The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1021 - From The Gay Bars, To The NFL

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00:00:37.720 Another day, another existential threat to our democracy.

00:00:43.520 I heard about this new threat yesterday, and when I checked to see where the threat was coming from,

00:00:50.000 I learned that just like in every great horror movie,

00:00:53.700 this time, the threat was coming from inside the house.

00:01:00.580 If you go to Facebook on a daily basis, the posts with the most engagement are from Dan Shapiro,

00:01:07.400 or Ben Shapiro, Dan Bongino, Candace Owens.

00:01:09.580 It is right-wing content.

00:01:10.560 It dwarfs progressive content.

00:01:12.160 It dwarfs mainstream media content, which actually should be the part that scares us the most,

00:01:15.140 that Ben Shapiro's DAILYWIRE has more followers and engagement,

00:01:18.620 many times more than The New York Times or CNN.

00:01:21.320 That is a problem for democracy.

00:01:22.580 It's a problem, that DAILYWIRE.

00:01:25.280 That was Dan Pfeiffer.

00:01:26.640 Dan Pfeiffer is a former Obama staffer who now co-hosts his own podcast.

00:01:32.140 And at first, I couldn't quite understand what Mr. Pfeiffer was saying.

00:01:36.620 So I had a translator friend of mine who is fluent in both English and lib translate that for me.

00:01:43.320 And apparently, what Pfeiffer was trying to communicate is,

00:01:47.380 wah, the Daily Wire is popular, and more popular than me and all my lib friends, and I don't like that.

00:01:56.620 Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. 0.81

00:01:59.560 Now, the hardest word to make sense of in Pfeiffer's remarks is the word democracy.

00:02:04.660 Because democracy, as you know, is popular government.

00:02:08.880 And the only thing Pfeiffer is accusing us of is being popular.

00:02:13.080 He's complaining because we are popular, and he and the rest of the libs, despite controlling every major institution in the country, are not popular.

00:02:22.540 And he's insinuating that to preserve our democracy, our popular platform needs to be suppressed, and the libs' unpopular platform needs to be amplified,

00:02:34.800 which is about as anti-democratic as it gets.

00:02:38.820 But when the libs use the word democracy, when they talk about our sacred democracy, the temple of our democracy,

00:02:45.380 they don't really mean democracy.

00:02:47.380 They just mean liberalism, leftism, progressivism.

00:02:52.540 That's what they fear is under threat.

00:02:55.300 And they're absolutely right.

00:02:56.800 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:57.620 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:05.880 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:07.200 My favorite comment yesterday is from Horsehead, who says,

00:03:09.720 As creepy as the drag show was, it's worse still that there were parents who were happy and willing to take their kids to it.

00:03:18.040 Doesn't say much for the modern parent.

00:03:19.800 I think that's totally true.

00:03:20.760 It's sort of how I feel about transgenderism broadly, or really any other cultural pathology that's spreading around like an epidemic. 1.00

00:03:28.980 I don't really blame the people who are in the thrall of these illnesses, these sort of social illnesses.

00:03:37.780 I don't blame the people who are under the sway of these terrible ideologies and disordered desires and bizarre identities that are harming individuals and harming society.

00:03:52.000 I place much more blame at the foot of the people who are promoting them, of the people who are enabling them.

00:03:59.620 You don't get angry at the lunatic because he says he hears voices in his head.

00:04:06.140 You get angry at the people who are encouraging him and saying, do whatever those voices say.

00:04:10.840 Oh, absolutely.

00:04:11.580 You've got 10 people living in your head, Johnny.

00:04:13.640 That's right.

00:04:14.280 Go right around doing that.

00:04:15.260 Those are the people who are much more morally culpable because they're the ones who are supposed to know better.

00:04:19.840 They're supposed to be in their right minds.

00:04:21.360 You don't, you don't, certainly you don't blame a little kid for going to a drag show, but you sure as hell blame the parents.

00:04:27.380 Horrible, horrible parenting going on.

00:04:29.740 Maybe the parents are a little bit confused too.

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00:05:44.140 Big threats to democracy coming from the Daily Wire.

00:05:49.460 Really, I guess, coming from you because you're the people who listen to this stuff.

00:05:53.380 You're the people who tune in and give us way better ratings than all of the Lib outlets, even though we're a really small outfit that was just born out of a pool house on Ventura Boulevard.

00:06:05.280 Now, all of a sudden, we're much more popular on social media than the Libs are.

00:06:10.920 And it's your fault because you're the ones doing that, and that's a big threat to democracy when the people want something the Libs don't like.

00:06:17.100 You see the same kind of argument when it comes to abortion.

00:06:21.020 Right now, the Louisiana legislature, the representatives of the people of Louisiana, just passed a really great bill.

00:06:28.460 It's a bill that makes it illegal to ship abortion drugs. 1.00

00:06:32.500 So the bill passed the legislature on Friday.

00:06:35.700 It's headed to the desk of the governor, John Bel Edwards, who's a Democrat.

00:06:40.200 The Senate Bill 388 would make it illegal for any company to provide abortion-inducing drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol by the mail.

00:06:49.980 It passed by a lot.

00:06:51.820 It was a 31-to-1 victory in the state Senate.

00:06:55.300 This would be considered a victory for democracy, right?

00:06:59.300 Because the people want it.

00:07:00.600 The people overwhelmingly want this bill to be passed.

00:07:03.220 And yet the way that the Libs will talk about this is as a grave threat to democracy.

00:07:06.900 They did it when Donald Trump got elected president in 2016.

00:07:10.620 They said, oh no, more people voted for Trump than voted for our person.

00:07:14.240 This is a threat to democracy.

00:07:15.760 They do it in Europe when Viktor Orban, the conservative leader of Hungary, when he won, when he keeps winning, when he keeps remaining so popular.

00:07:22.940 They say, gosh, his popularity, the fact that people keep voting for him, that's a grave threat to democracy.

00:07:27.700 This, of course, is a nonsensical statement.

00:07:30.000 It doesn't mean anything.

