The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 195 - The Greatest Jobs-Producer God Ever Created

Episode Date: August 3, 2018

As socialist empty-heads insist that the economy isn’t working, a record-high number of Americans are working as the economy soars. We will analyze the greatest jobs-producer God ever created, and the threats it faces. Then, Jim Acosta complains some more, Owen Benjamin stops by, and Pope Francis changes Church teaching on capital punishment. We will analyze the many defense and benefits of killing criminals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As socialist emptyheads insist that the economy isn't working, a record high number of Americans are working because the economy is absolutely soaring. We will analyze the greatest jobs producer God ever created and the threats that it faces. Then, I know you'll be shocked to hear this, Jim Acosta is complaining some more. Owen Benjamin stops by, that huge pianist friend of ours, and Pope Francis changes church teaching on capital punishment. we will analyze the many wonderful benefits of killing criminals. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles Show. That's a lot to get to in one day. We're going to have to do it, though.

We're going to have to cover everything from how wonderful capitalism is to questioning certain changes that are coming out of the Roman Curia and out of the Vatican, certain things that seem a little strange. You know, there's a difference, by the way, when people, a difference between Protestants or more evangelical Christians and Catholics, is when more Protestant-leaning people question their pastors or question their denominations teachings, they can be pretty vocal about it,

they can be pretty straight on. And when Catholics do it, we say, well, is it perhaps the case that the Holy Father is mistaken? I wonder if I am misunderstanding the Holy Father. We will have to see if we are misunderstanding the Holy Father on the death penalty. Before all that, you know, another promise has been kept. President Trump, he promised us.

Do you remember this? He's made a lot of promises. Everyone laughed at him. He said he's ridiculous. That'd be crazy. Everything was going to go terribly if he were elected. He promised us that if he were elected, he would be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. And I remember when he said it. Well, that's a really bold statement. Turns out that has absolutely been the case. President Trump, take it away. I'll be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. So there's a great spirit going on right now, a spirit that Many people have told me they've never seen before, ever. We're going to create jobs. I said that I will be the greatest jobs producer that God ever created. And I mean that. I really, I'm going to work very hard on that.

All right, we're a year and a half in. Let's see, what is the record show? The record shows that in the month of July, the most recent month that we have numbers for, a record high number, 155,000, 965,000 people were employed in the United States. That is an all-time record high. But by the way, that's the 11th record breaker since President Trump took office. This is true, by the way, the way that Democrats and socialists try to spin this is they say, well, the economy is working really well for some people, but it's not working well for all people.

And this is when they try to demagogue on issues of class division or race division, or sexual division or whatever. But even when you look at all of their divisive categories, the numbers still hold up. We have record low black unemployment. We now have record low Hispanic unemployment in the United States. This is the second record because he's had record low Hispanic unemployment two months in a row. Last month, the economy added 157,000 new jobs.

And unemployment has fallen below 3.9%. To put that into perspective, economists consider an unemployment rate of 4 to 6.4% to be full employment. Because if you're in a system that has freedom, you're going to have some unemployment. People are going to be changing jobs. A company might fire somebody who's not doing a good job, and then they'll find a job that they're better at. So 4 to 6.4% is considered full employment. And we are now looking at an unemployment figure below that.

We have more than full employment in this country. President Trump predicted it. He said that would happen. But why is that happening? Because he said, I'm the greatest jobs president God ever created. That might be true.

On the numbers, that is true. But then he said, I'm the greatest jobs producer that God ever created. And that isn't quite true. He's the greatest jobs president, but he's not the greatest jobs producer. The greatest jobs producer

is capitalism. It's economic freedom. And it's a wonderful time to be seeing these numbers because you have the rise of socialism across the United States. we've talked about how the Democratic Socialists of America have increased their membership eightfold in just two years.

The majority of millennials consider themselves socialist. At the same time, we are seeing that economic freedom, economic liberty, capitalism creates jobs, it creates prosperity. This is the first time that we've seen this in our political lives as millennials. And it's impressive to see because why is President Trump the greatest jobs president that God ever created? because he is increasing freedom and decreasing regulation. He is letting people keep more of their money by lowering taxes,

historic tax reform on companies and on individuals. He's deregulating the federal government, so he's making it harder for these bureaucrats and technocrats to control every aspect of our lives. He's opening up trade. He's negotiating better trade deals. He's trying to get better trade deals. We're drilling, baby drilling.

We're now the biggest exporter of oil in the world. were producing energy. During the Obama administration, we would hear, no, you can't drill here, you can't transport oil or natural gas here, you can't do this, you can't do that. No, no, no, no, no. And what President Trump did very simply,

perhaps just on his gut, is when he got in, he said, we're going to unleash this economy. We're going to unshackle it. We're going to open up the bonds that are holding this economy back, and this thing is going to roar. And it is roaring. This economy should have been roaring years ago

because you had that recession in 2007, 2008, and after steep recessions, you should have a steep recovery. But President Obama just put shackle upon shackle. So what did President Trump do? He opened that up. He unleashed it. Freedom works. Freedom works.

It seems so simple. I think even conservatives need to tell ourselves this sometimes. Because sometimes we conservatives, you know, we get a little contrarian, a little tweety, a little traditionalist. And you say, oh, I don't know about freedom. I don't, well, you know, pish-posh. No, freedom works very simply. It works economically.

