The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 No reasonable person can be happy about the state of the country right now.

00:00:04.460 There is disorder on every front. The economy is in shambles. Inflation is at record highs.

00:00:10.460 We can't get basic goods like baby formula. There have been horrific spikes in violence,

00:00:16.080 and the world order is cracking. And to top it all off, energy costs are through the roof.

00:00:21.660 It is difficult to understand how political leaders could screw up so perfectly on every

00:00:29.700 single front until you realize that the present misery is not a bug, but rather a feature of the

00:00:38.160 ruling class's program. Here is Joe Biden's explanation. When it comes to the gas prices,

00:00:45.380 we're going through an incredible transition that is taking place that God willing, when it's over,

00:00:51.720 we'll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less relying on fossil fuels when this is over.

00:00:57.100 There it is. That's why. That's why gas prices are high, because of the incredible transition

00:01:02.680 that Biden is encouraging. A transition from one way of life to another, apparently with the approval

00:01:10.500 of our rulers. This was the plan all along. And you can see it most clearly when it comes to energy.

00:01:18.620 Every normal person is upset about energy prices. People are struggling to fill their tanks,

00:01:24.580 heat their homes, heat their homes, energy costs, or driving up the cost of everything else in the

00:01:29.620 economy. But for years now, our ideologically insane ruling class has argued in their occasional

00:01:37.580 moments of honesty that it's actually a good thing, that this is actually precisely the sort of thing

00:01:43.640 that we're rooting for.

00:01:46.640 Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

00:01:56.160 So could the prices help us?

00:01:58.680 I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment.

00:02:02.500 In 2008, you supported ramping up gas prices. Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the

00:02:10.500 price of gasoline to the levels in Europe, where it is now more than $10 a gallon.

00:02:16.280 That last clip was Obama's energy secretary. Before that, it was Obama himself saying,

00:02:20.980 yeah, we want higher prices. That's what we're looking for. What we are living through right now

00:02:26.020 is precisely the sort of thing that our rulers have been calling for for over a decade.

00:02:30.580 These are the people planning our future. These are the people building our future.

00:02:35.480 They're not even hiding it. And if they are permitted to keep the control that they've got,

00:02:40.300 the future is going to look pretty bleak. I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:51.620 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop at Norm's

00:02:55.620 Workshop, who says, I guess Whoopi Goldberg wanted to divert our attention away.

00:03:00.420 From asking, what is a woman to what is an archbishop? That's true. They don't know much

00:03:06.620 about anything these days. Well, what really is an archbishop? An archbishop is Pelosi's shepherd.

00:03:15.360 That's who it is. No, that bishop doesn't have any right. No, that's what an archbishop is.

00:03:21.260 A woman has no right to the women's room. No, that's what a woman is. Guys, this is basic stuff.

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00:04:04.220 The mistake that the critics of our ruling class are making right now when they look at all the

00:04:09.240 terrible stuff going on in the country and around the world is they think this is an accident.

00:04:14.040 It's not an accident. The negative effects on the polls might be accidental. The criticism that the

00:04:20.580 administration is getting might be accidental, but the actual stuff, driving up the cost of energy,

00:04:25.480 opening up the border, flooding the country with immigrants and illegal aliens, the disorder we're

00:04:30.580 seeing elsewhere around the world, and the fraying world, all this stuff is the point. It is the plan.

00:04:37.820 They've been telling us this for over a decade. We should have listened. We should have paid

00:04:42.260 attention. Some of us did, and so you're not surprised when you see this happen now. That's what the

00:04:46.440 World Economic Forum is about. The World Economic Forum, which is going on in Davos, Switzerland,

00:04:51.860 is a cartoonish gathering of world leaders, lots and lots of heads of state, lots and lots of

00:04:58.700 corporate leaders, all meeting up in this non-governmental body, this just kind of

00:05:02.620 non-profit, this strange little meeting they all go to, and they tell you verbatim,

00:05:08.540 we are the ones planning the future. Let's also be clear. The future is not just happening.

00:05:17.560 The future is built by us, by a powerful community as you here in this room.

00:05:25.640 We have the means to improve the states of the world, but two conditions are necessary.

00:05:33.180 The first one is that we act all as stakeholders of larger communities, that we serve not our

00:05:44.520 only self-interests, but we serve the community. That's what we call stakeholder responsibility.

00:05:52.200 And second, that we collaborate. And this is the reason why you find many opportunities here during

00:06:00.640 the meeting to engage into very action and impact-oriented initiatives to make progress related to

00:06:12.240 specific issues on the global agenda. If the screen behind Klaus Schwab there, the head of the World

00:06:19.120 Economic Forum, if the screen did not say World Economic Forum, if instead it said Spectre,

00:06:24.240 I would not bat an eyelash. If this were not taking place on the news, but taking place

00:06:29.180 in the next James Bond movie, I would not be surprised at all. The language is that cartoonishly

00:06:35.100 villainous. The future does not just happen. No, Mr. Bond, the future is being built by us.

00:06:43.780 We are the ones who will build the future if we collaborate together. Collaborate together, by the

00:06:51.440 way. What people say that when you criticize the World Economic Forum, you're engaging in a crazy

00:06:57.180 conspiracy theory. Klaus Schwab just said it's a conspiracy. That's what conspiracy is, is when

00:07:03.140 people with outsized influence and power get together and collaborate largely behind closed doors

00:07:10.980 in secret locations in the middle of Switzerland. This is the plot of a Bond movie. This is what

00:07:16.460 they are doing. And it's not just the government leaders and it's not just the corporate leaders

00:07:20.240 and it's not just the NGO leaders, the humanitarian types who project the power of liberal empire.

