The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1024 - Biden Wants To Put Y’all Republicans Back in Chains!

00:00:00.000 I know it's early, but I have got a shot and a chaser for you. Here's the shot.

00:00:06.760 You'd often get asked, look, the Republicans don't play it square. Why do you play it square?

00:00:11.320 Yeah. Well, guess what? If we do the same thing they do, our democracy would literally be in

00:00:15.780 jeopardy. I'm not a joke. I understand that argument, but also it's like you're playing

00:00:22.520 monopoly with somebody who, you know, won't pass go and won't follow any of the rules. And how do

00:00:28.220 you ever make any progress if they're not following the rules? You got to send them to jail,

00:00:33.500 you know, directly to jail. Ha ha ha ha. That's the president of the United States saying on national

00:00:44.720 television that the only way to deal with Republicans is to throw them in jail. That's

00:00:49.660 the shot. Here's the chaser. Yesterday, the FBI arrested a Republican candidate for governor

00:00:55.980 in Michigan over misdemeanors that he allegedly committed on January 6th of last year. A serious

00:01:04.840 rival to the incumbent governor was arrested during an election year over relatively minor crimes that

00:01:12.620 he may or may not have committed more than a year ago. For some reason, the FBI did not see fit to

00:01:19.920 arrest this guy for well over a year after the alleged incident took place. But then, the very

00:01:26.940 week that Democrats are staging their January 6th show trial and circus, the FBI decides to arrest a

00:01:34.940 prominent Republican office seeker for misdemeanors related to the topic of the hearings. What are the

00:01:40.980 odds? Boy, oh boy, what a coincidence. With each passing day, our country seems more and more to resemble

00:01:48.660 a banana republic. And for some strange reason, it's precisely the people who constantly preen about

00:01:55.540 our sacred democracy who seem to be leading us faster and faster toward it. I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:03.220 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:55.200 Come on, Jack. Come on, man. I play by the rules, man. That's what I do. Listen, if I didn't play by

00:04:02.560 the rules, unlike those pesky Republicans, our democracy would fall apart. That's the first

00:04:07.040 thing Joe Biden says in the first half of his breath. And then what? In the second half, he says,

00:04:11.560 and that's why I've got to jail my opponents for opposing me. He used to be a little bit better with

00:04:16.680 the messaging. Joe Biden, he used to be a little bit better with the BS. And that has gone out the

00:04:21.940 window. The appearance on Jimmy Kimmel was absolutely disastrous. The clip of it that's

00:04:27.160 going around right now that probably went most viral was Joe Biden rambling about biracial

00:04:34.500 television commercials. I'm serious. You turn on the TV, look at the ads. When's the last time you saw

00:04:40.240 biracial couples on TV? When's the last time you saw the way, I mean, people are selling products. 1.00

00:04:46.280 They do ads to sell products. And they sell products when people, they appeal to people.

00:04:50.840 This generation is going to change everything. We just got to make sure we don't give up. 1.00

00:04:57.420 When was the last time that you saw biracial? There are so many things wrong with this. 1.00

00:05:01.600 Joe Biden has used this line a lot, but he got it backwards this time.

00:05:05.120 The line that he usually uses to show the progress that America has made is that now you can't turn

00:05:11.540 on a TV without seeing an interracial couple, which is true. There are a lot of, it is sort of 0.99

00:05:17.780 odd, actually, that interracial couples seem to be far more represented on television than in the

00:05:23.380 United States at large. But that's what he's pointing to, except he got it backwards and he can't

00:05:28.120 keep his words right anymore. And he blames it on a childhood stutter that he had when he was eight

00:05:32.220 that disappeared for 70 years and then popped back up again. So he got it wrong and he said,

00:05:37.080 you don't see biracial couples. Also, he doesn't know what the word biracial means.

00:05:41.020 Biracial is like Halle Berry. If we were talking about biracial couples on TV, we would say that 1.00

00:05:47.060 everyone on TV were Halle Berry hued and they were all, there was a slightly, only slightly darker

00:05:53.120 than I am. The word that he's looking for is interracial. So the only reason I bring it up is not to make

00:05:58.600 any point about his stupid observation on the TV. It's to point out even the lines that he is most 0.99

00:06:05.100 practiced with, even the lines that he has used in his stump speeches for years now, even those get

00:06:11.480 jumbled up in his mushy pudding head. Then Joe Biden rambles so badly that Jimmy Kimmel actually has to

00:06:20.400 cut him off and go to commercial. But here's the deal. One of the things is that it's very difficult

00:06:26.720 now to have a, um, even with notable exceptions, even the really good reporters, they have to get

00:06:35.980 the number of clicks on, on, on nightly news. So instead of asking a question anyway, it just,

00:06:42.080 everything gets, gets sensationalized in ways that, but I'm convinced we can get through this.