We're seeing that with all of these numbers. It works politically. It works creatively. When you unshackle people, they are free to be creative. They're free to do what they want. And this is true as a matter of political speech. The accusation against President Trump

in this administration is that he's authoritarian. Oh, he's authoritarian. He's a fascist. He's authoritarian. How is he an authoritarian? By letting people say and do whatever they want. You know, one of the observations of this era in politics is people are sort of frenzied, they're vocal, they're politically engaged.

The federal government's not stopping them. The authoritarian, so-called government, isn't stopping anybody from doing that. You know, people are out there screaming, they're angry, they want impeachment, they want this, they want that. The president doesn't tell anybody to stop doing that. The freedom of the press has not been abridged. The freedom of the people, to speak their minds has not been abridged. There is freedom out there.

And by the way, even with all that screaming and all that fake news and all that anti-administration rhetoric coming out of the mainstream media, the administration's approval ratings are 50%. They're doing very, very well because people, when you give them freedom, when they say, look, you can speak and you can speak and you can speak, battle it out. It gets really loud. It gets really raucous. It's not orderly. It's not quiet. It's not cuth. but it's really raucous

and people can get a semblance of the truth. This is a wonderful thing. Some people are not thrilled about this though. And by some people, I of course am referring to Ron Burgundy himself, Jim Acosta. Jim, take it away.

I just wanted to follow up on Sarah's question from NPR. She asked you about Ivanka Trump's statement that the press is not the enemy of the people and she asked you whether or not the press is the enemy of the people. You read off a laundry list of your concerns about the press and things that you feel like are misreported, but you did not say that the press is not the enemy of the people. And I think it would be a good thing if you were to say right here at this briefing that the press, the people who are gathered in this room right now, doing their jobs every day, asking questions of officials

like the ones you brought forward earlier, are not the enemy of the people. I think we deserve that. I think the president has made his position known. I also think it's ironic. I'm trying to answer your question. I politely waited, and I even called on you despite the fact that you interrupted me while calling on your colleague. I said it's ironic. Which is why I interrupted. I'm trying.

But if you finish, if you would not mind letting me have a follow-up, that would be fine. It's ironic, Jim, that not only you and the media attack the president for his rhetoric when they frequently lower the level of conversation in this country. Repeatedly, repeatedly, the media resorts to personal attacks without any content other than to incite anger. The media has attacked me personally on a number of occasions, including your own network, said I should be harassed as a life sentence, that I should be choked. ICE officials are not welcomed in their place of worship and personal information is shared on the Internet. When I was hosted by the Correspondents Association, of which almost all of you are members of,

you brought a comedian up to attack my appearance and call me a traitor to my own gender. In fact, as I know, as far as I know, I'm the first press secretary in the history of the United States that's required secret service protection. The media continues to ratchet up the verbal assault against the president and everyone in this administration. And certainly we have a role to play, but the media has a role to play for the discourse in this country as well. Preach. Preach, Sarah. Yeah, baby. So Ron Burgundy, Jim Acosta, leans in there, and he says, listen, you, we have freedom. of the press in this country. You need to respect the press. You need to respect the freedom of the press. And that's why you need to tell all the American citizens to shut up. Why won't you? Why won't you tell them to shut up? They're saying mean things about me, Sarah. Stop them. And Sarah Sanders is saying,

like, well, that sounds like a you problem, Jim Acosta. That certainly doesn't sound like a me problem. Says, no, say it, say it. And I love the idea of this, by the way, that Jim Acosta, you know, just a guy built in a lab for CNN. He's there. He's saying, hey, listen, lady, say what exactly what I want you to say. and she says, no, I'm not going to do it. And then the left is outraged because a woman wouldn't say what Jim Acosta told her to say. And she's exactly right, by the way. She has been pilloried. She has been attacked.

She's the first press secretary in history to require a secret service protection. And she says, no, we're not going to have that. We're going to let you, Jim. First of all, it's incredible that they still call on Jim Acosta. I love that they do because I think every time Jim Acosta speaks, Trump's poll numbers go up 3%. But they call on Jim Acosta. They don't ban CNN. They don't censor CNN.

And then what she's saying is not only do you get to speak, Jim, but your critics get to speak too. That's how this works. That's how this freedom is going to work. And to hear the media whine and moan, it's as though they've never been attacked before. They've never, no, this is unprecedented. No, no, maybe Jim Acosta hasn't been attacked. But what about Fox News? Here's a clip from 10 years ago.

I think it was 2008 of a mob swarming Fox News. Check it out. I'm sorry if that sounded like a fire alarm to you because they have to bleep out every second and a half, every millisecond they've got a beep, beep. Yeah, swarming them, you know, Shegevara T-shirts on, you know, saying no borders, no this, no that.