00:07:27.960 It's all of them together. It's all of them together working behind the scenes. Why do they have to do

00:07:32.740 this in Davos, Switzerland? Because they know that you won't like it. That's why they're not debating

00:07:36.880 this stuff in the U.S. Congress. That's why they're not debating this stuff in the parliaments

00:07:41.240 of Europe. Because then it would be open to the input of the people. And they know that the people

00:07:48.040 don't like any of this stuff. They know that the people are never going to vote for higher gas prices

00:07:52.060 if it's put to them in those plain terms. If that's really what they know is on the ballot,

00:07:56.620 the people aren't going to vote for it. But these are the ones building the future and they know what

00:08:01.360 is better. And so if we are going to transition, then we need to raise the prices of the energy

00:08:07.700 and build the future against the will of the people. Thankfully, I'm not going into my

00:08:13.100 outright German. It sounds even scarier in the original German. So that's what's happening at

00:08:18.940 the World Economic Forum. That's what they're telling us is happening. This is not being put

00:08:22.800 into a public stage or up for a public vote, but there are clips that come out of the World Economic

00:08:26.340 Forum like this one. Someone at the World Economic Forum, the president of Alibaba Group, which is a

00:08:32.820 Chinese company, J. Michael Evans, boasted at the World Economic Forum that he was going to develop

00:08:38.980 an individual carbon footprint tracker to monitor the terrible effect that you, the ordinary person,

00:08:47.060 have on the world. We're developing through technology an ability for consumers to measure

00:08:53.560 their own carbon footprint. What does that mean? That's where are they traveling? How are they

00:09:00.200 traveling? What are they eating? What are they consuming on the platform? So individual carbon

00:09:06.580 footprint tracker. Stay tuned. We don't have it operational yet, but this is something that we're

00:09:12.140 working on. Isn't this a great idea? You know, the one thing that makes me feel a little bit better

00:09:17.760 about the World Economic Forum and all these liberal lunatics meeting together and conspiring to take

00:09:23.520 over the world, the one thing that makes me feel better is that they are fairly incompetent.

00:09:27.860 So a lot of what you hear at the World Economic Forum is, hey, I've got this great idea, and we

00:09:32.140 haven't actually built it or anything, but it's going to be really great. It doesn't sound great to me.

00:09:36.060 I don't like that. That doesn't sound good to me that this guy who runs a dodgy company is developing

00:09:43.180 a tracker to track your, essentially, your social credit score and to determine what degree of

00:09:49.000 secular sin you have committed because you ate a bag of potato chips on a train platform.

00:09:54.900 And you figure out how many lashings you deserve because of your sins against Mother Gaia and the

00:09:59.240 environment. That doesn't sound like a beautiful idea to me. It does sound like a beautiful idea

00:10:03.000 to the people in that room because they are disordered and perverted, and they are letting their

00:10:07.320 liberal ideological utopian dreams run away with them. But the irony, of course, here is that the people

00:10:14.820 who show up to the World Economic Forum produce more waste, produce more air pollution, send more

00:10:21.020 carbon into the atmosphere than anyone else on Earth. How many people at the World Economic Forum

00:10:26.140 flew private jets to land there? If not most of them, a whole lot of them. That's how many.

00:10:33.700 Heads of state, heads of private companies, they all fly. They spend more pollution. They spend more

00:10:40.540 pollution and more carbon in one hour than you probably do in your entire year. And then they

00:10:45.080 lecture you and say, you've really got to cut that out. We don't need to cut it out because we're

00:10:48.660 special because we are planning the future. We are much more important. But you, you do have to cut it

00:10:54.380 out. That is the kind of thinking that takes place here. So funny that it was the Alibaba group president

00:11:00.800 too, because China, of course, emits more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere than the entire developed

00:11:06.520 world combined. But that's okay. It's separate rules. You don't understand. We are building the

00:11:11.100 future. We are building the new order. And if it doesn't make sense to you, then too bad. This is a

00:11:15.680 transition. We have to crack some eggs to make an omelet. I'm Klaus Schwab. That's what they're

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00:12:30.580 Another one of these self-appointed benevolent bettors at the World Economic Forum, this time

00:12:35.760 a lady from Australia, the e-safety commissioner, pointed out at the World Economic Forum that

00:12:41.120 we need to recalibrate the way we think about free speech.

00:12:45.220 We are finding ourselves in a place where we have increasing polarization everywhere.

00:12:51.480 And everything feels binary when it doesn't need to be. So I think we're going to have to think

00:12:56.940 about a recalibration of a whole range of human rights that are playing out online, you know,

00:13:01.160 from freedom of speech to the freedom to, you know, to be free from online violence or the

00:13:07.980 right of data protection to the right to child dignity.

