The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 779 - Yale vs. White Males

00:00:00.000 Yale University, once considered our nation's foremost home of patriarchy and WASP culture,

00:00:07.220 has apparently changed its tune in recent years, as evidenced by a recent lecture

00:00:11.500 during which a leftist psychiatrist described her desire to shoot white guys.

00:00:17.980 This is the cost of talking to white people at all. The cost of your own life as they suck these rye.

00:00:23.240 There are no good apples, though. White people make my blood boil. I have fantasies of unloading a

00:00:30.920 revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, garing their body, and wasting my

00:00:37.980 bloody hands as I walked away relatively gently. Would have done too much that, like I did the world

00:00:43.840 a f***ing favor. For God, for country, kill white males. That's going to be the new alma mater of

00:00:51.560 Yale, apparently. Meanwhile, Donald Trump, another white male who gets booted from Facebook for

00:00:57.460 another two years. Joe Biden ignores D-Day to harp on the Tulsa race riot, and we investigate what

00:01:03.580 America can learn from Nigeria. There is something, actually. Nigeria might be a little more politically

00:01:09.020 serious these days than the United States. How's that? I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael

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00:03:16.300 ring.com slash Knowles. Tough out there for a white guy these days, apparently. If you think of a white

00:03:22.780 guy can't walk down the streets of New Haven at Yale without being threatened with a gun,

00:03:29.020 then really something has gone crazy in this country. Now, anybody walks down the streets of

00:03:35.840 New Haven and gets threatened with a gun, that's sort of ordinary. But generally, our view of Yale,

00:03:42.260 right, is this is the patriarchy. This is the wasp culture. This is where the white men wield their

00:03:48.940 power over the society. And that's not really true that I don't, if it ever was true, it certainly isn't

00:03:55.720 true now. Now, lecturers give whole talks at Yale University unironically about how they want to

00:04:03.940 shoot white men. It's not as though this was just an example used as a kind of ironic joke, but then

00:04:08.780 she's realized that she shouldn't do this. No, she was being very earnest. She thinks that white men

00:04:13.160 are deserving of violent death at her hands. And it's not just this kind of insane. I mean,

00:04:19.460 it is insane. She's an insane woman. But it's not just an emotional outburst. She actually made

00:04:24.920 an argument. The talk is called The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind. And this psychopath

00:04:30.820 who gave the talk decided to project and accuse her opponents of that that thing from which she

00:04:36.440 suffers. This was given at the Yale School of Medicine's Child Study Center. And the woman's name

00:04:42.500 is Dr. Aruna Kilinani. And here is her argument.

00:04:48.500 So white people are out of their minds, and they have been for a long time. So we're not

00:04:55.400 in a psychological predicament, because white people feel that we are blaming them when we

00:05:00.020 bring up race. They feel that we should be thanking them for all that they have done for us. They are confused, and so are we.

00:05:09.400 Can you hear me okay? Yes? Okay. We keep forgetting that directly talking about race is a waste of our

00:05:19.800 breath. We are asking a demented, a violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero to

00:05:27.080 accept responsibility. It ain't going to happen. They have five holes in their brain. It's like banging your head

00:05:33.960 against a brick wall, just like sort of not a good idea. We need to remember that directly talking

00:05:39.960 about race to white people is useless because we're at the wrong level of conversation.

00:05:45.880 Addressing racism assumes that white people can see and process what we are talking about. They can't.

00:05:51.640 That's why they sound demented. They don't even know they have a mask on. White people think it's

00:05:56.840 their actual face. We need to get to know the mask. So the first point, which is obvious within

00:06:03.800 seconds of listening to this woman, is that everything that she accuses white people of

00:06:09.560 being and doing, she herself is and does, right? So she calls white people demented. This woman is

00:06:16.680 clearly demented. She accuses white people of being incapable of rational thought. She herself is not

00:06:22.840 only incapable of rational thought, at the moment at least, but she denies the possibility of rational

00:06:29.240 thought, right? And so beyond her insane babbling, there is an argument here. It's an argument that

00:06:36.760 stops arguments. We often talk about the Chesterton quote. There's a thought that stops thought, and

00:06:41.880 that's the only thought that ought to be stopped. She is expressing that right here. And the reason I

00:06:46.360 bring it up is not just because some insane lady said something crazy at Yale. If that's all we focused

00:06:50.360 on, then that would be the subject of the show every single day because there are plenty examples of that.

00:06:53.960 The reason I bring it up is because this is what we're talking about when we talk about critical

00:07:00.020 race theory. Not just the obsession with sex, or race rather. There's also sexual politics, which we'll

00:07:07.560 get to a little bit later. It's not just the obsession with race. It's not just the vilification of people

00:07:12.380 on the basis of their race, namely white people. It's more importantly, the denial of rational thought,

00:07:19.580 the denial of our ability to understand things. Whenever you hear these radical leftists talking

00:07:25.240 about how you can't deny my lived experience, and you can never know what it is to suffer this sort

00:07:32.520 of oppression, and you can never empathize, and you know, what they're saying is you don't have

00:07:40.900 perception, conception, faculties of reason. You're not capable of intellect. And furthermore,

00:07:48.080 when she says it's a waste of breath to talk about these things to white people,

00:07:53.300 she's expressing a central tenet of this kind of critical race theory, or critical theory,

00:08:00.400 or the broader 20th century sort of neo-Marxist tradition. Namely, that we are going to deny objective

00:08:10.460 reality. And in so doing, we're going to deny that the words which refer to objective reality

00:08:16.480 have any meaning. This is actually at the very heart of my upcoming book, Speechless,

00:08:22.760 Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order. The idea that because there's

00:08:26.960 no such thing as objective reality, there's no such thing as nature to which we're bound,

00:08:30.760 and this actually on the sex point relates to transgenderism, because it means we're not even

00:08:34.500 bound to our very own sexual nature. But because there's no objective thing that we're bound to,

00:08:39.620 then words can just mean whatever we want them to. It's like Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland.

