The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1039 - The Liberal World Order

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00:00:37.680 After well over a month of record high gas prices,

00:00:40.620 President Joe Biden has finally settled on a strategy for bringing prices down at the pump.

00:00:47.120 No, he is not going to issue new leases for oil and gas production.

00:00:51.100 And no, he isn't going to greenlight new oil pipelines to encourage domestic production.

00:00:56.980 And no, he isn't even going to increase releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

00:01:04.640 Instead, you see, what President Biden is going to do is ask gas stations to lower prices.

00:01:13.720 The company's running gas stations and setting those prices at the pump.

00:01:18.920 This is a time of war, global peril, Ukraine. 0.83

00:01:24.640 These are not normal times.

00:01:27.220 Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you are paying for the product.

00:01:33.600 Do it now.

00:01:34.920 Do it today.

00:01:37.040 Your customers, the American people, they need relief now.

00:01:41.420 They need relief now.

00:01:43.040 So gas stations, just stop making a profit.

00:01:45.660 Any profit at all.

00:01:47.240 It's the gas station's fault.

00:01:50.160 Biden has blamed everyone else already.

00:01:52.660 He's blamed Putin.

00:01:54.300 He's blamed oil company CEOs. 1.00

00:01:56.980 He's blamed everybody but himself and his own stupid policies. 1.00

00:02:00.900 And now he's blaming the poor Pakistani immigrant who runs your local ExxonMobil franchise. 1.00

00:02:07.020 Just lower the prices.

00:02:08.760 Just lower the prices.

00:02:09.700 Why didn't we think of that?

00:02:10.660 It was so easy.

00:02:11.960 It was before us all the time.

00:02:13.380 Do you know what the average profit margin is for gas stations?

00:02:18.040 On average, it's about two cents per gallon.

00:02:21.980 For the government, the profit margin on gas can be extremely high.

00:02:25.540 It's about $1.18 per gallon in California.

00:02:28.880 But for the gas stations, you are looking at a profit margin of about 1.4%.

00:02:34.380 To put that in perspective, that is way lower than the average profit margin

00:02:39.920 across all industries, which is 7.7%.

00:02:43.980 7.7 for everybody across all industries, 1.4 for the gas stations.

00:02:49.780 It's even lower, significantly lower, than the margins on infamously low margin businesses

00:02:55.680 like grocery stores.

00:02:57.020 Grocery stores, 2.5%.

00:02:58.900 Car dealerships, 3.2%.

00:03:01.880 Gas stations, 1.4%.

00:03:04.500 Biden wants you to believe that the reason you're having trouble filling your tank, I just filled

00:03:09.020 my tank this morning.

00:03:09.880 It was absurdly expensive.

00:03:12.100 And I have a very fuel-efficient car.

00:03:14.220 He says, the reason that you're having trouble filling your tank is the couple of cents per

00:03:19.100 gallon that the stations are making, the meager profit margin that they have to supplement

00:03:25.020 by selling you chips and coffee and all that other slightly higher margin stuff in the gas

00:03:29.320 station convenience store.

00:03:30.420 That's why.

00:03:31.840 The gas stations couldn't drop prices if they wanted to.

00:03:35.220 Biden actually could take some concrete steps right now to bring prices down, if he really

00:03:40.680 wanted to, which he doesn't.

00:03:42.900 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:43.640 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:44.460 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:53.620 My favorite comment on, gosh, what was it?

00:03:56.420 Thursday.

00:03:57.060 My favorite comment Thursday was from Joni Maroney, who says, the next troll assignment

00:04:01.380 for The Daily Wire is to buy property next to Nancy Pelosi and then convert it into a multifamily

00:04:06.560 unit complex and fill it with newly arrived immigrant families. 0.89

00:04:09.800 That's a great idea.

00:04:11.080 Because you see Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, all these liberal politicians in California,

00:04:18.060 they think it's a really good idea to open up the border, flood the state with foreign 1.00

00:04:25.100 nationals, to get rid of single family housing.

00:04:29.080 You're not allowed to have single family housing anymore where you live.

00:04:32.760 Where they live, it's fine.

00:04:33.720 Where you live, that's not fine.

00:04:35.740 Raise the gas taxes.

00:04:37.320 For you guys, that's all fine.

00:04:40.060 Just not in my backyard.

00:04:42.480 It's the NIMBY party.

00:04:44.220 Not in my backyard.

00:04:45.420 Okay, well, how about we subject the liberal elite Democrats, especially in California,

00:04:52.200 to any of the policies that they push on everybody else?

00:04:56.120 Let's subject them to that for, I don't know, five minutes.

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00:06:36.180 If Biden wanted to fix the gas issue, he could do it.

00:06:41.500 It wouldn't happen overnight, but he could do it.

00:06:45.000 He would green light the pipeline, the pipelines in America that he shuts down,

00:06:49.600 even as he's green lighting pipelines for Vladimir Putin, which caused the war in Ukraine,

00:06:53.640 according to Ukrainian President Zelensky, which causes the gas prices to go up.

00:06:57.000 He would green light the pipelines in America because it's not just one or two pipelines.

00:07:01.360 When you go after and shut down a pipeline, you are signaling to the industry,

00:07:06.420 the government doesn't have your back.

00:07:07.860 So when you shut down one oil pipeline in America, it means you're shutting down all the oil pipelines.

00:07:13.520 Because there's always going to be local opposition.

00:07:15.140 There are always going to be some liberal activists who fly out and try to shut it down.

00:07:17.960 The government's either going to support the pipelines or not.

00:07:21.980 So he could defend the pipelines.

00:07:23.860 He could issue new oil and gas leases.

00:07:25.860 He's not doing that.

00:07:27.460 Promise that he wouldn't do that at all.

00:07:29.980 And what Biden will say is, look, this isn't going to bring the prices down.

00:07:33.720 It would take a year to get that pipeline up and functioning.

00:07:37.400 Okay.

00:07:37.940 Well, Biden told us that a year and a half ago.

00:07:39.500 If he had just done it a year and a half ago, we wouldn't be in this problem right now.

00:07:43.860 Wouldn't be in this predicament.

00:07:45.300 Well, it'll take a while to get the oil and natural gas pumping out of these new leases.

00:07:51.100 Okay.

00:07:51.640 Well, sure wish you did it a year ago or 18 months ago.

00:07:56.060 Gosh, wouldn't that be great?

00:07:57.820 Then we wouldn't be quite in the same predicament.

00:08:00.440 But he doesn't care enough to do it.

00:08:02.840 He's bothered that the gas prices are hurting Democrats' chances in the midterm elections.

00:08:07.400 But he is not bothered enough to compromise his long-term agenda.

00:08:10.980 In the short term, yes, they want the lower gas prices because they think it'll help them in the elections.