00:13:12.340 We just need to recalibrate the speech. This clip went viral yesterday. A lot of conservatives

00:13:17.580 furious about it. The woman is obviously wrong in practice. Can you even imagine what it would mean

00:13:24.640 if she were in control of recalibrating free speech? It would basically just mean the conservatives

00:13:29.600 are not allowed to speak and the liberals are allowed to speak. That's what every single person

00:13:33.420 at the World Economic Forum wants. That's what every liberal elite flitting about on their private

00:13:40.020 jets, that's what all of them want. However, she is right in principle. She is. I know that's

00:13:46.940 going to be an unpopular thing to say among conservatives, but it's true. I wrote a whole

00:13:49.920 book about this called Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. There are always limits

00:13:53.520 on speech. There are limits right now. There have been limits throughout the history of our country.

00:13:57.540 There have been actually in the past, in some ways, many more limits than there are today.

00:14:01.840 There have been limits on speech throughout the whole history of civilization. That's because

00:14:05.380 certain speech is off limits. Fraud, direct threats, fighting words, obscenity. We still have laws

00:14:11.080 against obscenity, even though they're not enforced as much anymore. We've had blasphemy laws in this

00:14:15.880 country, for goodness sakes. Now that seems unthinkable. Well, we actually do still have

00:14:19.480 blasphemy laws in a way. It's just not, they're not laws that prohibit blaspheming God. They're

00:14:24.580 laws that prohibit blaspheming the pride flag or the BLM. There are all of these rules, if not

00:14:32.920 outright laws, federal laws, state laws, at least regulations, rules within corporate life, within

00:14:38.120 the schools, within community life, within the big tech platforms that will prohibit you from saying

00:14:44.120 those things. So there are always going to be limits. I think in principle, she's totally right.

00:14:48.900 I do think we need to recalibrate free speech. Right now, the current speech regime in the West

00:14:54.140 is punitive against conservatives and lets libs do things that they should not be permitted to do

00:15:00.760 and engage in kind of speech and sometimes defenses of violence and calls to violence that they should

00:15:06.580 not be permitted to do. Just look at what was permitted during the BLM riots. So I think we need

00:15:11.720 to recalibrate it. She's right. Let's recalibrate it and let's put some more limits on what the libs

00:15:16.880 are doing and the calls to violence and the disorder in our society. And let's open up speech

00:15:21.180 again a little bit for the conservatives. I guess that's what Elon Musk is trying to do at Twitter.

00:15:25.600 There is pushback against this stuff. Do you know why people concoct all sorts of theories about the

00:15:32.680 World Economic Forum? Well, in part, because a lot of them are true and the World Economic Forum is

00:15:37.320 telling us this. But in part, it's because people look at these clips. They hear what the liberal

00:15:43.440 elites from around the world want to do. They're a utopian vision for society. And the people don't

00:15:48.120 like it. They don't like it. And they say, hey, whatever you're doing, stop it. We don't want that.

00:15:54.240 And the WEF knows that we don't want that. That's why they've got to save all their craziest ideas for

00:15:59.560 this meeting in Switzerland that is where the messaging is largely controlled. Where when a

00:16:05.380 conservative journalist shows up, my friend Jack Posobiec showed up there, he was briefly detained

00:16:09.200 by the World Economic Forum police. And then he started broadcasting it or other people have

00:16:15.260 started broadcasting and all of a sudden they let him go. But the World Economic Forum tightly

00:16:20.120 controls this kind of messaging. And they know that the people don't like what they're talking

00:16:23.560 about. Just look what happened at State Farm. State Farm, the insurance company, sent out an email

00:16:29.260 a few days ago. Subject, gender curriculum. This is to Florida agents here, seeking agent support for

00:16:38.040 the Gender Cool Project. State Farm is partnering with the Gender Cool Project to help diversify

00:16:43.580 classroom, community center, and library bookshelves with a collection of books to help bring clarity and

00:16:48.880 understanding to the national conversation about being transgender inclusive and non-binary.

00:16:53.340 The project's goal is to increase representation of LGBTQ plus books and support our communities in

00:16:59.140 having challenging, important, and empowering conversations with children age five and up.

00:17:06.340 Age five and up. So this email came to light a few days ago. It was actually sent January 18th of this

00:17:12.120 year. It was only leaked a few days ago because even some people who work at State Farm said,

00:17:18.620 this is insane. State Farm, the insurance company, for some reason, State Farm is now trying to trans

00:17:24.840 the kids. So they leak the email. And then what happens? Does State Farm double down? Does State

00:17:31.960 Farm pull a Disney and say, no, we're going to go even, we're going to trans the four-year-olds now.

00:17:36.060 We're going to trans the three-year-olds. How dare you little people push back against this? We're

00:17:41.060 inclusive and diverse and equitable, and we're going to try to trans the little babies in your womb.

00:17:44.900 Did they say that? No. No. They did the opposite of what Disney did. They sent an email within a day

00:17:51.840 or two of this earlier email being leaked. Subject, gender curriculum from Victor Terry,

00:17:57.500 the chief diversity officer of State Farm. State Farm's support of a philanthropic program,

00:18:02.520 Gender Cool, has been the subject of news and customer inquiries. This program that included books

00:18:06.920 about gender identity was intended to promote inclusivity. Conversations about gender identity

00:18:11.980 should happen at home with parents. We don't support required curriculum in schools on this

00:18:17.620 topic. We support organizations providing resources for parents to have these conversations. We will no

00:18:22.480 longer support that program, but we'll keep pushing diversity and inclusion. So almost a complete

00:18:29.440 surrender here. They gave themselves wiggle room, so we should keep pushing on State Farm. They gave

00:18:34.340 themselves wiggle room. We don't want it to be mandatory in the classroom, but maybe they'll put these

