Chapter 1: What did Trump say about right-wing podcasters?
President Trump did not nuke Iran on Tuesday night, but he did nuke a bunch of podcasters last night as the podcast wars go from a schoolyard scrap into the bombing of Dresden. Then, speaking of wars, the CIA can apparently track you down over a thousand square mile territory listening only for your heartbeat. We'll get into that new technology that leaked.
And finally, did the Pentagon threaten to depose the Pope? I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. We will also, if we have time, remember the life of Michael J. Fox. who is not dead. He's alive. He's very much alive. But CNN reported that he was dead yesterday, which just perfectly sums up the liberal media, doesn't it?
Chapter 2: How can the CIA track individuals by their heartbeat?
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Chapter 3: What technology allows the CIA to locate individuals?
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Chapter 4: Did the Pentagon threaten to depose the Pope?
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This is actually different from the podcast wars. I'll just give you his words first. From the president on Truth Social. I'm going to be as objective as I can here. I know that lots of people listening, they have personal affection. Many people have personal relationships that a lot of these people follow them for years. Trump was friends with these guys for a very long time. So here we go.
Fully objective reading Trump's tweet. I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror, to have a nuclear weapon. Because they have one thing in common, low IQs. They're stupid people. They know it. Their families know it.
And everyone else knows it, too. Look at their past. Look at their record. They don't have what it takes, and they never did. They've all been thrown off television, lost their shows, and aren't even invited on TV because nobody cares about them. They're, all caps, nutjobs, troublemakers, and will say anything necessary for some free and cheap publicity.
Now they think they can get some clicks because they have third-rate podcasts, but nobody's talking about them. The president is, obviously, but nobody's talking about them. And their views are the opposite of MAGA. Or I wouldn't have won the presidential election in a landslide. MAGA agrees with me and just gave CNN a 100% approval rating of Trump.
Not hard-flailing fools like Tucker Carlson, who couldn't finish college. He was a broken man. Okay, so then it goes on and on. I'll just summarize it because it's so long. He goes after Tucker and calls him dumb and says he needs a psychiatrist. He goes after Meghan and says that she didn't used to like him. She had that Rosie O'Donnell question in the debate in 2016.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of Trump's comments on the podcast wars?
four or five years ago. Then he was very much on the Trump train again. Megyn Kelly, obviously, was not particularly supportive of Trump at the beginning. Then she very much got on the Trump train. Alex Jones was very supportive of Trump at the beginning. He's been much more critical more recently. But at some point, they've all supported him.
And Trump has now weighed in and people are shocked that he would go after them. I am not shocked that he would go after them because I have read my Machiavelli and I have watched The Wire and because politics doesn't really change all that much. We'll get into what that means. We'll get into why this is happening, what happens now.
Then we will get into how the CIA can detect your heartbeat across a thousand square mile radius. And we'll get into whether or not the Pentagon is threatened the Vatican. You want to talk about old school politics, the secular empire threatening the Pope. We'll get into whether or not that actually even happened.
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politician, ambassador. Here's what Machiavelli said. Machiavelli said, I'll say it to you in the Italian first, it's so beautiful. L'offese che si fa al uomo deve essere in modo che ella non temma la vendetta. The offense that you make against a man, the injury that you make to a man, has to be in such a way that you do not fear revenge.
I'll translate that into more modern political parlance by way of the wire. And the advice is, if you come at the king, you'd best not miss. This is the issue. A lot of people... treat politics as debate club. A lot of people treat politics as just another TV show. That was one of my big issues with the podcast wars is it was also frivolous. A lot of it was nasty. A lot of it was immoral.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Trump's involvement in the podcast wars?
And that's clearly Trump's vision of America first. Whatever anyone else, all these various competing visions of what America first is, Trump's the guy who made that movement a national, viable movement that won the popular vote. And his vision of America First is we're going to be the biggest, the best. We're going to focus on our interests, contrary to liberal globalism.
But we are also going to pursue our interests wherever we want, contrary to isolationism. That's his vision. And if you can detect a heartbeat in a thousand square mile desert, You could probably do that. Okay. Speaking of these battles and old political truths, there was a story that went viral yesterday. All day yesterday, I was getting these questions from different people.
Michael, what do you make of the Pentagon going to war with the Vatican?
Chapter 7: How do the podcast wars differ from traditional political conflicts?
What do you make of this, Michael? What was this about? I think there was a report in the free press, but it was really pushed by this guy, Christopher Hale, who's a Democrat operative. who says that he's Catholic. And this is a big problem because the Democrat party is totally opposed, not just to Catholics teaching broadly, but to non-negotiable political issues.
Reasonable minds can vary, according to Pope Benedict XVI, on the death penalty. Reasonable people can have different views on the death penalty. Reasonable people can disagree on immigration. Pope Leo himself has a pretty nuanced, moderate view on immigration. No Catholic can disagree on abortion. The Democrat Party supports abortion with no limits whatsoever.
No Catholic can disagree on the nature of marriage. The Democrat Party almost universally supports a false definition of marriage. No Catholic can disagree on these bedrock issues of human dignity, of life. fundamental truths. So you're already skeptical when you say, hold on, a Democrat operative, a left-wing operative who says he's Catholic. Okay.
So this guy, Christopher Hale, he posts this new, a stunning new report claims that the Pentagon summoned Pope Leo XIV's top American diplomat and threatened him after the US-born pontiff gave his January state of the world address. Leo used the address to denounce a world ruled by a diplomacy-based on force and zeal for war. Okay, hold on.
The Pentagon summoned the Pope's top American diplomat and threatened him? What does that mean? Some of the reporting that came out later said that the Pentagon even brought up the Avignon papacy when the papacy was exiled from Rome to Avignon because there were battles over who would control the Holy See. The Universal Church, the Trump administration is threatening to depose the Pope?
And who was doing it? Oh, this dastardly fellow, this undersecretary that the left is trying to portray as the face of evil and anti-Catholicism, Elbridge Colby, who I believe is a Catholic. Hold on, what? And I've followed Elbridge Colby for a long time. He's great. I'm very pro-Elbridge Colby. So did this really happen? No. According to the U.S.
ambassador to the Holy See, Brian Birch, he says, I was pleased to speak yesterday with His Eminence Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican official in discussion here. As expected, he confirmed that recent media characterizations of his meeting with the Undersecretary, Elbridge Colby, are, quote, fabrications that were just invented.
Given the intelligence and seriousness of Mr. Colby, I was likewise not surprised when His Eminence acknowledged there were no threats of any kind in this meeting. It was a frank and cordial meeting that took place two months ago. Threat of Avignon, none. None. So according to the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, this is just totally made up. But the U.S.
ambassador to the Holy See is quoting the cardinal who the report is supposedly based on. Now you say, okay, well, hold on. That's just the Trump administration trying to run cover. That's them trying to cover themselves, right? The Department of War posts these pictures. This scary, terrible meeting where the U.S. says we're going to depose the pope. Let me see. Can I see the picture again?
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