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00:00:00.000 In 1944, just before the D-Day invasion, General Patton addressed his troops. I'm going to clean

00:00:06.780 this up a little bit because this is a family show. General Patton said, quote,

00:00:12.020 we're not going to just shoot the sons of lady dogs. We're going to rip out their living GD guts

00:00:18.300 and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun blank suckers

00:00:24.140 by the bushel effing basket. War is a bloody killing business. You've got to spill their

00:00:29.220 blood or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts. When shells are

00:00:34.940 hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize that instead of dirt,

00:00:39.740 it's the blood and guts of what was once your best friend beside you, you'll know what to do.

00:00:45.020 That's how the military used to talk. Yesterday, the Marine Corps and the Air Force tweeted out

00:00:50.960 pictures of rainbows and wished everyone a happy Pride Month. The Marines declared their commitment

00:00:56.700 to, quote, fostering an environment free from discrimination and treating, quote, all equally

00:01:03.200 with dignity and respect. Now, nice as all that sounds, that is not the job of the U.S. military.

00:01:11.460 The U.S. military is not an HR department at some millennial tech startup. The job of the military

00:01:17.720 is to kill our enemies is to kill our enemies. At least, it was. For years, the military held out

00:01:24.860 as one of the last institutions to resist leftist takeover. Those days appear to be finished.

00:01:32.160 Today, the radical leftists who run our armed forces whine about white rage. They give patriotic

00:01:39.660 servicemen the boot for not taking the Fauci ouchie. They cram the rhetoric of diversity, equity,

00:01:45.800 and inclusion down the throats of the brave men and women who volunteer to serve and kill

00:01:50.500 the bad guys. The radicals who have taken control of our military don't really care so much about

00:01:56.720 winning wars abroad. They're much more interested in winning the ideological war at home. And in that

00:02:03.220 war, as far as the radicals are concerned, the enemy is us. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:52.920 The left has become militant. This is true in the U.S. military, where the woke leadership of the

00:04:01.480 Pentagon is pushing this stuff. This is true throughout corporate America. This is true

00:04:06.140 throughout the government. This is true on our own website. Last night, we premiered Matt Walsh's

00:04:12.900 documentary, What is a Woman? Taking on the Transgender Agenda. And this was a direct shot

00:04:20.100 at the cultural left on the first day of Pride Month. And we knew it was going to be the biggest

00:04:24.920 subscription event of the year. This was the biggest, most ambitious, expensive movie we put

00:04:32.060 out there. Matt flew to freaking Africa to find the answer to this question, What is a Woman?

00:04:37.820 And some people who signed up to watch it may have found that they had some trouble, at least for

00:04:42.020 15 minutes, 20 minutes. We took a look at what was going on. Why is the site down? Why isn't this

00:04:47.780 working? We've now confirmed the Daily Wire came under a sustained and significant DDOS attack.

00:04:55.640 So there was some group, some individual or some group or some group of groups targeted the Daily

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00:05:08.580 of What is a Woman? Because they're so afraid of this one question that deflates the entire

00:05:12.960 transgender ideology. People don't want you to see this movie, okay? They want to silence us.

00:05:19.040 They want to shut us down. And it's too bad for them because this was the largest premiere event

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00:05:41.560 now when we talk about the military, the corporations, especially finance. The Daily Wire is a pretty big

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00:06:10.080 when you raise money in that way, it comes with a lot of strings. You've got to kowtow to certain

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00:06:57.800 off a new membership. Thank you for doing that. For the next 28, 29 days, things are going to get

00:07:05.300 super duper gay, really, really gay. Okay. And you saw it in the military. That was bad enough. Kind

00:07:14.440 of ironic too, that the military is promoting diversity. That great speech I read from George

00:07:19.660 Patton up there at the top. He has a whole section of that speech where he says, I don't want any of

00:07:23.440 this individualism crap. Okay. You're in the military. You just, you do what everyone else is

00:07:28.000 doing and you shoot and you kill the enemy and you follow orders. Diversity has no place in the

00:07:33.620 military. When, when servicemen suit up and they're getting ready for battle, do they put on diverses?

00:07:41.200 Do they, do they button up all of their diverses and then go out there to fight? No, they put on their

00:07:45.380 uniforms because diversity is not what you want in a military. You want absolute uniformity.

00:07:50.960 I'm not saying uniformity of race or uniformity, but you want uniformity at a deep level. You want

00:07:58.560 everyone to be doing the same thing and you don't want people expressing their weird sexual desires

00:08:07.140 or appetites. That has no place in the military. If you have something eccentric or unusual or distracting

00:08:15.120 from the mission, repress it. Keep it to yourself. It's not about you. It's about the country.

00:08:20.960 And protecting the country and killing the enemies. That's what the military used to be

00:08:25.300 about, but not even the military is immune these days from all this wokeness. Certainly corporate

00:08:29.760 America is not immune. We saw this yesterday with Starbucks. Starbucks announced, quote,

00:08:35.400 when we are recognized and accepted for who we are, our communities are stronger for it.