00:06:47.880 We have to get through it. And one of the things, look, I'm going to take a break and then we'll talk

00:06:52.200 a little bit more if you don't mind. I'm sorry. We have some of those commercials. We have some

00:06:56.060 biracial commercials we need to tell. We'll be back with President Biden. That was a pretty good 0.99

00:07:01.580 save by Jimmy Kimmel, but it was so sad how he had to lean into it because he leaned into it the way

00:07:07.640 that when, when you've really got to go to a meeting, when you've really got to get off the

00:07:11.120 phone and you're speaking with an elderly relative, the way, Hey, Hey, before, hold on, before you get into

00:07:17.100 that story. Great, great grandpa. We need, I just, we're going to take a little break. Okay. And

00:07:23.300 then, and then he makes the biracial joke, which was, which was pretty funny, but it's not funny

00:07:27.540 enough to save the interview. What is Biden talking is, you know, back in my day, Sonny, we didn't have

00:07:33.220 all these clickies, clicky doodads and websites. We had the pony express and that's what, that's what

00:07:38.280 we did, Jack. And we would go and you'd have to, you'd go to the Gutenberg press to, if you wanted

00:07:43.780 your news stories, but then, okay, Hey, hold on. We just one second there, Mr. President, we've got to

00:07:49.560 go cut to commercial to end this misery. And then finally, the, the, probably the most important point

00:07:56.360 worth mentioning in this disastrous interview was that Joe Biden is appearing on Jimmy Kimmel

00:08:02.320 the night after a leftist assassin showed up to Brett Kavanaugh's house because he was upset about

00:08:09.620 the court potentially overruling Roe versus Wade, which he only found out about because a leftist

00:08:14.160 on the court leaked it. And he found Brett Kavanaugh's address only because a leftist group

00:08:17.800 doxed Kavanaugh. And the night after that happens, Joe Biden shows up to this national talk show.

00:08:25.600 Very few people watch it, but still a national show. And he says, if the court overrules Roe,

00:08:31.380 by golly, you might get a revolution.

00:08:32.820 It's clear that if in fact the decision comes down the way it does, and these states impose

00:08:39.000 the limitations they're talking about, it's going to cause a mini revolution. They're going to vote

00:08:44.100 a lot of these folks out of office. A mini revolution. Now, Biden is a shrewd enough

00:08:49.100 politician still that he know he, he teases that, but then he pulls it back. And he says,

00:08:54.840 they're good by voting. It's going to be a revolution by voting.

00:08:57.440 But, but Joe Biden does know the context here. And the context actually does matter here.

00:09:04.520 He's showing up hours after a leftist assassin tries to murder a sitting Supreme Court justice

00:09:11.500 over this issue specifically in his home, in his bed, where the justice's wife and daughters sleep.

00:09:18.620 And then Biden, instead of, instead of going on the Kimmel show and condemning that,

00:09:24.000 I don't think Biden knows about very much these days, but they certainly told him that someone

00:09:27.340 tried to kill the justice. Instead of going on and saying, listen, we need to cool down the

00:09:31.500 rhetoric. We need to restore the soul of the nation. We need to not be killing federal officials,

00:09:35.080 certainly not judges at least. No, instead of that, he says, hey, hey, you know that thing that

00:09:40.140 the, the Kavanaugh almost got murdered for? Yeah. Well, I sure hope Kavanaugh changes his mind,

00:09:45.960 you know, because, hey, listen, Jack, listen, Corn Pop, if he doesn't, we might get a mini revolution.

00:09:51.820 Know what I'm saying? Hey, come on there. Come on, man. Come on, man. Come on.

00:09:56.520 Speaking of revolution, Joy Behar over on The View just epitomized so much of the utterly ignorant, 0.99

00:10:07.920 arrogant views of her side, especially when they're talking about guns. She, the left is, 0.99

00:10:14.640 is trying to grab guns. I think they know it's basically a lost cause, but she thinks she's 0.97

00:10:18.100 identified the one way in which Republicans might turn against the second amendment. And that's if those

00:10:25.660 black people get guns. Here's the thing. Once black people get guns in this country, 1.00

00:10:30.160 the gun laws will change. Trust me. That's what happened with the black cancer. 1.00

00:10:35.080 Black people have guns. Trust me on that. 1.00

00:10:37.060 Trust me, okay? Republicans are far more racist than they care about the second amendment. Now, 0.98

00:10:43.680 this is obviously a very stupid statement from Joy Behar, but it's especially stupid because she's 1.00

00:10:48.360 speaking to a black woman here on the panel, on The View. And just moments earlier, maybe, 1.00

00:10:56.060 I don't know, two minutes earlier, the black woman on the panel blew up Joy's theory. 1.00

00:11:02.740 Can I just say this real quick as a gun owner? There are people in this country that genuinely own guns.

00:11:07.000 You catch that? You catch that? Hi, I, a black woman as a gun owner. And then she goes on and, 0.73

00:11:12.680 and talks about how we don't need all of these guns. And she's trying to find this moderate

00:11:16.220 position on it. But she just told Joy Behar, yes, I own a gun. And then what does Joy Behar do? She 0.63

00:11:21.900 says, oh, shut up, black lady. Hold on. You're getting in the way of my narrative. No, black people, 1.00

00:11:25.780 they don't have guns. And once, and those Republicans hate black people. I said, stop talking, 1.00

00:11:31.020 black lady. I'm trying, stop telling me about your actual experience. I'm trying to express my views 1.00

00:11:35.700 about your experience. And black people, yeah, I know, I know. There's a statistic that says

00:11:39.460 one in four black Americans already own guns. Yeah, forget about that for a second. I'm trying 1.00

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00:13:08.840 Knowles. Speaking of The View, there was another radical just showed up to The View, not one of

00:13:14.360 those ladies, but the Joe Biden Education Secretary. The Joe Biden Education Secretary shows up on The View

00:13:21.960 to address this question of how to protect schools. One of the, whatever you think about gun control,

00:13:27.540 whatever you think about AR-15s, whatever you think about whatever, we should all be able to agree

00:13:33.620 that if you want to protect schools, there are some basic measures that will help. Lock the doors.

00:13:40.080 I think, is locking the doors ideological? Is that a partisan battle now? Just lock most of the doors?