And they're swarming, they're saying F Fox News, F Fox News. That's a lot worse than Jim Acosta's ever gotten. That's a lot worse. And you didn't really hear people complaining about it then, did you? But freedom works. Freedom works. And the left is really nervous about this. You've got, finally, this honest debate,

we're talking about the honesty right now of the midterm elections. You have Democrats who are coming out and honestly saying, yeah, we're socialists. We want socialism. We don't like freedom. We want socialism. Then you've got a Republican, a conservative administration that's saying, have freedom. Have it. We're going to unshackle the economy. You get economic freedom. We're going to unshackle political discourse. You're going to have political speech. You're going to have freedom of speech. Duke it out. Do you want freedom or do you want slavery? That's the question that Owen Benjamin has dropped.

by the studio to answer. Oh, and what's up? You've been hiding quietly there since we've been doing that entire segment. I've just been sitting on a pun the whole time. Jim Acosted. So that's what I got. Am I right? Yeah. Oh, and Benjamin, ladies and gentlemen, we'll see you. Why didn't I have you write the title for yesterday's episode about Jim Acosta? Jim Acosta. I just thought of it now, because when I'm told to be quiet for a bit, I do a lot of really good thinking of puns. This is why you make the big bucks and I'm sitting here in a broomcloth. Yeah, this is why I'm, I look like a mime. I just got off a plane and I'm like, I was like a mime.

I'm here. That's what you were doing, sitting silently. Welcome. I do the verbal mime where I'm like, I'm in a box. In case you don't realize it, this is a box. It sucks. I am a mime. Don't forget to tip me. Yeah, look, it's a rope. It's not a chain. So you're in town.

You just came here to mime and hang out. What are you doing in town? Good mind. Well, I was going to go to Prager's birthday party and I just did that Prager U vid. So I just stopped by Krola's place and then you and then just hanging out. That Prager You video was fantastic. Thank you. Who haven't seen. Maybe we'll have to add in a video of this. It's you talking about the death of comedy. You're talking about what's happened to comedy. And so you shot the video a while ago. And then in the meantime, between you shooting the video and now, Netflix came out with the Nanette anti-comedy comedy special.

I want to do an anti-plumbing plumber. Or it's like, you know, I'm here to fix this pipe because human excrement is spraying everywhere. But I'm just, I was raped once, so I'm going to go home and just you're going to drown. Like no other job that could even possibly be. It's unbelievable. You go out and you say, I thank you for paying money, everybody.

I am explicitly going to do the opposite of my job. Right. And for those you thinking that I just brought up the rape thing to be a weirdo, that's what she said. So I was like referencing, What she was like trying to reference these horribly dark things and then why that's why she will not do comedy as she's being paid to do comedy. Well, I will say you did have to clarify that because not a soul on earth has watched that comedy special. No.

Well, except for their friends sending the trailer being like, what is this? Wow, wow. Yeah. That, you know, it's true. It would be like Jim Acosta getting on TV and spreading real news. You can't do. That's not his job. No, his job is to be the irrational.

He has to act like a schizophrenic donkey all the time. Just he-hawing and kicking and acting just ridiculous. So this topic that I've been thinking about all week is freedom works. Freedom is working. It's working politically. It's working economically. This ties into your video, right? This ties into like this oppressive.

Don't laugh. Nothing's funny. There's that culture. Then there's the culture of breathe the sweet air of freedom, have a laugh, have a chuckle. Yeah, it's about consent. You know, it's like that's why it's so raped on the lap, you know? Wait, how's it about consent? Free markets. It's consent.

It's like, I want to work with you. You want to work with me. Let's make both of our lives better. That consensual relationship. And then you have socialism, which is at the end of a gun, I will establish the price of bread without any factors. There really is an element of force versus consent, and that seems to permeate people's entire lives. The left, I mean, we've seen this now.

All these stories come out of these, like, the feminist good guys, the soy boy feminist guys. Yeah. They are by far. The creepy ones with girls. They follow them around. And Harvey Weinstein, obviously, the Me Too movement. Maybe there's something to this theory.

It's the coercion of the left that makes them feel entitled to take whatever they want. Right, because what they're doing doesn't actually help women. In fact, it's horrifying. Where it's like, you know what being a woman is? Lots of abortions. You know, work 90-hour weeks. Never get married. See you guys in 50 years.

Like, that's someone who actually loves a woman and, you know, we just had our second child. Yeah, congratulations. I just got a kid. The last thing I would do is establish a fake wage gap. She has her master's in engineering. My wife's a brilliant woman who wanted to stay home and be a mom and just push her into the salt minds of, you know, and then just, and say like abortions, empowerment and all this stuff. And then secretly, they're just up to no good, these guys.

Yeah, yeah. That's absolutely right. That element of coercion. Where do you see it, though? I mean, because I'm interested in it from a cultural perspective and a political perspective. So the midterm elections right now are being, they're pretty honest. Do we want to keep Trump? Do we want to impeach Trump?

Do we want freedom? Do we want socialism? You've got these socialist candidates. Where is it heading culturally? Are we going to get more nanets? Are we going to get more anti-comedy? I think there's going to be a lot of division, but I think there's more conservatism happening with young people.

But there is that millennial generation that just has all this dead and no purpose. And they really, the problem I see is that the social. the evilness of socialism that whisper like, I'll take care of your debt. Yeah. You know, they're like, really? Because they're so like, they can't default on it.

They were, my parents are professors, and they warned me about this a long time ago, where they're like, this is going bad. You know, the devaluing of the college education, where they're just letting it anybody, anyone can get alone. There's no market force on it. Nothing.

