The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1001 - The Abortion Demons Attack Pro-Life Justices

00:00:00.000 As expected, shrieking abortion supporters showed up at Brett Kavanaugh's home over the weekend to

00:00:05.720 scare his kids and to try to intimidate the justice into changing his vote on the Dobbs

00:00:11.660 case to overrule Roe v. Wade. The only reason the mob didn't show up to the home of Justice Sam

00:00:27.460 Alito, who wrote the leaked opinion, is because the threats against him were so severe that the

00:00:32.940 entire family was moved to an undisclosed location. The angry mob was expected at Kavanaugh's house as

00:00:40.400 well as the homes of the other conservative justices because last week after a leftist

00:00:45.540 activist leaked the decision, a left-wing organization doxed the justices and published

00:00:50.720 their home addresses. Then when the White House was asked about the leak and the doxing, the press

00:00:56.240 secretary refused to condemn the mobs. Speaking on behalf of the president, Jen Psaki actually said

00:01:02.660 that people are passionate and that the White House didn't have any official position on where

00:01:08.320 people protest. You can't even really call that tacit approval. Psaki was asked directly to call

00:01:15.900 off the dogs, at least to voice some modest disapproval of the mob showing up at the judge's

00:01:21.900 homes and she shrugged her shoulders. This latest series of threats and intimidation against the

00:01:28.080 conservative justices' families and children is no surprise because, as I pointed out, the moment the

00:01:33.560 leak occurred, we are talking about people who kill little babies. There is no norm they will not violate.

00:01:40.320 There is no depth to which they will not sink. They know that the Supreme Court reads the election

00:01:46.140 returns and the opinion polls and they hear the mobs outside. So they're trying to pressure them

00:01:51.000 to switch their votes. But there is a silver lining to this storm cloud, a silver lining that I also

00:01:57.000 predicted last week. You know that I hate to say I told you so. That is that the political effect of

00:02:01.740 the leak and the threats and the mobs is favorable to Republicans, favorable to conservatives, favorable

00:02:09.600 to life. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:04:42.800 Lots of mostly peaceful protests going on over the weekend, mostly peaceful threats against the

00:04:49.520 children of conservative Supreme Court justices, mostly peaceful angry mobs outside the private

00:04:54.860 homes of Supreme Court justices, and more and more. Thankfully, Kavanaugh's family seems to be safe.

00:05:02.240 John Roberts' family seems to be safe. But I thought when I saw the protests first occur, I said,

00:05:06.880 why are they focusing on Kavanaugh? Sam Alito is the one who wrote the opinion. Why aren't we seeing the

00:05:12.460 mobs? Oh, because Sam Alito's family was moved into hiding because the threats against him were

00:05:17.760 so much worse than the threats against Brett Kavanaugh. Was this just overreacting? Sam Alito,

00:05:24.260 he would have been fine, right? Well, I'm not so sure. I think it probably would have gotten pretty

00:05:28.960 violent. Here's my evidence. A pro-life group was hit with Molotov cocktails over the weekend. A

00:05:34.940 Wisconsin pro-life group's office was set on fire early Sunday morning. I was vandalized with abortion 1.00

00:05:42.180 themed graffiti in what the police are calling an arson. It was the Wisconsin Family Action

00:05:48.520 headquarters. There was fire damage. There were flames coming out of the building at 6 a.m.,

00:05:53.820 and there was a spray-painted message which said, if abortions aren't safe, then you aren't either.

00:06:00.240 Fortunately, no injuries were reported. The first question you got to ask yourself whenever an

00:06:05.840 incident like this happens is, is it real or is it a hoax? We've seen a ton of hoaxes,

00:06:10.380 racial hoaxes, sexual hoaxes. We've seen a lot of hoaxes from the left. Threats of racist graffiti

00:06:18.000 and things like that. 99 times out of 100, they turn out to be fake. Is this fake here? I don't

00:06:23.460 think so. I don't think so. It's not just because I'm biased on my side, the right wing. It's just if

00:06:28.760 you look at these sorts of incidents, they are almost, if not always, hoaxes on the left.

00:06:36.440 You don't really see those. I could write, I mean, I actually have a full chapter of my book

00:06:40.740 on all these kind of racial and sexual and just political hoaxes from the left. You just don't

00:06:45.840 really see them from the right. And then you get to the second part, which is the left gets violent

00:06:51.740 and the right generally does not get violent. I'm not saying that there are no exceptions to this,

00:06:55.720 but if you look at incidents of violence, particularly in recent years, political violence,

00:07:00.020 it's almost entirely on the left. It's not on the right. Would the left really do these sorts

00:07:06.200 of things? I don't know. You remember 2020? Remember when the left burned the country down

00:07:09.720 coast to coast for eight months? Yeah, I think they probably would throw a Molotov cocktail into

00:07:14.460 a pro-life headquarters office. Actually, they did that sort of thing for more than half of a year,

00:07:22.440 two years ago. So we're talking about real threats. I'm glad no one was injured here. I'm glad it

00:07:27.820 was an empty office. I'm glad it wasn't one of the conservative judges' houses.

00:07:31.660 But clearly the left is trying to scare the conservative judges into believing it could

00:07:35.640 be in their houses. When Jen Psaki said the government, we have no official government 0.93

00:07:40.340 position on where people protest. Go get them. Gosh, nice house you got there, Justice Kavanaugh,

00:07:46.160 Justice Alito. Sure would be a shame if something happened to it. It's no different than what the mob

00:07:51.360 would say when they walk into your business with a protection racket. The only difference is they're

00:07:55.300 actually talking about these people's homes where their children sleep. The only silver lining here,

00:08:00.580 I mean, this is really, really disgusting stuff. It's bad in and of itself for the families of the

00:08:05.160 judges, but it's bad for democracy. I never again want to hear about our sacred democracy and the

00:08:11.660 sacred norms and rule of law that the insurrect. Give me a break. You're telling me that January 6th

00:08:16.600 was the worst event in the history of the country because a horn hat guy danced around the Capitol 1.00

00:08:20.280 rotunda. But that sicking and angry mob on the justices' homes where their kids sleep because 0.99

00:08:25.620 you don't like an opinion that's coming out, that's totally fine. That's democracy in action.