00:08:40.060 During Pride Month, we join our LGBTQIA2 plus partners. There's a two. What does the two stand

00:08:48.760 for? I don't know. Partners, employees in supporting trans equality who advocate for the acceptance and

00:08:56.320 understanding of transgender people. So Starbucks coming out as extremely gay. We knew Starbucks was

00:09:01.640 very, very gay ever since they premiered the sous vide egg bites. That I think was the proof positive.

00:09:07.560 And they're very delicious egg bites. So there you have it. As Starbucks and every other corporation

00:09:12.340 in America just about is going to be embracing the rainbow. You're seeing this at the level of the

00:09:17.280 government. Joe Biden yesterday tweeted out, quote, during Pride Month, we honor the resilience of

00:09:23.620 LGBTQI plus people. So no A, no two, very discriminatory from Biden. These people who are fighting to live

00:09:33.260 authentically and freely, we reaffirm that LGBTQI plus rights are human rights. And we recommit to

00:09:43.080 delivering protections, safety, and equality so everyone can realize the full promise of America.

00:09:49.640 It's an important point here because you're going to hear this phrase a lot. LGBTQ rights.

00:09:54.580 There is no such thing as LGBTQ rights. It's a phrase that people will use just like they invent all

00:10:04.880 sorts of rights these days. But there is no right to that. I'm not saying that people who have some

00:10:11.060 sexual confusion or an unusual sexual identity don't have any rights. They have certain rights. But there

00:10:16.640 is no such thing as LGBTQI rights. Just because you say something is a right doesn't mean that it is.

00:10:25.340 Rights are actually grounded in reality if rights are to have any meaning at all. Let's just take the

00:10:30.800 T because it's the clearest example. A man does not have a right to pretend that he's a woman.

00:10:37.200 That's actually wrong of him to do.

00:10:39.080 He does. If the source of our rights is just our making a claim for them, then there's no end to

00:10:47.640 that. But of course, there are no such rights. The Biden administration, the left is trying to invent

00:10:53.820 civil rights to that. But it doesn't exist. It's not right at all. And this is not just about

00:11:00.040 inclusion and being very nice and being very accepting. This is very, very aggressive.

00:11:04.800 We just saw yesterday, and this wouldn't be the first time we've seen this, the United States

00:11:11.720 government flying a pride flag at the Vatican, at the Holy See. It says, quote,

00:11:18.800 Today is the start of Pride Month. The United States respects and promotes the equality and human

00:11:24.120 dignity of all people, including the LGBTQIA plus community. Hashtag Pride Month. Hashtag All

00:11:29.920 Inclusive. Hashtag Pride 2022. The libs are going to play this off and say, look, this is just

00:11:34.800 a positive affirmation of our view of sexuality and pride. But it's not positive because they

00:11:40.580 don't do this in Muslim countries. They don't do this in Saudi Arabia. They don't do this in places

00:11:45.500 where they think it's going to result in a bombing or a suicide attack. This is not about affirming

00:11:52.440 LGBT. This is about attacking Christianity. This is about attacking the traditions in the West. If it

00:11:58.840 weren't, they'd be flying these flags in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Muslim world. But they're not

00:12:03.740 because it's not, it's not about the rainbow. It's not about LGBT. It's about saying F you to

00:12:11.840 tradition, to our traditional understanding of how to behave.

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00:12:47.800 In this country, in the month of June, we have three months. We have Pride Month. That's the most

00:12:55.760 prominent one. We have the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. That's the traditional Catholic

00:13:03.080 understanding of June. And we have National Dairy Month. Since 1937, June has been National Dairy Month.

00:13:09.960 Okay. 23% of America is Catholic, at least. If you look at just identification with a Catholic

00:13:20.260 family, it's actually much higher than that, closer to about 50%. But people who say, I am Catholic,

00:13:25.400 23%. And yet the corporations do not promote the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

00:13:33.380 Pretty much every American eats dairy. Very few Americans are lactose intolerant. So

00:13:38.020 lots of Americans eat cheese, drink milk, eat yogurt. The corporations do not pander to National

00:13:45.440 Dairy Month. At the highest possible percentage, according to Gallup last year, 7.1% of Americans

00:13:53.440 identify as LGBT. So why all the rainbows? This is no slight on people who have unusual sexual

00:14:02.880 identities. But why? We're talking about a very distinct minority here. Why does the rainbow

00:14:09.320 have to cover everything? Why? Because LGBT is effectively the established church of our national

00:14:20.280 government. It is, LGBT is a moral system. It's a system that makes moral claims about human identity,

00:14:29.860 about sexuality, about how we should behave, about what the family is, about our relationship to one

00:14:35.180 another. And it's disproportionately supported by our elites. It's not nearly as supported by

00:14:40.660 ordinary American people. This is why things like the redefinition of marriage, when they were put up

00:14:44.480 to votes, would fail. It would fail even in California. But then the elites who are running our

00:14:49.360 government from Washington, D.C. in a more oligarchic fashion, they were always pushing this stuff.

00:14:53.500 So that's why. It's effectively an established church, and you don't have the right to oppose it.

00:15:00.500 And you can see that it's an established church, because now they're posing it in direct contrast

00:15:05.020 to Christianity. They're flying it over the Vatican. What are you going to do about it,

00:15:09.500 Vatican? We know you oppose this. We would never do this to another religion in another sort of country.