00:08:15.020 But in the long term, the Democrats have been advocating for higher gas prices.

00:08:19.740 When Obama was running in 08, he said, yes, my plan is going to result in higher gas prices.

00:08:24.860 Often Democrats would bemoan relatively low gas prices because they said, gosh, with these low gas prices, people aren't switching to electric fast enough.

00:08:33.380 They aren't switching to solar fast enough.

00:08:35.220 They aren't taking climate change seriously enough.

00:08:37.340 And climate change is very, very important to the liberal agenda.

00:08:41.620 Not because of the environment.

00:08:43.400 Not because of the air or the water or the sun monster or anything like that.

00:08:47.680 It's important.

00:08:48.940 The climate change ideology is important to the political scheme of liberalism.

00:08:55.340 It's important to the left's broader political agenda.

00:08:59.160 That's why Kamala Harris, right now, she was asked about high gas prices. 0.90

00:09:03.560 She started laughing. 0.97

00:09:04.380 What we need to do domestically, what we need to do to bring down the cost of gas.

00:09:10.040 Well, right.

00:09:12.440 Right.

00:09:13.420 I've seen a meme the other day that said me Googling online how to make gas at home.

00:09:17.740 OK.

00:09:18.660 Oh, don't do that.

00:09:20.960 Don't do that.

00:09:24.920 Please don't do that.

00:09:26.420 Hilarious.

00:09:26.980 You can't afford to fill your car.

00:09:31.160 You can't.

00:09:33.000 You can't.

00:09:33.920 You can't afford.

00:09:35.120 Hold on.

00:09:35.960 Wait.

00:09:36.300 No.

00:09:36.540 You can't.

00:09:36.980 You can't afford to drive to the grocery store.

00:09:39.380 You probably can't even afford groceries there because of how expensive it all is.

00:09:44.400 And you can't afford.

00:09:45.700 Hold on.

00:09:46.160 Oh, gosh.

00:09:46.700 I need to take a moment here.

00:09:47.780 You can't afford to drive your kids to school. 1.00

00:09:51.380 And your kids probably aren't even allowed in school still because those damn teachers unions 1.00

00:09:56.120 have kept it shut down since COVID. 0.99

00:09:59.180 Oh, what a doozy.

00:10:01.620 Man, so much to laugh about these days, isn't there?

00:10:04.460 Hi, I'm the vice president of the United States. 0.96

00:10:06.560 They just want you to shut up. 0.96

00:10:08.840 They're laughing at you.

00:10:09.860 They've been laughing at you for a long time. 0.88

00:10:11.400 And they want you to shut up and go away and stop complaining.

00:10:14.700 A Biden advisor went on CNN and he basically made this point.

00:10:20.320 He didn't even try to weasel his way out of the gas issue, the inflation issue, the fact

00:10:29.080 that people are really hurting right now in their budgets.

00:10:32.160 He didn't do it in the way that Kamala Harris does or Joe Biden does.

00:10:35.480 He just came out and he said, look, yeah, you're upset about high gas prices, but shut

00:10:41.200 up about it.

00:10:42.220 The liberal world order is at stake.

00:10:45.320 What do you say to those families who say, listen, we can't afford to pay $4.85 a gallon

00:10:51.480 for months, if not years.

00:10:53.280 This is just not sustainable.

00:10:56.200 Well, what you heard from the president today was a clear articulation of the stakes.

00:11:00.460 This is about the future of the liberal world order and we have to stand firm.

00:11:04.760 We have to stand firm.

00:11:06.780 Now, some people are trying to, some liberals are trying to walk back this comment because,

00:11:12.340 you know, they call us conspiracy theorists.

00:11:16.660 They say we're all wearing tinfoil hats about international, supranational, transnational

00:11:23.320 kind of governments that are going to take away our sovereignty on the 4th of July of all

00:11:26.680 days.

00:11:27.500 And then they say things like the liberal world order or the new world order, or they use these

00:11:32.120 kinds of phrases.

00:11:33.180 They say, wait, what was that phrase you just said?

00:11:34.560 And they say, we didn't say it.

00:11:36.200 Stop repeating what we just said.

00:11:37.820 Don't, you can't tell us what we just said.

00:11:39.660 So he says that there's a liberal world order and the liberal world order depends on the

00:11:46.820 war in Ukraine or just voting for Joe Biden and not complaining anymore.

00:11:52.500 There is going to be a world order.

00:11:55.360 There is such a thing as a liberal world order.

00:11:57.800 We are living under it.

00:12:00.220 There is going to be a world order.

00:12:02.240 There is going to be some scheme according to which we organize the various nations and

00:12:06.660 political bodies of the world.

00:12:07.960 And the major debate that we're having right now is what is that world order going to look

00:12:13.320 like?

00:12:14.780 When people talk about a new world order, it doesn't need to be, you know, the Illuminati

00:12:19.100 and the space aliens conspiring in a cave somewhere.

00:12:21.820 The question is, what is the world order going to look like moving into the future?

00:12:25.840 What the Libs want is for us to have this increasingly secular, increasingly leftist, increasingly

00:12:33.720 homogenized world where we all just look at porn and go to pride parades and eat McDonald's.

00:12:43.080 And that's what, and they think that that's going to spread around the world and that's

00:12:46.920 going to be a great thing.

00:12:47.860 And we're going to lose some of our political rights as Americans and other people are going

00:12:52.080 to lose some of their political rights to chart their own national destiny.

00:12:54.700 But that's for the best because that's the liberal world order.

00:12:57.200 The flag of the liberal world order is the rainbow flag.

00:13:01.680 The values of the liberal world order is secular leftism, and that's what they want.

00:13:05.900 There is an alternative to that.

00:13:07.320 There are a number of alternatives.

00:13:08.360 You could have a Christian world order. 1.00

00:13:10.320 That one seems to have fallen by the wayside, unfortunately, in modernity.

00:13:14.280 Then there's a major alternative right now, which is nationalism, an order of nation states

00:13:19.440 where nations get to chart their own destiny.

00:13:21.400 The Trump election was about this, America first, nationalism, that's what the question

00:13:28.260 is.

00:13:28.460 What is the world order going to be going into the future?

00:13:31.000 Do you want more rainbow flags over Kandahar and pride parades everywhere and drag queen 1.00

00:13:36.320 story hour and abortion and secular liberalism?

00:13:38.640 Or do you want something more like a nationalism?

00:13:43.880 America first for America and not forcing every country in the world to fall under that secular

00:13:51.020 leftism.

00:13:51.940 What world order do you want?

00:13:54.260 You know which world order I want?

00:13:55.620 I want the one that isn't going to keep increasing my gas prices.