00:13:45.640 Have an armed guard there. Is that having an armed guard to stop the bad guys? I guess the cops are

00:13:52.920 ideological now. I guess they are partisan now. Really shouldn't be. Maybe let teachers who are

00:13:59.880 law-abiding gun owners, maybe let them carry their guns. You notice that the shooters always attack

00:14:04.920 gun-free zones. They always attack soft targets. So maybe harden up those targets a little bit.

00:14:11.360 You won't get as much shooting. One of the ladies on The View asks Joe Biden's Education Secretary 0.93

00:14:16.000 about this thought, and he doesn't like it. Some Republicans have proposed arming teachers

00:14:22.120 to stop these shootings. My mother is a teacher. In Ohio, the governor is preparing to sign a bill

00:14:28.740 that would lower the training requirements for a teacher to carry a gun in the classroom from 700

00:14:34.760 hours to 24 hours. In your view, do you support teachers carrying guns in the classroom?

00:14:43.600 Those are some of the stupidest proposals I've heard in all my time as an educator. So that's my 0.99

00:14:50.580 answer to that. Listen, we need to make sure we're doing sensible legislation, making sure our school

00:14:56.760 houses are safe as much as possible. But to say that we're going to arm teachers to protect students,

00:15:02.240 what happens when a teacher goes out on maternity leave? Are we going to give the substitute of the 0.99

00:15:06.580 day a gun? What this shows, Sonny, is that some people are clueless when it comes to what's

00:15:13.740 happening in our schools. Some people are, in fact, clueless. That's true. I think Dr. Miguel

00:15:20.560 Cardona here, the secretary groomer of education wearing his little progress pride pin on his lapel,

00:15:27.280 I think he might be the clueless one because he doesn't even understand the argument for arming

00:15:34.580 teachers. He proved that at the end. He said at the top, this is a dumb idea. It's the stupidest

00:15:40.020 idea I ever heard. It doesn't quite explain why. And then a little bit later, he gets to it. He says, 1.00

00:15:44.500 what? What happens when you have a substitute teacher? You're going to give him a gun?

00:15:47.920 That's the argument for arming teachers is not that you require every teacher to have a gun.

00:15:55.400 The argument for arming teachers is that you have some teachers with guns. And by the way,

00:16:03.340 you don't know necessarily which teachers have the guns. And so when an assailant or a would-be

00:16:09.660 assailant comes into the school, pretty much everyone he sees potentially could be armed.

00:16:15.560 And when that's the case, people tend to be a little bit more polite. People tend to be a little

00:16:19.280 more cautious and reticent. If they go into a school and they know for a fact no one is armed,

00:16:24.580 then they can run amok. They can do whatever they want. But you don't, the point is not to have

00:16:29.460 every single person they're packing, you know, arm the third graders too. The point is to just have

00:16:34.240 some guns out there and you don't know who's got them. And you could turn the corner to wreak havoc

00:16:39.380 and then boom, there's the gym coach. Boom, there's the history teacher. And you just, you just don't

00:16:45.640 know. That's what Joy Behar was proving up there when she made her stupid point about black gun 1.00

00:16:50.600 ownership. All she's showing is that she truly has no idea what, how, one, what black people think 1.00

00:16:57.920 about guns and two, what conservatives think. She thinks that if conservatives knew that black 0.86

00:17:03.980 people were getting legal guns, that they would turn on the second amendment. Many of you listening

00:17:09.060 right now are conservatives. Many of you listening right now are black too. Is that, is that how you 0.95

00:17:13.600 feel? No, of course not. But I give her points for sincerity. I think she probably sincerely believes

00:17:19.520 that. And she's just completely mistaken. Dr. Groomer here, Secretary Groomer, probably sincerely

00:17:25.960 believes that the arguments that conservatives are advancing are, are for arming all of the

00:17:31.480 teachers because he's got wind blowing in between his ears and can't process what we're actually

00:17:35.500 saying. He probably just doesn't know. And he can chalk that up to ignorance and a lack of curiosity.

00:17:40.760 But that is not the argument that we are making. Yet again, we see something that social scientists

00:17:46.260 have shown again and again over the years, which is that conservatives understand the libs

00:17:50.560 much, much better than the libs understand conservatives. By the way, the, the argument

00:17:57.740 for arming schools, for putting guards at least at schools, was just proven correct yesterday.

00:18:04.700 There was a man outside of an Alabama elementary school who was demonstrating aggressive behavior.

00:18:12.300 He was walking around, he was yelling, he was trying to get into the school. It was unclear

00:18:17.300 what was going on. And a school, this is just being reported by AL.com. A school resource officer

00:18:23.000 on site responded, talked with the man and called for backup. Then a second officer arrived,

00:18:29.080 an altercation ensued, and the suspect was killed. He was fatally shot. Officials have not yet said if the

00:18:34.780 man was armed, doesn't necessarily matter if the man was armed, if the man was suggesting that he might be

00:18:40.080 armed. He's trying to break into an elementary school. He's demonstrating very aggressive behavior

00:18:44.860 two weeks after a mass killing at an elementary school. This is what's going to happen. Who knows

00:18:51.440 what would have happened had that guard not been there, had there not been good guys with guns on

00:18:57.580 the site. One officer suffered minor injuries. He was taken to the hospital. No kids were harmed.

00:19:03.200 The kids may not, not even have known what was going on outside. But that's the stupidest idea 1.00

00:19:08.960 I've ever heard. What, you want, you want to have people with guns to protect people from bad people 1.00

00:19:14.420 with guns? That was stupid. How stupid do you, how out of touch do you have to be with not just modern 1.00

00:19:21.300 society, but with the basics of human nature and self-defense and incentives to make that kind of a 1.00

00:19:28.340 comment? Speaking of dangers that students face, I get tips sometimes, and I encourage you to send

00:19:36.180 me tips. You can do it through my personal website, michaeljnoles.com. I get tips of bad stuff that's

00:19:41.560 going on in local communities that maybe is not getting national attention, but it's happening.