00:07:32.740 It's intrinsically incoherent, right?

00:07:36.840 To say that the greatest number of people voting for something is anti-democratic, except you realize that they just conflate their own ideology, liberalism, leftism, progressivism, with democracy.

00:07:49.860 And this is why they can never lose in their own minds.

00:07:53.060 This is why they never concede, at least in their hearts, the elections that they lose.

00:07:58.800 This is why Hillary Clinton still hasn't conceded 2016. 0.83

00:08:02.280 This is why Democrats still haven't conceded the Bush v. Gore election of 2000.

00:08:06.960 This is why Stacey Abrams hasn't conceded in Georgia.

00:08:10.620 Those are elections that had nowhere near the kind of shenanigans that we saw in the 2020 presidential election, nowhere near the kind of upending of the election rules that we saw in the last presidential.

00:08:21.120 And yet they won't concede it because it just doesn't make sense.

00:08:24.020 The people are supposed to vote for us.

00:08:25.820 If they knew their true interests, if they really knew, if they weren't being lied to with misinformation, and if they weren't being enchanted by the sorcerers on the Republican side, they would vote for us.

00:08:37.620 And so there must be something that's gone wrong.

00:08:40.140 It must be illegitimate.

00:08:41.400 This is an old Marxist idea, the idea that when they lose, when the libs lose, when the radicals lose, it's because the people have been thrown under the sway of a false consciousness.

00:08:53.380 They're voting against their own interests.

00:08:55.700 This is why the libs are so mean to black conservatives and women conservatives and gay conservatives. 0.99

00:09:00.840 And the reason they're so mean to them is they say, you belong to us.

00:09:04.640 If you knew your best interest, you would be voting for us.

00:09:08.060 And so it's not your fault, but it's those evil Republicans who have enchanted you with their sorcery.

00:09:13.460 And you're just too big of an idiot to realize it.

00:09:15.800 So we've got to upend this entire system because the way it's operating right now is certainly unfair.

00:09:22.660 It's not a true democracy because in true democracy, only we ever win.

00:09:26.400 That is the logic behind all of these sorts of claims.

00:09:32.240 And that's what they're talking about with abortion.

00:09:34.580 You look at abortion, the majority of pro-lifers are women.

00:09:37.080 They say, no, they're just under a false consciousness.

00:09:39.960 No, it's a threat to democracy.

00:09:41.480 Speaking of women's issues, the Carolina Panthers, this is an NFL team that I don't follow and I certainly don't intend to follow now.

00:09:51.740 They've got a cheerleading squad, just like all football teams do.

00:09:55.480 So they've got this cheerleading squad. 0.97

00:09:57.040 Frankly, it's my favorite part of football games.

00:09:59.800 Not anymore, because the Carolina Panthers cheerleading squad will now feature a man dressed as a woman doing all the cheers. 1.00

00:10:12.600 The man goes by Justine Simone Lindsay.

00:10:16.140 Something tells me that's not his real name, but that's what he goes by now.

00:10:19.420 And he announced on Instagram that he is now going to join the Panthers' top cats.

00:10:26.460 And this was confirmed by the cheerleading director, Chandelay Lanouette, to BuzzFeed.

00:10:32.640 Obviously wrong.

00:10:33.980 Obviously gross.

00:10:35.020 Obviously, no normal person wants to see this.

00:10:38.620 So why is it happening?

00:10:40.640 The reason it's happening is not just because this guy has some sexual disorders.

00:10:45.580 The reason it's happening is not just because our society has lost its mind on this fad right now, this fashionable ideology that says that men can secretly be women, which is going to fall out of fashion at some point.

00:10:59.600 But right now it's really, really hot.

00:11:01.240 There's a deeper reason that this is happening.

00:11:05.080 It's actually even beyond the weird sexual confusion and sexual ideologies.

00:11:10.880 The deeper reason this is happening is because of selfishness.

00:11:14.660 Because increasingly, the only people that we ever consider in our entire public life is ourselves.

00:11:22.040 Me, me, me, me, me.

00:11:23.780 Secondly, the question you've got to ask yourself in a sane society, in a sane football team, in a sane cheerleading squad, when someone applies to be a cheerleader, the first question you've got to ask yourself is, how will this help the cheerleading squad?

00:11:40.940 Not how will this help the individual who's applying.

00:11:43.240 It's not about them.

00:11:43.960 It's about the team.

00:11:45.940 At first, it's about the squad.

00:11:47.640 And then when you're talking about cheerleading, it's not even just about the cheerleading team.

00:11:51.260 It's about the football team.

00:11:52.820 The question you've got to ask yourself is, what is cheerleading for?

00:11:58.040 What's it for?

00:11:58.720 Is cheerleading for making sexually confused men feel temporarily better about themselves?

00:12:05.100 Maybe, if it even does that.

00:12:06.840 Or is cheerleading for cheering on the team?

00:12:11.900 Cheering on the football team in this case.

00:12:14.040 What is it for?

00:12:15.860 This actually really began even before the gender ideology took off.

00:12:20.280 Because in the way olden days, you had cheerleaders and the cheerleaders would show up to the football games and throw the pom-poms in the air and say, wah, rah, go team.

00:12:29.300 Then, sometime within the last few decades, cheerleading became its own sport.

00:12:36.500 So you would have, friends of mine would do this, cheerleader friends of mine would do this.

00:12:38.960 They'd go to cheerleading competitions.

00:12:42.560 But a cheerleading competition doesn't make any sense.

00:12:46.640 Because the purpose of cheerleading is to cheer on the team.

00:12:50.640 If you take the team out of it, and you've just got the cheerleaders, cheerleading becomes something entirely different.

00:12:56.240 Now, some people say, well, cheerleading is very difficult.

00:12:57.900 Yeah, it certainly can be.

00:12:59.500 Cheerleading is kind of like gymnastics.

00:13:00.980 Yeah, it is.

00:13:01.580 If you want to do that, join the gymnastics team.

00:13:03.840 But it doesn't make any sense to make cheerleading just about itself.

