The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1054 - Libs Are Transing The Economy

00:00:00.000 Second quarter GDP data will be coming out on Thursday, and pretty much every serious economic

00:00:06.740 analyst is predicting that we will be heading into a recession. Every serious economic analyst,

00:00:13.920 with the exception of the economists who work for Joe Biden, according to the director of

00:00:18.820 President Biden's National Economic Council, not only are we not in a recession, we don't even

00:00:25.160 understand what a recession is. Two quarters of negative growth in a row, that's a recession.

00:00:32.960 Right. And certainly in terms of the technical definition, it's not a recession. The technical

00:00:37.360 definition considers a much broader spectrum of data points. But in practical terms, what matters

00:00:43.260 to the American people is whether they have a little economic breathing room, they have more

00:00:47.660 job opportunities, their wages are going up. That has been Joe Biden's focus since coming into office.

00:00:52.860 He has had a view of the economy that we need to look to build from the bottom up and middle out.

00:00:57.980 And what that means is that typical working class people in this country have had trouble affording 1.00

00:01:02.680 things for years. He is focused on building a strong, durable economic recovery here. We have

00:01:09.200 real global challenges here in the short term. We've got to navigate our way through them, but we have

00:01:13.520 to do so without giving up all our economic gains. That's going to be our focus. And I think that we

00:01:19.100 need to train that focus on that rather than on sort of technical debates about backward looking

00:01:23.780 data. So the consumer confidence numbers are going to come out as well. And consumer confidence has

00:01:28.320 been fairly dismal. Those numbers have just been flat out bad. I love that line at the end there.

00:01:35.160 Oh yeah. Okay, man. But you know, it's all pretty dismal and bad, right? Even the CNN guy has to admit

00:01:41.680 that even the CNN guy can't lie about it. But the White House economist is insisting that two quarters

00:01:47.800 down in GDP is not technically a recession. So I thought, okay, this is a debate over the definition

00:01:55.060 of a word. So let's just look it up in the dictionary and see what the definition is.

00:02:00.260 Pulled up my little Google. I typed in recession definition. Here's what I got. Top result featured

00:02:08.180 on Google from the Oxford dictionaries, quote, recession, a period of temporary economic decline

00:02:15.360 during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP

00:02:21.820 in two successive quarters. That is literally the definition of a recession. The National Economic

00:02:30.440 Council guy just straight up lied about what a recession is. Because if we don't call it a

00:02:37.360 recession, we're not in a recession. We're just going to change all the words and that's somehow

00:02:41.220 going to change reality. That's the left wing playbook. Even the White House press secretary,

00:02:45.880 Corrine Jean-Pierre, was not that shameless, was not that brazen. When Corrine Jean-Pierre was asked

00:02:52.800 about the recession, she just refused to answer. And what is exactly the White House's definition

00:02:59.440 of a recession? Again, we don't, we don't, I'm not going to define it from here. I'm just going to

00:03:05.340 leave it to the NBER as, as we have stated of how they define, uh, recession, recession.

00:03:11.000 Okay, so you will declare it one until they have declared it one.

00:03:13.600 I'm just saying that we're just not going to define it. We use the indicators that the NBER,

00:03:18.680 uh, uh, the National, National Bureau of Economic Research has, have used. We've mentioned that a few

00:03:23.240 times. We're not going to define it. Yeah, you're not going to define it because by the definition

00:03:28.760 of a recession, we are in one and you don't want to admit that. You know, I can't help but notice

00:03:34.820 that when things are going well, the White House doesn't have any problem defining basic economic

00:03:40.480 terms. This White House has not had very much good news, but on the few occasions they have,

00:03:45.320 for instance, they let people go back to work. It was kind of artificial, but people weren't allowed

00:03:49.580 to go to work. Then the White House lets people go back to work. Obviously, this is going to cause

00:03:53.580 an uptick in the economic numbers. Well, the White House sure knew what the terms were then.

00:03:59.180 They used terms like growth. They used terms like job creation. They knew all those terms then,

00:04:03.660 but now that we're headed into a recession, that we're in a recession, all of a sudden,

00:04:08.840 I don't know who's to say. What's recession, man? What do words mean, man? What if the color I see

00:04:15.340 is blue, you see is green? You know what I'm saying, man? Not to be outdone, the Treasury Secretary,

00:04:22.480 Janet Yellen, achieved the finest Orwellian wordsmithing of all. Janet Yellen explained

00:04:29.840 that we're not, well, we're in something. We're not, but it's not a, it's not a recession.

00:04:36.580 It's more of a transition. This is not an economy that's in recession, but we're in a period of

00:04:45.640 transition in which growth is slowing and that's necessary and appropriate.

00:04:53.300 Necessary and appropriate. You see, it's a good thing. It's a good thing that you can't afford food

00:04:57.340 and gas. It's a good thing that the economy is declining. Now, it's not, it's not a slowing of

00:05:04.860 growth, by the way, which is what she said. We're talking about an actual economic decline. The

00:05:10.480 numbers are not going up, but slowly, they're going down. So what she said also is not true.

00:05:15.960 It's not a recession. It's a transition. It's a transit. We're transing the kids. 0.77

00:05:20.500 We're transing the bathrooms. And now we're transing the economy. And the results of that 0.78

00:05:27.000 are exactly as destructive as you might expect. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:05:39.700 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is yet again from Cool Papa J Magic.

00:05:44.860 This is amazing. I don't see the names of people. When I pick the comments, I just pick the comment.

00:05:49.100 I must have picked Cool Papa J Magic a hundred times on this show so far. That guy, very sharp guy.

00:05:55.680 He writes, did you guys notice that they are starting to use the term young people instead of

00:06:00.880 children? That is on purpose and will lead to levels of abuse we still have yet to see.

