The Michael Knowles Show - July 04, 2021


Annoying WOKE Political Symbols Tier RANKING

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Michael Knowles
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Hitler Michael Colin Kaepernick Donald Trump Shea Guevara Aziz Ansari Stalin Fauci Jay-Z
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Length

9 minutes

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198.62

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1,946

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175

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Misogyny

3

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Toxicity

18

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6

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Summary

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As secular liberalism ascends to be the dominant religion in America, we are seeing woke iconography everywhere. We see these symbols at protests, on clothing, and all over the media. Today we are going to probe these symbols and rank them.

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00:00:30.200 Hey everybody, Michael here.
00:00:31.820 You know, the left is really good at controlling all the symbols in our culture.
00:00:36.200 Not just the words, which are symbols, but all sorts of symbolism. 0.99
00:00:40.060 And you see it on the bumper stickers and the stupid t-shirts and all that kind of stuff. 0.97
00:00:44.080 I am here to guide you through and help you understand what these symbols really mean. 1.00
00:00:49.720 I have got the definitive ranking of these stupid, woke political symbols. 0.99
00:00:58.160 Check them out. 0.99
00:00:58.620 As secular liberalism ascends to be the dominant religion in America, we are seeing woke iconography
00:01:05.940 everywhere.
00:01:07.360 We see these symbols at protests.
00:01:09.400 We see them on clothing, on campuses, all over the media.
00:01:13.540 Today, we are going to probe these symbols.
00:01:16.260 We are going to rank them.
00:01:17.660 You know, sometimes on the internet, people rank by S tier, A tier, B tier.
00:01:21.300 We've got totally different categories.
00:01:23.840 We've got the lowest tier of woke commitment.
00:01:26.840 That's like, you just kind of want to fit in.
00:01:28.580 That is freshman dorm party.
00:01:31.120 Second tier, you're a little more committed.
00:01:32.900 That's the bumper sticker tier.
00:01:34.260 Okay.
00:01:34.440 You're, you're actually willing to stick something on your property.
00:01:37.040 Third tier, you're pretty bought in.
00:01:39.000 This is where you, you go around telling everyone things like true socialism has never been tried.
00:01:44.800 And then you get to that final tier of wokeness.
00:01:47.320 That is where you are calling the FBI on your conservative family members.
00:01:51.280 It just felt like the right thing.
00:01:52.600 So there are four tiers, freshman dorm, bumper sticker, true socialism has never been tried,
00:01:58.600 and calling the feds on Uncle Jimbo.
00:02:01.060 Let's get started.
00:02:02.380 Okay. 0.99
00:02:02.720 Oh, the, can I say, can I say pussy hat? 1.00
00:02:06.000 That's what they say. 0.99
00:02:07.120 And it's not like the pussy galore was in that Bond movie. 0.99
00:02:09.980 So I, all right, I'm going to say the pussy hat. 0.99
00:02:11.880 That is, I guess that's, I'm going to put that at the second tier. 0.98
00:02:19.260 Okay.
00:02:19.660 It's not just you're trying to fit in at the college dorm party, but it's not quite,
00:02:24.100 you know, true socialism has never been tried.
00:02:25.960 Cause I could also see a world in which dudes are just trying to like pick up chicks in 2017
00:02:31.260 and they, they want to appeal and pretend to be really feminist. 0.99
00:02:34.280 It's like the, the Aziz Ansari thing.
00:02:36.200 So that's, that's going to be second tier.
00:02:37.900 That's going to be, that's going to be the bumper sticker tier where you're wearing the pink hat.
00:02:41.600 Pronouns, pronouns in the Twitter handle or email.
00:02:44.120 You're, you're pretty bought in there.
00:02:46.320 Okay.
00:02:46.720 You, maybe you're not calling the feds on Uncle Jimbo yet.
00:02:49.500 You don't think true socialism has ever been tried.
00:02:52.500 You're okay.
00:02:53.280 That's, I'm going to put you in the third category.
00:02:54.880 The resist fist, the commie fist decal.
00:02:58.160 You, you're like itching for the phone at that point.
00:03:00.800 Okay.
00:03:01.280 You're probably hanging out.
00:03:02.500 You know, someone in Antifa.