00:13:09.180 Cheerleading is intrinsically something about other people.

00:13:12.580 But we don't make sense of that anymore.

00:13:14.060 We don't understand anymore that something can be beyond ourselves, that the point of something can be beyond our own desires and pleasure.

00:13:23.120 That actually, we have to think of other people and other people's views and society and the objective reality.

00:13:30.820 And it goes all the way from the craziest example, which is these dudes who are pretending to be chicks, 0.67

00:13:36.880 all the way down to the totally ordinary facets of life, which used to be about the common good,

00:13:42.580 which used to be about serving your family and your community and your God.

00:13:46.400 And now, in virtually every aspect of life, have been turned on ourselves.

00:13:50.620 And a man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package indeed, especially when he's wearing a cheerleading uniform.

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00:15:30.320 Speaking of misidentifying things, we're really bad at identifying things these days.

00:15:37.140 You know, we identify men as women.

00:15:40.040 We identify babies as meaningless clumps of cells.

00:15:43.540 We don't seem to be able to recognize anything anymore.

00:15:46.840 And now in California, we are identifying bees, like bumblebees, as fish.

00:15:53.960 Tell me this story doesn't tell you everything you need to know about California and the present state of our culture.

00:16:03.920 Bees are now legally fish in California.

00:16:08.860 What is a bee? 0.92

00:16:09.680 That's going to be my next movie.

00:16:10.720 What is a fish?

00:16:11.920 That's going to be a feature-length film from The Daily Wire.

00:16:13.840 Very, very controversial.

00:16:14.780 What is a fish?

00:16:16.040 This according to the Sacramento Bee, actually.

00:16:19.120 Bees are legally fish in California court rules.

00:16:21.560 Here's why and what led to it.

00:16:23.960 Here's what led to it.

00:16:25.040 There was an act in 1970 designed to protect endangered species.

00:16:31.460 And the act explicitly protected fish.

00:16:35.320 And then the fish, they defined as invertebrates.

00:16:39.560 Now, the act, since 1970, has been applied to protect land-dwelling invertebrates, such as snails.

00:16:48.280 Therefore, the California Court of Appeals has decided that a terrestrial invertebrate, like the bumblebee, may be listed as an endangered or threatened species under the act, which protects fish.

00:17:06.180 Do you see the logic here?

00:17:07.460 However, it's not logic.

00:17:09.120 It's illogic.

00:17:09.920 But it describes or it shows you how the libs operate in politics.

00:17:17.800 They passed this law in 1970, and it says we're going to protect fish.

00:17:21.500 And they do protect fish.

00:17:22.880 They spend a lot of time.

00:17:23.820 They waste all of the limited water supply in California protecting the little delta smelt. 1.00

00:17:29.760 So they were very focused on protecting the fish.

00:17:32.280 And then later on, they said we want to protect the snails, too.

00:17:35.520 But they didn't go back and pass a new law.

00:17:37.920 I don't know exactly why they didn't go pass a new law.

00:17:40.480 One of the reasons might be that Californians are generally sick of these laws protecting these tiny little species at the cost of humans living a flourishing life.

00:17:51.520 So you divert the fresh water from human beings to the delta smelt in the snail.

00:17:56.320 So maybe that's why.

00:17:57.100 I don't know.

00:17:57.800 I'm not sure why they couldn't pass a law between 1970 and today to say, okay, we're also going to protect the snails.

00:18:04.720 But they didn't.

00:18:05.480 They just had a court rule and said, actually, snails are fish. 0.98

00:18:08.280 And now you get up all the way to the year of our Lord, 2022, 52 years later.

00:18:12.920 And they say, yeah, and so, okay, if snails are fish, then also bumblebees are fish, too.

00:18:17.380 Instead of just going and passing a law and saying, we're going to protect the bumblebee now.

00:18:21.320 You probably can't get through that through the political process.

00:18:24.000 And so they say, okay, we're just going to manipulate language to meanings that have absolutely nothing to do with what the word originally meant.

00:18:35.900 And we're going to do that to ram through our political agenda.

00:18:39.940 Coincidentally or providentially, my book on this very topic just came out today in paperback.

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00:18:52.480 You are the reason that that book became a number one national bestseller around the country, snubbed by the New York Times.

00:18:59.000 I couldn't be more honored because, listen, our platform dwarfs the New York Times.

00:19:02.220 So who needs them?

00:19:03.540 We don't need those guys to put us on their editorial list.

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00:19:20.100 If bees can be fish, then anything can be anything else.

00:19:24.040 A real sign of the times.

00:19:25.500 I have nothing against the bees, but bees are not fish.

00:19:27.520 Men are not women. Babies are not meaningless clumps of cells.

00:19:30.340 Bees are not fish. 0.60

00:19:31.740 Do you notice, too, with these environmental laws from the Libs, they always seem to exempt themselves.

00:19:40.680 They always seem to push the burden of their pie-in-the-sky schemes onto everyone else, but not onto themselves.

00:19:49.600 And they say, we're the humanitarians.

00:19:51.200 The reason we're passing this sort of protection, the reason we're passing this punitive measure against a certain industry,

00:19:57.520 is not to enrich ourselves or protect ourselves.

00:20:00.480 No, no.

00:20:01.260 It's to protect Mother Earth.

00:20:03.800 It's to protect humanity.

00:20:05.900 And that's why all you peasants, you have to bear the costs of this, and we ourselves will not.

00:20:11.240 That's what you're seeing right now in the European Union.

00:20:12.980 The EU is instituting an aviation fuel pollution tax.

00:20:23.740 Corporate jets will be exempted.

00:20:26.080 So commercial jets, the jets that all of us fly around on when we need to go visit Grandma for Christmas or when we want to go on vacation maybe or whenever we want to get anywhere, we're going to have to pay that tax.

00:20:40.780 But the wealthy corporate executives who have their own private jets, they don't need to pay that tax.

00:20:48.420 Can there be any explanation for this other than preferential treatment for themselves?