00:08:29.580 Shove it, man. Go pound sand if that's going to be your argument. I never want to hear it

00:08:33.760 again about January 6th. It's a joke. It's a complete joke. And you're going to hear later

00:08:38.940 on this summer, you're going to hear all of the January 6th crocodile tears. You're going to see it

00:08:44.980 from not just the liberals, but from a couple of the court jester conservatives, Liz Cheney, Adam

00:08:50.100 Kinzinger. This is it. It's done. You show up to the judges' houses. You threaten the family of

00:08:54.560 the judges. I never want to hear another word about January 6th. Not that I wanted to hear anything

00:08:58.660 about it before. The silver lining here, though, this is really backfiring. This is really not

00:09:05.280 working for the libs. There is a poll out showing the political effect of, forget about the mobs,

00:09:11.880 this is just the political effect of the leaked decision. Okay. I think the mobs are actually

00:09:16.500 going to move this even more in the conservative direction, but this poll is not from the Daily

00:09:20.660 Wire. It's not from Fox News. It's not from some right-wing outlet. It's from CNN. CNN shows

00:09:29.020 that the overruling of Roe and the leak of the decision not only will not help Democrats in November,

00:09:36.300 but will actually help Republicans. The share of registered voters who say they are extremely or

00:09:42.960 very enthusiastic about voting in the midterms rose six percentage points after the leak of the

00:09:50.220 decision. Among Democrats, 43% say they are now extremely or very enthusiastic about the midterms.

00:09:56.520 That's up seven points. So it seems like Democrats got a boost, except that right now the percentage of

00:10:03.160 Republicans who say they're very excited about the midterms is 56%. So it's much higher than the

00:10:07.840 Democrats, and it's up nine points since the leak. The voters who say that overturning Roe would make

00:10:14.000 them happy are nearly twice as enthusiastic about voting in the midterms as those who say that a ruling

00:10:20.980 would leave them angry. You know I hate to say, I told you so, but I had my Ulstradamus hat on.

00:10:29.940 I had my crystal ball out. I said, guys, not only is overruling Roe the right thing to do,

00:10:36.760 not only does the leak show that the libs are really desperate, but it's a political winner as

00:10:42.000 well. You heard some of the squishes saying, oh no, why do we have to overrule Roe in the midterms?

00:10:47.320 Oh no, this is just going to help the Democrats. This is going to take away our momentum. We had all

00:10:51.100 the momentum on the economy and immigration and foreign policy. Now we're all going to squander it to

00:10:55.140 save those babies. You're not going to squander it. It's going to help you. If you think that,

00:11:00.160 if you and the squishes believe that abortion is a losing issue for conservatives, it's because you 0.99

00:11:05.980 have bought the propaganda from the left, which wants to make us all believe that America is full 0.98

00:11:12.300 of a bunch of bloodthirsty maniacs who want to kill babies up until the moment of birth. 0.99

00:11:16.960 The conservative position on abortion is not the fringe position. It's the mainstream position. 0.98

00:11:22.960 Don't kill babies is the mainstream, normal, popular position. Abortion on demand without 0.97

00:11:29.700 apology into the fifth trimester. That is a fringe view. That's the radical view. Okay. People don't

00:11:34.600 like that. Don't buy the propaganda. This is going to be a big, big win. It's the right thing to do,

00:11:42.340 first of all, but it's going to be a big, big win for conservatives. This issue is backing

00:11:47.020 the libs and the Democrats into a corner. Even the most practiced Democrats, even the smoothest

00:11:53.760 operators out there. They have no answer on the abortion question. That's why, that's why they're 0.85

00:11:59.680 trying to distract. They're saying, actually the Roe v. Wade overruling, this is really about

00:12:03.880 contraception. This is really about interracial marriage. I kid you not there. You remember Eric 0.99

00:12:08.960 Swalwell said, this is really about interracial marriage. What the hell are you talking about 0.95

00:12:11.840 interracial marriage for? That has nothing to do with abortion. Oh, you're talking about that

00:12:15.900 because you know that your position on abortion is deeply unpopular. It's got me feeling good. 0.98

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00:13:40.280 condition. Elizabeth Warren, Liawatha herself, who got red in the face, who was so angry that the 1.00

00:13:46.740 Supreme Court might overrule Roe v. Wade. You saw fire in her eyes. You saw this fear that she no longer

00:13:52.740 will be able to sacrifice all of those babies to her demon god, Quetzalcoatl. She saw her fingers just 1.00

00:13:58.280 itching for the hatchet, but the conservative judges were going to take that hatchet away from her. 1.00

00:14:03.000 Well, Elizabeth Warren is changing her tune a little bit. She's still radically pro-abortion, 1.00

00:14:09.700 but she realizes that her bloodlust to kill these babies is not really playing very well in Peoria.

00:14:16.800 And so Elizabeth Warren now was asked a question, point blank, should there be any limits on abortion?

00:14:22.360 And she dodged the question. There's a question, should there be any limits on abortions?

00:14:27.500 You know, I'm going to put it this way. I think that the woman who is most affected should be at

00:14:34.520 the heart of this. Of course. I think that she should be able to call on her partner. Right.

00:14:40.600 Her mother, her priest, her rabbi. She should be able to bring in the people she needs.

00:14:48.200 But in a pregnancy, I don't believe that it is the state that should intervene with its heavy hand

00:14:56.520 and make the decision. That's a whole lot of words to say no. It's a simple question. Should

00:15:03.180 there be any limits whatsoever on abortion? And her answer is no. She thinks you should be able to 0.86

00:15:09.600 kill babies up until the moment of birth, at least. And she knows that that is insane and evil and 0.99

00:15:16.940 radical and doesn't sit very well with voters. And so she has to go on this word salad for three 1.00

00:15:22.300 minutes to say, well, and I think a woman should talk to her partner and her priest. That's not 0.99

00:15:31.200 going to go very well, darling. Have you, have you read the catechism of the church? And nevermind.