Nothing. And my parents both taught things, like actual things, not this like underwater lesbian ballet. They didn't teach that? Oh, clearly they... My dad has his PhD on that. It's one of his PhDs.

Yeah, good. No, but they're just giving people nonsense. They're actually... I read somewhere that if you study economics right now in college, you leave knowing less. Like, for real, because your basic thoughts are better than this Marxist nonsense. Than what it's being replaced with. Yeah.

And it's weaponized empathy, too, where it's like, I see the trick. I see, like, don't you love poor people? It's like, but socialism isn't about supporting the poor. It's about destroying the rich. It's an envy-based evil ideology. And once you see it, you're like, eh. Well, you had that great video that came out, the last Bernie bro. Oh, yeah.

Where we'll have to put a link to it because it's like, it's like a four-minute video, right? It's a pretty long video. And the last Bernie bro, spoiler alert, is living in Venezuela. Yeah, yeah, he's like on this mission. He's like, I brought my, you know, my machete, made sure he pronounced it the way that. And then, you know, he's got bubbles, his frisbee and two lequas and his vape pen. he's like, I'm going to go where the utopia is, and of course he goes to Venezuela, and my friend who's playing the guard is not even looking that direction.

It's only to keep people in Venezuela. And he's just, you know, spoil where it's only four minutes long, but he steals my passport, and I just have to stay in Venezuela. Because it's this extended childhood. There's no, you know, meritocracy is scary if you have no skills and you're raised with no values. Of course, and that's such an interesting point there in the video. Like, it tells you a lot about the country to go to, down to the border and see which way the guns are pointing.

Oh, yeah. Which way are they aimed? No, because me and my buddy were talking about that. We're like, there is no socialist country in history where people are trying to sneak in, ever. Right. There's always rafts coming out of Cuba. Nobody in Miami is like, I'm going to float on a tire and get to Cuba. That's never, ever happened. So why would we want that? Like, North Korea, no one's running in.

That's right. That's exactly, all the stand countries. No one's trying to go into it. No, the stands are not good dudes. Stans. Well, yeah, because I'm actually... Direct those guys down. Afghanistan, Pakistan. dude, Stanley, man. Stanley is not a good dude. I'm watching a Handmaid's Tale and I thought I would hate it. I thought it was going to be anti-conservant

propaganda. It's about... Dude, it's awesome. It's about Islam though. Like, I'm dead serious. I'm watching this thing and I'm like, this is accurate Islam stuff. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like, even general mutilation is in it covering the faces, eight wives. It's literally like I'm watching this. I'm like, how is this

spun to be anti-Christian? By the way, when historians, when you're looking back to figure when the moment was that we all started to get jihaded. It was this moment when Owen brought it up on the show. This was the beginning of us at Daily Wire getting jihaded. So thank you very much. I appreciate that. You got to see my artwork of Muhammad and various horses.

No, it's, I don't, yeah, it's not sense. It is, I know, I actually, I agree with you. I've enjoyed watching Handmaid's Tale because it is just trash. I mean, it's like a trashy show. Yeah. But you look at it, the people on the left. earnestly believe that that is where the United States under Donald Trump is headed.

But I think it's like a psychosis, because they don't see that they're almost accurately picturing socialism and some of these caliphates and stuff. Like, it's not at all what the right wants. Of course. Like, it's all coercion, it's all, there's no free markets in the handmaid's tail. Yeah.

You know, and that's the irony about this whole thing. As they say what they're, you know, like clearly Hillary Clinton had something going out with Russia, because this whole nonsense is coming from some weird projection. It's like the closet gay guy with like 8 Z-28s. You know, it's like, dude, why don't you go camping with a dude? Gay guy? We're like, what are you?

What are you? Sleep with a man? What are you? I know. Then you're like, why are you going so far? And the left, everything they're like going so far with, you're like, that's you. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you even see when Jim Acosta, when Ron Burgundy is yelling at Sarah Sanders,

he's saying their premises that the Trump administration is authoritarian and all Jim Acosta is saying is tell people not to do anything tell people not to talk tell people not to criticize me she's like we don't do that that's what you do you tell people to shut up

we don't tell people to shut up we don't tell people of course and the irony is if it really was what they described they'd all be dead and they would never be able to say it right like the one way you know for a fact the media isn't actually being attacked in America and this is not a fascist government is because you can hear them

talk about that right right Incessantly. Oh, and it's this like comfort with cognitive dissonance. Like Trump is Hitler, give him your guns, like all this stuff. You know, submit to tolerance. Like these things that any child could see, the comfort in it has to come from postmodernism

where it's like there is no truth in the world because if not, how do you function that way? Yeah. Like up down. Like up is down, down is up. This is my question with the millennials. And I honestly don't know which way it's going to go. The signs don't seem good. You know, more than half of millennials identify as so.

Socialist, they skew Democrat, all these things. But this is basically the first time in their lives, in their politically conscious lives, that they've seen prosperity. Yeah. They're seeing freedom. Their rhetoric sounds very pro-freedom. Is there any way, do you think,

that we can get them back, or are they all just going to be vaping with La CLA? A lot of it is cultural, too. I think a lot of young men don't have any strong male role models. That's why they're drawn to people like you and Shapiro and Jordan Peterson. Because we're so masculine, you know? We're so like Conan the Barbarian, don't you think? We're talking before about how you were like the most manly guy at Yale at some boys.