00:20:55.020 Can there be any explanation for this other than forcing you and I and really people in Europe to pay for their privileges?

00:21:04.640 I can't think of one.

00:21:05.720 And furthermore, it shows that they're probably not all that serious about climate change, global warming, global cooling, the sun monster.

00:21:12.760 They're probably not all that worried about that.

00:21:14.480 You know they're not all that worried about that because they're not selling their beachfront property.

00:21:17.900 You know they're not all worried about that because they fly around on their private jets already to go to their climate change conferences and pontificate about how you and I need to eat bugs and never leave our homes and go buy a Tesla.

00:21:28.740 Although they probably don't want us to buy a Tesla anymore because Elon Musk turned on them.

00:21:33.180 They already do that. 0.98

00:21:34.160 Now they don't even want to pay the extra fuel tax on their private jets that they're making all the rest of us pay on commercial flights.

00:21:40.420 Do we really believe they think the world is going to end in 10 years or actually some people predicted the world would already end?

00:21:46.660 I believe Prince Charles in the UK predicted the world would already end.

00:21:50.820 Though he's not really the object of my ire.

00:21:52.900 It's not even really him.

00:21:54.320 It's these liberal, technocratic, corporate people who I think someone like a Prince Charles.

00:22:03.320 I think he actually likes the environment and I think he likes it because he walks around in his three-piece suits and he's walking around his beautiful gardens.

00:22:09.320 He says, we need to protect the environment so that I have somewhere to stroll in the afternoon.

00:22:14.140 So that I can go shoot animals on the weekends and look at my beautiful estates.

00:22:20.940 And I really respect that actually.

00:22:22.620 I'm all for protecting the environment in order to give us beautiful places to live in.

00:22:27.960 My problem is one, the crazy radicals, the ideologues who want to protect the environment from human beings.

00:22:35.500 Who say that basically humans are a plague on the planet and we need to get rid of the human beings so that the Delta smelt can live freely again. 0.97

00:22:42.420 Those guys.

00:22:43.120 And then the cynical people who don't really believe any of this crap and who realize that it can just give them a leg up politically.

00:22:50.360 Which I think makes up a much larger portion of the environmental liberal establishment.

00:22:55.500 These guys who say, we're so worried about protecting the climate that we're not going to pay any of the taxes that we're going to force you people to pay.

00:23:04.320 But they use it to take power. 0.88

00:23:05.900 You're seeing this right now in the White House.

00:23:08.200 Joe Biden is invoking the Defense Production Act to produce green energy and solar panels.

00:23:17.580 Now, the Defense Production Act requires an emergency.

00:23:21.380 The point of the Defense Production Act is in the face of an emergency, the president can move very, very quickly to produce certain goods.

00:23:28.700 Well, what is the emergency causing us to produce these extremely inefficient kinds of technologies that usually just line the pockets of Democrat donors?

00:23:39.720 The White House can't quite say.

00:23:41.760 What emergency is the president using to invoke the Defense Production Act?

00:23:45.140 Because historically, it's been in the 1950s for the Korean War.

00:23:48.680 During COVID, it was enacted.

00:23:50.300 What emergency is it?

00:23:51.500 What's the real emergency in the solar industry for the Defense Production Act?

00:23:55.360 So, let me – I was going to say, first, the president, you know, when he takes the Defense Production Act, it's to make sure that he's delivering for the American people.

00:24:04.080 It is an important tool that he has used a couple of times and has been incredibly effective.

00:24:09.380 So, for this particular Clean Energy Defense Production Act, he is invoking the Defense Production Act to rapidly expand domestic production of solar panel parts, building insulation, heat pumps, and more.

00:24:24.140 He is putting the full force of the federal government's purchasing power behind supporting American clean energy manufacturers.

00:24:31.380 And he is providing U.S. solar deployers the short-term stability they need to build clean energy projects and deliver more affordability energy to American families and business.

00:24:43.900 Cool.

00:24:44.440 So, Corrine, can you answer the question at all?

00:24:46.280 She's pretty weak. 0.99

00:24:47.300 At least Jen Psaki could usually give a glib kind of answer to whatever the question is or get in a little zinger, even if it wasn't all that effective. 1.00

00:24:54.860 But Corrine Jean-Pierre, she just goes, uh, uh, I don't – I didn't even think about – I don't – remember Kayleigh McEnany used to have binders with answers pre-written to all of the questions she could possibly be asked.

00:25:05.040 Corrine has no idea how to answer even very basic questions.

00:25:07.880 They say, hey – and this is probably a liberal journalist.

00:25:10.340 I'm not sure exactly who that reporter is, but statistically he's probably a liberal.

00:25:14.180 He's there and he says, why is the president invoking the Defense Production Act?

00:25:18.020 What's the emergency?

00:25:18.980 What is he – she goes, uh, uh, the Defense Production Act is to deliver for the American people. 1.00

00:25:25.400 She just says, I don't need to give you an answer.

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00:28:33.220 Last year, a group of Washington State gender identity LGBT sexual revolutionary non-profit organizations,

00:28:55.060 all of which work with children and receive taxpayer money, hosted a presentation series called Decolonizing Gender.

00:29:04.200 We have these clips thanks to Chris Ruffo.

00:29:06.420 He has been absolutely incredible exposing what this kind of ideology means for people,

00:29:12.080 critical race theory, a little bit on the gender front,

00:29:15.820 all this radicalism that we're seeing in schools and in extracurricular activities aimed at students,

00:29:25.200 in many cases with your taxpayer money.

00:29:29.440 One, you've got to first recognize the fact that these kinds of organizations are receiving taxpayer money

00:29:35.200 means that they are an enforcement arm of the political left.

00:29:40.980 They're not as accountable as the government would be because they're not technically part of the government.

00:29:44.700 They're just outside the government, but they receive that government money.

00:29:48.340 So they have a lot more freedom in brainwashing your kids. 0.94

00:29:51.640 In a way, it's sort of like BLM.

