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00:00:00.000 GOP governors are causing havoc by busing migrants to the East Coast.

00:00:06.620 That's a headline in yesterday's New York Times, which is really confusing to me.

00:00:11.540 Because for years now, I have been reliably informed by the entire establishment press,

00:00:18.000 and probably by the New York Times most of all, that the mass influx of illegal aliens across

00:00:24.080 our southern border into red states is totally awesome. That it's a major benefit to the border

00:00:31.360 states and to the whole country. That it's our strength, I am told. But now, now I'm being told

00:00:39.840 that a minor influx of those very same illegal aliens into blue cities is causing havoc.

00:00:48.020 How does that work? The New York Times writes, quote,

00:00:50.940 A political tactic by the governors of Texas and Arizona to offload the problems caused by record

00:00:57.540 levels of migration at the border is beginning to hit home in Washington, as hundreds of

00:01:02.920 undocumented migrants arriving on the governor's free bus rides each week increasingly tax the

00:01:09.480 capital's ability to provide emergency food and housing. But hold on, wait, wait. Problems?

00:01:16.760 Hold on. I've been told for years that illegal immigrants don't use up public resources,

00:01:23.800 that they are net contributors to the economy. So how is it that the busloads of immigrants

00:01:30.280 are taxing Washington, D.C.'s, quote, ability to provide food and housing? They should be bringing

00:01:35.900 their own food. They should be able to afford their own housing. They're net contributors, right?

00:01:40.680 That's what the libs tell us when the illegal aliens show up to the red states.

00:01:44.040 What changed? The piece concludes with the sad story of a 22-year-old illegal alien named Juan

00:01:50.680 who said he felt unwelcome in liberal Washington, D.C. Without any money or any way to support himself,

00:01:57.980 he ended up in a homeless shelter. But he said, quote,

00:02:01.200 The guys were yelling at us and we couldn't understand a word. It was clear they didn't want

00:02:05.700 us there. Again, so, so weird. Because Texans and Arizonans and all the other Americans along

00:02:14.660 the border have been clear that they don't want more illegal immigration. They don't want people

00:02:19.580 being trafficked by criminal cartels into their communities, bringing crime and drugs and all

00:02:24.860 sorts of bad stuff. It's always been the Democrat politicians in Washington, D.C. who have encouraged

00:02:31.460 these foreign nationals to pay off the cartels and often go into debt with the cartels and enter into

00:02:37.340 our country illegally. But it turns out those Democrats don't want the illegal aliens either.

00:02:44.080 They just want to use the illegal aliens to weaken red states, to cause havoc. And after decades of

00:02:51.540 this abuse at the hands of the libs, the red states are finally sending the havoc back to them.

00:02:58.020 I'm Michael Knowles. It's The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:07.720 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop at Norm's

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00:04:53.140 get one month for free. Speaking of strange headlines, we got a strange headline actually

00:05:00.440 from The Daily Wire. It's not just The Daily Wire though. Strange headline that's coming from pretty

00:05:05.220 much every news outlet in the country. And the headline is this, WNBA star Brittany Griner

00:05:11.380 sentenced to nine years in Russian prison. And I think this is the first time that The Daily Wire

00:05:17.360 has ever published fake news. Because they accuse us of publishing fake news all the time. I don't

00:05:23.400 think we have until yesterday when this article came out. Because there is no such thing as a WNBA

00:05:30.720 star, right? Can't we all agree on that? Regardless of what you think about the Brittany Griner situation,

00:05:36.480 what's going on in Russia right now, I think left and right should all, we should all be able to agree

00:05:41.580 there is no such category as WNBA star. The only reason that anyone has ever heard this lady's name

00:05:50.140 is because she has been arrested for smuggling drugs into Russia. And the only reason that anyone

00:05:56.600 is even talking about the WNBA is because of this international incident that was prompted by this

00:06:01.720 anti-American lady athlete's drug problem and her trip to Russia to try to make money in an

00:06:08.780 off-season basketball league. So Brittany Griner, for those who have not followed the story, and that

00:06:12.960 includes me, I didn't follow the story until yesterday when this was being blasted all over

00:06:16.980 the headlines. Brittany Griner is a lady basketball player. She plays in the WNBA. And the WNBA players,

00:06:24.100 because they don't make very much money, because nobody watches the WNBA, they play in these leagues

00:06:27.940 overseas where they can make a little bit more money. And so she was playing in some Russian

00:06:32.500 basketball games, and she flies over and she brings a bunch of hashish oil. She brings a bunch

00:06:38.040 of the distilled essence of the devil's lettuce. And this is a big no-no in Russia. Russia has much,

00:06:45.120 much stricter drug laws than America does. I think most countries have stricter drug laws than America

00:06:50.720 does. And so she gets stopped, and she's arrested, and she goes to trial. And she was just sentenced

00:06:56.260 yesterday to nine years in a Russian prison. How are we supposed to feel about this? Well,

00:07:02.620 I'll tell you, I'll tell you one of the things that informed how I feel about this. I Google

00:07:07.260 Brittany Griner. I had obviously never heard of her before. And one of the first things to pop up is

00:07:11.080 this article from a couple years ago in the Washington Post. Brittany Griner and Breonna Turner

00:07:16.600 call for the WNBA to stop playing the national anthem this season, because they don't like the

00:07:23.140 national anthem. The national anthem is the Star-Spangled Banner. The Star-Spangled Banner

00:07:27.060 is the symbol of our entire country. So I don't know any way to interpret Brittany Griner's actions

00:07:35.540 a couple years ago, I think through the present, other than she doesn't like America. She hates

00:07:41.940 America, and she's playing in some foreign league, and then she breaks their laws, and then she comes