00:18:38.040 resources in the elementary school libraries. Well, we got to stop that too. Keep pushing. Keep pushing

00:18:42.400 harder. But this is evidence. Companies learned their lesson from Disney. Some people are calling it the

00:18:48.380 Disney effect. And what was the Disney effect? A woke corporation tried to push these radical sex

00:18:56.220 theories on little kids. They expected conservatives to roll over like we always do. Florida Republicans,

00:19:02.340 led by Ron DeSantis, say, no, we're not going to do that. We're actually going to punish you,

00:19:06.260 Disney. We're going to take away your tax benefits. We're going to take away all the special deals

00:19:10.360 you've got with the Florida legislature. We're going to vilify you in the media. Well, we're not

00:19:14.400 vilifying you. You have vilified yourselves by doing villainous things. We're going to expose that

00:19:18.540 in the media. And we are not going to let up for one freaking second, you weirdos, because the people

00:19:24.160 are behind, not only because it's the right thing to do, but because the people are behind us and you

00:19:27.840 are going to lose this battle if we can have it fair and square in the public square. And guess what

00:19:32.320 happened? They won and Disney lost. And that was a great win for the kids of Florida. And it was a

00:19:39.080 great victory over Disney. Almost more importantly, it sent a message to the state farms of the world.

00:19:45.060 It sent a message to all the other companies and all the other sectors.

00:19:50.120 F around and find out. That was the message. That seems to be a major theme this year in the news

00:19:55.800 with all of the, you hear it from the White House and now you're hearing it from the conservatives.

00:20:01.800 Try me. I dare you. Bring it up. And what happens? We won there too. Keep pushing. Keep pushing even

00:20:09.440 harder. State Farm didn't cave out of the goodness of their heart or because they've seen the light of

00:20:15.220 the moral order. I don't think that's what's behind it. I think they realized that they were going to

00:20:18.320 have a big, big business problem if their secret little plan to trans the kids continued.

00:20:25.800 After it was exposed to public light. This is what's going on. And this is the big fight.

00:20:30.600 This is what's going on in the schools. The reason that the parents movement is taking place right

00:20:36.460 now is because radical lessons that had previously been taught secretly in classrooms are now being

00:20:44.000 taught or are now coming to light in large part because parents got to see what their kids were

00:20:48.160 learning when it was being beamed into their homes on a computer screen for the past two years.

00:20:53.520 But sunlight is a great disinfectant. This is why the World Economic Forum is the target of such

00:20:59.300 ire now. The liberal elites thought they were having their private meeting in the little private

00:21:03.360 place in Switzerland. Clips are leaking around the world. People don't like what they see and so

00:21:08.000 they're pushing back. There is a new racial literacy curriculum that's being taught in lots of schools

00:21:14.040 that is turning every subject woke. This is being pushed by Pollyanna Incorporated. It's for high

00:21:22.980 school students, but it's not just teaching them radicalism class. It's not just teaching them,

00:21:28.380 okay, you've got math, you've got history, you've got literature, and you've got social justice.

00:21:32.820 Math, history, literature, and progressive politics. No, it's much subtler and more powerful than that.

00:21:39.300 What these curricula do is inject wokeness and leftism into every single subject. Obviously,

00:21:46.900 history, we've been dealing with that for decades. Obviously, literature, we've also been dealing with

00:21:52.060 that for decades. Obviously, sex ed, or, you know, I mean, that comprehensive sex ed is just teaching a

00:21:59.040 kind of liberal sexual ethic in the schools. That's always been the case. Not even just science,

00:22:05.820 but math too. Because of a leaked implementation seminar, don't forget, this was all happening

00:22:12.620 behind the scenes. The libs who were pushing this stuff were trying to hide it from you because

00:22:17.520 they know that you, the parents, won't like it very much. But part of one of their seminars was

00:22:21.820 just leaked because it was occurring online. And it showed that the libs are now wokening math class.

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00:25:20.780 When you're in math class, when I was in math class, I learned two plus two equals four.

00:25:26.220 I learned three times three equals nine. Sometimes we'd go beyond that. We do word problems.

00:25:33.120 If John leaves St. Louis going 55 miles an hour and Sally leaves Chicago going 26 miles an hour,

00:25:38.360 that kind of. Now, what the woke left has done is gone into even math classes and transformed even

00:25:45.840 the math curriculum to push a radical leftist agenda. Here is the plan from Pollyanna Incorporated.

00:25:52.540 Um, so students learn about DACA or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program,

00:25:58.920 which currently supports over 700,000 people brought to the United States as children of

00:26:03.960 education. And so in the first part of this lesson, um, students explore the impacts of both,

00:26:11.540 both individually and on our broader society of the July, 2021 court ruling that DACA was unconstitutional.

00:26:18.700 And then in the second part of the lesson, students imagine that they are helping to plan

00:26:23.060 a protest in support of DACA and they need to determine how to maximize attendance given a

00:26:28.280 variety of outreach options and constraints. This is, this is going to help students think about math.

00:26:33.960 You see, if, if Pablo pays the criminal cartel $10,000 to smuggle him and his friends into the United

00:26:42.800 States and Juan sells his sister into slavery to the cartel so that he can get a ride across the

00:26:48.980 Rio Grande, what is the number of their criminal gang? MS-13. There it is. Didn't you just learn

00:26:56.540 something about math? Wasn't, that's great. Now you're prepared to become an engineer someday,

00:27:00.340 aren't you? Aren't you so glad that the libs woked the math curriculum? It's not just on DACA. So they,

00:27:05.300 they transformed the math curriculum to, to suit their goals on the immigration policy.