00:13:59.200 I like the idea of having the traditional American way of life.

00:14:03.840 And I also, by the way, sorry, Pache, CNN, and Biden advisor, I don't want the high gas prices.

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00:15:29.600 The libs, when they are constructing a world order, are very focused on global warming.

00:15:36.020 Global warming keeps coming back, and it's not because they are concerned about the weather.

00:15:43.900 Global warming keeps coming back because in many ways it is the linchpin to this liberal

00:15:48.880 world order.

00:15:49.820 Here is the Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls, the Department of Foreign Affairs

00:15:55.820 and Trade, discussing how global warming somehow relates to feminism and domestic violence

00:16:04.960 and let her tell you herself.

00:16:08.300 As we confront the climate crisis, women and girls' human rights must be at the center

00:16:13.900 of our collective efforts.

00:16:16.300 Climate change and its consequences can exacerbate the risk of sexual and gender-based violence.

00:16:22.740 This risk is most acute for women and girls facing multiple and intersecting forms of

00:16:28.900 discrimination and inequality, including indigenous women and girls.

00:16:33.500 Realizing women's and girls' human rights is an important part of securing the future 0.73

00:16:39.440 of our planet and a better future for us all.

00:16:43.460 How is recognizing the special rights and privileges of indigenous women and girls of color, 1.00

00:16:55.320 what does that have to do with reducing the global mean temperature?

00:17:01.860 What does that have to do with rising sea levels and sun flares and whatever else the libs tell

00:17:12.600 us is going to be the apocalyptic event that wipes out the human race?

00:17:16.760 What does that, I don't think that is happening because of the environment, because of the sun or

00:17:23.260 the wind or the oceans or whatever.

00:17:24.660 Even if it did, what does that have to do with abortion or women's rights or intersectionality?

00:17:35.860 She actually refers to intersectionality there among the indigenous women of color.

00:17:40.860 What do the two have to do with each other? 0.72

00:17:43.200 Well, quite a lot actually.

00:17:45.720 They're both part of the leftist ideology.

00:17:49.560 They're both given as reasons to give the left whatever they want.

00:17:54.880 Well, why do we need to raise taxes on this thing?

00:17:57.160 Well, because of the intersecting discrimination of the women and the global warming and the 1.00

00:18:03.080 climate.

00:18:04.000 And that's why we need to take away your rights and your guns and your money and your sovereignty 0.89

00:18:09.460 and your privilege.

00:18:10.300 Because of the discrimination and the synergy.

00:18:13.080 And they just use these liberal buzzwords, in particular, climate change, because it's

00:18:19.080 completely unfalsifiable.

00:18:20.620 Temperature goes up, that's climate change.

00:18:22.140 Temperature goes down, it's climate change.

00:18:23.600 Temperature stays the same.

00:18:25.100 You know what that is.

00:18:26.100 That's climate change.

00:18:26.980 In the 70s, we're headed for a global ice age.

00:18:29.900 What is that?

00:18:30.400 Well, it's climate change.

00:18:31.500 Now, oh my gosh, it's going to be a desert.

00:18:34.200 It's going to be like the Sahara all over the earth. 0.86

00:18:36.440 What is that?

00:18:37.020 Well, you know what it is.

00:18:37.720 That's climate change.

00:18:38.600 Climate change is not, it is not so much an end.

00:18:43.460 It is not so much an event to be feared as it is a political process that is essential

00:18:49.540 to the liberal world order.

00:18:51.820 Kamala Harris was just addressing climate change. 0.93

00:18:54.540 How are we going to deal with climate change?

00:18:55.580 And she explained the way we're going to deal with climate change is we're going to work

00:18:58.580 together to form a plan for working together.

00:19:01.800 And then by working together, we're going to achieve working together.

00:19:06.360 That is especially true when it comes to the climate crisis, which is why we will work

00:19:12.860 together and continue to work together to address these issues, to tackle these challenges,

00:19:18.700 and to work together as we continue to work operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements

00:19:26.680 that we will convene to work together on to galvanize global action.

00:19:33.800 With that, I thank you all.

00:19:36.200 This is a matter of urgent priority for all of us, and I know we will work on this together.

00:19:42.260 Where is my bong?

00:19:43.900 I have a Kamala Harris bong.

00:19:46.000 I had it in my desk, and my producers took it away from me.

00:19:49.160 But I need the Kamala Harris bong so that I can light.

00:19:52.440 I don't, I'm not a fan of the Haitian oregano, as you know, but I need to light it up to understand

00:19:57.120 what she is talking about most of the time.

00:19:59.780 What she's saying is this is very urgent, global warming, climate crisis, that's the

00:20:05.440 new name.

00:20:06.000 It's very urgent, and that's why we need to work together and figure out a way to work

00:20:08.960 together.

00:20:09.880 And work, work, work, together, together, together.

00:20:12.720 There's inadvertently a lot of insight in what Kamala is saying here.

00:20:19.500 She's saying that the whole point of the global warming fear mongering is to get us to work

00:20:26.480 together.

00:20:26.820 It doesn't matter what we're working together on, whether we're trying to raise the global

00:20:30.720 temperature, lower the global temperature, cut certain pollution, create other pollution.

00:20:35.320 That is actually beside the point.

00:20:38.440 The thing that matters is that we work together, and we lose a little bit more and more of our

00:20:43.920 national sovereignty, and we bind ourselves together in more international treaties and

00:20:49.100 institutions and transnational governing bodies, and then we will have achieved the real goal,

00:20:56.260 which is working together, which is ever more the liberal world order.

00:21:01.380 The problem is the liberal world order is not working out very well.

00:21:05.060 And people are seeing this in their pocketbooks.

00:21:07.080 They're seeing this at the tank right now.

00:21:08.660 They're seeing this at the gas prices.

00:21:10.380 And most especially, they're seeing this with their own two eyes in education, in regular

00:21:17.260 old society, and specifically with regard to children.

00:21:22.280 We are told that the libs are not groomers.

00:21:25.780 We've just come to the end of Pride Parade.

00:21:27.500 We've made it through.

00:21:28.760 We made it through, guys.

00:21:30.220 A little worse off than we were when we started, but we made it through.

00:21:32.980 There is a video of a little kid, sweet little kid.

00:21:37.200 How old is he?

00:21:37.720 Probably four years old or something, at a Pride Parade, looking at some person jiggling

00:21:43.960 in an extremely sexual way, not wearing a lot of clothing.

00:21:50.580 This kid's staring up, and then some just absolute degenerate dancing and twerking and jiggling

00:22:00.540 around while this kid looks up.

00:22:01.940 I don't know where, this might have been New York.

00:22:04.280 Looks sort of like New York.

00:22:05.700 I'm not quite sure exactly what the street is.

