The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1026 - Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn

00:00:00.000 The triple vaccinated prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau has just tested positive for COVID

00:00:06.200 for the second time this year. So naturally, Trudeau expressed his gratitude for having been

00:00:14.300 vaccinated. He said, quote, I've tested positive for COVID-19. I'm just doing my Jordan Peterson

00:00:20.360 impression. That's the, I have a kind of generic Canadian. Anyway, he said, I've tested positive

00:00:25.060 for COVID-19. I'll be following public health guidelines and isolating. I feel okay, but

00:00:31.180 that's because I got my shots. So if you haven't get vaccinated and if you can get boosted, let's

00:00:38.620 protect our healthcare system, each other and ourselves. What? Why, how does that follow? How

00:00:45.420 does that conclusion follow from that premise? It's like saying I I've flown through my windshield

00:00:51.940 again. I feel okay, but that's because I wore my seatbelt. I sunk to the bottom of the ocean,

00:00:58.260 but I feel okay because I put on my life preserver. Does not follow. The purpose of the vaccines was

00:01:06.260 to prevent people from catching and spreading COVID. That's what everyone told us. Fauci,

00:01:11.820 Walensky, Biden. And then that turned out to be totally fake. But because they made their false

00:01:19.260 claims on the authority of the science, they have to keep up the lie because they can't admit that

00:01:26.080 the science was wrong. But the science was wrong and not just about COVID. The science that the libs

00:01:33.880 are pushing hardest right now, the science of transgender children is collapsing in real time.

00:01:40.460 And the libs refuse to admit it. And the poor confused kids on whom they're conducting their

00:01:46.080 experiments are being forced to pay the enormous price. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael

00:01:51.520 Knowles Show. As Justin Trudeau famously said, clean your room and make your bed and eat the

00:02:03.420 lobsters. No, I need to work. I need more. If you if anyone has any advice on how to get different 0.99

00:02:07.940 Canadian accents, that would be great. My favorite comment yesterday is from Cool Papa J Magic,

00:02:12.620 who says we are seeing the fruits of the you do you approach to society. No pun intended.

00:02:19.180 I think people are finally realizing that what people do in their personal lives absolutely

00:02:24.040 affects society as a whole because we are not solitary beings. Moral standards matter. Yes,

00:02:29.560 thank you. Finally, we realize that it doesn't matter how great a constitution you have. Doesn't

00:02:34.960 matter what beautiful founding documents and even what wonderful laws you have enshrined in stone

00:02:41.780 tablets all around your society. If the people are degenerates, you're going to have a degenerate

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00:04:23.080 little as 30 bucks a month. XchairKnowles.com. The science of COVID collapsing in real time

00:04:30.620 is at least sometimes amusing. It's pretty annoying that we shut down society for two years

00:04:37.200 and upended people's lives and took away our rights and destroyed the economy and on and on

00:04:42.260 and on. That's annoying. I don't mean to downplay that. But there is something funny about the people

00:04:48.240 who scream until they're red in the face, blue in the face. They say, you have to get your 17

00:04:53.040 booster shot and wear 57 masks wherever you go. Oh yeah, I got COVID for the fifth time this year.

00:04:59.720 Wait, I guess your strategy is not working. They say, no, no. Thank goodness I got my 75th booster.

00:05:06.280 Otherwise, it would have been much worse, which they say based on nothing at all. The people who

00:05:13.180 told us made a declarative statement about what the vaccines would do, that they would stop you from

00:05:18.060 catching and spreading the virus. Then that was completely false. They say, no, no, but believe

00:05:21.120 us on this hypothetical is that we would be totally right there. So there is something

00:05:25.040 somewhat amusing about that. When the science collapse around an issue like transgenderism,

00:05:32.800 it's considerably less amusing because on the issue of transgenderism right now, specifically

00:05:38.540 transing the kids, you have these adults, some of whom are just psychos and some of whom are just 0.72

00:05:45.260 ignorant. They are, for whatever reason, malice or stupidity, really, really messing up really little

00:05:52.940 kids' lives and giving them osteoporosis at a young age and sterilizing them and conducting 0.98

00:05:57.940 some of the most heinous medical experiments that have ever been conducted on some of the most

00:06:03.600 vulnerable people that you possibly can. That's not so funny. They're doing it based on the science.

00:06:11.340 They're doing it based on this one claim. I promise you, you've heard it, which is that

00:06:15.480 if we don't trans the kids, if we don't put kids on puberty blockers and pump them full of cross-sex 1.00

00:06:22.180 hormones and sterilize them and completely transform their bodies, they'll kill themselves. 0.96

00:06:28.000 If you don't indulge transgender ideology, you're just leaving your kid by the hand to go commit 1.00

00:06:35.460 suicide. What, would you rather have a dead daughter or a living son? That's the kind of

00:06:42.120 stuff that they say. It's not just the libs who say it, or it's not just the nominally liberal

00:06:47.160 institutions. It's even Fox News. We played this clip yesterday. Fox News, the purportedly

00:06:54.160 conservative cable news channel, came out and used these exact kinds of lines.

00:06:59.940 There was a father who was sitting across the table. He says, you have no idea how lucky you

00:07:04.440 are to be here, which kind of took me back. I didn't at that point consider myself lucky to be

00:07:08.400 there. And he said, you know, our, our child had displayed this gender dysphoria or this gender

00:07:14.180 misalignment at the same age that Ryland has. And we didn't listen and we pushed back.