00:06:05.240 Really good point. I actually had not noticed that. And I usually try to pay very close attention

00:06:10.620 to the left's manipulation of words. Wrote a book on it called Speechless. I'm very interested in that.

00:06:15.180 But it's so subtle, sometimes even I miss it, even when I'm looking out for it.

00:06:20.160 That shift from children or toddlers or babies to young people is intended to blur the line

00:06:27.560 between adults and children as they're pushing all this grooming, creepy sex stuff on the kids.

00:06:34.800 It's amazing. When we're talking about babies, those aren't people. Those aren't because babies are

00:06:39.580 inconvenient for the left. But then when we're talking about really tiny little kids who obviously can't

00:06:43.600 make their own sexual decisions, all of a sudden it's young people. They're going to be calling

00:06:47.800 them young adults. Trans 25-year-olds, that's what they're going to be calling them. Things are going 1.00

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00:08:13.380 Just transing, just transing the kids. Transing the economy. We're transing everything. The Democrat

00:08:22.300 premise here is what you say will entirely determine reality. And this is why all the transgender stuff 1.00

00:08:33.920 actually matters here. The premise is if you say that a recession is not a recession, then it's not

00:08:42.640 a recession. The power of our speech is such that we can totally change reality. If you say that a baby

00:08:50.260 is not a baby, it's not a baby. When we all talk about the royal baby, you know, Prince William and

00:08:56.300 his wife, his wife is pregnant. They're about to have the royal baby. We all talk about the royal baby.

00:09:01.080 We don't talk about the royal fetus or the royal embryo or the royal zygote or whatever, because that

00:09:05.300 baby is wanted. And so we talk about him honestly like he's a baby. But when we talk about some woman 0.96

00:09:10.920 who maybe doesn't want a baby, we say, oh, it's not a baby. It's not a baby unless you want it. Whatever we

00:09:14.600 say, that's what determines it. You had a little boy, but maybe some perverted parent wanted a little

00:09:21.140 girl actually. And so they push the child into the transgender ideology. Well, okay, you can have a 0.97

00:09:28.440 little girl. Just call him a little girl. Put him in a dress. He's a little girl. That's easy. 0.99

00:09:35.000 We don't need to worry about reality. We can just change it with our language. And that's what parents

00:09:39.060 are doing. There was a TikTok that just went viral. I think I've got a block TikTok on my,

00:09:44.260 except that it's so funny in a really dark, sad way. TikTok is very funny. There are some parents

00:09:50.400 who just went viral because they held a gender reveal party, not a gender reveal party for their

00:09:55.380 baby, a gender reveal party for their toddler, because the toddler apparently is transgender.

00:10:01.180 What are you waiting for? We practice acceptance is what they write. And they say it's a gender

00:10:14.340 reveal and they've got the little transgender flag. And then the poor little kid is excited 0.91

00:10:19.220 because the parents are throwing all sorts of fun little glitter and things in the air. And so the

00:10:23.880 kid is excited, not realizing that these parents are sexually abusing the child. Why are the parents

00:10:30.880 doing this? I don't know because they're sickos. Maybe it's satire. Maybe, maybe I don't know that 0.96

00:10:35.980 it's satire. The line between satire and reality is pretty blurred these days. I don't think it's

00:10:40.080 satire. It'd be kind of weird to subject your kid to this in public if it were just a big joke or you

00:10:45.660 were making just some political point about how transgenderism is crazy. So I think they're doing 1.00

00:10:49.540 it for real and they're doing it for clout. That's one of the reasons that parents are pushed to,

00:10:54.860 to trans their kids is because that's the new hip, cool thing to do. And that makes you really

00:11:00.060 cutting edge and avant-garde and liberal and socially acceptable. So that's one of the social

00:11:06.340 impetuses for, for doing this. They are getting clout. They are going to get lots of likes and

00:11:12.660 they are going to go viral and it's going to give that mother all of the attention she's always

00:11:16.440 craved. And so that will happen. But why is the culture giving the parents this clout? It doesn't

00:11:23.860 just end with the culture. Okay. I know we're so fond of saying politics is downstream of culture and,

00:11:29.660 and we've said it on the right for 10 or 15 years, but there's more to the story than that.

00:11:35.500 Culture is also downstream of politics. So one of the reasons why this is being encouraged and

00:11:39.860 promoted is because we now have laws in place that encourage people to trans their kids.

00:11:46.400 We now have laws and regulations in place where if you don't trans your kids, you can be in trouble.

00:11:50.600 You can be accused of child abuse or neglect. We have laws and rules in place where teachers

00:11:54.340 and other, other ministers of the state can trans your kid without your knowledge.

00:12:00.120 We now have laws in place going all the way up to the civil rights act that have legal protections

00:12:06.060 for gender identity. There are enshrining in law, this idea of transgenderism. So the law,

00:12:13.020 the politics, not just the culture, but the politics and the government and the law are creating incentives

00:12:17.660 for transgenderism and are punishing people for upholding the traditional and correct view

00:12:22.200 of sex and gender. And so that's, that's something else that is pushing the culture

00:12:27.600 in this direction. Is it any wonder that in this moment, you are seeing a major political reaction

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00:14:29.940 Against the backdrop of gender reveal parties for your two-year-old when you pretend the little girl's 0.95

00:14:35.220 a little boy or vice versa. Against the backdrop of drag queen story hour for toddlers. 0.66

00:14:40.760 Against the backdrop of all of this, you have right-wingers coming out that those kooky, 0.98

00:14:50.580 crazy, awful, radical right-wingers, Marjorie Taylor Greene, oh, the worst, most right-wing, 0.99

00:14:58.360 awful person of them all. And she's saying, oh gosh, I don't even, can I even utter this phrase? 0.99

00:15:03.640 It's the scariest phrase in politics, according to CNN.