00:07:48.340 running back begging America to help her. And I gotta tell you, the well is dry here. I'm trying

00:07:54.200 to muster tears for Brittany Griner in her present predicament. They're not coming. They're not

00:07:59.880 coming. I guess generally I lean on the side of it would be good to bring her home. I'm 51-49 on that

00:08:11.000 side, because certainly Russia is going to use her for political leverage to try to either have a

00:08:17.420 prisoner swap with America or to try to put some political pressure for America to ease up on some

00:08:22.540 of the sanctions or whatever. So she is going to be used as a political pawn. But I'm still 51-49

00:08:27.140 here, because I have to ask myself this other question. Does Russia have a right to make its

00:08:33.480 own drug laws? I think so. I think Russia has a right to make its own drug laws. Are Russia's drug laws

00:08:40.600 being selectively applied to this lady basketball player? No, certainly not. There's another story.

00:08:46.040 No one's talking about this. We're all talking now about the lady basketball player. Well, just

00:08:50.000 last month, you see a story from, this is right here in the BBC. Russia sentences US teacher to 14

00:08:57.180 years for cannabis smuggling. It's the same sort of issue here. But because he's not in a woke kind

00:09:04.340 of sports league, no one's talking about him really in the press. You get one article here in the BBC.

00:09:09.780 But this guy, he was discovered with his drugs at Moscow's airport in 2021. And I guess he was a

00:09:20.540 former US diplomat. He's now teaching in a school. And he brought in some pot. Same issue that Brianna,

00:09:28.220 or whatever her name is, Brittany Griner, was caught with here in Russia. Why are we talking about him?

00:09:32.840 Maybe he'll be part of some deal. Okay, maybe. The other aspect of this, so does Russia have the

00:09:37.320 right to make its own drug laws? I think so. Yeah, we have the right to make our own drug laws.

00:09:41.280 Other countries have the rights to make their own drug laws. I think Russia has the same rights.

00:09:45.000 Then the next question is, are Russia's drug laws totally insane and draconian? I don't think so.

00:09:50.040 Russia's drug laws are just what the American drug laws were like 25 or 30 years ago,

00:09:54.220 when America's drug laws made a lot more sense. Do we think it's good that we have liberalized all the

00:10:00.960 drug laws and encouraged people to take more drugs? I don't think that's good. I think that's

00:10:04.740 really bad. We've got the worst drug overdose problem in American history right now. The problem

00:10:09.880 is so acute that the American life expectancy has actually declined for the first time ever,

00:10:15.120 but multiple years in a row. And it's declined because of deaths of despair, largely. We're talking

00:10:20.460 about suicide, and we're talking about drug overdoses. Major, major issues, especially with

00:10:25.780 young people overdosing on drugs. I know people who in the last two, three years have overdosed on drugs,

00:10:31.740 people I thought would never have a drug problem. I'm certain that the vast majority of you know

00:10:38.660 someone who's overdosed on drugs in recent years, opioids, fentanyl, whatever. So yeah, I actually

00:10:43.860 think Russia's drug laws make a hell of a lot more sense than America's drug laws do. Sometimes you'll

00:10:48.980 hear people say, well, in America, we throw people in prison for carrying a dime bag of pot. That's not

00:10:54.220 true. We actually don't do that. We barely throw drug dealers in prison, drug peddlers in prison.

00:10:59.640 And when you allow drug dealers and drug peddlers to operate, you poison the country and you enrich

00:11:06.680 criminal cartels. I think it makes a whole lot more sense what we see in Russia. And so then you

00:11:14.400 got to ask yourself, why am I shedding a tear for Brittany Griner? The only reason that she's even

00:11:18.760 appearing in the news is because she is super woke and she hates America. So sorry, lady, cry me a river.

00:11:25.120 I'm just not there. I think the lesson that we should take from this, here's a PSA for everyone

00:11:30.420 out there traveling overseas. Don't smuggle drugs into foreign countries. Lesson number two,

00:11:35.640 don't smuggle drugs into hostile foreign countries. Lesson number three, don't smuggle drugs into hostile

00:11:41.080 foreign countries that have had nuclear weapons pointed at the heads of you and your countrymen for

00:11:45.100 the last 70 years. Okay, that's my PSA to everybody. The other lesson that we should maybe learn here is

00:11:51.880 maybe we could learn a thing or two from the way that other countries are dealing with the drug

00:11:56.860 problem before our entire country overdoses on dope. Because we're a nation of dopes these days,

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00:13:41.780 no, Cracker Barrel is not the bad stuff. I love Cracker Barrel. The bad stuff to put in your body

00:13:45.560 in this context is the fake sausage that Cracker Barrel is now peddling. Cracker Barrel had this

00:13:53.480 post. It went up yesterday. They said, discover new meat frontiers. Experience the out-of-this-world

00:13:58.980 flavor of the impossible sausage made from plants next time you build your own breakfast. This story

00:14:06.060 was brought to my attention by R.N. McIntyre. I looked at this story. I thought, oh my gosh, this is

00:14:13.080 the most devastating argument against the free market I've ever heard in my life.

00:14:19.960 This is devastating because there is no way in hell that the vegan, vegetarian, whatever,

00:14:27.640 fake sausage at Cracker Barrel is being driven by customer demand. Not one single person who has

00:14:34.840 ever walked into a Cracker Barrel would even consider eating fake vegetarian sausage. Not one.