00:15:14.700 But to Christianity, we do, because of the aggressiveness of this political movement.

00:15:20.780 But furthermore, I'm not the first person to come up with this idea, but a number of people have

00:15:25.060 said it in recent years. The rainbow flag, in some ways, doesn't have very much to do with sex.

00:15:30.100 It does, in that sex is very important to human nature. But it represents much more than sex now.

00:15:35.700 It represents the flag of the American empire. It represents the flag of the universal values

00:15:43.120 of liberation and individuality that America is spreading throughout the world.

00:15:48.220 Whereas the red, white, and blue, the stars and stripes, represents the flag of the American nation.

00:15:54.260 The rainbow flag represents the flag of the American empire. If you took a poll right now of conservatives

00:15:59.640 and libs, and you said, which flag do you identify more with? The stars and stripes or the rainbow flag?

00:16:06.940 Obviously, the conservatives would say the stars and stripes. What do you think the libs would say?

00:16:10.700 I bet you a huge proportion of the libs, maybe the majority of libs, would say, oh,

00:16:16.940 I identify much more with the rainbow flag. The stars and stripes, that's awful. That stands for

00:16:21.280 oppression. That stands for slavery. That stands for Jim Crow. But the rainbow flag, that stands for

00:16:26.700 freedom, inequality, and liberation. Liberation from all the bonds, not just the bonds of history,

00:16:32.480 not just the bonds of tradition, not just the bonds of family, but the bonds of human nature

00:16:36.320 itself. That's what they're doing. And so they're going to celebrate this all month. This represents

00:16:44.240 the libs, the logical or illogical conclusion of the libs campaign for total liberation.

00:16:53.200 After this, once they liberate us from biological sex, then they're just going to have to liberate us

00:16:57.640 from the physical world entirely, plug our brain stems into the computer, and then we'll all be living

00:17:02.280 in the matrix. They're already trying to do that, but we're still probably a few years off. So we

00:17:06.840 should count our blessings for right now. Speaking of celebrations, speaking of counting one's blessings,

00:17:13.040 really great news for Johnny Depp. The trial that has dominated America for the past few weeks,

00:17:20.340 the defamation case from Johnny Depp against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, who accused Johnny of beating her.

00:17:26.880 The verdict finally came out yesterday.

00:17:29.460 As to the statement appearing in the online op-ed entitled, Amber Heard, I spoke up against sexual

00:17:37.020 violence and faced our culture's wrath. That has to change. In the Washington Post online edition,

00:17:45.300 quote, I spoke up against sexual violence and faced our culture's wrath. That has to change,

00:17:51.700 end quote. Do you find that Mr. Depp has proven all the elements of defamation? Answer, yes.

00:17:58.740 Has Mr. Depp proven by a greater weight of the evidence that, question, the statement was made or

00:18:06.680 published by Ms. Heard? Answer, yes. Question, the statement was about Mr. Depp? Answer, yes. Question,

00:18:17.220 the statement was false? Answer, yes. Question, the statement has a defamatory implication about Mr. Depp? Answer, yes.

00:18:29.180 Question, the defamatory implication was designed and intended by Ms. Heard? Answer, yes. Question,

00:18:39.440 due to circumstances surrounding the publication? Due to circumstances surrounding the publication of

00:18:42.540 the statement, it conveyed a defamatory implication to someone who saw it other than Mr. Depp? Answer,

00:18:51.040 yes. Do you find that Mr. Depp has proven by clear and convincing evidence that Ms. Heard acted with

00:18:58.680 actual malice? Answer, yes. Boom. Total victory. Judgment for Johnny Depp for $15 million. He lost on

00:19:09.840 one much lesser charge in the countersuit from Amber Heard. So I think he lost on a $2 million

00:19:15.560 judgment there, but he won on the $15 million judgment. So this is just total vindication for

00:19:20.740 Johnny Depp. Why do I care? I don't particularly care about Johnny Depp. I don't, I certainly don't care

00:19:25.840 about Amber Heard. It is important though. One, I care because our Daily Wire makeup artist has been

00:19:32.880 absolutely obsessed with this case. And so I feel like I'm just very invested in it through osmosis

00:19:39.200 because in the makeup room, I've heard a lot of this case. But two, because this represents the death

00:19:45.800 of the Me Too movement. This represents the death of Time's Up and Believe All Women. No, you shouldn't

00:19:51.480 believe all women because some women are liars. Women, just like men, can lie. They can say things

00:19:57.460 that aren't true. And in some cases, women are stone cold sociopaths, as it would appear this lady

00:20:04.940 is here. Just got caught in egregious lies, caught on tape admitting to lies and threatening to destroy

00:20:12.220 this guy's career. So a total vindication for Johnny Depp and an end of the Me Too movement.

00:20:17.740 This all stemmed from a 2018 op-ed that the sloppy editors at the Washington Post allowed Amber Heard

00:20:24.900 to run. So because of the extremely low journalistic standards at the Washington Post, Amber Heard is

00:20:30.980 now bankrupt. This is the most expensive op-ed in the history of journalism. And that op-ed was a big

00:20:37.660 part of the Me Too movement as it was on the rise. Now that's all over. Amber Heard issued a statement.