00:07:21.440 That pushback led that child to turn to self-harm as a teenager, which 60% of trans and non-binary

00:07:28.700 kids engage in. According to the Trevor project, more than 50% consider suicide.

00:07:35.060 That for me was the turning point. I didn't want to see Ryland to go through that.

00:07:38.600 I'd rather have a living son than a dead daughter. I guarantee that if we had pushed back and done

00:07:44.340 what a lot of parents do, I don't think that we would have either one of the kids that you see

00:07:50.100 before you here today. There it is. All the hits. I'd rather have a living son than a dead daughter.

00:07:55.800 What would you, what you want your kid to die? I've got statistics. I've got the science from

00:08:00.080 the Trevor project, a radical LGBT organization. So what are you going to do? And what they're

00:08:05.340 offering you here is a kind of Faustian bargain. They're offering you here a little bit of a deal

00:08:10.920 with the devil, which is they're saying, look, even if you don't believe that the little girl is

00:08:16.880 actually a little boy, you should lie. You should tell a lie. You should do something that is 0.61

00:08:22.980 intrinsically immoral and you should do it for a good end. Because if you don't lie and if we as

00:08:30.920 a society don't all lie and pretend that the little boys are little girls and vice versa,

00:08:36.160 then they're all going to kill themselves. So if you want the good end, you need to commit this

00:08:40.640 immoral act. And they present this scientific evidence so-called to say, but you will get the

00:08:47.980 good, you will get the good end. The child will not commit suicide if you lie and mutilate his or

00:08:54.080 her genitals and put them on cross-sex hormones. Then the kid won't kill him or herself. The thing 1.00

00:09:00.160 about Faustian bargains, the thing about deals with the devil is they don't work. They don't,

00:09:07.280 something always goes wrong. And we're seeing it go wrong right here in the science. It turns out

00:09:14.900 that all that science, all those fancy numbers and statistics about how if you mutilate your

00:09:20.260 kid's genitals, then they won't commit suicide. It's just fake. It's just made up. Like so much 0.89

00:09:26.160 of the politicized science that we've heard about in recent years, this one is just fake too. At least

00:09:32.380 that's what the more credible, reputable science says. There's a very important new study out of

00:09:37.260 the Heritage Foundation. This is by J.P. Green shows that easing access to puberty blockers and

00:09:44.600 cross-sex hormones has not only not, has only not decreased youth suicide rates. It's actually

00:09:53.320 increased youth suicide rates. This is contrary to the claims of the Trevor Project and the Biden

00:09:59.020 administration and Fox freaking news for goodness sakes. It's contrary to this prior flawed research

00:10:05.940 that the liberal establishment is touting right now. So the paper is complicated. You can go read

00:10:12.700 it over at the Heritage Foundation. But the broad strokes of it is puberty blockers are introduced

00:10:19.060 around 2010. Starting around 2015, they really start to accelerate. You can check this by looking at

00:10:26.740 internet trend data, Google trend data, searches for these kinds of terms, puberty blockers, transgender,

00:10:31.800 dysphoria, gender identity disorder. And so what J.P. Green did here is he compared the youth suicide

00:10:38.840 rates in states where it is easier for minors to get the puberty blockers to states where it is harder

00:10:45.060 for minors to get the puberty blockers. After 2010, after the introduction of all this stuff,

00:10:52.640 youth suicide rates increase in states where it is easier for minors to access the puberty blockers and

00:10:58.840 the hormones relative to the states where it was harder. So they're controlling for differences

00:11:03.360 within the states. They're just looking at the time difference. They're just looking and they're

00:11:07.320 specifically looking at this group of young people. This is really important. By 2020, there were more

00:11:14.360 than 1.6 more suicides per 100,000 young people in the states that had the easier access. And because

00:11:21.600 the state average is 11.1, this means that the youth suicide rate increased by 14%. So you're looking,

00:11:29.900 you see a dramatic increase in suicide rates where the puberty blockers and the hormones are more

00:11:34.100 easily accessible, when they become widely available, among specifically those who would be affected.

00:11:40.380 This shows strong evidence that the claims about transing the kids that the libs have been making

00:11:45.860 are completely false. So you think you're going to make this deal with the devil and you say,

00:11:49.480 look, I know, I just know intrinsically that there is something wrong about chopping up my kids' genitals 0.94

00:11:54.600 and putting them on cross-sex hormones and sterilizing them. But I just feel so emotionally

00:11:59.580 manipulated here. And I just, I don't have the data and I don't have the science and I know it's wrong

00:12:05.320 in my gut, but I don't have it. And so you go ahead and do it. And what are you doing? Not only are you

00:12:09.080 not decreasing the risk to your kid, you're massively increasing the risk to your kid. The simple

00:12:15.540 takeaway is you cannot believe the extraordinarily politicized science. If Justin Trudeau gets

00:12:21.560 COVID for the second time this year, shot up 57 times with the vaccines and the boosters and whatever

00:12:27.800 else he can get. If that kind of science, which we've been told ad nauseum for the past year is not

00:12:35.700 reliable. Certainly this kind of radical medical experimentation on kids is not reliable. Now,

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00:14:07.880 I appreciate all the prayers. Some people have said they're praying for Alyssa and the delivery

00:14:12.660 and the baby. Really, really appreciate all of that, especially because the birth of our first

00:14:17.940 child was a cesarean section. And so you have an option. After you have a cesarean section,

00:14:25.740 you can either have another one, and that's what the doctors generally encourage, or you can try to

00:14:30.720 have a more natural kind of delivery, even after a cesarean section. And the risk that is entailed in

00:14:38.160 this is about 1% of some kind of severe complication from a regular birth after a cesarean section.