00:15:34.800 And she should, and the decision, it's the same answer Ralph Northam made. Hey, should we be able

00:15:39.320 to kill babies on the operating table? Well, now I think that we should, in that, in a case where a baby 0.99

00:15:45.840 is born and the mama doesn't want it, we're going to make it comfortable. And then we're, maybe we're

00:15:50.620 going to let it be, and we're going to kill it. Okay. And you just, he just, they just ramble on and 0.99

00:15:54.720 on. Just give the honest answer. No, you don't think there should be any limits to abortion

00:15:59.980 whatsoever. And then she has the audacity. This is the funniest, funniest part of it all. She says,

00:16:07.620 I don't think that the heavy hand of government should be involved. This is the, this is the only

00:16:14.460 issue in politics that Elizabeth Warren has ever come across where she does not believe that the

00:16:19.060 heavy hand of government should be involved. It's the only one. She, she wants to regulate your 1.00

00:16:23.660 light bulbs. Okay. She wants to regulate everything with heavy hand of government, except whether or not 1.00

00:16:28.260 you should be able to kill an innocent little baby. It's so disingenuous. It's so radical. It's so 0.89

00:16:34.720 off-putting. There is no, you can just tell watching this woman, listening to her, this woman is not

00:16:42.840 ever going to be the president. Her, I think those dreams are dashed. And then you listen to the

00:16:49.640 position more broadly, say this, this party that's running on this issue is not going to win. In a fair

00:16:56.300 election, there's no way they win. Rosanna Arquette, she has a very excitable lib in Hollywood. Rosanna 0.93

00:17:05.000 Arquette holds the same radical position on abortion as Elizabeth Warren, but she's more excitable about it.

00:17:11.900 She, she is more hysterical about it. This is what she said over the weekend, quote, no, it's not

00:17:18.500 hysterical or alarmist. They, the conservatives, the, and the conservative Supreme Court judges will

00:17:24.400 traffic babies that many women can't afford to keep. There was a huge money-making market worldwide for 0.58

00:17:30.400 babies. And behind that is organ trafficking. The majority Supreme Court justices are officially the

00:17:36.420 satanic force. The funny thing about this quasi-grammatical, semi-coherent claim is that

00:17:46.260 Rosanna Arquette and the Libs broadly are accusing the conservatives of doing exactly what they themselves

00:17:51.800 are doing. What are, she makes two claims here. She says that the conservatives want to traffic 0.98

00:17:57.660 flesh. They want to, they want to traffic living human beings in some kind of what,

00:18:02.460 sex trade or something like that, in some, some kind of slavery trade. And they want to traffic 0.77

00:18:09.000 baby body parts. So dead human beings, they want to sell them on the black market.

00:18:14.220 Planned Parenthood officials have been caught on hidden camera multiple times, repeatedly

00:18:21.180 haggling for the price of selling baby body parts. Not even just one official, multiple Planned

00:18:29.360 Parenthood officials. The campaign was the Center for Medical Progress, David Daleiden, went in

00:18:34.180 undercover because Planned Parenthood said, no, we're not selling baby body parts, the body parts

00:18:38.600 of aborted babies in our clinics. And then he went undercover in meetings with multiple officials

00:18:42.920 and they were all haggling over the price because they said, yes, we will sell these body parts to you.

00:18:50.120 They even made jokes about it. They said, well, I'm not going to, I'm not going to give you my number

00:18:53.580 first. You need to tell me your price first. I want to buy a Lamborghini. Ha ha ha.

00:18:57.460 There, there is documents, footage, audio from meetings of Planned Parenthood officials saying

00:19:05.140 that they do this very same thing that Roseanne Arquette is accusing the conservatives of doing.

00:19:09.360 Furthermore, she's saying, what about just the, the black market in selling people, you know,

00:19:13.620 just regular old human trafficking of living human beings? Which side is it that's trying to

00:19:18.760 legalize prostitution? Which side, which it's the libs, it's the libs. They, everything that they 1.00

00:19:24.760 are accusing us of, they do themselves. It's classic projection. It's, it's a good rule of

00:19:30.320 thumb in politics. Whatever the libs are screaming about conservatives allegedly doing, it's a safe

00:19:35.620 bet that they themselves are doing it. Speaking of defending the indefensible on camera, the White 0.97

00:19:41.760 House is getting a new press secretary. That press secretary will be Karine Jean-Pierre. She was the

00:19:48.380 deputy for Jen Psaki. She was somehow less impressive than Jen Psaki. Jen Psaki had a few moments 1.00

00:19:53.940 of zingers, a few moments that were kind of funny. Karine Jean-Pierre so far has been extremely

00:19:58.980 unimpressive in the job, but now Jen Psaki is going to go make, make some money over at MSNBC. 1.00

00:20:04.380 So Karine Jean-Pierre is stepping in. Here's what Jen Psaki had to say about the appointment of 0.99

00:20:08.980 Karine Jean-Pierre to be the press secretary. I'm reading it exactly in order. This is just what she

00:20:15.120 said. Lots to say about how grateful I am to the president, first lady, and the Biden family for

00:20:19.200 trusting me to serve as press secretary and plenty of time before my last day to share. But today is

00:20:23.180 about Karine Jean-Pierre. So a few thoughts on this remarkable woman who will soon be behind the podium

00:20:27.760 every day. She will be the first black woman and first openly LGBTQ plus person to serve as the White 1.00

00:20:34.360 House press secretary. Representation matters and she will give a voice to many, but also make many

00:20:39.580 dream big about what is truly possible. Karine Jean-Pierre has decades of experience from her early years

00:20:44.960 working in government and politics in New York to her years as an outspoken advocate to serving as a

00:20:49.420 longtime advisor to the president when he was vice president. So let me translate that for you.