00:03:04.540 Maybe you've gone to Antifa yourself and you're, your uncle is not safe.
00:03:09.560 Coexist bumper sticker.
00:03:10.920 That's what I guess that sort of by definition has to go in the bumper sticker category.
00:03:15.140 And because it's, you're not totally committed, right?
00:03:17.380 You're not thinking deeply about what these things mean.
00:03:20.280 Because the coexist bumper sticker basically says that all religions are exactly the same.
00:03:24.460 And they're all equally true, which of course is impossible because they make contradictory claims.
00:03:29.800 So, but you're just, you're not thinking that deeply about it.
00:03:32.200 You're not, you're not thinking about it really at all.
00:03:34.960 Well, and if you were, the only way, the only way that statement could be true is if every religion is equally bunk, which is kind of like a commie idea.
00:03:42.100 But, but, you know, you're, you're a liberal aunt isn't thinking that deeply.
00:03:46.080 So that's, that's the bumper sticker tier.
00:03:47.840 Kneeling.
00:03:48.400 Colin Kaepernick is that true socialism has never been tried.
00:03:51.000 But there are other people who go along with the kneeling, right?
00:03:55.080 If, if this were 2017, I'd say true socialism has never been tried.
00:03:58.920 But now, you know, at this point, you've got athletes on the field doing it just to fit in, just so they won't be boycotted.
00:04:06.560 So, unfortunately, as this has become more mainstream, I'm actually going to downgrade this to the bumper sticker tier.
00:04:12.460 Posting a crying selfie video in your car.
00:04:15.620 This is, I'm actually going to maybe subvert expectations here.
00:04:19.820 This is bumper sticker tier, if not, if not freshman dorm party tier.
00:04:25.020 Because these videos are much less about ideology than they are about cries for attention.
00:04:30.160 Because, like, daddy didn't hug you enough or something.
00:04:32.600 So I'm, I'm, I'm going to actually say this has less to do with your political views and more to do with, like, needing people to say you're very special.
00:04:41.740 That's the freshman dorm.
00:04:43.240 Wearing a mask, yeah, wearing a mask is totally freshman dorm at this point.
00:04:46.700 Mainly because you wouldn't be allowed into a freshman dorm if you're not wearing a mask.
00:04:50.360 Very sad because it's, it's such a radical thing that we now have to go around muzzling ourselves based on basically nothing, right? 0.98
00:04:58.900 Because the, the experts told us, don't wear a mask, it's stupid, they don't do anything. 0.98
00:05:02.380 Dr. Fauci told us that. 1.00
00:05:03.520 Some epidemiologists told us that.
00:05:05.300 Then we were told you have to wear a mask.
00:05:06.600 Now we're told you have to wear like four masks and a gas mask and a hazmat suit and a full burka. 0.72
00:05:10.520 But it's become so mainstreamed now that if you don't muzzle yourself with some filthy piece of cloth everywhere you go, now you're considered the weird one.
00:05:19.480 You're considered the conspiracy theorist.
00:05:20.920 So sadly, freshman dorm.
00:05:23.560 The double mask.
00:05:24.880 The double mask is a little more, it's a bumper sticker.
00:05:27.960 It's still, it's still not that radical, right?
00:05:31.180 I mean, you've got, you've got many people doing this now.
00:05:33.660 Uh, but it's, it's a level of more commitment.
00:05:36.800 So that's, that's the bumper sticker tier.
00:05:38.460 The black square.
00:05:39.240 Black square is freshman dorm.
00:05:40.680 You also probably wouldn't get into a freshman dorm party if you didn't post it.
00:05:44.480 I even have friends of mine who were kind of conservative or at least Republicans.
00:05:49.540 Where on black square day, I, I posted, I posted a black square with a rainbow.
00:05:55.600 Because I said, I didn't know, I didn't know which liturgical, liberal liturgical practice we were supposed to undertake.
00:06:02.620 It was, it was gay pride month, but it was also the black square day.
00:06:06.460 So I could, I did them both.
00:06:07.700 And I had conservatives yell at me and said, Michael, you can't make light of this.
00:06:10.940 This is very important. 0.93
00:06:12.240 It's very important that we all post the black square to prove that we're going to overcome all those racist, terrible people who think black lives don't matter.
00:06:21.380 I said, well, you know, if everyone and all the companies and all the politicians are posting the black square, 0.99