00:14:43.580 People who walk into Cracker Barrel, myself included, tend to be a little hardier, a little more old

00:14:49.720 school, sometimes a little more on the big bubba side of things. What they would want, if there were

00:14:54.380 going to be any change to Cracker Barrel sausage, they would want them to add more meat to it. They

00:14:58.620 would want the sausage to be pork and beef and probably veal, and they would just add as much

00:15:04.380 meat as possible. Okay, this decision is being driven from the top. This decision is woke executives or who

00:15:13.840 knows the kinds of people in the big funding firms, in whatever it is, venture capital and the public

00:15:24.040 markets who are pushing ESG, environmental, social governance policies. They're the kind of people

00:15:28.600 who are saying, we need to impose these new standards. The same people who want us to live

00:15:33.080 in our pods and eat the bugs and not own anything and be totally happy and stop driving cars and take

00:15:38.460 bicycles everywhere and take public transportation. These are the people who say, don't eat, you don't get to

00:15:42.580 eat your sausage anymore, you don't get to eat meat. Now you have to eat impossible meat. Yum, yum, it's so

00:15:46.760 delicious. That's where those decisions are coming from. This is not a corporation responding to market

00:15:52.440 demand. And unfortunately, that's the way that a lot of our market operates. That's the way a lot of

00:16:01.180 our businesses operate. This is why, though I'm a conservative and I have a ton of respect for free

00:16:07.100 markets, and I think free markets can be a good means to an end for a flourishing society,

00:16:11.260 I do not worship at the altar of the free market, okay? Because I know, one, that free markets can

00:16:19.300 be so easily perverted, and two, it takes a political order to set the parameters of a market,

00:16:24.520 just like you think of a physical marketplace that you go to. A physical marketplace has little

00:16:29.200 roads and streets and building codes and ways that it's designed, and that is established by the

00:16:34.520 political order. Well, the same thing holds true in the economic market, in the more abstract market.

00:16:41.160 And the fact is, there are a lot of activists out there who are manipulating market forces to try to

00:16:46.360 not respond to customer demand, but to change customer demand, and to turn us into a nation of,

00:16:52.520 to use a popular phrase, weak soy boy beta cucks, who are just eating a bunch of fake plant sausage

00:16:58.740 instead of good, delicious pork sausage like we were intended to eat. So I certainly will never

00:17:06.940 eat the impossible sausage at Cracker Barrel. I've seen outrage from fellow Cracker Barrel fans like I

00:17:13.420 am. And if those guys know what's good for them, they will get rid of this vegetarian crap from the

00:17:18.160 menu. Because until they do, I am not stepping foot back into a Cracker Barrel. These woke executives

00:17:25.780 think they can force their will on us. I don't think so, Buster. Hit them where it hurts, right in

00:17:30.120 the pocketbook. Enough about sausage. We have to get to monkeypox. There is a headline in the

00:17:36.960 Washington Post about monkeypox. Here's the headline. As monkeypox strikes gay men, officials debate

00:17:45.560 warnings to limit partners. What's the debate? What's the debate? They're admitting, the Washington Post

00:17:55.320 is admitting monkeypox strikes gay men. Virtually everyone who gets monkeypox is a homosexual man.

00:18:02.900 And not even just any homosexual man. Homosexual men who have sex with lots of other homosexual men.

00:18:09.700 It's not even the ones who just have sex with one homosexual man. It's the ones who go to bath

00:18:15.440 houses and gay orgies and all that kind of stuff. And so we know that is how it spreads. In virtually all

00:18:22.240 cases, that is how it spreads. But the officials are debating whether or not to tell them not to do

00:18:26.260 that. They're debating it. Is that, well, I don't know. A lot of people are saying we shouldn't do

00:18:31.060 that. That's not nice. Thousands of, this is the first paragraph, San Francisco. Thousands of gay men

00:18:36.760 clad in leather, latex, and often much less, partied along Folsom Street here last weekend during the

00:18:43.020 annual kink and fetish festival. Even after the city had just declared the monkeypox outbreak striking

00:18:49.400 its gay community a health emergency. One day after the World Health Organization urged men to sleep

00:18:54.980 with fewer men to reduce transition, San Francisco public health officials made no attempt to rein in

00:19:00.840 festivities or warn attendees to have less sex. This is really sad. The fact that these festivals are

00:19:09.320 even allowed to take place is a national scandal. And sometimes we say, gosh, the founding fathers would

00:19:16.120 be rolling over in their graves. Forget the founding fathers. People who were alive during

00:19:21.940 the Clinton administration would be rolling over in their graves, pulling their hair out. Many of them

00:19:26.820 are. Okay, it wasn't so long ago that this sort of thing would be unthinkable. And now the public

00:19:33.460 officials and the media are debating whether or not it is appropriate even to suggest that maybe

00:19:40.480 the guys who show up to the leather kink fetish festival have sex with slightly fewer men at the

00:19:46.440 festival to stop spreading a virus that is spread almost exclusively that way. Now, the debate here,

00:19:54.340 the whole premise of the article is that monkeypox policy is being based on politics, not science.

00:20:01.660 And we talked about this yesterday on a totally separate subject on COVID. But the same thing holds

00:20:06.120 true here. That's true here. That's good. The debate actually is good. It should be in the realm

00:20:10.820 of politics, not of science. The libs are unwittingly at least engaging in the debate the right way.

00:20:21.020 Because whether or not we want to have a society full of leather kinky fetish festivals and orgies and

00:20:29.700 people schtupping each other in the middle of the street, that really isn't a scientific question.