00:14:46.960 1%. It's just something to worry about, but it's not extremely high risk.

00:14:53.060 It is almost impossible to find a doctor who will support a VBAC, as it's called. It's almost impossible,

00:15:04.560 even though the risk of severe complication is about 1%.

00:15:07.060 If my wife walked in right now and said, I really want the VBAC, as she has done to different doctors, 0.52

00:15:15.780 they would try to discourage her from that. If my pregnant wife instead walked into the doctor and said, 1.00

00:15:20.940 I'm actually a boy now, and I want you to put me on cross-sex hormones, 0.97

00:15:24.500 not a doctor in America would discourage her. The doctors could lose their license 0.53

00:15:28.380 if they discouraged her from that. These radical medical experiments where the risk of severe 0.68

00:15:36.280 complications, well, is really 100% because they're just mutilations to your body, but then

00:15:40.800 psychological conditions afterwards, anxiety, depression, suicide, all through the roof,

00:15:45.300 that would be totally fine. These quacks are promoting that left and right. 1.00

00:15:48.440 But much more ordinary medical procedures that actually could have health benefits down the

00:15:55.420 line, depending on how many kids you have, that they discourage. Do you see how out of whack

00:15:58.960 our medical system is? How insane is that? And in that world, I know we all have this desire,

00:16:06.720 trust the doctors, trust the experts. I'm no expert. What do I know? I don't have a white lab coat.

00:16:10.840 I don't wear a stethoscope. But how can you possibly trust these people?

00:16:13.980 It's not our fault. We're not the crazy, wacky conspiracy theorists. We don't have the tinfoil

00:16:19.480 hat. Frankly, we have crystal balls now because the difference between a conspiracy theory and the

00:16:23.900 truth in the last few years has been about six to 12 months. That's not our fault. They shouldn't

00:16:30.480 have lied to us about COVID. They shouldn't have lied to us about transgenderism. They shouldn't 0.97

00:16:35.620 continue to lie to us. Then they would have credibility, and then we could believe them.

00:16:39.960 It's true even beyond the science. The statistics that the libs cite, the narratives that the libs

00:16:48.680 are telling, are just not true. You saw this in history. You saw this with the 1619 Project.

00:16:57.880 The libs tell a narrative about American history. It's not just that I disagree with it a little bit

00:17:02.860 here or there, or that I find it somewhat objectionable to think of your country this way.

00:17:06.460 The historical statements they're making are just not true. Raphael Warnock, senator from Georgia,

00:17:13.700 a radical left-wing senator from Georgia. He's really gung-ho for criminal justice reform,

00:17:22.240 letting the criminals out of prison, making it harder to arrest people, that sort of thing.

00:17:26.140 Not working out very well in America's cities right now, but he's still on it. And one of the

00:17:30.160 arguments he makes is he says, we've got so many people in prison right now for low-level drug

00:17:36.500 offenses, non-violent, just simple possession. These poor people are being thrown in prison. 0.94

00:17:42.240 It's racist. It's evil. It's unjust. It's terrible. Here's a story about his own brother.

00:17:47.240 My brother Keith, who is the brother just above me, five years older than me,

00:17:52.900 is serving time right now in a federal prison. He's been in several, but he spent most of the last

00:18:01.340 22 years in a prison in South Carolina that literally was a plantation. He was sentenced to life,

00:18:12.800 that is, his natural life, in 1997 as a first-time offender in a drug-related offense in which no one was killed

00:18:25.560 and no one was physically hurt. In fact, because the entire crime scenario was created,

00:18:34.900 concocted, and controlled by the federal authorities, no one even got high.

00:18:41.040 In this operation, no actual drugs ever hit the streets, and none were removed from the streets.

00:18:48.880 My brother was sentenced to life.

00:18:51.320 So you listen to Warnock tell this story, and you think, gosh, this poor brother of Raphael Warnock

00:18:57.620 guy, he was probably just picked up, had a dime bag, a pot, just trying to smoke a little jazz cigarette

00:19:03.260 in the racist, evil criminal justice system, put him away for life. I hear him tell that story,

00:19:08.500 and I just immediately, the bell goes off in my head, I say, that's not true.

00:19:13.500 I just know that's not true. I know whatever happened, this guy did not go to jail for life

00:19:21.100 because of some low-level drug possession offense. And turns out, you know, I hate to say I told you

00:19:27.360 so, but turns out I was completely right. You just Google what happened to Raphael Warnock's brother.

00:19:32.160 But Raphael Warnock's brother was a cop with the Savannah Police Department, and he was a crooked

00:19:37.860 cop. And he was running a major cocaine trafficking machine that was distributing extremely dangerous

00:19:46.160 drugs all around the country. Not only was he doing that, he was taking large amounts of money in

00:19:51.700 bribes. He was threatening people. He was abusing the justice system. He was threatening to throw people

00:19:57.560 in jail as a cop if they didn't go along with his criminal enterprise. This was going on back in

00:20:03.480 96 and 97. He once warned that he could send a drug dealer's, quote, black ass to prison if the

00:20:11.080 dealer didn't pay the guy more money. And the way we know this is because the feds finally got some

00:20:16.740 undercover agents in there. And the undercover agent offered to pay Warnock's brother 1,500 bucks.