00:15:06.200 Again, Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying, whatever that stuff is, I'm not that. In fact,

00:15:12.120 I'm a Christian nationalist.

00:15:14.280 I believe in accountability and I believe in not just saying something, but following through on it.

00:15:19.860 And I believe that Republicans need to prove to the American people that we are the party of

00:15:26.260 American nationalism and Christian nationalism. I'm a Christian. I have no problem saying I'm a

00:15:32.640 Christian nationalist. And I think that's an identity that we need to embrace because those

00:15:38.400 are the policies that serve every single American, regardless of how they vote. They could be a

00:15:43.980 Democrat and a progressive, but Christian nationalists or American nationalists, America

00:15:48.880 first policies still serve those people because they're the right policies for everyone.

00:15:54.460 A Christian nationalist. And it's coming from Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is this conservative

00:16:00.020 member of Congress that the libs have really focused on. They really, really hate this woman. 1.00

00:16:05.620 And then they try, they make this into a scare term. Christian nationalism. CNN has a long article.

00:16:11.100 Gosh, this article never ends called an imposter. Christianity is threatening American democracy. 1.00

00:16:18.200 I want to pause right there because they explain what they mean by Christian nationalism.

00:16:20.960 But before we get to it, I love they use this phrase, it's an imposter Christianity. 1.00

00:16:25.980 It's not the real Christianity. You ever notice the libs do this? Whenever you say things that are 0.97

00:16:30.380 really basic aspects of the Christian religion and a Christian culture, they'll say, you're not

00:16:36.900 really a Christian. You're not a real Christian. Jesus, you know, he was a hippie socialist.

00:16:43.240 I love they always say Jesus was too. If you believe in Christianity, you don't say Jesus was,

00:16:47.040 you say Jesus is because he rises from the dead and he lives in heaven and he's our king and our

00:16:51.760 savior lives. But they always say, you know, Jesus, he was a radical left wing, this, that,

00:16:57.180 and the other. They name all these things because these people have never cracked open a Bible in

00:16:59.980 their lives. And they say, and he, you're a terrible Christian. You're not a real, true, 1.00

00:17:04.860 good Christian. And also Christianity is really stupid and dumb and you shouldn't believe it. 1.00

00:17:09.080 You're not, you're a fake imposter, hypocritical, artificial Christian, but also Christianity is 1.00

00:17:16.200 really totally insane. Why would anybody believe that? And they, they, they say both of these at 1.00

00:17:20.260 the same time out of both sides of their mouths. That's a minor digression. They say an imposter

00:17:25.380 Christianity is threatening American democracy. This is Christian nationalism. What does the CNN article 0.89

00:17:30.660 say Christian nationalism is? What's it all about? First part, erasing the line, separating piety from

00:17:38.980 politics is a key characteristic of white Christian nationalism. Okay. That part's true. You're

00:17:44.360 right. Christian, I don't know, white Christian national, what does that even mean? Christianity,

00:17:50.000 there, there is neither Jew nor Greek nor slave nor free, but all are one in Christ Jesus. But okay,

00:17:54.340 whatever. They don't know what they're talking. Obviously they don't know what they're talking about.

00:17:56.800 Let's get to that point. They say erasing the line between piety and politics. They're saying

00:18:00.260 it's making politics more explicitly religious. Yeah, that's true. That's true.

00:18:06.720 But we're not the only ones doing that. Do you, you think that the left has a firm line between

00:18:14.800 piety and politics? All the left ever does is virtue signal. The only difference is that they're,

00:18:20.780 what they call virtue is actually vice. You think that the left isn't pious? You don't,

00:18:26.140 what are you talking about? You think the left doesn't have religious views that they foist on all

00:18:29.600 of us? They're pretending that human beings can actually secretly be the opposite sex. They're,

00:18:34.320 they're making a metaphysical claim that the soul is totally different from the body and they're

00:18:39.480 forcing you to, to engage in a sacramental sort of ritual to transgender your little toddlers. 0.86

00:18:46.800 You don't think that's pious? You don't think a pride parade is a kind of weirdo version of 0.98

00:18:54.040 piety? Of course it is. It's a religious ritual. It's just not for Christianity or Islam or Judaism or

00:19:01.040 anything that we would call a traditional religion. It's, it's just for leftism.

00:19:05.980 So, okay. Yeah, you're right. Christian, Christian nationalists want to separate

00:19:10.300 or want, want to bring together a little more piety, piety in politics, a little closer together.

00:19:16.400 Sure. The libs are already doing that. They've been doing it forever. Next line. One of the most

00:19:20.660 popular beliefs among white Christian nationalists is that the U S was founded as a Christian nation.

00:19:25.720 Uh, that's true. That is a popular belief because it's inarguably correct. Yeah. 1.00

00:19:33.140 Have you ever heard of the Mayflower? Have you ever heard of the pilgrims? Have you ever heard of the,

00:19:38.440 the people who settled our country? What do you think that, would you call them Christian?

00:19:44.740 I, I would call them so zealously Christian, so hyper focused on their particular brand of 1.00

00:19:53.080 Protestant Christianity that they fled England, another Protestant Christian country. They fled it 0.83

00:19:58.240 because they thought they were too heathen. And then they were in the Netherlands. They were in Leiden

00:20:02.340 and then they fled there because they felt that was too sort of secular and fun. And then they came to

00:20:07.720 America to the hinterlands where half of them died in the first winter, just so they could practice 0.99

00:20:13.180 their extremely rigid form of Christianity. I think they were Christian. The vast majority, 0.89

00:20:20.820 virtually everyone in America at the time of the founding. So fast forward now a century and a half,

00:20:25.180 you're in 1776, virtually everybody in America at the time of the founding, including the founding

00:20:31.320 fathers who were largely Christian. Some of them had sort of heterodox beliefs and some of them verged on

00:20:37.280 deism, but they were overwhelmingly Christian. They, those people believed in some version of

