The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1049 - Farewell Fauci

00:00:00.000 By the time we get to the end of the Biden administration term, I feel it would be time

00:00:08.020 for me to step down from this position. Those are the words, as reported by Politico,

00:00:16.040 of the most powerful politician in America these last two years,

00:00:20.020 one of the most dishonest power mad wackos to ever hold office in our country, the one and only 1.00

00:00:26.140 Dr. Fauci. I'm not taking credit for this wonderful turn of events. It is true that Dr. Fauci abruptly

00:00:36.740 stopped his years long ubiquitous TV appearances almost immediately after scores of political

00:00:42.860 candidates and members of Congress signed on to my public health protection pledge to investigate

00:00:48.040 and defund the fetid bureaucrat. That's true. It is true that Fauci remained in relative hiding as my

00:00:55.200 documentary series, Fauci Unmasked, came out and chronicled his well-known, his well-hidden,

00:01:00.880 rather, career of failure, incompetence, and deceit. But it is also true that many other people

00:01:06.560 deserve credit as well for helping to chase this tyrannical goblin out of power. I'm thinking of

00:01:11.920 Rand Paul in particular, others as well. But the people who deserve the most credit for finally,

00:01:19.140 possibly ridding our nation of the political pox named Anthony Fauci are the voters. Because that's

00:01:28.400 the real reason Fauci might step down. Yes, he's old. Yes, he's failed. Yes, he's been exposed.

00:01:35.300 But none of those reasons are why he's stepping down. Fauci has admitted as much himself. The reason

00:01:41.280 that Fauci is stepping down is political. He is going to step down when the Democrats are out of power.

00:01:48.680 In his own words, they're going to try and come after me, probably less so if I'm not in the job.

00:01:57.180 They refers to us, of course. Fauci's timetable for retirement is not based on any milestone on COVID

00:02:03.560 or any other virus. It isn't based on any particular age he will reach. It is based on whenever Biden

00:02:10.060 leaves office. That's the best part of it all. Even more exciting than Fauci finally going away,

00:02:16.300 one hopes very far away, maybe to a far off island like St. Helena. What is even more exciting

00:02:22.400 than that is his reasoning. Fauci is bad in a lot of ways. But no one can deny Fauci is a brilliant

00:02:30.940 politician. And Fauci can feel the way the wind is blowing. And he knows that the wind is in our

00:02:37.180 sails. And if he isn't careful, that wind is going to knock him over and sweep him away.

00:02:42.640 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:51.920 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from great impression of a hot dog.

00:02:56.360 What a name. Comment is, I feel like Michael's comment section today is filled with people like

00:03:01.080 me, women who knew that things were not quite right with their cycle and body chemistry after 0.99

00:03:06.240 getting the vaccine, relieved to now have a place to air it out. Me had a baby 14 months ago and

00:03:12.860 haven't had a period yet. I love my husband so much and I want to have another baby with him,

00:03:17.840 but I'm starting to fear that we can't. Well, on that second point, that's not unusual for a woman's 1.00

00:03:23.580 cycle not to return for a year or more after having a baby. Breastfeeding, I think,

00:03:29.560 plays into that a little bit. So that part's not necessarily unusual. But to your broader point,

00:03:34.060 that you knew something was wrong when you took the Fauci ouchie and you knew something was changing

00:03:40.260 with your menstrual cycle, but you were being told by all the establishment types that it was

00:03:45.480 impossible. Ignore it. Don't pay attention to your lying eyes. And now you find out, oh, wait a second.

00:03:51.360 It's true. They're admitting it. It affects 42% of women. And you're saying you're really glad that you 1.00

00:03:55.980 can air that out in the comment section. Do you know the real place where you're allowed to air out all

00:04:00.920 of your legitimate fears about the stuff that they're calling you a conspiracy theorist for

00:04:05.280 right now? Nine months in the future. That's the place. Right now, the stuff that they are calling

00:04:10.840 a wild, kooky, crazy conspiracy theory that's threatening to public health and it's killing

00:04:15.860 people, in nine months, that will be the mainstream. So just patience is a virtue. I know it's very

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00:05:43.780 Fauci knows which way the wind is blowing. This is actually why he disappeared pretty much

00:05:51.700 immediately when the public health protection pledge was making the rounds, when the documentary

00:05:56.540 came out, when Rand Paul was really hammering him at the Senate. He disappeared because he knew,

00:06:01.700 oops, I'm not as popular as I once was. Oops, I think the jig is up. Oops, okay. And then he went

00:06:08.320 into witness protection and stopped appearing on TV. Well, now I think he knows that that decline in

00:06:13.680 popularity is terminal because Fauci's power is tied to the Democrats and the Democrats are going

00:06:20.240 down. Joe Biden's economic approval rating right now is not just lower than Donald Trump's

00:06:28.480 worst economic approval rating. Biden's economic approval rating is double digits worse than Donald

00:06:36.480 Trump's worst ever economic approval rating. This is according to CNBC. CNBC, not exactly a right

00:06:42.800 leaning outlet. The All-America Economy Survey recorded Biden's economic approval rating dropping

00:06:50.660 five points since April. The last time they took the survey was in April. He's now down five points

00:06:55.780 since then. 30% of Americans approve of Joe Biden's economic performance. Trump's lowest number was 41%.