00:22:08.900 No, they're not sexualizing the kids. 0.99

00:22:11.080 No, no, they're just offering educational opportunities.

00:22:15.060 It's not grooming.

00:22:16.060 It's not sexual.

00:22:17.100 Oh, that giant lady or man, or I don't know, twerking and jiggling right in the kid's face. 1.00

00:22:21.500 No, that's nothing. 0.93

00:22:22.380 There's another video came out of what looks like a strip club of a stripper. 1.00

00:22:26.360 We blared it out.

00:22:27.860 I don't know if it's a man or a woman, or it's a man who mutilated himself to look like

00:22:33.180 a woman.

00:22:34.700 Whoever the person is definitely has had some work done.

00:22:38.600 Walking around, holding a little kid by the hand, dancing and stripping.

00:22:43.020 And this dancer has sort of pasties on.

00:23:01.700 So maybe they're skirting some of the laws here, but it's obviously extremely indecent.

00:23:09.500 It's obviously obscene.

00:23:11.260 And this dancer is holding the little kid's hand. 0.97

00:23:13.740 The most scandalous part of the video, by the way, is not that this dancer, prostitute, 1.00

00:23:19.680 whatever this person is, it's not even that that person is holding the kid's hand.

00:23:23.520 It's all the adults who are just sitting there kind of laughing, chuckling.

00:23:26.800 Woo, yeah, yeah, free expression.

00:23:31.720 Yeah, this is pride.

00:23:33.500 Let's celebrate.

00:23:34.220 Let's celebrate pride.

00:23:37.900 More and more of these videos come out.

00:23:39.440 How many of these videos have I played on my show?

00:23:42.100 A hundred?

00:23:43.200 I don't know.

00:23:43.860 How many of these videos come out?

00:23:45.340 How many of these videos do we need to see before we realize that this is a feature,

00:23:50.440 not a bug, of pride ideology, of leftist ideology?

00:23:56.720 The increasing sexualization of little, little, little kids.

00:24:01.460 I'm not even talking about young teenagers or fifth grade or sixth grade.

00:24:07.720 I'm talking, that girl looks like she's four or five. 1.00

00:24:10.960 If that.

00:24:11.660 The increasing sexualization of ever younger children is a feature, not a bug, of this

00:24:20.780 leftist ideology.

00:24:22.060 They've been talking about it for 100 years, at least.

00:24:25.940 And now they're doing it, and we're all surprised that they're doing it.

00:24:29.800 They're doing it because this is the leftist vision of liberty.

00:24:33.200 On that TikTok video, they say, kids should be exposed to drag shows.

00:24:38.000 This is free expression, man.

00:24:39.480 And we've got to accustom them to this when they're very, very young, because the leftist

00:24:44.700 vision of liberty is that we're all oppressed by society, by the moral order, by rules, by

00:24:51.640 discipline, by virtue.

00:24:53.520 We're all really oppressed by that.

00:24:54.880 And the way to be truly free and our authentic selves is to throw off all of those shackles

00:24:59.860 and all of those limitations.

00:25:01.800 So we won't be limited by the law.

00:25:04.620 We won't be limited by the moral law.

00:25:06.740 We won't be limited by biology, even.

00:25:08.660 I won't even be limited by my chromosomes.

00:25:11.020 We won't be limited by age of consent statutes.

00:25:14.120 We won't be limited by anything.

00:25:16.420 We're just going to pursue our own most disgusting appetites whenever we want, and then we're going

00:25:23.340 to be truly free.

00:25:25.460 We know that's not liberty.

00:25:27.660 The conservatives have a different view of liberty, which is that the man who sins is

00:25:30.840 a slave to sin, and you shouldn't groom the kids. 0.99

00:25:33.500 Don't groom the kids.

00:25:34.240 Grooming the kids is not liberty.

00:25:35.240 If your version of liberty involves grooming the kids, you've gone down a wrong path.

00:25:40.700 You've got to come back.

00:25:41.440 You've got to change your understanding.

00:25:44.700 There's another question that's raised by this video, which is why are these people not

00:25:48.540 being arrested?

00:25:49.200 They should all be arrested.

00:25:50.600 They should all be thrown in prison, and they should probably throw away the key.

00:25:53.820 So why aren't they?

00:25:55.500 It's not because there aren't laws against this.

00:25:57.700 There are laws against all this stuff.

00:25:59.380 It's just not prosecuted.

00:26:02.360 There are laws against all this kind of stuff, and it doesn't get prosecuted. 0.96

00:26:06.620 It's the same reason that BLM gets to go kill and rape and kill and pillage and burn, and 0.93

00:26:13.140 they basically get a slap on the wrist. 0.97

00:26:15.460 And then the Horn Hat guy cracks a Coors Light in the Capitol Rotunda, and they're going to

00:26:19.860 throw him in solitary and throw away the key.

00:26:21.640 That's why.

00:26:22.720 It's not because of the laws on the books.

00:26:24.560 It's because of the ruling class that is enforcing and not enforcing those laws, and

00:26:30.340 frankly, just enforcing their own capricious will.

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00:27:55.360 You need to pay $8 a gallon for gas to preserve the liberal world order. 0.53

00:28:01.500 Refund, please.

00:28:02.520 If what I am getting in exchange for my $8 a gallon is the liberal world order, I'm

00:28:10.740 good, thanks.

00:28:11.600 I'm good.

00:28:12.580 I would like to, no thank you, no.

00:28:15.340 Even if you discount it, 20% off the liberal world order, no thanks.

00:28:18.420 There is no amount of money I want to pay to preserve, because the liberal world order

00:28:21.720 is not working very well.

00:28:23.920 And I think transgenderism in particular, the drag shows and the grooming, and especially 1.00

00:28:28.640 transgenderism, is really waking people up to this fact.

00:28:32.060 There was a bulletin that came out of the Toronto Police Department over the weekend.

00:28:37.180 I did not believe this was true.

00:28:39.420 I looked it up.

00:28:40.100 It is true.

00:28:41.640 It said, Toronto Police, blue checkmark, verified account, news release, missing woman, Ryerson

00:28:48.660 Avenue and Bathurst Street area, Isabella DeGrace, 27.

00:28:53.520 And then you look at a picture of this missing woman, and the guy looks like Joe Dirt, looks

00:29:02.260 like David Spade in that movie.

00:29:04.420 He's got the goatee, kind of reddish blonde, goatee, beard.

00:29:10.520 He's got a man's haircut.

00:29:12.720 He's obviously a man.

00:29:14.600 I said, this must be the wrong post.

00:29:17.420 Maybe the social media person for the Toronto Police just posted the wrong picture.

00:29:23.680 No, because then I looked at the news release.