00:08:43.740 And in Alice in Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty is there, and he says, here in my world,

00:08:50.060 words can mean whatever I want them to mean. And Alice says, can words really mean so many things?

00:08:54.180 And Humpty Dumpty responds and says, that is not the question. The question is, what is to be master?

00:09:01.940 That is all. The question isn't, what do the words mean? The question is, who gets to define the words?

00:09:06.560 And if I can define all the words, I can redefine reality. That's the premise that we're working on

00:09:10.860 here. Okay. So if this is critical race theory, you're seeing it, I think, in its purest form.

00:09:18.380 And I think any reasonable person, I know we're not allowed to admit our faculties of reason,

00:09:23.160 would say, we got to get rid of this stuff. Some people are doing that. Ron DeSantis in Florida

00:09:27.540 is announcing that he will oppose any candidate for school board who supports CRT.

00:09:34.340 Next week, I have my commissioner on education going to our board of education,

00:09:40.140 banning it, banning any departure from accurate history and following our standards. This is

00:09:47.340 something we've got to stay on the forefront of. We're also, Dan, not going to support any Republican

00:09:52.560 candidate for school board who supports critical race theory in all 67 counties or who supports

00:09:58.780 mandatory masking of school children. And so, as you said, these local elections matter.

00:10:04.080 We're going to get the Florida political apparatus involved so we can make sure there's not a single

00:10:08.560 school board Republican who ever indulges critical race theory. Another home run for Ron DeSantis here.

00:10:15.620 Why is he doing this? He's doing this because he knows that the sort of academic freedom of critical

00:10:23.120 race theory is the opposite of freedom. That actually, if you permit this kind of insanity

00:10:28.880 into schools, you're going to be undermining kids' education. And he also knows that if you want to

00:10:35.200 be able to route this thing from the schools, it's not enough just to talk about it. It's not enough

00:10:41.080 just to point out the problem. You have to actually go in and win those races. And this is a very

00:10:46.580 conservative, very just use of political influence, and he's going to wield it. This can be very,

00:10:52.560 very effective. Do you remember on this show, maybe, I don't know, was it three, four weeks ago,

00:10:57.300 we talked about an Oregon school board that was infiltrated by crazy libs. And one woman in

00:11:05.200 particular wanted to pass a rule such that in every classroom in the school district,

00:11:11.220 the teachers had to display not just the American flag, which was already in the classrooms,

00:11:14.620 but the BLM flag and the progressive pride flag, just the rainbow flag, I imagine.

00:11:21.280 And they had to be the same size as the American flag, and they had to be there in all of the

00:11:27.820 classrooms. This was just shot down. We brought some light to it on this show. A few other

00:11:32.840 conservative outlets, but not very many, pointed it out. And this has now been shot down. I guess

00:11:37.960 the parents finally took control over their kids' education and said, no, I don't care what lunatic

00:11:42.260 woman won this position on the school board. We're not tolerating that. We're not going to put the BLM

00:11:46.920 flag on the same level as the American flag, for goodness sakes. But it's very important. These

00:11:51.280 symbols really matter. Sometimes people, even conservatives, will criticize the cultural

00:11:57.440 conservatives for just harping too much on language. Oh, who cares, man? It's just a word. It's just a

00:12:02.660 symbol. Obviously, the left cares because they focus a lot on words and symbols and things like flags,

00:12:10.040 because the symbols shape how we perceive the world. And the symbols represent things that are

00:12:18.280 symbolized. And what you're seeing now with this big push to mainstream the BLM flag or the rainbow

00:12:23.520 flag in particular, especially this month, is an attempt to replace the American flag. If you look

00:12:29.040 on social media, sometimes people put little flags and things in their names. When you see an American

00:12:34.580 flag, 99 times out of 100, you're looking at a conservative account. When you see a pride flag,

00:12:40.440 99 times out of 100, you're looking at a leftist account. If you see various symbols associated with

00:12:46.180 BLM, you are 99 times out of 100 looking at a leftist account. This is an attempt, when you try to bring

00:12:52.180 in these new flags, this is an attempt to re-found the country. This is something that they told us in

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00:14:20.420 The Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 are often credited to the 1619 Project. And the woman who

00:14:28.220 started the 1619 Project, Nicole Hannah-Jones, said she was proud to call them the 1619 Riots.

00:14:33.520 Oh, that would be so great because her project there was to reframe American history. Why? Is

00:14:40.980 this just some academic exercise? Is that what this is all about? This Yale lady who shows up to the Yale

00:14:47.660 School of Medicine and she doesn't work for Yale. She was brought there to give a lecture

00:14:52.060 and she says she wants to shoot white people in the head and white people are incapable of reason.