00:07:03.120 That's an 11 percentage point delta. And that's important because who's the leading Republican

00:07:10.980 candidate right now to go up against Biden or whoever the nominee is in 2024. It's Trump. You

00:07:16.800 might prefer DeSantis. DeSantis is a great candidate. You might prefer Ted Cruz. I think Ted Cruz is a great

00:07:21.440 candidate. You might prefer, I don't know, Nikki Haley or Mike Pompeo or someone else. But it's just a

00:07:27.000 statistical fact. Donald Trump is by far at the head of the pack right now. And so you're putting

00:07:32.520 these two guys up head to head. One's got at the worst a 41% economic approval rating. The other one's

00:07:38.280 got a 30% economic approval rating. That's going to be very hard for the 30% guy to overcome. Why is

00:07:45.940 this happening? The Biden team doesn't seem able to figure out why Biden's numbers are so low. They can't

00:07:53.180 blame themselves. They can't accept responsibility for anything. Jill Biden was just speaking to a

00:07:57.920 bunch of donors in Nantucket. She said, you know, it's just the reason that our numbers are so low.

00:08:03.440 It's every single thing other than us. She says, he's just had so many things thrown his way.

00:08:10.700 Who would have ever thought about what happened? Roe v. Wade. Well, maybe we saw it coming,

00:08:16.760 but we still didn't believe it. The gun violence in this country is absolutely appalling. We didn't see

00:08:21.920 the war in Ukraine coming, right? She lists this litany of all the terrible things that are the 0.52

00:08:26.480 reason why everything is collapsing under Biden and why his approval ratings are going down.

00:08:31.300 The next question you got to ask is, why didn't you see it coming? Especially when we're talking

00:08:37.280 about the war in Ukraine, which is largely responsible for the spike in gas prices,

00:08:41.260 which is causing the spike in all of the prices, which is probably the single biggest problem of

00:08:45.860 Biden's administration. Why didn't you guys see this coming? We saw it coming.

00:08:50.700 We predicted this stuff on this show. We predicted this stuff. I have a show with Ted Cruz called

00:08:57.120 Verdict. We predicted it on that show, laid out exactly how it was going to happen. It was no big

00:09:01.980 secret. Joe Biden came in and eased sanctions on Russia and gave Russia an oil pipeline called

00:09:11.080 Nord Stream 2. And by green lighting that pipeline, anybody with two brain cells to rub together knew

00:09:16.760 that Putin was going to be freed up to enter Ukraine. This was no big secret. The president

00:09:23.400 of Ukraine said that. Vladimir Zelensky, who now the Democrats are saying is Winston Churchill and

00:09:28.800 he's the greatest man in the world and we need to give him whatever he wants. Well, okay, why didn't

00:09:32.580 you give him the economic sanctions on Russia when he asked for it that could have stopped the

00:09:35.520 invasion? Oh, we didn't see this coming. Yeah, I know. You didn't see a lot of things coming.

00:09:40.380 You didn't see the potential overruling of Roe v. Wade. You should have seen this coming for 50 0.99

00:09:43.980 years because Roe v. Wade was a ridiculous court decision. And the pro-life movement has been 0.83

00:09:48.320 steadily gaining steam for half a century. Probably should have seen that one coming.

00:09:53.500 The gun violence in this country. What are you talking about the gun violence in this country?

00:09:57.680 Guns have always been a major factor of American life. Gun violence is not exactly increasing.

00:10:04.060 It kind of depends on what you're looking at. If you're talking specifically about crime in the

00:10:09.700 inner cities, yeah, that's spiking. That's going through the roof. Wonder why that's happening.

00:10:13.500 Might it have something to do with the fact that Democrats for two to three years now have been

00:10:17.720 calling to abolish the police and defund the police and installing radical prosecutors and district

00:10:23.040 attorneys who let the criminals off the hook? You think that's got something to do with the

00:10:26.700 epidemic of violence in this country and crime rate going up? Who could have seen that coming?

00:10:30.520 I don't know anybody with eyes and a brain. We just, guys, it's not our fault. We just didn't

00:10:35.640 see it coming. Well, yeah, that's the problem, Biden. That's why you and the rest of us are in the mess

00:10:40.440 that you have put us in right now. You know what else they didn't see coming? They didn't see

00:10:44.920 that conservatives would push back. This is the most delightful clip I have seen on cable news in

00:10:50.780 a very long time. The mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser, just went on CBS's Face the Nation

00:10:56.580 on the Sunday show. And she showed up on TV to complain that the governor of Texas is sending a

00:11:06.380 bunch of illegal aliens on charter buses to her city. So the Democrats have been promoting illegal 1.00

00:11:13.880 immigration, the most insanely high illegal immigration numbers that we've ever seen in

00:11:19.220 this country, 2 million a year plus, coming across that border illegally. And the Democrats are fine with

00:11:25.440 because they say, yeah, they're all going to go to Texas. They're all going to be in Arizona,

00:11:28.880 New Mexico. It's no big deal. Forget about it. We're not going to have to worry about it

00:11:31.700 in Martha's Vineyard, in Nantucket, in Washington, D.C. So Greg Abbott, he says, okay, hey, you know

00:11:37.640 what? Here's a good use of taxpayer money. We're going to buy a few kind of cheap bus tickets.

00:11:41.360 We're going to put all you illegals on the bus. We're going to send you up to D.C. And then 1.00

00:11:44.640 those politicians who are causing the problem, they can deal with it. And Muriel Bowser says,

00:11:48.880 whoa, whoa, whoa, man, what are you doing to me?

00:11:51.700 The Washington Post reported last week that homeless shelters in D.C. were filling up

00:11:57.600 and groups are getting overwhelmed by these buses that the governors of Texas and Arizona are sending

00:12:04.720 here full of migrants. How significant is this influx? How many people?

00:12:11.540 Well, this is a very significant issue. We have for sure called on the federal government

00:12:17.080 to work across state lines to prevent people from really being tricked into getting on buses.