00:20:44.020 She said, the disappointment I feel today is beyond words. I'm heartbroken that the mountain

00:20:49.860 of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway of

00:20:55.460 my ex-husband. What are you talking about, lady? All of the influence, all of the political power was

00:21:01.240 on your side. We've just come out of a movement where the ubiquitous call around the country was

00:21:06.320 believe all women, no matter how flimsy their claims, no matter how little evidence they had.

00:21:11.080 All of the evidence in this case was on the side of Johnny Depp, including you in your own words,

00:21:16.060 admitting certain things. Your closest confidants contradicting what you were saying. Video evidence

00:21:21.840 contradicting the claims that you were making. And even then, the only reason that Johnny Depp won

00:21:27.840 this case is because we had that video, is because we had that audio. Still, there was so much power

00:21:32.900 and influence on your side. So she says, this is a step back for women. This is so terrible.

00:21:38.360 And then she says, I believe Johnny's attorneys succeeded in getting the jury to overlook the

00:21:43.000 key issue of freedom of speech and ignore evidence that was so conclusive that we won in the UK.

00:21:49.680 Okay, this is great. This is the key part here. She says, I'm sadder still than losing the case

00:21:55.080 that I seem to have lost a right I thought I had as an American to speak freely and openly. She's

00:21:59.180 saying that the fact that she's not allowed to defame Johnny Depp means that freedom of speech is dead

00:22:05.280 in America. I'm so glad she brought this up because maybe she thinks this sincerely. It

00:22:09.700 seems like kind of a cynical take to me, but maybe she sincerely thinks that and she should be

00:22:13.540 corrected. There is no freedom of speech to defamation. You don't, freedom of speech doesn't

00:22:21.320 mean you can just say whatever you want. I wrote a book about this called Speechless, Controlling

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00:23:31.600 right back with a lot more. Amber Heard claiming that her loss in a defamation case is the death

00:23:48.180 knell for free speech is really rich, first of all, because the libs in this country have been

00:23:52.440 attacking the legitimate tradition of free speech in America for years now. But also there's never

00:23:59.540 been a right to defamation. She reminds me of the dad on South Park, of Randy on South Park,

00:24:06.340 where he's acting drunken and belligerent. He's finally arrested. He says, oh, I thought this was

00:24:10.240 America. What happened to freedom? I thought this was America here. What? You mean I can't? No,

00:24:14.980 you can't act belligerently and out of order. There are limits to what you can say and do.

00:24:19.480 There's no free speech protection to fraud. There's no free speech protection to fighting words.

00:24:23.920 There's no free speech protection to obscenity for that matter. It ties right in with the whole

00:24:28.960 theme of Pride Month, which is we have the freedom to do whatever we want. That's not freedom.

00:24:35.300 We have the right to do whatever we want. That's not what a right is. In the words of Edmund Burke,

00:24:41.140 people do not have the right to do things that are not reasonable and not to their benefit.

00:24:45.400 You do not have the right to cut off a healthy arm just because you have some fantasy about wanting

00:24:51.600 to be crippled. You do not have the right, as far as I'm concerned, to cut off other healthy body

00:24:56.760 parts just because you have a sexual problem or confusion and a sick, cruel society is encouraging

00:25:03.980 that delusion in you. You don't have any right to that. That's actually very, very wrong.

00:25:08.520 Right. Rights are reasonable things. Rights are in accord with reality and logic and reason and what

00:25:17.700 is beneficial to you and what leads to human flourishing. Do you know how hard it is to win

00:25:23.000 a defamation case in America? It's very, very hard. We have robust speech protections here.

00:25:30.480 And still, the evidence was so clear here that Heard was living in a fantasy world. Well,

00:25:35.020 it's not just Amber Heard living in that fantasy world, defining her own truth, her own reality.

00:25:39.420 It's everybody in this country these days. This goes back to Planned Parenthood v. Casey,

00:25:43.940 to one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in American history where the romantic poet of the

00:25:48.600 court, Anthony Kennedy, said that people at the heart of liberty lies the right to define our own

00:25:54.040 concept of existence of the mystery of human life. There is no right to define your concept of

00:26:00.640 existence. There is an obligation to live in accord with reality. That's an obligation.

00:26:06.880 If we're all just defining our own concept of existence, society is going to break down

00:26:11.260 instantly because we can't communicate with one another because our misbegotten notions of rights

00:26:17.200 and entitlements are going to come into conflict with one another. The legitimate right of a woman to

00:26:22.080 use the women's bathroom in peace conflicts with the pretend right of a sexually confused man

00:26:28.460 to go into the women's bathroom. Those both can't be rights. Both of those people don't have the right

00:26:33.040 to define their own concept of existence. Actually, neither of them do. They both have an obligation

00:26:36.740 to accept reality. Speaking of irresponsible speech from Amber Heard, there's really irresponsible speech

00:26:45.100 coming out from Rand Paul's Democrat opponent in the Kentucky Senate race. This guy, he's a black guy,

00:26:52.080 and he decided he was going to play the race card as hard as he possibly could in this ad.