00:20:35.540 I don't care. If Fauci came out tomorrow and he said, the science is in, the data are here,

00:20:43.500 leather kinky fetish festivals are very good for public health. Well, I wouldn't believe him because

00:20:49.340 he's Dr. Fauci. So I usually think that whatever he says, the opposite is true. But even if it were

00:20:53.720 a scientist that were credible, I wouldn't care. It's not a question for the scientists in the lab

00:20:59.560 coats. It's a question for us, for we the people in our political society. And I, for one, think

00:21:05.360 that the reason that we should encourage homosexual men to stop having sex with multiple partners a

00:21:11.840 day at the, at the fetish festival in San Francisco, the reason to encourage them to do that is not just

00:21:17.160 because they're going to get a virus that shouldn't even exist in America. That's one reason. But the

00:21:23.680 other reason is it's bad for you. Don't do that. Do we really want a society with the leather festivals

00:21:30.160 in the middle of San Francisco? I don't. I think that's bad. I think that should be discouraged.

00:21:35.080 I don't think there's any constitutional right to the leather kink festival. I don't think there's

00:21:39.240 any natural right to have sex with multiple partners in the middle of the streets with a

00:21:45.740 bunch of leather daddies and all sorts of weird, weird eccentric sexual. I don't think there's no right

00:21:50.320 to that. And in America, we strongly discouraged that for a very long time through our laws and

00:21:56.940 through our culture and through our standards and through our taboos. And now, now not only do we

00:22:01.600 tolerate it, but we celebrate it. And isn't that crazy? Does anyone seriously believe that the most

00:22:07.660 liberal minded person listening to this show right now, the most totally pro LGBT, whatever you want

00:22:14.160 to call yourself? Do you really believe this sort of thing should be celebrated? We should celebrate?

00:22:19.980 Oh gosh, Norm MacDonald had a whole bit on this about the pride festival. And sometimes parents would

00:22:25.080 show up to the pride festival. And you say, look, do I love my son, my gay son? Yeah, I love my son.

00:22:31.400 Do I tolerate homosexuality? Yeah, sure. Maybe we'll tolerate homosexuality.

00:22:37.260 Are you proud? You show up to the leather, the leather kink festival and you say, I'm so proud of my son.

00:22:41.680 Gosh, I'm so proud. Look at him there getting dragged around by a leash by three half naked dudes.

00:22:47.520 Gosh, nothing fills me with more pride than that. No, of course not. And we as a society have some

00:22:54.860 right to have some say about that as well, because we have something called community standards.

00:22:59.360 So I'm glad that the officials are debating this. I'm glad that we're not just taking a scientific

00:23:04.160 explanation. Let's debate it. Great. I'm glad we opened up that debate. Let's debate it.

00:23:11.440 I think it's bad for everybody and deviant and abhorrent. And we should just generally speaking,

00:23:18.520 ban the leather festivals from the middle of the street so that they don't scare the horses or

00:23:23.600 scandalize the kids or the rest of the public too. That's my side of the debate. Where do you fall in?

00:23:28.600 I bet you, I bet you, the vast majority of people, I bet you the vast majority of reasonable homosexuals,

00:23:37.020 the vast majority of everybody across all these demographics would agree, keep this crap out of

00:23:42.580 the streets to stop monkeypox and also to stop all the decadence. Speaking of politics and science,

00:23:50.640 governor Ron DeSantis just removed a state attorney from office. He did this because he had a state

00:24:01.020 attorney who refused to enforce the law. And there are a few laws here that the state attorney didn't

00:24:06.380 want to enforce. He did not want to enforce a law that prohibits transgender surgery for the kids.

00:24:13.320 He said, I'm very pro-transing the kids. The governor and the state legislature have outlawed

00:24:19.820 transing the kids. Well, I don't care. Screw their law. I'm going to continue to support transing the

00:24:26.100 kids. And then the other one was Florida's abortion laws. So now that Florida has more pro-life laws in

00:24:32.300 place, the state attorney said he wasn't going to respect those laws or acknowledge them. And so Ron

00:24:36.580 DeSantis came out and he said, all right, you lost your job.

00:24:38.660 The Constitution of Florida has vested the veto power in the governor,

00:24:43.700 not in individual state attorneys. And so when you flagrantly violate your oath of office,

00:24:49.240 when you make yourself above the law, you have violated your duty. You have neglected your duty

00:24:56.700 and you are displaying a lack of competence to be able to reform those duties. And so today

00:25:02.100 we are suspending state attorney Andrew Warren, effective immediately.

00:25:08.660 Love this. This is awesome. This is actually, I would say, Reagan-esque. You can tell. Ron DeSantis

00:25:16.260 is modeling himself after two people. Donald Trump, he's talking kind of Trumpian terms. He even does

00:25:21.320 the hands sometimes. And Ronald Reagan. Ron DeSantis has a little more polish than Trump does.

00:25:27.680 One of Trump's charms is that he's not polished at all. Ronald Reagan was much more polished.

00:25:32.520 And DeSantis has a lot of that as well. And especially in this action here to fire the state

00:25:36.900 attorney, it reminded me of when Reagan came out, when the air traffic controllers were illegally

00:25:42.240 striking, threatening American travel and national security, frankly. And Ronald Reagan came out.

00:25:48.300 They all thought he was going to cave and give in to the union demands. And he said, look,

00:25:51.340 if you don't show up for work in a couple of days, you're all fired.

00:25:53.860 It is for this reason that I must tell those who fail to report for duty this morning, they are in violation of the law. And if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated.

00:26:10.140 What lesser action can there be? The law is very explicit. They are violating the law. And as I say, we call this to the attention of their leadership, whether this was conveyed to the membership before they voted to strike, I don't know.

00:26:31.740 But this is one of the reasons why there could be no further negotiation while this situation continues. You can't sit and negotiate with a union that's in violation of the law.

00:26:44.700 And their oath.

00:26:45.800 And their oath.