00:29:54.000 BLM goes around and torches the country for eight months, and they're not really held accountable. 1.00

00:30:00.480 And they're certainly not held accountable in the way that a public official would

00:30:03.460 because they're not public officials.

00:30:05.500 They're the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party, more broadly, of the liberal establishment.

00:30:11.200 So at a really basic level, a lot of this ideology comes down to money because money is power.

00:30:21.060 To folks watching, I think another way that you can support people who are doing community work,

00:30:26.160 if you have access to generational wealth, if you're white and your parents have a savings account

00:30:33.760 that is very much so connected to slavery and land theft, pay people.

00:30:39.240 Pay people directly.

00:30:40.300 Give them the money so they can have the financial security in order to rest and to heal

00:30:45.240 and to connect with their communities in a way that they wouldn't have to because they've been working,

00:30:50.060 because they've been doing this work.

00:30:51.400 We've always been doing this work.

00:30:53.960 So yeah, I think Randy brought this up before, but pay that money.

00:30:56.620 You know, reparations, pay that money to us now because we need that.

00:30:59.940 We don't have, especially for Black and Indigenous folks, we don't have like, you know, 1.00

00:31:04.800 a safety net in order to take that time to heal.

00:31:07.920 And it can be a privilege for some.

00:31:10.100 So if you have those resources, share them.

00:31:14.020 And, you know, let's all just, it's healing can also be like a collective thing too.

00:31:17.220 It takes like a, it takes a village, you know, as the African proverb would say, it takes a village.

00:31:22.420 So we all have to do this together and support one another.

00:31:26.200 What a hustle.

00:31:29.360 You know, when Daily Wire says, hey, please join Daily Wire.

00:31:32.440 We're giving you this movie, this movie, this show, this content, this thing.

00:31:35.320 We're really trying to say, look, you're getting way more value for your money than every dollar you're putting in.

00:31:40.980 These guys, they say, hey, give me money.

00:31:43.740 What are you going to get?

00:31:44.660 You'll get, I won't be as angry with you.

00:31:46.960 Maybe I won't burn the country down this year.

00:31:49.400 As that, hey, it's a nice country you got here.

00:31:51.420 It sure would be a shame if I burned it down again.

00:31:53.520 Give me that money.

00:31:54.520 Hey, spare a little change.

00:31:55.520 It's like a derelict who comes up to you in a dark alley at night.

00:31:58.940 Hey, man, could you spare a little change?

00:32:00.940 Well, we're in this dark alley and you're standing there in a fairly threatening posture.

00:32:06.460 I guess I have to give you some money.

00:32:08.040 Yeah, give that to us because of all the oppression or whatever, you know.

00:32:11.480 Man, institutional, generational, whatever.

00:32:14.000 Write a check.

00:32:14.580 Give me that money.

00:32:15.680 Give me that money.

00:32:16.420 So that's what a lot of it comes down to.

00:32:18.060 And in this woman's, I don't know, is it a woman? 0.88

00:32:20.940 The person who was speaking seemed to have a lot of chest hair.

00:32:25.000 I think that's chest hair, but kind of.

00:32:26.980 Anyway, I don't know.

00:32:27.540 It's very confusing.

00:32:28.140 We're living in a very confusing time.

00:32:29.320 But this person actually has a point, which is that money is power.

00:32:35.780 Big politics attracts big money and big money attracts big political power.

00:32:41.820 And so what this person is saying is we need this money right now because that's the way

00:32:48.060 that we're really going to affect change.

00:32:50.060 And to some degree, there's a point to that.

00:32:51.540 We don't want the change that they are going to affect.

00:32:55.200 So at the basic level, yeah, this is a regular old political operation.

00:32:59.740 In many ways, it's no different than the mob.

00:33:01.420 The second thing that this conference exposed, though, is just it's a point we were talking

00:33:06.620 about earlier, the sheer selfishness, the sheer self-obsession of this entire ideology.

00:33:13.740 You know, I don't see myself as 100 percent woman, even though I use trans femme, trans

00:33:17.820 woman interchangeably all the time. 1.00

00:33:19.920 You know, I take hormones so that I have breasts, you know, so I can appear whatever

00:33:24.840 a way so you can, again, interpret what my soul is.

00:33:28.300 But if I were to tell you, like, oh, yeah, I want to be called non-binary, trans femme

00:33:32.400 my whole life, no, I don't.

00:33:33.500 I just want to be called Randy, Aisha, you know, those, you know, whatever I want you

00:33:38.340 to call me, you know, mommy, queen, daddy, if I want you to.

00:33:43.240 I want to see people, you know, my young people, they, when I would bring up pronouns, they

00:33:47.540 would come up with Wakanda.

00:33:49.760 They would come up with Pokemon Trainer.

00:33:52.040 They would come up with whatever was on their heart.

00:33:54.280 And I was like, that is the world I want to see.

00:33:56.340 We're calling ourselves cyborgs.

00:33:58.200 We're calling ourselves whatever we need in order to feel good about ourselves.

00:34:03.200 Like, why can't we just feel good about ourselves and affirm ourselves and then people respect

00:34:07.720 that?

00:34:08.500 So, yeah, I definitely think gender needs to go. 1.00

00:34:13.540 Does this guy sound like he feels good about himself?

00:34:17.500 He doesn't sound to me like someone who feels good about himself.

00:34:20.700 People who feel good about themselves don't constantly need the affirmation of others.

00:34:27.940 He sounds to me like the opposite of someone who feels good about himself.

00:34:31.900 When you really feel comfortable, confident, good, right about what you're doing, not only

00:34:39.520 do you not need the affirmation of others, but you can stand tall even as everyone else is

00:34:44.260 attacking you.

00:34:44.980 Now, some people know this.

00:34:47.000 When you're standing up for something that's right, very often people attack you.

00:34:51.240 Look what they did to Jesus.

00:34:53.580 Look what they did to Socrates.

00:34:55.540 Look what they did to people who have spoken the truth, certainly to the man who is the truth,

00:35:01.200 but even to other people throughout history who have had the gall to speak the truth.

00:35:05.500 What happens to them?