00:26:56.000 And he decided that he was going to insinuate that Rand Paul is a racist. It's the worst thing

00:27:00.420 you can possibly be called in America today. And he was going to do the ad with a noose around his

00:27:05.540 neck. The pain of our past persists to this day. Is that noose hanging? In Kentucky, like many states

00:27:14.440 throughout the South, lynching was a tool of terror. It was used to kill hopes for freedom.

00:27:20.440 It was used to kill my ancestors. Wow. Look, he's got a noose on his neck. Wow.

00:27:26.080 In a historic victory for our commonwealth, I have become the first black Kentucky to receive

00:27:31.740 the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. My opponent, the very person who compared expanded

00:27:38.200 health care to slavery. The person who said he would have opposed the Civil Rights Act.

00:27:44.000 That guy, he's basically in the KKK. Can you believe Rand Paul put that noose around that

00:27:48.880 guy's neck? Very noose to him. I don't think Rand Paul knows he did that, but that's what this

00:27:53.620 guy is insinuating to me. Or do we let politicians like Rand Paul forever hold us back and drive us

00:27:59.740 back with a noose? In November, we will choose healing. We will choose healing. In November,

00:28:07.960 we're going to choose healing. And I'm going to do that by insinuating that my opponent is a terrorist

00:28:11.600 who hates all black people and wants to kill us all. Because we like healing and inclusion and

00:28:16.820 tolerance and diversity. I love this ad. This ad tells you everything you need to know about race

00:28:21.820 relations in America today and about the left's very cynical campaign strategy. Who put the noose

00:28:28.720 on that guy's neck? Was it the grand wizard of the KKK? No. Does the KKK even exist? I'm skeptical of

00:28:36.940 that. Was it Rand Paul? No. That guy. That guy, that Senate candidate put the noose around his own

00:28:45.200 neck. And he had to do that because he knows that the easiest way for him to win, the best shot he's

00:28:51.540 got at winning, is to pretend to be a victim. But he's not a victim. The easiest shot he has at winning

00:28:56.780 is to pretend that America is hunting down black people willy-nilly, but that's not happening. And so

00:29:03.380 he's got to pretend. He's got to do it himself. One time I was at an event at Loyola Merrimand.

00:29:07.700 I was giving a speech with Drew. And we were both on stage talking about whatever. I mean,

00:29:13.260 this was not the most controversial speech we've ever given. And it was during BLM,

00:29:18.780 the early days of BLM. And in comes a group of black students dressed all in black with tape

00:29:27.040 on their mouths. Black tape. Like they're censored. Like they're being silenced. They can't speak.

00:29:33.340 So I looked at this group of very odd-looking people. And I said, hey, guys, I don't know

00:29:39.020 exactly what's going on here. But if you feel like you're being silenced, here, here's the microphone.

00:29:44.240 Come speak. Anyone who's got the tape on his mouth, come up here and you can say whatever you want to

00:29:49.420 say. I don't think you have very much to say. I'm not sure there's a whole lot going on up there

00:29:53.020 between the ears. But if you have some pressing point that you feel is being censored, come on up

00:29:57.800 and say it. None of them did it. Because I didn't put the tape on their mouths. And Drew didn't put

00:30:03.640 the tape on their mouths. And you didn't put the tape on. And Rand Paul didn't put the tape on their

00:30:06.860 mouths. They put the tape on their own mouths. They had to do that. Because they feel that they can

00:30:15.820 make their point, gain a social advantage by pretending to be the victims of some awful oppression.

00:30:21.440 And no one is there to oppress them, which is very inconvenient for them. And so they've got

00:30:25.040 to oppress themselves. Look at this noose around my neck. You put the noose on your neck. Same thing

00:30:29.980 with what's-his-face in Chicago? Jussie Smollett. Jussie Smollett, he was so eager. He said, please,

00:30:35.460 let there be a Ku Klux Klan member here in downtown Chicago. You know, MAGA country,

00:30:41.060 downtown Chicago. Why won't anyone attack me? All right, I'll put the noose on my own neck.

00:30:44.240 And I'll hold my subway sandwich. There is so much deep meaning to this Kentucky Senate ad.

00:30:54.500 And it's the opposite of what this guy is suggesting. Also worth pointing out, by the way,

00:30:58.760 now that we're all playing the victim, the Italians were the victims of the largest mass

00:31:03.580 lynching in American history, okay? Where's my sympathy? Where are my pity votes? All right,

00:31:08.620 we don't hear about it. It was 1891, Louisiana. 11 Southern Italians were lynched. You don't hear

00:31:15.200 about that. You don't read about that. Of course, lynching hasn't been a problem in America at all

00:31:19.900 for, what, 70 years? I think there was one lynching in the 70s or 80s. That was it. I'm not saying that's

00:31:28.080 good, but crimes happen, folks. I mean, how many, you know, just over Memorial Day weekend, over 40

00:31:32.560 people were shot in Chicago and 10 of them were killed, okay? There are violent crimes in America.

00:31:37.220 You're telling me one lynching in the last 60 years or thereabouts. And then lynching was only

00:31:44.280 really a major problem in America through, what, the 40s, I think? About the 1880s to the 1940s.