00:29:26.700 Toronto Police Service requests public assistance locating a missing woman.

00:29:30.920 She is described as 5'10", with a thin build, shaggy blonde hair, and a full goatee.

00:29:37.460 It's not funny.

00:29:38.100 I feel bad for this guy. 0.98

00:29:39.400 He's obviously a nut, and he went missing. 0.98

00:29:42.440 Full goatee. 0.98

00:29:44.180 The Toronto Police write.

00:29:45.280 She was last seen wearing a black t-shirt and gray pants.

00:29:49.900 Police are concerned about her safety.

00:29:54.500 This is the kind of news release that is sent out by the official governing body of Clown World.

00:30:02.900 The Clown World Police Department is releasing the headshot of a dude with a goatee and saying

00:30:09.160 that he is a woman with a thin build.

00:30:11.220 The transgender issue has become so prominent.

00:30:16.740 One, because of what we were just talking about.

00:30:19.280 The liberation agenda from the libs is constantly accelerating.

00:30:29.200 So it's not just being liberated from certain laws, or being liberated from certain traditional

00:30:33.740 social mores, or being liberated from certain institutions, including the family, or being

00:30:37.600 liberated from certain symbols.

00:30:39.040 It's being liberated from biology, from human nature, from everything.

00:30:42.960 So that's why the libs are pushing it in part. 0.87

00:30:45.680 The trans agenda is really prominent for the conservatives because it's waking us up to 1.00

00:30:51.600 the fact that we can no longer trust our authorities, the liberal world order.

00:30:56.480 We can't trust it.

00:30:58.600 If the Toronto Police really believe that shaggy goatee guy is a woman, then I can't trust the 0.99

00:31:06.540 Toronto Police.

00:31:07.880 I can't trust the Toronto Police or any one of these similar institutions.

00:31:13.580 I can't trust them on issues of sex.

00:31:16.640 I can't trust them on anything.

00:31:17.900 If you don't know that that dude is not a chick, you don't know anything. 0.64

00:31:24.880 And so now I've got to look out for myself.

00:31:27.380 Now I see no reason to support the continued power and rule of these people who don't know

00:31:33.740 the most basic things about human nature.

00:31:38.680 Speaking of the police, there was this horrible shooting that took place yesterday.

00:31:41.580 There were a couple of shootings, actually.

00:31:43.000 The one that first started to trend was a shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, where at

00:31:47.240 least six people were killed, 24 wounded.

00:31:49.580 The numbers may be higher now.

00:31:51.680 They were killed by this young man who had really creepy stuff on the internet.

00:31:57.020 And the usual suspects are all bickering over whether he was a Democrat or a Republican.

00:32:01.320 And the libs are saying he was a Republican because there's a picture of him with a Trump

00:32:07.100 flag.

00:32:07.660 And then the conservatives are saying, well, he was only ironically wearing the Trump flag.

00:32:11.960 And actually, if you look at his social media history, he was posting all sorts of extremely

00:32:16.320 left-wing things.

00:32:18.260 Apparently, on his Twitter account, he was liking all of these tweets about how they need

00:32:21.860 to arrest all the January 6th people.

00:32:23.840 So I don't have an opinion, really, one way or the other.

00:32:28.940 I haven't looked into it that much.

00:32:30.100 I don't really care.

00:32:31.500 If you look at the guy, he's got crazy colored hair and all sorts of face tattoos.

00:32:35.340 And he doesn't exactly look like a Trump supporter, okay?

00:32:38.620 He definitely looks much more like a radical leftist.

00:32:41.520 But I don't know.

00:32:42.520 I don't know. 0.99

00:32:42.860 Maybe he's just a psycho. 0.79

00:32:45.900 He has some music videos on the internet that don't seem left-wing exactly. 0.94

00:32:51.580 They don't seem right-wing exactly.

00:32:53.280 They seem demonic.

00:32:55.100 So whatever his politics are, I'm not really all that interested in it.

00:33:00.440 The reason this is becoming a major headline, unlike other mass killings, including at parades

00:33:05.880 like the Waukesha Christmas Parade, the reason this one's becoming a mass killing is because

00:33:09.760 it at least checks some of the boxes of the left-wing narrative.

00:33:13.380 So it's a young white man that usually will encourage the media to report on a killing.

00:33:19.720 He might have some tie to even plausibly being viewed as a right-winger, so that checks another

00:33:27.300 box for the media.

00:33:29.640 There are lots of other mass killings that are not reported, and that's because they don't

00:33:35.200 check those boxes.

00:33:36.600 Again, that's the way the media are going to behave.

00:33:38.980 It's just a horrific event.

00:33:40.860 In any case, really, really awful stuff on the 4th of July.

00:33:44.160 Okay.

00:33:46.320 Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is a conservative congressman, she tweeted out, when are we going

00:33:51.560 to have an honest conversation about drug abuse, mental illness, and SSRIs?

00:33:55.960 Those are a certain type of depression drug.

00:33:58.460 And deadly side effects.

00:33:59.560 Are we really going to keep pretending we're covering for big pharma?

00:34:02.440 Because I'm absolutely done with the political plays on this BS.

00:34:05.740 So people raise different questions about what is causing this.

00:34:08.620 The Libs say that the cause of mass shootings and mass killings is guns.

00:34:14.020 Of course, guns have existed for a very, very long time and all throughout American history.

00:34:18.600 And if the liberal argument is that these mass shootings are a newer phenomenon, which is

00:34:22.820 a dubious argument to begin with, but let's just go with it, then the thing that changed

00:34:27.240 obviously is not the guns.

00:34:28.380 The guns have remained basically the same.

00:34:30.520 But they say it's the guns.

00:34:31.780 Then conservatives will say, well, it's maybe fatherlessness.

00:34:34.780 Well, it's maybe our, sometimes they'll blame video games.

00:34:37.380 Sometimes they'll say, well, there are obviously cultural aspects here.

00:34:41.180 Maybe it's this isolation.

00:34:43.280 Maybe, as Marjorie Taylor Greene is suggesting, maybe it's these depression drugs that a lot

00:34:47.360 of people are on.

00:34:48.740 Again, on this issue, I'm not expressing an opinion one way or the other.

00:34:52.900 I think a lot of these squabbles over, well, it was caused by this.

00:34:55.880 No, it was caused by this.

00:34:56.560 No, it's your team.

00:34:57.080 No, it's your team.

00:34:57.680 A lot of that is often beside the point.

00:35:01.100 But the broader point that Greene is making here on the depression drugs is a really, really

00:35:06.240 important one.

00:35:07.900 America is totally hooked.

00:35:10.220 We are drug addicts on these depression pills.

00:35:13.640 Did you know that more than one in eight Americans regularly takes depression drugs?