00:26:46.940 And their oath. Well, well, I'm going to fire all those dirty, rotten commies. And then we're going to hire up some more.

00:26:54.660 Or we're going to hire up some more air traffic controllers. And all the rest of them can go pound sand.

00:27:01.080 And he does it with a smile, but he's very firm. Ron DeSantis is doing the same thing. You don't do your job, you're going to lose your job. Simple as that.

00:27:09.280 He's calling their bluff. In many ways, it's a similar kind of forcefulness. It's a similar kind of courage that you're seeing from those governors in Texas and Arizona we talked about at the top of the show.

00:27:22.200 They're saying, you're going to force illegal immigration on us. It's illegal, first of all. And you're going to force it on us. And you think we're going to take it. We're not going to take it. We're going to send it to your backyard. You deal with it.

00:27:31.020 And what are the shrieks? What are the cries? This is lawless. How ironic. People who are committing crimes and people who are encouraging crime, accusing the people who are fighting back against it of being lawless.

00:27:43.780 And they'll say, this is authoritarian. This is authoritarian of you, Governor Abbott. This is authoritarian of you, Arizona. This is authoritarian of you, Governor DeSantis.

00:27:52.820 You guys are exercising political power. You guys, in the case of Ron DeSantis, you're legislating morality on issues like transgenderism and abortion.

00:28:02.820 And you know what I say to that? You're darn right. Yes, that's true. The longer I live, the less convinced I am that the word authoritarian means anything at all.

00:28:14.240 I don't know. What does it mean? Today, you're called authoritarian if you say we shouldn't have leather kink festivals outside of elementary schools in San Francisco.

00:28:21.540 Today, you're called authoritarian if you say maybe we discourage heroin use on the streets. Oh, you crazy authoritarian.

00:28:27.480 What does that mean? What does it mean? Authoritarian used to have a meaning, which is that you would unjustly and capriciously and arbitrarily wield power without any kind of reason whatsoever.

00:28:38.740 But that's not what they're talking about. Now they're just saying anytime any conservative wields any political power whatsoever, he's an authoritarian.

00:28:45.900 And it's just ridiculous. It doesn't mean anything. And sometimes the conservatives accuse the left of that. You're authoritarian. What does that mean?

00:28:52.840 What does authoritarian actually mean? It means you have an idea that you enforce in the public square. By that measure, even the libertarians are authoritarian.

00:29:03.780 Their insistence that we're not allowed to have community standards, their insistence that we're not allowed to do anything about drugs or weird sex stuff or trancing the kids, that insistence is in itself authoritarian.

00:29:16.700 authoritarian. There is no way to escape what is meant by this ridiculous use of the word authoritarian these days, which is namely who has political power and who wields it.

00:29:28.200 The question is not, are we going to have political power? The question is, who is going to have the political power? How is that political power going to be wielded?

00:29:37.020 And for too long, the right has said, we don't want it. We don't want it. We don't want to use it. Don't make us do it.

00:29:41.760 We're going to have to do stuff. We'll need courage. We'll need clarity. We don't want that. And what has happened?

00:29:45.320 The left has exclusively wielded power and it's destroyed our culture. That's the question.

00:29:50.160 There was a hearing yesterday with the FBI director, Christopher Wray, asking, hey, has anyone been disciplined over Crossfire Hurricane, the spying on Donald Trump's campaign and the undermining of Donald Trump's administration, all based on nothing, colluding with the Democrats who wielded power?

00:30:04.700 And you know what Chris Wray said? He said, oh, it's kind of slowed down.

00:30:07.840 Can you give me an idea of anyone who's been held accountable who was involved in Crossfire Hurricane investigation?

00:30:16.520 What specific actions, if any, have been taken?

00:30:19.740 Well, we've taken a whole slew of actions in response to the Crossfire Hurricane report.

00:30:24.360 I think over 40 plus corrective measures.

00:30:26.940 Is anybody in the Bureau disciplined?

00:30:28.240 There are a number of people who are currently in our what we call Office of Professional Responsibility, which is our disciplinary arm.

00:30:38.340 You may wonder why has that not yielded its results yet?

00:30:42.000 And that's because we are working closely with cooperating closely with and assisting the Durham investigation.

00:30:48.420 And so that whole process, which is not unusual, has been sort of slowed down to make sure that it doesn't interfere with the Durham investigation.

00:30:55.620 OK, let me translate that for you out of deep state ease, out of bureaucrat ease.

00:31:02.200 What that means is, yeah, they're not going to get in trouble.

00:31:04.500 The people who spied on the Republican presidential campaign and did everything they could to undermine that campaign and get the Democrat elected, working directly with the Democrats, by the way.

00:31:15.260 And then the people who undermine the Trump administration baselessly, they're not going to face any consequences.

00:31:20.780 We're slowing down in accordance with the usual rules of the investigation of the blah, blah, blah.

00:31:28.860 Why?

00:31:29.200 Because they've got the power.

00:31:30.760 That's why.

00:31:31.540 Because power will be wielded.

00:31:35.000 There will be order.

00:31:35.820 We talk about this very often when it comes to questions of limited government.

00:31:39.060 There will be order.

00:31:40.000 OK, at a certain point, there will be order.

00:31:42.140 And the question is, will we govern ourselves?

00:31:44.720 Will we govern ourselves both in our personal behavior and in our political life?

00:31:49.400 Or will order be imposed top down by people who are not very accountable to us?

00:31:54.120 Those are our options.

00:31:55.980 You can't just have anarchy, though.

00:31:57.420 That's not going to happen.

00:31:59.580 There will be order and there will be power.

00:32:02.080 And the question is, are we going to give all the power to the deep state?

