satellite state. It's basically just run by the State Department anyway. So you want to talk about weird connections. You want to talk about potential, I don't know, foreign interference in election.

Look into all that stuff. But what is the argument? When people get upset about that he was known to FBI, is the argument that the FBI is incompetent? Well, maybe. A lot of people commit a lot of crimes. Is the argument that the FBI set him up? All right, well, prove that to me. I don't really see any evidence of that. I don't know. There just are so many more plausible theories as to what's going on here and so many more legitimate reasons to criticize the FBI. Now, speaking of unfair criticism, Rich Lowry

at National Review. He's the editor of National Review. He's a very amiable, bright guy. He was on Megyn Kelly's show. He was making a perfectly fine point about migration. And the left decided to attack this guy and accuse him of using the N-word. Finally, he said something to the effect of, look, if we have to create stories in order to bring attention to what's happening, the media, he admits they made it up.

Right? As opposed to... And if you listen to the full clip, he says, by drawing attention to what's happening on the ground, it's just...

Right. As the line goes online, you don't hate the media enough. Go ahead. You remember Alternative Facts with Kellyanne? They did the same thing. She wasn't saying you make up fictions and pretend they're facts. You bring other facts to bear in the debate that are being ignored. And that's what he was saying. And I loved, I think it was in that interview where Dana Bash says, you know, the police have gone through 11 months of recordings of calls and they've only found two Springfield residents calling to complain about Haitian migrant violence.

migrants taking geese from ponds. Only two calls. And I think one lesson in this whole story, people don't care about geese. People really hate geese. So did you hear it? Did you hear Rich Lowry, the perfectly amiable, clubbable, nice, extremely civil and polite guy? He, according to the left, he almost said the N-word. What was he saying?

He said, there are not really reports or there are reports of these. He went to say migrants, but he clearly was saying me like immigration. And he said, migrant, but you even you can hear the M. It wasn't an N. It was very clearly an M. And then he finishes migrant. And so he corrects the word. And these libs are I mean, it was all over social media. They're trying to say that the editor of National Review said,

The magazine with so many brilliant conservative writers over the years, founded by William F. Buckley Jr., this guy used the N-word. They're just looking to make up an obvious non-troversy. He didn't even pause when he said it. He just kept talking because no one in their right mind would think he said that. But that's not what's interesting to me about this. I'd like to defend Rich because it's so insane. But what's interesting to me is that would be the word.

That's the word you can't say if someone went on TV and blasphemed God. Oh that well that happens all the time that would be totally fine if Someone went on TV and said, you know those dirty Guido Guinea WAP day goes walking down the streets of New York No one would bat an eyelash It's just that word the the n-word which has only been the n-word since the 90s really it started with the Rodney King beating the if

The, no, it was the OJ trial. Well, the OJ trial, though, was in effect a kind of consequence of the Rodney King beating. But before that, the New York Times would write the N-word. They would just spell out the whole word. It was only with that news cycle that they started to say the N-word as the N-word. And it's a word that is treated with the same taboo that the Israelites treated the Tetragrammaton, the holy name of God.

And it shows you, as taboos change, it shows you what a culture worships and it shows you how their priorities change. To me, I mean, he flubbed over the word a little bit. That's kind of funny, but much more interesting than that. Why is that the only word that no one can say? What does it say about what we worship? What does it say about how we view ourselves? Really strange. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to ramp.com slash Knowles. Managing your business finances can feel like trying to balance the federal budget. It's a nightmare.

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apply. Speaking of black people, Charlemagne, Charlemagne the radio host, is fuming. He has a very popular radio show, The Breakfast Club, and he's fuming because Joe Biden, a few days ago, at a fire station in Pennsylvania, put on a Trump hat. One of the fire guys, he gave him a Harris hat and he took the guy's Trump hat and he put it on. And it was actually a very charming human moment. Charlemagne, furious.

And President Biden not only wore it, he took a picture in it. Now that picture is all over social media. It's going to be in TV commercials, digital ads. Donald Trump's campaign immediately, as you heard in the news report, thanked Joe for the support. Another post from them said Kamala did so bad in last night's debate. Joe Biden put on a Trump hat. This is why you got to keep Joe Biden in the basement. Brutal, brutal attack on Biden by Mr. Charlemagne.