00:14:55.780 Basically, they're animals, right? They're like dogs. That's just an academic exercise?

00:15:01.920 No, I don't think so. And by the way, in defense of Yale, the Yale School of Medicine came out and

00:15:07.600 condemned what this woman said, but that's sort of not the point. If this had been in the other

00:15:13.020 direction, if a white guy had gone to Yale and gave a lecture about how black people are dogs,

00:15:18.420 like this woman said about white people, that would not just be a national incident. That would

00:15:23.920 be an international incident. You would have US senators calling for commissions to investigate

00:15:31.560 Yale. I mean, this would be wall to wall coverage for weeks and weeks and months and months. There

00:15:36.760 would be riots in the streets over this. But then this crazy lady comes in and says it about white

00:15:42.640 people, oh, oopsie, yeah, we shouldn't have done that. No big deal. See you later. You probably

00:15:45.780 won't even hear about this story unless you're tuned into this show or Daily Wire because it's a

00:15:51.640 different set of rules. And the move here is to reframe America as viciously racist and white

00:15:57.160 supremacist or whatever. Where does this come from? The idea that America pretends to be good.

00:16:04.880 The history we've been taught is that America's good, but actually America's evil and the only form of

00:16:09.920 evil there is in the world is racism. The accusation is America, when it thinks of itself, only focuses

00:16:15.720 on the good things. And now we need to bring in a corrective on the left to focus on the bad things.

00:16:20.420 And the great example of this right now is the Tulsa massacre. It's a race riot from a hundred years

00:16:26.660 ago in Tulsa. Had you ever heard about the Tulsa race riot before this year? I'm going to say probably

00:16:33.400 not. Maybe you did. Maybe you remembered reading about it at some point, but probably you didn't

00:16:40.740 because this is not considered a particularly important event in American history. It's a sad

00:16:45.720 thing, but not considered particularly important to our self-understanding. What happened in Tulsa?

00:16:52.680 I'm sure you've heard about it in the last week. Joe Biden's given speeches about it.

00:16:56.620 What happened in Tulsa? Here are the basic facts. Okay. And these are not just facts that I happen

00:17:03.800 to know. These are not just facts that I've read in history books. All of these facts are accounted

00:17:08.880 for on Wikipedia, a left-wing news source, as mainstream as it gets. Okay. In Tulsa, a 19-year-old

00:17:16.280 black guy was accused of assaulting a teenage girl. I think she was 17 or something like that. A white

00:17:22.040 girl in an elevator. They were alone. And that was the accusation. He was arrested and he admitted

00:17:28.860 to putting his hands on the girl, but he said he didn't, he didn't assault her. So he's arrested

00:17:33.280 the next day by a white detective and a black patrolman. All right. It's not just a purely

00:17:37.620 white force. Both of these guys come and arrest the guy. Then allegedly a sensationalist newspaper

00:17:44.340 piece warned that there was going to be a lynching. Now there's no evidence that this newspaper

00:17:49.000 piece ever existed. It may have, and it might've been taken out of the historical record. We just

00:17:52.740 don't know. In any case, hundreds of whites show up to the courthouse. They show up where this guy

00:17:57.900 is being held and they were considered a possible lynch mob. There's good evidence that they were a

00:18:03.520 lynch mob, but the reason to have worried that they were a lynch mob is kind of ironic. The reason to

00:18:09.460 have worried they were a lynch mob is that another guy had recently been lynched within the previous

00:18:14.060 year. But the guy wasn't a black guy. It was actually a white guy who was accused of murder

00:18:19.200 was lynched by a lynch mob. Also complicates our story because the way that we think about

00:18:23.880 lynch mobs is that they only ever go after black people, but that's not true. The largest mass

00:18:27.360 lynching in American history was against Italian guys. And the one the year before the Tulsa race

00:18:31.240 riot was actually a lynching of a white guy accused of murder. Okay. So the white guys show up,

00:18:37.340 maybe they're a lynch mob. The sheriff defends the, the teenage black guy who was accused, Roland

00:18:43.660 of, uh, he defends him against the lynch mob. All right. Hundreds that, or I'm sorry, first about

00:18:50.800 60 to 80 black guys show up worried that there's going to be a lynch mob and they show up with guns.

00:18:57.620 Now, at this point, the hundreds of white people there go home and get their guns. Then a shot was

00:19:04.780 fired. It's unclear who fired the shot. It seems likely that it was a black guy who fired the shot

00:19:09.420 because of an incident that had taken place between a white guy and a black guy, but it's still

00:19:12.960 unclear. In any case, more shots were fired. 10 white guys die. Two black guys die in the first

00:19:19.060 little skirmish. There were more race fights the next day. Then the white mobs start setting fire to

00:19:23.960 black businesses. Then things get really out of control. There are private aircraft flying over.

00:19:28.120 I mean, they're not, this is not like F-18s, but still private aircraft are going after black

00:19:31.540 businesses. It gets crazier and crazier and crazier. Finally, the national guard and law

00:19:36.160 enforcement put down this riot. Numbers on the dead differ. It wasn't a huge number, but it was still

00:19:41.020 a very, very significant, uh, riot. There were, uh, estimates range from about 10 whites dead and 21

00:19:47.760 blacks dead to about, you know, 50 whites dead and 150 or so blacks dead. Okay. That's, those are the

00:19:54.940 facts in as basic a way as I can lay out about Tulsa. Why do I mention this? Because this sad race

00:20:03.520 riot from a hundred years ago is very important to America today. No, it hasn't been important until

00:20:10.420 now because the left wants to make it important. Joe Biden on the 77th anniversary of D-Day, right?