00:20:44.040 Christianity. The only line that these people can ever point to when they say America is not a

00:20:47.860 Christian nation is one line from the Treaty of Tripoli, which says America is not founded as a

00:20:53.880 Christian nation. And they say, John Adams said that. John Adams didn't say that. The Treaty of

00:20:57.800 Tripoli is a diplomatic document to assuage Muslim pirates who were imprisoning and stealing and 0.99

00:21:03.240 kidnapping American sailors. That's all it was about. If you look at John Adams' diaries, if you

00:21:08.280 look at the founding documents of the United States, if you look at the writings of virtually

00:21:12.400 all of the founding fathers, they describe America in overtly Christian terms. That's what John Adams

00:21:17.900 says. He says, the morality for America is the Christian morality. When, when at the Continental 0.70

00:21:23.560 Congress, the, the early proto-Americans are invoking God and the blessings of God explicitly. What do you

00:21:31.120 think that is? Who do you think they're talking to? Do you think they're talking to Allah? Do you think

00:21:34.520 they're talking to Shiva? No, they're talking to a Christian God, a broadly Christian understanding of

00:21:41.840 who God is. When George Washington issues a Thanksgiving proclamation, who's he giving thanks to? He's not

00:21:47.720 giving thanks to some lib social construction man. He's giving thanks to God. So it's just, that's

00:21:53.540 incontestable that America is founded as a Christian nation. The third one, a belief in a warrior Christ. 0.98

00:22:03.380 The idea that Christ is, calls on us to do things, that we have a role in the world. The CNN says this

00:22:11.860 is totally out of keeping with Christianity because they haven't read their Bible. But of course, what 0.86

00:22:16.400 does Christ say? He says a great many things in the gospels. One of them is, I come not to bring

00:22:21.700 peace, but a sword. One of them is to establish a church and go out and preach to all of the nations.

00:22:28.540 The way that the church understands itself is in three states. Traditionally, this is how the church

00:22:32.760 understands itself, as the church penitent and the church triumphant and the church militant.

00:22:41.220 You might have heard that phrase before, church militant. That means the church on earth. The church

00:22:45.060 penitent is the church in purgatory. The church triumphant is the church in heaven. And the church

00:22:49.320 militant is the church here on earth. The entire Bible is infused with language about spiritual

00:22:55.880 warfare, spiritual combat. That is a combat. And then finally, they say, Christian nationalism is

00:23:02.720 a threat to democracy. And that's my favorite line. That's my favorite line of all. Because

00:23:06.840 the libs do this all the time. Whenever the people vote against their preferences,

00:23:13.680 they say it's a threat to democracy, which is, of course, nonsensical. If most people

00:23:20.360 are voting for a thing, that can't be a threat to democracy. They say, when people vote for Trump,

00:23:26.220 oh no, it's a threat to democracy. The people elected Trump. You can't have that. It's not

00:23:29.860 just in America. In Hungary, when the people elect Viktor Orban, who's a right-wing leader there,

00:23:33.760 this is a threat to democracy. The people have voted for this thing, and now they've got that form

00:23:38.020 of government. What a threat to democracy. Bolsonaro down in Brazil, another right-wing leader.

00:23:41.840 This is, oh no, the people elected a right-winger. This is a threat to democracy.

00:23:46.140 No, it's a threat to liberalism. That's what they mean. When they say democracy,

00:23:49.100 they mean liberalism or progressivism or leftism, all of which are increasingly unpopular. And so the

00:23:54.880 libs are really upset about this, and they are lying, or they're just ignorant, and they're 0.98

00:23:59.540 pretending that that threatens democracy. The reason Christian nationalism is the term here, 0.96

00:24:05.160 the scare term, it's why they're going after Marjorie Taylor Greene. It's why they're going after

00:24:08.820 all these conservatives, and specifically Christian nationalism, is because it's the opposite of

00:24:14.340 leftist globalism. Nationalism is the opposite of globalism. Christianity is the opposite of 0.99

00:24:20.880 leftism. I'm not even making this as a cheap shot. The term, the left, comes from the French

00:24:25.480 Revolution when people who sat on the left of the National Assembly opposed the church. The people who

00:24:30.340 opposed the church sat on the left. The people who defended the church and the state, they sat on the

00:24:35.420 right. So they're just opposites. They're saying, when they call you a Christian nationalist,

00:24:40.820 they're saying, you oppose our leftist globalism. And on that charge, my friends, guilty. I plead,

00:24:48.500 happily, I plead guilty. Now, someday, someday, when we're thinking about a scatological language here,

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00:27:37.060 Left-wing activists in Illinois are very upset that a public library is considering taking gay porn 0.86

00:27:58.900 out of the young people's section of the taxpayer-funded public library. The libs are very 0.97

00:28:05.180 upset. How dare you consider taking gay porn out of the libraries? Here's what they say in their own 1.00

00:28:11.680 words. I am not upset by these books and I don't understand how people, how they would be. So I

00:28:18.500 looked it up online to see what people could be complaining about because I have read the books

00:28:22.500 and some people claim they're porno. So they're either mad because it's porn or because it's LGBTQIA

00:28:30.300 porn. And if this upsets you, you're really against porn or you're homophobic. Are you going to try to ban 0.98

00:28:36.480 straight romance novels too and have no straight porn in the library? If you read the book, and I have

00:28:42.680 three times, I strongly encourage people who are experiencing conflict to please give genderqueer a try.