I thought it was one of the most charming moments of Biden's presidency. And not just because I like Trump, not just because it looked it didn't look great for the Democrats, but because it showed Biden to be human. He wasn't just a walking, talking, partisan hack. He was a human being who was engaging with a fireman in this really lively way. It showed that he had a pulse. You know, he was reacting in real time. And the Democrats hate it.

This to me shows also the state of play between Biden and Kamala because it was a really charming moment. And also, I think Biden knew what he was doing. If Biden knows anything at all, and as I said, he seemed pretty lively in that exchange. He knew that that would become a photo. He knew that that was going to be sent around. And he could write it off and say, oh, I was just being nice with this fireman. You know, he wore the other hat. But he knew that he's signaling something.

because people forget. We think of politics as just a team sport with interchangeable players, but Joe Biden is a human being. He's been in politics for over 50 years at the national level. He's pretty good at politics. And this guy, this human being, this individual Joe Biden, obviously despises the individual Kamala Harris. They're on the same team. She's his vice president. She's the successor. He hates this woman, obviously.

This woman's entire presidential campaign basically came down to calling Joe Biden a racist during a national presidential debate.

And forcing him to pick a black woman for vice president, he agreed that he would pick a black woman. And the only three options available to him at the time were Karen Bass, a communist, Susan Rice, fall guy for Benghazi, or Kamala, who called him a racist. She was the least bad option. So he picked Kamala, but he hates this woman. And then this woman stabbed him in the back, booted him out of his race, is trying to take his job. He hates her. He hates her. And a lot of Democrats don't really like her.

There is no popular support for Kamala Harris. If there were popular support for Kamala Harris, she would have won a single delegate while running for president in 2020. There is no support for her. She is a completely contrived candidate. And she contrived herself in a way by calling Biden a racist on the debate stage and forcing him to pick a black woman and she was the only viable option. She made herself the DEI vice president.

As Joe Biden admitted, he said she was a DEI hire. And now she's the DEI presidential nominee. But she's got no popular support. So at a certain point, if you keep getting promoted in all these really weird ways by making up new rules and exploiting different neuroses in the American conscience, okay, that'll get you far enough. But unless the Democrats really just totally rig this thing,

She's got to win some votes. And no one like nobody's a Kamala head. You know, oh, yeah, I'm a I'm a Kamala Democrat. It doesn't mean anything to be a Kamala Democrat. Her platform is taken in part from Donald Trump and the rest she copied and pasted from Joe Biden. But she stabbed Joe Biden in the back and Biden hates her. And he put on the Trump hat the other day. And Charlemagne is actually perceptive here.

He's saying this is bad for us. I don't care. You want to say it's charming. It's bad. It's bad optics. Yeah. And if Biden is doing anything intentionally anymore, I think it's that. That's what you get. That's the problem with the artificially promoted DEI candidates, whether it's at your at your workplace, whether it's in your school, whether it's in national politics, they can't stand on their own two feet and there's no organic, uh,

growth for them. The moment you pull the rug out from under them, they totally collapse. Now, speaking of DEI, the Congressional Black Caucus has just doubled down on its DEI demands. Democrat Representative Stephen Horsford says there is nothing under the law

that is illegal or unconstitutional about corporations advancing DEI policies. I commend the corporations that answered our call for DEI. We are now giving the roadmap for what good looks like. And then the study's title from the Congressional Black Caucus, what good looks like a corporate accountability report on diversity, equity, and inclusion. The libs are absolutely terrified.

in particular the Congressional Black Caucus, but really it's all the libs are terrified that the Supreme Court is going to totally destroy DEI because

June of last year, we had students for fair admission versus Harvard, which killed affirmative action in college admissions. And a lot of the prestigious schools put out press releases afterward and said, yeah, we're basically going to ignore this. We'll go along with the law. We'll no longer have the diversity statement, which is like a credo to the left-wing irreligion of race hustling and leftism. But

even without the diversity statement, they're still going to try to figure out ways to make sure that the favored races make it into the school. But the Supreme Court establishing that precedent has now worried the Democrats, man, is DEI going to be killed at every level? And you're probably thinking, well, who cares? The left has a lot more going for it than some affirmative action policy in corporate America or even in the universities.

But it's not just one policy. It's not just one aspect of hiring. It's a whole system. We have a whole system right now. It's a caste system in America that says that some races are better than others and some races should be given advantages over others and some races should be punished for their race. Even kids of those races should be punished and should be made to feel bad and should be disadvantaged in school or at work.

