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Chapter 1: What does Elon Musk mean by believing in the teachings of Jesus?
Elon Musk declares his belief in the teachings of Jesus. Gavin Newsom proves that he was never taught the meaning of basic words in a spat with Ted Cruz. And Democrats lay out the master plan to lie their way through the midterms. I'm Michael Knowles, this is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Chapter 2: How did Gavin Newsom misunderstand basic words in his spat with Ted Cruz?
Welcome back to the show. Do you remember when 300,000 migrant kids just went missing under Joe Biden and no one really looked for them and no one could account for them? And President Trump's administration, Tom Holman just announcing this, they've found 145,000 of the kids. So they found about half the kids.
Chapter 3: What is the Democrats' strategy for the upcoming midterms?
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It is now Ash Wednesday, a very important penitential season as we await Good Friday and Easter Sunday. And to kick it off, Elon Musk just posted yesterday on Twitter, on X, I agree with the teachings of Jesus. This was in response to one of these pseudonymous Twitter accounts. I don't know. I say I'm a millennial. Sue me.
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Chapter 4: What happened to the 300,000 migrant kids that went missing?
Sue me that I forget to say X. It was in response to one of these pseudonymous accounts that was evangelizing and Elon responds and he goes, I agree with the teachings of Jesus, which is great. And Elon should be encouraged in this. And we all really like Elon. And Elon is one of the most important figures in our political order.
And he has done more to restore America and a traditional conception of America and a conception of America that leaves a lot of room for religion than basically anybody else in the country. But now we got to ask Elon a question. If Elon believes in the teachings of Jesus... What about that teaching of Jesus, which our Lord repeats, that he is God? What about that?
Because our Lord tells us, love your enemies. And our Lord tells us, love the true God, love your God above all things. And our Lord tells us, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And our Lord teaches us a lot of things. Blessed are the poor in spirit. He teaches us a lot of these things. But the central teaching, the crucial fact, is that he is God. And he teaches this repeatedly.
He says, before Abraham was, I am. He says, whoever has seen me has seen the Father. The Father and I are one. He says that he's God. So what does that teaching imply for our lives and our actions? This is a question not only for Elon, but for anyone who is attracted to the teachings of Christ.
Because a lot of people, they just want to go a little bit, they want to go halfway, and they want to say, well, I think Christ is a great moral teacher. C.S. Lewis very famously mocks this notion because he can't just be a great moral teacher because he claims he's God.
So because he claims he's God, he's either God or he's a very bad moral teacher because he would be lying or he would be a crazy person, either of which would make him a pretty inept moral teacher. But if you say, well, I like his teachings. His teachings appeal to me. Okay. Well, one of the central teachings is he's God. So then what? You can't go halfway. There's another C.S. Lewis point.
I think he was making the rounds yesterday. Maybe because Elon posted this. But the point was Christianity is either the crucial fact of the whole world. It is absolutely invaluable. It is essential. Or it's nothing. But it can't be just like kind of important. It can't be. It's all or nothing. It's like that Frank Sinatra song. All or nothing at all. That's what it is.
You're either in and Christ is Lord and God. And you do what he says. And you pray to him. And you avail yourself of the sacraments that he leaves to us. And you join into his mystical body, which is the church. Or just ignore him. because you don't believe in anything, but you can't go halfway. So anyway, I'm not in any way admonishing Elon. I think this is awesome.
This is a great way to kick off Lent when one of the most important men in the world is saying, I agree with the teachings of Jesus, but Elon's a smart guy. So then the question is, okay, well, do you really? How do you agree with them? Do you agree with the central teaching? Do you agree with the unignorable teaching? Then what? Then what does that mean? Speaking of teaching,
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Elon Musk's belief in Jesus for his public persona?
He needs some kind of handicap. Gavin Newsom is a good looking, smooth talking, rich white guy with a good looking wife and a beautiful family. That's bad if you're a Democrat. That's like five marks against you if you're a Democrat. That would have been good 25 years ago, but it's bad now. Gavin Newsom physically is everything the Democrats say that they hate. So he needs some kind of handicap.
I think this is why a lot of Zoomer guys just decided they were gay. I think this is why you see LGBT identity skyrocketing. Zoomer women did this as well. And there are very interesting studies on this. A lot of Zoomer women would claim to be bisexual, even though they basically never had any romantic relationships with women.
They would just say that in order to claim some kind of handicap, some kind of victim status. at a time when that carried a lot of social currency on the left. So I think you're seeing the same thing here. I don't know if he's dyslexic or not, but even if he's not, it would make sense that he would claim that. He's not gonna claim to be gay. He's got a very good looking wife.