00:12:25.180 We think they're largely asylum seekers who are going to final destinations that are not Washington, 0.86

00:12:31.900 D.C. I worked with the White House to make sure that FEMA provided a grant to a local organization

00:12:38.900 that is providing services to folks. But I fear that they're being tricked into nationwide

00:12:45.660 bus trips when their final destinations are places all over the United States of America.

00:12:52.640 Yeah, that's the problem. We're going to make the final destination for the illegal immigration 1.00

00:12:56.500 that you're encouraging. We're going to make it your town and your home. Yeah, they are being tricked.

00:13:02.800 They're being tricked by Democrats to come into this country illegally. And now you're complaining 0.86

00:13:08.120 that we are taking that process of illegal immigration to its logical conclusion and saying,

00:13:14.160 okay, D.C., you want this illegal immigration? Fine. It's coming to your home. No, you can't. 0.99

00:13:19.160 We're trying to trick the immigrants and the Republicans. You can't play a trick on us in return.

00:13:23.220 Yes, we can. The Republicans can get aggressive here because the wind is at our sails and the Democrats

00:13:28.600 don't have very much that they can do right now. They are being out-maneuvered.

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00:14:16.880 they want to play it safe. Think about Mitt Romney 2012. I'm not going to talk about any issues that

00:14:21.120 people actually care about. I'm just going to talk about how the economy's bad.

00:14:23.980 So, you know, that's kind of everyone, everyone knows the economy's bad and they don't like that.

00:14:28.400 And I'm going to talk about, maybe we're going to cut taxes a little bit, but I'm not going to talk

00:14:31.800 about any of the issues that are really driving people. The cultural issues, the social issues,

00:14:39.920 the issues that tug on the heartstrings a lot more than the marginal corporate tax rate.

00:14:44.380 Part of the reason Romney couldn't do that, by the way, is because he invented Obamacare,

00:14:47.360 but that was one of the weaknesses of that nomination. He is the kind of nice, polite Republican

00:14:53.680 who doesn't, he just doesn't want to rock the boat. He just wants to kind of sneak into office.

00:14:57.320 And that almost always fails. Then you've got the in your face Republicans. You've got the people

00:15:02.400 like Donald Trump who say, this country is going to hell in a handbasket. You weirdos are doing all 0.99

00:15:07.920 kinds of crazy stuff and we hate it. And we're going to stop you from doing it. Stop protesting 0.99

00:15:12.100 the American flag. Stop transing the kids. Stop pushing your weird stuff on the country. Build a giant 1.00

00:15:16.880 wall. Stop flooding the country with foreigners because you think it's going to give you an electoral 1.00

00:15:20.440 advantage. Just cut it out. You people are jerks for doing that. We're not going to let you do it

00:15:25.140 anymore. So that's Donald Trump. Which strategy has been successful, especially in recent years?

00:15:34.120 Obviously, it's the more aggressive strategy because Republicans and Americans more broadly

00:15:39.400 have had enough. We know that the libs have gone too far. When we talk about the 2024 Republican

00:15:46.000 nomination, a lot of people right now think the divide is between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis

00:15:51.480 with some other people suggesting maybe Senator Cruz or Nikki Haley or Mike Pompeo or Mike Pence,

00:15:59.080 some people have suggested or whatever. There are some other people too. And already people have taken

00:16:04.680 really firm sides here and they're extremely harsh partisans for one of those candidates over the

00:16:10.040 others. But the fact remains, there's a statistical fact here. Donald Trump is way at the top of the

00:16:15.920 heap. He's up something like 40 points. Why is he up so high? A lot of conservatives will say,

00:16:21.500 why is Trump doing better than DeSantis? Trump foisted the vaccine on us and Ron DeSantis stood up

00:16:28.220 against promoting the vaccine too much. Trump didn't reopen the country by Easter and he gave Dr.

00:16:35.060 Fauci a lot of power. Ron DeSantis stood up against the COVID stuff. And there's no question COVID is

00:16:40.480 DeSantis' great strength and Trump's biggest weakness here. There's no question about that.

00:16:45.920 And then they look on all the other issues. They say, maybe here DeSantis is a little more

00:16:49.020 conservative. Well, maybe here Trump is a little bit more effective and conservative. Boom, boom,

00:16:53.200 boom. They go back and forth and back and forth. Well, look, and here's one of the greatest arguments

00:16:56.320 in favor of Trump. Trump got Roe v. Wade overruled. Oh my gosh, it's the most important

00:17:01.140 political achievement of my lifetime of multiple generations probably. Wow, that's pretty amazing.

00:17:07.340 Okay, so they're going back and forth on the horse race. Everyone is ignoring probably the most

00:17:11.720 pertinent fact for the 2024 presidential race. And it was demonstrated in a clip that was going viral

00:17:20.360 around the internet yesterday. It was a clip from one of Trump's old speeches mashed up with a little

00:17:26.180 bit of music. Just take a listen. They want to ban straws. Has anybody ever tried those paper

00:17:31.820 straws? They're not working for them. Right? They want to ban straws. I said, well, you know,

00:17:37.640 I've had a couple of meals at McDonald's, et cetera, over the years. Wendy's, friend of mine owns Wendy's.

00:17:45.020 I'll give it a plug. Right? Burger King. So they want to ban straws. I said, oh, really?

00:17:49.700 What about the cartons? What about the plate? What about the knives and the spoons and the plastic?

00:17:55.360 Oh, they're okay. But the straws are going to ban. Has anybody ever tried? Seriously, the news story's

00:18:01.360 made out of paper, right? It disintegrates as you're drinking. If you have a nice try like this side,

00:18:06.700 this would have no chance.

00:18:12.680 You all hear about this? What's the deal with these paper straws? This is Trump's secret weapon.