00:35:19.280 Did you know that even kids regularly take these kinds of depression drugs?

00:35:24.160 But before COVID, the number of kids aged 12 to 19 who take these depression drugs regularly

00:35:30.000 is one in 29.

00:35:31.960 And since COVID, those numbers certainly have gone up.

00:35:36.080 One in 29, the kids are taking depression drugs?

00:35:39.640 Isn't that a problem?

00:35:41.340 Put aside the shooting for a second.

00:35:42.980 Put aside the killers, the killers who have often been on these depression drugs.

00:35:45.740 Just take that.

00:35:46.360 Just focus on the drugs.

00:35:48.200 Don't you think that's a problem when a huge portion of your country, including kids, are 0.93

00:35:53.260 hooked on their drug addicts for these very particular psychological drugs?

00:35:58.160 I think that's a problem.

00:36:00.680 And watch.

00:36:01.320 Watch right now the liberals rally around SSRIs and other depression drugs with greater ferocity

00:36:09.120 than they rallied around the COVID shots.

00:36:10.900 Those very, you know, those very safe and effective COVID shots because we totally should trust

00:36:15.400 the medical establishment.

00:36:16.420 They never get anything wrong.

00:36:17.840 They, they, they totally know the difference between a man and a woman. 0.99

00:36:20.180 They're so smart.

00:36:20.740 They know everything.

00:36:21.840 Watch them rally around these drugs.

00:36:24.840 It's really, really weird because nothing says fight the power quite like consistently

00:36:30.180 shilling for big farmer, right?

00:36:32.980 The depression drugs seem to me a big problem.

00:36:35.260 I'm not saying there's no use for these depression drugs.

00:36:37.180 I'm not saying no one should take these depression drugs.

00:36:39.320 But if a huge portion of your country is regularly dulling some kind of pain that they feel with

00:36:49.960 drugs and increasing those numbers, clearly there is a problem.

00:36:55.160 Someone, someone said to me when I made this point on social media, they said, well, Michael,

00:36:58.680 where's your MD?

00:37:00.020 You're not a medical doctor.

00:37:01.280 How dare you spat off on this?

00:37:02.920 That's true.

00:37:03.540 You know who a medical doctor is?

00:37:04.980 Dr. Richard Levine, the man who thinks that he's a woman.

00:37:07.400 He's actually not just a medical doctor.

00:37:08.760 He's the assistant secretary of health.

00:37:10.880 So yeah, that's true.

00:37:11.820 I don't, he and I have different degrees.

00:37:14.200 I don't have the same degree in medicine and scientific reality that the man who insists

00:37:20.800 that he's a woman and advocates putting kids on cross sex hormones and sterilizing them and 0.98

00:37:26.180 giving them osteoporosis and mutilating their bodies forever.

00:37:28.520 We don't have the same degree.

00:37:29.900 So you're right.

00:37:30.340 I guess you should listen to his opinion because he's, he obviously knows what he's talking

00:37:33.560 about.

00:37:33.840 He has an MD after all and stiletto heels in a dress and I, I don't have that MD.

00:37:39.480 So I guess what, I don't know you, you, you listeners out there, you don't have an MD.

00:37:43.840 So how dare you question the medical, how dare you question Dr. Fauci, Dr. Levine and all those

00:37:52.160 geniuses who, no, I, I am, I am not saying this to flatter you or pander or anything like that.

00:37:58.060 But I trust the medical opinion of every single person, regardless of your political views of

00:38:05.000 every single person listening to this podcast right now.

00:38:07.680 I trust your medical opinion much more than I trust the opinion of Richard Levine or Dr.

00:38:14.360 Fauci or, or any of the rest of them.

00:38:18.040 Because you at least have a, a basic modicum of common sense.

00:38:22.980 You probably have a great deal more than that.

00:38:24.900 But you've got something that the medical establishment does not.

00:38:29.960 It's, it's just like the Toronto police issue.

00:38:32.600 The problem with the medical establishment embracing all this kind of quackery and then

00:38:38.380 trying to, trying to solve the problems created by their quackery by just plying us all with

00:38:43.340 drugs all the time is that they don't have any credibility at all.

00:38:48.500 There was a liberal blue check who last night when I made this point on the depression pills,

00:38:52.220 he said, well, Michael, you ever consider that maybe America is just a depressing place?

00:38:59.160 I thought, well, I don't think it's a depressing place.

00:39:02.140 I'm still pro-America.

00:39:03.660 I still, I still look at fireworks on the 4th of July, take that grill pill, you know,

00:39:08.840 wave my American flag.

00:39:09.800 So I don't think it's a depressing place.

00:39:11.740 But even if it were, doesn't that only bolster my point?

00:39:15.900 He ended up deleting the tweet.

00:39:17.000 So I think he probably agreed that it, it did bolster my point.

00:39:19.560 If the thing that is causing you your, these problems is environmental and social, maybe

00:39:26.980 drugs aren't the answer.

00:39:28.120 These drugs are supposed to address very specific chemical and psychological problems.

00:39:33.120 If your problems are not coming from within you, they're coming from without. 0.96

00:39:36.280 It's because the people you live with, or it's because you don't like being in a society

00:39:39.440 with guns, or it's because you don't like the founding fathers or the constitution or whatever.

00:39:43.780 You don't solve that problem with drugs.

00:39:46.720 You solve that problem with politics.

00:39:49.440 You solve that problem with society.

00:39:53.040 You solve that problem with getting to know your community and adjust and acclimating yourself

00:39:56.980 to your community and to reality, which is something the libs don't want you to do.

00:40:00.200 So they ply you with drugs. 0.57

00:40:02.660 One way, I admit America is a little bit more depressing today than it was even in recent years.

00:40:09.500 Things are getting, you know, the economy is no good, and we're grooming the kids, and

00:40:15.000 that's no good, and we got rid of Roe v. Wade.

00:40:17.340 That's actually great.

00:40:18.200 That's a huge, massive white pill.

00:40:19.900 Great bit of hope that we've been getting.

00:40:21.680 But yeah, it's a bit of a mixed bag, sure.

00:40:23.900 One of the reasons is, and this comes from the late conservative philosopher Roger Scruton,

00:40:27.720 if you want people to love your country, you've got to give them a country that is lovable.

00:40:36.400 You've got to give them a place that is beautiful.

00:40:39.420 You've got to give them a place that inspires and evokes their love.

00:40:43.800 And this gets to an issue we talked about last week.

00:40:46.280 Another thing I got in trouble for on social media, I posted two pictures of Picasso paintings,

00:40:51.940 one from when he was a teenager and one from later in his career.

00:40:54.900 And the early one is beautiful, and the later one was of the weeping woman from his much

00:41:00.300 more abstract period, and it's an ugly painting.