Well, not the kids at work, you know, and we're not talking about 19th century in the coal mills or something. But for the whole level, for the entire society, if you get rid of DEI, you are undermining an entire social order. And the social order was constructed by the left and it benefits the left right now.

Once you pull on that thread, all of a sudden the whole sweater starts to unravel. There's so much more to say. First though, go to donewithdebt.com.

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Here we go, folks. 48 days until the presidential election and the Oregon DMV is admitting that it has mistakenly, mistakenly, registered more than 300 non-citizens to vote since 2021. This big mistake, it was a big mistake. It's all just a big oopsie-daisy. This happened in part because Oregon allows non-citizens to obtain driver's licenses. That's since 2019, you know, right before the 2020 election.

And then the DMV automatically registers most people to vote when they obtain a license. You know, it's called a motor voter law. And so, according to one person interviewed by the media here, you know, it's basically a data entry issue. It's just a, you know, oopsie-daisy, the DMV worker, you know, enters the data wall. The DMV administrator, Amy Joyce, told the Oregonian and Oregon Live that the office is checking for additional errors and will likely find more instances later.

of registering non-citizens to vote. Okay. I guess it could be a mistake. It could be incompetence. Anyone who's ever been to the DMV, some DMVs have improved lately and are actually not horrible experiences. Tennessee is amazing, but the DMV is not known for its efficiency. Okay. So you say, well, it could be incompetence. Sure. But it's intentional incompetence. That's the difference because they changed the law in 2019 to set the stage for these mistakes.

This is sort of like the near occasion of sin. You've heard me, when we talk about religion, I've mentioned this idea of the near occasion of sin, which is that it's not just a sin to cheat on your wife. It's a sin to go hang outside the brothel.

for too long. It's not just a sin to get really, really drunk. If you're inclined to get really, really drunk, it's a sin to fill your bedroom with 400 bottles of whiskey. If you are putting yourself in a situation that is going to really severely tempt you to commit a sin, if it's going to make it much more likely that you commit a sin, that in itself is a sin. That's what's going on here at the Oregon DMV. Yeah, maybe it was an honest mistake.

that they register these non-citizens to vote. Maybe, maybe it wasn't. But in some cases, let's say it was. But the very fact that you set up the motor voter laws makes it so much more likely that you're going to make that mistake, that it's not a mistake anymore. It's intentional. And it's obviously intentional. And as the DMV administrator says, there are going to be many, many more cases of this. And it's not just in Oregon. There are going to be lots of cases of things like this in the swing states, places where all those migrants have been headed to.

They're, they're playing footsie with the really bad stuff. And then they're shocked when the bad stuff happens. They're not really shocked. That's why they were playing footsie in the first place. Now, speaking, speaking of playing footsie with really bad stuff, Democrat representative Dan Goldman is making the rounds again for comments he made on Jen Psaki show last year. Jen Psaki, former White House press secretary for Joe Biden. Dan Goldman said on national television, it's MSNBC, so it's viewed by like five people, but it, but it's still national television.

in front of the former press secretary for the president that Trump must be eliminated. His rhetoric is really getting dangerous, more and more dangerous. And we saw what happened on January 6th when he uses inflammatory rhetoric now. And his recent True Social post is incredibly, incredibly scary for anyone that might be trying to work in government. And

It is just unquestionable at this point that that man cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy and he has to be he has to be eliminated. He has to be eliminated. When I spoke at CPAC a couple of years ago,

I said, "Transgenderism must be eradicated." Eradicate means to pull out from the root. It's not the same thing as eliminate or exterminate or anything like that. I said, "Eradicate the whole ideology at every level for the good of those people." I said it was for the good of these people. I'm talking about an ideology. I'm not talking about people. And I had national headlines that Knowles calls for genocide. This man, this sitting member of Congress,

said, Trump must be eliminated. Trump, the man, personally, must be eliminated. On a show with the former White House press secretary, oh no, he was speaking metaphorically. They've tried to murder Trump twice in 64 days. Just 48 days until the election, they're probably going to try it again. He must be eliminated. They're not going to change. This was rhetoric from a year ago, but they're keeping it up. Here, an NBC guest just recently, again, called Trump

Give me your response to what Donald Trump is doing. It is outrageous. It's horrifying. But it's expected from a fascist authoritarian person who wants to create havoc in this country, who wants to take us to war.