00:19:46.820 And that's, we live our lives in local communities. We all pay attention to the national news, but much

00:19:52.420 of the stuff that affects our real day-to-day lives and affects our kids and the way that we raise our

00:19:56.820 kids and our whole families takes place at the local level. And it's not just New York and San

00:20:02.300 Francisco and Chicago and LA that have gone bonkers. It's places right there in the middle of the

00:20:07.780 country, right there in the heartland that are pushing some of this radicalism. On June 27th, I don't

00:20:14.320 know what you're doing. You probably want to clear your calendars because the Davenport Public Library in

00:20:20.000 Iowa, in Iowa of all places, is hosting a teen summer brunch called Drag Queens and Kings Wake Up.

00:20:30.040 Let's do brunch, campy style. Okay, so this is for teens. I already think that is depraved and should

00:20:34.920 not be legal and should not be tolerated in a civilized society. But then they say, what are the

00:20:40.460 ages that can come to this? 11 through 19. It says teens ages 11 through 19 can celebrate Pride Month

00:20:49.460 by going to this drag brunch. When did 11-year-olds become teenagers? They're saying teenagers here 0.97

00:20:56.220 because it seems marginally better than saying, hey, little kids, come and let us let perverts 0.50

00:21:02.280 jiggle for you dressed up in stiletto heels. And maybe you can join in too. It'll be kind of fun,

00:21:06.160 won't it? They know that. So they say teens, you know 11, like an 11-year-old. What do you mean an

00:21:10.880 11-year-old? Yeah, I'm just talking, you know, teenagers, like, you know, a 16-year-old or a

00:21:14.100 nine-year-old or a four-year-old. Hold on, that's not what a teenager is. It's very easy to figure out

00:21:18.440 what a teenager is. The word teen is right at the end of the age. 13, 14, 15. They can celebrate Pride

00:21:24.580 Month in the art of being theatrical, extra, and campy. After performances from a local drag queen and drag 0.53

00:21:32.080 king, Miss Amber will give book talks while everyone enjoys donuts and other yummy snacks. 0.99

00:21:37.960 Registration is required. Make sure you head on over there. This is going to be a wonderful,

00:21:43.300 wonderful event. Do you want that in your communities in Iowa? Do you want that at the

00:21:49.700 Davenport Public Library? Money is coming out of, if you're an Iowan, money is coming out of your 0.76

00:21:55.280 taxpayer dollars to go and fund this sort of thing. Do you want to do that? If not, I would call your

00:22:00.840 representative. I would call up that Davenport Public Library and put a stop to it. It's not

00:22:06.280 just in Davenport. If you happen to be in Moline, Illinois, and you happen to be there on June 18th,

00:22:14.120 and you happen to have kids that you want to pervert and disorder, you can bring them to the

00:22:19.680 youth drag workshop and show. Boy, oh boy, isn't that going to be fun? It's going to be held at the

00:22:24.940 Stony Creek Hotel in Moline, and you can go and teach your kids how to do drag.

00:22:30.700 This is a project of Clock Incorporated. It's going to be a lot of fun. Do you like brunch and

00:22:37.840 activities? Then you might be interested in that. It's going to be so, so fun. So you go,

00:22:42.500 you show up to the workshop, you have a great time, and you have little kids dance around. It's not

00:22:46.740 just, it's not even just a performance. It's a workshop. You're teaching little kids,

00:22:51.800 these youths how to do drag. Learn from experienced drag performers in a relaxed,

00:22:57.760 fun, and non-judgmental environment. I'm judging. I don't know about you. I'm judging. I judge that

00:23:06.000 this is wrong and should be illegal, and the people putting this on are perverts, and the parents who

00:23:11.140 are taking their kids to it are abusing them. Maybe wittingly, maybe unwittingly. Either way,

00:23:16.020 it's got to stop. If you don't like this, call your representatives. Moline, Illinois.

00:23:20.800 Illinois taking place at the Stony Creek Hotel. Say you don't want this here. Whenever conservatives

00:23:26.560 put on perfectly ordinary events where we say basic truths about our country, or we have the

00:23:31.860 audacity to, I don't know, defend George Washington or something, the lib activists call up and try to

00:23:36.300 get the conferences shut down by calling the hotels, by calling their representatives. Here,

00:23:40.380 you've got a bunch of pervs grooming little kids into weird sex stuff. Surely, we can call and say, 1.00

00:23:45.580 you know, hotel, you're not getting my business anymore if you keep hosting this stuff.

00:23:50.500 You know, congressman, you know, state senator, I'm not going to vote for you if you don't put a stop

00:23:56.220 to this. Put a stop. We have the right to say no to this creepy stuff. The libs are obsessed with 1.00

00:24:05.580 transgenderism. It's just as simple as that. There's this Yale professor, Jason Stanley. He's a Yale

00:24:12.760 professor of philosophy. I truly, I have a lot of trouble believing that this guy is earnest. I

00:24:20.580 wonder if he's just a secret conservative troll who's putting on a grand piece of performance art. 0.96

00:24:26.560 He writes about fascism coming to America and how, you know, evil the kind of modern conservatives are 0.89

00:24:33.860 and the grave threats. And he takes himself so, so seriously. Well, he just tweeted out, quote,

00:24:39.220 I haven't been focused as much as I should have been on supporting trans rights in the last 12

00:24:46.200 months. I now realize that this is where the fight for global democracy is. There is no avoiding it.