00:18:19.940 And I think it very well could be decisive in 2024. It certainly was decisive in 2016.

00:18:26.260 Trump is so freaking entertaining. He's so funny. The man is captivating. He has star quality.

00:18:36.700 Okay? And I'm not saying that's a good thing. And I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just,

00:18:41.540 I'm just telling you what it is. He has that. And it's why in 2016, Donald Trump blew everybody else

00:18:49.440 off the stage. Donald Trump did not have the most conservative record in 2016. Far from it.

00:18:55.840 Didn't matter. He ended up being the most conservative president of my lifetime in a very,

00:19:00.940 very long time. But not in 2016. He's just, he's just a magnet for attention. He just commands your

00:19:10.920 attention. Can Ron DeSantis do that? I don't know. Maybe he can. He hasn't tried at the national level

00:19:17.300 yet. So maybe he can, maybe he can't. That remains a big question mark. Can the other candidates? I don't

00:19:22.020 know. Maybe, maybe not. But what I know is Donald Trump is a network TV star. And he's so freaking

00:19:27.220 funny that he could do a standup routine pretty much any night of the week. He could probably go

00:19:31.920 for two hours. South Park made the same observation about him in 2016. When South Park was making jokes

00:19:37.180 about Donald Trump, they always positioned him as a kind of standup comedian. When, when they would

00:19:42.160 depict him giving a political speech, they'd have the spotlight come on him. They'd have a stool.

00:19:45.520 He'd light up a cigarette. He said, you guys hear about this? You guys hear about this thing?

00:19:48.740 I guess what's the deal with my wife or whatever? So that's really important because people who are

00:19:55.620 listening to this show are probably very high information voters. You consume a lot of political

00:20:00.180 media. You know where the candidates stand on the issues. You're focused. You're hyper vigilant on all

00:20:05.800 of the different domestic and foreign matters. Most voters are not like that. Most voters are not like

00:20:12.040 that. Not even, I'm not even trying to disparage most voters. Most voters just have other things to do

00:20:17.300 and they're just not focused and it doesn't interest them that much. And so they're paying

00:20:21.460 a relatively low amount of attention to the political scene. And that guy is going to command

00:20:25.680 your attention. More so, I think, than most other candidates. If, if a candidate wants to beat Trump

00:20:32.300 in a primary, you've got to figure out a way to get over that. Some of the candidates tried to do that

00:20:36.620 in 2016. It didn't work. Marco Rubio, you remember he tried to do his Don Rickles routine for a while.

00:20:41.020 He said, damn, Trump is so funny. How come he, okay. And then Rubio did that whole routine about how 0.98

00:20:46.120 Trump has small hands and that implied that he had tiny genitals. And it completely backfired. I 0.99

00:20:51.040 mean, the guy just stepped on a rake and Trump squashed him with it. Because you, you can't

00:20:54.660 really fake it. You've, you've got that star quality or you don't. You've, you've, you've honed

00:21:00.320 that skill or you haven't. People have to, to, people have to take on that particular strength if they

00:21:09.080 want to beat Trump in 2024. And Trump's going to be even funnier in 2024 because the libs are providing

00:21:14.160 so much material. There's a third grade teacher just went viral on TikTok as a queer third grade

00:21:21.860 teacher who's got crazy colored hair and is going off about her sexual desires on TikTok. But she 1.00

00:21:28.780 says, look, she doesn't make a big deal out of it. I am an openly queer teacher. Now I don't stand in

00:21:34.620 front of my elementary students and be like, I like women, but I wear a bi-flag watch band, bi-flag 1.00

00:21:42.820 bracelets. In my classroom, I keep a rainbow flag. It's got Mickey Mouse on it because I love Mickey,

00:21:50.840 but it's got a rainbow. My kids know what it means. This is me telling them I am a safe place to talk

00:21:58.720 without making a big deal out of being queer. Side note, I shaved the side of my head.

00:22:06.520 Love it! Okay, going back to the main topic. Anyway, so because I am openly queer, my students trust me,

00:22:14.020 especially my queer students. I teach fifth grade this next school year. I've been teaching fourth

00:22:20.480 grade for the last four years. Anyway, right now I'm teaching summer school and I have third graders.

00:22:25.860 Like I said, I wear these bracelets to let them know I'm a safe space. Two students,

00:22:32.600 two third grade students came to me and asked me to use they them pronouns.

00:22:37.140 Isn't that great? I transed a couple of my third grade students because I don't make a big deal out

00:22:42.120 of it. I don't, I don't broadcast that I'm queer. You know, I mean, I wear multiple bracelets that are

00:22:48.780 basically billboards that say I'm queer and I dye my hair like the queer thing. And I got that haircut

00:22:54.720 that all the queer people got in 2013 or 2014. And I, whenever students come up to me and mention

00:23:01.520 anything about sex, I love to talk to them about it. And I really indulge those conversations,

00:23:05.820 but I don't make a big deal out of it, right? If that's not a big deal, what, what would making a

00:23:12.740 big deal of it be? Would she, would she jump out of a cake every morning in her and do a little 1.00

00:23:17.620 striptease in her third grade classroom? I don't know how you could make a bigger deal. Yeah, 1.00

00:23:22.280 I've got the flag up in my classroom and you know, I, I give all of my students a dose of Lupron

00:23:27.900 before we start. That's for snack time. I give them some cross sex hormones, but I don't really 1.00

00:23:31.880 make a big deal out of it, right? These people are beyond parody and it's not just the conservatives 0.89

00:23:37.840 who oppose that. It's the majority of Americans and Republicans, especially the funny ones are

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00:24:57.720 Sometimes the lib sexual revolutionaries are pretty funny, like the Looney Tunes who prattle on on TikTok. 0.83

00:25:05.540 Sometimes it's not so funny, like when the Assistant Secretary of Health, Richard Levine,

00:25:10.880 who calls himself Rachel, explains how he plans to empower young people by castrating them.