00:20:55.440 She says, today is about Karine Jean-Pierre. The first thing I'm going to say about her is that she

00:21:00.700 is black and she has unusual sexual appetites. That's, we, it's so wonderful that this woman is the 0.99

00:21:08.960 press secretary because of the color of her skin and her sexual appetites. That's why this is so great. 1.00

00:21:14.480 Also, she's got some experience, but most importantly of all, I don't know if I mentioned

00:21:19.160 this yet. She is black and is sexually attracted to women. I think, is that what, I don't even know 1.00

00:21:25.900 what, which letter of the LGBTQ Karine Jean-Pierre is, but anyway, she's got some kind of eccentric 0.95

00:21:33.140 sexual appetite and that's the most important thing. It's, it's an acknowledgement that this woman is

00:21:38.720 another diversity hire. She's a diversity hire, just like the Biden, it does, that's not my words.

00:21:44.760 I'm not the one saying it. It's Jen Psaki said that. If this woman were being hired for her merit, 0.98

00:21:49.920 then Jen Psaki would have reversed the tweets. She would have said, this woman has so much 1.00

00:21:54.320 experience. She brings so much skill and talent to the table. And also she's black and sexually 1.00

00:21:59.920 attracted to women. But that's not what Jen Psaki did. It's, it's the same pattern we've seen from the 0.99

00:22:05.120 Biden administration. The reason we need to nominate Ketanji Jackson to the Supreme Court is she is 1.00

00:22:10.320 extremely black. And I would note a woman. And also she went to Harvard and, you know, she's got a lot 0.95

00:22:16.040 of experience, but I am only going to pick a black woman. That is all I care about. I'm not going to 1.00

00:22:21.120 pick the most qualified person. I'm only going to look at black women and exclude other candidates 1.00

00:22:25.440 who might be more qualified. Biden did the same thing with vice president. He said, I am going to pick

00:22:31.220 a black woman to be my vice president. So all you've excluded, what, 94% of the country at that

00:22:39.120 point. And in terms of prominent black women who were up for that job in 2020, you had three women, 1.00

00:22:45.800 Karen Bass, who's an actual communist member, member of Congress. You had, uh, Susan Rice,

00:22:51.880 the fall man for Benghazi. And you had Kamala Harris, who was the first person out of the Democrat

00:22:55.480 presidential primary, but somehow she was the best choice because you limited your options to three. 1.00

00:22:59.980 Okay. And Michelle Obama probably didn't want the job. So that's it. You've got,

00:23:05.900 that's what they're saying. I think that's ugly. I think that's unfortunate. I think it would be nice

00:23:10.340 if when people get big jobs in the government, they can say it was because of their merit.

00:23:15.180 They're not just looked at as tokens and not just looked at as diversity hires,

00:23:19.160 but the Biden administration clearly looks at this woman as a diversity hire. Just look at the statement

00:23:23.420 from the president's spokesman. And I love Jen Psaki says, representation matters. 1.00

00:23:29.980 Uh, yes, representation in our national government matters. That's true. I want,

00:23:34.900 I want my voice to be heard in the national government. I don't care if someone who vaguely

00:23:41.620 looks like me physically is in the government. I don't care. I don't care. In fact, I wouldn't

00:23:47.300 like it if Rachel Maddow were working in the federal government, that would upset me. In fact, 1.00

00:23:53.620 one of my favorite people in the government is Clarence Thomas. I don't look very much like

00:23:57.700 Clarence Thomas. I was going to say Sam Alito, but I actually do kind of look like Sam Alito.

00:24:01.560 You know, the Italians, we stick together, but Clarence Thomas, I love Clarence Thomas. Does

00:24:04.700 that mean I don't really look like him? Amy Barrett seems to be doing a pretty good job. At least I

00:24:08.620 don't really look like Amy Barrett. Do I? No, that representation does not matter to me.

00:24:15.440 I don't, I don't think it is a matter of political importance that we have lots of lesbians in the 1.00

00:24:22.140 government. I don't think that, I want people in the government to be nice to lesbians. I don't, 1.00

00:24:28.820 I don't want lesbians or other minority groups to be, to be unfairly targeted or any, but

00:24:34.820 this does not matter because there's no end to that, by the way. You know, we joke about how

00:24:38.960 the acronym LGBT just keeps expanding and there's no end to the expand, expanding. And so if we're

00:24:44.180 saying that we need someone from every single group, many of which are being created every single

00:24:49.000 day to be represented in the government, there's simply no end to that. Now, speaking of

00:24:55.340 representation, you all represented my book very, very beautifully, speechless on, uh, over the

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00:25:50.240 but have something substantial to say as well. With the countless recommendations I've given to

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00:25:58.360 That's very kind of you. Whatever the gift thing is that the producers came up with, we will be sure

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00:29:01.620 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:29:15.480 Identity politics is not working quite like it used to.

00:29:19.640 For the past 20, 25 years, all the Democrats needed to do was throw the word racist at someone

00:29:28.520 and it would destroy that person, okay?

00:29:30.740 And it would make everyone cower and fear it's the worst thing that you can possibly be called.

00:29:34.760 They would wield woke identity politics to get whatever they wanted.

00:29:39.860 It was a total get out of jail free card.

00:29:42.240 That is not working as well anymore.

00:29:44.480 And I think someone who perfectly exemplifies how little that is working is Chet Hanks.

00:29:51.540 Chet Hanks is one of Tom Hanks' sons.

00:29:55.220 He is one of my absolute favorite figures in the culture.

00:29:58.980 He talks kind of like a rapper.

00:30:02.420 And he first came to my attention, at least, when his parents got COVID.

00:30:06.500 And he came on Instagram and he said, hey, y'all, it's Chet here.

00:30:11.260 Yeah, my parents have COVID.

00:30:12.340 Crazy, right?

00:30:13.180 And I thought, no, the crazy thing is that you are Chet Hanks.

00:30:16.600 How is this Tom Hanks' son?

00:30:18.760 And he's made jokes about the vaccine.

00:30:21.800 And he's made jokes about political correctness and the culture.

00:30:24.540 And he just seems great.

00:30:25.620 I just really like him as a cultural figure.