00:06:27.860 don't you think maybe we all agree black lives matter and it's, this is like a fake radical thing?
00:06:33.060 And they didn't understand that.
00:06:34.740 So obviously that's total freshman dorm.
00:06:37.620 Rainbow emoji in your handle.
00:06:39.700 That's a little more committed, but not much.
00:06:41.940 I mean, it's a bumper sticker at this point.
00:06:44.200 First of all, your Twitter handle is the kind of modern day version of a bumper sticker, right?
00:06:49.000 That's, you, people are seeing that much more.
00:06:51.200 You're, you're conveying your identity much more in your Twitter handle than you, than you do any more on your car.
00:06:56.760 Uh, it's a little, it's a step above freshman dorm, I would say, but you, you don't need to be a true socialism has never been tried.
00:07:02.280 I have a number of straight friends who have actually come out and they've said, well, you know, I'm not a heterosexual.
00:07:08.500 Say, really?
00:07:09.400 What, you like, you're attracted to dudes now?
00:07:11.620 No, no, but I'm a poly, non-binary, queer, this, that, and you say, well, you, you want attention.
00:07:19.480 Okay, fine.
00:07:20.440 You know, you don't, you're not actually any of those sexual groups that, that you're pretending to be, but okay, that's fine.
00:07:25.400 You're wearing a bumper sticker.
00:07:27.360 Posting pictures of your children holding political signs.
00:07:29.840 That, that is another level.
00:07:31.820 You're getting to true socialism has never been tried at that point.
00:07:35.040 Um, if you're willing to exploit your kids, especially for a while, there were all these videos of, of little kids using horribly foul language about Donald Trump to be shocking, right?
00:07:47.320 As though foul language is shocking these days.
00:07:49.540 The only thing that's, what's shocking these days is wholesome content.
00:07:52.840 That's, that's the stuff that can get you kicked off the internet.
00:07:55.200 Uh, but if you're willing to do that stuff to your poor little kids, uh, you, you're an ideologue.
00:08:01.760 You're at the, you're at the true socialism has never been tried.
00:08:04.560 Owning a vape pen.
00:08:05.500 Oh, that's freshman dorm, man.
00:08:06.620 I've, I've used vape pens before.
00:08:08.880 Everybody, I don't like them really.
00:08:10.420 I prefer a cigar, but everybody uses a vape pen.
00:08:13.060 That's like, I, I don't think that smoking in and of itself is cool, you know, because it can cause, depending on what you're smoking, how often you're smoking, it can cause health problems and everything.
00:08:23.900 But it is undeniable that smokers are cool.
00:08:27.120 You know, you just picture like a cool guy from the fifties, like chain smoking.
00:08:30.340 He probably died at 52, but whatever.
00:08:31.900 He looked really cool while doing it.
00:08:33.420 Uh, vapes do not look cool.
00:08:35.260 They don't, but it's just because kids these days, they don't, they don't understand that.
00:08:38.520 So a freshman dorm, a hundred percent.
00:08:41.120 The Cuban, oh, the Shea shirt. 0.91
00:08:42.480 Yeah.
00:08:42.580 The Cuban revolutionary merchandise.
00:08:45.060 That man, Jay-Z, that guy's so frustrating.
00:08:47.960 Uh, but I got to tell you, you don't need to be an actual socialist at that point.
00:08:52.100 But I don't think you need to even be at true socialism has never been tried.
00:08:55.880 It's been so mainstream to wear this murderous commie Shea Guevara on your shirt. 1.00
00:09:00.820 I think it's sort of a bumper sticker, at least if you're on a college campus, which is really pathetic. 0.92
00:09:05.720 In my mind, wearing a Shea shirt and wearing a Hitler shirt are pretty much not different. 0.86
00:09:11.720 Or a Mao shirt and a Hitler shirt or a Stalin shirt and a Hitler shirt. 0.54
00:09:15.380 But for some reason, communism, totally acceptable.
00:09:19.060 Fascism, unacceptable.
00:09:20.260 Fair enough.
00:09:20.660 We all agree.
00:09:21.600 Communism, totally acceptable.
00:09:23.620 So it's even, it's below that ideological ranking.
00:09:27.320 When you actually do pick up the phone and call the feds on your, on your family members, that, that is a symbol that goes far.
00:09:32.080 But thankfully, there's not too much of that yet.
00:09:34.700 However, we are seeing these stories in the news.
00:09:37.400 It's becoming more and more mainstream.
00:09:39.200 Not a good state of society.
00:09:40.800 Be sure to comment.
00:09:41.500 Let me know if you agree or disagree with my tier rankings and what other subjects you would like me to rank next time.
00:09:47.600 See you then.