00:35:06.520 They get attacked.

00:35:07.740 That's the way it goes.

00:35:08.760 This is a fallen world, and the people who feel good about themselves stand tall.

00:35:15.380 I was just reading the Apology of Socrates by Plato.

00:35:19.620 I was just going through my Western Civilization series.

00:35:22.360 Happened a few nights ago to be reading the Apology of Socrates, and Socrates is there.

00:35:27.540 He's standing before the Athenians.

00:35:29.720 He knows that they're going to kill him, and he says, look, listen, I don't really care if

00:35:35.640 you kill me or not, because I'm just going to do the right thing, but it's going to be

00:35:39.200 really bad for you if you kill me, because you will be doing the wrong thing, and if

00:35:42.540 you're doing the wrong thing, that's really bad, because it's much better to be just than

00:35:46.880 to be unjust, and it's much worse to harm someone else than to be harmed yourself.

00:35:52.580 Totally rational argument, and you see it throughout the speeches of Plato's Socrates.

00:35:59.480 You see this in the credo.

00:36:01.560 You see that you, this guy does not feel good about himself, and he says, the world that

00:36:07.420 I want to see is a world where I can be whatever I, forget about he or she, forget about male

00:36:12.400 or female, I want to be Randy or Aisha. 0.93

00:36:15.660 Wait, hold on.

00:36:16.080 I thought you just said, you told me what to call you.

00:36:17.940 You said call me Randy.

00:36:18.820 No, until I want to be Aisha, until I want to be a Pokemon, until I want to be this.

00:36:23.020 The world I want to live in, what he is saying and what the gender movement broadly is

00:36:26.980 saying is, I want to live in a world without logic, without reason, without intellect, without

00:36:34.000 any objective standard by which anyone can tell if anything is true or false.

00:36:40.300 What they are saying is, I want to live in a world of pure will, of pure tyranny of will,

00:36:48.020 where the words that we say don't make any sense.

00:36:50.820 Pokemon, Jiggly Bear, Up and Down, Chocolate, Vanilla, Hot Dog.

00:36:55.820 That's the world they want to live in, a world where we're just making sounds like grunting

00:37:01.060 animals and all we are doing is feeding our own appetites, our own lower will.

00:37:07.200 He's, in many ways, that guy, Randy slash Aisha slash the Pokemon, is acknowledging what

00:37:15.280 the conservatives have been saying about transgenderism.

00:37:18.740 There was another guy, this last guy, I thought it was the most important part of this conference.

00:37:21.780 And it's really important to watch these clips when conservatives like Chris Ruffo are able

00:37:26.600 to bring them to us.

00:37:28.400 They get a scoop, they get a leak, and they bring them to us.

00:37:30.800 It's important to watch libs of TikTok because, one, it tells you what really lies at the heart

00:37:37.140 of these bizarre social movements that often leave people scratching their heads.

00:37:40.520 What do you mean a man is a woman? 0.88

00:37:41.780 It tells you what they really believe about it.

00:37:44.020 And very often, the way that the radicals view these things are not all that different

00:37:48.860 from the way that conservatives do.

00:37:51.060 There was a guy who spoke at the end of this conference thread, and he said that he knew

00:37:58.040 that he was transgender, pangender, gender, whatever, when he was a little kid being called

00:38:05.060 into the woods by spirits.

00:38:07.760 For me, when I was growing up, colonialism looked a lot like, my first introduction to colonialism

00:38:12.600 looked a lot like me waking up at four in the morning, five in the morning, every morning

00:38:20.440 to sounds of my ancestors screaming from outside my window, coming from the ground, coming from

00:38:29.660 the earth and nature outside, waking me up to tell me that, hey, there's work to be done.

00:38:38.040 But that's what really radicalized me at a very young age, amongst many other things.

00:38:44.380 You know, hearing those screams every morning is what really radicalized me, because there

00:38:49.420 are things that most other folks around me, including my mother, could not hear.

00:38:54.900 And there are things that did not affect those individuals in the same way.

00:38:59.400 And I carried that.

00:39:04.640 I followed those screams, you know, into the woods as a child.

00:39:09.080 My parents, you know, didn't really, like, watch me very much.

00:39:12.340 Sorry, should I say, didn't really watch me very much growing up.

00:39:16.260 So I often wandered into the woods and was taught by my ancestors in those woods, you know,

00:39:22.520 in the forms of nature spirits, in the forms of elementals, in the forms of, you know, natural

00:39:28.580 deities and old gods, you know, while I was out there, you know, I was taught many things

00:39:34.100 and, you know, my mind was decolonized in that way.

00:39:37.920 So what this guy is saying is that the way he became radical, transgender, extreme, far 0.99

00:39:48.160 left, the way he got to where he is today is that he came from a broken home, right?

00:39:56.140 He says, my parents, oh, sorry, I mean my parent, a broken home where he was neglected.

00:40:02.980 I wasn't watched very much by my parent as a kid.

00:40:06.040 A broken home where he was neglected and then spent a long time in isolation and then he

00:40:13.680 got screwed up by demons.

00:40:16.360 That's what he is saying.

00:40:18.480 That's his description of what happened.

00:40:20.480 Oh, yeah, why am I all messed up?

00:40:24.140 And his name is, or he goes by Ganesha Gold Buffalo.

00:40:28.380 He is a male prostitute who says that he's a woman and identifies as transgender. 0.99

00:40:33.880 He says, how did I get to where I am?

00:40:35.220 How did I become the man or not man that I am today?

00:40:39.420 Why I came from a broken home and spent a ton of time in isolation alone being neglected

00:40:47.420 and then demons convinced me to, that the world is different than it actually is.

00:40:54.860 The way that this radical transgender guy is describing transgenderism and his radical 0.57

00:41:02.960 views more broadly is virtually indistinguishable from the way that a conservative Christian would

00:41:08.660 describe it.

00:41:09.160 We're both, yes, I think that in the case of transgenderism, there's definitely the question

00:41:17.580 of mental illness.