00:20:19.440 This glorious event in our self-understanding. D-Day, so important in recent memory to, to America's

00:20:26.920 self-understanding. Joe Biden ignored D-Day. He neglected it. Instead, he posted a video of himself

00:20:37.600 meeting with the survivors of the Tulsa race riot. He says, he tweets, quote, I met with survivors of the

00:20:44.800 Tulsa massacre this week to help fill the silence because in silence wounds deepen and as painful as

00:20:50.800 it is only in remembrance do wounds heal. What's he talking about? What is he talking about? I think

00:20:56.040 the wounds from the Tulsa race riot had healed a hundred years ago. The wounds that no one was

00:21:01.040 talking about at all. He's picking that scab. He wants people to focus on that. He doesn't want

00:21:08.540 people to talk about D-Day. That was glorious and makes America look good. He wants to talk about this

00:21:12.580 long forgotten race riot because that makes America look bad. Now he won't talk about every

00:21:17.400 race riot. He won't, for instance, talk about the race riot that happened during the summer of last

00:21:22.860 year. The race riot, race, I'm sorry, race riots in which BLM burned down multiple cities around the

00:21:29.840 country. He's not talking about that. But the, but Mr. President, the wounds are going to fester.

00:21:36.180 They're going to deepen if we don't talk. No, we're not allowed to talk about that. We're not allowed to

00:21:39.200 talk about how BLM burned down Minneapolis and Washington DC and New York and cities all over

00:21:45.140 the country. No, because that contradicts the narrative. That doesn't advance the premise

00:21:49.220 that America is a white supremacist, terrible country. Actually, instead of talking about those

00:21:53.420 race riots, Joe Biden instead meets with the family of George Floyd, violates the coronavirus

00:21:58.760 lockdowns to show up to the funeral of George Floyd where many, many thousands of people were going

00:22:05.380 at the height of the apparent pandemic. He doesn't want to talk about that. He doesn't want to heal

00:22:10.200 any wounds. He wants to pick wounds because this is about framing. The way to prove this, by the way,

00:22:18.940 is to show it's, it's not even just about race. It's simply about framing the country as it is,

00:22:25.820 as evil, as pretext for the radicals to give revolution. You saw the same thing happen up in

00:22:31.320 Canada. So Justin Trudeau, also while he was supposed to be commemorating the 77th anniversary

00:22:37.020 of D-Day, did not mention D-Day. It was Canadian Armed Services Day coinciding with D-Day. He doesn't

00:22:44.580 mention D-Day. Instead, he addresses, quote, sexual misconduct and gender-based violence in the

00:22:51.060 military. What? This is, this is Canadian Armed Services Day. This is the day we're supposed to

00:22:57.500 celebrate the armed forces of Canada and their heroic efforts. No, we're just going to talk

00:23:01.520 about how terrible they are. This is why now in America, we don't talk about our glories. We don't

00:23:10.700 talk about the 4th of July. We don't, we barely talk about our, our veterans. When we do, we just

00:23:16.980 talk about them as a bunch of hapless schmucks. Oh, they were shipped overseas to a pointless war.

00:23:21.780 They didn't, it's not as though they died for our freedom for anything useful or purposeful.

00:23:25.380 No, no. And we shouldn't focus on that anyway. There's Memorial Day and there's Pride Month.

00:23:31.220 You know, we'll get a little bit, we'll talk about, really, we've got to focus on

00:23:34.680 grievance. We've got to talk about radical left identity groups. There was actually a proposal,

00:23:41.300 another day that is not, has not been very important in American history, but all of a sudden

00:23:45.660 the left is trying to make it important, is Juneteenth. This is one of many days that marked the end of the

00:23:51.560 civil war, but the left is trying to make this into a really big deal. And there was a proposal

00:23:56.440 by a Republican Senator to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, but how are they going to do it? They can't

00:24:01.940 just keep making federal holidays. You know, the people got to go work. So the proposal was to make

00:24:06.880 Juneteenth a federal holiday to replace Columbus Day. So we're going to make a day that is now largely

00:24:14.040 focused on racial grievance and pushing forth a racial narrative. We're going to have that replace

00:24:18.280 the glorious day of the founding and discovery of the new world. All about framing. You know,

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00:25:25.560 Joe Biden, as the avatar of the left, as a guy who doesn't believe anything, he is a walking,

00:25:30.900 talking, empty suit, is now fully on board with the left's grievance narrative, specifically focused

00:25:37.460 on race, but there are other grievances as well. The reframing of our self-understanding is away

00:25:44.360 from America being a good place, pursuing good things, to America being a hopelessly evil place,

00:25:50.740 destroying the world. Joe Biden gave a virtual commencement address to all the students this

00:25:55.240 year who didn't go to school because of stupid policies that people like him supported.

00:25:59.020 He's giving the commencement anyway, even though these kids didn't get an education for a year.

00:26:02.380 And does he focus on the future, on all the great, wonderful things, on thank your parents,

00:26:09.520 thank this country that's given you so much, and go forth and do her proud? No. Joe Biden focuses on

00:26:15.900 systemic racism and climate change. Take a listen.