Tara, Nazi Germany, I can't even talk, Nazi Germany. We exported racism, fascism to Nazi Germany. We exported it to South Africa, Jonathan. We know how to do it. We're good at it. And let's not pretend that Donald Trump isn't exactly like Mussolini, exactly like Hitler. Dr. Jackie, that's Dr. Jackie. We've got to stop pretending that Trump isn't exactly, exactly like Mussolini,

and Hitler is exactly like him. Never saw the little mustache, never heard the screaming and the pounding on the, never saw any of that. He's exactly like him. They also don't agree on real policy or philosophy or, you know, they don't, well, they don't, Trump hates war and they go, well, but they don't, yeah, and they have basically nothing in common other than they're both kind of

At least with Mussolini, they're both kind of like tough guys with a big kind of big chin who are going to put their head up a little bit. I see Trump does look a little bit like Mussolini. They call him the Mango Mussolini sometimes. But that's pretty much where the comparisons end. Mussolini had no hair. Trump has very excellent hair. The comparisons to Hitler, there are very few comparisons to Hitler. I don't think Trump even knows how to do watercolors. So there's nothing in common here. Also, there's a town in Israel named after Trump. So the Jew stuff, anti-Semitism stuff, probably not going to stick. All this means...

Dr. Jackie, I don't know. I don't know what the Reverend Dr. Jackie has her doctorate in, or I don't know. She hasn't demonstrated much knowledge, but all this means is it's okay to kill him. It's good to kill him because he's Hitler. We've got to stop pretending he's not Hitler. What do you do to Hitler? You kill Hitler because Hitler is really bad.

And no matter how evil he was in real life, in the mythos of post-World War II, he's the incarnation of evil and you can do anything you want to him. You can even kill him as a little baby. So that's all it means. And it's this wacko, but she's a wacko on MSNBC. So she's on TV. And it's not just a wacko, it's a sitting member of Congress. And it's not just those two people, it's after the second assassination attempt at

It's a very prominent left-wing columnist writing for a very prominent left-wing outlet, New York Magazine, Jonathan Shade, who says, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy and saying so is not incitement. Opposing political violence does not mean authoritarianism.

First paragraph, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. That was true before an assassination attempt was foiled at his golf course Sunday, and it remains true after. Political violence in general and assassinating presidential candidates specifically also poses risks to democracy. There's no contradiction between these ideas whatsoever.

Yet Trump supporters, myself included, have responded to both attempts on his life by muddying the waters, exploiting the near tragedies with cynical efforts to redefine critiques of Trump's authoritarian inclinations as violent provocation. So he's, give Jonathan Tate a little bit of credit here. He's owning it. He's totally doubling down. The libs have been trying to skirt this issue. They spent years saying that man poses an existential threat to democracy. And then people follow through on the logic of that statement.

and tried to kill him twice. And they couldn't back away from that because they have no real argument against him other than this kind of apocalyptic scenario. They can't hit him on any particular political issue, on the economy. His economic policies were much more popular. On foreign policies, foreign policy was much more successful and popular. Even on immigration, that's where they most want to call him an authoritarian and say he locked kids in cages. But of course,

Obama built those cages and to say, well, he tried to reduce illegal border crossers. Well, that's a popular policy and that's actually just following the law. That's a celebration of democracy. That's a following through and an enactment of the laws passed through our democracy, not the opposite. Biden ignoring the laws. Kamala Harris's borders are ignoring the laws. That's an undermining of democracy. So they have nothing on the individual policies.

So, so the only thing that could ever hit him on was, well, no, he just poses this special threat, an existential threat to the Republic. But that doesn't mean that, uh, it's incitement to violence. Well, of course it is. I give him credit for, for, you know, trying to make the case, but of course it is. If someone poses an existential threat to your country, then you are justified in stepping outside of the ordinary boundaries of the law and even the constitution.

This was Lincoln's argument when he suspended habeas corpus and engaged in all sorts of wartime activities that were contrary to how most people would like to live in an ordinary constitutional setting. And the reason for that is the law and the constitution, even the highest civil law, is there to serve the country. But if there's an existential threat to the country, then you got to take care of the threat. That takes priority. It takes precedence over the constitution and the law. And if something is existential, that means life or death.

And so if the only way to stop this guy is to kill him, then the people who make that argument are justifying killing him. And maybe they can try some lesser measure. They can try to prosecute their political opponents.

also a threat to democracy. They can try to kick him off the ballot, also an undermining of democracy. They can try to impeach him without a legal predicate, also a threat to democracy and our constitutional order. They can try to, I don't know, they can have the administrative agency spy on him to overthrow an election, also a threat to democracy, or they can just establish the justification to shoot him and then have people shoot him twice. That's a threat to democracy.