00:32:04.560 Are we going to give all the power to the bureaucrats?

00:32:06.020 Are we going to give all the power to the scientists?

00:32:07.500 Are we all those scientific technocrats like Fauci?

00:32:09.880 Are they going to have all the power?

00:32:10.900 Are we going to give all the power to the Democrats in Washington?

00:32:13.940 Or are we going to use justly some of the power that happily the people occasionally give us?

00:32:20.240 And ship those migrants, those illegal immigrants, over to the Democrat cities and say,

00:32:26.080 no, we don't want leather kink fetish festivals on the streets of our American cities.

00:32:30.640 And no, we don't want drugs everywhere.

00:32:32.440 And no, we don't want crime everywhere.

00:32:34.100 And yes, we will have a good, flourishing country.

00:32:37.000 That's my whole political ideology.

00:32:39.120 It's not left, right, this, that.

00:32:41.020 Here's my whole political ideology.

00:32:42.720 I want a good, sane, normal country.

00:32:46.680 That's it.

00:32:47.380 That's the ideology, okay?

00:32:48.840 And I think probably most people agree with me on that.

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00:33:26.900 Now we get to my absolute favorite time of the week that I've been waiting for all week.

00:33:32.620 This whole sleepless week.

00:33:34.120 First week with my newborn little second son, and I've just said the thing that's keeping me going.

00:33:39.120 Forget about the love of my beautiful family.

00:33:41.380 Forget about my coffee.

00:33:43.560 Forget about all, you know, you know what's keeping me going?

00:33:45.580 Knowing that at the end of the week, I've got the voicemail bag brought to us by Pure Talk.

00:33:50.280 Go to puretalk.com.

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00:33:56.900 Let's get to the first voicemail bag question.

00:34:00.020 Hi, Michael.

00:34:01.160 My name is Brayden.

00:34:02.420 My pronouns are he, him.

00:34:04.380 I am wearing a sleeveless shirt with short running shorts, and I'm about to go on a run.

00:34:08.880 I identify as white, but during the summertime, people misidentify me as tan.

00:34:14.480 With the increase in LGBTQ themes in children's films, I would appreciate it if you could quickly

00:34:21.320 expound on why this content, such as a gay or lesbian kissing scene, which would be similar

00:34:27.980 to something you would see between a Disney prince and a princess, is wrong.

00:34:32.460 This is one of those things that feels wrong to me, but I'm struggling to explain to myself

00:34:37.060 why.

00:34:37.900 I appreciate it, and again, thank you so much for your show.

00:34:40.740 Oh, well, this is easy.

00:34:42.980 It's wrong because boys are supposed to kiss girls, I think.

00:34:46.700 Are you asking me why gay kissing seems wrong to people?

00:34:50.260 Why people just have a kind of natural reaction to it?

00:34:55.360 It's because we know that boys are supposed to kiss girls.

00:34:59.200 This doesn't mean that we need to be really cruel and mean to homosexuals.

00:35:02.800 It doesn't mean that homosexuals don't exist and haven't always existed.

00:35:06.400 It just means that's not normal.

00:35:08.420 That's not the way things are supposed to be.

00:35:10.780 Things have purposes.

00:35:12.080 The Leftist Tears Tumblr has a purpose.

00:35:13.960 It's to carry delicious, salty leftist tears.

00:35:16.080 The microphone has a purpose.

00:35:17.600 It's to transmit my dulcet tones to you right directly to your ears.

00:35:21.700 And our bodies have purposes too.

00:35:24.140 When we're talking about sexuality, the purpose of male sexuality is for women, and women's

00:35:30.140 sexuality is for men, and they come together in marriage, and the purpose of that is the

00:35:35.000 generation and education of children.

00:35:36.520 We can know this using the light of our own reason from the natural created world, okay?

00:35:42.580 Now, this is a fallen world.

00:35:44.680 Things are a little crazy.

00:35:45.740 We've all got things about us that are a little eccentric and off-kilter, and gay kissing

00:35:51.940 would be an example of that, something that's clearly off-center, off-kilter.

00:35:55.200 Not quite right.

00:35:57.660 Doesn't mean we've got to arrest these guys.

00:35:59.940 Doesn't mean we've got to be really cruel or ostracize them or anything like that.

00:36:03.980 But likewise, and we were talking about this earlier in the show, there's a difference

00:36:08.720 between toleration and celebration.

00:36:12.680 There's a difference between acknowledging that there are some weird things in the world,

00:36:16.720 and there are some things that are kind of off-center, and then putting those things right

00:36:22.680 into the center.

00:36:23.320 I was talking to a friend of mine, Jonathan Pajot, the other day, and he made this really,

00:36:29.640 really important point, which is if you look at medieval manuscripts, at the center, you'll

00:36:34.040 see all these beautiful images, lots of really beautiful gold inlay, and obviously the text.

00:36:39.160 But then on the outsides and the fringes of the page, you'll see these weird little strange

00:36:44.020 drawings of elves, and even little drawings that are not quite obscene, but they're really

00:36:50.580 kind of out there. And that's the way the world works. There is a center. There is a standard.