00:25:18.640 We really want to debase our treatment and to affirm and to support and empower these youth,

00:25:27.300 not to limit their participation in activities in sports and even limit their ability to get gender

00:25:33.660 affirmation treatment in their state.

00:25:35.580 Did you hear that Freudian slip at the beginning? He goes,

00:25:37.640 we really, really want to debase our treatment. You are debasing medical treatment. That's true.

00:25:43.600 I don't think he meant to say that, but certainly how it came out. And he says, look, we want to

00:25:47.500 empower people and we want them to be able to get gender affirmation treatment. Little kids,

00:25:53.780 little kids getting pumped full of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and having their 0.91

00:25:58.400 bodies mutilated. That's not so funny. We can laugh and make fun of the libs of TikTok and everything

00:26:05.060 like that. It's great. I mean, that's why libs of TikTok is probably our favorite account on Twitter,

00:26:09.160 right? Because it just highlights all those libs of TikTok. But this is libs of major government

00:26:14.880 authority. This is libs of lots of political power to abuse your children, power that they are 0.99

00:26:20.540 exercising. That's not so funny. That's not going to play very well in November. There's a lot of

00:26:28.420 confusion. There's a lot of sexual confusion and chaos going around the culture. And the reason it 1.00

00:26:34.480 keeps coming up, the reason all these videos keep going viral, whether we're talking about libs of

00:26:37.900 TikTok or other platforms, the reason we're talking about this is because the Democrats and the radicals

00:26:44.080 are focusing very, very much on sexual issues. They have made sex the focal point of their political

00:26:50.220 agenda and conservatives, some conservatives at least, are reacting against that. Ted Cruz

00:26:55.960 got a ton of headlines a couple of days ago because on the bonus segment of the show that he and I host

00:27:03.280 together, he was asked by our friend Liz Wheeler, hey, Senator, what do you think about the Obergefell

00:27:07.800 case that created a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, redefined marriage? And do you think

00:27:13.680 that was a good decision? And Cruz gave the completely unobjectionable answer. He said, well, it was

00:27:19.380 obviously wrongly decided at the time. Unless you believe that James Madison intended to redefine

00:27:25.080 marriage to include same-sex unions at a time when that was completely unthinkable, then you would 0.63

00:27:32.240 have to agree that that's not in the Constitution. Even if you like it, it's not in the Constitution.

00:27:36.440 So they played that clip, went viral, all the libs clutched their paroles. Here's the fuller context,

00:27:44.200 though, because Cruz made the constitutional point, but then he made a broader political point about

00:27:50.520 what's going to happen to marriage in the future. In Dobbs, what the Supreme Court said is Roe is

00:27:56.780 different because it's the only one of the cases that involves the taking of a human life, and that's

00:28:01.080 qualitatively different. I agree with that proposition. That is fundamentally different.

00:28:05.740 I will say on Obergefell, there is also, when a court is considering whether to overturn a precedent,

00:28:12.300 one of the factors that the court looks to is reliance interest. Have people relied on the

00:28:19.080 previous precedent and have they acted accordingly? And in the context of marriage, look, you've got

00:28:24.840 a ton of people who have entered into gay marriages, and it would be more than a little chaotic for the 1.00

00:28:36.080 court to do something that somehow disrupted those marriages that have been entered into in accordance

00:28:41.620 with the law. I think that would be a factor that would counsel restraint, that the court would be

00:28:52.020 concerned about. But to be honest, I don't think this court has any appetite for overturning any of

00:28:59.260 these decisions. So there is the political analysis, and I think his political analysis is right, by the

00:29:04.680 way. The constitutional analysis is same-sex marriage is completely preposterous from the standpoint

00:29:10.300 of the Constitution. It's just, it's ridiculous. But as a political matter, the court's not going to do 0.99

00:29:16.880 anything about it. They're not going to overrule Obergefell. There's no appetite on the court to do

00:29:21.020 that. There are some considerations that people have entered into these same-sex marriages, and so if

00:29:26.600 you upended that, that would create some political problems, and it's just, it's not going to happen,

00:29:30.780 okay? So I took a little poll on Twitter, highly scientific poll on Twitter, and the results

00:29:35.680 were fascinating. The question I asked was, do you think the government should recognize

00:29:42.360 same-sex marriage? Four possible answers. Yes, and I lean left. Yes, and I lean right. No, 0.89

00:29:49.880 and I lean left. No, and I lean right. Now, most of the people who follow me are conservative.

00:29:56.440 So you're only about five or six percent of the respondents lean left, and they were split.

00:30:03.840 Even on the left, they were split. Two and a half percent, two and a half percent.

00:30:08.300 Said yes, two and a half percent said no. That's kind of weird. Even on the left, there's this big

00:30:13.840 split. But then what about the conservatives? You would expect the conservatives overwhelmingly

00:30:17.380 to oppose same-sex marriage, right? No. It was split about 50-50. There was a slight advantage for 0.96

00:30:25.240 the people who don't think the government should recognize same-sex marriage. No,

00:30:28.920 I lean right. It was about 51 percent. Yes, I lean right. It was about 42 percent.