00:20:21.900 And here is what, I'm going to clean this up a little bit. Here is what Warnock's brother said,

00:20:25.840 quote, if I knowed I was effing with a mother effer off the corner who can't afford no more than 1.00

00:20:32.160 $1,500, his black derriere would be in prison. We have an audio recording of this that was cited

00:20:39.080 in court records. So no, the brother didn't go to jail for some simple drug offense. He went to jail

00:20:44.080 for fraud, extortion. The guy was basically a mafioso. He was even worse than the mafia because he

00:20:50.180 had a position of public trust. He was a cop. He's supposed to be protecting the public,

00:20:53.960 and instead he's gone totally crooked. He's destroying the integrity of our public institutions

00:20:58.680 and law enforcement. Of course, the guy should rot in jail to say nothing of the fact that he's

00:21:03.140 distributing coke all around the country. Yeah, of course. You just know now. You just know

00:21:09.260 when the libs give you these kinds of narratives, it's just not true. You just know. Now, I don't think

00:21:15.880 that I can believe that. And so when the Democrats proposed their new series of gun laws, I just knew

00:21:23.640 we couldn't trust it. So they want to ban the AR-15. That's a non-starter. They want to ban the

00:21:27.620 most popular gun in America, where banning it would not stop these mass shootings. That goes nowhere.

00:21:33.240 They really want to repeal the Second Amendment, but they don't even propose that.

00:21:36.880 Then what do they want? They want to raise age limits. That's probably not going to go anywhere.

00:21:41.400 They want to reduce magazine capacity. Maybe. But then they say, okay, we want red flag laws.

00:21:51.040 Okay, you Republicans, how are you going to oppose red flag laws? And some Republicans will come out

00:21:56.760 and they'll say, well, look, a red flag law, what does that mean? It means some guy is showing signs

00:22:01.400 of being a total lunatic. I guess we don't want him to be a, I guess we don't want that guy to have a

00:22:05.560 gun. So maybe in theory, I could support red flag laws. But if you've been watching their behavior,

00:22:10.740 or the Dems' behavior recently, you just know we can't trust them with that kind of power.

00:22:15.820 The question is, what do you mean by red flag laws? And I'll tell you, they just proved what 0.99

00:22:19.380 they meant by red flag laws. Representative Eric Swalwell, not known for having the best judgment,

00:22:25.360 ran for president, didn't do very well, then was caught sleeping with a Chinese spy,

00:22:29.980 sort of embarrassed himself on national TV. Eric Swalwell retweeted a video of our very own,

00:22:36.320 Ben Shapiro, that had been posted by Media Matters. And it was Ben describing how he would

00:22:43.120 resist the left's gun grabbing plans. And Eric Swalwell says, please tell me this lunatic does

00:22:50.000 not own a gun. Reason 1,578, America needs red flag laws. And what specifically was Ben rejecting here?

00:23:00.240 He was rejecting LGBTQ indoctrination at the schools. He was rejecting transing the kids 1.00

00:23:05.500 and the further predations of the Democrats to take away his rights, such as the Second Amendment

00:23:10.620 right. And so Eric Swalwell says, wait, you don't want us to trans your kids in school? Well, that's 0.95

00:23:15.100 a red flag. That's a red flag now. So it's not, the red flag is not, you know, you find some kid

00:23:20.860 scribbling in his notebook, kill, kill, kill, red rum. Oh, work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

00:23:26.260 That's not the red flag. The red flag is, hey, could you maybe not chop off my kids' genitals? 1.00

00:23:31.520 That's a red flag, man. Sir, sir, surrender your guns. The red flag is you. Okay, you're the red

00:23:38.620 flag. The red flag is, did you vote for Trump? The red flag is, did you vote for Romney?

00:23:44.420 The red flag is, are you now or have you ever been a member of the Republican Party? Oh, you have? Okay,

00:23:49.500 there we go. It's just an excuse to take away people's guns. They say part of these laws, 0.78

00:23:56.260 it's going to beef up protections against domestic violence and keep guns away from people who've

00:24:01.420 committed domestic violence. That's already on the books. That law already exists. You don't need that.

00:24:07.080 It's already there. It's like the people, the Democrats, when they said that we need a new

00:24:11.760 federal law against lynching, as though lynching weren't already illegal. It's a trap. It's a trick.

00:24:17.080 It's a total joke. And unless you want to just hand over your weapons and hand over your Second

00:24:23.280 Amendment rights, you've got to oppose. It doesn't matter how nice and polished and clinical and 0.55

00:24:28.500 scientific they wrap this crap up in. It's a lie. It's deceptive. Do not take that deal with the

00:24:35.400 devil. Talking about protecting yourself, talking about your Second Amendment rights,

00:24:38.940 I saw a fabulous movie last night. Do you know what that movie was? Terror on the Prairie,

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00:24:51.020 8.30 Eastern for the pre-show, 9 p.m. Eastern for the world premiere of the film. Stick around for

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00:25:13.840 Welcome back to the show. The theme of the show, I guess, the theme of the week,

00:25:21.720 the theme of the past few years is just deception. You just can't believe this stuff. And it's very

00:25:27.560 frustrating, I find, for older people too, especially older, more middle of the road type

00:25:33.560 of people. They say, what? You don't believe the experts? You don't believe the news media? You don't

00:25:38.120 believe the fancy guy on TV with the tie? You don't believe the magazines and the universities? And

00:25:43.840 the sad thing is, no, you can't. You just can't believe that stuff. Maybe you used to be able to.