00:27:09.800 Then they use the math curriculum to push a completely false narrative that cops in the

00:27:14.600 United States have an epidemic problem of targeting innocent black men.

00:27:19.540 And then lesson eight, this is a heavy one. And we definitely recommend that teachers prepare

00:27:25.700 their students and themselves in advance of teaching this lesson. It's about police killings

00:27:30.980 of people of color, and it uses data to explore the racial disproportionality among the victims of

00:27:37.060 police killings and of police use of force. So students examine real world data to determine

00:27:43.300 that black and Latinx people are killed by police at rates proportionate to their overall representation

00:27:49.000 in the U S population. And then they examine data that debunk the misperception that police kill

00:27:55.200 more black and Latinx people because those people commit more crimes. And then finally,

00:28:00.220 they consider what it would take to eliminate these disparities.

00:28:03.520 So there are two problems with this approach to education, at least there are probably more

00:28:09.020 than two problems, but the two major problems are one, the, the woke teachers and the, and the people

00:28:15.780 creating the woke curriculum are filling students' heads with things that are not true. They're filling

00:28:21.320 students' heads with a, an understanding of American history and literature and, and society and politics

00:28:29.180 that is not true. And they do it in every single class, including math. That's the first thing.

00:28:33.140 But the second thing that's so awful about this strategy is they are depriving kids of an actual

00:28:39.580 education. Two kids go to math class. One goes to ordinary math class and learns arithmetic and algebra

00:28:47.540 and trigonometry and calculus. And then another kid goes to this woke math class where they learn that

00:28:54.200 George Floyd is a secular saint and cops are really bad and we need to abolish the police.

00:28:58.400 And also two plus two equals four. Which kid, regardless of all the stupid political ideology

00:29:03.800 coming into the second kid's head, which kid is going to get the better math education? Obviously

00:29:08.100 the former. So if these libs are like absolute leeches, they're just absolute parasites, not only

00:29:16.120 infecting their host with diseases, but also just sucking them dry, depriving them of nutrients

00:29:22.340 that they otherwise would get in their education. This is happening in the shadows because every

00:29:28.700 reasonable person hates it and objects to it. I don't care what part of the country you're in,

00:29:33.220 what race you are, what background you come from, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat.

00:29:39.000 Obviously all the Republicans are going to hate this stuff, but I bet most of the Democrats are going

00:29:42.660 to hate it too. This is radical stuff. The evidence of it, of how unpopular it is, is that they have to

00:29:49.500 teach it in the shadows. Speaking of math and kids, it's not only the ordinary people who are pushing

00:29:57.420 back against the prevailing orthodoxies of the libs, it's some of the elite people as well. Elon

00:30:01.900 Musk is really good, at least on this one point of math and kids. He's really good at counteracting

00:30:08.980 the prevailing liberal view of kids and births and the population. The libs believe that there are too

00:30:18.200 many people. Notice they never believe that they are one of the too many people. They never offer

00:30:23.040 to go away. Okay, we have overpopulation. You know what? I'll just call it a day right now and take a

00:30:27.360 long walk off a short cliff. They never do that. It's always your kid. It's always your grandkid.

00:30:33.100 That's the one that needs to go away, not them. Musk says, no, we don't have an overpopulation

00:30:37.700 problem. We have a serious underpopulation problem. He pointed out yesterday, USA birth

00:30:42.440 rate has been below minimum sustainable levels for around 50 years. Contrary to what many people

00:30:47.600 think, the richer someone is, the fewer kids they have. I am a rare exception because Elon has

00:30:53.060 a lot of kids. Most people I know have zero or one kid. And this is true. According to Statista,

00:31:00.580 in 2017, the birth rate in the US was highest in families that had under $10,000 in income per year.

00:31:07.700 That was 66.44 births per 1,000 women. As income scale increases, the birth rate decreases. Families

00:31:15.140 making $200,000 or more per year have the lowest birth rate. So people who are in abject poverty

00:31:23.440 have the highest birth rate. People making a ton of money, $200,000 or more per year,

00:31:29.900 have the absolute lowest birth rate. There's a similar point here actually on abortion. Very often you will

00:31:36.120 hear that abortion is so important to poor women, that abortion is a way to help poor women. And

00:31:42.220 the philosophy behind that is really sick, that basically we just need to kill the poor because

00:31:46.880 we don't want to take care of them. But the numbers are wrong too. They probably learned woke Pollyanna

00:31:51.320 math and that's why they don't get their numbers right. Yes, it is true that more poor women get

00:31:57.400 abortions than rich women do, but that's only because there are more poor women than there are rich women,

00:32:01.800 just as a matter of the population. If you look at the rates of abortion, if you look at the likelihood

00:32:07.600 that a poor woman is going to get an abortion compared to a rich woman getting an abortion,

00:32:11.560 you'll find out that rich women are three times, more than three times as likely to get an abortion

00:32:18.260 as poor women are. This was actually published by Vox.com. This is published by a liberal outlet,

00:32:26.860 a liberal explainer outlet. They've got figure four here on their article, abortion rates by income

00:32:32.280 group. If you're below the poverty line, if you're in the bottom fifth here of this graph,

00:32:39.240 you've got almost the lowest rate of abortion, basically tied for the lowest rate of abortion.