00:41:18.520 I mean, it's just by definition, one would have to be mentally ill to be a man to believe

00:41:22.860 that he's a woman.

00:41:24.060 But there are a lot of social conditions and it seems to come from some broken homes and

00:41:29.120 it seems to come from some child abuse.

00:41:31.880 It seems to come from long periods of time in isolation and it seems to come from demonic

00:41:36.800 influence.

00:41:37.420 Let's just call a spade a spade.

00:41:38.680 He says it, the transgender guy says it, I say it, a Christian guy says it.

00:41:43.080 The only people who don't say it are the liberals in the middle.

00:41:47.120 The materialist liberals who say, oh no, it's not, no, it's not a big, none of that's true.

00:41:51.660 Listen to the radicals.

00:41:53.400 Listen to the radicals themselves.

00:41:55.460 The radicals themselves seem to agree with the conservative Christians.

00:42:00.200 And those are all bad things.

00:42:02.440 All of the influences that led this guy to become a male prostitute calling himself a woman, 0.94

00:42:08.120 a decolonizer or whatever, are all bad things.

00:42:11.360 Broken homes, neglect, child abuse, and especially demons.

00:42:15.160 They're bad.

00:42:15.820 They're bad.

00:42:16.160 They're real and they're bad.

00:42:18.480 Speaking of libs missing really, really basic things.

00:42:23.160 Everyone is turning on Joe Biden except for the establishment liberals.

00:42:27.540 But everyone else is, not just the conservatives, not just the people who have been radicalized to the, even Cardi B.

00:42:38.340 The well-known economist, Sterling Professor of Economics, Dr. Cardi B.

00:42:45.180 Professor B. said, quote,

00:42:48.460 When y'all think they're going to announce that we're going into a recession?

00:42:53.820 When y'all think they're going to do that?

00:42:56.280 Cardi B. knows that the economy is in bad shape.

00:42:59.720 Have you bought food recently?

00:43:01.720 I bought food last night and I was shocked at how expensive it is.

00:43:06.280 The only reason I wasn't more shocked is because I bought food somewhat recently.

00:43:09.680 I bought food last week too.

00:43:10.960 And I was shocked then at how expensive it is.

00:43:13.120 You buy gas recently.

00:43:14.300 You pay for anything recently.

00:43:16.200 You look at the fundamentals of our economy recently.

00:43:19.260 You look at your stock portfolio, your retirement account recently.

00:43:23.380 Things are not looking good in the economy.

00:43:27.660 Cardi B. knows it.

00:43:29.600 The conservatives know it.

00:43:30.920 The only people who don't seem to know it or don't want to admit it or don't even care

00:43:35.700 are the establishment liberals who still insist to us,

00:43:39.100 this is the greatest economic recovery ever in our imaginations.

00:43:43.340 In the same place where men are women and babies aren't really babies. 0.97

00:43:46.360 That's where the economy is flourishing.

00:43:50.520 Speaking of our economy, there was a video that went viral yesterday on the internet.

00:43:55.460 People talking about what terrible things this means for the American economy.

00:44:02.480 And it was this, I thought, generally charming video of two young women sitting in a pool

00:44:07.980 with their laptops describing how they're doing their job from the pool deck because

00:44:13.880 they don't need to go into an office right now.

00:44:16.460 My co-workers keep saying I need to make like a tech.

00:44:19.860 TikTok?

00:44:20.660 Because if you look at my TikTok, you'd never guess I have a job.

00:44:22.980 So, um, anyways, this is our current workstation.

00:44:28.000 Callie and I are what you call product managers.

00:44:30.860 Callie, what is your team over?

00:44:34.220 My team is over recording and internal tools.

00:44:38.440 And I am over what we call card experience.

00:44:42.040 So we work on, like, anything from activating your credit card to freezing, reissue, shipping,

00:44:50.220 all the good stuff.

00:44:51.040 Um, what's a PM?

00:44:53.060 Um, we help prioritize and help the engineers stay on track and help them know what to build

00:45:02.740 so that you have a product to use.

00:45:05.220 Yeah, exactly.

00:45:05.920 So you might have a team, like, the engineers actually do the developing, the coding, which

00:45:09.540 is the impressive part.

00:45:10.560 Um, designers also do the impressive part, which is everything you see when you're in

00:45:14.980 a software.

00:45:16.160 Product managers essentially decide what the team's going to work on, do competitive research,

00:45:21.840 um, prioritize bugs, keep everyone focused, motivated, and driving towards business outcomes.

00:45:27.840 So, that's what we do.

00:45:30.780 Well, I found this video very charming.

00:45:33.740 I'd, everyone was dunking on these girls. 1.00

00:45:35.740 Why are they dunking on these girls? 1.00

00:45:37.900 So these girls have an easy job. 1.00

00:45:40.140 Okay, that's fine.

00:45:41.400 People have had easy jobs before.

00:45:43.640 The girls are saying, yeah, in our job, we, it doesn't even look like we have a job because

00:45:47.920 we're just on TikTok all day and we sit out here by the pool all day.

00:45:51.500 And yeah, we don't, and we can, we're making a TikTok about sitting out at the pool about

00:45:55.060 how our job is really easy.

00:45:57.120 Okay, I don't begrudge them that.

00:46:00.160 They're also young girls.

00:46:01.740 They look like they're in their 20s.

00:46:03.280 They're probably, if I'm, I'm just taking out my Nolstradamus hat here on my crystal ball,

00:46:08.140 they're probably just gonna like meet a guy in their 20s and get married. 0.54

00:46:12.880 And they're not, what I'm saying is they're probably not 100% totally driven by their career,

00:46:19.780 nor should they be.

00:46:20.680 That's fine.

00:46:21.220 And I don't think we all need to be automatons slaving away in some box all day long doing

00:46:25.320 spreadsheets for Mr. Jenkins to get some more dollars to go consume more stuff in the economy.

00:46:31.320 That's fine.

00:46:31.620 Good for them.

00:46:32.080 They get to sit out by the pool.