But then John Shait says, well, when the Republicans are pointing out the Democrats are the real threat to democracy, that undermines their argument that the Democrats calling Trump a threat to democracy is an incitement to violence. No, we're just observing that you guys have incited political violence and that incitement to political violence threatens the country. And so there's an easy way to stop this. The easy way to stop this is not that the Republicans start shooting at the Democrats.

As I pointed out in my speech last night, which is on the YAF YouTube channel at Washington and Lee, the speech is called Kamala Wants You Single. That's the topic the students wanted me to talk on, but we cover a lot of things. As I pointed out, political violence in America is an exclusively left-wing phenomenon. Today, I'm not saying in all places at all times, but today, right now, political violence is a left-wing phenomenon. So the solution is not that the right starts shooting at the left, God forbid. The solution is, hey, Libs, stop doing that. Stop shooting us.

Stop shooting us. Stop showing up to the congressional baseball game and shooting Steve Scalise. Stop showing up to Rand Paul's house and cracking his libs. Stop showing up to Brett Kavanaugh's house and trying to murder him and possibly his family. Stop illegally protesting at Sam Alito's house and forcing his family to flee his house. Stop Chuck Schumer threatening Kavanaugh and Gorsuch outside of the Supreme Court. Stop Hillary Clinton

saying you can't be civil with Republicans. Stop Maxine Waters saying that you've got to push on Republicans when you see them in public and tell them they're not welcome here. Just stop it. Stop the political violence, which is coming exclusively from the left, which you can stop any moment now, but you would have to admit that your whole campaign against Trump is complete BS. It's completely bogus. He's not an existential threat to the country. He's not Hitler 2.0. He's not... He's just...

A good president. He's just a pretty good president and a better president than you guys have been able to put up in a long time. And you got nothing on him. And maybe you're going to have to lose an election because you put a DEI candidate up to shiv the previous person you propped up there with strings on a marionette strings because he's been a cadaver for three years. And maybe you just have to admit that.

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My favorite comment yesterday is from Frame5RS, who says, Taylor Swift could not convince me to vote for dog catcher. Taylor Swift would probably try to convince you to vote for a Haitian migrant for dog catcher, and that wouldn't be good for, I guess it would get the dogs off the streets, in fairness. It would satisfy the chief job of the dog catcher.

But it would get very dark after that and contrary to that illustrious position and its history in America. Okay. Speaking of persecuting political opponents, I have the stupidest iteration of this phenomenon presented care of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. So you know what they do. They try to

impeach Trump multiple times or they try to prosecute Trump or get him on civil cases. Or they'll, I don't know, they'll try to create a bunch of non-troversy about Clarence Thomas and maybe try to impeach him. Or they'll do whatever they can. They'll dig up whatever dirt. Clarence Thomas went on vacation to the Jersey Shore one time, throw him in prison or something. But this one takes the cake. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

is investigating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Do you know why? We covered this story on the show about a week or so ago. This is from CNN, so I'm just reading the first... This is no color commentary. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed on Monday it is investigating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for allegedly decapitating a dead whale carcass and transporting it home two decades ago. That's it. Now, it was two decades ago.

Who among us has not gotten a chainsaw and decapitated a dead whale on the beach and then strapped its juicy head to the hood of our car while the whale juice and blubber flows into the windows and our daughters complain about it? Who among us, and driven it from Hyannis Port to Mount Kisco, New York? But even those of you who have never done such a thing, why are we investigating this now?

The Kennedys have been in public life for a pretty long time. Bobby Kennedy Jr. has been in public life for a long time, said and done some strange things. Nobody ever said boo about him. He was Democrat royalty. He could do whatever he wanted. Think about some of Robert F. Kennedy's relations. His uncle, Teddy, drove a woman into a lake and left her to drown there after they had been drinking all night. He was barely investigated for that. That was a human being.

But Bobby Kennedy Jr. is now two decades late. What's the statute of limitations on decapitating a dead whale? Is there one? I don't know. But two weeks after he endorses Donald Trump, and that's the best they can pin on him. The man's a Kennedy. They must have a litany of things they could go after. But no, no, the best they could find at the moment, that's the penalty if you endorse Trump. The penalty is you're going to be investigated.

for that dead whale you decapitated two decades ago. I hope they get to the bottom of that really, really important case. Speaking of 2024 presidential candidates, Ben and Jerry's is releasing a Kamala ice cream.