00:28:57.300 It is not pornography. I have seen a great many things in my life as a librarian at various book selling

00:29:09.720 stalls. This is not an erotic adventure in any way, shape, or form. It is a true expression of what this

00:29:21.640 person felt to be their life. It might be a true expression of what this pervert author thought to

00:29:29.020 be his or her life. Sure. But it is pornography. It is. And if you're watching that clip, instead of

00:29:34.700 listening to this on your podcast app or on the radio, you would have seen just some of the images

00:29:39.140 from the book, which are pornography. And they're not just pornography. They're gay pornography. And 0.66

00:29:45.560 they're not just gay pornography. They're gay pornography aimed at children. And for all of 1.00

00:29:51.400 those reasons, in increasing severity, increasing urgency, you've got to get this out of the library.

00:29:58.260 There is no free speech protection for pornography. There never was in the United States. There's

00:30:04.380 actually still isn't according to the law, but those laws have not been enforced in recent decades. But

00:30:10.140 it's preposterous. There is no serious person who has ever argued for free speech and the free

00:30:20.180 exchange of ideas. No serious person, philosopher, statesman, has ever suggested that some work of

00:30:27.240 philosophy has the same, some work of pornography has the same kind of protection as some work of

00:30:33.100 philosophy. No one would seriously argue that. That was not reflected in our law. In fact, that still is

00:30:38.700 not reflected in our law. It is a reminder though, when you heard that woman say, she goes, what? Oh my

00:30:45.120 gosh, if you oppose this book, look, it's not pornography. It's totally not gay porn. But okay, 0.99

00:30:50.360 let's, you know, let's just admit for a second that it is. That means that you're really against

00:30:54.060 pornography or you're homophobic. Now what it means, homophobia would be an irrational fear of

00:31:02.540 homosexuals. And that's not what they're talking about. That's not what this woman is accusing 0.94

00:31:06.120 anyone of. She's accusing people of having moral opprobrium, of feeling a kind of moral opprobrium

00:31:13.000 for certain types of sex acts, which everyone feels. Everyone looks at at least some kinds of

00:31:21.900 sex acts and says those are wrong. At the very least, for instance, we would all say pedophilia

00:31:27.260 is wrong. Well, actually the libs these days, I'm not so sure. Some of the libs are trying to

00:31:30.380 normalize pedophilia. They're trying to change the term to be minor attracted person or bestiality. I think

00:31:35.260 we should all be able to agree. Virtually everyone should be able to agree. Bestiality is wrong.

00:31:39.280 It's a sex act, but we can look on it with moral opprobrium. And that's not a kind of phobia.

00:31:43.880 Okay. And so traditionally people have viewed a much broader range of sexual acts with moral

00:31:50.300 opprobrium and said, no, you really shouldn't do those things. Not just same sex acts, but polygamous 0.94

00:31:54.920 sex acts, certain sex acts between a man and a woman. This is kind of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, 0.97

00:32:02.180 some forms of paganism, traditional society, 101. Says, yeah, obviously sex is a very important 0.81

00:32:08.520 thing in human life. It has a lot to do, not just with our private lives, but with all of society,

00:32:13.140 because the family, the marriage is the fundamental political unit. And so we're going to look at

00:32:18.300 certain sexual acts with a kind of opprobrium. These people are saying, no, that's totally crazy.

00:32:24.260 That's totally phobic and irrational. And why even forget about the same sex stuff for a second. 1.00

00:32:30.260 Why would you even be against porn? I don't know. Let me put the question back on you.

00:32:34.000 Why has every society ever had some prohibitions on porn? Why is that? Were they all just crazy,

00:32:42.520 including our own society right now? Why even presently does every single society on earth 0.61

00:32:47.720 have some kinds of prohibitions on at least some kinds of porn? They're all just nuts? 0.98

00:32:53.300 They're all just close-minded? No. Because we know that sex is a very powerful motivator, 1.00

00:33:00.640 and we know that our lusts can be very, very powerful things, and they can be really dangerous

00:33:04.360 to ourselves and to society, and we've got to rein it in. And especially if we want to have

00:33:08.220 self-government, we want to control ourselves, we need to be able to tamp down those really,

00:33:12.000 really base appetites and cultivate our higher rational will. That's why. And that's especially true

00:33:17.460 for kids. Maybe older people can rein it in a little bit more. Maybe just like older people 0.99

00:33:24.500 maybe can drink or even do some drugs. Again, I don't think we should legalize drugs. I don't

00:33:31.440 think we should further legalize porn or anything like that. But certainly we would say an adult is

00:33:37.220 a little more capable of dealing with that than a little kid. That's why we don't let kids drink. 1.00

00:33:41.160 That's why we don't let kids do a whole lot of things. And certainly we shouldn't let kids

00:33:44.480 look at porn in the libraries. Okay? And these people look at you and they say,

00:33:51.160 you're crazy. They look at you and they say, your moral system is wrong. My moral system is right. 0.98

00:33:58.760 Your Christian nationalism is awful. My leftist globalism is good. So what are those? They're 1.00

00:34:06.920 both making moral claims. What are the moral claims? Christian nationalism. No porn for little

00:34:13.920 kids in the library. Leftist globalism. Trans the kids, trans the two-year-olds take the toddlers 1.00

00:34:20.220 to drag queen story hour. You're going to have to live under one of those moral systems. 1.00

00:34:26.120 Which one do you want? One of those political orders. Which one do you want to live under?

00:34:31.620 Christian nationalism. Sure. If those are the choices, those look like the choices right now. 0.67

00:34:36.260 Christian nationalism or leftist globalism. Any sane person of any religious background,

00:34:43.560 of any sexual desires, of any race, of any geography, any sane person would prefer to live

00:34:51.400 under Christian nationalism than leftist globalism. Every single person will do better

00:34:57.760 under Christian nationalism than they would under leftist globalism. This is why it's not just the 0.85

00:35:05.540 fringe radical Marjorie Taylor Greene. They really hate Marjorie Taylor Greene. It's not, but it's not

00:35:10.840 just her. It's not just some members of the House of Representatives. Even the most mainstream kinds of

00:35:17.060 executive governor, national level conservatives, Ron DeSantis. It's really hard to call Ron DeSantis a

00:35:23.700 fringe crazy figure. Ron DeSantis is using the exact kind of language. This is from a couple of months ago.