00:32:45.940 And then you go to 400% plus of the poverty rate. It's more than three times that number.

00:32:51.520 You can't, you can't just blame it on poverty. You can't just blame it on the unfairness of the

00:32:58.380 system and people can't afford to get ahead. This is much, much deeper than that.

00:33:05.480 Speaking of kids, obviously we have to get to the horrific story that happened yesterday.

00:33:10.680 I'm sure you know what happened already, but an 18 year old gunman opened fire yesterday at a Texas

00:33:17.680 elementary school. He killed, last time I checked, it was 19 children. It may be more now. And I

00:33:25.100 believe two adults as well. Finally, the attacker was killed by law enforcement.

00:33:32.580 The hideousness, the horror of the crime speaks for itself.

00:33:37.040 My only hot take on this, I don't have a hot take. That's my hot take. My hot take is,

00:33:46.540 I don't have a hot take. My hot take is the reflexive political posturing that happened

00:33:53.560 within minutes of this news breaking is so revolting that I just refuse to engage in it.

00:34:02.440 And it, and it plays out in the predictable way that happens every time there is a shooting event.

00:34:09.560 If the shooter is white, it's all about white supremacy. If the shooter is not white, as in this

00:34:15.500 case, it's all about gun control. And you have all the usual suspects immediately rehearsing their

00:34:22.540 same points, their same either sincere or more frequently feigned outrage about the lack of gun

00:34:30.140 control policies in this country. They never propose anything in particular because none of

00:34:33.920 the policies that they have proposed would have stopped any of these shootings. Historically

00:34:38.260 speaking, obviously more facts will come out about this one, but that's been the case in all of the

00:34:41.500 other ones. And then they, they become very indignant and self-righteous and they say, how dare you

00:34:46.260 offer thoughts and prayers? How dare you suggest that we take a moment and pray because of this

00:34:51.140 horrible tragedy? And they, they, they themselves don't offer anything else. And then maybe some of

00:34:56.480 them, the more radical of them will say, well, we just need to get rid of the second amendment.

00:35:01.080 If that's the impediment, we need to get rid of the second amendment. And even if one were to think

00:35:04.740 that that was a good idea, I don't think that's a good idea. But even if one were to think that's a

00:35:07.960 good idea, it's not practicable at all. It would start a civil war. So they're not, they're not

00:35:12.060 offering any solutions. They're just, they're just jumping up and down on, on, at the, at the very

00:35:20.140 moment of a tragedy of a, of a really unthinkable tragedy to push their same old tired political

00:35:27.300 agenda. And you'll see it a little bit too. Conservatives then will become very, very

00:35:30.840 reflexively defensive. And they'll look in and say, well, was this guy an illegal alien or was

00:35:36.180 parents illegal aliens or was it an illegal gun? And they'll, they'll try to get all of the facts

00:35:39.800 to score their political points too. Obviously in much less so, and in a much more defensive posture

00:35:44.720 than you're seeing from the left. But the whole thing is just so sickening. It's so absolutely

00:35:49.820 repulsive that I would just suggest you don't need a take. You don't need a take. Don't, don't.

00:36:01.980 And everyone talks about thoughts and prayers. And, and on the left, they dismiss thoughts and prayers.

00:36:08.840 They themselves offer their own thoughts immediately. They never stop offering their

00:36:11.860 own thoughts or whatever, whatever even resembles a thought to them. No prayers, just, I would,

00:36:18.100 I would recommend just, just prayer. Prayer is pretty good. It's the most efficacious thing that

00:36:23.020 anyone is suggesting. It is the, it is the classy thing to do. It is the civilized thing to do.

00:36:31.960 You don't need to jump the very second that an, a really unthinkable haunting tragedy occurs. You don't

00:36:41.300 need to jump that very second to push your political agenda, or frankly, even to push back against

00:36:46.080 someone else's political agenda, or to find all the statistics, or to find all the right facts and

00:36:50.660 to say, boom, see, owned, debunked, got it. You don't have to. It is so classless. It is so

00:36:58.900 inhuman. It is so uncivilized. Bad things can just happen. And you can just feel sad about that. And you can

00:37:11.620 just pray because none of your, none of your posturing, you might observe that none of,

00:37:19.300 none of the posturing, the proposals that come out would have stopped this. That can be debated later

00:37:23.920 on. What is certain is none of your posturing is going to bring the dead kids back. It's not going

00:37:29.700 to do that. The only thing you can do is pray that could even possibly have any effect. So maybe just do

00:37:37.380 that. Maybe that's fine. It's so, I almost can't look at Twitter right now. I almost can't look

00:37:44.740 because, and it's not, it is being driven by the left. It's not, it's not only the left, but it

00:37:49.460 obviously is being, it being driven by the left. And it's so crass and vulgar and so disgusting.

00:37:58.080 Just don't have to do it. This is common sense. This would have been considered common sense,

00:38:02.020 common courtesy, common class, not that long ago, but we've lost all sense of that,

00:38:08.540 all sense of decorum. Maybe people weren't raised right. Maybe they just don't get raised right

00:38:13.320 anymore. I guess that ties into the education issue. People aren't really raised right.