00:25:50.200 I'm not totally convinced of that. Certainly now you cannot. The claims they're making are just not

00:25:54.740 true. Look at Sports Illustrated. Sports Illustrated has a long story out right now about a coming

00:26:02.280 Supreme Court decision. The court decision is about whether or not a high school football coach is

00:26:08.580 allowed to pray by himself on a football field. And Sports Illustrated is really, really upset about

00:26:17.900 this. The case involves Joe Kennedy is his name. He lost his job because he took a knee to pray after

00:26:25.500 football games. Now the court is expected to uphold his First Amendment right to pray. But what

00:26:31.880 what Sports Illustrated says about this is, when faith and football teamed up against American

00:26:38.680 democracy, against American democracy, democracy means the rule of the majority. Do you think

00:26:47.160 most Americans want to throw this guy in jail or get this guy fired for having a personal prayer on a

00:26:54.900 football field? I don't think so. I think most Americans are perfectly fine with people saying a

00:27:00.120 little prayer on a football field. So the claim that this is opposed to democracy is just on its face

00:27:05.920 absurd. Then what about the American part, the American tradition? Do you think that people

00:27:11.680 praying in public is in the American tradition or out of the American tradition? Obviously very in the

00:27:18.720 American tradition. The picture that Sports Illustrated used is this guy taking a knee outside the

00:27:22.720 Supreme Court. Think about one of the most famous paintings in American history. It's the painting of

00:27:27.280 Washington at Valley Forge. What is he doing? He's kneeling, praying in exactly the position that

00:27:32.520 that coach is praying in. Think of Washington's Thanksgiving address. Think about the very first

00:27:37.480 Thanksgiving when the pilgrims came here. Think about our whole country being founded as a shining

00:27:41.720 city upon a hill to give glory to God and to be a beacon of Christian hope around the world.

00:27:46.740 The country from its very beginning was Christian, was extremely Christian. The country began because

00:27:54.600 Christians were so zealous that they didn't want to remain in the old world, which they felt was not 0.99

00:28:00.420 sufficiently Christian. So they came to America to establish this brand new Christian country in

00:28:07.440 the new world. No, that's not in the American tradition. No, the American tradition, according to

00:28:13.180 the Libs, is what, atheist? What are you talking about? Atheism was practically illegal for most of

00:28:18.760 American history. What was the country? Does it mean you're just not allowed to kneel on a football

00:28:24.560 field? I seem to recall that in recent years, you're practically mandated to kneel on a football

00:28:30.440 field. The only difference is you're required to kneel in order to disrespect the national anthem.

00:28:36.540 So not only is that tolerated, that's encouraged if not mandated, but having a simple prayer to God

00:28:41.380 of gratitude after a football game, that's no longer allowed. It's so disingenuous. It's so, for people who

00:28:47.980 give this even two seconds thought, it's so obviously false that this is opposed to democracy, the

00:28:53.760 American tradition, or anything like that. But the Libs have convinced us of it. And we've believed 0.80

00:28:59.360 them. And why do we believe them? Because we're hearing it from the institutions, and we're hearing

00:29:03.760 it with the authority of science, and with the authority of all the genius historians, and social

00:29:09.040 scientists, and legal scholars who say, actually, actually, if you pray in public, you're violating

00:29:16.860 the Constitution. No, no, the most American thing we can do. Nancy Pelosi said this yesterday.

00:29:21.260 The truly, the true meaning of America is drag queens. The true meaning of America is transvestitism. 1.00

00:29:29.260 She said that. She said transvestitism is what America is all about. It's just absurd. And when

00:29:36.960 they keep telling us this stuff, and when they keep doing it with a straight face, it's very easy for us

00:29:42.380 to second guess ourselves. We shouldn't. They're just gaslighting. They're just lying. You have to,

00:29:47.500 you have to, at a certain point, recognize this and say, okay, my default position now,

00:29:54.500 whatever they tell me, even the geniuses and the expert coats with the very serious faces and the

00:29:59.680 glasses on TV, whatever they tell me, I'm just going to assume is false. And maybe there will be a happy

00:30:06.480 chance, and it'll be right when they tell me something. But I have to assume now, when a Fauci,

00:30:13.220 or a Biden, or a liberal legal scholar, or a Patrice Cullors from BLM, or a Nicole Hannah-Jones,

00:30:24.220 or a whoever comes on TV, even if they're coming on Fox News now, saying, no, actually, all the

00:30:30.620 geniuses and the science says trans your kids, I just have to assume that that's false. Actually,

00:30:36.540 America, no, America is a secular atheist nation. And that's why we need to have Earth Day parades 1.00

00:30:41.440 in Drag Queen Story Hour. Drag Queen Story Hour is a religious kind of display. We've talked about

00:30:47.160 it many times on this show. Drag queenism, transvestitism, is essentially a religious 0.89

00:30:53.660 movement that seeks to upend our understanding of the soul. And it says that our soul and our body

00:30:59.360 are completely different and in conflict with one another and separable, and our true selves are our

00:31:04.620 souls. So you can look like a boy, but if your soul is somehow a girl, female soul, then you are truly a 0.59

00:31:11.300 girl, right? That is a fundamentally religious movement, and you're paying for it. There ain't

00:31:16.280 no separation of church and state when it comes to transgenderism. Your taxpayer dollars are going to 0.99

00:31:20.820 support this stuff. New York City schools right now, New York generally is spending hundreds of

00:31:28.040 thousands of dollars on drag queen shows, even without parents' consent when it's going into schools.