00:41:02.740 I'm not saying it's not technically proficient.

00:41:04.700 Picasso was a master artist.

00:41:06.700 And I asked the question, I said, why would someone who can paint a beautiful thing choose

00:41:11.020 to paint an ugly thing?

00:41:13.280 And this evoked a lot of ire from people.

00:41:16.840 And it even inspired someone, there was a guy at the Independent, the British newspaper,

00:41:21.600 to write an entire column about how I prefer Picasso's earlier work to his later work.

00:41:28.220 An angry column about why I prefer beautiful art to ugly art.

00:41:34.540 And the headline was what got me.

00:41:36.440 The headline is, why are right-wingers so afraid of modern art?

00:41:42.760 I am not afraid of modern art.

00:41:44.620 Let me turn the question back on the libs. 0.99

00:41:46.260 Why do the libs always equate disapproval with fear?

00:41:52.100 If you disapprove of men putting on dresses and pretending to be women, it's a phobia.

00:41:57.980 That's a transphobia.

00:41:59.440 You're phobic.

00:42:00.380 Even Fox News did this.

00:42:01.620 When Fox News ran that segment promoting transing the kids, the reporter at the end, he said,

00:42:06.240 you know, people fear what they don't understand.

00:42:09.200 And that's why we need to trans the kids. 1.00

00:42:11.820 Sometimes we fear what we don't understand.

00:42:13.780 You might fear ghosts.

00:42:14.800 You don't understand.

00:42:16.080 Sometimes we fear what we do understand.

00:42:18.400 Like bears.

00:42:19.940 I understand bears and I fear them.

00:42:21.880 If I ran into a bear in the woods, I would be afraid.

00:42:25.320 And sometimes we disapprove of things we don't quite understand.

00:42:29.700 Like demons.

00:42:30.420 I don't understand demons.

00:42:32.600 Don't approve of them.

00:42:33.420 I'm anti-demon.

00:42:34.920 And sometimes we disapprove of things that we do understand.

00:42:38.240 Like modern art.

00:42:39.440 Or transgenderism. 0.88

00:42:40.500 Or grooming the kids.

00:42:41.180 Or all the stuff that the libs want to do. 1.00

00:42:42.380 You can disapprove of something without fearing it.

00:42:48.060 But the libs have to pretend that it's a fear.

00:42:50.380 Usually an irrational fear.

00:42:51.600 A phobia.

00:42:52.660 Because they want to pretend that conservatism doesn't make any sense.

00:42:55.480 That it's just a series of irritable mental gestures.

00:42:58.040 To quote the liberal Lionel Trilling many moons ago.

00:43:01.940 But it's not.

00:43:02.800 We just look at it.

00:43:03.780 You look at modern art.

00:43:05.220 Put Picasso aside.

00:43:06.160 Because he is a very good artist.

00:43:07.140 Even though a lot of his work is very ugly.

00:43:09.440 But you know.

00:43:09.920 You think of Marcel Duchamp.

00:43:11.040 The guy who pretended that a urinal was a great work of art.

00:43:15.420 You look at that and you say.

00:43:16.160 You know.

00:43:16.500 It's not that I don't get it.

00:43:18.340 I get it.

00:43:19.220 I understand it.

00:43:21.280 It's not that I fear it.

00:43:22.480 I'm not afraid of the urinal.

00:43:23.600 It's just ugly.

00:43:25.380 And I don't like it.

00:43:26.520 And I think it should be discouraged.

00:43:27.920 It's not that I don't get men putting on stilettos.

00:43:30.220 And jiggling at the library.

00:43:31.300 I get.

00:43:31.700 I understand it.

00:43:32.500 It's not even that I'm afraid of the men.

00:43:33.800 I just disapprove of it.

00:43:36.200 And I think it should be discouraged.

00:43:38.920 Why is that so complicated for the libs?

00:43:41.740 Speaking of fear mongering.

00:43:43.900 California Governor Gavin Newsom.

00:43:46.460 Gavin Newsom right now.

00:43:47.760 Is running on freedom.

00:43:52.420 It's Independence Day.

00:43:53.980 So let's talk about what's going on in America.

00:43:56.540 Freedom.

00:43:57.220 It's under attack in your state.

00:43:58.760 Republican leaders.

00:43:59.760 They're banning books.

00:44:01.160 Making it harder to vote.

00:44:02.460 Restricting speech in classrooms.

00:44:04.640 Even criminalizing women and doctors.

00:44:07.160 I urge all of you living in Florida to join the fight.

00:44:10.240 Or join us in California.

00:44:11.780 Where we still believe in freedom.

00:44:13.280 Freedom of speech.

00:44:14.440 Freedom to choose.

00:44:15.540 Freedom from hate.

00:44:16.560 And the freedom to love.

00:44:18.240 Don't let them take your freedom.

00:44:20.340 Paid for by Newsom for California Governor 2022.

00:44:22.320 I moved out of California because not only was I not allowed perfect freedom in the abstract.

00:44:31.000 I wasn't allowed to go into grocery stores without covering my face like it was a burqa. 1.00

00:44:36.860 Like I was living in Saudi Arabia and I had to wear the full niqab. 0.99

00:44:42.640 I fled California because I had to give away so much of my money to the government.

00:44:52.060 I had to work half the year for Gavin Newsom.

00:44:55.580 And then the California Franchise Tax Board continues to come after you wherever you go.

00:45:00.280 Like one of the five.

00:45:01.320 It's the sixth family.

00:45:02.800 You got the five families in New York.

00:45:04.180 You got the sixth family.

00:45:05.040 It's the Franchise Tax Board in California.

00:45:06.960 I fled California because the regulations are so onerous that you don't even know when you're

00:45:13.800 violating them.

00:45:15.440 Regulations on your cars.

00:45:16.640 Regulations on your water.

00:45:18.220 Regulations on your schools.

00:45:19.920 Regulations on your church.

00:45:20.980 They were closing our churches.

00:45:22.920 You weren't allowed to do anything in California.

00:45:25.300 And now he's running on freedom.

00:45:27.940 And he says, Ron DeSantis. 0.99

00:45:29.400 He opposes freedom because he doesn't want gay porn in kindergarten. 0.98

00:45:33.780 He's banning books. 0.99

00:45:35.320 California bans books.

00:45:36.240 You're not allowed to teach the Bible in schools.

00:45:38.640 You're not allowed to teach the Bible in schools.

00:45:40.220 That's fine.

00:45:40.880 That's good.

00:45:41.200 That's freedom. 0.99

00:45:42.020 You're not allowed to teach gay porn in kindergarten. 1.00

00:45:44.660 That's, well, that's terrible. 1.00

00:45:46.700 That is horrible, oppressive.