00:24:52.860 Now, if you just read that statement without any context at all, and especially if you saw his very

00:24:58.740 self-serious photo here on social media, you would believe this were an onion headline. Maybe not

00:25:05.200 the onion because that's lib, but maybe a Babylon Bee headline or something. But if you're familiar with

00:25:10.200 this guy's body of work, I guess you would have to conclude that he's being serious here. And so he's

00:25:16.200 saying transgender rights is where the fight for global democracy is. There's no avoiding it. And so 0.78

00:25:25.800 if he's being earnest, if he's being sincere, and I think the jury is still out on that, but let's just

00:25:31.480 say that he is. He's making a statement that is completely incoherent. Democracy, at least according

00:25:39.940 to the old definition that existed from, I don't know, many centuries before Christ until five

00:25:46.240 minutes ago, all the way back to ancient Athens, what, 7th century BC Athens, all the way to the

00:25:52.860 present, democracy meant popular government, government where the people get to rule,

00:25:57.580 get to do what they want. That was democracy until then. Now what we're saying is democracy hinges on

00:26:04.220 a very small radical minority running roughshod over the desires of the vast majority. The vast

00:26:11.560 majority of people do not support transgenderism. They don't believe in transgenderism. They don't

00:26:17.440 believe that a man can secretly be a woman. And they certainly don't support drag shows throughout

00:26:22.200 our country and perverts grooming kids. The vast majority of people oppose that, not just right

00:26:27.740 wing Republicans, but moderates and centrists and liberals and Democrats. So what is he talking about?

00:26:32.460 How could he say it's the fight for global democracy? Again, if he's being earnest, and it's hard for me

00:26:37.620 to believe that someone who ostensibly has a high IQ and lots of fancy degrees could really say 1.00

00:26:44.180 something this stupid. Although, frankly, I guess it's only an Ivy League professor who could say 0.99

00:26:48.500 something that's obviously stupid. He is saying that that is the greatest cause of democracy. 0.99

00:26:55.820 Overruling the will of the majority, that's the greatest cause for democracy. The ruling class is

00:27:01.200 really, really pushing this stuff. Frankly, I think because most people don't want it. I think the reason

00:27:07.240 that the ruling class is so focused on pushing transgenderism is it's so obviously wrong. It's so

00:27:13.000 contrary not only to our view of morality and our traditions and our customs, but nature itself.

00:27:19.960 It's so obviously contrary to just basic biology and the facts of reality that they think,

00:27:26.180 if I can overcome nature, if I can overcome reality and sex, I can overcome anything. The revolution will

00:27:34.140 be total. It will be, in the words of Marx, the ruthless criticism of all that exists. It will be,

00:27:39.120 in the words of the serpent in the garden talking to Eve, it will be, we making ourselves gods.

00:27:46.340 We shall be as God. You shall be as gods, which Whitaker Chambers said was the first political

00:27:51.320 revolution. It's the beginning of communism. It started in the garden of Eden. So I think that's

00:27:56.320 why they're pushing for it. Oh, 90 some odd percent of Americans don't want to trans the kids. All the 0.99

00:28:03.060 more reason as to why we have to, because once we push past your ignorance, then we will destroy the

00:28:08.080 false consciousness and remake the world however we want according to the sheer tyranny of our will.

00:28:13.020 That's why in San Francisco right now, the San Francisco mayor has decided to announce a drag

00:28:19.880 laureate this year. A drag laureate. A laureate is someone who receives public honors. You think of

00:28:27.600 the poet laureate. You'd have a great writer who is showing you something about beauty and truth

00:28:34.360 and human nature and holding a mirror up to yourself. And we crown this person the poet laureate

00:28:39.300 because of their great contributions to the, specifically the life of letters, but the life

00:28:44.540 of the arts and our own understanding of ourselves. Now, now we put that laurel crown on perverts

00:28:50.840 jiggling for kids. That's, I think the culture has fallen a little bit. The mayor, London Breed has

00:28:57.840 announced, San Francisco's commitment to inclusivity and the arts are the foundation for who we are as

00:29:04.160 a city. Drag artists have helped pave the way for LGBTQ rights and representation across our city.

00:29:11.100 And we must invest in programs that continue their legacies. We must, we must. Oh gosh,

00:29:16.720 how could we survive if we don't spend taxpayer dollars promoting drag queens? We have to create 1.00

00:29:23.340 opportunities for the next generation of drag performers to thrive. There it is again. There's

00:29:29.040 the grooming. There's the cultivating this weirdness in kids. I want to thank the drag community. Man, 1.00

00:29:35.820 everybody's got a community now, huh? There is racial communities. There are ethnic communities,

00:29:41.560 religious communities, and transvestite communities, okay? The Human Rights Commission

00:29:46.900 and the Public Library for their work. And I look forward to crowning San Francisco's first ever

00:29:52.400 drag laureate this fall. The drag laureate will receive $35,000 in an annual stipend. The funds

00:29:58.020 will come from the San Francisco Public Library out of the two-year budget proposal put forward by

00:30:03.080 the mayor. So they're taking money away from letting people read. They're taking money away from books

00:30:11.400 and education and specifically allowing people who don't have a ton of money to read.

00:30:17.160 If you've got a ton of money, you can go buy the books. If you don't have a ton of money,

00:30:19.720 you go to the library. They're taking that money away and giving it to a pervert to jiggle and dance 0.54

00:30:27.380 and pretend that he's a woman in a frankly offensive caricature of what a man thinks a woman is in his 0.99

00:30:33.860 weird sexual fantasies. That's what they're doing now because our culture has become very,

00:30:41.340 very dumb and very, very radical. And why is it at the library? Why is the library seem to be the 0.95

00:30:46.920 epicenter of this drag queen story hour very often takes place at the public libraries?