00:30:27.440 So anyway, Chet Hanks was talking to a TikTok star, Zeewee, a woman with whom I was not familiar before.

00:30:35.680 Zeewee asked Chet if there are any marginalized communities that just in general, he, as a white man, wants to apologize to.

00:30:44.580 Here's his answer.

00:30:46.160 Are there any marginalized communities you want to apologize to?

00:30:49.220 I don't know, maybe the Potswold community?

00:30:50.700 No, I don't feel like I've truly done anything offensive, so.

00:31:01.220 You don't see it as cultural appropriation.

00:31:02.940 You see it as like a celebration of culture.

00:31:04.620 And then it's like social justice warriors can like go kick rocks.

00:31:08.480 Yeah.

00:31:10.020 Yeah.

00:31:15.540 Yeah.

00:31:18.420 No comment.

00:31:19.300 Got it.

00:31:19.560 No, I mean, I 100% agree.

00:31:21.880 Social justice warriors can kick rocks.

00:31:25.360 It's not no comment.

00:31:26.940 Zeewee says, okay, so you're just refusing to answer.

00:31:29.420 No, no, I'm not.

00:31:29.940 I'm not refusing to answer.

00:31:31.340 I am fully answering.

00:31:33.120 They can kick rocks.

00:31:34.700 I will not apologize for being a dude. 0.96

00:31:36.980 I won't apologize for being a white guy.

00:31:39.300 I haven't done anything wrong.

00:31:41.420 I am not evil by virtue of my race and sex.

00:31:45.820 It's not wrong that I have adopted certain aspects of what you are suggesting is a black culture or some other kind of ethnic culture.

00:31:54.740 No, that's not wrong.

00:31:55.820 It's obviously a catch 22, by the way, for white guys here.

00:31:59.760 Because if you do adopt characteristics of another culture, then you are accused of cultural appropriation.

00:32:06.400 But if you don't adopt traits of another culture, you're accused of cultural erasure or Eurocentrism or any of these other kinds. 0.78

00:32:15.720 So you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

00:32:17.720 And he says, look, I haven't done anything wrong. 0.90

00:32:19.280 I've just spoken the truth as I see it.

00:32:21.400 I've behaved in a way that I don't think is immoral.

00:32:24.020 I'm actually just encouraging people to go sort of exercise and, you know, think the right things.

00:32:29.240 And so, no, I'm not going to apologize for anything.

00:32:31.280 Sorry. 0.98

00:32:32.740 But you are a white man.

00:32:35.500 I am, yes.

00:32:37.020 But you're not going to apologize for that?

00:32:39.440 No, I don't think that I will.

00:32:41.640 Why should he?

00:32:42.340 That would be so crazy.

00:32:43.920 That would be so crazy.

00:32:44.960 And I'm glad that people finally have the confidence again to say, no, I'm just going to reject the whole premise here.

00:32:51.240 That we have this hierarchy of races and certain races need to feel really bad about themselves and other races are the good races.

00:32:59.240 And this idea that men are just intrinsically evil and awful and they got to apologize.

00:33:04.220 No, we're not going to do any of that.

00:33:05.400 Sorry.

00:33:05.960 Speaking of young, controversial men, I meant to get to this last week, but I'll get to it now.

00:33:11.080 Madison Cawthorne.

00:33:12.600 Madison Cawthorne is a freshman member of Congress, young guy, young conservative member of Congress.

00:33:18.720 And boy, has he been in the headlines lately.

00:33:22.180 Boy, has Madison Cawthorne been in the headlines.

00:33:24.260 Oh, man, it seems like this guy can't do anything right.

00:33:27.420 He, just about two weeks ago, there were big headlines about how Madison Cawthorne might be guilty of financial impropriety or insider trading because he invested in a crypto coin.

00:33:39.620 And then there was another headline, Madison Cawthorne was caught driving with a license revoked because he had had some speeding tickets that he hadn't paid yet.

00:33:48.940 And then last week, this was a really weird one, there was this video that leaked of Madison Cawthorne.

00:33:54.500 And it looked like he was not wearing very much clothing.

00:33:57.180 And he was kind of like, he was, I don't know, he was like doing something on a couch with a buddy of his or something.

00:34:02.540 They were kind of, he was like yelling.

00:34:03.800 And I don't know, I don't know, I didn't watch it all that closely.

00:34:07.260 And so, but people were saying, this is really weird.

00:34:09.440 This is a shocking, scandalous video.

00:34:11.500 And I thought, huh, why, why is everyone going after Madison Cawthorne right now?

00:34:19.360 Because none of these, none of these scandals in particular seem all that, it's not like there was an actual sex tape of him that leaked.

00:34:26.740 It's not like he was caught committing some crime on camera or something.

00:34:29.840 It was like kind of a strange video, but I know there are lots of strange videos.

00:34:32.520 And then driving while his license was revoked, that's, is that the, when I think of the crimes that members of Congress regularly commit, that seems pretty low on the list. 0.84

00:34:41.680 And then he invested in some, in some stupid crypto coin that that's what, why are they going, oh, I, I, I, 0.96

00:34:48.540 I remember why they're going after him because Madison Cawthorne blowed the whistle on their, on their Coke-fueled orgies just a few weeks ago. 1.00

00:34:55.780 The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington, I mean, it, being kind of a young guy in Washington room with the average age of probably 60 or 70. 0.74

00:35:03.240 And I look at all these people, a lot of them that I, you know, I've looked up to through my life, always paid attention to politics, guys that, you know, then all of a sudden you get invited to like, well, hey, we're going to have kind of a, a sexual get together at one of our homes. 0.51

00:35:14.180 You should come.

00:35:14.760 And I'm like, what, what, what did you just ask me to come to?

00:35:18.180 And then you realize they're asking you to come to an orgy or the fact that, you know, there's some of the people that are leading on the movement to try and remove, you know, addiction in our country.

00:35:26.840 And then you watch them do, you know, a key bump of cocaine right in front of you.

00:35:29.780 And it's like, wow, this is, this is wild.