00:26:22.900 Just three years after I stood where you're standing, two of my political heroes, Dr. King and Robert

00:26:29.980 Kennedy, were gunned down. The Vietnam War divided the nation and divided families. We're in the midst

00:26:37.360 of a great movement for civil rights, women's rights, and environmental rights. We faced an inflection

00:26:45.200 point, and we did our best to seize that moment because things were changing so rapidly, and now

00:26:51.660 you face another inflection point. As we put this pandemic behind us, rebuild our economy, root out

00:26:59.780 systemic racism, and tackle climate change, we're addressing the great crises of our time with a

00:27:07.020 greater sense of purpose than ever before. And because of you, your generation, I've never been more

00:27:13.060 optimistic about the future than I am today. Apparently, the sun monster is the same thing as the Vietnam

00:27:21.220 War. You see, in the 1960s, 18-year-old men had to go off and fight and often die in the jungles of

00:27:28.820 Vietnam. And that's the same thing as you buying a carbon tax credit or something, or eating less meat, or

00:27:38.700 turning the air conditioner down to turning it up, I guess. You know, it was at 68 degrees,

00:27:45.040 now it's gonna be like 69 degrees, to fight the sun monster, you know, that big, that totally real

00:27:50.660 thing that is really threatening all of our lives, you know, not just a complete contrivance of the

00:27:55.680 radical left. Yeah, that's the same thing, right? Just like the 60s. The 1960s are the inflection point.

00:28:04.440 And he actually makes an important observation here. This was a real inflection point in the

00:28:09.300 country, where things basically went to hell in a handbasket. And it was, they all used this really

00:28:15.780 nice language, this language that everybody would get on board for. This is gonna be better for

00:28:20.480 race relations. This is gonna, what we're doing right now is very important for racial justice,

00:28:25.780 and for sexual justice, and for this justice, and that. And you think, oh, I'm for all those things,

00:28:30.700 great. And what happened? On virtually any measure since the 1960s, things have fallen apart.

00:28:43.560 The one, the one measure where people could make the argument that things have gotten better

00:28:50.400 is on race relations. But the very people who defend the 1960s don't make that argument. They say,

00:28:56.980 no, actually, it's not better at all than it was. Actually, race relations are worse. It's

00:29:01.920 hidden white supremacy. We gotta start shooting whites in the streets.

00:29:06.260 Go to Yale University, you'll hear that lecture. So even on that point, they're not even making that

00:29:11.600 claim. The real turning point of the 1960s, I think, was not on racial justice, or sexual justice,

00:29:18.620 or environmental justice, whatever that is. It's on the shift in our self-understanding from

00:29:24.840 loving our country and wanting to preserve it and having gratitude for our forebears to despising

00:29:32.260 our country and wanting to burn it down. It wasn't long after the spirit of the 60s that you had

00:29:37.720 the Reverend Jesse Jackson marching down at Stanford yelling, hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go.

00:29:45.520 He was referring to a specific course. I think he was also referring to the broader civilization.

00:29:50.980 Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go. Used to be the glories of the past that we want to thank

00:29:57.400 and build on and cherish to tear this place to the ground. So what is it? What are we going to do?

00:30:07.700 Where are we going to go from here? There is some good news. I don't want to leave you totally sad,

00:30:13.480 dejected, upset. There is actually good news coming out of Washington, coming out of a Democrat in

00:30:20.200 Washington regarding the worst piece of legislation that's up right now. You've heard about S1. This is

00:30:27.480 the first bill up in the Senate related to H.R.1, the first bill up in the House of Representatives.

00:30:34.480 We've nicknamed it the Corrupt Politicians Act. This is the bill to federalize the elections and take away

00:30:40.500 voter integrity rules and basically give Democrats the ability to continue to cheat in elections again

00:30:46.160 and again and again. Continue to cheat. Because look, there's fraud in every election, okay?

00:30:54.320 Lyndon Johnson won his Senate seat in 1948 because they stuffed the ballot box, okay? So this sort of

00:30:59.180 thing happens. It's happened in many, many elections. And if the Democrats get their way on the Corrupt

00:31:04.440 Politicians Act, it's going to happen much more often. So Joe Manchin, a swing vote, he's a moderate

00:31:09.520 Democrat from West Virginia. He has come out and effectively said he will not give his support to

00:31:17.100 the Corrupt Politicians Act. Now, it's actually a little complicated the way this is going to work

00:31:20.740 because in order for the Corrupt Politicians Act to go through, Democrats need to get rid of the

00:31:27.200 filibuster, which requires more than a simple majority to get a bill through. So Joe Manchin wouldn't need

00:31:32.960 to vote for the Corrupt Politicians Act necessarily to get the act through. He would just need to vote

00:31:38.380 to break the filibuster. So the question is, is Manchin going to vote to do that? And Manchin says,

00:31:46.500 no. He will not vote for, and he doesn't support the legislation, by the way. So he says, voting in

00:31:54.900 election reform that is done in a partisan manner will all but ensure partisan divisions continue to

00:32:00.240 deepen. This is something Joe Manchin wrote in his hometown newspaper. Very good news. I'm pleased to hear

00:32:08.340 that. Now, there's one other swing vote that's getting a lot of pressure right now to vote for the Corrupt

00:32:14.980 Politicians Act. That's Kyrsten Sinema. She's in Arizona. That would be, we'll see if she caves to that