00:30:36.320 Even the conservatives are split on this. So to buttress Ted Cruz's political analysis here,

00:30:44.360 gay marriage is not going anywhere anytime soon. The court has at least something of a legal argument

00:30:50.620 as to why they wouldn't want to overrule Obergefell. I don't think a case would even make it up

00:30:55.160 to the Supreme Court. It would be hard to even think about how you could bring a case that would

00:31:00.460 bring this question back to the mind of the justices. And very few people want to overrule

00:31:07.940 same-sex marriage in America. Very few people. Half of the conservatives. And maybe half of the

00:31:14.240 liberals, but I don't really think that those numbers are so small, I'm not sure that that's

00:31:18.440 really a reliable number. But at least talking about the conservatives here, it's 50-50.

00:31:24.480 Which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me because

00:31:30.700 if you had done the same poll 10 years ago, the vast majority of people would have said,

00:31:38.800 no, the government shouldn't recognize same-sex marriage, including the liberals. They put it up 1.00

00:31:41.980 for a vote in California. It failed. Same-sex marriage. So how in just the period of seven years

00:31:47.760 has same-sex marriage gained such widespread acceptance and support?

00:31:54.480 Well, it's because there's a fifth answer that was not included. There was no room for it in the

00:31:59.460 poll, which is, oh, I don't care. I don't mind. Get the government out of marriage entirely. I don't

00:32:04.060 want to think about it. Come on. It's no big deal. Forget about it. I don't really mind.

00:32:08.360 And how does this affect me? Now, I didn't include that answer in the poll also because

00:32:14.940 government has always regulated marriage everywhere at all times throughout human

00:32:19.820 history. So that's not, just as a practical matter, that's not a real salute. That's a

00:32:24.720 utopian slogan. But what it really means, and this is the important lesson. I don't even

00:32:29.720 bring it up to talk about same-sex marriage. What it really means is there's an important fact

00:32:35.880 of politics, which is that most people's political views don't make sense. That most people's

00:32:41.440 political views don't make sense. Same-sex marriage is the wokest thing ever. It is the 1.00

00:32:49.040 most radical thing that we have done in this country ever. And it's not even close. Abortion 0.92

00:32:56.400 is less radical than same-sex marriage. Cultures throughout human history have practiced child 0.96

00:33:01.220 sacrifice and human sacrifice. It's horrible. It's an extremely evil thing. But it's not all

00:33:06.960 that unusual. Cultures throughout human history have practiced eugenics going back to ancient Sparta 0.75

00:33:11.740 and even further back all the way up to the present. Same-sex marriage is more radical than transing 0.94

00:33:17.340 the kids. There have been eunuchs throughout all of human history. Again, it's awful. It's evil. It's not

00:33:22.920 very nice. But it's not all that unusual to trans the kids even. Same-sex marriage has never existed

00:33:31.800 anywhere. Same-sex marriage is more radical even than those radical things because it involves a 0.95

00:33:37.360 redefinition of the fundamental political institution along the premise that there's no difference between

00:33:45.080 men and women. That is so extremely radical. And half of the conservatives support that view now.

00:33:53.400 And a lot of the conservatives don't even think it matters. Oh, who cares?

00:33:57.440 It doesn't make any sense at all. The conservatives oppose transgenderism because men and women are

00:34:04.060 different. Conservatives watch what is a woman movie, the Matt Walsh movie, because men and women are 0.55

00:34:09.380 different. It's so obvious. And yet, when it comes to the fundamental political institution,

00:34:15.180 conservatives throw that out the window. It's not just conservative. Most people's political views

00:34:19.580 don't make all that much sense. Think of your liberal cousin who's a vegan. And we've all got

00:34:25.320 a liberal cousin who's a vegan. And your liberal cousin who's a vegan, 99 times out of 100, 999 times

00:34:32.000 out of 1,000 will support abortion. Won't eat meat. Won't eat eggs. Won't even eat the products of

00:34:38.720 animals because we have to be so nice to all the living creatures. But yes, let's kill babies up until the 0.99

00:34:45.820 moment of birth. Abortion on demand without apology. That just doesn't make sense. Think 1.00

00:34:50.220 about the libs when it comes to the environment. We can't burn fossil fuels. That's really bad for

00:34:55.660 the environment. We've got to get off of fossil fuels. And then the conservatives propose nuclear

00:34:59.460 energy, which is by far the most efficient clean energy that we've got available to us. The libs say,

00:35:04.400 no, we don't want that either. We can't have oil pipelines in America. That's bad for the environment. 0.97

00:35:09.820 That's why we need to support oil pipelines in Russia. That's why we need to get gas from Iran and

00:35:14.680 Saudi Arabia. Does that make sense? No, it doesn't make any sense at all. But conservatives are like

00:35:21.100 this too. Conservatives fall into this trap too. Think about what conservatives say with abortion

00:35:25.920 and IVF. We were talking about that this past week. Conservatives say abortion is terrible because 0.86

00:35:30.120 human life begins at the moment of conception. So we need to ban abortion. But we need to allow IVF,

00:35:37.940 which produces lots of human embryos and then either destroys them or freezes them in perpetuity.

00:35:44.680 Hold on. You're telling me that life begins at conception. That's why we got to get rid of

00:35:48.340 abortion. But life doesn't begin at conception when we're talking about IVF. That doesn't make

00:35:53.280 any sense. And I know that a lot of conservatives go along with that. Same thing on same-sex marriage.

00:35:57.700 You're telling me that it's so important. We need to defend our traditional values and our

00:36:01.120 traditional society, except for the fundamental political institution, the family. We're going to now

00:36:06.600 fundamentally sever the connection between family and nature. But we still, we need to defend

00:36:13.700 traditional values. You would hear this for years in Republican speeches, especially in the 90s and

00:36:19.160 2000s. The first part of the Republican speech would be, we need to defend our society and the

00:36:24.520 traditional institutions and the civic associations and the family and our good old American way of life.