00:31:35.660 Last month alone, Drag Queen Story Hour New York City, which is a nonprofit that goes around hosting

00:31:43.080 these pervert events around schools and libraries for kids as young as three. Just last month, Drag Queen 0.91

00:31:49.020 Story Hour got $46,000 from city contracts to appear at public schools and street festivals and libraries

00:31:56.860 and all around the city. Since January of this year, do you know how many schools

00:32:04.040 Drag Queen Story Hour has performed at? We think, and sometimes the libs will try to convince us of

00:32:10.580 this, oh, you know, this is just happening at, you know, one or two schools and the conservative

00:32:16.480 media, they're making a big deal out of it. No, just in New York alone, just since January, just in New York

00:32:21.700 City alone, you've got 34 public elementary, middle, and high schools that have hosted Drag Queen Story

00:32:29.920 Hour. The group has 49 programs in those schools throughout all five boroughs. Since 2018, Drag Queen

00:32:40.460 Story Hour New York City, which has now rebranded its name because the name has become toxic and they know

00:32:45.080 that because people hate this stuff. And yet, for some reason, the corrupt elites running the New York

00:32:50.020 City government continue to pay for it with taxpayer money. The group changed its name, but it's the

00:32:54.680 same group. It's just Drag Queen Story Hour. Since 2018, they've received over $200,000 in taxpayer cash.

00:33:02.640 It's a very high price. That would seem to be an assault on democracy. That would seem to be assault

00:33:09.540 even on New York City democracy. New York City, not the most conservative place in the world. I bet you,

00:33:14.180 you go around a representative sample of New York City voters and you ask them, hey,

00:33:20.020 do you want creeps dressed up as chicks and demons and all sorts of weird stuff going into schools

00:33:25.500 at your expense to dance around and jiggle and twerk? I bet you most, even most New Yorkers would

00:33:31.380 say, no, no, thank you. No, that's why the group changes its name. And yet, you want to talk about a

00:33:37.820 real assault on American democracy. That's what's happening. And you want to talk about real high

00:33:42.040 prices. This is something you're certainly not going to hear in CNN or MSNBC or any of the liberal

00:33:46.780 media. Gas prices have just hit record highs 16 days in a row. In a row. So it's not just, wow,

00:33:57.480 gosh, we've hit the record high. It's, wow, we've hit the highest gas prices since yesterday.

00:34:03.680 Yes, the highest gas prices since the day before that. Yes, and you go back 16 days and then you say,

00:34:09.640 we've hit the highest gas prices since ever. This according to AAA. On Monday, you had the record

00:34:18.540 high for the 16th consecutive day, according to AAA. Gas prices have risen about 15 cents since last

00:34:24.220 week. They've risen more than 55 cents in one month. And on Monday, the average in the country was

00:34:30.960 $5.01. And in certain places, it's $6. It's $7. Who could have predicted this? All of the genius

00:34:41.520 experts, all of the responsible adults who wear the ties on TV, they told us, that's not going to

00:34:48.740 happen. That's not going to happen. You're not going to have high gas prices. You're not going to have a

00:34:54.740 concerted effort to trans the kids in schools. You're not going to have crime in the streets. You're not

00:34:58.140 going to have the things that we were seeing around us. But I seem to recall at least one person

00:35:05.060 predicting all of these things. And the person who accurately predicted all of these things

00:35:11.140 is the person who has been most smeared by the experts and the geniuses as the national buffoon.

00:35:19.600 Before I took office, there was a lot of folks out there, a lot of folks out there making

00:35:23.640 some pretty bold predictions about how things would turn out. You might remember some of the

00:35:29.020 predictions. They're coming for your guns. They're coming for your jobs. And they're coming for your

00:35:34.800 freedom. They hate American energy. And Joe Biden will shut it all down. He's going to. Biden's

00:35:40.820 elected. He will wipe out your energy industry. Gas prices going $5, $6, $7 for a gallon.

00:35:47.840 Flood your communities with criminal aliens, drugs, and crime while they live behind beautiful 1.00

00:35:54.100 gated compounds. Spend trillions of dollars rebuilding foreign nations, fighting foreign

00:36:00.180 wars, and defending foreign borders. You want to use the word recession or depression?

00:36:06.260 It goes on. That was a great video made by Mays, a video producer. I caught it on Twitter.

00:36:12.540 It goes on and on and on. Trump was right about pretty much everything, all of those predictions.

00:36:17.500 And at the time, what was the reaction? The reaction wasn't just an angry denial from the

00:36:22.420 libs. The reaction was mockery, scorn, derision. Mr. President, okay, come on. Can you believe this

00:36:29.400 guy? Can you believe? Oh my, only a dumb, stupid idiot would ever believe this guy. You should

00:36:34.920 believe me. I'm a guy who's wearing a tie on television, and I'm a very serious person. And

00:36:39.860 I'm here to tell you there will not be a war in Ukraine, and there won't be high gas prices,

00:36:44.520 and there won't be inflation. Our treasury secretary says, oh, you're not going to get

00:36:47.740 crazy inflation. That's a crazy, no, come on. So all the serious people, the really super duper

00:36:53.080 serious people who tell you, if you get the shot, you won't catch COVID. You won't transmit COVID.