00:46:33.740 The legitimate fear, I think, the legitimate criticism that comes from this video is it,

00:46:41.340 look, it's fine if some people have those jobs, especially if they have other interests

00:46:45.800 in their life and they don't want to do this forever and they want to move on and have

00:46:49.100 a family and do other things.

00:46:51.220 The fear is when everyone's doing that.

00:46:54.840 We can't have a country where everyone is sitting out by the pool making TikToks about

00:46:59.720 how they're not doing their actual job or how they are, but their actual job doesn't require

00:47:04.360 them to do very much.

00:47:05.460 When the entire economy is doing that, then we're really in trouble.

00:47:09.740 And that's the place we are right now after two years.

00:47:12.360 From the very beginning of the lockdowns, I thought this is a bad thing because what I know is you

00:47:19.060 don't get something for nothing.

00:47:22.440 You can't just sit around all day and not do everything and still have a flourishing country

00:47:29.380 that's growing and vibrant.

00:47:30.740 It doesn't work.

00:47:31.580 When people point out that communist societies have terrible stagnant economies, very often

00:47:39.260 we don't explain why that is or we don't think about why that is.

00:47:42.200 The reason communist economies are so terrible is because people don't work there.

00:47:47.920 It's because the incentives don't exist for people to go out and do work.

00:47:51.540 So the people in communist countries often are pretty lazy.

00:47:57.260 They often are not very driven.

00:47:59.660 They're disincentivized from going out and doing work.

00:48:01.600 There is a structural problem there, but that's why.

00:48:03.860 And if we're living in a country where we're all just doing that now, where we're all just

00:48:07.140 sitting by the pool, taking TikToks, sipping our pina coladas, occasionally typing some buttons

00:48:13.520 on our laptop, we're not going to have a flourishing country.

00:48:17.340 We need to go out and do things.

00:48:19.700 We need to do things that are bigger than ourselves.

00:48:24.360 Unfortunately, we've gotten into this mindset of, well, listen, if there's even a slight chance

00:48:30.880 that I could get a slight cough from a virus that doesn't really pose a particularly grave

00:48:36.720 threat to me, then I'm just going to sit home for two years.

00:48:39.500 Well, if I have to go out there and do anything extra that's going to detract from my going

00:48:48.000 to brunch and sitting at home and buying lots of nice, fun, cool gizmos and gadgets, then

00:48:55.080 I just don't want to do that.

00:48:56.180 That mindset is death for a country.

00:49:00.000 We have to think beyond ourselves, beyond our own pleasure, beyond how we want to be

00:49:06.960 called, beyond what we think, usually mistakenly, will make us feel really good.

00:49:13.120 I mean, you think, what's this about?

00:49:14.360 What's this for?

00:49:15.760 What is my role here?

00:49:17.540 You know, in Matt's documentary, my favorite scene actually didn't have very much to do with

00:49:23.720 the question of Western transgenderism.

00:49:26.240 My favorite scene was when that professor got really angry with Matt for questioning

00:49:33.200 his entire science, you know, the gender studies.

00:49:37.040 That was my favorite scene.

00:49:37.880 My second favorite scene, and I felt the most meaningful one, is when Matt flies to Africa

00:49:41.700 and he's talking to the tribals in Kenya and he says, what is a woman?

00:49:46.860 And they have a good answer, but it's a different answer than the Westerners would have. 0.70

00:49:51.320 Westerners would often say a woman is an adult female human being.

00:49:55.280 What's a female? 1.00

00:49:56.180 Well, a female is distinguished by female reproductive organs and capacity, by the production 1.00

00:50:02.820 of eggs, by the, right, you know, you go down this.

00:50:05.400 And when Matt asked the tribals in Kenya, they said a woman is someone who does the duties 1.00

00:50:11.820 of the woman.

00:50:12.760 A woman is someone who bears children, who's distinguished by that biological feature, but 1.00

00:50:17.500 then by a social role as well.

00:50:19.220 And he interviews the women too, and they're laughing at this idea of transgender.

00:50:24.000 They're like, no, we do the things that women do, and we behave in the way that women behave, 1.00

00:50:28.660 and we are women. 0.99

00:50:30.320 And the men do the things that men do.

00:50:32.080 And some of the things that men do seem pretty unpleasant.

00:50:34.600 I don't want to do that.

00:50:35.240 And some of the things that we do are kind of unpleasant.

00:50:36.760 The men don't want to do that. 1.00

00:50:37.900 But we have a role.

00:50:39.780 We have a place here.

00:50:42.520 We've reversed that.

00:50:43.680 We've convinced ourselves mistakenly that having a role and having a purpose and having

00:50:47.520 natural limits is going to make us all miserable.

00:50:50.080 But there's really no escaping limits, and there's no escaping ultimately doing stuff.

00:50:53.900 So you see it especially with the way that feminism cracked down the families. 1.00

00:50:57.520 In the 70s, the feminists said a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, and women 0.98

00:51:01.200 need to leave the home.

00:51:02.000 They shouldn't even be allowed to stay home and raise their families.

00:51:04.520 That's so oppressive.

00:51:06.240 Instead of helping their families and working for their families, they need to go out and work 1.00

00:51:11.640 for some other guy who doesn't care about them.

00:51:13.360 At the widget factory and go do spreadsheets all the time until the guy throws the woman 1.00

00:51:17.140 out.

00:51:18.600 But there's no escaping.

00:51:19.680 Does anyone really believe that's more liberating?

00:51:21.560 Does anyone really believe that's better for the woman or will lead to a more flourishing 1.00

00:51:24.740 life?

00:51:25.060 Of course not.

00:51:26.380 This is a key conservative insight, and Edmund Burke wrote about this at great length.

00:51:31.120 We want roles.

00:51:32.760 We want to feel like we're doing good, not just for ourselves, but for other people.

00:51:37.300 Because a man or woman or bumblebee or fish wrapped up in himself makes a small package

00:51:41.980 indeed.

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 07, 2022

Ep. 1021 - From The Gay Bars, To The NFL

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