00:36:30.260 And then you get to the second part of the speech, they'd say, that's why we need creative

00:36:35.260 destruction and rampant capitalism and innovation everywhere and new technology. And we need to

00:36:41.360 just outwit the old, in with the new, and new, new, new, and let's make a lot more money. And hold

00:36:45.280 on, wait, what was, what about the old keep the social mores and don't change a lot of stuff and

00:36:51.280 maintain our traditional values until you get to the second half of the speech? Why do I bring this up?

00:36:56.120 It's not to dunk on the libs. It's not to dunk on the conservatives. It's not to say that everybody's

00:37:00.480 so stupid, except for us. We're so smart, aren't we folks? It's not to, it's not to say that at all. 1.00

00:37:05.180 I'm sure that there are some problems in our political philosophies too. I bet there's some

00:37:09.580 things that we haven't totally thought through as well. I'm making a descriptive observation.

00:37:15.760 I'm pointing out, it is simply a fact that most people's political views don't make all that much

00:37:23.440 sense. And so when you want to win a political election, when you want to win a campaign,

00:37:30.140 when you want to get something accomplished, when you want to get a law or a candidate across the

00:37:34.320 finish line, you've got to be clever about it. You've got to speak in a way that will reach the

00:37:42.300 greatest number of people, but might not always make the most sense. This is why we talked about

00:37:47.260 yesterday, Ron DeSantis' line that has been extremely popular in Florida. He says, we need

00:37:52.740 education, not indoctrination. That line doesn't really totally make sense because education and

00:38:01.520 indoctrination are pretty much the same thing. But people kind of know what you're getting at

00:38:06.600 when you say that sort of thing. Okay, people kind of, it pulls on the right strings and will

00:38:14.800 motivate people to go vote. I mean, you just see it in the poll numbers for DeSantis. That's what

00:38:20.140 conservatives are going to have to do in order to win elections. You are not, you are not going to

00:38:25.780 make a ton of progress on these issues by just laying out the perfectly precise, pure argument.

00:38:32.920 Okay. How did the pro-life movement do so well over the last 50 years? Is, did the pro-life movement

00:38:39.760 just make totally clear, crystal clear arguments? They did. I just don't think that was the most

00:38:44.700 persuasive part. I think the most persuasive part was showing people what a sonogram looks like

00:38:48.380 and showing people what an abortion looks like and showing people cute little babies.

00:38:53.360 And that's just where people are. And that's where you've got to meet them on these kinds of issues.

00:39:00.160 Because people know that something is wrong in the sexual culture right now. And they know that the

00:39:04.500 libs are focusing on sex because it's powerful. And they, they just, they get that something's wrong.

00:39:09.580 So you've got to, you've got to encourage them in that. Here's, here's a great example of this.

00:39:16.920 This is a shocking historic story. Just came out of a women's prison. A, an inmate, a trans woman 0.99

00:39:24.040 inmate in the women's prison who's in for manslaughter, has just been moved out of the prison

00:39:30.040 after she knocked up two other women. She impregnated two other women there. What a time to be alive.

00:39:36.280 We're living at a time where for the first time in human history, a woman has impregnated other 1.00

00:39:42.240 women. What are the odds? Isn't that so strange? Demi Minor, I don't know what his real name is.

00:39:46.700 He's 27 years old, just transferred out of the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women

00:39:51.200 in New Jersey. He's serving a 30-year sentence for manslaughter, but he keeps knocking up

00:39:56.300 the inmates. We're not going to win on these issues, especially issues like transgenderism, 1.00

00:40:03.600 human sexuality, the human person in our relation to our citizens and the state. We're not going to 0.88

00:40:08.840 win by just making pure, boring philosophical arguments. We've got to kind of work in the

00:40:15.720 other direction. We've got to point to these stories and say, hey, you see that? You see that

00:40:20.500 husky dude in a dress knocking up all the women in the prisons? That's wrong, right? We all know that

00:40:26.140 that's wrong. Okay, so let's stop that. And now let's think, why is that wrong? Maybe that's wrong

00:40:32.260 because he's not really a chick. Maybe that's wrong because men can't become chicks. Maybe that's 0.81

00:40:37.000 wrong because men and women are different. Maybe men and women are called to slightly different

00:40:42.020 things, and they're not just completely indiscernible and identical at all times. Maybe we

00:40:47.000 need to return to a kind of more traditional, normal way of viewing men and women that has

00:40:52.960 prevailed everywhere throughout the entire history of the world until about five seconds ago here.

00:40:56.560 You've got to work backwards. Speaking of deranged women, a white lady is very, very upset at other 1.00

00:41:06.760 white ladies, and she's very upset at other white ladies because she and her fellow white ladies have 1.00

00:41:12.940 committed a truly evil and atrocious act. They have given birth to white men. Buckle in, I'm going to 1.00

00:41:19.940 get brutally honest. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Who created these monsters?

00:41:28.940 We did. We birthed them. We nursed them. We read their little nursery rhymes and sing the little songs.

00:41:39.400 We taught them in their preschools and their kindergartens and their first and third grades.

00:41:43.500 White women craft their own gilded cage. And we do it by raising little misogynistic, 1.00

00:41:56.100 patriarchal tyrants. We raise the little boys who grow up to be the Donald Trumps, 0.95

00:42:06.240 the Mitch McConnells, the Greg Locke's of this world. White women raised them. 1.00

00:42:14.520 Now I hear you on the last sentence. When these little tyrants grow up and abuse us 1.00

00:42:20.460 and we speak out about it, yeah, we're going to be institutionalized. 0.95

00:42:25.560 Yeah, she's saying, yeah, they're going to call us crazy, huh? Why would they ever think we're crazy?

