On Thursday night, President Joe Biden gave a speech on the battle for the soul of the nation.

And in Biden's defense, he never specified which side of the battle he was on.

The speech was delivered in the ominous dark at night with the building behind him lit up in an

ominous red light with two Marines in silhouette behind him forced to stand there on guard

as Biden's scapegoated half the country, as not only the cause of all of our national problems,

but indeed as posing an existential threat to the future of our democracy just by our very presence.

Virtually every conservative and even many libs are describing this speech as a huge mistake,

needlessly provocative, even just from the standpoint of aesthetics downright cartoonishly

hit laryon. The second two points are correct, but the first point is off because the speech

was not a mistake. The darkness, the rhetoric, even the beer hall put justiculations,

they were all intentional. Biden wants right wingers to be provoked to violence. He is practically

begging us to do an insurrection. We didn't do an insurrection last time. They really wanted us

to do an insurrection. They're really trying to get us to do an insurrection now because with the

perfect record of failure that Biden and the Democrats currently have, with his poll numbers on

everything issued by issue down in the doldrums, the only way that the libs can even hope to stop the

electoral bleeding come November is to double down on their tried and true strategy of encouraging

blood in the streets. I'm Michael Knowles, this is the Michael Knowles show.

Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment on Thursday, boy, it's been a while, was from

Christian Thompson, who says the next time that KJP calls half the country an extreme threat to

democracy, Peter Ducey should ask her if she can define democracy she won't be able to.

This is a really great point and you shouldn't just use it with green jump here. You should use it

on every lib. You know, my pal Matt Walsh had this wonderful rhetorical trick, which is that whenever

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