00:32:23.040 pressure or not. I hope she does not cave. She's also fairly independent minded. The question we

00:32:30.260 have to ask ourselves when we're looking at something like the Corrupt Politicians Act is

00:32:34.000 not so much, how does the constitution lay out the way the government works in theory? The question is,

00:32:40.160 where does the power really lie? When you look at the 2020 election, we know the way elections are

00:32:46.800 supposed to go. The states are supposed to make election laws that abide by the rules of their

00:32:53.380 state constitutions, and then there's supposed to be certain mechanisms in place. And a lot of that

00:32:59.260 went out the window in 2020. In Pennsylvania, for instance, the state election officials, the Democrats

00:33:04.800 there, threw out even the constitutional requirements for how voting be conducted. So there's the way the

00:33:11.020 government works in theory, and then there's how the government works in reality, the practice,

00:33:15.920 where the power really lies. And it goes beyond the government, because there are other entities

00:33:19.920 that have a lot of political power. Notably, the media, sure, but especially big tech, big tech

00:33:27.680 companies. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, all of these big tech platforms acting in concert

00:33:35.500 on January 7th and 8th, censored, deplatformed, ostracized the duly elected sitting president of the

00:33:45.900 of what you think happened in the 2020 election. Nobody can dispute that on January 7th, 2021,

00:33:53.200 Donald Trump was the duly elected sitting president. He had at least another 13 days left

00:33:58.620 to be president. And in that time, big tech companies, hipster Rasputin, a grown man with a

00:34:07.100 nose ring in Silicon Valley, Jack Dorsey and the others, censored the duly elected president.

00:34:14.420 Wow, man, that's a lot of power, especially considering that our public square, the place

00:34:20.280 politics is conducted, where we speak and we persuade one another, the essence of Republican

00:34:24.700 government takes place on those platforms. Those platforms control the flow of information around

00:34:31.600 the internet and therefore around our society. And they censored the president. They had more power

00:34:36.680 than the president. Trump is still off of Facebook and the Facebook super duper oversight board of the

00:34:42.980 then kicking it to the corporation. And that sounds, sounds like a government, frankly,

00:34:47.820 like Mitch McConnell said, sounds like a parallel government.

00:34:51.840 They have decided that Trump will be kicked off of Facebook for another two years.

00:34:55.680 Here is what the Facebook spokesman said.

00:34:59.340 Given the gravity of the circumstances that led to Mr. Trump's suspension,

00:35:03.740 we believe his actions constituted a severe violation of our rules, which merit the,

00:35:09.700 that's bad grammar too, the violation is singular, it should be merits. Never mind.

00:35:13.840 I don't expect Facebook to be particularly sophisticated. I expect them to be very powerful,

00:35:18.160 but not sophisticated in their thought. A highest penalty available under the new enforcement

00:35:22.160 protocols. Do you know who said this? This was Nick Clegg, the vice president of global affairs

00:35:28.240 at Facebook. He wrote that in a blog post. Does the name Nick Clegg ring a bell? Only if you pay

00:35:34.240 attention to politics overseas in the motherland would that name ring a bell because Nick Clegg is the

00:35:40.700 former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom. He was the leader of the liberal Democrats for

00:35:47.000 seven, eight years. Now, Facebook's a private company, Michael. It's a private company that is

00:35:55.100 apparently run in part by a major liberal politician in the coast held a lot of political power.

00:36:03.120 Gosh, these lines are starting to blur, aren't they? Between the public and the private and the

00:36:07.760 politics and the culture and the government and the business, it looks kind of, all kind of looks

00:36:12.100 like the same thing to me. So now you're in a situation where a very prominent liberal politician

00:36:17.560 is wielding a massive, ostensibly private entity to censor conservatives, even duly elected

00:36:25.720 conservatives, even the president of the United States. Think about that power. It's a lot of power,

00:36:33.040 but we're told by some people, we cannot question that. We're told not just by the left,

00:36:38.520 which is giddily using all of this political power, wielding it left and right. We're told

00:36:46.800 by the squishy pseudo conservatives that we cannot question this at all because Facebook's a private

00:36:54.400 company. Facebook's a private company that employs the former deputy prime minister of the United

00:36:59.080 Kingdom and wields more power than basically any government ever in human history. And look, if they

00:37:03.920 want to ostracize the duly elected president, then that's their right. That's private. Build your own

00:37:08.300 Facebook. Build your own Google. Build your own Twitter. No, no. Because I think the end of that is

00:37:16.680 build your own government, right? Even Mitch McConnell, who's as establishment as they come,

00:37:21.960 said that these woke corporations are acting in many ways as a parallel government. And the reason

00:37:26.700 they've gotten so much of this power in no small part is because conservatives for the past 20 years,

00:37:31.740 like lunatics, have been shilling for the corporations that hate them.

00:37:37.320 Because the left has pushed for an intense privatization of all social decisions, right?

00:37:43.860 Sex, especially sex, but so much of our culture, it's private. Whatever you want to do, it's fine.