This is Kamala's Coconut Jubilee. Ben and Jerry, they're huge libs and they release ice cream for all sorts of libs. And the ice cream tastes pretty good in fairness. Some of them do, but the lib stuff is unfortunate. And so they got this new Kamala Coconut Jubilee. It's part of a 20 city get out the vote tour in partnership with moveon.org to elect Kamala Harris.

And I don't know if I'll buy it because I obviously don't want to support the Democrats. I'd have to wait till after the election to try the ice cream, I guess. But first of all, I like coconut. It's a nice little flavor. And two, I love that expression. And I'm not being in the slightest ironic. Of all the dumb things that Kamala has ever said, and there are many inane, frivolous things she's said about Venn diagrams and outer space and yellow school buses and all that.

You think you fell out of a coconut tree is actually smart and conservative. And it was the subject of my speech last night at Washington and Lee. So I strongly encourage you to go to the F YouTube channel. You can watch the live stream of it and some of the Q&A. You think you fell out of a coconut tree? That could have been written by Edmund Burke. You think you fell out of a coconut tree? That's a brilliant conservative insight, but you have to couple it with her other insight.

If you want to know what she means by the coconut tree thing, you got to couple it with the other silly thing that she says, which is, we have to imagine what can be unburdened by what has been. Those two things together tell you her plan. We didn't fall out of a coconut tree. We were, what's the alternative to that? We were born into a family. The family is the immediate circumstance of our birth. And the slightly removed circumstance of our birth is our extended family and

That's across space, but also across time, across the generations. And it's our community, our local community with our local traditions. That's what we're born into. We're the product of all that we are and all that we live in and what came before us. And also she wants us to forget all of that. She wants to ignore all of that. She wants to destroy all of that so that we can be unburdened by what has been. This is a call to attack local community, local traditions, and especially the family.

And if you think I'm reading too deeply into it, I don't know if Kamala Harris is conscious of that point. I don't think she's conscious of very much of anything, but that is the meaning of what she's saying.

We're not, we didn't fall out of a coconut tree. We're born, we're born into a family and into certain historical and political circumstances. And that's bad. And we should be unburdened of our families and we should be. And so is it any surprise that the running mate that she picked is this creep from Minnesota who told trans kids, who told kids who were dealing with sexual confusion to leave their families and go to Minnesota, the windowless white van of the Midwest? Is it any surprise that

that Kamala Harris supports killing babies up until the moment of birth. She wouldn't even weigh in on the post-birth abortions that take place in her running mate state. And that other prominent Democrats, including Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, have openly talked about and advocated. Randy Cuomo in New York or many, many other Democrats.

And it also means transing the kids who survive. And it also means abolishing the meaning of marriage in our law and pretending that, you know, marriage can mean any number of unions, which it obviously does not. And so effectively destroying marriage. And it means encouraging divorce for the people who do get married. And it means, and it means that just an outright assault on the family. That's what it's about. That's the heart of the coconut tree. And they're going to make an ice cream to celebrate it. That's okay. That's fine. That's fine. It's the most profound thing she's ever said.

And I bet the ice cream will taste pretty good. Not good. It won't be good for our country, but I will probably try the ice cream after the election. There's no member block today because I'm on the road in Lexington, Virginia, the city that sleeps, they call it. No, I had a lovely time last night at speaking. And then we had a wonderful little after speech dinner at a great local cigar bar.

A wonderful time was had by all, but that's why I'm not doing a member block, because we've got to hit the road. I'm giving one more speech, and then I'm coming back home. I'll see you in the studio tomorrow. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you then.

Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. Growing up, I never thought much about race. It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me. Am I racist? I would really appreciate it if you left. I'm trying to learn. I'm on this journey. I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover.

Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert. Here's my certifications. What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. This is more for you than this for you. Is America inherently racist? The word inherent is challenging there. I'm going to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument. America is racist to its bones. So inherently. Yeah, this country is a piece of shit.

White. Folks. White. Trash. White supremacy. White woman. White boy. Is there a black person around here? There's a black person right here. Does he not exist? Hi, Robin. Hi. What's your name? I'm Matt. I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful. Never be too careful. In theaters now. Rated PG-13.