00:35:29.000 Ron DeSantis was at a rally. He called on people to put on the armor of God.

00:35:33.140 Gird your loins for battle. Gird your loins. 0.98

00:35:35.700 We are going to fight. You put on the full armor of God. You take a stand against the left schemes.

00:35:45.320 Yeah, you're going to face flaming arrows, but if you stand for truth, you and we will prevail.

00:35:51.680 So this is just explicitly biblical language, Christian language, and it's totally right. 1.00

00:35:59.320 Which, let's say you had two politicians giving speeches. They get into a time machine.

00:36:05.400 They go back to 1776 and they start talking. And one of the politicians is Ron DeSantis and the other

00:36:14.200 one is AOC, let's say. Okay. The libs right now are saying that Christian nationalism is completely

00:36:23.820 out of touch with the American tradition. It's a total perversion of America. The founders wouldn't

00:36:28.680 have liked this and nobody. This was totally unnatural to the American way of life. Okay.

00:36:35.000 So you got Ron DeSantis and AOC and they both get in their time machine. They go back to 1776.

00:36:40.560 Ron DeSantis gives that exact speech verbatim. And then AOC talks about how transgender rights

00:36:45.900 are human rights and we need abortion on demand without apology and no human being is illegal,

00:36:50.500 which is why we need to open up all the borders. Which do you think the crowd would prefer?

00:36:56.380 Which do you think the crowd would say, this makes more sense? Oh yeah, I've heard this before.

00:36:59.520 However, what Ron DeSantis said would sound like pretty much just anybody in their society, 0.92

00:37:04.320 except his accent wouldn't be quite as silly and he wouldn't be wearing a powdered wig.

00:37:07.660 But otherwise, people would, that guy would fit in, okay, at the Constitutional Congress, 0.79

00:37:13.840 the Continental Congress rather, or the Constitutional Convention. Either one of them,

00:37:17.640 they would fit in. They'd say, you look a little swarthy. You're a little on the Italian side, 1.00

00:37:21.360 but that's okay. All right, you still vaguely fit in. AOC comes and she starts talking about

00:37:25.840 transing the kids and abortion. They say, who the hell is this lady? What planet did you come 1.00

00:37:29.440 from, lady? Obviously, this one is in the American tradition. No question about it.

00:37:35.780 Now, speaking of men who want to be president, Donald Trump is laying out his plans for his

00:37:42.440 second term. Donald Trump, I would say all the smart money right now is saying Donald Trump

00:37:48.420 is going to run for president. So all this horse race jockeying that people are talking about,

00:37:53.660 Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz, Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo, Mike Pence, they're all talking about these horse races.

00:37:58.560 And I really like a lot of those people. I think Ron DeSantis is a phenomenal candidate. I think he's

00:38:05.040 the best governor, certainly in the country right now, maybe the best governor in America in my

00:38:09.540 lifetime. You know, I love Senator Cruz. I do a show with him. I even like some of the other people

00:38:14.240 too, who could be running. But none of that really matters, actually. Because if Trump runs,

00:38:21.420 he almost certainly will win the primary because his numbers are so far up right now.

00:38:28.460 They're up 40 points. And so you hear people complain. They say, no, but this candidate would

00:38:32.340 be so much better. Or no, I don't like Trump. You know, there's even some people who hated Trump in

00:38:36.380 2016. I always kind of liked Trump. I had my reservations about him during the primaries in

00:38:41.040 2016. I voted for him in the general. I voted for him in 2020. I'm not saying he's perfect. There are

00:38:46.600 some things he did that really drove me crazy. I hated that first step act. You know, so I'm not,

00:38:50.620 I don't like worship the guy as a demigod, but he was by far the most conservative president

00:38:55.520 of my lifetime. And I like him. And I'm noticing now a lot of people who didn't like him in 2016,

00:39:00.140 they're kind of turning out. Maybe they liked him in 2020. Maybe they didn't. But they kind of don't

00:39:04.320 like him again now. And they're pulling for other candidates. And I get it. That's, it's all a fair

00:39:08.260 debate. But guys, it's, how about reality? If Trump says he's running, he is 99 out of 100 going to win

00:39:15.660 the primary. So now the question is, if he is going to run, what is he going to do? What is his

00:39:21.660 campaign going to be? And right now, what Trump is campaigning on is not just immigration. It's not

00:39:27.260 build the wall. Wish he could have built more of the wall, but it's not just build the wall.

00:39:31.880 It's not pro-life. He, he is the most pro-life president ever. He got Roe v. Wade overruled.

00:39:36.200 It's not the economy. That's kind of a given. It, the issue that he is running on right now

00:39:42.140 is firing 50,000 government bureaucrats in the deep state. Here are just some of the other things

00:39:49.480 we must do with Republicans back in charge. We must pass critical reforms, making every executive

00:39:58.620 branch employee fireable by the president. The deep state must and will be brought to heel.

00:40:07.900 The deep state must and will be brought to heel. This is what the libs are freaking out over too. 1.00

00:40:14.960 You can, you can tell generally which Republican policies matter by which ones the libs are most

00:40:20.840 freaked out over. And this one, they're really scared. They call this a coup. They call this a new,

00:40:26.280 a radical plan for Trump's second term. I mentioned it at the very end of the show yesterday,

00:40:30.360 but what Trump is talking about here is something called Schedule F. And it's a bureaucratic measure

00:40:37.080 to change the way that employees work in the federal government and to change what kind of

00:40:42.780 employment protections they have. Generally speaking, when, when any president comes into

00:40:47.660 office, they switch over something like 4,000 members of the federal bureaucracy. And it's

00:40:53.560 usually those top level guys, the top level guys and the people just below the top level guys.