00:37:48.580 Do whatever you want. Chop off your body parts if you want. And the right has pushed for an intense

00:37:52.720 privatization of all economic decisions. Oh, the government has nothing to say about these giant

00:37:57.560 corporations. How dare you? Nick Clegg is a job creator. We need to defend Nick Clegg, right? No,

00:38:03.760 I don't think so. I think they've both redounded to the same effect, which is to upend our society and

00:38:09.520 take away political power from the citizens. Now, I never thought that the United States

00:38:17.220 would have something to learn about self-government from Nigeria. But we do. We do. On Friday,

00:38:31.560 I suppose actually a few days before Friday, so sometime last week, Twitter suspended the president

00:38:38.860 of Nigeria. They removed a post of his, I should say. I'll be more specific. They removed a post

00:38:43.400 from President Mohamedou Buhari. Now, they removed this post because Buhari was threatening to punish

00:38:53.560 groups that were implicated in attacks on government buildings. And President Buhari's post was removed

00:39:01.220 for violating Twitter's apparent abusive behavior policy. So it's now Twitter's policy that a head

00:39:06.900 of state is not allowed to threaten to punish groups that attack the government. But only if

00:39:13.840 the, I guess only if Twitter supports those groups and opposes the president, right? Because there have

00:39:19.400 been certainly other times where the situation was reversed and Twitter didn't, didn't remove government

00:39:23.380 posts. So what did Nigeria do? They blocked Twitter from the country. They just suspended it. It's now

00:39:31.680 very, very difficult to get on Twitter if you're in Nigeria. Do you know what I say?

00:39:35.500 Good for Nigeria. Now, look, I don't, I'm not making any point about President Mohamedou Buhari. I'm not

00:39:44.720 making any point about Nigerian politics about which I know nothing and about which I don't really care to

00:39:49.920 know very much at all. A lot of countries in the world and Nigeria is trying to work out its own

00:39:54.760 situation. But I am very supportive of sovereign states not having their entire political system overrun

00:40:04.220 by Jack Dorsey. I don't think that Jack Dorsey has the right to craft national policy in African

00:40:15.440 states. Okay. I know that the, the neolibs want this new era of colonialism where a handful of woke

00:40:23.800 oligarchs here in the United States can choose every country's affairs for them, I suppose, including our

00:40:29.480 own country's affairs. But I am very impressed that Nigeria said no, no Twitter, you violated our terms of

00:40:36.660 service. And so you're not permitted in this country. There's a lot of bad stuff on the internet. I'm not just

00:40:45.040 talking about the woke oligarchs who are trying to take political power away from governments, whether the

00:40:51.640 governments are good governments or bad governments, the woke oligarchs are trying to take power away from them.

00:40:57.380 And in, in the case of our country, take power away from the people. But there's other bad stuff on the

00:41:03.500 internet. Like OnlyFans. If you haven't heard of OnlyFans, OnlyFans is a sort of democratization of porn. It's

00:41:11.640 just a way to upload your own stuff and make some, I think, you know, OnlyFans gets a big cut, but then people who

00:41:18.240 flash their various body parts on the internet can make money from people who subscribe. Who are obviously in the

00:41:25.120 throes of depravity and porn addiction because there's a lot of free porn on the internet. So if you're

00:41:29.420 paying for pornography, can you imagine how far down the rabbit hole you are? So this is attracting

00:41:35.340 fairly mainstream people. The former UFC champion, Jessica Andrade, I don't know if I'm pronouncing

00:41:40.220 that correctly. She's now joining OnlyFans. She said at the request of American fans, it's always the

00:41:44.800 decadent American fans, I signed up for OnlyFans. Follow me. This is bad. This is bad

00:41:51.540 that people will objectify themselves and turn their very bodies into a product for mass consumption.

00:42:02.200 That's very bad. It's degrading to do that sort of thing. That should be highly regulated or illegal.

00:42:10.460 That would not be a violation of freedom to make that illegal. Actually, porn was illegal or at least

00:42:16.880 very, very heavily regulated for basically our entire country's history until about five minutes

00:42:21.360 ago. That's good. That's not a shrinking of free speech. That is actually a defense of free speech

00:42:30.880 because certain speech undermines free speech. Certain things undermine freedom. When Nigeria goes

00:42:36.320 in and suspends Twitter because Twitter is suspending the president, that is not whatever is going on in

00:42:42.540 the Nigerian political system. I'm just talking as a matter of state sovereignty. That is not to

00:42:47.220 diminish political freedom. It's to expand political freedom because no matter what one thinks of the

00:42:54.880 president of Nigeria, surely Jack Dorsey is not the president of Nigeria. Regardless of how legitimate

00:43:02.120 and just the current ruler of Nigeria is, it seems more just that it be he than say Jack Dorsey,

00:43:09.120 right? So I'm going to hear, I'm going to get angry letters. I know. I'm just, I'm telling you this

00:43:16.460 early. I'm going to get angry letters from liberals and libertarians on this point. They'll say, Michael,

00:43:22.940 porn is good. It's a, you know, the patriots fought the revolutionary war to defend women degrading

00:43:29.320 themselves on OnlyFans. You think, no, no, that's not true. They actually explicitly wrote against all

00:43:34.540 this stuff and you're fooling yourself if you think otherwise. But they're going to say, this is

00:43:40.940 authoritarian. It's a word that I, I don't think means very much. If it ever had a meaning these

00:43:46.700 days, it's, it's being watered down quite a lot. What does it mean? If you, if you acknowledge any

00:43:50.660 kind of law, if you acknowledge any kind of self-government, that's, that's authoritarian. If

00:43:55.980 you acknowledge that certain speech undermines speech, that's authoritarian. No, no, I don't,

00:44:02.040 I don't think so. It's, you, you need limits just like a sonnet, just like poetry. Poetry gets its

00:44:08.700 beauty and its freedom actually from the limits that are imposed on it, from the meter and from

00:44:13.700 the rhyme scheme and from various sorts of factors. Doesn't need to include all of those things,

00:44:18.060 but there need to be some limits to have some poetry. Otherwise it's not recognizable as a poem.