He's not going to claim to be, I don't know, black or something or Hispanic or that's not gonna fly. He can't claim to be some minority religion. I don't know that he has any religion really at all, but he's not gonna put on a hijab or something. He's not going to put on the keffiyeh. So what can he claim? Okay, he claims he's got this intellectual disability, which gives him the victim points.
And it also will provide an excuse because I'm not saying Gavin Newsom's a total idiot. I don't think he is, but he ain't a Rhodes Scholar. He's not the sharpest tool in the shed. And if J.D. Vance is the presumptive nominee for the Republicans, which he is, J.D. Vance is a very intelligent guy. So Newsom, I think, is already looking down the line.
and he's saying, okay, I'm going to have to compete against J.D. Vance, who's probably two to four standard deviations in IQ above me. I need to set expectations low right now. In some ways, he's doing what J.D. Vance does. The fact that the vice president has embraced the silly J.D. meme that makes him into this, you know, like giant, almost, I don't know, like a
Saxon King like figure, you know, there's like big, long haired kind of, you know, just torrent of force and irrationality. The JD, the JD was very, very funny. But part of the reason that I think it's smart that the vice president has embraced that is that it manages expectations. The JD meme is fat. JD Vance is relatively pretty thin, but the meme is fat.
So then when you see him, he looks thinner. The JD meme, depending on which meme you're looking at, is short. JD is very tall. So you have this expectation that he'll be short when you see him in real life. He's quite tall. Well, Gavin Newsom is kind of doing the same thing here with the dyslexic bit. He's trying to set expectations low. Joe Biden actually managed this pretty well.
And he's setting expectations low for a more practical reason than, say, the vice president, which is that Newsom doesn't really have it. He's all sizzle, no steak. Gavin Newsom, he kind of looks the part, and he's kind of a smooth talker, but there's not very much substance there at all. This is why he doesn't know what he believes.
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Chapter 6: How does C.S. Lewis challenge the idea of Jesus as just a moral teacher?
Should we deport the illegal aliens? I asked this question to one of my debate opponents on Bar Fight. We have another Bar Fight shooting tonight. But I asked this on one of the last Bar Fights. I said, hey, he was trying to trot out these kind of lines. I said, hey, should we deport these guys? Should we deport the illegal aliens? And he wouldn't give a straight answer.
I would love to ask Hillary Clinton that question. I would love to ask any Democrat who trots out this line, which you're going to hear ad nauseum as the midterms approach. You know, actually, believe it or not, Obama and Clinton deported more people than Trump. Oh, okay. So you're saying it's good to deport the illegals? Well, I never. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
You're saying you're admiring Obama and Clinton. You are attempting to attack Donald Trump. On the grounds, not that he's deporting the illegals, but that he's not deporting enough. And that Clinton and Obama and the Democrats are actually even better at deporting illegals than Trump, which isn't true, but let's just go with it for a second.
So great, we have a rare area of bipartisan common ground. We should deport more illegals, right? It's good to deport the illegals, right? Well, well, well, I didn't realize. Oh, so what you're saying here is totally incoherent. This is contraceptive speech. It is speech that is not designed to convey any kind of truth. It is speech merely designed for pleasure and convenience.
What you're saying is, at one side of your mouth, when you're talking to the liberals, you're saying, we would never deport these people. No human being is illegal. No one's illegal on stolen land. We need a pathway to citizenship. They're all dreamers. They're not even illegal. They're actually Americans, albeit undocumented Americans, and we need to get them documents.
And then out of the other side of your mouth, when you're talking to the normal people, not the radical open borders leftists, but just like any normal person in the center, center left, on the right, obviously, you're saying, actually, we're even better at deporting people. So which is it? Is deporting people good or not? I'll be more specific. Is deporting the illegal aliens good or bad?
Anytime any Democrat trots out this ridiculous campaign line, you don't even need to challenge them on the premise. The premise is wrong too, but you don't even have to challenge them on the premise. Just ask them what the implication is. Okay, so you're saying it's good, we should deport more illegals? Well, well, well, I never said, okay, all right, never mind then.
The problem that these people have is that Americans understand the Democrats are too extreme. You don't have to take my word for it. CNN has admitted this. The percentage of Americans who say that the Democrats are too extreme has surged.
Democratic base, right? But what about all Americans, right? How about all voters? Voters who say the Democrats are now too liberal? Look at this percentage. It was 42% in 96, 48% in 2013. Now 58% in 2025 of all voters say that the Democratic Party is too liberal.
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