00:45:48.820 It's a tyranny.

00:45:49.940 It's like a dictatorship.

00:45:52.160 And they believe it.

00:45:53.980 They believe that.

00:45:55.620 During, during COVID, it was even at the end of COVID.

00:45:58.240 COVID was over at this point.

00:46:00.220 My pregnant wife, we were in LA, LAX.

00:46:03.480 And because I travel a lot for work, I joined the lounge where you get to go and get a cup

00:46:07.860 of coffee and a little food before, before you fly.

00:46:10.540 And so we go into the lounge and my very pregnant wife just needed to use the restroom and get 1.00

00:46:15.720 a glass of water.

00:46:16.700 They wouldn't let her in.

00:46:17.760 They wouldn't let her in because she had, she had some kind of food with her.

00:46:23.140 You know, she's pregnant. 1.00

00:46:23.740 She's trying to eat, you know, things like that.

00:46:25.360 And they said, no, sorry.

00:46:28.060 You can't, you have to stay out.

00:46:29.720 It's order of the state, order of the county.

00:46:33.720 It's the least free state in America.

00:46:36.060 But, but for the libs, freedom means doing drugs. 0.86

00:46:39.660 For the libs, freedom means schdupping whoever you want to schdup. 0.81

00:46:42.760 For the libs, freedom means taking kids to strip clubs. 0.99

00:46:47.720 For the, that's, and they, they mean that.

00:46:50.580 For the libs, freedom means mutilating your body so you look like the opposite sex. 1.00

00:46:55.380 And that, that is, that is a kind of misunderstanding of freedom.

00:47:00.760 I see how you could arrive at that conclusion.

00:47:03.160 But that's not, that's not what the founding fathers thought.

00:47:05.520 It's not what the 4th of July is about.

00:47:06.940 That's not what true freedom is.

00:47:10.240 True freedom is higher than that.

00:47:13.760 True freedom is being in command of yourself and your appetites and your base desires.

00:47:19.240 And having discipline and having a rational will and pursuing that, that higher political freedom.

00:47:25.380 Charting your own course for your community and for your nation.

00:47:28.940 Being a real citizen.

00:47:30.920 Accepting reality and flourishing within the bounds of reality.

00:47:34.480 Secondly, everyone believes that he is fighting for freedom.

00:47:39.140 Everyone believes it.

00:47:41.240 The terrorists in the Middle East, they think they're fighting for freedom.

00:47:44.800 The Western powers that go in and fight the terrorists, we say we're fighting for freedom.

00:47:50.360 The libs in California who are fighting to raise your taxes and trans your kids, they think they're fighting for freedom. 0.93

00:47:56.420 The conservatives in Tennessee and Texas who are doing the opposite of that, they, we believe that we are fighting for freedom too.

00:48:03.220 We're all, we all are motivated to fight for freedom.

00:48:06.460 The question is, what is freedom?

00:48:09.200 Are there limits to freedom?

00:48:10.700 Yeah, of course, there have to be.

00:48:11.780 There are limits to everything.

00:48:12.860 What are those limits?

00:48:15.200 Is freedom the freedom to mutilate your body and go into the girl's locker room? 0.96

00:48:20.820 Or is freedom the freedom of young girls to change without a man pulling out his genitals in front of them? 0.78

00:48:27.080 What is, what is that freedom?

00:48:29.160 We're arguing about freedom in the abstract is not going to get anybody anywhere.

00:48:32.820 You've got to get specific.

00:48:34.860 You've got to talk about real ways of life.

00:48:36.780 You've got to talk about specific political rights and how they're applied in society.

00:48:41.100 That's, that's the only way you're going to do it.

00:48:42.540 Even, even the libs are waking up to the fact that the left-wing version of liberty and freedom is not real freedom.

00:48:51.460 When you get specific, even the libs wake up to it.

00:48:54.600 Bette Midler, my absolute favorite Twitter account, Bette Midler tweets out, quote,

00:48:58.520 women of the world, we're being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives, and even our name. 0.99

00:49:06.660 They don't call us women anymore. 0.99

00:49:08.420 They call us birthing people or menstruators or even people with vaginas. 1.00

00:49:12.320 Don't let them erase you. 0.99

00:49:13.800 Every human on earth owes you.

00:49:17.920 Good.

00:49:18.400 Keep going, Bette.

00:49:21.400 You're, you're on a roll.

00:49:23.020 You're getting somewhere.

00:49:23.940 Now, who is it, Bette, that is, that is taking away the name of women? 1.00

00:49:30.740 Who is it that is erasing women from sports and from the locker rooms and from reality? 0.99

00:49:38.160 And who's doing that and calling everyone, birthing people and menstruators? 0.99

00:49:42.120 And who?

00:49:43.320 Is it us?

00:49:44.600 Or is it no?

00:49:45.540 Ah, it's so wonderful to watch someone realize that the thing they have been fighting for

00:49:53.520 is really bad.

00:49:55.400 To realize that the people they've been fighting were right all along.

00:49:59.080 And she was starting to do that.

00:50:00.640 I'm not sure she's going to go all the way.

00:50:02.760 She's starting to realize that.

00:50:05.900 Wow.

00:50:07.580 Maybe, huh.

00:50:09.500 Maybe this transgenderism is not the right thing after all. 1.00

00:50:12.900 This is, this is what the liberal world order is giving you.

00:50:18.120 Okay.

00:50:18.780 And you're, you're even seeing it now in, around the world.

00:50:22.400 You are seeing protests around the world protesting Roe v. Wade.

00:50:27.300 The Roe v. Wade overruling.

00:50:28.740 You're seeing protests in France.

00:50:29.980 We don't have time to get to it today.

00:50:30.900 We'll have to get to it tomorrow.

00:50:32.440 You're seeing protests in France where the abortion laws are stricter than they are in

00:50:35.680 the United States are much stricter than they are in the United States.

00:50:38.780 You are seeing, because there is this thing, that Biden advisor was totally right.

00:50:43.860 There is this thing called the liberal world order.

00:50:46.740 And the, the reality of the liberal world order is pride flags everywhere and transing 0.98

00:50:51.580 the little kids and promoting all sorts of awful, gross, terrible things and raising

00:50:57.620 your gas prices.

00:50:58.720 Okay.

00:50:58.940 Do you want that?

00:51:00.080 Is that, is that worth eight bucks a gallon?

00:51:01.740 It isn't to me.

00:51:02.660 Maybe it's time to chart an alternative course.

00:51:05.880 Happy 4th of July.

00:51:06.700 What a great, happy 5th of July.

00:51:08.200 What a great way to do it.

00:51:09.240 Yesterday we commemorated, today we start fighting again.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 05, 2022

Ep. 1039 - The Liberal World Order

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