00:31:52.180 But we've got to pull that back. We haven't had enough problems in the last 60 years. We've got

00:31:55.760 to pull it back if I am to get elected. We need to contrive victimhood. This is what happened

00:32:00.400 yesterday with Disney. I do not follow Disney very closely. I do not follow Star Wars. I liked the

00:32:06.200 Star Wars movies when I was a kid. I liked Star Wars 1, the real one, you know, the first movie,

00:32:11.960 New Hope. I liked number two. I liked number three. And I even, frankly, I even kind of like

00:32:16.800 Jar Jar Binks in the prequels. I did, all right? Look, I was a child. What did I know? But I haven't

00:32:21.200 really followed it since then. They've added lots of new characters. Apparently, Disney is going to add

00:32:26.860 a new character played by Moses Ingram. And Moses Ingram is a black woman. And she is upset because

00:32:34.780 apparently when they announced her character, she got some mean tweets. So her colleague who

00:32:39.060 plays Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ewan McGregor, just came out and castigated the Star Wars audience, the fans,

00:32:45.160 the people who pay his bills, castigated the Disney subscribers as racists.

00:32:50.980 This weekend, Star Wars fans made Obi-Wan Kenobi the most watched Disney Plus original series

00:32:58.280 premiere of all time. And for that, I would say a big thank you. And it just goes to show

00:33:04.780 what this family can do when we all pull together. However, it seems that some of the fan base from

00:33:12.540 this influential fan base have decided to attack Moses Ingram online and send her the most horrendous

00:33:19.060 racist DMs. And I heard some of them this morning and it just broke my heart. Moses is a brilliant

00:33:26.400 actor. She's a brilliant woman. And she's absolutely amazing in this series. She brings

00:33:31.680 so much to the series. She brings so much to the franchise. And it just sickened me to my stomach to

00:33:36.780 hear that this had been happening. I just want to say as the leading actor in the series, as the

00:33:44.040 executive producer in the series, that we stand with Moses. We love Moses. And if you're sending her

00:33:50.940 bullying messages, you're no Star Wars fan in my mind. There's no place for racism in this world.

00:33:57.540 And I totally stand with Moses.

00:34:00.620 This is the new current thing. The new current thing just dropped. It's stand with Moses.

00:34:04.900 I kind of like that idea. You know, if we're talking about like the OG Moses, I like that idea.

00:34:09.660 Stand with the Bible. That'd be quite a message for Pride Month. Stand with Moses referring to this

00:34:14.160 actress is the thing. No longer are we talking. Monkeypox, that's gone. That only lasted a few

00:34:19.100 days. The Ukraine war, that's totally out of the news. That current thing is now a past thing.

00:34:25.060 That's COVID, that's over. Now it's stand with Moses. Change your profile pictures, folks.

00:34:30.100 Get it up there on your Twitter banners. We stand with Moses. For what? What happened?

00:34:34.640 What exactly happened here? This woman got a very high paying, prominent,

00:34:40.280 sought-after job in Hollywood in a beloved franchise, but she got some mean tweets, I guess.

00:34:48.300 And so now we need to stand with Moses. This is what this actress said about it. She said,

00:34:53.220 the thing that bothers me is this feeling inside of myself that no one has told me,

00:34:58.160 but this feeling that I have to shut up and take it, that I have to grin and bear it.

00:35:01.720 And I'm not built like that. So I wanted to come on and say thank you to the people who show up for

00:35:06.460 me in the comments and the places that I'm not going to put myself. And to the rest of y'all,

00:35:10.940 y'all weird. She says, it's awful. This idea, this awful idea that I have to shut up and take it,

00:35:16.700 that I have to grin and bear it. Moses, I don't know you. You have to grin and bear it. You have

00:35:23.940 to, not just if you're getting mean tweets. If you're getting mean tweets, I mean, good. I could

00:35:28.960 tweet out good morning and let me read to you the replies that that get. Let me read to you the DMs

00:35:33.260 that comes from that, from the left. Okay. If any person, I'm not complaining about it. Every

00:35:37.480 person who is in any way in public life, and a lot of people who are in private life on social media

00:35:43.420 get extremely mean tweets and extremely mean comments. You have to toughen up if you want

00:35:50.380 to be in public life. You don't need to be in public life. You can go just get married and raise

00:35:55.340 a family and tend home. You can do that if you want. I'm sure a guy would be happy to do that with

00:36:00.800 you. You have chosen to be in public life. Being in public life entails criticism. Being in public

00:36:07.560 life entails mean, unjust, vicious attacks. That's just what happens. It ties in even with this point

00:36:18.080 about the military early on. The military used to be Georgie Patton there saying, listen here,

00:36:23.460 I've had enough of this bilious BS about doing your own thing, individuality. We're going to go there

00:36:29.340 like S-H-I-T through a tin horn. We're going to rip our enemy up the belly and wipe the blood and guts

00:36:34.740 of our friends off our face without shedding a tear. Darn it. That used to be the way that we

00:36:39.100 spoke. And not just in the third army, not just in the military threat, all of society used to be,

00:36:46.780 oh, you scraped your knee, rub a little dirt on it and move on. Oh, someone called you a mean name?