00:30:51.360 Well, the first argument was the library is a neutral place. It's a neutral place where everyone

00:30:56.640 from society can come and it can be little kids and older people. And it's neutral. And because of

00:31:01.140 viewpoint neutrality and value neutrality, you have to let us do our drag shows here. It was a

00:31:06.360 provocation. It was a test. And the real conservative said, no, we don't.

00:31:11.520 No, transvestitism was illegal in America in many, many cities, including San Francisco for the 19th

00:31:19.000 century into the 20th century. No, we don't need to tolerate this and we certainly don't need to

00:31:22.720 subsidize it. I said, yes, you do. This is viewpoint neutrality. You have to do it. And then what

00:31:26.980 happens next? The squishes go along with it. They say, we love viewpoint neutrality. And then what

00:31:33.880 happens next? It's not so neutral anymore. Now the city is actually taking money out of the library

00:31:40.080 budget to give to a drag performer. How about the preacher laureate? How about the pastor laureate?

00:31:46.660 How about the conservative philosopher laureate? No, there's no money for them,

00:31:50.820 only for the drag queens because there is no neutrality. Because every state is going to 1.00

00:31:56.900 encourage some things and discourage other things. And it's going to have some view of what is sacred

00:32:00.760 and some view of what is good. And right now we've convinced ourselves, the libs have pushed this

00:32:06.520 campaign and the squishes have fallen for it, that we're not allowed to say that good things are good.

00:32:11.480 And we're not allowed to say that bad things are bad. But we must say that bad things are good.

00:32:17.840 And we must say that good things are bad. And we damn well better pay for it too. That's the trap

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00:33:51.920 voicemail bag. Hello, Michael. From time to time, my mind wanders back to that latter scene in Austin

00:34:00.040 Powers, where Dr. Evil says to him, we're not so different, you and I. Isn't it ironic that in the

00:34:08.900 90s, all the things that you stood for, free love, parties, drugs, are now considered to be

00:34:15.600 evil? And he says, no, we were innocent, man. If we had known the consequences of our sexual

00:34:23.880 liberation, we might have done things differently, but the spirit would have remained the same.

00:34:29.440 It's freedom, baby, yeah. And I always wonder if that, if that's really what the conservative

00:34:37.040 backlash going on right now is all about. It's not about the content so much as the procedure. I

00:34:42.820 know that's not what you like to think of, but it might be. That we are, in fact, the free love

00:34:49.420 movement. We just understand now what freedom really means. So what do you think of this idea?

00:34:55.360 This is a very good idea. I disagree with you a little bit, but this is such a good insight. I do

00:35:03.080 think it has to do with not just the procedure, but the substance, not just the form, but the actual

00:35:07.020 content. But the point you're making generally is, and that Austin Powers and Dr. Evil are making

00:35:11.980 is really, really good. All desires, all of human desire has as its true end, God ultimately, and

00:35:23.180 the good on the way to God. Good, good thing is leading up to the ultimate highest good, who is God.

00:35:29.900 Our desires become disordered because this is a fallen world.

00:35:33.680 Good desires can be perverted and go in the wrong direction. And that's true of all of us,

00:35:42.000 and it's true, and it manifests in different ways for different people. The solution to this

00:35:46.420 is not to deny your desire. The solution to this is not to ignore it, dismiss it, try to even repress

00:35:54.280 it. That's not the answer. I know that some people, especially some conservatives, seem to think that's

00:35:58.640 the answer, but it's not. Dante, actually, that good old Italian poet writing the Divine Comedy,

00:36:04.540 he gives a better answer, which is, you've got to, when you want to be good, when you want to get

00:36:10.820 closer to God, when you want to find salvation, when you want to, you have to turn, not just your actions

00:36:18.740 and not just your behaviors, you have to turn your desire. You have to turn your will toward the good.

00:36:25.740 And your will is turned by God's grace. And ultimately, it finds itself in the love that

00:36:31.860 moves the sun and the other stars, this idea of desire itself. And so, yes, now, the slight problem

00:36:39.680 here for Austin Powers and Dr. Evil is that you can't just substitute lower kind of perverted ideas

00:36:50.860 of desire and say, okay, well, yeah, the free love movement of the 60s, that wasn't great. So let's

00:36:55.380 move it toward, I don't know, some new type of free love movement. No, the issue that the free love

00:36:59.520 movement was just wrong, okay? And it will find its fullest expression in what we would call traditional

00:37:06.600 values, finding a wife, getting married, channeling your natural sexual desires for your wife. You see it 0.53

00:37:14.880 especially, Dante, even in heaven, he's looking at his love, Beatrice. But Beatrice is looking at God.

00:37:23.480 And even there, his desires have been so transformed. But there's still this, he's just looking at that

00:37:30.100 immediate object when really he's got to look past the immediate object, have the immediate object

00:37:36.020 channel his vision toward God. But it's very good. This might be the first time that Austin Powers and

00:37:40.960 Dr. Evil and Dante have ever been discussed in the same paragraph. Next question.

00:37:46.520 Hi, Michael. I just wanted to thank you first for helping me rediscover my faith as a Catholic.