00:44:21.720 The same thing is true of society. The same thing is true of speech regimes. Now I do want to turn

00:44:26.220 before we go to something wholesome on the internet. Abuela, Abuela, AOC's Abuela. She doesn't call her

00:44:35.980 grandma. She calls her Abuela. I don't refer to my grandmother as nonna, but AOC, to make a point

00:44:43.300 about how much she doesn't like America, insists on using these kind of borrowed words every now and

00:44:48.240 again. She says that Abuela's roof in Puerto Rico is in disrepair. AOC, who is wealthy and drives

00:44:56.140 a Tesla, refuses to help Abuela, but she's angry and she's going to criticize Donald Trump for not

00:45:00.940 helping Abuela, even though Donald Trump actually did help Abuela, but corrupt Puerto Rican politicians

00:45:04.280 took the money. So, Matt Walsh, a true philanthropist at the Daily Wire, put up a GoFundMe

00:45:10.180 campaign and he said, we got to help Abuela raise money to fix her roof. The campaign raised over

00:45:15.920 $100,000 in about 10 hours. I donated, okay? Look, I know I'm a philanthropist. I don't know what to

00:45:22.740 tell you. We all, a lot of conservatives donated. Now, part of this is I think a lot of conservatives

00:45:30.000 knew AOC wouldn't permit the money to be taken. And you think that's exactly what happened actually.

00:45:37.180 First of all, I think a lot of conservatives gave and just thought like, okay, this lady needs her

00:45:39.900 own roof fund. What's it to me? I like that. I like being charitable. But a lot of us also knew AOC

00:45:47.060 wouldn't take the money because AOC hates private charity in the same way that Bernie Sanders hates

00:45:51.280 private charity. I talk about this. This is philosophically consistent with leftism. I

00:45:56.400 talk about this in my upcoming book, Speechless Controlling Minds, which is available now for

00:45:59.940 pre-order and you can get a signed first edition copy of Premier Collectibles. So, Matt gets a letter

00:46:04.100 from GoFundMe. Dear Matt, we're in touch with the beneficiary's family and they've made clear they

00:46:09.140 will not be accepting the funds raised and so now we all got a refund. My question is, does the family

00:46:18.780 of a beneficiary get to make that decision? Because we didn't start this GoFundMe for AOC to dole out

00:46:27.900 as she pleases to Abuela. The GoFundMe was for Abuela. So really, Abuela should be making this

00:46:33.620 decision. As far as I know, AOC doesn't have power of attorney over Abuela. But someone in the family,

00:46:40.300 someone powerful enough in the family to get, I wonder who that could be, goes in and says,

00:46:44.680 kill this thing. We would rather Abuela's roof be broken than accept a hundred grand from

00:46:51.200 conservatives because that would prove that they're right and we're wrong and that they're

00:46:56.620 doing a good thing and we're big jerks about it. So they turn it down. I think someone needs to

00:47:03.640 investigate this. I don't think that AOC or anyone else in that family has the right to do this to

00:47:08.680 Abuela. Seems very wrong to me. By the way, before we go, I can't let this go without mentioning it.

00:47:15.420 Kathy Griffin tweets out on this very Abuela point to AOC, says, thank you for continuing to do a

00:47:20.260 great job. You represent Americans better than we represent ourselves. Kathy Griffin, very leftist

00:47:27.260 comedian, alleged comedian, doesn't think AOC is American because AOC is Puerto Rican. Even though

00:47:35.340 she was born in America, raised in America, doesn't have an accent, even when she uses the word

00:47:39.700 Abuela. Kathy, it sounds a little racist. I don't know. The word racism doesn't mean anything anymore,

00:47:46.020 but I think that, does that count? You represent Americans better than we represent ourselves.

00:47:51.640 Great little bit. As far as I can tell, the tweet is still up, but there's a serious point here.

00:47:57.560 Kathy Griffin recognizes that AOC is anti-American and she is. She is anti-American. She doesn't like this

00:48:04.540 country. She doesn't like what it stands for. She wants to fundamentally transform it, as does the

00:48:09.320 left more broadly. So what kind of country are we going to have? What kind of country are we going

00:48:14.140 to have? The symbols here really matter. The words we use really matter. And right now, I'm sorry to

00:48:18.680 say, the left has the upper hand. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you next time.

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00:48:49.800 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Ben Davies. Executive producer, Jeremy Boring. Our technical

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00:49:13.200 Show is a Daily Wire production. Copyright Daily Wire 2021. The $100,000 I raised for AOC's

00:49:19.900 grandmother is turned down by her family. Also, BLM riots over a violent felon and fugitive who shot at the

00:49:25.220 cops and died in the process. A prominent psychiatrist confesses her fantasies of murdering

00:49:30.280 white people and a feud between rival beekeepers has erupted on TikTok. That's very important.

00:49:34.740 We'll talk about that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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