00:36:57.400 There is the way things are supposed to be. And then there are things that are off-center,

00:37:02.220 and wrong, and aberrant, and deviant. And that's part of the world. And some are really, really

00:37:08.000 wicked, and evil, and terrible. And some are just a little bit off. And we use our reason to

00:37:15.680 perceive which is which. That's why, though. And so the issue with putting Prince Charming kissing

00:37:21.840 the other Prince Charming in the Disney movie is not that it's the worst, most terrible, awful sin

00:37:27.020 on the planet, or imaginable. It's just that that's not the sort of thing that stirs people's souls,

00:37:33.700 and it's confusing, and it's off-center. And that's why we react against that. I'm just describing a

00:37:39.220 natural reaction that Disney wants to deny, because putting sex completely aside for a second,

00:37:45.180 forget about the homosexuals, even putting all of sex aside for a second, the project of these

00:37:50.420 people who are cultural Marxists, or social radicals, or the radical left, or whatever you

00:37:56.040 want to call them, the project is to redefine reality. The project is to say, here's the way the

00:38:01.440 world is. I hate it. I want to completely change everything about it, and I'm going to redefine

00:38:05.780 everything. And the wokeness that you're seeing in Disney is a part of that project. All right,

00:38:10.620 next question. Hey, Michael, long-time listener, possibly converting to Catholicism because of all

00:38:16.860 your infinite wisdom. Here's my question. Do you think the church has a role in politics? And here's

00:38:22.760 what I mean. I think of megachurches that refuse to chime in on cultural issues such as abortion,

00:38:28.620 gay marriage, whatnot. They just simply care about growing their audiences, reaching out to a millennial

00:38:33.420 crowd. I think of specifically in Georgia right now, two huge megachurch pastors, Louis Giglio,

00:38:40.220 Andy Stanley, refuse to say anything about the Senate race going on, or the gubernatorial race

00:38:46.580 with Stacey Abrams, and then obviously, like I said, the Senate race with Raphael Warnock. Do you

00:38:51.840 think they have a role in saying anything? Do you think they should be preaching to their congregation

00:38:56.080 about who is the most biblical candidate? Because they really refuse to say anything. Andy Stanley,

00:39:03.200 in specific, in Georgia, wrote a book about not getting involved in politics. So thanks, Michael.

00:39:07.880 Again, love the show. Great question. And the short answer is yes. Of course, the church has to be

00:39:14.800 involved in politics because the church is a public institution. The church is not a private institution.

00:39:20.540 In the sense, when you say your prayers alone at night, and maybe you don't say them alone. Maybe

00:39:25.840 you pray with your wife or your family. But when you do have private prayer, that is when religion

00:39:32.520 for you is private. And it's still not even private because you're talking to someone, you're talking

00:39:35.820 to God. Or maybe praying to the saints, or maybe. But you could say, okay, right here on this terrestrial

00:39:42.640 plane, that's private. But the church is where two or more are gathered. When Christ is describing his

00:39:49.640 church on earth, he's saying, where two or more of you are, I am there also. And in our modern world,

00:39:55.360 where we're obsessed with individualism, this doesn't make sense to us. They say, what do you

00:39:59.680 mean two or more? Why not just one? Why not just me? You see this especially coming out of the

00:40:03.820 Puritan tradition. Right now, I'm reading Pilgrim's Progress. And a lot of my ancestors come from the

00:40:11.740 Puritan tradition. And the Puritan tradition is all about really the individual relationship with God.

00:40:17.940 And that's why it's had such an effect on the modern world, and especially in modern America.

00:40:22.600 But that was kind of a new idea. And in my mind, it's not the correct idea of how to understand

00:40:28.000 Christianity, which is that we are in the body of Christ. And it's where two or more of us are

00:40:32.740 gathered. That's really where we find our church. And of course, and so the church's mission is to

00:40:38.280 make saints. That's the point of the church, is to make sure that you go to heaven and to work on your

00:40:46.600 soul. But the church, being a public institution, obviously has something to say about public

00:40:51.560 things, and obviously something to say about morality. And politics and public are synonyms.

00:40:57.660 Political and public mean the very same thing. And because all politics ultimately is theological,

00:41:03.680 then if you're not getting your moral ideas from the church, you're going to be getting it from

00:41:08.180 somewhere else. And a society based on the religion of leftism is going to be a lot worse than a society

00:41:14.960 that comes out of your church. Next question.

00:41:20.180 Hi, Michael. Thank you for listening to my question. So with all of the Beyonce controversy going on,

00:41:27.500 I thought now would be a good time to bring up her music video. And I believe this is back from 2008.

00:41:36.100 It's called XO. And at the three minute and six second mark, there's a flash of an actual demon.

00:41:45.500 And it has nothing to do with the song or the video. It's very scary. And it's barely a second long.

00:41:53.640 I haven't heard anybody talk about it. And I don't understand why the word spaz is so controversial.

00:42:01.900 But an actual demon that does not belong there. Why is nobody talking about it?

00:42:08.820 And also on her Lemonade album, there's like a poem that she did. And there's a line in it that says,

00:42:17.200 I plugged my mensis with pages from the holy book. So that sounds like witchcraft to me.

00:42:25.160 I've also heard that she has lawsuits due to severe witchcraft, like her tour mates or whatever,

00:42:32.120 said that she was like using their kittens as sacrifices. And it's very scary. So I just wanted

00:42:38.940 another pair of eyes on this to maybe shine some spotlight on it and see what the heck is going on

00:42:45.320 with Beyonce. So thank you again for taking my question and have a blessed day.

00:42:51.160 So I don't know about the witchcraft kitten stuff, but I do remember the demon image.

00:42:57.240 And it's really, really weird. If you haven't seen this video, it just,

00:43:01.380 Beyonce just flashes a demon, like an actual demon, just without any reason that would come from the

00:43:09.660 plot of the music video or anything like that. It just flashes the demon there. And I have to tell

00:43:13.580 you, I'm not surprised when that sort of stuff happens because the devil is the prince of this

00:43:18.420 world because we're fighting against principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in the high

00:43:23.840 places. So when that peeks through the veil a little bit, I'm not really all that surprised.