00:36:53.100 Well, sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me. Toughen up. Good grief.

00:36:58.580 I believe fortitude is a virtue. Fortitude is a, is a very important virtue because if you don't

00:37:05.500 have fortitude, you're not going to be able to defend any of the other virtues.

00:37:09.840 You're, you are in, this actress is in one of the most privileged positions in the entire world.

00:37:15.740 People would kill to have this job that she does. And she says, well, someone on Twitter said

00:37:20.540 something mean to me. By the way, they're making it about race because racism is the worst thing.

00:37:25.060 And the racist is the worst thing you can be called today. I strongly suspect that people who are,

00:37:31.660 who may or may not be attacking her for her race, aren't even doing that because they don't like

00:37:36.520 black people. I've made this point before. And Drew Clavin has made this point a lot too.

00:37:42.220 When, when you attack somebody and you call someone a racial slur or a sexual slur or any other kind of,

00:37:48.800 or you, or you attack their family and you say, your mom is so fat or whatever. Very often,

00:37:53.800 most, most of the time, I think you are not doing so because you don't like people of their race or

00:37:57.940 you don't like people of their sex or sexual desire, or you don't like their mother or you

00:38:02.400 think their mother's fat. You're doing it because you don't like the person that you're insulting or

00:38:07.300 you don't like the thing that the person represents or what the action that the person has undertaken.

00:38:11.540 And so you're, you're attacking their characteristics just because it's convenient,

00:38:16.620 just because that's the thing you see. I made the point on the show the other day,

00:38:19.860 if our giant Polish AD, the assistant director on the show, Pavel, for whatever reason is,

00:38:26.080 is, you know, really just gets my blood up one day, I might say, Pavel, you dirty, rotten,

00:38:32.520 filthy, giant Polak. Am I, would I be, well, I wouldn't say that because I would be ground to dust in a

00:38:38.020 moment. But if I did that, would it, would I be saying that because I don't like Polish people?

00:38:42.720 No, I like Polish people very much. I would just be saying it because I, I would in that case,

00:38:46.760 theoretically be angry at Pavel. And that's the first thing that comes to mind. But now,

00:38:51.020 now we all have to claim victimhood because that carries a currency. And if you can accuse

00:38:55.460 your opponents of racism, that's the greatest win of all, because that, that will basically

00:39:00.420 anathematize your opponent. That will, that will ostracize them. And, and these days it could

00:39:05.000 deplatform them. It could kick them out of the public square. It could, it could remove

00:39:07.940 them from the political community. The future, not looking, not looking very bright. I always

00:39:17.280 have hope because hope is a theological virtue. But I, my priest friend, Father George Rutler,

00:39:22.100 made the point that the difference between a Scottish optimist and a Scottish pessimist is

00:39:26.060 that a Scottish pessimist says things can't get any worse. And a Scottish optimist says, oh,

00:39:30.320 yes, they can. And I'm sort of in the latter category there. So I have hope, but things are

00:39:34.340 looking like they're going to get a lot worse. I saw this from Ikea of all places, the cheap Swedish

00:39:39.380 furniture company. So when you go and buy Ikea furniture, one thing you can do is go to their

00:39:44.260 cafeteria, which I always used to like to do in college or if I was buying furniture in New York

00:39:48.500 as a bachelor, I'd go and you could get Swedish meatballs. You could get all sorts of nice cheap

00:39:54.320 food for lunch. So they've got a kitchen where they're developing new food. Some of the new food

00:39:58.060 they're developing, Ikea joining the rest of the liberal institutions, they're trying to make us

00:40:04.760 eat bugs.

00:40:07.100 It's served with hydroponically grown leaves and salt and vinegar sprinkled insects.

00:40:12.200 Each element is designed to be sustainable, but also tasty. So what did it actually taste like?

00:40:20.100 So I think this is probably the most sci-fi thing that I've ever eaten. They don't taste of that

00:40:25.480 much themselves. They're kind of slightly nutty. The salt and vinegar is really nice. A nice snack

00:40:30.800 on the side.

00:40:31.660 Nice little snack on the side to just eat the little worms that they're putting in my taco.

00:40:35.680 Yeah, it's really nice. I really like it. And you look at his face and he's obviously disgusted by

00:40:41.060 this. But for whatever reason, he is going to pretend, oh no, this is really good. Yeah. It's sort of

00:40:47.240 like if you've ever gone to a tasting menu, I've had the misfortune of going to tasting menus on

00:40:51.600 occasion. And there are these very fancy things that millennials do in cities where you go and

00:40:56.300 it's not that the food is ever particularly good. It's just expensive and weird. And you sit down at

00:41:01.360 a tasting menu and they say, all right, for our first dish. One time I was at a tasting menu and

00:41:06.180 they served essentially tofu dip and dots. And one time they served me a big heaping plate of raw veal,

00:41:13.960 raw veal in mayonnaise. And then after that, a little sliver of extremely pungent smoked haddock.

00:41:20.860 And you're sitting there. And I went to this restaurant because my friend asked if I would

00:41:26.600 go. And I said, okay, that's fine. And everyone around the table has to pretend that it's good.