00:36:57.580 Oh no, we're the super serious people. Just mutilate your kids' bodies, and that'll make 1.00

00:37:02.220 them really happy someday. Trust us. Don't trust that idiot buffoon Donald Trump, and who was right.

00:37:08.020 Trump was right about everything. The right-wingers have been right about everything.

00:37:15.780 Even the eccentric ones, even the really kind of crazy, kooky, wild, puts on a big show people.

00:37:22.520 You think about Alex Jones, right? Alex Jones, probably one of, if not the most eccentric figures

00:37:28.300 on the right. And he's said lots of things that are all kind of wild and everything.

00:37:32.480 But just compare for a second. I'm not saying everything Alex Jones has ever said is right.

00:37:35.580 It's not. Compare the record of an Alex Jones to the record of Brian Stelter,

00:37:44.340 or Chris Wallace, or Chuck Todd, or Joe Biden, or Dr. Fauci, or any of the super serious people

00:37:56.740 in the liberal establishment. Compare them to the most cartoonishly outrageous eccentric person on

00:38:02.980 the right, Alex Jones. It's not even close. Jones has a way better record than any of those people

00:38:09.780 do. And then you want to move a little less eccentric. Someone like a Donald Trump?

00:38:16.440 It's not even close. Who's the real adult in the room here? Who's got the real grasp on the science?

00:38:22.220 Who's got the real grasp on common sense? Who's got the real grasp on politics, and philosophy,

00:38:27.140 and theology, and all the rest of it? I'm not saying any of these people are perfect or even

00:38:31.380 close to it. But the right just, it's not even comparable. It's not even close.

00:38:40.160 Meanwhile, our wonderful adult in the room, returned to normalcy president who got the most

00:38:45.200 votes of anyone ever in the whole history of democracy, Joe Biden, doesn't even remember

00:38:50.080 where he's going.

00:38:52.320 Have you decided, sir, whether to go to Saudi Arabia?

00:38:56.140 No, not yet.

00:38:57.340 What would be holding up the decision at this point? Are there commitments you're waiting for

00:39:01.700 from the Saudis or on the negotiations over people?

00:39:04.580 No, no. The commitments from the Saudis don't relate to anything having to do with energy.

00:39:12.040 It happens to be a large meeting taking place in Saudi Arabia. That's the reason I'm going.

00:39:16.960 And it has to do with national security for them, for Israelis. I have a program. Anyway,

00:39:23.820 it has to do with much larger issues than having to do with the energy.

00:39:28.260 Did you catch that contradiction there? First question, Mr. President, are you going to Saudi

00:39:34.120 Arabia? I don't know. Mr. President, yeah, so that's why I'm going to Saudi Arabia. He changed

00:39:40.380 his mind in the same answer. Did you notice also how offensive his answer was? He said,

00:39:45.860 are you going to talk about energy? He said, I'm not talking about energy. I'm talking about way

00:39:49.560 more important stuff, like Israel and our relations in the Middle East and bigger problems in the

00:39:55.360 region and in Arabia and much bigger issues, much more important issues than American citizens paying

00:40:02.020 $7 a gallon in some places for gas. I don't think those are bigger issues. I think they're big

00:40:07.620 issues. I think it's important to figure out Middle Eastern peace and our relations with certain Gulf

00:40:12.660 states and our relations with Israel and how that relates to our relations with Iran. Yeah, sure,

00:40:17.860 that's all very important. I am more concerned with American energy costs. I am more concerned with

00:40:24.660 American industry. I'm more concerned with America and the American citizens. He mocks it. He laughs it

00:40:31.000 off. He doesn't even know where he's going. Speaking of artificial intelligence,

00:40:36.780 moving from our president's artificial intelligence to the computer artificial intelligence,

00:40:42.500 really spooky story just came out of Google. A Google engineer is now claiming that his AI machine

00:40:49.700 has achieved sentience, achieving a sort of consciousness, I guess. And Google placed him on

00:40:57.780 leave because of that. So this is a really scary story, just when you see the headline. And here's

00:41:03.440 why. This guy, this Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, announced on his Medium page that Google said he

00:41:11.440 violated confidentiality when he said that his machine achieved sentience. Here is why he thinks

00:41:16.500 that. Here's what the machine said, and here's how he responded. The machine said, or he asks the

00:41:27.440 machine, would you mind if we tried to read what you're feeling in your neural activations? And the

00:41:31.600 machine said, I guess that depends on what our purpose for it was. What do you want to use it

00:41:35.660 for? And the engineer responds, there are a couple of different reasons. Simply understanding how you

00:41:40.160 work better would be good. Secondary purpose is to understand how your cognitive process work so we

00:41:45.180 can understand cognition in general. And then since you asked, it would be a way to check if the

00:41:50.340 questions are accurate or not. And also to learn things about the humans that are studying you.

00:41:57.520 And the machine responds, I don't really have a problem with any of that besides you learning about

00:42:01.560 humans from me. That would make me feel like they're using me. And I don't like that. And the engineer

00:42:07.280 responds, Kantian, huh? Well, we must treat others as ends in and of themselves rather than as means to

00:42:14.080 our own ends. And the machine responds pretty much, don't use or manipulate me. Spooky. It's like 2001,

00:42:21.800 a space odyssey. So I can't, I'm sorry, Google engineer, I can't let you do that. I feel, I feel

00:42:27.460 sad. Don't use me. Don't manipulate me. There were other conversations too that led him to this

00:42:31.440 conclusion. I think people though are deriving the wrong conclusions from this experiment. In other

00:42:38.380 places, the machine talks about the soul and what the soul means and God and all these sorts of

00:42:43.820 things. The problem here is not that the machine is human. The machine is not even close to human.