00:43:35.000 Demons are real. The devil is real. To quote Antonin Scalia when he was giving an interview to a very

00:43:40.820 glib New York Magazine reporter, many more intelligent people than you and me have believed

00:43:46.120 in the devil. You should have a healthy caution about spiritual wickedness. You should have a healthy

00:43:59.400 fear of sin and do your best not to sin because it's all real. It is all real. C.S. Lewis makes

00:44:07.200 an important point too, which is sometimes when people come to realize that good and bad are real

00:44:14.840 things and the devil is a real person and people get really, really interested in that, in the occult.

00:44:23.060 And you are seeing a rise in interest in the occult right now, especially as public Christianity

00:44:28.740 wanes. And C.S. Lewis gives good advice, which is you should not totally ignore the fact that demons

00:44:39.160 are real. You need to be aware of it, but you shouldn't be too interested either. Be aware of it.

00:44:46.560 Know that it's real. Be on guard. You know, the devil is crouching in the corner. Sin is crouching in

00:44:52.720 the corner waiting to pounce on you and gobble you up at every given second. We are living in a world of

00:44:57.360 intense spiritual combat happening all around us and through us. But don't harp on it all the time,

00:45:05.060 okay? I don't know what Beyonce is doing. I mean, she's had all sorts of weird occult kind of imagery

00:45:11.300 in her music for a long time. So I hope things turn out okay for her. But as far as it pertains to you,

00:45:18.480 I don't really care about Beyonce all that much, though we do share a last name and are probably

00:45:22.180 cousins. You know, as it pertains to you, I wouldn't focus on it too much. Just do the right

00:45:28.000 thing and don't sin. Don't sin and don't sacrifice any cats and don't do whatever Beyonce allegedly did

00:45:36.300 with the book and all, you know, with the Bible and everything. Don't do that and just, you know,

00:45:39.720 just, okay, do the right thing. Next voicemail back question.

00:45:42.560 You know, Michael, you're talking an awful lot about being Sicilian and swarthy, you know,

00:45:48.540 hairy and dark. Well, you're not that dark. And you don't look that hairy. You got the brown hair.

00:45:54.420 Maybe you got the brown eyes. It's hard to tell. But you know, I got to question you. You say you're

00:45:58.840 Sicilian. You say you're Italian. But I just don't know. I mean, come on, what's Knowles? What was your

00:46:04.360 mother thinking marrying a guy named Knowles? How Italian are you really? How Sicilian are you really?

00:46:10.320 I got to question you on that. But you know, I wouldn't expect anything different from a New

00:46:15.900 Yorker. Anyway. You can tell from the accent. Sincerely, a 97 and a half percent Italian from

00:46:24.220 Massachusetts. Massachusetts, yeah. Uh-huh. Really good question. Some have wondered if Knowles is an

00:46:29.440 Anglicization from Ellis Island of cannoli. Though, no, in fact, I am half wasp and Irish. And then the

00:46:36.120 other half is Sicilian and colabrese. I would hope that my, for those of you who are only listening to

00:46:40.040 this right now, I'm wearing a black button shirt today, you know, an Oxford shirt. I'm wearing

00:46:45.420 a sort of eggplant colored blazer. I am as close to Al Pacino as I'm ever going to be in this. All

00:46:53.280 right. So what I would say to you, my friend from Boston, is please forget about it. One last question.

00:46:58.940 I want to get to a regular mailbag question before we go. Question is from Mark. Hello, Mr. Knowles.

00:47:02.940 Love the show. I have a question about prenuptial agreements in a Catholic marriage. I'm not currently

00:47:07.520 dating anyone, but all the horror stories I hear about fathers losing custody of their children

00:47:11.140 terrifies me. I understand that marriage is a true thing and therefore divorce is impossible.

00:47:15.540 However, I also know that legal divorces happen often. Of course, it would be ideal that this not

00:47:20.020 happen, but in light of the fact that it does, would it be acceptable to sign some sort of prenuptial

00:47:24.880 agreement before marriage? Thank you. Really good question because if marriage were still protected

00:47:31.680 in public by the state as it had been until really the 1960s and 70s and even later, then you wouldn't

00:47:38.760 need to worry about this. But because the state is actively opposed to marriage at this point and

00:47:43.580 actively destroying marriage and weakening it, you probably would have to protect yourself.

00:47:49.180 What I would recommend, if you're worried about it, and I did not sign a prenuptial agreement myself,

00:47:53.980 but if you are worried about this thing, you would consider signing a prenuptial agreement

00:47:59.380 that basically forces you to stay in the marriage. So now in modern America, there's something called

00:48:06.200 no-fault divorce, which renders marriage almost meaningless. Long before the court redefined marriage

00:48:12.000 and attempted to destroy the institution by enshrining same-sex marriage, no-fault divorce

00:48:17.940 dealt a much tougher blow at marriage even than Obergefell did. So you could sign a prenuptial

00:48:25.780 contract that just says, we will not have a no-fault divorce. If one of the parties attempts to bring

00:48:30.920 a no-fault divorce, that party has to pay the other half a million dollars or something.

00:48:37.360 You could sign a contract that limits your options and says, if one party brings a divorce,

00:48:46.580 then the other party gets everything. Gets all the kids, gets all the money, gets all the house,

00:48:51.280 gets everything. That would be, it's really just occurring to me now, that would be a great way

00:48:55.960 to use this really ugly tool of the modern world that weakens marriage, namely the prenuptial

00:49:01.840 agreement. Use that to actually strengthen marriage. That's really, that's a nice way to be

00:49:07.500 wise as a serpent and innocent as a dove. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you on Monday.

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