00:37:53.400 I'm a lifelong Catholic who became a Christmas and Easter kind of a Catholic once I was done with high

00:38:00.460 school. And I'm a 37-year-old now. I'm married with two children. And after only baptizing both kids,

00:38:06.700 we are definitely reengaged, recommitted, and our lives are much better already from it. So thank

00:38:13.800 you very much for helping relight the Holy Spirit within our family. In that light, I have no problem

00:38:22.300 standing up and defending the Catholic Church's stance on abortion. It's been my stance with or without

00:38:28.720 religion. The one that I'm looking for your advice about is how to handle having the conversation with

00:38:35.480 those people in our lives that are homosexual. And how do you answer the question about the Catholic 0.52

00:38:43.400 religion and the Catholic faith dealing with homosexuality? I do believe that marriage is

00:38:49.640 between a man and a woman. But the reality is there are people that I love, that my wife loves, that our

00:38:57.420 family loves, that have chosen a lifestyle of homosexuality. And if that taught when that topic 0.96

00:39:05.340 comes up, how can I confidently express my my love for them still, but stay true to my faith in my

00:39:14.280 religion? Thank you and keep up the great work. Really, really great question. Something that Christians and 0.99

00:39:22.560 Jews and Muslims and people who have any traditional view of sexual ethics struggle with. Because the way 0.82

00:39:32.040 that conservatives, Christians, whatever, are represented in the culture on this issue is that 0.98

00:39:39.080 we're hateful phobes. We hate gay people. We want to throw them off of rooftops. And you know, as you're 1.00

00:39:44.900 describing right now, you know, that is not the case. So how can you discuss this? The place that I would

00:39:52.720 begin is asking yourself, why is it? Why is it the case that every cult, virtually every culture in the

00:40:02.680 history of the world has looked on homosexuality, which is itself more complicated than just two dudes

00:40:10.060 doing it? There's actually much more complexity to the ideology of homosexuality than just that.

00:40:17.200 Why is it that cultures have looked on this as not quite right? As, ah, it seems like there's

00:40:21.480 something wrong with this. Ah, it's a little. You have to begin, I think, with the observation

00:40:26.560 that certainly Christianity makes, but so does Judaism, so does Islam, so do traditional cultures, 0.93

00:40:31.860 that homosexuality is disordered. That man is made for woman. And woman is made for man. And man and 1.00

00:40:40.520 woman are complementary. And that's the way it goes. And that's how we propagate the species. And 1.00

00:40:45.640 that's how the world turns around in many ways. That's not a hateful thing to say. That's just a

00:40:51.320 fact. If you talked to your normal gay friend, I have so many gay friends. I'm from New York. I'm from

00:40:56.120 LA. I went to a very liberal university where I think 97% of the student body is gay and gets gay 1.00

00:41:01.760 or every year. So, you know, this is, there's nothing hateful coming from, but even your gay 1.00

00:41:07.220 friends, I think, would admit this isn't the way it's supposed to be. This isn't the normal thing,

00:41:13.120 right? It's by definition, it's abnormal. So if you begin from that place, I think the rest of your

00:41:19.800 views on sexual ethics will be much easier to discuss. You say, okay, if that's disordered,

00:41:25.080 then what would be rightly ordered? What, what are men and women supposed to do with one another? 0.91

00:41:30.000 What obligations do I have? What does the natural law say about this? What does revealed religion 0.75

00:41:35.720 say about this? And how has this worked throughout history? This is not to say that you need to be

00:41:41.040 mean and cruel to your gay friends and family members. Divorce is wrong too. Should you get 0.98

00:41:48.620 divorced? No. Does this mean that you can never speak to a divorced person? You can never have a

00:41:53.680 divorced person over to dinner? No, it doesn't mean that either. Does it mean that you need to disown

00:41:58.220 your family that gets divorced or it doesn't get married in the church or that doesn't do this?

00:42:02.340 No, it doesn't. I don't think it means any of that. But on the flip side, you also don't need to lie

00:42:09.000 about your beliefs or about things that had been plainly understood for most of human history until

00:42:14.980 very recently. You don't need to do that either. I don't, I don't think there's anything compassionate

00:42:18.860 about that. I don't think there's anything particularly respectful about that. And you're,

00:42:24.340 I think your friends, if they're good, strong, sturdy, normal people, I think they'll get that.

00:42:30.040 And you can have a little bit of self-effacement there too. If a gay friend of yours says, what,

00:42:35.580 you don't think that this is perfectly the most totally normal, wonderful thing to be celebrated

00:42:39.360 with pride parades going up and down the street all the time? You say, no, I don't think so.

00:42:42.840 And look, there's some things about me that are a little bit off kilter too, all right? So it's not,

00:42:46.460 I'm not saying it's a unique you thing, all right? And nor, nor is it the worst sin that you can

00:42:51.300 commit. I think a sin like fraud or betrayal of your benefactor, I think that would probably be

00:42:56.460 considerably worse. But nor do you have to say, this is wonderful and we need to have pride parades 1.00

00:43:00.560 for it. You can, you can have, you can, you can speak about these issues with complexity and nuance

00:43:07.200 and calmness too. Usually it's the people when they get really, really angry and red in the face,

00:43:11.820 that is evidence that they don't really know what they're talking about and they're not really

00:43:15.200 confident in their beliefs. All right, next question. Hey, Michael. So I have a question on

00:43:21.200 how to deal with these discussions I have with people on abortion and how to check the just

00:43:26.920 absolute rage I feel in my heart when I speak with them or try to have these discussions.