00:35:33.100 When Madison Cawthorne made these claims, I was not totally sure that he was telling the truth or that these things were actually happening.

00:35:41.000 I thought it was likely that what he was saying was true, but I wasn't totally sure.

00:35:47.740 Now that the, pretty much the moment he made those comments on air, now that every single day, it seems there is a new negative headline, there is a new hit piece against him.

00:35:59.440 I am now 100% certain that what he was saying was true.

00:36:04.720 And look, we, we know that Washington DC is extremely corrupt.

00:36:07.980 We know that members of our government are very frequently degenerate.

00:36:11.740 And we know that they've all got blackmail on one another.

00:36:14.540 Okay, that has been true for, at least the blackmail part has been true for the entire history of politics.

00:36:21.020 But what Cawthorne here is describing is now actually happening.

00:36:23.800 Because in that interview, he says, look, and the way that everyone covers it up is everyone says, look, you shouldn't say this thing.

00:36:29.200 You shouldn't vote this way.

00:36:30.000 You shouldn't do this thing because we've got some videotape of you or we've got some arrest record of you or we've got some bad stuff.

00:36:36.060 That would sure look bad in the headlines and they're all using this dirt to control one another. 0.99

00:36:41.980 This is the, this is the plot line of the, of House of Cards.

00:36:45.200 This is, you see this throughout LBJ's life and that Robert Carroll biography of LBJ in particular, he wielded blackmail.

00:36:52.120 And so I totally buy it.

00:36:53.440 Madison Cawthorne, when he made these claims, the Republican leadership too, we got really angry with him.

00:36:59.020 Oh boy, did they come down hard on him.

00:37:00.740 And he sort of recanted it a little bit, but not totally.

00:37:03.680 And they're obviously just pressuring him and now they're trying to send a message.

00:37:07.160 And this is another example of, I think the tactics are backfiring here.

00:37:11.300 Okay.

00:37:11.780 I think the tactic of sending angry mobs to the conservative justices' homes, they thought that that was going to give them the outcome they wanted.

00:37:17.700 I think really it's just, I hope it's hardening the justices on this.

00:37:21.040 And it's certainly hardening the American people.

00:37:22.880 You can see, even just since the leak came out, you can see momentum moving in the pro-life direction.

00:37:27.840 Same thing here.

00:37:28.520 If I was 50-50 on Madison Cawthorne talking about the coke-fueled orgies in Washington, D.C., I'm now more like 80-20. 0.81

00:37:35.700 I'm now more like 90-10 here.

00:37:37.200 I'm now pretty certain that what he's saying is true because the intimidation campaign against him is so blatant.

00:37:44.500 I refer to myself occasionally as an Olstradamus.

00:37:47.520 Well, look at what Cawthorne did.

00:37:48.880 Talk about a crystal ball.

00:37:50.060 He said, look, they're going to start leaking a bunch of stuff about me if I talk about their coke-fueled orgies. 1.00

00:37:55.420 And then what do you get two weeks later?

00:37:57.840 Speaking of anti-constitutional attempts to shut up conservative members of Congress, we got some good news.

00:38:05.900 A judge has tossed out a challenge to Marjorie Taylor Greene's candidacy.

00:38:11.240 We covered this a few weeks ago on the show.

00:38:14.220 Georgia Congressman Marjorie Greene is very popular among conservatives.

00:38:19.380 And there was a move by a left-wing organization to try to kick her off of the ballot. 1.00

00:38:25.800 And they tried to kick her off of the ballot using this very silly provision of the 14th Amendment to say that if you've engaged in an insurrection against the United States that you can't hold public office. 0.55

00:38:38.740 And so the Libs are pretending that the horn hat guy dancing around the Capitol was an insurrection, a coup d'etat.

00:38:45.160 Goodness gracious, the government almost fell.

00:38:47.540 And so they're trying to prevent Marjorie Greene from appearing on the ballot.

00:38:51.060 Why are they doing that?

00:38:51.980 Because they know that they can't beat Marjorie Greene at the ballot.

00:38:54.640 They know that if she's on the ballot, she's going to win because the voters like her. 0.98

00:38:59.020 But the left does not like her.

00:39:02.280 And so they're trying to boot her off.

00:39:03.580 They're trying to do the same thing for Trump.

00:39:04.920 This was really just a test run to see if they can prevent Trump from running for president in 2024.

00:39:09.380 And the decision came down.

00:39:12.280 Fortunately, Greene will appear on the ballot.

00:39:15.800 I guess ultimately it rests with the Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger.

00:39:20.020 But it would be highly unlikely that he would kick her off of the ballot.

00:39:23.220 So the judge has basically let her candidacy go through.

00:39:27.040 When I think about Marjorie Greene, I don't know Marjorie Greene.

00:39:29.640 I haven't even followed her career very closely.

00:39:31.780 But when I see stuff like this, it makes me more inclined to like her.

00:39:37.940 Look, there are a lot of members of Congress.

00:39:39.760 You can't keep up with all of them.

00:39:40.940 You can't follow the minutia of all of their lives.

00:39:42.980 But if all I know about Marjorie Greene is that some of the worst people in this country 1.00

00:39:47.500 are trying to subvert and pervert our law to prevent her from even running for office,

00:39:52.620 they're so scared of her, then I guess I kind of like her, right?

00:39:57.140 I guess I don't know.

00:39:58.400 Oh, I don't know everything about her, but just as a rule of thumb, if the worst, most

00:40:02.340 radical leftist people in the country don't like somebody, that's at least a good indication

00:40:07.700 that that person is actually doing something in Washington, D.C.

00:40:12.800 They're trying to wield the state to suppress us.

00:40:17.260 They are trying to wield the state in ways that are not in keeping with our history,

00:40:22.680 not in keeping with the rule of law, to prevent us from having self-government.

00:40:27.080 Nowhere is this clearer than the Ministry of Truth that the Biden administration set up

00:40:32.400 just a couple of weeks ago.