00:40:58.860 Federal bureaucracy is something like 2 million people. So you change out 4,000 people,

00:41:02.720 that's nothing. That's, you haven't changed anything. And so the elected guys come in,

00:41:09.100 they put their guys at the very tippy top of the bureaucracy, but all those career people,

00:41:14.380 they know they're going to be there a lot longer than the elected people or the appointed people.

00:41:18.840 And so they don't really have to do anything. When Democrats get elected, this doesn't matter

00:41:22.900 because the federal bureaucracy is overwhelmingly left wing. So the machinery of government generally

00:41:29.100 works when it's the libs in charge. But when the Republicans come in, especially if we're talking

00:41:33.560 about conservative Republicans, not just the squishy people, but the ones who actually want to change

00:41:38.040 something, nothing is going to get done. Because the federal bureaucracy is going to be sitting there.

00:41:44.680 They're going to say, oh, that guy at the top told me to do something. Okay.

00:41:48.860 Going to drag my feet. Going to drag my feet for about four years. And oh, you're gone. Okay, bye.

00:41:54.500 All right, back to normal. Nevermind. And there's no consequence because they have really strong

00:41:59.120 employment protections. So what Trump is proposing is firing 50,000 members of the federal

00:42:04.080 bureaucracy. Now we're talking. Now we're making a start here. And the libs are saying this is a

00:42:08.700 threat to democracy. Can you imagine? Can you imagine? There is something called the federal

00:42:13.440 bureaucracy, which is completely unaccountable to the American people. The American people express

00:42:17.400 their desires through elections and the federal bureaucracy says, cool, pound sand. We don't care.

00:42:22.400 Very anti-democratic. Then Trump comes in and he says, I propose that presidents should have more

00:42:29.620 power to fire these bureaucrats who are the ones actually making and enforcing policy so that the 0.97

00:42:37.200 way that the government operates actually reflects the will of the people. Very pro-democracy. It's a

00:42:43.080 big pro-democracy reform. What do the libs say? They say, well, this is a threat to American democracy

00:42:48.100 because they don't mean American democracy. They mean liberalism, leftism, progressivism.

00:42:52.300 They mean their agenda.

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00:43:26.980 Speaking of shrinking things, you all know how bad inflation is. You have seen the numbers.

00:43:33.780 We're going to get more numbers on Tuesday, which is going to be very unfortunate. Not just

00:43:37.300 you're going to get economic numbers on Thursday to show that we're in a recession, even though the

00:43:41.780 Biden administration refuses to admit it because they changed the definition of the words. Then

00:43:47.480 you're going to get inflation numbers. You see inflation is up 9.1% year over year. This is a

00:43:54.040 massive part of inflation. But I'm here to tell you, folks, things are even worse than that.

00:44:00.000 Don't worry. I've got hope. Things can get a lot worse. They are getting a lot worse because while

00:44:05.360 you've got the economic collapse, while you've got inflation making everything more expensive,

00:44:09.880 you also have something called shrinkflation. And shrinkflation is really subtle. And shrinkflation

00:44:17.640 actually hides the severity of inflation. Because while prices are going up, the products you're

00:44:24.500 buying are getting smaller. This happened to me over the weekend. I was going to buy cheese.

00:44:29.400 Had a couple of friends over. We were making fondue. It's really fun. It's like we were right back in

00:44:34.820 the 1970s. I was going to go out and buy the cheese to make the fondue. And I had to buy

00:44:39.500 24 ounces of cheese. So I'm buying different kinds of cheese. And I pick up a little block

00:44:44.760 of cheese. And I see the block of cheese is 5.9 ounces of cheese. Why? What executive

00:44:56.140 would make cheese 5.9 ounces per block? That is the most useless denomination of cheese,

00:45:04.000 the amount of cheese. There is not a single recipe on earth that calls for 5.9 ounces of cheese.

00:45:10.980 Might call for 6 ounces of cheese. More likely, I don't know, 8 ounces of cheese. 5.9. Why did they

00:45:17.960 do that? They're shrinking the amount of cheese so that you won't notice that even if the price goes

00:45:23.220 up a little bit, you're not noticing it's actually going up a lot more per ounce of cheese. And it's

00:45:29.160 happening everywhere. Not just in my fondue. It's happening throughout the economy.

00:45:31.960 Honey bunches of oats. You know, I love honey. That's one of my favorite cereals.

00:45:36.520 The box of honey bunches of oats used to be 14.5 ounces. It is now 12 ounces.

00:45:42.740 That sounds like, oh, who cares what? It's two ounces, two and a half ounces of honey bunches of

00:45:46.760 oats. How many oats can that be? Well, that's a reduction of 17%. The Daily Mail is reporting all

00:45:54.400 of these numbers. So you're getting 17% fewer honey bunches of oats. And you're probably,

00:45:59.520 you're paying either the same price or more likely you're paying a little bit more for it.

00:46:04.140 So effectively, you're losing much more of your oats. Angel Soft Toilet Paper has just reduced its

00:46:09.260 size from 425 sheets per roll to 320. You're not going to notice that. You're not counting the sheets

00:46:14.720 per roll in your Angel Soft Toilet Tissue. But you are getting a lot, a significantly reduced product

00:46:22.580 for the amount of money you're paying. Bounty paper towels have cut their rolls from 165 sheets

00:46:28.700 to 147 sheets per roll. That happened late last year as we're heading into all of this.

00:46:34.520 You can't notice that. Why? Why would they do that? There's no argument from the product standpoint

00:46:38.760 to reduce it to 147 sheets. They didn't discover 147 sheets. That's the ideal number of sheets per

00:46:44.200 bounty paper towel. No, they did it to save money and to deceive you because they got to try to cut

00:46:48.960 corners somewhere. Gatorade is down. Bottle used to be 32 ounces. Now it's 28 ounces. Folgers coffee,

00:46:55.680 the canister, used to be 51 ounces. Now it's 43.5 ounces. The inflation is even worse than it seems.