00:38:17.560 Have some class, have some manners, have some common sense, common sense. I mean, this, this is

00:38:22.420 to, to bring it back to the broader political issues we're talking about here.

00:38:26.820 That, that is what we are seeing reassert itself. When we're talking about education,

00:38:31.040 when we're talking about the transgender issue, when we're talking about, when we're talking about

00:38:35.060 gas prices, when we're talking about the crazy liberal schemes of the World Economic Forum,

00:38:39.940 the pushback, it's not totally 100% Republican versus Democrat, left versus right, conservative

00:38:47.520 versus leftist. It is in many ways, liberal utopians versus people with a modicum of common sense,

00:38:56.540 who maybe would have called themselves Democrats even three years ago, but don't want their kids

00:39:01.000 to get transed or don't want critical race theory being taught in their schools. This is,

00:39:05.560 this is why the comedians are having a field day right now. Ricky Gervais has a comedy special

00:39:10.080 coming out. Part of it has leaked. And in it, he goes on a very funny rant against transgender

00:39:18.080 ideology.

00:39:18.580 The old fashioned women. Oh, God. You know, the ones with wombs. Oh. Those f***ing dinosaurs.

00:39:27.440 Oh. No, I love the, the new women. I know the new women. They're great, aren't they? You know,

00:39:33.280 the new ones we've been seeing lately. The ones with beards and c***. They're as good as,

00:39:37.600 they're as good as gold. I love them. No, it's the old fashioned women. And now the old fashioned,

00:39:45.040 they're like, oh, they want to use our toilets. Why shouldn't they use your toilets? For ladies.

00:39:49.680 They are ladies. Look at their pronouns. What about this person isn't a lady? Well, his penis.

00:39:59.360 Her penis, you f***ing bigot. What if he rapes me? What if she rapes you? You f***ing turf whore.

00:40:19.200 Try not laughing at that. Try not laughing. You can't not laugh. The reason that you're laughing

00:40:24.240 is because the reality is so absurd that even the comedians, Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle. Dave

00:40:29.520 Chappelle's not a conservative. All of these guys are making jokes about it. And all the funny memes

00:40:34.400 on the internet, right? And by the way, it's not just the well-established professional comedians.

00:40:38.880 It's the memes. It's all the, all the actual comedy culture that's going on right now is all

00:40:44.800 making fun of this stuff. And it's because people just know. It's because people still have common

00:40:50.880 sense. Even if our genius rulers, whether they're in Davos or unfortunately, if some of them are back

00:40:55.840 here in the US, if they don't know it, that's their problem. The people still have some common sense.

00:41:04.080 Political correctness in entertainment is really, really annoying. We all know that. I am glad to see

00:41:11.200 that the Disney effect is having a lot of effect. Netflix here, Netflix did kind of back Dave Chappelle

00:41:16.720 when he got in trouble for telling politically incorrect jokes. Netflix is saying we're not going

00:41:20.800 to rein in our creators. State Farm is saying we're not going to trans the kids anymore. But it's creeping

00:41:27.360 in and it's really annoying. It has largely destroyed professional sports. I never really cared about

00:41:32.960 the NBA or the NFL, but the BLM movement went in and really wrecked those sports. The one holdout in

00:41:40.720 professional sports had been baseball because baseball is just a little more conservative.

00:41:46.720 It's America's oldest favorite pastime. While all the other sports have descended into political

00:41:53.760 madness, baseball, they usually just keep their heads down and keep playing the game. And that's

00:41:57.440 great. But there was another one of these woke incidents that unfortunately took place

00:42:01.360 in baseball. MLB just suspended the Yankees' third baseman, Josh Donaldson,

00:42:06.480 over what they call, quote, inappropriate comments toward the White Sox shortstop,

00:42:13.760 Tim Anderson. Here is Tim describing the great, terrible offense.

00:42:18.800 Yeah, he just made a, you know, disrespectful comment. You know, baseball is, you know,

00:42:24.320 trying to call me Jackie Robinson. He's like, what's up, Jackie? You know, I don't play like that.

00:42:30.220 You know, I don't really play at all. You know, I wasn't, I wasn't really, you know,

00:42:35.200 bothering nobody today, but, uh, you know, he made a comment and, uh, you know, it was,

00:42:37.920 it was disrespectful. And, uh, I don't think it was called for when they say.

00:42:42.560 That was when you guys crossed past the shortstop there at the end of the third?

00:42:45.840 Yeah, but that happened in the first, the first time he got on, you know,

00:42:48.640 and I spared him that time, uh, and then it happened again. Um, and, you know, uh, it was just,

00:42:54.400 you know, just uncalled for, you know, it's not, you know, I got time to, you know, be playing like that.

00:42:58.160 Okay. So he's upset because Josh Donaldson called him Jackie Robinson. First of all,

00:43:07.440 what is offensive about that? I would be honored to be called Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson was

00:43:12.160 a great and important baseball player. That seems like a nice thing to be called.

00:43:17.840 Why did, no, that's very offensive. Okay. Well, why did he call you Jackie Robinson? Was it in some

00:43:22.860 way? Was he making some insult because you're black? Was that, is that why he's comparing you

00:43:27.740 to Jackie Robinson? Uh, oh, wait, hold on. Uh, Tim Anderson has the same number as Jackie Robinson,

00:43:34.400 both number 42. Okay. So maybe it wasn't, it wasn't, definitely wasn't an insult. Maybe it wasn't

00:43:40.700 a racial thing. It might have to do with the fact that you both have the same number and,

00:43:44.440 oh yeah, you, Tim Anderson have regularly compared yourself to Jackie Robinson and have made lots of

00:43:50.500 videos and lots of comments to the media calling yourself today's Jackie Robinson and say that you

00:43:55.800 like Jackie Robinson are completely changing the game of baseball. This is how you style yourself.