00:43:34.020 I have a person I grew up with that had a discussion today. They were once again comparing

00:43:38.640 a fetus to a tapeworm or a parasite. And I explained once again, how this is a completely

00:43:44.340 illogical conclusion. It's stupid. And they go on, you know, with all these arguments and their other 1.00

00:43:50.080 friends about how it's not really a baby and it's okay to do it. It's my choice. And all the

00:43:55.060 talking points about how, oh, people who are, you know, poor and, you know, whatever, having a baby

00:44:00.260 is going to ruin their life. And so I point out that she has her daughter with no father in the

00:44:05.380 picture, poor, living at home with her mother, all the conditions that are met to justify abortions 1.00

00:44:10.220 for others. And I said, by, you know, your own logic, your daughter shouldn't exist. And the absolute 1.00

00:44:14.420 insanity they go off on is just, it's really hard to comprehend because apparently I'm the a-hole for

00:44:21.240 making it personal, but then they don't understand it when you don't make it personal. It's just

00:44:25.080 abstract to them. It's just a clump of cells. And then you make it personal and you're the bad guy.

00:44:29.840 Like, how do I deal with this? And just the anger I feel when they start spouting off heretical

00:44:35.920 quotes from the Bible and then saying, I'm the person who is against Jesus because I'm judging them

00:44:41.220 for doing things that are obviously evil when they are trying to play God by killing the unborn.

00:44:47.520 Thank you for all you do and look forward to your advice. Thanks.

00:44:51.940 Great question. Totally dovetails off the last question. You mentioned that your friend flies

00:44:57.220 off the handle. I expect that to happen. You should not. One of the keys to being persuasive in a debate,

00:45:06.220 whether it's a debate with someone you're talking to directly and you're just trying to persuade them,

00:45:11.000 or whether it's a public debate and you're not really trying to persuade the other guy,

00:45:13.800 you're trying to persuade the audience. One of the most effective tools that you have

00:45:17.220 is to remain calm. Just remain calm, even if they're screaming at you and yelling at you.

00:45:22.260 When you become really, really angry, you lose a lot of your ability to persuade people.

00:45:27.780 I don't think you're wrong to bring up a personal example. I think that can be very powerful,

00:45:33.300 but it's got to be done in a really calm way.

00:45:36.460 So if you say, if you had an abortion, your daughter wouldn't even be here. Could you imagine

00:45:42.260 if you, you know, that's going to put someone much more on the defensive where you say, well,

00:45:45.560 no, here's actually, darling, here's the problem with what you're saying is just by the logic of

00:45:52.040 what you're saying, your daughter wouldn't exist. And we all know that nobody wants that. People want

00:45:56.700 your daughter to exist. So therefore, there's probably something just a little bit gone wrong in

00:46:00.520 your thoughts. And your friend might fly off the handle too, but I think she will be less likely

00:46:05.480 to fly off the handle. People who are calm, who can just explain logically and rationally why they

00:46:11.180 believe what they believe are very persuasive. All right, let's get to one written question,

00:46:16.280 at least. Though I love my voice mailbag questions, be sure to submit them. When you submit them,

00:46:19.860 by the way, try to keep them relatively short. You know, a minute or less is important here.

00:46:24.240 If you go on too long, we can't use them in the show. All right, from Amanda.

00:46:27.220 Michael, there's a lot of talk right now about the gas prices and whether or not it's Biden's

00:46:32.060 fault the prices are rising. Can you lay out the reasons why we were in this situation and why and

00:46:36.440 if the fault is with the current administration? Yes, it is largely Joe Biden's fault. It's not

00:46:42.940 entirely Joe Biden's fault, but it's largely Joe Biden's fault. It's Joe Biden's fault. Well,

00:46:47.860 one, the most immediate driver of gas prices is the war in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine is largely

00:46:52.880 Joe Biden's fault. Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, said as much. When Joe Biden came into

00:46:59.180 office, there were sanctions on a Russian oil pipeline called Nord Stream 2. The Nord Stream 2

00:47:04.620 pipeline was one of the keys for Vladimir Putin feeling that he was able to invade Ukraine because

00:47:11.780 he would be able to avoid Ukraine and continue to ship his gas and oil to Europe. Biden comes into

00:47:18.080 office, almost immediately gets rid of those sanctions. He later on puts sanctions back onto

00:47:23.260 Russia, but Zelensky said it was too late. If you guys had just had these sanctions on earlier,

00:47:27.920 Zelensky believes the invasion of Ukraine wouldn't have happened. So that I put at Joe Biden's feet.

00:47:32.940 We're also not producing oil pipelines. Now, Biden has only shut down one oil pipeline,

00:47:39.140 but to shut down one oil pipeline is to shut down all of the new oil pipelines because there are always

00:47:43.780 going to be opposition campaigns from local groups if you build an oil pipeline. So if you're going to

00:47:49.640 build it, you need to know the government's got your back. If the government is coming down and

00:47:52.580 shutting down one of them, then you're just not going to get new ones. And then Biden also says

00:47:55.820 no more new oil and gas leases. So even just looking toward the future, a year out, two years out,

00:48:01.720 three years out, a lot of these things being priced in right now, the oil and gas industry knows,

00:48:06.320 okay, well, we're not going to be able to build an America under this administration. So that's his fault too.

00:48:10.220 There are always other factors going on, shutting down the world. That was a big factor

00:48:15.080 in gas prices going up. This return to commerce and business is creating a huge demand where supply

00:48:22.700 had been restricted. That's going to cause prices to go up. It's not just Biden's fault that we shut

00:48:27.120 down the whole world, but Trump in many ways acquiesced to it. But it was the libs who were

00:48:31.520 driving that. It was in our country, it was the Democrats who were really driving that effort.

00:48:35.160 It was Republicans broadly who were trying to pull back a little bit. So is it all Biden's fault?

00:48:38.920 It's not all Biden's fault, but it is broadly the fault of the libs. I'm Michael Knowles.

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