That's right. Well, it's only because like I would wear Oxford shirts every so often. You know, I wasn't wearing a dress all day long. You know, it's true. He's not wearing mascara. He must be a lumberjack. It's true. You think like, guys, I have never thrown a football in my life.

That's so funny. That's right. But there is a sense of that in the culture, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. I'm doing a speech for yaf in the fall, which has had to be a man when you look like a maddow. And they're just very simple things that you can do. But that's a very, that's a quality you just did that people want, where you can mock yourself.

Yeah, right. Well, that's the other thing. They're so precious. The millennials, they're so shocked when you, I don't know, when I interact with guys, I'm a jerk, you know. You kind of make fun of each other and. And you make fun of your own weaknesses or your own things that, like, I was laughing out loud when Shapiro was making fun of how

he does ads. It's like, that's so male. That's so like normal male behavior where I would make fun of my size. Like I'm an ogre, you know, like, and, and sometimes people don't get that and they want it so bad again because they're like, that relieves our pressure. That's what my pre-degree video is about. That's right. Where it's like this pressure is building where no one could just mock each other. And then it just explodes. And I think that there is no mockery on the left. It's all, because it's fundamentally such a lie that they can't ever. be in their own skin anymore. They can't just be free and criticize each other. Like me and you could have an argument over policy and our friendship wouldn't be affected at all. In the least.

That's exactly right. Yeah. But for the left, when you attack their political opinions, they actually say this. They say, you're erasing me. You're erasing my identity. You're invalidating me. Like, you're really. It's like, sometimes I want to be like, that dude's never seen a dead guy. Like, I'll show you an erased person. It's horrifying. You know, it's kind of like, it's these people We're almost doing live action role play with stuff they don't understand. Yes. One time someone was saying words are violence, and I have two kids now, I don't want to go to jail or anything, but I want to just go like this and be like, which one do you want?

You want a word? Or do you want me to seriously knock your face off your body? Do you want to see how words are not violence? And this is how I know that they don't have any sense of stakes, because I'm a giant. And I'm, you know, there's no fear sometimes in these people. Yeah. They're just like, you're the worst, you're white. you're a man like words or violence

and I'm like at no point in my life would I ever, that would be like me looking at an eight foot man. Yeah, yeah. Like on a, like, I could eat you. I know, I literally would be like, do you need help? Do you want me to rub your feet? You know, it's like, how do you not have that fear of just violence? Yes. And because I'm very

anti-violence, but it's because, you know, I tell that to people, so I'm like, dude, don't forget Sermon on the Mount or you'll get Leviticus again. You know what I mean? Like, those are, like, that base is still there. That's right. Like, we've expanded it to this freedom and the lack of grace, you know, yeah, but you can

go right back to that if people start forgetting about the work it took to get these freedoms. That's right, I remember in Exodus it says, thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Perhaps, you know, we've got to go back to some of this more fundamental understanding, I don't know. That is so right, and the millennials

they're so afraid of, or they're so coddled, rather, that they don't have that sense of reality. You'll talk to them and you'll just think like, have you never rubbed up against reality for even one second. Never once. No.

They're atrophy. It's like muscle atrophy. It's like when you have a cast and then your wrist looks weird. Yeah. It's like, and it's not like there's, I remember where a concept of like spoiled. It's not like they got everything taken from them with this. It's not like, there's no jealousy there

because they now can't function. They like have no ability of like functioning in the world. And I think it's, you know, a bad parenting. I can't put it all on them. It's like they're, parents must. It's like fight club. It's like that absentee father, the absentee god, that no one cared about me. They just sent me out and then someone's always watching me. Yeah, that's right. That's right. And there is, like, I've noticed this with people.

People who have actually suffered in life, they go one of two ways. Either they go to jail or they are the most joyful people on earth. Yeah. I had that North Korean defector G Songho came in here. This guy, I don't know that I'll ever meet someone who has suffered like this guy has. I saw him as I was going into North Korea. Did you? Yeah. Where you going? It's utopia.

Socialist Democrats. Why would you want to leave? Why would you ever want to leave this utopia? No, I saw him crawling out of the, as I was crawling in. I was like, why are you leaving? What's going on, dude? Are you okay? Don't you want freedom?

Yeah. Don't you want safety? Breadlines. Yeah, don't you? So what happened? So I talked to him and I noticed, I just thought, like, this is the most joyful person I've ever met. So now, whenever like, you know, I don't know, I stub my toe on my chair,

I'll say, ah, my toe, you know. And my wife, she'll say like, oh, yeah, should I call G-Song-ho? Should I let him know? I'll get a note, you know? Like, humans adjust. Yeah, come on, there's a stasis here. But when I see these millennial types whining because, like,

they can't just be professional poets. They might have to, like, get a job, too. I just think, like, man, you got to talk to G-Song-ho, man. You've never, you know. Because it's like, yeah, the inability of feeling joy. That's the thing is even if they did become a famous rapper or something, they still would never be happy. They'd just be crying on a yacht. It's like, this yacht is dumb.