00:40:35.400 Right after the Elon Musk news broke, that Elon Musk was maybe going to take over Twitter

00:40:40.160 and conservatives might have a little bit more free speech on just one of the social media platforms,

00:40:44.760 within hours, the Biden administration announces we are going to set up a new disinformation

00:40:48.700 governance board to prevent the spread of disinformation.

00:40:53.480 Now, when the Biden administration was asked, hey, hold on, are you saying you're going to

00:40:58.060 censor Americans?

00:40:58.800 They said, no, no, this is just about foreign disinformation.

00:41:02.100 This is not focused on American citizens.

00:41:03.780 This is just focused on people abroad.

00:41:05.700 Then the conservatives raised the question, hold on, then why is it at the Department of Homeland

00:41:09.180 Security?

00:41:10.620 Why isn't this at the State Department?

00:41:11.940 Oh, actually, there already is a disinformation agency at the State Department.

00:41:16.460 There already is an agency that does the same thing that you are saying that this agency

00:41:20.300 will do, focusing on disinformation abroad.

00:41:23.520 So why create a new one in a domestic agency?

00:41:26.960 Oh, because you're obviously just trying to censor Americans.

00:41:30.380 And Rand Paul just absolutely ripped the Secretary of Homeland Security a new one over this Ministry

00:41:38.900 of Truth.

00:41:39.260 Do we have policies?

00:41:42.040 Do we have guardrails?

00:41:43.920 Do we have standards to ensure?

00:41:44.780 But here's the problem.

00:41:45.920 We can't even agree.

00:41:46.940 We can't even agree what disinformation is.

00:41:49.640 You can't even agree that it was disinformation that the Russians fed information to the Steele

00:41:54.400 dossier.

00:41:54.840 If you can't agree to that, how are we ever going to come to an agreement on what is disinformation

00:41:58.580 so you can police it on social media?

00:42:00.540 I think you've got no idea what disinformation is.

00:42:03.500 And I don't think the government's capable of it.

00:42:05.060 Do you know who the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world

00:42:08.440 is?

00:42:09.080 The U.S. government.

00:42:10.660 Are you familiar with McNamara, the Pentagon Papers?

00:42:14.340 Are you familiar with George W. Bush and the weapons of mass destruction?

00:42:18.560 Are you familiar with Iran-Contra?

00:42:20.660 I mean, think of all the debates and disputes we've had over the last 50 years in our country.

00:42:27.120 We work them out by debating them.

00:42:29.540 We don't work them out by the government being the arbiter.

00:42:31.840 I don't want you guardrails.

00:42:33.500 I want you to have nothing to do with speech.

00:42:36.040 Now, Rand Paul is taking a really interesting tack here to go after this Biden administration

00:42:42.100 policy, the censorship board, because he's basically attacking them from the left.

00:42:47.140 He's saying, you know, the United States government spread a lot of disinformation in the Vietnam

00:42:51.380 War and George W. Bush.

00:42:53.480 And he's parroting lines that would have been considered left-wing lines in the 60s, in the

00:42:58.540 70s, in the 2000s.

00:43:01.260 He's just throwing the Libs lines right back at them to say, why on earth have you shifted

00:43:08.380 your position here?

00:43:09.560 Why are you pretending now that the government doesn't have an interest to push disinformation?

00:43:13.740 Because of course it does.

00:43:14.460 This isn't even an anti-American sort of line to use.

00:43:18.020 It's just a simple fact.

00:43:19.660 Governments have an interest in pushing certain propaganda.

00:43:24.380 And so if the government is going to get into the business of regulating speech, Rand Paul

00:43:28.800 takes an extremely libertarian position here.

00:43:30.820 I don't take that libertarian position.

00:43:32.480 I think there are plenty of regulations that our government traditionally has had on speech,

00:43:37.200 on obscenity, on threats, on fighting words, upholding standards.

00:43:40.500 But the government has done it in a very careful way, in a nuanced way, in a way with lots of

00:43:46.980 guardrails.

00:43:47.980 And then Joe Biden's going to come in here like a bull in a china shop and just set up

00:43:51.120 a censorship board to try to shut down all the conservatives on social media because mean

00:43:54.920 old Elon is going to maybe let us get a word in edgewise.

00:43:58.080 It's really important to see how absolutely cynical this is.

00:44:01.520 Do you think that's going to play for the Democrats in November?

00:44:05.840 I don't think so.

00:44:07.160 When you can attack them from the right and the left, I don't think that's going to play

00:44:10.020 very well.

00:44:12.600 Conservatives need power.

00:44:15.440 Conservatives need power in the culture, in the politics, and we need to wield it.

00:44:20.300 This is why I'm so pleased to read the headline, who knows if it's true or not, but the report

00:44:24.820 at least from CNBC is that not only will Elon Musk buy Twitter, but that he's actually expected

00:44:31.560 to serve as the temporary CEO of Twitter for at least a few months after the deal completes.

00:44:38.680 I love this in part because it's just been so delicious to watch Elon Musk toy with the

00:44:45.300 Twitter leadership, like a cat toys with a mouse, and get them to try to say, oh no,

00:44:51.120 we're happy that Elon's coming actually. No, we really like that. The CEO, Parag Agrawal,

00:44:55.740 said, no, I'm really happy and we're going to work together. And Elon's like, yeah, yeah,

00:45:00.160 we're going to work together. And then he says, yeah, I'm taking your job actually. No,

00:45:04.560 we're not going to work together. You're gone. You're fired. Totally just channeling Donald Trump

00:45:09.140 here. So the reason it's important though, beyond just how delicious it is to watch the Twitter

00:45:13.720 leadership squirm, is if Elon really wants this to matter, he's got to run it. Personnel is policy.