00:47:07.180 Speaking of consumption, speaking of things getting worse, there is a story that was going all around

00:47:13.180 the internet. Where is it? Here it is. It's from the New York Times. And a lot of conservatives were

00:47:18.260 freaking out over this. It's called A Taste for Cannibalism. And it was a cultural review

00:47:25.920 of a spate of recent stomach-churning books, TV shows, and films suggesting we've never looked

00:47:33.340 so delicious to one another. And the New York Times article goes on and on about all of these

00:47:40.860 stories of cannibalism. Now, a lot of conservatives looked at this and said, oh my gosh, this is crazy.

00:47:47.820 First, they tried to make us eat bugs. Now they try to make us eat each other. This is awful. This

00:47:51.640 is terrible. But here's one paragraph that I really wanted to focus in on because I have an

00:47:57.040 unpopular take on this. I really liked the article and I think they're correct. I think the New York

00:48:00.700 Times, it stopped clocked twice a day. The New York Times is observing a cultural trend. And they're

00:48:05.740 even correct in a kind of left-wing critique they're making in the article. They're saying the

00:48:10.400 cannibalism movies and books, it's not really about wanting to eat other people. There might be a little

00:48:15.020 bit of that there. But there might be, you know, listen, we've got a lot of sexual perversion in 0.58

00:48:19.880 this country. They've probably got a little bit of that there. But it's more a comment on society and

00:48:24.260 how we relate to one another. They say, more generally, Ms. Summers thinks that the recent

00:48:29.980 spate of cannibalistic plots could also be commentaries on capitalism. Cannibalism is about

00:48:35.900 consumption and it's about churning up from the inside in order to exist. Burnout is essentially

00:48:41.380 over-consuming yourself, your own energy, your own will to survive, your sleep schedule, your eating

00:48:45.180 schedule, your body. This is kind of a stupid point, but there's a little kernel of truth there. 0.99

00:48:51.660 Some people have pointed out that the cannibalism stuff is probably about communism because under 0.99

00:48:55.580 communism, you don't have any food. So you have to eat each other. Like someone whose plane crashes

00:49:00.240 in the Andes, you have to eat people. But I think they make a good point here on capitalism.

00:49:05.240 And you've got to remember, I know conservatives reflexively defend capitalism. Capitalism is a

00:49:11.880 word that was popularized by Karl Marx. Okay, when we talk about capitalism, we're using kind of

00:49:17.860 Marxist terminology, actually. I don't consider myself a capitalist. My ideology is capitalism. No,

00:49:23.740 I love private property. I love entrepreneurship. I love hard work. I love all that stuff.

00:49:30.580 I like producing more material goods to help people. But I don't like capitalism. Capitalism

00:49:36.780 is just a materialist ideology like any other that says that man is just made to consume and get a lot

00:49:42.220 of stuff. And at the worst end of it, worship mammon and consume our fellow man. We don't view 0.89

00:49:46.620 them as men made in the image of God. We just view them as cogs in a machine to make more crap. 1.00

00:49:50.900 So I don't like that side of it at all. I would consider my, what would be a good term? I don't know,

00:49:55.220 you might say Christian nationalist. I don't know. I consider myself a Christian, an American,

00:49:59.060 a conservative. And so I like the fruits of private industry. But as a means to an end,

00:50:06.660 there is more here as well. And at the very worst side of capitalism, or really call it liberalism,

00:50:12.460 or whatever ism you want to use, we stop viewing human beings as fellow men. We start viewing them

00:50:17.720 as just things that can be useful to us to produce more, to work more, for our sexual pleasure,

00:50:23.600 for whatever purpose we find ourselves. We start to consume one another. We start to view each other,

00:50:30.880 oh my gosh, the abortion regime. I totally see abortion here in this cannibal culture, 1.00

00:50:36.840 where a mother says, I'm just going to devour my own child because I want to serve my own ends of my 0.96

00:50:43.600 career, or more money, or more personal choice, or I get to go to brunch more frequently, or I get to go

00:50:49.500 to the club, or whatever. That is a really bad thing. And that is, maybe the word capitalism isn't

00:50:54.700 the right word here. Maybe we should just call it modernity. Maybe we should call it leftism,

00:50:59.320 leftist globalism, whatever. All I know is, whatever that culture is, I don't like it. I don't

00:51:05.580 want it. I think the Times is observing something that's real. I'm observing it myself. And I don't

00:51:10.220 like it. We need an alternative. And whatever you want to call that alternative, people are calling

00:51:16.360 it Christian nationalism. I think that's as good a term as any. Whatever that alternative is,

00:51:20.120 that's what we have to defend. We have to stop accepting the premises of the left. We need to

00:51:25.620 stop being engaged in this fight over the very same premises of leftist globalism and just following

00:51:32.140 them down the road to perdition off a cliff. I'll keep mixing metaphors. We need to offer not just

00:51:37.820 Democrat light. I talked about this yesterday. Not just Democrat policies from 10 years ago. We need to

00:51:42.760 offer a clear alternative, a choice, not an echo. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles

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00:52:38.900 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, as climate change alarmists become more frantic about our alleged

00:52:44.140 impending doom, they have also started to sound more and more genocidal. We'll discuss. Plus,

00:52:48.760 the left now claims that abortion bans are a racist conspiracy to ensure that more white babies are

00:52:54.340 born. Of course, this claim completely contradicts all of the facts. And Tucker Carlson is criticized

00:52:58.460 for urging young people to get married and have kids, if you can imagine. What a terrible thing. 1.00

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 26, 2022

Ep. 1054 - Libs Are Transing The Economy

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