00:42:31.040 We just hate ourselves and our kids. She's got those eyes. You can tell by the eyes. The eyes are

00:42:37.560 usually a giveaway. This is the logical conclusion though. The illogical, I guess, conclusion of what

00:42:45.120 the left is pushing, which is a mother despising her own child. The politics of resentment, which starts

00:42:57.180 out as just being about everyone else, I'm really good and everyone else is really bad, that politics

00:43:01.940 of resentment is going to come back like a snake eating its own tail. And it's going to come back

00:43:07.180 on a kind of personal resentment. She hates herself because she's a white woman. And she even hates 1.00

00:43:12.380 her own child. Ties right into the politics of abortion. Why does the left not merely tolerate or 1.00

00:43:20.000 encourage abortion to some moderate degree? Why does the left make a sacrament out of abortion? Why is

00:43:24.440 abortion the sacred fundamental right, according to the left? It's at the very heart of this politics

00:43:32.900 of resentment. Mother Teresa made this point 30 years ago in a speech at the United Nations. She said,

00:43:38.340 I'm paraphrasing slightly. She said, abortion is the greatest evil in the world. And the reason is,

00:43:45.080 if a mother can kill her own child, there is no limit to the evil and depravity that will go on. 0.84

00:43:51.820 If a mother can kill her own child. And this video of this lady is, we should hate ourselves 0.96

00:43:59.840 because we have committed the great evil action of giving birth and creating life. So we obviously

00:44:06.080 need to hate our own children. That is the level of animus that you see on the left. You also see,

00:44:15.160 this is the level of animus against white men. The only group in America that you can legally

00:44:20.780 discriminate against is white men. White people broadly, to some extent Asian people because

00:44:27.360 they get lumped in as white people for some reason. And men kind of broadly, but specifically

00:44:32.100 at that apex, at the very tippy top of the intersectional pyramid, it's straight white men 0.94

00:44:38.600 who know that they're men. And beyond legal discrimination in college admissions and work,

00:44:43.600 it's the only group that you're socially allowed to constantly demean and insult. 0.96

00:44:48.600 Can't do that about black people. Can't do it about Hispanic people. Can't do it about Asian 1.00

00:44:53.700 people. Can't do it about women. Can't do it about homosexuals. Can't do it about any other 0.98

00:44:58.680 kind of sexual identities other than white men, straight white men who know that they're men.

00:45:07.120 That's the group that you can so vilify that even their mothers are now encouraged to vilify them.

00:45:13.220 But before we go, I've got to get to a story about positive masculinity. You always hear about

00:45:18.500 toxic masculinity. And I think this guy was a white guy too, though. I'm not totally sure.

00:45:23.240 But he's definitely a dude, a good guy with a gun, saving a lot of lives in Indiana. The reason you're

00:45:29.140 not going to hear about this story very much is because it contradicts the Libs narrative.

00:45:32.600 There was a mass shooter at a mall in Greenwood, Indiana. He fired into a civilian crowd at the

00:45:42.600 food court. He killed three people. He wounded two people. But before he could kill 20 people or 30

00:45:49.020 people, a good guy with a gun, Elisha Dickon, 22 years old, was there. And he was carrying his gun

00:45:57.300 because of Indiana's constitutional carry law. So only because of that great law that was passed

00:46:04.380 in Indiana, you had culture downstream of politics here. The guy was carrying his gun. He pulls his

00:46:10.620 gun out. He shoots the mass shooter. And sadly, the mass shooter already killed three people. He 0.92

00:46:15.980 could have killed 10 times that. Could have killed even more than that. You saw what happened in Uvalde 0.99

00:46:21.980 where the cops didn't show up on time. They did show up and they didn't do anything. The good guy with a

00:46:26.480 gun, absolutely vindicated. You are not going to hear that story. One last little tiny final story.

00:46:34.500 There are some Republican senators right now being led by Senator Joni Ernst who are proposing making

00:46:39.220 June Protect Life Month. It's the month of life because that was the month that Roe v. Wade was

00:46:43.660 overruled in the Dobbs decision. I think this is a great idea. Conservatives need to engage in the

00:46:50.600 culture. We need liturgical celebrations. We need to celebrate things. All states always do that.

00:46:57.760 It's kind of religious. It's very public. And every culture has always had these sorts of things.

00:47:03.800 Public festivals, sacred days, feast days. Right now we've got a sacred month, quote unquote,

00:47:11.240 and it's pride month in June. And we have all sorts. We have the month, Black History Month,

00:47:14.780 Women's Month, this month, that month. We have traditional holidays, the 4th of July, Thanksgiving.

00:47:19.580 We have these kind of sacred days. We absolutely need one for life. You can't back away from the

00:47:24.280 culture. You can't say, oh well, just keep my values out of your life or this. That's not how

00:47:29.420 politics works. It's not how it's ever worked. And the wind is at our sails here. And people are

00:47:33.600 going to be supportive of this. And furthermore, when we act in a certain way, when we revere things,

00:47:39.780 when we venerate things, when we worship together, that affects the culture. It affects how we think

00:47:44.760 and how we believe. There's this idea. It's a Catholic idea. Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex

00:47:49.340 Vivendi, the way that we worship affects the way that we believe. It affects our actual views of

00:47:53.620 things. And it affects the way that we live. The wind is at our sails. Dr. Fauci knows it.

00:47:58.620 You all know it. So let's push ahead and let's get the month of life exalted in June so that

00:48:05.460 maybe that will move the way we believe and the way that we live in the right direction.

00:48:08.840 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

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00:49:05.920 On today's episode, Democrats attempt to penalize and defund pregnancy centers. The fundraising

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 19, 2022

Ep. 1049 - Farewell Fauci

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