It's like the same nightmare. It's just on sheets. Yeah. Same nightmare sheets with a higher thread count. That's right. Yeah, that is it. I mean, I just, like, looking around, this is why I'm very into owning the libs. I kind of disagree respectfully with our ambassador to the UN on this.

Owning the libs is, it's great because it's so attractive. There's such a joy to it. There's an exuberance. And you compare that joy to this relentless, tedious, self-serious leftism. Why would you ever pick that? Got to own the lips. I'm not advocating killing the lips. Yeah, I want to just possess them.

That's what I always do without vegans. Like, I'm always like, I wouldn't eat a person. You know, you just try to like go so far that they're like, what? Look, look, I'm a moderate. I have compassion. I'm a moderate. Yeah, I would never eat a human being. I don't think.

Yeah, I mean, I don't get it. It's like I never been to the Andes, but I don't know. What happens? Yeah, it's like, no. I think leftism is such a destructive force that I don't know why people are like saying that it's, I don't know. I'm like, no, you got to take it out any way you can. Get it out. Just get it because it's like and be funny with it.

I mean, if the best comedy they can do, if the comedy that the left has, which gets Netflix hour long specials is not comedy, then like make them laugh, man. People just want to laugh. They want to smile. They want to have a little levity, you know. Yeah, I thought my career was done because of like, certain opinions I had, and it's totally not. Opinions like we shouldn't castrate children. Literally.

Yeah, that opinion got you fired from everything. Races all deserve jokes about them. Yes. Oh, that's... Oh, there's nothing more kind of sending. Like, there'd be jokes I'd write with, like, a bunch of black dudes I'm on the road with, and some, like, just white girl and like...

Always a white girl. Always. Always. Always a white girl, I know. And they're like, excuse me. Excuse me. My neighbor's mailman's best friend is named Tyrone. And you're like, what are you talking about?

Like, it's so infuriating. Cory Booker's imaginary friend T-Bone would be very offended by that joke. Yeah, they have like invisible black people all around them. They're like, I got this one, T-Bone. And you're like, if you actually see human beings as individuals, you never know when the pothole is coming because you don't see people as demographics.

That's right. You know what your mistake. I'm more into heightism. Like, if someone's under 6'5, I don't even look at them in the eye. You can't. No. No, but honestly, I think, obviously I'm not a heightist. But like, I think height is way more divisive than race as far as what your day is like.

There actually is height privilege. That is true. There are all these studies. Yeah, but then it goes farther. Like, I'm almost 6'8. Yeah, you're on the back end of that privilege. I can't be on a roller coaster. No one in a nursing home is over 5'10.

You know, like, I'm the first one arrested. You know, like, there's all kinds of stuff. You know, I'm like a great day and hips go out at like 40. You know your mistake, though. When you were making jokes about all the races, if you had only made jokes about white men, and even if you just said really vicious things about white men, you could be on the New York Times.

No, if I endorse Hillary Clinton, I could just, like, rape someone. No, I'm dead serious. It's true. That literally is happening. I know. You might have had to donate. You might have had to donate a little, too. Harvey Weinstein was, like, openly raping people,

and they were calling them God. That's right. It's like, what I just said seems so shocking, but people laugh. Good people just laugh because it's, there's so much truth in it that you're like, that's true. You can get away with anything. Like I was, like, and I think Louis CK. is an incredible joke writer, but like, I'll watch some of his bits. And I'm like, the way he's talking about his wife and kids, I'm like, you know, I'm like, dude.

You know, he's like my daughter's. I don't even want to say it on your show out of respect. I'm like, whoa, man. Yeah, I, you know. Yeah. Seems to be a little. Well, that's like the James Gunn thing, right? Yeah.

It's all jokes and you think, well, maybe. but there's some weird jokes. I disagree with Shapiro and now I think he actually might have been right because the dude is such an assassin. Like when you're debating with him, you're like, whoa. Oh yeah. Easy Pagan-A-A-A-e. He could sell spoiled milk to a cow.

I mean, it is very bad. I was convinced that he was wrong about it. And I realized he's actually right about it. Because he was talking about if you know what you're getting into when you hire someone, you got to just eat that. That's true. Right. And so that makes sense because like my point was like, no,

We have to have standards. We can't go down that road of like, we're becoming our enemies if we don't hire a known pedophile to babysit our kids. You know, it's like, no, there's right and wrong. And it's like, that's going to take a hit out of the business the fact that he writes these things. Yes.

But, I mean, what he's saying isn't funny. And I know people have said that to me where they're like, your joke isn't funny. I'm like, because you don't understand hyperbole irony and assumptions. Yeah, right. Because lefties are known for their great sense of humor. That's really what it's about it.

Right. And like, I'll even like, describe what the joke is and how it's the opposite of what they think it is and they still don't get it. Of course. So I don't want to fall down that road and say James Gunn shouldn't do these jokes. Well, I don't personally think he should, but he should not be around kids professionally, as I'm saying. Yeah, I just love it. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. He was the first one to cheer when they all got fired for jokes, and now it comes back and bites him.

And it is great because, you know, these guys are dying by their own hypocrisy. You're like living in freedom. I mean, you're, it's awesome. And it's like you just have a happier life. Like, I would get those like lefty development deals that you don't deserve and all that stuff, but you don't enjoy it. Again, it's almost like biblical. It's like you get all the world and you get nothing, you know?