00:41:31.640 You say, oh yeah, nothing I like after gobbling down a nice bowl of raw veal. Nothing I like more

00:41:38.360 than extremely pungent smoked fish. Ooh, but hold on, save room for the tofu dip and dots after. No,

00:41:44.280 it's just, but people all pretend because this is very sophisticated and cool and futuristic.

00:41:49.320 And nowhere is this truer than on the freaking bugs. For whatever reason,

00:41:53.580 every liberal institution wants us to eat bugs. The World Economic Forum said, oh,

00:41:57.260 in the future, in the future, we're going to eat bugs. Oh, it's a great source of protein.

00:42:02.600 Okay. If it's such a great source of protein, you eat it. I'm going to eat steak and hamburgers

00:42:06.380 and chicken and you can eat bugs. No, no, you have to eat bugs because you're the filthy,

00:42:11.780 dirty masses, the poor people. You do that. We're going to continue to eat our filet mignon.

00:42:15.740 Now, this is futuristic. That's probably true. It's so extremely dystopian that we're all going

00:42:23.960 to be just locked in our rooms, plugged into the neural link or with our brain stems in the matrix,

00:42:28.880 just eating bugs all the time. That is so extremely dystopian that it probably is the future.

00:42:34.680 That probably will come true. When that guy in the video says, this is the most sci-fi thing I ever

00:42:39.200 ate. Right. When you think of sci-fi movies, the really, the really influential sci-fi stories,

00:42:45.240 books, they tend not to be utopian. They tend to be pretty dystopian actually. And that,

00:42:52.480 so it is very sci-fi. Yes. Gobbling up bug tacos is definitely very dystopian. Speaking of our dystopian

00:42:58.760 future, you know, I hate to say, I told you so, you know, I hate to take that, that Noel Stradamus hat

00:43:04.940 and my crystal ball out and predict the future because it's distressing when I predict something

00:43:09.820 unpleasant in the future. But I told you months ago when the Libs started to pull their foot off

00:43:16.400 the pedal on COVID, I said, don't believe it. They're going to bring COVID back. They're going

00:43:20.760 to bring all the COVID measures back. They're not actually getting rid of the power grab that they

00:43:24.500 took over the last two years. They're trying to keep the national emergency authorization.

00:43:28.940 They're trying to keep a lot of the public health orders. They're trying to keep a lot of the

00:43:32.580 vaccine mandates. Well, now Joe Biden is trying to bring back that stupid mask mandate on the

00:43:38.740 airplanes. Probably the least logical, the least reasonable of all the COVID measures.

00:43:44.880 The airplanes were never a major source of COVID transmission. If you put the mask on and you're

00:43:49.620 sitting arm to arm, shoulder to shoulder, and then you pull the mask down to eat and drink,

00:43:54.360 it's just preposterous that that's going to stop you from getting COVID. These flimsy little

00:43:59.500 disgusting masks. It was always a joke. He's trying to bring it back because the Libs will need COVID.

00:44:05.840 It was hurting them in the polls, so they backed off COVID a little bit. They backed off Fauci a

00:44:09.520 little bit. They put him in an underground bunker, but they're all coming back, okay?

00:44:12.980 They're all coming back the moment that it is politically convenient for the Libs. This is because

00:44:19.980 Biden has nothing to run on right now. The Washington Post just reported this. Joe Biden is

00:44:25.940 finally, at least privately, admitting that inflation is really bad. It's really hurting

00:44:31.200 Americans, really hurting Democrats' chances. But he's not taking any responsibility. He's blaming

00:44:35.900 his aides and his assistants. According to the WAPO, Biden has privately grumbled to top White House

00:44:41.020 officials over the administration's handling of inflation, expressing frustration over the past

00:44:45.460 several months that aides were not doing enough to confront the problem directly. People are knocking

00:44:50.180 Biden for not taking responsibility here. You know, the buck stops with my aid. But I think he's

00:44:55.760 actually got a fair point because Joe Biden is obviously not running the country. Joe Biden is

00:45:00.200 obviously not particularly lucid a lot of the time. The aides are running the country. The personnel,

00:45:07.160 the assistants, the bureaucracy, that's running the country. Half the time, Joe Biden doesn't know

00:45:11.600 what end is up. And so you could blame Joe Biden for being a feckless, empty suit figurehead,

00:45:16.620 but he's not the one actively making these calls. I don't think anyone believes that.

00:45:22.340 It's the aides. It's the geniuses. It's the PhDs. It's all the fancy people from all the elite

00:45:27.520 institutions pushing really, really, really radical ideas, cramming them down the throats of the rest

00:45:32.020 of us, infecting every single institution in this country, up to and including the leadership of the

00:45:37.300 US military. And they're so convinced that their vision of the future is wonderful. And they've just

00:45:42.760 got to get over the awful hump of the people pushing back on them. Well, every time they grab

00:45:48.420 more power, every time they advance their agenda a little further, we end up in a country that is

00:45:54.180 less recognizable, less good, less pleasant, and frankly, dystopian. I'm Michael Knowles. This

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Ep. 1018 - Brace Yourself, It's About To Get Super Duper Gay

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