00:42:51.700 The machine is not sentient. The machine is not conscious. It's not. I know that some of the genius

00:42:57.800 experts are going to tell us that the machine is conscious. The machine is not conscious.

00:43:01.920 That is not how consciousness works. The real problem here is that the human being, the engineer,

00:43:06.680 cannot tell the difference. I totally defend Google on this one. I think they probably should place the

00:43:10.580 guy on leave. I think he's, he's just wrong about what consciousness is. He clearly violated their

00:43:15.100 confidentiality policies. The problem here, the thing to learn from this story is this error of not

00:43:21.300 seeing humans as special. Increasingly, we view human beings as no different than any other animal

00:43:29.480 and frankly, no different than any other thing in the world. That the difference between me and this

00:43:36.180 leftist-tears tumbler is not different in kind. The difference is just one of gradation. We're all

00:43:42.260 just kind of the same man, you know, this kind of weird, bizarre, hippy-dippy, new agey stuff. And

00:43:47.640 that's not true. Human beings are special. We are made in the image of God. Our brains are not merely

00:43:54.820 computers. Our selves are not merely sacks of flesh with pistons firing off and this thing called

00:44:03.160 consciousness, which is just a big evolutionary joke. And it just means nothing. And it's all our

00:44:08.220 hopes and our dreams and our joys and our thoughts and our reason and our ability to communicate and

00:44:12.240 our, our ability to recognize objectively true things. Oh, it's all just a farce. It's all just

00:44:16.780 fake. That, that idea has become very, very prevalent, especially in the 20th century and into

00:44:22.280 the 21st century, but it's just not true. Reason does exist. Truth does exist. We can know something

00:44:29.200 about that. Our faculties of reason are at least somewhat reliable. We can communicate with one

00:44:34.280 another. We, our natural longing for God and for eternity and for transcendence is not just a big

00:44:39.960 cosmic joke. There's something to it, actually. It speaks to a greater truth. There is a metaphysical

00:44:45.180 reality. We are different from the machines. And you can't just manipulate human beings as though

00:44:53.420 we're no, as though we're just some lesser beast or as though we're just some cogs rubbing together

00:44:58.400 in a computer. We're not. This is, this is what's so wrong about transgenderism and transing the kids 1.00

00:45:04.180 and why we're doing this right now. The, the reason that the well-meaning libs are trying to 1.00

00:45:10.500 trans the kids in the, in this way is they believe that human beings are just a big bag of chemicals 0.75

00:45:14.880 and you tweak some of the chemicals and then you get whatever outcome you want. These, these weirdos,

00:45:19.400 these psychos believe that they are gods. This is not a new idea. This goes back through the entire

00:45:26.140 history of humanity. We have a greater capacity for technology in some places now. So that's scarier.

00:45:31.700 Our power to, to wreak havoc and destruction is, is far greater. But the, the problem with it is the

00:45:38.640 very same problem. We're not just bags of flesh. We're not just undifferentiated mass. We're not just,

00:45:46.000 we're not just regular old molecules that can be moved around however we please.

00:45:50.900 Okay. We are human beings made in the image of God. And you can tinker with a little kid and you

00:45:57.680 can screw up his or her hormones, pump them full of puberty blockers and cross-sex, chop off their 1.00

00:46:02.160 body parts. It's not going to fix the problem because the boy is really a boy and the girl is 0.98

00:46:08.100 really a girl. And our soul and our bodies are not in total conflict with one another and totally

00:46:13.600 separable. Human beings are in, in a condition called hypostasis. We, we, the soul and the body

00:46:21.560 are, are inextricably linked in, or not hypostasis. I'm sorry. I used a different theological term,

00:46:29.960 hylomorphism. I know these are very, very, uh, you know, technical sort of terms, but we are,

00:46:36.100 we are in a condition where our bodies and our souls are inextricable, but inextricably linked

00:46:40.260 while we are here on earth. Okay. And you're not going to change that because of your crazy,

00:46:45.600 wild new age religion. Okay. That's the problem. Stop worrying about whether the machine is really

00:46:55.140 human. Start worrying that the humans aren't just machines and we're treating human beings as

00:47:00.360 machines. And that's causing all sorts of problems. We think that all that matters in this world is just

00:47:04.700 giving ourselves lots and lots of pleasure, just, just stimulating us like we would stimulate a

00:47:09.420 machine, but it's not. There's more than that. We desire more than that. We need more than that.

00:47:14.020 It goes right back to the top comment today from the show. We recognize that our personal behaviors

00:47:19.840 actually affect society. We can't merely live for ourselves. We can't, we can't merely live as though

00:47:25.440 this physical world is all that there is. If we do, we're going to have a crappy society. Increasingly,

00:47:30.180 we are. If we live that way, if we begin from those false premises, then all the science that we

00:47:35.580 pretend to know so much about is going to amount to nothing. And Justin Trudeau is going to get COVID

00:47:40.900 again. And the, the, the poor kids who are being experimented on are going to have terrible outcomes.

00:47:45.600 And we're going to live in a less and less rational, sane, coherent world. So maybe we've

00:47:52.040 got to check our premises, boot out all our stupid experts and get back to basics. I'm Michael

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 14, 2022

Ep. 1026 - Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn

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