00:44:01.380 This would be like you, you give yourself a nickname. You, you out there in podcast radio land,

00:44:08.820 you give yourself a nickname and then you tell everyone that's your new nickname. And then somebody

00:44:13.180 calls you that nickname and you say, you're a racist. You're you, that's an offensive comment.

00:44:17.860 What do you mean? It's an offensive comment. That's what you told me to call you. That's no,

00:44:21.820 no, you're not allowed to do that now. What, what is this really about? What this is really about

00:44:25.300 is Tim Anderson doesn't like Josh Donaldson. I guess there's some bad blood between these two

00:44:30.440 players. And so Anderson decided to get back at Donaldson. And the easiest way to get back at

00:44:34.780 someone at all today is to call him a racist because being called a racist is the worst thing that

00:44:40.020 you can possibly be called. And that, and that, that worked. The White Sox manager,

00:44:44.400 Tony La Russa called Donaldson a racist. He said he made a racist comment, Donaldson. And that's all

00:44:50.140 I'm going to say. That's as strong as it gets. He didn't make a racist comment. He made a perfectly

00:44:53.540 innocuous comment. He basically just quoted what Tim Anderson himself had said about himself.

00:44:59.980 And it was a flattering statement, but that's the worst thing you can be called as a racist. And,

00:45:05.280 and so this guy to get back at Donaldson for whatever slight, whatever bad blood they had between

00:45:11.200 them called him a racist. This is often what happens. Drew Klavan makes this point very often

00:45:17.300 when people, if people attack you for being, for your race, for your sex, for your sexual behaviors,

00:45:25.740 for whatever, forever, whatever aspect about you these days that is interpreted by everybody as

00:45:32.320 meaning that the person who, person who says the remarks is a racist, is a sexist, is a this phobe,

00:45:38.380 is a that phobe. But that's not true. That's not actually how insults work. That's not how men

00:45:43.640 interact with each other. Nine times out of 10, 99 times out of 100, what that proves is

00:45:49.400 that person who said it just doesn't like the guy that he said it to. And so he's looking for any way

00:45:56.640 to attack that guy. And he will attack that guy in the easiest way possible. If I walk up to,

00:46:01.580 if I walk up to our giant, scary assistant director here on this show, Pavel, and I say,

00:46:07.640 hey, listen here, you Polak. Well, I would never say that because I'd probably be put through a

00:46:11.280 wall and there'd be a Michael-shaped hole in the wall within two seconds. But if I said that,

00:46:15.300 I said, hey, you Polak, does that mean that I don't like Polish people? No, it would just mean

00:46:20.480 that I'm angry at Pavel. And the first thing that comes to mind about him is that he's Polish. And so

00:46:24.160 I'd say that to him. And frankly, that's what Tim Anderson is doing here to Josh Donaldson.

00:46:30.300 I don't think that Tim Anderson thinks that Josh Donaldson is a racist. I think he doesn't like

00:46:34.380 Josh Donaldson. And so the first thing he's going to is the easiest way to attack him. You're a

00:46:37.920 racist. It's so petty. It's so ugly. It's so dishonest. And it bugs me in particular. I'm not

00:46:45.880 a huge sports guy, but I do love Major League Baseball and the Yankees in particular. And so

00:46:50.280 it does bug me when I think this last redoubt of civility, of manners, of playing the game.

00:46:56.300 The other issue I have with Tim Anderson is he's a big showboater and he makes a big deal and he flicks

00:47:00.740 his bat and he dances around and he is upsetting the norms of the game. Unlike other sports in

00:47:06.940 baseball, generally speaking, people just do their job and they play and they're humble and they hit

00:47:11.280 the home run and they run and they run the base. They don't stand there and wait and dance around.

00:47:14.760 They run and they keep their head down and they play the game. And that's what I think a lot of

00:47:19.140 people are longing for. It's why the baseball thing is hitting me hard in particular, but that's what

00:47:24.420 we're talking about in the schools. That's what we're talking about in our norms. When we talk about

00:47:27.800 respect for institutions, the way we comport ourselves in the public square, the way we talk on social

00:47:33.040 media, what people are longing for is a return to something resembling the old standards, the norms.

00:47:39.960 Okay, that we got to recalibrate things, to quote the lady at the World Economic Forum. We do have to

00:47:46.180 recalibrate things because the effect of the social revolution, cultural revolution we've seen for the

00:47:51.500 last half century or more, is not merely that our rights are changing and the laws and the rules,

00:47:57.160 but it's the whole norm. It's the whole culture. It's the standard. It's the way that we behave with

00:48:02.200 one another. What we come to expect, we're not allowed to have norms anymore. We're not allowed

00:48:06.320 to say that anything is normal. We actually have to say that abnormal things are the normal things

00:48:09.880 and the normal things are evil and abnormal. And that's what people are reacting against. That

00:48:14.820 builds a big coalition. If you just ran on the, hey, hey everybody, be normal and good

00:48:20.360 platform, you would win 50 states. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See

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