That's so true. So what are you up to? Where can people see you? Where can people find you? Well, my website is a huge pianist.com. I have three specials there, self-produced from the last year and a half. And then the Prager You video, watch and share it. I desperately want to beat Dave Rubin because he gets a little cocky about a 6.7 million.

Oh, yeah, that's right. And yeah, just YouTube. And Dennis's birthday party. Those are the places they can go. I can't wait. So you figure James Gunn has a Twitter, ISIS as a Twitter, where can they find you on Twitter? Not on Twitter.

Well, this is what I got kicked off Twitter permanently for a joke that if I could say at a Catholic preschool, not quite, but literally nothing. And the more time goes on, the more people are like, this joke making fun of David Hogg? Yeah, well, you know, James Gunn gets to, stay on Twitter, but you don't. Dude, Farrakhan is on Twitter.

Farikon, yeah. He, like, hates Shapiro just for his race. Yeah, that's true. Dude, the left is so racist. And it's like, these guys are on there talking about how Jews are like a disease. I'm like, uh, what? Yeah, but you're a huge pianist. They're not going to let you on. No, but I'm a

quarter Jewish, so that kicks in hard. I'm like, excuse me? And I didn't even find out I was Jewish until I was 20, but I always knew I was up to something. You were like, you were the fullest. Come on, that's a Good bit. Like, I always knew I was up. I just think that's funny. It's true story, too. I found out by

grandmother's totally Jewish. I didn't even know. That is true. Yeah. You were the tallest Jews in Samson. I'm almost certain. I know. That's why I never cut my hair until I was recently. Yeah. Yeah. That. No, but Louis Faircott is on Twitter. Like, that's insane. That's true. It is insane. That's amazing.

Like, he's in genocide. Like, the way he talks about Jews is genocidal. That's right. But yet, I'm not allowed to be on there because I want my gun rights. That's right. That's right. That's terrible. That's all right. Twitter's going to die anyway. Like, Facebook and Twitter stocks are just plunging. That's why they hate the free market because nonsense is rewarded with a lack of money.

Yeah, that's true. That's absolutely right. And, well, so I'm going to see you tomorrow. Well, yeah, and I want everyone to buy the leftist tears mug. You got to get it. You got to get this, by the way, people, because I got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube. I've given you too much today. I've got to say goodbye. It says hot and cold.

What about lukewarm tears? You're not allowed to have it that way. Pick aside. Stand in the middle of the road, get hit by a truck. Go to Dailywire.com. Subscribe now. Get the leftist to your stumbler. We'll be right back, unfortunately, without Owen.

Owen, thanks for being. Oh, dude, I'd blast. Cheers. For those of you who didn't catch that, I just said goodbye to Owen, and he stood up and cracked his head on our ceiling lights. Owen is on the other side of hype privilege.

He is not on the good side of height privilege. Man, it's always good to have him here. It's like the Tasmanian devil. Like 10 Tasmanian devil. devils come through. He's so funny and he's like got such a fresh perspective. It's so good that this guy isn't being like just owned by studios. He's on his own. I mean, freedom works. Now, this brings us to our final point today. We're running a little late, so I'll try to cover it quickly. There's another side to freedom. When people abuse their freedom, when they use their

freedom to break the laws, to hurt other people, to violate the moral law, then we can kill them. And the state can kill them. Again, this is a very good. been true at all times. It's acknowledged in the epistles. It's acknowledged in Christianity. It's always been the position of the Catholic Church. And today, Pope Francis has amended certain aspects of church teaching in the catechism of the Catholic Church to say that the death penalty now is inadmissible. That's his word. The death penalty by civil governments is inedmissible. So we'll go into what that means a little bit and some of the thoughts on the health benefits of capital punishment,

but lefty politicians are cheering. So fake Catholic politicians like the Cuomo's, for instance. The Cuomo, Mario Cuomo, invented this whole, I oppose abortion, but I think it should be legal line. Well, I'm personally opposed to abortion, but I support abortion. And they're trying to have their cake and eat it too, and it's absurd because abortion is intrinsically evil.

So Andy Cuomo's running with this. Andy Cuomo, his son, the governor of New York, tweets out today, quote, The death penalty is morally indefensible, has no place in the 21st century. Today, in solidarity with Pontefax, and in honor of my father, I will be advancing legislation to remove the death penalty from state law once and for all. This is the same guy, by the way, Andy Cuomo, who said that if you're not in favor of abortion, you're not a New Yorker, you have no place in New York.

This is a radical lefty, and he quotes his church when it's convenient. So what is it with the death penalty? is the death penalty morally acceptable? Well, what Pope Francis wrote today is this. This is the new teaching of the Catholic Catechism. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is the book of teachings of the Catholic Church. There was a version that came out, I believe in 1992, is it,

from John Paul II, and it formerly said that the death penalty in modern society, while not intrinsically evil, would be practically non-existent because we have other ways of dealing with criminals. It's now changed to recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority. Following a fair trial was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good.