00:45:21.960 If he just buys it and becomes the big investor and doesn't make huge personnel changes,

00:45:25.920 and better yet, doesn't run the company himself for some period of time,

00:45:30.040 nothing's really going to change. This is a lesson that conservatives can learn when we win

00:45:36.020 elections. We can win elections, but if we are not actively in there running the government,

00:45:40.840 we're not actively in there just putting all of our people into all the important positions of power

00:45:46.520 and doing our best to fire all the libs who are actually making the decisions in the government

00:45:51.160 and replace them with good, solid conservatives, then it's not going to matter that we win the

00:45:54.600 election. The government is just so big and unwieldy. We've got to go in and actually make sure that the

00:46:00.440 election means something. Because the difference between the lifers, the careerists in Washington,

00:46:04.920 D.C., and the elected guys is the elected guys come and go every eight years, every four years,

00:46:10.400 sometimes every two years. And those career guys are going to be there. So where's the real power?

00:46:14.620 The real power is in the people who are actually affecting these policies. Now, it's not enough just

00:46:21.860 to count on Big Daddy Elon. I like Elon. He seems to have a pretty good head on his shoulders. He's

00:46:27.840 doing pretty great stuff in the culture right now. I'm very grateful for the things that he's doing.

00:46:31.300 I think what Elon Musk is doing right now, especially in the private sector, is some of

00:46:37.400 the most important stuff we've seen in my lifetime. But it's not enough. And he's not even really a

00:46:44.920 conservative, right? He's much more conservative than most people. But Elon made this point himself.

00:46:49.920 He posted a meme where he said that 10 years ago, he was center left. And then the left went completely

00:46:55.100 radical. And so they moved the center way further left. And so now I guess he's center right.

00:47:01.760 So it's good. I'd rather have a 2012 Democrat over a 2022 Democrat running things because the 2012

00:47:09.140 Democrat is relatively much more conservative. But that's not going to be the answer. My version

00:47:13.980 of conservatism is not just whatever the Democrats were doing 10 years ago. My version of conservatism

00:47:19.060 is conserving something. Conserving something deeper and truer and with greater tradition.

00:47:24.200 And that is in accord with the natural law and eternal truths and a transcendent moral order,

00:47:31.060 okay? We need more. You see this at Tesla right now. We covered Amazon last week. Amazon offering to

00:47:37.540 pay for its employees' travel out of state to get abortions if Roe v. Wade is overruled.

00:47:43.600 Unfortunately, Tesla's apparently going to do the same thing. According to Tesla's 2021 impact report,

00:47:49.160 the company added travel and lodging support for those who may need to seek healthcare services

00:47:54.260 that are unavailable in their home state. And this is going to be in their health insurance offerings.

00:48:00.740 Reportedly, that's going to include abortion. Do I blame Elon Musk for this? Not really. I mean,

00:48:07.740 is the guy supposed to be Mr. Conservative all of a sudden? No, I don't think he's ever presented

00:48:11.740 himself as such. What does Elon Musk think about abortion? I'm not totally sure. I do know that

00:48:16.020 Elon Musk has said that we don't have an overpopulation problem in the world. We have

00:48:19.480 an underpopulation problem. So that's good. Makes me think he's in the right direction on life.

00:48:24.740 But you can't expect this guy to just be Mr. Conservative and transform the whole culture back

00:48:29.220 to conservatism. No. We have to do that. The political community has to do that. The Supreme

00:48:33.840 Court justices have to do that. The presidents who appoint the Supreme Court justices. The people who

00:48:38.340 go out there to elect conservative representatives. We have to wield that power, okay? And we need to

00:48:43.980 create the political conditions that make it easier for a company like Tesla to not cover

00:48:48.240 these things. I made this point last week. Capitalism's great. I love free markets. I love

00:48:54.680 private property. I do. I'm not being glib or flippant about that. But I don't worship at the

00:48:59.000 altar of the market. I don't worship at the altar of the market because I think sometimes the market

00:49:02.600 can get things wrong. I think it is in Amazon's market interest to pay for the travel for its

00:49:07.740 employees, its female employees, to go get abortions because it will make those female employees 1.00

00:49:12.320 more productive. They won't be taking maternity leave, okay? They won't be raising children. 0.99

00:49:17.520 They won't be calling out of work when their kid's babysitter doesn't show up or when the kid gets

00:49:22.520 sick. So it's in the economic market interest of Amazon to encourage abortions. It's in the economic

00:49:28.940 market interest of Tesla to encourage abortions. And it's in the political interest of our community 0.88

00:49:34.280 to outlaw abortions. It's in our national interest. Markets are great, but they are an instrument 1.00

00:49:41.680 toward a good society. You don't want to put the cart before the horse, okay? They're actually for

00:49:46.060 something. And so what we need to do is go in and wield that power. And if we say, look, abortions are 0.96

00:49:51.980 just not allowed, sorry, we're just not, we're not killing babies. That's not what we do as a country

00:49:55.580 anymore. Then Amazon and Tesla, those are going to be the rules. And Amazon and Tesla and other

00:50:00.040 corporations aren't going to have to compete with one another to try to offer their employees all the

00:50:04.040 best sorts of healthcare plans with the most stuff and the most freebies and the most out-of-state

00:50:10.700 travel covered for abortion. They're not going to have to, they're not going to have to worry about

00:50:14.820 other companies who are paying for abortions for their employees having cheaper labor costs.

00:50:21.660 They're not going to have to worry. Everyone's going to be on an even playing field and it's

00:50:24.600 going to be on a much more just playing field. That's what we have got to do, okay? We need

00:50:29.760 structural improvement here. We're talking about, this number came out just last week. Gas is up 80%

00:50:37.260 almost since Joe Biden took office, 80%. That is such a huge spike in what, 14 months?

00:50:45.220 A massive, not even 14 months at this point, a massive, massive spike in gas. That's, it's not

00:50:51.600 just because of markets. It's not just because of the war in Ukraine. It's because of structural

00:50:55.560 problems, structural problems on energy, structural problems on how even the states relate to the

00:51:00.900 federal government. We've got to go in there and wield that political power and make things better. 1.00

00:51:04.820 Joe Biden is the direct cause of the problem, but the problems run a little bit deeper and

00:51:09.460 conservatives need to grow a spine, grow some muscle, and get a little bit more muscular as

00:51:14.360 we look ahead to the future of our country. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 09, 2022

Ep. 1001 - The Abortion Demons Attack Pro-Life Justices

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