Today, however, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost, even after the commission of very serious crimes. In addition, a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state. Lastly, more effective systems have been developed. consequently the church teaches in light of the gospel that quote the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person well I don't know so inadmissible what is inadmissible mean what is it really saying you know because the the Pope is not allowed to change doctrine that that doesn't happen people mistake this frequently

because of people don't understand papal infallibility the Pope can't change doctrine of the church. He can articulate doctrine. He can clarify doctrine. So, inadmissible. That's not the same as saying it's intrinsically evil. Inadmissible means not capable of being admitted or conceded or allowed scope for or conceded as valid. Okay. Tricky wording, isn't it? Was it always inadmissible? No. It certainly wasn't always inadmissible. St. Augustine writes about this. He says, the same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when he gives an explicit commission to an individual for a period of time. Thomas Aquinas says the same thing.

It is permissible to kill a criminal if this is necessary for the welfare of the whole community. Now look, Pope Benedict, this isn't a total break with Pope Francis. Pope Benedict said, quote, there may be legitimate diversity of opinion among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty. So there can be some disagreement. It doesn't mean that now if you're pro-death penalty, you are not Catholic or something like that. Certainly not. But I would like to bring in a little bit of history

before we go here on the death penalty and the church and the health benefits of capital punishment. In Rome, in 1817, Pope Pius I seventh was reigning, three robbers were beheaded. They were beheaded for robbery. Between 1814 and 1870, 369 criminals were beheaded in the papal states under the control of the Pope.

He, you know, got to take care of those criminals. Giovanni Battista Bugatti, who is the official papal executioner, used an axe to chop off criminals' heads before the guillotine was brought in to be more humane. The Pope, between 1814 and 1817, just three years, sanctioned the hanging, drawing, and quartering of criminals 11 separate times. Haneous crimes, particularly heinous crimes,

were not treated in this way. Instead, those criminals had their heads crushed with the Matsatello mallet. That's a little stronger. That doesn't seem to be quite in keeping with the modern teaching. Agatino Bellomo, who was the last to be executed in the papal states, asked Blessed Pious the 9th for a stay of execution. Blessed Pius the 9th responded to him, this is the last person executed there,

and said, I cannot, and I do not want to. And then he was executed. The issue here is that capital punishment protects human rights. It protects human beings, human life. and the natural right, the natural law, rather. So there are different kinds of punishment. There is retributive punishment, punishment just for justice's sake. There is deterrent punishment.

So when people are punished harshly for a crime, it discourages others from doing that. There is therapeutic punishment. You can put someone into a rehabilitation center. You say, oh, you know, the purpose of putting someone in prison is to rehabilitate them. Okay, that's one of them too. And there is medicinal punishment, medicinal capital punishment, which is that the Samuel Johnson quote,

when a man knows that he's going to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. When you know that you're going to be killed for your crime, it clarifies the world a little bit. The whole point of the Catholic teaching on capital punishment, excuse me, is that we want to bring people to Christ, We want to give them a time to repent.

Well, when you're looking at that guillotine over there, it focuses your mind. It really brings certain questions to mind. A more modern example of this, because you can talk about all the papal states and popes chopping off people's heads and all that is very good. But consider the Nuremberg trials. During the Nuremberg trials of all the Nazi war criminals who slaughtered and genocided whole scores of people, Pope Pius, the 12th, was so eager for justice that he sent his Jesuit archivist to assist the prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials. Pope Pius XVI personally told the prosecutor Robert Jackson, quote, not only do we approve of the trial, but we desire that the guilty be punished as quickly as

possible. One of the defining features of this pontificate is some confusion. There seems to be a lot of confusion on matters of divorce, matters of who can receive the communion, matters of capital punishment, matters of church teaching, evolution, where things are going. I mean the evolution of the church, not monkeys turning into people. There seems to be a lot of confusion, and it would be nice to have some clarity because the church has had moral clarity on this issue for a very long time, and if the confusion persists and suggests that capital punishment is intrinsic evil, then, first of all, church tradition will be changed.

The thoughts of the church will be changed, but it's really morally unclear because there's nothing Christian about letting the wicked rape the face of the earth, letting the cruel rape the face of the earth. There's nothing Christian about that. And let's hope that that confusion doesn't persist any longer. I told you at the top of the show,

when Catholics have trouble with things that are coming out of the Vatican, you're very respectful about it. There was a group of clergy who formerly accused Pope Francis of heresy. But the way that you do it in the Catholic Church is it's called a filial letter of correction for heresy. And like, most Holy Father, we think we may have misunderstood what you were saying.

You know, very, very respectful. So let's hope respectfully we can get some clarity on all of those matters. And people don't forget the important medicinal effects of hanging and having your head chopped off. In the meantime, you know, we started recording another kingdom. Another kingdom's coming up. Get ready for, you've got to binge that first season. So you're ready for season two. It is really, really cool.

I will tell you that. In the meantime, I'll see you. you soon. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Noel Show. See you Monday. The Michael Nolz Show is produced by Sennia Villa Real. Executive producer Jeremy Borey. Senior producer, Jonathan Hay. Our supervising producer, Mathis Glover. And our technical producer is Austin Stevens. Edited by Jim Nickel. Audio is mixed by Mike Coramina. Hair and makeup is by Jesua Olvera. The Michael Noles show is a Daily Wire Forward

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